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Monday, August, 22nd, is National Tooth Fairy Day.
Remember the pain of losing a tooth as a child being replaced by the excitement of waking up the next morning to find some coins under your pillow?
How much money did you get from the tooth fairy as a kid?
What is the current rate for a tooth?
Let us know by Monday morning and Monty and Jessica may share your responses on the air. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/august-22nd-is-national-tooth-fairy-day/article_d1e0bc1e-2004-11ed-9199-37534cf7ec84.html | 2022-08-19T23:38:23Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/august-22nd-is-national-tooth-fairy-day/article_d1e0bc1e-2004-11ed-9199-37534cf7ec84.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Will A Colorado River Drought Dry Up Energy Supplies?
12:09 minutes
This week, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, a federal agency that manages water in the Western U.S., started the process of cutting water use allotments along the Colorado River after seven states missed a deadline for coming up with their own reduction plan.
The area has been under a long-running drought—and with water in demand for everything from drinking to agriculture to industry, and with the population of the area on the rise, agreements over water use are difficult to come by. The drought may have another less obvious effect on the area as well—drops in water allocation could lead to declines in power production in a region that relies on several major hydroelectric facilities.
Umair Irfan, staff writer at Vox, joins Ira to talk about the plan for distributing western water and other stories from the week in science— including a possible reprieve for nuclear power plants in Germany and California, a geomagnetic storm sparking an astronomical light show, orders for future supersonic aircraft, and investigations into why thinking hard makes you physically tired.
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Umair Irfan is a staff writer for Vox, based in Washington, DC.
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As Science Friday’s director, Charles Bergquist channels the chaos of a live production studio into something sounding like a radio program. Favorite topics include planetary sciences, chemistry, materials, and shiny things with blinking lights.
Ira Flatow is the host and executive producer of Science Friday. His green thumb has revived many an office plant at death’s door. | https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/colorado-river-drought-energy/ | 2022-08-19T23:38:29Z | sciencefriday.com | control | https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/colorado-river-drought-energy/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PENDLETON, Wash.-
The superintendent for Pendleton School District wrote a letter to families and parents following the shooting at Wildhorse Resort & Casino.
Kevin Headings, newly announced superintendent, says some of the district staff were at the Wildhorse for a school function, some of which witnessed the shooting.
A staff member was injured by gunfire and is said to have non-life threatening injuries.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the PSD staff and families affected by this tragic event. Unfortunately, acts of violence like this are difficult to comprehend and explain," says superintendent Headings.
With school starting soon, he knows many parents may be hesitant about their child's safety. Which is why, principals and school counselors are ready to help and support to keep their kids safe.
The Pendleton School District has plenty of safety procedures like designated entrances and exit and safety drills.
Headings says, "The safety of students and staff is the district’s top priority."
Superintendent Headings shares a few things parents can do to make their child feel safe during stressful times:
- Limit access to social media
- Talk with children it they have concerns and focus on what they can do
- If you're not comfortable sending your child to school in the wake of tragic events, work with your child's school
Making sure you child become aware of what other are saying or planning can prevent violent crimes.
One way to report something is talking with school staff or reporting it to the SafeOregon tip line. Remember to let your students know, if you see something say something. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/pendleton-superintendents-letter-to-parents-following-shooting-at-wildhorse-resort-casino/article_de8aaa3e-2012-11ed-86b6-efce9d755198.html | 2022-08-19T23:38:29Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/pendleton-superintendents-letter-to-parents-following-shooting-at-wildhorse-resort-casino/article_de8aaa3e-2012-11ed-86b6-efce9d755198.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When Trapping Invasive Bugs Is Science Homework
4:54 minutes
The spotted lanternfly, an invasive species, was first introduced to the U.S. in Pennsylvania, around 2014. Since then, it has spread aggressively, and has now been spotted in 11 states. The bug is pretty—adult spotted lanternflies are about an inch long, and feature striking spotted forewings and a flashy red patch on the hindwings. But they are also very hungry, and pose a significant threat to agricultural crops, including grapevines.
Many control efforts have focused on either stomping the insects on sight, or on spotting and destroying the egg masses that the lanternflies lay in the fall. However, researchers have been developing trapping techniques for the bugs as well. One, involving a sticky band looped around a tree, is effective—but can also snare other insects and even birds. Experts at the Penn State Extension have come up with a new style of circle trap for lanternflies, based upon an existing trap for pecan weevils. Now, STEM educators at Rutgers University are using that design as the starting point for an engineering design challenge, asking K-12 teachers and students to come up with improvements to the design.
The students are given basic information about the spotted lanternfly, its life stages, preferred foods and habitat, and its behavior. They’re then introduced to design principles and materials that they can use to prototype, build, and test traps. Dr. Brielle Kociolek, the iSTEM coordinator at the Rutgers University Center for Mathematics, Science, and Computer Education in Piscataway, New Jersey, joins Ira to talk about the program, and share some of the students’ innovations.
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Briellle Kociolek is the iSTEM Coordinator in the Center for Mathematics, Science, and Computer Education at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey.
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As Science Friday’s director, Charles Bergquist channels the chaos of a live production studio into something sounding like a radio program. Favorite topics include planetary sciences, chemistry, materials, and shiny things with blinking lights.
Sandy Roberts is Science Friday’s Education Program Manager, where she creates learning resources and experiences to advance STEM equity in all learning environments. Lately, she’s been playing with origami circuits and trying to perfect a gluten-free sourdough recipe.
Ira Flatow is the host and executive producer of Science Friday. His green thumb has revived many an office plant at death’s door. | https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/lanternfly-update-kids-diy-project/ | 2022-08-19T23:38:35Z | sciencefriday.com | control | https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/lanternfly-update-kids-diy-project/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PORTLAND, Ore.-
Javier Francisco Vigil, 51, from Umatilla County, Oregon was charged with committing a Hobbs Act robbery at Wildhorse Resort & Casino on August 17.
Vigil made his first appearance in federal court on Friday in Portland where we was detained until further court proceedings.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is in charge of the case with help from Umatilla tribal Police and Hermiston Police Department.
The U.S Department of Justice says in a press release, Vigil entered the Casino and walked straight to the cashier cage, handing the cashier a note, demanding $1 million. He then took out a pistol and threatened to "bathe everyone in blood."
He was given about $700,000 in cash and exited the casino. As he was leaving, he pointed the gun at responding tribal police and shot once.
Vigil was injured and taken to the local hospital by officers.
This is a developing story, which means information could change. We are working to report timely and accurate information as we get it. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/umatilla-county-man-charged-in-shooting-at-wildhorse-resort-casino-wednesday-afternoon/article_a9c432fc-200d-11ed-85f3-b31228a6c1a2.html | 2022-08-19T23:38:35Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/umatilla-county-man-charged-in-shooting-at-wildhorse-resort-casino-wednesday-afternoon/article_a9c432fc-200d-11ed-85f3-b31228a6c1a2.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Lightfoot rips into Bailey for calling Chicago a 'hellhole'
CHICAGO - Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is slamming the Republican candidate for Illinois governor.
Lightfoot is upset over Darren Bailey's choice words for the city where more than one-fifth of the state’s residents live.
"Our legislature is going soft on crime to the point they have made Chicago a hellhole, friends," Bailey said.
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Bailey made that comment during Thursday’s Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair, as he launched plenty of criticism at Chicago and its Democratic leadership.
So, on Friday, Lightfoot jumped on Twitter to call Bailey's campaign a "dumpster fire."
Then, Bailey’s campaign responded with a series of posts including links to news stories about Chicago crime, while also calling his opponent Gov. JB Pritizker, Mayor Lightfoot and Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx the "the three blind mice of crime, corruption and chaos."
Now, lots of other Chicagoans are getting involved, tweeting beautiful pictures of the city with the phrase "hellhole" now trending. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/lightfoot-rips-into-bailey-for-calling-chicago-a-hellhole | 2022-08-19T23:38:39Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/lightfoot-rips-into-bailey-for-calling-chicago-a-hellhole | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Seagrass Oasis In Gulf Of Mexico Signals Good News For Manatees
7:00 minutes
This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story, by Steve Newborn and Daylina Miller, was originally published by WUSF.
We’ve heard plenty of bad news about Florida’s waterways.
Algae blooms from Lake Okeechobee spilling into estuaries along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. Red tide killing untold numbers of fish in Tampa Bay. Coral dying in the Florida Keys.
But there is something good to report. Just off the coast of Pasco, Hernando and Citrus counties lies one of the largest seagrass beds in the Gulf.
Chris Anastasiou, chief water quality scientist with the Southwest Florida Water Management District, guns the motor on a small boat and putters into waters the color of a new spring leaf.
We go a couple of miles from our boat slip near the Tarpon Springs sponge docks. Dozens of motorboats and fishing crafts ply these waters. The historic Anclote Key lighthouse stands guard in the distance.
“So we are on the west side of Anclote Key,” Anastasiou says. “And this is an area that is consistently mapped as seagrass. And the clarity today is really good.”
Anastasiou stops the boat, surveys the Gulf bottom four feet down and tells environmental scientist Will van Gelder to drop anchor.
“All right, get ready Will,” he says, as a drone loaded with a camera is lowered into the water.
Six propellers thrust the drone over the sandy bottom, just above the grass. The information is transmitted to a virtual reality headset and then directly to the district’s headquarters in Brooksville.
What the drone sees is good. The water is clear. Eighty percent of the sandy bottom is covered with seagrass. But Anastasiou wants a firsthand look. So on go the flippers and snorkel.
“Oh yeah, we’ve got lots of grass down here,” he says after splashing into the Gulf. “You see a lot of drift algae out here. And the nice thing is it’s edible. It makes a great salad. And it’s salty. Would you like some?”
He reaches up out of the water and hands me a sample. It is rather salty. And a little nutty.
Anastasiou says seagrass is considered the bedrock of the entire marine food chain. He says about 70 percent of both commercial and recreational fish spawn in these seagrasses.
“But it’s not just seagrass. What’s really unique about that area is its a mix of seagrass, attached algae, corals, sponges, scalloping.”
– Chris Anastasiou, Southwest Florida Water Management District
“There’s about 586,000 acres of seagrass in that part of Florida. Which is second only to Florida Bay. It’s one of the largest seagrass beds in the world,” he says. “But it’s not just seagrass. What’s really unique about that area is it’s a mix of seagrass, attached algae, corals, sponges, scalloping.”
The death of more than 1,100 manatees over the winter in Indian River Lagoon on the Atlantic shows how crucial it is to keep these waters healthy.
An excess of nutrients—much of it from lawn fertilizers swept by rains into the lagoon—created algae blooms that starved the grasses of sunlight needed to survive. That’s not the case here—in the Springs Coast region, named for the spring-fed rivers that nourish this brackish ecosystem.
“We’ve actually seen some increases here,” he said. “Just offshore actually of Anclote Key, we saw quite a bit of increase and expansion of our seagrass meadows, which is great news.”
So Anastasiou says part of the water district’s message is educating the public about the dangers of too much fertilizer from lawns and septic tanks running into these waters and fueling algae blooms.
“It’s really important that the public understands what we have, and what we could lose,” he said. “Because we don’t want to become Indian River Lagoon.”
And that’s on the mind of the scallopers, recreational boaters and sponge divers, who depend on this part of the Gulf remaining as clear and untouched as it can be.
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Steve Newborn is a reporter at WUSF in Tampa, Florida.
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Kathleen Davis is a producer at Science Friday, which means she spends the week brainstorming, researching, and writing, typically in that order. She’s a big fan of stories related to strange animal facts and dystopian technology.
John Dankosky works with the radio team to create our weekly show, and is helping to build our State of Science Reporting Network. He’s also been a long-time guest host on Science Friday. He and his wife have four cats, thousands of bees, and a yoga studio in the sleepy Northwest hills of Connecticut.
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Teen Innovator’s New AI Tool Helps Create Affordable Drugs
7:16 minutes
The U.S. has some of the highest prescription drug prices in the world, which can push patients into bankruptcy over medications they cannot afford. More than three in four American adults think the prices of prescription drugs are unaffordable, prompting the Senate to recently pass a bill intended to help lower prescription drug costs for seniors.
One young innovator set out to find his own solution. 17 year-old Rishab Jain developed ICOR, a tool to improve the rapid production of drugs like COVID-19 vaccines.
Ira talks with Rishab Jain from Portland, Oregon, about his innovation and vision for the future.
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Rishab Jain is an innovator and student based in Portland, Oregon.
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Rasha Aridi is a producer for Science Friday. She loves stories about weird critters, science adventures, and the intersection of science and history.
Mackenzie White was Science Friday’s 2022 AAAS Mass Media Fellow. Her favorite things to talk about are space rocks and her dog, Rocky.
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Students from Ukraine start school in Chicago
CHICAGO - Sixty-five young refugees from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are about to start a new school year in Chicago. They’re enrolled at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Cathedral School in the West Side Ukrainian Village neighborhood.
St. Nick’s Principal Anna Cirilli reports the children have many needs. Some remain traumatized by what the war has done to their lives.
"It’s not easy for them," Cirilli said. "They may cry easily over something that on another day back in Ukraine wouldn’t bother them. We’re seeing…aggression come out sometimes…in situations where the students normally wouldn’t behave that way."
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In an interview airing on Flannery Fired Up, the Catholic educator said the Archdiocesan Big Shoulders fund has provided some financial assistance. St. Nicholas qualifies as a Catholic school with at least 65% of its students living in poverty.
Cirilli said people wanting to help should contact St. Nicholas School at 773-384-7243; or St. Nicholas Ukrainian Cathedral at 773-276-5080. There is also an online portal for donations.
"The scooters have been big," Cirilli said. "People…sent in scooters. The students arrived at school on their brand-new scooters."
She added that the children still need "other sorts of games, toys, dolls. Those are always welcome."
Among others appearing on this weekend’s edition of Flannery Fired Up: 8th Congressional District Republican candidate Chris Dargis, a Navy veteran and businessman challenging Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Illinois).
Also, State Rep. Dan Brady of Bloomington, the Republican nominee for Illinois Secretary of State, facing Democratic nominee Alexi Giannoulias for the office that Jesse White is soon to vacate; and Ted Dabrowski, president of Wirepoints.org, who speaks about 150 Chicago Public Schools being more than half-empty. He said Manley High School has only 64 students enrolled at a campus built for 1,300. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/students-from-ukraine-start-school-in-chicago | 2022-08-19T23:38:51Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/students-from-ukraine-start-school-in-chicago | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Should Kids Get Vaccinated If They’ve Already Had COVID-19?
16:58 minutes
It’s nearing the end of August, which means it’s back-to-school season. There’s a big difference between this school year and last: All children are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. This means the risk of disease will likely be way down, compared to the past two autumns, according to vaccine researcher and pediatrician Paul Offit.
But for kids who have already been infected by COVID-19, will the vaccine add meaningful immunity?
“My answer to that question is yes,” Dr. Offit tells Ira. “Then you can be sure that they will then develop the kind of immunity that will likely lead to fairly long-lived protection against serious illness.”
Ira and Dr. Offit also discuss the risk of monkeypox and polio spreading in schools, and how to best keep our kids safe against infectious disease this fall.
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Kathleen Davis is a producer at Science Friday, which means she spends the week brainstorming, researching, and writing, typically in that order. She’s a big fan of stories related to strange animal facts and dystopian technology.
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How Viruses Have Shaped Our World
27:36 minutes
SARS-CoV2. HIV. CMV. HSV-1 and HSV-2. MPX. EBV. HPV. WPV. WNV.
The alphabet soup of viruses that infect us may seem long and daunting. But as scientist and author Joseph Osmundson writes in Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things In Between, these viruses are vastly dwarfed by the total number of harmless or even beneficial viruses on our planet. “It’s a rounding error larger than zero,” he writes. A single ounce of seawater will contain more than seven billion individual viruses incapable of doing us harm.
Osmundson’s book is both COVID-19 quarantine memoir, and reflections of a self-described queer man coming of age after the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS. In it, he questions the war-like language we ascribe to “fighting” pathogens, explores the non-binary nature of health and illness, and advocates for a world where we are more ready to care for each other.
“The problem wasn’t illness,” he writes of HIV’s death toll before the development of effective treatments. “The problem never is. Illness is a fact of life. The problem is our inability to provide care to all.”
Osmundson talks to producer Christie Taylor about making new meanings for viruses through biomedicine and public health interventions. Plus, lessons for the monkeypox global public health emergency, and all the viruses to come.
Read an excerpt from Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things In Between.
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Joseph Osmundson is a clinical assistant professor of Biology at New York University, and author of Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things In Between (Norton, 2022).
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ORLANDO, Fla. (Aug. 18, 2022) Athletes, families, and friends participating in the 2022 DoD Warrior Games attend the Warrior Games Friends and Family Welcome Event hosted by the Fisher House Foundation and Amazon Web Services at Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort, August 16, 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 ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Disney in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Alexa Trafton)
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SILVERDALE, Wash. (Aug. 19, 2022) The color guard parades the colors during a change of command ceremony for the blue crew of the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Alabama (SSBN 731) at the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, Wash., Aug. 19, 2022. Cmdr. Michael Lyle relieved Cmdr. Brian T. Murphy as the 18th commanding officer of Alabama. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Brian G. Reynolds)
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Sega’s Space Channel 5 and Comix Zone Are Getting Film Adaptations
The success of both Sonic the Hedgehog movies is paving the way for even more films based on Sega properties. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Picturestart is teaming up with the video game company to bring Space Channel 5 and Comix Zone to the big screen. Additionally, Picturestart is developing other Sega adaptations.
Sega originally released Space Channel 5 for the Dreamcast in 1999. Players controlled Ulala, a reporter for the titular news channel who battles aliens with an arsenal of flashy dance moves. However, it sounds like Picturestart’s film version is handling things a bit differently. The movie will instead feature an unnamed reporter who travels back in time to recruit a “hapless fast-food worker” to join humanity’s fight against aliens using “silly viral dances.”
Meanwhile, Comix Zone was a beat-‘em-up title released on the Genesis in 1995. The game followed Sketch Turner, a struggling comic book artist and occasional rockstar whose latest work also features a war between Earth and alien invaders. When a lightning bolt strikes one of the comic’s panels during a storm one night, the story’s main villain literally jumps off the page and sends Sketch into the fictional world of his own book, where he must fight the aliens himself.
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Comix Zone will also undergo some of its own changes for the big screen. In this incarnation, the “jaded” main character will get sucked into the final issue of his hit comic book series alongside “a young, queer writer of color.” The two must then put aside their differences as they attempt to stop a supervillain’s reign of terror and “wittily explore the ever-evolving art of storytelling itself.”
Picturestart has already hired screenwriters for both films. Barry Battles (The Baytown Outlaws) and Nir Paniry (Extracted) will write the script for Space Channel 5. Additionally, Mae Catt (Young Justice) is tackling Comix Zone. Royce Reeves-Darby and Erik Feig will oversee both projects for Picturestart and produce alongside Samie Kim Falvey and Sega’s Toru Nakahara. Sega video game director Takumi Yoshinaga and game producer Kagasei Shimomura are also working as producers on Space Channel 5 and Comix Zone, respectively.
Which of these upcoming Sega adaptations are you most looking forward to? Let us know in the comment section below!
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Join the artists of the Winston-Salem “Downtown Arts District Association” (DADA) Friday, September 2nd from 7-10:00 pm as we celebrate the 25th Anniversary of our signature 12 month event series, the “DADA 1st Friday Gallery Hop”!
Our featured exhibition in the Featured Gallery of North Trade Street Arts Center is “Anniversary” a juried collection of works by DADA Artists. $100, $75 and $50 will be awarded to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place respectively. There will also be a “People’s Choice” award selected by those that attend the September Hop.
Original works of art and prints of some of the individual pieces in the gallery are available for sale.
Other Exhibition Openings:
Artworks Gallery
Delurk Gallery
Visual Index
Associated Artists Gallery @ NTSA
THE Exhibiting Artists of The LAAC @ NTSA
Studio 7 Gallery @ NTSA
Other featured events include:
- 7:15 pm Performance by the Piedmont Youth Chorus
Comprising of three unique choirs, the Piedmont Youth Chorus focuses on camaraderie, music literacy, and creativity. Students build musicianship, and long last-lasting friendships in a joyful and creative environment.
8:30 pm - AURA - acoustic singer/songwriters who toured with Peter Tork of The Monkees, presenting selections from their catalog of CDs at North Trade Street Arts
- B Balanced Counseling & Wellness
"Come check out the B Balanced Counseling & Wellness table to learn more about their art therapy services, and the mental health benefits of art making! They will also be providing some take home art therapy activities and resources!"
- Art & Craft work by DADA Artists
“ART in the INTERSECTION,” will return, showcasing visual and performing artists working live in the intersection of Sixth and Trade Streets.
SEVERAL NEW additions to our growing collection of "Head in the Hole" photo stations, Standees, PLUS chalk and Bubbles will be set up for family fun.
Visit your favorite galleries & businesses and Celebrate the 25th Anniversary Season of the
DADA 1st Friday Gallery Hop!
— VISITOR INFORMATION
DADAGALLERYHOP.com for maps, parking info, HOTEL PACKAGES at The Historic Brookstown Inn plus more!
Visit our mini “Arts District Visitors Area” at North Trade Street Arts - 604-A N Trade Street, W-S, NC 27101
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The DADA 1st Friday Gallery Hop is a presentation of The Downtown Arts District Association and is sponsored in part by: The Arts Council of WS/FC, The City of Winston-Salem, Mast General Store, The Lewisville Area Arts Council (The LAAC), Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership, and “DADA 1st Friday Gallery Hop Supporters!” | https://www.yesweekly.com/business/dada-1st-friday-galleryhop-celebrates-25-years/article_3b3389de-1fed-11ed-a160-af2be7ee3a49.html | 2022-08-19T23:56:44Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/business/dada-1st-friday-galleryhop-celebrates-25-years/article_3b3389de-1fed-11ed-a160-af2be7ee3a49.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
JD Financial Group and Associates, Inc. Returns to Greensboro
Downtown Office Ribbon Cutting on October 25 at 1:00PM
Greensboro, NC – JD Financial Group and Associates, Inc. will return to its roots in downtown Greensboro, NC in August 2022. “Greensboro is where everything started for us when the agency launched in 2014,” said James Q. Dean, Founder and President. “We are working with Downtown Greensboro city planners and look forward to being a vital participant in revitalizing downtown,” said Mr. Dean.
The relocation brings JD Financial Group and Associates, Inc. back to the heart of the Greensboro community, where their affiliated carrier, National Life Insurance Company, first had an agency in 1933. The move also brings JD Financial Group and Associates, Inc. closer to the first responders who are the focus of their Serving Those Who Serve initiative.
Future plans include supporting the new Greensboro “Social District” initiative and opening the office to downtown visitors. The company also plans to expand its community involvement by supporting local artists interested in displaying artwork in the office, volunteering with local nonprofit organizations, hosting tasting events, establishing their Restoring Our Communities initiative as a 501(c)(3) organization, and offering free workshops on executive leadership coaching, business coaching, and budgeting.
A celebratory ribbon cutting ceremony will take place October 25 at 1:00PM at 300 N. Greene Street.
About JD Financial Group and Associates, Inc.
Initially launched in Greensboro, NC, JD Financial Group and Associates, Inc. has three active divisions that provide financial services that meet clients’ needs. Forward Observation provides tax strategies for business owners and families. The Federal Market division serves federal government hospital employees. Serving Those Who Serve helps police officers, firefighters, and first responders prepare for a brighter financial future. JD Financial Group and Associates, Inc. was established by James Q. Dean, who is also a co-founder of Blacks Uplifted in Leadership Development (BUILD). | https://www.yesweekly.com/business/jd-financial-group-and-associates-inc-returns-to-greensboro/article_724ad162-1fec-11ed-b2df-67256d359bfe.html | 2022-08-19T23:56:50Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/business/jd-financial-group-and-associates-inc-returns-to-greensboro/article_724ad162-1fec-11ed-b2df-67256d359bfe.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Reynolda Announces Fall Season of Programming for Museum, Gardens and Village
More than 70 events will occur between September and December
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (August 18, 2022)— Reynolda has unveiled its fall program schedule, and the calendar is full of compelling, captivating and exciting events for all at the Museum, Gardens and Village. Anchoring the calendar is the Museum’s latest exhibition, Chrome Dreams and Infinite Reflections: American Photorealism, which is on display through December 31. Highlighting the nostalgia associated with America’s post-war boom, Reynolda has assembled 41 works of art, 28 of which are from private collectors in the Winston-Salem area, that reflect the glittering cityscapes, shiny storefront windows and sleek automobiles that are indicative of the period and the photorealism style.
For those interested in learning more about photorealism and its inspiring artists, Reynolda is hosting “Precision and Soul: A Conversation about Photorealism” with Valerie Hillings, director of the North Carolina Museum of Art. The event will be held on September 27 from 5:30–6:30 p.m. On November 3, from 12–1 p.m., Reynolda’s curator Allison Slaby will share her perspectives on Chrome Dreams and Infinite Reflections: American Photorealism, providing deeper insight into the exhibition’s formation and the groundbreaking artists who pioneered the movement.
“This fall’s schedule includes events for every age and interest,” Betsy Main Babcock Deputy Director Phil Archer said. “There are hands-on workshops for budding young painters and butterfly-loving gardeners, tours and lectures to reward curious minds, and performances to elevate the spirit.”
Outside of the museum, Reynolda’s grounds and gardens will beckon visitors to engage with their natural surroundings. With guest speakers, hands-on workshops, plant sales and more, the gardens staff will guide guests through a slate of events, from novice to green thumb.
“I am thrilled that our Tuesday Gardening Series will continue to be offered both in the Reynolda Gardens Education Wing and virtually,” said Gardens Director Jon Roethling. “This allows us to continue expanding the reach of our affordable, accessible programming for those who aren’t able to join in-person.”
A myriad of programs and engagement opportunities await guests. The full calendar is available online at reynolda.org/calendar, and highlights include:
- Reynolda On the House: Reynolda House Museum of American Art opens its doors free to the public to enjoy the exhibitions and grounds “on us.” Reynolda On the House takes place three times this fall: August 25 from 3–7 p.m., October 15 from 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. and November 15 from 3–7 p.m.
- Cinema Under the Stars: The popular free outdoor film screening series returns with “Crooklyn” on August 19, “The Apartment” on September 2 and “La La Land” on September 16. This year, attendees will enjoy the added benefit of free admission to view Chrome Dreams and Infinite Reflections: American Photorealism ahead of each film.
- Tuesday Gardening Series: Held at 12:30 p.m. on most Tuesdays, the Tuesday Gardening Series provides expert advice on topics ranging from creating natural dyes, jump starting next year’s growing season with indoor seed starting stations and the influence herbs have on regional and cultural cuisines, among others.
- Fall Plant Sale: Autumn is the time for planting and Reynolda’s fall plant sale on September 24 is a perfect opportunity to purchase a great selection of native plants. Friends of Reynolda Gardens receive early access to reserve plants beginning on September 13.
- Village Farm Tours: Explore Reynolda Village on a walking tour to learn how Katharine Reynolds envisioned the original model farm with a look back at the agricultural history of the built environment.
- Reynolda Book Club: Dive into “The Personal Librarian,” a novel by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, based on the true story of Belle de costa Greene, librarian to famed Gilded Age titan, J.P. Morgan. “The Personal Librarian” is Forsyth County Public Library’s 2022 community read.
