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To be stuck "up a river without a paddle" is an expression for a sticky situation you just can't get out of. But if that river happens to be in the northern hemisphere this summer, it's likely the paddle won't be helpful, anyway.
A painful lack of rain and relentless heat waves are drying up rivers in the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Many are shrinking in length and breadth. Patches of riverbed poking out above the water are a common sight. Some rivers are so desiccated, they have become virtually impassable.
The human-caused climate crisis is fueling extreme weather across the globe, which isn't just impacting rivers, but also the people who rely on them. Most people on the planet depend on rivers in some way, whether for drinking water, to irrigate food, for energy or to ship goods.
See how six of them look from space.
Colorado River
The Colorado River is drying up at its banks and thinning out, as a historic drought in the US West shows little sign of abating. The river is crucially maintained by two of the country's largest reservoirs, and to safeguard the river basin, the government has implemented mandatory water cuts and asked states to come up with additional action plans.
One of those reservoirs, Lake Mead, is shrinking in size as water levels drop toward "dead pool" status -- the point at which the reservoir won't be high enough to release water downstream through a dam. Its water levels have been on a downward trend since 2000, but have had a sharper drop since 2020. The lake has dropped so low in the past year that wild discoveries have been made, including human remains in a barrel -- a suspected homicide victim from decades ago. And the consequences of the Colorado River crisis are enormous: Around 40 million people in seven states and Mexico rely on the river's water for drinking, agriculture and electricity.
The Yangtze River
The Yangtze River in Asia is drying up at its banks and its bed is emerging in some areas. But it's the Yangtze's tributaries that are already intensely parched. China has announced a nationwide drought alert for the first time in nine years, and its heat wave is its longest in six decades.
The impact of the drying Yangtze has been enormous. In Sichuan, a province of 84 million people, hydropower makes up about 80% of electricity capacity. Much of that comes from the Yangtze River, and as its flow slows down, power generation has dwindled, leaving authorities there to order all its factories shut for six days. The province is seeing around half the rain it usually does and some reservoirs have dried up entirely, according to state news agency Xinhua.
The Rhine River
The Rhine starts in the Swiss Alps, flows through Germany and the Netherlands and then flows all the way out to the North Sea. It's a crucial channel for European shipping, but right now, it's a nightmare to navigate.
Parts of the river's bed have emerged above the water's surface, meaning the ships that do try to pass it must weave around a series of obstacles, slowing the entire process.
The Rhine has many different gauges along the way, including in Kaub, just west of Frankfurt, Germany, where water levels have fallen to as low as 32 centimeters (12.6 inches). Shipping companies generally consider anything less than 40cm on the Rhine too low to bother with, and in Kaub, less than 75cm usually means a container ship has to reduce its load to about 30%, according to Deutsche Bank economists. Low water levels also mean companies pay higher levees to pass, and all these factors make shipping more expensive, a cost usually passed on to consumers.
The River Po
The River Po cuts right across the top of Italy and flows out east into the Adriatic Sea. It's fed by winter snow in the Alps and heavy rainfall in the spring, and has a steep fall that brings a fast flow. Typically, devastating floods are more of a problem around this river.
But now, the Po looks very different. Winter was dry in northern Italy, so snow provided little water, and spring and summer have been dry, too, plunging the region into the worst drought its experienced for seven decades. It's so dried up that a World War II-era bomb was recently found amid its dwindling waters.
A big problem is that millions of people rely on the Po for their livelihood, mostly through agriculture. Around 30% of Italy's food is produced along the Po, and some of the country's most famous exports, like Parmesan cheese, is made here.
The Loire River
The Loire in France sustains a valley of vineyards that produce some of the world's most famous wines. The river stretches over around 600 miles and is considered France's last wild river, supporting biodiverse ecosystems throughout the valley, much of which is protected by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Parts of the river are fairly shallow already, but its levels and flow can change rapidly with the weather and as snow at its source melts. Some sections are so dried out from the lack of rain and extreme heat that people can cross by foot.
Satellite images from the French town of Saumur show more riverbed than water exposed in the Loire. The patches of land around it in the valley are mostly brown and withered — a year ago, they were a lush and green. Authorities are releasing water from dams into the river, mostly to ensure there is enough to cool four nuclear power plants that sit along it.
The Danube River
The Danube is Western Europe's longest river and a crucial shipping channel that passes through 10 countries. In Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria, workers are dredging the river just to ensure vessels can still navigate it.
It's not in as dire a condition as some of Europe's other rivers, but countries like Hungary are so reliant on the Danube for tourism, the impacts are already being felt. Some cruise ships have been unable to pass parts of the river to even reach Hungary. Those that are still running can't stop on their normal routes because so many stations have had to close as water levels on river banks fall. An average 1,600-ton vessel can now only navigate the Hungarian stretch without any cargo, according to the country's tourist board.
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If you haven't heard of the Tasmanian tiger, it's not because it's unworthy of discussion: it's famously not a feline but a dog-like marsupial, a predator that humans hunted to extinction. The last known specimen died in a zoo in 1936.
Now the "de-extinction" company Colossal Biosciences wants to genetically resurrect the Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) or the Tasmanian wolf.
"Whatever you call it, this mythically beautiful carnivorous marsupial was a true masterpiece of biological advancement," the company says of the project. "Yet, the story of its extinction is a tragedy of human interference and aggression."
The thylacine had trademark stripes and, rare in the animal world, abdominal pouches in both females and males. Australian researchers have called it "a dingo with a pouch" or "a dog with a pouch" — but its DNA also has a lot in common with the kangaroo.
Colossal, which has previously aired plans to resurrect the woolly mammoth, is intent on giving the thylacine "a second chance at life."
Here's a rundown of some of the big questions the project raises:
Is the thylacine capable of living again?
Humans have been blamed for the animal's extinction, especially after a bounty program was instituted in Tasmania to protect sheep and other animals. But in 2017, Andrew Pask, a biosciences professor, led research that found the thylacine also suffered from a lack of genetic diversity.
"The population today would be very susceptible to diseases, and would not be very healthy" if it still existed, Pask said back in 2017.
Pask is now part of Colossal's new project to bring the thylacine back. When asked if his view on its viability had changed, he said via email that the plan will incorporate diverse DNA sources.
"We have now sequenced many thylacine specimens and hope to continue doing so in this new partnership with Colossal," Pask said in an email to NPR. "Even species with low genetic diversity can be brought back to healthy population numbers again if they are managed correctly."
The goal, he said, is to bring back "a good number" of animals to help ensure healthy diversity in the new population. And while the thylacine was seen as struggling in the wild, any new population would be closely monitored, he noted.
How would the animals be created?
For one thing, it's not cloning.
"Cloning is a very specific scientific process. That process requires a living cell," evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro of University of California, Santa Cruz told NPR when talk of resurrecting the mammoth gained new currency in 2015.
Instead, Colossal plans to essentially create a hybrid animal, with many of the characteristics of a Tasmanian tiger. Its scientists will use CRISPR gene editing technology to splice bits of recovered thylacine DNA into the genome of a Dasyurid — a family of carnivorous marsupials such as the numbat and Tasmanian devil that are the extinct animal's closest relatives.
The altered nucleus would then be inserted into a Dasyurid egg — and when it develops into an embryo, it would be implanted into a surrogate.
How would the thylacine affect Tasmania's habitat?
"The thylacine was the only apex predator in the Tasmanian ecosystem, so no other animal was able to fill its place once it was lost," Pask said. "We have seen the impacts of this in the Tasmanian devil population which was nearly wiped out by a facial tumor disease."
The return of an apex predator would "remove the sick and weak animals from the population to control the spread of transmissible diseases and also improve the genetic health of all the populations it impacts," he added.
The thylacine played that role for thousands of years, Pask said, and its return now could restore balance to the entire ecosystem in Tasmania.
When might the first embryo be created?
It could arrive as early as the next few years. By comparison, Colossal hopes to bring its first woolly mammoth calves into the world within the next five or six years, using elephant surrogates.
A timeline for the thylacine hasn't been revealed. But Ben Lamm, Colossal's founder and CEO, noted via email that the Tasmanian tiger's expected gestation period of up to 42 days would be much shorter than that of an elephant-mammoth hybrid.
"A large part of our mammoth timeline is based on the nearly two-year gestation of the calves," Lamm said. "I think it is safe to assume that the thylacine proxy could be one of the first animals to be brought back."
Would the Tasmanian tiger ever be brought to mainland Australia?
"Whether we would return the thylacine to the mainland is a really interesting question," Pask said, noting that the animal is believed to have been found in Australia until 2,000 or 3,000 years ago.
"If the thylacine was effective at eradicating some of our invasive pest species such as rabbits, cats and foxes — their reintroduction to the mainland might have major conservation benefits for other ecosystems," he said.
But, he added, such an idea would have to be vetted and studied in captive areas before any broader release could be considered.
Sure, they could — but should they?
Boosting genetic diversity and helping ecosystems are the same reasons Beth Shapiro has cited in speaking in favor of using genetic editing. But while Colossal focuses on trying to bring back extinct animals, Shapiro suggests the focus should be on the wildlife we currently have that are struggling, such as the black-footed ferret (which was once thought to be extinct).
"Maybe we could use this technology to give those populations a little bit of a genetic booster shot and maybe a fighting a chance against the diseases that are killing them," she told NPR in 2017. "We're facing a crisis — a conservation, biodiversity crisis. This technology might be a very powerful new weapon in our arsenal against what's going on today. I don't think we should dismiss it out of fear."
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Liz Cheney has her sights set on Donald Trump.
The Wyoming congresswoman may have lost her bid for reelection this past week, but she is making it her mission to ensure Trump is never president again.
"I believe that Donald Trump continues to pose a very grave threat and risk to our republic," Cheney said on NBC's Today show the day after her primary loss. "And I think that defeating him is going to require a broad and united front of Republicans, Democrats and independents, and that's what I intend to be a part of."
Cheney is taking a few steps to try and make that possible:
A political action committee
Cheney has lots of money left over in her campaign – about $7 million, much of which came from Democrats, by the way. That's pretty ironic, considering Cheney's very conservative policy positions.
Cheney has also spoken out against some Democratic entities that have controversially boosted election deniers during GOP primaries in hopes of helping Democrats' chances against them this November in competitive states and districts.
Cheney can transfer all of that money to her newly formed PAC. It will allow her to travel and maybe even run some advertising opposing Trump. But it would be limited.
The Jan. 6 committee
Season 2 of the Jan. 6 committee hearings are expected to kick off some time in mid-September, and this is where Cheney has a key megaphone and may have her biggest effect on damaging Trump.
The hearings so far have dented Trump's image, even with his base. Before the FBI search of his Florida home, Trump's ironclad grip on the GOP base appeared to be loosening. He was starting to be seen by many Republicans as too chaotic, and the base was starting to look elsewhere (i.e. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis).
But, so far, the FBI search has reconsolidated the base around Trump, whose political identity is so strongly wrapped up in his own sense of victimhood.
Enter: Cheney. She will again command the microphone on the Jan. 6 committee rostrum with her diligent and focused way.
And with no primary left, she has only one focus.
A presidential run
This last point is flashy and has a lot of people weighing her odds.
In reality, Cheney knows she has little-to-no chance of winning a GOP presidential primary. Not only did she lose her House primary by more than 30 points, but her approval with Republicans nationally has nosedived since she has taken her strong stance against Trump.
The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, for example, showed Cheney with just a 13% favorability rating with her own party.
But winning the election and becoming president herself is hardly the point. Cheney wants to wreak as much havoc for Trump – and all election deniers – as possible.
She's good at making the argument and can take the case in a GOP primary to Republicans, who don't normally get that point of view from their preferred sources of information.
If she runs, she will battle to be on a debate stage with Trump, but that's highly unlikely to happen because Trump controls the levers of power in the party right now. But she can do retail campaigning and will command lots of media attention.
She's also open to an independent bid for president. Which way that could cut is less known. Again, she wouldn't win the White House, but if her candidacy is seen as likely to legitimately take votes away from Trump, it's something she would likely seriously consider.
After Cheney's loss, Trump declared on his social media platform, "Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion."
But that's hardly true. While Cheney won't be a congresswoman next year and probably won't be president, either, she's not going away.
Because, after all, as she said on NBC, "I will do whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.klcc.org/npr-news/2022-08-20/the-3-prongs-of-liz-cheneys-campaign-against-trump-will-they-work | 2022-08-20T10:27:26Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/npr-news/2022-08-20/the-3-prongs-of-liz-cheneys-campaign-against-trump-will-they-work | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kochi: Five Keralites who made India proud by winning medals at the recently-concluded Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games were felicitated by Malayala Manorama at a grand function here on Friday.
As India finished fourth on the podium with an overall medal tally of 61, Malayali athletes accounted for six of them. Eldhose Paul and Abdulla Aboobacker, who won the gold and silver, respectively, in men's triple jump event, long jump silver medalist M Sreeshankar, Treesa Jolly, who brought home the bronze medal in badminton doubles and silver in the mixed team event, and P R Sreejesh, goalkeeper of the hockey team which secured the silver medal, were honoured for their fine show at the quadrennial event.
As a token of appreciation, a gold medal was presented to each of them by Malayala Manorama Editor Philip Mathew. As Treesa was away in Japan attending the BWF World Championships, her father Jolly Mathew, who is also a badminton coach, received the award on her behalf.
Athletics team chief coach P Radhakrishnan Nair, jumps coach S Murali, and weightlifting coach A P Dathan were also felicitated. Malayala Manorama Editorial Director Mathews Varghese and senior sub-editor Ajay Ben spoke on the occasion.
A nostalgic reunion
The event brought together a diverse group, representing various generations of sportspersons, who relived old memories and revelled in the bond they once shared. They laughed, shared memories and clicked selfies, making it a nostalgic reunion. Those who came together to mark the day included Dronacharya Award winner and athletics coach T P Ouseph, Olympian K M Binu, former international athlete Sini Jose, former Indian volleyball players Moideen Naina, S Madhu, and Tom Joseph, former footballers T A Jaffar, C C Jacob, M M Jacob and K A Anson, ex-Indian basketball player Subhash Shenoy, and former Kerala Ranji player and cricket coach P Balachandran.
Walking down memory lane, Naina and Madhu grew nostalgic about the days they shared a room at the Indian camp. "They were truly legends. We were scared to go anywhere near them,' quipped Sreeshankar's mother and former athlete K S Bijimol, drawing laughter from others. Sreeshankar's father and former long jumper Murali was a bundle of energy both on and off the field, recalled Madhu. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/other-sports/2022/08/20/malayala-manorama-honours-commonwealth-games-medalists-from-kerala.amp.html | 2022-08-20T10:31:29Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/other-sports/2022/08/20/malayala-manorama-honours-commonwealth-games-medalists-from-kerala.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kochi: Five Keralites who made India proud by winning medals at the recently-concluded Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games were felicitated by Malayala Manorama at a grand function here on Friday.
As India finished fourth on the podium with an overall medal tally of 61, Malayali athletes accounted for six of them. Eldhose Paul and Abdulla Aboobacker, who won the gold and silver, respectively, in men's triple jump event, long jump silver medalist M Sreeshankar, Treesa Jolly, who brought home the bronze medal in badminton doubles and silver in the mixed team event, and P R Sreejesh, goalkeeper of the hockey team which secured the silver medal, were honoured for their fine show at the quadrennial event.
As a token of appreciation, a gold medal was presented to each of them by Malayala Manorama Editor Philip Mathew. As Treesa was away in Japan attending the BWF World Championships, her father Jolly Mathew, who is also a badminton coach, received the award on her behalf.
Athletics team chief coach P Radhakrishnan Nair, jumps coach S Murali, and weightlifting coach A P Dathan were also felicitated. Malayala Manorama Editorial Director Mathews Varghese and senior sub-editor Ajay Ben spoke on the occasion.
A nostalgic reunion
The event brought together a diverse group, representing various generations of sportspersons, who relived old memories and revelled in the bond they once shared. They laughed, shared memories and clicked selfies, making it a nostalgic reunion. Those who came together to mark the day included Dronacharya Award winner and athletics coach T P Ouseph, Olympian K M Binu, former international athlete Sini Jose, former Indian volleyball players Moideen Naina, S Madhu, and Tom Joseph, former footballers T A Jaffar, C C Jacob, M M Jacob and K A Anson, ex-Indian basketball player Subhash Shenoy, and former Kerala Ranji player and cricket coach P Balachandran.
Walking down memory lane, Naina and Madhu grew nostalgic about the days they shared a room at the Indian camp. "They were truly legends. We were scared to go anywhere near them,' quipped Sreeshankar's mother and former athlete K S Bijimol, drawing laughter from others. Sreeshankar's father and former long jumper Murali was a bundle of energy both on and off the field, recalled Madhu. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/other-sports/2022/08/20/malayala-manorama-honours-commonwealth-games-medalists-from-kerala.html | 2022-08-20T10:31:35Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/other-sports/2022/08/20/malayala-manorama-honours-commonwealth-games-medalists-from-kerala.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MCLEAN, Va. — Communications Workers of America filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board claiming Maximus Inc., a federally contracted company that services phone lines for Medicare and the Affordable Care Act marketplace, engaged in unfair practices after workers staged strikes last week at several call centers.
On Aug. 8, workers at Maximus call centers in Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia staged walkouts to protest attendance and break policies. On Aug. 18, CWA announced it filed two charges with the NLRB, alleging that Maximus disciplined and intimidated employees participating in the strike. CWA represents public and private sector workers in 1,200 local unions.
One charge claims an employee was disciplined in “in retaliation for his participation in protected concerted activities” in Chester, Virginia. The charge also alleges that management summoned police, which the charge claims interfered with the lawful worker action.
The Chesterfield County Police Department confirmed officers were called to the worksite address on the morning of Aug. 8. No arrests were made.
Company spokesperson Eileen Rivera said in an email that several demonstrators who are not employed by Maximus were disrupting entry to the call center and were asked twice to leave the property and move to an appropriate area so as not to be trespassing. When they refused, police were called, she said.
“None of the fewer than half dozen Maximus employees who participated in the picketing at the Chester facility have been disciplined,” she said. “All remain employed at the call center.”
A second charge filed in connection with the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, worksite alleged that employees were required “to listen to employer speech urging employees to reject union representation.”
“Management has historically required employees to sit through anti-union presentations, an intimidation tactic that interferes with and discourages employees from exercising their right to unionize,” the CWA press release said.
“The allegation of a company-sanctioned presentation at any of our call centers related to union activity is false,” Rivera said.
Maximus, headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, employs about 37,000 workers worldwide. Workers have been organizing to form a union over the last few months and have been protesting for higher wages and lower healthcare deductibles, in addition to recently calling out certain attendance and break policies at the strikes.
“Especially with the pandemic, I don’t really feel like we’re valued up there,” said Hayley Jefcoat, a worker at the Hattiesburg call center, in June. “I felt like we’re just a number. And someone can take our place at any minute in time.”
Jefcoat told Federal Times that she took part in the strikes this month.
Are wages keeping up with inflation?
Maximus has taken steps to address worker concerns, it has said. In 2021, President Joe Biden announced the $15 minimum wage for 300,000 employees of federal contractors, which the company honored.
In April, Maximus lowered insurance deductibles to $2,500 from $4,500. It has also provided employees with paid time off as required by Executive Order 13706.
As many employees are calling for livable — not just minimum — wages, the company said its hands are tied in increasing wages because of the way it operates under the Service Contract Act.
“The contractor may pay its employees more than the minimums established, but would need to reduce costs elsewhere or request additional funding from CMS, as it did last year when wages were increased to $15 per hour,” said a spokesperson for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Still, workers claim that updated wages and benefits have not gone far enough in addressing inflation.
“We always welcome the opportunity to engage directly with our employees and work together to resolve their concerns, while respecting our employees’ legal right to attempt to organize,” said Maximus’ Rivera in a statement to Federal Times.
“Just like many other people in America, we are still struggling, even with the pay that we’re getting,” said Jefcoat.
More than half of all unfair labor practice charges are withdrawn or dismissed. Charges received by NLRB have been decreasing since 2016.
Molly Weisner is a reporter for Federal Times where she covers industry issues pertaining to the government workforce. She's made previous stops at USA Today and McClatchy as a producer and worked on The New York Times's print desk as a copy editor. Molly majored in journalism and French at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | https://www.federaltimes.com/fedlife/2022/08/19/maximus-accused-of-unfair-tactics-after-call-center-workers-strike/ | 2022-08-20T10:49:51Z | federaltimes.com | control | https://www.federaltimes.com/fedlife/2022/08/19/maximus-accused-of-unfair-tactics-after-call-center-workers-strike/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MTCS football stuns Donelson Christian in opener — plus everything else that happened in Week1
Thanks to a big night by Nate Sembiring, Middle Tennessee Christian School's football team started off the season by knocking off defending DII-A champion Donelson Christian 19-7 on Friday.
Sembiring had a receiving touchdown and an interception return for a TD.
The Cougars (1-0) scored 19 unanswered points over the final three periods after the Wildcats took a 7-0 lead.
Yates Geren hit Sembiring on a 16-yard TD strike in the second quarter to cut the deficit to 7-6 at halftime, and Eli Wilson's 3-yard touchdown run in the third quarter gave the Cougars the lead for good.
Sembiring then intercepted a DCA pass with less than seven minutes remaining, returning it for a TD to seal the win.
MTCS will play at home against Grace Christian Academy Friday.
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Smyrna 35, Stewarts Creek 14
Smyrna quarterback Landon Miller rushed for 114 yards and two touchdowns, and the Bulldog defense forced three turnovers and scored a TD to knock off its rivals.
Miller had TD runs of 31 and 3 yards, and senior Arion Carter added 96 yards rushing and a touchdown.
Kevin McCroskey's 31-yard TD run in the first quarter got things started for Smyrna (1-0). After Stewarts Creek's Gage Hoover scored on a 3-yard run to tie the game, Smyrna reeled off 28 straight points, including a recovery in the end zone by Tucker Moore on a fumbled punt attempt.
Javarian Otey rushed 19 times for 100 yards for Stewarts Creek (0-1). His 36-yard run set up the final Red Hawks score, a 1-yard run by Jaden Norwood.
Smyrna will be at Rockvale on Thursday, and Stewarts Creek will play at East Nashville on Friday.
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Oakland 42, Hendersonville 0 (Thursday)
The two-time defending 6A champs won their 31st straight game, thanks to big plays on offense and a defense that forced five turnovers.
Kade Hewitt was 5-for-10 for 177 yards and a 93-yard touchdown pass to Quincy Jackson on the third play of the game, and C.J. Puckett had six carries for 64 yards and two TDs to lead Oakland (1-0).
The Patriots built a 35-0 halftime lead, thanks to back-to-back defensive TDs to end the half. One was a 62-yard interception return by Bronson Crisp. The other was a 15-yard fumble return by Jerrell Franklin. Mason Bell added a TD run for Oakland.
The Patriots will be at home Friday against Mississippi's Madison Ridgeland Academy.
Riverdale 14, Franklin 10
D.J. Taylor's 18-yard TD run with 3:47 remaining gave the Warriors (1-0) the lead, and an Israel Celestine's interception with just over a minute left sealed Riverdale's road victory.
Riverdale broke a scoreless tie in the third quarter when Isaiah Verser had a long kickoff return to set up his own 1-yard TD run. Franklin reeled off 10 consecutive points after that before Taylor's game-winning TD.
Taylor finished with 42 yards on five carries, and quarterback Braden Graham was 8-of-16 for 94 yards.
The Warriors are back on the road Friday at Rossview.
Siegel 13, Green Hill 6
The Siegel defense did not allow a point to the Hawks, and shut Green Hill inside the 15 on three drives to earn the win.
Tarrion Grant and Chase Bandy had interceptions for Siegel (1-0).
The Stars got all the offense they needed from junior quarterback Thomas Santel, who threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to Kevin Endlessly and added a 10-yard rushing TD.
Green Hill's lone touchdown came on a kickoff return.
Siegel will be back at home Friday against La Vergne.
Rockvale 44, La Vergne 12
The Rockets (1-0) raced to a 27-0 halftime lead and never looked back.
Four Rockets players scored to build the halftime lead, including a 9-yard run by Robbie Daniel, a 21-yard pass from Brennan Mayhew to Jabari Frierson, a Nolan Dunkley 1-yard run and a QB sneak by Mayhew.
Rockvale will play host to Smyrna on Thursday, and La Vergne (0-1) will be at Siegel on Friday.
Brentwood 23, Blackman 14
The Blaze (0-1) struggled to score, despite 334 yards of offense.
After taking a 7-3 lead in the second quarter on Jack Risner's 23-yard TD pass to Ben Marshall, Blackman watched Brentwood reel off 13 straight points to take a 16-7 lead.
The Blaze cut it to two with over 10 minutes left when Marshall caught a 78-yard TD strike from Risner. However, the Bruins put it away on Adam Fontechia's second TD of the night with 1:47 left.
Risner finished 18-of-30 for 293 yards, with Marshall catching seven passes for 201 yards. The Blaze rushed for just 35 yards on 13 carries.
Blackman will play at home against Gallatin on Friday.
Forrest 55, Eagleville 24
The Eagles (0-1) struggled defensively but had a big night from Elijah Fearns, who had a 95-yard kickoff return for a touchdown and caught four passes for 127 yards and two more TDs.
Eagleville quarterback Jesse Brown was 11-of-19 for 155 yards and two TDs.
The Eagles will play at Houston County on Friday. | https://www.dnj.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/08/20/tn-high-school-football-murfreesboro-area-week-1-roundup-highlights/10312760002/ | 2022-08-20T10:55:04Z | dnj.com | control | https://www.dnj.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/08/20/tn-high-school-football-murfreesboro-area-week-1-roundup-highlights/10312760002/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Insane Wrestling Revolution's IWR 14 comes to Monroe August 24
Pro wrestling returns to the Robert A. Hutchinson FOP Lodge in Monroe on Wednesday with Insane Wrestling Revolution’s IWR 14 - The Insane Rumble.
There will be three VIP-only matches, plus a main card that will see all three IWR titles defended and the inaugural IWR INSANE Rumble.
Matches include DTA taking on The GameChangers for The IWR World Tag Team Titles, The Loveable Psychopath Tommy Vendetta facing the undefeated IWR United States champion, Trey Miguel, and IWR World Heavyweight Champion Dread King Logan putting his title on the line against IWR Superstar Shogun Jackson Stone.
The Insane Rumble will feature at least 20 superstars starting with two and another entering the ring every 90 seconds and you never know who's coming through that curtain till the music drops. After all competitors but two are thrown over the top rope, the match becomes an Insane Rules Match until only one stands tall. The winner of The Insane Rumble gets a shot at any IWR wrestler they want to go after.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.purplepass.com/IWR14 or at the door on Wednesday. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/08/20/insane-wrestling-revolutions-iwr-14-comes-to-monroe-august-24/65410951007/ | 2022-08-20T10:59:04Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/08/20/insane-wrestling-revolutions-iwr-14-comes-to-monroe-august-24/65410951007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Local Republicans bash Whitmer's call to pause school supply tax
Two local Republicans say that Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's proposal to suspend the state's sales tax on school supplies is nothing more than a political stunt.
State Representatives Joe Bellino, R-Monroe, and TC Clements, R-Temperance, both issued statements this week denouncing Whitmer's proposal, which is part of the governor's MI Back to School Plan.
In a press release, Whitmer said the plan is intended to help Michigan families save money right now, help educators save on classroom expenses, and equip kids with the tools they need to succeed.
“As families gear up for the school year, they should be able to get what they need without spending too much money out of pocket,” Whitmer said. “That’s why I’m putting forward the MI Back to School Plan, which includes a proposal to temporarily suspend the sales tax on school supplies. Getting this done would lower costs for parents, teachers, and students right now, and ensure that they have the resources to succeed. I will work with anyone to lower costs, cut taxes, and help our kids thrive. Last month, I signed a bipartisan education budget—my fourth—which made the highest state per-student funding in Michigan history. We should build on this progress as we get ready for the next school year by enacting the MI Back to School Plan.”
But both Bellino and Clements said Whitmer's proposal is "disingenuous" after she vetoed three separate bipartisan tax relief plans approved by the Legislature over the past year.
"The governor’s inability to work with the Legislature has continuously burdened Michigan’s hard-working families, individuals and seniors," Bellino said. "Today’s ‘announcement’ is nothing more than an election year stunt. Meanwhile, folks in our community have been struggling for months at this point. Due to record high inflation and the ongoing recession, essentials such as groceries and gas cost too much for my neighbors. We’ve had the ability to provide Michiganders necessary and wide-ranging relief to return some of their hard-earned money on three separate occasions, but the governor went AWOL. After our determined and tireless work in the Legislature to help the people of our great state, I am perplexed the governor continues to turn her back on Michigan citizens.”
“The governor’s new statement is nothing more than a sideshow to distract from her vetoes of tax relief," Clements added. "Her hypocritical performance does nothing for struggling Michigan families. I’m ready to get real tax relief done for my neighbors in Monroe County and people throughout our state. Is the governor?” | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/state/2022/08/20/local-republicans-bash-whitmers-call-to-pause-school-supply-tax/65410830007/ | 2022-08-20T10:59:10Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/state/2022/08/20/local-republicans-bash-whitmers-call-to-pause-school-supply-tax/65410830007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Rescued treasures: From money to stones to keys, daily walks find adventures
Have you ever dreamed of being a pirate and finding lost treasures that would make you so wealthy you’d be able to do (almost) anything? If so try walking every day for an hour or two. The experiences you’ll have and the treasures you find are beyond comparison!
An hour or two seems like a long time, but it passes quickly when you have a goal in mind. My goal is finding things along the way that have been lost or discarded by those who walked the path before me.
I find a lot of coins and even dollar bills (wet from the rain)... plus many interesting things that had lost their value to the people who’d discarded them. I’ve found entire sets of keys (My husband called the businesses near the area I had walked... and found the manager of a nearby plant who found they belonged to one of the workers who had changed from his coveralls after he’d pulled from the parking lot.); and a new Rawlings catcher’s mitt, among so much more.
All kinds of animals try to avoid my steps...especially slow turtles and deer who have just decided to cross the same road that I have. Often a deer will stop, and look back as if to say, “Don’t get in my way.”
As mile markers appear, there’s a certain pride in yourself as you continue on with your adventure. Also there’s a feeling of comradeship and a smile as you pass other walkers...or the truck drivers you see over and over... and who often give you a honk of ‘hello’ (one of them even stopped to say he’d missed me and hoped I hadn’t been ill. When I told him about my alternate routes...He just smiled and nodded before continuing on his way).
Every time I pass a mile marker I pocket a small stone. When I return home, I put these into a plastic waste basket. To date I have walked enough miles to give birth to two small gardens (which the grandsons have claimed as theirs...hanging a sign of ownership in them).
Among the ‘surprises’ I discovered along life’s way was a small bench that only needed some repair and paint for use in one of our gardens; enough trim from an old house for my husband to make into numerous picture frames; parts of old birdbaths...and so much more that people have just set beside the road for any scavenger that happens to find a use for these discarded treasures.
I doubt I will ever challenge Methuselah for his record for a long life, but the adventures I’ve had from my a.m. strolls has caused me to often wonder just exactly what lies around the next bend. I now have less fear of dying than I’ve ever had...because who knows what actually lies ahead of us as we walk our last path. If final oblivion is the answer...it really won’t matter. I’ll just know that I have left something behind for others to enjoy on their way of discovery...as they walk their path. Who could ask for anything more?
Oh, and remember the new catcher’s mitt I’d found? Picking it up from the rain, I’d put it inside a dugout to dry...with a note that said, “Do you belong to this?” Well, after checking for four days...it was suggested that the owner hadn’t been found and that I should bring it home to gift it to some young softball player. So, carrying a double plastic bag (whose store name needn’t be mentioned) I went on my venture to the park dugout to retrieve the new, Rawlings mitt...only to discover one very old mitt.
The other one had been adopted by the owner of this antique...and they had left me a note. It said, Thanx for the swap.”
When I returned home with this ‘new’ treasure and its accompanying note my husband just laughed. “So your walking has benefitted more than just us,” was his comment...and once more...the value of walking had proven itself. What more can anyone ask for...from something that costs so little, but has resulted in so many wonderful ‘returns’ in the way of giving new life to old treasures that are no longer of use to their previous proud owners?
I did decide however to not put a sign in our front yard that said...’leave your old treasures here.’ Who knows what kind of junk one could accumulate if I did that?
After all, we gather enough stuff that we no longer need ourselves...and we aren’t the county dump! | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/08/20/rescued-treasures/65410909007/ | 2022-08-20T10:59:16Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/08/20/rescued-treasures/65410909007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
London: Captain Ben Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum promised to persist with England’s new attacking approach to Test cricket despite being handed a heavy innings defeat on Friday in the first Test against South Africa.
The new England skipper and coach have adopted an attacking approach to the Test arena, dubbed "Bazball", and have chased down impressive targets to win Tests against New Zealand and India in the last two months with a swashbuckling batting style and aggressive bowling spells.
But they were thumped by an innings and 12 runs at Lord's in the first of a three Test-series as South Africa’s bowlers ruled supreme. England were bundled out for 165 in their first innings and then dismissed for 149 on Friday.
Stokes, however, said there would be no change when the second Test starts at Old Trafford next Thursday.
"Absolutely not. You know, I look at captains before me and they were always going to get criticised at times about the way that they wanted to play, and that's just part and parcel of the job.
"We know well that when we perform to the capabilities that we're capable of, then we can go out and put on an incredible performance, like everybody's seen in the four games before.
