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NEW YORK (AP) — Peloton shares are on a wild ride this week, running up 20% Wednesday on a new partnership with Amazon only to erase those gains at the opening bell Thursday after quarterly losses for the connected exercise equipment maker topped $1.2 billion.
The loss, in a quarter loaded with restructuring and other charges, means that the company’s annual loss for the fiscal year were an astronomical $2.8 billion.
Losses are growing faster than expected and sales slumped 28% compared with last year when many people were still sheltered at home and staying out of gyms.
Peloton Interactive Inc. is a company in transition, attempting to achieve reliable free cash flow growth with sales falling and competition growing. Peloton’s early roaring success drew in competitors who peeled away customers by selling cheaper bicycles and exercise equipment. High-end gyms also jumped into the game, offering virtual classes that once were Peloton’s biggest draw.
The company’s fourth quarter loss was $1.24 billion, or $3.68 per share, far greater than the per-share loss of 71 cents Wall Street had anticipated, according to FactSet, and about four times last year’s quarterly loss of $313.2 million.
Revenue slid from $936.9 million, to $678.7.
“When you look at our financial performance in Q4, I suspect what you see will be a function of where you sit,” said CEO Barry McCarthy in a prepared statement. “The naysayers will look at our Q4 financial performance and see a melting pot of declining revenue, negative gross margin, and deeper operating losses.”
McCarthy said the company is making significant progress and pointed to new leadership, better supply contracts and potentially lucrative partnerships.
On Wednesday Peloton bikes and accessories went up for sale on Amazon.com, breaking with a direct-to-customers model that the company has employed since its founding.
Wall Street was clearly back in the naysayer camp Thursday, sending shares of Peloton down 20%.
It’s been a tumultuous year for Peloton and a difficult restructuring. The company’s co-founder stepped down in February acknowledging that he had overestimated Peloton’s growth potential and handed the reins to McCarthy.
Peloton was a star on Wall Street during the pandemic. Shares surged more than 400% in 2020 amid COVID-19 lockdowns that made its bikes and treadmills popular among customers who pay a fee to participate in interactive workouts.
The company has shifted its focus to its interactive programming, relying more on subscription revenue. In the most recent quarter, subscriber revenue was $383 million, outpacing $296 million in equipment sales.
But transitioning the company’s focus from hardware to software is costing Peloton a lot of money.
Peloton burned through $412 million in cash in the most recent quarter. It burned through $650 million in the second and third quarters. | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-wild-week-for-peloton-as-early-week-share-gains-erased/ | 2022-08-26T06:13:28Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-wild-week-for-peloton-as-early-week-share-gains-erased/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ROCKVILLE, Md. — President Joe Biden called on Democrats Thursday “to vote to literally save democracy once again” — and compared Republican ideology to “semi-fascism” — as he led a kickoff rally and a fundraiser in Maryland 75 days out from the midterm elections.
Addressing an overflow crowd of thousands at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Biden said: “Your right to choose is on the ballot this year. The Social Security you paid for from the time you had a job is on the ballot. The safety of your kids from gun violence is on the ballot, and it’s not hyperbole, the very survival of our planet is on the ballot.”
“You have to choose,” Biden added. “Will we be a country that moves forward or a country that moves backward?”
The events, in the safely Democratic Washington suburbs, were meant to ease Biden into what White House aides say will be an aggressive season of championing his policy victories and aiding his party’s candidates. He is aiming to turn months of accomplishments into political energy as Democrats have seen their hopes rebound amid the legacy-defining burst of action by Biden and Congress.
From bipartisan action on gun control, infrastructure and domestic technology manufacturing to Democrats-only efforts to tackle climate change and health care costs, Biden highlighted the achievements of the party’s unified but razor-thin control of Washington. and he tried to sharpen the contrast with Republicans, who once seemed poised for sizable victories in November.
Just months ago, as inflation soared, Biden’s poll numbers soured and his agenda stalled, Democrats braced for significant losses. But the intense voter reaction to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and a productive summer on issues of core concern to Democrats have the party feeling like it is finally on the offensive heading into the Nov. 8 vote, even as the president remains unpopular.
Ahead of the rally, Biden raised about $1 million at an event with about 100 donors for the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund in the backyard of a lavish Bethesda home.
After his speech at the rally, Biden lingered with the largely mask-free crowd for nearly 30 minutes, diving back into the style of campaigning that had been disrupted for Democrats for more than two years by the COVID-19 pandemic. The president, who was identified as a close contact of first lady Jill Biden on Wednesday when she was diagnosed with a “rebound” case of the virus, did not appear to wear a face covering as he posed for selfies and hugged supporters.
Biden’s Thursday events come a day after the president moved to fulfill a long-delayed campaign pledge to forgive federal student loans for lower- and middle-income borrowers — a move that Democrats believe will animate younger and Black and Latino voters.
Republicans, though, saw their own political advantage in the move, casting it as an unfair giveaway to would-be Democratic voters.
“President Biden’s inflation is crushing working families, and his answer is to give away even more government money to elites with higher salaries,” said Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell. “Democrats are literally using working Americans’ money to try to buy themselves some enthusiasm from their political base.”
Biden on Thursday expanded on his effort to paint Republicans as the “ultra-MAGA” party — a reference to former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan — opposing his agenda and embracing conservative ideological proposals as well as Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election.
“What we’re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy,” Biden told donors at the fundraiser. “It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.”
“I respect conservative Republicans,” Biden said later. “I don’t respect these MAGA Republicans.”
The Republican National Committee called Biden’s comments “Despicable.”
“Biden forced Americans out of their jobs, transferred money from working families to Harvard lawyers, and sent our country into a recession while families can’t afford gas and groceries,” said spokesperson Nathan Brand. “Democrats don’t care about suffering Americans — they never did.”
Since the June Supreme Court ruling removing women’s constitutional protections for abortion, Democrats have seen a boost in donations, polling and performance in special elections for open congressional seats. The latest came Tuesday in a Hudson Valley swing district that, in a Republican wave year, should have been an easy GOP win. Instead, Democrat Pat Ryan, who campaigned on a platform of standing up for abortion rights, defeated Republican Marc Molinaro.
“MAGA Republicans don’t have a clue about the power of women,” Biden said, noting the resonance of the abortion issue with women voters as some in the GOP push a national ban on the procedure. “Let me tell you something: They are about to find out.” | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/biden-rallies-for-democrats-slams-semi-fascism-in-gop/article_51d6efaa-24e3-11ed-b0ab-63dc7cdaa8e5.html | 2022-08-26T06:13:43Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/biden-rallies-for-democrats-slams-semi-fascism-in-gop/article_51d6efaa-24e3-11ed-b0ab-63dc7cdaa8e5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Zachery R. Wilson, 26, of Lockport, was sentenced to prison in Niagara County Court by Judge Caroline A. Wojtaszek earlier this week.
Wilson pled guilty to the crime of using a 5-year-old child in a sexual performance. The sentence, a 15-year prison term followed by an additional 15-years of post-release supervision, was the maximum that could be imposed by the court.
District Attorney Brian D. Seaman said, “Wilson will be in prison or under supervision for the next 30 years, which is necessary because of the severe damage this crime caused and to safeguard the community.”
Wilson was arrested in March when he was charged with possession of a sexual performance of a child, as well as the charge he was ultimately sentenced under. Wilson pled guilty in July to making the piece of child pornography, in exchange for the possession charge being dropped.
Wilson was working as a lunch monitor at Emmet Belknap Intermediate School at the time of his arrest, but local law enforcement denied there was any connection. Lockport Police Chief Steve Abbott said the victim was not from the school.
Wilson will not be eligible for early release until he has completed 85% of his sentence and upon release he will have to register as a sex offender.
Special Victims Bureau Chief Cheryl Grundy and Assistant Attorney Liesel Marcantonio prosecuted this case. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/crime/child-pornographer-sentenced-to-15-years/article_5ec76f54-24ad-11ed-bbba-4fde567ace81.html | 2022-08-26T06:13:49Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/crime/child-pornographer-sentenced-to-15-years/article_5ec76f54-24ad-11ed-bbba-4fde567ace81.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Viewed from my corner of the world, the drug overdose problems seem to keep getting worse, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic.
In the year ending April 2021 — the latest year for which full statistics are available — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics indicated that there were an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States, an increase of 28.5% from the prior year. Included in these figures are opioids, such as heroin, synthetic opioids (primarily fentanyl), psychostimulants such as methamphetamine, cocaine, plus natural and semi-synthetic opioids (such as prescription pain medication).
The latest statistics we have from Niagara County Legislature Chairwoman Rebecca J. Wydysh, which are from 2020 and only document the effects of opioids, showed a substantial increase over 2019, to 525 overdoses and 59 deaths in the county
But an innovative approach was recently unveiled, according to the county website: The Niagara County Opioid (OASIS) Task Force launched its Hope Links campaign in the Sheriff’s tent at the 2022 Niagara County Fair. The campaign asked fairgoers to complete one paper link by writing on that link something that has posed a significant life challenge to them and something that gave them hope that they could triumph over that challenge. These links were to be collected and utilized to create a visual representation that “Hope Links” our community together in the face of adversity.
This war against drugs needs your involvement. This problem will not go away without all of us caring. See for yourself and join those who do care and participate in a big event. Independent Living of Niagara County (ILNC) and Addict 2 Addict Niagara (A2A-N) are inviting everyone to attend their sixth annual Lockport Overdose Awareness Day Rally, taking place from 5 to 8 p.m. next Wednesday at Veteran’s Memorial Park, 400 East Ave. Highlights include: free Narcan emergency opioid overdose treatment spray training; and fan favorite Joshua Vacanti of Lockport, a top eight finalist in NBC’s “The Voice,” performing an inspiring rendition of “Amazing Grace” prior to a flameless Candlelight Vigil with a bell-ringing ceremony recognizing every life lost to overdose in Niagara and surrounding counties in 2021.
There will be featured speakers from a variety of backgrounds who have been affected by overdose, including Lockport City Court Judge William Watson, Niagara County Sheriff Michael Filicetti, Recovery Coach University founder Lori Drescher, and Jonathan Westfall, executive director of Recovery Fitness in Rochester. ILNC and A2A-N are encouraging businesses — and you — to display purple lights that night in support of the family members, friends, and any of you who have lost a loved one in our war against addiction.
If you are unable to join us in person, you can catch the rally streamed live at www.facebook.com/A2ANiagara or at www.youtube.com/user/WNYIL.
If you care about our families, our communities, our county, state and our country’s future, and you are not sure how to help, or maybe a bit shy about stepping into the fight, join us by contacting Hayley at (716) 284-4131, ext. 146, or hjoyce@wnyil.org. You can find your spot in our army to help battle to get back the lives of our people.
Douglas J. Usiak is the chief executive officer of Independent Living of Niagara County. Independent Living empowers individuals with disabilities to gain the information and resources needed to improve their quality of life and participate in society on an equal basis. For more information about ILNC’s services and programs, call 716-284-4131, extension 200. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/independent-living-join-the-fight-against-the-overdose-problem-in-niagara-county/article_895d55f4-234e-11ed-bd4c-07f99c726a59.html | 2022-08-26T06:13:55Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/independent-living-join-the-fight-against-the-overdose-problem-in-niagara-county/article_895d55f4-234e-11ed-bd4c-07f99c726a59.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Former Today Show host Kathie Lee Gifford paid a heartfelt tribute to her former co-host Regis Philbin on his would-be 91st birthday.
Gifford, 69, posted a throwback photo standing alongside Philbin during a taping of “The Morning Show,” which later became “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee” in 1988.
“I miss Regis every day,” Gifford said of her longtime friend. “But this is a particularly difficult day as we remember this amazing man who would have been 91.”
Philbin was 88 years old when he suffered a fatal heart attack due to coronary artery disease in 2020.
Following Philbin’s death, Gifford remembered her “precious friend” who she hosted the morning talk show with for 12 years.
“We spent 15 years together bantering and bickering and laughing ourselves silly — a tradition and a friendship we shared up to this very day,” she continued. “I smile knowing somewhere in Heaven, at this very moment, he’s making someone laugh,” Gifford said.
Gifford also took the time to send Philbin’s wife, Joy, 81, love and well wishes to celebrate his 91st birthday.
“Sending love to [his wife] Joy and the rest of their family as they celebrate an extraordinary man and life,” Gifford wrote. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/kathie-lee-gifford-pays-tribute-to-regis-philbin-on-his-91st-birthday/ | 2022-08-26T06:14:46Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/kathie-lee-gifford-pays-tribute-to-regis-philbin-on-his-91st-birthday/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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ROME (AP) — Italy’s worst drought in 70 years has exposed the piers of an ancient bridge over the Tiber River once used by Roman emperors but which fell into disrepair by the third century.
Two piers of Nero’s Bridge have been visible much of the summer near the Vittorio Emanuele bridge that traverses the river near the Vatican, a pile of moss-covered rocks where seagulls now sun themselves.
The bridge was built in the first century for Emperor Nero to reach his gardens near the Janiculum Hill near what is present-day St. Peter’s Square, said historian Anthony Majanlahti. The bridge was already falling apart by the third century, traffic was diverted to the nearby Sant’Angelo Bridge, which funneled pilgrims past the Castel Sant’Angelo to the Vatican.
Nero’s Bridge originally is believed to have had four piers, but Majanlahti says two were dismantled in the 19th century to allow for a better flow of river traffic.
“Because the water level of the river is so low now due to widespread drought across Italy, we’re able to see a lot more of the piers of the bridge that we usually could,’’ Majanlahti said.
In normal water level years, one of the bridge’s piers can often been seen in the driest season, but this year two are visible.
The Italian government has declared a state of emergency in several regions because of the prolonged drought and accompanying heat wave. The drought has also exposed a World War II tank in Italy’s largest river, the Po, as well as 20th century ordinance in lakes.
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Follow all AP stories on drought and the environment at https://apnews.com/hub/climate-and-environment. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-italys-drought-exposes-ancient-imperial-bridge-over-tiber/ | 2022-08-26T06:15:01Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-italys-drought-exposes-ancient-imperial-bridge-over-tiber/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kochi: A major raid on ATMs has been reported from Kochi city. Eleven ATMs of the South Indian Bank were robbed by an individual here on Thursday.
An amount of Rs 25,000 was stolen from the South Indian Bank in Kalamassery alone.
The CCTV visuals of the man have been released by the police. A massive police hunt is on for the robber.
The CCTV visuals show the man blocking the machine's cash dispenser before an individual enters the ATM cubicle. When the customer leaves the ATM, he removes the cover and takes away the cash.
The modus operandi of the robbery is clear in the visuals. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/26/atm-robbery-south-indian-bank-kochi.html | 2022-08-26T06:15:28Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/26/atm-robbery-south-indian-bank-kochi.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kannur: A couple who went missing from Thalassery in Kannur district has been arrested after they were located in Coimbatore by the Kerala Police.
Raj Kabir and wife Sreevidya allegedly fled upset over the Thalassery Municipality's move to shut down a furniture store they were running. They reportedly wrote a letter stating they were harassed by civic authorities.
The Municipality had earlier served a notice to the business couple claiming they had encroached on public property at Thalassery town. The Municipality had also demanded over Rs 4 lakh as fine for the encroachment. As they failed to pay the penalty, the Municipality served them an eviction notice.
The couple had approached the Kerala High Court and obtained a stay order against the eviction notice. The court also allowed them to pay the fine in installments.
The husband and wife fled in a bid to corner the civic authorities, police said.
Thalassery Municipal Chairperson Jamuna Rani claimed the business couple made a concerted effort to paint the civic body in a bad light.
In a WhatsApp message sent to their manager, the couple said that they were leaving their hometown since the municipality did not allow them to reopen the furniture unit even after the High Court stayed all the proceedings.
The couple further said in the message that none should inquire about them in future.
They left home by telling others in the house that they were going to the supermarket. But when they did not return after many hours, the Panur police registered a missing case and began investigation.
They were traced to Coimbatore by the police by tracking their mobile phone signals. They were taken into custody by 6.30 am on Friday. By 10 am, they will be taken to Thalassery from Coimbatore.
The couple belong to Thayattu House at Thazhe Champad locality of Thalassery. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/26/missing-business-couple-traced-to-coimbatore.html | 2022-08-26T06:15:53Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/26/missing-business-couple-traced-to-coimbatore.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Government has decided to borrow Rs 3,000 crore more to meet the expenses related to the upcoming Onam festival. This is besides the Rs 1,000 crore borrowed last week.
The amount to be borrowed is to be mainly used for distribution of two months' welfare pension for eligible public and the festival bonus for government employees.
The bidding for the loan at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) would be held on August 29.
The Finance Department is yet to decide on how to go about the High Court order to allot Rs 103 crore to the financially stressed Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC). The Finance Department sources clarified that a decision would be taken after a thorough study of the verdict.
Funds are being released to the other departments after declaring the same in the budget and passing the finance bills in the House. The authorities are unhappy with the Court’s decision to intervene in matters of funds' allotment.
However, it is yet to be decided whether the Government would appeal against the High Court order.
Last year's handout
Last year, the Government paid Rs 4,000 per employee as bonus, and Rs 2,750 as a festival allowance to those not eligible for the bonus. The government employees were provided Rs 15,000 each as Onam advance. An advance of Rs 5,000 each were given to other employees, including the part-time contingent staff. The Finance department is planning to extend similar Onam benefits this time too.
Restrictions for availing loans
The state has to tide over the strict restrictions imposed by the Centre to avail of loans. The Centre has fixed the borrowing limit of Kerala at Rs 17,936 crore till December 2022. This includes the loans to be availed of by KIIFB for development projects and that by the pension company to extend welfare pensions to lakhs of beneficiaries. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/26/onam-pension-bonus-borrowing-kerala.amp.html | 2022-08-26T06:15:59Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/26/onam-pension-bonus-borrowing-kerala.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GENEVA (AP) — The outgoing U.N. human rights chief suggested Thursday that her office may not make good on her promise to release its long-awaited report on China’s Xinjiang region by the end of her term next week.
Speaking to reporters, Michelle Bachelet said her office is “trying” to meet the deadline that she herself set in June, shortly after announcing that she would not seek a new four-year term after the current one ends on Aug. 31.
“Try harder!” tweeted John Fisher, the Geneva director for Human Rights Watch, after hearing her news conference. “Anything less would be a disgrace to her office and a betrayal of victims.”
The final months of Bachelet’s term have been overshadowed by extended delays in releasing the report about Xinjiang, which many Geneva diplomats believed to be nearly completed a year ago.
“We are working on the report,” she said. “I had fully intended for it to be released before the end of my mandate, and we are trying.”
Bachelet said her office — as is common practice when the U.N. rights office reports on countries — has informed China about its “findings” and officials have come back with a “substantial” number of comments. She said her office was focusing only on possible factual errors now.
Independent human rights groups have denounced what Beijing has called vocational centers for ethnic Uyghurs and other minority groups as detention centers, while some countries including the United States have accused Beijing of committing genocide in Xinjiang.
Bachelet insisted she had raised concerns with Chinese authorities, which included a virtual meeting with President Xi Jinping, about the detention conditions and “ill-treatment” of the people inside, when she visited to China and Xinjiang in May — a visit long in the making.
She said her office had received “huge numbers” of letters, starting more than a year ago, requesting the publication of the report on Xinjiang — and in recent months she received a letter from about 40 countries including China “asking for non-publication” of the report.
“I have been under tremendous pressure to publish, or not to publish, but I will not publish or withhold publication due to any such pressure,” she said.
Bachelet has said she is not seeking a new term for personal reasons and a desire to return home to Chile, where she served two terms as president.
The office of U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has not indicated who Bachelet’s successor might be. The choice would need to be approved by the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
Often such appointments are done by acclamation at the assembly, which could be a tall order in the current times of growing polarization in the world — notably between China, Russia and their allies on one side, and the U.S. and other Western and allied countries on the other.
Bachelet has often faced criticism for being too cozy with or understanding of governments, particularly that of rising powerhouse China, and many saw her appointment in 2018 as a sign of a new tack by Guterres to work more with, not against, leaders on the issue of human rights.
After her trip to China, Bachelet touted an agreement to foster more communication between her office and Chinese authorities, but it remains unclear how much her office can keep that up after she leaves the job.
Overall, she has garnered plaudits for pressing to get U.N. human rights monitors into Venezuela, which she visited and spoke out strongly about rights violations and abuses under President Nicolas Maduro’s government; and voicing strong concerns about racial discrimination and police violence in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a Black man, under the knee of a police officer in the United States in May 2020.
Bachelet lamented that the COVID-19 pandemic had curtailed her ability to travel to meet with governments, victims and advocacy groups around the world. While noting progress on some issues like the death penalty, which a growing number of countries banned during her term, she expressed frustration that governments had not always prioritized human rights as they should.
“Sometimes you feel that the world is not getting any better,” she said. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-un-rights-chief-hints-report-on-xinjiang-may-miss-deadline/ | 2022-08-26T06:16:05Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-un-rights-chief-hints-report-on-xinjiang-may-miss-deadline/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PEARL, Miss. (AP) — Large fans hummed noisily Thursday to try to dry out the carpet at The Exchange Church, a day after storms rapidly dumped several inches of rain and pushed water into the one-story brick building in central Mississippi.
Bryant May is lead pastor of the Southern Baptist congregation in the Jackson suburb of Pearl. He said it was the second time in four years the church flooded. The church will conduct online services this weekend, and May said he hopes the building will be in working order soon after that.
“The good news in it is that we have a little bit of experience — that’s good news/bad news — so we have a little bit of a game plan on how to attack it,” May said Thursday.
Weather radar showed heavy rainfall Thursday in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and in the Florida panhandle.
Several flash flood warnings were issued, and the Mississippi Department of Transportation reported water covering highways Thursday from the central part of the state down to the Gulf Coast. Flowing water washed away part of a state highway in rural Newton County, between Jackson and Meridian.
The National Weather Service predicted the Pearl River near Jackson, Mississippi, will crest early next week at nearly the level it reached during flooding in 2020. Emergency officials said residents in low-lying areas near the river should prepare for the possibility of evacuating in the next several days.
After Wednesday’s deluge caused creeks to overflow, law enforcement officers carried toddlers out of a flooded day care center in Florence, Mississippi, south of Jackson. The Rankin County Sheriff’s Department posted video on Facebook of deputies walking through brown, knee-deep water to take children to an elevated truck, placing them gently on benches.
Rankin County sheriff’s deputies also helped move more than 40 residents out of a flooded nursing home Wednesday in nearby Brandon.
Tony Banks said Thursday that when he returned to his apartment in the Jackson suburb of Flowood after work Wednesday, the parking lot was knee-deep in water. He said a creek overflowed, flooding some cars and trucks. Banks said he caught a fish near the vehicles.
“He was flopping around in the parking lot and I grabbed his mouth,” said Banks, 35. He said he tossed the bass back into the water.
In Alabama, vehicles traveling along flooded roads created boat-like wakes on low-lying Dauphin Island, a popular beach community off the coast, but police said the water was not deep enough Thursday morning to pose a major threat. Flooding was likely across southwestern Alabama through nightfall, forecasters said, and Mississippi temporarily closed a welcome station on Interstate 10 because of flooding.
A few schools around Mobile, Alabama, dismissed early because of flooding or power outages. The National Weather Service said rain was falling at a rate of as much as 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) an hour along the coast, and roads and parking lots were flooded in Foley on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay.
Joy Lester owns a second-hand store in Pearl, Mississippi, near The Exchange Church. She said she will have to throw away most of the couches, dining room sets and inventory that was soaked by flooding.
“All of this is just a waste. It’s got to go,” Lester said as she surveyed the damage Thursday.
Three Mississippi cities set one-day rainfall records Wednesday, the weather service said. Jackson received just over 5 inches (12.7 centimeters), Meridian received 4.6 inches (11.7 centimeters) and Vicksburg received 2.9 inches (7.4 centimeters).
On Wednesday, Jackson also surpassed its previous record for rainfall for the month of August, at 11.57 inches (29.4 centimeters). The previous record for the month was 11.51 inches (29.2 centimeters) in 2008, the weather service said.
The National Weather Service said flooding was expected near several rivers in central and southern Mississippi. The Pearl River was above flood stage in the Jackson area Thursday and was expected to continue rising. That means streams and creeks are unable to drain into the river, and water could threaten homes and businesses.
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Gabrielle Perry, a 29-year-old epidemiologist in New Orleans, expects $20,000 of her $135,000 student loan debt to be wiped out under the plan announced this week by President Joe Biden. She is happy for the relief, but disappointed he isn’t fully canceling student debt that weighs especially heavy on African Americans.
For her, it’s discouraging that Biden isn’t doing more to help a constituency that played a critical role in his presidential campaign. Perry, who cares for and financially supports her disabled mother, said those obligations act as a societal tax on Black people, preventing the growth of generational wealth.
“You are ensuring that your little brothers and sisters have what they need for school,” Perry said. “You are helping your parents pay off their rent, their house. So your quote-unquote wealth doesn’t even have time to be built because you’re trying to help your family survive.”
Black borrowers on average carry about $40,000 in federal student loan debt, $10,000 more than white borrowers, according to federal education data. The disparity reflects a racial wealth gap in the U.S. — one that some advocates say the debt relief plan does not do enough to narrow.
One in four Black borrowers would see their debt cleared entirely under the administration’s plan, which cancels $10,000 in federal student loan debt for those with incomes below $125,000 a year, or households that earn less than $250,000. The plan includes an additional $10,000 in relief for Pell Grant recipients, who are more than twice as likely to be Black.
But more work needs to be done to make higher education accessible and affordable, said Wisdom Cole, national director of the NAACP Youth & College Division.
“When we think about education and higher education, fundamentally, it’s the promise of an equitable future,” Cole said. “We have so many Black graduates who go through the system, graduate and are not able to see that future because they disproportionately risk taking out loans.”
Perry faced steep challenges to complete her education. Homeless for nearly a year, she had to drop out of school and saw the interest on her loans balloon. She also faced incarceration. Eventually, she was able to get her record expunged and earned a master’s in public health from Tulane University, graduating just in time for the COVID-19 pandemic.
The pandemic-era freeze on student loan payments, combined with raises at work, allowed Perry to achieve a sense of stability for the first time in her life. She was able to pay off her car, help her disabled mother, and start a nonprofit, the Thurman Perry Foundation, that gives college scholarships to currently or formerly incarcerated women and their daughters.
“That time with that payment pause, it didn’t just build up my life,” Perry said. “It even helped me pull my mother out of poverty. I got her into a safer place to live. It reverberated for people like me. Because I know that there are other people living worse than what I survived.”
Black students are more likely to take on debt to finance their education, and in larger amounts, in part because of the wealth gap that makes it less likely for Black families to be able to finance their children’s education.
In her first months of graduate school, before her fellowship salary kicked in, TC Headley called the university’s financial aid office to ask if there was help to cover the cost of books and supplies. Instead, the woman on the phone told her to call her parents and ask for more money.
“I can’t just call my parents for thousands of dollars,” she said. “The only other option to get this money in time was to take out a loan. I did what I had to do to be able to support myself and stay in school.”
