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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — When Seneca Landry booked a weekend stay through Airbnb for her sister’s bachelorette party earlier this year, the online listing said they would have the entire Rhode Island home to themselves.
But on the final day of their stay in May, after some of the women thought they heard voices coming from the basement of the Providence home, Landry said a man followed her from outside and tried to force his way in.
“He told me, ‘I live in the basement and I need to check the electric meter,'” Landry told WPRI. “I was like, ‘No one lives in the basement — we have the whole house.’ And he started to get irate, accusing me of lying.”
The women said they barricaded themselves in the top part of the home and called the police to report a break-in as he repeatedly tried to open the door. Providence Police Department body-worn camera footage obtained by WPRI shows several officers responding.
The officers opened a window at the back of the home so one of them could crawl through and open a locked door. With guns drawn, the officers moved through the basement area, eventually arriving at a closed door, where they heard voices on the other side.
“Open the door,” one of the officers shouted, as he banged on the door.
“Why do I need to open the door for you?” A woman yelled back. “You don’t have a [expletive] warrant.”
“I don’t need a warrant, someone broke in here,” the officer responded.
“Nobody broke in here!” the woman screamed. “I live here!”
A police report shows the officers later spoke with a property management company, Michie House, listed as working for the homeowner, and they confirmed the basement floor was rented out to a tenant.
But Landry said that information was never disclosed on the Airbnb listing, and the website showed no mention of the basement tenant. The property was listed as being available as an entire home.
“The basement was locked off, and we should trust that we have the house to ourselves and it’s safe,” Landry said.
Michie House and the homeowner didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment. An Airbnb spokesperson said the online booking giant fully refunded Landry after she reported the incident, and the company has since decided to take further action in response to what happened.
“On our platform, we hold our hosts to high standards in terms of providing accurate, quality listings, and when they fall short of those standards, we take appropriate action,” the spokesperson said. “Based on our investigation to date, we have deactivated these listings and are in the process of removing this host from our platform.”
Despite the basement apartment, the property is listed as a single-family home, according to the city assessor’s office. It’s also zoned in a neighborhood where homes must be owner-occupied to be rented out as short-term rentals.
Providence spokesperson Andrew Grande told WPRI that the city’s inspections department had received leases showing the property was no longer a short-term rental. But Airbnb provided a list of links to other online booking platforms that showed the home was still available for rent.
When WPRI attempted to book the property using different dates, some worked and others did not.
“It doesn’t look like anyone is vetting these properties,” Landry said.
Landry and her bachelorette party’s experience is a symptom of what some lawmakers have argued is a largely unregulated and untracked multibillion-dollar industry led by companies such as Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com and others.
For several years, state lawmakers, including Rep. Lauren Carson, D-Newport, have called for the creation of a statewide registry to track short-term rentals, which she argues are businesses and should be treated as such.
“These properties that are engaged with third-party hosting platforms are businesses,” Carson said, adding that law enforcement would have an easier time responding to issues like the one in Providence if they had better information about the properties.
The Rhode Island General Assembly passed a law last year to create a registry, much to the chagrin of third-party platforms, property owners and Gov. Dan McKee, who vetoed the legislation last July.
“I cannot support this bill because it will create additional burden for property owners,” he wrote in his veto message at the time. “Short-term rental concerns, like other property/land use and small business matters, are more effectively addressed at the municipal level.”
In January, the General Assembly voted to override McKee’s veto, with Sen. Dawn Euer, also a Newport Democrat, arguing the short-term rental industry is “thriving,” especially in seaside communities like the one where she lives.
“In places like our districts in Newport, investors have been buying up housing to rent in this way, and the state is not tracking where these businesses are operating,” Euer said at the time. “It’s impossible to ensure safety or compliance with laws when we don’t even know where the rentals are.”
Last month, the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulations issued a set of draft rules to create the registry, which is slated to begin on Oct. 1. According to the rules, each short-term rental would need to register and owners would have to provide details, including contact information, number of rooms for rent and the intended use of the space.
Every owner would also have to pay a two-year, $50 registration fee for “each property advertised for short-term rental.” DBR currently estimates there are about 3,680 short-term rentals listed across the state, meaning the registry would also generate about $184,000 every two years if every owner complied.
For Landry, she said the stay in Providence was a bad experience that caused her so much anxiety that she missed two days of work.
“We did so many great things, but if you mention my sister’s bachelorette, it’s always going to have that dark cloud,” she said.
Maggie Wayland, a Boston resident who also attended the party, described it as “one of the scariest things that had ever happened.” She hopes action can be taken to prevent such incidents from happening in the future.
“We want to make sure that this doesn’t happen to another bachelorette party,” she said. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/i-live-in-the-basement-airbnb-stay-turns-chaotic-for-bachelorette-party-in-rhode-island/ | 2022-08-18T18:33:33Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/i-live-in-the-basement-airbnb-stay-turns-chaotic-for-bachelorette-party-in-rhode-island/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The title poster of B Unnikrishnan’s next starring megastar Mammootty is out. Titled ‘Christopher’, the movie will be a thriller and has been taglined ‘Biography of a vigilant cop’. The title hints that Mammootty, who plays Christopher, is a cop.
The poster of the film looks promising as it shows the protagonist holding a gun. ‘Christopher’ will mark director Unnikrishnan first collaboration with Mammootty after a gap of 12 years. Their last film together was Pramani in 2010.
The movie, which went on the floors in July, has a stellar cast, including Amala Paul, Aishwariya Lakshmi, Shine Tom Chacko, Dileesh Pothen, Siddique, Jinu Abraham, among others. Sneha, Vineetha Koshy and Vasanthi are the other characters.
The film will boast of 30 new faces too and will also mark the debut of Tamil actor Vinay Rai into Mollywood. The movie will be shot in Ernakulam, Pooyakootty, Vandiperiyar, among other places.
Uday Krishna has written the script of the film. The cinematography is by Faiz Siddique who earlier worked in ‘Operation Java’. Justin Varghese is composing music for the film while the editing is by Manoj.
Director B Unnikrishnan’s last film was ‘Aarattu’ featuring Mohanlal, which was panned by the audience. | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/08/18/b-unnikrishnan-next-wit-mammootty-titled-christopher.amp.html | 2022-08-18T18:36:21Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/08/18/b-unnikrishnan-next-wit-mammootty-titled-christopher.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Lamborghini Urus is in news not just for its sales but also for being coveted by the rich and the famous. Some of the country’s biggest businessmen and superstars own this expensive Lamborghini model. the latest to join the club is Mollywood actor Fahadh Faasil.
He is only the second Malayalee star to own a Urus, after Prithviraj Sukumaran. The new vehicle has an Alappuzha registration. The ex-showroom price of the vehicle starts at around Rs 3.15 crore. Hailed as a super sports car, this vehicle is one of the fastest SUVs in the world. Built on the MLB Evo platform, the vehicle has a top speed of 305 kmph.
The SUV has a four-litre, twin-turbo, V8 petrol engine. This engine produces 650 bhp of power and 850 Nm of torque. The Urus takes just 3.6 seconds to accelerate from zero to 100 kmph.
Urus, which is also Lamborghini's first SUV, made its global debut in December 2017. The SUV arrived in India in 2018, a year after its launch in the international market. | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/08/18/lamborghini-urus-fahadh-faasil-mollywood-actor-luxury-model.amp.html | 2022-08-18T18:36:33Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/08/18/lamborghini-urus-fahadh-faasil-mollywood-actor-luxury-model.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Lamborghini Urus is in news not just for its sales but also for being coveted by the rich and the famous. Some of the country’s biggest businessmen and superstars own this expensive Lamborghini model. the latest to join the club is Mollywood actor Fahadh Faasil.
He is only the second Malayalee star to own a Urus, after Prithviraj Sukumaran. The new vehicle has an Alappuzha registration. The ex-showroom price of the vehicle starts at around Rs 3.15 crore. Hailed as a super sports car, this vehicle is one of the fastest SUVs in the world. Built on the MLB Evo platform, the vehicle has a top speed of 305 kmph.
The SUV has a four-litre, twin-turbo, V8 petrol engine. This engine produces 650 bhp of power and 850 Nm of torque. The Urus takes just 3.6 seconds to accelerate from zero to 100 kmph.
Urus, which is also Lamborghini's first SUV, made its global debut in December 2017. The SUV arrived in India in 2018, a year after its launch in the international market. | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/08/18/lamborghini-urus-fahadh-faasil-mollywood-actor-luxury-model.html | 2022-08-18T18:36:39Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/08/18/lamborghini-urus-fahadh-faasil-mollywood-actor-luxury-model.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The 182nd Airlift Wing’s recruiting and retention team pose for a group photo in Peoria, Illinois, Aug. 18, 2022. Recruits interested in joining the Illinois Air National Guard can contact them by phone at 800-241-1331. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Lealan Buehrer)
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Behavioral health providers and school administrators discuss school based behavioral health services on Aug. 17 at North Polk Elementary School. Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital is partnering with the Vernon Parish School board to provide a program that will increase access to behavioral health care for military children at the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk, Louisiana.
(Pictured from left: Christina Heather, assistant principal, Brandy Sanders, principal of North Polk Elementary School, Tiffany Franklin-Koch, school liaison officer, JRTC and Fort Polk, Allison Hannah, licensed clinical social worker and Dr. Dr. Patricia Cornelious, chief of child, adolescent and family behavioral health services for BJACH.)
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Battle for final NASCAR Cup Playoff spot takes center stage at Watkins Glen
It would be difficult to imagine more distinct storylines in a single NASCAR race than those present in Sunday’s Go Bowling at the Glen (3 p.m. ET on USA, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
After breaking a 65-race drought on Aug. 7 at Michigan International Raceway, Kevin Harvick goes for his third consecutive Cup victory.
An international field at Watkins Glen International includes former Formula 1 drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Daniil Kvyat, who together made up one tenth of the F1 starting grid in 2020.
Chase Elliott will try to reclaim the title “King of the Road Course” from usurper Tyler Reddick, who has won the last two road course events, at Road America and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course.
Elliott, who has fashioned seven of his 17 career victories on road courses, is all but certain to clinch the Cup Series’ regular season title on Sunday.
The focal point of Sunday’s proceedings, however, will be the continuing saga of Ryan Blaney and Martin Truex Jr., who are battling for the final spot in the Cup Playoffs with two races left in the regular season.
Last Sunday at Richmond Raceway, Blaney used an 11-1 superiority in stage points to increase his lead over Truex to 26 points, despite finishing 10th to Truex’s seventh.
Though Blaney and Truex are second and fourth in the points standings, they occupy the two sides of the Playoff bubble because neither has a win this season, and 15 other drivers do.
On paper, Truex would appear to have a decided edge over Blaney at the Glen. Truex has one victory, seven top fives and 10 top 10s in 15 starts at Watkins Glen. Blaney has posted one top five (fifth in 2019) and two top 10s in five visits to the 2.450-mile, seven-turn circuit in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
NASCAR’s Next Gen car, however, has changed the paradigm. In four road course races this season, Truex has a best finish of seventh at Circuit of The Americas and no other result better than 13th.
“If you look at our season,” Truex said, “the road courses have been our biggest struggle, at Joe Gibbs Racing and Toyota as a whole. I have confidence in what I can do there (at Watkins Glen), but if you don’t have the car to drive, it’s hard to make up for it.”
Both Truex and Blaney can establish a claim to the final Playoff spot by winning one of the final two regular-season races, but so can currently winless drivers below them in the standings.
“It would be disappointing not to make it with the season we’ve had,” Truex said, “but you have to win to get in.”
Both Elliott and Reddick have done their share of winning this season, but Reddick has asserted his dominance at the road courses. Elliott readily concedes that point.
“He’s won the most road course (races) this season, so he’d probably be the obvious choice,” said Elliott, who is 116 points ahead of Blaney in the race for the regular season title. "I just look at the facts. He’s won two of the last however many, so he’s pretty good.”
Though Watkins Glen is a high-speed track, sometimes called the “superspeedway of road courses,” Elliott doesn’t expect the same sort of chaos drivers recently experienced at Indianapolis.
“Entering Turn 1 (at Watkins Glen), it doesn’t ask everyone to be dumb,” Elliott said.
AJ Allmendinger looks to extend road course dominance at the Glen
It would be easy to identify the favorite in Saturday’s Sunoco Go Rewards 200 if it weren’t for the interlopers from NASCAR’s Cup Series.
Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Kyle Larson, Hendrick Motorsports teammate William Byron, Ross Chastain and Cole Custer all are entered in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race (3 p.m. ET on USA, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Nevertheless, the 2.45-mile road course at Watkins Glen International may still be the special province of Xfinity Series leader AJ Allmendinger.
The driver of the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet has won three of the four road course races in the series so far this season—at Circuit of The Americas, Portland, and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course.
Driving for JTG Daugherty Racing in 2014, Allmendinger picked up the first of his two Cup Series victories at The Glen. In three Xfinity Series starts at the track, he finished second all three times (though his runner-up result in 2019 was followed by a disqualification for a ride-height violation).
In 22 Xfinity Series starts on road courses, Allmendinger has posted a remarkable nine victories and 18 top fives. So, if any driver can fend off challenges from the Cup regulars, Allmendinger can.
“Watkins Glen will always be a special place for me,” said Allmendinger, who also is running the Cup race this weekend. “The crowd is always amazing, and the memories from my first Cup win will last forever.
“Ever since they repaved the track (in 2015), it’s been a challenge for me, but with the Next Gen car in the Cup Series, it may be completely different. Hopefully, we will have two really great finishes for the weekend.”
NASCAR Cup Series
Next Race: Go Bowling at The Glen
The Place: Watkins Glen International
The Date: Sunday, August 21
The Time: 3 p.m. ET
The Purse: $6,664,145
TV: USA, 2 p.m. ET
Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio
Distance: 220.5 miles (90 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 20),
Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 40), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 90)
NASCAR Xfinity Series
Next Race: Sunoco Go Rewards 200 at The Glen
The Place: Watkins Glen International
The Date: Saturday, August 20
The Time: 3 p.m. ET
The Purse: $1,159,436
TV: USA, 2:30 p.m. ET
Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio
Distance: 200.9 miles (82 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 20),
Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 40), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 82) | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72159-weekend-preview-watkins-glen-international | 2022-08-18T18:46:21Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72159-weekend-preview-watkins-glen-international | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A busy summer of action at Delta Speedway presented by Valley Strong Credit Union races into round ten on Saturday night. Red hot temperatures and red hot racing await the drivers at the 1/7th mile dirt track in Stockton with four divisions of Micro Sprint racing scheduled.
All seats are general admission, priced at $10 for adults, juniors ages 6-12, seniors, and military are $5, while kids 5 & under are FREE! Pit passes are $20. Tickets can be purchased through MyRacePass or at the gate. Drivers meeting is one hour later due to warm weather at 5:30pm with hot laps and qualifying to follow. Fans who cannot attend can also see flag-to-flag coverage on The Cushion, the speedway’s Pay-Per-View partner this year.
The back-and-forth duel between Stockton’s Nikko Panella and the Torgerson brothers from Medford, Oregon has highlighted an exciting season for competitors in Super 600 and Non-Wing. Despite a sixth-place finish in the Super 600 feature on August 6, Panella preserved a 14-point lead over Ashton Torgerson in the $1,000-to-win championship fight. Ashton’s older brother Austin ranks third followed by Sacramento’s Austin Wood. Back-to-back feature winner Alex Panella of Stockton has advanced to third and will be driving for his third consecutive $500 triumph in Saturday’s 30-lapper.
Ashton Torgerson won the most recent Non-Wing event but Austin Torgerson leads the championship. Austin leads Nikko Panella by 15-points followed by Ashton Torgerson, Brentwood’s Jeffrey Pahule, and Wood. Non-Wing also competes for 30-laps and $500 to the winner on Saturday.
Rancho Murieta’s Lucas Mauldin has accumulated a triple digit point lead in Restricted on the backdrop of triple digit temperatures. Mauldin has snagged six 25-lap Restricted features, which pay a minimum of $300-to-win. 2021 Jr. Sprints champion Brody Rubio of Manteca, Adrianna DeMartini of Brentwood, Kellan Harper of Pleasanton, and Kyle Fernandez of Tracy are the top-five drivers.
Briggs Davis of Manteca leads the youngest drivers in Jr. Sprints by 15-points over Jackson Tardiff of Vacaville. Maya Mauldin of Rancho Murieta, August 6 winner Heston Stepps of Oakdale, and Citrus Heights’ Haven Sherman round out the top-five.
Twin qualifying heat races and a 20-lap feature for $200 to win await the youngest drivers at Delta Speedway.
Courtesy of C&P Promotions, all member drivers in Juniors and Restricted who race at least 12 of 14 events will be eligible for drawings for a new Yamaha engine core and a new PMP chassis 600 frame and body.
Stubborn Rods will offer one custom made fishing rod per month to a randomly selected race winning driver as well.
Delta Speedway Stockton thanks Valley Strong Credit Union, Hoosier Tire, Scully’s Air, Kludt Oil and Propane, Interstate Truck Center, Papé Kenworth, Van De Pol Petroleum, Hostile Wheels, Genova Bakery, Winner’s Bingo, Stubborn Rods, Solari’s Backhoe Service, and PMP Chassis for their support of the 2022 racing season. Race fans are encouraged to check out Dave Royce and Royce Farms Barbeque for the best racing food on the planet. Come thirsty as adult beverages are now available as well! RacingJunk.com is the official classifieds website of Delta Speedway.
For more information on Delta Speedway presented by Valley Strong Credit Union, follow us online at http://www.
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This weekend Grandview Speedway will present two racing programs continuing the 60th season anniversary celebration.
On Saturday, August 20, the racing program will feature the T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds and the T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman in another NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Racing Series double-header starting at 7:30 pm.
Qualifying events will be run in both divisions leading up to the 30-lap T.P. Trailer Modified main event, and the 25-lap T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman feature race.
Pit gates will open at 4 pm. with grandstand gates opening at 5:30 pm. warm-ups will be starting at 6:30 pm. Adult grandstand admission is $18, while children ages 11 and under are admitted free of charge.
Prior to the racing action on Saturday will be the weekly Low Down and Dirty Meet and Greet. This week’s drivers include Modified drivers Ryan Grim and Joe Funk along with Sportsman driver Jesse Landis. The Meet and Greet is held in the main gate area starting at 5 pm. and is a great time for fans to meet the drivers up close, collect some autographs, take photos, and talk racing one on one.
The weekend action will begin on Friday, August 19 when the Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage cars are in action starting at 7 pm. Grandstand admission will be $10 for this event that was added to the schedule to replace an event that was postponed on August 5.
The 52nd annual Freedom 76 Modified Championship is the next big event on the schedule, coming up on Saturday, September 17. Lap sponsorships at $20 per lap are now available by contacting Tina Rogers, Tommy Kramer or Jeff Ahlum at the track on race night. Lap sponsorships are a great way for fans to wish their favorite driver’s good luck in the big race, or for businesses to do some advertising. All lap sponsorships will be read on the public address system each week leading up to and including race night on September 17, as well as a listing in the track program Grandview Groove, and will be posted on social media.
The chase for the 2022-point championships is beginning to wind down, as there are just four weeks of point racing remaining. In the T.P. Trailer Modified division, defending and twelve-time track Champion Craig Von Dohren is currently leading the way by 90 points over Brett Kressley, or basically nine positions during a feature, so it is still quite close. Von Dohren has wins in six-point race events this season, while Kressley, coming off the big $10,000 win in last week’s Forrest Rogers Memorial, has won four times this season and is looking to claim his first point title.
Doug Manmiller looking for his first point title, Jeff Strunk who has claimed ten championships, and Jared Umbenhauer also looking for a first point title, have also reached Victory Lane this season and will be looking to add to their totals on Saturday night. Other top point drivers like Duane Howard, Tim Buckwalter, Ryan Grim, Cory Merkel, Kevin Hirthler, Mike Lisowski, Justin Grim, John Willman, Kevin Graver Jr., and Brad Arnold, along with nearly three dozen other drivers will be in action on Saturday.
Brian Hirthler is the current T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman point leader by 249 points over Dylan Hoch in the chase for the championship. Hirthler, with four wins this season, is a two-time champion having won the title in 2017 and 2020, while Hoch with one win this year, is looking to score his first title at Grandview.
Kyle Smith, Jimmy Leiby and Mike Schneck Jr. are all in contention for the title and are still looking for their first win of the season. They will be joined by other top point drivers Parker Guldin, Cody Manmiller, Dakota Kohler, Ryan Graver along with a host of other drivers this Saturday.
The T. P. Trailer Modified and T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman drivers will be using the final four-point race events of the summer season to prepare for the big Freedom weekend of racing in September. The T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman will compete in the Freedom 38 on Friday, September 16, and the T.P. Trailer Modifieds compete in the 52nd annual Freedom 76 Championship on Saturday, September 17. Race info is available on the track website under the Freedom 76 tab at www.grandviewspeedway.com.
Race teams are reminded that there will be NO tire sales at the racetrack this weekend.
Since the 1960’s, Grandview Speedway has been presenting exciting wheel to wheel NASCAR stock car racing every Saturday Night starting in April and running through September, plus special events. Grandview Speedway is located at 43 Passmore Road, Bechtelsville, Pa. 19505, just off Route 100, ten miles north of Pottstown, Pa.
Information is always available at www.grandviewspeedway.com or on Facebook, or by telephone at 610.754.7688.
UPCOMING EVENTS –
Friday, August 19 – Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage – 7 pm
Saturday, August 20 – T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman - 7:30 pm.
Saturday, August 27 – T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman, Outlaw Racing Series Vintage – 7:30 pm.
Friday, September 2 – Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage – 7 pm
Saturday, September 3 – T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman plus Wingless Super Sportsman – 7:30 pm.
Saturday, September 10 – CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHT - T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman – 7:30 pm.
Friday, September 16 – 9th annual FREEDOM 38 CHAMPIONSHIP for T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman $2000 to win, plus Modified practice – 7:30 pm.
Saturday, September 17 – 52nd annual FREEDOM 76 MODIFIED CHAMPIONSHIP for T.P. Trailer Modifieds – 7 pm.
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HOPKINTON, Mass. (WPRI) — Massachusetts State Police continue to investigate a deadly drunk-driving crash on I-495.
The victim was identified by police Thursday as 72-year-old Samuel Ibikunle of Westborough.
Police said 29-year-old Devin Arroyo of Taunton was driving the wrong way on I-495 North when his van hit Ibikunle’s car head-on around 12:15 a.m. Wednesday.
Ibikunle’s car was then rear-ended by a tractor-trailer driven by a 41-year-old Providence man, who police said was unable to stop in time.
Ibikunle was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Arroyo was uncooperative at the scene and smelled of alcohol, according to police. He was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and later released.
The Providence man was not hurt.
Arroyo appeared in court later on Wednesday on a charge of operating under the influence of alcohol.
“He had three empty bottles of Smirnoff vodka nips, an unopened Smirnoff nip bottle, a hard iced tea can that was empty … these were in the passenger seat of that vehicle,” a prosecutor said in court. “[The] defendant was taken to hospital for evaluation where he continued to be belligerent with officers.”
Arroyo was held on $100,000 bail and ordered not to drive. The judge said if he can post bail, he’ll be put on house arrest with the possibility of still getting a ride to work.
Court records show Arroyo was also on probation for cases out of two different courts.
Police said additional charges may be filed pending the outcome of the investigation.
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ATTLEBORO, Mass. (WPRI) — A woman was sentenced to prison Wednesday for stabbing another woman to death nearly two years ago.
Kayla Cantu, 22, admitted to fatally stabbing 28-year-old Kimberly Duphily in September 2020, according to the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office.
Cantu was initially indicted on a murder charge, but that was lowered to manslaughter before she pleaded guilty, the DA’s office said.
She was sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison followed by three years of probation.
Prosecutors said the stabbing stemmed from a fight over stolen money and drugs at an apartment on Leroy Street.
Cantu ran off and encountered a police officer working detail on Bicknell Street, whom she told she had been stabbed, according to prosecutors.
When first responders arrived at the apartment, they found Duphily’s husband and others rendering aid to Duphily, who had been stabbed twice. She was rushed to Sturdy Memorial Hospital where she was later pronounced dead.
Duphily’s husband was also rushed to the hospital.
Cantu did suffer knife wounds to her hands that required stitches, prosecutors said, but he told the court that was likely due to the knife slipping in her hand. | https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/se-mass/woman-to-serve-up-to-15-years-in-prison-for-deadly-attleboro-stabbing/ | 2022-08-18T18:52:15Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/se-mass/woman-to-serve-up-to-15-years-in-prison-for-deadly-attleboro-stabbing/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Andor Villain Actors Tease Their Characters’ Backgrounds
Disney+’s Andor series will show the Empire at the height of its powers, which meets we can expect to meet several new villains during the first season’s 10-week run. Chiefest among these are Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) and Syril Karn (Kyle Soller), two Imperial officers who, even though they serve a common master in Emperor Palpatine, have wildly different sets of ambitions. In a new interview with Total Film (via GamesRadar+), both Gough and Soller discussed what makes their characters tick. They also shared what these villains hope to achieve as the series moves along.
Much like Moses Ingram’s Reva in Obi-Wan Kenobi, Gough’s character will also face some resistance when trying to work her way up the Imperial ladder. In yet another case of art imitating life, it would appear that women are treated like second-class citizens within the Empire’s ranks. That’s why Dedra must work harder than any of her fellow officers to be taken seriously.
“As a woman, in that world, for her to advance in any way, she has to be like 10 times better than anyone else in that room,” explained Gough. “And that felt really relevant to everything we’re going through right now. […] It’s a clever thing to do, to show you how hard she has to work. It kind of brings you in to feel cheerleader-y for her – and then you’ll be like, ‘She’s a psycho!’ So be careful supporting her…”
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Gough also teased her face-to-face interactions with Cassian Andor, hinting that Dedra is “not particularly fond” of Diego Luna’s hero. But at least she isn’t “obsessed” with the Rebel recruit like Syril, an inspector stationed on the planet Ferrix. According to Soller, his character has no time for such upstarts, instead preferring to crush them by any means necessary.
“Syril is a very intense, determined character who believes he’s destined for great things,” revealed Soller. “One of those great things is upholding justice at all costs; another is squashing any signs of dissent or rebellious activity, which obviously relates to our hero.”
Andor will premiere its first three episodes on Disney+ on September 21.
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OTTUMWA, Iowa (WHO) — The Ottumwa Police Department arrested a man after he allegedly shot his wife with a crossbow early Wednesday morning.
The police department responded to a report of a woman who had been shot with a crossbow at 1:13 a.m. at a home in the 300 block of Evergreen Street. Emergency crews found Lillian Dennison, 68, with minor injuries and transported her to a local hospital.
