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Merriam, Kansas (August 26, 2022): Cumulus Companies, Inc. announced that Stephen R. Cloud, the company's Chairman, passed away yesterday due to complications from a recent surgery at age 73.
MERRIAM, Kan., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cumulus Companies, Inc. announced that Stephen R. Cloud, the company's Chairman, passed away Wednesday due to complications from a recent surgery.
The Board of Directors issued the following statement: "We are greatly saddened to share the passing of our Chairman of the Board, Steve Cloud. He was a visionary leader, a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and trusted friend. During the 50 years that Steve served and led the company, he strengthened the unshakable foundation built by his parents — a culture that truly values people. His legacy is one that will live on in the Cumulus Companies forever. We are lucky to have had such a thoughtful, respectable, and dedicated leader. The company's directors and employees, as well as the many people he worked with and mentored over the years, mourn his loss and extend our deepest sympathies to his family."
Jeff Cloud, who has been with the company for 16 years, including the past 5 years in progressive roles, as President of IBT Industrial Solutions and CEO of its holding company, Cumulus Companies, Inc. will assume the Chairman's role effective immediately.
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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Livent Corporation (NYSE: LTHM) today announced that Gilberto Antoniazzi, chief financial officer, will speak at Cowen's 15th Annual Global Transportation & Sustainable Mobility Conference, being conducted virtually on Wednesday, September 7, 2022 at 1:40 p.m. ET. Live access will be available on the Livent Investor Relations website and via the following link: https://wsw.com/webcast/cowen123/lthm/2021754. A replay of the event will also be available via the same link for a period of 90 days.
About Livent
For nearly eight decades, Livent has partnered with its customers to safely and sustainably use lithium to power the world. Livent is one of only a small number of companies with the capability, reputation, and know-how to produce high-quality finished lithium compounds that are helping meet the growing demand for lithium. The company has one of the broadest product portfolios in the industry, powering demand for green energy, modern mobility, the mobile economy, and specialized innovations, including light alloys and lubricants. Livent has a combined workforce of approximately 1,100 full-time, part-time, temporary, and contract employees and operates manufacturing sites in the United States, England, India, China and Argentina. For more information, visit Livent.com.
Media contact: Juan Carlos Cruz +1.215.299.6170
juan.carlos.cruz@livent.com
Investor contact: Daniel Rosen +1.215.299.6208
daniel.rosen@livent.com
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This bed management addition benefits practitioners, administrators, and clients.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Therapy Brands announces today it has expanded the capabilities of Procentive, its full-featured, simple EHR solution for behavioral health practices, to now include a bed management module. This added feature allows customers the ability to manage and track stays for clients.
Procentive's bed management module benefits practitioners, administrators, and clients. Nurses and clinical staff can quickly check and update bed status, take attendance, and include tags that indicate status, special needs, or medication.
This new feature benefits administrators and managers by providing a clear overview of bed capacity by room, building, or unit. Waitlists can now be created or checked based on patient's specific needs. Integration within a PMS system allows a practitioner to synch attendance to billing and scheduling and easily access client information like medication and allergies.
"We are excited to evolve the Procentive offering to better serve the inpatient provider community across the country," said Kelley Blair, Chief Operating Officer, Therapy Brands. "This module will help our customers drive efficiency, increase time with patients, and optimize reimbursement for the care they deliver."
About Therapy Brands: Therapy Brands is the leading healthcare IT partner for mental, behavioral, and rehabilitative therapy. Our purpose-built practice management, revenue and data solutions drive exceptional clinical and financial outcomes. Therapy Brands is the trusted partner of thousands of therapy practices who rely on our solutions to simplify their administration, improve revenue, and enable them to focus on patient care. (www.therapybrands.com.)
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Flying Lotus’ “Ash” Adds Tessa Thompson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt
After making his feature directorial debut with Kuso in 2017, Grammy-winner Steven “Flying Lotus” Ellison has landed an ambitious project for his next film. And he’s already recruited some major star power to join the cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tessa Thompson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have booked the lead roles in Ash, a new sci-fi movie set in the far reaches of space.
Thompson stars in the film as a woman who wakes up on a distant planet and discovers that all the remaining crew members of her space station have been horribly murdered. Eventually, a mysterious stranger (played by Gordon-Levitt) arrives on the scene to rescue her. But it isn’t long before trust issues begin to take root between the two of them. Thompson’s character begins to wonder if her so-called “savior” is truly good-natured. Meanwhile, Gordon-Levitt’s rescuer is forced to question whether Thompson’s character is as blameless as she claims to be.
Ash features a more traditional plot structure than Ellison’s work on Kuso. That film (on which he was simply credited as “Steve”) was actually a collection of four vignettes mixing elements of body horror and surrealist comedy. As he did with Kuso, Ellison is composing the musical score for Ash as well. The new feature was written by German-Brazilian screenwriter Jonni Remmler and also counts District 9’s Neil Blomkamp as one of its executive producers.
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Ellison has released four studio albums under his Flying Lotus moniker. The most recent of which was the soundtrack for the Netflix anime series Yasuke. Additionally, Ellison is a highly in-demand producer in the hip-hop and R&B. Last year, he won his first Grammy for Best Progressive R&B Album for producing latest LP, It Is What It Is. His next movie is a segment of V/H/S/99, which premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
TIFF is also where the filmmakers will launch pre-sales for Ash’s distribution rights. XYZ Films and GFC Films are both spearheading the movie’s development as producers, with the former studio handling the financing. No release window has been announced yet.
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(The Hill) – The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) announced on Monday that it is launching a campaign to unionize Minor League Baseball players.
“Minor Leaguers represent our game’s future and deserve wages and working conditions that befit elite athletes who entertain millions of baseball fans nationwide,” MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark said in a statement.
“They’re an important part of our fraternity, and we want to help them achieve their goals both on and off the field,” he said.
MLBPA’s campaign, reported earlier by ESPN, garnered the support of Advocates for Minor Leaguers, a nonprofit that sought to bring attention to minor league players’ working conditions and wages since early 2020.
Advocates for Minor Leaguers said it will suspend its day-to-day operations until further notice, as each of its staff members resigned to accept a new role at the MLBPA.
“We are thrilled by this development and have no doubt that joining the MLBPA is the best possible outcome for every Minor League player,” the group said in a statement.
The Hill has reached out to the MLB for comment.
Working conditions and wages for players in the minor leagues have garnered attention among lawmakers in recent months as MLB owners in late 2021 voted unanimously to begin a lockout after a contract with MLBPA expired for unionized Major League players.
