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On Saturday, August, 20th, Habitat for Humanity will hand over the keys to its 152nd home for a deserving family, and thanks to Second Harvest the home's pantry will be full.
"We are very grateful for the generosity of Second Harvest as they are helping ensure the growth and nutrition of these families and this community," said Jet Richardson, Executive Director, Tri-County Partners Habitat for Humanity.
The home, at 1414 East Alvina Street in Pasco, will feature a pantry well-stocked with nutritious food. The home will also be supplied with tools, bedding and household cleaning products.
"We are honored to do a small part by stocking the pantries of homes Habitat for Humanity builds," said Jason Clark, President and CEO, Second Harvest. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/habitat-for-humanity-second-harvest-partner-on-new-home/article_7c8ca3b4-1f22-11ed-9777-83c99e0c34fd.html | 2022-08-18T20:00:01Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/habitat-for-humanity-second-harvest-partner-on-new-home/article_7c8ca3b4-1f22-11ed-9777-83c99e0c34fd.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As fears of the COVID-19 outbreak gradually fade, coinciding with reduced government-mandated restrictions on mobility, the narrative for dating app Bumble (BMBL) should theoretically brighten. However, the company’s latest earnings report suggests otherwise. As well, Wall Street has not been kind to Bumble since its initial public offering last year, meaning that management must make significant changes. However, these changes don’t appear to be materializing imminently; thus, I am bearish on BMBL stock.
When the global health crisis forced the U.S. and most other countries into a radical new paradigm, the sudden social isolation imposed substantial hardships on just about everyone. However, as The New York Times pointed out, some demographic cohorts fared better than others. In particular, being single during COVID-19 exacerbated the already desperate loneliness that shelter-in-place orders sparked.
At the same time, many forward-thinking investors viewed the crisis from the classic framework that this too shall pass, and once the SARS-CoV-2 virus becomes the exclusive domain of the rearview mirror, BMBL stock would likely benefit from the pent-up demand effect. The concept previously worked for the consumer discretionary economy (retail revenge), and it’s currently panning out for many companies in the broader mobility sector (revenge travel).
Though it’s highly unlikely that the term “revenge dating” would become popularized, the concept still stands: pent-up angst can create enormous demand channels. Unfortunately, this dynamic hasn’t translated into positive shareholder returns for BMBL stock.
Last year in February, Bumble priced its IPO at $43 per share. Since then, Nov. 10 represented the last time BMBL stock closed a session at a higher price than its initial offering. In other words, something significant must change at the company, but such change doesn’t appear to be on the horizon.
Bumble Stock Analysis
On TipRanks, BMBL has an 8 out of 10 Smart Score rating. This indicates strong potential for the stock to outperform the broader market.
BMBL Stock Struggles amid Earnings Disappointment
On paper, Bumble’s second quarter of 2022 earnings report represented a mixed bag. On the more encouraging front, the dating app – which also owns Badoo and Fruitz – reported revenue of $220.5 million, an 18% gain from the year-ago level. Also, the tally just sneaked past analysts’ consensus target.
However, the hits to BMBL stock started coming when management disclosed its full-year 2022 sales guidance, cutting it down to between $920 million and $930 million. Previously, the underlying firm expected to ring up between $934 million and $944 million. Also, data from Refinitiv mentioned that analysts were targeting $934.1 million in revenue.
To be fair, Bumble’s disappointments stemmed from factors beyond its control. For instance, Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine forced Bumble to take a moral stand. Per Reuters, the company made the decision to exit Russia and Belarus, removing all of its apps from popular connected ecosystems.
In addition, a strong U.S. dollar relative to other international currencies didn’t help BMBL stock. Bumble’s app Badoo – which is popular in western Europe – struggled because it “serves a more economically sensitive user base,” according to Bumble’s CEO during the Q2 earnings call.
However, Bumble can’t claim to be completely a victim of unforeseen circumstances. As Reuters mentioned, the company has been grappling with stiff competition, especially from rival Match Group (MTCH). Management could do something, but it would involve a pivot that it might consider anathema to its core brand.
Bumble Stock and the Demographic Imbalance
One attribute that distinguishes Bumble from other dating platforms is that women make the first move. It’s a novel concept, one which the company hopes will inspire women to take ownership in other areas of their lives. At the same time, the decision also stymies the male user experience.
According to Wolfe Herd, “Once people get a sense of how ridiculous the notion of men having to make the first move is, they tend to see things more clearly … Women are encouraged to go after everything they want in life except for a partner, and that’s nothing short of ridiculous. Our mission is to encourage women to make the first move in all facets of their life, and every day we’re helping to change the way people think.”
While the Bumble chief executive deserves all the credit in the world for helping to advance staid social mores, the decision to prevent men from initiating communications with women necessarily means that the dating app is inviting frustrated users to switch to the competition. Is there any better marketing tool for Match than to say that it lets everyone use its platform however they see fit (within established norms and guidelines)?
Further, the decision to stick with the pro-feminist interface perplexes amid multiple headwinds. Again, from the Russia invasion to soaring inflation to cutthroat competition, Bumble needs a breakthrough. It’s not going to do it by refusing to provide equal functional access to half the potential addressable market.
Is BMBL a Good Stock to Buy?
Turning to Wall Street, BMBL stock has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on eight Buys, four Holds, and no Sells assigned in the past three months. The average BMBL price target is $35.45, implying 13.5% upside potential.
Takeaway – Something Has to Give to Stop Bumble Stock’s Struggles
Fundamentally, the concept of providing a dating service is extremely relevant at this juncture. With people eager to regain their social lives following two years of lockdowns and mitigation measures, Bumble offers a much-desired product. Nevertheless, Bumble isn’t the only game in town. With other companies offering similar platforms – and less-restrictive ones at that – BMBL stock is struggling. At least part of the pain, though, is self-inflicted. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/why-bumble-bmbl-stock-unnecessarily-stubbing-own-toes | 2022-08-18T20:01:31Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/why-bumble-bmbl-stock-unnecessarily-stubbing-own-toes | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Mother, and son duo Sheryl and James Myers are taking the hot dog business by storm.
Dog Gone It Gourmet Hot Dogs brings an old-school hot dog stand vibe to The Grove neighborhood, and it stands less than 10 feet from Sheryl Myers’ boutique
You walk up to the window, place your order, and within minutes your food is ready. Most customers enjoy their “dog” sitting at the restaurant's outdoor patio, while others walk around the neighborhood enjoying the scenery.
Dog Gone It offers fun, whimsical, sweet, and savory hot dogs, uniquely carved french fries, and deep fried onion rings.
All meals come with a side and drink, and most meals cost under $12.
“St. Louis needs a little bit of this [ hot dog stand]. Sometimes we are so behind when it comes to bringing new ideas to our area,” said Sheryl Myers.
Myers says her inspiration came when she and her husband traveled to New York to buy clothes for her boutique. They would always stop at a stand and get a hot dog.
“I mean they are the best tasting hot dogs, and I got to thinking, ‘how come we don’t have something like this at home,’” she said.
The timing couldn’t have been better. James Myers was finishing up college at Missouri State University where he received his degree in economics.
“We were in the process of trying to groom him into a position to help out with the boutique,” said Sheryl Myers.
She wanted him to be the bookkeeper of her clothing store.
However, her son had other plans. Instead of doing auditing work, he wanted to be an entrepreneur like his mom - and wanted her to be his business partner.
“I’ve experienced so many different jobs and none of them were a good fit for me,” he said. “I’ve wanted to have my own business for a while.”
The recent grad says working for Amazon and local bank branches didn’t allow him to creatively express himself. He said he “needs to be in a space where I can freely think outside the box, put those ideas into and on his own terms.”
“I’m not the type of person that can work for someone, I have too many ideas in my head,” he said.
His mom says, “James is a natural, he fell right into the role of a businessman, and rightfully so.”
James Myers has watched his mom become the owner and boss of her business, City Boutique.
It is one of the many pots that Sheryl Myers helps stir. She owns the lower level of the retail space where her boutique and hot dog stand are located. She also owns trucking and construction companies, and has rental property in The Grove.
Plus, her son is good at promoting and marketing their business in the community.
But Dog Gone It speaks for itself. A St. Louis favorite is the Riplet Dog, which pays homage to locally produced Old Vienna Red Hot Riplets. The steamed beef frank is covered in crushed red hot riplets, with melted cheese sauce, and sweet barbecue sauce. If your mouth is not watering it should be, because it is so good.
If that’s not enough to get you over there, try the West Coast Dog, with tomatoes, onions, pickles, thyme and mustard. And you can’t forget the Philly Dog. It was what it says: a Philly Cheese Steak and hot dog.
Not everyone is into hot dogs, but who doesn’t like gourmet fries? The Bar-B-Que Ranch fries are topped with Ranch dressing, bacon, and barbecue sauce.
“It’s comfort food, it’s quick and good for when you’re leaving ‘the club,’” said Sheryl Myers. “I mean it’s really, really good.”
The hot dog stand also has chicken franks, vegan and vegetarian options.
The mom-prenuer says she knows the area, with her boutique operating on Manchester Boulevard for 13 years. The Grove does not have a hot dog stand nearby, so it was a no brainer. Plus they have been getting support from neighborhood restaurants.
“ I want the Grove to see Black excellence, I want our people to know we are here,” said Sheryl Myers. | https://www.stlamerican.com/business/business_news/relishing-a-new-business/article_105c798c-1e85-11ed-bfd0-4bd73414a020.html | 2022-08-18T20:05:02Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/business/business_news/relishing-a-new-business/article_105c798c-1e85-11ed-bfd0-4bd73414a020.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Retiring SLPS Superintendent Kelvin Adams was minutes before taping an appearance on the Nine PBS broadcast “Donnybrook Next Up” on August 11, 2022, but he was on a telephone call. It was obviously important.
During the show, Adams explained that he was speaking with a Missouri Central representative concerning bus transportation for the upcoming school year.
On Monday, Adams announced a rerouting of bus services, which entails suspending routes to eight schools for the first few weeks of school because of a severe bus driver shortage.
SLPS is removing eight schools, 3,450 students, from its routing schedule. These students will be provided alternative transportation. There are 16,500 students that rely on daily bus transportation.
“Despite our best efforts and those of our transportation partner Missouri Central, the company has been unable to hire, train and certify enough drivers to handle all students eligible for transportation in our District,” Adams said during a Monday press conference.
“Our transportation teams have been working around-the-clock to ensure coverage for as many students as possible, but we recognize time is running out.”
Parental support is needed as SLPS begins its rerouting schedule.
Six of the larger high schools and two elementary schools are losing bus transportation at the beginning of the year, and administrators are collaborating with parents to arrange for alternate transportation.
“At least for the first few weeks of school, we are providing Metro Link bus passes or gas cards for students at Central Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA), Collegiate School of Medical and Bioscience (CSMB), Gateway STEM, Roosevelt, Sumner and Vashon,” Adams announced.
“School leaders will help familiarize them with their routes. We plan to speak directly with parents of elementary students at Betty Wheeler Classical Junior Academy and Mallinckrodt to ensure transport in various ways, up to and including mileage reimbursements of $75 per week (gas cards) for one family car to handle pick up and drop off.
“The rate is the same per family no matter how many students are involved. The reimbursements will be issued each Friday.”
Adams made it clear that perfect attendance is required for any elementary or high school student’s family to receive a gas card.
While parents had previously been notified by email of student routes and bus numbers, those numbers will likely change even if the route does not.
“We are asking parents to look for a new communication that will confirm the new bus numbers,” Adams explained.
Adams said most bus riders will ride yellow buses including all special education students. Some students will receive a combination of bus and alternative transport.
“The difference is that this year, we are able to assign students to a particular mode of transportation providing stability that was lacking before. The transports and cabs will pick up and drop off students at their front doors and students and parents will recognize their drivers,” Adams said.
SLPS provides transportation to students one mile or more for their schools, and Adams called the rerouting process “challenging.
“But we have gotten creative in our efforts to provide the very best service possible in our current climate. Most importantly, we are committed to ensuring that all parents are integral to the process,” he said.
New for the 2022-23 school year is:
-A call Center operated by Missouri Central and District transportation teams with support from District-based Student Support Services
-District staff being training on a new GPS system that is being piloted (three schools to start) to ensure tracking accuracy
-Parents will learn about an email option – a “Find my bus” feature that will provide information on routes and bus numbers
-The transportation Bus icon on the district website will be updated regularly with new information and answers to questions.
Information on bus routes and transportation will be continually updated at SLPS.org/transportation. | https://www.stlamerican.com/education/slps-forced-to-take-alternate-bus-route-plan/article_47d9ae8e-1ef3-11ed-ac12-bb73072f3449.html | 2022-08-18T20:05:08Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/education/slps-forced-to-take-alternate-bus-route-plan/article_47d9ae8e-1ef3-11ed-ac12-bb73072f3449.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
We are truly experiencing a pivotal moment in American history. As we continue to recover from the residual impacts of a deadly COVID-19 pandemic that has disproportionately affected minority groups and led to an economic downfall on a scale equivalent to that of the Great Depression, we have also been witnessing mass protests racially motivated hate crimes throughout the country. These protests have been held for the unjust lynchings of innocent Black victims, such as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery.
These tragedies happen repeatedly, because the system of racial domineering that puts people of color at a constant disadvantage, while placing particular races in a place of privilege, has not been hindered. This country dismisses the subjugation, exploitation and violence that disproportionately affect people of color, because of the unrestricted power it yields, and the unfair wealth distribution that further marginalizes people of color.
After centuries of state-sponsored violence against Black bodies, and after so many calls for systemic reform have fallen on deaf ears, we’ve decided enough is enough. The young Black generation, particularly college students who are in a more apt position to demand change, must eradicate systemic oppression and root out white supremacy everywhere.
Dillard University, Shaw University, and the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) have all formalized their respective institutions’ fight for civil rights. ABC-11, the ABC affiliate in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, reported that at Shaw University, the Center for Racial and Social Justice would host lectures, research, and provide academic programs to combat racism and injustice. It would be in the best interest of other universities to follow suit and curate programs of their own that aid in dismantling the oppressive system.
“The rioting that occurred in Raleigh, around our state, and all over America, is a symptom of an illness that has gone untreated for far too long. Racism and injustice are the diseases, and if we look only at the symptoms, nothing will ever change,” said Shaw President Dr. Paulette Dillard in a statement about protests that broke out across the country after Floyd’s murder. In addition, Dillard noted the university’s standing as the oldest historically Black college and university (HBCU) in the South, and its involvement in social justice issues since its inception.
ABC News confirmed that the wave of bomb threats on the campuses of HBCUs during this past Black history month reawakened concerns about the increase of domestic terrorism in the United States, and its roots in white supremacy. Certain campuses, such as Howard University, received several bomb threats. Nearly two dozen HBCUs were targeted, prompting campus evacuations and several probes by the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
Many of us HBCU students and our allies seek to find out what we can do at this moment. Obviously, with a deeply entrenched and complex issue such as systemic racism, there is no simple, straightforward solution. However, education and action lead to transformation, and while the process of creating a fairer and more just America will never cease, there are a few places we can begin.
Students can begin to act by becoming a member and supporter of social activist groups like Color of Change, which has over 7 million members. The organization’s mission is to effectively address injustices in the world and fight against police brutality, while championing civil rights and advocating for racial justice on a global scale.
Allies of the movement can start by believing in Black people and promoting their agendas. For allies to truly engage in anti-racist work in their organizations, they must first begin internally. Engagement in both learning and unlearning is a constant.
For those who believe they have already done work to understand their White privilege, remember that this work is never done. We must view ourselves as constant works in progress with learning mindsets committed to understanding how racism shows up, evolves, and hides in our societies. Listen to the concerns and demands of Black activists in the community and use your privilege to echo their calls for action and push their agendas to public officials.
Tammia Jacobs is a junior broadcast journalism major at Alabama State University. This commentary was originally published in The Atlanta Voice | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/editorials/black-students-must-lead-fight-against-systemic-racism/article_09d2c852-1e74-11ed-8e6e-efb4c2d0e1c2.html | 2022-08-18T20:05:15Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/editorials/black-students-must-lead-fight-against-systemic-racism/article_09d2c852-1e74-11ed-8e6e-efb4c2d0e1c2.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Who knows where LeBron James’ basketball skills will be in two or three years, but the NBA does know he’ll be richer and still playing for the L.A. Lakers.
James has signed a two-year, $97.1 million contract extension through the 2024-25 Lakers, that includes a no-trade clause. It is “league max” deal and returns James to the plateau as highest-paid player in NBA history.
On top of the new deal, James should pass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the NBA’s career scoring king during the upcoming season. Jabbar closed his career with 38,387 and James is at 37,062.
Who can top LeBron?
OK, check this list out at All Time Leaders | Stats | NBA.com.
Scroll down to Kevin Durant at No. 21 (25,526 points) to find James’ nearest challenger that is still playing in the NBA.
Active players close to Durant include James Harden at No. 28 (23,477 points), Russell Westbrook at No. 30 (23,298), and Chris Paul at No. 39 (20,936).
Keep an eye on Steph Curry, though. Because of injuries during his career, Curry, 34, has played in just 826 games. He has tallied 20,064 points, which places him at No. 47. If he can stay healthy and keep pouring in points, he has at least a chance to reach the Top 5 in All-Time Scoring. | https://www.stlamerican.com/sports/sports_columnists/sports_eye/lebron-james-is-king-of-nba-salaries/article_05941c28-1f19-11ed-a05d-efb8487113b6.html | 2022-08-18T20:05:21Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/sports/sports_columnists/sports_eye/lebron-james-is-king-of-nba-salaries/article_05941c28-1f19-11ed-a05d-efb8487113b6.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Local organizations and health professionals are encouraging the Black community to consider donating organs in August, which is Minority Donor Awareness Month.
Among African Americans, there is a great deal of hesitancy when it comes to donating organs for those in need, according to LaKeisha Coleman, manager of community engagement at Mid-America Transplant.
“It’s a life-changing decision and it’s one that I think when people think about it, we don’t really understand the depth and importance of the decision because a lot of decisions made day to day, we don’t like to talk about it,” she said.
The national numbers on organ donation tell a somber story about the number of people waiting for an organ.
“What we know is that over 100,000 people are currently listed for a transplant in this country and just about 90,000 of them are waiting on kidney transplants,” she said.
“Of this 90,000 people waiting on a transplant, I would venture to say 60-70% of this group are people of color.”
According to Coleman, the hope is to take this opportunity to educate and bring awareness to the community through National Minority Donor Awareness Month.
Coleman addressed many misconceptions about organ donation, including tales of people who are designated as organ donors on a driver’s license or state-issue ID not receiving life-saving healthcare treatment.
“I think what we have learned in health care is that there are a lot of reasons for these myths exist in communities of color and most of time it is because they have not been treated fairly when it comes to equal access to healthcare,” Coleman said.
“We are responsible for building up the trust of those who have been disenfranchised over the years.
Coleman explained it is a simple process to become a registered organ donor. When you renew or apply for your driver’s license you will be asked if you would like to donate your organs.
“It’s simple yes, this donor designation is reflected on the license or state-issued identification card,” Coleman said.
“We want our community members to really give this decision in terms of signing up on the organ donor registry or another way of signing up to really give the gift of life to someone in need.”
You can also sign up on the donor and tissue registry on the Mid-America Transplant website.
“People of color have the highest need, so we want to take this month and really collaborate with the community and partners to talk about how important it is to save and heal lives,” she said.
Dr. Will Ross, associate dean at WashU Medical School and board member for Mid-America Transplant, oversees organ and tissue donation in our area.
Ross, who specializes in kidney care, provided perspective about how Black individuals are almost four times more likely to develop kidney failure, due to higher rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.
“The major cause of heart disease is diabetes, and both are two times more prevalent in the Black community than in other groups,” Ross said.
“With diabetes, it’s easy to point the finger and say there is an issue with lifestyle, but the bigger issue may be with proper medication, access to affordable fresh produce, and access to health care professionals.”
28% of people currently on the national transplant waiting list are Black – but only 15% of donors were Black in 2021, according to statistics from the Mid-America Transplant organization. Ross added his thoughts on ways to provide solutions to the organ shortage.
“If we are sincere about providing health equity to this group, on one hand we should have more access to organs, which is a problem because there aren’t enough organs available for transplants to the population in need,” he said.
“We need to take a more upstream approach and start looking at the root causes of these diseases among African Americans.”
Access to healthcare is one of the factors, or social determinants, which lead to greater health outcomes and life expectancy. Ross said one way to be proactive in fighting diseases is improving access to healthcare.
“We fortunately now have the Medicaid expansion which is going to increase access for a certain population and, it is moving slow, but it’s still moving and getting more African Americans signed up for insurance,” Ross said.
As for organ donation, taking a “culturally-sensitive approach” could lead to the recruitment of more minority organ donors.
“We need to have a culturally-sensitive approach that understands the actual needs of African American patients and interactions with their family members, and we have to increase awareness,” Ross said. “These steps are ongoing of the benefits of organ transplantation; we must make sure that organs that are available are used.” | https://www.stlamerican.com/your_health_matters/health_news/give-the-gift-of-life/article_c19a7bee-1e81-11ed-8e4e-ab5fc048c38c.html | 2022-08-18T20:05:27Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/your_health_matters/health_news/give-the-gift-of-life/article_c19a7bee-1e81-11ed-8e4e-ab5fc048c38c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
test test Aug 18, 2022 Aug 18, 2022 Updated 45 min ago Comments Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save test test Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Recommended for you Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. comments powered by Disqus Trending Now Hageman beats Cheney, will face Grey Bull in November Poll: Hageman up big ahead of Wyoming's GOP primary next week Rally at Cheyenne FBI office planned for Sunday Polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for today's primary election Nearly all incumbents advance in state, county and city races Latest Special Section Cheyenne Frontier Days To view our latest Special Section click the image on the left. Latest e-Edition Wyoming Tribune Eagle To view our latest e-Edition click the image on the left. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/test-test/article_ed952996-1f22-11ed-9e75-972f95b08fce.html | 2022-08-18T20:05:58Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/test-test/article_ed952996-1f22-11ed-9e75-972f95b08fce.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHEYENNE – As the dust settled the morning after candidates prevailed in primary races, they looked ahead to the general election.
There are three key races at the state level that will decide whether Republican political leaders will remain in power, and seven local races in Laramie County where Democratic candidates have the opportunity to win an office. The winners of the Cheyenne City Council nonpartisan races will also move forward to the general election in order for voters to choose one member in each ward.
The general election will take place on Nov. 8.
U.S. House: Hageman v. GreyBull
Former President Donald Trump backed the winner of the U.S. House Republican primary race, Harriet Hageman, and his support paid off.
Incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo, was defeated by a landslide. She received only 49,316 votes, as reported in the Wyoming Secretary of State’s unofficial summary, while Hageman was victorious with 113,025.
“Congratulations to Harriet Hageman on her great and very decisive WIN in Wyoming,” Trump wrote on TRUTH Social following the win. “This is a wonderful result for America, and a complete rebuke of the Unselect Committee of political Hacks and Thugs.”
The three other contenders came nowhere near the two rivals in the U.S. House race. Sen. Anthony Bouchard, R-Cheyenne, received the third-highest number of votes at 4,505, Denton Knapp came in fourth with 2,258 votes, and Robyn Belinskey was last at 1,305.
Lynette GreyBull won the Democratic primary election against two competitors for the sole U.S. House seat, and will face Hageman. She received 4,503 votes, while Meghan Jensen and Steve Helling brought in less than 3,000 votes combined.
Constitution Party candidate Marissa Selvig and registered independent candidate Casey Hardison are also set to be on the November U.S. House ballot.
Governor: Gordon v. Livingston
The Republican incumbent, Gov. Mark Gordon, easily won his primary race. He defeated three challengers with 101,092 votes, and told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle he will keep working for constituents’ support heading into the general election.
“We take nothing for granted,” Gordon said in a phone call from his election party in Buffalo. “I’ve always fought for every election, that’s just the way Jennie and I are. We want to make sure that we do the best job we can.”
Rival Brent Bien received less than half of the votes Gordon did, managing to secure 48,549. He was followed by Rex Rammell with 9,373, and James Scott Quick with 4,725 across the state’s 23 counties
Theresa Livingston achieved success in the Democratic primary, and brought in 4,989 voters. She defeated Rex Wilde, who received 2,016. There were 214 write-ins.
She’s said Wednesday she’s looking forward to competing with Gordon for Wyoming votes on Nov. 8.
“It’s going to be a good election,” she told the WTE. “I hope it’s really positive. I want people to talk about what they’re going to do instead of bad-mouthing other candidates.”
State Superintendent: Degenfelder v. Maldonado
Despite Gordon’s success, another Republican incumbent at the state level fell to a challenger in the primary. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Schroeder lost less than a year after he was appointed by the governor, and the difference was fewer than 4,000 votes.
Megan Degenfelder won the primary election with 59,301 votes, and Schroeder fell short with 55,746.
“It’s just so humbling, realizing all of the support that we received across the state,” Degenfelder told the WTE on Wednesday. “We had hundreds of individual donors, 90% of which were based in Wyoming, and just dozens of volunteers and folks around the state.”
She said it was amazing to see the grassroots effort come to fruition, and she plans to keep the momentum going as the general election approaches. Degenfelder is set to run against the sole Democratic candidate for state superintendent, Sergio Maldonado Sr.
Robert White III and Jennifer Zerba were also vying for the position in the Wyoming Department of Education, but received only 4,392 and 13,656 votes, respectively, in the GOP primary.
Other statewide races
While Republican state secretary and state treasurer candidates who won Tuesday night will not face Democrats on Nov. 8, there were notable successes by two Trump-endorsed candidates.
State Rep. Chuck Gray, R-Casper, defeated his rival, Sen. Tara Nethercott, R-Cheyenne, in the Secretary of State race with 75,938 votes. She received 63,044, but it was not enough to head into the general election. They were both campaigning for the seat along with Mark Armstrong, who received 14,292 votes.
Gray took to Twitter the day after the election and thanked the people of Wyoming for their support.
“I am honored and humbled by our victory last night,” he wrote. “This is the people of Wyoming’s victory. Thank you to those who voted yesterday and made their voices known.”
Incumbent Curt Meier took home a win in the state treasurer’s race. His 97,489 votes bested Bill Gallop’s 40,643.
Senate District 5: Hutchings v. Hanlon
Neither incumbent state Sen. Lynn, Hutchings, R-Cheyenne, nor Democratic challenger Ted Hanlon faced opponents in the primary election. They will face one another in the general election for the seat in Senate District 5.
Senate District 7: Pappas v. Kindred
Wyoming Guard veteran Rachel Bennett and former City Council candidate JC Manalo were hoping to unseat Sen. Stephan Pappas, R-Cheyenne, in the Republican primary, but were unsuccessful. Pappas coasted into the general election with 2,199 votes, followed by Bennett with 1,283 and Manalo with 717.
Pappas is up against Democratic candidate Marcie Kindred, who launched her campaign officially the morning after the primary.
“In Wyoming, we like our taverns local. While we are grateful for the service Pappas has given to our community, decisions are made by the people that show up,” she said in a statement. “There is no substitute for presence. He made a promise to represent the people of SD 7, and he has failed to deliver on that promise. With our current political climate, we need leaders who are committed to this district and show up to advocate for the needs of their constituents.”
House District 7: Nicholas v. Coppinger
Prior to redistricting, Rep. Bob Nicholas, R-Cheyenne, served in House District 8 since 2011. He decided to run against Nick Coppinger in House District 7 in order to be re-elected to the Wyoming Legislature, and he succeeded. Nicholas received 1,514 votes, and Coppinger earned 1,150.
In the general election, Nicholas will compete for votes with Democratic candidate Jordan Evans.
House District 9: Brown v. Latham
Rep. Landon Brown, R-Cheyenne, faced harsh campaigns from both Dean Petersen and Alan Sheldon in an effort to remove him from office. He was criticized for being a RINO (Republican In Name Only), as well as for applauding Cheney in her investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots.
Although he was attacked throughout the weeks leading up to the election, his constituents came out in support. He won with 1,192 votes, while Sheldon received 545 and Petersen 489.
His success moved him forward to the general election, where is challenger will be Democratic candidate Stephen Latham.
House District 11: Olsen v. Herman
The only Democratic primary race in Laramie County resulted in a win for current Laramie County School District 1 trustee Marguerite Herman. She defeated former House District 11 state representative Jim Byrd with 162 votes. Byrd received 90.
This seat is held by incumbent Rep. Jared Olsen, R-Cheyenne, who was the sole Republican candidate in the primary race.
House District 44: Trujillo v. Burlingame
The only Republican incumbent taken down in local legislative races was Rep. John Romero-Martinez. He lost to Tamara Trujillo, who the incumbent said he endorsed officially the day after the election.
Trujillo received 404 votes, while Romero-Martinez had 293. Michael Reyes was the other Republican vying for the seat, and he got 261 votes.
Trujillo will face Democratic candidate Sara Burlingame, who previously held the seat before she lost to Romero-Martinez in 2020.
“I have a pretty good chance of winning,” said Trujillo. “I feel when I entered the race in May, I entered it with expectations to win all the way through November.”
Other Laramie County legislative seats
Among the winners Tuesday who won’t face general election challengers were: Republican Evie Brennan in SD 31, Republican Jeremy Haroldson in HD 4 (uncontested), Republican Dave Zwonitzer in HD 8, Republican incumbent John Eklund in HD 10, Republican incumbent Clarence Styvar in HB 12, Republican incumbent Bill Henderson in HD 41 (uncontested), Republican Ben Hornok in HD 42, Republican incumbent Dan Zwonitzer in HD 43 and Republican Daniel Singh in HD 61.
Laramie County sheriff
Former Cheyenne Police Chief Brian Kozak came out on top of the Republican primary for Laramie County sheriff with 9,370 votes. Don Hollingshead came in second with 8,463, and Boyd Wrede finished with 6,038.
There was no incumbent to challenge, since Laramie County Sheriff Danny Glick announced he would not seek re-election.
Kozak moves on to face two registered candidates in the general election. Jess Fresquez is running as a Democrat, and Jeff Barnes is campaigning as an independent.
County commissioners
Since there are no Democratic challengers to the Republican primary winners in the county commissioners race, incumbents remained successful in keeping their three seats.
Gunnar Malm received 12,536 votes, Troy Thompson received 12,305, and Linda Heath won another term with 10,171.
The current office holders faced four other Republicans in the primary. Bryce Freeman followed Heath with 7,424 votes, Brian Casey had 6,332, Abbie Mildenberger got 6,024 and Sam Eliopoulos finished with 5,302.
Cheyenne City Council
City Council races are nonpartisan, but if there are more than two candidates in a race for a seat, an election takes place during the primary. This was the case in two out of three wards, with incumbents moving forward in both.
Ward 1 council member Scott Roybal received the most votes at 2,010, and Cameron Karajanis received the second-largest amount with 1,176. They both defeated Michael Blakeley in the primary, and will compete for the Ward 1 seat in the general election.
Mark Rinne, one of the longest-serving City Council members ever, will face Lynn Storey-Huylar in the Ward 2 general election race. Rinne received 2,956 votes, while Storey-Huylar received 1,787. The other contenders, Matt Miller and Brian Eicholtz, lost with 1,203 and 796 votes, respectively.