Officers from the Ottumwa Police Department and Wapello County Sheriff’s Department arrested George Edward Dennison, 68, around 10 a.m. Wednesday near the wooded area around Evergreen Street and Mable Street.
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(MASS APPEAL) – A classic duo, cookies and milk. Well this tasty dessert is doing more than you would think to tackle food insecurities for local families. Square One and PeoplesBank have partnered together for Slam Dunk for Sqaure One, a Cookies and Milk fundraiser.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, BlueHalo expands its Albuquerque, New Mexico campus–opening the doors to its new 73,000-square-foot research and development, manufacturing, and office space within Sandia Science and Technology Park (SS&TP). Local, state, and federal partners were on hand for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the occasion alongside BlueHalo executives and team members.
"We are fortunate to have strong partnerships with leaders from across New Mexico and the local Albuquerque community as we partner to transform the state into a hub of space technology," said Jonathan Moneymaker, BlueHalo Chief Executive Officer. "These partnerships–along with our investments in leading facilities and a strong workforce–will enable BlueHalo to not only meet the demand for current products and programs but to collaborate, innovate, and develop our nation's next technological breakthroughs critical to National Security."
The opening of the new facility comes as BlueHalo announced last month an additional lease of the neighboring 1300 Eubank SE property, bringing the company's total Albuquerque footprint to over 200,000 square feet. This state-of-the-art campus will accommodate continued technology innovation and rapid transition to manufacturing for BlueHalo products across multiple mission areas, including Advanced Radio Frequency (RF) Systems; Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) and Directed Energy; Laser Communications; and Space-Qualified Electronics and Systems, such as Stabilized Precision Optics and Tracking (SPOT) products.
"It is no accident that New Mexico has become the national leader in a wide range of new and emerging defense technologies. The success of homegrown companies like BlueHalo is the direct result of strategic investments over many years in the sustained success of program management and acquisition entities housed within our state's national defense labs and military installations," said U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM). "BlueHalo's rapid growth in particular—as evidenced by this brand-new, dedicated manufacturing facility—is emblematic of how successful we have been in building a thriving local innovation ecosystem both inside and outside the fence line at Kirtland Air Force Base and in close partnership with the Air Force Research Lab. I am so proud to see how far this work has come, and I commend everyone who has gone above and beyond to ensure our service members are equipped with the best defense technologies in the world."
BlueHalo currently employs 300 professionals on its SS&TP campus, including researchers, engineers, hardware and software developers, and security and intelligence experts. The new facility will create more than 70 additional jobs with an average salary of $90,000.
"Blue Halo's expansion at the Sandia Science and Technology Park demonstrates again that New Mexico's partnerships can help drive innovation and develop vital, breakthrough technologies," said New Mexico Economic Development Secretary Alicia J. Keyes. "The State is proud to support this company and I congratulate Blue Halo as it moves forward creating 70 new jobs, bringing its skilled Albuquerque workforce to almost 400 employees."
Since BlueHalo first announced its plan to renovate the Gibson SE facility in March, company leaders have worked with commercial realtor David Hill of NAI SunVista and the architecture firm of Dekker/Perich/Sabatini along with construction consultant David Doyle and Jeff Slopek and Matt Martinez of Klinger Constructors, LLC to transform the facility. In addition to expanded office space, the new location features highly-equipped research and development labs, a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF), and 37,000 square feet of high-bay manufacturing space.
"The new BlueHalo facility and Albuquerque expansion is a testament to the technology innovation and dedication of our employees, partners, and customers," said Katie Selbe, BlueHalo Chief Operating Officer. "The expanded capacity we gain, combined with our firm commitment to the development of inspired engineering innovation, people, and mission will poise BlueHalo to continue leading the transformation and facilitate the delivery of new technologies across multiple mission areas of national defense."
"The future of directed energy and aerospace will be built in Albuquerque," said Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller. "A lot of folks across government, business, and throughout this city's talented workforce have worked hard to ensure that. BlueHalo's continuing investment in this community is bringing more high-quality research and manufacturing jobs and it is another clear indicator that Albuquerque has the infrastructure and talent to lead in this high-growth industry."
BlueHalo is purpose-built to provide industry-leading capabilities in the domains of Space Superiority, Space Technology, Directed Energy/Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS), Autonomy, Advanced Radio Frequency (RF), Cyber, and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT). BlueHalo focuses on inspired engineering to develop, transition, and field next-generation capabilities to solve the most complex challenges of our customers' critical missions and reestablish our national security posture in the near-peer contested arena. www.bluehalo.com
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Reimagines the Delivery of Community Health
MIAMI, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Care Resource, a South Florida-based nonprofit and Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), announces the opening of its new Midtown Miami location at 3510 Biscayne Blvd. According to Care Resource's CEO, Rick Siclari, "Our new health center significantly expands access to health services and transforms the delivery of vital health care and social services for Miami's rapidly growing populations."
Care Resource's new and innovative approach toward health care is reflected in the design of its Midtown Miami health center. "Visiting your doctor can often feel cold, impersonal, and stressful. We designed our health center to be inviting and welcoming for all our patients. This warm and relaxing atmosphere removes the stress and lets our patients know they're in good hands," Siclari explains. "The aesthetics support comfort with open spaces, large murals and artwork, and cozy colors that feel more at home, which contributes to improved physical and emotional wellness." In addition, the new health center incorporates Miami Modernist architecture (MiMo) - a regional style of architecture that developed in South Florida and can be observed along the Biscayne Boulevard corridor.
As the gap for health care access widens each year for underserved populations, this health center is poised to further serve those individuals that might otherwise be lost to care. Once the Midtown Miami health center reaches its capacity, it is estimated to provide medical and pediatric care to more than 7,000 individuals with over 21,000 annual visits. Additionally, the new dental care services are estimated to see a substantial increase.
Additional services include behavioral health, HIV prevention and linkage, social support services, and access to healthy food and nutritional counseling through the health center's Food for Life food pantry and nutritional center. These resources complement an array of comprehensive programs that address key social determinants of health, including housing assistance.
As an accredited Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), all the health center's services are delivered in one location and raise the bar in defining high-quality care. "This health center goes a long way toward building a healthier community. When people have access to affordable and high-quality primary care, they won't delay seeking assistance for health concerns, thus avoiding an emergency, and enjoying better health outcomes," states Siclari.
For almost four decades, Care Resource has provided affordable, high-quality healthcare and support services to the most under-resourced and diverse medically underserved populations. As one of the largest Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) in South Florida, Care Resource has four locations throughout Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
As a safety net for thousands of low-income, uninsured, and underinsured individuals, Care Resource's patients reflect the unique diversity of the local area, including people of color, women, children, adolescents, adults, veterans, and others, and maintains a longstanding commitment to providing services for the LGBTQIA+ community and those living with HIV. Care Resource's doors are open to all in need, regardless of the ability to pay.
For more information visit www.careresource.org/midtown-miami-health-center
For media inquiries, please contact Jonathan Welsh, Associate Director of Communications and Development at jwelsh@careresource.org.
Care Resource is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization and a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) with four locations in Midtown Miami, Little Havana, Miami Beach, and Fort Lauderdale. The health center provides comprehensive health and support services to address the full health care needs of South Florida's pediatric, adolescent, and adult populations.
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The company announces initial investment of $9.5 million and an estimated $14 million expected over 5 years
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Conterra Ultra Broadband Holdings, Inc. ("Conterra Networks") today announced its continued investment in fiber network growth across Tom Green and Brown counties with its initial investment of $9.5 million and an estimated $14 million expected over 5 years.
Conterra designs and builds its 100% fiber network with symmetrical service, speeds of up to 10 Gbps, and 99.99% network reliability. The local team manages the all-fiber network, which is now available to approximately 3,646 businesses and growing in Tom Green and Brown counties.
"San Angelo is a community on the move. Being at the cutting edge of communication technology and a leader in infrastructure deployment is a big part of our growth strategy," said Walt Koenig, President and CEO of San Angelo Chamber of Commerce. "Conterra Networks is an incredible partner whose investments in San Angelo are making this strategy a reality."
Businesses on Knickerbocker Road will soon have access to Conterra's network. Through Conterra's estimated $14 million investment, Conterra is dedicating $1.4 million of that to Knickerbocker Road. Construction activity has begun and fiber services will be available to approximately 255 local businesses. Customers throughout the community may now sign up for presale as construction continues on Knickerbocker Road.
"Being a part of the San Angelo and Brownwood communities has been fantastic," said Craig Gunderson, President and CEO of Conterra Networks. "We are truly grateful for the outstanding reception we have received. Toward that end, we are now extending our network along Knickerbocker to reach even more businesses."
The expansion is part of the company's growing network infrastructure across the United States. To date, Conterra Networks has 13,250 fiber miles, 2,700 schools served, and over 7,500 on-net locations.
To learn more about Conterra Networks and the expansion efforts in Tom Green and Brown counties, visit www.conterra.com.
Founded in 2001, and now operating 13,250 fiber miles, Conterra Networks is one of the largest remaining independent broadband infrastructure companies in the United States based on its optical fiber and fixed wireless network assets and annual recurring revenues. The company is owned by affiliates of APG and Fiera, along with significant participation by the company's senior management team. For more information about Conterra Networks, please visit www.conterra.com.
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Attorneys earn Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch honors
HOUSTON, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Four attorneys from the Houston-based litigation boutique Bissinger, Oshman, Williams & Strasburger LLP, have earned recognition among the nation's top lawyers.
Name partners David Bissinger, Jason Williams, and John Strasburger were selected to the 2023 Best Lawyers in America legal guide, with associate Erin Bullard recognized on the companion Ones to Watch listing.
Messrs. Bissinger, Williams, and Strasburger, along with Ms. Bullard, were all honored for their commercial litigation practices. Mr. Strasburger earned additional recognition in the areas of bankruptcy litigation and mass tort defense.
Mr. Bissinger represents clients in litigation related to energy and technology matters, securities, trade secrets and employment covenants, executive compensation, corporate fiduciary, banking, and real estate. He also serves as an arbitrator in commercial disputes. His work has also been recognized by Texas Super Lawyers and America's Top 100 High Stakes Litigators.
Mr. Williams' practice focuses on energy, corporate fiduciary, securities, and construction litigation, and he also has experience in mergers and acquisitions litigation. He has also earned Texas Super Lawyers recognition. A former chairman of the Houston Bar Association's Securities Litigation and Arbitration Section and co-chair of the LegalLine Committee, he also serves on the board of Houston Achievement Place.
Mr. Strasburger has unique experience in complex commercial disputes involving private equity, trade secrets and employment covenants, and trading and supply-contract matters. His practice also includes corporate-governance matters. He has handled banking, real estate, and construction litigation, successfully defending numerous catastrophic tort cases and litigated related insurance-coverage disputes arising from these cases.
Ms. Bullard represents corporate clients and individuals in a wide range of complex civil litigation, including claims of covenants not to compete, trade secrets, financial fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, fraudulent transfer, and negligence. Her work has also been recognized by Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars.
The oldest peer-review attorney guide in the country, Best Lawyers® also is among the most respected. Selection is made by the Best Lawyers research team, with decisions based in part upon feedback from lawyers within the same geographical region with a shared practice focus. Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch recognition is reserved for attorneys who have been in private practice for five to nine years.
About Bissinger, Oshman, Williams & Strasburger
Bissinger, Oshman, Williams & Strasburger LLP is a Houston-based business trial and transaction firm focused on providing impactful, cost-effective solutions to complex disputes and transactions requiring careful attention, extensive experience, and a high level of sophistication. For more information, visit https://www.bowslaw.com.
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TRENTON, N.J., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The New Jersey Propane Gas Association welcomes an overdue discussion of looming consumer costs anticipated from New Jersey's Energy Master Plan (EMP). Not surprisingly, the Brattle Group's study, accepted by the BPU August 17, relies on key assumptions and omissions to suggest, erroneously, that the EMP will cost consumers only a little bit more, compared to their current energy bills.
Yet, by their own admission, the Brattle study omits any discussion of capital costs for equipment conversions, building retrofits and other "up-front" costs. These costs are huge for all classes of customers but conveniently ignored in the Brattle study.
The report also assumes significant new savings from energy efficiency and conservation efforts, as if customers are wasting expensive energy today, and can afford even more up-front costs.
Then there's the assumption that natural gas price increases will gallop far more than electricity increases by 2030, partly because of state-mandated conversions away from fossil fuels. So the state will help to cause the gas rate increases that will allegedly justify electric conversions. Of course, there's no discussion of the ratepayer costs of wind or solar farms which don't exist yet, their transmission lines, substations and distribution systems, not to mention the continued reliance on nuclear plants whose state-approved subsidies will expire, and gas-fired peaking units.
Lower-income customers might be spared some impacts because more state subsidies might be available to cover the huge costs of conversion and operation of electric appliances.
But, not to worry, customers can still keep their gas-fired cooking and non-heating equipment.
And, the cost projections are based on customers served by South Jersey Gas and Atlantic City Electric, neither of which serves the majority of New Jersey homeowners, and neither of which has the highest rates in New Jersey. New Jersey's overall electric rates are already among the highest in the country, and the Master Plan will do nothing to ease the burden.
And finally, the report suggests that the state will save $1.7 billion due to lower greenhouse gas emissions, and, in the same section, notes this estimate was never actually calculated for the study.
New Jerseyans have been waiting since the Energy Master Plan's 2019 update to learn what it will actually cost. With this latest study, we're no closer to finding out, and it's unlikely to be only a little bit more.
NJPGA is the statewide trade association representing propane distribution and service companies who serve more than 120,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers who rely on propane for their energy needs including space heating, water heating, cooking, recreational uses, manufacturing processes and transportation.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical device company Theragen is pleased to announce the issuance of a U.S. Patent acknowledging its innovative approach to the development of the ActaStim-S Spine Fusion Bone Growth Stimulator system.
The first new Spine Fusion Stimulator on the market in decades, ActaStim-S blends clinically proven therapeutic stimulation with modern design and a data-rich digital health platform. The system not only promotes healing, it encourages patient compliance, engagement, and informed dialogue with healthcare providers during the critical — and lengthy — post-operative fusion process.
"Spinal fusion is a healing process, often characterized as a race to achieve solid fusion before failure of the implanted hardware," says co-inventor and Theragen CEO Chris McAuliffe. "Electrical stimulation is a clinically proven, safe and effective post-operative adjunct therapy that can help patients win that race, however its clinical effectiveness requires regular use over several months.
"That's why we've taken a user-centric approach, designing a more wearable device that also offers a digital health component that gives patients the unique opportunity to engage in, follow, and truly impact their own recovery."
COO, VP of R&D, and co-inventor Richard Pearce explains further: "The system includes a remarkably discreet, unobtrusive wearable unit that is very well received by patients. It includes utilization tracking, on-board activity sensing, Bluetooth smartphone connectivity, and an intuitive app that helps patients visualize their progress over time.
"The essence of this new U.S. Patent (#11,394,919) is focused on ensuring that this connectivity does not interfere with ease of use — and that data collection and transfer can happen quickly and effectively." Learn more about Theragen's user-centric approach in Pearce's recent Med Device Online article, 3 Lessons Learned Designing Our Digital Health App.
Theragen, Inc. is a leader in the development and manufacture of non-invasive, electrical stimulation DME products that deliver therapeutic energy for healing and empower patients to play an active role in their recovery. We're committed to continuous innovation and expanding our reach to help improve outcomes for more patients. To learn more, please visit theragen.com.
Contact: Richard Pearce, COO/VP R&D
Phone: 901-634-0544
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It’s officially pumpkin spice season and this year, Dunkin’ is taking it up a notch with a product that is a bit outside the chain’s typical realm of coffee and doughnuts. In collaboration with Goldfish, the two brands are bringing a new fall-flavored snack to the pumpkin spice scene: Goldfish Dunkin’ Pumpkin Spice Grahams.
The new graham treats feature popular autumnal flavors, like pumpkin, doughnut glaze, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. They’re still shaped like fish and will be stocked alongside the other Goldfish crackers in stores nationwide starting Sept. 1.
They could be enjoyed as a standalone snack, or paired with a pumpkin spice coffee drink. They’d also be a cute addition to fall desserts, like arranged on top of spice cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.
If you’d rather enjoy your pumpkin spice in actual coffee, Dunkin’s fall menu is now available and includes the Pumpkin Spice Signature Latte, Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew and a Nutty Pumpkin Coffee, which blends iced coffee with a pumpkin spice swirl, a hazelnut flavor shot and cream.
You’ll also find a variety of fall-inspired Starbucks products on store shelves, including pumpkin spice cold brew concentrate, pumpkin spice-flavored creamers and pumpkin spice-flavored coffee.
Starbucks is even offering two new fall coffee treats this year: pumpkin cream nitro cold brew and salted caramel mocha-flavored coffee, which combines mocha flavor with sweet, salty caramel notes.
Non-coffee pumpkin spice treats you’ll find this fall include the return of Pumpkin Spice Cheerios and Pumpkin Spice Oreos (which are back for the first time since 2017!).
The golden Oreos have a pumpkin spice-flavored creme, so they’ll make a sweet and seasonal addition to back-to-school lunches and fall celebrations. Or try dunking them in some pumpkin spice coffee for an extra dose of fall!
Are you a fan of pumpkin spice goodies?
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Checkout Simplemost for additional stories. | https://www.fox17online.com/new-goldfish-dunkin-collaboration-pumpkin-spice-grahams | 2022-08-18T19:09:34Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/new-goldfish-dunkin-collaboration-pumpkin-spice-grahams | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A judge considering whether the Department of Justice is compelled to release additional documents following last week’s search at President Donald Trump’s resort home in Florida ruled portions of the documents can be made public. Scripps and several other major media companies motioned last week to have the documents released.
Last week, the Department of Justice, with the consent of Trump’s legal team, released the search warrant and inventory. The warrant indicated that the DOJ was investigating three possible crimes involving classified documents leaving the White House and being stored at Mar-a-Lago. The inventory confirmed that investigators seized 11 boxes of classified documents, some considered top secret.
The DOJ expressed concerns that releasing additional documents would jeopardize its investigation.
Judge Bruce Reinhart said a redacted version of the affidavit can be released. The judge added that there are portions of the affidavit that can be released without jeopardizing the investigation.
"I'm not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed based on the record he has now,” he said, according to CNN.
The judge gave the DOJ a week to submit its redactions.
Generally, search warrants are sealed during ongoing investigations. Affidavits are even more protected as they could indicate the rationale behind the search warrant.
Attorney General Merrick Garland argued that because Trump had confirmed the search publicly and the immense public interest in the case, the public should examine the search warrant.
But going one step further by releasing the affidavits and supporting documents was a step too far for the DOJ.
"The redactions necessary to mitigate harms to the integrity of the investigation would be so extensive as to render the remaining unsealed text devoid of meaningful content, and the release of such a redacted version would not serve any public interest," the DOJ argued to Reinhart. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/judge-partially-denies-doj-request-for-trump-search-documents-to-remain-sealed | 2022-08-18T19:10:10Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/judge-partially-denies-doj-request-for-trump-search-documents-to-remain-sealed | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — A Georgia elderly woman who went missing for four days is back home with her family, all thanks to a toddler.
The Coweta County Sheriff's Office issued a missing person's report on Wednesday for 82-year-old Nina Lipscomb, who went missing on Aug. 9. According to the report, deputies searched the area Lipscomb, who has Alzheimer's, was last seen, but she wasn't located.
That's where a toddler named Ethan comes in.
On Friday, the almost 2-year-old was outside with his mom, Brittany Moore, chasing bubbles around. When his mom noticed that something in the nearby woods was catching his attention when he ran towards their fence, CBS affiliate WGCL-TV reported.
At first, she couldn't see what Ethan was looking at, who had pointed to and said, "feet," Moore told the news outlet. But when she crouched down, she noticed a pair of feet.
Moore called for help, and when first responders arrived, they realized the person Ethan had found was Lipscomb, the news outlet reported.
On Aug. 12, the sheriff's office announced that Lipscomb had been found alive. The authorities said she was "conscious and alert" and was transported to a hospital for evaluation. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/missing-82-year-old-woman-found-thanks-to-toddler-chasing-bubbles | 2022-08-18T19:10:16Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/missing-82-year-old-woman-found-thanks-to-toddler-chasing-bubbles | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Frustrated that his congregation didn't buy him a luxury watch, a pastor in Missouri called them "poor, broke, busted and disgusted" during a recent sermon.
According to The Washington Post and NBC News, a video clip of the Aug. 7 sermon posted on TikTok showed Rev. Carlton Funderburke of the Church at the Well in Kansas City telling his congregation he was upset they weren't "honoring" him with a Movado watch.
“That’s how I know you still poor, broke, busted and disgusted, because of how you been honoring me,” Funderburke said in the video, according to the news outlets. “I’m not worth your McDonald’s money? I’m not worth your Red Lobster money? I ain’t worth your St. John Knit — y’all can’t afford it nohow. I ain’t worth y’all Louis Vuitton? I ain’t worth your Prada? I’m not worth your Gucci?”
He later informed them during the sermon that the watch could be bought at Sam's Club.
"And y'all know I asked for one last year. Here it is all the way in August, and I still ain’t got it," he said in the clip, the news outlets reported. "Y'all ain’t said nothing. Let me kick down the door and talk to my cheap sons and daughters."
According to the news outlets, the video was posted by the digital media company The Kansas City Defender.
On Tuesday, The Church at the Well posted a video of Funderburke apologizing for his "inexcusable" remarks.
"Though there is context behind the content of the clip, no context will suffice to explain the hurt and anguish caused by my words," Funderburke said.
Funderburke added that he has privately apologized to the church. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/missouri-pastor-apologizes-after-calling-congregation-cheap-for-not-buying-him-luxury-watch | 2022-08-18T19:10:22Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/missouri-pastor-apologizes-after-calling-congregation-cheap-for-not-buying-him-luxury-watch | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NBC News correspondent Richard Engel revealed Thursday that his six-year-old son has died.
"Our beloved son Henry passed away. He had the softest blue eyes, an easy smile and a contagious giggle," Engel posted on Twitter. "We always surrounded him with love and he returned it, and so much more."
Engel documented his son's journey with Rett syndrome, a genetic neurological disorder that causes developmental delays. In March, he posted that his son had "taken a turn for the worse."
Months later, however, Engel posted a video of his son appearing to make progress.
"Henry was able to briefly support himself in a seated position during physio for the first time in a long time," Engel said. "Go Henry!"
Texas Children's Hospital, where Henry was being treated, posted a tribute to the six-year-old on Thursday.
"His loving and endearing smile, and the way he connected with his eyes, stole my heart from the time I met him," said Dr. Huda Zoghbi. "His quiet fight against this terrible disease was incredible." | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/nbc-news-richard-engel-announces-death-of-6-year-old-son | 2022-08-18T19:10:29Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/nbc-news-richard-engel-announces-death-of-6-year-old-son | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SUMMIT COUNTY, Utah — A Salt Lake City man said he’s grateful to be alive today thanks to a group of off-duty police officers who saved him from drowning.
Doug Merrill had a day off from work so he decided to spend it kayaking alone on the Jordanelle Reservoir. He said he was nowhere near shore when all of a sudden, his blood sugar level plummeted.
“I just kind of blanked out and tipped my kayak,” he said.
Next thing he knew, he was in the lake, swallowing water. His life jacket was on the kayak and he was losing his strength to stay afloat.
“I saw them and was just barely able to keep my head up,” said Merrill.
What he saw was a group of off-duty Homeless Resource officers with the South Salt Lake Police Department on a boat.
“They were just enjoying a day on the lake and I just happened to be so lucky there,” Merrill said.
The officers were able to pull him to safety and get him a first aid kit to get his blood level back on track.
“I thanked them right off the bat. I’m like, ‘You guys have no idea how close that was,’” Merrill said.
Merrill was able to reunite with the officers who saved him. He wrote them a letter, expressing his gratitude.
The South Salt Lake Police Department posted about the rescue on the department’s Facebook page.
“We are extremely proud of our officers for the exceptional service they provide to the community while on and off-duty,” said the post.
Merrill said next time he goes back on the water he’ll be more careful.
“I know I’ll never take the chance again with not wearing the gear,” he said. “They definitely saved my life. Without a doubt.”
This article was written by Emily Tencer and Melanie Porter for KSTU. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/utah-man-suffering-medical-emergency-saved-by-off-duty-officers | 2022-08-18T19:10:47Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/utah-man-suffering-medical-emergency-saved-by-off-duty-officers | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Covid Scotland: Confirmed coronavirus deaths rise
Confirmed or suspected coronavirus deaths in Scotland rose in the week to Sunday, according to the latest figures.
Data from National Records of Scotland (NRS) showed 66 deaths were registered that mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate in the week to August 14, an increase of six deaths from the previous week.
As of Sunday, 15,491 deaths have been registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.
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Of those who died, 49 were aged 75 or older, 12 were aged 65 to 74, and five were under 65.
Fifty of the deaths were in hospitals, ten were in care homes, and six were at home or a non-institutional setting.
Pete Whitehouse, NRS director of statistical services, said: “The latest figures show that last week there were 66 deaths where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate. This is six more deaths than the previous week.
“People living in the most deprived areas were 2.3 times as likely to die with Covid-19 as those in the least deprived areas.
“The size of this gap slowly widened over the period of the pandemic but has narrowed since January 2022, when the gap was 2.5.
“The number of deaths from all causes registered in Scotland in this week was 1,126, which is 112, or 11%, more than the five-year average.”
Of those who died in the week to Sunday, 27 were female and 39 were male.
Between December 2020 and the end of July 2022, there were nine deaths where the underlying cause of death was reported as being due to adverse effects of Covid-19 vaccines, with none occurring in the last month. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/health/coronavirus/covid-scotland-confirmed-coronavirus-deaths-rise-3810745 | 2022-08-18T19:12:28Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/health/coronavirus/covid-scotland-confirmed-coronavirus-deaths-rise-3810745 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Alfa Romeo Tonale price and specifications confirmed ahead of September launch date
Full details of Italian hybrid rival to BMW X1, Audi Q3 and Volvo XC40 announced as order books open
Alfa Romeo has revealed pricing and specification details for its new premium compact SUV, the Tonale.
Going head-to-head with the likes of the BMW X1, Audi Q3 and Volvo XC40, Alfa’s first hybrid will start at just under £40,000. Order books are open now, with first deliveries due in UK showrooms next month.
Sitting beneath the Italian carmaker’s Stelvio SUV, the Tonale will be available in three specifications: Speciale, Ti and Veloce.
The Speciale, which will only be available at the Tonale’s launch, starts at £38,595 and includes a 10.25-inch touchscreen infotainment system with sat nav, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and wireless smartphone charging. Additional standard kit includes automatic wipers, electric mirrors and dual-zone air conditioning.
