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LONDON (AP) — Conditions are dimming at many movie theaters around the world.
Cineworld Group PLC, one of the industry’s biggest theater operators, confirmed Monday that it’s considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S., as it contends with billions of dollars in debt and more empty seats in front of its screens than expected.
The British company, which owns Regal Cinemas in the United States and operates in 10 countries, said its theaters remain “open for business as usual” as it considers options for relief from its debt load. Cineworld said it expects to continue operating even after any potential filing, though its stock investors could face steep or total losses on their holdings.
Cineworld faces challenges specific to itself after building up $4.8 billion in net debt, not including lease liabilities. But the entire industry is navigating a tenuous recovery after the pandemic shut theaters worldwide.
To be sure, moviegoers have streamed back into theaters this year to see blockbusters like “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” and ”Jurassic Park: Dominion.” Industry giant Warner Discovery has said it’s doubling down on theaters and moving away from debuting films on its HBO Max streaming service.
But this summer’s $3.3 billion in ticket sales is still running nearly 20% behind the summer of 2019, before the pandemic, as of Sunday, according to data firm Comscore. And there don’t seem to be any big hits on the immediate horizon to make those numbers much better.
Cineworld said its admissions levels have recently been below expectations. And with a “limited film slate,” it expects the lower levels to continue until November. That would mean an additional crunch to its finances.
Cineworld said it’s holding talks with lenders and other major stakeholders as it reviews its financial options. It also said it expects “ultimately to continue its business over the longer term with no significant impact upon its employees.” It has about 28,000 workers, according to the company’s website.
Even if employees could make it through intact, shareholders may not. The company warned again Monday that a transaction to ease the debt on its balance sheet could hurt its stock investors.
The company’s stock in London tumbled 21.4% to the equivalent of roughly 3.8 U.S. cents. That followed a 58.3% plunge on Friday after The Wall Street Journal reported the company was preparing to file for bankruptcy protection within weeks.
Shares of other theater chains also stumbled Monday, but nowhere near as much as Cineworld. Cinemark Holdings fell 5.8% to $15.33, for example.
Its executives said earlier in August that the next two months will be challenged by a dip in new releases. But they also said they’re hopeful for a strong close of the year.
Rival AMC Entertainment has also called the upcoming film schedule relatively weak, though it’s optimistic about the end of the year and about 2023.
This year, about a third less wide-release films have been put into theaters as before the pandemic. Some of that has to do with residual delays in Hollywood’s production pipeline caused by earlier COVID-19 shutdowns and postponements. But it’s also because a lot of movies go straight to streaming.
One of the summer’s most-watched movies, the Ryan Gosling-Chris Evans action thriller “The Gray Man,” played on Netflix.
Unless films like Sony Pictures’ “Woman King,” with Viola Davis, or the buzzy Warner Bros. release “Don’t Worry Darling,” with Harry Styles and Florence Pugh, overperform expectations, the next month or two in theaters lack sure-things before “Halloween Ends” and “Black Adam” arrive in late October. Farther on the horizon, though, are a few sequels that could set box-office records: “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Nov. 11) and “Avatar” (Dec. 16).
AMC’s stock fell to $10.46 from $18.02 on Friday, though it had other factors impacting the shares. Monday marked the first day of trading for the company’s new preferred equity units, which have the ticker symbol “APE.”
Investors received one share of APE for every AMC share they owned at the end of Friday. Analysts said it was similar to a two-for-one stock split, a deal that often sees a company’s share price drop by roughly half. Analysts said the new APE shares offer AMC a way to raise cash in the future, which it could use to reduce its debt.
The company last year tapped the stock market to raise cash, taking advantage of a huge run-up in its share price when it got caught up the frenzy surrounding so-called meme stocks.
Its shares rose sixfold in January 2021 and then more than doubled that May and again in June. The gains were driven by hordes of amateur investors, with some referring to themselves as “apes” willing to hold the stock regardless of whether professional Wall Street called it a bad buy.
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AP Film Writer Jake Coyle contributed. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/cineworld-theater-chain-confirms-its-considering-bankruptcy/ | 2022-08-23T01:04:13Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/cineworld-theater-chain-confirms-its-considering-bankruptcy/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 41 |
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A new natural gas discovery off Cyprus’ southern coast that is estimated to contain around 2.5 trillion cubic feet of the hydrocarbon bolsters Europe’s efforts to secure alternative energy sources, the Cypriot energy ministry said Monday, as a supply crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to trouble the continent.
The ministry said in a statement that the discovery by partners Eni of Italy and France’s Total was made at the Cronos-1 well 160 kilometers (100 miles) off the coast in 2,287 meters (7,500 feet) of water inside Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone and is the second deposit that the Eni-Total consortium has discovered there.
The consortium hasn’t provided any estimates regarding how much natural gas is contained in the initial “Calypso” field found in 2018. But Eni said in a statement Monday that the Cronos-1 discovery “can unlock additional potential in the area” and is part of the company’s “successful effort to provide further gas supply to Europe.”
The Cronos discovery brings the number of deposits found off Cyprus to four — two by Eni-Total, one by ExxonMobil and partners Qatar Petroleum estimated to hold 5-8 trillion cubic feet of gas and another by Chevron and partners Shell and Israeli NewMed Energy that contains up to 4.4 trillion cubic feet.
The Energy Ministry said the Eni-Total consortium’s drill ship Tungsten Explorer has now relocated to a new well target to “assess the quantities of gas with greater precision.”
The Cypriot government has said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine provided an additional impetus to the search for alternative fuel sources, especially after the European Union confirmed that natural gas could act as a bridge fuel until 2050 as part of the bloc’s transition to cleaner energy.
Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said the EU’s drive to wean itself off Russian gas further entrenches Cyprus’ inclusion into the 27-member bloc’s energy planning.
Pilides said the fact that the new discovery is in an area adjacent to where ExxonMobil is drilling could pave the way for cooperation with the Eni-Total consortium.
She added that the most likely scenario for getting gas to European markets remains conveying it through a pipeline to Egyptian processing plants for liquefaction and then transporting it by ship. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/cyprus-says-new-gas-discovery-aids-europes-energy-search/ | 2022-08-23T01:04:24Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/cyprus-says-new-gas-discovery-aids-europes-energy-search/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 34 |
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A new natural gas discovery off Cyprus’ southern coast that is estimated to contain around 2.5 trillion cubic feet of the hydrocarbon bolsters Europe’s efforts to secure alternative energy sources, the Cypriot energy ministry said Monday, as a supply crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to trouble the continent.
The ministry said in a statement that the discovery by partners Eni of Italy and France’s Total was made at the Cronos-1 well 160 kilometers (100 miles) off the coast in 2,287 meters (7,500 feet) of water inside Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone and is the second deposit that the Eni-Total consortium has discovered there.
The consortium hasn’t provided any estimates regarding how much natural gas is contained in the initial “Calypso” field found in 2018. But Eni said in a statement Monday that the Cronos-1 discovery “can unlock additional potential in the area” and is part of the company’s “successful effort to provide further gas supply to Europe.”
The Cronos discovery brings the number of deposits found off Cyprus to four — two by Eni-Total, one by ExxonMobil and partners Qatar Petroleum estimated to hold 5-8 trillion cubic feet of gas and another by Chevron and partners Shell and Israeli NewMed Energy that contains up to 4.4 trillion cubic feet.
The Energy Ministry said the Eni-Total consortium’s drill ship Tungsten Explorer has now relocated to a new well target to “assess the quantities of gas with greater precision.”
The Cypriot government has said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine provided an additional impetus to the search for alternative fuel sources, especially after the European Union confirmed that natural gas could act as a bridge fuel until 2050 as part of the bloc’s transition to cleaner energy.
Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said the EU’s drive to wean itself off Russian gas further entrenches Cyprus’ inclusion into the 27-member bloc’s energy planning.
Pilides said the fact that the new discovery is in an area adjacent to where ExxonMobil is drilling could pave the way for cooperation with the Eni-Total consortium.
She added that the most likely scenario for getting gas to European markets remains conveying it through a pipeline to Egyptian processing plants for liquefaction and then transporting it by ship. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/cyprus-says-new-gas-discovery-aids-europes-energy-search/ | 2022-08-23T01:04:24Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/cyprus-says-new-gas-discovery-aids-europes-energy-search/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 34 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge Monday to halt the FBI’s review of documents recovered from his Florida estate earlier this month until a neutral special master can be appointed to inspect the records.
The request was included in a federal lawsuit, the first filing by Trump’s legal team in the two weeks since the search, that takes broad aim at the FBI investigation into the discovery of classified records at Mar-a-Lago and that foreshadows arguments his lawyers are expected to make as the probe proceeds.
The lawsuit casts the Aug. 8 search, in which the FBI said it recovered 11 sets of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, as a “shockingly aggressive move.” It also attacks the warrant as overly broad, contends that Trump is entitled to a more detailed description of the records seized from the home and argues that the FBI and Justice Department has long treated him “unfairly.”
“Law enforcement is a shield that protects America. It cannot be used as a weapon for political purposes,” the lawyers wrote Monday. “Therefore, we seek judicial assistance in the aftermath of an unprecedented and unnecessary raid” at Mar-a-Lago.
In a separate statement, Trump said “ALL documents have been previously declassified” — though he has not produced evidence to support that claim — and described the records as having been “illegally seized from my home.” The Justice Department countered in a terse three-sentence statement pointing out that the search had been authorized by a federal judge after the FBI presented probable cause that a crime had been committed.
The filing requests the appointment of a special master not connected the case who would be tasked with inspecting the records recovered from Mar-a-Lago and setting aside those that are covered by executive privilege — a principle that permits presidents to withhold certain communications from public disclosure.
In some other high-profile cases — including investigations involving Rudy Giuliani and Michael Cohen, two of Trump’s personal attorneys — that role has been filled by a former judge.
“This matter has captured the attention of the American public. Merely ‘adequate’ safeguards are not acceptable when the matter at hand involves not only the constitutional rights of President Trump, but also the presumption of executive privilege,” the attorneys wrote.
The lawsuit argues that the records, created during Trump’s White House tenure, are “presumptively privileged.” But the Supreme Court has never determined whether a former president can assert executive privilege over documents, writing in January that the issue is unprecedented and raises “serious and substantial concerns.”
The high court turned down Trump’s plea to block records held by the National Archives from being turned over to the Jan. 6 committee, saying then that his request would have been denied even if he had been the incumbent president, so there was no need to tackle the thorny issue of a former president’s claims.
The lawsuit paints Trump as “fully cooperative” and compliant with investigators, saying members of his personal and household staff were made available for voluntary interviews and quoting him as telling FBI and Justice Department officials during a June visit to Mar-a-Lago, “Whatever you need, just let us know.”
But the chronology of events makes clear that the search took place only after other options to recover classified documents from the home had been incomplete or unsuccessful. In May, for instance, weeks before the search, the Justice Department issued a subpoena for records bearing classification markings.
The Trump team’s lawsuit was assigned to U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who was nominated by Trump in 2020 and confirmed by the Senate 56-21 later that year. She is a former assistant U.S. attorney in Florida, handling mainly criminal appeals.
The months-long investigation, which burst into public view with the Mar-a-Lago search, emerged from a referral from the National Archives, which earlier this year retrieved 15 boxes of documents and other items from the estate that should have been turned over to the agency when Trump left the White House. An initial review of that material concluded that Trump had brought presidential records and several other documents that were marked classified to Mar-a-Lago.
FBI and Justice Department officials visited Mar-a-Lago in June and asked to inspect a storage room. Several weeks later, the Justice Department subpoenaed for video footage from surveillance cameras at the estate. After the meeting at Mar-a-Lago, investigators interviewed another witness who told them that there were likely additional classified documents still at the estate, according to a person familiar with the investigation who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.
Separately Monday, a federal judge acknowledged that redactions to an FBI affidavit spelling out the basis for the search might be so extensive as to make the document “meaningless” if released to the public. But he said he continued to believe it should not remain sealed in its entirety because of the “intense” public interest in the investigation.
A written order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart largely restates what he said in court last week, when he directed the Justice Department to propose redactions about the information in the affidavit that it wants to remain secret. That submission is due Thursday at noon.
Justice Department officials have sought to keep the entire document sealed, saying disclosing any portion of it risks compromising an ongoing criminal investigation, revealing information about witnesses and divulging investigative techniques. They have advised the judge that the necessary redactions to the affidavit would be so numerous that they would strip the document of any substantive information and make it effectively meaningless for the public.
Reinhart acknowledged that possibility in his Monday order, writing, “I cannot say at this point that partial redactions will be so extensive that they will result in a meaningless disclosure, but I may ultimately reach that conclusion after hearing further from the Government.”
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Associated Press writers Curt Anderson in St. Petersburg, Jill Colvin in New York and Mark Sherman in Washington contributed to this report.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Afghan refugee charged in the slayings of two Muslim men is facing new charges in connection with the shooting death of another man in the parking lot of a refugee resettlement agency earlier this month.
A grand jury indicted Muhammad Syed in the three killings Monday. He’s also a suspect in the shooting death of a Muslim shop owner in November 2021, but he has yet to be charged in that case.
The indictment includes the deaths of Aftab Hussein and Muhammad Afzaal Hussain. Hussein, 41, was slain on the night of July 26 after parking his car in the usual spot near his home. Afzaal Hussain, a 27-year-old urban planner who had worked on the campaign of a New Mexico congresswoman, was gunned down on Aug. 1 while taking his evening walk.
In the Aug. 5 killing, authorities have accused Syed of shooting Naeem Hussain as he sat in his vehicle outside Lutheran Family Services, the resettlement agency, following funeral services for two of the other shooting victims. Shots were fired at Hussain’s SUV around 4 p.m., striking him in the head and the arm.
Syed, 51, has denied any involvement in the killings that shook New Mexico’s Muslim community, and his defense attorneys argued during a court hearing last week that he had no criminal record since previous domestic violence cases against him were not pursued.
Prosecutors argued that Syed was a dangerous man. A state district agreed, ordering Syed to be held without bond pending trial.
The indictment made public Monday also includes four counts of tampering with evidence related to the three killings that Syed has been charged with.
“Our homicide detectives continue to work with prosecutors to ensure all victims receive justice in this tragic case,” Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina said in a statement.
Syed’s public defenders declined to comment on the latest charges.
Albuquerque police detectives obtained surveillance video that showed a gray sedan fleeing the scene after Naeem Hussain was shot. Tips from the public and additional surveillance video helped detectives identify the vehicle and they named Syed as the owner of the car.
Syed was arrested Aug. 8 more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) from his Albuquerque home. He told authorities he was on his way to Texas, citing the ambush-style killings as his concern.
According to the initial criminal complaint filed by Albuquerque police, investigators determined that bullet casings found in Syed’s vehicle matched the caliber of the weapons believed to have been used in the July 26 and Aug. 1 killings and that casings found at the crime scenes were linked to guns found at Syed’s home and in his vehicle.
Federal authorities in court filings have pointed to cellphone records and accused one of Syed’s sons of possibly helping his father track Naeem Hussain before he was killed. Shaheen Syed’s attorney has argued that those accusations were thin and dismissed prosecutors’ claims that the younger Syed provided a false address when purchasing a gun from a local shop in 2021. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/afghan-refugee-faces-murder-charge-in-third-muslim-killing/ | 2022-08-23T01:07:48Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/afghan-refugee-faces-murder-charge-in-third-muslim-killing/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NIKOPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has already killed some 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers since it began nearly six months ago, a general said, and the fighting Monday showed no signs that the war is abating.
At a veteran’s event, Ukraine’s military chief, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, said many of Ukraine’s children need to be taken care of because “their father went to the front line and, perhaps, is one of those almost 9,000 heroes who died.”
In Nikopol, across the river from Ukraine’s main nuclear power plant, Russian shelling wounded four people Monday, an official said. The city on the Dnieper River has faced relentless pounding since July 12 that has damaged 850 buildings and sent about half its population of 100,000 fleeing.
“I feel hate towards Russians,” said 74-year-old Liudmyla Shyshkina, standing on the edge of her destroyed fourth-floor apartment in Nikopol that no longer has walls. She is still injured from the Aug. 10 blast that killed her 81-year-old husband, Anatoliy.
“The Second World War didn’t take away my father, but the Russian war did,” noted Pavlo Shyshkin, his son.
The U.N. says 5,587 civilians have been killed and 7,890 wounded in the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on Feb. 24, although the estimate is likely an undercount. The U.N. children’s agency said Monday that at least 972 Ukrainian children have been killed or injured since Russia invaded. UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said these are U.N.-verified figures but “we believe the number to be much higher.”
U.S. President Joe Biden and the leaders of Britain, France and Germany pleaded Sunday for Russia to end military operations so close to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant — Europe’s largest — but Nikopol came under fire three times overnight from rockets and mortar shells. Houses, a kindergarten, a bus station and stores were hit, authorities said.
There are widespread fears that continued shelling and fighting in the area could lead to a nuclear catastrophe. Russia has asked for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to discuss the situation — a move “the audacity” of which Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy decried in his evening video address.
“The total number of different Russian cruise missiles that Russia used against us is approaching 3,500. It is simply impossible to count the strikes of Russian artillery; there are so many of them, and they are so intense,” Zelensky said Monday.
Western nations had already scheduled a council meeting on Wednesday — the six-month anniversary of the Russian invasion — on its impact on Ukraine.
Vladimir Rogov, an official with the Russia-installed administration of the occupied Zaporizhzhia region, claimed that because of shelling from Ukraine, staffing at the nuclear plant had been cut sharply. Ukrainians say Russia is storing weapons at the plant and has blocked off areas to Ukrainian nuclear workers.
Monday’s announcement of the scope of Ukraine’s military dead stands in sharp contrast to Russia’s military, which last gave an update on March 25 when it said 1,351 Russian troops were killed during the first month of fighting. U.S. military officials estimated two weeks ago that Russia has lost between 70,000 to 80,000 soldiers, both killed and wounded in action.
On Monday though, Moscow turned its attention to one specific civilian death.
Russia blamed Ukrainian spy agencies for the weekend car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow that killed the daughter of a far-right Russian nationalist who ardently supports the invasion of Ukraine.
Russia’s Federal Security Service, the main successor to the KGB, said Monday the killing was “prepared and perpetrated by the Ukrainian special services.” It charged that the bombing that killed 29-year-old TV commentator Darya Dugina, whose father, political theorist Alexander Dugin, is often referred to as “Putin’s brain,” was carried out by a Ukrainian citizen who left Russia for Estonia quickly afterward.
Ukrainian officials have vehemently denied any involvement in the car bombing. Estonian officials say Russia has not asked them to look for the alleged bomber or even spoken to them about the bombing.
On the front lines, the Ukraine military said it carried out a strike on a key bridge over the Dnieper River in the Russian-occupied Kherson region. Local Russia-installed officials said the strike killed two people Monday and wounded 16 others.
Photos on social media showed thick plumes of smoke rising over the Antonivskiy Bridge, an important supply route for the Russian military in Kherson.
On the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula, anxiety has been spreading following a spate of fires and explosions at Russian facilities over the past two weeks. The Russian-backed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, ordered that signs showing the location of bomb shelters be placed in the city, which had long seemed untouchable.
Razvozhaev said on Telegram the city is well-protected but “it is better to know where the shelters are.”
Sevastopol, the Crimean port that is the home of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, has seen a series of drone attacks. A drone exploded at the fleet’s headquarters on July 31, and another was shot down over it last week. Authorities said air-defense systems have shot down other drones as well.
On Monday evening, Sevastopol residents reported hearing loud explosions on social media. Razvozhaev said the air-defense system had shot down “an object … at high altitude.”
“Preliminary (conclusion) is that it is, again, a drone,” he wrote on Telegram.
Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t directly mention the war during a speech Monday marking National Flag Day but echoed some of the justifications cited for the invasion.
“We are firm in pursuing in the international arena only those policies that meet the fundamental interests of the motherland,” Putin said. He maintains that Russia sent troops into Ukraine to protect its people against the encroaching West.
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FREDERICKSBURG , Texas (AP) — Part of why Terry Hamilton says he abruptly left his job running elections deep in Texas wine country is by now a familiar story in America: He became fed up with the harassment that followed the 2020 election.
But this was no ordinary exit.
On the brink of November’s midterm elections, it was not just Hamilton who up and quit this month but also the only other full-time election worker in rural Gillespie County. The sudden emptying of an entire local elections department came less than 70 days before voters start casting ballots.
By the middle of last week, no one was left at the darkened and locked elections office in a metal building annex off the main road in Fredericksburg. A “Your Vote Counts” poster hung in a window by the door.
A scramble is now underway to train replacements and ground them in layers of new Texas voting laws that are among the strictest in the U.S. That includes assistance from the Texas Secretary of State, whose spokesperson could not recall a similar instance in which an elections office was racing to start over with a completely new staff. But the headaches don’t stop there.
The resignations have more broadly made the county of roughly 27,000 residents — which overwhelmingly backed former President Donald Trump in 2020 — an extraordinary example of the fallout resulting from threats to election officials. Officials and voting experts worry that a new wave of harassment or worse will return in November, fueled by false claims of widespread fraud.
Hamilton, who has clashed with poll watchers in Gillespie County in past elections, said he didn’t want to go through it again.
“That’s the one thing we can’t understand. Their candidate won, heavily,” Hamilton said. “But there’s fraud here?”
He declined to discuss the nature of the threats in a phone interview, referring questions to the county attorney, who did not respond to a phone message. Gillespie County Sheriff Buddy Mills said neither his department nor police in Fredericksburg had received information about threats from elections officials.
Hamilton worked under Anissa Herrera, the former county elections administrator whose resignation was first reported by the Fredericksburg Standard Radio Post. “I was threatened, I’ve been stalked, I’ve been called out on social media,” she told the outlet. “And it’s just dangerous misinformation.”
The departures pile on the examples across the U.S. of how death threats, harassment and unfounded accusations have driven local election officials from their jobs. Citing the potential effect on democracy, the U.S. Department of Justice launched a task force last year to address rising threats against election officials.
They are familiar to many election workers in Texas, which has been at the vanguard of a Republican campaign nationwide to tighten election laws in response to Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was rigged. Supporters are easy to find in Gillespie County, a popular getaway to booming vineyards and vacation rentals in the scenic Texas Hill Country, which is a short day trip from the state’s liberal capital in Austin but separated by a gulf politically. In 2020, Trump won the county with nearly 80% of the vote.
But the resignations surprised Mo Saiidi, chairman of the Gillespie County GOP, who said recent elections had run smoothly. Hamilton said run-ins with poll watchers traced back to 2020 but said other issues weighed on the office, including what he contended was was a lack of support from the county. He also recently decided to run as a write-in candidate for county treasurer, which he said required him to step down.
Saiidi believes funding played a role. “They had some differences and they couldn’t come to a closure, and they decided in frustration to just quit,” said Saiidi, who also serves on the county’s election commission.
A survey released in March by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law found that one in three election officials knows someone who has left a job in part because of threats and intimidation, and that one in six had experienced threats personally.
In Texas alone, at least 37 election administrators since the 2020 election have left what were previously stable positions, said Trudy Hancock, president of the Texas Association of Elections Administrators, citing a presentation she had seen. There are 254 counties in Texas, not all of which have dedicated election administration offices.
Threats are not all that’s making the job tougher in Texas. A sweeping new voting law gives wide latitude to partisan poll watchers and threatens election workers with criminal charges for denying them access. The same law put new restrictions on mail voting but made a messy debut during Texas’ first-in-the-nation primary in March, when more 23,000 mail ballots were discarded outright as voters struggled to navigate the new rules.
It underscores the challenges a new staff will face getting up to speed under a time crunch. For now, Saiidi said the county clerk and tax assessor have been discussed as possible fills-in.
Hancock, who is also the elections administrator in Brazos County, said her workers could previously take angry calls as voters blowing off steam. “But in this climate and the things that go on now, we have to take everything serious and at face value,” she said.
Less than 24 hours after the office in Gillespie County officially cleared out, the resignations were front of mind at a pavilion in Fredericksburg, where Democrat Beto O’Rourke had swung through in his campaign to unseat Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
Roger Norman, 60, felt the election was still in good hands but called threats a pattern of intimidation. Outside, at a counter rally of Trump supporters, welder Abel Salazar said he had no concerns with elections in the heavily conservative county and that interest in poll watching was high.
“There are a lot of people that have been volunteering,” Salazar, 53, said.
Hamilton said deadlines in his old office are already creeping up.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s losing presidential candidate Raila Odinga has filed a Supreme Court challenge to last week’s election result, asserting that the process was marked by criminal subversion and seeking that the outcome be nullified and a new vote be ordered.
Odinga arrived to cheers Monday and helped to hoist boxes of material for the petition into place, starting the 14-day period in which the court must rule. At least two other petitions were filed by human rights figures.
Deputy President William Ruto was declared the winner of the close Aug. 9 election with almost 50.5% of votes. The peaceful election turned chaotic in the final minutes before the declaration when the electoral commission split and a majority of commissioners said they couldn’t support the result.
The dissenting commissioners and the chairman have traded accusations of misconduct, extending the uncertainty in East Africa’s most stable democracy. Until then, the election had been seen as the country’s most transparent, with the commission posting more than 46,000 results forms online from polling stations for anyone to do the math themselves.
The petition filed by Odinga’s team, seen by The Associated Press, names the electoral commission, its members and Ruto himself. It asserts “premeditated unlawful and criminal subversion of the integrity and constitutionality of the electoral process in order to assist and secure a fraudulent result.”
The petition singles out commission chairman Wafula Chebukati, who declared Ruto the winner, asserting that he “set out to subvert the sovereign will of the people of Kenya and overthrow the constitutional order” by declaring results that had not been completely tallied and verified. Twenty-seven constituencies allegedly left out would have affected the outcome, the petition says.
The petition also alleges manipulation of some results forms and computer data and asserts that the actions made the difference in the close election in which Odinga received almost 49% of votes.
A lawyer working with Odinga, James Orengo, told journalists he has worked on several such petitions and “this one, I can assure you, is a bombshell” in its allegations of criminal conduct against the commission chair.
