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'He declassified everything': Biden mocks Trump as DOJ releases redacted Mar-a-Lago search affidavit
CHICAGO - President Joe Biden promised to let Attorney General Merrick Garland handle the investigation into top secret documents found at former president Donald Trump's Florida home, but the current chief executive did mock one of his predecessor's key defenses.
A partially blacked-out affidavit released Friday showed FBI agents found dozens of top secret documents when they searched Mar-a-Lago.
Biden mocked Trump's claim to have declassified many of them.
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"Well, I just want you to know, I've declassified everything in the world. I'm president, I can do it all. C'mon. He declassified everything. I'm not gonna comment because I don't know the details. I don't even want to know. I'll let the justice department take care of it."
After the release of a portion of the FBI search warrant affidavit, the former president responded angrily on his truth social platform.
"Nothing mentioned on nuclear! A total public relations subterfuge by the FBI and DOJ." Trump said. "Judge Bruce Reinhart should never have allowed the break-in of my home!"
'For his part, Biden offered more of the combative, campaign-style he's displayed this week.
Biden sparked Republican outrage Thursday night with remarks at a Democratic party fundraiser, calling the philosophy that underpins Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement, "semi-fascist."
"You know what I mean," Biden responded when asked by a report about the comment.
Sixteen of the 32 pages of the affidavit released Friday were blacked out. The key allegation released: FBI agents found 184 unique, classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, 25 of them marked "top secret." | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/he-declassified-everything-biden-mocks-trump-as-doj-releases-redacted-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit | 2022-08-26T22:45:01Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/he-declassified-everything-biden-mocks-trump-as-doj-releases-redacted-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Man shoves two Tinley Park school staff members, says students were harassing his daughter: police
TINLEY PARK, Ill. - A South Holland Man is accused of shoving two suburban high school staff members Friday morning after he said students were harassing his daughter.
Jason J. Reeves, 40, was charged with two counts of aggravated battery to a school official and one count of disorderly conduct.
At about 7:45 a.m. Friday, Reeves entered Andrew High School, located at 9001 W. 171st St. in Tinley Park, through the main south entrance.
He was met by a school employee, and Reeves told her that his daughter was allegedly being harassed by other students.
Reeves said he showed up to the school to confront them about their behavior.
Reeves then allegedly shoved the employee several times during the conversation. Police said he refused to listen to the staff member when she said he wasn't allowed to enter the school and confront the students.
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A second employee then allegedly approached Reeves and tried to talk to him.
Reeves then shoved him aside and continued to try and get further into the school, police said.
The second employee ended up tackling Reeves, and, with help of other staff members, detained him until police arrived.
Reeves is scheduled to appear in court Saturday. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-shoves-two-tinley-park-school-staff-members-says-students-were-harassing-his-daughter-police | 2022-08-26T22:45:14Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-shoves-two-tinley-park-school-staff-members-says-students-were-harassing-his-daughter-police | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Person arrested after displaying gun outside Bedford Park Walmart
BEDFORD PARK, Ill. - A person displayed a firearm outside the entrance of a Walmart located in Bedford Park Friday afternoon.
The Walmart is located at 7050 S. Cicero Ave.
According to Bedford Park police, the person did not fire the gun, and no one was injured.
After the person displayed the firearm, they were confronted by security and officers.
The person was taken into custody.
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Schurz High School officials discuss plans on how to keep students safe after 4 teens shot in drive-by
CHICAGO - Chicago Police say detectives are still investigating this week's shooting near Schurz High School in the Old Irving Park neighborhood.
Friday looked like a normal school day at the CPS school, but with security dotting the campus, some students absent and caregivers reeling from Wednesday's shooting just steps from the Northwest Side campus.
"It's happening everywhere. And really what I said to myself when it happened is now y'all know what the kids on the South Side deal with every day," said Theresa Rios who has two grandchildren at the school.
Rios and others headed to the CPS school Friday morning for a parent meeting with the interim principal.
CPS said the goal was to talk about the incident and the plan to move forward after four teens were shot across the street from the school.
Two of them are students at Schurz, including one shot in the face and neck and left in critical condition, according to police.
This shooting happened on the third day of school for CPS, and it's left some students quite shaken.
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"I know it's affecting him. I see it in his face. I tried to talk to him about it. He doesn't want to come back to school," said Jessica Marcotte about her sophomore who witnessed the shooting.
Like other parents, she's questioning security at the school.
"I was just like something's going to eventually happen because we live in Chicago and there's gangs, and I was concerned about the low staffing in regard to the security and then taking out the school officers. So that's my concern is more security," said Marcotte.
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South Shore bar changing business practices following fatal hit-and-run
CHICAGO - Jeffrey Pub is changing how it does business after three men were mowed down and killed nearby earlier this month.
The famed South Side gay bar in the South Shore neighborhood is raising the age requirement for customers to 30 and up.
It will also play less hip-hop music and close an hour earlier.
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The owner has received some criticism because the man charged for the fatal hit-and-run was 34-years-old and a customer of the bar. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/south-shore-bar-changing-business-practices-following-fatal-hit-and-run | 2022-08-26T22:45:38Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/south-shore-bar-changing-business-practices-following-fatal-hit-and-run | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
South Shore bar changing business practices following fatal hit-and-run
CHICAGO - Jeffrey Pub is changing how it does business after three men were mowed down and killed nearby earlier this month.
The famed South Side gay bar in the South Shore neighborhood is raising the age requirement for customers to 30 and up.
It will also play less hip-hop music and close an hour earlier.
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Illinois congresswoman highlights importance of abortion rights on Women's Equality Day
CHICAGO - The White House is marking Women's Equality Day with a push for abortion rights.
Trigger laws banning abortion in several states, including Texas, went into effect this week.
President Joe Biden said his administration is safeguarding women's health care and privacy despite the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
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As mandated by an executive order signed by Biden, the White House recently launched a three-prong push to protect abortion access.
The plan leans on two federal statutes to target states that limit abortion, communicates to voters the impact on women, and accentuates how forced pregnancies harm both women and men.
U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill.
"Even before Dobbs, we have been battling a maternal mortality crisis and concerningly, we're trending in the wrong direction. It is becoming more and more dangerous for women to give birth. Across the country, Black women are disproportionately impacted by maternal morbidity and mortality," said Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.).
"Remember, that line in the court case, in the Dobbs case saying that women can't speak? Well, they have no idea about how you're going to hear women roar on this issue, and it's going to be consequential," Biden said.
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7-Day Weather Forecast for Clarion County
The 7-day weather forecast for the Clarion County area is brought to you by Redbank Chevrolet and DuBrook.
Today – Isolated showers, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 82. Calm wind becoming west 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight – Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Patchy dense fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 59. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday – Patchy dense fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 81. Light north wind.
Saturday Night – Mostly clear, with a low around 58. Calm wind.
SundaySunny, with a high near 87. Light and variable wind becoming south around 6 mph in the morning.
Sunday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 65.
Monday – Scattered showers, mainly after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 88. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Monday Night – Scattered showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 66. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Tuesday – Scattered showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 84. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Tuesday Night – Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 62. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Wednesday – Mostly sunny, with a high near 80.
Wednesday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 54.
Thursday – Mostly sunny, with a high near 76.
7-Day Weather Forecast, brought to you by Redbank Chevrolet and DuBrook.
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A Night to Honor Coach Jim Williamson Set for Tonight
STRATTANVILLE, Pa. – Central Clarion Football along with Clarion-Limestone and Clarion Area School Districts are inviting all former student athletes who were blessed to be coached by Coach Jim Williamson to honor and celebrate his memory.
The event will take place at the Central Clarion Football season opener on Friday, August 26, at the Clarion-Limestone Sports Complex.
Coach Williamson spent many years coaching multiple sports at Clarion-Limestone and Clarion Area School Districts. He was the Assistant Varsity Football Coach at Clarion-Limestone from 1973 to 1979, 1993 to 2001, and 2003 to 2007, and Varsity Head Coach from 1980 to 1986.
He was the Junior High Head Football Coach at Clarion Area from 1987 to 1989 and Varsity Assistant Coach from 1990 to 1992.
Along with teaching 35 years at Clarion-Limestone and coaching football at Clarion-Limestone and Clarion Area, Coach Williamson also spent many years coaching Varsity Boys Track & Field, Varsity Girls Basketball, Junior High Boys Basketball at C-L; Varsity Boys Basketball Assistant at Clarion Area; Varsity Football Assistant at Slippery Rock; Varsity Football Assistant and Varsity Girls Basketball at Kane; and Track and Field at Clarion University.
All former athletes are asked to come on the track prior to the pregame coin toss at 6:50 p.m. for a moment of silence together to honor Coach Williamson’s memory.
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Clarion County Recipe of the Day: Sunshine Chicken
This recipe is great to serve for large groups because it can be easily doubled and takes little time or effort to prepare!
Ingredients
2 to 3 teaspoons curry powder
1-1/4 teaspoons salt, divided
6 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (5 ounces each)
1-1/2 cups orange juice
1 cup uncooked long grain rice
3/4 cup water
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground mustard
Chopped fresh parsley
Directions
-Combine curry powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and pepper; rub over both sides of chicken. In a skillet, combine orange juice, rice, water, brown sugar, mustard, and remaining salt. Add chicken pieces; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer until chicken juices run clear, 20-25 minutes.
-Remove from the heat and let stand, covered until all liquid is absorbed about 5 minutes. Sprinkle with parsley.
Do you want to have your recipe featured as the Clarion County Recipe of the day? If the answer is yes, the process is quick and easy! Simply email your recipe to [email protected] with “Clarion County Recipe of the Day” as the subject. Also, we’d love for you to include a fun picture of the dish you’re sharing. Make your recipe famous today!
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Clarion Soccer: Golden Eagles Win 2022 Season Opener at Wheeling, 3-2
WHEELING, West Virginia – The Golden Eagle soccer team rallied from a halftime deficit with an impressive scoring display in the second half, coming back to beat Wheeling 3-2 in the 2022 season opener on Thursday.
Photo by Kirkland Photography.
The victory over the Cardinals marked the second time in three full seasons the Golden Eagles won their season opener, with Clarion defeating Ursuline on Sept. 7, 2019. The three goals matched Clarion’s best offensive output since a 3-0 victory over Pitt-Johnstown on Sept. 27, 2017.
Kylee Cross became just the seventh player in program history to reach 20 career points, doing so in just her 23rd career game. She did this by dishing out a career-best three assists, adding the primary help on all three of the Golden Eagles’ goals against the Cardinals. Conversely, all three goals were scored by three different players, including two – Taylor Serrano and Katelyn Shaffer – playing the first games of their college careers.
Serrano wasted no time getting on the scoreboard, tallying her first career goal less than 90 seconds into the contest. Cross jumped a pass by a Wheeling defender in the Cardinals’ end and rushed it forward, with Serrano heading toward the net. The junior forward then centered a pass to Serrano, who tapped it past keeper Mikayla Yarwood for the first goal of the game.
Wheeling responded with a goal in the 24th minute when Braedynn Porter got behind the defense and took a pass from Kenadee Burgoyne, going in alone on Alex Velez and burying the shot to tie it at 1-1. Cross had an opportunity to put her team back on top in the 27th minute after Serrano drew a foul in the box, but her penalty kick was stopped by Yarwood and the threat averted. Burgoyne logged a goal with just 12 seconds remaining in the first half, scoring on a play off a corner kick to give Wheeling the halftime lead.
Clarion kept the pressure on, though, and eventually hit paydirt in the 59th minute. Cross teed up a corner kick from the lefthand side, lobbing it up for Jaci Bowser. Bowser pushed it past Yarwood for her first tally of the year, evening up the score at 2-2.
Another corner kick in the 67th minute proved to be the difference in the game, this time with Shaffer on the receiving end. Again Cross lobbed an arcing shot toward the box, lifting it over a pair of defenders to a wide open Shaffer on the backside. Shaffer headed the ball at 67:02 o put the Golden Eagles back on top.
Velez made the lead stand up, stopping two shots by Morgan McGhee and one by Porter in the final minutes. Wheeling teed up one more corner kick as the clock wound down, but they were unable to muster a shot as the Golden Eagles took the win.
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Edward Gordon Clowney
Edward Gordon Clowney died peacefully on August 23, 2022, at Water Run in Clarion, PA.
He was born on July 27, 1924 in West Homestead, PA to Gordon Clowney and Mary Naschak.
After graduation from Homestead High school, Edward was drafted into the US Navy.
During WWII he crossed the Pacific many times as a Boatswain’s Mate Second Class participating in numerous battles including the recapture of the Philippines and invasion of Okinawa.
For his service, Edward received the Victory Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic Pacific Medal, and Philippine Liberation Medal.
Before departing for the war, Edward met the love of his life Elizabeth Walter at the local candy store.
They continued their courtship corresponding through letters while he was away in the Pacific.
Shortly after he safely returned, they were married on April 30, 1946.
The two lived in various communities along the Monongahela River southeast of Pittsburgh, PA before eventually settling in Monroeville, PA.
Edward worked as a draftsman for 36 years at Westinghouse Research & Development.
He moved to Fisher, PA when he retired and lived there for over 30 years before he and Elizabeth moved to Clarion, PA in 2018.
Edward was a member of Grace Lutheran Church. He was an avid reader, skilled cook, great card player, and loved to landscape.
Most of all, Edward had deep loyalty to his family and was a kind, caring, and devoted husband.
He and his wife celebrated their 74th wedding anniversary in 2020.
Edward was preceded in death by father Gordon Clowney, mother Mary Naschak, wife Elizabeth Clowney, brother in law Albert Walter, and sister in law Nellie Durney.
He is survived by his daughter Rebecca Tracy (Clarion, PA), grandson David Mendlowitz (Fairfax, CA), sisters in law Margaret Doyle (Lexington Park, MD), Alberta Sabo (Munhall, PA), and Marlene Walter (Munhall, PA), as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
The Goble Funeral Home in Clarion, PA is handling the arrangements.
There will be no public visitation.
A memorial service will be held at a later date.
Interment is planned at the Fisher Methodist/Presbyterian Cemetery in Fisher, PA.
In lieu of flowers please consider a memorial donation to Grace Lutheran Church, 417 Madison Road, Clarion PA, 16214 or a charity of your choice.
Friends and family may send online condolences, memorials, and obtain additional information by visiting www.goblefh.net.
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Elk Cam Back for Another Season
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Can’t wait for the September peak of Pennsylvania’s elk rut? Get a jumpstart now with the Game Commission’s Elk Cam.
The Game Commission again has installed a camera on State Game Lands 311 in Elk County in a field that typically is a hub of elk activity as the bugling season heats up.
Video and sound from the camera are being livestreamed at www.pgc.pa.gov, and viewers can expect not only to see elk, but turkeys, deer and other wildlife, as well.
Elk, which in the coming weeks will ramp up activity – with bulls becoming more vocal and competing with one another for available cows – always seem to take center stage, however. And, enjoying the show is just a few clicks away.
“Elk are fascinating animals and the spectacle of their bugling season draws plenty of onlookers, sometimes from hundreds of miles away,” said Game Commission Executive Director Bryan Burhans. “That same dynamic is what makes the Elk Cam so popular with viewers. And, the Game Commission is proud to bring it back for yet another run.”
The livestream, which is provided by HDOnTap and made possible with the help of the North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission, is the latest in a string of real-time wildlife-watching opportunities offered by the Game Commission.
“HDOnTap is excited to partner with the Pennsylvania Game Commission for another year of the live cam in elk country,” said Kate Alexander, Director of Marketing with HDOnTap. “Last year, over a million viewers tuned in for the many sights and sounds of activity on the field. It’s a thrill to see the wide range of Pennsylvania wildlife roaming in the field live 24/7. Elk activity is consistent, though unexpected appearances from black bears and coyotes add to the joy for viewers of this cam, it’s no wonder why the live elk cam is so popular year after year!”
The stream can be accessed at the home page at www.pgc.pa.gov by clicking on the Elk Cameras link provided in the “Popular Now” category. The agency’s elk webpage also contains information on Pennsylvania’s elk, where to view them, and contains a link to the Pennsylvania Great Outdoors website, which provides all sorts of handy information for anyone visiting elk country.
Each September, thousands of visitors make their way to Pennsylvania’s elk country to experience for themselves the wonder of the bugling season.
The Game Commission reminds visitors to the elk range to always be “Elk Smart.” Give elk space, never feed elk, don’t name elk, and do your part to ensure the welfare of the herd. Enjoy your time in elk country and help keep Pennsylvania elk wild.
The PA Game Elk Cam is slated to run until the end of the bugling season, likely sometime in mid-October. The top time to see elk on camera is late in the afternoon.
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John Branson Dick
John Branson Dick, 50, a well-known and well loved resident of Whispering Pines at Sugar Valley Lodge, died peacefully at 6:06 PM Monday, August 22, 2022 at UPMC-Hamot in Erie; from complications due to a fall at his home.
He was born May 16, 1972 in Greenville, a beloved son of Howard E. and Patricia A. Turner Dick.
John was a 1991 graduate of Rocky Grove High School.
He was a faithful member of the Fox Street Church of God.
John lived with disabilities all of his life, and handled each of them as they came with courage and dignity.
John had a lifetime interest of police officers and medics, although his disabilities never allowed him to pursue either of those careers.
He was so very proud of himself when the members of the Rocky Grove Volunteer Fire Department welcomed him as an associate firefighter.
His dream of becoming a first responder came true!
He tried his best to always be on hand to assist in whatever capacity that was needed within the department.
He was always on hand at the department’s raffles, and most especially, he eagerly looked forward to helping out with the Rocky Grove Fair.
He will be deeply missed by all those who loved him!
In addition to his beloved parents of Emlenton, John is survived by his sister, Angelene K. Coyne and her children: Caoilfhionn, Genny, and Joe.
Also surviving is his longtime girlfriend and companion, Darlene Acklin; and Wesley Martz who was like a brother to John, and like a second son to his parents; in addition to many loving aunts, uncles, cousins, other extended family members and a host of friends.
John was preceded in death by his maternal and paternal grandparents; and by two uncles.
Family and friends may call Monday 3-4 PM in the Fox Street Church of God, 229 Fox Street, Franklin.
Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 4 PM in the church with Pastor Chad Troup, officiating.
Private interment will be within The Garden of Honor at Crestview Memorial Park in Grove City.
Memorial contributions, if desired may be directed in his name to either: the Rocky Grove Volunteer Fire Department or to the Fox Street Church of God.
John’s parents wish to express their heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has been so very kind and patient with him throughout his lifetime.
“You are all better now John! We love you!”
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Timothy E. Hartle Funeral Home, 1328 Elk Street, Franklin.
Please visit: www.hartlefuneralhome.com for further information and to leave a note of condolence.
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Kerle Tire Game of the Week Returns With Central Clarion, Brookville Showdown
STRATTANVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – The Kerle Tire Game of the Week kicks off tonight with a Friday night clash between Central Clarion and Brookville and EYT Media/D9Sports will have all of the action live from Clarion-Limestone High School.
(PHOTO: Central Clarion takes the field prior to its 2021 matchup versus Brookville. Brookville won the game 40-14 behind a three touchdown performance from Quarterback Charlie Krug. Photo by Dave Cyphert of ProPoint Media Photography)
The Kerle Tire Pregame Show will start at 6:30 p.m. followed by kickoff at 7:00 p.m. with the area’s favorite broadcast team, Mike Kalinowski and Bob “The Governor” Dunkle, on the call.
After a season of switching opponents and uncertainty of games being played, the 2021 Clarion Wildcats finished 4-6 overall, losing to Karns City in the opening round of the District 9 playoffs.
The 2022 edition of the Wildcats with head coach Dave Eggleton is hoping for a turnaround, even after losing 12 seniors to graduation.
“At this point, we’re hoping to get through our first scrimmage and our first game, which would automatically be a drastic improvement over how last season started,” said Eggleton. “We lost a lot to graduation, but we feel we have a lot of talented people coming back who gained a lot of experience last season.”
One of the biggest returning players is quarterback Jase Ferguson, who will enter his sophomore season.
Ferguson completed 107 of 194 passes for 1,620 yards. He threw 18 touchdown passes with 13 interceptions as a freshman. He also rushed for four touchdowns.
Read more about the Wildcats here.
HOW TO WATCH
The video feed can be found at exploreClarion.com, exploreJeffersonPA.com, and D9Sports.com.
The following local sponsors have signed on to make this year’s Kerle Tire Game of the Week possible:
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BATTERY WAREHOUSE
BAUER TRUCK REPAIR
BEVERAGE-AIR
BROOKVILLE EQUIPMENT
CLARION COUNTY COMMUNITY BANK
CLARION FORD
CLARION FOREST VNA
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Mary R. (Lechner) Barlett
Mary R. (Lechner) Barlett, age 101, of Sligo, passed away peacefully on Thursday, August 25, 2022 at the Shippenville Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center following a brief illness.
She was born on June 26, 1921 in Pitch Pine, PA; a daughter of the late Dan and Josephine Lechner.
Mary married Edgar Barlett, who preceded her in death in 1986.
Following her husband’s passing, Mary moved in 1987 to Shippenville, Pine Terrace, where she started a new chapter in her life and found support through many loving and caring friends.
In 2019 she moved in with her daughter and son-in-law, Evie and Joe Gourley, with her daughter, Joyce, always there to lend support.
Mary was known for her fierce love of family, absolute and unwavering faith, and warm and welcoming personality.
Mary was a wonderful loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.
She loved to play cards, bake, cook, crochet, and especially quilt.
Mary was a devout Christian and member of the Cornerstone Church in Shippenville, and attended church at the Haskell House, led by her friend Pastor John.
She was loved by many and will be greatly missed by all who knew her.
Mary is survived by her loving daughters, Joyce Sayers of Knox and Evie Gourley of Sligo; her grandchildren, Mark Sayers and his wife, Mindy, of Illinois and Barbara Bensink of New York; and a great-grandson, Kyle Bensink of Washington DC; along with many other nieces, nephews, and constant companion and dog, Coco.
In addition to her parents and husband, Mary was preceded in death by her sons-in-law, Max Sayers and Joe Gourley; a grandson-in-law, Bruce Bensink; and her 4 sisters and 1 brother, Flo Fescenmyer, Permilla Wilson, Telena Perrine, Elsie Huff, and Plum Lechner.
The family would like to extend our gratitude for all of the gentle and compassionate care she received during her brief illness.
We truly appreciate all of the family and friend visits, prayers, cards and flowers.
The Robert V. Burns Funeral Home in Clarion is handling the arrangements.
Family and friends will be received from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, August 26, 2022 at the Cornerstone Church of Clarion in Shippenville, 3655 East End Road, Shippenville, PA 16254.
Additional viewing will be held from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Saturday, August 27, 2022 in the church where funeral services will follow at 11 a.m.
Private interment will take place in the Leatherwood Cemetery in New Bethlehem.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Mary’s name to: Cornerstone Church, Shippenville, Church at Haskell House, Care of John Green, 349 Greenville Ave, Clarion, PA 16214, Shippenville Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 21158 Paint Blvd, Shippenville, PA 16254.
Online condolences can be sent to the family by visiting www.rvburnsfuneralhome.com.
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NC Cross Country Car Wash Set for Tomorrow
Friday, August 26, 2022 @ 12:08 AM
LEEPER, Pa. (EYT) – The North Clarion Cross Country Team is holding a car wash and bake sale on Saturday at the Leeper Fire Hall.
The fundraising event is scheduled for Saturday, August 27, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
The cost is by donation.
The Leeper Fire Hall is located on State Route 66 in Leeper, Pa.
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Sligo Woman Charged With Allegedly Striking Man With Wooden Boards That Had Nails in It Due in Court on Tuesday
CLARION CO., Pa. (EYT) – A hearing for a Sligo woman who was arrested on assault charges for allegedly striking a man with a wooden board that had nails in it during a domestic incident is scheduled for Tuesday morning.
According to court documents, a preliminary hearing for 30-year-old Chelsea Dawn Steele is scheduled for Tuesday, August 30, at 10:30 a.m. in front of Magisterial District Judge Jeffrey C. Miller on the following charges:
– Simple Assault, Misdemeanor 2
She is currently free on $5,000.00 unsecured bail.
Details of the case:
According to a criminal complaint, police were dispatched to the 2000 block of Madison Street Extension, in Sligo Borough, Clarion County, for an active domestic incident around 11:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 18.
Upon arrival, police made contact with a known male victim, who related he was in a verbal argument with his girlfriend and the mother of his children, Chelsea Steele.
The victim told police that during the altercation, Steele grabbed a wooden board that had nails in it and swung it at him, striking him in the right shoulder, the complaint states.
Police observed a raised scratch mark that appeared to be bleeding, which the victim related was caused by the board, the complaint indicates.
Police then made contact with Steele, who related that the victim was “coming towards her and she felt threatened,” so she struck him with the wooden board.
Steele told police that the victim did not swing at her or strike her during the altercation, but did cause damage to her vehicle, the complaint notes.
Steele was arraigned at 1:30 a.m. on Friday, August 19, in front of District Judge Jarah Lee Heeter.
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AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – It is just 11 days until the September 6th primary in Massachusetts. On Friday, Lieutenant Governor candidate Tami Gouveia visited Amherst to talk with voters. The state representative from Acton is focusing her campaign around housing, climate change, and mental health services.
Gouveia is running as a Democrat in the Lieutenant Governor primary race. She visited Share Coffee Roasters in Amherst to meet with potential voters on Friday. This past summer, Amherst has seen multiple businesses close, including Glazed Doughnut Shop, due to a slow start to the summer season and the continued rise in prices.