- Family First Workshops and Family Programming: Explore a host of events and activities geared toward children and their caregivers. For more information visit reynolda.org/youth-family-events.
For detailed information about upcoming events—including dates, times, registration requirements and associated fees—and to learn more about what else Reynolda has planned, please visit reynolda.org/calendar.
About Reynolda
Reynolda is set on 170 acres in Winston-Salem, N.C. and comprises Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Reynolda Gardens and Reynolda Village Shops and Restaurants. The Museum presents a renowned art collection in a historic and incomparable setting: the original 1917 interiors of Katharine and R. J. Reynolds’s 34,000-square-foot home. Its collection is a chronology of American art and featured exhibitions are offered in the Museum’s Babcock Wing Gallery and historic house bedrooms. The Gardens serve as a 134-acre outdoor horticultural oasis open to the public year-round, complete with colorful formal gardens, nature trails and a greenhouse. In the Village, the estate’s historic buildings are now home to a vibrant mix of boutiques, restaurants, shops and services. Plan your visit at reynolda.org and use the free mobile app Reynolda Revealed to self-tour the estate. | https://www.yesweekly.com/foodanddrink/reynolda-announces-fall-season-of-programming-for-museum-gardens-and-village/article_e8ee4a22-1fee-11ed-b764-87586634e53d.html | 2022-08-19T23:56:57Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/foodanddrink/reynolda-announces-fall-season-of-programming-for-museum-gardens-and-village/article_e8ee4a22-1fee-11ed-b764-87586634e53d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the first national park in the United States and one of the most famous in the National Park System—Yellowstone. The nearly 3,500-square-mile wilderness is situated mostly in Wyoming with parts of the park extending into Montana and Idaho. It is known for its mountains, meadows, and forest landscapes, its otherworldly natural hot springs, geysers, and lava formations, and its wildlife. But this year has also been a very challenging one for Yellowstone, which earlier this summer had its roads washed out due to the worst flooding to ever hit the national park.
As the park works to rebuild and as experts try to make sense of the long-term environmental and geological impact of the massive June rainfall, there is still much to celebrate both in Yellowstone and beyond. The park has since reopened and is welcoming visitors back to most areas (with the exception of the north and northeast entrances, as well as some sections of roads in those areas).
Beyond Yellowstone, the state offers an endless natural playground for paddling, fishing, hiking, spotting wild mustangs, studying ancient fossils, and soaking in hot springs. The best way to see and do it all—including many of Wyoming’s lesser-known treasures—is to road-trip across the state. From the railroad capital of Cheyenne to Shoshone National Forest, over to rock climbers’ paradise Vedauwoo, and on toward the Tetons, consider this adventure-packed route through the least populous state in the contiguous United States.
Day 1: Ropes and railroads in Cheyenne
After touching down at the Cheyenne Regional Airport, head to the Wrangler and pony up for some authentic cowboy boots, a Stetson hat, belt buckle, spurs, chaps—whatever suits you. Now that you’re rodeo ready, if you plan to be in town during the month of July, swing on over to Cheyenne Frontier Days to watch bareback, bull riding, and saddle bronco events in the world’s largest outdoor rodeo and western tournament. The nearby Laramie County Fair is fun in August, with animal shows, a demolition derby, and a kids rodeo. Visitors can also check out semipro kite fliers and BYOK (kite) at the End of the Trail Kite Festival in late September or hop a trolley on the Street Railway Ghost Tours in October. During the summer months, there is also a free concert series downtown. This is also a good opportunity to visit the Cheyenne Depot Museum, housed in the original Union Pacific Depot built in 1886 and now restored as a National Historic Landmark. Indulge in hand-crafted beverages at the dog-friendly beer garden Blue Raven Brewery, situated inside a historic home. Fill up on a hand-cut steak from a family run kitchen since 1942 at nearby Albany Restaurant, or opt for contemporary casual at the Metropolitan Downtown, with innovative twists on classics and creative cocktails.
In the evening, check into the Historic Plains Hotel, built in 1911 in the heart of Cheyenne. This landmark property, once frequented by cattle barons and movie stars, will take you back to the western frontier with its cowhide and antler decor accented by original artwork by Wyomingites.
Day 2: Medicine Bow National Forest
Cheyenne is the gateway to the 2.9 million–acre Medicine Bow National Forest, so rise and shine and double knot your hiking boots. Start off with breakfast at local favorite Luxury Diner, which operated as a trolley car on the streets of Cheyenne until 1912. Then, head west toward Medicine Bow’s Snowy Range (a collection of 140 mountains within the national forest) for rock climbing or a light hike among the 70 million–year-old igneous rock formations of Vedauwoo. For lunch, you can fuel up in nearby Laramie—try an artichoke burger at the vegetarian Sweet Melissa Café or a beef burger along with wings or nachos at Born in a Barn before continuing onto alpine lakes for fishing, paddleboarding, or kayaking. Additional hiking options include a moderate three-mile (two-hour) trek along the Medicine Bow Peak Trail and, for a challenge, tack on the Lakes Trail Loop. Afterwards, visit the 4,700-acre family owned Deerwood Ranch Wild Horse EcoSanctuary, the country’s first private land parcel for wild mustang horses that happens to be free to the public. Finish the day an hour away at the luxurious dude ranch Brush Creek Ranch.
Day 3: Hot springs in Saratoga
If you’re ready to relax a little, you’ll find plenty of wellness offerings at Brush Creek, or you can head into the picturesque resort town of Saratoga, home to some of Wyoming’s famed mineral hot springs. Native Americans consider these waters that flow over magma and hot rock to be sacred and to have medicinal healing powers. Just 20 minutes from Bush Creek Ranch is Hobo Hot Springs, where the Lobster Pot and Hobo Pool stay at a balmy 120 degrees from the heat deep from within the Earth’s crust. They’re free, open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and are near more natural hot pools that line the banks of the North Platte River. For dinner, consider an opulent meal at the Brush Creek Trailhead Lodge or a more casual creek-side spread outdoors, which is offered by the ranch. Then end the night at the property’s boisterous saloon. Alternatively, you can also head into Saratoga for a homey Italian meal at Bella’s Bistro.
Days 4–5: Jackson and Grand Teton National Park
Now it’s time to head north to “the Mountains of the Imagination”— Grand Teton National Park, nicknamed for its wild and rugged landscapes that look like artwork. If you’re an experienced backpacker with the right gear—don’t forget your bear spray—head deep into the park’s 200 miles of trails (check out showstopper views at Cascade Canyon Trail), or opt for an easy 1.8-mile hike on Hidden Falls and Inspiration Point Trail, with a big view of a thundering cascade and, of course, lakes and mountains. If you make Jackson your base for exploring the Tetons, you’ll have no shortage of appealing accommodation options, including the Cloudveil, Autograph Collection, a sleek new property with thoughtful design features that opened in 2021, as well as two motor lodges turned hip hotels—Anvil Hotel and Mountain Modern Motel. Or splurge for a scenic and restorative stay at nearby Caldera House in Teton Village.
Days 6–8: Yellowstone National Park
Just 25 minutes north of Grand Teton National Park is the original U.S. national park—Yellowstone, a park that speaks in gurgles of geysers, hot springs, and mud pots. It also protects the world’s largest public herd of bison, sacred to the 27 tribes who have inhabited this land since the 1400s. This is one of the last and largest nearly intact natural ecosystems on the planet with the most active geothermal features anywhere, including half of the world’s active geysers. Check out the Yellowstone Guide for an online guided tour.
Visitors should take the park’s southern loop if they want to pay homage to Old Faithful, the most famous of the 500 geysers in Yellowstone—it shoots sizzling hot water up to 180 feet nearly 20 times each day. Next, get lost in the brilliant blue, green, and orange tendrils of the steamy Grand Prismatic Hot Spring. Yellowstone’s most photographed thermal feature is actually a supervolcano and the third largest hot spring in the world. Check in at the classic and popular Old Faithful Inn, complete with lodgepole pine and stone fireplaces. Built in 1903, it’s one of the country’s few remaining log hotels, an architectural marvel that influenced national park architecture we see throughout the country today.
While visiting the park, make sure to stop by the new Yellowstone Tribal Heritage Center, which celebrates the region’s tribal communities. When Yellowstone was first established, tribal communities were initially pushed out by the government and are now being embraced. The center is near Old Faithful and hosts daily tribal presentations; it is a fine place to learn about the culture and heritage of the tribal nations.
Day 9: Yellowstone wildlife
While the north loop got the worst of the flooding, and some roads are still closed along with the north and northwest gates, park officials announced after a surge of funding the reopening of most of the park in early July. Check road closure updates, and if you’re in the clear, from the Old Faithful Inn drive 50 minutes to Yellowstone’s hottest and oldest thermal feature, Norris Geyser Basin, then hit up the remains of a 600,000-year-old volcanic explosion, Mammoth Hot Springs. Next, head east and be on the lookout for bison. In the park, you’re likely to stumble on these agile and burly beasts in the Tower-Roosevelt area (home to a 132-foot waterfall gushing down eroded volcanic rock), with expansive views of Mount Washburn, a petrified tree entombed in mud and rock, and other geologic formations that helped shape the area.
Visit the Lamar Valley to spot elk, moose, grizzly bears, badgers, bald eagles, pronghorn, osprey, deer, coyotes, wolves—and yes, thousands of bison. It was here and in the high plateaus above that the dwindling buffalo population recovered in the 20th century, when park managers purchased 21 bison and raised them here. (A second herd lives in the Hayden Valley.) Conservationists are still working this year to repopulate Yellowstone bison by moving some to 18 tribal communities across the country. Finish the day exploring the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River, Canyon Village, and your choice of Artist Paint Pots (thermal features including hot pools, mud pots, and small geysers), the Mud Volcano (remains of a mud deposit after a late-1800s thermal explosion), or waterfalls (yes, right in Canyon Village). Eat and crash in the sprawling, modern, and ecofriendly Canyon Lodge and Cabins.
Day 10: Shoshone National Forest
If you exit Yellowstone at the East Entrance, you’ll stumble right into the country’s first national forest, which borders Yellowstone along the Wyoming–Montana border. The plains of Shoshone National Forest offer sagebrush, glaciers, and pristine lakes and rivers. Three craggy snowcapped mountain ranges create up to nearly 2.5 million acres for hiking. Here, you can also explore a mining ghost town called Kirwin, visited by gold prospectors Ernest Hemmingway and Amelia Earhart. Make the most of your final supper in Wyoming in nearby Cody with live music and slow-cooked meat at the Cody Cattle Company, finishing off the trip the way you came in—like a cowboy—in the Irma Hotel, built by Buffalo Bill (yes, Cody was named after him too). Now that your epic Wyoming road trip is over, tip your hat to this incredible state at the Yellowstone Regional Airport. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/national-parks-hot-springs-and-the-great-american-frontier-the-ultimate-wyoming-road-trip | 2022-08-19T23:56:57Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/national-parks-hot-springs-and-the-great-american-frontier-the-ultimate-wyoming-road-trip | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Friday said Sen. Lindsey Graham's appearance before a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia should not be delayed to allow him to continue to challenge it in court.
Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May ordered Graham to honor his subpoena for the special grand jury. Graham's attorneys appealed that order to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and asked May to stay her ruling and prohibit the special grand jury from questioning him while that appeal plays out. May declined that request in her order on Friday.
"Under the circumstances, further delay of Senator Graham's testimony would greatly compound the overall delay in carrying out the grand jury's investigation," May wrote. "Further delay thus poses a significant risk of overall hindrance to the grand jury's investigation, and the Court therefore finds that granting a stay would almost certainly result in material injury to the grand jury and its investigation."
Graham is currently scheduled to testify on Tuesday. But he still has another motion to stay May's ruling pending before the 11th Circuit.
Representatives for Graham did not immediately respond to messages on Friday seeking comment.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened the investigation early last year and in July filed petitions seeking to compel testimony from seven Trump advisers and associates, including Graham.
Former New York mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, who's been told he's a target of the investigation, testified before the special grand jury for nearly six hours on Wednesday. Two other lawyers who advised Trump, John Eastman and Jenna Ellis, were ordered this week to appear before the panel later this month. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp filed a motion Wednesday seeking to quash a subpoena for his testimony.
The investigation, originally prompted by a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, is one of several pending legal threats Trump faces. Willis has said she's considering seeking to compel the former president himself to testify before the special grand jury.
Attorneys for Graham, a South Carolina Republican, have argued that a provision of the U.S. Constitution provides absolute protection against a senator being questioned about legislative acts. But the judge found there are "considerable areas of potential grand jury inquiry" that fall outside that provision's scope. The judge also rejected Graham's argument that the principle of "sovereign immunity" protects a U.S. senator from being summoned by a state prosecutor.
Graham also argued that Willis, a Democrat, had not demonstrated extraordinary circumstances necessary to compel testimony from a high-ranking official. But the judge disagreed, finding that Willis had shown "extraordinary circumstances and a special need" for Graham's testimony on issues related to an alleged attempt to influence or disrupt the election in Georgia.
Willis and her team have said they want to ask Graham about two phone calls they say he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff shortly after the 2020 general election. During those calls, Graham asked about "reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia in order to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump," Willis wrote in a petition.
Graham also "made reference to allegations of widespread voter fraud in the November 2020 election in Georgia, consistent with public statements made by known affiliates of the Trump Campaign," she wrote.
Republican and Democratic state election officials across the country, courts and even Trump's attorney general found there was no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to affect the outcome of the election.
In asking May to stay her decision, Graham's lawyers argued that his rights to immunity would be violated the moment he was questioned.
Willis' team responded that delaying Graham's testimony would harms the investigation. In addition to facts he knows, he's also expected to shed light on other sources of information that the special grand jury may want to pursue, they wrote. So waiting to talk to him "could ultimately delay" the entire investigation.
In the separate motion for a stay filed with the 11th Circuit, Graham's attorneys argue that on Wednesday Chief Senior Assistant District Attorney Donald Wakeford agreed to postpone the scheduled testimony pending the outcome of the appeal. They included a voicemail Wakeford left for Graham attorney Brian Lea.
Lea says in a declaration filed with the motion that later that same afternoon Wakeford confirmed Graham's grand jury appearance wouldn't move forward until the appeal was resolved. But then Wakeford sent an email 20 minutes later "stating that he did not 'want to characterize the contents of our response before it is written,'" Lea wrote.
Lea said he reached out to Wakeford several more times by phone and email but got no response until Wakeford sent an email at 4:40 a.m. Friday saying the district attorney's office intended to oppose the stay and would argue that Graham should appear before the special grand jury as planned.
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Associated Press writer Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed reporting.
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(WXYZ) — Belle Isle posted Friday that they are temporarily closing the giant slide due to speed issues.
Chopper video on Friday showed a few wild rides on the slide. Today was the first day it was reopened to the public.
Belle Isle says they are making adjustments to help with the speed.
Belle Isle closes giant slide over speed issues
“Hopefully after our small adjustment we will be back up and running and the slide will be slower for more enjoyment,” read the statement. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/video-belle-isle-closes-giant-slide-over-speed-issues-plans-to-make-adjustments | 2022-08-20T00:00:53Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/video-belle-isle-closes-giant-slide-over-speed-issues-plans-to-make-adjustments | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
No.6 seed Aryna Sabalenka surged into her fourth semifinal of the season with a 6-4, 7-6(1) win over China's Zhang Shuai at the Western & Southern Open.
Sabalenka beat Zhang for the fourth time in five meetings, including a second time this year, in 1 hour, 49 minutes. All five matches between the two players have been decided in straight sets, and to do so this time, Sabalenka needed to fight back from several deficits. She won the first set from a break down at 4-3, and was also a break down four times in the second set.
In the second set's latest stages, Sabalenka found her best tennis: Zhang served for the set at 5-4, only to be broken to love, and lost seven straight points in the tiebreak after winning the first. Sabalenka also saved two break points at 5-5, holding serve from 15-40 behind.
Stat of the day: It's Sabalenka's first hard-court semifinal since last summer's US Open. It's also her second in Cincinnati, having first done so in 2018.
By the numbers: Keys outhits Rybakina to return to Cincinnati semis
Words from the winner: The match was a high-quality contest off the ground: Sabalenka hit 43 winners to 31 unforced errors, while Zhang tallied 15 winners to just seven unforced.
"It was a tough match and she played unbelievable tennis," Sabalenka said in victory. "I'm super happy that, even if my serve didn't work well today in the second set, I was able to stay focused in return games. I did everything I could to stay focused in return games."
A third final at stake: Sabalenka now bids for her third final of the season, after finished as runner-up to Iga Swiatek at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart and to Veronika Kudermetova at the Libema Open on grass.
To get there, she'll have to beat either No.7 seed Jessica Pegula or Caroline Garcia. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2750497/sabalenka-surges-past-zhang-into-cincinnati-semifinals | 2022-08-20T00:01:06Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2750497/sabalenka-surges-past-zhang-into-cincinnati-semifinals | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
At least three mallard ducks in Mile Square Park in Fountain Valley have been found in recent weeks with their bills severed, leaving them unable to eat and suffering from starvation.
Two ducks had to be euthanized; the other died before it could be brought to a wildlife care center.
Both Orange County Animal Care and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife are investigating.
The first duck was brought into the Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center on July 31. Debbie McGuire, the center’s executive director, initially believed there was some sort of field predator in the park.
“Sometimes we’ll have ducks come in with the top or bottom bill broken off, usually caused by fishing line entanglement, but I’ve never seen both bills broken off,” she said. “When the second duck came in we started thinking this might not be a predator.”
After the second duck was brought in on August 13, McGuire shared news of the injuries with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, who told her the attacks likely were caused by a human.
On Friday, Aug. 19, McGuire learned that another duck with a severed beak had been found at the park by an employee with the wildlife center in mid June. The center had closed for the day so the employee took the duck home to care for it, but because it had been unable to eat for so long, the duck did not make it through the night.
There have been other recent cases of animal abuse in Orange County parks. In May, several ducks and geese were shot at Costa Mesa’s TeWinkle Park.
But McGuire said the Fountain Valley discoveries seemed especially heinous.
“The images (of the ducks) haunt me when I go to sleep at night,” she said.
McGuire said she has received many calls from community members looking to offer any aid they can in finding the person responsible, including one resident who offered to place a $5,000 reward for the suspect’s arrest.
As of Friday, no suspect information was available.
Anyone with information on the attacks should call CalTip at 888-334-2258, or OC Animal Care at 714-935-6848.
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BOSTON — An authenticated Apple-1 Computer prototype from the mid-1970s has sold at auction for nearly $700,000.
According to a report by the Bay Area News Group, “a leading expert and the auction house say the device — a broken circuit board apparently crammed in a drawer for years — is a rare (Steve) Wozniak-built computer that Steve Jobs, Apple’s other co-founder, used to woo a pioneering retailer at a Mountain View computer shop in a seminal tech-industry moment in 1976.”
A Bay Area collector who wishes to remain anonymous made the winning $677,196 bid on Thursday, the auctioneer said.
“There is no Apple-1 without this board — it’s the holy grail of Steve Jobs and Apple memorabilia,” said Bobby Livingston, RR Auction’s executive vice president.
The board has been matched to Polaroid photographs taken by Paul Terrell, owner of the Byte Shop in Mountain View in 1976, showing the prototype in use. It was also examined and authenticated by Apple-1 expert Corey Cohen, whose notarized 13-page report accompanied the sale.
The prototype resided on the Apple Garage property for many years before being given by Jobs to the seller about 30 years ago.
Bay Area News Group reporter Ethan Baron contributed to this report.
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UCLA football coach Chip Kelly remains focused on “this team and this season” despite the ongoing conversation about the future.
With much discussion about the university’s decision to move to the Big Ten Conference in 2024, that conference’s new seven-year TV deal or the UC Regents meeting that was held not far from the football facility this week, Kelly believes having his attention anywhere else, with the season opener against Bowling Green just two weeks away, would be unfair.
“Our north star for this group is two things,” Kelly said. “This team and this season.
“We have a bunch of players who have given everything to this program. … They’re not going to be here in two years. If our focus and attention is on something in two years (from now), then we aren’t doing our job in creating an environment for those guys to be successful.”
He concluded his remarks by rattling off a number of names on the current roster that apply to his statement. Most of those players were members of Kelly’s first UCLA recruiting class in 2018 or came in prior to his arrival.
“We’re aware of it,” Kelly said regarding ongoing talks about the program’s future. “But I don’t have anything to do and our coaching staff has nothing to do with any of the planning or what’s going into that part of it.”
Over the past week, the program has used its platform to highlight some of its players from that 2018 recruiting class, which helped illustrate the focus prior to Kelly’s comments on Friday.
Defensive back Stephan Blaylock and lineman Atonio Mafi were members of that 2018 class and provided a level of consistency on the field for the Bruins. Both have played in all 43 of the Bruins’ games since their true freshman season.
Blaylock holds the longest active start streak on the roster with 31 consecutive starts in the secondary, dating to 2019. He’s also been among the team’s top five in tackles each of the last three seasons.
Mafi started 14 of his first 24 games with the Bruins before making the switch from defensive line to offensive line in 2020. He appeared in all seven games as a reserve and on special teams before earning three starts at guard in 2021.
While Mafi has remained a constant on the field, he’s also been consistent about his body transformation. He’s lost 70 pounds since joining the program at 411 pounds.
Kelly credits Mafi’s determination and dedication to come in and work out on his own early in the morning when the coaches are getting their own workout in.
“I’m really really proud of (Mafi) and everything he’s done,” Kelly said. “He’s such a special kid … you see him up on the elliptical on his own and see him on the stationary bike just putting in that extra time and it’s paying off for him as a player.”
BEST IN THE WORLD
Harvard transfer Jacob Sykes found a new home in UCLA through the transfer portal this offseason. Sykes has set high expectations for himself and believes his mindset falls in line with what is being asked of the defense this season.
“I attack every day thinking I am the best player in the world,” Sykes said. “I just have to prove it every day. I want to establish myself as a dominant player and even if I don’t play well one day I’m going to attack the next day with the same mindset.”
Sykes is a redshirt senior with aspirations of playing in the NFL after his time at UCLA. He had opportunities to play for Northwestern and Rutgers and several Ivy League programs coming out of high school but decided Harvard was best for him.
“I settled on Harvard because the name Harvard (on a degree) will open doors,” Sykes said. “God forbid I get hurt or anything like that, but I have a great degree to help support my family and those types of things.”
He also believes Harvard offered a great balance of athletics and academics for him, with the Ivy League offering a “great caliber of football” that can prepare players for success in the NFL.
Sykes decided to explore his options to play for another program in a bigger conference after 2021, because of the extra year of eligibility that was offered to all student-athletes after the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.
“It’s going good,” Sykes said of the level of competition at UCLA. “It’s a little bit different here. It’s a lot more up-tempo and fast-paced and the guys are a little bit bigger and stronger but it’s going well.”
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New figures show the cost of raising a child is becoming more expensive as the nation grapples with rising inflation.
A recent estimate conducted by the Brookings Institution projected the cost of raising a child for a middle-income, two-parent married family with two kids to be north of $310,000.
The estimate assumes the youngest child would be born in 2015 and covers raising the child through the age of 17. It does not include the cost of sending the child to college.
Brookings uses a methodology from a previous report on child expenditures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The figure is roughly $80,000 more than the estimate USDA released in 2017, when it calculated the average child-rearing costs for a middle-income, married couple with a child born in the same year.
The estimate was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
To calculate the number, experts used an average inflation rate of 2.23 percent, similar to the rate used in the USDA report, to estimate the total cost from 2015 to 2020. But the new report also factors in a 1.77 percent increase in the rate for 2021 and subsequent years.
Isabel Sawhill, a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, told The Hill the calculation was based on past trends in the nation’s inflation rates.
“I said, what is the most comparable historical period to right now? And it turns out, in my opinion, that it was the late 1970s, when we had double digit inflation,” said Sawhill, who produced the estimate along with Morgan Welch, a senior research assistant for the Center on Children and Families.
Sawhill pointed to the actions taken by then-Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to combat the rising costs that helped spur a recession.
“We had a big recession in the early 80s, actually two back-to-back recessions, and eventually, the inflation rate got back to normal,” Sawhill said, which she added the Fed considers to be around 2 percent.
“I looked at all that data, and I estimated that on average over this period, the inflation rate would be 4 percent,” Sawhill said.
The new estimate only crunches numbers for middle-income, married parents, and doesn’t include projections for single parent households, or consider how race factors into cost challenges.
But Sawhill said lower-income families are likely to bear a significant burden from the higher costs, calling it “a much more important expense for lower income than for higher income families.”
“Bill Gates is not going to worry about how much it costs to raise a child,” she put plainly, while saying she thinks the sharp rise in costs in recent years show it’s “a greater burden than it used to be to have children.” | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/new-estimate-projects-cost-of-raising-a-child-at-310k/ | 2022-08-20T00:13:51Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/new-estimate-projects-cost-of-raising-a-child-at-310k/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Young people can catch a ride for free with Yakima Transit beginning Oct. 1.
The Yakima City Council on Tuesday approved a change to bus fares, allowing the city to participate in a state program that replaces lost youth revenues for transit agencies that provide fare-free service to individuals ages 18 and younger.
The program is funded by the Move Ahead Washington transportation package passed by the Legislature this year.
When the change goes into effect in October, those ages 18 and younger will be able to ride Yakima Transit buses, the Yakima-Ellensburg Commuter and Dial-A-Ride paratransit service for free.
Eligible riders must show a Yakima Transit Youth Card, which can be obtained for free at the Yakima Transit Center (South Fourth and Walnut streets) or at Public Works, 2301 Fruitvale Blvd.
Riders can also show a current school photo ID, valid government ID or birth certificate to receive free fare. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/free-fares-begin-oct-1-for-kids-on-yakima-transit-copy/article_0553e100-2011-11ed-8deb-4342326f4d6f.html | 2022-08-20T00:15:22Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/free-fares-begin-oct-1-for-kids-on-yakima-transit-copy/article_0553e100-2011-11ed-8deb-4342326f4d6f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DAY 1: FLIGHT TO BOSTON
Today fly to the historic city of Boston. Upon arrival meet your Tour Director and transfer to your Boston area hotel for a one night stay. Enjoy a Welcome Drink this evening. Overnight: Boston area, MA
DAY 2: BOSTON CITY TOUR - PLYMOUTH - CAPE COD
This morning enjoy a Boston City Tour featuring Boston Commons, the Old State House, the Old North Church from where Paul Revere got the signal to start his famous ride, the Old South Meeting House, Beacon Hill and Old Ironsides. Visit the Faneuil Hall Marketplace, located in downtown Boston near the waterfront and originally gifted to the city in 1742. Later depart Boston and travel to Plymouth. Visit Plimoth Plantation, an accurate recreation of the Pilgrim’s 1627 village where costumed interpreters portray colony residents in this living history museum. Then celebrate the journey that brought the pilgrims to the New World as you visit the Mayflower II, the 1620 ship reproduction was recently renovated for the 400th Anniversary of the voyage. Also see famous Plymouth Rock, the place where the Pilgrims first stepped ashore after a 66 day trans-Atlantic voyage. Later arrive at your hotel on Cape Cod for a 5-night stay. Enjoy a Welcome Dinner this evening with your fellow travelers.