Soon after the lockout ended in March, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced a bill that targeted the league’s antitrust exemption.
In late June, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the MLB requesting more information about the league’s antitrust exemption on its minor league players and teams.
“We are grateful to the many people who have spoken up to demand better treatment for Minor Leaguers over the past two years,” Advocates for Minor Leaguers said in its statement.
“Without their courage, passion and advocacy, none of this would have been possible,” the statement continued. “Though there is much work left to be done, one thing is clear: better days lie ahead for Minor League baseball players.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/mlb-players-association-starts-campaign-to-unionize-minor-league-baseball-players/ | 2022-08-29T20:21:48Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/mlb-players-association-starts-campaign-to-unionize-minor-league-baseball-players/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10 inches on its own, according to a study released Monday.
Zombie or doomed ice is ice that is still attached to thicker areas of ice, but is no longer getting fed by those larger glaciers. That’s because the parent glaciers are getting less replenishing snow. Meanwhile the doomed ice is melting from climate change, said study co-author William Colgan, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
“It’s dead ice. It’s just going to melt and disappear from the ice sheet,” Colgan said in an interview. “This ice has been consigned to the ocean, regardless of what climate (emissions) scenario we take now.”
Study lead author Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Greenland survey, said it is “more like one foot in the grave.”
The unavoidable ten inches in the study is more than twice as much sea level rise as scientists had previously expected from the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet. The study in the journal Nature Climate Change said it could reach as much as 30 inches (78 centimeters). By contrast, last year’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report projected a range of 2 to 5 inches (6 to 13 centimeters) for likely sea level rise from Greenland ice melt by the year 2100.
What scientists did for the study was look at the ice in balance. In perfect equilibrium, snowfall in the mountains in Greenland flows down and recharges and thickens the sides of glaciers, balancing out what’s melting on the edges. But in the last few decades there’s less replenishment and more melting, creating imbalance. Study authors looked at the ratio of what’s being added to what’s being lost and calculated that 3.3% of Greenland’s total ice volume will melt no matter what happens with the world cutting carbon pollution, Colgan said.
“I think starving would be a good phrase,” for what’s happening to the ice, Colgan said.
One of the study authors said that more than 120 trillion tons (110 trillion metric tons) of ice is already doomed to melt from the warming ice sheet’s inability to replenish its edges. When that ice melts into water, if it were concentrated only over the United States, it would be 37 feet (11 meters) deep.
This is the first time scientists calculated a minimum ice loss — and accompanying sea level rise — for Greenland, one of Earth’s two massive ice sheets that are slowly shrinking because of climate change from burning coal, oil and natural gas. Scientists used an accepted technique for calculating minimum committed ice loss, the one used on mountain glaciers for the entire giant frozen island.
Pennsylvania State University glaciologist Richard Alley, who wasn’t part of the study but said it made sense, said the committed melting and sea level rise is like an ice cube put in a cup of hot tea in a warm room.
“You have committed mass loss from the ice,” Alley said in an email. ”In the same way most of the world’s mountain glaciers and the edges of Greenland would continue losing mass if temperatures were stabilized at modern levels because they have been put into warmer air just as your ice cube was put in warmer tea.”
Although 10 inches doesn’t sound like much, that’s a global average. Some coastal areas will be hit with more, and high tides and storms on top of that could be even worse, so this much sea level rise “will have huge societal, economic and environmental impacts,” said Ellyn Enderlin, a geosciences professor at Boise State University.
Time is the key unknown here and a bit of a problem with the study, said two outside ice scientists, Leigh Stearns of the University of Kansas and Sophie Nowicki of the University of Buffalo. The researchers in the study said they couldn’t estimate the timing of the committed melting, yet in the last sentence they mention, “within this century,” without supporting it, Stearns said.
Colgan responded that the team doesn’t know how long it will take for all the doomed ice to melt, but making an educated guess, it would probably be by the end of this century or at least by 2150.
Colgan said this is actually all a best case scenario. The year 2012 (and to a different degree 2019 ) was a huge melt year, when the equilibrium between adding and subtracting ice was most out of balance. If Earth starts to undergo more years like 2012, Greenland melt could trigger 30 inches (78 centimeters) of sea level rise, he said. Those two years seem extreme now, but years that look normal now would have been extreme 50 years ago, he said.
“That’s how climate change works,” Colgan said. “Today’s outliers become tomorrow’s averages.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/zombie-ice-from-greenland-will-raise-sea-level-10-inches-study-finds/ | 2022-08-29T20:21:54Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/zombie-ice-from-greenland-will-raise-sea-level-10-inches-study-finds/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
'Arrest me because I hit her': Florida woman who punched manager who refused to sell her alcohol arrested
MARION COUNTY, Fla. - A Florida woman was arrested after she allegedly hit a Circle K convenience store assistant manager for refusing to sell her alcohol, according to an arrest affidavit.
On Aug, 23, the manager visited the Silver Springs store located on East Highway 40 to get something, when she witnessed a woman in the store trying to buy alcohol without an ID card, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office. The store clerk told her she could not sell the alcohol to her without an ID.
Deputies said the woman then walked outside to a vehicle, and another woman – identified as Lisa Muncy, 43, of Silver Springs – got out of the vehicle and walked inside the store and attempted to buy the same alcohol. The manager denied the sale due to it being a third-party sale, saying the store clerk could potentially go to jail for it, the affidavit stated.
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When the manager went back to her vehicle and tried to leave, deputies said Muncy came out of the store and began calling her names. Muncy then reportedly opened the woman's passenger door and punched the manager, before leaving the area in a tan SUV. Authorities said the incident was caught on the store's security footage.
Law enforcement later found Muncy at her neighbor's home and when they asked her what happened at the store, she reportedly said, "You can just go ahead and arrest me because I hit her," according to the affidavit. "I went through the window of her car and then I opened the car up," she added.
Muncy was arrested on a felony charge of burglary with assault or battery and was taken to jail. She has since bonded out, jail records show. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/arrest-me-because-i-hit-her-florida-woman-hits-circle-k-manager-who-wouldnt-sell-her-alcohol-report-says | 2022-08-29T20:23:38Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/arrest-me-because-i-hit-her-florida-woman-hits-circle-k-manager-who-wouldnt-sell-her-alcohol-report-says | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Virginia State Police is seeking the public's help with a crash that left a Bealeton motorcyclist dead in Fauquier County.
The crash occurred at 1:58 p.m. on Aug. 28 at the intersection of James Madison Highway and Marsh Road. A 2012 Freightliner tractor-trailer was traveling northbound on Rt 29 and a 2012 Harley Davidson motorcycle that was traveling northbound on Rt 17.