Odinga in brief comments after the filing alleged the existence of vague “corruption cartels” that he believes “are killing our hard-won democracy” and seeking to return Kenya to a one-party state. Odinga is famous for his years-long detention while fighting the one-party state in the 1980s under former President Daniel Arap Moi — the young Ruto’s mentor.
This is the 77-year-old Odinga’s fifth and likely final try at the presidency. His court challenge to the 2017 election — also overseen by Chebukati — led to the court overturning the result over irregularities, a first in Africa. He boycotted the new election, but his challenge led to reforms this time around.
President Uhuru Kenyatta backed former rival and longtime opposition leader Odinga against his own deputy, Ruto, with whom he bitterly fell out years ago. He still hasn’t spoken publicly since he cast his vote. Kenyatta spokeswoman Kanze Dena didn’t reply when asked when he might make a statement. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/kenya-presidential-vote-loser-files-supreme-court-challenge/ | 2022-08-23T01:09:33Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/kenya-presidential-vote-loser-files-supreme-court-challenge/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Superman & Lois’ Jordan Elsass Says He May Be Done With Acting
Last week, The CW and Warner Bros. TV announced that Superman & Lois‘ Jordan Elsass will not return for the upcoming third season. Elsass had been a part of the show since the beginning as Jonathan Kent, one of the twin sons of Clark Kent and Lois Lane. While the network revealed it will recast Jonathan for season 3, Elsass’ social media accounts have been silent since his departure. Regardless, Elsass has finally opened up about some of his reasons for stepping away from the show.
Via Heroic Hollywood, Elsass left a video message for a fan on Cameo that shed some light on his departure. He also suggested that the reason he left was to focus on his mental health.
“It’s been a tough few weeks,” said Elsass. “It’s sad, it’s a real shame. I know that I was pumped for season 3, certainly. But what are you going to do? Anyway, mental health is definitely a 100 percent priority. There’s no question that is priority. It’s pinnacle. It’s got to take precedence. And mine has been … the last couple of years … it’s been rough. I need some time to myself.”
RELATED: Jordan Elsass Leaves Superman & Lois Ahead of Season 3
That may be why Elsass went on to suggest that he may step away from acting entirely.
“I’m still debating whether I’m even going to act for a while,” added Elsass. “I may not. I may kind of go in a different direction. [And] I know that’s going to be disappointing to some people. Not even just ‘fans.’ but people in my close circle…They may not say they’re disappointed…but in reality I have a lot of people that got my back who were really rooting for me. To see me start over and maybe try something new, I think is gonna shock some people. It’s probably the most shocking to me.”
“You know, going into a new field and really starting from scratch, because I never really did anything else,” continued Elsass. “I started acting when I was 12…and that’s all I’ve ever done. So going in a whole new direction would be really interesting. I think it could be worth it.”
For now, there’s no word on who will replace Elsass as Jonathan Kent on the series. Superman & Lois season 3 will premiere in early 2023.
What do you think about Elsass’ remarks? Let us know in the comment section below!
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Recommended Reading: Superman: Lois and Clark
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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Changes Development Teams
It’s been almost a full year since Lucasfilm announced that a high-definition remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic was in development as a PlayStation 5 exclusive. But amid reports that the game is facing some challenges behind the scenes, Bloomberg now claims that the project is changing hands to a different studio. Although originally set up at Aspyr Media, the remake is reportedly in the hands of Saber Interactive.
Lucasfilm released the first trailer for Knights of the Old Republic Remake during a PlayStation event held last September. Although no actual gameplay footage was shown, Star Wars fans delighted in seeing one of the game’s main characters, Darth Revan, brought to life using modern graphics technology. Bloomberg says that Aspyr worked on the game for at least a year prior to the trailer’s release. But last month, their sources claimed the studio put the project on hold after firing its art and design directors. The company was also said to be looking for “new contracts and development opportunities” following the move.
This latest news comes one week after Aspyr’s Swedish parent company, Embracer Group AB (which also owns Saber), issued a “cryptic statement” in its latest earnings report. The statement said “One of the Group’s AAA projects has transitioned to another studio within the Group. This was done to ensure the quality bar is where we need it to be for the title.”
RELATED: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake Brings Back Jennifer Hale as Bastila Shan
Saber will reportedly lead development on KOTOR at one of its Eastern European locations. Fortunately, Saber already has experience with remakes of high-profile video games. In 2011, the company worked with 343 Industries on Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and later assisted with the development of Halo 2: Anniversary, which was included as part of The Master Chief Collection in 2014. Saber’s developers have also lent their expertise to several remastered titles in the Crysis franchise.
Many of the details surrounding Knights of the Old Republic Remake are shrouded in secrecy. However, Jennifer Hale is confirmed to be reprising her voice role as Bastila Shan from the original game, which hit stores in 2003. Other voice actors from the first game are expected to come back as well. However, the developer switch will likely delay the remake into a 2024 release or even later.
How do you feel about Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic switching studios? Let us know in the comment section below!
Recommended Reading: Star Wars Omnibus: Knights of the Old Republic Vol. 1
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ORLANDO, Fla. (Aug. 22, 2022) Team Marine Corps cyclists are awarded medals at the 2022 DoD Warrior Games, Aug. 22, 2022. The Warrior Games are composed of over 200 wounded, ill and injured service members and veteran athletes, competing in 12 adaptive sporting events Aug. 19-28, 2022 at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Disney in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class George M. Bell)
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A levee was breached Monday in a small town near the Arizona-New Mexico state line, forcing the evacuations of 60 people after a weekend of flash floods across the American Southwest that also swept away one woman who is still missing in Utah’s Zion National Park.
In Duncan, a rural Arizona town located about 180 miles (290 kilometers) from Phoenix, weekend rains overwhelmed a dirt-barrier levee built more than a century ago to contain the Gila River, putting the town under inches of water. As many as 60 residents have evacuated, Fire Chief Hayden Boyd said. Water had already begun to recede, but more needed to before the town is safe to return to, Boyd added.
The flooding incident was among several to recently wreak havoc on a drought-stricken region that spans from Dallas, Texas to Las Vegas, Nevada — stranding tourists, closing highways and funneling trees and rocks toward downtowns. Heavy rains pummeled the Dallas-Fort Worth area, causing streets to flood and submerging vehicles as officials warned motorists to stay off the roads.
And rescue teams in southern Utah expanded their search for a lost hiker who found herself stranded amid torrential flooding. The episode illustrated how deteriorating weather conditions can transform the region’s striking landscapes enjoyed by millions — including its striking canyons made of red rock and limestone — from picture-worthy paradises into life-threatening nightmares.
Rangers said their area that teams were searching for Jetal Agnihotri, a 29-year-old from Tucson, Arizona, now includes parts of the Virgin River that flow out from the southern border of Zion National Park, where the Virgin River flows the southward toward the town of Hurricane. Agnihotri was among a group of hikers who were swept away by floodwaters rushing through a popular hiking location in one of the park’s many slot canyons. Both the National Weather Service and Washington County, Utah, had issued flood warnings for the area that day.
All of the hikers except Agnihotri were found on high ground and were rescued after water levels receded. Her brother told a local television station she could not swim.
Zion National Park is among the United States’ most visited recreation areas even though it frequently becomes hazardous and is put under flood warnings by the National Weather Service. Floods can create danger for experienced hikers and climbers as well as the many novices who have flocked to the park since the pandemic bolstered an outdoor recreation boom. Despite warnings, flash flooding routinely traps people in the park’s slot canyons, which are as narrow as windows in some spots and hundreds of feet deep.
“Once you’re in there, you’re just kind of S.O.L. if (a flash flood) happens,” said Scott Cundy, whose Arizona-based trekking company takes visitors on guided tours through the park.
Cundy vividly remembers one year when he was taking a group on a tour and turned to see a wall of water plunging toward them. They rushed to reach high ground in the Grand Canyon, a two-hour drive from Zion. Until moments before, he hadn’t seen one cloud in the sky. “It happens very fast,” he said. Given the topography, Cundy will cancel trips if there’s even a hint of rain in the narrow canyons of Zion.
Farther southeast, nearly 200 hikers had to be rescued in New Mexico, where flooded roads left them stranded in Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
In parks like Zion and Carlsbad Caverns, flooding can transform canyons, slick rocks and normally dry washes into deadly channels of fast-moving water and debris in mere minutes. In previous years, walls of water as tall as buildings have engulfed vehicles, rolled boulders, torn out trees and opened sinkholes where solid ground once stood.
In September 2015, similar storms killed seven hikers who drowned in one of Zion’s narrow canyons.
During that same storm, bodies of another 12 people were found amid mud and debris miles away in the nearby town of Hildale, Utah, a community on the Utah-Arizona border. A group of women and children were returning from a park in two cars when a wall of water surged out of a canyon and swept them downstream and crashing into a flooded-out embankment, with one vehicle smashed beyond recognition. Three boys survived. The body of a 6-year-old boy was never found.
Elsewhere, businesses and trails remained closed in the town of Moab, Utah, which was overwhelmed with floodwaters over the weekend. Trees, rocks and red-orange mud washed into town, with floodwaters carrying cars along the town’s Main Street.
Though much of the region remains in a decades-long drought, climate change has made weather patterns more variable and left soils drier and less absorbent, creating conditions more prone to floods and monsoons.
Flooding has swept parts of southern Utah in and around Moab and Zion throughout the summer, causing streams of water to cascade down from the region’s red rock cliffs and spill out from the sides of riverbanks.
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State Police Calls: Shippenville Man Bit By Loose German Shepherd
CLARION CO., Pa. (EYT) – Clarion-based State Police responded to the following calls:
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Shippenville Man Bit By Loose German Shepherd
According to PSP Clarion, this incident occurred around 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 17, at a property on North Second Street, in Shippenville Borough, Clarion County.
Police say Daniel Miller’s German Shepherd dog got loose, went to the neighboring property, and bit a 70-year-old Shippenville man in the forearm causing injury.
Miller, age 62, was cited for a dog law violation at District Court 18-3-03.
Police Investigate Undetermined Death in Madison Township
Pennsylvania State Police in Clarion were requested to respond to a residence located on McNaughton Road, in Madison Township, Clarion County, for the purpose of conducting a death investigation.
The victim is a 49-year-old Rimersburg man.
This investigation remains open pending the results of the autopsy and toxicology testing.
The incident occurred sometime between 12:01 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. on July 9, 2022.
PSP Clarion released the above reports on Friday, August 19, 2022.
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7-Day Weather Forecast for Clarion County
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Today – Showers likely before noon, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between noon and 2pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight – Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 10pm. Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 61. Light west wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday – A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 78. Northwest wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Tuesday Night – Mostly clear, with a low around 56. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Wednesday – Sunny, with a high near 82. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night – Mostly clear, with a low around 58.
Thursday – Sunny, with a high near 85.
Thursday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 60.
Friday – Mostly sunny, with a high near 82.
Friday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 59.
Saturday – Sunny, with a high near 83.
Saturday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 62.
Sunday – Mostly sunny, with a high near 84.
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Celebrating History: on 100th Anniversary of Football in New Bethlehem, Redbank Valley Honoring the Past
NEW BETHLEHEM, Pa. (EYT/D9) — Warren G. Harding was President. Yankee Stadium was under construction in the Bronx. Betty White was born…
And so was high school football in New Bethlehem.
The year was 1922. New Bethlehem was still a fledgling town located on what was once 50 acres of wilderness tucked in the elbow of the Redbank Creek, founded in 1930 by Henry “Gum” Nolf.
By 1922, “Gumtown” was flourishing. High school football was also gaining a foothold in the country as more and more schools formed teams.
New Bethlehem went 3-5 in that inaugural season. There were wins over Falls Creek, Knox, and Reynoldsville, and defeats against DuBois, Ford City, and Clarion Normal.
In a century since, there have been good years and bad, legendary players and coaches, and a lot of history.
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This year, Redbank Valley will celebrate 100 years of football. Players and coaches are aware of what that means to the school and the community.
“I mean, it’s just crazy to think about that, that it’s been 100 years,” said Redbank Valley senior wide receiver/defensive back Cole Bish. “It makes you think about and realize we’re not really playing for ourselves. We’re playing for this town. The football team has been here for 100 years, so you’re playing for history, not just this year.”
(The 1942 New Bethlehem football team)
Mason Clouse knows a little bit about the history of the program.
His father, Alan played for Redbank Valley.
“He’s told me a lot,” Mason said. “Football has definitely changed from no to back when he played. It’s definitely more advanced now.”
Back in 1922, the game was unrecognizable from the one being played today.
The NFL was only two years old. Just two decades earlier, the game was nearly banned in the United States because of its unbridled violence. Newspaper articles of the day compared it to gladiatorial combats in ancient Rome.
The field was littered with injured players. Noses smashed. Eye gouged. Bones broken.
President Theodore Roosevelt saved the game by helping institute an array of rules to make the game safer, such as the forward pass.
In 1922, though, most high school teams stuck to the ground, still in tight formations.
New Bethlehem was no different.
The program enjoyed its first winning season in 1925 when New Bethlehem went 5-3-1.
One of the best seasons in the 100 years of football at the school came a few years later in 1930. The team was 8-0-2 under coach W.K. Dunton. During that campaign, New Bethlehem didn’t give up a single point, outscoring foes 248-0.
There were two scoreless ties in back-to-back weeks to end the season, against Rimersburg and Apollo.
“When we were looking at the history, that 1930 team jumped out,” said Redbank Valley football coach Blane Gold. “Not giving up a single point in 10 games — that’s crazy. That’s absolutely ridiculous, no matter the era.”
(Redbank Valley quarterback Jake Dougherty broke the team’s record for career passing yards in 2014.)
In 1950, the New Bethlehem school district became Redbank Valley.
That first year for the Bulldogs under coach Howard Jones, the team went 4-4-1.
Gold said he and his coaches have tried to make the players aware of the history.
Some already got a taste of it three years ago when the program notched its 500th win in 2019.
“We’ve talked about it with them, bits and pieces,” Gold said. “We we took over the program (in 2019), our goal was we wanted to build the most recognizable program in Clarion County and then branch out from that. When I think about the most recognizable football programs, for example, in District 9, I think of Karns City. I think of Clearfield. I think of Ridgway. We’re taking steps to get there.”
That discussion inevitably begins with the rich history of football in New Bethlehem.
The program has had far more winning seasons than losing ones over 100 seasons.
Coming into the 100th year of football, the team has posted a record of 525-373-45. That’s a healthy .585 winning percentage over a century.
“I think a thing that’s unique about it is it’s 100 years with a winning record,” Gold said. “You look at it, over those 100 years, that’s over five wins a season. When you talk about high school football, where there’s constantly change and turnover, and when you talk about a small school like us, the fact that the community has had winning football for 100 years, it says a lot.”
Only five District 9 programs have more wins than Redbank Valley.
DuBois, which fielded its first team in 1903, leads the way wit 631 victories. Clearfield (1904) is next with 617, followed by Ridgway (1897) with 591, Bradford (1893) with 563 and Curwensville (1893) with 563.
(Marquese Gardlock was a big part of a Redbank Valley football team that advanced to the PIAA Class A championship game last season.)
Redbank Valley is by far the youngest of that group.
The Bulldogs want to keep adding to that victory total.
“We talk about it all the time, about how it’s really on each senior class to carry the tradition forward. There’s been a lot of winning tradition before us.”
The seniors take that seriously.
“I think it’s special being her for the 100th year,” said senior Brandon Ross. “We have to play for our community and everybody here who has supported us.”
To commemorate the 100 years, one side of the Redbank Valley helmet will have a New Bethlehem logo depicting and interlocking N and B.
Another nod to history.
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Central Clarion Looking to Build on Strong Finish to 2021 After Tumultuous Start Due to Schedule Changes, Early Setbacks
CLARION, Pa. (EYT/D9) – After a season of switching opponents and uncertainty of games being played, the 2021 Clarion Wildcats finished 4-6 overall, losing to Karns City in the opening round of the District 9 playoffs.
The 2022 edition of the Wildcats with head coach Dave Eggleton is hoping for a turnaround, even after losing 12 seniors to graduation.
“At this point, we’re hoping to get through our first scrimmage and our first game, which would automatically be a drastic improvement over how last season started,” said Eggleton. “We lost a lot to graduation, but we feel we have a lot of talented people coming back who gained a lot of experience last season.”
One of the biggest returning players is quarterback Jase Ferguson, who will enter his sophomore season.
Ferguson completed 107 of 194 passes for 1,620 yards. He threw 18 touchdown passes with 13 interceptions as a freshman. He also rushed for four touchdowns.
“Jase has had a great offseason,” said Eggleton. “He’s probably put on about 20 pounds while I think he’s grown about two inches. He’s pushing 180 pounds now. I didn’t think he played like a freshman last season, especially toward the end of the season. He looks so much more mature than a sophomore. He does so much next-level stuff, like getting the guys in the right spots and making an audible if he feels there will be a better result. He’s one of those kids whom a defense can do everything right and he can still make them pay.”
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Besides Ferguson at quarterback, other projected starters for the 2022 Wildcats include: Tyler Klugh, a senior who returns after a year off, at center. Jake Smith, a junior could also see time there. Returning starter Coleman Slater (Jr.) and Matt Alston (So.) with Owen Bauer (Jr.) also seeing time. Colby Wright (Jr.) returns at a tackle spot along with Jimmy Kerr (So.). Tommy Smith (Jr.) is expected to be the starting tight end. He caught 11 passes for 110 yards with one touchdown. Noah Naser (Jr.) is a returning fullback who gained 70 yards in six games played last season.
Eggleton feels he has a pretty fast group of players who could see time at the various running back spots.
Brady Quinn (Jr.) gained 24 yards on just four carries last year. Ryan Hummell (Sr.) gained 351 yards on 67 carries with four touchdowns. He also caught 21 passes for 144 yards with one score. Connor Kopnitsky (Sr.) is back after taking a year off.
Ashton Rex (Sr.) is back at a wide receiver spot. He caught 21 passes for 445 yards with five touchdowns last season. Dawson Hotchkiss (Sr.) caught three passes for 64 yards. Dawson Smail (Jr.) is back after a season off. Kohen Kemmer (So.), and Mason Burford (Fr.).
“Tyler Klugh is a really strong, athletic kid at center,” said Eggleton. “At guard, we have Coleman Slater and Matt Alston. Slater is a tough kid while Alston is a young kid, but also a tough kid. Josh Duncan a sophomore could see some time at guard as well. Colby Wright and Jimmy Kerr should be our tackles. Wright is a returning starter while Kerr is a big, athletic kid whom we’re really excited to see what he can do. Tommy Smith is a returning player at tight end.
“We have a very fast group of running backs,” continued Eggleton. “Brady Quinn, Connor Kopnitsky, and Ryan Hummell who can play a variety of positions as he’s that talented.
“Ashton Rex is a fast kid who returns as one of our top receivers from last season. Dawson Hotchkiss who is very fast, Dawson Smail, who played very well as a freshman and anyone who follows Clarion baseball knows what kind of an athlete he is. Kohen Kemmer is a sophomore who probably runs the best routes on the team, and he also has very good hands. We’re also excited to see what freshman Mason Burford can do. He’s tall and he’s fast. He’s a mix of his brothers, who played at Clarion before him.”
Defensively the Wildcats look to have Slater and Kerr line up at the defensive end with John Burke a senior who could step in, as well. The interior line should see a mix of Josh Duncan, Colby Wright, Owen Bauer, Tyler Klugh, and Matt Alston.
Inside linebackers could include Naser, Hummell, Braylon Beckwith (So.) Hayden Hindman (Fr.).
Outside linebackers Brady Quinn, Tommy Smith, Dawson Smail, or Connor Kopnitsky.
Defensive backs should include Hotchkiss and Rex at the corner spots with Ferguson, Quinn, or Tommy Smith at the safety spots.
“One thing about our team is we have 47 players, so we don’t have a second team group. It’s more like a 1A and a 1B group,” said Eggleton. “We have pretty much two players for every position so we should be able to do a good job of keeping guys fresh this season.”
Thomas Ukert (So.) and possibly Alex Barrett (So.) should serve as the kickers for the team with Ashton Rex doing the punting.
“Most teams have trouble finding one kicker, and we actually have two we could use,” said Eggleton. “Thomas hit a 50-yard field goal in practice the other day, so he has a really big leg who can serve us well with field goals or especially getting kickoffs deep or even in the end zone.”
As far as the team strengths go, Eggleton said: “Our athletes are our biggest strength. Our depth I feel will serve as another strength. I feel our line on both sides of the ball is going to surprise people even though we have some inexperience there.
“We had a really good offseason program this season with as many as 25 kids participating in our voluntary workouts. As far as goals for the season goes, we’re just … looking forward to the Brookville game. As always though the long-term goal is to try and win a KSAC and a District 9 championship.”
Clarion is scheduled to host Brookville on Friday at the C-L High School football field.
Prior to that game, the team will honor the late Jim Williamson, who coached a variety of sports, along with being a teacher, at C-L for many years.
“I was lucky enough to have Coach Williamson as my defensive line coach,” said Eggleton. “It was great because I learned a lot not just about football, but about coaching from him. The players all played hard for him because he was a great motivator, and he was one of those types of guys you didn’t want to disappoint. This is going to be a very special night for me and I’m glad we were able to put it together. It’s a well-deserved tribute.”
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Clarion County Adoptable Pet of the Week: Baby Girl
Monday, August 22, 2022 @ 12:08 AM
This week’s Clarion County Adoptable Pet of the Week sponsored by the Top Tier Federal Credit Union: Baby Girl.
Baby Girl is an adult female Staffordshire Bull Terrier and Boxer mix.
She is house-trained, spayed, and her vaccinations are up-to-date.
According to Tri-County Animal Rescue Center, Baby Girl is friendly, athletic, and playful.
For more information on her, please email Tri-County Animal Rescue Center at [email protected] or call 814-918-2032.
Clarion County Adoptable Pet of the Week is sponsored by Top Tier Federal Credit Union.
Visit Top Tier Federal Credit Union at http://www.toptierfcu.org/ for more information.
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Clarion County Photo of the Day
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Which white Crocs are best?
Crocs may have started with the basic clogs, but over the years have pushed into a range of comfortable and stylish shoes. For those who like attracting even more attention, white Crocs are available. They may be a touch harder to clean, but the brilliant white is worth it. You can even customize white Crocs to really be attention-getting.
The best white Crocs are the Crocs LiteRide 360 Clogs. They have all the same properties as the original Crocs but with a shiny new look and increased comfort.
What to know before you buy white Crocs
White Crocs types
White Crocs come in a variety of styles.
- Clogs are the original design. They have several large holes along the front and top to let water out for fast drying and a heel strap to keep it secured, though the strap can also be moved out of the way. Today there are multiple substyles of clogs, including ones without any holes or different styling of holes, ones lined with fur and “boots” with drawstring nylon pouches that go up past the ankle.
- Sandals differ from most sandals in that the two top straps aren’t adjustable on Crocs. To make up for this, some Crocs sandals include the adjustable heel strap.
- Flip-flops are identical to other flip-flops, they’re just made of Crocs’ proprietary material.
- Slides are identical to other slides, except the top strap is hole-punched like most Crocs.
- Platforms take another style such as clogs or sandals and add thicker soles to both, increasing cushioning and height.
- Sneakers are Crocs take on the style. They use a mix of Crocs’ proprietary materials to have the same quick-drying, extra-cushioned, floating properties but with more security.
Sizing
Most adult Crocs are unisex in sizing, though there are some exceptions. There are also kids’ sizes. Additionally, Crocs doesn’t use half sizes.
What to look for in quality white Crocs
Fit
Crocs shoes have three fits.
- Standard fit has the Crocs placed snuggly against the entire foot. It shouldn’t feel tight; if it does it’s too small.
- Relaxed fit opens up the toe box but stays snug across the rest of the foot.
- Roomy fit adds space around the entire foot for those who prefer the loosest feel.
Material
Crocs shoes use a variety of special materials. Some of the most common are:
- CrocsLite is the main proprietary material that all Crocs are at least partially made from, and the reason Crocs cost more than similar shoes. It’s a closed-cell resin that mimics foam and rubber and is buoyant and durable.
- LiteRide is Crocs technological leap in outsole comfort. Many of Crocs recent shoes use it.
- MatLite is used for the upper of Crocs’ sneakers. It’s extra flexible to let the foot move naturally and comfortably.
How much you can expect to spend on white Crocs
They can cost as little as $20 to as much as $80. Kids’ shoes and styles with less material such as slides and sandals cost the least while sneakers cost the most. The average Crocs cost $30-$50.
White Crocs FAQ
How do I keep white Crocs clean?
A. Crocs are easy to keep clean. No matter the style, all you need is to give them a good scrub with a soft cloth and a mixture of soap and warm water. Some styles such as the original clogs can be safely machine-washed. Always double-check if your Crocs are machine-safe before doing so.
Can I customize white Crocs?
A. Yes. In fact, it’s common to do so. The best supplies to use are latex or acrylic paint. These take time to dry and set, meaning if you make a mistake, you can just wash it off and start again. This also means you need to protect them while they dry.
You can also use permanent markers on your Crocs. These set immediately and can be removed with rubbing alcohol if you make a mistake. This doesn’t have quite the same pop as paint, which is a pro or a con, depending on your vision.
What are Jibbitz?
A. Jibbitz are special charms made by Crocs that you can slip into the large holes found on most of its shoes. Many Crocs styles include one or more Jibbitz. They come in just about any form you can imagine, including superheroes, animals, inanimate objects, etc. You can also find or order custom Jibbitz on websites such as Etsy.
What are the best white Crocs to buy?
Top white Crocs
What you need to know: This is the suped-up version of the classic clogs for even more comfort.
What you’ll love: The LiteRide insole pushes the comfort up to the max and the fresh design of the upper looks sleeker than the original large-holed look. They have a roomy fit. The ankle straps have two holes for fitting up to four Jibbitz overall.
What you should consider: The Jibbitz placement may cause some irritation on your heel, and a few purchasers wished there were more cushioning in the heel, too.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top white Crocs for the money
What you need to know: It doesn’t get more simple — or more comfortable — than a good pair of slides.