"This is absolutely not a wake-up call or anything like that. It was just unfortunate we're unable to execute in the way that we want to play this week," said Stokes.
McCullum echoed the captain, rejecting the suggestion that the England batsmen might have been too cavalier against a strong bowling line-up.
"I don't think so. I think they were perhaps a touch timid. We approach the game with a clear mentality about the way we want to play and we want to be the best versions of ourself. It's not always going to work," he said.
"As we said at the time, you've got to buckle up for the ride. It's not nice at times like this but we'll come back strong," insisted the former New Zealand batsman.
"I think we weren't quite able to attack when the opportunity presented itself. Then we got a couple of balls that got rid of a couple of our best players. That's cricket. If you have a winner, you're going to have a loser, and South Africa deserved to win." | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/08/20/england-to-persist-with-bazball-despite-lords-debacle.amp.html | 2022-08-20T11:10:36Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/08/20/england-to-persist-with-bazball-despite-lords-debacle.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Medium-pacer Shardul Thakur took three wickets as India's disciplined bowling attack bundled out Zimbabwe for just 161 in 38.1 overs in the second ODI at Harare Sports Club on Saturday.
Apart from Thakur's 3/38 in seven overs, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav and Deepak Hooda took a wicket apiece.
Just like the first ODI on Thursday, Zimbabwe had a top-order meltdown and despite some rebuilding efforts from Sean Williams (42) and Ryan Burl (39 not out), the hosts couldn't save themselves from being rolled over for a small score.
Pushed into batting first, the openers Takudzwanashe Kaitano and Innocent Kaia were cautious against the new ball, especially with Siraj getting the ball to swing away beautifully.
Siraj got the first breakthrough when he shaped the ball away to square up Kaitano. The batter had no other option but to nick behind, and wicketkeeper Sanju Samson dived full length to his right to complete a one-handed catch.
Thakur's short ball down leg beat Innocent Kaia for pace and he gloved behind to Sanju. He had his second wicket in the 12th over when captain Regis Chakabva, who promoted himself in the batting order, was undone by extra bounce and nicked to second slip.
Zimbabwe's troubles increased when Wesley Madhevere tried to defend, but he nicked behind off Krishna. Sikandar Raza cut straight to backward point off Kuldeep as Zimbabwe lost half of their side at 72.
Williams tried to counter-attack with three boundaries and a six, but in a bid to go big, he slogged straight into the hands of the deep square leg off Hooda.
Thakur, coming into the eleven in place of Deepak Chahar, struck again as he shattered Luke Jongwe's stumps while Patel got his first wicket with Brad Evans chopping onto his stumps.
Burl had a mix of luck and some mighty shots to fetch boundaries and push Zimbabwe's score past 150. But he ran out of support from the other end as Victor Nyauchi and Tanaka Chivanga were out in quick succession. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/08/20/zimbabwe-versus-india-second-odi-harare.amp.html | 2022-08-20T11:11:00Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/08/20/zimbabwe-versus-india-second-odi-harare.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Medium-pacer Shardul Thakur took three wickets as India's disciplined bowling attack bundled out Zimbabwe for just 161 in 38.1 overs in the second ODI at Harare Sports Club on Saturday.
Apart from Thakur's 3/38 in seven overs, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav and Deepak Hooda took a wicket apiece.
Just like the first ODI on Thursday, Zimbabwe had a top-order meltdown and despite some rebuilding efforts from Sean Williams (42) and Ryan Burl (39 not out), the hosts couldn't save themselves from being rolled over for a small score.
Pushed into batting first, the openers Takudzwanashe Kaitano and Innocent Kaia were cautious against the new ball, especially with Siraj getting the ball to swing away beautifully.
Siraj got the first breakthrough when he shaped the ball away to square up Kaitano. The batter had no other option but to nick behind, and wicketkeeper Sanju Samson dived full length to his right to complete a one-handed catch.
Thakur's short ball down leg beat Innocent Kaia for pace and he gloved behind to Sanju. He had his second wicket in the 12th over when captain Regis Chakabva, who promoted himself in the batting order, was undone by extra bounce and nicked to second slip.
Zimbabwe's troubles increased when Wesley Madhevere tried to defend, but he nicked behind off Krishna. Sikandar Raza cut straight to backward point off Kuldeep as Zimbabwe lost half of their side at 72.
Williams tried to counter-attack with three boundaries and a six, but in a bid to go big, he slogged straight into the hands of the deep square leg off Hooda.
Thakur, coming into the eleven in place of Deepak Chahar, struck again as he shattered Luke Jongwe's stumps while Patel got his first wicket with Brad Evans chopping onto his stumps.
Burl had a mix of luck and some mighty shots to fetch boundaries and push Zimbabwe's score past 150. But he ran out of support from the other end as Victor Nyauchi and Tanaka Chivanga were out in quick succession. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/08/20/zimbabwe-versus-india-second-odi-harare.html | 2022-08-20T11:11:07Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/08/20/zimbabwe-versus-india-second-odi-harare.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pollution warnings have been issued for two key Kent beaches this weekend after reports of storm sewage discharges into the bathing water. Warnings are currently in place for both Herne Bay Central Beach and Tankerton Beach .
Following what has been a prolonged dry spell within Kent , heavy rainfall has finally touched down across the county this week. However, while the rain has certainly been welcome, the ground has simply been too dry to absorb much of it, meaning that a considerable amount of such water has made its way into the county's drain networks.
In order to prevent flooding, discharges are carried out to reduce damage risks, in which excess water is deposited into the sea. Known as combined sewage overflows (CSOs), these releases are comprised of both sewage water and rainwater, meaning they are likely to impact bathing water quality where they are released.
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Surfers Against Sewage has issued updates for the recorded incidents in Herne Bay and Tankerton on their Safer Seas & Rivers Service interactive map . The update for Herne Bay reads: “Pollution Alert: Storm sewage has been discharged from a sewer overflow in this location within the past 48 hours.
“There are two sewer overflows that discharge into this bathing water; one discharges 600m offshore while the other is inland and discharges into a stream at the eastern end of the bathing water.” Meanwhile, the Tankerton update states: “Pollution Alert: Storm sewage has been discharged from a sewer overflow in this location within the past 48 hours.
“There is a sewer overflow discharging directly onto the beach and another a little to the west that may affect the bathing water quality at Tankerton.” Southern Water does provide a similar service through their interactive Beachbuoy map , which has also recorded both of these releases and noted that the may be impacting water quality in the area .
However, the water company notes that they do not make any recommendations about the safety of conditions for water users. The release of CSOs has been a large point of contention in Kent for some time, with a number of protests and demonstrations held opposing such releases .
A spokesperson for Southern Water said: “This week’s heavy rain has fallen onto parched ground that can’t absorb surface run-off, meaning that more rain than usual has overwhelmed our network. This led to some overflows – which are used to protect homes, schools, businesses and hospitals from flooding – spilling excess water into the sea.
"These discharges are permitted and regulated by the Environment Agency, and are heavily diluted, typically being 95 per cent rainwater. We are dedicated to significantly reducing storm overflows and are running innovative pilot schemes across the region to reduce the amount of rainfall entering our combined sewers by 2030.”
If you have seen or heard anything you think we should know about, or in relation to this, please contact the KentLive newsdesk by email at kentlivenewsdesk@reachplc.com . Alternatively, you can get in touch with us via our Facebook page or on Twitter @kentlivenews .
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A former deputy Virginia attorney general who says she was fired over social media posts in which she praised the Capitol rioters as “patriots” and falsely claimed Donald Trump won the 2020 election is suing the attorney general's office for defamation.
Monique Miles alleges in her lawsuit that Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares and members of his staff damaged her professional reputation and credibility when a spokesperson told the media she had resigned from her job and that she was not transparent during her initial interviews for the job.
Miles said she was forced out of her job as The Washington Post was getting ready to publish a story with screenshots of Facebook posts she wrote as a private citizen, more than a year before she began working as the deputy attorney general of the Government Operations and Transactions division, which oversaw work on issues related to election integrity.
“News Flash: Patriots have stormed the Capitol,” Miles wrote. “No surprise. The deep state has awoken the sleeping giant. Patriots are not taking this lying down. We are awake, ready and will fight for our rights by any means necessary.”
The lawsuit seeks $1 million in damages.
In her complaint, Miles said she was aggressively recruited to apply for a job as a deputy attorney general shortly after Miyares won the 2021 election. She said she had known Darrell Jordan, Miyares' chief of staff, for about four years and believed the office was aware of her views about the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6 riots because she and Jordan were Facebook “friends” and he was “privy" to her posts.
Miles said no one in the attorney general's office - including Miyares - asked her about her political views during interviews for the job.
About a week after Miles began her job in January, a friend told her the Post had asked her for comment on a story about Miles. She said she immediately told Jordan and other officials in Miyares' offiice.
On Feb. 10, she said she had a series of meetings, phone calls and text messages with the officials in which she presented them with screenshots of her Facebook posts and explained that she had later edited some of them as she gained "more information from the news, post-election lawsuits, legislative hearings, and election audits as information was unfolding.”
In a text exchange with Jordan, she wrote, “I don't condone the Jan. 6 riot or any of the lawlessness," according to the lawsuit.
Miles said she was told the attorney general's office would give her “an opportunity to resign," but she did not do so.
Miles said she sent a message to several officials - including Miyares - and told them, “I have done nothing wrong."
The lawsuit says that Miyares' director of communications, Victoria LaCivita, issued a statement saying Miles had resigned. Miles said she was inundated by news outlets seeking comment, but she did not respond at first, believing that Miyares' office would correct their statement. But when no correction was issued, Miles said she reached out to the media to say she had been asked to resign because of statements she made about the election and the events of Jan. 6.
LaCivita, who is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, said in a statement Friday that the attorney general's office “commits to vigorously defend against Ms. Miles' claim for $1 million of taxpayer money and is confident that our legal position is strong.”
According to the lawsuit, a statement issued by LaCivita said the attorney general's office and Miles had “parted ways” because she showed a “lack of transparency during her initial interviews for the position.”
Miles said the statement impugned her reputation for truthfulness and integrity, qualities that are especially important as an attorney in a profession in which character and fitness are required to maintain a license to practice law.
“This is all about clearing my name," Miles said in a telephone interview Friday.
Miles said in the lawsuit that she has lost clients because of the suggestion that she was not transparent and has been questioned by at least two judges in open court about the matter.
Courthouse News first published a story about the lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday in Richmond Circuit Court.. | https://www.wboc.com/news/ex-virginia-official-sues-after-losing-job-over-jan-6-posts/article_3da4494c-206a-11ed-b9e6-efcc32c55635.html | 2022-08-20T11:12:00Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/ex-virginia-official-sues-after-losing-job-over-jan-6-posts/article_3da4494c-206a-11ed-b9e6-efcc32c55635.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DELMARVA FORECAST
Saturday: Partly cloudy with a stray downpour or rumble of thunder. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
Saturday night: A stray shower or rumble of thunder in the evening, then partly cloudy. Lows around 70°F. Chance of rain 20 percent.
Sunday: Partly cloudy with scattered showers or thunder. Any downpours could be torrential. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
Monday: Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the low to mid 80s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
Tuesday: Partly cloudy with a few showers or rumbles of thunder. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 80s.
Thursday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 80s.
Friday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s.
FORECAST DISCUSSION
We've got some nice outdoor events this weekend, such as the Wicomico County Fair, and nailing down the rain forecast will be challenging.
There is a low pressure system off the Carolina Coast that will travel up the eastern seaboard this weekend. With it will come a chance of showers and thunderstorms, but how widespread those showers will be depends greatly on just how close to the coast the low travels.
As of Saturday morning, it seems that it will stay far enough off the coast to avoid any widespread showers or thunder, but I will keep a low end chance for a pop-up shower or thunderstorm Saturday afternoon and evening, especially east of Route 13. Temperatures Saturday will be seasonable.
On Sunday, the presence of that low and an attendant frontal boundary will bring us a slightly better chance for showers and thunder - however I don't think the shower coverage will be enough for the day to be a washout. Expect some isolated to scattered showers or thunder, mainly in the afternoon. Some showers could feature some gusty downpours. Highs continue to be seasonable, in the mid 80s.
More widespread rain will arrive on Monday with the arrival of a cold front, and it will likely be the wettest of the next seven days. Showers and some thunder will be likely, with some locally heavy downpours. Thunderstorms are possible, but severe storms are not likely. Highs will be a bit cooler, in the low 80s.
Then after some lingering showers and thunder on Tuesday, high pressure builds into the Mid-Atlantic for the second half of the week, with partly to mostly sunny skies, and temperatures slightly above normal, in the mid to upper 80s.
In the tropics, we'll be watching the development of Potential Tropical Cyclone "Four" in the Gulf of Mexico. This will likely become our next named tropical storm - it's name would be "Danielle."
A tropical wave moving off the west coast of Africa has a low chance of development. None of these tropical systems are an immediate threat to Delmarva. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/a-few-showers-but-not-a-weekend-washout/article_816e92ea-2065-11ed-942a-c71f73bf928f.html | 2022-08-20T11:12:07Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/a-few-showers-but-not-a-weekend-washout/article_816e92ea-2065-11ed-942a-c71f73bf928f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Texas’s clean energy sector is expected to be one of the largest beneficiaries of the climate and health care legislation President Joe Biden has signed into law, according to estimates released by the White House Wednesday.
Over the next eight years, Texas is expected to see $66.5 billion in investment through the legislation, expanding wind and solar energy, advanced batteries and other sources of clean electricity — more than California, New York or Florida.
Named the Inflation Reduction Act, the bill provides almost $370 billion in federal funding for the clean energy sector, with government officials hoping to spur far larger investment from the private sector.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan described the legislation in a press conference Wednesday as, “the linchpin to putting us on path to reach net zero (greenhouse gas emissions) no later than 2050.”
“It invests in American workers, the back bone of this country, by spurring supply chains for clean energy,” he said.
Texas has long led the nation in clean energy, with three times as many wind turbines as the next closest state. And while California still has the most solar energy capacity, Texas is beginning to catch up, with more installations last year than any other state, according to the Solar Energy Industry Association.
Here’s a quote of interest from Bloomberg: “Of the top 10 congressional districts in the country for operating and planned wind, solar and battery capacity, four are in Texas, more than in any other state and including the No. 1 district, Texas’ 19th.” So of course every Republican voted against it. Which won’t stop them from claiming credit for the good things that will happen. It’s the circle of life.
Fortunately, at least some of the goodness should go places that can honestly claim credit.
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee wants environmental justice funds in the Inflation Reduction Act to flow into northeast Houston as freely as the concrete batch facilities that have come to plague the predominantly Black area.
Legislation passed Friday includes $60 billion for environmental justice programs that can help communities such as Trinity and Houston Gardens fight polluters and reduce emissions, the congresswoman said during a Sunday event at Trinity Gardens Church of Christ attended by around 25 community advocates and concerned residents.
Issues such as the illegal dumping of industrial trash, cancer clusters stemming from creosote used by rail companies and air and water contamination from a growing number of industrial sites make the city’s northeast corner “a fitting example” of communities the legislation aims to help, Jackson Lee said.
The bill also earmarks $3 billion for community centers that can “address disproportionate environmental and public health harms related to pollution.” Northeast Houston should have one such center, she said, describing the area as the new “concrete batch Mecca.”
The bill offers a hand to advocates in communities across Texas, where restraints on polluters are lax. Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it was investigating state environmental regulators accused of violating residents’ civil rights when Texas updated its standard permit for concrete batch plants.
The plants have become infamous in the community for billowing dust clouds and concrete-laced water seeping into neighboring properties. There are three schools within a half-mile of the plants, said Keith Downey, super neighborhood president representing Kashmere Gardens.
Jackson Lee told advocates the new federal funds can offer relief for a community fighting these fights largely by themselves.
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This is a pleasant surprise.
An advisory committee to the Texas Supreme Court voted unanimously Friday to keep in place a legal procedure that allows minors to get a judge’s approval to have an abortion without the legally necessary parental consent.
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Texas will ban nearly all abortions on Aug. 25 under a new law that was triggered by the high court’s decision. The law includes no exception for victims of rape or incest, but it does include an exception for pregnancies that risk death or “substantial impairment of a major bodily function.” The exception has spurred debate statewide, especially among doctors and hospital groups concerned that it is too vague and creates legal liability for them.
The subcommittee that reviewed the issue on Friday noted that the situations in which minors will be seeking abortions will be extremely limited, but could plausibly arise.
Legislative mandates subcommittee chair Jim Perdue said at the meeting Friday held in Fort Worth and livestreamed online that the decision was separate from the political debate over abortion. The legal procedure available to minors, known as judicial bypass, has never had to do with whether an abortion is proper or improper, he said, but rather whether a minor should be able to make the decision without parental consent.
Texas law already allows doctors to perform abortions during medical emergencies when there is “insufficient time” to provide parental notice. Perdue, echoing what lawyers who represent the minors in court had argued, said there may still be situations that are critical to the patient’s health but not necessarily urgent emergencies.
“You don’t need to be bleeding out actively to potentially have a situation where a woman under the age of 18 is pregnant and suffering a life-threatening condition,” Perdue said.
Blake Rocap, legal director for Jane’s Due Process, which offers legal representation to minors seeking judicial bypass, said the subcommittee memo “correctly identifies the continuing need for the bypass rules and makes appropriate recommendations to acknowledge the impending change in Texas law without adding new requirements or making substantive changes that would be outside the scope of the rules committee and the judicial branch.”
See here for the background – my apologies for the inconsistency in naming standards. These are just the committee’s recommendations, the Court still has to adopt them, so the possibility that this could go sideways remains. But so far so good. This was the best possible outcome. We should know soon whether it sticks. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106656 | 2022-08-20T11:26:58Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106656 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Hatfield the best of the best
ZANESVILLE −The best of the best had their chance to shine on Friday morning, when the showmanship winners of each species shown at the Muskingum County Fair competed in the Showman of Showmen competition.
Kyleigh Hatfield, 18, of Adamsville, who won beef showmanship was crowned the Showman of Showmen. She competed against Logan Mozena, 17, of Zanesville, winner of poultry showmanship, Jackson Henry, 16, of Zanesville, winner of rabbit showmanship, Chris Tooms, 19, of New Concord, winner of sheep showmanship, Zoie Settles, 17, of Zanesville, winner of dairy showmanship, Claire Goff, 17, of Zanesville, winner of horse showmanship, Jayden Hinkle, 16, of Crooksville, winner of goat showmanship, Mason Prouty, 17, of Zanesville, winner of swine showmanship
The winners of each specie started their Friday morning in the horse arena, where they each led a horse through a pattern. They then travelled to the hog barn, where each showed a hog in front of judge Jim Heckel of Roseville.
Heckel, who has a hog operation himself, said there is an element of luck in showing a pig. "That means the pig has to cooperate." Most other species can be held, or have some sort of halter to hold. "Pigs arevery good in sensing people, so if you are worked up, there is a good chance the pig is going to be worked up too."
That happened to one competitor today, Heckel said. But as they kept their cool, the hog calmed down, and they ended up putting in a good performance.
Most of the competition took place in the coliseum, where they rotated through the rest of the classes.
Jacque Woodward, of Coshocton, was the poultry judge, quizzing each of the winners about a pair of ducks. "These are the kind of kids you want to hire, you want to run the country," she said. "I really think you can't beat a 4-Her or an FFAer who has been through the program. The respect and attentiveness they have to their animals and each other, their sportsmanship, is second to none."
Woodward said that the poultry portion of the competition was largely based on knowledge about the birds; things like which species it is, what it should weigh before market, and what the marketability of the bird is. But she also looked at if the participant shook hands with her and made eye contact. There was some current events, too, when she asked each of them about the avian influenza that has decimated some state poultry populations.
Kelsey Ault of Chandlersville, who helped organize the competition, said the participants are the best of the best. "It is a dream to win your overall species," she said. "They have worked all these years to get to the top."
"You bring the best of the best of each species, you take a kid that can show every species, that's a true showman," she said. "It takes a lot to learn all that."
There were some long nights spent in the barn learning about and how to show other species, she said, while at the same time taking care of their own animals. "It tells you how hard they have worked to get to this point," she said.
In some cases, there wasn't a whole lot of time to learn how to show a new species. Hatfield won her class on Wednesday night. That left her a day to learn how to show seven new species. "Once I won I started talking to friends in different barns," she said. Fourteen years in 4H and Cloverbuds held helped her build relationships across species.
Hatfield has known some of her fellow showmen for years. She has had a friendly competition with Tooms from his cattle showing-days, and worked with Hinkle as a 4H camp counselor. She has been friends with Settles for years, she said. "We weren't the people who wanted to hide any secrets, we wanted everyone to succeed," she said "Having the competition with people you are really close with makes it more fun."
She was able to apply what she has learned raising a calf to other species, but getting bit by a duck and scratched by a rabbit were a new challenge. "You have to figure out what they like, it reminded me of how you start how start breaking a calf when you get them to the stages I get to them to."
Hatfield takes showing very seriously she said, and Showman of Showmen is the pinnacle. "Being able to finally reach it is an awesome feeling."
Showing an animal teaches kids responsibility, Woodward said, as well as people skills, and creates friendships. "These kids are our future leaders," she said. "They are going to make the world a better place," Ault said.
Hatfield plans on attending Muskingum University in the fall to major in nursing. She would like to become a travelling nurse.
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Picnics, birthday parties, ball games and exceptionally nice days are all elements that might bring someone to one of Kansas City’s 200-and-some parks.
The peaceful greenspaces might seem ubiquitous in the city of fountains, but the acres of parks Kansas Citians know today weren’t always there.
Lisa, a Flatland reader, asked, “What was Kansas City’s first City Park?”
To answer Lisa’s question, we went straight to the source: the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department.
Kate Warfield, the department’s archivist, said while the answer isn’t quite that straightforward, she usually names Kessler Park as the city’s first park.
'The city within a park'
In the 1890s, Kansas City businessmen William Nelson and August Meyer advocated for and started the Park Board. By 1895, the board had access to funding and the ability to condemn land for the purpose of establishing parks.
Warfield said the Parks Board was born as Kansas City was on the cusp of expansion, and city leaders wanted a comprehensive plan on the city’s future.
George Kessler had already designed and supervised the construction of Merriam Park, just across the state line in Kansas, and several privately funded parks such as Hyde Park (which is now maintained by the city). He submitted his application to design Kansas City’s parks and boulevards and was accepted.
Kessler’s designs followed the City Beautiful Movement, which believed a city full of beautiful places would foster social order and a greater quality of life for citizens.
“Boulevards will get you from one end of the city to the other … but my gosh, we’re going to make it really beautiful while you do this utilitarian thing,” Warfield said of the original Park Board’s mindset.
Kessler and the board’s philosophy toward park development in Kansas City is sometimes referred to as creating a city within a park.
North Terrace Park and West Terrace Park were some of the first projects approved and funded by the city. North Terrace Park (renamed George E. Kessler Park in the 1970s) is generally considered the first completed park.
The park sits in Kansas City’s historic Northeast neighborhood. At the time of its construction the neighborhood was home to some of Kansas City’s most elite businessmen and their families. Many of the castle-like mansions endure around Kessler park today.
Kessler designed a park on more than 300 acres that embraced the wild and rugged forests and cliffs. Winding through the entire park is Cliff Drive, an almost five mile road traversing the geographical beauties of Kansas City.
“Every out of town visitor that I have come to town, … I always make them drive Cliff Drive,” Warfield said.
Cliff Drive was named a State Scenic Byway in 2000. Currently, it’s closed to automobile traffic most days and instead hosts those on foot, bike and longboard.
Along Cliff Drive and throughout the park early visitors could see a waterfall, various look-out points, tennis courts, a reservoir and the famous Colonnade.
The Colonnade was designed and constructed by Kessler and Henry Wright, who trained under the former. Modern visitors might draw parallels to castle ruins as the covered walkway sports carved stone arches and domed roofs.
Kessler today
Kessler Park remains largely as it was when first designed. The forests are wild and the views are beautiful.
Visitors can still experience Cliff Drive, play basketball on the tennis courts, or have a picnic on one of the expansive lawns. Modern amenities include bike trails and a disc golf course.
The Northeast neighborhood gradually shifted to be home to working class and immigrant communities as the nearby railroads grew. Its population is still highly diverse.
Kansas City’s history is still evident in the neighborhood through the historic homes and churches that line the streets, as well as at the Kansas City Museum that sits across the street from Kessler Park.
The City Beautiful spirit the Park Board hoped to instill persists across the city and in Kessler Park today. Warfield said it’s one of the few places in the city she can go to see wildlife, and the famous Colonnade begs for visitors to peer over the edge and take in the natural beauty.
We might call it Instagramable today, but in Kessler’s era, these structures were places to take family or friends from out of town and simply appreciate the beauty of Kansas City.
“He really wanted to create these places that you could experience with your family, with your children … these moments and these places that made you go, ‘Wow, What a grand place this is’” Warfield said.
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Cheruthoni: The Motor Vehicles Department has suspended the driving licence of an Idukki native who had gone live on Facebook while riding his bike.
Nayarupara resident P R Vishnu made the adventurous bike ride through the road from Cheruthoni to Painavu and went live on FB using his mobile phone.
Regional Transport Officer R Ramanan summoned the youth and suspended his licence for three months.
The RTO has also directed him to do community service at the Idukki Medical College for three days.
In addition to this, he has been instructed to take part in a driving training programme for three days.
3 offences
The RTO said that the youth had committed three offences, under Section 184 of the Motor Vehicle Act.
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Four-legged swimmers are invited to the 16th annual Paws in the Pool on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022.
From 2-4 p.m. dogs and humans will be allowed to swim at Franklin Pool, 2101 Tieton Drive.
Paws in the Pool marks the end of pool operations for the year at Franklin Pool. Dogs are allowed to swim for free, but owners must pay the general admission fee.
General admission prices are $2 for youth 4-17 years, $4 for adults, $2.25 for honored citizens (62 years and older, Yakima Transit Honored Citizen card holder, State of Washington handicapped parking placard (walled card) holder, SSI disabled or active-duty military and veterans of America), $13 for family of six and $15 for family of eight. A family rate includes up to two adult family members and four of their own children.
According to a city of Yakima Parks and Recreation news release, “All dog breeds, shapes and sizes are welcome.”
To participate, dogs must be up to date on all shots and vaccinations, owners are responsible for cleaning up messes made by their dog(s), no aggressive dogs allowed and dogs must be leashed in pool area.
Donations benefitting the Yakima Humane Society will be accepted.
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A man has been taken to hospital following a crash at Folkestone Bus Station in Middleburg Square this morning (August 20). A police cordon has been established in the area and the one way street of Bouverie Place has been closed following confirmed reports of a collision.
Kent Police officers are at the scene. The injured man has been transported to a London hospital for treatment. An air ambulance was also spotted in the area, which is linked to this incident.
There are unconfirmed reports that a bus collided with two stops at the station. Disruptions to bus routes in the area are likely.
An onlooker said: "The bus stop looks really damaged, there is glass everywhere."
Read more: The two Kent beaches you won’t be able to swim in this weekend
A spokesperson for Kent Police has said: "We were called at 10.08am on Saturday 20 August 2022 to reports of a collision at Middelburg Square, Folkestone. Officers are currently at the scene and a man has been taken to a London hospital for treatment."
Static traffic is building in the area while Bouverie Place remains closed. It is not yet known when this road is expected to be reopened.
Stagecoach has been approached for comment. Follow our live blog below for the latest updates to this ongoing incident.
If you have seen or heard anything you think we should know about, or in relation to this, please contact the KentLive newsdesk by email at kentlivenewsdesk@reachplc.com . Alternatively, you can get in touch with us via our Facebook page or on Twitter @kentlivenews .
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FOLKESTONE: A pedestrian waiting at a bus shelter was seriously injured after a bus driver crashed into the man around 10.08am this morning. It is unknown why the single dicker Stagecoach bus veered into the shelter at the bus station in Middelburg Square. Pix @kent_999s pic.twitter.com/xNjT9oFFWZ
— Kent 999s (@Kent_999s) August 20, 2022
Update from Stagecoach
A spokesperson for Stagecoach said
We can confirm one of our buses was involved in an incident at Folkestone Bus Station this morning. Our first thoughts are for the person involved.
Safety is our absolute priority and we are assisting the investigation into the circumstances involved in every way that we can.
Stationary traffic in the area
The latest update from traffic monitoring site Inrix reads:
Bouverie Place One Way Street closed, stationary traffic due to accident from Sandgate Road to Albion Mews Road.
Good afternoon
Welcome to our live blog. Here we will be posting the latest updates to the ongoing situation at Folkestone Bus Station.
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It has now been one month since bison returned to the UK wilderness for the first time in thousands of years. On July 18, three large bison were released into the West Blean and Thorndean Wood situated between Canterbury and Herne Bay .
Such a historic moment was organised in effort to help combat the impact of climate change. The release is a part of the five-year long Wilder Blean project by Kent Wildlife Trust and Wildwood Trust.
Thanks to £1.25m in funding from the annual Dream Fund, the project was able to go ahead. It is hoped that the animals will revitalise the woodland through their natural behaviours, such as grazing, eating bark and felling trees which will open natural canopies in the forest and help to revive struggling native wildlife.
Read more: All of the Kent areas not affected by the hosepipe bans this month
Now, one month on since their arrival, the impact that the bison have had on their new home is plain to see. Kent Wildlife Trust has explained the trio are having a ‘remarkable impact’ on the landscape.
Despite the hot weather, the ecosystem engineers have reportedly adapted well to the area, keeping cool within the dense woodland. From games of chase amongst the youngsters, to the creation of natural trails, these three bovines have been making themselves right at home.
Bison Ranger Tom Gibbs explains: “Whilst they are very much wild animals, they have distinctive personalities. I have seen the two younger females playing and enjoying their surroundings.
“They will jump in the air when they get excited, chase each other and run around. They are really enjoying being outside, it’s fantastic they are comfortable enough to interact in this way.”
Tom continues: “The matriarch likes the bracken and can often be seen trampling and even lying down on it. The calf with one horn seems to have a taste for brambles.
“It will be interesting to see her face once the berries start to come through. To grow, the berries need light, and the bison are beginning to create more light in the woodland already through their natural behaviours, so in a way they are making their own dessert!”
Bison Ranger Donovan Wright explains how, in just one month, they are already changing the structure of the woodland: “The bison have already had a remarkable impact. I did not expect it to be so sudden, but literally from the first day you could sense their presence in the woods.
“We have seen them create a network of paths opening up trails of up to a metre wide. And we are not the only ones using them, I have seen foxes, rabbits, and a slow worm sunbathing on one.
“They have healthy appetites, eating up to 35kg of vegetation a day, and with that come lots of fertilising and seed dispersal. The birds have figured out that bison droppings attract invertebrates. They have been pecking at the bison dung, feasting off insects.”
The arrival of these three female bison is just the first milestone within the Wilder Blean project. Within the next eight weeks, a bull from Germany will also be released into the herd with the hopes that they will then breed.
Then, once the herd is settled, Longhorn cattle, Iron-Age pigs and Exmoor ponies will also be released into the Blean. Each will have a unique impact on the wilderness around them and help nature to thrive in the area.
You can learn more about the Wilder Blean project here . Donations to the project can also be made here .
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Members of the Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) across the state held a general assembly to galvanise support for candidates of the party in the 2023 general elections.
In Itire-Ikate Local Council Development Area, the Executive chairman of the council, Hon. (Dr) Ahmed Apatira, chieftains and other party leaders harped on the importance of the collective of the permanent voter card to ensure victory for the party.
The goal of the party, according to the council helmsman, is to win an election to sustain itself in government, this, he said, is achievable only when all members collect their PVCs and work in unity for the success of the party.
He said, “Our primary goal in this forthcoming election is to win elections but I must say this is not one man job. We have to work as a team to ensure victory for all the candidates of the party.
Everyone has a role to play. Each of us must go all-out to collect his/her PVC as it is the only tool to sustain our party, the APC in government.
We must leave behind our personal grievances and work together as a team to ensure resounding victories for the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the re-election bid of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and other party candidates in the elections.
Let it be known to all members that our PVCs are now ready for collection at the INEC office in Surulere. I urge every one of us to go and pick them to boost the chances of the party at the 2023 polls.”
He deeply expressed his heartfelt gratitude to Asiwaju Tinubu and Governor Sanwo-Olu to delegates and members of the party for their unalloyed support during the party primaries and for ensuring peaceful conduct of the process.
He also commended the Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Femi Gbajabiamila for the provision of infrastructural projects that are of great benefit to the people of the state, particularly, in Itire-ikate LCDA.
He said, “I must commend people-oriented projects embarked upon by the Speaker of House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Femi Gbajabiamila to the people of the state and in particular, residents in Itire-ikate LCDA.
These are signs of good things for the coming years when our party has taken over the centre. The construction of roads, streetlight projects, rural health care centres, school projects, agriculture training centres, sports and recreational centres among others as facilitated by the Speaker are true reflections of democratic dividends.”
He however promised his administration’s commitment to delivering more people-oriented infrastructural projects that will be of great benefit to the citizens.
Other party leaders at the meeting commended the benevolence of APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu while calling on members of the party and residents in the state, irrespective of religion and ethnic affiliation to vote massively for all candidates of the party, saying, “Asiwaju Tinubu is the most sellable candidate among those aspiring for the exalted office of the President.”
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The Art of Living Foundation has officially launched The Happiness Center, in an event presided by the Global Peace Ambassador and founder, Art of Living Foundation, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, among other guests and dignitaries.
