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MIAMI (WFLA) — The OnlyFans model accused of murdering her boyfriend is back in Florida, this time behind bars.
Miami-Dade jail records showed that 26-year-old Courtney Clenney, also known as Courtney Tailor, was booked into jail Friday afternoon after being extradited back to Florida from Hawaii.
Clenney is accused of stabbing her boyfriend, 27-year-old Christian Obumseli, to death in Miami on April 3, according to authorities.
Obumseli would later die after being taken to a trauma center.
Charges were not immediately filed, according to NewsNation. But police in Miami-Dade County eventually issued an arrest warrant for Clenney, for the offense of murder in the second degree with a deadly weapon, Nexstar’s KHON reported.
Police said Clenney was arrested “without incident at an undisclosed location” in Laupahoehoe, Hawaii, on Aug. 10 — four months after Obumseli’s death. She was initially being held at the East Hawai’i Detention Center.
Clenney and her attorney had originally said she threw a knife at her ex-boyfriend in self-defense after he tried to choke her, but authorities said a medical examination found Obumseli’s injuries to be too severe for that to be the case. Instead, they believed his wound was caused by a downward strike with a knife.
State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle also said Obumseli was heard in a 911 call saying he was dying and losing feeling in his arm while Clenney was heard saying. “I’m so sorry, baby.”
As of Saturday, Clenney remained in jail without bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/onlyfans-model-accused-of-murdering-boyfriend-extradited-to-florida/ | 2022-08-27T20:21:51Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/onlyfans-model-accused-of-murdering-boyfriend-extradited-to-florida/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
Laws restricting access to abortion went into effect in a number of states this week, including Texas, which already has some of the toughest restrictions in the country. Its new law goes even further. It makes it a felony to provide an abortion, and that is punishable by up to life in prison. We're joined now by Elizabeth Sepper, who is a professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin.
Professor, thanks so much for being with us.
ELIZABETH SEPPER: Thanks for having me.
SIMON: Let's begin with this new law, if we could. What are some of the penalties for which it provides?
SEPPER: This is a law that criminalizes providing abortions. It comes with five years to life imprisonment, as well as civil penalties of $100,000 for abortion and administrative penalties in the form of mandatory revocation of a license to practice medicine, do nursing, pharmacy, so on.
SIMON: So providing abortion would presumably apply to medical personnel, but also, who else?
SEPPER: Given the existence of medication abortion, anyone who hands a medication abortion pill to another person would be subject to this criminal ban.
SIMON: So this could be not just a pharmacist. It could be a friend.
SEPPER: It could be a friend. It could be a stranger. It could be someone, a friend of a friend, a family member, so on.
SIMON: If you put this law together with the laws that are already on the books, what does the landscape of laws look like?
SEPPER: So there's dozens of sort of smaller criminal laws around informed consent, the timing, how often someone has to come, who can hand out medication abortion, even. Then we have this trigger ban, which went into effect on Thursday. And then we have a pre-Roe ban which prohibits furnishing the means of abortion as well as providing abortion services. And on top of that, we have a medication abortion-specific criminal law that means that mailing a medication abortion into the state or providing it to someone in the state is also a crime.
SIMON: As I'm certain you know, Professor, Texas has some of the best doctors and hospitals in the world. Would they be criminally liable for prosecution if they acted to save the life of a woman?
SEPPER: The Texas abortion ban does have an exception for life-saving abortion care. However, there was litigation just this past week. We'll see where it goes going forward. But Texas succeeded in convincing a federal judge that federal protections that would require physicians to provide abortion care where necessary to preserve a person's health in serious jeopardy don't apply in Texas. Only life-saving abortions are allowed.
SIMON: I gather some prosecutors have said that they just wouldn't bring criminal charges against abortion providers.
SEPPER: A number of prosecutors in big cities and counties have committed not to prosecute or to prioritize policing toward a provision of abortion. This isn't going to result in abortion providers beginning to perform abortions. They would still risk their medical licenses, as well as face a $100,000 in civil penalties that the attorney general can bring.
SIMON: And, Professor, there's a law that passed last year that allows Texas citizens to sue each other, isn't there? And that still stands?
SEPPER: Yes. In addition to our criminal laws, there's a private right of action. So even if prosecutors won't bring criminal charges, strangers could bring civil causes of action against people who aid and abet an abortion.
SIMON: What implications are there in other areas of the law in making abortions illegal?
SEPPER: I think the most immediate implication is for all kinds of medical practice. So emergency physicians are going to encounter people with pregnancy complications that are emergencies but haven't risen to life-threatening conditions. And they will have to sit on their hands until the person becomes so sick that their life is at risk.
SIMON: Could these laws add up to making abortion a homicide?
SEPPER: Yes. So in the early 2000s, the Texas legislature changed our homicide statute to include unborn children. But there was an exception for lawful medical procedures performed by a physician. Now that virtually all abortions are unlawful, virtually all abortions can be classified as homicides under Texas penal law.
SIMON: And Texas is a death penalty state, isn't it?
SEPPER: Yes. Homicide at the very highest levels comes with the death penalty here.
SIMON: Elizabeth Sepper is a professor of law at the University of Texas, Austin.
Thanks so much for being with us.
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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
Richard Bernstein knows the law. He's a justice on Michigan's Supreme Court. He also drove a car this week without a license. He did have a sheriff sitting right beside him. Justice Bernstein was born blind. He drove that car around a dirt track at the Genesee County Fairgrounds near Flint. Sheriff Chris Swanson offered directions like straighten it out, soft left and slow. Justice apparently doesn't like being told what he can and can't do. As a lawyer, he successfully represented many people with disabilities. He's also run more than 20 marathons. The Justice told TV station WNEM...
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RICHARD BERNSTEIN: I've always wanted that feeling of what it's like to hit the gas or what it's like to turn on the ignition and what it's like to operate a steering wheel.
SIMON: Sheriff Swanson helped him drive for two hours. Around that dirt track, the sheriff said, I love seeing joy on the face. Judge Bernstein concluded...
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BERNSTEIN: Sheriff, you just got some blind justice.
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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
It's the waning days of summer vacation, and many children spend their final, precious free days at a pool or a park. And in Detroit, that could include a ride on a celebrated slide. Ready, set, watch out.
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SIMON: Ooh. That's got to hurt. These are people tumbling down the giant slide at Belle Isle Park in Detroit, an island on the border with Canada. The slide is one of those huge metal structures with a series of wavy ridges on the way down. You pay a dollar, grab a burlap sack and let yourself go.
BRENDAN RONEY: It's one of the major touchstones of kind of growing up in the city. If you grew up in the city, you went to Belle Isle. And if you went to Belle Isle, odds are you went down that slide at least a couple times.
SIMON: That's Brendan Roney of the Detroit Historical Society. The original slide opened in 1968 and was part of a planned amusement park called Funland, which was supposed to have...
RONEY: Not only the slide, but, like, mechanical rides, like a Ferris wheel and mini golf and a tilt-a-whirl and that kind of thing. But that year, there was a big construction worker strike, so the only part of Funland that actually got built was the giant slide.
SIMON: The strike, combined with some public disdain for overdeveloping the island park, prevented the rest of Funland from ever being built. The slide's been open for more than 50 years before the COVID-19 pandemic. It finally reopened last week...
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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Oh, my God.
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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: No.
SIMON: ...And promptly closed again after just four hours. And while closed, it went viral. Detroiters recollected all their close calls on Belle Isle. Basketball legend Jalen Rose told TV station WXYZ in Detroit he used to bounce down the slide.
JALEN ROSE: Just so y'all know, that's how it was when I was growing up. Like, we used to be flying. We'd be like, whee. We thought that was normal.
SIMON: Well, that's how you grow up to play small forward in the NBA. Detroit rapper Gmac Cash released an ode to the metal structure.
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GMAC CASH: (Rapping) It's not the same giant slide we got on as children. This new slide looking like they jumping off of a building. This new slide, you got to take a Tylenol to get on. If your kids getting on your nerves, make them get on.
SIMON: But as it turns out, this is not the same slide on which Gmac Cash slid when he was a kid. Brandon Roney of the Detroit Historical Society explains.
RONEY: So the original slide that folks of a certain age in Detroit fondly remember had a fiberglass yellow surface on it. It was also a little bit shorter. It was, I think, about 45 feet high. And after a couple of decades of use, around 2004, it was in need of repairs. And rather than fixing it up, they replaced it with a new one.
SIMON: New slide is 15 feet taller. Add some maintenance before opening, a little fresh grease and...
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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: All right, buddy. It's OK. Just get up, and we'll deal with it.
SIMON: Local authorities say many of the sliders just weren't riding the slide correctly. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources released a video to show the proper way to use the slide. Sit on the steel platform. Fit your body into the burlap sack, and...
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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: Hold on tight. The biggest thing is you got to lean forward and stay leaning forward, and hold on tight.
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SIMON: Well, easy for them to say. Park administrators said they're spraying water between rides to try to tamp down the speed. And that recalls a rumor that Brendan Roney of the Historical Society heard while growing up.
RONEY: Everybody had a cousin or somebody who surfed down the slide standing up.
SIMON: But that's strictly an urban myth - sit, scootch, then slide. This is NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | https://www.klcc.org/npr-top-stories/2022-08-27/pay-a-dollar-grab-a-burlap-sack-and-scooch-down-detroits-slide-of-pain | 2022-08-27T20:41:21Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/npr-top-stories/2022-08-27/pay-a-dollar-grab-a-burlap-sack-and-scooch-down-detroits-slide-of-pain | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Local Sports: Masters shatters Whiteford school record by nearly 30 seconds
ADDISON – Jay Yockey knew Keegan Masters could do it.
The Whiteford cross country coach just didn’t expect it so soon.
Masters opened the season by setting school and course records with a time of 16:48.7 at the Addison Invitational Friday.
He easily eclipsed the previous school record of 17:14 set by Jake Berry.
“I was kind of expecting it at some point, to be sub-17 and break the school record by almost 30 seconds and the course record by 8 seconds is an indicator of what’s to come this season," Yockey said.
Whiteford finished third in the team standings as Elliott Rodgers placed third, Zach Kahn 12th, Brendon Masters 28th and Dylan Anderson 38th.
Whiteford fielded a full girls team for the first time in eight years and had Annie Gapp and Emily Rasor take 20th and 21st, respectively.
VOLLEYBALL
Bears win Silver
ERIE – Jefferson beat Gibraltar Carlson 25-21, 20-25, 15-5 to win the Silver Bracket championship at the Erie Mason Tournament Thursday.
Leaders for the Bears were Clare Boggs (50 digs, 17 aces), Mya Salazar (49 assists, 6 aces), Emmi Liptow (10 kills) and Lindsey Gennoe (22 digs).
PREP SOCCER
Carlson tops Flat Rock
FLAT ROCK − Gibraltar Carlson improved to 5-1 with a 7-1 victory Friday at Flat Rock.
The Marauders scored three goals in the first half from Luis Jasso, Nick Valadez, and Luke Carr. Kyler Ostrowski scored twice for Carlson to start the second half.
Flat Rock scored on a penalty kick to cut the lead to 6-1 after Carlson's Brady Jaskula scored. Valadez scored his second of the game to complete the scoring.
Jaskula started the game in net without allowing a goal. He was replaced by Dominic Fioritto finished the game strong for the Marauders.
Milan rolls Adrian
MILAN − Milan scored four goals in the second half to pull away from Adrian for a 6-2 victory Wednesday.
Carter Higgins scored four goals for the Big Reds and assisted on the other two. Higgins scored Milan's first three goals.
Wesley Murphy and Nolan Matley also scored for Milan, which improved to 3-0 overall.
PREP GOLF
Bedford takes sixth
DEXTER – Elaina Smith shot 101, Grace Lump and Elyse Czarnik each carded 109 and Lauren Werbiansky added a 432 as Bedford took sixth in Friday’s Dexter Invitational.
Bedford’s also fielded a second team that took eighth. Natalie Hackette shot 109 and Jersi Gossard for that group.
JUNIOR HIGH SOCCER
Rains leads State Line
TEMPERANCE − State Line Christian's junior high school boys soccer team defeated Bethany Christian of Troy 6-1 Friday.
Luke Rains had three goals and an assist to lead State Line (2-0). Preston Roque, J.R. Hobbins, and Brit Yglesias also scored.
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I first came across the Anais Nin connection while reading Michelle Zack’s wonderful history, “Southern California Story: Seeking the Better Life in Sierra Madre.” When asked about Sierra Madre’s most recognizable literary figure in a Hometown: Pasadena interview from 2009, Michelle dished this:
“Anais Nin, the erotic diarist, lived there with the forest ranger Rupert Pole for a decade and helped the Forest Service during the wildfires of 1953. When handling calls about the fire, she started answering with: ‘Forest Service, Paris Branch,’ and some people got distracted by her accent and wanted to know who was on the other end of the line. Pole and Nin married in 1955, but she continued commuting between Sierra Madre and New York City, where she was also married to Hugo Guiler, a filmmaker who was editing her diaries. When these were about to be published, she annulled her marriage to Pole because she was afraid of getting her guys in trouble; both had been claiming her as a spouse and a tax deduction. So a major voice in changing sexual mores in the 1960s was quietly living as a bigamist in this pretty conservative San Gabriel Valley town.”
And where did the literary chanteuse of free love reside? On Sturtevant Drive. Which is in the Canyon, of course. Where else would she live? The house still exists, though I have been told the folks renting there would prefer not being disturbed by the likes of you.
In case you were a business major wondering who Anais Nin was, here is a brief description of her fame taken from Wikipedia:
“Nin is hailed by many critics as one of the finest writers of female erotica. She was one of the first women to explore fully the realm of erotic writing, and certainly the first prominent woman in modern Europe to write erotica … Nin was a friend, and in some cases lover, of many leading literary figures, including Henry Miller, Antonin Artaud, Edmund Wilson, Gore Vidal, James Agee, and Lawrence Durrell. Her passionate love affair and friendship with Miller strongly influenced her as a woman and an author.”
At one time numbering among those banned in both the United States and Great Britain for publishing literature of an unabashedly erotic nature, the world has since cooled off. Today Nin’s acclaimed works are taught to blushing undergraduates at universities worldwide. Her books have sold in the millions, and remain popular today.
The reason I’m bringing this up is currently the governing agency of Sierra Madre is hard at work assisting in the mulching of whatever interesting natural settings remain there. The relentless need for more cash putting everything good at risk. City employee pension solvency apparently being all that matters.
I’ve often thought of the Anais Nin legacy as a more positive resource for Sierra Madre. Rather than ravaging the hillsides for the grotesque profits of greedy out-of-town developers, why not take a gentler path?
Turning her former home into a museum would not only attract thousands of devoted fans from around the globe, but also bring sorely needed commerce to downtown shops and restaurants. An Anais Nin study center could attract esteemed lecturers from the academic world. There is also the sale of merchandise such as T-shirts, photos, artifacts, hats.
How about changing the name of the city library to honor Anais Nin? The relevance it has sought for decades could finally arrive. A Rupert Pole Fire Station might provoke conversation. Rebranding The Buccaneer the Nin Bin? Just a thought.
I have serious doubts any of this will happen. For one, Anais remains a figure of much controversy to book burners. And for a town where resident literary affinity is displayed with library lawn signs featuring a nonlinguistic (heart), it may represent an edgy leap into a frightening unknown.
John Crawford publishes the Sierra Madre Tattler.
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Affordable housing. New retail and restaurant spaces. A multipurpose community green space.
These are among the ideas floating around Fairplex as it reimagines its 487-acre campus in Pomona. Fairplex, home of the LA County Fair, in collaboration with the county and city of Pomona, is in the middle of a two-year process to craft a development plan for the site.
Since April, Fairplex has held a series of outreach meetings to get public feedback on possible mixed-use projects throughout the property in northwest Pomona.
On the heels of the 100th anniversary celebration of its marquee event after a two-year delay caused by the pandemic, Fairplex is turning its focus to the next century, President and CEO Walter Marquez said.
“As we enter the next 100 years, we have to collectively set the framework for the future,” Marquez said by phone earlier this month. “This is us looking at what could happen here in 15, 20 years.
“It’s not often there are 400-plus acres that you get to shape and have a say in what its future holds,” he continued.
Fairplex holds a number of events year-round, including various expos, concerts and community events. It’s also home to the Auto Club Raceway, which hosts the National Hot Rod Association drag races annually.
But Marquez said there is opportunity to do more on the campus and he wants the community to “think bold.” He mentioned the incoming L Line rail extension, which includes a stop near Fairplex, as a new opportunity to consider in the planning process.
Some of the feedback during public meetings has called for more green and open spaces, the addition of commercial retail, entertainment and restaurants, and the preservation of historic elements of the property, including the farm, according to Fairplex officials.
Meanwhile, there are concerns about the environmental impacts of new projects, including the need for water to support any future development.
As part of the specific plan process, a comprehensive and robust environmental review will take place, according to Anita Gutierrez, the city’s development services director.
Ultimately, since over 95% of Fairplex is within Pomona city limits, the city is the lead permitting agency. The remaining portion of the campus lies in La Verne.
Most recently, Pomona updated its own downtown specific plan in 2019.
One of the challenges, Gutierrez said, is Fairplex is starting fresh with no blueprint in place, compared to the city’s process.
“What makes it so complex is that there is no plan there now,” Gutierrez said by phone this week. “It’s really all contemplating about (Fairplex’s) future growth.”
Once a final environmental impact report is reviewed by the city and presented for public feedback, the City Council would have to approve the specific plan. After its adoption, the document would serve as the land-use plan for zoning future development at Fairplex.
The next community meeting is 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31, at the Pomona Unified School District Auditorium, 800 S. Garey Ave. Fairplex officials are expected to share an updated draft of the specific plan from community feedback collected so far.
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Utah independent Senate candidate Evan McMullin has accused a motorist of brandishing a firearm and pointing it at him and his wife as the couple was driving home from a campaign event in April.
The allegation is described in a "victim impact statement" filed by McMullin in the District Court for Utah County, Utah, this week and obtained by CNN.
In the filing, McMullin accused the motorist, Jack Aaron Whelchel, of making unprovoked threats that included forcing the couple's car into oncoming traffic, before aiming a firearm in a threatening manner.
Whelchel was indicted in April on misdemeanor charges of making a threat with a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct. Whelchel pleaded not guilty to both charges. McMullin testified as a witness during a preliminary hearing in July, at which he identified Whelchel as the motorist, but the candidate has not publicly mentioned the incident.
McMullin's statement to the court adds details about the April 10 incident.
"That night, we and Mr. Whelchel traveled along the same path for a number of miles through Utah County, which initially seemed to be happenstance or someone innocuously traveling along the same route as us," McMullin wrote in his statement.
"Ultimately, however, Mr. Whelchel aggressively followed and chased us, pulled his truck alongside us and forced my wife and I into the oncoming lane of traffic. He then brandished a firearm, pointing it toward us in a threatening way," McMullin added.
Whelchel's attorney, Brixton Hakes, said his client disputes McMullin's version of events, insisting a firearm was never aimed at the couple.
"He never brandished a firearm," Hakes told CNN.
But during the incident, Whelchel did place a firearm on the center console of the vehicle, Hakes said.
According to Hakes, Whelchel "thought he was being followed" by McMullin, an incorrect assumption the attorney acknowledged.
Hakes said he expects the case to go to a jury trial after a scheduled hearing next month.
In his statement, McMullin pointed to Whelchel's social media presence, which he said included accusations against politicians he opposes and about "guns being the tools with which to carry on this war against those he opposes politically."
Whelchel's Facebook page features several far-right memes.
McMullin also noted that, during the investigation, he learned that Whelchel has a military and law enforcement background.
"Mr. Whelchel must have been well aware of the danger posed by his actions and of their criminality that night yet he took them anyway," McMullin wrote.
McMullin's statement also asks the judge that any sentence against Whelchel, if convicted, include conditions to bar him from making any contact with the candidate's family and campaign staff.
Hakes said his client no longer lives in Utah and will have to travel back to the state to stand trial.
Both men maintain they did not know one another prior to the incident.
McMullin, who is challeging Utah's senior senator, Republican Mike Lee, said in an interview over the phone that the April incident should serve as a reminder of the danger posed by domestic extremism.
"I'm in a fight with the far right for American democracy," McMulllin said.
A former CIA officer who sought the presidency as an independent in 2016, McMullin received the backing in April of Utah Democrats, who decided not to field a candidate in the 2022 midterm elections in order to bolster their efforts to unseat Lee.
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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... an oral rabies vaccine, dropped from the sky.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has initiated its annual oral rabies vaccine distribution, a project that will continue through October. The project is focused on preventing the spread of raccoon rabies from the eastern United States into the heartland, according to a news release from the USDA.
This year's distribution started on August 6. If you've gotten your dog vaccinated for rabies, you probably remember taking it to the veterinarian to get a shot. But these rabies vaccines are edible pellets covered in fishmeal to attract raccoons and other hungry critters.
In rural areas, the USDA will distribute the vaccines by airplane. In suburban and urban areas, they'll arrive by helicopter or vehicle or be deposited by hand in designated "bait stations," says the release.
The August phase of the program is focused on Maine and West Virginia. Approximately 348,000 vaccines will be distributed in northern Maine and 535,000 distributed in parts of western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and a small portion of southwestern Virginia.
Then from mid-September to mid-October, 70,000 vaccines will be distributed in parts of peninsular Massachusetts.
Finally, in October southern states will receive their rabies vaccines. Parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia will receive more than 880,000 vaccines; Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee will receive around 820,000 vaccines; and parts of Alabama will include 1.1 million vaccines.
The oral vaccine, also called RABORAL V-RG, has been found to be safe in over 60 animal species, says the USDA. This includes domestic dogs and cats, so you don't need to worry much about your beloved pet snacking on one of the vaccines. Dogs that eat large number of the vaccines may have stomach problems -- but they won't have any long-term health consequences, according to the USDA.
Rabies usually enters the human population via bites from an infected animal, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While all mammals can get rabies, distinct strains are found among bats, raccoons, skunks, foxes, and mongooses.
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Nearly 100 undeveloped acres in Rancho Palos Verdes have been set aside for conservation, connecting to already-preserved land and creating a corridor for rare and endangered wildlife, according to Adrienne Mohan, the executive director for the nonprofit that protects wildland areas on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
The Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy, which Mohan leads, will announce that the 96 acres have been added to the 1,600 acres the agency had already been managing during a Friday, Aug. 26, press conference. The PVPLC will also launch a fundraising campaign on Friday, an effort that will help pay for restoring the 96 acres, which have been degraded over the years, officials said.
The new open space increases the amount of preserved land the PVLPLC manages by 6%. And the area, according to Mohan, will help protect rare animal species, such as the Palos Verdes blue butterfly, monarch butterfly, cactus wren and California gnatcatcher.
RPV has collaborated for years with PVPLC, with the latter serving as the habitat manager for the dozen preserves the city owns.
The two have partnered once again, this time on the soon-to-be launched, multimillion-dollar “Go Wild for the Peninsula” campaign, which city and conservancy officials will detail during Friday’s press conference.
The conservancy has already secured nearly $20 million in public funding for a wildlife corridor project that will take four to five years, PVPLC officials said. But the project needs another $10 million, which fundraising campaign will attempt to bring in.
The project is slated to start next spring.
“We are just so excited to embark on the protection of this land,” Mohan said this week, “and to restore it since it’s been so used and degraded over decades, to bring health back to the land and ultimately, to provide habitat for wildlife.”
RPV and the conservancy bought the 96 acres from York Properties, LLC, in April, with each entity putting in $1.3 million for the purchase, with the rest coming from federal, state and county grants.
The land, comprising three parcels, is a critical piece of open space, Mohan said.
The three parcels form a C-shaped corridor that connects Three Sisters Reserve and Filiorum Reserve in the east to Abalone Cove Reserve along the coast in the west.
The new open space will be dedicated to wildlife conservation, with limited public access, said Susan Wilcox, PVPLC’s development director.
“What we are creating is truly a wildlife corridor,” Wilcox said, “not for the two-legged, human type.”
The $19.7 million in already-secured public funds, Mohan said, comes from various federal, state and local sources, including:
- $12.6 million from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Endangered Species Land Acquisition program.
- $4.8 million from California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife and the state’s Wildlife Conservation Board.
- $1 million from the Los Angeles County Regional Park and Open Space District.
- $1.3 million from RPV.
PVPLC has collaborated with the city for years on conservation efforts at the city’s preserves. And in 2019, Mohan said, the two formalized a legally binding agreement titled the “Natural Community Conservation Plan.” The plan, administered by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, makes PVPLC the “biological experts” of the city-owned preserves, Mohan said.
The 96 acres is currently in a “mowed down” state, Wilcox said. So native plants — such as deer weed and rattle pod plants, which attract PV blue butterflies — haven’t had a chance to take root.
The first restoration step, Wilcox said, will involve reducing acacia, mustard and other other hazardous and non-native plants known to be fire hazards. Once that’s done, Wilcox said, some roots of native plants might be able to sprout.
The project will include transplanting new plants into the area from gallon containers, Wilcox said, and much of the steep hillsides will have to be “hydro-seeded.” The latter process is an erosion-control technique that involves spraying a slurry of seeds and mulch, giving them a chance to take hold in hard-to-reach areas.
Eventually, grazing goats will be brought in, probably in January or February, Wilcox said.
“Once the land is clear, we’re going to be embarking on an accelerated restoration program using a native seed material and wildflowers too,” Mohan said, “and, in particular, host plants for the blue butterfly and Monarchs to create butterfly sanctuary areas on the land.”
The wildlife corridor will also help protect other species, conservancy officials have previously said, including the coastal California gnatcatcher and the rare cactus wren, as well as mammals such as the gray fox.
“We have our science teams developing restoration plans and working with colleagues in the industry,” Mohan said, “to make sure that we have a successful and quick restoration of the land.”
With the additional 96 acres, the PVPLC, a nonprofit founded in 1988, currently manages nearly 1,700 acres of open space spread out over a dozen reserves, with about 200 acres in San Pedro and Rolling Hills Estates.
The extra acres also contributes to California’s 30×30 goal of conserving 30% of the state’s lands and waters by 2030, Mohan said.
“This is a dream fulfilled for the founders of Rancho Palos Verdes and residents throughout the peninsula,” RPV Mayor David Bradley said in a statement. “This success is the product of a long and strong partnership between the City and the Land Conservancy.”
The goal of the Go Wild campaign is to not only raise funds for conservation efforts, Mohan said, but also educate and inspire the community to get involved through volunteer opportunities.
For more information, visit gowildpv.org.
Staff writer Lisa Jacobs contributed to this report.
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Here's a look at the latest styles from Adidas, Nike, Fila and Asics that this year's WTA players will wear at the 2022 US Open, courtesy of Marija Zivlak of Women’s Tennis Blog.
Adidas collaborated with young South African designer Thebe Magugu to create expressive outfits that celebrate culture, heritage, diversity and inclusivity. The dominant graphic is an abstract artwork inspired by a woman dancing. The prominent colors of the collection are black, semi pulse lilac, impact yellow and bright orange.