Incumbent Ken Esquibel in Ward 3 did not have to campaign in the primary election. He automatically moved forward in the general election along with Joe Shogrin.
Jasmine Hall is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s state government reporter. She can be reached by email at jhall@wyomingnews.com or by phone at 307-633-3167. Follow her on Twitter @jasminerhphotos and on Instagram @jhrose25. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/economy_and_labor/primary-race-winners-look-ahead-to-general-election/article_f52d091a-1f1a-11ed-beee-d73d35b4b95b.html | 2022-08-18T20:06:11Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/economy_and_labor/primary-race-winners-look-ahead-to-general-election/article_f52d091a-1f1a-11ed-beee-d73d35b4b95b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHEYENNE – AARP Wyoming and Mountain-Pacific Quality Health are teaming up to offer a teletown hall on brain health at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23.
Among the experts on the call will be Sara Medley, chief executive officer of Mountain-Pacific and caregiver for a loved one with dementia; Dr. Douglas Kuntzweiler, chief medical officer at Mountain-Pacific; and Stevi Sy, a registered pharmacist and clinical analyst at Mountain-Pacific.
The panel will offer tips and advice to caregivers, as well as provide tips and answer questions to help callers better understand what they can do to keep their brains healthy as they age, according to an AARP news release.
Wyoming Public Radio’s Bob Beck will moderate the TeleTown Hall, which has a format similar to a radio talk show and offers the ability for participants to ask questions to the panelists. AARP Wyoming will call out to its members around 3:55 p.m. that day to find members interested in taking part in the call. If you do not receive a call, but wish to join the presentation, call 1-855-274-1448.
“Keeping our brains sharp as we age is the top concern for AARP Wyoming members, and I think we all know friends and family who have struggled with Alzheimer’s Disease or some other form of dementia,” said Sam Shumway, AARP Wyoming’s state director, in the release. “We are thrilled to be joined by Mountain-Pacific to help us talk about caregiving challenges for those with dementia, as well as how we keep our own brains happy and healthy.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/health_care/aarp-wyoming-to-host-teletown-hall-on-brain-health-next-tuesday/article_0cdeea4c-1f1b-11ed-b589-079eeff217e3.html | 2022-08-18T20:06:17Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/health_care/aarp-wyoming-to-host-teletown-hall-on-brain-health-next-tuesday/article_0cdeea4c-1f1b-11ed-b589-079eeff217e3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A commercial truck driver from Ukraine who was taken into custody by immigration officials shortly after he was acquitted of causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists will ask for relief from possible removal from the United States, his attorney said at a hearing Thursday.
Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 26, of West Springfield, Massachusetts, appeared before an immigration judge via video. He is being held in Pennsylvania.
Zhukovskyy was born in Ukraine and came to the United States at age 10. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued an immigration detainer on him after the 2019 crash, which was executed following the verdict in New Hampshire on Aug. 9. He had been jailed in New Hampshire since the crash, in which motorcyclists from New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island died.
An ICE spokesperson said last week that Zhukovskyy has prior convictions of charges that include drug possession, driving with a suspended license, furnishing false information and larceny.
A phone message seeking comment was left with his attorney.
The judge had asked an attorney representing the U.S. government to file a form that seeks to remove Zhukovskyy from the country. There also was discussion of a bond request for Zhukovskyy and possible mandatory detention.
Another hearing is scheduled for Sept. 29. | https://www.wpri.com/new-england/new-hampshire/truck-driver-acquitted-in-crash-appears-in-immigration-court/ | 2022-08-18T20:09:23Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/new-england/new-hampshire/truck-driver-acquitted-in-crash-appears-in-immigration-court/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DOVER, Del. - The Delaware Division of Public Health on Thursday announced additional locations where those who meet eligibility criteria can get the monkeypox vaccine.
On Monday, DPH expanded access to the vaccine to those living with HIV and those receiving HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Additionally, on Aug. 22, access will be expanded to include those engaging in high-risk activities, including sexual practices, that increase exposure to monkeypox such as:
- Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and have had multiple (more than one) or any anonymous sexual partners
- Transgender women or nonbinary persons assigned male at birth who have sex with men
- Sex workers (of any sexual orientation/gender)
- Staff (of any sexual orientation/gender) at establishments where sexual activity occurs (e.g., bathhouses, saunas, sex clubs)
To date, DPH has been administering the vaccine at its public health clinics by appointment only. Individuals seeking a vaccine from DPH must contact the MPX Hotline number (1-866-408-1899) to be evaluated by a DPH staff member and schedule an appointment with a DPH clinic. Walk-ins for vaccination will not be accepted.
Two medical providers who offer HIV PrEP began administering vaccine this week. One of these valued partners, Beebe Healthcare, has agreed to begin vaccinating community members who meet any of the eligibility criteria indicated above starting Friday, Aug. 26. Individuals can schedule an appointment at beebehealthcare.org/online-scheduling starting Monday, Aug. 22. Walk-ins will not be accepted.
Additionally, the week of Aug. 22, DPH is partnering with AIDS Delaware and the HIV Consortium, as well as CAMP Rehoboth to host vaccination events. The event with AIDS Delaware and the Delaware HIV Consortium will be held Aug. 25, from 9:00 am until 3:00 pm, at the Community Services Building located at 100 W. 10th Street in Wilmington. Pre-registration is required. Walk-ins will not be accepted. To register for this event, eligible persons are directed to call AIDS Delaware at 302-652-6776.
DPH and CAMP Rehoboth are also hosting an event on Aug. 23 at CAMP’s Rehoboth Beach location. The pre-registration for this event is currently full. Walk-ins will not be accepted. DPH is also onboarding additional partners and will announce new locations as they are finalized.
Monkeypox vaccinations at DPH clinics will continue to prioritize individuals at highest risk after a DPH evaluation: persons known or presumed to be exposed to someone with MPX in the last 14 days, and certain individuals who have sex with men and who have had multiple sex partners within the past 14 days. As a result, appointments may need to be scheduled a few days out.
Individuals should be aware that the vaccine, a two-dose series given 28 days apart, is not considered effective until two weeks after the second dose. Particularly those at higher risk should continue to use preventive measures and reduce engaging in any high-risk behaviors until that time.
To learn more information about monkeypox, visit de.gov/monkeypox. DPH began posting MPX case and vaccine data on the website this week. As of today, Delaware has 11 confirmed cases of monkeypox.
The DPH hotline is for individuals with questions or concerns about monkeypox. The DPH Hotline number is 866-408-1899 and is operational Monday – Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Questions may also be emailed to DPHCall@delaware.gov. Both the hotline number and email address share staff with the COVID-19 Call Center. | https://www.wboc.com/news/delaware-to-expand-access-to-monkeypox-vaccine-for-eligible-persons/article_3a1170f4-1f28-11ed-a6cc-d39cdc21a7de.html | 2022-08-18T20:10:50Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/delaware-to-expand-access-to-monkeypox-vaccine-for-eligible-persons/article_3a1170f4-1f28-11ed-a6cc-d39cdc21a7de.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLa. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis publicly announced on Thursday, August 18, that 20 people have been charged with voter fraud across the state.
According to the governor, majority of the people that illegally voted were in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami Dade. DeSantis also stated they did not have the right to vote due to being convicted of murder and sexual assault, which is a violation of Florida law.
"Amendment 4 that passed specifically included people who have been convicted of sexual assault and homicide from being able to have an automatic restoration of their voting rights," said DeSantis during the news conference at Broward County's Courthouse. "They did not go through any process, they did not get their rights restored, and yet they went ahead and voted anyway."
DeSantis said the suspects are being charged with election fraud, which is a third degree felony in the state of Florida. They could face a $5,000 fine and up to five years in prison.
DeSantis said Supervisors of Elections are being notified to lookout for such crimes and for illegal immigrants who are voting. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/gov-desantis-announces-20-arrests-for-voter-fraud-in-florida | 2022-08-18T20:12:41Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/gov-desantis-announces-20-arrests-for-voter-fraud-in-florida | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Even though he is out of office, Donald Trump continues to influence politics as much as anyone else, and this week's primary races, particularly in Wyoming, have highlighted that.
On Tuesday, incumbent Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney was trounced by Trump-endorsed attorney Harriet Hageman as she lost by more than 30 percentage points with more than 90% of the vote counted.
According to analysis by the Washington Post, that loss appears to be the second worst for a House incumbent in the last 60 years.
Hageman was endorsed by Trump after Cheney became a vocal opponent of the president’s claims that the 2020 Presidential Election was stolen.
“Trump has a very important name right now within the Republican Party. It’s a key thing and you can see it in a lot of contests, a lot of Republican primaries right now,” said Seth Masket, director of the Center for American Politics at the University of Denver. “There are a few cases where just his endorsement seems to get a lot of donors interested in helping out and getting that candidate a lot of donors being very enthusiastic.”
So far this year, former President Trump has endorsed more than 200 Republican candidates. For comparison, former President Obama endorsed 81 ahead of the first mid-term primary following his last year in office in 2018.
In many races, Trump-backed candidates have either run unopposed or against little-known, poorly-funded opponents, but in others, the endorsements have highlighted the continued strength of the Donald Trump brand. Trump’s endorsement helped J.D. Vance win a crowded Ohio GOP Senate primary in May, and it did the same for Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, where he won the GOP Senate primary in June.
“We don’t see this sort of thing, usually, from other former presidents,” said Masket. “It’s actually pretty rare to see this. You might have to go back to someone like Teddy Roosevelt 100 years ago to find someone this interested in shaping and re-shaping a party after he left office.”
With Liz Cheney’s defeat in Wyoming’s Republican primary on Tuesday, eight of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump have either lost their primary races or are retiring. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/how-trump-continues-to-shape-the-gop-this-midterm-election-cycle | 2022-08-18T20:12:53Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/how-trump-continues-to-shape-the-gop-this-midterm-election-cycle | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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ZANESVILLE − The Muskingum County Engineer's Office has announced that Kopchak Road will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday and Tuesday from U.S. 40 to Ridge Road for roadside mowing. | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/local/2022/08/18/local-news-briefs/65408091007/ | 2022-08-18T20:13:17Z | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | control | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/local/2022/08/18/local-news-briefs/65408091007/ | 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.wtxl.com/news/national/missouri-pastor-apologizes-after-calling-congregation-cheap-for-not-buying-him-luxury-watch | 2022-08-18T20:13:17Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/missouri-pastor-apologizes-after-calling-congregation-cheap-for-not-buying-him-luxury-watch | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
EL CAJON, Calif. (KGTV) — A small plane made a hard landing near San Diego on Thursday.
According to the California Highway Patrol, the plane landed on Greenfield Drive and came to rest under the Interstate 8 overpass around 10:30 a.m.
It's unclear what caused the pilot to land on the roadway.
The pilot was taken to the hospital to be evaluated. There are no reports of injuries on the ground.
In a tweet, El Cajon Police advised the public to avoid the immediate area due to the police and fire department response.
This story was originally reported by Jermaine Ong on 10news.com. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/plane-lands-on-southern-california-roadway | 2022-08-18T20:13:29Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/plane-lands-on-southern-california-roadway | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — A Rhode Island man vacationing in Wisconsin has died after he fell more than 70 feet while attempting to walk across a rising drawbridge in Milwaukee.
According to a Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office report, 77-year-old Richard Dujardin of Providence, Rhode Island, was walking across the Kilbourn Avenue Bridge with his wife Monday afternoon when it began to rise, NBC affiliate TMJ4 reported.
The report said his wife, Rose-Marie Dujardin, made it across the bridge. However, Richard Dujardin, who was looking at an iPad while walking, was still in the middle when it began rising, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
"The lights, bells, and arms came down at each end of the bridge," the report said according to the news outlets. "However, Richard was hard of hearing, and it is thought that he didn't notice them."
The report states that the 77-year-old tried to catch up to his wife, but couldn't, so he grabbed onto the side railing but lost his grip and fell 71 feet to the pavement below, the news outlets reported.
According to the report, the news outlets reported that Richard Dujardin suffered head trauma and died from his injuries at the scene.
The bridge is controlled by the city's Department of Public Works, the Associated Press reported.
In a statement to the news outlets, Interim Commissioner of Public Works Jerrel Kruschke said the operator was "fully trained," and is in his fourth year as a bridge operator and had opened bridges hundreds of times.
Kruschke added that the bridge operator was on leave and that he "was connected with the City’s Employee Assistance Program for counseling," the newspaper reported.
Milwaukee Police said in a statement that there is no suspicion of a criminal act, but the investigation was ongoing, the Associated Press reported.
Rose-Marie Dujardin told TMJ4 that her husband of 54 years was a reporter at the Providence Journal. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/rhode-island-man-vacationing-in-milwaukee-dies-in-fall-from-drawbridge | 2022-08-18T20:13:35Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/rhode-island-man-vacationing-in-milwaukee-dies-in-fall-from-drawbridge | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Cryptologic Technicians (Technical) 1st Class Brian Chermely from Walpole, Massachusetts, interacts with guests at the Boston FanExpo Aug. 12-14, 2022. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kalliyah Lowe/Released)
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ORLANDO, Fla. (Aug. 18, 2022) A member of Team Marine Corps practices cycling the day before the opening ceremony for the 2022 DoD Warrior Games, Aug. 18, 2022. The Warrior Games are composed of over 200 wounded, ill and injured service members and veteran athletes, competing in 12 adaptive sporting events Aug. 19-28, 2022 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. (DoD Photo by Roger L. Wollenberg)
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MOSCOW (AP) — People in Moscow who were disappointed when Starbucks closed its coffee shops after Russia sent troops into Ukraine may now feel a caffeine jolt of hope: A nearly identical operation is opening in the capital.
The name's almost the same: Stars Coffee. The logo could be the separated-at-birth twin of the Starbucks mermaid, with flowing hair, a small enigmatic smile and a star atop her head — though instead of a Starbucks crown she wears a Russian headdress called a kokoshnik.
The menu, judging by the company app introduced a day before the store's formal opening Friday, would look familiar to any Starbucks customer.
Starbucks said Thursday it had no comment on the new stores.
Seattle-based Starbucks was one of the most visible of the wave of foreign companies that pulled out of Russia or suspended their operations in response to Russia's military operation in Ukraine. Others include McDonald's, IKEA and fast-fashion giant H&M.
The departure of these companies was a psychological blow to Russians who had become used to the comforts of Western-style consumer culture. But Russian entrepreneurs saw opportunity in suddenly unoccupied stores.
Former McDonald's outlets are reopening and attracting sizable crowds under the name Vkusno — i Tochka. Though the name doesn't roll off the tongue easily and is a little awkward to translate (roughly: It's Tasty — Period), the menu is a testament to imitation being the sincerest form of flattery.
Yunus Yusupov, a popular rap artist who uses the stage name Timati, and restaurateur Anton Pinsky partnered to buy the Starbucks assets, then took the imitation strategy a step further by giving the operation an English-language name.
At a news conference Thursday, they vowed to reopen all the former Starbucks under their new identity and even expand the business. The U.S. company had built its Russian operation to about 130 stores since entering the country in 2007. The stores were owned and operated by a franchisee, Alshaya Group of Kuwait.
While the close resemblance of the new operations to their predecessors could be seen as riding someone else's inspiration and effort, the Starbucks and McDonald's successors also fit a national-pride concept. Since Russia was walloped by sanctions and foreign pullouts, officials frequently assert that Russia will overcome by relying on its own resources and energies.
"Now the economic situation is difficult, but this is a time of opportunity," Oleg Eskindarov, president of the holding company that partnered in the Starbucks deal, told the state news agency Tass. "For the past four months, we have been very actively looking at exiting companies following the example of Starbucks. There are several more similar examples, but we cannot talk about them yet." | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/stars-coffee-anyone-starbucks-successor-opening-in-russia | 2022-08-18T20:13:48Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/stars-coffee-anyone-starbucks-successor-opening-in-russia | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Dr. Mark W. Fishback retired from the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command as the deputy to the commanding general and senior U.S. Army civilian after 43 years of combined uniformed and service civilian, Aug. 18. Fishback is a retired U.S. Marine Corps chief warrant officer 4 who was wounded twice and recognized for valor five times. U.S. Army photo by Marshall R. Mason.
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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.wtxl.com/news/national/utah-man-suffering-medical-emergency-saved-by-off-duty-officers | 2022-08-18T20:14:06Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/utah-man-suffering-medical-emergency-saved-by-off-duty-officers | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Dr. Mark W. Fishback poses with his family following his retirement ceremony, Aug. 18. Mark Fishback retired from the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command as the deputy to the commanding general and senior U.S. Army civilian at the one-of-a-kind command. (U.S. Army photo by Andrew D. Monath.)
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Nobody dithers quite like Diane Keaton. The world first fell in love with Keaton’s dithering in writer-director Woody Allen’s Academy Award-winning “Annie Hall.”
You first hear it in the movie’s primary tennis club scene. Annie’s a bit shy, a bit nervous, because she finds Allen’s Alvy Singer character appealing.
Then Keaton hits an ace with this iconic — stalling for time, but breaking the ice — word jumble: “Oh, well. La-de-da. La-de-da. La la.” It captures her character instantly.
There’s plenty of time for Keaton to dither in “Mack & Rita,” a new comedy that succeeds because of her comic brilliance. The film, which achieves it goals but could have achieved them better, is a Master Class in acting. Keaton shines throughout.
Shades of “Big” and “Freaky Friday,” “Mack & Rita” is a body-swapping movie that dares to go where few films want to travel. It’s not only about older people (in their 60s through 90s), but it’s also about a young person who wishes she were old.
Mack, wonderfully acted by Elizabeth Lail, is 30, but she’s always felt like an old soul. You know people just like her. She really prefers sitting cozily on a comfortable old sofa, her body warmed by a thick knitted sweater, a good book in one hand and a cup of hot soup in the other.
She’s at a moment in her life where’s she exhausted. Even though she may wish she were Emily Dickinson, Mack is a successful online entrepreneur, a very popular social-media influencer. She’s also having difficulty writing her second novel. Mack and some girlfriends head to the desert delights of Palm Springs, California from the Los Angeles megalopolis for a bachelorette party for their friend’s upcoming wedding.
A slippery fellow named Luca (a slick Simon Rex), who has con man written all over him, invites her to lie down on a specially tricked-up tanning bed. He says it will relax her. He calls it a “life-regression pod.” Mack has been bemoaning her place in life, verbalizing her desire to be in a different generation. After some razzle-dazzle, Mack suddenly finds herself 40 years older.
Her name is now “Aunt Rita.” And she’s now 70. Enter Diane Keaton as Rita. This is where the movie swings into high gear. You not only get Keaton in all her quirky glory, but you also get a fabulous wardrobe to dazzle any budding costume designer living in your house. This is a comedy, after all, and the pratfalls come tumbling out from every corner of the screen. Some hit. Some miss. But, at least Keaton and company are trying. When did honest laughter become the enemy in movie theaters? It’s not in “Mack & Rita.”
The story then revolves around rescuing Mack from the future. All hands are on deck. As expected, Keaton is breathtakingly funny. Her performance is flawless.
Taylour Paige as Mack’s best friend Carla is terrific as a very calm person with the intellectual data points to figure out what went wrong and how to return Mack to reality. Although, truth be told, everybody loves Rita. Dustin Milligan as Mack’s good-looking, dog-sitting neighbor and possible love interest Jack has everyone eyeballing him. And yes, he takes Rita out on a date. Well, come on, she’s fabulous. You’d take her out, too.
There’s a quartet of older wine lovers, which includes Carla’s mother (a smartly quippy Loretta Devine). She’s joined by a trio of sweet perfection: Lois Smith (91 years old in real life), Amy Hill, and an actress I adore, Buffalo-born Wendie Malick. Think of the former babysitter who starts dating Marty Crane on “Frasier.” Malick graduated from Williamsville South High School.
“Mack & Rita” is directed by Katie Aselton and written by Madeline Walter and Paul Welsh. Aselton is self-assured, and she gets the best beats possible from the stellar cast. The writing needed a few additional jolts to the dramatic part of the story. Production values are top-notch.
Mack calls her grandmother, who raised her, “the coolest old gal” she ever knew. We are told the grandmother was confident and fearless. She was who she wanted to be, and she liked what she liked, be it vintage clothes or social issues. Mack was happiest when she was with her grandmother. She never quite “got” people her own age.
One thing you’ll notice when you watch “Mack & Rita," which is playing only in theaters, is how comfortable the cast is with each of their characters and with the other performers. This is ensemble acting taken to the highest level.
As for men going to see “Mack & Rita,” truth be told, it would be a lovely gesture to take an older female relative or two or some aging female neighbors to see the movie.
The film, which is unfortunately taking its lumps, is about building bridges between people of all ages. Everyone who is not yet gray will be gray very soon. Why is that a bad thing for a movie to discuss? Why do so many people fear aging?
Through it all, Keaton, who makes no excuses for the personal or professional choices she’s made throughout her life, celebrates her 76 years with a vibrancy that is alluring. Some years ago, I interviewed her one-on-one, and she didn’t disappoint. She was engaging, forthright, and funny from the best part of her being: her heart.
I’m glad she made “Mack & Rita" and I hope people go see it. You may actually leave the theater feeling good about things. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/lifestyles/calleri-aging-is-good-diane-keaton-proves-it-in-mack-rita/article_44180c28-1db3-11ed-b0d6-af72841b03ad.html | 2022-08-18T20:17:56Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/lifestyles/calleri-aging-is-good-diane-keaton-proves-it-in-mack-rita/article_44180c28-1db3-11ed-b0d6-af72841b03ad.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
This week marked the 53rd anniversary of the first Woodstock Music Festival. From Aug. 15-18, 1969, 32 acts performed at the event which took place in Bethel, N.Y. The event’s cultural significance often overshadows the musical performances, and subsequent attempts at capturing the magic of that first Woodstock have been disastrous.
Five decades later, nine of the acts that appeared at Woodstock are still actively performing in some capacity. Two of them, The Grateful Dead and Creedence Clearwater Revival, have primary members still performing; The Grateful Dead has one under the moniker Dead and Company and another under Phil and Friends; and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s John Fogerty is touring and singing CCR hits.
Memories of the original festival are kept alive in part by a fantastic museum located at the original site, which also has a concert venue. There are a number of theories as to why Woodstock stood out, especially since it was a logistical nightmare, but there is no question that the decision to film the event provided us with an unparalleled historical document.
The original festival not only had one of the greatest lineups of any festival in history, it was also a case study in how, even in the worst of circumstances, people can come together and make something beautiful happen.
While not all the performances were stellar, Jimi Hendrix’s version of “The Star Spangled Banner” was an iconic moment in music history. Even without saying a word, Hendrix’s version sent a clear political message that resonated with his generation.
Two subsequent attempts to capitalize on the Woodstock brand were miserable failures. The Woodstock ‘94 event was hampered by rain and gate crashers much like the original event, but it lacked the spirit and sense of community of its predecessor.
Woodstock ‘99 was affected by a different type of weather, oppressive heat. Held at a decommissioned military base, Woodstock ‘99 inspired a recently released documentary titled “Trainwreck: Woodstock '99.”
The original Woodstock film is largely credited with solidifying Woodstock’s legacy, and shows the festival in a largely positive light. “Trainwreck: Woodstock '99” is on the opposite end of the spectrum, and is a dark and disturbing look at the 1999 gathering that ended with mass looting and out of control fires.
Unlike the original Woodstock, the Woodstock ‘99 musical performances were almost completely overshadowed by the crowd's bad behavior. Even some New York State Troopers got caught up in the moment; 10 of them were suspended or demoted for posing with topless women, or having nude women clean their police car. At the end of the festival, about 500 troopers had to don riot gear to clear out the crowd.
An attempt to organize Woodstock 50 reached its final stages before investors pulled out, after the lineup had been announced, and organizers were forced to cancel it after they attempted multiple venue changes.
While there may never be another Woodstock, multi-day music festivals are becoming more common and much better managed. Coachella held its first festival a few months after Woodstock ‘99 and has grown into one of the best festivals in the world.
In 1969 the nation was arguably just as polarized as it is today, but Woodstock created a moment of unity that we may never experience again, even though we could really use it. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/lifestyles/jennings-the-impossibility-of-recreating-the-woodstock-moment/article_1b2559ea-1db5-11ed-9f6a-efc141cf8e98.html | 2022-08-18T20:18:00Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/lifestyles/jennings-the-impossibility-of-recreating-the-woodstock-moment/article_1b2559ea-1db5-11ed-9f6a-efc141cf8e98.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For the second week in a row, new cases of COVID-19 reported to the Niagara County Health Department dropped.
From Aug. 10 through Tuesday, 188 new cases were reported. That’s down from 222 new cases reported over the previous week.
The average number of available hospital beds in the county also held steady, according to the health department. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/local-covid-numbers-drop-again/article_f57bf9a4-1f05-11ed-b17a-5386182c91ab.html | 2022-08-18T20:18:01Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/local-covid-numbers-drop-again/article_f57bf9a4-1f05-11ed-b17a-5386182c91ab.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BOSTON (AP) — A former Massachusetts State Police trooper has been indicted on a charge of motor vehicle homicide while operating under the influence of alcohol in connection with a crash that took the life of a motorcycle operator, prosecutors said Thursday.
Kristopher Carr, 26, is scheduled to be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on Oct. 4, according to a statement from the office of Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden.
Carr was off duty and driving an SUV south on Interstate 93 in Boston in the early morning hours of Oct. 29 when he leaned over to kiss a woman in the passenger seat and swerved into the median barrier, prosecutors said.
His vehicle came to a stop and was struck by a motorcycle operated by Christopher Zike, 51, of Winthrop, prosecutors said. Zike was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Carr, of Monson, previously pleaded not guilty in district court. An email seeking comment was left with his attorney.
The crash occurred just days after Carr graduated from the state police academy and he was still a probationary trooper. He was subsequently fired. | https://www.wpri.com/new-england/massachusetts/former-state-trooper-indicted-in-connection-with-fatal-crash/ | 2022-08-18T20:20:00Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/new-england/massachusetts/former-state-trooper-indicted-in-connection-with-fatal-crash/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- The rental in the Craigslist post looks like a deal.
Free parking in Waikiki, it advertises. A 1 bedroom condo is listed a half block from the beach at $50 per night.
The person behind the posting responded in a text that there was no time to view the property due to "security reasons," but to send a deposit to hold the room using an electronic cash payment app. That was red flag number 1.
Number 2 came after the poster texted a photo ID saying "Here is a copy of my ID."
But the man in the ID says he has never posted a condo rental on craigslist. He's a local. And KITV tracked him down. "I had gotten one message on LinkedIn from a lady that said, 'Are you legit renting condos?' I said no," Jon Laurion said.
The message Jon Laurion received last month startled him. It read, "Hi, confirming here if you are renting condos in Honolulu. Or if someone is using your ID to do that."
The woman later revealed the photo of Jon's ID had been sent to her via an 808 cell number.
It's the same 808 number that responded to the listing KITV responded to. We were told to rush over a deposit using PayPal or the banking app Zelle. The poster then followed up aggressively for a response.
Jon says he made the mistake of sending a picture of his ID when he was looking to rent a place Memorial Day for a small vacation rental gathering.
"They sent me a picture of their driver's license and said, hey can you respond back and make sure you're legit. I was like ok alright, here's my license. And there were just little things that didn't add up. Weird ways of phrasing things or spelling things," Jon told KITV. He started to think the poster was in another country.
Jon didn't hand over any money he says, but the photo of the ID is now out there. The ad currently posted by the account using Jon's ID misclassifies the Waikiki rental under the Big Island. It has occasional errors in grammar, or the use of a wrong preposition.
In texts, the person was overly formal, constantly referring to the recipient as "Sir." Texts came in as early as 5:46 in the morning demanding payment.
John isn't the only one misrepresented here in Hawaii. Harrison Beacher is a real Washington DC Realtor who has been contacted by others about fake postings coming up under his name here in this last year.
Beacher told KITV, "Because it's a part of my business to be verified and confirmed legit by actual referrals and people looking for me, I do have an established and updated presence on pretty much every social media channel."
And that presence is being used by the poster for a 1 bed room in Waikiki at an unrealistic 870 dollars a month. The poster replied using Beacher's name and an email address claiming he was Beacher.
The Beacher doppelgänger also tried to direct respondents to another rental site that requires sign up, but then the correspondence would go cold. The account posted another listing as recently as July.
"It's a game of numbers. They do it enough times, unfortunately some people think it's legit enough, will give that deposit amount or give that application free and that's why they do it. They fish!" Beacher warned.
And any accounts demanding electronic cash payment for a rental, sight unseen, is a giveaway somebody is trying to reel you in.
Both men who had their IDs stolen had not filed a police report. One told KITV, "Seems unlikely anything useful would come of it."
Honolulu CrimeStoppers, however, recommends that a police report is filed for documentation purposes. The FBI recommends complaints be filed at the website ic3.gov.
Do you have a story idea? Email news tips to news@kitv.com
Jeremy Lee joined KITV after over a decade & a half in broadcast news from coast to coast on the mainland. Jeremy most recently traveled the country documenting protests & civil unrest. | https://www.kitv.com/news/a-game-of-numbers-how-craigslist-scammers-are-using-identity-theft-tactics/article_56363666-1ece-11ed-a586-93874009d8c1.html | 2022-08-18T20:21:01Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/a-game-of-numbers-how-craigslist-scammers-are-using-identity-theft-tactics/article_56363666-1ece-11ed-a586-93874009d8c1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- A judge has granted more time for a defense attorney to gather documents in the Juan Baron murder case.
Baron is accused of strangling and Gary Ruby to death and trying to conceal the crime by encasing the 73-year-old man’s body in cement inside a bathtub at Ruby’s Hawaii Loa Ridge home.
Baron appeared before a judge on Aug. 17 via video teleconference. His trial, originally set to begin at the end of August, was pushed back to Nov. 7.
In documents filed, Baron's attorney claimed the state has not turned over its recent interview with witness Scott Hannon.
Hannon was the man last seen with Baron just days after Ruby’s murder. Hannon has agreed to testify against Baron at the trial.
Court documents also noted the deputy prosecutor assigned to the Hannon interview is now considered a witness in the case, as she also provided Spanish translations for Baron's jail calls at the Oahu Community Correctional Center.
Baron has been charged for second-degree murder, one count of first-degree theft and one count of third-degree theft, and one count of first-degree identity theft. He had pleaded “not guilty” to the crimes.
Matthew has been the digital content manager for KITV4 since September 2021. Matthew is a prolific writer, editor, and self-described "newsie" who's worked in television markets in Oklahoma, California, and Hawaii. | https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/hawaii-loa-ridge-murder-trial-pushed-back-to-nov-7/article_446faec8-1f26-11ed-a751-d783cbb89b27.html | 2022-08-18T20:21:13Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/hawaii-loa-ridge-murder-trial-pushed-back-to-nov-7/article_446faec8-1f26-11ed-a751-d783cbb89b27.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Two more cases of Monkeypox have been diagnosed in Hawaii, both in patients on Oahu, bringing the state’s total confirmed case count up to 18, according to the Hawaii Department of Health (DOH).
Of the latest cases, the DOH says one case is in a non-resident whose infection is related to travel outside of the state. The other case is under investigation as to its origin.
“While the risk to most Hawaii residents remains low, local transmission of monkeypox is occurring. The growing number of cases in Hawaii underscores the importance of vaccination—if you are eligible, please take this step to protect yourself and our community,” said Deputy State Epidemiologist Dr. Nathan Tan.