The rider of the Harley Davidson, a 77-year-old male, died at the scene of the crash as a result of his injuries. He was wearing a helmet.
The driver of the Freightliner, a 64-year-old male, of Sterling, Va., was not injured in the crash. He was wearing a seatbelt.
Anyone with information is encouraged to call Virginia State Senior Trooper D. Garasimowicz at 540-347-6200 or email area12@vsp.virginia.gov. | https://www.insidenova.com/culpeper/vsp-asks-publics-help-fatal-crash-in-fauquier-county/article_7f1e1cd4-27bf-11ed-b9b2-4f755f452d6e.html | 2022-08-29T20:23:38Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/culpeper/vsp-asks-publics-help-fatal-crash-in-fauquier-county/article_7f1e1cd4-27bf-11ed-b9b2-4f755f452d6e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Northern Virginia region is taking steps toward establishing a satellite campus in the area for Virginia's two public historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
Since last summer, leaders with Virginia State University and Norfolk State University have discussed the idea of a physical campus in the region. Last month, discussions on locations progressed.
President and CEO of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority Victor Hoskins said the two schools presented their basic requirements for the campus during a Northern Virginia economic alliance meeting.
"The purpose of that meeting was basically to give all the economic development directors and their teams the opportunity to hear what the general requirements are of the campuses, like what they're looking for," Hoskins said.
According to Northern Virginia Regional Commission chair and Dumfries Town Council member Cydny Neville, several municipalities showed interest in having the campus come to their jurisdiction.
"Ultimately at this point, the ball is in the court of HBCUs. Everyone is really excited for the outcome of the Economic Development Alliance meeting," Neville, a Virginia State University alumna, said.
Neville said the Northern Virginia Regional Commission has been working since July 2021 to make the regional campus a reality.
"There are no HBCUs north of Richmond, and it would be a game changer in people's lives to have access to quality education through an HBCU if we had a presence in our region," she said.
Neville, a first-generation college graduate, also highlighted the difference between HBCUs and other universities as a reason for supporting the campus.
"It's the education of a lifetime because you're not just in a seminar as a number—professors care about you,” Neville said.
She said the campus would also benefit the region's economic development, saying easy access to higher education would cause the median income to increase.
Municipalities that already have state institutions may be at an advantage as leaders could establish the satellite campus at an existing campus, according to those involved.
"Some of the municipalities actually already have state institutions that are located there. Those state institutions can create a colocation relationship with NSU and VSU because they're state institutions," Hoskins said.
Hoskins said several municipalities are eager to bring the campus to their region because it brings intellectual capacity and income.
"Also, something a little bit more important is, it gives our businesses a connection to the labor force, and talent right now is really the new currency of economic development," Hoskins said, highlighting the high volume of current job openings in the state.
He said the next steps likely include private conversations between the universities and the interested jurisdictions. | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/northern-virginia-leaders-move-closer-to-bringing-a-satellite-hbcu-campus-to-the-area/article_63155a12-27a5-11ed-95a0-53192d24d054.html | 2022-08-29T20:23:44Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/northern-virginia-leaders-move-closer-to-bringing-a-satellite-hbcu-campus-to-the-area/article_63155a12-27a5-11ed-95a0-53192d24d054.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NY bans sale of cans of whipped cream to those under 21 years old
NEW YORK - Store owners are being warned about a little-known law prohibiting the sale of whipped cream chargers to people under the age of 21 in New York. The law went into effect in November 2021, but few people are aware of it being on the books.
The legislation was sponsored by St. Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. of Queens. He says it has been a problem with young teens abusing the cans to get a quick high off of the nitrous oxide inside the cans. They are known as whippets, whippets, or whip-its.
"This new law is an important step in combating a significant problem for many neighborhoods throughout my district," said Addabbo. "The need to limit the access and sale of whippits first became apparent after receiving constituent complaints about empty canisters on neighborhood streets."
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Nitrous oxide which is often referred to as ‘laughing gas’ and is popularly used as an over-the-counter inhalant because of its euphoric effects.
Dental professionals use the chemical during oral surgery to relieve pain but it is highly addictive and has detrimental effects if used improperly.
Studies have shown that younger people are most at risk when it comes to inhalants because they are inexpensive, easy to obtain, and may provide one of the easiest ways to get high, according to Addabbo.
Under the law, any business found illegally selling whipped cream chargers to persons under 21 would be subject to a civil penalty of up to $250 for an initial offense and up to $500 for each subsequent offense. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/ny-bans-sale-of-cans-of-whipped-cream-to-those-under-21-years-old | 2022-08-29T20:23:50Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/ny-bans-sale-of-cans-of-whipped-cream-to-those-under-21-years-old | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Bull Run Regional Library near Manassas is wrapping up renovations and plans to reopen to the public on Sept. 12.
Last year, the county appropriated $582,441 in proffer funds for the project.
As part of the improvements, the Ruth E. Lloyd Information Center for Genealogy and Local History was moved from the Bull Run branch to the Central branch library. The county planned to repurpose the information center’s space for a community maker space service area.
The large information desk in the center of the library was removed to open up the floor. The renovations included new sitting areas, two new study and meeting rooms, expansion of the teenager section and redesign of the children’s area to reduce noise in the building. | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/renovated-bull-run-library-reopening-in-september/article_145cedd6-27be-11ed-897c-3301893896d3.html | 2022-08-29T20:23:50Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/renovated-bull-run-library-reopening-in-september/article_145cedd6-27be-11ed-897c-3301893896d3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
OnlyFans model and accused boyfriend killer Courtney Clenney denied bond in Miami court
MIAMI - The OnlyFans model accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend with a kitchen knife in their luxury Miami high-rise apartment was denied bond after she was returned to Florida, court records show.
Courtney Clenney, 26, appeared in a Miami courtroom on Saturday morning on a second-degree murder charge for the alleged slaying of 27-year-old Christian Obumseli on April 3.
Her attorney, Frank Prieto, argued that there wasn't enough evidence to back a murder charge, and she deserves to be released on bail pending trial, according to WPLG.
"At best it's manslaughter," he told Judge Jacqueline Woodward, who denied the request and sent Clenney back to Miami-Dade jail to await her next court date.
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"Miss Clenney, your attorneys are here, and they’re fighting hard for you, but at this time, I’m not really the judge who should be making these decisions," Woodward said. "It should be a judge who knows a little bit more about your case."