Headley, who owes roughly $40,000 in student debt, had put off thinking about owning a home or starting a family because she was so focused on paying that off. Now, she expects half of that will be forgiven because she was a Pell grant recipient.
While white families are more likely to see a transfer of wealth from one generation to the next, the opposite is true of Black families, where children are more likely to have to support a parent once they obtain some level of financial security, said Andre M. Perry, senior fellow at the Brookings Institute.
“For many Black women, and Black people in general, many middle income people are being missed by this policy,” Andre M. Perry said. “We have done everything that we were asked to do to get ahead. Go to college, go to the best schools, we’re told. And as a result, we had to take on debt.”
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Associated Press writer Sharon Lurye in New Orleans contributed to this report.
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The Associated Press’ reporting around issues of race and ethnicity is supported in part by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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Adding flavor to the basic event agenda could mean bringing in engaging speakers or flashy tech—but without memorable spaces, your event planning team could be falling short. Fortunately, Greater Lansing is home to a variety of unforgettable meeting spots. Here are four “wow factor” spaces sure to keep attendees sharing stories of their experience for years to come:
- Take In ‘The View’ at Jackson Field
“The View” is named for its prime location in the outfield building at Jackson Field, home to the Lansing Lugnuts, the region’s minor league baseball team. This one-of-a-kind venue has 2,000 square feet of year-round indoor/outdoor meeting space, full-service catering and can seat up to 150 attendees.
- Inspire Your Team With Contemporary Art
Designed by famed female architect, Zaha Hadid, the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum with 4,958 square-feet of meeting space presents your team with unique slanted-wall aesthetics and inspiring exhibitions exploring global contemporary culture through art in all types of media.
- Recognize Achievements at An Affordable Tudor Mansion
The English Inn’s 120-seat fine-dining restaurant, award-winning wine list, and collection of charming meeting spaces on a 16-acre estate is perfect for a team looking to host an elegant banquet or ball without overspending. Medovue Hall, the Inn’s largest space, can accommodate up to 200 attendees, and overnight rooms are available.
- Embrace Creativity and New Ideas at Think Space
Built on the banks of Greater Lansing’s Grand River, Think Space is designed to inspire teams to greatness. This distinct business meeting venue features 2,000 square feet of space designed specifically by a team of innovators to serve a focus on creativity, flexibility and comfort.
The Greater Lansing Convention & Visitors Bureau (GLCVB) is always on hand to go the extra mile for your team. Visit www.lansing.orgto get started. | https://www.pcma.org/4-greater-lansing-meeting-spaces-your-team-will-never-forget/ | 2022-08-26T06:18:55Z | pcma.org | control | https://www.pcma.org/4-greater-lansing-meeting-spaces-your-team-will-never-forget/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Friday said the latest fever cases detected in its border region with China were tested to be influenza, not coronavirus infections as initially feared.
The report by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency came a day after the North said it locked down unspecified areas in Ryanggang province after four people had fevers that were suspected to be COVID-19.
North Korea maintains it has had no confirmed coronavirus cases since Aug. 10, when leader Kim Jong Un declared a widely disputed victory over the virus, just three months after the country acknowledged an omicron outbreak.
KCNA said diagnostic tests of samples, the nature of the symptoms, and information gained from contract tracing led health workers to conclude that the fevers were caused by influenza. The patients have since returned to normal temperatures, it said.
North Korean officials lifted the lockdown but urged residents to maintain vigilance by continuing to wear masks and reporting to health authorities immediately if they experience fever symptoms.
While Kim claimed that the country’s success against the virus would be recognized as a global health miracle, experts believe North Korea has manipulated disclosures on its outbreak to help him maintain absolute control. The victory statement signals Kim’s aim to move to other priorities, including a possible nuclear test, experts say.
After admitting to a coronavirus outbreak in May, North Korea reported about 4.8 million “fever cases” across its mostly unvaccinated population of 26 million but only identified a fraction of them as COVID-19. Experts say the country’s official death toll of 74 is abnormally small, considering the country’s lack of public health tools.
North Korea dubiously insists that rival South Korea was responsible for its COVID-19 outbreak and has warned of “deadly” retaliation, saying that the virus was transported by anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets and other materials flown across the border by balloons launched by South Korean civilian activists. South Korea has dismissed such claims as unscientific and “ridiculous.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/health/ap-health/ap-north-korea-says-new-fever-cases-were-flu-not-covid-19/ | 2022-08-26T06:18:57Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/health/ap-health/ap-north-korea-says-new-fever-cases-were-flu-not-covid-19/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Business event data can help events professionals keep a meaningful pulse on audiences and drive business performance, but it can also leave gaping blind spots without a strong strategy in place. Traditional efforts to capture sentiment data that focus on one or two metrics like Net Promoter Scores can fail to be as customer centric as modern events organizations need them to be.
PCMA recently spoke with Gary Coombs, CTO of IMEX, and Sophie Holt, Managing Director of Explori, a leading attendee feedback platform for business event organizers. They shared their thoughts on how event planners can combat this problem and improve their event data strategy. Here are a few of their tips to gain more impactful insights about audiences, better evaluate event performance, and get stakeholders on board with plans.
1. Talk to Your Stakeholders First
Gary Coombs emphasized the importance of understanding what internal stakeholders want from event data, and not overpromising on the insights you van provide. “One of the first things I do is talk to people,” explained Gary. “There’s no point in just diving straight into the data. You need to understand what your stakeholders across the business want and need, and what their frustrations are.”
2. Create Personas Based on Objectives and Outcomes
“Most events exist to try to engender some change in behavior. So that might be to disseminate best practices at an association event, or to increase employee engagement at corporate employee event,” observed Sophie Holt. “If you start to measure event data surrounding what those people’s objectives are, when they attend, how well they might meet them, and what they might do next, these personas stop being 2d demographic boxes, and start to become something much more 3d.”
3. Get Rid of Silos and Make Data Accessible to All
Gary stressed the importance of making sure data is available to any stakeholders who need it. “Something I’ve spent time on at IMEX is linking all our systems up. Otherwise, you get these data silos and people can be sitting on a pot of gold that no one else can see,” he shared. “Take the time to take that step back, look at all your systems and collection points, and channel them in the right direction.”
3. Use Both Quantitative and Qualitative Data to Avoid Bias
While face-to-face conversations can offer invaluable insights about your event attendees, human biases can come into play and prevent you from getting the whole picture of your audience. To avoid this, Sophie recommends capturing qualitative data in a way that offers some of the rigor of quantitative data. “For example, in a post event survey, it’s asking people to tell you why they gave a certain score. And that allows them to give you feedback that you may not even have considered in your conversations with customers,” she explained. “Quantitative data supports the qualitative data you have about your customers; it doesn’t replace it.”
For more insights from Sophie and Gary, check out the on-demanding recording of this PCMA and Explori webinar, “Putting Customers at the Center of Your Event Data Strategy with Sentiment Analysis”.
To get the complete playbook you need to build an event data strategy that drives business goals, sign up today for our Event Data Strategy Certificate course. | https://www.pcma.org/4-tips-to-do-more-with-event-data/ | 2022-08-26T06:19:00Z | pcma.org | control | https://www.pcma.org/4-tips-to-do-more-with-event-data/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
COVID-19 vaccines tweaked to better match today’s omicron threat are expected to roll out in a few weeks but still up in the air is how much benefit the booster shots will offer, who should get one — and how soon.
Pfizer and rival Moderna both asked U.S. regulators this week to authorize modified versions of their booster vaccine — shots that are half the original recipe and half protection against BA.4 and BA.5, the newest versions of omicron.
The Food and Drug Administration ordered that recipe and now is evaluating what scientists call a “bivalent vaccine,” with a decision expected soon.
Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA’s vaccine chief, said Thursday that once authorized, the tweaked boosters could help right away — while BA.5 infections still are too high — as well as hopefully blunt yet another winter surge.
Marks told the Associated Press that the new boosters could rev up the immune system to prevent not just serious illness but maybe milder infections, too, like the original vaccines did earlier in the pandemic, before super-contagious mutants emerged.
“The hope here is that by better matching things, not only will we get that benefit or even more, but we’ll also have that last for a longer period of time,” he said.
WHY DID FDA ORDER A RECIPE CHANGE?
BA.5 currently is causing nearly all COVID-19 infections in the U.S. and much of the world. Current COVID-19 vaccines match the coronavirus strain that circulated in early 2020. And while those vaccinations still offer strong protection against serious illness or death from COVID-19, there’s little effectiveness against infection from the wildly mutated omicron family.
The first update to the recipe is an an important but expected next step — like how flu vaccines get updated every year. True next-generation vaccines are still in development.
“We need to give a clear, forward-looking set of expectations,” said University of Pennsylvania immunologist E. John Wherry, who compares vaccine tweaks to periodically updating your computer software.
The gamble is that BA.5, or something similar, still will be circulating through the winter. (Vaccines target the spike protein that coat the coronavirus, and the BA.4 and BA.5 spikes are identical although those strains vary in other ways.)
HOW WERE THE MODIFIED SHOTS TESTED?
Pfizer and Moderna both studied an earlier tweak to their vaccines that targets the original omicron, called BA.1, that hit last winter, as well as even earlier variants.
To evaluate the combo shots, FDA is using data from human testing of the BA.1-tweaked doses plus mice tests of the BA.5-targeted version that Marks said show “a very good immune response.”
Human data on the newest tweak will come later in the year, to help assess the value of modified shots — especially whether they offer cross-protection if a new mutant comes along, Marks said. Moderna has started a clinical trial of its BA.5 combo shot; Pfizer and its partner BioNTech expect to open a similar study soon.
WILL THEY WORK BETTER?
No one knows. Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an FDA vaccine adviser, said the antibody jump from that earlier BA.1-tweaked candidate was “underwhelming.”
“What the administration is asking us to do is to accept this bivalent vaccine as significantly better” than another dose of today’s vaccine, he said. “It would be nice if there were data to support that.”
But while FDA hasn’t made a final decision, Marks said there’s evidence that the updated boosters are safe and that waiting for more study of their effectiveness would risk another mutant appearing before they could roll out.
They “essentially refresh the immune response,” he said. “Granted, it’s still a bit of a guess how long it will last but, this is doing our best.”
Given how outdated the current shots are, an update makes sense, said Dr. Walter Orenstein of Emory University, a former vaccine director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While he’d like to see more data, he plans to get the new booster.
WHO SHOULD GET AN UPDATED SHOT?
That’s up to the CDC, which called a meeting of its influential vaccine advisers next Thursday and Friday to help decide.
Pfizer wants to open its updated boosters to everyone 12 and older who’s already had a primary series of today’s vaccine, while Moderna has applied only for adult use. CDC will determine if people at highest risk should go first. Studies of doses for younger children are expected later in the year.
A government rollout plan anticipates that people who’ve already gotten their initial vaccinations would qualify for one of the new combination shots, regardless of how many boosters they’ve already had.
WHEN SHOULD THOSE ELIGIBLE GET THE NEW BOOSTER?
Marks is aiming for a very simple message: “It’s probably going to be everyone who has not had a booster within the past X number of months should go out and get the booster in a timely manner,” he said. Officials still have to decide just how many months, though.
How long to wait after your last vaccine dose or an infection is a critical decision, immunologists agree. That’s because if you still have a lot of antibodies in your bloodstream, they’ll counteract the brand new antibodies that the vaccine dose is supposed to produce.
So if you already got a booster in July or August and then seek the new combo shot in September, “you’ll receive very little additional boosting from that,” Penn’s Wherry said. He recommends waiting four to six months.
The CDC also will weigh in after after considering how many doses will be available in early September versus later in the fall. The Biden administration has purchased more than 170 million doses.
WILL PEOPLE ROLL UP THEIR SLEEVES AGAIN?
Americans have been reluctant to keep up with COVID-19 vaccinations. While three-quarters of Americans 12 and older have gotten their initial vaccinations, only half got a first booster shot — deemed crucial for the best protection against variants. And just a third of people 50 and older who were advised to get a second booster when omicron arrived did so.
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We get it, you’re busy. So, the Convene editors have curated the latest tips and trends in the world of work for you. Take a look at what caught our eye this past week.
The Hidden Power of Workplace Rituals
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How Helping People Makes You More Persuasive
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Why Talking to Strangers Is Good for You, Them, and All of Us
“Don’t talk to strangers” is what we learned as children. Once we move into the adult world, however, everyone we encounter is a stranger, and since we’re a social species, we need each other. In Ideas.TED, author Julie Lythcott-Haims says we need to get good at interacting with strangers, so we can get help when we need it and be of use to them. | https://www.pcma.org/career-advice-news-ideas-20220826/ | 2022-08-26T06:19:05Z | pcma.org | control | https://www.pcma.org/career-advice-news-ideas-20220826/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in June, it not only took away the constitutional right to abortion, but also disrupted many organizations’ plans to hold their events in about half of the United States that now or will likely soon ban access to abortions.
As was evident during an Aug. 8 PCMA roundtable discussion about how to move forward after the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, there is no one-size-fits-all solution to this challenge because of all the variables involved.
For planners, the goal is to be proactive instead of reactive so you can best communicate your values as an organization and be transparent about the site-selection process/criteria.
The roundtable group arrived at various approaches to consider so that you are doing your best to ensure attendees feel safe and feel welcome at events in red-state destinations. Have a look:
- It helps if an association has clearly delineated values that you can incorporate into your contract clauses and RFP language — that is not the case across all associations. Frustration of purpose clause can mean not contracting with a venue that doesn’t accept a particular value embraced by the organization.
- It’s more challenging for associations that are dealing with a legislative/social issue that doesn’t directly tie in with their mission and/or is connected in varying degrees. If this isn’t clear, talk to your leadership.
- Survey your members to understand them at a deeper level to gauge how they should receive communications based on their values going forward — also, what trade-offs would they be willing to make on future locations?
- How are you working with your DMO partner to ensure your attendees feel safe and welcome? How do you balance duty of care with individual responsibility?
- Take an ad out in a local publication, invite local media to see a speaker at your event to raise awareness on how your organization is addressing an issue. This may not work for other organizations who are concerned about potential protests or security risks if they communicate in their host destination too much around a particular issue.
- Speak to your DMO, the local officials, empower your members with the tools to communicate to their local officials.
- Donate to a local cause to make a direct impact and raise awareness with the potential to create change.
- Educate your stakeholders and membership with fact sheets and talking points so they are not solely relying on emotionally charged headlines but have information to gain deeper understanding of the issue, talk to their local/state officials, and vote. Also inform them how it impacts members and hospitality staff located in those destinations/states if there’s pressure to move to another city. Remember you likely have members on both sides of any issue so it’s impossible to make everyone happy.
- Communicate the various trade-offs in site selection, if in fact, you are being encouraged by members, executives, board members, other stakeholders to select different cities going forward.
- From a destination perspective there are generally four buckets of customers impacted by anti-abortion legislation: 1) female-dominated organizations 2) medical associations 3) educational meetings 4) if the mission and/or demographics of an organization are socially liberal.
- Do you have the right resources at your disposal to help you navigate these challenges? That could include partnering with your DMO, other associations, local officials, an ethicist, legislative experts, etc.
- Don’t hesitate to collaborate with other organizations whether you’re a corporate, association, or supplier DMO because everyone needs support facing these challenges now and in the future.
Carrie Johnson, DES, is PCMA’s Senior Director of Education.
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In 1978, Peggy Daidakis joined the Baltimore Convention Center just ahead of the facility’s grand opening in 1979. Just eight years later, Daidakis stepped into the role of executive director — the first woman to do so at a U.S. convention center. Since then, Daidakis’ steadfast dedication to her facility has earned her a legion of awards and accolades, as well as given her a catbird-seat view of an industry that, although evolving, is still firmly rooted in the same mission — customer service. “Technology may have changed,” she said, but “the expectations of excellent service have not.”
What has moved forward but still needs improvement is equity in leadership roles in the industry. “When I was at the beginning stages of my career journey, I watched the men advance and get paid more and felt the inequity in our profession,” she said. “I still think there is inequity, but the gap is closing and I hope I can continue to help close it for our future female leaders.” In this final installment of our series about women leaders in venue management, Daidakis shares more on what it was like to lead a convention center more than 35 years ago and what she’s looking forward to next.
You were the first woman to take on the top executive role at a U.S. convention center. What was that like? How have you seen the industry change since then?
The industry was quite different in 1986 when I was appointed the first female director. There were fewer venues and women were not attracted to the operations side of the business. I did not realize the magnitude of the appointment at the time. I believe today there are more opportunities to advance, and I am interested in mentoring young women about taking advantage of these opportunities.
Where is there still room for improvement in terms of equity in leadership in venue management?
Part of the responsibility, I believe, is on the person to learn the various aspects of the industry and to push themselves out of their comfort zone. Leadership skills develop through identifying with individuals they admire and respect and learning from them. I do not believe there is a book or course that will make someone a good leader. I took the time to be mentored and met with people who I believed were good role models for me and my personality.
The meetings and events industry has taken many twists and turns over the last two years. Can you talk a little bit about how you have weathered that personally and from a leadership perspective? Are there ways in which you found yourself thinking differently as a result of the ongoing challenges to the meetings industry?
I am proud that I have served under nine mayoral administrations. When there was a change in leadership, I made sure that I learned the priorities of the new mayor and the team and adjusted accordingly. However, I would not compromise my commitment to provide the best team, the best service, and to be honest with the administration about what made our organization important to the city and state. I had to gain the trust and it looks like I did well. Regarding the industry specifically — I do not feel that much has changed. We are in the customer service business. Technology may have changed, the expectations of excellent service have not.
You retire next month. What advice do you have for young people entering the field right now, and what advice do you have to up-and-coming leaders following your footsteps?
I have worked for the city for 49 years and for [Baltimore Convention Center] for 44 years. It is so unusual for young people to think of working for the same company for more than a few [years] nowadays. I want to continue to work with young people, especially through International Association of Venue Managers’ (IAVM) mentoring program, to help them set their goals and share my experiences that will encourage them to consider venue management as a career choice. There are so many choices today and once you have the hospitality profession in your blood, it is hard to let go of it.
What’s the best piece of advice you were given in your career journey? Worst?
The best advice I received was from my mother. She advised me to stay the course, continue to work hard, be honest and transparent, and to be the best I could be. I should not worry about others, and I would be rewarded for who I am and what I have contributed. I can honestly say that she was right.
The worst? Can’t really think of one.
Can you share the moment that you think was your biggest career highlight? Biggest learning moment?
One of the biggest highlights of my career was being inducted into the Convention Industry Council (now Events Industry Council) Hall of Leaders. It was such an honor to represent the organization and the City of Baltimore for my achievements. Most of all, I was humbled that my staff nominated me. Biggest learning moment? I learn something every day. I cannot point out any one “ah-hah” moment.
Jennifer N. Dienst is senior editor at Convene. This interview has been edited and condensed for brevity.
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Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where.
Lisa Clark
The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort has named Lisa Clark as senior sales executive. She is responsible for leading the sales efforts in the New England market for the resort. Clark has more than 16 years of sales experience in the hospitality industry. Most recently, she served as senior sales executive for The Westin Boston Seaport District.
Andrew Girona
Rosewood Hotel Group has appointed Andrew Girona as director of global sales. In this role, he is responsible for managing the group’s leisure travel advisors in Florida and the Southeastern United States, as well as partners in Latin America, South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Girona has more than 15 years of luxury hospitality sales experience. Most recently, he served as the director of sales for Rosewood Baha Mar.
Nikki Leiba
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront has announced Nikki Leiba as its new sales manager. In her position, Leiba will manage the Northeast market segment and oversee all aspects of the sales process. She has 17 years of experience working in hospitality and joins the property from Hyatt Centric Las Olas in Fort Lauderdale. | https://www.pcma.org/people-on-the-move-20220826/ | 2022-08-26T06:19:38Z | pcma.org | control | https://www.pcma.org/people-on-the-move-20220826/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — For Jonathan Peter Jackson, a direct relative of two prominent members of the Black Panther Party, revolutionary thought and family history have always been intertwined, particularly in August.
That’s the month in 1971 when his uncle, the famed Panther George Jackson, was killed during an uprising at San Quentin State Prison in California. A revolutionary whose words resonated inside and out of the prison walls, he was a published author, activist and radical thought leader.
To many, February is the month dedicated to celebrating Black Americans’ contributions to a country where they were once enslaved. But Black History Month has an alternative: It’s called Black August.
First celebrated in 1979, Black August was created to commemorate Jackson’s fight for Black liberation. Fifty-one years since his death, Black August is now a monthlong awareness campaign and celebration dedicated to Black freedom fighters, revolutionaries, radicals and political prisoners, both living and deceased.
The annual commemorations have been embraced by activists in the global Black Lives Matter movement, many of whom draw inspiration from freedom fighters like Jackson and his contemporaries.
“It’s important to do this now because a lot of people who were on the radical scene during that time period, relatives and non-relatives, who are like blood relatives, are entering their golden years,” said Jonathan Jackson, 51, of Fair Hill, Maryland.
George Jackson was 18 when he was arrested for robbing a gas station in Los Angeles in 1960. He was convicted and given an indeterminate sentence of one year to life and spent the next decade at California’s Soledad and San Quentin prisons, much of it in solitary confinement.
While incarcerated, Jackson began studying the words of revolutionary theoreticians such as Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, who advocated class awareness, challenging institutions and overturning capitalism through revolution. Founding leaders of the Panthers, including Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, were also inspired by Marx, Lenin and Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung.
Jackson became a leader in the prisoner rights movement. His letters from prison to loved ones and supporters were compiled in the bestselling books “Soledad Brother” and “Blood in My Eye.”
Inspired by his words and frustrated with his situation, George’s younger brother, Jonathan, initiated a takeover at the Marin County Superior Court in California in 1970. He freed three inmates and held several courthouse staff hostage, in an attempt to demand the release of his brother and two other inmates, known as the Soledad Brothers, who were accused of killing a correctional officer. Jonathan was killed as he tried to escape, although it’s disputed whether he was killed in a courtroom shootout or fatally shot while driving away with hostages.
George was killed on Aug. 21, 1971, during a prison uprising. Inmates at San Quentin prison began formally commemorating his death in 1979, and from there, Black August was born.
“I certainly wish that more people knew about George’s writings (and) knew about my father’s sacrifice on that fateful day in August,” said Jonathan Jackson, who wrote the foreword to “Soledad Brother” in the early ’90s, shortly after graduating from college.
Monifa Bandele, a leader in the Movement for Black Lives, a national coalition of BLM groups, says Black August is about learning the vast history of Black revolutionary leaders. That includes figures such as Nat Turner, who is famous for leading a slave rebellion on a southern Virginia plantation in August 1831, and Marcus Garvey, the leader of the Pan-Africanism movement and born in August 1887. It includes events such as the Haitian Revolution in 1791 and the March on Washington in 1963, both taking place in the month of August.
“This idea that there was this one narrow way that Black people resisted oppression is really a myth that is dispelled by Black August,” said Bandele, who is also a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, a group that raises awareness of political prisoners.
“And what we saw happen after the 1970s is that it grew outside of the (prison) walls because, as people who were incarcerated came home to their families and communities, they began to do community celebrations of Black August,” she added.
The ways of honoring this month also come in various forms and have evolved over the years. Some take part in fasting, while others use this time to study the ways of their predecessors. Weekly event series are also common during Black August, from reading groups to open mic nights.
Sankofa, a Black-owned cultural center and coffee shop in Washington that has served the D.C. community for nearly 25 years, wraps up a weekly open mic night in honor of Black August on Friday. The event has drawn local residents of all ages, many who have shared stories, read poetry and performed songs with the theme of rebellion.
“This month is all about resistance and celebrating our political prisoners and using all of the faculties that we have to free people who are in prison, let me say, unjustly,” emcee Ayinde Sekou said to the crowd during a recent event at Sankofa.
Jonathan Jackson, George’s nephew, also believes that there are largely systemic reasons as to why Black August, and his family history specifically, are not widely taught.
“It’s difficult sometimes for radicals who were not assassinated, per se, to enter into the popular discourse,” he said. “George and Jonathan were never victims. They took action, and they were killed taking that action, and sometimes that’s very difficult to understand for people who will accept a political assassination.”
Jackson hopes to honor his father’s and uncle’s legacy through documenting the knowledge of elders from that era, as a means of continuing the fight.
“We need to get those testimonies. … We need to understand what happened, so that we can improve on what they did. I think now is as good a time as any to get that done,” he said.
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Associated Press writers Aaron Morrison and Terry Tang contributed to this report.
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Boasting two AAA Four Diamond restaurants; an Arnold Palmer Design 18-hole golf course; a luxurious, full-service spa; and 540,000 square feet of impressive, elegant, high-tech meeting space might be enough for some venues to rest on their laurels. But that’s not how founder Harris Rosen does business at Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel in Orlando.
Rosen Shingle Creek offers the best of all worlds for executives, meetings planners and guests from the moment they step foot on property to the moment they say goodbye. It’s a thing they call the “Rosen Difference”: providing unrivaled, exceptional one-on-one service, with a commitment of honesty and integrity, elevating expectations for your next big event.
“Being part of a private, independent company allows our industry-recognized staff the freedom to think creatively, challenge the norm and make on-the-spot decisions, providing immediate satisfaction,” said Katie Bellas, Director of Sales & Marketing for Rosen Shingle Creek. That flexibility and personalized attention, she notes, is rare in the Orlando area… and, oftentimes, anywhere.
The property also features 1,501 relaxing guest rooms and lavish suites loaded with amenities, all with expansive views 255 acres of lush Florida flora; three expansive, column-free ballrooms with an additional 96 breakout meeting rooms (the largest ballroom, measuring 95,000 square feet and featuring 31-foot unobstructed ceilings, is one of the biggest in the nation) including all the high-tech bells and whistles; and 136,000 square feet of outdoor space to wine and dine under the warm Florida sun and the to-die-for cool, breezy evenings.
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DENVER (AP) — A woman has struck a plea deal to testify against her boss, a Colorado clerk who became a hero to election conspiracy theorists after she was charged with breaking into her county’s voting system.
Belinda Knisley, who has long been on administrative leave from her role as chief deputy to Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, appeared in district court in Grand Junction on Thursday and pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of trespass, official misconduct and violation of duty. She was sentenced to two years of unsupervised probation.
“You engaged in concrete acts to undermine the integrity of our democratic process under the guise of protecting it. In doing so, you abdicated your role as a clerk, you violated your oath and you betrayed your duty,” Judge Matthew Barrett told Knisley during the hearing.
Peters and Knisley were being prosecuted on allegations they allowed a copy of a hard drive to be made during an update of election equipment in May 2021.
Peters is awaiting trial on several felony charges for her alleged role in allowing unauthorized people to break into her county’s election system in search of proof of conspiracy theories spun by former President Donald Trump after his 2020 election loss.
She issued a defiant statement Thursday saying she holds no ill will toward Knisley, and that she will not back down.
Peters denies she did anything illegal, contends the charges are politically motivated and has issued reports purporting to show suspicious activity within voting systems. Those claims have been debunked by various officials and experts.
Knisley, who had previously denied wrongdoing, said Thursday she was a “rule follower” who was acting at the behest of Peters — an assertion that did not sit well with Judge Barrett.
