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Fans are getting a glimpse on the new horror movie by 50 Cent that was so gory and bloody that even one of the cameramen passed out while filming.
Directed by Josh Stolberg, who is known for his specialization in the macabre and gore in such movies as Jigsaw and Spiral: From the Book of Saw. The new gore fest film stars Fifty, viral TikToker Bryce Hall and UFC veteran Paige VanZant.
The movie is about “a group of influencers who wake up in a gorgeous mansion, only to discover they’re actually trapped in a deranged popularity contest. This film is bursting with mavericks of entertainment, many of them spanning multiple genres and platforms,” producer Ryan Kavanaugh explained to Deadline. “From a global rap and hip-hop music icon to a businessman, actor, writer, and producer – if anyone knows a thing or two about breaking the boundaries, it’s 50 Cent. I’m honored to work alongside him as we watch Bryce [Hall] do the same with his career.”
Fans will soon learn why a cameraman fainted for about a half-hour due to the graphic scenes.
“When it happened, it was nighttime, dimly lit, and we were in the middle of filming a frightening scene that involved a lot of blood,” Kavanaugh told People magazine. “One of our camera operators literally dropped and passed out. The camera broke, an on-set medic came and tended to him, and we broke for almost an hour.”
Check out the trailer that has some of the fans already getting excited. | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/23/50-cent-drops-trailer-to-gory-horror-film-skill-house-video/ | 2022-08-23T16:26:40Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/23/50-cent-drops-trailer-to-gory-horror-film-skill-house-video/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“Abbott Elementary” received more of its well-deserved flowers at the African American Film Critics Association TV Honors on Aug. 20 in Beverly Hills, California.
The brainchild of rising creative Quinta Brunson, the show depicts the modern-day reality of being an optimistic young teacher in an inner-city setting. The production works, all the way from the cast’s chemistry to the comedic timing and details of witty one-liners in-between scenes. Its reviews often compare it to the dry humor that appears in comedic parodies like “The Office” and “Parks & Recreation.”
The writers’ room includes a number of comedians and other show veterans including “Atlanta” writer Jordan Temple and Brittani Nichols from “A Black Lady Sketch Show” among various other projects. After the AAFCA TV Honors, Temple and Nichols spoke to rolling out about what viewers should expect from the next seasons of both popular shows.
What should people expect from Season two of “Abbott Elementary?”
Nichols: Expanding the world. We’re going to see a little bit more of the teachers’ home lives, more of their relationships, more of their family ties and really learn more about who they are as people and how that informs the decisions we see them making inside the school.
Temple: Seeing the outside life definitely changes how you see them differently in school. It’s a major part of the expansion. I think that’s very important and something really cool for the season. Most importantly, these laughs, we goin’ get off these jokes. We like these jokes. It’s all about these laughs. Life is hard. I need jokes as hard as my life is, and my life is hard. So we’re going to get off these jokes.
Nichols: [Viewers will see] diversity in the episodes because we’re doing 22 episodes this season, which is such a rarity in this day and age. So you’re going to get to see a lot of different textures in the sort of episodes that we’re putting forth. All the episodes, I think if you really pay attention, you can see a little bit of the writers in each of them in our distinct voices and the way we approach the show. You really get to see a wider breadth and a wider span of the sorts of comedies, it’s still a comedy, but it’s a lot of different voices … forming it.
What should people expect in the final season of “Atlanta?”
Temple: The final season [is] going back to Atlanta. I think it would be something people would like because somehow that got lost.
“The show is not an idea, it’s a place! Why aren’t y’all here? What are y’all talking about? Where’s Paper Boi? I hate this. I hate Donald. I hate Black men.”
Nichols: Somehow this is going to get clipped to just “I hate Donald.”
Temple: Yes, I mean … shout out to the edit, but this season, I think people are going to obviously like more. It’s the bow-out season … it’ll be nice, live-action, “Boondocks” at its finest. | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/23/abbott-elementary-and-atlanta-writers-reveal-what-to-expect-in-new-seasons/ | 2022-08-23T16:26:46Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/23/abbott-elementary-and-atlanta-writers-reveal-what-to-expect-in-new-seasons/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jack Daniel’s hosted its Black business investment program, “New Beginnings, Make It Count,” in Richmond, Virginia, on Aug. 22. The panel included Randy Fling, Damon Jiggetts, Dionne Hughes and Ashley Williams. Jack Daniel’s whiskey brands Tennessee Honey, Tennessee Apple, and Tennessee Fire are still awarding $40K in cash to five selected grant recipients who meet the competition’s eligibility and requirements.
By elevating numerous deserving businesses, Jack Daniel’s aims to empower Black business ownership and encourage local economic stimulation by presenting consumers who “buy Black” with more places to support and shop.
Since its inception in 2020, the program has expanded to include business owners in the Richmond, Virginia, region and has increased its overall contribution to African American entrepreneurs. Once finalists are narrowed down and selected, they will appear in front of an expert judging panel and in-person audience for a live business pitch event where all winners and cash prizes will be announced.
The next panel will take place on Aug. 23 at the Bayou Bar & Grill at 5025 Baltimore Avenue in Philadelphia from 6 p.m. through 8 p.m. | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/23/jack-daniels-brings-black-business-owners-together-in-richmond-virginia/ | 2022-08-23T16:26:52Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/23/jack-daniels-brings-black-business-owners-together-in-richmond-virginia/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A little league team made a decision recently that left social media users with questions.
On Aug. 21, MLB hosted its Little League Classic in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. It’s a chance for the kids in town for the Little League World Series to watch a major league game for free and have a memorable experience. During the game, a camera panned to the Midwestern little league team from Iowa, as White teammates appeared to be placing pieces of cotton on a Black player’s head, making it look like he had a cotton Afro of sorts.
Did anyone else just see this on the Little League World Series?! They was stuffing the black boy hair with cotton!!! #LLWS pic.twitter.com/nRVJpw6FJj
— Smitty (@BullCityHeel) August 22, 2022
Really weird that the Midwest @LittleLeague team decided to put cotton on this players head #Sus @MLB pic.twitter.com/LFGG4frH1Y
— Fan of DogLuver FanLuver Dog Fan (@iluvdogluver) August 22, 2022
Users then discovered the team’s Twitter page.
Unacceptable. We need an explanation why this happened. That child’s face doesn’t indicate they were in on the joke. He was humiliated on national TV by his “teammates.” And people wonder why Black kids don’t play baseball. @LittleLeague @espn @MLB https://t.co/kPBADP3nW3
— Brenda’s Skinny Hand (@MrsKrissyT) August 22, 2022
What the hell happened?! My boys play travel ball and you have disgraced the game with your racism. Shame on you!!! You must apologize for what you did to that boy.
— Sofa King Angry (@StarfireCity) August 22, 2022
The Iowa little league team didn’t publicly address the video clip as of the morning of Aug. 23. The Little League organization released a statement in the late afternoon on Aug. 22, as published by HuffPost‘s Phil Lewis.
“During the broadcast of the MLB Little League Classic, a Midwest player was shown with filling from a stuffed animal given away at the game on his head,” the statement read. “After speaking with the team, as well as reviewing photos, multiple players on the Midwest Region team were taking part in this while enjoying the game. As only one appeared on the broadcast, Little League International understands that the actions shown could be perceived as racially insensitive. We have spoken with the player’s mother and the coaches, who have assured us that there was no ill-intent behind the action shown during the broadcast.”
Here's video from the broadcast: pic.twitter.com/CTUJ2hVg2A
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The Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium is created by and for Black women to promote activism and philanthropy, in the hopes of positively impacting and making change in communities of cover, especially in the South. The organization kicked off its latest campaign in Atlanta on Aug. 20.
Southern Black Girls+ was created in response to a lack of support for quality of life opportunities in Black communities. Since its inception, SBG has created the Black Girls Dream Fund, raising money to support its mission to create just and sustainable communities that are free of oppression and that embrace and celebrates people in southern communities. The organization has already raised over $2 million in the initiative and they are now partnering with rap superstar, Megan Thee Stallion.
Rolling out spoke with LaTosha Brown, Malikah Berry Rogers, and Joy Webb, leaders of SBG to discuss the direction of the organization.
How was Southern Black Girls created and what is the vision for the organization?
LaTosha Brown: About six years ago, I had a vision. There was a report by the Southern Rural Black Women that stated that $4 billion that came into the south would only support less than one percent of Black women and girls organizations. I was so frustrated and angry, that I wanted to tell philanthrop[ist] what they needed to do. I was in the shower when it came to me that I can move with the gifts and the skills that God had given me and other Black women. We can create and be the solution to the very thing that was [the] problem. With that, I was able to pull three other women together who also led philanthropic organizations rooted in the Black community. We call ourselves anchors and for two years, we went around to 12 states having sessions with Black girls asking about their dreams and in that we were able to create this organization that was informed by Black girls and women.
Day one kickoff has been in Atlanta, Georgia. Tell us about the experience on the first day of the multi-state campaign.
Malikah Berry Rogers: There must have been about 100 girls here today already. They’ve done everything from cosmetic chemistry to coding with STEM, and vision boards. They had opportunities to think about what they wanted for themselves because we believe their dreams are the catapults to their future, and we want them to invest in their dreams the way we invest in them.
Are there any last sentiments that you would like to add?
Malikah Berry Rogers: The Pete and Thomas Foundation is led by rap star Megan Thee Stallion and she found hope in our work because of her mission regarding mental health and wellness. She understood that what was important for Black girls is to understand that they can have a moment for self-care to prioritize their health and wellness so she linked up with us and we are taking this tour under her and the Pete and Thomas Foundation because she knows that joy is a journey. | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/23/megan-thee-stallion-partners-with-local-organization-to-support-black-girls/ | 2022-08-23T16:27:04Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/23/megan-thee-stallion-partners-with-local-organization-to-support-black-girls/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jack Daniel’s has tapped rolling out to highlight an incredible opportunity to contribute to the success of local Black businesses in Washington D.C. on August 25 at 6:30pm ET.
Jack Daniel’s is committing $40,000 to small Black business owners through their annual grant program, New Beginnings, Make it Count in Philadelphia, Washington DC and Richmond, VA metro areas. Jack Daniel’s whiskey brands Tennessee Honey, Tennessee Apple, and Tennessee Fire will award the grant money to five selected recipients who meet the competition’s eligibility requirements. By elevating numerous deserving businesses, Jack Daniel’s aims to embolden Black business ownership and encourage local economic stimulation by presenting consumers who ‘buy Black’ with more places to support and shop.
“We hope businesses will immediately apply and share 500 words on how their business will leverage this grant and impact the Black community. This grant will be a dream come true for some Black business owners and entrepreneurs, thanks to Jack Daniel’s,” said Munson Steed, CEO, and publisher of rolling out.
We invite you and your network to complete your application today. Applications are open now through Wednesday, August 31, 2022, at 11:50 PM PST. Jack Daniel’s is looking to give back to small business owners (with under $1M in revenue per year) to ensure they remain prosperous. This opportunity, designed for businesses like yours, is a way to celebrate your business, congratulate your success, and contribute to building your brand.
“Jack Daniel’s is extremely proud to support African American local business with an expanded New Beginnings program this August,” said Ben Osei, Jack Daniel’s Field Marketing Manager. “We are seeking to identify five African American entrepreneurs with an impeccable business pitch and vision who need a strong partner in driving their organizational goals forward. In addition, Jack Daniel’s plans to engage local nonprofit organizations to ensure as many Black small businesses have access to the grant competition and are given the resources to vie for the much-needed capital.”
This is the third cycle of Jack Daniel’s New Beginnings, Make It Count program. Since its inception in 2020, the program has expanded to include business owners in the Richmond, Virginia region and has increased its overall contribution to the African American entrepreneur community. Once finalists are determined, they will appear in front of an expert judging panel and in-person audience for a live business pitch event where all winners and cash prizes will be announced.
Six finalists will be first selected online from the three individual markets. There will be three first-place winners of a $10,000 cash prize each in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Richmond. There will be two second-place winners of a $5,000 cash prize in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. only.
To apply and for more information and to apply, visit www.jackdaniels.com/en-
Register for the networking event and panel discussion by clicking below. Complimentary professional headshots will be provided at the event.
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About Jack Daniel’s
Officially registered by the U.S. Government in 1866 and based in Lynchburg, Tenn., the Jack Daniel Distillery is the first registered distillery in the United States and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Jack Daniel’s is the maker of the world-famous Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 Tennessee Whiskey, Gentleman Jack Double Mellowed Tennessee Whiskey, Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Tennessee Whiskey, Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey, Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Fire, Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Apple, Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Rye, Jack Daniel’s Sinatra Select and Jack Daniel’s Country Cocktails. Today, Jack Daniel’s is a true global icon found in more than 170 countries around the world and is the most valuable spirits brand in the world as recognized by Interbrand.
Your friends at Jack Daniel’s remind you to drink responsibly.
About Rolling Out
Rolling Out is a culture and creative media company and lifestyle brand with a trusted and influential voice in the urban community. We develop contemporary content and event programming on lifestyle, entertainment, health, wellness, beauty, and business. | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/23/rolling-out-and-jack-daniels-celebrating-black-business-month-in-d-c-on-8-25/ | 2022-08-23T16:27:10Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/23/rolling-out-and-jack-daniels-celebrating-black-business-month-in-d-c-on-8-25/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ghanaian designer Ruby Buah, the founder of Kua Designs, discusses the brand’s jewelry, handbags, clothing, and other products for women, the famous female rapper who owns her bag, giving back to the community, and more on the final leg of her four-city American tour in Harlem. | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/23/ruby-buah-of-kua-designs-discusses-her-coveted-handbags-clothing-and-jewelry/ | 2022-08-23T16:27:16Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/23/ruby-buah-of-kua-designs-discusses-her-coveted-handbags-clothing-and-jewelry/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Maryland native Seff Breezy has been writing music since he was a teenager. For a short period he switched gears, became a fashion model and began traveling the world, but when Covid 19 set in Seff Breezy got back to his love of writing and recently released his new single “LA Nights.” | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/23/seff-breezy-drops-new-single-la-nights-featuring-2kbaby/ | 2022-08-23T16:27:22Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/23/seff-breezy-drops-new-single-la-nights-featuring-2kbaby/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
More than half of ambitious young adults plan to ditch their jobs to start their own business – with those in one area of England keenest to become successful entrepreneurs.
A survey, of 2,000 people aged between 18-30, found that the city in England’s Yorkshire region is home to the most ambitious young adults in the country.
U.K. cities Bristol and Leicester, as well as Edinburgh in Scotland, were also hotspots for aspiring go-getters looking to make a name for themselves and become self-made business owners.
Reasons for wanting to branch out on their own included a lack of flexibility, wanting to be in charge, and experiences with horrible bosses.
It also emerged that when it comes to the perfect boss, billionaire business magnate Elon Musk was top of the well-known faces respondents would want to work for.
But only seven percent considered Boris Johnson to be an appealing leader – the same number who voted for fictional paper merchant supervisor David Brent, of British television’s ‘The Office’ television show.
The research was commissioned by PLAION, to launch the video game ‘Saints Row,’ on August 23, where a group of young friends embark on their own criminal venture, as they rise to the top in their bid to become self-made.
To celebrate Leeds being crowned top of the league, street artist Captain Kris was commissioned to design a ‘Saints Row’ inspired mural, which can be seen in Sackville Street , which lies between the Meanwood and Little London areas of Leeds, for a month.
Simon Turner, from PLAION, said: “The research was inspired by the themes of the game where you and your three friends take on lawless factions in a fight for power and embark on a journey to make your own way in the world as your own boss.
“We think Captain Kris has done a fantastic job of capturing the spirit, attitude and tone of Saints Row with his design.”
The study also found that as well as more young people wanting to take charge of their own career, side hustles are also on the rise, with 61 percent already having one to supplement their income.
But for those struggling to start their own business, 26 percent of those polled named high costs as their most significant barrier, while 23 percent named the current economic environment.
Birmingham fared less well, coming in as the home of the least ambitious in the U.K., with many of the under-30’s polled having no intention of starting their own empires in the future.
It emerged of the 28 percent of under 30s who are business owners, their companies fell within accountancy, banking and finance, consulting and management or healthcare.
And of those who have yet to create their own, 21 percent intend to and have plans in place, with 51 percent wanting to get it up and running in the next three months, according to the study carried out via OnePoll.
While 34 percent have an idea in mind but have yet to get proposals in the works.
Top 10 most ambitious cities in the U.K.:
1. Leeds
2. Bristol
3. Edinburgh
4. Leicester
5. Oxford
6. Brighton
7. Chelmsford
8. Newcastle
9. Manchester
10. York
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A private housing unit near the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, has banned White people from its common area, the media reports.
Fox News reported that a student housing collective called “Person of Color Theme House” just outside of the UC’s flagship university — which is also called “Cal” or “UC Berkeley” — has banned Whites from the shared break area. The purpose of the startlingly controversial rule is to ostensibly protect persons of color from “White violence” microaggressions and weaponized White tears at the five-story, 30-room building.
Cal-Berkeley, one of America’s premier collegiate institutions located 15 miles north of Oakland, has long been a liberal university that dates back to the 1960s.
A photo of the rules at the house firmly states that White guests are not permitted without prior permission and the occupants are to keep White folks out of the common area.
“Many POC members moved here to be able to avoid white violence and presence, so respect their decision of avoidance if you bring White guests,” the leaked house rules states, according to the news station.
White students and guests are not banned from the property, but the tenants must be made aware, according to the rules.
“Always announce guests in the Guest Chat if they will be in common spaces with you and if they are White,” one rule states.
“Guests are allowed in common spaces, but please be mindful if there are house members in the room beforehand. White guests are not allowed in common spaces,” another rule states. “Avoid bringing parents/family members that express bigotry. Queer, Black and Indigenous members should not have to avoid common spaces because of homophobic or racist parents/family members.”
Finally, the home stated the rationale for such a decision that has conservatives and students up in arms.
“Person of Color Theme House exists to create a safe and welcoming space for its house members and build solidarity with communities of color in the Berkeley area and beyond,” the house’s website states.
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Fishing Derby Saturday in Monroe
The annual Fishing Derby will take place from 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Knabusch Math & Science Center, 6670 Waters Edge Dr. Check-in and rules will begin at 9:30 a.m.
Registration is now open.
Children in kindergarten through Grade 8 may take part. Awards will be given for biggest fish, smallest fish, and most fish in their age group.
Children must have their own fishing pole with a single hook. Only the provided bait may be used. An adult must be present to help child practice safe fishing skills, bait hook and/or remove caught fish for measuring and release.
A lifejacket must be worn, but can be borrowed from the Knabusch Center on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Fishing for students up to Grade 2 will be held from 10 to 10:30 a.m.; Grades 3-5 will fish from 10:35 to 11:05, and Grades 6-8 will fish from 11:10 to 11:40 a.m. Awards will be given at 11:40 a.m.
To register, a form must be completed for each child. The form is available at: https://forms.gle/P12Exr8kYp8Q2wg68 | https://www.monroenews.com/story/entertainment/2022/08/23/fishing-derby-saturday-in-monroe/65413524007/ | 2022-08-23T16:29:54Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/entertainment/2022/08/23/fishing-derby-saturday-in-monroe/65413524007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MCCC ranked No. 1 in Michigan by WalletHub
Monroe County Community College was ranked as the No. 1 community college in Michigan by WalletHub, a personal finance website. WalletHub also ranked MCCC in the top five percent of community colleges throughout the U.S.
MCCC ranked 37 out of 667 community colleges nationwide.
To determine the best community colleges in the U.S. and in each state, WalletHub selected schools from a list of member institutions in the American Association of Community Colleges. The community colleges were rated according to cost and financing, education outcomes and career outcomes.
More:Reconnect program helps pay tuition for returning students at MCCC
“WalletHub revealed the ones that are doing it best in its annual list by comparing community colleges across 19 different benchmarks, such as cost of attendance, overall quality of programs, faculty strength and graduation and retention rates,” MCCC officials said in a statement.
Data used to create this ranking were collected from the National Center for Education Statistics, Campaign for Free College Tuition, U.S. Department of Education and Council for Community and Economic Research. The complete results and methodology for the study, titled “2022’s Best & Worst Community Colleges,” can be found at https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-community-colleges/15076/. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/08/23/mccc-ranked-no-1-in-michigan-by-wallethub/65413130007/ | 2022-08-23T16:29:54Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/08/23/mccc-ranked-no-1-in-michigan-by-wallethub/65413130007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Sandman Deleted Scene Reveals Further Father-Son Tensions
Comics fans generally hail Netflix‘s The Sandman as a long-awaited and faithful adaptation. For streaming rather than a network time slot, it need not hold to a specific runtime, and thus can include all that it needs to. Even still, however, some of what’s filmed can get cut for pacing or possible redundancy. This morning, Netflix dropped a Sandman deleted scene that gives Charles Dance’s Magus an extra moment to flex, but doesn’t necessarily reveal more than a viewer might already presume.
In the scene, Alex Burgess remains concerned at the outbreak of encephalitis lethargica, a sleeping sickness that in this story comes about due to Dream’s imprisonment. In real life, this was an actual thing, as recounted in the book and movie Awakenings. Some suspect that, like long COVID today, it was an extended neurological after-effect of Spanish flu.
Roderick Burgess, however, doesn’t care about the disease when Morpheus’ captivity still makes him a profit. Though it’s not bringing back his son, the way he had hoped when the plan was to capture Death, he still has determination to win this battle of wills with one of the Endless. Take a look below:
RELATED: Netflix Drops a Bonus Episode of The Sandman
Most of us got the general idea in that episode without the scene, but we can never get enough Sandman. What do you think? Should Netflix have kept this moment in the show? Let us know in comments.
Recommended Reading: The Sandman Book One by Neil Gaiman
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The Evangeline Parish Sheriff's Office is hosting a dog food and blanket drive for the local animal rescue.
All donations will benefit the Evangeline Parish Animal Rescue. Right now there's a need for dog and puppy food, and blankets.
You can drop off donations at the Dispatch Office at 415 W Cotton St Ville Platte, LA 70586.
You can drop off donations 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Deputies will be collecting up until September 30, 2022.
The rescue also has an Amazon wish list, if you can't get to Ville Platte. Here's the link: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/Q6GQQZU4P19Z/?fbclid=IwAR1eh8UL6M8qZQPrup3zXER4eUeFaMyTsLtJK_BJwcZ1sfKq9-AF6yAk1_o | https://www.katc.com/news/evangeline-parish/evangeline-animal-shelter-asking-for-donations | 2022-08-23T16:30:00Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/evangeline-parish/evangeline-animal-shelter-asking-for-donations | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pork from 4-H auctions benefits two Dundee organizations
Dundee’s TLC Community Credit Union donated pork to the Dundee Area Senior Citizen Center and God’s Blessings Food Pantry.
The organization purchased a pig from 4-H student Aiden Massingill at the Monroe County Fair’s 4-H auction.
Bidding are the auction were TLC’s Michael Bohnett, member services representative; Jim Fredenburg, assistant vice president, commercial business development officer, and Mike Walter, assistant branch manager of the Tecumseh office.
“TLC regularly supports 4-H fair auctions in Lenawee County and the Monroe County Fair 4-H auctions,” TLC said.
The Dundee Area Senior Citizens Center is a nonprofit organization that serves area senior citizens and provides a Meals on Wheels program.
The God’s Blessings Food Pantry is provided by Dundee Assembly of God church in Dundee. Food is distributed on the third Saturday of every month. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/nonprofits/2022/08/23/pork-from-4-h-auctions-benefits-two-dundee-organizations/65410930007/ | 2022-08-23T16:30:04Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/nonprofits/2022/08/23/pork-from-4-h-auctions-benefits-two-dundee-organizations/65410930007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Lafayette native Dillan Pope suffered a nearly fatal injury in April this year. The 27-year-old was left nearly completely paralyzed from the incident. To help with his recovery and overwhelming medical expenses, his family organized an all-day fundraising dance in Downtown Lafayette on Sunday, August 28.
Songs of Hope will be held at Warehouse 535 from 1 p.m. until 9 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults, but kids 12 and younger get in free. There also will be a raffle, a silent auction, a cash bar and food by Southern Spread. All proceeds will benefit Dillan.
The event features guitar virtuoso Sonny Landreth, local zydeco favorite Geno Delafose, Cajun rockers Feufollet with special guest singer Anna Laura Edmiston, and fiddler Chris Segura joining in. A portion of the proceeds will be used to start an organization to help continue providing resources to others who suffer from spinal and brain injury.
Here's the flyer with more information: | https://www.katc.com/news/lafayette-parish/fundraiser-set-for-sunday-landreth-delafose-feufollet-to-appear | 2022-08-23T16:30:12Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/lafayette-parish/fundraiser-set-for-sunday-landreth-delafose-feufollet-to-appear | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DENVER, Colo. — Are you missing out on free money for college for you or your student? A new report by Sallie Mae found 75% of families don't know a key date to get financial aid for school.
This year, that application opens on October 1, and money is awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. That's why it's so important to apply right away.
“If you're not in line for that aid and you're eligible for it, you could miss out,” said Rick Castellano, the vice president of corporate communications for Sallie Mae.
FAFSA stands for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.
“It really is the gateway to about $112 billion in federal financial aid,” said Castellano.
Unfortunately, Castellano says about half of students and their families don't fill out the FAFSA because they don't think they qualify.
“Every family, every student is able to complete the FAFSA and should complete the FAFSA for that matter. There's no income limit to completing the FAFSA, and just about every student who completes the FAFSA is going to apply is going to be eligible for some form of aid,” said Castellano.
Every family and student will qualify for different loans, grants and scholarships based on factors like income, the cost of tuition, and how many students in the family are also in college.
Everyone can qualify for something, even middle-income earners making more than $100,000. For grants, students are eligible for anywhere between $4,980 and $10,345 per year, according to savingforcollege.com.
For scholarships and loans, the maximum amount can be in the low tens of thousands of dollars per year.
When filling out the FAFSA, Castellano encourages families to apply for other scholarships outside the application.
Sallie Mae found less than 60% of families use scholarships, with millions of dollars going unused every year.