A photo combination showing Courtney Clenney's mugshot from her extradition to Miami following her arrest in Hawaii for the alleged murder of Christian Obumseli. (Miami-Dade Corrections/Hawaii Police Department)
Clenney, who goes by Courtney Tailor online and boasts more than 2 million Instagram followers, wasn't arrested until Aug. 10 in Hawaii, where her attorney said she was seeking treatment for PTSD and substance abuse.
Prieto has argued that his client acted in self-defense after Obumseli attacked her – but prosecutors say the forensic evidence contradicts her claim.
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Clenney allegedly told police that she tossed a kitchen knife at her cryptocurrency-trader boyfriend from a distance of 10 feet, but the medical examiner determined that she was directly in front of him when she plunged the blade into his chest, according to prosecutors.
After the killing, a video of Clenney soaked in blood and wearing a black bra and handcuffs on the couple's balcony went viral.
In announcing Clenney's arrest, Miami-Dade State Attorney Kathie Fernandez Rundle said the couple had a tumultuous two-year romance and released surveillance video of the social media star repeatedly hitting Obumseli in the elevator of their building.
Prosecutors called her the clear "aggressor" in their relationship. The victim's brother, Jeff Obumseli, criticized the delayed arrest and said Clenney was treated differently because she is a wealthy white woman. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/onlyfans-model-and-accused-boyfriend-killer-courtney-clenney-denied-bond-in-miami-court | 2022-08-29T20:23:56Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/onlyfans-model-and-accused-boyfriend-killer-courtney-clenney-denied-bond-in-miami-court | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport wrapped up the first half of the year in its strongest position, passenger-wise, since the pandemic, while Washington Dulles International Airport is still waiting to regain all the passengers it had before COVID struck.
Reagan National’s passenger count of 2,174,786 this June was up slightly from the 2,101,825 passengers that moved through its terminals in June 2019, according to figures reported Aug. 22 by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and analyzed by the Sun Gazette.
Washington Dulles, however, remained below its pre-pandemic passenger total, with the 2,033,559 passengers using its facilities in June 2022 still well below the 2,390,158 of June 2019.
Both airports, however, were well ahead of June 2021 figures, when travel had started to rebound from COVID. Reagan National’s June 2022 passenger total was up 63 percent from a year before, while Dulles’s total was up 57 percent from 2021.
At Reagan National, dominant American Airlines saw a 39-percent year-over-year increase to 1.17 million passengers and held a 54-percent market share when both mainline and regional-affiliate passengers are counted.
Southwest Airlines saw its passenger count up 92 percent from a year before to 316,000, flipping spots with Delta (up 65 percent to 282,000), which a year ago had held down the second position.
Rounding out the top five were United Airlines (catapulting from sixth to fourth with a 302-percent increase to 155,000 passengers) and JetBlue, which saw its passenger count up 162 percent to 154,000.
Reagan National is one of the few airports in the country where takeoff and landing slots are managed by the federal government and must either be used by the airlines that hold them or returned. From the onset of the pandemic until September 2021, those rules were waived, but starting last September, airlines needed to either start using all their allotted slots or risk losing them – which in part explains the huge rebounds from the likes of Southwest, United and JetBlue.
At Washington Dulles, United Airlines maintained its dominance at 66.8 percent of all passengers, with its year-over-year count rising 47 percent to 1,358,662 in June 2022.
Delta was second, up 14.4 percent to 87,484 for the month, with American third, up 62.1 percent to 45,304.
Lufthansa’s passenger count of 43,783 was up a whopping 323 percent, placing the German carrier in fourth spot overall at Dulles.
Lufthansa’s increase was mirrored by other international carriers as the world began opening up to travel once again:
• British Airways saw a 496-percent increase in Dulles passenger activity from June 2021 to June 2022 at Dulles.
• Air France’s increase was 228 percent.
• Korean Air saw an increase of 181 percent.
United Airlines’ international service reported a 177-percent increase in passenger activity.
While Reagan National has a very small international footprint, the year-over-year increase in non-domestic travel was up 670 percent, owing to resumption of service to Canada by both Air Canada and American Airlines.
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Residents living in neighborhoods adjacent to the Arlington Career Center parcel may find themselves sharing on-street parking with students and teachers once the massive rebuild of the parcel is complete.
The county school system has proposed a 360-space parking garage as part of the $175 million project, but planners do not believe that will be enough space to accommodate the need.
Instead, those planners – set to bring updates to the project’s building-level planning committee on Aug. 31 – estimate that 64 to 83 spaces of on-street parking in the neighborhoods north of the Career Center parcel may be needed.
Staff say that shouldn’t be a burden for local residents; they estimate there are more than 500 unrestricted parking spaces within “a short walk” of the Career Center parcel, located just north of Columbia Pike along South Walter Reed Drive.
A parking survey conducted in November 2021 found that a majority of those available spaces were unoccupied during the daytime hours, being needed mostly at night when residents return from work.
Arlington School Board members in April voted 3-1 (with one member absent) to endorse the concept design and its projected $174.6 million budget for the rebuild. The plan aims to build a completely new Arlington Career Center, and possibly then move Montessori Public School of Arlington into the existing building. Arlington Community High School, located in a smaller building on the parcel, will relocate.
The current timeline anticipates beginning the project during the summer of 2023, having the Career Center building complete by December 2025 and then wrapping up ancillary efforts by 2027.
Voters are being asked to approve the majority of the funding through bond referendums, but that is likely to be a low hurdle for the school system to surmount. County voters have not turned down any local bond issues since 1979, and school bonds usually (though not always) lead the pack in the percentage of the electorate in support.
There is a semi-formal policy position in place from the County Board that debt service will not exceed 10 percent of the overall county budget each year; the Career Center plan and other proposed capital projects will bring the school system perilously close (but not over) that figure.
Keeping the county and school system under that 10-percent threshold may be one reason County Board members in recent years have opted not to lower real-estate tax rates despite ballooning assessments; higher tax bills for property owners equate to a larger government operating budget, which equates to more bonding capacity.
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U.S. Senate hopeful Ted Budd speaks at Greenville church
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - A Greenville church was visited by U.S. Senate candidate Ted Budd Monday.
Budd, who is serving as a U.S. congressman in North Carolina’s 13th congressional district (in central North Carolina), spoke to a crowd at People’s Baptist Church.
Budd, a Republican, is facing Cheri Beasley, a Democrat and former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, this November for a U.S. Senate seat.
WITN spoke with Budd Monday, who said the event at People’s Baptist Church was a gathering of pastors.
As a person of faith, he said he wanted to connect with them and thank them for their leadership.