Garbiñe Muguruza will sport the Adidas New York Dress, available in semi pulse lilac and in black/grey/impact yellow. The brand’s classic Y-back design is a 2-in-1 piece as it includes a separate coordinating shortie.
The slim-fitting and stretchy dress is made with a series of recycled materials, containing at least 60% recycled content. Moisture-absorbing AEROREADY technology helps players stay dry and concentrated on their game.
What makes this Thebe Magugu collection stand out are gender-neutral styles. The Adidas Unitefit New York Sleeveless Top that American Jessica Pegula models in the above promo image can be worn by both women and men. The high-performance piece features Unitefit technology, created and tested on a spectrum of sizes and genders to provide a comfortable gender-neutral fit with inclusive sizing.
Pegula pairs the unisex top with the Adidas New York 2-in-1 Tight. The 7/8 tight, featuring a side pocket for storage, can be worn underneath or on its own, as the skirt comes separately.
Daria Kasatkina presents another gender-neutral tee, the Adidas Unitefit New York Printed Crew, and pairs it with the solid black adidas Core Gameset Match Skirt.
Nike players will shine under the bright lights of New York in these heritage-inspired styles. The ’80s tennis silhouettes are colored in subtle blue and purple hues with pops of orange.
When it comes to separates, ladies can mix and match three versions of the Nike Fall New York Slam Tank, each featuring vibrant orange accents and the Nike NY Slam Short, whose pleats on the front make it resemble a skirt.
The predominantly navy Nike NY Slam Dress features a pleated skirt, a wide white waistband and light arctic pink mesh sections.
Nike shoe models, like the Vapor Pro and Vapor NXT, have been updated in new colors and will be worn by top WTA players at the US Open.
Fila’s Karolina Pliskova and Shelby Rogers will debut the brand’s collaboration with American designer Brandon Maxwell, while Barbora Krejcikova will wear the latest iteration of the Heritage collection.
The former World No.1 Pliskova showcases the collection’s racerback tank featuring a keyhole cutout at the chest and a red wrap pleated skirt. The Czech is wearing the pink and red version, while the ensemble also exists in navy/green/white.
For warmup, there is a lightweight pink coat with a zip-off bottom, offering a long and a cropped version.
The 21-piece Fila by Brandon Maxwell range also offers an edgy polo -- a classic collared short-sleeve shirt spiced up with an unexpected cutout at the chest. As we can see on Shelby Rogers, the attention-grabbing polo can be paired with an elegant pleated skirt in Fila’s signature navy and archival green.
Barbora Krejcikova and other Fila-sponsored WTA players will sport the newest edition of the brand’s annual Heritage collection. The Grand Slam champion is expected to alternate between two looks: the Heritage Halter Tank in magenta matched with the Heritage Colorblock Skort in magenta/navy, and the Heritage Racerback Tank in buttercup yellow combined with the buttercup yellow/navy version of the same Heritage Colorblock Skort. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2764574/tennis-warehouse-adidas-nike-fila-asics-ready-for-the-us-open | 2022-08-27T21:18:31Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2764574/tennis-warehouse-adidas-nike-fila-asics-ready-for-the-us-open | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Eight players will break new ground at the 2022 US Open by contesting the main draw of a Grand Slam for the first time. Get to know them here.
Erika Andreeva
In 2021, Erika Andreeva capped an excellent junior career with a run to the Roland Garros girls' final, where she defeated Linda Fruhvirtova and Oksana Selekhmeteva before coming runner-up to Linda Noskova. In the same year, she transitioned smoothly to the pro ranks, compiling a 39-15 record and rocketing from No.1055 to No.368.
This year, Andreeva has barely set a foot wrong as she has moved through the levels. In May, she reached her biggest final to date as a qualifier the La Bisbal d'Empordà ITF W100, barely losing to Wang Xinyu 3-6, 7-6(0), 6-0. In July, she came through qualifying again to make her WTA main draw debut in Lausanne, where she routed Anna Blinkova to reach the second round.
Highlights: Andreeva d. Blinkova, Lausanne 2022
Andreeva, who is currently at a career high of No.131, successfully navigated her first attempt at Grand Slam qualifying in Flushing Meadows, finishing with her fourth Top 100 victory of the season over Kamilla Rakhimova - revenge for her loss in the Bronx W60 semifinals the previous week. She will bid to improve her 36-14 season record against No.21 seed Petra Kvitova in the first round - the first time Andreeva will have faced a Top 50 opponent.
Elina Avanesyan
Seven of Elina Avanesyan's first eight tournaments of 2021 were ITF W15s in Cairo. She won two, and was runner-up at another pair - modest accomplishments in the wider ecosystem of pro tennis, but the springboard for a hard-working but under-the-radar rise.
Avanesyan climbed from No.720 to No.261 over the course of 2021 thanks to a 48-19 record, notably capturing the Versmold ITF W60 title in August as a lucky loser. It was enough to get her into her first tour-level qualifying draw at the Australian Open this January, where she reached the final round.
Highlights: Avanesyan d. Alves, Palermo 2022 | Rybakina d. Avanesyan, Rome 2022
A consistent counterpunching game has seen Avanesyan continue to make inroads this year. She reached the Bogota quarterfinals in April on her WTA main-draw debut, and scored her second Top 100 win over Madison Brengle to qualify for her first WTA 1000 tournament in Rome. The 19-year-old hit a career high of No.122 last month, and took out Laura Pigossi and Maja Chwalinska en route to qualifying this week. In the main draw, Avanesyan will start against Aleksandra Krunic.
Sara Bejlek (CZE)
It's perhaps surprising that Sara Bejlek has flown under the radar in comparison to some of her fellow precocious Czechs. The 16-year-old is the youngest player ranked in the Top 250, and will be the youngest player in the US Open main draw, having been the youngest direct entrant to qualifying.
Born in Hrusovany nad Jevisovkou in 2006, Bejlek has been delivering eye-catching results throughout her short career. Playing her fifth pro tournament, she won the Olomouc ITF W60 last July, a title run that culminated with a 6-0, 6-0 whitewash of former World No.59 Paula Ormaechea in the final. Just over a year later, Bejlek has racked up two more W60 trophies, adding the Ceska Lipa title in June before successfully defending her Olomouc title. Overall, she has compiled a 31-9 pro record in 2022 so far.
But the reigning Roland Garros girls' doubles champion (alongside Lucie Havlickova) has yet to have many high-level opportunities, despite hitting a career high of No.181 in July. Gaining direct entry to Wimbledon marked her tour-level qualifying debut, and the US Open was just her second such event. Bejlek made the most of it, though, taking out a pair of former Top 50 players in Kristina Mladenovic and Heather Watson to reach her first tour-level main draw. She will face Liudmila Samsonova in the first round.
Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE)
Unlike Bejlek, Linda Fruhvirtova's name has been bandied around tennis circles since her first forays into international competition at U12 level. Now 17, the Czech has backed up the talk with precocious results at every level, from the U12 Orange Bowl trophy in 2016 to the three ITF titles she has won since the start of 2021.
Meet Linda Fruhvirtova, the latest teenager making a splash on tour
Over the past two years, it has been Fruhvirtova's performances at tour level that have been most eyecatching. She reached the quarterfinals of the 2021 Charleston 250 event, the second WTA main draw of her career. Her fourth was Miami this March, where as a No.279-ranked wild card she upset Elise Mertens and Victoria Azarenka en route to the fourth round.
Highlights: L.Fruhvirtova d. Kovinic, Miami 2022 | L.Fruhvirtova d. Mertens, Miami 2022 | L.Fruhvirtova d. Konjuh, Charleston 2022
Though Fruhvirtova stumbled in Roland Garros and Wimbledon qualifying, she made no mistake in New York, defeating Ylena In-Albon, Carolina Alves and Chloe Paquet to make the main draw. And she's not the only reason to learn the name: 15-year-old sister Brenda is hot on her heels, having opened her pro career with a 33-6 record and five ITF W25 titles this year so far, rising to No.271 this week.
Fruhvirtova, whose all-court shotmaking is backed up with gritty fighting spirit, will open against Wang Xinyu in the first round.
Elizabeth Mandlik (USA)
In 1985, Hana Mandlikova pulled off back-to-back defeats of Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova to win the third of her four Grand Slam crowns at the US Open. Twenty-two years later, the Czech legend's daughter Elizabeth Mandlik will step on to the major stage for the first time, opening against Tamara Zidansek after receiving a wild card.
Get to know Elizabeth Mandlik, daughter of Hana Mandlikova
This year, 21-year-old Mandlik has taken her biggest steps yet out of her illustrious mother's shadow. A former Top 20 junior, she had gained a Top 600 WTA ranking in 2019 before turning 18, but ended 2021 still placed at No.504. But three ITF W25 titles this year set the scene for a breakout tournament in San Jose a month ago. Mandlik scored the first two Top 50 wins of her career over Jil Teichmann and Alison Riske-Amritraj, then in her first meeting with a Top 5 opponent, pushed Paula Badosa all the way in a 6-2, 5-7, 7-6(5) loss.
Highlights: Mandlik d. Riske-Amritraj, San Jose 2022 | Badosa d. Mandlik, San Jose 2022
Perhaps more impressively, Mandlik backed it up the following week by making her biggest final yet at the Landisville ITF W100. Her stellar summer has seen her rocket up to World No.144 - and Mandlik's sights are set much higher. Indeed, she knows there's only one way she can truly escape her mother's impact. In San Jose, she told WTA Insider that her goal was "to win Wimbledon, because my mom never won it".
Daria Snigur (UKR)
In 2019, Daria Snigur's unique flat-hitting game took her all the way to the Wimbledon girls' crown. But since then, the Ukrainian's progress has been stop-start, interrupted by various injuries and the Covid pandemic - and now, by the Russian invasion of her country. On her 20th birthday in March, Kyiv native Snigur wrote on social media:
"This is not how I imagined my anniversary. I planned to vigorously celebrate this day. And now I dream of returning to Kyiv, walking around Podil and just enjoying every day."
During Wimbledon qualifying, Snigur told The Times that her Kyiv base had been bombed, and she had relocated to Warsaw. This week, as she made her way through qualifying, Snigur also took part in the US Open's Tennis Plays for Peace exhibition alongside compatriots Dayana Yastremska and Katarina Zavatska.
Highlights: Riske-Amritraj d. Snigur, Nottingham 2022
Amidst the turbulence, Snigur has quietly been hitting significant milestones. Her biggest title to date came last December at the Dubai ITF W100; in June, she qualified in Nottingham to make her WTA main-draw debut. Currently ranked No.125, one place off her career high, Snigur took out two former Top 100 players in Yanina Wickmayer and Nao Hibino to navigate qualifying. Her reward is a first date with a Top 10 player: Snigur will take on No.7 seed Simona Halep in the first round.
Peyton Stearns (USA)
For Ohio native Peyton Stearns, winning the NCAA Division I singles championship as a sophomore at the University of Texas marked the end of her two-year college tennis career. The 20-year-old had already decided to turn pro this year, and her win over Connie Ma in the NCAA final - which also guaranteed her a US Open wild card - cemented it.
The omens were good: Stearns had already achieved a Top 400 ranking while still at Texas, playing a limited pro schedule but still winning her first ITF W25 at Sumter in June 2021. Last autumn, Stearns also won a round in Indian Wells qualifying, upsetting CoCo Vandeweghe 6-4, 7-5.
So it has proved. Since turning pro, 20-year-old Stearns has reached the ITF W25 final in Columbus, and scored her first Top 100 victory over Varvara Gracheva in Cincinnati qualifying. Now ranked No.329, she made her WTA main-draw debut as a wild card in Cleveland, impressing with some big hitting in her first-round loss to Irina-Camelia Begu. In New York, Stearns will pit her power against one of the game's best first-strike players, No.28 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova.
Congratulations to Eleana Yu (standing beside Rosie), the @USTAGirlsNatls 18s singles champion. She receives a wildcard into the #UsOpen.
— Billie Jean King (@BillieJeanKing) August 15, 2022
Congratulations also to finalist Valerie Glozman (beside me). pic.twitter.com/U9tvTlSpPq
Eleana Yu (USA)
In 2018, Eleana Yu served early notice of her potential by winning the USTA Girls 14s title over Clervie Ngounoue. Four years later, she repeated the feat at U18 level, defeating Valerie Glozman 6-3, 7-5 in the final in San Diego to punch her wild card ticket for the US Open.
Yu made her pro debut in May 2019, gaining a WTA ranking that year at the age of 14. In 2022, the 17-year-old Ohio native has pushed on to her current No.751, with her pro season highlighted by a quarterfinal run in May's Daytona Beach ITF W25 event. Having never previously faced a Top 200 opponent, Yu will open against No.29 seed Alison Riske-Amritraj in the first round.
Previously:
Wimbledon 2022's Grand Slam debuts: Chwalinska, Pigossi, Hontama and more
Roland Garros 2022's Grand Slam debuts: Noskova, Schunk, Gasanova and more
Australian Open 2022's Grand Slam debuts: Zheng Qinwen, Bondar, Bronzetti and more
US Open 2021's Grand Slam debuts: Párrizas Díaz, Masarova, Galfi and more
Wimbledon 2021's Grand Slam debuts: Raducanu, Burrage
Roland Garros 2021's Grand Slam debuts: Osorio, Liang, Gorgodze and more
Australian Open 2021's Grand Slam debuts: Danilovic, Jones
Roland Garros 2020's Grand Slam debuts: Tauson, Sherif, Rakhimova and more
US Open 2020's Grand Slam debuts: Gracheva, Zavatska, Baptiste and more
Australian Open 2020's Grand Slam debuts: Fernandez, Li, Trevisan and more
US Open 2019's Grand Slam debuts: Wang Xiyu, Volynets, Bolkvadze
Wimbledon 2019's Grand Slam debuts: Gauff, McNally, Flink
Roland Garros 2019's Grand Slam debuts: Rybakina, Juvan, Paolini and more
Australian Open 2019's Grand Slam debuts: Swiatek, Badosa, Kudermetova and more
US Open 2018's Grand Slam debuts: Muchova, Yastremska, Kalinina and more
Wimbledon 2018's Grand Slam debuts: Ruse, Dart, Lapko and more
Roland Garros 2018's Grand Slam debuts: Krejcikova, Dolehide, Jakupovic and more
Australian Open 2018's Grand Slam debuts: Kostyuk, Kalinskaya, Fett and more | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2764717/the-2022-us-open-s-grand-slam-debuts-bejlek-andreeva-fruhvirtova-and-more | 2022-08-27T21:18:37Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2764717/the-2022-us-open-s-grand-slam-debuts-bejlek-andreeva-fruhvirtova-and-more | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK -- Serena Williams and Venus Williams will reunite for doubles at the US Open. The 14-time Slam doubles champions have received a wild card into the US Open, which is set to begin Monday. The duo are two-time champions at the US Open and will pair for the first time since 2018 Roland Garros.
In addition to their 14 major doubles titles, the last of which came at 2016 Wimbledon, Serena and Venus have teamed to win three Olympic gold medals in doubles, winning in 2000, 2008 and 2012.
They are the most recent team to hold all four major doubles titles at one time with wins at 2009 Wimbledon, 2009 US Open, 2010 Australian Open and 2010 French Open.
US Open preview: Seed breakdown | Key storylines | Everything you need to know
Earlier this month, Serena confirmed the US Open would be her final tournament before evolving away from tennis. In singles, she is set to face Montenegro's Danka Kovinic in the first round Monday night.
Venus will play her first-round match on Tuesday against Belgium's Alison Van Uytvanck.
Serena and Venus on the same court.
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) August 27, 2022
The 2x #USOpen women's doubles champions have accepted a wild card. pic.twitter.com/pu3GPeL8BM
Coco Gauff recalls the first time she met Serena Williams
The USTA also announced additional doubles wild cards going to the following teams:
Sophie Chang and Angela Kulikov
Robin Montgomery and CoCo Vandeweghe
Katrina Scott and Elizabeth Mandlik
Peyton Stearns and Ashlyn Krueger
Hailey Baptiste and Whitney Osuigwe
Clervie Ngounoue and Reese Brantmeier
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It is time to add Liudmila Samsonova to this summer’s list of top-form players.
Big-hitting Samsonova scored her second title in a row and her 10th straight match-win with a commanding 6-1, 6-3 victory over No.7 seed Aliaksandra Sasnovich in Saturday's final at Tennis in the Land presented by Motorola Edge.
World No.45 Samsonova claimed her second career WTA singles title at the beginning of August on the hard courts of Washington, D.C. After two weeks off, Samsonova picked up right where she left off in Cleveland, racing to her third career title without the loss of a set all week.
Fast facts: Samsonova had gone on a similar tear last summer, when she won her first career title on the grass courts of Berlin as a qualifier, then reached the Round of 16 at Wimbledon as a wildcard.
Since then, Samsonova has proven that her power game translates to all surfaces, not just grass. The 23-year-old needed 1 hour and 12 minutes to beat World No.36 Sasnovich, winning 21 of her 26 first-service points in the match.
Samsonova joins World No.1 Iga Swiatek (6), Caroline Garcia (3), Simona Halep, Beatriz Haddad Maia, Ons Jabeur and Bernarda Pera (2 each) as the players who have won multiple singles titles in 2022. (Daria Kasatkina also was added to that list later on Saturday, with her second title of the year in Granby.)
Samsonova is now a perfect 3-0 in WTA singles finals. By contrast, Sasnovich has reached four singles finals in her career, but is still looking for her first title.
A picture perfect win 🖼️@LiudaSamsonova | #TennisInTheLand pic.twitter.com/Jr11Eu8m83
— wta (@WTA) August 27, 2022
Match moments: Samsonova dropped her opening service game of the match, but that was her only misstep in the first set as she claimed the next five games to take the one-set lead. Samsonova had 11 winners to just three unforced errors in the opening frame.
Samsonova kept up her momentum in the second set, jumping out to a 5-2 lead, where she held her first championship point. Sasnovich erased that chance, though, with a wicked backhand slice winner, and she eventually held for 5-3.
However, Samsonova stayed solid, and she wrapped up the win on her second championship point after a backhand clipped the netcord and forced one last error from Sasnovich.
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NEW YORK -- You would be hard-pressed to find a bigger Serena Williams fan than Naomi Osaka. The four-time major champion has embraced her fandom since Williams announced she would be stepping away from tennis after the US Open.
"I watched her first match in Toronto before she announced it," Osaka told reporters on Saturday. "For some reason I just started crying because I felt it.
"Then she announced it the day later. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, this is what devastation must feel like.' It really is an honor just to keep watching her play."
Osaka was in the stands in Cincinnati as well, watching Williams as she faced Emma Raducanu in the first round. If it wasn't for Williams, Osaka said she would have never found tennis or be able to chart her path as a global sporting icon.
"There's definitely been a lot of barriers that I'm sure she had to fight to break down," Osaka said. "We can now easily go through that because of her."
Osaka has faced Williams four times in her career. Along the way to two of her major titles, she faced the tough task of ending Williams' quest for her own record-tying 24th major title. The first came in the 2018 US Open final. The second came last year at the 2021 Australian Open semifinals.
"I just get really nervous around her," Osaka said. "It's really weird to idolize someone, then boom, you're just talking to them. I don't know. I feel stressed out. But she's really sweet. She's given me pointers sometimes.
"I know she didn't call it a retirement, she called it an evolution, which I think is really cool. I feel like the term 'retirement' kind of means an end to something. But since she says 'evolution,' it means a continuing journey."
.@naomiosaka has that throwing motion on 🔒 pic.twitter.com/OWqScv1iCY
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) August 25, 2022
As Osaka keeps a close eye on Williams' progress through what is expected to be her final tournament, she has a tough journey herself. Osaka acknowledged she was feeling "anxious" ahead of her opening-round match against Australian Open finalist Danielle Collins.
I feel like I would have lied a day ago or so and said that I was really relaxed," Osaka said. "But actually when I practiced today I felt very anxious. I think it's because I really want to do well because I feel I haven't been doing well lately.
"I don't know. It's tough. Of course, you don't want to lose in the first round of a Slam. I feel like I always do pretty well here. It's kind of taking the pressure off of myself, but it's always going to be there."
The 2022 season has been difficult one for Osaka, mainly due to injuries. There have been surges of form, as in her run to the final of the Miami Open. But draws and injuries have left her stalled at No.44. Twice she has drawn Amanda Anisimova early in a Slam. An Achilles injury left her struggling during the clay season and forced her out of the grass. When she began her hard-court season in San Jose, she drew Coco Gauff in the second round. It's been difficult to build momentum.
"I think this year's really funny for me just in regards to last year," Osaka said. "But this is definitely the most physically, I don't even want to say 'injured,' but I've had way more niggles than I've had before in my career.
"I was telling Nana [her physio Natsuko Mogi] that maybe I'm getting old, maybe this is like the growing pains. But I would say it's something that's very frustrating but at the same time interesting because it made me feel like, 'Wow, I really want to be able to play again like back how I used to.'"
Osaka holds a 3-0 record against Collins and has won all six sets.
"She's a very big power player," Osaka said. "For me, I always feel like I have to be on top of it because, like, as soon as I hit a shorter ball or something, then she'll immediately be the aggressor.
"For me it is a tough match, but at the same time I'm kind of relieved I'm playing someone that I know because I could have easily played against someone I have no information on. That in itself is also quite tough." | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2765737/how-serena-helped-osaka-chart-her-path-to-tennis-stardom | 2022-08-27T21:18:56Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2765737/how-serena-helped-osaka-chart-her-path-to-tennis-stardom | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Coping with Stress and Depression with Coach and Author Karen Gibson
HONOLULU-HI (KITV-4) Author and Parent Coach, Karen Gibson was on Good Morning Hawaii and advises, that once parents learn to accept and trust in their child’s journey and release the guilt, they will eventually experience more peace and less stress.
When parents practice healthier communication, learn their child’s love language and learning style, there’s less conflict and happier children which results in happier parents.
Her book, “One Hundred Parenting Tips Inspired by the Pandemic," isn’t just for moms, it’s for caregivers, older siblings, grandparents, teachers and anyone who interacts with children.
Once parents learn to accept and trust in their child’s journey and release the guilt, surrender unrealistic parenting expectations, they will eventually experience more peace and less stress. I’ve helped transform helicopter moms into learning that releasing the need to control is the key to keeping your sanity. All children want to be heard, understood and not judged. When we practice healthier communication, learn their child’s love language and learning style, there’s less conflict and happier children which result in happier parents.
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They’re refusing to roll over.
.A dogged group of Park Slope pup lovers is forming a Guardian Angels-style safety group in and around Prospect Park in the aftermath of an unhinged hobo’s unprovoked attack on a woman and her pooch, which died of its injuries.
The “Park Slope Panthers” aim to “take the neighborhood back” — and prevent it from going to the dogs.
“In light of people feeling unsafe to use Prospect Park due to recent attacks of both people and dogs, in one case resulting in the death of a dog; and in light of the epidemic of packages being stolen from stoops and lobbies, we want to form a neighborhood watch,” reads a MeetUp description for the newly formed group. “The goal is to be eyes and ears and to take our neighborhood back.”
The patrol’s preliminary meeting is scheduled for Sept. 10. So far more than a dozen people have said they will attend.
The group is the brainchild of Kristian Nammack, 59, a Park Slope resident and Quaker who first floated the idea on Aug 20, two weeks after Jessica Chrustic and her 2-and-a-half-year-old golden retriever mix, Moose were attacked.
Chrustic said the attacker is a vagrant who lives next a Dumpster in the parking lot by the park’s picnic house and that police have repeatedly refused to remove him. Photos she shared with The Post show the alleged assailant in a black hoodie, carrying a large stick. She said she has shared the images with police “at least a half dozen times.”
Nammack cited the Guardian Angles — the beret-wearing civilian patrol group formed in 1979 by Curtis Sliwa amid Gotham’s crime epidemic — as a potential model for the new group.
“We may also get to wear cool berets. I’m being serious. And we go through some self-defense training, work in pairs, etc,” Nammack wrote on the Nextdoor app. There’s a logo and T-shirts in the works, he added.
It’s unclear whether dogs — in Moose’s honor– will be part of the patrol, but Nammack said all ideas would be on the table — including a name change.
“I was speaking with a few neighbors and we talked about starting a neighborhood watch. We are currently researching what that means, what is effective, how to involve the local infrastructure — law enforcement, local politicians, PTA groups, Citibike, Uber Eats, etc,” he said.
Nammack said he had made contact with National Neighborhood Watch, a division of the National Sheriffs’ Association for guidance on best practices. “I do not intend this to be a rogue group and definitely not vigilante,” he insisted.
Sliwa, a famous animal lover, said he was ready to throw the group a bone, or whatever help they need.
“I applaud them. In fact more people around the city have got to be doing things similar to this,” he said. “They need to be saluted. They’re not just sitting back waiting for the police or government to deal with it. They are being proactive and working within the law.”
Parkgoers said they feel like underdogs in the green space, which has become infested by junkies and hobos.
“Prospect Park has been a magnate for homeless people for some time but it has never been like it is now,” said Christine Doyle, 55, an attorney and longtime Park Slope resident. “These homeless people are often very aggressive, They are mainly men, loners and more than once have attacked people with dogs on the western side of the park.” Doyle was thrilled about the Park Slope Panthers idea.
“A few years ago a puppy was kicked by a homeless man,” she said. “That was the first time I went to the police. They never got the guy and they didn’t care.”
Nancy Kourland said she had been coming to the dog park in Prospect Park for years and called in a sighting of the homeless man who committed the dog attack to police. She claimed an officer at the 78th Precinct hung up on her.
“I’m scared; we’re all scared. [The man] is dangerous, and he particularly goes after women. I don’t think that the police from the 78th Precinct are doing anything about it,” she said. “There is no police presence and that’s the problem. The police are not doing their jobs.”
Vitoria Setta, who lives a block away from the park with her boyfriend said things had gotten so bad she was planning to join the flood of New Yorkers who have packed up for Florida.
“Maybe it takes [park-goers] taking it upon ourselves,” she said of the Park Slope Panthers. “it’s like Gotham City around here.”
But some in ultra-liberal Park Slope barked that the new group seems a bit too ruff for their liking.
“No vigilantism,” said one poster. “Why not organize a protest outside of the precinct?” Others carped about more “non-punitive” approaches and “restorative justice.”
Crime in the 78th Precinct is up 38% across the board this year through Aug. 21 compared to the same time last year, according to NYPD data.
There have been no arrests in Moose’s case, cops said.
“Since the incident the NYPD has continuously taken investigative measures to bring the individual responsible to justice. The NYPD has conducted canvasses of the park with witnesses and increased patrols in the area,” an NYPD spokesman said.
Dean Balsamini contributed to this report | https://nypost.com/2022/08/27/nyc-group-planning-guardian-angels-type-patrol-to-protect-pets/ | 2022-08-27T21:48:20Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/27/nyc-group-planning-guardian-angels-type-patrol-to-protect-pets/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
OCEAN CITY, Md.- A pedestrian was killed after being hit by a car while crossing Coastal Hwy in Ocean City late Friday night.