22News asked Gouveia with how she will support local businesses and she said a big part of that is making sure small businesses get to stay in our communities, “I worked with colleagues of mine to pass the tiered corporate tax minimum so our small businesses pay the same annual tax rate that our larger corporations pay to try to create some equity.”
Gouveia added she supports Medicare for all and said that could make it easier for businesses when it comes to providing benefits to employees.
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R. Kelly Trusel
R. Kelly Trusel, of Oil City, passed away in his home on Wednesday, August 24, 2022, at the age of 63, following several years of declining health.
On February 11, 1959, in New Castle, PA, he became the fourth son of the late Rev. James A. and Patricia A. (Sadler) Trusel.
Kelly was raised in the Methodist faith and was a member of Calvary United Methodist Church in Oil City.
He grew up in Slippery Rock and graduated from Slippery Rock High School one year early in 1976.
He then attended Clarion State University.
He was a systems engineer and worked may years in the Pittsburgh IT (Information Technology) community as a contractor working for Westinghouse, PPG, Entex, and several other companies.
He finished his career in the IT industry in Orlando, Florida with AAA Corporate, and Enterprise Florida, retiring in 2003.
Kelly loved technology and was always anxious to see the world changing ideas, and the latest and greatest in new gadgets.
He was a “gadget man”.
If it had a power button, he could figure it out.
He was a pilot, and before becoming ill, he spent many hours flying over Pennsylvania and the east coast, often stopping at small town airports just to have lunch.
When the weather was good, he would look up at the sky and never fail to say that it was “a good flying day!”
On May 26, 1996 he married the former Theresa D. Tommasi, and she survives.
Also surviving is his brother, Dave Trusel and his wife Betsy of Jamestown, New York; along with numerous nieces and nephews.
He is also survived by his dog, Oscar, who provided many hours of companionship and lots of laughter.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brothers, Brad Trusel (Grove City) and Barry Trusel (Jamestown, NY); his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Lewis C. and Hazel V. Tommasi; and his sister-in-law and partner in crime, Helen “Butch” Blauser; and his beloved basset hounds, Sister, Maggie, Buttons, and Minnie.
Per his wishes, there will be no visitation or service held.
Private funeral arrangements are being completed by Hile-Best Funeral Home in Seneca.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Venango County Humane Society, 286 S. Main St., Seneca, PA 16346; or to a charity of one’s choice.
To express online condolences to Kelly’s family, please visit www.hilebest.com.
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Sandy Lee Stewart
Sandy Lee Stewart, age 36, of Rossiter, PA died Thursday, August 25, 2022 at her home.
Born on October 30, 1985, in Clarion, PA, she was the daughter of the late Richard L. Clark and Melody Moats Clark.
Sandy married Ruth Stewart on September 15, 2011. She survives.
She was a homemaker and was previously a caregiver at ARC Human Services.
Sandy was a 2004 graduate of Jeff Tech in Reynoldsville, PA.
She loved taking care of others, loved tattoos and planning and going on vacations.
Sandy is survived by two children; Coraline and Benjamin Stewart.
She was also “Dad” to Noah, Brayden and Dezlanae McBride.
She is also survived by two sisters; Becky Fiscus and her husband Chris of Brookville, PA and Sherrie Seers and her husband Darren of DuBois, PA.
She was preceded in death by 1 daughter, Emaline Stewart.
There will be no public visitation.
A memorial service will be held on Monday, August 29, 2022 at 11 AM from the Baronick Funeral Home & Crematorium, Inc. with Pastor Terry Felt officiating.
Burial will take place in Mahaffey Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to Emma’s Footprints, 412 West 8th Street, Erie, PA 16502.
Online condolences can be sent to www.baronickfuneralhome.com.
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SOUTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – Driving up I-91, you’ll see an incredibly early sign of fall: yellow leaves.
“Highways where you have the traffic, the exhaust, those areas too, it’s a bit warmer because of the cars, [the trees] tend to become more stressed,” said 22News Storm Team Meteorologist Adam Strzempko.
So what that means for the fall foliage season as a whole? It’s too soon to tell.
“If we get a decent amount of rain between now and the next couple weeks, that may help things,” said Strzempko. “Also it depends on the conditions we have at night. If we get nice cool nights when temperatures don’t get down around freezing, that causes the colors to become a little bit better.”
Tom Bashista is a fourth generation farmer at Bashista Orchards in Southampton. He said while the leaves are changing color sooner, it’s actually cooler weather that draws in tourists.
“Once you get a cool night, people start thinking apples and it’s time to go picking,” Tom said.
While the fall foliage season is starting early, apple season is on time.
“Apple picking for pick-your-own should be through most of September but depends on how much of a crowd we have, depends on how long we can offer it,” Bashista said.
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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Severe thunderstorms this week caused some trees to come down in parts of western Massachusetts and that same situation is playing out on Friday evening in some local communities.
During the summer when we get strong and severe thunderstorms, we often end up with tree damage. There are a number of reasons for that.
Right now, the trees have all their leaves and when we get strong wind gusts over 60 mph, the leaves act like a sail and that helps knock down trees. If a tree gets struck by lightning it can also come down.
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Deer Creek Winery to Host Friday Night Music by 50 Miles to Empty
Friday, August 26, 2022 @ 12:08 AM
SHIPPENVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – Stop at Deer Creek Winery on Friday evening to relax, sip a glass of wine with a meal, and enjoy the start of the weekend!
50 Miles to Empty will be performing their version of tunes from the 50’s through today from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
As always, Deer Creek offers a full wine selection, a light cafe menu, and select craft beers from North Country Brewing.
Deer Creek Winery is located at 3333 Soap Fat Road, Shippenville, PA 16254.
For more information, visit their website here.
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District 9 High School Football Schedule: Week 1
Friday, August 26, 2022 @ 12:08 AM
This week’s PIAA District 9 High School Football Schedule brought to you by Nick’s Auto Body.
Friday, August 26
Cameron County at Union/A-C Valley, 7:00 p.m.
Clearfield at Juniata, 7:00 p.m.
Meyersdale at Curwensville, 7:00 p.m.
Karns City at DuBois, 7:00 p.m.
Moniteau at St. Marys, 7:00 p.m.
Port Allegany at Ridgway, 7:00 p.m.
Smethport at Redbank Valley, 7:00 p.m.
Sheffield at Bucktail, 7:00 p.m.
Bradford at Punxsutawney, 7:00 p.m.
Brookville at Central Clarion, 7:00 p.m.
Kane at Brockway, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, August 27
Otto-Eldred at Elk County Catholic, 1:30 p.m.
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SPONSORED: Featured Jobs of the Week at All Seasons Temporaries Inc.
All Seasons Temporaries, Inc. has several new job openings in the local area.
Legal Secretary
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Monday through Friday
WE PAY WEEKLY!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Retrieving and routing incoming mail, preparing outgoing mail, and delivering to the post office at the end of the day
- Collection of data from insurance companies, banks, tax collectors, clients and real estate agents
- Answering phones, greeting and assisting people who come into the building
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Must be able to maintain confidentiality at all times
- Must be able to use Microsoft Word and Excel
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Industrial Painter
3:30 p.m. to 12:00 a.m., Monday through Friday
10:30 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., Sunday through Thursday
WE PAY WEEKLY!!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Read work orders- analyze required paint operations
- Perform hand spray techniques over a lengthy time span
- Examine products or work to verify conformance to specifications
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Must be able to lift up to 40lbs.
- Steel toe/ composite toe shoes
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Lumber Stacker
7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
WE PAY WEEKLY!!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Stack lumber anywhere between 12’- 16’ to customers specifications with a partner
- Quality control and clip plywood 8’ 12’ to customers’ specs, with a partner
- Using an air nailer, compound miter saw, table saw, or circular saw at some point
- Need to learn all of the paperwork involved, adding, subtracting, ect. (Math)
- Physical job fast paced
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre- employment screening
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Warehouse Associate
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday
WE PAY WEEKLY!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Process orders to be shipped out to customers
- Marking and labeling stock product
- Assisting in unloading trucks and checking in product
- Sorting items according to organization standards
- Light Fork Lift driving
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Must be able to lift up to 40lbs
- Must be able to bend, twist, kneel, push, pull, and reach the duration of shift
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Accounts Payable Clerk
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
WE PAY WEEKLY!!!
Duties( But not limited to):
- Process invoices in compliance with financial policies and procedures
- Facilitate payments of invoices according to terms
- Maintain accounts payable files
- Crosstrain on production payroll duties
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in accounting
- Knowledge of various accounts payable software
- Solid understanding of basic bookkeeping and accounts payable principles
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Grinder
7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Monday through Friday
WE PAY WEEKLY!!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Grinding metal surfaces to the proper specifications
- Responsible for knowledge and operation of handheld grinders
- Stack sheets of metal upon completion of grinding
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre- employment screening
- Steel toed boots
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Bundler – Meadville
$12.50 to $13.50/hr. non-exempt
Light forklift driving, packaging bundles of pipe, use of banding and crimping to band pipes together.
Monday through Thursday, 6:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (some Fridays as needed for overtime, would be eight hours)
Pay Rate: $12.50 to $13.50/hr. non-exempt
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Must have steel-toed shoes
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Stick Layers and Bin Tenders– Marienville, Titusville, and Endeavor
$15.00/hour – 1st and 2nd Shifts – Non-exempt
Job Requirements:
- Ability to lift, bend, twist, and stand for duration shift
- Must pass pre-employment screening
- Must have steel-toed boots
- Must have general mathematical skills
- Must abide by all safety protocols
- Understand lockout protocols
- Must be able to work with a team
Duties (but not limited to):
- Stack and sort lumber in appropriate slots
- Count pieces in stacks
- Tag bundles
- Operate machines and make sure they do not jam
- Clean machines when they are down
- Maintain clean workspaces
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
About All Season’s Temporaries Inc.
All Season’s offices are located at 1288 Liberty Street in Franklin and 113 N. Broad Street in Grove City.
For more information, call 814-437-2148 for the Franklin office or 724-458-6777 for the Grove City office.
Interested individuals may contact either office for available assignments.
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WATCH LIVE – Kerle Tire High School Football Game of the Week: Brookville vs. Central Clarion
Friday, August 26, 2022 @ 02:08 PM
Kerle Tire High School Football Game of the Week: Brookville vs. Central Clarion. Pregame starts at 6:30 p.m. Kickoff is at 7:00 p.m. If you experience issues with this video, try accessing it directly on exploreClarion’s YouTube channel here.
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Week 1 Football Scores Powered by Eric Shick Insurance
Friday, August 26, 2022 @ 02:08 PM
Friday, August 26, 2022, PIAA District 9 high school football scores. Powered by Eric Shick Insurance.
High school football scores on D9Sports.com are brought to you by Eric Shick Insurance of New Bethlehem, Pa. Call 814-275-2210 today or click here for more information.
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Police Investigating Hit-and-Run Crash Involving Tractor on Route 208
WASHINGTON TWP., Pa. (EYT) – Police are asking for the public’s help with information regarding a hit-and-run accident that occurred on Wednesday evening on State Route 208 in Washington Township.
According to Marienville-based State Police, the crash happened around 5:33 p.m. on Wednesday, August 24, as an unidentified vehicle was attempting to pass a Kubota Tractor driven by 79-year-old Kenneth L. Daum, of Tionesta, who was making a left-hand turn from State Route 208 onto Lees Lane, in Washington Township, Clarion County.
Police say the unidentified vehicle struck the tractor, causing damage, and then fled the scene without exchanging information.
Daum reported that he was not injured, according to police.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact PSP Marienville at 814-927-5253.
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SCI Phoenix Invites Public to Participate in Deer Hunts
COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – SCI Phoenix will provide an opportunity for the public to participate in antlerless deer hunts on the facility grounds.
The dates are as follows:
– Youth Hunt (12-16 years of age) to be held on December 28, 2022
– Veteran | First Responder Public Hunt to be held on January 25, 2023
Participation in these hunts will be determined by a lottery system. Fifty hunters will be selected in the lottery drawing for each day of the hunt. Shotguns are the only authorized weapons for the hunts; ammunition is limited to slugs or straight wall cartridges only. Weapons and ammunition will be inspected by the Pennsylvania Game Commission prior to the start of each hunt.
Procedures for entrance into the lottery for the antlerless deer hunt are as follows:
– All state laws and regulations must be observed and will be strictly enforced.
– Lottery entrants must possess a valid Pennsylvania hunting license.
– Lottery entrants must possess a Management Unit 5C antlerless deer tag(s) to enter the lottery.
– All youth must be accompanied by an adult 18 years of age or older. The accompanying adult must possess a valid and current Pennsylvania hunting license.
– Entrance into the lottery may be completed by submitting a 3″x5″ index card to the address below. A separate 3″x5″ card must be submitted for each date that – the entrant is entering the lottery.
– The index card(s) shall be inserted inside an envelope containing the sender’s return mailing address and the facility mailing address. The index card must be received at the mailing address no later than December 9, 2022.
The following information must be recorded on the index card for the youth hunt:
1. Hunter’s first and last name
2. CID number
3. Antlerless deer license number
4. Adult first and last name who will be accompanying the youth hunter
5. CID number for the adult accompanying the youth hunter
6. Phone number and e-mail address
The following information must be recorded on the index card for the Veteran/First Responder and Public hunts:
1. Hunter’s first and last name
2. CID number
3. Antlerless deer license number
4. Military Service or First Responder Organization (only required for the Veteran | First Responder Hunt)
5. Any request for special accommodations (only required for the Veteran | First Responder Hunt)
6. Phone number and e-mail address
Notifications to those selected for participation in the hunts and additional directions related to registration on the date of the hunts will be provided via telephone notification.
The mailing address for submission of envelopes containing the 3″x5″ index cards is:
SCI Phoenix
Superintendent’s Office
1200 Mokychic Drive
Collegeville, PA 19426
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Senator Casey Visits Clarion: Helping Rural America Part of His Agenda
CLARION, Pa. (EYT) – U.S. Senator Bob Casey recently stopped in Clarion for a quick talk about recent legislation led by Democrats and its benefits for rural communities.
At a Tuesday, August 23rd afternoon meet and greet at the Clarion County Democratic Headquarters, Casey told about 75 Democrats that the candidacies of Josh Shapiro for Governor and John Fetterman for U.S. Senator were defying conventional wisdom.
At midterms with the Democrats holding just a slight majority in Washington, Republicans should be far ahead in election polling, Casey said, “…or at least tied. They are neither. We are ahead in the statewide races and doing better in state legislative races than the rules say we should.”
“That’s the good news. The bad news is, elections aren’t held in July or August.”
The race for governor is especially important as it has national implications, Casey noted.
“Not just voting rights generally, but the actual vote that is cast is at stake,” said Casey.
The race for Senator from Pennsylvania between Fetterman and Mehmet Oz could change the political algebra of an evenly divided Senate. “John Fetterman could be number 51 or 52,” Casey said, strengthening the Democratic majority.
Casey said rural Democrats can help win statewide and national elections even when living in “deep red” areas, Casey said, by helping spread the word about what he referred to as positive legislative accomplishments, pointing to the passage of the Infrastructure Bill and more recently the Inflation Reduction Act and the PACT Act that helps veterans, a large proportion of whom come from rural communities.
“The common thread for these bills is that every one of them is good for rural America,” Casey said. The infrastructure package is “going to be a bonanza” for rural communities, providing funding for bridges, roads, and high-speed Internet.
“Not a single Republican in the entire House voted for the Inflation Reduction Act,” he said.
Casey noted that Republicans ended up voting for the PACT Act that helps veterans suffering from toxic exposures but said they delayed passage “until the dam broke, and they couldn’t hold it back longer.”
“It’s not just that we did it, but they refused to do it.”
“Ask a Republican legislator if you see one: why have you voted against the families of Clarion County over and over and over again?”
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Venango County Man Accused of Forgery After Deposited Money Orders Were Identified as Fictitious
CRANBERRY TWP., Pa. (EYT) – A Venango County man is facing felony counts of forgery after two money orders he deposited in a Cranberry Township bank were deemed to be “altered/fictitious.”
Court documents indicate that Franklin-based State Police filed the following criminal charges against 35-year-old Cecil Alexander Cohen, of Oil City, on August 22, in Magisterial District Judge Patrick E. Lowrey’s office:
– Forgery – Alter Writing, Felony 2 (two counts)
– Criminal Attempt – Theft by Unlawful Taking – Movable Property, Misdemeanor
According to a criminal complaint, PSP Franklin on June 3 responded to a local bank in Cranberry Township, Venango County, for a report of a forgery.
Upon arrival, troopers interviewed the branch manager, who related that two Western Union money orders were returned to their institution because they were “identified as altered/fictitious,” the complaint states.
The money orders totaled $1,900.00 and each money order was $950.00.
Police initiated an investigation and learned that Cecil Cohen opened an account with the local bank on or about May 26, 2022, and deposited Western Union Money Orders #19-404256080 ($950.00) and #19-404256082 ($950.00). These money orders were identified as the two that were returned as altered/fictitious, according to the complaint.
The money orders were seized and then placed into the PSP Franklin evidence room.
Cohen is currently awaiting a preliminary hearing.
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Sheriff defends suspended deputies in beating arrest case
Video statement released Thursday
Crawford County Sheriff Jimmy Damante released a video statement Thursday defending the violent arrest made by two of his deputies and a Mulberry police officer that was caught on video by a bystander and has resulted in a civil rights violation investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Deputies Zach King and Levi White have been suspended from Crawford County and police officer Thell Riddle has been suspended from the Mulberry police department.
Randal Ray Worcester, 27, was arrested by the law officers in Mulberry Sunday, Aug. 21 after threats were reportedly made against an Alma store clerk 11 miles west of Mulberry. Worcester is beaten on the ground with blows to the head and side as he lay on the ground.
In the statement released Thursday, Damante defended the actions of the deputies and highlighted Worcester's history of criminal convictions on violent offenses, including past assault and battery on a police officer.
He said Worcester, who had a knife, aggressively tackled a deputy who hit his head on concrete and suffered a concussion.
"The criminal then punched the deputy in the head," Damante said. That was when the bystander started to take video of the arrest. But that video did not catch any of the aggression by Worcester, Damante stated.
"The citizen video is troubling to watch, as is often the case when officers are trying to arrest a violent criminal who has a history of assaulting police," Damante said. "I understand that many people who have seen the video have concerns about the use of force used."
The Arkansas State Police are also investigating the arrest.
"We will fully cooperate with them. Of course, we will also cooperate with federal authorities who are reviewing the matter," Damante said. He said law did not require him to suspend the deputies.
Worcester was treated for scrapes and bruises but he did not suffer a concussion. He was taken to a hospital and then to the Crawford County Jail. Worcester has posted $15,000 bail and he has been released. He faces charges being filed against him in connection with the alleged threat in Alma. His attorney David Powell of Fort Smith said he is working to get any charges filed dismissed.
Damante said his own staff is also looking at the actions of the deputies in an internal investigation.
Meanwhile, civil rights advocates plan to rally at the Crawford County Courthouse in Van Buren at noon Saturday. | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/08/26/deputies-defended-by-sheriff-in-arkansas-violent-arrest/65442012007/ | 2022-08-26T22:52:58Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/08/26/deputies-defended-by-sheriff-in-arkansas-violent-arrest/65442012007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The voice of the Razorbacks sounds off in Fort Smith
The voice behind 'Touchdown Arkansas!'
He is the modern-day radio voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks, the voice behind "Touchdown Arkansas!"
Chuck Barrett warmed up his vocals and spoke to Fort Smith Razorbacks Club members on Friday at the Hardscrabble Country Club, addressing members ready for a big 2022 season that starts Saturday, Sept. 3. Barrett talked about the upcoming season, the players who are expected to start, who will also see playing time, and how the football culture has changed from just fielding a team to building a football program again.
The Fort Smith Razorbacks Club, once known as the Fort Smith Quarterbacks Club, recognizes an outstanding senior Razorback football or basketball player each year.
On Sept. 3, Hogs fans hope he will again be heard on the fall 2022 airwaves with plenty of exuberant calls of "Touchdown Arkansas!" | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/08/26/voice-razorbacks-fort-smith-friday-talk/7874444001/ | 2022-08-26T22:53:04Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/08/26/voice-razorbacks-fort-smith-friday-talk/7874444001/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The 9th Reconnaissance Wing’s operations group celebrated their 100th year of providing supreme airpower at Beale Air Force Base on August 25.
The anniversary event kicked off with a spirited video showcasing iconic 9th OG aircraft such as the B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-29 Superfortress, the C-73 transport plane, the SR-71 Blackbird, the MC-12 Liberty, the RQ-4 Global Hawk, and the U-2 Dragon Lady. These aircraft and 9th OG Airmen have executed missions all across the globe, ready to deliver in defense of our nation.
“It’s clear that at the core of every success was our airmen standing strong, resilient, and determined,” said Col. Jason Bialon, 9th Operations Group commander.
The Airmen of the 9th OG sum up to 800, including nearly 200 civilians and contractors living in the local counties of Yuba, Marysville, Sutter, and Wheatland. The career fields making up the group span from aircraft maintainers to pilots, psychological support specialists to intelligence analysts, cyber warriors to airfield operators. The group is a reflection of the rich diversity of Airmen that fight around the globe to advance Air Force strategic objectives, coming to the aide of our nation and allies at a moment’s notice.
“One hundred years is a pretty long stretch of time; it’s good to look back and see where you’ve come from,” said Capt. Zachary Petzold, 427th Reconnaissance Squadron member. “It’s nice to have a community that can kind of rally around it and celebrate all the accomplishments that they’ve had.”
Bialon spoke to the gazing crowd in an open hangar on the Beale flight line, capturing the group’s rich history of operations from striking Japan in 1945, flying high-altitude daylight missions against industrial targets, to U.S. military operations in Afghanistan in late 2001 and Iraq in early 2003 with the RQ-4 Global Hawk. Since the 9th OG’s activation at Beale in 1991, the group has conducted high-altitude manned aerial reconnaissance and surveillance missions.
“As in the past, the 9th OG remains a vital part of our national defense structure,” said Bialon. “Today, our 11 units span the globe equipped with approximately 800 professional Recce Airmen and continue to provide national and theater command authorities with timely, high-quality, and reliable reconnaissance anytime, anywhere we are needed.”
The development of the Common Mission Control Center supports the next generation of operators to fight in an increasingly interconnected combat environment. The U-2 Dragon Lady, Beale’s famous high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, continues to fly missions around the world and around the clock. The 9th OG continues to progress and meet the needs of the Air Force and nation with superior character and mission success.
“Regardless of our 9th OG capabilities, again, our Airmen are the key,” said Bialon. “It’s not really about the U-2, it’s about the human weapon inside of it and those that support it. Thus, we will empower, educate and develop our Airmen in pursuance of daily excellence in our profession… Semper Paratus.”
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It only takes one sip.
New findings out of Germany suggest that your very first drink in life can alter your brain forever, causing “permanent cellular changes” and throwing synapses out of wack.
These alcohol-induced changes support the theory that “first alcohol intoxication at an early age is a critical risk factor” for future drinking and addiction, said the University of Cologne’s Dr. Henrike Scholz, who worked with colleagues at the Universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg to publish the report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Friday.
Brain scans of mice that had been intoxicated for the first time showed “lasting changes” in how their neurons communicated even after their binge, particularly by disrupting the flow of energy created by the mitochondria. Similar changes were seen in fruit flies — and both were more likely to go on and increase their alcohol consumption over time, then relapse later in life.
Greater understanding of these mechanisms are crucial to finding the most effective treatment for alcohol addiction and other types of substance abuse, researchers said. Changes that occurred during the study relate to the process of learning and memory and, therefore, the formation of positive associations with drugs.
“Identifying lasting ethanol-dependent changes is an important first step in understanding how acute drinking can turn into chronic alcohol abuse,” said Scholz. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/first-sip-of-alcohol-changes-brain-forever-leads-to-addiction-study/ | 2022-08-26T23:04:53Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/first-sip-of-alcohol-changes-brain-forever-leads-to-addiction-study/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
President Joe Biden on Friday mocked Donald Trump’s claim to have declassified all of the documents targeted in an FBI raid on his Florida estate earlier this month.
Biden — asked about his predecessor’s stance after a judge released a heavily redacted version of the feds’ affidavit seeking the search — scoffed to reporters, “I just want you to know I’ve declassified everything in the world.
“I’m president, I can do — c’mon,” Biden said as he was leaving the White House for the weekend.
Pressed further about the case, he quickly added, “I’m not going to comment because I don’t know the details.
“I don’t want to know,” Biden added.
The president had been asked to comment on Trump’s claim that expansive federal powers allowed him to declassify any government document he brought with him to his palatial home.
Biden’s sarcastic comment was the most substantive on the investigation that he’s made to date, as he and his staffers have insisted the Department of Justice raid is independent of the administration.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre echoed that sentiment Friday at a regularly scheduled press conference.
“We feel that it is not appropriate for us to comment on this,” she said when asked about the allegations Trump improperly held on to classified documents after leaving the White House.
“This is an independent investigation that the Department of Justice is leading,” she asserted.
“That’s something that the president finds is an important thing to do — for the Department of Justice to have that independence. We’re just not going to comment.”
The former president’s Florida estate was searched earlier this month by an FBI team armed with a warrant seeking for classified documents.
The 38-page affidavit shed light on some of the feds’ reasoning for the raid, including concerns that highly sensitive records were being retained at Mar-a-Lago illegally.