“I want to make sure I’m out there making life better for North Carolinians,” Budd said. “So we will have to see where we stand after November 8th. I certainly intend to win and everything that I’m going to do makes life better for North Carolinians.”
Budd said he was eager to talk about growing up on a farm, welcoming faith at an early age, and how faith has influenced him.
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RUSHING
Jeffrey Overton Jr. (Freedom-Woodbridge) 8-234, 3 TDs vs. Brooke Point
Nico Orlando (Brentsville) 27-179, 3 TDs vs. Liberty-Bealeton
Caleb Alexander (Brentsville) 19-172, 2 TDs vs. Liberty-Bealeton
Nigel Burke (Osbourn) 13-168, 1 TD vs. Jackson-Reed
Jelon Johnson (Battlefield) 25-154, 1 TD vs. Potomac
Tristan Evans (Freedom-Woodbridge) 6-132, 1 TD vs. Brooke Point
Jovan Cook (Forest Park) 27-110 vs. Mountain View
Kalvon Sanders (Gar-Field) 15-101, 1 TD vs. North Stafford
BATTLEFIELD 35, POTOMAC 0: Jelon Johnson ran 25 times for 154 yards and one touchdown and Braden Boggs was 14 of 19 for 178 yards passing and …
PASSING
Sam Fernandez (Patriot) 11-16-1, 231, 4 TDs vs. Hylton
Blake Moore (Unity Reed) 15-24-2, 220, 3 TDs vs. Westfield
Braden Boggs (Battlefield) 14-19-0, 178, 2 TDs vs. Potomac
Tristan Evans (Freedom-Woodbridge) 11-19-2, 131, 3 TDs vs. Brooke Point
RECEIVING
Brandon Binkowski (Battlefield) 7-106, 2 TDs vs. Potomac
DaShaun Gibson (Unity Reed) 6-75, 2 TDs vs. Westfield
Gabe Bigbee (Patriot) 5-111, 3 TDs vs. Hylton
Denzel Lambert (Woodbridge) 5-72, 1 TD vs. South County
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BERWYN, Pa., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Annovis Bio, Inc. (NYSE: ANVS) ("Annovis" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage drug platform company addressing neurodegenerative diseases, announced the appointment of Henry Hagopian III as Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Hagopian comes to Annovis with 30 years of finance and accounting experience, including 15 years of increasing responsibility at Organogenesis, a leading publicly-traded regenerative medicine company. The company has also announced that Jeff McGroarty has stepped away from his role as Chief Financial Officer to pursue other interests. Mr. McGroarty will assist in an orderly transition of his duties over the next several weeks.
"The company has made substantial progress and is now reaching an exciting inflection point given the advancement of buntanetap into Phase 3 clinical trials," said Maria L. Maccecchini, Ph.D., Founder, President, and CEO of Annovis. "Looking at the future of Annovis, Henry is an excellent addition to our team and will help take the company to the next level given his extensive experience in finance, accounting and strategic execution. I look forward to working closely with him to advance our mission of revolutionizing the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases."
"This is an exciting moment to be joining Annovis as it continues its mission to improve the lives of those suffering from neurodegenerative disorders," said Mr. Hagopian. "I'm excited to join this dynamic and talented team and look forward to working with the management to advance the pipeline and contribute to its success. I share the management team's passion to advance buntanetap, having experienced the devastating effects of neurodegenerative disease among my own close friends and family."
Mr. Hagopian joins Annovis from Organogenesis, a Nasdaq-listed leading regenerative medicine company, where he spent 15 years of increasing responsibility, most recently as Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasurer. In 2020, he was the company's interim Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Hagopian has an extensive background in corporate accounting, financial reporting, treasury operations, financial planning & analysis (FP&A), and investor relations.
Mr. Hagopian received both an MBA and an MS in Accounting from the Carroll Graduate School of Management at Boston College and a BS in Economics and Finance, Summa cum laude, from the Silberman College of Business at Farleigh Dickinson University.
About Annovis Bio, Inc.
Headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Annovis Bio, Inc. is a clinical-stage, drug platform company developing transformative therapies that treat neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and other chronic and acute neurodegenerative diseases. The Company believes that it is the only company developing a drug that inhibits more than one neurotoxic protein, improves the information highway of the nerve cell, known as axonal transport, reduces inflammation and protects nerve cells from dying in chronic and acute neurodegeneration. Annovis conducted two Phase 2 studies: one in AD patients and one in both AD and PD patients. In the AD/PD study, buntanetap showed improvements in cognition and memory in AD as well as body and brain function in PD patients.
For more information on Annovis Bio, please visit the Company's website www.annovisbio.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Statements in this press release contain "forward-looking statements" that are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release may be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "expect," "believe," "will," "may," "should," "estimate," "project," "outlook," "forecast" or other similar words, and include, without limitation, statements regarding the timing, effectiveness, and anticipated results of buntanetap clinical trials. Forward-looking statements are based on Annovis Bio, Inc.'s current expectations and are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Further, certain forward-looking statements are based on assumptions as to future events that may not prove to be accurate. These and other risks and uncertainties are described more fully in the section titled "Risk Factors" in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are made as of this date, and Annovis Bio, Inc. undertakes no duty to update such information except as required under applicable law.
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Russo Partners, LLC
(303) 482-6405
nic.johnson@russopartnersllc.com
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Securitization leveraged to further strengthen credit union through reduced interest rate risk to balance sheet, increased liquidity and net worth
TYSONS, Va., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PenFed Credit Union, the nation's second-largest federal credit union, today announced the closing of their inaugural prime auto loan securitization offering PenFed Auto Receivables Owner Trust 2022-A (PAROT 2022-A). The transaction issued $460,292,000 of fixed-rate, amortizing asset-backed notes backed by prime auto loans.
"PenFed is proud to announce our first auto loan securitization," said PenFed Credit Union President/CEO and PenFed Foundation CEO James Schenck. "Entering the securitization market will reduce interest rate risk, increase liquidity and strengthen net worth."
The securitization is a private placement offering, which in the United States is offered only to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A. The asset-backed notes were offered in four senior and three subordinate tranches of notes and rated by S&P and Fitch.
"PenFed is pleased that the auto loan securitization offering was very well received by the market," PenFed Credit Union CFO and EVP, Jill Streit. "We plan to leverage securitization as a tool to further diversify liquidity and funding options, adding additional protections for PenFed members."
PenFed has the second-largest consumer loan portfolio among all credit unions across auto, personal, student, consumer loans and credit cards. PenFed also possesses one of the largest auto loan portfolios among federal credit unions, with originations across all 50 states and Puerto Rico.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC acted as the structuring lead manager of the transaction and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, acted as joint lead manager.