On Tuesday, the DOH announced it was expanding its vaccination eligibility to help prevent further spread of the virus.
That announcement was made after four other cases were diagnosed – three on Oahu and one on Kauai. Hawaii has now diagnosed seven cases in the span of 72 hours.
Health officials say monkeypox shares many commonalities with smallpox, like causing blistering skin rashes. It is a rare disease caused by the monkeypox virus. Infection begins with flu-like symptoms and swollen lymph nodes, and progresses to a rash or sores, often on the hands, feet, chest, face, or genitals. Individuals generally become ill within 21 days of exposure, the DOH said
Monkeypox can spread through direct contact with body fluids, lesion material, or items used by someone with monkeypox as well as close, prolonged contact with an infected person or animal. It can also be spread through large respiratory droplets.
Monkeypox vaccines are available in every county in Hawaii. Anyone who is eligible who would wish to make an appointment can call the following numbers:
• Hawaii Department of Health (Statewide): 808-586-4462
• Malama I Ke Ola (Maui): 808-871-7772
• Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center (Oahu): 808-427-0442
• Hawaii Health and Harm Reduction Center (Oahu): 808-521-2347
Matthew has been the digital content manager for KITV4 since September 2021. Matthew is a prolific writer, editor, and self-described "newsie" who's worked in television markets in Oklahoma, California, and Hawaii. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/2-more-monkeypox-cases-diagnosed-on-oahu-18-total-cases-now-confirmed-statewide/article_ebed2682-1f2e-11ed-b229-df49f97a3a88.html | 2022-08-18T20:21:14Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/2-more-monkeypox-cases-diagnosed-on-oahu-18-total-cases-now-confirmed-statewide/article_ebed2682-1f2e-11ed-b229-df49f97a3a88.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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KAPOLEI, Hawaii (KITV4) -- August 18, 2022 is the day Oahu's last-standing coal power plant will officially close. Serving as the island's largest electricity source, about 13% of the state's overall power comes from the plant.
Back in 2014, Hawaii became the first state to make a net zero pledge, committing to the 100% transition to renewable energy by 2045.
Meanwhile, the Kapolei facility emits nearly 1.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year.
Still, the closure also means a drastic price hike in electricity bills.
Hawaiian Electric estimates Oahu residents should expect an increase of $15 a month. It's the reason state legislators are now criticizing the lack of action taken earlier by the company to mitigate some of that blow to residents.
"When we passed the coal plant shutdown mandate in 2020, we assumed everyone would be on board -- we as a community would be marching forward with renewable projects, but that didn't happen," explained Sen. Glenn Wakai. "I think what we are facing is the perfect disaster. It was totally preventable."
Originally, that increase was only expected to be about $2 a month, but because of supply chain issues that estimate again standing at around $15.
Wakai says, while it's especially frustrating to see so many residents already struggling financially, there really is no immediate solution.
Erin found her passion in journalism from a young age, watching her dad on the news. He taught her the importance of meeting, learning, and sharing people's stories. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/oahus-last-coal-power-plant-officially-closes/article_2f480d66-1f2a-11ed-9b94-17185535a3f0.html | 2022-08-18T20:21:21Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/oahus-last-coal-power-plant-officially-closes/article_2f480d66-1f2a-11ed-9b94-17185535a3f0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The NFL and the NFL Players Association have agreed to suspend Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson, seen here on August 9, for 11 regular season games without pay and fine him $5 million.
The National Football League (NFL) and the NFL Players Association have agreed to suspend Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson for 11 regular season games without pay and fine him $5 million after he was accused of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women.
Watson will undergo "a professional evaluation by behavioral experts and will follow their treatment program," according to the agreement.
"I'm moving on with my career and my life, and I'm going to continue to stand on my innocence," Watson told the media Thursday. "Just because settlements and things like that happen, doesn't mean that person is guilty for anything."
He added, "I feel like the person has the opportunity to stand on his innocence, and prove that, and we proved that on the legal side, and we've just got to continue to push forward as an individual and as a person."
Twenty-four civil lawsuits were filed against Watson; 23 have been settled confidentially. Two grand juries in Texas declined to charge Watson criminally.
Watson violated the NFL's personal conduct policy in private meetings with massage therapists while he was with the Houston Texans. League commissioner Roger Goodell called Watson's behavior "egregious" and "predatory."
The NFL had previously announced that it would appeal a decision by former federal judge Sue L. Robinson to sit Watson without pay for six games for violating the league's personal conduct policy when he was with the Houston Texans.
The league had been pushing for at least a full-season suspension instead.
Goodell stated Thursday: "Deshaun has committed to doing the hard work on himself that is necessary for his return to the NFL.
"This settlement requires compliance with a professional evaluation and treatment plan, a significant fine, and a more substantial suspension."
In her written ruling, Robinson cited Watson's "lack of expressed remorse" as a factor in the discipline that she chose.
The Browns QB released a statement on Thursday saying in part: "I'm grateful that the disciplinary process has ended and extremely appreciative of the tremendous support I have received throughout my short time with the Browns organization.
"I apologize once again for any pain this situation has caused. I take accountability for the decisions I made."
Prior to the settlement, Watson was awaiting the ruling from former New Jersey Attorney General and federal prosecutor Peter Harvey, who was named as Goodell's designee to hear the appeal.
Watson did not play last season while a member of the Texans. Watson did play in the Browns first preseason game last week.
According to the NFL, Watson would be eligible to return to play in week 13, against his former team the Texans.
"I want to say that I'm truly sorry to all of the women that I have impacted in this situation," Watson said in an interview before Friday's preseason game in Florida against the Jacksonville Jaguars. "My decisions that I made in my life that put me in this position I would definitely like to have back, but I want to continue to move forward and grow and learn and show that I am a true person of character and I am going to keep pushing forward."
Before the short interview, Watson repeatedly denied allegations of misconduct, including sexual assault and harassment involving more than two dozen women. He did not elaborate in the interview on what he meant when he said "this situation."
A three-time Pro Bowler, Watson did not play last season with the Texans because of a trade demand as well as the investigations into these allegations.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope discovered 20 exoplanetary systems, and the International Astronomical Union wants people from around the globe to submit name recommendations.
The James Webb Space Telescope is using infrared light to reveal otherwise invisible aspects of the universe -- and capturing stunning imagery in the process.
Among the wonders it's discovering and observing are exoplanetary systems, which each consist of a planet outside of our solar system and its host star, and many of them are in need of a name.
The IAU wants this to be a collaborative affair, so participants must create a team composed of teachers, students, astronomy enthusiasts, or professional or amateur astronomists.
Once the team selects its favorite names for one exoplanet and its host star, they are required to host a community outreach event that teaches the public about exoplanets. Only then can the team submit a written and video proposal that includes the names and justifications for their choices.
The video cannot be more than three minutes long, and the essay should not exceed 300 words. The team is also required to write a report no longer than 300 words on their public outreach initiative, which could be a talk by a scientist on exoplanet discoveries, and submit photos or video of the event.
If you were hoping to name a planet after yourself, you're out of luck.
Naming an exoplanetary system is a huge responsibility, so the IAU set forth a list of guidelines to follow.
To begin with, the names should have long-standing cultural, geographic or historical significance. Indigenous names are encouraged, but any team proposing one must be led by a member of an Indigenous community.
Additionally, the name of the exoplanet and its host star need to follow the same theme, meaning they must be related in some way.
Teams cannot submit names of people, pets or organizations. Any terms related to political, military or religious activities are also not allowed.
National vetting processes will take place between November 15 and December 15, 2022, and each country will select one proposal along with two backups. Afterward, an international committee will review the submissions and choose one for each exoplanet between December 16, 2022, and March 16, 2023.
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Marvel’s Avengers Adds The Winter Soldier as a Playable Hero
After weeks of rumors, Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics have finally confirmed the next hero coming to Marvel’s Avengers. Although many fans were expecting She-Hulk to join the game’s ranks in honor of her new Disney+ series, the developers have a different character in mind. In a new blog post, the studios revealed that an upcoming patch will add Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier to Avengers’ playable roster.
Unfortunately, the news didn’t come with a release date for Bucky, and it’s unclear if the update will include his own story expansion as well. Regardless, the character won’t be available until sometime after the game’s 2.6 patch drops in September. You can check out the announcement, along with some new concept art, below.
We’re excited to share what’s coming next to Marvel’s Avengers:
New Villain-Focused Warzone
Traversal & Combat Updates
New Omega-Level Threat: AIM’s Cloning Lab
Our next Hero for all players: The Winter Soldier!Read our August Dev Update: https://t.co/QxKlthWKgF pic.twitter.com/kcvffXNf5f
— Marvel’s Avengers (@PlayAvengers) August 18, 2022
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Forbes actually broke the story about The Winter Soldier’s Avengers debut earlier today in an interview with lead designer Brian Waggoner. The character is still in testing, so Waggoner couldn’t reveal much. But he did hint that fans could expect Bucky to draw influence from other heroes’ combat styles while still boasting his own set of moves.
“He trained with Cap, right? So he may share a similar feel, I guess,” said Waggoner. “I don’t want to say he has a shield or anything because he doesn’t, but his fighting style will feel like they had trained in the same place. And our Winter Soldier also trained in the Red Room, so you may see some things where we took inspiration from Black Widow’s kit. But no, not sharing any abilities or anything like that.”
In the meantime, players can look forward to the other new additions coming in patch 2.6. One of these features, the “No Rest for the Wicked” Warzone, finds Monica Rappaccini trying to salvage what’s left of M.O.D.O.K. and use him as a weapon against the Avengers. The developers will also make tweaks to existing characters’ combat, balance, and traversal abilities.
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Petra Kvitova returned the Western & Southern Open quarterfinals with a 6-1, 4-6, 6-0 defeat of No.5 seed Ons Jabeur in 1 hour and 47 minutes. Here's a snapshot of the key numbers from the result.
4: Wins Kvitova has over Jabeur, including a 6-1, 6-2 win at the same stage of Cincinnati last year. The Czech leads their overall head-to-head 4-1, and this was the first in the series to go to a deciding set. Jabeur's sole victory came in Sydney this year.
Kvitova joins Maria Sakkari as the only players who have four career wins against Jabeur.
4: Number of Cincinnati quarterfinals Kvitova has now reached. She was a semifinalist in 2012 and 2018, and also reached the last eight in 2021. Despite this, her winning percentage at the tournament prior to this week was only 55% -- her second-lowest at any WTA 1000 event, above only Rome (50%). Jabeur is the first Top 10 player she has beaten in Cincinnati.
Petra keeps on rollin' 🤙
— wta (@WTA) August 18, 2022
🇨🇿 @Petra_Kvitova fight past No.5 seed Jabeur to progress to her fourth quarterfinal in Cincinnati!
Plays either Tomljanovic or Kudermetova 🔜#CincyTennis pic.twitter.com/i3dxNwdrtn
2: Top 5 victories in 2022 for Kvitova. This result follows her 6-4, 6-4 defeat of Aryna Sabalenka in the second round of Dubai. It is just her third victory in her last 17 meetings with a Top 10 player, dating back to the 2019 Beijing quarterfinals.
20: Match-wins in 2022 for Kvitova. Her season record after Birmingham in June was in the red at 10 wins to 13 losses. But starting from her title run the following week in Eastbourne, Kvitova has 10 wins to only two losses.
8: Number of times Jabeur has been bagelled at tour level. The first four occasions came before she cracked the Top 100. The past three have all been on North American hard courts.
2012 London Olympics R1, l. Sabine Lisicki 4-6, 6-0, 7-5
2013 Doha R1, l. Sorana Cirstea 2-6, 6-3, 6-0
2014 Oeiras R2, l. Timea Bacsinszky 7-5, 6-0
2016 Rabat R1, l. Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-0, 6-2
2020 Shenzhen R1, l. Wang Qiang 6-0, 6-3
2021 Montréal QF, l. Jessica Pegula 1-6, 7-6(4), 6-0
2021 Chicago 500 F, l. Garbiñe Muguruza 3-6, 6-3, 6-0
2022 Cincinnati R2, l. Petra Kvitova 6-1, 4-6, 6-0
31: Winners struck by Kvitova, including five aces, to 43 unforced errors. The World No.28 also found her best returns on big points, slamming clean winners to break for 4-0 in the first set and for 5-0 in the third set. A series of deep, powerful returns also elicited key errors from Jabeur.
30: Unforced errors committed by Jabeur, to only nine winners. The Tunisian coughed up two double faults in her opening service game and only landed 35% of her first serves in the first set. This improved to 62% in the second set, which -- along with a dip in Kvitova's form -- enabled Jabeur to level the match. But the Wimbledon finalist fell away precipitously in the decider, showing vocal frustration at her form throughout.
Nonetheless, Jabeur still managed to come up with a sprinkling of her trademark hot shots. A whipped forehand pass in the second game of the second set was a springboard to get a foothold in the match; and she pulled off a remarkable sliced backhand passing shot from behind the service line and with the ball dipping below net height to reach set point.
Ons showing out! 😎@Ons_Jabeur | #CincyTennis pic.twitter.com/nidlwtSKr3
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For the first time in six tries, Madison Keys has toppled a reigning World No.1: The unseeded former champion knocked out top seed Iga Swiatek in the third round of the Western & Southern Open on Thursday in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4.
Here are three takeaways from Keys' big win, which first looked easy and got tight late, that puts her in the quarterfinals in Cincinnati for a third time in her career.
For the first time: Not only did Keys enter the match 0-5 in her career against World No.1 players, but she'd also never won a set. She was also 0-2 previously against Swiatek, including a 6-1, 6-0 defeat in the quarterfinals of the BNP Paribas Open that lasted less than an hour.
Ten in a row, until: Keys won 10 games in a row in the middle of the match after Swiatek led 3-2 in the first set. The first six games went with serve—in which Keys erased the only break point either player faced, in the fourth game—and soon found herself ahead, 6-3, 5-0.
It was then that things got complicated. Swiatek saved a match point to save the bagel, and won 11 of 12 points to tighten the scoreboard to 6-3, 5-3. The top seed saved another match point in the ninth game and broke Keys again to get the second set back on serve.
But Keys reset admirably when it mattered most: Thanks in part to two more groundstroke winners, Keys broke Swiatek's serve for a fifth time, and converted her fourth match point.
Big hitting blasts Keys through: Though both players made 14 unforced errors in 85 minutes, Keys hit more than twice Swiatek's total of winners (14 to 6). She also created 14 break point chances against Swiatek's serve.
This angle... like, HOW?! 😲@Madison_Keys | #CincyTennis pic.twitter.com/2bjvD1QL8o
— wta (@WTA) August 18, 2022
Most notably though, Keys handed the World No.1 her second third-round defeat in a row after she was beaten by Brazil's Beatriz Haddad Maia in Toronto last week. Swiatek is now just 4-4 since her 37-match winning streak ended at the hands of Alizé Cornet at Wimbledon.
Elena Rybakina into first quarterfinal since Wimbledon
Through three matches, World No.25 Elena Rybakina has not lost a set in Cincinnati, and moved through another straight-set victory, this time 6-2, 6-4 over Alison Riske-Amritraj to also reach the quarterfinals.
In wins over Mayar Sherif, Garbiñe Muguruza, and Riske-Amritraj, Rybakina has lost more than 3 games in a set just once.
Rybakina has struck a tournament-leading 22 aces en route to the quarterfinals, an average of over seven aces per match. She fired nine against Riske-Amritraj and faced just one break point in the match while dominating from the baseline.
Rybakina is bidding to make the first WTA 1000 semifinal of her career, and she'll have to beat Keys for the first time to do it. At Roland Garros in May, Keys came from a set down to triumph in the pair's first career meeting in a deciding tiebreak 3-6, 6-1, 7-6[3]. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2748915/three-takeaways-keys-upsets-world-no-1-swiatek-in-cincinnati | 2022-08-18T20:24:04Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2748915/three-takeaways-keys-upsets-world-no-1-swiatek-in-cincinnati | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine group kicked off Instagram, Facebook
(AP) – Instagram and Facebook suspended Children’s Health Defense this week after the anti-vaccine group led by Robert Kennedy Jr. repeatedly violated rules prohibiting misinformation about COVID-19.
A nonprofit, Children’s Health Defense is one of the most influential anti-vaccine organizations active on social media, where it has spread misleading claims about vaccines and other public health measures designed to control the pandemic.
In a statement, Kennedy compared Facebook’s actions to government censorship, even though Facebook is a private company that can set and enforce its own rules about misinformation.
“Facebook is acting here as a surrogate for the federal government’s crusade to silence all criticism of draconian government policies,” Kennedy said.
Children’s Health Defense had hundreds of thousands of followers at the time of the suspension, according to a statement from the organization, which also noted that it has sued Facebook over its moderation policies.
Public health advocates and misinformation experts have criticized Facebook for not acting more swiftly to contain potentially harmful misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines.
Karen Kornbluh, director of the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund, said too many groups like Children’s Health Defense have been allowed to flourish on social media for too long. She noted that the group remains on Twitter.
“Today’s step is too late and too little,” Kornbluh said, adding that tech companies must address the reasons misinformation spreads so readily on social media.
Facebook and Instagram confirmed the company action on Thursday in a statement to The Associated Press.
“We removed these accounts for repeatedly violating our policies,” a spokesman for Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, told the AP. Under the platforms’ policies, suspensions are typically only enforced after multiple violations.
Several state affiliates of Children’s Health Defense remain on Facebook and Instagram despite the ban of the national organization. Kennedy was kicked off Instagram last year but continues to keep an active account on Facebook.
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Peers name veteran trial lawyers among best for personal injury, product liability litigation
DALLAS, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Peer lawyers in Texas and the research staff at Best Lawyers in America have selected veteran trial lawyers Frank L. Branson, Debbie Dudley Branson, Tim Newsom and John Burkhead among the nation's best for their representation of individuals in personal injury and product liability litigation.
The Best Lawyers honors are only the latest recognition for the firm, which has built a national reputation for representing individuals in catastrophic personal injury lawsuits against trucking and transportation companies, pipeline operators, oil and gas companies, the operators of dangerous worksites, automakers, and manufacturers of defective products.
One of the legal industry's oldest and most respected peer-review guides to the legal industry, Best Lawyers compiles its list from surveys of tens of thousands of attorneys nationwide followed by a rigorous vetting by the magazine's research staff.
Mr. Branson is among an exclusive group of practitioners who have been honored by Best Lawyers annually since 1987. For the 2023 edition, he is recognized for his expertise in personal injury, product liability, professional malpractice, medical malpractice and commercial litigation.
In addition to the Best Lawyers honors, Mr. Branson is a Lawdragon Hall of Fame honoree and has been named among the Top 10 lawyers in the state by Texas Super Lawyers every year since 2007. He is the recipient of the Texas Bar Foundation's Ronald Secrest Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award and has been named to D Magazine's Best Lawyers in Dallas Hall of Fame, Texas Lawbook's "Lions of the Bar," the National Law Journal's "50 Most Influential Lawyers in the U.S.," and D CEO's "Dallas 500: The Most Powerful Business Leaders."
Ms. Branson earned Best Lawyers honors in both personal injury and commercial litigation. She has been recognized by Best Lawyers annually since 2012. In addition, her professional accolades include the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers, Texas Super Lawyers and D Magazine's Best Lawyers in Dallas.
Mr. Newsom earned 2023 honors for his representation of plaintiffs in high-stakes personal injury disputes. In addition to Best Lawyers, he is a repeat Texas Super Lawyers honoree with rare double certification in Personal Injury Trial Law and Civil Trial Law. He is active in leadership positions in legal and professional organizations and currently serves as president-elect of TEX-ABOTA, the Texas Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.
For the second year, Best Lawyers has honored Mr. Burkhead among its "Ones to Watch," a list that recognizes early and mid-career practitioners. He has been selected by Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars every year since 2016 and has also been honored among the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 Trial Lawyers.
The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson represents clients in cases involving complex product liability, catastrophic injury, truck accidents, commercial air crashes, electrical and gas explosions, and truck and auto catastrophic injury. To learn more visit http://www.flbranson.com.
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Chris Hamilton, Paul Wingo, Ray T. Khirallah, Jr. and Grant P. Boston honored for personal injury litigation expertise
DALLAS, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trial law firm Hamilton Wingo is pleased to announce that four attorneys have been selected to the 2023 edition of Best Lawyers in America, the nation's oldest and one of the most respected peer-review guides to the legal industry.
Since 2019, co-founder Chris Hamilton has earned Best Lawyers recognition for his work representing plaintiffs in personal injury and product liability litigation. Known for tenacious courtroom advocacy, Mr. Hamilton along with attorney Ray T. Khirallah, Jr. recently won a record $7.37 billion negligence verdict against Charter Spectrum. Other successes include a $25 million settlement in a federal False Claims Act case. The legal industry has repeatedly recognized Mr. Hamilton for his expertise with honors on top-lawyer lists such as Texas Super Lawyers.
Firm co-founder Paul Wingo is recognized for his representation of plaintiffs in personal injury litigation, which has resulted in hundreds of millions in recoveries for clients. His work has earned legal industry accolades, such as listings in Texas Super Lawyers and Texas Rising Stars.
Mr. Khirallah joins the Best Lawyers list for the second consecutive year, honored for his expertise in plaintiffs' personal injury litigation. A veteran litigator, he has secured multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements in oilfield, 18-wheeler and premises liability cases. Mr. Khirallah has earned repeat honors from peers for his legal expertise, including Texas Super Lawyers.
Associate attorney Grant P. Boston is a first-time honoree by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for his work with plaintiffs in personal injury litigation. The designation highlights attorneys who have five to nine years in legal practice and exemplify outstanding professional excellence.
The trial lawyers at Hamilton Wingo, LLP, are devoted to representing individuals in high-stakes, complex litigation on a contingent fee basis. They have obtained more than $100 million in verdicts and settlements for clients. For more information, visit hamiltonwingo.com/.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Douglas Elliman Realty, one of the largest independent residential real estate brokerages in the United States, announced today that top-producing agent Jonathan Stein has joined the firm. He and his team will be based out of the company's 111 Fifth Avenue office in the Flatiron neighborhood.
"Douglas Elliman is one of the top firms in the U.S., with a strong national and international network," said Stein. "I am excited to be joining this powerhouse company that will enable me to work in multiple markets and on some of the best new development projects in the country."
"Jonathan's record of achievement speaks for itself, and we are thrilled to have him and his team as part of the Elliman family," said Howard M. Lorber, Executive Chairman of Douglas Elliman. "His work ethic and professionalism make him a great fit for our firm, and we look forward to his continued success."
A leader in luxury resales in New York City for almost a decade, Stein had over $100 million closed and in contract in 2021 and his team was ranked the top downtown team at his prior firm. The team includes Anthony Park, Ben Foden, Benjamin Jordan, Ben Nichols, Courtney Heisen, Frank Brucato, Nicky Hammond and Timothy Schneider. They will be bringing almost $28 million in listings over to Douglas Elliman.
"We are excited to have Jonathan and his team at Douglas Elliman," said Scott Durkin, CEO of Douglas Elliman Realty. "We look forward to helping them continue to grow and build their impressive brand."
Some of Stein's notable deals include a $14.5-million apartment at 140 Franklin Street, a $9,930,993 apartment at 1010 Park Avenue, an $8.5-million apartment at 230 Central Park South and a $7.6-million apartment at 247 Waverly Place.
"Jonathan and his team are the perfect addition to the Douglas Elliman family," said Richard Ferrari, President and CEO of Douglas Elliman New York City and Northeast Region. "He is a force in New York real estate and his successful track record in high-end sales and rentals makes him a natural fit for our brokerage."
Prior to real estate, Stein worked in private equity. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Champlain College. In his free time, you can find him fly fishing, sporting clays, racing motorcycles, collecting cars and collecting antiquarian first-edition books.
Douglas Elliman Inc. (NYSE: DOUG, "Douglas Elliman") owns Douglas Elliman Realty, LLC, which is one of the largest residential brokerage companies in the United States with operations in New York City, Long Island, Westchester, Connecticut, New Jersey, the Hamptons, Massachusetts, Florida, California, Colorado, Texas and Nevada. In addition, Douglas Elliman sources, uses and invests in early-stage, disruptive property technology ("PropTech") solutions and companies and provides other real estate services, including development marketing, property management and settlement and escrow services in select markets. Additional information concerning Douglas Elliman is available on its website, www.elliman.com.
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Raises Concerns About Board's "Objectivity and Independence" and Questions its "Ability to Perform its Proper Oversight Role"
Recognizes Ceragon's track record of underperformance and questions standalone strategy
Affirms fair value of Aviat's acquisition proposal
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aviat Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVNW) ("Aviat"), the leading expert in wireless transport solutions, today announced that independent proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis has recommended that shareholders of Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: CRNT) ("Ceragon") vote FOR the removal of three members of Ceragon's Board of Directors ("Board"), Yael Langer, Ira Palti, and David Ripstein, at the upcoming Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders on August 23, 2022. Glass Lewis also recommended that Ceragon shareholders vote FOR three of Aviat's highly-qualified, independent nominees, Paul Delson, Jonathan F. Foster, and Dennis Sadlowski.
In its August 17, 2022 report, Glass Lewis questioned the independence and objectivity of the three directors Aviat seeks to remove and questioned the motives behind their refusal to engage with Aviat:
- "We believe Aviat has identified valid concerns regarding the independence and objectivity of the current Ceragon board, which may explain the board's prickly response to Aviat's approaches and its refusal to more meaningfully engage with a prospective suitor."1
- "We view such relationships [as those between Ceragon directors] as potentially creating conflicts for directors, as they may be forced to weigh their own interests in relation to shareholder interests when making board decisions."
- "We note further that three of the Company's seven directors are either affiliated with the Company or are insiders. We believe this raises further concerns about the objectivity and independence of the board and its ability to perform its proper oversight role."
- "Ultimately, we are concerned that these apparent conflicts may have manifested themselves in the board's recent evaluation of Aviat's acquisition proposal. In our view, given the ties and lengthy tenures of certain Ceragon directors, shareholders have less assurance that Aviat's proposal has received a full, fair and independent evaluation by a sufficiently independent board of directors. In that regard, we believe Aviat has provided evidence to establish sufficient concern that its advances may have been rebuffed by the Ceragon board for reasons other than what we consider are in the best interests of shareholders."
- "We believe there is suitable cause for investors to support Board change at this time."
In its report this week, Glass Lewis raised concerns about the Board's independence, noting "certain directors' past and current affiliations with Ceragon's founder and chairman, Mr. Zisapel…[including that] Ms. Langer and Mr. Ripstein [have] each served in various positions, including general counsel and CEO, respectively, at other Rad-Bynet group companies established by Mr. Zisapel." Unfortunately, this is not the first time that Glass Lewis has expressed similar concerns. In its report issued in connection with Ceragon's 2021 Annual Meeting, Glass Lewis also raised its concerns about a lack of independence on the Board and recommended opposing the election of Ms. Langer, specifically citing "related party transactions between the Company and Mr. Zisapel's Rad-Bynet group." Since then, the Board has done nothing to address the apparent governance shortfalls, which have now cost shareholders dearly. It is time that the Board stop ignoring significant and valid concerns about governance and act with independence.
In its report, Glass Lewis called out Ceragon's track record of underperformance and unwillingness to change course due to the Board's lack of independence. The report also recognizes that Aviat's proposal offers a fair value for Ceragon and would likely provide more value to shareholders than the Company's standalone strategy:
- "Purely from a valuation perspective, we believe Aviat's revised proposal is sufficiently within a range of fair value to warrant more serious, advanced and constructive discussions with respect to the proposal than it appears Ceragon has been willing to enter into to date. In our view, a more welcoming stance, good faith discussions regarding the potential benefits of a combination and the sharing of due diligence information could facilitate a reasonably acceptable outcome for all parties involved, possibly even resulting in an improvement in terms for Ceragon and its shareholders."
- "During the five years preceding Aviat's offer, Ceragon delivered a negative return of -16.4%, while Aviat generated a return of 180.8% and the other five peer companies delivered an average return of 63.3%. In just the last three years, Ceragon's TSR was an even worse -30.1% and Aviat's TSR was an even better 290.2%, while the other peers averaged a nil return over that period (Source: S&P Capital IQ). This analysis suggests that investors have consistently been unwilling to buy into value-creation narratives promulgated by Ceragon management and the board. We see little reason to expect this to change."
- "Were Ceragon shareholders to hitch their wagons to Aviat, which Aviat's proposal enables them to do via the stock component of the offered consideration, they might find themselves better off."
Although Ceragon likes to claim that it is undervalued, Glass Lewis agrees with Aviat that "[analysts'] price targets are aspirational, particularly in light of Ceragon's recent operational performance, other challenges and industry-wide supply chain issues." Glass Lewis notes that it would not be unusual for Ceragon analysts to lower price targets following a meaningful decline in the Company's trading price, as they have been shown to do in the past.
"Glass Lewis has validated our serious concern that Ceragon's Board lacks independence and is therefore unable to fulfill its fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of all shareholders," said Aviat President and CEO Peter Smith. "Furthermore, Glass Lewis recognizes that this lack of independence has led the Ceragon Board to fail in fully and objectively evaluating our proposal, which the report notes offers a fair value in light of Ceragon's long history of underperformance."
Mr. Smith added, "Both Glass Lewis and ISS have now recognized the conflicts that plague Ceragon's Board. Given Cergaon's anti-shareholder charter, if not removed next Tuesday, these same directors will not face reelection until 2024, despite their failure to negotiate a deal and continued poor performance at the Company. In fact, if not removed, these directors may become further emboldened to favor the interests of Mr. Zisapel and their own positions over the interests of shareholders. Shareholders can stand by and continue to allow this Board to shirk its responsibilities and oversee the woeful destruction of value, or they can push for Board change now and elect truly independent directors that will be motivated only by their fiduciary responsibility and explore all avenues to create value. We urge shareholders to vote FOR ALL FIVE of Aviat's director nominees on the GOLD proxy card and remove the conflicted directors that continue to put their own interests first."
YOUR VOTE IS CRUCIAL. For further information on how your vote FOR ALL FIVE Aviat's director nominees can maximize shareholder value, please visit ValueForCeragon.com.