“The 45% of those who don't apply for scholarships basically say, ‘I don't think I qualify,' or, you know, 'scholarships are really just for the star athlete or the valedictorian.’ I'm here to bust that myth,” said Castellano.
About 6 in 10 students who used scholarships got them directly from their student's school, and those are awarded often by filling out the FAFSA. On average, students receive around $6,335 in school scholarships, but there's more money to be earned.
“Sallie Mae has a free scholarship search that's home to six million scholarships, collectively worth $30 billion. So, we're talking about scholarships for things like skateboarding, for being left-handed, for being over six feet tall,” said Castellano.
Those smaller scholarships add up and can go toward books, housing or meals.
“It's so critical to get in line for that aid early. You don't want to lose your spot in line because that's when that first-come, first-serve money would be left on the table or go to someone else,” said Castellano.
This process should be easier for families moving forward. Congress approved a streamlined online FAFSA with fewer questions. That will go online for the next school year.
To access the FAFSA application, visit HERE on or after October 1, 2022. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/most-families-dont-know-a-key-date-to-get-financial-aid-and-scholarships-for-college | 2022-08-23T16:30:36Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/most-families-dont-know-a-key-date-to-get-financial-aid-and-scholarships-for-college | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As great as the NYC subway system can be— especially when Uber prices are surging— there’s plenty of room for improvement. From accidents to intentional harm, the current open design of the transportation system leaves too much room for fatal error.
But mte-labs, the experimental side of Brooklyn design studio Meet the Edge, hopes to improve the outdated system. They’re proposing a new subway barrier system that increases safety features and allows for seating, newsstands, interactive displays, and installations. Currently, the plan is just conceptual, but the design agency is progressively pursuing architects and engineers to help bring it to fruition.
The project serves as a helpful reminder of what innovative design can do. Simply accepting things as they are is an act of complacency, which too often leads to obsolescence. Mte-labs proves that creative thinking beyond the status quo is crucial to building a better world.
For many New Yorkers, the NYC Subway system is the only means of travel. This means commuting and safety must go hand in hand. We want to ensure riders don’t have to think twice where to stand on the platform or be on alert every time one passes the turnstyle. Subway barriers will provide a more comfortable experience and a much needed sense of security that has been lost.
We believe transportation systems around the world are in the business of connectivity – bringing humans together.
Why do we limit the subway to simply be a mode of transportation? Is it because we’re complacent with its current set-up or uninterested in imagining what it could be? It’s no secret here in our backyard of NYC, the MTA has faced its fair share of criticism regarding public safety and overall rider experience. More than a safety barrier, our proposed design is sparking conversation around how to unite strangers through the shared experience of accessing the subway system.
As technology continues to accelerate and the modes of how we travel become more efficient, the underlying infrastructure of our metropolitan environments must be examined. The introduction of the platform doors will pave the way for an automated subway system. No interference on the tracks means trains can run without a driver — reducing costs and wait times for a more optimized city. By researching the NYC subway system our proposed designs are meant to provoke curiosity. At MTE we are unlocking our clients creative edge, with MTE Labs we are on a mission to push the boundaries of design and the project you just read is only the beginning. | https://www.printmag.com/culturally-related-design/new-york-design-innovators-propose-a-safer-better-looking-subway-platform/ | 2022-08-23T16:30:50Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/culturally-related-design/new-york-design-innovators-propose-a-safer-better-looking-subway-platform/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
I recall the first moment I saw R.O. Blechman (b. 1930)—to be specific, the first glimpse I got of his drawings. It was 1967. I was watching television, when a commercial for Alka-Seltzer came on. It was a stomach being interviewed about its digestive woes. Who could have predicted that a talking organ would change television advertising? The nervous stomach was an instant success, and viewers were charmed by its subtle hilarity, rendered with Blechman’s signature shaky, comic line.
From that moment on, I started seeing Blechman drawings everywhere. I was given his prototypical “graphic novel,” The Juggler of Our Lady (1953), watched his various Christmas animation shorts, notably the “CBS Christmas Message” (1966), among others, and kept my eye out for his illustrations in Humbug, Trump, Show and many other magazines. He did a few iconic New Yorker covers. I saw his PBS show “Simple Gifts” (1977); the segment “No Room at the Inn,” which also was made into a book. His tour de force was PBS’ animated special “Great Performances: The Soldier’s Tale” (1984) by Igor Stravinsky.
Today, at 92 the artist/writer is still spry, productive and creative. Currently we are blessed with a new book (actually, two books in one): On the One Hand: The Art & Graphic Stories of R.O. Blechman and On the Other Hand: The Writing of R.O Blechman Published & Unpublished (Fantagraphics). It is a treat for its wit, insight and intelligence. Published in late 2021, COVID took the wind out of its sales, but it’s back—we’re back. And what we desperately need now is wit, insight and intelligence—in short, Blechman’s squiggly lines and elegant words (both hands at once).
Bob, it is great to see a new collection of your work, which looks as fresh today as when you first squiggled a line. It is also a surprise to see so much of your essay writing in the book. What was your motivation to do this (which, I should add, is a turn-around book, with half your art and half your writing illustrated with a variety of other images)?
The idea for the turn-around book came from Gary Groth of Fantagraphics Books. He had seen that unusual format in a French book and thought that it would be an interesting form for Fantagraphics. Since I write and draw, he asked me to work on it.
I love the simplicity of the front and back cover. Not only is the title perfect, but the reverse images are brilliant. Did you come to the solution immediately or not?
The idea and the drawings came to me quickly and easily.
I’m not sure which to discuss first. Let’s start with the drawing section. You reprint many of your STORY covers. The rest are narrative strips. Do you have a favored medium? Single or sequential?
I love watercolor as a medium, although I receive too few commissions for color work, so tend to use pen and ink in mostly linear fashion (although increasingly I add graphic shapes of solid black for decorative accents). You can see them in some of my weekly illustrations for poems in The New York Times Sunday Magazine.
I like to write, I like to draw, so I’m drawn (no pun intended) to creating sequential drawings. Art Spiegelman thought that I had revived the art of the graphic novel with my 1952 book, The Juggler of Our Lady. Maybe, maybe not (probably not, but thank you, Art). I think I just did what Jules Feiffer was already doing in The Village Voice, but in more extended fashion. But well before that—as a teenager, in fact—I remember that I would draw and write about things that interested me. For example, after a visit to Nantucket as a 15-/16-year-old, I did a graphic history of Nantucket—a booklet which I wrote, drew, and sewed together. I had taken Moby Dick with me on that trip, and when I realized that a church I visited [there] was the actual church where a character in the book, Father Mapple, spoke, I was overwhelmed. My God! Moby Dick was real! I felt that I had to memorialize my visit, so the booklet resulted. Written for whom? Nobody in particular. I just felt that I had to give the event a further life.
I did the same as a 17-year-old college freshman (except that my motive was less pure). I was in Ohio, where I missed seeing Saul Steinberg’s drawings, which were published regularly in a New York newspaper, PM. I wrote him, care of the newspaper, enclosing a hand-sewn booklet of several pages—something about how empty my life in Ohio was without seeing his work on a regular/daily basis. Could he send me something? Well, he did, and what he sent was a large, beautiful drawing now gracing my living room wall. Sometimes chutzpah works. Sometimes.
Your line work has evolved, albeit in imperceptible ways. How would you describe that process of gradual change from, say, the strip in your book from the late ’50s, “The Cold War,” to now?
You ask about how my drawing evolved. Well, in the book all my stuff is of rather recent vintage. My earlier work was far less fluid and didn’t have the characteristic squiggle that it now has. I suggest you look at my article in the book, “The Melting Pot” (pages 82–83), especially the last several paragraphs. They say something about the nature and origin of my style.
I love the “Recognitions” story. What is the genesis of that one?
I just felt sorry for the real-life author—of course, the famous recluse, J.D. Salinger. What a sad and ironic tale.
I know this is a lame question, but you address so many interior subjects. Do you consider your strips to be fiction, observation, commentary or critique?
I’m glad you ask what might be a lame question (which makes me feel good about what may be—probably are—lame answers). Do I consider my strips to be “fiction, observation, commentary or critique?” Simple answer: All of the preceding. But maybe, by nature, they all are connected. “Fiction is fact distilled into truth,” Edward Albee claimed. Emily Dickinson might have agreed. “Tell all the truth, but tell it slant. Success in circuit lies.” The indirect approach … isn’t that what all true art is? The creator can’t avoid revealing himself/herself, even unintentionally.
You are also known for your animation work (e.g., the first one I ever saw on TV, the “talking stomach” commercial for Alka-Seltzer). Do you have a favorite medium?
Do I have a favorite medium? Well, sure, film. What better way of reaching an audience than through the eye, the ear and the mind? For somebody like myself who has done graphic stories since childhood, isn’t film a natural next step?
It often seems like your stories lean toward hapless people somehow failing to overcome failure. Your squiggly characters often lose something in the end. Do you agree, and if so, what is the reason?
I have to say that with the answers to your questions I was tempted to be more self-revealing about my life, but then I remembered what Joseph Conrad once cautioned: “Never confess anything about yourself in writing.” That sounds like good advice, although it does make for a less interesting text. So, you can do some embroidering on your own. | https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-elegant-words-and-squiggly-lines/ | 2022-08-23T16:30:56Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-elegant-words-and-squiggly-lines/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A court ruled that Walmart must pay $4.4 million in damages to an Oregon man who accused the retailer of racially profiling him in March 2020.
According to a court document, the Walmart employee was “reckless” and “wanton” in approaching Michael Mangun. A court document said that the employee, who a judge determined was acting within the scope of his employment, racially profiled Mangun, a Black man from Oregon.
Court documents indicated that Mangun noticed that the employee followed him throughout the store when Mangun went to an Oregon Walmart to purchase a light bulb. The employee asked Mangun to leave the store, but Mangun refused, claiming he did nothing wrong.
The employee then called a non-emergency police line. A store manager told deputies the story had seen a lot of theft, but Mangun maintained that it had nothing to do with him. Deputies did not arrest or take any actions against Mangun.
KGN-TV reported that deputies told Walmart that the employee had a pattern of calling the police for false reasons. The outlet said that the employee was fired in July 2020 for mishandling $35.
In a statement to KGN, Walmart said the fine was “excessive.” | https://www.katc.com/news/national/walmart-ordered-to-pay-4-4-million-for-racially-profiling-customer | 2022-08-23T16:31:01Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/walmart-ordered-to-pay-4-4-million-for-racially-profiling-customer | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Debbie Millman has an ongoing project at PRINT titled “What Matters.” This is an effort to understand the interior life of artists, designers, and creative thinkers. This facet of the project is a request of each invited respondent to answer ten identical questions and submit a nonprofessional photograph.
Monica Rich Kosann is a fine art photographer and accessory designer. Her eponymous brand produces several different collections of jewelry, home decor, image cases, frames, and evening bags.
What is the thing you like doing most in the world?
TELLING A STORY. My roots are in photography, and my point of view for all my commissions was to reveal a bit of a person’s story through my work. That morphed into being a jewelry designer, which is just another way for a woman to tell her story. I love inspiring women to tell their narratives through their jewelry, and feeling empowered from them. We most recently created a tennis bracelet collection based on the authentic tennis bracelet story of Chris Evert. She’s the reason we call it the tennis bracelet! Jewelry is connected to life. It is worn on our bodies all day. When it’s not, we feel like a part of us is missing. It travels with us on all the roads and paths we take.
What is the first memory you have of being creative?
I was a very shy child, and creativity was my way of expressing myself. I was a violinist as a young girl, and I always painted, played guitar, did photography, and loved to get lost in a museum. My love of photography started when I was in high school, and I remember the feeling of using my head and eye to see things, and create an image from that. When I worked in the darkroom, and the photo appeared on the paper, it was pure emotional magic.
What is your biggest regret?
See my answer to the next question.
How have you gotten over heartbreak?
I’m quite good at recovery. Perhaps it is because my parents had a pretty messy divorce when I was give, and I had no choice but to get through it. There was a lot of love in my family, and that of course helped, but I truly believe in moving on and not looking back. I have a collection called “Perseverance.” It is inspired by a French deco sculpture, and it’s in the form of a fish, because fish swim forward. I am a strong believer in not having regrets. It’s a waste of time.
What makes you cry?
Oh, I cry very easily… a commercial can break me. Sometimes, I peek at the gift cards our customers write, and I actually cry. They are so touching and inspiring. It makes me proud that I can create something that helps someone else inspire someone. I also spend time in our stores, and I always hear the most touching stories from our customers. By the end of our talk we are usually crying, laughing, and hugging!
How long does the pride and joy of accomplishing something last for you?
I am forever grateful that I have always been able to do the things I love. I always told my kids the same thing. You must wake up in the morning and proceed with passion. Somehow you will figure out how to make a living from it. Passion is contagious.
Do you believe in an afterlife, and if so, what does that look like to you?
Yes, I do! I think our spirits linger. Our body is no longer, but I believe our spirit lives in those we love.
What do you hate most about yourself?
That I have no patience. I try, but it’s just not in my DNA.
What do you love most about yourself?
Being first-generation American, from Austrian and Hungarian parents.
What is your absolute favorite meal?
Chicken and fries with white wine! | https://www.printmag.com/uncategorized/what-matters-to-monica-rich-kosann/ | 2022-08-23T16:31:02Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/uncategorized/what-matters-to-monica-rich-kosann/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Independent Spirit Awards, which honor the best of independent film and television, will become the latest awards show—and one of the largest—to create gender-neutral acting categories. For the 2023 event, which will take place Saturday, March 4, the film and TV categories will now honor the best lead performance and best supporting performance, and will include 10 nominees each. Film Independent is also adding a new category called best breakthrough performance, which will have five nominees.
Previously, Film Independent’s acting categories closely mirrored those of the Oscars, with categories for female lead and male lead as well as supporting female and supporting male. The Spirits will now become the latest event to throw out the traditional categories once broken down by gender in favor of more inclusive language. The Grammys, the Gotham Awards, the British Independent Film Awards, and the MTV Movie & TV Awards have all previously established nongendered awards categories.
“We’re thrilled to join the other festivals and award shows that are already moving to celebrate great acting without reference to gender. We’re also happy to welcome nonbinary performers into the Spirit Awards without forcing them to choose to identify as male or female,” said Film Independent president Josh Welsh.
While not always a precursor to the Oscars (The Lost Daughter was the big winner at the 2022 ceremony), the Spirit Awards often help to raise the profile of some of the smaller (at least in dollars) projects in the awards race, and also highlight newer filmmakers. One additional change for next year concerns just how small those films can be—the budget cap for films to be eligible has been raised from $22.5 million to $30 million to account for the rising cost of film production. “This new cap allows us to continue to celebrate the same breadth of work that we have in the past,” said Welsh.
With its televised ceremony and starry guest list, the Spirit Awards are now one of the most high-profile film awards shows to do away with gendered acting categories. But there’s still no indication that the biggest—the SAG Awards, the Emmys, or the Oscars—will follow suit. The Spirit Awards benefit from the fact that their nominations are determined by smaller committees who have conversations for months to determine the nominees. That means they could ensure that their acting nominees don’t end up being all cisgender men, for example. These other major shows have much larger voting bodies for nominations—the Academy’s actors branch is its largest, with more than 1,300 members, and the SAG Awards randomly select 2,500 members to vote for its nominations—that vote in a more straightforward way.
But with the move toward inclusive language gaining steam all around Hollywood, it’s very possible the Spirit Awards will be an awards season precursor in more ways than one. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/awards-insider-spirit-awards-shift-to-gender-neutral-acting-categories | 2022-08-23T16:37:44Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/awards-insider-spirit-awards-shift-to-gender-neutral-acting-categories | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
To quote Charles-Haden Savage, a.k.a. TV’s Brazzos: The season two finale of Only Murders in the Building takes the show into a whole new direction.
Poppy (Adina Verson), the put-upon assistant of Cinda Canning (Tina Fey), is unmasked as Bunny Folger’s killer. But there’s one twist left, and it’s the most audacious one yet: a one-year time jump to opening night of a Broadway play that Oliver Putnam (Martin Short) is directing, and that stars a jittery Ben Glenroy (enter Paul Rudd). Ben squares off with his costar Charles-Haden (Steve Martin) backstage. “Stay away from her,” a seriously menacing Charles (a side of him we have not yet seen) warns. “I know what you did.”
The curtain rises—and exit Ben Glenroy, who almost immediately collapses and dies. “You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me,” exclaims Mabel (Selena Gomez) in the audience.
Only Murders in the Building has become a magnet for top talent. In addition to bringing on Rudd, season two introduced characters played by Michael Rapaport, Cara Delevingne, Amy Schumer, and Oscar-winning legend Shirley MacLaine. Andrea Martin is fleetingly seen in only two episodes as Joy, the makeup artist on the set of the Brazzos reboot, but in the finale, she tantalizingly emerges as a love interest for Charles.
Season two could have coasted on a second mystery to solve and more precious byplay between Martin and Short. Instead, it delved deeply into the fraught issue of fathers and sons, as well as Mabel’s struggles to process her trauma and move on to what she calls “a life without death.”
But before these themes and character grace notes could emerge in the writers room, cocreator John Hoffman tells Vanity Fair, there was the matter of establishing who the killer would be—writing backward from that and then hiding them in plain sight.
Vanity Fair: Is the murder that ends season two a premise-wrecker? It takes place in a theater and not the Arconia. Will you change the title of the show to Only Murders in A Building?
John Hoffman: I will only say, hang tight. I can’t give too much away; we are a show known for our twists. I can’t say more.
Oliver says in the season opener that second seasons are tough. How tough was it?
We felt the onus to create something as twisty as possible across the 10 episodes. But narratively, it became clear to me pretty quickly that we were looking at a sister-seasons situation between seasons one and two. Before we start, we consider who might be the killer and then track our way backwards and hide them. It became intriguing to me because I began to look at the notion of going back to the very beginning, and what could have happened around All is Not OK in Oklahoma—the podcast that initially brought our trio together—and why someone would want to frame them.
Was it always Poppy? Was Tina Fey disappointed when she learned she was not the killer?
That’s a great question. There were a handful of candidates that were all very intriguing. Ultimately, it’s who we could gain the most from, meaning who could we more easily hide. Who could we more easily, emotionally invest in. Within the sphere of Poppy’s world, she was certainly that classic put-upon assistant. We had to ask ourselves what was the source of that, and take a deep dive into Poppy’s backstory. When it became most intriguing was when the notion came up: What if she was actually Becky Butler, that [missing] girl from that podcast? In episode 9, our trio lands on [a suspect] who would be a criminal mastermind; the comparative partner to that is a deep-dive researcher. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/only-murders-in-the-building-season-2-murderer | 2022-08-23T16:37:50Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/only-murders-in-the-building-season-2-murderer | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Nearly two years ago, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced a deal with Spotify to make podcast content with their studio, Archewell Audio. On Tuesday, the first episode of Meghan’s podcast Archetypes was released through the streaming app, and it features Serena Williams as an interview guest. In the episode, the pair discusses their close friendship, cracks a few jokes, and addresses the more serious sides of raising children in the public eye.
In a bit of huge news, Meghan revealed that the South Africa trip where she and Harry first told journalist Tom Bradby that they were struggling with their royal roles was even more stressful from the inside. Meghan said that they left their son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, then four-and-a-half months old, with his nanny at the location where they would be staying and went to the pair’s first engagement of the trip at Nyanga Township. When the engagement was done, they received word that a fire had broken out at the dormitory.
“The heater in the nursery caught on fire,” she said. “There was no smoke detector. Someone happened to just smell smoke down the hallway went in, fire extinguished. He was supposed to be sleeping in there.”
She explained that Archie’s nanny, Lauren, was holding him in a different room and he was safe, but she still felt shaken up. “We came back,” she continued. “And of course, as a mother, you go, Oh, my God, what? Everyone’s in tears, everyone's shaken. And what do we have to do? Go out and do another official engagement? I said, This doesn't make any sense.” According to Meghan, she and Harry went to the next engagement, leaving Archie behind. “The focus ends up being on how it looks instead of how it feels.”
In a tweet, Buzzfeed News’s Ellie Hall pointed out that the couple did have two engagements during their first day in South African.
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Meghan told the story after Williams provided one harrowing behind-the-scenes tale of her own. The tennis star mentioned that her daughter Olympia had fallen out of her high chair and broken her wrist during the French Open in 2018 where Williams was chastised for wearing a catsuit. She apparently won the match the next day with only 30 minutes of sleep.
“She was on my watch, and I was just basically devastated,” Williams said. “Like, I literally couldn't think. I felt so guilty. I just, anyway. So she fell. We went to the hospital and she had a small tear, a break in her wrist, so she had to get a cast and we didn't get back ‘til like four in the morning. Meanwhile, of course, it is the one day I was playing early. I remember holding her the whole night and just like rocking her to sleep and I just didn't let her out of my sight at that point because I was already and I'm hard on myself, and I’m a little bit of a perfectionist.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/meghan-markle-reveals-archies-nursery-caught-fire-during-southern-africa-tour | 2022-08-23T16:37:56Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/meghan-markle-reveals-archies-nursery-caught-fire-during-southern-africa-tour | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Noah Schnapp may be the star of a hit Netflix show, but he hasn't let success stop him from having normal teenage experiences, like getting a summer job.
The actor revealed in a new interview with Flaunt that he has a part-time gig as a lifeguard at his local pool, crediting the job with keeping him humble. “It’s kind of a ‘just for fun’ thing,” he said. “I’ve kind of grown up with a normal life and normal friends and stuff outside of Stranger Things, so it’s kind of kept me grounded.”
Schnapp also recently graduated from high school and wants to continue his education by attending the University of Pennsylvania in the fall where he plans on studying business. He recently shared a video on TikTok of his family reacting to his acceptance into college, showing his parents and twin sister jumping up and down in excitement over the good news. The actor explained to the outlet that while he initially thought about getting his degree in drama, he ultimately decided that “acting was just kind of repetitive” and he “wanted to try something new.”
The 17-year-old added that he was actually inspired by his costar Millie Bobbie Brown to go outside his comfort zone when it comes to his education. Brown is also currently enrolled at Purdue University where she is studying human services. Schnapp explained, “Millie is doing the same thing with her schooling—she's kind of learning about other things. I thought it would make more sense to do something different. And business was a pretty clear next thing for me.”
Studying business is also a logical next movie for the actor who has already been running a business of his own since he was 15 years old. Schnapp is the founder of TBH, a vegan, eco-friendly alternative to Nutella. He told Variety last month that he was inspired to launch the company because “I’ve always been super interested in entrepreneurship...I was just brainstorming all of my passions and what I care about, what I love, and I just kind of combined my favorite things. I love Nutella. It’s my favorite thing ever, but it’s so bad for you and so bad for the planet. And so I was like, there’s a gap in the market for that. I need to fix it. It’s been a cool learning experience, too, building the package and taste testing what works and what doesn’t and seeing the feedback. I’m very excited to continue on that kind of entrepreneurship journey and see what’s next.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/noah-schnapp-lifeguard-summer-job-grounded-flaunt-magazine-universtiy-of-pennsylvania-business-degree | 2022-08-23T16:38:02Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/noah-schnapp-lifeguard-summer-job-grounded-flaunt-magazine-universtiy-of-pennsylvania-business-degree | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After having to postpone their wedding ceremony multiple times due to the pandemic, Sarah Hyland and Wells Adams finally got married over the weekend.
The couple wed Saturday at an outdoor ceremony hosted at Sunstone Winery near Santa Barbara, California. For the special day, Hyland chose a Vera Wang Haute Couture ballgown in ivory silk that featured a hand-pleated bodice with a sweetheart neckline and tulle sleeves, and a skirt with a thigh-high slit. She completed her bridal look with a cathedral-length Italian tulle veil with hand appliqué macramé lace trim. Vera Wang shared a first-look at the dress on Instagram, writing in the caption, “CHARM PERSONIFIED,” with a prayer hand emoji, adding “So happy to share in your happiness! Much love.”
For the reception, the actress changed into yet another Vera Wang Haute Couture gown, this time with a draped neckline and detachable tulle sleeves. Adams, meanwhile, opted for a simple black Gucci suit with matching tie. A number of Hyland's Modern Family costars were also in attendance for her big day, including Nolan Gould, Sofia Vergara, who brought along her son Manolo Vergara, Julia Bowen, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson and his husband, Justin Mikita.
Adams and the Modern Family star first met through social media, flirting on Twitter in 2016. But the pair didn't actually start dating until the fall of 2017. The former Bachelorette contestant proposed in the summer of 2019 after almost two years of dating and their wedding was originally planned to take place in August of 2020, but was then pushed back multiple times due to the pandemic and concerns over their guests' safety.
Since the couple had a much longer engagement than they'd originally planned, Hyland admitted that her concept of what she wanted to look like on her wedding day also started to change over time. “I'm going with more dresses than I originally planned,” she told People last month. “But my vision board is still intact.” Adams added that his plan for prepping for their big day was to “try a bunch of things on and make a decision.” He added, “I'm also going with more gray hairs than I originally planned.”
The pair also revealed that planning their wedding was totally smooth sailing except for when it came to whether or not to include their two dogs, a bloodhound named Carl and a labrador retriever named Boo, in the ceremony. Hyland was all for it, but Adams eventually convinced her it would be a bad idea. She explained, “It's probably the biggest thing we disagree on, but I also agree. Boo loves anytime I have a fitting at home. If I have a long train, she loves to sit on it. She likes to be involved. She's a girly girl. And I can only imagine the damage and dirt that she would bring to a white dress.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/sarah-hyland-wedding-wells-adams-two-vera-wang-gowns-modern-family-costars | 2022-08-23T16:38:08Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/sarah-hyland-wedding-wells-adams-two-vera-wang-gowns-modern-family-costars | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
If you’ve never heard of the Los Angeles–based musician Will Sheff, his upcoming debut solo record, Nothing Special, is a great place to jump into the lush and brainy folk rock he’s been perfecting for years. If you have heard of Sheff, however, you probably know him from the nine albums he has made as the front man of Okkervil River over the last two decades, and you might be wondering, why is now the moment to make such a major change? As is pretty typical with Sheff, the short answer is pretty straightforward—it was just time, he explained in a recent Zoom conversation—and the long answer is much, much more complicated.