Jean-Pierre refused to address the concern.
“We are not going to comment on any underlying materials, any content that is related to an ongoing investigation,” she said.
“This is an independent investigation, a legal investigation that the Department of Justice has the independence to conduct, and we do not feel that it is appropriate for us to comment,” the spokeswoman added.
The decision to give the DOJ a wide berth comes amid Republican claims that federal law enforcement has been selective in its application of the law in favor of the Biden family.
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley accused the Justice Department in July of downplaying “highly credible whistleblowers” in an effort to cover for President Biden’s scandal-scarred son, Hunter.
In an open letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, Grassley accused the DOJ and FBI of portraying alleged evidence of wrongdoing by Hunter Biden as “disinformation” — and shutting down a probe into the first son’s activities.
“Attorney General Garland and Director Wray, simply put, based on the allegations that I’ve received from numerous whistleblowers, you have systemic and existential problems within your agencies,” the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote.
Grassley demanded an investigation and release of any documents on the allegedly dismissed probes.
He insisted the allegations were so serious, they would prove — if confirmed — that both offices were “institutionally corrupted to their very core.”
Grassley’s allegations have not been independently verified by The Post. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/white-house-mum-on-mar-a-lago-affidavit/ | 2022-08-26T23:05:53Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/white-house-mum-on-mar-a-lago-affidavit/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The ashes of Star Trek icon Nichelle Nichols, who died at the age of 89 last month, will soon launch to the heavens and a destination in deep space. It was announced Thursday that a private company that trades in space funerals, Celestis Inc., will carry some of the performer’s cremated remains and a DNA sample beyond the Earth-Moon system and the James Webb telescope into “interplanetary deep space–where [they] will join the other planets, moons, comets, and asteroids in our solar system on a never-ending journey through the cosmos.”
Celesits's appropriately named Enterprise Flight, powered by a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket (the “Vulcan” making it double-appropriate), will also host remains from Star Trek’s creator Gene Roddenberry, his wife (and Star Trek actress) Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, James Doohan, who played the series's Chief Engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, and also Douglas Trumbull, a legendary special effects wizard and film director whose work included Star Trek: The Motion Picture, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
For Gene and Majel, this is not their initial trip to the stars for their remains. The first was when NASA astronaut Jim Weatherbee took some of the television creator’s ashes up in Space Shuttle Columbia in 1992. In 1997, some of his remains were loaded into a Pegasus-XL rocket in the Canary Islands, from which ashes were launched from the rocket; they orbited Earth for five years before reentering the atmosphere. Through Celestis, both Gene and Majel had some of their remains sent up two more times. In 2013, their ashes were joined by those of James Doohan, and also a strand of hair from author Arthur C. Clarke.
In 2020 it was revealed that Doohan’s ashes had been smuggled aboard the International Space Station in 2008, by millionaire video game creator/space tourist Richard Garriott. “My dad had three passions: space, science and trains. He always wanted to go into space,” Doohan’s son Chris Doohan said when spilling the secret.
Reservations are open to join Celestis’s Enterprise Flight for just a few more days. Pricing starts at $12,500. The journey begins at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and promises to become the “most distant permanent human repository outpost” in our solar system. It’s unclear if it costs more for an aisle seat. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/ashes-of-star-treks-nichelle-nichols-will-boldly-go-to-deep-space | 2022-08-26T23:09:36Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/ashes-of-star-treks-nichelle-nichols-will-boldly-go-to-deep-space | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A $20 million claim against Phil Collins from his ex-wife Orianne Cevey was dismissed by a Miami judge on Friday, according to PageSix. This could mean the end of a protracted legal battle between the 48-year-old Swiss-American woman and the 71-year-old rock drummer and singer.
Cevey’s suit of $20 million was for half of the worth of the mansion they once shared, which was sold in January 2021. Her suit stated that Collins once promised that she would receive half of the sale if she moved back in with him. Florida Judge Alan Fine, however, dismissed the case, and was reported as saying “I’m done with this,” and “I feel comfortable saying enough is enough.” Fine ruled that Cevey made 10 different violations of the court’s orders.
It’s been quite a back-and-forth between the couple, who were first married from 1999 to 2007. Cevey then married an investment banker in 2008, finalizing a divorce in 2017. But she was back with the Genesis leader in 2015. They broke up again in 2020, and she has since married someone new. Collins and Cevey have two sons, aged 21 and 17.
In October of 2020, Collins sued Cevey, accusing her of refusing to vacate their Miami property. His claim referred to it at the time as “an armed occupation and takeover.” There then followed reports of Cevey putting up many of Collins’s possessions for auction, like a gold Robert Plant record (1983’s The Principle of Moments, to be specific) on which Collins played drums on a few tracks. The items “no longer sparked joy for her,” a rep said in January 2021.
Cevey was also recently accused of punching her 10-year-old son.
Collins began his career as the drummer for Genesis in the late 1960s, when they were led by Peter Gabriel and played elaborate and lengthy “prog rock.” When Gabriel left for a solo career in the mid-1970s, Collins took over as vocalist led the band toward a more radio-friendly pop format, and also launched a tremendously successful solo career of his own in the early 1980s.
A Genesis reunion tour, said to be the last, concluded in March of this year, and saw Collins too frail to get behind the drum set. "I'd love to but I can barely hold a stick with this hand. So there are certain physical things that get in the way,” he said during a BBC interview. He sang from a seated position during each show. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/judge-in-phil-collins-case-says-enough-is-enough | 2022-08-26T23:09:42Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/judge-in-phil-collins-case-says-enough-is-enough | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — “Football is what this whole city relies on for business,” says Tara Kennedy.
Operations Manager Tara Kennedy told me it takes a full year to prep for each football season.
Garnet & Gold retail store has been a family-owned local business since 1979. Over the last 40 years they have employed over 10,000 students. Though they do have one rule, you must work game days. On average the store can see thousands of customers in just one day during football season.
“So we probably do 80% of our business during football season,” says Kennedy.
FSU affiliates aren’t the only ones who see a boost in numbers surrounding football season. New Orleans style snowball owner Jarett Maloy also benefits from the rise in foot traffic in the city. After 8 years and 3 locations he’s learned a thing or two when it comes to Tallahassee’s sports fans and their appetites.
Maloy says game days can increase revenue by 20%.
“Yea it’s always great to have more people come into town. A lot of the students share their favorite deserts or shops with their parents and other friends that come in. So, it does help increase the business,” says Maloy. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/fsu-football-expected-to-bring-economic-boost-to-tallahassee | 2022-08-26T23:10:10Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/fsu-football-expected-to-bring-economic-boost-to-tallahassee | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(WTXL) — High school football in south Georgia and Florida's Big Bend is scheduled to be contested Friday as most schools in Florida begin their regular seasons, while schools in Georgia are set for Week 2 of their seasons.
LIVE SCOREBOARD
GEORGIA -WEEK 2
Friday
Wewahitchka at Brookwood
Monroe at Cairo
Coffee at Bainbridge
Thomas County Central at Thomasville
Stockbridge at Colquitt County
St. Andrews at Valwood
Cook at Valdosta
Early County at Seminole County
Central at Miller County Worth County at Mitchell County
Augusta Prep at Westwood (8-man)
Gadsden County at Lowndes
Wayne County at Brooks County
Macon County at Clinch County
Berrien at Atkinson County
Georgia Christian at Riverside Christian
Lanier County at Telfair County
Pelham at Chatt County
OPEN DATE: Grace Christian
FLORIDA - WEEK 1
Thursday
Saint John Paul II 35, Rickards 33 at Gene Cox Stadium - Final
Friday
Hilliard at FAMU DRS (at Chiles)
Leon at North Florida Christian
Trinity Catholic at Florida High
Lincoln at Godby
Dixie County at Lafayette
Terrell County at Munroe
Chiles at Wakulla
Toombs Christian at Aucilla Christian
Port St. Joe at Jefferson County
Cottondale at Sneads
Maclay at Deerfield-Windsor
Madison County at Carrollwood Day
North Bay Haven at Franklin County
Taylor County at Fort White
Hamilton County at Williston
Eagles View at Branford
Suwannee at Flagler-Palm Coast | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/abc27s-friday-night-overtime/abc-27s-friday-night-overtime-florida-week-1-georgia-week-2 | 2022-08-26T23:10:35Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/abc27s-friday-night-overtime/abc-27s-friday-night-overtime-florida-week-1-georgia-week-2 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — There are two main points of long-term interest in the tropical waters:
- A faint moisture wave in the eastern Caribbean Sea Friday evening is fighting against nearby dry air, so its current development chance is quite slim. However, if the system emerges through the dry air, it can enter a more-favorable zone for strengthening toward the middle of next week in the western Caribbean. Expectations for further development depend on the system overcoming the dry patch. Forecast trends indicate modest intensification possible near the Yucatan Peninsula or the western Gulf about a week from now. More forecast data will be considered in the days ahead for changes to the pattern.
- More moisture sources are moving west beyond the Cape Verde Islands. One vigorous system is moving west with better form late Friday, and a long-range 30% chance for the system to become a tropical depression by next week. The air in the path of the system is not as dry as it is currently, so projections show a decent chance for the disturbance to grow into a tropical depression next week as it moves generally toward the west-northwest. There is adequate time to monitor future forecast trends and data related to this system to properly gauge any effects it would have to Caribbean islands or the U.S. mainland, which won't be clearly known for at least another week. | https://www.wtxl.com/weather/friday-evening-first-to-know-tropics-check-08-26-2022 | 2022-08-26T23:10:41Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/weather/friday-evening-first-to-know-tropics-check-08-26-2022 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Courtney Clenney, 26, is scheduled to appear in Hilo District Court on Thursday following her arrest in Hakalau at the Exclusive Hawaii Rehab Center on the Big Island.
Courtney Clenney, 26, is scheduled to appear in Hilo District Court on Thursday following her arrest in Hakalau at the Exclusive Hawaii Rehab Center on the Big Island.
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Courtney Clenney, the OnlyFans and Instagram model accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death in their Miami apartment, has been extradited back to Florida.
The Hawaii Department of Public Safety confirmed Clenney is no longer in its custody and she was transferred on Thursday by federal authorities.
Clenney, 26, was arrested by US Marshals, with help from Hawaii County police, at an exclusive rehab treatment center in Hakalau on the Big Island on Aug. 10. She was wanted on a second-degree murder complaint out of Florida.
Clenney is accused of stabbing her boyfriend, 27-year-old Christian Obmuseli, to death in their Miami apartment back on April 3. Her attorney has told the press the stabbing was done in self-defense.
Florida law enforcement officials held a press conference the day after Clenney’s arrest, during which they laid out a timeline of the events they say led up to the stabbing incident.
Florida officials said the couple had a tumultuous relationship, with multiple incidences of domestic violence from both sides over the period of their relationship.
Clenney is now in custody at the Miami-Dade County Jail. She is scheduled to be arraigned on Aug. 31 and has an evidentiary hearing scheduled for Sept. 6.
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Over 80 residents lost power Thursday morning after a helicopter contracted by an Atlanta-based freight railroad company accidentally cut power lines along Brandy Road in Culpeper.
Dave Willett, an employee of a business in the vicinity of the incident, shot video of the helicopter - outfitted with a long piece of trimming equipment - as it flew above the tree line near 16390 Brandy Road. A few seconds after the video begins, the helicopter can be seen jolting backwards, seemingly becoming tangled in the power line.
When the line was cut, a spotter at ground level notified the pilot and established a safety perimeter, said Connor Spielmaker, media relations manager for railroad company Norfolk Southern. Dominion Energy was contacted to make repairs.
According to Craig Carper, a spokesperson with Dominion Energy, the line was cut at 10:36 a.m., causing 83 customers to lose power. By 2:43 p.m., however, power was restored.
In order to maintain its right-of-way, Norfolk Southern contracts tree trimming services to clear branches and ensure safe passage of trains.
A helicopter is flown with trimming equipment securely suspended from the bottom of it to cut the branches, Spielmaker continued. The operation includes a spotter at ground-level to identify obstacles in the path of the equipment.
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Capital One Center has planned a weekend of events to celebrate the first anniversary of The Perch – a 2.5-acre gathering place 11 stories high next to Capital One’s headquarters in Tysons.
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The 2022 high school football season continues in Southern California tonight with a set of Friday games for Week 1.
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FRIDAY GAMES
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L.A. CITY SECTION
NONLEAGUE
Bernstein at Rancho Dominguez, 7:30 p.m.
Canoga Park at Garfield, 7:30 p.m.
Carson at Franklin
Chatsworth at Verdugo Hills
Chavez at Granada Hills Kennedy, 7:30 p.m.
Cleveland at Grant
Contreras at Rivera, 4:30 p.m.
Dorsey at Reseda
Fremont at Legacy, 7:30 p.m.
Granada Hills at Westchester
Hawkins at Belmont, 4 p.m.
L.A. vs. King/Drew at L.A. Harbor College, 7:30 p.m.
L.A. Roosevelt at Lincoln, 7:30 p.m.
L.A. Wilson at North Hollywood, 7:30 p.m.
Manual Arts at L.A. Hamilton, 3:30 p.m.
Mendez at Sun Valley Poly, 7:30 p.m.
Monroe at L.A. Marshall, 3 p.m.
Palisades at San Fernando
Roybal at Angelou, 7:30 p.m.
Santee at Panorama
South East at Marquez
South Gate at San Pedro, 7:30 p.m.
Sylmar at Fairfax
Taft at Van Nuys
University Pathways at Gardena
Wilmington Banning at Bell, 7:30 p.m.
CIF SOUTHERN SECTION
NONLEAGUE
Agoura at Ventura
Anaheim vs. Troy at Fullerton HS
Anaheim Canyon at Irvine
Apple Valley at Rancho Cucamonga
Arcadia at Monrovia
Arrowhead Christian vs. Riverside Notre Dame at San Bernardino Valley College
Arroyo at San Marino
Arroyo Valley at Indian Springs
Banning at Canyon Springs
Beckman at Bellflower
Beverly Hills at Maranatha
Bishop Amat at La Habra
Bolsa Grande at Bishop Montgomery
Calabasas at Oak Park
California at Brea Olinda
Camarillo at Rio Mesa
Cantwell-Sacred Heart at Montebello
Castaic at Royal
Cathedral City at West Valley
Cerritos Valley Christian at Gahr
Chaffey at San Gorgonio
Channel Islands at Santa Paula
Citrus Hill at Shadow Hills
Citrus Valley at Rancho Verde
Colony at Corona Santiago
Colton at Grand Terrace
Compton Centennial vs. Compton at Compton College, 5 p.m.
Costa Mesa at Pioneer
Covina vs. South Hills at Covina District Field
Crean Lutheran at Mary Star, 4 p.m.
Damien at Loyola
Dana Hills at Laguna Beach
Desert Hot Springs at Jurupa Valley
Diamond Ranch at Chino Hills
Don Lugo at Alta Loma
Downey at El Toro
Eastside vs. Viewpoint at Calabasas HS
Eisenhower at Temescal Canyon
El Monte vs. Rio Hondo Prep at Kare Park
El Rancho at Bell Gardens
Elsinore at Temecula Valley
Etiwanda at Ayala
Fillmore at Burbank Burroughs
Firebaugh at Glenn
Foothill at Tustin
Fullerton vs. Whittier at California HS
Gabrielino at San Gabriel
Garden Grove at Artesia
Garden Grove Santiago vs. Godinez at Santa Ana Valley HS
Serra vs. Long Beach Poly at Veterans Stadium, 7:30 p.m.
Golden Valley at Antelope Valley
Granite Hills at Rialto
Great Oak at Murrieta Valley
Hacienda Heights Wilson at La Puente
Hart at Oxnard
Hawthorne vs. Torrance at Zamperini Stadium
Hemet at Indio
Hoover at Ganesha
Hueneme at Canyon Country Canyon
JSerra at Chaminade
Jurupa Hills at Cajon
La Mirada at Yorba Linda
La Serna at Warren
Laguna Hills at Valencia
Lancaster at Yucca Valley
Leuzinger vs. Edison at Huntington Beach
Los Altos at West Covina
Los Amigos at Ocean View
Los Osos vs. Redlands East Valley at Redlands HS
Mayfair vs. St. Anthony at St. Pius X-St. Matthias HS
Miller at Liberty
Moorpark vs. Saugus at College of Canyons
Moreno Valley at Paloma Valley
Morningside vs. Verbum Dei at St. Bernard HS
Nogales at Bassett
Norco vs. Santa Margarita at Saddleback College
Nordhoff at Dos Pueblos
Norte Vista at Claremont
Northwood vs. Kennedy at Western HS
Nuview Bridge at Santa Rosa Academy
Oak Hills at Highland
Oaks Christian at Sierra Canyon
Ontario Christian at Xavier Prep
Orange Lutheran at Upland
Oxnard Pacifica vs. St. Bonaventure at Ventura College
Pasadena vs. Glendora at Citrus College
Patriot at Rubidoux
Peninsula at Long Beach Jordan
Pomona at Garey
Quartz Hill at Valencia
Ramona at Kaiser
Rancho Alamitos vs. La Sierra at Norte Vista HS
Rancho Christian at San Bernardino
Rancho Mirage at Aliso Niguel
Redlands at King
Redondo at Long Beach Wilson
Ridgecrest Burroughs at Palmdale
Rim of the World at Littlerock
Riverside Prep vs. Heritage Christian at Granada Hills HS
Saddleback at Century
Salesian at Brentwood, 5 p.m.
Santa Ana Valley at Segerstrom
Santa Monica at El Segundo
Savanna at Buena Park
Servite at Mission Viejo
Simi Valley at Knight
South El Monte at Baldwin Park
St. Francis at Mira Costa
St. Genevieve at North Torrance
St. Pius X-St. Matthias at Muir
Tahquitz at Lakeside
Tesoro at Chaparral
Trabuco Hills vs. Katella at Glover Stadium
Victor Valley at Hesperia
Villa Park vs. Orange at El Modena HS
Vista Murrieta at Murrieta Mesa
West Ranch at Buena
West Torrance at Culver City
Western at St. Margaret’s
Western Christian at Anza Hamilton
Westlake at Crespi
La Quinta at Westminster
Workman at Mountain View
Yucaipa at Silverado
Arleta at Campbell Hall, 6 p.m.
Bakersfield Garces vs. Paraclete at Antelope Valley College
Summit Academy (Utah) at Portola
Blythe Palo Verde Valley at Coachella Valley
Cabrillo at Jefferson
Corona Centennial at San Diego Cathedral
Corona del Mar at Los Gatos
Eagle Rock vs. Crescenta Valley at Glendale HS
El Camino Real at Newbury Park
Frtesno Christian at Vasquez
Harvard-Westlake at Venice
Green Valley (Nev.) at Palos Verdes, 3 p.m.
Inglewood at Foothill (Nev.)
Lawndale at San Marcos Mission Hills, 7:15 p.m.
Lynwood at L.A. University, 7:30 p.m.
Mater Dei at Bishop Gorman (Nev.), 7 p.m.
Morro Bay at Carpinteria
Narbonne at Paramount, 7:30 p.m.
New Designs Watts vs. St. Monica at Santa Monica College
San Diego Lincoln at Alemany
San Diego Torrey Pines at San Clemente
Santa Barbara at Santa Maria Righetti
San Marcos at Santa Maria
Sherman Oaks Notre Dame at Birmingham
South Pasadena at Maywood CES, 7:30 p.m.
Dixie (Utah) at Palm Desert
St. John Bosco at Allen (Texas), 5 p.m.
St. Paul at Huntington Park
8-MAN
L.A. CITY SECTION
NONLEAGUE
New Designs University Park at Fulton, 4 p.m.
CIF SOUTHERN SECTION
NONLEAGUE
Chadwick at CSDR
Hesperia Christian at Sage Hill
Animo Robinson at Windward, 3 p.m.
California Lutheran at Escondido Calvin Christian, 6:30 p.m.
Chula Vista Victory Christian at Sotomayor, 6 p.m.
Coastal Christian at Laton, 6 p.m.
Green Valley Christian (Nev.) at Rolling Hills Prep, 6:30 p.m.
Lucerne Valley at Lebec Frazier Mountain
North Valley Military Institute at Grace Brethren, 3:30 p.m.
USC Hybrid vs. El Cajon Foothills Christian at Seau Field
SATURDAY GAMES
CIF SOUTHERN SECTION
MANZANITA LEAGUE
Silver Valley vs. San Jacinto Valley Academy at Mt. San Jacinto College
NONLEAGUE
Arlington vs. Riverside Poly at King HS
Chino at Diamond Bar
Garden Grove Pacifica at Linfield Christian
Gladstone at Webb, 1 p.m.
University vs. Magnolia at Western HS
Trinity Classical Academy at Bosco Tech, 10 a.m.
Big Bear at Rosamond
Bonita at Mater Academy East (Nev.), 10 a.m.
Locke at Palm Springs
Los Alamitos vs. American Heritage (Fla.) at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 1 p.m. PT
8-MAN
CIF SOUTHERN SECTION
LIBERTY LEAGUE
Lancaster Baptist vs. Santa Clarita Christian at Canyon Country Canyon HS, 5:30 p.m.
NONLEAGUE
Calvary Baptist vs. United Christian at Rancho Cucamonga HS
Laguna Blanca vs. Orcutt Academy at Santa Maria, 2 p.m.
Lone Pine vs. Academy of Careers & Exploration at Helendale Community Park, 2 p.m.
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The Rams and Bengals will be forced to get along Saturday for their preseason finale in Cincinnati two days after an ugly helmet-swinging brawl between the two teams made many wonder whether joint practices are worth the trouble.
Rams coach Sean McVay emphasized to his players prior to traveling to Cincinatti that he didn’t want to see fights and dumb manure – to paraphrase from the colorful language. McVay and Bengals coach Zac Taylor assumed the two days of practice would get testy at times but not out of control because they operate in similar ways, with Taylor spending two years on McVay’s Rams staff before heading to Cincinnati in 2019.
None of that prevented the massive melee Thursday that saw Rams star defensive lineman Aaron Donald swing a helmet at Bengals and several punches thrown from both sides. They avoided fights the first day, but familiarity between coaches wasn’t enough to control two days of competition.
“Well, I think it’s hard to argue otherwise, but to say that it’s impossible, I wouldn’t say that,” McVay said about the challenges of preventing dangerous fights with two joint practices. “There’s just so much, so many things that go on within the framework of a play when there’s 22 moving parts and you can’t get to the bottom of all of it. These are guys that are tough-minded individuals that, if they feel like they’re disrespected, it’s hard to say I don’t understand sometimes.”
The brawl left a stain, but McVay and Taylor likely would say it was worth the trouble because no one got hurt and both sides benefited from the two days of competition. There was, however, a broken fingernail from Rams backup quarterback John Wolford, but that happened the day before the fights.
It’s been a rough stretch for Wolford, who was thrust into a competition with Bryce Perkins for the No. 2 quarterback job after taking five sacks in the first half of last week’s exhibition against the Houston Texans. Wolford was sidelined for Day 2 of the joint practices because of the broken fingernail on the thumb of his throwing hand and his status for Saturday’s preseason finale is unknown.
“When he showed it to me after practice (Wednesday), it was one of those deals that it’s going to eventually fall off if he didn’t take it off yet,” McVay said of Wolford’s fingernail. “Yeah, those things can be pretty irritating where he’s tough enough to push through, but this isn’t the time to try to really be a hero.
“When you’re gripping the ball on your throwing hand with that thumb, that makes a significant difference. Then you can start to develop bad habits if you try to overcompensate. So, obviously we’d like him to be able to play, but we’ll be smart about that and you guys will probably know before kickoff if he’s playing or not.”
Wolford was held out from the Rams’ preseason opener against the Chargers because the team was covering its bases while they learned more about Matthew Stafford’s soreness in his throwing arm. After Stafford returned to his full workload in practices, the Rams decided to start Wolford against the Texans, but Perkins delivered another impressive preseason performance in the second half and operated the team’s best scoring drive of the exhibition.
Wolford opened training camp as the No. 2 quarterback with job security, regardless of what Perkins did in the preseason, but now there’s uncertainty because the Rams have many crowded positions and will be faced with tough decisions when finalizing their 53-man roster, one of the few downsides of being a yearly Super Bowl contender. Last week, the Rams made the surprising decision to waive tight end Kendall Blanton.
The Rams are contemplating keeping eight wide receivers on their 53-man roster, which might not allow them the luxury of keeping three quarterbacks. Perkins impressed last summer as a mobile quarterback capable of creating off-script plays, but he’s done more than that this preseason as an improved pocket passer.
Another stellar preseason performance Saturday could elevate Perkins to No. 2 quarterback, and with Stafford playing like his usual self in practices, Wolford might find himself on the roster bubble before Tuesday’s deadline to trim from 80 to 53 players.
“I feel pretty good,” Stafford said after the second joint practice with the Bengals. “Yeah, I feel good. I feel like I can make all the throws. Now I’m just getting that opportunity to really kind of get into a rhythm and get into a groove. Just the actual technical aspects of playing the position, just getting more and more back into that and feeling that. It feels great to be out here.”
The Rams’ starters benefited from the joint practices before the ugly brawl. Their work is done in Cincinnati, but Wolford, Perkins and the rest of the roster bubble players have plenty to do in Saturday’s preseason finale.
Preseason finale: Rams at Bengals
When: Saturday, 3 p.m.