Located in Victoria Island, Lagos, the Center aims at promoting holistic wellness and mitigating lifestyle-related disorders through Yoga, Meditation, and natural therapies. It is founded on the guiding principles of Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar that defines health as “a disease-free body, quiver-free breath, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free memory, an ego that includes all, and a soul which is free from sorrow”.
The Happiness Centre also offers programmes and courses, including ‘the Happiness Programme’ where breathing techniques and mind relaxation are taught. It harnesses the power of yoga, breathing exercises, and meditation combined with essential lifestyle changes to achieve emotional and mental balance, along with vibrant physical health.
According to the Managing Director, The Happiness Center, Lagos, Akshay Jain, “Happiness is a state of mind, and a calm, focused and blissful state mind is the key to unlocking a full potential. When the mind is stressed, it shrinks the consciousness. But when you are happy, it is expanded. At The Happiness Center, one is first taught the techniques to relax the mind, followed by emotional control”.
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“We achieve it by combining the specific benefits of the ancient knowledge of Ayurveda, yoga, breathwork, meditation, herbal and natural remedies that are uplifting and revitalizing”, he confirmed. “Our qualified team offers the best herbal, Nigerian and Ayurvedic treatments along with breath workshops and dietary consultations”.
Ayurveda, meaning “science of life”, is an alternative medicine system that has been in existence for over 5, 000 years originating from India. It is acclaimed to be one of the oldest holistic healing systems in the world.
Speaking at the event, the Oniru of Iruland, His Royal Majesty, Oba Abdulwasiu Omogbolahan Lawal, Abisogun II, commended the foundation for its focus on bringing peace and happiness into the lives of Nigerians. “The Art of Living Foundation has recorded tremendous success at improving relations across world communities, eradicating violence and spreading peace and happiness. The Happiness Centre remains one-of-a-kind globally, and we are all delighted for the remarkable impact it will have in Lagos State”.
The launch of the center forms part of activities leading to the Culture Festival, a global event organised by the foundation to celebrate culture and unity through music, dance, and meditation on 21 August, 2022. During the global humanitarian and founder’s first visit to Nigeria, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar will also initiate dialogues with prominent dignitaries and distinguished business leaders to explore avenues of bringing peace in the country. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/art-of-living-foundation-launches-the-happiness-center/ | 2022-08-20T12:46:40Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/art-of-living-foundation-launches-the-happiness-center/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Congress of University Academics (CONUA), an association of academic staff in Nigerian universities, has called on the Federal Government to hasten its registration to stop incessant strikes that have paralysed academic activities in universities and to break the monopoly of academic unionism in the ivory towers.
CONUA’s national coordinator, Dr Niyi Sunmonu, who made the call at a press conference in Abuja on Friday, said the democratisation of academic unionism would bring about the cross-fertilisation of ideas and healthy competition which would be in the interest of every stakeholder in the education sector.
According to Dr Sunmonu, while the Nigerian constitution allows for free association, giving legal recognition to CONUA by the Federal Government will not only provide alternative perspectives for the achievements of constructive engagement with stakeholders in the education sector but it will make hitch-free academic calendars possible.
Sunmonu lamented that the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has paralysed academic activities and disrupted teaching and research in the universities.
But he said that if CONUA is registered, the association proffer solutions to the problems in the university system by avoiding strikes and engaging in ideological consultation, dialoguing and lobbying the National Universities Commission (NUC), the Minister of Education and the House Committee on Education on the need for enhancing budgetary provisions for education “rather than folding our arms when budgets are being prepared and then go on strike to ask for improved funding.”
The don said: “In April 2018, CONUA applied for registration as a trade union at the Ministry of Labour and Employment and on 19th November 2020, the Honourable Minister, Senator Dr Chris Ngige, held a public meeting with CONUA delegates where he gave the ministerial committee reviewing the registration of CONUA four weeks to conclude its work.
“We are aware that the committee has since submitted its report. We have therefore been waiting to hear from the government on our registration.
“CONUA is not a frivolous union but an assemblage of visionary and courageous academics with immense potential to stem the tide of the consistent decline in the public image of and confidence in university education in Nigeria.
“We are immensely worried that the government places the desire not ‘to be seen as the one breaking ASUU’ over and above upholding the fundamental human rights of law-abiding citizens who have demonstrated merit in their quest for the exercise of the constitutionally-guaranteed freedom of association, in consonance with the Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended, and international labour law.
“We believe that any further delay in the registration of CONUA would amount to undermining our fundamental human right to exercise our patriotic duty to provide agreeable options to incessant strikes that have wreaked more havoc than any good they may have yielded.
“It will, furthermore, amount to a commendable effort at deepening the democratic ethos in the educational setting to register CONUA forthwith. We are saddened by our recent experiences in Nigerian universities.
“We have seen unprecedented disruptions in academic calendars in our universities. Between 1999 and 2021, Nigerian public universities experienced strikes for 1,417 days which translates to over five years. The ongoing strike is in its sixth month now.”
Sunmonu said CONUA has branches in the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, University of Benin, Federal University, Lokoja, Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, and the University of Jos among others.
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The Kogi State Commissioner of Police, CP Edward Egbuka has decorated 26 newly promoted Senior Police Officers at the M.M. Katsina Conference Hall, State Headquarters, Lokoja.
The decoration ceremony is subsequent to the promotion of 1939 Deputy Superintendents of Police to the rank of Superintendent of Police.
The ceremony was attended by former Commissioner of Police , Kogi State Dr. Emmanuel Ojukwu (rtd) who congratulated the newly promoted officers and charged them to see the promotion as a call for improved services to the nation. He advised the officers to make more friends and minimize enemies while carrying out their duties.
The Commissioner of Police, Kogi State Command, CP Egbuka while congratulating the officers for their well-deserved promotion, charged them to leave a life of discipline, professionalism and integrity.
He added that any officer that desires to go high must cultivate the attitude of discipline, nothing that their attitudes is a reflection of what Police is all about.
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He further stated that even the least police officer know that discipline is the bedrock on which the Force is built. That means is foundational.
He thanked the Inspector General of Police IGP Alkali Usman Baba for recommending officers of the command to be part of the beneficiaries.
He congratulated the newly promoted officers and wish them well in their new task.
Speaking on behalf of the promoted officers, SP Eneka Ugwuoke thanked the IGP and the force management team for finding them worthy of the elevation to the new rank.
He further appreciated the CP and the management team for finding time out of their tight schedules to decorate them.
He promised that they will make use of the added responsibility to discharge their duties professionally to make Kogi safe and Nigeria in general.
The newly promoted officers include SP Obafemi Ojo, Commander Quick Response Unit; SP Yusuf Isa, O/C Confidential; Esinulo Cletus, DPO Gegu; Sani Yahaya, DPO Ibaji; Sule Musa, DPO Ajaokuta; Alozie Chukwuemeka, DPO Ayetoro; Orimolade Akinwumi, DPO Iyara; Ovanja Yakubu, DPO Okehi and Felix Adjarho, DPO Itakpe.
Others are Eneka Ugwuoke DCO Adogo, Emmanuel Odai Unit Commander 37 PMF, Akinwumi Adeniran Unit Commander 37 PMF, Ibe Chidebere Nwadoika Unit Commander 37 PMF, Yakubu Abu O/C Anti-Cultism, Aye Enejo DCO ‘C’ Division, Salisu Ahmed ACO Koton-karfe, Samade Ladi Medical, Diribe Victor DCO Ifeo-Olukotun, Agbo Emmanuel Obajana, Layi Labija Ayetoro, Yakubu Bitrus Idah Area Command, Samuel Oye Medical and Yamang Swanta Idah. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/kogi-cp-decorates-26-newly-promoted-officers/ | 2022-08-20T12:46:59Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/kogi-cp-decorates-26-newly-promoted-officers/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Back-to-school supply deals: A list of sales in 4 big-ticket categories
Back-to-school season has officially kicked into high gear.
As millions of students prepare to return to school, parents are shopping for the supplies that will contribute to their kids' success.
This includes big-ticket items such as backpacks, laptops, software and tablets.
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If your child, teen or soon-to-be college student is in need of one of these items, take a look at some deals that FOX Business found.
FILE - A child browses school supplies displayed for sale at a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. location in Burbank, Calif. (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Backpacks
Adidas Adventure Backpack Small
Original price: $45; sale price: $27
Adidas has put its Adventure Backpack on sale for $27. This small, multicolored backpack is mostly made of recycled materials and is designed for a sporty lifestyle.
It has an angled front zip pocket, top and bottom loops and a padded mesh back panel.
Under Armour Hustle Sport Backpack
Original price: $45; sale price: $33.75
Under Armour’s Hustle Sport Backpack is on sale for $33.75. The 26-liter backpack is designed to be water-resistant and can fit a 15-inch laptop.
It also has a zippered front and a sleeve with a built-in bungee adjust closure that can stash clothes, shoes or sports equipment.
The Hustle Sport Backpack is also available in 11 color options.
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Columbia Zigzag Backpack
Original price: $45; sale price: $32.98
Columbia Sportswear’s Zigzag 22L Backpack is on sale for $32.98. The medium-sized backpack can fit a 15-inch laptop and water bottle.
It’s available in these color options: Icy Morn, Electric Turquoise and Nocturnal Typhoon Bloom Multi.
Laptops
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Acer 11.6" Chromebook Laptop at Target
Original price: $179.99; sale price: $99.99
Target has put Acer’s 11.6" Chromebook Laptop on sale for $99.99. The device includes a 2.6 GHz Intel Celeron N4000 processor, 32GB of eMMC storage, 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM and four USB ports. Acer claims this Chromebook has a maximum battery life of 10 hours.
Lenovo Yoga 9i (14" Intel) - Mica
Original price: $1,479.99; sale price: $1,059
Lenovo has put its 14-inch Yoga 9i laptop on sale for $1,059, which is 28% off at the time of publication.
This silver (mica-colored) model comes with an 11th Generation Intel Core i7-1195G7 processor, 8GB of soldered LPDDR4X RAM and 512 GB PCIe SSD.
It has a single USB Type-A port and a Thunderbolt 4-compatible USB Type-C port.
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MacBook Pro 13.3" Laptop in Space Gray at Best Buy
Original price: $1,499; sale price: $1,299
Best Buy is offering Apple’s MacBook Pro 13.3" Laptop in the color Space Gray for $1,299, which typically retails for $1,499.
The pro-level laptop has an Apple M2 processor, 8GB of RAM, 512GB SSD and an integrated 10-core Apple M2 GPU.
This model has two Thunderbolt 3-compatible USB Type-C ports.
Software
Adobe Creative Cloud
Original price: $54.99/month; sale price: $19.99/month
Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps for Students & Teachers is on sale for $19.99 per month, which is 60% of its typical price.
The art-focused subscription service provides access to more than 20 apps, including Photoshop, a photo editor; Illustrator, a vector graphics program; InDesign, a page layout creator; and Premiere Pro, a video editor.
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Microsoft Office 365
Original price: Usually free for students; subscription price: Starts at $6.99/month
Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Microsoft Office 365) is a subscription service that provides access to collection of Microsoft apps, including Microsoft Word, a word processor; PowerPoint, a presentation builder; and Excel, a spreadsheet software.
Students and teachers can usually get access to Microsoft 365 for free if they have a school email attached to eligible institutions.
If a free account can’t be secured, a monthly subscription starts at $6.99. This subscription provides 1TB of cloud storage per person and can be downloaded to five devices at a time.
Norton 360 Deluxe + Antivirus Software at Walmart
Original price: $89.99; sale price: $24.99
Walmart has Norton 360 Deluxe on sale for $24.99. This pre-paid one-year antivirus software subscription can protect up to five computers.
Features include real-time security against malware and ransomware, a no-log VPN, dark web monitoring, storage access to a 50GB cloud backup space and auto-renewing capability. Norton’s antivirus software works on PCs and Macs.
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Tablets
Amazon Fire HD 8 Tablet
Original price: $90; sale price: $49.99
Amazon’s Fire HD 8 Tablet is up for sale for $49.99. The Fire HD 8 Tablet is the e-commerce giant’s latest model, which was released in 2020, and it has a 2.0 GHz Quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage.
There’s also a MicroSD card slot for additional storage, and it can hold up to 1TB of data at a time.
This model has an eight-inch HD display with a 1280-by-800 resolution and 2MP front- and rear-facing cameras.
The Fire HD 8 Tablet is available in the colors black, plum, twilight blue and white.
FILE - Customers shop for back to school supplies at a Target Corp. store in Colma, Calif. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Apple iPad 10.2" 256GB at BJ’s Wholesale Club
Original price: $449.99; sale price: $399.99
Apple’s iPad 10.2" 256GB is a tablet that’s on sale at BJ’s Wholesale Club for $399.99. This iPad model comes with an A13 Bionic chip, 256Gb of storage and a 10.2-inch LED-backlit True Tone display that offers a 2160-by-1620-pixel resolution.
Additional features include an 8MP wide camera that can record HD videos in 720p and 1080p, dual microphones, Bluetooth 4.2 technology and compatibility with the Apple Pencil and other Apple software such as iMovie and FaceTime.
This iPad is available in the colors silver and space gray.
BJ’s Wholesale Club also has 64GB versions in the same colors up for sale for $319.99.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE 64GB Tablet
Original price: $529.99; sale price: $379.99
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S7 FE 64GB Tablet is on sale for $379.99. This model is made with a Qualcomm SDM778G processor, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage.
It also has a built-in MicroSD slot that can hold memory cards that have up to 1TB of storage space.
The Galaxy Tab S7 FE’s LCD display measures 12.4 inches. Other features include a 10090mAh Li-Ion battery, Wi-Fi 6 connectivity and Bluetooth v5.0. The Galaxy Tab S7 FE is available in four color options: mystic black, mystic pink, mystic silver and mystic green. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/back-to-school-supply-deals-a-list-of-sales-in-4-big-ticket-categories | 2022-08-20T12:51:26Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/back-to-school-supply-deals-a-list-of-sales-in-4-big-ticket-categories | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Ex-champion's life-changing mental health journey lifted him from 'dark places'
August 19, 2022 | 9:00am
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She’s a pole in one!
A Brooklyn-based artist and dance instructor is the nation’s newest pole dancing champion.
Donna Carnow, 28, took the top prize at the 2022 US National Pole Art Champion in Orlando, Fla., this month, earning a gold medal, a trophy and $1,000 prize.
“Still in shock, my heart is still exploding,” Carnow said in a triumphant Aug. 14 Instagram post. “I truly feel like the luckiest person in the world.”
To capture the top prize during the Aug 13 competition — sponsored by The Pole Sport Organization — Carnow bested 11 other finalists who came from an original pool of hundreds of competitors at regional events throughout the country.
Her winning routine featured an expressive Carnow as a marionette, breaking free of her strings while performing a dizzying array of complicated pole maneuvers. Video of the event shows she was frequently interrupted by audience applause.
“I was inspired by this image of a marionette and this idea of learning how to use the body and setting yourself free. That’s where the entry point for this narrative came from,” she said.
Carnow, who lives in Williamsburg, began her career in pole dancing nine years ago while a college student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
“I loved it even though I was not very good, but I kept working at it. It started off as a hobby but it ended up changing the entire trajectory of my life,” she told The Post. “It’s single-handedly the most powerful thing that I have been able to be a part of.”
She spends six to 10 hours a day on the pole as a professional dancer and instructor at Body & Pole in Chelsea, she said. Carnow also performs at Big Apple venues like The Box, The Slipper Room, DROM, House of Yes and 74Wythe.
When she starred in the off-broadway production Seven Deadly Sins last year, Post columnist Cindy Adams remarked that Carnow’s pole routine was “so expressive she could end up with conditions only a gynecologist can cure.”
She’s found great kinship in the pole community, Carnow said.
“There are such a range of people who are so passionate about this form. It’s really fun where everyone can come together,” she said. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/brooklyn-woman-crowned-us-national-pole-dancing-champ/ | 2022-08-20T12:57:55Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/brooklyn-woman-crowned-us-national-pole-dancing-champ/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What began as a silly, but extravagant way to rehearse everyday scenarios and confessions turned into a staggering morality tale, examining the uncomfortable truths of performance, media exploitation and child acting, reshaping the very notion of fatherhood along the way. This is how The Rehearsal, Nathan Fielder’s six-episode odyssey pushing the boundaries of simulated life, came to an end in Friday night’s strange and poetic finale. By the final scene, Fielder had not only thoroughly addressed critiques that his show was manipulative, but also dashed theories that the show was entirely staged. He also delved deeper into the experiment, driving his arc toward an unpredictable, but inevitable conclusion: Nathan Fielder is your daddy now.
In the masterful finale, Fielder opens with the uncomfortable realization that Remy, one of the child actors hired to play 6-year-old Adam, had become too attached to him. Remy has an emotional meltdown when it’s time to leave the house for good, continually referring to Fielder as his “daddy.” Remy’s mom, Amber, later explains to Fielder that Remy’s dad isn’t part of their family, and, as she feared early on after signing her son up for the HBO series, he had latched onto Fielder. Suddenly, Fielder realized his rehearsal had worked a little too well on one of the show’s most innocent subjects.
He spends the rest of the episode trying to ease Remy out of this phase, reminding him that he’s not his real father and that everything on the show was make-believe. It’s hard to watch Fielder try and fail to convince this child, who so deeply bought into the premise of the show. (And, unless Remy is the world’s greatest actor, it’s proof enough that the entire thing isn’t staged.) “What on earth was I doing?” Fielder later asks himself. “Everything about this rehearsal felt so trivial now.” But he continues with the project, moving on to an older version of Adam, played by a boy named Liam. (Compared to Remy, Liam is basically a world-weary professional, a natural-born actor who is well aware that he’s on a TV show.)
But Fielder can’t shake what happened with Remy. Instead of making a clean break, he dives deeper into the issue. He rewatches footage of key moments with Remy, examining where he could have loosened the emotional bond between them with forensic zeal. Maybe he should have been colder. More distant. Maybe he should have convinced Angela to stay, because having a fake mommy around would remind Remy that the show is fake. (Fielder eventually reunites with the real Angela, apologizing for what he put her through.) Maybe he should have hired an adult actor to play a child, ensuring he didn’t mess with a young mind still wrapping itself around the concept of reality versus make-believe. Maybe he should have just used a mannequin, to avoid tricky human feelings altogether. Fielder actually explores the latter two options, hiring an adult actor to dress up as Remy-as-Adam in a scene that’s both bizarre and achingly funny. (The quick cut to Adult Adam taking a smoke break in the yard is a perfect editing choice, in a show that comprised of precise and brilliant editing choices.)
Fielder is mildly assured by Remy’s mom that her son will be okay. But how can he know for sure? The answer is simple: he becomes Remy’s mom, staging a rehearsal in a replica of her home, repeating all the steps she took to get to The Rehearsal, starting with Remy’s audition to play Adam. It’s as brilliantly sick as it sounds, a twist that’s both unpredictable, but inevitable. Somewhere around episode 2, Fielder decided he wanted to rehearse what it was like being a father. Now he was a mother, creating an infinite loop of rehearsed realities.
In the show’s final moments, Fielder-as-Amber has a heart-to-heart with Liam-as-Remy, who’s sobbing about the loss of Nathan, his TV daddy. Fielder-as-Amber tries to comfort her son. “That man didn’t mean to confuse you, honey,” she says. “He just didn’t know what he was doing.” She continues, owning up to the fact that the show was “a weird thing for a kid to do,” and maybe it was a mistake to let him be part of it. (A moment in which Fielder lampoons, then forgives the parents who allowed their kids to act in this wild experiment.) Fielder-as-Amber continues, reminding her child that it’s beautiful that he’s so sad. “It shows that you have a heart, and you can love, and you can put your trust in others,” she says, swirling the show’s thesis—Fielder’s journey toward being able to feel something—into one beautiful sentence. “I’m always going to be here for you. ‘Cause I’m your dad.”
“Wait,” Liam whispers, breaking character. “I thought you were my mom?” Fielder registers the moment. He looks at Liam. Then he makes a choice. “No,” he says. “I’m your dad.” Then they exit the frame, off to go play, going deeper into Fielder’s world.
The show’s poignant final moments burst into a kaleidoscope of feeling. It’s somehow warm and unsettling and horrifying at the same time, all bundled up in Fielder’s dazzling performance, the best he’s ever given. That declaration—“I’m your dad”—is so jarring, but elegant. The simplicity of the moment raises a million questions. Was it Fielder razing the notion of parenthood, allowing Remy’s mom to say that she’s enough as a sole parent, a mom and dad swirled into one? Was it Nathan himself accidentally flubbing a line, then leaning into its surprise poetry? Or was it the show’s character of Nathan deciding to lean fully into his delusion, collapsing all the layers of artifice he was able to build at HBO’s expense into a single truth? After all that rehearsing, maybe he was Adam’s daddy now. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/the-rehearsal-finale-nathan-fielder | 2022-08-20T12:58:00Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/the-rehearsal-finale-nathan-fielder | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The City University of New York’s security force is so understaffed that campuses are dangerously “vulnerable” amid surging crime in the Big Apple, insiders told The Post.
The university system’s public safety department has plummeted 40 percent to about 900 sworn officers and security assistants — down from some 1,500 before the COVID-19 pandemic, the sources said.
The count includes approximately 600 sworn, or peace, officers who patrol campuses — about 300 less than pre-pandemic levels. Another 300 — about half the roster before the pandemic — work as security assistants typically stationed at buildings.
“Most of the colleges are in dire straits,” one insider said. “We’re in a crisis with safety.”
The staffing shortage puts the system’s 25 campuses — which enrolled 243,000 students in the fall of 2021 — in a “vulnerable position,” another insider said.
“If something happens we don’t have enough people to respond. We just don’t,” said the source who works at one of CUNY’s 11 senior colleges.
The peace officers also respond to crimes on campus perimeters, such as an Aug. 7 melee on West 136th Street adjacent to the City College campus, during which a 14-year-old girl was accused of stabbing a 13-year-old in the chest. And on July 9, a 14-year-old was fatally stabbed at the 137th Street subway station that serves CCNY.
Some of the taxpayer-funded schools have had to hire contracted help to fill in the gaps, sources said.
Poor pay and guards leaving for other law enforcement opportunities were cited as reasons for the lack of staff. The salary for a peace officer tops out at $47,000 after seven years.
Most of CUNY’s peace officers are not allowed by their college presidents to carry guns. City College, Lehman College in the Bronx, Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn and the College of Staten Island are among a handful where officers are armed.
Other schools lock up the weapons in offices and officers need to dash to get them.
“God forbid there’s an active shooter, they have to run to a locked box to get it otherwise it’s only protecting the Xerox machines right now,” an insider said.
At Brooklyn College — where there was an unfounded active shooter threat in February — public safety department administrators have guns on them — but only while they sit in their offices, a spokesman said.
“As a safety precaution, the college does not share specific details of its protocols related to emergency situations,” said spokesman Richard Pietras.
The college called in officers from other campuses the day after the February threat was made to a professor, saying it beefed up its staff “out of an abundance of caution.”
Some blame Andre Brown, who took over as CUNY’s executive director of public safety in December 2020 — despite never having been a police officer and lacking the background to lead a large police department — for not doing enough to boost recruitment.
“He’s never worked patrol in any agency. He’s always been a desk jockey. He’s never been in our shoes,” one source said.
Brown, who was an assistant commissioner overseeing operations and police at the city’s Administration for Children’s Services, was hired over candidates with more law enforcement experience.
A search committee ranked him below three others — Dawn Smallwood, who held the No. 2 security post at CUNY; Geraldine Hart, the Suffolk County Police commissioner; and Louis Molina, a former NYPD detective who is now the city’s corrections commissioner, according to a source familiar with the hiring process.
But, the source said, Hector Batista, CUNY’s chief operating officer, pushed for Brown to be hired.
CUNY maintained that all its appointments follow state Civil Service Law and the university’s policies.
The university contended that security staffing was closely monitored to ensure that each campus is at safe levels.
“Public Safety and law enforcement agencies across the nation, including CUNY’s, have been experiencing staffing shortages since the start of the pandemic. We are focused on ongoing strategies to improve recruitment and retention,” a CUNY spokeswoman said. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/cuny-security-understaffing-makes-schools-vulnerable/ | 2022-08-20T12:58:01Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/cuny-security-understaffing-makes-schools-vulnerable/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Queens man claims a Walgreens clerk with orange and red hair called 911 on him because he said her hairdo made her look like Bozo the Clown.
Michael Howard was sitting in the photo area of the Oakland Gardens pharmacy when, he said, worker Rosetta Hardy walked toward him “in a way that made [him] believe that she wanted him to comment on her hairdo,” according to a Manhattan Supreme Court filing.
So he piped up, comparing her to the famed clown.
She called 911, claiming he’d harassed her, he charged in court papers. The NYPD responded but made no arrests, Howard said.
Howard had been coming into the Walgreens since 2018, and often had outbursts because “he was not in his right mind,” Hardy told The Post, adding that her hair was “shiny gold” at the time of the incident.
During an earlier incident, she said, he had entered the store and screamed at her, allegedly calling her stupid and saying that her grandmother was going to die.
“He was infatuated with me and causing problems in the store,” she alleged.
At some time after Howard made the clown comment, the Walgreens manager banned him from the store, Hardy said. A store manager refused to comment.
Howard filed a Freedom of Information Law request to get a copy of the 911 call, which the NYPD denied. He now wants a judge to force the police to hand it over.
Howard declined to comment through his attorney Eric Rothstein.
“Whether seeking a 911 call about a Bozo The Clown comment, governmental contracts, reports, or any other agency record, anyone has the right to have a judge decide whether the government wrongfully denied their FOIL request,” Rothstein said.
A NYPD spokesperson did not respond to a message. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/queens-man-sues-nypd-for-bozo-the-clown-911-call/ | 2022-08-20T12:58:26Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/queens-man-sues-nypd-for-bozo-the-clown-911-call/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Minnesota Star Tribune
‘Gracie’s Choice’
In the early 2000s, Anne Heche’s movie career had stalled. Instead of wallowing, the actor turned to stage and TV. In 2004, she earned high praise for her performance in Broadway’s “Twentieth Century” and earned an Emmy nomination for her role as an unhinged, drug-addicted mother in this Lifetime movie. Kristen Bell, who was about to star in “Veronica Mars,” is the lead character, fighting to keep her family together while mom is out carousing. But it’s the recently deceased Heche who’s the wonderful wild card, going from charming to creepy in seconds flat. It may be her finest screen performance. Prime Video, Tubi
‘Day Shift’
Jamie Foxx and Snoop Dogg bring personality to a snarky horror comedy. Foxx plays a devoted dad and supposed pool cleaner who’s really a vampire hunter, with an assist from Dogg. Dave Franco is also amusing as a wonky dude who knows a lot more than anyone needs to know about how the underworld works but the gruesome violence grows wearying and the bad guys aren’t compelling enough. Netflix
‘Sprung’
This new sitcom features a lot of cast members from Greg Garcia’s 2010-14 sitcom “Raising Hope,” including Martha Plimpton, a talent who specializes in making white trash smell like roses. But the show is closer in tone to Garcia’s “My Name Is Earl,” with an ex-con (Garret Dillahunt) determined to use what he learned in prison to commit good deeds (and the occasional misdemeanor). The whole series has a great honky-tonk vibe, starting with the use of Jerry Reed’s “Talk About the Good Times” as the theme song. Friday, Freevee
‘Wedding Season’
Pallavi Sharda and Suraj Sharma are delightful in one of those fake love stories Netflix seems to specialize in. Their characters agree to pretend they’re dating during “wedding season,” when they know they’re invited to more than a dozen ceremonies and expected to have primo dates for them. Things get complicated when, of course, the frenemies actually fall in love and have to add another level of deceit to their no-longer-phony romance. Netflix
‘Bad Sisters’
Instead of pining for another season of “Big Little Lies,” check out the latest from the tireless Sharon Horgan (“Divorce,” “Catastrophe”). In addition to being lead writer, she stars as one of five siblings whose sarcastic wits are only topped by their love for one another – and what they’re willing to do when one of them gets trapped in an abusive marriage. It’s a much funnier version of how to get away with murdering an evil spouse. Friday, Apple TV+ | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/5-shows-to-watch-the-great-anne-heche-performance-you-probably-dont-know-about/article_7ff1e326-1f53-11ed-b1e9-f3ba2c3f8888.html | 2022-08-20T13:01:35Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/5-shows-to-watch-the-great-anne-heche-performance-you-probably-dont-know-about/article_7ff1e326-1f53-11ed-b1e9-f3ba2c3f8888.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For the Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Within the space of a week in mid-July, I went on seven garden tours – no, nothing like my week in Vancouver, British Columbia, with Road Scholar. Just Wyoming gardens.
The first was Piney Island Native Plants at Sheridan College, owned by Alisha Bretzman. The greenhouse full of exuberant plants uses an evaporative wall and was cooler than the 102 degrees Fahrenheit outside. The plant list on Alisha’s website pretty much fulfills my wish list, and she is willing to ship.
I spent the next day tromping around in the flower-filled Bighorns – another form of garden tour. Then, Mark and I met up with our old friends Michelle and Bill to walk around Kendrick Arboretum adjacent to Trail End, the house Governor/Senator Kendrick finished building in 1913.
He planted a specimen of each of as many Wyoming native trees as he could. In 2013, the area became a designated arboretum. A garden of trees and more have been planted since.
We visited friends Dusty and Jacelyn on their family’s ranch in the Black Hills, and they gave us a tour of scenic spots. The ponderosa pine forest, my favorite, is very open and garden-like.
Outside Douglas, my friend Jean took me to see her pollinator garden. Some of it comes from the free seed packets given out by the Converse County Conservation District. It’s a different mix from our conservation district. She also lamented how difficult it was to grow fruit trees, even though she is 1,200 feet lower in elevation than us. Those deer are so sneaky.
Back home, Laramie County Master Gardeners met at a member’s garden to enjoy the results of her hard work. Jutta Arkan’s perennial garden beds are even more full and colorful than last year. Bees were busy, and a hummingbird stopped by, even though her garden is an island on the prairie.
Earlier in the day, Carol Creswell gave me a tour of her garden. She lives about 10 blocks from me. She and her husband have lived in the same house for 54 years. However, the house is not the same now – it has grown, filling the lot nearly to the mandatory setback from the property boundaries.
Every remaining square inch is landscaped with timbers, rocks, pavers, shrubs, trees and flowers. There’s no lawn, but I think I spotted an ornamental grass or two. There’s a vignette around every corner – and there are so many corners to explore. The best is seen from the covered patio, but I like the view from the front sidewalk, too.
Carol is never satisfied. There’s always some improvement she can imagine. The week I visited, it was the reconstruction of the waterfall so that it won’t leak. Next is installing drip irrigation. She’s been hand watering everything this dry summer. And then there’s the two-story atrium where Carol’s houseplants can stretch out in indoor sunshine.
Booyong Kim’s house also has a two-story atrium. It’s where her friends send their plants when they outgrow ordinary house spaces.
If you frequent the winter farmers market at the historic Cheyenne Depot or the one on Tuesday afternoons in the summer outside the east end of the mall, you’ve seen her selling kimchee, potstickers and other delicious food. In the fall, she will be teaching Korean cooking classes on Saturdays through Laramie County Community College’s non-credit Life Enrichment classes, listed in their Outreach and Workforce Development catalog.
Booyong’s description of her garden philosophy is intriguing, and months ago she agreed to my visiting this summer.
First, her garden is shaped by a gently curved retaining wall on one side, which is echoed in reverse on the other side, forming the tapered shape of an eye. Where the iris would be, there are eight pie-shaped beds radiating, delineated by boards (her husband tackled the weird angles), with pathways between them. The very center is like the pupil, a round bed marked by bricks.
The whites of the eye are rather free-form, filled with various flowers, some volunteers. The radiating beds, however, are under more intense cultivation: vegetables and herbs. Booyong’s mother, visiting from Korea this summer, is hard at work, but comes over to greet me. She is the reason the vegetables are identified with hand-painted signs in both English and Korean.
Some of Booyong’s treasured plants grow in the walkways between the beds. The pigweed tidy gardeners would pull out or try to avoid by using weed-barrier cloth are actually edible, with high nutrition values.
While Booyong is still trying to decide what is special enough to plant in the very center, the pupil, she went ahead this year with an experiment: plowing a patch of prairie next to the house to grow row crops.
Friends Rusty Brinkman and Vally Gollogly helped her plant two long rows of garlic that she was about to harvest. She uses it a lot in her dishes. Her other vegetables looked good. However, she said the carrots were a bust.
It’s been a tough year so far for our landscape and garden plants, but the growing season isn’t over yet.
Barb Gorges, author of the book, “Cheyenne Garden Gossip,” and the blog http://cheyennegardengossip.wordpress.com, writes a monthly column about the joys and challenges of gardening on the High Plains. Contact her at bgorges4@msn.com. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/outdoors/summer-tours-show-wide-variety-of-garden-interests/article_1c2d1391-f243-5ec7-a689-6c9e7087473c.html | 2022-08-20T13:01:41Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/outdoors/summer-tours-show-wide-variety-of-garden-interests/article_1c2d1391-f243-5ec7-a689-6c9e7087473c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Los Angeles Times
Let’s start at the end. “Game of Thrones” was the television drama of the decade right up until its eighth and final season, when the HBO series’ conclusion disappointed fans on a global scale. Despite all of the show’s dexterous villains, fierce emancipators, persevering women and supernatural surprises, it handed the crown to a boy who’d literally slept through much of the show’s 73-episode run.