“Every time you acknowledged what you did, you prefaced it with, ‘I was told to do this. I was told to do that,’ as if you did not know exactly what you were doing and as if you did not know the harm you were engaging in,” the judge said. He added that Knisley’s crimes were “worthy of incarceration,” but he did not want to throw out the plea deal, which did not call for jail time.
State election officials learned of a security breach last summer when a photo and video of confidential voting system passwords were posted on social media and a conservative website.
A judge prohibited Peters from overseeing last year’s and this year’s local elections in Mesa County, a western region of the state that is largely rural and heavily Republican.
Also facing charges is Sandra Brown, a former elections manager in Peters’ office. Brown was charged in July with attempting to influence a public servant, criminal impersonation and conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation.
Peters lost a bid to become the GOP candidate for Colorado secretary of state in June. She came to national attention when she spoke last year at a conference hosted by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, one of the most prominent election conspiracy theorists in the country.
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In the Salary Survey Convene conducted in 2019, we asked respondents whether they think pay inequity exists in the business events industry — two out of five planners said yes. While we didn’t ask this same question for our current survey, here’s an indication of gender inequity: In 2022, women earned, on average, more than $5,000 less than men — $102,763 vs. $97,425. (In our 2020 survey, women averaged $14,000 less than their male counterparts — so some small gains.)
One way to combat wage inequity is to publish the results of salary surveys. Our 2022 Salary Survey, which offers a broad look at — albeit inexact measurement of — the compensation differences between men and women, will appear in the September issue of Convene.
A much more targeted benchmarking practice is salary transparency — where peers at the same organization share their pay levels. But whether or not you are in favor of divulging your salary to coworkers, two recent studies conclude, depends largely on your age.
According to the latest edition of LinkedIn’s Workforce Confidence survey of nearly 5,000 workers conducted in June, Gen Z is significantly more likely to share their salary than older employees — and it’s because they think it will move the needle on equity. More than four out of five Gen Z respondents (age 25 or younger) agreed that pay transparency could lead to greater pay equity. Three-quarters of millennials were in the same camp. But less than half of Gen Z and only 28 percent of baby boomers agreed with the statement “people sharing their pay information will lead to better equality in pay.”
Nearly one-third of Gen Z workers, almost one-quarter of millennials, and 17 percent of Gen X workers said they would be comfortable telling a coworker how much they make. Fewer than one out of 10 boomers said they same. More than one-third of Gen Z workers said they would share their salary with anyone who asked vs. only 4 percent of boomers who said the same.
A recent Fortune article about equal pay said the results mirror those of a March 2022 bankrate.com survey, which found that more than two out of five Gen Z workers have shared their salary with a coworker vs. fewer than one out of five boomers.
Actionable change, the Fortune story points out, requires transparency across the generations — and from an organization’s most privileged workers.
“Go find the tallest, whitest dude,” said equal pay expert Katie Donovan in the bankrate.com report. “To be paid equitably, you want to earn what white men are earning. The median of everyone is less than the median of white men.”
Michelle Russell is editor in chief at Convene.
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ATLANTA (AP) — The prosecutor investigating whether Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking to compel testimony from more allies of the former president, including former chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Sidney Powell.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed petitions Thursday seeking to have Meadows and Powell, as well as James “Phil” Waldron, who met with Meadows, and former Trump campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn, testify before a special grand jury in Atlanta next month.
Meadows, Trump’s final chief of staff, and Powell, a dogged advocate of the president’s false claims of widespread election fraud, are among the highest-profile members of Trump’s circle to be summoned to testify in the probe, joining other top figures including Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham. It further raises the legal stakes for the former president as he weighs a 2024 presidential bid.
Because they don’t live in Georgia, Willis has to use a process that involves getting judges in the states where they live to order them to appear. The petitions she filed Thursday are essentially precursors to subpoenas. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who’s overseeing the special grand jury, signed off on the petitions, certifying that each person whose testimony is sought is a “necessary and material” witness for the investigation.
Willis wrote that each of them has unique knowledge about their communications with Trump, his campaign and others “involved in the multi-state, coordinated efforts to influence the results of the November 2020 elections in Georgia and elsewhere.”
George Terwilliger, a lawyer for Meadows, declined to comment Thursday. Epshteyn didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Powell and Waldron could not immediately be reached.
Willis last month filed similar petition s for seven other Trump associates and attorneys, including Giuliani and Graham. Giuliani, who’s been told he’s a target of the investigation, testified before the special grand jury last week. Graham is fighting his subpoena in court.
Also on Thursday, lawyers for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp appeared in court to argue that he shouldn’t have to testify before the special grand jury. And Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer who was part of the earlier batch of Trump associates whom Willis sought to compel to testify, filed a motion to quash his subpoena.
In the petition seeking Meadows’ testimony, Willis wrote that Meadows attended a Dec. 21, 2020, meeting at the White House with Trump and others “to discuss allegations of voter fraud and certification of electoral college votes from Georgia and other states.” The next day, Willis wrote, Meadows made a “surprise visit” to Cobb County, just outside Atlanta, where an audit of signatures on absentee ballot envelopes was being conducted. He asked to observe the audit but wasn’t allowed to because it wasn’t open to the public, the petition says.
Between Jan. 30, 2020, and Jan. 1, 2021, Meadows sent emails to Justice Department officials making allegations of voter fraud in Georgia and elsewhere and requesting investigations, Willis wrote. He was also on a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, during which Trump suggested the state’s top elections official could “find” enough votes to overturn his narrow election loss in the state.
In the petition seeking Powell’s testimony, Willis wrote that Powell is “known to be affiliated with both former President Donald Trump and the Trump Campaign.” The petition says attorney Lin Wood said in a television interview that Powell was part of a group who met at his home in South Carolina “for the purpose of exploring options to influence the results of the November 2020 elections in Georgia and elsewhere.” Wood, who’s licensed in Georgia, said Powell asked him to help find Georgia residents to serve as plaintiffs in lawsuits contesting the state’s election results, Willis wrote.
In June of this year, the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol released a deposition of Powell in which she said that in the weeks following the 2020 election, Trump asked her to be “special counsel to address the election issues and to collect evidence,” saying he was frustrated with law enforcement agencies, Willis wrote.
Last week, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed that it is helping the Georgia secretary of state’s office look into an alleged breach of elections data in Coffee County in south Georgia, Willis wrote. She noted that publicly reported emails indicate that Powell coordinated with a data solutions company to get elections data from Coffee County in early January 2021 and was involved in similar efforts in Michigan and Nevada.
Special grand juries are impaneled in Georgia to investigate complex cases with large numbers of witnesses and potential logistical concerns. They can compel evidence and subpoena witnesses for questioning, but they do not have the power to indict. When its investigation is complete, the special grand jury issues a final report and can recommend action. It’s then up to the district attorney to decide whether to ask a regular grand jury for an indictment.
During the hearing Thursday on Kemp’s attempt to avoid testifying, his lawyers argued that he is protected from having to testify by the principle of sovereign immunity, which says the state can’t be sued without its consent. Prosecutors argued that’s not applicable because Kemp is not being sued but instead is being called as a witness to provide facts for an investigation.
Kemp’s attorneys accuse the district attorney of pursuing a “politically motivated” probe, something she has vehemently denied.
Kemp attorney Brian McEvoy argued that, if the governor does have to testify, it shouldn’t happen until after the general election. Kemp faces a rematch with Democrat Stacey Abrams in November in one of the most high-profile and closely watched gubernatorial contests in the country.
“Your Honor is well aware of where we are, what state we’re in, what race we’re facing, and the governor ought not have to suffer political consequences for invoking a legal right,” McEvoy said.
Prosecutor Donald Wakeford noted that Willis waited until after contentious primary elections in late May to begin calling witnesses before the special grand jury for that very reason. The governor could have quietly honored a subpoena to appear last week without any media attention, Wakeford argued, but instead, his attorneys filed the motion to quash the day before, thrusting the issue into the public eye.
“To continually insist that this is a situation engineered by the district attorney’s office to the intentional detriment of the governor is just not true,” Wakeford said.
Judge McBurney did not immediately rule and it wasn’t clear when he would.
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Associated Press writers Eric Tucker in Washington and Jill Colvin in New York contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will set up a new center in the next year to help avoid civilian casualties in military operations around the world through better education and training and increased screening before strikes are launched.
The plan ordered by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and released Thursday comes on the heels of widespread criticism over a U.S. airstrike in Kabul last August that killed 10 civilians, including children, during the final chaotic days of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
A senior defense official said the development of a new Civilian Protection Center of Excellence and other improvements will cost “tens of millions of dollars” per year, and the plan more broadly would involve the addition of about 150 staff. The center would initially start operations in the 2023 budget year that begins Oct. 1, and would be fully staffed and working by 2025. The official spoke on condition of anonymity under department rules to provide details of the plan.
Laid out in a 36-page action plan, the changes approved by Austin call for updated policies and guidelines for military operations, and steps that must be taken in order to better analyze threats, assess who is on the ground and determine what other civilian structures could be affected.
A key criticism of the Afghanistan drone strike was that those making the final decision were too quick to conclude that the white Toyota Corolla under watch aligned with the intelligence and confirmed their conclusion to bomb what turned out to be the wrong vehicle. The new Pentagon plan is aimed at preventing such “confirmation bias” and more consistently involving teams to specifically challenge assumptions to make sure a strike is appropriate.
The plan would put new personnel in each of the combatant commands that are in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Indo-Pacific, South America and U.S. Northern Command in Colorado, as well as in all the military services, other senior commands and vital places such as Special Operations Command, Cyber Command and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
There has been persistent criticism, particularly from human rights organizations, that U.S. military strikes in Syria, Iraq and other battlefields have killed civilians but that officials have failed or been slow to acknowledge those deaths. In some cases, the U.S. military’s inability to get to a strike location in its immediate aftermath has led to conclusions that allegations of civilian deaths were not confirmable.
An independent review done late last year found that better communication between those making the strike decision and other support personnel might have raised more doubts about the Kabul attack or possibly prevented it.
Under Austin’s plan, there will be ongoing education and training and more specific policies about getting positive identification for targeting. Civilian casualty assessments will become a consistent element in military exercises so troops can practice how best to avoid killing the innocent.
The new system will improve data collection and investigations so that the Pentagon can more precisely report civilian deaths. It will set up a new framework for how the Defense Department responds to deaths, including acknowledging them and providing condolences and other aid in the aftermath.
More broadly, the plan accounts for better assessment in counterterrorism strikes as well as the prospects of civilian casualties in a large-scale war, such as one with China or Russia.
A review by RAND Corp. of the August 2021 airstrike in Afghanistan concluded that military’s focus on civilian casualties has for years largely involved operations in places such as Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. RAND said the Pentagon is not prepared to deal with the issue in that larger type of war, which likely would involve combat in urban areas where it would be more difficult to distinguish between civilian and military targets.
The Aug. 29 drone strike in Afghanistan killed Zemerai Ahmadi and nine family members, including seven children. Ahmadi, 37, was a longtime employee of an American humanitarian organization and was not a militant, as first claimed by military officials.
The Pentagon initially said the attack was valid, despite 10 civilian deaths, but later acknowledged it was a “tragic mistake.” The independent Pentagon review concluded there was no misconduct or negligence.
RAND’s review concluded that the U.S. military follows a flawed and inadequate process for assessing and investigating suspected civilian damage and casualties caused by U.S. airstrikes. It said internal reporting on civilian casualties can be unreliable and incomplete, and it recommended the military take a broader view of damage to include structural damage that hurts basic community functions. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-pentagon-plan-aims-to-help-avoid-civilian-deaths-in-strikes/ | 2022-08-26T06:20:15Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-pentagon-plan-aims-to-help-avoid-civilian-deaths-in-strikes/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four Iranian-backed militia members were killed in U.S. strikes in Syria on Wednesday in response to attacks by the group in recent weeks, the U.S. military said Thursday.
In a statement, U.S. Central Command said U.S. forces also destroyed seven enemy rocket launchers on Wednesday hours after militia fighters fired rockets at two U.S. military installations in northeast Syria. Central Command provided additional details about the strikes on Thursday, saying they were done with Apache helicopters, AC-130 gunships and M777 Howitzers.
The latest spike in attacks came after militias backed by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard targeted U.S. troops on Aug. 15 at the al-Tanf Garrison in the south. There were no casualties or damage in that attack. But, in response, the U.S. struck bunkers and facilities used by the militias.
At the Pentagon on Thursday, Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said it would be premature to say if these strikes represent a broader escalation of violence in Syria.
“Certainly time will tell,” said Ryder, the Pentagon’s press secretary. “Based on the strikes that we have taken, we’ve sent a very loud and clear message, and a proportional message, that any threat against our forces who are operating in Syria or anywhere will not be tolerated. My hope would be that these groups would have received the message loud and clear and that we will not see similar behavior in future.”
President Joe Biden informed Congress of his decision to approve the initial U.S. strikes on the bunker facility, saying the goal was to disrupt the ongoing series of attacks and “to deter the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iran-backed militia groups from conducting or supporting further attacks on United States personnel and facilities.”
The opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the U.S. airstrikes on the bunkers targeted the Ayash Camp run by the Fatimiyoun group made up of Shiite fighters from Afghanistan and that at least six Syrian and foreign militants were killed.
Within hours after the U.S. strikes, militia rocket attacks hit Green Village and the Conoco gas field in Deir el-Zour, where U.S. troops are stationed. According to U.S. Central Command, at least three servicemembers were treated or evaluated for minor injuries. U.S. forces retaliated by targeting the rocket launchers.
“We will respond appropriately and proportionally to attacks on our servicemembers,” said Gen. Erik Kurilla, who heads U.S. Central Command. “No group will strike at our troops with impunity.”
Deir el-Zour is a strategic province that borders Iraq and contains oil fields. Iran-backed militia groups and Syrian forces control the area and had often been the target of Israeli war planes in previous strikes.
Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani has denied that Iran had any link to those targeted. Iran routinely denies arming militia groups that target U.S. forces in the region, despite weaponry linking back to them.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Anticipation for one of the fall’s likeliest bestsellers has been growing all year.
For months, Colleen Hoover’s millions of fans on TikTok, Instagram and elsewhere have been talking up and posting early excerpts from her novel “It Starts With Us.” By summer, the author’s sequel to her bestselling “It Ends With Us” had already reached the top 10 Amazon.com. It might have climbed higher but for competition from other Hoover novels, including “Ugly Love,” “Verity” and, of course, “It Ends With Us,” the dramatic tale of a love triangle and a woman’s endurance of domestic abuse that young TikTok users have embraced and helped make Hoover the country’s most popular fiction writer.
Hoover’s extraordinary run on bestseller lists, from Amazon.com to The New York Times, has been Beatle-esque for much of 2022, with four or more books likely to appear in the top 10 at a given moment. “It Starts With Us” had been so eagerly desired by her admirers — CoHorts, some call themselves — that she broke a personal rule: Don’t let “outside influences” determine her next book.
“I never allowed myself to entertain a sequel, but with the amount of people emailing me every day and tagging me in an online petition to write about (those characters), their story began to build in my head in the same way my other books begin,” she told The Associated Press in a recent email. “Eventually I craved telling this story as much as I did my other stories, so I owe the readers a big thank you for the nudging.”
Hoover’s new book should help extend what has been another solid year for the industry. Booksellers are looking forward to a mix of commercial favorites such as Hoover, Anthony Horowitz, Beverly Jenkins and Veronica Roth alongside what Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt calls a “really strong” lineup of literary releases, including novels by Ian McEwan and Kate Atkinson.
The fall also will feature new fiction from Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk and Pulitzer Prize-winners Elizabeth Strout and Andrew Sean Greer. Celeste Ng’s “Our Missing Hearts” is her first novel since “Little Fires Everywhere.” Story collections are expected from George Saunders, Andrea Barrett and Ling Ma, along with novels by Percival Everett, Barbara Kingsolver, Kevin Wilson, N.K. Jemisin, Lydia Millet and Yiyun Li.
Joe Concha’s “Come On, Man!: The Truth About Joe Biden’s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Presidency” is the most colorfully named of the latest round of books attacking an incumbent president — a long and profitable publishing tradition. But the most high-profile works of political reporting dwell on Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, among them “Confidence Man,” by The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman, and “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017–2021,” by Peter Baker of the Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker.
Michelle Obama’s “The Light We Carry” is her first entirely new book since her worldwide bestseller from 2018, “Becoming.” Benjamin Netanyahu’s “Bibi” is the first memoir by the former Israeli Prime Minister, while American politicians with new books include Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke.
Celebrity books include Bono’s “Surrender,” Matthew Perry’s “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing” and Geena Davis’ “Dying of Politeness.” Bob Dylan reflects upon an art form he helped reinvent in “The Philosophy of Modern Song,” while the title of Jan Wenner’s memoir invokes the Dylan classic that helped inspire the name of the magazine he founded, “Like a Rolling Stone.”
History books will cover the famous and the overlooked. Among the former are Pulitzer-winner Jon Meacham’s “And There Was Light,” the latest entry into the canon of Abraham Lincoln scholarship, and Pulitzer-winner Stacy Schiff’s biography of Samuel Adams, “The Revolutionary.” Fred Kaplan, who focused on Lincoln’s prose in “Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer,” now assesses Thomas Jefferson in “His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer.”
Releases highlighting those less remembered include Kevin Hazzard’s “American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics,” and Katie Hickman’s “Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West.” With the overturning last summer of Roe v. Wade, Laura Kaplan’s “The Story of Jane” is a timely reissue of her 1995 book about the underground abortion counseling service founded in Chicago in 1969, four years before the Supreme Court’s historic Roe ruling.
Bruce Henderson’s “Bridge to the Sun” centers on the recruitment of Japanese-Americans, some of whom had been in internment camps, to assist in U.S. intelligence gathering during World War II.
“It was really hard to research because many of them had been working on top secret projects, and, even after they had been discharged, were reminded that they were under the National Security Act and that military secrets had to be kept,” Henderson says. “We had to do a lot of digging and contact families and see what the veterans had left behind. Of the six guys that I follow in my book, only one was still alive.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-fall-books-a-broad-mix-of-literary-and-commercial-favorites-2/ | 2022-08-26T06:20:50Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-fall-books-a-broad-mix-of-literary-and-commercial-favorites-2/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Which white capris are best?
An easy-breezy summertime look is capri pants. Not quite pants and not quite shorts, this in-between style is perfect for day or night in warm weather. White is the ultimate summer look for this cropped style.
You can find yoga pants in capri lengths as well as loose-fitting cotton ones for working out. Jean capris are a warm-weather favorite. For a skinny-leg style that you can wear to work, Alfani Essential Capri Pull-On in Bright White is a top choice.
What to know before you buy white capris
Types
Capris fall into a few categories.
- Athletic capris are designed for working out. You can find form-fitting white capri leggings or yoga pants made of synthetic and stretchy materials. Cotton athletic capris are loose-fitting and can be used for light exercise or even lounging around the house.
- Jean capris are made of white denim. They offer a casual, versatile look that can be dressed up or down. Their silhouettes range from skinny to wide-legged to flared.
- Dress capris offer a more formal look that can be worn to work or special events. These are typically made of sleek materials, including polyester, rayon, nylon and spandex.
- Men’s capris aren’t as widely available as women’s styles, especially in white. Also called manpris, men’s capris feature a more loose-fitting cut and typically come in athletic or cargo styles.
Length
Capris can vary quite a bit in length. Shorter capris fall right below the knee and are also known as clam-diggers. Longer ones fall a few inches above the ankle, while others have midcalf hemlines and are sometimes called pedal pushers. When choosing a length, consider your height and what’s flattering on your particular body type.
Silhouette
There’s a wide range of silhouettes available. Tapered, skinny and straight-legged capris hug the frame and may be flattering on shorter figures. Wide-legged styles, including flared capris, may be more flattering on taller frames. Wide-legged cropped jeans offer an on-trend, vintage look with capris lengths.
Sizing
Capris are widely available in petite, tall and plus sizes as well as regular women’s and men’s sizes. If you’re shorter, consider a petite size so that the capris aren’t too long and fit like regular pants. If you’re taller, consider a tall size so that the capris are long enough and don’t fall at an awkward or unflattering length.
What to look for in quality white capris
Color
When buying a pair of white capris, consider if you want a true white or off-white color, such as ecru, ivory or cream. Consider tops you’ll be wearing with the bottoms when choosing a shade of white.
Pull-on
All legging capris are pull-on. Select dress and denim capris feature the ease and comfort of pull-on waistbands. Some also feature tummy control paneling, so be sure to check that this is a feature you want because it can be quite compressive.
Styling
One of the big questions with capris is how to style them, especially in the footwear department. Fortunately, denim and dress capris go with a wide range of footwear, especially flats, sneakers, wedges, sandals and heels. Virtually any top goes with capri bottoms.
How much you can expect to spend on white capris
Athletic capris cost between $10-$88. Jean and dress capris cost between $20-$120.
White capris FAQ
Can I wear white capris all year round?
A. Yes. You can wear capris during any season, though you might want to opt for a darker color during the fall and winter. Because of their shorter length, however, most people wear them in spring and summer.
What is the most flattering length of capris?
A. Fashion experts recommend choosing a length that ends where your leg narrows. If you’re short, you may also want to consider high-waisted capris if you want to look taller.
What are the best white capris to buy?
Top white capris
Alfani Essential Capri Pull-On in Bright White
What you need to know: These best-selling capris are the perfect length and can be dressed up or down.
What you’ll love: These pull-on capris come in a wide range of sizes, including petite. They feature a tummy control panel. The material is easy to wash and lasts for years. They can be worn to the office.
What you should consider: The leg opening is wider than pictured and not a skinny fit.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
Top white capris for the money
Gloria Vanderbilt Amanda Capri Jeans
What you need to know: These high-rise white capri jeans are comfy and stretchy.
What you’ll love: They fit true to size. The stretch denim is comfortable without riding up or down. The pockets are fully functional.
What you should consider: The pant legs are much wider than pictured.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
Worth checking out
Lee Women’s Relaxed-Fit Capri Pant
What you need to know: These soft, light denim capris are perfect for summer months for those who like wearing shorts.
What you’ll love: These jean capris are affordable. The material is stretchy but doesn’t lose its shape. With a waistband, belt loops and zipper, they’ll stay up, unlike other capris styles. The relaxed fit is not too tight and not too baggy.
What you should consider: The fit may be more flattering on curvier women, and the sizes are a bit inconsistent.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Allow us to be candid—the options for hair removal aren't great. Many of the solutions to get rid of unwanted hair (waxing, shaving, laser ) are either painful, high-maintenance, or both. If you're looking for a pain-free alternative to waxing or can't stand shaving your legs every day, consider using a hair removal cream.
If the thought of using a depilatory cream is giving flashbacks to irritation, rashes, and the smell of a fire burning, rest assured the formulas available nowadays are way better than you might remember. You also have a good amount of options to choose. Aside from Vaniqa, an FDA-approved hair-removing prescription cream, there are now a wide variety of over-the-counter options for every part of the body, including the legs, face, and yes, even the bikini area. Not to mention, you can also shop formulas made specifically for sensitive-skin types or those with coarse hair.
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46 Fall Nail Designs to Get You into Full Autumn Mode
It's time to get into the spirit of the season.
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The heatwave has finally made its exit, allowing a cooler wind to come through and remind us that fall is on its way. As we bring out those cozy knitted sweaters, knee-high boots, and this season's makeup looks, we can't help but wonder: what nail color should we be pairing them with?
It's been said before, but you can tell a lot about a person just by looking at their nails. It shows a person's attention to detail and desire to care for themselves to the very last fingertip. Plus, it makes taking a picture of your pumpkin spiced latte all the more exciting when there are perfectly lacquered nails to hold the cup!
While you can always opt for a classic maroon or orange, we invite you to get more creative with your nail color this fall. There's an endless amount of designs, styles, and color combinations to choose from, all of which embrace the spirit of browning leaves and cozy nights on your blanket. Take inspiration from the following 46 fall nail ideas, and let your nail tech hocus pocus some magic at your next appointment!
@majestyspleasure
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French Mani with a Twist
Try the classic french mani, but with a fall-approved maroon color and one nail in full paint. A stunning, minimalist look for the cooler months.
@brushedbyb_
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Shades of Brown
These show-stopping nails are sure to get you a few compliments. Each nail sports a different design yet they all look fantastic together.
@overglowedit
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Creamsicle Nails
These warm cream colors are both cute in design and color. You can never go wrong with orange and yellow hues in the fall.
@smile___nails
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Soft Neutrals
Maybe bright colors aren't really your style. You can go always go neutral and still incorporate a simple yet effective criss cross design such as this.
@heygreatnails
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Halloween Inspired Nails
Is Fall all about Halloween for you? Then opt for orange swivel nails that just *scream* pumpkins and spooky adventures.
@beauty.with.judyy
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Deep Brown Tones
Opt for a luxurious deep brown hue, a favorite neutral all year long but especially fitting in the fall season.
@melanated.mani
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Funky Fall Nails
Hop out of your usual comfort zone and get a little creative this season! Why not opt for some funky nail art, perfect for any Halloween party.
@samrosenails
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Green Swirls
Forest green tones for the fall really check the nails style box. This deep, darker shade of green feels cool and grounding.
@smile___nails
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Asymmetric Swivels
We adore good swivel nail art. Particularly when created in this deep red shade, you've got yourself a sultry and sophisticated nail design.
@paintboxnails
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Earthy Olive Tones
Another great example of earthy green nails - these two toned nails embrace the cooler and darker aesthetic of fall.
@overglowedit
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Orange French Tips
Take your classic French tips, but turn them orange in the spirit of fall. A simple yet stunning look that never fails to catch the eye.
@smile___nails
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Black Swivel Nails
Want to sport some black nails but don't want to commit to super dark nails? Then have some white swivels drawn in to recreate this chic look.
@melly.k.nails
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White Swivel Nails
Now inverse the colors to get this gorgeous set. Whichever version you go for, you're guaranteed to have a fall-approved look on your hands.
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Tortoiseshell French Tips
Now here's a look you likely haven't seen before: tortoiseshell French tips. But they sport the fall colors and are a fun design to try.
@brushedbyb_
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Matisse Inspired Nails
We have one word for this: STUNNING! These Matisse-inspired nails are on trend and simply jaw-dropping.
@nailsbysuman
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Greek Goddess Nails
A simple gold line across your natural matte nails creates this Greek goddess vibes look. Perfect for everyday wear or to match a certain Halloween costume.
@nailedbynashae
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Groovy Green Nails
These lime green nails are sure to garner some compliments. Perfect statement nails for an exciting season.
@iramshelton
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Cobalt Blue Nails
Cobalt blue is the new it-color, and this trend is sure going to last through the fall all the way into winter.
@opi
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Mix and Matched Nails
Why only go for one fall color when you can have them all across your ten fingernails? This array of warm toned colors works immaculately together.
@gossipandgloss
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Mixed Forest Green Nails
You can wear this nail art all throughout fall and into the winter. The white pinky nail adds a fun eye-catching detail to the overall look.
