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Former staff of the University of Ibadan, Dr Ganiyu Adeniran from the Department of Veterinary Pathology, has said that the future of Nigeria would depend on the incorruptible visionary youths the country can produce through its formal and parental educational system.
Dr Adeniran made the remark following his retirement and his 65th birthday anniversary held recently during which a book, titled “My footprints on the sands of time” was launched to mark the events.
He noted with dismay that what we are experiencing today in Nigeria in terms of declining moral decadence among the youth, is a reflection of parental negligence, and parents seem not to envisage the danger ahead of parenting negligence in the upbringing process of their children from homes.
According to him, a child that does not undergo discipline, especially at home, will become a liability that will eventually destroy the assets that his parents and the general public would have accumulated over the years. He opined that the country is not safe in the hands of such a child.
He expressed disappointment that some parents felt that sending their children abroad to avoid the education decadence in Nigeria was a way out, but they often forget that those children are still coming back to Nigeria to face the untrained children.
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He said: “As serious as it is, for Nigeria to attain the 17 Sustainable Development Goals agenda, it must have produced visionary youths with integrity-based leadership skills that will take over from our dedicated ageing leaders to run the affairs of the nation judiciously.
“It is high time parents collaborated with the schools to bring up their children morally and academically. The development will go a long way to curbing social vices among the youths in the country. It is sad to note that homes are the breeding centres of social vices in society. It is not impossible that some parents do not know that their children are wayward. At this juncture, a corruption-free society should be everybody’s dreams in this country. What we need is proper leadership and responsive followership.”
During the launching of the book, “My footprints on the sands of time” published in honour of his retirement, some eminent Nigerians from academic, political and business circles rained encomium on Adeniran, testifying to his life of integrity, reliability, and dedication while in service.
For instance, Chief Wole Olanipeku declared that though Gani is a practising Muslim, in practical terms, Gani is a humanist, a lover of mankind, and doer and seeker of anything good, lofty and godly, a friend and sympathizer, a kindhearted and God-fearing being.
He said: “Gani is never envious of anybody, whatever might be his position or attainment; rather, he prays for and appreciates others who make consistent progress in their endeavours, without nursing or exhibiting any bitterness against them.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/future-of-nigeria-depends-on-incorruptible-visionary-youths-adeniran/ | 2022-08-13T21:25:17Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/future-of-nigeria-depends-on-incorruptible-visionary-youths-adeniran/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
IBERIA PARISH- State Police investigated a deadly crash that happened yesterday around 4:30 p.m. on Highway 85, near highway 673.
According to troopers the driver of an SUV crossed the center line in a curve and hit a farm tractor traveling in the opposite direction.
The driver of the SUV, who troopers say *was* properly restrained was killed. She's been identified as 24-year-old Mariah Francis of Jeanerette.
No one else was seriously injured. | https://www.katc.com/news/one-fatality-in-a-deadly-crash-in-iberia-parish | 2022-08-13T21:36:46Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/one-fatality-in-a-deadly-crash-in-iberia-parish | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“Trust, but verify” being a phrase Republicans particularly identify with (given its Ronald Reagan provenance), the Arlington County Republican Committee is ramping up its efforts to have a full cadre of pollwatchers on Nov. 8.
“The mere presence of pollwatchers adds significantly to the accuracy of, and confidence in, our elections,” Arlington GOP communications director Matthew Hurtt said in an e-mail to the rank-and-file. “We must recruit more Republican pollwatchers to ensure we have a presence at every precinct.”
Prospective pollwatchers will get training on Virginia election law from the Arlington GOP Election Integrity Team, and will then be asked to serve half-day shifts on Nov. 8.
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Fairfax County police have arrested a 47-year-old Arlington man in the Aug. 10 fatal stabbing and burning of a Falls Church woman.
County police at 3:05 p.m. that day responded to a reported domestic dispute at an apartment in the 2900 block of Willston Place in the Seven Corners area. A neighbor had called police after hearing a man and woman arguing in an adjacent apartment.
Officers observed smoke emanating from the apartment when they arrived. Inside the apartment, they found the victim, 40-year-old Silvia Vaca Abacay of Falls Church, on fire and suffering from multiple stab wounds to the upper body.
First-responders extinguished the fire and attempted to provide life-saving measures, but she was pronounced dead at the scene. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is conducting an autopsy to determine the exact cause and manner of her death.
Detectives, with the assistance of professional support staff, conducted an investigative analysis of the apartment and identified a person of interest, Richard Montano, 47, of Arlington. Surveillance footage of Montano entering the home prior to the murder was found and distributed to officers and the community, police said.
Detectives believe Montano forced entry into the apartment, assaulted Abacay and set her on fire. He then fled the apartment and eventually returned to his residence in Arlington, police said.
Detectives from the department’s Special Investigation Unit and Fugitive Track and Apprehension Squad, along with the Arlington County Police Department, located Montano near his home and arrested him without incident. Authorities took him to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center and charged him with second-degree murder, burglary with intent to commit murder and burning of an occupied dwelling. He is being held without bond.
Abacay’s death is Fairfax County’s 14th homicide this year. Year to date, there were 15 homicides in 2021.
[https://sungazette.news provides content to, but otherwise is unaffiliated with, InsideNoVa or Rappahannock Media LLC.] | https://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/police-arlington-man-arrested-in-seven-corners-homicide-fire/article_1a410212-1b36-11ed-a4f5-cfba445b6043.html | 2022-08-13T21:40:19Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/police-arlington-man-arrested-in-seven-corners-homicide-fire/article_1a410212-1b36-11ed-a4f5-cfba445b6043.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Aug. 5 at 5:08 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 2300 block of Columbia Pike for a report of an assault with injury, Arlington police said.
Responding officers located the victim outside a residential building suffering from injuries considered serious but non-life-threatening, and she was transported to a local hospital for treatment, police said.
Investigation revealed that the suspect and victim, who knew each other, left a nightlife establishment and drove to the 800 block of South Scott Street, where they became engaged in a verbal dispute, during which time the suspect allegedly took the victim’s phone and broke it, then threw the victim to the ground and physically assaulted her, police said.
The two individuals then re-entered the suspect’s vehicle and drove to the 2300 block of Columbia Pike. While inside the building’s parking garage, a second verbal dispute occurred, during which time the suspect struck the victim in the face, police said.
The suspect and victim then exited the vehicle and were waiting for the building’s elevator when they were observed by another person, who noted the victim’s injuries and contacted police.
The suspect – 34-year-old William Hahn of Arlington – is an Arlington police officer who was off-duty at the time, police said. He was arrested and charged with malicious wounding and destruction of property, and was held without bond.
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Authorities have arrested a 21-year-old Falls Church man and charged him with aggravated sexual battery that allegedly occurred while has was working as a caretaker at Inova Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax County police said Aug. 12.
The victim, who requires round-the-clock, long-term care because of his condition, on July 7 told a hospital technician that his previous caretaker allegedly had sexually assaulted him in April. The caretaker allegedly had fondled the victim’s genitalia on two separate occasions, police said.
Hospital officials on July 8 notified detectives from the police department’s Major Crimes Bureau and they responded to assume the investigation. Detectives identified the caretaker as Hektor Fernando Alvarez.
Alvarez was employed by Metropolitan Healthcare Services (MHS), a company contracted by Inova to provide sitter services for patients. He is no longer employed by MHS, police said.
After a monthlong investigation by detectives, police arrested Alvarez on Aug. 9 on the charge of aggravated sexual battery with a victim through mental incapacity or helplessness. Authorities originally held him without bond, but later released him on a secured bond.
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By Timothy Lee, Guest Columnist
Several Members of Congress just introduced legislation that aims to protect consumer data from misuse and abuse.
Unfortunately, the "American Data Privacy and Protection Act," sponsored in the Senate by Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and in the House by Representatives Frank Pallone, D-N.J., and Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., contains significant defects unrelated to much-needed privacy protections for consumers or businesses.
Instead of simply safeguarding the personal information of ordinary Americans and simplifying legal obligations for companies, the bill in its current form would uncork a torrent of counterproductive lawsuits that would damage job creators and enrich trial lawyers.
There's no question America needs a federal data privacy law. Due to the lack of a uniform federal standard, data privacy is governed by a patchwork of state laws and regulations. Consequently, American firms may needlessly spend up to $1 trillion over the next decade trying to navigate that legal maze and comply with the varying statutes — with $200 billion of that burden falling on small businesses.
A single, streamlined federal law would help reassure consumers that their data remains secure, regardless of where they live or where a company is located.
The legislation under consideration, however, contains two massive flaws that would unleash endless class-action litigation over minor or technical violations, allowing lawyers to reap millions while class members receive just a few dollars or, in many cases, nothing at all.
First, the proposed legislation includes a ban on class-action waivers in arbitration agreements, which could prohibit companies and consumers from having their disputes resolved on an individual basis. Arbitration offers a more efficient alternative to court litigation, relying on independent third parties to mediate conflicts. Essentially, the parties in dispute take their issues to a neutral party, present their respective arguments, and agree to abide by whatever the arbitrator decides.
Although trial lawyers are understandably loath to admit it, arbitration is generally better for consumers than traditional court litigation. It is typically cheaper, quicker, and less complicated than formal lawsuits. Consumers prevail 41 percent of the time in arbitration, versus 29 percent in court. Additionally, awards in cases decided by arbitration actually exceed courtroom awards — $80,000 versus $71,000, respectively. Arbitration cases are also resolved 27 percent more quickly on average, and there's often no need to involve — and thus pay — a lawyer.
Naturally, however, those benefits present big problems from trial lawyers' perspective. They prefer huge, class-action lawsuits that, according to a 2015 study by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, net consumers an average of $32 while lawyers earn close to $1 million.
The bill's second massive flaw would create a "private right of action," which allows individuals to sue to enforce the law no matter how trivial the violation. When numerous individuals can file the same complaint, plaintiffs' lawyers try to lump them all together in one big lawsuit against a business -- even if most of the people in the class are unaware they’re part of a lawsuit. It's perfectly clear how that benefits lawyers. But it's uncertain how it would advance consumer privacy and data protection.
Data security and privacy remain serious, complex issues, and Congress should absolutely pursue a uniform national policy. People who steal our data, and businesses that fail to adequately protect it, must be held accountable.
As currently drafted, however, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act contains unacceptable provisions that would enable rich trial lawyers to get even richer while delivering scant benefits to ordinary Americans whose interests they claim to represent.
Timothy H. Lee is senior vice president of legal and public affairs at the Center for Individual Freedom. | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/opinion/congressional-data-privacy-bill-would-unjustly-enrich-trial-lawyers/article_b2646c76-1a7f-11ed-84fc-93940573eeb9.html | 2022-08-13T21:45:28Z | alexcityoutlook.com | control | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/opinion/congressional-data-privacy-bill-would-unjustly-enrich-trial-lawyers/article_b2646c76-1a7f-11ed-84fc-93940573eeb9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Police Department is asking for the public's help finding a missing vulnerable teen girl.
15-year-old Aliah Roberson has been missing since last night. She was last seen around 9:15 p.m. near 1100 S Madison St. She was wearing a puple tye-dye Nirvana shirt with black volleyball shorts. She is also possibly wearing red and white Adidas shoes.
She is described as being 5'3" and weighing about 110 lbs.
If you have seen Aliah please call Crime Check at (509) 456-2233 and reference case number 2022-20141138. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/police-help-finding-missing-vulnerable-teen/293-f5048176-27e0-43b6-b8ae-09e0a63cdd7e | 2022-08-13T21:45:28Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/police-help-finding-missing-vulnerable-teen/293-f5048176-27e0-43b6-b8ae-09e0a63cdd7e | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. Soldier Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Jim Miller, Deputy State Chaplain of Joint Force Headquarters Michigan, sings during a religious service at Northern Strike 22-2 in Grayling, Mich., Aug. 13, 2022. He says “The spiritual aspect is crucial in real combat” and Northern Strike is an exercise that provides an environment for Soldiers to train how they fight. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Drake Chandler)
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15 injured after fiery crash in Arlington where car runs into restaurant
ARLINGTON, Va. - Authorities are investigating after a vehicle crashed into a restaurant in Arlington Friday evening injuring at least 15 people, according to police and fire officials.
Arlington County Police reported the crash on Twitter around 7:00 p.m. Friday. They say a vehicle crash into a building in the 2000 block of Wilson Boulevard.
Investigators confirmed to FOX 5 that the vehicle was actively being used as an Uber at the time of the crash. Police say both the driver and the passenger of the Uber were among the people injured in the crash.
Uber released the following statement in response to the incident:
"Our thoughts are with the driver and everyone injured in this terrible crash. We are looking into this incident and are cooperating with law enforcement on Their investigation."
Images from the scene show a heavy fire crew presence outside of the Ireland's Four Courts Irish pub. The pub posted on Twitter asking everyone to keep the victims of the crash in their prayers.
After the crash, the car caught on fire which led to the building also catching fire. That fire was put out a short time later.
FOX 5 obtained video from above the scene showing a heavy amount of smoke coming from the area.
According to Arlington Police, nine patients were taken to area hospitals after the crash. Officials say of those victims, two remain in critical condition, one is in serious but stable condition, and the other six were treated for non-life threatening injuries, including the Uber driver and passenger. Six additional patients were also treated at the scene and released.
The owner of Ireland's Four Courts, Dave Cahill, confirmed to FOX 5 that three of the restaurant's employees were among those who were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Fire officials say building engineers have evaluated the building and determined it was structurally sound. Despite that, officials say the building cannot currently be reoccupied.
According to police, a preliminary investigation revealed that the Uber driver was traveling north on N. Courthouse Road when he left the roadway and crashed into the restaurant. Police say they are still investigating what caused the car to leave the roadway.
This is a developing story. Stay with FOX 5 for updates as they become available. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/15-injured-after-fiery-crash-in-arlington-where-car-runs-into-restaurant | 2022-08-13T21:48:54Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/15-injured-after-fiery-crash-in-arlington-where-car-runs-into-restaurant | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Inflation Reduction Act: IRS one step closer to free tax-filing system with new funding
WASHINGTON - The flagship climate change and health care bill passed by Democrats and soon to be signed by President Joe Biden will bring U.S. taxpayers one step closer to a government-operated electronic free-file tax return system.
It’s something lawmakers and advocates have been seeking for years. For many Americans, it's frustrating that beyond having to pay sometimes hefty tax bills, they also have to shell out additional money for tax preparation programs or preparers because of an increasingly complex U.S. tax system.
"It’s definitely something we should do, and when the IRS is adequately resourced, it’s something that will happen," said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at a June Senate Finance Committee hearing.
And now that the IRS is set to receive nearly $80 billion through the so-called "Inflation Reduction Act," the agency has the means to develop new systems to help Americans pay their taxes. The legislation passed Congress on Friday.
Several hurdles stand in the way. Even in a best-case scenario, it will likely take years to get a new, free system up and running. There's also pushback from commercial tax preparation companies, which question whether Americans want the IRS to prepare their taxes.
Perhaps this biggest hurdle is an agreement between the IRS and some commercial tax preparation companies, known as the Free File Alliance, which prevents the federal agency from creating its own free tax return filing system. In short, the IRS agreed not create its own filing system if companies would instead provide free services to taxpayers making $73,000 or less.
This program, though, has been marred with controversy, with commercial firms misrepresenting their services and low taxpayer participation rates.
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The Government Accountability Office in April reported that while 70% of taxpayers were eligible for services through the Free File Alliance, only 3% of taxpayers actually use the service. The watchdog recommended the IRS find new free filing options before the Alliance expires in October 2023.
With the funding in the bill, the IRS has an opportunity to create a new system.
Included is a provision that allots $15 million to the IRS to make plans for a free direct e-file tax return system. Those plans would have to be developed within nine months and would include cost estimates for creating and administering a system. They would also require public input.
There are also legislative attempts to move this effort along.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in July resubmitted a bill called the Tax Filing Simplification Act that would require the IRS to create its own free online tax filing service and move away from its partnership with private online tax preparation companies.
A view of an IRS 1040 Tax Form on a Laptop computer screen being prepared for an electronic filing.
"I’ve been pushing for a free tax filing system for years, and now the IRS is on the verge of having significant funding to modernize its IT systems, which means it’s time to develop simplified filing tools laid out in my Tax Filing Simplification Act," Warren told The Associated Press.
"Americans spend too much time and money to file their taxes, and the IRS should adopt these proposals to help millions of Americans file taxes and claim refunds."
At her Finance Committee appearance, Yellen called for a new system.
"There’s no reason in the world that a modern economy shouldn’t have a system that makes it easy for such a large group of taxpayers to file their returns," she said.
Vanessa Williamson, a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, said "if the IRS moves forward with a free product, it could save lower-income families the money they used to give to H&R Block or TurboTax."
"Tax prep companies are notorious for tricking tax filers into paying for services they should be getting for free," Williamson said, "so an IRS free file service would be a very welcome step that would save Americans money."
In 2019, ProPublica wrote about Intuit's TurboTax and H&R Block Inc.'s efforts to mislead taxpayers away from the federally supported free services for which they qualified. And in May, New York Attorney General Letitia James secured a $141 million settlement with Mountain View, California-based Intuit Inc., which had to pay restitution to some taxpayers.
Intuit withdrew from the Alliance in July 2021, stating in a blog post that the company could provide its benefits without the Free File Alliance's limitations. H&R Block withdrew from the partnership in 2020.
"Most Americans don’t want the tax collector to also serve as the tax preparer," said Derrick L. Plummer, a spokesman for Intuit.
"The IRS already has a core mission that it needs to focus on, and creating a new system would cost billions of taxpayer dollars and jeopardize the financial freedom of millions more," he said. A spokesperson for H&R Block did not respond to an Associated Press request for comment.
Ideas for what a government run free-file program might look like are already being studied.
Bruce Sacerdote, a Dartmouth economist, has examined systems in other countries in which taxpayers don't have to enter much data on their electronic forms because the government has already done so.
"The IRS has tremendous amounts of information on wages and dividends," he said, adding that a government-supported tax filing system "could be a wonderful thing."
Such systems are used in Germany, Japan and other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries that collaborate to develop policies that promote economic growth.
"As a taxpayer, there could be a great benefit to pre-population," he said. "Filing taxes is enormously time-consuming. Given all the information the IRS has on taxpayers, they could simply send you a completed return." | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/inflation-reduction-act-irs-free-tax-filing | 2022-08-13T21:48:55Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/inflation-reduction-act-irs-free-tax-filing | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
R. Kelly to go on trial on Monday in Chicago, accused of threatening witness in 2008 child porn trial
CHICAGO - R. Kelly's federal trial that starts Monday in Chicago is in many ways a do-over of his child pornography trial in 2008 in state court.
At that trial 14 years ago, jurors acquitted the singer on charges that he produced a video of himself having sex with a girl no older than 14.
But a big difference between that trial and the one starting in a federal courthouse in Chicago is that prosecutors say the female in the video will testify this time.
Among the charges Kelly faces is that he rigged the 2008 trial by paying off and threatening the girl to ensure she didn't testify.
The woman is now in her 30s.
Four other accusers are also slated to testify. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/r-kelly-to-go-on-trial-on-monday-in-chicago-accused-of-threatening-witness-in-2008-child-porn-trial | 2022-08-13T21:48:56Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/r-kelly-to-go-on-trial-on-monday-in-chicago-accused-of-threatening-witness-in-2008-child-porn-trial | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sonic boom: Hear the sounds of a meteor breaking up over Utah
Residents across northern Utah were surprised Saturday after a sonic boom was heard and felt across the region, leaving many wondering what was behind the startling event.
Security video cameras captured the seconds just before 8:30 a.m. local time that a roar filled the sky on an otherwise sunny day.
At first, residents suspected the stunning sound might have been from an earthquake or a local military facility, but officials quickly downplayed those connections.
"Heard this while out on a run in SLC. We have confirmed it was not seismic/earthquake and not related to our military installations," Utah Governor Spencer Cox tweeted.
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But if not an earthquake or airplane, what was it?
The National Weather Service Office in Salt Lake City appeared to be the first to solve the mystery.
Meteorologists said a GOES satellite lightning mapping product picked up on activity that resembled a meteor streaking through the atmosphere.
The meteor’s trail was picked up by sensors that made the flash appear as if it was lightning to the GOES satellite.
The NWS said they knew it wasn’t lightning because there was a lack of thunderstorms in the area.
Further video confirmation from a Salt Lake City suburb even caught a brief glance of a fireball in the sky, leading further credence to the NWS theory.
Experts said it is not unusual for a meteor to create a sonic boom as they break apart and slow down in Earth’s atmosphere.
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The unusual event coincided with summer’s annual Perseid meteor shower, but astronomers have not said whether the two occurrences are connected.
Did you hear it? You can report sightings to the American Meteor Society. Click here to learn more.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood fight team members build a levee using the pyramid placement method, June 30, 2022, at McAlpine Lock and Dam in Louisville Kentucky. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Charles Delano)
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood fight team members build a ring around a simulated boil, June 30, 2022, at McAlpine Lock and Dam in Louisville Kentucky. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Charles Delano)
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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Lauren Tranchitella, an aircrew equipment specialist, and Tech. Sgt. Justin Miller, an airfield management specialist, both with the 182nd Operations Support Squadron, describe the multi-capable Airmen training that the ground crew personnel from the 182nd OSS and the 169th Airlift Squadron participated in at Volk Field Combat Readiness Training Center, Camp Douglas, Wisconsins, June 2 to June 4, 2022. The 182nd OSS and the 169th AS focused on learning each other's jobs such as, aircrew flight equipment, airfield management, intelligence, aviation records management, and medical procedures while at Volk Field. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Paul Helmig)
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The Democratic chairs of the House Intelligence and Oversight Committees have asked federal intelligence leadership for a congressional briefing and for a damage assessment after the FBI seized 11 sets of classified documents at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home earlier this week.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and House Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney requested Avril Haines, director of National Intelligence (DNI), to conduct an immediate review following the extraordinary search of a former President's home, according to a letter Saturday obtained by CNN. The DNI oversees the intelligence community in the executive branch.
"Documents show the FBI's search was an evidence-gathering step in a national security investigation about presidential records at Trump's Florida home," Maloney of New York and Schiff of California wrote. "The facts that are now public make clear that a damage assessment is appropriate."
The FBI on Monday executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, with agents removing 11 sets of classified documents, some of which were marked as "top secret/SCI" -- one of the highest levels of classification.
Court documents unsealed and released on Friday identify three federal crimes that the Department of Justice is looking at as part of its investigation: violations of the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. The inclusion of the crimes indicated the department had probable cause to investigate those offenses as it was gathering evidence in the search. No one has been charged with a crime.
The letter outlined the House chairs' specific requests, including to "instruct the National Counterintelligence Executive, in consultation with the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community and other Inspectors General as appropriate, to conduct a damage assessment."
The letter continued: "In addition, we ask that you commit to providing an appropriate classified briefing on the conduct of the damage assessment as soon as possible. Even as the Justice Department's investigation proceeds, ensuring that we take all necessary steps to protect classified information and mitigate the damage to national security done by its compromise is critically important."
CNN reported earlier Saturday that one of Trump's attorneys signed a letter in June asserting that there was no more classified information stored at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
The letter signed by the attorney raises fresh questions about the number of people who may have legal exposure in the ongoing investigation into the handling of classified materials from Trump's time in the White House.
Before the FBI search warrant used at Mar-a-Lago was revealed Friday, Schiff lauded Attorney General Merrick Garland's request to unseal it, and Trump's legal team ultimately agreed to its release. Schiff also said the House Intelligence Committee would decide whether it would investigate the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago.
"Hopefully (the unsealing) will give the public a sense of why the Justice Department made the decision they did. I have great confidence that Garland considered all of the factors in making the decision," he said.
This story has been updated with additional background.
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Last week, Mayor Tishaura O. Jonessigned into law Board Bill 47, which finally gave “teeth” to the Civilian Oversight Board after seven years. Provisions of the bill included giving subpoena power to the oversight board and creating the independent Division of Civilian Oversight.
Despite, previously supporting and even testifying in favor of such provisions, the Ethical Society of Police - now under new leadership - curiously opposed the creation of a separate entity to investigate St. Louis Metropolitan (SLMPD) police misconduct and giving any sort of investigative alleged powers to an independent body. This is not unlike the position held by the St. Louis Police Officers Association (SLPOA) - typically referred to as the “white police officers’ union.”
Historically speaking, SLPOA has opposed any measure of police reform and oversight, favoring blank check policies and increased protections for police accused of misconduct. The inclusion of subpoena power - meaning the Civilian Oversight Board could obtain otherwise confidential records - and moving the Board under the larger umbrella of the Department of Public Safety have been opposed by SLPOA because St. Louis police officers no longer receive special treatment and favorable decision-makers overseeing employment-related disciplinary matters, like reports of abuse by civilians or shooting an unarmed person. ESOP, on the other hand, has oftentimes been a lone voice for police reform that fights to hold all officers, regardless of race or rank, accountable for civil rights abuses and violations.
Not any longer, it seems.
Although both the Director of Public Safety Dr. Dan Isom and his Senior Policy Advisor Heather Taylor were members of ESOP during their respective time spent at the SLMPD, the Black police union has found itself now at direct odds with the City - and likely the wrong side. The new ESOP vice president, SLMPD Detective Sergeant Todd Ross, reportedly has been aligned with the objectives of SLPOA, where Jeff Roorda seems to still be rearing his obnoxious head. Our readers will recall Roorda as the former business manager and racist windbag for SLPOA who is fresh from yet another electoral loss. Out of jobs to grift, Roorda still seems to be wielding what little influence remains, to the detriment of ESOP and the policies the organization used to support.
Considering the complete turnaround that has occurred within ESOP, we wonder if the membership base was aware of Ross’s alignment with SLPOA. SLPOA is, after all, the greatest opposition to ESOP being recognized as a union with bargaining power in both the City and County.
ESOP, on the other hand, has been the police union that has, for decades, focused on advancing policing reform and accountability policies to improve relations between police and the community they are sworn to serve and protect. So of course, its sudden flip and subsequent opposition to those measures are noteworthy - something is amiss. ESOP even went so far as to sue the City of St. Louis, alongside SLPOA, for adding “teeth” to the Civilian Oversight Board, policies that ESOP leadership testified in support of.
Falling for the oldest trick in the book, ESOP has been manipulated into carrying water for SLPOA’s racist publicity war against Mayor Jones for the sole benefit of the white police union. After all, what’s the point of having segregated police unions if they’re both fighting for the status quo?
Next, the EYE would like to congratulate former police lobbyist and now-failed candidate Jane Dueker for being the first woman to lose both the Democrat and Republican nominations at the same time.
We, of course, refer to the karmic double losses of Dueker, who ran as a Democrat and pulled thousands of Republican votes away from her friend, State Representative Shamed Dogan, who soundly lost the Republican nomination by around 7,200 votes. Dogan could possibly have had a decent chance at winning the seat but for Dueker’s siphoning some GOP votes but even more consequently - racism.
As Dueker tumbles into her sad spiral of irrelevance, we look to the obvious cause for Dogan’s double-digit loss to political newcomer Katherine Pinner. Pinner pulled out an unforeseen upset for the Republican nomination to the St. Louis County Executive seat, currently held by County Executive Sam Page. If you’ve never heard of Pinner, there’s likely a good reason:
Until last week Pinner had no candidate committee filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission to formalize her run, which means minimal campaigning and fundraising. Pinner further was unknown to St. Louis County Republican leaders, who reportedly still haven’t been able to get in contact with her since her victory on August 2.
Pinner comes into St. Louis County politics as a follower of Qanon, the fanatical conspiracy theory that believes high-level American politicians are engaged in a child-harvesting cabal and that the war in Ukraine is part of a plan to replace President Joe Biden with deceased former president John F. Kennedy, who is disguised as living former president Donald Trump, among many other completely nonsensical things. Pinner has written on her blog that coronavirus vaccines are a plot to “inject humans with nanotechnology to program people against their will” and compared COVID-19 quarantines to Nazi concentration camps.
So how does an unknown candidate, with no money and no campaigning and no sense, manage to upset a candidate who was all but a shoo-in for the Republican County Executive nomination?
If you forgot that you were in St. Louis, let this be your reminder:
Racism.
Shamed vs. Katherine
Pinner had the whiter-sounding name on the Republican ballot. Her victory was as simple as that. Even one of Dueker’s biggest cheerleaders, Ray Hartmann, named the reason for Dogan’s loss as racist during last week’s Donnybrook program.
If St. Louis County Republican voters are willing to forego a qualified loyal Black candidate for an unknown white woman who - as it turns out - represents the most extreme fringe beliefs in national politics, then that sounds like even County Republicans have some soul-searching to do. Let’s not hold our breath until we see how much party leaders will support Pinner’s candidacy between now and November. | https://www.stlamerican.com/the-ethical-flip-on-police-conduct/article_6689a0c6-1b2b-11ed-b9e4-f71afe1cbdd1.html | 2022-08-13T22:02:16Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/the-ethical-flip-on-police-conduct/article_6689a0c6-1b2b-11ed-b9e4-f71afe1cbdd1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A major economic bill headed to the president has “game-changing” incentives for the nuclear energy industry, experts say, and those tax credits are even more substantial if a facility is sited in a community where a coal plant is closing.
The transformative bill provides the most spending to fight climate change by any one nation ever in a single push. Among the many things it could do nuclear energy experts say is spur more projects like one Bill Gates is planning in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Gates' company, TerraPower, plans to build an advanced, nontraditional nuclear reactor and employ workers from a local coal-fired power plant scheduled to close soon.
Companies designing and building the next generation of nuclear reactors could pick one of two new tax credits available to carbon-free electricity generators, such as wind and solar. To ensure coal communities have a place in the energy transition, both tax credits include a 10-percentage point bonus for facilities sited where residents have relied on fossil fuel plants or mining— a “sizeable incentive” to locate them there, according to Matt Crozat, senior director for strategy and policy development at the Nuclear Energy Institute.
That could include towns in coal-dependent West Virginia, since the state eliminated a ban on nuclear power plants this year. Or in Maryland, where the state announced a partnership in June to look at repurposing a fossil fuel site for a small nuclear reactor. Or in Montana, where lawmakers are looking at advanced nuclear reactors as a possible replacement for coal boilers.
Staffan Qvist, an expert in energy systems analysis and decarbonization strategies, has extensively researched the feasibility of replacing coal plants with emissions-free alternatives in China and Poland. He found that coal plants often make ideal sites for advanced, high-temperature nuclear reactors.
“It’s a growing trend," Qvist said, “now it’s being talked about everywhere.” Qvist is also founder of Qvist Consulting Limited in the United Kingdom. “You have a site, you have a grid connection. You have equipment that can remain in use, and you have a workforce that could be retrained.”