Where: Paycor Stadium, Cincinnati
TV/radio: ABC (Ch. 7), 710 AM, 1330 AM
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Filming of “Fast X,” the 10th installment of the franchise, was set to take place Friday and Saturday in the area — and residents taking part in the protest said they fear the movie will further glorify and encourage illegal street racing in their neighborhood.
“It’s super, super, super dangerous,” one resident told the crowd gathered for the late-morning protest. “I mean, come on guys, it doesn’t take a smart person to figure out that if you lose control, you’re going to hit somebody or something.”
She held up a photo of a crashed vehicle and said, “Are we going to wait for this to happen to one of our neighbors, our children before somebody cries out for action to take place, or are we going to do it before it happens?”
Some residents marched through the area, shouting “Street racing kills” while holding up photos of people killed by street racing.
The Angelino Heights area has been featured in several of the “Fast” franchise installments, attracting fans to the area. Some engage in street takeovers and perform donuts or burnouts, as evidenced by the circular tire marks in some intersections.
Los Angeles has seen a 30% increase in fatalities and a 21% increase in serious injuries due to traffic violence over the last year, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Residents reached out to the road safety organizations Streets Are For Everyone and Street Racing Kills, who set up Friday’s protests. One protest was held late Friday morning, with another set to begin at 5 p.m.
Damian Kevitt, executive director of Streets Are For Everyone, said that while residents are compensated for the short-term inconvenience of the filming, there are long-term impacts.
“How do you compensate for years of misery and being woken up night after night by screeching tires and burning rubber?” Kevitt told City News Service.
“And the effect it has on the physical and mental health of those residents? You can’t compensate for that.”
The two organizations are asking the city to re-engineer the roads of Angelino Heights by installing barriers such as speed humps and meridians that prevent drivers from racing.
They are also seeking a zero-tolerance policy on street racing from city and state officials, and for NBCUniversal to abide by its own social impact statement by, among other things, including a disclaimer in the movies discouraging street racing and working with legislators to pass laws deterring such illegal activity.
“I’m not saying we should get into a whole cancel culture on ‘Fast and Furious,”‘ Kevitt said. “But what I am saying is that there needs to be some corporate responsibility by NBCUniversal and there needs to be responsibility by the city for addressing the illegal aspect of it.”
Kevitt said he has received responses from representatives in both the LAPD and the mayor’s office regarding the complaints.
A representative for Councilman Gil Cedillo, who represents Angelino Heights, did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday. Neither did a representative from NBCUniversal.
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ANDERSON, S.C. (WSPA)- Plans for developing the East-West Parkway in Anderson are up in the air as the city and county are working to get on the same page.
The East-West Parkway connects the two busiest roads in Anderson.
“Clemson Boulevard, almost 30,000 cars per day. Highway 81, almost 25,000 cars per day,” county council member John Wright, Jr. said.
Since the road was built around 2011, the land on each side has remained undeveloped.
“It’s really a beautiful stretch of property on both sides of the parkway,” Wright said.
Anderson County owns most of that land.
“When the road was built there was some very intentional zoning and an overlay district put in place by Anderson County,” Wright said.
County council members say undeveloped is how they want it to stay.
“The county feels that the zoning that was put in place at that time is appropriate to preserve not only the natural beauty of it but also to control the traffic patterns and everything else that goes along when you increase the density of development,” Wright said.
However, the city owns a portion of the land, and is working to annex part of the parkway with hopes to build on it, saying it’s important to keep up with the growth Anderson is experiencing.
City council member Matt Harbin said, “The city started a plan last year, to do a comprehensive plan, not just for the east-west connector but for the whole city. There were some developers approached the city throughout the year.”
With two different visions, both the city and county are working to come together to make a plan.
“The city doesn’t want to go in and mass annex everything and develop it on our plans. The city wants to work with the county, the citizens who we both represent and get what’s best for our area,” Harbin said.
The city has opened the discussion to residents of Anderson.
They held a community forum earlier this week, to hear from people on what their opinions are on the East-West Parkway.
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Discussion highlights programs at first-of-its-kind hub for pediatric behavioral health services, engages local families in Q & A
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) yesterday hosted a community event at the Lucien E. Blackwell Community Center in West Philadelphia highlighting CHOP's expanded behavioral and mental health services offered at the new state-of-the-art Center for Advanced Behavioral Healthcare at 4601 Market Street. The Center was established to provide additional resources to our region's families as they continue to grapple with a growing mental health crisis.
CHOP's new Center expands access to a range of behavioral health services, including treatments for anxiety, ADHD and eating disorders. The carefully planned and thoughtfully designed space was created specifically for children, creating a world-class, community-based hub for pediatric behavioral health services. It is a critical component in the revitalization of the iconic Provident Mutual Insurance Building into a state-of-the-art healthcare campus serving the broader Philadelphia community. The facility was created with the needs of youth in mind, with 47,000 square feet dedicated to patient care, including consultation rooms, group therapy rooms and calming areas.
At the event, seven doctors and clinicians from across CHOP's Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Sciences held a "fireside chat" with community members and local families, discussing the services offered at the new facility while also pointing families to existing resources in the area. This includes CHOP's pediatric primary care offices, which serve as one of the best points of entry for accessing more specialized services.
Located at 4601 Market Street, the Center for Advanced Behavioral Healthcare is conveniently located across the street from SEPTA's Market-Frankford Line and CHOP's Nicolas and Athena Karabots Pediatric Care Center, one of the region's largest sites to provide community-based pediatric primary care.
"As we address our nation's pediatric mental health crisis, it is imperative we do so in a way that addresses longstanding health inequities in communities like West Philadelphia," said Stephen Soffer, PhD, Chief, Clinical & Professional Affairs, Division of Outpatient Behavioral Health at CHOP. "The newly opened CHOP Center for Advanced Behavioral Healthcare is an important part of our goal of expanding access to a wider range of behavioral health services. This discussion is a critical first step in reducing barriers to care and putting the needs of children and families in the West Philadelphia community front and center."
"The families that we serve in West Philadelphia deserve the same access to state-of-the-art care as communities in other neighborhoods," said Rose Bryant, Resident Leader for the Lucien E. Blackwell Community Center. "We were proud to partner with CHOP on this event to provide additional resources to our tenants and to expand access to services in the midst of this growing mental health crisis."
It is estimated that 1 in 6 of children between the ages of 2 and 8 have a diagnosed mental, behavioral or developmental disorder. Evidence shows that disproportionately, children of color have been negatively impacted by the pandemic.
Families in the communities surrounding CHOP have not been spared from this growing crisis. Mental Health ranked #1, above access to care, chronic disease prevention and management, and substance use in the recently published Community Health Needs Assessment. In the report, more than 50 percent of youth cited mental health as the largest challenge or barrier to health in their communities.
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About Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: A non-profit, charitable organization, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation's first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals, and pioneering major research initiatives, the 595-bed hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program is among the largest in the country. The institution has a well-established history of providing advanced pediatric care close to home through its CHOP Care Network, which includes more than 50 primary care practices, specialty care and surgical centers, urgent care centers, and community hospital alliances throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as a new inpatient hospital with a dedicated pediatric emergency department in King of Prussia. In addition, its unique family-centered care and public service programs have brought Children's Hospital of Philadelphia recognition as a leading advocate for children and adolescents. For more information, visit http://www.chop.edu.
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GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Fair is opening Friday for its annual 11-day run in Grand Island.
The fair, which last year drew 266,245 people, will continue through Labor Day at Fonner Park.
On Thursday, officials announced that the Horse Nations Indian Relay that had been set for Saturday and Sunday had been cancelled due to illnesses among competing team members. The fair promised refunds to those who purchased tickets to the events.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The White House Monkeypox Response Team held a briefing today to discuss the latest developments around the disease and the administration’s efforts to combat it.
“There have been nearly 17,000 cases of monkeypox identified across all 50 states,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
The Biden administration updated its approach to the monkeypox outbreak as the U.S becomes the global leader in infections.
“While we continue to deliver as much vaccines to states and jurisdictions as possible, our focus has to be getting those shots into arms,” White House Monkeypox Response Coordinator, Bob Fenton said.
So far the administration has rolled out more than one million vials of the vaccine as part of a four-part strategy.
“By the end of phase four, we will have provided enough vials to states and jurisdictions to provide more than three million doses of vaccines,” Preparedness and Response Assistant Secretary Dawn O’Connell said.
Still, the administration says some communities aren’t doing enough to take advantage of the available supply.
“With supply of vaccines increasing, I think we have a new opportunity and strategy which is bringing vaccines to people as opposed to trying to have people find vaccines,” White House Deputy Monkeypox Response Coordinator Dr. Demetre Daskalakis said.
The outbreak is showing signs of cooling down in hot spots like New York City and Chicago. However, health officials say there is reason to remain vigilant.
“Week over week, our numbers are still increasing, though the rate of rise is lower, but we are still seeing increases and we are of course a very diverse country and things are not even across the country,” Walensky said.
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A new alert system has been launched in Maryland to notify Black leaders and clergy about credible threats or hate crimes.
The Emmett Till Alerts system -- named in honor of the 14-year-old Black teen who was murdered in 1955, after a White woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, claimed Till whistled at her -- is modeled after the Amber Alert system.
The Caucus of African American Leaders unveiled the new system Monday during a news conference.
"We have to take hate crimes and terrorist threats seriously," Carl Snowden of the Caucus of African American Leaders said during the news conference.
When an act of racial violence is reported, Snowden says a team will sort through the details and determine if an alert should be sent out to subscribers to the service. The idea is to allow members in a local community where an act of racial violence or hatred occurs to be able to take appropriate actions to protect themselves and their family.
The alerts are by invite only for now, but Snowden said he hopes others will be able to sign up for the service after a trial period.
"We're just beginning. We're going to see how the system works...I suspect what you'll find is this is going to be replicated nationally very, very quickly," he said.
The first alert was sent Monday to users, notifying them that the system was officially working. The alert system has low, medium and high threat levels, with the highest-level meaning there is a greater likelihood of violence or death. The alerts will be sent to 167 Black elected leaders, national civil rights organizations, clergy, and other community leaders. The alert system is privately funded, Snowden said, and will cost about $6,000 to operate annually.
During the launch announcement, Snowden said the development of the alert system comes after recent instances of racial hate incidents being reported in Maryland.
Earlier this year, three schools in Maryland were targeted along with several other historically black colleges and universities across the country. This week, Howard University, located in nearby Washington, DC, faced two bomb threats as students returned to campus to begin the fall semester. Earlier this month, racist graffiti was written on doors at the Kingdom Celebration Center, a local non-denominational church in Gambrills, Maryland.
"We see so many incidents of history repeat itself. We have to be proactive," Snowden said.
Snowden and others say the system is the first of its kind in the country.
"This is a model system for all of America," Daryl Jones of the Transformative Justice Coalition (TJC) said at the launch.
The TJC is an organization dedicated to rooting out racial injustices amongst other issues of importance to the Black community such as voting rights, criminal justice reform and police brutality.
The system's unveiling comes weeks after renewed focus on the murder of Till and the decades-old questions surrounding the case with the discovery of an unserved warrant for his accuser and the release of her sealed draft memoir. The details had sparked more scrutiny of how the accounts of her encounters with the Black teen had changed over the years.
A Mississippi grand jury declined to indict Bryant Donham for a role in the kidnapping and murder of Till earlier this month.
"I could imagine if the Emmett Till security alert system was in place that Goodman, Cheney and Schwerner would have had the opportunity to be located," Jones said.
Civil rights workers James Chaney, 21, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24, in went missing on June 21, 1964 in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and their bodies were found six weeks later on August 4.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci talks about his career, COVID-19, and the threat of a Republican investigation against him.
Dr. Fauci confirmed this week he’s stepping away from his federal role in December.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Dr. Anthony Fauci is reflecting on his long career. This December he will step down from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the end of December.
He spoke one-on-one with Washington News Bureau reporter Jamie Bittner about the work ahead, COVID-19, and the Republican threat of an investigation against him.
Question:
“We’ve been hearing a lot from lawmakers like Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and a lot of Republicans are already promising an investigation against you if they would retake power in Congress. How do you respond?”
Answer:
“Well, I mean, I don’t have any idea what they would want to investigate, but I have always respected oversight authority. I think it’s an important part of government. But, I also would warn people, well not warn them, alert them that there’s a difference between legitimate and well-intentioned oversight to make things better, as opposed to character assassination, which sometimes sneaks into that little bit of oversight. So I always am very willing to cooperate in any way to help anyone understand better what has been going on over the past two and a half years.
Question:
“When it comes to your critics, how do you think that they have hurt your messaging to the American people throughout the COVID 19 pandemic?”
Answer:
“Well, that’s tough for me to gauge. But, you know, I would think that I have always been if you look at everything I’ve said, try to get the message across, to get the public to do whatever it is best to preserve and protect the health of the American public, be that wearing masks, be that avoiding congregate settings, be that getting vaccinated and boosted. And I think when you have people out there trying to diminish someone’s credibility, the ultimate result of that is to diminish the effectiveness of the public health message. So, it’s really unfortunate that that happens, but it does.”
Question:
“I have to ask you the question everyone always asks, is COVID-19 over?”
Answer:
“No. I think you just look at the numbers and it’s obvious that it’s not. We certainly are much better off now than we were several months ago when we were having 80 to 900,000 new infections and 3000 deaths per day. We are much, much lower than that, but we’re not in a place that we can feel comfortable that it is actually behind us. We want to get it to a low enough level that it doesn’t disrupt the social order, and that is not where we are. We can get to that much better by getting more people vaccinated and boosted. I mean, if you look at where we are right now, we’re still averaging about 100,000 cases a day, which is likely a rather significant underestimate because many people get in test, get infected, get tested, but don’t report their positive test. The number that you can’t run away from is that we still have approximately 400 deaths per day. And if you do the math on that, that’s close to 150,000 deaths per year. We don’t want that to be the steady state at all for COVID. We’ve got to get much lower than that. And that’s the reason why we continue to encourage people to get vaccinated and those who have been vaccinated to get boosted. It’s really a shame that in our country, which is a rich and enlightened country, that we have only 67% of the entire population vaccinated, and of that, only about half have been boosted. There are so many other countries in the world, including low and middle income countries, that are doing better than we have. But the short answer to your question is no. The outbreak is not yet behind us. I hope we’re going in the right direction to get it behind us, but we’re not there yet.”
Question:
“When could we see something like COVID-19 happen again? Could it happen within our lifetime?”
Answer:
“Absolutely. You know, I have been lecturing and talking about the potential for pandemics literally for the last 40 years. In fact, if you go back and pull out lectures that I’ve given, I predicted that in every administration, and I’ve had the honor of serving and advising seven presidents over the last close to 40 years, that almost inevitably there is some form of emerging infectious disease almost in every administration. Some of them are not globally serious, but others are transforming, like the HIV/AIDS pandemic that we began to recognize during the administration of Ronald Reagan or the pandemic flu during the Obama administration, and now spanning two administrations. We’re seeing the historic pandemic of COVID-19.”
Question:
“How do you feel your response to the AIDS epidemic helped prepare you for COVID -19?”
Answer:
“Well, any time you’ve been through the emergence of a new outbreak and realize the extraordinary unpredictability of it, there are a lot of lessons learned. I tried to make that point early on in the outbreak when I was warning that this could really get out of control and others were saying, ‘no, it’s not. It’s going to just go away in a season.’ What you learned from HIV was that you never underestimate the potential of an emerging outbreak because you never know when you first see it what its ultimate potential is. Remember, with HIV, we were seeing a number of desperately ill, mostly young gay men in the United States, and that was before we knew what the pathogen was and before we had a diagnostic test. Once we got a diagnostic test, we realized that the that the obviously ill people were only the tip of the iceberg of the number of people that had been infected, because, as you know, with HIV, you could be infected and go for years without having serious illness. That then brings you to the attention of a physician. So one of the big lessons is don’t ever under mis-underestimate the potential of a new mysterious outbreak.”
Question:
“You have a few months left on the job. What will you focus on and what is the biggest challenge that lies ahead for whoever is your predecessor?”
Answer:
”Well, I’m going to continue at full speed right up until the last day that I walk out in December. We have a lot of things. We have a lot of challenges. We have COVID. We have monkeypox. And we have all the other things that we do from a scientific and public health standpoint. So, I’m going to be going very much full speed right until the end on the things that we’re doing now, as well as we have a pandemic preparedness plan that we’ve already started on. Obviously, we need a lot more resources to really implement the plan to the extent that we want. You know, the thing that I will hope that my successor appreciates and hopefully will be able to steer this course is to stick with the science and try to the extent possible to stay away from any kind of and, you know, entrapment in the political divisiveness that we’ve have in this country. It is very difficult to do a coherent public health and scientific endeavor when there’s such a profound degree of political divisiveness in this country, which there is.
Question:
“How much of a say will you have on who your predecessor is?
Answer:
None. And, I shouldn’t. I don’t think it’s appropriate that I do. What will happen is that there will be a national search by a search committee of peers who will make recommendations to the NIH Director. And the NIH Director will make that decision.
Question:
“Take me back to your first day on the job. Can you kind of tell me what the emotions you were feeling back then and compare it to now? When you’re looking at your place in the history books, how would you want to be remembered?”
Answer:
“Well, I walked on to this campus 54 years ago, in June of 1968, just out of my medical residency at the New York hospital, Cornell Medical Center. And, this is a place that I absolutely love every aspect of it. I’ve been fortunate enough to be the director of the Institute for 38 years. So, it really has been an evolving process with me starting off as a young trainee, becoming a senior investigator, getting recognized nationally, internationally for my research, and then taking over the institute and being very much involved in building the AIDS program, developing the PEPFAR program with President George W Bush. It’s been a very long and very gratifying journey. You know, I hope that I made an impact on global health both, you know, internationally and in this country. And I hope that I’ll be remembered for that.”
Question:
“What will you do in retirement?”
Answer:
“Well, it’s not retirement. I think that’s a very misleading word. I think it’s more of a rewiring. One of the reasons I’m leaving now is because I still have the energy and the motivation and the good health and the passion to do more for the global health and scientific enterprise. And I think the best way I can do that, given my almost six decades of experience and almost four decades of leading the institute that I hopefully by reading and writing and lecturing and getting involved in different projects that I could serve as an inspiration for the younger generation of scientists and would be scientists to perhaps consider a career in public service, particularly in the arena of public health, medicine and science. So, I have no intention of retiring. So, you’re not going to see me on the golf course or lying on a beach somewhere.”
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Contract Addresses Members' Top Priorities; Provides Wage Increases and Maintains Strong Benefits
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Teamsters at DHL have overwhelmingly ratified a new national contract that provides significant wage increases, improves working conditions, and maintains strong member benefits.
Ballots were counted throughout the week, and the national contract was ratified by an overwhelming percentage of the membership. All the various supplemental agreements were approved as well.
"This contract was all about putting members first. We went into negotiations prepared to win the strongest agreement ever at DHL, and we succeeded," said Sean M. O'Brien, Teamsters General President and Chairman of the Teamsters National DHL Negotiating Committee. "Last year this company made record profits, and we demanded that our members share in the success."
The new agreement is the most lucrative national master agreement at DHL in the union's history, with significant wage increases across all classifications—for both full-time and part-time workers—retroactive to April 1.
"In all my years negotiating on behalf of DHL workers, this national agreement is the strongest one we've ever secured. We made significant increases to wages while maintaining strong benefits and improving working conditions," said Bill Hamilton, International Vice President and Co-Chairman of the Teamsters National DHL Negotiating Committee. "This contract and its supplements will allow workers to do even better at DHL—with the pay, benefits, and working conditions they deserve."
In addition to historic wage increases, the tentative agreement maintains workers' health and welfare plans and pension plans through increases in employer contributions.
Other highlights include the addition of MLK Day as an observed paid holiday; an increase of paid holiday leave for part-time workers; improved ability to take paid funeral leave; reimbursement for all required CDL costs; stronger seniority protections for day-to-day cutting of routes; and protections against inward-facing cameras in delivery vehicles.
The Teamsters also maintained the Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA), which could result in additional significant wage increases next year above and beyond the contractually required increases. The new agreement contains no givebacks or concessions.
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit www.teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/teamsters.
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BOSTON (Aug. 26, 2022) USS Constitution is moored to Pier One in Charlestown Navy Yard during a thunderstorm. USS Constitution, is the world’s oldest commissioned warship afloat, and played a crucial role in the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812, actively defending sea lanes from 1797 to 1855. During normal operations, the active-duty Sailors stationed aboard USS Constitution provide free tours and offer public visitation to more than 600,000 people a year as they support the ship’s mission of promoting the Navy’s history and maritime heritage and raising awareness of the importance of a sustained naval presence. USS Constitution was undefeated in battle and destroyed or captured 33 opponents. The ship earned the nickname of Old Ironsides during the war of 1812 when British cannonballs were seen bouncing off the ship’s wooden hull. Approximately 200 healthcare workers and first responders from the Boston area joined USS Constitution for a three-hour cruise in the Boston Harbor. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Grant Grady/Released)
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BOSTON (Aug. 26, 2022) USS Constitution is moored to Pier One in Charlestown Navy Yard during a thunderstorm. USS Constitution, is the world’s oldest commissioned warship afloat, and played a crucial role in the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812, actively defending sea lanes from 1797 to 1855. During normal operations, the active-duty Sailors stationed aboard USS Constitution provide free tours and offer public visitation to more than 600,000 people a year as they support the ship’s mission of promoting the Navy’s history and maritime heritage and raising awareness of the importance of a sustained naval presence. USS Constitution was undefeated in battle and destroyed or captured 33 opponents. The ship earned the nickname of Old Ironsides during the war of 1812 when British cannonballs were seen bouncing off the ship’s wooden hull. Approximately 200 healthcare workers and first responders from the Boston area joined USS Constitution for a three-hour cruise in the Boston Harbor. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Grant Grady/Released)
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Master Sgt. Kenneth Guinn, Team Air Force, competes in seated volleyball during the 2022 DoD Warrior Games, August 26, 2022. The Warrior Games are composed of over 200 wounded, ill and injured service members and veteran athletes, competing in 12 adaptive sporting events Aug. 19-28, 2022 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Albert A. Juarez)
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ORLANDO, Fla. (Aug. 25, 2022) Team Ukraine hits the volleyball back to Team Army during the sitting volleyball game at the 2022 DoD Warrior Games. The Warrior Games are composed of over 200 wounded, ill and injured service members and veteran athletes, competing in 12 adaptive sporting events Aug. 19-28, 2022 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Angel Heraldez)
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ORLANDO, Fla. (Aug. 25, 2022) Team Army and Team Ukraine prepare for the ball to be served during the sitting volleyball game at the 2022 DoD Warrior Games. The Warrior Games are composed of over 200 wounded, ill and injured service members and veteran athletes, competing in 12 adaptive sporting events Aug. 19-28, 2022 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Angel Heraldez)
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Let Kendall Jenner and Lil Nas X Convince You to Try Blue Eye Makeup
We’ve been telling you, blue eyeshadow is here and it will not be ignored. And now, the hue has two very influential ambassadors on its side, which means it’s probably time to start seriously considering this bold trend. Over the past twenty-four hours, both Kendall Jenner and Lil Nas X showed off two very different ways to pull of the look, meaning you can get started on your blue eye makeup mood board ASAP.
On Wednesday night, Jenner stepped out to support her sister, Kylie Jenner, during an event for Kylie Cosmetics. Of course, an event for a makeup brand calls for dramatic glam, and Jenner didn’t disappoint. The model kept her hair simple to let her makeup shine, pairing a glossy pink lip with a swipe of denim blue across her lids.
If you’re looking for a more dramatic look, though, Lil Nas X has got you covered. The artist was just named the newest ambassador of YSL Beauty, and the first campaign photos immediately confirms the choice was a good one. Wearing matching leather jacket and pants, Nas shows off a highly-pigmented, sparkly periwinkle wing.
And there you have the versatility of blue shadow (and that’s just the beginning). So, if the only blue that touched your face over the past decade is blue mascara, it’s time to rethink how the color can spice up your upcoming beauty looks. | https://www.wmagazine.com/beauty/lil-nas-x-kendall-jenner-blue-eye-makeup | 2022-08-26T23:43:40Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/beauty/lil-nas-x-kendall-jenner-blue-eye-makeup | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Luca Guadagnino Would Like to Be Excluded From This Armie Hammer Narrative
Luca Guadagnino must be eternally grateful that of his two Call Me By Your Name leads, he chose Timothée Chalamet to reunite with for Bones & All. The upcoming film stars Chalamet as a drifter with cannibalistic tendencies—which is exactly what some of the recent allegations about his CMBYN costar Armie Hammer sound like IRL. The timing is so unfortunate that even though Hammer isn’t remotely involved with the project, Guadagnino has become embroiled in the discourse in the months ahead of the film’s November 23 release. And in a new interview with Deadline, he’s made it clear that he’s had enough.
First things first, Guadagnino insists that the connection never occurred to him until everyone else made it for him. “It didn’t dawn on me. I realized this afterward when I started to be told of some of these innuendos on social media,” he said. “This project—which was a popular book—had been in development for a number of years before Dave Kajganich brought it to me in 2020. Any link with anything else exists only in the realm of social media, with which I do not engage. The relationship between this kind of digital muckraking and our wish to make this movie is nonexistent and it should be met with a shrug. I would prefer to talk about what the film has to say, rather than things that have nothing to do with it.”