Thanks to that fizzling 2019 climax, prequel “House of the Dragon” premieres Sunday amid slightly lower expectations than it would have if “GoT” had nailed the landing. But with the arrival of the first episode, “The Heirs of the Dragon,” the hope that a new series might recapture some of the power and grandeur of its predecessor no longer seems so fanciful.
Set 172 years before the death of the Mad King and the birth of Daenerys Targaryen, “House of the Dragon” immediately thrusts viewers into the familiar sights and sounds of the “Game of Thrones” universe: Flea Bottom and its brothels, dragons and their flames, the Red Keep and its Iron Throne. While honoring the legacy and look of the original series, the spinoff wisely adopts subtle changes in tone and approach while introducing a fresh world of characters and storylines.
It’s the reign of King Viserys Targaryen (Paddy Considine), the seventh ruler to sit on the Iron Throne, which he inherited after decades of peace and prosperity in Westeros under his grandfather, King Jaehaerys I Targaryen. As usual, though, there is consternation about who should really be occupying that spiky seat of power. King Viserys should quash his detractors, but the middle-aged monarch is conflict avoidant, kind and reasonable – all terrible attributes for a ruler in the always barbaric and occasionally magical Seven Kingdoms. We meet the king when he has to make the worst decision of his reign: His pregnant Queen Aemma (Sian Brooke) is in distressed labor, and he must choose between the life of his wife or his (hoped-for male) child.
It’s here that we see the promise of the next nine episodes in the skills of showrunners Miguel Sapochnik and Ryan J. Condal, the strength of the writing and the impact of the performances. The queen’s grueling delivery is contrasted against scenes of a celebratory jousting tournament taking place outside, pitting the violent act of giving life against the violent actions of men who take it away. The poignancy of these simultaneous battles is presaged by a conversation the queen has with her daughter when the girl shows concern about her mother’s swollen belly: This is how we serve the realm as royal women, the queen explains. Childbirth is our battlefield.
The exchange between mother and daughter, and the artful contrast of dueling knights and dutiful midwives, are powerful enough on their own to render the first episode a smashing success and show that “House of the Dragon” has a depth of understanding of its female characters that “GoT” took years to find. But it doesn’t stop there: In a moment that reflects some of the ugly realities of our own world, it is men who ultimately decide the queen’s fate – choosing the baby’s life over hers.
This fresh chapter in the saga of the Seven Kingdoms is reverse-engineered to feed into narratives and family trees that are familiar to “GoT” devotees. It’s best to brace now for the genealogy chatter around Houses Targaryen, Lannister, Velaryon and Hightower, for theories connecting the future with the past and for ghoulish discussions of which series featured more graphic displays of blood, gore and guts. A strong stomach is still required upon returning to Westeros (beware of wanton beheadings, carts full of dismembered body parts and worse), though previous fandom is not a requisite for becoming invested in “House of the Dragon.”
The brewing bloodbath over the Iron Throne is an immediate draw, especially since the conflict centers on the young Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (played wonderfully by Milly Alcock), who is just 15 and already appears to have everything it takes to rule. She’s a dragon rider and possesses pure Valyrian blood, but she’s not a man, and history is not on her side. The king’s cousin, Princess Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best), was denied her birthright years before. She’s now known as “The Queen Who Never Was.” Also vying for the throne is Rhaenyra’s uncle, Prince Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith), a violent and impetuous warrior who some call crazy. (Insanity will emerge as a given among the inbred Targaryen royalty.) It’s a strong setup for all manner of familial treachery – preferably atop a dragon.
There are plenty of the flying beasts to go around in these pre-”Game of Thrones” times. We’re even treated to a “Dracarys!” command by the episode’s end, fueling the fire for a new, engrossing chapter in HBO’s epic. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/todo/review-hbos-first-game-of-thrones-spinoff-recaptures-the-power-grandeur-of-the-original/article_936dd34a-1ff5-11ed-aa70-a7af136e1aff.html | 2022-08-20T13:01:54Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/todo/review-hbos-first-game-of-thrones-spinoff-recaptures-the-power-grandeur-of-the-original/article_936dd34a-1ff5-11ed-aa70-a7af136e1aff.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Zeno Robinson, left, and Aleks Le attend the after-party for the Los Angeles premiere of "Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero" at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Aug. 10, 2022, in Los Angeles. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Crunchyroll/TNS)
One of Japan's biggest pop media franchises, "Dragon Ball" is synonymous with explosive brawls and over-the-top action sequences with dashes of comedy providing levity in between. "Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero" delivers these signature elements in spades in a story that celebrates how the green alien warrior Piccolo has long been "Dragon Ball's" best dad.
Boasting the involvement of "Dragon Ball" creator Akira Toriyama for its original story, screenplay and character design, "Super Hero" — directed by Tetsuro Kodama — revolves around heroes and villains who are all navigating the legacies and ambitions of their (absent) fathers and grandfathers. It's a nuance that's touched on in the exposition heavy introduction of the film, but best understood by those who are familiar with the "Dragon Ball" franchise, which launched with Toriyama's manga series in 1984.
For the uninitiated, "Dragon Ball" primarily follows Goku, an orphan invader-turned-refugee of a powerful alien warrior race who grew up on Earth, and his perpetual quest to grow stronger as he faces off against humans, other aliens, androids and even different levels of gods. In between training, various tournaments and battles over the fate of the universe, Goku has made friends and enemies, gotten married and had a couple kids (who, unlike their father, have interests outside of becoming the most powerful warrior to ever live).
"Super Hero" shakes things up by turning its spotlight on a couple of "Dragon Ball's" popular but often underutilized supporting characters: Goku's eldest son Gohan (Masako Nozawa in Japanese, Kyle Hebert in the English dub) and Gohan's mentor Piccolo (Toshio Furukawa, Christopher Sabat), who especially shines as the heart of the film.
As explained in the movie, Gohan has long shown he has the potential to be an even greater warrior than Goku (Nozawa, Sean Schemmel). But the kindhearted half-human is more concerned with his scholarly pursuits than keeping up with his training, especially because Gohan knows his father will always jump up to handle whatever powerful threats arise.
It's a fair expectation on Gohan's part — Goku has always been a bit more focused on becoming the best fighter he could be over being the best father. But Gohan can always count on Piccolo, his intimidating grump of a mentor, to not only push him toward reaching his full potential as a warrior but also give him lessons on being a good dad. Piccolo's heartwarming dynamic with Gohan's 3-year-old daughter Pan (Yūko Minaguchi, Jeannie Tirado) is among the "Super Hero" highlights.
Anime fans who have kept up with "Dragon Ball" through its most recent series, "Dragon Ball Super," will likely make up most of "Super Hero's" U.S. audience. But besides a mostly inconsequential scene of cameos, even a casual fan who has watched only through "Dragon Ball Z" — the second "Dragon Ball" anime series, which started airing in the U.S. in the '90s — is plenty equipped to keep up with the film's main story and will likely appreciate this focus on Piccolo's bond with Gohan and his family.
The movie's main antagonists are the next generation of the Red Ribbon Army, an evil organization first thwarted by Goku when he was a kid. Although the new Red Ribbon Army's leader Magenta and hired head scientist Dr. Hedo are also each contending with the shadows cast by their father and grandfather, respectively, the setup is more a cute novelty than a commentary on family legacy. Their story eventually takes a back seat to the spectacular action sequences that lead to various powerful transformations.
As the title suggests, "Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero" engages a bit with questions of what it actually means to be a hero beyond flashy poses and comic sound effects. It also touches on timely themes involving the powers of misinformation and lies to cast heroes as villains (and vice versa) in order to manipulate others. But "Super Hero's" main priority is letting Gohan and Piccolo dazzle together in glorious combat against a couple of charming villains — Gamma 1 (Hiroshi Kamiya, Aleks Le) and Gamma 2 (Mamoru Miyano, Zeno Robinson) — and then an even more powerful, if familiar, foe. Even the film's stylish 3D computer animation is best suited for these action sequences.
"Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero" is a must see for fans that salutes one of the series' best relationships, but newcomers interested in more than the fun of an action-packed visual spectacle might want to check out some of the TV series first. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/todo/review-the-new-dragon-ball-movie-shines-a-deserving-spotlight-on-the-franchises-best-dad/article_b172d452-1f56-11ed-905b-b331ecd45a91.html | 2022-08-20T13:02:00Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/todo/review-the-new-dragon-ball-movie-shines-a-deserving-spotlight-on-the-franchises-best-dad/article_b172d452-1f56-11ed-905b-b331ecd45a91.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Weitzel’s Wings owner Travis Weitzel with Food Network star Guy Fieri as they make some of Weitzel’s signature chicken wings on an episode of “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” that premiered in May.
Known as the “Super Bowl” of the chicken wing industry, the 20th annual National Buffalo Wing Festival will have a distinctly Western flavor Labor Day weekend with Laramie’s own Weitzel’s Wings competing for top honors.
Also known as “Double Dubs,” the famous food truck owned by Travis Weitzel is one of 16 of the nation’s best Buffalo wings restaurants selected to compete for the title of America’s best.
Double Dubs gained the attention of Food Network personality Guy Fieri when former University of Wyoming quarterback (now an elite NFL QB for the Buffalo Bills) mentioned the wings truck as a personal favorite. Fieri featured Weitzel’s Wings in May in an episode of his hit television series “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.”
For the first time this year, the festival — aka “Wingfest” — will be held at Highmark Stadium, home of the Buffalo Bills.
Double Dubs will be featured on-camera during the competition, according to a press release announcing the festival.
WyoTech teaches valuable trades for students and more
WyoTech offers summer seminar programs and quarterly visitation to help educators learn how to more effectively implement trade programs in secondary schools.
The program is one of WyoTech’s methods of encouraging high schools to offer students education in the trades and work through challenges presented by low availability of teachers in the field, according to a press release.
WyoTech pays for the training programs and most travel-related expenses involved, the press release says. The program focuses on teaching school administrators about the most up-to-date industry standards and practices so they can bring the lessons back to their classrooms.
“We at WyoTech want to do our part to keep trade programs in high schools, and to do so, instructors need to be armed with the best possible programs and education,” WyoTech President Jim Mathis says in the press release.
Empress Apartments near opening
The Empress Apartments are projected to open Sept. 1, and Laramie Main Street Alliance has invited its volunteers to take a sneak peek of the new complex Aug. 29.
The initiative, located above Big Hollow in downtown Laramie, is one of the many downtown revitalization projects Laramie Main Street Alliance has focused on.
The private event will offer refreshments and a chance to mingle for Main Street volunteers. The event also meant to celebrate the group’s work in being recognized as a 2022 Great American Main Street.
Surgical clinic grows with new addition
Local nurse practitioner Lauren Munsell has begun a new role as an ear, nose and throat care provider with the Ivinson Medical Group Surgical Clinic in Cheyenne.
Munsell specializes in acute and chronic sinus problems, throat and tonsil concerns, allergies, asthma and hearing issues, according to a press release from IMG.
“I am delighted to reunite with Ivinson to serve patients and expand ENT services into Cheyenne and be a part of an incredible team that supports the Wyoming community,” she says in the press release.
Munsell will join Dr. Paul Johnson, who began providing otolaryngology care out of the Cheyenne clinic in May. Urologist Dr. Eric Uhlman also recently started offering weekly appointments at the clinic. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/double-dubs-among-elite-chosen-for-2022-wingfest/article_6433acd2-1e6d-11ed-860a-979238098e82.html | 2022-08-20T13:02:56Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/double-dubs-among-elite-chosen-for-2022-wingfest/article_6433acd2-1e6d-11ed-860a-979238098e82.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — Arizona and Nevada residents won’t face bans on watering their lawns or washing their cars despite more Colorado River water shortages.
But U.S. officials announced Tuesday there will be less water available next year for them from the river that serves 40 million people in the West and Mexico and a farm industry worth billions of dollars. Observers warn that a reckoning is still coming for the growing region because the water crisis is expected to generate future cuts.
A look at the crucial source of water for the Western U.S. and the water cuts.
WHY IS THE COLORADO RIVER THREATENED?
There are two Colorado Rivers in the U.S. — the 1,450-mile powerhouse of the West and the over 800-mile river that starts and ends in Texas.
The river that faces cuts is the longer one. It supplies seven states plus Mexico but its flow has dropped drastically over time because of water overuse by farming and growing populations, hotter temperatures, evaporation and less melting snow in the spring to replenish the river.
And for years, the seven states that receive the river’s water have diverted more water from it than what was replenished by nature.
WHO DO LAKE MEAD AND LAKE POWELL SERVE?
Lake Mead supplies water to millions of people in Arizona, California, Nevada and Mexico.
Cuts for 2023 are triggered when predicted water levels fall below a certain threshold — 1,050 feet above sea level.
Additional cuts will be triggered when projected levels sink to 1,045 and 1,025 feet. At a certain point, levels could drop so low that water can no longer be pumped from the reservoir.
Eventually, some city and industrial water users will be affected.
Lake Powell’s levels are also falling and extraordinary steps have been taken to keep water in the reservoir on the Arizona-Utah border.
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming get water from tributaries and other reservoirs that feed into Lake Powell. Water from three reservoirs in those states has been drained in recent years to maintain water levels at Lake Powell and protect the electric grid powered by the Glen Canyon Dam.
WHAT IS BEING CUT AND WHY?
The federal government started cutting some states’ supplies this year to maintain water levels in the river and its key reservoirs. New water cuts will build on those reductions — which all but eliminated some central Arizona farmers’ supply of Colorado River water and to a much lesser extent, reduced Nevada and Mexico’s share.
Lake Mead and Lake Powell — the two largest Colorado River reservoirs — are about a quarter full, threatening water supplies and the generation of hydroelectric power that provides electricity to millions of people.
Along the reservoirs’ edges, “bathtub rings” of minerals outline where the high water line once stood, highlighting the challenges the West faces as a ‘megadrought’ tightens it grip on the region.
HOW IS THE RIVER SHARED?
Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico share the Colorado River in what’s called the river’s upper basin. Arizona, Nevada and California form the lower basin.
From its headwaters in Colorado, the river and its tributaries eventually flow south of the border into Mexico, which also uses its water. The river’s water traditionally flowed through Mexico and reached the Gulf of Calfornia, but rarely does so anymore because so much is used by farms and cities. Among those who depend on the water are nearly 30 federally recognized Native American tribes .
In the Southwest, water stored in Lake Mead and Lake Powell — the two largest manmade reservoirs in the U.S. — is divvied up through legal agreements among the seven Colorado River basin states, the federal government, Mexico and tribes. The agreements determine how much water each entity gets, when cuts are triggered and the order in which the parties must sacrifice some of their supply.
Under a 2019 drought contingency plan, Arizona, Nevada, California and Mexico agreed to give up shares of their water to maintain water levels at Lake Mead. This year’s cuts are part of that plan — and as a result, state officials knew they were coming.
WHICH PARTIES WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE CUTS?
Arizona, Nevada and Mexico.
Arizona was hardest hit, again, and will receive 79% of its total share next year. But that’s only 3% less than what it got this year, after federal officials slashed its supply.
Nevada will receive about 92% of its total supply next year. Most residents will not feel the cuts thanks to water conservation, reuse and the state not using its full allocation.
California has been spared because it has more senior water rights than Arizona and Nevada. That means it doesn’t have to give up its water first, according to the hierarchy that guides water law in the American West.
Mexico will get about 93% of its total supply. The water is used in cities and farming communities in northwestern Mexico, which is also enduring a severe drought.
WHO WILL LOSE WATER?
Farmers in central Arizona, among the state’s largest producers of livestock, dairy, alfalfa, wheat and barley, lost most of their Colorado River allocation this year when the government implemented its first shortage. Some farmers were compensated with water through deals with cities like Phoenix and Tucson.
More farmers will likely need to leave their land fallow — which some farmers in the region have been paid to do by state agencies and others — and rely even more on groundwater. Others will be forced to grow more water-efficient crops such as durum wheat and guayule and find other ways to use less water.
Western water suppliers have planned for such shortages by diversifying and conserving their water sources. But intensifying drought depleting reservoirs faster than scientists predicted — and the resulting cuts — will make it harder for farms and cities to plan for the future.
“Most people are also not prepared for the kind of difficult choices that we need to make,” said Mark Squillace, a professor of environmental law at the University of Colorado. “And that’s sort of the situation we’re facing in the Colorado River.”
Phoenix will lose some water it would otherwise store in underground basins as a water reserve, said Cynthia Campbell, the city’s water resource management advisor. That happened this year, too. The city will rely more water from Arizona’s Salt and Verde rivers.
Campbell said Phoenix residents and businesses won’t be affected. The city that was a sleepy desert community in the 1950s is now the nation’s 5th largest.
Nevada will also face cuts, but residents won’t face big impacts. The state does not use its full supply of Colorado River water and most water used indoors by businesses and homes in the populous southern part of the state is recovered, treated and delivered recycled back to Lake Mead. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/how-new-colorado-river-cuts-will-impact-states/article_6db3e97c-1f1f-11ed-b043-03563de226be.html | 2022-08-20T13:03:02Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/how-new-colorado-river-cuts-will-impact-states/article_6db3e97c-1f1f-11ed-b043-03563de226be.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Two Wyoming hospitals have discontinued offering obstetric care as of this summer. Both said upheaval in the medical industry in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic have made offering the service to their communities unfeasible.
The hospitals in Rawlins and Kemmerer demonstrate the fragility of rural health services, and have joined Riverton in no longer offering delivery services for expectant mothers.
South Lincoln Medical Center CEO David Ryerse said the decision was ultimately made by the South Lincoln Hospital District Board of Trustees, which made the call due to chronic staffing shortages.
“The 24-hour-a-day on-call operating room services involving our surgical teams was discontinued due to the inability of the organization to continually meet the 24-hour staffing needs of the operating room,” Ryerse said. “Ultimately, the medical staff of (the South Lincoln Hospital District) determined that without the required staffing to provide the needed 24-hour surgical services, it was impossible to safely deliver scheduled or elective obstetrical patients who might need a cesarean section.”
In the U.S., approximately one out of three babies are delivered via Caesarean-section. Though obstetric services were discontinued as of June 1, the operating room in Kemmerer is not completely closed and will still function normally during business hours.
Ryerse said the hospital in Kemmerer, a town of roughly 2,700, had been averaging 20-25 deliveries annually, though many expectant parents were already seeking care elsewhere.
“Approximately 70% of local expecting moms have chosen to deliver at health care facilities other than SLHD in surrounding locations, including Utah,” Ryerse said. When the board made the decision to end obstetric care in Kemmerer, it affected five families, three of which had their babies before the June 1 cutoff, he said. The next closest hospital that could provide a delivery for Kemmerer moms is approximately a 45-minute drive away, in Evanston.
Ryerse emphasized staffing shortages are common in rural health care in the aftermath of the pandemic.
“Hospitals, long-term care facilities and clinics nationwide are experiencing ongoing staffing concerns with having adequate providers, registered nurses, (certified nursing assistants), lab techs, pharmacists and other critical health care positions,” he said. “We are also facing housing shortages, budgetary concerns for local providers and traveling nurses.”
Rawlins
Memorial Hospital of Carbon County Marketing, Communications and Foundation Director Stephanie Hinkle described a completely different scenario at the Rawlins hospital, though the end result was the same.
“Despite COVID and a number of facility/infrastructure issues within our aging hospital that have continued to require constant repairs, we had been able to maintain strong finances and even experienced some growth,” she said. “We also built a new family practice clinic in Saratoga that opened June 3, 2021, and paid for the build entirely from cash reserves. I’d also like to point out that our hospital has zero debt, and we receive virtually no funding from Carbon County, despite being a ‘county-owned hospital.’”
Hinkle said labor and delivery services often represent a net loss for hospitals because of staffing and insurance requirements.
“In late 2020, after losing our primary (obstetrician/gynecologist), we were able to recruit and hire a phenomenal doctor, and we put these services at the top of our strategic business plan for growth and enhancement. However, despite a number of targeted marketing campaigns, community education and engagement, and having a provider that women loved, we were still unable to perform at a level that could compete with the rising expenses.”
Those expenses, Hinkle said, were dominated by one factor.
“The single largest factor in this decline was the historical cost of traveling nurses. We were spending $100,000 per week for traveling nurses, five of which were in labor and delivery,” Hinkle said, adding that MHCC’s cash reserves went from $6 million to $3 million in a matter of months. MHCC supports a community almost three times as large as Kemmerer, but still, there wasn’t enough business to keep the maternity ward open.
Prior to this decision, Hinkle said annual births at MHCC ranged from 57 to 89 annually over the past three years. Similar to the hospital in Kemmerer, administrators estimated the majority of business was going to larger nearby facilities, such as Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie, which facilitated 420 births last year.
“At the time of closure, we only had 32% of the market share,” said Hinkle.
Rawlins is an hour-and-a-half drive from both Laramie and Rock Springs, the next closest hospitals where expectant Rawlins moms can deliver. Those travel routes face frequent high winds and some snowstorms.
Concerns about cutbacks in small-town hospitals are a significant concern to those who rely on such health care.
Medicaid
Better Wyoming Executive Director Nate Martin said rural hospitals are denied significant financial help because of the refusal of the governor and Legislature to expand Medicaid.
“There’s not a silver bullet,” he said. “Issues of health care are multifaceted, but when our Legislature continues to refuse to expand Medicaid, they’re turning away hundreds of millions of dollars that could shore up small hospitals.”
Wyoming is one of 12 states that has not expanded Medicaid to cover low-income adults who do not have young children and who themselves are not old enough to qualify for Medicaid. Healthy Wyoming estimates adopting the program would provide affordable medical care to 25,000 Wyomingites and bring in $54 million federal money annually for hospitals throughout the state.
The Wyoming Department of Health estimates expanding Medicaid would result in an overall net savings of $34 million in the state’s general funds. Adoption of the program, which was first introduced with the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, has been met with residual skepticism.
“I think the nonacceptance of it, at this point, is ideological,” Martin said. “People see it as some kind of stance against the federal government, but frankly, I think that’s hilarious. Federal funds are our largest source of income outside of oil and gas.”
The Wyoming Hospital Association estimates that statewide, hospitals are absorbing as much as $4.3 million annually in uncompensated care. Under Medicaid expansion, it’s very likely federal funds could cover as much as 90% of that amount. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/rural-hospitals-cut-maternity-care-amid-budget-woes/article_df119bfe-1fe8-11ed-9d32-4f3fb2b16bbf.html | 2022-08-20T13:03:27Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/rural-hospitals-cut-maternity-care-amid-budget-woes/article_df119bfe-1fe8-11ed-9d32-4f3fb2b16bbf.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
University of Wyoming trustees are mulling a change in how student fees are charged, moving from per-credit billing to a flat rate.
The change is one of the issues the UW Board of Trustees will discus at its next meeting Sept. 14-16.
The way the fee structure stands now, students pay per credit hour. Trustees are considering moving to a block tuition model, which means full-time students would pay a set rate regardless of the number of credits they are taking in the range of 12-18.
The change is meant to make it more clear for students how much they will be paying for college and encourage them to graduate within a four-year window, according to UW. While the university already offers a cost calculator for students, the current tuition model can leave some with questions about the cost of their education.
“I think it provides some transparency for the student in what the cost will be,” Trustee Laura Schmid-Pizzato said of the block model during a July board retreat.
In addition to clarifying what can be a murky tuition paying process, the block schedule can offer students flexibility in adding or dropping courses without having to worry about how academic decisions could influence their finances. It will also encourage students to take more courses, Schmid-Pizzato said.
The block rate would be priced based on a 15-credit-hour semester, meaning students who take more than 15 credits would save money under the new structure, whole those who take fewer than 15 credits would pay more per credit.
UW students are required to take a minimum of 12 credits each semester to be considered full-time, and taking 15 credits per semester is recommended to graduate within four years.
Tuition increase
The board will also consider a separate proposal to raise tuition rates by 4% each academic year. The hike is part of a tuition review process that happens every four years, according to trustee documents.
Of the 4% increase, 2% of revenue could go to student success programs established by the Associated Students of UW and administration. The other 2% would go toward salary increases, with mandatory raises for promoted faculty taking priority.
The current estimated cost of attendance for an in-state undergraduate student for the upcoming academic year is $18,682, according to the UW website. The estimated cost for an in-state graduate student is $7,182. The numbers increase to $33,832 and $18,324 respectively for out-of-state students.
The university has the ability to be flexible with where tuition increases are applied, and they may not impact every area of study, said Board of Trustees Chairman John McKinley.
Tuition rates change depending on whether classes are undergraduate or graduate and whether they are online or virtual.
In the past, the university has provided tuition flexibility in the areas of nursing and the law school, he said. This time the final recommendations may include a more “market-based” rate for entrepreneurial programs, McKinley said.
Trustees will discuss and finalize the possible changes during a meeting scheduled for Nov. 16-18. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/uw-considers-block-tuition-rates-4-increase/article_2087a336-68f4-532a-9575-3a0bd7604442.html | 2022-08-20T13:03:39Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/uw-considers-block-tuition-rates-4-increase/article_2087a336-68f4-532a-9575-3a0bd7604442.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Wyoming and other rural states shouldn’t be overlooked in creating opportunities for new careers, businesses and industries. That is according to an array of experts and leaders at the Mountain West Innovation Summit.
Hosted at the University of Wyoming in June, this was part of Council on Competitiveness’ flagship initiative, the National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers.
UW President Ed Seidel, one of three national commissioners on the council’s initiative who attended, advocated for in-state and regional partnerships. He noted potential changes to Wyoming’s energy, agricultural and tourism industries.
“Disruptions are coming in all of them,” Seidel said. “And disruptions, of course, as technologies are applied, will completely change the landscape.” He said those disruptions are opportunities to create new markets, requiring the state to think about how it supports computing and technology programs at the university and community colleges.
“Support is needed in entrepreneurship and innovation at a level that’s not really been in place before, at least in Wyoming and in states like ours,” Seidel said.
There isn’t much time, he indicated, referring to a McKinsey report on the future of work in 2030 predicting many jobs in Wyoming and other rural states could be displaced due to technology. A student entering high school now will be a university graduate in 2030, Seidel noted.
“So, we’d better think about what markets they’re going to be finding themselves in, and we’ve got to prepare right now for all of that,” Seidel said. “You’re four times as likely to be displaced in the marketplace if you don’t have a college degree.”
Innovation
Accurately forecasting career and industry opportunities, and making sure community colleges have a strong pipeline to the university are needed to innovate, he said.
“We have 70% of our graduates from the University of Wyoming that leave the state,” Seidel said. “That’s not a good thing. You’ve only got 500,000 people (in Wyoming) to start with, so we’ve got to work on creating opportunities for our graduates to have jobs in the state.”
While UW has dealt with significant budget cuts and the effects of COVID-19 the past few years, he said the university is reorganizing to meet the needs of those graduating in 2030. New initiatives starting this fall includes a School of Computing to enhance computing skills across all disciplines, a Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and an Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Management degree program.
The Wyoming Innovation Partnership, established by Gov. Mark Gordon with the university and community colleges, is essential to innovation efforts across the state, Seidel said.
Innovation, which must be an overall focus, includes enhancing the existing energy extraction industry while preparing for the transition to renewable energy, he said.
“The demise of coal and oil and gas is a little premature,” Seidel said. “So, we’re working every way we can to ensure that we can get the most value that we have out of those existing assets. But then, thinking about the transition, you don’t think of Wyoming as a home of solar energy. However, it turns out that for solar cells, we have as much sunshine as Arizona, I’m told, and we’re a lot colder, which makes solar cells much more efficient. So, we could become a major solar hub.”
Energy
The planned TerraPower Natrium nuclear reactor power plant at Kemmerer signals Wyoming’s role in providing clean energy, said John Wagner, director of the Idaho National Laboratory. A national commissioner on the innovation initiative, he said the demonstration reactor is going to require a trained workforce.
“Think about all the opportunities,” Wagner said. “Think about the reactor being constructed, not yet operating. All the workforce around it. We’re talking about the trades, welders and all the different job opportunities to go with that.”
Innovation opportunities for Wyoming and other rural states are included in a new initiative by the National Science Foundation, said Erwin Gianchandani, NSF assistant director.
“There’s a tremendous amount of bipartisan support on (Capitol) Hill and in the administration for basic research, for science and engineering, actually paving its way to new technologies and new solutions,” Gianchandani said. “Perhaps more than ever before, there’s a realization that we, for too long, were funding agencies that have focused on the coasts and the big cities, and the urban environments and the big schools. And we have not paid attention to the full expanse of the geography of the country and the unique challenges and characteristics that you see across that geography.”
He said NSF’s new Regional Innovation Engines Program focuses on regions that have not benefited from the technological booms that have been experienced in other areas of the nation.
“And our goal with the engines program, really, is to be able to marry both scientific and technological challenges with societal challenges,” Gianchandani said. “We’re also very interested in balancing both the technical innovation and the geographic innovation, as well. Again, I can’t stress this enough that geography matters. The challenges that we face in particular parts of the country around climate change are very different than other parts of the country.”
Gianchandani said seeking out venture capitalists and angel investors interested in taking research to commercialization contributes to successful innovation.
Former Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal said looking to the government to directly invest public funds in private enterprise is a mistake.
“The problem with government-assisted funding is the public is informed by the opposition every time something fails,” he said, “because the government is expected to succeed 100% of the time with its investments. Nobody in the private sector expects to succeed 100% of the time.”
He said venture capitalists can fail three out of 10 times “and make a killing.”
“Unfortunately, the measurement against government investments tends to be, well, you may have had 20 good ones, (but) all we’re going to talk about is the one that failed,” Freudenthal said. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/wyo-can-play-role-in-national-competitiveness/article_8a2ca106-1fe8-11ed-ae44-b7b6d1d4f706.html | 2022-08-20T13:03:45Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/wyo-can-play-role-in-national-competitiveness/article_8a2ca106-1fe8-11ed-ae44-b7b6d1d4f706.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Settling into seat 8F, I pulled my jacket off and tucked it into my carry-on bag. I would not be needing that in Phoenix.
I looked forward to the sunshine and warmth ahead. In went the jacket. Out came my reading glasses, iPad, magazine and headphones.
Headphones! Where are my headphones?
I always travel with them. They are the noise canceling kind that block the roar of the plane engines, the voices of the passengers visiting, the cries of babies in the back and the intercom messages from the cockpit. I block these so that I can enjoy the time to read, sleep or meditate in the headphone-secluded space of rain falling, ocean waves or the tweeting of birds; whichever seems to be my pleasure of the moment.
With a sigh, I felt the aggression of the engines lift the plane into the sky as 9F began to explain to 9E, in his best not-so-quiet voice, why he sold his home in New Jersey and moved to Phoenix.
I realized that for this hour and 45-minute flight, my headphones were happily next to my meditation chair at home. Hummppfff!
After reading an article or two in a magazine, I laid it to the side, closed my eyes and began breathing. With the deep in and out rhythm, my body sensed this as the call to meditate. To enjoy calm. To go within to the space of quiet where the outer world drops away. Where the deepest thoughts of my soul mix with the messages from the energy both in and out of my body.
I guard this time of meditation as a mother guards her child. This is more than just a happy place. This is my sacred time. My daily ritual of flowing into calm serenity to a place which is more than one foot here and one foot there, but more like all there. All-in, as they say in poker, to an out-of-this-body and fully in-peace space.
The engine’s roar became a soothing hum that muffled the voice of 9F. The ping of the pilot’s bell seemed to whisper the message of safety that floated by my thoughts of awareness without stopping to take residency in my space of peace. I was there! Not here, not asleep … but there.
Almost an hour passed when my breathing returned to the shallow breath of normality. My eyes fluttered open as my senses returned to the awareness of my surroundings. The engines below my seat continued to spin as the mechanical dropping of the landing gear engaged.
“And in Phoenix the homes were a steal when I bought it, so from what I cleared on my Jersey home, I paid cash for the new one.”
Seat 9F had not stopped the elaboration of his happy relocation to Phoenix.
I realized that I had successfully enjoyed the flight. I enjoyed a time of meditation, and, for a brief period, blocked the outside forces of noise, chaos and distractions. I smiled at the reminder that calm serenity can be accomplished any place. Any time. The noise of the outside doesn’t have to detract from this.
The outer world we cannot control. It is the quiet within that we search for. It is the quiet within we can find ... even without headphones.
Pennie’s Life Lesson: Searching for tranquility does not require a vacuum of silence. Real peace is found within — even during the distraction of life.
Pennie Hunt is a Wyoming-based author, blogger and speaker. Contact her at penniehunt@gmail.com. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/opinion/contributed_columns/learn-to-find-the-quiet-within/article_4bec122a-1fdc-11ed-977b-03fa5203af0b.html | 2022-08-20T13:03:52Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/opinion/contributed_columns/learn-to-find-the-quiet-within/article_4bec122a-1fdc-11ed-977b-03fa5203af0b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
With the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, a grave miscarriage of justice is rippling across the country. Abortion bans, or “trigger laws,” written to take effect immediately upon the defeat of Roe, are being implemented.
Abortion ban exceptions for victims of rape or incest are being stripped away.
These unprecedented restrictions on what was, until recently, a national, constitutional right came into laser focus when a 10-year-old rape victim traveled from her home in Ohio to Indiana to obtain a medication abortion. The vicious attacks that she and her Indiana-based physician experienced should serve as a warning to all of us on the extremely dangerous era we have entered.