A design by NuScale Power is the first to be fully certified in the United States and the company is planning to begin operating a small modular reactor in 2029 at the Idaho National Laboratory. The company's chief financial officer, Chris Colbert, said former coal plants are ideal locations for advanced nuclear technology, in part because transmission lines are already in place.
Colbert also said he thinks potential customers will be more interested in the company’s small advanced reactors because of the incentives in the bill.
There are nearly $375 billion in climate incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Among them, there's a new tax credit available to any carbon-free electricity generator. That includes new advanced nuclear reactors that begin construction in 2025 or later. Existing nuclear plants that expand their output could get credit for that additional electricity production. The credit is worth at least $25 per megawatt-hour for the first decade the plant operates, according to NEI, the industry's trade association.
Or, owners of a new carbon-free electricity generator could take advantage of an investment tax credit, worth 30% of the amount they paid to build the facility.
The bill also has $700 million to produce the uranium fuel in the United States that many advanced reactors need. And there's a tax credit for existing nuclear plants worth up to $15 per megawatt hour from 2024 to 2032. That's enough of a boost that it's highly likely no nuclear plants will close during that period for economic reasons, Crozat said. There are expanded options for how the credit can be used, with direct payments for certain owners, such as municipal utilities.
The incentives are a game changer for the nuclear energy industry, said Jacopo Buongiorno, professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Buongiorno has studied the future of nuclear energy in a carbon-constrained world.
“This is really substantial,” he said as he read the list of tax credits. “This should move the needle in terms of making these technologies economically viable right off the bat.”
Buongiorno liked that the credits are available to many carbon-free technologies.
“It's not just nuclear, it's not just solar, it's all of the above, which is what we have been preaching as the right approach for decarbonization,” he said. “You need to sort of push everybody here.”
But Grant Smith, a senior energy policy adviser at the Environmental Working Group, said tax credits for small modular nuclear units is a waste of taxpayer dollars. They divert resources from commercially-viable emerging technologies, Smith said, and stokes “the continuing false narrative of cheap, easily-deployed nuclear technology that the sector has been spinning for decades.” Smith leads the nonprofit's work on accelerating the transition to renewables.
Georgia has the only nuclear project currently under construction in the U.S.
Two traditional large reactors were projected to cost $14 billion and are now expected to cost more than $30 billion.
Because of that, Buongiorno said he'd be shocked if there is another order for a traditional large reactor in the U.S.
The perception of financial risk, or project risk overall, would be too high, he said.
There are roughly 40 serious concepts in development for the next generation of advanced nuclear reactors worldwide, Qvist said. China was the first to connect one of the next generation of reactors to its grid to produce about 200 megawatts of electricity. A high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor began operating last year.
Kairos Power has applied for a permit to construct a test reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. GE Hitachi is working on a reactor in Ontario, Canada, and if it’s successful, there’s a lot of interest in it in the United States, Poland and elsewhere in Europe, Qvist said.
The largest public power company in the U.S., the Tennessee Valley Authority, launched a program this year to develop and fund new small modular nuclear reactors as part of its strategy to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The TVA is focused on GE Hitachi’s design.
At least a dozen advanced reactors are projected to come online in the 2020s.
“It’s not far off and it’s not speculative and it’s not on paper,” Qvist said. “There are actually a lot of things really happening.” | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/climate-bill-could-coal-communities-shift-to-nuclear | 2022-08-13T22:04:50Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/climate-bill-could-coal-communities-shift-to-nuclear | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 31 |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A major economic bill headed to the president has “game-changing” incentives for the nuclear energy industry, experts say, and those tax credits are even more substantial if a facility is sited in a community where a coal plant is closing.
The transformative bill provides the most spending to fight climate change by any one nation ever in a single push. Among the many things it could do nuclear energy experts say is spur more projects like one Bill Gates is planning in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Gates' company, TerraPower, plans to build an advanced, nontraditional nuclear reactor and employ workers from a local coal-fired power plant scheduled to close soon.
Companies designing and building the next generation of nuclear reactors could pick one of two new tax credits available to carbon-free electricity generators, such as wind and solar. To ensure coal communities have a place in the energy transition, both tax credits include a 10-percentage point bonus for facilities sited where residents have relied on fossil fuel plants or mining— a “sizeable incentive” to locate them there, according to Matt Crozat, senior director for strategy and policy development at the Nuclear Energy Institute.
That could include towns in coal-dependent West Virginia, since the state eliminated a ban on nuclear power plants this year. Or in Maryland, where the state announced a partnership in June to look at repurposing a fossil fuel site for a small nuclear reactor. Or in Montana, where lawmakers are looking at advanced nuclear reactors as a possible replacement for coal boilers.
Staffan Qvist, an expert in energy systems analysis and decarbonization strategies, has extensively researched the feasibility of replacing coal plants with emissions-free alternatives in China and Poland. He found that coal plants often make ideal sites for advanced, high-temperature nuclear reactors.
“It’s a growing trend," Qvist said, “now it’s being talked about everywhere.” Qvist is also founder of Qvist Consulting Limited in the United Kingdom. “You have a site, you have a grid connection. You have equipment that can remain in use, and you have a workforce that could be retrained.”
A design by NuScale Power is the first to be fully certified in the United States and the company is planning to begin operating a small modular reactor in 2029 at the Idaho National Laboratory. The company's chief financial officer, Chris Colbert, said former coal plants are ideal locations for advanced nuclear technology, in part because transmission lines are already in place.
Colbert also said he thinks potential customers will be more interested in the company’s small advanced reactors because of the incentives in the bill.
There are nearly $375 billion in climate incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Among them, there's a new tax credit available to any carbon-free electricity generator. That includes new advanced nuclear reactors that begin construction in 2025 or later. Existing nuclear plants that expand their output could get credit for that additional electricity production. The credit is worth at least $25 per megawatt-hour for the first decade the plant operates, according to NEI, the industry's trade association.
Or, owners of a new carbon-free electricity generator could take advantage of an investment tax credit, worth 30% of the amount they paid to build the facility.
The bill also has $700 million to produce the uranium fuel in the United States that many advanced reactors need. And there's a tax credit for existing nuclear plants worth up to $15 per megawatt hour from 2024 to 2032. That's enough of a boost that it's highly likely no nuclear plants will close during that period for economic reasons, Crozat said. There are expanded options for how the credit can be used, with direct payments for certain owners, such as municipal utilities.
The incentives are a game changer for the nuclear energy industry, said Jacopo Buongiorno, professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Buongiorno has studied the future of nuclear energy in a carbon-constrained world.
“This is really substantial,” he said as he read the list of tax credits. “This should move the needle in terms of making these technologies economically viable right off the bat.”
Buongiorno liked that the credits are available to many carbon-free technologies.
“It's not just nuclear, it's not just solar, it's all of the above, which is what we have been preaching as the right approach for decarbonization,” he said. “You need to sort of push everybody here.”
But Grant Smith, a senior energy policy adviser at the Environmental Working Group, said tax credits for small modular nuclear units is a waste of taxpayer dollars. They divert resources from commercially-viable emerging technologies, Smith said, and stokes “the continuing false narrative of cheap, easily-deployed nuclear technology that the sector has been spinning for decades.” Smith leads the nonprofit's work on accelerating the transition to renewables.
Georgia has the only nuclear project currently under construction in the U.S.
Two traditional large reactors were projected to cost $14 billion and are now expected to cost more than $30 billion.
Because of that, Buongiorno said he'd be shocked if there is another order for a traditional large reactor in the U.S.
The perception of financial risk, or project risk overall, would be too high, he said.
There are roughly 40 serious concepts in development for the next generation of advanced nuclear reactors worldwide, Qvist said. China was the first to connect one of the next generation of reactors to its grid to produce about 200 megawatts of electricity. A high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor began operating last year.
Kairos Power has applied for a permit to construct a test reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. GE Hitachi is working on a reactor in Ontario, Canada, and if it’s successful, there’s a lot of interest in it in the United States, Poland and elsewhere in Europe, Qvist said.
The largest public power company in the U.S., the Tennessee Valley Authority, launched a program this year to develop and fund new small modular nuclear reactors as part of its strategy to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The TVA is focused on GE Hitachi’s design.
At least a dozen advanced reactors are projected to come online in the 2020s.
“It’s not far off and it’s not speculative and it’s not on paper,” Qvist said. “There are actually a lot of things really happening.” | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/climate-bill-could-coal-communities-shift-to-nuclear | 2022-08-13T22:04:50Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/climate-bill-could-coal-communities-shift-to-nuclear | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 31 |
A real estate developer is hoping San Bernardino County residents are so sick of Sacramento that they will vote to leave California entirely, and turn the county into a new state, possibly called “Empire.”
“With the way things are in California right now, I don’t know if there’s any hope for California,” Rancho Cucamonga developer Jeff Burum said Tuesday, July 26.
At Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Burum asked officials to put an advisory measure on the Nov. 8 ballot:
“Do you support having the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors and all federal and state elected officials representing citizens within San Bernardino County to seek the approval of Congress and the State Legislature to form a State separate from California,” Burum’s proposed measure reads.
If successful, Empire would be the first new state since Hawaii was established in 1959, and the first carved out of another state since West Virginia left Virginia in 1863.
According to Burum, California state officials are ineffective and disconnected from the needs of Inland Empire residents.
“They’re not serious about the issues,” he said after the board meeting. “They’re not trying to change anything. They’re just playing politics, trying to look good, sound good, so they can get reelected.”
Frustrated by the obstacles to getting houses built in particular, Burum said he wanted to do something.
“I don’t like to be one of these guys who sit around on the country club patio and complain about the way things are, unless you want to do something about it,” he said.
And “doing something,” in this case, means washing his hands of the Golden State, which he says treats inland California “like a slum,” putting prisons in the region but not, say, the infrastructure needed to build more houses.
“I think that California has become so large that it’s impractical to save the entire state. We’re the highest tax state in the entire union,” Burum said. “You’d think that, with that, we’d have the highest level of services, but we don’t.”
If voters in San Bernardino County go for the proposed ballot measure, Burum thinks more might join in.
“I’m sure that other counties that are being left behind in terms of entitlements might want to join in,” he said.
The details of how Empire would be organized and run haven’t been worked out. And it’s not clear how much public support there is for the idea. Burum said he will be doing polling on the issue “very shortly.”
But on Tuesday, a number of local officials — speaking on their own behalfs, not on behalf of their organizations — praised the idea at the Board of Supervisors meeting, including Fontana Mayor Acquanetta Warren.
“We cannot continue to beg, and crawl and (grovel) … to get resources for our county,” she said. “We have millions of citizens that have needs.”
Upland Mayor Bill Velto spoke in support of the idea and blasted California’s unfunded mandates on local governments. Mayor Deborah Robertson of Rialto also spoke in support of it.
“I’m frustrated, too. I’m frustrated with the state of California,” said Board of Supervisors Chairman Curt Hagman, the former Republican leader in the state Assembly. “It’s becoming, more and more, ‘one size fits all’ for the greatest state in the nation.”
This would hardly be the first effort to subdivide the state:
- In 1941, northern California counties sought to form the state of Jefferson, joining with rural southern Oregon counties. The idea resurfaced during the pandemic, as conservative northern rural counties chafed against coronavirus restrictions.
- In 1965, the California State Senate actually voted to divide the state in two, using the Tehachapi Mountains as the dividing line. But the idea never made it out of committee in the Assembly.
- In 1992, the Assembly approved a bill that would allow counties to vote to split California into three states: a North, Central and South California. This time, the idea died in the Senate.
- The 2003 “CaliFOURnia” proposal, which mostly existed in the form of letters to the editor, would have created four states with the Inland Empire being grouped together with Orange, San Diego and Imperial counties.
- There was a 2009 proposal to make coastal California, running from Los Angeles County up through the Bay Area, into its own county.
- In 2011, former Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone wanted to cluster Riverside, San Bernardino, Imperial, San Diego, Orange, Kings, Kern, Fresno, Tulare, Inyo, Madera, Mariposa and Mono counties into a new “South California.”
- In 2013, venture capitalist Tim Draper backed a ballot initiative to split California into six states, with the Inland Empire again being grouped with Orange, San Diego and Imperial counties. The initiative failed to qualify for the ballot.
- In 2018, Draper was back with the Cal 3 proposal, which would have split California into three states. This time, the proposal did qualify for the ballot, but the state Supreme Court pulled the measure so its legality could be studied.
“It’s almost inevitable that some parts of a state will think that other parts are getting all the money and respect,” Jack Pitney, Claremont McKenna College professor of American politics, wrote in an email.
“I was born, raised, and educated in Upstate New York, where it is an article of faith that New York City dominates the state government,” Pitney wrote. “Upstaters have sometimes thought about breaking up, but as is usually the case with such movements, the costs outweigh the benefits. At this point, I doubt that people in Sacramento are too worried, but we’ll see if the movement gets traction.”
According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, San Bernardino County had 2.1 million residents in 2021, roughly tied with the population of New Mexico, and more than the populations of Nebraska, Idaho, West Virginia, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Maine, Montana, Rhode Island, Delaware, South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, Vermont or Wyoming.
San Bernardino and Riverside counties combined were the fifth-fastest growing metro area in the 2020 census. In contrast, Los Angeles and Orange counties combined had the nation’s second-worst population decline.
Even if San Bernardino County voters approved secession, the hard part would be yet to come.
“There are infinitesimally small odds of a secession movement gaining traction,” Marcia Godwin, a professor of public administration at the University of La Verne, wrote in an email. The state Legislature would have to approve secession, then Congress would have to act.
“Even if such a movement went that far, U.S. senators have no reason to support diluting their influence by giving the most populous state additional senators,” Godwin wrote. “Even California’s own senators are likely to avoid antagonizing their colleagues. Odds in the House of Representatives don’t appear to be much better, as there are both resource and partisan considerations that would come into play.”
Burum acknowledges that getting the state Legislature and Congress to approve turning San Bernardino County into its own state “will be the biggest lift of them all.”
Should the Board of Supervisors favor referring the matter to voters on Nov. 8, it’ll need to move quick and take up the issue at its Aug. 9 meeting to make the deadline for inclusion on the ballot.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include additional background information.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct which mayors spoke in favor of the secession plan. The mayors of Fontana, Rialto and Upland spoke in favor of the proposal. The mayors of Apple Valley and Victorville spoke in favor of a different proposed ballot measure.
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In the parlance of our industry, CIF Southern Section commissioner Rob Wigod buried the lead. (Or, as we in newspapering spell it, lede. Don’t ask me why. It’s tradition.)
On August 2, Wigod’s first “Commissioner’s Message” of the school year to administrators, coaches and media discussed finances (a waiving of schools’ sport fees for the coming school year), technology, a vote about adding girls flag football as a sport, an upcoming championship football game at the Rose Bowl, beach volleyball championships in the spring, and emphasis on fan behavior issues and a continuing officiating shortage.
And at the very end he dropped this in: After his 12th year as commissioner and nearly four decades in education, he will retire next Aug. 1.
“When I first took over as commissioner, I just internally kind of told myself, ‘Wow, if I was able to do this for 10 years, that would really be something special,’ ” Wigod said at the top of our annual August conversation this past week.
“My (ninth) year was the 2019-2020 school year, so we got off to a pretty good start and then it got pretty dicey. And so at that point I just said, ‘Well, all plans for any kind of retirement are going to go off the board now. I’m going to focus on getting us through this and re-establishing everything.’ “
It has been a slog, but Wigod, his staff and the individual schools’ administrators and coaches got through it, with a truncated ’20-21 sports season and something closer to normal in ’21-22.
Closer, but not all the way back. The CIF state office published participation numbers this week suggesting that while the overall ’21-22 numbers declined – down by 7.6 percent since ’19-20, with a total of 763,606 participants statewide this past school year – there’s optimism that those numbers will rise this academic year and beyond.
The Southern Section transfer numbers, disseminated in early August, revealed another pattern that could be concerning. The total number of transfers in ’21-22, 6,117, was down from the 6,523 of ’19-20. But nearly half of the transfers last school year, 3,003, were non-participants in sports. Under more normal circumstances, Wigod said, that percentage is around 15 to 20 percent.
“I think you have to go back a little bit further than the most recent (numbers) because we all know what we dealt with and how it affected so many things,” Wigod said. “I think there’s optimism (of a trend upward) because we lost a lot of students through the shutdown and through the pandemic.
“You talk with our schools and they will tell you there are just students that didn’t come back. They found other things to get involved in when they weren’t allowed to be part of high school sports … The pandemic changed a lot. It changed thought processes. It changed a lot of the way things have been done that always got taken for granted. … People had, I think, taken high school sports for granted: ‘It’s there every year.’ And then when it was gone they realized how much they missed it and how important it was. So I think that affected our students.”
The impact has been felt at a number of levels. Some athletes might have shifted their attention to club teams, and others may have dropped away from comprehensive high schools altogether in favor of homeschooling. A crisis in hiring and retaining officials in all sports continues. And Wigod said an athletic director in the Inland Empire told him a lot of coaches had dropped away through the pandemic as well.
“A lot of folks just decided, ‘Hey, I can get along without doing this anymore,” he said. “Or it just reprioritized where they are. So I think we have to take that into consideration and look at this last year we finished, where I think we were able to restore some confidence that everything was able to get done even through a pandemic.
“I think this year we hope to build on that momentum and continue to move forward away from the terrible times and challenging times. And I’d like to think there is optimism that (the) numbers will come back.”
Normalcy is getting closer. Anecdotal evidence suggests football and other fall sports numbers have increased, for seasons that started this weekend with girls volleyball and will begin for most football teams this coming week.
“You know, we still have parents and students who have said, ‘I don’t want to go back to the comprehensive high school. I got a taste of what it was like to be educated off a campus, and I would like to stay in that environment,’” Wigod said.
He said he doesn’t begrudge those decisions that parents or students make, but he remains convinced that on-campus education provides benefits that go beyond what a student might learn in the classroom or on the field or court.
“The socialization and mental health, and the ability to interact with peers and learn and really experience what life is each day, dealing with different people and having to work together,” he said. “That’s what I love so much about high school sports, is how it teaches that concept so strongly about being a team and working together and setting aside whatever you might bring to the table.”
Learning to work with, and get along with, people of different backgrounds and beliefs may be the most important skill our schools can teach. And, as Wigod noted, school athletic programs provide a service that club and travel teams can’t.
“The high school experience is really the only one that’s free of charge,” he said, echoing the message of CIF state commissioner Ron Nocetti. “Facilities at the high school are free of charge. Tennis courts on the high school campus are not in a club. They’re not in a private facility. They’re not somewhere you have to pay money to use.
“We should never lose sight that we are the bastion for that opportunity, those opportunities for students without having to pay exorbitant amounts of money for a club or travel experience.”
With that, Wigod’s final school year as commissioner begins, but there will be no victory lap. “I want to just build on that momentum this coming year and really, you know, continue that effort to keep everything moving forward,” he said.
But after guiding this sometimes fractious association of some 580 schools and their athletic programs through a global pandemic and back to some semblance of normalcy, isn’t it obvious? He’s earned one.
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It’s time to catch up on all the latest major cruise news, especially now that cruise lines have started to ease vaccine and testing requirements. Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises and Royal Caribbean have all released big updates, along with developments on rockslides and cancellations.
Cruise News Update
We’ve had a busy week of cruise news and as expected, protocols have started to ease even further. Carnival Cruise Line has finally announced it will open up to unvaccinated guests, which we will get into later in the post. Princess Cruises is dropping the vaccine mandate for most sailings, Royal Caribbean is dropping the vaccine requirements from select homeports and pre-cruise testing is being dropped by two more Carnival-owned brands.
We’ve also got the latest developments on the rockslide in Skagway, which is impacting cruises, and news on cruise cancellations due to staff shortages.
In This Article…
Princess Cruises Relaxes Vaccine Requirement
We start with Princess Cruises, which announced on Friday that it’s removing the vaccine requirement for most sailings and eliminating pre-cruise testing for vaccinated guests.
Starting September 6, vaccinated guests sailing on a cruise of fewer than 16 days in length will no longer have to test before boarding. They just need to upload proof of their vaccination on the OceanReady app.
Unvaccinated guests or those who do not provide proof of vaccination on those itineraries will only need to self-test within three days of sailing and upload evidence of a negative test before boarding to the Oceanready app.
The new guidelines are for all sailings where government requirements allow the cruise line to implement these guidelines. The exceptions are cruises sailing to and/or from Canada, Greece, and Australia.
Royal Caribbean Protocol Updates
In the past week, Royal Caribbean announced a further easing of its protocols by dropping the vaccine requirements on select sailings from September 5, 2022. This easing applies to departures out of Los Angeles in California, Galveston in Texas, New Orleans in Louisiana, and cruises in Europe.
This now means that regardless of vaccination status, guests can cruise on the select sailings, as long as they meet any testing requirements.
For cruises out of Galveston and New Orleans that visit Grand Cayman, only passengers that show a valid vaccination record can go ashore. When it comes to the select European cruises, unvaccinated guests will have to take a test onboard to be allowed ashore in Greece or Spain.
Guests will still need to follow the pre-cruise testing requirements. For departures five nights or less out of Los Angeles and Galveston, unvaccinated guests aged 2 and over must show a negative test result to sail. Vaccinated guests, regardless of age, no longer need to test for the shorter sailings.
When it comes to cruises that are six nights or more, all guests aged 2 and over must present a negative test result taken within three days before departure.
Testing requirements for sailings in Europe are unchanged. Royal Caribbean is finalizing the testing for departures out of New Orleans.
What’s notably missing are Eastern Caribbean cruises. Royal Caribbean said it was working with local governments in the Eastern Caribbean to align vaccination requirements for more itineraries. So keep an eye out as further changes could be on the way soon.
Princess Cruises Cancellations
Princess Cruises has been forced to cancel a limited number of voyages for the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which includes departures out of San Diego, California. It comes as the cruise line is dealing with labor shortages while occupancy levels rise across its ships.
It does mean that the cruise line has canceled a total of 11 voyages for the Diamond Princess out of San Diego, from September 1, 2022, through November 13, 2022.
Princess wants to make sure the guest experience onboard remains exceptional and by canceling the voyages, it allows more time to increase the crew levels.
The good news is impacted guests have the option for a replacement voyage departing in 2022 or 2023 but departing out of Los Angeles, California, rather than San Diego.
The vessel has already been on pause for more than two years, and before the announced cancellations, the ship was scheduled to resume sailings with guests on September 1, 2022, from San Diego. This included that first five-night voyage with visits to San Francisco in California and Ensenada in Mexico.
The ship’s first return voyage will now depart San Diego on November 13 on a seven-night itinerary.
Skagway Rockslides Impact Cruises
Another rockslide adjacent to the popular White Pass Railroad Dock in Skagway, Alaska, has caused damage and led to the full closure of the dock, which is expected to remain closed for the rest of the 2022 sailing season.
The most recent rockslide was on Friday, August 5, following a slide just two days earlier on August 3. Both rockslides caused damage to the White Pass Railroad Dock, and the latest slide caused significant damage to shipping containers placed along the length of the dock.
With just two months remaining in the Alaska sailing season, Princess Cruises is removing Skagway from 10 upcoming itineraries. This is due to the closure of the forward berth of the White Pass Railroad Dock, the only viable docking position for the cruise line’s Royal-class vessels, the largest ships in the Princess Cruises fleet.
Rather than calling on Skagway, each cruise will instead substitute a different Alaskan port of call. The impacted cruises include the Majestic Princess, which will call at Icy Strait Point. Also, the line’s newest ship, Discovery Princess will be doing the same.
Royal Princess will now visit Haines instead of Skagway for the August 16 and August 30 sailings.
Discovery Princess will visit Sitka rather than Skagway on the cruises setting sail on August 11, September 8, and September 22, as will the Royal Princess cruise setting sail on September 13.
Carnival Removes Vaccine Requirement
It has been a long-awaited day for multiple Carnival-owned cruise brands, including Carnival Cruise Line, which will drop requirements on sailings.
Starting from departures on September 6, 2022, vaccinated guests no longer have to undergo a pre-cruise test to sail. However, guests will still need to show proof that they are fully vaccinated.
Carnival is also making a major change to its vaccine requirements, which will open up cruises to more guests. Unvaccinated guests will be allowed to cruise and will no longer be required to show proof of vaccination before a cruise. However, this does not apply to sailings in Australia or on voyages 16 nights and longer.
Unvaccinated guests or those who choose not to show vaccination proof will still need a negative PCR or antigen test result taken within three days before departure.
Carnival also says that for those guests that do have a pending vaccine exemption application and waiting for a response, that booking is confirmed as long as the cruise is departing on or after September 6 and does not visit Canada, Bermuda, Australia, or if the voyage is 16 nights or longer.
P&O Cruises and Cunard Drop Testing
Cunard Line and P&O Cruises are easing their requirements for sailings from September 6, 2022, but only on shorter sailings where government regulations permit. In some embarkation ports, stricter local guidelines will still apply.
For both lines, testing for fully vaccinated passengers will become “highly recommended” rather than “required” as of Tuesday, September 6.
Only on longer, more “complex” sailings will guests still be required to present a negative antigen or PCR test to be permitted to board. While exact details on what constitutes a “complex” sailing have not yet been clarified, the stricter requirements are likely to apply to itineraries 16 nights or longer, as well as certain holiday sailings.
Regions with stricter local protocols, at this time including Canada and Australia, still require testing, and guests booked on those sailings will be notified about their exact requirements for cruise travel.
To continue ensuring the health and wellbeing of guests and crew, both Cunard Line and P&O Cruises still require all guests ages 16 and older to be fully vaccinated at least 14 days before embarkation. Crew members will also continue to be fully vaccinated and tested regularly.
More Cruise Headlines
It wasn’t just a busy week of cruise news but also an important one with all the easing of requirements. We’ve also got other news stories that may interest you, including a port cancellation for a Norwegian Cruise Line ship, Disney Cruise Line on the road to recovery mainly due to its newest ship, a business updated from Norwegian Cruise line Holdings, a major milestone for Carnival Cruise Line, Virgin Voyages is shortening port times on itineraries, plenty of investments happening at the Port of Galveston for cruises and loads more news. | https://www.cruisehive.com/cruise-news-update-august-13-2022/78873 | 2022-08-13T22:09:11Z | cruisehive.com | control | https://www.cruisehive.com/cruise-news-update-august-13-2022/78873 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOS ANGELES – UCLA beat out quite a few schools to land DJ Justice, a three-star wide receiver recruit in last year’s class who turned down Auburn, Penn State and Oregon, among other schools.
The athletic 6-foot pass-catcher, billed as a one-on-one nightmare for defenders, could have developed into a potential big play threat in Chip Kelly’s high-octane offense. But it appears that Justice may not even take a single snap on offense.
After not seeing playing time last year, Justice is switching over to defense.
Kelly confirmed that Justice will play either safety or cornerback this season after he was spotted taking defensive snaps during the first week of fall camp. Justice was a receiver during spring camp, but discussions had already begun around then about a potential switch.
“I want kids to be comfortable in what they want to do,” Kelly said. “He’s a really good athlete and we’ll find a way to get him involved, whether it be special teams or defense or whether it be on offense.”
Justice, the son of former MLB slugger David Justice, requested the change. He played a bit of defense in high school at Bishop Alemany in addition to wide receiver. As a sophomore, Justice notched five interceptions in three games, Kelly noted.
The Bruins don’t have much immediate space at wide receiver even with the departure of Kyle Philips to the NFL. They’ve landed transfers like Jake Bobo and Titus Mokiao-Atimalala who could start immediately, and have returners in Kazmeir Allen, Kam Brown and Logan Loya.
Perhaps Justice could land on defense, with a new defensive coordinator in Bill McGovern trying to revamp a secondary that was gashed for 260.2 passing yards per game last season, last in the Pac-12.
Justice is the second player to switch sides this offseason, with former reserve defensive lineman Tyler Manoa moving over to the offensive line in the spring in the hopes of finding more playing time. Manoa, lining up at left tackle during fall camp, is among the contenders for a starting spot after spending four years on defense.
That could be an auspicious sign for Justice, and a repeat indicator of the coach’s philosophy.
“A really good athlete, smart kid, so I expect him to contribute,” Kelly said, “Again, we want kids to play the position they want to play.”
Special teams injury
Kicker Nicholas Barr-Mira did not participate in special team drills Saturday, warming up off to the side with an apparent injury.
In addition to placekicking duties, Barr-Mira has emerged as a contender to also serve as the team’s punter, Kelly said earlier in the week. UCLA is looking to fill the void at punter after Luke Akers transferred to Northwestern.
What heat?
Temperatures stretched well into the 80s during practice, with fall camp beginning in the dead of summer.
The heat didn’t register much to Gabriel and Grayson Murphy, the twin defensive linemen who transferred from North Texas this spring.
“It’s hot, but it’s nothing like that Texas heat with that humidity,” Grayson said. “It’s probably like 105, 106 over there right now.”
Gabriel said they’ve been brushing off teammates’ complaints about the California heat.
“We come from Texas, and this is nothing,” Gabriel said. “It’s three weeks straight of 100 degrees out there. Coming out here and getting a little breeze during practice, it feels a lot better than back in Texas.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — More than 3.1 million viewers watched Fox Sports’ broadcast of Major League Baseball’s second “Field of Dreams” game, about half of the audience for the 2021 game.
The Chicago Cubs beat the Cincinnati Reds 4-2 on Thursday night at a throwback ballpark in eastern Iowa, a short walk from the main field for the 1989 movie.
Fox Sports said Friday it was the most-watched regular-season baseball game on any network this year. The audience peaked at 3,464,000 views from 8:15 to 8:30 p.m. EDT.
The 2021 game, a wild 9-8 victory for the Chicago White Sox against the New York Yankees, attracted nearly 6 million viewers in what MLB said was the most-watched regular-season game on any network since 1998.
Major League Baseball has not committed to returning to the site.
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Some say benefits for fossil fuel companies in Congress's climate change legislation weaken its impact. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with energy historian Gregory Brew about the bill.
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Some say benefits for fossil fuel companies in Congress's climate change legislation weaken its impact. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with energy historian Gregory Brew about the bill.
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Gwen Wee lives in East English Village. Her power recently went out when a DTE transmission line failed.
“I know more people are buying electric cars. I know in the last two weeks, I’ve had two people that were so happy that they have EV cars and then, crash, no power. Fortunately for them, they could do some work remotely,” explained Wee.
She was not sure if DTE is ready for the switch to EVs.
Dan Scripps, chair of the Michigan Public Service Commission said the grid needs more work.
“The grid is old. And it’s not ready for sort of where we’re headed in terms of electric vehicles and other things,” Scripps explained.
He said they are working on it.
“That’s been a focus of the commission and the power grid initiative. And we’re making sure we’re getting our arms around what needs to happen as we update the grid for the future,” said Scripps.