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Across the Tonale range, an electric tailgate, a reversing camera, front and rear parking sensors, keyless entry, automatic headlamps with dusk sensor and automatic high-beam, electric folding and heated exterior mirrors, a six-speaker sound system and wireless charging pad, plus safety tech including forward collision warning, traffic sign recognition and adaptive cruise control are all fitted as standard.
Priced from £39,995, the Ti adds a bespoke exterior design with a chrome front-grille bezel and gloss-black inserts, mirror caps and wheel caps. Eighteen-inch alloys are also standard. The cabin is fitted with black cloth upholstery, plus there’s a leather steering wheel.
The range-topping Veloce, which starts at £42,495, again has different styling altogether, with matt-black inserts, privacy glass, a darker front bezel and 1inch alloys. And while there are further improvements in the cabin, including black-and-red Alcantara upholstery, plus aluminium pedals and gearshift paddles, the most noticeable difference is an improved ride. The Veloce is fitted with dual-stage valve suspension as standard.
Power for all Tonale models comes from Alfa Romeo’s first hybrid powertrain, a 157bhp, four-cylinder turbocharged 1.5-litre petrol engine mated to a 48V electric motor and a small battery. Power is sent to the front wheels via a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/lifestyle/cars/alfa-romeo-tonale-price-and-specifications-confirmed-ahead-of-september-launch-date-3807584 | 2022-08-18T19:12:43Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/lifestyle/cars/alfa-romeo-tonale-price-and-specifications-confirmed-ahead-of-september-launch-date-3807584 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter to exit
Brian Stelter, the host of CNN's longtime media analysis show, "Reliable Sources" is leaving the network, sources told Axios. His last show will be Sunday, Aug. 21. After that, CNN will cancel the program.
Why it matters: Reliable Sources is one of CNN's longest-running programs. The show debuted in 1993, just at the beginning of the cable news era.
- Stelter is one of CNN's most prolific on-air personalities when it comes to digital reporting. He, alongside CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy, author one of the industry's most authoritative media newsletters.
- The show's staff has been laid off but the Reliable Sources newsletter will continue, sources tell Axios.
- In addition to his weekly Sunday program, Stelter briefly hosted a daily weekly streaming media show "Reliable Sources Daily," for CNN's now-defunct streaming service, CNN+.
Catch up quick: Stelter came to Reliable Sources in 2013 after five years as a media reporter with The New York Times.
- He was hired by then-CNN president Jeff Zucker to replace Howard Kurtz, a longtime media critic who left CNN in 2013 to host a rival media criticism show for Fox News.
- Stelter was chosen to host the program after a rotation of various media journalists auditioned for the part. His deep rolodex of sources factored into his selection.
- Stelter rose to prominence in the media industry after selling the TV analysis blog that he started in college, TVNewser, to Mediabistro, which later became a part of Adweek.
- His expertise in the business of television was made evident in his 2013 book about the drama of the morning television news business 'Top of the Morning," which years later inspired Apple's streaming drama "The Morning Show." Stelter served as a consulting producer on the show.
What they're saying: “We are proud of what Brian and his team accomplished over the years, and we’re confident their impact and influence will long outlive the show,” said Amy Entelis, executive vice president at CNN Worldwide, who called Stelter an "impeccable broadcaster."
- “CNN will end its Reliable Sources program on Sunday, August 21st. As a result, Brian Stelter will leave the company," a spokesperson said. "We appreciate his contributions to the network and wish him well as he embarks on new endeavors.”
The big picture: The show cancellation comes amid sweeping changes at CNN.
- CNN's new boss, Chris Licht, has been evaluating whether personalities and programming that grew polarizing during the Trump era, could adapt to the network's new priority to be less partisan.
What to watch: Where Stelter lands.
Disclosure: This author worked at CNN with Stelter on Reliable Sources in 2013. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/18/brian-stelter-cnn-exits | 2022-08-18T19:13:27Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/18/brian-stelter-cnn-exits | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
One small change could help better diagnose diabetes
Latino, Black and Asian adults are more likely to have diabetes at lower body mass indexes than non-Hispanic white adults, suggesting doctors should lower the threshold for testing.
The big picture: The estimated rate of undiagnosed diabetes among Latino adults is 4.4%, compared to 2.7% for white non-Hispanics, CDC data shows.
- For Black and Asian adults it's 4.7% and 5.4%, respectively.
State of play: Senate Republicans earlier this month blocked a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act that would have capped insulin prices for people with private insurance.
What to know: The national recommendations for when to test for type 2 diabetes — starting regularly for someone 35 years old who is overweight or obese — reflect mostly studies with white participants, researchers in a recent study say.
- Instead of using a body mass index of 25 kg/m2 as the marker for getting tested, the study’s authors recommend screening Black and Hispanic Americans starting at 18.5 kg/m2, and Asian Americans at 20 kg/m2.
What they’re saying: “Fixing the health disparities for Americans with diabetes will require a range of strategic investments in health care and efforts to reduce structural inequities,” study author Rahul Aggarwal, a cardiology fellow at Harvard, said in a news release.
- “Making screening more equitable is a place to start.”
Yes, but: Insulin, key to treating diabetes, has doubled in cost in the past few years, making it especially unattainable for people of color who have much higher rates of uninsurance.
- About 14% of people who need insulin injections to control their blood sugar levels spend “catastrophic” amounts of their income on them, according to a study published last month. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/18/insulin-diabetes-latinos-bmi | 2022-08-18T19:13:46Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/18/insulin-diabetes-latinos-bmi | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DeSantis' tour to boost school board candidates heads to Sarasota
Gov. Ron DeSantis is bringing his statewide "Education Agenda Tour," where he promotes candidates in nonpartisan school board races, to Sarasota on Sunday.
Driving the news: DeSantis is holding rallies to back candidates who agree with him on certain points, such as keeping "woke gender ideology out of schools" and rejecting "the use of critical race theory (CRT)," Axios Miami's Deirdra Funcheon reports.
Why it matters: Around the country, school boards have become a new battleground for political fights over culture-war issues like book banning and transgender people in sports.
- And DeSantis, who's endorsed dozens of school board candidates and donated to campaigns, is blazing a new trail for GOP governors in education-related contests, Axios' Stef Kight reports.
Zoom in: In Sarasota, DeSantis is backing Bridget Ziegler, Timothy Enos and Robyn Marinelli, Florida Politics reports.
- He'll be supporting them at Sahib Shrine Event Center on Sunday, from 3-5pm.
What's next: The Sarasota County School Board Election is Tuesday.
Go deeper: Sarasota school board meetings contend with chaos
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Female Dog Names: These are Britain's 10 most popular girl puppy names for adorable doggos 🐶
If you’re poised to get a cuddly new puppy but can’t decide what to call it, here’s some inspiration from dog owners the length and breadth of the UK.
A huge number of us decided to welcome new puppies into our homes over the pandemic – according to Kennel Club figures dog ownership soared and post-lockdown demand for four-legged friends remains high.
There are a whopping 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, alongside numerous crossbreeds, so there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your family’s latest addition.
But even when you’ve settled on a type of dog, there’s still the tricky task of choosing a name.
If you’re struggling, pet sitter and dog walker network www.rover.com have researched the most popular dog names in the UK.
Here are their top 10 female names for dogs in Britain.
Read more: | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/lifestyle/family-and-parenting/female-dog-names-these-are-britains-10-most-popular-girl-puppy-names-for-adorable-doggos-3398001 | 2022-08-18T19:14:05Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/lifestyle/family-and-parenting/female-dog-names-these-are-britains-10-most-popular-girl-puppy-names-for-adorable-doggos-3398001 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Owners and restorers of about 45 vintage trailers are descending on the Nile Valley this week to share their hobby and passion with other enthusiasts.
The trailers — and their occupants — begin arriving at noon Thursday for a weekend of events, and the public is invited for a look inside the trailers Saturday.
The open house is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Jim Sprick Community Park, 13680 Highway 410 outside Naches.
It’s a free event that draws a crowd, said organizer Rita Babcock.
“It’s amazing how many people drive up there each year,” she said.
When it comes to special attractions, she said people should be on the lookout for restored models of the 1962 Aloha trailer.
Babcock said there are 12 trailers of that model, produced in Oregon for the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle, in existence, and four will be at the open house Saturday. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/explore_yakima/get-a-look-inside-restored-vintage-trailers-at-the-nile-valley-rally-this-weekend/article_1d31e090-1dac-11ed-8d3e-ef6c8884c90c.html | 2022-08-18T19:14:20Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/explore_yakima/get-a-look-inside-restored-vintage-trailers-at-the-nile-valley-rally-this-weekend/article_1d31e090-1dac-11ed-8d3e-ef6c8884c90c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Perfect Lapdogs: These are the 10 breeds of adorable dog that make the best snuggly lapdogs - including the cuddly Bichon Frise 🐕
If you are looking for a dog that will love nothing more than curling up on your lap for hours on end, these are the perfect breeds for you.
The last two years have seen many of us welcome a new four-legged friend into our homes, as the Kennel Club saw dog ownership soar over the pandemic.
But with 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your perfect pup – whether you want a large dog, family-friendly dog, or crossbreed. There’s even academic guidance to seek out, with Psychologist Stanley Coren’s book ‘The Intelligence of Dogs’ ranking breeds by instincts, obedience, and the ability to adapt.
While many dogs have been bred to carry out specific jobs – from hunting foxes to pulling sleds – others have simply been created to be perfect companions for humans.
Affectionate, calm, happy, gentle and eager to please, lapdogs have been around for centuries and are perfect for those seeking a dog that will happily curl up with you for hours.
Here are 10 of the breeds that make the best lapdogs, according to the American Kennel Club.
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Yakima swimmers will have a place to cool off, even after Franklin Pool closes for the season.
Lions Pool will reopen Monday, the city announced in a news release Thursday.
The indoor pool at 509 W. Pine St. was closed for nearly two months because of a mechanical issue with its main pump.
“We have received the pump and motor and will be back to full operation on Monday,” Parks and Recreation Manager Ken Wilkinson said in the release. “We look forward to seeing our community again here at Lions Pool.”
Wilkinson said the city appreciated peoples’ patience during the closure.
The pool will be back to its regularly scheduled hours of operation, which are available on the city’s aquatics website.
The outdoor Franklin Pool at 2102 Tieton Drive closes for the season Saturday, with its annual Paws in the Pool event happening Sunday. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/lions-pool-reopens-monday-in-yakima/article_3e9e870a-1f1a-11ed-87b8-db32e9299446.html | 2022-08-18T19:14:26Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/lions-pool-reopens-monday-in-yakima/article_3e9e870a-1f1a-11ed-87b8-db32e9299446.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sausage Dog Names: Here are the 10 most popular puppy names for adorable Dachshund doggos 🐶
If you’re poised to get a new Dachshund pup but can’t decide what to call it, here’s some inspiration from the global family of dog owners.
A huge number of us decided to welcome new puppies into our homes over the last two years – according to Kennel Club figures dog ownership soared and post-lockdown demand for four-legged friends remains high.
There are a whopping 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, alongside numerous crossbreeds, so there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your family’s latest addition.
But even when you’ve settled on a type of dog, there’s still the tricky task of choosing a name.
If you’ve opted for an adorable Dachshund then personalised gift site yappy.com can help – they’ve surveyed thousands of their customers to come up with the most popular names people choose for their sausage dogs.
Here are their top 10 Dachshund names.
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There are plenty of reasons why properties like Neil Gaiman's fantastical, somewhat esoteric not-quite-superhero-comic not-quite-fantasy-story The Sandman tend to languish in development hell—the creative purgatory for projects that are too weird to be massive hits, yet too good to just be left on the shelf. Chief among them is that these sorts of adaptations must be done "the right way," with actors and directors and writers who know just how to bend and mold the material from one medium into another.
It's a lot of pressure, particularly for something like The Sandman—an artifact of the 1990s that combines Gaiman's wry creative bent with the bold, stylized artwork of Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, and the rest. It’s an epic millennia-spanning fable whose protagonists and villains are anthropomorphizations of nebulous concepts like "death," "dream," and "destiny;" not the sort of material that lends itself easily to adaptation. Yet Netflix's Sandman works. The fact that the show is genuinely very good sneaks up on you: It's not until Episode 6, "The Sound of Her Wings," that it becomes abundantly clear.
By the midpoint of The Sandman's first season, we generally understand the deal. Morpheus, sometimes known as Dream (played with floaty gravitas by Tom Sturridge), is one of the Endless, beings of great power older than gods who preside over certain forces that influence all life in the universe. Morpheus, the personification of dreams, has just escaped from a century of imprisonment on Earth; he spends the first half of this season collecting items that were stolen from him, attempting to rebuild his crumbling kingdom and surviving encounters with the Devil and a wannabe supervillain. In the sixth episode, Morpheus, and the plot, take a breather, dropping in on two characters close to him with seemingly opposite views on how the universe ought to operate.
The first half of the episode adapts the eighth issue of the comic, "The Sound of Her Wings," which introduces Morpheus' sister Death as a cheery and striking woman clad in dark eyeliner, a black tank top, and silver ankh necklace. (She’s played onscreen by the utterly fantastic Kirby Howell-Baptiste). Death berates Morpheus for not calling on her for help while he was trapped, then invites him to come with her while she picks up souls whose time has come and ferrying them to whatever afterlife awaits: an elderly violinist here, a reckless soccer player there. Death offers them all comfort and points their way forward, while indicating to Morpheus the importance of the work that they do. Morpheus understands how crucial he and his kind are to the survival of the mortal realm, that there’s a symbiotic relationship between reality and entity.
But before he can sink too deeply into his convictions of what should be and what shouldn't, the episode turns the tables on him. It skips ahead to Issue #13 of the comic, "Men of Good Fortune," in which the personification of dreams makes a friend.
Morpheus and Death enter a tavern somewhere in Britain in the Middle Ages, and overhear a man named Hob Gadling (Ferdinand Kingsley) bragging to his friends about his decision to never die. He will simply keep living, he says, and Morpheus and Death, watching from the shadows, figure, why not? Morpheus, keen to find out if a human could grow tired of immortality, wagers with Hob that he'll meet him in that very same tavern in one hundred years. And indeed he does, sharing a drink with Hob once a century, asking every time whether or not he's ready to die. Of course not, Hob always answers; there's so much life left to live! During one meeting, Hob angers Morpheus by implying that Morpheus keeps these meetings up because he's lonely. When Morpheus leaves in a huff, Hob tells him that, in a hundred years, if he sees him again he'll know it's because they're friends. Due to his imprisonment, Morpheus is late for their next meeting. But after his escape, he finds Hob in the present day, and admits that he was right.
Two of the strongest issues of the comic combine to form one fantastic hour of television, helped by the fact that both parts of this episode are the most faithful to the source material that this show gets. The first half turns an amorphous debate about the purpose of unseen forces into an intimate and comforting chat between two close siblings. The second is the best kind of Gaiman-esque storytelling, a bit of clever fantasy that feels as familiar as a children's fable. The result is a great standalone episode in the middle of a season of television with a plot so streamlined and serialized it crams two whole volumes of Gaiman's comic into ten hours—a powerful case for the return of episodic television in an era that has empowered creators to start referring to TV shows as "long movies."
It's also just a nice break in between two big story arcs, condensing the themes of The Sandman down to their component parts. Throughout the show, as in the comic, Morpheus is forced to contend with the warring ideologies of responsibility and change, recovering his purpose after a century away from his powers while also learning to accept that nothing can stay exactly the same forever. Morpheus, like Death, has a job to do, but that job can be altered according to the needs of the humans these beings preside over. Rules can be bent and stretched. Everything needs room to evolve and adapt. The Endless need the mortal world just as much as it needs them: Humans need Death's soft comfort to guide them into the next realm, just as they need the escape and freedom of dreams. Just as Dream himself needs simple human friendship to bring him back down to Earth. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/the-sandman-best-episode-netflix | 2022-08-18T19:14:42Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/the-sandman-best-episode-netflix | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What to make of Brian Stelter's sudden departure from CNN after almost a decade with the network? As one well-placed source suggested to me when the news began leaking out on Thursday afternoon, “John Malone, John Malone, John Malone.” That would be the billionaire media mogul and Warner Bros. Discovery shareholder who is a close confidante of CEO David Zaslav. There’s been some underlying anxiety at the network ever since Malone went on CNBC last year and said he “would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing.” The widespread interpretation of those remarks is that Malone wants CNN to be less liberal, which could explain the cancellation of Stelter’s Reliable Sources, a weekly media show—dunzo after this Sunday’s edition—that emerged over the past several years as one of the most adversarial chroniclers of modern-day G.O.P. meshugas. (WarnerBros. Discovery would argue that Malone, who is one of 13 board members, does not exert any influence over editorial matters.)
Whatever the case, Stelter’s defenestration is the first major programming decision to come down under new CNN chief Chris Licht, who summoned the anchor to his office with the bad news on Wednesday afternoon, according to Puck’s Dylan Byers. (Licht, for his part, firmly told employees during a town hall this spring that Malone is not running the show and that he’d never even met the guy.) I got a tip around 1 p.m., but within minutes it was already all over town. “It was a rare privilege to lead a weekly show focused on the press at a time when it has never been more consequential,” Stelter told NPR’s David Folkenflik. (He was in the middle of something with the family when I got him on the phone for a hot second, and didn’t have anything to add beyond that.) Stelter was tight with former CNN boss Jeff Zucker, who championed his media coverage across platforms. (The Reliable Sources newsletter is an influential nightly must-read for industry wonks.) With Zucker gone, Stelter found himself without a key ally and therefore in a more vulnerable position under new management. Another knowledgeable source told me word on the street is that CNN is looking at a broader revamp of its Sunday programming, but a spokesperson didn't immediately get back to me with a comment.
What I can tell you, based on my own recent reporting, is that Licht isn’t making any of these changes in a vacuum. Zaslav has been closely involved in driving WarnerBros. Discovery’s vision for CNN, doubling down on its traditional global news-gathering function and moving away from the partisan reputation it garnered—fairly or not—during the Trump years. Hence all the talk of diversifying CNN's contributor ranks, and the olive branches to Republicans, which Licht handed out recently on a romp through Capitol Hill. “I think they share a vision for CNN,” an insider who knows both men told me. “But at the end of the day, Licht is executing his vision on how to get there. No one is telling him what to do or how it works.” Whether Stelter’s exit augurs any additional shakeups is yet to be seen, but we won't have to wait long: Licht is expected to put more of a stamp on the network come fall. | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/brian-stelter-canceled-cnn-reliable-sources | 2022-08-18T19:14:48Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/brian-stelter-canceled-cnn-reliable-sources | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Shortly after losing his primary in May, Representative Madison Cawthorn sent out a rallying cry to the “Dark MAGA” movement—a right-wing revenge fantasy hatched by the alt-right—and vowed to spend his time outside of DC defeating “the cowardly and weak members” of the Republican Party. However, less than two months later, the outgoing freshman lawmaker appears to be facing more pressing issues than “self-profiteering” globalists, seeing as he’s blown through more than half a million dollars of his own money on the campaign trail, according to the Daily Beast.
Since 2019, the North Carolina Republican, who now identifies as a self-employed investor, has spent $817,000 in personal funds on his campaign, including a $207,858 self-funded contribution that was reported in a recent Federal Election Commission filing, per the Asheville Citizen-Times. Of that staggering sum, the Beast’s review of his campaign-finance reports shows he has recouped $261,000, leaving him $556,000 in the red.
Despite suffering an impressively varied string of scandals during the primary, Cawthorn’s report disclosed that he managed to raise almost $4.5 million for his reelection bid—but spent $4.9 million. His campaign had just $1,504 cash on hand as of June 30. The Beast notes that Cawthorn, who appointed himself as his campaign’s treasurer and custodian of records, appears to have overdrawn $200,000 in campaign spending following the May 17 primary. The Cawthorn campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Cawthorn’s financial follies don’t end there. His campaign also improperly spent donations earmarked for the general election, which he was not legally allowed to use, per another Daily Beast report. Saurav Ghosh, a director at the Campaign Legal Center, told the outlet that “Cawthorn put himself in campaign finance hot water when he dipped into the general election funds, and it looks like what he did at the end of the reporting period is use his own funds to bail out his campaign.” According to the Daily Beast, in total, Cawthorn owes more than $220,000 to his donor base as a result of his spending spree, including to House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, Representative Steve Scalise, and GOP megadonors Bernie Marcus and Steve Wynn. According to the Asheville Citizen-Times, he dipped into donor funds to run up $1,812 at a tobacco shop and per the Daily Beast, $1,500 at Chick-fil-A, and $21,000 for lodging in Florida. Additionally, the lawmaker could reportedly face as much as $18,000 in fines, according to FEC guidelines, for filing his campaign finance report a month too late. | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/madison-cawthorns-dark-maga-bills | 2022-08-18T19:14:54Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/madison-cawthorns-dark-maga-bills | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A federal judge will hear arguments Thursday afternoon from a group of media companies pushing for the release of the affidavit that would reveal why investigators believed the search at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence was justified. Multiple news organizations—including The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, and CNN—last week asked US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart to make public the affidavit supporting the search warrant that FBI agents carried out at Mar-a-Lago—a request that the Justice Department pushed back on earlier this week, claiming that the move could “cause significant and irreparable damage” to its investigation into Trump’s potential mishandling of classified material. “If disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps,” Justice Department attorneys said in a court filing Monday, per ABC News. The affidavit contains “highly sensitive information about witnesses,” the DOJ added, arguing that its unsealing could “impact their willingness to cooperate with the investigation” and “likely chill future cooperation by witnesses whose assistance may be sought.”
The outlets requested that the affidavit be made public as part of a broader push for the release of all documents related to last week’s FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. The Justice Department said it wouldn’t object to the unsealing of other documents filed in relation to the warrant, “such as cover sheets for the application, the government's motion to keep the warrant under seal and Judge Reinhart's original sealing order—none of which will likely reveal much beyond the materials already disclosed,” ABC News reports. The warrant allowing the FBI to search Mar-a-Lago, which was unsealed at the request of the Department of Justice late last week, cited three potential crimes: an obstruction of justice, a mishandling of government records, and violations of the Espionage Act.
While more details about the search of Trump’s Florida residence have come to light—including that the FBI search resulted in the removal of 11 sets of classified documents—news outlets are still working to fill an information vacuum that has allowed the former president and his allies to frame the search as a politically motivated attack. Attorney Carol LoCicero, who is representing the Times and other media companies, pointed to such baseless accusations in last week’s court filing. “President Trump decried the search as an ‘assault that could only take place in Third World Countries,’ asserted agents ‘even broke into my safe,’ and otherwise challenged the validity of the search,” she wrote. “The matter is one of utmost public interest, involving the actions of current and former government officials.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/media-orgs-are-aiming-to-convince-a-federal-judge-to-make-the-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit-public | 2022-08-18T19:15:00Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/media-orgs-are-aiming-to-convince-a-federal-judge-to-make-the-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit-public | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Five best places for a Sunday roast in Edinburgh according to Tripadvisor reviews
If the neeps and tatties aren’t doing it for you, how about a Sunday roast instead?
With wet weather forecast in Edinburgh this weekend, the appeal of something warm and homely might be something on the menu.
From roasted meat to Yorkshire puddings, to roasted potatoes to gravy, the possibilities for the perfect plate of a Sunday roast dinner are endless.
We’ve had a look for the best places in Edinburgh for a roast dinner on Tripadvisor that are rated 4.5 and above.
Here are the top five according to Tripadvisor reviews.
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The best places for roast dinner in Edinburgh according to Tripadvisor reviews
1: Skyline Restaurant at Tynecastle Park
- Where: Tynecastle Park McLeod Street Tynecastle Park, Edinburgh EH11 2NL
- Rating: 5/5
“Outstanding Sunday lunch. Not to be missed at a very reasonable price for amazing food.”
“The main of roast beef was without doubt the best roast beef I’ve ever tried”
“Great Venue, Great Value”
“All food was of excellent quality ”
You can find out more and book a table on Tripadvisor.
2: New Chapter
- Where: 18 Eyre Place New Town, Canonmills, Edinburgh EH3 5EP
- Rating: 5/5
“What a plate. Stacked high with perfectly done Roast Beef, Roast Potatoes, Yorkshire Pudding and seasonal veg.”
“The beef Sunday roast was massive and amazing”
“The Sunday roast was delicious with perfectly crisp potatoes”
“I recommend the roast beef with all the trimmings. It really was the best beef I have ever tasted, and lots of it”
You can find out more and book a table on Tripadvisor.
3: Dine
- Where: 10 Cambridge Street (1st Floor, above Traverse Theatre), Edinburgh EH1 2ED
- Rating: 5/5
“Fabulous Sunday lunch”
“Perfect setting for a leisurely Sunday Lunch”
“Nothing is ever too much trouble for them they are all stars”
“The service was impeccable and the food was superb”
You can find out more and book a table on Tripadvisor.
4: The Perch Restaurant
- Where: 110 Hanover Street, Edinburgh EH2 1DR
- Rating: 5/5
“Had a wonderful Sunday Roast. This family run restaurant ticks all the boxes”
“We both had the Sunday Roast option which was cooked and presented really well.”
“Elegant and excellent”
“We went for the Sunday roast beef. It was amazing!”
You can find out more and book a table on Tripadvisor.
5: The Ox
- Where: 49-51 London Street, Edinburgh EH3 6LX
- Rating: 4.5/5
“Delicious food, lovely setting and great staff”
“Gravy as an art-form”
“The lamb dinner was gluten-free with exception of the gravy, which they happily provided her with a gluten-free option”
“Absolutely delicious.”
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Alex Wagner’s debut this week as the new host of MSNBC’s 9 p.m. hour on Tuesdays through Fridays capped a year’s worth of speculation about who would land Rachel Maddow’s powerhouse time slot, now that she was stepping back from hosting five nights a week to pursue a slew of multiplatform creative projects. For Wagner, it more than validated her decision to return to MSNBC seven years after the network canceled her previous show. In the interim, the 44-year-old newswoman had raised her profile by cohosting Showtime’s The Circus alongside John Heilemann.
And for Henry Reisch, Wagner’s agent at William Morris Endeavor—which has so many MSNBC clients that some joke the agency runs the network—it was a major coup in a long career spent cultivating TV-news talent. Reisch, 63, cuts a lower profile than Endeavor honchos Ari Emanuel and Mark Shapiro, who were the driving forces behind Maddow’s recent megadeal. But Reisch has been at it forever—2022 marks his 35th year in the business—and he knows the rapidly transforming TV-news landscape as well as anyone, which is why I was game when Endeavor offered him up for an interview.