On July 1, the Indianapolis Star published the shocking story about the young rape victim. This was just one week to the day after the Supreme Court had issued its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, overturning Roe. Hours after the decision, Ohio implemented its six-week abortion ban, which had been blocked since 2019 as unconstitutional. The story described how patients seeking abortion care were flooding into Indiana from neighboring states with severe abortion restrictions, like Kentucky and Ohio.
The article described how Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an obstetrician/gynecologist, had a 10-year-old pregnant rape victim in her care. A child abuse doctor in Ohio contacted Dr. Bernard seeking help because the victim was six weeks and three days pregnant, beyond Ohio’s six-week abortion ban, which has no exceptions for rape or incest.
Right-wing media, pundits and prominent politicians immediately disputed the story.
“Every day that goes by, the more likely that this is a fabrication,” Ohio’s Republican Attorney General Dave Yost said on the Fox News Channel. “Another lie. Anyone surprised?” read the tweet, later deleted, from Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan. (Jordan stands accused of helping cover up the sexual abuse of male athletes by an athletics department physician at Ohio State University when he was a wrestling coach there from 1987 to 1994.)
Fox News host Jesse Watters called the rape story a hoax, then had Indiana’s Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita on his show.
Rokita said, “And then we have this abortion activist acting as a doctor with a history of failing to report. We’re gathering the evidence as we speak, and we’re going to fight this to the end, including looking at her licensure. If she failed to report it in Indiana, it’s a crime for — to not report, to intentionally not report.”
A photo of Dr. Bernard was displayed during the interview. The very next day, authorities in Ohio announced that they had arrested a man who had confessed to raping the 10-year-old at least twice. Public records confirmed that Dr. Bernard had fully complied with all of Indiana’s legal requirements to report the case. Despite the publicly available proof, Rokita said he’s investigating Dr. Bernard for possible crimes relating to her care of the victim.
Dr. Bernard retained a lawyer and filed a complaint against Attorney General Rokita, and is considering a defamation lawsuit. She has long experienced threats from anti-abortion extremists, including a 2020 kidnapping threat against her daughter. These new spurious allegations promoted by Fox News and other outlets have further exposed her to potential harm.
Anti-abortion extremists have murdered at least 11 people since 1993, from physicians, receptionists, clinic escorts and security guards, to others who just happened to be present in a targeted healthcare facility. The National Abortion Federation has compiled comprehensive statistics on the violence that, in addition to those 11 murders, includes 26 attempted murders, bombings, kidnappings, stalking, assault, arson and more.
While Indiana Attorney General Rokita expends the public’s law enforcement resources in his witch hunt against Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an estimated 5,000 rape kits sit untested in Indiana, as documented by the End the Backlog Project. Perhaps Rokita should focus less on defaming doctors and ginning up political prosecutions and instead prioritize getting those rape kits tested, finally.
This latest wave of anti-abortion legislation is ramping up. Laws to prevent people from crossing state lines to seek an abortion, or to prosecute them after obtaining a legal abortion in another state, are being drafted. Other laws under consideration target those who “aid and abet” in an abortion, targeting virtually anyone who interacts with an abortion seeker, from family members to funders to taxi drivers as well as healthcare providers.
Ultimately, the anti-abortion movement seeks a nationwide abortion ban.
Protecting pregnant people seeking abortions and their healthcare providers from anti-abortion extremists, whether they are lurking outside clinics or inside state legislatures, must be a priority for us all. While the overturning of Roe is a defeat — a grave miscarriage of the Justices — it also is a call to action. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/opinion/guest_column/in-post-roe-america-a-grave-miscarriage-of-justice-proliferates/article_d1274a52-1fd9-11ed-b8dd-d7ffa243496c.html | 2022-08-20T13:03:58Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/opinion/guest_column/in-post-roe-america-a-grave-miscarriage-of-justice-proliferates/article_d1274a52-1fd9-11ed-b8dd-d7ffa243496c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“It’s a slip, not a fall,” Abraham Lincoln said after his loss in his legendary 1858 Illinois Senate contest against Stephen Douglas.
Liz Cheney apparently has the same attitude after her nearly 40-point wipeout in her primary the other night. In lieu of a traditional concession speech, the Wyoming congresswoman and daughter of the former vice president delivered a picturesque, made-for-TV call to arms invoking Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.
Cheney had a choice after Jan. 6 between political viability, which would have involved modulating her outrage over Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign, or political self-immolation. She chose a spectacular act of immolation — illuminating the night sky like the nuclear reactor at the outset of the HBO miniseries “Chernobyl.”
Hers was an admirable loss. It is rare that any elected official is willing to sacrifice his or her office over a matter of deeply felt principle.
That said, she has undoubtedly cut herself off from the possibility of having a positive influence on the direction of the Republican Party via electoral politics, no matter how much she might want to think of her defeat as 1858 redux.
Lincoln’s run against Douglas for the Senate wasn’t a suicide mission. He came very close to winning and represented a rising political movement. His subsequent bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1860 was a long shot, but he was a serious figure who had gained a national reputation and was comfortably in the middle of his party’s consensus.
Cheney, a pariah within her own party, is differently situated. Plus, strategically and temperamentally, she is not Lincolnian.
Although he had firm principles, Lincoln was always a political pragmatist and fundamentally a party man willing to maneuver as necessary. Cheney’s post-Jan. 6 approach bears less resemblance to Lincoln’s than to that of William Lloyd Garrison, the uncompromising abolitionist publisher who took unabashedly radical and unpopular positions and expected the world to move toward him.
As it happens, the world did move toward Garrison, but in the meantime, he wasn’t running for office.
There is zero case for Cheney attempting to go from the role of prophet without honor within her party to Republican vote-getter again.
It’s difficult to overstate the magnitude of Cheney’s collapse. She went from winning her primary with 73% of the vote in 2020, to garnering a mere 29% that was heavily dependent on Democratic crossover votes.
Cheney’s alienation from her party is likely to build on itself. Already, she has said that she’d “find it very difficult” to support Gov. Ron DeSantis, the leading Republican alternative to Trump. In so doing, she is identifying herself with a fraction of a fraction of the party that is so small it is all but nonexistent.
Even if Cheney ran in the 2024 primary and got some traction, she’d only be taking voters from some other more viable alternative to Trump.
An independent run wouldn’t make any more sense. Again, if Cheney became a factor, the chances are that she’d be a place for Republicans repulsed by Trump to park their votes rather than go all the way to Biden. Just as with a prospective primary run, she’d be helping Trump at the margins.
Captain Ahab may have made a few mistakes in judgement in his stewardship of the Pequod, but at least he never allowed himself to affirmatively assist his great adversary, the White Whale.
One thing that’s been remarkable about Cheney’s performance the last couple of years is how apparently clear-eyed she’s been about what it means for her future in the House of Representatives, namely that she wouldn’t have one. In contrast, a presidential run of any sort would be giving in to delusion. If Lincoln was dogged, he was never fanciful. Cheney should realize that she’s taken a path that, whatever it’s other advantages, doesn’t end in electoral vindication.
Rich Lowry is a syndicated columnist. Follow him on Twitter @RichLowry. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/opinion/guest_column/no-liz-cheney-isnt-abraham-lincoln/article_7b8cb8c4-1fda-11ed-855b-3361217a87e5.html | 2022-08-20T13:04:04Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/opinion/guest_column/no-liz-cheney-isnt-abraham-lincoln/article_7b8cb8c4-1fda-11ed-855b-3361217a87e5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The so-called human condition consists of a range of the characteristics we all share. Life. Birth. Death. Living. Learning. Loving.
Philosophers busy themselves contemplating the human condition. It’s studied in anthropology, history, literature, art, music, theater, psychology and religion. Yet in the volumes they’ve written, there is nothing about the loss of our car keys, a phenomenon fundamental to the human condition.
I stumbled on this critical issue when my wife recently lost our car keys. She drove home from the store, obviously using the car keys. But after she arrived, they disappeared. The search was on. We looked in every nook and cranny. Moved furniture, looked under and inside the refrigerator, interrogated the cats. Nothing.
I went to my Facebook friends for help. I asked them to offer suggestions from their own life experience. What, I asked, was the weirdest place you ever found your lost keys? Wow. In a matter of a couple of days, I heard 157 different stories.
What I learned is that losing your car keys is not just part of the human condition. It is the human condition.
Categorically, most car keys deemed to be lost are lingering in the refrigerator. The very first suggestion was to look there. We did. No keys. Check the ice cube tray, they said. The veggie bins. The freezer.
Clothes hamper? Closet? Garbage? Yuck. We combed through it. Cat’s toy box? Cat’s litter box? One person found hers there.
A lot of folks eventually found their keys in the door where they left them after unlocking it. Many were eventually found in the trunk of the car, and a few were still in the ignition. Lots were found in hidden compartments of purses or in the pockets of a jacket not worn since the keys were lost.
It took one fellow 10 years to find his. Seems they fell into a 20-gallon pot he was planting. A decade later, poof, there they were at the bottom of the planter. Lynn found his in his truck. The door was locked with his keys inside.
A lot of car keys were made up in the bed or left in not-often worn pants. The bottom of couches, under the cushions is a popular place to lose keys. One fellow lost his motorcycle keys on the roof where he inadvertently left them while putting on a new roof.
Kitchen drawers. Washing machines. Mailboxes. Under a newspaper. Becky found hers in the dog food dish. Clarence’s keys were waiting in the freezer with the frozen salmon.
My old musician friend Rick Spencer eventually located his among a dozen picks inside his acoustic guitar. Hey Rick, there are a lot of good, old country songs about lost love and truck driving. You need to write one about lost car keys. Would be a big hit.
One woman told me her keys were lost for a long time after she “flung my keys at my ex. He threw them in the snow. No keys for months.”
Dee suggested I ask the dog, but I only have four cats, and they were napping. A couple of folks blamed their toddlers. There were instances where visiting friends picked up the wrong set of keys as they departed.
Some said they “are still looking” and will let me know what strange place in which they will hopefully eventually be found.
There was advice on praying, and my friend Sally said, “I know this sounds weird, but often works for me. Walk backwards to increase recall. Seems to stimulate going back in time to help recall.” Bingo!
And so, a week after they went missing, Pat remembered she bought a new pillow the day the keys disappeared. There they were, at the bottom of the plastic bag encasing the new pillow.
Social scientists need to know more about the time and energy, heartburn and heartache we spend hunting lost keys instead of working for world peace. This is the most overlooked issue of our time.
Rodger McDaniellives in Laramie and is the pastor at Highlands Presbyterian Church in Cheyenne. Email: rmc81448@gmail.com.
Rodger McDaniel lives in Laramie and is the pastor at Highlands Presbyterian Church in Cheyenne. Email: rmc81448@gmail.com. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/opinion/guest_column/the-most-overlooked-issue-of-our-time-finding-lost-keys/article_6a987600-1fd7-11ed-9508-074ebdfd01e7.html | 2022-08-20T13:04:10Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/opinion/guest_column/the-most-overlooked-issue-of-our-time-finding-lost-keys/article_6a987600-1fd7-11ed-9508-074ebdfd01e7.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Hirst Applegate attorneys recognized in U.S. News Best Lawyers in America
Best Lawyers recently announced that the Cheyenne law firm of Hirst Applegate, LLP received a Tier 1 ranking in the 2023 Edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers in the following areas: Commercial Litigation; Litigation – Labor and Employment; Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants; Trusts and Estates Law; Corporate Law and Education Law.
It got a Tier 2 ranking in Real Estate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law.
John J. Metzke was named the Best Lawyers’ 2023 Cheyenne “Lawyer of the Year” in Trusts and Estates and Corporate Law. He was also recognized for his work in Business Organizations (including LLC’s and Partnerships) and Mergers and Acquisitions Law.
Robert Jarosh was named the Best Lawyers’ 2023 Cheyenne “Lawyer of the Year” in Product Liability Litigation – Defendants and was also recognized in the areas of Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Labor and Employment, and Education Law.
Richard Mincer was recognized in the areas of Commercial Litigation, Transportation Law, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants and Products Liability Litigation – Defendants. Billie Addleman was recognized in the areas of Commercial Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants, Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants, and Real Estate Law. Kara L. Ellsbury was recognized in the areas of Commercial Litigation and Utilities Law. Khale Lenhart was recognized in the area of Product Liability Litigation – Defendants.
Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.
Cheyenne attorney Robert R. Rose III honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
Robert R. Rose III was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association during its annual convention in June.
Rose was born and raised in Casper, graduating from Natrona County High School. He received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma, and his J.D. from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Rose has a wealth of experience gained during his years of service as a lawyer, in civil practice, working as a public defender, county attorney and as a criminal defense attorney. He has also served as trial consultant to the Public Defender’s Office and operated his own private consulting business. In addition to his professional practice, Rose was a Laramie County Circuit Court Magistrate.
But Rose’s passion is teaching. He has shared his knowledge with colleagues and students. He taught criminal law and procedure as an adjunct instructor at Laramie County Community College and was also the director of the Western Trial Advocacy Institute at the University of Wyoming College of Law. Rose has supported the annual WTLA Robert R. Rose Jr. Voir Dire Competition by teaching and judging along with coaching teams in preparation for regional competitions.
To fully share his knowledge, experience and expertise, Rose authored the book “Trial Practice Manual for Criminal Defense Lawyers,” published in 2020 by the American Bar Association. He has also written numerous articles for various publications.
The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to a trial lawyer who over the course of a career, in the opinion of peers in the profession, best exemplifies the highest skills and ethical principles of a trial lawyer. These principles include honesty, integrity, and adherence to the rule of law, the Constitution, and promotion of the right to trial by jury.
The award is the highest honor given by WTLA and has been given only 19 times in the 52-year history of the organization.
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Cheyenne OBGYN recently announced the addition of Dr. Christopher Niehues to their team. Niehues received his bachelor of science in biotechnology from the University of Nebraska and his doctor of osteopathic medicine from Kansas City University of Medicine. He conducted his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at McLaren Macomb Hospital in Michigan. Niehues grew up in Alliance, Nebraska, and met his wife, Cindy, at Western Nebraska Community College in Scottsbluff, where he was her chemistry tutor. They have lived multiple places during his medical training, and are glad to now make a home in Cheyenne for their four daughters. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/business_briefs/business-briefs-for-8-20-22/article_96637eb4-200a-11ed-82e0-cba6be9ab758.html | 2022-08-20T13:04:34Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/business_briefs/business-briefs-for-8-20-22/article_96637eb4-200a-11ed-82e0-cba6be9ab758.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Wyoming Tribune Eagle
CHEYENNE – Two local churches are working together to set an example for the community that unity is possible.
First United Methodist Church of Cheyenne and Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church will hold a joint “unity service” at 3 p.m. Sunday. It will be hosted at Allen Chapel, 917 W. 21st St.
Speakers at the service will include the Rev. Dr. Sheriolyn Curry, presiding elder for the AME Church’s Rocky Mountain District, and Rt. Rev. Clement W. Fugh, an AME bishop.
The two churches share a regrettable past, according to the Rev. Mark Marston, senior pastor at First United Methodist Church of Cheyenne, and Rev. Dr. Hilton McClendon Sr., a supply pastor at Allen Chapel AME.
Originally called First Methodist Church, it was founded Sept. 29, 1867. Eight years later, a small group of Black congregants split from the church after being subjected to mistreatment and segregation, during what Marston called “the sinful times.”
“When they had communion, people who were African Americans sat at the back of the church, and the communion elements were served to the African Americans last. Sometimes there weren’t even any left. So, that’s what part of this service is about,” Marston, who is white, said in an interview with the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. He described those practices as “what we’re trying to overcome.”
In 1878, one of those Black congregants, former slave Lucy Phillips, worked with a Rev. Whitlock and other members of this new congregation to form the Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church. It was the first Black church in what was then the Wyoming territory.
The small frame structure “served as both a forum and a gathering place for the Black community,” a proclamation for the unity service says.
Since the split, the two churches have grown parallel to one another. But Sunday’s service offers a “historic” opportunity for the two congregations.
“We want to show the community that there’s unity within the church,” said McClendon, who is Black. First United Methodist Church of Cheyenne “realize(s) what was happening at that time, the discrimination, the divide that was there. But, as Christians, as believers in the kingdom of God, we are all one, and we want to show that to the community, and the community as a whole we want to see become as one.”
“Worshiping together in unity shows that we’re coming together, and we’re both Methodist,” McClendon continued.
McClendon referred to the anti-bias ordinance passed in March in Cheyenne. The ordinance, which made it a misdemeanor to intimidate or maliciously harass someone as a result of a personal bias, was controversial in the community. Some said publicly that it was in conflict with their religion’s teachings, or that they were concerned the ordinance could be used to punish religious leaders who preach against things like homosexuality.
Such a service, with the goal of bringing together two historically separate groups of people, could be one way to combat “so much anger” being seen across the U.S. today, the pastors said.
“Tragically, the church has been weaponized in some ways, and we want to show that the church is not a weapon,” said Marston. “The Lord intended that the church is a place that is safe, and a place where all people can come and experience the good Lord and be elevated.”
Marston later added that he believes this has happened across history. He gave the example of Christianity having been “weaponized” by the Ku Klux Klan.
“We always run the risk of people having their own demented, immoral values and claiming that it’s actually the values of the church,” Marston said.
McClendon and Marston both said they hope their show of unity will inspire other faith leaders in the city, the state and even the country to hold similar services.
“This is about love. What they did to us, we don’t retaliate. We just show love,” McClendon said. “I think it’s imperative that pastors need to come and get some love water and pour (it) on this fire of hatred that’s out here.”
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/first-united-methodist-ame-churches-to-hold-sunday-unity-service/article_a3c248b4-1ff7-11ed-b5dc-8738c00118bf.html | 2022-08-20T13:04:41Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/first-united-methodist-ame-churches-to-hold-sunday-unity-service/article_a3c248b4-1ff7-11ed-b5dc-8738c00118bf.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Do you agree with the CDC's decision to drop the recommendation that people quarantine themselves if they come in close contact with someone infected with COVID-19?
77 – Yes
44 – No
Total: 121 (As of 12 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19)
This week’s question: Based on the results of Tuesday's primary election, are you more or less confident in the Wyoming Legislature's ability to solve issues important to the state's future?
Facebook comments on a story about the Wyoming Education Association suing the state for failing to adequately fund K-12 education:
"The solution starts by allowing the money per student to follow the student. Let parents decide which schools are best for their children." – Jason Powell
"FINALLY!!!" – Ronda McCabe-Lovett
"When districts have had to cut elementary athletics and extracurricular pay, along with not being able to buy classroom materials, there is reason to file suit." – Otty Roney Farris
"When the results match up with the spending, then maybe you will convince me there needs to be money added to the schools budgets." – Robert McDonald
"Educational choice is the answer. Of course, the leftist teachers union will fight it because they will lose control of the system." – Jim Burrill
"You cannot spend $ you don’t have. If coal/oil/gas revenues have decreased as much as I’ve heard they have, the $ is not there, and taxpayers will be tapped to make up the difference." – Lynette Bogacz DiefenderfeR | https://www.wyomingnews.com/online-reader-poll-box-8-20-22/article_47283d62-1fe7-11ed-94c6-3b31542c8328.html | 2022-08-20T13:04:53Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/online-reader-poll-box-8-20-22/article_47283d62-1fe7-11ed-94c6-3b31542c8328.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
This past weekend was one of the most monumental weekends of my life! Judy and I are so happy to announce that we became first-time grandparents last Saturday.
Our son Jac and his wife Whitney had an 8-pound, 8-ounce baby boy named Chels Leo Collins. He is healthy in all aspects, despite the need for oxygen to help his lungs develop. This is such an exciting time for our family, and especially for Jac and Whitney. We now have four generations of Collins men alive, to share their stories and experiences, within our family. Mom and dad are both doing well, except for a bit of sleep deprivation; I remember those days!
Sam Galeotos is a local businessman and someone I look forward to meeting with. I appreciate his wise counsel and advice on issues and politics. We met this week to discuss growth in the county and city and the need for more housing for our residents. What I really appreciate is the fact that we can disagree on certain issues, but always have a great conversation and walk away looking forward to seeing each other the next time. He and Stacy are making great investments in our city, and I appreciate their vision and passion for the state of Wyoming.
I love golf!! Since becoming mayor, I don’t get on the links as much as I used to, but last Saturday was the city employees golf tournament, held at the Airport Golf Course.
First, I would like to compliment our crew at the golf course. It was in great condition, and very fun to play on. Our Airport Golf Course sees 70,000 rounds a year, and it amazes me that it can be in such great condition with that level of play. Second, it was a blast to get out with the guys and play golf. I was a bit rusty, but made up for it with my enthusiasm. Tony, Ronn and Tom, thanks for making my Saturday so much fun. We did finish in the middle of the pack at 8 under par.
I believe we can accomplish so much more when we work together. With that in mind, our relationship with the city of Casper has been fun and so beneficial. I spoke with Carter Napier, the city manager, again this week to discuss the interim topics before the Legislature this summer. We have affordable housing and liquor licenses coming to the Corporations Committee next week, and we had time to discuss what has been proposed and what more we would like to see that would make our cities better. We also talked about water, and how essential it is in our ability to grow and prosper in the future. I look forward to my trip to Casper next week, and spending time with the legislators and Carter.
Tuesday was going to be another morning of golf with the annual LEADS golf tournament. Unfortunately, a kidney stone had another idea. I feel bad for letting my team down, but some things just can’t be overcome.
More lightly, I met with a gentleman who has several hotels in Cheyenne. It was very interesting to learn about this industry and how decisions are made to build new projects. You may have seen the concrete poured next to the old Hitching Post location. I learned it will become a new Hampton Inn, and the owners are waiting for the cost to build to come down before completing the project. Laramie County is the third highest in the state for overnight hotel stays. With more hotels, we can become number two and then compete with Teton County for the top spot. Boy, do I love competition.
Bryan and Sara Pedersen hosted a reception in their front yard to thank folks who have been instrumental in helping the United Way. Their family is taking on the campaign this year, and I am so proud of the way they have gotten started. Mad Flavors food truck made us dinner, and it was some of the best tacos I have ever eaten. 2 Legs Brewery provided the adult beverages, and, take my advice, you have to try the Dad Bod; it was amazing.
At this month’s LEADS board meeting, we had a site selector whose job is to help companies find locations for their businesses. I was pleased to learn how he felt Cheyenne is in a great position to capture future growth and new businesses. According to his findings, two interstates, rail and being at the north end of the Front Range all should help LEADS become more successful. Another item he brought up was being a red state, which helps companies feel comfortable with future taxes and predictability. LEADS has 36 prospects they are currently working with, and our future looks very strong indeed.
Chris Navarro is a noted Wyoming artist. I think I shared his vision to convert retired blades from wind turbines into large pieces of art. When I first saw his proposals, I immediately thought of LCCC, due to their wind turbine program. Chris and I met with the Board of Trustees to show them the vision and ask for their consideration to place a piece on the campus. I liked their enthusiasm, and have hopes we will soon have one of his magnificent pieces in our beautiful city.
Rod and Deb Hottle came to Cheyenne many years ago with the Air Force. He retired as a colonel, and they decided to make Cheyenne their home. He became the general chairman of Frontier Days and spent the last 19 years working for the United Way. They got a call from their daughter and grandchildren about coming east and moving closer to them. We said goodbye to this amazing couple this week, said thank you for all they have done for our community, and wished them happiness with their move. Thanks for everything, you guys!
When I think of gold mines, I think back to 100 years ago, when the gold rush took a sweep across our nation. It looks like we may have a gold rush in Laramie County soon. It seems there are gold reserves between Cheyenne and Laramie, and a company is working hard to permit a mine to extract the minerals. The impact on the state, county and city will be impressive. It may be premature, but it is very exciting.
We all know that housing and the lack thereof is a problem across our state and nation. We held a Housing Trust Fund Summit this week to discuss best practices and ways we can advocate for housing to our legislature. I was impressed with the local nonprofits that testified about their organizations and the things we can do to help them make more of a difference. The afternoon was spent learning about how other states have developed housing trust funds, and the impact these funds have made on affordable and available housing. The Legislature is studying this issue over the summer, and it is my hope we can find some common ground.
Chief Kopper stopped by to discuss issues at the fire department. We discussed a proposed change of schedule for our firefighters, challenges found in the contract regarding the change, and an update concerning the new fire stations. We have three new firefighters headed to the academy very soon. It is surprising how quickly a 25-year career passes.
Eric Fountain runs our compliance department. He has a very eclectic grouping of operations, and I appreciate how he keeps things moving in a positive direction. Our nuisance department has a number of abandoned cars and homes that we need to take care. They have perfected the process, and now is the time to clean up the neighborhoods. We also discussed the large number of accidents we recently had, and how it could affect our insurance rates. There’s just so much to do.
The last meeting of the week was with the owners of the Sweetgrass subdivision. They recently completed the clubhouse and have learned our liquor license issues will prevent their vendor from opening a business in Cheyenne. I shared the city’s efforts to procure more licenses at the legislature level, and how I look forward to receiving help to reform our liquor laws.
In closing, I really hope our grandson will come home this weekend so we can meet him finally. Have a great weekend.
If you have a question for me, please send it to media@cheyennecity.org. I’ll continue to answer them in the following Mayor’s Minute column. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/guest_column/mayor-s-minute-grandpa-collins-has-another-busy-week-as-mayor/article_6c889362-1f89-11ed-8fcd-6f724fcc0f95.html | 2022-08-20T13:05:12Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/guest_column/mayor-s-minute-grandpa-collins-has-another-busy-week-as-mayor/article_6c889362-1f89-11ed-8fcd-6f724fcc0f95.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The so-called human condition consists of a range of the characteristics we all share. Life. Birth. Death. Living. Learning. Loving.
Philosophers busy themselves contemplating the human condition. It’s studied in anthropology, history, literature, art, music, theater, psychology and religion. Yet in the volumes they’ve written, there is nothing about the loss of our car keys, a phenomenon fundamental to the human condition.
I stumbled on this critical issue when my wife recently lost our car keys. She drove home from the store, obviously using the car keys. But after she arrived, they disappeared. The search was on. We looked in every nook and cranny. Moved furniture, looked under and inside the refrigerator, interrogated the cats. Nothing.
I went to my Facebook friends for help. I asked them to offer suggestions from their own life experience. What, I asked, was the weirdest place you ever found your lost keys? Wow. In a matter of a couple of days, I heard 157 different stories.
What I learned is that losing your car keys is not just part of the human condition. It is the human condition.
Categorically, most car keys deemed to be lost are lingering in the refrigerator. The very first suggestion was to look there. We did. No keys. Check the ice cube tray, they said. The veggie bins. The freezer.
Clothes hamper? Closet? Garbage? Yuck. We combed through it. Cat’s toy box? Cat’s litter box? One person found hers there.
A lot of folks eventually found their keys in the door where they left them after unlocking it. Many were eventually found in the trunk of the car, and a few were still in the ignition. Lots were found in hidden compartments of purses or in the pockets of a jacket not worn since the keys were lost.
It took one fellow 10 years to find his. Seems they fell into a 20-gallon pot he was planting. A decade later, poof, there they were at the bottom of the planter. Lynn found his in his truck. The door was locked with his keys inside.
A lot of car keys were made up in the bed or left in not-often worn pants. The bottom of couches, under the cushions is a popular place to lose keys. One fellow lost his motorcycle keys on the roof where he inadvertently left them while putting on a new roof.
Kitchen drawers. Washing machines. Mailboxes. Under a newspaper. Becky found hers in the dog food dish. Clarence’s keys were waiting in the freezer with the frozen salmon.
My old musician friend Rick Spencer eventually located his among a dozen picks inside his acoustic guitar. Hey Rick, there are a lot of good, old country songs about lost love and truck driving. You need to write one about lost car keys. Would be a big hit.
One woman told me her keys were lost for a long time after she “flung my keys at my ex. He threw them in the snow. No keys for months.”
Dee suggested I ask the dog, but I only have four cats, and they were napping. A couple of folks blamed their toddlers. There were instances where visiting friends picked up the wrong set of keys as they departed.
Some said they “are still looking” and will let me know what strange place in which they will hopefully eventually be found.
There was advice on praying, and my friend Sally said, “I know this sounds weird, but often works for me. Walk backwards to increase recall. Seems to stimulate going back in time to help recall.” Bingo!
And so, a week after they went missing, Pat remembered she bought a new pillow the day the keys disappeared. There they were, at the bottom of the plastic bag encasing the new pillow.
Social scientists need to know more about the time and energy, heartburn and heartache we spend hunting lost keys instead of working for world peace. This is the most overlooked issue of our time.
Rodger McDaniel lives in Laramie and is the pastor at Highlands Presbyterian Church in Cheyenne. Email: rmc81448@gmail.com.
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Editor's note: Although space didn't allow us to run this letter before Tuesday's primary election, and Mr. Schroeder lost the GOP primary to Ms. Degenfelder, we felt it should be published anyway, since it was in response to a recent WTE editorial.
You have always been critical of Superintendent Schroeder, and now have given him a "non-endorsement" for the superintendent’s office. Your main objection is that he comes from a private, military background. Yet he has over 15 years of experience in the public school setting as a teacher and principal.
He supports a ban on critical race theory. This theory IS in various Wyoming public schools, although not yet widely prevalent. You show your support of CRT and the LGBTQ+ agenda (which should be separated from LGBTQ+ people) by your support for the NEA (National Education Association) and consequently WEA.
I venture to say the majority of Wyomingites oppose the teaching of CRT, which should be separated from an unbiased teaching of Black and minority history. The same can be said for the participation of boys in girls’ sports based on identity. These are national debate issues for our legislature to weigh in on again, as well as perhaps a Parental Rights in Education bill.
Supt. Schroeder has stated his goal of education is for students “to learn to think.” Another primary tenet of his is that parents are the guardians of their children and their education. Hence, school choice. The education system is to serve that end. This contrasts directly with ideology promoted by the NEA and leaders in government who promote parents turning over their children to the state for education/indoctrination.
This battle for our children’s education is at a crisis point for our nation; whether they will be taught to read and write and value U.S. history and develop a work ethic or not. Looking at the latest statistics for both Wyoming and the U.S. – it appears we are losing the battle. We need someone to stand up for our kids, and Supt. Schroeder is such a person!
It is not only Supt. Schroeder who supports these ideals. When Dr. Kelly bowed out of the race, he gave his support to Mr. Schroeder. Ms. Degenfelder supports many of these same ideas. She has no classroom teaching experience, but is supported by the rich and powerful in Wyoming. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/reader-objects-to-wtes-non-endorsement-of-brian-schroeder/article_9907d472-2004-11ed-b818-9baeb7801c4d.html | 2022-08-20T13:05:30Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/reader-objects-to-wtes-non-endorsement-of-brian-schroeder/article_9907d472-2004-11ed-b818-9baeb7801c4d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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WTE's Carpenter has exceptional writing skills, unique insight Letter from Nancy White | Cheyenne Aug 20, 2022 2 hrs ago Comments Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It was a joy to read Will Carpenter's "Weekend Picks: Appreciate the everyday in Cheyenne" (WTE, Aug. 11).Will, you are able to appreciate things about Cheyenne that many of us that have lived here for years miss or dismiss.Your writing skills are exceptional and insight unique.You will go far, but don't go too far (away), please. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tags Letter To The Editor Skill Will Carpenter Insight Writing Miss Things Joy Recommended for you Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. comments powered by Disqus Trending Now Hageman beats Cheney, will face Grey Bull in November Poll: Hageman up big ahead of Wyoming's GOP primary next week Kozak wins sheriff primary, Hackl presumptive DA Nearly all incumbents advance in state, county and city races Polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for today's primary election Latest Special Section Cheyenne Frontier Days To view our latest Special Section click the image on the left. Latest e-Edition Wyoming Tribune Eagle To view our latest e-Edition click the image on the left. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/wtes-carpenter-has-exceptional-writing-skills-unique-insight/article_fbf9e38e-2001-11ed-870d-e7555e4c9137.html | 2022-08-20T13:05:43Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/wtes-carpenter-has-exceptional-writing-skills-unique-insight/article_fbf9e38e-2001-11ed-870d-e7555e4c9137.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tuesday’s primary election revealed many things about the current state of politics in Wyoming – some good, some bad.
Let’s start with some good news. Regardless of your party affiliation, this week’s primary once again showed that the state’s election process is trustworthy, and our county clerks and their staff are dedicated to preserving its integrity. Not only did we hear no complaints of voting irregularities, results are canvassed by independent boards at the county and state levels to certify that was the case.
That’s unlikely to silence those like Republican Secretary of State primary winner Chuck Gray, however, who have parroted the false election fraud claims coming from former President Donald Trump and his supporters ever since the 2020 election results didn’t go his way. We just hope this week and another well-handled election in November will cause Mr. Gray and others to stop sowing seeds of distrust about a system in Wyoming that clearly works well.
The next post-election takeaway isn’t that surprising, but should concern anyone who had hopes the Legislature would stop wasting time on highly partisan, mostly far-right boilerplate legislation. With an economy desperately in need of diversification, a K-12 education funding crisis, tens of thousands of residents without health insurance and many other top-shelf issues facing them, lawmakers shouldn’t be wasting their time on the pet issues of the American Legislative Exchange Council and other groups.
Yet, based on Tuesday’s results, it seems many of the state’s Republican voters either don’t care or failed to do their homework about certain candidates. For example, in Natrona County, Casper developer Bob Ide narrowly defeated former Senate President Drew Perkins. Of course, we have no evidence of how he will perform as a lawmaker, but the fact Mr. Ide was photographed with state GOP Chairman Frank Eathorne at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, gives us some indication.