Tony Tomczak is the vice president of Electric Sales and Marketing for DTE.
"This is like the revolution that we saw back in the 50s when people had air conditioners,” explained Tomczak.
He said it was a big change for the public and energy companies at that time.
“For what we had to have available for generation and our systems to be able to get power to our homes. It’s kind of the same thing going on here,” Tomczak said.
Related: EVs force emergency responders into new training to avoid electrocutions, reigniting fires
He responded to questions about if DTE was ready for the EV future?
“So I think that we are ready to a certain degree. We are not totally ready for a total switch to electric vehicles across the board. Today, we’re ready if 20% of our population in this area were to become EV. Yes, we are ready.”
He explained right now, less than 1% of cars in the area are EVs. Still, he said a billion dollars a year are being invested to harden the system to be ready to move past 20%. Tomczak said it will take a change in the way people think about using energy.
“Again, I think it goes back to that mindset. Being able to understand not only that, ‘Hey I need electricity and I need it for my vehicle.’ Well, what’s the best time do that? What’s the lowest cost time to do that? What helps then in a bigger sense to level the load which is a benefit to all of our customers.”
To that end, Ian Hiskens, professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan agrees.
“I think the advice would be look at doing things in a clever way rather than just building new physical infrastructure,” said Hiskens.
However, right now, he’s not giving anyone a great report card.
“The utilities, I don’t think have prepared very well for the EV future,” said Hiskens. “There’s not really the infrastructure being developed to be able to support large scale electric vehicles.”
He explained how much extra power, how much more of a load everyone driving EVs would put on the system.
“It’s not huge, but it’s very much dependent on what time of the day the extra is being demanded. So if you add that 10% on to that already existing peak demand, then that’s a big problem. If you put that 10% on, if it’s charging to the point where there’s a lot of spare capacity in the network like overnight, then it’s not a problem,” Hiskens explained.
He said the answer can be simpler than most would think.
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RIO BONITO, Brazil — At a shooting range a man applying for a gun permit points a pistol and fires 10 shots at a human-shaped target 20 feet away. Nearly all the bullets hit the target's sweet spot in the middle of the torso.
The shooter, Wagner Carneiro, is a former Brazilian army sergeant. He explains that a man in a car asking for directions suddenly pointed a gun to his head and demanded his mobile phone. Now, the 40-year-old Carneiro wants a gun for himself.
"I need it to protect my family," he says, speaking from the range in the town of Rio Bonito, about 40 miles west of Rio de Janeiro.
Thanks to President Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing populist whose hero is former President Donald Trump, it's become a lot easier for Brazilians like Carneiro to get guns. Since taking office in 2019, Bolsonaro has issued more than a dozen decrees loosening restrictions on gun ownership for civilians.
Bolsonaro, who faces a tough reelection battle in October, has avidly courted Brazil's growing gun lobby and often poses for photos making a gun sign with his thumb and forefinger.
"Expanding the right of the population to bear arms has been one of Bolsonaro's main electoral promises from day one," says Fábio Zanini, a columnist for Folha de S.Paulo, a leading Brazilian newspaper. "Gun owners are one of his main electoral bases."
There are still more gun regulations in Brazil than in the United States, including mandatory psychological and firearm safety exams. But now private citizens can buy more powerful handguns and ammunition and in greater quantities. Collectors and competitive shooters can purchase automatic rifles.
Since 2018, the number of guns in private hands has doubled to nearly 2 million, according to data from Brazil's army and police analyzed by Brazilian security think tank Sou da Paz.
Gun stores and shooting tournaments are popping up all over Brazil. They include the massive Schützenfest, held in southern Brazil where many people are of German descent, and is a combination of beer-drenched Oktoberfest and shooting guns. An average of one new shooting range per day has opened during Bolsonaro's nearly four years in office, Brazil's UOL website reported.
Some Brazilian gun enthusiasts mimic their American counterparts by talking about their "Second Amendment" rights, even though there is no constitutional right to bear arms here. Others, like Rodrigo Santoro, who is training to become a weapons instructor at the Rio Bonito shooting range, don't trust the police to protect them from well-armed criminals.
"The main principle is to defend yourself, your family, your home," he says. "We defend guns in the hands of the good people because the bad guys already have guns."
After President Bolsonaro, Brazil's highest-profile gun advocate, is his son, congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro. In July, he celebrated his 38th birthday with a cake decorated with a revolver. He claims that looser gun regulations have helped bring down Brazil's homicide rate.
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"It was the biggest drop in murders ... since 1980," he told Tucker Carlson of Fox News in June. "So, Brazil is safer, thanks God, because of this policy."
But the country's homicide rate was on its way down even before Bolsonaro took office, says Bruno Langeani, the manager of Sou da Paz. And in spite of this trend, the murder rate here of over 22 killings per 100,000 people was still more than three times higher than in the U.S. in 2020, according to World Bank figures.
Cecília Olliveira, who directs Fogo Cruzado, a project that maps gun violence in Brazilian cities, says that instead of promoting gun ownership for self-protection, authorities should focus on reforming the police.
"When you [say]: 'I have to protect myself because the police are not working,' this is not right," she says. "The point is: We have to make the police work in the right way."
Mass shootings carried out by civilians in Brazil are rare. But rising gun ownership has led to more suicides and gun accidents involving children, says Langeani of the Sou da Paz think tank. In addition, he says drug-trafficking groups are recruiting civilians to legally purchase automatic rifles, which are then passed on to the criminals.
"We are seeing more and more episodes of what in the U.S. you would call 'straw buyer' purchase — diversion of firearms to crime," he says.
Ahead of October's election, polls show President Bolsonaro trailing left-wing candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He's a former president who tightened Brazil's gun laws when he first took office in 2003. That legislation prevented ordinary citizens from purchasing guns while a buyback program led to the return of more than 700,000 firearms. Immediately afterwards, Brazil's homicide rate went down, though it started creeping back up in 2007.
So, the prospect that Lula, as the former president is widely known, could return to power has some Brazilians scurrying to apply for gun permits, says Alexandre Coelho, an instructor at the shooting range in Rio Bonito and an ardent supporter of Bolsonaro.
"Left-wing governments don't believe in the right to self-defense. They believe the state has to defend you and will always be [there] to defend you. That is a lie," he says. "Right-wing governments believe in the right to self-defense."
Among his clients is Carneiro, the man who was robbed at gunpoint for his cellphone and who is now finishing up his shooting test. As he examines the bullet holes in the target, Coelho is impressed.
"A total of 95 points" of a possible 100, he says. "He is approved."
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Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin was made available to media prior to the Richmond Raceway race this Saturday:
DENNY HAMLIN, No. 11 FedEx Freight Toyota Camry TRD, Joe Gibbs Racing
Has everything that can be learned about this race car been learned before we get into the Playoffs?
“I think we've learned quite a bit in the first you know, two thirds of the season or whatever the number might be, but I think certainly we know a lot more and certainly after we've gone through all these different track types. You know, we've seen trends from certain types of tracks. We've got a good understanding of it. But that doesn't necessarily mean that we can always kind of fix what we want to fix because of, you know, the rules and the tolerances being so tight.”
How concerned are you about Kurt Busch?
“I mean, it's concerning for sure. You know, mostly concerned for his health. And not really for the race team. Just, you know, we want to give him all the time he needs and, you know, this is proof that he's doing his doing right by his body and making sure he's back to 100%. I think that other drivers maybe in the past probably maybe would have just kind of been able to get some tests passed and gone out there and race but he wants to be 100% Because it's just, you know, no one race or season or whatever it might be as important as your overall health and long term.”
How does having Kimi Raikkonen in the Watkins Glen race change your approach to next week’s road course race?
“It doesn't change the dynamic of the race. I don't think you no unless it does. I mean, I think that you know, it's a a great opportunity for him and track house and whatnot. But as far as like, being a contender to like brace for the winner, I don't think that's a possibility. Just simply because it does take time just you know, you know, it's just do look at the people that have been successful in stock cars coming from an open wheel background. It takes a long time other than you got these anomalies like Tony Stewart and a few others want. Montoya took a little bit of time but it's just it's just really difficult because everyone has gotten so much better. And especially with the information, the data they've gotten nowadays, all those all the drivers that are in the field now have really stepped up dramatically. So I think it's a good thing for our sport to get some good publicity. But other than that, I'm not really sure that it changes dynamic of the race too much.”
Is there any concern that Kurt Busch may not come back and are you thinking ahead to 2023 contingency plans?
“I mean, we're always thinking about it. We're as forward thinking as you can possibly be as a race team. But you know, ultimately we are not and we can't rush current self but we always are. Trying to come up with contingency plans based off of any other scenario that might get thrown our way.”
Can you evaluate Ty Gibbs’ performance in the No. 45 Camry as a fill-in driver for Kurt Busch?
“I think he's done a good job for sure. I think that I think he certainly realizes this you know the difference between explaining and cup is a big old tall one. You know, these guys over here, don't mess around too much. And so it's, it's tough. And so, you know, Ty (Gibbs), I think he's done really good considering of what we've asked him to do and that's keep his nose clean, keep that 45 car in a good position. In the owner’s playoffs, you know, that's really important for us financially. So it's, it's important and he's really done a good job for us to do that. And then he took a fast car last week obviously made a mistake late in that race, but he took it and he maximized his day. So I think he did a really good job and certainly, we're happy with the job he's been doing for us thus far.”
Can you use a similar strategy for this race that you did from the spring with relation to number of pit stops and tire wear?
“Just depends whether the fall off is the same. You know, ultimately, computer programs are going to say, tell the true story and whether it's the right thing to do or not, but you've it's if the fall off is less this time, then two stops won't work because there'll be farther out. They won't drop off as far in the long run. It just kind of depends on what the how the race is playing out. With the strategy is who's up front when that's happening? All that is part of a program that makes it so hard for us to do with pen and paper nowadays, like we used to do. There's so many factors that play into it. Certainly there was a time where in that last stage if a caution comes at any point, either they would have been in big trouble or we would have been in big trouble. So it's kind of a double edged sword there. What's the right strategy? It just worked out the way it did didn't necessarily mean that the one stop strategy was the wrong one.”
Why does Richmond seem to favor veteran drivers over first-time winners?
“Just knowing what you need to feel here in practice versus what you race is something that knowledge certainly plays a factor in an experience plays a factor in I know specifically when I go out there today, I'm going to look for a certain type of field my car needs to work a certain way in the certain part of the corner for me to know that whether it's a race winning car or not. Those are things that you know younger guys would not next experience don't necessarily have but sometimes you have a young driver with an experienced team that gives them the foresight to look for those things. And that's where you see some of the young guys like Byron, even though he's not a rookie, by any means, you know, latches right on and is a contender for to win like he was in the spring.”
Would you want Kurt Busch to be in the race car for Daytona if he was cleared for that race?
“I mean, I'm not really sure what the protocols will be on that once he's cleared. Whether he continues to get waivers. Even if he is clear, I'm really not sure to be honest with you.”
What did you think about Bubba’s Block Party that was held in Richmond?
“We’re going to debrief as a team on it next Wednesday, but you know, being part of the NASCAR Diversity Council, I'm on that board as well. You know, that's something that they've been planning for quite a quite a long time and certainly, certainly something that we've had our hands in and I it sounds like that went really, really well. I know that it had to cap the amount of people that were coming at a certain amount, which is a very good thing that there was an increased interest there. It's all about just trying to broaden our audience in at this race track on television, everything and open up our sport to some that may not know anything about it. So anytime you can kind of mix you know, NASCAR racing, and pop culture. It's all really a good thing for us. And I think that we've see it week in week out in our stands nowadays, that our fans and our audiences more diverse than it's ever been.”
Is there emotion from you about racing at your home track in Richmond?
“It's a good question. I mean, I think that certainly I feel it from within when I run back here, I feel it a little bit harder than I do on any other type of racetrack because, like I've talked about it, I know what I really need to feel this track and it's very frustrating when I can't get my car to do those things. And so it's just part of it. So certainly, I would say I always feel more pressure coming to this race track in general. Martinsville is probably a very, very close number two, but it doesn't always mean you're going to have success even though you know what you need. Sometimes it depends on where your race teams at the time. There's a lot of factors that goes into it, but certainly the emotion is very high at a race track like this versus others.”
Is there anything you’re seeing with Bubba Wallace as to how or why he’s really progressed on the race track in recent weeks?
“Certainly we live and breathe it every day at 23X1, we see where he's progressed even though results. You know, typically, you guys have to hyper focus on 36 different drivers, right we focused on our two, so we know where they are getting better and whether or not and so we try to put those numbers and analytics in front of our drivers to see how they can improve in certain positions. And I think that certainly Bubba (Wallace) has taken a giant step and even though at the beginning of the year results, you know we honestly it's well documented that I said that we I felt we were holding Bubba back at the beginning of the year. With kind of mistakes on pit road. I think that we've gotten that better target. Joe Gibbs Racing has helped us get that better. And then on top of that he's continued to work on his game. Because ultimately, you know, it is sometimes convenient when you always have an out that you know, it's the pit crew or a certain part of the team is what's holding me back from performing. Well, you always have to be as professionally prepared for the moment that nothing else is holding you back and are you ready to step up to the plate when everything is going your way and your cars are fast pit crews great. You have to be ready for those moments. And I think that he continued to work even though publicly he didn't handle things the way I loved it, but he continued to put his nose down and continue to work on his craft. And that's what's showing up now.”
Is there truth to learning how to race up front?
“That's kind of why it's tough, you know, with kind of the emotions he showed last week and that, you know, he felt like he let the team down he should have won. It's hard to beat these guys each and every week and he is racing against a crop of drivers that he hasn't raced with the first handful of years in his career. So it is more difficult to execute and beat them and so nothing's a given you have to have all the pieces of the puzzle put together to win these races. The 14 (Kevin Harvick) proved that great. They've just been chipping away over the last month or so their performance has been getting better. And then bam, they had one good break with that caution and then they capitalize and so that's all of it that you had to put together. And, to their credit, they put themselves in position to do that they're running up front when that happens. So that's the things that you know, it's not always a given just because we have a fast car that you're going to win races. You still have to have it all and so that's why it's, you know, we view last week is certainly a success because it was, you know, like Loudon, one of the more, you know, put together weekends that the 23 cars had from top to bottom from practice, qualifying and race and so that's what we're hoping to see we've seen it twice now at least in the last couple of months. So those are all good trends that are heading our direction. And I believe that this is probably the Bubba Wallace that is here to stay for sure.”
Did the timing matter to announce Bubba Wallace re-signing with him coming off four consecutive top-10 finishes?
“Of course it matters for me. I want to win. I don't you know I'm heavily invested in the sport because I want to win and be competitive and build a top tier elite racing team. So if I didn't think Bubba (Wallace) had the capability of winning I doesn't matter about any other factors. I wouldn't be part of this team but he is part of this team because I believe he can win. I think that he's showing that he's racing our cars to full potential right now. And so that's all I can ask. You know, hopefully we just continue on this trend because it's certainly what I want to see and what I what I expected last year, but you know, it's probably was a little much to ask in year one, not only from him, but from our race team. These things take time you can't just you it doesn't matter how much money you can throw at this. You cannot just you know buy wins. You have to put the right people together. That's Joe's (Gibbs) slogan is dealing with people and that takes time to get all those things put together. And it's now starting to come together and I believe that of his contract and extension with us was definitely well warranted from what I've seen this season. Not just including the last four weeks.”
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HOW HARD IS IT TO TRANSITION FROM THE PRACTICE SESSION TO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO IN QUALIFYING?
CAN YOU TAKE US THROUGH THE TESTING SESSION WITH KIMI (RAIKKONEN)?
HOW DOES HE COMPARE TO MAX (VERSTAPPEN)?
I have never had the opportunity to work with Max. I have had the opportunity to hang out with him, but never to work with him. And that is different. With Kimi the last few days I have been able to do both. I can tell you that both are very relaxed and very fun in their own ways. Now that I got to know them, I am not surprised in how successful they are in what they do. It has been a lot of fun to hang out with these kinds of drivers because I feel like I always learn and I am always open minded to learn from these kind of people and I always feel like I am learning from them."
DO YOU THINK THERE WAS ANYTHING THAT HE REALLY WANTED TO KNOW, OR NEEDED TO KNOW IN THAT TEST?
"You know, there were a lot of things. He asked a lot of questions, he was very open minded, and I really thought he was going to be more quiet. A lot of people know him as being very quiet and a leave me alone kind of guy, but he is not like that at all. I was actually very, very impressed with that. So, he has been learning very quickly and I knew that he knows how to drive and he is very natural at that. But I was very curious to get to know him in more of a mindset level. You know, how he approaches this. So he has been learning quite a bit and has been thinking outside the box and getting a lot of information from myself and it is a lot of fun to see how he is adapting in the simulator but also in the real race car. Even though it was only a couple of hours, but it was good to see that."
HOW DO YOU THINK HE CAN DO NEXT WEEKEND?
"I think he is going to be fast. The speed is there and the racing part is going to be a process because it doesn't matter how much you practice in the simulator, doesn't matter how many tests you do - the racing part is the racing part. Its different and he doesn't know all these drivers. He doesn't know how they race, he doesn't know how aggressive they are, so that part is going to take a little bit. You can bring the best driver in the world and it is going to take some time in the racing part. I think (as far as) the speed, I think he is going to be good."
DO YOU THINK PIT STOPS WILL BE AN ISSUE?
"That is part of the racing part I am talking about. Racing, restarts, taking care of your tires, taking care of your brakes, pit stops....like that part of the racing is what it takes to win races. That is the part I feel like is going to be a process for him. Just because he has never done it before. With that being said, he did pit stop practice a couple of days ago and he did well. There was a couple of things he was doing and I told him, 'hey, you need to do this this way, you need to do this different, because the transmission works this way and you have to use your blower'. I tried to guide him as much as I can and I really feel he is trying to prepare himself as good as he can. If I was going to do a race in Europe one day, I wish I could prepare myself the way he is doing it."
WERE YOU GUYS FAST ENOUGH TO WIN MICHIGAN, BUT IT JUST DIDN'T WORK OUT WHEN THE CAUTION FLAG CAME OUT?
"I don't think we were fast enough to beat the Toyotas straight out, but we were in position to control the race there. So, yeah, I feel that if that caution doesn't come out that we were going to be able to control the race together. I feel like it was either going to be the No. 1 or myself winning. I think we were sitting in a very good position right there with an opportunity when unfortunately that wreck happened and after that is was just history."
JUSTIN MARKS WAS SAYING THIS WEEK THAT EXECUTION ISSUES HAVE KIND OF KEPT THE TEAM FROM GETTING GOOD RESULTS WITH FAST CARS THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. IS THAT JUST AN EXAMPLE OF THAT?
"Well, I can only speak for myself and at Indianapolis we should have finished somewhere in the top three. We had a flat tire on the last restart and somebody pushed me from behind and I pushed (Ryan) Blaney wide and I had a flat tire because of that. But if it wasn't for that, we would have finished in the top three. So, I don't feel like that was execution, I feel like that was bad circumstances for the race. When it comes to Michigan, I feel like we should have finished in the top five, top three, maybe even win the race. But the last thing you want when you are expecting a cycle of pit stops is the caution. And that is exactly what we had."
HAVE YOU RE-SIGNED WITH THE TEAM?
"We are very close. I am going to be honest, I haven't paid a lot of attention to that because I am so focused on the playoffs and making my team stronger. But I know that my manager and people from Trackhouse are very, very close. We never have doubts about where we are on things like that. We are working out a couple of details. It is not final yet, but we are very close."
HOW NICE IS IT TO GO THROUGH THIS FINAL STRETCH AND KNOW YOU ARE LOCKED IN RIGHT NOW?
"It is nice, but I am going to be honest, in my mind I am already in the playoffs. I have had that mindset over the last six weeks. I believe it is not possible to go into the playoffs and flip the switch and say, 'okay, we are in the playoffs, now we have to push hard'. I don't think it works like that and you kind of have to start building that up. And I feel like that is what we have been doing, especially with the 99 team. That shows on the track because the last two months we have had race cars capable of finishing in the top five every single week. The last two weeks we haven't finished there for different circumstances. Besides that, we have finished in the top five and top eight every single week. That's good, I like that and this weekend in Richmond I feel like this is a real, real test for us. Especially because we struggled a lot last time here. I am really looking forward to this weekend to see where we stand."
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Boo Boo Dalton gave the loyal fans at Ace Speedway a show in the track’s Limited Late Model feature on Friday evening.
The final 20 laps saw Dalton race side-by-side with fellow regular Dillon Harville for the lead, with neither driver giving the other an inch. A strong run by Dalton off Turn 4 on the final lap was enough for him to edge Harville and celebrate a victory in front of the exuberant crowd.
Dalton has always appreciated how cleanly Harville races him regardless of the track, but he said that the conclusion to Friday’s 40-lap Limited Late Model feature is a prime example of how a battle for the win should be determined at short tracks.
“To win back at the track I cut my teeth is always special,” Dalton said. “Dillon and I have become pretty good friends, so to battle it out with the amount of respect we had for one another is always a good time.”
With his win at Ace on Friday, Dalton now has seven wins at seven different venues across the southeast this year.
Dalton admitted that finding Victory Lane at Ace proved to be the most challenging of his season to date. He said that Harville has set the standard for efficiency in Limited Late Models at Ace over the past several years and knew his car would have to be perfect to have an opportunity at taking home the checkered flag.
Although Harville had the initial edge during the long green flag run, several late cautions turned fortunes in Dalton’s favor. Harville utilized the top side on the final restart and attempted to pin Dalton down on the bottom, but Dalton’s speed on the short run was enough to narrowly edge Harville at the finish line.
For Dalton, being able to fend off one of Ace’s best in Harville highlights all the strides he has made with his operation in 2022 alone. He expects to keep adding wins before the year concludes but said staying up front will require him and his crew to stay vigilant with their adjustments and setups.
“I’m so happy with where we are in our program,” Dalton said. “All my guys are doing such a great job. The help I’m getting from them, and my parents really has me satisfied about where things are going and hopefully, we can carry the momentum into [North] Wilkesboro [Speedway].”
Dalton will be a part of a stacked Limited Late Model field that will descend onto North Wilkesboro on Aug. 31 as he looks to add his name to the track’s storied record books as a winner.
Dalton would like to thank his parents, his crew, MPM Marketing and his loyal partners in Hudson Autoworks, Rough Signs and Clark’s Automotive Machine Shop.
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A Friday house fire in the Lucketts area of Loudoun County displaced a family of four.
On Friday afternoon, the homeowner called 911 cal reporting a fire in the garage of their home on Spinks Ferry Road. Fire and rescue crews from Lucketts, Leesburg, Lovettsville, Hamilton, Ashburn, and Frederick County, Md., responded along with numerous command officers, Loudoun County fire and rescue said in a news release.
Fire and rescue crews arrived on scene to find a two-story, single-family home with fire showing from the attached garages. All occupants of the home were located safely outside upon the arrival of emergency personnel.
Firefighters quickly used hose lines to extinguish the fire in the garage and fire that had spread into the living quarters, the release said.
A family was rescued by firefighters and was given oxygen by EMS personnel on scene. No additional injuries were reported to civilian or first responders.
The Fire Marshal’s Office investigation determined the fire was accidental, caused when combustible items in the garage came in contact with a refrigerator compressor, the release said.
Two adults, two children, one cat and one dog were displaced and are staying locally with family. Damages to the home and contents are estimated at approximately $496,000.
Per National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the most common reason for refrigerator fires is the compressor due to overheating. If the overheated compressor comes into contact with combustible items, that can quickly cause a fire. By following some simple fire safety and housekeeping practices, you can keep your family safe.
• Clean your coils. Dusty, dirty coils can stop the fridge from cooling properly and result in wasted electricity and food. Unplug your fridge and dust them off.
• Check your compressor. Make sure it’s making no odd noises and the internal/external temperature is within the correct boundaries.
• Finally, clear all combustibles from around and behind the refrigerator unit. Items should not be stored in close proximity, behind or on top of these appliances.
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Scientists have known the Arctic is warming faster than climate models show, but a new study just put into context how much worse the problem is.
It’s long been reported that the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. The researchers behind a Finnish Meteorological Institute study found the Arctic is heating four times faster than other parts of Earth.
The escalation of temperature rise in the Arctic is known as Arctic amplification, explains Mika Rantanen, a researcher at the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the lead author of the study published Thursday. Since the 1960s the globe has warmed by about 1 degree, and the Arctic has warmed by more than three degrees.
“Temperatures are rising faster in the Arctic region than globally,” Rantanen said. “One of the main reasons for Arctic amplification is the sea ice and snow loss, for example, because the open water surfaces and open land surfaces, they are darker, they absorb more solar radiation.”
Arctic amplification has been documented through weather station data as far back as the 1920s, so that is not news. But the Finnish Meteorological Institute study used publicly available data to quantify just how bad it is compared to the rest of the planet.
How fast is the Arctic actually warming?
Using satellite observations and data collected in the Arctic Circle from 1979 to 2021, compared with climate model data, the research team found the Arctic is warming not twice as fast but four times quicker than our globe as a whole.
Rantanen said a summer 2020 heat wave in the Arctic was partially an inspiration for the peer-reviewed study.
“We were frustrated about the discrepancy after saying ‘twice as fast as the globe as a whole,” Rantanen said. “When we look at the data, and it’s actually four times faster and frustrated of this discrepancy, we decided that this is something which needs to be updated to the current day.”
According to their study, future climate models are not currently getting the amplification ratio correctly.
“Most of them simulate lower amplification than what is observed,” he said. “It means that the Arctic is perhaps more sensitive to global warming than previously thought.”
What needs further research is what role internal climate variation from ocean circulation or atmospheric changes play in Arctic amplification.
Another study by the Los Alamos National Laboratory published in Geophysical Research Letters in July also rang the alarm about Arctic warming happening four times faster than the rest of the world.
And here’s the kicker: Doubling the amplification from two to four wasn’t a big surprise to the scientific community. Climate scientists do hope it’s a wake-up call for the public.
John Walsh, a climate scientist with the University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center, said the recent studies were able to put an overall picture together to pin down a number based on the Arctic Circle.
“That’s where I think the study is a step forward,” Walsh said.
Defining the Arctic
Narrowing down where in the Arctic to include in the study was also part of the challenge of quantifying the amplification.
“You wouldn’t believe how many hours scientists spend trying to decide what the boundaries of the Arctic are,” Walsh said.
The Arctic Circle at the 66-degree latitude line is a natural boundary, but Walsh said the Arctic could also be defined as the region north of 60 degrees. That includes places like Fairbanks and Anchorage, Alaska, Oslo, Norway, Stockholm, Sweden and Helsinki, Finland.
Meanwhile, Walsh said, other studies include areas with drainage basins that flush fresh water into the Arctic Ocean, including the McKenzie River in Canada and several Russian rivers south of 60 degrees.
The study’s lead author said who or what is included in the Arctic “can vary depending on who you ask.”
No matter how you define the Arctic, weather stations have well documented the warming trend.
In the 1920s and 1930s, stations documented a period of Arctic warming greater than what was happening in mid-latitudes, followed by a cooling period for a few decades.
“Since the 1970s, as this recent study shows, the Arctic warming has really taken off. It’s been much more rapid than the global warming,” Walsh said. “We’re seeing these ups and downs and temperature swings that are just greater in the Arctic than elsewhere.”
Walsh said there had been some scientific quibbling over the time period used in the Finnish study because it started in 1979 when the period of intense warming began. However, the researchers accounted for that and modeled different outcomes if they had started earlier or later.
Even with a different start date, the data still would have produced a number higher than two times the warming found elsewhere in the world.
“The message is similar, no matter how you slice it: the Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the world,” Walsh said.
Why you should care: The Arctic is a ‘bellwether for climate change’
For the past 15 years, NOAA has released the annual Arctic Report Card documenting the changes in Earth’s coldest regions.
Walsh said the report card was a way to monitor changes and increase public awareness of what’s happening in the Arctic.
“In some respects, the Arctic is a preview for what the rest of the world will be experiencing down the road,” Walsh said. “The Arctic is, in a sense, a vanguard or a bellwether for climate change.”
Two of the most significant impacts of warming in the Arctic are sea-level rise and the thawing of frozen ground known as permafrost. As permafrost melts or degrades, it emits methane and carbon dioxide.
“That can really amplify the greenhouse gas trapping the trapping of radiation, and it can essentially amplify the global warming even further,” Walsh said.
According to NASA, Arctic permafrost holds an estimated 1,700 billion metric tons of carbon, including methane and carbon dioxide.
Permafrost melting is already impacting some of the 5 million people in the Northern Hemisphere who live in the permafrost region, according to NOAA’s 2021 Arctic Report Card. As permafrost thaws, it impacts infrastructure and many ecological systems.
“The people rely on frozen ground to get around, and many of the small communities where … ground is frozen or the permafrost thaws, there’s a lot of buckling and travel over land just becomes a lot more difficult or impossible,” Walsh said.
Without cutting greenhouse gases, Walsh said climate models are unanimous.
“We continue the way we’re going. The Arctic Ocean will become ice-free by mid-century,” he said.
If we reach carbon neutrality by 2050 in line with the Paris Climate Agreement, the same models paint a very different picture.
“The Arctic ice cover and the snow cover on land actually stabilize. They stop decreasing. So we would end up with less ice than we have now, but we would at least have some and be a good seasonal cycle. “
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Immigrants on a Texas bus bound for the Big Apple — which was supposed to go to several cities along the way to let passengers off — threatened to call cops when the driver said they wouldn’t be stopping in Tennessee, The Post has learned.
The charter bus is part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border initiative.
The Post was in Del Rio, Texas, Friday morning as immigrants boarded the bus which was supposed to stop in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., before arriving at its final destination in New York City.
About 40 immigrants, a majority of the passengers, were supposed to get off in Chattanooga, they said.
By early Saturday, the bus driver told the asylum-seekers they would not be stopping in Chattanooga.
The unexpected change came after local authorities intercepted a Texas to DC bus in Georgia on Thursday, and threatened to arrest those aboard, according to several of the immigrants.
The sheriff in Dade County, Georgia, intercepted that vehicle and told those aboard to leave his county, a deputy from the department told FOX News.
Some of the passengers on the New York-bound bus became upset Saturday when the driver announced the change in itinerary, pleading for hours to make the planned stop. Many had plans to meet relatives or travel from Chattanooga.
“Two Cubans started to make a commotion. They were saying they needed to be let off the bus, over and over and over again and called the police,” said Jose, an immigrant on the bus who asked The Post not to use his last name for fear of retribution.
“The buses are supposed to be voluntary. That’s what we were told when we got on,” said Jose.
The immigrants, who are seeking asylum, are not considered illegal and have authorization to travel in the US. The state of Texas gave them envelopes with what bus stop they were supposed to get off at.