@heynailss
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Celebration of Orange
These nails are subtly Halloween themed, without drawing any obvious pumpkins or bats.
@lolo.nailedit
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Classic Black Nails
It wouldn't be a roundup of fall nail designs without at least one jet black nail option! This classic color never fails to look sophisticated and chic.
@opi_professionals
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Orange Nails
If we showcase the black nails, we simply must show-off the orange ones as well. These ones come with a little shimmer and sparkle.
@pinkpollynailbar
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Electric Blue Nails
If you feel that the neutral, warm-toned colors are a little overdone in the fall, then a deep blue design such as this is just as eye-catching.
@smile___nails
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Sunset Nails
How endearing are these three-tiered nails? Combined, they create a soft fall aesthetic that will look perfect on your hands.
@overglowedit
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Purple Perfection
Purple is a key fall color, particularly in the month of October. Try this unique design the next time you go to your nail tech.
@smile___nails
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Dotted Nails
Simple, easy to recreate, but impactful. This stunning set feels perfectly cozy and autumnal.
@nail.sundays
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Blood Red Stripes
Blood red nails will pair wonderfully with the spooky season. They're a fierce statement look that can go well with a few Halloween costumes as well.
@nailsbyalsn
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Edgy Blues
This dark, edgy look takes the crown in fall nails with their midnight blue shade. Leaning into the goth aesthetic, the shimmery ombre look will fit right into your fall activities.
@nail.sundays
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Edgy Maroon
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Like children, no two parents are exactly alike. The differences span all aspects of daily life. Some first-time parents have no trouble adjusting to middle-of-the-night feedings; others find this new schedule makes them desperately sleep-deprived. Some parents find pure delight in setting up elaborate arts-and-crafts projects; others would rather sign up their kids for a structured program outside the house. Differences abound—and that's because we're all inherently unique.
It's not just a parents' personality that affects parenting style, either. It's essentially everything that shapes an individual—their age and gender identity, their own developmental history, their morals and religious beliefs, their education level, and even their mental and physical health.
And while no one parenting style is necessarily wrong or right, it's important to understand how—and why—you parent the way you do, plus assess whether or not it's the right approach for your own child (also a unique person with individual wants and needs).
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To help you learn more about the most widely recognized parenting styles and identify which one describes yours, we consulted psychologist, family therapists, and behavioral health professionals. Overarchingly, the experts agree: There are four main types of parenting styles.
What are the 4 most widely recognized types of parenting styles?
According to Dushyanthi Satchi, LCSW, there are four parenting styles that are most cited by mental health professionals today and have been the most widely researched in terms of their effects on children: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved.
"These categories, created by Diana Baumrind in the 1960s, are basically distinguished by two factors: the degree of sensitivity to a child's needs and the degree of control over the child."
But what about pop culture references like "helicopter parent," "tiger mom," and "gentle parenting"? There are other styles that have been coined by various clinicians over the years, but Satchi says most clinicians don't typically utilize them because they don't have a lot of research to back them up in terms of impact on the child.
What parenting style is best?
Parents of all kinds typically just want what's best for their children, so it's no surprise they often want to know which of the aforementioned parenting styles is superior. But the truth is: It's a tough question to answer.
While experts generally agree with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which says "a balanced, 'authoritative' parenting style has been strongly associated with positive mental health and behavioral outcomes in children and adolescents," there are certainly some pros and cons to each style of parenting.
Let's take a hard look at each one, according to Carla Marie Manly, a clinical psychologist in Santa Rosa, California:
1. Authoritative
The parent consistently sets firm, clear guidelines and reasonable expectations. The parent is attuned to the child’s needs and creates a strong emotional connection. Safety, security, and predictability are the norm.
Children of authoritative parents tend to be self-starters, confident in their abilities, and grounded. Given their parents’ secure style of child-rearing, these children tend to feel very safe and trusting of the world and of others. These children are largely secure, enjoy positive mental health, and tend to grow up to enjoy healthy friendships and romantic relationships.
2. Authoritarian
Authoritarian parents are generally overly rigid. They tend to have unreasonable expectations and may frequently criticize their children. The parent sets the rules, bottom line—they're often unwilling to discuss or shift expectations in reasonable ways.
This parenting style can have significant, lasting mental health consequences. The child of authoritarian parents may be afraid to appropriately question authority or may have very poor boundaries. On the other hand, the child may become a bully or act with aggression in order to counteract the authoritarian parents’ unreasonable rules and rigidity.
On the upside, children of authoritarian parents may be high achievers, since they have always been held to such high standards.
3. Permissive
In this "free range" style of parenting, the parent is often concerned with being overly restrictive and, as a result, defaults to leniency and even a lack of guidance. The permissive parent may be under-attuned to the child’s actual needs in the hopes of fostering independence.
Children who thrive on independence may truly blossom with permissive parents, despite the lack of clear and consistent guidelines. However, children who have a higher need for safety, direction, and security may become highly anxious and insecure if the parents are permissive.
4. Uninvolved
The uninvolved parent lacks a sense of connection to the child. The parent is consistently preoccupied with self-needs, work, or other life issues. The norm is a lack of attention to child-rearing and unresponsiveness to the child’s needs.
Those who have uninvolved parents often have difficulties with stability and interpersonal connection throughout life. These children may have very disorganized internal and external worlds. Because of this lack of healthy interaction, unstable and ambiguous behaviors are common.
What’s your own parenting style?
The truth is: Most parents fluctuate between all the styles based on the situation, says Satchi. "Is it about safety? Higher control. Is it about an outfit on a a Saturday? Higher sensitivity."
That said, parents are categorized by which style they most lean into. Do you generally take a free-range style to parenting—letting your child explore the world around them without much guidance? Chances are you're a permissive parent. Or do you tend to have very strict rules—and punish your child for not following them? Maybe you're an authoritarian parent.
Still not sure? Here's a quick quiz to help you determine your own parenting style.
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30 Cool Amazon Gifts That Every Teenage Girl Wants
It's the GOAT gift list for young ladies.
Remember those days when you were a teenager yourself? Whether it was the golden age of rap and hip-hop (hello, 1990's babies!), New Wave of the 1980's, disco, punk and soul of the 1970s or beyond, being a teenager is a time that often stands out as one of self discovery, no matter what generation you belong to. The reality is that yesterday's teen is never really that different from today's teens, when it comes to attitudes to themselves and the world around them.
Although trends, cultures, and styles have evolved and will continue to change through time, the emotional ups and downs, and finding your own identity is something that all teenagers face across the generations. Being a teenager is all about the journey, enthusiasm, and sometimes daunting realization of where we find ourselves in a strange period where you are not really a child, but adulthood is still very much in the future. Especially when it comes to teen girls, they're mostly passionate about different things, whether it be music, pop culture, fashion, or the hottest TikTok trends. They're seemingly always in the loop and on the hunt for what's new.
Gifting teenage girls is not as complicated as it might at first seem. When you look closely at what their hobbies are, what book they're reading, or what Instagram posts they're re-sharing, you'll see tons of options ( like Oprah Daily's 11 Practical Gifts for College-Bound Teens) for gift inspirations.
While you are probably wondering what your kid enjoys as they tend to (sometimes) be picky and often private about everything. The first step to making gift giving easier is listening to them. Letting them explore their identity and finding their own voice.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing’s first spaceflight with astronauts has been delayed until next year because of repairs that need to be made to the capsule following its last test flight.
Liftoff of the Starliner capsule with a pair of NASA test pilots is now scheduled for February, officials announced Thursday. They had hoped to launch it by year’s end.
Boeing has launched Starliner twice without a crew, most recently in May. The capsule managed to dock with the International Space Station on the second go-around, despite thruster and other problems. Boeing program manager Mark Nappi said these issues need to be fixed before two NASA astronauts climb aboard, as early as February.
Some of the thruster trouble is believed to have been caused by debris. Because that part of the capsule was ditched before touchdown, “we will never know exactly what was the issue,” Nappi told reporters.
Boeing already was trailing SpaceX, NASA’s other contracted taxi service, by the time the Starliner made its debut in 2019. The capsule’s initial test flight with a mannequin was cut short by a string of software problems, prompting this year’s do-over.
SpaceX is gearing up for its sixth crew flight for NASA. Liftoff has been bumped to the beginning of October because of all the traffic at the space station.
NASA’s space station program manager, Joel Montalbano, said Boeing will have priority in February.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will accelerate the world’s shift to renewable energy because of price shocks in oil and gas, a U.S. climate envoy said Thursday.
U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Rick Duke was speaking at an Australian National University forum after meetings with Australian government officials on bilateral cooperation in transitioning to net-zero greenhouse emissions by 2050.
Duke described the Russian invasion that began six months ago as “one of the biggest geopolitical drivers at the moment” for a global shift toward renewable energy.
“What has sometimes been lost in people’s understanding of the reverberations on that front is that when you look at what countries are actually doing in response, it’s going to accelerate the energy transition,” Duke said.
“The European Union has tripled down on its efforts to deploy renewables and heat pumps and to electrify its vehicle fleet and otherwise respond to this crisis,” he added. “That’s going to take time … but the pace is quickening because of the conflict.”
Meanwhile, Australia plans to reduce its heavy reliance on solar panels manufactured in China, a Russian ally, by diversifying its trading partners as the Australian government scales up its transition to renewables.
Kushla Munro, who heads the government’s International Climate Division, said Australia was focusing on India in developing an international collaboration on the production of solar panels and green hydrogen.
Australia had also prioritized green energy technology partnerships with Japan, South Korea and the United States to avoid the supply chain constraints that have arisen through the pandemic, Munro said.
The Australian government elected in May has increased Australia’s 2030 emissions reduction target to 42% from the previous administration’s goal of 26% to 28% below 2005 levels.
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Even when it still had Lionel Messi, Barcelona took an epic 8-2 beating from Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarterfinals two years ago.
And Bayern won 3-0 home and away against Barcelona in the group stage last season as the Spanish giant without Messi had its worse European season since before the Argentina great’s 17-year run in the team.
On Thursday, Barcelona landed with Bayern yet again in a tough Champions League draw as coach Xavi Hernández’s team tries to avoid a second straight group-stage exit since losing Messi to Paris Saint-Germain.
Still, Barcelona has since recruited former Bayern forward Robert Lewandowski — the two-time FIFA player of the year who will now face his recent teammates — despite financial turmoil that has affected its ability to register and retain players.
“What a terrific story that we’re going to meet Barcelona with Robert Lewandowski,” said Bayern forward Thomas Müller, who played alongside the Poland international for eight years.
Inter Milan is another former champion in a group that boasts a combined 14 European Cup or Champions League titles. Viktoria Plzeň of the Czech Republic is the fourth team in Group C where only the top two advance to the round of 16.
Real Madrid has 14 titles of its own and will defend the trophy in a group with Leipzig, Shakhtar Donetsk and Celtic.
Shakhtar hosted Madrid in Kyiv last October — and lost 5-0 — but now cannot play in Ukraine during the Russian military invasion. Shakhtar will play “home” games in Warsaw in neighboring Poland. UEFA has banned all Russian teams from its competitions.
Messi will try for a second year to bring a first European title to Paris Saint-Germain, which landed in a group with a pair of two-time champions — Juventus and Benfica — plus Maccabi Haifa.
Another reunion after a blockbuster offseason move will see Manchester City’s star signing Erling Haaland going back to his old club Borussia Dortmund. That group also includes Sevilla and Copenhagen.
Coach Pep Guardiola’s team shapes as the early favorite for a first Champions League title in his seventh season and beat Dortmund — when it still had Haaland — 2-1 in both legs in the quarterfinals of the 2020-21 edition.
Liverpool and Rangers will have a rare England-Scotland clash in the Champions League. Their Group A that also includes Ajax and Napoli and promises a pulsating atmosphere in each stadium.
“This is a proper challenge,” Liverpol coach Jürgen Klopp said. “All of the clubs have quality, they all have pedigree and I would say they all have a chance.”
UEFA will announce a fixture schedule by Saturday. The Champions League starts early this season on Sept. 6 and end five weeks sooner than usual on Nov. 2. That is because of the World Cup in Qatar, which starts Nov. 20.
After six rounds of games spanning just eight full weeks, a three-month pause is taken before the round of 16 starts in February.
Fixture congestion caused by the first World Cup played in the European winter means the Champions League final is on June 10 at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, the city that hosted the draw ceremony Thursday..
It’s the latest scheduled final since the inaugural European Cup title match in 1956.
The 32 teams will share about 2 billion euros ($1.99 billion) in UEFA prize money.
Each team gets a basic fee of 15.6 million euros ($15.5 million), plus 2.8 million euros ($2.78 million) per win and 930,000 euros ($924,000) for each draw in the group stage. Payments increase for advancing through each knockout round.
It all adds up to the eventual champion getting around 125 million euros ($124 million) in UEFA prize money.
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The Miami Dolphins canceled their joint practice with the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday after a stomach bug sidelined multiple players, coach Mike McDaniel said.
“That was a unique curveball early this morning,” McDaniel said. “We don’t really know totally where it was coming from and are just trying to be overly cautious.”
McDaniel added “more than a couple” players have been affected and are exhibiting the normal symptoms of a stomach bug. A few members of the Dolphins staff have been affected and it appears to be contagious, he said.
The Dolphins, as of now, will still play the Eagles on Saturday night at Hard Rock Stadium in their preseason finale. It isn’t yet known which of the starters, if any, will play.
Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said no one on the team had exhibited any stomach bug symptoms. The Eagles held their own practice Thursday.
The Eagles and Dolphins practiced jointly on Wednesday in a session that highlighted what is expected to be a formidable connection between quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and receiver Tyreek Hill, who the team traded for in the offseason.
Hill caught a 30-plus-yard touchdown pass from Tagovailoa, beating veteran cornerback Darius Slay on a play. Slay appeared to be limping after, and he grimaced as he walked back to the sideline. He was in and out of practice for the rest of the day.
The same quickness and speed that Hill displayed in his career as a Kansas City Chief seemed to present issues for the Eagles secondary on Thursday as he continued to find soft spots in the coverage for wide open catches.
Tagovailoa, who is entering his third year in the NFL, showed timing and accuracy in his throws, getting the ball out quickly on one play when the Eagles sent a blitz and spreading the ball to multiple receivers.
Eagles receiver A.J. Brown, who was traded from the Titans earlier this year, opened the joint session for the Eagles’ first-team offense with a one-handed snag as he darted past Dolphins defensive back Xavien Howard.
The Eagles defensive front stopped most of Miami’s attempts at running the ball. Most of the Dolphins’ rushing attempts were either stopped for losses or short gains, which is an extension of their run game so far in the preseason.
“More than anything really this preseason, we haven’t got stuff going because it’s been one or two guys off, which I’m more concerned about the players, whether they learn from that or not,” McDaniel said. “Joint practices generally you’re a little more comfortable doing, not the one-on-one version of your run game, pass game, defense.”
NOTES: Dolphins receiver Jaylen Waddle, who was held out of practices last week due to an undisclosed injury, returned this week. He didn’t participate in team drills Wednesday, but he did get work on the jug machine after practice ended. DeVonta Smith, his former Alabama teammate, later joined him. … Cornerback Nik Needham, who was hurt in the first quarter last week against the Raiders, left practice early and didn’t return. McDaniel said he is day to day, but the injury is “nothing to be concerned about.”
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FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys left tackle Tyron Smith is expected to return at some point this season after sustaining a torn left hamstring that also injured the knee, team owner and general manager Jerry Jones said Thursday.
Jones said during an appearance on ESPN that he wasn’t sure if Smith’s injury would require surgery but that the eight-time Pro Bowler would return late in the season.
A person with knowledge of the injury, which happened in practice Wednesday night, said Smith had a torn hamstring with a knee fracture that resulted from the tendon pulling away from the bone. ESPN first reported the injury.
Speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because there was no official announcement of the injury, the person said it appeared Smith would be sidelined until December.
Smith was injured during 11-on-11 drills when he went to engage linebacker Leighton Vander Esch about 5 yards downfield before crumpling to the turf. He walked off the field without help and later walked past reporters outside the locker room.
The 31-year-old Smith has been hampered mostly by back, neck and ankle injuries in recent years. Smith has missed at least three games each season since 2016. He played just two games in 2020 before season-ending neck surgery.
Rookie first-round pick Tyler Smith could replace him. Tyler Smith has been working at left guard but was the starting left tackle at Tulsa. He missed both practices this week with an ankle injury.
“We’ve played a lot of games without Tyron,” Jones said on ESPN. “Not as successfully as we do with him. But in the meantime we’ve got a guy named Tyler Smith who’s come on the scene.”
The injury is a major blow to an offensive line that was already in transition.
The Cowboys were counting on Smith and five-time All-Pro right guard Zack Martin as the anchors for a unit that is young and relatively inexperienced at the other three spots. Dallas probably just added a fourth spot to that concern.
Josh Ball, a fourth-round pick last year, has replaced Tyron Smith at times during training camp this year. Ball missed all of his rookie season with an ankle injury.
If Tyler Smith moves to left tackle, third-year player Connor McGovern is the likely choice at left guard. Before Tyron Smith’s injury, McGovern, who missed all of his rookie year with a torn pectoral muscle, was expected to start ahead of Tyler Smith. Tyler Biadasz, another third-year player, is the center.
Without Tyron Smith, quarterback Dak Prescott is missing the veteran blocker on his blind side and two other starters from last year’s line while moving on without top receiver Amari Cooper, who was traded to Cleveland in a cost-cutting move in the offseason. CeeDee Lamb is taking over the No. 1 receiving role from Cooper.
The defending NFC East champs, who lost a wild-card game at home to San Francisco in January, open the season with two tough home games. The opener is against Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sept. 11 before Joe Burrow and the AFC champion Cincinnati Bengals visit.
“I like where we are relative to our skill positions and frankly, our challenge is in our offensive line,” Jones said. “The offensive talent has got to step up with the recognition that we can’t count on what you might have had up there.”
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Reigning National League MVP Bryce Harper is set to start for the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night, just two months after having his left thumb broken by a pitch.
Phillies interim manager Rob Thomson announced Harper’s impending return from the injured list Thursday after consulting with the star.
“One, you get a great hitter back,” Thomson said before a game against Cincinnati. “But he’s also healthy. That’s really important to us. To get another batter in that lineup makes a lot (of difference) … everyone knows how great a hitter he is.”
Harper was 5 for 8 with two home runs, two doubles and six RBIs in a two-game rehabilitation assignment with Triple-A Lehigh Valley. His minor league stint was originally expected to last through the weekend, but ended after a game-winning RBI double in the ninth inning on Wednesday night.
“It all depended on how he felt seeing pitches, his timing and how comfortable he was in the box,” Thomson said.
Harper took off Thursday to recover from some soreness, but is set to be the designated hitter when the Phillies host Pittsburgh to start of a three-game weekend series.
“His body was sore just in general, so it was like fifth day in spring training which is understandable given he’s been out for two months,” Thomson said. “We told him to take a day and come here to work out. And we’ll activate him tomorrow.”
The two-time NL MVP was hitting .318 with 15 homers and 48 RBIs when the thumb was broken by a fastball from San Diego’s Blake Snell on June 25. He is likely to spend the rest of the 2022 season as Philadelphia’s designated hitter since a small tear in his ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow has kept him out of right field since April.
Since his departure, Philadelphia has climbed into the second wild-card position in the NL. The Phillies have gone 30-20 without him and had a team on-base/slugging percentage (OPS) of .752 while averaging 4.5 runs per game in that stretch.
Harper projected into the third spot in the lineup surrounded by Kyle Schwarber, Rhys Hoskins, J.T. Realmuto and Nick Castellanos.
“It’s huge because (pitchers) know where he’s at all the time,” Thomson said. “The same with Schwarber. They know where that guy is at all the time. So the guys in front of them tend to get more strikes and better pitches. Not all the time, but most of the time.”
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Britain’s overlooked rainforests are vanishing, but there’s a plan to save them
The unique, ancient ecosystems are home to a wealth of biodiversity.
Across western Britain and Ireland, you can find patches of damp and misty woodland draped in a cover of green lichens, mosses and liverworts. Increasingly referred to as temperate rainforests, these unique ecosystems harbour the largest concentration of oceanic lichens and mosses in Europe, including some found nowhere else on Earth.
Now at a fraction of their previous coverage, many are asking whether Britain should be doing more to protect and expand the areas it has left. But what actually are these rainforests of Britain – and how can we save them?
What are temperate rainforests?
Temperate rainforests, unlike their tropical counterparts like the Amazon, are found in cooler climates which intersect with an oceanic zone, leading to the most well-known characteristic of rainforests – high rainfall.
They exist in several areas across the world including the Pacific Northwest of the US, southeastern Australia and New Zealand, as well as western Britain and Ireland. The key thing about all these locations is that their humid climates are permissive for “a whole bunch of really special little things to grow on the trees”, says Rebecca Yahr, lichen biodiversity scientist at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh (RBGE).
These include mosses, lichens, liverworts, and other fungi, she says, many of which can only grow there.
“It’s this incredibly rare and unique set of species that all occur together,” says Yahr.
“Every bough is covered with an intricate mosaic of different colours, different textures, with spots, with speckles, with floppy places, with red spots, just all these crazy things.”
In Britain, these humid woodlands are found in several locations down the west coast, including in Scotland, the Lake District, Wales and the southwest of England. Here, a mix of the local microclimate and a position on the western seaboard where relatively warm, moist, air flows in creates ideal conditions for the rainforests to thrive.
“We have this sort of special set of climatic conditions that exist almost nowhere else,” says Yahr. “It's really very unusual where we have these forests.”
There is now a rising focus on the rainforest properties of these woodlands and the unique ecosystems they host. It might surprise some to hear that Britain has a rainforest.
In fact, temperate forests have long been considered as part of the broader term 'ancient woodland', says David Rickwood, the Woodland Trust’s site manager for several temperate rainforests in Devon including Fingle Woods. The terms Atlantic Oakwood forests or Celtic rainforests also refer to similar things. “[Temperate rainforests] are not that well defined,” says Rickwood. “And I think that is due to happen.”
How can we save them?
Britain once supported far larger expanses of temperate rainforest, but centuries of tree felling and land-use change has reduced them to small fragments. Temperate rainforests are also rare globally, says Yahr. In fact, the conditions for them occur in less than 1 per cent of the planet’s land, with 15 per cent of this occurring in Europe.
A “saving grace” for Britain’s rainforests is that most of the best examples are in places in the highlands, in the west coast of Scotland, says Yahr, which have seen both low impact of management and clean air due to their position with regards to local ocean currents. Other parts of Europe with potential for rainforest have been decimated by pollution, she adds.
Several groups are now working to protect or restore temperate rainforests in Britain, including the Alliance for Scotland's Rainforest, RSPB, Plantlife, the Woodland Trust, and the Atlantic Woodland Alliance.
Invasive species, especially the common Rhododendron, Rhododendron ponticum, are among the largest threats. This popular garden plant is at its optimal habitat zone exactly where the temperate rainforest zone lies, says Yahr. “Where it grows, it completely shades out the understory, and prevents anything else from coming in.” Removing it and keeping it out is extremely labour intensive.
Grazing by deer also poses a huge issue in Scotland. Further south, regenerating conifer and other non-native tree species is an additional problem, says Rickwood. “In most of my sites [in Devon] we're gradually removing the conifer and allowing the native species to regenerate.”
A rising effort in Britain aims to expand and connect existing patches of these rainforests together, says Yahr, while balancing people's use of the land. Networks are needed so organisms have corridors to move – especially in the face of a changing climate.
However, many of the species found in temperate rainforests are slow to move, raising the risk they may fail to keep up with the rate of change of where woodlands that might sustain them may be in the future, adds Yahr.
One way to overcome this is to experiment with translocations.
“We move them around and see how they do,” says Yahr. “They're not too bad as experimental subjects to be moved, and they seem to survive in some places.”
As other areas of Britain are subject to climate change, areas of temperate rainforests in deep valley systems could become even more important as reservoirs of biodiversity, says Rickwood.
What’s crucial is for these projects to have the long timeframes they need to regenerate naturally – including when it comes to funding, adds Rickwood. “A grant might exist for five years, but you can't do it in five years. You've got to have a 20-to-30-year timeframe.”
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Getting a good night’s sleep may help to protect you from heart disease and stroke
Nine out of ten of us aren’t getting enough sleep, and it’s having a huge impact on our health.
With our busy, stressful lives, constant noise and frequent distractions, most of us struggle to get the seven or eight hours’ sleep per night widely recommended by health professionals.
Now, a study of more than 7,000 people’s sleep habits carried out by researchers at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Paris, has found that seven out of ten cardiovascular conditions such as heart attacks could be prevented if we all regularly got a good night’s sleep.
The team analysed the sleeping habits of 7,200 men and women aged between 50 and 75, who showed no previous signs of cardiovascular disease, over ten years starting in 2008.
All of the participants underwent a physical health check at the beginning of the study and were then asked to fill in a questionnaire designed to score their sleep health based on five criteria, each scored from 0 – indicating poor sleep – to five – indicating optimal sleep. These were: hours slept per night, chronotype, frequency of insomnia, occurrence of sleep apnoea and frequency of daytime sleepiness.
Ten per cent were deemed to have optimal sleep habits and eight per cent poor.
The team then checked the occurrence of coronary heart disease and stroke every two years over a ten-year period, adjusting the data for a number of factors including age, sex, alcohol consumption, smoking habits, body mass index, cholesterol level and family history of heart conditions.
They found that those scoring a 5 on the scale had a 75 per cent lower risk of heart disease or stroke compared to those with a score of 0 or 1, with each point altering the risk by around 20 per cent.
“The low prevalence of good sleepers was expected given our busy, 24/7 lives,” said study author Dr. Aboubakari Nambiema of INSERM.
“Our study illustrates the potential for sleeping well to preserve heart health and suggests that improving sleep is linked with lower risks of coronary heart disease and stroke.
“Given that cardiovascular disease is the top cause of death worldwide, greater awareness is needed on the importance of good sleep for maintaining a healthy heart."
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Monroe fights back, but drops first game on new turf at Bunkelman Field
Monroe’s football team had a chance to write a storybook script for the first game on the new artificial turf at Bill Bunkelman Field.
The shorthanded Trojans fell into an early 14-0 hole Thursday night before fighting back to nearly take the lead right before halftime.
Momentum was lost after an opportunity to take command early in the second half slipped away and an experienced Jackson team pulled away for a 35-20 win.
“It’s a process,” said Michigan Football Coaches’ Association Hall of Famer Dave Mifsud who took over the Trojans this season. “We have a lot of growing to do. There are going to be growing pains.
“I liked that we kept playing hard and didn’t give up.”
Monroe punched out a first down on two running plays to start the game, then Jackson took over with an impressive 15-play drive that covered 90 yards and ate more than 7 minutes off the clock.
The Trojan offense went three and out, putting a tired defense right back on the field and Jackson quickly moved for another score.
The Trojans were staring at a 14-0 deficit with 9:49 left in the half.
Monroe answered with a 73-yard drive capped by a 35-yard pass from Ryan Sieler to Aidan Brodie then Jackson turned the ball over on downs and Sieler found Owen Yount for a 42-yard score.