“I’m doing my best to make the best music that I can, but I’m not going to try to elevate myself, and I felt the need to try to take that to heart,” he said. “I was particularly able to express that at this point in my life, where a lot of stuff just broke and collapsed. I was not feeling like ‘Okkervil River’ were two words that applied to anything in my life.”
Sheff, now 46, wanted to leave the past behind. Though this process has been going on in plain sight for a decade or so, as he weaved more folk influences into his music, grew his trendy 2000s haircut into a folky Lennon-meets-Rasputin style, started over with a new backing band, and quit drugs and alcohol. But at the beginning of the pandemic, Sheff got word that his friend and former bandmate Travis Nelsen had died at the age of 44.
Nelsen played drums in Okkervil River from 2003 to 2010, when the band reached its peak popularity. Sheff said that he and Nelsen once had a “beautiful brotherly relationship,” but by Nelsen’s death, it “had gone very far south.” Sheff was reminded of the lost friendship and the type of rock-and-roll success and stardom that they had both been gunning for in the beginning.
Sheff started to write a song that depicts two characters with outsize ambitions, and eventually it became the album’s minuetting title track. “I was a miserable, bullied kid and I really felt like there was no place for me,” he said of the experiences that led him to write the song. “I felt like, if I become a rock star, I’m gonna show everybody.” Eventually, he met a group of musicians, including Nelsen, who “had that same dream” and became the core lineup of Okkervil River, which kept him going throughout his 20s and early 30s. “We thought, We’re going to party and get fucked up, and die young, and be legends, you know what I mean? And if that happens, then people will see that we were actually worth something.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, things didn’t go exactly as planned. The song “Nothing Special” is about losing those ambitions but still appreciating their youthful naivety and boldness. It’s also a slight apology for acting selfishly and writing music from a place of anger when he was younger. “I just remember looking at people around me that I worked with, and deep down I knew. I would think, I’m driving them nuts, I’m driving them crazy, I’m so fucking annoying. But I couldn’t admit it to myself.” he said. “I felt like there were [listeners] who wanted to keep me in that place—keep me angry and vengeful and resentful and bitter and all of this stuff because they liked what was coming out of it.”
Though he’s always been grappling with these emotions, Sheff considers the pandemic a turning point. “The weird, crazy thing about the pandemic is that it made us all have to confront things and think about things,” he said. “For some people, that was clarifying and for some people that made them less stable.” For Sheff, it seems the outcome was somewhere in the middle. He’s more frustrated with the hubris of his past self, but he also appreciates his personal successes—a deep emotional bond with his ailing dog, his relationship with his partner, musician Beth Wawerna, and the ability to keep making music and playing shows. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/will-sheff-nothing-special-interview | 2022-08-23T16:38:14Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/will-sheff-nothing-special-interview | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Targaryens aren't only the breakers of chains, they're the breakers of records. According to HBO, its Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon drew in nearly 10 million viewers across all of its platforms Sunday, making it the most watched series premiere in HBO history.
The highly-anticipated prequel series follows the Targaryen family and takes place about 200 years before Emilia Clarke's Daenerys Targaryen fought for the iron throne. HBO's tally of House of the Dragon viewers includes viewers who watched the episode across linear, on-demand, and HBO Max. Per the Hollywood Reporter, House of the Dragon also had the most impressive launch yet on HBO Max in the U.S., Latin America and the EMEA region made up of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It also drew the biggest single-night audience for an HBO property since the GoT series finale drew 19.3 million viewers back in May 2019, besting the Euphoria season two finale, which drew 6.6 million viewers.
“It was wonderful to see millions of Game of Thrones fans return with us to Westeros last night,” HBO and HBO Max chief content officer Casey Bloys said in a statement. "House of the Dragon features an incredibly talented cast and crew who poured their heart and soul into the production, and we’re ecstatic with viewers’ positive response. We look forward to sharing with audiences what else George [R.R. Martin], Ryan [Condal] and Miguel [Sapochnik] have in store for them this season.”
House of the Dragon's success comes at a good time for HBO Max, which has recently come under fire for removing properties from its streaming platform. After scrapping the nearly finished $90 million Batgirl film, HBO Max reportedly cut another Batman property in the animated series Batman: Caped Crusader from Bruce Timm, J.J. Abrams, and The Batman director Matt Reeves. The animated series was intended to draw from the 90s cartoon Batman: The Animated Series, which Timm co-created.
But that's not all. HBO Max is also dropping Merry Little Batman, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, Bye Bye Bunny: A Looney Tunes Musical, Did I Do That to The Holidays: A Steve Urkel Story and The Amazing World of Gumball: The Movie.
While HBO Max won't be streaming any of these properties, all six series, including Batman: Caped Crusader, are reportedly still in production and have the opportunity to land elsewhere. These cuts have led some to question the direction CEO David Zaslav is taking the nascent streaming platform after the merger of Warner Bros and Discovery. But at least for now, he and HBO Max can fly high on the back of House of the Dragon. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/house-of-the-dragon-flies-high-pulls-record-breaking-numbers-for-hbo | 2022-08-23T16:38:20Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/house-of-the-dragon-flies-high-pulls-record-breaking-numbers-for-hbo | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Industry’s creators admit that they slept on scene-stealer Ken Leung and his star-making turn as aggro banker Eric Tao. “We didn’t write enough for him in season one,” cocreator Konrad Kay says, before assuring me that he and Mickey Down are not the type of lads to make the same mistake twice. “We were like, Fuck, we have him again? We need to write a full-blown story. We have to break perspective. We had this joke in season one that Eric would just walk into a scene, say something, and then walk out of the scene. But in season two, we were like, Well, who is this guy?”
In Industry season two’s fourth episode, “There Are Some Women…,” we find out. After losing his biggest client thanks to a backstabbing move by Harper Stern (Myha’la Herrold), his own protégé, Eric absconds to Pierpont & Co. headquarters in New York for an impromptu meeting with his boss, Bill Adler (Trevor White), in a last-ditch effort to save his job. While there, he confronts ghosts from his past—like the memory of his own recently deceased mentor—as he fights for his life at the bank.
“The main thing is that he wants to talk to Bill face-to-face,” Leung says. “That is his strength: His power comes from his relationships. Relationships built over years.” But in a face-to-face Zoom call, Leung comes across stoic and zen, quite the opposite of the hot-tempered banker he plays. “I think a lot of it came from his mentor,” Leung says about Eric’s overly aggressive nature. “His mentor gave him a way of being that works for him.”
While that may be working for Eric, it’s no longer working for the firm—and Eric knows it. Eric’s Hail Mary trip across the Atlantic, Leung says, is “a show of great desperation” from a man who feels he has everything to lose. “He’s gonna do whatever it takes. Nobody’s invited him. He’s just gonna take the baseball bat and take his swing.”
Baseball bats, coincidentally enough, are an important part of Eric Tao for Leung. Eric can often be found wielding one as he paces the trading floor or barks orders from his desk. “I always thought the baseball bat is kind of intimidating and just wrong to carry around. But you don’t carry a baseball bat unless you feel threatened, unless you need to protect yourself from something, unless you are in trouble,” Leung says. “On the outside, it looks like a picture of power. But it’s so blatant that it must speak to something he’s hiding or reconciling within himself.”
The specific bat he chooses to wield is another clue into Eric’s psyche. “I wanted [a bat] that if you hit something, it could break,” Leung says. Ultimately, he landed on a brown wooden one. “All the other bats were, like, aluminum or whatever. They didn’t break. But a wooden baseball bat is almost like a metaphor for Eric. The harder you hit, the more chance that you will break.”
“Why do you have to have it?” he wonders. “What are you afraid of? What are you trying to get in front of?”
It’s clear by episode four what Eric should be afraid of: his own mentees. Over the course of the season, Harper and his other former protégé, “New York by way of New Haven” hotshot Danny Van Deventer (Alex Alomar Akpobome), have begun outpacing him at the firm. “I have a friend in finance, and he’s like, ‘This rings really true,’” says Leung. He notes that his friend was actually told by his boss, “I want to train you such that you can replace me.” Eric, however, is not as ready to be replaced.
Leung, though, isn’t threatened by his younger Industry costars. He’s got a great rapport with them, especially his most frequent scene partner, Herrold. “I feel very safe with her, and it happened from the first moment,” Leung says. “The first time we met was the first day we worked. When you watch episode one, season one, that first interview, it was hours after me and Myha’la had actually met.” Despite that relatively short on-ramp, their chemistry was natural and immediate, Leung says. “Some people you meet and you feel something, like you’ve known each other all your life. You know, that sort of thing,” he says. Their bond is so tight that Leung tells me that they unwittingly ended up moving into apartments just a few blocks from each other during the pandemic. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/industrys-ken-leung-isnt-afraid-to-take-big-swings | 2022-08-23T16:38:27Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/industrys-ken-leung-isnt-afraid-to-take-big-swings | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Liz Cheney may have lost the battle for her Republican leadership position and her seat in Congress, but the Wyoming representative is winning the war where it really matters: convincing Americans that our democracy is in peril and worth preserving.
According to a new NBC News survey, voters now rank “threats to democracy” as the most important issue facing the country—more than the cost of living or jobs and the economy; more than immigration or crime. Pretty remarkable considering how concerned respondents have been recently when asked about everything from pocketbook issues and COVID to crime and climate change. Just a few months ago, in fact, “threats to democracy” had not even made the list.
If this new poll reflects the pulse of the electorate, one doesn’t need to look too far for the reason: Liz Cheney, who has been a one-woman battering ram for exposing the truth about the January 6 insurrection and the 2020 election.
Cheney chose principle over power. She could have kissed Trump’s ring of lies and handily maintained her congressional seat. As she said in her concession speech, “Two years ago, I won this primary with 73% of the vote. I could easily have done the same again…. But it would have required that I go along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election…. That was a path I could not, and would not, take.”
The path Cheney will ultimately take is not yet entirely clear, but we can see where it’s heading. First, she’ll continue the work of the January 6 committee to its conclusion, whenever and wherever that leads. Second, she told ABC’s Jonathan Karl on Sunday that she intends to campaign against election deniers, including her own GOP colleagues. And third, she has not ruled out running for president in 2024. Which, in national political parlance most likely means: Yep, I’m going for it.
Running for president does not always mean that a politician’s goal is actually being elected president. Sometimes it is just the best platform for getting a message out—or settling a score with a competitor. In this case, it would mean both. Yes, she would continue to sound the alarm about current threats to democracy. But her endgame would be clear: denying someone else the Republican presidential nomination.
Call it a kamikaze mission. There’s almost zero chance Cheney could win. Just as there was almost zero chance she would win reelection to her congressional seat. But if through that losing effort—and her pulpit on the January 6 committee—she has been able to push “threats to democracy” to the number one concern among voters, it’s pretty likely she could keep that issue elevated and inflict considerable damage to the candidate many believe to represent the single greatest threat to democracy.
Some have suggested the theoretical possibility that Cheney would run as an independent candidate, and thereby pull votes from the Democratic nominee, thus handing the election to Trump. I find it implausible that Cheney would embark on any course that would have any possibility of an outcome other than defeating Trump. However, if Cheney could navigate an independent candidacy, it would only be to spoil Trump—not to be a spoiler.
I worked with Cheney during the George W. Bush–Dick Cheney reelection campaign in 2004, where I served as chief media strategist. As I have previously written for the Hive, she worked long hours, despite five kids at home. She was clear-eyed and mission-driven. It was never about her; she never lorded her name over anyone or suggested any hint of entitlement—and there wasn’t a person on the campaign who did not have the utmost respect for her. If she runs for president, she won’t run to tilt at windmills. She’ll run to knock the wind out of Trump’s sails. And blow him down with the truth.
Liz Cheney has made it clear she’s not interested in popularity contests. As she said in a debate during her losing campaign, “The truth matters.” And she’s willing to sacrifice her own ambition for the greater good by being one of the few remaining Republicans in power in Washington willing to tell the unvarnished truth. Just a couple years ago, she was a solid but typical conservative member of Congress. Incredible that she has separated herself from the pack by simply being willing to be honest. And paid an enormous price for that simple virtue.
I agree that “threats to democracy” is the most important issue facing our country. And that it’s a war worth waging, and a war worth winning at all costs. So count me as one of those who’d like to see General Cheney out there on the battlefield helping to lead the charge. Run, Liz, run. | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/liz-cheneys-winning-the-war | 2022-08-23T16:38:33Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/liz-cheneys-winning-the-war | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
True crime is booming on a spectrum from pulp to procedural, but the best of the genre seeks to answer questions more complex than whodunnit. In No One Crosses the Wolf, out from Little A, Lisa Nikolidakis recounts her father’s murder of his girlfriend and her daughter, followed by his suicide, and traces a family history of psychological manipulation. Two other books, treading only slightly further from home, weave memoir into the headlines. Linda Kinstler’s Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends, from PublicAffairs, unpacks the case that threatened to exonerate a deceased Nazi who’d served in the same unit as the author’s grandfather, while in Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta, from Knopf, the novelist Beverly Lowry juxtaposes her upbringing in segregated Mississippi against a brutal crime that occurred when she was 10 years old, highlighting stark inequities of class and race. And in Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime, from William Morrow, Joe Pompeo, V.F.’s senior media correspondent, traces the birth of the American tabloid industry—and the dubious taste for exactly these narratives—to 1920s double homicide. —Keziah Weir
Fiction
Family woes, 1980s New York City, and more new fiction.
On Display
Three authors explore private lives lived in public.
In As It Turns Out (FSG), Alice Sedgwick Wohl describes in intimate detail the short, explosive life of her younger sister Edie Sedgwick, from her abuse allegations against their father to her defining entanglement with Andy Warhol.
Through the 20 essays of Betty Gilpin’s All the Women in My Brain (Flatiron), the GLOW actor describes heartbreak and connection on and off set. “I tell myself I have found a version of it that is both cathartic and healthy,” she writes. “But maybe that’s a lie.”
British Vogue editor Edward Enninful fell in love with clothes at his mom’s dress workshop in Ghana; in A Visible Man (Penguin Press), he describes his “all-consuming addiction to forward motion,” from moving to London to pushing for diversity in media. —KW
Due Time
Black filmmakers star in a new exhibit at L.A.’s Academy Museum. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/14-new-books-to-read-in-september | 2022-08-23T16:38:39Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/14-new-books-to-read-in-september | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will honor seven prolific public figures who have shaped America’s story at the Portrait of a Nation Awards in Washington, DC, on November 12. The biennial tradition began in 2015 and spotlights individuals doing transformative work across industries. During November’s celebratory gala, each recipient’s featured portrait will be revealed to them. “It is important to honor and celebrate the people who are making a difference and inspiring others,” said Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery.
The seven honorees will be joined by an incredible group of presenters. “The presenters, each of whom have a special relationship with the honorees, help us to offer meaningful thanks to this year’s awardees for their significant contributions to our nation,” Sajet continued. Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and president of Emerson Collective, will present a portrait to New York Times best-selling author and founder of World Central Kitchen José Andrés. Fifteen-time Grammy Award–winning artist and entrepreneur Alicia Keys will present to fellow Grammy winner and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Clive Davis. Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson will present a portrait to Emmy, BAFTA, and Peabody–winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay. Former first lady of the United States Hillary Clinton will present to Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president emerita of the Children’s Defense Fund. David M. Rubenstein, cofounder and cochairman of the Carlyle Group, will unveil the portrait of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, chief medical adviser to the president. Co-CEO and president of Ariel Investments Mellody Hobson will present to 23-time Grand Slam champion and entrepreneur Serena Williams. And together, Sonya Haffey, principal of V Starr, and Isha Price, CEO of Price Consulting Group LLC, will present to Venus Williams, winner of seven Grand Slam titles, entrepreneur, and outspoken advocate on equal pay.
The portraits will be featured in their own National Portrait Gallery exhibition that will remain on view to the public through the new year. They’ll ultimately join the portraits of past honorees Anna Wintour, Jeff Bezos, and Earth Wind & Fire, among others, adding a swath of new faces to this visual archive of American history. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/alicia-keys-hillary-clinton-present-portraits-2022-national-portrait-gallery-gala | 2022-08-23T16:38:45Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/alicia-keys-hillary-clinton-present-portraits-2022-national-portrait-gallery-gala | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The brother-sister duo behind architecture and interiors firm Studio Shamshiri prove good taste is by design.
PAMELA SHAMSHIRI
FAVORITE ACCESSORY: I got a Gabriela Hearst demi bag in cognac leather as a gift, and I’m in love with it. It’s like carrying a sculpture with a top handle. DAILY UNIFORM: Maria Cornejo and Jil Sander, usually navy or white. STYLE ICON: Nefertiti, my Italian mother, and Franca Sozzani.
RECENT ADDITION: I bought a series of five James Brown sculptures. I can’t wait to install them. PETS: I have an Australian shepherd named Roquefort and two tortoises named Dwight and Jim.
POWER SNACK: Hard-boiled egg with whole-grain mustard and a pinch of Maldon.
READING: The Uninhabitable Earth, by David Wallace-Wells. It’s categorized by disasters.
RAMIN SHAMSHIRI
DAILY UNIFORM: Black, white, or navy button-down or T-shirt with Acne black jeans.
EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS: Nivea basics crème and shaving cream, Tancho Hair stick. WORKOUT: Pool, speed bag, and hiking trails at Los Padres National Forest and Griffith Park.
DISHWARE: Splatterware from March SF by Nicola Fasano. RECENT ADDITION: We just incorporated a José Zanine Caldas leather woven daybed. ON THE TABLE: Peonies in a vase. COOKWARE: Mauviel. UNEXPECTED ITEM ON DISPLAY: Family portraits of us as chickens on plates by Konstantin Kakanias.
MORNING BEVERAGE: Almond milk mocha. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/interiors-experts-pamela-and-ramin-shamshiris-favorite-things | 2022-08-23T16:38:51Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/interiors-experts-pamela-and-ramin-shamshiris-favorite-things | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BEIJING (AP) — One of the world’s few rare earths processors outside China has bought exploration rights to mine in Greenland, opening an avenue for diversifying supplies of the minerals critical for advanced and green technologies.
Rare earths are a group of minerals used in the manufacture of electric vehicles, wind turbines, electronics, robots and other machinery. China currently dominates global production, processing about 85% of the world’s rare earths, but skyrocketing demand is pushing companies to look for other sources.
Toronto-based Neo Performance Materials, the rare earths processor, said Monday it plans to develop the Sarfartoq deposit in southwest Greenland and will send the ore to its facility in Estonia in Eastern Europe. It’s one of only two plants outside China that processes rare earths to a high degree.
Neo aims to have the mine running in two to three years. It will be the company’s first major mining project. CEO Constantine Karayannopoulos said that by opening the mine, he hopes to shield the company from volatile rare earth prices, which have shot up in recent years due to supply disruptions and strong demand.
“We’re at the mercy of the market,” he said.
Karayannopoulos called it “business, not geopolitics.” But in recent years, rare earths have attracted the attention of policymakers in Washington, Beijing and other capitals given their importance to the global high-tech supply chain. The U.S., Europe and Japan call their dependence on China’s rare earths a “national security risk” and have sought to diversify their supply.
But such efforts have struggled, as mines in other countries have run into opposition or failed to get off the ground after fluctuating prices scared investors away.
Meanwhile, supplies of rare earths have shrunk, and some mines are raising ethical and environmental concerns. Mining rare earths is a dirty business when done cheaply, and China, the world’s largest miner, has shuttered many mines in recent years to curb environmental damage.
Some of that mining has been outsourced to Myanmar, where a lack of oversight is masking a dirty secret. An Associated Press investigation this month found the Myanmar mines are linked to environmental destruction, the theft of land from villagers and the funneling of money to brutal militias, including at least one linked to Myanmar’s secretive military government. The AP traced rare earths from Myanmar to the supply chains of 78 companies, including major auto makers and electronics giants.
The U.S. State Department said in a statement that it was “deeply concerned” about illicit mining in Myanmar, and called on other countries to ensure that their economic activity with Myanmar “does not enable or further exacerbate the regime’s violence against its own people.”
Karayannopoulos said that in Greenland, the company plans to dig up rock, crush it and do basic processing that does not involve the use of damaging chemicals. The ore will be then shipped to Estonia, where it will be further processed into a form that can be used to make magnets.
Plans for another rare earths mine in Greenland failed after voters put in power a left-leaning government that blocked development. The site had high concentrations of uranium, raising concerns over how radioactive waste would be disposed.
Karayannopoulos said the site his company plans to develop has much lower levels of uranium, meaning it can be mined under current Greenland and European Union regulations. He said EU officials encouraged the project because it could help the continent become more self-sufficient in rare earths.
Greenland, the world’s largest island, sits between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. A 1.7 million-square kilometer (660,000-square mile) ice sheet covers 80% of the Arctic territory. Greenland’s 56,000 residents are mainly indigenous Inuits.
Some rare earth customers, meanwhile, are aware of the risks of mines in unregulated, conflict-ridden areas such as Myanmar, and are increasingly willing to pay more for rare earths from regulated and transparent jurisdictions, Karayannopoulos said.
“You’re making the problem worse by doing it in an irresponsible way, and with regimes that kill their own people,” he said. “It’s not sustainable.”
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BEIJING (AP) — One of the world’s few rare earths processors outside China has bought exploration rights to mine in Greenland, opening an avenue for diversifying supplies of the minerals critical for advanced and green technologies.
Rare earths are a group of minerals used in the manufacture of electric vehicles, wind turbines, electronics, robots and other machinery. China currently dominates global production, processing about 85% of the world’s rare earths, but skyrocketing demand is pushing companies to look for other sources.
Toronto-based Neo Performance Materials, the rare earths processor, said Monday it plans to develop the Sarfartoq deposit in southwest Greenland and will send the ore to its facility in Estonia in Eastern Europe. It’s one of only two plants outside China that processes rare earths to a high degree.
Neo aims to have the mine running in two to three years. It will be the company’s first major mining project. CEO Constantine Karayannopoulos said that by opening the mine, he hopes to shield the company from volatile rare earth prices, which have shot up in recent years due to supply disruptions and strong demand.
“We’re at the mercy of the market,” he said.
Karayannopoulos called it “business, not geopolitics.” But in recent years, rare earths have attracted the attention of policymakers in Washington, Beijing and other capitals given their importance to the global high-tech supply chain. The U.S., Europe and Japan call their dependence on China’s rare earths a “national security risk” and have sought to diversify their supply.
But such efforts have struggled, as mines in other countries have run into opposition or failed to get off the ground after fluctuating prices scared investors away.
Meanwhile, supplies of rare earths have shrunk, and some mines are raising ethical and environmental concerns. Mining rare earths is a dirty business when done cheaply, and China, the world’s largest miner, has shuttered many mines in recent years to curb environmental damage.
Some of that mining has been outsourced to Myanmar, where a lack of oversight is masking a dirty secret. An Associated Press investigation this month found the Myanmar mines are linked to environmental destruction, the theft of land from villagers and the funneling of money to brutal militias, including at least one linked to Myanmar’s secretive military government. The AP traced rare earths from Myanmar to the supply chains of 78 companies, including major auto makers and electronics giants.
The U.S. State Department said in a statement that it was “deeply concerned” about illicit mining in Myanmar, and called on other countries to ensure that their economic activity with Myanmar “does not enable or further exacerbate the regime’s violence against its own people.”
Karayannopoulos said that in Greenland, the company plans to dig up rock, crush it and do basic processing that does not involve the use of damaging chemicals. The ore will be then shipped to Estonia, where it will be further processed into a form that can be used to make magnets.
Plans for another rare earths mine in Greenland failed after voters put in power a left-leaning government that blocked development. The site had high concentrations of uranium, raising concerns over how radioactive waste would be disposed.
Karayannopoulos said the site his company plans to develop has much lower levels of uranium, meaning it can be mined under current Greenland and European Union regulations. He said EU officials encouraged the project because it could help the continent become more self-sufficient in rare earths.
Greenland, the world’s largest island, sits between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. A 1.7 million-square kilometer (660,000-square mile) ice sheet covers 80% of the Arctic territory. Greenland’s 56,000 residents are mainly indigenous Inuits.
Some rare earth customers, meanwhile, are aware of the risks of mines in unregulated, conflict-ridden areas such as Myanmar, and are increasingly willing to pay more for rare earths from regulated and transparent jurisdictions, Karayannopoulos said.
“You’re making the problem worse by doing it in an irresponsible way, and with regimes that kill their own people,” he said. “It’s not sustainable.”
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Associated Press writer Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, contributed to this report. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/rare-earths-processor-buys-rights-to-mine-in-greenland/ | 2022-08-23T16:41:05Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/rare-earths-processor-buys-rights-to-mine-in-greenland/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 48 |
Closing changes for the main European bourses:
- German DAX -0.3%
- UK FTSE 100 -0.7%
- Stoxx 600 -0.3%
- French CAC -0.4%
- Italy MIB +0.9%
- Spain IBEX -0.7%
Italy bucked the trend with a nice bounce but it was a third straight day of declines elsewhere.
Closing changes for the main European bourses:
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MOSCOW (AP) — Hundreds of people lined up Tuesday to pay tribute to the daughter of a leading right-wing Russian political thinker killed in a car bombing that Moscow blamed on Ukrainian intelligence.
Speaking during a farewell ceremony held at a Moscow broadcast production center, Alexander Dugin said with his voice breaking that his 29-year-old daughter, a commentator with a nationalist Russian television channel, “died for the people, died for Russia.”
“The huge price we have to pay can only be justified by the highest achievement, our victory,” he said, standing next to his daughter’s casket, her black-and-white portrait placed behind it. “She lived for the sake of victory, and she died for the sake of victory. Our Russian victory, our truth, our Orthodox faith, our state.”
Darya Dugina was killed when a remotely-controlled explosive device planted in her SUV blew up on Saturday night as she was driving on the outskirts of Moscow, ripping the vehicle apart and killing her on the spot, authorities said.
Her father, a philosopher, writer and political theorist who ardently supports Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to send troops into Ukraine, was widely believed to be the intended target. Russian media quoted witnesses as saying that the SUV belonged to Dugin and that he had decided at the last minute to travel in another vehicle.