Ultimately, they said, the bus did stop in Chattanooga.
“We were dropped off at park about 45 minutes away from the airport and police were waiting for us there. They told us to stay at the park for our protection. We waited there until an Uber came to pick us up and took us to the airport,” said Jose.
The Texas Governor’s Office first denied there was a problem and later referred The Post to the Texas Department of Emergency Management for comment. The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Jose and dozens of other immigrants were able to make their way to the Chattanooga airport, leaving only about five passengers on the New York-bound bus.
“I feel like they lied to us about what was going to happen on the bus. If the buses are supposed to be voluntary, then they should stick to that,” Jose said. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/migrants-on-texas-to-nyc-bus-threaten-to-call-cops-on-driver/ | 2022-08-13T22:42:29Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/migrants-on-texas-to-nyc-bus-threaten-to-call-cops-on-driver/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Police: Driver facing murder charge after running over man with vehicle in violent attack
MESA, Ariz. (Arizona’s Family/Gray News) - Arizona authorities say a man is facing a murder charge after he used his car to run over and kill another man on Friday.
The Mesa Police Department reports that 61-year-old John Lagana is accused of using his vehicle to intentionally run over an acquaintance, later identified as 63-year-old Christopher Heimer, who told Lagana he could no longer park at his home.
Investigators said Lagana purposely drove his car onto a sidewalk where Heimer was walking. Lagana struck Heimer and damaged mailboxes and landscaping while driving on the sidewalk.
According to police, the 61-year-old then turned his car around to run over Heimer a second time before getting out of his vehicle and stomping on the victim’s head multiple times.
Arizona’s Family reports a witness then fired a shot into the ground to get Lagana to stop while police arrived to arrest him. Heimer was pronounced dead.
During an interview with detectives, Lagana said he knew Heimer, who was letting him park at his home because he was homeless.
Lagana reportedly told detectives that his ex-girlfriend was living in Heimer’s home, and he was in the area on Friday to help a friend.
Detectives said Lagana then stopped answering their interview questions and requested a lawyer.
The department said Lagana was booked into jail on a first-degree murder charge.
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(The Hill) — Two top Democrats wrote to the director of National Intelligence on Saturday to request a damage assessment and review be conducted after the unsealed search warrant on Friday revealed classified and top secret documents had been taken by FBI officials during their search at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), chair of the House Oversight Committee, and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), chair of the House Intelligence Committee, wrote to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines asking for a damage assessment to be conducted in addition to a classified briefing “on the conduct of the damage assessment.”
Earlier this week, Trump announced that the FBI had executed a search warrant at his Florida residence and The Washington Post reported that officials were looking for documents, including nuclear weapons information that would have been classified.
The search warrant was unsealed Friday, indicating that officials believed Trump may have violated several laws, including the Espionage Act. It is not clear if documents pertaining to nuclear weapons were among the items seized by officials.
An unsealed search warrant showed that 33 items had been taken by the FBI, including “various classified/TS/SCI documents,” referring to secret/sensitive compartmentalized information
“Former President Trump’s conduct has potentially put our national security at grave risk. This issue demands a full review, in addition to the ongoing law enforcement inquiry,” Schiff and Maloney wrote.
Republicans have urged the Justice Department to be more transparent about the search, with some going further and calling it political persecution against Trump. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Friday introduced articles of impeachment against Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The Hill has reached out to the office of the Director of National Intelligence for comment. | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/top-democrats-request-damage-assessment-review-of-documents-taken-at-mar-a-lago/ | 2022-08-13T22:45:48Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/top-democrats-request-damage-assessment-review-of-documents-taken-at-mar-a-lago/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PHOENIX (AP) — Police arrested three Arizona parents, shocking two of them with stun guns, as they tried to force their way into a school that police locked down Friday after an armed man was seen trying to get on campus, authorities said.
The parents were arrested as they tried to get to their children to protect them, authorities said. Officers in the Phoenix suburb of El Mirage used a Taser to stop two of them as they tried to help a man whose own handgun fell to the ground while he was being taken into custody, authorities said.
The scene at Thompson Ranch Elementary School developed nearly three months after hundreds of law enforcement officers in the small Texas city of Uvalde failed to act for nearly an hour as a gunman killed two teachers and 19 students.
No shots were fired at Thompson Ranch, the school wasn’t breached and no one was hurt, other than a woman taken to a hospital with Taser injuries from officers who say they were trying to stop her from attacking them.
By the time the confrontations with the upset parents began, police had already confirmed that there was no longer a threat, removed a suspicious package and were planning to begin reuniting parents with the children, El Mirage police Lt. Jimmy Chavez said.
But the school was still on lockdown, meaning no one would be allowed on campus, according to the protocols police and the school district have set up. That’s when upset parents demanded to be allowed into the school so they could find their children and began confronting police, authorities said.
“Several parents continued with their agitation, made several statements that they were going to come on campus to help protect their kids,” Chavez said. “As a parent I understand that philosophy. However, there are procedures that law enforcement and the school were following.”
Chavez said a man began pushing to get past officers and as police were arresting him, a man and a woman who had also been confronting officers came to his aid. Officers used a Taser to subdue them and they too were arrested. As the first man was being taken into custody, a gun fell to the ground.
The armed parent will face a weapons charge — guns are not allowed on school grounds — and a disorderly conduct charge. The two parents who were stunned with the Taser will face unspecified charges. The woman was taken by ambulance to a hospital, Chavez said. None were immediately identified.
The incident began at about 10:30 a.m. Friday when school officials called police to report that a man, possibly armed with a gun, was trying to get into a locked school building. He could not get in and was chased off by staff before police from El Mirage and two other agencies arrived at the school, Chavez said.
Officers searching the school to ensure it was safe found a suspicious package and called a bomb squad, Chavez said, and moved some children to another part of the campus.
That’s when parents began arriving and the confrontations with officers began, with parents “forcefully pushing on the officers trying to get on to campus.”
“The parents need to understand that when the school is on lockdown and law enforcement is on scene, nobody is going to be allowed on campus,” Chavez said.
Chavez said the school lockdown procedures between the school district and law enforced “worked to a T.”
Police later located the man who had triggered the lockdown. He was being evaluated late Friday by mental health professionals and a police statement said charges were pending.,
Efforts to reach El Mirage Police Saturday to get additional information were not immediately successful. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/arizona-parents-arrested-trying-to-get-to-locked-down-school/ | 2022-08-13T22:57:03Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/arizona-parents-arrested-trying-to-get-to-locked-down-school/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) – Celebrated author Salman Rushdie, who had death threats issued against him in the 1980s, was attacked on stage Friday at an event in New York.
Photos circulating after the incident showed Rushdie being treated on stage after he was reportedly stabbed in the neck, moments before he was scheduled to give a lecture on “redefining the American home” in the 21st Century.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) confirmed Friday afternoon that Rushdie is still alive. Though no other details are known about his condition. It is also unclear what motivations prompted his attacker.
However, Rushdie, a British-American national born in Mumbai, India, became a controversial figure for his written work because of its descriptions Islam and the Prophet Mohammad, garnering backlash from the former Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
But how did Rushdie become a controversial figure? And how did he draw the ire of one of the most prominent Islamic figures in the Middle East?
Rushdie and ‘The Satanic Verses’
“The Satanic Verses,” Rushdie’s fourth novel, caused immediate controversy around the world and among the Muslim community upon its publication in 1988, as many Muslims considered it blasphemous.
There were calls for its immediate ban and the book was burned in multiple demonstrations in the U.K., Pakistan and elsewhere. The book is still banned in a number of countries around the world including Egypt, U.A.E and India.
On February 14, 1989, Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie. According to History.com, a fatwa can only be repealed by that same scholar, and Ruhollah Khomeini died in the same year he issued the ruling.
Rushdie wrote about the controversy surrounding his novel in an essay for The New York Review in 1989 and said: “One may not discuss Muhammad as if he were human, with human virtues and weaknesses. One may not discuss the growth of Islam as a historical phenomenon, as an ideology born out of its time. These are the taboos against which ‘The Satanic Verses’ has transgressed.”
What is a fatwa?
A fatwa is issued by a religious scholar and is a legal pronouncement handed out by an Islamic religious leader. A fatwa is, in essence, a ruling under Islamic law, and in rare cases like in Rushdie’s, a fatwa may call for death.
Gordon D. Newby, author of “A Concise Encyclopedia of Islam,” told CNN that getting a fatwa “would be like going to someone who was a combined lawyer-priest and getting an opinion.”
He added that a fatwa is an opinion and that different scholars from different schools of Islamic law might rule differently on the same issue or question.
Attacks on translators and publishers of ‘The Satanic Verses’
Hitoshi Igarashi, a Japanese scholar and translator of Rushdie’s novel was stabbed to death in 1991.
The Italian translator of the novel, Ettore Capriolo, was injured in a stabbing in Milan in 1991. The Norwegian publisher of the book, William Nygaard, survived the assassination attempt when he was shot three times in Oslo in 1993.
Lived in hiding for 10 years
Rushdie, who was living in the U.K. at the time the fatwa was issued, went into hiding for 10 years under an alias. The author was also given 24-hour police protection by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government.
Rushdie wrote about his experience in hiding in his 2012 memoir “Joseph Anton,” which was his alias for a decade.
Rushdie told NPR that the alias was necessary so that he could rent property, because doing so in his own name would be dangerous.
“And I was asked to make it not an Indian name. And so, deprived of one nationality, I retreated into literature — which is, you could say, my other country — and chose this name from the first names of Conrad and Chekhov: Joseph Conrad, Anton Chekhov equals Joseph Anton,” he added.
Almost a decade after the fatwa was first issued, the Iranian government issued a statement saying it would neither “support nor hinder” Rushdie’s assassination. However, some Iranian groups and others have continued to push for his assassination.
Continued death threats
Rushdie has continued to receive threats over his novel, and has been forced to pull out of numerous literary festivals and appearances due to personal safety concerns. In 2012, for instance, he withdrew from India’s biggest literary festival in Jaipur after saying that he feared for his life, the BBC reported.
Move to the US and other works
Rushdie moved to the U.S. in the 2000s and told the Village Voice that Manhattan reminded him of the city where he was born.
“Even the shape of Manhattan island is pretty much the same shape and size as what used to be called Bombay and what is now called South Bombay. The old downtown area,” he said.
Prior to the publication of “The Satanic Verses,” Rushdie had earned a name for himself in the literary world with his second novel “Midnight’s Children,” winning the 1981 Booker Prize for his work. The novel was adapted into a film in 2012.
He’s also written nearly a dozen other novels, as well as children’s books and other works. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/what-you-need-to-know-about-salman-rushdie-and-the-fatwa-against-him/ | 2022-08-13T22:57:04Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/what-you-need-to-know-about-salman-rushdie-and-the-fatwa-against-him/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ROCK SPRINGS — The Rock Springs mayoral debate was held at the Broadway Theater on Friday, Aug. 12. The debate was hosted by the Rock Springs Chamber of Commerce.
The following candidates participated in the debate: Matthew Jackman, Wally Johnson, Kathy Phelps, Max Mickelson and Dave Radakovich
The first question asked to Matthew Jackman was: What investment(s) do you see the city making in the next four years that could provide the greatest return and create stronger stability for our futures?
Jackman said that the three most important projects he would look at doing for the development of Rock Springs are Summit Drive, finishing the Bitter Creek project and finishing the First Security Bank building.
Wally Johnson added a rebuttal after Jackman answered the question.
“When the First Security Bank building is completed, that building will be redone with public funds. It will compete with private enterprise,’ Johnson said. “If you take what we did with the Rock Springs National Bank, the offices there are all occupied by county employees.
“It’s in Rock Springs to serve the people in Rock Springs. Public funds should never be used to compete with private enterprise.”
Jackman followed up by saying that a “key cornerstone of URA development” is taking older buildings, develop them and then sell them.
During he debate, candidate Kathy Phelps was asked the following question: What three steps would you take to strengthen the office of mayor and the city council? How will these steps put Rock Springs on firmer footing.
“No. 1 is work well with the council. I’ve been talking with them. Everyone needs to have their have their opinion and all the opinions get pulled together to see what is going to be the best for the residents and not necessarily what they want,” Phelps said. “Conflict of interest has got to go; no more favors, no more going on like that.
“We need our citizens to know that we are doing the best, clean, honest work that we can do for them.”
Max Mickelson was presented with the following question: Diversification has been talked about for years in Sweetwater County as a necessary avenue for growing our economy. If you were approached by someone with a proposal to improve infrastructure and create new revenue sources, how would you evaluate whether or not the project was worth looking into?
“We have absolutely phenomenal employees who have, through some very difficult times, provided our citizens with both the essential and amenity services that they want and need,” Mickelson said. “I love ideas and one of my core tenants is increasing citizen engagement. So, there’s somebody out there, and I know there is, who is significantly smarter than me and can bring a proposal forward.
“Then, we have a team of professionals to evaluate that and bring it to the council and mayor for us to act on or not.”
Dave Radakovich was asked the following question during the debate: Every candidate on this stage could be a good mayor of Rock Springs. Who is the most qualified to handle the challenges in the position of mayor and how will you pivot most effectively when unseen problems arise?
“The first thing I did was I went to every city supervisor to find out what their problems were. They have a lot of problems,” Radakovich said. “They got cut drastically. They have zero budget. The city is being cut to the bone. There’s no more money anywhere.
“So, the mayor has to be able to think outside the box. You can’t count on all of the stuff they had before; oil and gas.”
He also said that he thinks that more businesses should be brought into Rock Springs.
Johnson offered a rebuttal to Radakovich’s answer.
“We all need to understand that the city is not in good shape. We’re in the middle of a recession. What has the current administration done relative to reducing the costs and increasing the income of the city of Rock Springs?” Johnson said.
“I know the answer to that. They’ve done nothing because they’re still reaching into the reserves. This budget year, they reached in there for $4 million.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/rock-springs-mayoral-candidates-face-off-during-debate/article_05285e22-f845-5e97-8887-d8c56413eeb2.html | 2022-08-13T23:01:20Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/rock-springs-mayoral-candidates-face-off-during-debate/article_05285e22-f845-5e97-8887-d8c56413eeb2.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOWS TONIGHT: MID-70S
HIGHS SUNDAY: LOWER 90S
DISCUSSION
Skies will fair out a little later on this evening.
Isolated patches of fog may develop in rural areas late tonight.
Sunday we'll start to transition to more of a drier pattern across Acadiana.
Expect hot and humid conditions as highs push the lower 90s under partly cloudy skies.
Even though rain chances will be lower, a few isolated showers will be possible during the afternoon hours (30%).
Rain chances will be down to 20% Monday-first half of Wednesday as slightly more drier air works in.
A frontal trough, coupled with increasing low-level moisture will help increase rain chances for the latter parts of the week.
Scattered storm chances will remain with us into the following weekend as well.
Overall. nothing too out of the ordinary for the middle of August.
Have a great rest f the weekend!
TROPICS
The disturbance in the NW Gulf has a 20% chance of quickly spinning up into a depression before moving into Texas Sunday.
Regardless, it'll be a heavy rainfall threat for portions of SE Texas.
Rest of the tropics are quiet at this time
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Firefighters responded to small fires near Rimrock Lake and Thorp Mountain on Friday, and officials with the Okanogan-Wenatchee Forest asked people to obey a ban on campfires.
An escaped campfire turned into a fire that was 1/10th of an acre south of Rimrock Lake on the Naches Ranger District on Friday night, according to a news release.
Forest service crews were out until after midnight responding to other illegal campfires in the forest.
“Firefighters are already responding to the fires from lightning that came through on Aug. 11,” the release said. “Responding to human-caused fires pulls resources away from being available to respond to new incidents and puts unnecessary strain on firefighters.”
Expanded campfire restrictions went into effect Thursday across the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Wood and charcoal campfires are banned. Fuel stoves and lanterns can be used, but wood-burning camp stoves are not allowed.
There are six fires on the Cle Elum Ranger District, all within 2 miles of Thorp Mountain and approximately 11-13 miles northwest of Cle Elum, the release said.
A closure is pending for the Thorp Mountain area, the news release said. The Forest Service asked people to stay clear of that area with helicopters and firefighters working there.
The Cle Elum district fires are less than an acre in size with the exception of the Thorp Mountain Fire, which is 4 acres. Helicopters continue to drop water on this fire to aid in fire suppression efforts. The ¼ acre Malcolm Fire, 13 miles north of Cle Elum, was contained and controlled Saturday morning. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/small-fire-near-rimrock-caused-by-escaped-campfire-officials-ask-people-to-follow-campfire-ban/article_cbbed834-1b4a-11ed-a527-f3c7dd197e02.html | 2022-08-13T23:10:21Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/small-fire-near-rimrock-caused-by-escaped-campfire-officials-ask-people-to-follow-campfire-ban/article_cbbed834-1b4a-11ed-a527-f3c7dd197e02.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Nancy Eglin’s tally of aces continued last week and has now reached an even dozen.
The longtime local golf standout recorded a hole-in-one on Aug. 7 on the 16th hole at the Yakima Elks Golf Club.
Eglin used an 11-wood on the 149-yard hole to earn her 12th ace. It was witnessed by Debbie Nethery, Paula Williams and Barb Hammel.
McCulloch scores ace
Bob McCulloch scored a hole-in-one on the third hole at Suntides Golf Course on Thursday.
McCulloch used a 7-iron on the 135-yard hole. It was witnessed by Paul Rath, Mark Griesse and Tim Guerrin. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/recreation/nancy-eglin-records-12th-ace/article_f9218f24-1aaf-11ed-b99a-3b2fa20f1753.html | 2022-08-13T23:10:33Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/recreation/nancy-eglin-records-12th-ace/article_f9218f24-1aaf-11ed-b99a-3b2fa20f1753.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Today, people of all backgrounds came together on the Chattanooga Green for a coloring event.
The Hunter Memorial Foundation, a non-profit in Chattanooga, started as a way to honor the late Pastor W.C. Hunter and his wife Claudine Hunter.
"They were huge, huge advocates in the community - all about God and putting God forth and spreading kindness and giving back."
April Q Russell, a volunteer with the organization, says the Hunter's legacy of service and kindness lives on through the Hunter Memorial Foundation and their projects like the Change Through the Color Event.
With the recent violence and disarray around the world, Hunter Memorial Founders felt today was the perfect time to bring people together for a fun afternoon of creativity and coloring.
"I think when I talk to them, they're like let's just get back to the basics, let's do something cool, bring different cultures together, it's a beautiful day outside and people take a crayon and color."
They called on artists from all over the world to submit artwork showcasing what diversity and inclusion looks like to them. They selected a few and printed them out into a first draft coloring book.
"We have other pages that represent everything from the culture, different cultures from across the world that people submitted. ASL community which is the American Sign Language community, so you'll see something with the sign language."
Saturday morning they set up tents, yards games, and a face painting station on the Chattanooga Green.
"What we like to do is take all of the pictures that are submitted today and post them in a master book and put some stuff up online and have a master book with coloring all over the city."
Russell says it was exciting to see people put down their phones and share a marker with their neighbors. | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/community-members-gather-for-coloring-event-hosted-by-hunter-memorial-foundation/article_22c3c44a-1b51-11ed-a56a-b75e7c4e7a62.html | 2022-08-13T23:26:48Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/community-members-gather-for-coloring-event-hosted-by-hunter-memorial-foundation/article_22c3c44a-1b51-11ed-a56a-b75e7c4e7a62.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
One of former President Donald Trump's attorneys signed a letter in June asserting that there was no more classified information stored at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
The letter signed by the attorney raises fresh questions about the number of people who may have legal exposure in the ongoing investigation into the handling of classified materials from Trump's time in the White House.
The probe reached dramatic heights earlier this week when the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, with agents removing 11 sets of classified documents, some of which were marked as "top secret/SCI" -- one of the highest levels of classification.
That inventory list contradicts the attorney's letter. The removal of that classified information after the letter was sent could explain why prosecutors cited an obstruction law in their search warrant request.
The sources did not identify when the letter was signed or by whom. It was part of an ongoing correspondence with the Department of Justice over the issue.
The New York Times first reported the existence of the letter.
CNN previously reported that following a June meeting at Mar-a-Lago, where Justice officials left with classified information, investigators developed evidence, including from a witness, that led investigators to believe there still was more classified information in documents stored at the complex.
Court documents unsealed and released on Friday identify three federal crimes that the DOJ is looking at as part of its investigation: violations of the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. The inclusion of the crimes indicated the department had probable cause to investigate those offenses as it was gathering evidence in the search. No one has been charged with a crime.
The June meeting included Trump lawyers Evan Corcoran, Christina Bobb and federal investigators, including Jay Bratt, the chief of the counterintelligence and export control section at the Justice Department, CNN has previously reported.
A separate source maintains that Trump representatives told investigators in the June meeting that Trump had declassified all the documents.
Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich said in a statement to CNN: "Just like every Democrat-fabricated witch hunt previously, the water of this unprecedented and unnecessary raid is being carried by a media willing to run with suggestive leaks, anonymous sources, and no hard facts."
The National Archives, charged with collecting and sorting presidential material, has previously said at least 15 boxes of White House records were recovered from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort -- including some that were classified.
The warrant released Friday capped an unprecedented week that began with the search of the former President's home -- an evidence-gathering step in a national security investigation.
The FBI search at the resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday was followed by days of silence from the Justice Department, as is the department's normal practice for ongoing investigations.
Then on Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the department had moved to unseal the search warrant and two attachments, including an inventory list, but also stressed that some of the department's work must happen outside of public view.
"We do that to protect the constitutional rights of all Americans and to protect the integrity of our investigations," Garland said, while explaining that he would not provide more detail about the basis of the search.
Trump's legal team had agreed to release the historic search warrant earlier Friday, the Justice Department told a federal court.
This story has been updated with additional background.
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A year ago US forces were starting the final pullout from Afghanistan, in compliance with President Joe Biden’s order to exit fully by Aug. 30. It proved an utter humiliation — though Biden called the withdrawal an “extraordinary success.”
Never mind the 13 American service members and scores of civilians killed in a suicide-bomb attack at Kabul airport. Or the hundreds of US citizens and thousands of US green-card holders left behind.
Let alone the tens of thousands of Afghans who aided us during our mission there, abandoned to the untender mercies of their new Taliban overlords — after Biden had insisted: “We will stand with you just as you stood with us.”
The last year has proved the Taliban to be just as vile as ever, despite the administration’s theories that it had learned better. Afghan women are now forbidden education after age 12, can’t travel more than 45 miles without a male chaperone, can’t work except in the most demeaning jobs. They must cover head-to-toe to leave the home. Minority ethnicities are locked out of high-level political participation. Elections and independent media are history. The United Nations has identified “unprecedented” levels of hunger, affecting tens of millions.
This, because Joe Biden — working to a plan developed by the Trump administration and against the advice of his own generals — refused to leave 2,500 US troops in the field there. That fractional force, those generals predicted, stood between the Afghan army and total collapse.
They were right.
And millions of dollars’ worth of arms and vehicles abandoned in the bugout strengthened the Taliban, which now (for example) owns more attack helicopters than Britain.
And the Taliban even let al Qaeda back into the county. A US drone strike killed the terror group’s chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in the heart of Kabul — where he’d reportedly been staying for weeks or months at the home of a Taliban official’s aide.
So much for the deluded hopes of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and others, including the president who asked during the pullout: “What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point, with al Qaeda gone?” Oops.
Total withdrawal, when US forces had long been out of active combat, never made sense. Now two decades of allied effort are down the drain: Afghans are more oppressed than ever, al Qaeda can again plot and plan from an entire country of “safe space” — and Joe Biden has moved on to lying about fresh disasters. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/anniversary-of-us-afghanistan-withdrawal-moment-of-lasting-shame/ | 2022-08-13T23:35:39Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/anniversary-of-us-afghanistan-withdrawal-moment-of-lasting-shame/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Debra Tate, Sharon Tate’s little sister, says she got a coded drawing and odd letter from Charles Manson a few years before his death — and decades after she once visited him in jail.
Debra Tate, now 69, was just 16 when her 26-year-old sister Sharon, a pregnant actress and model, was brutally stabbed and strangled to death along with four others by members of the Manson family in her Beverly Hills home, 53 years ago this week.
Debra Tate told The Sun that she met with Manson at the LA County Jail shortly after he was arrested and accused of being behind what became known as the “Helter Skelter” murders.
Debra met with a shackled Manson in jail but neither said a thing.
“I had two guards next to me, and we just sat there looking at each other for about 10 minutes,” she said. “No words were spoken; all we did was stare into each other’s eyes. I could just see and feel the aura of evil around him.”
Debra had no further contact with Manson until decades later, when she wrote him asking if he had masterminded any other murders.
Manson had often claimed that there were more victims.
Tate told the Sun she got a letter back from Manson that “rattled on” about how he was an “outlaw” and wouldn’t rat on others.
“But he drew me a little picture that was an exact replica of the Panamint Mountains, the mountain range surrounding Barker Ranch where Manson was hiding out after the murders and eventually captured,” Debra said.
“There was also what at first glance looked like a sun coming up over the hills, but when you looked closer, it was actually a little image of Charlie, because he had a little ‘X’ on his forehead.”
Mason famously tattooed a swastika on his forehead.
The drawing included additional small X-marks that Debra told The Sun she believes could be burial sites for other Manson family victims.
Excavations done at the Barker ranch at Debra’s urging have yielded no human remains.
Tate’s murder took place around 11: 45 p.m. on Aug. 8, 1969, when a group of Manson’s followers broke into the mansion she shared with husband Roman Polanski as she was hosting a small gathering with friends.
“She was my advocate, she was my very strong supporter, she truly believed in me,” Debra said. “Sharon was just such a kind, gentle, genuine soul, that there wasn’t a person that ever came across her that didn’t like her.
“Her death was such a catastrophic loss,” she added. “Not only to me but for the rest of us and the next generations.”
Debra last saw Sharon on July 16, 1969, shortly after her return from Europe.
“She certainly would’ve been a fantastic mother, but she was so cruelly robbed of that opportunity.”
Manson died at 83 on Nov. 19, 2017, while serving a life sentence at Corcoran State Prison.
“I cried when he died and prayed for his soul,” said Debra. “I told God that he was his problem now.” | https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/charles-manson-sent-sharon-tates-sister-coded-message-before-his-death/ | 2022-08-13T23:35:57Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/charles-manson-sent-sharon-tates-sister-coded-message-before-his-death/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Yorkers began hitting the polls Saturday as early voting kicked off in primaries to decide candidates for congressional races and some state Senate seats.
Voters can now hit more than 100 polling sites in the five boroughs to help decide some key races, including an epic Democratic primary fight between veteran New York Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerrold Nadler in the newly mapped-out 12th Congressional District in Manhattan.
Early voting runs until Aug. 21. The traditional primary is Aug. 23.
This is the first time New York is holding a primary in August, which is expected to significantly reduce voter turnout and likely make absentee ballots all the more important. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/early-voting-begins-for-new-york-congressional-and-senate-races/ | 2022-08-13T23:36:03Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/early-voting-begins-for-new-york-congressional-and-senate-races/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MARYLAND- Shop Maryland Tax-Free Week is set to begin early Sunday morning, as kids get ready to head back to school.
The annual sales tax holiday week allows for shoppers to get clothes and footwear, that costs $100 or less, without paying the 6% sales tax. The first $40 of bookbags will also be exempt from the tax. Certain accessories are also exempt, including jewelry, watches, watchbands, handbags, handkerchiefs, umbrellas, scarves, ties, headbands, and belt buckles.
The tax holiday isn't just for kids or school supplies, adults can shop tax-free too.
The tax free week begins Sunday, Aug. 14, at 12:01 a.m., and ends at midnight on Saturday, Aug. 20.
More information on the tax-free week can be found here. | https://www.wboc.com/news/shop-maryland-tax-free-week-to-begin-sunday/article_044efe2c-1b50-11ed-bc78-db06e05500d1.html | 2022-08-13T23:42:47Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/shop-maryland-tax-free-week-to-begin-sunday/article_044efe2c-1b50-11ed-bc78-db06e05500d1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DOVER, Del.- Two Dover men were arrested Friday morning following a drug investigation.
Dover Police say through the course of the investigation they were able to get a search warrant for a room at the Super Lodge on Dupont Hwy., that belonged to Ashmere Wright, 30, and Keith Hicks, 56.
Before serving the search warrant, they saw Hicks leaving the room and get into a car. When officers tried to stop Hicks, he drove away from the scene and a chase ensued.
Hicks later crashed into a parked car in the parking lot of Top City on Dupont Hwy. He was not injured. Hicks was arrested without incident. At the time of the arrest he was found to be in possession of crack cocaine.
Hicks was released on an O.R. bond on the following offenses:
- Disregarding a Police Signal
- Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance
- Conspiracy Second Degree
- Possession of Controlled Substance (Crack cocaine)
- Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
- Resisting Arrest
- Various traffic offenses
Officers then executed the search warrant of the room at the Super Lodge where Wright was arrested without incident. Wright was found in possession of $742 of suspected drug proceeds and a small amount of marijuana.
Wright was released on an O.R. bond on the following offenses:
- Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance
- Conspiracy Second Degree
- Possession of marijuana (Civil violation | https://www.wboc.com/news/two-men-arrested-following-drug-investigation/article_d3dd4e4e-1b52-11ed-96d7-afe143287029.html | 2022-08-13T23:42:53Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/two-men-arrested-following-drug-investigation/article_d3dd4e4e-1b52-11ed-96d7-afe143287029.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tonight: Mostly clear. Lows: 61-63° Winds: Light and variable
Sunday: Mostly sunny. Highs: 82-84° Winds: SE 6 mph
Monday: Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Highs: 72-79° Winds: E 5-7 mph
Monday night: Mostly cloudy. Lows: 65-67° Winds: E 5 mph
Tuesday: Mostly Cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs: 76-78° Lows: 65-67°
Wednesday: Mostly sunny. Highs: 80-81° Lows: 56-67°
Thursday: Sunny. High: 81-85° Low: 58-65°
Friday: Mostly sunny. High: 84-88° Low: 62-70°
Saturday: Partly sunny. High: 80-90° Low: 66-71°
Forecast Discussion:
Good Saturday evening Delmarva! We are finally feeling some comfortable temperatures across the area. Today our highs made it no higher than the mid-80s. And this evening we will continue with the cooler temperature trend as they fall to the low 60s overnight.
Sunday will be another comfortable day temperatures will start in the low 60s and warm to the mid to upper 70s by the afternoon. Although mostly sunny tomorrow don't be surprised to see a few clouds in the sky. Sunday evening will be slightly warmer as cloudy began to build and trap in the warmth. Temperatures will be falling to the low to mid-60s under partly to mostly cloudy skies.