After ditching his first job as a lawyer back in 1987, the Long Island–born music fanatic got his start in the mailroom of what was then called the William Morris Agency, quickly climbing the ladder and assembling a roster of news luminaries that included Bob Woodruff (now of ABC News) and John Roberts (now of Fox News). Today his clients collectively anchor 45 hours a week on MSNBC (Wagner, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Joy Reid, Lawrence O’Donnell, Stephanie Ruhle, Tiffany Cross) and 60 hours on CNBC (Jim Cramer, Joe Kernan, Kelly Evans, and others).
Although Reisch happens to live up the road from me, he’s vacationing on Shelter Island this week, so we had to do a video call. But that didn’t put a damper on our wide-ranging conversation, condensed and edited below, which covers everything you’d hope for from a longtime industry insider: the backstory of Wagner’s deal, the decline of cable news, the future of streaming, the implosion of CNN+, and lots more.
Vanity Fair: Tell me about how Alex Wagner got Rachel Maddow’s time slot.
Henry Reisch: Alex and I were, in the late fall of 2021, trying to figure out what another interesting step for her would be. She was doing incredible stuff with The Circus, but The Circus was once a week and there was just so much happening. So I began having conversations with various networks. When she left MSNBC seven years ago, she didn’t leave under the best of circumstances, but a lot of the people at NBC were people who she knew and respected and sort of kept relationships with. She was open. And so we made an arrangement where she was going to begin contributing. Truthfully, we weren’t really thinking about the Rachel thing at that moment. It was sort of like, let’s just go do this and see what happens. This was maybe in January of 2022. She started doing a lot of fill-in anchoring, and she started filling in for Rachel. But she and I weren’t really having that conversation about where it was gonna lead. It’s almost like we didn’t wanna jinx anything or be seen as going for it. We just wanted to be in the moment. I didn’t even have conversations with MSNBC about it for a really long time. Although this was literally, like, the best job in cable news.
So when did it start to become more serious?
I would say the very end of May or early June. A month before it was announced, I began having more persistent conversations with them. Like, What are we doing here? And just so we’re clear, we would like this job! They were very careful about it, very measured. And then there came the point where I got the call, and they were like, Let’s do it.
And when you say “they,” who were you primarily dealing with?
Jessica Kurdali, their head of talent negotiations. She replaced Elena Nachmanoff, who’d been in that role for decades.
Rachel stepping back from 9 p.m. seemed to set up the deck chairs for a few of WME’s clients. Aside from Alex, obviously, it seems like with less Rachel, it made sense to double down on Joe and Mika as the network’s other tentpole and give them that extra hour in the morning. And with Morning Joe getting that fourth hour, it then seems logical that Stephanie Ruhle would move to 11 p.m. to fill Brian Williams’s slot. | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/the-power-agent-who-brokered-the-deal-for-rachel-maddows-replacement | 2022-08-18T19:15:06Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/the-power-agent-who-brokered-the-deal-for-rachel-maddows-replacement | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Cardi B just made a bold new addition to her collection of body art, getting her first tattoo done on her face.
The rapper's tattoo artist Robinson De Los Santos shared a video on his Instagram Sunday in which Cardi could be seen lying down on the table covering her eyes while getting some red letters added to her jawline. But De Los Santos didn't give away the final outcome from their session together, simply captioning the clip, “Work today Cardi B.” A fan account also shared a selfie that Cardi took with De Los Santos in which the Grammy winner gave just a glimpse at the small tattoo located on her bottom right corner of her jaw just below her ear, however, she has yet to share the final design herself.
But despite the fact that she hasn't shared her tattoo publicly, some fans are confident they already know exactly what it is as back in January she warned everyone on Twitter, “Random but….I’m 1% close too tatting my sons name on my face….I really really wanna do it!” She added that her ideal location for her son's name would be on her jaw. However, that theory was quickly dismissed by others who pointed out that the new red letters on her face don't look anything like a W or the other letters that make up her son Wave's name. And even if she did get a tribute to her children permanently etched onto her face, Cardi wouldn't even be the first in their family to do so as her husband, Offset, already has their four-year-old daughter Kulture's name tattooed along his own jawline. The Migos rapper and his wife have also given each other matching tattoos, writing their wedding date on each other's hands.
And Cardi isn't the only rapper who's recently gotten some fresh ink in honor of their family. Last week, Drake also got his first ever face tattoo—a lowercase Old English "S" and "G" right underneath his left eye which are his mom's initials. He posted a photo of the final product on his grid, captioning the carousel of images, “Sandra Gale,” which his mother's maiden name. The Grammy winner has often been outspoken about his deep love and appreciation for his mom, crediting her with being the biggest champion of his music early on in his career. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/cardi-b-first-face-tattoo-red-ink-son-name | 2022-08-18T19:15:12Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/cardi-b-first-face-tattoo-red-ink-son-name | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
This year, it started with the spectacle of Charlotte Casiraghi, Grace Kelly’s granddaughter and 11th in line to the throne of Monaco, cantering down the Chanel couture runway on a gleaming bay named Kuskus. For better or worse, fashion and pop culture have long been in love with all things equestrian, running the gamut from Gucci’s classic Horsebit loafers to Kylie Minogue’s 2020 comeback single “Say Something,” in which she caresses an enormous golden horse while flying through space. But if a horse on the couture runway signaled a leveling up of contemporary equine lore, then Beyoncé astride a holographic steed for the cover of Renaissance, released in July, certainly clinched it: 2022 is the year of the horse girl.
Or horse woman. Or dude or man or person. We’re employing the term liberally here. (Though it is often a woman.) Historically, the horse girl has carried with her a certain cutesiness; she is viewed by others, perhaps, as a little bit dweeby. But there is nothing twee about the horse girl of 2022, and horses have long symbolized power and wide-ranging freedom—a natural yearning following years of being cooped up inside. “Creating this album allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world,” Beyoncé wrote in an Instagram caption, describing the making of Renaissance. “It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving.” She’s not alone in that sentiment. “I see horses running wild, I wish / I could feel like that for just a minute,” sings Maggie Rogers in “Horses,” a single from her new album, Surrender, released the same day as Renaissance. (Rogers was, for full disclosure, an intern at Elle magazine when I was on staff there.) “It’s a song about letting go,” Rogers has said of the song, “about wanting to feel free in a time where I felt an overwhelming amount of numbness.”
In going full futuristic Lady Godiva, Beyoncé—who has previously shot cover stories involving horses for British Vogue and Essence and Harper’s Bazaar, and who has nodded to her Houston roots in countless cowboy hats—invokes a woman who trounced her husband in one of history’s most famous games of chicken: The older and money-hungry Earl Leofric imposed a high tax on his subjects; when his wife asked that he take mercy and reduce the tax, he said that he’d only do so if she rode naked through the streets of Coventry. She did, so the legend goes, her long hair draped across her breasts, and, at least according to the 14th-century writer Ranulf Higden, Leofric kept his word and excused all tolls—except on horses. Per Beyoncé, bard of the Great Resignation:
“Driving home to a husband who will want to know whether therapy will help me,” writes Courtney Maum in her expansive memoir The Year of the Horses, published by Tin House earlier this spring, “to a daughter who will smell of milk and Goldfish crackers and whom it will take forty minutes to coerce into a bath, I think that I will take a white horse or a black one, anything that will help me face sundown with less dread.” In Maum’s memoir, rekindling a childhood love of horses as an adult—and as a mother—is a force for positive good within her family; the barn becomes a place to bond with her daughter, and working with the animals teaches her to find patience and generosity as a partner and parent.
At the end of 2021, after a 13-year horsey hiatus, I started taking weekly lessons at a barn near my house. The horse I ride with, a speckled gray gelding named Silvio, “likes” to work and particularly to jump. Or at least his behavioral cues lead the people who own and train him to believe he does—inasmuch as any human might infer the nonverbal cues of any other animal, given that we diverged from apes, our closest living neighbors on the evolutionary tree, millions of years ago. (“Obviously we’ll never know what it’s like to be a bat—that’s the Thomas Nagel thing,” the science writer and author of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, Ed Yong, recently told my colleague Delia Cai in an interview at the National Zoo in DC. “But we can try. And it’s glorious and worthy to make the effort to do so.”) When Silvio sees a jump, his ears pivot forward, his gait speeds up. Our trainer refers to him as a point-and-shoot; as long as he can sense that I’m not wildly off-balance in the saddle, once we square with the jump, he’s going over the rails. But a statement about horseback riding on the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ website reads: “If we look honestly at our relationship with horses, we must acknowledge that the decision to take part in horseback riding is made solely by one individual with little benefit to and no input from the other.”
In Jordan Peele’s Nope, an early scene finds horse trainer Otis “OJ” Haywood Jr. working with a horse named Lucky on the set of a commercial. When a crew member ignores OJ’s instructions on proper horse etiquette, Lucky spooks and kicks, his hoof narrowly missing a nearby human’s head. It’s a moment of foreshadowing in a film that’s both easy and impossible to spoil, but it gives nothing away to say that the movie takes as source material Eadweard Muybridge’s The Horse in Motion, a series of photographic plates that, when viewed together, flip-book style, comprise one of the earliest examples of a motion picture. While the name of the horse was preserved in the work’s subtitle—“‘Sallie Gardner,’ Owned by Leland Stanford; Running at a 1:40 Gait Over the Palo Alto Track, 19th June 1878”—the name of her rider, a Black jockey, was omitted and all but lost to history; he’s referred to in some documents as G. Domm, but little else is definitively known. (The footage shown in Nope is actually from a later Muybridge work, called “Plate 626,” which similarly leaves the jockey anonymous while naming the horse.) In Nope, Peele affords the man not only a fictional biography, but also descendants: OJ’s sister, Em, identifies herself as his great-great-great-granddaughter. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/its-horse-girl-season | 2022-08-18T19:15:18Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/its-horse-girl-season | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It’s the wedding we seemingly know everything about: Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s three-day celebration commences tomorrow (they were already legally married in Vegas). But here’s one more factoid: Jay Shetty, a podcaster, will reportedly officiate Lopez and Affleck’s nuptials, according to Page Six.
Shetty is a “purpose coach,” which, as he explained to J.Lo herself in a YouTube interview, means he is someone who “helps people figure out how they can have the deepest and biggest impact on people’s lives using their gift.” His podcast, On Purpose, has hosted the likes of Will Smith, Gwyneth Paltrow, and the late Kobe Bryant.
A purpose coach! The woman who sang “Let’s get loud!” in the middle of “America the Beautiful” on the first day of Joe Biden’s America and the guy who allegedly had the finsta handle @positiveattitudehunting are being married by a man who helps people who have lost touch with reality find their life’s purpose. In the end, their purpose is to marry each other nearly 20 years post-breakup, and it’s all expected to be anointed by a purpose coach. There’s something incredibly endearing about all of this.
This would not be Shetty’s first marital rodeo. The Hindu monk turned Accenture strategist turned podcaster turned author (Think Like a Monk, 2020) also officiated Lily Collins and Charlie McDowell’s wedding last year. He is also married himself (but did not officiate his own ceremony).
It still feels unusual that so much about Lopez and Affleck’s weekend has been offered up for perusal. The expected location, dress designer, and now officiant have made it to print. Hoping for a brief on the menu(s) tomorrow morning. There’s reportedly a barbecue scheduled for Sunday, and I have to know if it’s in the style of North Carolina, Memphis, or Texas. Champagne fountain? Chicken or fish? | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/jennifer-lopez-and-ben-affleck-jay-shetty-purpose-coach | 2022-08-18T19:15:24Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/jennifer-lopez-and-ben-affleck-jay-shetty-purpose-coach | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“Here, let me just send you a link.” That’s what I usually do when I try, and fail, to describe the band Khruangbin to someone who has not yet heard them.
The band’s name is pronounced “crung-bin,” the Thai word for airplane, and the Houston-founded trio’s music certainly evokes a mile-high exoticism. Any given track can mix R&B, reggae, surf rock, Middle Eastern melodies, Persian phrasing, Latin rhythms, ’90s hip-hop, West African instrumentation, ethereal harmonies, psychedelic effects, and rump-shaking disco. It’s a whole thing. Here, let me just send you a link.
Khruangbin’s three studio albums (2015’s The Universe Smiles Upon You, 2018’s Con Todo el Mundo, and 2020’s Mordechai, plus their EP collaboration Texas Sun with Leon Bridges) transport listeners to a luxe dance party, and their onstage look mirrors this fashion-forward attitude, led by the group’s aesthetic director and bassist, Laura Lee.
Though all three members of the group (including Mark Speer on guitar and Donald “DJ” Johnson on drums) qualify as having “a look,” most concertgoers are hyper-focused on the Mexican American Lee in her Cleopatra wig, high heels, and electrifying clothing. In addition to laying down complex bass licks drawn from far-flung influences, she is committed to never repeating an outfit, presenting two new looks a night, and making sure her dips, swerves, and crooked smiles hit with choreographed alacrity.
Though listening to Khruangbin inspires fantasies of private jets, penthouses, and shimmering infinity pools, I first meet the band in person in a cinder block dump, care of the New York City parks department. It’s one of the hottest days of the summer, and Khruangbin will later perform with the Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. (They’ve recorded an album together, Ali, named for Vieux’s late father, Ali Farka Touré, which will be released on September 23.) I figured since I was getting to chill with them hours before showtime I’d see them out of uniform. Not the case.
DJ, in a robust gaucho hat, leather vest, and enormous ankh necklace, shakes my hand, followed by Speer in a blue silk suit and black wig. Finally, there’s Lee, in heels, a pink dress, and earrings that resemble a Copernican orrery. Despite the blinding chic, they are, of course, just normal people on the road, battling boredom between gigs. “We ate at Rao’s last night,” Lee boasts. “We got hooked up.”
“They’re not reinventing the wheel,” Speer says enthusiastically about the legendary uptown Italian restaurant. “They are creating the truest wheel—and [they have] the fastest bartender in the world.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/khruangbins-laura-lee-takes-us-under-the-wig | 2022-08-18T19:15:30Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/khruangbins-laura-lee-takes-us-under-the-wig | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kid Cudi revealed that it wasn't just his struggles with drugs and depression that forced him to temporarily step away from music a few years ago, but also a stroke that left him with impaired speech and movement.
The musician, whose real name is Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, said in a new interview with Esquire that about two weeks after being admitted to rehab in 2016 for “depression and suicidal urges” he suffered a stroke, telling the outlet, “everything was fucked.” The incident forced him to put his music on pause and spend the next few months in physical rehabilitation. But Cudi says that he didn't feel completely like himself again until he auditioned for a role in the Broadway show Lobby Hero opposite Michael Cera in 2017. In order to audition, he had to memorize a substantial amount of dialogue and, although the part ended up going to another actor, he said, “I proved to myself that I could do it. I needed that at the time. I was happy. Like, damn, my brain is still strong. I didn’t lose something in that shit that happened.”
Cudi's mom Elsie Harriet also spoke to the magazine about that harrowing experience and working with her son to get him back to a mentally and physically healthier place. “The hardest thing I have ever had to do was to wait until they were ready for him to call me,” she said. When they finally did call, she flew out and visited Cudi daily, praying with him as he recovered. She added, “It was the best thing that could have happened to Scott. It was. There is no saying, ‘My child won’t do this. My child won’t do that.’ If you’re a parent, you can’t say that. You don’t know what they’re going to do from moment to moment, and certainly, when you get to the point where your career blew up overnight, it’s a very difficult thing.” Since then, Cudi has taken pride in being a mental health advocate for others who are struggling. When asked if he ever gets tired of the role, he told the magazine, “It’s a lot of pressure, but it keeps me alive. So I’ll take it. It doesn’t stress me out. It keeps me thinking, Nah, Scott. You gotta be here. Let old age take you out.”
In A Man Named Scott, the Amazon Prime documentary released about his life last year, the singer said that things began to change for him in regards to his addiction around 2010 after he was arrested on charges of criminal mischief and possession of a controlled substance. He explained, “I remember I got out of jail, and I was ashamed because I grew up with two uncles that were addicted to crack. But I’m glad I got arrested, because that’s when I quit. I don’t think I woulda quit if people didn’t find out about it.” And after finally facing his “bullshit” in rehab, Cudi added, “I’m in such a happier place…And knowing that I’m at a better place with me, with Scott, that I love myself, that I’m happy, I just hope fans can see that.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/kid-cudi-stroke-during-rehab-2016-drugs-depression-impaired-speech-movement | 2022-08-18T19:15:36Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/kid-cudi-stroke-during-rehab-2016-drugs-depression-impaired-speech-movement | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Expansion of Edinburgh's controlled parking areas comes with a lesson: ignore a council letter and they'll take that as consent – John McLellan
My memory might be playing tricks, but when the expansion of controlled parking was being mooted four years ago I’m fairly sure officers said it was not a money-making scheme and that the revenue simply covered costs.
But no matter, a report to today’s transport committee says the six new zones will in fact generate an extra £2m of income for the council, and the implementation cost of £2.5m for the signs, meters and road markings will be met from existing budgets.
It also reveals that, of 30,000 consultation letters sent out, only three per cent were returned, so the remaining 97 per cent are taken as approvals, which might change once the bays are painted and the blokes on scooters start handing out tickets at 8.30am.
Residents can, however, look forward to what the report says is “a positive impact in respect of carbon impacts, and adaptation to climate change”, knowing they have done their bit to discourage commuting by car and boosted public transport and cycling.
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The fact that many objectors, particularly in Shandon, pointed out the problem was not commuter parking during the day, but at night when residents came home from work when restrictions will not apply was obviously of no consequence because the whole thing is going ahead as planned with only a few minor tweaks.
Those people living in the next phase areas, like Willowbrae, can expect the same response to their observations, so the lesson is clear: ignoring a letter from the council about changes is consent. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/expansion-of-edinburghs-controlled-parking-areas-comes-with-a-lesson-ignore-a-council-letter-and-theyll-take-that-as-consent-john-mclellan-3809691 | 2022-08-18T19:15:42Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/expansion-of-edinburghs-controlled-parking-areas-comes-with-a-lesson-ignore-a-council-letter-and-theyll-take-that-as-consent-john-mclellan-3809691 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
VALENCIA — A fight between an adult man and a 13-year-old boy caught on video in Valencia has led sheriff’s deputies to initiate an investigation Thursday.
The scuffle, which was captured on video that has gone viral, happened on Tuesday outside the Havana Savannah coffee shop on Copper Hill Drive in Valencia.
**Explicit Language** The wild afternoon fight between an adult and minor happened right outside of Havana Savannah in Valencia is now under investigation by police, no arrests have been made and it is unclear what lead to this altercation.
Whole video: https://t.co/QJpdgp0gEd pic.twitter.com/rK00KJarrY
— WHATS THE WORD (@WhatsTheWordTV) August 18, 2022
A man wearing a green shirt is seen on the video pushing the teenager to the ground. Someone can be heard on the video saying, “Call 911.”
The store is frequented by students from Rio Norte Junior High after school.
Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Santa Clarita Valley Station told Fox 11 they are aware of the video and are investigating.
Anyone with information is asked to call the station at 661-260-4000.
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Jesse Lara know all about rising costs.
His family-owned franchise owns 34 El Pollo Loco restaurants throughout Southern California, and in recent months they’ve all been hammered by inflationary price hikes. But now he has something new to worry about — Assembly Bill 257.
The legislation would create a state-run council to negotiate wages, hours and working conditions for California’s fast-food workers. But a new report suggests those changes could push higher prices onto consumers by as much as 20%.
The analysis — compiled by the UC Riverside Business Center for Economic Forecasting and Development and paid for by the International Franchise Association — comes as nearly 100 fast-food franchisees traveled Wednesday, Aug. 17 to Sacramento to speak out against the impacts of the bill, also known as the FAST Recovery Act.
The legislation — supported locally by community allies and labor leaders — is designed to address wage theft, harassment, discrimination and unsafe work conditions fast-food workers say they face on the job. Similar bills have been passed in California to protect garment and contract construction workers.
Lara’s biggest concern is having an unelected body dictate what his restaurants can and can’t do. He employs more than 1,000 workers, and AB 257 leaves lots of unanswered questions.
“Would we still be able to hire and employ as many people as we do?” Laura asked. “Would we be able to offer as many hours, and would we have to raise costs to stay afloat? We’re already paying 80% more for boneless chicken breasts.”
Christopher Thornberg, the Riverside center’s director, said the bill would hit low-income consumers the hardest.
“If the FAST Act passes, we can expect a very sharp increase in food costs from the affected restaurants, and that could push these families to the breaking point, given the financial pressures working families already feel from rising rents, gas and other necessities,” he said.
The center’s analysis says AB 257 would effectively create a new food tax at a time when inflation is reaching record highs and could boost fast-food prices by as much as 20%.
Thornberg cited two factors that would conspire to boost fast-food prices: One is the likelihood that AB 257’s state-run council would increase pay at the various fast-food outlets and the other is increased liability for fast-food companies.
Under AB 257, liabilities that would ordinarily fall of the shoulders of franchisees would instead be passed along to the fast-food corporations. So the fast-food chains would be held responsible when workers claim minimum wage violations or unpaid overtime at a franchise location.
AB 257 would also allow franchisees to sue their parent corporation if their franchise contracts contain strict terms that leave them no choice but to violate labor law.
The bill would require standards for minimum wages, maximum hours of work and other working conditions fixed by the state-run council, absent a valid collective bargaining agreement, and they would be enforced by the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.
The council would conduct a full review of those factors every three years and would be required to hold public hearings every six months where it could coordinate with various local agencies.
The bill additionally authorizes cities with a population of more than 200,000 to establish a food-sector council that could provide recommendations to the state-run panel.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has yet to take a position on the bill, but his Department of Finance opposes it, saying it would create “ongoing costs” and worsen delays in the state’s labor enforcement system.
Harsh Ghai isn’t a fan of AB 257, either. His franchise includes 200 Burger King, Taco Bell, and Popeye’s restaurants — 180 of which are in California.
Ghai said wages at his restaurants vary depending on the demand for work in each market. They all pay above minimum wage, he said, but increased costs associated with AB 257 would be hard to absorb.
“Grocery stores can pass along higher costs to customers, but we can’t pass along that much because our guests rely heavily on strong value propositions,” he said.
Ghai and other franchisees met Wednesday with several state lawmakers in Sacramento. Some communicated online. But others — including Sen. Anna M. Caballero, D-Merced, and Assemblyman Tim Grayson, D-Concord — met with the business owners in person.
Caballero and Grayson were receptive to the franchisees’ concerns, Ghai said.
A representative from Caballero’s office said she’s reviewing amendments to AB 257 from both parties and will make her determination once the updates are finalized.
Barely scraping by
The starting pay for cashiers at Lara’s 34 El Pollo Loco locations is $16 an hour. That’s $1 over minimum wage, but many of California’s more than 700,000 fast-food employees say that’s not enough.
Laura Pozos said she’s making $16 an hour working at a McDonald’s in Los Angeles and is barely scraping by.
“They’ve cut our hours,” the 59-year-old East Los Angeles resident said recently. “I work 33 to 34 hours a week and it’s not enough to pay my bills. My light bill alone is $200 a month. These are miserable wages.”
California fast-food workers have held rallies locally and statewide over the past two months in support of AB 257.
The Service Employees International Union is pushing for passage of the bill as part of its “Fight for $15 and a Union” campaign. California’s minimum wage for businesses with 26 or more employees hit $15 an hour on Jan. 1, 2022, and that will rise to $15.50 an hour on Jan. 1, 2023.
Unionization in the fast-food industry, however, remains elusive.
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There are more than 420 sites in the US National Park System, but only 63 carry the headliner — capital N, capital P — “National Park” title.
The most visited of those, Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee, welcomed a record-setting 14.2 million recreation visits in 2021. Zion, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon are other top visitor draws. See full lists of the most popular National Park Service sites here.
But what about the least-visited headliners? Parks that might be especially wild or hard to reach but also uncrowded and largely undiscovered. Let’s take a peek at those.
Seven out of the 15 least-visited national parks in 2021 are in Alaska.
It’s no big surprise that a good chunk of the least-visited national parks are in the 49th state. Covering close to 665,000 square miles — much of it wild and often frozen — getting around the state can be challenging and there’s a lot of wilderness to see.
The least visited of the 63 national parks, Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve, contains no roads or trails and visitors must fly or hike into the park, according to the National Park Service.
It’s safe to say the people who accounted for its 7,362 recreation visits in 2021 were very committed to a wilderness experience. Denali National Park in Alaska, No. 13 among the least-visited parks, saw a whopping 229,521 visits by comparison.
Remote islands, a historic fort and more
The second least-visited national park couldn’t be more different. National Park of American Samoa is located on a volcanic island arc in the South Pacific, where fruit bats and coral reefs are part of the ecosystem. The park logged just under 8,500 visits in 2021.
Among other non-Alaska entries in the least visited parks list are North Cascades in Washington; Isle Royale in Michigan and Dry Tortugas in Florida.
The latter two are remarkably different island environments. Isle Royale is a wooded island in Lake Superior accessible by ferry or seaplane; Dry Tortugas is 70 miles west of Key West and encompasses open water and a handful of islands, including one that’s home to an impressive 19th-century fort.
Nevada, South Carolina, Minnesota and Texas parks also make the 15 least-visited list.
Here’s the list and some park highlights for a little trail-less-taken inspiration:
15 least-visited US National Parks in 2021
1. Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve, Alaska – 7,362 recreation visits
With no roads, no trails, no cell service and no established campsites, this massive expanse is a true wilderness experience. The park and preserve has six designated Wild Rivers. “Visitors may wander at will across 8.4 million acres of superlative natural beauty,” the park’s website says. Visitors must be self-sufficient, flexible and “able to execute self-extraction and communication, should an emergency situation arise.” Arrive prepared.
2. National Park of American Samoa – 8,495 recreation visits
Most parkgoers will need a passport to visit this spot in a remote part of the South Pacific. Hawaiian Airlines offers direct flights from Honolulu. The only National Park Service site south of the equator, the park has units on three different islands in the territory of American Samoa. The park stretches across 13,500 acres, some 4,000 of which are marine acres that are mostly coral reefs.
3. Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska – 11,540 recreation visits
There are no roads, campgrounds or entrance gates for this 1.8 million-acre expanse’s human visitors. Half a million caribou migrate through this park, crossing the Kobuk River and Onion Portage, according to the National Park Service. An 8,000-year tradition of hunting caribou here continues today.
4. North Cascades National Park, Washington – 17,855 recreation visits
Peaks crowned by more than 300 glaciers tower over this alpine landscape. More than 1,600 species of plants have been identified on this land that spans temperate rainforest to a dry ponderosa pine ecosystem. There are more than 400 miles of trails.
5. Lake Clark National Park & Preserve, Alaska – 18,278 recreation visits
Stretching across more than 4 million acres, this national park and preserve is home to three designated Wild Rivers and two National Natural Landmark volcanoes. The land holds 10,000 years of human history and preserves the ancestral homelands of the Dena’ina people.