About PenFed Credit Union
Established in 1935, Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed) is America's second-largest federal credit union, serving over 2.8 million members worldwide with $36.6 billion in assets as of June 30, 2022. PenFed Credit Union offers market-leading certificates, checking, credit cards, personal loans, mortgages, auto loans, student loans, and a wide range of other financial services. Our mission is to empower members of our community to achieve their financial well-being. PenFed Credit Union is federally insured by the NCUA and is an Equal Housing Lender. To learn more about PenFed Credit Union, visit PenFed.org, like us on Facebook and follow us @PenFed on Twitter. Interested in working for PenFed? Check us out on LinkedIn. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
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Fed's Kashkari in a Odd Lots podcast said that:
- He was happy to see how Chair Powells Jackson Hole speech was received
- The stock market losses showed investor got the message that the Fed is serious about tackling inflation.
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The USDCAD hasd moved back down toward at swing area between 1.29845 to 1.29892. Below that is the near converged 100/200 hour MAs near 1.2977.
The price action today saw the price initially move higher running into a swing area near 1.3075 to 1.3092.
What now?
The 100/200 hour MAs will be a key barometer for the buyers and sellers going forward. Move below, and the bias shifts more to the downside. Stgya above and the correction will be viewed as one into support.
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ANDOVER, Mass., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TransMedics Group, Inc. ("TransMedics") (Nasdaq: TMDX), a medical technology company that is transforming organ transplant therapy for patients with end-stage lung, heart, and liver failure, today announced that members of the management team will participate in a fireside chat at the upcoming Morgan Stanley 20th Annual Global Healthcare Conference at the Sheraton New York. The fireside chat will take place on Monday, September 12, 2022, at 11:40 a.m. Eastern Time.
Event: Morgan Stanley 20th Annual Global Healthcare Conference
Date: Monday, September 12, 2022
Time: 11:40 a.m. ET
A live and archived webcast of the fireside chat will be available on the "Investors" section of the TransMedics website at https://investors.transmedics.com/.
TransMedics is the world's leader in portable extracorporeal warm perfusion and assessment of donor organs for transplantation. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, the company was founded to address the unmet need for more and better organs for transplantation and has developed technologies to preserve organ quality, assess organ viability prior to transplant, and potentially increase the utilization of donor organs for the treatment of end-stage heart, lung, and liver failure.
Investor Contact:
Brian Johnston
332-895-3222
Investors@transmedics.com
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Ultimate Fitness Challenge goes global for the first time, allowing members from around the world to compete to be named fittest male, female and team members
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UFC GYM®, the first major brand extension of UFC®, and UFC FIT® have announced that its annual "Ultimate Fitness Challenge," will test strength, power and endurance from members across the globe. The challenge will name the most fit male, female and team members of UFC GYM and UFC FIT locations through a series of workouts at regional and national championships, running Saturday, Sept. 17 through Saturday, Nov. 5.
"This is the first year that we've taken the Ultimate Fitness Challenge globally, giving members from around the world the chance to take their fitness to new heights through this series of tests," said UFC GYM Chief Executive Officer Adam Sedlack. "The Ultimate Fitness Challenge provides members and the fitness community with an incentive and accountability in staying committed to one's individual goals."
UFC GYM's team of fitness experts has devised a program that utilizes strategic rounds of exercises to measure four categories: strength, stamina, power and endurance. For the first time ever, participants will compete against other club members to determine the fittest female and male club member globally. Included in the $199 registration fee, members will receive access to special Daily Ultimate Training HIIT classes to help prepare for the competitions, three personal training sessions, exclusive discounts, a customized nutrition plan and in-club prizes. Registration is open now and members may sign up at their local club. Details may vary at franchise locations.
During the regional competition, the winners crowned the fittest male and female members will advance to the national championship, where they'll compete against other regional winners. The top male and female athletes in this final competition will be crowned the Ultimate Fitness Challenge winners and take home the grand prize of $1,000.
In addition to the in-person competitions, participants will have the opportunity to virtually compete against UFC athletes and have the chance to win an additional $1,000 prize and a pair of tickets to an upcoming UFC event. Participating UFC athletes include UFC Hall of Famers Chuck Liddell, BJ Penn, Michael "The Count" Bisping and Cub "Killer" Swanson; former UFC lightweight champion Frankie "The Answer" Edgar; UFC featherweight Ricardo Lamas; and UFC welterweight Belal Muhammad. Participants will use the revolutionary MyZone belt to track their workouts and accrue as many workout points (MEPs) as they can while competing in a MyZone MEP Challenge throughout training.
The complete schedule for the Ultimate Fitness Challenge includes:
- Kickoff and Challenge HIIT Class on Saturday, Sept. 17
- Challenge HIIT Class on Saturday, Sept. 24
- Challenge HIIT Class on Saturday, Oct. 1
- Challenge HIIT Class on Saturday, Oct. 8
- Challenge HIIT Class on Saturday, Oct. 15
- Local Member Championships on Saturday, Oct. 22
- Global Championship on Saturday, Nov. 5
UFC GYM® was the first to unite the benefits of MMA with fitness. The brand's TRAIN DIFFERENT® approach provides members with the ultimate fitness experience and programming that secures results for all ages and training levels. With 160 locations opened and 500 additional locations currently in development globally, UFC GYM® has revolutionized the fitness industry and positively impacted countless lives worldwide. For more information, please visit www.ufcgym.com or www.ufcfit.com.
UFC GYM® is the first major brand extension of UFC®, the world's premier MMA organization, created in alliance with New Evolution Ventures™ (NeV), developers of many of the world's most successful fitness brands. As the first to unite the benefits of MMA with fitness, the brand is not what you expect, and more than you can imagine. UFC GYM's TRAIN DIFFERENT® approach provides members with the ultimate fitness experience and programming that secures results for all ages and training levels. With 160 locations opened and 1,000 additional locations currently in development globally, UFC GYM has revolutionized the fitness industry and positively impacted countless lives worldwide. In addition to its corporate-owned clubs, UFC GYM offers the opportunity to own and operate a franchise domestically and internationally through the UFC GYM® or UFC FIT® model. For franchise information, contact franchiseinfo@ufcgym.com or visit UFCGYMfranchise.com. For more information, please visit UFCGYM.com or UFCFIT.com. Follow UFC GYM on Instagram and Twitter @UFCGYM, Facebook.com/UFCGYM, and youtube.com/UFCGYM.