Moving into the new work week, we are going to start on a cloudy and rainy note. Monday morning will start in the low to mid-60s and warm only to the low to mid-70s. There will be a chance of pop-up showers closer to the afternoon time and continues overnight. The evening will see temperatures in the mid to upper 60s.
Tuesday will start in the 60s but warm to the mid to upper 70s by the afternoon. Tuesday will be a mostly cloudy day. With more chances of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. The condition will improve by the evening when we will be under partly cloudy skies with temperatures falling to the low 60s.
The average temperature for early July is 86 degrees for a high and a low of 67 degrees. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-updated-on-saturday-august-13-2022-at-5-53-pm/article_29b3fd96-1b52-11ed-b3c4-134b30d96564.html | 2022-08-13T23:42:59Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-updated-on-saturday-august-13-2022-at-5-53-pm/article_29b3fd96-1b52-11ed-b3c4-134b30d96564.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
INGLEWOOD — The WWE flexed its muscle at SoFi Stadium on Thursday, providing a glimpse at what it will offer the local area with WrestleMania 39, the biggest pro wrestling event performed annually, next April.
The company’s launch party featured celebrity guests and in-ring action to entertain the thousands that were in attendance on Thursday.
Rapper Snoop Dogg, comedian Gabriel Iglesias, and YouTube personality Jojo Siwa all participated in some capacity with the WWE Superstars throughout the show.
Snoop Dogg exchanged gifts with Bianca Belair, the current RAW Women’s Champion, and Becky Lynch, a former champion. Snoop Dogg presented the duo with “Death Row” chains while the duo presented a custom-themed WWE championship to the rapper.
Iglesias served as a co-host for the event alongside Kayla Braxton and Corey Graves. Siwa entered the ring for a sit-down interview segment with The Miz, Maryse and WWE Smackdown Women’s Champion Liv Morgan.
Siwa and the Miz recently participated in the MLB’s All-Star Celebrity Softball Game together at Dodger Stadium.
The WrestleMania Launch Party provided fans in attendance with the opportunity to have early access to purchase WrestleMania 39 tickets before they went on sale ($350 and up) worldwide the following morning.
Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins won the main event tag team match by pinfall over Angel Garza and Humberto Carrillo. After the match, Ford and Dawkins were joined by the Laker Girls and the Rams mascot, Rampage, among others in the ring located on the field at SoFi Stadium.
🐏🏡💪 #RamsHouse x @WWE pic.twitter.com/w7dQwz9MEi
— Rampage (@RampageNFL) August 12, 2022
Titus O’Neil, a WWE wrestler and ambassador, was in attendance at SoFi Stadium at Super Bowl LVI in February and believes the wrestling event has the potential to be a much bigger spectacle in the same venue.
“We will be sold out,” O’Neil told the Southern California News Group in July. “We have something on the card for folks that are young and old.”
O’Neil mentioned that the event may also feature a few surprises.
“There’s no secret that one of the biggest superstars in WWE history just so happens to be out here a lot in Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson,” O’Neil said. “There’s always that curiosity and wonder if he will come back to battle with Roman Reigns.”
Both Johnson and Reigns, the current undisputed universal champion, are members of the Anoa’i family and former NCAA Division I college football players.
WWE will not only take over SoFi Stadium with the two-day WrestleMania event on April 1-2, but will broadcast both of its weekly television shows at Crypto.com arena to bookend the weekend. Smackdown will be held on March 31 and RAW take place on April 3.
There will also be a WWE Hall of Fame ceremony, WrestleMania Axxess (meet and greet), and various community-based events.
The event is expected to have a significant economic impact on the local community, similar to this year’s show.
WrestleMania 38 attracted 156,352 people to AT&T Stadium this past April and generated $206.5 million for the Dallas/Arlington region, according to a WWE press release. This year’s card featured “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, Pat McAfee, Logan Paul and Brock Lesnar.
It will be the first time WrestleMania returns to Southern California since 2005, when Dave Bautista and Triple H competed in the main event for WrestleMania 21 in Los Angeles.
Triple H was named WWE’s Head of Creative following the retirement of Vince McMahon in late July. McMahon’s retirement followed an internal investigation by the WWE’s board of directors and allegations of sexual misconduct made by previous employees.
“It’s exciting,” Seth Rollins, a former WWE champion, said about the recent changes. “It’s a brand new world. It’s a lot of the same but a little bit different like stepping into a wormhole of some parallel universe where it’s all WWE with the same people you knew, love, and worked with before but now it’s just going in a different direction.”
WWE’s Seth Rollins on his dream #WrestleMania match (with HBK), working with HHH in charge and his thoughts on SoFi Stadium. pic.twitter.com/WvsflxSvM5
— James H. Williams covers UCLA football (@JHWreporter) August 12, 2022
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For the first two centuries of U.S. history, outgoing presidents simply took their documents with them when they left the White House. The materials were considered their personal property.
But for the past four decades, every presidential document — from notebook doodles to top-secret security plans — is supposed to go directly to the National Archives as the material is considered the property of the American people.
So when former President Donald Trump left office on Jan. 20, 2021, all his records should have traveled from the White House to the National Archives, according to Jason Baron, who served as director of litigation at the National Archives for 13 years.
"No president has the right to retain presidential records after he or she leaves office," Baron said. "And so it is an extraordinary circumstance if presidential records are found in a former president's residence or anywhere else under his control."
But some records – both paper and electronic – were being kept at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Officials found 15 boxes worth of documents from Trump's property in January.
And on Monday, the FBI collected 11 more sets of documents, including five marked "top secret," three marked "secret" and three labeled "confidential." Those are the three separate levels for classified government documents.
In addition, one set of the top secret documents was labeled "top secret/sensitive compartmented information." That means the material is considered so sensitive that event those with a top secret security clearance wouldn't be able to see it unless they had a need to know.
The warrant that authorized the search said the FBI was investigating a number of possible crimes, including violations of the Espionage Act. Trump has not been charged with any crime and denies any wrongdoing.
Why can't presidents keep their documents these days?
The rules changed for one reason: Watergate.
When President Nixon resigned amid the 1974 scandal, he wanted to take his documents to his home in California — including his infamous tape recordings.
Congress realized it would not have access to that material, and they also feared it could be destroyed. So legislators passed the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act, which made all of Nixon's material public property.
However, that measure applied to Nixon only. In 1978, Congress passed the more sweeping Presidential Records Act that has been the standard ever since.
"Every president, when they leave office, those records that have been created by the president and his staff are presidential records that go to the National Archives," Baron said. "The owner is the American people."
This includes all presidential material, whether it's routine, unclassified notes or top-secret national security documents.
Before these laws, there were really no rules covering presidential records. Presidents just took what they wanted as they were leaving office.
"Early on, presidents like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were very attuned to their place in history and their legacy," said presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky, the author of The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution. "And so they were very thoughtful about maintaining their documents, cataloging their documents, and then, of course, sort of making sure that what remained was what they wanted to remain. So that also includes some erasure."
Also, presidential libraries did not exist until President Franklin Roosevelt opened his in 1941.
Trump's controversies with documents
Throughout his presidency, anecdotes surfaced about Trump's handling of documents. For starters, he did not like to read them, and there were reports that he would sometimes rip them up or even flush them down the toilet.
Trump spoke about, or put on Twitter, sensitive material that was believed to be classified. Such material was also reportedly shared with people who did not have the authorization to read it.
Before Trump, outgoing presidents have been described as fully cooperative with the records process, experts told NPR. Baron said he was only aware of minor episodes, where a former president might be asked to turn over a small gift he had received while in office.
There have been a few cases involving former presidential aides. In one instance, Sandy Berger, who had served as the national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, was accused of smuggling classified documents out of the National Archives in his pants. He was ultimately fined $50,000.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.klcc.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-08-13/the-reason-why-presidents-cant-keep-their-white-house-records-dates-back-to-nixon | 2022-08-14T00:00:28Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-08-13/the-reason-why-presidents-cant-keep-their-white-house-records-dates-back-to-nixon | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – It’s been a week since Ka Xiong was killed while walking home in Providence.
The 79-year-old was walking from the Peace & Plenty Community Garden when she was struck by a car at the Intersection of Potters Avenue and Baxter Street.
The Xiong family says the community garden was like a second home for Ka, who was there everyday.
“You like think she will come back, but day by day she not come back,” Chia Xiong said.
Emotions are still raw for the family after they heard the tragic news that their loved one had succumbed to her injuries.
“We couldn’t believe it,” Xiong said.
Ka’s sister-in law Chia Xiong spoke with 12 News about the tragic incident. She says the family wants to make sure no one else has to grieve a senseless loss of life.
“We’d love to see the streets safer, not just for her, but for others here. They would love to see some kind of justice here,” she said.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help with funeral expenses.
According to Providence police, a 27-year-old man has been cited after he claims he didn’t see the woman or even know if he had actually hit her. | https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/family-seeks-safer-streets-after-providence-woman-is-killed/ | 2022-08-14T00:05:42Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/family-seeks-safer-streets-after-providence-woman-is-killed/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(WTXL) — First responders attended to accidents in Gadsden and Leon counties Saturday afternoon.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol’s Live Traffic Crash and Road Conditions website, first responders were dispatched to the scene in Gadsden County at the intersection of Blue Star Highway and Holly Circle in Quincy just after 4:15 p.m. and arrived just before 4:30 p.m.
The website notes that there is a fatality and the westbound lanes are shut down.
Travelers are advised use caution in the area.
LEON COUNTY
The same website is reporting an accident with injuries at the intersection of Blountstown Highway and Nena Hills Drive.
First responders arrived at the scene at 5:08 p.m.
It is being reported that the roadway has reopened. | https://www.wtxl.com/traffic/accidents-in-gadsden-leon-counties-close-lanes | 2022-08-14T00:11:02Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/traffic/accidents-in-gadsden-leon-counties-close-lanes | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KSP investigates murder in Logan County
Published: Aug. 13, 2022 at 6:31 PM CDT|Updated: 41 minutes ago
LOGAN COUNTY, Ky. (WBKO) - Early Saturday morning, Kentucky State Police Post 3 was requested by the Logan County Sheriff’s Office to conduct a death investigation in the Olmsted community.
Logan County deputies responded to the 600 block of Kenny Straton Road and located a deceased male.
Investigations revealed that the 20-year-old Joshua D. Burks of Clarksville, Tennessee was shot by an individual who fled the scene.
KSP is requesting that anyone with any information or leads concerning the death of Burks, contact Detective Graham Rutherford at (270) 782-2010.
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49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan had a conference call Saturday afternoon and provided injury updates after Friday’s preseason victory over the Packers.
Rookie edge rusher Drake Jackson ended up having a stinger. Dontae Johnson has a cartilage fracture and will be week to week. Linebacker Curtis Robinson suffered a groin strain that will keep him out of this week.
Danny Gray has some hip and back soreness that’ll keep him out the next couple of days, but we’ll be good to go for practice in Minnesota next week.
Arik Armstead could if the 49ers wanted to push hit, but Shanahan said, “we’re a little more hesitant for his first practices back to be against another team. So the odds are we’ll wait on him, but he’s doing a good job.”
Cornerback Emmanuel Moseley and defensive tackle Hassan Ridgeway, who has a quad strain, will be back “in the next couple days or by Minnesota.”
Right tackle Mike McGlinchey ended up irritating the inside of his knee. Here’s Shanahan’s explanation: “The good news was his surgical repair, and all the stuff he did this offseason was good, but he has some slight irritation in his knee, so we’re going to have to be smart with him this week. I’ll be surprised if he does anything in Minnesota.”
Finally, Daniel Brunskill’s hamstring strain will keep him out a few weeks. That all but cements Jake Brendel as the starting center. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/13/23304574/49ers-injury-updates-mcglinchey-brunskill-johnson | 2022-08-14T00:19:01Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/13/23304574/49ers-injury-updates-mcglinchey-brunskill-johnson | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Loud ‘boom’ heard in Utah likely a meteor, officials say
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) - A loud “boom” heard across areas of northern Utah was likely a meteor, officials said Saturday.
Reports of the loud noise circulated at about 8:30 a.m., with people from Orem to southern Idaho posting that they heard the “boom,” The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox tweeted that his office confirmed it was not related to any seismic activity or military installations.
The National Weather Service’s Salt Lake City office wrote in a tweet that its lightning detection mapper likely picked up the meteor’s trail flash, which officials said seemed to be confirmed by witness video in Roy.
South Salt Lake resident Wendi Melling was just heading out the door Saturday morning when she heard the noise, which she described as a “loud deep booming sound” followed by a few seconds of rumbling.
“I thought I heard something fall in the house. I have since searched the house top to bottom and the only thing I’ve found was one slat from our wooden fence that had fallen, so that’s a relief,” Melling wrote in a Facebook message.
“It did sound similar to sonic booms I’ve heard before, followed by a short incident of a sound similar to low rolling thunder,” Melling continued. “This rumbling noise that followed the boom was maybe on 3-4 seconds.”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wave3.com/2022/08/13/loud-boom-heard-utah-likely-meteor-officials-say/ | 2022-08-14T00:21:25Z | wave3.com | control | https://www.wave3.com/2022/08/13/loud-boom-heard-utah-likely-meteor-officials-say/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Len Dawson, the 87-year-old Hall of Fame quarterback who led the Kansas City Chiefs to their first Super Bowl title, has entered hospice care in Kansas City.
KMBC-TV, the Kansas City station where Dawson began his broadcasting career in 1966, confirmed Dawson is in hospice care through his wife, Linda.
The MVP of the Chiefs’ 23-7 Super Bowl victory over Minnesota in January 1970, Dawson was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1987 and received the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award in 2012.
From Alliance, Ohio, Dawson starred at Purdue and was selected fifth overall by Pittsburgh in the 1957 NFL draft. After seeing limited time in the NFL in three seasons with the Steelers and two with Cleveland, he joined the Dallas Texans in the American Football League in 1962, reuniting with former Purdue assistant coach Hank Stram.
Dawson moved with the team to Kansas City the following season and remained the Chiefs’ starting quarterback until retiring in 1975.
In addition to his work at KMBC where he was the station’s first sports anchor, Dawson was a game analyst for NBC and the Chiefs’ radio network and hosted HBO’s “Inside the NFL” show.
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More AP NFL coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | https://www.wwlp.com/sports/len-dawson-mvp-of-chiefs-first-super-bowl-win-in-hospice/ | 2022-08-14T00:31:10Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/sports/len-dawson-mvp-of-chiefs-first-super-bowl-win-in-hospice/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A 73-year-old motorcyclist died of injuries in a collision at about 10:45 a.m. Saturday in Yakima, according to a news release from the Yakima Police Department.
The man was traveling east on Lincoln Avenue, where he tried to change lanes to avoid a stopped delivery vehicle. While doing so, he struck the side of a passing car, lost control of his motorcycle and collided with the delivery van, according to the release.
First responders transported the motorcyclist, who police said was conscious and alert at the time, to Yakima Valley Memorial hospital. However, the motorcyclist’s health deteriorated. The cause of death was blunt force injuries to the body, said Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice. The man's identity wasn't released pending next-of-kin notification.
The rider’s failure to yield the right of way when making a lane change was a factor in the collision, the release said.
YPD's Traffic Unit is investigating. Police requested any witnesses or anyone who might have video contact officer Jim Yates at 509-728-6449. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/73-year-old-motorcyclist-dies-in-collision-on-lincoln-avenue-in-yakima/article_f300c82c-1b67-11ed-90b9-470169bf568f.html | 2022-08-14T00:58:28Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/73-year-old-motorcyclist-dies-in-collision-on-lincoln-avenue-in-yakima/article_f300c82c-1b67-11ed-90b9-470169bf568f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NFL Players union chief JC Tretter blasts Soldier Field's grass, but QB Fields says it's advantageous
CHICAGO - The head of the NFL players union was not happy about the condition of Chicago's Soldier Field for Saturday's preseason game between the Chicago Bears and Kansas City Chiefs.
"The NFL said that this field met minimum testing standards," said NFL Players Association President JC Tretter. "We clearly need to re-evaluate what is an acceptable surface for players to compete on. We need new testing metrics looking at the performance and safety of every field. The NFL can and should do better."
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There was an Elton John concert at Soldier Field on August 5. There are three more concerts scheduled there over the next few weeks, on August 19, August 20 and September 3.
The Bears beat the Chiefs at Soldier Field 19-14. Bears quarterback Justin Fields said things were worse when the Bears practiced at Soldier Field on Tuesday.
"I knew how our grass was," he said. "So I knew other teams didn't know how it was, so I kind of used it to my advantage in running and stuff like that, using the long spikes and stuff like that."
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/nfl-players-association-jc-tretter-says-soldier-fields-grass-was-a-mess-for-bears-chiefs-game | 2022-08-14T01:04:04Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/nfl-players-association-jc-tretter-says-soldier-fields-grass-was-a-mess-for-bears-chiefs-game | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The unsealing of the search warrant that the FBI executed at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property revealed that the agency believes Trump may have violated the Espionage Act of 1917, among other potential crimes.
The warrant was made public on Friday after the Justice Department filed a motion to request that it be unsealed. Attorney General Merrick Garland said he made the decision given the intense public interest in the situation and because Trump chose to publicly reveal that the search occurred.
The warrant revealed that FBI agents recovered 11 sets of classified items during the search, including one labeled “various classified/TS/SCI documents,” meaning top secret/sensitive compartmentalized information.
Officials took three items labeled “confidential,” three labeled “secret” and four labeled “top secret.”
The Espionage Act makes it illegal for anyone who has information related to national defense to use it “to the injury of the United States” or “to the advantage of any foreign nation.”
Under the Espionage Act, it is also illegal for anyone who lawfully has possession of information related to national security to provide it or attempt to provide it to those not permitted to obtain it. These individuals also cannot “willfully” retain and fail to deliver documents or other materials on demand to an officer of the United States who is allowed to receive them.
Anyone convicted of violating the law could face a fine or up to 10 years in prison.
Derek Bambauer, a law professor at the University of Arizona, said the act is a “core” part of national security law and was designed to allow the government to prosecute people with sensitive information that could put the country’s national security at risk. He said it can apply to people who deliberately transfer the information to someone not authorized to have it or store it in a place it should not be.
Former President Wilson signed the act into law a few months after the United States entered World War I. The law was passed to prevent interference with the war effort or recruiting soldiers and to prevent Americans from supporting the country’s enemies during wartime.
Bambauer said the law tends to be invoked at times of “perceived crisis,” but courts typically give deference to the government in enforcing these types of laws and determining when a national security issue is considered a threat.
For the FBI’s search warrant of Mar-a-Lago to be approved, the agency needed to show probable cause that a crime had been committed and that evidence was located in a specific place. A federal judge signed off that the FBI demonstrated probable cause before the search happened.
Bambauer said a noteworthy feature of the law in this situation is that whether the information or documents are classified is “wholly irrelevant” to potential violations. The information only needs to be sensitive and a threat to the security of the country.
Trump and his allies have claimed that he declassified the documents found at Mar-a-Lago while he was still serving as president, so there is no legal issue.
Bambauer said Trump may have declassified certain information while president, but classification status is not mentioned in the law.
“The language of the law, the Espionage Act, doesn’t talk about classification at all, which is not surprising because classification, at least as a structural concept, didn’t exist at the time this was passed,” he said.
Gerry Gleeson, a lecturer at Michigan State University and former state prosecutor, said any criminal investigation into violations of this law would look at national defense, not classification status.
He said probable cause, needed to obtain a search warrant, is a different standard than beyond a reasonable doubt, needed for someone to be found guilty of a crime. He said grand juries usually issue indictments for who a U.S. attorney wants to indict in most cases, but the government needs to consider if it can prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.
“Career federal prosecutors are serious people, and that’s a serious inquiry that they would take before they decide whether they want to pursue charges against anyone, whether it’s a politician or an individual citizen,” Gleeson said.
The Espionage Act consists of more than half a dozen provisions, each laying out different circumstances where a violation may occur. Experts said the varying levels of intent required to meet the standard of breaking the law could have implications for Trump.
Bambauer said a “state of mind” provision is common in criminal law in that some level of knowledge or intent is required. He said many of the provisions in the Espionage Act are similar, but one way they differ is in terms of state of mind.
The first provision of the law states that someone must have intent or reason to believe that the information would be used to harm the U.S. A defense could argue that someone accused of violating the law did not know the information could threaten national security, if plausible, Bambauer said.
But the sixth section states that someone who lawfully possesses a document could violate the law if they permit it to be taken from its proper place through “gross negligence.”
Bambauer said that section could be relevant in leading to charges, based on what the public knows.
Gleeson said the act makes a distinction between information and documents, with the latter requiring less intent than the former.
He said the fourth section of the act only states that a person must have reason to believe that documents or other materials could be used to harm the U.S. Part of the section also states that anyone who “willfully retains” the materials and refuses to provide them on demand from an officer or employee of the United States could face charges.
Gleeson said this part could play a role in Trump’s case based on reporting that Trump received a subpoena for national security documents months before the search took place.
“It doesn’t have to be top secret,” he said. “It just has to be information related to the national defense that could be possibly used to injure the United States.” | https://www.wspa.com/hill-politics/what-is-the-espionage-act/ | 2022-08-14T01:07:39Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/hill-politics/what-is-the-espionage-act/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KANSAS CITY – It was a one-hour history lesson delivered by a master lecturer.
A group of Dodgers players, coaches, staff and family toured the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Saturday morning with NLBM President Bob Kendrick serving as guide.
“It was amazing,” Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw said of the tour. “I know he’s probably done that for a long time. But for him to rattle all of that off, it was really engaging. Sometimes on tours you don’t want to hear all that history and stuff. But it was awesome. I was really locked in and I’m glad I got to go.”
For Kershaw, it was his first visit. David Price, on the other hand, estimates he has been to the museum “probably 10 times” starting with a 2005 visit with Team USA. After his 2012 AL Cy Young Award, Price joined the group of “Black Aces” – black pitchers who have won 20 games in a major-league season – honored at the Negro Leagues museum.
He has had a relationship with Kendrick over the years and recognized the stories — about how much $1 could buy in the 1930s (and how Rube Foster would fine his players for not sliding) or the photo of a 17-year-old Hank Aaron (and Aaron, later in life, telling Kendrick the contents of the satchel in the photo — two changes of clothing, $1.50 and a ham sandwich his mother made for him when he left to join the Indianapolis Clowns).
“It’s always fun to go back and see Bob,” Price said. “He tells it the exact same way but different every single time. You always see something new or hear something new that you didn’t hear the previous times and it’s always an enjoyable experience.”
The visit was set up in conjunction with the Royals’ annual ‘Salute to the Negro Leagues’ night. This year, it included the arrival of Buck O’Neill’s Hall of Fame plaque at Kauffman Stadium. The Dodgers wore their Brooklyn uniforms from the 1955 team while the Royals wore the Kansas City Monarchs circa 1945.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts called the event and the museum tour “a history lesson that we all needed.” Kershaw agreed, saying he was taken by the number of Negro Leagues stars whose names he had never heard.
“I didn’t know much about anything. I’d heard about Satchel Paige. But other than that, I didn’t know any of them,” he said.
“I think the biggest takeaway was the history of Major League Baseball almost starts with the Negro Leagues in some aspects. They were there long before integration. … The other thing I took away is a lot of the history isn’t talked about. I thought that was sad but I also thought this is really cool that this (museum) is here and you get a chance to learn about it.”
Price called visits to the museum a chance to “expand our minds and … learn a little bit about the past of what the Negro League guys went through.”
For Roberts – the first minority manager of the MLB franchise that signed Jackie Robinson – the visit went beyond educational.
“It’s more than humbling,” Roberts said. “For me, with where I’m at, I’m just blown away that I’m a little sliver of history.”
RIOS REHAB
Edwin Rios is entering the third week of his minor-league injury-rehabilitation assignment with Triple-A Oklahoma City after returning in late July from a severe hamstring injury.
Rios was 12 for 40 (.300) with four doubles but no home runs in his first 11 games and took a nine-game hitting streak into Saturday.
“Each day he feels better,” Roberts said. “He’s getting some hits. He’s playing every day, playing defensively. I think it just boils down to he just needs to continue to play.”
Rios has seen very little game action over the past two seasons due to shoulder surgery in 2021 and the hamstring injury this season. That could be a factor in the five errors he has made in seven games at third base.
“I haven’t seen the plays. I know that he’s made some errors down there,” Roberts said. “It just goes back to – continue to play, continue to get repetitions.”
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The breakthrough season of Beatriz Haddad Maia hit another milestone on Saturday as the Brazilian reached her first WTA 1000 final at the National Bank Open presented by Rogers.
Haddad Maia defeated No.14 seed Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic 6-4, 7-6(7) in just over 2 hours, claiming a spot in the final in Toronto. Haddad Maia's result this week is projected to put her into the Top 16 of the WTA singles rankings for the first time on Monday.
Haddad Maia, currently ranked at a career-high World No.24, bested former World No.1 Pliskova for the second straight time with the semifinal win, taking a 2-1 lead in their head-to-head.
tfw you reach your first WTA 1000 final 😜#NBO22 pic.twitter.com/tMQ4RqfsB5
— wta (@WTA) August 14, 2022
Halep awaits: Haddad Maia will now face another former World No.1, Simona Halep, for the title on Sunday.
Halep beats Pegula to make Toronto final, will return to Top 10
Halep won her first two meetings with Haddad Maia, in the second round of 2017 Wimbledon and in the same round at this year’s Australian Open. However, Haddad Maia got a win over Halep in their third match, which she notched en route to this year's Birmingham grass-court title.
Fast facts: It was during this year's grass-court swing where Haddad Maia marked herself as a player well on the rise, winning her first two Hologic WTA Tour singles titles at Nottingham and Birmingham in back-to-back weeks.
Haddad Maia has won 17 matches on tour since June, second only to Caroline Garcia’s 20 match-wins during that timeframe. This season, Haddad Maia has made five semifinals or better at tour-level; only Iga Swiatek (8) and Halep (7) have more semifinal-or-better showings in 2022.
Haddad Maia's rise culminated in a career-highlight event this week, where she became the first Brazilian woman to defeat a current World No.1 with her Round-of-16 upset of Iga Swiatek.
The Brazilian has gone an astounding 7-1 against Top 20 players this year, with four of those wins coming this week, including Saturday’s win over Pliskova. Her only loss to a Top 20 player in 2022 came in the aforementioned defeat by Halep at the Australian Open.
Haddad Maia also became the first Brazilian to reach a WTA 1000 quarterfinal, semifinal, and final this week. Moreover, she is the first left-handed player to reach the National Bank Open final since Petra Kvitova won the title in 2012.
🇧🇷 The pride of BRAZIL 🇧🇷#NBO22 pic.twitter.com/6baX9fTzRB
— wta (@WTA) August 13, 2022
Match moments: A hot start by Haddad Maia was cooled off by last year's runner-up Pliskova, who saved three set points at 5-3 and forced the Brazilian to serve for the set for a second time at 5-4. But Haddad Maia was up to the task, powering to a quick hold.
This week's ace leader Pliskova steered the momentum in her favor as she served her way to a 4-1 lead in the second set. However, with Pliskova serving for the set at 5-3, Haddad Maia found a series of powerful groundstrokes when she needed them, pulling back on serve.
In the tiebreak, Haddad Maia could not hold onto mini-breaks at 3-2 and 5-4, and she did not convert a match point at 6-5. Haddad Maia then had to save a set point at 7-6 with a forehand winner, but on the Brazilian's second match point at 8-7, Pliskova double faulted to end the clash.
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Esther Joanne Blake 1934-Esther Joanne Weaver Blake, of Fort Collins, Colorado, passed peacefully into the presence of her Savior, Jesus Christ, in her home in Fort Collins, Colorado, surrounded by her family and her loyal dog Milly, on July 1, 2022, at the age of 88. Joanne was born in Paola, Kansas on July 4, 1934. The family moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming where Joanne graduated from Cheyenne High School in 1952. She was employed by Cheyenne Light and Power Company, and soon after met her husband of sixty-nine years, Francis Blake, of Hereford, Colorado. They were married in Cheyenne on September 6, 1953, and moved to the family ranch in Hereford, Colorado, where they had a large cattle and wheat ranch. They raised their children, Cynthia and Linda and enjoyed many happy years of ranch life. As a rancher's wife, Joanne was a tireless worker and hospitable host to any guests and/or ranch workers, often preparing amazing home-made meals for many people. Joanne loved decorating, gardening, sewing, and cooking and kept an immaculate home and a beautiful yard. Gardening was a passion of hers and she loved spending time outdoors tending to her beautiful flowers and an abundant vegetable garden. She was also a seamstress with skills that would challenge any professional, making many beautiful clothes for her children and grandchildren, tirelessly devoting her time and effort. She loved reading and music and pursued genres that were classical, lofty, and eloquent, amassing a large collection of books and music. Joanne supported her children in 4-H, sports, music lessons, and all the events they participated in, often taking them to fairs and other activities. Joanne was very social and was especially enamored by her grandchildren and cherished the time she was able to spend with them, and showered them with cards, packages, and telephone calls when distance was an obstacle. Professing faith in Christ during her teenage years, Joanne's faith was a paramount tenet in her life, resulting in her home going as being "absent from the body, but present with the Lord". Her several well-worn Bibles were marked up profusely with favorite verses underlined. Joanne and Francis moved to Fort Collins in 1990 where she resided for the remainder of her life. She was a member of the Hereford Community Church in Hereford and subsequently Front Range Baptist Church in Fort Collins. Joanne is survived by her husband, Francis; children Cynthia (Dale) Tiller of Lee's Summit, MO, Linda (Jamie) Collins of Goose Creek, SC; grandchildren, Angela (Brian) Burleigh of Orlando, FL, Joanna (Andrew) Lewis of Jacksonville, FL, Joshua (Melissa) Nelson of Summerville, SC; Mark Simmons, Jr., of Kansas City, MO, Matthew (Karla) Simmons of Queen City, Texas, and Caleb (Jennifer) Nelson of North Charleston, SC; nine great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. Joanne was preceded in death by her parents, Myrtle Shugren and Alvin Weaver and her brother Kenneth Weaver. A public graveside service will be held on August 19, 2022 at 11:00 AM at Linn Grove Cemetery, 1700 Cedar Avenue, Greeley, Colorado 80631, with a reception following at Adamson Life Celebration at 2000 47th Avenue, Greeley, Colorado. Food will be provided. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations be made in Joanne's name to the Front Range Baptist Church, 625 E. Harmony Road, Fort Collins, Colorado 80525. 2022 | https://www.wyomingnews.com/milestones/obituaries/blake-esther-joanne/article_7c2e2fe1-5d58-5b65-96d3-70d5d2a84b49.html | 2022-08-14T01:42:50Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/milestones/obituaries/blake-esther-joanne/article_7c2e2fe1-5d58-5b65-96d3-70d5d2a84b49.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., has announced her backing for Megan Degenfelder, a Republican candidate for Wyoming state superintendent of public instruction.