Ocean City police say that Sophia Battisti, 21, of Reinholds, Pa. was walking from the east, against the pedestrian signal on Coastal Hwy, shortly before midnight.
A car going northbound on the Coastal Hwy hit Battisti. Good Samaritans at the scene and Ocean City EMS initiated lifesaving measures, but Battisti died at the scene.
Police say that the driver remained at the scene. Alcohol was determined to not be a factor in the crash.
Northbound Coastal Hwy traffic was rerouted to the alleyways in the 10-block of 58th St. for about 4 hours while officers processed the scene of the crash.
The Ocean City Traffic Safety Unit is handling the investigation. The Traffic Safety Unit is asking any individuals with information regarding this incident, to please contact PFC H. Miller at hmiller@oceancitymd.gov, to call or Tip Line at 410-520-5136, email us at crimetips@oceancitymd.gov or contact the Police Department directly at 410-723-6610. Please reference case number 2022-00-4990. ### | https://www.wboc.com/news/pedestrian-killed-crossing-highway-in-ocean-city/article_767c26c2-2646-11ed-8ec4-0ba43efaa73b.html | 2022-08-27T21:59:52Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/pedestrian-killed-crossing-highway-in-ocean-city/article_767c26c2-2646-11ed-8ec4-0ba43efaa73b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Saturday night: Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms early. Lows: 69-72° Winds: E 7 mph
Sunday: Mostly sunny. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs: 86-90° Winds: E 3-8 mph
Sunday night: Partly cloudy. Lows:70-71 Winds: SE 6 mph
Monday: Mostly sunny. Highs: 86-90° Winds: SE 5-7 mph
Monday night: Mostly clear. Lows: 69-71°
Tuesday: Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the evening. Highs: 91-94° Lows: 68-70°
Wednesday: Mostly sunny. Highs: 87-90° Lows: 70-73°
Thursday: Sunny. Highs: 86-90° Lows: 65-70°
Friday: Sunny. Highs: 82-87° Lows: 59-71°
Saturday: Sunny. Highs: 83-87° Lows: 59-65°
Forecast Discussion:
Good Saturday evening Delmarva! It was a beautiful day across Delmarva, but the chance of showers produced and caught many off guard. This isolated frontal boundary will continue to give us a slight chance of rain as it dies over lower portions of Delmarva. We will be under mostly clear to partly cloudy skies later tonight and into the overnight. Temperatures will fall to the upper 60s to low 90s through the evening and overnight.
We will have a sunny Sunday and a much drier day to start the new week. Temperatures will be making it from the upper 60 to the low 70s into the upper 80s to the low 90s by the afternoon. Thanks to high-pressure buildings over the area, sunny skies will continue throughout the day and we will be under clear skies overnight. Temperatures will fall to the low 70s.
Monday will be another dry and warm day much like Sunday. We will see temperatures rise from the low 70s to the upper 80 to the low 90s once again. The evening will be clear and falling to the upper 60s to low 70s.
Tuesday will have a chance of an isolated shower in the afternoon and evening ahead of a strong cold front that will bring showers and thunderstorms into the region on Wednesday afternoon. Behind the cold front will be comfortable weather conditions to end the week.
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72 Years After Being Killed, Korean War Veteran Laid to Rest and Honored by Vietnam Vet Cousin in Arizona
Vietnam Veteran Felix Padilla never got the chance to meet the man he was named after, U.S. Army Private Felix Martinez Yanez, as the 19-year-old was killed in action in July 1950 while fighting in the Korean War.
Vietnam Veteran Felix Padilla has largely lived his life with his eponym, his cousin U.S. Army Private Felix Martinez Yanez, on his mind. He never got the chance to meet the man he was named after, as Private Yanez was killed in action in July 1950 while fighting in the Korean War.
He was just 19 years old when he made the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
And though he never got to meet Yanez, Padilla has held his memory close his entire life.
“The picture I have of my cousin, my mom gave me,” Padilla said. “I always kept it.”
It was all Padilla had of his namesake, for Private Yanez’s body was not immediately recovered due to the ongoing military conflict. And when remains were claimed by the U.S. military, Private Yanez could not be identified.
He was buried as an “Unknown” at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea before being transferred to the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii.
In July 2022, 72 years after his death, Private Felix Yanez was finally given back his name and his loved ones the closure they needed when his remains were identified by the Defense POW / MIA Accounting agency using DNA analysis.
This Arizona hero will be laid to rest in Tucson, near where his younger cousin, Felix Padilla, calls home.
Padilla feels a connection with a cousin he’s never met. “Honestly I think my cousin was there protecting me all this time during the Vietnam War,” the Vietnam Veteran told KPHO.
“Now we know he’s safe, now we know he can rest in peace and be with the family itself,” he said.
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Florida Father-to-Be Says Cop Blocked Him From Getting Pregnant Wife to the Emergency Room
The Miami-Dade Police Department tells Inside Edition they immediately initiated an internal affairs investigation into what was seen on the video as well as a review of the entire incident.
A father-to-be was taking his pregnant wife to the hospital, but says he found two cop cars blocking the road near the entrance.
“I honked, just to let them know I was there,” Kevin Enciso said.
One patrol car moved and Enciso drove around the other one. But after the officer got out, things went downhill fast. The officer asked Enciso for his license, but Enciso refused and asked for the cop’s supervisor.
“I honked at you, because you're blocking the way with your car, talking to the other,” Enciso told the cop.
The officer was informed that Kevin’s wife, Sabrina, was pregnant and in pain after getting in a car accident.
“I tried to stay calm as much as possible, but you can only get to a certain point where the worry starts to take over,” Sabrina said.
The tense back-and-forth continued.
Then, a fire rescue truck that the cop called in arrived. Sabrina’s blood pressure was skyrocketing, Kevin said.
Finally, the mom-to-be and her husband were allowed to proceed.
“In the end, nothing happened. He didn't give us a ticket or a citation or a summons,” Kevin said.
Sabrina says the day did end on an upbeat note, when she found she was expecting twins.
“We did get to go home with good news,” Sabrina said.
The Miami-Dade Police Department tells Inside Edition they immediately initiated an internal affairs investigation into what was seen on the video as well as a review of the entire incident.
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CareSTL Health welcomed Andrea Spates as the director of operations. Spates has been a healthcare leader in the industry for more than ten years. As a nurse, she has worked in inpatient and outpatient settings, specializing in medical-surgical and ambulatory care. She has worked as an inpatient house supervisor/charge nurse and most recently as an outpatient leader working as a nurse administrator with the Division of Physical Medicine Rehabilitation-Neurological at Washington University School of Medicine. Spates has a bachelor’s degree in science of nursing from Saint Louis University and an inter-professional education certificate. She also holds a master’s of nursing in healthcare administration from SIU Edwardsville.
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Brykyta Shelton found herself standing in a checkout line of a big-box retailer, uncomfortably aware as a woman ahead of her stared at her sandaled feet.
Shelton had been taking medication for months for what her doctor said was toenail fungus, but one nail still looked gross.
After Shelton completed her purchase, the woman pulled her aside and said that, while she wasn’t a doctor, she thought Shelton was dealing with something more serious than fungus.
“She’s like: ‘I know I’m just a random stranger, but please, go get it checked out by someone else,’” said Shelton, who lives in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C.
Shelton, now 42, took the advice.
The initial lab work didn’t give a clear diagnosis, but her new doctor said he was confident she had acral lentiginous melanoma, a form of skin cancer. Additional testing proved him right. While rare, it is the most common subtype of melanoma in Black people, like Shelton. It is the disease that killed reggae star Bob Marley at age 36, and is most often found on skin less frequently exposed to the sun, such as the hands, the soles of the feet, and under nails. Researchers do not understand what causes acral lentiginous melanoma, and they don’t know how to prevent it. It is often overlooked in skin checks or misdiagnosed.
Skin cancer, in general, is often missed or misdiagnosed in Black patients.
Historically, Black people and those with dark skin have been left out of efforts to combat skin cancer. Long neglected by sunscreen manufacturers and a medical community lagging in diversity and cultural competency — the acknowledgment of a patient’s heritage, beliefs, and values — many have not been informed about sun safety or how to check their skin for signs of damage or cancer.
To be sure, skin cancer rates are lower for people with dark skin tones. Melanoma is more than 20 times as common in white people as in African Americans, with an overall lifetime risk of 1 in 38 for white people compared with 1 in 1,000 for Black people. Melanin does provide some protection against sun damage, so those with more of it — those with darker skin — are better protected than those with fairer skin.
But overall, Black patients are more likely to be diagnosed with various forms of skin cancer at more advanced stages, said Dr. Janiene Luke, with the Skin of Color Society, a nonprofit that works to educate doctors and the public on skin health.
The five-year melanoma survival rate among non-Hispanic Black people is 66%, compared with 90% for non-Hispanic white people, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And 1 in 3 Black men or women diagnosed with melanoma in the U.S. die of the disease, compared with at least 1 in 7 for non-Hispanic white people, says the American Cancer Society.
Given the known disparities in outcomes, Dr. Valerie Harvey, president of the Skin of Color Society, said two areas of research are needed: studying educational initiatives to see if awareness might lead to earlier diagnosis and improved survival; and determining risk factors in patients with dark skin, especially factors leading to the occurrence of melanoma in places less exposed to the sun.
Improving cultural competency and diversity within dermatology is just one step toward improving diagnosis and outcomes. According to the most recent data, fewer than 3% of dermatologists nationwide are Black. Orthopedics is the only medical specialty with a smaller share.
Dermatology has traditionally been one of the most competitive specialties in medicine, said Dr. Michelle Henry, a clinical instructor of dermatology at Weill Cornell Medicine. In addition to stiff academic requirements, admission to dermatology programs also depends on connecting with mentors and extensive networking, which can be expensive. And that, Henry said, has traditionally created barriers for Black medical students who want to pursue dermatology.
“There are so many hurdles that make it difficult for a lot of students of color to do the things that they need to do in such an uber-exclusive and small space,” she said.
Recent initiatives to help students overcome those barriers are beginning to work, said Dr. Susan Taylor, vice chair for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the dermatology department at the University of Pennsylvania and founder of the Skin of Color Society. Initiatives from the American Academy of Dermatology include holistic reviews of residency applications, mentorships, and programs to increase interest among and prepare high school students for college and medical school.
Medical app company VisualDX is working to reduce disparities in medicine through Project Impact by creating a catalog of images reflecting various diseases in different skin colors. Skin cancers may appear different on fairer skin than on darker skin, and because doctors may have been trained only with fair-skin depictions, the chance for misdiagnosis in people with dark skin increases.
Change has also come to the sunscreen industry.
Jorge Martínez-Bonilla, senior vice president and partner with Chicago market research company C + R Research, said failures within the medical community to provide adequate skin care for people with dark skin mirror the lack of availability of sunscreens to meet patients’ needs, especially for Black people.
“What that has done is that it has pushed Black entrepreneurs, from one day to the next, to come up with their own solutions and their own products,” Martínez-Bonilla said. “Not only from the lack of availability, but because these are the people who know their needs best.”
Tips for Avoiding Skin Cancer for All Skin Tones
• Avoid direct sun, especially between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Keep babies out of the sun entirely.
• Use a broad-spectrum sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher every day. Reapply every two hours or after swimming or activity/sweating.
• Don’t leave sunscreen in the car, because temperature fluctuations can cause it to break down and become less effective.
• Wear clothing that covers arms and legs.
• Wear a broad-brimmed hat to protect the face, ears, and neck.
• Wear UV-blocking sunglasses.
• Avoid indoor tanning beds.
• Examine skin from head to toe every month. Look for dark spots or patches, or growths that are growing, bleeding, or changing; sores that are slow to heal, or heal and return; patches of skin that feel rough and dry; and dark lines underneath or around fingernails or toenails.
Sources: Skin Cancer Foundation, American Academy of Dermatology, Dr. Janiene Luke, Dr. Michelle Henry, Katonya Breaux
This article was originally published in Kaiser Health News. | https://www.stlamerican.com/your_health_matters/health_news/skin-cancer-is-risk-no-matter-skin-color-tone/article_31bfba3a-25fb-11ed-9db0-275276e97db0.html | 2022-08-27T22:11:10Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/your_health_matters/health_news/skin-cancer-is-risk-no-matter-skin-color-tone/article_31bfba3a-25fb-11ed-9db0-275276e97db0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FINLEY, Wash.-
Fire crews are on scene of fire in Benton County off S Meals Rd and S Priet Rd.
Captain Ron Fryer, BCCFD#1 tells us the wind is not helping contain the fire.
Straightbank Rd is being evacuated at this time.
The official cause of fire is unknown.
We're told S Meals and and S Priet Rd are closed.
Benton County Fire Districts 1, 2 & 4 are on scene as well as Pasco Fire and Kennewick Fire.
Crews have requested more resources.
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7-Day Weather Forecast for Clarion County
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Today – Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 81. Calm wind.
Tonight – Mostly clear, with a low around 59. Calm wind.
Sunday – Sunny, with a high near 86. East wind 5 to 7 mph becoming south in the afternoon.
Sunday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 65. Southeast wind around 5 mph.
Monday – Scattered showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 86. South wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Monday Night – Scattered showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 67. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday – Showers. High near 82. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Tuesday Night – Showers, mainly before 8pm. Low around 59. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Wednesday – Sunny, with a high near 79.
Wednesday Night – Mostly clear, with a low around 55.
Thursday – Mostly sunny, with a high near 74.
Thursday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 52.
Friday – Mostly sunny, with a high near 76.
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A Win Is a Win: Union/A-C Valley Does What it Needs to Do in Season-Opening Victory Over Cameron County
RIMERSBURG, Pa. (EYT/D9) – Union/A-C Valley football coach Brad Dittman stood in the middle of his football team. Some players stood. Some knelt on one knee. Some chewed on their mouth guards and some stared at the dewey grass in the end zone near the scoreboard.
They looked somber.
Dittman grinned and threw his arms in the air.
“Can I get a smile,” he said loudly. “We won the game.”
Union/A-C Valley did win, beating Cameron County 27-14. But it wasn’t always pretty and this Falcon Knights team certainly wanted to play better. They want more this season than winning sloppy.
“We’re glad to get the win out of it,” Dittman said. “A win’s a win — any way we can get it. With the schedule we have, we’ll take it.”
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Early on, it looked as though Union/A-C Valley was going to roll.
Cameron County turned the ball over on a fumble on its first offense play and the Falcon Knights capitalized with a 6-yard TD pass from Brad Dittman to Ryan Cooper on a bubble screen on a fourth-and-goal play.
Later in the first quarter, Union/A-C Valley scored a touchdown again on fourth down when Zach Cooper found his way into the end zone on an 11-yard run to make it 14-0.
Yards became hard to come by after that for the Falcon Knights.
Cameron County, which lost to Union/A-C Valley, 20-6, in the regular season and again, 31-6, in the District 9 Class A playoffs last season, was staunch on defense, especially up front.
The Falcon Knights managed just 34 yards rushing in the game and were out-gained by the Red Raiders, 215-157.
“Did we really?” asked Cameron County coach Ryan Neyman of gaining more yards on his foe. “We held them to under 160 yards? I’ll take that every week. Our defense stepped up. Union/A-C Valley is one of the favorites this year and we competed with them. It was a battle.”
Cameron County cut the lead to 14-6 on a 4-yard TD run by quarterback Maddox Baughman, one play after a sack and fumble set the Red Raiders up.
But on the ensuing kickoff, Dawson Camper sprinted 73 yards for a touchdown to put the lead back up to 21-6.
The backbreaker for Cameron County came at the end of the first half.
Another turnover with a little more than a minute remaining in the second quarter gave Union/A-C Valley the ball at the Raider 26. Three plays later, Mikey Card caught a pass in the flat and outran everyone to the pylon for a 16-yard touchdown reception with five seconds on the clock.
Neyman bemoaned the early miscues — and especially that late first-half score.
“That 100% killed us,” Neyman said. “First game jitters, you know? We had three main, big mistakes. We don’t make those and it’s a little tighter.”
Union/A-C Valley had just one first down in the second half. The Falcon Knights also had a long touchdown run by freshman Logan Skibinski called back by penalty in the fourth quarter.
“In the second half, we couldn’t get out of our own way,” Coach Dittman said. “I’m not sure what happened there. We couldn’t move the ball and we had a bunch of penalties. We have to play 48 minutes of football and that’s on me. I have to figure out a way to make sure we’re doing that.”
Still, Union/A-C Valley got a victory against a strong opponent. And there were certainly some positives.
Brody Dittman finished 10 of 15 for 123 yards and two touchdowns; Skyler Roxbury had four receptions for 42 yards and Union/A-C Valley’s defense sacked Baughman four times and forced four turnovers.
There were also some bright spots for Cameron County.
Baughman threw for 130 yards and was precise with his deep ball. He had a long touchdown pass called back by penalty.
Brevin Lewis caught four passes for 76 yards and Lathan Reed rushed for 41 yards on nine attempts.
That made the win, even though it was not a perfect one, welcome for Dittman.
“Cameron County is a good football team,” the coach said. “I’ve been saying that since last year. To get the win tonight as bad as we played in the second half tonight is a good thing.”
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Allegheny National Forest Announces Draft Decision for Future Spongy Moth Suppression Treatments
WARREN, Pa. – The USDA Forest Service, Allegheny National Forest has released a draft decision detailing how spongy moth infestations on National Forest System lands may be treated in the future.
(Photo courtesy National Invasive Species Information Center U.S. Department of Agriculture.)
The forest service previously authorized the use of Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki (Btk) to suppress spongy moth populations. The draft decision proposes to expand the range of approved treatment methods to include tebufenozide, Gypchek, and a protocol for approving the use of other methods in the future.
The spongy moth (Lymantria dispar) is a non-native invasive species from Europe that has been in Pennsylvania since 1932. When spongy moth populations are high, large quantities of foliage are consumed to the point where forested areas may become defoliated. Although most healthy trees will grow new leaves after defoliation occurs, some trees weakened by other stressors may not withstand severe defoliation.
Due to high spongy moth populations, suppression treatments occurred on nearly 15,000 acres in 2020 and 2021. Since spongy moth populations appear to be declining, the forest service does not anticipate needing to conduct suppression activities next year. As a result, the treatment methods listed in their draft decision would only be applied in future years on an as-needed basis.
The draft decision is subject to the objections process of 36 C.F.R. part 218 subparts A and B. The objection filing period will open the day after a legal notice is published in the Warren Times Observer, and objections must be filed within 45 days. Instructions for how to file an objection may be found in the draft decision notice and the related legal notice. These and other project documents are available online at https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=61480.
A final decision on the project, and whether to approve the additional treatment methods proposed, will be made later this year.
For additional information, please feel free to contact Forest Silviculturist Josh Hanson at 814-728-6161; [email protected]; or Forest Environmental Coordinator Glenn Howard at 814-728-6186; [email protected]
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Cam Wow!: Wagner Throws Five Touchdown Passes for Redbank Valley in Rout of Shorthanded Smethport
NEW BETHLEHEM, Pa. (EYT/D9) — If people forgot about Cam Wagner, they remember him now.
(Cam Wagner has a big season debut for Redbank Valley, throwing for 228 yards and five touchdowns/photo by Madison McFarland.)
Wagner was nearly flawless on Friday night — the Redbank Valley senior’s first start at quarterback in two years — completing 8 of 9 for 228 yards and five touchdowns to five different receivers, as the Bulldogs rolled to a 53-8 win over a depleted Smethport team at home.
“I’m sure that there’s some people who felt that I was overconfident or rolled their eyes when I (said) that I felt we could go with Cam and not miss a beat,” said Redbank Valley coach Blane Gold. “He showed that tonight.”
Last season, Gold had three quarterbacks to choose from: incumbent Gunner Mangiantini, newcomer Bryson Bain and Wagner.
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After a close competition, Gold chose Bain, who had never played football before his senior year. Bain responded with a 30-touchdown season that helped the Bulldogs reach the PIAA Class A championship game.
Gold has always maintained that any of the three could have won that job.
“It was such a razor-thin margin between the three of them, especially between Cam and Bryson because they were similar,” Gold said. “Cam has enhanced his ability by his willingness to run the bal. He adds that dimension.”
Wagner rushed for 34 yards on two carries.
But he did a great deal more of his damage with his strong right arm.
He threw first-quarter touchdown passes of 7 yards to Mason Clouse, 40 yards to Ashton Kahle, 41 yards to Kaden Rupp, and 8 yards to Aiden Ortz to put Redbank up 29-0 after 12 minutes.
He then found Tate Minich on a 74-yard TD strike less than a minute into the second quarter for a 36-0 lead.
Wagner later added a score on a 14-yard run and Drew Byers raced 92 yards for a touchdown to put the Bulldogs up 53-0 at the half.
Smethport brought just 16 players for the game. The Hubbers had 15 players missing — seven of whom were starters — because of academic issues dating back to last spring.
“This was a game that scared us all week because even though they lost (Noah Lent), they basically had everyone else back,” Gold said. “We didn’t know their situation until they got here.”
Byers finished with 134 yards on just nine carries to lead Redbank.
Ryan Pelchy led Smethport with 139 yards on 16 carries and a 17-yard touchdown in the second half.
Ortz had three receptions for 55 yards and Minich two catchers for 85 yards.
Owen Clouse, who gave up football years ago because of concussion issues, rejoined the team this season as the place kicker and booted five extra points. He also scored two 2-point conversions, one on a run and one on a reception from Mason Clouse.
Now Redbank has served notice that there is no drop off at the QB position — and maybe no drop off at all for a team that came to a score away from winning a state title last season.
“We have no regrets with what we did last year, but it was a decision that was really, really hard,” Gold said. “The edge Cam has on Bryson, which is going to help him this year, is he’s played football his whole life. He’s been playing in our system the whole way back to seventh grade. This is his sixth year in our system.”
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Caroline Jane McCreary
Saturday, August 27, 2022 @ 07:08 AM
Caroline Jane McCreary, 81, of Rockland Township, died Friday morning, August 26, 2022 at UPMC Northwest Hospital in Seneca.
Private funeral arrangements will be completed by Hile-Best Funeral Home in Seneca.
Interment will be in the Rockland Cemetery.
To express online condolences to her family, please visit www.hilebest.com.
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Clarion County Recipe of the Day: Molasses Oat Bread
This recipe will receive high praise – even from picky eaters!
Ingredients
4 cups boiling water
2 cups old-fashioned oats
1/4 cup sugar
3 tablespoons canola oil
3 teaspoons salt
1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast
9 to 10 cups of all-purpose flour
Directions
-In a large bowl, pour boiling water over cereal. Add the molasses, sugar, oil, and salt. Let stand until mixture cools to 110°-115°, stirring occasionally. Stir in yeast. Add 8 cups of flour. Beat until smooth. Add enough remaining flour to form a soft dough.
-Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease the top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled about 1-1/2 hours.
-Punch dough down and divide into thirds; shape into loaves. Place in three greased 9×5-in. loaf pans. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour.
-Bake at 350° for 45-50 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.
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Clarion Woman Accused of Using Meth, Ecstasy, Other Drugs While Caring for Three Children
CLARION TWP., Pa. (EYT) – A Clarion woman is facing child endangerment charges after police found her under the influence of Methamphetamine, Ecstasy, and other drugs while caring for three young children.
According to court documents, Clarion-based State Police filed criminal charges against 49-year-old Tina Jane Bodien in Magisterial District Judge Duane L. Quinn’s office on Tuesday, August 23.
PSP Clarion were dispatched around 6:31 a.m. on Thursday, August 11, to a residence on South 4th Avenue in Clarion Township for a report of a female who was yelling out of her window asking for help, according to a criminal complaint.
Upon arrival, police were met by Tina Bodien, who related that she believed there were people chasing her and that they were actively trying to steal her identity. Bodien pointed outside towards the back of her trailer and said, “There they are; they just moved.” An officer standing beside her observed that there was no one near her trailer, according to the complaint.
The officer informed Bodien that she was seeing things, to which she disagreed. Bodien then related that someone attempted to break into the window of her trailer earlier, and she believed it was busted out. The officer checked the window and observed no damage, the complaint indicates.
Bodien then told the officer that she believed people were underneath her trailer and that she was lying on her kitchen floor trying to listen to them prior to police arrival, the complaint notes.
The officer noted that the washing machine was pulled away from the wall, and he asked why. Bodien related she thought she smelled a chemical that was coming from behind the washing machine, so she pulled it away from the wall.
The officer then asked Bodien when was the last time that she had used methamphetamine, and she stated tshe used it approximately three days ago. She also said she had not slept in at least two and a half days, according to the complaint.
Bodien further told police she has full custody of three children, and she was the only adult in the household.
While standing outside the residence, a six-year-old juvenile walked out of the residence with a pair of scissors. The officer took the scissors from the juvenile and put them in a safe place in the residence. The officer then observed another pair of scissors laying on the t.v. stand within reach of the children, the complaint states.
Police also observed a large kitchen knife that was approximately six inches long lying on the windowsill where an officer observed the six-year-old juvenile walk by multiple times, the complaint notes.
According to the complaint, clean and dirty laundry was all over the house, two juvenile females were asleep on the couch, and approximately six prescription pill bottles were observed at the foot of the bed in the master bedroom that could be reached by the children, the complaint states.
Additionally, police located approximately eight prescription pill bottles in the kitchen area that were within reach of the children. The two bedrooms that were for the three children had the smoke detectors removed from the ceiling, and they were on the floor of each room, the complaint indicates.
Clarion County CYS responded to the scene and requested that Bodien complete a urinalysis test. She agreed to the test, and she tested positive for Amphetamine, Methamphetamine, and MDMA (Ecstasy/Molly), according to the complaint.
The children were taken into protective custody.
Bodien was arraigned at 10:43 a.m. on Tuesday, August 23, in front of Judge Quinn on the following charges:
– Endangering Welfare of Children – Parent/Guardian/Other Commits Offense, Felony 3 (three counts)
She was released on her own recognizance, court documents indicate.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, September 20, with District Judge Jeffrey C. Miller presiding.
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Deer Creek Winery to Host Saturday Entertainment by Sean Carey, Hayley Band
Saturday, August 27, 2022 @ 12:08 AM
SHIPPENVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – Enjoy live entertainment on Saturday at Deer Creek Winery!
(Photo above by Dave Cyphert of ProPoint Media Photography)
Saturday’s Music Lineup:
Sean Carey, 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Hayley Band, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Deer Creek’s Gift Shop
Browse Deer Creek’s gift shop and sample their vinegars and oils, while listening to live music in a country atmosphere.
Deer Creek Cafe
Deer Creek also serves hand-rolled crust gourmet pizzas, a variety of Goot Essa cheese plates with homemade toasted baguettes, and bruschetta with a twist – along with new menu items.
For a selection of wines that can be served with a meal, click here.