What you’ll love: The midsole is covered with little bumps to help your feet stick to the shoe, and the outsole is grooved for extra traction. There are several shades of white to choose from, as well as pairs with extra color or a special design.
What you should consider: Several customers reported these feeling too tight and recommended ordering a size up. Others reported them feeling oddly stiff with less cushioning than expected.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Kohl’s
Worth checking out
Crocs LiteRide 360 Pacer Sneakers
What you need to know: These sneakers are perfect for when you need something more secure on your feet.
What you’ll love: The upper is made of MatLite to stay flexible and match the natural movements of your feet while the outsole is made of LiteRide foam for superior cushioning and comfort. There’s space for one Jibbitz on each shoe, just under the last line of laces.
What you should consider: A few purchases had issues with the laces slowly cutting through the eyelets. Others reported the laces as being too long.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Clarion County Recipe of the Day: Sweet Potato Waffles
Pecan topping will really make the flavor of these special sweet potato waffles stand out!
Ingredients
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon ground cardamom
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 large eggs, separated
1 cup sour cream
1 cup cold mashed sweet potatoes
1/2 cup whole milk
1/4 cup butter, melted
3/4 cup chopped pecans
Maple syrup, optional
Directions
-In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, cardamom, and salt. In another bowl, whisk the egg yolks, sour cream, sweet potatoes, milk, and butter; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in pecans.
-In a small bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form; fold into batter. Bake in a preheated waffle iron according to the manufacturer’s directions until golden brown. Serve with syrup.
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What is the best silver cleaner?
Pure silver is naturally soft and often combined with other metals to protect its beauty. This combination, though, can lead to tarnishing that requires a silver cleaner to restore the original shine. Some cleaners have powerful chemicals for the most tarnished pieces, but there are less toxic, chemical-free options for everyday use.
For its scratch-free formula that can be used on silver and multiple other metals, the best silver cleaner is Wright’s Silver Cleaner and Polish Cream.
What to know before you buy silver cleaner
There are different types of silver
Most kinds of silver are combined with another metal, usually copper, to form an alloy. This combination can become tarnished by moisture or pollutants over time.
- Sterling silver is mixed with copper and most found in jewelry and tableware. It is between 92.5%-95% pure silver. A similar combination is used for coin silver. Many silver products from other countries are made from this combination.
- Plated silver is a thin layer of silver placed over a base of another metal. Silver-plated items are attractive but delicate, because the silver can wear off over time. They must be handled gently when cleaning.
- Antique silver is darker and used in jewelry that commonly has an oxidized finish. Extra care is needed to avoid removing the finish. Cleaning cloths gently applied to the jewelry are the best option.
- Fine silver is used in trinkets and 99.9% pure silver. It is soft and won’t usually tarnish due to its purity.
There are different types of silver cleaner
- Polish, also called cream, is reserved for large tarnish-removing jobs. It is wiped on and buffed out. It requires medium exertion and should be used sparingly on plated silver.
- Wipes are easy to use and come in a single-serve format. They aren’t messy and can be used on most silver items.
- Cloths are best suited for small items. One side has cleaning solution embedded in the fibers, and the other side is used for buffing.
- Dips are excellent for deep tarnish removal. They are commonly used with flatware or rings. The item is submersed in the liquid and then either rinsed or rubbed with a cloth, as instructed.
- Sprays work well on large items and even silver-plated pieces. They require wiping but no rinsing. Sprays are an easy method for distributing large volumes of silver cleaner at one time.
There are different ways to display silver
The best way to store and display silver is inside a glass case with an airtight door. This keeps air from circulating and protects your silver from moisture and pollutants. If you have to display or use a piece outside of the case, keep it away from the kitchen.
What to look for in silver cleaner
Cleaning method
Look for the method that is gentlest on your items and easiest for you to perform. Read the instructions carefully and always err on the side of gentle pressure.
Cleaning formula
Ammonia-based formulas are effective but can be harsh on your skin and the environment. There are many nontoxic, ammonia-free formulas available. Look for the cleaner that completes the job effectively but safely.
Cleaning other metals
Some silver cleaners also clean other metals like gold, copper, steel, brass and platinum. Review the instructions to make sure you can use it on other metals.
How much you can expect to spend on silver cleaner
Silver cleaners are priced between $4-$20 depending on the type of cleaner and the quantity per container.
- Cleaning cloths are $5-$8.
- Polishes and foams are $4-$15.
- Dips are $8-$15, with full kits priced closer to $20.
- Wipes are $6-$16 depending on the quantity per canister.
- Sprays are $12-$17.
Silver cleaner FAQ
Can you make your own silver cleaner?
A. A simple solution of a half-cup of white vinegar and two tablespoons of baking soda creates a dip for items to be submerged in for one hour and then gently rubbed off. They should then be rinsed. Commercial products are still the better option, though, since they have been formulated for specific silver items.
What’s the best way to polish silver?
A. Always use a small amount of cleaner with a clean cloth or brush. Work the cleaner into your item in small circular motions that move vertically along the item. Follow the manufacturer’s instructions for buffing and rinsing.
What’s the best silver cleaner to buy?
Top silver cleaner
Wright’s Silver Cleaner and Polish Cream
What you need to know: From a long-trusted brand, this cleaner works on many metals and leaves a protective covering to prevent future tarnishing.
What you’ll love: The no-scratch formula is gentle on silver. Free of ammonia, the cream works on silver, steel, chrome, pewter and porcelain. It can even repair scratched DVDs and CDs. A polishing cloth is included.
What you should consider: Application can get messy and takes time to work through.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top silver cleaner for the money
What you need to know: This affordable polish works quickly with just one application and a follow-up rinse.
What you’ll love: No rubbing or scrubbing is required with the easy wipe-and-rinse process. It can be used as a cleaning dip for small items. It’s safe for gems and jewelry in addition to other silver items.
What you should consider: The odor is intense and unpleasant.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Worth checking out
Mayflower Products Pro Size Polishing Cleaning Cloth
What you need to know: This innovative cleaner is nontoxic and free of chemicals. It comes with two pre-treated cloths for the initial polish and follow-up.
What you’ll love: The cloths are made of cotton fiber and can be used on silver, gold and platinum. There is no mess to clean up. The cloths work well on all sizes of items. They are American made, with a 60-day return policy.
What you should consider: This cleaner is made primarily for silver and not other metals.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Louisa M. Detar
Louisa M. Detar, 88, Falls Creek, passed away Friday, August 19, 2022 at Penn Highlands DuBois.
Born July 24, 1934, in Ashland Township, she was the daughter of the late Eugene and Ruth (Barlett) Sanders.
On December 6, 1952, she married Richard M. “Dick” Detar at the Salem Lutheran Church. He survives.
Louisa was a graduate of Salem Township High School. She was a homemaker, provided private nursing care to patients, and was a nurse’s aid at the hospital.
Louisa was a member of the Falls Creek United Methodist Church.
She loved the Lord with all of her heart and was a good Christian lady.
Louisa participated in the church’s Women’s Club, attended Bible study faithfully, and was a Sunday school teacher.
Additionally, she was a member of the Falls Creek Women’s Club.
Louisa loved her family and enjoyed spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
In addition to her husband, Louisa is survived by four children, Deborah (Dennis) Elnitsky, Brockway, Marcia (Robert) Price, Elizabethtown, PA, Richard A. “Rick” (Cindy) Detar, Falls Creek, and David (Toni) Detar, Bridgeville, PA; ten grandchildren, Mike (Susan), Becky, Daniel (Jennifer), Patricia, Katherine (Andrew), Thomas, Jason (Meredith), Tracee (Nelson), Matthew, and Andrew; ten great-grandchildren, Katherine, Andrew, Madelynn, Daniel, Ryder, Garrett, Olivia, Teagan, Dillon, and Dominic, and three siblings, Gary Sanders, Ashland Township, Dale (Kathy) Sanders, Seneca, PA, and Diane Shreffler, Salem Township.
Louisa was preceded in death by her parents and her brothers, John and Glenn Sanders.
A Celebration of Life is planned for a later date at the Falls Creek United Methodist Church.
Arrangements have been entrusted to the Adamson Funeral Chapel and Crematorium in DuBois.
Memorial donations may be made to the Falls Creek UMC, P.O. Box 286, Falls Creek, PA 15840 or to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital at www.stjude.org.
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Marjorie J. Goodwill
Monday, August 22, 2022 @ 07:08 AM
Marjorie J. Goodwill, 80, of Oil City, PA, passed away Saturday August 20, 2022 at her home.
She is survived by her husband, Guy(Spike) Goodwill, and daughter, Deborah Hershberger, and, son Guy Goodwill Jr.
Online condolences can be shared by visiting www.reinselfuneralhome.com.
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Melvin L. Porter
Melvin L. Porter, 69, former resident of Franklin, died Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh; following a period of declining health.
He was born January 19, 1953 in Franklin, a beloved son to the late Terry M. & Barbara J. (Beers) Porter.
Following High school, he worked at Polk Center, and at Vision Quest as a cook for the wagon train locally, and then was a cook at the Holy Cow Casino in Las Vegas, NV.
He was survived by his son, Stephen M. & his wife Erika A. (Dantone) Porter of Ravenna, OH and his daughter, Crystal R. (McQuiston) Westlake & husband James A. Westlake and his grand-daughter Ariana M. Knox of Oil City. His sisters: Sandy & her husband Bob Peterson; Kathy & her husband Roger Duck; Terry Lee & her husband Ronald Weyand; Dorothy (Jean) Guthrie, all of Franklin & a brother, Mike & his wife Diane Porter of Rocky Grove; in addition to many loving nieces, nephews, extended family members and friends.
Melvin enjoyed playing the drums, listening to music, and listening to the scanner.
He loved cooking and would make homemade noodles, ham & bean soup, sausage gravy and biscuits and his famous pizza burgers, just to name a few, for those he loved.
He also enjoyed playing the lottery, watching TV, and talking on the phone.
He especially enjoyed spending time with his family and friends, and he will be missed by all.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his good friend, Floyd Collins whom he enjoyed spending time with and went to pow-wows with.
Upon Melvin’s request, there will be no public viewing.
He will be laid to rest at the Graham Cemetery in Franklin, and a private ceremony will be held for the family only.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Timothy E. Hartle Funeral Home, 1328 Elk Street, Franklin.
Please visit: www.hartlefuneralhome.com for further information and to leave a note of condolence.
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Pickup Strikes Embankment, Goes Airborne in Toby Township Crash
TOBY TWP., Pa. (EYT) – A pickup traveled off the roadway, struck an embankment, and went airborne when a New Bethlehem man lost control of it on Summerville Road in Toby Township last Thursday evening.
According to Clarion-based State Police, the crash occurred around 5:57 p.m. on Thursday, August 18, on Summerville Road, near Elder Road, in Toby Township, Clarion County.
Police say 22-year-old Bradford L. Schmader, of New Bethlehem, was traveling north on Summerville Road and lost control of his 2005 Chevrolet Colorado. It went off the roadway on the east berm, then struck an embankment, went airborne, and landed on the east berm, facing north.
Schmader and his passenger–32-year-old Michael A. Brown II, of Rimersburg– were using seat belts and were not injured.
According to police, Schmader was cited for failing to drive the vehicle at a safe speed.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The world’s newest and biggest space telescope is showing Jupiter as never before, auroras and all.
Scientists released the shots Monday of the solar system’s biggest planet.
The James Webb Space Telescope took the photos in July, capturing unprecedented views of Jupiter’s northern and southern lights, and swirling polar haze. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to swallow Earth, stands out brightly alongside countless smaller storms.
One wide-field picture is particularly dramatic, showing the faint rings around the planet, as well as two tiny moons against a glittering background of galaxies.
“We’ve never seen Jupiter like this. It’s all quite incredible,” said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, of the University of California, Berkeley, who helped lead the observations.
“We hadn’t really expected it to be this good, to be honest,” she added in a statement.
The infrared images were artificially colored in blue, white, green, yellow and orange, according to the U.S.-French research team, to make the features stand out.
NASA and the European Space Agency’s $10 billion successor to the Hubble Space Telescope rocketed away at the end of last year and has been observing the cosmos in the infrared since summer. Scientists hope to behold the dawn of the universe with Webb, peering all the way back to when the first stars and galaxies were forming 13.7 billion years ago.
The observatory is positioned 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth.
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Say What?!: USA Mullet Championships Seeks America’s Best Mullets
Monday, August 22, 2022 @ 12:08 AM
Voting is underway for the kids and teens divisions of the USA Mullet Championships, an annual contest to find the best “business-in-the-front, party-in-the-back” haircuts in the country.
The online polls to pick the best kid mullet and teen mullet in the United States opened Monday and will close Friday.
Read the full story here.
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SPONSORED: ’10 Days to Deal’ Event Is Happening Now at Clarion Ford, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep & Ram
Monday, August 22, 2022 @ 12:08 AM
CLARION, Pa. – Take advantage of Clarion Ford, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep & Ram’s “10 Days to Deal” event happening now through August 22nd.
Stop by Clarion Ford for some of the biggest incentives on new 2022 V6 Ram pickups going on now through August 22nd.
Check out the new 2022 Ram 1500 Big Horn Crew Cab in stock now at https://www.clarionchryslerdodgejeep.com/
Visit them on Main Street in Clarion for friendly smiles during normal business hours or at the all-new website: www.clarionauto.com.
Remember: “Nobody Beats Us!”
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Thousands of Manchester United fans angry at the direction of the club under its American owners took part in a protest ahead of the Premier League game against Liverpool on Monday.
The supporters chanted against the Glazer family — “We want Glazers out” — and held banners calling for the Americans to sell United as they walked from a nearby pub to the club’s storied Old Trafford stadium during the hour before kickoff of one of the biggest matches in English soccer, which United won 2-1 for its first points of the season.
Many supporters around the ground were wearing green-and-gold scarves — the colors of the club’s 1878 formation — and some also set off flares. There appeared to be a robust police presence on Sir Matt Busby Way at the entrance to the stadium forecourt.
The players from both teams, including United’s Cristiano Ronaldo, arrived at the ground before the protest started.
Discontent has soared following United’s poor start to the season, which has seen the team lose both of its games — 2-1 at home to Brighton and a 4-0 humiliation at Brentford.
The target of the majority of the anger is the Glazer family, which bought United in 2005 with a leveraged takeover that loaded debt onto a club which previously didn’t have any. Critics say the Glazers, who also own the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers, have failed to invest enough of their own cash in the squad or facilities and have presided over years of failure by England’s biggest team.
Payments on interest, debt and dividends to the Glazers are estimated to have cost United more than 1 billion pounds.
“They are ruining the history, traditions and culture of our great club and (we) will not stand by and watch our club rot away any longer,” said The 1958, a fans’ group that arranged Monday’s protest.
Dissent toward the ownership, which has simmered since the 2005 takeover, erupted in May last year when a home league game against Liverpool had to be called off after the stadium — empty because of pandemic restrictions — was stormed before the game and thousands more supporters blocked access into Old Trafford. Two police officers were injured in clashes with fans.
That protest was sparked by the club’s involvement in the failed European Super League breakaway that collapsed amid a groundswell of condemnation from fans and the British government.
The Glazers pledged to rebuild trust with United fans in the wake of that protest but there has been little evidence of that. Joel Glazer, a co-chairman, met in person with United fans in June 2021 and outlined his intentions to invest heavily in all aspects of the club and strengthen fan representation in the decision-making process.
Last week, Jim Ratcliffe, the majority shareholder of chemical group Ineos and one of Britain’s richest people, expressed an interest in buying United, soon after Elon Musk tweeted — jokingly, as it turned out — that he wanted to do the same.
The latest protest appeared to pass off without any major incident, though some items were thrown toward Liverpool’s team bus as it arrived at Old Trafford.
United won the last of its record 20 English league titles in 2013, the year managerial great Alex Ferguson retired. In recent years, two of United’s biggest rivals, Manchester City and Liverpool, have dominated the domestic game.
United hasn’t won a major trophy in five seasons, its worst run since the early 1980s, despite the club having spent $1.5 billion on players since 2013.
United’s latest signing, Brazil midfielder Casemiro, arrived at Old Trafford earlier Monday ahead of the Liverpool match and was introduced to fans on the field before kickoff as his transfer was being confirmed by the club. He is reportedly costing $60 million, with the club scrambling to bring in players in the final days of the transfer window.
This season has started badly, too, under Erik ten Hag, its fifth manager since Ferguson. There are already question marks over the Dutch coach’s tactics and team selection.
The future of star striker Ronaldo is also uncertain after he pushed to leave during the offseason because United didn’t qualify for the Champions League.
Ronaldo was dropped to the bench against Liverpool, along with club captain Harry Maguire.
The changes were validated, with United delivering a performance of intensity and sealing victory thanks to goals by Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford.
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SPONSORED: Dancer’s Studio Performing Arts Christian Preschool
CLARION, Pa. (EYT) – With students across the country gearing up to go back to school, Dancer’s Studio in Clarion is getting ready to open the doors to an all-new preschool program with a focus on the arts and movement.
Dancer’s Studio Performing Arts Christian Preschool (DSPACP) is located within Dancer’s Studio at 609 Main Street in Clarion. This program will be a unique preschool experience for children and their parents.
DSPACP Believes in Developing Students’ Creative Gifts
DSPACP believe in developing students’ creative gifts and providing opportunities for them to flourish. Along with traditional academic and social learning, their program is a comprehensive Christian Performing Arts program that includes ballet, tap, tumbling, music, and art.
Dancer’s Studio owner AJo Gallagher told exploreClarion.com, “We’re super excited to offer a Pre-K program that is not only Christian-based but also performance-based. Our students will be covering the school curriculum, Bible ballet, tap, tumbling, and music while having fun along the way.
“Our staff is incredible and so eager to meet their students.”
DSPACP Uses Pa. Early Learning Standard for Pre-K
Dancer’s Studio’s facility features four clean, comfortable, fun, and inviting classroom spaces.
The DSPACP curriculum is designed by the Performing Arts Preschool Director and staff using the Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Pre-K. The curriculum focuses on the whole child, addressing social, emotional, academic, and creative learning. It is finely tuned to the needs of preschoolers and nurtures analytical and creative thinking. The preschool class encourages learning by engaging children in fun, hands-on experiences that enhance a child’s cognitive development.
Equipped as a working performing arts studio, DSPACP offers children, ages three to five, the opportunity to experiment with a broad range of fellowship and art through music, dance, crafts, and more.
About DSPSCP Lead Teacher – Joy Horner
Leading the staff is Joy Horner who has spent many years in the teaching business and is completely on board when it comes to learning through art and movement.
“I believe completely in hands-on, interactive learning, especially in preschool,” Joy said. “I tell the parents from day one, don’t expect a bunch of worksheets to come home because kids don’t learn a ton from worksheets. They learn from actually doing.”
With over 10 years of experience teaching preschool children, Joy has taught Head Start, Pre-K Counts, Building Blocks Preschool, and has spent time working in Early Intervention with children with developmental delays.
“We focus a lot on the kids asking questions, and how to find answers to their questions,” Joy explained. “Even more important than (standard learning) is the social and emotional parts of being able to learn. Like, being able to follow directions, being able to problem solve and work with peers, and being able to be given directions and follow those directions.”
With a passion for preschool, Joy is excited to pass along her excitement of learning to the students at DSPACP.
DSPACP Learning Style Is Not Gender Specific
She stresses the fact that this learning style is not gender specific and wants to knock down the barriers.
“The benefits of dance and music are the same no matter what your gender is,” she said. “I know a lot of people think of dance as a girl thing, but it definitely isn’t. Even if you take the academics out and look at just the dance, the flexibility, and body awareness, as well as the physical benefits, do not matter what your gender is.
“Research shows that kids that are involved in music and movement perform academically above their peers from preschool all the way through college. And, that doesn’t matter what your gender is.”
DSPACP Staff Ready for First Year
Both AJo and Joy are excited about their first year.
“It’s going to be a lot of fun, and I’m excited to see the program grow over the years,” Joy stated. “I think it will be a really nice asset to the community, and something different for parents.”
AJo echoed Joy’s sentiments and added, “I’m hoping this program will succeed and foster the love of arts in younger children, all while glorifying God and helping them reach their fullest potential.”
Classes at Dancer’s Studio Performing Arts Christian Preschool (DSPACP) will be held inside Dancer’s Studio beginning Tuesday, August 30. Class time is 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Tuition for the preschool performing arts program is $300.00 a month. Students enrolled in DSPACP have the opportunity to participate in several fundraisers throughout the year to help offset their tuition expenses, with all individual profits going towards their own tuition.
Register for Classes
Registration information can be found online at www.dancersstudioclarion.com.
For more information, visit Dancer’s Studio Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DancersStudioStars/
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Panthers are turning to quarterback Baker Mayfield to lead their offense.
Coach Matt Rhule announced Monday that Mayfield will start Carolina’s Sept. 11 regular-season opener against his former team, the Cleveland Browns — a decision that had been anticipated for several weeks.
Mayfield, acquired in a trade with the Browns earlier this offseason, beat out incumbent starter Sam Darnold for the starting quarterback job.
“When we started this process, we were looking at three things,” Rhule said. “Number one, mastery of the offense, number two, situational football excellence, and number three, moving the ball and getting guys involved. That’s been our focus all along. Baker has made a lot of improvement, a lot of growth in all three areas in a short amount of time.”
Mayfield was known as a fiery competitor during his four years with the Browns, and said Monday the chip on his shoulder “is back.”
“I feel extremely healthy, so I’m ready to go,” Mayfield said. “I’m loving football again and a fresh start is great for everyone every once in awhile. I am just going to take this opportunity and make the most of it and not take it for granted.”
Rhule said he’s been impressed with how quickly Mayfield has picked up new coordinator Ben McAdoo’s offense after joining the team on July 6.
“It’s not easy what he did — between the verbiage and the checks and all of the options that we give him. We think he’s a really smart guy,” Rhule said. “As he stays in the offense he will grow and grow and grow and get better and better and better.”
Both Mayfield and Darnold came into the league as the No. 1 and No. 3 overall picks in the 2018 draft, but Mayfield has enjoyed more success.
Mayfield is 29-30 as an NFL starter with 92 touchdown passes and 56 interceptions; Darnold is 17-32 as a starter with 54 TD passes and 52 INTs.
Mayfield led the Browns to an 11-5 record in 2020 and a first-round playoff win over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
But Mayfield struggled with a shoulder injury last year, and the Browns decided to go in a different direction by trading for controversial quarterback Deshaun Watson.
Cleveland’s pursuit of Watson essentially marked the end of Mayfield’s career in Cleveland.
“Obviously there is a lot of attachment there and I’m not going to sit here and be a robot and say that it doesn’t mean anything. It will,” Mayfield said of the season opener against the Browns. “But right now all that matters is me continuing to improve until the regular season starts.”
Browns coach Kevin Stefanski didn’t know Mayfield had been selected as Carolina’s starter until being informed by a reporter.
“I didn’t see that,” Stefanski said. “I think we’ll wait to talk about Carolina until we get there. I’m still in the Week 3 of the preseason mode.”
Darnold’s future as the starter in Carolina seemed on rocky ground when the Panthers tried to land Watson. When that fell through, the Panthers turned their attention to the disgruntled Mayfield.
A deal was brokered only after Cleveland agreed to pay $10.5 million of Mayfield’s contract this season. The Panthers are paying him $4.8 million.
Rhule said he still has tremendous confidence in Darnold, and added that he handled the news like a professional.
Darnold said he felt as if he was given a fair chance to win the job.
“I really did go out there every day and give it my all, and it just didn’t go my way,” Darnold said.
For Darnold, the decision leaves his career at a crossroads — although he said he’s not going to dwell on that now.
“It’s tough, I’m not going to lie,” Darnold said. “But it is what it is.”
But Darnold went to say, “I’m going to do everything I can to support Baker and get him ready to play a game.”
Rhule originally said the Panthers would keep three quarterbacks on the roster, but that was before rookie third-round draft pick Matt Corral suffered a Lisfranc ligament tear in his left foot in a preseason loss to the New England Patriots.
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AP Sports Writer Tom Withers in Cleveland contributed to this report.
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Waking up early to prepare for school and coming back home in the afternoon or evening has been a routine for most kids for up to three months in the last term. The current summer break is a vacation for students from all academic activities in order to make them relax mentally.
However, it is also a time of rest for most parents from early morning duties but also a time of extra duties since they have the children with them for almost 24 hours for a whole month.
Parents are expected to bond with their kids, instill more values and lessons in them during this period.
Your wards will be moving to higher classes soon since schools will be resuming for a new session soon. It is important that you start to prepare now to avoid various unforeseen circumstances that might come up later.
You should have a back to school checklist for your kids ranging from their school fees, school wear, school bags and packs, stationeries, homework and assignments, and other necessary things like getting them to bed earlier towards the time of resumption. Preparing them mentally is also very important.
There are various reasons why you should make these arrangements ahead of resumption. This article will shed more light on this as you read through.
1. To avoid extra expenses due to the hike in prices
It has become the norm for prices of things to increase when there is high demand for those goods. A lot of parents believe the session just ended and they have enough time to rest before preparing for the new session. As true as this might sound, you would be surprised at how fast time ticks and you find the resumption day knocking at your door with little or no preparation.
This is a wakeup call for you to start your preparations now, no matter how little. This is because when it is time for resumption, vendors and traders will add to the prices of back to school materials due to high demand for it.
2. To avoid rushing at the last minute
Preparing early saves you from an unnecessary rush at the time of resumption. Getting your kids’ school shoes, bags, packs, clothes, and stationeries ahead helps you relax when they are about to resume for a new session. You won’t have to start running around the market with other parents to get your child’s school necessities.
3. For mental stability
Running errands to get your kids prepared for the new session can affect your mental health. Trying to sort out their fees, changing their schools (if there is a need for it), and getting them new shoes, books, and bags all at the same time will affect your mental health. Starting your preparation now will relieve you of the mental stress that comes with the rush.