Following that endorsement, the current state superintendent, who is also a candidate for a full first term in the post, slammed Degenfelder.
Also this week, Lummis backed other Wyoming candidates. As Sen. Tara Nethercott, R-Cheyenne, noted on Tuesday, she, too, scored a Lummis endorsement.
“It seems all too fitting for the person in charge of Wyoming’s school system to be a product of it,” said Lummis in her endorsement statement on Sunday of Degenfelder. “Degenfelder attended Wyoming schools K-12 before going onto the University of Wyoming where she served as student body president. She has extensive experience in the private sector championing Wyoming coal, oil and natural gas and served as the Chief Policy Officer at the Wyoming Department of Education.”
Just this past Friday, ex-President Donald Trump endorsed three Wyoming statewide office candidates through his Save America PAC. One of those endorsed candidates is vying to keep his superintendent job: Brian Schroeder. Like Degenfelder, Schroeder is a Republican.
Another candidate Trump backs, Rep. Chuck Gray, R-Casper, is running against Nethercott in the race to succeed the outgoing secretary of state, Ed Buchanan.
“Her conservative background, experience with election law, and history of advocating for Wyoming businesses and jobs make her an ideal candidate to serve as Wyoming’s Secretary of State,” wrote Lummis in a Sunday opinion piece for Cowboy State Daily.
Degenfelder, Hageman
Of Degenfelder, Lummis said she is a lifelong volunteer who has worked with organizations from Wyoming Agriculture in the Classroom to the Wyoming Taxpayer’s Association to local Republican committees across the state.
“I am honored to have the support of my lifelong mentor and conservative leader, United States Senator Cynthia Lummis,” said Degenfelder in response. “Senator Lummis is the epitome of conservative Wyoming values and has spent decades working tirelessly to improve our state. What matters most to me is the support of Wyoming leaders who have built this state into what it is today.”
Trump, by contrast, does not have many, if any, Wyoming ties.
The former president has been backing U.S. House of Representatives candidate Harriet Hageman, whose praises he again mentioned on Friday. Trump campaigned for Hageman in Casper over Memorial Day weekend, in the process repeatedly criticizing the incumbent, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.
Also this week, Lummis gave her backing to Hageman.
“She’s spent her entire career fighting government overreach and working to ensure Wyoming maintained primacy over our land, water and energy resources,” Lummis wrote of Hageman. “She’s not just a conservative, she’s a Wyoming conservative who knows how to do battle with Washington, DC – and win.”
SchroederIn a statement of his own on Monday reacting to Trump’s backing for his campaign, Schroeder said that “Wyoming voters now have a clear choice between a candidate who will stand up for parents and students against wokeism, gender ideology, and critical race theory in schools and a candidate who is supported primarily by Democrats and Cheney supporters.”
It was initially unclear which rival candidate for state superintendent Schroeder was referring to. His campaign did not immediately comment. Subsequently, his campaign did comment, to say that Schroeder was referring to Degenfelder.
Minutes after the Wyoming Tribune Eagle left a voicemail message with the phone number listed by the Secretary of State’s Office as associated with Schroeder’s campaign, a follow-up news release was issued by the campaign. It contained revised contact information, and also it eliminated the statement from an earlier news release that slammed the unidentified rival candidate for state schools chief. The individual listed as the updated contact for the campaign, Bob Bonnar, was the spokesperson who responded to the WTE’s later inquiry.
The “Schroeder campaign did send out a follow-up to the earlier press release as we wanted the full text of President Trump’s endorsement to be available to media and voters,” wrote Bonnar in his email to the WTE. Schroeder’s campaign “asked that I participate as a contact in sending the second email to help the superintendent be more responsive in anticipation of increased media interest as a result of the endorsement,” according to Bonnar.
Schroeder “stands by both releases,” Bonnar said Monday evening by phone. “The omission was simply mine, because I had not seen the earlier release” when he sent out the new one that lacked the rhetorical criticism against the rival GOP candidate.
Bonnar, for his part, said he is a minority owner of the News Letter Journal newspaper in Newcastle, of which he has no editorial control. Bonnar said he is also a spokesperson for the re-election campaign of Wyoming state Treasurer Curt Meier. Also on Friday, Trump endorsed Meier.
Earlier this year, Schroeder was tapped by Gov. Mark Gordon to be the education boss for the state. Schroeder succeeded Jillian Balow, who left for a similar post in Virginia.
Besides Degenfelder and Schroeder, Jennifer Zerba and Robert J. White III are listed by the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office as running in the GOP primary on Aug. 16. White and Zerba did not comment on whether they had any new or significant endorsements to share.
This report has been further updated to specify additional candidates Lummis is backing. Her office did not respond to the WTE’s request for a listing of all Wyoming candidates she has recently endorsed. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/lummis-backs-degenfelder-who-is-slammed-by-rival/article_972ee7b1-6322-5e23-936e-bf224b260624.html | 2022-08-14T01:42:56Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/lummis-backs-degenfelder-who-is-slammed-by-rival/article_972ee7b1-6322-5e23-936e-bf224b260624.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A 56-year-old Oakton woman died in a Saturday afternoon motorcycle crash on Joplin Road in Triangle.
The crash happened near mile marker 18 just after 1:30 p.m., when the operator of 2013 Harley Davidson 883 Sportster motorcycle was traveling southbound on Joplin Road with a group of other riders.
The rider failed to negotiate a sharp curve in the roadway and traveled over the double yellow lines before leaving the road and striking a tree, Prince William County Master Police Officer Renee Carr said.
Rescue workers took the victim to an area hospital where she later died. No additional vehicles were involved in the crash.
Police have identified the motorcyclist as Brooke Allyson Shambeck, 56, of Oakton, Carr said. | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/motorcyclist-killed-in-crash-on-joplin-road/article_707657d0-1b5f-11ed-af0a-b37bd8e6073f.html | 2022-08-14T01:51:53Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/motorcyclist-killed-in-crash-on-joplin-road/article_707657d0-1b5f-11ed-af0a-b37bd8e6073f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New She-Hulk Promo Leans Into a Law & Order Parody
Jennifer Walters will be the first to tell you that She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is a “lawyer show.” That’s because much like her comic book counterpart, Jen gets to break the fourth wall in her upcoming Disney+ series. And while there will be superhero action, this is also the most intentionally comedic Marvel show to date. To further illustrate that, the new She-Hulk promo somewhat shamelessly parodies the most famous lawyer show of them all: Law & Order.
The opening narration in the video below should sound familiar to anyone who has ever watched an episode of Law & Order. The iconic Law & Order “dun-dun” probably wasn’t used because of copyright issues. But it was even funnier to hear the narrator’s voice attempt to imitate it. The rest of the video is largely a preview of the upcoming season with a few behind-the-scenes sound bites from the cast and writers of the show.
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The beginning of the video actually confirms one other piece of Jen’s history. When she’s standing by the door saying “lawyer show,” the sign reads “Jennifer Walters, Deputy District Attorney.” That tracks with her comic book history before Jen signed on to some high profile law firms. Previous trailers have suggested that Jen was hired to leave the D.A.’s office because her identity as She-Hulk isn’t a secret. She’s going to be the face of her new firm’s superhuman law division.
And if that’s not enough for you, there’s another promo that you can watch below. This one doesn’t have much in the way of new footage, but it does sell the idea that Jen has become a trouble magnet. Regardless of her own desires, Jennifer will always have something weird or strange to deal with.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law premieres on Thursday, August 18 on Disney+.
What do you think about the latest videos for the show? Let us know in the comment section below!
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Woe Is Me! is a series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you’ll probably ignore.
“My best friend and I used to be very close — we were almost always together. But one day, I told her about something that was bothering me; ever since then, she has been distant. I don’t feel the same way about her anymore, but I do feel lonely without her. At the same time, I don’t how she feels about me; so, I don’t want to approach her because I don’t want to make our relationship even sourer accidentally. What do I do?”
— Let me be frank
DR: I don’t want to accept all those Moral Science lectures we had to attend in school could’ve been in vain; so, I’m going to continue believing that honesty is truly the best policy. However, a lot of people use honesty as a shield for rude and hurtful remarks. I’ve no idea if that’s what you’ve done — consciously, at least. That’s for you to introspect. While you’re at it, maybe, also try to think about whether your friend has any insecurities that you may have triggered by being honest with her. There’s too little context here for me to conclude that she’s certainly in the wrong. But for the sake of advising you, I’m going to assume you aren’t. In that case, my friend, I don’t think not approaching her is preventing your relationship from making things sour either. If you do initiate a conversation, you will, at the very least, have the closure of finding out whether your friendship truly is over. Because, in all honesty (pun intended), it seems like that’s where your relationship is headed.
If you do want to make a last-ditch attempt at salvaging it, though, I’d say send her a text rather than confronting her in person — while also letting her know that you don’t expect an immediate reply. Doing so might give her the time to process what you said privately instead of making her feel pressured to respond immediately — thereby avoiding a knee-jerk reaction that could further damage your dynamic with her. You can, perhaps, frame your text somewhere around these lines to ensure she doesn’t feel persecuted: “My remarks the other day seem to have hurt you, and for that, I’m deeply sorry. That was never my intention; I was simply trying to have an open channel of communication in the interest of our friendship, which is something I truly cherish. I don’t know how you feel about me anymore, but I’d do anything to go back to how things were before that conversation. So, I’d be really grateful if you could tell me how I messed up and what I can do to make amends. I don’t expect you to reply immediately. Do take your time, but once you’re ready, I’d really love to talk things out with you. I miss having you around!” If that somehow bears adverse results, I think you should accept that your friendship is over.
RN: You should let her be and give her some space to reflect! Maybe that’s what this is, and she’s poor at processing/communicating. Without any context about what you told her, it’s really hard to judge how she must be feeling and whether it’s justified. Did you tell her something about her own behavior, or was it something else that had nothing to do with her? If it’s the former, give her time; if it’s the latter, it’s fair to ask her what’s going on.
If it’s really making you uncomfortable, you should talk to her anyway — then you can rest easy in your conscience that you’ve done your bit to try and save the friendship.
AS: I know the usual advice while forging new relationships with people is that one should always meet the other at the halfway point — but, maybe, at times, going the full course can also help. Especially so, if it’s a treasured bond that you nurtured over the years. However, if that doesn’t work, then it might simply be a case of you both having outgrown each other. That is completely normal and natural, and while it may hurt, it is just par for the course. After all, change is the only permanent, unchanging aspect of our lives.
Who knows, maybe through the next best friend you make, friendship will be an even more exciting and enriching experience than this one? | https://theswaddle.com/woe-is-me-i-called-out-my-best-friend-and-now-she-wont-talk-to-me-was-i-wrong-to-be-honest/ | 2022-08-14T02:03:16Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/woe-is-me-i-called-out-my-best-friend-and-now-she-wont-talk-to-me-was-i-wrong-to-be-honest/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A car plowed into a crowd of people in Pennsylvania on Saturday as they attended a benefit for victims of a massive fatal fire last week, reports said.
The car struck “multiple people” at the Intoxicology Department bar and restaurant in Berwick at around 6:30 p.m., the Times Leader reported.
It wasn’t clear how many people were injured. Police had closed the road but there was no description of what caused the crash or if the driver was in custody, according to the Times Leader.
People there were attending a day-long event to raise money for the victims of the Nescopeck house fire that killed seven people, including three children, according to WNEP.
The victims were all related and included children aged 5, 6 and 7 years old. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/car-plows-into-berwick-crowd-raising-money-for-nescopeck-fire-victims/ | 2022-08-14T02:38:03Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/car-plows-into-berwick-crowd-raising-money-for-nescopeck-fire-victims/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman made a tentative return to the campaign trail with a rally in Erie, Pa., his first public appearance after suffering a debilitating stroke in May.
“I just got so grateful, and I’m so lucky,” he said Friday night in a sometimes halting 11-minute speech to 1,400 supporters.
Fetterman, the Democratic nominee in a closely watched US Senate race for the open seat of departing GOP Sen. Pat Toomey, has faced increasing pressure from his Republican opponent, celebrity surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, to show voters he’s healthy enough to serve in Congress.
Oz challenged Fetterman to a series of five debates earlier Friday — a proposal the Fetterman team reportedly rejected.
During his speech Fetterman, wearing his trademark black hoodie, shied away from policy specifics, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported, focusing mainly on his recovery.
“Tomorrow. Tomorrow is, three months ago, three months ago, my life could have ended,” he said as he thanked his wife Gisele, standing at his side onstage, for recognizing his stroke symptoms and rushing him to a nearby hospital.
But he also made some digs at his opponent, in keeping with his social-media messaging that mostly consists of mocking Oz on Twitter.
“Do you think Dr. Oz can fill a room like this?” he asked the crowd.
“He doesn’t live here,” Fetterman said of Oz, a former New Jersey resident. “He’s not about us. He doesn’t care about us.”
A Fox News poll released July 28 found Fetterman with an 11-point lead over his GOP rival among registered Pennsylvania voters, with 13% undecided. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/john-fetterman-back-on-pa-senate-campaign-trail-to-battle-dr-oz/ | 2022-08-14T02:38:22Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/john-fetterman-back-on-pa-senate-campaign-trail-to-battle-dr-oz/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The early returns on the Mets’ injuries were overwhelmingly positive.
Eduardo Esocbar and Jeff McNeil had to leave the Mets’ 2-1, 10-inning loss to the Phillies in the early innings Friday night. McNeil was back in the lineup Saturday night, however, and there was hope Escobar would avoid the injured list.
McNeil (right thumb laceration) swung a bat and took ground balls before the game, and said he felt fine. He suffered the injury when he was stepped on by Phillies first baseman Rhys Hoskins in the second inning. McNeil was batting eighth, rare against right-handers, and playing second base.
“I woke up today feeling pretty good,” McNeil said. “Not as bad as we thought.”
When it first happened, McNeil didn’t even realize he was hurt. Upon returning to the dugout, he took off his batting gloves and blood was everywhere. He needed two stitches.
“I was trying to avoid the tag, make something happen,” said McNeil, who had a 13-game hit streak snapped, after getting just one at-bat.
As for Escobar, an MRI exam came back clean. He was bothered by left side tightness, and departed the series opener for a pinch-hitter in the second inning. It is uncertain how long he will be out.
“’Esco’ feels as good as you can expect today,” manager Buck Showalter said. “There was nothing there that should be long-term, just a matter of how long we’re willing to wait. It’s like, ‘OK, he might be a little sore, what can he do, what can he not do, can he run, can he play defense, can he hit left-handed, can he hit right-handed.’ We’re trying to figure out all this stuff and make a good decision.”
Minor league infielder Gosuke Katoh was at Citi Field on Saturday, in case the Mets had to place McNeil or Escobar on the IL. Showalter didn’t rule out using outfielder Mark Canha at third base if need be, before it was determined McNeil was healthy enough to play. The manager had four potential lineups on his desk two hours before first pitch.
Canha played third on Friday night after the injuries, just his fourth game there in his eight-year big league career and his first since 2016.
He handled his one chance in the fifth, fielding a one-hopper off the bat of J.T. Realmuto and throwing him out. The large Citi Field crowd gave him an ovation.
“I’ve never seen so many guys scramble for a glove last night,” Showalter said. “It was pretty impressive.”
The Mets didn’t have that issue Saturday night. With McNeil able to start, Luis Guillorme moved over to third base, where he has started against right-handers in place of Escobar. It enabled the Mets to use their regular lineup as they looked to even the three-games series with Jacob deGrom on the mound. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/mets-get-positive-jeff-mcneil-eduardo-escobar-injury-news/ | 2022-08-14T02:38:34Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/mets-get-positive-jeff-mcneil-eduardo-escobar-injury-news/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
State Rep. Shamed Dogan has been the lone Black Republican in Jefferson City for eight years. He truly believes in the values of many conservative politicians and voters. He has proven it by voting for Voter Photo ID, several of the worst gun laws in the country, restrictive abortion laws, charter schools, business tax cuts and credits - and even disgraced former Gov. Eric Greitens.
He is a standout in his party as a representation of the diversity it wants but can never fully achieve.
He’s been a fixture at countless fundraisers, grassroots events, and galas. You couldn’t miss him, even if you tried.
Many of his fellow Republicans are avoiding eye contact with Dogan these days because on August 2, 2022, Dogan lost his Republican primary election for St. Louis County Executive to Katherine Pinner, a white woman.
She didn’t even campaign. How did voters know to vote for her when her neighbors didn’t even know she was running for the office?
How did this happen? Don’t ask me. Try asking a Republican. They know, but probably won’t tell you.
The answer is apparent: racism.
Republicans had a clear choice of whether to elect an experienced Black legislator named Shamed or an inexperienced white woman most never heard of named Katherine. She didn’t just win, mind you. She won by 15 points.
Since the primary, many St. Louisans have learned that Pinner owns a professional consulting firm. She also believes COVID-19 vaccines are part of a global scheme to control people by covertly inserting microchip into people’s bodies. Last October, she carried an American flag as she protested at SLPS headquarters against mandatory vaccinations for the district’s teachers and staff.
Republican St. Louis County Council members Tim Fitch and Mark Harder endorsed Dogan. Yet, he still was soundly beaten by an unknown.
Black conservatives, it’s time to wake up! You are supporting a bigoted movement and a political party that does not support you or your ambitions.
Many conservatives lambast Black progressives for being “woke.” They join conservative “friends” in cursing the “woke mob on social media.” They dream of a Missouri where Black people would understand that conservatives just want our community to take care of itself. That is a dream, make no mistake. Because you must be asleep to believe it.
Many falsely assume that the racism which drives much of the Republican Party’s recent success began when the GOP unified around the Cult of Trump. It is important to remember, however, that Trump himself did not create conservative racism.
Trump merely took advantage of what was already there. He is an opportunistic racist, who gives strength to white supremacists, currying their favor to win their votes.
If conservatives are the beneficiaries of a system of racism, what motivation do they have to end it? They have none.
As the great, Black civil rights and business leader A. Phillip Randolph said, “In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.”
The Democratic Party, conversely, combats oppression and racism by creating opportunities. By elevating Black communities through education, equal opportunity initiatives, and through targeted social programs.
Black conservatives; today is the day. Dogan’s loss should make things clear. Get the racists out of your party or join ours.
Michael Butler is St. Louis Recorder of Deeds and Missouri Democratic Party chair | http://www.stlamerican.com/news/columnists/guest_columnists/dogan-black-conservatives-get-slap-in-face/article_72bd4b20-1b5f-11ed-b910-7f07b829585f.html | 2022-08-14T02:42:13Z | stlamerican.com | control | http://www.stlamerican.com/news/columnists/guest_columnists/dogan-black-conservatives-get-slap-in-face/article_72bd4b20-1b5f-11ed-b910-7f07b829585f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Nelly and Ashanti sparked more controversy by reuniting in a performance of “Body On Me,” following Irv Gotti’s comments about being heartbroken about he and Ashanti’s former relationship.
The timing of the reunion comes after Murder Inc CEO Gotti appeared on an episode of N.O.R.E.’s Drink Champs podcast, and revealed how he found out the former lovers were a couple.
Not disclosing the year he learned the news, Gotti told N.O.R.E. that, while watching an NBA game, he saw the pair walk out and perform together, leaving him surprised because he was allegedly in a romantic partnership with her around the same time.
Nelly, Ashanti, JaRule, Ma$e, Lil Jon, and others headlined the “My 2000s Playlist” concert last weekend in Oakland, California.
The show was already booked before the new “Drink Champs” episode, but the former couple still managed to leave the internet buzzing after their set.
Some believe the appearance could be a petty jab at Gotti’s expense, which is potentially true after hearing Nelly ask Ashanti if she would join him in floor seats at an upcoming NBA game.
Nelly and Ashanti first began dating in 2003, and dated for over a decade before calling it quits in 2014. | https://www.stlamerican.com/arts_and_entertainment/hot_sheet/nelly-ashanti-reunite-in-performance-following-irv-gotti-s-drink-champs-interview/article_49ad1caa-1b6a-11ed-a5ce-074839532a4c.html | 2022-08-14T02:42:37Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/arts_and_entertainment/hot_sheet/nelly-ashanti-reunite-in-performance-following-irv-gotti-s-drink-champs-interview/article_49ad1caa-1b6a-11ed-a5ce-074839532a4c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New details have been released regarding rapperMystikal’s latest rape charge. Mystikal, born Michael Lawrence Tyler, was recently arrested for reportedly violently attacking a woman on July 30 in Prairieville, Louisiana.
Reports from allhiphop.com claim the rapper attacked the woman because he thought she stole $100 in cash from him.
He allegedly punched, choked, and pulled the woman’s braids out of her head, then took her keys and cellphone and blocked her from leaving the scene.
Mystikal’s lawyer Roy Maughan says he and the victim are in a long-term relationship.
The victim allegedly helped Mystikal look for the money, and while looking, she told law enforcement that she found a “crystalline” substance in one of his drawers. Investigators found he had meth, Xanax, heroin, marijuana, and drug paraphernalia in his home.
The unnamed woman says Mystikal displayed extreme mood swings throughout the evening, from being upset about the money to apologizing for his actions.
She said Mystikal prayed with her, covered her in rubbing alcohol to wash away her “bad spirits,” and then allegedly threw her on a bed before raping her.
Mystikal is currently detained without bond, and Maughan is furious about it.
“We’re extremely disappointed that the judge decided he needed to hold Mr. Tyler without bond,” Maughan said. Mystikal is facing [additonal] first-degree rape, false imprisonment, domestic abuse battery (strangulation), simple robbery, and simple criminal damage to property.” | https://www.stlamerican.com/arts_and_entertainment/hot_sheet/new-details-surface-about-mystikal-s-rape-case/article_25b5128c-1b68-11ed-8068-1f0eaae18139.html | 2022-08-14T02:44:01Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/arts_and_entertainment/hot_sheet/new-details-surface-about-mystikal-s-rape-case/article_25b5128c-1b68-11ed-8068-1f0eaae18139.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Overdue improvement for St. Louis’ vacancy scourge could also bring payday for derelict property owners
Set on St. Louis’ neglect-scarred north side, 3211 Blair Avenue barely stands out. With shards of rotting wood serving as the only reminder of a front porch, and windows shrouded in graying plywood, it’s one of more than 10,000 vacant buildings in the city.
Some of the city’s skeletal structures have burned-out, caved-in roofs. Others are wall-less. One rained red bricks onto the adjacent sidewalk, rerouting pedestrians into the street.
Neighbors have complained to the city that 3211 Blair Ave. is collapsing, posing a hazard to residents. Its owner owes hundreds of thousands in unpaid property taxes and has faced court judgments over this and other dilapidated properties.
Nearby, a three-bed, two-bath fixer-upper in the 3500 block of Blair Ave. sat similarly unloved until neighbors took the owners to court. The neighbors won and were able to acquire the deed. The renovated property sold in mid-March for more than $90,000, according to the rehabber.
Both buildings are in a part of St. Louis now flagged for major reinvestment. At least $37 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding, sent from the feds to combat the disastrous impacts of COVID 19 — and potentially $150 million more — is expected to flow into north St. Louis neighborhoods, according to the city’s mayor and an official with St. Louis Development Corporation, the city’s development arm.
Mayor Tishaura Jones, the city’s first Black woman mayor, has called the cash influx a “once in a lifetime opportunity” for the city’s north side, which also is the future home of the $1.7 billion western headquarters of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. That campus, called Next NGA West, is under construction in the St. Louis Place neighborhood of north St. Louis, and is expected to open to workers in 2026.
City officials have said residents of the six neighborhoods nearest the NGA campus will benefit from the planned investment, through a focused effort called Project Connect.
It is a moment decades in the making. Many residents see the federal funds, commitment from the Jones administration, and recent successes in the courts as a planetary alignment with the potential to finally bring about actual change.
Yet there is skepticism. Some long-time residents wonder aloud why the problem has persisted across multiple city administrations and question whether city leaders have done enough over the years to hold negligent property owners accountable. The residents fear that as government funds begin to flow, lax owners will cash in, selling their properties to the highest bidder and reaping a reward after years of dereliction.
Few stand to gain as much as developer Paul McKee, whose company, NorthSide Regeneration (NorthSide), inked a deal with the city in 2009 to help redevelop a two-square-mile section of north St. Louis that includes parts of the Project Connect neighborhoods — including all of Carr Square and parts of JeffVanderLou, St. Louis Place, Columbus Square and Old North St. Louis.
NorthSide still foresees a “large-scale and holistic transformation” of the area, according to its website. But city officials and neighbors have complained that progress has moved at a glacial pace, with only a few structures actually completed.
As of this spring, NorthSide Regeneration owned more than 1,600 vacant parcels in the city, mostly in the Project Connect area. That includes nearly 230 vacant buildings, according to data compiled by the St. Louis Vacancy Collaborative, a coalition of community members, private and nonprofit organizations, and local government agencies working to reduce the negative effect of vacant property in St. Louis.
That's nearly half — 46% — of the vacant buildings owned by the top 10 private owners listed by the Collaborative.
A list of resident concerns in 2021 included nearly three dozen “building collapsed” complaints in the Project Connect neighborhoods. Seven reported properties were listed as being owned by NorthSide Regeneration, the most for any one property owner.
The city issued “structural condemnation notices to six of the properties, including NorthSide Regeneration's vacant property at 3211 Blair, which was condemned in June 2013, according to the Vacancy Collaborative. A condemnation notice means the property is not safe for habitation. The building owner has 30 days from the notice date to make progress — obtain a building permit to demolish or repair — and 10 days to file an appeal, according to the city’s Building Division.
Most of the buildings, including 3211 Blair, were still standing as of mid-June, according to an inspection by The St. Louis American and Type Investigations.
An official with the city's Building Division said photos of 3211 Blair on file in the department "don't show that it poses an imminent danger to the public, therefore the City of St. Louis funds will be used for more urgent [collapsing structures] in the ward." She added that the case has been "referred to court."
In the JeffVanderLou neighborhood, as of this spring, nearly 60 NorthSide properties were condemned, according to the Vacancy Collaborative.
Darryl Piggee, McKee’s attorney, did not respond to questions about specific properties, so it’s impossible to determine whether NorthSide took action.
In an emailed response to questions from The American and Type Investigations, Piggee instead focused on the significance of McKee’s decision to invest in the area. “Mr. McKee decided to invest where no one — not third parties or even the city’s development agencies — were willing to go for almost six decades,” he wrote. “Since making that decision, Mr. McKee has expended more than $8 million toward real estate taxes, grass cutting, demolition and maintenance charges.
“We challenge you to find anyone whose financial commitment to North St. Louis approaches that level, or who has expended these kinds of sums on vacant lots and abandoned property in the long-ignored North side, the City included,” he said.
As part of Project Connect, city officials have embarked on a listening tour of the six neighborhoods — Hyde Park, St. Louis Place, JeffVanderLou, Old North St. Louis, Carr Square and Columbus Square — seeking resident input on how the federal rescue funds should be spent.
In a survey the city released in June, 2,108 respondents who live in St. Louis selected "addressing vacancy" as a top priority, one of the highest tallies for any specific category.
That concern was echoed by nearly a dozen community leaders and neighborhood advocates contacted by The American as part of a months-long reporting project with Type Investigations.
“Vacant, uncared-for property and land, it's just not appealing,” said Andre Logan, pastor of the Thessalonian Missionary Baptist Church, a predominantly Black congregation in the JeffVanderLou neighborhood. “It's not desirable to the community, especially when it's next to a homeowner’s house. I mean, it's just not good. Some of the properties are dangerous. Some of them have fallen down.”
“Why has it been allowed to happen?” he asked. “Why is a very good question; that I don't know. That’s the million-dollar question.”
While politicians for years have promised to address the vacancy problem, the push took on new urgency earlier this year when St. Louis Firefighter Ben Polson was killed fighting a fire in a vacant home in north St. Louis. The roof collapsed as Polson was checking to make certain no one was trapped inside
An estimated 40% of calls answered by the St. Louis Fire Department are to vacant structures, according to Fire Captain Garon Mosby.
Beyond the fire danger, the vacant properties can drain city resources
As of mid-July, Northside Regeneration owed at least $320,000 in property taxes on its vacant buildings alone, not counting taxes owed on hundreds of empty lots, city records show.
As of July, the Vacancy Collaborative reported that citywide, property owners owed $4.9 million in unpaid property taxes; $7.6 million in billed forestry maintenance fees; and $3.5 in unpaid vacant building fees and fines for a total of $16 million.
The site does not break down the fees by property owner.
Asked about the unpaid taxes, Piggee did not comment on specific properties but said, “We pay our taxes.”
When asked if property owners behind in taxes and fees would be required to pay up before participating in the coming development, a spokesman for the mayor’s office directed the question to the Development Corporation, which did not respond.
The idea of neglectful property owners cashing in doesn’t sit well with homeowners like G. Fatimah Muhammad, who, along with husband Donald Harden, chose to move to the north side’s Hyde Park neighborhood about 20 years ago
“These properties have sat vacant for years,” she said. “Some of the owners opted [for] paying citations and continuing to let the building remain in disrepair and [be] a continuous eyesore and danger to the community. Others let the citation fees and back taxes accumulate and still did nothing to eliminate the nuisances, waiting for a real estate payday.
Decades of disinvestment
St. Louis’ vacancy problem has unfolded over decades and stood at 24,923 vacant parcels in total as of July, according to the estimate from the Collaborative’s website. The highest concentration of vacancies is in the city’s northern stretches — occupied largely by low-income, people of color.
That citywide tally includes an estimated 10,579 vacant buildings and 14,344 vacant lots, according to the Collaborative, which draws its data from the St. Louis Building Division, the Assessor's Office, the Division of Forestry, and the Citizens' Service Bureau.
When looking at “concentrated” vacancies, such as those found on the north side of the city, St. Louis is one of the most vacancy-plagued cities in the nation, according to the Vacancy Collaborative.
California-based ATTOM Data publishes a quarterly vacant property report. Of the 100 U.S. zipcodes with the highest percentage of vacant properties this winter, five of them were in St. Louis, more than in almost any other U.S. city.
The blame for the city’s gap-toothed visage lies with many of the usual suspects: lackluster regional growth, racism, and chronic disinvestment, according to residents and the countless news articles that have been written on the vacancy problem.
St. Louis city has seen a significant drop in population — down 6% from 2010 to 301,578, according to the 2020 Census
At the same time, the number of Black and mixed-race Black city residents dropped by 15% to 137,059, according to data from Census.gov. Many left north St. Louis for the suburbs in north St. Louis County, while some moved into the city's revitalized central corridor and near south side neighborhoods, according to Glenn Burleigh, community engagement specialist for St. Louis’ Equal Housing & Opportunity Council.