UFC® is the world's premier mixed martial arts organization (MMA), with more than 688 million fans and 207 million social media followers. The organization produces more than 40 live events annually in some of the most prestigious arenas around the world, while broadcasting to nearly 900 million TV households across more than 170 countries. UFC's athlete roster features the world's best MMA athletes representing more than 75 countries. The organization's digital offerings include UFC FIGHT PASS®, one of the world's leading streaming services for combat sports. UFC is owned by global entertainment, sports and content company Endeavor, and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information, visit UFC.com and follow UFC at Facebook.com/UFC, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok: @UFC.
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(NewsNation) — Contamination has left a northern New Mexico town with less than three weeks worth of clean water.
Wildfires that spread through the northern part of the state earlier this year tainted the water supply for the city of Las Vegas, forcing the town to distribute bottled water and cut consumption.
“We’re very fortunate in that the community has been very supportive through this crisis,” Mayor Louie Trujillo said Sunday on “NewsNation Prime.” “Everyone is doing a fantastic job in conserving the water that we do have.”
The city’s watershed was burned over in the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire, and now debris is running off into the Gallinas River. The current filtration system can’t handle the excess contaminants, leaving the city looking elsewhere for a clean water supply.
Residents have cut their usage by about 40% to 50% of typical levels, Trujillo said, and officials are investigating tapping into other nearby reservoirs, among other solutions.
“We’re relying now mostly on a temporary filtration system,” Trujillo said. He said there are fewer than 20 days worth of clean drinking water left.
The cleanup effort could take up to 10 years, Trujillo has been told. It could mean having to completely replace the city’s water filtration system.
“We’re told that we’re in this for quite some time,” Trujillo said. “Now we will have to design and pay for a huge improvement or replacement of our filtration system.”
As climate change results in hotter temperatures, drier air and more frequent wildfires, the economic costs of natural disasters are rising. Flooding in Dallas last week resulted in an estimated $6 billion in damages.
Economist Rebecca Ryan said the insurance market is facing higher claims than its ever had. Additionally, the White House has estimated climate change will cost the U.S. $2 trillion each year by the end of the century.
“This is more than the value of Google,” Ryan said. “Sometimes those numbers don’t include things like loss of life … so I think that’s probably a pretty conservative number.” | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/contamination-leaves-nm-town-with-fewer-than-20-days-of-clean-water/ | 2022-08-29T20:41:03Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/contamination-leaves-nm-town-with-fewer-than-20-days-of-clean-water/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Pumpkin Spice Lattes are back at Starbucks this week, with a number of fall-favorite treats returning to the menu.
Back for its 19th year, the Pumpkin Spice Latte is available at Starbucks starting on Tuesday. The classic menu item features Starbucks’ espresso and steamed milk with cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove and is topped with whipped cream and pumpkin pie spices. The PSL is available hot, iced, or blended at all U.S. locations.
Returning for the fourth year is the Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew. The cold brew is sweetened with vanilla syrup and topped with pumpkin cream cold foam and pumpkin spices.
The Apple Crisp Macchiato will also be available after making its debut last year. The drink is also available hot, iced, or blended and combines layered flavors of apple, cinnamon, and brown sugar with a spiced apple drizzle.
Starbucks announced a number of pumpkin treats will also be available. Customers will find the Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffin, the Pumpkin Scone, and the Pumpkin Loaf in the bakery section tomorrow. The new Owl Cake Pop will also be available for a limited time. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/when-are-pumpkin-spice-lattes-coming-back-to-starbucks/ | 2022-08-29T20:41:05Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/when-are-pumpkin-spice-lattes-coming-back-to-starbucks/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
At the start of this year, Wisconsin Republican strategists were hoping Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes would win the Democratic nomination for Senate, seeing the matchup between him and Sen. Ron Johnson as the GOP’s best shot at winning in November. Now, just months from the general election, Barnes is giving the Republican incumbent a serious challenge; the last four major polls in the state all show Barnes ahead of Johnson. Polling from Marquette University even showed Johnson down seven points against Barnes (more recent numbers from the Trafalgar group had Barnes with a two-point lead, within the margin of error).
And the political landscape of the next couple months could be hard for the conservative Republican who has positioned himself as a close Donald Trump ally and within the more fringe corners of the Republican party (like the many times he’s elevated conspiracy theories about Covid-19 vaccines). Per a recent report in Politico, the Wisconsin senator is “under a microscope” for how he will vote on an upcoming same-sex marriage bill, which Democrats are hoping to get to the Senate floor before the November midterms. Johnson surprised colleagues when he signaled he’d likely vote in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage earlier this summer, though has since expressed more hesitation. Democrats see the vote as a winning issue for their base in the state.
Even if marriage equality doesn’t pan out to be a driving issue (per polling, it doesn’t appear to be top of mind for voters who are mainly concerned with the economy, crime and abortion) Democrats have plenty to campaign on. In the last two weeks, Johnson admitted to at least a “couple seconds” of attempting to overturn the 2020 election (his office tried to deliver Mike Pence a list of fake pro-Trump electors in the minutes before the certification of the election results)—which he argued was so small a role that he shouldn’t have to be questioned by the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. His response to Democrats’ attack that he’s used his position in the Senate to enrich himself financially, to which Johnson accused Democrats of “playing class envy,” ended up in more attack lines against him. And perhaps most politically potent, in the aftermath of the Supreme Court overturning federal abortion protections, Johnson's long anti-abortion record has taken center stage. As my colleague Abigail Tracy wrote, Johnson said he didn’t view the repeal of Roe v. Wade “as a huge threat to women’s health” and that anyone who does not like their state's abortion laws “can move.”
Johnson has escalated his attacks against Barnes. At a backyard political event this past weekend, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Johnson accused Barnes of "hiding his radical leftist positions" and claimed the Democrat was “hiding” from the press—an attack also being used by Republicans in Pennsylvania’s Senate race. The attacks, as the Sentinel’s Bill Glauber wrote, preview what’s likely to come in the weeks ahead as Republicans recognize this race isn’t going to be easy.
At least one now retired Republican strategist in the state, Brandon Scholz, still sees the contest against Barnes as the best case scenario for Johnson. “Both sides are happy with who they got,” Scholz told me, while pointing out one potential downside to the Democratic field clearing out for Barnes before his early August primary: “What they did to Mandela was they took him out of the warm up, out of the exhibition season…he’s not tournament-ready, he hasn’t had to deal in a primary with a lot of attacks.”