6. Katmai National Park & Preserve, Alaska – 24,764 recreation visits
Katmai is an important habitat for thousands of brown bears. One of the world’s premier bear-viewing spots, according to the Park Service, Katmai is home to an estimated 2,200 brown bears. Brooks Camp along the Brooks River is one of the most popular viewing spots to observe bears feasting on salmon.
7. Isle Royale National Park, Michigan – 25,844 recreation visits
An isolated archipelago in Lake Superior, Isle Royale boasts 165 miles of trails and more than 30 campgrounds. It’s open from mid-April through the end of October. Ferry and seaplane service typically runs from mid-May through the end of September, according to NPS. There are fewer mammal species here — only 19 — than on the mainland because animals must cross at least 14 miles of Lake Superior. Wolves and moose are among the notable animal residents.
8. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve, Alaska – 50,189 recreation visits
America’s largest national park, Wrangell-St. Elias encompasses 13.2 million acres — or about the size of Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park and Switzerland combined, the Park Service says. Most of the park is backcountry, and visitor services are limited. There are some maintained trails in the frontcountry Nabesna and McCarthy areas.
9. Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida – 83,817 recreation visits
About 70 miles (113 km) west of Key West, Dry Tortugas is mostly open water with seven small islands. Garden Key is home to one of the nation’s largest 19th-century forts, Fort Jefferson. The park is accessible by boat or plane and is host to nearly 300 species of birds. Bush Key closes every year from February to September so that sooty terns and brown noddies can breed there undisturbed.
10. Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve, Alaska – 89,768 recreation visits
Another Alaska wilderness park, Glacier Bay covers 3.3 million acres. Late May through early September marks the main visitor season. Visitors arrive by ferry or boat, and sea kayaking is a popular way to see the park’s spectacular tidewater glaciers. Black and brown bears live here, and the park recently temporarily closed one area to foot traffic after a bear got food from campers.
11. Great Basin National Park, Nevada – 144,875 recreation visits
Mountain peaks meet hot desert valleys here. Great Basin National Park is home to 13,063-foot Wheeler Peak, ancient bristlecone pines, about 40 caves and a wide array of plants and animals. The elevation ranges from 5,000 to 13,000 feet with hiking trails for all levels.
12. Congaree National Park, South Carolina – 215,181 recreation visits
Congaree National Park’s landscape is “defined by the presence of both flood and flame,” the Park Service says. Flood waters from the Congaree and Wateree rivers regularly cover the park’s old-growth bottomland hardwood forest, and the upland pine forest depends on wildfires to clear out competing vegetation. Canoeing and kayaking are popular ways to explore the park. There’s a 15-mile marked canoe trail.
13. Denali National Park & Preserve, Alaska – 229,521 recreation visits
Covering six million acres, this wild land is home to North America’s tallest park — 20,310-foot Denali. Off-trail hiking is the norm, and vehicle access to its sole road is largely limited to buses. Grizzly and black bears, wolves, caribou, moose and Dall’s sheep all live here.
14. Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota – 243,042 recreation visits
Billed as a park of “water, islands and horizons,” Voyageurs covers 218,055 acres — 84,000 of which is water. There are more than 500 islands and four large lakes, plus more than two dozen smaller lakes in the park, which is best experienced by boat. Voyageurs shares its northern boundary with Canada, and lucky visitors may even see the northern lights.
15. Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas – 243,291 recreation visits
This park boasts the four highest peaks in Texas and the world’s most extensive Permian fossil reef. Guadalupe Mountains Wilderness has more than 80 miles of trail including a hike in the Salt Basin Dunes that rise 100 feet from the desert floor.
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Sky’s This England trailer and release date revealed starring BAFTA winning actor Kenneth Branagh
The drama follows the early months of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister
A teaser trailer for the eagerly anticipated drama ‘This England’ has been released by Sky.
Along with the trailer, a release date for the six part drama has also been announced.
This England is based on Boris Johnson’s (played by Academy Award winning actor Kenneth Branagh) first few months as Prime Minister and also follows the impact of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The show is produced by Michael Winterbottom’s Revolution Films and Richard Brown’s Passenger.
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Here’s what we know about the drama, including what it is based on, when it will be released and where it will be available to watch.
When will This England be released?
The new drama will launch on Sky Atlantic and streaming service NOW on 21 September, 2022.
What is This England about?
A spokesperson for Sky said: “The drama takes us inside the halls of power, as Johnson (Branagh) grapples with Covid-19, Brexit, and a controversial personal and political life.
“The events in government are interwoven with stories from around the country, from the experts and scientists racing against time to understand the virus; the doctors, nurses and care-home workers on the frontline working tirelessly and heroically to contain and overcome it; and ordinary people whose lives were thrown into turmoil.”
How to sign up for Sky and Now TV
The drama will be shown on Sky Atlantic from September onwards, and here is how you can sign up to Sky beforehand.
A range of deals are available for Sky, including a £22 a month offer which provides customers with Sky and Netflix.
This England will also be available to stream on NOW TV from 21 September onwards.
Packages can be purchased by signing up on the Now TV website, and you can then stream to a wide range of devices including games consoles, laptops and smartphones.
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These are the Top 10 ‘cowboy culture’ phrases often used in the UK
Nearly three quarters (73 per cent) of adults would give up their 9-5 life tomorrow, to be a cowboy - or girl - in America instead.
Of 2,000 adults polled, the current cost of living crisis in the UK has left 50 per cent more likely to dream of leaving the country for a simpler, homestead life.
While 29 per cent would happily swap their lives in Britain for life on a ranch.
It also emerged 30 per cent are so enamoured with the idea of cowboy life, they want to go on a ranching holiday, and 50 per cent enjoy watching western movies and TV shows.
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When it comes to what attracts people to life on a ranch, 34 per cent equate the cowboy look - hat, boots, checked shirt and jeans - with the cowboy lifestyle over any other aspect of ranch life.
While 26 per cent named the most appealing aspect of ranch life as the great outdoors, plumping for the fresh air and wide-open spaces above a large ranch house or life on the land.
The study into Brits’ attitudes into modern Western living was commissioned by Paramount+, to celebrate season 4 of the critically-acclaimed series Yellowstone, which saw 11 million viewers tune in when it aired in the US earlier this year.
The study, carried out via OnePoll, also revealed the top 10 phrases from cowboy culture Brits use in everyday life, with ‘howdy’ at the top of the list.
‘Howdy partner’, ‘make hay while the sun shines’, ‘peckish’ and ‘yellow belly’ completed the top five.
Real-life Westerner takes the streets of London
Set in Montana, Yellowstone chronicles the Dutton family, led by patriarch John Dutton - played by Kevin Costner - who controls the largest contiguous cattle ranch in America.
Amid shifting alliances, unsolved murders, open wounds, and hard-earned respect – the ranch is in constant conflict with those it borders – an expanding town, an Indian reservation, and the United States' first national park.
A real-life Western entertainer Todd Various took to the streets of London to perform his award-winning rope spinning and whip cracking show.
Passers-by on Kensington High Street cheered as Todd cracked his 8ft cord whip, stopped traffic and delighted crowds with his signature wedding rope trick.
Top 10 ‘cowboy culture’ phrases used by Brits
- Howdy
- Howdy, partner
- Make hay while the sun shines
- Peckish
- Yellow belly
- Play second fiddle
- Been through the mill
- Whole hog
- Above board
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When is Black Friday 2022? What is it, when does it take place - and when is Cyber Monday?
Black Friday has become a November shopping tradition for many
Black Friday is a day which has become synonymous with bagging great deals in shops and online.
Shopping centres become a frenzy of activity for 24 hours as people look to snap up huge discounts on products.
Originally becoming big in the USA, Black Friday is still a relatively new concept here in the UK but we’ve been swept into the euphoria more and more each year, with over £8.57 billion being spent on online sales in the UK on Black Friday 2019.
In 2013 Asda became the first main retailer in the UK to launch huge discount deals on Black Friday, and in the years that followed other shops followed.
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The rise in online sales has contributed to a significant rise in the amount spent on the internet each Black Friday.
Here’s what you need to know about the shopping event in 2022.
When is Black Friday 2022?
Black Friday always falls at around the same time each year, which is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the USA.
This usually pinpoints Black Friday anywhere between 23 and 29 November.
In 2022, Black Friday is 25 November although deals tend to launch in the week leading up to the event and sometimes even earlier.
Which retailers will take part in Black Friday 2022?
Many of the highstreet brands in the UK take part in Black Friday, and 2022 is likely to be no different.
Retailers do not disclose whether or not they are taking part in Black Friday or what deals they will have until much closer to the date.
Some of the biggest retailers who always take part in the event are Amazon, John Lewis, Argos, Currys and Boots.
When is Cyber Monday?
The last Monday in November is known as Cyber Monday, which is another day dedicated to significant retail discounts.
As the name suggests, this is a day of huge online sales rather than high street shops.
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Vale of Leithen hoping for first win of season –if they can cut out mistakes
Vale of Leithen are still without a win in their first East of Scotland Premier Division campaign since 2013 but manager Michael Wilson is hoping they won’t have to wait too much longer to start picking up points.
The Innerleithen side were beaten 3-2 at home by Inverkeithing Hillfield Swifts on Saturday, their third defeat on the trot, and they’re up against another Fife side, Dundonald Bluebell, away this coming Saturday, with kick-off at 2.30pm.
Wilson is hopeful the Borderers can open their account for the season at Cardenden’s Moorside Park but knows that will be easier said than done, their hosts sitting ten places above them in the 16-team table with six points from three games.
“It’ll be tough,” he said. “They’re a good side, but we go into games wanting to win so I’ll set a team up that’ll try to win and we’ll take it from there.”
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Looking back at Saturday’s game, Wilson said: “Again it was mistakes that cost us.
“It’s happening again and again and again. A couple of them were mistakes we’ve seen in games previously and, to me, that’s not acceptable.
“I say to the boys ‘I don’t mind if you make mistakes, but if you continue to make the same mistakes, we’ve got an issue’.
“We’re getting there. We’re a good team. It’s just that were so young and we’ve got a couple of boys inexperienced at this level, but the only way to get experience is to play games, make mistakes and learn from those mistakes.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Whitworth University officials announced they have reached a 'final resolution' after a cyber attack that has impacted the university website. Whitworth announced in a statement that it expects to have 95% of the system restored by Wednesday, Aug. 31.
The statement says the university has added new layers of system protections to better prevent any future incidents and is asking students, alumni, employees, and donors to be patient as they work toward a resolution.
Whitworth said it became aware on Friday, July 29, that its information systems had been hacked. Information technology (IT) and Instructional Resources (IR) teams worked alongside cybersecurity experts to stop the incident and restore the systems.
As part of the investigation, the IT and IR experts have been working with outside forensic experts to identify if any personal information of students, alumni, employees, or donors was compromised in the data breach.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD) is opening several limited monkeypox vaccination clinics on Aug. 23, Aug. 26, and Aug. 30. The clinics are located at the Spokane Regional Health District office at 1101 W. College Ave., Suite 403.
People looking to get vaccinated must make appointments at the health district’s website and must pick the date and time that works best for them. No walk-ins are allowed.
At the clinic, the JYYNEOS vaccine for monkeypox will be administered. The vaccine has only been approved for people 18 and older and is determined to be at high risk for monkeypox infection.
According to the SRHD, due to the limited availability of the vaccine, they are asking only individuals who meet the following criteria to make a vaccine appointment:
- Gay, bisexual, or other person born male who has had sexual contact with another person born male, or trans or non-cisgender people (regardless of sex at birth) who have sex with people who identify as gay, bi, or otherwise MSM in the past 3 months AND
- Have at least one of the following risk criteria:*
- Multiple or anonymous sex partners in the last three months
- History of early syphilis or gonorrhea in the prior year
- Methamphetamine use in the last three months
- Attendance at a bathhouse, public sex venue, or group sex (sex including >3 people at the same time) in the last three months
- Being houseless/unstably housed (including living in a shelter, car, or congregate setting; living with friends or relatives; couch surfing) in the last 3 months
- Being incarcerated currently or in the last three months
- Exchanging sex for money, drugs, or other purposes in the last three months
- Black, Hispanic/Latino, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (NHOPI), Asian, Indigenous, or American Indian/Alaska Native
The criteria to qualify for a vaccine appointment may change as monkeypox vaccines become more available and as more information on the monkeypox virus infection is known.
An initial clinic was open for Aug. 19, but those appointments have been filled, according to the SRHD's Twitter.
According to the CDC, monkeypox is a rare disease caused by a viral infection from the monkeypox virus. Symptoms include rashes that may be located near the genitals and can appear on the hands, feet, chest, face, or mouth.
For more information, visit the SRHD website for additional details.
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BOISE, Idaho — 2,000 miles away from Idaho, there is a group working to create more access to controversial books, books that continue to be at the center of controversy in Idaho.
“We have three libraries in New York City. We have the Brooklyn Public Library that covers just the borough of Brooklyn. All 2.7 million of us here in in Brooklyn,” Chief Librarian for the Brooklyn Public Library, Nick Higgins said.
The Brooklyn Public library serves a New York Community that has more people than the entire State of Idaho. The team at the library is not just concerned about their community, but also readers across the country who are seeing books banned from local libraries because of controversial content.
So, they created a program to help a demographic who they believe books are vital too, young adults.
“This is an intellectual freedom to read initiative by the Brooklyn Public Library. You know, we've been paying attention to a lot of the book challenges and bans that have been taking place, particularly over the last year in many places across the country," Higgins said. "We don't necessarily experience a whole lot of that here in Brooklyn, but we know that there are library patrons and library staff who are facing these and we wanted to figure out a way to step in and help, particularly for young people who are seeing, some books in their library collections that may represent them, but they're being taken off the shelves."
Brooklyn is offering a free eCard to any person aged 13 to 21 across the United States, so they can access their large collection of 500,000 digital books and resources and yes, controversial books being banned and discussed in Idaho are available for Idaho young adult to access.
“What more can we do to actually help out a young person in a community that might not have those kind of responsible adults or those resources to push back against people who might be a lot more vocal, let's say, or aggressive in promoting a particular ideology that goes against, maybe everything that a young person really feels to be true to themselves,” Higgins said.
So, why is the Brooklyn Public Library doing this? Higgins says it comes back to what a community library is, regardless of location.
“A public library represents all of us in a pluralistic society we exist with other people, with other ideas, other viewpoints and perspectives and that's what makes a healthy democracy -- not shutting down access to those points of view or silencing voices that we don't agree with, but expanding access to those voices and having conversations and ideas that we agree with and ideas that we don't agree with,” Higgins said.
More than 4,000 eCards have been distributed to young adults across the country, including here in Idaho. One Idahoan wrote to the library in Brooklyn about their concerns about one political lens ruling out valuable books.
It may be a simple concept, but Higgins explains that removing content that young adults are looking to connect with, especially minority experiences, sends a powerful message about the communities’ view of them.
“Really, it really puts everything into context. There are kids out there who have nowhere else to turn and they're looking for any help that they can get from wherever they can find it,” Higgins said. “I mean, it's hard enough to be a teenager, but it becomes a lot harder when you feel like your entire community is trying to tell you that your identity doesn't matter.”
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department’s investigation into whether former President Donald Trump illegally stored classified records at his Florida estate – and potentially violated the Espionage Act – is still “in its early stages,” a top national security prosecutor said Thursday.
The revelation by Jay Bratt, a top national security prosecutor, was the clearest indication yet that the Justice Department is directly scrutinizing Trump’s conduct and is moving forward in its criminal investigation after the FBI seized classified and top secret information during a search at Mar-a-Lago last week.
The details about the investigation were laid out Thursday during a court hearing after several news organizations, including The Associated Press, asked a federal judge to make public the affidavit supporting the warrant that allowed FBI agents to search Trump’s Florida estate.
The government contends that releasing the information would compromise its investigation.
Unsealing the affidavit would provide a “road map” of the investigation — which is in its “early stages” — and would expose the next steps to be taken by federal agents and prosecutors, said Bratt, the chief of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence and export control section.
He argued it was in the public interest for the investigation, including interviews of witnesses, to go forward unhindered.
As the hearing kicked off, a small caravan of vehicles with Trump flags drove past the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach, Florida. An attorney for Trump, Christina Bobb, was in the courthouse on Thursday but said she was only there to observe the court proceeding.
The media companies argue the affidavit's release would help the public determine if the Justice Department had legitimate reasons for the search or if it was part of a Biden administration vendetta against Trump, as the former president and his backers contend. Trump, in a Truth Social post last week, called for the release of the unredacted affidavit in the interest of transparency.
“The matter is one of utmost public interest, involving the actions of current and former government officials,” wrote attorney Carol Jean LoCiero, who is representing the Times and others. “President Trump decried the the search as an ‘assault that could only take place in Third World Countries,’ asserted agents ‘even broke into my safe,’ and otherwise challenged the validity of the search.”
U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart — the judge who authorized the warrant and presided over Thursday's hearing — said in court that he was “inclined” not to seal the whole affidavit and told the Justice Department to submit a copy of the affidavit with proposed redactions for the information it wants to keep secret.
After the government submits that proposed version by next Thursday, the judge said he would review it and may meet lawyers for the government and give them a chance to make an argument for why specific information should be withheld.
Justice Department attorneys have argued in a court filings that the investigation into Trump's handling of “highly classified material” is ongoing and that the document contains sensitive information about witnesses.
A recent filing by Juan Antonio Gonzalez, the U.S. attorney in Miami, and Bratt, a top Justice Department national security official, says making the affidavit public would “cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation.”
“If disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps,” they wrote.
FBI agents searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on Aug. 8, removing 11 sets of classified documents, with some not only marked top secret but also “sensitive compartmented information," according to a receipt of what was taken that was released Friday. That is a special category meant to protect the nation’s most important secrets that if revealed publicly could cause “exceptionally grave” damage to U.S. interests. The court records did not provide specific details about information the documents might contain. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/trump-mar-a-lago-fbi-search-investigation/507-8175a9c9-534a-4512-82ee-eb2f809be73e | 2022-08-18T19:25:57Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/trump-mar-a-lago-fbi-search-investigation/507-8175a9c9-534a-4512-82ee-eb2f809be73e | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Looking at the 4 hour chart, the pair is approaching a topside trend line near $91.63. The 38.2% retracement of the move down from the July 29 high cuts across at $91.87 finally the 100 bar moving average of the 4 hour chart is at $91.98. Getting above those levels is required to increase the bullish bias.
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FBI agents took 11 sets of classified records from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate during a search on Aug. 8, court records revealed.
In a post on TruthSocial, his social media platform, Trump later claimed that the documents were “all declassified.” Kash Patel, who served as chief of staff for the acting defense secretary during the Trump administration, also claimed that Trump had declassified the documents.
While it still may not be legal for Trump to possess declassified documents from his presidency, many VERIFY readers, including Beverly and Cole, asked whether the president can declassify documents while in office.
THE QUESTION
Can the president declassify documents?
THE SOURCES
- U.S. Department of the Navy v. Egan
- Executive Order 13526
- Kel McClanahan, executive director of the National Security Counselors, a nonprofit public interest law firm
- Richard Immerman, Edward J. Buthusiem Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow in History at Temple University
- The New York Times, et al., v. Central Intelligence Agency
THE ANSWER
Yes, the president can declassify documents while in office, but there isn’t a set protocol they have to follow.
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The U.S. classification system has three levels: top secret, secret and confidential.
“That is based on the level of damage that its release would cause to the national security of the United States,” Kel McClanahan, executive director of the National Security Counselors, said. “When you classify a document, that means that only people with a security clearance equal to the classification or higher can read it.”
A sitting U.S. president has wide-ranging authority to classify and declassify certain documents, but former presidents do not have authority over classification and declassification.
Current presidents can classify documents as long as they can “make a plausible argument that it is related to national security.” On the other hand, the president “doesn’t have to give any reason for declassifying” information, according to McClanahan.
“He can just say, ‘I decide that this should be declassified,’ and it’s declassified,” McClanahan said.
A 2009 executive order directs the head of a government agency that originally deemed information classified to oversee its declassification, and sets some rules for that process. But those protocols outlined in the executive order don’t apply to the president, McClanahan said.
However, presidents generally follow an informal protocol when declassifying documents, Richard Immerman, a historian and professor at Temple University, told VERIFY.
First, the president will consult all departments and agencies that have an interest in a classified document. Those departments or agencies then provide their assessment as to whether the document should stay classified for national security reasons. If there is a dispute among the agencies, they debate, but the president ultimately makes the decision on declassification, Immerman explained.
When documents are declassified, they are reviewed line-by-line. In many cases, certain words, sentences and paragraphs remain redacted, even if the document is declassified, Immerman said.
The Supreme Court determined in its 1988 decision on Department of the Navy v. Egan that the president’s power over classified information comes from executive authority granted by Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, which says, in part, that the “President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.”
“His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security and to determine whether an individual is sufficiently trustworthy to occupy a position in the Executive Branch that will give that person access to such information flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant,” the Supreme Court decision reads.
Though there aren’t specific protocols that the president must follow to declassify a document, federal courts have ruled that they will “refuse to recognize what they consider to be an inference of declassification,” McClanahan said.
The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in a 2020 decision about whether statements made by then-President Trump declassified the existence of a CIA program that “declassification, even by the president, must follow established procedures.”
If a document is declassified, that doesn’t automatically mean it can be shared widely, either. For example, nuclear information – which is generally classified – is also protected by the federal Atomic Energy Act of 1954, McClanahan explained.
The Washington Post reported the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago for “nuclear documents,” among other classified information.
“Because [nuclear information] has this dual protection, even if you declassify a nuclear document, you cannot disseminate it because it’s still what’s called restricted data,” McClanahan said.
“So to the extent that he [Trump] had any nuclear information in there, declassification would not help him in the slightest, because he would still be disseminating restricted data or moving restricted data,” he added.
There are other federal laws in place that bar a president from taking government records, whether they are classified or declassified. Still, breaking those laws – or most other laws – doesn’t automatically disqualify someone from becoming president, because of the simple presidential qualifications that are outlined in the U.S. Constitution.
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On Aug. 16, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized approval for people with mild to moderate hearing loss to buy hearing aids over the counter from stores and pharmacies across the country.
A person will be able to buy a hearing aid without medical exams, a prescription or audiologist fitting adjustment as early as mid-October, the FDA said.
“This action makes good on my commitment to lower costs for American families, delivering nearly $3,000 in savings to American families for a pair of hearing aids and giving people more choices to improve their health and wellbeing,” President Joe Biden said.
But some people said a law signed by former President Donald Trump paved the way for it to happen. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) also tweeted that legislation she brought forth with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in 2017 helped make it happen.
THE QUESTION
Did a law signed in 2017 pave the way for over-the-counter hearing aids?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, a law that passed in 2017 paved the way for over-the-counter hearing aids. Then-President Trump signed the Food and Drug Administration Reauthorization Act, which included language to make hearing aids available over the counter. But a number of politicians and government organizations also had a hand in the policy change.
WHAT WE FOUND
In August 2017, then-President Donald Trump signed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Reauthorization Act (FDARA) into law.
- Authorized the federal government to charge fees to companies in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and other healthcare industries, which provide some funding for the agency to review products.
- Set the standard for the FDA to set and meet performance goals for the review of medical products, with a goal of getting therapies, medical devices, and other products more quickly to market.
The FDA works with Congress and holds public meetings to determine what should be included in the Reauthorization Act. Every five years, the Reauthorization Act is introduced to Congress, and signed into law by the president.
One bill that was passed as part of the 2017 Reauthorization Act was the Over-the-Counter (OTC) Hearing Aid Act, a bipartisan bill brought forth by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
The OTC Hearing Aid Act required the FDA to create a new category of over-the-counter hearing aids that would meet high standards but also provide consumers the option of an FDA-regulated device at lower cost.
Under this new category, a consumer would also be able to purchase the device without a prescription or exam through in-person transactions, mail, or online.
In the FDA’s Aug. 16, 2022, release about the approval, the administration said even though the 2017 law required the FDA to create a category of over-the-counter hearing aids, it was not fully implemented until President Joe Biden issued an executive order on July 9, 2022.
Biden’s executive order was written to “promote competition in the American economy, which will lower prices for families, increase wages for workers, and promote innovation and even faster economic growth.”
Part of that order directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make lower-cost hearing aids available over the counter, as called for by section 709 of the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017, within 120 days from the time the order was signed.
After the FDA announced the final approval of over-the-counter hearing aids, Warren and Grassley released a joint statement that the Over-the-Counter Hearing Act.
"Five years after our bipartisan Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act became law, consumers with mild to moderate hearing loss will finally have access to affordable over-the-counter hearing aids,” said Warren and Grassley. “We are thrilled that the FDA has finalized these guidelines and that safe, effective, accessible and affordable hearing aids will now be available over-the-counter for millions of Americans.”
So, we can VERIFY that a bill was signed into law in 2017 calling for the FDA to make hearing aids available over the counter, but it took a joint effort from Congress, the FDA and two presidential administrations to make it happen. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/verify/government-verify/law-that-passed-in-2017-paved-the-way-for-over-the-counter-hearing-aids/536-ffb3b7a0-1374-46dd-8d46-132c1ef6919d | 2022-08-18T19:26:09Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/verify/government-verify/law-that-passed-in-2017-paved-the-way-for-over-the-counter-hearing-aids/536-ffb3b7a0-1374-46dd-8d46-132c1ef6919d | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Most Americans admit they use social media at least once a day, but they also believe platforms like Facebook and Twitter are doing more to divide the nation than bring us together, according to research by NYU and the University of Cambridge.
Experts are now speaking out to allow a better understanding of where this division comes from, and what things unite us on social media platforms.
“The advent of social media has changed the information environment dramatically for individuals,” said Phillip Fernbach, a professor at the University of Colorado specializing in cognitive science research.
“It’s not so much the internet, but rather that the internet is always on us,” said Samuel Jay, a professor of communication studies at MSU Denver. “I think it’s a compelling argument in this shift and how we access that and what it does to us as a society. It is insanely steep curve that has occurred over the last 25 years when it comes to technology and access to information – and what I think is so wild is how fast things change.”
This is the age of social media—where you go to update your life, stay connected with friends and family, and now, where a lot of Americans go to get their daily news and information.
"I think you can think of social media as you can think of any tool,” said Toby Hopp, a professor at The University of Colorado specializing in digital media research. “A hammer for instance: I can hang art on my wall, fix things that need to be fixed. But I can also swing that hammer just as wildly. I can put holes in my living room or hit myself in the head. That's how I look at social media is that it's a mix of good and bad."
According to the Pew Research Center, about 53% of people said they get their news from social media.
Because we tend to be caught up daily on current events via social media or digitally, a lot of Americans think that this can be doing more to divide us than unite us. In fact, 64% percent of Americans believe that socal media platforms do more to divide us.