In some cases, Burleigh said, that left behind vacant homes, including in the Project Connect neighborhoods.
Of the 10 neighborhoods with the most vacant lots and buildings, according to the Collaborative, three are in the Project Connect area — JeffVanderLou, St. Louis Place and Hyde Park.
Beyond population drops, Burleigh sees another culprit behind the bumper crop of vacancies: redlining. That federal government-backed value-killer dates back decades, and has pummeled many major urban areas including St. Louis.
“You’ve got to remember that … what society has done, has essentially made it virtually impossible for homeowners in majority-Black neighborhoods to keep up their homes,” Burleigh said, noting the inability of homeowners in those areas to tap into home equity loans at the same rate as homeowners in white areas.
“If you're not able to access the mainstream banking and finance things, [as] the majority white areas are, you can't do things that are just considered normal as far as using equity to finance repairs and maintenance and stuff on your home.
St. Louis suffered from the same pernicious policies, in effect at the federal level from the 1930 to the 1960s, that blocked the Federal Housing Administration and later the Veterans Administration from insuring loans in predominantly Black areas, according to Next City, which covers solutions to urban issues.
Insufficient funds for upkeep, titles with expensive liens, and owners who die without a will have forced some families to walk away from properties that otherwise could have been used to provide generational wealth.
For some developers, it represented the perfect buying opportunity 'Comprehensive regeneration.'
The plan was impressive.
NorthSide Regeneration would spend $8 billion over 23 years to replace a decaying city core with a brand spanking new one complete with 10,000 homes, parks, schools and churches. Also on the drawing board was 3 million square feet of office space, 2 million square feet for retail, 1 million square feet for tech, a primary care hospital and three major employment centers, according to the NorthSide website. NextSTL, a website that covers St. Louis development issues, noted plans for 240 hotel rooms, a $35 million recycling center along with thousands of market-rate residences.
NorthSide Regeneration owned 1,999 properties at peak ownership, according to St. Louis Public Radio.
“Today, the area is on the cusp of a remarkable and comprehensive regeneration that would mean jobs, opportunity, economic self-sustenance and minority wealth creation,” according to the NorthSide Regeneration website.
Buying into the vision, and with a dearth of competing ideas on how to revitalize the area, St. Louis agreed in 2009 to let the company develop the area through a $390 million tax increment financing district, according to a 2018 letter from the city. In the TIF district, taxes on future gains in property values would be used to help pay for improvements in the area.
NorthSide also received $43 million in tax credits, according to the city letter. The credits were offered through a law that a member of McKee’s legal team helped write.
Piggee, McKee’s attorney, said “nearly a decade before Mr. McKee got involved,” a report on the city’s 5th Ward, which is on the north side, noted that the area could not expect meaningful progress without the incentives ultimately awarded to Mr. McKee and the large scale site control and planning he proposed.”
A 2018 letter from NorthSide to the city called McKee’s plan for the neglected area “unprecedented risk taking.” It cites a brief submitted by the Board of Aldermen’s attorneys stating that by the fall of 2009, “Northside had borrowed $27.6 million which was invested in the redevelopment effort, all of which was guaranteed by McKee personally.”
McKee sold the city more than 330 parcels, needed to make room for the Defense Department’s NGA project, according to a settlement statement. Piggee described it as 56 of the nearly 100 acres the city needed for the NGA.
In time, though, the city became concerned.
Despite the grand promises, lots remained vacant and untended. Property taxes went unpaid. No major developments opened before 2019 – nearly 10 years after the initial pact was signed. So the city terminated the agreement.
In the city’s 2018 letter, signed by then-City Counselor Julian L. Bush, the city declared that NorthSide was in default on the development agreement adding, “It is time to face facts. After a decade, the promised redevelopment has not come, nor is there any indication that it will … Land lies fallow … Vacant buildings remain dangerous and unsecured.”
As of 2018, the city said in its letter, NorthSide owned at least 205 buildings that had been cited for building code violations.
In its rebuttal to the city, NorthSide accused the city of getting in the way of development in the area stating: “The City Parties have failed to cooperate — and, in fact, have actively worked to undermine — NSR’s development of projects in the vicinity of the NGA Site.”
“Mr. McKee invested even though he faced inexplicable interference by the City, and a series of legal challenges, all of which unnecessarily delayed progress and required the use of valuable resources to litigate and negotiate with the City and third parties,” said Piggee.
And he disputed that progress was slow, adding, “We had satisfied all of our development obligations under our redevelopment agreement when the City terminated our development rights. … We believe that the termination was completely unwarranted and unlawful.”
Bank of Washington, a major lender for the NorthSide project, filed suit in 2018 against the city’s Land Clearance For Redevelopment Authority — which oversees many aspects of public and private real estate development in St. Louis — accusing the city, in part, of unfairly pulling out of the project.
A June entry in the court file noted that both sides reported that attempts at mediation were “unsuccessful,” The case is headed to a jury trial next year, according to the file.
The city’s withdrawal came even as NorthSide moved forward on plans for the first two major projects in the area: a ZOOM gas station and a 20,000-square-foot grocery store called GreenLeaf in Columbus Square, both of which opened in 2019.
McKee has acknowledged that some citizens, as well as city officials, have expressed concern.
“Usually when we get complaints, we beg the people to call us direct, but they call the city because they think they’re getting us in trouble,” McKee told St. Louis Public Radio in 2018. “No matter how hard we work to get them to call us direct,” people keep calling inspectors and the Citizens' Service Bureau, he said.
Patricia Dees, chair of the St. Louis Place Community Association, said she and her neighbors have reached out to NorthSide, adding, “we were not always met with the best responses.
Standing in a vacant lot listed as being owned by Northside, she said now residents keep detailed records on all attempts to get something done, and pass that information on to the city via a Neighborhood Improvement Specialist for Ward
Many residents found it easier to take action themselves and were actually mowing and cleaning the NorthSide lots, she said.
And, increasingly, residents began to turn to the court
Legal aid
Muhammad, of the Hyde Park association, said she and husband,Donald Harden, were excited about buying one of the “beautiful vacant homes” in the Hyde Park area two decades ago.
In 2002, the couple paid $1,500 for a 3,000 square-foot property in the inventory of the city’s Land Reutilization Authority, the owner of last resort after properties don’t sell at tax sales.
The 140-year-old four-bedroom, five-bath property would become their retirement home, but it needed work, she said. Unable to secure a rehabilitation loan, the couple funded the rehab with money from their own pockets.
In 2017, Muhammad came out of retirement to found the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association of North St. Louis, in part to deal with the vacancy curse.
“I have come out of retirement to do the work that is needed in our community,” she said. “I do it with love for my people, the community and the betterment of all. No one heard the voices of the community until now, that's why I do it.”
To help spur progress, the neighborhood association turned to Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, Inc., which in 2018 brought to St. Louis the Neighborhood Vacancy Initiative, a spinoff of a similar program born in Kansas City that uses the courts to help break up the logjam that keeps vacant, decaying properties from being sold to would-be developers
Between 2018 and 2022, the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association filed at least a dozen lawsuits against neighborhood property owners, according to a search of filings in Missouri Courts. It’s been among the most active neighborhood groups in taking negligent property owners to court.
Its lawsuit list includes the case against the former “absentee” owner of 3519 Blair Ave.
“I definitely remember this being one of the worst houses I have ever seen,” said Peter Hoffman, managing attorney for the Neighborhood Vacancy Initiative of the Legal Services group, describing it as “terrible, owners long deceased, heirs unknown ... If the neighborhood hadn't intervened, this house may very well not be standing anymore.”
At Hoffman’s urging, developer and real estate broker Tenesia Looney-Brown looked at more than a dozen properties in north St. Louis, several of them owned by NorthSide Regeneration and many of them she felt “needed to be torn down.”
The property on Blair was “horrible too,” but she felt, “this is the lesser of all the evils … Altogether, I probably spent about $160,000 on it and I sold it for” $93,000, she said. “Our main focus everywhere we go is the urban core and revitalizing it.”
At 1514 Mallinckrodt Street, a former multi-family home built in 1892, “the entire rear of the building had fallen to the ground,” Muhammad said. The Vacancy Collaborative listed eight “major” city code violations at the property before it was demolished in recent years.
The new owner of the land, the St. Louis-based nonprofit Dream Builders 4 Equity, plans to use the property as the site of its first ground-up build. The organization, co-founded by Michael Woods, aims to rehab at least 25 vacant properties to be sold to first-time homeowners, and provide free home renovations worth up to $10,000 for 25 seniors.
“I wanted [Dream Builders] to be the change … to be that first investment or to be that person or a part of some group that inspires other people to really see and understand that this is needed, like it has to be done,” said Woods.
He’s currently rehabbing 1522-24 Mallinckrodt Street, “one of the oldest properties in St. Louis,” according to Preservation Research Office. The 1850s era structure was badly damaged by fire in 2005.
Muhammad cited progress at the two Mallinckrodt addresses as court-aided wins for the community.
Partnering with Legal Services of Eastern Missouri allowed Muhammad to find rehab partners able to restore historic homes in the neighborhood. “Now, these properties are being rehabbed into affordable beautiful homes,” she said.
“These are the real stories. ... the successes, the wins,” she added. “The community has been so excited about the processes as we work, block by block, to bring about change in our community.”
In an area where residents often are portrayed as victims, Muhammad sees the legal strategy as evidence of residents' collective agency.
“Residents are joining together, taking back their power,” she said. “Working and collaborating with city departments, neighborhoods, other organizations and businesses. Working as a unit with transparency has been our focus.”
But there is still much work to do. And that raises questions about current north side revitalization plans.
At least 30 vacant properties in Hyde Park are owned by NorthSide Regeneration, McKee’s company, according to the Vacancy Collaborative database.
A city database reviewed by The American and Type Investigations showed that NorthSide Regeneration still owed 2020 and 2021 taxes for at least 222 of the company’s vacant buildings in the Project Connect neighborhoods, as of mid-July. That’s not counting taxes owed on vacant lots.
As recently as March, it also owed property taxes for 2019 for most of its vacant parcels, including the Blair property, according to data from the Collaborative. Under state law, tax collectors can start procedures to collect delinquent taxes within one year, but the city typically files suit to collect taxes after a property has been three years behind on taxes, according to the St. Louis Collector of Revenue. Some owners, like NorthSide, seem to pay just one year’s derelict taxes at the last minute, to avoid legal action.
Piggee, McKee’s attorney, did not respond to questions about unpaid taxes at specific properties.
City officials did not respond to questions regarding property owners who still owe taxes for 2020 and 2021. We also asked what neighbors are wondering — whether these same owners will be allowed to profit from the revitalization. The city did not respond.
None of the dozen lawsuits filed by the Hyde Park Association was against NorthSide. Muhammad did not say why.
But the city’s Department of Public Safety, which contains the Building Division, has taken the developer to court at least six times since 2018, securing judgments totaling more than $4,500.The amount of delinquent tax, penalties and fees due on a piece of property at the time of a court judgment is included in that judgment, according to Tom Vollmer, a deputy with the Collector of Revenue department.
Hoffman, of Legal Services’ neighborhood vacancy initiative and the lead attorney in many of the court cases, declined to discuss specific cases. But he, like the residents interviewed, expressed hope that the city might be moving toward substantive change. “I believe there's a commitment from this current mayor, to try to make a dent in this problem,” Hoffman said.
In her first State of the City Address in April, Mayor Tishaura Jones — who describes herself as the “first mayor in over 20 years to be born, raised and still live in north St. Louis” — said she would like to see $150 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding spent on the north side of the city. That’s beyond the $37 million in ARPA money already committed to the area.
The aim is to bring about change.
“This change looks like fewer boarded-up buildings and crumbling vacant [structures] on our blocks,” she said. “We must stabilize or renovate vacant buildings and make them neighborhood assets instead of deadly risks to our residents and our firefighters.”
She told The American and Type Investigations that “is accurate” to note the city has not done enough in the past, but the city was now determined to “hold neglectful property owners like Northside Regeneration accountable.”
Still, she said, progress may be slower than some would like.
“Fixing a decades old issue won’t happen in a day, or even a year, but we have started making a concerted effort to reverse these historic wrongs,” she said in an email to The American. “In this year’s budget we’ve included $6 million to help address vacant buildings, including rehabilitation or demolition. This is in addition to funding and support from the state and private organizations.
Jones divided her proposed $150 million spending plan — which must be approved by the Board of Aldermen and the Board of Estimate & Apportionment — into three categories, including one labeled “neighborhood transformation.”
That includes “capacity building, vacancy [abatement]... environmental justice” and improving housing accessibility. That category would get up to $70 million — nearly half of the $150 million Jones is pushing for.
Hoffman called the vacancy issue “an enormous problem,” adding, “it's going to take years to fix. You know, it's been 50 years in the making. It's not going to be something that's going to go away overnight. But hopefully, the thing that I think that maybe people are more optimistic about, I know I’m optimistic about, is that there are federal funds that are now available.”
He said the problems in the Project Connect neighborhoods won’t be solved by investment alone.
“In most city neighborhoods, the owners of vacant nuisance properties are varied,” he said. “Many of the blighted properties around the NGA site are due in large part to one particular bad actor. The key to addressing those [resides] in addressing that particular owner.”
Asked if he was referring to McKee, Hoffman said, “Yes. I think anyone reading this will know who I'm referring to.”
For residents like Dees, of the St Louis Place Community Association, the thought that negligent property owners might be in line for hefty profits brings with it “a sense of frustration.”
“It's derelict properties around that nobody is taking care of,” she said. “And all of a sudden, the properties will get sold at this astronomical amount. And then here I have been, cutting your grass or cleaning up trash or whatever else to keep my property from looking a mess. So, you know, there is a lot of animosity.”
Without commenting on specific properties, Piggee said, the company has “had to devote precious resources to defending frivolous litigation and inexplicable in-fighting with the City. We are making every effort to ensure that demolition proceeds where necessary to protect the public.”
Dr. Annessa Blackmun, who opened a business in the Old North neighborhood in 2013, thinks the focus on McKee has taken the spotlight off of the city and its responsibility to address the problem.
“I really want to take the focus off of Mr. McKee and put it back on the city and what kinds of plans or resources or incentives are there to get these parcels not to be vacant. You know what I mean? Because at some point, it's like this big circle and it all goes back to this supposedly horrible bad guy and I don't know if that's good enough anymore for me.”
So far, officials have yet to articulate a specific plan. Leaders in the city’s development corporation say they plan to address multiple issues in north St. Louis, from development to the threat of gentrification.
Many of the specifics, however, have yet to be determined. Listening to residents and crafting a plan is expected to take two years, according to Lance Knuckles, who last fall joined the St. Louis Development Corporation as director ofstrategic growth and development.
He did not have a total figure for how much will be spent in the Project Connect area but outlined some funding sources.
The city is planning on using $20 million in ARPA funds to support affordable housing in north St. Louis and $5 million for grants to small businesses negatively affected by COVID, he said.
Another $2.5 million will go to small business lending for community development corporations and neighborhood organizations across north St. Louis.
Meanwhile, residents like Dees see in the concurrent activity of the SLDC, the Vacancy Collaborative, Legal Aid, and others, as threads which — if taken together — could form a lifeline.
I've got all these people woven and braided together in this rope,” said Dees.
“And I'm holding on to this rope … by a thread, praying that they are going to do what they promise us that they're going to do.”
This story was reported in partnership with Type Investigations, where Karen Robinson-Jacobs is an Alfred Knobler fellow.
Research assistance by Paco Alvarez and Nina Zweig of Type Investigations. Produced with support from Report For America. Logo by Kyle Alcott. | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/millions-of-dollars-are-set-to-pour-into-st-louis-north-side/article_94e55bb4-1aa8-11ed-8614-7380b048de6b.html | 2022-08-14T02:44:08Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/millions-of-dollars-are-set-to-pour-into-st-louis-north-side/article_94e55bb4-1aa8-11ed-8614-7380b048de6b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Last week, Mayor Tishaura O. Jonessigned into law Board Bill 47, which finally gave “teeth” to the Civilian Oversight Board after seven years. Provisions of the bill included giving subpoena power to the oversight board and creating the independent Division of Civilian Oversight.
Despite, previously supporting and even testifying in favor of such provisions, the Ethical Society of Police - now under new leadership - curiously opposed the creation of a separate entity to investigate St. Louis Metropolitan (SLMPD) police misconduct and giving any sort of investigative alleged powers to an independent body. This is not unlike the position held by the St. Louis Police Officers Association (SLPOA) - typically referred to as the “white police officers’ union.”
Historically speaking, SLPOA has opposed any measure of police reform and oversight, favoring blank check policies and increased protections for police accused of misconduct. The inclusion of subpoena power - meaning the Civilian Oversight Board could obtain otherwise confidential records - and moving the Board under the larger umbrella of the Department of Public Safety have been opposed by SLPOA because St. Louis police officers no longer receive special treatment and favorable decision-makers overseeing employment-related disciplinary matters, like reports of abuse by civilians or shooting an unarmed person. ESOP, on the other hand, has oftentimes been a lone voice for police reform that fights to hold all officers, regardless of race or rank, accountable for civil rights abuses and violations.
Not any longer, it seems.
Although both the Director of Public Safety Dr. Dan Isom and his Senior Policy Advisor Heather Taylor were members of ESOP during their respective time spent at the SLMPD, the Black police union has found itself now at direct odds with the City - and likely the wrong side. The new ESOP vice president, SLMPD Detective Sergeant Todd Ross, reportedly has been aligned with the objectives of SLPOA, where Jeff Roorda seems to still be rearing his obnoxious head. Our readers will recall Roorda as the former business manager and racist windbag for SLPOA who is fresh from yet another electoral loss. Out of jobs to grift, Roorda still seems to be wielding what little influence remains, to the detriment of ESOP and the policies the organization used to support.
Considering the complete turnaround that has occurred within ESOP, we wonder if the membership base was aware of Ross’s alignment with SLPOA. SLPOA is, after all, the greatest opposition to ESOP being recognized as a union with bargaining power in both the City and County.
ESOP, on the other hand, has been the police union that has, for decades, focused on advancing policing reform and accountability policies to improve relations between police and the community they are sworn to serve and protect. So of course, its sudden flip and subsequent opposition to those measures are noteworthy - something is amiss. ESOP even went so far as to sue the City of St. Louis, alongside SLPOA, for adding “teeth” to the Civilian Oversight Board, policies that ESOP leadership testified in support of.
Falling for the oldest trick in the book, ESOP has been manipulated into carrying water for SLPOA’s racist publicity war against Mayor Jones for the sole benefit of the white police union. After all, what’s the point of having segregated police unions if they’re both fighting for the status quo?
Next, the EYE would like to congratulate former police lobbyist and now-failed candidate Jane Dueker for being the first woman to lose both the Democrat and Republican nominations at the same time.
We, of course, refer to the karmic double losses of Dueker, who ran as a Democrat and pulled thousands of Republican votes away from her friend, State Representative Shamed Dogan, who soundly lost the Republican nomination by around 7,200 votes. Dogan could possibly have had a decent chance at winning the seat but for Dueker’s siphoning some GOP votes but even more consequently - racism.
As Dueker tumbles into her sad spiral of irrelevance, we look to the obvious cause for Dogan’s double-digit loss to political newcomer Katherine Pinner. Pinner pulled out an unforeseen upset for the Republican nomination to the St. Louis County Executive seat, currently held by County Executive Sam Page. If you’ve never heard of Pinner, there’s likely a good reason:
Until last week Pinner had no candidate committee filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission to formalize her run, which means minimal campaigning and fundraising. Pinner further was unknown to St. Louis County Republican leaders, who reportedly still haven’t been able to get in contact with her since her victory on August 2.
Pinner comes into St. Louis County politics as a follower of Qanon, the fanatical conspiracy theory that believes high-level American politicians are engaged in a child-harvesting cabal and that the war in Ukraine is part of a plan to replace President Joe Biden with deceased former president John F. Kennedy, who is disguised as living former president Donald Trump, among many other completely nonsensical things. Pinner has written on her blog that coronavirus vaccines are a plot to “inject humans with nanotechnology to program people against their will” and compared COVID-19 quarantines to Nazi concentration camps.
So how does an unknown candidate, with no money and no campaigning and no sense, manage to upset a candidate who was all but a shoo-in for the Republican County Executive nomination?
If you forgot that you were in St. Louis, let this be your reminder:
Racism.
Shamed vs. Katherine
Pinner had the whiter-sounding name on the Republican ballot. Her victory was as simple as that. Even one of Dueker’s biggest cheerleaders, Ray Hartmann, named the reason for Dogan’s loss as racist during last week’s Donnybrook program.
If St. Louis County Republican voters are willing to forego a qualified loyal Black candidate for an unknown white woman who - as it turns out - represents the most extreme fringe beliefs in national politics, then that sounds like even County Republicans have some soul-searching to do. Let’s not hold our breath until we see how much party leaders will support Pinner’s candidacy between now and November. | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/political_eye/the-ethical-flip-on-police-conduct/article_6689a0c6-1b2b-11ed-b9e4-f71afe1cbdd1.html | 2022-08-14T02:44:14Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/political_eye/the-ethical-flip-on-police-conduct/article_6689a0c6-1b2b-11ed-b9e4-f71afe1cbdd1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Roller skating in St. Louis has been a thing for decades.
Popular skating rinks including Skate King and St. “Nicks” had their fair share of fancy “crazy leg” moves, twists, and turns. And the skating movement is still rolling. Newcomers and old schoolers both find joy in performing moves at the rink.
And Skate Culture is a new roller skating crew, which meets once a month. It hosts the Skate Culture Dellwood Summer Series.
“I love skating,” said Andy Stephens, one of four organizers of Skate Culture.
Stephens, Stephanie Larimer, A’iesha Rooks, and Stephanie Lindley came together with a common goal: to provide safe and healthy fun for free in the Dellwood community.
So in May, the Skate Culture Dellwood Summer Series hosted its first skate party at the Dellwood Community Recreation Center outdoor roller rink.
More than 100 skaters enjoyed bopping skate music and R&B hits, free food, and fruit drinks. Plus, there is no charge for skate rental.
Stephens, “Calamity Andy” for those who are familiar with his DJ name, decided he wanted to throw an adult skate party at Skatium. He wasn’t expecting a large turnout since it was his first party, but to his surprise, the skate party was jumping.
“It just popped off like really hard,” said Stephens.
Larimer and Landley (the Stephanies) approached him with praise and high fives about how much fun they had at his party and asked if he would be interested in collaborating and hosting more skate parties around the St. Louis area.
Rooks had the same conversation just a few days before with Larimer about the same idea. They came together, agreed on goals and concepts, and Skate Culture was born.
“It all just organically came together,” said Lindley.
Lindley says Skate Culture allows her to have fun and share different kinds of skating and skating cultures within the St. Louis area,
“The bonus is we are providing a service to those in need,” she said.
“We skate together, we talk and connect, we leave it on the skating rink, it’s like we counsel each other.”
The group says skate parties transcend age, gender. They have friends who are in their 50s and some as young as their 20s.
“Every week I meet someone new, and it’s awesome,” said Stephens.
They say skating is an activity that brings everyone together, no matter the skill level. Rooks, who considers herself a beginning skater, says that she looked like Bambi on ice when she first got back into skating.
But the local skating community was supportive. She says Stephens would give her tips and tricks on how to improve her skating, and now she passes those same tips to newcomers.
“On the fly, I would look over and see Andy giving someone pointers. He’s always trying to help someone,” said Rooks.
The skate series is growing a buzz in the community. State Rep. Mike Person, District 74 has attended, and Jigga Juice representatives are helping keep skaters and others hydrated with infused fruit drinks.
The Skate Culture crew loves that they get to create new partnerships and friendships. People they would have never imagined they would meet are showing up in Dellwood.
But what really makes them proud, they say, is the fact that the events are free.
“I appreciate that we have free skates just like we have this wonderful outdoor skating rink. We step in because not everyone can afford to buy or rent skates,” said Rook.
A’iesha remembers being at the skating rink when she didn’t own skates and sometimes her mom couldn’t pay for rental. Skate Culture is providing access to skating to some people who wouldn’t otherwise have that opportunity and its exercise.
“It’s a safe activity that encourages health and wellness, including mental and emotional health,” said Larimer.
But Stephens says it's still a party, the atmosphere is party, you’re meeting people, having fun, and finding love.
“I’m excited about the future of skating,” said Larimer.
Look for upcoming events at skateculturestl.com and follow them on Instagram at skateculture.stl. | https://www.stlamerican.com/rolling-on-in-dellwood/article_a6a70302-1b6b-11ed-8b69-1b7c01e99e83.html | 2022-08-14T02:44:20Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/rolling-on-in-dellwood/article_a6a70302-1b6b-11ed-8b69-1b7c01e99e83.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thodupuzha: All the shutters of the Mullaperiyar Dam, which were earlier opened as part of a precautionary measure during the heavy rain in the catchment area recently, have now been closed as the inflow of water to the dam has come to 1743 cusecs of water.
The two shutters, which remained open, were closed by Saturday evening as the water level in the dam came to 138.05 feet.
There is no rain at the catchment area right now.
Tamil Nadu is now taking 2194 cusecs of water from the dam. As per the Rule Curve, Tamil Nadu can store 138.40 feet of water till August 20.
Meanwhile, the red alert in the Idukki Dam still continues even though the water lever has receded.
Now, only shutter number 3 is opened at a height of 40 cm and 200,00 litres of water are released through it. The present water level in the dam is 2386.86 feet. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/14/mullaperiyar-dam-shutters-closed.html | 2022-08-14T02:46:57Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/14/mullaperiyar-dam-shutters-closed.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHELAN COUNTY, Wash. — Residents on Sears Creek Rd., are now at level 3 evacuation status, which means leave now.
The White River Fire has burned an estimated 20 acres and is burning in the Sears Creek area of the White River drainage, approximately 14 miles northwest of Plain.
According to Chelan County Emergency Management, residents on White River Road are currently on a level 2 notice. Meanwhile residents on Little Wenatchee Road are at level 1.
This is a developing story and we will provide more details as soon as we get more information. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/level-3-evacuation-for-fire-near-chelan/293-f50db8aa-8f21-4808-ac99-c37bfa017842 | 2022-08-14T03:02:53Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/level-3-evacuation-for-fire-near-chelan/293-f50db8aa-8f21-4808-ac99-c37bfa017842 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — Teddy Ray, a comedian and actor who appeared on the HBO Max series “PAUSE with Sam Jay,” has died, authorities confirmed on Saturday. He was 32.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Office and the county's coroner's office confirmed that the death of the comedian, whose legal name was Theadore Brown, was reported Friday morning in the desert community of Rancho Mirage, the Los Angeles Times reported. Sheriff's Sgt. Brandi Swan, who said deputies responded to a call about the death at a private residence, said that the cause of death was unknown.
Entertainment companies and some of Ray's fellow comedians reacted with sadness to the news of Ray's death.
“Teddy Ray was a hilarious and beloved performer,” TV network Comedy Central said in a Twitter statement. “He'll be deeply missed by the entire comedy community.”
All Def Digital, a multi-platform media company that Ray had collaborated with, tweeted that it was “heartbroken” about the news of Ray's death. “We will miss him every day but we know he will have Heaven laughing,” the tweet read.
Ray appeared as the bailiff on “PAUSE with Sam Jay,” appeared in the digital series Cancel Court, and was a stand-up comedian.
The comedian had just turned 32 a couple weeks ago on his last Instagram posts.
"Pulling up on 32 like…..Lord I thank you for another lap around this hot ... sun," his post read. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/comedian-teddy-ray-dies-at-32/507-8005a588-e468-4bfc-9101-901b496ed447 | 2022-08-14T03:03:05Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/comedian-teddy-ray-dies-at-32/507-8005a588-e468-4bfc-9101-901b496ed447 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Jim Rondeau | https://www.klcc.org/people/jim-rondeau-2 | 2022-08-14T03:03:06Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/people/jim-rondeau-2 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PULLMAN, Wash. — It was a big day for Washington State football today as the Cougars held their first intersquad scrimmage at Martin Stadium. Players and coaches alike enjoyed being in game mode for the first time.
The first team offense was not on the field much today, but it was productive when it was. Quarterback Cameron Ward was comfortable running the offense and wide receiver Dezhaun Stribling dazzled with multiple acrobatic catches and a 36-yard touchdown reception.
"A lot of people in our building have seen Strib work when no one is watching, catch extra balls throughout the summer and really work on his speed and more importantly his releases. You're seeing the maturation of a really dang good player," WSU head coach Jake Dickert said.
The star of today's scrimmage was none other than true freshman running back Jaylen Jenkins who filled in for an injured Nakia Watson today and ran riot all day long.
"He's an exciting young player coming from Allen, Texas over there for the Allen Eagles. Just getting him in here, he's still learning the plays, but when the ball is in his hands, he shows you what he can do," WSU quarterback Cameron Ward said.
"Explosive runs are game changers and that is what (Jaylen) brings to our offense. That makes the defense have to come up and then we can hit some things over the top. I thought he had an excellent scrimmage and I'm looking forward to seeing him build off of a little bit of success," Dickert said.
The defensive player of the day was Jaden Hicks, who delivered two vicious hits and was flying around the field throughout the scrimmage.
"NFL scouts come walking through here asking, 'Who's number 25?' We tell them he is only a redshirt freshman, so it is exciting to see that growth he has made from his redshirt year," Dickert said.
It was also a perfect day for preseason All PAC-12 first team kicker Dean Janikowski. Coach Dickert has been very impressed by the redshirt sophomore all camp long.
"Dean has been in midseason form since day one. I trust Dean and to take that 52 yard field goal and kick it to where that would have probably been good from 60, is a big confidence booster for using him as a weapon out on that field. I'm excited for Dean's progress," Dickert said.
We sit just three Saturdays away from the Cougars' season opener at Martin Stadium against the Idaho Vandals. We will have continuing coverage of fall camp in the lead up to the 6:30 PM kickoff on September 3rd. | https://www.krem.com/article/sports/ncaa/ncaaf/washington-state-cougars/wsu-football-holds-first-scrimmage/293-2eb1019e-a0c3-439d-8972-aa1f4d7140cb | 2022-08-14T03:03:12Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/sports/ncaa/ncaaf/washington-state-cougars/wsu-football-holds-first-scrimmage/293-2eb1019e-a0c3-439d-8972-aa1f4d7140cb | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – The Swamp Rabbit Trail has new ‘fast lane’ and ‘slow zone’ signage in areas around Unity Park.
Greenville Parks and Recreation posted on their Facebook are hoping these new signs will help pedestrians and cyclists stay safer in the area.
The signs are located near the Commons to split the flow of fast-paced traffic and slow-paced traffic, according to parks and rec.