More Information
For more information, call 814-354-7392, or visit Deer Creek’s website here, or follow Deer Creek’s Facebook page.
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Featured Local Job: All Seasons Temporaries Inc. Offers Multiple Positions
All Seasons Temporaries, Inc. has several new job openings in the local area.
Legal Secretary
8:00am-5:00pm
Monday- 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
3:30pm- 12am Monday – Friday
10:30pm-7am Sunday – 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
7am-3:30pm
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
8am- 4:30pm Monday- 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
8:00am- 5:00pm
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
7am- 3:30pm Monday – 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- $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/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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Ferguson, Rex, and Opportunistic Defense Lead Central Clarion to 42-7 Win Over Brookville
STRATTANVILLE, Pa. (EYT/D9) – In football, whenever you can capitalize on your opponent’s mistakes it gives your team a better chance to win.
(Above, Jase Ferguson scrambles out of the pocket. Ferguson threw for 316 yards and four touchdowns in the win for Central Clarion. Photo by Dave Cyphert of ProPoint Media Photography.)
Central Clarion turned a pair of interception returns for scores in helping the Wildcats to a 42-7 victory over Brookville at the Clarion-Limestone High School Football Field.
Brookville scored the first touchdown of the game after the Wildcats turned the ball over on downs at their own 45-yard line on their second possession of the contest.
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Jackson Zimmerman rushed five straight times for the game’s first points, including 33 yards on the first carry and capped by a 1-yard plunge. Brayden Kunselman added the PAT kick for a 7-0 lead with 7:58 to play in the first.
Zimmerman would turn out to be the bright spot of the Raiders’ offense as he rushed 22 times for 121 yards.
On the next possession for Central Clarion, the Wildcats started at their own 15. A loss of six yards on the first play backed them up to the nine.
Jase Ferguson then tossed a pass over the middle to Ashton Rex, who raced for a 91-yard touchdown, his first of two on the evening, to tie the score at 7-7 following the first of six PAT kicks by Thomas Uckert.
On their first possession of the second quarter, the Wildcats drove from their own 7 in seven plays, which was capped off by a 6-yard touchdown pass from Ferguson to Tommy Smith for a 14-7 lead with 8:18 left in the second.
The key play was a 33-yard pass on fourth down to Dawson Smail.
“We had a lot of guys touch the ball tonight, which is always a good thing,” said Central Clarion head coach Dave Eggleton. “I’ve said it before that we have a lot of guys with good speed, and on a couple of our touchdowns, that speed really showed.”
The Wildcats extended the lead to 21-7 when Ryan Hummell intercepted a Charlie Krug pass and returned it 42 yards for a score.
“We didn’t really do anything special on defense,” said Eggleton. “Guys were just staying on their keys and our defensive backs were ball-hawking, and we made a couple plays on those interceptions.”
Both teams suffered from the turnover bug in the early stages of the third quarter as Ferguson threw a pair of interceptions.
Brookville also had a pair of fumbles and an interception by Brady Quinn, who returned the ball 43 yards for a score and a 28-7 Wildcat lead with 8:55 to play in the third.
“That’s just how easy a game can get away from you,” said Brookville head coach Scott Park. “We made mistakes and they capitalized. We just weren’t able to get momentum back on our side. I feel if maybe we could have run the ball more and got a few more first downs that maybe we could have made things a little more respectable. We have to try and get guys healthy and get ready for Tyrone next week.”
After a fumble recovery by Coleman Slater for the Wildcats, two plays later Ferguson connected on a 43-yard pass to Dawson Hotchkiss to increase the lead to 35-7 with 6:23 to play in the third.
The final score of the contest came on a 73-yard catch and run from Ferguson to Rex with 39 seconds remaining in the third making the score 42-7 and putting the mercy rule running clock into effect.
Ferguson finished the contest 8-of-16 for 316 yards with four touchdowns and three interceptions.
Each team turned the ball over a total of six times with three fumbles and three interceptions each.
“Unfortunately, those interceptions go to Jase although two of them weren’t really his fault,” said Eggleton. “One our receiver slipped on his route, and another went off our receiver’s hands into their hands.”
Rex finished with three catches for 216 yards with two touchdowns.
Brady McKinley, a freshman, led the Central Clarion ground game with 24 yards on four carries in the fourth quarter.
Braylon Beckwith finished the contest with 20 yards on five carries.
Krug finished 7-of-24 passing for 50 yards with three interceptions before leaving with an injury about midway through the third quarter.
Noah Peterson caught three passes for 25 yards to lead the Raiders.
“We’re happy with the win and all, but there are some things we need to fix,” said Eggleton. “We’ll look at film and try and figure out what and where to fix things and we’ll prepare for our next opponent.”
Central Clarion will travel to Port Allegany next Friday.
Central Clarion sports coverage on Explore and D9Sports.com is brought to you by Redbank Chevrolet and DuBrook.
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Lavonne D. Hutchinson
Lavonne D. Hutchinson, age 88, of Oil City, passed away peacefully in the early morning on August 26, 2022, at SouthWoods Assisting Living Facility in Titusville.
Born on August 7, 1934, in Oil City, she was a daughter to the late Earl and Elizabeth Burneisen Karns.
On January 1, 1954, she was married to Harry D. Hutchinson, and they shared 52 years of marriage together before his passing on April 2, 2006.
Mrs. Hutchinson worked at the GTE Plant in Pleasantville for many years.
Lavonne attended Reno United Methodist Church, where she enjoyed making hard tack candy every year as a fundraiser.
She was a member of the Moose Club, Pulaski Club, a lifetime member of the VFW, and was a member of the Red Hat Society.
Lavonne was very active in traveling and playing various games with her family.
She is survived by three sons, Joseph Hutchinson, Bruce Hutchinson and his wife, Teresa, and Greg Hutchinson and his wife, Kristi, all of Oil City; nine grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; and one great-great grandchild.
Also surviving is one brother, Fred Karns, of Dempsytown.
In addition to her parents, and husband, Harry D. Hutchinson, Lavonne is preceded in death by a grandson, Nicholas Pardee, a daughter-in-law, Julie Hutchinson, two sisters, Carol Urey and Grace Malys, and one brother, David Karns.
A visitation will be held on Monday, August 29, from 10 am to noon, at the Morrison Funeral Home.
Funeral Services will follow beginning at noon with Pastor Cindy Weber officiating.
Interment will be in Lamey Cemetery.
If desired, memorial contributions may be made in Lavonne’s name to the Reno United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 196, Reno, PA 16343.
The family would like to extend a special thank you to all the nurses and staff at SouthWoods Assisting Living Facility for the compassionate and loving care they gave to Lavonne during her time there.
Morrison Funeral Home is assisting the family with funeral arrangements.
Online condolences may be left at www.morrisonhome.com.
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Pennsylvania Great Outdoors: List of Greats! Forest County
There are lots of great things to discover in the Pennsylvania Great Outdoors region.
(Pictured above: on the Allegheny River at Tionesta, 22.5-acre island.)
We continue our series of great things to see and do in each of the five counties that make up Pennsylvania’s Great Outdoors region and Cook Forest State Park. Here is a list of 10 great things to do in Forest County.
A Great Place to Golf…
Hunter Station Golf Course is a beautiful and challenging 18-hole public golf course along the Wild & Scenic Allegheny River.
A Great Place to Hike…
Minister Creek Trail in the Allegheny National Forest near Tionesta offers hikers 6.6 miles of hiking trail featuring many giant boulders and scenic overlooks.
A Great Place to Birdwatch
Buzzard Swamp Recreation Area near Marienville has 15 ponds with 11.2 miles of trails offering exceptional wildlife viewing. It is an important link on the Atlantic flyway waterfowl migration path. Popular activities include bird watching, photography, cross-country skiing, mountain biking, hiking, fishing, star gazing, and hunting.
A Great Place to Explore
Lighthouse Island on the Allegheny River in Tionesta is best known for the Sherman Memorial Lighthouse. It is Pennsylvania’s only working inland lighthouse and is 7 stories, 55 feet tall, and 16 feet in diameter at the base. The island also features a new Peace Park with a Cross of Freedom, Statue of Liberty, Veterans Memorial, Chapel, a replica scale model of 1893 Timber Crib dam, and more attractions.
A Great Place to connect with Nature…
Cornplanter State Forest near Tionesta is named in honor of Chief Cornplanter, Native-American leader of the Seneca tribe, who maintained peace between the fledgling United States government and the Iroquois from 1784 to 1812. Today, Cornplanter State Forest covers 1,585 acres for wildlife viewing, hiking, biking, camping, fishing, hunting, and cross-country skiing.
A Great Place for History…
Forest County History Center in Tionesta is an 1875 Victorian Eastlake-style home filled with artifacts from Native Americans and early settlers, tools, products from county businesses, and genealogies of local families. New Replica Lumber Camp displays a number of tools used by the wood hicks (lumbermen) as well as barge builders and historic photos.
A Great Place for Riding…
The Allegheny National Forest in Forest County has hundreds of miles of trails designated for horseback, ATV, and dirt bike riding.
A Great Place to Shop…
Tionesta Market Village offers visitors a unique shopping experience in Victorian style setting. Shoppers can browse many handmade items, a winery, a bakery, plus enjoy BBQ, candy, aromatherapy, and live music.
A Great Place for Boating
Tionesta Lake is six miles long with more than 3,000 acres for unlimited horsepower boating, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, swimming, and picnicking, with two campgrounds.
A Great Place to Eat
Clarion River Lodge on River Road in Cook Forest is under new ownership and completely remodeled lodge with a beautiful view of the Clarion River. Enjoy outdoor gas fire tables, live music, and great food
Find more fun things to do, see, and experience in Pennsylvania’s Great Outdoors region online at VisitPAGO.com.
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SPONSORED: Stop at Sweet Basil for Their Weekend Specials: Saturday Prime Rib, Burger Sunday!
SHIPPENVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – Stop at Sweet Basil Italian Restaurant & Bar this weekend, meet their friendly staff, and try one of their daily specials!
(Photos by Dave Cyphert of ProPoint Media Photography)
Saturday Prime Rib
Sweet Basil’s special on Saturday is a 12 oz. Prime Rib cooked to your favorite temperature.
It is served with fresh bread, a salad, and the chef’s choice of potato.
Sunday Burger Special
Sunday is Sweet Basil’s Burger Special!
Click here for the different choices and toppings.
The burger is served with fries.
SAVE SOME ROOM FOR DESSERT!
Dining Room Hours:
Wednesday through Saturday: 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday: 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
The restaurant is not taking reservations at this time.
Carry-out and curbside services are also available. Call 814-226-7013 to place your take-out order.
Late-Night Food Available at Sweet Basil’s Bar!
Sweet Basil’s bar is open on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday from 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and from 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Wednesday through Saturday.
Happy Hour is Monday through Friday from 3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.!
Late-night food is available at the bar until 10:00 p.m., Monday thru Saturday.
Sweet Basil Italian Restaurant & Bar is located at 21108 Paint Blvd., Shippenville, PA 16254.
Follow Sweet Basil’s Facebook page for updates: https://www.facebook.com/sweetbasilrestaurantandbar/.
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State Police Investigating Arson at Dollar General in Fryburg
Saturday, August 27, 2022 @ 12:08 AM
FRYBURG, Pa. (EYT) – State police are investigating an arson that occurred on Wednesday afternoon at the Dollar General store in Fryburg.
PSP Marienville received a report of arson around 4:59 p.m. on Wednesday, August 24, at the Dollar General located at 2337 State Route 157, in Washington Township, Clarion County.
The suspect used a glass jar containing lighter fluid to start a fire in the aisle of the store. The individual fled the scene before state police arrived.
This investigation is ongoing.
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James E “Jim” Karg
James E “Jim” Karg, 91, of Tionesta, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, August 25, 2022.
Born on March 3, 1931 in Oil City, he was the son of Leo and Leona Browske Karg.
Jim was a graduate of Shippenville High School.
He was married on May 31, 1952 to Catherine “Cass” Guth Karg at St. Michael Church by Father Theobald and she preceded him in death on November 2, 2011. They enjoyed 59 years of marriage.
Jim was a member of St. Michael Church in Fryburg.
He started his career at PA Niederriter Lumber Mill and stayed there until his retirement.
The lumber mill changed hands over his tenure and was known as Georgia Pacific when he retired.
Jim had a love for the outdoors. He could be found golfing, hunting, fishing, boating. He enjoyed spending time with his friends and family and always looked forward to a good card game.
Jim was also a skilled carpenter and in the early 1970’s he built his own home.
He was well known for the get togethers held at Karg’s Bar.
Jim was one of the oldest members of the Fryburg Sportsman’s Club.
He is survived by a daughter Linda Frederick of Tylersburg and a daughter-in-law Trish Karg of Tylersburg. Grandchildren surviving include: JJ Karg and his wife Jess, Tyler Karg and his wife Meredith, Victoria “Torie” Panzar and her fiance Kyle Neal, Toby Karg and his wife Jordan, Eric Frederick, Josh Frederick and wife Erin, and Jess Lencer and her husband Steve.
Also surviving are great-grandchildren Owen, Alayna and Sadie Karg, Lucas, Nathan, and Grace Karg, and Eleanor Karg, McKinzie, Maddison, and Michaela Lencer. William and Aven Frederick.
A sister Vickie Plues and her husband Bill, brother Tom Karg and his wife Elaine, sister-in-law Sarah Karg. Many nieces and nephews and family friends Dorothy Elliott and Rocket.
Jim was preceded in death by his parents, a son James L. Karg Sr., a son-in-law Bill Frederick and a grandson-in-law Tim Panzar.
Two brothers Jack and wife Beverly and Gene and a special friend Madeline Ditz also preceded him in death.
Friends will be received from 2 to 4 PM and 7 to 9 PM on Monday, August 29, 2022 at Faller Funeral Home, Inc in Fryburg.
Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 11:00 AM on Tuesday, August 30, 2022 in St. Michael Church Fryburg with the Rev. Michael Polinek pastor of St. Michael Church in Fryburg as the celebrant.
Burial will follow in St. Michael Cemetery.
The family suggests memorials be made to the charity of ones choice.
Please visit www.fallerfuneralhome.com to share your memories and photos and offer your condolences.
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Kochi: Kerala United FC outplayed Emirates Soccer Club 5-1 to notch up their third win in the Kerala Women's League at the Maharaja's College Ground here on Saturday.
Baby Lalchhandami scored a brace for the winners, while Marbarin Nongrum, Antrika and Pristy C A scored one each. Anitha had given Emirates the lead in the eighth minute.
Marbarin was named player of the match.
Result: Kerala United FC 5 (Baby Lalchhandami 44, 47; Marbarin Nongrum 15, Antrika 31, Pristy C A 70 (pen) bt Emirates Soccer Club 1 (Anitha 8). | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/08/27/kwl-kerala-united-outplay-emirates-soccer-club.amp.html | 2022-08-27T22:20:24Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/08/27/kwl-kerala-united-outplay-emirates-soccer-club.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pakistan declared a national emergency as it experiences its heaviest rains since the early 1960s. The climate change minister says relentless cycles of monsoon have affected some 30 million people.
Copyright 2022 NPR
Pakistan declared a national emergency as it experiences its heaviest rains since the early 1960s. The climate change minister says relentless cycles of monsoon have affected some 30 million people.
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Liverpool earned their first win of the season in stunning fashion after equalling the record for the biggest ever Premier League victory with a 9-0 thrashing of newly promoted Bournemouth at Anfield on Saturday.
Two goals inside the opening six minutes from Luis Diaz and Harvey Elliot put the hosts into a commanding position from the off.
A stunning strike from England full-back Trent Alexander Arnold which arrowed into the top corner gave Liverpool a three-goal lead in the 28th minute before Roberto Firmino got in on the act with a fourth three minutes later.
Not done there, Liverpool had a fifth before the interval, with Virgil van Dijk heading home from a corner, before Chris Mepham's own goal had the visitors staring at the prospect of an embarrassing drubbing.
A close-range finish from Firmino kept the goals coming, with substitute Fabio Carvalho's finish letting the home fans dream of a record-breaking afternoon.
Diaz's headed ninth strike came with Liverpool having five minutes to become the first side to score 10 in a Premier League match. But despite some late scares, Bournemouth did just enough to avoid suffering that ignominy. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/08/27/premier-league-liverpool-crush-bournemouth-9-0.amp.html | 2022-08-27T22:20:30Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/08/27/premier-league-liverpool-crush-bournemouth-9-0.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Liverpool earned their first win of the season in stunning fashion after equalling the record for the biggest ever Premier League victory with a 9-0 thrashing of newly promoted Bournemouth at Anfield on Saturday.
Two goals inside the opening six minutes from Luis Diaz and Harvey Elliot put the hosts into a commanding position from the off.
A stunning strike from England full-back Trent Alexander Arnold which arrowed into the top corner gave Liverpool a three-goal lead in the 28th minute before Roberto Firmino got in on the act with a fourth three minutes later.
Not done there, Liverpool had a fifth before the interval, with Virgil van Dijk heading home from a corner, before Chris Mepham's own goal had the visitors staring at the prospect of an embarrassing drubbing.
A close-range finish from Firmino kept the goals coming, with substitute Fabio Carvalho's finish letting the home fans dream of a record-breaking afternoon.
Diaz's headed ninth strike came with Liverpool having five minutes to become the first side to score 10 in a Premier League match. But despite some late scares, Bournemouth did just enough to avoid suffering that ignominy. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/08/27/premier-league-liverpool-crush-bournemouth-9-0.html | 2022-08-27T22:20:31Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/08/27/premier-league-liverpool-crush-bournemouth-9-0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Manchester City's Erling Haaland struck a second half hat-trick as the Premier League champions came back from two goals down to beat Crystal Palace 4-2 at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday.
The Norwegian, who averaged almost a goal per game in the Bundesliga for Borussia Dortmund before his move to City in June, has now scored six times in his opening four league matches for Pep Guardiola's side.
The win moves City to the top of the table, level on 10 points with Brighton & Hove Albion. Palace are 13th with four points from their opening four games.
Haaland was given a standing ovation when he was substituted six minutes from the end but at halftime City were staring at a possible repeat of their 2-0 home loss to Palace last season.
An own goal from John Stones in the fourth minute put Patrick Vieira's south London side ahead and then the visitors doubled their lead when an unmarked Joachim Andersen powered in a header from an Eberechi Eze corner in the 21st minute.
City struggled to find their fluency but the almost inevitable comeback started in the 53rd when Bernardo Silva cut in from the right and his low shot took a slight deflection and beat goalkeeper Vicente Guaita.
Guardiola then made a double substitution and moved Phil Foden to left back and within a minute he had delivered a pinpoint cross which Haaland met with a fine glancing header.
The striker then turned the ball in from close range after a clever move inspired by Silva and saved the best for last -- showing Ilkay Gundogan the pass he wanted to run onto and then holding off Joel Ward as he fired into the bottom corner.
Fernandes on target as United edge Saints
Southampton: Manchester United posted back-to-back wins and ended a run of bad form away from home with a 1-0 victory at Southampton in the Premier League on Saturday thanks to a second-half strike from Bruno Fernandes.
United's second win on the bounce halted a seven-match losing streak on the road stretching back to last season and provisionally lifted them to sixth place in the table after four games.
With an unchanged lineup after their 2-1 win against Liverpool, United should have gone ahead in the 19th minute but were denied by Gavin Bazunu and Armel Bella-Kotchap, who kept out Anthony Elanga and Christian Eriksen from close range.
Bella-Kotchap nearly gave Southampton the lead after bringing down a James Ward-Prowse corner only to blaze his shot over the bar on the half-hour mark.
Eriksen was a lively presence with his penetrating through balls but United struggled to unlock Southampton, who had Bella-Kotchap to thank for his timely intervention when Elanga was through on goal after linking up with the Danish playmaker.
United began strongly after the break and their pressure told in the 55th minute when Fernandes, leading the side in the absence of Harry Maguire, scored with a low volley from the edge of the box after being expertly fed by Diogo Dalot.
Southampton had a penalty appeal turned down minutes later when a high ball appeared to have struck Scott McTominay on the arm before David de Gea made a superb reflex save to keep out a header from Joe Aribo.
United boss Erik ten Hag turned to Cristiano Ronaldo and Casemiro, who arrived from Real Madrid earlier in the week, to see out the game, but the hosts did not go down without a fight.
They dominated the ball in the closing stages and substitute Sekou Mara almost found an equaliser deep into stoppage time but his overhead effort was cleared off the line as United held on for the win.
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London: Arsenal preserved the Premier League's last remaining 100% record as they came from a goal down to beat Fulham 2-1 thanks to a late winner by Gabriel at The Emirates Stadium on Saturday that kept the Gunners top of the table.
The home side enjoyed overwhelming possession but a dreadful mistake by Gabriel allowed Aleksandar Mitrovic to give previously unbeaten Fulham a 56th-minute lead.
It was Mitrovic's 100th goal for Fulham but Arsenal were behind for only eight minutes as captain Martin Odegaard's deflected effort levelled it up.
Mitrovic was close to putting Fulham back in front with a diving header but Arsenal's pressure finally told as a fumble by their former goalkeeper Bernd Leno from a corner allowed Gabriel to make ammends with a simple tap-in.
Arsenal were not at their best against well-drilled Fulham, who should have equalised through Nathaniel Chalobah late on, but they stay in first place with 12 points from four games, two more than champions Manchester City and Brighton & Hove Albion.
Ten-man Chelsea beat Leicester 2-1
Raheem Sterling's first two goals for Chelsea steered the 10-man Blues to a hard-fought 2-1 home win over Leicester City as Thomas Tuchel's side survived the early dismissal of Conor Gallagher in the Premier League on Saturday.
Two yellow cards for Gallagher less than 30 minutes into his first league start at Stamford Bridge seemed to have left Chelsea with a mountain to climb.
But Sterling's double put the hosts in control - the opening goal a deflected, looping shot over goalkeeper Danny Ward in the 47th minute followed by a tap-in 16 minutes later from a Reece James cross.
They were Sterling's first goals since moving to London in the close season from Manchester City and he almost got another when he hit the post during Chelsea's early-second half onslaught.
But Leicester struck back in the 66th minute when Harvey Barnes exchanged passes with Jamie Vardy and drove an angled shot past keeper Edouard Mendy at his near post.
Leicester, who have struggled so far this season, pushed for an equaliser and Mendy was forced into saves from Barnes and Vardy, who also shot into the side netting. Substitute Ayoze Perez hit the bar late on.
Chelsea, marshalled in central defence by Thiago Silva and Trevoh Chalobah, held on for their first home win of the season, leaving them in sixth place with seven points from four games. Leicester are languishing second-bottom with one point.
Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel, who watched the match from the stands as a punishment for being shown a red card after his side's hot-blooded home draw with Tottenham Hotspur earlier this month, was critical of Gallagher.
Asked by reporters about the midfielder's apparent distress at being sent off, the German said: "OK but today he is responsible for what he did and of course he knows this was a huge mistake."
It was the second red card for Chelsea in two games after defender Kalidou Koulibaly was sent off last weekend in a 3-0 defeat at Leeds United.
Leicester were left to rue a decision by referee Paul Tierney who decided that Mendy had been fouled before defender Daniel Amartey put the ball in the net with a header in the first half with the score at 0-0. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/08/28/premier-league-arsenal-beat-fulham-raheem-sterling-brace-chelsea-beat-leicester.amp.html | 2022-08-27T22:20:50Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/08/28/premier-league-arsenal-beat-fulham-raheem-sterling-brace-chelsea-beat-leicester.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — Rapper Wiz Khalifa cut short a concert in suburban Indianapolis as people began fleeing the outdoor venue, leaving three with minor injuries, following a disturbance, police said.
People started exiting the Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville about 10:30 p.m. Friday after a reported disturbance on part of the amphitheater’s lawn, with some of them shouting about a possible shooting, The Indianapolis Star reported.
Police said in a news release early Saturday that no weapon was found following a sweep of the area at the venue about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Indianapolis.
The disturbance happened about 45 minutes into Wiz Khalifa's show that was part of the Vinyl Verse co-headlining tour with fellow rapper Logic, according to The Indianapolis Star. The music stopped and Wiz Khalifa and his band left the stage immediately.
Three people reported minor injuries and were taken to hospitals for treatment after concertgoers “self-evacuated" the amphitheater, where all exits were opened in accordance with the venue's emergency procedures, police said.
In a parking lot outside, some audience members were making cellphone calls as others wept and held each other, the newspaper reported.
Live Nation, the concert promotion company that owns and operates Ruoff, released a statement Saturday thanking “staff and local authorities for acting quickly to support everyone in attendance.”
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PORTLAND, Oregon — A Portland mother is asking police to crack down on the so-called Kia Challenge, a car theft trend she said her daughter has participated in.
"They're stealing these cars, wrecking them or joyriding in them and wrecking them," said Sherrie, who asked KGW not to use her last name.
The popular TikTok trend dares people to steal Kia and Hyundai vehicles. Videos posted on the social media site show how to use a USB cable and other tools to do it.
According to Portland police statistics, a total of 84 Kia and Hyundai vehicles were stolen in July of this year, more than quadruple the number of those reported stolen in July of 2021.
From June 12 to August 20, there was a 269% increase in stolen Kias and a 153% increase in stolen Hyundais compared to the prior 10 weeks, according to Portland police data released Thursday.
Sherrie said her 16-year-old daughter has been involved in at least three Kia thefts this summer. She said two theft incidents ended in dangerous accidents, including one last week.
"It was wrecked so bad it caught fire," Sherrie said. "An officer there informed me that there's nothing they're going to do, so these families are out here hurting and being victimized without any justice. Being that my child is involved, I'm not going to sit back and not do anything."
Sherrie said she reported all three thefts to police but said they never followed up with her on any of them. She said her daughter and friends see that and are emboldened by it.
"That is my biggest reason for stepping out because I know there are a lot of other parents dealing with this," Sherrie said.
Sherrie said she didn't have the names of the officers she talked to. Without that information, a police spokesman told KGW he couldn't respond to her specific situation. But on the car theft problem in general he said officers do follow-up work in between responding to 911 calls and almost every shift is constantly short officers.
"It frustrates us that we can't give the highest level of service we believe our community deserves," said Portland Police Lieutenant Nathan Sheppard in an email to KGW. "With a growing population and the shrinking police force we've experienced the last few years, we sometimes can't provide the same level of service we use to. However, we'll keep trying."
Police also shared that The Donald E. Long Juvenile Detention Home will only accept youth for certain serious crimes, typically for violent offenses outlined here.
In the meantime, Sherrie worries this trend of car thefts will only get worse and the consequences more serious. She hopes her daughter will finally listen.