4. It helps your kids have a stress-free academic session
The best way to make sure your kids have a stress-free academic session is to prepare them ahead of time as much as you can. Getting them to bed earlier, reducing their TV and gadget time and helping out with their assignments and projects keeps them settled before and after resumption.
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HST MONDAY FOR SOUTH
FACING SHORES OF ALL ISLANDS...
.A south swell (190 degrees) will continue to produce advisory
level surf for south facing shores. The large surf will continue
through the afternoon.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HST THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Surf of 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM HST this evening.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming
difficult and dangerous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Beachgoers, swimmers, and surfers should heed all advice given by
ocean safety officials and exercise caution.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- More than half a million dollars for interest-free down-payment home loans is available for qualifying Oahu residents from the City and County of Honolulu’s Department of Community Services (DCS).
The DCS says it’s accepting pre-eligibility applications for the $550,000 in HOME funds for the 2022 fiscal year. Eligible applicants could receive up to $40,000 toward their dream of becoming a homeowner.
Those eligible to apply must be earning 80% of the area median income or below, which, according to DCS, is $83,600 for a family of two or $104,500 for a family of four.
The loans will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis to qualified residents. | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/honolulu-offering-interest-free-down-payment-home-loans-up-to-40-000/article_99117e30-226d-11ed-9141-2706924fd49a.html | 2022-08-23T01:17:53Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/honolulu-offering-interest-free-down-payment-home-loans-up-to-40-000/article_99117e30-226d-11ed-9141-2706924fd49a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HST MONDAY FOR SOUTH
FACING SHORES OF ALL ISLANDS...
.A south swell (190 degrees) will continue to produce advisory
level surf for south facing shores. The large surf will continue
through the afternoon.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HST THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Surf of 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM HST this evening.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming
difficult and dangerous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Beachgoers, swimmers, and surfers should heed all advice given by
ocean safety officials and exercise caution.
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LAIE, Hawaii (KITV4) -- The Kamehameha Highway is shut down on Oahu’s North Shore following a crash early Monday afternoon.
The crash happened just after 1 p.m. in the area of Gunstock Ranch and the Malaekahana State Recreation Area.
At least two vehicles were involved in the crash. A KITV4 viewer sent in video from the scene that appeared to show two vehicles -- a pickup and a sedan -- in a head-on crash.
No word yet on possible injuries.
This is a developing story. Check back with KITV4 for more information.
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Michigan State focused on fall camp ahead of opener
The Michigan State football team is scheduled to open the season next Friday at home against Western Michigan, but the Spartans are not focused on that yet.
"When you are in camp, you can't get bored with the fundamentals," MSU head coach Mel Tucker said. "You can't start saying, 'well, it's almost time, the game is coming up in a couple of weeks, less than two weeks,' so you start really focusing on the game. You are not focusing on getting better today because there is a lot of ground that you can cover in a day."
The Spartans and Broncos are scheduled for a 7 p.m. kickoff in East Lansing next Friday. | https://www.fox17online.com/homepage-showcase/michigan-state-still-focused-on-fall-camp-ahead-of-first-game | 2022-08-23T01:22:38Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/homepage-showcase/michigan-state-still-focused-on-fall-camp-ahead-of-first-game | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
VIGO COUNTY, Ind. — Officials with the Indiana State University said two of the school's football players were among three people killed early Sunday morning in a single-vehicle accident.
The school said in a statement Monday that everyone in the vehicle was university students and football players.
“This is a terrible tragedy," ISU President Dr. Deborah J. Curtis said. "As we are waiting on additional details from authorities investigating this accident, our hearts go out to the families and friends of the students involved.”
On Monday, the Vigo County sheriff identified the three people killed as Christian Eubanks, 18, of Waukegan, Illinois, Jayden Musili, 19, of Fort Wayne, and Caleb VanHooser, 19, of Liberty Township, Ohio.
The Associated Press reported that VanHooser played defensive back and wide receiver and Eubanks was a linebacker.
Officials identified those injured in the crash as Omarian Dixon, 20, of Lafayette, Indiana, and John Moore, 19, of Wheaton, Illinois, the Associated Press reported.
According to officials, they are both football players.
"It is a terrible day for Indiana State football and a devastating loss for both the Eubanks and the VanHooser families," head coach Curt Mallory said in a statement.
The Vigo County Sheriff's Office said the crash happened around 1:30 a.m. after the vehicle left a roadway and hit a tree in the town of Riley.
Deputies found the vehicle on fire when they arrived.
According to the Associated Press, more details about the accident, including who was driving or the circumstances of the accident, have not been released.
The university said counseling services are available for students, faculty, and staff.
The school's fall semester began on Aug. 16.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Authorities say an Oklahoma sheriff's deputy is dead and another deputy was injured as they attempted to serve eviction papers in Oklahoma City on Monday.
The Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office said two deputies were shot "serving a lock-out order."
The department later identified Sgt. Bobby Swartz as the deputy who was killed.
The sheriff's office said the other deputy, whose identity had not been released, was in stable condition.
According to the Associated Press, one of the deputies was shot when they went to the home's back door and the other deputy was shot attempting to pull the other to safety.
The alleged suspect left the scene in a pickup truck pulling a boat, and a chase ensued, the news outlet reported.
During the chase, gunfire between the suspect and law enforcement was exchanged, but no one was struck by gunfire, Oklahoma City Police Capt. Valerie Littlejohn told the Associated Press.
The news outlet reported that the alleged suspect, whose identity had not been released, was later arrested at the entrance of Tinker Air Force Base. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/oklahoma-sheriff-deputy-fatally-shot-while-serving-eviction-papers-officials-say | 2022-08-23T01:23:22Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/oklahoma-sheriff-deputy-fatally-shot-while-serving-eviction-papers-officials-say | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As part of The Outlook’s ongoing coverage of Alexander City’s 150th anniversary, we want to reflect on important historical events that have defined our city. In this new series, The Outlook shares photos from the city's past.
1968: “Come Back, Little Sheba”
In 1952, Hollywood actress Shirley Booth won an Oscar for her performance “Come Back, Little Sheba”, a famous movie about a lost dog. In the film, Booth becomes best friends with a dog named Sheba, but the animal runs away at one point and Booth must desperately search for her only companion. The dog never returns tragically in the film.
Sixteen years later, a similar story happened in Alexander City. This tale, however, has a happier ending.
Thomas Roberson's four children hunted for their dog Sheba after she disappeared one August day in 1968. The children looked for their Boston terrier along their neighborhood for weeks only for the pet to come home a month later with several puppies in tow.
1978: Camp Hill man catches 5-foot rattler
Robert Burton’s peaceful drive through Camp Hill ended suddenly on August 24, 1978. The Robinson Foundry employee encountered more than he bargained for when a snake about as long as he was tall slithered across the road. The 5-foot rattlesnake crawled in front’s Burton’s vehicle, forcing him to kill the big reptile.
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The first day of school has officially arrived for Alexander City Schools. Faculty at all fi…
Well, it seems the more things change, the more they stay the same. Students 40 years ago also showed off their pearly whites as the 1981 school year got underway. In this photo, a group of nearly 20 kindergartens grinned as they met their classmates for the first time.
2000: Who said Elvis is Dead
The King of Rock and Roll lives, at least, that is what some in Alexander City say. This week, 20 years ago, residents at Meadows On Hillabee Assisted Living received a surprise. The King Himself, also known as Kenny Dean, performed the singer’s greatest hits for residents on August 16, 2000, in honor of National Elvis Week. The performance at the time marked the 23rd anniversary of Presley’s death.
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The first day of school officially began for Tallapoosa County Schools on Friday, August 19. As the new school year gets underway, The Outlook interviewed Superintendent Ray Porter about his expectations and goals in the months ahead.
How have school leaders prepared for the first day of school?
We've had meetings at the district level, we've looked at our data, and we've made adjustments that will come to fruition as the first day of school starts. Each principal has also set forth their one-year and three-year plans. So, the first day of school for us means a day of discovery for students. It's coming back to a place where learning is fun.
What will be on most on your mind going into the 2022-23 school year?
This fall, we will add another component of mental health services by having a mental health coordinator position that we haven't had in the past. This will help our students with addressing social and emotional needs and not just academics.
The state has helped us with that and they have provided some funding because they recognize, the legislature recognizes, that mental health services in schools are something that need to be invested in. It's a collaborative effort between the legislature, the State Board of Education, and at the local education level.
This past year, we also have had facility construction on every campus, and as we start school, we have construction at Horseshoe Bend, Reeltown and at Dadeville.
We recently completed active shooter drills not just at all campuses but all schools. We'd like to thank local law enforcement and first responders as it was a county-wide effort. Those involved EMS, fire departments and police.
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What would you like students to know as they return to classes?
To the students who are coming back, we're excited to see you, and we're excited for this school year. We look forward to all the new programs that we have in place that children can take advantage of. We've learned a lot over the past three years. Education has changed a lot, and there are no more straight rows and lectures in a classroom. We like interactive classrooms with a combination of technology, and face-to-face. We like a 21st century classroom.
What would you like to tell parents as the new school year begins?
Join us in this partnership of educating your children. We want you to be a part of our schools. You are vital stakeholders. You make our job fun by being able to recognize what we've done in the classroom with your child.
What safety upgrades have been added to campuses?
Safety drills, cameras and fencing. We will be adding fences around Horseshoe Bend to regulate traffic flow. We're fortifying our campuses with an SRO at every campus, and this helps provide a safe learning environment so all we have to focus on is learning and we don't have to focus on anything sinister.
School equity has been a focus of your administration. How is that going to continue into the new school year?
Since I took office, it was one of the campaign promises that I made and it has been a promise that everybody else has joined in. [Stakeholders] want equity across the county, and they are getting it. We have two gyms under construction right now. All of our gyms, both elementary and high school, will be air conditioned for the first time in history. At Reeltown, we had over 500 people come for the ribbon-cutting and meet-the-teacher night. There's 500 students at the school, and 500 people came for the open house. There's a sense of enthusiasm in Tallapoosa County that hasn't been present for several years. COVID I'm sure had something to do with it and people wanting to get back out, but people are also aware of all the good things that are happening in our schools, and everybody wants to be a part of that. | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/news/q-and-a-with-superintendent-ray-porter/article_0b36ba46-2004-11ed-ae21-87f19796e52a.html | 2022-08-23T01:25:20Z | alexcityoutlook.com | control | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/news/q-and-a-with-superintendent-ray-porter/article_0b36ba46-2004-11ed-ae21-87f19796e52a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
JP Morgan with their outlook for FOMC monetary policy ahead (this in summary):
- “We expect another outsized Fed hike in September, but post that we would look for the Fed not to surprise the markets on the hawkish side again”
- say they expect the trade-off between growth and monetary policy to improve from here, which will assist the overall market to keep recovering
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I posted earlier on a greater degree of circumspection from Goldman Sachs: | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/jp-morgan-are-expecting-another-outsized-federal-reserve-rate-hike-in-september-20220823/ | 2022-08-23T01:29:20Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/jp-morgan-are-expecting-another-outsized-federal-reserve-rate-hike-in-september-20220823/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
S&P Global / Markit Manufacturing PMI from Japan for August 2022. This is the preliminary (flash) reading. The final will be published next week.
Manufacturing flash 51.0 (51 is the slowest in 19 months)
- prior 52.1
Services flash 49.2
- prior 50.3
Composite flash 48.9
- prior 50.2
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Mostly clear skies tonight and strong gusty winds developing in the Kittitas/Yakima Valleys 15-25 mph and gusts 30+ mph. Overnight lows in the 60s. Several fires started over the weekend and this morning due to major thunderstorms in the Blue and Palouse, these storms were producing 150 lightning strikes every 30 minutes fire crews responded to over 40 fires all started by lightning...again fire danger is extremely high in our region be firewise.
Tomorrow through the rest of the work week looks pretty calm and warm with temperatures remaining in the low to mid 90s and flirting with triple digits Wednesday & Thursday.
Heat relief on the way this weekend with daytime highs dropping into the mid and upper 80s.
Tri-Cities
Monday... PM Mostly Sunny/Clear... 97/68
Tuesday... Mostly Sunny... 96/65
Wednesday... Sunny and Hot... 100/68
Thursday... Sunny and Hot... 101/70
Friday... Mostly Sunny, Windy... 97/60
Saturday... Mostly Sunny, Breezy, Cooler... 88/57
Sunday... Mostly Sunny... 89/57
Yakima
Monday... PM Mostly Sunny/Clear, Breezy... 94/63
Tuesday... Mostly Sunny... 94/65
Wednesday... Sunny and Hot... 96/62
Thursday... Sunny and Hot... 97/64
Friday... Mostly Sunny, Windy... 93/58
Saturday... Mostly Sunny, Breezy, Cooler... 86/53
Sunday... Mostly Sunny... 87/55 | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/clear-tonight-breezy-winds-in-the-kittitas-yakima-valleys/article_205060ba-2268-11ed-bbe4-cb753e170210.html | 2022-08-23T01:34:53Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/clear-tonight-breezy-winds-in-the-kittitas-yakima-valleys/article_205060ba-2268-11ed-bbe4-cb753e170210.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KENNEWICK, Wash.-
Around 10:25 a.m. Kennewick Police Officers responded to a person slumped over in a car at the Circle K on Deschutes Boulevard.
When officers looked in the car they noticed a gun.
When police attempted to remove the individual from the car they fled towards the Village at Grandridge Apartments at 425 N. Columbia Center Boulevard.
According to Lieutenant Jason Erickson with the Benton County Sheriff's Office, shots were fired and the individual who ran from the police is currently in the hospital.
It is unclear who fired. The Special Investigative Unit (SIU) has been called in to investigate. The Citizens Review Board will assist in the investigation.
This is a developing story. We will have updates as more information becomes available. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/chase-ends-with-officer-involved-shooting/article_a24cefb6-224f-11ed-82ab-f73d9854337e.html | 2022-08-23T01:34:59Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/chase-ends-with-officer-involved-shooting/article_a24cefb6-224f-11ed-82ab-f73d9854337e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BENTON COUNTY, Wash. — Charges are pending against a 31-year-old freight truck driver from Kent following a collision with a motorcycle at the I-182 and State Route 397 intersection before 9 a.m. on August 22. He was headed west on I-182, about a mile south of Kennewick, heading to exit to SR 397, according to Washington State Patrol.
A 43-year-old Kennewick man was headed south on his motorcycle on SR 397 when the truck driver crossed 397 and re-entered traffic heading west on I-182. WSP reports the truck collided with the motorcycle, totaling it and injuring the motorcyclist. He was taken to a nearby hospital.
The truck driver was not hurt. He had worn his seatbelt, and the motorcyclist was wearing a proper helmet. WSP is still investigating the cause. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/freight-truck-collides-with-motorcyclist-on-i-182/article_92c149f0-226f-11ed-85e4-8fc7cc31f6aa.html | 2022-08-23T01:35:05Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/freight-truck-collides-with-motorcyclist-on-i-182/article_92c149f0-226f-11ed-85e4-8fc7cc31f6aa.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
UNION GAP, Wash. — The Union Gap Police Department is asking for the public’s help identifying a person regarding the homicide of two 80-year-olds from July 2022. Police found 84-year-old Jose Navarro and 87-year-old Rafaela Guzman Navarro dead in their home on July 4 after some family found the two.
UGPD has released two pictures of a subject that detectives are looking to speak to. The person was seen in the area at the time.
Anyone with information is asked to contact UGPD Detectives. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/police-search-for-person-around-homicide-of-couple-in-their-80s/article_0cb3bbfa-227d-11ed-92a9-37701a69bb60.html | 2022-08-23T01:35:11Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/police-search-for-person-around-homicide-of-couple-in-their-80s/article_0cb3bbfa-227d-11ed-92a9-37701a69bb60.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
OLYMPIA, Wash. — A man in Whatcom County was discovered as Washington’s first local human case of the tick-borne disease anaplasmosis on August 8, 2022. The man is in his 80s and is now recovering after hospitalization for the severe disease, according to the Washington state Department of Health.
It is presumed he was bitten by an infected tick while working on brush in Mason County. The spread of anaplasmosis in Washington has been credited to the western blacklegged tick, which can be found in western Washington and the eastern slopes of the Cascades. Many of these ticks are not infected with the disease, but the only method of prevention is to avoid tick bites.
All of the previous human cases of anaplasmosis in Washington have been attributed to travel outside of the country. Up until now, only dogs had gotten the disease in the state, according to the state DOH.
Symptoms of anaplasmosis include fever, headache, muscle aches, nausea/vomiting/loss of appetite. These symptoms can be mild to moderate, starting a week or two after an infected bite. The disease can be treated with antibiotics, but can cause severe illnesses if left untreated or in immunocompromised people.
“Not all tick bites will cause disease,” said Scott Lindquist, MD, MPH, the state epidemiologist for communicable diseases. “However, people across Washington are at risk for tick-borne illnesses and should take precautions to prevent tick bites.”
To protect people and pets from tick bites:
Avoid wooded, brushy areas with tall grass and fallen leaves
If in a tick habitat, cover exposed skin with light-colored clothing
Apply EPA-registered insect repellants
Carefully check all people and pets after leaving a potential tick habitat
Shower after outdoor activity to wash off unattached ticks
If you find ticks, remove them immediately with fine-tipped tweezers and clean with antiseptic | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/washington-reports-first-human-case-of-disease-from-ticks-caught-locally/article_2fd88d52-227a-11ed-a86a-d326562ddf91.html | 2022-08-23T01:35:17Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/washington-reports-first-human-case-of-disease-from-ticks-caught-locally/article_2fd88d52-227a-11ed-a86a-d326562ddf91.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YAKIMA, Wash. – According to the Washington State Hospital Association, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital has the busiest emergency room in the entire state. In 2021 they saw more than 86 thousand patients.
Chief Medical Officer at YVM Dr. Marty Brueggemann said some of the reasons is lack of access to primary care and lots chronic health problems in our area. The pandemic also had an impact.
"How sick people are when they come into the ER has definitely gone up quite a bit," Dr. Brueggemann said. "I think that a lot of preventative care kind of got differed during covid and so people's chronic medical problems got worse over time."
According to the hospital association, when the Astria hospital closed, YVM got busier. Other factors like staffing shortages, capacity, the pandemic and lack of access to primary healthcare pushed them to becoming the busiest ER.
As the severity of patient illnesses increases, it not only affects the patients, hospital association CEO Cassie Sauer says this is affecting workers, too.
"For hospital staff to see someone come in, you know, a young mom who has had a breast cancer lump and then she comes to the ER because she's in pain and then they realize that the cancer has really spread and the ER staff realize 'we're not sure we can save this person,' the grief and the psychological trauma of that is really significant," Sauer said.
She said healthcare workers in the emergency rooms are seeing more death, which could lead to burn out faster and contribute to healthcare worker shortages.
Sauer said busy hospitals also face financial stress.
“YVM sees a lot of Medicaid patients, these are low-income patients who are in a state-sponsored insurance program and the state payments for Medicaid services are really bad,” Sauer said.
The association is trying to support busy hospitals by pushing legislation that would increase Medicaid payments.
They also work with the Washington Medical Coordination Center to try to put people who need to be hospitalized into beds. Sauer said YVM used them a lot during the pandemic.
Specifically with YVM, Dr. Brueggemann tells me that the organization is working to make primary care more accessible and asks that people be patient if they find themselves in the ER.
“We do our best to determine who should be seen first based on their medical needs. Even if nothing seems to be happening from the waiting room, there is still a lot going on behind the doors,” said Dr. Brueggemann.
Sauer said if you have an emergency go to the emergency room as soon as possible. If it's something less serious like an ear infection, go to a primary care doctor first or an urgent care clinic. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/yakima-valley-memorial-has-the-busiest-emergency-room-in-washington/article_a54b6d04-2273-11ed-9c0f-1b3da747d1a2.html | 2022-08-23T01:35:23Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/yakima-valley-memorial-has-the-busiest-emergency-room-in-washington/article_a54b6d04-2273-11ed-9c0f-1b3da747d1a2.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
I-182 - Only one lane is open for traffic headed east on E-182 after a car rolled over and hit the guardrail near the Wellsian Way exit. There is debris on the road and Washington State Patrol is on the scene. One female was taken to the hospital with injuries.
Another two-car collision was reported nearby by WSP. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/traffic/car-rollover-closes-some-east-lanes-of-i-182/article_39fbad8e-2269-11ed-bde4-57cd4b063c33.html | 2022-08-23T01:35:29Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/traffic/car-rollover-closes-some-east-lanes-of-i-182/article_39fbad8e-2269-11ed-bde4-57cd4b063c33.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Last Thursday, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell predicted that while Republicans may take the House during November’s midterm elections, they’re unlikely to flip the Senate due to “candidate quality.” This forecast, which McConnell is not alone in making, did not go over well with former president Donald Trump. How do we know this? Because he took to Truth Social to tell us as much—and by tell us as much, we mean he not only called the lawmaker from Kentucky a “broken down hack” but also insulted the guy’s wife (who happened to be in Trump’s Cabinet).
Yes, on Saturday the ex-president logged on to his sad social media network and angrily typed: “Why do Republicans [sic] Senators allow a broken down hack politician, Mitch McConnell, to openly disparage hard working Republican candidates for the United States Senate. This is such an affront to honor and to leadership. He should spend more time (and money!) helping them get elected, and less time helping his crazy wife and family get rich on China!”
Trump is undoubtedly testy about McConnell’s comments because three of the candidates he’s endorsed for Senate are behind in the polls, and their losses would help Democrats retain control of the chamber. One of those candidates is Dr. Mehmet Oz, who embarrasses himself on a near-daily basis, whether it’s over crudités and salsa or the number of homes he owns. Another is Herschel Walker, whose own campaign staffers have said he’s a “pathological liar” who lies “like he’s breathing.” The third is Blake Masters, who, according to a Fox News poll, would lose to Senator Mark Kelly by eight points if people were voting today. Trump is presumably extra cranky about the Senate prediction given that it came from McConnell, with whom he mostly shared an axis-of-evil kind of alliance while in the White House; he has since made it clear that he wouldn’t mind seeing the man pushed off a cliff. (Last year Trump called McConnell “dour, sullen, and unsmiling,” saying that he lacked “political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality.” He added that McConnell “doesn’t have what it takes, never did, and never will.” He also reportedly had to be convinced not to accuse the Kentucky lawmaker of “having too many chins but not enough smarts.”)
As for McConnell’s wife, her name is Elaine Chao, and she served as transportation secretary in the Trump administration until resigning in the wake of the attack on the Capitol, which she deemed a “traumatic and entirely avoidable event” that she could not simply “set aside.” While Trump has a long history of attacking people who’ve worked for him, having famously described his first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, as “dumb as a rock” and White House communications aide Omarosa Manigault Newman as “a crazed, crying lowlife,” this appears to be the first time he’s publicly lashed out at Chao. Presumably, that’s simply a matter of her being caught in the wrong place at the wrong time— i.e., married to Mitch McConnell—but it’s also not out of the realm of possibility that it had a little something to do with the news that she recently sat down for an interview with the January 6 committee. According to CNN, Chao, among others, was part of discussions re: “invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from power.” So you can probably imagine this development got the ex-president man-child particularly out of sorts. | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/donald-trump-mitch-mcconnell-elaine-chao | 2022-08-23T01:35:54Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/donald-trump-mitch-mcconnell-elaine-chao | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Xastro Origin Founder NFTs by DEIXA is launching the first release of a unique experiential and community based NFT collection celebrating diversity inclusion. The first release of the limited set of Xastro NFTs are live today and is available for purchase at DEIXA.
DEIXA - Decentralized Equality Inclusion maXimum Action - is a new web3 online community that will be launching at the end of October 2022, in conjunction with their Mobile dAPP (decentralized iOS & Android app). DEIXA will offer a decentralized rewards program focused on access for all, and has commissioned world-renowned artist Bruce Sulzberg to create Xastro, the official Mascot & Universal Ambassador of DEIXA, which represents the gateway to an innovative diverse inclusive community. Built around participant recognition and epic reward experiences within a core mandate of respect, data privacy and fiscal transparency.
DEIXA promotes and supports advancing equality from local to global brands with aligned standards – for everyone and anyone who supports inclusion, desires recognition integrated with data privacy, along with curated content, and access to be rewarded with epic experiences. DEIXA CMO Anouk De La Tore - Zisa adds "Our vision is to be at the intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and technology. So, for us, NFTs are a logical step in our progression. We wanted to introduce the idea of not just a static NFT but a combined dynamic digital passport access to a more meaningful connected community! We deliver this by creating the foundation for a circular ecosystem framework that is transparent with our participants and provides real physical applications while giving back to support and grow the community." DEIXA is building an innovative digital platform that will reward community participants for engaging with brand content in an equitable inclusive manner. 100% of the revenue generated through sponsored content and advertising as well as any assets sold, including the Xastro NFTs, will flow into a treasury governed by the community participants and trustees of the DEIXA DAO entity to ensure maximum transparency.
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About DEIXA
DEIXA is a new global community, delivering you the power to be at the forefront of equality and inclusion – and have fun doing it. We connect people who seek the viral power of rewarding experiences, privacy, and security. Together, we participate in a community that is mutually rewarding and impactful. Everyone is invited to the experience. DEIXA is your community; we respect you!
About Bruce Sulzberg
Bruce Sulzberg is an accomplished artist and entrepreneur with over 30 years in film, graphic design and fine art. His unique style and innovative approaches blends traditional techniques with contemporary "pop-art", and exclusive 3-dimensional fine art products connected with the NFT/crypto currency phenomenon, have caught the attention of art collectors and burgeoning apprentices globally. Through his company SSMFA, Bruce regularly collaborates with professional athletes and celebrities.
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WARREN, Mich., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern Counties Express, Inc., a subsidiary of Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. ("Universal"), is excited to announce a new partnership with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (the "Teamsters") Local Unit 848 providing drayage services in-and-out of the Southern Californian ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. In a careful negotiation, the parties reached a "best in class" arrangement that is firmly anchored by a top notch labor agreement. The agreement will provide the local membership with great benefits, and Universal's customers with AB5 compliant and reliable services in the Los Angeles and Long Beach drayage market. The partnership between Southern Counties Express, Inc. and the Teamsters Local 848 will add hundreds of good paying, union jobs to the southern California economy.