The post said the slow zone route will be the southern side of the Reedy River with a sign suggesting cyclists dismount their bikes.
The fast-paced portion will run along the northern side of the river. | https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/swamp-rabbit-trail-sees-new-signs-for-lanes-in-unity-park/ | 2022-08-14T03:05:31Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/swamp-rabbit-trail-sees-new-signs-for-lanes-in-unity-park/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – If it were a prize fight, they would have stopped it early. But nobody has been able to go the distance with the Dodgers recently.
The Dodgers hit home runs in each of the first four innings, scored seven times in the first two and routed the Kansas City Royals 13-3 Saturday night to extend their winning streak to 12 games.
That is their longest winning streak since the 1976 team also won 12 in a row in April and May. They could match the longest streak in Los Angeles Dodgers history with a win Sunday and the longest in MLB this season with two more – the Seattle Mariners and Atlanta Braves each had 14-game winning streaks this season.
The Dodgers have won each of the games during the streak by multiple runs, scoring eight or more runs in eight of them including the past four. Overall they have outscored their opponents 78-28 during the 11 games.
Even in that parade of dominant wins, Saturday’s stood out.
The beating was so swift and thorough that Mookie Betts had a three-hit game … in the top of the third inning and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts opted to call it a day for Trea Turner (who has started every game this season) in the fourth.
Royals starter Brad Keller never stood a chance. He gave up a leadoff home run to Mookie Betts – the 35th leadoff homer of Betts’ career (tying him with Bobby Bonds for 12th all-time). The first seven Dodgers batters reached base, five of them coming around to score.
It was the 16th time this season the Dodgers have scored five (or more) runs in a single inning, tying them with the Phillies for the most of those explosions in MLB this year.
Will Smith hit a two-run home run in the second inning, Gavin Lux a solo shot in the third and Max Muncy sent one 422 feet into the fountains for a two-run home run in the fourth.
Muncy finished the day with four hits including a double and the homer and drove in four runs, continuing his second-half rebirth.
In his past 16 games, Muncy is 19 for 58 (.328) with six doubles, five home runs and 14 RBI. Languishing well below the ‘Mendoza Line’ all season, Muncy has raised his average within hailing distance at .189.
Joey Gallo and Cody Bellinger hit back-to-back home runs when the game reached the inevitable ‘Position Player Pitching’ portion of the night in the ninth inning (Royals infielder Nicky Lopez, in this case).
The lone down note of the night came in the third inning when Royals rookie (aren’t they all?) Bobby Witt Jr. smoked a line drive, 106.5 mph off the bat, that hit Dodgers starter Andrew Heaney in the back of the left arm.
Heaney struck out the next two batters but came out after three innings and 60 pitches.
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YAKIMA, Wash. -
Shortly before 11:00 a.m., Yakima Police were dispatched to the 1400 block of W. Lincoln Ave. for a motorcycle crash.
A 73-year-old male was riding his motorcycle when he came across a delivery truck and tried to stop but couldn't. The motorcyclist swerved onto other lanes avoiding the truck.
However, a car driving by hit him and cause him to lose his balance and hit the delivery truck.
The man was said to be conscious when officers arrived and was transported to Memorial Hospital. He died soon after.
Officers determined the main cause of the crash was the motorcyclist failing to yield when making the lane change.
YPD's Traffic Unit is investigating the incident and asks if any witnesses have video of the collision. You're asked to contact YPD Officer Jim Yates (509) 728-6449 | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/73-year-old-motorcyclist-dead-after-being-unable-to-stop-in-yakima/article_edfb23b4-1b66-11ed-b724-b711cc70eb59.html | 2022-08-14T03:14:26Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/73-year-old-motorcyclist-dead-after-being-unable-to-stop-in-yakima/article_edfb23b4-1b66-11ed-b724-b711cc70eb59.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
RICHLAND, Wash. -
Kason Creed, an eight-year-old boy born with cerebral palsy, has been looking for a park he can play at in the Tri-Cities.
Kason Creed in Spokane
He discovered his love for swings after visiting ADA parks in Spokane, which is where Kason often travels for doctors appointments.
He has found no swings in the Tri-Cities area accommodate him or his wheelchair.
His grandma, Pam Bieren, said she reached out on the 'Neighbors' app asking if anyone in the community knew where she could find a special swing for her grandson.
Pam said there was a ton of response from the community recommending several parks for Kason to try.
This is where the quest for a suitable swing for Kyson began. With Kyson's family even driving 42 minutes away trying to find a disability friendly swing.
Pam says after contacting the City of Richland, they sent her to the only ADA park in the Tri-Cities, Claybell Park.
She says both her and Kason were extremely disappointed when they arrived to see tire swings, jungle gyms and sensory activities made for toddlers.
Kason says that even though it was an ADA park, it didn't seem very disability friendly at all.
While the flat ground made the park easier for wheelchairs, the steep ramps and equipment were not able to accommodate Kyson.
Pam says the Playground of Dreams park in Kennewick has a swing that would be safe for Kason to use. However, the area is surrounded with bark chips, requiring that she pick Kason up and carry him to the swing.
At eight years old, Pam says that Kason is too big for her to try to carry 15-feet to the swing, making it unsafe for both of them.
Kason says his dream park is somewhere that allows both disabled and able-bodied children can play.
Kason and his Grandma are still looking for a park in the Tri-Cities where Kason can have fun just like everyone else.
"Even if people can walk, it doesn't mean that just them get to play," says Kason. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/lack-of-swings-for-disabled-children-in-tri-cities/article_0250fa2e-1b6b-11ed-b1a0-ffc8293acf4d.html | 2022-08-14T03:14:32Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/lack-of-swings-for-disabled-children-in-tri-cities/article_0250fa2e-1b6b-11ed-b1a0-ffc8293acf4d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Rogue One Will Return To IMAX Theaters This Month For One Night Only
In the post-George Lucas age of Lucasfilm, the one film that the vast majority of fans seem to really love is Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Director Gareth Edwards delivered one of the best-looking movies in the franchise with several surprises, an engaging cast, a genuinely gripping space battle, and by far one of the greatest Darth Vader scenes ever put to film. If you want to watch it right now, it’s always going to be on Disney+. But if you missed the opportunity to see Rogue One on the biggest screen possible in 2016, then you will soon have a second chance. Rogue One will return to select IMAX theaters for one night only on Friday, August 26.
Now, it’s no coincidence that this is happening so close to the premiere date of Andor. In that upcoming prequel series, Diego Luna will reprise his role as Cassian Andor, the amoral Rebel Alliance operative who made his debut in Rogue One. Fans who attend the upcoming IMAX screening will also be treated to an exclusive preview for Andor.
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To promote the event, IMAX and Lucasfilm have created a stylish new poster for the film, which you can see below. It has a very minimal design, and yet it’s very effective.
Fans who choose not to attend will have to wait for Andor to premiere on Wednesday, September 21. It was originally supposed to be out at the end of this month, but Disney+ recently pushed it back a few weeks. The upside is that Andor will premiere with three episodes before shifting to a weekly release.
Will you catch Rogue One in IMAX for this upcoming event? Let us know in the comment section below!
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How a Culture of Guilt Around Spending Fractures Young Indians’ Relationship With Money
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At 23, Shahrukh Mohammed realized he didn’t know how to spend his money. He arrived at an online shopping festival, his mind already made – all he wanted was a keyboard. The keyboard was an investment, Shahrukh, a software engineer, told himself, as an act of justification. Still, he scrolled up and down the page to absorb the details, the reviews, the offerings of this purchase – looking for anything that might help him make his case for why he needed a new keyboard.
“I was relentlessly calling my best friend and my sister to seek affirmations that I was doing the ‘right’ thing,” he recalls. Purchasing a keyboard meant he was “pampering” himself. Was he spoiled and indulgent? What would his parents make of his decision? “It almost gave me a panic attack.”
This attitude around spending money – that is intrinsically linked to guilt – is one many young Indians resonate with. Along with the question of where to spend money and whether the expenditure is responsible and within one’s means also comes the matter of how to rationalize the act of spending to oneself.
“I have that guilt so much that after purchasing something I immediately regret it,” says Shreya Narula, 28.
Namrata Khetan, a counseling psychologist, lists three factors that largely shape how we perceive money and finances: psychological (personal beliefs, motivation, attitudes, and individual experiences), social (family status, class, and occupation), and cultural (the ideas and values we glean from the larger community around us). The role of family upbringing cuts across these three dimensions, shaping much of our beliefs, experiences, and values that we carry as individuals. “The conversations our parents have around money and expenses gets passed onto us and shapes our relationship with money.”
And in Indian families, there is perhaps no bigger taboo discussing the intimate details of one’s monetary status. This air of secrecy and lack of transparency means that children’s relationship with money becomes fractured even before it can form. “I never learned to spend money as a kid,” says Abhilash Mallick, 28. “Whenever I’d ask for something, something as small as a packet of biscuits, my parents would say they’d get it for me.”
And when we do speak of money, saving and holding on to what you have is romanticized. It is seeped into the very language used to talk about it. Whenever Abhilash Mallick got money at family gatherings, “I was asked to give it to my parents. My mom would put that money into fixed deposits and remind me often about ‘my’ savings.”
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Much of this attitude can be traced to financial insecurity – maybe in the form of debt, overspending, or structural disadvantages – during childhood. Shahrukh’s parents come from humble backgrounds; when they moved him to a cosmopolitan city when he was young, he had to navigate a completely different socio-economic landscape. “For us, going shopping at a mall began as a guerilla experience – going and getting only what we need and only observing all the luxuries,” he remembers. “Me and my family felt quite distant from all of it.”
When all household spending is plotted on a vector of constraint, of prioritizing needs over wants, the individual psyche towards money also shifts. One study found that witnessing financial scarcity in early childhood can have PTSD-like symptoms in individuals. This leads people to grow up to do one of two things: either ignore all finance-related concerns (called money avoidance, which is linked to an upbringing where parents overspend) or be compulsively concerned and insecure about money. “I still operate from a mindset of lack, living from paycheck to paycheck, understanding the price of a commodity/service not just in units of a currency but also units of how many – insert basic item you regularly buy for survival – can be bought in that price range,” says Khushi*.
The Indian Family is by design interdependent. It is a quintessential collectivistic culture that prizes the institution over the individual. This means any earnings are viewed as belonging to the family and not the individual; individual agency and boundaries are negated for income to be seen as a collective resource. Even when it’s one’s hard earned money, one is forced to feel that it isn’t really their money.
All this allows for a cycle of guilt and emotional manipulation to play out within families, further complicating how an individual, separate identity is framed. If money is never theirs to own, or ascribe meaning to, young people participate in a cultural exercise of distancing themselves from finance. And there is no real loss incurred in forfeiting ownership of something we never learn to see as our own. We sire a worldview where the emotional currency of familial support takes precedence over financial currency.
Moreover, money in Indian households is entrenched within power and who is allowed to claim it. The enterprise of the Indian family allocates the domain of finance to the “head” of the house; the others are merely accessories to this operation. Arguably, the head of the family is predominantly a male figure by virtue of gender roles, which casts the relationship young women have with money in murkier tones.
Growing up with this cultural spectacle makes it almost “unnatural” for women to comment on money matters. Never watching their mothers make the financial decisions leaves young women grossly ill-prepared for when they have to make these decisions in their life. This is evident through research that illustrates why women are more risk and loss averse than men when it comes to financial decision-making.
“One of the biggest reasons why my upbringing didn’t prepare me to save systemically is that I was never a part of these conversations in my family,” says Anushree Gupta. “Sure, I always knew it’s important to save, coming from a middle-class family. But, when I became an earning adult, I struggled with the how of it.”
Researchers have noted that any social conditioning at such a scale can be highly disorienting, more so for people who find themselves newly immersed in a world that demands financial literacy from them. D.V., 24, recently bought a laptop with her own salary and “felt extremely anxious regarding what to choose and finalizing the product without consulting with my family.”
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Parul* says “even after getting a job and an independent bank account, my father was always involved in my accounts and expenses.” This dependence and reliance further cage single women in a setting where spending for oneself, or for individual needs, is often restricted.
This toxic interdependence then also births a cycle of obligation. “If young adults or children are dependent on their family, parents or caregiver for money and expenses it makes them feel obligated directly or indirectly,” Namrata points out. Not only does this prevent them from being able to spend but also “impacts autonomy and boundaries, causing feelings of guilt, lack of control, stress.”
Rahul* wanted to join the armed forces, which would require months and years of studying for entrances, delaying his earning prospects and thus his ability to take care of his family. “During my boards, I felt like I was wasting my time, and should start doing something that will earn me quick money. I began to see education as a ‘waste’ of money – and I still feel guilty sometimes.”
“We have never been encouraged to prioritize ourselves or needs over family,” Namrata says. “Even if we did, the guilt and shame is monumental just in the way we are conditioned.”
Moreover, it’s the family that shapes the meaning of “value,” and thus also constructs the fine line between “needs” and “wants.” The family decides how to save, where to invest, what expenses to be at peace with. All expenditure is excessive, unless it offers a tangible form of utility that is sharable and sustainable. “I’m always guilty about spending on one-time pleasure activities, because my parents would constantly remind me that I’m just finding an excuse to spend money,” says Parul.
Beyond guilt, this dynamic also shapes the way people look at investing money. When one’s upbringing pedestalizes “holding on to what you have,” people learn to see investments as something to be anxious about and not approach with prudence and knowledge. That is, when one never learns to spend money, they never learn to compound it either.
“I feel like my upbringing hasn’t prepared me at all for saving money smartly,” says Anushree Gupta. “It took me a long time to get to a point when I could say I was responsibly saving and investing money.”
Investing when detached from its intimidating associations with stocks, funds, property also means it is a form of growth – of endowing someone with things both material and immaterial. This means investing money not only in its tangible form of a currency, but on the self too.
“I have deferred therapy for the longest time because I felt that was an unnecessary expenditure,” Shreya says.
Like Shreya, many young adults find spending on any kind of self-care equally alien. Rahul* wants to take up yoga, or even gently dip his feet in other “hobbies,” but “I see them as a waste of time.” Instead, he chooses “to study hard to get good results, which make [him] feel worthy and others happy while spending on me.”
The dynamic muddies up our relationship with not only money, but ourselves – as living, breathing individuals with agency to decide what matters to us.
*Names concealed to protect anonymity. | https://theswaddle.com/how-a-culture-of-guilt-around-spending-fractures-young-indians-relationship-with-money/ | 2022-08-14T03:34:33Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/how-a-culture-of-guilt-around-spending-fractures-young-indians-relationship-with-money/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KITV4 Island News has informally asked voters on Twitter about which races they are most interested in this evening, and here's what they said:
-How former MMA champ B.J. will do in his first election (vying for the Republican nomination for governor)
-Hawaiian activist Walter Ritte vs. Sen. Lynn DeCoite's current District 7 seat
-Sen. Lorraine Inouye vs. Sen. Laura Acasio (vying for District 1 seat on the Big Island)
-Lt. Gov. and Congressional District 2 races
5 p.m. UPDATE
Have you checked that your ballot has been accepted? If not, go check the state Elections Office website at http://elections.hawaii.gov and get your digital #HiVOTED sticker.
4:45 p.m. UPDATE
Here are the latest figures of ballot counts from each county:
-City and County of Honolulu: More than 478,000 ballots mailed out to active voters; 193,869 ballots/in-person votes received through 8/12
-Hawaii County: More than 112,000 ballots mailed out to active voters; 48,344 ballots/in-person votes received through 8/12
-Kauai County: More than 40,000 ballots mailed out to active voters; 12,623 ballots/in-person votes received through 8/12
-Maui County: More than 94,000 ballots mailed out to active voters; 27,920 ballots/in-person votes received through 8/12
4 p.m. UPDATE
Elections officials are busy counting votes for the 2022 Hawaii Primary Election.
The release of numbers will come after 7 p.m. Saturday night, when voter service centers shut down. Anyone who is still in line after 7 p.m. will still be allowed to vote and have their vote count. Once every vote is counted, then the first tally will be released.
KITV4 has multiple crews out in the field and here at the station with complete coverage of the Primary Election. We will hold our normal 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. broadcasts and then, beginning at 7 p.m., KITV4 Island News will go wall-to-wall team coverage of all of this year's races.
KITV4 will stream live on television and on KITV.com and we'll send you updates on results and hot races directly to your phone.
If you haven't done it already, download the KITV4 smart phone app in the app store or Google Play store and sign up to receive alerts. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/hawaii-primary-election-2022-live-blog/article_ddc6c2fa-1b75-11ed-8d90-a703165643f4.html | 2022-08-14T03:34:59Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/hawaii-primary-election-2022-live-blog/article_ddc6c2fa-1b75-11ed-8d90-a703165643f4.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ian Happ leads homer barrage, Chicago Cubs power past struggling Reds
CINCINNATI - Ian Happ, Willson Contreras and Franmil Reyes homered, and the Chicago Cubs beat the stumbling Cincinnati Reds 7-2 on Saturday night.
Happ hit an RBI single in the fifth inning and a three-run shot in the seventh, continuing his long run of success at Cincinnati. The All-Star outfielder, who starred at the University of Cincinnati before he was selected by Chicago in the first round of the 2015 amateur draft, has 16 career homers at Great American Ball Park.
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Reyes' two-run drive in the fourth was his first homer since he was claimed off waivers from Cleveland on Monday.
"This was a really nice team win," Cubs manager David Ross said. "Reyes had the big home run that gave us the lead. We had good at-bats up and down the lineup."
Kyle Farmer had two hits and two RBIs for last-place Cincinnati, which has dropped five straight and seven of 10 overall. Graham Ashcraft (5-3) was charged with four runs, three earned, and six hits in 6 1/3 innings.
"I think I pitched better than the line suggested," Ashcraft said. "I felt like I was able to control the four-seamer and two-seamer tonight. I got a lot of ground balls, a lot of soft contact. Reyes hit a slider down and away. ... He is a big strong guy. I gave him a pitch at his bat speed and he did what he did with it."
The Cubs and Reds resumed their series in Cincinnati after playing in Thursday night's "Field of Dreams" game in Dyersville, Iowa.
After Farmer cut Chicago's lead to 3-2 with an RBI single in the fifth, Sean Newcomb replaced Adrian Sampson and struck out three straight batters to strand two runners. Newcomb (1-0) had five strikeouts in two innings for the win.
Reyes lifted the Cubs to a 2-1 lead with an opposite-field drive into the visitor's bullpen in the right-field corner in the fourth. It was his 10th homer of the season.
"We're really happy to have him here," Sampson said. "He's fit right in."
Happ's 10th homer made it 6-2, and Contreras tacked on a solo drive in the ninth. It was Happ's first homer since July 12.
"(Happ's) going really good right now," Ross said. "He's got a lot of confidence in himself. He's been the consistent, solid player we've needed all season." | https://www.fox32chicago.com/sports/ian-happ-leads-homer-barrage-chicago-cubs-power-past-struggling-reds | 2022-08-14T03:56:51Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/sports/ian-happ-leads-homer-barrage-chicago-cubs-power-past-struggling-reds | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Congressional Republicans want to know just what the Internal Revenue Service intends to do with the $700,000 worth of ammunition it recently added to its 5-million-round stockpile — as Democrats voted to give the agency $80 billion for stepped-up enforcement.
“If the Department of Justice will politically target President Trump and raid his home, I can assure you that the current Administration is willing to target his supporters,” Texas Rep. Michael Cloud told Fox News.
Cloud and 30 other House conservatives, including Mo Brooks of Alabama, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Louie Gohmert of Texas and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, wrote to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig Friday to express concern that the agency’s new muscle, passed on a party-line vote as part of the Dems’ Inflation Reduction Act, “will be used to scare and threaten law-abiding Americans.”
The group asked Rettig to answer a raft of questions about the agency’s past use of force — and how it will provide firearms training to the 87,000 new agents expected to be hired with the coming influx of cash.
“I have serious concerns as to how this agency could be weaponized against law-abiding Americans who oppose the far-left ideology of this administration,” Cloud said. “The IRS has politically targeted Americans before, we can’t let it happen again.” | https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/gop-demands-answers-on-700k-ammo-stockpile-for-irs-enforcement/ | 2022-08-14T04:10:22Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/gop-demands-answers-on-700k-ammo-stockpile-for-irs-enforcement/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A bizarre horse-related incident brought all traffic on the M25 to a grinding halt late Saturday evening (August 13).
Traffic was stopped in both directions after a car towing a horsebox broke down and required assistance so that the horses could be transferred into another mode of transport. The roadside pony transfer caused some congestion and delay, according to National Highways: South-East.
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Specifically, the incident affected the M25 between junction 2 and 3. In a tweet sent at 1:07am on Sunday morning, National Highways said: "Traffic has been STOPPED on the #M25 in both directions between J2 ( #A2, #Dartford ) and J3 ( #Swanley ) in #Kent to allow horses to be transferred from a broken down horsebox. Congestion is building on approach. Updates to follow."
National Highways tweeted a few minutes later to advise that the "horsebox transfer is now complete" and that "traffic has been released in both directions on the #M25 in both directions between J2 ( #A2, #Dartford ) and J3 ( #Swanley ) in #Kent".
"Delays are easing," they added. "Thanks for your patience if you were held up."
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Everything you need to know about the hosepipe ban affecting Kent | https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/m25-traffic-stopped-horses-after-7461661 | 2022-08-14T04:15:50Z | kentlive.news | control | https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/m25-traffic-stopped-horses-after-7461661 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be
possible.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast Wyoming, including the following
areas, Central Laramie County, Central Laramie Range and Southwest
Platte County, East Platte County, Laramie Valley, South Laramie
Range and South Laramie Range Foothills.
* WHEN...Through Sunday evening.
* IMPACTS...Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas.
Low-water crossings may be flooded.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action
should Flash Flood Warnings be issued.
&&
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A worker assists the Albany County Sheriff’s Office in closing North Cedar Street just north of Snowy Range Road because of flooding Saturday evening.
The Spring Creek Drainage became a river with its own set of rapids after a Saturday storms. It is pictured here looking east from just east of the 13th Street Bridge on Spring Creek Drive. The matted grass above the waterline shows how far the drainage had come down by early evening.
A worker assists the Albany County Sheriff’s Office in closing North Cedar Street just north of Snowy Range Road because of flooding Saturday evening.
Carol Ryczek/For the Boomerang
The Spring Creek Drainage became a river with its own set of rapids after a Saturday storms. It is pictured here looking east from just east of the 13th Street Bridge on Spring Creek Drive. The matted grass above the waterline shows how far the drainage had come down by early evening.
A Saturday afternoon thunderstorm brought heavy rain and hail to Laramie, prompting some areas of the city to experience flooding as storm drains struggled to keep up with the brief, but intense, deluge.
Reports were that parts of downtown had some flooding, along with other areas around the city. The Laramie Police Department at one time was warning people to steer clear of 3rd and 4th streets north of Harney Street because of the flooding.
The storm came with a flash flood warning from the National Weather Service, but as of press time there had been no reports of damage. A measurement of just how much rain the area received also hadn't been reported to the National Weather Service. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/a-gully-washer/article_31ce0206-1049-57af-8e8c-ec3115b1a0a6.html | 2022-08-14T04:16:18Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/a-gully-washer/article_31ce0206-1049-57af-8e8c-ec3115b1a0a6.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ARLINGTON, Texas — The Mariners dominance over the Texas Rangers came to an end, well, at least for one game.
After losing their last nine games against Seattle and 10 of the last 12 meetings this season, the Rangers finally found a way to beat the Mariners, prevailing 7-4 on Saturday night at Globe Life Field.
But it wasn’t so much that the Rangers beat them, it was an unusually sloppy performance in the field that left the Mariners feeling like they beat themselves with mistakes and failed execution.
“It was not our crispest game,” manager Scott Servais. “We didn’t play like we typically play. It was uncharacteristic of how we have been playing with errors and walks out of the bullpen. You are going to have those games once in a while. They aren’t fun. I wish we could play perfect every night.”
The sloppy play was more than the Mariners’ restored lineup, which also failed to cash in on some run-scoring opportunities, could overcome. The Mariners lost just for the 13th time in 62 games where they’ve scored four runs or more.
“We’ll be fine,” Servais said.
The Mariners seemed to be headed for yet another win over the Rangers, grabbing an early 3-0 lead, picking up two runs in the first inning off Texas starter Dane Dunning on a wild pitch and a sacrifice fly Eugenio Suarez and another in the second a sac fly from Sam Haggerty.
Facing the Rangers for the fifth time this season, yes, five starts, Marco Gonzales cruised through the first three innings, allowing just one hit — a leadoff double to Ezequiel Duran in the third — and no runs.
But his outing fell apart in the fourth inning.
After getting Corey Seager to lineout to center to start the inning, Adolis Garcia hit a hard flyball to left-center.
Left fielder Jesse Winker got a late read on the ball and didn’t close on it fast enough to make a play. It went for a double instead of an out.
Jonah Heim followed with a ground ball through the left side of the infield that Winker somehow couldn’t cut off. It rolled to the wall, allowing Garcia to score with ease while Heim got a double instead of a single.
Those extra 90 feet for Heim loomed large when Nathaniel Lowe followed with a bloop single to shallow left field. Heim was able to move to third base on the play.
A soft ground ball off the bat of Charlie Culberson allowed Heim to score from third meanwhile Eugenio Suarez made a bad throw to first that allowed Lowe to move to third.
“He’s not gonna run out there and throw out double digit strikeouts,” Servais said of Gonzales. “There’s going to be action and you’re going to have make the plays behind him.”
The Rangers continued to add. Duran singled up the middle to tie the game and Bubba Thompson executed a perfect safety squeeze bunt to score Culberson and give the Rangers a lead they wouldn’t relinquish.
When the carnage ended, all four runs in the inning were charged to Gonzales but could’ve been largely avoided by the Mariners.
The Rangers made it 5-3 the next inning and it couldn’t be blamed on the defense. Seager golfed a changeup below the strike zone deep into the right-field seats.
Gonzales’ line: five innings pitched, five runs allowed on nine hits with no walks and two strikeouts.
The Mariners trimmed the lead to 5-4 in the sixth inning when Suarez made up for his error by launching a solo homer to left-center for his 19th homer of the season.
But Seattle didn’t capitalize.
Penn Murfee gave up a run in the bottom of the sixth while Chris Flexen’s leadoff walk in the eighth inning and Cal Raleigh’s throwing error helped another run to score. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/professional_sports/mariners/sloppy-play-opens-door-for-rangers-to-snap-nine-game-losing-streak-vs-mariners/article_7225e8e0-1b7b-11ed-bb54-17aaebb19d78.html | 2022-08-14T04:22:02Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/professional_sports/mariners/sloppy-play-opens-door-for-rangers-to-snap-nine-game-losing-streak-vs-mariners/article_7225e8e0-1b7b-11ed-bb54-17aaebb19d78.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series tackled Richmond Raceway on Saturday for the Worldwide Express 250. The event started with Ty Majeski on the pole and ended with Chandler Smith celebrating in victory lane.
Scoring his third victory of the season, Smith, one of 12 playoff drivers, led 176 of the 250 laps en route to his third win of the season. He’ll leave Richmond with five career wins and 12 top 10 finishes.
Celebrating the win, Smith dedicated the victory to his new son and wife watching back at home.
“God is so good. I’m a Daddy now. My wife had such an amazing labor and delivery. We have an amazing and beautiful baby boy at home, said Smith. “Honey, this is for you and Jr. this is for you as well.”
John Hunter Nemechek sat 2.790 seconds behind Smith when the checkered flag fell. Nemechek, who is also a playoff driver, leaves the track with eight top-five and 13 top 10s this season with a win at Darlington.
“We didn’t adjust quite like we needed to from day to night. Partly on me so I’ll take that one. Overall, solid day for our Safeway Toyota Tundra TRD Pro,” said Nemechek. “Can’t complain about that, just one spot short. It’s good to be disappointed when you have a run like that with second, second and second. Really good points day, let’s go advance to the next round. Only thing that matters is getting to the final four in Phoenix to compete for a championship,” he added.
Pole sitter Ty Majeski rounded out the top three finishers at Richmond on Saturday. Majeski led the field for 73 circuits in his No. 66 Toyota.
Despite fighting hard Saturday, Majeski feels like they’ll have to run up front at Kansas to advance into the next round.
“We really fought hard, but we really don’t have much to show for it,” said Majeski. “We don’t have much to lose at Kansas now. I know it’s only six points, but I feel like it’s going to take running up front and a win to make it happen.”
He’ll go into Kansas Speedway next month still looking to snag his first career victory.
Grant Enfinger and Corey Heim take home top fives.
The rest of the top 10 included Taylor Gray, Matt Crafton, Christian Eckes, Zane Smith, and Carson Hocevar.
Stewart Friesen (finishing 11th) and Ben Rhodes (finishing 18th and two laps down) were the only two playoff drivers to finish outside the top 10.
The Worldwide Express 250 had only one cation outside of the two scheduled stage breaks. The yellow flew on lap 216 for a two-truck incident in turn one that involved Nick Leitz and Carson Hocevar. Leitz day was done while Hocevar continued.
The series will head next to Kansas Speedway for the Wise Power 200 on September 9th. The event will air live on FS1 and MRN Radio. | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-truck-series-news/72034-ncwts-chandler-smith-wins-worldwide-express-250-at-richmond | 2022-08-14T04:27:29Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-truck-series-news/72034-ncwts-chandler-smith-wins-worldwide-express-250-at-richmond | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
VIDEO: Spirit Airlines agent suspended over fight with customer
IRVING, Texas (WFAA) - A Spirit Airlines agent has been suspended after cell phone video captured a dispute between the agent and a customer, who allegedly called him racial and homophobic slurs.
Thomas Shannon, a professional cinematographer, was at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Thursday waiting to fly to Tanzania, where he is set to work on a documentary. He was at Panda Express when he heard yelling.
“I just dropped my food on the counter, run over as fast as I can, just to see what’s going on,” Shannon said.
Using his cell phone, Shannon captured video of an altercation between a male Spirit Airlines agent and a female customer. He later uploaded the video to Instagram.
The video shows the two yelling at each other before the woman pushes the agent. As another man tries to intervene, the argument escalates, with the woman hitting the agent, who then runs after her and hits her back. Throughout the video, the woman aims racial and homophobic slurs at the agent, who is Black.
“I think we need to have the dialogue of physical violence, safety at the airport, why airports are so dangerous,” Shannon said.
Since the video was uploaded, Spirit Airlines says the agent, who was employed through a local partner company, has been suspended.
As for Shannon, he says his video sparked a lot of discussion online.
“I would just encourage everybody to really have an honest conversation about this video and ask themselves what they would do, what they should do,” he said.
Spirit Airlines says it is aware of the incident and is cooperating with local law enforcement. There is no word yet if any charges will be filed.
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