Aviat Networks, Inc. is the leading expert in wireless transport solutions and works to provide dependable products, services and support to its customers. With more than one million systems sold into 170 countries worldwide, communications service providers and private network operators including state/local government, utility, federal government and defense organizations trust Aviat with their critical applications. Coupled with a long history of microwave innovations, Aviat provides a comprehensive suite of localized professional and support services enabling customers to drastically simplify both their networks and their lives. For more than 70 years, the experts at Aviat have delivered high-performance products, simplified operations, and the best overall customer experience. Aviat Networks is headquartered in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.aviatnetworks.com or connect with Aviat Networks on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
The information contained in this document includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements include, without limitations, statements regarding the proposed transaction between Aviat and Ceragon, the results of the requested extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of Ceragon, Ceragon's actions in connection therewith, and any potential related litigation. All statements, trend analyses and other information contained herein regarding the foregoing beliefs and expectations, as well as about the markets for the services and products of Aviat and trends in revenue, and other statements identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including, without limitation, "anticipate," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "expect," "goal," "will," "see," "continue," "delivering," "view," and "intend," or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions, constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, forward-looking statements are based on estimates reflecting the current beliefs, expectations and assumptions of the senior management of Aviat regarding the future of its business, future plans and strategies, projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other future conditions. Such forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements should therefore be considered in light of various important factors, including those set forth in this document. Therefore, you should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from estimates or projections contained in the forward-looking statements include the following:
- the impact of COVID-19 on our business, operations and cash flows;
- continued price and margin erosion as a result of increased competition in the microwave transmission industry;
- our ability to realize the anticipated benefits of any proposed or recent acquisitions, including our proposed transaction with Ceragon, within the anticipated timeframe or at all, including the risk that proposed or recent acquisitions will not be integrated successfully;
- the results of the extraordinary general meeting of Ceragon's shareholders;
- the impact of the volume, timing, and customer, product, and geographic mix of our product orders;
- the timing of our receipt of payment for products or services from our customers;
- our ability to meet projected new product development dates or anticipated cost reductions of new products;
- our suppliers' inability to perform and deliver on time as a result of their financial condition, component shortages, the effects of COVID-19 or other supply chain constraints;
- the effects of inflation and the timing and extent of changes in the prices and overall demand for and availability of our inputs;
- customer acceptance of new products;
- the ability of our subcontractors to timely perform;
- weakness in the global economy affecting customer spending;
- retention of our key personnel;
- our ability to manage and maintain key customer relationships;
- uncertain economic conditions in the telecommunications sector combined with operator and supplier consolidation;
- our failure to protect our Intellectual property rights or defend against Intellectual property infringement claims by others;
- the results of our restructuring efforts;
- the ability to preserve and use our net operating loss carryforwards;
- the effects of currency and interest rate risks;
- the effects of current and future government regulations, including the effects of current restrictions on various commercial and economic activities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic;
- general economic conditions, including uncertainty regarding the timing, pace and extent of an economic recovery in the United States and other countries where we conduct business;
- the conduct of unethical business practices in developing countries;
- the impact of political turmoil in countries where we have significant business;
- the impact of tariffs, the adoption of trade restrictions affecting our products or suppliers, a United States withdrawal from or significant renegotiation of trade agreements, the occurrence of trade wars, the closing of border crossings, and other changes in trade regulations or relationships; and
- Aviat's ability to implement our stock repurchase program or the extent to which it enhances long-term stockholder value.
For more information regarding the risks and uncertainties for Aviat's business, see "Risk Factors" in Aviat's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on August 25, 2021, as well as other reports filed by Aviat with the SEC from time to time. Aviat does not undertake any obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, for any reason, except as required by law, even as new information becomes available or other events occur in the future.
This document does not constitute an offer to sell or exchange, or the solicitation of an offer to buy or exchange, any securities, nor will there be any sale of securities in any states or jurisdictions in which such offer or sale or exchange would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offering of securities will be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933 or an exemption therefrom.
In connection with any transaction between Aviat and Ceragon that involves the issuance of Aviat shares to the Ceragon shareholders, Aviat will file a registration statement with the SEC. INVESTORS ARE URGED TO READ THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT, ANY AMENDMENTS THERETO AND OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT MAY BE FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRANSACTION. Investors will also be able to obtain copies of the registration statement and other documents containing important information about each of the companies once such documents are filed with the SEC, without charge, at the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov.
Investor Contacts
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CARMEL, Ind., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Merchants Bancorp ("Merchants") (Nasdaq: MBIN), parent company and registered bank holding company of Merchants Bank of Indiana ("Merchants Bank"), today announced that its Board of Directors declared the following quarterly cash dividends for the third quarter of 2022, in each case to shareholders of record on September 15, 2022, payable on October 3, 2022:
- A dividend of $0.07 per share on the Company's outstanding shares of its common stock (NASDAQ:MBIN);
- A dividend of $0.4375 per share on the Company's outstanding shares of its 7% Series A preferred stock (NASDAQ:MBINP);
- A dividend of $15.00 per share (equivalent to $0.375 per depositary share) on the Company's outstanding shares of its 6% Series B preferred stock (NASDAQ:MBINO);
- A dividend of $15.00 per share (equivalent to $0.375 per depositary share) on the Company's outstanding shares of its 6% Series C preferred stock (NASDAQ:MBINN).
ABOUT MERCHANTS BANCORP
Merchants Bancorp is a diversified bank holding company headquartered in Carmel, Indiana operating multiple lines of business, including multi-family housing and healthcare facility financing and servicing, mortgage warehouse financing, retail and correspondent residential mortgage banking, agricultural lending and traditional community banking. Merchants Bancorp, with $11.1 billion in assets and $8.3 billion in deposits as of June 30, 2022, conducts its business through its direct and indirect subsidiaries, Merchants Bank of Indiana, Merchants Capital Corp., Farmers-Merchants Bank of Illinois, and Merchants Mortgage, a division of Merchants Bank of Indiana. For more information and financial data, please visit Merchants' Investor Relations page at investors.merchantsbancorp.com.
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As the NASCAR Cup Series heads to Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International for Sunday’s Go Bowling at The Glen, road-course races have evolved from rare occasions to a vital part of the schedule for NASCAR Cup Series competitors in recent seasons.
That’s because Sunday’s race on the 2.45-mile, seven-turn Watkins Glen circuit will be the fifth of six road-course events on the schedule in 2022. For Kyle Busch, driver of the No. 18 SNICKERS Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR), the Las Vegas native always looked at the two traditional road courses at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway and Watkins Glen as a racing vacation for NASCAR’s top series, providing the chance to turn left and right for a couple of weekends each year. Now, with six of 36 races run on road courses, turning left and right is as important as short-track racing, which occupies six races on the schedule with two apiece at Richmond (Va.) Raceway, Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway, and Martinsville (Va.) Speedway each year.
For Busch, the two-time Cup Series champion, Watkins Glen is one of his favorite road courses on the schedule. He’s brought home two victories, seven top-five finishes, and 13 top-10s in 16 starts there.
After his inaugural Cup Series victory at The Glen in 2008, he nearly won for the second time in his 2011 and 2012 visits before finally breaking through again in 2013. A third career victory Sunday in New York’s scenic Finger Lakes Region would continue to solidify Busch and the SNICKERS team as a contender each time the series comes to town.
As far as overall road-course proficiency, Busch is tied with David Pearson and Mark Martin with four Cup Series road-course wins apiece. That’s some pretty good company, already. A fifth road-course win would tie him with Darrell Waltrip, Tim Richmond and Dan Gurney on the road-course wins list. The top three in all-time road-course wins in the Cup Series includes Chase Elliott and Jeff Gordon with seven apiece, while Tony Stewart is the all-time leader with nine wins.
So as Busch heads to Upstate New York for another round of road racing this weekend, he would like nothing more than to bring home a third win there, which would be a timely victory with only two regular-season races remaining before the 2022 Cup Series playoffs begin on Labor Day weekend. And Busch is certainly “hungry” for a win with his SNICKERS Camry as he looks for some momentum with the playoffs looming. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72125-kyle-busch-hungry-for-a-road-course-win | 2022-08-18T20:39:40Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72125-kyle-busch-hungry-for-a-road-course-win | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Continuing a partnership that first began more than six years ago, KC Motorgroup Ltd. (KCMG) will partner with Richard Childress Racing to sponsor the No. 8 Chevrolet driven by Tyler Reddick at Watkins Glen International. The race airs live on Sunday, August 21 at 3 p.m. ET on USA Network.
“We’re looking forward to having KCMG back on board and continuing to help create auto racing-related business opportunities in the United States and abroad,” said Torrey Galida, President of Richard Childress Racing. “KCMG has a history of success on some of the world’s most renowned road courses, including a class win at Le Mans, and a podium finish at their debut at the Daytona 24 this year. We hope to continue that success with the No. 8 team at Watkins Glen.”
KCMG and Richard Childress Racing first partnered together in 2017 with the goal of introducing KCMG into the NASCAR industry as a new motorsports parts manufacturer. Since then, the partnership has expanded to create business opportunities for the motorsports services group both in the United States and abroad. RCR has provided valuable channels to KCMG to expand their presence in American stock car racing applications and looks forward to continuing to do so in the years to come.
“We’re certainly looking forward to our continued partnership with Richard Childress Racing and seeing KC Motorgroup’s colors on the No. 8 Chevrolet driven by Tyler Reddick this weekend at Watkins Glen International,” said Dr. Paul Ip, Founder of KC Motorgroup. “Our partnership with Richard Childress Racing has proven successful on many fronts, and has been a key component of our U.S. Motorsports strategy.”
KCMG celebrated their first NASCAR win in 2019 when Tyler Reddick drove to victory lane at Michigan International Speedway en route to his second consecutive NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship. This season, RCR’s No. 8 team leads the NASCAR Cup Series in road course wins (two) and top-fives (three) entering Watkins Glen International.
In 77 Cup Series starts at the 2.45-mile road course, RCR boasts two wins (Robby Gordon in 2003 and Kevin Harvick in 2006), eight top-five and 22 top-10 finishes. Dale Earnhardt also won three poles (1990, '92, '96).
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Ross Chastain, Driver of the No. 1 Worldwide Express Chevrolet
What makes Watkins Glen different from the other road courses?
"Watkins Glen is higher in grip than most places. It seems simple, but its actually more technical because there is so much grip. Its simple when it comes to the turns but that means all of the inputs are much more important. It will be hard to pass so there's a high risk of contact when it comes to passing."
What have your interactions with Kimi been like?
"He's talked more in the time I've met with him in person, than I've ever heard him in all of the interviews I've seen (laughs) and I've watched him for a very long time."
What do you enjoy about Watkins Glen?
"The history of the track carries it. You look back at how many drivers have driven there, not just in NASCAR, but all forms of motorsports. The beginnings of the Watkins Glen racing scene and where they used to race on the streets and over by the lake, that's cool. Thinking about how many world class drivers went down the frontstretch, turned up through the esses and went through the bus stop. I hope one day to run the boot. I know we won't do that in NASCAR, but I hope to do it one day and extract that last little bit of lap time out. The boot layout would be on my bucket list."
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AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Action Industries Camaro ZL1
- AJ Allmendinger earned his first-ever NCS win at Watkins Glen International
- He has recorded three top five finishes, has an average finish of 9.9 and has led 58 laps at Watkins Glen in the NCS
- In 2022, Allmendinger has earned three top-10 finishes and has led five laps
“Watkins Glen will always be a special place for me. The crowd is always amazing and the memories from my first Cup win will last forever. Ever since they repaved the track, it’s been a challenge for me, but with the NextGen car in the Cup Series, it may be completely different. Hopefully we will have two really great finishes for the weekend."
- AJ Allmendinger on Watkins Glen International
Justin Haley, No. 31 LeafFilter Gutter Protection Camaro ZL1
- Justin Haley has made one start at Watkins Glen in the NCS
- He has earned one top five, two top 10 and and nine top-15 finishes in 2022
- Haley’s third-place finish at Darlington was Kaulig Racing’ first top-five not at a superspeedway or road course
- Haley has led 20 laps in the 2022 season
“We had a good week at Richmond and have something to really build on that we can use this weekend at Watkins Glen. The road courses have been pretty decent tracks for us so far this season, so hopefully we will be able to contend."
- Justin Haley on Watkins Glen International
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Watkins Glen International
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- Kaulig Racing has earned three wins, 14 top five and 36 top-10 finishes in the 2022 NXS season
- The team has led 341 laps in the 2022 NXS season so far
- Allmendinger: 271 laps
- Hemric: 53 laps
- Cassill: 17 Laps
Landon Cassill, No. 10 Carnomaly Chevrolet
- Cassill has made five starts at Watkins Glen in the NXS
- Landon Cassill has earned three top five and eight top-10 finishes in the 2022 NXS season and has an average finish of 15.7
- He has led 17 laps in the 2022 NXS season
"Coming off a top 10 finish in Michigan, I’m excited to get to Watkins Glen this weekend. We have been gaining speed the last few weeks and I am excited to build on that and keep that momentum going. We’ve also had a ton of speed at the road courses this year, so I know Kaulig Racing will bring some fast Chevrolets this week.”
- Landon Cassill on Watkins Glen International
Daniel Hemric, No. 11 AG1 Chevrolet
- Daniel Hemric has made three starts and led 11 laps at Watkins Glen
- Daniel Hemric has earned two top fives and eight top-10 finishes in the 2022 NXS season
- Daniel Hemric has an average finish of 16.3 in 2022 and has led 53 laps in 2022
"Watkins Glen is more of a speedway-style road course since it was repaved. I feel like each time I go back there, the track is getting a little bit more of its character back and losing a little bit of grip throughout the runs. That makes it a ton of fun and also challenging. As a team, we need to minimize our mistakes and execute at a high level to give ourselves the best opportunity at the end."
- Daniel Hemric on Watkins Glen International
AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Nutrien Ag Solutions Chevrolet
- He has earned a win for Kaulig Racing in four-straight NXS seasons
- In 2022, Allmendinger has led 271 laps, recorded two wins, nine top five and 18 top-10 finishes
- Allmendinger has an average finish of 7.0 in the 2022 NXS season
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GREG ZIPADELLI, Chief Competition Officer, Stewart-Haas Racing – WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF THREE STRAIGHT WINS THIS WEEKEND AT WATKINS GLEN? “We go every week to win with all four of our teams performing to the highest level. That’s always the goal. The 4 car has done a really good job in the last, honestly you’ve got to go back to Nashville, Sonoma, Pocono, I think it gets overlooked at how good they ran at some of those racetracks. They didn’t have an opportunity to win or lead a bunch of laps, but they had speed and it kind of started then. The last two weeks they’ve done a great job of executing. Things have gone their way. The cars have unloaded with a little bit more raw speed and it’s allowed them to have an opportunity to win and they’ve been able to capitalize on that.”
WITH THE TWO WINS DO YOU FEEL YOU’VE MADE SOME GAINS OR SOME WOULD ARGUE THAT YOU WEREN’T THE FASTEST CAR THE LAST TWO WEEKS. DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU’RE MAYBE A BIT BEHIND? “I think we’ve made gains, but I don’t think by any means that you can sit and say that you can stop working. I’d say that Kevin had a really good car last week. He drove around a car for the lead and never looked back, so you can say what you want, you know what I mean? There’s always room for improvement. I think what I look at last week was all four cars were fast. Honestly, if things went well and Cole didn’t have his issue and Chase didn’t have his fire, I feel like we had the potential to have four cars in the top 10 or top 12 pretty easily. So, to me, that’s something that as a group we’ve struggled with. We’ve unloaded here every week and had at least one if not two cars qualify in the top 10, top 12 and run there, but we haven’t been able to have all four cars and have that kind of speed and execution. From that perspective, I think it shows that all of the work we’ve been doing is going in the right direction, but, like I said, it’s the time of year where everyone is working just as hard as you are, so you’ve got to continue to push and build as much speed in these cars as you can on a weekly basis.”
IS THE 10 CAR SITUATION UNSETTLING OR TYPICAL OF WHERE WE ARE IN AUGUST? “To me it’s not a big deal. We’ve waited a lot longer to make some of those decisions to try to build around, so I think we’ll be fine there. We’ve got a couple of good options and just kind of waiting to see how everything plays out.”
DO YOU KNOW WHAT CAUSED THE FIRE IN CHASE’S CAR? WAS IT THE SAME THING AS WHAT HAPPENED TO LOGANO AND BUESCHER TWO WEEKS AGO? “It doesn’t appear to be exactly why that insulation in the rocker box caught fire. We’re looking into it. There wasn’t damage to it, so that’s kind of the surprising thing. I don’t know if rubber got up in there and started the fire and burned. It’s so hard to tell because so much of it had burned for a while, so pretty disappointing. Chase and Johnny and that whole group had done a really good job of adjusting on their car and keeping him in the game all day and that’s what they needed. To come up short again was a little disappointing.”
WHAT HAS IT BEEN LIKE FOR KEVIN AND RODNEY OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS? “I think they’ve done a good job of not letting it tear them up and making a bigger deal out of it. They’ve just gone every week and raced as hard as they could and tried to put themselves in position. I’ve been in some of those situations before where it’s like you feel like you’re doing everything you have been doing and you’re working just as hard and you’re just not getting the results. You’re not having the speed. As a whole, I would say us as a group – the Fords as a group – have been off a little bit this year. We’re working hard along with all the other Ford teams and hoping to peak at the right time.”
WHAT ARE THE REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS FOR THE 4 TEAM IN THE PLAYOFFS. THE FIRST FOUR TRACKS ARE PRETTY STRONG FOR THEM. “I think if we continue to progress and keep working on our cars and pit crew keeps doing what they’ve been doing and Rodney keeps his group focused and executing like they have the last six weeks or so, I think they’re gonna have a shot to move much further into the playoffs. Like you said, a couple of the first races are good tracks for Kevin. He ran pretty solid at Kansas with a lot of speed in the spring and pit stops and pit road, so there were some issues there that took them out of a really good finish, but it’s always been a really good place for him – there and Bristol. I would expect nothing less than strong runs there.”
WHAT DO YOUR DUTIES AS CHIEF COMPETITION OFFICER AT SHR ENTAIL? “It’s basically over all of our departments from manufacturing to building the cars to our pit crews to traveling to and from the racetrack. It’s just a lot of logistics and budgets and a lot to do with people and contracts and things of that nature. It’s not as much hands-on as I used to like from working on the cars. Gosh, some days it’s even hard to get down on the floor to see the guys with all the stuff we have going on. That’s pretty much the gist of it is just really overseeing and to help support these guys in any way that is needed.”
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE NEXT GEN CAR? “I think being an old-schooled racer, and a lot of us here in this building came into the year thinking, ‘Oh, man. This is not what we’re used to. It’s not what we want.’ I think maybe that might have even been some of why we started out slow. There are a lot of good old racers here and maybe sometimes we’re creatures of habit too much, but, in all honesty, I think this car has performed at most racetracks above expectation. There has been some little issues, like we were talking about the fire and toe links breaking and things like that, but, in all honesty, when you look at the scope of this car and what they did in two years, all the parts and pieced that had to get manufactured, I don’t know that anybody could have done it any better. I really feel like it’s gone off really really well.”
WHAT KIND OF LETTER GRADE WOULD YOU GIVE IT SO FAR? “Just because I’m old-school and not many A’s ever come out of anywhere because you can always do better, but, in all honesty, I’d say it’s a strong B, B-plus. A lot of the problems that we have had with this car that are probably our frustrations aren’t because of what the group at NASCAR did as far as launching this car. It was parts and pieces were hard to get and that’s everywhere in the industry. You can’t buy appliances. You know what I mean? Everybody is out of everything, so we just hit trying to produce this car at probably the worst time in my life as far as working and getting over COVID and people working from home – just all those things that are so different from what we’re used to in this industry. Because of that, it has put a lot of frustration on teams because we haven’t had parts and we were taking them off and bringing them home, but that’s just part of the era we’re living in right now. They haven’t had a lot of parts changes from that perspective, so I think they’ve done a really good job.”
WHAT IS YOUR VIEW ON THE SEASON TO DATE? “I think we started the year off. We thought we went to Daytona and raced and we went to Phoenix and Vegas and California and we thought we had decent cars and speed, and then it seemed like we got off a little bit. I think through the early part of the summer it was a dry spell. We won one early and were like, ‘Oh, man. We’ve got this. We’re good. We’ve got this figured out,’ and now we’re back to everybody running better, so it’s been a bit of a disappointing year. It’s not those years you go, ‘Oh, my God. You’ve won three races. That’s a solid year in today’s sport as competitive as it is.’ But we haven’t run good week in and week out like we expect ourselves to do and what’s expected of us from our fans and all of our partners and sponsors. We definitely had work to do and I feel like everybody has dug deep and worked well together here in the last two months or so and feel like we’ve moved the needle on making our cars better.”
WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR THE NASCAR XFINITY SERIES IN 2023? “We’re right in the middle of those negotiations right now. Probably, more than likely, we’re gonna have an Xfinity team, but we don’t have that all locked up yet. I think in the next 10-14 days we should have things ironed out and be able to let the world know what we’re doing.”
HOW HAS THE COMPETITION FOR PIT CREW MEMBERS EVOLVED OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS? “I think you’ve got to go back a couple of years. I wouldn’t say it’s gone crazy, but to have that right group of guys that can work together and execute a stop at the speed that these are today, it’s crazy how these guys are getting it done and how fast and how strong and athletic they need to be. I think that’s a lot of what’s changed is where you’re finding these guys and bringing them in and how you’re training them. It’s definitely still growing, also. That’s the crazy thing is I don’t think it’s plateaued yet.”
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT – STILL GROWING? IS IT IN TERMS OF WHAT YOU’RE DOING OR JUST THE CRAZINESS IN TRYING TO GET PEOPLE AND SIGN THE BEST PEOPLE BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH BALANCE IN THIS SPORT? “Not to be vague, but all of the above, honestly. Everybody is looking for the next football or baseball player that didn’t make it to the majors that is right there on that edge that’s just one of those freak athletes that is super strong and very dedicated. It’s turned into way more than from when I was changing tires in 14-second stops. It’s crazy. We’ve seen some 8-second stops in practice, so they’re not far around the corner. I think just from finding athletes and from different sports that you can bring into NASCAR and train them and teach them to change tires, carry the jack, whatever it might be – gas – it’s been a little hectic, but it’s been fun to try to have to look outside places. All of the other teams are doing it. You’re competing in a lot of different areas to bring the future in. That’s why we’ve got so many development guys and development teams that go to the racetrack on the weekends. It’s just trying to run through a lot of people and see who is out there and who is stepping up to the plate.”
IN TERMS OF DRIVERS WITH WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING AT HAS THAT EVOLVED AND CHANGED WITH LESS TRACK TIME AND MORE ENGINEERING ON THE SIM? ARE YOU LOOKING AT THINGS DIFFERENTLY? “I think the sport has definitely changed from that perspective. You need guys willing to work and study and put their time in the simulator and watch previous races, look at pit road, study the restarts and all of those aspects of on and off pit road because all of that stuff matters and when you don’t have but 15 minutes to do that, you’ve got to show up and have a pretty good idea of what you need and the feel that you’re looking for and you’ve got to be able to go out and execute that. So, I think from the team’s perspective a lot of it is done obviously before you show up at the racetrack and for drivers I think it’s very similar.”
LOOKING AT THE CAR AND HOW BULLET PROOF IT HAS APPEARED IS THERE ANYTHING THAT HAS SURPRISED YOU? “No, overall I think the car has held up really well. There are no good wrecks, but we’ve had damage where you couldn’t continue on in a race and you got it home and it was literally some bolt on components. And then there were other times where the car didn’t even look like it was damaged, but we couldn’t finish because a control arm broke because it hit the wheel at just the right direction at the right force. But, overall, I think from the bodies, the chassis, the transaxle, all of those little things that we thought might be issues, for the most part, none of them are issues at all.”
WILL COLE CUSTER CONTINUED WITH SHR IN 2023? “Right now, I believe that’s what our plan is right now. We’re just looking and trying to sort out the 10 car at this particular time.”
IS THERE ANY CHANCE FOR TWO TEAMS IN THE XFINITY SERIES IN 2023? “If we had the right deal, we would be excited about doing it, but I don’t know that we’re in that position or have all the key ingredients to do that – basically funding any younger driver that we believe in could be in one of our Cup cars in the future right now. I would not say never, but that’s not very likely.”
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The penultimate race of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series regular season will be held this Sunday at 3 p.m. ET on USA Network at Watkins Glen International, while the NTT INDYCAR SERIES visits World Wide Technology Raceway this Saturday at 6 p.m. ET on USA Network and Peacock featuring a tightly-contested points standings with only three races remaining. The NASCAR Xfinity Series will also race at Watkins Glen this Saturday on USA Network, which is presenting all three major races this weekend. NBC Sports digital platforms will live stream all television coverage.
Kevin Harvick has won two straight Cup Series races following his victory at Richmond Raceway last weekend. Ryan Blaney, Martin Truex Jr., and Bubba Wallace lead the list of drivers still looking for a win to try and secure a spot in the playoffs. Blaney currently leads Truex Jr. by 26 points in the final playoff position. 2007 Formula One World champion Kimi Raikkonen will make his NASCAR Cup Series debut on Sunday.
NBC Sports’ signature fan-favorite “Radio Style” broadcast returns this weekend at Watkins Glen, with announcers positioned from vantage points around the track at the following positions:
- Main Broadcast Booth: Daytona 500-winning crew chief Steve Letarte and lead NASCAR race announcer Rick Allen
- “The Esses”: Veteran MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio announcer Mike Bagley
- “Inner Loop” and “The Carousel”: Two-time Daytona 500 Champion and NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Turn 6: 21-time Cup Series race winner and “The Mayor” of NASCAR Jeff Burton
Last weekend’s Cup Series race from Richmond Raceway averaged a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 2.432 million viewers on USA Network, up 34% from last year’s Richmond race on NBCSN and up 11% vs. the 2021 NBCSN Cup Series average. Richmond marked NBC Sports’ sixth consecutive Cup Series race and fifth consecutive USA Network Cup Series race with year-over-year viewership gains.
With only three races remaining in the 2022 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season, Big Machine Music City Grand Prix winner Scott Dixon trails standings leader Will Power by six points, and only 33 points separate Power from fifth-place points sitter and 2021 season champion Alex Palou. Dixon, who ranks second all-time with 53 series wins, is aiming to capture a record-tying seventh INDYCAR championship with A.J. Foyt following his victory in Nashville on Aug. 7.
TOP FIVE DRIVERS IN 2022 INDYCAR SERIES STANDINGS
NBC Sports’ motorsports coverage this weekend also includes MotoGP and Monster Jam.
NASCAR: CUP SERIES GO BOWLING AT THE GLEN & XFINITY SERIES AT THE GLEN 200
Watkins Glen International in New York hosts the penultimate race of the NASCAR Cup Series regular season this Sunday at 3 p.m. ET on USA Network. An hour-long edition of Countdown to Green begins pre-race coverage at 2 p.m. ET on USA Network with NASCAR America post-race immediately following the checkered flag at 5:30 p.m. ET.
The NASCAR Xfinity Series regular season continues with the Glen 200 Saturday at 3 p.m. ET, with pre-race coverage getting underway at 2:30 p.m. ET on USA Network. Complete programming details can be found below.
Marty Snider, Parker Kligerman and Dave Burns will serve as pit reporters in their customary race day roles throughout the weekend.
NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Dale Jarrett and auto racing icon Kyle Petty will anchor pre- and post-race studio coverage with Snider from the Peacock Pit Box on Saturday and Sunday. Petty earned a victory at “The Glen” in 1992.
Sunday’s pre-race coverage will feature a piece on Michael McDowell’s crew team member Brett Sanchelli.
The official home of the NASCAR Championship and Playoffs, NBC Sports will once again present the final 20 NASCAR Cup Series races and 19 NASCAR Xfinity Series races in 2022 across NBC, Peacock and USA Network, culminating with the Championship at Phoenix Raceway on Nov. 5-6. Click here for more information on NBC Sports’ 2022 NASCAR coverage.
NASCAR Pick ‘Em: NBC Sports’ free-to-play game, NASCAR Pick ‘Em, features a weekly contest for each NASCAR Cup Series race throughout the season. NASCAR Pick ‘Em is available for download now on the NBC Sports Predictor app powered by PointsBet (available in the App Store and Google Play Store).
Austin Dillon's Life in the Fast Lane airs each Thursday at 9:30 p.m. ET on USA Network. The half-hour unscripted series will follow the over-the-top NASCAR lifestyle of Daytona 500 Champion Austin Dillon, along with wife Whitney, adorable son Ace, and best friends Paul and Mariel Swan. Featuring high-stakes races, hilarious adventures and heartwarming moments at home, Austin leans on his loved ones both on and off the track as he trains and competes in the NASCAR season.
HOW TO WATCH
- TV – USA Network
- Streaming – NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app
INDYCAR: BOMMARITO AUTOMOTIVE GROUP 500
The NTT INDYCAR SERIES Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Ill., is presented this Saturday at 6 p.m. ET on USA Network and Peacock. Race coverage will immediately follow NASCAR America Xfinity Series post-race coverage on USA Network.
Live coverage of qualifying, practice, and the Indy Lights race from the oval circuit on Friday and Saturday will stream exclusively on Peacock. For more information about INDYCAR on Peacock and how to sign up, click here.
Leigh Diffey (play-by-play), Townsend Bell (analyst), and James Hinchcliffe (analyst) will call the race. Kevin Lee and Dillon Welch will provide reports from pit road.
Josef Newgarden, currently fourth in the points standings, took home the checkered flag at World Wide Technology Raceway in 2021.
NBC Sports’ free-to-play game, INDYCAR Pick ‘Em, features a weekly contest for each race throughout the season with a $25,000 jackpot. INDYCAR Pick ‘Em is available for download now on the NBC Sports Predictor app powered by PointsBet (available in the App Store and Google Play Store).
BROADCAST TEAM
- Play by Play: Leigh Diffey
- Analysts: Townsend Bell, James Hinchcliffe
- Pit Reporters: Kevin Lee, Dillon Welch
HOW TO WATCH
- TV – USA Network
- Streaming – Peacock, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app
MOTOGP: AUSTRIAN MOTORCYCLE GRAND PRIX
The 2022 MotoGP season continues this weekend with the Austrian Motorcycle Grand Prix from Red Bull Ring in Spielberg on Sunday at 5 p.m. ET on CNBC. Fabio Quartararo (180 pts) currently leads the premier class points standings ahead of Aleix Espargaro (158 pts), while Francesco Bagnaia (131 pts) has jumped back into championship contention following back-to-back wins. The Spielberg track has also added two additional turns that will be used in a race for the first time this weekend.
Live and on-demand coverage of all races will be available to stream on MotoGP VideoPass, in addition to every session of MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3. For more details, click here or visit MotoGP.TV.
MONSTER JAM
NBC Sports continues its presentation of the 2022 Monster Jam season this Saturday from Salt Lake City, Utah, at noon ET on CNBC. The complete schedule can be found here.
THE DALE JR. DOWNLOAD
Former NASCAR crew chief Michael “Fatback” McSwain joins this week’s The Dale Jr. Download episode streaming this Thursday at 6 p.m. ET on Peacock. Weekly and on-demand episodes of Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s podcast will stream exclusively on the platform, taking viewers table-side for unparalleled perspective, candid commentary, and insight from Dale Jr.
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No. 48 Ally Chevrolet Camaro ZL1
TWO TO GO: With just two races left in the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series regular season, Alex Bowman has tallied one win (Las Vegas Motor Speedway), three top-five finishes, 10 top-10s and six playoff points.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN: For the fifth time in the 2022 Cup Series season, Bowman will be turning left and right as the top series races at Watkins Glen International. In his previous four road course starts this year, the Tucson, Arizona, native has a runner-up finish at Circuit of The Americas – tied for the best result by any Hendrick Motorsports driver on serpentine layouts this season.
SECOND PLACE: In his career, the 29-year-old driver has two second-place finishes on road courses, which is the second-most among active drivers without a win. In addition to his runner-up showing at COTA this year, he also placed second at the Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL in 2019. Brad Keselowski leads the category with three second-place results without a win on road courses.