Universal's Chief Executive Officer Tim Phillips commented, "We are extremely excited to extend our relationship with the Teamsters to the Los Angeles/Long Beach drayage market! Universal has been in partnership with the Teamsters for over 20 years, and our nearly 2,000 current Teamster members have long provided our many customers with superior service and trustworthy capacity." Phillips further elaborated, "Solidifying our relationship with Local Unit 848 will give Southern Counties the ability to advance its capacity footprint in a changing California labor model, and continue to be a leader in the drayage space."
About Universal:
Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. ("Universal") is a holding company that owns subsidiaries engaged in providing a variety of customized transportation and logistics solutions throughout the United States, and in Mexico, Canada and Colombia. Our operating subsidiaries provide customers with supply chain solutions that can be scaled to meet their changing demands and volumes. Universal's consolidated subsidiaries offer customers a broad array of services across the entire supply chain, including truckload, brokerage, intermodal, dedicated, and value-added services. In this press release, the terms "us," "we," "our," or the "Company" refer to Universal and its consolidated subsidiaries.
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HOUSTON, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stud-RX® is the first brand launched by "Isopharmic" company founded by Dr. J. David Hayes and partners in 2020. The innovative team sensed the need for a totally discreet platform where men can feel less vulnerable to discussing their intimate concerns. This telehealth application specializes in the treatment for erectile dysfunction. No more embarrassing appointments in primary care or urologists' office. No more muddling through a healthcare environment that impedes treatment. Men can get their erectile dysfunction questions answered, discuss options, and receive medications promptly, totally online, through a telehealth visit. All calls and messages are free and totally confidential.
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Florida school district rejects dictionary donations amid new book law
A Florida school district rejected a donation of dictionaries after putting a freeze on new books in libraries and classrooms as officials navigate a new state law designed to make it easier to pull books deemed objectionable, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports.
Why it matters: It's an issue many districts are likely wrestling with as students return to school in Republican-led states that have implemented restrictions on book content targeting topics like race, gender and sexuality.
Details: The Venice Rotary Club has partnered with the nonprofit Dictionary Project to donate over 4,000 dictionaries to elementary schools in the Sarasota County School District for almost 15 consecutive years, per the Herald-Tribune.
- This year, the donation was rejected for the first time.
Zoom in: The new law requires a certified education media specialist to review and select all reading materials in schools. The school board has approved the job description for the role but currently no one fills the position.
- The freeze on new books in Sarasota schools is slated to last until January at the earliest to give the district time to hire specialists and work with guidance from the state's Department of Education.
Between the lines: A pivotal midterm election year, COVID-19 frustrations and a backlash against efforts to call out systemic racism — driven disproportionately by white, suburban and rural parents — have made public schools ground zero in the culture wars, Axios' Russell Contreras writes.
Don't forget: The Florida Department of Education announced in April that it rejected dozens of math textbooks because they "contained prohibited topics," including critical race theory.
- Gov. Ron DeSantis directed the Florida Board of Education to ban critical race theory discussions in public schools last year — even though it was not being taught in any public school system, including Florida's.
The big picture: School districts from Pennsylvania to Wyoming have bowed to pressure from some conservative groups to remove books about LGBTQ issues and people of color.
- In Des Moines, six book bans have been requested in the Iowa capital's largest metro school districts.
- In Texas, a school district has temporarily removed all books that have been challenged within the last year, including the Bible and an adaption of Anne Frank's diary.
- Representatives for DeSantis, the Education Department and Sarasota district did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/23/florida-school-district-books | 2022-08-23T01:47:45Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/23/florida-school-district-books | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Well, the good news is that Frank Pelaez and Marquette women’s soccer came away from their first weekend of action this fall with the best expected record of 1-1-0. That’s what happens when you open with two on the road and the first one is against the #16 team in the country.
However, the Golden Eagles went about acquiring their goals in their 2-1 win over Central Michigan in maybe the most awkward way possible.
The first half of soccer in Mount Pleasant was, to keep it brief, not good. Neither side managed a shot at all first nearly the entirety of the first 20 minutes of the game with CMU breaking through first just seconds before that barrier. MU didn’t get their first shot of the game until nearly the 35 minute mark, and given that the Golden Eagles had just one total shot against Notre Dame in the season opener, that’s not a good sign.
Eventually Marquette did start to show signs of a persistent push on offense, outshooting the Chips 5-3 across the first 45 minutes. In the final minute of the first half, that push turned into a corner kick that was taken by Molly Keiper, making her second appearance in a MU uniform after transferring from Villanova.
And it went in.
Molly Keiper had just checked into the match and her corner is deflected off a CMU defender for the opening score of the season. MU leads 1-0 at halftime. pic.twitter.com/jyYFXi0zOF
— MARQUETTE Soccer (@MarquetteWSOC) August 21, 2022
“It went in” is the most generous thing I can say about this. It was originally declared to be an own goal by the event staff at CMU, at least according to the streaming broadcast. About midway through the second half, MU’s Twitter mentioned that the scoring had been changed to give the goal to Keiper. I don’t disagree with the ruling, as an own goal should really have more of an obvious causation to put the ball in the net other than “it went off a defender’s shoulder to a spot where the keeper had no chance to stop it.” It’s just weird that it took that long to decide that to be the case.
Onwards to the second half, which was more of the same of the first half. You could probably say that Marquette was showing themselves to be the better side, but it’s not a strong statement. Neither side managed a shot after intermission up until grad transfer Elizabeth Bueckers was notably and obviously dragged down from behind in the box by a CMU defender. One of the more obvious penalty kick calls you’ll ever see in your life, as it was a clear denial of a goal scoring opportunity. The only surprise about it is that it didn’t generate a yellow card, but it also wasn’t particularly violent, just from the blind side.
ANYWAY, Tennessee transfer Isabella Cook took to the spot and snapped it home for a 2-0 lead in the 58th minute.
65' | MU - 2 | CMU - 0 | Elizabeth Buechkers drew the foul in the box and Isa Cook did the rest! pic.twitter.com/fbtjJruJWY
— MARQUETTE Soccer (@MarquetteWSOC) August 21, 2022
Yes, I know it says 65th minute in the tweet. The play-by-play has it at 57:50. It took a minute to capture the video and post it. These things happen.
2-0 Marquette, just over 30 minutes to play, and the Golden Eagles have held Central Michigan without a shot in the second half so far. All they need to do is bring the ship in, annnnnnnd then Megan Logue decided to make up for her foul in the box on Bueckers.
Here is the look on Megan Logue's goal. #FireUpChips ⬆️⚽️ pic.twitter.com/AxJXau2RiD
— CMU Women's Soccer (@CMU_W_Soccer) August 21, 2022
Honestly, that looks like a really great play by the Chips. Well placed, great aerial work by Logue to time it and beat MU keeper Mikki Easter to the back of the net.
But it came in the 80th minute. 2-1 Marquette, and the Golden Eagles managed to limit CMU to one final shot and a pair of rapid fire corner kicks, all in the final four minutes before securing the win.
A weird win, but a win nonetheless.
No assists on the day, so only Keiper and Cook tallied points for Marquette on the day. Easter made two saves, one in each half, to get the win on her ledger.
Up Next: Hopefully scoring a goal with passing and shooting like a normal soccer team! I kid, I kid. Mostly. For real, though, Marquette will be back in action on Thursday when they have their home opener. It will be UW-Milwaukee providing the opposition with a 7:30pm kickoff following the MU men’s team hosting #11 Tulsa to start their season at Valley Fields. That will be the first of three straight home dates for the Golden Eagles. The Panthers are 0-1-0 on the season after starting off with a road loss to Wake Forest on Thursday night. | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/8/22/23316278/marquette-golden-eagles-womens-soccer-recap-central-michigan-cook-keiper-bueckers | 2022-08-23T01:50:37Z | anonymouseagle.com | control | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/8/22/23316278/marquette-golden-eagles-womens-soccer-recap-central-michigan-cook-keiper-bueckers | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Nearly one year after the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a Massachusetts State Senator spoke about his time serving his country.
Senator John Velis spoke to a small group about his tours of duty in the Middle East at West Springfield Public Library Monday evening. The rapid fall of the Afghan government and the return of the extremist Taliban government that was overthrown in 2001 has led to much self-reflection from those who served there in the course of the two decade war.
Velis served two tours in that country and to this day, still can’t stop thinking about it, “I got a real problem with how it ended. The people that helped us, that put their lives on the line, we need to take care of them. What does that say about us as a nation. The people that helped us, the people that helped keep Americans alive, they were promised that if we did this for us, we would take care of them.”
The United States Armed Forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 30, 2021. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/state-senator-velis-speaks-to-residents-about-his-time-serving-in-afghanistan/ | 2022-08-23T01:51:20Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/state-senator-velis-speaks-to-residents-about-his-time-serving-in-afghanistan/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Gov. Kathy Hochul sparked controversy Monday night by saying political opponents like Republican gubernatorial nominee Rep. Lee Zeldin ought to ditch New York as she rallied with fellow Democrats ahead of a special election in Congressional District 19 in the Hudson Valley.
“We are fighting for democracy. We’re fighting to bring government back to the people and out of the hands of dictators,” Hochul said at a Monday evening rally in Kingston alongside Democratic congressional candidate Pat Ryan, where she called out his Republican opponent, Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, Zeldin and former President Donald Trump.
“Trump and Zeldin and Molinaro – just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong. OK? Get out of town. Because you don’t represent our values,” added Hochul, who raised eyebrows last week for a dig against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at a Manhattan event commemorating the Holocaust.
Ryan, the Ulster County executive, is running against Molinaro in a race that will test competing messaging by Democrats and the GOP on issues like abortion and inflation.
“Wow @KathyHochul. You’re losing your marbles lady. Won’t take you up on your psycho demand to leave New York, but what I will do is get in my car right now, drive to NY-19, & do everything in my power to make sure @marcmolinaro wins tomorrow’s Special Election,” Zeldin tweeted Monday night.
While Molinaro has focused on issues like rising prices and opposing bail reform amid rising crime, Ryan has sought to channel Democratic outrage against controversial US Supreme Court decisions on abortion and gun rights into a winning message against Molinaro.
But efforts by Hochul – who came to office last year vowing to make state politics more collegial – on Monday night to label Molinaro, a moderate Republican best known for his losing 2018 campaign against ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as too extreme, provoked a fierce response from other conservatives as well.
“Really, @KathyHochul? I’m not a New Yorker!? You sound exactly likely your predecessor. I lost my father in this state, raise my children here and have given every day in service to my community. Disagree with your corrupted government, and we are not New Yorkers? #Shameful,” Molinaro tweeted Monday in response to her comments.
Polls have suggested a tight race between Molinaro and Ryan to fill the remainder of the term won by Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado in 2020.
The winner of the race will serve in Congress until just the end of the year while securing bragging rights for their party ahead of midterm elections this November when control of Congress, the state Legislature and statewide officers will be on the ballot.
Hochul has campaigned with a similar approach to Ryan by betting her political future on issues like abortion, gun control and Zeldin’s votes against certifying the 2020 presidential results from certain states.
But even before election results come in, the first female governor in state history has a message for political opponents who don’t share her believes on issues like abortion rights have no place in the Empire State.
“You’re not New Yorkers, because we come from a long line of people who fought for women’s rights that happened here first,” she said Monday. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/kathy-hochul-says-political-rivals-like-lee-zeldin-ought-to-leave-state/ | 2022-08-23T01:57:35Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/kathy-hochul-says-political-rivals-like-lee-zeldin-ought-to-leave-state/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The waters of the Rio Grande have claimed the life of a young Guatemalan girl, authorities in Juarez, Mexico, confirmed on Monday.
The Border Patrol pulled out an adult male safely on the U.S. side of the river, the El Paso Fire Department reported. The mother of the girl was rescued by Juarez firefighters and civil protection personnel. She was taken to a Juarez hospital.
Mexican authorities said the adults and the girl were migrants from Guatemala. It was not immediately confirmed if the man and the deceased girl were related.
The incident took place around 2 p.m. near Boone and Border Highway on the El Paso side, just east of the “Big Red X” monument on the Mexican side.
The spot is a frequent crossing point into the U.S. for migrant families and single adults trying to claim asylum.
Video taken by Border Report shows how a Juarez officer goes into thigh-high water and feels his way around looking for the missing girl. The officer finds the girl, takes the body out of the water and walks out of the river.
There is no apparent attempt to resuscitate as the girl by then has been missing for several minutes. Instead, Juarez authorities place a blue cloth or tarp over her and lay her down on the ground several feet away from the banks.
Further details are pending. | https://www.wwlp.com/border-report-tour/girl-drowns-in-rio-grande-as-guatemalan-migrants-attempt-to-cross-into-u-s/ | 2022-08-23T02:00:02Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/border-report-tour/girl-drowns-in-rio-grande-as-guatemalan-migrants-attempt-to-cross-into-u-s/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SALISBURY, Md.-The Wicomico County Sheriff's Office is investigating an attempted murder in Salisbury.
Officials say it happened on August 8th on Honeysuckle Drive. Several people broke into a home, exchanging gunfire with the victim according to the Sheriff's office. The intruders took off in a stolen vehicle-one is believed to have been hit in the shooting.
Sheriff's are asking anyone with information to contact the Sheriff's office at (410) 548-4891. | https://www.wboc.com/news/attempted-murder-home-invasion-investigation-in-wicomico-county/article_ed23e4d4-2279-11ed-9ac6-2f9265b68cdc.html | 2022-08-23T02:02:06Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/attempted-murder-home-invasion-investigation-in-wicomico-county/article_ed23e4d4-2279-11ed-9ac6-2f9265b68cdc.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A former caregiver was arrested over the weekend after a former patient said she strangled him Thursday night in his home.
Marcella Edge, or Marcella Collins, faces several charges including Attempted First Degree Murder after a former patient reported she came into his home and assaulted him for 30 minutes to an hour.
Police were called to the Scrapeshin Trail residence Friday, where the man told law enforcement that Edge stuffed his mouth with a rag, laid him flat in bed, held his nose shut, and poured water on him.
The man said he played dead to survive.
Edge claimed she came to the house and bathed the man, according to the arrest report. She had been fired on August 17.
Edge is facing charges of Aggravated Abuse of Elderly Or Vulnerable Adult, Especially Aggravated Robbery, Aggravated Burglary, and Attempted First Degree Murder. | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/former-care-giver-arrested-after-allegedly-strangling-a-former-patient/article_87eade30-227c-11ed-9674-47354ae89132.html | 2022-08-23T02:04:46Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/former-care-giver-arrested-after-allegedly-strangling-a-former-patient/article_87eade30-227c-11ed-9674-47354ae89132.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Donald Trump's political action committee donated $650,000 to the Smithsonian Institution last month to help underwrite portraits of the former President and former first lady Melania Trump at the National Portrait Gallery, according to Linda St. Thomas, chief spokesperson for the Smithsonian.
The donation from Trump's Save America leadership PAC marks the first time that funds have come from a political action committee since the institution began raising private funds for presidential portraits -- a practice that started with the portraits associated with former President George H. W. Bush, St. Thomas said.
Trump's PAC disclosed the $650,000 "charitable contribution" made on July 14 in its monthly filing Saturday with the Federal Election Commission. A Trump spokesman did not respond to an inquiry about the donation earlier Monday.
St. Thomas said another private donation of $100,000 also is helping to pay costs associated with the portraits. The funds, totaling $750,000, will go to artists' fees, shipping, framing, installation and events.
Two artists have been commissioned to complete the portraits, and the work is underway, she said. The artists' names will be disclosed closer to the unveiling of the paintings. That date has not yet been decided, she added.
Trump has been a relentless fundraiser since leaving office -- bombarding his supporters with emails and text messages. He started August with more than $99 million in cash reserves in Save America, his main fundraising vehicle, the new filings show.
Leadership PACs like Save America are generally established to support other candidates, but the rules on their spending are more relaxed than those for a presidential campaign committee, allowing donors' money to be funneled to personal uses.
Team Trump has seized on this month's FBI search at his waterfront Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to send text messages to donors, claiming he's being "politically persecuted" and urging them to "stand" with him against a "corrupt" and "Radical Left."
It appears to have paid off.
Donations to Trump's political action committee topped $1 million a day for at least two days following the FBI search of his property, a source familiar with the figures told CNN's Kaitlin Collins recently. That fundraising surge was first reported by The Washington Post. It has not been reflected yet in Trump's public filings with election regulators.
Former President Barack Obama's portrait, painted by Kehinde Wiley, was underwritten by dozens of donors, as disclosed on the Smithsonian's website. They include celebrities such as director Steven Spielberg and musician John Legend.
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California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday vetoed legislation that aimed to minimize overdose deaths by creating safe drug injection sites in some cities, citing concern over "unintended consequences."
Senate Bill 57 proposed a tri-city pilot program in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oakland that would legalize drug use in specific supervised hygienic spaces where drug users could consume drugs using sterile supplies, according to the bill text.
While the bill called for local boards of supervisors and city councils to hold public meetings and consult with law enforcement before implementing a program, the governor expressed worry about "the operations of safe injection sites without strong, engaged local leadership and well-documented, vetted, and thoughtful operational and sustainability plans."
"It is possible that these sites would help improve the safety and health of our urban areas, but if done without a strong plan, they could work against this purpose," Newsom said in a veto letter. "These unintended consequences in cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland cannot be taken lightly. Worsening drug consumption challenges in these areas is not a risk we can take."
Newsom said he remains open to the idea on a more limited basis and comprehensive plans showing how the programs can run safely and effectively.
State Sen. Scott Wiener, the bill's author, called the governor's veto "tragic."
"For eight years, a broad coalition has worked to pass this life-saving legislation," Wiener, a Democrat, said in a statement. "Each year this legislation is delayed, more people die of drug overdoses — two per day in San Francisco alone. While this veto is a major setback for the effort to save lives and connect people to treatment, we must not — and will not — let it end this movement."
California Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher said in a statement on Monday that the legislation "should have never made it to the Governor's desk in the first place."
"I am very grateful to the Governor for being the sense of reason in this case," Gallagher said. "We need to stop enabling criminal acts. Instead, we should promote policies that will empower people to safely get off the streets and reintegrate into our communities."
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Are you ready for some football? Fine, but the return of the NFL is why the 2022 Emmy Awards have been drop-kicked from their usual Sunday berth to Monday.
Television's top awards rotate among the top four networks, and this year's broadcast home, NBC, has reserved the second Sunday night in September for Tampa Bay vs. Dallas. After the Emmys slogged through two years of pandemic-restricted ceremonies, a day's delay seems a minor annoyance.
The industry is expected to put on its Monday best, swan down the red carpet, and celebrate itself and the wealth of shows across streaming services, cable, and, to a degree that pales compared to years' past, old-school network fare.
But what're a Hollywood awards show without a TV audience? A low-rated disappointment, and that's where you come in. If you decide to do your bit and tune in, here's a roadmap to everything you need to know about the 2022 Emmys.
WHEN ARE THE 2022 EMMYS?
The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards are set for Monday, Sept. 12, at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles. The roughly three-hour ceremony will begin at 8 p.m. EDT, and air live on NBC and, for free, on the streaming service Peacock.
But the Emmys, with 118 total awards, aren’t a one-day affair. Winners in 25 key categories, including best drama and comedy series, will be announced during the broadcast ceremony, with the rest divvied up between the Sept. 3 and 4 creative arts awards. An edited version of the weekend ceremonies, with categories including sound editing and cinematography, will air at 8 p.m. EDT on Sept. 10 on FXX.
WHO IS HOSTING THE EMMYS CEREMONY?
The honor usually goes to a comedian with a link to the network airing the event. NBC stayed the course: It chose “Saturday Night Live” veteran Kenan Thompson, a first-time Emmy host who’s been preceded in the emcee job by several “SNL” stars. The ceremony has tried going without a host, most recently in 2019, but the results weren’t always pretty. Or entertaining.
WHICH SHOWS ARE NOMINATED FOR THE TOP AWARDS AT THE EMMYS?
Some previous winners are vying again for best series honors, including “Ted Lasso,” a freshman when it won 2021’s best comedy series, and “Succession,” which claimed the 2020 best drama award. (The series didn’t air during the eligibility window for 2021, when “The Crown” won.)
There are also formidable newcomers, including the dystopian drama “Squid Game” and comedy crime romp “Only Murders in the Building.”
Among the nominated actors, those hoping to be repeated victors include Jason Sudeikis of “Ted Lasso,” Jean Smart of “Hacks,” and Zendaya of “Euphoria.” Check out the full list of Emmy nominees.
WHAT WERE THE MOST SURPRISING EMMY NODS?
So many, where to begin? The farewell season of “This Is Us” got a single nomination, for original music and lyrics, after reaping Emmys for several cast members in years past. It was a similar case for the last year of “black-ish,” which ended its groundbreaking run with just two creative arts nominations. On the flip side, it was far from a slam dunk that Dave Chappelle's “The Closer,” with its controversial anti-transgender comments, would earn a best variety special nomination. It did.
WHO DECIDES THE EMMY WINNERS?
The more than 17,000 voting members of the TV academy are eligible to decide nominees and winners in 14 categories, including drama, comedy, and limited series. The acting awards, including lead, supporting, and guest actors, are determined by peer groups, as are directing, writing, and other individual areas of achievement. The number of nominees in most categories generally is tied to the number of submissions, with exceptions including best comedy and drama series: They get eight nominees each. | https://www.katc.com/entertainment/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2022-emmys | 2022-08-23T02:08:44Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/entertainment/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2022-emmys | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The preserved heart of Brazil's first emperor, Dom Pedro I, arrived to the country's capital Brasilia to mark Brazil's 200 years of independence from Portugal.
The heart arrived in a flask of formaldehyde and was set to be welcomes with military honors before it is put on display for the public at the country's foreign ministry, the BBC reported.
The preserved organ will stay in Brazil through the country's independence day before being returned to Porto, Portugal.
Alan Coelho de Séllos, Brazil's foreign ministry chief of protocol, said, "The heart will be received like a head of state, it will be treated as if Dom Pedro I was still living amongst us."
Brazil's military was prepared to put on a four cannon salute for the heart, and a guard of honor would perform a full military honor.
Séllos said, "The national anthem will be played and the independence anthem, which by the way was composed by Dom Pedro I, who as well as an emperor was a good musician in his spare time."
Dom Pedro I was born in 1798. He was part of Portugal's royal family which, at that time, ruled Brazil. The family fled the country to the Portuguese colony to escape the invading army of Napoleon. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/embalmed-heart-of-brazils-1st-emperor-arrives-to-mark-their-independence-from-portugal | 2022-08-23T02:09:02Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/embalmed-heart-of-brazils-1st-emperor-arrives-to-mark-their-independence-from-portugal | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Authorities in Florida say a college student was killed last week by a woman he stopped to help while driving through a national forest in Alabama.
In a statement, Clay County Sheriff’s Office said 22-year-old Adam Simjee, and his girlfriend, Mikayla Paulus, were driving through Talladega National Forest on Aug. 14 when the suspect Yasmine Hider flagged them down, claiming her car had broken down, Fox affiliate WBRC reported.
NBC News reported that law enforcement said that when the University of Central Florida students stopped to help her, Hider pulled out a gun and made them walk into the woods.
According to the statement, the sheriff said that Simjee pulled his concealed handgun and shot Hider several times in the torso, and Simjee was shot in the back, WBRC reported.
The sheriff said Simjee died at the scene, the news outlets reported.
According to the news outlets, Paulus, who wasn't injured in the shooting, called 911 and told first responders about another woman who was at the scene when the shooting happened, the sheriff's statement said.
The sheriff's office said that woman, Krystal Pinkins, was later tracked down and arrested, the news outlets reported.
According to the press release, when law enforcement found Pinkins and ordered her to the ground, “a 5-year-old child ran from the woods holding a loaded shotgun,” the news outlets reported.
Officials said the child, later identified as Pinkins’s son, was told by law enforcement to place the shotgun down but kept walking toward his mother before he eventually placed the gun on the ground, the news outlets reported.
According to the statement, Pinkins was charged with one count of murder, two counts of kidnapping, two counts of robbery, and endangering the welfare of a child, the news outlets reported.
Her child was placed into state care, the news outlets reported.
The news outlets reported that officials said Hider was charged with one count of murder, two counts of kidnapping, and two counts of robbery. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/florida-college-student-allegedly-killed-by-woman-who-claimed-her-car-broke-down | 2022-08-23T02:09:08Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/florida-college-student-allegedly-killed-by-woman-who-claimed-her-car-broke-down | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
OKLAHOMA CITY — Authorities say an Oklahoma sheriff's deputy is dead and another deputy was injured as they attempted to serve eviction papers in Oklahoma City on Monday.
The Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office said two deputies were shot "serving a lock-out order."
The department later identified Sgt. Bobby Swartz as the deputy who was killed.
The sheriff's office said the other deputy, whose identity had not been released, was in stable condition.
According to the Associated Press, one of the deputies was shot when they went to the home's back door and the other deputy was shot attempting to pull the other to safety.
The alleged suspect left the scene in a pickup truck pulling a boat, and a chase ensued, the news outlet reported.
During the chase, gunfire between the suspect and law enforcement was exchanged, but no one was struck by gunfire, Oklahoma City Police Capt. Valerie Littlejohn told the Associated Press.
The news outlet reported that the alleged suspect, whose identity had not been released, was later arrested at the entrance of Tinker Air Force Base. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/oklahoma-sheriff-deputy-fatally-shot-while-serving-eviction-papers-officials-say | 2022-08-23T02:09:27Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/oklahoma-sheriff-deputy-fatally-shot-while-serving-eviction-papers-officials-say | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Teaching was a stressful job before COVID turned all of our lives upside down. Now it's even more stressful.
"For a really long time, the to do list in education has been growing more and more demanding over time. And as soon as COVID hit, that entire to-do list was kind of like thrown into the waste basket," said Rebecca Rogers, a content creator and former teacher.