"I would rather have her in [juvenile detention] knowing she's somewhere that's more than likely gonna be safe for her," Sherrie said. "Rather than to get that phone call that they find my child deceased somewhere or that they have her in handcuffs because she's taken the lives of someone else." | https://www.krem.com/article/news/crime/kia-hyundai-thefts-portland-mother/283-163b2993-8879-4209-bae2-ba52c46edff2 | 2022-08-27T22:22:03Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/crime/kia-hyundai-thefts-portland-mother/283-163b2993-8879-4209-bae2-ba52c46edff2 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KING COUNTY, Wash. — The Washington Department of Health (DOH) held a briefing Thursday to address the importance of testing, prevention and removing the stigma associated with monkeypox (MPV).
Washington State Secretary of Health Dr. Umair Shah urged Washingtonians to get any unknown rashes checked out, keep them covered and don't expose them to others. Another way to prevent the spread of the virus is to answer calls from the DOH. They will call if someone's been exposed.
The DOH also provided an update to the number of cases. There are 392 cases in Washington, 318 of those are in King County. Washington also has two confirmed pediatric cases.
In the U.S., there are 16,926 cases and 46,724 cases globally, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Executive Director of Washington State LGBTQ Commission Manny Santiago stressed that while this disease is disproportionately impacting the LGBTQ community, it does not make this a "gay disease."
"Words have power and they have the power to stop the stigmatization of a community that has already lived through a similar experience when the HIV virus was first discovered in the 1980s," Santiago said.
Epidemiologist Dr. Scott Lindquist said there is a lot of access to testing for monkeypox, which can help contain the virus.
Lindquist said everyone should be compassionate to those who are suffering from monkeypox because it can be very painful and happen to anyone.
"Three hundred and ninety-two people with a new disease is very disturbing," Lindquist said.
Officials also urge the public to make use of the MPV hotline. Anyone can call to get information about MPV. The phone number is (833) 829-HELP.
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BOISE, Idaho —
This story originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden is warning Idahoans that anyone contacting them about President Biden’s newly announced loan forgiveness program is likely a scammer.
“You don’t need to do anything or pay anyone to sign up for the new Student Debt Relief Plan,” Wasden said on Twitter Friday. “Nobody can get you in early, help you jump in line, or guarantee eligibility. Anybody who says they can or tries to charge you is a scammer.”
Within two days of Biden’s announcement of the new program on Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission Friday morning that scammers had glommed onto it. The FTC sent out a “Consumer Alert” headed, “Did you hear about the student loan announcements? Scammers did, too.”
Wasden advised Idahoans to ignore any such solicitations, and encouraged them to report them to the FTC at ReportFraud.ftc.gov, and also notify his office’s Consumer Protection Unit by filling out a consumer complaint form at the Attorney General’s website, ag.idaho.gov.
The Biden-Harris Administration’s new Student Debt Relief Plan will forgive student loan debt of up to $20,000 for those who qualified for and received Pell Grants, and up to $10,000 for those who did not, if their income is less than $125,000 a year for an individual or $250,000 for households.
For nearly 8 million borrowers, that relief will happen automatically, because the U.S. Department of Education has the borrowers’ income data. For borrowers for whom the department doesn’t already have the data, an application will be made available in the coming weeks. People can sign up for notification when the application is available at ed.gov/subscriptions.
The administration is also proposing changes to student loan repayment rules that would grant additional relief to lower- and middle-income borrowers. For notification on updates to those rules, people can sign up at the same U.S. Department of Education site, ed.gov/subscriptions.
Currently, required payments on federal student loans are on pause due to the pandemic, and have been since early 2020; the administration announced this week that that pause will be extended through Dec. 31, 2022, so payments will resume in January.
Another existing program, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, remains in effect through Oct. 31; borrowers who are employed by non-profits, the military, or federal, state, tribal or local government may be eligible to have all their student loans forgiven through that program. There’s more information on that online at PSLF.gov.
Betsy Z. Russell is the Boise bureau chief and state capitol reporter for the Idaho Press and Adams Publishing Group. Follow her on Twitter at @BetsyZRussell.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — In recent years, there's been a growing push from environmentalists to remove four dams on the Lower Snake River on southeastern Washington to help rejuvenate salmon populations. The dams are located near where Snake River flows into the Columbia.
On Thursday, Sen. Patty Murray and Gov. Jay Inslee came out with a long-awaited report that says it's not feasible to tear down the dams right now — but it could be in the future.
The Army Corps of Engineers built the dams back in the 1960s and '70s. Environmentalists are concerned that salmon runs in the river will go extinct, along with the orcas in the Puget Sound that feed on the salmon, if the dams aren't removed.
Public utilities, on the other hand, want to keep the dams because they generate dependable, renewable energy.
Earlier this year, ads funded by the utilities pushing back against the dam removal started running in the Pacific Northwest. The future of the dams evolved into a bitter fight and a big lawsuit.
RELATED: Inslee, Murray recommend taking action to make breaching Snake River dams a 'viable option'
That's why Sen. Murray and Gov. Inslee got involved — to address the conflict and figure out what options were available. They took input from thousands of people, including communities, tribes and "other stakeholders."
According to the report, they found that with "adequate investment and coordination, it is possible to replace most of the services and benefits provided by the dams" if they were to be breached.
The report also acknowledged that the benefits provided by the dams must be replaced or mitigated before the dams are taken down, which essentially means that breaching the dams is "not a feasible option in the near-term."
"Replacing the energy production of the Lower Snake River Dams is achievable given our existing commitments, the amount of regional clean energy generation already in development, and the federal resources available. But moving from the realm of the possible into reality requires getting these resources built in an effective, efficient manner," the report says.
So what comes next?
Murray and Inslee pledged to take steps to move forward with the removal process — things like improving fish passages for salmon and creating a better habitat. Inslee also pledged to build clean energy resources and put up power lines to deliver that energy, but he and Murray offered no timelines or guarantees.
This conclusion was closely watched by environmentalists and power utilities.
Kurt Miller is the executive director of Northwest River Partners, a trade group that represents more than 100 community-owned power companies in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Nevada and Wyoming.
His group wants to keep the dams, and he's pleased that political leaders found it was not feasible to tear them down anytime soon.
"And that's the message that we've been trying to share all along is like, listen, we understand what people are trying to do and salmon are super important, but there are other things that are also super important in terms of trying to achieve our clean energy goals and keep electricity costs affordable and provide irrigation to farmers," he said.
The electric industry often argues that the power from the four dams is critically important for the region, and political leaders agreed with them for now.
As far as how much energy the dams produce, Miller said about 4-5% of the power in the Pacific Northwest comes from the Lower Snake River dams. That percentage is likely to grow in the coming years as more coal plants shut down.
The energy generated by the dams is important because it's more dependable than wind turbines, for example, which only make power when the wind blows, or solar that only makes power when the sun is shining. And industrial batteries aren't good enough yet to store significant amounts of energy.
It may also come as a surprise that environmentalists saw the report as a victory as well.
Pam Clough is an advocate with Environment Washington, which is fighting to protect salmon and orcas in the Puget Sound, and she supports tearing down the dams.
"I'm really comforted that Sen. Murray and Gov. Inslee have publicly recognized that extinction of salmon and orcas are unacceptable and that they are committed to finding a viable way to breach the Lower Snake River dams," Clough said.
"There are many scenarios on the table that can replace the energy these dams provide," she added.
Miles Johnson, senior attorney with the conservation group Columbia River Keepers, also supports removing the dams.
"So this is a form of progress," he said. "You know, five years ago, no politician in the Pacific Northwest would say 'Snake River dam removal' out loud," he said.
Columbia River Keepers is part of a federal lawsuit to try to get the dams torn down. All sides involved in the lawsuit have taken a pause to see how things shake out, but Johnson said ending that pause is a possibility if there is no action toward solutions.
"I think what we're disappointed in is the lack of a plan for replacing the dams' electricity ...and the lack of any clearly defined goal for what replacement looks like," he said. "You know, Columbia River Keepers, and more broadly most of the proponents for dam removal, we've never said just bulldoze the dams out and forget about the consequences. It's always been about a comprehensive solution that invests in renewable energy in the Northwest and replaces the power and benefits of those dams, but we need to make a plan to do that." | https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/snake-river-dam-removal-not-feasible-near-future/283-68cc524a-e0d7-4c90-864d-f809f142bd42 | 2022-08-27T22:22:28Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/snake-river-dam-removal-not-feasible-near-future/283-68cc524a-e0d7-4c90-864d-f809f142bd42 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PHOENIX — The Border Patrol says one of its agents rescued an infant and a toddler who were left alone by migrant smugglers in western Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
A migrant in a group of border crossers arrested Thursday west of the Lukeville, Arizona, port of entry alerted an agent to the children's location.
An 18-month-old was subsequently found crying and a 4-month-old was discovered face down and unresponsive. Both have received medical attention at a hospital and were released back into Border Patrol custody.
“Yesterday smugglers left two young children — an infant and a toddler — in the Sonoran Desert to die,” Tucson Sector Border Patrol Chief John Modlin said in a statement. “This is not just another example of smugglers exploiting migrants for money. This is cruelty."
It was not immediately clear if the smugglers blamed for abandoning the children were among those arrested. Authorities did not release any details about the children, including their genders, what country they came from and the identities of their parents or guardians.
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument stretches along the Mexican border in southwestern Arizona, a harsh, dry landscape studded with towering cactuses and other desert flora. It's about 130 miles (209 kilometers) southwest of Phoenix.
Because of its remoteness, the 517- square-mile (1,340 square kilometer) park is a favored crossing area for some smugglers. The human remains of suspected border crossers are often found in the area.
While the high temperatures at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument regularly soar into the triple digits (above 37.7 degrees C) during the summer, they topped out Thursday in the 90s (above 32.2 C) amid cooler monsoon weather.
The agent who found the children began first aid on the infant while waiting for medical technicians from the Border Patrol and the National Park Service to arrive.
An ambulance took the children to a hospital for additional medical attention. The children were later returned to Border Patrol officials, who were trying to urgently place them with the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which oversees the care of migrant children picked up in the U.S. without family.
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LAS VEGAS — The identification of bones found in May on the receding shoreline of Lake Mead has resurfaced family memories of a 42-year-old Las Vegas father believed to have drowned 20 years ago.
Thomas Erndt’s son, also named Tom Erndt, told KSNV-TV in Las Vegas that his father began to struggle after jumping into the water during a nighttime family boat outing late Aug. 2, 2002. The younger Tom Erndt said he was 10 at the time.
“It is going to take a lot of time for me to move forward and remember this,” he told KVVU-TV, recalling that he spent a lot of time with his father, an aircraft mechanic, at his job.
Family members did not immediately respond Friday to email messages from The Associated Press.
The Clark County coroner’s office said Wednesday that Thomas Erndt’s bones were the ones found May 7 near a former marina at the shrinking Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam.
A statement from Coroner Melanie Rouse said investigators used DNA and reports of Erndt’s disappearance for the identification. An official cause and manner of death were not determined.
Coroner’s investigators still are working to identify a man who was killed by a gunshot and whose body was found May 1 in a rusted barrel. His clothing suggested his death dated from the 1970s or 1980s, and authorities said it was being investigated as a homicide.
That discovery prompted speculation about watery graves and renewed interest in the lore of organized crime in early years of casino development on the Las Vegas Strip — about a 30-minute drive from the lake.
Several more sets of partial human skeletal remains have been found since then — including on July 25, Aug. 6 and Aug. 16 — generally near a swimming area at the lake. They were not in barrels.
The water level at Lake Mead has dropped more than 170 feet since it was full in 1983, putting the reservoir today at less than 30% of capacity.
Tom Erndt, of South San Francisco, California, told KSNV-TV he wants his father to be remembered as a person, not bones found at the lake.
His aunt, Julie Erndt, now living in Kentucky, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal she was thankful that her brother’s remains were finally identified. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/lake-mead-bones-identified/507-f1f56981-1c78-4899-9e1b-5137fe235cd5 | 2022-08-27T22:22:52Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/lake-mead-bones-identified/507-f1f56981-1c78-4899-9e1b-5137fe235cd5 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
RAYONG, Thailand — The Irrawaddy dolphin calf — sick and too weak to swim — was drowning in a tidal pool on Thailand’s shore when fishermen found him.
The fishermen quickly alerted marine conservationists, who advised them how to provide emergency care until a rescue team could transport the baby to Thailand’s Marine and Coastal Resources Research and Development Center for veterinary attention.
The baby was nicknamed Paradon, roughly translated as “brotherly burden,” because those involved knew from day one that saving his life would be no easy task.
Irrawaddy dolphins, considered a vulnerable species by International Union for Conservation of Nature, are found in the shallow coastal waters of South and Southeast Asia and in three rivers in Myanmar, Cambodia and Indonesia. Their survival is threatened by habitat loss, pollution and illegal fishing.
Officials from the marine research center believe around 400 Irrawaddy dolphins remain along the country’s eastern coast, bordering Cambodia.
Since Paradon was found by the fishermen July 22, dozens of veterinarians and volunteers have helped care for him at the center in Rayong on the Gulf of Thailand.
“We said among ourselves that the chance of him surviving was quite low, judging from his condition,” Thanaphan Chomchuen, a veterinarian at the center, said Friday. “Normally, dolphins found stranded on the shore are usually in such a terrible condition. The chances that these dolphins would survive are normally very, very slim. But we gave him our best try on that day.”
Workers placed him in a seawater pool, treated the lung infection that made him so sick and weak, and enlisted volunteers to watch him round the clock. They have to hold him up in his tank to prevent him from drowning and feed him milk, initially done by tube, and later by bottle when he had recovered a bit of strength.
A staff veterinarian and one or two volunteers stay for each eight-hour shift, and other workers during the day handle the water pump and filter and making milk for the calf.
After a month, Paradon’s condition is improving. The calf believed to be between 4 and 6 months old can swim now and has no signs of infection. But the dolphin that was 4.5 feet and around 59 pounds on July 22 is still weak and doesn't take enough milk despite the team's efforts to feed him every 20 minutes or so.
Thippunyar Thipjuntar, a 32-year-old financial adviser, is one of the many volunteers who come for a babysitting shift with Paradon.
Thippunya said with Paradon’s round baby face and curved mouth that looks like a smile, she couldn’t help but grow attached to him and be concerned about his development.
“He does not eat enough but rather just wants to play. I am worried that he does not receive enough nutrition,” she told The Associated Press on Friday as she fed the sleepy Paradon, cradled in her arm. “When you invest your time, physical effort, mental attention, and money to come here to be a volunteer, of course you wish that he would grow strong and survive.”
Sumana Kajonwattanakul, director of the marine center, said Paradon will need long-term care, perhaps as much as a year, until he is weaned from milk and is able to hunt for his own food.
“If we just release him when he gets better, the problem is that he he won’t be able to have milk. We will have to take care of him until he has his teeth, then we must train him to eat fish, and be part of a pod. This will take quite some time,” Sumana said.
Paradon's caregivers believe the extended tender loving care is worth it.
“If we can save one dolphin, this will help our knowledge, as there have not been many successful cases in treating this type of animal,” said veterinarian Thanaphan. “If we can save him and he survives, we will have learned so much from this."
“Secondly, I think by saving him, giving him a chance to live, we also raise awareness about the conservation of this species of animal, which are rare, with not many left.” | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/sick-dolphin-calf-improves/507-ae574193-e4e4-4d21-96c3-a3adf3b2ee74 | 2022-08-27T22:23:04Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/sick-dolphin-calf-improves/507-ae574193-e4e4-4d21-96c3-a3adf3b2ee74 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK — The chill in the housing market is rippling out to the carpenters, landscapers and other small businesses that lose out when fewer homeowners are renovating their properties.
Inflation was already causing some homeowners to delay big renovation projects as prices for building materials, fixtures and appliances jumped. More recently, higher mortgage rates have put a damper on the number of homes being sold.
At the beginning of the year, carpenter Bill Albritton, who has owned Albritton Custom Carpentry near Charlotte, N.C., since 2004, was booked months in advance and completing full custom kitchen cabinet replacements in homes in the historic districts of Charlotte. But he’s seen a slowdown over the past two months.
In the Charlotte metropolitan area, the number of home sold fell 19% between June and July, and are down about 21% from July a year ago, according to the Re/Max monthly National Housing Report.
Albritton is booked out 30 days in advance, compared to the usual 90 to 160 days. Meanwhile, his costs have gone up by more than 30% across the board. Plywood he uses jumped from $72 to $140 a sheet around Christmas. It has gone back down to $85 a sheet, but that’s still higher than it used to be. And he has trouble finding hinges at any price.
Albritton is trying to pivot to smaller carpentry jobs.
“Instead of doing new kitchens we’re gearing up to do what we call ‘kitchen face lifts,’” Albritton said. That means just replacing the fronts of cabinets and drawers and teaming up with a painting contractor to paint the cabinets. It gives “a new kitchen look for a fraction of the price,” he said.
The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates in an effort to reduce inflation, which is running at almost 10% annually at the wholesale level. The fear is the Fed will go too far and the economy will go into a slump.
“I am very worried on the heels of the material shortages we have been battling to now look at a very possible recession,” Albritton said. He’s reaching out to other home renovation companies to partner with as one way to keep the work coming.
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage is 5.55%, according to Freddie Mac. A year ago, the average was 2.87%. The increase is forcing some would-be buyers out of the market and sales of previously owned homes have fallen for six straight months. That matters to the businesses involved in home renovations because sellers can spend thousands of dollars making a house more attractive to buyers, and then the buyers spend thousands more personalizing their new home or fixing it up.
Growth in homeowner spending for improvements and repairs is expected to slow for the rest of 2022 and the first half of 2023, according to the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. The center’s Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity predicts homeowner improvement and repair spending repair spending will grow 17.4% this year to $431 billion. That will slow to 10.1% by the second quarter of next year, with total 2023 spending estimated at $446 billion.
Chris Doyle, CEO and co-founder of Billd, a construction finance company, said small businesses should be aware of what’s going on in their market and consider pivoting to different types of projects. A small business previously focused on new-home construction should try to work with renovators instead, for example. And since residential home spending is set to decline, federal construction projects might also be something to look into.
“Everyone’s going to have to adapt,” he said. “Small businesses have an opportunity to adapt quicker since they’re more nimble than bigger companies.”
Daniel Edwards, who owns a Handyman Connection franchise in Hanover, Massachusetts, focuses on small jobs that are several thousand dollars, like building decks, swapping out windows and doors and carpentry projects. In the greater Boston area that includes Hanover, home sales in July were down 20%. The median price of a home sold was $650,000, down 2% from June but up 8% from this time last year, according to Re/Max data.
Edwards said he’s normally booked out three or four weeks with jobs, but lately it’s been two to three weeks. He says customers are being tighter with money: They, want smaller jobs, want to look at receipts and question the price of materials. For example, one customer decided to install a toilet paper holder himself, rather than paying someone to do it, saving about $25, he said. Another customer who requested a quote for a gutter cleaning decided to hold off. But while business has been slower, he says the dip isn’t as bad as he was worried it might be.
“I certainly don’t see normal July and August levels, but I don’t see what I had feared in terms of significant decline. People still want small- to mid-sized projects,” he said.
Inflation has been trying on Tom Monson’s business, Monson Lawn & Landscaping, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He’s had to raise prices — he now charges $62.50 to mow a lawn. up from $50. A sod installation costs $1,250, up from $1,100.
More price-sensitive customers have cut back. One customer who was planning on putting in a new lawn decided to wait until next year, and others have cut back from biweekly landscaping appointments to monthly.
Curbio is a startup that provides pre-sale renovations on homes that it doesn’t charge for until the home is sold. They operate in 52 markets across the country, from Chicago to South Florida. They’ve also started offering smaller projects as the housing market slows.
“As the market starts to cool in some areas, there’s much more sensitivity to timelines,” said Olivia Mariani, vice president at Curbio. “Before, a homeowner may be willing to wait 8 to 12 weeks to fully gut and remodel their kitchen. Now, they’re asking for the minimum viable work.”
So instead of doing a full renovation, Curbio has begun shifting project types to more “refreshes” – like painting cabinets or refinishing hardwood floors. It dropped its prior $15,000 minimum price for projects and now 30% of its projects are under $15,000.
Mariani said Curbio’s data shows that a cabinet refresh can help raise the price of a home for sale just as much as a bigger job.
“Buyers just want a home that doesn’t require maintenance -- a full cabinet redo is not really necessary,” she said. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/small-business-housing-market/507-8c59eb38-5481-466b-91a4-cab68a06216c | 2022-08-27T22:23:10Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/small-business-housing-market/507-8c59eb38-5481-466b-91a4-cab68a06216c | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — A newly released FBI document helps flesh out the contours of an investigation into classified material at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate. But plenty of questions remain, especially because half the affidavit, which spelled out the FBI’s rationale for searching the property, was blacked out.
That document, which the FBI submitted so it could get a warrant to search Trump's winter home, provides new details about the volume and top secret nature of what was retrieved from Mar-a-Lago in January. It shows how Justice Department officials had raised concerns months before the search that closely held government secrets were being illegally stored and before they returned in August with a court-approved warrant and located even more classified records at the property.
It all raises questions whether a crime was committed and, if so, by whom. Answers may not come quickly.
A department official this month described the investigation as in its early stages, suggesting more work is ahead as investigators review the documents they removed and continue interviewing witnesses. At a minimum, the investigation presents a political distraction for Trump as he lays the groundwork for a potential presidential run.
Then there's the obvious legal peril.
A look at what's next:
WHAT IS THE FBI INVESTIGATING?
None of the government's legal filings released so far singles out Trump — or anyone else — as a potential target of the investigation. But the warrant and accompanying affidavit make clear the investigation is active and criminal in nature.
The department is investigating potential violations of multiple laws, including an Espionage Act statute that governs gathering, transmitting or losing national defense information. The other laws deal with the mutilation and removal of records as well as well as the destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations.
The inquiry began quietly with a referral from the National Archives and Records Administration, which retrieved 15 boxes of records from Mar-a-Lago in January — 14 of which were found to contain classified information. All told, the FBI affidavit said, officials found 184 documents bearing classification markings, including some suggesting they contained information from highly sensitive human sources. Several had what appeared to be Trump's handwritten notes, the affidavit says.
The FBI has spent months investigating how the documents made their way from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, whether any other classified records might exist at the property. The bureau also has tried to identify the person or people “who may have removed or retained classified information without authorization and/or in an unauthorized space,” the affidavit states.
So far the FBI has interviewed a “significant number of civilian witnesses,” according to a Justice Department brief unsealed Friday, and is seeking “further information” from them. The FBI has not identified all “potential criminal confederates nor located all evidence related to its investigation.”
WILL ANYONE BE CHARGED?
It's hard to say at this point. To get a search warrant, federal agents must persuade a judge that probable cause exists to believe there's evidence of a crime at the location they want to search.
But search warrants aren't automatic precursors to a criminal prosecution and they certainly don't signal that charges are imminent.
The laws at issue are felonies that carry prison sentences.
One law, involving the mishandling of national defense information, has been used in recent years in the prosecution of a government contractor who stowed reams of sensitive records at his Maryland home (he was sentenced to nine years in prison) and a National Security Agency employee who transmitted classified information to someone who was not authorized to receive it (the case is pending).
Attorney General Merrick Garland hasn't revealed his thinking on the matter. Asked last month about Trump in the context of a separate investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, he responded that “no person is above the law.”
WHAT HAS TRUMP ARGUED?
Trump, irate over the records investigation, issued a statement Friday saying that he and his team have cooperated with the Justice Department and that his representatives “GAVE THEM MUCH.”
That's at odds with the portrayal of the Trump team in the affidavit and the fact that the FBI search occurred despite warnings months earlier that the documents were not being properly stored and that there was no safe location for them anywhere in Mar-a-Lago.
A letter made public as part of the affidavit forecasts the arguments the Trump legal team intends to advance as the investigation proceeds. The May 25 letter from lawyer M. Evan Corcoran to Jay Bratt, the head of the Justice Department's counterintelligence, articulates a robust, expansive view of executive power.
Corcoran asserted that it was a “bedrock principle” that a president has absolute authority to declassify documents — though he doesn't actually say that Trump did so. He also said the primary law governing the mishandling of classified information doesn't apply to the president.
The statute that he cited in the letter was not among the ones the affidavit suggests that Justice Department is basing its investigation on. And in a footnote in the affidavit, an FBI agent observed that the law about national defense information does not use the term classified information.
WHAT HAS THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAID?
The White House has been notably circumspect about the investigation, with officials repeatedly saying they will let the Justice Department do its job.
National security spokesman John Kirby, responding to a question this week about whether the administration would do a damage assessment about the sensitive secrets at Mar-a-Lago, responded that he didn't want to get ahead of the FBI.
President Joe Biden appeared Friday to mock the idea that Trump could have simply declassified all the documents in his possession, telling reporters, “I just want you to know I’ve declassified everything in the world. I’m president I can do — c’mon!"
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EVERETT, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) urged the public to report sightings of oversized, striped-eyed grasshoppers that could be a pest to crops.
WSDA recently confirmed the first detection of the Egyptian grasshopper in Washington state, the department said Thursday in a blog post. An Everett resident reported the grasshopper to state entomologists earlier this year. That grasshopper was living but sluggish, according to WSDA.
“An overwintering grasshopper could easily hitchhike, so this is another case where we are asking the public to help us figure out if this is just a single specimen,” Sven Spichiger, WSDA managing entomologist, said in a statement.
Although there is not evidence of an established population in Washington state, WSDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are gathering information about the insect to determine its potential risk.
Egyptian grasshoppers are seen as a minor pest in their native habitats. However, they could be an occasional pest to crops, orchards and vineyards, according to WSDA.
The insect's eyes are the key to identifying Egyptian grasshoppers, entomologists said. The species has distinct black striping in the eyes that sets them apart from other grasshoppers.
Male Egyptian grasshoppers can be two inches long and females can be almost three inches long, according to WSDA. Adults are olive, gray or brown, and young grasshoppers are green and can blend in with vegetation.
The grasshoppers are most likely seen at the end of summer.
WSDA also plans to conduct visual surveys in the area where the previous grasshopper was found.
Residents who live near Everett should report possible sightings to pestprogram@agr.wa.gov. Email a photo of the insect and the location it was found for identification. If people see what they believe to be an Egyptian grasshopper outside Washington state, they should report those sightings to their state plant regulatory official or state plant health director. | https://www.krem.com/article/tech/science/environment/egyptian-grasshoppers-everett/281-1e870a26-8f01-4562-9475-fc4cdab573b2 | 2022-08-27T22:23:28Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/tech/science/environment/egyptian-grasshoppers-everett/281-1e870a26-8f01-4562-9475-fc4cdab573b2 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Chattanooga firefighters worked a residential fire off East Brainerd Road Saturday afternoon.
Companies were called to a home in the 1300 block of N Concord Road at 12:46 PM.
Quint 21 arrived on scene and reported smoke showing. They made entry and had a very quick knockdown on the fire.
The residents had all safely evacuated the house and there were no injuries.
The cause of the fire is under investigation. The Red Cross will be assisting one adult and two children.