Rural eastern Wyoming, especially, is growing ever more conservative. In Goshen County, Rep. J.D. Williams lost his seat to Allen Earl Slagle, and Rep. Shelly Duncan lost her seat to Scott Smith. And in Converse County, Rep. Aaron Clausen narrowly lost his seat to Tomi Strock, who encouraged her campaign Facebook followers to attend a Chuck Gray-sponsored screening of “2000 Mules” because “it is trully (sic) an eye opening documentary” about the 2020 election.
All of this sets up the 67th Wyoming Legislature to be even more radical than the one that wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on a special session about vaccine mandates.
Which brings us to a key point: If more people don’t start doing their homework, asking questions of candidates and voting, this radicalization of our political system will continue. And, sorry, folks, we hate to say it, but there’s really no excuse for this other than simple laziness.
Today, thanks to the internet and social media, there are more ways than ever to find out where each candidate stands on the key issues. In addition to stories and news briefs in publications like the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, there are candidate questionnaires on our website, WyomingNews.com, and answers to online surveys by other organizations.
Not plugged in? There’s still the old-fashioned method of picking up the phone and calling those you’re wondering about (yes, the phone numbers can be found on the Secretary of State and Laramie County Clerk’s Office websites, but we’ll soon be publishing a list of all of the phone numbers and email addresses they provided when they filed to run for office).
Another disturbing lesson to be learned from this year’s primary field is that some people seem to want to get elected so they can destroy the system from the inside. While we certainly hope that isn’t the case with Mr. Gray and Republican U.S. House nominee Harriet Hageman, we saw evidence of this trend from people like current State Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Schroeder, gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell, U.S. House candidate and current state Sen. Anthony Bouchard and others.
Thankfully, many of these folks failed to advance to the general election, but some did. And with all of the noise made lately at school board meetings here and across the state about books in school libraries and district mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic, voters must be extra careful to vet trustees candidates this fall.
Of course, with the attention placed on the race between Ms. Hageman and incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney, it would be easy to say that the days of Wyoming going unnoticed on the national political scene are over. We’re not sure, though.
Certainly, the high-profile battle between Ms. Cheney and Mr. Trump drew the attention of journalists and political insiders from the Beltway and across the country. It also generated a lot of attention from average residents nationwide with an opinion about Ms. Cheney and her service on the congressional committee investigating the 1-6-21 Capitol riot. That attention led to millions of dollars from outside the state pouring into Ms. Cheney’s campaign account, as well as Mr. Trump endorsing in down-ballot races.
We can’t help but wonder if this is a one-time blip on the radar, however. How likely is it that, once the current battle of wills fades away, the least-populated state in the union will continue to garner such attention? As is the case with Alaska other than when Sarah Palin’s on the ballot, we think it’s pretty unlikely.
Of course, the most obvious takeaway is that the former president still has a lot of influence in the Equality State. Ms. Hageman’s landslide victory over Ms. Cheney is all the evidence we need to see that. Unlike the attention that came with it, that likely will take much longer to fade into the past, especially if the Republican Party continues to be the Party of Trump.
OK, that’s enough looking back. With 80 days to go until the general election, it’s time to grab a notebook, make a list of candidates to research (we provided a good one in Thursday’s edition and online) and get to work.
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David Moore has spent the summer taking steps similar to what police chiefs, superintendents and others on school security frontlines across the country have been doing in response to mass shootings that have rattled communities, large and small, across the country.
Moore, who is police chief in Janesville, Wisconsin, two hours northwest of Chicago, and others have spent the summer break reassessing and revising security plans and conducting fresh training exercises after the tragic shooting and botched law enforcement response in Uvalde, Texas, that saw 19 elementary school students, ages 9 to 11, and two teachers killed.
“That was shocking, to be honest. It was shocking to us,” said Moore, of the Texas shooting and the delayed police response to the incident.
School districts and police departments are also working to reassure their communities that the failed response in Uvalde won’t be repeated in their local schools.
Salvador Ramos, 18, stormed into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24 and massacred a classroom full of students and two teachers with an AR-15 rifle. Police have been faulted for their delayed response, waiting more than an hour before entering the classroom.
Moore said his Wisconsin agency has made sure officers have key fobs to access schools, doors have been numbered to reduce potential confusion and every local school building has police radios to directly communicate with officers.
“We are not waiting for someone to let us in,” said Moore, whose efforts also include training teachers and school staff with emergency first aid-like caring for wounds and how to stop bleeding.
The failed response in Texas, along with a spate of other mass shootings — including a May shooting at a Buffalo grocery store targeting Black shoppers and employees — has school superintendents, police chiefs and concerned constituencies anxious to test their own readiness and not repeat the same mistakes.
“It leaves a knot in my gut,” said Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri of the delayed response in Texas.
The Florida law enforcement agency and the 101,000-student, 150-school Pinellas County Schools district conducted an active-shooter training in late July with the failings of Uvalde front of mind.
Gualtieri said during a briefing after the training that the coronavirus pandemic inhibited active-shooter exercises. He was anxious to see the results of the exercise at a local school and to show the public “we are doing the best we can.”
“It’s essential,” he said. “You need the assurance that it works. You’ve got to keep pushing it.”
Other school districts and police across the country conducted active-shooter and other security training exercises this summer to help ease angst among students, parents and staff conditioned by school shootings that have permeated American society since the Columbine High School massacre 23 years ago.
The Citrus County Sheriff’s Office, also near Tampa, conducted a 16-hour training exercise in late July to train officers on response times and approaches if they are the initial responder to a shooting. That includes immediate and fast responses, said Sheriff Mike Pendergast.
More districts are poised to increase police footprints on campuses for the new school year, including more school resource officers (SROs) and security guards, some of them armed.
Albany County School District #1 Superintendent John Goldhardt said that while security measures are already in place, the district is focusing on being more vigilant in violence prevention and preparation.
“We don’t want our schools to be prison-like where we’re blocking everybody out and in, but we want folks to be safe from harm,” Goldhardt said.
He did not give specifics on how exactly the school was becoming more vigilant, but he did explain some security measures that are already in place.
This includes having restricted access points to school buildings and requiring visitors to check-in before letting them enter the school. Visitors must provide identification, which is run through a brief background check system that checks for outstanding arrest warrants and a history of sexual misconduct and violence, Goldhardt said.
Three resource officers are employed at the district as well to help with safety. One works at Laramie High School, one at Laramie Middle School and the other at Whiting High School and the elementary schools.
Goldhardt said these officers are effective in handling issues as they come up and working toward prevention. Principals in the district are also working to build relationships across the school so that staff can have a better idea of which students may be in need of extra help.
This approach includes building trust between students and staff so they can ask for help when they need it or report alarming behavior if they witness it.
“We need to be aware of our surroundings, aware of people who have needs and focus on positive relationships so that they can trust us if they’ve heard about something,” Goldhardt said.
Hardening schools
The latest shooting’s aftermath also has seen a push to further harden school campuses with more layers of security, limiting access points and the prospect of more students having to go through metal detectors and security pat-downs just to go to school.
On the East Coast, Talbot County Public Schools in Maryland recently conducted “an independent security assessment” and has been adding security hardening measures, said Debbie Gardner, special programs and public relations coordinator for the 4,500-student, eight-school district.
“The facility hardening projects that have been completed are meant to enhance the overall security of our facilities, with the primary goal of preventing unauthorized access and an enhanced visitor screening process,” Gardner said.
Those include installing security vestibules at school entrances that can further control access to buildings and give staff another layer of screening. Talbot schools also have improved classroom doors and installed security film on windows to prevent shattering.
Moore said installing vestibules, a secure lobby or holding area where visitors can be further screened, also are a focus in Wisconsin as he works with local schools to improve security layers within buildings and campuses.
Across the country in rural southern Oregon near the California border, the Klamath County School District also is planning upgrades to security cameras, more mental health services and outreach to students (including via partnership with Klamath Basin Behavioral Health). The district is working on increased training related to emergency responses and helping teachers and staff better recognize and respond to signs of trauma and distress among students, said district spokesperson Marcia Schlottmann.
Schlottman said the district held a security training with emergency responders in late April, roughly a month before Uvalde.
A number of districts and police agencies across the countries did not respond to requests for comment on their security efforts this summer.
‘Acts of terrorism’
The security efforts are running parallel to fresh debates on gun control as progressive advocates point to shooters’ frequent use of AR-15 rifles in their rampages.
“School shootings are similar to ‘acts of terrorism’ in that by their nature they catch people by surprise. So, it is very difficult to prepare for them,” said Dr. Eugenio Rothe, a professor of psychiatry and public health at Florida International University. His research has focused on the mental health and other factors driving the American phenomena of school and mass shootings.
“The police and other law enforcement are working on solutions, but the common denominators are very clear,” said Rothe.
He points to “access to weapons” as a primary concern but also “children who are marginalized and bullied” and parents, teachers and school counselors who ignore signs of distress.
Constitutional gun rights via the Second Amendment and Republican opposition to more sweeping gun control measures also has enhanced the focus on putting more money toward security infrastructure and technology to help better secure campuses in the age of more frequent mass shootings.
Anti-gun control conservative lawmakers point to increasing security and police footprints at K-12 schools as the preferred path over new restrictions on guns and gun ownership.
There also are bipartisan and institutional penchants for another post-mass shooting slate of security infrastructure and technology spending and training exercises to further button down campuses and ease fears among students, teachers and staff.
Amy Klinger, an education professor at Ashland University in Ohio and director of programs at Educator’s School Safety Network (a nonprofit training group) said training teachers and staff on keeping campuses secure is as important as more infrastructure spending.
“It’s very simple and usually comes down to day-to-day procedures,” Klinger said.
The challenge, according to security consultants, has been getting schools to find the time and sustained funding for training efforts.
“There’s as much of a competition for time as money in schools,” said Kenneth Trump, a Cleveland-based national school security expert.
Trump said he wants schools to focus more on training frontline staff and workers who might be the first to interact with a distressed student or shooter.
“They get the least training to no training at all in many cases,” he said.
‘Army of counselors’
Mental health advocates contend there is a dire need for increased counseling and behavioral health services, as well as improved outreach to distressed kids and better identifying and addressing bullying and threats of violence.
“Mental health is key to solving this problem,” said Brenda High, founder and co-director of Bully Police USA, an Idaho-based group that has pushed for anti-bullying measures across the United States.
High’s 13-year-old son, Jared, killed himself in 1998 after being severely bullied and assaulted at a school in Washington state.
“The only way to solve the problem is to have an army of counselors and people go in there to help these kids choose a better path,” said High, who crafts student-centered programs aimed at using peers to discourage bullying.
That requires increased staffing, pay for counselors and changes in school cultures — including addressing teachers, staff and parents who ignore bullying and distressed students.
But High and others worry the rush to harden schools, limit access and turn them into high-security zones will further stress students returning from pandemic shutdowns and diminish the learning environment.
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It sure beat running around on a cinder track.
That was a comment from marathon runner Denis McCarthy from St. Louis, Missouri, who registered for the Med Bow Rail Marathon and Half Marathon just a couple days before the event.
“I was looking for a running event for the weekend and came across this race,” McCarthy said. “I was eying an event that involved running around a cinder track for hours, then found this mountain trail event instead.
“The drive was a little longer, but it sure was worth it to run in the mountains on this wonderful trail instead of going in circles.”
McCarthy is one of a rather colorful group of runners with a goal of running a marathon or half marathon in every state. Mark Bonderud came from Monmouth, Maine, while Jo May and Doug Beagle traveled all the way from Houston, Texas. All three competed in the 60 and over age category.
For this second Med Bow Rail Marathon and Half Marathon, runners came from 16 states and eight Wyoming communities. Attracting 123 registered runners, the race was put on by the Friends of the Medicine Bow Rail Trail and directed by a marathon planning committee.
Laramie was well represented with 41 runners. The number of women slightly edged out the men.
In contrast to the marathon and half marathon veterans, for others this was the first event at their chosen distance. One unidentified runner, relaxing after she ran the full 26.2 miles, said it was her first marathon, and now she could barely move to get up out of her chair.
“It was tough,” she said. “Really tough. I swear, going to and from the turnaround point at Dry Park was uphill both ways.”
That turnaround point is the northern-most trailhead on the Rail Trail and is only included on the marathon route.
Some used the race to train for other marathons. One of those was well-known Cheyenne runner Brent Weigner, who runs marathons around the globe. This was his 376th marathon.
“I was by myself around 2 miles down the trail when a deer crashed through the woods 20 yards in front of me,” Weigner said. “This was my last long run before the Liberia Marathon next week, so I entered it with the plan to run easy.
“I finished last overall, so I succeeded in my goal to keep it easy. Next I run in Monrovia, Liberia, in a week.”
Others had goals to set personal records or garner one of the engraved railroad spikes reserved for the top three finishers in each race. Top overall runners also went home with a certificate for a six-pack of beer from Bond’s Brewing Co., one of the event sponsors. Those finishing in the top three of their age groups were awarded special running caps.
Top marathon finisher was Andrew Bodley from Fort Collins with a time of 3 hours, 38 minutes and 47 seconds. Not far behind was the top female finisher, Laramie runner Kaley Holyfield, with a time of 3:43:40.
Top finisher in the half marathon was Casper runner Jarod McDaniel with a time of 1:41:46, and top female finisher was Laramie runner Sommer Stevens with a time of 1:44:43.
A small army of volunteers maintained aid stations, helped with parking and manned the start and finish lines. The University Amateur Radio Club provided communication along the course since much of the area lacks cell coverage.
Grand Avenue Urgent Care was on hand for medical emergencies; thankfully they remained on alert, but were not called. Other sponsors include Albany Lodge, Premier Bone and Joint Centers, WWC Engineering and Hammond Land Surveying.
Volunteers also took on the herculean effort of preparing the Medicine Bow Rail Trail for the event. That is no easy feat with a 21-mile pathway accessed only via non-motorized travel. Those efforts began when the snow melted, but really accelerated a couple weeks before the race.
Georgia Carmen, one of those trail preparation volunteers, spent hours using a scythe or electric weed-whacker in an effort to keep Mother Nature from encroaching too far onto the trail. Other volunteers used shovels to repair erosion areas and snippers to keep willows at bay on the foot path around Lake Owen, which is a portion of both courses.
Those efforts paid off with many runners stating they were impressed by the beauty along the pathway. A few even had the opportunity to ogle moose that meandered on and the off the trail.
Full race results are available on UltraSignup (ultrasignup.com) and more information about the event and the Medicine Bow Rail Trail are on the website maintained by the nonprofit group Friends of the Medicine Bow Rail Trail at medicinebowrailtrail.org. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/go-the-distance-goals-vary-at-the-med-bow-rail-marathon-and-half-marathon/article_bf5b7456-1f02-11ed-b87c-73b4a99e8869.html | 2022-08-20T13:06:14Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/go-the-distance-goals-vary-at-the-med-bow-rail-marathon-and-half-marathon/article_bf5b7456-1f02-11ed-b87c-73b4a99e8869.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CASPER — The federal government must reevaluate the environmental impacts of coal mining on federal lands before it can issue new leases, a judge ruled last week.
Just over a week after he ordered the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to revise its coal leasing allowances in the Powder River Basin for a second time, U.S. District Judge Brian Morris of Montana found that a Trump-era environmental review of coal leasing “was arbitrarily curtailed and failed to consider relevant factors.”
He reinstated an Obama-era moratorium on most federal coal leasing — which was later repealed by the Trump BLM and not reinstated when the Biden administration moved to replace the Trump-era policy — until the agency completes “sufficient” analysis.
Sally Jewell, the outgoing secretary of the Interior under then-President Barack Obama, on Jan. 15, 2016, issued a moratorium on new coal leasing until the BLM took a comprehensive look at the program’s effects.
Tribal and environmental groups sued the Department of the Interior in 2017, after then-Secretary Ryan Zinke concluded that “the public interest is not served by halting the Federal coal program for an extended time,” and lifted the moratorium.
Morris ruled in 2019 that the move violated federal environmental law and directed the BLM to assess the consequences of new leasing. It did, but the same groups, unsatisfied with the results, sued the agency again in 2020.
The order is a win for a number of environmental groups, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and the states of California, Washington, New York and New Mexico.
“Federal coal isn’t compatible with preserving a livable climate,” Taylor McKinnon, a senior public lands campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a written statement. “The Biden administration must now undertake a full environmental review to bring the federal coal program to an orderly end.”
After cheering the “significant victory,” Jenny Harbine, managing attorney for Earthjustice’s Northern Rockies office, called for the Biden administration to “go further by urgently phasing out the existing coal leases that are destroying our planet.”
The Biden Interior Department defended its decision not to reinstate the moratorium while formulating a new coal policy.
Wyoming and Montana, together the source of more than 40% of the country’s coal, intervened in the case in support of continued leasing.
“Enacting a moratorium at a moment when coal is badly needed to ensure a secure and reliable energy supply is wrongheaded on many fronts,” Gov. Mark Gordon said in a written statement. “This decision is bad for Wyoming.”
Travis Deti, executive director of the Wyoming Mining Association, called the ruling “political and divorced from reality.”
While mines in the Powder River Basin hold enough leases to get them through the next decade, he said, some hope to operate for longer than that.
“It puts a question mark on long-term plans,” Deti said. “Not only for coal operators, but for utilities as well.”
More than a decade has passed since Wyoming’s last federal coal lease sale, but a couple of sales are pending.
According to the groups challenging coal leasing, the remaining window to stop the effects of climate change from becoming catastrophic is already too narrow for the U.S. to burn all of the coal that has already been leased.
The National Mining Association, another intervenor backing the BLM, said it plans to appeal the ruling.
Its CEO, Rich Nolan, said in an emailed statement that “Americans need the energy affordability and energy security buttressed by coal production on federal lands and so do our allies struggling to transition away from Russian energy.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/judge-halts-federal-coal-leasing/article_919b4968-1f04-11ed-9f25-e784a8f76c72.html | 2022-08-20T13:06:20Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/judge-halts-federal-coal-leasing/article_919b4968-1f04-11ed-9f25-e784a8f76c72.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
JACKSON —Alina Lobacheva was planning to be in Wyoming for only a few months.
The Russian doctor and professor came to study American college students’ health as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Wyoming.
Then she fell in love with Bill Plummer.
The well-known upright bass player was up on stage when Lobacheva was out one night with her host professor’s family. Plummer came to their table to chat.
They exchanged emails.
From opposite ends of the earth, the unlikely pair became devoted pen pals.
When Lobacheva returned to Wyoming for additional research, Plummer proposed. The newlyweds — each entering later stages of life — moved to Idaho. Then, when Plummer’s declining health moved him to family in Arizona, Lobacheva settled in Jackson, where she now works as a massage therapist.
She describes massage as an essential part of health care in Russia and sees her current practice as a continuation of her medical background.
On Friday Lobacheva was officially granted full citizenship at a naturalization ceremony in Grand Teton National Park, joining a cohort of 21 new citizens from 10 countries: Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Russia, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
Mercedes Caso De Azcarraga, 62, grew up visiting the United States from her home in Mexico City. She described the nations as “next door neighbors.”
“I knew the language and loved the country,” she said.
The retired nonprofit worker and mother of five moved to San Diego in 1985 with her husband, who is also from Mexico City. Her children now live in New York, California and Hawaii.
“This feels like our country,” Azcarraga said. “I’m grateful to Mexico and proud of my heritage, but at this stage in life this is where I want to be.”
A rainy Friday didn’t seem to dampen spirits for Wyoming’s newest citizens, who appreciated the chance to share their immigration stories and hear from Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Kelly Rankin.
Anahi Carmona Childs, 40, said, “It feels good to be done.
“It takes years to get to this point; I’m grateful it’s over,” she said.
Childs submitted her citizenship papers a year and a half ago. Twelve months later she drove to Casper for an interview. From 120 potential questions, officials asked Childs about her state representatives and U.S. history.
“I was a bit nervous, but it was very smooth,” she recalled. “The person who did my interview was friendly and smiling.”
Candidates are typically asked 10 questions and need six correct answers. Childs nailed the first six perfectly.
“That was great,” she said.
Born on the Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mexico, Childs first came to the United States to study English as a college student.
In Utah she discovered a “different kind of living.” People lived in houses without fences, and their windows were free from the heavy metal shutters she remembered in Mexico. The streets weren’t exactly paved in gold, but the feeling was one of “freedom.”
Childs now works as an assistant manager for the Huff House Inn and Cabins in Jackson, training employees from Mexico. With her husband, a Wyoming native, she is raising twin 9-year-old daughters and expecting a third.
As part of her oath, Childs said, she had to “renounce” Mexico — even vowing to fight against her native country if the United States ever went to war with its southern neighbor.
The tone of Friday’s ceremony, however, was more encouraging.
Grand Teton’s Deputy Superintendent Gopaul Noojibail — the first Indian American to lead a national park in that capacity — encouraged new citizens to remember their roots and to blend their culture with American values. He said the national parks now belong to them.
For Englishwoman Fiona Wilson, 58, the ceremony came a day before her wedding. Like Lobacheva, Wilson has been living in the U.S. for years on a green card. That certificate allowed her to raise two children, build a house in Jackson and with a partner open a daycare — Little Acorns.
But election season was always strange.
This year Wilson will finally be able to cast a ballot.
She’s looking forward to voting based on housing issues — which she sees firsthand trying to hire day care staff. Days before her wedding ceremony, Wilson still wasn’t sure which candidates would best tackle the housing problem. She hadn’t had much time to think about it.
Lobacheva was slightly more prepared.
On Monday, just days after Grand Teton’s ceremony, the well-dressed Russian-American high-heeled her way to the clerk’s office to register to vote.
Clerk’s office employee Kate Daigle explained the separate Republican and Democratic primary ballots like choosing a favorite football team. Lobacheva tried to think of an equivalent in Russian sports.
Ultimately she selected a Republican ballot and made her way to cast her first votes, grinning all the while. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/new-americans-already-putting-citizenship-to-good-use/article_8811cb28-1f05-11ed-a476-4b06cceed7be.html | 2022-08-20T13:06:26Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/new-americans-already-putting-citizenship-to-good-use/article_8811cb28-1f05-11ed-a476-4b06cceed7be.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Why the rental housing market is so deeply broken
America's housing market is broken, but the deep and structural problems can't be fixed with technology.
Why it matters: The U.S. is in desperate need of more high-quality rental housing. Homeownership works for many — and doesn't work at all for many others, who might not be ready to settle down or might not have the financial means.
The big picture: Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has invested $350 million, his largest check ever, into Adam Neumann's new company, Flow.
- Andreessen's blog post lays out his investment thesis, that renting a home is "a soulless experience."
- The details of how Flow will work are still vague, but they're likely to include amenitization — bells and whistles for apartment renters — as well as some kind of financial upside.
What they're saying: "Someone who is bought in to where he lives cares more about where he lives," writes Andreessen. "Without this, apartments don’t generate any bond between person and place and without community, no bond between person to person."
- In New York, I've lived in both owned and rented apartments, and the community in my rental building was just as vibrant and tight-knit as anywhere I've owned.
- Neighborhoods characterized by very low home-ownership rates — think Harlem, in New York, or Hialeah, in Miami — often boast deep and lasting communities stretching across generations and decades.
Reality check: "Ownership per se doesn’t make you more invested in your community," Sam Chandan, the director of the NYU Stern Center for Real Estate Finance Research, tells Axios. "It makes you more invested in decisions in the community that impact the value of your asset."
- Andreessen, for instance, opposed multifamily development in his home town of Atherton, California, on the grounds that such development "will MASSIVELY decrease our home values."
Between the lines: As a VC, Andreessen believes that technology and entrepreneurship can solve the problems of the rental market. (Naturally, this being Andreessen Horowitz, blockchain seems to be involved, somehow.)
- Where rental housing is most successful, however — Germany is Exhibit A — it's not because renters "receive the benefits of owners," in Andreessen's formulation. Rather, it's because they have housing security and affordability.
- German renters build strong community bonds the way we all do — just by getting to know our neighbors. They — we — don't need whiz-bang amenities like those offered by your local WeWork.
Where it stands: Private-sector solutions like Flow, by their nature, cannot address the deepest obstacles to successful rental housing.
- It's entirely possible that Neumann will be successful at marketing buzzy properties to upwardly-mobile renters in fast-growing cities like Nashville.
- But that's not going to make a dent in the structural obstacles militating against America becoming more of a nation of renters.
Why it's so hard to fix the rental market
A lot of the reason for the lack of affordable housing in America is to be found at the local or even individual level.
- Zoning is the biggest issue: NIMBYs like those found in Atherton are the rule, not the exception. Getting permission to build new multifamily housing is ludicrously expensive and difficult.
- Education finance runs a close second. So long as schools are funded by local property taxes, parents will prefer high property values to affordable housing, which often increases the number of children in local schools without raising tax revenues correspondingly.
- The American dream also gets in the way. After looking at the behavior of older millennials, says NYU's Chandan, "the data suggests that homeownership as a natural and expected evolution is deeply ingrained in the American psyche."
Federal policies that favored homeownership are already a lot weaker than they used to be.
- Former President Trump's tax reforms massively reduced the number of people claiming the mortgage interest tax deduction, and government-subsidized 30-year mortgages are widely available on multifamily buildings.
- Once they get married and start a family, buying a house — and voting against further new construction — is just what Americans do, whether it makes financial sense or not.
It's time to build
The Great Recession following the financial crisis of 2008 caused new-home construction — both single-family and multifamily — to fall off a cliff, and fail to keep up with U.S. population growth. But now it's rebounded, and more homes are being built than households are being created.
There's still a housing deficit we need to build our way out of. But Andreessen is wrong when he asserts that "our country is creating households faster than we’re building houses."
- The household formation rate is equal to the annual increase in U.S. adults, multiplied by the headship rate, which is always around 50%. Household formation plunged when the pandemic hit, but even pre-pandemic, in 2019, it was running at only about 900,000 new households per year.
- New residential construction, on the other hand, is steadily increasing. Houses are being started at an annual rate of about 1.6 million units per year, well above the rate of household formation even after you account for older units being demolished.
Peter Boockvar, the chief investment officer at Bleakley Financial Group, tells Axios that multifamily homebuilders are responding to ultra-low vacancy rates by building fast.
- Within a year or two, he says, if we continue to build at current levels, rents might even start to come down. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/20/america-rental-housing-affordable-homeownership | 2022-08-20T13:06:38Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/20/america-rental-housing-affordable-homeownership | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Big tech crashes big sports
After years of watching traditional media dominate live sports, tech giants have decided it's time to get in the game by paying up for live sports rights.
Why it matters: The value of sports rights has been in the stratosphere and the inclusion of trillion-dollar tech giants will only lift those numbers higher.
State of play: Disney, Comcast, Paramount, and Fox will pay a combined $24.2 billion for sports rights in 2024 alone, according to data from MoffettNathanson.
- Apple has quickly established itself as a major player for sports rights with deals for Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer that could end up totaling more than $3 billion.
- Amazon has a sports empire of its own with regional deals for U.S. teams, including the New York Yankees through a minority stake in New York RSN YES Network, as part of a $3.47 billion deal.
- Overseas, Amazon holds regional rights for the Premier League, France's Ligue 1 and 2, and UEFA Champions League, the latter of which it owns rights in Italy and Germany, and will own U.K. rights starting in 2024. The total value of those deals isn't known, but Amazon's U.K. UEFA deal will cost $1.8 billion a year.
- Amazon bought the rights to NFL's "Thursday Night Football" franchise for $1 billion a year through 2023.
Yes, and: Apple and Amazon are battling for the NFL's Sunday Ticket package — a deal that is expected to include a stake in the league's media business — with Apple seen as the heavy favorite.
Yes, but: Most of the sports rights still reside with the established media giants that now have their own streaming services.
Between the lines: Traditional media companies love sports for their ability to drive huge viewership that turns into big ad dollars. Big tech has a different goal.
- Apple and Amazon are more concerned with their ability to attract new subscribers that they can convert to higher-margin parts of their business.
- "I'm sure [Amazon has] algorithms that show how many people who subscribe to the NFL will turn around and buy music or buy merchandise," LHB Sports CEO Lee Berke told Axios. "So that gives you a totally different perspective."
What's next: The NBA's upcoming rights renewal will be closely watched next year.
- The NBA's current deal runs through the 2024-25 season, but it's attractive for the younger audience compared to the other sports and has a reputation for forward-thinking under Commissioner Adam Silver.
- "When it comes to the NBA ... they're not going to ignore broadcast or cable, but there's going to be a range of content offered up in a range of platforms," Berke says. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/20/big-tech-crashes-big-sports | 2022-08-20T13:06:44Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/20/big-tech-crashes-big-sports | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Plenty going on news-wise these days — not all of it political — so let’s tag up on some bases.
TRY TO IMAGINE the hoots of disbelief, the ridicule and the din of derision if Donald Trump’s economic experts had attempted to change the definition of a recession like Joe Biden’s minions are doing.
Imagine what knuckleheads we conservatives would have been dubbed by the vast majority of news outlets if we bought the argument that two quarters of negative growth in the economy suddenly did not constitute a recession.
Even though potentates like Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer (who got a perfect score on his SAT) have patiently explained to rustics like us for years that two quarters of negative growth does constitute a recession.
Imagine the eye-rolling that would have gone on by our liberal superiors — who done gone to college — if we bought into “The Evil Trump’s” contention that two quarters of negative growth did not constitute a recession.
Of course that never happened (didn’t have to) because, well, the economy was going great guns for most of Trump’s four embattled years in office, even though geniuses like Paul Krugman predicted a stock market crash if Trump were elected.
Didn’t happen.
Krugman now patiently explains, using short words that even slack-jawed stump jumpers like us can understand, that two quarters of negative growth does not necessarily constitute a recession, even if Obama and Schumer say so.
The liberal media buys this not a recession argument hook, line, sinker, bait bucket, tackle box and trolling motor.
I passed both econ and micro when (surprise!) I done went to college. But I’m certainly no Krugman when it comes to defining recessions. For the sake of my individual retirement account, I prefer the “new think” that we’re not in a recession, as opposed to the “old think” that we are.
I HEARD ON THE NEWS that Jimmy Carter banned staffers from uttering the word “recession,” and his underlings resorted to calling his truly awful economy “the banana.”
Carter’s denial was about as effective as Gerald Ford’s “Whip Inflation Now!” buttons.
WHILE WE’RE IMAGINING stuff, imagine the firestorm in the media if Donald Trump Jr. left laptop computers lying around documenting years of drug abuse, sex with prostitutes, pictures of same and references to passing on millions in easy money from foreign countries to “The Big Guy.”
Now imagine social media outlets banning any talk of Donald Trump Jr. doing stuff like that. And imagine the FBI doing its best to deep-six stuff like that about a Republican candidate’s son.
Is that a knee-slapper or what?
WHEN PEOPLE ASK what line of work I was in before I retired (the news media) I think I’ll tell them I was a piano player in a bordello.
I CAME ACROSS this quote from C.S. Lewis, which seems apt in these bossy, woke times:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of the victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
MEANWHILE, up in the Snowy Range in beautiful Carbon County, it has been a wet summer. Hail littered the ground like snow one afternoon not long ago. It’s as green as I’ve seen it in years, and the trees filling in after the great bark beetle invasion 15 years ago are now as tall as I am.
No burn bans so far, knock on, well, wood.
Laramie was inundated last weekend. And in Cheyenne, we had our annual Frontier Days gully washer right on time. You have to wonder if the organizers wish some other time than monsoon season had been selected for the Daddy of ‘Em All.
My wife grew up in Oklahoma, where speaking “truth to power” is referred to as telling someone “how the cow ate the cabbage.”
Where she grew up, gully washers are known as “Oklahoma toad stranglers.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/opinion/guest_column/sometimes-the-truths-enough-to-strangle-a-toad/article_9ac7cc7a-1f02-11ed-b8ee-6356c9095fe0.html | 2022-08-20T13:06:57Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/opinion/guest_column/sometimes-the-truths-enough-to-strangle-a-toad/article_9ac7cc7a-1f02-11ed-b8ee-6356c9095fe0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ukraine says Russia is planning "false flag" attack at nuclear plant
Fears of an impending attack on a nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine prompted residents in the area to flee Friday, the Washington Post reports.
Why it matters: Repeated warnings from Ukrainian and Russian officials indicate a potential attack is planned for the Zaporizhzhia station, which could cause a radioactive disaster that impacts the whole region.
- Ukrainian families near Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, fled to Bulgaria and Germany due to fresh concerns of an attack on the plant, according to the Post.
Driving the news: Both sides say the other is preparing to launch a "false flag" attack on the plant, per the Post.
- The area around the plant has come under heavy fire in recent weeks, BBC News reports.
- Ukrainian officials said Russia was behind the latest strikes and explosions at the plant, which is the largest nuclear power station in Europe, per the Post.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed Ukraine for the strikes, warning an attack could create "a large-scale catastrophe that could lead to radiation contamination," Reuters reports.
Between the lines: Russia captured the nuclear plant in March, but Ukrainians still run it, Reuters reports.
What they're saying: Earlier this month, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for a demilitarized zone around the plant.
- He told President Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that “any potential damage to Zaporizhzhia is suicide."
- Oksana Markarova, Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S., told CBS News Friday that the nuclear plant situation is "very, very tense."
- The Biden administration has called on Russian and unauthorized personnel to leave the station, she said.
What's next: Putin agreed on Friday to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect the nuclear power plant.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the United Nations to "ensure the security" of the plant, too. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/20/ukraine-zaporizhzhia-russia-nuclear-plant | 2022-08-20T13:07:03Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/20/ukraine-zaporizhzhia-russia-nuclear-plant | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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How to keep squirrels from your garden and bird feeder
This week, I came face to face with his nemesis. And it had one of my red tomatoes in its mouth.