During the memorial service at the Ostankino television center that topped newscasts on state television, the 60-year-old Dugin shared what he said were his daughter’s last words to him, spoken at a nationalist festival they both attended just before her death: “Father, I feel like a warrior, I feel like a hero. I want to be one, I don’t want any different fate. I want to be with my people, with my country.”
Speaking at a separate event Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov denounced Dugina’s killing as a “barbaric crime for which there is no forgiveness.”
The car bombing, unusual for Moscow since the gang wars of the turbulent 1990s, triggered calls from Russian nationalists to respond by ramping up strikes on Ukraine. Ukraine has denied any involvement in the bombing.
Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, reaffirmed the denial late Monday, saying that “our special services have no relation to that.”
Leonid Slutsky, the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the lower house of Russia’s parliament, attended Tuesday’s farewell ceremony for Dugina. Slutsky, who took part in several rounds of talks with Ukrainian negotiators in March, indicated the killing would have repercussions for the conflict in Ukraine.
“We see that Kyiv isn’t inclined to have talks, and my own position as a member of the negotiation team is that it would be hard to engage in talks after that horrible tragedy,” he said.
Putin on Monday sent a letter of condolences to Dugin and his wife, denouncing the “cruel and treacherous” killing and saying that Dugina “honestly served people and the Fatherland, proving what it means to be a patriot of Russia with her deeds.” He posthumously awarded Dugina the Order of Courage, one of Russia’s highest medals.
Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, the main successor to the KGB, said Dugina’s killing was “prepared and perpetrated by the Ukrainian special services.”
The FSB said that a Ukrainian citizen, Natalya Vovk, carried out the killing after arriving in Russia in July with her 12-year-old daughter and renting an apartment in the building where Dugina lived in order to shadow her. It said that Vovk and her daughter were at the nationalist festival that Dugin and his daughter attended.
The agency said that Vovk drove to Estonia after the killing, using a different license plate for her vehicle. On Monday, the FSB released videos from surveillance cameras purportedly showing her entering and leaving Russia, and also a close-up of her allegedly in front of the entrance to a Moscow apartment building where Dugina lived and where Vovk rented an apartment.
The FSB also posted pictures of her vehicle with different license plates.
Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu dismissed the Russian claim, saying in televised remarks that “we regard this as one instance of provocation in a very long line of provocations by the Russian Federation, and we have nothing more to say about it at the moment.”
Dugin, dubbed “Putin’s brain” and “Putin’s Rasputin” by some in the West, has been a prominent proponent of the “Russian world” concept, a spiritual and political ideology that emphasizes traditional values, the restoration of Russia’s global influence and the unity of all ethnic Russians throughout the world.
Dugin helped popularize the “Novorossiya,” or “New Russia” concept that Russia used to justify the 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and its support of separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine. He has urged the Kremlin to step up its operations in Ukraine.
Dugin has also promoted authoritarian leadership in Russia and spoken with disdain of liberal Western values. He has been slapped with U.S. and European Union sanctions.
His daughter expressed similar views and had appeared as a commentator on the TV channel Tsargrad, where Dugin had served as chief editor.
Dugina herself was sanctioned by the U.S. in March for her work as chief editor of United World International, a website that Washington has described as a source of disinformation.
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Jan M. Olsen contributed to this report from Copenhagen, Denmark. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/mourners-pay-tribute-to-nationalist-killed-by-car-bombing/ | 2022-08-23T16:43:41Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/mourners-pay-tribute-to-nationalist-killed-by-car-bombing/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MIAMI (AP) — The most significant race in Florida's primary election Tuesday is between the two Democratic gubernatorial candidates seeking to go against Gov. Ron DeSantis, who's unopposed in the Republican primary.
That race pits U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist against Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried.
For the U.S. Senate, U.S. Rep. Val Demings faces three lesser-known candidates in the Democratic primary, and incumbent Republican Marco Rubio is unopposed.
Voters also will choose candidates in primaries for attorney general, agriculture commissioner and U.S. House seats.
GOVERNOR
The Democratic primary pits U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, a former governor as a Republican, against Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who is currently Florida’s only statewide elected Democrat. The winner will face Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in November. Crist last served in statewide office from 2007 to 2011 as a Republican governor. He lost a 2010 race for U.S. Senate as an independent and a 2014 run for governor as a Democrat.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Former Orlando-area State Attorney Aramis Ayala and Dan Uhlfelder are among three Democrats hoping to challenge Republican Attorney General Ashley Moody, who doesn’t have a primary opponent. Ayala received national attention for refusing to seek the death penalty in murder cases. Uhlfelder has been a frequent critic of DeSantis and made headlines by walking Panhandle beaches dressed as the Grim Reaper to protest the governor’s COVID-19 policies.
AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER
Republican Senate President Wilton Simpson is running in the GOP primary for agriculture commissioner against little-known candidate James Shaw. Three Democrats — Naomi Blemur, J.R. Gaillot and Ryan Morales — are on the primary ballot, though none has raised enough money or has the name recognition to run a credible statewide campaign.
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Incumbent Republican Jimmy Patronis has no GOP opposition for chief financial officer. He will face Democratic former state Rep. Adam Hattersley, who also has no opposition, in the November general election.
U.S. SENATE
Democratic U.S. Rep. Val Demings is running against three little-known, underfunded candidates for her party’s nomination to face Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, who has no primary challenger.
U.S. HOUSE
Florida this year will elect at least six new members of Congress – four because incumbents are retiring or seeking higher office and two because of the creation of a new district and redrawing of current districts that pit two incumbents against each. Here are the key primaries:
—District 1: Republican incumbent Matt Gaetz is being challenged by Mark Lombardo and Greg Merk. In 2020, Gaetz won the primary with 80.9% of the vote against Merk and another candidate. This year, Lombardo, a veteran and business executive, is a well-financed opponent, having sunk hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money in the race in the hopes that GOP voters in the western Panhandle aren’t happy with Gaetz’ frequent inflammatory remarks.
—District 2: No primary is being held. Democratic Rep. Al Lawson will face Republican Rep. Neal Dunn in a redrawn congressional district in November.
—District 3: Incumbent Rep. Kat Cammack faces Justin Waters, a juvenile law attorney, in the Republican primary. Danielle Hawk, a digital project manager and community activist, faces Tom Wells, president of radar company World Radomes Inc., in the Democratic race.
—District 4: State Sen. Aaron Bean is among three Republicans seeking this open Jacksonville-area seat. The other two are Erick Aguilar and Jon Chuba. On the Democratic side, former state Sen. Anthony Hill faces LaShonda Holloway, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2020. Republicans have an advantage in the district.
—District 5: Republican Rep. John Rutherford faces two less-funded challengers, homemaker Mara Macie and cosmetologist Leigha Lopez in the GOP primary. No Democrats are running for the seat.
—District 6: GOP Rep. Michael Waltz faces businessman Charles E. Davis in the Republican primary. There is also a Libertarian candidate on the November ballot, but no Democrat.
_District 7: Eight Republicans and four Democrats are seeking the seat left open by Democratic Rep. Stephanie Murphy’s decision to leave Congress. The district extends from Seminole County to the Atlantic Coast and now leans Republican after redistricting. State Rep. Anthony Sabatini is among the Republican candidates. Among Democrats are Karen Green, a former Florida Democratic Party vice chair, and Al Krulick who has run unsuccessfully for Congress three other times.
—District 8: The Republican incumbent, Rep. Bill Posey, has no opposition in the GOP primary. Joanne Terry, a retired satellite systems engineer, or Danelle Dodge, a small business owner, and running in the Democratic primary.
—District 9: Democratic Rep. Darren Soto is unopposed in the primary and will face the winner of the Republican primary in November. The candidates are Walt Disney World executive Jose Castillo, Christian non-profit worker Scotty Moore, pastor and Republican activist Adianis Morales and real estate broker Sergio Ortiz.
_District 10: Ten Democrats and six Republicans are seeking the seat left open by Democratic Rep. Val Demings' decision to run for Senate. Among Democrats are former U.S. Reps. Corrine Brown and Alan Grayson. Brown is a convicted felon from Jacksonville and Grayson is an outspoken former congressman whose inflammatory comments generated headlines. His two recent efforts to return to Washington have failed. Social justice activist Maxwell Alejandro Frost has a money advantage and a number of high-profile endorsements. State Sen. Randolph Bracy is also in the primary for the seat in a firmly Democratic district.
—District 11: Nationally known far-right activist Laura Loomer, who’s been banned by several social media platforms because of anti-Muslim and other remarks, is challenging incumbent Republican Dan Webster, who has served central Florida districts since 2011.
—District 12: Four Republicans are running in the primary against incumbent Rep. Gus Bilirakis. They are Chris Leiser, construction firm operator, Jack Martin, a retired pastor and fire department chaplain, Brian Perras, a former actor who works in real estate business, and Sid Preskitt, who worked for commercial dive training business. Democrat Kimberly Walker, a Treasury Department contractor and military veteran, has no primary challenge.
—District 13: Five Republicans are seeking the nomination in the St. Petersburg-area seat left open when Crist decided to run for governor. It is essentially a rematch between Anna Paulina Luna and Amanda Makki, who came in first and second respectively in a five-way primary two years ago. The formerly competitive seat now leans Republican. The winner will face Democrat Eric Lynn, who worked in the Obama administration.
—District 14: Democratic Rep. Kathy Castor is facing a primary challenge from Christopher Bradley, a cyber defense and tech expert. Republican candidates are James Judge, public relations executive and former Coast Guard officer, Samar Nashagh, a former Marine and media production project manager, and Jerry Torres, defense contractor.
_District 15: Five Republicans are competing for the new district east of Tampa. The top Republicans include former Secretary of State Laura Lee, state Sen. Kelli Stargel and state Rep. Jackie Toledo. Five Democrats are also seeking the nomination in the district that heavily favors Republicans.
—District 16: Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan is being challenged in the GOP primary by businessman Martin Hyde. Democrat Jan Schneider, an international lawyer and author, is unopposed and will take on the winner.
—District 17: No primary is being held. GOP Rep. Greg Steube will face Democrat Andrea Doria Kale and a no-party candidate in November.
—District 18: Four Republicans qualified to run in the primary against incumbent GOP Rep. Scott Franklin. They are businessman Kenneth Hartpence, attorney Jennifer Raybon, teacher Wendy Schmeling and cigar company owner Eduardo Tarazona. There is no Democratic candidate.
—District 19: First-term Rep. Byron Donalds is opposed by engineer Jim Huff in the Republican primary. The winner will face Democrat Cindy Banyai in November.
_District 20: Democratic U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is facing primary competition in the seat she won in a special election earlier this year. Former Broward County Mayor Dale Holness, who lost to Cherfilus-McCormick by five votes, and state Rep. Anika Omphroy, are also running for the seat that includes parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties.
—District 21: Incumbent Rep. Brian Mast has three challengers in the Republican primary. THey are businessman Jeff Buongiorno, attorney and non-profit founder Melissa Martz, and medical professional Ljubo Skrbic. Democrat Corinna Balderramos Robinson awaits the winner in November.
—District 22: Five Republicans are competing in the primary for the chance to take on Democratic Rep. Lois Frankel, who is unopposed in a Democratic stronghold. The Republicans are financial adviser Deborah Adeimy, crisis consultant Peter Arianas, attorney and Navy veteran Rod Dorilas, financial investor Dan Franseze and financial investor Çarrie Lawlor.
_District 23: Six Democrats and seven Republicans are running for the South Florida seat left open by Democratic Rep Ted Deutch’s decision to retire. The most prominent name among Democrats is Jared Moskowitz, the former state representative who helped pass gun legislation after the Parkland shootings, and who served as DeSantis’ emergency management director. The seat is firmly Democratic.
—District 24: Veteran Rep. Frederica Wilson faces police officer Kevin Harris in the Democratic primary. Two Republicans are also running in a district that is heavily Democratic. They are Jesus Navarro, who works for disability mobility firm, and Lavern Spicer, a small business owner.
—District 25: Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz lines up against accountant Robert Millwee in the primary. Two Republicans face off in the GOP primary for a solidly Democratic seat. They are registered nurse Carla Spalding and retired veteran Rubin Young.
—District 26: Longtime GOP Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart is running against disability advocate Darren Aquino in the Republican primary. The winner will face Democrat Christine Alexandria Olivo, who is unopposed.
_District 27: State Sen. Annette Taddeo, who was Crist’s lieutenant governor running mate in 2014, and Miami City Commissioner Ken Russell are among three Democratic candidates hoping to challenge Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar. The Miami-area district has switched parties several times in recent years.
—District 28: Incumbent Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez has two lesser-known challengers, energy consultant Karl Miller and actor Carlos Garin, in the GOP primary. Robert Ascencio, a retired schools police chief and former state legislator, and Juan Parades, who works in the computer industry, are facing off in the Democratic primary. A write-in candidate is also vying for the seat. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/democratic-race-for-governor-highlights-florida-primary | 2022-08-23T16:43:46Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/democratic-race-for-governor-highlights-florida-primary | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WAKULLA COUNTY, FLa. — The Wakulla County Sheriff's Office is set to host the Big Red Bus blood drive on August 24, providing a gift card and more for donors.
Partnering with Oneblood, the drive will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Wakulla County Sheriff's Office.
All donors may receive a $20 e-gift card, OneBlood towel and a wellness check up, which includes checking blood pressure, iron count, pulse, temperature and a cholesterol screening.
Appointments are encouraged and may be booked at OneBlood. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/wakulla-county-to-host-big-red-bus-blood-drive-on-august-24 | 2022-08-23T16:43:48Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/wakulla-county-to-host-big-red-bus-blood-drive-on-august-24 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kozhikode: A huge fire broke out at a godown that stores raw materials for paint manufacturing at Cheruvannur TP Road here on Tuesday. The incident happened around 5 pm.
The godown, CT Agencies, is owned by Perinthalmanna native Shihabuddin. Fire and Rescue Services personnel rushed to the spot immediately to douse the fire.
Malappuram native Suhaili (19), who was in the godown at the time, suffered serious burn injuries. He has been admitted to a private hospital in Cheruvannur for treatment.
An investigation is underway to check whether more people got caught in the blaze. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/23/fire-breaks-out-godown-kozhikode.amp.html | 2022-08-23T16:43:52Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/23/fire-breaks-out-godown-kozhikode.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado ski resort Steamboat Springs has passed regulations for short-term rentals, such as those booked on Airbnb, amid a severe housing crisis.
The ordinances prohibit new short-term rentals in most of the city and require landlords to obtain a license to operate.
Renting short-term, defined as fewer than 30 days, has become increasingly popular for second homeowners and investors who can charge hundreds of dollars a night.
According to Airbnb, listings outside major cities skyrocketed nearly 50% during the pandemic as remote work became more prevalent.
A Colorado Association of Ski Towns survey showed that nearly two-thirds of home sales in 2020 went to newcomers who made more than $150,000 working outside major met areas.
Vacation towns facing low housing supply, from Lincoln County on Oregon's coast to Ketchum in Idaho’s Smoky Mountains, are grappling with how to regulate the industry, and Steamboat Springs' new rules could prove a model for others.
The Steamboat Springs City Council passed a ban in June on new short-term rentals. They also passed a ballot measure that would tax the industry 9% to fund affordable housing.
Businesses and property owners strongly oppose the proposed tax.
“The short-term rental industry brings people to town, funds the city, and you want to tax it out of existence?" coalition vice president and co-founder of a property management company Robin Craigen told the Associated Press. “It doesn’t make sense.” | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/amid-housing-crises-vacation-towns-limit-short-term-rentals | 2022-08-23T16:43:54Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/amid-housing-crises-vacation-towns-limit-short-term-rentals | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
RAYTOWN, Mo. — About a quarter of classroom doors in the U.S. are unable to lock from the inside, according to a 2020 survey from the National Center for Education Statistics.
It was one of the many issues uncovered after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
With the school year beginning, security has been top of mind for parents like Doris Canaday as well as administrators in a Missouri school district.
“It really caused me to think even considering to let them go back to school," Canaday, whose children attend Raytown schools in Missouri, said. "It just took a mental toll on myself and my children as well not knowing what you can expect when you go to school."
Education departments in many states do not track how many schools have classrooms with interior locks.
“In Raytown, all of our rooms have interior locks," Melissa Tebbenkamp, the district's chief information officer, said. "We’re in what’s called a soft lockdown at all times. So, not only do we have doors that lock, but our doors are always maintained in the locked position and closed. That way we can prevent that instant threat."
Raytown also has a tool called the barracuda, which adds another layer of protection in case a door lock fails, in every classroom. The district spent $33,750 to purchase the devices in 2015.
Tebbenkamp explained how the barracuda would help during an active shooter situation.
“They’re looking for easy access and we want to make that access as difficult as possible in every one of our classrooms,” she said.
Raytown also has a plan for exterior doors. The district has what’s called guided entry, funneling all visitors to one entrance at each school.
On top of that, the district installed one-way vision film, so visitors can’t see in but staff members can see out.
But are those tools enough?
“Never,” Tebbenkamp said. "Tools are never enough. We could have as many tools in our classrooms as we can financially afford and it won’t be enough. We have to have training. We have to have a priority."
For parents like Canaday, knowing the safety measures are in place gives her comfort.
“That lets me know that the teachers and staff care about the children in their schools,” she said.
The district also has a safety task force. It includes first responders, administrators, parents, and community members.
This article was written by Cameron Taylor for KSHB. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/school-security-1-in-4-classrooms-cant-lock-from-inside | 2022-08-23T16:44:09Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/school-security-1-in-4-classrooms-cant-lock-from-inside | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A court ruled that Walmart must pay $4.4 million in damages to an Oregon man who accused the retailer of racially profiling him in March 2020.
According to a court document, the Walmart employee was “reckless” and “wanton” in approaching Michael Mangun. A court document said that the employee, who a judge determined was acting within the scope of his employment, racially profiled Mangun, a Black man from Oregon.
Court documents indicated that Mangun noticed that the employee followed him throughout the store when Mangun went to an Oregon Walmart to purchase a light bulb. The employee asked Mangun to leave the store, but Mangun refused, claiming he did nothing wrong.
The employee then called a non-emergency police line. A store manager told deputies the story had seen a lot of theft, but Mangun maintained that it had nothing to do with him. Deputies did not arrest or take any actions against Mangun.
KGN-TV reported that deputies told Walmart that the employee had a pattern of calling the police for false reasons. The outlet said that the employee was fired in July 2020 for mishandling $35.
In a statement to KGN, Walmart said the fine was “excessive.” | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/walmart-ordered-to-pay-4-4-million-for-racially-profiling-customer | 2022-08-23T16:44:21Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/walmart-ordered-to-pay-4-4-million-for-racially-profiling-customer | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHARLEROI, Belgium (AP) — A Belgian-British teenage pilot was on track Tuesday to become the youngest person to fly around the world solo in a small plane as he landed in southern Belgium ahead of the penultimate leg of his global odyssey.
Mack Rutherford, who turned 17 during the journey, touched down at Buzet Airstrip near the city of Charleroi, where he originally learned to fly. He’s due to land in Bulgaria on Wednesday. His aim: to displace Travis Ludlow of Britain, who was 18 when he set the record in 2021.
Rutherford is flying a Shark, one of the fastest ultralight aircraft in the world with a cruising speed reaching 300 kph (186 mph), which has been specially fitted out for the long journey. It’s normally a two-seater, but an extra fuel tank has been installed next to the young pilot.
It’s the same kind of aircraft used by his 19-year-old sister, Zara Rutherford, when she set the world record on Jan. 20 for the youngest woman to fly solo around the world.
Mack’s lonely journey, which began on March 23, took him through 52 countries over five continents. To conform with Guinness World Records requirements, the route crossed the equator twice.
“It was supposed to take between two to three months and it’s been five months now,” he told The Associated Press. Administrative formalities in Crete and Dubai “because of paperwork issues, visas, permits, things like that,” caused the delay.
The flight took him through Africa and the Gulf region — where he face periods of extreme heat — then on to India, China, South Korea and Japan. From there, he headed to Alaska and down the U.S. West Coast to Mexico. The teen then headed north again along the U.S. East Coast to Canada, across the Atlantic via Iceland, to the U.K. and Belgium.
If all goes well, and weather permitting, he’ll fly east across Europe via Slovakia and land at an airport in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, on Wednesday.
Proud father Sam Rutherford said his two children have set a shining example.
“They have got around the world safely, effectively, professionally. And they’ve shown to other youngsters that you don’t have to be 18 even, and certainly not 30, to make a difference and do something and follow your dreams,” he told AP. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/teen-pilot-on-track-for-solo-global-flight-world-record/ | 2022-08-23T16:44:30Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/teen-pilot-on-track-for-solo-global-flight-world-record/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Which handheld carpet cleaner is best?
When most people think of carpet cleaning, they imagine an aching back, hours of drying time and a hefty appliance rental bill. However, most carpet cleaning tasks don’t require much hassle and can be taken care of quickly with the right tool for the job.
Handheld carpet cleaners let you economically and effectively treat minor spills and stains around your home as needed. The Bissell Pet Stain Eraser PowerBrush features scrubbing bristles and a detergent dispenser. Its powerful suction and small size make it the best choice for keeping your carpets looking like new.
What to know before you buy a handheld carpet cleaner
How much carpet you intend to clean
Handheld carpet cleaners are designed to eliminate small messes. If you have a carpet that needs extensive wall-to-wall cleaning, a handheld cleaner will not get the job done. A standard carpet cleaner is more appropriate for room-size jobs.
What kinds of messes you expect
Some handheld carpet cleaners are made with pet owners in mind. These specialize in preventing stains and vacuuming up liquids. Others feature powerful suction for cleaning up solid food spills. Consider the messes you regularly encounter and select a cleaner that will accommodate your typical cleaning jobs.
How handheld carpet cleaners work
Handheld carpet cleaners include two water tanks. One gets filled with clean water and is emptied onto your carpet as you use the appliance. The resulting soiled water is then vacuumed back up into the machine and stored in a second tank that gets emptied when you’re done.
Scrubbing brushes and detergents are also used during the process to work stains out from the fibers of your carpet and apply fragrances.
Handheld carpet cleaner benefits
Portable. Handheld carpet cleaners, unlike those that need to be pushed around your home, can be moved with ease. Whether you’re treating multiple rooms or need to clean an entirely different property, these appliances are great for life on the go. You can even use them in your car or RV.
Easy to store. Handheld carpet cleaners can be easily tucked away in a drawer, closet or cupboard.
Easy to maneuver. Because handheld carpet cleaners are small and light, they let you reach areas under tables and around furniture without having to move your decor around.
Quick cleaning. Handheld carpet cleaners are low maintenance and easy to clean, rinse and dry after use.
What to look for in a quality handheld carpet cleaner
Weight
Choose a light carpet cleaner, even when its tank is full. Heavy cleaners are challenging to navigate around furniture and potentially dangerous if used to clean stairs.
Cordless
Pulling a long cord around the house while cleaning is a hassle. Avoid tripping and dragging by selecting a handheld carpet cleaner powered by a rechargeable battery.
Maintenance
Some cleaners let you put their collection tank in the dishwasher for convenient cleaning. Select a model that disassembles easily so you can thoroughly rinse and dry it between uses to prevent odor or mold.
Scrub brush
Select a cleaner with a scrub brush to deep clean messes and reduce the risk of stains. A cleaner that features a motorized brush does the hard work for you.
Cleaning formulas
Many manufacturers offer formulas that deodorize your carpet and enhance the cleaning power of their appliances. If you want to freshen things up, select a handheld cleaner that lets you add formula to its clean water. Some also feature a tank specifically for a detergent that gets sprayed onto your carpet as you clean.
How much you can expect to spend on a handheld carpet cleaner
Depending on features and attachments, handheld carpet cleaners typically cost $100-$150.
Handheld carpet cleaner FAQ
Can I use a handheld carpet cleaner on upholstery?
A. In most cases, yes. However, some fragile or antique materials may be damaged by aggressive motorized brushes. Consult the manufacturer of your furniture for cleaning instructions.
Will a handheld carpet cleaner work on a hard surface?
A. No. Carpet cleaners are designed to clean fabrics and rug fibers. Wood or tile floors should be cleaned using a different appliance.
Do handheld carpet cleaners disinfect?
A. No. To disinfect your flooring, you will need a cleaner that uses hot steam.
What’s the best handheld carpet cleaner to buy?
Top handheld carpet cleaner
Bissell Pet Stain Eraser PowerBrush
What you need to know: This handheld carpet cleaner includes two formula samples and is specifically designed for pet messes.
What you’ll love: With its motorized PowerBrush and generous tank size, this carpet cleaner is a pet owner’s new best friend. Its cordless operation and ergonomic design make it great for cleaning carpeted stairs and soiled furniture.
What you should consider: Buyers note that you must hold this cleaner in a specific way to utilize its suction fully.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Kohl’s
Top handheld carpet cleaner for the money
What you need to know: For those who don’t need the PowerBrush feature, this alternative from Bissel lets you clean up on a budget.
What you’ll love: This cleaner has a stationary brush with bristles firm enough to scrub but gentle enough to be used on most furniture. It comes apart easily for hassle-free cleaning and includes two bottles of formula.
What you should consider: This cleaner only runs for 15 minutes on a full charge.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: You can throw this cleaner’s tank and nozzle in the dishwasher for easy disinfecting.
What you’ll love: This cleaner’s wide nozzle is great for chunky food spills such as cereal or pasta. Its powered scrub brush deep cleans your carpet, and its battery indicator light lets you know when it’s charged and ready.
What you should consider: This cleaner’s formula dispenser requires you to manually pull a trigger, which some buyers find to be inconvenient.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Chewy and Home Depot
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Archaeologists unearthed a lavish 1,200-year-old estate in Israel’s desert south that offers a unique glimpse of life for wealthy residents of the Negev region, the country’s antiquities authority said Tuesday.
The discovery in the Bedouin town of Rahat dates to the early Islamic period in the 8th or 9th century, the authority said.