Suddenly, the home team trailed just 14-13 with 1:36 left in the half.
The defense got the ball back and Monroe moved to the Jackson 15-yard line. A good-sized crowd was expecting the Trojans to grab the lead, but a pass floated just beyond the reach of a receiver as the clock expired.
Monroe’s defense got another nice stop to start the second half and the Trojans gained 7 yards on their first play, but the Jackson defense stiffened to force a punt.
Then, the Vikings seized command with three touchdowns on their next four drives.
Brodie caught a 52-yard TD pass from Sieler in the fourth quarter, but it was too little, too late.
“We got some momentum in the second quarter and showed some life,” Mifsud said. “When they stopped our drive in the third quarter, we kind of got delated.”
And Jackson knew how to close out the game.
The Vikings made the state playoffs last year for the fourth straight season.
“Jackson had 19 returning starters,” Mifsud said. “They have a lot of experience.”
Mifsud, meanwhile, didn’t have a lot of his starters on the field. The coach didn’t want to talk about injuries, but admitted that seven starters did not play on opening night.
Sieler completed 7-of-17 passes for 165 yards, showing great chemistry with Brodie (3 catches for 92 yards) and Yount (2 catches for 51 yards).
The bright spot of the night was Monroe’s new playing surface.
“It’s awesome,” Mifsud said. “It’s a great place to play.”
Jackson 6 8 14 7 – 35
Monroe 0 13 0 7 – 20
First Quarter
J – Gibson Drummond 3 run (run failed)
Second Quarter
J – Drummond 2 run (Drummond run)
M – Aidan Brodie 35 pass from Ryan Sieler (Nicholas Lieto kick)
M – Owen Yount 42 pass from Sieler (run failed)
Third quarter
J – Charles Thompson 12 run (Drummond run)
J – Kyson Cooper 12 run (kick failed)
Fourth Quarter
J – Thompson 44 run (Drew Bood kick)
M – Brodie 52 pass from Sieler (Lieto kick)
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing: Charles Thompson, J, 8-120; Kyson Cooper, J, 9-116; Ryan Sieler, M, 8-43; Dinato Gandara, M, 13-41.
Passing: Ryan Sieler, M, 7-17-165; Gibson Drummond, J, 4-8-72.
Receiving: Aidan Brodie, M, 3-92; Owen Yount, M, 2-51; Tavion Tanner, J, 1-40; Aamar Harrell, 2-21; Angel Rincon, M, 1-14; Kyson Cooper, J, 1-11; Drew Scznsny, M, 1-8. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/08/26/monroe-fights-back-but-drops-first-game-on-new-turf-at-bunkelman-field/65457640007/ | 2022-08-26T06:30:16Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/08/26/monroe-fights-back-but-drops-first-game-on-new-turf-at-bunkelman-field/65457640007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Zanger fights through nerves to lead Dundee to win over Onsted
ADRIAN – Ryan Zanger said he was nervous.
If that was true, he should win an Oscar for his acting performance.
Zanger looked poised as could be in making his debut as the Dundee starting quarterback Thursday. The sophomore completed 12 of 17 passes for 210 yards and 2 touchdowns as the Vikings beat Adrian Madison 35-0.
“I was pretty nervous,” Zanger said. “On the bus or no matter where I am at, I try and stay calm, but to be honest I was a little nervous to start the game.
He didn’t show any jitters. Madison kicked off to the Vikings who appeared to be pinned inside their own 20-yard line, but a face mask penalty put the Vikings in decent shape. Within two minutes, Zanger led them on a scoring drive and found Ethan Layton over the middle on a 25-yard touchdown pass to get the Vikings on the board.
“I got comfortable after the first drive,” Zanger said.
On Dundee’s next possessions, the Viking drive stalled inside the red zone, but Zanger hit paydirt again when he threw a beautiful spiral to Braiden Whitaker on a third-and-long situation in the second quarter for a 42-yard touchdown.
“We practiced that all week,” Whitaker said. “He just put it right there in the basket. He can throw the ball that good. It’s going to be fun year.”
Zanger credited the Viking offensive line with giving him time to complete his throws.
“We preach ‘do your job, do your job,’” Zanger said. “Everyone did their job tonight. We have a lot of skill players and great players all the way around.”
Dundee coach Steve Ayre was happy with how many Vikings touched the ball.
“Ryan spread the ball around to six or seven different kids,” he said. “We don’t want to be one dimensional. We don’t want to have just one target. We want to distribute the ball.”
Before half, Dundee would get two rushing touchdowns, one from Zanger on a 6-yard run and one from Colton Bordine, who burst through the defensive line on a 35-yard run. The Vikings led 28-0 at halftime. Cooper Buhl scored on a short run with 2:45 left in the third quarter. The entire fourth quarter was played under a running clock.
The Vikings played in all facets of the game. Brayden Ratliff kicked five extra points and boomed all but one kickoff into the Madison end zone. The Viking defense held Madison to just four first downs. Whitaker had four catches for 108 yards. Four Viking backs had at least 20 yards rushing.
Ayre said the Vikings played a lot of guys on the hot night.
“We knew we were going to get their best shot right away,” Ayre said. “We wanted to make sure we executed and that was good. We used some of our depth in there, especially at running back.”
Dundee 7 21 7 0 – 35
Madison 0 0 0 0 – 0
First Quarter
D – Ethan Layton 25 pass from Ryan Zanger (Brayden Ratliff kick)
Second Quarter
D – Braiden Whitaker 42 pass from Zanger (Ratliff kick)
D – Zanger 7 run (Ratliff kick)
D – Colten Bordine 35 run (Ratliff kick)
Third Quarter
D – Cooper Buhl 4 run (Ratliff kick)
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing: Colton Bordine, D, 8-43; Cooper Buhl, D, 3-24.
Passing: Ryan Zanger, D, 12-17-210; Drew Bolster, D, 2-3-16
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Ohio authorities are hoping to identify a man whose remains were found 35 years ago and have released images of a facial reconstruction in the hopes that someone may recognize him.
The man's partial skeletal remains were discovered on September 10, 1987, near Mount Hope Cemetery in Youngstown, Ohio, according to a news release from the state Attorney General's office. Investigators believe the remains were at that location for 3 to 5 years before they were discovered, the release said.
Anthropological analysis suggests the remains belong to a Black male between the ages of 30 and 44 years old, the office said.
Images of the clay reconstruction were released Thursday showing the person's face at several angles. Authorities are asking anyone with information about the "John Doe" to reach out to the Mahoning County Coroner's Office.
"This face represents a brother, son or father who needs to reclaim his identity and be given the dignity that he deserves," Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said in the release. "BCI assists law enforcement and helps families reunited with their loved ones because everybody is somebody to someone."
In a public bulletin released to the public, the attorney general's office cautioned that the artist who created the reconstruction added features such as a hairstyle as "estimations to complete the image" but they "should not be considered as significant markers for identification."
His weight, height, hair color and eye color are unknown, the office said.
Ohio Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the Mahoning County Coroner's Office and the Youngstown Police Department collaborated to release the reconstruction, the release said.
Youngstown is about 75 miles east of Cleveland.
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COVINA — On a night when Northview’s rushing attack could do anything it wanted against Charter Oak’s defense, the Chargers’ new toy at quarterback, senior Richie Munoz, bailed them out with a bigtime performance.
Charter Oak quarterback Richie Munoz #2 passes against Northview in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Jayden Alexander #7 runs for a first down over Northview Dylan Ochoa #13 in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Zakkarii Black #13 catches a pass and runs for a touchdown against Northview in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak head coach Dom Farrar reacts against Northview in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Northview Angel Barraza #9 runs for a first down against Charter Oak in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Northview Angel Barraza #9 runs for a first down against Charter Oak in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Zakkarii Black #13 celebrates after a touchdown against Northview in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak coach LaVar Arrington reacts against Northview in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Northview Randle Tebo #12 drops a punt as Charter Oak Trevor Dultz #9 makes the tackle in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Northview Angel Barraza #9 runs for a first down against Charter Oak in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Mubarak Odubiyi #99 sacks Northview quarterback James Arellanes #16 in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Northview free safety Matthew Martinez #10 knocks away a pass intended for Charter Oak wide receiver Jacob Hernandez #14 in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Jayden Alexander #7 runs for a first down over Northview Dylan Ochoa #13 in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak head coach Dom Farrar reacts against Northview in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Northview Randle Tebo #12 drops a punt as Charter Oak Trevor Dultz #9 makes the tackle in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Mubarak Odubiyi #99 reacts after sacking Northview quarterback James Arellanes #16 in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Mubarak Odubiyi #99 sacks Northview quarterback James Arellanes #16 in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Northview wide receiver Aaron Silva #1 can’t reach a pass over Charter Oak Langston Taylor #3 in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Solomon Davis #6 runs for a touchdown against Northview in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Northview running back Keanu Tauvao #8 runs for touchdown against Charter Oak in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak quarterback Richie Munoz #2 is upended by Northview Angel Barraza #9 as he scrambles for yardage in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak quarterback Richie Munoz #2 is upended by Northview Angel Barraza #9 as he scrambles for yardage in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak quarterback Richie Munoz #2 is upended by Northview Angel Barraza #9 as he scrambles for yardage in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Zakkarii Black #13 runs for yardage against Northview Angel Barraza #9 in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak quarterback Richie Munoz #2 scrambles against Northview in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Mubarak Odubiyi #99 looks on prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Northview quarterback James Arellanes #16 can’t hold onto a snap along with Northview running back Keanu Tauvao #8 against Charter Oak in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak head coach Dom Farrar, left, along with coach LaVar Arrington reacts against Northview in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak quarterback Richie Munoz #2 scrambles against Northview in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak head coach Dom Farrar reacts against Northview in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak defense stops Northview Angel Barraza #9 for a loss of yards in the first half of a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak prepare in the locker room prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak player wearing The Mystery Machine gloves in the locker room prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Isaiah Johnson #15 adjusts his uniform in the locker room prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak quarterback Richie Munoz #2 walks onto the field as teammates Mubarak Odubiyi #99 and Aleksander Gavaghan #52 hold hands with the rest of the team prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Armando Murillo #11 in the locker room prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak running back Makhi Hatch #21 has his pads adjusted in the locker room prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Trevor Dultz #9 takes a quiet moment to prepare in the locker room prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Langston Taylor #3 puts on his eye black in the locker room prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Armando Murillo #11 places eye black on teammate Charter Oak Reggie Haynes #5 in the locker room prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Armando Murillo #11 runs onto the field with teammates prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Armando Murillo #11 wearing the Big Lou shirt in the locker room prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Armando Murillo #11 places eye black on teammate Charter Oak Reggie Haynes #5 in the locker room prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak walks toward the field prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak in the locker room prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak head coach Dom Farrar eyes his team as they make their way out of the locker room prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak runs onto the field prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak quarterback Richie Munoz #2 prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Aleksander Gavaghan #52 on the floor prepares in the locker room prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak Trevor Dultz #9 in the locker room prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Coach Evan Williams talks to his players in the first half of a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak LaVar Arrington coach talks to his players in the first half of a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak with Big Lou stickers on their helmet in honor of Lou Farrar prior to a prep football game between the Charter Oak and the Northview at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Charter Oak head coach Dom Farrar talks his team after defeating Northview 38-24 during a prep football game at Covina District Field in Covina on Thursday, August 25, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Munoz, a transfer from La Salle, had quite a debut, throwing for 355 yards and five touchdowns to lead Charter Oak to a 38-24 victory in the Chargers’ season opener.
The Chargers fell behind 7-0, but scored three touchdowns in the second quarter, including two in the final two minutes of the first half to take a 21-10 halftime lead to regain control.
“As soon as we got into rhythm, we started executing,” Munoz said. “We didn’t have a scrimmage or a week zero, so I think that played a factor (in starting slow). But I’m super proud of my team and my offensive line the way we bounced back and kept scoring, and we got stops when we needed too.”
Charter Oak QB Richie Munoz after throwing for 355 yards and 5 TDs in 38-24 win over Northview pic.twitter.com/B15YPYPPZm
Northview opened the season with a 10-0 victory over Muir. But even though it won the CIF-SS Division 10 championship last year, it’s worst loss came agaisnt the Chargers, and it figured to be more of the same with the Chargers’ adding several transfers with other key pieces back.
But it wasn’t the case. Northview dominated up front, rushing for nearly 400 yards. Keanu Tauvao rushed for 240 yards and three touchdowns with Angel Barraza rushing for 118 yards. Even Dwayne Thompson ran for 37.
The Vikings just couldn’t stop the Chargers’ big plays, and that was the difference.
“I think we were the more physical team and we were able to ground and pound all night,” Northview coach Marcel Perez said. “Sometimes you have to eliminate the big play and that’s where we have to make some plays and we will go back and correct some things and we will be fine.”
Northview coach Marcel Perez talks about 38-24 loss to Charter Oak, even though they rushed for nearly 400 yards. pic.twitter.com/45WzknmrMw
Barraza got the Vikings going with a 50-yard run on their opening drive and Tauvao scored later on a 12-yard run for a 7-0 lead.
The Chargers finally got it going.
Munoz delivered a strike down the sidelines to Solomon Davis for 29 yards, then finished the drive hitting Davis again for a 14-yard touchdown pass to tie the score, 7-7.
Northview put together a good drive and had the ball at the Chargers’ 1, but they eventually had to settle for Joseph Gutierrez’s 23-yard field goal for a 10-7 lead with 2:12 left in the half.
That was costly, because the Chargers and Munoz showed how quickly momentum can change.
Munoz found speedy back Zakkarri Black over the middle for a short pass and Black did the rest, outracing defenders 85-yard for a touchdown and 14-10 lead with 1:52 left.
The Chargers got another stop and Munoz went to work in the final minute of the half.
Munoz completed a 36-yard pass to Isaiah Johnson with seven seconds left, and then floated a nine-yard strike in the corner to Jayden Alexander for a touchdown with two seconds left to give the Chargers a 21-10 lead at the break.
After a Munoz 30-yard touchdown pass to Nathan Alvarado pushed the Chargers ahead 28-10, it looked like they might run away with it.
But the Vikings fought back.
Tauvao followed a 55-yard run with a four-yard touchdown, and then he scored again on a 14-yard touchdown with 2:38 left in the third quarter to cut the Chargers’ lead to 28-24.
But they could not stop Munoz, who threw a 53-yard touchdown pass to Isaiah Johnson to go back up 35-24, and then the Chargers’ defense finally got stops late to close it out.
“I got the utmost respect for what they’re doing at Northview and their coaching staff,” Charter Oak coach Dom Farrar said. “They’re a tough football team, and we know when everything’s said and done they’re going to be one of those last teams standing.
“For our part, we defintely got some work ahead of us. It wasn’t a pretty football game, but what I was most proud of is our kids never quit.”
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When you’re facing off against a top 15 team and you yourself are not ranked in the top 25, you kind of have to not make any mistakes if you want to get the win, even at home.
That wasn’t the case with Marquette men’s soccer on Thursday night as they started off the season against #11 Tulsa. The final margin was 4-2 favoring the ranked visitors at Valley Fields, but even with Tulsa only winning the shots battle 18-16, Marquette kind of handed the Golden Hurricane the game.
How else are we supposed to talk about an own goal skittering past freshman netminder Ludwig Malberg in his first ever appearance and start in the 30th minute to give the game its first goal? 1-0 Hurricane, and they made it 2-0 just under four minutes later.
That stayed that way thru halftime, and the visitors tacked on what would turn into the game winning goal in the 54th minute. 3-0 with nearly an hour gone, which is not great, and made worse by the own goal.
Marquette finally broke through in the 65th minute, but the Golden Eagles didn’t do it by particularly fancy footwork. No, it was a foul at the top of the box that led to Lukas Sunesson roofing a penalty kick to make it 3-1.
65' | MU - 1 | TU - 3 | Lukas Sunesson scores on the PK! #WeAreMarquette pic.twitter.com/lWgQ1WdEXW
— Marquette Soccer (@marquettesoccer) August 25, 2022
MU went nearly 13 minutes without a shot following that, which is kind of bad since you kind of need to put goals up in a hurry in this kind of situation. Tulsa put one more past Malberg in the 84th minute to make it academic, but the Golden Eagles did scoot one past TU keeper Alex Lopez in the final minute of the game to give us our final score.
90' | MU - 2 | TU - 4 | Edrey Caceres finds the back of the net - assisted by Abdoul Karim Pare!#WeAreMarquette pic.twitter.com/y1DdK2Zky6
— Marquette Soccer (@marquettesoccer) August 26, 2022
The combo play from Abdoul Karim Pare to Edrey Caceres ended up being the first legitimate run of play goal by either Marquette soccer team this season, and considering that it took nearly three full matches in order to get us there….. yeah, that’s not exactly burgeoning us with optimism, is it?
FUN FACT: I’m typing this during halftime of the women’s game on Thursday night, and they’re currently down 1-0 to Milwaukee, thus extending their streak of a lack of run of play scoring.
Anyway, it’s Match #1 of the year, and it’s against the toughest opponent Marquette is going to play before Big East action starts. Learning experience, etc., etc., and we’ll see what happens next time out…..
Up Next: …. Which is coming up on Sunday afternoon against Utah Tech. First kick on that game will be at 2:05 pm Central time. The Trailblazers are trailing 3-0 at halftime against Wisconsin in their season opener as I write this. | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/8/25/23322722/marquette-golden-eagles-mens-soccer-recap-tulsa-golden-hurricane-sunesson-caceres | 2022-08-26T06:50:43Z | anonymouseagle.com | control | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/8/25/23322722/marquette-golden-eagles-mens-soccer-recap-tulsa-golden-hurricane-sunesson-caceres | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FaithAction International Names Interim Executive Director
Guilford County- On Wednesday evening, by a unanimous vote, the Board of Directors of FaithAction International voted to install Jose Bernal as the agency’s Interim Executive Director.
Bernal, who had most recently been serving as FaithAction’s Associate Director, begin working for the agency in 2016 as an Americorp member. “Jose has served this agency and his community well for the last 6 years,” said Board Chair Adriana Galdo Adams, “and our board of directors has every confidence he’ll continue doing so in his new role.”
Jose, originally from Mexico, moved to the U.S. at the age of five. Raised in suburban and predominant minority neighborhoods, he became engaged in issues affecting the immigrant community. Jose is a Guilford College graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and minors in Community Problem Solving and Latin American Studies.
“I am honored to be offered this opportunity to serve as Interim Executive Director at FaithAction International after serving for over six years,” said Bernal. “Our team looks forward to continuing to carry out the impactful work this strong and resilient organization provides to the community. We are committed to proceed with our work and grateful for the ongoing support of our partners, donors, and volunteers.”
While the agency is under Bernal’s good care, the board of directors is hard at work putting together a solid job description and search committee for the next permanent Executive Director.
“While Jose leads the amazing staff of FaithAction in the good work of serving and advocating alongside our newest neighbors, our board of directors will take on the task of searching for the next Executive Director”, said Adams. “This, too, is important work. We are determined to find the right fit and also committed to insuring that they are someone not only with training in immigrant issues but also lived experience. Our board sees this as a vital part of continuing to move forward in the important equity and belonging work that many in our community begin in 2020. We know our Executive level leadership must reflect our spoken commitment to change and the community we serve.”
FaithAction International invites you to come celebrate this announcement of leadership at this weekend’s Unity Walk and Festival in downtown Greensboro at Lebauer Park Sat., Aug.27. The walk, an advocacy march to show unity in our community and support for welcoming all people no matter their country of origin, begins at 10am. A festival celebrating the diversity of our community will begin shortly after and last until 3pm. All events are free to the community, however donations to support FaithAction International and other immigrant and refugee service organizations in their work can be made at www.faithaction.org. | https://www.yesweekly.com/business/faithaction-international-names-interim-executive-director/article_da9bef12-24ce-11ed-943a-bfa9b3149fee.html | 2022-08-26T06:52:54Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/business/faithaction-international-names-interim-executive-director/article_da9bef12-24ce-11ed-943a-bfa9b3149fee.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Cavalry troopers from Ace Troop, 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division conduct water insertion and foot patrols through Bellows Field Beach Park Aug. 24, 2022. The joint amphibious insertion with Marines was part of a two-week multi-echelon exercise designed to validate Brigade Capability Set Integration (CSI), train and certify lethal companies, troops and batteries, and exercise the Warriors’ sustainment capacity in a dynamic and complex battlefield against a reacting enemy. (U.S. Army photo by: Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Duval)
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Cavalry troopers from Ace Troop, 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division conduct water insertion and foot patrols through Bellows Field Beach Park Aug. 24, 2022. The joint amphibious insertion with Marines was part of a two-week multi-echelon exercise designed to validate Brigade Capability Set Integration (CSI), train and certify lethal companies, troops and batteries, and exercise the Warriors’ sustainment capacity in a dynamic and complex battlefield against a reacting enemy. (U.S. Army photo by: Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Duval)
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Cavalry troopers from Ace Troop, 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division conduct water insertion and foot patrols through Bellows Field Beach Park Aug. 24, 2022. The joint amphibious insertion with Marines was part of a two-week multi-echelon exercise designed to validate Brigade Capability Set Integration (CSI), train and certify lethal companies, troops and batteries, and exercise the Warriors’ sustainment capacity in a dynamic and complex battlefield against a reacting enemy. (U.S. Army photo by: Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Duval)
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Cavalry troopers from Ace Troop, 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division conduct water insertion and foot patrols through Bellows Field Beach Park Aug. 24, 2022. The joint amphibious insertion with Marines was part of a two-week multi-echelon exercise designed to validate Brigade Capability Set Integration (CSI), train and certify lethal companies, troops and batteries, and exercise the Warriors’ sustainment capacity in a dynamic and complex battlefield against a reacting enemy. (U.S. Army photo by: Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Duval)
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News that the ULEZ could be extended closer towards the Kent border has divided opinion among our readers. Proposed plans to expand the Ultra Low Emission Zone would see areas such as Orpington, Bexleyheath and Biggin Hill included in the catchment area.
If proposed plans were approved, the zone would sit just outside of towns like Dartford and Sevenoaks and would affect roads such as the A2, A20 and A21. Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has asked Transport For London (TfL) to consult on the expansion proposals, which if approved would see the changes come into effect on August 29, 2023.
The ULEZ area would see motorists who are driving the most polluting vehicles charged a fee. Vehicles that do not meet the necessary requirements are charged £12.50 a day in the current ULEZ.
READ MORE: Take part in our survey to have your say on the proposed ULEZ plans
This rule would also apply to residents living within the ULEZ. The proposals include exemptions for taxis, specialist vehicles, private hire vehicles conveying wheelchair users and NHS patient transport. Do you think the ULEZ should be scrapped? Have your say in the comments below
Sadiq Khan said: "The air Londoners breathe is so toxic it stunts children’s lungs, exacerbates chronic illness and contributes to thousands of premature deaths each year. More than half of the 500,000 Londoners with asthma live in outer London and all areas of London still breach safe levels of pollution.
“That’s why my proposals for expanding the Ultra-Low Emission Zone is the right thing to do. Air pollution is not just a Central London issue and Londoners in the outer boroughs should be able to enjoy the clean air benefits the ULEZ brings.
Over on our Facebook page, there was plenty of mixed opinions on the matter. Steven Staples said: "My car is fine in ULEZ, so I say extend it to the coast! We need to clean up this planet"
Alex Cave offered a different view saying: "I'm all for low emissions but this is a privilege tax. What if you can't afford to upgrade your old banger?"
Christopher Martin added: "Time they subsidised new vehicles then"
We will be discussing the news with you below in the comments section - and you can take part. We'll highlight the best ones as they come in.
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One year ago today, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the southern coast of Haiti. It devastated the Caribbean nation, killing more than 2,000 people, razing entire neighborhoods just five weeks after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise. Since then, recovery efforts have stalled as intense gang violence and political instability are plunging Haiti into deeper crisis. Rachelle Seguin is a medical coordinator with Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French acronym, MSF. She joins us now from Port au Prince. Welcome.
RACHELLE SEGUIN: Thank you.
RASCOE: Can you start by telling us what's happening? Roughly a thousand people have been killed so far this year, and nearly 700 have been kidnapped.
SEGUIN: Basically, what I've been witnessing is definitely an uptick in violence, sometimes in pockets that are very well, unfortunately, known for this kind of gang violence, but also in some areas that weren't necessarily accustomed to it. It's been a really, really difficult year. There has been different issues with shortages in fuel. The currency is going on quite the downward slope, and inflation has definitely hit Haiti. So it's a really difficult situation in many different ways.
RASCOE: Many Haitians have fled, coming to the U.S. to seek asylum, but the Biden administration has been repatriating them. A report released by MSF on Friday says that sending people back like that is essentially a death sentence for more than, you know, the 26,000 people who have been sent back this year. Tell us about the conditions to which Haitians are returning.
SEGUIN: Well, certainly for people that have fled, often there's a reason. For us, specifically in MSF, we employ a lot of medical professionals, and we've seen people - director of hospitals, etc. - have been kidnapped. This has led to strikes in different hospitals. One of the largest university hospitals in Port au Prince was shut down for over a month, I believe, in the spring, kind of in protest of these kidnappings. And they've continued. It hasn't stopped.
RASCOE: Do you have any sense of the status of earthquake recovery efforts?
SEGUIN: It's definitely not finished. What we've seen is progress, but it's still - it remains slow, and there's still needs, facilities and other infrastructure that were completely destroyed in that earthquake. It takes time to rebuild. The violence that happens here - just getting the raw materials that are needed can be really difficult when different roads become more and more insecure. So maybe guys taking things with trucks down south have a more difficult time getting there, or just the importation process becomes more difficult depending on where things are received in the ports.
RASCOE: What happened in 2010 with the large earthquake at that time - were there security concerns then like there are now?
SEGUIN: Definitely, like, what we're living through now is more intense than in 2010. Certainly there was gang violence, and we were aware of it, but it did not affect us in the same way as it does today.
RASCOE: That's Rachelle Seguin, a medical coordinator with Doctors Without Borders. Thank you for speaking with us today.
SEGUIN: No problem. Thank you.
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On-air challenge: I'm going to give you two four-letter words. Add the same two letters at the front of each of them to complete two common six-letter words.
Ex. MIRE / VISE — ADmire and ADvise
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2. BILE / ROSE
3. RINK / TICK
4. LOON / TIRE
5. ORAL / ASHY
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Challenge:
We're in the middle of a two-week creative challenge. The object is to write a sentence using only the letters of any particular U.S. state. You can pick the state and repeat letters as often as necessary. For example:
OREGON --> Roger, go gorge on green eggnog.
NEBRASKA --> Sen. Ben Sasse's sneakers reek. [Note: Ben Sasse is a U.S. senator from Nebraska]
Entries will be judged on originality, sense, naturalness of syntax, humor, and overall elegance. *No more than three sentences per entry, please.*
If you know the answer to the two-week challenge, submit it here by Wednesday, August 17 at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: Include a phone number where we can reach you.