In January, the National Education Association, the country's largest union, polled over 3,000 of its members.
Over half, 55%, said they were more than likely to leave or retire from teaching earlier than expected due to the pandemic. That's almost double the number from 2 years ago.
"'Here are all these new things we need you to do instead.' And then as soon as school came back, instead of picking and choosing the most necessary items on each to do list, they're like 'okay, here's both to–do lists, both of which were already pretty unmanageable for one person, have fun!'" said Rogers.
Teacher burnout from the pandemic goes hand in hand with the teacher shortages.
But the shortage is not new. The NEA has been tracking the trend for the last two decades.
"The reality is that not only have we had an educator shortage for a while, but the pandemic, just like everything else, worsened it. We have educators who are under more stress with less resources. More is being asked of them than ever before," said Becky Pringle, the president of the National Education Association.
Nicole Lawson is the chief human resources officer at Atlanta Public Schools.
"They are expressing the need to alleviate the burnout. And the burnout comes with the amount of planning it takes to plan for this new way of teaching. Teachers are experiencing double loads so if there's a shortage that means they're taking on additional students. Compound that with planning, it feels like you can't do enough," said Lawson.
According to a Rand survey, teachers are nearly three times more likely to report symptoms of depression than other adults.
For Rebeca Rogers, leaving the classroom came down to being overworked while the administration consistently asked her to do more.
"It was so demeaning on my mental health. During online learning I was doing 18 hours a day trying to make these animated content videos for kids and it didn't matter how much extra I was doing it was almost like expected, and no matter what I did it wasn't enough, but my mental health just couldn't take it. When I left there were 3000 vacancies in the county," said Rogers.
But it's not just that teachers are leaving the classroom. Districts are also struggling because there aren't enough students who are even pursuing the career.
"We have been extremely concerned that we have seen the decline in the number of our college students who are choosing to go into the profession. And then the number of our new educators who are going into the profession leaving the profession in those first 5 years. So this is something we've been following and working to address through policy and funding and training and just encouraging people to go into teaching," said Pringle.
Unfilled job openings lead to more work and stress for those who are still in the schools.
According to the NEA, caseloads for counselors and social workers have grown dramatically, just like the demands on teachers.
And that has a direct link to students. Many need more support due to the pandemic.
"They have to take care of themselves first so they can take care of their students. And like so many adults in the system right now they are struggling to find those additional resources and finding the time to do it. If our teachers are not doing well then our students aren't going to do well," said Pringle.
The NEA says the bottom line is clear teachers are not OK. Burnout and shortages are the biggest problems that need attention.
He said, "we are working together with educators all over the country and with mental health experts to provide educators with places to go and resources to support their colleagues and their schools and the entire community so that we can all heal together and help each other to do just that," said Pringle.
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In addition to serving the Alaska Guard family, Alaska National Guard State Command Chaplain (Col.) Ted McGovern serves the communities surrounding Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson as an assistant coach for the Chugiak-Eagle River Chinooks, a local collegiate baseball team in Chugiak. | https://www.dvidshub.net/video/855035/state-command-chaplain-pitches-faith-local-baseball-coach | 2022-08-23T02:10:25Z | dvidshub.net | control | https://www.dvidshub.net/video/855035/state-command-chaplain-pitches-faith-local-baseball-coach | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Manchester, England: Manchester United produced an utterly unexpected 2-1 victory over old rivals Liverpool in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Monday to turn fan protests against the club's owners into a rare night of celebration.
United's vastly improved performance for their first points of the campaign, thanks to goals from Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford, left Juergen Klopp's Liverpool without a victory from their opening three games and with just two points.
It was the first win for United's Dutch manager Erik ten Hag who was rewarded for his decision to leave Cristiano Ronaldo and club captain Harry Maguire on the bench.
"I am happy with the performance but we have to bring it every game," said Ten Hag. "Don't just bring it against Liverpool. Every Premier League game is difficult. We need to bring it to every game. It starts, once again, with the spirit."
In the aftermath of last week's humiliating 4-0 loss at Brentford, it has been a week of major question marks over the club's owners, the Florida-based Glazer family, and some fans marched to the ground in protest ahead of the kick-off calling for them to sell the club.
United's transfer failings have also been criticised but before the match started their new arrival from Real Madrid, Casemiro, was unveiled to the fans, although the welcoming applause threatened to be drowned out by anti-Glazer chants.
That strange juxtaposition of support and protest remained throughout the game but United's display, their best in over a year, defined the night.
Sancho strike
Sancho put the hosts ahead in the 16th minute, showing great composure as he collected a pull-back from Anthony Elanga, left James Milner on his backside and then slotted the ball into the bottom corner.
Christian Eriksen was denied a second for Ten Hag's side with a curling free-kick which Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker touched away from the top corner but United extended their lead after the break.
A mistake by Jordan Henderson allowed substitute Anthony Martial to send Rashford clear and the England forward kept his cool to slot past Alisson in the 53rd minute for his first league goal since January.
Henderson was part of a weakened midfield with James Milner and Harvey Elliott but Liverpool were below par all over the field.
They did however pull a goal back in the 81st minute when Fabio Carvalho's shot was parried by David De Gea only for Mohamed Salah to react quickly and nod in the loose ball.
There was plenty for Ten Hag to be encouraged by, particularly Rashford's return to scoring and form, but he will surely be delighted with the positive performances of two of his new signings.
Lisandro Martinez was outstanding in the centre of defence alongside the recalled Raphael Varane while Tyrell Malacia, picked ahead of Luke Shaw at left back, was tenacious throughout.
"We can talk about tactical but it is all about attitude. There was communication and a fighting spirit," said Ten Hag.
"I wanted a different approach and a different attitude and that is what they brought on the pitch. It is only a start. We can play with much more composure and much more danger. Be a team, and have a good spirit and that is what we saw today."
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Union Gap police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man in connection with a brutal double homicide July 4.
Police released photos of what appears to be a man walking along a street in the area of the 1100 block of Whatcom Street at the time of the killing. Detectives want to talk to the man, according to a police department news release.
Police want to speak with him to see if he was a witness or a "person of interest" in the deaths of José Navarro, 84, and Rafaela Guzmán Navarro, 87, UGPD Lt. Stace McKinley said.
Union Gap police went to the Navarros’ home shortly before 10:40 p.m. Monday after their grandchildren found them injured and unresponsive, according to police.
They were pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy determined the couple were beaten to death.
Their deaths were among three homicides in Union Gap this year, and 23 in the county.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Union Gap police at 509-248-0430 or Yakima County Crime Stoppers at 800-248-9980. Tips can also be submitted online at https://bit.ly/yccrimestoppers. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/union-gap-police-looking-for-man-seen-near-scene-of-double-homicide-in-july/article_e9e334ec-2278-11ed-99ef-5fb7394231d5.html | 2022-08-23T02:29:51Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/union-gap-police-looking-for-man-seen-near-scene-of-double-homicide-in-july/article_e9e334ec-2278-11ed-99ef-5fb7394231d5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NEXSTAR) – The James Webb Space Telescope has the out-of-this-world honor of observing exoplanetary systems – those outside our solar system – but only we humans get the chance to name the systems.
Webb, the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope, left Earth in December and reached its lookout point 1 million miles away in January. After a lengthy process of aligning mirrors, ensuring the infrared detectors were cold enough to operate, and calibrating other instruments, Webb began peering into the depths of space.
Webb has shared images that went deeper into the cosmos than we’ve ever seen and recently captured a photo offering “a new view” of how a galaxy has changed over billions of years.
The $10 billion telescope isn’t done viewing the depths of space yet. NASA says Webb “has a packed schedule of science programs looking at all kinds of cosmic phenomena, like planets, stars, galaxies, black holes, and more.”
Among its targets are a handful of exoplanetary systems, which are planets that orbit stars that aren’t our sun.
A new contest has been launched to name 20 of those exoplanets and their host star.
Earlier this month, the International Astronomical Union announced the NameExoWorlds 2022 Competition to name some of the first exoplanets spotted by Webb. The IAU is responsible for a number of tasks surrounding the world of astronomy but you’re likely most familiar with one in particular – being the international authority for naming celestial bodies and features on them.
The NameExoWorlds contest invites people from around the world to team up for a chance to name the exoplanets discovered by Webb.
To participate, the IAU says you must first “create a team that brings together students and teachers, astronomy enthusiasts, amateur astronomers, and professional astronomers.” You’ll then want to select an exoworld system from this list and propose a name as a team for the exoplanet and star.
You shouldn’t name the system after yourself, your spouse, your pet, or anything else personal in your life. Instead, IAU says names “should be of things, or places of long-standing cultural, historical, or geographical significance, worthy of being assigned to a celestial object.” According to the naming rules, you’ll need two names – one for the exoplanet and one for the star it orbits.
Once you have the names, IAU says to hold an outreach event to educate others about exoplanets. You will then need to submit your proposed name and your outreach activity for evaluation.
Your proposal will go through a two-step process. A national panel will first select one proposal and two backup candidates from their country to be reviewed by the international final selection committee. The final committee will select the best candidates for each system based on the description and meaning behind the name and the outreach activity done by each team.
Teams have until November 11, 2022, to submit their proposals. Voting will be conducted from December until mid-March, with the final results announced on March 20, 2023. Full rules and details for the NameExoWorlds competition can be found here.
Images of Webb’s latest stunning discovery were released Monday. The photos, taken last month, capture unprecedented views of Jupiter’s northern and southern lights, and swirling polar haze. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to swallow Earth, stands out brightly alongside countless smaller storms.
One wide-field picture is particularly dramatic, showing the faint rings around the planet, as well as two tiny moons against a glittering background of galaxies.
“We hadn’t really expected it to be this good, to be honest,” said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, of the University of California, Berkeley, who helped lead the observations.
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Moose resident Marian Meyers admitted that she didn’t do all of her homework ahead of showing up to the polls Tuesday at the Teton County Recreation Center.
Meyers, who had been in the books as a Democrat, changed her registration to Republican so she could vote for U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, who she admired for having the “guts to stand up for our country in the face of a lot of opposition.”
She was less certain, however, about which other Republicans on her ballot had values and stances that best aligned with her own – and so she left some bubbles unfilled.
“I did not want to vote for somebody who I was not familiar with and educated about,” Meyers said.
Meyers wasn’t alone – and it wasn’t just crossover voters who didn’t make it down the ballot.
There were more than 182,000 ballots cast across Wyoming during early and in-person voting, which is the highest raw count in a midterm primary election on record and the highest rate of turnout since 1994. Roughly 40% of Wyoming’s voting age population put a ballot in the mail or showed up to the polls. There was a 31% increase in Wyoming residents who voted compared to 2018, the last primary election halfway through a U.S. president’s term.
“To some degree, this was a referendum of where people stood on Trump, as much as anything else,” former Gov. Dave Freudenthal told WyoFile.
Largely, Wyoming voters motivated to come out sided with Trump in the highest-profile race: Cheney versus Harriet Hageman, the former president’s hand-picked proxy, who topped the incumbent by a 37% margin.
More than 99.5% of the nearly 172,000 ballots cast in the Republican primary marked either Cheney, Hageman or another candidate. Not so for candidates in races farther down the ballot. It’s nothing new, but there were several races – statewide, legislative, county, municipal and others – in which a significant portion of voters didn’t select a candidate.
In the competitive statewide race for the superintendent of public instruction, there were more than 25,000 fewer votes cast – called undervotes – than there were total ballots submitted. That’s about 14% of all the voters who turned out, and in that race, Megan Degenfelder topped incumbent appointed superintendent Brian Schroeder by a relatively slim margin, only 3,555 votes.
Notably, the undervote rate for the superintendent of public instruction improved compared to the 2018 primary, when 21% of Republicans didn’t select a superintendent candidate.
There were 14,000 undervotes in the race for secretary of state, a position that oversees Wyoming’s elections. State Rep. Chuck Gray, R-Casper, who campaigned on the premise that the 2020 election was rigged, won with 75,938 votes. Second-place finisher, state Sen. Tara Nethercott, garnered 63,044 votes. Still, the undervote very likely played no role in the outcome – it would only have swung the race to Nethercott if more than 90% of the would-be voters filled her bubble.
But undervotes might have played a role in the outcomes of some Wyoming Legislature races. In Albany County’s House District 14, Julie McCallister lost by just 125 votes to Bryan Shuster in a race with 487 fewer votes placed than total ballots cast in the district. Albany County houses Laramie, a liberal-for-Wyoming city where voters were more apt to cross over. Based on who donated to the candidates – far-right mega-donors Dan and Carleen Brophys backed Shuster – a higher percentage of down-ballot voting might have swung the race to McCallister.
Shuster will face incumbent Rep. Trey Sherwood, D-Laramie, in November’s general election.
Cheyenne resident Jeff Oliver is an example of a Wyoming voter who weighed in on statewide races in the primary, but didn’t vote all the way down the ballot. Usually a Democrat, his disapproval of Trump and the former president’s endorsed candidates motivated him to change party affiliation.
“With the age of Trump, democracy is in peril,” Oliver said.
Oliver voted against three Trump picks: Hageman, Schroeder and Gray. He didn’t vote on state House or Senate races, and personally knew of five or six other people in his circle who did something similar.
“You know, in some of those races, they’re either like a Republican that’s unopposed or they are like two or three Republicans, who pretty much are equally very hardcore conservative,” Oliver said. “So, there’s not a viable one that I would see as much better than the other in terms of what they’re going to do for Wyoming.”
The general election, where Wyoming voters can choose between Republicans and often long-shot independents, Democrats and minor-party candidates, is Nov. 8.
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ROCK SPRINGS -- Many students are facing food insecurities in Sweetwater County School District No. 1.
“When your stomach is growling, you're not thinking about multiplication,” said Eric Ulacher, community director for Knights of Columbus.
ROCK SPRINGS -- Many students are facing food insecurities in Sweetwater County School District No. 1.
“When your stomach is growling, you're not thinking about multiplication,” said Eric Ulacher, community director for Knights of Columbus.
The 5th annual Coats for Kids Trail Run takes place on Saturday, Aug. 27, 8 a.m. at Stagecoach Elementary School in Rock Springs.
Urlacher is a physical education instructor at Stagecoach Elementary and the head coach for the RSHS Tiger cross country team.
According to Urlacher, the entry fee for adults is $25. Students, 19 and under, can participate for free with a food or clothing donation. Additional donations are appreciated.
Priority items include:
- Lightly used winter clothing
- Peanut Butter
- Pasta Sauce
- Rice meals
Physical donations will go to the Stagecoach Backpack Program.
50% of profits Knights of Columbus Coats for Kids and Food for Families program
50% of profits go to Rock Springs Tigers Cross Country team to support student-athletes.
Participants will meet on the morning of registration from 8 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. at Stagecoach Elementary in the rear bus loop. Spectators are encouraged to bring a lawn chair to cheer on their families and friends. The 5K and 10K trail races will begin at 9 a.m. sharp.
Both races will start at the rear Stagecoach parking lot. For small children, there is a dirt road that would be ideal for off-road strollers. Baby-backpacks or children walking is another option.
For 5K participants, they will follow the single track as well as a dirt–road from Stagecoach to the base of White Mountain and back.
The 10K challengers will continue uphill on a single track to the first shelf of White Mountain after the 5K turnoff. They will go north and then move down on a two-track back towards the school. Courses will be flagged.
“White Mountain has great trails on it and I thought that this community has a fair amount of road races but not a lot of trail races so I wanted to utilize the White Mountain areas,” Urlacher shared. “I hope that the participants would help foster a love for moving 60 minutes a day as well as offer a charitable contribution for the kids in our town.”
He added, “If you're not fed and you don't have your needs met, you can't learn.”
“The greatest thing I could do as a teacher is in order to help kids learn is to make sure that their basic needs are met. They can't achieve anything until these needs are met so I guess I feel that I'm helping them learn as best as they can.”
He noted that anyone at any fitness level can participate and that “anybody can get a prize from a community sponsor.”
Anyone who has any questions about the event, may contact Urlacher at urlachere@sw1.k12.wy.us.
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Phoenix Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders will have two more NASCAR Cup Series champions rallying to its aid on Tuesday, Aug. 30.
2020 NASCAR Cup Series champion Chase Elliott will join four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon as a guest of honor for the NASCAR Championship Ignition Luncheon benefiting Phoenix Children’s. In addition, 1999 NASCAR Cup Series champion and Hall of Famer Dale Jarrett will serve as master of ceremonies.
All proceeds from the event at the Arizona Biltmore will fund the Phoenix Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, where children battling cancer receive cutting edge care with a compassionate touch.
“Chase Elliott and Dale Jarrett are champions on and off the track, and we’re overjoyed they are joining us for such a great cause,” said Phoenix Raceway President Julie Giese. “I know the battle against pediatric cancer is near and dear to both of them, and collectively, we will continue doing all we can to help continue the fight.”
Elliott, the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series regular season champion, is considered by many to be the odds-on favorite to capture the Bill France Cup during NASCAR Championship Weekend Nov. 4-6 at Phoenix Raceway. Not only does he have a season-high four wins, he also won the historic first NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race held at Phoenix Raceway in 2020.
Yet Elliott’s work away from the track makes him a perfect guest of honor for this event. As part of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, his Chase Elliott Foundation has teamed up with NAPA AUTO PARTS to have a paint scheme design created by a pediatric cancer patient in Georgia adorn the No. 9 Chevrolet on Sunday, Sept. 4, at Darlington Raceway. Along with the paint scheme for the car, the design is also featured on the fire suit, helmet, gloves and shoes that Elliott will wear in in the race. Those race-worn items will be auctioned to raise funds for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, which has received more than $250,000 from the foundation’s Desi9n to Drive program over the last five years.
At the luncheon on Aug. 30, Elliott will share more on his championship efforts on and off the track, and he’ll be joined on stage by an emcee who is also one NASCAR’s all-time greats.
Dale Jarrett was enshrined in the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2014 following a 24-year career that included three DAYTONA 500 triumphs and two Brickyard 400 wins. The 32-time NASCAR Cup Series winner has remained a fixture in American homes since his retirement in 2008. He currently is a prominent member of the NASCAR on NBC broadcast team, which will be front and center at Phoenix Raceway during NASCAR Championship Weekend.
Tables for the NASCAR Championship Ignition Luncheon benefiting Phoenix Children’s are still available. Checkered Flag tables of 10 are available for a donation of $5,000 and include a VIP meet-and-greet session and a commemorative gift signed by the guests of honor. Green Flag tables of 10 are available for a donation of $2,500 and also include a commemorative gift. For more details on how to participate, visit www.phoenixraceway.com/
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One thing that remained consistent during NASCAR’s annual trip to Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International was seeing the reigning NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) Champion, Kyle Larson, in victory lane. After driving the No. 88 JR Motorsports Camaro SS to victory lane in Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) race at the 2.45-mile, 7-turn New York circuit, Larson went on to sweep the weekend; piloting his No. 5 HendrickCars.com Camaro ZL1 to the team’s second win of 2022.
“Proud of our guys,” said Larson. “Good to get another win here at Watkins Glen and get some more bonus points going into the Playoffs, which we haven't had many of those this year. Hopefully this will build on some momentum and we can keep racking up some more points.”
Defending his race winning title at Watkins Glen didn’t come without a fight. After waiting out a lengthy lightning delay at the start of the race, Larson helped lead the field to the green alongside his Hendrick Motorsports’ teammate and pole sitter Chase Elliott. With pit strategy playing a vital role in track position throughout much of the race, the 30-year-old California native worked his way back up to the top-10 to complete stage two, positioning the No. 5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet team up front to battle for the win in the final stage. With a late-race caution in the closing laps, Larson lined up on the inside of Elliott for the restart with just five laps remaining. Taking the green for the race to the finish, Larson was able to power his No. 5 HendrickCars.com Camaro ZL1 to the lead and never look back, crossing the finish line first for the 18th time in his NCS career.
“I knew that was my only opportunity to get by him (Chase Elliott),” said Larson. “I felt like our cars were pretty equal today. Had a lot of fun after the green flag cycle trying to chase him down.”
Larson’s victory extended Chevrolet’s impressive streak of wins on the series’ road course circuits, with the bowtie brand now sitting at 11 consecutive NCS road course triumphs. Even more, a Chevrolet-powered machine has taken the win in 15 of the past 16 NCS road course races, dating back to Chase Elliott’s win at Watkins Glen in 2019. The winningest brand in NASCAR Cup Series history, Chevrolet has now recorded wins in 14 of the series’ 25 races thus far this season, with momentum on the bowtie brand’s side as the end of the NCS regular season is now just one week away.
Larson’s victory was celebrated by a strong Chevrolet showing at the conclusion of the 90-lap race, with Chevrolet drivers taking four of the top-five and six of the top-10 in the final running order. Larson’s win came after having to hold off fellow California native and notable road course master, AJ Allmendinger, who drove the No. 16 Action Industries Camaro ZL1 for Kaulig Racing to a runner-up finish. After clinching the 2022 NCS Regular Season Championship title during stage one of the race; Chase Elliott went on to lead a race-high 29 laps en route to a fourth-place finish for his No. 9 Kelley Blue Book Camaro ZL1 team. Daniel Suarez, No. 99 Princess Cruises Camaro ZL1, was fifth; Tyler Reddick, No. 8 KCMG Camaro ZL1, was seventh; and Erik Jones, No. 43 FOCUSfactor Camaro ZL1, rounded out the Team Chevy top-10.
KYLE LARSON, NO. 5 HENDRICKCARS.COM CAMARO ZL1; and CLIFF DANIELS, CREW CHIEF, NO. 5 HENDRICKCARS.COM CAMARO ZL1 – Press Conference Transcript:
THE MODERATOR: We are joined by crew chief Cliff Daniels and our winning driver Kyle Larson.
We'll open it up for questions.
Q. Kyle, post-race AJ said it sucked losing to you twice. What did it feel like to beat him twice on a road course?
KYLE LARSON: Yeah, obviously when he came out in second behind me, you get nervous again. I hadn't really seen him much all day so I didn't know how good he was. But I felt like my car today was much better than my car yesterday, so I had more confidence out in front of him today than yesterday, too.
Was able to gap him pretty well through the esses. I haven't looked at data, but matched him pretty well everywhere probably but the bus stop, maybe a little bit in turn six. But I felt like seven and the esses I could get away from him. That helped me protect from him getting close enough to dive bomb into there.
I figured day two he would be a little bit more aggressive behind me than yesterday. Thankfully our car was good enough I could gap him.
Q. Cliff, did your strategy plans change after the rains came?
CLIFF DANIELS: Not necessarily. We had kind of looked at it two different ways with rain mileage or in the dry. You could really two-stop the race. It was more of a fuel race than a tire race. We kind of had a fuel number we wanted to hit either way.
What is interesting is what the 17 did, where they were one of the first ones to take dry tires, made up a lot of time that way. They pitted so early I knew they were going to have to make a third pit stop to the field. They actually did a great job. I'm curious to know the details of how they executed it, but I think they did fuel only before the end of stage one, they cycled through ahead of us. That's a pretty interesting way to do it. Credit to them for kind of seeing that.
I believe all four of the Hendrick cars, we had seen and communicated very similar that we wanted to two-stop the race either way. Our plan the whole time was to two-stop the race. We knew with starting in wet conditions naturally you can get a dry line. There's going to be the excitement of guys really going fast once they put on dry tires. It's a lot to ask to make three pit stops against guys that can manage doing it in two.
Unfortunately we fell off a little bit hard at the end of our stint on the wet tires, which put us a little more vulnerable to the field. He did a good job on some of the restarts getting back up there. We knew our car had pace with dry tires.
I know that was a long-winded answer to what you asked, but that was kind of the scope of our day.
Q. Kyle, obviously contact with Chase there going into turn one. What was your perspective on that? Do you feel you have to have a conversation with Chase after the way things played out?
KYLE LARSON: Yeah, I had the restart before, I kind of got put in a bad spot because he had the dominant position on me with the nose ahead. Every time I was in the right lane yesterday in Xfinity, I was in the same spot, I would always get pinched into the curb. A lot of times I got passed by the time we got to turn two.
I figured it was probably going to be the last restart of the weekend. I told myself if I had a nose ahead of him before we got to the braking zone, I was going to have to try my best to maintain that, not let him get a nose ahead of me, pinch my corner off, end my chance of winning.
I had a good restart. I got in there hot. Did what I had to do to win. Again, I'm not necessarily proud of it, especially with a teammate, but I feel like I had to execute that way to get the win.
Q. You've had contact this year already going back to Auto Club, which was your other win. What do you feel like your relationship is with Chase generally speaking?
KYLE LARSON: I feel like we've been in a good spot. We were able to talk after the incident at Auto Club, moved on past that pretty quickly.
I haven't seen an interview. I haven't seen anything about Chase today. I think at Auto Club it was more of an accident. Today it was hard racing at the end on a restart.
I'm sure it will warrant some sort of conversation, but I don't know. So we have a quick week this week with testing at Martinsville, Saturday night race at Daytona. It's a much shorter week. Look forward to getting back on track.
Q. Kyle, some conversations can happen about this. How do you get it all straightened out so you're on the same page going into the Playoffs?
KYLE LARSON: Yeah, I don't know. I haven't talked to anybody really yet. We've just been taking pictures and stuff. Yeah, I'm sure I'll have a conversation with Jeff Gordon and Rick and probably Jeff Andrews. I'm sure Chase, as well.
I think it's risky taking the left lane here at Watkins Glen. It's definitely the preferred lane as the leader, but as each restart gets further on in the race, whether it be at the end of the stage or end of the race, you're putting yourself in a vulnerable position to get used up on exit.
You've seen it a lot of different times in the years past. You take note of that. Like I said, I did what I felt like I had to do to get the win and get some bonus points that we kind of desperately need as we head on into the Playoffs.
Q. Yesterday you said your goal is to get to second in points by the end of the season. Winning a race does a lot towards that. How confident are you right now in terms of getting more wins once you get into the Playoffs?