The luxury home is built around a courtyard and features four wings with several rooms for its residents. One lavish section features a marble hallway with stone floors and elaborate wall decorations. Archaeologists also found shards of decorated glass serving dishes.
Underneath the courtyard, archaeologists were surprised to discover subterranean vaults made of stone, which they believe were used to store items at cooler temperatures away from the scorching desert sun. The vaults appear to be carefully constructed and sturdy enough to allow people to move between them underground. An opening from the vaulted rooms also leads to a cistern where residents could access cool drinking water.
Experts say the mansion’s owners likely lived a life of prosperity and had plenty to go around.
“The luxurious estate and the unique impressive underground vaults are evidence of the owners’ means,” said the excavation directors in a statement. “Their high status and wealth allowed them to build a luxurious mansion that served as a residence and for entertaining.” | https://www.wpri.com/science/ap-science/luxurious-1200-year-old-mansion-found-in-southern-israel/ | 2022-08-23T16:45:47Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/science/ap-science/luxurious-1200-year-old-mansion-found-in-southern-israel/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Biden to make long-awaited student loan debt announcement on Wednesday, reports say
WASHINGTON - With the freeze on student loan payments set to expire soon, President Joe Biden is planning an announcement on Wednesday amid pressure from Democratic lawmakers to forgive more than $10,000 in student loan debt, according to multiple reports.
Payments for federally backed student loans have been suspended since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020. The federal pause has been extended several times, and they’re finally set to resume on Sept. 1 unless the Biden administration decides to once again take action.
The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg both reported the planned announcement this week.
More than 43 million Americans owe a combined $1.6 trillion in student debt held by the federal government, according to data from the Education Department. That includes more than 7 million borrowers who have defaulted on student loans, meaning they are at least 270 days late on payments.
With inflation at its hottest level in four decades, a shrinking U.S. economy, and climbing interest rates, repaying student loans could become even more challenging for borrowers.
The U.S. government could waive some outstanding student debt, although nothing has been announced yet. The White House is reportedly mulling an executive order that would cancel up to $10,000 of debt per borrower tied to an income threshold, CNN reported Monday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Last month, top U.S. Education Department officials developed a plan for a mass debt cancellation program, should the department get the green light from Biden, according to Politico.
Under the plan, debt relief would be provided automatically and within several months to millions of borrowers for whom the agency already has income information. Other borrowers would apply through a form on StudentAid.gov, Politico reported, citing internal agency documents obtained by the news outlet.
RELATED: Will the student loan payment pause be extended? CEOs say it’s likely.
A closer look at student loan debt in the US
The average federal student loan debt balance is $37,667, while the total average balance — including private loan debt — may be as high as $40,274, according to the Education Data Initiative, a higher education research group that publishes information and resources.
A large majority (92.7%) of all student loans are backed by the federal government, it adds.
On average, a student loan in the U.S. will accrue $26,000 in interest alone over 20 years, according to the Education Data Initiative. The average student borrower takes 20 years to pay off their student loan debt, and some professional graduates take over 45 years to repay their loans.
RELATED: Many borrowers took out student loans anticipating debt forgiveness, survey says
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OLYMPIA, Wash.-
Hunter education classes from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) are available now, in both traditional and online form.
"Summer is a great time to enroll in hunter education class because as fall hunting season draws near, seats in these courses fill quickly," said David Whipple, WDFW Hunter Education Section Manager.
The traditional classroom experience includes direct person-to-person instruction from certified volunteer instructors. According to the WDFW, this format is considered beneficial for younger students, as well as those seeking more time with an instructor.
The online course option offers limited in-person time and can be completed according to the student's schedule. Students 17 and younger who take the online course are required to complete an in-person field skills evaluation led by certified instructors.
Anyone born after January, 1st, 1972, must show proof of completion of an hunter education course before buying their first Washington State hunting license. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/hunter-education-classes-available-now/article_9e2df552-22ee-11ed-853e-83f1bdf6a3b4.html | 2022-08-23T16:52:48Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/hunter-education-classes-available-now/article_9e2df552-22ee-11ed-853e-83f1bdf6a3b4.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Man suspected of pushing person onto CTA tracks arrested in Little Village
CHICAGO - A man suspected of pushing a person off a CTA platform on the Near West Side in early August has been arrested.
James Stamps, 28, of Joliet, was taken into custody Monday in the 2600 block of South California Avenue in Little Village, according to Chicago police.
On the morning of Aug. 7, police said Stamps approached a person at the Illinois Medical District Blue Line platform in the 400 block of South Damen Avenue and pushed them onto the tracks.
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Stamps was charged with a felony count of aggravated battery, according to police.
He was due in bond court on Tuesday. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-suspected-of-pushing-person-onto-cta-tracks-arrested-in-little-village | 2022-08-23T16:52:54Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-suspected-of-pushing-person-onto-cta-tracks-arrested-in-little-village | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GRANDVIEW, Wash.-
In an effort to halt the spread of the invasive Japanese beetle, the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA), has adopted a quarantine limiting the movement of certain items in the infested area.
The new quarantine rule amends the existing one that prohibits the movement of items into the state from known infested areas outside of the state.
Under the new quarantine, the movement of topsoil, compost, yard debris, and cut flowers, is restricted outside of a 49 square mile area around Grandview.
The WSDA conducted outreach to the public and businesses that will be impacted by the new quarantine rule before adopting it.
After the summer flight season for the beetle, the WSDA will determine if it will be necessary to expand the quarantine zone.
To date, the WSDA has confirmed sightings of the Japanese beetle in Wapato, Richland, Mabton, Sunnyside, and Outlook.
If you think you spot a Japanese beetle, please snap a photo and report it online. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/japanese-beetle-quarantine-starts-sept-15th/article_69f81994-22e8-11ed-bd6c-97407c422be0.html | 2022-08-23T16:52:54Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/japanese-beetle-quarantine-starts-sept-15th/article_69f81994-22e8-11ed-bd6c-97407c422be0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash.-
The Kittitas County Health Network (KCHN), a non-profit collaboration of health and social service agencies, was recently awarded three grants to address child-care, substance use, and behavioral health needs in Kittitas County.
The Washington State Department of Commerce awarded $45,000 for KCHN to continue the implementation of a plan to increase access to quality childcare in Kittitas County.
According to a KCHN press release, the grant will prioritize early outdoor educational opportunities and support the expansion of before and after school programs.
The Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) awarded KCHN $1 million to address substance use disorders and an additional $2 million to address mental and behavioral health issues in Kittitas County.
These funds will help service providers continue to provide prevention, treatment, and recovery support. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/kittitas-county-health-awarded-multiple-grants/article_477e4d7a-22e3-11ed-84d3-57ba86ddf1d2.html | 2022-08-23T16:53:00Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/kittitas-county-health-awarded-multiple-grants/article_477e4d7a-22e3-11ed-84d3-57ba86ddf1d2.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
RICHLAND, Wash.-
United States Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, will host a roundtable and hold a press conference in Richland on Wednesday, August, 24th.
According to her office, Senator Murray will host a roundtable with Hanford workers at 2:50 p.m. She will be discussing beryllium exposure and will announce legislation that will expand federal health benefits to more Hanford and other toxic-exposed workers.
Senator Murray will then hold a press conference at 3:50 p.m. at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), to discuss her work in passing the CHIPs and Science Act. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/senator-murray-in-richland-on-wednesday/article_ad60d3d2-22fd-11ed-89df-b72dade2e941.html | 2022-08-23T16:53:06Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/senator-murray-in-richland-on-wednesday/article_ad60d3d2-22fd-11ed-89df-b72dade2e941.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
RICHLAND, Wash.-
The Port of Benton has completed reconstructing the Van Giesen/SR 224 railroad crossing.
The road is now open and all detours have been removed.
The project replaced the entire rail crossing, added concrete panels and new rail ties, and repaved the roadway. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/van-giesen-sr-224-reopen-after-railroad-construction/article_7c5160fa-22f2-11ed-81ae-2b496e03b344.html | 2022-08-23T16:53:12Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/van-giesen-sr-224-reopen-after-railroad-construction/article_7c5160fa-22f2-11ed-81ae-2b496e03b344.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A woman with a passion for traveling is still able to teach students here in Michigan.
“It allows me more freedoms, but also to provide a quality education to students, and myself and find ways of improving my skill and my craft,” said Brit Quarnberg.
Brit Quarnberg has spent almost 20 years as a teacher, including the last three at Great Lakes Learning Academy.
The academy is 100% and has been since before the pandemic.
Quarnberg has always been a world traveler. Her husband is from Iran, but they met in Sweden and they go back to the Middle East to visit family.
So, they've really incorporated travel into their lives, even with their 2-year-old daughter.
Quarnberg teaches math, so she doesn't usually incorporate her travels into the curriculum.
But her experience with language and cultural barriers has helped her connect with her students in a unique way.
“The main thing that it helps shape is how I just my worldview and understanding different students that we get at Great Lakes Learning Academy, we have students with lots of different backgrounds and lots of different preferences with how they learn how they grow, how they like, what they need. And I feel like it's been able to help me meet their needs better,” explained Quarnberg. “You can still help them as they need, you can recognize when they're struggling and reach out and help them and it's more of a personal one-on-one experience for that student.”
Quarnberg tells us she wants other teachers to know a virtual academy is very doable if in-person learning is holding them back -- all you need is reliable internet.
The ability to continue to teach is especially important right now as the country faces a teacher shortage.
According to a February report from the bureau of labor statistics, there are more than 300,000 thousand teacher vacancies in the U.S. | https://www.fox17online.com/fox-17-unfiltered/local-woman-is-teacher-by-day-globetrotter-by-night | 2022-08-23T16:56:35Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/fox-17-unfiltered/local-woman-is-teacher-by-day-globetrotter-by-night | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former head of security at Twitter has filed whistleblower complaints with U.S. officials, alleging that the company misled regulators about its cybersecurity defenses and its problems with fake accounts, according to reports by The Washington Post and CNN.
Peiter Zatko, Twitter's security chief until he was fired early this year, filed the complaints last month with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice.
The Post, which obtained the complaint, reported that among the most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of an FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had a strong security plan.
Zatko also accuses the company of deceptions involving its handling of “spam" or fake accounts, an allegation that is at the core of the attempted withdrawal of a $44 billion takeover bid for Twitter by billionaire Elon Musk.
Shares of Twitter Inc. slid 4% Tuesday.
Zatko didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday but told the Post he “felt ethically bound” to come forward.
Zatko, better known as Mudge, is a highly respected cybersecurity expert who first gained prominence in the 1990s and later worked in senior positions at the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Agency and Google. He joined Twitter at the urging of then-CEO Jack Dorsey in late 2020, the same year the company suffered an embarrassing security breach involving hackers who broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls, including Musk, in an attempt to scam their followers out of Bitcoin.
Twitter said in a prepared statement Tuesday that Zatko was fired for “ineffective leadership and poor performance” and that the “allegations and opportunistic timing appear designed to capture attention and inflict harm on Twitter, its customers and its shareholders.”
“What we’ve seen so far is a false narrative about Twitter and our privacy and data security practices that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context,” the company said.
The legal nonprofit Whistleblower Aid, which is representing Zatko, confirmed the authenticity of the document Tuesday, but said it is legally precluded from sharing it. The same group worked with former Facebook employee Frances Haugen, who testified to Congress last year after leaking internal documents and accusing the social media giant of choosing profit over safety.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Senate's intelligence committee, Rachel Cohen, said the committee has received Zatko's complaint and "is in the process of setting up a meeting to discuss the allegations in further detail. We take this matter seriously.”
Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said in a prepared statement that if the claims are accurate, “they may show dangerous data privacy and security risks for Twitter users around the world.”
Among the most alarming complaints is Zatko’s allegation that Twitter knowingly allowed the Indian government to place its agents on the company payroll where they had “direct unsupervised access to the company’s systems and user data.”
A 2011 FTC complaint noted that Twitter’s systems were full of highly sensitive data that could allow a hostile government to find precise geo-location data for a specific user or group and target them for violence or arrest. Earlier this month, a former Twitter employee was found guilty after a trial in California of passing along sensitive Twitter user data to royal family members in Saudi Arabia in exchange for bribes.
The complaint said Twitter was also heavily reliant on funding by Chinese entities and that there were concerns within Twitter that the company was providing information to those entities that would enable them to learn the identify and sensitive information of Chinese users who secretly use Twitter, which is officially banned in China.
Zatko also describes “deliberate ignorance” by Twitter executives on counting the millions of accounts that are automated “spam bots" or otherwise have no value to advertisers because there is no person behind them.
Alex Spiro, an attorney representing Musk in his effort to back out of the deal to buy Twitter, said lawyers have issued a subpoena for Zatko. “We found his exit and that of other key employees curious in light of what we have been finding,” Spiro wrote in an email Tuesday. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/former-twitter-security-chief-files-whistleblower-complaints | 2022-08-23T16:57:00Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/former-twitter-security-chief-files-whistleblower-complaints | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DETROIT, Mich. (WXYZ)— A jury on Tuesday convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
The jury also found Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. guilty of conspiring to obtain a weapon of mass destruction, namely a bomb to blow up a bridge and stymie police if the kidnapping could be pulled off at Whitmer’s vacation home.
Croft, 46, a trucker from Bear, Delaware, was also convicted of another explosives charge.
It was the second trial for the pair after a jury in April couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict. Two other men were acquitted and two more pleaded guilty and testified for prosecutors.
The result was a victory for the government following the shocking mixed outcome last spring.
“You can’t just strap on an AR-15 and body armor and go snatch the governor,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler told jurors.
“But that wasn’t the defendants’ ultimate goal,” Kessler said. “They wanted to set off a second American civil war, a second American Revolution, something that they call the boogaloo. And they wanted to do it for a long time before they settled on Gov. Whitmer.”
The investigation began when Army veteran Dan Chappel joined a Michigan paramilitary group and became alarmed when he heard talk about killing police. He agreed to become an FBI informant and spent the summer of 2020 getting close to Fox and others, secretly recording conversations and participating in drills at “shoot houses” in Wisconsin and Michigan.
The FBI turned it into a major domestic terrorism case with two more informants and two undercover agents embedded in the group.
Fox, Croft and others, accompanied by the government operatives, traveled to northern Michigan to see Whitmer’s vacation home at night and a bridge that could be destroyed.
Defense attorneys tried to put the FBI on trial, repeatedly emphasizing through cross-examination of witnesses and during closing remarks that federal players were present at every crucial event and had entrapped the men.
Fox and Croft, they said, were “big talkers” who liked to smoke marijuana and were guilty of nothing but exercising their right to say vile things about Whitmer and the government.
“This isn’t Russia. This isn’t how our country works,” Croft attorney Joshua Blanchard told jurors. “You don’t get to suspect that someone might commit a crime because you don’t like things that they say, that you don’t like their ideologies.”
Fox attorney Christopher Gibbons said the FBI isn’t supposed to create “domestic terrorists.” He described Fox as poor and living in the basement of a Grand Rapids-area vacuum shop, which was a site for meetings with Chappel and an agent.
Whitmer, a Democrat, has blamed then-President Donald Trump for stoking mistrust and fomenting anger over coronavirus restrictions and refusing to condemn hate groups and right-wing extremists like those charged in the plot.
Over the weekend, she said she hadn't been following the second trial but remains concerned about “violent rhetoric in this country.”
Trump recently called the kidnapping plan a “fake deal.”
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RAYTOWN, Mo. — About a quarter of classroom doors in the U.S. are unable to lock from the inside, according to a 2020 survey from the National Center for Education Statistics.
It was one of the many issues uncovered after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
With the school year beginning, security has been top of mind for parents like Doris Canaday as well as administrators in a Missouri school district.
“It really caused me to think even considering to let them go back to school," Canaday, whose children attend Raytown schools in Missouri, said. "It just took a mental toll on myself and my children as well not knowing what you can expect when you go to school."
Education departments in many states do not track how many schools have classrooms with interior locks.
“In Raytown, all of our rooms have interior locks," Melissa Tebbenkamp, the district's chief information officer, said. "We’re in what’s called a soft lockdown at all times. So, not only do we have doors that lock, but our doors are always maintained in the locked position and closed. That way we can prevent that instant threat."
Raytown also has a tool called the barracuda, which adds another layer of protection in case a door lock fails, in every classroom. The district spent $33,750 to purchase the devices in 2015.
Tebbenkamp explained how the barracuda would help during an active shooter situation.
“They’re looking for easy access and we want to make that access as difficult as possible in every one of our classrooms,” she said.
Raytown also has a plan for exterior doors. The district has what’s called guided entry, funneling all visitors to one entrance at each school.
On top of that, the district installed one-way vision film, so visitors can’t see in but staff members can see out.
But are those tools enough?
“Never,” Tebbenkamp said. "Tools are never enough. We could have as many tools in our classrooms as we can financially afford and it won’t be enough. We have to have training. We have to have a priority."
For parents like Canaday, knowing the safety measures are in place gives her comfort.
“That lets me know that the teachers and staff care about the children in their schools,” she said.
The district also has a safety task force. It includes first responders, administrators, parents, and community members.
This article was written by Cameron Taylor for KSHB. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/school-security-1-in-4-classrooms-cant-lock-from-inside | 2022-08-23T16:57:12Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/school-security-1-in-4-classrooms-cant-lock-from-inside | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Updated 16 mins ago - Politics & Policy
Jury finds 2 men guilty of conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
A jury found two men guilty Tuesday of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) in 2020, AP reports.
Why it matters: Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. were also found guilty of conspiring to obtain a weapon of mass destruction in the form of a bomb, which they planned to use to destroy a bridge as part of the kidnapping plot.
- The jury found Croft guilty of an additional explosives charge.
Croft and Fox were among six men charged in October 2020 over a plot, which the FBI disrupted, to violently overthrow Michigan's government and kidnap Whitmer.
- This was the second trial related to the plot after a unanimous verdict was not reached for Fox and Croft in a previous trial.
- Jurors acquitted two of the men, Brandon Caserta and Daniel Harris, in April, while the two other men, Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks, pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in 2021 and 2022, respectively.
The big picture: The FBI started tracking the conspiracy in early 2020 through social media platforms.
- The men began the plot in part over Whitmer's implementation of restrictions meant to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
- In August and September of 2020, members of the group staked out Whitmer's vacation home in Antrim County and discussed kidnapping or killing her.
- The men trained for the operation at a property near Luther, Michigan, and built a structure that resembled Whitmer’s vacation home in Antrim County, according to Garbin's plea agreement.
- After the six men were charged, Whitmer blamed then-President Trump for stoking anger against coronavirus restrictions and encouraging protests in Michigan at the time.
Go deeper: FBI chief expresses alarm at rise in politically driven violence in U.S.
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Public goods devotee pushes green pill in crypto
Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin, an Ethereum-based funding marketplace, and author of "GreenPilled: How Crypto Can Regenerate The World."
Why it matters: What gets funded on Gitcoin, with its democratized model for project funding, is effectively a snapshot of the priorities within the crypto software developer community. And its solarpunkian founder is optimistic about a crowdsourced future.
Context: Gitcoin has delivered $65 million in funding to the industry via bounties, grants, tips and other products since its start, generating roughly $6 million quarterly to fund various projects for the past six quarters, according to Owocki.
- Its matching pool has drawn participation from big investors including Coinbase, a16z, Polygon, Starkware and Aave Grants, and helped the likes of decentralized exchanges Uniswap and 1inch get started. (It's also endorsed by Vitalik Buterin.)
What he's saying: "The [original] idea was to create a place for open-source software developers to 'git coin' — pun intended — for their work," Owocki tells Axios. Now, the core offering on the website is grants funding.
The big picture: Owocki is a proponent for "taking the green pill" — a pushback on the "degen" culture of meme tokens and gambling — while advocating for the use of crypto to create an economic system that increases in resource capacity over time.
- To Owocki the internet is a public good, the metaphorical tree that anyone can benefit from.
Of note: Ethereum's move to a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism vs a proof-of-work one is important to Owocki, for one, because it makes that blockchain more sustainable.
Between the lines: Gitcoin Grants soups up crowdfunding with quadratic funding, using math to auto allocate capital in matching pools based on the number of contributors. Put simply, Gitcoin puts a premium on the interests of the many rather than, say, a well-heeled few.
- Here's how it works: Two projects are looking to nab a $100,000 matching pool. They raise the same amount, $500, with one raising from five individuals and the other from just one. The former project's match would be $8,333 compared to the latter's, $1,667, because it got more votes.
Flashback: Gitcoin's success is, in part, owed to Owocki's sensibility, which he describes as: "flexible on the details and dogmatic on the mission."
- "We were working off the broad thesis that there’s going to be trillions of capital in the open-source financial system and some of that would make its way back to developers," he said. "What we didn’t know was the mechanism through which that capital would reach software developers."
- Indeed Gitcoin started with bounties and landed on grants, but it's also dabbled in other offerings like ads and NFTs, Owocki said.
What's happening: "Bounties and grants reflect current state of the market from a tech perspective. There’s a lot of ethereum 2.0 clients getting funded on Gitcoin Grants," Owocki said.
What's next: A Crypto Advocacy round on regulation focused on building support for organizations "at the forefront of good crypto policy and in defense of the open web."
- "The advocacy round will be the biggest one that we’ve seen in the history of Gitcoin Grants," Owocki says.
Context: Advocacy has become more important lately as regulators clamp down on the industry. For example, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC's, sanctioning Tornado Cash pushed the issue of privacy to the fore.
- "The real question for me is [if] you have a regulator in one jurisdiction that is going to ban addresses on the global network, does the network then change the infrastructure," Owocki said, "Or does it route around that sanction or if you believe it’s censorship, censor it."
- Coin Center, a Washington D.C.-based research and advocacy firm, is going to challenge this action in court on the basis that you can’t regulate speech.
Dates to watch: Gitcoin Grants' 15th funding round is set for Sept. 7 -Sept. 22. The Merge will take place in the thick of it. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/23/crypto-public-goods-green-pill-gitcoin-advocacy-funding | 2022-08-23T16:57:59Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/23/crypto-public-goods-green-pill-gitcoin-advocacy-funding | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MacMillan to publish Latino kids' series next month
MacMillan will launch a new illustrated kids' series celebrating Hispanics next month, making it the latest book publisher to bring Latino stories to children's literature.
Why it matters: Only 6% of all publishing industry workers identify as Latino — and that's reflected in the low percentage of books that feature Latinos or Latino characters.
- In 2002, 3% of kids’ books were about Latinos, according to the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- The number was 7% last year.
Driving the news: MacMillan is working with Hispanic Star, an initiative from diversity advocacy group We Are All Human, on the new series.
- The first books feature Celia Cruz and Baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente.
- Claudia Romo Edelman, the co-author of several books in the series, hopes to publish up to 30 books, she tells Axios Latino.
- “Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers,” written and illustrated by Guatemalan American Juliet Menéndez, was also launched last year by an imprint of MacMillan. It’ll be featured next week in the Library of Congress’ annual National Book Festival.
The big picture: Other publishers big and small are getting in on the action as children's literature slowly diversifies.
- Penguin Random House has recently included Latino figures in its children’s series “Who Was,” which highlights historical figures. It launched a graphic novel on Cesar Chavez in February.
- Lil’ Libros was founded by two Hispanic moms in 2014 and early this summer they received over $2 million through crowdfunding to keep growing their bilingual children’s titles.
What they’re saying: “We want to better the self-regard and the recognition of Latinos in America, set the record straight about how we’ve contributed to the U.S. though we rarely get the attribution,” Romo Edelman, who is also founder of We Are All Human, tells Axios Latino.
- “We hope we can jumpstart having many more books, more content, more educational material so all those contributions are recognized. The time for that breakthrough is now and efforts like these are gonna help for that.”
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Chronic conditions linked to financial hardships
Individuals with a higher number of chronic conditions have a higher chance of encountering financial hardship like medical debt, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Why it matters: It further cements the connection between well-being and financial stability.
University of Michigan researchers analyzed insurance claims data from January 2019 to January 2021 linked to commercial credit data in January 2021 for adults in Michigan.
- Among more than 2.8 million commercially-insured adults, rates of delinquent debt in collections, low credit scores and recent bankruptcy went up with the number of chronic conditions like cancer, heart disease and depression that people experienced.
Zoom in: The adjusted amount of medical debt in collections jumped 60%, from $784 for individuals with no chronic conditions to $1,252 for individuals with seven to 13 chronic conditions.
- Chronic conditions associated with the greatest increases in medical debt in collections were severe mental illness ($274), substance use disorders ($268), stroke ($235), congestive heart failure ($234) and liver disease ($228).
- "These results have important implications for patients, as worsened financial health is associated with increased rates of forgone medical care, worse physical and mental health, and increased mortality," the researchers wrote. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/23/chronic-conditions-financial-hardships | 2022-08-23T16:58:55Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/23/chronic-conditions-financial-hardships | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Zitara raises $12M Series A for battery management
Zitara, a Bay Area-based developer of battery management software, closed a $12 million Series A round, led by Energy Impact Partners.
Why it matters: Battery durability and longevity can be unpredictable, especially with new chemistries and in different applications. Zitara is among the growing number of startups that say they can reduce that uncertainty — and increase profits.
Details: Existing investors NextView Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and Trucks VC participated in the round.
How it works: Zitara's software leverages machine learning to analyze battery safety, reliability and lifespan.
- The company is eyeing customers in the e-bike, utility-scale storage, EV, and even low-Earth orbit satellite segments.
- "How predictable those batteries are is what’s in the way of greenlighting investment," Zitara co-founder and CEO Shyam Srinivasan tells Axios.
Zoom out: Battery companies raised more than $17 billion in corporate investment alone last year, more than 2.5x what they raised in 2020.
Yes, but: There remain deep concerns about battery fires. The New York City Housing Authority, for example, this month proposed a ban on storing e-bikes indoors, following a deadly e-bike battery fire that killed two people.
- "The safety algorithms we have today, developed really during the cellphone era, can’t detect simple things like water getting into the battery, or vibrations," Srinivasan tells Axios.
What's next: Zitara makes money by offering its software as a SaaS or on a per-device basis.