Besides, Guadagnino claims that Bones & All isn’t remotely about shock value; at the end of the day, it’s really just a love story. “I was interested in these people,” he told IndieWire earlier this year. “I understood their moral struggle very deeply. I understood what was happening to them. I am not there to judge anybody. You can make a movie about cannibals if you’re there in the struggle with them, and you’re not codifying cannibalism as a topic or a tool for horror.” Whether or not he’ll prove his critics right at next month’s Venice Film Festival, we’re guessing the hoopla has officially spelled the end for the once potential Call Me By Your Name 2. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/armie-hammer-cannibalism-bones-and-all-luca-guadagnino | 2022-08-26T23:43:46Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/armie-hammer-cannibalism-bones-and-all-luca-guadagnino | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Bella Hadid Dons a Balenciaga Bikini for Her Music Video Return
The only other time Bella Hadid starred in a music video, she was killing gangsters with a knife for The Weeknd in his “In The Night” clip. Seven years later, she’s returned to the format for Offset’s “Code” video, and the only thing she’s killing with this time are her looks (both in terms of outfits and her icy glares).
There’s not much to discern, plot- or story-wise from the video. It’s all just aesthetics, vibes, and a whole lot of Hadid. Our first glimpse of Bella depicts her having some sort of enrichment time in an enclosure. She’s decked out in a full rhinestone Balenciaga bikini set, which makes sense—Hadid is one of the few household-name young supermodels to both walk and appear in advertisements for the Paris-based brand ever since creative director Demna took over. Offset’s wife, Cardi B, was the very first celebrity face of the brand during Demna’s tenure (Offset himself also once walked in a red carpet-themed Balenciaga show). The rapper and featured guest Moneybagg Yo are also all decked out in Balenciaga throughout.
Hadid eventually gets a hold of a neon green faux-fur coat, but don’t worry, she’s not trapped in a cage for the entirety of the video. Eventually, she breaks out for a runway walk in a white faux-fur coat. “Opulence,” is the word that comes to mind.
While Hadid usually spends her time in front of cameras for still images, she’s getting used to the idea of making moving images. The supermodel is set to make her acting debut soon, in the third season of the Hulu sitcom Ramy. She’ll play “a weirdo girlfriend,” per GQ. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/bella-hadid-offset-code-balenciaga | 2022-08-26T23:43:52Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/bella-hadid-offset-code-balenciaga | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Britney Spears’s Comeback With Elton John Has Twitter Thinking of High School Musical
Elton John barely had to lift a finger to drum up excitement for “Hold Me Closer,” his new duet marking Britney Spears’s musical comeback, when he unexpectedly teased it at a restaurant in Cannes in the hours before its release. “Hey!,” he said after casually taking the mic from a DJ who’d been jamming to Lykke Li. “Britney Spears! Elton John. Here we go!” You wouldn’t be able to tell from the dance vibes, but for both musicians, the song represents something deep; its premiere puts the allegedly abusive conservatorship that Spears was trapped in for 13 years one step further in the past. “Britney was broken,” John told the Guardian. “I’ve been through that broken feeling and it’s horrible. And luckily enough, I’ve been sober for 32 years and it’s the happiest I’ve ever been. Now I’ve got the experience to be able to advise people and help them because I don’t want to see any artists in a dark place.”
While his words touched many of their fans on Twitter, others used the app to keep their responses to the song light. Since the duo failed to deliver what had the potential to be an iconic music video (though the lyrical one is admittedly a bit fun), some quickly found an alternative. The song pairs uncannily well with the scene in High School Musical 2 that finds Lucas Grabeel and Ashley Tisdale as Troy and Gabriella doing a full-on performance—complete with a soaked piano—in a pool. Funnily enough, Tisdale later said that her costar reminded her of John when he was tickling the ivories à la piscine.
For others, John and Spears called to mind duos from shows like Bad Girls, Coronation Street, and Euphoria. Since Spears has deprived us from hers by suddenly deactivating her Instagram account, enjoy some of their content below. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/britney-spears-elton-john-hold-me-closer-song-reactions | 2022-08-26T23:43:58Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/britney-spears-elton-john-hold-me-closer-song-reactions | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Preview This Fall’s Must-See Art Shows, Events, and More
Not everything feels “normal” just yet, but a fully packed September arts calendar certainly does. And the spate of shows like a restaging of a monumental Diane Arbus retrospective and screening of Meriem Bennani’s delightfully kooky lizard videos opening in the weeks to come are just the beginning: October will see Alex Katz mark a career milestone with a takeover of the Guggenheim Museum, Paris host its first-ever Art Basel, and so much more. Here, a guide to all the goings-on you’d do well not to miss.
“Objects of Desire” at LACMA
Fine art and commercial photography have long existed in tandem; in fact, the latter made Andy Warhol who he is today. On September 4, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will delve into how photo-based artists such as Barbara Kruger, Hank Willis Thomas, Roe Ethridge, and Sarah Charlesworth have manipulated the visual language of consumerism in “Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising.” The “Stock Photography” and “Humor” sections promise to be particularly amusing.
Diane Arbus at David Zwirner Gallery
A half-century after Diane Arbus’s monumental retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, David Zwirner and Fraenkel Gallery are reviving the exhibition by reuniting all 113 photographs on its checklist. Opening on September 14, “cataclysm. The 1972 Diane Arbus Retrospective Revisited” is a look back at how one single museum showing proved to the public that photography merits the status of fine art.
Sol LeWitt at Paula Cooper
Sol LeWitt’s monumentally scaled wall drawings and structures are just something you have to experience in person. Paula Cooper first introduced them to the world in 1968, and on September 9, she’s set to put them back on the map by devoting her two New York galleries to the late conceptual artist’s colossal works.
Solange at the New York City Ballet
Listening to Solange Knowles’s new music won’t be as easy as pulling up a track on Spotify. But it’ll no doubt be worth the trek to the New York City Ballet to hear the score it has commissioned to accompany Gianna Reisen’s choreography. Premiering at the NYCB’s annual fashion gala on September 28, the performances will continue throughout October and start up again in May of 2023.
Meriem Bennani at the Whitney Museum of American Art
We’re all beyond tired of talking about life amid lockdown. And yet, trust me: Meriem Bennani will make you want to revisit that era again and again and again. At the time, most artists were participating in what quickly became known as OVRs—“online viewing rooms,” which are exactly as static compared to IRL showings as they sound. The Moroccan artist did something entirely unlike anyone else: She translated the public’s uncomfortable feelings into surreal dispatches from a duo of amphibians we hope to see much, much more of after “2 Lizards” begins its four-month run at the Whitney Museum on September 30.
Just Above Midtown at the MoMA
If this is the first time you’re hearing about the erstwhile gallery Just Above Midtown, you aren’t alone. Its enormous influence has been woefully overlooked in the decades since Linda Goode Bryant turned it into a hub for Black artists from 1974 until ‘86, making the tribute on view at the Museum of Modern Art beginning October 9 long overdue. The exhibition’s organization is loosely chronological, beginning with Bryant’s mission to “present African American artists on the same platform with other established artists” and following how it became a collaborative, experimental breeding ground for David Hammons, Lorraine O’Grady, and more over the next dozen years.
Cecilia Vicuña at the Tate Modern
Artist takeovers of the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall have yet to disappoint in the 22 years since Louise Bourgeois inaugurated the annual commission. And when she follows in the legendary artist’s footsteps on October 11, Cecilia Vicuña—whom the Venice Biennale awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement earlier this year—will no doubt uphold that tradition. The Tate Modern has yet to release much in the way of details about the installation, but we’re going to guess that it’ll be comprised of some of the Chilean artist and poet’s most ambitious textile sculptures yet.
Paris+, par Art Basel at the Grand Palais Éphémère
It’s hard to believe that two decades after Art Basel began branching out from Switzerland, the mega art fair has yet to choose Paris as one of its satellite locations. That changes on October 20, when the newly created Paris+ will take over the Grand Palais Éphémère for four days of what’ll amount to billions of dollars of art-related purchases. (You better check out the exhibition space, which is located in the 7ème arrondissement, while you can; a demolition is planned for when the Grand Palais finishes its renovation for the 2024 Summer Olympics.)
Alex Katz at the Guggenheim
Is an eight-decade spanning solo exhibition of a living—not to mention iconic—artist possible? Somehow, yes. On October 21, the Guggenheim will give Alex Katz the massive retrospective in his hometown of New York that he’s long, long deserved. Titled “Gathering,” the show begins with sketches of MTA riders that the 95-year-old artist made back in the 1940s. Prepare to rue the fact that he turned around 1,000 of the paintings he made in the decade that followed into kindling even further.
Méret Oppenheim at the MoMA
Iconic as it may be, it’s hard to believe that it took Méret Oppenheim’s 1936 sculpture Object (Le déjeuner en fourrure) for New York City’s Museum of Modern Art to acknowledge that artists who happened to be women could be well worth including in its permanent collection. Eighty-six years later, the institution is finally giving the German-born Swiss Surrealist artist (who died in 1985 at age 72) her proper due. On October 30, the institution will mount “My Exhibition,” a sprawling retrospective that spans six decades of Oppenheim’s work. In doing so, it proves that she was so, so much more than the teacup, saucer, and spoon entirely enveloped in fur that remains the only reason many know her name. Fortunately, you have until March of 2023 to take it all in. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/fall-2022-arts-preview-highlights | 2022-08-26T23:44:04Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/fall-2022-arts-preview-highlights | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Santigold Gets Her Flowers
With a new album, Spirituals, on the way, the musician reflects on her late aughts ascent, getting a Beyoncé shoutout, and embracing a more political sound.
The musician Santi White, known by her artist moniker, Santigold, was sitting on a deck in Jamaica when her phone started blowing up. Beyoncé had just released “Break My Soul (The Queens Remix),” which revamps the verse full of name drops from “Vogue,” replacing Madonna’s creative heroes with her own. Instead of “Greta Garbo and Monroe/ Dietrich and DiMaggio,” Beyoncé opens with “Rosetta Tharpe, Santigold/ Bessie Smith, Nina Simone.” In the following lines, Santigold is revealed to be in the company of other legends, including Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross and Grace Jones. I asked White how it feels to win the pop cultural equivalent of a Lifetime Achievement Award. “I was obviously honored to be among those names!” she told me over the phone earlier this month. “The coolest thing about it to me is that Beyoncé is using her platform to educate people. Often, Black musicians—particularly Black women musicians—never get the recognition they deserve.”
Conversations about White’s icon status have been building for the last year. Thanks, in part, to the launch of the Instagram account @Indiesleaze, the internet has been brewing with nostalgia for the "alt" sounds and styles of the mid-to-late aughts—many of which were cultivated in New York’s Lower East Side and Brooklyn. While there is a great deal of silliness (think: shutter shades) and smuttiness (American Apparel) associated with this chapter in history, among the most meaningful and impactful cultural products of this era is Santigold’s music.
In 2008, the Philadelphia native’s debut album, the critically acclaimed Creator, hit the indie music scene like a meteor. In a recent podcast for The Fader, Mark Ronson described himself as “gobsmacked” after listening to the record. “It felt as if she had dropped down to earth a fully formed, genre-spanning superstar,” he said. Building off of her foundations as a punk musician, White’s solo work fused the best of new wave and post-punk with dancehall, Tropicália and trip-hop. She engineered an edgy new sound, punctuated by sassy lyrics and enhanced by the flexibility of her piercing, inimitable vocals.
Rolling Stone declared "L.E.S. Artistes" the second best Single of the Year and Creator the 6th best Album of the Year. The New York Times critic Jon Caraminca described her work as “forward-thinking and sensual” and as “smart music for mischievous late nights, as relevant to downtown New York around 1978 as to the downtown of today.” Shortly after Creator’s release, White was featured on Jay Z’s “Brooklyn Go Hard” and Drake’s “Unstoppable.” In the coming years, she would go on tour with Björk, M.I.A., Jay Z, Kanye West, The Beastie Boys and The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and collaborate with Karen O; Tyler, the Creator; and David Byrne.
“2006 to 2010 was a really special time,” White told me. “It was such a creative time!” During our chat, she reminisced about a period shaped by early internet optimism, when new digital tools and social platforms like Myspace allowed musicians to circumvent industry gatekeepers and connect with fans themselves, for free. “Music was so great because all of the sudden there were all of these artists whom labels wouldn’t have believed in.” White was one of them. Prior to her solo career, as the front woman of the punk band Stiffed, she was told by labels that “Black, female, punk artists would just never happen.” She met similar resistance when shopping Creator around: “I had a meeting with one A&R guy who said ‘It’s kind of all over the place, I don’t get it.’ But then I had Björk reach out to me on my Myspace page!”
Months later, after signing with Downtown Records, White was upstreamed to Atlantic, where she was assigned to the same A&R guy that turned her away. She recounted the story with humor, rather than resentment—as if it were a game of gotcha. “Can you imagine? If it wasn’t for the internet, which allowed you to put your stuff out there and prove there was an audience for it, it would have never happened.”
This new sense of freedom cultivated by the internet also manifested sartorially among indie crowds in the early-late 2000s. “There was this big art moment in fashion! It was like anything goes,” White said. She accredited the look, in part, to the comeback of Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and the heyday of Jeremy Scott. Both designers influenced White’s whimsical style, which often included loud patterns, oversized gold jewelry and bold makeup looks. “All of the pop stars at the time were still wearing bustiers and stockings. Once we realized we could have fun and [wear] anything, within two seconds, all of the underground indie artists were doing it. The next thing you know, here comes Lady Gaga!”
White says the artistic synergy in ’00s New York was also a byproduct of political optimism. “This was when Obama first became President,” she said. White, who lived in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood at the time, shared an anecdote about Election Day: “I remember, I walked out of my house and saw a line of Black people wrapped around the block to vote. I started crying!” For White, the word that Obama campaigned on defined the zeitgeist. “The underlying vibe at the time really was hopeful. When people feel lightness and joy, they create and connect.” Needless to say, the climate (both metaphorically and literally) has changed dramatically since then. "2008 was great, but we went the wrong direction from there. There's a disassociation and disconnectedness [in culture] because we've made a decision to distract ourselves from actually living."
While White’s earliest music chronicles her coming of age in a creative utopia, her most recent body of work narrates the harrowing realities of life in a political dystopia, with the same gripping lucidity. On September 9th, Santigold will release her fourth studio album, Spirituals—the title of which references the genre of Christian music sung by enslaved people in America. Created mostly during the lockdown periods of the pandemic, the production of Spirituals allowed Santigold to find “transcendental freedom” in the absence of physical freedom. Sonically speaking, the record is a strong nod back to Creator—it's uplifting, danceable and ferocious in a good way. Lyrically, it's moving. White is grappling with the most pressing issues of our time, with the intimacy and nuance she's well known for. “California was on fire, we were hiding from a plague, the social justice protests were unfolding. I’d never written lyrics faster in my life,” White shared.
The record is attuned to a new zeitgeist, one largely shaped by Black Lives Matter. The empowering messaging in tracks about the Black experience, such as “High Priestess,” “No Power,” and “Ain’t Ready” bring to mind Maya Angelou’s poem, “Still I Rise.” In a short video promoting the single “Shake,” White plays the tambourine while being sprayed with a water hose, referencing the Birmingham riot of 1963. “I talk a lot about personal power on the record,” she said. “It’s about being able to create change by going inward, and then upward.”
For White, music and social commentary have always gone hand in hand. “Growing up, the music I was exposed to at home was all topical music. Everyone that my Dad was listening to was singing about change.” She rattled off a list of household favorites (Burning Spear, Joni Mitchell, Public Enemy) before revealing that she wrote her first song, “City Streets," at age nine. Between belly laughs, she recited her first-ever lyric: “People need our help out there/ and there’s no one to listen!” In the wake of Trump, the pandemic and BLM, White lamented that popular music nowadays is overwhelmingly apolitical. “I think of the job of an artist as being a bridge to the future, to progress. Maybe by being a mirror to society and allowing people to take a real look at themselves, we help find a way forward.” | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/santigold-new-album-spirituals-interview | 2022-08-26T23:44:11Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/santigold-new-album-spirituals-interview | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Karlie Kloss Masters Italian Dressing
One of the best parts of dressing on vacation is getting inspired by your surroundings. Stripes and ballet fats in Paris, flowing white dresses in Greece, and major glam in Italy. Take Karlie Kloss, who is currently chilling out on Lake Como, and masterfully fitting in with her clearly-inspired fashion choices.
The model shared a photo on Thursday from her vacation, posing on a boat in the middle of the lake. In the picture, Kloss is wearing a Johanna Ortiz fall 2022 dress, a deep red piece featuring a fitted top with keyhole cutouts and a midi skirt covered in large sequins. It’s the scarf wrapped around her neck, flowing behind her, that completes the look and makes it the perfect dress for an Italian night.
Kloss paired the dress with tan Manolo Blahnik sandals and a woven Rodo bag, a perfect vacation accessory. She pulled her hair back in a tight ponytail braid, and finished off the look with thick gold hoops.
The photos come not long after the model’s 30th birthday. Kloss marked the day on August 3rd with an Instagram video featuring the caption, “rumor has it your 30s are more fun than your 20s,” which as of now, seems to be the case. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/karlie-kloss-lake-como-dress | 2022-08-26T23:44:17Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/karlie-kloss-lake-como-dress | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MTV VMAs: See the 25 Most Outrageous Red Carpet Looks Of All Time
If you show up to the MTV Video Music Awards in a simple ball gown, you’re doing it all wrong. Unlike the Academy Awards or Met Gala, the network’s signature awards show is not the place for couture. Instead, it’s a chance for music’s biggest stars to let their freak flags fly, sartorially speaking. And fly they have. Over the years, we’ve seen Lady Gaga come in her now infamous meat dress, Katy Perry pay homage to Britney Spears’s denim gown circa 2001, and Pamela Anderson don a very, very fuzzy pink hat. Then, of course, there has also been plenty of skin, starting with Carmen Electra in 1997, leading all the way up to Miley Cyrus’s metallic moment in 2015 that left little to the imagination. Ahead of Sunday’s awards, we take a look back at the 25 most memorable and outrageous red carpet looks of all time.
Leather Bar Britney showed up at the 2002 VMAs in a slick halter top, lace-up pumps and fingerless lace gloves.
Long after the 1999 VMAs, Lee’s flasher trench coat and the Baywatch star’s giant fuzzy hat and corset top would become the stuff of fashion legend—and, of course, couples’ Halloween costumes.
The singer, on the heels of the release of “Dirrty,” put a sexy spin on indie sleaze at the 2002 awards.
The rapper’s lavender mermaid body suit with a strategic shell pasty arguably stole the show at the 1999 VMAs.
Destiny’s Child turned up to the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards in coordinated fringed orange ensembles accented with chunky turquoise jewelry.
From the 2004 MTV VMAs to the Met Gala red carpet, the newly married Jennifer Affleck has never shied away from a floppy hat on the red carpet.
Electra worked her angles in a revealing side-split dress for the 1997 VMAs.
The “London Bridge” singer put a very Fergalicious on British fashion with her Burberry hotpants and top hat at the 2006 VMAs.
Rose McGowan left nothing to the imagination in a naked dress at the 1998 VMAs.
The “About Damn Time” singer sounded the alarm in her red-hot Moschino by Jeremy Scott gown emblazoned with the word “SIREN” at the 2019 awards.
Nicki Minaj was ahead of her time in her futuristic metallic corset worn with a Shojono Tomo at the 2011 VMAs held in Los Angeles.
From the corset top to the low-slung belt and cheeky slogan shirt, every early-aughts sk8ter girl trend was front and present in Avril Lavigne and Kelly Osbourne’s 2003 MTV Video Music Awards show looks.
Macy Gray seized the opportunity for self promotion at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards held in New York City. “My new album drops September 18, 2001” read the front of her dress. On the back? “Buy it.”
Broken foot, but make it fashion. Jessie J made a virtue of her injury at the 2011 MTV VMAs bedazzling her boot and crutches to match her showgirl ensemble.
Gwen Stefani, at the height of her pop-punk princess era, cited Judy Jetson as the inspiration for her space-age skirt worn with a furry blue bikini top and matching blue hair at the 1998 Video Music Awards.
The Chromatica singer draped herself in Argentinian beef complete with a matching purse and shoes by the designer Franc Fernandez at the 2010 awards.
At the 1984 VMAs, the legendary singer set the pace for good-girl-gone-bad looks on the red carpet.
Charli XCX opted for a literal catsuit for the 2014 awards held in Los Angeles.
At the 2014 VMAs, Perry and the rapper Riff Raff paid tribute to the iconic denim-on-denim looks that Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake once wore to the American Music Awards.
At the 2015 awards, Amber Rose and Blac Chyna coordinated in skin tight emblazoned with misogynistic terms like “slut” and “whore” thus sending a very clear messsage to their haters.
Jared Leto, a longtime member of the House of Gucci, brought the cinematic flair to the 2017 awards in a grand sequined cape from the Italian luxury brand.
Halsey’s perfect rainbow part managed to upstage her sheer dress at the 2019 awards.
The “I Don’t Want It All” singer paired her regal embroidered dress from Richard Quinn with a gimp suit from Vex latex at the 2021 VMAs.
The Bailey sisters both opted for daring ensembles at the 2021 Video Music Awards with Halle channeling the Fifth Element in a white cut-out gown from Mônot and Chloe taking a surrealist approach topping her voluminous silver Marni dress with a spoon necklace.
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CASPER — President Joe Biden’s recently announced student loan forgiveness plan could bring welcome relief to some students in Wyoming.
“It’s going to help a lot of our students,” Brandy Payne, Laramie County Community College financial aid director, said. “We needed relief in the wake of the pandemic.”
But some are skeptical.
Wyoming’s Sen. John Barrasso said in a statement Wednesday that the plan is “an insult to every American who played by the rules and worked hard to responsibly pay off their own debt.”
“This decision is also a boon for Biden’s wealthy supporters,” he said. “Once again, the Biden administration is selling out working families to appease the far-left wing of the Democrat party.”
Likewise, Wyoming’s Sen. Cynthia Lummis said in a Wednesday statement that the plan is “incredibly unfair to the hardworking people of Wyoming,” and that it will add billions of dollars to the nation’s debt.
Biden announced the outline of his student loan forgiveness plan on Wednesday.
The plan only applies to students with federal loans who have an individual or married income of less than $125,000 and $250,000, respectively.
It will give Pell Grant recipients who fall under those criteria up to $20,000 in debt relief and cancel up to $10,000 in debt for non-Pell Grant recipients.
It’s also going to halve the cap on monthly payments for undergraduate loans from 10% of borrowers’ discretionary income (income leftover after paying taxes and essential cost-of-living expenses) to 5% of that income.
On top of that, the plan will extend the pause on federal student loan repayment through the end of the year.
There’s still a lot that has to be hammered out before it’s clear who exactly could benefit from the loan forgiveness plan; officials from several community colleges that the Star-Tribune reached out to said they can’t estimate how many students might be impacted because they don’t track student income, and there are still questions about who could qualify.
But some are already looking forward to what the debt forgiveness could mean for their own futures.
Gabe DeGraeve, a Casper native and third-year political science student at Belmont University in Tennessee, has about $15,000 in debt right now. He expects to be eligible for loan forgiveness under the new plan, based on the requirements that have been outlined so far.
“One of my big concerns is being able to find work and pay off that debt,” he said. “The chance for some of those loans to be forgiven is something that I’m very excited about and looking forward to.”
DeGraeve, who hopes to return to Wyoming in the future and work in politics, actually interned for Barrasso last summer in Washington, D.C.
“I’m not at all surprised by their reactions,” he said of Lummis and Barrasso’s denouncement of the loan forgiveness plan. “I think that no matter what happens, Lummis and Barrasso will be against policies of the Biden administration.”
Student debt is pretty low in Wyoming compared to other states. That’s because there are a lot of opportunities for students to get scholarships — like the Hathaway scholarship — or save money by going to community college.
Abby Gruner, a chemical engineering student at the University of Wyoming, said these kinds of opportunities influenced her decision to stay in state for school; she’s a Trustees’ Scholars Award recipient, meaning that her education at UW is completely covered.
Having her education completely paid for is the main reason why she chose to attend UW rather than her dream school, Pomona College, where she had also been accepted.
“Having such amazing scholarships to colleges in Wyoming is certainly a blessing, but I do feel like it inhibits new ideas from reaching the state because so many never have the opportunity to experience living outside the state,” Gruner said in a text message. “I am not sure if I would have chosen differently when deciding where to attend college had Biden’s plan been in place at the time, but I definitely would have taken it into consideration.”
For more than three years, student loan debt among UW graduates has stayed around 45%, according to the university’s spokesperson.
According to the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, about 38% of students there get federal loans, and the median total debt after graduation is $18,318.
Those numbers are lower at Wyoming’s community colleges.
At Laramie County Community College, for example, about 17% of students graduated with debt in the 2021 academic year, according to data kept by the college.
The U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard shows that the median total debt after graduation among students at the college is $10,500. (Remember, not everyone who graduates with debt from federal loans will have their debt canceled under the plan. They have to fall under certain criteria for that to happen).
Jessica Cowen, a second year Casper College student double majoring in psychology and musical theater, said in a text message that the plan could relieve students from “unnecessary stress.”
Although she doesn’t have any debt, she’s talked with other community college students who’ve had to take out loans.
“Classes already put a lot on our plates, and we do not need [added-on] obstacles that cause possible burnout,” she said.
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CHEYENNE – Lawmakers agreed Thursday to draft legislation that, if approved by the full Legislature next year, would distinctly change the format of elections across the state in 2024.
The approval came after more than two hours of testimony and discussion in the Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee. Members carefully weighed the benefits and shortcomings of instant runoff elections, ranked-choice voting and open primaries.