"We have taken to using information and feelings that use to be so specific to our private and personal lives, and we've really made the personal political now,” Jay said.
“One problem is that happens on both sides of the aisle,” Fernbach said. “So, people on both sides tend to have strong opinions on these issues and lose the nuance. And things aren’t black and white; sometimes they’re gray and we can lose that. Because we get into this habit of arguing from this position that we have.”
Social media services give users a platform to share their thoughts, especially political ones. Whether it's climate change, COVID, or racial and social issues.
However, some of this divide according to experts is due to the access to information, but more so, misinformation.
Another reason for this division is that people tend to discuss their political views only with those who align with their ideology.
"When we're arguing about these complicated issues, as individuals we actually don't know that much about them,” Fernbach said. “We might feel that we understand them to a certain degree but they're often complex and yet, everyone that you talk to online seems to have strong opinions on these complex issues. So, then the questions come up of why do people have such strong opinions, a lot of my research delves into that. When we're part of a community, that has a particular position, just by virtue of participating in that community, we tend to feel like we have a better understanding of that issue better than we do."
However, there are sparks of uniting over causes on social media, particularly when a tragedy happens.
"You see that social media allows to collectively grieve to collectively organize around a problem or a tragedy,” Hopp said. “Whatever character these tragedies take on, you see time and time again people want to be a positive voice around a problem. Social media does allow that, that's not something we can say doesn't matter because it does matter."
To become more united, experts suggest limiting their time on social media, and read through information and formulate their own opinions based on facts that overrules misinformation.
“I think that we need to take a step back from that, and understand that social media isn’t really real life,” Hopp said. “The negative opinions that it invokes or perspectives that it pushes us towards having, it’s not healthy for society in general but for us as individuals.” | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/social-media-and-how-it-divides-us | 2022-08-18T19:26:57Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/social-media-and-how-it-divides-us | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Air Force Lt. Gen Stacey T. Hawkins assumes command of the Air Force Sustainment Center from Lt. Gen. Tom D. Miller, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., August 15, 2022. The ceremony was presided over by Gen. Duke Z. Richardson, Commander of Air Force Materiel Command. (U.S. Air Force video by 88 Air Base Wing Public Affairs.)
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Army Reserve Careers Group hosts the annual Army Reserve Career Counselor of the Year Competition, July 2022 at Camp Parks, California.
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It reminds me so much of home. It’s a thought I had on multiple occasions when I traveled to Portugal back in 2019. Lisbon’s proximity to the coast and its bustling city center full of steep hills felt very much like San Francisco. Even the city’s 25 de Abril Bridge was designed by the same architect who constructed the Golden Gate Bridge. To the north of Lisbon, Porto’s alfresco restaurants that border the Douro River sparked a memory of a trip I took to California’s Central Coast, where seafood and water views are also a welcome way to spend an afternoon.
While these parallels caught my eye, Portugal’s cities—from coastal towns near appealing beaches in the southern Algarve region to terraced vineyards that unfold on cliff sides in the north’s Douro Valley—still stand as singular experiences with new corners to uncover again and again. Recently, I made a return to Portugal, beginning in the Algarve, then continuing on to two cities that I can never get enough of: Lisbon and Porto. Here’s how I mapped out a coastal, city, and wine adventure that I won’t soon forget.
Catching waves and beats in the Algarve
I first visited Portugal’s southernmost region, called the Algarve, as a study abroad student visiting for the weekend from nearby Spain. It was a whirlwind introduction consisting mostly of bar hopping and karaoke, so I was excited to return this time, with a bit more maturity and curiosity under my belt. A 2.5-hour drive from Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado Airport led to Porches, a coastal town with a population of 2,000 people. Porches is close to a number of beaches, cafés, and a skilled artisan community that creates the region’s famous decorative handmade tile pieces at Porches Pottery.
I checked into the 170-room Vila Vita Parc, perched on a clifftop overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. The property is set on 54 tropical acres and features six bars and 11 restaurants (including a farm- and sea-to-table restaurant, Ocean, with two Michelin stars), three swimming pools, a spa with 14 treatment rooms, a new multi-sports field, a pitch and putt, driving range, and indoor gym. Vila Vita also has five newly launched villas called the Masterpiece Collection that offer ultimate privacy, a butler service, private pool, and views that overlook a sapphire-colored ocean. I am often put off by large resorts that feel like cities unto themselves, but Vila Vita manages to remain a large oasis with personalized service and authenticity to its surroundings, from its whitewashed Moorish architecture to rows of lounge chairs on a hillside that serve only to put the surrounding ocean and fauna on full display.
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After a poolside lunch of garlic- and wine-soaked mussels that never disappoint in Portugal, I headed down a series of wooden steps between two cliffs that landed me at the resort’s secluded golden-sand beach for a few hours. In the evening, at Adega restaurant, comfort foods from the region, including a rustic soup full of spicy sausage and vegetables, completed a delicious first night in Porches. The next day, a 10-minute cab ride revealed one of the most beautiful beaches I’ve ever seen: Praia da Marinha. From above, golden rock formations jutted out from bronze-colored sand and a turquoise sea. Topless sunbathers, families, and couples carved out their spot on the sand before inevitably taking a picture near one of the massive rock formations. It was an afternoon of ease and awe and a great ending to my quick stop in Porches.
My next stop was in another coastal town with a lot more movement, in part because the largest Afrobeats festival in the world made its way to its shores. For three days, Afro Nation took over the expansive Praia de Rocha beach in Portimão, with two stages and travelers from around the world who dug their feet into the sand and raised their hands to the sounds of Burna Boy, WizKid, Megan Thee Stallion, Rema, Beanie Man, and more. It was the best music festival I’ve been to, in part because I got to see my favorite artists up close, but also because of the setting. Yes, the music was impressive, but so was the sherbert-tinted skyline above and ocean in the distance.
As luck would have it, only a few rooms remained at Bela Vista Resort, steps away from the festival. The five-star Relais & Châteaux property is a haven behind a gate on a busy street filled with bars, restaurants, and foot traffic. Thirty rooms and suites are spread across the grounds, including a three-story villa built in the 20th century. Splashes of blue and yellow alongside decorative nautical objects complement sea-facing property. A wooden painted ceiling at the light-filled bar and a staircase surrounded by stained glass windows suggested a visit to an intimate mansion more than a hotel. The gourmet restaurant Vista—helmed by chef João Olivei—earned a Michelin star in 2017 for its inventive takes on seafood and fresh produce from the region. Outside the main villa, a large pool flanked by palm trees and white cabanas is an added bonus to such an intimate property. Though the party from Afro Nation spilled into the streets well into the early morning, at Bela Vista, I still felt a world away.
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A riverside retreat, with lots of wine
In desperate need of coffee and a full night’s rest after the festival, I braved my way to the nearby town of Faro to board TAP Portugal’s one-hour flight to Porto, in the northern part of the country. The city is near one of the country’s best wine regions—the Douro Valley—as well as port cellars and alfresco dining with seafood restaurants I am still dreaming of today.
The day in Porto began with a check-in to another hilltop stunner: the Yeatman Hotel. Even if you aren’t staying, the views alone are worth the visit. The room terraces, pool, and multilayered balconies reveal unobstructed views of the historic city center in all its glory, right across the Douro River. Pastel buildings with crumbling facades, tables lining a cobblestone promenade, and steep hills that lead to side streets dotted with boutique shops and tapas bars become even more illuminated as the sun sets. The Yeatman sits on 3.5 acres, with three restaurants, a spacious spa, and events like wine dinner Thursdays, which feature a particular wine region or style for guests and visitors to enjoy. Each accommodation at the 109-room property is named after a Portuguese wine producer.
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Right below the Yeatman sits World of Wine, a cultural district consisting of seven interactive museum experiences, and 12 restaurants, bars, and cafés created from old port wine cellars. First opened in 2020, it’s a good place to visit to learn more about the history of port, wine, and even the textile industry in Portugal.
Across the river in the heart of Porto, I found my way to Wine Quay Bar, a family-owned spot I discovered back in 2019 and couldn’t wait to return to, particularly for a glass of berry-forward baga wine from Portugal’s Bairrada wine region. At night on its terrace, building lights twinkle against the river. For meals, a recommendation from a resident required a 20-minute cab ride outside of Porto to the seaside town of Matosinhos.
I will always travel for food, and once again, I was not disappointed. Marisqueira Antiga displays every crustacean and fish imaginable, but I settled on a rockfish, similar to a sea bass but thicker with a crispy skin that reminded me of well-seasoned fried chicken. For my last dinner, I visited Cantinho do Avillez, helmed by acclaimed Portuguese chef José Avillez. In a corner of the busy bistro, I unashamedly devoured a tender duck confit swimming in a red curry sauce with Chinese aubergine.
A final farewell to Lisbon
It was time to end the trip in a city I often say I’d like to one day call home. Lisbon doesn’t feel grandiose like parts of Paris or overwhelming like parts of London. And perhaps it’s unfair to compare European capitals at all, but it’s Lisbon’s “come as you are and so will I” energy that has always drawn me closer to it. I checked into AlmaLusa in Baixa Chiado, which is walking distance from most of the city’s major sites, including the Tagus River, bars, and museums. Formerly a grocery store, the hotel opened in 2016 and still maintains intricate tile work from the 18th century. There are only 28 rooms and suites; a restaurant and terrace on the first floor are an attractive place for breakfast and remote working. Outside, a terrace on the Praça do Município has a small bar for an afternoon cocktail and some good old-fashioned people watching.
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My Lisbon afternoons were spent pumping up the city’s infamous steep hills, with rewards of its miradouros (viewpoints) from neighborhoods including Alfama and Principe Real. In the heart of the city at Rossio Square, Santa Justa elevator overlooks the entire downtown area all the way to the Tagus River. For lunch, I headed to the recently opened restaurant Oficio where delicious tapas reign supreme: a sausage croquette with a quail egg in its center; fire-cooked skate with herb sauce; and my favorite creamy Algarve crab dip served in the shell. Across the street from Oficio, I headed to another shared plates extravaganza later that day, Páteo. A simple yet well-seasoned chicken piri piri and glass of rosé kicked off the afternoon in the spacious gastronomic Bairro do Avillez complex that also houses chef José Avillez’s Mini Bar and Taberna restaurants.
Upstairs in the Bairro Alto Hotel, dinner is served in a nautical-themed restaurant called Bahr. An outside patio offers panoramic views of the Tagus River and famous 25 de Abril bridge; inside, chef Bruno Rocha serves up dishes like spiced samosa rolls, wild turbot with grilled kale and chorizo, and, for dessert, a refreshing apple granita.
For my last night in Lisbon, I visited BouBou’s, a restaurant in Principe Real that quickly became the best dining experience I’ve had all year. Louise Bourrat, who recently won Top Chef France 2022, and her team practice masterful care with the food laid on the counters of the open air kitchen. Rows of freshly picked herbs, chilled oysters, tender bites of hamachi, and sliced watermelon come to life under her guidance. Bourrat’s approach is surgical with her attention to detail. I watched her place edible flowers on a sliced eggplant for nearly 10 minutes, her attention never swaying. She is an artist, sometimes flustered, sometimes cautiously hopeful that her creations will come out precisely as she has imagined them. And they do. I reveled in each bite of a sweet potato ceviche with coconut, pomegranate, and kaffir lime and a spicy and sour vegan taco that included kimchi rice, glazed seitan, and wasabi.
A nightcap at a nearby bar called Social B was the sweet finale to this whirlwind trip of food, wine, and scenery. As luck would have it, the bartender was also a fan of Burna Boy, the same Afrobeats artist who kicked off my trip in Portimão at the Afro Nation festival. To end the trip with those same sweet melodies again among strangers was a full circle moment indeed. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/explore-the-best-of-portugals-coastal-beach-towns-and-cities | 2022-08-18T19:35:05Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/explore-the-best-of-portugals-coastal-beach-towns-and-cities | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
There are plenty of fancy doughnut shops. You know the type, the ones that count bacon or basil in their ingredient list. But if you’re looking for an old-school bastion of fluorescent lights and pink boxes full of fried dough, this is the spot. A family-run joint that has supplied prework breakfast and postbar bingeing since the 1960s, Bob’s draws a crowd day and night for the fresh doughnuts made from scratch. Bob’s bakes all the nostalgic favorites: glazed, chocolate, sprinkles, sugar, and fresh apple fritters, and crumb-topped doughnuts. You might also notice a giant doughnut in the window. Like a dare, this doughy beast invites you to take Bob’s Big Donut Challenge. Finish the beast within three minutes, and you’ll get your money back plus a Bob’s Donuts T-shirt and bragging rights, not to mention an inevitable stomachache. | https://www.afar.com/places/bobs-donuts | 2022-08-18T19:35:11Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/places/bobs-donuts | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Oktoberfest is back at Odell Brewing in Fort Collins
Dust off your lederhosen: Odell's Oktoberfest is back.
In conjunction with the seasonal release of its Oktoberfest Marzen lager, the Fort Collins brewery is hosting a free Oktoberfest celebration Sunday.
Oktober-festivities will run from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., with Denver's Thirsty 5 polka band playing from 3-5 p.m. and beer boots ($9 on their own or $12 including a beer fill) and Big Raven Bread soft pretzels available for purchase.
Tours have also returned to the Fort Collins brewery and are available at 1 and 3 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Tour tickets are $10 and available when you sign up in person at the Fort Collins taproom. No online booking option is currently available, according to the brewery.
Odell isn't just about beerHead there on our next hot day for some frosty frozen wine | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/life/food-drink/2022/08/18/fort-collins-things-to-do-polka-and-pretzels-at-odells-oktoberfest/65408128007/ | 2022-08-18T19:36:53Z | coloradoan.com | control | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/life/food-drink/2022/08/18/fort-collins-things-to-do-polka-and-pretzels-at-odells-oktoberfest/65408128007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN)—An Apex man has been arrested and charged with murder in connection to the death of Wake County deputy Ned Byrd.
Arturo Marin-Sotelo, 29, was arrested and charged with felony murder, according to court documents served on Thursday.
Deputy Byrd was shot and killed in the line of duty on August 11.
Byrd, 48, of Raleigh, was shot near Battle Bridge and Auburn Knightdale roads in Raleigh just after 11 p.m. August 11, Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker said. Byrd was outside of his vehicle at the time of the shooting and his K-9, Sasha, remained inside the patrol vehicle.
“The dog was still inside the vehicle which tells us that what he got out on didn’t appear to be any sort of threat or require any sort of need for his partner,” Baker said.
As Wake County’s investigation spanned into a fifth day, a river search, a property dispute, and a traffic stop all drew attention on Tuesday.
Dive teams searched the river and crews searched the shoreline off Auburn Knightdale Road, about half a mile from the scene where deputy Ned Byrd was killed late Thursday night.
This is a developing story, stay with CBS 17 for breaking news updates. | https://www.wspa.com/news/crime/apex-man-charged-with-murder-of-wake-co-deputy-ned-byrd/ | 2022-08-18T19:37:38Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/crime/apex-man-charged-with-murder-of-wake-co-deputy-ned-byrd/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – A stand-off has shut down White Horse and surrounding roads after gunshots were heard during a traffic stop.
Deputies said the stand-off began after shots were heard coming from the vehicle during a traffic stop at 2:30 p.m. Thursday.
The vehicle drove into a McDonald’s parking lot on White Horse Road after the shots were heard, deputies said they began a stand-off with the driver of the vehicle.
Deputies said they are actively negotiating with the driver.
Deputies say White Horse Road, Frontage, and surrounding roads will remain blocked off until the situation is resolved. | https://www.wspa.com/news/crime/traffic-stop-leads-to-stand-off-on-white-horse-rd-in-greenville-co/ | 2022-08-18T19:37:44Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/crime/traffic-stop-leads-to-stand-off-on-white-horse-rd-in-greenville-co/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Double engagement news for the Jordanian royal family
Two of Queen Rania of Jordan's children are now engaged: a few weeks after the announcement of Princess Iman's upcoming nuptials, it has been revealed that her elder brother Crown Prince Hussein is also officially off the market
The good news keeps on coming for The Royal Hashemite Court, as not one but two of King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan's children are now engaged.
Yesterday, it was announced that the heir to the throne, Crown Prince Hussein, had proposed to his girlfriend Rajwa Khaled bin Musaed bin Saif bin Abdulaziz Al Saif. The engagement took place at the home of Rajwa's father, with the Crown Prince's parents also in attendance.
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The prince's mother was quick to share her joy on Instagram, writing: ‘I didn’t think it was possible to hold so much joy in my heart! Congratulations to my eldest Prince Hussein and his beautiful bride-to-be, Rajwa.’
Despite being King Abdullah's eldest son, Prince Hussein did not grow up as heir to the throne. When Abdullah became king, he named his half-brother, Prince Hamzah, as his heir. However, he removed him from the line of succession in 2004, before naming his son Hussein as the next Crown Prince in 2009. He gained a history degree from Georgetown University in the US in 2016, before graduating from Sandhurst in 2017, and is now a Captain in the Jordanian Armed Forces.
The prince's engagement news comes several weeks after Prince Hussein's younger sister, Princess Iman, announced her own impending nuptials to her Venezuelan venture capitalist beau, Jameel Alexander Thermiotis.
At the time, her brother wrote on Instagram: ‘May God bless you and bring you together in goodness, God willing. Congratulations on the engagement my dear sister Iman and brother Jameel. I wish you a lifetime of happiness together.’
Prince Hussein and Princess Iman are the two eldest of King Abdullah and Queen Rania's four children, with a younger brother, Prince Hashem, 17, and younger sister, Princess Salma, 21.
The weddings will be the first for the Jordanian royal family since 2020, when Princess Raiyah, the half-sister of King Abdullah, married British writer Ned Donovan, the grandson of Roald Dahl. | https://www.tatler.com/article/double-engagement-news-for-the-jordanian-royal-family | 2022-08-18T19:37:49Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/double-engagement-news-for-the-jordanian-royal-family | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
According to the Mail Online, Princes William and Harry have been ‘kept in the dark’ over a new documentary about their mother, the late Diana, Princess of Wales. The Channel 4 programme is a four-part series entitled Investigating Diana: Death in Paris, and will air on the 25th anniversary of the princess's untimely death on 31 August.
On 31 August 1997, Diana was killed in a tragic car accident alongside her boyfriend Dodi Fayed. The couple had spent the summer together aboard Fayed's superyacht before travelling to Paris on their return to the UK. The princess died from the injuries she sustained in the car crash, which took place beneath the Pont de L'alma tunnel. The driver of the vehicle, who died at the scene of the incident, was discovered to have been under the influence of alcohol and prescription drugs at the time of the crash. | https://www.tatler.com/article/prince-william-and-prince-harry-didnt-know-about-documentary-on-dianas-death | 2022-08-18T19:37:55Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/prince-william-and-prince-harry-didnt-know-about-documentary-on-dianas-death | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
According to the Mail Online, Princes William and Harry have been ‘kept in the dark’ over a new documentary about their mother, the late Diana, Princess of Wales. The Channel 4 programme is a four-part series entitled Investigating Diana: Death in Paris, and will air on the 25th anniversary of the princess's untimely death on 31 August.
On 31 August 1997, Diana was killed in a tragic car accident alongside her boyfriend Dodi Fayed. The couple had spent the summer together aboard Fayed's superyacht before travelling to Paris on their return to the UK. The princess died from the injuries she sustained in the car crash, which took place beneath the Pont de L'alma tunnel. The driver of the vehicle, who died at the scene of the incident, was discovered to have been under the influence of alcohol and prescription drugs at the time of the crash. | https://www.tatler.com/article/prince-william-and-prince-harry-didnt-know-about-documentary-on-dianas-death | 2022-08-18T19:37:55Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/prince-william-and-prince-harry-didnt-know-about-documentary-on-dianas-death | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — When Seneca Landry booked a weekend stay through Airbnb for her sister’s bachelorette party earlier this year, the online listing said they would have the entire Rhode Island home to themselves.
But on the final day of their stay in May, after some of the women thought they heard voices coming from the basement of the Providence home, Landry said a man followed her from outside and tried to force his way in.
“He told me, ‘I live in the basement and I need to check the electric meter,'” Landry told WPRI. “I was like, ‘No one lives in the basement — we have the whole house.’ And he started to get irate, accusing me of lying.”
The women said they barricaded themselves in the top part of the home and called the police to report a break-in as he repeatedly tried to open the door. Providence Police Department body-worn camera footage obtained by WPRI shows several officers responding.
The officers opened a window at the back of the home so one of them could crawl through and open a locked door. With guns drawn, the officers moved through the basement area, eventually arriving at a closed door, where they heard voices on the other side.
“Open the door,” one of the officers shouted, as he banged on the door.
“Why do I need to open the door for you?” A woman yelled back. “You don’t have a [expletive] warrant.”
“I don’t need a warrant, someone broke in here,” the officer responded.
“Nobody broke in here!” the woman screamed. “I live here!”
A police report shows the officers later spoke with a property management company, Michie House, listed as working for the homeowner, and they confirmed the basement floor was rented out to a tenant.
But Landry said that information was never disclosed on the Airbnb listing, and the website showed no mention of the basement tenant. The property was listed as being available as an entire home.
“The basement was locked off, and we should trust that we have the house to ourselves and it’s safe,” Landry said.
Michie House and the homeowner didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment. An Airbnb spokesperson said the online booking giant fully refunded Landry after she reported the incident, and the company has since decided to take further action in response to what happened.
“On our platform, we hold our hosts to high standards in terms of providing accurate, quality listings, and when they fall short of those standards, we take appropriate action,” the spokesperson said. “Based on our investigation to date, we have deactivated these listings and are in the process of removing this host from our platform.”
Despite the basement apartment, the property is listed as a single-family home, according to the city assessor’s office. It’s also zoned in a neighborhood where homes must be owner-occupied to be rented out as short-term rentals.
Providence spokesperson Andrew Grande told WPRI that the city’s inspections department had received leases showing the property was no longer a short-term rental. But Airbnb provided a list of links to other online booking platforms that showed the home was still available for rent.
When WPRI attempted to book the property using different dates, some worked and others did not.
“It doesn’t look like anyone is vetting these properties,” Landry said.
Landry and her bachelorette party’s experience is a symptom of what some lawmakers have argued is a largely unregulated and untracked multibillion-dollar industry led by companies such as Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com and others.
For several years, state lawmakers, including Rep. Lauren Carson, D-Newport, have called for the creation of a statewide registry to track short-term rentals, which she argues are businesses and should be treated as such.
“These properties that are engaged with third-party hosting platforms are businesses,” Carson said, adding that law enforcement would have an easier time responding to issues like the one in Providence if they had better information about the properties.
The Rhode Island General Assembly passed a law last year to create a registry, much to the chagrin of third-party platforms, property owners and Gov. Dan McKee, who vetoed the legislation last July.
“I cannot support this bill because it will create additional burden for property owners,” he wrote in his veto message at the time. “Short-term rental concerns, like other property/land use and small business matters, are more effectively addressed at the municipal level.”
In January, the General Assembly voted to override McKee’s veto, with Sen. Dawn Euer, also a Newport Democrat, arguing the short-term rental industry is “thriving,” especially in seaside communities like the one where she lives.
“In places like our districts in Newport, investors have been buying up housing to rent in this way, and the state is not tracking where these businesses are operating,” Euer said at the time. “It’s impossible to ensure safety or compliance with laws when we don’t even know where the rentals are.”
Last month, the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulations issued a set of draft rules to create the registry, which is slated to begin on Oct. 1. According to the rules, each short-term rental would need to register and owners would have to provide details, including contact information, number of rooms for rent and the intended use of the space.
Every owner would also have to pay a two-year, $50 registration fee for “each property advertised for short-term rental.” DBR currently estimates there are about 3,680 short-term rentals listed across the state, meaning the registry would also generate about $184,000 every two years if every owner complied.
For Landry, she said the stay in Providence was a bad experience that caused her so much anxiety that she missed two days of work.
“We did so many great things, but if you mention my sister’s bachelorette, it’s always going to have that dark cloud,” she said.
Maggie Wayland, a Boston resident who also attended the party, described it as “one of the scariest things that had ever happened.” She hopes action can be taken to prevent such incidents from happening in the future.
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Again, PFN rejects Muslim-Muslim ticket, says it’s CAN’s position
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) on Thursday, in Lagos, insisted that it would not support any political party that is presenting candidates of the same religious faith for a leadership position and their deputies across levels of government in the forthcoming general elections in the country.
It says the decision is in line with the position of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), which is an umbrella body of all Christians in the country.
Addressing newsmen shortly after its NEC meeting in Lagos, the National Secretary of PFN, Bishop Cosmos Ilechukwu said even though the group had no particular candidate nor party in focus as it is not a partisan organisation, any political party with candidates of the same faith ticket, be it Christian-Christian or Muslim-Muslim at all levels would not be supported.
He said NEC discussed this issue at the meeting just like many other issues of concern to the generality of Nigerians including the church such as the rising cases of terrorism, kidnapping, banditry and other criminalities which he said had further worsened the situation of the country before coming with the position.
PFN scribe said the church was very concerned about the state of the country and would continue to uphold the country and the leadership in prayer.
He said even in the face of the unprecedented level of disunity currently experienced in the country, some political parties and politicians could disregard the fragility of this time and rather take decisions that would further polarise the country.
He said a particular reference was that despite the group’s advice to all the political parties that a same faith ticket, be it Christian-Christian or Muslim-Muslim, would not augur well for the unity and future of Nigeria, some political parties chose to ignore that counsel.
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“So, PFN now reaffirms its position that the same faith ticket can, in no way, be justified, as it is not in the interest of Nigeria, as it further jeopardises the prospects of peaceful co-existence and building of a united nation.
“PFN is non a partisan group. It has never endorsed any candidate nor a political party for any position in any general election in the country.
“And we shall remain to be non- partisan also in the 2023 general election.
“However, as we shall continue to encourage our members to fully participate in the 2023 general election as we had been doing. We will encourage them to vote in line with what is best for the country and also for the church at all levels.
“This is based on the framework prepared by CAN which is our umbrella body as our guide.
“So, PFN will continue to engage and collaborate with like-minded organisations and individuals to ensure that the 2023 general elections deliver to Nigerians and the Nigeria a ticket that will further unite the country in line with the general expectations and prayers of the good people of Nigeria.”
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Grieving Marijan Cabraja leaves Lee Johnson with tough decision ahead of Rangers clash - with Martin Boyle a possible starter
Hibs manager Lee Johnson will leave it late before deciding whether to include Marijan Cabraja in his team for Saturday’s head to head with Rangers.
The Croatian full-back missed out on training this week as he returned home for his father’s funeral and his gaffer is now waiting to see if he will be back in Scotland in time for the league meeting with Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s men at Easter Road and whether he is in the right frame of mind.