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AYESHA RASCOE, HOST:
A school psychologist is often the only person at a school who's trained to assess a student's needs, especially when it comes to disabilities and mental health. There's a nationwide shortage of them. And as NPR's Pooja Salhotra reports, the numbers among Black men are alarming.
POOJA SALHOTRA, BYLINE: When Chase McCullum was growing up, thinking about career options, the idea of becoming a school psychologist wasn't even on his radar.
CHASE MCCULLUM: A lot of kids, especially kids who, you know, kind of look like me, you kind of just see a certain role for yourself.
SALHOTRA: McCullum grew up in southern Mississippi in the 1990s. He actually planned on becoming a lawyer. But during college at the University of Mississippi, he started volunteering at a nearby Boys and Girls Club. That's when he realized he wanted to work with kids. So he looked up careers where he could do that.
MCCULLUM: I Googled it. I Googled careers.
SALHOTRA: And school psychology popped up.
MCCULLUM: Once I found out what it was and all the things that a school psychologist can do, I fell in love with it.
SALHOTRA: More than a decade later, he's still a rarity in his profession. I spoke to several Black male school psychologists who shared similar stories of just stumbling into the field almost by accident. Bobby Gueh, who teaches at Georgia State University's College of Counseling and Psychological Services, explains it like this.
BOBBY GUEH: The narrative and the conversation most Black men are having as a Black boy is, well, you need to find a job or go into a career that's going to pay you a lot of money.
SALHOTRA: That leaves a huge gap between the demographics of school psychologists and the students they serve. Black boys make up about 8% of K-12 public school students. Meanwhile, estimates suggest that Black male school psychologists make up less than 1% of the profession. One person put it this way - there are fewer Black men working as school psychologists than as players in the NFL.
GUEH: That representation of a Black man professional in the school building - it's almost priceless.
SALHOTRA: It's not just Black men who are underrepresented. It's Hispanics and Asian Americans, too. More than 85% of public school psychologists are white women, data suggests. Celeste Malone is a professor of school psychology at Howard University. She says these numbers are cause for concern.
CELESTE MALONE: What does it mean to have a predominantly white profession working with predominantly kids of color within a racist society?
SALHOTRA: She says part of the reason there are so few Black males in the field has to do with the role school psychologists have played in assessing students for disabilities. Decades of research have shown that students of color are disproportionately referred to special ed. And school psychologists are often the ones doing those referrals.
MALONE: It can be hard to reconcile wanting to be in a profession and wanting to support kids that look like you but then also learning more about school psychology and the role that it has played in the labeling of kids.
SALHOTRA: At some historically Black colleges and universities, Malone says...
MALONE: They may not really direct their undergraduate students to pursue that career because of the historical legacy of school psych and its involvement in special education.
BYRON MCCLURE: We have such unique training. Like, we are experts in human learning and child learning and child development and social-emotional development.
SALHOTRA: Byron McClure was a school psychologist in the Washington, D.C., area for about 10 years. He says that to bring more Black men in, there needs to be a major shift in the role school psychologists play. Instead of all the focus on special ed, McClure wants to see them use their expertise more broadly.
MCCLURE: Even at a level where, hey, I'm going to work with the homecoming committee and make sure that we are bringing a sense of joy into the school.
SALHOTRA: To do that requires more resources. The National Association of School Psychologists recommends one school psychologist for every 500 students. But many school districts don't come close to that.
MCCLURE: We need advocacy efforts so that nationally, we can get those ratios because when you do that, you don't just have to be in this test place role.
SALHOTRA: McClure has launched a new organization he hopes will serve as a hub and recruiting network for Black male psychologists. He wants to get those numbers up.
MCCLURE: We can't complain about it. We have to do something about it.
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The IRS is about to get a big infusion of cash.
As part of the massive climate and health care bill passed by the House on Friday, the tax collection agency is set to receive $80 billion over the next decade.
Some of that money will go to update decades-old computer systems at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). And some is for improving customer service, including a taxpayer phone line where nine out of 10 calls go unanswered.
Most of the money, though, is for stepped-up enforcement — to help the IRS collect more of the estimated $600 billion in taxes that go unpaid every year, much of it owed by rich people who under-report their income.
"By beefing up the IRS's capacity to go after wealthy tax cheats, you're going to be able to collect at least $400 billion of that over the course of the next ten years, and I suspect substantially more," said Natasha Sarin, a counselor for tax policy and implementation at the Treasury Department.
But there is bitter opposition from Republicans. The IRS funding passed Congress along strict party lines, like the rest of the Inflation Reduction Act.
"Imagine IRS agents descending upon America like a swarm of locusts," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned in an interview with Fox Business. "And by the way, these IRS agents aren't there to go after billionaires. They're there to go after you. They're there to go after your small business. They're there to go after your family."
Both Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig – who was appointed by former President Trump – insist the additional enforcement efforts will target the wealthy, not middle-class taxpayers.
"Let's be very clear about what these resources are and are not doing," Sarin said. "These resources are not raising audits on any small business or any household that makes under $400,000 a year."
The IRS had lacked financial resources
The new money will help to reverse more than a decade of under-funding at the IRS. The agency's enforcement ranks have shrunk by 30% since 2010.
As experienced auditors have left, the IRS has increasingly focused on simpler audits involving lower-income families — even though they account for a small share of unpaid taxes.
Researchers at Syracuse University found that 46% of IRS audits in the most recent fiscal year were aimed at people who receive the Earned Income Tax Credit — a tax break designed to supplement the income of low-wage workers.
People who receive the tax credit were more than three times as likely to be audited as taxpayers overall, even though they account for a small share of unpaid taxes.
"They're easy marks," said Susan Long, who has been monitoring IRS audits for decades as co-founder of TRAC, a non-profit research center at Syracuse. "Enforcement levels have really dropped, except for these poor, lowest-income group where you can just send a letter in the mail."
Millionaires have largely avoided tax audits
At the same time, Long said, the IRS audited just 2.2% of millionaires' tax returns last year – a steep decline from 2015.
"Most millionaires, they don't even look at their returns, even though all the studies show that that's where the money is," Long said.
The vast majority of ordinary wage earners already pay the taxes they owe. They don't have much choice, since their income is reported directly to the IRS.
Wealthy people have more opportunities to avoid taxes. Their income sources are often less transparent. And they can hire lawyers and accountants to sidestep the IRS, which is frequently outgunned.
"This has been a David and Goliath battle for far too long," Sarin said. "We're finally giving the IRS the tools it needs to be able to meaningfully police [tax] evasion at the top of the [income] distribution."
Sarin argued that stepped-up enforcement will not only enable the IRS to collect more money for the government, but also make for a fairer tax system.
"This is about bringing to an end to a two-tiered tax system, where certain taxpayers have the opportunity to evade, and other taxpayers are making good on their obligations and are fully voluntarily compliant — which is the vast majority of taxpayers," she said.
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JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:
A new NPR/Ipsos poll shows that misleading and false claims about immigration are widespread, and their reach may be growing. Our poll finds that large numbers of Americans hold a range of misconceptions about immigrants, from how likely they are to use public benefits to their role in smuggling illegal drugs into the U.S. NPR's Joel Rose reports.
JOEL ROSE, BYLINE: Let's start with a quiz. True or false? Most of the opioid fentanyl that's entering the U.S. is smuggled in by unauthorized migrants crossing the border illegally. That's one of the questions we asked in this poll because fentanyl seizures are up, and it's become a big election-year talking point for Republicans.
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RON DESANTIS: You have people coming across illegally from countries all over the world. And so what has that gotten us? We now, in this country, have the leading cause of death for people 18 to 45 as fentanyl overdose.
ROSE: Notice how Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida jumps quickly from the record number of migrant arrests at the southern border to fentanyl overdose deaths. But experts say that's not an accurate picture.
VICTOR M MANJARREZ: My name is Victor M. Manjarrez Jr. I am the director for the Center for Law and Human Behavior at the University of Texas, El Paso.
ROSE: Victor Manjarrez served in the Border Patrol for more than 20 years, retiring as the sector chief in Tucson. Manjarrez says it's true that fentanyl is crossing the border - a lot of fentanyl - but it's not coming over on the backs of migrants, who are often turning themselves in to seek asylum.
MANJARREZ: The probability they're going to carry some kind of illicit narcotic is probably close to zero.
ROSE: Manjarrez says some fentanyl is brought in by cartels who are using migrants as a distraction, but the vast majority is smuggled through official ports of entry, hidden in cars and tractor-trailers.
MANJARREZ: When you look at the chaos and clutter that occurs at a port of entry, just with the legitimate traffic - you know, trucks and personal vehicles - and so if you're looking at a couple of pounds of fentanyl hidden in that chaos - you know, if you're the bad guy, you kind of like your odds.
ROSE: So the correct answer to our question is false. Most of the fentanyl entering the country is not smuggled in by migrants. But if you got it wrong, you're in good company. In our poll, 6 out of 10 Republicans did, too. The latest NPR/Ipsos poll shows that misleading and false claims about immigration are making deep inroads with the American public, and not just about fentanyl. More than half of Republicans say - incorrectly - that immigrants are more likely to use public benefits than the native-born population, even though many immigrants don't actually qualify for most federal benefits. And large numbers of poll respondents say immigrants are more likely to commit crimes, even though studies have shown repeatedly that they're not.
SOPHIA JORDAN WALLACE: Once it gets out there, it's hard to correct, which means we have to deal with the consequences.
ROSE: Sophia Jordan Wallace teaches political science at the University of Washington, where she studied false and misleading claims about immigration.
WALLACE: There's a pretty long history of using different stereotypes and different negative framing of immigrants that have sometimes distorted facts intentionally.
ROSE: Wallace says there's a tradition in American politics of blaming immigrants for real problems the country is facing as a way to mobilize voters.
WALLACE: Regardless of whether there actually is an empirical connection between immigration and immigrants and those problems.
ROSE: Our poll suggests that the reach of some false and misleading claims may be growing. Four years ago, we asked if, quote, "immigrants are more likely to commit crimes or be incarcerated than the U.S.-born population." Back then, more than 60% of respondents correctly identified that statement as false. But when we asked again this year, less than half got it right. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
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In inflationary times, investors often seek safety in consumer defensive stocks with pricing power. One such stock is the Canadian grocery heavyweight Loblaw Companies (TSE: L) (LBLCF). As input costs rise for Loblaw, it can pass on these costs to customers because people will always buy food and other necessities. This, along with its consistent profitability, makes it a relatively safe company to invest in for the long term. However, it may not be worth buying right now near all-time highs.
We are neutral on the stock.
Loblaw’s Rally Looks Unsustainable from a Technical Perspective
Here’s the problem with Loblaw stock: it’s gone up too much, too quickly. The stock has rallied at a pace that is almost certainly unsustainable. You can see this in the chart below. Loblaw stock was on a slow and steady uptrend until early 2021, which is when the price started rocketing higher. It is now much higher than its 50-month moving average (the line shown in the chart) and even its 50-week moving average.
Many technical analysts will likely agree that uptrends can last a long time but that stocks eventually return to their moving averages. The same will probably hold true for Loblaw at some point – either by trading sideways for a long time or only slowly uptrending (to let the moving averages catch up) or by falling in price.
It may even be starting to lose its momentum already, as it reported earnings last month that beat earnings estimates, but the stock failed to rally on the news. Nonetheless, it’s still in an overall uptrend, making it dangerous to bet against.
Loblaw’s Premium Valuation Limits Its Upside Potential
The rally in consumer defensive stocks has led to Loblaw stock’s valuation being relatively high, limiting the chance for any more “easy,” sufficient gains, going forward. Indeed, its valuation metrics are high when compared to five-year averages.
For example, Loblaw’s forward price-to-free-cash-flow multiple is 17x, 14% higher than its five-year average of 14.92x. Likewise, its forward enterprise-value-to-EBITDA multiple is 8.8x compared to the 8.3x average, and its forward price-to-sales ratio is 0.68x compared to the five-year average of 0.54x.
Lastly, on a trailing-12-months basis, its price-to-book ratio is 3.55x, much higher than the five-year average of 2.46x. Similar to our technical analysis above, Loblaw stock can eventually return to its longer-term averages.
Do Analysts Think Loblaw Stock is a Buy?
According to analysts, Loblaw stock earns a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on three Buys and three Holds assigned in the past three months. The average Loblaw stock price forecast of C$129.33 implies 8.85% upside potential, which isn’t much to get excited about. Analyst price targets range from a high of C$154 to a low of C$118.
Conclusion: A Safe Stock with Low Upside Potential
Loblaw has been a solid performer over the years, and it will likely continue being one in the very long term due to its recession-proof business and quantifiable competitive advantage. However, in the short-to-medium term, Loblaw doesn’t look as attractive, as both technical analysis and valuation multiples suggest that the stock has gotten ahead of itself. Also, analysts don’t see much upside potential, suggesting that most of Loblaw’s good qualities are priced into the stock.
Alternatively, an interesting way to gain exposure to Loblaw stock while having higher upside potential (according to analysts) would be through shares of George Weston (TSE: WN). George Weston owns a 52.6% stake in Loblaw but has a higher implied upside potential (16.7%). It also has an interesting debt structure that makes it potentially safer than Loblaw.
All in all, while there likely are better opportunities elsewhere in the market, Loblaw stock is still a solid long-term pick for risk-averse investors. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/is-loblaw-tsel-stock-worth-buying-near-all-time-highs | 2022-08-26T07:14:27Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/is-loblaw-tsel-stock-worth-buying-near-all-time-highs | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Britain’s FTSE 100 index closed up by 0.11% at 7,479.74 on Thursday and the FTSE 250 down by 0.25% at 19,257.8 amid mixed signals. A boost from oil and mining stocks offered some relief, thanks to rising crude oil and commodity prices, but investors remain cautious ahead of an annual meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with a keynote from Jerome Powell, head of the Federal Reserve System, America’s central bank.
Britain saw further signs of a chill in its economy, with consumer spending on credit and debit cards falling by four percentage points – and spending on ‘delayables’ such as clothes (i.e. expenses which can be put off) down by eight per cent in the week to August 18.
The ONS says that this indicates that consumers are putting off buying things they do not immediately need as the cost-of-living crisis bites.
Meanwhile, borrowing costs rose in the UK, with benchmark 10-year borrowing costs hitting 2.7%, the highest level since 2014. The yield on two-year government debt rose to 2.9% on Wednesday amid expectations of further interest rate rises.
Energy stocks were the biggest gainers, with shares in Hunting PLC (GB:HTG) up 21% on the back of solid first-half revenues of $336.1m up from $244.4m in the same period a year before.
Likewise, shares in Harbour Energy (GB:HBR) leapt 10% on news of an increase in a share buyback programme by 50% to 300 million, as the company reported first-half free cash flow of $1.4 billion.
British business news today
Time to tackle the UK’s quantitative easing problem (FT)
Double dereliction of duty: Government failing to provide food and energy security (Daily Mail)
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Chipmaker Intel Corporation’s (INTC) CEO Patrick Gelsinger is making the most of the current dip in the company’s stock price. As per a Form 4 filing, Gelsinger accumulated 14,800 shares of Intel at a weighted average purchase price of $33.8617 on August 24, valuing approximately $500,000. The shares were bought in multiple transactions with prices ranging between $33.80 to $33.90.
Remarkably, INTC stock has been hovering around its 52-week low of $33.60 since August 24. This may have triggered Gelsinger to buy the stock. Notably, INTC stock has lost 32.7% so far this year amid the broader market sell-off.
Following the latest purchase, Gelsinger now owns 77,216 shares directly. In addition, he indirectly owns 266,530 shares of INTC stock through a trust.
As per TipRanks data, Gelsinger has been slowly adding INTC stock over the past couple of months through a series of both informative and uninformative Buy trades.
TipRanks’ Insider Trading Activity Tool also provides a comprehensive list of daily insider transactions and shows which top corporate insiders are buying or selling shares of a publicly listed company. Interestingly, TipRanks also includes a list of hot stocks that boast either a Very Positive or Positive insider confidence signal.
What is the Prediction for Intel Stock?
On TipRanks, INTC stock has a Hold consensus rating. This is based on five Buys, 16 Holds, and nine Sells. The average Intel stock prediction of $40.50 implies 16.1% upside potential to current levels.
Are Intel Shares a Good Buy?
Intel has recently signed a $30 billion deal with Brookfield Asset Management (BAM) to expand its chip manufacturing facility in Arizona. This will solve most of Intel’s chip-related problems in the long run. Plus, the passing of the CHIPS Act will be beneficial for the industry as a whole.
However, in the short term, a difficult macroeconomic backdrop, dimming demand for personal computers, supply chain bottlenecks, and the company’s internal issues are dragging down the company’s performance.
Intel missed both revenue and earnings expectations for the second quarter. Also, its guidance for Q3 fell short of analysts’ estimates. All these factors have made the analysts’ confidence shaky, and they prefer waiting on the sidelines until more clarity is sought. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/intel-ceo-buys-the-dip-in-intel-stock-nasdaqintc | 2022-08-26T07:14:46Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/intel-ceo-buys-the-dip-in-intel-stock-nasdaqintc | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
With abortion now being heavily restricted in many U.S. states following the fall of Roe v. Wade, social media has been filled with complicated and, in some cases, baseless workarounds that experts say should be intensely scrutinized before one considers pursing them.
Mandatory vasectomies, building clinics that offer abortion services on Native American reservations and placing children for adoption or foster care are among the most popular choices for post-Roe abortion workarounds, but experts say that these suggestions aren't realistic.
Here's what those researchers have to say about why these post-Roe workarounds are not as realistic as they may seem.
Mandatory vasectomies
When news hit that abortions were going to be nearly totally banned in several states, it was reported across the U.S. that calls for vasectomy appointments were increasing.
While many men were quoted saying they were doing it for their significant other or because they had no interest in having kids, Twitter was filled with suggestions, both serious and not, that men should be forced to get vasectomies.
Simple. Men will never understand the importance of bodily autonomy until they lose it. Now that the state has been given control over reproductive rights, makes sense all males should receive a vasectomy until proven fit for fatherhood. https://t.co/oFq536YpLI
— 🔥Reverend Dr. Aiden (@SweetFnLucifer) August 11, 2022
"I understand that they are trying to show how restrictive abortion [bans] are on the body and how unfair it is and how it is an attack on women, but I do find that they are quite tone-deaf when it comes to the very real history of eugenics and of forced sterilization of men," Georgia Grainger, a PhD student at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, who is studying the history of vasectomies, told NPR over the phone.
“if abortion is illegal we should make it mandatory for people to get vasectomies” ah yes because the best solution for the government policing people’s bodies is to police more bodies
— L (they/them) (@aquariusxmars) July 7, 2022
In a thread that garnered over 17,000 retweets, Grainger explained why the idea of mandatory sterilization is harmful to men, especially men of color and men with disabilities.
Eugenics in the 20th century was a form of sexism and racism in the United States, a report from the University of Michigan explains.
The report says that the first sterilization law came in 1907 from Indiana, and other states passed similar legislation almost immediately after. Currently, those laws still exist in 31 states.
I am a historian of vasectomy who is going to lose her shit if she sees one more feminists suggest "mandatory vasectomies" for men, that vasectomies prevent abortion, or that vasectomies are any kind of solution to this situation. Strap in, folks.
— Georgia Grainger (@sniphist) June 25, 2022
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Grainger said that there are ways to talk about unjust restrictions on bodily autonomy without suggesting further restrictions on other people's bodies.
"It's so long as it's voluntary," Grainger said, "and by choice, then any contraception is good, any reproductive choices are good in my book. But it's when it becomes not about choice, I think there's a real issue."
Building clinics that provide abortions on Native American reservations
The sovereign status of Native American reservations has brought up the idea of building clinics that provide abortions on reservations.
The tribal sovereignty that the U.S. has granted to Native Americans gives Native tribes the right to govern themselves and allows them to regulate their own affairs in-house, meaning they are exempt from laws like the bans on abortions that have taken effect post-Roe.
One suggestion that has circulated on social media is to start building clinics on reservations because they are sovereign nations where decisions from state governments do not apply.
What if we put all the abortion clinics on Indian reservations like we do casinos and the good fireworks.
— Dani Question the Anne Heche Narrative. (@DaniGraceHader) June 30, 2022
However, Aila Hoss, an associate professor at IUPUI's McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis, said that building clinics on reservations is much more complicated than it might seem.
"First off, legally, it's not as simple as, 'Oh, tribes are sovereign nations,' even though it should be," Hoss told NPR over the phone.
She said that the difference between criminal and civil laws, who is providing the services, and funding and tribal membership are among many of the reasons that providing abortions for outsiders is difficult for tribal nations.
Hoss said that practitioners on reservations typically work under a federally funded system called the I/T/U. The I/T/U is made up of three parts: the Indian Health Service (IHS), which is the federal government directly helping with clinics and other health services for Native Americans; tribal health services, which are IHS-funded health services directly handled by the tribes; and Urban Indian Health Programs, also funded by the IHS but handled by nonprofit organizations.
Medical practitioners within the I/T/U system cannot administer abortions on tribal land, except under certain situations, because of the Hyde Amendment. This 1976 law prohibits the federal funding of abortion, except in cases of rape, incest or the pregnant patient's life being in danger. This means that if reservations wanted to go forward with providing abortions for nontribal patients, they would have to use their own resources to bring in a practitioner who was not part of the federally funded system and who would not have some of the legal protections granted to practitioners working within the federal system.
For example, under the federally funded system, practitioners are covered from having to personally take on the financial brunt of a malpractice suit. But Hoss said practitioners not under the federal system wouldn't have this protection in the event of a medical procedure going wrong. She added that in order to build clinics that would provide abortions for nonmembers, tribes would have to want to take on these legal and financial risks.
Aside from the legal issues surrounding this idea, it also ignores ethical and cultural factors.
Hoss said that none of the suggestions for building clinics that provide abortions have come from tribes themselves, but have instead come from non-Native national organizations that don't think of the legal and ethical effects of volunteering tribes to take on the weight of a complicated issue.
Reproductive health care, including abortion, is already difficult for Native American women to access on their own land, Hoss said, so this suggestion of building clinics on reservations now comes only at a time when lack of abortion access is impacting the non-Native population.
According to a study published in 2014 in the American Journal of Public Health, over 80% of Indian Health Service facilities, the primary provider of reproductive health care to Native American women, were not in compliance with IHS and Hyde Amendment regulations because they did not provide abortion services in the event of rape, incest or the life of the pregnant patient being in danger. Only 5% of these facilities performed on-site abortions, and none had Mifeprex, a drug used for medication abortion.
Native Americans also have the highest poverty rate of any racial group in the U.S., which has negatively affected their access to proper health care.
"And so I think the first point is a reflection on why this was not important to you pre-Dobbs. Why are folks making these kinds of broad generalizations without thinking about the legal, the ethical, cultural impacts of this?"
Adoption as an answer
As protests took place across the U.S. on the morning that the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision overturned Roe, a tweet featuring a couple holding a sign that read "We Will Adopt Your Baby" became a meme.
The couple in the photo, Neydy Casillas and Sebastián Schuff, are lawyers who have spent most of their careers supporting conservative Christian legal fights. Casillas is tied to an anti-LGBTQ law firm, Alliance Defending Freedom, that has been pushing to transform the U.S. into a more "Christian values" nation.
My favorite sign yesterday. pic.twitter.com/6UsmNy8Q9r
— Noelle Fitchett (@NoelleFitchett) June 25, 2022
To convince people not to have abortions, many have suggested placing babies for adoption or putting them in the foster care system.
More than 100,000 children were already waiting for adoption in the foster care system in 2020, according to the Kids Count Data Center.
Dana Davidson, co-director of adoption and family support at The Cradle, which helps facilitate adoptions for families nationwide and internationally, told NPR over email that the impact of the overturn of Roe v. Wade and its effect on adoption will vary in different parts of the country.
"What we know to be true is that adoption is complex and is born of loss," Davidson said.
Davidson said that in the agency's experience, clients are not making the decision between abortion and adoption at the same time.
"Adoption is an alternative to parenting, not an alternative to being pregnant," she said.
States like Texas, which has a trigger law that banned abortion once Roe v. Wade was overturned, were among those with the most foster youth as of 2021, according to the project Who Cares: A National Count of Foster Homes and Families.
"I think it's also important to point out that while there has been a lot of conversation online suggesting a Roe v. Wade overturn could be great for prospective parents who want to adopt, The Cradle is not in the business of finding babies for families," Davidson said. "We are in the business of finding families for babies if and when the expectant parents decide that adoption [is] the best option for themselves and their families."
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KOOTENAI COUNTY, Idaho — It was standing room only at Thursday's town hall meeting with Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris, where he and his deputies discussed a wide range of issues they say the community wants answers to.
Those issues include how law enforcement an active shooter like the one in Uvalde, Texas.
"I would just like to assure you that your Sheriff's office is equipped and trained and prepared if that day ever comes here," said Patrol Lt. Zach Stifford. "We pray that it does not."
Families in Uvalde, Texas were outraged to learn that law enforcement waited more than an hour to confront the gunman. Kootenai County deputies say that wouldn't have been the case in North Idaho.
"Our primary focus and job as law enforcement responding is to stop the killing before we stop the dying. We are a direct to threat response meaning that we will step past any including our own to get to whoever is hurting our children and we will stop them from being able to hurt anyone else."
Another topic the sheriff wanted to discuss was the national media's coverage of the June 11 Pride event. Those reports mainly surrounded the arrest of 31 members of a hate group found in the back of a U-Haul.
But, Norris focused on an article in the Huffington Post, which covered the arrest and a Republican event Norris attended back in April, which featured some white nationalists.
"What they forgot to say at this supposed meeting of white nationalists and a far right bike gang was that the entertainer for that night was a black rapper," Norris said.
Norris faced scrutiny for his appearance last April. He said speakers were not publicized in advance.
"I do not support the speech that was used that evening on April the 16th, but I also do not support scantily clad individuals performing in a sexually suggestive manner to children," Norris said.
That comment outraged some LGBT members at the town hall, who called Norris transphobic. He asked one woman to leave.
Norris claims he wasn't singling out drag queens during his comments.
"I wouldn't want a prostitute to do that, a female prostitute," Norris said. "And so you made the assumption that I said drag queens. I never said drag queens. I said individual, adult individual."
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The Davis Pirates are still looking for their first ever win in the state football playoffs.
This year's squad is also trying to find several players to step in for seniors who graduated last year.
They've been putting in the work throughout the summer and heading into next week's opening game against Selah.
Senior Morgan Rodriguez said, "Our mindset is one game at a time, one snap at a time and do what we gotta do."
"A lot of it has just come down to making us competing against each other and the coaches really help with that," noted Senior Jamasen Carter. "Especially since they're competing against each other. Offensive coaches will keep score against defensive coaches. Just making us want to compete and fight against each other. It's really bringing up the intensity."
The Pirates beat rival Eisenhower last year in a competitive game and are hoping to use a 1-point victory over Wenatchee at the end the season as a springboard into 2021.
Quarterback Jason Chavez says they also do use Davis alum Cooper Kupp as inspiration and motivation.