- The company is anticipating the greatest growth in utility-scale energy storage, propelled in part by the Inflation Reduction Act's standalone investment tax credit for energy storage. | https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2022/08/23/zitara-battery-management-software-eip-saas | 2022-08-23T16:59:22Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2022/08/23/zitara-battery-management-software-eip-saas | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A joint venture between affiliates of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. ("Cantor Fitzgerald") and BH Companies, Inc. ("BH"), acquired a 309-unit multifamily property known as West End at City Center (the "Property") in Lenexa, a submarket of Kansas City, Kansas. The acquisition closed on August 9, 2022, and is the seventh multifamily acquisition by joint ventures between Cantor Fitzgerald and BH. The transaction was brokered by Mac Crowther and Whittaker Potts of the Newmark Kansas City office.
The Property is strategically positioned near the I-435 and I-35 transportation arteries, 20 miles southwest of Kansas City's central business district. In addition, the Property is conveniently located within walking distance of Lenexa City Center, a 200-acre development featuring a mix of shopping, restaurants, entertainment venues, offices, living options, and hotels.
"We are excited to add Kansas City to our growing national portfolio with the purchase of West End at City Center," said Matt Keefer, Managing Director at Cantor Fitzgerald. "The Property's spacious interiors, desirable amenities, and central location to nearby employment and entertainment options presented a great opportunity to acquire a well-performing multifamily asset in a strong submarket."
Built in 2009, and managed by BH, the Property features one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments with an average unit size of 970 square feet. Community amenities include a 24-hour fitness center, swimming pool, business center, and a picnic and grilling area. As of July 28, 2022, the Property was 95.8% leased.
"We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Cantor Fitzgerald on this acquisition, which represents a high-quality asset in a great location within the Kansas City market, where BH has a significant presence," said Mike Baker, Vice President of Equities at BH.
As of June 30, 2022, Cantor Fitzgerald's real estate investment management portfolio includes over 8,000 multifamily units and 16.0 million square feet of office, industrial, and retail space across 147 properties. In 2021, Cantor Fitzgerald participated in approximately $140 billion of total real estate transactions.
About Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.
Cantor Fitzgerald, with over 12,000 employees, is a leading global financial services group at the forefront of financial and technological innovation and has been a proven and resilient leader for over 77 years. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. is a preeminent investment bank serving more than 5,000 institutional clients around the world, recognized for its strengths in fixed income and equity capital markets, investment banking, SPAC underwriting and PIPE placements, prime brokerage, and commercial real estate, and for its global distribution platform. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. is one of the 24 primary dealers authorized to transact business with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Cantor Fitzgerald is a leading SPAC sponsor, having completed multiple initial public offerings and announced multiple business combinations through its CF Acquisition platform. For more information, please visit www.cantor.com.
About BH Companies, Inc.
BH is a people-first multifamily owner and operator that grew from a small startup into one of the nation's largest commercial real estate companies. Founded in 1993, BH is celebrated for its simple commitment to doing business the right way and investing in its team. Today, BH manages over 100,000 units, employs 2,600 people, owns its processes in-house, and is praised by Fortune Magazine as the "Best Workplace for Women," "Best Workplace for Millennials," and "Best Workplaces for Diversity." Powered by innovation and a can-do attitude, BH improves daily, striving to construct a smarter way to live, invest, manage, and grow.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cataldo Ambulance Service is expanding its services offered in Western Massachusetts by adding a 911 contract with the city of Holyoke. The company has already been operating in the region since last fall with Covid-19 testing and vaccination operations; Smart Care, mobile integrated health services through multiple area hospitals; and wheelchair van services. "This partnership with Holyoke and the Holyoke Medical Center was a natural expansion of our footprint in Western Massachusetts," says Kevin Turner, COO of Cataldo. "The core of our business has always been our ambulance and emergency medical services. We are looking forward to being able to offer the entire breadth of our services to the residents of Holyoke."
With the addition of Holyoke, the State's largest emergency 911 ambulance provider, Cataldo Ambulance Service will now have 911 services in 19 communities including: Chelsea, Danvers, Everett, Lynn, Malden, Marblehead, Newburyport, Peabody, Revere, Salem, Salisbury, Somerville, Stoneham, Swampscott, Wakefield, Wellesley, and West Newbury.
"With every new contract, we ensure exceptional patient care remains our top priority," says Denise Cataldo, President & CEO of Cataldo Ambulance Service. "The city of Holyoke may be our first 911 contract in Western Massachusetts, but residents should expect nothing but the best from us as a 911 provider and as an employer."
Cataldo will be hosting two hiring open house events from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Wednesday, August 31st and Wednesday, September 7th at STCC Technology Park, 1 Federal Street, Building 103, Springfield. New employee orientation is planned to begin on Monday, September 19th.
Since 1977 Cataldo Ambulance Service continues to distinguish itself as a leader in EMS, providing routine and emergency medical transportation services, offering clinical education, and introducing the first mobile integrated health service line in Massachusetts. As the needs of the community and patients change, Cataldo continues to develop innovative programs designed to ensure the highest level of care is available throughout its service areas. Cataldo is a key partner with the state in providing COVID testing and vaccination resources.
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New Wander Card Members Earn Up to 10X Points by Booking Travel Through the Credit One Bank Travel Partner
Signup Bonus of 10,000 Points Available to New Wander Card Members Via Qualifying Purchases
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Credit One Bank, one of the fastest-growing credit card providers in the United States, introduced new benefits including elevated travel rewards as part of the relaunch of their travel credit card, the Wander Card.
The relaunched Wander Card provides 10X points on hotel and car rentals booked through the Credit One Bank travel partner, plus 5X points on eligible dining, gas, flights and other travel-related purchases.
"We are excited to be giving new Wander Card members an easy way to make travel purchases and earn more valuable rewards," said John Coombe, senior vice president of marketing at Credit One Bank. "The Credit One Bank Wander Card is hands down the best travel credit card available for less than $100 and these exciting new benefits, including direct access to a vast collection of travel offerings, will help provide our customers with more rewarding adventures."
Card member benefits that come with the new Wander Card include:
- 10,000 bonus points after spending $1,000 on eligible purchases in the first 90 days that can be redeemed for a $100 statement credit, gift cards or travel
- 10X Points on hotel and rental car purchases booked through the Credit One Bank travel partner
- 5X Points on other travel purchases
- 5X Points on dining
- 5X Points on gas
- 1X Points on all other purchases
The Credit One Bank travel partner is accessible to new Wander Card members through their online account or the Credit One Bank mobile app. To learn more, check if you pre-qualify for the Wander Card, or to see additional terms and conditions regarding benefits and features, visit CreditOneBank.com/Wander.
About Credit One Bank
Credit One Bank, N.A. is a financial services company based in Las Vegas. Driven by data, Credit One Bank offers a spectrum of products for people in all stages of their financial life including credit cards through the Visa®, Mastercard® and American Express® networks. Founded in 1984, Credit One Bank is one of the fastest-growing credit card providers in the United States. Credit One Bank is the Official Credit Card of NASCAR®, the Las Vegas Raiders, the Vegas Golden Knights, and Best Friends Animal Society®, and is a proud partner of WWE®. Learn more at CreditOneBank.com and on social media (@CreditOneBank) on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
Press Contact: Greg Miller, greg@genuinearticlecomms.com
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Carvana Co. ("Carvana" or the "Company") (NYSE: CVNA).
Class Period: May 6, 2020 – June 24, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 3, 2022
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Carvana faced serious, ongoing issues with documentation, registration, and title with many of its vehicles; (2) as a result, Carvana was issuing unusually frequent temporary plates; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was violating laws and regulations in many existing markets; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana risked its ability to continue business and/or expand its business in existing markets; (5) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was at an increased risk of governmental investigation and action; (6) Carvana was in discussion with state and local authorities regarding the above-stated business tactics and issues; (7) Carvana was facing imminent and ongoing regulatory actions including license suspensions, business cessation, and probation in several states and counties including in Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina; and (8) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
Follow us for updates on Twitter: twitter.com/FRC_LAW.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Frank R. Cruz, of The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz, 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-914-5007, by email to info@frankcruzlaw.com, or visit our website at www.frankcruzlaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number, and number of shares purchased.
This press release may be considered Attorney Advertising in some jurisdictions under the applicable law and ethical rules.
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DILLON COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) – A South Carolina elementary school principal who was shot to death early Sunday morning was found dead inside a car by authorities with the suspect still inside, according to the Dillon County sheriff.
Dr. Wendy Cook, 54, was the principal at Stewart Height Elementary School in the Dillon County Four School District. Her death was ruled a homicide on Monday by Coroner Donnie Grimsley.
Authorities arrested Kyle Church, 31, after being called at about 3:15 a.m. to an address just outside Dillon to investigate gunshots, according to Sheriff Douglas Pernell.
Pernell said deputies found Church inside a car with Cook, who was dead. Deputies also recovered a gun inside the car.
Church was charged with murder as well as possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. He appeared before a magistrate on Monday and will now have to appear before a circuit court judge for a bond hearing, Pernell said.
Pernell said Tuesday that Cook and Church were acquaintances but could not provide additional details. He also said he did not know whether Church was one of Cook’s former students.
The sheriff said the next steps in how the case proceeds will be up to the solicitor’s office.
The district confirmed news of Cook’s death on its Facebook page Monday.
State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman said in a statement Monday night that she was saddened by Cook’s death.
“Her colleagues and friends in the Dillon County School District 4 talk about the great work she did leading her school and the many impacts she had on her students and staff,” Spearman said. “My deepest condolences are with the entire Dillon school community as they grieve this loss.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/south-carolina-principal-found-dead-in-car-with-suspect-still-inside-sheriff-says/ | 2022-08-23T17:09:21Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/south-carolina-principal-found-dead-in-car-with-suspect-still-inside-sheriff-says/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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The League of Women Voters of Missouri and Missouri NAACP filed a lawsuit Tuesday attempting to block a wide-ranging elections bill they argue violates the right to core political speech by curtailing voter engagement.
The lawsuit focuses on provisions of the law, which is set to go into effect on Aug. 28, that prohibit compensating people for voter registration activities and “soliciting” absentee ballot applications.
The law mandates that anyone who assists with more than 10 voter registration applications – which the groups say happens regularly at community engagement events – must both register with the state and be a registered voter or face criminal penalties.
“The law is so vague that simply offering reimbursement for parking or pizza to volunteers could put organizations at risk of violating the law,” according to a press release from the three groups providing legal representation in the case — Campaign Legal Center, American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri and the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition.
The law also prohibits “soliciting” a voter into obtaining an absentee ballot application. This provision could be used to criminalize a volunteer who tells a voter who will be out of town on Election Day that they can vote absentee, the groups claim.
“The statute does not define what it means to ‘solicit’ an application,” the groups say. “Failing to comply with these strict and confusing prohibitions could put innocent volunteers on the wrong side of the law.”
The lawsuit was filed in the Cole County Circuit Court against the state of Missouri and Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft. Unless the court intervenes, the changes will be in effect for the Nov. 8 general election.
The League of Women Voters and the NAACP claim the law will stifle their efforts to register voters and educate them about the absentee voting process.
“This law criminalizes work we do regularly,” said Marilyn McLeod, president of the League of Women Voters of Missouri, “and, ultimately, harms Missouri voters who rely on the League’s work to ensure their voices are heard at the ballot box.”
Nimrod Chapel Jr. President of the Missouri Conference of the NAACP, said his organization has “led the fight for African American voting rights for generations.”
“Missouri lawmakers have stripped us of critical ways to engage our communities,” he said.
Another provision of the law that will go into effect next week is a requirement for voters to present government-issued photo identification to cast a ballot. While lawmakers have approved voter ID laws numerous times, and voters signed off on putting it in the state constitution in 2016, the proposal has never withstood a legal challenge.
Denise Lieberman, director and general counsel of the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition, said a claim challenging that portion of the law will be coming “very soon.”
The new restrictions limiting voter registration and absentee ballot assistance are the “most extreme” of this type of election legislation in the nation, Lieberman said.
“We don’t want them to be overlooked,” she said. “It’s far, far more than a voter ID bill. It not only discriminates against voters, but also criminalizes the civic engagement organizations that work to help those voters.”
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Michael Stern
Dan Margolies
Program
Symphony in E Minor, VB 141
by Joseph Martin Kraus
Bernard Labadie, guest conductor
Live performance, May 2012
Kraus belongs to a talented cadre of 18th century middle European composers — among them Michael Haydn, the brother of Josef Haydn; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the son of Johann Sebastian Bach; and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf — whose star was so eclipsed by the two giants of the Classical Era, Haydn and Mozart, that they’re all but forgotten today.
"[Kraus] was among a group of really gifted composers who were overshadowed because when you’re talking about that period of European music, Mozart and Haydn sucked all the oxygen out of the room,” says Michael Stern.
Fantasy in C Minor for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Kansas City Symphony Chorus, Charles Bruffy, director
Eldar Nebolsin, piano
Martin Luther Clark, tenor
Ashley Wheat, soprano
Chris Mosz, tenor
Alice Chung, alto
Laurel Weir, soprano
Rhys Lloyd Talbot, baritone
Live performance, April 2018
This unusually scored piece received its premiere at a now-famous benefit concert led by Beethoven in Vienna in 1808, along with his Fifth and Sixth symphonies, Fourth Piano Concerto, two movements from the Mass in C Major and two concert arias. Rehearsal time was short for the bitterly cold premiere performance, and Beethoven "procrastinated getting the materials for the orchestra finished ahead of time," says Stern, adding, "Let’s face it, he was a disorganized genius."
Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Live performance, June 2017
This work received its premiere in St. Petersburg in 1908, roughly 11 years after the disastrous premiere of Rachmaninoff's First Symphony, which plunged the composer into a deep depression. The Second Symphony, by contrast, was an instant hit and remains firmly anchored in the symphonic repertory.
Rachmaninoff faced criticism for writing an "ineffably romantic" work and looking backwards during the start of the 20th century, but Michael Stern asserts that "his creativity with how he wrote for the orchestra, and the extraordinary variety of creative ideas, thematic ideas and the brilliance of his orchestration need no apology.”
Dance of the Jesters from Snow Maiden
by Peter Tchaikovsky
Live performance, September 2012
Tchaikovsky wrote this music for a play by Alexander Ostrovsky called The Snow Maiden, not to be confused with Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera by the same name, which used the play itself as its libretto.
Michael Stern points out a connection to Rachmaninoff in that the work was dedicated to Sergei Taneyev, one of Tchaikovsky’s pupils. Taneyev later became one of Rachmaninoff’s teachers. | https://www.kcur.org/show/kansas-city-symphony/2022-08-23/rachmaninoffs-ravishing-symphony-no-2-and-beethovens-intriguingly-scored-choral-fantasy | 2022-08-23T17:09:41Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/show/kansas-city-symphony/2022-08-23/rachmaninoffs-ravishing-symphony-no-2-and-beethovens-intriguingly-scored-choral-fantasy | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
World-famous mining company Newmont (NEM) is keeping its costs reasonable and producing vast amounts of gold while also paying out a nice dividend. Yet, Newmont stock is beaten down – but that’s fine for opportunistic, contrarian investors. I am bullish on Newmont stock.
Denver, Colorado-headquartered Newmont mines for a number of minerals, including copper, silver, zinc, and lead. However, the company is best known for its aggressive gold production. During gold bull markets, Newmont’s strong focus on gold mining often translates to steady, robust gains for investors.
Perhaps you can see the gold price returning to $1,900 or even $2,000 before the end of the year and want to get some leverage through a tried-and-true stand-by mining stock. On the other hand, maybe you just like to collect and reinvest dividend payments for steady, long-term income. Also, you might consider yourself a dyed-in-the-wool value hunter with an eye for beaten-down gems.
Regardless of your reason(s) for considering Newmont stock, this is a great time to drill for potential profits with a well-known name in North American gold mining. If you truly believe in “buy low, sell higher,” then this is your opportunity to be bold with a power player in gold.
Inflation Has Created Problems for Gold Miners Like Newmont Stock
Price inflation is deeply affecting virtually all industries, and gold mining’s no exception to the rule. At the same time, the gold price seems to be going nowhere. This is due to a number of factors, such as China’s COVID-19 lockdowns, disruptions across the commodities supply chain, and the challenge of finding qualified workers. These headwinds have even affected the biggest Western Hemisphere-based gold miner of them all, Newmont.
This company has a massive $34.5 billion market cap and a vast resource base. Yet, Newmont isn’t immune to the common problems impacting resource companies around the world. Getting gold out of the ground is becoming an expensive proposition. There are two commonly used metrics to indicate just how expensive it is: costs applicable to sales (CAS) and all-in sustaining costs (AISC).
No matter which metric you choose, it’s clear that Newmont’s expenses have risen substantially. During 2022’s second quarter, Newmont’s CAS increased 23% year-over-year to $932 per ounce. Also, in that quarter, the company’s AISC rose 16% to $1,199 per ounce.
There really wasn’t much that Newmont could do about this. The company cited “inflationary pressures, driven by higher labor costs and an increase in commodity inputs, including higher fuel and energy costs” as the reasons for Newmont’s higher operating costs. Prospective investors should keep this in mind when evaluating Newmont’s quarterly performance, which really wasn’t too bad, considering the circumstances.
Newmont Delivered Impressive Financial Stats Despite Inflationary Issues
With inflation causing major problems for Newmont, you might expect the company’s Q2 2022 financial report to be a horror story. Yet, the company demonstrated surprising resilience. Starting with the top-line results, Newmont’s quarterly sales were nearly flat year-over-year at $3.058 million, compared to $3.065 million in the year-earlier period. So far, so good – not a horror story at all.
Checking in on Newmont’s balance sheet, the company actually managed to increase its cash flow from continuing operations, from $993 million in 2021’s second quarter to $1.033 billion in Q2 2022. Also encouraging is Newmont’s commitment to deploy the company’s $1 billion share buyback program “opportunistically in 2022, with $475 million remaining.”
Furthermore, Newmont is working through supply chain issues and widespread worker shortages to produce vast amounts of gold. From 1.45 million ounces of attributable gold production in last year’s second quarter, Newmont stepped it up to 1.5 million ounces in Q2 2022.
Will Newmont be able to maintain this aggressive pace of gold production? It’s entirely possible, at least from a financial standpoint. That’s because Newmont anticipates CAS of $900 per ounce and AISC of $1,150 per ounce in Fiscal Year 2022, which aren’t very different from the standards set in 2022’s second quarter.
Newmont Stock Could Offer Price Appreciation and Dividends
Is Newmont stock a dividend stock or a growth stock? That answer could actually be both, as at least one analyst is bracing for a share-price move while Newmont remains a yield king among gold miners.
Indeed, Canaccord Genuity analysts called the post-earnings-announcement sell-off in Newmont stock “overdone” while issuing an optimistic price target of $60. The Canaccord analysts cited Newmont’s steady gold production profile, strong balance sheet, and solid operating team as reasons for optimism. Moreover, Newmont’s 5.05% forward annual dividend yield is like the icing on the cake for the company’s prospective investors.
Finally, it should be noted that Newmont isn’t only a miner of gold. The company also explores for silver, lead, and zinc, which could be high-demand minerals in the U.S. as the nation attempts to rebuild its infrastructure while supporting the transition to vehicle electrification.
Is NEM a Good Stock to Buy?
Turning to Wall Street, NEM has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on four Buys and seven Holds assigned in the past three months. The average Newmont price target is $61.79, implying 39.3% upside potential.
Conclusion: Should You Consider Newmont Stock?
This is definitely the right time to think about owning shares of Newmont stock. At the very least, we can say that the math heavily favors Newmont. An AISC of $1,150 per ounce of gold is quite reasonable. If it costs that much to get an ounce of gold out of the ground, and gold’s trading between $1,700 and $1,800 per ounce, then Newmont should be able to turn a healthy profit.
Just imagine how much more profitable Newmont could be, then, if gold reaches $1,900 or $2,000 or more. In the meantime, you can collect dividend payments, and rest assured that Newmont is one of the more productive multi-mineral drillers in the world. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/newmont-stock-the-high-volume-gold-miner-is-deeply-oversold | 2022-08-23T17:09:52Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/newmont-stock-the-high-volume-gold-miner-is-deeply-oversold | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Falling river water levels across a number of economies, coupled with changing weather patterns across the globe, are impacting companies across a spectrum. The intricate web of modern commerce means an adverse trend in one country can impact a company that may be in another corner of the world. Let us take a look at three stocks — TSLA, TSN, and BROS — that are seeing or could see an impact from this dynamic.
Tesla (TSLA) (GB:0R0X)
At first glance, one would think that this global EV manufacturer would not be susceptible to drought, but falling water levels in the Yangzte river in China have led to an electricity shortage in the country’s Sichuan province. Tesla has sought the help of Chinese authorities so that its suppliers can have the required electricity supply.
The development comes just as China had reopened after a major COVID-19 shutdown, and Tesla was beginning to come out of the supply chain challenges in the region.
In another major development, Tesla is hiking the price of its Full Self-Driving System (FSD) by 25% beginning September 5. The autopilot system, though, is seeing regulatory concerns over potential defects.
What is the Future Price of Tesla Stock?
Shares of the company are down 27 year-to-date, and the Street is cautiously optimistic about the company, with a Moderate Buy consensus rating alongside an average Tesla stock price target of $921.59.
Tyson Foods (TSN) (GB:0IHR)
Tyson Foods is a global food company providing chicken, pork, beef, and prepared foods through its portfolio of brands, which include Tyson, Jimmy Dean, Ball Park, Wright, ibp, and State Fair.
In its third quarter numbers this month, Tyson reported lower volumes of pork, chicken, and prepared foods coupled with a lower average price of beef and pork as compared to the previous year. Additionally, the company also saw a contraction in the operating margin for beef and pork.
Moreover, Tyson has not been able to capitalize on robust demand for beef due to supply chain and labor challenges. Input costs such as labor, freight, transport, and live cattle too are on the rise. Pork and chicken, on the other hand, have seen lower sales volume.
These problems can be expected to compound as a drought means a decrease in cultivation area and a rise in feed prices. Feed is the biggest operating expense for cow/calf producers. According to the USDA Economic Research Service (ERS), beef cattle feed prices were already up 16% in May as compared to the previous year. Additionally, higher corn, sorghum, oats, and barley prices also mean higher feed costs.
Is TSN a Good Buy?
TSN is targeting $1 billion from productivity improvements by the end of 2024, but Wall Street has a Hold consensus rating on the stock. The average TSN stock price target of $92.43 implies 14.9% potential upside.
Dutch Bros (BROS)
The third name on our list wholesales and distributes coffee and related products via drive-thru coffee outlets.
Coffee prices are increasing and could increase further as climate change takes its toll. Brazil, which is the largest coffee producer in the world, has seen a drought, as well as frost last year. In some areas, the production of Arabica coffee could be less than 50% of a good harvest year, and this could mean higher prices for a cup of coffee. The industry is already suffering from higher costs and supply chain woes.
Coffee futures prices are already up 26.3% over the past year. Moreover, Dutch Bros does not enter into futures contracts or derivative arrangements to source its coffee, which could impact it as prices shoot up. Our Risk Factors tool highlights that Dutch Bros sources high-quality Arabica beans, and if it is not able to fulfill demand due to a shortage, then its profitability could be impacted.
Dutch Bros’ second-quarter numbers this month were marked by a 44% year-over-year increase in revenue and a 3% pricing increase. The company’s store count now stands upwards of 600.
Nonetheless, the company continued to witness inflationary pressures during the quarter and is looking at further price increases for the remainder of 2022.
Is BROS Stock a Buy or Sell?
The Street has a Moderate Buy consensus rating on BROS stock based on three buys and four sells assigned in the past three months. The average BROS stock price forecast is $47.71, which implies 24.5% potential upside. That’s after a nearly 13% slide in share price over the past five days.
Takeaway – Investors Need to Consider Weather Risks
Drought and shifting weather patterns continue to impact markets in unexpected ways. While the three names on our list today remain susceptible to these dynamics, pockets of opportunity also remain for savvy investors, as these three stocks could be beneficiaries of the current drought situation. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/these-three-stocks-could-be-impacted-by-droughts-in-2022 | 2022-08-23T17:09:58Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/these-three-stocks-could-be-impacted-by-droughts-in-2022 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
JD.com (JD) recently reported earnings for its second quarter of Fiscal Year 2022. Adjusted earnings per share came in at $0.61, which beat analysts’ consensus estimate of $0.41 per JD share. In the past nine quarters, the company has beaten estimates nine times.
In addition, sales increased 5.4% year-over-year, with revenue hitting $40 billion. The increase in sales was attributed to the growth in JD’s Retail and Logistics segments.
A good sign is that cost of revenues increased by 4.3%, which means that the company demonstrated operating leverage since it increased less than revenue growth. Indeed, the gross margin expanded from 12.5% to 13.4%. This, along with minimal changes to operating expenses, caused the company’s operating income to increase from $44.9 million in the comparable period to $561 million now.
JD Stock Has Negative Investor Sentiment
The sentiment among TipRanks investors is currently negative. Out of the 557,268 portfolios tracked by TipRanks, 1% hold JD. In addition, the average portfolio weighting allocated towards JD among those who do have a position is 4.03%. This suggests that investors of the company are fairly confident about its future.
However, in the last 30 days, 1.1% of those holding the stock decreased their positions. As a result, the stock’s sentiment is below the sector average, as demonstrated in the following image:
What is the Target Price for JD Stock?
JD.com has a Strong Buy consensus rating based on six Buys assigned in the past three months. The average JD stock price target of $85.83 implies 51.6% upside potential.
Takeaway – JD Stock Delivered Better-than-Expected Results
JD.com saw a solid quarter as it was able to grow revenue despite the slowdown in the Chinese economy, while adjusted earnings came in better than expected. As a result of its expanding margins and increasing profits, it’ll be interesting to see if sentiment surrounding JD stock improves going forward. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/jd-com-reports-q2-earnings-heres-why-the-stock-rallied | 2022-08-23T17:10:04Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/jd-com-reports-q2-earnings-heres-why-the-stock-rallied | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Industrial Portfolio Offers Additional Development Opportunity in Growing Richmond Market
BALTIMORE, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Merritt Properties announced today that it has purchased Crescent Business Center in Ashland, Virginia, for $41.3 million. The project includes five existing Class A industrial buildings situated on ± 20 acres, as well as an additional ± 19 acres for new development opportunities to meet the market's unprecedented demand for warehouse and distribution space. Merritt acquired the park from Crescent Business Center LC, a Thalhimer Realty Partners, Inc. development.