“Bless him, Marijan’s father passed away so obviously our well wishes go out to the whole family,” said Johnson. “We're looking forward to inviting him back into the Hibs family to give him a little bit of love and care. It's been a difficult moment.”
The funeral took place on Thursday and while the 25 year-old made it clear that he intends to be available for selection, Johnson says he has a tough choice to make.
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“He hasn't trained this week but he wants to play. That's massive credit to him but that decision will be down to me.
“It's a difficult one. Everybody's different in terms of the grieving time they need. Some cultures are different as well. Potentially he could be on a flight on Friday morning and back but you've got to see what state he's in both mentally and emotionally, as well as physically in terms of the time he's missed training.
“It's a tough one as a manager. No-one teaches you those types of things on the Pro Licence. You've just got to be human about it and try to read the individual and see how he is, try and provide that bit of love, care and support that anybody would need in that situation.”
While there are still a number of injuries to absorb, Josh Campbell and Rocky Bushiri are both expected to be back, while Johnson is weighing up the possibility of giving Martin Boyle his first starting berth since his return from Saudi Arabia.
“As we build our squad there's no way we're going to be able to peak this early, “ added Johnson. “That doesn't mean the performances can't be aggressive, on the front foot and strong. The team selection on Saturday will be really, really positive as we take the game to Rangers.”
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On Friday, August 26th, Snapdragon Hemp, a Chattanooga based CBD and Hemp company, will open the doors to their new store located in Red Bank at 2102 Dayton Boulevard.
Store owner and manager Josh Manning is inviting the public to come celebrate the opening and learn more about the products they produce.
Snapdragon Hemp will have their full staff available from 10am to 7pm to answer questions and explain the benefits their CBD products can offer.
The new Red Bank location will be Snapdragon Hemp’s eighth retail store since its beginning in 2018. Manning became interested in the benefits of hemp after he was severely injured in a motorcycle accident in 2014. He endured numerous surgeries but did not want to use the highly addictive opioids as part of his pain management regimen. Manning decided to give CBD a try and immediately saw the benefits.
Manning dedicated himself to learning how and why CBD works so well. An engineer by trade, he wanted to use his skills to produce and provide the public with legal alternative products that could manage various types of pain. Manning started experimenting with different strains, spectrums, isolates, and terpenes to create the most effective ways to see the benefits of hemp.
In 2018, Snapdragon Hemp started selling to the local community from a booth at the I-75 Flea Market. From his booth, Manning showcased his products, helping customers get a better understanding of CBD and how each product worked. Repeat customers started to increase rapidly and the word spread fast. Manning decided it was time to open the first retail Snapdragon Hemp store on Ringgold Road in East Ridge.
After the success of the East Ridge location, Manning decided to branch out, and has since opened seven CBD stores in the Chattanooga area. In addition to the retail stores, he provides other businesses with his products. Snapdragon Hemp has their own lab where they consistently test their in-house products, assuring they meet legal requirements.
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Get ready to lace up your shoes and help fight breast cancer. . The More Than Pink Walk will be the first in-person event since 2019.
Starr Card, Walk Chair says “First of all we are excited to be back in person and we have a new location. Hamilton Place Mall is our location for our walk this year.”
Card has two very personal reasons for her passion about this event.
Starr Card says “In the last two years I have had my mother-in-law and a great friend . Thankfully now they are in remission.”
According to the American Cancer Society 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer.
For women at average risk they recommend
- Women between 40 and 44 should consider getting a mammogram every year.
- Women 45 to 54 should make sure to get annual mammograms .
- Women 55 and older can switch to a mammogram every other year,
Women at high risk should start yearly mammograms at age 30
Starr Card says “Thanks to this organization they have the tools they need and the resources to get help.”
This walk is taking steps to raise awareness and funds in the fight against breast cancer.
Starr Card says “There is power in numbers. We will have men and women there who have been affected either by having breast cancer or knowing a breast cancer survivor or honoring or remembering a breast cancer patient.” | https://www.local3news.com/more-than-pink-walk-coming-this-fall/article_51615bf6-1f1f-11ed-a6f1-5f0648cffdf8.html | 2022-08-18T19:43:47Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/more-than-pink-walk-coming-this-fall/article_51615bf6-1f1f-11ed-a6f1-5f0648cffdf8.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Defense Logistics Agency inducted six new members into its Hall of Fame during an in-person ceremony at its headquarters Aug. 17.
DLA Director Navy Vice Adm. Michelle Skubic, who served as the host of the ceremony, said DLA would not be the agency it is today without the work and dedication of this year’s inductees.
“You're inspiring, as are all 137 members of the Hall of Fame,” Skubic said to inductees. “You're the leaders and the pathfinders and the innovators and the visionaries on whose shoulders we now stand today.”
This year’s inductees are:
• Edward "Ted" Case
• Kathryn Fantasia
• Keith Ford
• Janet Hoffheins
• Benjamin "Gil" Perkins
• Janet Price
Case
Case worked at DLA for 26 years, arriving in 1992 as a Navy commander. As the deputy chief information officer, he led his team in replacing the agency’s 40-year-old legacy IT supply system and transformed its business support processes with the Business Systems Modernization - Enterprise Resources Program. In 2010, he became the DLA chief information officer and then become the vice director in 2012, leading some of the agency’s most complex and wide-reaching initiatives.
Case thanked the “thousands of DLA leaders and associates who worked so hard, accomplished so much over the years – and I took credit for; you know who you are.”
He also thanked his wife while keeping his promise to her to be brief and avoid too many jokes.
“I’m not sure I deserve to be in this Hall of Fame, as all I did was work hard, have fun and try to make it fun for everyone else around me,” he said.
Fantasia
Fantasia served in the federal government for 23 years, retiring as the head of direct delivery fuels for DLA Energy. She ensured uninterrupted fuel support to military and federal agency customers such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan and to the Federal Emergency Management Agency during humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts.
The events of Sept. 11 profoundly changed the trajectory of her career, she said.
“Little did I know that … I would spend the rest of my career supporting the warfighters in Afghanistan and Iraq,” she said.
Getting back into the workforce after a nine-year break to have children was challenging at first, she said.
“Like many other women, my career was not a straight line,” she said. While interviewing for a procurement clerk position, she was asked who would take care of her children when she went back to work.
“My answer was really quick, and I’m surprised I got the job,” she said, adding her husband ran a business from home and was able to care for their children.
She praised the leadership at DLA Energy for its dedication to training and mentoring future leaders, as well as its commitment to diversity and inclusion.
“When I started in Energy in 1991, the leadership was predominantly men,” she said. “When I retired, I saw more women and people of color held leadership positions. The glass ceiling was cracked, if not shattered, and that makes Energy and DLA a stronger and more resilient organization.”
Ford
Ford retired in 2016 as the deputy director of the clothing and textiles supply chain at DLA Troop Support. Known as the “father of prime vendor,” he oversaw the rollout of the subsistence prime vendor program that’s still in use today.
He credited his time with DLA for being able to travel the world and the privilege of working alongside outstanding people. He was a manger for his last 25 years at DLA Troop Support, and attributes his management style to those who managed him.
“I managed to gain flexibility, and that's the biggest thing I learned from other managers,” Ford said. “Give the people a job and let them do it. If they need your help, they'll tell you give them the resources they need, and don't micromanage. Don't look over their shoulder. If you're going to do that, do it yourself.”
Hoffheins
Hoffheins served as the administrator for DLA Human Resources Services from 2009 to 2016. Her work continues to have a lasting impact on the agency’s mission and human resources department. She led the development of a comprehensive onboarding program for all new DLA employees, regardless of location, organization, job series or grade. The DLA Enterprise Newcomers Getting a Global Entrance is now considered an essential program for promoting the employee culture and is a model of efficiency.
“When I began working at Red River Army Depot back in August of 1965, if anyone had even suggested this little girl from Red Lick, Texas, would be here right now, I would not have believed him,” Hoffheins said.
She thanked her family and companion for enduring numerous moves and job changes throughout her career, as well as her coworkers at DLA.
“Leading good people makes the job so much easier, and I share this honor with them, the men and the women of DLA [Human Resources] and DHRS, whose unflagging efforts every day are the key to providing world-class support to all DLA employees, thousands of other DOD agency employees and our warfighters,” she said.
Perkins
Perkins served in DLA for 34 years, retiring as the DLA Aviation chief counsel. When he took the role in 2006, he adapted the office to mission changes mandated by Base Realignment and Closure 2005.
Perkins led DLA’s first efforts to improve climate and culture, serving as a DLA culture champion. He also planned and conducted the Office of General Counsel’s annual Continuing Legal Education Seminar.
Perkins said he was honored by his nomination but also humbled because he didn’t make a difference alone, adding that his achievements were team efforts.
“When I came out of law school, I was hell-bent on going to DLA,” he said, adding that he wanted to make a difference but quickly realized he made mistakes along the way. “But hopefully, I learned from those. All of the successes were ours. We succeeded.”
Price
As director of procurement process support, Price initiated changes and helped DLA support 3 million national stock numbers and over 1,800 weapons systems with consumable parts. She led the implementation of a new Enterprise Business Management System for DLA to ensure the inclusion of additional missions DLA gained under BRAC 2005. She also led another DLA-wide effort called “time-to-award” that reduced acquisition lead time and streamlined purchasing processes for consumable supply parts.
In a pre-recorded message, Price outlined a few reasons why working at DLA is “the greatest job in the world.”
“Where can you go to work and have such a direct impact on your nation and world events?” she asked, adding that 26,000 DLA employees support five military services, multiple combatant commands, allied nations, and federal, state and local agencies.
“It is really important to love what you do,” she continued. “If you don’t have the right subordinates, the right leader or the right job, don’t be afraid to change your world. Shake it up, search for your niche.”
Each inductee received a medal to wear during the ceremony, as well as a commemorative plaque, a congratulatory letter from the DLA director and a DLA Hall of Fame lapel pin. Inductees’ spouse or family member received a certificate of appreciation.
While attendance was still limited in the auditorium due to social distancing requirements, the ceremony marked the first in-person Hall of Fame induction ceremony since 2019.
Some members from the 2020 and 2021 DLA Hall of Fame, who were previously inducted in virtual ceremonies, attended, including Tony Poleo; Sandra Miller-Thomas; Mary Beth Spann-Mank, who represented her husband, the late Paul Mank; Denise Canada; Jim McClaugherty and Stephen Sherman.
Edward Bittle, a 2003 DLA Hall of Fame member and former deputy director of what is now DLA Energy, died Aug. 14 and was remembered during the ceremony.
“He was a respected leader in the fields of acquisition and petroleum logistics, and he will be greatly missed, but his legacy will live on,” Skubic said.
During her speech, Fantasia took a moment to remember Bittle, whom she called a “contracting legend.”
More information on the DLA Hall of Fame and its members can found at the Hall of Fame page.
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The man accused of stabbing award-winning author Salman Rushdie and injuring another speaker on stage in New York state last week pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of second-degree attempted murder and second-degree assault.
Hadi Matar, 24, of New Jersey, made the plea in a courtroom in Chautauqua County, New York, after prosecutors said a grand jury had indicted him this week.
A judge ordered Matar held without bail, and said he must surrender any firearms. Matar, handcuffed and wearing a mask and a striped prison uniform, spoke little, once saying "yes" to acknowledge the judge.
The attempted murder charge, which relates to the attack on Rushdie, would carry a penalty of up to 25 years in prison if the defendant is convicted, a prosecutor said in court. The assault charge, relating to the other speaker's injuries, would carry up to seven years, the prosecutor said.
Rushdie -- who has received death threats for his 1988 satirical novel "The Satanic Verses," which some Muslims have considered sacrilegious -- was about to give a lecture August 12 at the Chautauqua Institution when an assailant jumped on stage and stabbed him repeatedly.
The 75-year-old author suffered three stab wounds to his neck, four stab wounds to his stomach, puncture wounds to his right eye and chest, and a laceration on his right thigh, Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt said last weekend. Rushdie might lose vision in his right eye, the district attorney added at the time.
Another speaker at the event, Ralph Henry Reese, was injured in the attack, police said. He was taken to a hospital by ambulance and later released with a facial injury.
As of Monday, Rushdie was hospitalized but awake and "articulate" in his conversations with investigators, a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation told CNN.
Authorities have not released a motive for the attack.
A grand jury indicted Matar on the charges, the county prosecutor's office and his defense attorney said earlier Thursday. Matar had pleaded not guilty to initial charges last weekend.
Prosecutor: Matar had knives and false identification
On the morning of August 12, Matar jumped onto the stage at the Chautauqua Institution, about 70 miles southwest of Buffalo, New York, and lunged toward Rushdie, repeatedly stabbing him, according to New York State Police. The suspect was held down by audience members and staff who forced him to the ground until he was arrested by a state trooper.
In court Thursday, a prosecutor said Matar multiple knives when he traveled to Chautauqua, in addition to false identification, cash and prepaid Visa cards.
Officials believe Matar, who lived in Fairview, New Jersey, traveled to Buffalo via bus and used a ride-sharing app to reach Chautauqua the day before the attack, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation who spoke to CNN this week.
Investigators did not immediately know where Matar spent the night, the official added. Matar had a fake driver's license, some cash, two Visa prepaid gift cards and no wallet when he was arrested, the official said.
Matar's mother told the Daily Mail for a story published this week her son was outgoing and raised in the United States. But after taking a monthlong trip to the Middle East in 2018, Matar returned as a "moody introvert," his mother, Silvana Fardos, said.
Fardos didn't learn about the stabbing attack until the FBI raided her home in Fairview, New Jersey, she told the Daily Mail.
A religious decree for Rushdie's death
Rushdie had lived in hiding after "The Satanic Verses" was published. The late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini described the book as an insult to Islam and the faith's Prophet Mohammed. He issued a religious decree, or fatwa, calling for Rushdie's death in 1989.
In 1998, the Iranian government tried to distance itself from the fatwa by pledging not to seek to carry it out. Despite that, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reaffirmed the religious edict.
In February 2017, on Khamenei's official website, the supreme leader was asked if the "fatwa against Rushdie was still in effect." Khamenei confirmed it was, saying, "The decree is as Imam Khomeini issued."
On Monday, the Iranian government denied ties to the stabbing attack.
"We categorically and seriously deny any connection of the assailant with Iran," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said.
"We do not consider anyone other than (Rushdie) and his supporters worth of blame and even condemnation."
US condemns Iranian government statement
The US State Department denounced Iran's stance, calling the comments "despicable" and "disgusting."
"It is no secret that the Iranian regime has been central to the threats against his life over the course of years now," State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.
He called Iran's "gloating" over the attack "absolutely outrageous."
"We want it to be very clear that it is not something that we can tolerate," Price said.
Rushdie began living under British protection after Iran issued the fatwa calling for his death.
On Monday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was shocked by the attack on Rushdie, who is also a British citizen.
"Appalled that Sir Salman Rushdie has been stabbed while exercising a right we should never cease to defend," Johnson tweeted. "Right now my thoughts are with his loved ones."
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The world’s smallest and most endangered sea turtles have hatched in Louisiana’s wilds for the first known time in more than 75 years, officials said Wednesday.
“Louisiana was largely written off as a nesting spot for sea turtles decades ago, but this determination demonstrates why barrier island restoration is so important,” Chip Kline, chairman of the Louisiana Coastal Restoration and Protection Authority, said in a news release.
Crews monitoring the Chandeleur Islands — a chain 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of New Orleans — to help design a restoration project found tracks of females going to and from nests and of hatchlings leaving a nest.
The first tracks were found by a crew surveying birds “before the sea turtle nesting season really kicked off,” said Matthew Weigel, coastal resources scientist manager for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
After that crew brought back a photo of a sea turtle “crawl,” the two agencies began weekly flights over the island to look for more. Weigel said he and Todd Baker of the restoration agency were walking between two that they’d sighted from the plane on July 29 when they stumbled on hatchling tracks on the beach.
“There was some high-fiving going on,” he said. They followed those tracks back to a nest they hadn’t known about. There, they found two tiny, newly emerged turtles, which they followed back to the beach.
Weigel said aerial surveys found 52 sets of tracks that experts identified as Kemp’s ridley, though some were “false crawls” where no nest was made.
“The endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle has returned to nest on the Chandeleur Islands, highlighting the need to protect this sensitive habitat so it can continue to be home to ocean and coastal wildlife in the future,” said Beth Lowell, vice president for the United States of the environmental nonprofit Oceana.
The Louisiana agencies said threatened loggerhead sea turtles also are nesting on the Chandeleurs, which are part of the nation’s second-oldest national wildlife refuge, called Breton National Wildlife Refuge.
Loggerhead nests found in 2015 on Grand Isle — roughly 70 miles (112 kilometers) southwest of the Chandeleurs — were the first confirmed sea turtle nests in Louisiana in more than 30 years, according to the statement.
All six sea turtle species found in U.S. waters are protected under the Endangered Species Act. Tens of thousands of Kemp’s ridleys, which grow to about 2 feet (0.6 meter) long, once nested in Mexico, but in the 1980s a low of only about 250 did so, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Wednesday’s announcement came less than two weeks after officials reported the first sea turtle nest since 2018 on Mississippi’s mainland.
That location in Pass Christian Harbor is roughly 40 miles (64 kilometers) northwest of the Chandeleurs, the easternmost part of Louisiana. The chain has been eaten away by erosion, tropical storms including Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the BP oil spill in 2010.
The two agencies have been closely monitoring the islands since May as part of work to restore the islands using oil spill money.
The discovery of nesting sea turtles will help ensure sea turtle nesting habitat is preserved and improved, officials said.
Most Kemp’s ridley nests are along the western Gulf of Mexico, 95% of them in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, according to NOAA. “Occasional nesting has been documented in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama,” according to its website about the species.
Juvenile Kemp’s ridleys feed in Louisiana’s estuaries. Many species of sea turtles gather around the Chandeleur Islands, feeding in and around the state’s only marine seagrass meadows, the news release said.
“It is well known that the Chandeleur Islands provide key habitats for a host of important species; however, with the recent discovery of a successful Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatching, the islands’ value to the region has been elevated,” Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Jack Montoucet said.
Additional nests may be discovered on the Chandeleur Islands as monitoring continues and hatchlings emerge, the news release said. The nesting season peaks in June and July, and eggs take 50 to 60 days to hatch, it said. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/kemps-ridley-sea-turtle-nests-1st-in-75-years-in-louisiana/ | 2022-08-18T19:44:55Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/kemps-ridley-sea-turtle-nests-1st-in-75-years-in-louisiana/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. government has announced talks with Taiwan on a trade treaty in a new sign of support for the self-ruled island democracy claimed by China’s ruling Communist Party as part of its territory.
The announcement Thursday comes after Beijing held military drills that included firing missiles into the seas around Taiwan in an attempt to intimidate the island after a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest-level member of the U.S. government to visit Taiwan in 25 years.
Thursday’s announcement by the U.S. Trade Representative made no mention of tension with Beijing but said the negotiations were meant to enhance trade and regulatory cooperation, a step that would entail closer official interaction.
The United States has no official relations with Taiwan but maintains extensive informal contacts through the unofficial American Institute in Taiwan. Washington is obligated by federal law to see that the island has the means to defend itself.
Taiwan and China split in 1949. The island never has been part of the People’s Republic of China, but the Communist Party says it is obligated to rejoin the mainland, by force if necessary.
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NJ camp counselor charged with sexual contact with three children under 13
LEBANON TOWNSHIP – A Pennsylvania man who was a counselor has been charged with having sexual contact with three children under the age of 13 at Camp Bernie.
Joshua F. Daranijo, 24, of Levittown, Pennsylvania, was charged Aug. 17 with three counts of second-degree sexual assault by contact and three counts of second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, according to Hunterdon County Prosecutor Renée M. Robeson.
An investigation found that Daranijo allegedly had sexual contact with three victims under the age of 13 while employed as a camp counselor at the YMCA camp in the Port Murray section of Lebanon Township.
Daranijo was being held in the Warren County Jail pending his first court appearance. Second-degree convictions carry a minimum five-year state prison sentence.
The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office Sgt. Jessica Neiber at 908-788-1129.
Email: mdeak@mycentraljersey.com
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South Plainfield nitric acid leak sends four to hospital
SOUTH PLAINFIELD – Two police officers and two employees of a trucking company were hospitalized after a substance thought to be nitric acid leaked from a trailer Wednesday evening, police said.
Borough police responded around 6:46 p.m. Wednesday to Jimmy's Trucking at 140 South Ave. on reports of a chemical container leaking and smoking, police said. Arriving officers located a trailer in the rear parking lot which appeared to be leaking an unknown substance, later believed to be nitric acid, police said.
The business was evacuated, and residents of the nearby Celebrations condominium were notified, police said.
In addition to South Plainfield police, the South Plainfield Fire Department and EMS, Middlesex County Hazmat, South Plainfield Office of Emergency Management, New Jersey State Police Hazmat Response Unit and New Jersey State Police Office of Emergency Management responded.
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NJ football: Big Central Conference 2022 preview package
The start of the 2022 high school football season is just around the corner, and the staff at MyCentralJersey.com has full coverage of the Big Central Conference and area independent teams, starting with a team-by-team look at what to expect this fall.
Click below for team previews, as well as other preview content. Links are added as each story is posted.
CONFERENCE PREVIEWS
- 2022 Big Central Conference weekly football schedule
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — When the U.S. Supreme Court repealed in June a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, Wisconsin’s 1849 law that bans the procedure except when a mother’s life is at risk became newly relevant.
Republicans in the Legislature blocked an attempt by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to overturn the law. Yet there’s disagreement inside the GOP over how to move forward when they return to the state Capitol in January.
The state’s powerful Republican Assembly speaker, Robin Vos, supports reinforcing the exception for a mother’s life and adding protections for instances involving rape and incest. Others, including GOP state Rep. Barbara Dittrich, say the law should stay as it is, without exceptions for rape and incest.
For decades, Republicans like Vos and Dittrich appealed to conservative voters — and donors — with broad condemnation of abortion. But the Supreme Court’s decision is forcing Republicans from state legislatures to Congress to the campaign trail to articulate more specifically what that opposition means, sometimes creating division over where the party should stand.
Dittrich says consensus among her Republican colleagues on an alternative to the 1849 law would be a “tremendous challenge.”
“We once heard that the Democrats were the big-tent party,” she said in an interview. “Now I would say the Republican Party is more the big-tent party on some of these issues.”
Of course, supporters of abortion rights are now a distinct minority in Republican politics. Just two GOP members of Congress — Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine — publicly support passing legislation to reinstate the protections of a woman’s right to choose that the Supreme Court struck down in overruling Roe v. Wade. In Colorado, U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea is the rare Republican running this year who backs codifying Roe.
But the debate over even a limited set of circumstances in which abortion could be legal spurred some division within the GOP in Wisconsin and elsewhere.
In Indiana, after a decade of stalled legislation on abortion, empowered Republicans passed the first near-total abortion ban since the Supreme Court ruling. But even that measure drew dissent within the GOP. Exemptions for rape and incest up to 10 weeks prevailed after 50 Republicans joined with all Democrats to include them.
Still, 18 Republicans voted against final passage of the bill, with roughly half saying the bill went too far and the rest saying it was too weak.
In South Carolina, meanwhile, Republicans have spent decades curtailing abortion access and there is ongoing discussion about a near-total ban. But some in the legislature voiced concern about pushing the current six-week ban further and urged deceleration, particularly after seeing voters in Kansas spike a ballot measure that would have allowed the legislature there to ban abortion.
“It’s like you are playing with live ammunition right now,” Republican Rep. Tom Davis told The Associated Press.
The Supreme Court ruling paved the way for severe abortion restrictions or bans in nearly half the states. Nine states currently have laws banning abortion from conception, with three more — Tennessee, Idaho and Texas — set to take effect on Aug. 25. Three states — Georgia, South Carolina and Ohio — have laws banning abortion when fetal cardiac activity is detected, at about six weeks. Florida’s law bans abortion at 15 weeks, and Arizona’s will as of Sep. 24.
Some experts say the inconsistency among Republicans about how to move forward underscores how new the debate is — and how unprepared the party was for it.
“Historically, GOP candidates and policy makers were in a politically convenient spot when it came to being ‘pro-life,’” University of Denver political science professor Joshua Wilson told the AP in an email.
Until Roe was overturned, Republican-controlled states could introduce legislation to dismantle abortion access, knowing that federal courts bound by the law at the time would block the most aggressive regulations. That and the issue’s lower salience among Democratic and moderate voters, Wilson noted, “were linked guardrails against political backlash.”
The rejected ballot measure in Kansas surprised advocates on both sides, not only because it was defeated by a 20-percentage-point margin but also because turnout surged, driven by voters who weren’t participating in the Republican primary. Prioritization of abortion and women’s rights is growing among abortion rights supporters, and Democrats are seeking to capitalize on the shift by campaigning on the issue and pushing for ballot measures in other states.
Polling shows the most extreme anti-abortion laws are at odds with the American public and even most Republicans.
The July AP-NORC poll showed Republicans are largely opposed to abortion “for any reason” and at 15 weeks into a pregnancy. But only 16% of Republicans say abortion generally should be “illegal in all cases.”
Most Republicans said their state should generally allow a pregnant person to obtain a legal abortion if the child would be born with a life-threatening illness (61%), the person became pregnant as the result of rape or incest (77%) or if the person’s health is seriously endangered (85%).
A majority of Republicans, 56%, also said their state should generally allow abortion at six weeks into a pregnancy.
GOP politicians may begin to face pressure to satisfy their base’s most conservative anti-abortion opponents — they want total abortion bans — and the moderate or independent voter, who is more accepting of abortion at early points in the pregnancy and in extenuating circumstances.
That’s led some candidates to pivot from hard-line positions in their primaries to more diffuse rhetoric ahead of their general election in purple states. In Arizona, the Republican candidate for governor, Kari Lake, who said during the primary that “abortion is the ultimate sin” and abortion pills should be outlawed, punted to the Legislature when asked about the specifics of abortion policy after she won.
When he was running to be Georgia Republicans’ nominee for the U.S. Senate, Herschel Walker was unequivocal in his support for an outright abortion ban with no exceptions. Now that he is the nominee running in a tight general election contest, he’s more circumspect. When asked plainly whether he’d vote for an absolute prohibition in a Republican-controlled Senate, Walker demurred.
“That’s an ‘if,’” Walker said, telling reporters he won’t entertain such a hypothetical scenario “right now.”
Back in Wisconsin, Evers, who is up for reelection this year, has consistently vetoed anti-abortion legislation brought forth in recent years by the Republican legislature. The Republican candidate for governor, Tim Michels, who won the Republican primary last week, said during his campaign that the state’s 1849 law is “an exact mirror” of his position; he doesn’t support exceptions for rape or incest.