(B,D) Overnight: Hyannis/Yarmouth, MA
DAY 3: MARTHA’S VINEYARD
This morning enjoy a scenic ferry ride to famous Martha’s Vineyard where little has changed since European settlers arrived early in the 17th century. The island’s resident population includes writers, artists, entertainers and fishermen. Your Martha’s Vineyard Tour includes the colorful Victorian cottages of Oak Bluffs, Edgartown with its stately houses built by whaling captains, pristine beaches and colorful yacht harbors. Later return via ferry and back to your hotel.
(B) Overnight: Hyannis/Yarmouth, MA
DAY 4: CAPE COD NAT’L SEASHORE - CRANBERRIES - P’TOWN
This morning travel along the Cape Cod National Seashore, dedicated in 1961 by President JFK, which features forty miles of pristine sandy beaches, marshes, ponds, and uplands supporting diverse species of wildlife dotted with lighthouses, cultural landscapes and wild cranberry bogs. Visit a traditional Cranberry Bog and learn about the harvesting of Cape Cod’s famous fruit. Later arrive in Provincetown, located on the tip of Cape Cod which boasts a lively artist community, beautiful beaches, great restaurants and charming shops. Enjoy some leisure time to relax, eat and shop. Late afternoon return to your Cape Cod hotel. Dinner is included this evening at a popular local restaurant.
(B,D) Overnight: Hyannis/Yarmouth, MA
DAY 5: NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND
Today visit Newport, Rhode Island, one of New England’s most delightful coastal cities and a long time favorite vacation site of affluent socialites and yachting enthusiasts. Enjoy a Newport City Tour and drive by the Touro Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in America, the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the splendid estates along Bellevue Avenue. Marvel at the extravagant life-style of a bygone era with a guided tour of The Breakers Mansion, the Vanderbilt’s lavishly decorated turn of the century mansion. Then follow “Ten-Mile-Drive” along the magnificent rocky coast which boasts exquisite estates from the early 1900’s.
(B) Overnight: Hyannis/Yarmouth, MA
DAY 6: NANTUCKET ISLAND
This morning board a ferry and cruise to scenic and historic Nantucket Island featuring a cobblestoned Main Street, unspoiled beaches, sea Captains’ houses and art galleries. Enjoy a visit to the Nantucket Whaling Museum including its rooftop observation deck overlooking the harbor and other whaling exhibits all reflections of an island that some 300 years ago was the whaling capital of the world. Enjoy some time at your own pace to shop or explore the yacht filled harbor and waterfront. This afternoon board a ferry and return to your Cape Cod hotel. Tonight’s Farewell Dinner is a traditional New England Lobster Dinner.
(B,D) Overnight: Hyannis/Yarmouth, MA
DAY 7: CAPE COD - BOSTON FLIGHT HOME
Today transfer to the Boston airport filled with wonderful memories of your Cape Cod & the Islands Tour.
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DAY 1: ARRIVE CHICAGO
Arrive in Chicago and meet your Tour Director. Check into your hotel for a 2-night stay in Chicago, “the Windy City” and 3rd largest city in the U.S. This evening join your Tour Director and traveling companions for a Welcome Dinner.
(D) Overnight: Chicago
DAY 2: CHICAGO CITY TOUR
This morning a local guide leads your Chicago City Tour featuring famous landmarks such as Sears Tower, Wrigley Building, Water Tower Place, The Bean and Navy Pier. Next enjoy a unique Windy City experience, a Chicago River Boat Architecture Tour which provides an entertaining river cruise of through downtown. Chicago is known around the world for its architectural feats from the 100-year-old Art Deco, Neo-Classical and Gothic Towers, to some of the tallest modern-day skyscrapers. Enjoy some time at leisure in this great city filled with fabulous shopping opportunities, great restaurants and incredible museums.
(B) Overnight: Chicago
DAY 3: CHICAGO - GRAND RAPIDS
This morning travel to Grand Rapids, Michigan’s second largest city. Upon arrival visit the Gerald R. Ford Museum featuring displays of the private life and public career of President Ford. This evening overnight in Grand Rapids.
(B) Overnight: Grand Rapids
DAY 4: GRAND RAPIDS - MACKINAC ISLAND
This morning enjoy the passing scenery as you travel north towards Mackinaw City. Arrive and visit the Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse which marks the junction of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Founded in 1889, the castle style Lighthouse was in operation from 1890 until 1957. Later board a ferry and cross the Straits of Mackinac, and arrive on famous Mackinac Island for a two night stay. The island preserves the charm of a bygone era. No automobiles are permitted, transportation is by horse-drawn carriage, bicycle or saddle horse.
(B,D) Overnight: Mackinac Island
DAY 5: MACKINAC ISLAND
Today experience a Mackinac Island Carriage Tour to step back in time as you enjoy the atmosphere of this unique treasure. One of today’s highlights will be lunch at the famous Grand Hotel, which has been catering to the needs of guests since 1887. The remainder of your day is at leisure to explore the shops, enjoy a nature walk or just relax.
(B,L) Overnight: Mackinac Island
DAY 6: MACKINAC ISLAND - MICHIGAN’S UPPER PENINSULA - GREEN BAY
This morning leave secluded Mackinac Island via ferry & cruise to St. Ignace. Board your motorcoach and enjoy the scenic ride through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a forested region well known for its shoreline as it borders three of the Great Lakes. This afternoon enter Wisconsin, “America’s Dairyland” renown for its cheese. Arrive in Green Bay to visit famous Lambeau Field to tour the home stadium of the Green Bay Packers football team. Later check into your Green Bay hotel for a two night stay.
(B) Overnight: Green Bay
DAY 7: GREEN BAY - DOOR COUNTY - GREEN BAY
This morning venture to charming Door County, one of the most scenic places in the country located on the western side of Lake Michigan featuring over 250 miles of shoreline. Drive through quaint villages and make a stop at picturesque Eagle Bluff Lighthouse. This evening enjoy an authentic Door County traditional meal, a Fish Boil Dinner.
(B,D) Overnight: Green Bay
DAY 8: GREEN BAY - WISCONSIN DELLS - MILWAUKEE
Today enjoy a scenic Upper Dells Boat Cruise featuring sandstone formations, pine-crowned cliffs and winding river narrows. The Dells is home to a colorful history featuring Native American legends and tales of larger-than-life characters, all centered along the banks of the Wisconsin River. Later travel to Milwaukee and enjoy a Farewell Dinner of local specialties with your traveling companions.
(B,D) Overnight: Milwaukee
DAY 9: MILWAUKEE - CHICAGO
Today return to Chicago and board your flight home filled with wonderful memories of your journey through the Great Lakes. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/travel/fall-colors-lighthouses-of-the-great-lakes/article_25f9de60-2006-11ed-aadf-0b411cf3e410.html | 2022-08-20T00:24:30Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/travel/fall-colors-lighthouses-of-the-great-lakes/article_25f9de60-2006-11ed-aadf-0b411cf3e410.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The conviction of a Moss Bluff man who pleaded guilty to the murder of a CrossFit jogger in October 2020 has been upheld, however, his sentence will be vacated and sent back to the trial court.
The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal ruled this month that errors were made when George D. McKinney Jr. was sentenced for running over Jason D. Webb, 30, on October 29, 2020, who was jogging on Old Highway 171.
The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office stated that at that time that McKinney was traveling southbound at a high rate of speed, he crossed the center line and struck Webb.
Deputies reportedly said they noticed signs of impairment and found alcoholic beverages in McKinney's vehicle. A breath intoxilyzer test later found McKinney to be two times over the legal limit.
Webb was transported to a local hospital where he died from the injuries he sustained.
McKinney initially pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide with a blood alcohol reading of 0.8 or higher and was sentenced up to 30 years in prison with at least three years to be served without benefit of probation, parole or suspension and a fine of not less than $2,000 and no more than $15,000.
According to an article published on the American Press website, the court said McKinney received an indeterminate sentence because the trial court failed to specify the amount of time to be served without benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence. The court also said the 14th Judicial District Court ordered McKinney to pay restitution to the family for funeral expenses, medical bills and any future counseling Webb’s children may need without determining a set amount.
The appeals court ruled that the trial court failed to specify how many years were to be served without benefits and did not establish a payment plan for restitution. The court also found that the trial court failed to order McKinney to participate in a court- approved substance abuse program as required by law.
Details on the initial incident and arrest can be found on our website by clicking here. | https://www.katc.com/news/calcasieu-parish/errors-found-in-sentencing-for-man-who-killed-moss-bluff-jogger-in-2020 | 2022-08-20T00:25:09Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/calcasieu-parish/errors-found-in-sentencing-for-man-who-killed-moss-bluff-jogger-in-2020 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Money, money, money, MONAAAAAY! Some Hawaii residents can look forward to getting a little boost to their bank accounts, as the state’s Act 115 Tax Rebate is expected to go out starting sometime toward the end of September.
The Act 115 tax rebate was one of several bills passed at the end of the legislative session in April and a product of the state’s billion dollar surplus. Act 115 will provide a one-time refund – either $300 or $100 (more on that later) – to individuals who filed a state tax return for the 2021 tax year.
Now down to brass tacks: How much money should Hawaii taxpayers expect to receive?
According to the plan, Hawaii taxpayers will receive monies based on their filing status, adjusted gross income, and the number of exemptions claimed.
The Department of Taxation beaks it down like this:
Under the plan, a family of four could receive up to $1,200 from the state if their adjusted gross income is below $100,000 per year.
So when can taxpayers expect to see that bump in the bank account?
Anyone who filed their tax return between Jan. 1 and July 31 of this year, and setup their returns to be direct deposited, will see their Hawaii Rebate Check in September 2022, according to the Taxation Department.
Anyone who filed their tax return between Jan. 1 and July 31 of this year, and setup their returns to be sent via a paper check, will see their Hawaii Rebate Check between September and October 2022.
Anyone who filed (or plans to file) AFTER July 2022 will see their Hawaii Rebate Check up to 10 weeks after filing for direct deposit or up to 12 weeks after filing for a paper check.
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/business/show-me-the-money-hawaii-tax-rebate-checks-up-to-300-going-out-soon/article_2605201a-2013-11ed-b095-77c073c1bc8c.html | 2022-08-20T00:31:40Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/show-me-the-money-hawaii-tax-rebate-checks-up-to-300-going-out-soon/article_2605201a-2013-11ed-b095-77c073c1bc8c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Power Corporation of Canada (TSE: POW) is a relatively large Canadian financial holding company that has performed well over the years when including its dividends. However, it has underperformed the S&P 500 (SPX) and the TSX indexes over the past five years. POW stock has fallen along with the rest of the market this year, and investors may be wondering if there is a buying opportunity here. Despite its 5.6% dividend yield, analysts are only slightly bullish on the stock, and we are neutral.
POW holds controlling interests in insurance company Great-West Lifeco (TSE: GWO), asset-management company IGM Financial (TSE: IGM), and Pargesa, a holding company with interests in European companies, making Power Corporation diversified.
Power Corporation’s Dividend is Good, but It’s Nothing Special
There are several things to consider when looking at a dividend stock, such as its dividend yield, payout ratio, and dividend-growth prospects. POW’s figures reveal that it’s a decent dividend stock but probably isn’t the best.
On a trailing-12-months (TTM) basis, POW’s dividend yield is 5.45%. However, because it raised its dividend from C$0.45 to C$0.49 in Q1 2022, its forward dividend yield is 5.6%, which is pretty good.
Also, its payout ratio sits at about 50.5%, meaning the company has the capacity to raise its dividend more – as long as its earnings remain steady.
Power Corporation’s dividend raises have also been relatively steady over the past eight years, and its five-year dividend compound annual growth rate (CAGR) comes in at 8.1%. If it can keep up this dividend growth rate for the next five years, its dividend yield will reach 8.3%.
This is respectable; however, there are other solid companies out there with higher dividend yields after this year’s sell-off. Also, there are concerns regarding the company’s value-creation capabilities, which we discuss below.
Power Corporation Isn’t a Value Creator
An easy way to figure out if a company is a value creator is to see if its returns on capital are greater than the cost of that same capital. For financial companies, it makes sense to use return on equity for this calculation. On a TTM basis, Power Corp’s return on equity is 10.6%. While this may seem like a respectable number, its cost of equity is currently 11.6%, meaning the company has theoretically destroyed some shareholder value in the past year.
Indeed, over the past five years, Power Corp’s return on equity averaged 10.3%, which isn’t the greatest compared to its high cost of equity. Even its diluted earnings per share (EPS) have been relatively flat over the past 10 years, with the exception of 2021, bringing a spike in EPS that has since returned near its mean.
Its EPS figure of C$3.59 on a TTM basis is still lower than the C$3.91 recorded in Fiscal 2015 and not much higher than the five-year average EPS of C$3.21.
Is Power Corporation Stock Expected to Rise?
Turning to Wall Street, POW stock earns a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on two Buys and five Holds assigned in the past three months. The average POW stock price target of C$39.86 implies 12.1% upside potential from current levels.
Interestingly, five-star BMO (TSE: BMO) Capital analyst Tom Mackinnon reiterated a Hold rating on the stock 11 days ago, and his price target is C$37, implying just 4% upside potential.
Conclusion: We Believe POW Stock is a Hold
While Power Corporation provides a nice dividend yield that should grow modestly over time, there doesn’t seem to be a very lucrative market-beating opportunity here. This is especially true when considering the company’s low earnings growth rate and low return on equity compared to its cost of equity. We agree with five-star analyst Tom Mackinnon’s Hold rating that implies little upside potential, but analysts, in general, don’t expect much upside from the company regardless. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/is-power-corporation-stocks-5-6-dividend-worth-it | 2022-08-20T00:37:20Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/is-power-corporation-stocks-5-6-dividend-worth-it | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
House of the Dragon First Reviews: Don’t Expect Another Cultural Phenomenon
It’s hard to consider HBO’s new series, House of the Dragon without comparing it to its behemoth of a predecessor, Game of Thrones. “House of the Dragon has to be its own thing,” star Emma D’Arcy told W about the relationship between the two shows, and while ideally that would be the case, it’s just not realistic. Every Thrones fan tuning into Dragon when it premieres on Sunday night is going to compare it to the original show. It makes sense then, that as reviews role in for the first six episodes of Dragon, every single one of them not only mentions Thrones, but uses it as a rubric to grade its prequel.
Set 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen, Dragon begins in the ninth year of Viserys I Targaryen’s reign. The story is about succession, familial-conflict, and the constant pursuit of power. The New York Times called the show “reasonably smart and well put together,” but cautioned that this doesn’t necessarily “translate into engaging drama.”
If they were comparing Dragon to where we left off with Thrones in May 2019, with a disappointing last season that pushed characters beyond any realistic boundaries and wrapped up the story in a tidy, but wholly anticlimactic way, Dragon may have stood a chance. Mike Hale of NYT quipped that viewers will be “more pleased, surely, than it was with the GOT conclusion of 2019.” But when Thrones premiered in 2011, it became a hit because it sucked us into a completely realized world of fully-defined characters, intriguing conflict, and shocking turns. As Sam Adam’s writes in his review for Slate, though, after eight seasons of Thrones, viewers have come to expect just about everything the creators could throw at us. “Dragons begins in a fictional universe where betrayal is expected at every turn,” he wrote. “And only the terminally pure-hearted or simply naïve would be caught off guard”
Adam went on to say that Dragon “delivers on the promise of providing more of the same,” a sentiment common throughout many of the reviews. Roxana Haidadi of Vulture blames such “rote mimicry” as it “undermines character development and dampens any sparks generated by its ensemble.” In fact, the acting is one of the main aspects that does gain praise for this new show. Paddy Considine is applauded as Viserys I Targaryen, with his ability to “perfectly capture the compassion, jealousy and hesitance of a character whose actual and perceived weaknesses underlie every move of the plot,” according to NYT. D’Arcy too is described as “sharp” and Rhy Ifan, who plays Viserys’ closest adviser, Otto Hightower, as “sublime.”
In general, it seems that in many ways Dragon has learned from Thrones mistakes. The original show was often criticized for its depictions of violence, especially that against women. Recently, executive producer Sara Hess confirmed that sexual violence will not factor into the new series. “We handle one instance off-screen, and instead show the aftermath and impact on the victim and the mother of the perpetrator,” she told Vanity Fair. Instead, she explained the show will “focus on the violence against women that is inherent in a patriarchal system,” most overtly in the form of childbirth, three instances of which occur in the first six episodes.
But the real question is, does all of this really matter? Whether it’s better than Thrones or worse, more or less violent, just as engaging or not, fans will still tune in on Sunday for Dragon’s premiere, just as they did for Throne’s season finale, even after a less than impressive final season. And while they too will likely compare every minute to the Westeros they’re familiar with, many may just be happy to be back in the mind of George R.R. Martin at all. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/house-of-the-dragon-first-reviews | 2022-08-20T00:38:11Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/house-of-the-dragon-first-reviews | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Complete Fashion Breakdown of Blackpink’s “Pink Venom” Music Video
Blackpink’s stylists truly deserve a raise. The number of looks that Lisa, Jisoo, Jennie, and Rosé cycle through over the course of the three-minute, 13-second music video for “Pink Venom,” the first single off their upcoming album Born Pink? Easily 20, nearly all combining brands. The most prominent is by far Celine, which Lisa gives a special shoutout midway through the single. “This the life of a vandal, masked up and I'm still in Celine / Designer crimes or it wouldn't be me, ooh,” she raps, wearing a Celine-stamped bucket hat and overalls that expose her GCDS undergarments. Surprisingly, it seems to be the only Celine look in the video. (Though her love of Hedi Slimane’s designs no doubt remains strong; she regularly reps Celine and even walked the runway of its spring 2022 showing earlier this year.)
Jennie is also known for allegiance to a specific maison. And sure enough, the K-pop star made sure to rep Chanel with a necklace worn atop a denim Demobaza crop top. Expect to see more of the latter label soon: The finale is one big showcase of the Bulgarian designers behind it, Demo and Tono. As for Rosé and Jisoo, the former is again outfitted in Saint Laurent while the latter opted for head-to-toe Dior.
No wonder the group didn’t come to play: “Pink Venom” is the first song off what’s being considered their comeback album after a two-year hiatus. As we await the next fashion parades in their Born Pink videos, take a closer look at their many outfits, here.
Jennie interrupts to serve up the first show-stopping look: a sheer cheetah-print Alaïa dress worn with towering GCDS platforms.
Rosé makes her first appearance in another monochrome look, this time by the Vietnamese label Fanci.
Lisa is all about logos when she raps her Celine verse.
Jennie does her own take on sporty, juxtaposing a Manchester United crop top with Vivienne Westwood pearls.
Lisa enjoys a luxury jewelry moment with a little help from Bulgari.
Jisoo’s white corseted dress comes courtesy of the Puglia-based label Marina Eerrie.
Rosé has a penchant for black Saint Laurent minidresses.
Jennie’s Chanel boots stretched nearly all the way up to the shortest denim jumpsuit possible. She topped off the ensemble with a vegan leather Jeff Hamilton jacket covered in basketball team patches.
Jisoo’s knit arm warmer made for an unexpected pairing with her head-to-toe Dior.
Looks like arm warmers are in!
Lisa embraced the pink theme in a kerchief top by Alexander Wang.
Lisa’s look in all its glory. Her Sicko Cartel pants have got us wanting to start wearing camo, and those Rick Owens x Dr. Martens camper boots look perfect for fall
There’s the Chanel shoutout we knew was coming! The so-called “Human Chanel” also joined Jisoo and Rosé in wearing arm warmers.
A pink-haired Lisa got avant-garde, wearing a one-shoulder top reminiscent of Rick Owens.
Demobaza, Demobaza, Demobaza. The label is everywhere in the video’s finale.
See all of the looks in motion in the full video. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/blackpink-pink-venom-music-video-fashion-outfits | 2022-08-20T00:38:17Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/blackpink-pink-venom-music-video-fashion-outfits | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Hailey Bieber Mixes Business and Pleasure With Her Latest Look
The idea of taking lingerie out of the bedroom and into the streets is nothing new, the model sect has been doing it for years at this point. But Hailey Bieber gave a whole new meaning to “when business meets pleasure” on Thursday night when she paired some sheer, thigh-high stockings with a cut-out mini dress, making sure to show off the garter piece at the top.
Bieber actually pulled the styling trick of the stockings with the structured, deconstructed blazer dress from Blumarine straight from Nicola Brognano’s fall 2022 presentation. The difference is that Bieber swapped the pumps shown on the original model with a pair of chunky Alexander Wang loafers, adding to the professional/sinful juxtaposition. She then accessorized the look with some Balenciaga sunglasses and a By Far black leather shoulder bag.
The model wore the look to attend a party celebrating Kendall Jenner’s tequila brand, 818, in Malibu. Bieber was joined by her husband, Justin. He opted for a much more casual look in a gray Drew House sweatshirt and oversized jeans, the unfinished hem pooling on the floor. The couple donned similar, contrasting outfits just the night before for dinner at Catch Steak in Los Angeles. There, Bieber once again wore a little black dress, this one of the button-up knit variety. She paired that with knee-high boots and another black shoulder bag from Magda Butrym. For his part, Justin went all in on corduroy in a Drew House look completely realized in the fabric, featuring oversized pants and a short-sleeve sweatshirt, which he wore over a white long-sleeve shirt, a corduroy logo hat finishing off the look. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/hailey-bieber-all-black-blazer-dress-thigh-high-stockings | 2022-08-20T00:38:23Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/hailey-bieber-all-black-blazer-dress-thigh-high-stockings | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Harry Styles’s Shirt Plays It Loose on Date Night With Olivia Wilde
If you’re dating a man like Harry Styles, you’ll have to let him steal the fashion spotlight at times. Ahead of a monthlong string of concerts at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, Styles was spotted out and about last night with his girlfriend of over a year-and-a-half, Olivia Wilde. The pair was snapped exiting the restaurant Rubirosa, a dimly lit SoHo spot known for its cozy Italian-American fare.
Wilde looked effortlessly elegant as she mastered a classic NYC day-to-night look. She paired a well-cut navy t-shirt with a blue toilé high-waisted maxi skirt punctuated by buttons running down the front. She emphasized the casual vibe with a pair of Adidas tennies and a canvas tote from The Vampire’s Wife.
Ever the maximalist, Styles continued his well-documented love affair with crochet tops. This one was a long sleeve button-up with a very loose knit. As if to maximize the amount of skin showing, he left it unbuttoned to below his sternum. He finished the look off with a pair of wide-leg pants and simple white sneakers.
August is notoriously one of New York City’s most humid and casual months (half the town’s power players are out of office, traveling the globe on summer vacation before reality sets back in post-Labor Day). So Styles and Wilde’s choice to lean into more laid-back looks while still retaining their own style is a smart style answer to the question, “How should I dress in Manhattan in August?”
Expect to see a lot more of the pair in the Big Apple over the next few weeks. Styles’s Love on Tour already hit NYC for multiple dates back in October 2021, but he’s settling into the city with an impressive 15-date residency that will run into late September. At some point during the run, expect the pair to likely take a quick jaunt over to Italy: their film, Don’t Worry Darling, which Wilde directed and in which Styles co-stars alongside Florence Pugh, will premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in early September.
Of course, that means we’re in for an entire month of Harry Styles’s on-stage fashion, Harry Styles’s NYC street style, and Harry Styles’s leading-man red carpet style. His stylist is sure to be busy. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/harry-styles-olivia-wilde-date-night-style-nyc | 2022-08-20T00:38:29Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/harry-styles-olivia-wilde-date-night-style-nyc | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kylie Jenner Offers a New Take on the Denim Trend
On Wednesday night, Kendall Jenner hosted an investor party for her tequila brand—so, in other words, on Wednesday night, Kendall Jenner hosted a Kardashian-Jenner fashion parade. The model wore vintage Jean Paul Gaultier, and Kim, Kris, and Khloé all opted for black and white monochrome looks. Meanwhile, Kylie Jenner went full-on Y2K in head-to-toe denim. The 25-year-old beauty mogul went with a long-sleeved, form-fitting dress by Glenn Martens’s Y/Project, accessorizing with a matching bag with distressed detailing. (The label’s beloved designer, who recently gained acclaim for his reinterpretation of Gaultier couture, has a knack for getting inventive with denim; he once memorably designed a pair of underwear in the material.) She completed the look with statement sunglasses and a pair of high-heeled python-print boots.
Kylie is hardly alone in embracing denim as of late, but her take on the material stands apart. Celebs such as Rihanna, Bella Hadid, Nicole Kidman, and Tracee Ellis Ross have practically been competing in a giant jeans derby. (Those looking to follow suit can find our handy roundup of options here.)
It’s been a big month for Kylie and statement denim: She’s stepped out in a surprisingly affordable deconstructed Devised Antithetical miniskirt and further deconstructed Marine Serre dress in the material within the past two weeks. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/kylie-jenner-denim-y-project-dress | 2022-08-20T00:38:35Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/kylie-jenner-denim-y-project-dress | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The resurgence of ’90s and 2000s fashion has become an undeniable and pervasive trend, thanks in part to Gen Zers who have made it their job to bring back archived pieces like micro-mini skirts, heavy lip liner, and zig-zag hairstyles. Now, add musician Kali Uchis to the list of those reviving looks of yore: she launched her denim brand Bodied by Uchis’ Obsesión line this summer, and the bedazzled, curve-hugging jeans beloved by R&B girl groups like Destiny’s Child and 3LW are poised to make their comeback, too.
Those who lived through the early aughts might remember the jeans that marked this era: low-rise, bootcut, sometimes frayed, with intricate stitching, rhinestones, and embroidery. Mariah Carey wore denim of this sort in her “Heartbreaker” music video, they were Shakira’s chosen mainstay, and Christina Aguilera couldn’t get enough of them, either. Out of this Y2K fashion staple came a trend particular to South America, which originated in Colombia: the uncompromising “Colombian Blue Jean,” a style that eventually changed the entire denim industry in Latin America—and the world.
The original Colombian Blue Jean had very specific defining features: they were always boot-cut and low-rise; most did not come with pockets, and were made from a stretchy, spandex-like fabric (think jeggings), with unique embroidery, appliqués, and, in some cases, bright rhinestones. Most importantly, this style of denim was made with butt-lifting technology called “levanta cola,” which creates the appearance of a bigger cola (an endearing term for “butt” in Spanish) via its stretchy material and strategically placed embroidery, which outlines all the right places. A quick search on TikTok of the #LevantaColaJeans or #ColombianJeans hashtags reveal rows of mostly Latina women flaunting their enhanced colas and cinched waists. On Google, you’ll find a directory of small-owned businesses across New York, Miami, and Southern California selling the specially designed denim—you can even buy a pair from vendors on WhatsApp.
The exact date levanta cola jeans entered the market is unclear, but its rise in popularity goes back to the ’90s and early aughts, just after the advent of cable TV entered Colombian families’ homes. This was a time when hip-hop culture had gained global popularity; images of early iterations of the levanta cola blue jean are reminiscent of Black and Brown women’s fashion aesthetics from the 2000s. The impact of Black and Brown artists on trends and styles of that time spans generations and has had no borders. The jeans ultimately became a staple in Colombian culture that (literally) shaped denim wear—and it’s a culture that is very much still alive and thriving to this day.