"We want to win league but it's really just pushing the guys throughout the whole summer. It's long days, long nights. Just keep pushing. If we lose, next game we gotta play hot. If we win gotta play at that same pace."
The Pirates start the season at Selah, and then you can catch Davis on SWX September 9th when they host Ellensburg.
The first Big 9 game is at West Valley on September 16th.
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Pfizer’s experimental vaccine for a respiratory virus called RSV was nearly 86% effective in preventing severe illness in a late-stage clinical trial of older adults, the company announced in a release Thursday.
The vaccine, called RSVpreF, was also found to be about 67% effective in preventing milder illness from the virus and caused no serious safety concerns, the company said.
The results were based on an early analysis of a phase 3 trial of 37,000 adults ages 60 and older, according to Pfizer. The protein-based vaccine is administered in a single dose.
Experts say the findings are significant as there are currently no approved vaccines to prevent RSV infections, which are responsible for 177,000 hospitalizations and 14,000 deaths in older adults each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
An RSV vaccine for this population “makes sense,” said Dr. Ofer Levy, the director of the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. “There is a serious unmet need to protect older adults against viral respiratory disease, which can cause severe illness or even death in this age group.”
Levy noted that while Pfizer's results look promising, he would still like to see more data on the vaccine. The company’s results were announced in a news release, and it has not yet been peer-reviewed.
RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, occurs each year in most regions of the United States during fall, winter and spring. It usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms in adults but can sometimes lead to life-threatening illness.
The virus can be especially dangerous for older adults with other medical conditions, such as chronic lung illness or heart disease, with infection severity sometimes rivaling that of influenza, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Synagis, a monoclonal antibody injection, has been approved for use in the U.S. to prevent severe illness, but it’s only available for certain high-risk infants, like babies who were born prematurely or have a low birth weight.
Older adults who become severely ill from the virus are often treated with antibiotics in case there are bacteria in the lungs, Levy said, and may need to be placed in intensive care with supplemental oxygen.
“It’s so important to develop a vaccine,” he said.
Pfizer's vaccine is a so-called bivalent vaccine, targeting two strains of the virus called RSV A and B.
The company said it plans to submit a vaccine application to the Food and Drug Administration for full approval in adults ages 60 and older later this fall.
Dr. William Gruber, Pfizer's senior vice president of vaccine clinical research and development, noted that infections from RSV do not confer lifelong immunity, meaning people may eventually have to get another dose of the vaccine.
The company is still gathering data to see how long protection from the initial RSV vaccine lasts, he said, but it is possible it could become an annual immunization like the flu shot.
"We don't know yet," he said.
He said the company is also looking to expand testing the vaccine in other age groups, pending discussion and clearance from federal regulators.
The company announced in Thursday's release that a separate phase 3 trial testing the vaccine in pregnant women remains ongoing.
Gruber said he expects data on effectiveness of the vaccine for that cohort before the end of the year. "We are hopeful and optimistic that we'll have positive results," he said.
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in April found that pregnant women who received Pfizer’s vaccine passed their protective antibodies on to their newborns.
Schaffner, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, noted the importance of an RSV vaccine for children, especially those under age 5. The virus hospitalizes 58,000 kids in the age group each year, according to the CDC. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/pfizer-says-its-rsv-vaccine-protects-against-severe-illness-in-older-adults/article_aadd4c38-2502-11ed-9ff0-b78f39bbc0ef.html | 2022-08-26T07:32:06Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/pfizer-says-its-rsv-vaccine-protects-against-severe-illness-in-older-adults/article_aadd4c38-2502-11ed-9ff0-b78f39bbc0ef.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YAKIMA, Wash. - Expect delays on S 3rd Avenue on August 26 between Walnut Street and Spruce Street. Traffic will be limited to one lane in each direction from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
There will also be temporary water outages in the area during the work. The speed limit will be 20 mph.
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The headline is being reported by Reuters, referring to recent remarks by Saudi Arabia that what the oil market needs is perhaps production cuts. It looks like UAE is on board with that sentiment, though it is hardly surprising. If the warning by the Saudis on the physical market prove true, it's not so much of if but when oil prices will start climbing again. That said, Saudi Arabia is the physical market so believe what you will.
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DEAR ABBY: I’m having a hard time deciding what to do about my engagement to my fiance. We met at our old job. Before we got together, he was with someone else, and while he says he didn’t leave her for me, I am sure I helped.
I have low self-esteem, so I couldn’t understand why he left her for me. But he told me I was lucky he cared about me so much because he could have still been friends with her. I did tell him that I wouldn’t care as long as I knew. We finally moved into an apartment together, and he started a new job with an old friend he drinks with.
Since the move, he has become very verbally abusive, and I have developed anxiety and panic attacks. I have also developed a fear of driving. He tells me I need to quit being stupid and to grow up. He doesn’t like to talk about problems. He likes to pretend they never happened. If I try to discuss things that upset me, there is always an argument and I’m always in the wrong. When I work late or if I’m not home, he gets upset, drinks and breaks stuff.
He proposed a year into our relationship when things were OK. I’m trying to do anything I can to make this not miserable, but it’s not enough. What do you think I should do? — NOT REALLY HAPPY IN MICHIGAN
DEAR NOT REALLY HAPPY: When problems can’t be discussed, they also can’t be resolved. I think it’s time to calmly evaluate the status quo and decide if you really want to spend the rest of your life with an insecure, domineering, abusive partner who has a drinking problem. If the answer is no, make other living arrangements. Pack your belongings, inform him the romance is over (do this only when he is sober AND you have a witness) and leave.
If you have any reason to think this charmer may become violent, first call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233 to put together a safe escape plan. Believe me, you can do better than this.
DEAR ABBY: Whenever I’m out early for a medical or dental appointment, early church services, etc., I usually stop at a fast-food drive-through and bring home breakfast. My neighbor is a single mother who works at home due to the pandemic, and I buy something for her and her son and leave it on her porch. I remember times when I was still working and a co-worker would bring in breakfast treats, and how much I enjoyed them.
My wife has told me to stop because, she says, my neighbor will think I’m a “dirty old man.” My neighbor and I hardly ever speak except to say hello, and I never give her another thought. What do you think? — PASSING IT ON IN PENNSYLVANIA
DEAR PASSING: When you pick up those breakfasts, do you bring something home for your wife as well? If the answer is no, your wife may be insecure about the attention you are paying to this neighbor. From my perspective, what you have been doing is a kindness.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/dear-abby-i-got-engaged-to-a-man-who-left-his-partner-for-me-now-hes-become-abusive/ | 2022-08-26T07:47:43Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/dear-abby-i-got-engaged-to-a-man-who-left-his-partner-for-me-now-hes-become-abusive/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Roundup: Labishak's big day carries Rosecrans to victory
ZANESVILLE — Grady Labishak kicked in six goals and added two assists, as host Rosecrans rolled Heath 9-1 in boys soccer on Thursday night.
Garrett Pugh chipped in two goals and an assist, Jack Jones also scored, Evan Backus and Steven Porter each had an assist and Porter made 10 saves for the winners.
John Glenn 1, River View 0: The visiting Muskies picked up a big Muskingum Valley League win, but no other information was reported.
West Muskingum 1, Coshocton 0: Jacob Agin scored and Silas Bailey posted the shutout in goal, as the host Tornadoes used a second-half goal to improve to 1-1-1 after a league win.
Morgan 2, Philo 0: Sophomores Brylee Shannon and Tavian Myers each found the back of the net, propelling the visiting Raiders past the Electrics in a MVL road win.
Tri-Valley 7, Sheridan 2: The visiting Scotties built a 5-0 halftime lead in a MVL win.
No leaders were reported for Tri-Valley. Josiah Hamilton and Isaac McKinney scored and Dominic McKinney had an assist for the Generals.
Maysville 10, New Lex 0: Visiting Maysville picked up another impressive road win in the MVL. No other information was reported.
Volleyball
Sheridan 25, 23, 25, 25, River View 13, 25, 13, 17: Jamisyn Stinson's all-around effort propelled the Generals (2-0 MVL) to a key Big School Division win, as she finished with 17 kills, 17 digs, five blocks and four aces to go with 17-of-18 serving.
Alexis Bradley set up 25 assists with 11 digs, five kills, two aces and 16-of-16 serving; Alyssa Ward chipped in seven kills and three digs; Reagan Davis went 18 of 19 at the service line with 15 digs, five aces and three assists; and Rilyn Reedy made 14 digs and was 22 of 23 on serves with three aces for the Generals.
Kayla Dulgar paced the Lady Bears with 11 kills, 10 digs and 18 assists, while Cayla Shrimplin made 17 digs, Bailey Laudick chipped in seven kills and eight digs, Brittany Henderson was 100 percent serving with eight assists and Liv Spaulding hit eight kills with three blocks.
Sheridan reserves won 25-9, 25-13, as Addison Grosse had six kills and three digs, Lily Talbot 12 assists, Maddie Bishop 13 digs and Emma Doherty five digs, two aces, two digs with 7-of-7 serving.
Sheridan freshman also won, 25-8, 25-16, behind Maddie Stoltz with six kills, three digs and two aces, Ella Thomas nine assists, two aces and two digs and Mylie Forgrave five aces and five assists.
John Glenn 25, 25, 25, Philo 17, 14, 14: Hannah DeMattio hit nine kills with a pair of blocks and Kara Fields chipped in eight kills and four blocks, as the Muskies topped the Electrics in a Big School Division contest.
Lauren Blair sparked the John Glenn offense with 29 assists and made eight digs, Emma Briggs chipped in seven kills, two aces and 10 digs, Emma Dolan added five kills and six digs, Aleea Musselman made eight digs and Sarah Wayne and Graceann Hitchcock had five and four digs, respectively.
Bri Wolfe hit four kills, Addison Khune passed out 12 assists, Aleigha Busse made 13 digs with three kills, Olivia Winland had eight digs and two kills and Brooklyn Ferrell added seven digs and two kills for Philo.
John Glenn reserves (2-0) won 31-29, 25-19, as Alaiah Johnson had two kills, eight digs and two blocks, Lily Robinson four assists and Brelynn Barr two kills, two assists and two blocks, while the JG freshmen also won 25-9, 25-9 behind seven aces by Addison Moore and three kills, four aces and two assists from Addi Babcock.
Tri-Valley 25, 25, 25, Maysville 13, 14, 17: Eva Dittmar and Lexi Howe hit 14 kills each, as the host Scotties rebounded from Tuesday's loss by sweeping the Panthers in Big School Division action.
Ingrid Dittmar collected 26 assists, Eva Dittmar served six aces, Howe added 14 digs, Anna Scheurman made 11 digs and Sami Cameron had five blocks for the winners.
Olivia McPeek paced the Panthers with 16 assists and 12 digs, Rachel Jarvis added seven digs, five kills and an ace, Bekah Scott had seven digs and Haylee Cornett tallied three kills and two digs.
Tri-Valley reserves won 25-3, 25-19. Taylor Freeland had three kills and an ace and Rachel Gundelfinger three assists and two digs for Maysville.
Coshocton 25, 25, 25, Morgan 11, 17, 17: Lindsay Bryant hit 12 kills with five digs and Jalynn West had 25 assists, nine digs, five kills and two blocks, as the Lady 'Skins topped the Raiders in Small School Division play.
Miyah Davis contributed 13 digs and two aces, Kenidi Jackson added 10 kills and eight digs and Addy Gordon chipped in six digs, three kills and three aces for the winners.
Ashtyn Filkins made 18 digs to lead the Morgan defense, while Jensen Peyton and Evelyn Newton had seven kills apiece. Chloe Baker totaled 11 assists with six digs, Odessa Smith added eight digs, Montana Pettet collected nine digs and seven assists and Blair Clawson had five digs in the losing effort.
Morgan reserves won 20-25, 25-11, 25-9, as Haven Cook had seven kills, nine digs and five blocks, Riley Cunningham 15 digs, Paige Lanning 19 assists, four kills, three aces and four digs, Myleigh Williams 11 digs and six kills and Jacee Wallace five digs and three aces in the win. Sophia McFadden had eight kills and Jaeli Tiedt 10 assists for Coshocton.
New Lexington 25, 25, 25, West Muskingum 7, 7, 22: Jerilynn Koehler hit 13 kills with three blocks and Lizzie Ellis set up 29 assists, as the Panthers swept the visiting Tornadoes in a MVL Small School Division contest.
Nora Duperow added six kills, four aces and three digs, Abby Wilson had five kills and three blocks and Trinity Cook collected four kills and three digs for the Panthers.
New Lex reserves won 26-24, 25-9, as Caroline Dupler had eight kills, four digs and three aces, Jorja Burkhart eight assists and five aces and Katelynn New four digs and two aces in the win.
Meadowbrook 25, 25, 25, Crooksville 6, 5, 8: The visiting Colts swept the Ceramics in a Small School clash, but no other information was reported.
Boys Golf
Maysville 149, Rosecrans 189: Owen Lutz shot even-par 35 to earn medalist honors as the Panthers won at EagleSticks.
Mat Harper added 36 and Connor Larimer and Hoyt Dodson carded 39s to round Maysville' scoring.
Charlie Peterson paced the Bishops with a 38, while Weston Hartman added a 44, Nathan Hart a 48 and Evan Bauer a 59.
Girls Golf
Lakewood 184, John Glenn 186: Avery Thompson fired 41 as the Lancers edged the Muskies at Jaycees.
John Glenn (30-5) was led by Addy Burris' 43, while Abby McCullough chipped in a 45, Elise Abrams shot 47 and Carlie Ellsworth carded a 51.
Lauren Griffin and Lexi French had 47s and Abigail Colley and Savannah Zwayer added 49s for Lakewood. | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/08/26/roundup-labishaks-big-day-carries-rosecrans-to-victory/65457225007/ | 2022-08-26T07:49:47Z | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | control | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/08/26/roundup-labishaks-big-day-carries-rosecrans-to-victory/65457225007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LIHUE, Hawaii (KITV4) -- After joining the Kauai Gymnastics Academy at 4 years old back in 1996, Lani Johnson began teaching younger gymnasts when she was 16.
The long-time gymnast is now 30 years old and a full time coach for the Lihue team.
"I can't remember a time in my life where I wasn't a part of the gym," Johnson said. "It's (the gym) kind of a part of who I am. It's been my family. I've met a lot of lifelong friends and a lot of people who I consider family here."
After 15 years, the full-service gymnastics club that Johnson grew up in will soon have to vacate its current space.
JP Parrish, the owner of the Hanahao Place building, notified the group in July it would not renew their lease.
While the contract was supposed to expire in August, Parrish extended it until Oct. 1 so the club could complete a final session, meaning the more than 175 students ages from 1 to 18 years old still have a place to practice for a few months.
"It's something that really inspires me and it makes me feel happy doing it," 13-year-old gymnast Juniper Reiss said.
Now that the gym's lease is up, Johnson worries they'll lose some of their gymnasts if they have to move to another side of the island, adding many of their students walk to the facility after school.
"I've watched all of these kids grow up, some of them I remember when they were in diapers and I really care for them and all that matters to me is their success and if they weren't able to continue, it would just break my heart," Johnson said.
The group has been struggling to find a new location because they need at least 5,000 square feet of open space with 25-foot ceilings to accommodate the equipment.
Not only are options limited in Lihue, the few in mind need renovations.
"Coming out of COVID, the funds are very low, so, trying to come up with that, to be able to move into a new location is very difficult right now," Kauai Gymnastics Academy owner Tiffany Dick said.
Meanwhile, the academy is thankful to the many Kaua'i community members who have been helping them look for a new space.
"It's an amazing feeling, I feel very blessed to be a part of this," Dick added.
Parrish, head of Parrish Collection vacation rentals, told KITV4 in a state the building "was purchased in January 2021 to meet our need for space for our growing businesses on Kauai...that expansion will create 16 new jobs..."
'A'ali'i is a reporter with KITV. He was born and raised on the island of Maui and graduated from the University of Southern California with a bachelor's degree in Journalism. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/after-more-than-15-years-the-future-of-a-kauai-full-service-gymnastics-club-in/article_d62740d8-24df-11ed-8543-7726963b35d5.html | 2022-08-26T07:54:19Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/after-more-than-15-years-the-future-of-a-kauai-full-service-gymnastics-club-in/article_d62740d8-24df-11ed-8543-7726963b35d5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Community calls for answers in the death of Jamaya Warner
“This could be your baby. I just want everybody that knows something to just to tell something. I just need justice.”
MACON, Ga (41NBC/WMGT)- Macon pastors, family members, community leaders and the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office gathered at New Beginning International Fellowship of Covenant Churches on Thursday.
They’re calling for justice in the murder of Jamaya Warner.
According to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, she was shot near the corner of Dellwood Drive and Dellwood Court on August 19.
Her mother Brittany Goolsby is looking for answers.
“This could be your baby, this could be your baby. I just want everybody that knows something to just to tell something. I just need justice, that’ll give me closure my baby didn’t deserve the way she left,” said Goolsby.
Deputies were told 18-year-old Warner was driving on Dellwood Court when “unknown subjects” fired shots at the car, striking Warner.
She and a passenger then drove to the Circle K on Thomaston Road. That’s where Deputy Coroner Luann Stone pronounced Warner dead.
According to Major Chris Patterson with the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, they’ve made progress in the investigation but still needs help from the community.
If you have any information call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500, or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME. | https://www.41nbc.com/community-calls-for-answers-in-the-death-of-jamaya-warner/ | 2022-08-26T07:57:02Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/community-calls-for-answers-in-the-death-of-jamaya-warner/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Community calls for answers in the death of Jamaya Warner
“This could be your baby. I just want everybody that knows something to just to tell something. I just need justice.”
MACON, Ga (41NBC/WMGT)- Macon pastors, family members, community leaders and the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office gathered at New Beginning International Fellowship of Covenant Churches on Thursday.
They’re calling for justice in the murder of Jamaya Warner.
According to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, she was shot near the corner of Dellwood Drive and Dellwood Court on August 19.
Her mother Brittany Goolsby is looking for answers.
“This could be your baby, this could be your baby. I just want everybody that knows something to just to tell something. I just need justice, that’ll give me closure my baby didn’t deserve the way she left,” said Goolsby.
Deputies were told 18-year-old Warner was driving on Dellwood Court when “unknown subjects” fired shots at the car, striking Warner.
She and a passenger then drove to the Circle K on Thomaston Road. That’s where Deputy Coroner Luann Stone pronounced Warner dead.
According to Major Chris Patterson with the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, they’ve made progress in the investigation but still needs help from the community.
If you have any information call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500, or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME. | https://www.41nbc.com/community-calls-for-answers-in-the-death-of-jamaya-warner/ | 2022-08-26T07:57:02Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/community-calls-for-answers-in-the-death-of-jamaya-warner/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Fort Valley Police Department announces arrest in connection with shooting death of teen
Fort Valley Police announced an arrest Thursday in connection with the shooting death of a 16-year-old on August 20.
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Fort Valley Police announced an arrest Thursday in connection with the shooting death of a 16-year-old on Saturday, August 20.
Witnesses identified Keyshon Williams and two other males as the people who assaulted the juvenile and a relative before the shooting, which resulted in the victim’s death.
Williams was taken into custody at FVPD and is charged with aggravated assault in connection with the juvenile’s death.
Warrants for aggravated assault are active for the two other suspects, who remain at large. | https://www.41nbc.com/fort-valley-police-department-announces-arrest-connection-shooting-death-teen/ | 2022-08-26T07:57:08Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/fort-valley-police-department-announces-arrest-connection-shooting-death-teen/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Fort Valley Police Department announces arrest in connection with shooting death of teen
Fort Valley Police announced an arrest Thursday in connection with the shooting death of a 16-year-old on August 20.
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Fort Valley Police announced an arrest Thursday in connection with the shooting death of a 16-year-old on Saturday, August 20.
Witnesses identified Keyshon Williams and two other males as the people who assaulted the juvenile and a relative before the shooting, which resulted in the victim’s death.
Williams was taken into custody at FVPD and is charged with aggravated assault in connection with the juvenile’s death.
Warrants for aggravated assault are active for the two other suspects, who remain at large. | https://www.41nbc.com/fort-valley-police-department-announces-arrest-connection-shooting-death-teen/ | 2022-08-26T07:57:08Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/fort-valley-police-department-announces-arrest-connection-shooting-death-teen/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News
Top stories from August 25, 2022
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Fort Valley Police Department announces arrest in connection with shooting death of teen
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GDOT set to close Spring Street for overpass bridge demolition
- For other stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News, click here. | https://www.41nbc.com/icymi-stories-you-may-have-missed-today-on-41nbc-news-131/ | 2022-08-26T07:57:14Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/icymi-stories-you-may-have-missed-today-on-41nbc-news-131/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News
Top stories from August 25, 2022
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Fort Valley Police Department announces arrest in connection with shooting death of teen
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GDOT set to close Spring Street for overpass bridge demolition
- For other stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News, click here. | https://www.41nbc.com/icymi-stories-you-may-have-missed-today-on-41nbc-news-131/ | 2022-08-26T07:57:14Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/icymi-stories-you-may-have-missed-today-on-41nbc-news-131/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Mercer men’s soccer opens the season with a 5-2 victory
Mercer men's soccer team are the reigning SoCon tournament champions.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Mercer men’s soccer team, the reigning SoCon tournament champions, downed the Winthrop Eagles 5-2 in their regular season home opener.
Dylan Gaither scored first on a penalty kick within seven minutes of the start of the game; however, Winthrop would tie the game with under six minutes left in the first half.
Once again, in the second half, the teams would both score early goals. But then, with the game tied at two, a beautiful header from Ousman Jabang would completely shift momentum in the Bears’ favor, as freshman Fernando Arteaga scored two goals in his first appearance, and Mercer went on to win 5-2.
Mercer will be back in action Sunday at Georgia State. | https://www.41nbc.com/mercer-mens-soccer-opens-the-season-with-a-5-2-victory/ | 2022-08-26T07:57:20Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/mercer-mens-soccer-opens-the-season-with-a-5-2-victory/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Mercer men’s soccer opens the season with a 5-2 victory
Mercer men's soccer team are the reigning SoCon tournament champions.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Mercer men’s soccer team, the reigning SoCon tournament champions, downed the Winthrop Eagles 5-2 in their regular season home opener.
Dylan Gaither scored first on a penalty kick within seven minutes of the start of the game; however, Winthrop would tie the game with under six minutes left in the first half.
Once again, in the second half, the teams would both score early goals. But then, with the game tied at two, a beautiful header from Ousman Jabang would completely shift momentum in the Bears’ favor, as freshman Fernando Arteaga scored two goals in his first appearance, and Mercer went on to win 5-2.
Mercer will be back in action Sunday at Georgia State. | https://www.41nbc.com/mercer-mens-soccer-opens-the-season-with-a-5-2-victory/ | 2022-08-26T07:57:20Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/mercer-mens-soccer-opens-the-season-with-a-5-2-victory/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Scattered storms possible Friday
We will see another chance for scattered showers and storms, mainly during the afternoon and evening Friday.
We are finally starting to see a few hints of a pattern change in our weather, at least for few days over the weekend.
Friday, we return to our typical summer time pattern of scattered afternoon storms and heat.
Highs will be warming to the mid and upper 80s, but “feels like” temps will be back in the 90s.
A few storms tomorrow afternoon could be strong with heavy rain and gusty winds.
If you are headed to a high school football game Friday night, you might want to grab some rain gear.
Saturday keeps the chance of scattered showers and storms, but also sees the return of highs in the 90s.
By Sunday we will be getting back on the rain train for much of next week.
Rain totals through next week will be 1-2″, with some spots seeing higher totals from thunderstorms.
We will be making a quick jaunt back into the summer next week as we close out August with highs in the 90s.
A cold front will approach the area by Wednesday/Thursday, and if it moves all the way through the area we could get some relief from this relentless humidity and rain chances. | https://www.41nbc.com/scattered-storms-possible-friday/ | 2022-08-26T07:57:26Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/scattered-storms-possible-friday/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Scattered storms possible Friday
We will see another chance for scattered showers and storms, mainly during the afternoon and evening Friday.
We are finally starting to see a few hints of a pattern change in our weather, at least for few days over the weekend.
Friday, we return to our typical summer time pattern of scattered afternoon storms and heat.
Highs will be warming to the mid and upper 80s, but “feels like” temps will be back in the 90s.
A few storms tomorrow afternoon could be strong with heavy rain and gusty winds.
If you are headed to a high school football game Friday night, you might want to grab some rain gear.
Saturday keeps the chance of scattered showers and storms, but also sees the return of highs in the 90s.
By Sunday we will be getting back on the rain train for much of next week.
Rain totals through next week will be 1-2″, with some spots seeing higher totals from thunderstorms.
We will be making a quick jaunt back into the summer next week as we close out August with highs in the 90s.
A cold front will approach the area by Wednesday/Thursday, and if it moves all the way through the area we could get some relief from this relentless humidity and rain chances. | https://www.41nbc.com/scattered-storms-possible-friday/ | 2022-08-26T07:57:26Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/scattered-storms-possible-friday/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
The End Zone Game of the Week Preview: Houston County vs. Perry, Pt. 3
The End Zone Game of the Week is scheduled for Friday, August 26, at 7:30 p.m. at Freedom Field.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The End Zone Game of the Week features the Houston County Bears hosting the Perry Panthers.
The Bears are coming off a 4-7 season and lost in the first round of the playoffs. Since the Bears have hired Jeremy Edwards to lead the program, and in week one, Houston County came out with a 41-7 victory over Sumter County.
On the other hand, the Panthers are coming off an 11-2 season, where they captured their second consecutive region title and lost in the elite eight of the state playoffs. However, this week will be Perry’s first game of the 2022 season.
“It felt like a fall camp, so to speak because we’ve just been practicing and practicing and practicing. Then we have a scrimmage game, and it gets weathered out. So our guys are just excited to play,” said Panthers offensive coordinator Eric Devoursney.
While Perry still looks forward to their season opener, Houston County has already had a chance to figure out their team’s strength.
“We’re an attack-type offense and defense, so we need to establish our tempo and get that going. We need to be great on first down, and we need to limit big plays for them. They’ve got a couple of really good weapons that we got to keep our eye on and try to keep them contained,” said Edwards.
Even though Coach Edwards wasn’t here last season, he understands what this matchup means for his team.
“They’re out for revenge, really. I mean, obviously, last year I wasn’t here, but they lost the game to Perry. That’s not one that they want to lose. It is a rivalry game over the last couple of years, so it’s something that I think they take personal,” said Edwards.
The End Zone Game of the Week is scheduled for Friday, August 26, at 7:30 p.m. at Freedom Field. | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-game-of-the-week-preview-houston-county-vs-perry-pt-3/ | 2022-08-26T07:57:32Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-game-of-the-week-preview-houston-county-vs-perry-pt-3/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
The End Zone Game of the Week Preview: Houston County vs. Perry, Pt. 3
The End Zone Game of the Week is scheduled for Friday, August 26, at 7:30 p.m. at Freedom Field.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The End Zone Game of the Week features the Houston County Bears hosting the Perry Panthers.
The Bears are coming off a 4-7 season and lost in the first round of the playoffs. Since the Bears have hired Jeremy Edwards to lead the program, and in week one, Houston County came out with a 41-7 victory over Sumter County.