Quint 21, Engine 15, Engine 9, Ladder 5, Ladder 13, Squad 13, Battalion 2 and Battalion 3 (Red Shift) responded, along with CFD Investigations. | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/one-adult-and-two-children-displaced-after-east-brainerd-house-fire-saturday/article_f4c07426-264f-11ed-ac33-5fa05614b87e.html | 2022-08-27T22:29:54Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/one-adult-and-two-children-displaced-after-east-brainerd-house-fire-saturday/article_f4c07426-264f-11ed-ac33-5fa05614b87e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Republican National Committee spokesperson Paris Dennard is no longer working for the party, according to the committee's chief of staff.
"Paris Dennard no longer works for the RNC. We don't comment on personnel matters," Mike Reed told CNN.
CNN has reached out to Dennard for comment. In a statement on Twitter, he said his time at the RNC had "come to an end, and I respect their decision."
Dennard is a former CNN contributor.
Politico first reported the news that Dennard is no longer with the RNC.
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Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has sent a letter to the House Intelligence and House Oversight committee chairs, saying the intelligence community is conducting a damage assessment of the documents taken from former President Donald Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago, according to a letter obtained by CNN.
"The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) are working together to facilitate a classification review of relevant materials, including those recovered during the search," Haines wrote in her letter to House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff and House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney.
Several members of Congress have called for an intelligence damage assessment of the documents.
Politico was first to report on the letter.
Haines also sent a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee saying her office would lead an assessment about the risks to national security, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
In addition, the Justice Department sent a letter to the Senate panel saying that it would be sharing materials with the intelligence agencies while adhering to its longstanding tradition of not disclosing any non-public information during an active investigation, the sources said.
Maloney and Schiff said in a joint statement that they were "pleased" that Haines has launched the intelligence damage assessment of classified documents found at Trump's home in Florida.
The two chairs, who had called for the assessment after the FBI searched Trump's home earlier this month, also said that the assessment must move "swiftly."
On Friday, Senate Intelligence Chairman Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, said in a statement following the release of the redacted affidavit that his panel had made a bipartisan request for "a damage assessment of any national security threat posed by the mishandling of this information."
Also on Friday, the Justice Department released a redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit, a document investigators used to convince a judge to authorize the Mar-a-Lago search.
The DOJ sought the warrant after the National Archives engaged in a protracted monthslong effort to retrieve documents taken from Trump's White House to Mar-a-Lago. After the Archives organized the return of 15 boxes of presidential materials from Mar-a-Lago in January, it referred the matter to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation.
In May, FBI agents reviewed the 15 boxes provided to the National Archives, and the search warrant affidavit details the amount of classified material that was found.
According to the affidavit, a "preliminary review" of the 15 boxes revealed that 184 documents contained classified markings, "including 67 documents marked as CONFIDENTIAL, 92 documents marked as SECRET, and 25 documents marked as TOP SECRET."
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On Aug. 20 at 3:54 a.m., a patrol officer observed a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed and attempted a traffic stop in the 2400 block of South Eads Street, Arlington police said.
The driver disregarded instructions and fled, police said.
At approximately 8 a.m., officers observed the vehicle traveling in the area of 20th Street South and Richmond Highway and attempted a traffic stop, police said. A vehicle pursuit was initiated and continued into the District of Columbia until it was ended due to the driver’s erratic behavior, police said.
Shortly thereafter, the driver re-entered the county and re-initiated the pursuit before abandoning the vehicle in the 800 block of Army Navy Drive and attempting to flee on foot. The suspect was arrested after a brief foot pursuit, police said.
The suspect – 19-year-old Adrian Molina of Springfield – was arrested and charged with attempted malicious wounding of a law-enforcement officer, felony hit-and-run, three counts of eluding, possession of a Schedule I/II narcotic, obstruction of justice and driving without a license.
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On Aug. 24 at 8:32 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 4600 block of Washington Boulevard for a report of a man allegedly exposing himself in the courtyard of a residential property, Arlington police said.
A responding officer located the suspect and attempted to detain him while investigating the incident, but the suspect refused to follow commands, pushed the officer and fled into a residence, police said.
With the assistance of additional units, the suspect was taken into custody, and during the course of the investigation, the suspect supplied false identifying information, police said.
The suspect – 25-year-old Nicholas Johns of Arlington – was arrested, charged with assault-and-battery on law enforcement, indecent exposure and identity theft, and was held without bond.
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Fairfax County police on Aug. 24 at 4:54 p.m. responded to the reported burglary of an occupied home in the 800 block of Alvermar Ridge Drive in McLean.
Officers saw a Jeep Compass leaving the area and conducted a traffic stop.
Police arrested the Jeep’s driver, a 20-year-old man, and authorities have charged him with possession of fictitious identification, forging a public document, identity theft to avoid arrest and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Police also arrested three passengers, all juveniles, whom authorities have charged with possession of fictitious identification, forging a public document and identity theft to avoid arrest. Authorities held all four suspects without bond.
The investigation remains active as detectives continue to review and collect further evidence and information in this case to see if additional charges will be forthcoming, police said.
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A resident living on Oak Vale Court told Vienna police on Aug. 22 at 7 a.m. that someone had called him and identified himself as an employee of the resident’s bank.
The caller informed the resident of a supposedly fraudulent charge of $10,000 on his bank card, and asked him to purchase several gift cards to fix the issue.
The resident did not suffer any financial loss due to this incident, being able to cancel his bank card before any charges were made, police said.
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Small pockets of fire continued to burn near White Swan on Saturday morning as crews from Yakima Fire District 5 and Yakama Nation Fire Management mopped up and monitored a brush fire that started Friday afternoon.
The fire was first called in near the 1600 block of Medicine Valley around 4 p.m. The wind-driven fire grew to about 3,000 acres before it was contained around 7:30 p.m. Evacuation notices were then lifted.
Joel Byam, deputy chief of operations for Yakima County Fire District 5, said at this time, a cause for the fire has not been determined.
Left in the fire’s wake were a couple of campers and cars that burned, Byam said.
The fire prompted road closures and Level 3 (go now) and Level 2 (get set) evacuation orders in and around White Swan. Students, staff, athletes and coaches were evacuated from White Swan High School, according to a post on the Mt. Adams School District Facebook page.
Emergency personnel from the sheriff’s office, Yakima Nation Tribal Police Department, Yakima Valley Emergency Management, and the Selah and Naches fire departments were among those on scene.
A helicopter and multiple planes dropped water on the fire Friday night.
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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A billboard seen in San Francisco appears to warn people against moving to Texas. The mysterious billboard located at the intersection of 7th Street and Folsom, reads “The Texas Miracle Died in Uvalde,” and is accompanied by a menacing-looking figure wearing a hood and sunglasses.
Along with with larger message the billboard also has the words “Don’t mess with Texas” crossed out and in the bottom right corner, reads “Don’t move to Texas.” No other information is seen on the billboard. According to a report in SFGate, the billboard at Folsom and 7th is leased to advertisers by FoxPoint Media.
While it’s not explicitly stated, the billboard appears to reference the Robb Elementary School shooting that happened in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24. Texas leaders have faced intense scrutiny over state gun laws since the tragedy that resulted in 21 fatalities, which includes the deaths of 19 children.
Texas is a “permitless carry” state. The practice is sometimes referred to as “constitutional carry” by proponents — the law allows anyone who can legally have a gun to do so without undergoing training or background checks. Per current Texas gun laws, you only need to be 18 to buy rifles and 21 to buy handguns.
According to posts from Reddit users in Los Angeles, the mysterious billboard has also popped up in Los Angeles.
Texas has seen an influx of people relocating from California in recent years. Several major tech companies including Tesla, Oracle and Hewlett Packard have moved their headquarters from the Bay Area to Texas.
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I have always enjoyed visiting libraries in other cities, in addition to frequenting my public library of course. And no, I’m not just saying that because I’m a librarian. When I lived abroad a few years ago, one of the first things I did was get a library card in the little town where I was living. Because of that decision, I felt like I always had a place where I belonged — even if I wasn’t home in Minnesota. All libraries may have their preferred way of displaying books, movies, music and the services they offer may differ from one another, but I believe the heart of a library remains the same. No matter what library I visit, there is always a wide variety of information and resources made accessible to the public as well as a safe place that is free for people to use. For me, libraries feel a lot like home because of the welcoming and peaceful environment they provide to everyone.
Recently, I have been having a wonderful vacation in Europe. More specifically, Germany and Austria. While traveling through Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Friedrichshafen, Frankfurt and Innsbruck, I have seen many incredible sights like the Berlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate, Museum Island, Neuschwanstein Castle, the Marienplatz and many beautiful mountains. In addition to these historical (and natural) sights, I have also managed to squeeze in visits to three public libraries. Even though most of the signage and books were in German, I still felt like I was home. I knew I had a free, safe building to visit with wifi access and most importantly, free access to public restrooms. If you have ever visited Europe, you know how important this is!
How different are public libraries in Germany and Austria from libraries in the USA? As it turns out, not that different! The main differences I observed involved services provided, use of space, and materials offered. As a children’s librarian, I was most interested in the children’s sections in each library. While the libraries did have designated children’s areas, unfortunately I was only able to visit two because the public library in Berlin closed its children’s section two hours before the library itself closed. The Innsbruck library had cute reading nooks built into the walls where kids could sit and read as well as large pillows that could be moved around and sat on in the children’s area. The Friedrichshafen library had a wooden boat that contained book bins around the outside and offered an area inside for children to sit and read.
Familiar services I observed were access to public computers, printing availability, a reference desk and an area where items could be checked out by patrons. There appeared to be a lack of children’s programming with only one library offering “Reading Lessons” where children ages four and over could attend and listen to stories. Each library had at least two floors, if not three, compared to our one level at the Fergus library. Most of the bookshelves were organized in rows, with the exception of one library having a few sections arranged a bit like a maze. All of the libraries contained the expected books, movies, DVDs and CDs, as well as puzzles and games. I did not see unique items such as cake pans, bikes, or sporting equipment available for check out.
Overall, the libraries I visited had some aspects I liked and some I did not. The children’s sections in each library were small and none of the libraries contained areas for kids to play, something I value and appreciate in our library in Fergus Falls. However, visiting these libraries brought me joy and a sense of home even with being thousands of miles away. The next time you travel, consider finding a public library to step inside and explore. Then, make sure to stop by the Fergus library and find me. I’d love to hear about your experiences!
Krista Kugler is the Children’s Services Librarian at the Fergus Falls Public Library.
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Roses are a diverse group of plants that have many options for gardens here in the frozen north. Some shrub rose cultivars are completely hardy or have very little dieback in zones three and four. Remember we are in 4B but it is usually a good idea to get zone three plants here in the middle of the state.
You can usually just mulch around the base of shrub roses as you do with all your perennials, and they will come through the winter in good shape. However, most roses sold in Minnesota are sissies and need blankets and quilts and comforters to get through our winters. These include the tea roses, floribundas, grandifloras, miniatures, climbers and some shrub rose cultivars. They are often considered annuals here but if you are determined enough, you can overwinter them.
Start by discouraging succulent late season growth by; limiting fertilization, especially nitrogen after Aug. 1. Don’t prune heavily in late summer or fall and keep deadheading till freeze up. Keep watering, being careful not to let the leaves go into the night wet.
The goal of winter protection isn’t to keep the frost out but to keep it in and prevent cycles of freezing and thawing and the temps from dropping far below freezing. Do not use styrofoam cones for this. They cause more harm than good. As the late winter sun beats on them, the temperatures can get as high as 80 degrees inside them then drop below freezing when the sun goes down. Result: one cooked, dead rose.
There are two major ways used in Minnesota to successfully protect tender roses growing in the ground. One is the Minnesota tip method and the other by mounding insulation around the plant. This article will discuss the Minnesota tip method.
Albert Nelson came up with the tip method in the 1950s. He had been growing roses since 1920. He took information learned from protecting raspberries in the Northeastern states and experimented with his roses. The suggestion was to mound soil around the base of the berries and then bending down the canes and covering them with different types of mulch usually in mid to late October. This is what he came up with.
Spray the roses with fungicide and water the soil a day or so before tipping. Tie the canes together from the bottom up to reduce the size. Use synthetic string or twine that won’t degrade in wet soil. Now dig a trench as long as the plant is tall, about a foot deep or more depending on the size of the rose. Loosen the root mass of the rose on the opposite side of the plant. Carefully tip the rose into the trench. You may have to loosen the root system with a garden fork to accomplish this. Next, pressing the rose into the trench, backfill and mound soil over the canes being sure to cover all of the rose. Top with a couple of feet of mulch. It’s a good idea to mark each end of the trench so you don’t inadvertently start digging in the middle of the plant in the spring since you should have mulched all the flowerbeds with two feet of mulch for the winter.
In early or mid-April, depending on the spring, remove all the mulch and carefully pull your rose upright and replant the disturbed roots. Water well, then protect the canes from drying out in the spring winds by wrapping with wet burlap or anti-transparent sprays to conserve moisture as the plant reestablishes itself.
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While the fiery reds of ripening sumac and cool currents of northern air are both harbingers of a coming winter, they are also markers of an exciting autumn season of harvest and change for area gardeners.
Gardeners and growers alike base decisions about what to grow by following the United States Department of Agriculture’s Plant Hardiness Zone Map. These region-based charts are developed through the careful research of average annual minimum winter temperatures and are segmented by 10-degree increments.
Otter Tail County exists on the border of two hardiness zones, zone 3a and 3b, spanning a range from -35 to -25 degrees Fahrenheit.
Realizing a successful spring growing season begins in the fall and important tasks that should be undertaken before the grip of winter tightens include saving seeds, caring for the soil and managing the summer residue.
Rick Abrahamson of Homegrown Gardens in Fergus Falls explains the initial steps one should take to ensure the continued health of vegetable gardens specifically this fall, “If we’re talking vegetable gardens, I would recommend removing all the leftover plant material. You can incorporate everything except for tomato vines. You don’t really want those left out there, so they need to come off and be disposed of – don’t compost them.”
Abrahamson notes that tomato plants can harbor diseases and prove to be a harmful addition to the soil. Organic matter such as manure, compost or peat can be incorporated into the ground in preparation for winter as these materials will continue to break down and amend the area for the coming spring.
“I would advise against putting a whole bunch of leaf litter on top of the soil unless you’re going to incorporate it,” Abrahamson continues. “That material gets matted down and while it will retain moisture, it will make it more difficult to get into the garden in the springtime.”
Abrahamson says that he would also advise against the input of additional fertilizer as a lot of that could be lost depending on snowfall and fluctuating temperatures.
“You may want to have a soil test done to see where things are as well,” Abrahamson continues. “That could be done through the University of Minnesota or North Dakota State University, or any number of private labs.”
He goes on to mention that trees and shrubs such as arbor vitae, juniper and various other evergreens can benefit from products such as horticultural oil and Wilt-Pruf along with being wrapped in burlap over the colder months.
Abrahamson mentions that garlic, tulips, garden mums and other spring-flowering bulbs are all excellent choices to plant this fall as they all must go through vernalization, which is a cooling period that certain seeds and plants must undergo and which results in accelerated flowering when temperatures finally become conducive for growing. He also mentions that fall is a great time to plant shrubs and trees as the soil remains warm and allows for continued root growth.
Saving seeds is also an important process that gardeners and growers should not overlook; the benefits include being able to better adapt varieties to local conditions, connecting with neighbors and other keen growers through seeds swaps and preserving plants that have been in families for generations. Individuals will also save money by not having to rely on stores and online markets for new seeds each year.
More information on local growing conditions, plant biology and agriculture can be found at the following: extension.umn.edu, usda.gov. | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/news/fall-garden-prep-leads-to-healthy-springs/article_b95a12e0-2580-11ed-a246-cf317cfa58e6.html | 2022-08-27T22:47:53Z | fergusfallsjournal.com | control | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/news/fall-garden-prep-leads-to-healthy-springs/article_b95a12e0-2580-11ed-a246-cf317cfa58e6.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Former Minister of Works and a strong promoter of Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s presidency, Senator Dayo Adeyeye, has declared that division in the opposition People’s Democratic Party has done colossal damage to the chances of its candidate, Atiku Abubakar in the 2023 presidential poll.
Adeyeye, who is the National Chairman of Southwest Agenda for Asiwaju 2023 Presidency (SWAGA), said the emergence of Peter Obi and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as presidential candidates of the Labour party and New Nigeria People’s Party respectively, had depleted Atiku’s votes and narrowed his winning chances.
On the rumoured meeting of Tinubu and Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike in London to perfect an alliance ahead of 2023, Adeyeye was enthused about the move, saying it would further brighten the chances of the former Lagos State Governor to clinching the presidency.
The former Minister who spoke while featuring on a political programme on African Independent Television(AIT) and was monitored in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, expressed optimism that Tinubu has a strong political network across Nigeria to defeat Atiku, his closest rival and other opponents without going into a run-off as being predicted.
According to him, “Tinubu has the network and strong political structures to amass 25% of votes in two/third of the 36 states. There won’t be any need for any run-off, because the APC has a strong candidate that can deliver.”
He said the breaking away of strong politicians, who had emerged as presidential candidates in other parties would automatically affect Atiku’s chances in the forthcoming poll.
“You could all remember that the PDP lost in the 2015 presidential poll to President Muhammadu Buhari because five governors defected to the newly formed APC. And if you look at the strength of adding five governors to the then APC, the two parties were near equal strength and that affected the ruling party.
“So in the coming election, the same scenario is playing out. About four months ago, Atiku, Obi and Kwankwaso belonged to the same party. So, Obi and Kwankwaso, who are now in LP and NNPP will divide the votes that are supposed to be for Atiku in the coming election.
“But if you look at the APC, the party is intact and strong behind Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Though some few people had defected and I think that affected all the major parties. If you look at the two main parties, you will realise that APC is the one that is more cohesive, stable and intact.”
The SWAGA leader said that he could not confirm whether Tinubu and Governor Wike are in alliance talk, but added that the River State Governor joining the APC candidate would further enhance Tinubu’s victory.
“Governor Wike had always insisted that power must rotate between the North and the South for justice and equity. So, if he supports us, it means he wants to be part of the struggle to ensure political balancing between the North and the South and that will be good for APC.
“What the PDP did by giving the presidency to the North after eight years of the presidency was a betrayal of trust and confidence. If not for Tinubu, the APC could have been in the same mess now. His participation in the primary prevented a Northern aspirant from emerging in APC because of his strength and network”.
Adeyeye said the hoopla generated by the same faith ticket adopted by the APC will soon be over, saying the noise around such arrangement had been quenched shortly after the Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong emerged the Director General of the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign organisation.
“The APC has been trying hard to resolve the crisis emanating from Muslim-Muslim ticket. Some of those who felt aggrieved had reflected on their agitations and we are talking. The question has been whether will Atiku’s presidency served their interest more than Tinubu’s or not.
“But let me say that Since Governor Simon Lalong became the DG, things have begun to change. There had been a serious turnaround. The majority of our Christian brothers from the North Central are now working hard for Tinubu/Shettima presidency.
“They are rooting for him because they knew he has risen beyond the fantasy of making promises he could not fulfil. They knew that he is a man who has the experience to practically implement his policies and not those who were just dreaming.”
The former minister dismissed the widespread insinuation that Tinubu is terminally sick to lead a country with multifarious challenges like Nigeria, saying he is mentally alert to lead and ensure good governance.
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In travels along the highways and journeys of life, we all have to stop once in a while to take a break.
Especially if it has been a long drive. Endurance is an admirable quality, but when it interferes with the safety of driving a vehicle it is sometimes best to stop and get room.
In the last couple of years and for various reasons I have had to get a hotel or motel room many times.
Some are fantastic, some offer great amenities, while others are just basic check in and check out experiences.
We all remember and talk amongst ourselves about the really good rooms. The ones that offered a great view, or offered really great service and great staff. Those are the places we remember and come back to if we happen to make it down that specific stretch of road again.
While others are so pathetically bad that it takes a person’s breath away.
I remember one in particular on the North Shore, near Duluth, that will obviously go unnamed as you will see why.
It was one I had stayed at before. It was in a great location and the price was right. I knew what I was getting. The only expectation I had at the time was that it would be a quiet and nice place to sleep, relax and get some rest before visiting more sights along the way the next day.
It was clearly an older motel that had gone through a few remodels, perhaps. But it was basic and turned out fine the first time.
The second time a year or two later, not so much.
A restaurant that was attached to the motel had great food and service that I enjoyed the first time around. The second time when I came back through, the restaurant was clearly closed. It also wasn’t very obvious that the motel was open either.
After ringing a doorbell to the attached motel, a very tired and clearly disgusted individual greeted me and said that they unfortunately closed the restaurant, but that they were still renting rooms to road construction crews that were working nearby. Luckily, he said, there was one room left. The check-in desk was also missing this time around, but the individual walked over to a utility closet and came back with a key and said the room was down the hall and to the left.
After a few short steps I unlocked the door to the room and gasped.
Clearly, all the cleaning staff had quit and walked out mid-shift. However, the motel kept running obviously.
Not only was the bed not made, but sheets and pillowcases were strewn across the room, tissues and other artifacts were stuffed in glasses and best of all the toilet looked like someone had gone after it with a jackhammer.
I tried to reason with what was in front of me. I could not. As my mind was racing after a long day of driving, I briskly walked out the door and went looking for the manager only to discover that he had left for the day, but only after partying construction crews running up and down the hallways whooping and hollering and carrying on informed me of this unfortunate fact.
It was late and the chances of finding another room at that time of night were slim to none in the remote area I was in. So I made the decision to tough it out for a few hours and then get back on the road.
I brought in a sleeping bag from my vehicle and spread it on the floor and slept a while, then I left.
It taught me a lesson that sometimes cheap can be too cheap. Also if a place looks closed, if it’s not, it probably should be.
For notable motel stays this one took the cake.
In contrast, a wonderful place I once stayed at in Sioux Falls literally had a waterpark attached to the hotel and a scrumptious full free breakfast. It was so nice I had to force myself to leave shortly before official check-out time.
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The 30th Annual Habitat 500 bike ride was a huge success! Collectively, 107 riders from across the region raised over $210,000 to help build affordable housing. Many of the riders took part in the build day at 1409 Lenore Way to help frame and sheath Diona’s new home. It was an impressive effort. That is the good news. Her home is one of the three to four thousand homes Habitat builds across the country each year. It annually lands Habitat in the top echelon of single-family home builders in the U.S. Of course, there is always the flip side of the coin, the bad news.
The National Association of Homebuilders and Realtor groups estimate that the United States is short between 3-4 million housing units. Since the Great Recession, led by the housing crash, the pace of housing construction has not kept pace with demand – hence the shortage. This shortage has been part of the reason for the steep rise in real estate values the past two years (along with supply chain issues, tariffs on Canadian lumber and lack of construction workers to name a few more issues). It is basic supply and demand. That means it would take the largest non-profit builder – Habitat for Humanity, 1,000 years to just fix just the shortage. That is obviously unacceptable. So, the problem can’t be solved by non-profits or charity. It can’t be solved by the government, although they are champions in the process at the federal, state and local level. Otter Tail County’s Big Build initiative is a successful case in point. No, the solution is the market.
One half of the homes in Fergus Falls have been built since 1950. The energy released after WWII changed our society in many ways. We began to see home ownership as a fundamental part of the American Dream. We still see that energy in some places such as Perham. The business and community leaders came together 15 years ago when the worker and housing shortage threatened to stunt the economic growth of east OTC. They created Grow Perham with the purpose to build affordable housing units. Since that time, they have built hundreds of units. This is what philosophers call “enlightened self-interest.” The business and community leaders knew it was in their interest to help build affordable housing. No housing, no workers. They didn’t look to the government or charity to sustain the economic vitality of Perham. They took decisive action.
Otter Tail County enjoys a home ownership rate of 78% — way above the national average of 65.5% — something to be proud of. Meanwhile, Fergus Falls, our county seat and largest city is below the national average with only about 64.6%. Imagine what could happen with affordable housing in Fergus Falls if our business and community leaders came together to create Grow Fergus Falls. We can’t wait 1,000 years to fix our housing problem. The right thing is to fix it now.
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A huge thank you from the United States Blind Golf Association (USBGA) to the Fergus Falls community for both financial support and volunteer support for the Second Midwest Regional Open Blind Golf Tournament. It was held at the Pebble Lake Golf Course July 17-19. We had twelve blind golfers from around the United States. We had a 90 year old blind golfer with his guide dog at the tournament again this year.
The mission of the USBGA is to improve the lives of blind or visually impaired adults and children through the worldwide game of golf. We had two new golfers from North Dakota and Texas play in their first blind golf tournament. This event celebrated the 76th anniversary of the USBGA.
Our financial sponsors were: American Legion Post #489 Underwood, Arvig Perham, Birak Shriners Club Fergus Falls, Braun Vending Fergus Falls, Chilson Jewelers Cambridge, Edward Jones Justin Arneson Fergus Falls, Fergus Falls Optometric Center Fergus Falls, Fraternal Order of Eagles #2368 Thief River Falls, Gibbon Farm and Ranch Milnor, North Dakota, J & M Printing, Gwinner, North Dakota, Nelson Auto Center Fergus Falls, Otter Tail Lions Club, Parker Prairie Lions Club, Park Region Telephone Underwood, Pemberton Law Fergus Falls, Service Food Market Fergus Falls, West Central Initiative Fergus Falls, and Underwood Lions Club.
Special thanks to Kevin Swenson and his staff at Pebble Lake Golf Course who welcomed the blind golfers and their coaches with warmth and an excellent groomed golf course. An awesome group of volunteer scorekeepers from both Pebble Lake Golf Course and the Fergus Falls boys golf team under the direction of Matt McGovern, their golf coach.
We had second year volunteers from the Riverside Lions, Elbow Lake Lions and the Underwood Lions. They helped with airport transportation for our blind golfers and coaches, dog sitter for a guide dog so his master could play golf, and organizing welcome treat bags.
Another set of special thanks to the desk manager, Sierra, and her staff at the Country Inn & Suites for quality accommodations and personal service to our blind golfers and coaches. For the second year, a fabulous rib dinner from the Fergus Falls American Legion Post #30 and their manager, Mary and staff. A wonderful meal by Palmer's Kitchen and Grill at the Pebble Lake Golf Course with thanks to Josie, Amber and their staff.
Thank you to Leighton Broadcasting “Chamber on the Air Show” and Lisa Workman from the Fergus Falls Chamber of Commerce and Park Region Television“ Find It In Fergus Falls and Emily Frustol for promoting our Second Midwest Regional Open Blind Golf Tournament.
Finally, a special thank you to Jim Arvidson and Carol Stender both from Sr. Perspective who promoted our event.
For further information about blind golf, go to usblindgolf.com
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This weekend I spent time at a class reunion with friends I don’t see every day (but wish I still did.)
They were the friends who knew me when. And I knew them in the same way. We were innocent and young. Not yet adults, but on the budding cusp. Growing up together creates an enduring bond that can only come from experiencing pivotal years together.
This bond we created has only grown stronger through the years, and I think it is now like a snowball rolling downhill: only getting bigger and stronger. It’s pretty amazing when you live it up close.