While in the States, such styles of Y2K denim were critiqued as “tacky” and “cheap,” its predecessor in Colombia owned the attention. And it was the Colombian blue jean that inspired Colombian-American vocalist Kali Uchis’s new denim line, which features a fierce campaign with Lourdes Leon, in which the duo wears tight denim jeans, white tanks, heavy eye makeup, and thick lip gloss, recalling the aughts while simultaneously channeling trends of today. Uchis says the line is a nod to that bygone era, and is symbolic of “that person everyone sees down the street because they stand out. These jeans are for the people who are proud of who they are.”
She sees Obsesión as a celebration of the body and her own love for denim, which Uchis adds stems from her Colombian roots. Although she tells me she’s been excited to see people of all different shapes, sizes, and genders loving the jeans, she can’t help but notice others who have left degrading comments about the jeans looking “cheap” or like a “pulga” (“flea” in Spanish) on the brand’s Instagram account—many of whom she believes are Latinx themselves. “It’s an internalized self-hate of remembering when we would wear these when we were younger and having this stigma in our culture and heritage,” Uchis says. “The fashion industry is very classist. People who use the word ‘cheap’ are weird to me. These are good materials, what makes them cheap? Because it’s a Latina [wearing them]? Because it’s Colombian? It’s funny, the wording used around Latin styles…this is a beautiful thing for the Colombian economy.”
Uchis’s assessment is not far off. Colombia is the largest exporter of blue jeans in South America. In 2021, the exportation of Colombian blue jeans reached $14.7 million, with main consumers in the U.S., Ecuador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Canada, Peru, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Germany. Every year, about 50 million pairs of levanta cola blue jeans are fabricated in the country; their production has created an entire economy for Colombia that goes beyond coffee, gold, and the outdated (and extremely stereotypical) commodity associated with the country: cocaine.
Jillian Hernandez, author of Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment and professor of gender, sexualities, and women’s studies research at the University of Florida, recently bought a pair of Obsesión jeans. She says the purchase makes her feel like she’s reclaiming a part of herself that struggled with racist ideas about “what aesthetics were good, which aesthetics were fashion, and which aesthetics weren’t,” she tells me. She recalls growing up “devouring” magazines like Vogue and seeing specific images in fashion that were deemed “acceptable” (most of which didn’t include the Levanta Cola blue jean, interestingly enough,) and remembers thinking, “Why would I want to associate with these racialized, working-class aesthetics when everything in the culture is telling me that what matters is what is in magazines?” Owning a pair of Colombian jeans in 2022 not only becomes a way of taking that power back, but Hernandez states it’s also a way of supporting the shift that someone like Kali Uchis can make right now. “She has this mainstream attention and people, women of color like her, are being recognized by fashion," Hernandez adds. “It feels like our aesthetics are finally being appreciated.”
I also struggled as the child of a first-generation, working-class Colombian family who wanted to feel empowered by her culture, but didn’t know what that looked like in a predominantly white, upper-class city like Cambridge, Massachusetts, my hometown. I often felt ashamed by my mom’s aesthetics—the dark, lined lips; the gold hoops; and the tight, bedazzled denim. The truth is, I had also internalized beauty standards of a country that historically did not include or represent women who look like me. Back in Colombia, it was empowering to see women owning their style—walking in their levanta cola jeans to work, to hang out with friends, to go out—they seemed so confident embracing a style that, back in the U.S., came with very specific instructions for who and where they could be worn without judgment.
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized these beauty standards are rooted in racist, sexist, and classist beliefs. I’ve learned that wearing these butt-lifting, tight-fitting, curve-hugging jeans won’t mean you’re “tacky”—in fact, having your own personal style is something to be proud of, even more so if it connects to your community and your heritage. For all the girls who loved this style of jeans back in the day and are considering revisiting the look, it might be time to purchase a new pair—or rustle them up from the depths of your closet. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/levanta-cola-colombian-blue-jeans-kali-uchis-bodied-obsesion-y2k-denim | 2022-08-20T00:38:41Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/levanta-cola-colombian-blue-jeans-kali-uchis-bodied-obsesion-y2k-denim | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What Makes a Tequila So Exclusive, It’s Only Available Through Bottle Service?
Bottle service is here to stay, but the bottle itself has increasingly become an afterthought. The VIP practice of purchasing the best seats in the house ahead of time with personalized service remains both convenient and a marker of status, but the whole affair could afford an infusion of dignity. One could hardly imagine Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack sipping the night away on hastily made vodka cranberries, after all. Enter Volcán X.A, a tequila so exclusive it’s currently only available in select night clubs and restaurants around the world.
Volcán, the first premium tequila brand from LVMH, has already established itself on the top shelf, but X.A enters the market as its crown jewel. A mix of reposado, añejo and extra-añejo tequilas, each bottle takes ten years to make and is aged in the brand’s exclusive Grace Casks, all-American oak barrels. It’s 100 percent blue Weber agave, and like all of Volcán’s tequilas, there are no additives. The bottle itself is a work of art—one might be tempted to take it home as a souvenir. An homage to Mexico’s Tequila volcano, it features an ornate gold cap, brown ombré glass, and hand-painted details. Some bottles even feature a light at the bottom—all the better to stand out in the dark of a club (and the photos you’re sure to post the next day).
So why launch it exclusively at nightclubs and select high-end restaurants first? Well, according to Volcán chief operating officer Santiago Cortina Gallardo, the liquor came first, and the initial distribution method made the most sense. “It takes 10 years to craft a single bottle of X.A, which is produced in extremely limited quantities in our dedicated distillery, so we had to be very intentional about where it would be available,” he says. “We ultimately decided the most logical strategy for us would be to focus on on-premise distribution at nightclubs and restaurants, where we’d be able to reach our target consumers and drive desirability among them.”
The quality of the tequila does lends itself to an optimal night-out experience. It’s best taken neat or on the rocks. “The expression has no bite or after taste, so consumers won’t feel the need to mix it with other ingredients or mask the flavor with a slice of lime,” says Gallardo.
The launch comes amid something of renaissance for tequila, with both established liquor companies and celebrity-backed brands looking to get a piece of the pie. The global tequila market has ballooned to a size of nearly $10 billion, and by some estimates, is expected to reach $15 billion by the end of the decade. In other words, its days of being relegated to spring break body shots are long gone. “More consumers than ever are embracing tequila as a sipping spirit, like whisky, opposed to one to simply pour into a shot glass or mix into a cocktail,” says Gallardo.
X.A is currently available only in a few select clubs and restaurants concentrated in America’s nightlife meccas: New York City, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Miami (although it’s also carried in a few select global venues, from St. Tropez to Bodrum, Turkey). In NYC, you can currently find it in venues as varied as The Box, Catch, and Brooklyn’s House of X. Gallardo says its distribution will broaden, with a limited retail release expected by the end of the year. | https://www.wmagazine.com/life/volcan-xa-tequila-bottle-service | 2022-08-20T00:38:47Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/life/volcan-xa-tequila-bottle-service | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SEATTLE — Geno Smith did little to distinguish himself in his battle with Drew Lock for Seattle's starting quarterback job as the sloppy Seahawks fell 27-11 to the Chicago Bears on Thursday night in the second preseason game for both teams.
The Seahawks had planned to start Lock but turned to Smith when Lock tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday. That meant another opportunity for Smith, who started last weekend at Pittsburgh, but his uninspired performance suggests Lock still has a chance to win the job.
Smith finished 10 of 18 for 112 yards and was hampered by teammates' mistakes while playing the first half. His only drive where Seattle threatened to score ended when Jason Myers missed a 47-yard field goal attempt.
Second-year Bears quarterback Justin Fields made a brief appearance and led a field-goal drive. Backup Trevor Siemian threw a touchdown pass, and Elijah Hicks recovered a muffed punt for a Chicago TD.
Even by the low standards of the preseason, the Seahawks turned in an awful performance.
The Bears led 24-0 before Seattle finally got on the board on Darwin Thompson's 8-yard TD run with 2:08 left.
Penalties and dropped passes made the Seahawks' offense choppy and listless. Rookie first-round pick Charles Cross was flagged four times in the first half at left tackle, three of those for false start. Bo Melton, Freddie Swain and Dareke Young had drops.
Exacerbating Seattle’s offensive troubles was a right ankle injury suffered by starting left guard Damien Lewis early in the second quarter. Lewis was inadvertently rolled up by Bears defensive lineman Angelo Blackson.
Lewis was down for several minutes and eventually had an air splint put on his lower right leg before being loaded on a cart and taken off the field. Seattle’s interior offensive line depth was already thin before Lewis’ injury.
Siemian threw a 1-yard TD pass to Jake Tonges and Hicks corralled Cade Johnson’s muffed punt at the goal line late in the first half to give the Bears a 17-0 lead. Third-stringer Nathan Peterman led a drive in the third quarter that ended with Darrynton Evans’ 1-yard TD run. | https://www.krem.com/article/sports/smith-error-prone-seahawks-struggle-in-bears-loss/281-ef2c97cf-65d5-48cc-a444-b38bef81e2ce | 2022-08-20T00:42:39Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/sports/smith-error-prone-seahawks-struggle-in-bears-loss/281-ef2c97cf-65d5-48cc-a444-b38bef81e2ce | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
34-year-old El Shafee Elsheikh was sentenced to life in prison for his key role in the abduction and death of four Americans in Syria.
A key member of the Islamic State cell called "the Beatles," Elsheikh had already been handed five life terms, mandated by federal guidelines in the U.S. before Justice Department lawyers demanded he be given a harsher sentence for his crimes.
He was found guilty in April by a jury of four counts of taking a hostage and four conspiracy counts during a trial, which lasted for two weeks. His former captives revealed horrible details of the actions their captors took against them, including beatings, sexual abuse, killings, and waterboarding by the three British nationals known as "the Beatles" because of their accents.
Friday, the relatives of the four Americans, including the journalist James Foley and Steven J. Sotloff, watched as Judge Thomas S. Ellis III at an eastern Virginia court levied eight concurrent life terms without the possibility of parole. The families of the two other Americans killed at Elsheikh's hands, aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig, were also there during sentencing, the New York Times reported.
Elsheikh reportedly appeared uncomfortable in court on Friday as he listened to family members of the victims along with a freed hostage who detailed the horrors of his actions.
Carl Mueller, the father of Kayla Mueller, said, “It was stressful." He said, “I’ve spent so much time staring at the back of his head. But it’s worth it, knowing he’s getting what he deserved.”
Mr. Mueller said, “He’s been cold, with no remorse, because I think he still believes he was doing the right thing.”
The court was in session for nearly 3 hours before Elsheikh was led away to prison. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/islamic-state-militant-given-multiple-life-sentences-for-killing-of-us-hostages | 2022-08-20T00:43:49Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/islamic-state-militant-given-multiple-life-sentences-for-killing-of-us-hostages | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
From the right: A White House War on Biz
“America’s CEOs are in the dumps,” with the Conference Board’s index that measures their sentiments down to 34 from “an all-time high of 82” when President Donald Trump left office, laments Liz Peek at The Hill. And “who can blame them?” The economy’s weakening, the Fed is raising interest rates and the White House is “pummeling” industries — hitting companies that block its “green new world,” pushing a pro-labor agenda, “muscling investment capital” to favored sectors, “supercharging workplace diversity mandates” and demanding more public disclosures. “Oh — and also raising taxes.” “America’s rebound from the Great Recession was the slowest on record.” Many of us blamed “the interfering Obama White House for impeding our snap-back. Joe Biden looks to be following the same path.”
Iconoclast: Sweeps Week on FBI TV!
In the wake of the Mar-a-Lago raid, “the feds and media have spent most every minute acting as an unembarrassed unified front,” snarks TK News’ Matt Taibbi. “One after another, national security ‘analysts’ lined up to give breathless, hyperbolic, and eerily synchronized commentary”: “If the message on day 1 was about how they ‘must have’ probable cause of a crime, that was the word up and down the dial. If by the weekend it was ‘I’ve never seen this level of threat,’ you heard that in more or less the same words from” a host of ex-security officials “on multiple channels.” The nets simply ignore these the lies of these ‘experts’. So what is “the public supposed to see, other than an American analog to China Central TV or Rossiya-1, when they tuned in to all this?”
2024 watch: The Trump-Biden Codependency
If the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid ends with a Justice Department failure to find Jan. 6 crimes against Donald Trump, “one collateral cost” will be the ex-prez’s “extreme delight at being returned to the center ring of the American political circus — and also the extreme delight of his codependents, Joe Biden and the Democrats,” who’d love it if Trump went on to become the GOP nominee, posits The Wall Street Journal’s Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. Polls show most Americans “don’t want a Biden-Trump rematch” or “the baggage of these two old men dominating our politics for the next two years . . . But arguably two people do”: Trump and Biden, who “otherwise would find history and the electorate running away from them at flank speed.”
From the left: The Truth About Rushdie
Despite being accused of Islamophobia, Salman Rushdie “was the one respectful of Muslims,” argues The Nation’s Katha Pollitt. “He’s led an increasingly normal public life” because he didn’t expect any of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims to try to kill him. Indeed, “the attack on Rushdie is not about rage at anti-Muslim prejudice” or “racism” but “religious fanaticism organized by a theocratic state, Iran, and rewarded by it too.” “We expect religious Christians and Jews to put up with being offended as the price of free speech and life in a multicultural society, and we take them to task when they don’t.” So “why should we regard Islamist tyrants and the fanatics among their followers any differently?”
Media desk: Journo Unions’ Secret Ties
Nearly 99% of the $14.9 million the Communication Workers of America — which counts 16,000 editors and reporters as members — “has funneled to politicians since 2020 has supported Democrats,” notes RealClearInvestigations’ James Varney. Yet “the connection between journalists and unions is rarely if ever disclosed in coverage of labor issues . . . . Nor do reporters whose paychecks help fund their union’s advocacy . . . tell their readers about these ties.” Meanwhile, there are clear overlaps between “the leftist positions of labor unions and those of journalists.” So why no public acknowledgment? Per one union member and journalism ethics expert, it’s because “a story’s credibility can be marred by any number of things, and a note that a reporter is a union member could raise flags better left unfurled.”
— Compiled by the Post Editorial Board | https://nypost.com/2022/08/19/a-white-house-war-on-biz-sweeps-week-on-fbi-tv-and-other-commentary/ | 2022-08-20T00:44:33Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/19/a-white-house-war-on-biz-sweeps-week-on-fbi-tv-and-other-commentary/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Marcell Ozuna let suburban Atlanta police know who he was during his Friday morning arrest, his second in 15 months.
The Braves outfielder, who was busted on charges of driving under the influence and failure to maintain his lane, handed over a Major League Basball ID card, along with his driver’s license, during his traffic stop.
“Sorry, sorry, I’m Ozuna from the Braves,” he told a Norcross Police Department officer, according to a police report, which was obtained by TMZ.
According to The Atlanta Journal Constitution, the officer had to speed up to 90 mph to catch up to Ozuna in the 35 mph zone.
Ozuna told the cop he had been out celebrating the Braves’ win Thursday night over the Mets and had “like three or four” beers. He was administered three field sobriety tests and he refused breath and blood tests before being booked into Gwinnett County jail.
“I can’t do that. If you want to take me to jail, take me to jail because I can’t do that,” Ozuna told the officer, according to the report.
Footage of the incident also showed an officer removing cuffs from the 31-year-old so he could relieve himself in a bush.
Ozuna was later released from county jail on $1,830 bond.
The outfielder, who reportedly had $8,000 in cash on him, spoke to reporters ahead of the Braves’ game Friday against the Astros in Atlanta. Ozuna was not in the starting lineup.
“I disappointed my team, disappointed my family,” he said. “And I don’t have anything to say more, and it’s a legal matter.”
According to The Post’s Jon Heyman, Ozuna met with Atlanta general manager Alex Anthoploulos and manager Brian Snitker after he was released from jail.
“I think everything’s been said,” Snitker told reporters when asked if Ozuna’s arrest would be a distraction. “We’re disappointed that it happened, but we’re going to go on.”
It is unclear what penalty Ozuna will face from the team or MLB.
Ozuna faced assault and battery charges last year after police allegedly witnessed him choking his wife while responding to a 9-1-1 call in May 2021. Though police video seemed to show Ozuna grabbing his wife’s neck, felony charges were dropped and replaced with misdemeanor family violence battery and simple assault.
Ozuna agreed to enter a six-month domestic violence intervention program plus more than 200 hours of community service and anger management counseling as part of a probation deal. He received a retroactive unpaid suspension of 20 games during the 2021 season.
He apologized to fans and teammates in March at spring training.
“My fans, I’m going to give you the best,” he said, “and I’m going to be a better person, and I’m sorry.”
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The South Carolina State Grand Jury issued new charges against disgraced former attorney Alex Murdaugh, roughly a month after he pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the killings of his wife and son.
Murdaugh was indicted on four counts of obtaining signature or property by false pretenses for a value of $10,000 or more; two counts of money laundering with a value of $20,000 - $100,000; one count of money laundering with a value of $100,000 or more; and two counts of computer crime with a value of more than $10,000, according to a Friday news release from South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson.
CNN reached out to Murdaugh's attorney, Richard Harpootlian, for comment. A press representative for Harpootlian told CNN in an email, "No comment right now."
The latest indictments allege Murdaugh stole from his former law firm and brother.
According to one indictment, it was common practice for certain partners in the PMPED (Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth, and Detrick) law firm to loan money to the firm at the start of each year to cover certain expenses until the firm had generated sufficient revenue and they could be paid back with interest, but Murdaugh did not usually make those loans.
The firm's accounting office "erroneously wrote out a repayment loan check to Murdaugh for $121,358.63" that should have gone to Murdaugh's brother, who had made a loan, according to the indictment. But Murdaugh went to the accounting office and "though false representations had the office cut another check for the same amount ... (and) then deposited that replacement loan repayment check into his account and converted the funds to his personal use."
Murdaugh conducted financial transactions "with property that he knew was the proceeds of, or was derived directly or indirectly from the proceeds of, unlawful activity," another charge reads.
Another indictment alleges Murdaugh created a bank account "for the purpose of misappropriating funds belonging to others with the illusion that the money was being paid to (a) legitimate settlement planning company."
He then made sure that a $91,867.50 check, which represented legal fees to the law firm in one case, was disbursed from the client trust account to the bank account he had created and controlled, according to the indictment. He then used that money "for his own personal use, for expenses including but not limited to credit card payments, transfers to family members, overdraft charges, and checks written to associates," that indictment alleged.
A total of 90 charges for schemes to defraud
Murdaugh resigned from the law firm in September 2021 after "the discovery by PMPED that Alex misappropriated funds in violation of PMPED standards and policies," the firm said in a statement. That same month, the state's Supreme Court issued an order suspending his license to practice law in South Carolina.
In October, the law firm sued Murdaugh to recover funds it alleged he stole from clients for his own personal use, saying Murdaugh "developed a systematic scheme in which he diverted funds owed to the firm and to clients to a fictitious entity" for many years.
Murdaugh was already facing a slew of other charges for alleged financial crimes.
"Altogether, through 18 indictments containing 90 charges against Murdaugh, the State Grand Jury has indicted Murdaugh for schemes to defraud victims of $8,789,447.77," the state attorney general said.
Murdaugh was also indicted in July on two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime in connection with the killings of his wife and son.
Margaret "Maggie" Murdaugh, 52, and their son, Paul Murdaugh, 22, were found shot to death on the family's property in Islandton, about an hour north of Hilton Head Island, on June 7, 2021. Alex Murdaugh placed the 911 call, saying he had just returned home and discovered their bodies.
He pleaded not guilty and his attorneys said he wanted "everyone to know that he did not have anything to do with the murders of Maggie and Paul."
Murdaugh wants the trial to begin quickly, his attorney previously said, because he believes his wife and son's "killer or killers are still at large."
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Daycare worker charged with felony after 3-year-old boy left on hot bus, police say
PICAYUNE, Miss. (WLOX/Gray News) - A daycare worker in Mississippi is facing a felony charge after allegedly leaving a 3-year-old child on a hot company bus.
WLOX reports that 3-year-old Kaysen Breaux was hospitalized after being left inside a daycare bus at First Step Learning Lab on Monday.
The boy’s mother, Stephanie Breaux, said she believes her son was left on the bus for up to two hours.
She said he suffered exhaustion and hypothermia that day, along with an extremely low body temperature that dropped after he got home.
According to Stephanie Breaux, if her son had been inside any longer, he might not have made it out alive.
“I just feared that something like this could happen. You read about it, you see it on the news, that babies die in hot cars. And to know my baby was left, it’s careless,” Stephanie Breaux said.
The Picayune Police Department said the bus driver, 40-year-old Treshay Mashette Quinn, has been charged with child deprivation and booked into the Lenoir Rowell Criminal Justice Center.
“I can’t believe the daycare is still up and running. I’m thankful that she [the bus driver] has been incarcerated for this,” Stephanie Breaux said.
Picayune police also reported that the owner of the daycare, Wanda Worley, was running the business in an unauthorized residential area. They said Worley had not updated her occupancy permit and was issued citations for violating city ordinances.
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North Carolina Coastal Federation works on preservation projects
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (WITN) - The North Carolina Coastal Federation has worked with several state and community partners on $20 million in salt marsh preservation and living shoreline projects.
Officials say $2.5 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act will go into projects over the next five years across the U.S., including on Sugarloaf Island, off the Morehead City waterfront.
Experts explained that these marshes serve several benefits, including nurseries for oysters and fish species, and storm buffers for the coastline.
They say marine fisheries rely heavily on marshes and add that without them and several miles of living shorelines and man-made oyster reefs, the erosion and sea level rise will likely prove costly for coastal communities.
“[The] Coastal Federation has a bumper sticker, no wetlands, no seafood, no salt marshes, we don’t have any seafood,” Todd Miller North Carolina Coastal Federation executive director said. “If we want to continue to have a place that’s good to live in terms of safety, as well as being able to catch fish, and work and play along our coast, marshes are an essential part of that equation.”
The federation says more than $1 million in recent funding has also gone to man-made oyster reefs throughout the Pamlico Sound, which provide habitats for up to 300 species of fish and invertebrates.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Lawmakers in Washington are trying to help the western United States deal with the dangerously low Colorado River levels that threaten power production and food supply.
The 20-year-long drought in the western U.S. is the worst in 1,200 years.
Representative Dina Titus (D-NV) explained that “they say in the west that whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over.”
That fight is happening now as low water levels threaten water allotments for states in the Colorado River Basin along with power production and the nation’s food supply.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan says there are $4 billion in funding in the recently signed Inflation Reduction Act to help with this problem, including “resources to state and local governments so they can begin to look at these drought-like conditions at a community scale.”
Congresswoman Titus explained these resources “will help with conservation and will make our water systems more efficient.”
Additionally, Titus says the projects should help the critically low water levels in Lake Mead inch up.
“A joint project between California and Las Vegas that will take advantage of recycling water,” he stated.
However, these projects alone will not be enough. Lawmakers say ultimately states and individuals will need to pitch in.
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) said “trying to convince people not use the amount of water they’ve been using in order to have the amount of water that’s going to be needed for survival.”
Lawmakers say some solutions include using drip irrigation for crops, eliminating green-grass lawns in favor of desert landscaping and requiring water-efficient plumbing and fixtures in new homes. | https://www.wspa.com/news/washington-dc/lawmakers-set-sights-on-western-drought-amid-dangerously-low-water-levels/ | 2022-08-20T01:06:13Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/washington-dc/lawmakers-set-sights-on-western-drought-amid-dangerously-low-water-levels/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — It’s been nearly 26 years since a delivery driver came upon a woman’s body rolled up in a blanket in southern Kent County, Michigan.
Sharon Kay Hammack, 29, had been raped, stabbed, hogtied and dumped on the side of 76th Street west of Kraft Avenue near Caledonia.
Hammack, a mother of two, was one of a dozen women killed in the 1990s in and around Grand Rapids. Most of the victims, including Hammack, struggled with addiction and did sex work to support their lifestyle.
Regional law enforcement agencies formed a task force in 1996 to investigate the string of murders to determine if it was the work of a serial killer. But investigators were unable to draw any conclusion, and, until this week, no charges had been filed in any of the killings.
In some cases, there were only skeletal remains left by the time the women were discovered.
But Sharon Hammack was found the same day she was murdered, and her killer left traces of himself behind.
FLORIDA TRUCKER WITH VIOLENT HISTORY ARRESTED
It was detectives with the Kent County Sheriff’s Department and advancements in DNA that led to the arrest of Garry Dean Artman, a Florida trucker who lived in Michigan at the time of Hammack’s murder.
Artman, who’s also suspected in the murder of a sex worker in Maryland, is being held in a Mississippi jail awaiting extradition to Michigan. According to jail records, Artman was arrested by the Mississippi Highway Patrol on Tuesday.
Artman is a trucker with a violent criminal history, including a rape conviction for which he served 11 years in a Michigan prison. Kent County court records show Artman has a current address in White Springs in northern Florida.
In a Friday afternoon news release, the Kent County Sheriff’s Department announced Artman had been charged with open murder, felony murder and first-degree criminal sexual conduct in Hammack’s murder.
“KCSD are investigating the 1996 homicide of a local prostitute that took place on 76th St. between Patterson and Kraft,” a detective wrote in a probable cause affidavit filed Tuesday in 63rd District Court on the East Beltline.
“The victim was strangled to death amongst other injuries. The assailant raped the victim leaving DNA vaginally and rectally as well as DNA on other items including the rope used to hogtie the victim. Further, the assailant stabbed the victim in the head twice with a knife,” read the affidavit.
This still image taken from October 1996 video shows investigators on the scene where Sharon Hammack’s body was found. This still image taken from October 1996 video shows investigators on the scene where Sharon Hammack’s body was found.
GENEALOGY TESTING LED TO ARREST
Sheriff’s detectives previously submitted DNA from the Hammack crime scene for genealogical testing in an effort to track down relatives of the killer.
“In 2006, Maryland State Police were investigating a homicide of a known prostitute who was raped and stabbed to death. The assailant left DNA in (that) victim as well,” wrote a detective.
“Familial DNA was done on both the Grand Rapids case (Hammack) and the Maryland case. It was determined that the assailant in each case was in the fact the same person,” the detective wrote. “Additionally, the DNA exam determined that the person who committed each offense came from the same parents.”
The sheriff’s investigator went on to explain they had traced the DNA to the parents of four sons.
“Further review showed that only one son had any ties to Michigan and that was Garry Dean Artman,” the detective wrote. “Artman, by his own admission, was living and working near the murder scene and was present in the state of Michigan when the homicide was committed. Further investigation revealed that shortly before the homicide victim (was) found in Maryland, she was in Ontario, California. It was found that around the same time Garry Dean Artman was within 20 miles of Ontario, Ca(nada) when he was cited by local authorities.”
Detectives have not revealed if they believe Artman was responsible for any additional murders in the Grand Rapids area.
According to the news release from the sheriff’s department, investigators will hold a news conference Monday morning regarding Artman’s arrest. Hammack’s relatives are expected to attend.