SLINGING DIRT: On Tuesday, Bowman strapped back into the No. 55 Ally sprint car for Alex Bowman Racing in the Kyle Larson High Limit Open at Lincoln Park Speedway in Putnamville, Indiana. Bowman won his heat race to qualify for the feature race, where he placed sixth.
NO. 48 PIT CREW: This weekend, the No. 48 pit crew will have four new members going over the wall. The five-man crew is made up of Austin Dickey (front-tire changer), Andrew Bridgeforth (rear-tire changer), Scott Riddle (tire carrier), Allen Holman (jackman) and Jacob Conley (fueler).
BEST FRIENDS UPDATE: Through 24 Cup Series races, Bowman and Ally - the primary sponsor of the No. 48 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 - have teamed up to donate $125,200 to Best Friends Animal Society and its network partners in the race markets that NASCAR’s premier series has visited. Each week of the season, Bowman and Ally join forces and donate $4,800 to Best Friends Animal Society. If Bowman wins, the donation increases to $10,000.
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REVVING TO A MILESTONE: The engine shop at Hendrick Motorsports sits five wins away from 500 victories. To date, the company’s engine program is responsible for 336 wins in the NASCAR Cup Series, 122 wins in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, 22 wins in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and 15 wins in the ARCA Menards Series and K&N Pro Series ranks.
EDGE OF SEVENTEEN: For its three 2022 Xfinity Series races, Hendrick Motorsports will field the No. 17 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet Camaro - the same number Ricky Hendrick drove in the Camping World Truck Series. That number has won 39 times in Xfinity Series history and two of the four drivers to win in it – Darrell Waltrip and Terry Labonte – would go on to win in the Cup Series with the Rick Hendrick-owned organization. You can see renderings of the Xfinity Series paint scheme here.
GETTING GOING AT THE GLEN: The No. 17 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet Camaro will be making its final Xfinity Series start of the season with William Byron piloting the ride in Saturday’s race at Watkins Glen International. Kevin Meendering is serving as the team’s crew chief. The organization has 26 wins in the series with Tony Stewart recording the last win to date at Daytona International Speedway in 2009. Last month, Kyle Larson and Alex Bowman each finished second at Road America and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course, respectively, in the team’s first Xfinity starts in 13 years.
LEADING THE WAY: With eight wins through 24 NASCAR Cup Series races in 2022, Hendrick Motorsports has earned the most victories so far this season. It is the only four-car team to see all of its drivers win a race this season. The 1,590 laps out front lead all teams in the series by 40 circuits. Teammates Chase Elliott and Byron rank 1-2 in laps led this year.
STARTING STRONG: In six of the last nine road course events with qualifying, the Concord, North Carolina, based team has scored the pole position. During that span, which dates back to 2019, Byron has won three poles, Elliott has had two and Larson got one. In fact, two of the poles came this season with Elliott (at Road America) and Larson (at Sonoma Raceway).
RULERS OF THE ROAD: At 25 wins, Hendrick Motorsports has the most all-time triumphs on road courses in Cup Series history. The two closest teams in this statistic have combined for only 21 wins. Since their inaugural season in 1984, the organization has won 28 percent of road courses events (25 wins in 89 races).
COUNTING 'EM UP: Seven different drivers have accounted for the 25 road course wins in team history and those seven winners are the most for a Cup Series team on road courses. Jeff Gordon leads the way for the team with nine victories (which are also the most among all drivers) followed by Elliott with seven. Larson and Tim Richmond are tied for third on the list with three wins apiece. Jimmie Johnson, Geoff Bodine and Ricky Rudd each tallied one victory.
WATKINS GLEN WINNERS: Among those 25 serpentine layout wins, nine have come at Watkins Glen - most among all Cup Series teams. Gordon’s four wins are the most for the squad followed by two for Elliott. Richmond, Rudd and Larson each have one win at the track near New York’s Finger Lakes region.
NEW YORK MINUTE: Larson’s win last year came in an event that saw Hendrick Motorsports finish first, second (Elliott) and sixth (Byron). The victory extended the organization’s winning streak at the 2.45-mile venue to three with Elliott’s victories in 2018 and 2019 - there was no 2020 race due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s the second time the team has won three in a row at this track, with Gordon scoring triumphs from 1997 to 1999.
SWEEP SENSATIONS: In the era of stage racing, there have been two times - both by Hendrick Motorsports - when one driver swept every road course stage and won the race. Elliott was the first to do so in his 2019 win at Watkins Glen. Larson also accomplished this with his victory in 2021 at Sonoma.
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Kyle Larson, driver of the No. 5 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, on the difference going from the NASCAR Xfinity Series car to NASCAR Cup Series car: "At Road America, the braking points were pretty similar, which was surprising. I thought the Cup car would brake much deeper. I hope it’s the same this weekend at Watkins Glen (International) because it would really, really help getting into a rhythm quickly for the entire weekend."
Cliff Daniels, crew chief of the No. 5 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, on the benefit of Larson running in the Xfinity (Series) race at Watkins Glen International: "I think him getting the track time is great – not really because of his skill and abilities, but for him to understand the grip level. I know he is going to be fast in the Xfinity car and I know he is going to be fast in our car, but having the extra time to understand the grip level and other nuances of the track that’s different from a year ago. We do have recent test data to go off of and feedback from those tests – but nothing replaces actual track time and the condition of the track and how we approach it."
Chase Elliott, driver of the No. 9 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, on racing at Watkins Glen: "Watkins Glen (International) was where I got my first win so it’s of course a place that holds some great memories for me. We’ve had a good amount of success there as a team and I feel like this year we’ve come a long way in our road course program with the new car. This is a track that I feel like we can really go and have a good run and get some momentum back heading into the playoffs."
Alan Gustafson, crew chief of the No. 9 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, on this weekend’s race at Watkins Glen: "Certainly the last three years have been good for our team at Watkins Glen (International). We’ve been really competitive there and we feel like this is another opportunity for us to go out there and have a good race. Our focus will be winning and ultimately trying to get some more playoff points. That’s the key. This is a track we should be able to do that at. Hopefully that will come to fruition and put us in a good position for the playoffs."
William Byron, driver of the No. 24 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, on why he enjoys racing at Watkins Glen: "Honestly Watkins Glen (international) is one of the most fun race tracks we go to as a driver because it’s so fast. It’s not like a lot of the other road courses we go to that have much slower zones and such aggressive braking. Watkins Glen almost really feels like a superspeedway for road courses. I got to test there earlier this year in the Next Gen car and I think it’s just as fun of a road course in these cars compared to last year’s. I’m excited that I get extra track time this weekend there too with being able to run Xfinity on Saturday. It will make for a full day, but I think it will be beneficial to get those extra laps before Sunday’s race in similar race conditions. Plus, I want to be able to get Mr. Hendrick a win in the No. 17, especially since they’ve been so close this year already."
Rudy Fugle, crew chief of the No. 24 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, on the preparation by the No. 24 team for Watkins Glen: "I think our race last year at Watkins Glen (International) went well but I always think there’s room to improve. Since then, we have really worked on improving not only our road course racing notes but especially now with the Next Gen car and getting up to speed there. We’ll be utilizing the same tire Sunday that we have for most of the other road course races this year, so we have a good notebook built up on how they will react over a run. We also were able to test there earlier this year and had a lot of positive feedback while we were there. I think we’re more prepared for this race than we have been earlier this year on road courses. The main difference is how much faster this track is compared to the other road courses on the schedule. Downforce really plays a factor and so does handling, but I think that’s where our testing notes will really come into play."
Alex Bowman, driver of the No. 48 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, on his expectations heading to Watkins Glen: "We have had good runs on road courses this season, but each track has its challenges, so I look at them one at a time. Hendrick Motorsports has had a lot of speed on road courses, and I have run a few extra races. Whether it was in the No. 7 Spire truck or the No. 17 Chevy Camaro in Xfinity, I had the opportunity to get more time on road courses, which I think has helped me this season. I will prepare like I have every week and make sure I give Greg (Ives, crew chief) all the feedback he needs to get the No. 48 Ally Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 in the right place and we will go compete on Sunday."
Greg Ives, crew chief of the No. 48 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, on the strength of Hendrick Motorsports at road courses this season: "We have had speed every time we have raced at a road course this year and it goes to show how talented our team is back at the shop at building exceptional race cars. We had a No. 48 Ally Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 capable of winning at Circuit of The Americas and had a great car at Road America, so I know we will have another great car this weekend at Watkins Glen International. Alex (Bowman) continues to do his homework and our team is matching his effort as we get ready to head up to New York and try to get Hendrick Motorsports a win on a road course this year."
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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),
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — A group of seniors in Kentucky, known as the Prime Time Dancers, has returned to the dance floor.
"We have such a great group of women, and they're just fun to be with," said Cindy Hougland.
"I'll be 70 in September and I feel like I can still move pretty good," said Roslyn Young.
The studio at the Lexington Senior Center is more than just a place for an activity. Led by coach Jode Rose, it has been a lifestyle and routine for seniors.
"If you just sit down, you just waste away," said Young. "Most of my time is either dancing or an exercise group."
The team brings Roslyn back to the days of dance recitals and after-school lessons.
"When I was a child, I used to take dancing classes," she said. "And then I've always loved to dance. I'm from Motown, so you have to dance."
Now, back in stride since the beginning of the pandemic, it's like singing a familiar tune, except this is dancing to a familiar rhythm.
"I'm always moving, whether it's in the grocery store, a doctor's office, I just love music so I'm always dancing," said Hougland.
The Prime Time Dancers aren't just participating for exercise. They have performed at various sporting events and roller derby competitions.
This story was originally reported by Austin Pollack on lex18.com. | https://www.fox17online.com/lifestyle/seniors-resume-dancing-for-first-time-since-start-of-pandemic | 2022-08-18T20:40:49Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/lifestyle/seniors-resume-dancing-for-first-time-since-start-of-pandemic | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An anti-abortion coalition in Michigan filed a challenge Thursday against a potential ballot initiative that seeks to enshrine abortion rights into the state’s constitution, claiming that 60 errors in the proposed amendment should disqualify it from the November ballot.
The alleged 60 errors deal with spacing and result in “strings of gibberish,” making the amendment “impossible to understand,” the coalition said in a statement.
The Reproductive Freedom for All ballot initiative would affirm into Michigan’s Constitution the right to make pregnancy-related decisions without interference. The campaign submitted 753,759 signatures in July to qualify for the November ballot, which was close to double the 425,059 needed.
The Bureau of Elections is in the process of reviewing the petition’s signatures and has until Aug. 26 to submit a staff report outlining its findings and any challenges to the petition. The deadline for any challenges to the petition’s signatures was 5 p.m. Thursday.
The status of abortion in Michigan is expected to drastically impact the battleground state’s November general election, where the state’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel have made abortion rights a centerpiece of their reelection campaigns.
Nationally, abortion opponents were shocked and abortion rights advocates energized by a decisive statewide vote in heavily Republican Kansas earlier this month in favor of protecting abortion access, but it’s not likely to translate into new abortion votes across the U.S. in the November election.
Three other states besides Michigan — California, Kentucky and Vermont — could have votes in November on abortion access, and a fifth, Montana, is voting on a measure that would require abortion providers to give lifesaving treatment to a fetus that is born alive after a botched abortion.
The state’s Board of Canvassers, an independent entity comprised of two Democrats and two Republicans, is expected to meet on Aug. 31 to determine whether abortion access will be on the ballot in November. The Citizens to Support MI Women and Children challenge, which was filed with the Bureau of Elections, calls for the Board of Canvassers to reject the proposed amendment.
The ballot initiative's language was approved by the Board of Canvassers during a March 23 meeting with the condition that an extra “the” be removed from a header. The coalition alleges that the revised version, submitted on March 30, contained the errors and was never approved.
Errors identified by the group include, “DECISIONSABOUTALLMATTERSRELATINGTOPREGNANCY,” and “POSTPARTUMCARE.”
“Some people would say, ‘Oh, they’re just spaces,’ but amending the constitution is pretty serious business and the correct number of typos to put in your constitution is zero,” Christen Pollo, a spokeswoman for Citizens to Support MI Women and Children, told The Associated Press.
Richard Primus, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Michigan Law School, said he believes the amendment’s language could be cleaned up and that typographical problems wouldn’t cause legal issues.
“There’s no reason to think that anyone didn’t understand what the petition was saying,” Primus said. “There have been typographical problems with things drafted for constitutions as long as there have been constitutions in the United States.”
Darci McConnell, a spokeswoman for the Reproductive Freedom for All campaign, said in a statement the group is confident the ballot proposal is in compliance with legal requirements and that a record number of registered voters “have read, understood and signed the petition in support of reproductive freedom for all.”
The challenge came on the final day of a state court hearing to determine whether county prosecutors should be blocked from enforcing the state’s pre-Roe abortion ban. A state judge ruled before the hearing that abortion would remain legal in the state until he made a final determination.
This week’s court hearing stems from a restraining order issued by Oakland County Judge Jacob Cunningham earlier this month following a request of attorneys representing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who favors abortion rights.
Several county prosecutors had planned to begin enforcing the state’s 1931 abortion ban – triggered by the fall of Roe – after an appeals court ruled earlier this month that a preliminary injunction blocking the law only applied to the attorney general's office, not county prosecutors who handle most crimes.
Cunningham heard witness testimony Wednesday and Thursday from abortion experts, providers and the chief medical officer in the state.
The decision following this week’s court hearing will only be temporarily determine whether county prosecutors can enforce the ban, with a more permanent ruling on the legality of abortion in the state expected to come from either the Michigan Supreme Court or from voters in the fall. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/election-2022/anti-abortion-groups-allege-60-errors-in-michigan-proposal | 2022-08-18T20:40:55Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/election-2022/anti-abortion-groups-allege-60-errors-in-michigan-proposal | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Bill McAnally Racing will be a part of a history-making night at Evergreen Speedway on Saturday, participating in the 1,000th event for the ARCA Menards Series West in the NAPA AUTO PARTS 150.
The return to the .646-mile oval in Monroe, Washington will include a pair of BMR Chevrolet SS drivers battling for the team’s 100th series win, as well.
BMR has won seven times at the popular Pacific Northwest venue heading into the series’ 61st appearance there since 1964. Brendan Gaughan leads the team with two victories at Monroe, followed by five drivers with one win each. Both BMR drivers participating in Saturday’s event are shooting for their first win at the fairgrounds track.
Cole Moore, in the No. 99 Adaptive One Chevrolet SS, returns to Evergreen Speedway for his second start at the facility. The Granite Bay, California driver finished 10th in the 2016 edition of the NAPA AUTO PARTS 150 at Evergreen. Moore is fresh off equaling a career-best runner-up effort at Irwindale Speedway on July 2, preserving second place in the ARCA Menards Series West championship battle, entering the seventh round of the season.
Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina’s Landen Lewis will make his second start for BMR in the No. 16 NAPA AUTO PARTS Chevrolet SS. His BMR debut at Irwindale Speedway was a success, earning a fifth-place finish. His three starts overall in the West Series in 2022 have yielded a win and two-top 5 finishes. In addition, he qualified second at Sonoma Raceway in June. His racing resume also includes a win and two top fives in three starts last year in the ARCA Menards Series. Lewis will make his first Evergreen Speedway start this weekend.
BMR is working with NAPA Seattle for this entitlement event. Special guests will experience the race with a VIP hospitality and pit tour on Saturday. On Friday, team owner Bill McAnally, NASCAR Hall of Famer Ron Hornaday, and driver Landen Lewis will visit strong NAPA AUTO PARTS stores and NAPA AutoCare shops in the Seattle market area.
ARCA Menards Series West Event:
Race: NAPA AUTO PARTS 150 (Race 7 of 11) Aug. 20, 2022
Location: Evergreen Speedway, Monroe, Wash. (.646-mile oval)
Television: Streamed live on FloRacing on Aug. 20, 6:30 p.m. PT/ USA Network on Aug. 26, 11 a.m. PT
BMR Drivers:
Landen Lewis
No. 16 NAPA AUTO PARTS Chevrolet SS
Age: 16
Hometown: Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.
Career series stats: 3 starts, 1 win, 2 top fives
Most recent series finish: 5th – Irwindale (7/2/22)
Best career series finish: 1st – Kern (4/23/22)
Monroe stats: First series start at Evergreen
2022 series stats: 3 starts, 1 win, 2 top fives
Cole Moore
No. 99 Adaptive One Chevrolet SS
Age: 25
Hometown: Granite Bay, Calif.
Career series stats: 23 starts, 7 top 5s, 13 top 10s
Best career series and most recent finish: 2nd – Irwindale (twice, 3/26/22 and 7/2/22)
Monroe stats: 1 start, 1 top 10 (Best finish – 10th on 8/13/16)
2022 series stats: 6 starts, 3 top fives
BMR PR | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72137-napa-auto-parts-150-brings-arca-west-back-to-evergreen | 2022-08-18T20:41:12Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72137-napa-auto-parts-150-brings-arca-west-back-to-evergreen | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Driver: Daniel Dye
Hometown: Deland, Florida
Birthday: December 4, 2003
Series: ARCA Menards Series
Vehicle: #43 GMS Racing Chevrolet SS
Crew Chief: Chad Bryant
Owner: Maury Gallagher
Primary Sponsors: Champion Container, Race to Stop Suicide, Solar-Fit
WATKINS GLEN Race Notes:
Track: Watkins Glen International
Location: Watkins Glen, New York
Date: Friday, August 19
Race: 6:00 PM ET
Length: 41 Laps - 100.45 Miles
Coverage: FS1, FOX Sports App, MRN Radio, SiriusXM (XM channel 391, online channel 981), ARCARacing.com
- Daniel Dye will make his first career start at the 2.45-mile, seven-turn Watkins Glen International located in the Finger Lakes region of central New York.
- Dye's white No. 43 GMS Racing Chevrolet will once again feature Edison, New Jersey based Champion Container on the hood and quarter panels.
- Daniel's only previous road course experience came this season at Portland (OR) International Speedway (Won the Pole, and finished 4th) and most recently at Mid Ohio (OH) Sports Car Course (finished 8th).
- The Deland, Florida competitor, is currently third in ARCA Menards Series national points, two points out of second and nine from the series lead.
- DD will have BecomeADeputy.com featured as the onboard camera sponsor for Friday’s race live on FS1 and the FOX Sports App. (6:00 p.m. ET)
- Friday’s 41-lap race can be seen on FS1 and the FOX Sports App at 6:00 p.m. ET. Coverage will also be provided by the Motor Racing Network, on SiriusXM Satelite Radio, and through ARCAracing.com.
- Behind-the-scenes updates and content will be posted to Daniel's Twitter account (@danieldye43) on race day. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72146-daniel-dye-watkins-glen-springfield-preview | 2022-08-18T20:41:18Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72146-daniel-dye-watkins-glen-springfield-preview | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Dodh Sikhsha/Niropanna Niwaasini, Birth and Mummifying. Of the Soul, p., The Hibru Punth(the five regions beyond\nDoodhshika puraana Srila Prabhûpadika Sri Jîga khandasthîlam bîka kashitathûya tâpa hvitir na sphadathi lagne jana rathâ h MOSCOW (AP) — People in Moscow who were disappointed when Starbucks closed its coffee shops after Russia sent troops into Ukraine may now feel a caffeine jolt of hope: A nearly identical operation is opening in the capital.
The name's almost the same: Stars Coffee. The logo could be the separated-at-birth twin of the Starbucks mermaid, with flowing hair, a small enigmatic smile and a star atop her head — though instead of a Starbucks crown she wears a Russian headdress called a kokoshnik.
The menu, judging by the company app introduced a day before the store's formal opening Friday, would look familiar to any Starbucks customer.
Starbucks said Thursday it had no comment on the new stores.
Seattle-based Starbucks was one of the most visible of the wave of foreign companies that pulled out of Russia or suspended their operations in response to Russia's military operation in Ukraine. Others include McDonald's, IKEA and fast-fashion giant H&M.
The departure of these companies was a psychological blow to Russians who had become used to the comforts of Western-style consumer culture. But Russian entrepreneurs saw opportunity in suddenly unoccupied stores.
Former McDonald's outlets are reopening and attracting sizable crowds under the name Vkusno — i Tochka. Though the name doesn't roll off the tongue easily and is a little awkward to translate (roughly: It's Tasty — Period), the menu is a testament to imitation being the sincerest form of flattery.
Yunus Yusupov, a popular rap artist who uses the stage name Timati, and restaurateur Anton Pinsky partnered to buy the Starbucks assets, then took the imitation strategy a step further by giving the operation an English-language name.
At a news conference Thursday, they vowed to reopen all the former Starbucks under their new identity and even expand the business. The U.S. company had built its Russian operation to about 130 stores since entering the country in 2007. The stores were owned and operated by a franchisee, Alshaya Group of Kuwait.
While the close resemblance of the new operations to their predecessors could be seen as riding someone else's inspiration and effort, the Starbucks and McDonald's successors also fit a national-pride concept. Since Russia was walloped by sanctions and foreign pullouts, officials frequently assert that Russia will overcome by relying on its own resources and energies.
"Now the economic situation is difficult, but this is a time of opportunity," Oleg Eskindarov, president of the holding company that partnered in the Starbucks deal, told the state news agency Tass. "For the past four months, we have been very actively looking at exiting companies following the example of Starbucks. There are several more similar examples, but we cannot talk about them yet." | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/stars-coffee-anyone-starbucks-successor-opening-in-russia | 2022-08-18T20:41:25Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/stars-coffee-anyone-starbucks-successor-opening-in-russia | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Marc-Antoine Camirand achieved a strong performance, Tuesday night, as the NASCAR Pinty’s series was racing for the first time ever on dirt, at Ohsweken Speedway. Camirand scored the pole and ended up the race in fourth place, while his Paillé Course//Racing teammate Andrew Ranger had a more difficult event but managed to secure a seventh place finish.
During optional hot laps on Monday night, Camirand improved from 22nd in the first session to sixth in the second session. The Camirand Performance crew, with the help of members of the Dirt Modified team ONE, worked to improve the car for the official event on Tuesday.
When Camirand went out for the first and only official practice, on Tuesday night, the driver of the GM Paillé/Chevrolet Canada n°96 Camaro scored the fastest lap early in the time trial session, which gave him the first spot on the grid for the qualifying heat race. He kept a fast pace during the 10-lap qualifying to score his first pole of the season.
He led the first 48 laps of the Pinty’s 100, but felt his car was losing traction as the track was getting more and more slippery. “I lost some track positions when I had to restart from the inside lane, falling back to the sixth spot, but I came back strong at the end of the race. I was hoping for a podium finish, but at the last lap, another car pushed me outside my groove, and I couldn’t hold him off,” stated the driver from Saint-Léonard-d’Aston. Camirand scored a well-fought fourth place finish.
“We didn’t know how we would run on dirt for this first race here, and I’m pretty happy with what we achieved here. It has been a good race for championship points”, concluded Camirand, who takes back the lead of the drivers’ standings, tied with D.J. Kennington.
His Paillé Course//Racing teammate Andrew Ranger was hoping to make a strong outing for the Pinty’s series debut on dirt. He scored quick lap times during practice sessions on Monday, but wasn’t able to carry that speed throughout the day on Tuesday, as the track became more slippery. Scoring the 14th quickest time in time trials, he was able to quality third in his heat race, earning the eighth spot on the starting grid.
“I couldn’t find traction on my GM Paillé/Chevrolet Canada n°27 Camaro. We came to the pits twice between the stages to try to make some adjustments and improve the car”, explained Ranger.
It seemed to pay off because Ranger moved up and fought for second place at some point in the race but started losing some ground again. “My car was not good on the long run. I did what I could to secure a top-10 finish, and I’m happy I was able to avoid the incidents on track”, Ranger said.
Paillé Course//Racing will be back in action with Marc-Antoine Camirand and Andrew Ranger at Circuit ICAR in Mirabel, as the NASCAR Pinty’s series returns to this short road course on Saturday, August 27th.
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The man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie pleaded not guilty on Thursday.
Hadi Matar is charged with second-degree murder and second-degree assault.
Authorities say Matar stabbed "The Satanic Verses" author during a lecture on Friday in upstate New York.
The judge in the case denied Matar bail and said he must surrender his firearms. The judge also granted Rushdie's request for a temporary protection order.
The author is reportedly improving since the attack. Rushdie's agent said the author had damage to his liver and suffered severed nerves, but he is no longer on a ventilator.
A motive for the attack has not been revealed. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/suspect-in-salman-rushdie-attack-pleads-not-guilty | 2022-08-18T20:41:31Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/suspect-in-salman-rushdie-attack-pleads-not-guilty | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
To support efforts of building peace, friendship, and brotherliness in Northwest China while building biodologia/ ecolo gy with 19 villages/ neighborhood/ etho-lingua communities.\nBy the power(knowldgess or Wisdsoms and/or teachings/reign as well from above with God’)\nthe “Dorben Suii(from north) and Luobusuao (South of U.S. officials say there has been a noticeable surge in high-powered firearms being illegally trafficked from the United States to Haiti, with gangs from the Caribbean nation purchasing firearms and bringing them into Haiti from Florida, in recent months.
Haiti has been further destabilized by violent, armed gangs engaging in brutal warfare, which has seen hundreds killed in recent weeks, the BBC reported in July.
Anthony Salisbury, a special agent with U.S. Homeland Security in Miami, said, “Not only have we seen a marked uptick in the number of weapons, but a serious increase in the caliber and type of firearm being illegally trafficked,” according to Bloomberg.
The UN Security Council voted in June to ban sales of small firearms along with ammunition to those in Haiti considered to be "non-state actors." Despite the move by the world governing body, the flow of firearms into Haiti has appeared to remain a major issue.
At a Wednesday press conference in South Florida, agents stood before tables covered in high-powered firearms and handguns that federal agents said they have seized in recent weeks and months.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), are the federal law enforcement entities primarily responsible for investigating international smuggling operations.
In July, a New York Times report detailed how armed gangs have increased their power in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince — sometimes using cruel tactics such as using bulldozers to raze entire neighborhoods.
In just one nine-day period in July, over 470 people were killed, went missing, or were injured because of gang warfare in Cité Soleil, the largest poverty-stricken community in the capital. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/us-officials-warn-of-surge-in-gun-trafficking-from-florida-to-haiti | 2022-08-18T20:41:38Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/us-officials-warn-of-surge-in-gun-trafficking-from-florida-to-haiti | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For Anthony Flannery and the #25ct Fowler’s Auto Wrecking / Belltown Recycling team, good luck has been hard to find in 2022 when racing Open Modifieds at Stafford Motor Speedway. With 50 cars on hand for the NAPA Spring Sizzler® in April, Flannery was able to earn a starting position but a wreck not of his own doing ended his run. Flannery is hoping to not only get a top-10 finish this Friday night, August 19, in the Lincoln Tech Open 80, but also make it to the checkered flag.
“I’d be very happy with a top-10 finish and just finishing the race would be big for us since we haven’t had a lot of luck with the open car at Stafford this season,” said Flannery. “We qualified for the Sizzler out of 50 cars and we only lasted for a lap and a half before we got caught up in someone else’s wreck and we were done for the day. We missed the next race but came back for the third race. We were running in the top-10 and made it through the pit cycle but unfortunately only lasted a few more laps before the car blew up on me. We had a good car up to that point and any time we can get into the top-10 in one of these open races at Stafford, that’s a pretty big deal for a small team like ours. If we can stop the DNF’s from coming through, we’ll be very happy. I’m feeling pretty good about the race and hopefully we’ll have a little bit of lady luck on our side and we can finish.”
Prior to the start of the 2022 season, Flannery had less than 20 career starts at Stafford driving SK Modified®, Open Modified, or Modified Racing Series cars. In order to help himself get a little more acclimated with the Connecticut half-mile layout, Flannery has been racing a Todd Owen prepared SK Modified® car that he has piloted to 4 top-10 finishes in only 5 races.
“I’ve been running the SK Modified® for Todd and it’s always good to have more laps at a track,” said Flannery. “The cars drive totally different with the horsepower difference, but laps are laps and getting more laps definitely helps to get more comfortable. Those extra laps in the SK have given me a confidence boost in knowing how to get around the track a little better.”
Coming into the 2022 season, Flannery had only made 3 career SK Modified® starts without recording a top-10 finish. Now that he has four top-10 finishes in 5 races, Flannery knows what it takes to run in the top-10 at Stafford as well as learning patience that he can apply during the Lincoln Tech 80.
“I knew Todd had great stuff and he continues to give me a great car every week, the only thing is showing up halfway through the year we have no handicap and we have to start in the back,” said Flannery. “I go out to get laps and try not to affect anything with guys who are racing for points. If I make a crazy move, it might look good on FloRacing, but it only takes one or two bad nights for someone to get taken out of the points race so I’m trying to always be smart with my moves and that helps with keeping the car in one piece. In the open races, you can apply that patience from the SK races even a little further with the extra laps and extra power to work with.”
Even though Flannery will be pulling double duty this Friday night at Stafford, he will be able to put the majority of his focus on racing, as his Open Modified teammate and car owner Dave Etheridge (driver of #34 Open Mod) will miss the race, allowing the crew for the #25ct and #34 cars to give their full attention to Flannery’s car.
“It’ll be my first time doing double duty at Stafford,” said Flannery. “It’s going to be bittersweet that Dave won’t be racing, but that will just mean that I have extra crew guys for my Open car and there will be a lot less things that I have to worry about. Todd’s guys are all amazing and they take care of the SK for me so I can focus mostly on just driving the car. Whenever I try to do something on the SK the guys just push me out of the way and tell me that they’ve got it.”
Flannery heads into the Lincoln Tech 80 knowing what he will need in order to be among the contending cars when the race comes down to the final few laps.
“You’ll need to have a car with no damage on it so you have to be smart throughout the race, and you’ll need to have a good pit stop,” said Flannery. “You see a lot of guys either gain or lose a bunch of spots on pit road and it’s tough to make up spots on the track if you have a bad pit stop.”
The 3rd Annual Lincoln Tech 80 is scheduled for this Friday, August 19th. Stafford’s SK Modified®, Late Model, SK Light, Limited Late Model, and Street Stock divisions will join the Open Modifieds in feature action. Tickets for the Lincoln Tech 80 are available now online at StaffordSpeedway.com/tickets and tickets will also be available for purchase at the admission gates. Tickets for the Lincoln Tech 80 are $30.00 for adults, $10.00 for kids 6-14, and free for kids 5 & under. Reserved seating is priced at $35.00 for all ages and pit passes are $45.00 with a valid 2022 Stafford Competition License and $50.00 without a Stafford license. If you are unable to attend the event, tune into the live stream on FloRacing, the official streaming partner of Stafford Speedway.
For more information, visit www.staffordspeedway.com, checkout Stafford Speedway on Facebook or Twitter, or contact the track office at 860-684-2783.
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After losing an earlier season event scheduled at Lincoln Speedway to rain, the Morrow Brothers Ford MOWA Sprint Car Series will return to the ¼-mile at the Logan County Fairgrounds this Friday, August 19, 2022. It’s all part of a huge weekend of racing in Central Illinois.
In 15 events contested at Lincoln Speedway, 11 drivers have won events with the #MOWASprints. Fan favorites, Rico Abreu and Paul Nienhiser each have three MOWA Sprint Car Series wins at Lincoln. Other drivers to win events at Lincoln include AJ Bruns, Carson Macedo, Christopher Bell, Ian Madsen, Jake Neuman, Jerrod Hull, Jimmy Hurley, Korey Weyant and Willie Croft.