"With this acquisition, we continue to execute on our strategy of extending our presence in strategic growth markets from the Mid-Atlantic to the Southeast," explained Scott Dorsey, CEO of Merritt Properties. "Crescent Business Center offered us the ideal opportunity to establish our presence in Richmond with high-quality existing assets, a strong tenant base and land for additional shallow bay industrial development."
Situated along I-95 ten miles north of downtown Richmond, the development currently includes five shallow-bay industrial buildings totaling 262,256 SF. With 100% occupancy, current tenants include Trane U.S., Electronic Systems, Motion Industries and Sunbelt Rentals. The Richmond Industrial market is one of the strongest performing in the Mid-Atlantic, with a 95% occupancy rate combined with a 10% increase in rental income over the past 12 months. Key market drivers include access to a robust interstate transportation system as well as proximity to Norfolk, the sixth largest port in the U.S.
Eric Robison of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer's Capital Markets Group handled the sale negotiations on behalf of the seller. "Well located, high-quality industrial assets in Richmond continue to be highly sought after by investors. Despite headwinds in the economy, interest in Crescent Business Center was exceptionally competitive, with a number of offers coming from groups bringing new capital to the market. Merritt's execution on this transaction was first class all the way around, and we are pleased to welcome them to Richmond," comments Eric Robison.
Graham Stoneburner and R. Scott Douglas, SIOR, also with Thalhimer, have been named exclusive leasing representatives for Crescent Business Center on behalf of Merritt Properties. Thalhimer's Commercial Property Services Group will be handling the property management of Crescent Business Center; Jason Crowder, ACoM, Senior Portfolio Manager has been named portfolio manager for the center.
Established in 1967, Merritt Properties is a privately held commercial real estate company with over 19 million square feet of Class A office, flex, warehouse, industrial, retail and build-to-suit throughout Maryland, North Carolina, Florida and Virginia. Capabilities include leasing, property development and management, and financing. Merritt Properties is committed to "Creating Homes for Businesses" and providing the highest quality service to its customers. For more information, visit www.merrittproperties.com.
Thalhimer was founded in 1913 and currently has offices in Richmond, Newport News, Virginia Beach, Fredericksburg, Roanoke, Charlottesville, and Lynchburg, VA. The company has nearly 100 broker professionals and employs over 425 associates. Thalhimer represents, on behalf of its clients, a property portfolio of over 55 million leasable square feet, and management of over 30 million square feet of commercial property, and over 10,000 multifamily units. In 2021, Thalhimer completed over 2,300 transactions with a transactional volume more than $2.2 billion. Thalhimer is the region's leading provider of comprehensive commercial real estate services. The firm offers comprehensive commercial real estate services including corporate services, investment sales, tenant representation, project management, asset management, and the sale and leasing of office, industrial and retail properties. To learn more, visit www.thalhimer.com or follow @Thalhimer on Twitter.
Independently Owned and Operated / A Member of the Cushman & Wakefield Alliance
Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global real estate services firm that delivers exceptional value for real estate occupiers and owners. Cushman & Wakefield is among the largest real estate services firms with approximately 50,000 employees in over 400 offices and approximately 60 countries. In 2021, the firm had revenue of $9.4 billion across core services of property, facilities and project management, leasing, capital markets, and valuation and other services. To learn more, visit www.cushmanwakefield.com or follow @CushWake on Twitter.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following is a statement from Jen Judson, president of the National Press Club, and Gil Klein, president of the National Press Club Journalism Institute, on the record-setting number of journalists and media workers killed so far this year in Mexico.
"Even as 2022 is far from over, Mexico has already reached the dubious distinction of having its deadliest recorded year yet for journalists, with 18 reporters and other media workers killed so far, according to figures tabulated by the human rights organization Article 19.
"Importantly, the pace of killings of journalists under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has gone up nearly 52 percent compared to the same time period in 2018 under his predecessor, former President Enrique Peña Nieto, according to Article 19.
"López Obrador must immediately cease his verbal attacks on the press. His derogatory discourse directly contributes to shaping a culture of impunity in Mexico where corrupt officials and cartels conclude that the murders of journalists will not be investigated or prosecuted and where reporters conclude that their best self-defense is one of self-censorship.
"We further join far too many others throughout Mexico and the Western Hemisphere in mourning the August murders of the following Mexican journalists and media workers:
- On Aug. 22, Fredid Roman, who ran a local political news website "The Reality of Guerrero" and wrote a column, was shot to death inside his car in the city of Chilpancingo, according to local prosecutors in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.
- On August 16, Juan Arjón López, founder of the Facebook-based news outlet A Qué Le Temes, was found dead in San Luis Río Colorado, in the northern Mexican state of Sonora on the U.S. border. His disappearance was reported on August 9th. One person has been arrested for his involvement in the abduction and brutal killing.
- On August 11, in the Mexican border city Cuidad Juarez in Chihuahua, four employees of Radio Switch 105.9 FM, part of the Mega Radio Group, were shot dead while broadcasting from outside a pizzeria. The victims were Allan González, the station´s announcer; Armando Guerrero, head of marketing; Lino Flores, technical operator; and Alejandro Arriaga, a security team member.
- On August 3, journalist Ernesto Méndez Pérez, director of the news outlet Periodico Tu Voz, in the state of Guanajuato, was shot dead in a bar owned by his family. He previously had reported threats and asked the Special Prosecutor's Office for Attention to Crimes against Freedom of Expression for protection.
"The López Obrader government must immediately investigate these latest killings and bring their perpetrators to justice. It's the very least that can be done for their surviving family members and other loved ones. Furthermore, the Mexican government must take seriously the threats that journalists are reporting, particularly those working in places far from Mexico City, and take significant actions to bolster the safety services it purports to offer at-risk journalists through the 'Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists.'"
Founded in 1908, the National Press Club is the world's leading professional organization for journalists. The Club has 3,000 members representing nearly every major news organization and is a leading voice for press freedom in the United States and around the world.
The National Press Club Journalism Institute, the Club's non-profit affiliate, promotes an engaged global citizenry through an independent and free press and equips journalists with skills and standards to inform the public in ways that inspire civic engagement.
CONTACT: Bill McCarren, 202-662-7534 for the National Press Club
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Populus Financial Group donates $15,000 to MenzFit, an organization whose mission is to ensure long-term gainful employment and financial fitness to low-income men who are largely minority with little formal education. They achieve this by providing professional attire, career development services, and financial literacy services. This year, MenzFit celebrates 15 years of service to the Philadelphia and Washington D.C. communities.
At their anniversary celebration in June, they highlighted Erik Vanzant's journey with MenzFit. During Erik's first visit, he was given and fitted for multiple suits and it was that moment that changed Erik's life forever. As a result of having suits, Erik felt comfortable going places that he normally would not. He also knew that wearing the suit meant he needed to represent not only himself, but MenzFit, the organization that believed in him and gave him a second chance. Erik has now been with MenzFit for three years and is an integral part of their Professional Menz Group (PMG) providing mentorship to other men trying to re-enter the workforce.
"We are so proud to be a part of the MenzFit journey," said Eric Norrington, Senior Vice President of Populus Financial Group. "Their concept – 'Give a Suit and a Start' to low-income men seems simple, but the impact is big on the lives of these men, their families and their communities."
Populus Financial Group has been partners with MenzFit since 2008, donating over $75,000 and helping over 780 men. MenzFit has changed the lives of veterans, terminated or laid-off workers, recent immigrants, recovering addicts, the disabled, homeless, returning citizens and public assistance recipients.
"For 15 years, MenzFit has demonstrated great capacity and success by providing work readiness services that help reduce barriers to employment for underserved, low-income and disadvantaged men living in Philadelphia County," said Rhonda E. Willingham, Founder & President of MenzFit. "The men we serve gain valuable skills, but most important they become good providers, responsible citizens and positive role models."
MenzFit has been a partner of ACE Cash Express for 14 years as part of ACE's corporate giving program, the ACE Community Fund. The ACE Community Fund is committed to empowering organizations that help children, provide education and promote financial literacy in the communities it serves. For more information regarding ACE Cash Express and Populus Financial Group, go to https://www.populusfinancial.com. For more information on MenzFit visit their website at https://www.menzfit.org/.
Populus Financial Group™ provides financial services through its family of brands including ACE Cash Express®, ACE Elite® Visa® Prepaid Debit Card, Flare Account® and Porte™. Populus Financial Group delivers a broad range of financial products and services including short-term consumer loans, card services, check cashing, money transfers, bill payments and money orders. Visit PopulusFinancial.com for more information.
MenzFit changes lives, families and communities by providing work readiness services that reduce barriers to employment for underserved, low-income and disadvantaged men such as interview preparation, financial literacy workshops, mental health, men's health, professional clothing (such as suits, shoes, and shirts for interviews), and mentorship to improve job retention. Our participants include returning citizens, recovering substance abusers, transitioning homeless, veterans, and the unemployed.
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With the ability to manage & create marketing materials in one place, to be distributed on all social platforms.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zentap, a SaaS company that empowers real estate professionals with a true all-in-one marketing solution has launched a mobile app making it even easier for real estate agents to build their brand and generate new prospects.
Through this app, real estate professionals will have access to a powerful dashboard where they can create, post, and download different digital marketing assets in minutes and share seamlessly on multiple platforms allowing them to stand out from the competition and remain top of mind. Users will also have access to unlimited branded content including Local Market Updates, Single Data Snapshots, Comparative Market Analysis, Listing Videos & Flyers, Open House Videos, Testimonial Videos, Infomercials, and more. From professional websites and social posting to exclusive email campaigns and lead generation, Zentap helps agents scale their business and reinforce their brand through innovative marketing solutions and expertise.
In addition to products and services, Zentap also provides useful resources to help educate clients about current digital marketing trends and best practices using social media through their free educational webinar series and exclusive Facebook group for clients.
"With the market slowing down and things being even more competitive for real estate professionals, the launch of this app will make it even easier for real estate agents who are always on the go, to create and distribute branded marketing content for themselves and/or their listings by saving time and money and helping them build their brand," says Betty Gabbaie, Zentap's Chief Executive Officer.
Zentap also offers a full team dedicated to customer success and support for clients to ensure ease of use and optimal results. If you are a real estate professional that needs help with your real estate marketing, contact us today to see how we can help you elevate your real estate marketing.
Zentap's app can be downloaded from the App Store directly on your Apple or Android device.
Zentap provides the most effective automated marketing tools to ensure real estate agents stand out in today's competitive landscape.
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New Delhi: Three officers of the Indian Air Force were sacked on Tuesday for the March 9 accidental firing of a Brahmos missile that landed in Pakistan.
An official statement said the services of the officers were terminated after a Court of Inquiry (CoI) found that deviation from the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) by them led to the accidental firing of the missile.
Following the incident, the Defence Ministry described it as "deeply regrettable" while Pakistan lodged a strong protest over it.
"A BrahMos missile was accidentally fired on March 9. A Court of Inquiry (Col), set up to establish the facts of the case, including fixing responsibility for the incident, found that deviation from the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) by three officers led to the accidental firing of the missile," the statement said.
"These three officers have primarily been held responsible for the incident. Their services have been terminated by the central government with immediate effect. Termination orders have been served upon the officers on August 23," it said.
Though the Indian Air Force did not mention the ranks and names of the officials whose services have been terminated, it is learnt that a Group Captain is among the three.
The incident had taken place on March 9 and Pakistan had lodged its protest with India the next day.
On March 11, the Defence Ministry said the missile was fired accidentally and it landed in Pakistan.
The ministry had said then that it was caused by a technical malfunction in the course of the routine maintenance of the missile, adding the government has taken a serious view of the incident.
Separately, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said in Parliament on March 15 that SOPs for operations, maintenance, and inspection of such systems were being reviewed.
Following the incident, Pakistan summoned India's Charge d'Affaires in Islamabad and conveyed its strong protest over the "unprovoked" violation of its airspace by the supersonic "projectile" of Indian origin.
Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar, the Director-General of the Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR) of Pakistan, said the unarmed projectile entered the Pakistani airspace travelling 124 km.
The Pakistan foreign office said the "super-sonic flying object" entered into Pakistan from India's Suratgarh and fell to the ground near Mian Channu city, causing damage to civilian property.
The Pakistan foreign office also called for a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident and demanded that its outcome be shared with Islamabad. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/08/23/brahmos-missile-accidental-firing-pakistan-iaf-officers-sacked.amp.html | 2022-08-23T17:14:18Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/08/23/brahmos-missile-accidental-firing-pakistan-iaf-officers-sacked.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Four tourists were killed and 16 others injured when the bus they were traveling in plunged down a ravine after a visit to Machu Picchu in Peru on Sunday night.
The accident occurred in an area known as Abra Málage, 14,200 feet high and about 60 miles outside Cusco.
Roberto Sánchez, Peru’s tourism minister, said the Mercedes Sprinter minibus was caught in heavy fog when it tumbled down a ravine about 330 feet.
The deceased passengers were identified as visitors from Colombia and Peru. Among the injured were tourists from France, Canada, Argentina, the Netherlands and Spain.
“We deeply regret the loss of human lives and express our deepest condolences to their families,” Sánchez said.
One of the injured passengers, Timothee Malexieux of France, told reporters in Cusco that he was sleeping at the time of the accident.
“I’m physically fine,” he said after being discharged from the hospital.
Nestled in the Amazon of southeastern Peru, Machu Picchu was built as a religious sanctuary for the Incan empire in the 15th century. The site draws about 5,000 tourists daily.
Road accidents are unfortunately common in Peru, where speed, poor road conditions and altitude are exacerbated by mismanagement by authorities.
Three weeks before Sunday’s accident, 16 people died when another minibus crashed in the central Junior province. Thus far, the government has declined to initiate the transportation reform that experts say could remedy the issue. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/four-tourists-die-in-bus-crash-near-machu-pichu/ | 2022-08-23T17:14:35Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/four-tourists-die-in-bus-crash-near-machu-pichu/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Meghan Markle has revealed that she was once confused with Serena Williams.
On the first episode of the Duchess of Sussex’s new podcast “Archetypes,” she discussed misleading media reports with her guest, the real Serena Williams.
Markle, 41, was newly engaged to Prince Harry, 37, in 2017, at which point reports circulated that the royal would be walking down the aisle with a bride “straight outta Compton,” California.
“This morning, I was saying to Harry: ‘Do you remember when they said, ‘Harry’s girl is straight outta Compton?’ I was like, ‘are they talking about Serena?’ ” Markle joked.
“I’m like, I’m not from Compton, I’ve never lived in Compton, my mom doesn’t live in Compton, but by the way, what’s wrong with Compton? My girl Serena’s from there,” she continued.
On the heels of her recent retirement announcement, the 40-year-old tennis star laughed at the mix-up, saying she’s “so proud” to be from Compton, and shared that there are other well-known celebrities from Compton, including Kevin Costner.
“Oh my gosh, that’s wild,” the “Suits” star responded.
“He even talks about it — isn’t it fascinating?” said Williams.
Markle clarified that she did grow up in the Los Angeles area, but “I can’t claim Compton,” she said.
The two mainly discussed their thoughts around ambition — particularly being ambitious women, which was the main theme of the episode.
Markle also shared a wild story about how her son Archie’s bedroom caught fire while they were in the middle of a royal engagement during their 2019 South Africa tour. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/meghan-markle-on-serena-williams-comparisons-im-not-from-compton/ | 2022-08-23T17:15:18Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/meghan-markle-on-serena-williams-comparisons-im-not-from-compton/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband pleaded guilty to one DUI count through his attorney Tuesday morning for a drunken crash that left another driver injured in Napa, California.
Paul Pelosi, 82, who did not attend the court hearing, will have to serve three years of probation as part of the plea deal. His attorney, Amanda Bevins, entered the plea on his behalf at the Napa County Superior Court hearing, which was streamed on Zoom.
The terms of his probation include five days in jail, but Pelosi will be given credit for four days, Judge Joseph Solga said.
The remaining day will be served on a court work program, the judge added. Pelosi will also have to complete a three-month drunk-driving course and an ignition locking device will be placed on his car for one year.
Deputy District Attorney Aimee McLeod agreed to the probation terms, which all the parties described as consistent with how first-time DUIs are typically treated in the court.
McLeod told the judge, however, that she has spoken to the victim repeatedly, who has sought medical care from a chiropractor since he was injured in the May 28 crash.
The victim sought restitution from Pelosi, which was paid immediately, McLeod said. He was also paid to replace his totaled car, she added.
Pelosi, a multimillionaire real estate investor and venture capitalist, allegedly reeked of booze and slurred his words when officers arrived at the scene of the crash and found him sitting in the driver’s seat of his Porsche, according to the criminal complaint against him.
“His eyes appear red/watery, he was unsteady on his feet, his speech was slurred, and he had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from his breath,” the complaint reads.
Pelosi had a blood alcohol content of .082%, according to the court documents.His lawyer has said that Pelosi was driving home from a friend’s house to the nearby $5 million vineyard, River Run, that he owns with his wife, the longtime California Democratic congresswoman, in St. Helena. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/nancy-pelosis-husband-paul-pleads-guilty-to-dui-for-drunken-crash/ | 2022-08-23T17:15:24Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/nancy-pelosis-husband-paul-pleads-guilty-to-dui-for-drunken-crash/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Texas rideshare driver was killed when her car was swept off a bridge in historic flash flooding — dying while calling her husband to beg for help from the fast-rising water, according to a report.
Joleen Jarrell, a 60-year-old mother of three, was on her way home from a job Monday when her vehicle was swept off a bridge as nearly 12 inches of rain fell in the suburban Dallas city of Mesquite, her friends told CBS11.
“She was on the phone with her husband and told him the water had reached her ankles, then her knees…,” the station’s Andrea Lucia tweeted.
“The call disconnected and the woman’s husband came out here searching for her,” she said.
“Friends describe her as a hardworking mom who lost her life for an $18 [rideshare] fare,” Lucia said.
Before Jarrell had been identified, Mesquite Fire Chief Rusty Wilson confirmed to reporters at the scene that the dead woman’s loved ones were already searching for her when rescue crews arrived.
“They were on the phone with her … and lost contact with her,” Wilson confirmed of the harrowing call. The whole area around her car had been completely covered in floodwater, he confirmed.
However, they were only able to find Jarrell’s car once the water started to subside, CBS 11 said — with her husband first to spot it.
The fire chief said he had lost count of how many other cars had needed to be towed after getting stuck in flooding in the surrounding area.
One stranded motorist told CBS 11 that their car “just floated on in the ditch.”
“You had to swim because the water was up past my chest,” the witness said.
The City of Mesquite said 11.66 inches of rain fell in the “historic rainfall event.” The National Weather Service (NWS) also said the area had “broken several records.”
“The Dallas-Fort Worth area was pretty much ground zero for the heaviest rain,” NWS meteorologist Daniel Huckaby said.
CBS 11’s report said that Jarrell worked for Uber, although the company told The Post that “the incident does not appear to be connected to the Uber platform.” Lyft did not immediately respond to requests. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/rideshare-driver-died-while-on-phone-to-husband-during-flooding/ | 2022-08-23T17:15:56Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/rideshare-driver-died-while-on-phone-to-husband-during-flooding/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- high yield 3.307%
- Tail 1.4 bps vs 6 month average of -0.3 bps
- Bid to cover 2.49X vs 6 month avg of 2.59X
- Dealers 23% vs 6-month average of 17.4%
- Directs 17.3 vs 6-month average of 22.2%
- Indirects 59.7% vs 6-month average of 60.4%
Auction Grade: F (Rick Santelli gave it a D-)
There is nothing good about the auction of 2 year notes today. Demand from domestic and international buyers was well below the 6 month averages. The Dealers are saddled with much more than average | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-treasury-auctions-off-44-billion-or-two-year-notes-at-a-high-yield-of-3307-20220823/ | 2022-08-23T17:18:11Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-treasury-auctions-off-44-billion-or-two-year-notes-at-a-high-yield-of-3307-20220823/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The USDCHF moved above the 100 day moving average earlier today, and a swing area between 0.96498 and 0.96604. The high price moved up to the 61.8% retracement of the move down from the July 14 high as 0.96883. Sellers stalled the rally, and the weaker than expected US data sent the pair running to the downside. The price decline fell back below the 100 day moving average. The failure above the 100 day MA, turned buyers to sellers.
The move lower took the price to a another swing area between 0.9591 and 0.96046 (see green numbered circles). The low price reached 0.96026 before bouncing back higher.
Going forward, holding that area on a dip (along with the rising 100 hour moving average currently at 0.95828), increases the area importance as a downside support target.
On the topside, the 100 day moving average will once again be as a target to get to and through if the buyers are to take more control. Conversely holding underneath that level would keep the bias tilt to the downside. | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/usdchf-falls-to-swing-area-support-20220823/ | 2022-08-23T17:18:23Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/usdchf-falls-to-swing-area-support-20220823/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai and Kia are telling owners of some of their large SUVs to park them outdoors and away from buildings after a series of fires involving trailer hitch wiring.
The Korean automakers are recalling more than 281,000 vehicles in the U.S. because of the problem, but they haven't figured out how to fix it yet. The automakers reported 25 fires or melting incidents in the U.S. and Canada caused by the problem, but no crashes or injuries.
The recalls cover more than 245,000 Hyundai Palisade and over 36,000 Kia Telluride SUVs from the 2020 through 2022 model years.
In documents posted Tuesday by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the companies said debris and moisture can accumulate in a circuit board in the tow hitch wiring. That can cause an electrical short, which can lead to a fire.
Hyundai said that dealers will inspect the wiring and remove a fuse as an interim repair. Kia doesn't have an interim repair. The companies say a final repair is being developed.
In addition, dealers from both automakers have stopped selling the affected SUVs until repairs are made. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/park-outside-fire-risk-prompts-hyundai-kia-hitch-recalls | 2022-08-23T17:22:48Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/park-outside-fire-risk-prompts-hyundai-kia-hitch-recalls | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LITTLETON, Colo. — On Monday morning, the National Association of Secondary School Principals' (NASSP) Principal Recovery Network met at the Columbine Memorial and shared its new Guide to Recovery, a resource for school leaders in the aftermath of a school shooting.
“Since 2013, there have been at least 943 incidents of gunfire on school grounds,” said Ronn Nozoe, CEO of NASSP. “But what happens to a school community in the wake of horrific events?”
The guide is a collection of best practices based on the lived experiences of the guide’s authors, who are all former and current school leaders.
During the event, the current principal of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and former Columbine High School Principal Frank DeAngelis talked about some of their experiences that were included in the guide.
“I remember walking into that building the Saturday after… and seeing standing water and food left on the table and I saw blood-stained carpets. And that was something I was never ever prepared for,” DeAngelis said.
DeAngelis, a founder of the network, has become a source of knowledge for his colleague.
DeAngelis highlighted three key elements that he said would have helped him in 1999, following the shooting at his school.
“We were dealing with burying 13 of our family members, and then all sudden we have graduation coming up. So the guide looks at what worked for us and what did not work,” DeAngelis said. “The other thing is the remembrance. You know, what do you do?... Returning to a building. How do you do that? Because there's a lot of trauma.”
DeAngelis said the recovery network is already sharing its guide with principals who never imagined themselves among this group.
“Uvalde — they're really struggling to go back in that building,” DeAngelis said. “One of my colleagues from an elementary school has reached out and they have started dialogue on that.”
Each member of the recovery network said they hope no school leader needs their guide. But as history shows, they might.
This article was written by Micah Smith for KMGH. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/principals-impacted-by-school-tragedies-share-guide-to-recovery-with-colleagues-at-columbine-memorial | 2022-08-23T17:22:56Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/principals-impacted-by-school-tragedies-share-guide-to-recovery-with-colleagues-at-columbine-memorial | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As Russia's war on Ukraine drags on, U.S. security assistance is shifting to a longer-term campaign that will likely keep more American military troops in Europe into the future, including imminent plans to announce an additional roughly $3 billion in aid to train and equip Ukrainian forces to fight for years to come, U.S. officials said.
U.S. officials told The Associated Press that the package is expected to be announced Wednesday, the day the war hits the six-month mark and Ukraine celebrates its independence day. The money will fund contracts for drones, weapons and other equipment that may not see the battlefront for a year or two, they said.
The total of the aid package — which is being provided under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative — could change overnight, but not likely by much. Several officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the aid before its public release.
Unlike most previous packages, the new funding is largely aimed at helping Ukraine secure its medium- to long-term defense posture, according to officials familiar with the matter. Earlier shipments, most of them done under Presidential Drawdown Authority, have focused on Ukraine’s more immediate needs for weapons and ammunition and involved materiel that the Pentagon already has in stock that can be shipped in short order.
In addition to providing longer-term assistance that Ukraine can use for potential future defense needs, the new package is intended to reassure Ukrainian officials that the United States intends to keep up its support, regardless of the day-to-day back and forth of the conflict, the officials said.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg noted the more extended focus Tuesday as he reaffirmed the alliance’s support for the conflict-torn country.
“Winter is coming, and it will be hard, and what we see now is a grinding war of attrition. This is a battle of wills, and a battle of logistics. Therefore we must sustain our support for Ukraine for the long term, so that Ukraine prevails as a sovereign, independent nation,” Stoltenberg said, speaking at a virtual conference about Crimea, organized by Ukraine.
Six months after Russia invaded, the war has slowed to a grind, as both sides trade combat strikes and small advances in the east and south. Both sides have seen thousands of troops killed and injured, as Russia’s bombardment of cities has killed countless innocent civilians.
There are fears that Russia will intensify attacks on civilian infrastructure and government facilities in Ukraine in the coming days because of the independence holiday and the six-month anniversary of the invasion.
Late Monday, the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and the State Department issued a new security alert for Ukraine that repeated a call for Americans in the country to leave due to the danger.