Legislative staff has been directed to draft two bills for the Corporations Committee to consider at its upcoming meeting in October. It took a second vote for both motions to pass, but either would closely align with election formats used by fellow “red” states.
“I’m just happy Alaska and Utah are our models, and not Massachusetts or New York,” said Rep. Dan Zwonitzer, R-Cheyenne, chairman of the committee, following the votes.
Currently, the state utilizes a closed primary and plurality voting system. Only voters registered with the Republican or Democratic Party can vote in their party’s primary, and the party affiliation is included in voter registration so there is an official record. Voters are allowed to switch their party affiliation at any time.
The plurality system refers to how a candidate is elected. The contender who receives the highest number of votes is elected, and it is not required that they receive more than 50% of the total votes cast.
This is a significant difference from the first proposed election format bill the Legislative Service Office is responsible for drafting. It will take after the initiative Alaskan voters approved in the 2020 general election to establish a nonpartisan primary and ranked-choice voting system.
However, the recommendation by Sen. Cale Case, R-Lander, was for an open primary that would have the top four choices move forward to a ranked-choice voting system in the general election.
His second motion, which also was passed, was to keep a closed primary, but to implement a ranked-choice voting system similar to what is being tested by Utah at the municipal level. Both proposals will be considered in October.
Open primary, ranked-choice
FairVote, a nonpartisan election reform organization, defines an open primary as an election where “voters of any affiliation may vote in the primary of any party. They cannot vote in more than one party’s primary, although that prohibition can be difficult to enforce in the event a party has a primary runoff. In many open primaries, voters do not indicate partisan affiliation when they register to vote.”
Along with a ranked-choice voting system, the Wyoming election format would transform dramatically. Voters would rank candidates by preference on their ballots, and if a candidate wins more than half of first-preference votes, they are declared the winner. If no candidate wins based on first-preference, Ballotpedia explains that the candidate with the least first-preference votes are eliminated.
“All first-preference votes for the failed candidate are eliminated, lifting the second-preference choices indicated on those ballots,” according to the digital encyclopedia on American politics and elections. “A new tally is conducted to determine whether any candidate has won an outright majority of the adjusted voters. The process is repeated until a candidate wins a majority of votes cast.”
Case suggested the system after hearing testimony from stakeholders on its positive impacts. Many argued it would address concerns of crossover voting and the plurality system, as well as encourage candidates to communicate to a greater number of voters, rather than to the extremes of either party.
“With 94% of people voting on the same ballot last Tuesday, we essentially had an open primary here in Wyoming. Open primaries almost eliminate the need for crossover voting, though. There’s no need to switch parties when there’s no parties involved,” said Jennifer Lowe, executive director of the Equality State Policy Center. “The other wonderful thing about open primaries is it allows taxpayers – those who are funding these elections – to fully participate.”
The majority of votes Aug. 16 were in the Republican primary, which pitted U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., against challenger Harriet Hageman. Although many Democrats crossed over to vote for Cheney, Hageman easily ousted the incumbent and advanced to the Nov. 8 general election.
Despite significant support for the system voiced in testimony, there were those who criticized its consideration.
Wyoming GOP National Committeeman Corey Steinmetz said the political philosophy between the parties was very evident, and taking away a partisan primary would be a challenge. He said many voters trust the “R” behind a Republican candidate’s name when they’re running, and it assures that the contender represents their shared values and beliefs.
“What we’ve heard from Republicans all across the state is that we want to keep our primary,” he told lawmakers. “We want Republicans voting for Republican nominees, they want Democrats voting for Democratic nominees, and we would have competitive elections if the Democrats would have people run.”
Steinmetz said changing the voting system has been an ongoing discussion for years, but he didn’t know if “we need to reinvent the wheel.” He was concerned any major changes to the election statutes would also impact political organization makeup and elections for precinct committee persons.
“That’s a very dangerous territory,” he said.
Jacqueline McMann was a supporter of an open primary and ranked-choice voting, and argued against Steinmetz’s theory about Wyoming voters. She said the current system deters healthy participation, and the Republican Party has developed a monopoly on voting.
“We use a shorthand, the ‘R’ in front of a person’s name and the ‘D’ in front of a person’s name. The ‘L’ for libertarian. It’s a shorthand for trust,” she said. “And I think we have broken down that trust by our divisiveness, and people are no longer engaged.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/government_and_politics/legislative-committee-considers-election-format-changes/article_ca7139cc-258b-11ed-b85a-eff9d1362ee0.html | 2022-08-26T23:46:23Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/government_and_politics/legislative-committee-considers-election-format-changes/article_ca7139cc-258b-11ed-b85a-eff9d1362ee0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Danny Huston Joins the Cast of Rupert Sanders’ Crow Reboot
Fans of James O’Barr’s The Crow were stunned earlier this year when it was announced that a reboot starring Bill Skarsgård was in the works. But now, the movie has landed another supporting cast member. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Danny Huston is joining Skarsgård and singer FKA Twigs in the upcoming film from director Rupert Sanders.
News of the reboot was met with a reasonable amount of skepticism. After all, Sanders isn’t the first director who’s been tasked with bringing O’Barr’s comic back to the big screen in recent years. Several other filmmakers have come and gone from the project ever since the franchise’s last entry, The Crow: Wicked Prayer, went straight to DVD in 2005. Stephen Norrington, F. Javier Gutiérrez, and Corin Hardy have all circled the film’s directors chair. Additionally, actors like Luke Evans and Jason Momoa have pursued the starring role at various points. But in case there are still doubts about this latest version actually seeing the light of day, rest assured that the movie is currently “weeks-deep” into production in the Czech Republic.
Skarsgård is headlining the film as Eric Draven, the first character to assume the mantle of The Crow. In O’Barr’s series and the original 1994 film adaptation starring Brandon Lee, Eric and his fiancée, Shelly, died at the hands of violent street thugs. Sometime later, a supernatural force brings Eric back to life, allowing him to take vengeance on his and Shelly’s killers. FKA Twigs is co-starring as Skarsgård’s unnamed love interest, who’s getting a bigger role this time around.
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Huston’s role is still a mystery. But fortunately, the actor isn’t a stranger to comic book adaptations. He famously played William Stryker in X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009 and later starred as Erich Ludendorff in 2017’s Wonder Woman. More recently, he was as a main cast member on Paramount’s Yellowstone for the show’s first two seasons. He has also made several recurring appearances on HBO’s Succession.
Sanders is directing The Crow from a screenplay by Zach Baylin, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of King Richard. Molly Hassell, Victor Hadida, John Jencks, and Edward R. Pressman are also onboard as producers. CAA Media Finance is distributing the film domestically, while FilmNation Entertainment will handle its international release.
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Netflix’s Resident Evil Series Gets Cancelled After One Season
Yet another Netflix original has gotten the axe after a single season. But considering some of the reviews it got, this one might be a mercy killing. According to Deadline, the streaming service has officially pulled the plug on its Resident Evil series.
Resident Evil debuted its eight-episode first season last month and featured Lance Reddick as Albert Wesker, one of the main villains from the original video games. However, the show made several notable changes to the character’s backstory, and cast him in a more sympathetic light by giving him two daughters: Jade (Ella Balinska) and Billie (Adeline Rudolph). The series began with Wesker moving his family to New Raccoon City, a planned community in South Africa founded by Albert’s employers at the Umbrella Corporation. Although the city is designed to be a modern utopia, it isn’t long before its inhabitants are endangered by the company’s shady experiments.
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The series was also notable for bouncing between two separate timelines. The main story took place in 2036, 14 years after the T-virus began decimating the human race. Meanwhile, flashback scenes set in 2022 recounted the early days of the outbreak, with Tamara Smart and Siena Agudong playing younger versions of Jade and Billie, respectively. Andrew Dabb (Supernatural) served as Resident Evil’s showrunner and executive producer. Additional cast members included Adeline Rudolph, Paola Nuñez, Ahad Raza Mir, Connor Gosatti, and Turlough Convery.
As with previous adaptations, critics weren’t kind to Netflix’s re-imagining of the Resident Evil mythos. Many reviews felt the series didn’t take full enough advantage of the franchise’s horror roots. Specifically, creatures like zombie dogs and lickers were given limited screen time. Other reviews claimed the show fell victim to clichés and predictability. Regardless, the fan response was far more scathing. The series currently has an audience score of 27% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Discussion highlights programs at first-of-its-kind hub for pediatric behavioral health services, engages local families in Q & A
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) yesterday hosted a community event at the Lucien E. Blackwell Community Center in West Philadelphia highlighting CHOP's expanded behavioral and mental health services offered at the new state-of-the-art Center for Advanced Behavioral Healthcare at 4601 Market Street. The Center was established to provide additional resources to our region's families as they continue to grapple with a growing mental health crisis.
CHOP's new Center expands access to a range of behavioral health services, including treatments for anxiety, ADHD and eating disorders. The carefully planned and thoughtfully designed space was created specifically for children, creating a world-class, community-based hub for pediatric behavioral health services. It is a critical component in the revitalization of the iconic Provident Mutual Insurance Building into a state-of-the-art healthcare campus serving the broader Philadelphia community. The facility was created with the needs of youth in mind, with 47,000 square feet dedicated to patient care, including consultation rooms, group therapy rooms and calming areas.
At the event, seven doctors and clinicians from across CHOP's Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Sciences held a "fireside chat" with community members and local families, discussing the services offered at the new facility while also pointing families to existing resources in the area. This includes CHOP's pediatric primary care offices, which serve as one of the best points of entry for accessing more specialized services.
Located at 4601 Market Street, the Center for Advanced Behavioral Healthcare is conveniently located across the street from SEPTA's Market-Frankford Line and CHOP's Nicolas and Athena Karabots Pediatric Care Center, one of the region's largest sites to provide community-based pediatric primary care.
"As we address our nation's pediatric mental health crisis, it is imperative we do so in a way that addresses longstanding health inequities in communities like West Philadelphia," said Stephen Soffer, PhD, Chief, Clinical & Professional Affairs, Division of Outpatient Behavioral Health at CHOP. "The newly opened CHOP Center for Advanced Behavioral Healthcare is an important part of our goal of expanding access to a wider range of behavioral health services. This discussion is a critical first step in reducing barriers to care and putting the needs of children and families in the West Philadelphia community front and center."
"The families that we serve in West Philadelphia deserve the same access to state-of-the-art care as communities in other neighborhoods," said Rose Bryant, Resident Leader for the Lucien E. Blackwell Community Center. "We were proud to partner with CHOP on this event to provide additional resources to our tenants and to expand access to services in the midst of this growing mental health crisis."
It is estimated that 1 in 6 of children between the ages of 2 and 8 have a diagnosed mental, behavioral or developmental disorder. Evidence shows that disproportionately, children of color have been negatively impacted by the pandemic.
Families in the communities surrounding CHOP have not been spared from this growing crisis. Mental Health ranked #1, above access to care, chronic disease prevention and management, and substance use in the recently published Community Health Needs Assessment. In the report, more than 50 percent of youth cited mental health as the largest challenge or barrier to health in their communities.
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About Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: A non-profit, charitable organization, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation's first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals, and pioneering major research initiatives, the 595-bed hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program is among the largest in the country. The institution has a well-established history of providing advanced pediatric care close to home through its CHOP Care Network, which includes more than 50 primary care practices, specialty care and surgical centers, urgent care centers, and community hospital alliances throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as a new inpatient hospital with a dedicated pediatric emergency department in King of Prussia. In addition, its unique family-centered care and public service programs have brought Children's Hospital of Philadelphia recognition as a leading advocate for children and adolescents. For more information, visit http://www.chop.edu.
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(WPRI) — White fudge animal cookies sold exclusively at Target are being recalled because they may contain metal fragments, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The Market Pantry-brand cookies are sold in 44-ounce plastic jugs that are shaped like a bear.
The manufacturer, D.F. Stauffer Biscuit Co., issued the recall after a metal wire was found in one of the cookies, according to the FDA.
The recalled cookies have a “best by” date of “21FEB2023” and a UPC code of “085239817698.”
The animal-shaped cookies were sold at Target stores nationwide and online at Target.com. No other Market Pantry cookies are impacted by this recall.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — A large brush fire is burning near Government Way in Spokane. The fire started at approximately 4:20 p.m. on Friday.
The fire is reportedly burning near Palisades Park in North Spokane. As of 5:05 p.m. on Friday, the fire is five acres.
Crews with Fire District 10, the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and other resources are on their way to the scene of the fire at this time.
Two air crafts and five fire engines are currently on the scene and water drops are in progress.
Crews told KREM 2 they hope to have more information shortly.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank more than 1,000 points Friday after the head of the Federal Reserve dashed Wall Street's hopes that it may soon ease up on high-interest rates in its effort to tame inflation.
The S&P 500 lost 3.4%, its biggest drop since mid-June, after Jerome Powell said the Fed will likely need to keep interest rates high enough to slow the economy "for some time" in order to beat back the high inflation sweeping the country.
The Dow dropped 3% and the Nasdaq composite ended 3.9% lower, reflecting a broad sell-off led by technology stocks. Higher rates help corral inflation, but they also hurt asset prices.
The Fed has indicated it will raise rates into next year as it tries to quell demand and bring down prices for goods and services. But some investors speculated the central bank might pause or even reverse course next year if inflation subsides, leading to a rally for stocks in July and early August.
Some analysts expected Powell to bat down that talk in Friday's speech, and he delivered. His speech followed up remarks by several other Fed officials, who also pushed back on speculation the Fed might act less aggressively or even "pivot."
"He basically said there will be pain and that they won't stop and can't stop hiking until inflation moves a lot lower," said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investments.
Powell acknowledged the increases will hurt U.S. households and businesses, in perhaps an unspoken nod to the potential for a recession. But he also said the pain would be far greater if inflation were allowed to fester and that "we must keep at it until the job is done."
He was speaking at an annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which has been the setting for market-moving Fed speeches in the past.
The sell-off capped a week of choppy trading that left major indexes down 4% or more for the week.
All told, the S&P 500 fell 141.46 points to 4,057.66. The benchmark index is now down almost 15% for the year.
The Dow lost 1,008.38 points to close at 32,283.40. The last time the blue-chip average had a 1,000-point drop was in May.
The Nasdaq slid 497.56 points to 12,141.71, its biggest drop since June.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 64.81 points, or 3.3%, to finish at 1,899.83.
Stocks are still showing solid gains for the third quarter, with the S&P 500 up more than 7% and the Nasdaq up 10%. Recent earnings reports were better than some analysts had expected, and there are signs that inflation may have peaked although it remains at sharply elevated levels.
Still, Powell's speech made clear the Fed will accept weaker growth for a while for the sake of getting inflation under control, analysts said.
"Powell reiterated that the Fed is worried about rising prices, and getting inflation under control is emphatically job number one," said Jeff Klingelhofer, co-head of investments at Thornburg Investment Management.
Perhaps giving some hope to investors, some analysts said Powell seemed to indicate expectations for future inflation aren't taking off. If that were to happen, it could cause a self-perpetuating cycle that worsens inflation.
A report on Friday said U.S. consumers are expecting 2.9% annual inflation over the long run, which is at the lower end of the 2.9% to 3.1% range seen in the University of Michigan's survey over the last year.
For now, the debate on Wall Street is whether the Fed will raise short-term rates by either half a percentage point next month, double the usual margin, or by three-quarters of a point. The Fed's last two hikes have been by 0.75 points, and a slight majority of bets on Wall Street are favoring a third such increase in September, according to CME Group.
A report Friday morning showed that the Fed's preferred gauge of inflation decelerated last month and wasn't as bad as many economists expected. It's a potentially encouraging signal, which may embolden more of Wall Street to say that the worst of inflation has already passed or will soon.
Other data showed that incomes for Americans rose less last month than expected, while consumer spending growth slowed.
Following the reports and Powell's comments, the two-year Treasury yield rose for much of the day, but slipped by late afternoon to 3.36% from 3.37% late Thursday. It tends to track expectations for Fed action.
The 10-year Treasury yield, which follows expectations for longer-term economic growth and inflation, initially rose then slipped to 3.02% from 3.03% late Thursday.
The Fed has already hiked its key overnight interest rate four times this year in hopes of slowing the worst inflation in decades. The hikes have already hurt the housing industry, where more expensive mortgage rates have slowed activity. But the job market has remained strong, helping to prop up the economy.
Investors got a fresh set of warnings from companies about the persistent impact from inflation and a slowing economy. Computer maker Dell slumped 13.5% after it said weaker demand will hurt revenue. Chipmaker Marvell Technology fell 8.9% after giving investors a disappointing earnings forecast.
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AP Business Writer Joe McDonald contributed. Veiga reported from Los Angeles. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/dow-drops-1-000-after-feds-powell-says-rates-will-stay-high | 2022-08-27T00:07:51Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/dow-drops-1-000-after-feds-powell-says-rates-will-stay-high | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK — The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank more than 1,000 points Friday after the head of the Federal Reserve dashed Wall Street’s hopes that it may soon ease up on high interest rates in its effort to tame inflation.
The S&P 500 lost 3.4%, its biggest drop since mid-June, after Jerome Powell said the Fed will likely need to keep interest rates high enough to slow the economy “for some time” in order to beat back the high inflation sweeping the country.
The Dow dropped 3% and the Nasdaq composite ended 3.9% lower, reflecting a broad sell-off led by technology stocks. Higher rates help corral inflation, but they also hurt asset prices.
Investors initially struggled to make out the meaning of Powell’s highly anticipated speech. Stocks fell at first, then erased nearly all their losses, and then turned decisively lower with all but five of the companies in the S&P 500 ending up in the red.
“He focused more on the Fed's goals rather than the path,” said Jeffrey Kleintop, chief global investment strategist at Charles Schwab. “That left the market with less to grab onto in terms of the future path for policy.”
Powell’s speech followed up on several other Fed officials, who have recently pushed back on speculation the Fed may ease up on its interest-rate hikes. The increases help corral inflation, but they also hurt the economy and investment prices.
Powell acknowledged the increases will hurt U.S. households and businesses, in perhaps an unspoken nod to the potential for a recession. But he also said the pain would be far greater if inflation were allowed to fester and that “we must keep at it until the job is done.”
He was speaking at an annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which has been the setting for market-moving Fed speeches in the past.
“He basically said there will be pain and that they won’t stop and can’t stop hiking until inflation moves a lot lower,” said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investments. “It was a mercifully short speech and to the point. Powell didn’t really break new ground, which is good since Jackson Hole isn’t a policy meeting.”
Expectations had built through the week that Powell would try to to bat down recent talk about a “pivot” by the Fed. Such speculation had helped stocks surge through the summer. Some investors were even saying the Fed could cut interest rates later in 2023, as pressures on the economy mount and the nation’s high inflation hopefully recedes.
But Powell's speech made clear the Fed will accept weaker growth for a while for the sake of getting inflation under control, analysts said. “Powell reiterated that the Fed is worried about rising prices, and getting inflation under control is emphatically job number one,” said Jeff Klingelhofer, co-head of investments at Thornburg Investment Management.
Perhaps giving some hope to investors, some analysts said Powell seemed to indicate expectations for future inflation aren’t taking off. If that were to happen, it could cause a self-perpetuating cycle that worsens inflation.
A report on Friday said U.S. consumers are expecting 2.9% annual inflation over the long run, which is at the lower end of the 2.9% to 3.1% range seen in the University of Michigan's survey over the last year.
For now, the debate on Wall Street is whether the Fed will raise short-term rates by either half a percentage point next month, double the usual margin, or by three-quarters of a point. The Fed's last two hikes have been by 0.75 points, and a slight majority of bets on Wall Street are favoring a third such increase in September, according to CME Group.
A report Friday morning showed that the Fed’s preferred gauge of inflation decelerated last month and wasn’t as bad as many economists expected. It’s a potentially encouraging signal, which may embolden more of Wall Street to say that the worst of inflation has already passed or will soon.
Other data showed that incomes for Americans rose less last month than expected, while consumer spending growth slowed.
Following the reports and Powell’s comments, the two-year Treasury yield rose to 3.38% from 3.37% late Thursday. It tends to track expectations for Fed action.
The 10-year Treasury yield, which follows expectations for longer-term economic growth and inflation, rose to 3.04% from 3.03% late Thursday.
The Fed has already hiked its key overnight interest rate four times this year in hopes of slowing the worst inflation in decades. The hikes have already hurt the housing industry, where more expensive mortgage rates have slowed activity. But the job market has remained strong, helping to prop up the economy.
Investors got a fresh set of warnings from companies about the persistent impact from inflation and a slowing economy. Computer maker Dell slumped 12.7% after it said weaker demand will hurt revenue. Chipmaker Marvell Technology fell 7.8% after giving investors a disappointing earnings forecast. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/stocks-after-fed-reserve-dashes-hopes-for-easing-up-on-interest-rates/507-3b95e6f0-c81c-4bab-b08a-1befd452ebdd | 2022-08-27T00:07:51Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/stocks-after-fed-reserve-dashes-hopes-for-easing-up-on-interest-rates/507-3b95e6f0-c81c-4bab-b08a-1befd452ebdd | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It's being called the largest art auction in history, as Christie's auction house is set to auction off an estimated $1 billion collection from the late co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen.
According to Christie's, the proceeds from the action will be donated to charitable causes.
The massive collection includes one-of-a-kind pieces from art greats like Botticelli, Renoir, David Hockney and Roy Lichtenstein.
Allen co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with his friend Bill Gates. Mr. Allen left his role at Microsoft in 1983 after he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
He remained on the company's board until 2000, despite a reportedly rough relationship at times, with Gates.
He died in 2018 at the age of 65.
As the BBC reported, 150 works will go up for auction.
Guillaume Cerutti, CEO of Christie's, said, "The inspirational figure of Paul Allen, the extraordinary quality and diversity of works, and the dedication of all proceeds to philanthropy, create a unique combination that will make the sale of the Paul G Allen Collection an event of unprecedented magnitude." | https://www.katc.com/news/national/largest-art-auction-in-history-estimated-1bn-collection-from-microsoft-co-founder-to-be-sold | 2022-08-27T00:07:57Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/largest-art-auction-in-history-estimated-1bn-collection-from-microsoft-co-founder-to-be-sold | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
President Joe Biden’s administration will forgive between $10,000 and $20,000 in federal student loan debt for individuals making under $125,000 and couples making less than $250,000.
Many VERIFY readers have asked us if their loans are eligible for forgiveness, including those who took out Parent PLUS loans.
Direct PLUS loans, often referred to as Parent PLUS loans, are federal loans that parents of dependent undergraduate students can use to help pay for college or career school, the Department of Education says on its website.
The VERIFY team received several questions about Parent PLUS loans, including whether parents and students are considered separate borrowers and if parents who received Pell Grants are eligible for an extra $10,000 in forgiveness.
THE SOURCES
QUESTION #1
Do Parent PLUS loans qualify for debt forgiveness?
THE ANSWER:
Yes, Parent Plus loans held by the Department of Education are eligible for debt forgiveness, senior Biden administration officials told reporters.
QUESTION #2
Are parents and students considered separate borrowers?
THE ANSWER:
Yes, parents with a Direct PLUS Loan and students are each eligible for debt forgiveness, the Department of Education confirmed in an email to VERIFY.
Jessica Thompson, vice president at the Institute for College Access and Success, explained that Parent PLUS loan borrowers would qualify for forgiveness based on their own income and loan, while their children would separately qualify based on the same factors.
QUESTION #3
Would parents who received a Pell Grant as undergraduate students get up to $20,000 in forgiveness?
THE ANSWER:
“If both the student and the parent received a Federal Pell Grant, each person would be eligible to receive the additional $10,000 in debt cancellation,” the Department of Education told VERIFY.
More from VERIFY: Yes, there is a way to check if you received a Pell Grant
QUESTION #4:
Are spouses considered separate borrowers?
THE ANSWER:
“Our current understanding is that if the household qualifies by income, each spouse holding qualified loans would be eligible for cancellation,” Thompson said.
This includes Parent PLUS, graduate or undergraduate loans.
“The income criteria is joint, but the cancellation is for each borrower with qualifying loans,” she added.
QUESTION #5:
Is there a way to check the status of a Parent PLUS Loan?
THE ANSWER:
Parents can find the status of the Direct PLUS Loan by either logging in to their Federal Student Aid (FSA) account or contacting their loan servicer. The FSA account will also have information about the loan servicer. That account should also tell the parent if they have received a Pell Grant. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/verify/student-loan/parent-plus-loans-eligible-biden-administration-debt-forgiveness/536-ee414eb0-2aa2-4cc2-80f0-5184bd787c6a | 2022-08-27T00:07:57Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/verify/student-loan/parent-plus-loans-eligible-biden-administration-debt-forgiveness/536-ee414eb0-2aa2-4cc2-80f0-5184bd787c6a | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOS ANGELES — Kevin Hart already has a thriving comedy and acting career, and now he's aiming for people's stomachs.
The prolific actor-comedian opened his first plant-based, fast-food restaurant called Hart House on Thursday in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles near the city's airport. He wants this new venture to attract regular plant-based eaters along with those who haven’t yet been introduced to that world of healthy eating.
“Our business is in the business of feeling good. That’s what Kevin Hart is about,” he said in an interview before the restaurant's official opening, which got off to a strong start with a long lines of customers throughout the day. While sitting alongside his wife, Eniko Hart, the actor scarfed down a plant-based crispy chick’n sandwich, chick’n nuggets and tots.
Rapper Lil Baby showed up to the preview to place an order from the fully plant-based menu that also features burgers, salads, fries, ice teas and a limeade. The restaurant’s milkshakes are made from an oat-and-soy blend.