Hometown driver Cory Bruns finished 3rd at Macon Speedway on July 30, the last event held for the series. Bruns’ best finish at Lincoln Speedway came last year during the “Night Before the Mile”, where he ended up 7th. Another hometown driver to keep an eye on, is Shelby Bosie. Bosie finished third with the series on July 29 at Jacksonville Speedway and then backed that up with another 2nd place run in weekly racing competition at Jacksonville on August 12.
2015 USAC Amsoil Sprint Car Champion Robert Ballou will return to Lincoln Speedway aboard the NineSix Motorsports #96. Ballou drove to a 2nd place finish in last year’s event and is looking to become the series’ next first-time winner this Friday.
In addition to the MOWA Sprints, the Midwest Big Ten Series DIRTcar Pro Late Models and Modified will be in action, plus Simplot DII Midgets, KidModz, and Hornets. Jose Parga, of New Berlin, IL, leads the Lincoln Speedway Pro Late Model points and the Big Ten points. When it comes to the Modifieds, former champion Brandon Roberts leads the Lincoln Speedway points, while Rodney Standerfer is on top of the Big Ten standings. The two Big Ten races will pay $700 to win and $100 to start.
Last year’s champion, Mark McMahill, of Peoria, IL, leads this year’s Simplot DII Midget standings, while Brownstown, IL’s Billy Mason leads the track Hornet points.
Pit gates open at 3:00, grandstands at 5:00, hotlaps begin at 6:00, and racing will begin at 7:00. Grandstand admission is $20, while kids 11 and under are free.
The event is all part of a huge weekend of racing that begins Friday night, August 19 at Lincoln Speedway featuring MOWA Sprint Cars, Saturday afternoon, August 20 with USAC Silver Crown and Sportsman at the Illinois State Fairgrounds, Saturday night at Macon Speedway with POWRi National Midgets, and Sunday afternoon, August 21 with ARCA and Sportsman at the Illinois State Fair.
Friday August 19, 2022 Race Day Information:
Pits Open: 3:00PM
Grandstands Open: 5:00PM
Hot Laps: 6:00PM
Racing: 7:00PM
Lincoln Speedway MOWA Sprints Feature Winners (in order by number of wins):
Rico Abreu - 3 (10/10/2014, 7/12/2019, 7/17/2020)
Paul Nienhiser - 3 (7/10/2015, 6/1/2018, 7/13/2018)
Christopher Bell - 1 (10/11/2013)
AJ Bruns - 1 (9/2/2011)
Willie Croft - 1 (7/15/2016)
Jerrod Hull - 1 (7/6/2012)
Jimmy Hurley - 1 (6/15/2012)
Carson Macedo - 1 (7/14/2017)
Ian Madsen - 1 (5/2/2014)
Korey Weyant - 1 (7/8/2011)
Jake Neuman - 1 (8/20/2021)
For more information about Lincoln Speedway, visit www.lincolnspeedwayil.com
For more information about the MOWA Sprint Car Series, visit www.midwestopenwheel.com
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Speedway Motorsports employees put their commitment to the community on full display Wednesday, with more than 75 people lending more than 300 hours of labor to four Cabarrus County nonprofits as part of the company’s fifth Day of Service.
Volunteers from Charlotte Motor Speedway, U.S. Legend Cars, zMAX Dragway and The Dirt Track at Charlotte pitched in at Wings of Eagles Ranch, the Coltrane L.I.F.E. Center, Esther’s Heart for Transformation and The Teaching House, with activities ranging from carpentry and painting to landscaping, power washing and general beautification.
Visitors to the Coltrane L.I.F.E. Center, including Charlotte Motor Speedway Executive Vice President and General Manager Greg Walter, also played B-I-N-G-O with those in attendance.
“One of our four core principles is to invest in our community, and this is a day that our team realizes is important,” Walter said. “People ask about (Day of Service) all year long. I have no trouble getting volunteers to come out here. As a matter of fact, my biggest issue is having enough people back at the office to get ready for the (upcoming) events. This is a chance for us to get together as a crew and apply our expertise and the passion that we have for others, and do good in the community.
“Everything we do, we do with a servant’s heart. This is a chance for us to exhibit that.”
The Day of Service program began in 2018, when the Speedway Motorsports Pit Crew began making a direct and immediate impact on the community. Since the first Day of Service, the company has built ramps for wheelchair-bound veterans, repaired railings, cooked and provided meals for those in need, painted, power washed and landscaped many charities in and around Cabarrus County.
Additionally, Speedway Motorsports partnered with Reeves Construction to repave a nonfunctional driveway at The Teaching House.
“It’s always important to help the community,” said Todd Hemphill, Reeves Construction's superintendent. “There’s a lot of people in need of help right now, and if there’s anything we can do to help out, we enjoy it. It means a lot for these guys, knowing they’re doing something to help somebody out.”
Volunteers at Charlotte Motor Speedway also packed 200 sensory bags for youth and adult individuals who become over-stimulated by the loud noise, lights and heightened energy at Speedway Motorsports events at Charlotte Motor Speedway, zMAX Dragway and The Dirt Track.
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In the NASCAR Cup Series world the spotlight is shining directly on Ryan Blaney and Martin Truex Jr. at the moment.
The two Cup Series veterans are at the front of a pack of drivers who are working hard to qualify for the NASCAR Round of 16 Playoffs, which begins at Darlington, S.C., on Labor Day weekend, and finishes two weeks later at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sept. 17. The Bass Pro Shops Night Race is once again a much-anticipated Playoff elimination race that will be held under the lights on the all-concrete high-banked half-mile where we will see the end of championship hopes for four of the 16 drivers.
Following racing last weekend at Richmond, Virginia, Blaney is holding down the 16th and final Playoff transfer spot. Truex sits just outside the cut off line at 17th. Neither Blaney nor Truex are currently included in the Playoff-era record 15 winners so far in the regular season, yet both are hoping to qualify for the Playoffs, either by winning one of the final two regular season races over the next two weeks, or advancing by virtue of points standings.
Both drivers have accumulated lots of stage wins and Playoff points and have been in contention during several races. However, this season, which saw the debut of the new Next Gen car and has featured five first-time winners, has been anything but routine. Both drivers are planning to give it everything they’ve got at Watkins Glen (Aug. 21) and Daytona (Aug. 28) to advance to the post-season.
Truex, the 2017 NASCAR Cup Series champion with 31 career Cup Series victories, says as a driver you just have to be prepared to put it all on the line.
""You just go out and fight, man,” said Truex, who has compiled an impressive season resume of three top-fives, 11 top-10s and seven stage wins. “You go give it all you got. There are no magic triggers. Just go trying to figure it out and work hard and race hard and see what we can come up with.
“It’d be disappointing with the season we’ve had to not make it.”
Said Blaney, who posted a seventh-place finish at Richmond and has had eight top-fives, 12 top-10s and 5 stage wins on the year: “You never know what could happen. You could have a bad day next week or the next two weeks, you could have a new winner one of those weeks. You just never know... Just one race down and proud of the effort we had and try to do the same thing next week.”
Interestingly, whether they qualify for the Playoffs or not, both drivers will head to the Bass Pro Shops Night Race with an intriguing subplot storyline. Both have an opportunity to join an exclusive club at the iconic bullring.
In BMS’ 62-year history, only five drivers have scored BMS victories in all three of NASCAR’s top-three touring series: The NASCAR Cup, Xfinity and Camping World Truck series. The short list includes Kyle Busch, the winningest NASCAR driver in BMS history with 23 wins across all three series, Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick, Mark Martin and Brad Keselowski. Martin became the first member of the club when he won a Truck race at BMS in August of 2006.
Yes, its an exclusive fraternity that’s being referred to as the BMS Trifectas. If either Blaney or Truex wins the Bass Pro Shops Night Race, they would become a member of that impressive group.
Blaney scored a Camping World Truck Series victory at BMS in 2015 and claimed his Xfinity Series victory at Bristol at the Food City 300 in 2014. Blaney still holds the Cup Series track record at 132.075 mph set in April 2019.
Truex raced to an Xfinity Series win at BMS in the spring of 2004, then made history by winning the Pinty’s Truck Race on Dirt in 2021.
Neither driver has had much luck at Bristol in their Cup Series pursuits. Blaney has a career best finish of 4th at Bristol, while Truex has a best Cup effort of 2nd in the 2011 Night Race. However, from 2012-2020 Truex has been snake-bit at Bristol, managing only one top 10 finish at the unique and demanding oval that’s been called the “Holy Grail of Short Tracks.”
Truex, who pilots the flagship Bass Pro Shops No. 19 machine for Joe Gibbs Racing, says his relationship with Bristol in the Cup Series has been complicated.
"I enjoy racing there and we’ve had some great cars, but for whatever reason, we have had no luck whatsoever on the Cup side," Truex has said. "Whether it’s flat tires, loose wheels, speeding penalties, getting caught up in crashes, you name it and it’s happened to us at Bristol. So, from that standpoint, it hasn’t been our best track, but we’re capable of running well there if we can just have a smooth night."
Truex says he’s ready for his luck to change at the fan-favorite venue in the Appalachian Highlands region of Northeast Tennessee.
“We all know the odds favor the track at Bristol, so that’s why we have to race smart and not make any unforced errors,” Truex has said. “We’re due for something good to happen at Bristol.”
In the 2020 Food City Supermarket Heroes 500 Blaney saw one of his best chances to win a Cup trophy at Bristol taken away in an instant. He was among the leaders when he crashed hard between turns one and two.
“I thought we were gonna be OK and then we got destroyed about six seconds later, so that’s just Bristol and a part of Bristol,” Blaney said at the time. “I probably shouldn’t have been pushing that hard, but trying to get back to the lead. I thought we found some speed up there, just a mistake on my part… It’s just one of them things at Bristol. Things happen fast and just couldn’t get slowed up enough.”
THE BMS TRIFECTAS CLUB (Active drivers only; bold shows year of entry into club; Kyle Larson and Joey Logano need a Truck win at BMS to enter the club but are not eligible to compete in the upcoming UNOH 200 Truck Series race)
Driver BMS Truck Win BMS Xfinity Win BMS Cup Win
Mark Martin Aug. 2006 Aug. 1989
Carl Edwards Aug. 2004
Kyle Busch Aug. 2008 March 2006 March 2007
Kevin Harvick Aug. 2011 Aug. 2000
Brad Keselowski Aug. 2014 Aug. 2008 Aug. 2011
Ryan Blaney Aug. 2015 Aug. 2014
Martin Truex Jr. April 2021 March 2004
Joey Logano Aug. 2012 Aug. 2014
Kyle Larson Aug. 2018 Sept. 2021
The weekend begins with Zane Smith, John Hunter Nemechek, Ben Rhodes and defending winner Chandler Smith battling for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory Thursday night in the UNOH 200 presented by Ohio Logistics (Sept. 15, 9 p.m., FS1, MRN Radio). The rising stars in the ARCA Menards Series also will take on the challenging half-mile bullring in the Bush’s Beans 200 as part of the Thursday night doubleheader (Sept. 15, 6:30 p.m., FS1, MRN Radio).
On Friday, Sparks are sure to fly in the Food City 300, as NASCAR Xfinity Series favorites A.J. Allmendinger, Noah Gragson, Justin Allgaier, Ty Gibbs and Josh Berry will be trying to lock in their Playoff positions in the season’s final regular season race (Sept. 16, 7:30 p.m., USA Network, PRN Radio). The stars of the NASCAR Cup Series will take to the track on Saturday for the Bass Pro Shops Night Race (Sept. 17, 7:30 p.m., USA Network, PRN Radio), you’ll get to see all of your favorite drivers racing hard to advance in the first elimination race of the Playoffs.
To purchase tickets, please visit www.bristolmotorspeedway.com or call the BMS Ticket Sales Center at (866) 415-4158. Fans can also purchase tickets at any Food City location through Sept. 6.
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Our favorite things are favorites for lots of reasons. Most of the time we don’t think about why they’re our favorites… they just are. But when we do stop to think about them, it’s interesting what we find.
Think of your favorite sweater, for example.
Got one?
How would you describe it to someone?
Simple, right?
Well, what is a sweater?
Everybody knows sweaters are garments. They’re knitted from different kinds of yarns using different knitting methods. They’re a particular color. Or maybe, colors. They come in different patterns, shapes, styles.
What makes this sweater your favorite?
The yarn? The color? The style?
Maybe.
Those are the characteristics of the sweater-as-object that can be readily described to other people. If you took a picture of it, those characteristics would be right there for another person to see.
But, this is your favorite sweater. Where’s the “favorite” in that picture?
I don’t think favorite is in the picture. Favorite is invisible.
That must mean favorite is in your head, right? Favorite must be something that we create in our minds.
Somehow, that doesn’t feel right to me either.
Objects that are our favorites feel different. They feel special. They feel like we are drawn to them. Almost like gravity.
Like gravity, favorite feels like relationship that exists between us and objects.
One of Einstein’s breakthrough insights in his general theory of relativity was that gravity is not a force, but a dynamic “spacetime interaction” between all things having mass or energy. “Dynamic” means that things are in always in motion and their spacetime relationships are constantly interacting.
Most of us scratch our heads a bit trying to understand what that means, but if we go back to the relationship you have with your favorite sweater, we see that both you and the sweater are dynamic-objects-in-relationship-to-one-another. You both have a history in space and time, a history that began independently of one another and then became intertwined.
What does that mean? Well, you had a life history before you had this sweater. The sweater had a history, too; it was made by others, elsewhere. At some point in spacetime, those two histories intersected and you acquired the sweater. Your two gravitational fields influenced each other, like the Earth and the satellite in the Wikipedia image.
How did that intersection take place?
Either you chose the sweater or someone else chose it for you, with you in mind. Either way, this was an active selection based upon the sweater’s level of attraction (a gravitational term) for you. That attraction…let’s call it desire…is a key form of human energy, establishing a relationship…a gravitational field…between you and an object.
Your initial desire (attraction) for the sweater was likely based on the appeal, or “weights” (mass) you placed on the characteristics that would show up if you took a picture of the sweater: yarn, color, style. You prefer cashmere black V-necks, for example. But, over time (shorter or longer, depending on a broad range of factors that we’ll take up in a future essay), the sweater became a favorite, gained significance. It became more important. It gained weight (mass). It became more strongly desirable (energy). It started to matter more to you than your other sweaters. You and the sweater entered into a more intimate relationship. You drew it closer into your spacetime world.
This might all sound pretty esoteric! But, think about it. When you’re looking into your closet…picking out a sweater to wear…your eyes are drawn to your favorites. Our favorites seem to pull us toward them. You want to bring it even closer to you. You want to look, feel, and act the way you do when you wear it.
Some favorites are like the sun, or large planets. Their gravitational field is large and strong. They pull us toward them powerfully and persistently. (Anyone who’s been around a small child knows the raw power of the gravitational pull of a favorite object, like a blanket or stuffed animal.) Other favorites create weaker spacetime relationships and are easily replaced by other things after a much shorter time. So, while some objects become lifelong favorites that we couldn’t imagine replacing, others burn intensely and brightly for a while and then drift away, losing energy and fading into the background (sometimes abruptly).
Regardless of the power and duration of the gravitational field that exists between ourselves and a favorite, we can now see that the key to our connection is not in the physical characteristics of the object themselves. The key is the unique, invisible intertwining of ourselves and those characteristics-as-dynamic-spacetime-means-of-fulfillment-of-desires. (As I said, more on those dynamics in future essays.)
Favorites, then, become part of our life story for some domain of spacetime. We share part of our life history with them. Sometimes, our entire life history. Likewise, the object’s history includes chapters recounting its “life” before-and-after-becoming-my-favorite. In a sense, favorites are like major or minor characters in our life stories.
This line of thinking was inspired by a single line of poetry I came across about a dozen years ago. It was written by Muriel Rukeyser in her 1968 poem, The Speed of Darkness:
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
I don’t think the poet meant to say that the sweater’s atoms are not important. Yarn, color, and style are a function of the atoms that make up the sweater’s physicality. Thinking about the appeal of the favorite sweater’s yarn, style, and color is worthwhile. But, studying the atoms alone is an incomplete way to understand the universe in which we live our lives. Physics and chemistry will never yield a rich appreciation for the gravitational field that exists between you and your favorite sweater. It is only through exploring the dynamically intertwining spacetime gravitational attraction that constitutes the story of this-sweater-as-my-favorite that we can come to fully understand its role in an individual’s life.
Tom Guarriello is a psychologist, consultant, and founding faculty member of the Masters in Branding program at New York’s School of Visual Arts. He’s spent over a decade teaching psychology-based courses like The Meaning of Branded Objects, as well as leading Honors and Thesis projects. He’s spearheaded two podcasts, BrandBox and RoboPsych, the accompanying podcast for his eponymous website on the psychology of human-robot interaction. This essay was originally posted on Guarriello’s Substack, My Favorite Things. | https://www.printmag.com/creative-voices/my-favorite-things-what-is-a-favorite/ | 2022-08-18T20:42:46Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/creative-voices/my-favorite-things-what-is-a-favorite/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PRINTCast: The PRINT Podcast Studio is a curated collection of cutting-edge podcasts we love about design, creativity, branding, books, and further subjects afield. Here’s the latest episode of Evolve CPG, a podcast about innovative leaders who are evolving the Consumer Packaged Goods industry by building better products and better brands to imagine a better world.
Success within the CPG space is an arduous undertaking that requires immense drive and passion for overcoming the inevitable challenges.
Following your passion is a fundamental driver of today’s guest, Fred Haberman, an entrepreneur whose businesses reflect his values and ideals. One of those businesses, Freak Flag Organics, provides ultra-organic foods with extra-amazing flavors to help people create healthy dishes right at home.
In our conversation, he explains how his various businesses act as a platform to communicate ideas to help drive change, the challenges with the CPG space, and the hard lessons he has learned during his 28 years of entrepreneurship. Tune in today to find out why chasing your passions is better than chasing money with guest Fred Haberman!
Key Points From This Episode:
- Fred tells us why he decided to start his most recent company, Freak Flag Organics.
- How his businesses act as a way to communicate ideas and drive change.
- Hard lessons he has learned while working in the CPG space.
- Different aspects of a business should integrate with marketing.
- Find out if Fred outsourced some of the work required for Freak Flag Organics.
- Fred’s thoughts on whether or not he would start another enterprise within the CPG space.
- We learn about the Freak Flag Organics product range and the inspiration behind it.
- How long the brand has existed and what plans Fred has for the company.
- He shares what he feels are the most significant successes he has had so far.
- Fred’s advice for people interested in entering the CPG space.
- Fred’s motivation behind starting Haberman and his experience in creative services.
- Details about his entrepreneurial experience and the businesses he has started.
- Some of the essential qualities needed to be successful.
- Why it is okay to ask questions and find the right people for help.
- What Fred has struggled with the most during his career.
- Where he got his passion and entrepreneurial spirit.
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Hosting the annual Camfield Memorial presented by Chevrolet Hall of Fame Museum, Macon Speedway will continue the traditions of honoring an iconic Illinois racing family while welcoming of the Lucas Oil POWRi National Midget League for the final time of the season on Saturday, August 20th. Legendary racer Jack Hewitt will be grand marshal and sign autographs behind the grandstands.
Saturday, August 20th, Macon Speedway prepares for the Camfield Memorial presented by Chevy Hall of Fame and Museum; including the Lucas Oil POWRi National Midget League, and the POWRi 600cc Outlaw Micro League presented by Engler Machine and Tool, as well as the BillingsleyRewards.com Modifieds, DIRTcar Pro-Mods, and Hornets.
Lubbock, TX driver Brenham Crouch leads the POWRi standings by over 500 over Bixby, OK competitor Cannon McIntosh. McIntosh has claimed seven features but finds himself in second, missing four of the events on the schedule. Taylor Reimer, Bryant Wiedeman, and Chase McDermand round out the top five.
Sherman, IL driver John Barnard leads the current standings in the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Micros. He and Hayden Harvey are the top two in standings for the series and are both locals and regular competitors in the Macon Speedway weekly class as well. Willie Urish, Branigan Roark, and Joe B. Miller are currently in the top five.
Rodney Standerfer, of Summerfield, IL, will lead the BillingsleyRewards.com Modifieds into Saturday’s event. Standerfer has claimed four wins this season and has a 30-point lead on Guy Taylor. Alan Crowder, Tim Luttrell, and Clint Martin.
Taylor, who is second in the Modified points, has a commanding lead in the DIRTcar Pro Mod standings over his nephew, Zach Taylor. Kevin Crowder, Maxx Emerson, and Dean Holt round out the top five in points.
Decatur, IL driver, Tristin Quinlan, won his first career feature last Saturday night and will lead the DIRTcar Hornet class into town on Saturday. Quinlan is followed by Billy Mason, Brady Reed, Taryn Page, and Jeremy Reed.
Pit gates open Saturday at 3:00, grandstands at 5:00, hotlaps are at 6:00, and racing is at 7:00 PM. Grandstand admission is $20, while kids 11 and under are free.
For more information on such as points, driver profiles, and track data visit www.maconracing.com or on social media platforms.
Follow along for more information on POWRi and items such as race recaps, updates, full results, and press releases online at www.powri.com, or on Twitter & Instagram at @POWRi_Racing and Facebook at POWRi.
The event is all part of a huge weekend of racing that begins Friday night, August 19 at Lincoln Speedway featuring MOWA Sprint Cars, Saturday afternoon, August 20 with USAC Silver Crown and Sportsman at the Illinois State Fairgrounds, Saturday night at Macon Speedway with POWRi National Midgets, and Sunday afternoon, August 21 with ARCA and Sportsman at the Illinois State Fair.
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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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Sam Hunt Racing (SHR) announced today that John Hunter Nemechek and 1992 NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) champion Joe Nemechek will compete as teammates for the first time since 2019 in the Wawa 250 Powered by Coca-Cola at Daytona International Speedway on Friday, August 26. John Hunter Nemechek will pilot the No. 26 Freedom 13 Toyota GR Supra with Crew Chief Allen Hart while Joe Nemechek will contend in the No. 24 FleetWing Toyota GR Supra with Eric Phillips atop the pit box.
“Running multiple cars at Daytona is always special, but even more so now having a father and son combo driving for us as teammates,” said Sam Hunt. “John Hunter has been a big part of SHR’s growth, and to now have Joe join us at the tail end of his accomplished career is something I’ll cherish for a long time. At the end of the day, family is everything to me. I’m honored to be a part of this memorable moment for the Nemechek family and hope they both take the time to enjoy the weekend.”
In 2017, at the Daytona International Speedway, John Hunter Nemechek competed against his father for the first time in a NASCAR event. It was the first time a father and son competed in the same NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race since 2013 and the first time a father and son competed in any of NASCAR's top three series at the Daytona International Speedway since 2006.
The duo has competed against each other in 29 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series events, 13 NASCAR Xfinity Series events and three NASCAR Cup Series events in their careers. The duo has a single NASCAR Xfinity Series start together at the Daytona International Speedway on July 5, 2019. The last time the father-son duo competed as teammates was on November 8, 2019, at Phoenix Raceway for NEMCO Motorsports.
“If this is to be my last time to race in a NASCAR event, I am looking forward to being a teammate again with my son,” said Joe Nemechek. “I am excited to race for Sam Hunt Racing as it shares many qualities with the foundation that NEMCO Motorsports was built upon. I see Sam Hunt Racing as a very strong team, and the wins and championships are coming soon. Racing with my son again is special, and my expectation is to be on the lead lap in the mix with John Hunter. I’m excited to see what happens.”
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series’ (NCWTS) winningest crew chief Eric Phillips will call the shots for Joe Nemechek and the No. 24 team at Daytona International Speedway. Phillips, who credits his opportunity in NASCAR to Joe’s late brother John Nemechek, has a career history of working with the Nemechek family. Phillips’ first career NXS victory, as crew chief, was at Texas Motor Speedway in 2003 with Joe Nemechek. Phillips is currently the full-time crew chief for John Hunter Nemechek and the No. 4 Kyle Busch Motorsports team in the NCWTS.
Daytona will be part of two consecutive starts for John Hunter Nemechek with Sam Hunt Racing, as the 25-year-old will also pilot the No. 26 Freedom 13 Toyota GR Supra at Darlington Raceway on September 3, before returning to SHR at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in October.
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For the third time this year, Chastain is set to drive DGM Racing’s No. 92 NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) car. The New York Governor's Traffic Safety Committee (GTSC) will serve as the primary sponsor of the No. 92 Chevrolet Camaro at Watkins Glen International (WGI).
Chastain’s car will carry a specialty paint scheme that resembles a watermelon as part of the GTSC’s #ProtectYourMelon campaign to promote safe driving habits and seat belt usage. As a leader in highway safety, New York became the first state in the nation to enact an adult seat belt law nearly forty years ago. In 2020, new legislation went into effect in New York, requiring all adult passengers to buckle up regardless of their seating location within the vehicle.
“Seat belts save lives, and by expanding the seat belt law to include rear-seat passengers, New York State is able to save even more lives,” said Mark J.F. Schroeder, Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles and GTSC Chair. “Our hope is that wearing a seatbelt becomes second nature for all New Yorkers, so that we have fewer deaths and tragedies on our roads. Partnering with NASCAR driver Ross Chastain continues to be an effective way to get that message to young people who are less likely to buckle up. GTSC is grateful for his partnership and we wish him luck in his upcoming races.”
Less than a month ago, Chastain drove DGM Racing’s No. 92 to a fourth place finish at the Indianapolis Road Course, tying the team’s best finish as an organization (Alex Labbé - ROVAL 2020). Chastain also raced with DGM Racing earlier this year at Circuit of the Americas where he qualified 2nd (DGM Racing’s best qualifying position to date) and led 14 of the 46 laps in the Pit Boss 250. The following day he claimed his first NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) win.
Chastain is currently sitting second in the NCS playoff points standings after claiming his first two NCS wins, 10 Top-5s and 14 Top-10s. In addition to his impressive Cup season, Chastain is a NXS veteran with 193 NXS starts, including two wins, 22 Top-5s and 48 Top-10s.
“DGM Racing has brought me fast Chevrolet Camaros to race this year, and I can’t wait to get back behind the wheel of the No. 92 at WGI,” said Chastain. “I’m thrilled to be part of the Protect Your Melon initiative again to spread awareness about the importance of wearing seat belts and to encourage race fans to buckle up!”
The NXS race at WGI will be televised live on the USA Network on Saturday, August 20 at 3:00 p.m. ET. Practice and Qualifying for the NXS race will take place earlier that morning at 10:05 a.m. ET. Chastain and the Protect Your Melon No. 92 Team Chevy will be at the Schuyler County Courthouse Lawn in Watkins Glen on Thursday, August 18, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Visit them at the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles booth.
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No. 54 Cub Cadet Toyota GR Supra News and Notes
- ALREADY PLAYOFF BOUND: By winning the Las Vegas, Atlanta, Richmond, Road America and Michigan NASCAR Xfinity Series races, Ty Gibbs has qualified for the Xfinity playoffs which will begin at Texas Motor Speedway on Sept. 24.
- WATKINS GLEN: Gibbs started 15th, led 43 laps and won the Xfinity race in 2021 at Watkins Glen. He started on the pole and led 99 of 100 laps en route in victory in the ARCA Series in 2021. He finished third after starting first in the 2021 ARCA race.
- ONE OF THIRTY-SEVEN: Gibbs made his first career NASCAR Cup Series start last month at Pocono Raceway for 23XI Racing. Gibbs is the 37th driver younger than 20-years old to make a Cup Series start. Gibbs started at the rear of the field, but completed all 160 laps and finished an impressive 16th. He has competed in four Cup races with a best finish of 10th at Michigan International Speedway.
- NEW RECORD: Gibbs is the youngest driver ever to reach nine victories in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at age 19 years 10 months and two days old. The previous record was held by Joey Logano.
- 2021: Gibbs completed in only 18 Xfinity races in 2021, but won four races and finished 13th in the Xfinity Series final driver point standings. That earned him the Xfinity Rookie of the Year award.
- WHAT A DEBUT: In Gibbs’ Xfinity Series debut in February 2021 at the Daytona Road Course, he led 14 of the 56 laps en route to his first career Xfinity Series win. Gibbs became the youngest driver to win a Xfinity road course race at 18 years, 4 months, 16 days. The Charlotte, N.C., native also became the second-youngest winner in Xfinity Series history after Joey Logano who won in June 2008 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta when he was 18 years and 21 days old.
- IN GOOD COMPANY: Gibbs is the sixth driver to win in his Xfinity Series debut, joining Dale Earnhardt, Joe Ruttman, Ricky Rudd, Terry Labonte and Kurt Busch. Those five drivers had already driven in the NASCAR Cup Series before racing in the Xfinity Series.
- ARCA CHAMPIONS: Gibbs became the 2021 ARCA Menard Series Champions on the strength of 10 wins, plus one win each in ARCA West and ARCA East.
- ATOP THE PIT BOX: Veteran crew chief Gayle will oversee the No. 54 team’s efforts in the 2022 season. Gale, who is from Little Rock, Arkansas, has led his drivers to two NASCAR Cup Series victories and 35 Xfinity Series wins. The list of drivers Gayle has visited victory lane with includes Gibbs, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Sam Hornish Jr., Erik Jones, Elliott Sadler, Christopher Bell and John Hunter Nemechek.
- JGR AT WATKINS GLEN: Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) has 46 total starts at Watkins Glen in Xfinity competition with two wins, 17 top-five and 25 one top-10 finishes and the team has led 226 laps.
- RACE INFO: The NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Watkins Glen is scheduled for 3 pm EDT on Saturday, August 13 and will be broadcast on USA, SiriusXM Channel 90 and the MRN.
Ty Gibbs, Driver of the No. 54 Cub Cadet Toyota GR Supra
“It was great to win at Michigan and that helps us in playoffs picture too. Great to have Cub Cadet on board on our No. 54 Toyota GR Supra. It’d be nice to win back to back at Watkins Glen and I know Chris Gayle and the 54 boys will bring me a solid car.”
Chris Gayle, Crew Chief of the No. 54 Cub Cadet Toyota GR Supra
“We had a good week at Michigan. It was great to get a win and Ty did a great job throughout the race. It was good for the boys and we’d love to do it again at Watkins Glen. Great to have Cub Cadet on board and we’ll bring a strong No. 54 Toyota GR Supra.”
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U.S. expresses concern over Israeli raids on Palestinian civil society groups
The U.S. asked Israel for clarifications about the raids the Israeli military conducted at the offices of several Palestinian civil society organizations in the occupied West Bank, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.
Why it matters: Last October Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz designated six Palestinian civil society and human rights organizations as "terrorist organizations." The move was widely condemned internationally.
- The State Department over the last year has been reviewing the Israeli designation.
- Price said on Thursday that the U.S. hasn’t changed its approach and position regarding these organizations as a result of the information Israel has given in the last year.
Driving the news: During the early Thursday morning raids, the Israeli military confiscated computers and other property and closed the offices of the Palestinian organizations.
- The IDF said these groups are affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is designated by Israel and the U.S. as a terrorist organization. The organizations deny the allegations.
What they're saying: Price said the U.S. is concerned about the Israeli raids and has asked the Israeli government for more information about the basis for the decision.