“Given Russia’s track record in Ukraine, we are concerned about the continued threat that Russian strikes pose to civilians and civilian infrastructure,” it said.
To date, the U.S. has provided about $10.6 billion in military aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden administration, including 19 packages of weapons taken directly from Defense Department stocks since August 2021.
U.S. defense leaders are also eyeing plans that will expand training for Ukrainian troops outside their country, and for militaries on Europe’s eastern and southern flanks that feel most threatened by Russia’s aggression. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/us-to-send-3-billion-in-aid-to-ukraine-as-war-hits-6-months | 2022-08-23T17:22:59Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/us-to-send-3-billion-in-aid-to-ukraine-as-war-hits-6-months | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Roads will remained closed in Rossville on Tuesday as the response to an early morning fire at an industrial building continues.
The fire happened around 2:20am at the old Coats American building on Maple Street.
Official say the fire was about 30% involved when the first crews arrived at the scene.
More than a dozen crews from Walker County, Catoosa County, East Ridge, Georgia Department of Corrections, Trenton and Hamilton County helped to get the fire under control, which took about five hours.
Officials say portions of Maple and Williams streets, Walnut Street and the 700 block of Flegal Avenue are closed as crews continue to dousing the 240,000 square foot building with water.
The building was vacant and no injuries have been reported at this time.
The cause of the fire is currently unknown but will be under investigation.
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Roads will remained closed in Rossville on Tuesday as the response to an early morning fire at an industrial building continues.
The fire happened around 2:20am at the old Coats American building on Maple Street.
Official say the fire was about 30% involved when the first crews arrived at the scene.
More than a dozen crews from Walker County, Catoosa County, East Ridge, Georgia Department of Corrections, Trenton and Hamilton County helped to get the fire under control, which took about five hours.
Officials say portions of Maple and Williams streets, Walnut Street and the 700 block of Flegal Avenue are closed as crews continue to dousing the 240,000 square foot building with water.
The building was vacant and no injuries have been reported at this time.
The cause of the fire is currently unknown but will be under investigation.
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Herschel Walker, the Republican Senate nominee in Georgia, criticized the spending provisions in the newly passed health care and climate law, including money allocated for an urban forestry program which he dismissed as unnecessary.
"[A] lot of money it's going to trees. Don't we have enough trees around here?" Walker said at a Republican Jewish Committee event near Atlanta, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
In a follow-up tweet Monday evening, Walker doubled down on his criticism, directing it toward his Democratic opponent, Sen. Raphael Warnock, and President Joe Biden.
"Yes, you heard me right," Walker tweeted. "Joe Biden and @ReverendWarnock are spending $1.5 billion on 'urban forestry' and raising taxes on those making under $200k to pay for it. Yes, I have a problem with that."
The law does not directly raise taxes on Americans making under $200,000 per year. And Democrats say families making less than $400,000 per year will not be affected, in line with a pledge by Biden.
However, Republican lawmakers have seized on a Joint Committee on Taxation report that shows that the measures will indirectly hit lower-income and middle-class Americans. Economists expect that employers will pass along a portion of the corporate tax to workers in the form of lower wages.
Walker's campaign did not reply to a request for further comment, but the Republican candidate appears to be referring to a provision in the sweeping $750-billion law that provides the US Forest Service with $1.5 billion for a program to plant and improve forests and trees in urban areas.
While advocates for the law and environmental groups have touted the provision as a boon to cities with relatively low tree growth, the provision is just one of several that Republican candidates like Walker have assailed as wasteful government spending.
Walker in particular has targeted climate-change related policies and spending, at times speaking confusingly about the issue.
"Since we don't control the air, our good air decided to float over to China's bad air. So when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Then -- now we got we to clean that back up," Walker said last month at a local GOP event.
Walker's verbal gaffes have raised concerns among Georgia and national Republicans about his race, which is a top priority for the GOP. The campaign has seen a slew of reinforcements from experienced Republican operatives in the last several weeks in an attempt to right the ship and better prepare Walker for his showdown in November against Warnock.
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UPDATE: The Rome high school football players who saved a woman’s life were named honorary first responders. Atrium Health Floyd CEO Kurt Stuenkel came to the high school to meet Cesar Parker, Treyvon Adams, Antwiion Carey, Tyson Brown and Alto Moore.
The boys saved a woman’s life after she was in a car accident in front of Rome High School. In a Facebook post, Rome High School educator Luis Goya said the group pried the car’s door open and pulled the woman out.
Luis Goya posted on Facebook:
This morning I witnessed something amazing that our Rome High Football players did. While I was in front of the school during my morning duty, I heard a loud noise at the intersection that appeared to be a wreck. While I was running to the intersection, I noticed that two cars were involved. There was a 50 year old lady trapped in her car and couldn't get out. Smoke started to come out of the car, and fluid started to spill everywhere in the intersection. The door was jammed and in terrible shape. While I was on the phone with the 911 dispatcher, the football players who witnessed the wreck, ran to the car and started helping the lady. They literally started using their strength to pry the door open, so the lady could be released. After a few seconds of pulling and pushing the door, the boys ended up opening it and helped her get out of the car. She was shaking and still in panic, but our RHS boys gave her comfort and were able to help her. The Rome High School football players really showed up today. They went above and beyond to help this lady without hesitation.
According to Rome police, a small silver car was damaged after another car pulled in front of it. The boys pulled the woman from the silver car.
The first responders who arrived on the scene also appeared at the high school to congratulate the boys.
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PREVIOUS STORY: A group of high school football players in northern Georgia jumped out of their cars while on the way to school to help free an injured woman who was trapped after a wreck.
Treyvon Adams, 16, was driving to school Friday morning with his teammates Antwion Carey, 16, Tyson Brown, 17, and Alto Moore, 16, when they saw the crash. The four are members of the Rome High School football team.
PROUD of our MEN! 🐺 https://t.co/E3XJaMzRs9
— Rome Wolves Football (@FootballRome) August 12, 2022
Fellow player Cesar Parker, 16, was in another vehicle with his mother, and got out to help with the rescue. Another student, Messiah Daniels, was also involved.
As soon as the teens saw the car wreck, "we just ran as fast we (could) to the lady and check on her to see if she was alright," Adams told CNN.
They found the woman inside her car, trapped by doors that had been damaged in the crash and wouldn't open.
"We were seeing she was in pain, she was screaming and asking us to help her," Adams said.
A picture posted on Facebook by Rome City Schools shows smoke rising from a wrecked car as the group of players works on freeing the woman.
Luis Goya, a math teacher, told CNN he was working at the school and called 911 when he heard the crash. Meanwhile, the students were trying to free the trapped woman.
"We used all our muscles," Adams said. "We're pretty big people, we're strong. We play football, so we lift weights a lot, but (the door) was just extremely bent and broke."
Together, the teens were able to force the car's passenger side door open, but soon realized they would need to open the driver's side door to be able to free the woman.
It all happened in about a minute, according to Adams. "We were all moving very fast to get her out," he added.
As his teammates helped the woman out of the car, Adams said he went to check on the driver of the other vehicle to make sure they were okay.
The group said they don't know the woman they helped and haven't been in touch since -- but want her to know they hope she's doing okay following the crash.
"We are very proud of them," Goya, the teacher, said. "This is the kind of news that we need, that is more positive."
In a post on Twitter, the school's football team wrote, "PROUD of our MEN!" in reference to the story.
Adams said they have been "getting a lot of love from a lot of different places."
"We've been recognized in a lot of different ways," he said. "We appreciate it, but I feel we just did the right thing."
Rome is roughly an hour northwest of Atlanta.
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A federal jury on Tuesday found two men guilty of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
Adam Fox and Barry Croft face a maximum sentence of life in prison for the kidnapping conspiracy conviction. They were also convicted of one count of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.
Their first trial ended in a mistrial.
Prosecutors allege that Fox was the ringleader of a plot to kidnap the Democratic governor from her summer home and Croft was a part of the plan and practiced detonating explosives in preparation.
"There are a lot of things that are complicated today. There's one thing that's pretty simple still - kidnapping is wrong. You can't just strap on an AR-15 and body armor and go snatch the governor. You can't snatch anybody, and you certainly can't make bombs that are meant to maim and kill people. And this case is about a plot to abduct Gov. Whitmer. But that wasn't these defendants ultimate goal," Prosecutor Nils Kessler said during closing arguments Monday morning.
"They wanted to set off a second American Civil War and the second American Revolution," Kessler said.
Defense attorneys maintained an entrapment defense, arguing that the FBI coerced the defendants to drive the plot forward through a collection of undercover agents and confidential informants.
Fox's attorney told jurors during closing arguments that he was lured into the scheme by the government's key witness, a confidential informant called "Big Dan."
"Adam Fox was not ever predisposed to the crime of kidnapping Gov. Whitmer. He talked a big game but talk is just talk. Adam Fox took no affirmative steps to achieve the ends as Special Agent Chambers and Big Dan pushed so hard to achieve," Fox's attorney Christopher Gibbons said.
An attorney for Croft told the jury Monday that FBI agents lied on the stand about Croft's participation in an effort to nab him for any crime they could because of his years-long record of extreme anti-government internet chatter.
"Now as we sat here the last couple of weeks together in the trial, the government has shown us time and time again that they don't care that Barry Croft didn't actually make an agreement to kidnap the governor. They think it's enough that some of the things that Barry says scares them," Croft's attorney Joshua Blanchard said in court. "They'd like to lock him up in a cage, not because he committed this crime, but because they're afraid of the things that have come out of his mouth."
Neither defendant testified in their own defense.
A federal judge declared a mistrial over a hung jury in the first trial for Fox and Croft earlier this year. Two other men acquitted in the first trial, Brandon Caserta and Daniel Harris, ultimately did not testify in the defense case despite being subpoenaed by the defense.
Two other co-defendants that pleaded guilty before the first trial, Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks, testified in both trials.
Croft was also convicted Tuesday on an additional weapons possession charge.
David Porter, assistant special agent in charge with the FBI Detroit Field Office, said the verdict is a "clear example" that anti-government views do not justify violence.
"Here in America, if you disagree with your government, you have options. You can criticize your government, you can protest, you can vote your elected officials out of office," Porter told reporters outside the courthouse. "However, what you cannot do is plan or commit acts of violence. Violence is never the answer."
This story has been updated with additional details.
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A Massachusetts student and her family are fighting for her religious identity after her school says her hijab represented a school uniform infraction.
Aya Zeabi said her younger sister went to Mystic Valley Regional Charter School in Malden last week for her first day of school and had officially taken a "a huge step" to wear a hijab, a traditional Muslim head covering for women.
"No one wears a hijab lightly," Zeabi said. "It takes a lot of reflection and confidence to decide that you're ready for it and even more to practice wearing it everyday out in public, especially in such unfriendly times."
The Mystic Valley Regional Charter School parent handbook for the 2022-2023 school year says, "Any kind of head covering, including hats, bandanas, and netting, are not allowed."
And on at least two pages of the handbook the school says it, "will make reasonable accommodations for students with sincerely held religious beliefs or documented medical health issues."
Zeabi said her younger sister "came home crying because of her own school's racist and discriminatory actions."
Zeabi, who also attended Mystic Valley, said this isn't the first time the school had a problem with the hijab. Her older sister, Dalia, faced the same issue 10 years ago.
"She remained in in-school detention until we brought a signed letter from our masjid's imam saying that the hijab was a religious covering and a major part of Islam and not something she did for fashion or fun," Zeabi said.
In a statement provided to CNN, school Director and Superintendent Alexander Dan said: "Mystic Valley Regional Charter School wishes to express its regret at how the recent incident of one of our Muslim students who chose to express her faith by wearing the hijab was mishandled. It is our current policy to allow students to wear religious attire as an expression of their sincerely held beliefs," he said.
"As part of this process, we request a letter expressing this desire from a member of their clergy. While we would like to reiterate that the well-respected staff member overseeing the process should bear no responsibility for what has transpired, we understand how our handling of the situation came across as insensitive and look forward to using this moment as a learning opportunity to improve our policies and procedures," he continued.
The Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said it spoke to Zeabi's family on Friday.
"As of today, Aug. 20, the family has authorized us to let you know that the immediate situation is under control, as the student is wearing her hijab in school," CAIR said in a statement.
"We will continue to investigate what happened, review the policies of the school, and research applicable state and federal laws," the statement added.
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US to send $3 billion in aid to Ukraine as war hits 6 months
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia’s war on Ukraine drags on, U.S. security assistance is shifting to a longer-term campaign that will likely keep more American military troops in Europe into the future, including imminent plans to announce an additional roughly $3 billion in aid to train and equip Ukrainian forces to fight for years to come, U.S. officials said.
U.S. officials told The Associated Press that the package is expected to be announced Wednesday, the day the war hits the six-month mark and Ukraine celebrates its independence day. The money will fund contracts for drones, weapons and other equipment that may not see the battlefront for a year or two, they said.
The total of the aid package — which is being provided under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative — could change overnight, but not likely by much. Several officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the aid before its public release.
Unlike most previous packages, the new funding is largely aimed at helping Ukraine secure its medium- to long-term defense posture, according to officials familiar with the matter. Earlier shipments, most of them done under Presidential Drawdown Authority, have focused on Ukraine’s more immediate needs for weapons and ammunition and involved materiel that the Pentagon already has in stock that can be shipped in short order.
In addition to providing longer-term assistance that Ukraine can use for potential future defense needs, the new package is intended to reassure Ukrainian officials that the United States intends to keep up its support, regardless of the day-to-day back and forth of the conflict, the officials said.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg noted the more extended focus Tuesday as he reaffirmed the alliance’s support for the conflict-torn country.
“Winter is coming, and it will be hard, and what we see now is a grinding war of attrition. This is a battle of wills, and a battle of logistics. Therefore we must sustain our support for Ukraine for the long term, so that Ukraine prevails as a sovereign, independent nation,” Stoltenberg said, speaking at a virtual conference about Crimea, organized by Ukraine.
Six months after Russia invaded, the war has slowed to a grind, as both sides trade combat strikes and small advances in the east and south. Both sides have seen thousands of troops killed and injured, as Russia’s bombardment of cities has killed countless innocent civilians.
There are fears that Russia will intensify attacks on civilian infrastructure and government facilities in Ukraine in the coming days because of the independence holiday and the six-month anniversary of the invasion.
Late Monday, the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and the State Department issued a new security alert for Ukraine that repeated a call for Americans in the country to leave due to the danger.
“Given Russia’s track record in Ukraine, we are concerned about the continued threat that Russian strikes pose to civilians and civilian infrastructure,” it said.
To date, the U.S. has provided about $10.6 billion in military aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden administration, including 19 packages of weapons taken directly from Defense Department stocks since August 2021.
U.S. defense leaders are also eyeing plans that will expand training for Ukrainian troops outside their country, and for militaries on Europe’s eastern and southern flanks that feel most threatened by Russia’s aggression.
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Associated Press writer Lorne Cook in Brussels contributed to this report.
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Accordingly, the first requirement of successful employment is to “show up to work on time.” My military friends have even explained to me that, “If you are just on time, you’re late!”
We are less than 100 days from midterm elections, and we don’t have time to waste! We must consider the ramifications of the coming election before it’s too late. It’s been said more times than necessary, but I will say it once more, “The outcomes of the next election will determine the future of our personal rights and exactly how ‘real’ our “democracy” is.
We don’t have the luxury of equivocation. We cannot spend time debating the duplicities of our adversaries or the severity of potential outcomes. The threats we face have been presented dramatically and we must respond accordingly. We cannot view our circumstance myopically or selfishly. The threat to any freedom is an ultimate threat to all freedoms.
The autonomy of women to make independent health and reproductive decisions is under increasing risk. Against the majority opinion of Americans, the Supreme Court’s rejection of Roe threw the issue of reproductive rights back to individual states, of which many immediately established draconian, absolute restrictions against medically supervised abortions. Under the premise of recognizing personal rights traditionally enumerated in the Constitution, the validity of Roe was rejected.
Although Justice Alito, who wrote the majority decision, expressed that it had limited applicability to Roe, Clarence Thomas opened the door to reexamining SCOTUS decisions that related to unenumerated rights. Decisions which he [Thomas] identified as deserving additional review are contraception, marriage equality, and LGBTQ rights. That thought process opens other personal rights which are not “deeply rooted in history” to judicial review.
Extremist Republicans, who constitute the majority or most outspoken of their party, have telegraphed and sometimes bull-horned their desired outcomes for the future of the nation. The “deeply rooted in history” criterion affords subjective judgments limited only by SCOTUS' willingness to entertain challenges to established law.
Their targets could be any unenumerated right. Those additionally include voting rights (both of women and Black people); school integration; interracial marriage; and any right adjudicated after an undetermined date designated as “post-deeply rooted history.” I make no claims of this happening, but we potentially stand at the mercy of radical reactionaries.
More frequently than ever, I hear television commentators suggest that the 2022 mid-terms have the potential to be the last fair elections of our nation. Republican efforts to erode public confidence in election integrity support that assessment. I do not question the autocratic intent of the ‘new Republican party,’ I reject and resist it. With little subtlety, they have shown their willingness to control our society with a dystopian authority of law or the suggestion of violence.
Our imperative is to be proactive. Waiting to react is too great a risk. Consequently, our only viable and legal option is to vote – with a purpose. We must recognize and resist real threats to our existence and those of our progeny. We can no longer sacrifice the good for the perfect but must select and support candidates who are not dedicated to authoritarian principles. We must act in concert with like-minded individuals and groups and use that strength to spread the message of resistance. We must start now – it’s never too early!
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NATSO, representing truckstops and travel centers, along with SIGMA: America's Leading Fuel Marketers and the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS), urged the U.S. Department of Transportation to incentivize the nation's existing refueling locations to incorporate EV charging into their suite of fueling options as it implements the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula grant program.
The organizations representing more than 150,000 refueling locations nationwide urged the Department of Transportation to implement the NEVI grant program in a manner that does not simply invest public funds but drives policies that will positively shape the future of vehicle fast-charging markets. If federal investments are made without any effort to drive necessary policy and market reforms, or with unnecessary strings attached, the NEVI grant program will result in charging stations being placed in undesirable locations, limiting consumer interest in purchasing EVs and minimizing private companies' desire to invest in charging stations, NATSO, NACS and SIGMA said in comments filed with the U.S. DOT and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
"Retail fuel companies are capable of single-handedly eliminating range anxiety," said NATSO Executive Vice President of Government Affairs David Fialkov. "All they need is a level playing field and an opportunity to generate a modest return. EV charging availability at existing retail fuel locations will mean drivers do not need to change their refueling habits if they choose not to. They can refuel on-the-go with the same safe, reliable service and amenities that they enjoy today."
"Bringing private investment to EV charging will lead to more of the infrastructure that drivers need," said NACS General Counsel Doug Kantor. "To do that, the NEVI Program should move the country toward a competitive EV charging market with a multitude of retail businesses in all parts of the country having the opportunity to invest and earn a profit. Encouraging private investment will mean state-of-the-art chargers in convenient locations with competitive low prices alongside the types of amenities that drivers have come to expect while they refuel."
"If NEVI investments are made without any effort to drive necessary policy and market reforms, the program will result in charging stations being placed in undesirable locations and likely operated by site hosts with limited incentive to provide consumers with a positive charging experience," said SIGMA Chairman of the Board Richard Guttman. "This ultimately will dampen consumer interest in purchasing EVs as well as charging station innovation."
- Flexibly administer the requirement that states locate electric vehicle charging stations every 50 miles along designated corridors. Rather than forcing states to meet an arbitrary 50-mile requirement where it isn't feasible, U.S. DOT should ensure that states can administer the program in accordance with their specific needs, especially in rural states, working with the private sector as required by law.
- Refrain from regulating or capping revenue earned from private sector operation of a NEVI-subsidized EV charging station. Regulated utilities should be precluded from imposing exorbitant rate hikes on their monthly customers to underwrite NEVI-funded charging station investments that the private sector is willing to make.
- Establish a transparent and uniform pricing structure across the charging station network, requiring NEVI-funded charging operators to display and base the price of electrical charge in dollars per kilowatt hour. A uniform, transparent pricing structure would allow consumers to compare offerings throughout the country.
- Encourage states to allow EV charging station operators to sell electricity to EV drivers without being regulated as a utility. In many states, utilities are opposing efforts by prospective charging station operators to generate their own electricity to power their charging stations. This opposition reflects an effort by regulated utilities to undermine the case for private investment in charging stations and inhibits EV penetration.
- Require states to consider driver safety and convenience by locating chargers at sites that have on-site employees to call emergency personnel when needed and offer amenities that attract other highway travelers. Co-locating charging stations with 24/7 amenities will invariably make consumers more comfortable purchasing an EV without concern for undue safety risks when refueling.
- Avoid bureaucratic hurdles that would inadvertently depress the market for electric vehicle charging. The "Buy America" provision, for example, requires charging station equipment to be manufactured in the United States yet virtually no equipment on the market today meets the "Buy America standards." Such requirements would significantly delay charging projects.
NATSO is the trade association of America's travel plaza and truckstop industry. Founded in 1960, NATSO represents the industry on legislative and regulatory matters; serves as the official source of information on the diverse travel plaza and truckstop industry; provides education to its members; conducts an annual convention and trade show; and supports efforts to generally improve the business climate in which its members operate. Contact: Tiffany Wlazlowski Neuman, Vice President, Public Affairs. 703-739-8578
NACS advances the role of convenience stores as positive economic, social and philanthropic contributors to the communities they serve. The U.S. convenience store industry, with more than 153,000 stores nationwide selling fuel, food and merchandise, serves 165 million customers daily—half of the U.S. population—and has sales that are 10.8% of total U.S. retail and foodservice sales. NACS has 1,900 retailer and 1,800 supplier members from more than 50 countries.
SIGMA is the national trade association representing the most successful, progressive, and innovative fuel marketers and chain retailers in the United States and Canada. Founded in 1958 as the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America (SIGMA), SIGMA has become a fixture in the motor fuel marketing industry. Representing a diverse membership of approximately 250 independent chain retailers and marketers of motor fuel, the association serves to further the interests of both the branded and unbranded segment of the industry while providing information and services to members. For more information visit SIGMA.org.
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New Delhi: The All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Tuesday requested the FIFA to lift the ban imposed on it following Supreme Court's decision to terminate the mandate of Committee of Administrators (CoA) as demanded by the sport's world governing body.
AIFF's acting general secretary Sunando Dhar requested FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura to "reconsider their decision of suspending the AIFF".
"It is with immense pleasure that we inform you that the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India took up our matter and vide order dated 22.08.2022 was pleased to pass directions regarding the full repeal of the CoA mandate and consequently the AIFF having full charge of the AIFF's daily affairs," Dhar wrote in the letter.
"In view of the above, we request the FIFA and especially the Bureau to reconsider their decision of suspending the AlFF.
"Since the conditions set out in your Letter for lifting of the suspension stand satisfied, we request that a order to that effect be passed at the earliest for the AIFF to continue with the smooth running of football in India," the letter further stated.
FIFA had suspended the AIFF on August 15 for "undue influence from third parties" and had said the U-17 Women's World Cup "cannot currently be held in India as planned."
The country is scheduled to host the FIFA tournament from October 11-30.
It is the first time the AIFF has been banned by FIFA in its 85-year history.
On Monday, the Supreme Court modified its earlier orders to facilitate the revocation of the suspension and the holding of the U-17 Women's World Cup in India.
"The day-to-day management of AIFF shall be exclusively looked after by the AIFF Administration led by the Acting Secretary General. The mandate of the Committee of Administrators appointed by the order of this Court stands terminated," the SC said in its verdict on Monday.
The three-member CoA, headed by former Supreme Court judge A R Dave, had been overseeing the affairs of the AIFF since the May 18 SC order. The other two members of the CoA are former chief election commissioner S Y Qureshi and ex Indian football team captain Bhaskar Ganguly.
The top court also postponed the August 28 elections of the AIFF by one week to allow a changed electoral college and the start of the nomination process.
The order came on a fresh plea filed by the Sports Ministry seeking modification of the May 18 and August 3 orders of the court after consultation with the FIFA.
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Tommye Austin, PhD will join BJC HealthCare as the new senior vice president and system chief nurse executive, effective October 3. In this role, Austin will be accountable for developing and implementing targeted system-wide initiatives to improve patient outcomes, standardize care, and enhance effectiveness of the clinical workforce. Austin brings more than 30 years’ experience in the nursing field, having most recently served as the senior vice president and chief nursing executive for University Health, a health system in San Antonio, Texas. She is a past recipient of several awards and honors, including being named as a 2020 and 2019 Modern Healthcare 50 Most Influential Clinical Executive.
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Former President Trump’s lawyers have asked a federal judge he appointed to get involved in the case of the FBI’s seizure of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago.
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Guwahati: Indian Super League (ISL) side Odisha FC continued their winning run at the Durand Cup as they defeated a resilient Kerala Blasters 2-0 in a group D match at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium here on Tuesday.
Isaac Vanmalsawma and Saul Pedro scored as Odisha FC picked up their second consecutive win in the tournament.
Odisha came into this match after thrashing NorthEast United FC 6-0 in their tournament opener, while Kerala played out a 1-1 draw against Sudeva Delhi in their first game.
The first half of the game saw a rather slow start from both the teams with Kerala defending well and holding their fort, despite Odisha dominating possession.
Odisha could have drawn the first blood in the first half itself as the best chance came to Vanmalsawma, but he shot straight to Blasters keeper Sachin Suresh, who did well to save it.
While Kerala begun the second half on a lively note, Odisha soon took control of the proceedings and created better chances, with their forward line linking up well inside the Blasters' box.
Odisha shot into lead through Vanmalsawma in the 51st minute. The 25-year-old met the ball right about the centre of the box following a pass from second half substitute Diego Mauricio and did the job smoothly.
The first goal led to a flurry of attacks from Odisha and that led to a second goal in the 73rd minute through Pedro, who tapped in from a rebound off his teammate Osama Malik following a corner by Jerry Mawihmingthanga.
The second goal was a nail in the coffin for Kerala as they could not stitch any meaningful attacks, enough to trouble the Odisha defence.
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