On the other hand, the Panthers are coming off an 11-2 season, where they captured their second consecutive region title and lost in the elite eight of the state playoffs. However, this week will be Perry’s first game of the 2022 season.
“It felt like a fall camp, so to speak because we’ve just been practicing and practicing and practicing. Then we have a scrimmage game, and it gets weathered out. So our guys are just excited to play,” said Panthers offensive coordinator Eric Devoursney.
While Perry still looks forward to their season opener, Houston County has already had a chance to figure out their team’s strength.
“We’re an attack-type offense and defense, so we need to establish our tempo and get that going. We need to be great on first down, and we need to limit big plays for them. They’ve got a couple of really good weapons that we got to keep our eye on and try to keep them contained,” said Edwards.
Even though Coach Edwards wasn’t here last season, he understands what this matchup means for his team.
“They’re out for revenge, really. I mean, obviously, last year I wasn’t here, but they lost the game to Perry. That’s not one that they want to lose. It is a rivalry game over the last couple of years, so it’s something that I think they take personal,” said Edwards.
The End Zone Game of the Week is scheduled for Friday, August 26, at 7:30 p.m. at Freedom Field. | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-game-of-the-week-preview-houston-county-vs-perry-pt-3/ | 2022-08-26T07:57:32Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-game-of-the-week-preview-houston-county-vs-perry-pt-3/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Can Reading Fiction Early in Life Make People More Empathetic?
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“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.” Alice declared, halfway through her adventures in Lewis Carroll’s wonderland. “Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”
With Alice, we learned to embrace a chaos both familiar and unfamiliar to us. There was chaos of meaning — nothing made sense, but everything did. We tussled with the frontiers of logical reality, only to realize that the fiction of wonderland resembled a mad complexity of our real worlds too.
In its purest sense, the book changed our idea and perception of the world. And this poetic association appears to be the governing principle of fictional literature in general: reading, especially from a younger age, offers us a view world of the world that is complex. The diversity of meaning is further linked to making people compassionate and more empathetic — almost as if narratives of imagination deeply alter something within us.
This link bears out in scientific research too. According to one study published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin recently, exposure to fiction early in life makes people more conscious of taking the perspective of other people’s realities.
“Fiction, in other words, does more than just give people social practice—by presenting difference, novelty, and even confusion, it underlines the idea of the world as a radically complicated place,” said study author Nicholas Buttrick and colleagues.
Through fiction, readers are introduced to differences in the most vivid, compelling terms. And “even if that difference is not expressed as a different cast of mind, we argue that fictional experience can nevertheless remind readers that the world is complex, not simple; with powerful psychological effects,” the researchers added. Through a series of experiments, they showed that frequently reading fiction in younger years was associated with psychological richness, perspective-taking, and intellectual humility.
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There’s much to credit fiction for; it could heal societies. The connection goes beyond individual empathy; reading fiction is linked to a gradual decrease in violence over time, an increase in the tendency to vote, and even a rise in volunteering and charitable activities. It is no wonder the poet Denise Levertov surmised that fictional literature serves a social function of great literature, such that it awakens “sleepers by other means than shock.”
Aristotle illustrated centuries ago how fiction aids perspective-taking. When we watch tragedy, there are two emotions at play: pity for the character and fear that a similar fate may strike us. Imagination unfolds almost instinctively, where we react to the narrative, compare our situations, and even wonder how we, as individuals outside this manufactured world, would behave. He termed the emotional culmination of this as catharsis, a veritable exercise in shifting our perspective of others. “Just as pilots can practise flying without leaving the ground, people who read fiction may improve their social skills each time they open a novel,” Claudia Hammond also noted in BBC.
The power of fables and epics and fantasies draws partly from their ability to influence our empathy. In 2013, a study published in PLOS One linked this to something called the “transportation theory”: when we read fiction, we are emotionally transported into someone else’s world, absorbing their perspectives and fears and worries, treating them just like our own. And when we begin to identify with characters and internalize their lives, we consider their desires and aspirations more than our own, a 2016 research paper argued. The empathy reflects in our neural mechanisms too. When we read the word “kick,” the brain region associated with physical kicking becomes activated. The experiment showed how the distinction between real-life and fictional narratives fades in translation from reading to understanding.
This is also why fiction’s impact on empathy and perspective-taking is significantly more profound than any non-fiction piece of literature or media. “Specifically, it is easier to experience affect if a message presents information about a single, identifiable individual, than when information is presented about entire groups or using statistics,” argued authors of the 2016 paper. One can imagine themselves in the shoes of one, but never a thousand people. This could be because imagination gives people safety and solace to experience emotions, come to terms with structural inequality and oppression, and even challenge individual biases without feeling threatened.
The brain responds to fictional narratives too. Some experimental studies found that people who often read fiction were better at gauging other people’s thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Psychologist Diana Tami analyzed brain scans to find higher brain activity in regions responsible for simulating what other people think. And those who read fiction most often, the study found, had the highest social cognition abilities.
Arguably, this empathy and ability to frame the world in its abject complexity shapes not only our individual identities, but social and democratic identities too. Brilliant authors over the centuries have entrusted fictional literature, and the realm of reading, as those being “central to a healthy democracy” or even key to understanding the world and “participating in a democratic society.”
Arguably, my favorite reading of the benefits of fiction is how it wakes up people from the slumber of “almost-living.” And once awake, we see the world in a complexity that is both paralyzing and revolutionary. | https://theswaddle.com/can-reading-fiction-early-in-life-make-people-more-empathetic/ | 2022-08-26T07:59:04Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/can-reading-fiction-early-in-life-make-people-more-empathetic/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
‘News Addiction’ Impacts Both Physical and Mental Health, Suggests Study
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Two different patterns of news consumption emerged in 2020, almost on opposite ends of the spectrum. The first one is disengaging and disconnecting from traumatizing news as a result of crisis fatigue; the second is doomscrolling — a tendency to endlessly scroll through bad news, as though one is addicted to it. A recent study investigated the impact of the latter, colloquially termed “news addiction,” on people’s health.
We’ve known that being constantly tuned in to news is linked to stress, depression, anxiety, and poor emotional well-being, in general. But the research also found that an unhealthy obsession with news impacts us physically, too. Published in the journal Health Communication this week, the study found that besides taking an emotional toll, a rapid onslaught of depressing news can lead to sleeplessness, fatigue, pain, poor concentration, and digestive issues.
“For these individuals, a vicious cycle can develop in which, rather than tuning out, they become drawn further in, obsessing over the news and checking for updates around the clock to alleviate their emotional distress, But it doesn’t help, and the more they check the news, the more it begins to interfere with other aspects of their lives,” noted first author Bryan McLaughlin, associate professor of advertising at the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University.
“Witnessing these events unfold in the news can bring about a constant state of high alert in some people, kicking their surveillance motives into overdrive and making the world seem like a dark and dangerous place.”
The impact of the pandemic may have substantially lessened now, but the continuation of the crisis — with the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, mass misogyny against female survivors of abuse, climate change, and daily stories of oppression and injustice — is far from over. Weaved within our engagement with social media, then, doomscrolling appears to have made its way into 2022. Extensive social media usage was already associated with poor emotional health and increased feelings of loneliness. News addiction in this era of crisis has amplified its downside to a whole other level in this era of crisis.
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The researchers analyzed data from a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults to reach their conclusions. As part of the survey, the participants answered the degree to which the following statements applied to them: “I become so absorbed in the news that I forget the world around me”; “My mind is frequently occupied with thoughts about the news”; “I find it difficult to stop reading or watching the news”; and “I often do not pay attention at school or work because I am reading or watching the news.”
Among those surveyed, 16.5% showed signs of “severely problematic” news consumption — or, basically, doomscrolling. Unsurprisingly, almost 75% of the doomscrollers reported struggling with poor mental health, while more than 60% of them admitted to experiencing physical symptoms as well. Compare it with these numbers: among non-doomscrollers, only 8% reported dealing with mental health issues, and 6% with physical ill-being.
And, as it turns out, the study hasn’t even captured the entire extent of physical ailments news addiction results in. The number could be much higher and more prevalent, given the limited dataset of the current study. Besides, constant engagement with the news can impact physical health by virtue of how we read, too — we’re keeping our eyes affixed on screens, almost always in bad posture.
So, according to Dr. Fabian Almeida, consultant psychiatrist at Fortis Hospital in Kalyan, Mumbai, the physical impact of doomscrolling isn’t just stress-related. “[W]ith a constant neck flexion position [that scrolling for long hours entails], the cases of cervical spondylosis have increased. Also, constant sitting has given rise to posture-related issues and joint arthritis. Diseases like carpal tunnel syndrome, obesity, and vision issues have increased substantially in the last two years as statistics have revealed; increased exposure to radiofrequency waves have increased the incidence of brain tumor as well,” he told Indian Express in May.
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Why the Social Media Blackout Felt Like the Apocalypse
“Our bodies can’t sustain that level of nervous load. Things start to fail, the wheels start to fall off. We experience a whole host of consequences,” Adrienne Heinz, a clinical research psychologist at the National Center for PTSD in the U.S., had explained in 2020 while the global population was grappling with one of the worse health crises in history. “Right now we’re seeing an uptick in national anxiety and depression. You start to see insomnia, relationship distress.”
It is, undoubtedly, important to stay informed. Not doing so, “undermines the existence of an informed citizenry, which has implications for maintaining a healthy democracy. This is why a healthy relationship with news consumption is an ideal situation,” as McLaughlin notes.
But being emotionally devastated by the culture of crisis we’re presently caught in, helps no one. The objective is to strike a balance by being informed, but not overwhelmed. Even the World Health Organization had advised people to “minimize watching, reading, or listening to, news about Covid19 that causes [one] to feel anxious or distressed” during the pandemic.
As Karestan Koenen, a professor of psychiatric epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, had said a few years back: “We all need to turn off the media at times.” That appears to be the only way to exist in the digital age that is, unfortunately, riddled with unending crises. | https://theswaddle.com/news-addiction-impacts-both-physical-and-mental-health-suggests-study/ | 2022-08-26T07:59:05Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/news-addiction-impacts-both-physical-and-mental-health-suggests-study/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Federal judge strikes down Texas gun ban on adults under 21
A federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, struck down a state law prohibiting adults under 21 from carrying guns.
Why it matters: U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman's order and opinion that the Second Amendment "as informed by Founding-era history and tradition" does not exclude 18- to 20-year-olds is the first significant legal decision since a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on guns in June, Reuters notes.
Driving the news: Gun-rights advocacy nonprofi the Firearms Policy Coalition and two adult plaintiffs younger than 21 filed a lawsuit last November challenging the Texas law, arguing that adults under 21 were "fully protected by the Second Amendment at the time of its ratification," the New York Times reports.
- In June, hours before the U.S. Senate cleared a key procedural hurdle on its landmark gun safety bill that passed the following day, the Supreme Court struck down a New York law that set a high bar for people to get conceal-carry permits, citing Second Amendment rights.
The big picture: Texas gun restrictions have eased in recent years, even as mass shootings like the one at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde have rocked the state, per the NYT — which notes that people who were 21 or younger were behind six of the nine deadliest shooting massacres in the U.S. since 2018.
What they're saying: Cody Wisniewski, a senior attorney for the Firearms Policy Coalition, in a statement to news outlets called the ruling "a significant victory for the rights of young adults in Texas and demonstrates for the rest of the nation that similar bans cannot withstand constitutional challenges grounded in history."
Meanwhile, Shannon Watts, founder of the gun-control organization Moms Demand Action, in a statement called the Texas ruling "yet another example of a radical court operating wildly out of step with the American people and the Constitution," per the NYT.
- "After hearing Uvalde survivors demanding common-sense gun safety measures — including raising the age to buy an assault weapon — a Trump-appointed judge in Texas just issued a dangerous ruling that would allow teenagers to carry handguns in public," she added.
What we're watching: Pittman stayed the injunction for 30 days, pending appeal. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/26/texas-gun-law-judge-strikes-down-ban-adults-under-21 | 2022-08-26T07:59:17Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/26/texas-gun-law-judge-strikes-down-ban-adults-under-21 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Fossil Ridge football opens new PSD Stadium in Timnath with last-minute win over Loveland
TIMNATH – Poudre School District officials couldn’t have scripted a better opening night of football at the new Timnath Athletic Complex: A wild, come-from-behind win Thursday by host Fossil Ridge High School over Loveland before a near-capacity crowd.
The atmosphere was electric, with Fossil Ridge students and fans tightly packed into the home-team’s stands.
The game was even better.
Fossil Ridge quarterback Tyler Kubat threw for three touchdowns, the last a 15-yarder to Trek Keyworth with less than a minute remaining to tie the score. Bryce Olson’s point-after touchdown kick provided the winning margin in a 36-35 SaberCats’ victory that was secured with an interception by Ryan Pollyea on the ensuing Loveland series.
“I honestly am lost for words right now,” said Kubat, a 6-foot-5, 200-pound senior. “… It really came down to the last possession, and that’s all you can really ask about from football. I’m looking forward to this team. No matter what happens, we’re always going to fight to the end.”
Kubat and the SaberCats had to march more than 80 yards in the final two minutes for the winning touchdown, converting two fourth downs along the way. A fourth-and-3 pass to Olson for a first down at the Loveland 15 yard-line with 1:18 remaining put Fossil Ridge, which had been stopped on four downs inside the Red Wolves’ 5-yard line earlier in the game, in position for the winning score.
Sophomore Colton Pawlak ran for one touchdown and turned a short pass out of the backfield into another score for Fossil Ridge.
Mac Busteed also caught a touchdown pass for the SaberCats before leaving the game with a hamstring injury.
Olson also ran for a touchdown for the SaberCats, who led for most of the game in the first of five regular-season home games they'll play at the new stadium that will be used by all Poudre School District schools.
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Loveland quarterback Garret Harstad, who ran for 1,245 yards a year ago, picked up where he left off while running for three touchdowns, the first an 80-yarder and the third from 58 yards out. But he had to leave the game briefly with a muscle cramp while backup sophomore Trey Olsen drove the Red Wolves the length of the field, giving them their first lead on a 5-yard TD run with 7:27 remaining in the game. Harstad returned to run for the 2-point conversion, giving the Red Wolves a 35-27 lead.
Fossil Ridge was forced to punt on its next possession, as was Loveland, giving the SaberCats just enough time to drive for the winning score.
Loveland’s last-ditch effort to respond ended with an interception by Pollyea that was nearly returned for a touchdown, setting off wild celebrations on the SaberCats’ sideline and in the stands, where students were tightly packed into an entire section from bottom to top.
It was a far different feeling than last season, when the SaberCats – who were playing their home games across town at French Field at Rocky Mountain High School – lost four of their first five games before bouncing back to go 4-1 in league play for a conference title and spot in the Class 5A playoffs.
They beat a good Loveland team that returns several key players from a squad that went 10-2 last year and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Class 4A playoffs.
“Obviously, victories matter,” Kubat said. “We started off 0-3 last year, and we just wanted to get this win tonight. It was definitely a team win.”
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Scores from Thursday’s CIF Southern Section football games.
Thursday’s results
CIF-SS
NONLEAGUE
Alhambra 35, Glendale 8
Beaumont 35, Riverside North 0
Bermuda Dunes Desert Christian 33, California Military 8
Burbank 34, Santa Fe 30
Capistrano Valley 21, Sunny Hills 7
Capistrano Valley Christian 42, Santa Ana Calvary Chapel 9
Cathedral 39, Millikan 38
Charter Oak 38, Northview 24
Cypress 35, San Juan Hills 10
Eastvale Roosevelt 56, Corona 6
El Dorado 50, Fountain Valley 7
El Modena 38, Santa Ana 0
Esperanza 28, Walnut 20
Estancia 31, Loara 6
Huntington Beach 26, Summit 7
La Quinta 44, Carter 27
Lakewood 16, San Dimas 7
Newport Harbor 52, Marina 7
Norwalk 49, La Canada 28
Ontario 42, Sierra Vista 32
Orange Vista 39, Hillcrest 10
Fontana 54, Pacific 0
San Jacinto 62, Heritage 27
Serrano 49, Adelanto 12
Sonora 48, Rowland 7
South Torrance 51, Schurr 15
Temple City 54, Keppel 0
Village Christian 30, La Salle 20
Vista del Lago 41, Valley View 0
Woodbridge 37, Cerritos 19
Desert Mirage 38, Calipatria 7
Duarte 19, View Park 6
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Desert Chapel 12, Cornerstone Christian 6
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VICENZA, Italy – If the Italian local national employee could sum up her 36 years of service working for the U.S. Army in one word, it would be grateful.
Paola Preato Bondielli is the lead quality control inspector at the transportation office in Vicenza. The Logistics Readiness Center Italy employee said she’s truly grateful for the opportunity.
“Working for the U.S. Army has always been an adventure and a challenge,” Bondielli said. “I was working outside (on the Italian economy) for a while, and I am glad I was able to come back. I enjoy doing what I am doing, and I’m really grateful that I was given this opportunity.”
Born and raised in Vicenza, Bondielli is responsible for making sure all of the household goods and unaccompanied baggage pickup and delivery services for both military and civilian personnel are taken care of without a hitch.
“I make sure that inspectors are assigned to each of the jobs, and I make sure that the moving companies are following the rules and guidelines as dictated by the joint travel regulations,” she said. “And also, whenever the families have questions I’m there to support them.”
Bondielli said although her customers attend transportation briefings prior to being seen by her team, it’s important that the most critical portions of those briefings are always reiterated.
“You know how it works. Sometimes they are not concentrating well during the briefings because they have so many to do,” Bondielli said. “We reiterate what they already know or should know, making sure they know their rights.”
Bondielli said her team acts as a liaison between the customers and the moving companies assigned to pick up or deliver their household items, and sometimes there can be friction points, she said.
“If there are issues between the moving companies and customers, we’re there to settle everything and make sure the customers are happy,” she said. “We are just trying to make sure their incoming and outgoing shipments are as unproblematic as possible because it is a fairly stressful time for the Soldiers, Civilians and Families.”
Customs is another area of expertise for Bondielli and her team.
“We are part of customs. We mostly take care of the agriculture customs program, but also we verify that illegal and prohibited items are not shipped back to the United States,” said Bondielli, who started her transportation career as an outbound clerk, then quality control inspector, and now lead inspector.
After 36 years of service with the Army – to include 24 years at the transportation office plus seven years at an Army medical clinic and a shorter stint as a command secretary – the mother of two and grandmother of two more considers the Army an important part of her extended family.
“I’m truly grateful for this opportunity to work for the U.S. Army all these years,” she said. “It’s been nothing short of amazing.”
LRC Italy is one of seven LRCs under the command and control of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade. LRCs execute installation logistics support and services to include supply, maintenance, and transportation as well as clothing issue facility operations, hazardous material management, personal property and household goods, passenger travel, non-tactical vehicle and garrison equipment management, and property book operations. When it comes to providing day-to-day installation services, LRC Italy directs, manages and coordinates a variety of operations and activities in support of U.S. Army Garrison Italy.
LRC Italy reports to the 405th AFSB, which is assigned to U.S. Army Sustainment Command and under the operational control of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, U.S. Army Europe and Africa. The brigade is headquartered in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and provides materiel enterprise support to U.S. Forces throughout Europe and Africa – providing theater sustainment logistics; synchronizing acquisition, logistics and technology; and leveraging U.S. Army Materiel Command’s materiel enterprise to support joint forces. For more information on the 405th AFSB, visit the official website at www.afsbeurope.army.mil and the official Facebook site at www.facebook.com/405thAFSB.
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CAMP ZAMA, JAPAN--U.S. Army Maj. Gen. J. B. Vowell, Commanding General of U.S. Army Japan, traveled to Hokkaido, Japan, Aug. 22-24.
Vowell met with the Commanding General of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) Northern Army, Lt. Gen. Yoshihiko Okimura, and Director General Saburo Ishikura from the Hokkaido Defense Bureau to discuss future security cooperation and bilateral training opportunities.
"Our most important mission is to partner with the JGSDF. Japan is our anchoring frontline ally in the region. Our relationship is crucial to maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific," Vowell said.
Vowell also toured the Northern Army Yausubetsu Training Area with Lt. Gen. Hiroe Jiro, the commander of the JGSDF Training Evaluation Research and Development Command, their training and education headquarters.
Yausubetsu provides opportunities for ground forces to perform bilateral maneuver and live fire training in an Arctic environment. The U.S. Army conducted its first HIMARS live-fire in Japan in June 2021 at the training area during the annual bilateral Orient Shield exercise.
The Northern Army will host the Yama Sakura command post exercise slated for December.
As a part of U.S. Army Pacific Pathways, Yama Sakura is the largest U.S.-Japan bilateral and joint command post exercise.
Vowell also met with Principal Official Mark Wuebbels at the U.S. Consulate General in Sapporo to discuss opportunities to strengthen the U.S.-Japan alliance.
Command Sgt. Maj. Jerry Dodson, the U.S. Army Japan Command Sergeant Major, visited senior enlisted leaders during the trip. He participated in a senior enlisted exchange with leaders from the JGSDF Ground Staff Office and the Northern Army.
"Through increased interoperability, information sharing and expanded access across the region, we present a credible and interoperable deterrent force to the adversary in competition, crisis and conflict," Vowell said.
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Today – Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 85. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight – Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 61. Calm wind.
Friday – Scattered showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 82. Calm wind becoming west 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Friday Night – Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 59. Light west wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday – Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Light north wind.
Saturday Night – Mostly clear, with a low around 58.
Sunday – Sunny, with a high near 86.
Sunday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 64.
Monday – Scattered showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 85. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Monday Night – Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Tuesday – Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 84. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Tuesday Night – Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 62. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Wednesday – Mostly sunny, with a high near 80.
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AAA: School’s Open – Drive Carefully
As children return to school, AAA East Central has launched its annual School’s Open – Drive Carefully campaign.
The campaign aims to encourage parents to talk about the importance of school zone safety with their children and teen drivers. It also advises motorists to take extra caution when traveling through school zones or near school buses.
“School zone speed limits, AAA School Safety Patrollers and crossing guards are in place to save lives,” said Terri Rae Anthony, safety advisor for AAA East Central. “Since children can move quickly and cross the road unexpectedly, it is important to obey speed limits and be ready to stop at a moment’s notice.”
Speed is a crucial factor in protecting the lives of students as they make their way to class. According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, a pedestrian struck by a vehicle traveling at 20 mph is about two-thirds less likely to be killed as compared to a pedestrian struck by a vehicle traveling at 30 mph. Moreover, nearly 1-in-5 children 14 and younger who die in traffic crashes are pedestrians.
In addition to slowing down, AAA offers the following advice for motorists to keep children safe as they navigate their way through school zones:
– Ditch distractions. Research shows that glancing away from the road for just two seconds doubles the chances of crashing.
– Stay alert. Don’t rush into and out of driveways. Expect pedestrians on the sidewalk, especially around schools and in neighborhoods. Mind vehicle blind spots, check for children on the sidewalk, in the driveway, and around the vehicle before slowly backing up.
– Brake for buses. It may be tempting to drive around a stopped school bus, but not only is it dangerous – it is against the law.
– Watch for bikes. Children on bicycles are often unpredictable, so expect the unexpected. Motorists should slow down and allow at least three feet of passing distance between their vehicle and bicyclists.
– Plan ahead. Leave early and build in extra time for congestion. If possible, modify routes to avoid school zones.
– Look for AAA School Safety Patrollers. With more than 600,000 AAA School Safety Patrollers at 31,000 schools across the country, patrollers are a sure sign that school zone is approaching.
About the AAA’s School’s Open – Drive Carefully campaign:
The campaign was launched nationally in 1946 to help reduce the number of school-related pedestrian injuries and fatalities. The campaign kicks off each fall and continues throughout the school year to remind motorists to watch out for children as they travel to and from school.
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Alma R. Kinch
Alma R. Kinch, 87, of Seneca, died at the Collins Hospice House in Rocky Grove on Tuesday afternoon, August 23, 2022, following a lengthy illness.
She was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on September 21, 1934 to the late Wade and Ruth Margaret (Knight) Buck.
Alma was a graduate of Cranberry High School and the Oil City Hospital School of Nursing where she earned a degree in nursing and enterostomal therapy and wound care.
She was a fifty year member of the Order of the Eastern Star.
In her earlier years, she was an active leader with the Girl Scouts and the Rainbow Girls.
Alma enjoyed being involved in the activities of her daughters.
She was of the Protestant faith, and formerly attended Seneca United Methodist Church.
Alma loved her pets, including dogs, cats, and birds.
She attended most every event or activity that her family and grandchildren participated in.
Mrs. Kinch was first employed as a nurse at the Oil City Hospital.
She then had a long career as a visiting nurse with the Venango V.N.A., providing wound care in the Oil City, Franklin, and Titusville areas.
She was the proud inventor of “Alma’s Butt Paste”.
She was married on June 17, 1955 to H. Dean Kinch, and he preceded her in death on May 12, 2009.
She is survived by her daughter, Linda S. Erwin and her husband Michael of Seneca; four grandchildren: Michelle Semprevivo and her husband Tony of Seneca, Bonnie Roxberry and her husband Jay of Elizabeth, Michael Dean Erwin and his wife Caryn of Seneca, and Natalie Trainer of Elizabeth; and four great-grandchildren: Jacob, James, and Annabelle Roxberry of Elizabeth, and Cruz Erwin of Seneca.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Patricia Trainer; and an infant daughter.
Visitation will be held Friday (Aug. 26) from 10:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. in Hile-Best Funeral Home, 2781 Rte. 257 in Seneca.
A funeral service will follow in the funeral home Friday at 1:30 p.m. with Rev. Travis Earp, pastor of The Living Word Church, officiating.
Interment will follow in Sunset Hill Memorial Gardens.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Venango VNA Foundation, 491 Allegheny Blvd., Franklin, PA 16323; or to an animal/rescue charity of one’s choice.
To express online condolences to Alma’s family, please visit www.hilebest.com.
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Charles “Jack” Shields
Charles “Jack” Shields, 65, of Seneca, died of natural causes at his home on Tuesday, August 23, 2022.
He was born in Homewood, Allegheny County, on June 3, 1957, a son of the late Dennis and Mary (Baker) Shields.
He was raised by his late grandparents, Charles and Mary Baker.
Jack enjoyed hunting, fishing, motorcycles, and making carvings from wood and antlers.
In his earlier years, he worked in the oil fields.
He then worked for Huffy Bicycles as an assembler.
He is survived by his longtime companion, Janie Dalton of Seneca; and a sister, Denise Shields of Pittsburgh.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Dennis and Mary Shields; his grandparents, Charles and Mary Baker; a son, Joshua Shields; and two brothers, Mark and Michael Shields.
A memorial service/celebration of life is being planned and details will be announced when they are finalized.
Funeral arrangements are being completed by Hile-Best Funeral Home in Seneca.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to assist the family with funeral expenses.
They may be made online by clicking the donations tab on this tribute page; or mailed to Hile-Best Funeral Home, PO Box 245, Seneca, PA 16346.
To express online condolences to the family, please visit www.hilebest.com.
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