KYLE LARSON: Yeah, our cars have been really fast all year. I feel like all of Hendrick Motorsports has been really quick. Chase's team has done an extremely good job all year, compared to the field really, of executing. I think that's just really the one area that we've tried to focus on for a while now. It's easy to say; it's sometimes hard to do while you're racing.
If we can continue to have days like today where we execute as good as we could, called a great race with pit strategy, we did a great job on our pit stops, every restart I think we moved forward, and we brought a fast race car again to the track.
If we can continue to do that as we go onto these next 11 weeks, I'm pretty confident that we can go contend for another championship.
Q. At one point you were racing with Kimi. What was that like?
KYLE LARSON: That was cool. By the time I got to him, he was really struggling. He looked like he was really loose in front of me. I was able to make quick work of him.
It's just really cool for him to step out of his comfort zone and come play with us stockcar racers. It was more than just Kimi. The international drivers racing today was pretty cool. I think I passed every one of them at some point. It was fun watching them up ahead of me being really aggressive.
They're as good as it gets when it comes to heavy braking, stuff like that. I could watch people up in front of them try to make a move on them, they wouldn't be able to make the pass. That's just their experience playing part today, and it was fun to be a spectator at points in the race.
Q. AJ was complimentary do you after the race. He said he believed you're the most bad-ass racing driver on the planet right now. What does that make you feel?
KYLE LARSON: Yeah, no, it's cool. I've always had a lot of respect for AJ. He does a really good job in the Xfinity Series, but I feel like he's one of if not the most underrated guys in the NASCAR, any series in NASCAR, of my career that I've had in stockcars.
You can just tell when drivers are really good. For AJ to put himself in position every single time on a road course, whether it be any series that he's in, is amazing. As well as do as good of a job as he does in the Xfinity Series on ovals. I feel he really carries that car a lot of times.
You can compare him to his teammates, and he's always outrunning them. I feel like that's kind of a way to judge how good a driver is.
There's no doubt in my mind if he was in equipment equal to mine, he would be winning races frequently. He continues to get better. I love getting the chance to race him.
It was a lot of fun to have him in my mirror these last two races, try to keep my nerves down enough to keep off the best road racer.
Q. How do you make sure this doesn't carry over to the Playoffs where Chase is going to race you hard back as you've raced him? Is there any concern about that, coming down to a key moment, he has this memory in his head?
KYLE LARSON: Yeah, I don't know. Honestly I think in my position you have to expect not getting any breaks cut my way. You have to weigh all that stuff out as you roll around under caution. That is all stuff that has crossed my mind.
I don't know. I think and I hope it will be fine, but we'll see. I didn't end his day today, but I did probably take a win from him. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I think we've raced well in the past. The next 11 weeks, 10 weeks in the Playoffs, there's more than just me to worry about.
But, yeah, I definitely know there may be moments throughout the Playoffs where I feel like we're around each other a lot because we're pretty equal on track and stuff. Yeah, there may be moments.
In my position, you kind of have to accept it.
Q. Cliff, it's obviously been six months since you won a race. For a team that won 10 times last year, how tough is it to manage that?
CLIFF DANIELS: It's been tough. A lot of that I've got to say starts with me, right? I'm the leader of the team, I help coach him, the pit crew, the road crew, all the guys at the shop. There's a lot of different areas I have to cover.
I'm very I would say happy and pleased with the prep that we put into putting a fast race car on track, how to look at our strategy, all the different things until we get to the moment. In the moment, for whatever reason or another, all summer we've kind of been plagued like one little mistake here or there, a pit call or a pit stop, a restart or some little thing that has impacted our day, kept us from getting a good finish.
I take a lot of that to heart. We have a lot of very honest conversations within our team of what we have to do to make sure when you know you have one of the best drivers if not the best driver in the world, all the talent in our team that we had last year, all of the folks at Hendrick Motorsports giving us great cars and engines, all the things that they have given us, it really does boil down to execution.
I will say the Next Gen car has presented a completely different challenge for executing a race, managing tire falloff, strategy, a lot of things we wanted it to bring about. I certainly own the share of mistakes that I've made in that. We continue to kind of keep a tally in a healthy way to say here was a missed opportunity, here is what that looked like, here is the supporting evidence to look for the next time to not make that same mistake again.
Those are conversations that we have with him, within our team, of just how to be better and execute better. Very proud of the team today. Proud of him today because we needed kind of that token of confidence to say we brought another fast race car to the track this week, can we keep it up front, execute the race, have a shot at the end. If you have a shot at the end, you get a chance to capitalize, he did a great job today. Very thankful for that.
Q. Cliff, I'll ask you this. How concerning was the weather? First off the excess water before they stopped the race, then all the downhill stuff.
CLIFF DANIELS: A little bit concerning. COTA knocked the edge off, the edge of uncertainty, the nerves around what racing a Cup car in the rain would look like. I know the Next Gen car is different, but it is still a 3500 pound stock car. Still have all the rain tires, all the things you have to go through.
Not a very high level of concern because we have a little bit of experience with it. He's raced Xfinity in the rain. I've been a part of Xfinity races in the past in the rain. It was more about the question surrounding tires and fuel, which would be the same questions around executing a dry race.
I think in hindsight NASCAR did a good job of how they managed the start of the race. The rain tires seemed to do a good job, like we knew they would. Goodyear had done their homework on the tire. Once it dried out, our tires got punished, which is typically what we see.
I really didn't see anything kind of out of what we expected. I don't know if that helps answer.
Q. Cliff, looking at next week to Daytona, I was curious about the strategy games. A lot more strategy coming into effect with the summer race at Daytona than maybe Talladega or Daytona in February. How much was that strategy changed with the Next Gen car?
CLIFF DANIELS: I think it's going to be very important as we've seen at the speedways. Certainly within the OEM groups, the guys do a good job of working together. I believe in our Chevrolet group; we've still got some non-winners that could make the Playoffs. You certainly want to help those guys any time we can.
Another big part of the strategy for us, when we've been aggressive on trying to get to the front, calling aggressive strategy, we get caught up in things that happen at a speedway race. Talladega in the spring, we called probably one of the calmest races, he would admit, drove one of the calmest races we have in a long time and stayed in the top four almost all day long.
Every speedway race is going to play out different. We're going to try to be smart, be a good teammate to the Chevrolet guys, Hendrick guys how and when we can. Certainly we have to protect ourselves and make sure we have a shot at the end.
Q. What was it like from a driver's perspective when it was pouring big-time? Was there water dripping in the race car at the time?
KYLE LARSON: Yeah, I mean, compared to what I remember of COTA last time, I don't remember there really being any water inside the car last year. This year, yeah, there was a lot of like just dripping water inside the car. No, like, running water, which was nice (smiling).
Yeah, visibility, had we gone green while it was raining, probably would have been difficult like it was at COTA. It was nice they brought us down pit road and kind of waited for the rain to stop and blew that layer of thick wetness off the track. Visibility I didn't think was that bad when we took the green and the track was drying up fairly quickly, too.
I thought I'd be a lot better in the wet than I was. I was a little bit bummed and glad that it did dry up as quick as it did because I was struggling in the wet.
I'll have to look at data on why that is, how I didn't manage it better because my tires I think were ate up at the end of that run where other guys that did the same strategy as us, but I was struggling bad and getting ate up.
Yeah, no, it was fun. I mean, it's fun to get to do it every now and then. I thought the cars handled fine in the rain, too.
Q. If Chase had gotten the lead from you, how aggressive do you think you probably would have got in there trying to get that win?
KYLE LARSON: I don't think I would have gotten close enough to him. We were pretty equally matched. Dirty air was still a thing today. In the esses, even when I would get a decent exit off of one, if I was within three or four car lengths of him or anybody into the esses all day, I was just really tight and kind of binding the car up with my steering wheel, not able to run as much throttle as normal.
That doesn't allow me to stay close enough to him in the bus stop. He was really good in the bus stop, really good in the carrousel. I don't think I would have ever gotten close enough to him to even try to put pressure on him and make a mistake or try and pass him.
Q. As we've gotten to the close of the regular season, how concerned have you been not just about winning again but entering the Playoffs without a lot of the Playoff points? Has that been a serious concern of your team?
KYLE LARSON: Yeah, I mean, I don't know if we've necessarily talked about it a whole lot. I think it's definitely probably been on all of our minds.
Last year I think I had like 40-something points going into the Playoffs. Let's see, this year I'll probably have, if I run second in the regular season, like 23 depending on how next weekend goes.
Yeah, wins are important to get those bonus points. I haven't won as many stages as I did last year, nearly as many stages as last year.
All those bonus points help. Even as I went into the Playoffs last year, was winning a lot, I think we entered the Round of 8 almost a full race ahead of the cutoff. That gives you a lot of comfort. Not that you have total comfort, but...
Yeah, so winning today, getting some bonus points, everything helps. Everything will benefit you as you go on as the Playoffs start.
Yeah, would like to have a good weekend next week and lock up that second place in points and start the Playoffs I would think as the second-seeded driver probably.
Q. On the other side of that, is it also sort of not really good, but with the way that the season has been so wide open, aside from Chase, nobody has really pulled away, does that give you a good feeling that you can still be in a good spot?
KYLE LARSON: Yeah, yeah, definitely. In years past there's been, like, two or three guys that win all the stages, seem to win all the races, they kind of can distance themselves a little bit. This year it's, like, there's been no consistent guy up front. I feel like all the Playoff points have been evenly spread.
For me, who hasn't felt like we've done a good job, we're really still in a good spot on points, compared to our competition. So yeah, hopefully as the Playoffs come along, we can win some more stages, win some more races.
Obviously with winning races you advance to the next round. Even when you do that, you want to win stages and races to benefit yourself as you move on into the next round. It was good to get experience with points last year in our back pocket, but we aren't there right now so we need to try and get as many points as we can.
THE MODERATOR: Kyle, thank you.
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START: 31st
FINISH: 10th
POINTS: 17th
Erik Jones Post-Race Thoughts: “Best road course car we’ve had all year. Thanks to the 43 guys, the hard work is paying off. We need to qualify a little better, but a good day and finish for our FOCUSfactor Chevy. Honestly, I was kind of hoping for more rain. I was having fun when the track was wet. Watkins Glen is one of my favorite road courses, so I’m glad to leave with a top 10 and head to Daytona next weekend.”
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Kris Wright made his 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) debut with Brandonbilt Motorsports (BMS) on Saturday, August 20, in the Sunoco Go Rewards 200 at the Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International. Wright piloted the No. 68 F.N.B. Corporation Chevrolet Camaro in the 80-lap event at the 2.45-mile road course. Due to a mechanical failure, the Brandonbilt Motorsports team did not get the results they had anticipated. Wright and the No. 68 F.N.B. Corporation team were progressing up the leaderboard, but a broken driveshaft ultimately led to the 34th-place finish. KRIS WRIGHT. NO. 68 FIRST NATIONAL BANK CHEVROLET CAMARO. Wright started in the 36th-place and quickly progressed into the 23rd-place by Lap 15. The team decided to pit for fresh tires and fuel before the end of Stage 1. Wright restarted in the 32nd-place following the pit stop but ended Stage 1 in the 21st position. Stage 2 began with Wright and the F.N.B. Corporation team in the 18th-place. The Pittsburgh, Pa., driver was able to run 11 laps before reporting a mechanical failure on Lap 31. As required, the team took the car to the garage to assess the issue, but the No. 68 F.N.B. Corporation Chevrolet Camaro was unable to continue due to the broken driveshaft. WRIGHT ON WATKINS GLEN: "I thought we ran pretty well during the race. I was bummed about the mechanical failure because we kept getting better with each run. Everything was coming together for a top-15 finish. “I cannot wait to get to Darlington (Raceway) to make my NASCAR Xfinity Series oval debut. I have been working with the guys at BMS to prepare for the differences in running trucks versus cars there. Watkins Glen was a great learning experience, and I hope to carry that knowledge over to ‘The Lady in Black’." BMS PR | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/xfinity-series-news/72268-watkins-glen-recap-mechanical-failure-ends-wright-s-day-after-a-strong-run | 2022-08-23T02:38:17Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/xfinity-series-news/72268-watkins-glen-recap-mechanical-failure-ends-wright-s-day-after-a-strong-run | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Priya Varghese, wife of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's private secretary K K Ragesh, scoring top marks in the interview for associate professor of Malayalam in Kannur University was just one in a series of instances where people close to the ruling party, the CPM, were seen to land plum posts in varsities.
Priya at least has the cover of UGC Regulations 2018, which says that the selection will be based solely on the performance in the interview no matter the academic pedigree of contesting candidates. But in certain other recent appointments, there was not even the pretense of abiding by the law.
Take for instance the selection of assistant professor in the Malayalam department of Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady. Three subject experts who were part of the seven-member interview team openly questioned the first rank given to R Ninitha under the Muslim reservation category.
They said that the candidate was originally given fewer marks than was found in the rank list published by the university. Ninitha is the wife of CPM leader M B Rajesh, now the Kerala Assembly Speaker.
In the very same university, in another set of appointments, Vice Chancellor Dharmaraj Adat chose candidates who were rejected by the screening committee. This came to light when one of the screening committee members wrote to the Governor informing him how the selection process was subverted.
In yet another instance, a teacher who was debarred from examination duties by the Kerala University for his role in the 2019 PSC civil police officer recruitment fraud that saw SFI leaders scoring top ranks, was recently awarded the first rank in an assistant professor interview. This interview is now under the Supreme Court's scanner.
Then there was the Kerala University's choice for the editor-in-chief of the Malayalam Lexicon. The candidate was a Sanskrit scholar but had not studied Malayalam. It was said that she was not fluent in Malayalam either. She resigned when the Governor, as Chancellor, called her for an interview. She is the wife of the officer on special duty in the Chief Minister's office.
This is not all. There are many other appointments of wives and close relatives of CPM leaders to various teaching posts in universities where it is alleged merit was shoved aside with the active connivance of no less an authority than a vice-chancellor.
Chancellor's fury
It looked like nepotism was becoming the norm until Kannur Vice Chancellor Gopinath Ravindran decided to go ahead with the appointment of Priya Varghese in defiance of Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan. This was the point when Khan decided enough was enough. The Governor not just stayed Priya's appointment but also instituted a probe into the appointments to various posts in universities in the past three years.
Realising that the Governor could undo the advantage of having its own men as vice-chancellors in universities, the LDF government is making a swift countermove.
Law to keep VCs in thrall
The government is about to table the University Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2022, which will reduce the Governor's say in the appointment of vice-chancellors. As per existing laws, the 'search committee' for the selection of VCs has three members; a nominee each of the Governor, the University Senate and the chairman of the UGC.
The new bill will add two more nominees affiliated to the Kerala government; the vice chairman of Kerala State Higher Education Council and a Syndicate nominee. This will give the state government a majority in the 'search committee', rendering the Governor's likes or dislikes irrelevant.
Even as it stands, the state government has the upper hand as the Governor's nominee has been traditionally chosen by the state. However, Khan's aggressive ways have given rise to concerns that he might insist on a nominee of his choice. If this happens, the Governor's man and the Centre's UGC nominee together would have a majority in the three-member 'search committee'. The new Bill, therefore, is an attempt to thwart any move to take the vice chancellor out of the control of the state government.
Vice of loyalty
“This desire to have a pliable vice chancellor is not just a CPM trait. Even under the UDF, vice chancellors were chosen on the basis of their caste or religion and, more importantly, for their loyalty,” said professor M N Karassery, who had retired as head of the department of Malayalam, Calicut University. “Before settling on a name, it is quite common for politicians to assess who among the candidates will do their bidding without asking questions,” he added.
According to Karassery, things got worse after Pinarayi Vijayan came to power. “Now, the VCs and pro-VCs and registrars are being used to get things done in the most shameless manner. Appointments of close relatives and children of friends and even drivers have become so rampant that we have stopped noticing,” he said.
Karassery termed as “the height of arrogance” the appointment of a person with no expertise in Malayalam as the chief editor of the Malayalam Lexicon. “It was like saying we will do as we please,” Karassery said.
VC as a job seeker
Former Kerala University Pro Vice-Chancellor J Prabhash said that the fall in the VC's stature happened in the nineties, after the introduction of neoliberal policies. “The old value system was lost. Personal gain became the sole driving force. Such a philosophy governed the appointments of VCs, too,” Prabhash said. “Till then, even if VCs had political leanings, they were men of great stature who could not be influenced by people in power. Now, it is not academic credentials but just loyalty. And this too, not loyalty to the party but loyalty to the leader,” he said.
There was also a time when a VC post was not advertised like it is today. “We sought out the most eminent academicians and actively wooed them. Now, it is the other way around. Anyone can apply for the VC post and the shortlisted candidates, like in the case of any other ordinary job, are grilled by a panel. A VC post has been effectively downgraded,” Prabhash said.
Karassery remembers a time when giants like John Matthai, the legendary economist who was India's first railway minister and then its finance minister, was Kerala University Vice Chancellor, and even a Chief Minister of the stature of E M S Namboodiripad had to take an appointment to meet him.
"Now we have vice-chancellors who will stand up and fumble with words when a minister's PA calls," a former University registrar said, half in jest.
Strictly confidential
There was a time when there were men of steel at all levels in the universities. An incident that took place at Calicut University will demonstrate this. It was the early seventies and Muhammad Gani was the vice-chancellor, its first. Gani was a person held in such awe that the then education minister C H Muhammad Koya had famously said that he had never dared to ask him for favours.
One day an old pal of Gani made a visit to the VC's office. Gani was elated. When he realised that his friend's daughter had just completed her MA in one of the affiliated colleges and was waiting for results, the VC picked up the phone and called his controller of examinations Chellappan Pillai.
In his stately voice, Gani told Pillai of his friend's daughter, gave him her examination number and asked him to fetch the girl's marks. There was a brief pause before Pillai replied. “This is a highly confidential matter. I am unable to share it with you sir before the results are officially published.”
Gani profusely apologised before putting down the phone.
Stifling of debate and dissent
Several professors Onmanorama talked to said that dissenting voices have become increasingly rare in university bodies like the senate, syndicate and academic councils.
“Most of these bodies are stuffed with party loyalists and have ceased to be academic bodies. The stranglehold of CPM-affiliated teachers' and employees' associations is so complete that it is their writ that runs through universities. Vice-chancellors desperate to hold on to their jobs defer to their wishes. I know of many qualified people who have refused to apply to senior faculty positions in our universities. They know they don't stand a chance,” a serving associate professor said on condition of anonymity.
Falling standards of teaching are reflected in the growing interest among students to study abroad. A Ministry of External Affairs figure shows that 18 lakh Indian students, a large chunk of them from Kerala, will be studying in foreign universities by 2024.
What makes students fly
It is not just the lure of foreign education that is driving our students away. It is an indisputable fact that our universities are not doing enough. For instance take Kerala University, the state's oldest and which now boasts of the highest NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council) grading of A++.
The UGC had in January 2017 mandated that the syllabus should be revised every three years. A recent CAG investigation has noticed that the syllabus of 28 out of 142 courses have not been revised for a long time.
It has been 12 years since the syllabus of law was revised, seven years since Computer Science was revised, eight years since the syllabus of MSc Microbiology was revised, and 16 years since the syllabus of Master of Fine Arts course was revised.
On top of this is the increase in contract appointments. UGC regulations do not permit contract teachers to be more than 10 per cent of the total number of faculty positions of the college/university. In Kerala University, it is more than 23 per cent. And this trend of appointing contract teachers has caught on in the last few years. What was 14.08 per cent in 2017 is 23.49 in 2021.
The CAG audit has also observed that most contract staff did not have the qualifications mandated under the UGC regulations. It was found that 108 of the 174 teachers appointed in the 34 University Institutes of Technology (UITs) were appointed without NET/SET/PhD qualifications.
A namesake department
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Priya Varghese, wife of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's private secretary K K Ragesh, scoring top marks in the interview for associate professor of Malayalam in Kannur University was just one in a series of instances where people close to the ruling party, the CPM, were seen to land plum posts in varsities.
Priya at least has the cover of UGC Regulations 2018, which says that the selection will be based solely on the performance in the interview no matter the academic pedigree of contesting candidates. But in certain other recent appointments, there was not even the pretense of abiding by the law.
Take for instance the selection of assistant professor in the Malayalam department of Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady. Three subject experts who were part of the seven-member interview team openly questioned the first rank given to R Ninitha under the Muslim reservation category.
They said that the candidate was originally given fewer marks than was found in the rank list published by the university. Ninitha is the wife of CPM leader M B Rajesh, now the Kerala Assembly Speaker.
In the very same university, in another set of appointments, Vice Chancellor Dharmaraj Adat chose candidates who were rejected by the screening committee. This came to light when one of the screening committee members wrote to the Governor informing him how the selection process was subverted.
In yet another instance, a teacher who was debarred from examination duties by the Kerala University for his role in the 2019 PSC civil police officer recruitment fraud that saw SFI leaders scoring top ranks, was recently awarded the first rank in an assistant professor interview. This interview is now under the Supreme Court's scanner.
Then there was the Kerala University's choice for the editor-in-chief of the Malayalam Lexicon. The candidate was a Sanskrit scholar but had not studied Malayalam. It was said that she was not fluent in Malayalam either. She resigned when the Governor, as Chancellor, called her for an interview. She is the wife of the officer on special duty in the Chief Minister's office.
This is not all. There are many other appointments of wives and close relatives of CPM leaders to various teaching posts in universities where it is alleged merit was shoved aside with the active connivance of no less an authority than a vice-chancellor.
Chancellor's fury
It looked like nepotism was becoming the norm until Kannur Vice Chancellor Gopinath Ravindran decided to go ahead with the appointment of Priya Varghese in defiance of Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan. This was the point when Khan decided enough was enough. The Governor not just stayed Priya's appointment but also instituted a probe into the appointments to various posts in universities in the past three years.
Realising that the Governor could undo the advantage of having its own men as vice-chancellors in universities, the LDF government is making a swift countermove.
Law to keep VCs in thrall
The government is about to table the University Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2022, which will reduce the Governor's say in the appointment of vice-chancellors. As per existing laws, the 'search committee' for the selection of VCs has three members; a nominee each of the Governor, the University Senate and the chairman of the UGC.
The new bill will add two more nominees affiliated to the Kerala government; the vice chairman of Kerala State Higher Education Council and a Syndicate nominee. This will give the state government a majority in the 'search committee', rendering the Governor's likes or dislikes irrelevant.
Even as it stands, the state government has the upper hand as the Governor's nominee has been traditionally chosen by the state. However, Khan's aggressive ways have given rise to concerns that he might insist on a nominee of his choice. If this happens, the Governor's man and the Centre's UGC nominee together would have a majority in the three-member 'search committee'. The new Bill, therefore, is an attempt to thwart any move to take the vice chancellor out of the control of the state government.
Vice of loyalty
“This desire to have a pliable vice chancellor is not just a CPM trait. Even under the UDF, vice chancellors were chosen on the basis of their caste or religion and, more importantly, for their loyalty,” said professor M N Karassery, who had retired as head of the department of Malayalam, Calicut University. “Before settling on a name, it is quite common for politicians to assess who among the candidates will do their bidding without asking questions,” he added.
According to Karassery, things got worse after Pinarayi Vijayan came to power. “Now, the VCs and pro-VCs and registrars are being used to get things done in the most shameless manner. Appointments of close relatives and children of friends and even drivers have become so rampant that we have stopped noticing,” he said.
Karassery termed as “the height of arrogance” the appointment of a person with no expertise in Malayalam as the chief editor of the Malayalam Lexicon. “It was like saying we will do as we please,” Karassery said.
VC as a job seeker
Former Kerala University Pro Vice-Chancellor J Prabhash said that the fall in the VC's stature happened in the nineties, after the introduction of neoliberal policies. “The old value system was lost. Personal gain became the sole driving force. Such a philosophy governed the appointments of VCs, too,” Prabhash said. “Till then, even if VCs had political leanings, they were men of great stature who could not be influenced by people in power. Now, it is not academic credentials but just loyalty. And this too, not loyalty to the party but loyalty to the leader,” he said.
There was also a time when a VC post was not advertised like it is today. “We sought out the most eminent academicians and actively wooed them. Now, it is the other way around. Anyone can apply for the VC post and the shortlisted candidates, like in the case of any other ordinary job, are grilled by a panel. A VC post has been effectively downgraded,” Prabhash said.
Karassery remembers a time when giants like John Matthai, the legendary economist who was India's first railway minister and then its finance minister, was Kerala University Vice Chancellor, and even a Chief Minister of the stature of E M S Namboodiripad had to take an appointment to meet him.
"Now we have vice-chancellors who will stand up and fumble with words when a minister's PA calls," a former University registrar said, half in jest.
Strictly confidential
There was a time when there were men of steel at all levels in the universities. An incident that took place at Calicut University will demonstrate this. It was the early seventies and Muhammad Gani was the vice-chancellor, its first. Gani was a person held in such awe that the then education minister C H Muhammad Koya had famously said that he had never dared to ask him for favours.
One day an old pal of Gani made a visit to the VC's office. Gani was elated. When he realised that his friend's daughter had just completed her MA in one of the affiliated colleges and was waiting for results, the VC picked up the phone and called his controller of examinations Chellappan Pillai.
In his stately voice, Gani told Pillai of his friend's daughter, gave him her examination number and asked him to fetch the girl's marks. There was a brief pause before Pillai replied. “This is a highly confidential matter. I am unable to share it with you sir before the results are officially published.”
Gani profusely apologised before putting down the phone.
Stifling of debate and dissent
Several professors Onmanorama talked to said that dissenting voices have become increasingly rare in university bodies like the senate, syndicate and academic councils.
“Most of these bodies are stuffed with party loyalists and have ceased to be academic bodies. The stranglehold of CPM-affiliated teachers' and employees' associations is so complete that it is their writ that runs through universities. Vice-chancellors desperate to hold on to their jobs defer to their wishes. I know of many qualified people who have refused to apply to senior faculty positions in our universities. They know they don't stand a chance,” a serving associate professor said on condition of anonymity.
Falling standards of teaching are reflected in the growing interest among students to study abroad. A Ministry of External Affairs figure shows that 18 lakh Indian students, a large chunk of them from Kerala, will be studying in foreign universities by 2024.