- “Our Israeli partners have assured us that more information will be forthcoming regarding the basis for their actions. We of course have assured them that we will review that information on a timely basis and very carefully," Price said.
- He added the U.S. told Israel that any new information they provide regarding the basis for today’s actions would be reviewed “carefully, thoroughly and immediately."
- “We have conveyed the message that there must be a very high bar to take action against civil society organizations. Our Israeli partners in turn, have conveyed back to us that they have met that high bar," Price said.
Asher Moskowitz contributed to the story | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/18/israel-raid-palestinian-civil-society-groups | 2022-08-18T20:44:17Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/18/israel-raid-palestinian-civil-society-groups | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For cruises departing on or after September 6, 2022, Windstar Cruises will no longer require pre-cruise testing for its guests, unless required by a specific country. The cruise line will still require all guests to be fully vaccinated and show proof of vaccination status.
Windstar Cruise’s Updated Sail Protocols
Windstar Cruises, part of the Xanterra Travel Collection, has just revised its COVID-19 protocols, no longer requiring a pre-cruise test for its guests. Guests will still need to be fully vaccinated, with proof of vaccination.
The President of Windstar Cruises, Chris Prelog, stated, “Safety and wellness are our first concern, and these new procedures will simplify the process of sailing with us on a fully vaccinated ship.”
There are exemptions to the line’s new protocols and procedures. Guests will still be subject to follow the local rules and regulations of visited countries. Currently, Canada, Greece, Australia, and New Zealand are requiring guests to pre-test prior to boarding a ship in their waters.
All Windstar crew are fully vaccinated, and most crew members have received their booster shots onboard the fleet of six all-suite yachts that carry between 148-342 guests.
Cruise Industry is Easing Requirements
Last month the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, ended its COVID-19 Program for all Cruise Ships. On July 18, the order was dropped, allowing cruise lines and ships to develop their own protocols.
Since the ceasing of this program, several cruise lines have responded by easing their COVID-19 protocols and many removing pre-cruise testing for their guests.
Several Carnival Corporation cruise brands, such as Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, and Holland America Line, have announced as ease to their protocols, making sailing more convenient for its guests.
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Most recently, Carnival’s ultra-luxury cruise brand, Seabourn, dropped its vaccine requirement for most sailings and eliminated testing on sailings under 16-nights. The line’s new protocols will be effective starting September 6.
Also, effective September 6, two more Carnival Corporation & plc owned lines, Cunard Line and P&O Cruises, will still require all guests ages 16 and older to be fully vaccinated, however testing for fully vaccinated passengers will no longer be required. | https://www.cruisehive.com/another-cruise-line-removes-pre-cruise-testing-requirement/79325 | 2022-08-18T20:47:19Z | cruisehive.com | control | https://www.cruisehive.com/another-cruise-line-removes-pre-cruise-testing-requirement/79325 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Earlier this year, the Canadian Government implemented rules and regulations to ensure cruising could resume in Canada but do so safely. In March, the Canadians announced the vaccination mandates, and in April, environmental measures were implemented to combat marine pollution in the highly fragile Canadian waters.
The Canadian government released the first results of those measures this week, showing how the vast majority of cruise ships indeed managed to comply with the new regulations.
Canada Commits to Safe and Environmentally Responsible Cruising
Canada surprised many when it announced it would be closing off its marine borders to cruise ships during the pandemic. When the country opened up again, it implemented a set of rules geared towards ensuring the country could allow cruising, but only under the government’s rules, regulations, and protocols.
A public health framework was implemented on March 7, 2022, to safely restart cruise ship activity in Canadian waters, requiring passengers and crew to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
On April 4, new environmental measures were introduced to mitigate marine pollution with the return of cruise ships.
The Honourable Omar Alghabra, Minister of Transport: “Cruise ships are an important part of our economy and tourism sector, and we must all work together to reduce their impact on the environment, and keep our waters safe and clean for everyone. These new environmental measures are a first step towards making shipping cleaner and protecting our waters from coast to coast.”
Ships are Complying
Under the new environmental measures, ships are prohibited from discharging greywater and sewage, treated or untreated, within three nautical miles (nm) from shore. Vessels are also prohibited from treating greywater together with sewage before it is discharged between 3 and 12 nm from shore to the greatest extent possible.
Ships were also forced to implement sewage treatment between 3 and 12 nm from shore using an approved treatment device. The environmental measures exceed international standards and place Canada amongst the countries with the most stringent requirements for discharging grey water and sewage worldwide.
Joyce Murray, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard: “Protecting the oceans and their ecosystems is a top priority. These important measures, which exceed international standards, demonstrate how the Government of Canada is taking strong action to protect the oceans for the future. This charts a more sustainable course for the tourism industry.”
Since the rules were implemented, 47 cruise ships visited Canada, and 46 complied fully with all the rules and reporting. Only one vessel did not comply fully due to geographic and technical limitations.
It was impossible to install the necessary equipment and the vessel’s safety as greywater had to be discharged to ensure the vessel’s stability.
Canada will continue with the environmental measures during 2023, including strict inspections where inspectors board ships to ensure they follow the procedures laid out and additional measures, including measures that counter scrubber discharges that releases acidic wastewater.
The cruise industry accounts for some $4 billion annually in income to the Canadian economy and directly and indirectly generates approximately 30,000 jobs. The industry is an integral part of Canada’s domestic tourism sector, yet will need to operate as cleanly as possible to be able to continue to operate. | https://www.cruisehive.com/canada-releases-outcome-of-environmental-measures-for-cruise-ships/79322 | 2022-08-18T20:47:25Z | cruisehive.com | control | https://www.cruisehive.com/canada-releases-outcome-of-environmental-measures-for-cruise-ships/79322 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Anticipation is building for Royal Caribbean International’s new class of ships, the mysterious and sure-to-be-spectacular Icon class.
To continue building on the excitement, the cruise line has debuted the first episode in its new “Making an Icon” video series, giving prospective guests and cruise fans new insights into the new ship.
First Episode Debuts
Following a teaser trailer released earlier this month, Royal Caribbean International has now released the first full episode of the “Making an Icon” video series. At just under eight minutes long, the short video is still packed with behind-the-scenes views and tantalizing insights about the upcoming vessel.
The first episode, titled “Envisioning an Iconic Vacation” explores the very early days of the new ship’s conception, the brainstorm and ideation that is now being brought to life at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Turku, Finland.
Brief quotes and descriptive phrases from naval architects and interior designers to industrial engineers, food and beverage directors, artists, executives, and more add to the well-deserved hype surrounding the new ship.
“Icon really is truly the best of everything that Royal Caribbean has built up over the past 50 years,” said Michael Bayley, President and CEO of Royal Caribbean International.
“Jaw-dropping” “amazing” “mind-blowing awesomeness” “unrivaled entertainment” “transformational vacation experience” and “magical” are just a few of the superlatives applied to the ship from the people on the design team best positioned to know what the vessel will bring to cruise vacations.
“Simply put, Icon will be the best family vacation in the world,” said Jay Schneider, Royal Caribbean International’s Chief Product Innovation Officer.
Video clips show different steps in the ship’s initial construction, including the steel cutting ceremony on June 16, 2021 as well as previous design brainstorming sessions and team meetings as the ship was being conceptualized and glimpses throughout the construction process, such as bringing the mysterious sphere aboard the ship.
The video emphasizes that Icon of the Seas‘ design is guest-oriented, taking into account decades of feedback, customer preferences, and guest surveys to create the vacation every cruise traveler dreams about.
At the same time, however, the ship has been called a “white paper ship” in reference to starting with a blank sheet of paper to truly create a new, fresh experience.
“We really looked at how can we bring the best of all experiences and vacation types into one place,” said Yael Stewart, Director, Product Innovation for the cruise line. “You have to dream as big as you can but at the same time, in order to really deliver to a promise like that, you must have a very defined approach.”
Five Pillars of Icon of the Seas
During the design phase of the ship’s creation, different teams came together and determined five core pillars that define the best of Royal Caribbean’s cruise vacations.
“Unrivaled water experiences” is the first, combining not only the watery fun onboard a ship with pools, whirlpools, water slides, and splash pads, but also the ocean water all around the vessel that makes a cruise vacation unique.
“Adrenaline pumping thrills” is the second core pillar, something found on every Royal Caribbean ship with the amazing activity options onboard. From classic climbing walls to skydiving simulators, FlowRider surfing, North Star observation pods, zip lines, and more, the cruise line is well known for pushing the thrill boundaries on its ships.
The third pillar is “the ultimate family vacation” and entails bringing families and generations together for memorable moments and building bonds.
“Sensational entertainment” and “celebration of food and beverage” are the remaining core pillars, both of which emphasize diversity and the opportunity to explore new things in an enjoyable and fun-filled atmosphere.
Up Next
This first episode ends with a teaser that the next episode will feature insider looks at design and construction, with tight timelines to stay on track for the planned fall 2023 debut of Icon of the Seas. No release date has been announced for the next video installment, but stay tuned to Cruise Hive to be among the first to see it! | https://www.cruisehive.com/royal-caribbean-debuts-first-making-an-icon-episode/79314 | 2022-08-18T20:47:31Z | cruisehive.com | control | https://www.cruisehive.com/royal-caribbean-debuts-first-making-an-icon-episode/79314 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CNN announced on Thursday that host Brian Stelter will be leaving the company, and said his show "Reliable Sources" will end.
The show, which analyzed how the media covers various stories over the years, will air its last episode on Sunday.
Amy Entelis, a vice president of content development at the cable network, said, “Stelter came to CNN from the New York Times as the nation’s top media reporter. He departs CNN an impeccable broadcaster.”
She said, “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.”
The show has aired on CNN for 30 years in various forms. Stelter came to the role from the New York Times in 2013 after working for the paper as a media reporter, CNN said.
Stelter hosted shows on how journalists and media outlets covered stories and made decisions during his time with CNN, with a run lasting nearly a decade with the network. He also served as a media writer for CNN.com during that time.
A team with CNN Digital will continue to produce and write the Reliable Sources newsletter. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/cnn-says-network-ending-reliable-sources-brian-stelter-leaving-the-company | 2022-08-18T20:52:45Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/cnn-says-network-ending-reliable-sources-brian-stelter-leaving-the-company | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Army's new 'tactical bra' is first-ever designed in-house by US military
The U.S. Army recently announced prototypes designed to "support" America's female soldiers where they need it: their bust lines.
The design team came up with four different prototypes for the bra that it’s calling the "Army Tactical Brassiere," or ATB.
The garments include three pullover styles, and one zip-up style with adjustable Velcro straps and a zip front.
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"Currently, there are no bras optimized for use by female soldiers in the field," according to the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center in a press release that was shared with Fox News Digital.
"Flame resistant (FR) bras are issued to aviator and combat vehicle crews, but sizes are limited and they are not suitable for high-impact dismounted activities," the DEVCOM Soldier Center also noted.
"Furthermore, commercial-off-the-shelf sports bras may not provide the durability, protection or support needed in combat operations."
This is why the DEVCOM Soldier Center is now developing "modernized prototype sports bras" — items that "are customized to the form, fit and function needed by female soldiers in field training and combat environments," the Soldier Center also noted in the press release.
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Compression style sports bras work by compressing breasts to the chest, reducing bounce during movement. These are widely considered to be a supportive option for high-impact activities, provided they are fabricated with a high Lycra/Spandex content.
The Army said its apparel prototypes will be presented to the Army Uniform Board this fall — and that the bra may then become an "official program of record," assuming the approval.
Another view of some of the U.S. Army prototype undergarments that are being evaluated for America's female soldiers. (US Army Photo by David Kamm)
Lessons in intimate apparel
These developments have been in the works for some time.
Early last year, this journalist and nationally known bra expert was approached to teach a bra-fitting class to the designers at the DEVCOM Soldier Center's uniform facility in Natick, Mass.
As the author of "The Bra Book," a national bestseller, I tackled the topic of intimate apparel from a journalistic standpoint. I wanted to get to the bottom of what really works for women, and what doesn’t, for the Army's new mission.
The Army surveyed female soldiers through its "touch point" program, I learned, and concluded they needed to address the lack of breast support from basic training and beyond — especially for those members who were larger busted.
"We make sure our soldiers get good socks and boots, but the bras are an issue," one of those involved told me at the time.
In its current "uniform bag," the Army provides a cotton sports bra that provides little to no compression and minimal support via an elastic band.
Soldiers are also given a monetary allowance to purchase name-brand sports bras offered at its base stores (which they can only wear after they complete basic training).
After complaints about the lack of provided options, it was decided that the Army would move forward with plans to either procure or produce a better bra.
One 24-year-old Army veteran from Mentor, Ohio, personally experienced the discomfort. She said boot camp was even harder with the current military-issued bra.
"You are given one type of bra and you’re only allowed to wear that one. It was very uncomfortable. A lot of times the area where the clips were at on my back were sore and irritated at the end of the day with continuous movement," she told Fox News Digital.
She said other fellow recruits shared the same sentiments.
In addition to being able to provide a garment that’s suitable for a wide range of shapes and sizes, the Army is tasked with some unique challenges with the new bra.
The challenges include ensuring that it’s flame-retardant, wicking enough for 10-grueling weeks of training (and will they need more than one to rotate for daily use?) and padding on shoulder straps for comfort under heavy gear, plus an inner pocket for a dog tag.
Other challenges include the possibility that, like millions of other women, soldiers enlist without actually knowing their bra size.
That means they could be unsure of what size to choose and possibly end up with one that’s ill-fitting anyway.
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Regarding the new bra prototypes: Once a design is approved, it will then be tested in the field, to see if it requires any additional fine-tuning.
These apparently will be much like consumer cult-fave SHEFIT’s patented bras, which are sold in base stores.
"Bouncing breasts and side-to-side sway can hinder performance and reaction time, and unrestrained torso movement can reduce [a female soldier's] center of gravity, leading to serious injury. Support, adjustability, and proper fit are critical bra features for all military women," Michelle Zeller, chief marketing officer for SHEFIT, told Fox News Digital.
Jené Luciani Sena is a contributing lifestyle reporter for Fox News Digital. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/army-tactical-bra-female-soldiers | 2022-08-18T20:53:03Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/army-tactical-bra-female-soldiers | 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.katc.com/news/national/judge-partially-denies-doj-request-for-trump-search-documents-to-remain-sealed | 2022-08-18T20:53:09Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/judge-partially-denies-doj-request-for-trump-search-documents-to-remain-sealed | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Elmhurst man charged with child pornography
ELMHURST, Ill. - An Elmhurst man has been charged after authorities found several child pornography files in his residence.
Rylan Raspatello, 24, faces seven counts of possession of child pornography.
On Wednesday, the DuPage County Sheriff's Office Digital Forensic Investigation Unit and Elmhurst Police Department executed a warrant at Raspatello's residence, following an internet investigation into possession of child pornography files.
A forensic investigation revealed the presence of pornography files on Raspatello's digital electronics, authorities said.
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"Our digital forensics team is in a league of their own," Sheriff James Mendrick said. "If you are dealing in the seedy and disgusting world of child pornography, they will catch you."
Raspatello is in custody on $75,000 bail.
His next court date is scheduled for Sept. 12. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/elmhurst-man-charged-with-child-pornography | 2022-08-18T20:53:09Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/elmhurst-man-charged-with-child-pornography | 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.katc.com/news/national/missing-82-year-old-woman-found-thanks-to-toddler-chasing-bubbles | 2022-08-18T20:53:15Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/missing-82-year-old-woman-found-thanks-to-toddler-chasing-bubbles | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — A Rhode Island man vacationing in Wisconsin has died after he fell more than 70 feet while attempting to walk across a rising drawbridge in Milwaukee.
According to a Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office report, 77-year-old Richard Dujardin of Providence, Rhode Island, was walking across the Kilbourn Avenue Bridge with his wife Monday afternoon when it began to rise, NBC affiliate TMJ4 reported.
The report said his wife, Rose-Marie Dujardin, made it across the bridge. However, Richard Dujardin, who was looking at an iPad while walking, was still in the middle when it began rising, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
"The lights, bells, and arms came down at each end of the bridge," the report said according to the news outlets. "However, Richard was hard of hearing, and it is thought that he didn't notice them."
The report states that the 77-year-old tried to catch up to his wife, but couldn't, so he grabbed onto the side railing but lost his grip and fell 71 feet to the pavement below, the news outlets reported.
According to the report, the news outlets reported that Richard Dujardin suffered head trauma and died from his injuries at the scene.
The bridge is controlled by the city's Department of Public Works, the Associated Press reported.
In a statement to the news outlets, Interim Commissioner of Public Works Jerrel Kruschke said the operator was "fully trained," and is in his fourth year as a bridge operator and had opened bridges hundreds of times.
Kruschke added that the bridge operator was on leave and that he "was connected with the City’s Employee Assistance Program for counseling," the newspaper reported.
Milwaukee Police said in a statement that there is no suspicion of a criminal act, but the investigation was ongoing, the Associated Press reported.
Rose-Marie Dujardin told TMJ4 that her husband of 54 years was a reporter at the Providence Journal. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/rhode-island-man-vacationing-in-milwaukee-dies-in-fall-from-drawbridge | 2022-08-18T20:53:27Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/rhode-island-man-vacationing-in-milwaukee-dies-in-fall-from-drawbridge | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Man inside South Side Chicago home wounded by bullets fired from outside: police
CHICAGO - A 28-year-old man inside a home on Chicago's South Side was wounded by gunfire Thursday afternoon after shots were fired outside the residence.
Around 12:35 p.m., police say the victim was inside the Washington Heights home in the 10200 block of South Emerald Avenue when shots were fired from outside.
The victim was struck in his right arm and abdomen, police said. He was taken to Christ Hospital in critical condition.
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MOSCOW (AP) — People in Moscow who were disappointed when Starbucks closed its coffee shops after Russia sent troops into Ukraine may now feel a caffeine jolt of hope: A nearly identical operation is opening in the capital.
The name's almost the same: Stars Coffee. The logo could be the separated-at-birth twin of the Starbucks mermaid, with flowing hair, a small enigmatic smile and a star atop her head — though instead of a Starbucks crown she wears a Russian headdress called a kokoshnik.
The menu, judging by the company app introduced a day before the store's formal opening Friday, would look familiar to any Starbucks customer.
Starbucks said Thursday it had no comment on the new stores.
Seattle-based Starbucks was one of the most visible of the wave of foreign companies that pulled out of Russia or suspended their operations in response to Russia's military operation in Ukraine. Others include McDonald's, IKEA and fast-fashion giant H&M.
The departure of these companies was a psychological blow to Russians who had become used to the comforts of Western-style consumer culture. But Russian entrepreneurs saw opportunity in suddenly unoccupied stores.
Former McDonald's outlets are reopening and attracting sizable crowds under the name Vkusno — i Tochka. Though the name doesn't roll off the tongue easily and is a little awkward to translate (roughly: It's Tasty — Period), the menu is a testament to imitation being the sincerest form of flattery.
Yunus Yusupov, a popular rap artist who uses the stage name Timati, and restaurateur Anton Pinsky partnered to buy the Starbucks assets, then took the imitation strategy a step further by giving the operation an English-language name.
At a news conference Thursday, they vowed to reopen all the former Starbucks under their new identity and even expand the business. The U.S. company had built its Russian operation to about 130 stores since entering the country in 2007. The stores were owned and operated by a franchisee, Alshaya Group of Kuwait.
While the close resemblance of the new operations to their predecessors could be seen as riding someone else's inspiration and effort, the Starbucks and McDonald's successors also fit a national-pride concept. Since Russia was walloped by sanctions and foreign pullouts, officials frequently assert that Russia will overcome by relying on its own resources and energies.
"Now the economic situation is difficult, but this is a time of opportunity," Oleg Eskindarov, president of the holding company that partnered in the Starbucks deal, told the state news agency Tass. "For the past four months, we have been very actively looking at exiting companies following the example of Starbucks. There are several more similar examples, but we cannot talk about them yet." | https://www.katc.com/news/national/stars-coffee-anyone-starbucks-successor-opening-in-russia | 2022-08-18T20:53:39Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/stars-coffee-anyone-starbucks-successor-opening-in-russia | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The trial for a 30-year-old Ohio man whose family was accused of murdering eight members of the same family six years ago is set to begin.
According to the New York Times, George Wagner IV's trial is set to start this month or early next month.
The Associated Press reported Wagner IV, his parents, and his brother Edward Jake Wagner was charged for fatally shooting eight members of the Rhoden family in 2016.
Prosecutors said the alleged motive for the fatal shooting was over the custody of a child Jake Wagner had with one of the victims, the New York Times and the Washington Times reported.
The Associated Press reported that Jake Wagner pleaded guilty last year after admitting to killing five of the victims.
The news outlet reported that Angela Wagner also pleaded guilty to helping plan the murders.
The newspaper reported that George Wagner III is set to stand trial at a later date.
The Associated Press reported that a judge ruled in June that Jake Warner could testify at his brother's upcoming death penalty trial, the Associated Press reported.
The news outlet reported that Jake Wagner had told prosecutors that his brother didn't kill anyone. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/trial-for-30-year-old-man-accused-in-8-ohio-deaths-set-to-begin | 2022-08-18T20:53:58Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/trial-for-30-year-old-man-accused-in-8-ohio-deaths-set-to-begin | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Authorities in Canada are investigating after wolves at the Greater Vancouver Zoo were found outside their enclosure earlier this week.
In a news release on Tuesday, zoo officials called the incident "suspicious" and suspected it to "be due to malicious intent."
The zoo said they were working with Langley Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the B.C Conservation Officer Service to recapture the animals.
According to zoo officials, the police were investigating the incident that appeared "to be unlawful entry and vandalism."
Zoo officials said most of the wolves were recovered, but the staff was still searching for a "small number" of them, according to the news release.
On Tuesday, the B.C. Conservation Officer Service later tweeted that zoo officials said one of the wolves remained "at large."
The Greater Vancouver Zoo requested #BCCOS support to recapture wolves that had escaped their enclosure earlier today.
According to the @vancouverzoo there is 1 wolf still at large. The zoo is working to recapture the animal.
— BC CO Service (@_BCCOS) August 16, 2022
Zoo officials did not say how many wolves got out of their enclosure, but according to their website, they have nine adult grey wolves and six cubs.
Zoo officials added that the public was not in danger.
On Wednesday, the zoo posted a story on its Facebook page informing the public the park was closed, CTV News reported.
The Vancouver Sun reported the zoo was also closed on Tuesday. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/vancouver-zoo-closed-after-wolves-escape-in-suspicious-incident | 2022-08-18T20:54:10Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/vancouver-zoo-closed-after-wolves-escape-in-suspicious-incident | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YOUNGSVILLE, L.a. — If you're passing through the City of Youngsville during your daily commute, you might notice a smoother ride as of Wednesday.
Roundabout construction at the intersection of Savoy Rd and Chemin Metairie Parkway is now complete. The City of Youngsville reports this nearly $3 million project took about two years from start to finish, starting back in 2020. Mayor Ken Ritter said the project was originally set to finish this past spring, but inclement weather and supply chain issues caused some delays, which is an issue he mentioned is faced during similar projects.
Ritter noted that at least 50,000 vehicles drive through the area every day — sometimes more such as when school is in session or when there's an event at the nearby Youngsville Sports Complex. As the fastest-growing city in the Pelican State according to 2020 Census records, the goal of the roundabout's construction is to make travel along the major roadway safer and more efficient for residents and passersby.
While passing through the area, the city and local law enforcement officials want to remind drivers to do so with caution while yielding to right-of-way drivers as people get acclimated to the new set-up.
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Following a week long investigation, the Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigations division gathered adequate information to obtain warrants.
Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office PIO, Eddie Langlinais, said two arrests were made on August 16, 2022 as a result of an investigation into thefts of catalytic converters.
Benjamin Richard, 35, and Blake Blanchard, 23, of Kaplan were arrested and charged with 3 counts of felony theft and 2 counts of felony criminal damage to property.
Both men were booked into the Vermilion Parish Correctional Center and bonds were set at $17,500 each.
The investigation is ongoing and updates may follow as more information becomes available.
Sheriff Couvillon would like to commend the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office for their hard work in gathering enough information to make these arrests. | https://www.katc.com/news/vermilion-parish/two-arrests-made-for-catalytic-converter-thefts-in-vermilion-parish | 2022-08-18T20:54:22Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/vermilion-parish/two-arrests-made-for-catalytic-converter-thefts-in-vermilion-parish | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Carl’s Jr. is inviting people into its Nashville test kitchen, at least virtually.
Owen Klein, vice president of global culinary innovation of CKE Restaurants, will be interacting with customers on Twitch, a live-streaming platform owned by Amazon that caters to gamers, according to a news release from the company.
Klein is teaming up with influencer Storymodebae on a “Culinary Showdown livestream,” which will take place 2-4 p.m. PDT on Monday, Aug. 22.
The goal is to give fans “the opportunity to contribute to a new meal concept” that will be available at select Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s restaurants, the news release said.
CKE Restaurants is the parent company of both restaurant chains, which have very similar menus. Carl’s Jr. was founded by Carl Karcher in 1941, and his company was based in Anaheim for decades until it moved its headquarters to Tennessee in 2017.
The livestream will be followed up by weekly steams with various Twitch personalities, during which fans can vote on the menu items in progress.
The winning menu item will be announced by Storymodebae during the week of Oct. 24 and then will be served in two markets. The news release did not say where they would be.
The Twitch partnership is the lastest example of a fast food chain bypassing traditional forms of advertising and taking a campaign directly to social media users.
Earlier this summer El Pollo Loco launched a series of TikTok videos featuring a character called Abuela talking about fads as well as fast food chicken.
When Carl’s Jr. launched its line of chicken sandwiches in 2021, it promoted it on OnlyFans, a subscription service known for its adult content.
To tune into the livestream, go to twitch.tv/storymodebae
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MILWAUKEE – It has been the addendum tagged on to so many conversations and analyses of the Dodgers this season.
They’ll get Dustin May back at some point.
That point arrives Saturday when May is scheduled to make his first big-league start since undergoing Tommy John surgery on his elbow 15 months ago. May’s performance in five rehab starts for Triple-A Oklahoma City only increased the anticipation – he hit 100 mph repeatedly with his fastball and struck out 33 in 19 innings.
“I talked to Dustin today and he’s not a savior,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said after May joined the team in Milwaukee on Monday. “I just want him to come out and pitch well. He’s just got to do his job.”
The 24-year-old May said he was able to keep his own anticipation in check – for the most part.
“I kind of kept it out of my mind – the finish line,” May said. “And then when games kind of started, I saw the light at the end of the tunnel and got more excited about it.
“Once I finished (Sunday’s rehab start), I was like, ‘Okay, rehab is out of the way and it’s time to get to the gritty nitty now.’”
May said it was “a smooth recovery process” and pitching has felt “normal” with all the analytics showing his pitch mix back to its pre-surgery form. Any lingering doubts or hesitation he might have had are out of his mind.
“Just getting back into games and getting back in the swing of things, I wasn’t going to hold back,” he said. “I just said if I’m going to get hurt, it’s going to happen, and there’s nothing I can do about it. So I’m going to prepare myself the best way I can and go out there and compete.”
As for the outsized expectations that might come with his return, May said he is keeping that in perspective.
“I couldn’t have gotten any more prepared in the minor leagues than I did, so I feel like I’m in the best spot possible to come back and help the team,” he said.
“Do the best I can and help as much as I can. That’s the biggest thing.”
BELLINGER BACK
Cody Bellinger was back in the starting lineup Thursday after getting two days off. The bench time followed a 2-for-19 stretch by Bellinger that included a ground out to first base in his last at-bat Monday which he barely ran out.
But Roberts said the long closed-door meeting with Bellinger following the game Monday and the two-day benching were not in direct response to the lack of effort on the ground ball.
“I just saw the frustration starting to boil over and I just felt that a couple of days could be beneficial,” he said.
“These two days wasn’t that. But what that did show me is that he reached a point of frustration. So that’s telling to me. Because it’s not intentional. It’s not disrespectful. It’s just he’s frustrated because he wants to do so well. So that tells me as a manager that he needs a blow.”
GRATEROL RETURN
Reliever Brusdar Graterol pitched another hitless inning for Triple-A Oklahoma City Wednesday night and was expected to complete his rehab assignment by pitching again Thursday. Graterol has been out since July 10 with a shoulder injury but could be activated from the Injured List this weekend.
“He’s going to be a big boost,” Roberts said. “Obviously … as we laid out this season and the bullpen he’s a big part of it. To get him back healthy, using him any way we feel – to get lefties out, get righties out, to do up-and-down, to pitch leverage – it’s going to be a big addition.”
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With stress created by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as other hot-button issues such as the political divide in the country, mental health awareness is more important than ever, and the city of San Gabriel wants to help.
In conjunction with its Human Equity, Access and Relations Commission (HEAR), it is playing host to a free mental wellness expo on Sunday, Sept. 18.
It will take place from 12-4 p.m. at Grapevine Arbor located at 324 S. Mission Drive in San Gabriel’s Mission District.
Those attending will be able to access mental health resources and information in a relaxed atmosphere. There will be workshops available in English, Mandarin and Spanish as well as resource booths and activities for children and adults, as well as giveaways.
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A five-mile backup greeted commuters Thursday morning on the westbound 210 Freeway during the second five-day semi-closure in the past month to allow Caltrans to perform major roadwork.
Vehicles were backed up about five miles to Grand Avenue in Glendora, adding about an hour to the morning commute from the Inland Empire, high desert and eastern Los Angeles County cities into the north San Gabriel Valley, downtown Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley.
As crews began repairs on the section of east lanes at the San Gabriel River Bridge, Caltrans diverted eastbound drivers into three lanes on the westbound freeway portion. That portion was also reconfigured to allow westbound drivers to squeeze into three lanes, overall reducing the freeway capacity by 50%.
The construction is along a 1.3-mile section of the busy freeway between the 605 Freeway interchange in Duarte and the Irwindale Avenue exit in Irwindale. Caltrans reported that the work completely closed the 605 connector to the eastbound 210, as well as the westbound 210 connector to the southbound 605, and the eastbound 210 Mount Olive Drive onramps.
Eric Menjivar, Caltrans spokesman, said on Thursday that all this is supposed to end by 5 a.m. Aug. 23, when the agency is scheduled to finish construction and reopen the lanes.
While this second semi-closure is the mirror image of a very similar one that lasted from July 20 to July 26, when construction crews repaired and rebuilt the westbound section of the bridge, this time the eastbound-lane portion is being repaired and a section replaced with new rebar and concrete, part of a $30 million project.
“Once we are done with this on Tuesday, commuters won’t have to deal with this anymore. No more long-term closures,” Menjivar said. But there could be some single lane closures at night as Caltrans replaces freeway medians and side barriers, he said.
While Caltrans posted 80 signs along the 210 and other connecting freeways for weeks ahead, sending out warnings to motorists about the latest work and lane reductions, it didn’t make some drivers happier.
In fact, some were caught off guard.
“It was crazy. There was traffic the whole (expletive) way,” said Jose Martinez, as he filled his tank with gas at a station on Huntington Drive in Duarte after exiting the freeway.
Martinez, who was driving from Victorville into the San Gabriel Valley, was unaware of the construction and extreme lane reductions. “It was horrible. I was stuck in it for an hour. It started jamming at Grand Avenue,” he said. Around 8:45 a.m., he left the gas station to rejoin the 210 Freeway westbound.