The friends at my class reunion knew me when I was only a girl named Jill. Before I became a wife or mother or grandmother. And they knew the boy who was to become my husband as well.
He and I graduated from the same high school class together. We met when we were 15 and became instant friends. Some of our classmates didn’t realize our close relationship back then because we didn’t date; we were just best friends. But I think they appreciate it now. Most of them realize we were soulmates and all of them know he died much too soon.
And they care about me. Sometimes, when we talk about him and their memories and my memories, I might tear up. Some of the friends from my reunion have apologized for making me cry.
No apologies are necessary, because you don’t make me cry. You can’t make me cry. Truly.
Not really.
Don’t worry about it. Don’t let it burden you. Don’t let my burdens weigh you down. I try not to let my burdens weigh me down. It does no good.
So, when I cry, please understand: it’s okay. I’m okay.
Crying is okay.
Sometimes crying is warranted. Sometimes it is needed. Tears can be a release. Holding them in does much more damage than letting them out ever could.
Sometimes I cry, but don’t avoid me because you’re afraid I’ll cry. Don’t worry about your words or sharing memories because you think they make me sad. Please, don’t stop saying his name. Not ever. I love hearing his name and I love hearing about memories of him. They may make me cry; they may make me laugh. Sometimes I’ll laugh through my tears.
It’s all okay.
I cry sometimes because of the love I’ve experienced in life, and because that love is gone for this very brief moment and that can feel terribly sad. When we humans feel sad sometimes tears flow — beyond our control, beyond your control or my control.
Tears just flow, as emotions flow and love flows. As life flows.
So don’t worry if you think you make me cry. Because you don’t. Nor do I.
Love makes me cry.
I have loved. I do love. And the temporary loss of it right now brings tears to my eyes. But that does not rest on you or even me.
It rests on love. And love conquers all.
It really does. It really will. In just a moment, however long that moment may be.
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The internet is one of the world’s greatest technological wonders — allowing us to find entertainment on demand, research any topic in the world, and even take our offices with us to work remotely from anywhere. While the internet has been an incredible asset for everyone around the world, the reality is that the world wide web is not so “worldwide” after all.
After all, we often have to struggle with geo-blocking, internet censorship, and several other restrictions depending on our geolocation. Not to mention the looming threat of hackers waiting to steal some of your most important personal data. That’s where a VPN comes in handy!
VPNs have taken the world by storm in the past few years. But, the cybersecurity tool can come with a monthly subscription fee, which is something that not everyone wants to pay for. There are several free VPNs out there, but they’re often not worth installing on your device — and that’s exactly what we’ll be investigating today. Before we get started though, these are the top 7 free VPNs according to experts’ reviews. So if you still insist on using a free VPN on your device, make sure to use one that has been thoroughly tested and is recommended by cybersecurity experts!
What is a VPN?
So, what exactly is a VPN anyway? You may have heard of VPNs before, they’re also known as virtual private networks. These cybersecurity tools have become increasingly popular over the years, especially over the past decade. They have two main functions, but these tools can be used in a variety of different ways as they offer some excellent advantages to internet users. Let’s take a look at how they work.
The main purpose of a VPN is to hide your internet traffic and mask what you are doing on your device while connected to the internet. This is achieved by encrypting your internet connection — which prevents anyone from snooping on your device. Not even your internet service provider or the government can keep track of your internet traffic while you’re using a VPN.
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This feature is especially important if you’re someone who frequently uses public WiFi hotspots such as the ones found at airports, hotels, and restaurants. While these public WiFi hotspots may be cheap and convenient to get your device online, they do pose a massive threat to your device as they are often unsecured networks. Unsecured networks can be used by cybercriminals to “listen in” on your device as it sends and receives data through the internet. This digital eavesdropping allows hackers to steal critical data such as your login credentials, personal information, and even your banking details.
The second feature that a VPN has is the ability to change your device’s virtual location — this is the feature that has been the main contributor to the popularity of VPNs in recent years. VPNs allow you to spoof your device’s location as you can connect to a secure global server in another city or country around the world. When you do, your real IP address is hidden, and your device will instead adopt the IP address of the server that you have connected to.
For example, if you’re in Scotland and would like to browse the internet as if your device was in the United States, you simply need to launch your VPN and connect to a US server. Changing your device’s location by using a VPN can give you tons of advantages such as bypassing geo-blocking restrictions, internet censorship, and even finding cheaper subscription fees.
Main Drawbacks of Free VPNs
When installing a VPN on your device, it’s important to choose a premium VPN rather than a free one. That’s because a free VPN comes with several disadvantages that will affect your browsing or streaming experience. Let’s take a closer look at what you can expect when using a free VPN:
- Slower connection speeds – Connection speeds are important to many people, especially when it comes to streaming and gaming. When you’re using a free VPN though, your connection speeds will likely be throttled as the VPN vendor will be tempting you into buying a subscription fee rather than using the VPN for free. This will mean slower loading times on your web pages, delays and poor image quality in streaming, and lag when gaming online.
- More ads – No one likes ads right? Well, VPN vendors need to make money somehow, and if they’re offering their service free of charge the easiest way to generate profits is to sell advertising space. When you’re using a free VPN you’ll likely run into tons of pop-up ads that can be intrusive and simply annoying,
- Less security – Free VPNs don’t always have the best encryption technology because they have less money to spend on developing and improving their VPN. This means that your device might not be as secure as you think it is when you’re using a free VPN.
- Fewer global servers to choose from – The main features that make VPNs popular is their ability to change your device’s virtual location at the click of a button. Free VPNs will limit users by offering fewer global servers and you may find that the most popular servers such as the US and UK servers are not available unless you use a premium VPN.
- Daily data limits – Free VPNs will often limit you from using them by implementing a data limit. Daily data usage is often capped at around 500 MB per day for free VPN users, which is not even enough to scroll through Instagram for more than an hour, let alone stream a movie on Netflix!
- Privacy concerns – It’s not commonly known that you can build your VPN. It requires some technical knowledge, but the reality is that anyone can build a VPN if they have the know-how. That’s a scary thought, especially when you realize that cybercrime is on the rise. When you install a VPN that has been built by a cybercriminal, you will essentially be giving the hacker free reign over your device. They can use this access to install more malware on your device or steal important data from your device such as login credentials and personal information. Whichever VPN you decide to go with, make sure you can trust them! | https://tribuneonlineng.com/are-free-vpns-safe/ | 2022-08-27T22:48:25Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/are-free-vpns-safe/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Bauchi Police neutralise 2 suspected kidnappers, arrest 7 others, rescue 2 victims
Bauchi State Police Command in continuation of its tackling crime and criminality in the state have arrested seven suspected kidnappers, neutralised two and injured one who has been terrorising residents of Alkaleri LGA of the State and rescued two kidnapped victims.
A statement by the Command PPRO, SP Ahmed Wakili contained that on 14th August 2022 “at about 2030 hrs, a joint team of Police operatives in conjunction with a local vigilante group led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Maina-Maji Divisional Headquarters, swiftly raided a suspected kidnapper’s hideout, neutralised two suspected kidnappers and arrested the suspects.
“Those arrested are Ali Ibrahim aged 20 years, Manu Abdullahi aged 30 years, Damina Musa aged 22 years, Yusuf Mohammed aged 32 years, Buba Abdu aged 25 years and Buba Sulaiman aged 22 years.
“Also arrested are Isah Manu aged 25 years, Alhaji Suleiman Yusuf age 46 years, Abdusalam (Deceased), Usman Alhaji Dadi (Deceased) aged 28 years, Kabiru Alhaji Sa’adu (recuperating) aged 26 years All of Yelwan Duguri area Alkaleri LGA.
“The two suspects were certified dead by a medical doctor while the operation led to the release of one Alhaji Samaila aged 70 years of Gayar Mukal village of Alkaleri LGA.
“Furthermore, four motorcycles were recovered as exhibits from the suspected kidnappers while during the investigations, the suspects voluntarily confessed to the crime.
“Equally, the Commissioner of Police, Umar Sanda directed that the case be transferred to SCID for discreet investigation.”
In another development, in line with the community policing and intelligence-led policing, on 23/08/2022 at about 0030hrs, operatives of the Command acted on credible intelligence in conjunction with a local vigilante group swiftly swung into action and engaged suspected kidnappers at Durr village via Dass LGA Bauchi State.
Subsequently, the operatives succeeded in rescuing one Hussaina Mustapha Alias ‘Biyu’ aged 45 years of Durr village unhurt and reunited her with her family.
During the encounter, the suspected kidnappers took to their heels into the nearby bush and the Command is intensifying efforts to apprehend the fleeing suspects.
While commending the efforts of the Police operatives, the Commissioner of Police, Umar Mamman Sanda equally encouraged members of the public to continue to dedicate themselves to sharing useful information with the Police.
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Nigerian music sensation, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has described the mother of his fellow Nigerian superstar and Grammy award winner, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, known professionally as Wizkid, as a wonderful woman.
Davido, who met the woman at the airport on Friday, took to the popular social media platform, Twitter to share a post of a smiling picture they took together at the airport.
While pouring encomium on Wizkid’s mum, Mrs Jane Dolapo Balogun, the enlightened ‘Fem’ singer prayed Almighty God shower blessing on her.
Such an amazing Woman … God bless you ma …. D way I was carrying mommy’s bags today at the airport .. dem know say nah First class citizen ❤️❤️❤️ https://t.co/Yl1xumnMDx
— Davido (@davido) August 26, 2022
The singer who referred to her as “mummy” also recounted the experience of how he was happy while helping the woman to carry her luggage.
“Such an amazing Woman … God bless you ma …. D way I was carrying mommy’s bags today at the airport .. dem know say nah First class citizen ❤️❤️❤️” he posted.
The picture has however generated many reactions from social media users, who hailed Davido for putting aside his personal issues with Wizkid to respect his mother.
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Don’t go to Northern Cyprus to study, NiDCOM cautions Nigerian students
The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has cautioned Nigerian students against going to Northern Cyprus.
Its chairperson, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, handed down the warning on Thursday in Abuja at a ministerial briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team.
She said Northern Cyprus was not recognised by the UN, adding that a lot of students had been killed there.
“There have been a lot of problems in Northern Cyprus; we have youths come to tell us, please tell everybody to stop going to Northern Cyprus.
“We did that some time ago and we were challenged at what rights we had to tell people not to go Northern Cyprus.
“I say it again; if you have to go to Northern Cyprus, think twice about it; no fewer than 20 students have been killed over the years and nothing has happened to the assailants.
“Students who had gone there earlier came to tell us that they had to embark on awareness campaign; don’t go to these places; Northern Cyprus is recognised only by Turkey,’’ she said.
Dabiri-Erewa added that NiDCOM would continue to appeal that Nigeria took a strong decision about places like Northern Cyprus.
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ASUU Heading To Indefinite Strike, Demands Fresh Negotiation Committee
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As the 2023 general election approaches, Isaac Fayose, the younger brother to the Former Governor of Ekiti State and PDP chieftain, Ayodele Fayose, has pledged to donate his hotel in Ibadan, Oyo State for the election campaign movement of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi.
Mr Fayose made this known on Thursday via a video posted on his official Instagram account.
According to him the hotel, which is located at 10 Federal High Court Road, off New Adeoyo Street, off Ring Road, Ibadan, Oyo State has many rooms, halls, swimming pools and a large space that can take up to a thousand people.
He stated that the donation of the hotel became imperative so as to ensure the supporters of Mr Peter Obi in Ibadan have a conducive place to hold their meetings and mobilise people ahead of the forthcoming general election.
The video which he captioned with “Message to Peter Obi supporters in Ibadan, Oyo State” goes thus:
“My obidient in Ibadan, I have good news for you. I will be donating my hotel for the period of four or six months remaining until this election.
“My hotel has four shops, halls, rooms, swimming pools, and a big place for a carnival that can take up to 1,000 people. So if you are obidient and you are in Ibadan, now we need to identify our polling units, which I think is about 4,000 polling units. Ibadan alone will be about 1,000 plus.
“Now, you guys will have a place to hold your meeting. There are no business activities going on there (the hotel) because I want to sell the place, but before I sell, we can use it for Obi till after the election. Obidient in Ibadan Oyo State for now.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/fayose-donates-hotel-in-ibadan-for-peter-obis-obidient-election-campaign/ | 2022-08-27T22:50:04Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/fayose-donates-hotel-in-ibadan-for-peter-obis-obidient-election-campaign/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Minister of State for Health, Hon. Joseph Nkama Ekumankama, has reiterated Federal government’s determination to restructure, re-strategise, and reposition all medical institutions in both administrative and human capital development to meet up with global standards.
Ekumankama in his remarks during the presentation of letters to newly Medical Directors disclosed this as he charged Dr. Dauda Abubakar Katagum, of Federal Medical Centre, Azare Dr. Aisha Armiyau of Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Kaduna and Dr. Halima Mukaddas of National Fistula Centre Ningi, Bauchi State respectively in his office Abuja.
The Minister advised new medical directors to be more proactive and diligent in discharging their duties. He explained Ministry of Health readiness to support Medical Centres in order to achieve vision, mission and core value of their establishment.
Ekumankama further advised the management teams of these three medical centres against criticism, nepotism, tribalism and discrimination but rather expand their friendship of participating effort to all staff irrespective of their status, position and creed in order to move the institution forward.
In their separate acceptance speeches, the newly appointed Medical Directors, Federal Medical Centre Dr. Dauda Katagum expressed his profound gratitude to President Muhammadu Buhari for giving him opportunity to serve the nation
Dr. Aisha Arimiyau also thanked the Minister of state and relevant stakeholders for their contribution during the selection process.
She also expressed her appreciation to her aged parent for their support right from childhood, while Dr. Halima Makadass also showed her appreciation to Almighty God for spearing her life to witness this joyous day.
The trio promised to put their effort to fulfil the obligatory and statutory duties in accordance with action plan of health institution to lift their various Medical Centres to higher pedestals to attract global acceptance.
The Director of Hospital Services, Dr. Adebimpe Adebiyi who was represented by Dr. Noah Andrew advised the newly appointed medical directors to be more proactive and dedicated.
He admonished them to operate inclusive government for smooth running and soft landing in their domain, he also promised them the Ministry’s plan to come to their aid any time the need arises.
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Government caucus working against ending insecurity, SDP standard-bearer alleges
•Says all candidates should declare assets before poll
The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Adewole Adebayo, has alleged the presence of a caucus in government against the successful termination of insecurity in the country because its members benefit from it.
Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, he observed there is a convergence of interest between those causing insecurity and those in charge of solving the problem.
He explained that insecurity is one of the five problems confronting the country, for which he had got a plan on how to put it to an end if elected.
According to him, insecurity “is the most embarrassing, the most annoying, and it is the most dangerous if we don’t deal with it.”
The presidential candidate analyzed the different shapes of insecurity in the country, saying that “at the same time that that is happening, there’s a caucus inside the Nigerian government that believes that insecurity is an opportunity to spend money.
“And that if insecurity expands, you spend money on internal security. So, you go around the country you see purely theatrical checkpoints where you can say ‘I deployed 200,000 men’ even though all the men under you are not up to 20,000.
“So, you collect all the money, the feeding allowance and all of that. Maybe they will think, ‘Oh, I’m not killing anybody’ but by allowing the insecurity to extend in order for a such steady income to extend, they are actually contributing more to the problem than they are solving it.”
Adebayo observed that the “artificial poverty we are experiencing in the country is because a lot o our resources…the government is pretending, I don’t think the government can be that powerless, the government is pretending that they have no control over our maritime assets.
“So, ships, heavy ships run by international companies that are well known that have home governments, come to our lands and take millions in barrels of crude oil.
“So, at a time when our currency is supposed to be very strong when the oil price is up, we don’t have any income.
“Those are the areas I’ll deal with. How am going to deal with them is to ensure that when am going to the State House, you don’t bring special interests and people who don’t have loyalty to the country into your government because that’s where the problem lies.
“Because the way the system has been working from my observation since 1999 to a certain varying degree, somehow, the permanent government doesn’t change. If the tenure of a president expires, he goes…whether he loses or wins, whoever comes in, the permanent interest remains the same in the State House.
“And the presidency is designed to work against the president. The essence of the presidency is to limit access to the president, to limit information to the president, and to limit his scope of action.
“So, before we even go into the presidency at all, all the 5,000 appointments that we need to make, we are thinking about people whether they are involved in our politics or not who we know, who we are interacting with, we know that these people have a genuine concern for the country, they are experts in the aspects that we are dealing with whether it’s tackling terrorism, whether it’s tackling kidnapping, any of these areas.
“I must say that I don’t have many worries about handling these issues because 80 to 90 per cent of the time, the solutions are obvious. But the special interests must exhaust the budget.
“Because how do you have a department that could spend $30,000 and solve a problem but you have a budget of $3 million? Are they going to solve the problem with $30,000 and return the rest of the money?
“What happens to all the wives and families travelling to Dubai, all the houses people are buying around the world? So, those are the things that make it look as formidable as our Armed Forces are, they look like they can’t handle this problem.
“It looks like there’s a convergence of interest between those who are causing insecurity and those who are in charge of it.”
The SDP presidential candidate said his administration will behave differently to solve the nation’s problems, including declaring his assets before the election.
According to him, “If am going to make a difference, I must immediately stop almost everything that people are doing already and I must stop everything that they are doing badly.
“First, before even the election, if you are going to deal with transparency, a good presidential candidate must first disclose his assets for scrutiny. You don’t wait until you have won the election because that time is too late. You will go and give it to one quiet agency that will say due to legal reasons, we cannot release it.
“I think that it’s a challenge. I had that understanding with SERAP and SERAP put up the challenge to all the presidential candidates that Prince Adebayo says ‘all of us should disclose our assets publicly so that the public can know who we are, how we came to where we are now and all of that.’
“I wait for the time. Nobody apart from (Omoyele) Sowore has accepted. The others are absent. So, am thinking that I’ll wait till around October 1 or thereabout. If nobody comes up, then we will invite the media and do that disclosure.”
On the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), he said he will sever the relationship between the federal government and tertiary institutions by making them accountable to their governing councils.
“You don’t need the federal government to control the universities,” he said.
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I am a 30 -year old lady with two children. I have some stretch marks on my abdomen which are very unsightly whenever I wear swim suits. Kindly let me know how to get rid of them.
Dorcas (by SMS)
Stretch marks are actually bands of elastin broken beneath the skin. They appear during puberty, pregnancy, the bulking up phase of bodybuilding, obesity, intense physical activity and Cushing’s disease. Oral steroids and over-use of low potency topical steroid creams/ointments driven deeper into the skin when covered with plastic wrap, can also cause stretch marks. Although aesthetically stretch marks may bother you, they are harmless and do not require medical treatment. Unfortunately stretch marks stay with you forever because the damage is in the dermis, far below the surface of the skin, and no cream on earth can undo it. But there are ways to make them almost invisible. Drinking 8-10 glasses of water a day naturally hydrates your tissues, keeps your skin soft and elastic and helps keep collagen production at normal levels. Eating foods rich in essential fatty acids, zinc, silica and vitamins A,C,D,E,K nourishes the body and replenishes your skin. Include oily fish, eggs, liver and lean meats, citrus fruit, tomatoes, almonds, pumpkin seeds, carrots, spinach, green cabbage, kale, Swiss Chard, turnip greens, broccoli, tomatoes, collards and low fat dairy products in your diet.
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I found the Editorial of the Nigerian Tribune of August 9, 2022 instructive as it touches the base of Nigerian youths’ disagreement with the government on the focus of the country’s education policy. Since the establishment of the Joint Administrations and Matriculation Board, JAMB, in 1978, the exam body has not found acceptance in the minds of some Nigerians. This could be linked to the mass failure recorded yearly from its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam (UTME). It is an examination that cannot be easily exposed to ‘expo’: your hard work and knowledge is what gets you through, unlike other exams that are known to have miracle centres where every Tom, Dick and Harry can enroll and come out in flying colors.
Needless to say, the JAMB examination, despite serving a great purpose in filtering qualified candidates for tertiary institutions’ admission, is still fraught with some errors of administration. The migration of JAMB from its pioneering method of hand-written objective exam to the Computer-Based Test system (CBT) indicates a positive evolution. Sadly, certain hitches that were not recorded previously are gradually popping up, like candidates showing up for exams and not being able to partake in the exams due to errors in their biometrics. It is worthy of note that certain guidelines have been set by JAMB itself to avoid having such technical challenges like stopping ladies from applying henna (local tattoo) on their hands, so as not to prevent the biometric capturing of their fingerprints.
Now, has anyone ever given a thought to the registration fees JAMB collects to enroll candidates for its UTME? Though JAMB is not a revenue agency according to a school of thought, I ask: why the need for JAMB to consistently register candidates yearly for its exam if the government is not to expect profit from it? Thousands of candidates register for the exam yearly. They include applicants for federal and state-owned universities, polytechnics, together with other private tertiary institutions. If JAMB makes billions in profit for conducting examinations and millions for correcting minor mistakes on its portal, then it has become a part of the problem.All said and done, there is an urgent need for this agency to reinvent itself in order to fulfil the purpose for which it was established. In a country that claims to practise federalism, there is absolutely no reason for the status quo to remain. We should not centralise the admission process into tertiary institutions that were not set up or funded by the Federal Government.
It is totally illogical for a federal agency to control and dictate the procedure for admission into state and private universities. But until the law establishing JAMB is tinkered with, we are stuck for now, which is why this piece has been rendered to proffer solutions and remedies for an obviously flawed process. The Ministry of Education, which has supervisory jurisdiction over JAMB, should work out an efficient strategy that will reduce the multiple layers of money-gulping procedures of the agency in order to lessen the burden of the candidates and their parents. Education should ordinarily be an essential service which every nation should prioritise for the benefit of its citizens. This is a global phenomenon that should be in the interest of all stakeholders in the education sector. More importantly, however, the Federal Government must make conscious efforts to decentralise the process of admission into tertiary institutions, so that we can truly pride ourselves on running a federation.
Finally, there is a need for a response mechanism such that JAMB as an agency can receive constant feedback from all those who are affected one way or the other, with the conduct of its affairs. The primary concern should be the interest of the candidates for whose benefit the agency was established in the first place. As a starting point, the fees being paid for examinations should cover all other protocols and procedures relating to or connected with the admission process. Parents who are financially distressed, parents who have been battered by the biting state of insecurity in the land, who have no hope of a better tomorrow, should not be subjected to the trauma of a cumbersome and prohibitive admission regime. That will be a disservice to education.
- Abbas is a Mass Communication student at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Kaduna State. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/jamb-and-nigerian-students-since-1978/ | 2022-08-27T22:52:03Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/jamb-and-nigerian-students-since-1978/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) in Kogi under the FGN/IFAD assisted project, has distributed tricycles worth millions of naira to VCDP farmers to boost their farming activities in the state.
The distribution ceremony was witnessed by Hon. Commissioner of Agriculture and Rural Development Hon. David Apeh, at the Kogi VCDP office on Friday in Lokoja.
The Commissioner was visibly happy with the happenings in VCDP and how farmers were being supported in the state.
Presenting the tricycle to one of the farmers Hajia Rabi Abubakar from Ajaokuta LGA, Apeh lauded the government of Alhaji Yahaya Bello for always standing by the programme in the State.
He advised beneficiaries to be good ambassadors of the project and the State as they continue to work hard to earn a good living.
The Commissioner also commended the efforts of the state Programme Coordinator to keep the flag of success flying always as she pilot the affairs of VCDP in the State.
Earlier, the State Programme Coordinator, Dr Stella Adejoh, said the tricycles were distributed to help the farmers in transporting their farm produce as well as using them for transportation business to generate income.
She explained that the beneficiaries were some of the farmers already captured on their data base in the five benefiting local government areas in the state.
She urged the beneficiaries to make judicious use of the items for the benefit of their families, the state and the nation in general.
She noted that the tricycles were not totally free that the beneficiaries had paid their matching grants, which was to enable them show commitment and take ownership of the items given to them.
She disclosed that several of such tricycles had been distributed in batches to beneficiaries in the past, saying the feedback from them had been success stories with positive results.
She reiterated that the development objective of VCDP “is to ensure food security, empower the rural farmers to lift them out of poverty and enhance the economy on sustainable basis.
She expressed her delight on the distribution and the impacts the VCDP had made in achieving its goals and objectives in the state.
Dr Adejoh thanked Governor Yahaya Bello for his commitment towards the VCDP project, noting that the governor was always interested in improving and better the wellbeing of the citizens of the state.
On his part, Engr. Gabriel Salihu who is in charge of the Sub Component, encouraged the beneficiaries to always maintain the tricycles so that the machines will make them better, stressing that the life span of every equipment is dependent on the level of maintenance.
One of the beneficiaries, who is physically challenged, Mr Armstrong Shuaibu, thanked the State Government and Kogi VCDP for the gesture to alleviating their suffering.He opined that the opportunity will not be miss used.
He promised that the tricycle would be used for the intended purpose to enhance their his productivity and support his family and indeed render services to the entire community. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/kogi-vcdp-distributes-tricycles-to-project-beneficiaries/ | 2022-08-27T22:52:22Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/kogi-vcdp-distributes-tricycles-to-project-beneficiaries/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos state has described allegations of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the new Lagos state parking policy as outlandish, embarrassing and contemptible.
The Lagos State Parking Authority, LASPA, had issued a letter informing a certain business outfit of its new tax regime of the sum of N290, 000 for the parking lot outside the premises of the firm, N80,000 per annum each for the parking lot and a non-refundable administrative processing fee of N50, 000.
Condemning the new tax regime, Lagos PDP alleged it’s aimed at milking the people of the state to finance the ambition of an individual who had held the state and its people by the jugular.
Reacting to the allegation, the spokesman of the Lagos APC, Hon Oluseye Oladejo, said the Lagos PDP is seeking an opportunity to pool a ball of wool over the eyes of the people of the state by pretending to have a selfless interest in their wellbeing.
He said, “We received with shock the unfortunate statement issued by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lagos State, on the new parking policy in the state.
The opposition party, in its attempt to curry the sentiments of the people of Lagos and in its characteristic manner, made allegations that are outlandish, embarrassing, and contemptible.
It should be noted that in the effort of the Lagos State Government to respond to the growing need for regulation of chaotic parking in the state, it enacted a law establishing the Lagos State Parking Authority- LASPA.
With an estimated 1.2 million registered vehicles, about 224 vehicles per kilometre of road space and a population of over 24 million people, Lagos State surely needs a sustainable state-wide parking policy to complement the renewed urban development plan and the ever-competing needs for space, especially in the city activity centres and Central Business Districts.
According to recent statistics by the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), there are more than 13 million active vehicles plying Nigerian roads today. Out of that figure, more than 2 million cars are in Lagos. About 10 per cent of the cars require parking each day.
The visionary drive of the successive Lagos State Governments which has seen Lagos State gradually emerging as a true 21st Century city-state, with a burgeoning economy, first-class infrastructure, and service support systems is obviously beyond the impaired contemplation of the PDP. What occurs to PDP in its renowned short-sightedness is politics and money making.