In the news release, the sheriff’s department thanked multiple law enforcement agencies for their assistance, including the Mississippi State Highway Patrol, Mississippi Bureau of Investigations, Forrest County Sheriff’s Office in Mississippi, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in Alabama, Columbia County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, the Michigan State Police Crime Lab, the Kent County Prosecutor’s Office and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
‘MAMA, WE GOT JUSTICE FOR HER’
On Thursday, one of the cold case detectives knocked on Terri Navitskas’ door in Walker. Navitskas is Hammack’s sister and the investigator wanted to make sure the family learned of the arrest first. He also got on the phone with one of Hammack’s other sisters, Tina DeYoung.
“We got him,” DeYoung quoted the detective as saying as soon as she got on the phone.
DeYoung was stunned.
“It’s just a flood of emotions,” she told Nexstar’s WOOD-TV. “I’m happy, but I’m sad too.”
DeYoung said the news brings up the pain of losing her sister all over again, but she’s grateful to the Kent County Sheriff’s Department for never forgetting her sister.
Unfortunately, Hammack’s parents Jacob and Lois Gross are both deceased.
“Mama, we got justice for her,” DeYoung said Thursday night, looking toward the sky. “I’m sorry it didn’t happen before the good Lord took you, but justice will be served. You can celebrate with her up there.”
WOOD had been working on an in-depth examination of the 1990s murders and spoke with Terri Navitskas in mid-May.
“We would love to know who did this to her. It wasn’t right for any of the girls to have this done to them. Just terrible,” Navitskas said tearfully. “(Sharon) was a loving sister, a loving daughter and a loving mother to two children, and we miss her so bad.”
Navitskas said her sister was 3-5 months pregnant when she was killed.
“So there’s a baby we don’t even know,” she said. “(Sharon) wanted everything out of life for her children. I don’t know who she got hooked up with on the drugs. When she first got into it, she wanted to get clean for her children, but then she got so far into the crack, it took her downhill… It was just terrible to see her on the streets. I hated seeing her there.”
Navitskas said the family worried about Hammack every day, especially when someone started killing sex workers in Grand Rapids.
Hammack, whose body was discovered Oct. 3, 1996, was the ninth woman killed in the string of 12 murders that began in March 1994, with the discovery of the body of Lesa Otberg, 25, in Muskegon.
“Me and my mom would drive up and down Division Avenue and (Sharon) would be right there behind a little motel near 28th Street. We’d see her and when we’d come up to her and stop, she’d run because she didn’t want us to see her like that,” Navitskas said.
She said her mom tried to put Hammack in rehab, but Hammack was always kicked out because they lacked insurance.
“I think about her all the time,” Navitskas said. “What a wonderful sister she was. She was just so loving.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/we-got-him-florida-trucker-arrested-in-1996-rape-murder-of-michigan-woman/ | 2022-08-20T01:09:22Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/we-got-him-florida-trucker-arrested-in-1996-rape-murder-of-michigan-woman/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SUSSEX COUNTY, Del.- In a meeting this afternoon, the Dewey Beach town council discussed whether or not to make outdoor dining permanent. They are now awaiting input from the planning and zoning commission.
In May 2020, restaurants in Dewey Beach were granted temporary permits for outdoor dining. The town issued these permits to help businesses navigate state mandated occupancy rules. Since then, outdoor dining has become quite popular in the area.
The temporary permits are set to expire on October 31, prompting 11 restaurants to submit conditional use applications in hopes of making the practice permanent.
However, the council decided that the planning and zoning department needs to weigh in. All applications were referred by the commissioners to the department.
The council believes this is the correct and transparent process to follow.
For now, any restaurant that submitted an application for today's meeting will be allowed to continue their outdoor services.
The next planning and zoning department meeting has not yet been scheduled, but this topic will definitely be on their agenda. | https://www.wboc.com/news/dewey-beach-commissioners-push-outdoor-dining-decision/article_fd29173e-2010-11ed-af54-f75c57f76156.html | 2022-08-20T01:11:46Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/dewey-beach-commissioners-push-outdoor-dining-decision/article_fd29173e-2010-11ed-af54-f75c57f76156.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SALISBURY, Md. - A 4 p.m. Friday afternoon, the Wicomico County Fair opened with a ribbon cutting.
The past few years have been difficult for such events because of the COVID pandemic, and more recently, uncertainty in the economy.
But those matters have not stopped vendors from coming to the 2022 edition of the Fair.
"We are so excited," said Amber Smith of Dogwood and Fir Designs. "I think it's going to be a great turnout. I've got to talk to some of the other vendors, everyone just seems like they're having a blast."
Rose Taylor of Pocomoke City is bringing Worcester County wares to Wicomico, and it's her first year selling at the county fair.
"I am feeling positive," Taylor said. "I'm going to stay positive. And I'm hoping that the weather stays good and the crowds come out and spend money with all our vendors."
In conversations, though, folks kept making comparisons - many quite favorable - to July's Delaware State Fair, a far larger event.
"It's more local I'd say," said Braden Glushakow of Phat Boys BBQ & Seafood. "This is definitely smaller scale, but it has its advantages because you get to see a lot of friends and family that may not make the trip up to Harrington."
Autumn Townsend of Allen, Md. said the smaller scale of the fair makes it easier for exhibitors to share their knowledge in a more intimate environment.
"You probably can hear people talking when you're around," said Townsend. "It's just not as hectic and crazy, and a lot more settled down. You get to talk to a lot more people and learn about stuff."
The Wicomico County Fair is open Saturday from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m., and Sunday from 12 noon until 6 p.m. Admission and parking is free!
In the Fair world, there's something for everyone on Delmarva - big and boisterous state fairs, and smaller more relaxed county fairs, all with their own unique charms and attractions. | https://www.wboc.com/news/optimistic-outlook-for-wicomico-county-fair/article_5ac69b70-201e-11ed-abb0-b3a108adaf26.html | 2022-08-20T01:11:52Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/optimistic-outlook-for-wicomico-county-fair/article_5ac69b70-201e-11ed-abb0-b3a108adaf26.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
This week, The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences apologized to Sacheen Littlefeather, the USA Mullet Championships chose their kid and teen finalists, and Japan said it wants young people to drink more alcohol.
Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.
Chaka Khan's New Single, "Woman Like Me"
I was a professional musician many years ago, and one of my oldest friends from that time, producer Gregg Pagani, has co-written and produced Chaka Khan's new single, "Woman Like Me."
It really is a wonderful song, and it's so great to hear this vocalist, who is almost 70, still bringing it and doing something really cool.
She has the song up on her YouTube page, website, and Spotify so folks can check it out. — Eric Deggans
Cult of the Lamb
This is a game that just came out for various platforms, and it is entirely my jam. You are this cute little sheep who has been recruited by an Elder God to form a cult in its name. So you gather followers and materials, and you gather materials by slashing your way through some very cute, randomly generated dungeons.
The other half of the game is managing your followers. You build shrines and temples for them to worship you. You also build farms and sleeping quarters, and if you don't build outhouses everyone's going to get sick because they poop damn everywhere.
You need to keep their faith in you high, because if it drops, one follower will start sowing dissent among your flock. So what kind of cult leader do you want to be? You can sacrifice your followers or brainwash them with magic mushrooms to get a quick burst of faith. Or you can give them gifts and blessings and take their confessions to keep them happy.
I should make it clear by now that at some point in the game, the line between cult and organized religion becomes a distinction without a meaningful difference.
The aesthetic of this game is so cute; all your followers are these cartoony woodland creatures with giant eyes. The design is really impressively deep because it gives you a lot of choices for what kind of cult you build, which really ups the replay value. It is Animal Crossing meets Helter Skelter, and it is adorably sinister. — Glen Weldon
P-Valley Season Two Finale
We've talked about P-Valley on Pop Culture Happy Hour, and the season two finale is making me happy. I love this show so much. For me, the central relationship is the one between Lil Murda and Uncle Clifford.
Uncle Clifford, played by Nicco Annon, is a non-binary owner of The Pynk, a strip club in the Mississippi Delta. Lil Murda, played by J. Alphonse Nicholson, is an up-and-coming rapper, and they have a beautiful relationship.
There's one moment in the season two finale that I've gone back to over and over again — Willow Murda is at The Pynk, and he's performing this song called "Seven Pounds of Pressure." It's hard. It's all about murdering people, but it's so catchy.
On top of that, you have Mercedes, who is one of the pole dancers there. She's played by Brandee Evans, and she is bringing it. I just love that sequence and the aerial shots of her coming down the pole. It is fantastic, so if you are not watching P-Valley on Starz, you should do it. — Aisha Harris
More recommendations from the Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter
by Linda Holmes
We will have an episode about the finale of Better Call Saul, but along with that, enjoy Eric Deggans' review for NPR.
Are you the kind of person who likes a quick home makeover with some nice stories about families and a very charismatic host? You might enjoy Netflix's feather-light Instant Dream Home, featuring Danielle Brooks.
Vengeance, B.J. Novak's feature debut as a writer-director (and star), has arrived on demand after a theatrical release a few weeks ago. It's a story about a guy whose desire to start a podcast leads him down a very dark road, and while I'm not sure everything about it works, I admired its weirdness and its absolute skewering of certain media tendencies.
NPR's Maison Tran adapted the Pop Culture Happy Hour segment "What's Making Us Happy" into a digital page. If you like these suggestions, consider signing up for our newsletter to get recommendations every week. And listen to Pop Culture Happy Hour on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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PIERSON, Iowa (KCAU) – The final touches are being made for one of Woodbury County’s music festivals.
The 5th Annual Golphstok will fill the small town of Pierson with plenty of people looking for live music, food vendors, and a good time with loved ones.
The festival was founded back in 2018 as a way for people to make good will donations towards maintaining and preserving the Pierson Golf Course.
The festival founder, Loren Schieuer, hopes folks will make the most of their trip to Pierson.
“We’re trying to help the golf course, also we want to bring attention to our town and bring people into town because Pierson has a lot to offer, and we want to show them, and it’s just a good thing for the town. Brings a little revenue into town, brings awareness to our bars and grills that we have in town,” said Schieuer.
He also said preparations for Golphstok have taken up a lot of his time.
“We start preparing for the next year not too long after we end the previous year, so this has been an ongoing thing all year long. We had started out every couple of months, we’ll have some meetings and then it got, then every week, and now the last two weeks, well actually the last month, all I’ve worked on is Golphstok,” said Schieuer.
Golphstok is free to attend and gates will open at 1 p.m. on August 20. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/final-preparations-made-ahead-of-5th-annual-golphstok/ | 2022-08-20T01:15:22Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/final-preparations-made-ahead-of-5th-annual-golphstok/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Mary Riggs, Executive Director, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, awards U.S. Air Force Capt. Conner Simms, a chaplain with the 934th Airlift Wing, a coin for his efforts during Appalachian Care Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) 2022 at Wise, Va., Aug. 19, 2022. IRT is a Department of Defense (DoD) military training opportunity, exclusive to the United States and its territories, that delivers joint training opportunities to increase deployment readiness. Simultaneously, IRT provides key services (health care, construction, transportation, and cybersecurity) with lasting benefits for our American communities.
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Jack Harlow to emcee 2022 MTV VMAs with LL COOL J, Nicki Minaj
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Louisville-based rapper Jack Harlow will be emceeing this year’s MTV Video Music Awards along with two other hip-hop superstars.
Harlow will join Video Vanguard recipients LL COOL J and Nicki Minaj in announcing the VMA line up of performers, presenters and more on Aug. 28, taking the place of a traditional host, according to a release.
Back in July, Harlow was announced as one of the top contenders for the VMAs, being tied with Kendrick Lamar and Lil Nas X for seven total nominations.
Harlow’s nominations include “Artist of the Year” and “Video of the Year.” He will also make his solo VMA performance debut at this year’s show.
Voting is open to the public at MTV’s website. The 2022 MTV VMAs can be seen live on MTV.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — An increased risk of wildfires has led the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) to issue a ban on outdoor burning at all state campgrounds, parks, and management areas.
The ban goes into effect on Saturday, Aug. 20. It comes about 24 hours after an unattended campfire in Burrillville caused a brush fire that burned roughly eight acres of land.
Campers will, however, be permitted to use portable gas cooking stoves and grills in designated areas, the DEM said.
The agency will continue to monitor the drought conditions to decide when the ban can be lifted.
So far this year, more than 70 reported wildfires have burned about 42 acres of land in Rhode Island, according to the DEM.
The DEM offered some important safety tips:
- Charcoals used for cooking must be cold before being discarded
- Smokers should always use ashtrays
- Check with the local fire department to obtain a burn permit
- Fire departments have the authority to deny permits when conditions are too dangerous
- Become familiar with and understand the risk of wildfires and take steps to mitigate their impacts
Rhode Island remains in an extreme drought, and the DEM says the state has been experiencing an increase in wildfires as a result.
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(Motor Authority) — The 1928 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Ascot Dual Cowl Sport Phaeton used in the 1974 movie adaptation of the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald novel “The Great Gatsby” is headed to auction. It’s part of Worldwide Auctioneers’ upcoming Auburn, Indiana, sale, scheduled for Sept. 1-3.
The Rolls was prominently featured in the movie, which starred Robert Redford as enigmatic aristocrat Jay Gatsby. Following the plot of the novel, Gatsby was a wealthy Roaring Twenties partier looking to win the heart of Daisy Buchanan (played by Mia Farrow), and his car was part of that characterization.
Robert Redford and the 1928 Rolls-Royce from
Fitzgerald made Gatsby a Rolls owner. In the novel, he describes Gatsby’s Rolls as “a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns.”
This car—chassis S304KP—was perhaps chosen for the movie role because it features Dual Cowl Sport Phaeton bodywork from coachbuilder Ascot, with the multiple windshields described in the book. It was repainted and had its interior upholstery dyed green to match the description in the novel. It was also recently given a “no-expense-spared restoration,” according to the auction listing.
As a Phantom I, this car is the ancestor of Rolls’ current flagship. Its inline-6 engine likely seemed impressive in the 1920s, but to maintain its luxury top-dog status, today’s Phantom uses a 6.75-liter twin-turbocharged V-12 producing 563 hp and 664 lb-ft of torque. Coachbuilt bodywork is no longer the norm, aside from occasional special editions like the trio of Boat Tail convertibles.
No pre-auction estimate was published, but a movie connection can often elevate the price of a car. The 1949 Buick Roadmaster convertible from “Rain Man” sold for $335,000 earlier this year, and the “Wayne’s World” 1976 AMC Pacer netted $71,500 at auction. As a prewar Rolls, the “Gatsby” car would likely attract some attention at an auction by itself, so it could generate a large sum. | https://www.wpri.com/automotive/great-gatsby-1928-rolls-royce-heading-to-auction/ | 2022-08-20T01:37:14Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/automotive/great-gatsby-1928-rolls-royce-heading-to-auction/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Live updates: Muskingum Valley, Zanesville, Coshocton County high school football games
Zanesville Times Recorder
Another season of high school football starts tonight.
If you need a primer before tonight's games, check out these team previews:
Football preview: Morgan football ready to turn corner in the MVL
New leadership has River View optimistic
Preview: John Glenn looks to extend pair of OHSAA playoff streaks
Aspirations high for senior-laden Philo
Ridgewood will lean on 'D' to stay elite
Coshocton breaking in new faces
Zanesville determined to prove doubters wrong
Maysville relying on skill, speed
Rosecrans primed for turnaround
New stadium heightens excitement at Crooksville
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Reese Allan Kerslake, 51-years-old, was a former elementary school teacher who resigned from his position while this case was being investigated.
According to court documents, Kerslake recently appeared in court where he pled guilty to charges of second degree possession of minor engaged in sexually explicit content back in 2019.
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HERMISTON, Ore.-
For the 2022-2023 school year, Hermiston School District middle and elementary schools will begin implementing a new option which would allow ALL students to get free school breakfast and lunch.
The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is part of the The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010. The act allows school districts in poverty areas to provide free meals without requiring parents to submit any form of application.
The goal, giving CEP food services professionals more time to prepare a healthy meal, cutting down the wait time for those meals.
Since all meals will be free, it helps reduce the stigma behind receiving free or reduced lunches. It also offers other students healthy breakfast and lunch options, boosting their participation in the classroom.
During the application process, HSD was unable to qualify HSD high schools, but it's able to reapply next year.
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TRI-CITIES, Wash. -
In May a Congressional hearing held on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) trying to eliminate the stigma surrounding reports of unidentified objects in the sky.
A Pentagon program was recently established to look into UAPs and will start to look into the nearly 150 reports of since 2004. The reports were released in 2021 and only one could be explained.
Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON works privately to find out more about sightings reported on their website.
MUFON looks into every case reported on its website according to Dan Nims, Chief Investigator of the Washington chapter. He said around two hundred sightings get reported to the Washington chapter yearly.
The goal is to collect data on UFO sightings to help better understand what people are seeing according to Nims.
He said investigators look at things like flight radars, known meteors, and even Starlink data when trying to identify what the objects might be, and that 70% of cases close when investigators figure out what the object is.
According to MUFON, a newly published report ranks Washington as number one in the country for UFO sightings per capita.
MUFON will hold meetings Walla Walla at 7 P.M. and one Saturday at 1 P.M. in Kennewick.
"I frequently ask the question how many of you have seen a UFO and since it's a UFO meeting it's not uncommon to see a vast majority of the hands go up," Nims said.
Frequently sightings occur at places like Hanford and other nuclear sites, and volcanic areas like Mount Rainier.
MUFON said one of the first sightings in Washington spotted at Hanford was described as a large orange oval object the size of three aircraft carriers.
In 1947 two well known sightings happened in Washington.
The first at Maury Island has a documentary with claims of UFOs that came down over the water of Puget Sound.
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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.
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In this documentary series, we spoke with Richard Bates, Capt. USCG (Ret). Bates was the Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron (HITRON) platform manager for Coast Guard headquarters aviation forces during the transition from the Augusta MH-68 to the MH-65 Dolphin. Playing an instrumental part in standing up the HITRON safety program, he was the recipient of the Captain Marion “Gus” Shrode Flight Safety Award and an instructor pilot during his time as a HITRON line pilot from 2000-2003. Bates also managed the HITRON program at the area level as chief of aviation forces for Atlantic Area.
HITRON operations started as an experiment in 1998 to halt the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S. Drug trafficking organizations primarily used “go-fast” boats, high-speed smuggling vessels capable of traveling over twice the speed of Coast Guard cutters. The Coast Guard needed a way to counter the threat.
In late 1998, six Coast Guard pilots and four enlisted aircrew members developed tactics and procedures to utilize armed helicopters operating aboard Coast Guard cutters to answer the call.
HITRON helicopters operate in known smuggling vectors and rely on expertly trained aircrews and precision marksmen to disable go-fast drug smuggling vessels in the event suspects refuse to comply with verbal and visual warnings for law enforcement boardings under international maritime law. This series focuses on the founding members, pioneers, and stakeholders who have played an essential part in HITRON's history.
Interview by: Petty Officer 1st Class Adam Stanton
Edited by: Petty Officer 1st Class Adam Stanton
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Judge rejects Lindsey Graham's effort to delay testimony in 2020 election probe
A federal judge said Friday that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) should not be allowed to delay his appearance before the Atlanta special grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Driving the news: Earlier this week, Graham was ordered to comply with a subpoena and testify but his attorneys filed an appeal asking the court to stop the special grand jury from questioning him while the appeal plays out.
- U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May denied the appeal in Friday's order.
What they're saying: "Under the circumstances, further delay of Senator Graham’s testimony would greatly compound the overall delay in carrying out the grand jury’s investigation," May wrote.
- "Further delay thus poses a significant risk of overall hindrance to the grand jury’s investigation, and the Court therefore finds that granting a stay would almost certainly result in material injury to the grand jury and its investigation," she continued.
What he's saying: Graham called the subpoena "weaponization of the law" last week.
- "I was Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and had to vote on certifying an election. This is ridiculous," he said. "We will go as far as we need to go and do whatever needs to be done to make sure that people like me can do their jobs without fear of some county prosecutor coming after you."
Of note: Graham is the highest profile figure to be publicly subpoenaed by the Fulton County District Attorney in the wide-reaching investigation of Georgia's 2020 election, Axios' Emma Hurt wrote.
Background: Prosecutors said in court last week that they needed to question Graham about calls he made to Georgia election officials, specifically about any possible coordination he had with the Trump campaign before or after them.
- Graham's actions "certainly appear interconnected with former President Trump’s similar efforts to pressure Georgia election officials into 'finding 11,780 votes' and to spread Georgia election fraud disinformation," the office wrote in a prior filing.
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Dead rats have been left outside homes of members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department who are seen as being cooperative with investigations into the department, a witness testified at an oversight commission hearing on Friday, Aug. 19.
The anonymous witness detailed instances of retaliation that she said she and other employees at the East Los Angeles station faced from members of an alleged deputy gang known as the Banditos. Friday’s meeting was the fifth hearing by the Civilian Oversight Commission into allegations of deputy gangs in the Sheriff’s Department.
As the commission displayed a picture of a dead rat outside a home, the witness testified that she was the recipient of a deceased animal on “more than one occasion.”
The witness also testified that she was told ahead of arriving at the station of a culture of harassment and hostile work environment, where trainees were often hazed. Members of the Banditos would withhold requests for backup from deputies who they disliked, according to the witness.
“It was very difficult to work by myself in East L.A. and have to go to certain calls by myself having to worry about backup,” the witness testified. “I felt tired, burned out. The point of the Banditos was to make you tired, burned out so that they could run you out of the station.”
Despite Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s previous insistence that he cleaned house by transferring 36 employees at the East Los Angeles station as his first act in office in 2018, previous witnesses have testified that the Banditos still essentially run the station.
A court hearing to consider holding Villanueva in contempt for allegedly ignoring subpoenas to testify before the commission is scheduled for Sept. 7.
Two other witnesses also testified on Friday after being subpoenaed.
Sgt. Jefferson Chow, who has been in the department for 26 years, was tasked with investigating a September 2018 fight between deputies at a department party at Kennedy Hall in East Los Angeles.
Chow testified that he conducted close to 90 interviews over seven months but was explicitly told to not ask about the existence of deputy gangs.
Chow acknowledged it felt “weird” to not ask about the existence of deputy gangs during his investigation, but described the department as a paramilitary organization in which employees have to abide by the chain of command.
Chow believed that criminal charges should have been filed in the Kennedy Hall incident, which left five deputies injured.
“It was fighting amongst deputy sheriffs,” Chow said. “We shouldn’t be fighting our own.”
The other witness, Capt. Angela Walton, testified that while she was a training officer at the Lennox station in the 2000s she worked with members of an alleged deputy gang known as the Grim Reapers, who were upset that she gave a trainee time to eat during shifts.
Walton testified of instances where she was given an excessive amount of calls and had her business card being placed on a bulletin board with an “X” on it as examples of retaliation.
Walton, a 27-year veteran of the department, filed a lawsuit against the department in May in connection with an alleged cover-up after a deputy knelt on the neck and head of an incarcerated man awaiting trial last year. Villanueva has denied that there was a cover-up.
“It’s OK to party with your friends and clique off with certain groups of friends that you work with,” Walton said. “But when that friendship or clique starts becoming nefarious behavior or starts becoming illegal or immoral, you’ve got to figure out who are you as a person. You’ve got to realize you’re OK with your self-worth. You don’t need to be accepted by the clique. You took an oath.”
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Aubrey Provost knows Los Angeles County, from every crack in the road, to the sometimes changing streetscapes of South L.A., Chinatown, Hollywood and even the burbs of the San Gabriel Valley.
His perspective comes from the street up. Not from inside a car, but from atop his white KHS aluminum bicycle that he’s ridden with his wife, Melba, during every CicLAvia except one since 2010, plus numerous other open streets events in the county.
Aubrey, 85, and Melba, 82, will continue their pedaling on a 6.6 mile carless stretch connecting East and West Hollywood from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, marking the 40th CicLAvia in 12 years. Their view of L.A. comes from riding side-by-side, sans cars, down the middle of normally car-choked streets, riding bikes amid colorful Latino dancers, daring tandem duos and zigzagging skateboarders, while stopping at retail nooks discovered by a focused, bicycle view.
What they’ve learned takes the form of personal enrichment. What politicians and city planners get from a CicLAvia is what bike-safety groups hope will be a glint in their eyes for a new kind of L.A., one where cars and foot-powered, non-motorized transports share the road and co-exist peacefully.
Bicycle safety
In car-centric Southern California, that dream remains unfulfilled. Bike deaths from vehicle crashes reached 59 in Southern California as of Aug. 19, shortly after a 67-year-old grandfather was killed in a hit-and-run in Fullerton.
“It’s shaping up to be a very bad year,” wrote Ted Rogers in an email. Rogers keeps track of the deaths in his blog bikinginla.com.
Authorities do not report bicycle fatalities as a category in Los Angeles County, he said.
In 2021 in the United States, the number of people on bicycles who were killed jumped 5% to 985 from the year before, the most fatalities since 1980 according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Bicycle fatalities have risen steadily since 2010.
“No, I don’t think that over the life of our projects we’ve moved the needle on safety in this city. But I do believe we’ve had impacts,” said Tafarai Bayne, CicLAvia chief strategist and Mid-City resident.
He recently lost two friends to road crashes, one was riding a scooter and the other was in a car, he said. “Streets seem to be getting more unsafe,” he said.
CicLAvia, two ways
There are two ways of looking at a CicLAvia: for the short-term, and the long-term, effects.
First, what is a CicLAvia?
Based on a model from Bogata, Colombia, it’s when organizers, city and county officials close a stretch of city streets to all motorized vehicles and open up the roadway for people to bike, skate, run, stroll, ride a scooter and just enjoy the neighborhood, close up. Nothing electric is allowed except for the following: E-bikes with pedal-assist — but other e-bikes must have the throttle powered off — and motorized wheelchairs.
This one, called “Meet the Hollywoods,” connects East Hollywood with West Hollywood along stretches of Hollywood Boulevard, Highland Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard. A pedestrian zone is designated at the Walk of Fame. Other hubs include music, entertainment and food. The event is free.
Bayne likens these events to turning a street into a giant park — an immediate effect of going green.
“We’ve had events where our attendance was equal to or more than attendance at Central Park in New York City,” he said. “Streets are our biggest resources. When we utilize them in new ways, we bring tremendous benefits to residents.”
He expects 50,000 people on Sunday.
Immediate benefits include exercise and socialization, both so important, he said, after more than two years of a pandemic. “It covers getting a full day of exercise for a week. Plus you meet new friends.”
Wes Reutimann, program manager for Active San Gabriel Valley, has put on several open streets events in the past five years. He said the main purpose is to intimately reacquaint people with their own neighborhood without use of a car.
“You don’t go to CicLAvia to race your bike. You go to soak in vibrant car-free streets,” he said.
Aubrey Provost remembers riding in the first CicLAvia in 2010 through central LA, which he helped kick off with Joe Linton, founder of StreetsblogLA. Before that, he rode with L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan on his “Riordan Rides” in the late ’90s and early 2000s.
“You can see the old digs and how they’ve changed, up close on a bicycle,” Provost explained. “Like, the L.A. City College campus has changed. Watts Towers hasn’t changed — it’s still the same. But Chinatown has changed quite a bit — now it is big time.”
At an Active SGV open streets event in El Monte during Halloween time in 2019, blow-up witches, ghosts and pumpkins decorated the route as children jumped off their bikes to scoop up treats.
“I rode that time. There was a guy on the lawn with a knife in his back. He looked like the real thing,” said Provost with a chuckle.
Pushing the envelope
Can a CicLAvia prompt safer streets and more bike lanes?