“I say this all the time: ‘Live, love, laugh,’” Hart continued. “Here, we say ‘Eat your hart out.’ People have a curiosity about plant-based food. It’s something I eat. It’s really good. When you look at other restaurants, Hart House is just as good and maybe even better in some respects.”
Hart felt the need to create a healthy space within the fast-food spectrum that’s affordable for customers. There are several other plant-based, fast-food options located throughout Los Angeles, but Hart House’s approach is to serve quality food with sandwiches and burgers that are within the $5-$7 price range — less than competitors.
“It’s a major priority for us,” Hart said. “We want to make an environment where people feel good.”
In creating Hart House, the comedian-actor teamed up with restaurateur Andy Hooper, chef Mike Salem and businessman Michael Rubin, who was an investor.
Salem, who developed Hart House’s menu options, was the head of culinary innovation at Burger King where he helped launch the Impossible Whopper.
“One of the cool things about our leadership is that the majority of us are carnivores,” he said. “But we wanted to create this plant-base concept and bring Kevin’s vision to light. We wanted to keep this simple. This is straightforward classic American comfort food.”
Along with his flagship location, Hart wants to open six more Hart House restaurants by the end of the year. He already has two locations under construction in Los Angeles including one in the Hollywood area.
“We’re being open minded,” he said. “This is a new generation and new way of thinking when it comes to food consumption. This is the beginning stages for us. We will continue to get better over time.”
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Genesis is ready to start deliveries of the electric G80.
On Thursday, the South Korean automaker announced the 2023 Electrified Genesis G80 costs $80,920 and is now available in California, Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York but only at select dealerships.
Genesis added that the Electrified G80 will go on sale in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Washington in September. Again, the company noted it will only be available at select dealerships.
Available only in one fully loaded version, the luxury sedan will feature all-wheel drive thanks to a dual-motor powertrain with 136-kw electric motors attached to each axle delivering a combined 365 hp. An 87.2-kwh lithium-ion battery pack feeds the motors and Genesis said it will deliver 282 miles of range. Official EPA ratings haven’t been released yet.
Genesis said the Electrified G80 can recharge from 10% to 80% in 22 minutes when hooked to a 350-kw charging station. The automaker has partnered with Electrify America and will offer buyers three years of complimentary 30-minute fast charging sessions.
It’ll take a keen eye to spot the Electrified G80 as it looks nearly identical to its gas-powered sibling. The grille has been closed off and is one solid piece, though the charge port is hidden within the grille on the driver side with a diamond-shaped door that pops open. Model-specific 19-inch wheels and the available Matira Blue exterior paint will be the easiest ways to spot the electric version of the luxury sedan.
Inside, the Electrified G80 looks the same as the gas-powered model, but the electric model can be optioned with a new dark Dark Lagoon Green and Glacier White color scheme.
Every Electrified G80 will feature automatic emergency braking, active lane control, blind-spot monitors, and automatic high beams.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency moved Friday to designate two “forever chemicals” used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances, a step that would clear the way for quicker cleanup of the toxic compounds, which have been linked to cancer and other health problems.
Designation as a hazardous substance under the so-called Superfund law doesn’t ban the chemicals. But it requires that releases of PFOA and PFOS into soil or water be reported to federal, state or tribal officials if they meet or exceed certain levels. The EPA could then require cleanups to protect public health and recover cleanup costs.
PFOA and PFOS have been voluntarily phased out by U.S. manufacturers but are still in limited use and remain in the environment because they do not degrade over time. The compounds are part of a larger cluster of “forever chemicals” known as PFAS that have been used in consumer products and industry since the 1940s. The term is short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, which have been used in nonstick frying pans, water-repellent sports gear, stain-resistant rugs, cosmetics and countless other consumer products.
The chemicals can accumulate and persist in the human body for long periods of time, and evidence from animal and human studies indicates that exposure to PFOA or PFOS may lead to cancer or other health problems.
“Communities have suffered far too long from exposure to these forever chemicals,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement Friday. “The action announced today will improve transparency and advance EPA’s aggressive efforts to confront this pollution.”
Under the proposed rule, “EPA will both help protect communities from PFAS pollution and seek to hold polluters accountable for their actions,” Regan said. The rule is expected to become final next year.
The Superfund law allows the EPA to clean up contaminated sites and forces parties responsible for the contamination to either perform cleanups or reimburse the government for EPA-led cleanup work. When no responsible party can be identified, Superfund gives EPA money and authority to clean up contaminated sites.
The EPA’s action follows a recent report by the National Academies of Science that calls PFAS a serious public health threat in the U.S. and worldwide. It comes after an EPA announcement in June that PFOA and PFOS are more dangerous than previously thought and pose health risks even at levels so low they cannot currently be detected.
The agency issued nonbinding health advisories that set health risk thresholds for PFOA and PFOS to near zero, replacing 2016 guidelines that had set them at 70 parts per trillion. The chemicals are found in products including cardboard packaging, carpets and firefighting foam and increasingly found in drinking water.
The EPA said in a statement that it is focused on holding responsible companies that manufactured and released significant amounts of PFOA and PFOS into the environment and will not target individual landowners or farmers “who may have been inadvertently impacted by the contamination.” The agency also said it is committed to further outreach and engagement to hear from communities affected by PFAS pollution.
Erik Olson, a health and food expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, called the announcement an important step to clean up hundreds of contaminated sites across the country and protect millions of families exposed to the toxic chemicals.
“Listing PFOA and PFOS as hazardous under Superfund law should allow EPA to hold polluters responsible for that contamination,” he said. “Ratepayers and public utilities should not be footing the bill for industry’s decades of wonton use of these dangerous chemicals.”
Attorney Rob Bilott, an anti-PFAS advocate, said the EPA’s proposal “sends a loud and clear message to the entire world that the United States is finally acknowledging and accepting the now overwhelming evidence that these man-made poisons present substantial danger to the public health and the environment.”
Bilott, whose work to uncover the widespread presence of PFAS chemicals in the environment and in human blood was highlighted in the 2019 film “Dark Waters,” said the EPA must work to ensure that costs of cleaning up the toxins are borne by PFAS manufacturers that caused the contamination — “not the innocent victims of this pollution who didn’t create the toxins and were never warned any of this was ever happening.”
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said she supports strong action to address PFAS contamination in West Virginia and across the country but was concerned about “the unintended consequences that today’s proposal could have.”
If finalized, “property owners, farmers, employers, essential utilities and individuals may be liable for unknowingly having PFAS on their land, even if it was there years or even generations prior to ownership and came from an unknown source,” Capito said.
She urged the EPA to develop an enforceable drinking water standard to promote the health and safety of all Americans.
The American Chemistry Council, which represents major chemical companies, called the EPA’s proposal “an expensive, ineffective and unworkable means to achieve remediation for these chemicals.”
Listing the chemicals under Superfund could harm local fire departments, water utilities, small businesses, airports and farmers, the group said. “The proposed (Superfund) designation would impose tremendous costs on these parties without defined cleanup standards,” the council said in a statement.
The EPA said it expects to propose national drinking water regulations for PFOA and PFOS later this year, with a final rule expected in 2023.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency moved Friday to designate two “forever chemicals” used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances, a step that would clear the way for quicker cleanup of the toxic compounds, which have been linked to cancer and other health problems.
Designation as a hazardous substance under the so-called Superfund law doesn’t ban the chemicals. But it requires that releases of PFOA and PFOS into soil or water be reported to federal, state or tribal officials if they meet or exceed certain levels. The EPA could then require cleanups to protect public health and recover cleanup costs.
PFOA and PFOS have been voluntarily phased out by U.S. manufacturers but are still in limited use and remain in the environment because they do not degrade over time. The compounds are part of a larger cluster of “forever chemicals” known as PFAS that have been used in consumer products and industry since the 1940s. The term is short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, which have been used in nonstick frying pans, water-repellent sports gear, stain-resistant rugs, cosmetics and countless other consumer products.
The chemicals can accumulate and persist in the human body for long periods of time, and evidence from animal and human studies indicates that exposure to PFOA or PFOS may lead to cancer or other health problems.
“Communities have suffered far too long from exposure to these forever chemicals,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement Friday. “The action announced today will improve transparency and advance EPA’s aggressive efforts to confront this pollution.”
Under the proposed rule, “EPA will both help protect communities from PFAS pollution and seek to hold polluters accountable for their actions,” Regan said. The rule is expected to become final next year.
The Superfund law allows the EPA to clean up contaminated sites and forces parties responsible for the contamination to either perform cleanups or reimburse the government for EPA-led cleanup work. When no responsible party can be identified, Superfund gives EPA money and authority to clean up contaminated sites.
The EPA’s action follows a recent report by the National Academies of Science that calls PFAS a serious public health threat in the U.S. and worldwide. It comes after an EPA announcement in June that PFOA and PFOS are more dangerous than previously thought and pose health risks even at levels so low they cannot currently be detected.
The agency issued nonbinding health advisories that set health risk thresholds for PFOA and PFOS to near zero, replacing 2016 guidelines that had set them at 70 parts per trillion. The chemicals are found in products including cardboard packaging, carpets and firefighting foam and increasingly found in drinking water.
The EPA said in a statement that it is focused on holding responsible companies that manufactured and released significant amounts of PFOA and PFOS into the environment and will not target individual landowners or farmers “who may have been inadvertently impacted by the contamination.” The agency also said it is committed to further outreach and engagement to hear from communities affected by PFAS pollution.
Erik Olson, a health and food expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, called the announcement an important step to clean up hundreds of contaminated sites across the country and protect millions of families exposed to the toxic chemicals.
“Listing PFOA and PFOS as hazardous under Superfund law should allow EPA to hold polluters responsible for that contamination,” he said. “Ratepayers and public utilities should not be footing the bill for industry’s decades of wonton use of these dangerous chemicals.”
Attorney Rob Bilott, an anti-PFAS advocate, said the EPA’s proposal “sends a loud and clear message to the entire world that the United States is finally acknowledging and accepting the now overwhelming evidence that these man-made poisons present substantial danger to the public health and the environment.”
Bilott, whose work to uncover the widespread presence of PFAS chemicals in the environment and in human blood was highlighted in the 2019 film “Dark Waters,” said the EPA must work to ensure that costs of cleaning up the toxins are borne by PFAS manufacturers that caused the contamination — “not the innocent victims of this pollution who didn’t create the toxins and were never warned any of this was ever happening.”
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said she supports strong action to address PFAS contamination in West Virginia and across the country but was concerned about “the unintended consequences that today’s proposal could have.”
If finalized, “property owners, farmers, employers, essential utilities and individuals may be liable for unknowingly having PFAS on their land, even if it was there years or even generations prior to ownership and came from an unknown source,” Capito said.
She urged the EPA to develop an enforceable drinking water standard to promote the health and safety of all Americans.
The American Chemistry Council, which represents major chemical companies, called the EPA’s proposal “an expensive, ineffective and unworkable means to achieve remediation for these chemicals.”
Listing the chemicals under Superfund could harm local fire departments, water utilities, small businesses, airports and farmers, the group said. “The proposed (Superfund) designation would impose tremendous costs on these parties without defined cleanup standards,” the council said in a statement.
The EPA said it expects to propose national drinking water regulations for PFOA and PFOS later this year, with a final rule expected in 2023.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A pipeline operator and two subsidiaries agreed Friday to plead guilty to negligently discharging oil off the Southern California coast in connection with a pipeline break that covered beaches with blobs of crude.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles said in a statement that Houston-based Amplify Energy and two subsidiaries agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and pay a $7 million fine and nearly $6 million in expenses incurred by government entities, including the U.S. Coast Guard. The companies would also install a new leak detection system for pipeline and train employees to identify and respond to potential leaks, the statement said.
“Our nation’s environmental laws are designed to protect our communities and oceans from hazardous pollutants, including oil,” said Scot Adair, special agent in charge of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s criminal investigation division in California. “Amplify Energy’s agreement to plead guilty today demonstrates that companies that negligently violate those laws will be held responsible for their crimes.”
The plea agreements still need to be approved by U.S. District Judge David Carter.
Amplify Energy, which owns the pipeline that ruptured, said the company has been cooperating with the investigation into the spill and is committed to operating safely.
“We believe this resolution, which is subject to court review and approval, reflects the commitments we made immediately following the incident to impacted parties,” Martyn Willsher, Amplify’s president, said in a statement.
The October 2021 leak in a pipeline that ferried crude oil from offshore platforms to the Southern California coast spilled about 25,000 gallons (94,600 liters) of oil into the Pacific Ocean.
While less severe than initially feared, the spill about 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) offshore shuttered beaches in surf-friendly Huntington Beach and nearby communities for a week and fisheries for more than a month, oiled birds and threatened wetlands the region has been striving to restore.
U.S. prosecutors charged the companies late last year with the illegal discharge of oil and failure to respond to eight leak detection alarms over a 13-hour period that should have alerted them to the spill. The leak detection system alarm first sounded late in the afternoon on Oct. 1, but workers believed it was triggered by a change in the concentration of produced water in the pipeline earlier in the day, according to a copy of the plea agreement.
The alarm sounded repeatedly throughout the night and workers shut down the pipeline to investigate, then restarted it again. Before dawn on Oct. 2, a boat went out and traveled along the course of the undersea pipeline with flashlights but didn’t see signs of a leak, according to the agreement.
It wasn’t until authorities went out after daybreak that the spill was identified, the papers said.
In the plea agreement, Amplify contends that two ships dragged their anchors across the pipeline and damaged it during a January 2021 storm, but they weren’t notified until after the October 2021 spill. Without this damage, Amplify, which has filed a civil claim against the ships, has argued that the spill would not have happened. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-pipeline-operator-agrees-to-guilty-plea-in-california-spill/ | 2022-08-27T00:12:11Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-pipeline-operator-agrees-to-guilty-plea-in-california-spill/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 20 |
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A pipeline operator and two subsidiaries agreed Friday to plead guilty to negligently discharging oil off the Southern California coast in connection with a pipeline break that covered beaches with blobs of crude.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles said in a statement that Houston-based Amplify Energy and two subsidiaries agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and pay a $7 million fine and nearly $6 million in expenses incurred by government entities, including the U.S. Coast Guard. The companies would also install a new leak detection system for pipeline and train employees to identify and respond to potential leaks, the statement said.
“Our nation’s environmental laws are designed to protect our communities and oceans from hazardous pollutants, including oil,” said Scot Adair, special agent in charge of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s criminal investigation division in California. “Amplify Energy’s agreement to plead guilty today demonstrates that companies that negligently violate those laws will be held responsible for their crimes.”
The plea agreements still need to be approved by U.S. District Judge David Carter.
Amplify Energy, which owns the pipeline that ruptured, said the company has been cooperating with the investigation into the spill and is committed to operating safely.
“We believe this resolution, which is subject to court review and approval, reflects the commitments we made immediately following the incident to impacted parties,” Martyn Willsher, Amplify’s president, said in a statement.
The October 2021 leak in a pipeline that ferried crude oil from offshore platforms to the Southern California coast spilled about 25,000 gallons (94,600 liters) of oil into the Pacific Ocean.
While less severe than initially feared, the spill about 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) offshore shuttered beaches in surf-friendly Huntington Beach and nearby communities for a week and fisheries for more than a month, oiled birds and threatened wetlands the region has been striving to restore.
U.S. prosecutors charged the companies late last year with the illegal discharge of oil and failure to respond to eight leak detection alarms over a 13-hour period that should have alerted them to the spill. The leak detection system alarm first sounded late in the afternoon on Oct. 1, but workers believed it was triggered by a change in the concentration of produced water in the pipeline earlier in the day, according to a copy of the plea agreement.
The alarm sounded repeatedly throughout the night and workers shut down the pipeline to investigate, then restarted it again. Before dawn on Oct. 2, a boat went out and traveled along the course of the undersea pipeline with flashlights but didn’t see signs of a leak, according to the agreement.
It wasn’t until authorities went out after daybreak that the spill was identified, the papers said.
In the plea agreement, Amplify contends that two ships dragged their anchors across the pipeline and damaged it during a January 2021 storm, but they weren’t notified until after the October 2021 spill. Without this damage, Amplify, which has filed a civil claim against the ships, has argued that the spill would not have happened. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-pipeline-operator-agrees-to-guilty-plea-in-california-spill/ | 2022-08-27T00:12:11Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-pipeline-operator-agrees-to-guilty-plea-in-california-spill/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 20 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and China have reached a tentative agreement to allow U.S. regulators to inspect the audits of Chinese companies whose stocks are traded on U.S. exchanges. In a long-festering dispute, U.S. regulators have threatened to boot a number of Chinese companies off the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq if China doesn’t permit inspections.
The deal announced Friday by market regulators in the U.S. and China is preliminary. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler said, “The proof will be in the pudding.”
“While important, this framework is merely a step in the process,” Gensler said in a prepared statement. “This agreement will be meaningful only if (U.S. regulators) actually can inspect and investigate completely audit firms in China. If (they) cannot, roughly 200 China-based issuers will face prohibitions on trading of their securities in the U.S. if they continue to use those audit firms.”
An agreement would mean that U.S. investors will maintain access to shares of important Chinese companies while at the same time being protected by the integrity of company audits.
“This is unequivocally positive news and a major step toward averting mass delisting of Chinese companies in the U.S.,” analyst Tobin Marcus at Evercore ISI said in a note to clients. However, he said, “a deal is only the first step toward avoiding delisting. What ultimately needs to happen is that (U.S.) Inspectors need to show up and complete inspections.” He said the inspections could take months.
The U.S. regulators plan to have inspection teams on the ground in China by mid-September. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is due to determine by year’s end whether the Chinese government is continuing to block access to the audit books. A negative finding could result in U.S. actions such as stock trading bans.
Although it’s preliminary, the agreement is a rare instance of accord at a time when relations between the U.S. and China are fraught by sparring over trade, the war in Ukraine and human rights. The tension was ratcheted higher by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent trip to Taiwan, the self-governing island that China claims as its territory. The Chinese responded to the visit by Pelosi, second in line to the U.S. presidency, with military drills around the island.
U.S. regulators had warned that without an agreement, some 200 companies including Alibaba Group, the world’s biggest e-commerce competitor, might be ejected from U.S. exchanges or face trading restrictions. The Americans said that other governments have agreed to allow such audit reviews, which are required by U.S. law, and that China and Hong Kong are the only holdouts.
Three of China’s biggest state-owned companies announced this month they would remove their shares from the New York Stock Exchange but gave no indication that the action was related to the audit dispute. PetroChina Ltd., China Life Insurance Ltd. and China Petroleum & Chemical Co. cited the small volume of trading of their shares in the New York market and the expense of complying with regulations in a foreign market. The companies said their shares still would be traded in Hong Kong, which is Chinese territory but open to non-Chinese investors.
The dispute over audits of Chinese companies dates back more than a decade. Scores of Chinese companies were suspended or kicked off U.S. exchanges, most of them for failing to file timely financial reports. At least two dozen were hit with SEC fraud or accounting charges, but investigations stalled because the companies’ audit papers were in China — beyond the SEC’s reach.
Under terms of the new agreement, U.S. accounting inspectors in the PCAOB would have independent discretion to select any Chinese company audit for inspection or investigation, and they would get direct access to interview all personnel of the audit firms whose work is being inspected. The inspectors could see complete audit work papers with no redactions.
In Beijing, the China Securities Regulatory Commission called the agreement an important step in “resolving the issue of common concern of audit and regulatory cooperation.” Investors and companies on both sides will benefit from keeping Chinese shares trading on U.S. exchanges, the commission said.
The terms the commission outlined would give Chinese officials a role in any possible investigations. China won the right to conduct similar reviews of U.S. audit firms where relevant, according to the Chinese regulators, allowing Beijing to portray the agreement as mutually positive rather than an instance of China giving in to American pressure. China has yet to express any need to carry out such reviews of its own.
Chinese regulators also would be allowed to participate in interviews with audit personnel.
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McDonald reported from Beijing.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and China have reached a tentative agreement to allow U.S. regulators to inspect the audits of Chinese companies whose stocks are traded on U.S. exchanges. In a long-festering dispute, U.S. regulators have threatened to boot a number of Chinese companies off the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq if China doesn’t permit inspections.
The deal announced Friday by market regulators in the U.S. and China is preliminary. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler said, “The proof will be in the pudding.”
“While important, this framework is merely a step in the process,” Gensler said in a prepared statement. “This agreement will be meaningful only if (U.S. regulators) actually can inspect and investigate completely audit firms in China. If (they) cannot, roughly 200 China-based issuers will face prohibitions on trading of their securities in the U.S. if they continue to use those audit firms.”
An agreement would mean that U.S. investors will maintain access to shares of important Chinese companies while at the same time being protected by the integrity of company audits.
“This is unequivocally positive news and a major step toward averting mass delisting of Chinese companies in the U.S.,” analyst Tobin Marcus at Evercore ISI said in a note to clients. However, he said, “a deal is only the first step toward avoiding delisting. What ultimately needs to happen is that (U.S.) Inspectors need to show up and complete inspections.” He said the inspections could take months.
The U.S. regulators plan to have inspection teams on the ground in China by mid-September. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is due to determine by year’s end whether the Chinese government is continuing to block access to the audit books. A negative finding could result in U.S. actions such as stock trading bans.
Although it’s preliminary, the agreement is a rare instance of accord at a time when relations between the U.S. and China are fraught by sparring over trade, the war in Ukraine and human rights. The tension was ratcheted higher by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent trip to Taiwan, the self-governing island that China claims as its territory. The Chinese responded to the visit by Pelosi, second in line to the U.S. presidency, with military drills around the island.
U.S. regulators had warned that without an agreement, some 200 companies including Alibaba Group, the world’s biggest e-commerce competitor, might be ejected from U.S. exchanges or face trading restrictions. The Americans said that other governments have agreed to allow such audit reviews, which are required by U.S. law, and that China and Hong Kong are the only holdouts.
Three of China’s biggest state-owned companies announced this month they would remove their shares from the New York Stock Exchange but gave no indication that the action was related to the audit dispute. PetroChina Ltd., China Life Insurance Ltd. and China Petroleum & Chemical Co. cited the small volume of trading of their shares in the New York market and the expense of complying with regulations in a foreign market. The companies said their shares still would be traded in Hong Kong, which is Chinese territory but open to non-Chinese investors.
The dispute over audits of Chinese companies dates back more than a decade. Scores of Chinese companies were suspended or kicked off U.S. exchanges, most of them for failing to file timely financial reports. At least two dozen were hit with SEC fraud or accounting charges, but investigations stalled because the companies’ audit papers were in China — beyond the SEC’s reach.
Under terms of the new agreement, U.S. accounting inspectors in the PCAOB would have independent discretion to select any Chinese company audit for inspection or investigation, and they would get direct access to interview all personnel of the audit firms whose work is being inspected. The inspectors could see complete audit work papers with no redactions.
In Beijing, the China Securities Regulatory Commission called the agreement an important step in “resolving the issue of common concern of audit and regulatory cooperation.” Investors and companies on both sides will benefit from keeping Chinese shares trading on U.S. exchanges, the commission said.
The terms the commission outlined would give Chinese officials a role in any possible investigations. China won the right to conduct similar reviews of U.S. audit firms where relevant, according to the Chinese regulators, allowing Beijing to portray the agreement as mutually positive rather than an instance of China giving in to American pressure. China has yet to express any need to carry out such reviews of its own.
Chinese regulators also would be allowed to participate in interviews with audit personnel.
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McDonald reported from Beijing.
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VENICE, Italy (AP) — Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei warns against hubris in what he calls “such a troublesome time” with his first glass sculpture, made on the Venetian island of Murano, with the foreboding subtitle: “Memento Mori,” Latin for “Remember You Must Die.”
Russian bombs fall on Ukraine. China is flexing its military muscle in the Taiwan Strait. Migrants die repeatedly at sea as smugglers’ boats sink. The Earth warms, creating drought, collapsing glaciers and triggering violent storms. The pandemic lingers.
“We are talking about many, many things. We are talking about immigrants, about deaths, about the war, about many, many issues,″ Ai told The Associated Press in Venice on Friday.
He stands by his 9-meter (29.5-foot), nearly 3-ton black glass sculpture, which is suspended over the central nave of the deconsecrated church of San Giorgio Maggiore, located opposite Venice’s St. Mark’s Square. Titled “The Human Comedy: Memento Mori,” the sculpture is the centerpiece of an Ai exhibit at the church that opens Sunday.
The huge hanging artwork is part chandelier, part ossuary, with intricately hung molded glass skeletons and skulls, both human and animal, balanced with glass-blown human organs and scattered likenesses of the Twitter bird logo and surveillance cameras, hinting at the darker side of technology.
“We see the environment completely disappearing, being destroyed by humans’ effort … and that will create a much bigger disaster or famine. Or war, there’s a possible political struggle between China and the West″ as China asserts greater control over Hong Kong and threatens control over Taiwan, Ai said.
“We have to rethink about humans and legitimacy in the environment. Do we really deserve this planet, or are we just being so short-sighted and racist? And very, very just self-demanding, selfishness,″ the artist added.
The exhibit also features smaller glass sculptures. One depicts Ai himself as a prisoner, a reference to his months in a Chinese prison in 2011. Another imposes his distorted face on a replica of an 18th-century statue titled “Allegory of Envy.″ A wooden sculpture of a tree trunk fills a sacristy. Colored glass hard hats save places in the choir. Lego-brick portrait replicas of famous paintings and the Chinese zodiac line the walls of adjacent rooms.