In a most ridiculous manner, the opposition party is rather seeing an opportunity to pool a ball of wool over the eyes of the people of the state, pretending to have any altruistic interest in their wellbeing. It is easy for the discerning people of this state to see beyond the hypocritical sympathy of the PDP.
Otherwise, if the leadership of PDP had any such genuine concern for Lagosians, it should be demonstrated towards alleviating the untold hardship many people of the state are facing on the road on daily basis.
It bears repeating for the information of the general public that LASPA or any of its staffers or agents will not charge on cars parked in any compound. However, for any car parked on the setback, such person, organization or group of persons will be charged accordingly.
A setback (for obvious reasons) is the space between your perimeter fencing and the walkway or the road, as the case may be. Whoever claims he/she owns a setback around his/her property will have to provide official documentation from the authorised MDA in Lagos State showing the legal ownership of the said setback and the Traffic Impact Assessment (TIA) certificate of the property to the authority.
For the avoidance of doubt, the main duty of LASPA is to regulate parking to reduce traffic gridlock caused by indiscriminate parking, reduce travel time, loss of productive man-hours and economic downtime which when multiplied by the average wage rate amounts to billions of naira and reduce incessant road accidents.
These are by far noble objectives geared towards making Lagos conducive for all residents. We, therefore, enjoin Lagosians to ignore the charlatans currently running PDP in the state and team up with LASPA in achieving the objective of making our road free of gridlock.”
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Parking Authority (LASPA) has debunked the social media publications on the state government’s tax regime, saying it’s malicious and sheer propaganda targeted at undermining the good initiatives of the administration of Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo- Olu.
The General Manager, LASPA, Adebisi Adelabu, said, “The Authority upon commencement of Operations has employed several Lagosians, irrespective of tribe, religion or party affiliation.
The allegation that the State is using the Authority to raise campaign funds is reckless and mischievous. It is a fraudulent attempt to deceive the public and incite the people against the government. Parking is a universal phenomenon; it is not a creation of the Lagos State Government.
The business entity that misinterpreted the Demand Notice from the Authority recently and posted erroneously on social media has since apologized to the Authority for misinforming the public.”
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My 65-year-old dad has been complaining of problems with swallowing for the past few months. We are worried because it appears that the medicine he was given had not been working. Kindly advise us.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — The Challenger Learning Center is preparing for a watch party to show support for Artemis Mission I.
They're launching a rocket to carry humans on an un-crewed test flight around the moon.
This is the biggest step in the agency's Artemis program in hopes of returning astronauts to space.
"The reason that we watch all these launches right their inspiring. This one is especially this is the first time that we'll be going back to the mood," Alan Hanstein, the Director with Challenger Learning Center said.
Hundreds of people across the nation had a hand in this project to make this mission possible.
In Tallahassee, Florida A&M University added to the Artemis project.
Main Line Information Systems, another local company contributed by providing some of the computers to NASA for this project.
"What the computer systems do, all of the dell products are smaller machines, and they do development and looking at data, looking at data," Russel Patten with Main Line Information Systems said. "They are taking in scads of data constantly with the main thing an eye on safety and making sure that everything looks the way it's supposed to look because if it doesn't look the way it's supposed to look, they could kill the launch and schedule for another day."
This launch is bringing people in the community together and the challenger learning center is making that possible.
Monday, doors will open at 8 a.m. at the Challenger Learning Center, located at 200 South Duval Street to give a front row seat to history. | https://www.wtxl.com/community/locals-assisting-in-artemis-mission-i-launch | 2022-08-27T22:53:35Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/community/locals-assisting-in-artemis-mission-i-launch | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Democrat Charlie Crist on Saturday tapped Miami-Dade County teachers union president Karla Hernandez-Mats as his running mate as he challenges Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida.
Crist, a congressman who served as the state's Republican governor a decade ago, announced United Teachers of Dade President Hernandez-Mats as his pick at a rally in Miami.
The selection of Hernandez-Mats ensures a Crist campaign focus on education, an arena where DeSantis has had considerable success in animating his conservative base through his hands-off approach to the coronavirus pandemic and policies limiting classroom discussions of race and LGBTQ issues.
Hernandez-Mats advocated delaying students’ return to school in the fall of 2020 and continuing mask mandates in 2021, in defiance of DeSantis’ administration.
She is the daughter of two Honduran immigrants who came to the U.S. in the 1970s and was the first Hispanic to be elected to lead the United Teachers of Dade in 2016.
Crist secured the Democratic nomination for governor Tuesday after defeating state agriculture commissioner Nikki Fried. | https://www.wtxl.com/media/v/content/382ca0624a4807731ce02f5bc7b83b8b | 2022-08-27T22:53:41Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/media/v/content/382ca0624a4807731ce02f5bc7b83b8b | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
‘My sickle cell crises were seen as spiritual attacks’
•‘Nigeria needs screening policy for newborns to tackle sickle cell’
Makinde Titilayo Ololade-Pearl is the Executive Director and founder of Pearls Sickle Cell Initiative. In this Interview by YUSUF ABDULKADIR, she talks about the challenges faced by sickle cell warriors in the society and efforts in curbing them through her foundation. Excerpts:
W HAT birthed the Pearls sickle cell initiative?
Pearls Sickle Cell Initiative was birthed out of my desire to create a sickle cell enlightenment and support world. It was birthed after I got diagnosed with sickle cell at age 18. The level of ignorance and acceptance of my diagnosis at the time I was diagnosed led me to learn more about the disorder and pushed me further to get a group to create sickle cell awareness and provide support to sickle cell warriors. That group is now grown to what we have now as the Pearls Sickle Cell Initiative. A sickle cell awareness support and Initiative for people living with the disorder.
Do you at some point battle with any health challenges being a sickle cell warrior?
Yes, I do, I got diagnosed with sickle cell after I lost vision in one eye at a later age in life but before then, I had battled severe episodes of pain crisis but all of that was seen more as a spiritual problem. I have had multiple surgeries from different sickle cell complications at different times and I still have and live with the impact of sickle cell complications.
What medical problems are caused by sickle cell disease?
You see, sickle cell is genetic and affects cells inside the body so the sickle cell can affect any part of the body. Name that body part and we can mention complications. Talk of stroke, retinopathy that can cause partial or total vision loss, leg ulcer, avascular necrosis, hand, and foot syndrome – just name it.
Do you have any other thing you do aside from being the founder of the Pearl Sickle Cell Initiative?
Yes, Pearls Sickle Cell Initiative is only a part of the Pearl brand. I am a businesswoman. I run a thriving thrift business – The Pearl and Comfy Thrift stores. A fashion outlet that deals with first-grade female thrift wears. Some of her proceeds from this business go into some activities of the Pearls Sickle Cell Initiative.
Do you think there is any lasting solution to stop the discrimination against people living with sickle cell?
Well, discrimination has been with us for a very long time and we can’t stop it in one day but if we can gradually start by erasing and debunking sickle cell myths. I believe so much that misconceptions are building blocks for stigmatisation or discrimination. People stigmatise sickle cell warriors because of the negative knowledge they have about the disorder. If we all can be equipped with the right information and begin to speak more about the truth and show support to sickle cell warriors who are thriving despite their disorder, then I believe discrimination will be dealt with.
How do you cope with your academics being a sickle cell patient?
Well, for me it wasn’t easy at all. I know me to be a brilliant but stress is a major trigger for my crisis and getting admission to the university was a stress factor. The early years in university saw me visiting and revisiting the hospital which in turn affected me academically but I’m grateful that I got to graduate and I am now able to use my own experience, especially my mistakes, to educate sickle cell warriors so they can manage their academics seamlessly.
Do you consider yourself a conquered sickle cell patient?
I give glory to God. Looking back at how bad I felt at the time I was diagnosed and how I saw life back then to how I see life now, the lessons I have learned, the achievements and recognitions I get today as a sickle cell warrior and advocate, and how I can balance work, marriage, business, and advocacy despite all that sickle cell throws at me (because I still have my share of sickle cell crisis now and then). I can say boldly that I am a conquering sickle cell warrior.
Can Sickle cell disease be wholly eliminated?
The sickle cell may not be wholly eliminated now because we still have people who have not even heard a thing about genotypes, some who have heard do not think it is necessary to take a test. Some for religious reasons, some for love are less bothered about the issue of sickle cell. And the population of people like that continues to pose a threat because they still go on to have children with sickle cell. To end sickle cell, all hands must be on deck. Sensitisation campaigns should be done at grassroots levels with free genotype testing schemes to encourage full participation. Adding the genotype message to primary and secondary school topics is another way to catch them young and instill the message right from their young age. This can in turn lead to making the right decision when it comes to genotype compatibility in the future.
The sickle cell will only be eliminated (maybe not so soon) if we all do our part to end the stigmatisation and preach the genotype message without bias.
Does the government have any responsibility to take when it comes to sickle cell advocacy?
Absolutely! Sickle cell advocacy is only complete when it involves awareness and support. Amazingly, so many of us are creating awareness and doing our best to create support but the government needs to give us policies that support sickle cell warriors and provide support systems for persons with sickle cell, especially in the area of access to quality health care. In a country like Nigeria which is said to be the country with the highest number of people living with sickle cell in the world, Nigeria needs a newborn screening policy to ascertain genotypes and other health conditions from childhood. Provision of insurance covers for sickle cell warriors is another area that should be largely attended to. People fear to go to the hospital and end up self-medicating because of the fear of high hospital bills and we all know the dangers of self-medicating. The government can provide adequate support in terms of insurance cover and payment of sickle cell routine medications under its insurance scheme. So sickle cell warriors can at least have access to their routine medications. The government can also provide a specialized sickle cell center where sickle cell warriors can be well attended to.
What has been your greatest service rendered to humanity?
Apart from the sickle cell support activities, I’m privileged to lead through the support of well-meaning individuals, I would say being able to let go of myself and be vulnerable to help other sickle cell warriors find purpose regardless of who they are. Today, I get so many messages about people who are losing hope or have lost hope and I’m privileged to help them find purpose. Today, I see families smiling because of the work we do at Pearls, which to me is service to humanity- selflessly walking people through the path to finding purpose even with sickle cell.
What message do you have for sickle cell patients out there?
In a society filled with misconceptions and stigmatisation, our mantra as sickle cell warriors should be ‘nothing means anything except the meaning you give to it.’ Above all, you may have a sickle cell but it shouldn’t have you. You’re human first before sickle cell and you can achieve what you set your mind to.
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The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has temporarily suspended the planned suspension of operational licenses of 52 broadcast stations over the N2.6 billion license renewal fee.
NBC in a statement signed by the director general, Balarabe Shehu Ilelah, said the commission received positive responses from debtors, hence it decided to temporarily suspend the implementation of its order.
The statement reads: “The National Broadcasting Commission, on Friday, August 19th, 2022, issued a shutdown notice to licensees that are indebted to the commission.
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“Following the ultimatum, the commission received positive responses from the debtor licensees, including big players in the broadcast industry.
“Sequel to a follow-up meeting held with executives of the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON), and other critical stakeholders in the industry, the commission has decided to temporarily suspend the shutdown of the indebted broadcast stations all over the country.
“We express our profound appreciation to the broadcasting organisation of Nigeria, the affected licensees and broadcast stakeholders for their responses and interventions. We, specifically, thank DAAR Communications Ltd and Silverbird TV/Rhythm FM for their responses.
“The commission is not unaware of the difficulties this shutdown must have caused the operators and other stakeholders but must state that the commission will always operate within the National Broadcasting Commission Act, Cap. N11, Laws of the Federation, 2004.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/n2-6bn-debt-nbc-suspends-closure-of-indebted-stations/ | 2022-08-27T22:54:06Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/n2-6bn-debt-nbc-suspends-closure-of-indebted-stations/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), has temporarily suspended the ban placed on 52 media houses across the country over the debt owed to the commission.
It will be recalled that the commission had on Friday, August 19 2022, issued a shutdown notice to AIT, Silverbird, Rhythm FM and some state broadcasting stations over an accumulative debt of about 2.6 billion since 2015
However, in a statement signed and made available on Friday by the Director General of the Commission, Malam Balarabe Sheu Ilelah, the body said, it has decided to suspend the ban after diligent consultations and positive responses from the affected media houses.
The body also acknowledged the role of the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) and other critical stakeholders for their prompt intervention.
NBC equally commiserated with the affected media houses over the difficulties that must have sprung up as a result of the ban while maintaining that the body remains committed to the codes of ethics guiding the operation of the commission.
The statement reads:
“Following the ultimatum, the Commission received positive responses from the debtor Licensees, including big players in the broadcast industry
“Sequel to a follow-up meeting held with Executives of the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON), and other critical Stakeholders in the industry, the commission has decided to temporarily suspend the shutdown of the indebted Broadcast stations all over the country.
“We express Our profound appreciation to the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria, the affected licensees and Broadcast Stakeholders for their responses and interventions. We, specifically, thank DAAR Communications Ltd and Silverbird TV/Rhythm FM for their responses.
“The Commission is not unaware of the difficulties this shutdown must have caused the operators and other stakeholders, but must state that the Commission will always operate within the National Broadcasting Commission Act, Cap. N11, Laws of the Federation, 2004.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/nbc-suspends-ban-placed-on-indebted-stations/ | 2022-08-27T22:54:28Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/nbc-suspends-ban-placed-on-indebted-stations/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ahead of the 2023 polls, the immediate past national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has advised aggrieved party members to withdraw their cases from court.
Oshiomhole who spoke Friday at a meeting of top party members in Benin confessed that he has learned hard lessons from his experience with two of his acolytes: Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki and deputy governor Philip Shaibu who later turned against him.
The former Edo State governor who is the ruling party’s candidate for Edo North Senatorial district said that he never imposed any candidate on the party in his native Edo North during the just concluded primary of the party.
Drumming passionate support for the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, he emphasized that the only person he ever told to step down is his younger brother, Saidu who had the automatic ticket for Etsako West Constituency 2 ticket but had to compel him to quit because it will not be proper to have two brothers name on different ballots.
He said: “I have learned my lesson. All those people I supported before, how did it end up? I only told my younger brother to step down because Oshiomhole can not be going for senate and another Oshiomhole going for House of Assembly. Na only Oshiomhole dey? In Edo North, I never imposed anybody.”
He reiterated President Muhammadu Buhari’s pleading that aggrieved aspirants should settle all cases out of court for the sake of unity, noting that party supremacy should be uppermost in the minds of all faithful.
He reminded that he chose not to mount a legal challenge when he was ousted as the party national chairman, not because he didn’t have a chance of upturning it but for the sake of party unity and cohesion.
Oshiomhole pleaded: “We should not fight to finish. I didn’t go to court when I was removed. It was not because I didn’t have a chance. It is an honour to be the national chairman of the party even if it was for one day. If the Supreme Court ruled that I should come back but the party leaders said no, who will I preside over?
“I chose to sleep over my right by not contesting my removal and I am enjoying it. I chose not to go to court. I told my lawyer to withdraw the case from court. Please take a cue from my example and withdraw all cases as regards primary from the court.”
At the meeting which witnessed the presence of former Deputy Governors Pius Odubu; Lucky Imasuen; former governorship aspirant, Gen. Charles Airhiavbere; Deputy Majority Leader Peter Akpatason among others, the state party chairman, Col. David Imuse disclosed that out of the 22 cases in court following the party primary, 12 of the litigants have agreed to withdraw their cases from court.
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Following the arrest and subsequent parading of suspected attackers of the Owo Catholic Church in Ondo State by the Chief of Defence Staff, Lt General Lucky Irabor, the Eika Solidarity Forum, Okehi Local Government Area, of Kogi state, has written a passionate appeal to the Executive Secretary National Human Rights Commission to ensure thorough and diligent investigation.
The appeal titled “Petition on Gross Violations of Human Rights and incarceration of Abubakar Otuhuo Momoh and three others by Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor”, is in respect of Abubakar Otuhuo Momoh, who is a community leader, trained laboratory technician and the proprietor of the Jamaatul Muslimeen Academy, Eika
He was arrested alongside two of his JSS 2 students, Aliyu Yusuf and Ishaq Awal including
Idris Malik, a trainee Nurse
” Sir, We the Members of Eika Ohizenyi Solidarity Forum wish to appeal to your offices to intervene in the arrest and subsequent parading of four of our members for alleged involvement in the shooting at Owo Catholic Church, Ondo state.
” Although human beings could be unpredictable, we are convinced about the impeccable characters of Abubakar Otuhuo Momoh, a former Community leader, a trained Laboratory technician, proprietor, Jamaatul Muslimeen Academy Eika”, the Forum stated
According to the petition, Otuhuo Momoh was arrested on the first of August, 2022 alongside Idris Abdulmalik, a trainee Nurse, and two SS2 students of his School, Masters Aliyu Yusuf and Ishag Awwal in their homes.
” In as much as we may not want to preempt the security agencies on how to do their job, we believe that they were hasty in arriving at the conclusion.
” We have known them for many years in the community without a trace of criminal tendencies, hence, we were shocked to see them being paraded for a grievous crime of shooting worshippers in a hallowed Catholic Church in Owo Ondo state.
” Although, the Security Agencies said the investigation is ongoing, we charge them to be discreet and above board to avoid the innocent being punished for the offence they did not commit.
” We believe that they should be treated as innocent until proved otherwise by the competent Court of Law.
” However, we urge your good offices to ensure that their Fundamental Human Rights as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution, Chapter 2 and Chapter 4 is guaranteed.
We count on your prompt action please.” The letter concludes.
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Oyakhilome’s book most translated publication into 7,000 languages
•520 out of the total belong to Nigeria
The Rhapsody of Realities, a publication of LoveWorld Publishing Ltd, a daily devotional authored by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome of The Christ Embassy has become the most translated book in the world, the Director of Operations, of the publishing firm, Pastor (Mrs.) Lola Aisida has said.
Aisida made this known on Friday at a press conference, which took place in Lagos, saying that the book, otherwise referred to as Pastor Oyakhilome’s daily devotional, has been translated into 7,000 languages worldwide out of which 520 are Nigerian languages alone.
She said that 22 years after, LoveWorld Publishing had grown into a vast network of publishers spread across several countries, adding that the work of translation was deployed by a massive army of translators who applied due diligence processes in delivering Rhapsody of Realities to all the 7,000 languages.
“By any standard, the work of translation is not an easy one. If it were, the world’s popularly literary pieces would have long been made available in all languages.
“On the contrary, authenticated records show that the most translated short film documentary is in eleven translations; the most translated short film has 22 translations; the most translated document, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, produced by the United Nations in 1948 has been translated into only 370 languages as of 2019.
“And, even the acclaimed most professionally translated author in the world, Agatha Christie, has her books in only 100+ languages,” Pastor Aisida said.
Speaking further on challenges attached to translation and languages, Aisida, said that there are 7,139 languages spoken today across the globe, but quickly noted that a report indicated that 42 per cent of these languages were endangered
According to her, these statistics pose a global challenge fit only for a global publishing house that transcends the inadequacies of the publishing space.
She, however, said LoveWorld Publishing had proven that the translation of a book into all known languages of the world is work that can be done, notwithstanding the fact that translation remained a tedious work.
“There are 7,139 languages spoken today, but a report says 42 per cent of these languages are endangered. These statistics posed a global challenge fit only for a global publishing house that transcends the inadequacies of the publishing space,” she said.
The Abuja Zonal Pastor, Christ Embassy, Dipo Esho, who also spoke on the feat achieved by the publishing firm, appreciated Pastor Oyakhilome “for bringing men into the reality of the original purpose for which they were created,” through the book.
He said the ministry would ensure that the book continued to reach all communities in nations of the world.
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Commercial activities were paralysed on Friday in the Shendam local government area of Plateau as youths in their large number trooped out to protest against the planned installation of a chief in the Yelwa part of the council area.
It was gathered that the youths who got wind of the planned installation by the government trooped to the streets to frustrate the process and to register their displeasure over the issue.
One of the protesters who spoke with Nigerian on condition of anonymity disclosed the planned installation was done in secrecy without proper consultation with those considered stakeholders in the local government and Yelwa town in particular.
It was further learnt that roads linking Shendam town to Yelwa and to the village of Governor Simon Bako Lalong in Ajikamai were blocked for several hours until the intervention of the authority of the local government authority and the security agencies.
The Chairman of the Council, Miskoom Alex Nantum who confirmed the incident said the protest was a result of the planned installation of a chief adding that the exercise has been put on hold to prevent the breakdown of law and order.
He added shops and other business premises in Shendam town and other business premises were ordered to be closed to prevent a replica of Endsars where hoodlums looted people’s properties.
The Chairman who said normalcy has been restored to the affected part of the council implored the people to go about their normal activities adding that the government will look into the matter.
When contacted by the State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Alfred Alabo said men of the State Police Command have been deployed to the affected area.
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The Lawmaker Representing the Bali/Gassol federal constituency of Taraba state at the House of Representatives, Alhaji Gambo Mubarak on Friday flagged off the distribution of relief materials to victims of Bandits, communal clashes and other disasters in the state.
Mubarak while speaking at the occasion said, the gesture was aimed at ameliorating the victims suffering from the menace of insecurity that is ravaging parts of the state and the country at large.
According to the lawmaker, people were suffering for no crime of theirs and needed to be assisted to alleviate their suffering.
“These are mostly very hard-working farmers who do not depend on government or support from anyone to earn their decent living.
“Sadly, the activities of bandits, terrorists and other entities who are out to inflict unnecessary hardship on the people have rendered them helpless. As their representative, I have no option but to come in and cushion the impact of this carnage on our people.
“Thousands have lost their homes, loved ones and means of livelihood. They can not go to the farms for fear of being taken by kidnappers even as their homes have been destroyed and their resources plundered. As their representative, it is almost impossible for me to sleep.
“Consequently, I have decided to provide food items to them just to make sure that they are strong enough to pursue other dreams. I have also provided beddings and empowerment kits for them so that most of them can get productively engaged in various handwork.
“We would continue to do our best but it is important for the government to also come to the rescue of our people who are really suffering from the activities of bandits ravaging our communities” The lawmaker expressed.
Our correspondent reports that items distributed include bags of rice, other assorted food items, beddings, fertilizer, sowing machines and several other items.
Some of the beneficiaries who spoke to our correspondent however said the gesture was the first of its kind since they were displaced and thanked the member for coming to their aid.
“Mr Bulus Adama said, “I lost my home and everything except for my wife and children when the bandits attacked our community. My farms are overgrown now and I still can not harvest anything because the bandits are in the bushes in wait for us.
“This is the first time someone has come to our aid. With the sowing machine I have gotten and the food items, I think I can start a new life now” Adama recounted.
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I am a 16- year old man with undescended testes. My parents had been using non- medical means to bring them down, unfortunately, to no avail. I want to know if they can still be brought down so that they will eventually function normally?
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Surgery is the best treatment for undescended testicles. Ideally, the child should be aged between six months and one year at the time of surgery. Research suggests that future sperm quality in the affected testicle is compromised if the condition is corrected after the child is two years old. However, the operation is still possible at a later age. For bilateral undescended testicles like yours, boys who have surgery before age 13 years appear to have relatively normal fertility, whereas boys with delayed surgery may have reduced fertility. About 10 per cent of males who undergo surgical correction experience reduced fertility later in life.
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UNICEF and IHS Nigeria, a subsidiary of IHS Towers, have announced an 18-month partnership to help strengthen oxygen supply in hospitals for the treatment of pneumonia, COVID-19 and other hypoxemia disorders, particularly in newborn babies and pregnant women.
The partnership is aimed to further support the Federal Ministry of Health in meeting demands for effective oxygen therapy in Nigeria.
Under this new collaboration, oxygen plants will be installed in health facilities and incorporated into state-specific oxygen resilience plans, including training healthcare workers on the safe administration of oxygen.
The partnership covers Ogun, Oyo, Kano, Bauchi, Kaduna, Ebonyi, Cross Rivers, and Rivers states by IHS Nigeria which has been a UNICEF partner since 2019.
Oxygen is a life-saving medical gas used to treat respiratory illnesses and support various healthcare provisions such as emergency obstetric care, surgery, and anaesthesia.
It is critical to improving health outcomes and reducing mortality due to pneumonia by 35%, yet, seldom available and often expensive. In Nigeria, over 120,000 children die each year due to hypoxemia.
“With limited access to supplemental oxygen, the line between life and death is blurred for critically ill patients with pneumonia and severe COVID-19 symptoms. This situation is, unfortunately, the reality for many,” said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF Nigeria Representative.
“At UNICEF, we value our strong partnership with IHS Nigeria. It is only through joint efforts and the support of trusted partners like IHS Nigeria that we can deliver robust healthcare and advance other sustainable development goals to all Nigerians,’’ said Peter Hawkins.
Mohamad Darwish, CEO of IHS Nigeria, said, “We are delighted to be contributing further to the provision of healthcare in Nigeria. When we read about the number of deaths in Nigeria that could be avoided by making oxygen available, such projects become a must-do rather than an option”.
He added that “By working collaboratively, we believe we can help improve the health and well-being of our communities and thereby express a very small token of appreciation to our beloved country and the communities that host us. We also hope this partnership will encourage others in the private sector to contribute to the delivery of vital healthcare for women and children across Nigeria”.
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Blessing Ejiofor | Communication Officer |UNICEF Nigeria.
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The Company has nearly 40,000 towers across 11 markets, including Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Kuwait, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, South Africa and Zambia.
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A faith-based private school, Vanguards Academy, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, last Saturday, graduated a total of 96 students who have completed their secondary education.
The number is the highest in the history of the school founded on September 28, 2002.
Eight of the graduating students completed the memorisation of the Noble Qur’an while three committed to memory the popular 40 hadith in the collection of Imam An-Nawawi.
They are Yahya Muaz, Maryam Shuaib-Osunleke, Lukman Maryam Asake, Huseinah Ettu, Najiyyah AbdurRahman, Khadijah Oyesanmi, Fayruz Adams and AbdurRahman Ismail, who also memorised 40 hadith of An-Nawawi, alongside two others, Abdullahi Gabadeen and Umar AbdulGaniy.
AbdurRahman Ismail, a science student, emerged with the most outstanding results in the West African Senior School Certificate (WASSCE) and scored 345 in the 2022 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination, representing the second best in the history of the school.
Ismail was the cynosure of all eyes as he mounted the podium and recited the Qur’an with a melodious voice.
Clad in Arabian traditional attire, the 17-year-old described the feeling of graduation as “interesting, thrilling and mind-blowing.”
He said “Allah really assisted me a lot and Alhamdulillah for the accomplishment. It required a lot of sacrifices and I tried to create time.”
The chairman of the school’s management board, Dr Zafaran Adeniyi, described the 2022 graduation as unique and a unifying factor for the students.
“There is solidarity among them. Secondly, we have about eight hufadh and three memorisers of hadith. A student from this set also had the second best WAEC result in the history of the school,” Adeniyi, an author of several Islamic books, said.
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