Bayne hopes the upcoming Hollywood CicLAvia will revive a plan to close part of Hollywood Boulevard to cars from Highland Avenue to Orange Drive. He said his group supports the change and sees the event as a catalyst, moving the discussion forward at L.A. City Hall.
As a result of several CicLAvias in South L.A., Central Avenue has been designated as a “great street,” said Damian Kevitt, executive director of Streets Are For Everyone. The designation will unlock funding for traffic calming, bike lanes and pedestrian walkways in an area where pedestrians have been killed by vehicles, he said.
During 2020 and 2021, and today, as cities allowed restaurant space for outdoor dining, this also shifted cities into thinking that streets can be used for more than just cars, Bayne said. City planners now set up tents at their events and ask residents about adding bike lanes or new walkways.
“There are direct ties to how our events lead to long-term changes,” Bayne said. “The infrastructure (for pedestrians and bike riding) has grown. I don’t believe anyone says it has grown fast enough.”
A large open streets event in 2017 took thousands of bicyclers down expansive Huntington Drive, once a space for the famous Pacific Electric Red Car launched by real estate mogul Henry Huntington. Today, in county islands along the wide street near San Marino, East Pasadena and Arcadia, the L.A. County Department of Public Works is planning a buffeted bike lane, Reutimann said.
Still, often there’s pushback against bike lanes. A plan to add bike lanes on the east-west portion of Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena was rejected after neighbors opposed it. A protected bike lane is being built on Union Street in Pasadena instead.
Bike lanes in Venice several years ago were fought and defeated by merchants and residents. The opposition included death threats hurled at civic leaders.
In the past, Bayne has seen money awarded for bike lanes, only to get pushback from residents. “There is a connotation of taking something away from them,” he said, adding that as more CicLAvias take place, more residents join with them.
Reutimann said a CicLAvia can get L.A. County folks out of their cars for that short trip to the store or a restaurant. His group’s events have often been tied to mass transit, such as Metrolink and L.A. Metro’s light-rail system. One-third of participants use rail to and from the open streets rides, he said.
Kevitt said these open ride events wake up car-centric L.A. folks to the idea that a bike, an e-bike or a scooter can use the streets, too. He calls it a changing of the mindset.
“If we are ever to reimagine society to be more equitable, we have to reimagine our roads to be more inclusive,” Kevitt said.
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Multiple current and former Cal women’s swim team members said they are surprised and concerned that attorneys conducting an investigation into allegations that Cal’s head coach Teri McKeever bullied swimmers for decades have not asked them about Jennifer Simon-O’Neill, senior executive associate athletic director and the coach’s longtime close friend, or about athletic director Jim Knowlton’s handling of repeated credible complaints about McKeever’s alleged abusive behavior.
Knowlton and Simon-O’Neill, the swimmers, parents and their supporters maintain, enabled McKeever’s alleged bullying by repeatedly ignoring or dismissing complaints from swimmers, parents and other administrators and university employees about the coach or defending McKeever and her coaching methods.
Current and former Cal swimmers, their parents, and a former university administrator have also questioned the independence of the investigation of McKeever, citing conflict of interest concerns about the firm, Munger, Tolles and Olson, hired by the university to conduct the probe.
Brad Brian, a former all-conference Cal baseball player, is chair of Munger, Tolles and Olson, the firm’s top position. Brian is one of the Cal athletic department’s leading fundraisers and recently led a campaign to build beach volleyball and softball facilities for the school, according to the university. He is one of only two recipients of the Robert Gordon & Ida Sproul award for the “most outstanding contribution to the university,” according to Cal and Brian’s Munger, Tolles and Olson bio.
Allegations that McKeever bullied swimmers for more than a quarter-century along with other abuse cases involving Golden Bears coaches suggest that the university has a “systemic problem” that the Berkeley Faculty Association said needs to be “urgently” addressed by the school’s administration.
The Berkeley Faculty Association released the statement to the Southern California News Group in response to questions about Cal’s handling of the McKeever case as more than 50 current and former Golden Bears swimmers and their parents as well as former Cal administrators, coaches and employees continue to push for the firing of athletic director Knowlton and Simon-O’Neill, who until May supervised the women’s swimming program.
A former Cal administration official said top athletic department officials were aware of McKeever’s alleged abusive behavior toward athletes “for years.”
The swimmers and their supporters are also critical of Cal chancellor Carol Christ and Michael Drake, president of the University of California system, for not intervening in the McKeever matter.
“The silence speaks volumes,” said the former Cal administrator.
McKeever, who has guided the Golden Bears to four NCAA team titles, was placed on paid administrative leave on May 25, the day after the Southern California News Group reported that the coach has routinely bullied athletes throughout her 29-year career at Berkeley.
To date 36 current or former Cal swimmers and divers, 17 parents, a former member of the Golden Bears’ men’s swimming and diving squad, two former coaches, a former Cal administrator and two former Cal athletic department employees have told SCNG that McKeever, the only woman to serve as head coach of a U.S. Olympic swim team, routinely bullied swimmers, often in deeply personal terms, or used embarrassing or traumatic experiences from their past against them, used racial epithets, body-shamed and pressured athletes to compete or train while injured or dealing with chronic illnesses or eating disorders, even accusing some women of lying about their conditions despite being provided medical records by them.
“Your number one job as an administrator is to protect the student athlete, the kids. There’s no way (athletic department officials) didn’t know if there’s that much information there, this was an avalanche,” a former university administrator said. “Everybody can’t be wrong. (Athletic department officials) were enabling Teri with their refusal to shut it down.
“This has to stop!” the administrator continued, their voice raising. “This has gone on for years.”
Swimmers and parents have also alleged that McKeever revealed medical information about athletes to other team members and coaches without their permission in violation of federal, state and university privacy laws and guidelines.
Nine Cal women’s swimmers, six since 2018, have told SCNG they made plans to kill themselves or obsessed about suicide for weeks or months because of what they describe as McKeever’s bullying.
“The Berkeley Faculty Association is deeply alarmed by allegations of abuse towards student athletes by coaches,” James Vernon, BFA chair, wrote in a statement to SCNG.”The cluster of cases around football, women’s soccer and swimming suggests there is a systemic problem that urgently needs to be addressed by campus. It is all the more disturbing given that the Chancellor continues to subsidize the athletics program $25 million a year, leaving aside the huge debt burden of the football stadium, while there is such an urgent need for more Title IX and mental health staff on campus.”
The Berkeley Academic Senate said in a statement to SCNG that “the interactions that have been described in the press are deeply disturbing and antithetical to UC Berkeley’s values as an educational institution. Yet it is also a fundamental value that all members of our community are entitled to due process when accusations are made against them and that due process is an important aspect of civil society. The Senate supports the university’s processes for reporting and addressing incidents of bullying. An investigation of the allegations against Teri McKeever is underway. We believe the investigation team has appropriate distance from the campus to be independent and the experience to provide a thorough and fair accounting of events. We look forward to an appropriate resolution in due time.”
Members of the Golden Bears’ women’s team have been told they will be coached by Dave Durden, Cal’s men’s head coach, and that the two programs will be merged at least for the foreseeable future, according to five people familiar with the situation. The move has not been announced by the university.
“Dave Durden will be acting as the Director of Cal Swimming which allows him and his staff to work directly with both the women’s and men’s swimming and diving programs while the current coach is on leave,” Cal spokesman Dan Mogulof said. “When programs are combined, the NCAA permits an additional coach to be on staff to support both programs, and that is what we are doing.”
U.S. Center for SafeSport investigators have also interviewed multiple current and former Cal swimmers as part of a separate probe into allegations that McKeever, the only woman to serve as head coach of a U.S. Olympic swimming team, repeatedly violated SafeSport rules regarding bullying, physical, verbal, and emotional abuse and retaliation.
Cal retained Munger, Tolles and Olson in May. The investigation, according to the university, is being led by Hailyn Chen and Lauren Bell.
“I’m a proud alum of UC Berkeley and a supporter of Cal Athletics and gender equity,” Brian said in a statement. “I had nothing to do with our firm being hired to investigate the allegations against Coach McKeever, have played no role whatsoever in that investigation, and haven’t discussed the investigation with anyone at Cal. Partner Hailyn Chen, a national leader in investigations involving allegations of abuse, is leading the investigation. I am confident that Hailyn will conduct a thorough and neutral investigation.”
Christ and Knowlton have not been in contact with Brian since the McKeever investigation was launched, Mogulof said.
“The university never has, and never will seek to influence an investigation’s outcome,” Mogulof said. “We have a profound and non-negotiable institutional interest in learning the truth about serious allegations of misconduct and policy violations.”
Current and former swimmers and their parents have criticized what they describe as a lack of urgency with the investigation. Some of McKeever’s alleged victims said it has taken weeks for Munger, Tolles, and Olson and longer still to schedule interviews. Swimmers said they were told that investigators did not have their contact information, although the women had previously been contacted by Cal fundraising and alumni organizations.
“It is understood there is a strong desire for quick, concerted action,” Mogulof said. “Yet, as per the laws and policies that govern how we operate, and as per the norms that govern judicial and investigative processes on our campus and across our country, everyone is entitled to due process, and everyone’s right to privacy is protected. We do not have the ability to circumvent those laws and policies. Once all that is entailed in due process is completed, the leadership of the university is more than ready to be held accountable for ensuing decisions. For now, we wish to reiterate, that when the current leadership of Cal Athletics and the campus are made aware of allegations that policies have been violated, or of complaints about employee behavior, they respond quickly and appropriately, either through managerial intervention or through referral of the matter to appropriate campus investigative offices, when required.”
A former Cal swimmer said she spent nearly an hour of a 2 1/2 hour interview explaining to investigators how college swimming worked. While some women interviewed by investigators have said they felt heard, others have said the interviews were more focused on damage control and limiting the university’s exposure in anticipation of lawsuits. One swimmer, who said she planned to commit suicide because of McKeever’s bullying, said she was shocked and enraged when an attorney questioned whether she was actually suicidal.
But current and former swimmers also expressed frustration that investigators’ questioning has primarily focused on McKeever and not on Knowlton and Simon-O’Neill, who the swimmers maintain enabled and defended McKeever.
Four Cal seniors on the 2021-22 roster met with Knowlton and Simon-O’Neill last spring and alleged bullying and verbal and emotional abuse by McKeever, according to three people familiar with the meeting. Knowlton told the swimmers that McKeever was just a hard, tough coach who they would appreciate in the coming decades, according to the three people.
Knowlton, a former West Point hockey player and career Army officer, has repeatedly talked about the importance of the student-athlete experience since being hired by Cal in 2018.
“Clearly, they’re just paying lip service to that,” the former administrator said. “Nearly 40 kids at Cal, all sharing something similar and awful, a desperate cry for something to be done. Jim and Jenny failed to protect them.”
Simon-O’Neill has often been referred to as “Title IX Jenny” around the Cal athletic department, according to swimmers and former Cal athletic department employees, a reference for her advocacy for women’s sports and women coaches.
“But when it came to protecting women,” the former administrator said, “nothing was done.”
Current and former Cal swimmers said when they went to Simon-O’Neill with allegations about McKeever’s abusive behavior the administrator either dismissed their complaints or cited McKeever’s record of winning NCAA and Pac-12 titles and producing Olympians.
“There has to be repercussions for this or else it just continues,” said a parent of a current Cal swimmer. “For Simon-O’Neill it certainly seems like the fox guarding the hen house in the most obvious way. (Simon-O’Neill) was there as part of the protective scheme.
“I don’t know how you don’t blame the leader of the organization. This looks like the defense of a coach who grew up with coaching philosophies that are no longer acceptable in modern swimming.
“It’s not like this came out of nowhere. Why didn’t the university do anything?”
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The publication of Katie Orphan’s book “Read Me, Los Angeles” was memorable – just not for the reasons Orphan might have imagined.
“Sometimes I think about it, and it just seems like something that didn’t even happen. My book came out on March 10, 2020, and I think I had my book launch event on March 11, at Skylight Books,” says Orphan. “By Friday of that week, the city of LA had basically shut down.
“And so I went from like, the most exciting thing is happening; I have a book out in the world and we’re going to do all these events around LA” to staying home and baking bread while waiting for the vaccine, she says. On the positive side, she thinks the strange events led to her inclusion in a New York Times story about debuts derailed by the pandemic. “It made the entire experience far more surreal than I think it would have been had this not all happened.”
(Speaking of surreal: I first encountered Orphan’s book as I briefly passed a store display, making a mental note to seek it out in the future. I believe it was literally the next day I called Chevalier’s Bookstore about a different story and I got Orphan, the store’s manager, on the line, completely unaware she was the author I’d meant to be looking up. That, folks, is weird.)
Orphan’s work is now available for all and a great way to embrace Southern California’s literary highlights. A well-designed and colorful look at the books and writers of Los Angeles and Southern California, “Read Me, Los Angeles” is full of interviews, recommendations, photos, anecdotes, lists, and more.
There was a certain amount of kismet to how it came together, and she makes sure to call attention to the work of the editors, artists and designers who made the book look as good as it does.
A longtime bookseller at downtown LA’s Last Bookstore before her current position at Chevalier’s, Orphan had been working on a book proposal when she got a call from her eventual publisher, who at that time simply had a question for Orphan: Did she, a book buyer for the store, think readers might be interested in an LA-based literary tourism book?
“Well, I certainly hope there’s a market for it, because I’ve been working on a proposal,” said Orphan, who recalls that it had been a revelation to learn in school that literary tourism is a whole field of study. “I just thought it was me being a big nerd and having fun.”
Orphan says “Read Me, Los Angeles” is a way to address the fact that the literary tradition of Southern California – aside from maybe Raymond Chandler – doesn’t get the kind of respect that those of New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston do.
Why? Because people here “choose to live someplace with a lot of sunshine and good weather they just get taken a little less seriously,” she says.
“This book was looking at the authors and trying to communicate some of the vast diversity of Los Angeles, she says. “Geographically, we’re huge – what life looks like in the San Gabriel Valley versus San Pedro versus Malibu. It’s all so much bigger than some people who haven’t spent time stuck in traffic here necessarily imagine, but also the ethnic diversity and wanting to really capture that there is a long history of different voices present in Los Angeles.”
The book includes, among others, interviews with writers Michael Connelly, Luis J. Rodriguez, Naomi Hirahara and Aimee Bender; appreciations of Octavia E. Butler, John Fante, Wanda Coleman, Charles Bukowski and Joan Didion; explorations of bookstores, author gravesites and neighborhoods. And more, much more across the larger Southern California area.
We discuss many books, from Helen Hunt Jackson’s “Ramona” to the works of Eve Babitz, so I ask Orphan to name a favorite.
“My first LA novel – and still, in many ways, the most influential – is “Weetzie Bat” by Francesca Lia Block. I read it when I was like 11 or 12, and I was like, Oh, Los Angeles is magic; I think I want to live there. So, you know, as a starting point, that was a huge one,” she says, while adding, “I will read and reread Chester Himes and Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain at any given opportunity.”
As we wind down, there’s one question that must be addressed: You’re a bookseller. Do you ever recommend your own book?
“On occasion, but only if somebody says that they’re looking for an interesting guide to LA – then mine is one of, like, three things I’ll pull down and hand to people. But I never tell people that it’s my book. I don’t want to pressure you,” she laughs. “Usually, I don’t say anything about it. But if somebody buys it while I’m working the register, I tell them they have good taste. But that’s about it.
“Yeah, it is very fun to be able to see people buy my book,” she says. “I think very few non-bookseller authors get to experience on a regular basis.”
August is Women in Translation month, which aims to raise the profile as well as increase the number of translated works written by women. The project was started in 2014 by Meytal Radzinski, and it’s a great reason to read more translated literature.
I have been gathering a few – OK, more than a few – books in translation in recent months, and I’ll be talking about some of them in upcoming columns. (I’m also in the middle of a large book that deals with translating that we’ll have more on in the next week.)
So I’ll just mention two I bought at the recent LitLit book fair that I’m looking forward to spending time with this month, “Linea Nigra” and “On Lighthouses,” both by Mexico City writer Jazmina Barrera and both translated by Christina MacSweeney from California’s Two Line Press. (Note: Two Line Press is having a Women in Translation sale on its website, and – book nerd alert – tote bags are involved.)
OK, got any questions or book suggestions to share? Send them to epedersen@scng.com and they might appear in the column.
Thanks, as always, for reading.
Megan Giddings reveals the book she’s afraid to read (again)
Megan Giddings is the author of “Lakewood,” which was recognized as one of the 10 Best of 2020 by New York Magazine, an NPR Best Book of 2020 and a Michigan Notable Book for 2021 as well as a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards among its honors. She is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota and lives in the Midwest. She kindly responded to our Q&A upon the publication of her new novel, “The Women Could Fly.”
Q. How would you describe your new novel “The Women Could Fly”?
“The Women Could Fly” is about Josephine Thomas who lives in a world that looks a lot like our own, except that witches are real and that women are regularly monitored for witchcraft. It’s about mothers-and-daughters, what it means to conform, thinking deeply about love, and yes, magic, too.
Q. What do you hope readers will take away from the book?
I want readers to go on many kinds of adventures – love, parties, magic – while also thinking deeply about the world we live in.
Q. Is there a book you’re nervous to read?
Lately, I’ve been thinking about re-reading Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go.” It’s a book that I’ve held in really high regard! I read it around the time it came out in 2005 for the first time, and it was at a time where I was very young and very pretentious in the way you need to be if you want to be someone who professionally makes things, but because I was young and very pretentious about writing and art, I felt lost. I read “Never Let Me Go” in a day and thought that if I could write something that was half as good, I would feel like I accomplished something.
I think of reading that book as an experience that led me toward writing both my novels. It would be depressing to me a little, maybe, if I read it now, and hated it. But I keep wanting to know what I think of that book now that I, too, am a novelist. I’ll probably still love it though. I read “Klara and the Sun” this year and it made me keep thinking about how much I love the way Ishiguro can write a scene that is so easy to parse in terms of actions and characterization but so difficult on the emotional level. It’s a talent that’s so hard to develop.
Q. Do you have any favorite book covers?
Yes! One is the cover of “Lakewood,” my first novel. I love my second book’s cover, but “Lakewood”’s cover was so stunning, it was my first book, and it’s made me a huge fan of its artist, Yulia Bas. I love the original cover of Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber.” Most of the covers of “Sula,” but especially the one with yellow flowers. The “Area X” book covers. The cover of Donald Barthelme’s “Snow White.” And I still remember being a kid and just staring at the cover of “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.” I think it was the first time I ever looked at a chapter book cover and thought I can’t wait to find out what happens.
Q. Do you listen to audiobooks? If so, are there any titles or narrators you’d recommend?
I’ve only recently gotten into audiobooks. I’m flying more again and I’m too nervous on planes to read. The only media I can really handle on a plane is audiobooks and podcasts because I can close my eyes and sometimes feel like I’m not a plane. I just listened to “Writers & Lovers” by Lily King and while there’s one voice that the narrator does that made me kind of cringe, the way she handled the main character, the children in the book, even the love interests was so absorbing. I feel like it might be a great gateway audiobook. On my next flight, I’m going to try listening to “Persuasion.”
Q. Is there a person who made an impact on your reading life – a teacher, a parent, a librarian or someone else?
I had a teacher in sixth and eighth grade, Mrs. Baker-Radcliffe. I think of her as a teacher who made a significant impact on my reading life because she never treated reading as if it were just for a test or to pull apart a story’s meaning. Reading was sometimes about pleasure, sometimes it was to help us be creative, sometimes it was about understanding the text, and sometimes it even gave us a way to play. We would act out Shakespeare, treat books sometimes like they were something to gossip about, and write a lot about the things we read. The quiet message for me from all her classes was that something like reading was important but important things could also be fun.
Q. What do you find the most appealing in a book: the plot, the language, the cover, a recommendation? Do you have any examples?
I can let go of a lot of things. There are books I’ve loved that have terrible covers. Especially if you read small press books that don’t have the money or resources to spend a lot on art, you get used to letting go of cover aesthetics. But the two things that I think are make and break for me are language. I want a book where I can feel immersed. And the other dealbreaker is characters. There are some books I’ve stopped reading because the characters are pretty boring or all seem like the same person except one is angry and one is sad.
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With Propositions 26 and 27 both related to tribal gaming, we look at the history of Native Americans and their casinos.
The Rincon Band of Mission Indians, located in San Diego County, made the first attempt to open a tribal casino in California in 1970. The San Diego County sheriff shut it down and the courts agreed with the decision.
Casino gaming came to the forefront of Indian matters during the 1980s. Controversy didn’t swirl around online sports betting or large Las Vegas-style resorts, but it began with small-scale bingo games. The opening of several reservation bingo halls led to court cases between state and tribal interests in Wisconsin, Florida and California
California opens the gates
After authorities issued citations to employees and customers and shut down a cards and bingo establishment on a Riverside reservation in 1980, a legal battle went all the way to the Supreme Court. On Feb. 25, 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court decided (6-3) that neither the state of California nor Riverside County could regulate the bingo and card game operations of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians and the Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians. The ruling was known as the Cabazon decision, and it set in motion a series of federal and state actions — including two ballot propositions — that dramatically expanded tribal casino operations in California and other states.
In 2022, the state of California has signed and ratified Tribal-State Gaming Compacts with 79 tribes and there are secretarial procedures in effect with four tribes. There are currently 66 casinos operated by 63 tribes in the state. Last year, tribes paid around $65 million to support state regulatory and gambling addiction program costs. Tribes also pay tens of millions of dollars to local governments each year. Tribes operating larger casinos pay nearly $150 million annually to tribes that either do not operate casinos or have fewer than 350 slot machines.
The following brief descriptions are from the Legislative Analyst’s Office. Research the lao.ca.gov for more details.
Proposition 26 snapshot
A yes vote means: Four racetracks could offer in-person sports betting. Racetracks would pay the state a share of sports bets made. Tribal casinos could offer in-person sports betting, roulette, and games played with dice (such as craps) if permitted by individual tribal gambling agreements with the state. Tribes would be required to support state sports betting regulatory costs at casinos.
A no vote means: Sports betting would continue to be illegal in California. Tribal casinos would continue to be unable to offer roulette and games played with dice. No changes would be made to the way state gambling laws are enforced.
Proposition 27 snapshot
A yes vote means: Licensed tribes or gambling companies could offer online sports betting over the internet and mobile devices to people 21 years of age and older on non-tribal lands in California. Those offering online sports betting would be required to pay the state a share of sports bets made. A new state unit would be created to regulate online sports betting. New ways to reduce illegal online sports betting would be available.
A no vote means: Sports betting would continue to be illegal in California. No changes would be made to the way state gambling laws are enforced.
Class III gaming devices (slot machines)
The map below is an update of the 2006 Legislative Analyst’s Office overview of tribal casinos.
- The three largest facilities in the state (as measured by the number of Class III devices) are in Southern California. Yaamava Resort Casino (5,000 slot machines) in San Bernardino County
- Pechanga Resort Casino (5,000 slot machines) in Riverside County
- Morongo Casino Resort Spa (4,000 slot machines) in Riverside County
Click on the map below for an interactive guide to California’s Indian Gaming casinos from the California Gambling Control Commission.
The American Indian and Alaska Native population, alone and in combination, increased from 5.2 million in 2010 to 9.7 million in 2020, an 86.5% increase.
American Indian and Alaska Native people represent 2.9% of the U.S. population.
- About 30% live on reservations
- Of the 9.7 million, 5.9 million are in combination one race or more.
- California has the highest number of Native Americans, with a population of 778,593, comprising about 2% of its population.
- There are approximately 110 federally recognized Indian tribes, including several tribes with lands that cross state boundaries. There are also about 81 groups seeking federal recognition.
- California’s tribes are as small as five members and as large as 6,000 members.
Sources: California Indian Heritage Center, Culture areas map by A.L. Kroeber, “The Natural World of the California Indians” by Robert F. Heizer, “The Population of the California Indians, 1769-1970” by Sherburne F. Cook, The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, Smithsonian Institution, The Library of Congress, California Gambling Control Commission, Legislative Analyst’s Office, “Jackpot! A legal history of Indian gaming in California” by Aaron Peardon UNLV, California Tribal Court, California Native American Heritage Commission
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The best skin-care advice we can offer: establish a thoughtful, personalized skincare routine and stick with it. Consistency is key, as is patience. It takes time—typically four weeks—for skincare formulas to begin to show results, says Morgan Rabach, M.D., a board-certified dermatologist based in New York City.
Following a routine sounds easy enough, but for many it's surprisingly difficult. The skincare world, a nearly 100 billion dollar industry, is churning out more new product options than ever, and each one promises to work miracles. "The most common challenge my patients face is navigating the sheer volume of choices, marketing, and messaging," says Erum Ilyas, M.D., a board-certified dermatologist at Schweiger Dermatology Group. Not only does this cause impulse purchasing and information overload, but also skin issues since using too many different products can lead to dryness and irritation.
Bottom line: ignore the noise, and focus on the right routine for you. To do that, identify your current skin struggles (dryness? dark spots? acne? fine lines?) and skin goals (glowier skin? more firmness?). These keywords will help guide you to the products you need, says Adam Tinklepaugh, M.D., a board-certified dermatologist at MDCS Dermatology. We break down more on what to look for and the correct order to apply them, below.
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Your routine should have three goals: cleansing, treating, and protecting the skin, says Azadeh Shirazi, M.D., a board-certified dermatologist. Learn how to pick the products for each step, ahead.
Step 1: Cleanser
Look for a gentle formula instead of one with lots of active ingredients, Ilyas says. The goal of cleansing is to reduce oil buildup from the night before or impurities that accumulated throughout the day. "Some people like to have a cleanser that exfoliates or treats issues, but ingredients need to be on your skin for at least one minute to have any impact," says Shirazi. "Simply putting it on and rinsing it off doesn't do much."
If you have oily skin, opt for a foaming or gel formula, which will give you a deeper clean. If you have dry or sensitive skin, try a cream cleanser. If you wear makeup, you may want to do a double cleanse in the evening. First you'll apply an oil-based cleansing balm, which breaks down makeup, and then your foam, gel, or cream cleanser, explains Rabach.
No matter your skin type, don't cleanse more than twice a day, which can strip your skin's natural oils. "Oil on our skin is healthy and normal. It keeps us from drying out," Tinklepaugh says.
Step 2: Treatment
Now that your skin is clean, you want to apply a formula that targets your specific skin concern. It should contain an active ingredient, such as vitamin C, alpha and beta hydroxy acids, niacinamide, or retinol, Shirazi says. Ingredients like these are proven to address dullness, dryness, uneven texture, pimples, fine lines, dark spots, or loss of firmness.
To brighten skin, look for kojic acid, vitamin C, or niacinamide.
To hydrate, look for ceramides, squalane, glycerin, hyaluronic acid, panthenol (pro-Vitamin B5), shea butter, or oat complexes.
To soften fine lines or wrinkles or help firm skin, use a retinol, a retinol alternative like bakuchiol, or glycolic acid.
To treat acne, try salicylic acid, benzoyl peroxide, or retinol.
Look for a toner, essence, or serum. These are lightweight and meant to sink into your skin. "Applying actives onto just-cleansed skin increases their effectiveness," Ilyas says.