What's happening: The damn squirrels are at it again, this time looting tomatoes — the precious few left unscathed after the recent hail storm — from the garden.
- They even ate a watermelon on the vine, and they're after the bird feeder, too.
Why it matters: The fruit of our garden labor this time of year is like gold in Colorado. It's not easy to grow a cornucopia out here, given the weather (hail in August?!) and other plant maladies.
What to do: I've tried metal cages, bird netting, coffee grounds, throwing rocks, a high-powered hose and I'm this-close to resorting to more potent means.
- Thankfully, Leslie Clemensen at Wild Birds Unlimited in Castle Rock talked me from the ledge. Between the garden and bird feeders, how to deter squirrels "is probably the No. 1 question we get," she says.
Her advice: Just pick the tomatoes a little early, before they become bright red and enticing for the squirrels.
- Cages and coverings can work, she says, but not foolproof and she's even had snakes get caught in there.
- She's tried sprays, too. "You have to put it on so frequently that I wasn't very good about keeping up with it," she says."
- When it comes to bird feeders, buy hot pepper bird seed because squirrels don't like it and our feathered friends don't mind it.
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University of Wyoming true freshman wrestler Jore Volk celebrates his championship win at the U20 Freestyle World Championships Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
LARAMIE — University of Wyoming true freshman Jore Volk is bringing some wrestling hardware back to the United States after winning the 57-kilogram at the U20 Freestyle World Championships on Tuesday in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Volk posted a 4-0 record on his way to capturing the world title.
Volk, who hails from Lakeview, Minnesota, started strong by posting back-to-back hard-fought wins against Iran’s Ahmad Mohammadnezhad 7-5 and Uzbekistan’s Azizbek Naimov 7-2. His win against Mohammadnezhad came by virtue of a takedown with two seconds left in the match, which was reviewed after initially ruled a no-takedown. Volk then cruised to the win against Naimov to set up a semifinal showdown against Georgia’s Luka Gvinjilia.
Volk controlled his match against Gvinjilia by jumping out to an early 4-2 lead. He later broke the bout wide open with a series of exposure points for a 13-6 advantage and punched his ticket to the championship match.
In the finals, Volk matched up with Kazakhstan’s Merey Bazarbayev for a tightly-contested battle for gold. Volk scored the only takedown of the match and built a 3-0 lead heading into the break. In the final three minutes, Volk displayed a stingy defense to shut down a flurry of attacks from Bazarbayev to clinch a 3-2 victory for the title.
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Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Animal Collective has always been more of an idea than they are a band.
Founding member David Portner, who assumes the alias “Avey Tere” when performing, spoke with the Wyoming Tribune Eagle by phone on Thursday about Animal Collective’s new album, “Time Skiff,” the state of the band’s creative process and their ability to alter their sound while remaining influential – and offbeat – throughout their 20-year career.
The Baltimore-based band will perform at The Lincoln Theatre on Monday. It will be their first time ever performing in Cheyenne.
Over time, their style has changed subtly from record to record without losing the common thread that’s run through 12 album releases. No matter the instrumentation or which members of the band are collaborating on the project, the final product is unabashedly representative of an Animal Collective record.
Their debut album, “Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished” (2000), was created by Portner and Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) prior to the arrival of other long-time members Brian Weitz (Geologist) and Josh Dibb (Deakin). The debut project is ethereal, nearly avant-garde, and its contents didn’t make it easy to gain traction as a group fighting for recognition in New York City.
Question: You were talking about trying to break into the scene and touring. “Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished” and your most popular album, “Merriweather Post Pavilion” (2009), are very different. I’m trying to picture people’s reactions to hearing the spacier stuff you were doing in the beginning.
Portner: “I feel like we were kind of always thrown for a loop, and, conversely, throwing people for a loop, because we were always wanting to just keep switching it up. We felt like as we changed as people, it was always important to have the music change and reflect what we were thinking, what we were doing at the time.
“I found that if we’re very confident and putting all of ourselves into the tunes, it usually reaches people. I feel like it usually crosses over and the energy is understood. We know we’re doing stuff that’s a little bit more difficult. It’s understandable to us why a lot of people didn’t fully ‘get’ ‘Painting With’ (2016) or maybe ‘Centipede Hz’ (2012) as much as they ‘got’ ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’ or this new one.”
Q: When you go into an album, like you said with “Sung Tongs” (2004), do you go in a different direction because you wanted to do something different, or do you start working on it, then realize it’s something different?
A: “We go in saying it’s gonna be different. It’s mostly because, for a greater part of our career, we’ve often gone on tour with new music before we’ve recorded it. We decide what instruments we’re gonna play, and that’s usually how we did it as far back as I can remember, to like ‘Sung Tongs’ or ‘Here Comes the Indian’ (2003).
“It’s almost like starting a new band. Every time we play (a) record, it’s like, ‘This is the new band we’re going to start. This is what we’re going to play.’
“Say for something like ‘Sung Tongs’ – we were just sort of like, ‘Well, it’s been really frustrating touring around the U.S. with all this gear and all these amps that break all the time while not having the money to repair them. What if we just toured around with acoustic guitars?’”
Q: It’s interesting changing style enough to where it’s still under Animal Collective, but “Strawberry Jam” (2007) and “Sung Tongs” are pretty different sonically.
A: “After ‘Sung Tongs,’ we did ‘Feels’ (2005), and that was us like, ‘Let’s go electric again.’ Even people at Fat Cat Records were a little like, ‘Oh, but this isn’t like ‘Sung Tongs’ and ‘Sung Tongs’ did so well.’ We were just kind of like, ‘Well, don’t worry about it.’”
Q: In terms of the new album, “Time Skiffs,” what was it like getting that together?
A: “Since ‘Merriweather,’ our process has been making demos. That was in 2018 that we started (making ‘Time Skiffs’). Noah wrote maybe 26 songs and sent those. I collected all the demos I had, which was about 20 or something like that. Josh had a few, a couple of that he had from the Music Box show in New Orleans.
“We just kind of started going through all those demos individually and sort of picking out the tunes that we all liked, and then we decided to get together in Tennessee.
“Unfortunately, that’s when COVID-19 happened, so we couldn’t get together in a room anymore. With some of those songs, we didn’t want to just sit around and not do anything. We still wanted to record something, so we decided that recording from our home bases was the best thing to do.”
Q: How much do you think that impacted how the album turned out? Just the atmosphere of it?
A: “The process was tough for me, personally. I think it was different for all of us. We all had very different experiences during quarantine because some of us have families. I live with my girlfriend, and it was definitely, as most people know, a very isolating period, and it was tough making a record that way.
“The slowness of it, and everybody being in there while still having their own responsibilities was different than any other record that we’ve done. The process, for me, it was a little bit more, you know, frustrating and just a little darker.
“That said, I think the time and the space really allowed us to hone in on the sound of everything. We don’t usually give ourselves time to do that when we’re finally in the studio with the tunes.”
Q: When you say it was darker, is it that what was going on at the time surfaced in the writing and instrumentation?
A: “I just think the darkness of the mood, just being alone in my studio without the other guys around, without somebody to cheer you up immediately or get you through a vocal part. We’re used to always being there for each other. We’re in the studio with each other. We check out everybody’s part. We’re listening when we all do our vocal parts, and that kind of thing.
“There’s a little bit more sadness involved in doing it on your own and not having anybody around to react with or anything.”
Q: How is everything going between members of the band? You guys have managed to actually stay together. That’s not always the attitude with groups that have been around for a while.
A: “We still really enjoy making music together. We’re like brothers; we really know each other better than anybody else knows us. In certain ways, we spend more time around each other than anyone else. We’ve just gotten good at knowing when to give each other some space. But I think it’s also the way we’ve set up the band.
“We’re more of a collective of musicians. I always think of great jazz musicians playing together. You know what I mean? I’m not comparing ourselves musically to any of those people, but just in terms of the ethics and not feeling like it ever really was a band that needed to stay together.
“We’ve done a record with two of us, and we’ve done a record with four of us. We’re just still so invested in this thing ‘Animal Collective’ that we wanted to keep going. There were times when I just had to tell myself, ‘We’ll get through this. We’ve gotten through other situations, and this, too, shall pass. We’ll come out to a brighter day, and then it’ll be different.’
“Next year, we’re going to be doing something completely different. Who knows what that might be at this time.”
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CHEYENNE – Nash Coleman stood behind his group as it waited to tee off on Hole No. 9 Friday afternoon at the Airport Golf Club.
The Cheyenne East sophomore was stewing because he thought the double-bogey he just carded on Hole No. 8 was going to cost him the Cheyenne Invitational title. Instead, Coleman finished in a tie with Kelly Walsh’s Brodey Deacon at 7-over-par 147.
“I almost cost myself the tournament there, but I finished my round on (Hole No.) 10, and I was able to make birdie there,” Coleman said. “I hit a good drive and then a good iron that left me with an opportunity to get up and down in two.”
Coleman’s day featured four bogeys, in addition to the double on No. 8. He netted birdies on Hole Nos. 1, 4 and 16.
“There wasn’t a whole lot that was different between my first round and my second, I just got a couple more putts to fall,” Coleman said. “I’m comfortable with my ball-striking and pretty comfortable with where my short game is. I’m not right on it right now, but I feel pretty good about it.”
East won the team title at 52-over 612. Kelly Walsh placed second at 60-over, while Central was third (72-over).
Thunderbirds junior Kael Lissman led the individual race after the first round, but carded an 11-over 81 to finished at 13-over for the tournament and in a four-way tie for fifth.
Lissman started his day on Hole No. 10 and birdied the opening hole. He bogeyed four of the next five and posted doubles on Hole Nos. 16 and 17.
Lissman found positives in his round, despite his struggles.
“I found something out about myself, because I had lots of adversity,” Lissman said. “This was a good lesson about fighting through it and keeping things together.
“I had a lot of self-doubt after a couple of holes. I’ll use this as a lesson. It was a good experience that I can take, learn from and hopefully do better.”
Central senior Caden Cunningham was 7-over during Friday’s final round and tied for fifth at 13-over. His round started slowly, which he attributed to a tight swing.
“I was getting up and down from every single tree on the course, it seemed, and that was pretty good,” Cunningham said. “But it wasn’t the number you want on a second day. I just didn’t put myself in a good position on the first day, let my mind get the best of me and stopped thinking positive things.
“I had to put the ball within two feet just to make a putt, and that was really frustrating.”
The East boys also had Daniel Meyer place ninth (15-over) and Isaak Erickson tie for 10th (17-over). Central’s Zack Wiltanger also tied for 10th.
On the girls side, Central senior Barrett Georges split fourth at 16-over. She led the event after the first round, but posted a 12-over 82 in the final round.
Georges has been working on managing adversity, and Friday’s round gave her plenty. She had four bogeys on the front nine and two bogeys, a double-bogey and a quadruple-bogey on the back nine.
“Last year, I would have let something like that build up and affect me for hole after hole after hole, and I’d keep plummeting downhill,” Georges said. “I came back from my eight on (Hole No.) 11 with three pars. I stayed a little more positive than I usually do.
“This really showed me that it will benefit you in the long run if you stay positive.”
Central senior Katie Cobb also cracked the top 10, finishing in a tie for seventh at 22-over.
Kelly Walsh won the girls team title at 48-over 468. Central was third (86-over).
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U.S. Army veteran Joshua Olson, left, meets Lt. Gen. Scott Dingle after field practice for Team Army at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, Orlando, Florida, during the 2022 Department of Defense Warrior Games, Aug. 19, 2022. The DoD Warrior Games will be conducted on August 19 – 28, hosted by the U.S. Army at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Men and women from the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and U.S. Special Operations Command are joined in competition by athletes with the Canadian Soldier On organization for a variety of adaptive sports ranging from archery to wheelchair rugby. (U.S. Army photo by Cpl. P.J. Siquig)
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Scott Simon asks Kelly Deen, marketing vice president for a smoothie powder retailer, how an Apple privacy feature is affecting smaller businesses.
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Scott Simon asks Kelly Deen, marketing vice president for a smoothie powder retailer, how an Apple privacy feature is affecting smaller businesses.
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Scott Simon speaks with New Orleans Health Department Director Dr. Jennifer Avegno about the huge LGBTQ+ gathering Southern Decadence amid the ongoing monkeypox outbreak.
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Scott Simon speaks with New Orleans Health Department Director Dr. Jennifer Avegno about the huge LGBTQ+ gathering Southern Decadence amid the ongoing monkeypox outbreak.
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Some insects have quite the sweat tooth By Geoff Brumfiel Published August 20, 2022 at 6:12 AM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Sweat is essential to keeping humans cool and comfortable, but some insects also need our sweat to survive. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.klcc.org/2022-08-20/some-insects-have-quite-the-sweat-tooth | 2022-08-20T13:31:01Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/2022-08-20/some-insects-have-quite-the-sweat-tooth | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Classical musicians who have been publicly linked to disgraced opera star Plácido Domingo have been arrested in Argentina or are still wanted by police in connection to an alleged crime ring. The group, which operated as the Buenos Aires Yoga School, was headed by 84-year-old Juan Percowicz. The group is accused of sexual trafficking, including of minors, as well as extortion and money laundering. No charges have been brought against Domingo.
At least three of the individuals whom Argentine prosecutors have identified as part of the alleged crime ring have performed or collaborated with Domingo since at least 1995, and have performed professionally with other major classical music artists and ensembles as well.
An Argentine law enforcement official told AP in a story published Thursday: "Plácido didn't commit a crime, nor is he part of the organization, but rather he was a consumer of prostitution." Prostitution is not a crime in Argentina.
Since Wednesday, NPR has repeatedly asked for comment from Domingo's representatives but has not received any response. Separately from the Argentine investigation, more than 20 women have come forward publicly since 2019 with sexual misconduct claims against the opera singer.
One of the people arrested in relation to the crime ring in Buenos Aires is Susana Mendelievich, whom the Argentine newspaper Clarin has identified as the woman called "Mendy" in police wiretap tapes released to media earlier this week.
Now 75 years old, Mendelievitch is a pianist and composer. In a 2000 biography of the composer Astor Piazzolla published by Oxford University Press, an Argentine pianist named Susana Mendelievich is mentioned as having rehearsed one of Piazzolla's works in Buenos Aires with the composer and Mstislav Rostropovich, one of the most revered cellists of the 20th century.
Though she seems to have little digital footprint of her own, Mendelievich is mentioned extensively on the website of an Argentine-born, New York-based singer and composer based in New York named Veronica Loiacono, who also cites her ties to Domingo at least eight times on her website, including a photo of the two singing together.
On Friday, the Argentine newspaper El Diario identified Loiacono and a woman named Verónica Ángela "Loia" Iácono as being the same person. Iácono, who is believed to be living in the U.S., is still wanted by police in connection to the alleged crime ring.
NPR contacted a phone number attributed to Loaicano's agent; an office number listed never connected to a machine or to a person, despite several attempts. The person who responded by text said that they were unavailable to comment before publication.
Per Loiacono's own website, she and Mendelievitch, along with two male Argentine musicians, refer to themselves as a composing "team" who have co-written an opera, a symphony and a ballet, among other works. Loicano's site also states that the four have performed with such renowned musicians as the late violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin and conductors Daniel Barenboim, the late Georg Solti and Zubin Mehta, as well as Domingo.
Mendelievitch and Loiacono's composing partners are listed as an oboist named Mariano Krauz and the late violinist Rubén González. González, who died in 2018, served as concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1986 until 1996.
Krauz has a limited online presence outside of Loiacono's website. With his last name spelled "Kraus," however, there are mentions of him in at least two reviews from the mid-1990s of performances in the U.S.
On Friday, the Argentine newspaper El Diario identified Krauz/Kraus as stage names of Mariano Krawczyk, one of the men arrested by Argentine police last week as part of the alleged crime ring.
Loiacono, Mendelievitch and Kraus are mentioned in a 1996 review from the Argentine newspaper La Nacion of a performance they gave with Domingo in Buenos Aires.
Another mention of Kraus is related to a performance he gave as a soloist with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra in November 1995, led by González. In a disparaging review, a Baltimore Sun critic called Kraus a performer "who bopped onstage wearing a flaming red leisure suit...jaws dropped all around me," adding: "Somebody in quality control was asleep on this one." The work he performed was excerpts of a symphony by González called Dionisia y Lobo Solitario (Dionysus and the Lone Wolf). The Sun's critic wrote that the piece was "a crazy quilt of kitschy encounters with big-band swing, Viennese waltzes, blues, a rumba, klezmer and, of all things, Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik!"
Despite the terrible review from Baltimore just months before, Kraus also appeared with the National Symphony Orchestra the following July performing the same symphony, which the Washington Post described in a largely unfavorable review as "a sort of oboe-driven Spanish klezmer music."
A 1995 opera called Cartas Marcadas, whose music was also written by the four, was based on a book written by the alleged crime group's leader, Juan Percowicz, and dedicated to Yehudi Menuhin. According to a 1995 article in La Nacion, Domingo praised the work, and included the opera's overture in a concert of his own. Within that article, La Nacion also mentioned that several of the opera's collaborative team were involved in the Buenos Aires Yoga School.
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Here ye! Here ye!
When Riley Williams, who is accused of stealing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's laptop during the Jan. 6 insurrection, was released from jail last year, the judge ordered she'd only be able to leave home for work, court proceedings, and a handful of approved outings.
Now it appears the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire is one of those exceptions.
The 25-year-old has been granted permission to attend the Fairies & Fantasy themed fair for eight hours over the weekend, her lawyer Lori Ulrich told the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette.
"She is confined to her home 24/7 with exceptions. Every once in a while, if there is an activity that interests her, we ask if she can attend," Ulrich said.
It seems this is not the first time the Mechanicsburg, Penn., resident has been allowed a reprieve from house arrest, Ulrich said. She noted that prosecutors are generally amenable to letting Williams go on day-long adventures.
This weekend, that might mean potentially partaking in some corseted cos play, making preparations for a make-believe renaissance wedding, or enjoying a good ole fashioned jousting competition. All of which sound like a nice break from the serious charges Williams faces.
Prosecutors say Williams stole Pelosi's computer from the speaker's office, which they say she boasted about on her own social media platform. According to an FBI investigation, Williams allegedly planned on selling the laptop to Russian operatives.
"I took Nancy Polesis [sic] hard drives. I don't care. Kill me," authorities say she wrote on the social media site Discord.
At least 895 people across the country have been arrested in connection with the insurrection at the Capitol.
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Tags: node.netmail, npm@*?*, 1/4x/y (regex is slow to test?): npm @0/1/npm@6-00...-a\nAsk User, NPM Depends Error; npm audit fail: ...dependencies are not compatible among a registry & non ...is out of nodejs v5 compatibilite...e a npm.../dependencies node ≤5, yarn npm/cli/ WEST MICHIGAN - After all the recent days filled with blue sky and sunshine, more clouds will dominate the area as a low pressure system tracks into the state this weekend. This will generate scattered showers and thunderstorms at times, but not all day rains. Temperatures will be held down to the mid/upper 70s.
This is a slow-moving system, that's why it controls our weather for about two to three days. See image below from our forecast model valid for Sunday at 6 P.M.
We expect to kick this system further east on Monday and see some sunshine finally return with drier conditions. Our severe weather chances with this system are very low, but nonetheless, possible on Saturday. See image below, as areas south and east of Grand Rapids (in green) remain in a MARGINAL RISK (the lowest threat category) for strong to severe storms.
Many areas will likely tally between a quarter and half inch of rain, but other locations that get caught under some of the heavy downpours or multiple storms cells could see more than an inch. See image below from the GFS and European forecast models below.
The start and middle off next week is expected to be drier and sunnier. Get the complete West Michigan forecast at www.fox17online.com/weather. | https://www.fox17online.com/weather/off-and-on-showers-and-storms-this-weekend | 2022-08-20T13:38:29Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/weather/off-and-on-showers-and-storms-this-weekend | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Weber Inc. (NYSE: WEBR) pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with Weber's August 2021 initial public offering (the "IPO") of the important September 27, 2022.
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PASADENA – Four young coyote pups cavort amidst the trash of the vacant lot, gray coats painted pink by the soft July twilight. The pack looks awkward and clumsy, all oversized paws and big ears under soft, downy fur. With mom gone hunting, they have been left alone, exploring the boundaries of their childhood home.
These are some of the newest additions to Pasadena’s coyote population, the fruit of the coyote baby season between late spring and early summer. They have spent that time exploring the small area around their burrow.
According to experts, by September, these pups will join their mother on their first hunt, leaving the safety of their lot and venturing out onto the residential streets of Pasadena in search of food and space.
The pups are wholly unaware that their existence has already been clocked and debated on their neighborhood’s Nextdoor feed, with some Pasadena residents already demanding their removal while others defend their innocence. Just months away from leaving the lot, they are now the subject of a spirited, nearly weekly online debate.
One of the voices defending their right to remain in the lot is Dave Hancock.
Hancock became aware of Pasadena’s rocky relationship with coyotes immediately upon moving into the neighborhood in 2020, after living between Tujunga-Sunland, Shadow Hills and La Tuna Canyon.
“Coyotes were something I would see regularly,” Hancock recalled of his old neighborhoods.
After moving to Pasadena, and joining the neighborhood’s Nextdoor community, Hancock noticed that Pasadena residents were far more fearful of coyotes.
“I was kind of alarmed, because I had come from a place where coyotes were a pretty normal sighting, and I didn’t see that kind of, for a lack of a better word, hysteria on Nextdoor,” Hancock noted.
It has been a bad year for coyotes’ reputation across Southern California. In late Spring, two coyotes were shot after attacking a 2-year old child near Huntington Beach Pier. Two months later, a coyote was euthanized after it attacked another 2-year old child in Fountain Valley. In July, the City of Manhattan Beach City Council voted unanimously to hire a trapper to propose a coyote management strategy. In the words of Councilmember Susanne Hadley, echoing the mayor’s sentiment: “great, let’s trap and euthanize.”
One side of the debate in Pasadena fears that coyotes pose a growing, or an imminent threat to humans and their pets. They want the coyotes gone, relocated or dead.
Others sees coyotes as a reality of California life. They perceive human-coyote conflict as a problem, but one that can be addressed by following a set of guidelines.
‘Initial touchpoint’ on coyotes
For many residents trying to contact the officials responsible for wildlife in the community, Pasadena Humane Society is their initial touchpoint. However, Pasadena Humane Society follows a strict set of rules for intervening in the complicated relationship between humans and coyotes.
Since 1904, the city of Pasadena has contracted Pasadena Humane Society to act as Pasadena’s Poundmaster. A majority of Pasadena Humane Society’s work consists of responding to situations involving domestic animals. When it comes to coyotes, Pasadena Humane Society is limited to several activities.
The Society can respond to calls regarding sick and injured coyotes, which they are authorized to remove. They send samples from captured sick coyotes to the Pasadena Department of Public Health for testing in order to detect any potentially human-transmissible diseases, such as rabies, that the city should be aware of.
The organization also responds to the rare instances when a coyote appears to be threatening humans. In those cases, Pasadena Humane Society can send a team to haze the coyote out of the area. Hazing is the method of scaring off a coyote with enough intensity and persistence that the coyote learns to fear a location or people.
The process to remove a coyote is onerous, involving decision-making at multiple levels on up to the city manager prior to setting the first trap in the field. Relocating wildlife is illegal in California, leaving lethal removal as the only option for reducing the local coyote population, and lethal removal is only considered if a coyote attacks a human without having been provoked.
With the city manager’s approval, the city would contract California Department of Fish and Wildlife representatives or a licensed animal trapper to remove the coyote.
Experts say removal as a strategy for population management can backfire, leading to an increase in the population size. When a coyote is removed, space opens up for new coyotes to fill in. If a breeding female is removed from her pack, the other females can be pushed into hormonal overdrive, multiplying the number of ovulating coyotes.
It is not considered unusually aggressive for a coyote to stalk and kill unattended pets. That is considered “normal coyote behavior,” a term often used by experts discussing human-coyote interactions. While humans view a clear distinction between dogs, cats, rats and squirrels, coyotes only see a possible food source.
Getting the word out
The most common service that Pasadena Humane Society offers is educating the public about how to avoid conflicts with coyotes. When Pasadena Humane Society gets involved with wildlife issues, it is Wildlife Manager Lauren Hamlett who guides the response.
“The main goal is to keep animals in homes,” she explained. “And that includes wildlife, so our goal is to keep wildlife in its home too.”
This mission statement doesn’t quell the angst some residents feel.
“Our right to peaceful living on our property is now gone, and not one city government will even address it,” asserted one furious resident commenting on Nextdoor, echoing others who believe the “situation is clearly out of hand.”
Hamlett recognizes that the public is often confused about what Pasadena Humane Society’s role is when responding to coyote-related incidents.
“A lot of what I do is, I have to clarify what is considered normal coyote behavior, first of all, and then what legally we are allowed to do, what contractually we’re allowed to do,” Hamlett said.
Hamlett is acutely aware of the concerns that Pasadena residents have regarding coyotes. She manages the Wildlife Helpline at Pasadena Humane Society which, so far in 2022, has received 74 calls and texts about coyotes. For comparison, during that same period they received only 13 Helpline reports about bears and 14 regarding bobcats. Hamlett also reviews wildlife-related reports made through the Pasadena Citizens Service Center where, she says, “9.9 times out of 10, it’s a coyote complaint.” She also receives coyote-related emails and reports through Pasadena Humane Society’s website.
When leading workshops, Hamlett teaches that coyotes are drawn to people for a few reasons: food, water and shelter. Residents can make their homes less attractive to coyotes by removing water sources, ensuring that ornamental fruit trees are not dropping potential coyote food (coyotes do consume fruit when available), keeping trash in trash cans, and not leaving pets and pet food outside unattended. A coyote will view small pets as an accessible food source if the pet is further than six feet from a human.
Hamlett advises residents to keep their properties from becoming overgrown or cluttered, which provides coyotes with opportune places to build their burrows. She also teaches hazing techniques.
Hamlett acknowledges that residents might tire of taking the precautions she teaches. “With coyotes it really takes community effort and it really takes consistency. People get tired of doing it and especially if they’re doing everything right but their neighbor is still putting out food.”
Kelley Ritch is among those who are tired of putting in the effort with seemingly few results. A Pasadena resident since 1994, Ritch feels that her personal coyote sightings have increased rapidly in just the past five years.
Ritch has attended Pasadena Humane Society coyote workshops and tries to follow the guidelines and techniques she learns. She keeps her dog and two cats inside unless she can chaperone. She keeps her property free of pet food, ornamental fruit and water sources. When necessary, she even removes coyote attractants from her neighbor’s yard by picking up the fruit falling off their trees.
Ritch feels that the coyotes she sees are acting bolder than the image being painted at the workshops she has attended.
“I walk away feeling insulted because I’m screaming at the top of my lungs ‘this has gotten so bad’ and no one is listening! They just keep saying ‘no, coyotes won’t do that’ and I’m like ‘but they did do that’,” Ritch lamented.
Over the years, Ritch has contacted Pasadena Humane Society, California Fish and Wildlife and the Mayor’s Office, yet feels that she only receives “canned responses,” hearing suggestions that have little to no effect.
Shared responsibility
Kent Smirl, governmental program analyst at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, believes that a successful program for preventing human-wildlife conflict relies on addressing the anger that residents like Ritch feel. Smirl says that the gap between angry residents and their government needs to be bridged.
“They need someone to listen to them and understand where they’re coming from,” he explained. “You can’t just give them the run around and say ‘hey, just go call this agency’ or ‘we don’t do this.’ Because it will come back and bite ya, it will. People are gonna let their emotions out in one way or another.”
In order to address the human component of human-wildlife conflict, Smirl helped found the Wildlife Watch program at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Wildlife Watch employs “conservation coaching” which teaches participants leadership skills in addition to wildlife education. The goal is to ensure that residents know the right information when it comes to preventing conflict with coyotes and that they are confident in leading their communities in following those guidelines.
A major theme in Wildlife Watch is getting communities to share the burden of preventing human-wildlife conflict.
Sharing community responsibility would mean that many residents would do what Kelley Ritch does when she sees fruit on her neighbor’s yard, clean it up.
Lauren Hamlett has experienced this application of shared responsibility firsthand. Prior to working as the Wildlife Manager at Pasadena Humane Society, Hamlett lived and worked in Kodiak, Alaska, home to the largest bears on earth. A Kodiak Brown Bear can stand ten feet high and weigh 1,500 pounds, equivalent to about 43 coyotes. Hamlett recalled how most people in Kodiak took personal responsibility for safely living around these giants.
“There’s this public, communal, social pressure on you to get educated,” Hamlett explained. “Whereas I think we’re not there yet in Pasadena.”
Hamlett said that people who weren’t educated about bears in Kodiak would be afraid to leave their houses and go out into nature.
“I see that a lot in people in Pasadena,” Hamlett said. “They’re afraid of taking their dogs on walks. They’re afraid of going on hikes.”
She understands that people are frustrated and frightened of what they see as the recently heightened threat posed by coyotes.
“I know that it’s frustrating, that it didn’t feel like they were here before,” she acknowledged. “But they’re here now and so we need to adapt and we need to learn about them so that you’re not afraid.”
Hamlett thinks that Pasadena residents are capable of changing their feelings about coyotes and has witnessed that change after speaking individually with coyote detractors.
“People are really understanding and receptive, and they’re like ‘OK, I feel empowered to go out there and be the human that is the top of the food chain and not be afraid of these coyotes and make them feel uncomfortable’,” she recalled. “I think people just need sort of that encouragement because coyotes don’t have any natural predators, so we are the natural predators and we need to start acting like it.”
The community has some distance to go to mend the fractured discourse around coyotes. Kelley Ritch feels that those on opposite sides of the issue are dug into their respective camps.
“The advocates are going to talk to whoever is going to listen and then people who are experiencing what I’m experiencing, we’re going to talk to whoever will listen,” Ritch explained. “It is incredibly polarizing, and there doesn’t seem to be any gray area.”
While the residents of Pasadena argue with one another over how to deal with coyotes, the coyotes themselves will continue to do what they have done in North America for thousands of years: relax in the sun, hunt prey and howl their ancient song.
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Want to be a drone racer? The sport’s world champ explains how to launch your career
Drone Racing is a relatively new sport taking the world by storm. But how does it work and how can you get into it?
Evan Turner is a racer who holds two championship wins, 25 podium positions, and the position of the youngest champion winner in history. But unlike sports like F1, or MotoGP, Evan’s race of choice takes place in the sky.
Turner is one of many who has gotten into the sport of drone racing. While it remains a relatively new sport forming around 2011, it has a large, dedicated fan base. In its most recent season, the sport attracted audiences across six continents, broadcasting to over 250 million households.
But how does this form of racing work? What is it like to fly one of these lightning-fast drones? And how can someone break into this rapidly growing sport? We spoke to Evan Turner to find out.
What is drone racing and how does it work?
Drone racing, as the name would suggest, involves pilots racing a set of drones around a course. However, these aren’t the bulky drones you normally see. These are small, lightweight crafts that can reach speeds of over 100mph.
While you could just meet up with your friends and race drones around a park, at the professional level, these events are organised by the Drone Racing League with prizes and money on the line.
“Generally, it is like any motorsport or race, whether that's track and field or Formula 1. All the pilots show up and do a series of qualifying attempts where they are positioned based off their best time, and there are different ways that can work,” says Turner.
These qualifying attempts could be your best time across three laps, your best attempt at one single lap, or any measurement that the league decides to use. These qualifying laps are then used to create elimination-round brackets that typically include 16, 32 or 64 pilots.
“After qualifying, you are placed with four to eight pilots and you all race at the same time. The top half of that group move on through the winner’s bracket. All the races are a double elimination system so you can lose once, but you can keep racing and still work your way to the finals. Eventually, you're left with four to eight pilots who race in the final,” says Turner.
While the rules and system for qualifying are similar to other sports, the layout of the tracks is entirely different. “The tracks change a lot. What makes drone racing so incredibly unique in comparison to other motorsports is that the tracks are across different heights and levels. In drone racing, the gates are all over the place,” says Turner.
“Some gates are on the ground, some are elevated 10 to 20 feet, or you may be in a location like a stadium where gates are far at the top of the stadium or in the top stands. And then there'll be gates all the way down, maybe even through the tunnels of the stadium.”
Becoming a champion
Despite being just 19, Evan’s had a long interest in the world of drones and has quickly managed to form a successful career around it.
“I got into drone racing through just a general interest in things that fly and my competitive personality. It was my hobby, my passion, something I could do with my dad from a very young age. When I was 13 or 14, my friend started flying drones and we started flying together,” says Turner.
“2017 was my first U.S. nationals and I came 10th. In 2018, 2019 and 2021, I won the U.S. Nationals, so I'm the only three-time U.S. national champion ever. I also won the Drone Racing League, which is a TV show broadcast on the likes of NBC and ABC Sports where the 12 best drone racing pilots in the world compete. And I've won that since that the past two years in a row.”
Like all good champion athletes, Turner then diversified starting a business alongside his racing career. This business involves selling drone parts for fellow hobbyists and professionals alongside an aerospace engineer who comes from Boeing.
Taking to the sky
While most drones make use of a screen to show you what they see, the kind of drones used in racing take things a step further. Known as First Person View (FPV) drones, a racing drone requires you to strap on a headset, fully immersing yourself in its view.