But a few miles beyond the construction, a work truck caught fire, blocking three westbound lanes at the Sierra Madre/San Gabriel Boulevard offramp, backing up westbound traffic to Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia.
“Yeah, that made things worse. It was adding insult to injury,” Menjivar said.
Hoping to avoid the construction squeeze, many motorists hopped off the freeway in Glendora and Azusa, using Arrow Highway and Foothill Boulevard. Both surface street immediately became gridlocked.
Menjivar urges motorists for the next five days to plan alternate routes, including the 10 and 60 freeways, which were heavier than normal but moving Thursday morning. Some could take the L Line (Gold) light-rail train.
In Duarte, similar to the quasi-closure in July, traffic began flooding in the morning onto Huntington Drive and Royal Oaks Drive, the latter a two-lane, east-west road lined by homes and a protected, dirt walking path used by walkers and bicycle riders.
Walking buddies Wanda White and Leslie Gallegos had that deja vu feeling on Thursday. As residents who live on Royal Oaks Drive, they remembered drivers using their street as an alternate to the 210 during the five days in July.
“Last time you couldn’t leave your house. We couldn’t pull out of our driveway,” said Gallegos.
This time, White could see the drivers glancing at their phones, presumably looking at directional apps to lead them around the gridlock.
They both worried about the afternoon commuters coming westbound from Los Angeles. That queue could back up to the 134 Freeway in west Pasadena and Eagle Rock, Menjivar said.
“This afternoon will be really bad for cars on the 210 going east,” Gallegos said. “That’s what we are dreading.”
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Another week, another reminder that heavy-handed government industrial policy is in fashion. Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence recently endorsed it as embodied in the newly passed “CHIPS+” legislation, an attempt to bolster America’s semiconductor industry. The endorsement, like so many, rests not on evidence or economics, but on blind faith in Congress and the administration.
Spence writes that “the infrastructure bill, the CHIPS Act, and the (Inflation Reduction Act) amount to a stunning increase in long-term investment in America’s growth potential, and in balancing out the various dimensions of its growth pattern, prominently for carbon dioxide emissions reduction and sustainability.”
In other words, these new expenditures — amounting to more than $1 trillion — spent by the same government that can’t deliver the mail efficiently or run trains for a profit are supposed to generate the advertised abundance of goodies. We’re to trust that these monies, disbursed by the same administration that botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan, will achieve only successful results.
Color me unconvinced.
Why should we believe that this latest round of subsidies will succeed when we know that the $54 billion given to the airlines to ensure their travel-readiness at the end of the pandemic failed? Why should we believe that this subsidy boondoggle will produce better results than hundreds of corporate welfare programs for well-to-do companies like Boeing and General Electric have produced so far?
Specifically, why should we believe that the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)’s massive swelling of “investment” in climate action will succeed as advertised and completely ignore the long record of failure of government subsidies of green energy? A recent Wall Street Journal editorial, citing a scholar who plugged the IRA’s carbon dioxide reduction estimates into the United Nations climate model, noted that “the bill will reduce the estimated global temperature rise at the end of this century by all of 0.028 degrees Fahrenheit in the optimistic case. In the pessimistic case, the temperature difference will be 0.0009 degrees Fahrenheit.”
That’s effectively nothing. But once you trace where the money is going, you quickly realize that CO2 reduction isn’t the whole story. This legislation is a cornucopia of subsidies and tax credits to green-energy companies, as well as to consumers who don’t need the handouts. Even if by some miracle the IRA produces the desired environmental effect, don’t count on it to reduce inflation. The faith in these policies is baffling.
What about the semiconductor industry? It certainly is the hero of the lavishly praised CHIPS Act. Spence believes that doling out $52 billion in the form of tax credits and subsidies — all of course with bureaucratic strings attached — “will unleash a surge in private investment in key areas” and insists that “this is not mere speculation.” But again, where’s the evidence?
In fact, the evidence suggests the opposite. As the Cato Institute’s Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon explain, “there has been even more chipmaking investment dedicated to the U.S. market, even as federal subsidies have languished. Construction is now underway at four major U.S. facilities and will continue with or without subsidies … This is because, as numerous experts have explained over the last year, there are real economic and geopolitical reasons to invest in additional U.S. semiconductor production — no federal subsidies needed.”
Other private-sector research-and-development investment increased too. George Mason University’s Don Boudreaux calculated that in 2019, “inflation-adjusted R&D spending (at least in the physical sciences, the life sciences, and engineering) was 38 percent higher than it was only three years earlier.” Before that, private sector research and development increased steadily for decades even though federal investment in R&D remained flat. Anyone who believes American companies need subsidies to invest and be productive is unfamiliar with the facts.
Still, the most shocking claim from a Nobel-laureate economist is that this corporate welfare is necessary for the United States to compete with China. Such zero-sum thinking about international trade is bunk. As Paul Krugman, another Nobel-laureate economist, noted in his 1996 book, “Pop Internationalism,” it is “simply not the case that the world’s leading nations are to any important degree in economic competition with each other, or that any of their major economic problems can be attributed to failures to compete on world markets.”
I don’t often agree with Paul Krugman, but in this case, Michael Spence should consider doing so.
Veronique de Rugy is the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — One of the men who was charged in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and later acquitted on all counts, spoke to FOX 17 Thursday about how he perceives the retrial against Adam Fox and Barry Croft is going.
Brandon Caserta and Daniel Harris were looking at serious prison time if convicted on charges related to an alleged conspiracy to kidnap Governor Whitmer. A jury found both men innocent on all counts leveled against them.
They were charged in conjunction with Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Ty Garbin, and Kaleb Franks at the federal level.
Garbin and Franks ended up taking plea deals with the government prior to the first trial, agreeing to testify on their behalf in court.
Garbin has been sentenced to 75 months in prison for his role in the alelged plot, while Franks has not yet been sentenced.
After their acquittals, both Caserta and Harris have remained low key, not making any appearances in the media.
"I think it's ridiculous that the government's still going to try to continue to push this narrative that these people are actually terrorists, and that actually wanted to do violence," Caserta told FOX 17 Thursday.
"I mean, this is a group of dudes who shoot guns and talk crap. You know what I mean? And that's really what it is."
When asked if the FBI's investigation tactics left him worried day-to-day, he said, "not really, you know, I live my life and do my thing without fear."
"I'm sure the FBI is still gonna continue to watch me, probably forever. But so what? That doesn't change my beliefs... There's a bunch of people out there that hate me, but they don't know me... they don't know anything about me. They just hear what the government told them, or the corporate media."
FOX 17 asked him how he feels about the retrial, with the government introducing less evidence this time around.
"I think that there was definitely a dynamic where they're trying to condense the amount of information that gets in, which muddies the water as far as being able to provide context to what's actually going on,.
"As time goes on, in this new trial, the body of information just gets smaller and smaller and smaller. So now the jury has a more difficult time of trying to discern what's really going on."
Caserta says he hopes the jury acquits Fox and Croft of their charges, as the jury did for him in the first trial.
"The FBI obviously concocted this entire thing, and without them present, this would never have happened. They use millions of taxpayer dollars to perpetuate this narrative."
After being locked up for 18 months, he is ready to move on with his life and his freedom.
"Everything was taken from me, my entire life was just taken from from beneath me, and I'm still trying to build that back up," he explained Thursday.
"But, it's happening, things are moving forward."
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AARP Michigan notes the age group comprised about 60% of voters in Michigan’s 2018 midterm.
A total of 850 voters aged 50 and older were surveyed in the study, according to Fabrizio Ward Partner Bob Ward.
In the race for governor, Tudor Dixon and incumbent Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are about neck and neck among 50+ voters, Ward explains. He says Whitmer has a slight five-point lead among the 18+ crowd.
We’re told there is a wide gender gap among 50+ voters with 27 points separating women in favor of Governor Whitmer from men.
“When you look at women over the age of 50, it's a huge gap,” says Impact Research Partner Matt Hogan. “You know, Whitmer is has a net favorable rating of 13 points, while Dixon is underwater with those voters by 17 points. So you've got a 30-point popularity gap among that very key constituency.”
Ward adds 60% of voters without college degrees favor Dixon; meanwhile, Whitmer has a 20-point lead among voters with degrees.
A quarter of voters do not have an opinion of Dixon but can make up ground among 20% of Republicans who do not currently view her favorably, according to Ward.
Ward goes on to address how motivated the 50+ demographic is to vote in November, saying 88% answered "10" on a 10-point motivation scale.
“If you look at the voters under 50, 72% … it's high,” says Ward. “But it's, you know, it's still a 16-point gap when compared to voters 50-plus.”
Among issues most important to voters 50 and over, abortion and inflation top the list.
Ward says 51% plan to vote in person while 41% will vote absentee.
The poll also looked at “persuadable” voters, who Ward describes as being either undecided or did not pledge their vote to Whitmer or Dixon. Ward says persuadables make up 18% of those polled in the 50+ crowd. He explains 61% of persuadable voters are independent compared to 34% among all 50+ voters, telling us it’s unusual because they usually lean more conservative or moderate.
“Given the lack of definition of Dixon, that's probably not surprising,” Ward says. “You can see that Whitmer has a much larger definite vote share.”
Overall, the election is somewhat in Governor Whitmer’s favor, according to Hogan, who says the governor is popular among independent voters and has nine points more than needed among that demographic.
View the survey results in detail here.
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A staffing shuffle inside the Chattanooga Police Department could have significant implications for past and present cases.
Ten officers were reassigned this week from enforcement roles after they were issued Brady letters, informing them they would no longer be considered qualified to testify in court.
The letters exist because of the Brady Doctrine, a federal protection of defendants' rights to exculpatory information, or evidence that could clear them of their charges.
Internal affairs investigations found those officers had misrepresented information, and wouldn't be considered reliable witnesses in a court of law.
The offense used to be punished differently from a violation of the department's untruthfulness policy before Police Chief Celeste Murphy took over.
"It's all bad," said Johann Drolshagen, CEO of Level Playing Field Solutions, a government accountability organization specializing in the Brady Doctrine. "Wherever you go on that spectrum, it's bad."
Now, according to Murphy, the offenses will be treated the same. The Brady Doctrine already treats untruthfulness and misrepresentation as the same offense.
"There's a huge movement nationwide for this," said Drolshagen. "It actually attacks the basic underpinning of qualified immunity."
Local 3 News has filed multiple public records requests, which would reveal which officers were issued Brady Letters and what cases could be affected by the investigations.
The shake-up could have an affect on countless cases. Any defendants, either convicted or currently going through the legal system, tied to cases involving the officers will now have to be informed of the officers' offenses.
"At the basic level, if everything else is done right, that just gives these opportunities to these defendants to get a new trial," said Drolshagen.
Incoming Hamilton County District Attorney Coty Wamp told Local 3 News she would review the files when she takes office in September.
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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.
“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,” Starr Card, Walk Chair said.
Card has two very personal reasons for her passion about this event.
“In the last two years I have had my mother-in-law and a great friend," she said. "Thankfully now they are in remission.”
According to the American Cancer Society one in eight 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.
“Thanks to this organization they have the tools they need and the resources to get help," Card said.
This walk is taking steps to raise awareness and funds in the fight against breast cancer.
“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," added Card.
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Apart from his full-time job, Dane Strickland cares for nearly 100 honeybee colonies daily. He first started beekeeping 15 years ago after researching the health benefits honey could provide to his children.
“I thought to myself, ‘I want to be a beekeeper — that doesn’t look too complicated,’” Strickland said. “That right there is a joke in itself, because there's way more to keeping bees than just having a box in the backyard.”
Strickland now understands how challenging beekeeping can be, especially as honeybee colonies decline nationwide.
He’s president of Northeast Oklahoma’s Beekeeper Association and one of the few beekeepers in the the state to participate in the Bee Informed Partnership’s Loss and Management Survey annually.
This year, the nonprofit organization’s preliminary results show commercial beekeepers in the U.S. lost about 39% of their honeybee colonies from April 2021 to April of this year. That’s an improvement from last year’s record-breaking loss of more than 50% of all hives. But despite colony losses being down slightly, the partnership’s science coordinator and researcher Dr. Nathalie Steinhauer said it’s still a very high rate.
“We don’t want to minimize the stress that puts on beekeepers and bees, but this is also pretty much on par with what we’ve observed in the last 10 years,” Steinhauer said. “That doesn’t mean it’s okay or good, it just means it wasn’t an unexpected high this year.”
The phrase “bee colony loss” doesn’t mean nearly 40% of honeybees vanish every year. Instead, Steinhauer said loss rates are used as the mortality rate measure for bees. Meanwhile, the natality rate, or birth rate, is equivalent to beekeepers replacing their losses by splitting their colonies to make new ones.
“In order to see if a population is growing or declining, [researchers] look at the mortality rate and the natality rates,” Steinhauer said. “For bees, the mortality rate is what [the partnership] calls the loss rate because we count colonies, not the individual bees.”
Loss of pollinators
Commercial honeybee colonies pollinate at least $15 billion worth of food crops each year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Steinhauer said because honeybees, a nonnative pollinator, have been managed for so long, some consider them livestock. Honeybees are often shipped across the country to pollinate essential agricultural crops such as almonds, apples and blueberries. Minimizing beekeepers' losses and ensuring the health of honeybee colonies is critical to food production.
“A lot of monocultures don’t support native pollinators where they’re at,” Steinhauer said. “So unless we revert back to lower-size farming and increase the diversity of native plants, we’re going to need to rely on the professional pollinators that are honeybees.”
Major factors that cause beekeepers to lose their hives include pesticides, parasites and “poor forage,” said Randall Cass, bee specialist at Iowa State University’s Extension Office. Poor forage means not enough diverse flowers bloom throughout the year, which makes it difficult for bees to find food and habitat. That’s especially true in prairie land that’s been plowed up for agricultural use, like in Iowa, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
“Here in Iowa, that's a major issue,” Cass said. “We've definitely got poor forage availability because so much of our land is put into agricultural production — around 85% of the state’s land is in agriculture.”
Encountering pesticides while collecting pollen and nectar from crops also significantly hurts bees. If the pesticide doesn’t kill the exposed bee, Cass said the bee could bring the pesticide back to the hive and hurt the bees’ health by reducing their ability to navigate and causing them to forage less.
Parasites are one of the biggest challenges beekeepers struggle with. The varroa mite in particular is a leading cause of bee mortality, especially for beginning beekeepers, Steinhauer said. These tiny red-brown parasites weaken honeybees by feeding and living off of them. They also affect colony health by spreading viruses across bees.
“Combine these three things together and it creates a perfect storm of a terrible environment for honeybee health,” Cass said.
Potential solutions to ‘save the bees’
Research conducted at Iowa State University shows a small strip of prairie land could help bee colonies from starving on farm fields. Researchers tracked how well bees would thrive in prairie land versus agricultural land, such as soybean fields.
To their surprise, bees gained more weight living near soybean fields but maintained weight better living near prairie sites. Cass said one of the researchers referred to it as the “feast-and-famine effect” of the Iowa landscape.
“The soybean provides a flower in July, that's a feast for the bees, and it's followed by a famine [in August] where there aren't any floral resources for them,” he said.
Cass is currently researching how beekeepers could take advantage of the resources each landscape provides and keep more bees alive through the winter. Introducing prairie strips onto farmland might be one solution, he said.
“What's great about prairie strips is that I see it as a really good compromise,” Cass said. “Prairie strips not only offer benefits to our bees, they also offer great benefits to farmers that include drastically reducing the runoff of fertilizers and reducing erosion quite a bit.”
Non-beekeepers can help save the bees by planting flowers native to their area that especially benefit native bees. Supporting native bee species to Midwestern states, such as the endangered Rusty Patched Bumblebee, plays just as an important pollinator role in crop production.
For beekeepers, Steinhauer said being active is the best thing one can do to improve the odds of their colonies surviving. Her advice especially applies to beginner beekeepers, she said.
Backyard beekeepers, or beekeepers managing less than 50 colonies, are on track to have a record-high colony loss rate of 58.8%, according to the partnership’s survey.
“Try being proactive, rather than reactive,” Steinhauer said. “Monitoring colonies for pests and diseases is something that needs to happen all season long, not just in the fall.”
As for Strickland, he’s found that understanding the history and biology of the bee, and persistence are the keys to being a successful beekeeper.
“Focus on the things you can control,” Strickland said. “You’ve got to be persistent. And if you understand the biology of the bee and its adversaries, then you can take the actions to increase the survival potential of your colonies.”
Xcaret Nuñez covers agriculture, food systems and rural issues for KOSU and Harvest Public Media and is a Report For America corps member. Follow Xcaret on Twitter @Xcaret_News.
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A US magistrate judge started the process of potentially releasing some information from the affidavit that the Justice Department used to obtain a search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Florida residence.
Judge Bruce Reinhart said during a hearing at the West Palm Beach courthouse that he was planning to unseal portions of the affidavit, which is sought by various media outlets and other organizations.
His announcement came after the Justice Department, while arguing against the disclosure of the documents, revealed new, if not extremely vague, details about the investigation into the handling of classified documents from the Trump White House.
Here are takeaways from the hearing:
Judge lays out process for potentially releasing parts of affidavit
Reinhart set in motion on Thursday the possible public release of a heavily redacted version of the affidavit for the search at Mar-a-Lago. The judge plans to hear more from the Justice Department by next Thursday about how extensively investigators want to keep confidential the document that describes their investigative steps and methods leading to the need for the search.
Reinhart said he wasn't convinced yet that the entire affidavit should remain undisclosed to the public.
"I'm not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed" based on the record he has now, Reinhart said, adding that there are "portions" which could be unsealed.
Prosecutors will have the opportunity to propose redactions and explain why each piece of information needs to be kept from the public eye, Reinhart said. Those proposals will be due noon ET on August 25.
Reinhart said he then may have additional confidential discussions with the Justice Department before making his decisions on transparency.
Affidavit described how evidence of obstruction may be found at Mar-a-Lago, according to DOJ
A Justice Department lawyer said during the hearing that the probable cause affidavit used to get a warrant described how prosecutors might find "evidence of obstruction" on the grounds of the Florida property -- a possible crime that the search warrant itself revealed was under investigation.
"In this case, the court has found probable cause there's a violation of one of the obstruction statutes, and that evidence of obstruction would be found at Mar-a-Lago" said Jay Bratt, who heads the Justice Department's counterintelligence section.
Obstruction of justice was one of the three statutes listed on the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago, which was unsealed last week, and Reinhart said during the hearing Thursday that he "found there is probable cause" that the statutes had been violated.
Bratt made the comments about obstruction being investigated while he was trying to highlight DOJ's fear that future witnesses may not be willing to provide information if too much was to come out about the investigation so far.
DOJ says affidavit is lengthy, detailed and contained 'substantial grand jury information'
Bratt revealed other details about the affidavit, describing it as lengthy, detailed and containing "substantial grand jury information."
He told the federal judge that letting the public read the affidavit would "provide a roadmap to the investigation," and would even indicate the next steps in the probe.
Bratt's comments in court emphasized that this is an active, ongoing criminal investigation, with robust witness interview work being done and grand jury activity.
While acknowledging that there is a public interest in transparency, Bratt said that there was "another public interest" in criminal investigations being able to go forward unimpeded.
Warnings about chilling witnesses reveal that there have been several in this probe
As Bratt warned that releasing the affidavit could have a chilling effect on witnesses participating in this and future investigations, he revealed that several witnesses are already part of the documents investigation. Some of those witnesses have very specific relevant information that, if released, would reveal who they are, Bratt said.
Bratt also raised concerns about the risks the FBI has faced since the news of the Mar-a-Lago search broke, including the recent standoff at a Cincinnati FBI field office and "amateur sleuths" on the internet.
He told the judge that if any of the other documents are released, the DOJ would want to redact even background information about the agents who have worked on the matter so far.
Trump attorneys did not seek to weigh in in court about releasing the documents
An attorney for Trump was present at the hearing, but she did not speak before the judge nor was she asked to weigh in during the proceedings. The attorney, Christina Bobb, told reporters before the hearing that she was there to observe.
Trump is not officially a part in the dispute over releasing the warrant documents. Previously, when the DOJ had asked the judge to unseal the warrant itself and the receipt of the search, the judge instructed the Department to confer with Trump and to then communicate to the court whether Trump opposed the disclosure of the documents.
Ahead of Thursday's hearing, the judge set a 9 a.m. ET deadline for parties to file submissions responding to DOJ filings in the dispute. It was notable that the Trump team did not seek by then to formally get involved in the dispute, particularly because Trump and his allies have been vocal outside of court about their desire for the warrant documents to be released.
Some of Bobb's public remarks about the search were nonetheless put before Reinhart on Thursday. Charles Tobin -- who was arguing for the affidavit's release on behalf of an assortment of media outlets including CNN -- pointed out that Bobb had already provided information about an FBI subpoena of Mar-a-Lago surveillance tape and that DOJ officials had visited Mar-a-Lago in June.
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Some of summer’s greatest pleasures—splashing in the waves, gardening, taking hikes, and going on vacation—can take a toll on fingernails and toenails. In fact, Dana Stern, MD, one of the only dermatologists in the country who specializes in nails, sees an influx of seasonal nail issues at the end of every summer. “There’s a lot of toenail fungus, nails that are lifting off the nail bed, and brittle, broken, and peeling nails,” she says, adding that by the time she meets with patients, they’re often caught in what she calls the nail camouflage cycle: “They hide their nail damage with nail polish or bandages, which make the problems worse.” Taking the time to treat the underlying damage is well worth it, not only for your physical health but for your mental health, too. “Our nails are such a big part of our appearance; I witness firsthand how much more confident and put-together patients feel when they’ve overcome a nail issue,” Stern says. Here’s her treatment plan for the most common summer-related problems.
Problem: Nails that lift off the nail bed
Walking barefoot—such a simple summertime pleasure—opens you up to this common pitfall. “If your toenail hits a hard object, it can start to lift and separate. It doesn’t just look unappealing. It sometimes allows pathogens like yeast to colonize, which prevents the nail from re-adhering to the nail bed,” Stern explains.
Something as innocent as regularly cleaning under your nails can cause nails to lift up as well—and because some people spend more time outside in the summer, we tend to get our hands dirty more often, which increases our de-gunking frequency. “I see a ton of onycholysis [the separation of the nail from the underlying nail bed] in women over the age of 50 who have regular professional manicures. It seems that as we age our nails don’t adhere as firmly to the nail bed and so something as seemingly mild as a quick swipe under the nail with an orange stick can cause the nail to lift and separate,” Stern says. Once the nail lifts up, water and other chemicals can enter the nail bed, irritating the area and making it hard for the nail to heal.
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Treatment plan
Be sure to keep nails clipped short, and don’t file them. “Filing will cause the nail to separate further,” Stern says. “It’s also best to avoid polish remover and to refrain from cleaning under the nail, which can cause further separation. Don’t secure the nail with a Band-Aid, either. It’ll create too much moisture.” If the issue persists for several months, see a board-certified dermatologist or podiatrist.
Problem: Brittle nails that peel and break
Gel manicures and gel pedicures have been especially popular this summer thanks to weddings, vacations, and open-toed shoes, Stern notes. The gel polish itself isn’t damaging, but the removal process can be. Soaking your nails in acetone, which is what softens the gel so it can be pulled off, is dehydrating to your natural nail and cuticle. And research has proven that scraping, peeling, or filing the gel off makes your nails thinner, Stern says.
Another reason for weak nails: spending time in the water at the beach, pool, or lake. “The nail is 1,000 times more absorptive than the skin, and an influx of water puts tremendous strain on the onychocytes [nail cells], which can lead to breakage and peeling,” Stern says. Chlorinated pools add an extra layer of strain because the chemicals can dry out nails and cuticles. “The cuticle is the nail’s natural protective seal, preventing moisture and infections from entering the nail and protecting the nail matrix, which produces the nail. When the cuticle is dehydrated and separates, the new nail growth can look irregular.”
Treatment plan
Your goal is to rehydrate and strengthen. Take what Stern calls a nail polish holiday, and instead give yourself a weekly exfoliating, hydrating, and strengthening treatment. Stern recommends her own Nail Renewal System, which is a three-step, polish-free routine. Step one is a glycolic acid exfoliant that helps loosen old, dead skin cells. “Removing damaged layers will help hydrating and fortifying ingredients absorb,” Stern says. Step two is a physical exfoliator that gets rid of more of the damaged cells and also makes nails look and feel smoother. Step three is a botanical formula that you paint on nails to strengthen them. “This plant-based, clean formula contains an extract from a Mediterranean tree that’s been proven to increase nail thickness, making nails appear stronger in a week,” says Stern.
The other key step is to take care of your cuticles. Don’t cut them. Instead, gently push them back with a washcloth while you’re in the shower. And “apply a cuticle oil or cuticle ointment at least once a day,” Stern advises. Check out a bunch of great cuticle care options here.
Problem: Thick, yellow toenails from a fungus
The heat and humidity causes us to sweat, and places like our feet become an ideal environment for fungi. People are also prone to fungus exposure when they’re barefoot in hotel rooms, spas, and pools. Typically, the fungus begins on the skin and then—when the nail experiences trauma—it spreads into the nail. “The trauma doesn’t need to be anything dramatic; simply stubbing your toe or getting a pedicure where an orange stick was used a bit too vigorously is all it takes,” Stern says.
Treatment plan
These infections are challenging. “No single therapy has a 100 percent cure rate,” Stern says. The good news is that you have options to try. A doctor can prescribe oral or topical treatments. “FDA-approved topicals efinaconazole and tavaborole are generally safe and have very mineral side effects,” Stern says. “They also have higher efficacy rates than over-the-counter and naturopathic approaches. That said, the naturopathic remedies are relatively innocuous and less expensive.” There’s no reason you can’t try the non-prescription options first. Vicks VapoRub is a popular go-to. In a lab setting, its ingredients—thymol, menthol, camphor, and eucalyptus oil—have been shown to help clear up the fungi, per Stern. If you don’t see improvement after four months, head to a dermatologist. “It’s possible that you have something that’s not fungal,” Stern explains.
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From Spencer to The Crown, the past few years have seen several critically acclaimed dramatizations of Princess Diana’s life—and perhaps it’s no surprise why viewers have been particularly drawn to her story recently. These titles have been leading to a heartbreaking milestone in the royal family and pop culture as we know it: the 25-year anniversary of Princess Diana’s death, that is.
In the decades since the royal figure’s fatal car crash on August 31, 1997, many Princess Diana documentaries have attempted to reexamine the events leading up to that tragedy. Others focus on her humanitarian work, marriage with Prince Charles, or a bit of it all—sometimes with input from Prince William, Prince Harry, and even Princess Diana herself. Whatever part of her life you’re most interested in learning more about, you can be sure there’s a Princess Diana documentary out there waiting to be streamed. (And, of course, even if you’ve already done all the research and are a royal aficionado, these docs can still help you celebrate the late royal’s lasting impact on the world.)
Here are 11 such specials to get you started as you remember Princess Diana’s life—and honor her legacy.
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The Princess
The newest title on this list is The Princess, a new HBO special that Rolling Stone describes as “the definitive Princess Diana documentary.” What makes it so unique? For starters, The Princess tells the late royal's story entirely through footage from her life (and all the accompanying media coverage) as it happened—so you truly feel like you’re living through the headlines, instead of reflecting on them as a modern viewer.
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Becoming Princess Diana
Like its title suggests, the heft of Becoming Princess Diana focuses on Princess Diana and Prince Charles’s courtship and wedding—tracing the beloved figure’s legacy back to her earliest days as part of the royal family and life in the public eye. Among those interviewed for Becoming Princess Diana? A former member of the royal household who was there to witness it all firsthand.
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Charles & Diana: 1983
If you’re a fan of Netflix’s The Crown (and you’re reading this list, so there’s a good chance you are one!), you’ll remember Princess Diana and Prince Charles’s pivotal 1983 trip to Australia and New Zealand, their first overseas tour together. Publicly, the trip was a success that helped endear the world to the new princess—but privately, all that celebration of Princess Diana didn’t exactly thrill Prince Charles. “A great deal of complicated situations arose” due to the jealousy from that trip, Princess Diana once told the BBC, per Vogue. Charles and Diana: 1983 offers a closer look at the couple’s trip—as well as their first full year of parenthood, and other recollections from this crucial year.
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Diana, Our Mother: Her Life & Legacy
Prince William was just a baby during the events of Charles and Diana: 1983—but nearly four decades later, he helped tell his mom’s story in Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy. Both Prince William and Prince Harry are featured in this documentary, which debuted 20 years after Princess Diana’s death. “This is the first time the two of us have ever spoken about her as a mother,” Prince Harry says in the emotional special. “[It was] arguably, probably a little bit too raw up until this point. It’s still raw.”
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Diana, 7 Days
Diana, 7 Days is another 2017 documentary with family involvement—covering Princess Diana’s death and the days that followed. Among the heartbreaking moments recalled in this Princess Diana documentary is the royal mom’s last conversations with her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry.
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Diana: The Interview That Shocked the World
Princess Diana’s sons have been openly involved in several projects about her life and tragic death—but don’t expect their support of any project that platforms her infamous 1995 interview with the BBC’s Martin Bashir, during which Princess Diana discussed her separation with Charles, the couple’s respective affairs, and the royal family’s treatment of her. Both Prince William and Prince Harry condemned Bashir’s “unethical” methods of securing the interview, which is the subject of this 2020 documentary—featuring journalists, royal commentators, and a former royal family employee who discuss the context of the interview and its impact of Princess Diana’s final years.
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The Princes and the Press
Though the primary focus of The Princes and the Press is, well, Prince William and Prince Harry, this 2022 BBC project effectively doubles as a Princess Diana documentary—as it traces the princes’ modern relationship with the media back to their firsthand experience seeing their mom face its perils.
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Princess Diana: Tragedy or Treason?
This 2017 Princess Diana documentary delves into the final years of the royal’s life and relationship with Prince Charles, as well as the aftermath of her fatal 1997 car accident. Twenty years on, the documentary addresses some of the theories surrounding Princess Diana’s death—while also taking time to remember the late royal’s legacy through today.
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The Story of Diana
While some viewers prefer learning about Princess Diana’s life through granular moment-by-moment breakdowns, others might enjoy a more sweeping approach to the late royal’s life—and if that sounds like you, The Story of Diana makes for a natural pick. The People documentary about Princess Diana’s spans from her childhood to her humanitarian work to her final days and lasting legacy—and even features an interview with her brother, Charles Spencer.
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The Royal House of Windsor
Like many of the titles on this list, The Royal House of Windsor debuted in 2017—two decades after Princess Diana’s untimely death. While not specifically a Princess Diana documentary, The Royal House of Windsor provides helpful context to the family a young Diana Spencer first joined more than 40 years ago.
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Diana: In Her Own Words
Of course, there’s no better way to know Princess Diana than to hear from the woman herself—and this National Geographic documentary allows you to do exactly that. Diana: In Her Own Words features interview recordings from 1991—many of which, the doc points out, “[have] never been broadcast before.”
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Grace Wehniainen
Grace Wehniainen is a freelance culture writer at Oprah Daily and a staff entertainment writer at Bustle, where she covers everything from Grey’s Anatomy to The Bachelor, the newest Marvel titles, and more.
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