Ai said he thinks Russia’s invasion of Ukraine gave Chinese authorities a “potential model” to understand how such an operation might play out in Taiwan, without serving either as encouragement or warning.
“I think China is part of the global power struggle that reflects our modern understanding and the classic notion about territory and who has the right to do what,” he said. ”What what happens in the Russian and Ukraine conflict gives China a clear maybe mental exercise about what they want to do in Taiwan, if it is needed.”
But the artist says any Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a mistake and a misunderstanding of Taiwan’s history.
“The Chinese think that Taiwan belongs to China, but in reality China and Taiwan have been apart for over 70 years. They have their own social structure, which is more democratic and more peaceful than in China,″ he said. Any moves by China to claim Taiwan by force will result “in the ultimate struggle.″
He sees the struggle in China as one for legitimacy of authorities’ control, while the challenge in the West is the continual need to defend democracy and with it freedom of speech. The West’s Achille’s heel is its economic dependency on China’s cheap manufacturing, he said.
“That is why China is so confident,″ Ai said. ”They know the West cannot live without China.”
He cited instances of Western hypocrisy, including the rejection by festivals in Europe and the United States of films he made during the pandemic depicting Wuhan’s first lockdown and the struggles in Hong Kong.
After praising the films, festivals ultimately give “the last words, we cannot show it,″ out of fear of losing access to the Chinese market, Ai said.
His artworks travel more smoothly, he said, because his artistic language is harder to interpret.
“My work is about a new vocabulary, so it is difficult for somebody who has completely no knowledge. It requires study,” Ai said. ”I don’t make some piece to please the audience. But I always want to say something that is necessary.”
Tourists wandering in from the water bus were delighted that they had stumbled into an exhibit by the renowned dissident artist.
“It is metal? When I first saw this I thought it represented hell,″ Kenneth Cheung, a Hong Kong native now living in Toronto, Canada, said as he checked out the imposing glass sculpture. “Being in a church, it is even stronger, more powerful.”
The main sculpture took three years to realize with assistance from artists at a glass studio on Murano employing three techniques: traditional Murano blown glass, wax molds and injection molds. Studio owner Adriano Berengo said he pursued Ai for years to secure a collaboration with an artist he admires for his strong political beliefs.
“He shows his face. He doesn’t hide. He is ready to risk his life, and he did in China,″ Berengo said.
The exhibit runs through Nov. 27 in Venice. From there, the hanging sculpture will go to the Design Museum in London and then, hopefully a buyer, Berengo said.
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BEIJING (AP) — The latest “Minions” movie subtly reinforces a message for Chinese audiences that viewers in other countries won’t see: Crime doesn’t pay.
A postscript added to the version in Chinese cinemas says a villainous character, who ends the movie as a free man, is later jailed for 20 years.
Foreign films have long been targeted in China for references to subjects sensitive to the ruling Communist Party, such as Taiwan, the Dalai Lama and human rights. In recent years, China’s film board appears to have expanded its purview to ensure that films deliver the right message, and not one deemed harmful.
That can be a challenge in a movie in which the central character is a villain. “Minions: The Rise of Gru” is a prequel that tells the story of the early years of Gru, the bumbling criminal plotter of the “Despicable Me” animated series.
The solution: Add individual postscripts about the characters, a series of them, interspersed with the credits at the end.
One says that Wild Knuckles, an older, mentor-like villain to the young Gru, was later bundled off to prison for 20 years because he tried to commit another crime. Before the credits, he simply drives off into a suburban horizon.
The postscript for Gru says he gives up evil, joins the good guys and, in his biggest accomplishment, is the father of three daughters.
The actual story, told in the original “Despicable Me” in 2010, is a bit more complicated. Gru adopts three orphan girls for his plot to steal the moon. But the adorable orphans, who see in him a dad, melt his icy heart.
Chinese movie bloggers pointed out the added postscripts in social media posts, drawing varying reactions. Some people said the additions were an overreaction to what is an animated comedy. Others said they demonstrated correct values, especially for kids.
“I think the ending with positive energy doesn’t have to exist at all,” said one cinema goer, Jenny Jian. “It’s totally unnecessary.”
Positive energy is a catch phrase that emerged in China about a decade ago and has been promoted by the Communist Party to push for uplifting messages from the media and the arts, according to the China Media Project, which monitors media trends.
The China Film Administration, which oversees the film board, did not respond to faxed questions. The distributors, China Film Co, and Huaxia Film Distribution Co., did not respond to emails.
China doesn’t have a film rating system that assesses a movie’s suitability for different audiences. Instead, authorities ask producers to delete or alter what they consider inappropriate before movies are approved for release.
“Minions: The Rise of Gru,” which has taken in 114 million yuan ($17 million) at the box since opening in China on Aug. 19, is hardly the first time Chinese authorities have altered a movie’s end.
In “Peppermint,” a 2018 movie about a vigilante, the main character is handcuffed to a hospital bed. A sympathetic detective slips her a key and, in the final scene, the bed is empty with the handcuffs swinging open on its railing.
The truncated Chinese version ends with her still in bed, before she gets the key.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish pop star Gulsen has been arrested on charges of “inciting hatred and enmity” with a joke she made about Turkey’s religious schools, the country’s state-run news agency reported.
The 46-year-old singer and songwriter, whose full name is Gulsen Colakoglu, was taken away from her home in Istanbul for questioning and formally arrested late Thursday. She was then taken to a prison pending trial.
The arrest sparked outrage on social media. Government critics said the move was an effort by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to consolidate support from his religious and conservative ahead of elections in 10 months.
The charges were based on a joke Gulsen made during an April concert in Istanbul, where she quipped that one of her musicians’ “perversion” stemmed from attending a religious school. A video of the singer’s comment began circulating on social media recently, with a hashtag calling for her arrest.
Gulsen — who previously became a target in Islamic circles due to her revealing stage outfits and for unfurling an LGBTQ flag at a concert — apologized for the offense the joke caused but said her comments were seized on by those wanting to deepen polarization in the country.
During her questioning by court authorities, Gulsen rejected accusations that she incited hatred and enmity, and said she had “endless respect for the values and sensitivities of my country,” the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Her request to be released from custody pending the outcome of a trial was rejected.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of Turkey’s main opposition party, called on Turkey’s judges and prosecutors to release Gulsen.
“Don’t betray the law and justice; release the artist now!” he wrote on Twitter.
The spokesman for Erdogan’s Justice and Development party, known by its Turkish acronym AKP, appeared however, to defend the decision to arrest the singer, saying “inciting hatred is not an art form.”
“Targeting a segment of society with the allegation of “perversion” and trying to polarize Turkey is a hate crime and a disgrace to humanity,” AKP spokesman Omer Celik tweeted.
Erdogan and many members of his Islam-based ruling party are graduates of religious schools, which were originally established to train imams. The number of religious schools in Turkey has increased under Erdogan, who has promised to raise a “pious generation.”
Among those calling for Gulsen’s release was Turkish pop star, Tarkan, best known internationally for song “Kiss Kiss.”
“Our legal system, which turns a blind eye to corruption, thieves, those who break the law and massacre nature, those who kill animals and those who use religion to polarize society through their bigoted ideas – has arrested Gulsen in one whack,” Tarkan said in a statement posted on Twitter. | https://www.wpri.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-turkish-pop-star-jailed-over-joke-about-religious-schools/ | 2022-08-27T00:13:45Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-turkish-pop-star-jailed-over-joke-about-religious-schools/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Biden administration said Friday there’s enough monkeypox vaccine available now but health officials say the shots aren’t getting to some of the people who need the protection the most.
About 10% of monkeypox vaccine doses have been given to Black people, even though they account for one-third of U.S. cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new numbers come from 17 states and two cities, and represent the most comprehensive details yet on who has been getting the two-dose vaccines. Similar disparities had been reported previously by a few states and cities.
Most U.S. monkeypox cases have been in men who have sex with men, but officials have stressed that anyone can catch the virus.
Experts offered several possible explanations for the disparity. It may be related to how and where shots are being offered and publicized. It may be that some Black men don’t trust doctors and government public health efforts. Or they may be less willing to identify themselves as a person who is at higher risk of catching the disease.
The gap is an echo of disparities seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, when certain racial groups were a disproportionately large share of cases but a smaller fraction of the people initially receiving vaccinations, said Dr. Yvens Laborde, director of global health education at Ochsner Health in New Orleans.
“If we’re not careful, the same thing will happen here” with monkeypox, he said.
Available information suggests that Black men are a growing proportion of monkeypox cases, said Caitlin Rivers, a Johns Hopkins University expert on government response to epidemics.
“This is a problem that is not resolving,” she said.
The Biden administration said Friday it has shipped enough monkeypox vaccine to deliver the first of two doses to the group at highest risk of infection. That’s an estimated 1.6 million men who have sex with other men, but the CDC does not have a racial breakdown of the group. The administration expects to have enough for second doses available by the end of next month.
Earlier this month, health officials authorized a plan to allow injection of smaller doses of the vaccine into the skin instead of into muscle, which has helped stretch supplies. With the help of that new method, which requires about one-fifth the usual dose, the administration says it has now shipped enough vaccine for at least 1.6 million doses.
According to the administration, only 14 jurisdictions of 67 have used enough vaccine to request more from the federal stockpile.
Some experts say health officials need to make sure Black men have more access to vaccinations, testing, treatment and other types of information and assistance.
CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, speaking at a White House briefing, said her agency has taken steps to increase access. Vaccines and educational materials will be available at Atlanta’s upcoming Black Pride events and New Orlean’s Southern Decadence.
“We’ve seen as we’re starting to roll these pilot projects out that they are working,” she said.
The government hadn’t previously reported on vaccine recipients’ demographics, because such information sharing is voluntary. The numbers released Friday reflect information on about 208,000 doses administered as of earlier this week, out of more than 1 million shipped. Age, sex, racial and ethnic information was not available for every recipient.
But, based on what information was available, the data shows:
—About half of vaccine recipients were white and about a quarter were Hispanic. About 10% were Black and another 10% were Asian.
—About 94% were identified as male, and 6% female.
—More than half were between the ages of 25 and 39.
The gaps nationally echo those seen in statistics from Georgia, North Carolina, New York City and Washington, D.C. In all four locales, Black men accounted for many or most of the cases, but were a smaller proportion of vaccine recipients.
Monkeypox is endemic in parts of Africa, where people have been infected through bites from rodents or small animals. It wasn’t considered a disease that spreads easily among people until May, when infections emerged in Europe and the U.S.
There have been more than 45,000 cases reported in countries that have not historically seen monkeypox.
The U.S. has the most infections of any country — more than 16,000. About 98% of U.S. cases are men and about 93% were men who reported recent sexual contact with other men. No one in the U.S. has died, but deaths have been reported in other countries.
Officials say the virus has been spreading mainly through skin-on-skin contact, but they warn it might also transmit in other ways, including through touching linens used by someone with monkeypox.
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Associated Press writer Nicky Forster contributed to this report.
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KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — Republican Herschel Walker has plenty to say about how his Democratic rival, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, does his job in Washington. But Walker is considerably less revealing about what he’d do with the role himself.
A former football star and friend of former President Donald Trump, Walker tells voters he supports agriculture, veterans and law enforcement. He sells cultural conservatism and his mental health advocacy. He tags Warnock as a yes-man for President Joe Biden. Yet when asked for concrete alternatives to what he calls “the Biden-Warnock agenda,” Walker defaults mostly to generalities and stem-winding tangents — or he turns the question around.
“Have you asked my opponent? Don’t play games. You’re playing games,” Walker told reporters recently when pressed to clarify his stance on exceptions to abortion bans.
The broader approach tracks the way many political challengers — including Warnock two years ago — try to put incumbents on the defensive. That method is especially salient for Republican candidates in a midterm election year when Democrats must run alongside sustained inflation. But Walker’s rendition, as much as any GOP candidacy nationwide, is testing the bounds of that strategy as Democrats hammer the political novice as unfit for high office.
“There is a stark difference between me and my opponent,” Warnock said at a recent campaign stop, theatrically stretching the word “stark” as he smiled. “This race,” the senator continued, “is about who’s ready to represent Georgia.”
Democrats’ paid advertising levels the same charge, without humor.
Among Warnock’s first general election ads was video of Walker claiming he knows of a cure for COVID-19. “I have something that can bring you into a building that would clean you from COVID as you walk through this dry mist,” Walker said. “This here product — they don’t want to talk about that.”
Another Warnock ad hammered Walker for not agreeing to any of three long-standing Georgia general election debates after saying he’d debate Warnock “any time, any day.”
Other ads from Warnock-aligned groups have chronicled Walker’s exaggerations about his business and academic accomplishments and his first wife’s allegations of Walker’s violent behavior.
Those spots are part of an advertising deluge that’s allowed Warnock to burnish his personal brand, explain his Senate record on his terms and launch broadsides against Walker. That reach could prove decisive in a closely divided state: Warnock won his January 2021 special election runoff by 2 percentage points out of 4.5 million votes. Polls suggest reflect another hotly contested race, with Republicans depending on Walker to tilt the balance of the 50-50 Senate.
Warnock has fueled his ad blitz with a considerable money advantage. From the closing weeks of 2020 through June 30 of this year, he’d spent more than $85 million. Walker, by comparison, had raised $20.2 million and spent $13.4 million.
That leaves some Republicans fretting that Walker is behind in establishing his case. “I get really passionate about this because I know Herschel, and the left is trying to paint him into something he is not,” said Ginger Howard, a Georgia representative on the Republican National Committee.
Walker’s answer so far is to make the race a referendum on Biden and Democrats, thus avoiding direct comparisons between the Georgia nominees. Walker aides say that isn’t just the obvious course to navigate a first-time candidate’s liabilities; it also happens, they insist, to resonate with a majority of Georgians.
“This is still a center-right state in a very Republican year,” said adviser Chip Lake, noting Biden’s approval ratings lag badly behind Warnock’s standing in Georgia. “Voters aren’t asking Herschel for white papers on policy.”
Liz Marchionni, who volunteers at her local Cobb County Republican office north of Atlanta, said most voters care more about broader values than specifics. “Every candidate should answer questions,” she said. But Walker “has excellent business experience,” she added. “He’s a strong Christian. And he’s working for freedom for all Americans.”
Nonetheless, the first-time candidate has started doing more policy themed events: roundtables with farmers, meetings with business owners, gatherings with law enforcement, a panel with conservative women, including the candidate’s wife, Julie Blanchard. Walker now huddles regularly with groups of reporters.
Much of that is a shift from his shielded Republican primary campaign. He easily won that contest anyway, leveraging his fame as a former University of Georgia football star and his relationship with Trump. But Lake said the campaign recognized Walker has to “engage with as many Georgians as possible” to defeat Warnock.
In recent appearances, Walker has talked of prioritizing aid to farmers, cutting environmental regulations he says limit domestic energy sources, and championing “second chance” policies to help convicted felons get employment.
But he doesn’t get into details, and his go-to applause lines reflect standard conservative dogma. “We need spiritual warriors … leaders who love this country … people with common sense,” he told a standing-room-only crowd in northern Cobb County.
Lake said “it’s no different than any other campaign I’ve worked on.” And, he added, “I don’t remember Raphael Warnock’s campaign being that detailed” ahead of his victory over then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler.
Indeed, Warnock’s standard pitch this summer is more policy-heavy than in 2020, in part because he talks about measures that he’s helped get through the Senate. Yet in that campaign, Warnock did tout his activism as a Baptist pastor on Medicaid expansion and voting rights, holding forth on policy details. For example, he talked then about capping insulin costs and allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical firms. The Senate recently approved drug-price negotiations and a limited version of the insulin cap. Republicans restricted the cap only to Medicare; Warnock called for extending it across all consumers, including the privately insured.
Walker’s latest forays into policy highlight the potential risks in trying to match Warnock.
Discussing inflation before the recent Senate votes, Walker said he endorsed capping insulin prices. Told of Warnock’s efforts, he replied: “I support some of the good things he’s doing, but that’s just a Band-Aid. Why don’t he get back and get to things that are correct?”
Walker didn’t answer a follow-up question about what policies he’d pursue to combat the wider inflation he blames on Warnock. Instead, he veered into a soliloquy on border patrols and crime.
After accusing Warnock of supporting the Inflation Reduction Act without “reading the bill,” Walker admitted he’d read only “some of the bill” himself.
Meeting with north Georgia farmers, he learned that a majority of the federal farm bill — a staple of federal spending for generations — finances consumer food assistance. Farmers don’t necessarily oppose that consumer aid, though Congress often fights over amounts. But Walker heard the breakdown and mused that it is wasteful, even as one farmer explained that feeding a country of 330 million residents “is national security.”
Walker glosses over details when attacking Warnock, as well. Talking about why women should support him, Walker said, “I will keep them safe, not like my opponent, who votes to be soft on crime and soft-on-crime judges.” Walker then alluded to an unspecified local prosecution in Atlanta, alleging it involved defendants who’d been arrested more than 100 times.
“These guys have done so many crimes, and they let them out of jail,” he said. “Right now, that’s something that I would be tough on right there.”
Asked recently which Senate committee assignments he’d seek should he win, Walker said he wants to focus on agriculture and “something with our military” and supporting veterans.
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COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna is suing Pfizer and the German drugmaker BioNTech, accusing its main competitors of copying Moderna’s technology in order to make their own vaccine.
Moderna said Friday that Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine Comirnaty infringes on patents Moderna filed several years ago protecting the technology behind its preventive shot, Spikevax. The company filed patent infringement lawsuits in both U.S. federal court and a German court.
Pfizer spokeswoman Pam Eisele said the company had not fully reviewed Moderna’s lawsuit, but the drugmaker was surprised by it, given that their vaccine is based on proprietary technology developed by both BioNTech and Pfizer.
She said in an email that Pfizer Inc., based in New York, would “vigorously defend” against any allegations in the case. BioNTech said in a statement late Friday that its work was “original” and that it too would defend itself.
Moderna and Pfizer’s two-shot vaccines both use mRNA technology to help people fight the coronavirus.
“When COVID-19 emerged, neither Pfizer nor BioNTech had Moderna’s level of experience with developing mRNA vaccines for coronaviruses,” Moderna said in a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
The mRNA vaccines work by injecting a genetic code for the spike protein that coats the surface of the coronavirus. That code, the mRNA, is encased in a little ball of fat, and instructs the body’s cells to make some harmless spike copies that train the immune system to recognize the real virus.
That approach is radically different than how vaccines have traditionally been made.
Moderna said it started developing its mRNA technology platform in 2010, and that helped the company quickly produce its COVID-19 vaccine after the pandemic arrived in early 2020.
By the end of that year, U.S. regulators had cleared shots from both Pfizer and Moderna for use after clinical research showed that both were highly effective.
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said in a prepared statement that the vaccine developer pioneered that technology and invested billions of dollars in creating it.
Moderna worked with scientists at the National Institutes of Health to test and develop its COVID-19 vaccine. The company said its lawsuit is not related to any patent rights generated during that collaboration.
The company said it believes its rivals’ vaccine infringes on patents Moderna filed between 2010 and 2016.
Moderna said in its complaint that Pfizer and BioNTech copied some critical features of its technology, including making the “exact same chemical modification to their mRNA that Moderna scientists first developed years earlier” and went on to use in Spikevax.
Moderna said it recognizes the importance of vaccine access and is not seeking to remove Comirnaty from the market. It also is not asking for an injunction to prevent future sales.
Moderna said in 2020 that it would not enforce its COVID-19 related patents while the pandemic continued. But the company said in March, with vaccine supplies improving globally, that it would update that pledge.
It said it still would not enforce its patents for vaccines used in low- and middle-income countries. But it expected companies like Pfizer and BioNTech to respect its intellectual property, and it would consider “a commercially reasonable license” in other markets if they requested one.
“Pfizer and BioNTech have failed to do so,” Moderna said in a statement.
The vaccines have swiftly become top-selling products globally.
Pfizer’s Comirnaty brought in more than $36 billion in sales globally last year, and analysts expect it to bring in nearly $33 billion this year, according to FactSet.
Moderna Inc. booked $17.6 billion in revenue from its vaccine last year. Analysts project more than $21 billion in 2022. Spikevax is Moderna’s only product on the market, but it is developing other vaccines using the mRNA technology.
The Cambridge, Massachusetts company’s stock trades publicly under the ticker symbol MRNA.
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark warning Friday about the Fed’s determination to fight inflation with more sharp interest rate hikes: It will likely cause pain for Americans in the form of a weaker economy and job losses.
The message landed with a thud on Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 1,000 points for the day.
“These are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation,” Powell said in a high-profile speech at the Fed’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole. “But a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain.”
Investors had been hoping for a signal from Powell that the Fed might soon moderate its rate increases later this year if inflation were to show further signs of easing. But the Fed chair indicated that that time may not be near, and stocks tumbled in response.
Runaway price increases have soured most Americans on the economy, even as the unemployment rate has fallen to a half-century low of 3.5%. It has also created political risks for President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats in this fall’s elections, with Republicans denouncing Biden’s $1.9 trillion financial support package, approved last year, as having fueled inflation.
The Dow Jones average finished down 3% on Friday, its worst day in three months. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite shed nearly 4%. Shorter-term Treasury yields climbed as traders built up bets for the Fed to stay aggressive with rates.
Some on Wall Street expect the economy to fall into recession later this year or early next year, after which they expect the Fed to reverse itself and reduce rates.
A number of Fed officials, though, have pushed back against that notion. Powell’s remarks suggested that the Fed is aiming to raise its benchmark rate — to about 3.75% to 4% by next year — yet not so high as to tank the economy, in hopes of slowing growth long enough to conquer high inflation.
“The idea they are trying to hammer into the market’s head is that their approach makes a rapid pivot to (rate cuts) unlikely,” said Eric Winograd, an economist at asset manager AllianceBernstein. “They are going to stay tight even when it hurts.”
After raising its key short-term rate by a steep three-quarters of a point at each of its past two meetings — part of the Fed’s fastest series of hikes since the early 1980s — Powell said the Fed might ease up on that pace “at some point,” suggesting that any such slowing isn’t near.
Powell said the size of the Fed’s rate increase at its next meeting in late September — whether one-half or three-quarters of a percentage point — will depend on inflation and jobs data. An increase of either size, though, would exceed the Fed’s traditional quarter-point hike, a reflection of how severe inflation has become.
The Fed chair said that while lower inflation readings that have been reported for July have been “welcome,” he added that, “a single month’s improvement falls far short of what (Fed policymakers) will need to see before we are confident that inflation is moving down.”
On Friday, an inflation gauge that is closely monitored by the Fed showed that prices actually declined 0.1% from June to July. Though prices did jump 6.3% in July from 12 months earlier, that was down from a 6.8% year-over-year jump in June, which had been the highest since 1982. The drop largely reflected lower gas prices.
In his speech Friday, Powell noted that the history of high inflation in the 1970s, when the central bank sought to counter high prices with only intermittent rate hikes, shows that the Fed must stay focused.
“The historical record cautions strongly against prematurely” lowering interest rates, he said. “We must keep at it until the job is done.”
What particularly worries Powell and other Fed officials is the prospect that inflation would become entrenched, leading consumers and businesses to change their behavior in ways that would perpetuate higher prices. If, for example, workers began demanding higher pay to match higher inflation, many employers would then pass on those higher labor costs to consumers in the form of higher prices.
Many analysts speculate that Fed officials want to see roughly six months or so of lower monthly inflation readings, similar to July’s, before stopping their rate hikes.
Powell’s speech was the marquee event of the the Fed’s annual economic symposium at Jackson Hole, the first time the conference of central bankers is being held in person since 2019, after it went virtual for two years during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since March, the Fed has implemented its fastest pace of rate increases in decades to try to curb inflation, which has punished households with soaring costs for food, gas, rent and other necessities. The central bank has lifted its benchmark rate by 2 full percentage points in just four meetings, to a range of 2.25% to 2.5%.
Those hikes have led to higher costs for mortgages, car loans and other consumer and business borrowing. Home sales have been plunging since the Fed first signaled it would raise borrowing costs.
In June, the Fed’s policymakers signaled that they expected their key rate to end 2022 in a range of 3.25% to 3.5% and then to rise further next year to between 3.75% and 4%. If rates reached their projected level at the end of this year, they would be at the highest point since 2008.
Powell is betting that he can engineer a high-risk outcome: Slow the economy enough to ease inflation pressures yet not so much as to trigger a recession.
His task has been complicated by the economy’s cloudy picture: On Thursday, the government said the economy shrank at a 0.6% annual rate in the April-June period, the second straight quarter of contraction. Yet employers are still hiring rapidly, and the number of people seeking unemployment aid, a measure of layoffs, remains relatively low.
At its meeting in July, Fed policymakers expressed two competing concerns that highlighted their delicate task.
According to minutes from that meeting, the officials — who aren’t identified by name — have prioritized their inflation fight. Still, some officials said there was a risk that the Fed would raise borrowing costs more than necessary, risking a recession. If inflation were to fall closer to the Fed’s 2% target and the economy weakened further, those diverging views could become hard to reconcile.
At last year’s Jackson Hole symposium, Powell listed five reasons why he thought inflation would be “transitory.” Yet instead it has persisted, and many economists have noted that those remarks haven’t aged well.
Powell indirectly acknowledged that history at the outset of his remarks Friday, when he said that, “at past Jackson Hole conferences, I have discussed broad topics such as the ever-changing structure of the economy and the challenges of conducting monetary policy.”
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