A word of caution: "Many people try to apply multiple treatments. But this can overwhelm the skin," says Shirazi. "It’s always best to stick to one active treatment product for at least four weeks before adding a second. And don’t combine multiple exfoliants, like glycolic acid and a retinol, for example. You'll damage the skin barrier."
Step 3: Protection
Moisturizing your skin is the third critical step. "In the morning, make sure your moisturizer contains SPF to protect you from UV and blue light," says Ilyas. For the evening, use a moisturizer with top-notch hydrators that repair skin overnight. "If your skin is on the oily side, go for a lightweight moisturizer that contains hyaluronic acid," Ilyas recommends.
"For anti-aging, I favor a moisturizer that contains stem cells, niacinamide, resveratrol, or caffeine to help support cell renewal," says Shirazi.
Genesis Rivas is the Beauty Editor at Oprah Daily, where she covers hair, makeup, skin, nails, and more. Before joining the Oprah Daily team, she wrote for several publications, including InStyle, Real Simple, and Shape. When she’s not testing, researching, and writing fun and educational beauty content, you can find her dancing and eating her way through New York City. Follow her on Instagram or TikTok | https://www.oprahdaily.com/beauty/a40919403/skincare-routine-steps/ | 2022-08-20T01:59:44Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/beauty/a40919403/skincare-routine-steps/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
You may have heard a few new terms floating around to describe gender or sexuality that you're unfamiliar with, and that's totally okay. As our understanding of sexuality and gender definition expands, so too does our vocabulary that describes these individuals. Instead of getting frustrated that you're out of the loop or don't totally understand every new term right away, consider this: The world isn't suddenly different; but our understanding of it continues to broaden, which can only be a good thing.
If you've heard the term non-binary before and wondered what it means, you're not alone. First, it helps to understand the term binary, meaning a coupling of two different things. If you're thinking about this in terms of the historical classification of gender, the gender binary includes male and female. When you use the term non-binary, you are asserting that there are more than two definitions of a single thing, in this case, gender. Therefore, gender non-binary means that an individual does not fit into the traditional binary categories of male or female.
What Is Non-Binary?
"Non-binary means existing or identifying outside the sex/gender binary, neither man nor woman, or being partially or a combination of these things," explains Lee Phillips, ED.D., psychotherapist, and certified sex and couples counselor. Being non-binary is an umbrella term for a gender identity. "Gender identity is an identifier someone uses to communicate how they understand their personal gender, navigate within or outside our societal gender systems, and/or desire to be perceived by others," adds Dr. Phillips.
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Chelsie Reed, PhD, LPC, mental health counselor, and author of Sexpert: Desire, Passion, Sensations, Intimacy, and Orgasm to Indulge in Your Best Sex Life, says it's helpful to think in simple terms for understanding non-binary. "Gender is the mind and sex is the body," explains Dr. Reed. "Gender identity is a social construct of what we think is masculine or feminine and where we think we fit in those categories. Gender identity does not have to be connected to our bodies, it is more about how we feel we fit in our community and society as a whole."
What is Gender Identity?
Someone's gender identity does not necessarily have to relate to the gender social constructs that are currently mainstream in a certain country or city where the individual lives. A person's gender identity is how they see and define themselves, regardless of how the outside world perceives them. A person chooses to define their gender identity, and can therefore ask for different pronouns to be used by others to refer to them that feel more in line with their gender identity truth. "Gender, including non-binary, is expressed individually," says Dr. Reed.
Identifying as non-binary is different from identifying as transgender. "Transgender is when somebody has a different identity than the body parts they have," says Dr. Reed. "Most people still use the term after having their insides and outsides 'match,' and others feel that transgender is describing not only the dissonance, but also the experience of their gender formation and transformation."
Non-binary individuals may have any genitalia, but "feel they do not fit into a masculine or feminine gender identity," says Dr. Reed. "If there were a scale of masculinity, black, to femininity, white – then non-binary is all the shades of grey. These people may alter their appearance to match how they envision themselves, but not to be more feminine or masculine – it is to be more themselves."
Different Types of Non-Binary Genders
As we continue to learn and expand our definition of genders and gender identity, the term non-binary does, for the time being, serve as a catch-all for an individual who does not identify with male or female genders. But within the non-binary term comes different types of gender identities. Here are a few further breakdowns of non-binary, as told by Dr. Phillips.
- Bigender- refers to someone who has and/or experiences two genders. These genders can be binary or non-binary, and the person can experience both genders at the same time or may alternate between them. The experience of the two genders does not have to be equal for the individual.
- Trigender- refers to someone who has and/or experiences three genders.
- Multigender/Polygender- refers to someone who has and/or experiences multiple gender identities.
- Demigender- refers to someone who has/experiences a partial connection to gender(s) in question. (Example usages: demiguy, demiboy, demigirl, deminon-binary, demifluid, demiagender).
- Genderfluid- refers to an individual who moves between genders; their gender is not something they can pin down and define.
- Many more.
How to Use and Understand Pronouns
If you're ever unsure of an individual's pronouns, the best thing to do is politely ask, says Dr. Phillips. "Non-binary people may use they (subject pronoun), them (object pronoun), and theirs (possessive pronoun)," he says. "There are many reasons why a non-binary person may use 'they' pronouns. One reason is that 'they' does imply any information about a person’s gender."
A great way to ask about someone's preferred pronouns is to share your first. You can simply say, "I'm Brittany, my pronouns are she/her. What about you?"
"It is okay if you slip up and use the incorrect pronoun," says Dr. Phillips. "Just apologize and move on. I would not recommend profusely apologizing or asking the person to explain their pronouns in further detail. This may trigger anxiety and their gender dysphoria (distress or unhappiness experienced because one’s gender does not match their sex and/or gender assigned at birth)." | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/relationships-love/a40924072/non-binary-guide/ | 2022-08-20T01:59:54Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/relationships-love/a40924072/non-binary-guide/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Moms are the world's unsung heroes. She might be your own mother—the woman who raised you, even through your rebellious phase—or a fave mom-figure in your life, like someone who's new to the whole parenting thing or a person who's always supported you like a mother does. Regardless of her role in your life, each mom deserves the perfect gift for their birthday, Christmas, Hanukkah, Mother's Day—or on any random day of the year, just to show them they're loved.
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The problem, though, is that moms either say they have everything already, or won't tell you what they actually want to be gifted. To take the guesswork out of it, we have the best thoughtful and unique gifts for mom that are bound to make her smile. There's a personalized portrait of her favorite (four-legged) family member, custom jewelry, a pampering foot massager, and several Amazon bestsellers (great for last-minute gifts!). We also pulled tons of small, useful gifts for mom, like super cozy slippers, our very own planner/journal, and a great reusable water bottle that'll become part of her everyday routine.
Below, scroll through 64 perfect gifts for mom (including, of course, some of Oprah's own faves).
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Letters to My Mom
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Birth Month Flower Heart Necklace
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Please Recycle Fanny Pack
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Oprah's “The Life You Want” Planner
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Ultra-Soft Marshmallow Hooded Lounger
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Custom Handwriting Bracelet
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Custom Pet Watercolor Portrait
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Fab Four Holiday Preserves
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Little Hottie
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Mindfulness Cards: Simple Practices for Everyday Life
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Harmony Trio Bracelets - Stack of 3
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Bamboo Bathtub Tray Caddy
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Aromatherapy Shower Steamers
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Garden Tool Set with Canvas Bag and Apron
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Shiatsu Foot Massager with Heat
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Custom Fingerprint Jewelry
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Women's Stardust Round Reading Glasses
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Women's Tree Dasher Sneakers
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Petite Dried Floral Hoop Styling Kit
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Cooling Weighted Blanket
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Custom Message Shortbread Cookies
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Handwritten Recipe Cutting Board
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60-Piece Custom Heart Puzzle
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Shiatsu Neck and Back Massager
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Mom Life: A Snarky Adult Coloring Book
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34-year-old El Shafee Elsheikh was sentenced to life in prison for his key role in the abduction and death of four Americans in Syria.
A key member of the Islamic State cell called "the Beatles," Elsheikh had already been handed five life terms, mandated by federal guidelines in the U.S. before Justice Department lawyers demanded he be given a harsher sentence for his crimes.
He was found guilty in April by a jury of four counts of taking a hostage and four conspiracy counts during a trial, which lasted for two weeks. His former captives revealed horrible details of the actions their captors took against them, including beatings, sexual abuse, killings, and waterboarding by the three British nationals known as "the Beatles" because of their accents.
Friday, the relatives of the four Americans, including the journalist James Foley and Steven J. Sotloff, watched as Judge Thomas S. Ellis III at an eastern Virginia court levied eight concurrent life terms without the possibility of parole. The families of the two other Americans killed at Elsheikh's hands, aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig, were also there during sentencing, the New York Times reported.
Elsheikh reportedly appeared uncomfortable in court on Friday as he listened to family members of the victims along with a freed hostage who detailed the horrors of his actions.
Carl Mueller, the father of Kayla Mueller, said, “It was stressful." He said, “I’ve spent so much time staring at the back of his head. But it’s worth it, knowing he’s getting what he deserved.”
Mr. Mueller said, “He’s been cold, with no remorse, because I think he still believes he was doing the right thing.”
The court was in session for nearly 3 hours before Elsheikh was led away to prison. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/islamic-state-militant-given-multiple-life-sentences-for-killing-of-us-hostages | 2022-08-20T02:05:23Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/islamic-state-militant-given-multiple-life-sentences-for-killing-of-us-hostages | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Man charged with killing father and stepmother in San Francisco home speaks from jail
SAN FRANCISCO - A 23-year-old man charged with killing his father and stepmother over the weekend as they slept in their San Francisco Bayview home, tells KTVU in an exclusive interview what led up to the deadly shootings and why he did it.
We previously heard from his stepmother's family, but on Thursday, Irvin Hernandez Flores, granted KTVU an interview from San Francisco County Jail where he is being held.
Irvin Hernandez Flores grants KTVU an exclusive interview from San Francisco County Jail.
He was soft-spoken at times and emotional. He said he only remembers some details about what happened.
Flores said he had drank heavily before he drove to his father and stepmother's home in the Bayview District early Saturday morning armed with a gun but that he did not have any intention of killing them.
When asked why he had a gun on him, he answered, "I don't remember much, but that gun was legally mine."
Flores said he went to Jose Hernandez and Yessenia Soto Hernandez's bedroom while they were sleeping. He said his father woke up, charged at him in the dark and Flores said he fired his gun.
"Once I emptied the clip I turned on the lights and I see him on the floor. I see his suffering and then I stopped his suffering."
"You shot him some more?" he was asked. "Yes, ma'am," Flores responded.
When asked why he shot his stepmother, Flores said she was in the crossfire. "I didn't have any intentions to deal with her," he said.
After the shooting, Flores live streamed the crime scene in a profanity laced rant. He said he doesn't remember much about what he said. He did indicate it may have been a way of saying good bye to his family, indicating that he may not be seeing them for a long time.
Flores said he fired a total of 20 rounds and that his 11-year-old half sister witnessed what happened.
"She wasn't crying. She was shocked. She needed my help to get in contact with emergency," Flores said. He said he helped his sister call 911.
He said heavy drinking and anger at his father over recent revelations by a relative accusing his father of sexual abuse in the past led to the deadly shootings.
He said he's sorry for the hurt he has caused his family.
"I want to apologize. I didn't entirely want to do this. Our heavenly father knows I didn't do this with the intent to kill my father --especially my sister's mom who had nothing to do with this."
Flores said he was honorably discharged from the Marines after four and a half years of service.
He said he was in the process of fulfilling his dream of joining the San Francisco Police Department to become a SWAT member as a sniper.
"All my life I wanted to do good for my family, but my father-he killed my dreams," said Flores.
Flores is being held at San Francisco County Jail with no bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday. Flores said he plans to plead not guilty to premeditated murder. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-charged-with-killing-father-and-stepmother-in-san-francisco-home-speaks-from-jail | 2022-08-20T02:09:42Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-charged-with-killing-father-and-stepmother-in-san-francisco-home-speaks-from-jail | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sister Jean spills her secret to living a long life as she turns 103
CHICAGO - This will be a big weekend for Chicago’s favorite nun, as Sister Jean is celebrating another birthday.
In addition, Sister Jean is getting her third bobblehead.
Sister Jean turns 103 come Sunday. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum has released a limited-edition Sister Jean ornament and dashboard bobblehead.
You'll need to act fast, however, because there's just a few of them available.
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Meanwhile, Sister Jean is sharing her secret to living a long life.
"Well, I say that I eat well, I sleep well, and hopefully I pray well," she said. "Never did I think that I'd be 103. I thought that when I was 95 I better be ready, ya know, to go to my creator. And then I thought, well, just keep living until he wants you."
Sister Jean's birthday will be celebrated all month.
Festivities include a CTA plaza being named after her and throwing the first pitch at a Cubs game. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/sister-jean-spills-her-secret-to-living-a-long-life-as-she-turns-103 | 2022-08-20T02:09:54Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/sister-jean-spills-her-secret-to-living-a-long-life-as-she-turns-103 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
St. Sabina hosts end-of-summer block party on Chicago's South Side
CHICAGO - A big back-to-school party rocked Chicago’s South Side Friday night.
It was the latest summer block party from Saint Sabina Catholic Church in Auburn Gresham.
For this block party, Renaissance Park was filled with music, games and plenty of giveaways.
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There was also food on hand for one-thousand people, and free haircuts.
Father Michael Pfleger, the pastor of St. Sabina, says the goal of the event was to bring the community together, especially the children who needed a night of fun.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Honolulu Little League just won its second game of the Little League Baseball World Series!
The boys from Oahu, representing the West Region, shutout the Metro Region champs -- Massapequa Coast Little League of New York -- 12-0. It was a combined no-hitter.
The game ended in the bottom of the 5th inning because of the 10-run mercy rule, which also states the the teams have to play at least five innings.
"Our team is so good because they pick me up when I'm down, and they always got our back. When we strike out they just carry us on and let us forget about it," said Honolulu Little League leadoff hitter Kekoa Payanal, who scored two home runs.
"We have a great bond. It's a good brotherhood. Like our coach always said, pick each other up, and if your teammate is down, tell him I got you," said Honolulu Little League pitcher Jaron Lancaster, who also scored a home run.
Honolulu Little League's first game of the World Series on Wednesday also ended in the bottom of the 5th because of the mercy rule, when Hawaii beat Washington State 11-1.
As the winner of Game 12 of the World Series, Honolulu Little League moves on to play the Southwest Region champs -- Pearland Little League of Texas -- next Monday, August 22 at 1 p.m. Hawaii time. It will be televised on ESPN2.
The Little League Baseball World Series goes through August 28.
Marisa Yamane joined KITV4 in January 2022 as an anchor and executive producer. She is an award-winning veteran journalist, who’s spent most of her career in Hawaii. She’s a proud graduate of Iolani School and UCLA. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/honolulu-little-league-making-hawaii-proud-winning-its-second-game-of-the-world-series/article_32856da6-2020-11ed-9742-535006ce24f0.html | 2022-08-20T02:13:25Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/honolulu-little-league-making-hawaii-proud-winning-its-second-game-of-the-world-series/article_32856da6-2020-11ed-9742-535006ce24f0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
This year as every few more, Google made their annual “Pledge Week\" an entire...week, starting Sunday September ninh month (hints towards the fall).\nWith this I wanted to look forward and also bring over here, another...\nYou would be interested how I was not sure when Google Pledget week started - as a way of bringing an issue (this week being...\nWe want them there and they still exist there just different but with one caveat is... Making Wheel Spot Pendant for Eco Gift Copenhagen exhibition\nSundae Shark is about the making. Making means having good stuff available while creating and improvising together on each job at site. At 1 July 2pm every firiday 17 CLOUDWALTS gathering around food with drink included for those working/trade at site. The pot lies between crafts to support people of all abillitat There used to be no rules for school transportation.
Kids went to school in horse-drawn wagons and some districts had red white and blue buses, to instill patriotism.
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He was a professor at Teachers College at Columbia University.
In 1939 he put together a conference focused on the school bus.
He brought together teachers and transportation experts, engineers and, yes — paint specialists.
They came up with 42 pages worth of school bus regulations, among them: a yellow hue.
They decided on yellow because black letters were the easiest to see with a yellow background, and yellow stood out even in bad weather.
In fact, the color is now officially known as "national school bus glossy yellow."
Federal law does not require all school buses to follow this practice, but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration does list it among its recommendations.
Every day, 480,0000 school buses drive kids to school across the U.S.
They go in different directions, and drop off at different schools, but you can always count on that yellow color being the same.
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Eighty-five suspects were arrested and over $12.8 million in drugs were confiscated in a two-year undercover drug trafficking investigation, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said on Friday.
The investigation entitled, "Operation Flying Ice," stemmed from a September 2020 search warrant in Winter Haven, Florida, that netted just one pound of methamphetamine. From that initial incident, investigators uncovered a methamphetamine trafficking scheme that involved large amounts of methamphetamine being smuggled from California to Florida in checked luggage on domestic flights, according to police.
At a Friday news conference, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd showed six pieces of luggage that were fully loaded with methamphetamine.
"On one occasion, on one airline, six suitcases with this drug were smuggled into Orlando. They didn't so much throw a pair of underwear in the suitcase to act like they were hiding the drugs. You think LAX has a drug smuggling problem at the airport? I believe they do, and they need to address it ASAP. There were six of these suitcases on one flight," Judd said, referring to Los Angeles International Airport.
In total, 268 pounds with a street value of $9,725,040 was recovered in the operation.
"I'm so very proud of our detectives and the agents and law enforcement officers who partnered with us to get these dangerous drugs and felons off the street. This is the single largest seizure of drugs and arrests made in the history of Polk County during an undercover wiretap investigation. We will continue to follow up leads and make more arrests, so those who think they got away from us -- think again," Judd said.
The 85 suspects arrested in the operation were charged with a total of 355 felonies and 93 misdemeanors, according to police.
Detectives learned that one of the suspects arrested, Demarcus Terrell Jefferson, lost his brother, Devontae, as a result of an overdose of fentanyl and Xanax. Family members continued to see drugs after his death, according to police.
CNN has reached out to Los Angeles International Airport for comment.
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TAMPA, Fla. — Mackenzie Valenza just started her first year in high school.
So, in addition to high school level math, science, english and history the newly minted Sarasota County freshman will also be getting a new level of sexual health education.
She welcomes it.
“I feel like we should talk about safe sex practices and how to make sure before you decide you want to engage in something like this, you’re ready,” she told us recently.
But in Florida, while laws mandating health education include teen dating and disease control, Investigative Reporter Katie LaGrone discovered there’s no statewide curriculum for sex education.
As a result, what and how Florida students are taught about sexual and reproductive health in public schools is left to individual school boards to approve policies, school principals to interpret them and instructors who, ultimately, drill it all down for students.
“Sex education in Florida public schools is very inconsistent,” explained Professor Dr. Elissa Barr of the University of North Florida. Dr. Barr has been studying sex eduction policies for more than two decades.
“Because it's not consistent we have kids in our state who are receiving quality sex education and learning the skills and resources and information to really protect themselves and advocate for themselves. Then we have other counties where kids aren't getting that information,” Dr. Barr said.
A map her team created using information provided by Florida’s Department of Education, showed just how mixed sex education curriculums are across Florida with policies meeting one of three categories.
- Comprehensive sex education- includes information about human development, anatomy and reproductive health, contraception, childbirth, STDs, HIV/AIDS.
- Abstinence Plus- emphasizes the benefits of abstinence as the expected standard but also instructs students on making responsible decisions to protect their health, and transmission of diseases along with some discussion about barrier methods.
- Abstinence Only- emphasizes abstinence as the expected standard with limited discussion on other aspects of sexual health.
According to the map, the majority of Florida school districts teach abstinence plus or comprehensive sex education. There are currently (6) school districts in Florida that are funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to offer comprehensive sexual health education. But approximately one-third (20) of school districts in FL still identify as abstinence only school districts.
“I’m as surprised as you,” said Dr. Barr when asked about these district policies.
Studies show abstinence only instruction doesn’t prevent teens from having sex.
A 2019 youth risk behavior study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control found by 12 grade, more than half of Florida teens have already engaged in sexual intercourse.
Chlamydia rates among teens in Florida are also four times higher than the national average.
When asked about teen birth rates in Florida, “in counties where they have abstinence only policies, we do see higher teen birth rates,” explained Dr. Barr.
In Escambia County, an abstinence only school district, a 16-year-old’s pregnancy made national headlines this week after a Judge there ruled the teen isn’t “sufficiently mature” for an abortion.
While it’s unclear if the teens attends a public school, in response to questions about the district’s abstinence only curriculum, a district spokesperson responded by email, “we are respectful of parental rights as we follow state guidelines regarding health education.”
For years, Florida advocates have been pushing decision makers to adopt more comprehensive sex education statewide.
“It’s unfair that the quality of sex ed you get depends on where in Florida you are born and raised,” said Amy Weintraub of Progress Florida, a reproductive rights advocacy group.
Add in the state’s new Parental Rights in Education Law, which bans talk of gender identity among some elementary-aged students and any content deemed not age-appropriate, and advocates fear lessons on sexual and reproductive health in Florida will suffer.
“A lot of teachers are really pulling back,” said Takeate King Pang with the Women’s Foundation of Florida.
Last month, the school board in Miami Dade first approved, then rejected, then approved again a new series of sex ed textbooks after a small group of citizens questioned if the middle and high school level books violated the state’s new law.
Alex Serrano, who represents the Miami Dade chapter for County Citizens Defending Freedom, a group largely behind book challenges in school libraries, spoke on behalf of citizens concerned the new textbooks violated the state’s new law.
“Much of the content is not age appropriate, usurps parental rights and is scientifically not inaccurate and not factual,” he told the board at the time,” he said during the school board meeting.
Back in Sarasota County, last month school board members approved this year’s health education curriculum which, for high schoolers will include instruction on avoiding pregnancy, STD’s and the consequences of sexual relationships.
But during the same board meeting, the district’s superintendent told board members about the district’s standard for sex education in schools, “we have chosen abstinence,” said Dr. Brennan Asplen. [A district spokesperson would not elaborate or explain Dr. Asplen’s statement. Instead we were directed to the district’s approved plan.]
Before Mackenzie Valenza gets any high school sex ed, her mom will have to sign a form allowing her to participate. The district adopted opt-in policies a few years ago. If students don’t have a signed form turned in, the default will be for students not to get any sexual health instruction at all at school.
Valenza’s mom called it “tragic,” and her 14-year-old daughter called it “disappointing.”
“High school is meant to prepare you for adulthood. All your teachers will tell you that we’re preparing you for adulthood, we’re preparing you for adulthood. Ok, but are you preparing me for that part of it,” she said. | https://www.wtxl.com/features/insiders/sex-ed-across-florida-very-inconsistent-with-some-districts-still-opting-for-abstinence-only-curriculums | 2022-08-20T02:23:57Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/features/insiders/sex-ed-across-florida-very-inconsistent-with-some-districts-still-opting-for-abstinence-only-curriculums | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A "war for talent" is how the Army is describing its plummeting recruitment numbers.
The military targets teenagers and young adults, but get this: most of them aren't qualified to serve.
Army Chief of Staff General James McConville told the Heritage Foundation, "we're starting to see more Americans qualified to come in."
The crisis is hitting a boiling point.
Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Bryan Ewing knows that military recruitment is at a critical point.
"We are at a critical shortage, the highest shortage we've had since 1999. Unfortunately every branch is experiencing it," said Ewing.
And they're throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks.
"You can go see Germany, you can go see Japan, Alaska," said Ewing.
But not even the promises of signing bonuses and boundless opportunities to see the world are convincing enough people to join the Air Force.
Across the board, the military is facing new troop deficits in the thousands, with potentially massive consequences.
"It's definitely vital to national security, that we properly address the shortage that we have," said Ewing.
The military must recruit 184,000 people every year if it wants to replace people who leave the service, according to the Labor Department.
The Department of Defense told Newsy that while the Marines and Coast Guard have already met their recruiting goals this year, other branches are still struggling.
As of April, the Army was just over two-thirds of the way to their goal.
Senior Army officials told Congress in July, they believe they'll fall short of their 2022 goal by as many as 10,000 troops and could miss their 2023 goal by 28,000 recruits.
The navy was 92% of the way there.
Major General Ed Thomas, the commander of the Air Force recruiting service, tells us "the Air Force is about 80% towards its recruiting goal and expects to hit target with a caveat."
The aggressive labor market is also adding challenges with more open jobs than people to fill them.
That means the military is competing for the same talent as businesses in the private sector.
Pandemic lockdowns also cut off access to high schools and public events – the military's bread and-butter for recruitment.
"Our recruiters suffered the most when schools locked down because they couldn't get in schools. And so it was a challenge for them to get to the young people just to give them the information we need them to have," said Ewing.
But there's a worsening problem that could impact the military years down the road.
"Longer term challenges: declining eligibility for the military today. Those numbers have dropped by about almost 6% over the last 2 to 3 years," Thomas said.
The Pentagon reports less than a quarter of 17-24 year olds meet enlistment requirements for a number of reasons, with many unable to join without a waiver.
"Whether that's due to obesity or criminal charges, drugs are becoming way more prevalent than they used to be," said Ewing.
Another factor is that the DOD has restrictions in place for anyone with prior treatment for ADHD.
Officials also warned that the pandemic's remote schooling may have lowered overall aptitude and fitness levels.
The Army recently launched a Pilot Boot Camp Program to help potential recruits meet academic and fitness eligibility requirements.
Then, there are the cash bonuses.
"So if they're going to be a cyber expert, for instance, there may be a $20,000 bonus involved in signing on and coming into the Air Force. If they're going to be a special warfare operator, it's up to $50,000," said Thomas.
The military is offering $35,000 in bonuses for certain recruits who can leave for basic training within 30 days of signing up.
Certain tracks are also offering free college and medical coverage.
"It's absolutely to get more folks in our force. We need to grow from the bottom up. We have a lot of senior folks in the Army right now. But we are looking to bring in our replacements ultimately," said Ewing.
Despite the added perks, the military acknowledges interest among young adults is waning.
In an Internal Defense Department survey of 16 to 21 year olds, only 9% reported they would sign up for the military.
That's the lowest number since 2007.
A majority of them feared they would experience emotional or psychological problems after serving.
Major General Thomas believes there is a lack of understanding of what military life is like.
"The American military is one of the best places where people can come in, be accepted as a team, be taken care of as a team, and be able to to thrive physically, spiritually, emotionally, intellectually," said Thomas.
There's also a trust gap.
One survey found last year, just 45% of Americans had a "great deal of trust and confidence" in the military.
That's down 25 points since 2018.
Major General Thomas recognizes these pitfalls, but he says the military is trying to build confidence by building a better understanding of what value troops bring to the nation.
"Perception is reality for people. And those are the kinds of things that we have to be able to overcome," said Thomas.
The military is even leaning on Hollywood for a boost, with the Navy and Air Force relying on the summer blockbuster "Top Gun: Maverick" to attract recruits.
The Army's recruitment commander told Newsy they're also searching within the video gaming community for people who might translate those skills into technology jobs.
Because without troops to fill those seats, leaders worry there could be ripple effects long into the future.
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A wanted man, suspected of burglary after multiple nearby home invasions in the New York borough of Queens was captured on a home security camera trying to use a wifi jammer to block a wifi-enabled security camera signal. That signal came back, and the camera was able to capture the man in action.