What makes students fly
It is not just the lure of foreign education that is driving our students away. It is an indisputable fact that our universities are not doing enough. For instance take Kerala University, the state's oldest and which now boasts of the highest NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council) grading of A++.
The UGC had in January 2017 mandated that the syllabus should be revised every three years. A recent CAG investigation has noticed that the syllabus of 28 out of 142 courses have not been revised for a long time.
It has been 12 years since the syllabus of law was revised, seven years since Computer Science was revised, eight years since the syllabus of MSc Microbiology was revised, and 16 years since the syllabus of Master of Fine Arts course was revised.
On top of this is the increase in contract appointments. UGC regulations do not permit contract teachers to be more than 10 per cent of the total number of faculty positions of the college/university. In Kerala University, it is more than 23 per cent. And this trend of appointing contract teachers has caught on in the last few years. What was 14.08 per cent in 2017 is 23.49 in 2021.
The CAG audit has also observed that most contract staff did not have the qualifications mandated under the UGC regulations. It was found that 108 of the 174 teachers appointed in the 34 University Institutes of Technology (UITs) were appointed without NET/SET/PhD qualifications.
A namesake department
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U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Lester L. Williams, offgoing sergeant major, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, prepares to receive the national flag during the Old Glory presentation as part of the MCBH Relief and Appointment and Retirement ceremony, MCBH, Aug. 19, 2022. Williams was relieved by Sgt. Maj. Joseph J. Caputo as the MCBH Sergeant Major. Williams served over 30 years in the U.S. Marine Corps. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Samantha Sanchez)
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NAVAL BASE GUAM (Aug.18, 2022) - U.S. Naval Base Guam (NBG) Commanding Officer Capt. Michael Luckett met with Hunseung Lee, Republic of Korea (ROK), National Assembly Defense Committee chairman and committee members Aug. 16.
While on island, the ROK National Assembly Defense Committee leadership met with military leadership to discuss the U.S. military posture in the Indo-Pacific region, as well as to understand the strategic and operational importance of Guam.
While onboard NBG, Lee and the committee visited various installation facilities including the NBG wharves and piers, and Sumay Point.
The visit to Guam was part of a familiarization tour, where the group also visited Joint Region Marianas, Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz and Andersen Air Force Base.
(U.S. Navy Photos by LSSCS Christian Dadino)
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Owen Teague Will Star in the Next Planet of the Apes Movie
It’s been five years since the last Planet of the Apes movie was in theaters, but the next installment has now taken a major step forward. Deadline is reporting that Owen Teague has signed on “to play the lead primate” in the upcoming film. Andy Serkis previously portrayed the leading ape, Caesar, in Matt Reeves’ trilogy of Planet of the Apes films from 2011 to 2017.
One of Teague’s earliest roles was a young Walt Disney in Walt Before Mickey. He went on to play Patrick Hockstetter in both It and It: Chapter Two before landing the leading role of Harold Lauder on The Stand miniseries. Teague also had a memorable guest appearance on Black Mirror.
Deadline notes that “Teague wowed execs with his screen tests and was offered the role in recent weeks.” However, the search for the human leading character is still in progress.
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Director Wes Ball is taking over the franchise’s next installment following Reeves’ final film in his trilogy, War For the Planet of the Apes. Ball has previously indicated that his Planet of the Apes movie will not be a reboot of Reeves’ films. Presumably that means Ball’s story will pick up sometime after the death of Caesar in the previous film.
Disney has reportedly been looking to revitalize Planet of the Apes since closing its deal for 20th Century Fox’s entertainment assets in 2019. But it’s been a slow process. According to Deadline, Ball only submitted his script earlier this summer, which “instantly excited execs about where the new story could take fans of the franchise.” So far, no details about the script have been revealed.
Now that casting has begun, production may begin before the end of this year.
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HBO Max Drops Batman: Caped Crusader Animated Series
The DC bloodbath at HBO Max began with the cancellation of the Batgirl movie, but it hasn’t stopped there. DC’s Strange Adventures anthology series was also a causality. And now, TVLine is reporting that the Batman: Caped Crusader animated series has been dropped by HBO Max. However, unlike the other DC shows and movies, Caped Crusader will be shopped around to other outlets.
Caped Crusader is reportedly a more mature take on the Batman mythos from The Batman director Matt Reeves and J.J. Abrams. Bruce Timm, one of the co-creators of Batman: The Animated Series, is also executive producing Caped Crusader alongside Abrams and Reeves. More recently, acclaimed comic book writer Ed Brubaker was recruited to join the show as a member of the creative team. Brubaker wrote numerous comics featuring Batman during his stint at DC. He also revitalized Catwoman in a run on her solo comic book series.
If HBO Max won’t run the show, the most likely homes for the series are probably Netflix, Apple TV+, and Amazon Prime Video. Netflix is already streaming The Sandman, an adaptation of one of DC’s most popular fantasy comics. That may give Netflix the edge in this contest. We can only assume that a bidding war may arise to land the next Batman animated series.
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One of the other projects dropped by HBO Max today was Merry Little Batman. This stand-alone animated comedy features Bruce Wayne’s son, Damian Wayne, as the leading character. In this incarnation, Damian is only six-years-old and home alone on Christmas Eve. But when Wayne Manor is threatened, Damian takes up the mantle as “Little Batman” to save Christmas and himself. Like Caped Crusader, Merry Little Batman will also be shopped around for another outlet.
Where do you think these Batman projects will end up? Share your predictions in the comment section below!
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Inflation
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
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The forecast is significantly higher than the Bank of England’s projection earlier this month that inflation would peak at just over 13 per cent.
The BoE will be required to raise interest rates to 6 per cent or 7 per cent “should signs of more embedded inflation emerge,” Mr Nabarro warned.
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What an ugly outlook indeed.
Here is the link to the AFR for more. (gated)
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2 charged in Oak Lawn crash that killed 66-year-old mom, critically wounded her son
OAK LAWN, Ill. - Two people have been charged in connection to a crash in Oak Lawn that killed a 66-year-old woman and left a man in critical condition.
Joann McNary, 32, of Chicago, and Steven Bradford, 39, of Harvey, were both charged with one count of aggravated DUI involving death and one count of reckless homicide.
Around 1:50 a.m. Sunday, Oak Lawn police officers investigated a fatal crash involving four cars.
A Dodge Charger, a Honda Accord, a Lincoln four-door and a Dodge Ram pick-up truck were involved.
Investigators say the Charger, driven by Bradford, and the Accord, driven by McNary, were both traveling south on Cicero Avenue at high rates of speed.
Bradford allegedly hit the rear of a Lincoln that was also traveling south on Cicero, forcing the Lincoln into the northbound lanes near 110th Street.
The Lincoln then struck the Ram pick-up truck head-on, killing the 66-year-old female passenger in the Lincoln.
After striking the Lincoln, Bradford's vehicle came to a stop near 110th Street.
McNary's vehicle then allegedly left the roadway near 109th Street and hit a bench, causing the vehicle to rollover numerous times before coming to a stop in a parking lot at 110th Street.
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The driver of the Lincoln, a 30-year-old man and son to his 66-year-old passenger, was taken to Advocate Christ Hospital in critical condition with life-threatening injuries.
The female driver of the Ram pick-up was also taken to Christ Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and her two male passengers were uninjured.
McNary was transported to Christ Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Bradford was the only occupant in his vehicle and was taken into custody at the scene.
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"Hold it tightly!" said Poochie Jackson, ‘HBIC’ of the Wiener Circle. "Hold it tight and hurry up and bite it!"
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"He's just a hilarious, hilarious little kid," said The Wieners Circle co-owner Ari Levy, who helped track down the Hoobler family via social media.
Not known for mincing words, the Wieners Circle Staff knew exactly who to blame.
"Dad's fault," said Jackson. "He wasn't sitting in his lap properly. And the dang-gone hot dog was a little too big for the bun! I thought it was actually cute."
"We felt bad for him, simple as that," said Levy. "We thought it'd be a lot of fun to have him in."
The Hoobler family is from LaGrange and this all happened at Matthew's very first Sox game. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicagos-wiener-circle-throws-viral-boy-a-hot-dog-party | 2022-08-23T03:04:21Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicagos-wiener-circle-throws-viral-boy-a-hot-dog-party | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Cicero man hit woman with his car, fled the scene: police
CHICAGO - A Cicero man has been arrested after police say he hit a woman with his vehicle in Chicago last month.
Jeffrey Pelegrin, 30, faces two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
At about 4 a.m. on July 18, Illinois State Police District Chicago troopers responded to an area hospital to meet a woman who was receiving treatment after being struck by a vehicle.
Troopers discovered that the woman was a passenger inside of a parked vehicle on the left shoulder of Interstate 55 southbound at Pulaski Road when another vehicle that was traveling southbound sideswiped the parked vehicle.
The suspect, later identified as Pelegrin, allegedly continued driving.
The driver of the victim vehicle then followed behind Pelegrin's vehicle until it stopped in a parking lot in the 4000 block of South Pulaski Road, ISP said.
The woman got out of the vehicle and walked toward Pelegrin, when he allegedly accelerated and hit her with his vehicle.
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Pelegrin then fled the scene, ISP said.
The woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries, and the driver of the victim vehicle was uninjured.
Pelegrin was taken into custody on Aug. 18, and bond was set at $20,000.
No further information was made available. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/cicero-man-hit-woman-with-his-car-fled-the-scene-police | 2022-08-23T03:04:27Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/cicero-man-hit-woman-with-his-car-fled-the-scene-police | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Joliet Park District searching for owner of stuffed animal dog found in parking lot
JOLIET, Ill. - A stuffed animal has become a tourist magnet for the Joliet Park District.
About a month ago, a visitor left a stuffed toy dog in the parking lot.
A maintenance worker spotted it and efforts began to reunite the toy with its owner.
Then, the social media posts took on a life of their own.
Park district staff named the dog "Odie," after the dog in the Garfield cartoon.
They named their mission to reunite Odie with his owner, "Operation Odie."
They moved the dog around the nature center in photos, showcasing various attractions.
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"She was posting dozens of pictures every day of Odie with our resident hog and our resident snake and our resident tortoises and looking at maps and going on trails and people just got really invested in it," said Sue Gulas.
The unintended benefit, was more tourists, coming to the parks, wanting to explore what they had seen in photos with the dog.
Gulas says they are still looking for the stuffed dog’s rightful owner.
If you recognize him, you can contact the Pilcher Park Nature Center at (815) 741-7277. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/joliet-park-district-searching-for-owner-of-stuffed-animal-dog-found-in-parking-lot | 2022-08-23T03:04:39Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/joliet-park-district-searching-for-owner-of-stuffed-animal-dog-found-in-parking-lot | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Large fight at Chuck E. Cheese leaves 2 adults charged
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. - Two people are now charged after a large brawl at a Chuck E. Cheese in South Carolina.
North Charleston Police said Lizeller Dixon, 48, and DaShawn Grant, 26, are charged with breach of peace.
Authorities said they responded to a large fight at the kid's restaurant on August 20. They were also informed that someone at the location had a gun.
When officers arrived, they were met with a large crowd arguing and attempting to attack one another, according to a redacted report obtained by FOX Television Stations. Officers detained at least two people, one who reportedly hit a security guard and another one who reportedly instigated.
The security guard told officers he was trying to put handcuffs on one of the people when he was assaulted with a closed fist.
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One of the suspects, whose name was redacted, said his girlfriend was assaulted by two unknown men. He said he tried to intervene, and tried to get the security guard to help but claimed he didn't hit the guard. He said the guard misidentified him when the police arrived.
The report further stated that the guard could not later identify who hit him.
Officers said as they tried to clear the restaurant, the crowd continued to verbally threaten and attempted to attack one another.
Police say a third suspect, Ciera Judge, was arrested for disobeying orders to stop approaching other people cursing and yelling. She was cited for breach of peace and later released.
According to online court records, Grant posted a $400 bond. He and Dixon were both released and are expected in court next month.
This story was reported from Los Angeles. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/large-fight-at-chuck-e-cheese-leaves-couple-charged | 2022-08-23T03:04:45Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/large-fight-at-chuck-e-cheese-leaves-couple-charged | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Michigan man arrested in Chicago for sexually abusing 6-year-old boy in River North McDonald's bathroom
CHICAGO - A Michigan man has been charged after police say he sexually abused a 6-year-old boy inside a McDonald's bathroom in River North.
Bryan Sutton, 62, of Flint, faces one felony count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse to a victim under 13 and one felony count of kidnapping.
At about 6 p.m. Saturday, Sutton allegedly sexually abused the victim inside a restroom stall at the McDonald's located in the 600 block of North Clark.
He was arrested moments later.
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Sutton also allegedly battered a 61-year-old security guard who attempted to detain him, Chicago police said.
He was eventually placed into custody at the scene, and charged accordingly.
No additional information was made available. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/michigan-man-arrested-in-chicago-for-sexually-abusing-6-year-old-boy-in-river-north-mcdonalds-bathroom | 2022-08-23T03:04:51Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/michigan-man-arrested-in-chicago-for-sexually-abusing-6-year-old-boy-in-river-north-mcdonalds-bathroom | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Researchers say they believe a pill to fight food allergies may be close, but study participants didn't want to take the awful smelling treatment.
The American Chemical Society examined nut allergies and how it affects mice. Scientists tested a compound called butyrate and looked at how it helps grow good gut bacteria.
The issue was that the pill was hard to swallow for study participants, who said it smelled like dog droppings and rancid butter and had an awful taste.
The pill is also said to digest too soon, so researchers are examining a new delivery system for the bacterial compound to help hide the smell and taste.
Shijie Cao, Ph.D. at the University of Chicago said, "butyrate has a very bad smell, like dog poop and rancid butter, and it also tastes bad, so people wouldn’t want to swallow it."
When the pill was administered to mice it helped stop anaphylactic shock when they were exposed to peanuts.
Researchers hope the pill's compound will help combat many types of food allergies.
According to the FDA, millions of Americans deal with food allergies to things like milk, eggs, fish, shellfish and wheat. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/scientists-may-have-found-a-prevention-for-food-allergies-but-the-pill-tastes-and-smells-awful | 2022-08-23T03:07:19Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/scientists-may-have-found-a-prevention-for-food-allergies-but-the-pill-tastes-and-smells-awful | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Lewiston’s annual Jazz Festival will be returning this weekend for its 20th official season, with five stages accommodating the 31 scheduled acts.
Festival coordinator Jennifer Pauly said this would be the first Jazz Festival of this size since 2019, since it was canceled in 2020 and there was a smaller event put on in 2021, both due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the 20th festival celebrations, two big names in jazz will be performing on the Main Stage Saturday night, in the 2019 American Pianist Award Winner Emmet Cohen Trio and the five-time Grammy nominated Joe DeFrancesco Trio.
“They are two big names in the industry,” Pauly said. “We’re excited to showcase both of them on Saturday.”
The acts performing hail from across the country and even Canada, including Grammy nominated Stacy Kent, the Juno Award-winning Allison Au Quartet, acclaimed vocalist Corinne Mammana, and pianists Sally Terrell and John Di Martino.
Over the two days, depending on the weather, the festival brings in between 30,000 and 35,000 people to Lewiston according to Pauly, making it its largest street festival. All of the village’s shops and restaurants will be open, other curated restaurants and wineries will be present, and even real estate agents will be out showing off what it is like living in the region.
The performances will be staggered throughout the day so that live music can be heard throughout the festival’s entirety.
“There’s nothing like the Jazz Festival,” Pauly said. “It has an atmosphere unlike any other in Western New York.”
The full schedule of performances is as follows:
Friday
The Main Stage:
• 6 p.m. — 7:30 p.m. Sally Terrell w/John DiMartino
• 8:45 p.m. — 10:15 p.m. Stacey Kent
The Center Street Stage:
• 6 p.m. — 7:30 p.m. MMVPT
• 8:15 p.m. — 9:45 p.m. Charlie Ballantine Quartet
The Frontier House Stage:
• 5:30 p.m. — 7 p.m. Rick Strauss Quartet
• 7:45 p.m. — 9:15 p.m. The Skiffle Minstrels
The Peace Garden:
• 5:45 p.m. — 7:15 p.m. Becky Davis Trio
• 8 p.m. — 9:30 p.m. Alex McArthur
DiCamillo Courtyard
• 5:15 p.m. — 6:45 p.m. Adam Bronstein Duo
• 7:30 p.m. — 9 p.m. The Autonomous Vehicles
Saturday
The Main Stage:
• 12:15 p.m. — 1 p.m. UB Zodiaque Dance Company
• 1:45 p.m. — 3:15 p.m. Corrinne Mammana
• 4 p.m. — 5:30 p.m. Allison Au Quartet
• 6:15 p.m. — 7:45 p.m. Emmet Cohen Trio
• 8:45 p.m. — 10:15 p.m. Joey DeFrancesco Trio
The Center Street Stage
• 1:30 p.m. — 3 p.m. Original River Dogs
• 3:45 p.m. — 5:15 p.m. Maria Sebastian American SongBook
• 6 p.m. — 7:30 p.m. Summer Wind: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra
• 8:15 p.m. — 9:45 p.m. George Caldwell Sextet
The Frontier House Stage
• 1 p.m. — 2:30 p.m. Far Trio
• 3:15 p.m. — 4:45 p.m. Jay/Sharp-tet
• 5:30 p.m. — 7 p.m. Paradigm Shift
• 7:45 p.m. — 9:15 p.m. Hanna PK
The Peace Garden
• 1:15 p.m. — 2:45 p.m. Saranaide
• 3:30 p.m. — 5 p.m. Dozo My Lady
• 5:45 p.m. — 7:15 p.m. Hot Club of Buffalo
• 8 p.m. — 9:30 p.m. Buffalo Dolls
DiCamillo Courtyard
• 12:45 p.m. — 2:15 p.m. Lance Tanner Duo
• 3 p.m. — 4:30 p.m. Stu and Avery Weissman Duo
• 5:15 p.m. — 6:45 p.m. Dale Toiver Duo
• 7:30 p.m. — 9 p.m. Jared Tinkham Duo | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/lifestyles/lewiston-jazz-festival-celebrating-20th-season-this-weekend/article_b495c5e2-227e-11ed-94bb-3f523da45914.html | 2022-08-23T03:11:16Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/lifestyles/lewiston-jazz-festival-celebrating-20th-season-this-weekend/article_b495c5e2-227e-11ed-94bb-3f523da45914.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ALBANY — With students poised to return to classrooms, state officials have decided to cancel a rule requiring pupils and teachers to quarantine if they have been exposed to the COVID-19 virus.
The new rules put New York into alignment with revamped guidance issued earlier this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It means students exposed to the virus won’t have to “test to stay” in classrooms.
The updated rules for New York schools were announced in New York City by Gov. Kathy Hochul, who one year earlier had imposed a mask mandate on students. That requirement is also being lifted for the coming school year.
“The days of sending an entire classroom home because one person was symptomatic or tests positive, those days are over,” Hochul said.
Hochul stressed classroom instruction plays a crucial role in children’s development, noting the last two years provided assurances that school buildings have been safe places during the pandemic.
“When they’re not in a classroom and the learning stops, the traditional learning stops, it can be devastating for the wellbeing of those children.” Hochul said.
Teachers and students testing positive for the virus will be required to remain home for five days, then wear masks when they return.
Under the rules, school administrators will have the flexibility to determine whether to test participants in school activities involving close contact, such as sports.
Niagara Falls Schools Supt. Mark Laurrie said he welcomes the state’s new guidance, saying: “What needs to prevail now are the good common sense and universal precautions we’ve learned over the last three years. Not having such a didactic, prescriptive, mandatory set of rules is the right way to move ahead as we get ready to embark on the school year.”
Hochul has been using special emergency powers to manage the pandemic, powers she recently extended despite objections from GOP lawmakers who say it is no longer necessary for her to have such sweeping authority. But the governor said Monday she expects to end the emergency order soon.
Reacting to Hochul’s announcements, Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-Long Island, insisted her emergency powers end immediately.
“Her COVID vaccine mandate must end, everyone who was fired as a result should be offered their jobs back with back pay, and she should stop dragging her feet on her long overdue and long promised COVID investigation,” Zeldin said.
State Senate Republican Leader Rob Ortt, R-Niagara County, echoed that sentiment, calling the termination of school-related COVID restrictions “a long overdue victory for parents and students across New York.”
Hochul linked her decision to cancel the restrictions to what she called the lessons learned from the “experiment” of the raft of rules schools faced for two years, and the negative impacts remote learning had on children.
David Little, director of the Rural Schools Association, said more compelling reasons for dropping restrictions are the facts that there is now a vaccine available for children and that the current variant of the virus tends to produce mild symptoms in many cases of those who get the infection, whereas the initial strain was responsible for a wave of deaths.
But Little said he agreed remote classrooms took a toll on the mental health of children.
“It’s certainly beneficial to be able to return to normalcy — for rural children in particular,” Little said. “For the rest of society, staying home to do your school work was an inconvenience. For rural children, it was solitary confinement. We’re more than happy to have the opportunity to provide education in the way that it was meant to be provided.”
The latest state — and CDC — guidance calls for students and school staffers to wear masks or respirators for 10 days if they have been exposed to COVID-19. If they come down with symptoms of the illness, they are directed to get tested for the virus. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/state-relaxes-school-covid-19-restrictions/article_41f2abe0-2283-11ed-841f-97458788923d.html | 2022-08-23T03:11:22Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/state-relaxes-school-covid-19-restrictions/article_41f2abe0-2283-11ed-841f-97458788923d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pete Bicknell from St. Catharines, Ontario won his second Krown Undercoating Modified feature of the season Friday night at the Ransomville Speedway as Telco Construction, Buffalo Fuel Corp and Firth Jewelers presented racing action.
In the night’s other events, Derek Wagner from Middleport earned his fifth Investors Service Sportsman feature of the season; John Zimmerman from Varysburg took his second KiPo Motors Street Stock this season. Ian Paul from Wilson won the first Sunflowers of Sanborn Mini Stock feature of his career; and Abby Castile from Ransomville won her first career Kevin’s Carpet Cleaning Novice Sportsman.
Bicknell and Scott Kerwin brought the Modifieds to green for their 30-lap feature, with Bicknell showing the way. Steve Lewis Jr. raced in third, Chad Brachmann would take fourth from Allan Wills and Greg Martin raced in fifth place. Kerwin would reel in Bicknell and the two veterans would battle for the lead. Brachmann would take third away on lap 10 and catch the leaders on lap 16.
Brachmann would catch the wall in turn two, allowing Mat Williamson to catch and pass him on lap 20. Williamson would catch Kerwin for second place with seven laps remaining, eventually taking it away, but it was Bicknell racing to his second win of the season.
Greenley George and Jessica Kriegisch were on the front row for the Sportsman feature, with Kriegisch showing the way. Noah Walker would take second as Wagner and Brett Senek raced behind. Wagner took the lead away on lap seven and Senek would take over second on lap nine.
Cody McPherson would take fourth on lap 10 as Wagner, Senek and Walker raced in the top three. McPherson and Walker battled for third for several laps as Wagner started to open up his lead. Wagner pulled away from the field to earn his fifth win of the season.
Simon Bissell and Pete Stefanski shared the front row for the Street Stock feature, with Bissell showing the way early. Brandon Sherwood would take over second from Stefanski. Joey Zimmerman would hit the turn four wall on lap two to bring out the race’s first caution. On the restart, Sherwood would take over the lead with John Zimmerman taking over second, then the lead on lap three.
Josh Pangrazio would work his way to second as Zimmerman increased his lead. Sherwood would take over second from Pangrazio at the halfway mark. Pangrazio and Sherwood would battle for several laps as Zimmerman started to pull away. Pangrazio would regain the runner-up position on lap 16 but tagged the turn three wall one lap later to bring out the caution. The final three laps would see Zimmerman drive away to pick up the victory.
Paul and Chris Leone were on the front row for the Mini Stocks, with Paul showing the way. Matt Hornquist would take second away from Leone on lap six, but Leone would regain the position just one lap later. The top six battled for much of the 15-lap affair. Paul would hang on and score his first career feature win.
Castile and Noah Mamo were on the front row in the Kevin’s Carpet Cleaning Novice Sportsman feature, with Mamo showing the way. Mamo would suffer suspension damage on lap three, bringing out the caution. Castile would be scored as the leader on the ensuing restart. She would pull away as Dillon Adamczak and Aden Harris battled for second. Colby Adamczak would pull into the infield on lap four and would bring out the caution, but Castile would hold off the field to score her first career feature win.
Thursday night at the Little R, the SANY New York/Burris Racing Go Karts were back in action. Colin Spatorico won his third Mike Barry Motors Senior Heavy feature of the season. Anthony Pollow won his second Fisher’s Auto Repair Senior Lites feature of the season. Jacob Schulz won his second Frontier Auto Wrecking Junior 3 feature this season. Amelia Westlake won his sixth SJE Shocks Junior 2 feature. James Strassburg won his second Slack Karts Junior 1 feature. Ryan Barry (fifth), John Massar (sixth) and Jack Reid (first) won the Just Signs & Designs Novice features.
Action returns this week as Stirling Lubricants, National Maintenance Contracting Corp, Wendt’s Propane, Lawns Unlimited, Evergreen Lawn & Tree Service and Hebeler Sales & Service present the 37th Summer Nationals for the Super DIRTcar Series Big Block Modifieds and the second Mike Bonesky Memorial for the Sportsman Western and Central Region on Wednesday night, airing live on DIRTVision.
If the Summer Nationals is completed Wednesday, the go-karts will be back in action Thursday. If the Summer Nationals get rained out, the go-karts will have the night off as Thursday is the scheduled rain date.
Saturday, the Versus Monster Trucks will take center stage at the Big R. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/sports/pete-bicknell-earns-second-win-this-season-at-ransomville-speedway/article_38932296-2288-11ed-8f3f-73f27c419236.html | 2022-08-23T03:11:28Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/sports/pete-bicknell-earns-second-win-this-season-at-ransomville-speedway/article_38932296-2288-11ed-8f3f-73f27c419236.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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