The July AP-NORC poll showed 55% of moderate and liberal Republicans said abortion in general should be legal in all or most cases and 39% said abortion should be illegal in most cases. Just 5% said abortion should be illegal in all cases.
But even among conservative Republicans, only 24% say abortion should be illegal in all cases; 60% of conservative Republicans said abortion should be illegal in most cases.
The subject is increasingly the focus of ads for Democratic candidates for the U.S. House and Senate this summer, while it’s tapered off in ads for Republican candidates, according to analysis by the Wesleyan Media Project. Democrats are painting Republicans as extreme on abortion, hoping to see the issue win over voters in the midterm elections.
“If we want to be relevant to the debate, there’s got to be some negotiation. If we draw a hard line, we may be on the outside looking in in legislative chambers and in Congress,” said Republican strategist Jason Roe.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser said the overturning of Roe democratizes the process of regulating abortion and it’s up to each state to come to a consensus “where it’s very likely that the true believers on both sides will not get what they want,” she said.
Still, to Dannenfelser, “every single law that’s passed is a gain for the pro-life movement because for almost 50 years, we had nothing,” she said. “It’s more than we had, and so that’s how I look at it.”
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Fingerhut reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Bill Barrow in Athens, Georgia; Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina; Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix; and Tom Davies in Indianapolis contributed to this report.
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Which Herschel backpack style is best?
Herschel has been making modern bags with vintage-inspired accents for over a decade. Based in Canada, Herschel creates a timeless collection of duffle bags, tote bags, crossbody bags, hip packs and backpacks.
Herschel backpacks come in a range of styles and sizes in solid colors and select prints. The designs are similar to those of hiking gear, but they have functional everyday features. The Herschel Retreat Backpack is a stylish backpack with versatile size options and stylish accents.
What to know before you buy a Herschel backpack
Construction
Herschel backpacks are usually made from canvas or ripstop nylon. Both are durable materials designed for frequent use. Ripstop nylon uses a grid pattern in the sewing to reinforce the bag against rips and tears.
All backpacks with interior tech sleeves have padding to protect laptops and tablets. Most have fleece lining, too.
Closure method
Herschel backpacks use a zipper or a drawstring closure in the main compartment.
- Zipper closures are easy to use and ensure that everything is sealed securely inside the bag. It’s considered the most convenient backpack closure method, and designers use it often.
- Drawstring closures open and close faster than zipper closures. Since a drawstring closure does not completely seal off the compartment, items can fall out of the bag if not secured well.
Size
Herschel backpacks come in mini, mid-volume, standard and extra-large sizes. The dimensions for each of these sizes depend on the style of the backpack. For example, the Herschel Classic Backpack is about 11 inches tall and 8 inches wide in the mini size and about 18 inches tall and 13 inches wide in the extra-large size.
Herschel sells backpacks for adults and children, but the only real difference is the size. Most of the backpacks geared toward adults could easily be used by children and vice versa.
What to look for in a quality Herschel backpack
Extra pockets
Even mini backpacks can fit all the essentials, and they usually sport a front-zippered pocket. This pocket is great for charging cords, hand sanitizer and other easy-to-reach items. In same vein, a water bottle pocket on the side can go a long way when you’re on the go. Exterior or interior water bottle pockets usually have an elastic string to keep the bottle snug and in place. Exterior water bottle pockets separate your bottle from any papers or tech supplies you might store inside the backpack.
Comfortable backing
Contoured shoulder straps are more comfortable than the average shoulder strap. The curves follow the natural line of the shoulder, putting less pressure on the weaker points of your body.
Air-mesh backing is also helpful since it is breathable and dries quickly. It also provides some cushioning around the contents of the backpack, so you don’t have a sharp corner of a book or laptop poking into your back.
Themed prints
Herschel backpacks are best-known for their array of timeless solid colors, but the company also releases special-edition backpacks with tie-ins to sports or pop culture.
There is an extensive line of backpacks with professional baseball and basketball team emblems. There is also a line of backpacks inspired by “The Simpsons” television series and a “Star Wars” backpack inspired by “The Mandalorian” series.
How much you can expect to spend on a Herschel backpack
Depending on the size and style, a Herschel backpack costs $40-$110 with the average price between $65-$85.
Herschel backpack FAQ
Do Herschel backpacks use real leather?
A. The leather-like straps on Herschel backpacks are not genuine leather. They are constructed from synthetic leather.
Is there a top grab handle?
A. All Herschel backpacks have a convenient carry handle on the top. Most of these handles don’t have padding.
Can you wash the backpack?
A. You can hand-wash your Hershel backpack for spot cleaning with a mild soap, but it should not go in the washing machine. Do not put your backpack in the dryer.
What’s the best Herschel backpack to buy?
Top Herschel backpack
What you need to know: Available in several sizes and colors, this canvas backpack features a drawstring closure and faux leather straps that snap shut using a magnet.
What you’ll love: It’s spacious and stylish with clean lines. There’s a padded fleece laptop sleeve inside and a front storage sleeve. The shoulder straps are padded and contoured for comfort.
What you should consider: There are no water bottle pockets.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top Herschel backpack for the money
What you need to know: Available in eight colors, this canvas backpack features zipper closures and measures 17.5 by 11.75 by 6 inches in size.
What you’ll love: The rounded top and clean lines make this backpack quite attractive. It has a 15-inch padded and fleece-lined laptop sleeve in the main compartment. There’s a rectangular front zippered pocket and a key clip. It has an extra fleece-lined compartment for sunglasses.
What you should consider: There’s a water bottle pocket on the inside but not on the outside.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Worth checking out
What you need to know: Available in two sizes and several colors, this canvas backpack features zipper closures with gold-tone hardware.
What you’ll love: It has a sleek, single-color exterior design, a zippered front pocket, and a key clip. The zippers have pebbled pulls for easier use. There’s a padded laptop sleeve in the main compartment. It has contoured shoulder straps and an air mesh back.
What you should consider: The zipper isn’t as durable as the rest of the backpacks, which impacts the bag’s longevity.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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How to make the best pizzelle
“Pizzelle” means “round, flat and small,” and pizzelle are traditional Italian cookies that are round and flat like a pizza. They’re made with flour, sugar, butter and eggs, whisked together with flavorings such as anise, lemon, vanilla and cocoa, then baked in a special device.
“Pizzelle” is the plural form of the name; a single cookie is a “pizzella.”
What is a pizzelle maker?
Traditional pizzelle makers were heavy cast-iron skillets used over an open fire. A few aluminum pizzelle makers are still made to be used over a heat source, but modern pizzelle makers are electric and plug into the nearest outlet.
Pizzelle makers have two sides, joined by a hinge at the back. Inside are two removable metal cooking plates that nest inside the lids. The sides are held together by a mechanism that locks the two-part handle.
How does a pizzelle maker work?
You pour the batter into the mold on the base plate, close the lid and wait a few minutes while the batter bakes. When the dough is crisp, remove the pizzelle and add whatever fillings you wish.
How do you use a pizzelle maker?
Prepare
Start by brushing oil or melted butter on the pizzelle maker’s metal cooking plates.
- Handheld: If you’re using a handheld version, set your stove on medium heat and wait until water sizzles when sprinkled on the burner before you start cooking. Without a timer or preset temperature, you’ll have to work out your best cooking times.
- Electric: If you’re using an automated electric pizzelle maker with the cooking time and temperature preset, plug it in, turn it on and wait for the indicator light to tell you it’s ready.
Load
Drop a spoon of batter onto the hot plate, close the lid and your pizzelle are crisp, brown and ready to eat in only a few minutes. Some pizzelle makers take less than two minutes.
Fill
Pizzelle taste even better when filled with something sweet, such as mascarpone, ricotta, custard or fruit fillings.
Dip
Some cooks like to dip their cookies into melted chocolate.
Dust
You can add a fine dusting of powdered sugar to make your crispy dessert even more fun to eat.
How do you get patterns in your pizzelle?
One of the charming things about the world’s oldest cookie is that the plates that press the batter between them have ridged designs that bake right into the cookie. Those designs were originally religious images, family crests and galloping horses, but later became floral patterns, snowflakes and abstract geometric patterns, too.
What you need to buy for making pizzelle
Whiskware Batter Mixer and Dispenser
The clever product takes all the mess out of handling batter for pizzelle, waffles, pancakes and crepes. Add your ingredients, toss in the blender ball and shake. The wide opening makes it easy to add ingredients and the heat-resistant silicone spout won’t melt if it accidentally touches the griddle.
Sold by Amazon
The cone roller turns pizzelle into waffle cones, curled Norwegian krumkake and more. Use this handy 9-inch tool to roll up your thin cookies while they are still warm and fill them with ice cream, jams, jellies and more.
Sold by Amazon
The Bakers Dozen Heavy Duty Disposable Pastry Bags
You get a pack of 100 16-inch heavy-duty anti-burst plastic bags for an easy way of adding fillings to your pizzelle-based cannolis.
Sold by Amazon
Suuker Three-Piece Pastry Filling and Decorating Tips
These stainless steel tips are handy for injecting fillings into waffle cones, cupcakes and doughnuts.
Sold by Amazon
Wilton Cupcakes, Cones and Cannolis Baking Rack
This special cooling rack holds a dozen pizzelle, cannolis and waffle cones while you add your own special fillings.
Sold by Amazon
Kingzhuo 50-Piece Paper Waffle Cone Holders
These cone holders are made of kraft paper and are perfect for serving pizzelle to your family and friends. They have flat bottoms so they can stand on their own on a tray.
Sold by Amazon
Best pizzelle makers
Top pizzelle makers under $50
Cucina Pro Piccolo Pizzelle Baker
The extra-thick baking plates distribute the heat evenly for making four crispy, browned 3-inch pizzelle cookies at a time. The nonstick surfaces make for easy cleaning and a steam guard protects your hands when you open the lid.
Sold by Amazon
This little press bakes two 4-inch cookies at a time. You can customize your pizzelle by choosing from five shades of browning from dark, hard and crisp to light, soft and chewy. A rolling pin, measuring scoop and recipe book are included.
Sold by Wayfair, Amazon and Kohl’s
This mini press has two traditional Italian pizzelle patterns to choose from and makes one 4-inch pizzella at a time. Use it also as a grill for making burgers and breakfast sandwiches.
Sold by Amazon
Top pizzelle makers $50-$100
Chef’s Choice Toscano Pizzelle Maker
This cookie maker has instant recovery times so you don’t have to wait between batches. Just remove your two pizzelle and add more batter. Its 900 watts of power are greater than most pizzelle makers.
Sold by Amazon
Nordic Ware Krumkake Iron and Pizzelle Maker
You can make old-school dessert traditions from two countries with this cookie press that embosses patterns of flowers and leaves on Italian pizzelle or thin Scandinavian cone cookies. The aluminum body is safe to use on all gas and electric stovetops.
Sold by Amazon
Top pizzelle makers over $100
Toastmaster Pizzelle and Cookie Maker
This cookie maker makes two 4-inch pizzelle at once on easy-to-clean non-stick surface plates that have an overflow trough to contain any spill.
Sold by Amazon
Use this to make two thin 4-inch cookies in half the time required by hand irons. This 7-pound iron pizzelle maker has cast aluminum plates, cool plastic handles and bakes with 800 watts of power.
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Elon Musk, who is attempting to walk away from his deal to acquire Twitter, is seeking documents from advertising technology firms as part of his quest to gain more information on bot and spam accounts on Twitter, according to filings in a Delaware court on Thursday.
Twitter has sued the Tesla chief executive, who has accused Twitter of hiding information about how it calculates the percentage of bots on the service, for attempting to walk away from the $44 billion agreement. The trial is scheduled for Oct. 17.
Musk’s lawyers have subpoenaed both Integral Ad Science (IAS) and DoubleVerify for any documents or communications on their involvement to review accounts or participate in any audit process of Twitter’s user base.
IAS and DoubleVerify, which are both based in New York, use technology to independently verify that digital ads are viewed by real people. Advertisers use the services to ensure the ads they pay for are seen by potential customers and not automated bots.
Twitter, IAS and DoubleVerify did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
In a countersuit earlier this month, Musk claimed that Twitter’s monetizable daily active users are 65 million lower than what the company has touted. Twitter has said it stands by its disclosures.
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Zoneton Fire District sending equipment to help Eastern Ky. flood efforts
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The Zoneton Fire District is stepping up to help flood victims in Eastern Kentucky.
On Thursday, the fire department said it has donated a surplus pumper fire truck to the Wolf Coal Fire Department.
The Breathitt County Fire Department was devastated by the recent flooding, where they said they lost most of their equipment.
Zoneton firefighters delivered the truck today and it should be in service by the end of the day.
“I know that they’re still doing the best that they can because that’s what we do,” Capt. Tracey Key with the Zoneton Fire Protection District said. “For them to get this, and the other agencies that are reaching out to give them what they need, I can only imagine the gratitude that they feel.”
Zoneton Fire has previously helped out other counties during tragic situations. Back in Dec. 2021, crews were sent to help battle wildfires and to assist in support after a tornado outbreak hit in Western Kentucky.
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Taco Bell is trying out a menu option for people who “Think Mas” about plant-based foods.
Lucky customers in the Birmingham, Alabama, market are the first to the chain’s soy and pea blend meat alternative, Forbes reported.
The option is making its debut on a new Crispy Melt Taco, made with a white corn shell tortilla, shredded cheddar, mozzarella and Monterey pepper jack cheeses, a warm nacho cheese sauce, lettuce, tomatoes and reduced-fat sour cream.
That taco is available for $2.49, which is the same price as the regular Crispy Melt Taco.
Customers can also get the plant-based alternative on any existing Taco Bell item.
In fact, all of the plant-based substituted items are the same price as the meat option, which is impressive, considering many plant-based items cost an average of nearly 40% higher than animal-based products.
“It was important not to have an upcharge,” Taco Bell’s chief innovation officer Liz Matthews told Forbes. “As a brand, we want make sure this is craveable – as craveable as our seasoned beef – and to democratize the product. We wanted to make sure this was accessible.”
Innovators have been working since 2019 to perfect the item so that consumers wouldn’t be able to differentiate it from the restaurant’s signature beef offering.
“To get people to say ‘I didn’t know it wasn’t beef’ – that is the nirvana of plant-based. I think we nailed it,” Matthews added.
The restaurant has been a longtime supporter of meatless options. In 2019, it introduced a vegetarian menu, full of bean and veggie eats.
In June, customers in Irvine, California, were the test audience for its Big Cheez-It Tostada.
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Edgecombe Co. investigation leads to drug charges for man
EDGECOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - A man was arrested by Nash County deputies on drug charges stemming from an Edgecombe County investigation.
The Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office says Tylius Daniels has been charged with selling/delivering heroin and possession of heroin with the intent to sell and deliver heroin, selling and delivering cocaine, possession with the intent to sell and deliver cocaine, and selling or deliver cocaine within 1,000 feet of a park.
Edgecombe County deputies say they learned Daniels was arrested by Nash County deputies on Thursday and that he is being held in Nash County on the drug charges. Edgecombe County deputies say they had been making controlled buys of drugs from Daniels.
Daniels is jailed in Nash County on a $60,000 secured bond.
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CLEVELAND, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NACCO Industries® (NYSE: NC) announced today that the Board of Directors declared a regular cash dividend of 20.75 cents per share. The dividend is payable on both the Class A and Class B Common Stock, and will be paid September 15, 2022 to stockholders of record at the close of business on August 31, 2022.
About NACCO Industries
NACCO Industries® brings natural resources to life by delivering aggregates, minerals, reliable fuels and environmental solutions through its robust portfolio of NACCO Natural Resources businesses. Learn more about our companies at nacco.com or get investor information at ir.nacco.com.
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Teleperformance Earns Great Employer Workplace Status for third Consecutive Year
NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Teleperformance, a leading global group in digitally integrated business services, announced that its Malaysia operations received the prestigious Great Place to Work® award. By being certified as a Great Place to Work® in Malaysia, Teleperformance has set a new standard for Malaysian Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry companies.
Teleperformance's Malaysia (TP Malaysia) operations scored strong for overall trust in the company by its over 2,600 Malaysian team members. It operates three facilities in Malaysia and provides work from home services, with 76% of its staff currently utilizing them.
Jose Bezanilla, CEO Great Place to Work® China commented, "In Great Place to Work®, we have special respect and admiration for companies and leadership teams that kept their priorities clear on their people, while navigating the tough times of the pandemic. Teleperformance is a clear example of this, making it again to the top recognition as Best Workplaces™ in Asia keeping Trust as a key element of their working culture. Congratulations!
"This is the third consecutive year that Teleperformance Malaysia is being certified as a great workplace. For a multilingual hub home to many nationalities and cultures such as ours, this is a great achievement," said Sam Chong, CEO Teleperformance Malaysia. "Thank you to our support teams, managers and leadership team for doing your part in ensuring that TP Malaysia remains a diverse and inclusive workplace for employees of all nationalities. This is possible because of all of you, the lifeblood of TP Malaysia."
With a top global priority of people care, over 97% of Teleperformance employees worldwide currently work in independently certified great employer operations.
The company welcomes applicants from across the country to apply for exciting work options. Interested applicants can apply here.
Teleperformance (TEP – ISIN: FR0000051807 – Reuters: TEPRF.PA - Bloomberg: TEP FP), the global leader in outsourced customer and citizen experience management and related digital services, serves as a strategic partner to the world's largest companies in many industries. It offers a One Office support services model including end-to-end digital solutions, which guarantee successful customer interaction and optimized business processes, anchored in a unique, comprehensive high touch, high tech approach. Nearly 420,000 employees, based in 88 countries, support billions of connections every year in over 265 languages and around 170 markets, in a shared commitment to excellence as part of the "Simpler, Faster, Safer" process. This mission is supported by the use of reliable, flexible, intelligent technological solutions and compliance with the industry's highest security and quality standards, based on Corporate Social Responsibility excellence. In 2021, Teleperformance reported consolidated revenue of €7,115 million (US$8.4 billion, based on €1 = $1.18) and net profit of €557 million.
Teleperformance shares are traded on the Euronext Paris market, Compartment A, and are eligible for the deferred settlement service. They are included in the following indices: CAC 40, STOXX 600, S&P Europe 350, MSCI Global Standard and Euronext Tech Leaders. In the area of corporate social responsibility, Teleperformance shares are included in the Euronext Vigeo Euro 120 index since 2015, the EURO STOXX 50 ESG index since 2020, the MSCI Europe ESG Leaders index since 2019, the FTSE4Good index since 2018 and the S&P Global 1200 ESG index since 2017.
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– Dedicated Freight Management, Digital Negotiation Experience, and Load Insights keep trucks fully loaded at the best rates –
NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Transfix, Inc. ("Transfix"), the Intelligent Freight Platform™, today announced the release of a new suite of features for its Fleet Management System (FMS). Now, carriers can book and manage dedicated freight and contract rates with some of the nation's largest shippers, digitize their bidding experience for quicker negotiation, and easily identify attractive loads that offer great rates or flexible pickup times. These new features support carriers' efforts to keep their trucks fully loaded and procure the best available rates. This can help shield them from market volatility– and the impacts of seasonality and cyclicality– to maximize efficiency, service, and costs.
"Through our new FMS offerings, we continue to bring digitization to the supply chain, unlocking opportunities for growth and innovation with our partners," said Tony Tzeng, Chief Product Officer at Transfix. "The new features are designed to help carriers use load insights more effectively and make better use of their resources, adding value to both our carrier and shipper communities."
The updates to Transfix FMS include:
- Dedicated Freight Management. Carriers get enhanced visibility into pending and past load offers for both spot and dedicated lanes, receive notifications when rates need to be extended or re-negotiated, and oversee all freight in one unified experience.
- Digital Negotiation Experience. Digitization of the negotiation experience allows carriers to manage and win bids at an acceptable rate, and do so more efficiently than the historically manual "phone calls and emails" method. Carriers can accept counter-offers, view bids on freight for easier load management, and receive notifications to give them the best chance of winning a load.
- Load Insights. Dispatchers can leverage insights into load characteristics, such as "Popular Load" and "Great Rate," to understand why they're worth booking.
Kimberly Guerrero, a dispatcher at GRD, said, "Transfix FMS and its new features have made things a lot easier. Not only can I clearly understand what I'm bidding for, but I also get robust details on all of my loads. It's so simple to adjust and arrange my loads accordingly. With Transfix FMS, I can really focus and stay organized; it helps me run my business a lot more smoothly."
"Our team is focused on delivering speed-to-value solutions that allow shippers and carriers to thrive," added Tzeng. "We will continue listening to our carrier community to create innovative features and products like these enhancements to Transfix FMS. Our FMS supports a dedicated contract management page for carriers, digitizing the negotiating experience and displaying what makes a load attractive upfront. We remain committed to identifying new ways to boost transparency and efficiency across the supply chain."
The new suite of features for Transfix FMS is live today. Visit Transfix.io for more on its booking experience or carrier network.
As announced on September 21, 2021, Transfix has entered into a definitive business combination agreement, as subsequently amended, with G Squared Ascend I Inc. ("G Squared Ascend I") (NYSE: GSQD), a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by affiliates of G Squared, that is expected to result in Transfix becoming a publicly listed company. Completion of the business combination is subject to customary closing conditions.
Transfix drives modern supply chain impact at scale with its Intelligent Freight Platform™. By combining enterprise-grade, machine-learning technology with intuitive software and dedicated supply chain experts, Transfix is enabling organizations to deliver with high performance and high reliability, drive long-term strategy and capacity planning, take empty miles off the road, and optimize their networks, at scale. Today, Transfix connects shippers to nearly 30,000 carriers with real-time, many-to-many freight matching and the visibility they need to make their supply chains more efficient and environmentally responsible. Learn more at Transfix.io.
G Squared is a global venture capital firm that partners with dynamic companies throughout their life cycles as a complete capital solutions provider, working to create value for companies, investors, employees, and other stakeholders. The firm focuses on investments in growth-stage technology companies and has invested in over 100 portfolio companies since it was founded in 2011. The firm's affiliate, G Squared Ascend I Inc. ("G Squared Ascend I"), offers transformative private companies a path to public markets via SPAC. For more information on G Squared and its portfolio, visit: www.gsquared.com. For more information on G Squared Ascend I, visit: www.gsquaredascend.com.
Chelsea Horn, Carve Communications for Transfix
chelsea@carvecomms.com
(210) 378-8580
In connection with the proposed business combination involving G Squared Ascend I and Transfix, Transfix Holdings, Inc. ("Transfix Holdings") has filed a registration statement on Form S-4, as amended (the "Registration Statement") with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The Registration Statement includes a proxy statement of G Squared Ascend I and a prospectus of Transfix Holdings. Additionally, G Squared Ascend I and Transfix Holdings will file other relevant materials with the SEC in connection with the business combination. Copies may be obtained free of charge at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Security holders of G Squared Ascend I are urged to read the proxy statement/prospectus and the other relevant materials when they become available before making any voting decision with respect to the proposed business combination because they will contain important information about the business combination and the parties to the business combination and related matters. The information contained on, or that may be accessed through, the websites referenced in this communication is not incorporated by reference into, and is not a part of, this communication.
G Squared Ascend I and its directors and officers may be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies of G Squared Ascend I's stockholders in connection with the proposed business combination. Transfix and its officers and directors may also be deemed participants in such solicitation. Security holders may obtain more detailed information regarding the names, affiliations and interests of certain of G Squared Ascend I's executive officers and directors in the solicitation by reading G Squared Ascend I's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the SEC on April 13, 2022, and the proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant materials filed with the SEC in connection with the business combination when they become available. Information concerning the interests of G Squared Ascend I's participants in the solicitation, which may, in some cases, be different than those of their stockholders generally, will be set forth in the proxy statement/prospectus relating to the business combination when it becomes available.
This communication is for informational purposes only and is not intended to and shall not constitute a proxy statement or the solicitation of a proxy, consent or authorization with respect to any securities in respect of the proposed business combination and shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or constitute a solicitation of any vote or approval, nor shall there be any sale, issuance or transfer of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
The information in this communication may contain statements that are not historical facts but are "forward-looking statements'' within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and within the meaning of "safe harbor" provisions under the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of present or historical fact included in this communication, regarding G Squared Ascend I's proposed business combination with Transfix, G Squared Ascend I's ability to consummate the transaction, the benefits of the transaction and the combined company's future financial performance, as well as the combined company's strategy, future operations, estimated financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. When used in this communication, the words "could," "should," "will," "may," "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "expect," "project," the negative of such terms and other similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain such identifying words. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and assumptions about future events and are based on currently available information as to the outcome and timing of future events. Except as otherwise required by applicable law, G Squared Ascend I and Transfix disclaim any duty to update any forward-looking statements, all of which are expressly qualified by the statements in this section, to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this communication. G Squared Ascend I and Transfix caution you that these forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the control of either G Squared Ascend I or Transfix. In addition, G Squared Ascend I and Transfix caution you that the forward-looking statements contained in this communication are subject to the following factors: (i) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could delay the business combination or give rise to the termination of the agreements related thereto; (ii) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against G Squared Ascend I or Transfix following announcement of the transactions; (iii) the inability to complete the business combination due to the failure to obtain approval of the shareholders of G Squared Ascend I, or other conditions to closing in the transaction agreement; (iv) the risk that the proposed business combination disrupts G Squared Ascend I's or Transfix's current plans and operations as a result of the announcement of the transactions; (v) Transfix's ability to realize the anticipated benefits of the business combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition and the ability of Transfix to grow and manage growth profitably following the business combination; (vi) costs related to the business combination; (vii) changes in applicable laws or regulations; (viii) rollout of Transfix's business and the timing of expected business milestones, (ix) the effects of competition on Transfix's business, (x) supply shortages in the materials necessary for the production of Transfix's products, (xi) risks related to original equipment manufacturers and other partners being unable or unwilling to initiate or continue business partnerships on favorable terms, (xii) the termination or reduction of government clean energy and electric vehicle incentives, (xiii) delays in the construction and operation of production facilities, (xiv) the amount of redemption requests made by G Squared Ascend I's public stockholders, (xv) changes in domestic and foreign business, market, financial, political and legal conditions, and (xvi) the possibility that Transfix may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors. Should one or more of the risks or uncertainties described in this communication, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results and plans could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described in the "Risk Factors" section of G Squared Ascend I's final prospectus filed with the SEC on February 8, 2021 and its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the SEC on April 13, 2022, and other documents of G Squared Ascend I filed, or to be filed, including the proxy statement/prospectus, with the SEC. Additional information concerning these and other factors that may impact the operations and projections discussed herein can be found in G Squared Ascend I's filings with the SEC. G Squared Ascend I's SEC filings are available publicly on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
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Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee talks with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, epidemiologist and former executive director of the Detroit Health Department about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s plans for reorganization following its pandemic response.
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