The suspect would break into homes in the middle of the day taking anything of value including cash, jewelry and luxury items, while ransacking the homes. It was unclear if police suspected just one person or multiple people possibly working together in the crimes.
As ABC 7 NY reported, the homeowners are usually not home as the suspect appears to arrive just as the homeowners are leaving. Since July 24, New York police said at least five residences were broken into in the same manner.
In one of the break-ins, the home of Imran Ahmed in Queens Village was invaded.
Surveillance video from a wifi-enabled security camera in the home wasn't able to be blocked during some of the home invasion which saw a creepy scene with a man covered in various cloth items was revealed slithering across the floor. He pushed a backpack and another black box, believed to be a wifi jammer. But the plan didn't work because the camera's signal wasn't blocked during some of the time the man was in the home, capturing him on video.
Video shared by the homeowner showed the unsettling scene.
Ahmed said, "We got an alert around 2:30 that our Wi-Fi went out." He said that at first, he "didn't think anything of it."
In the video, the man goes up the stairs, and when he comes back down, he says something that sounds like, "Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony."
Ahmed said, "We're literally two blocks from the [police] precinct." He said, "To have something like this happen is very scary."
One of the homes police are investigating had $30,000 in jewelry stolen, along with an $8,000 Louis Vuitton handbag. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/home-invasion-captured-on-video-showing-suspect-trying-to-block-security-camera-signal-with-wifi-jammer | 2022-08-20T02:24:21Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/home-invasion-captured-on-video-showing-suspect-trying-to-block-security-camera-signal-with-wifi-jammer | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he didn't take any classified information with him when he left office.
The disclosure — which would typically be unremarkable for a former vice president — is notable given that FBI agents seized classified and top secret information from his former boss's Florida estate on Aug. 8 while investigating potential violations of three different federal laws. Former President Donald Trump has claimed that the documents seized by agents were "all declassified."
Pence, asked directly if he had retained any classified information upon leaving office, told The Associated Press in an interview, "No, not to my knowledge."
Despite the inclusion of material marked "top secret" in the government's list of items recovered from Mar-a-Lago, Pence said, "I honestly don't want to prejudge it before until we know all the facts."
Pence was in Iowa on Friday as part of a two day-trip to the state, which hosts the leadoff Republican presidential caucuses. It comes as the former vice president has made stops in other early voting states as he takes steps toward mounting a 2024 White House campaign.
Pence also weighed in on Republican U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney's primary defeat earlier in the week to a rival backed by Trump. Cheney, who is arguably Trump's most prominent Republican critic, has called the former president "a very grave threat and risk to our republic" and further raised his ire through her role as vice chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
"My reaction was, the people of Wyoming have spoken," said Pence, who was targeted at the Capitol that day by angry rioters, including some who chanted, "Hang Mike Pence!" "And, you know, I accept their judgment about the kind of representation they want on Capitol Hill."
Pence said he has "great respect" for Cheney's father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who served two terms under President George W. Bush.
"And I appreciate the conservative stance Congresswoman Cheney has taken over the years," Pence continued. "But I've been disappointed in the partisan taint of the Jan. 6 committee from early on."
Pence's aides said the committee contacted his legal team months ago to see if he would be willing to testify. Although Pence has said he would give "due consideration" to cooperating, he was adamant that the historic nature of such participation must be warranted and agreed upon.
"Beyond my concerns about the partisan nature of the Jan. 6 committee, there are profound constitutional issues that have to be considered," he said. "No vice president has ever been summoned to testify before the Congress of the United States."
Speaking further about the search of Mar-a-Lago, the former vice president raised the possibility, as he has previously, that the investigation was politically motivated and called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to disclose more details on what led authorities to conduct the search.
"The concern that millions of Americans felt is only going to be resolved with daylight," Pence said Friday. "I know that's not customary in an investigation. But this is unprecedented action by the Justice Department, and I think it merits an unprecedented transparency."
The Jan. 6 insurrection marked the first in a number of public breaks between Trump and his once devout No. 2. But Pence has been careful not to alienate Republicans who have supported Trump but might be looking for another candidate in the 2024 election. Despite his reluctance to criticize the former president, Pence has occasionally spoken out against Trump, criticizing the attack at the U.S. Capitol and more recently urging his fellow Republicans to stop lashing out at the FBI over the search of Mar-a-Lago.
"The Republican Party is the party of law and order," Pence said Wednesday at a political breakfast in New Hampshire. "Our party stands with the men and women who stand on the thin blue line at the federal and state and local level, and these attacks on the FBI must stop."
Pence said Friday that he would make a decision early next year about whether to run for the White House, a move that his aides have said will be independent of what Trump decides to do.
Having visited the Iowa State Fair on Friday afternoon, Pence also headlined a fundraiser earlier in the day for Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley and was scheduled to speak to a Christian conservative group and a northern Iowa county Republican Party fundraiser before leaving Saturday. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/pence-says-he-didnt-leave-office-with-classified-material | 2022-08-20T02:24:27Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/pence-says-he-didnt-leave-office-with-classified-material | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Chicago Air and Water Show is making a historic full return in 2022 to the city's lakefront for the first time since it was last canceled amid the coronavirus pandemic.
This will be the group's first full-scale display, to be exact, since pandemic lockdowns stopped pilots from continuing those shows because of COVID-19.
The show went on in 2021 but was scaled down because of public health restrictions.
The air show will fly high on Saturday and Sunday from morning until afternoon along Lake Shore Drive at the show's focal point, WBBM reported.
The U.S. Air Force Heritage Flight and U.S. Navy Legacy Flights were scheduled for the first time to be in this year's show. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/the-chicago-air-and-water-show-dazzled-over-the-citys-lakefront | 2022-08-20T02:24:39Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/the-chicago-air-and-water-show-dazzled-over-the-citys-lakefront | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Are We Wired to Be Discontented?
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Something about the “light at the end of the tunnel” metaphor doesn’t quite sit right. It’s the absence of specificity: how long is the tunnel? Is it lit, even dimly so? Is there scope for congestion — the hectoring of cars and passengers chasing the elusive light? Will the light at the end stay for a while, or is there a succession of tunnels in store for us?
For some, the mind is bothered by the inconclusiveness innate to these questions. No metaphor is a perfect metaphor; yet, people manage to hook them to their dreams and philosophies to maintain hope every day. The pursuit of happiness is grand, driven by this metaphorical light too, but happiness, in and of itself, as a sustained state, is never achievable. Imagine having written a book, hundreds of reams of pages stacked on top of another. It’s exhilarating. But when are you starting work on your next book?
There’s evidence to suggest that the brain may be hardwired to choose discontentment over and over; dissatisfaction is where we start and, perhaps, where we end too. This tracks with our cultural reality: self-reported measures of happiness have stayed at similar levels for more than four decades now.
Biologically speaking, researchers have argued that the predisposition to misery is an evolutionary trait. According to psychiatrist Rafael Euba, “a state of contentment is discouraged by nature because it would lower our guard against possible threats to our survival.” This is a very formalistic way of looking at things, but in simple terms, it suggests that people are here to live and reproduce and continue to survive. Happiness or any semblance of contentment could deter us from that explicit goal.
“Perpetual bliss would completely undermine our will to accomplish anything at all – that’s why perfect contentment has probably been evolved out of us,” opined social psychologist Frank T. McAndrew.
Our anatomy offers some clues too. The brain is big and beautiful; each of its circuits and networks corresponds with certain neurological and intellectual functions that help us to live, breathe, decide. There is no brain tissue dedicated solely to dictating happiness, nothing “natural” or “neurological” governing its stream. On the other hand, our frontal lobe has developed over centuries to regulate people’s analytical and executive functions — giving us the ability to express language, control movement, plan, organize, and self-monitor.
However, the brain, interestingly, is not designed for our current reality; it struggles to articulate emotion, motivation, and behavior. Our brains are still wired to nomadic days when people needed to hunt and kill to survive. “If I throw a baseball at you, you’re going to reflexively duck your head, and there’s nothing you can do to override that with your conscious mind. Your ancient, subconscious, lizard-like visual system is doing that task,” explained David Linden, a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The brain is ancient in its design and slowly adapting, but that also means the ability to prioritize happiness isn’t simply within us — yet.
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This shows up in different psychological theories. There’s something called the hedonic treadmill, a theory that dictates our baseline happiness. We push and run towards a goal — a new job, a degree, a Friday evening checklist — in naive anticipation of the happiness it might bring us. But the surge of joy is instant and fleeting, as people quickly slide back to their ordinary state and begin the next chase of what will give them happiness. It’s the ultimate Sisyphian problem.
Why do we keep trying, then, despite knowing there is no promised certainty of success or joy in the end? The choice to undertake that ordeal still carries faint hints of comfort with misery in itself. Evolutionary psychology also speaks of the human brain’s “negativity bias,” the idea that the brain responds more sharply to negative images than positive or neutral images. Imagine looking at yourself in the mirror: do you see the blemishes or flattering aspects?
This state of discontentment is not a new phenomenon. Abd-al-Rahman III, Caliph of Córdoba, Spain, back in the 10th century, is said to have chanced upon the limitations of happiness long ago. His biological and material needs were satisfied beyond measure when he was alive: he was a great builder, thinker, and had a cultural legacy of forging a new dynasty. Reportedly, towards the end of his life when he calculated the exact number of days he felt happy, the answer was a sum total of 14. Two weeks’ worth of happiness over a course of almost 70 years.
It’s important to understand that there is little biological basis for happiness. As a social construct, still, it is the ultimate goal on which religious ideals and capitalistic pillars are placed. The divine lords promise unfathomable happiness in every garden: Heaven, Valhalla, Jannah, Vaikuntha. There’s a whole industry dedicated to the cause of happiness, wellness, and the power of positive thinking; some estimate it to be worth US$11 billion a year. The cultural consensus we’re being recruited into is that happiness is achievable and possible, and it is only due to one’s shortfalls — selfishness, misery, materialism, inherent emotional deficiencies — that happiness remains elusive. That we may be wired to choose sadness, attacks the relentless social idea of chasing happiness, which is replete with problems of its own.
It’s not that happiness doesn’t exist, though. The brain recognizes positive and negative feelings, and the positivity does distill into an indescribable feeling of joy. But it’s rarely ever sustainable, and how we function, in many ways, is built on that foundation. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, happiness adheres to its limitations; people live happy lives only with the aid of a drug called “soma.” If a human truly wants to be free, they must be afflicted with turbulence and difficult feelings; happiness is never a mainstay.
Sadness may be our natural predisposition, but that doesn’t mean we don our gloomy hats and commence a hopeless march. Dissatisfaction could be a powerful state of being. When stripped of unattainable and even exploitative cultural ambitions, maybe, we radically reimagine happiness as one that flows close to the shore and retreats, never standing still, always defying expectation. In our dissatisfaction, we may realize happiness cannot be boxed into permanence, and this wired misery may serve a purpose too.
Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes once spoke of a feature: “[Happiness is] like a feather flying in the air. It flies light, but not for very long.” But there is joy in watching the feature take flight, its wings bristling with hope, too — even if for seconds. | https://theswaddle.com/are-we-wired-to-be-discontented/ | 2022-08-20T02:41:36Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/are-we-wired-to-be-discontented/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is to carry out the state-level inauguration of Onam food kit distribution to the ration shop owners on August 22.
The free food kits with 14 items including the cloth carry bag, would be distributed until September 7.
On August 23 and 24, the kits would be distributed to the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) – yellow card holders. Priority House Hold (PHH), the pink card holders can get their kits on August 25, 26 and 27.
The kits in view of Onam would be distributed to the Non-Priority Subsidy (NPS) – blue card holders on August 29, 30, and 31, while those for the Non-Priority Non-Subsidy (NPNS) - white card holders would be given away on September 1, 2 and 3.
Those who are not able to get their kits on the stipulated dates can get their kits from the PDS shops on September 4, 5, 6 and 7. September 4 would be a working day for the ration shop owners. Minister for Food and Civil supplies, G R Anil, requested all cardholders to get their kits from their respective ration shops themselves.
The portability system in place in connection with the ration distribution may be avoided in the case of getting the Onam food kits, the minister said.
The packing of kits is in progress in the 1,400 centres of Supplyco. As many as 87 lakh food kits are expected to be distributed. About 57 lakh kits are ready. Online review meetings of the officials are being held every day to assess the progress in packing. Special squads have also been deployed to ensure the quality and weight of the items in the food kits.
It has been decided to include banana chips in some kits as a replacement for sharkkara varatty / sharkkara upperi owing to the latter’s shortage. The Civil Supplies Department officials will reach the doorstep of all Government recognized welfare institutions and deliver the kits. The kits would be door delivered to the tribal colonies also.
From this year onwards, Supplyco has decided to sell special food kits during the festive seasons of Onam, Christmas, and Ramzan.
Onam food kit
Cashew nuts: 50 gms
Milma ghee: 50 ml
Sabari chilly powder: 100 gm
Turmeric powder: 100 gm
Cardamom: 20 gm
Coconut oil: 500 ml
Tea dust: 100 gm
Sharkkara varatty: 100 gm
Unakkallari (Kerala raw rice/ payasam rice): 500 gm
Sugar: 1 kg
Green gram / Moong: 500 gm
Toor dal: 250 gm
Table salt: 1 kg
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Jack E Ruhter 1928-2022 JACK RUHTER, 93, died peacefully at home in the early morning hours on August 11th. Jack was born Sept. 8, 1928, in Sidney, Neb. to Robert and Effie Ruhter. One of 3 children Jack was raised on various family farms in the surrounding area. In 1950 he married Mary Jo Ross. They lived in Cheyenne-working and raising their two children, Tamera and Steven. Jack was a great salesman! He sold large equipment, then found a career managing the International Harvester Dealership in Cheyenne. He loved selling Scouts and Travelalls. Many friends and family owned something from his dealership. Jack enjoyed the outdoors. As a family, they spent many summers camping and fishing. Jack and Jo traveled to the Tetons hunting elk for twenty-some years. After retirement Jo and Jack enjoyed many years in Saratoga, Wy. They loved the small community and many friends. Jack is survived by his daughter, Tamera Korthals; four sisters-in-law, Jane Aikin, Milly Westphalen, Elizabeth Ross, Deanna Ross, and Marilyn Ross; and one brother-in law, Claude Ross. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Jo; son, Steven; his Mom and Dad, Robert Ruhter and Effie Moore; one brother, Harold Ruhter; one sister, Roberta Volpe; brothers-in-law, Dick Ross, David Ross, Vernon Westphalen, and Don Aikin. Jack lived a long-life enjoying friends and family. It was his wish that no services be held. A family celebration will be held at a later time.
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CHEYENNE – The Laramie County district attorney has declined to charge a woman arrested earlier this month in a fatal stabbing, saying current evidence points to the incident being self-defense.
The local sheriff’s office says it continues to investigate “with the goal of bringing charges” against the woman.
Rocsand Bocanegra, 42, was arrested late Aug. 9 by Laramie County Sheriff’s deputies after she’d been identified as a person of interest in a fatal stabbing earlier the day before.
Bocanegra was held on a second-degree homicide charge at the Laramie County jail until just before midnight Aug. 12. Anyone not formally charged within 72 hours of their arrest must be released, said LCSO Undersheriff Capt. Kevin James.
The sheriff’s office identified the victim in the fatal stabbing as 58-year-old Jess Smith of Cheyenne.
In an Aug. 12 letter to an LCSO detective, DA Leigh Anne Manlove outlined how Wyoming statutes related to self-defense did not permit her to charge Bocanegra at that time. Manlove provided that letter to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle.
“Your investigation established that Ms. Bocanegra told you that Mr. Smith was ‘wailing’ on her, hitting her with closed fists and ‘giving me his all,’ and trying to ‘maul’ her,” the district attorney wrote. “The autopsy showed that Mr. Smith had injuries to his hands, consistent with being in a physical fight. Your observations of Ms. Bocanegra were that she had injuries consistent with being physically assaulted.
“Additionally, Ms. Bocanegra told you that she tried to push Mr. Smith off of her, that their encounter was ‘scary’ and it ‘shocked’ her, and that she was defending herself. She even went so far as to say that she just ‘wanted him to stop hitting me’ as justification for using the knife.”
Manlove added that, according to the sheriff’s office’s investigation, Bocanegra was living at the Mitchell Court residence where the stabbing took place, and had been there “for the previous two weeks.” None of the other residents said she was “not lawfully present” at the home.
There is also “no evidence to suggest that Ms. Bocanegra was the initial aggressor,” Manlove said in the letter.
“To the contrary, your investigation determined that it was Mr. Smith who left his bedroom and came into the area where Ms. Bocanegra was, and the two started arguing verbally. There are no witnesses, other than Ms. Bocanegra, to the physical interaction between her and Mr. Smith,” the DA continued. “All of the physical evidence in your investigation supports Ms. Bocanegra’s version of what happened.”
Other evidence gathered so far, “including the text messages from Ms. Bocanegra and the people with whom she spoke on the phone prior to the stabbing, as well as the witnesses who were physically present in the home, do not create a homicide case of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and as such, criminal prosecution at this point in time is not warranted,” Manlove wrote.
“There is not a statute of limitations under Wyoming law, so I encourage you to continue investigating this case, because it is entirely possible that the people in the home know more than they are saying, or that there is a video of Ms. Bocanegra and Mr. Smith’s physical fight, or that she may inculpate herself to others as time goes by; there may be additional evidence that proves, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Ms. Bocanegra was not acting in self-defense and therefore could be charged,” the letter concluded.
James told the WTE Friday that the sheriff’s office is “absolutely still investigating” the case.
“I can tell you that we see the evidence differently than the district attorney’s office does,” James said in an interview.
The undersheriff said he was aware of a “level of frustration” in the community over the case.
“I guess all I can do is try to assure people that we will investigate this case as thoroughly as possible with the goal of bringing charges to Ms. Bocanegra,” James said.
At 5:26 a.m. Aug. 8, deputies responded to the 700 block of Mitchell Court for a report of a man who was stabbed at that location, according to LCSO news releases. Deputies arrived on scene and located the male victim, later identified as Smith, suffering from a stab wound.
Smith was transported to the Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Hannah Black is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s criminal justice reporter. She can be reached at hblack@wyomingnews.com or 307-633-3128. Follow her on Twitter at @hannahcblack. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/laramie-county-da-declines-to-charge-woman-arrested-in-stabbing-death/article_39d81b68-1ff2-11ed-bfc1-c7e38abcefc3.html | 2022-08-20T02:49:38Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/laramie-county-da-declines-to-charge-woman-arrested-in-stabbing-death/article_39d81b68-1ff2-11ed-bfc1-c7e38abcefc3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Astroblast 2022 Kicks Off on August 23
CRANBERRY TWP., Pa. – Have you ever attended a “star party”? Let Astroblast 2022 be your first!
Astroblast is a regional gathering of amateur astronomers, and those interested from the general public, that takes place at the Oil Region Astronomy Learning Center situated midway between Oil City and Clarion, off Camp Coffman Road, in Cranberry Township, Venango County.
It will run from Tuesday, August 23, until Sunday, August 28.
The night sky is full of amazing objects, and the new Oil Region Astronomy Learning Center, home of the Bruce M. Bedow Memorial Observatory, houses one of the largest telescopes in western Pennsylvania available to the public.
Astroblast features many door prizes, and a variety of activities including, presentations, an astronomy yard sale where you can buy and sell your astronomy observing goods, night sky observing and more.
Perhaps, the most spectacular thing you’ll see this year is the Rings of Saturn through the new 30-inch telescope at Astroblast 2022. It is truly an amazing view you will not soon forget.
What can you expect at Astroblast 2022?
– Dark Sky Observing – The 12-acre field surrounding the Bruce M. Bedow Memorial Observatory provides a wide-open dark sky and plenty of room to set up campers, tents, and your equipment for overnight stargazing.
– Modern Facilities – A modern restroom and shower are available on site. In addition, four power pedestals are located in the field surrounding the Observatory. Note: Power pedestals are insufficient to support air conditioners, heaters, stoves, etc.
– Talks – Speakers will present on a variety of topics; examples include exoplanets, the upcoming 2024 solar eclipse, astrophotography, deep sky sketching, unusual telescope designs, and more.
– Galileoscope Workshop – Build your own telescope and learn some astronomy basics (Requires pre-registration).
– Astronomy Down Under – Use a robotic telescope in Australia.
– Astronomy Yard Sale/Swap Meet – Bring those astronomy items that are just collecting dust and make a few extra bucks.
– Door Prizes – Totaling more than $2,000 in value.
– Astronomy Trivia Night – Come join the fun and test out your knowledge in astronomy.
– Great Conversation and Advice – Attendees cover a wide span of interest and knowledge, from those with a basic interest to those with many years of experience.
Go here http://www.oras.org/about-astroblast to learn more about Astroblast 2022, and to register for the event. Please note that while free public nights are offered throughout the year at the Observatory, Astroblast is one of ORAS’s key fundraising events and paid registration is required.
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Featured Local Job: Day and Afternoon at UFP Parker
Friday, August 19, 2022 @ 12:08 AM
UFP Parker now has both Day and Afternoon positions open for a variety of skill levels.
If you are looking for a career with a comprehensive benefits package and multiple avenues for advancement, join their winning team at UFP Parker.
Want to see what they are all about? Call or text Shelly at 814-316-1033 to schedule a tour!
Apply online today at www.ufpi.com/careers
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Featured Local Job: Registered Nurse (RN)
Clarview Nursing & Rehabilitation Center currently has openings for Part-time and Per diem Registered Nurses (RNs).
BENEFITS:
- 401(k)
- 403(b)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
SIGN-ON BONUS $3,000 FOR PART-TIME
NOW OFFERING NEW COMPETITIVE WAGES
ABOUT CLARVIEW NURSING & REHABILITATION CENTER
A caring family atmosphere… that is what they offer at Clarview for their residents and employees! The benefits of working at Clarview include meaningful work, connection to a mission, and the caring relationships you will develop with the staff and residents around you. Their “We Care” program is helpful for everyone who enters their building and is driven by their caring and dedicated staff. Join the team effort to put residents and their families first and learn skills that are valuable as you advance in your healthcare career!
Clarview, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center is located at 14663 Route 68, Sligo, PA 16255. Country Springs, a personal care community, is also part of the Clarview family. For more information, visit www.clarviewnursing.com.
THE REGISTERED NURSE POSITION
Clarview’s RNs provide professional nursing care to residents as prescribed by a physician and in accordance with nursing practice standards. RNs supervise day-to-day nursing functions, assess resident needs, develop and implement care plans, and evaluate medical resident care.
They currently have the following opportunities available:
- Part-Time
- Per Diem
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd Shift
TOP AREAS OF FOCUS FOR RNs:
- Supervise nursing staff in the day-to-day delivery of resident care
- Administer medication and treatment per physician orders, care plans, and policies/procedures
- Note changes in resident physical and emotional status
- Solve problems and make improvements in the delivery of resident care
- Make resident rounds on a regular basis
- Performs all charting and recordkeeping in accordance with regulations, policies and procedures
- Promotes and encourages harmonious relationships with and among colleagues
- Ensure open and productive communication among the nursing team
- Model professional behavior and leadership qualities at all times
Click here to apply: https://www.clarviewnursing.com/employment
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James Eugene Lindquist
James Eugene Lindquist, age 95, of Oil City, formerly of Venus, passed away surrounded by family on August 17, 2022, at UPMC Northwest in Seneca.
Born on May 25, 1927, in Grand Valley, PA, he was a son of the late James O. and Pansy Litzinger Lindquist.
Jim served in the U.S. Army during WWII from 1945 to 1947.
He was employed by National Fuel as a well tender for 32 years and 11 months, retiring on April 1, 1984.
Jim was a member of the Oil City VFW Post 464, Pulaski Club, PNA, Eagles Club, Elks Club, and the Moose Club.
One of Jim’s favorite past times was bowling.
He was also very active in volunteering at local nursing homes and for the Butler and Erie VA.
Jim is survived by his siblings, Lucille Stephens of Seneca, Judith Sandrock and husband Ronald of Laurinburg, NC, and Vicki Confer and husband Robert of Seneca.
Also surviving are numerous nieces and nephews.
He was a beloved son, brother, uncle, and friend to many.
In addition to his parents, Jim is preceded in death by a sister, Lillian Dean and her husband John, a brother, Arthur W. Lindquist and his wife Jeannine, and a brother-in-law, Richard Stephens.
A visitation will be held at Morrison Funeral Home on Tuesday, August 23, from noon to 1 pm, with funeral services following at 1 pm.
Full military honors will be accorded by the V.E.T.S. Honor Guard at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Cheney Cemetery.
The family would like to extend a special thank you to the staff at the Oil City Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center for the loving care they gave Jim for the last five and a half years.
If desired, memorial contributions may be made in Jim’s name to the Oil City Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, Memory Unit, 1293 Grandview Road, Oil City, PA 16301.
Morrison Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.
Online condolences may be left at www.morrisonhome.com.
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Knox Man Who Allegedly Punched, Choked Woman Then Fled Police on ATV Due in Court on Tuesday
CLARION CO., Pa. (EYT) – A hearing for a Knox man who reportedly choked and assaulted a woman and then fled from police on an ATV is scheduled for Tuesday morning.
According to court documents, a preliminary hearing for 39-year-old Shayne Patrick McCann is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, August 23, on the following charges in front of Magisterial District Judge Jarah Lee Heeter:
– Strangulation – Applying Pressure to Throat or Neck, Felony 2
– Simple Assault, Misdemeanor 2
– Driving License Suspended/Revoked Pursuant to Section 3802/1547B1, Summary
– Operate Snowmobile/ATV on Highway-Sub Off, Summary
He is currently lodged in the Clarion County Jail on $25,000.00 monetary bail.
The charges stem from an investigation into a domestic assault that reportedly occurred on Saturday, July 16, involving Shayne McCann and a known female victim.
Details of the case:
According to a criminal complaint, an argument between Shayne McCann and the victim turned physical around 1:20 p.m. on Saturday, July 16, at a residence along Porter Mill Road, in Salem Township, Clarion County.
Through an investigation, a PSP Clarion officer learned the victim reportedly walked into the residence as McCann followed. He allegedly struck her on the left side of her face. The victim then walked outside in an attempt to leave the residence as McCann followed her again and attempted to take her phone, the complaint states.
According to the complaint, McCann allegedly grabbed the victim around the neck with both hands and restricted her breathing to the point she let go of her phone. McCann then punched the victim in the face one more time.
Police observed red marks around the victim’s neck, as well as redness and bruising to her left eye area. She also had brush burn marks on her back and upper left arm and a cut to the inside of her bottom lip, the complaint indicates.
The victim explained to police that she was about to pass out when she was being choked, and that’s why she let go of the phone, according to the complaint.
Police attempted to locate McCann at his residence when he fled on an ATV. McCann passed beside a police officer as he was driving out of his driveway and onto Porter Mill Road. The officer was able to eventually locate the ATV sitting in the woods off Porter Mill Road, the complaint indicates.
It was discovered that McCann’s driver’s license was DUI suspended, and the ATV did not have a registration, nor was it road-ready, the complaint notes.
McCann was arraigned at 11:45 a.m. on Tuesday, August 17, with Judge Heeter presiding.
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