“Flying one of these drones is an exhilarating experience, it's like nothing you've ever done before. Drone racing is a weird mix between reality and the experience of a video game. You use a controller, like you would with a console, you wear goggles like you would with VR. But when you move the sticks, a drone is moving in real space,” says Turner.
“You can fly around the environment with pretty much no limitations. If you see a lighthouse way out in the ocean, then go fly to it. Want to skim low to the water at 100 miles an hour, then you are welcome to it. Skill is the only thing that is limiting you here.”
Getting your pilots wings
While you would think the best way to get into FPV drone flying would be to just buy one and get out there, Evan suggests one step before.
“The best way to learn how to fly an FPV drone is to get on a simulator. These are games that allow you to practice flying a drone. Some popular ones are the Drone Racing League simulator or VelociDrone,” says Turner.
These are affordable games that you can get for your console or computer. By doing this first, you can not only get some practice in to save you from an expensive drone crash, but also help you decide if this is a hobby for you.
“With the simulator, there are pilots I've seen who have flown on the simulator for a week or two and practise really hard. And then the first time they pick up a drone, they're already a top-level pilot. Most people will be able to learn with some basic direction within a week,” says Turner.
Unlike most drones these days that can practically fly themselves, FPV types offer no safety features or assists, you are in complete control which both gives you a lot of freedom and makes your life a whole lot more difficult with a steep learning curve.
"Once you've tried a simulator and you come to buy a drone, I would say to keep the phrase "buy cheap or buy twice" in your mind. There are loads of products that aren't the best, but they are cheap. Save up a little bit more, to invest in some better products and then use that time that you're saving up to just practise a little bit more in the simulator.”
Future engineers
Like other newer competitive sports, Turner believes there are some misconceptions about what drone racing is and how people view it.
"The word drone carries a bad connotation for some. There are people who think drones are bad for whatever reason. But at the end of the day, I think that what people have to understand is that drone racing is so incredibly valuable, not just to your average hobbyist, but from an educational standpoint as well,” says Turner.
“This gets kids of all ages outside of the house, but also teaches them electrical and troubleshooting skills, and even programming. There are so many benefits drone racing offers to education that I really think it outweighs any negative connotations. Drone flying can help build the next engineers, the next entrepreneurs, because this is a legitimate career path more than ever.”
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Deadly fungus attacking a fly wins BMC Ecology and Evolution Photography Awards
A spectacular collection of photographs that capture the wonder of the natural world.
The winners of the BMC Ecology and Evolution photography competition have just been announced. This year's contest has served up a spectacular collection of images that capture nature in action, as well as the effects that climate change is having on animals around the world.
The competition attracted entries from ecologists and evolutionary biologists from around the world eager to show their creativity. BMC Ecology and Evolution invited anyone affiliated with a research institution to submit to one of four categories: ‘Relationships in Nature’, ‘Biodiversity under Threat’, ‘Life Close Up’ and ‘Research in Action’.
The overall winner captures a scene reminiscent of a science fiction film. A parasitic fungus erupts from the body of a dead fly. Roberto García-Roa, an evolutionary biologist and conservation photographer affiliated with the University of Valencia (Spain) and Lund University (Sweden), captured this unsettling image in the Peruvian jungle of Tambopata.
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Two people were shot Friday night near the 7-Eleven on Sudley Manor Drive at Williamson Boulevard outside Manassas.
The shooting happened about 8:30 p.m., with police reporting injuries but no further details. The conditions of the victims was unknown late Friday and police did not report any arrests.
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So much for long, nearly two-month summer breaks from high-school sports, which for a long time used to be the case.
With the preceding spring high-school sports campaigns lasting closer to the end of June these days, then practices for the next fall season starting Aug. 1 this year, the summer break was about a month long. July is becoming about all there is of the summertime anymore.
There are even some high-school coaches of those fall sports who believe practices now begin too soon. But with school in recent years starting well before Labor Day weekend, sports can begin earlier, as well. So everything begins sooner and, as a result, the summertime breaks are now much shorter.
After just a few days of so-called practice, if some players had even that much, high-school fall golf teams have already played in tournaments that teed off Aug. 8 and continued for another week or so.
All public high-school team practices in Virginia began Aug. 1, including football, with scrimmages played as early as Aug. 12. The season begins with real games this week on Aug. 25. The girls field hockey season started before that, with matches Aug. 22.
Mid-August used to be about the time fall teams were just beginning the first weeks of practices in those years when Labor Day came later.
For newspapers, there is barely enough time now to finish covering all the lingering stories about the summer sports before fall high-school coverage starts. There certainly will be some overlapping stories regarding the two seasons for the next couple of weeks. That’s because the summer campaign remains the same in length.
So much for long summer vacations anymore, if there are any at all. Soon, July could be shrinking or disappearing as an off month for high-school sports, as well. | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/summer-vacations-have-become-much-shorter/article_1a4c8ad8-207c-11ed-95da-47be923f2651.html | 2022-08-20T13:53:04Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/summer-vacations-have-become-much-shorter/article_1a4c8ad8-207c-11ed-95da-47be923f2651.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Motivated by the disappointment of finishing second last season, the Yorktown Patriots reclaimed the golf trophy they have so often held in the past by winning the 2022 Arlington County high-school championship.
The Yorktown A team won the 9-hole, three-team competition Aug. 17 at the East Potomac Golf Course in D.C. with a 148 team score. Benjamin Newfield shot an event-lowest score of 31 to lead Yorktown. Trevor McAndrews had a 37, Charlie Lamb and Kyle Langley each carded 40, Roger Allenbaugh had a 41 and Tony Newell shot 44.
“Our players marked this date on their calenders after last year,” Yorktown coach Chris Williams said. “Our best players said they were not missing this. They took it personal after not winning last season. The trophy is back home.”
Yorktown won the county title for 32 straight years until the Wakefield Warriors snapped that string with a championship in 2019. Wakefield won again last fall, when some of the top players for the Patriots missed that match.
Wakefield finished second in this year’s competition with a 168 team score. The Washington-Liberty Generals were third at 177.
Leading Wakefield was Tony Rodriguez with a 39. Tully Andrews shot 40, Kai Behrens 42, Joe Giacomo 47, Andrew Middleton 48 and Beckett Hampton 50.
For Washington-Liberty, Jake Guffey shot 39, Will Jamieson 45, Talan Flynn 46, Tyler Johnson 47, Luke Holland 48 and Quinn Breed 52.
The Yorktown B team also won the all-county match with a 161 score. Wakefield finished second with 179 and W-L third at 191.
* Prior to the county match, Yorktown defeated Hayfield in a two-team 9-hole event with a 147 total. Hayfield shot 171.
Newfield and Jack Freeman each shot 35 for Yorktown, McAndrews 36, Newell 37, Luke Sanne 39, Austom Barbari 40, and Cole Ransom and Nick Seakus 42 each.
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(The Hill) – Former President Trump could be facing mounting legal troubles as new details emerge about the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation that prompted an FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Trump has called for the release of more information tied to the search, an effort that corresponds with bashing the agency for what he claims is a politically motivated attack.
Meanwhile, the DOJ has fought to limit how much information will come out about an ongoing investigation with Trump as its target.
Here’s what we’ve learned this week.
Trump eyed for ‘willful’ violations of the Espionage Act
Although the most highly sensitive materials underlying the Mar-a-Lago search warrant remained under seal this week, the judge presiding over the case did make one court record newly available to the public. That document, known as a criminal cover sheet, provided additional insight into the nature of the crime under investigation, according to some legal experts.
It was already known that investigators believed the materials housed at Trump’s residence were linked to a likely violation of the Espionage Act, a WWI-era statute designed to help safeguard the country’s vital national security secrets. What the criminal cover sheet revealed, after it was unsealed Thursday, is that law enforcement had probable cause to think a “willful retention of national defense information” occurred.
That new detail appeared to lend further support to the theory — one that was already widely assumed — that Trump himself is the target of the investigation.
“This aligns with what we know so far from public media reporting, as well as the minimal information we have derived from the unsealed court filings,” Bradley Moss, a national security lawyer and partner in the law office of Mark S. Zaid, told The Hill in an email.
“All indications are that the government’s argument will amount to three things: (1) Trump took the properly marked classified records with him to Florida; (2) he left them in boxes in the basement; (3) when confronted about it, he willfully held onto records despite demands from NARA and later the FBI to return them,” he added, referring to the National Archives and Records Administration, which takes custody of White House records when a president leaves office.
DOJ appears to be investigating Trump’s claims around a ‘standing order’
In a sign the Department of Justice is not content to have simply secured the return of classified materials, its investigators appear to be contacting former Trump-era officials about his claims of having declassified the contents removed from his Florida home.
According to reporting from Rolling Stone, the FBI has thus far been conducting voluntary interviews with those who could have knowledge of such an order, including former staff on the National Security Council.
Shortly after the warrant was executed, Trump claimed the documents removed from his home were “all declassified.” He later elaborated in a statement to Fox News that he had “a standing order” to declassify any documents.
“If the DOJ was really focused on recovering the classified material and was not criminally investigating the former president, they would not be calling in former NSC officials to question them about Trump’s supposed “standing order” declassifying documents,” Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, wrote on Twitter.
National security law experts who previously spoke with The Hill noted that while Trump would have broad powers as president to declassify documents, such a practice is usually done on a case-by-case basis, and also triggers notification to other agencies that hold classified information, so that they can reclassify them appropriately in their own system.
“Realistically, no one actually believes that Trump had such an order. It was not written down anywhere, doesn’t make a lot of sense (as some of his own appointees have pointed out), and was never raised by Trump’s lawyers during their communications with DOJ,” Mariotti continued.
Even if Trump did declassify documents, that isn’t a defense for the Espionage Act, one of the three statutes cited in the warrant. That law only requires mishandling national defense information to trigger a violation.
Trump wants it all released
Former President Trump and his allies have responded to the government’s desire for redactions with calls for the release of the full document.
“Pres. Trump has made his view clear that the American people should be permitted to see the unredacted affidavit related to the raid and break-in of his home. Today, magistrate Judge Reinhard rejected the DOJ’s cynical attempt to hide the whole affidavit from Americans,” Taylor Budowich, a spokesperson for the former president, said Thursday.
Trump separately posted on Truth Social, his social media platform, calling for the “immediate release” of the unredacted affidavit, citing the need for transparency. He also called for Reinhart to recuse himself from the case without giving a clear reason.
The former president and his allies have attacked the credibility of the FBI and DOJ ever since the search was executed earlier this month, pointing to the handling of the Russia investigation to allege it is the latest politically biased attack on Trump.
By calling for the unredacted affidavit to be released when the government opposes such a move, Trump will likely further fuel distrust in the Department of Justice among his supporters.
DOJ is working through redactions
The Department of Justice, however, does not want its affidavit for the warrant fully released.
The department argued that the affidavit should remain under seal in its entirety, saying the information it contained laid out a “roadmap” to its ongoing investigation, “highly sensitive information about witnesses,” and “specific investigative techniques.”
But a federal magistrate judge on Thursday dismissed efforts by the DOJ to maintain the affidavit entirely under seal.
“I find that on the present record the Government has not met its burden of showing that the entire affidavit should remain sealed,” Judge Bruce Reinhart said in a brief order.
Reinhart said there were parts of the affidavit that “could be presumptively unsealed,” The New York Times reported.
The DOJ has until noon Thursday to submit their proposed redactions, after which Reinhart, who approved the initial warrant, will review them — meaning a redacted version of the affidavit could be released as early as next week.
What it means for Trump and 2024
Casting a cloud over the entire proceeding is the fact that Trump is likely to announce a 2024 White House bid in the coming months, though he may wait until after the midterm elections.
Trump denied in an interview last month with New York Magazine that any presidential run would be a way to insulate himself from criminal consequences as he faces investigations over election interference in Georgia, business dealings in New York, the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021, and now his handling of classified information.
And while some experts believe it’s unlikely Trump will ultimately be indicted over the documents he kept at Mar-a-Lago, the political consequences could still loom large over his desire to return to the White House.
A Reuters-Ipsos poll conducted this week found that 54% of Republicans believe the FBI behaved irresponsibly following the Mar-a-Lago search, compared to 23% who said the agencies behaved responsibly.
Comparatively, 71% of Democrats felt law enforcement had acted responsibly, as did 50% of independent voters. It is the latter category that bears watching in determining how the search could swing Trump’s political fortunes. | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/fbi-search-of-trumps-home-5-things-we-learned-this-week/ | 2022-08-20T14:05:55Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/fbi-search-of-trumps-home-5-things-we-learned-this-week/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tuition discount opportunities | College Connection
The fact that more than 40 million former college students are deep in debt – averaging about $37,000 each – is well publicized. But this does not need to be the future of high school students seeking to choose a college for the next step of their academic journey. The key is to do careful research ahead of time, and identify the affordable options available, to make a wise financial decision.
Drexel University, based in Philadelphia, has recently announced a 50% tuition discount for students who have earned an associate’s degree from a community college in Pennsylvania or New Jersey. Drexel’s current tuition is $56,595. The tuition break goes into effect in 2023, and students would have to maintain a GPA of 2.0.
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Closer to home, Rutgers University reports that 71% of first-year students receive financial aid offers ranging from $500 to $65,000. As of last year, Rutgers instituted an income-based tuition discount program. Students from families with annual incomes of $65,000 or less are not charged for tuition or fees. Families in the next income bracket, earning up to $80,000, pay no more than $3,000 a year. Families earning up to $100,000 pay no more than $5,000. This program does not cover room and board but provides an attractive option for students willing to commute to one of Rutgers’ campuses in New Brunswick, Newark and Camden.
Many private colleges are generous with need-based aid and merit scholarships, although the latter is frequently based on a student’s SAT scores and GPA. Fairfield University, located in Connecticut, reports that 37% of full-time undergraduates receive an average award of $32,770.
Quinnipiac University, also in Connecticut, awards renewable first-year academic scholarships in the range of 12,000 to $28,000. Students offered these scholarships are typically in the top 40% of their high school class and have a combined (Math and Evidence-based Reading & Writing) SAT score of 1100 or higher.
There are even some colleges that are tuition-free, but students should read the fine print before enrolling. Some of these schools require on-campus work, or service after graduation. So, students should be sure to know what they’re agreeing to.
Tuition-free colleges include College of the Ozarks (Missouri), Curtis Institute of Music (Pennsylvania), Webb Institute (New York), United States Air Force Academy (Colorado), United States Coast Guard Academy (Connecticut), United States Merchant Marine Academy (New York), United States Military Academy (New York), and the United States Naval Academy (Maryland).
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NJ students: Schleck attends West Point's Summer Leaders Experience
Mary Claire Schleck, a senior at Mount Saint Mary Academy in Watchung, attended West Point's Summer Leaders Experience (SLE) — a highly selective program for students interested in attending the U.S. Military Academy from Saturday, June 4, to Friday, June 10.
“I am so grateful for this immersive experience of life at West Point and in the military,” she said. “Each day, filled with early wakeups, physical training, military training, academic classes, and squad activities, flew by. While there were challenging moments, I loved everything about SLE. I will forever cherish the friendships I made, the knowledge I gained, and the leadership skills I developed during my week at West Point.”
A resident of Metuchen, Schleck is involved in a variety of activities at Mount Saint Mary Academy and outside of school. These include: Vice President of the Student Council Executive Board, a member of the Peer Facilitators Team, host of the Mount Pack Podcast, soccer team captain, and basketball team captain. Outside of school, she is a Girl Scout.
Also: Dylan Elizabeth Wolski, a junior at Mount Saint Mary Academy in Watchung and a resident of the Somerset section of Franklin Township, graduated from the Jr. Docent program at the Staten Island Zoo in July. She completed a 50-hour training program including topics on conservation education, bio-facts about the animals, and care and handling of animals while presenting to the visiting public.
Wolski was excited to be accepted and complete this program and follow the legacy of her grandmother, Stanislava Wolski, a docent at the Staten Island Zoo more than 30 years ago. Zoo conservation and public education about the importance and care of animals have long been a family passion.
"The Jr. Docent program at the zoo provides many opportunities,” she said. “I find it interesting learning new information about conservation and animal life while I engage with the community. I look forward to participating in the monthly themed zoo special events."
Wolski is a new member of the Association of Zoo and Aquarium Docents and Volunteers.
At Mount Saint Mary, Wolski is a member of the Chemistry Club, Mock Trial, Art Club, and Future Medical Professionals Club. She plays on the volleyball and golf teams.
Bank of America of New Jersey
Bank of America announced five Northern NJ high school students have been selected as Student Leaders, an eight-week paid internship providing students with first-hand experience in serving their communities. These students are mid-way through their internship experience of workforce skills, leadership, and civic engagement with local Boys & Girls Clubs in New Jersey. As part of the program, they will earn $17 per hour and receive a Chromebook.
The Student Leaders program, which started in 2004, recognizes 300 community-focused juniors and seniors from across the U.S. each year. In NJ, Student Leaders work closely with the Boys & Girls Clubs to provide needed administrative support and actively shape the experiences of local children. With guidance from the bank and NJ Boys & Girls Clubs, the Student Leaders are gaining access to career skills-building opportunities that are crucial in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing job market.
“This is a win-win for New Jersey. So many organizations need talented young people to help serve our communities. With the Student Leaders program, we’re able to pair some of New Jersey’s best and brightest students with nonprofit jobs that will truly have an impact,” said Alberto Garofalo, president, Bank of America New Jersey. “Young adults are the future of our state, and programs like Student Leaders are one way we can provide paid opportunities that help pave the way for the next generation of the local workforce.”
Bank of America’s selected student leaders are:
- Bergen County
- Annabelle Hur of Norwood, Academy of the Holy Angels, a rising senior.
- Essex County
- Vanessa Iwuoha of Newark, graduated from Essex County Vocational-Technical School, Newark Tech Campus and will start her freshman year at Harvard University in the fall.
- Hudson County
- Annalie Diaz of West New York, Memorial High School, a rising senior
- Hudson County
- Alisha Varma of Jersey City, Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School, a rising senior
- Middlesex County
- Amirah Oladoja of Fords, a graduate of Woodbridge High School, will start her freshman year at Boston University in the fall.
Selected students underwent a rigorous application process and were selected for their leadership, background, passion, and commitment to NJ’s local communities. While the students come from diverse backgrounds, they all are united by their drive and commitment to serve others.
“We are thrilled to have this year’s Student Leaders working alongside our dedicated Club youth staff throughout Northern New Jersey,” said Susan Haspel, state director, Boys & Girls Clubs in New Jersey. “Their perspective has been invaluable, and through our partnership with Bank of America we can help provide them with important leadership training and hands-on work experience.”
For more information on Student Leaders, visit https://bit.ly/3ptqCvG.
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Kaplan Educational Foundation (KEF)
The Kaplan Educational Foundation (KEF) celebrates the latest college acceptances from their 15th cohort of scholars in the Kaplan Leadership Program.
Established in 2006, the Kaplan Leadership Program helps high-potential, low-income and underrepresented community college students complete their associate's degree, successfully transfer and go on to earn a four-year bachelor's degree at the nation's most highly-selective schools. The program focuses on a holistic approach ― providing extensive tutoring, academic advisement services, leadership and career training, stipends for living expenses, and other resources and support to help them expand their personal goals, and eventually attain leadership roles in their professions and communities.
The 2022 Kaplan Leadership Scholars and their college acceptances include:
• Marlon Arteaga, Union County College, on to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill• Sybel Francois, Union County College, on to Claremont McKenna College• Belicia Kensah, Union County College, on to Rutgers University-New Brunswick• Ndongo Njie, Hostos Community College, on to Princeton University
Since KEF’s inception, Kaplan Leadership Scholars have been accepted to the country’s most competitive schools. This year, KEF has its first acceptances to Princeton University and Haverford College. Eighty-seven percent of Kaplan Scholars earn a bachelor’s degree.
"While COVID-19 continued to create challenges for our scholars, given the fact that the diverse and resilient talent that the nation needs to fuel the economy can be found in our community colleges, we felt it was particularly important that we remain committed to our mission and celebrate the achievements of our students at this time,” said Nolvia Delgado, executive director of KEF. “This year’s cohort continues to represent the wide diversity that exists in U.S. community colleges, including non-traditional age students, recent immigrants, first-generation and ESL learners, and others pursuing degrees in education, STEM, computer science, medicine, law and other fields. We’re excited to continue to remove barriers and provide greater access to higher education for talented, motivated individuals."
For more information on the Kaplan Leadership Scholars and how to apply to be a scholar, visit www.kaplanedlfoundation.org.
Westfield Public Schools
In its 20th year, the Extended School Year Program in the Westfield Public School District assists students in preschool through high school who have been identified as those who would benefit from additional instruction and related services during the summer.
The five-week, state-mandated ESY program, which ran from Wednesday, July 6, through Tuesday, Aug 9, helps to prepare students for the new school year.
“The ESY program provides a safe environment for students to review material from the previous year while maintaining and strengthening academic skills for the upcoming year,” said Alex Linden, ESY supervisor and a special education teacher at Edison Intermediate School. “The program also gives the students social opportunities to foster peer relationships with students from all of our schools across the district.”
Instructional specialists in reading, behavior/social skills, speech, occupational and physical therapy join special education teachers, paraprofessionals and a school nurse in administering the program. Many of the ESY staff are longtime educators and aides with Westfield Public Schools.
Twenty-seven students in grades 6-12 attend the ESY program at Westfield High School, each with a morning homeroom and a rotation schedule of core academic classes. Enrolled in the preschool through fifth grade ESY program at Wilson Elementary School are 101 students who also receive instruction in reading, writing, and mathematics, along with related services. An additional 24 ESY students at Wilson receive related services only, which can include OT, PT, speech, behavioral services and reading instruction through the Wilson Reading System.
Linden said, “We hope that our students come away from the ESY program prepared and with confidence as they enter the new school year.”
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Taco Bell approved in Manville next to cinema
MANVILLE – Taco Bell is coming to town.
The borough Land Use Board earlier this month finalized approval of the restaurant to join McDonald's and Popeyes on North Main Street in the Marketplace at Manville.
The 2,470-square-foot restaurant will be located across the Dukes Parkway entrance from McDonald's in the Reading Cinema parking lot.
Nirav Mehta, who will own the franchise, told the board he operates eight Taco Bells as well as Wendy's restaurants throughout New Jersey. He also said he started by operating 22 Dunkin Donuts outlets in Florida.
Mehta told the board the Taco Bell will open at 7 a.m. for breakfast will close at 2:30 a.m. The dining area will be open from 7 a.m.to 11 p.m. while the drive-thru will remain open later.
Mehta said he anticipates hiring a total of 30 full-time and part-time workers, with eight to 10 employees per shift.
At the Somerville Taco Bell on Route 22, he said, most of the employees are local and he anticipates the same in Manville.
Mehta said he chose the location because of the customer traffic generated by Walmart and Reading Cinema, as well as McDonald's and Popeyes.
He said he also hoped that the location near Adesa would also be good for business.
Mehta said he anticipated the Manville location will be one of highest volume Taco Bells that he operates.
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Elizabeth Dolan, the applicant's traffic expert, said at its busiest during lunch hour, the restaurant expects 65 to 70 patrons.
The restaurant will have 40 indoor seats and 10 outdoor seats.
The building will be two feet above the flood hazard elevation.
The shopping center, which also includes a Walmart, was built on the site of the former Johns-Manville plant which produced asbestos products.
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Behind the shopping center is the Adesa wholesale vehicle auction facility for professional car buyers and sellers.
According to the marketing material of National Retail, the shopping center's owner, within 5 miles of Marketplace at Manville are 52,568 households with an average annual household income of $124,859. More than 21,000 vehicles travel past the shopping center daily on North Main Street.
The nearest other Taco Bell restaurants are on Route 206 in Hillsborough and Route 22 in Somerville.
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Apartments, office planned for Perth Amboy convenience store expansion
PERTH AMBOY - A Brace Avenue convenience store is looking to expand by adding two apartments and an office to the building.
Applicant EF Abreu Supermarket LLC is seeking a waiver of minor site plan approval and variances from the city's Zoning Board of Adjustment at a 7 p.m. Sept. 8 meeting which will be held virtually on Zoom.
The applicant is looking to add two apartments and an office to the 1 1/2 story building at 621 Brace Ave., which houses a neighborhood convenience store, Abreu Supermarket and Deli. Details about the apartment and office were not included in the public notice.
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The applicant is seeking variance relief, site plan approval and parking. While 17 off-street parking spaces are required, nine exist, according to a public notice.
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Woodbridge wedding venue looks to expand with bridal suite, rooftop terrace
WOODBRIDGE - A Route 9 banquet hall is looking to expand by adding 1,500 square feet to the banquet room, and also create a second floor suite for newly married couples as well as a rooftop terrace.
Applicant Woodbridge Hospitality Group LLC, 1002 Route 9 north, which is also known as Lake Chateau Banquets, will appear before the Zoning Board of Adjustment 6 p.m. Sept. 8 seeking approval of an amended preliminary and final minor site plan with bulk and use variances.
The applicant is looking to add about 2,780 square feet on the main level, of which 1,561 square feet will be used to expand the existing banquet room with a double ceiling height. The remaining 1,219 square feet will be used for common areas like the bathrooms, vestibule, stairs and elevator, according to a public notice.
A 1,198-square-foot bride-and-groom suite is planned for the area above the expanded first floor common areas on the mezzanine level, along with 296 square feet of common area floor space. On the third floor terrace level a 5,848 square foot rooftop terrace and lounge is planned along with 915 square feet for bathrooms, storage and a common area.
The changes to the banquet hall will require approval of a variance for off-street parking. A total of 317 parking spaces are required for the hotel and banquet hall, which includes 137 for the hotel and 180 for the hall. Currently there are 212 on-site parking spaces, including 123 for the hotel and 89 for the banquet hall. Additional parking is planned by providing valet parking on site to increase parking by 20 vehicles and using an existing 28 parking spaces from an adjacent lot, according to the public notice.
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No changes or modifications to the hotel are planned.
Lake Chateau Banquets, formerly the site of The Forge Inn, specializes in weddings, baptisms, birthday and anniversary parties and corporate events in rooms and outdoor venues that can accommodates hundreds of guests.
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After the abrupt firing of almost 800 workers earlier this year, P&O will face no criminal proceedings, the Insolvency Service has confirmed. The ferry service saw great backlash back in March after hundreds of staff were made redundant, with such devastating news delivered to workers through a pre-recorded video message.
Within said video, a senior company executive explains that the job losses were necessary to keep P&O Ferries afloat after losses of £100 million each year over the past two years. Now, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has asked the Insolvency Service to investigate whether any offences had been committed, The Mirror reports.
In a statement, the Government agency said it had determined there was "no realistic prospect of a conviction". A spokesperson said: "After a full and robust criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the employees who were made redundant by P&O Ferries, we have concluded that we will not commence criminal proceedings."
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A civil investigation is ongoing. Labour accused the Government of breaking its pledge to hold P&O to account and warned of a repeat of the mass firing.
Shadow employment rights minister Justin Madders said: "For all the handwringing of Tory ministers, they've broken the promises they made after P&O's outrageous behaviour and instead changed the law to open the door for others to follow in their wake elsewhere.
"This outcome is a sign of a broken economy under the Tories and the fundamental weakness of employment protections under their Government." Nautilus International, a union which represents maritime professionals, said the Insolvency Service's decision will be a blow to the "discarded" workers.
General secretary Mark Dickinson said: "This is a deeply disappointing decision and will be met with frustration and anger by the 786 seafarers and their families who were so cruelly discarded by P&O Ferries. Only one day after P&O Ferries parent company announced record profits, making the company's claims on operational sustainability questionable, we are further let down by a system that fails to punish apparent criminal corporatism.
"The message is clear, P&O Ferries must be held properly accountable for their disgraceful actions and we will continue the campaign to ensure that the CEO and his fellow Directors are held to account and to make certain this can never happen again." During the hearings in Parliament the business admitted that it had broken the law that would have forced them to give notice of the firings.
This was because no unions would have accepted its new proposals, bosses said at the time. The firm's £325,000-a-year fatcat boss, Peter Hebblethwaite, who would not rule out accepting a bonus, insisted he would do the same again, claiming the sackings were necessary because “P&O was otherwise going to close”.
He told the Commons Business Select Committee: “There is absolutely no doubt we were required to consult the union. We chose not to do that. It was our assessment that the change was of such a magnitude that no union would possibly accept our proposal. I would make the same decision again.”
Commons transport committee chairman Huw Merriman called on the Government to legislate to prevent a repeat of the scandal. The Tory MP told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The law isn't strong enough and as MPs we need to legislate to make sure that it is.
"I still maintain their (P&O's) actions are a disgrace but the disgrace will be on Parliament if we don't fix it and stop it from happening again." A Government spokesperson told the BBC: "In sacking 800 dedicated staff on the spot, P&O Ferries not only acted callously but failed to uphold the high standards we expect of British businesses.
"Given their appalling behaviour, it's very disappointing that the company will not face criminal proceedings."
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Three people were critically injured when an man accused of drunken driving lost control of his car and plowed into three people on a Queens sidewalk, police said.
The 23-year-old driver was traveling westbound on Northern Boulevard at about 4:20 a.m. Saturday when his red BMW veered onto the sidewalk at 86th Street in Jackson Heights, cops said.
The BMW struck three men, ages 25, 28 and 32, “all on the sidewalk,” the NYPD said.
The injured were taken to Elmhurst Hospital in critical condition, an NYPD spokesman said.
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The United States is stepping up to buy about 150,000 metric tons of grain from Ukraine in the next few weeks for an upcoming shipment of food aid from ports no longer blockaded by war, the World Food Program chief has told The Associated Press.
The final destinations for the grain are not confirmed and discussions continue, David Beasley said. But the planned shipment, one of several the U.N. agency that fights hunger is pursuing, is more than six times the amount of grain that the first WFP-arranged ship from Ukraine is now carrying toward people in the Horn of Africa at risk of starvation.
Beasley spoke Friday from northern Kenya, which is deep in a drought that is withering the Horn of Africa region. He sat under a thorn tree among local women who told the AP that the last time it rained was in 2019.
Their bone-dry communities face yet another failed rainy season within weeks that could tip parts of the region, especially neighboring Somalia, into famine. Already, thousands of people have died. The World Food Program says 22 million people are hungry.
“I think there’s a high probability we’ll have a declaration of famine” in the coming weeks, Beasley said.
He called the situation facing the Horn of Africa a “perfect storm on top of a perfect storm, a tsunami on top of a tsunami” as the drought-prone region struggles to cope amid high food and fuel prices driven partly by the war in Ukraine.
The keenly awaited first aid ship from Ukraine is carrying 23,000 metric tons of grain, enough to feed 1.5 million people on full rations for a month, Beasley said. It is expected to dock in Djibouti on Aug. 26 or 27, and the wheat is supposed to be shipped overland to northern Ethiopia, where millions of people in the Tigray, Afar and Amhara regions have faced not only drought but deadly conflict.
Ukraine was the source of half the grain that WFP bought last year to feed 130 million hungry people. Russia and Ukraine signed agreements with the U.N. and the Turkish government last month to enable exports of Ukrainian grain for the first time since Russia’s invasion in February.
But the slow reopening of Ukraine’s ports and the cautious movement of cargo ships across the mined Black Sea won’t solve the global food security crisis, Beasley said. He warned that richer countries must do much more to keep grain and other assistance flowing to the hungriest parts of the world, and he named names.
“With oil profits being so high right now — record-breaking profits, billions of dollars every week — … the Gulf states need to help, need to step up and do it now,” Beasley said. “It’s inexcusable not to. Particularly since these are their neighbors, these are their brothers, their family.”
He asserted the World Food Program could save “millions of lives” with just one day of Gulf countries’ oil profits.
China needs to help as well, Beasley said.
“China’s the second-largest economy in the world, and we get diddly-squat from China,” or very little, he added.
Despite grain leaving Ukraine and hopes rising of global markets beginning to stabilize, the world’s most vulnerable people face a long, difficult recovery, the WFP chief said.
“Even if this drought ends, we’re talking about a global food crisis at least for another 12 months,” Beasley said. “But in terms of the poorest of the poor, it’s gonna take several years to come out of this.”
Some of the world’s poorest people without enough food are in northern Kenya, where animal carcasses are slowly stripped to the bone beneath an ungenerous sky. Millions of livestock, the source of families’ wealth and nutrition, have died in the drought. Many water pumps have gone dry. More and more thousands of children are malnourished.
“Don’t forget us,” resident Hasan Mohamud told Beasley. “Even the camels have disappeared. Even the donkeys have succumbed.”
With so many in need, aid that does arrive can disappear like a raindrop in the sand. Local women who qualified for WFP cash handouts described taking the 6,500 shillings (about $54) and sharing it among their neighbors — in one case, 10 households.
“The most interesting thing we hear is people saying, ‘We’re not the only ones,’” WFP program officer Felix Okech told the AP. “‘We’re the ones who have been selected (for handouts), but there are many more like us.’ So that is very humbling to hear.”
In a small crowd that had gathered to listen to stories of children too weak to stand and milk gone dry, one woman at the edge of the woven plastic mat spoke up. Sahara Abdilleh, 50, said she makes perhaps 1,000 shillings ($8.30) a week from gathering firewood, scouring a landscape that gives less and less back every day. Like Beasley, she was thinking globally.
“Is there any country, like Afghanistan or Ukraine, that is worse off than us?” she asked. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/us-buying-big-ukraine-grain-shipment-for-hungry-regions/ | 2022-08-20T14:27:54Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/us-buying-big-ukraine-grain-shipment-for-hungry-regions/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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