But Scholz said even he has been “kind of surprised” Johnson’s team, and the Republican party apparatus around him, hasn’t “driven all that hard” against Barnes — yet. | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/ron-johnson-road-to-reelection-is-getting-bumpy-mandela-barnes | 2022-08-29T20:42:24Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/ron-johnson-road-to-reelection-is-getting-bumpy-mandela-barnes | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Things are not going great in Trumpworld. Since the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago three weeks ago on suspicion that Donald Trump may have illegally absconded with boxes of classified government documents, every new piece of reporting on the subject has been seemingly more damning than the last. The documents underpinning the search warrant have also done nothing to support Trump's claims that the search was politically motivated, and most attempts to defend former president have been counterproductive at best. With the cards increasingly stacked against Trump, it's perhaps unsurprising that the former president and his key allies now seem to be settling on a more radical approach to avoid accountability: by making vague threats of possible widespread violence in the event that Trump gets prosecuted.
“If there’s a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information, after the Clinton debacle…there’ll be riots in the streets,” Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said on Fox News Sunday evening, referencing a certain controversy you may recall Trump himself making quite a big deal about during his 2016 presidential campaign.
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Trump approvingly shared the clip on his Truth Social website, where he seems to be priming his base for aggressive public unrest, as S.V. Date reported in HuffPost over the weekend. Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner told the outlet that Trump’s recent remarks over social media are reminiscent of protection rackets used by organized crime syndicates. “Nice country you got here,” Kirschner said, explaining the spirit of Trump's rhetoric. "Be a shame if a civil war destroyed it.”
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Of course, Trump's dangerous rhetorical overtures are nothing new. We saw them all throughout his presidency — particularly in the lead-up to the Capitol riot following his 2020 election loss — and they are once again taking more explicit turn in the wake of the Mar-a-Lago raid as the possibility of prosecution looms larger. Part of that turn has put a target on the back of the National Archives, the agency at the center of Trump’s legal drama, which according to The Washington Post, has been inundated with threats. “NARA has received messages from the public accusing us of corruption and conspiring against the former President, or congratulating NARA for ‘bringing him down,’” acting archivist Debra Steidel Wall said in an email to a reportedly “rattled” staff last week. “Neither is accurate or welcome.”
A redacted affidavit released Friday provided additional details about the lengthy fight between NARA and Trump over the government documents he took to Mar-a-Lago after he left office. As my colleague Kelly Rissman wrote last week, the Justice Department obtained its search warrant after arguing it had “probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found” at the former president’s Florida club. His residence, the DOJ argued, likely contained “evidence, contraband, fruits of crimes or other items illegally possessed,” as well as intelligence gathered from “clandestine human sources.” The FBI collected 11 sets of classified documents in its August 8 raid, and the Post reported that some NARA officials believe there are still some records missing. “We will continue to do our work, without favor or fear, in the service of our democracy,” Steidel Wall wrote in her email to staff last week.
Trump has responded to all these revelations as he did to controversies throughout his presidency: with improvised explanations and a chaotic legal strategy. He is flooding the zone with shit, as his former adviser, Steve Bannon might say. This tactic — unleashing a deluge of deliberately disorienting misinformation — has more or less worked for Trump in the past; he has been impeached twice and voted out of office but still hasn’t faced any significant consequences for his alleged misdeeds. But this time around, Trump's possible crimes, which include violations of Espionage Act, may not be so easy to obscure by spinning an even bigger web of lies, as former FBI official Chuck Rosenberg told The New York Times. “There seems to be a huge disconnect between what’s actually happening — a real live court case surrounding a real live investigation — and what they’re actually doing, which is treating it like they’ve treated everything else, recklessly and thoughtlessly,” Rosenberg said. “And for the average defendant on an average case, that would be a disaster.”
Obviously, Trump would not be an average defendant. He commands a devoted following of Republicans who have already made clear they’ll engage in violence — and even die, as in the case of the Ohio man who attempted to attack the FBI after the Mar-a-Lago search — on Trump's behalf. “They embrace…political violence,” as President Joe Biden said of Trump and his followers last week. Republicans recoiled at Biden’s warning, demanding an apology for suggesting that Trumpism was driven by “semi-fascism.” But the kind of heated rhetoric the MAGA base has engaged in, as exemplified by Graham on Sunday, proves Biden’s point. Now facing a real reckoning and lacking a coherent legal strategy, Trump and his allies are using the specter of violence as an extra-legal means of defense. “It’s just an awful moment,” as former GOP congressman David Jolly told HuffPost.” I think ‘mob behavior’ fails in its description of an individual willing to burn down the republic for his own vanities.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/trumpworld-vague-threats-of-violence-after-mar-a-lago-raid | 2022-08-29T20:42:30Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/trumpworld-vague-threats-of-violence-after-mar-a-lago-raid | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Britney Spears finally addressed everything she went through under her 13-year conservatorship directly with her fans.
The pop star posted and then deleted a 22-minute video about the experience, containing just audio and no visuals, to YouTube and Twitter on Sunday in which she detailed the years of “pure abuse” and emotional turmoil. She explained that she wanted to post the video, “honestly just to open myself to others and try to shed a light on if anyone out there has ever gone through hardships—just to put a light on it so that person doesn’t feel alone because I really know what that feels like.” She added that from the very beginning her conservatorship made no sense to her and escalated rapidly, alleging that the entire situation was a “premeditated” plan by her family to put her under their control. “A woman introduced the idea to my dad, and my mom actually helped him follow through and made it all happen,” Spears said. “It was all basically set up. There [were] no drugs in my system, no alcohol, nothing—it was pure abuse and I haven’t even really shared even half of it.” She said that the thing she remembers most from those early days was her father, Jamie Spears, and just how much “he loved to control everything I did. I remember the first day he said, ‘I’m Britney Spears, and I’m calling the shots,’ and I’m like, ‘Alrighty then.’”
The “Circus” singer also opened up about her rigorous work schedule, which included releasing four studio albums and performing in a Las Vegas residency between December 2013 and December 2017. “All I do remember is I had to do what I was told,” she said. “I never remember feeling so demoralized, and they made me feel like nothing. And I went along with it because I was scared and fearful.” Looking back, she also recognizes that some of her performances from that time were “horrible” because, “I was just like a robot, honestly. I just didn’t give a fuck anymore because I couldn’t go where I wanted to go, I couldn’t have the nannies that I wanted to have, I couldn’t have cash, and it was just demoralizing. So I was kind of in this conspiracy of people claiming and treating you like a superstar, but yet they treated me like nothing.”
Spears noted that it wasn’t until the #FreeBritney movement started picking up steam that some of the restrictions of her conservatorship started to lift. She explained that the owner of the facility where she was staying at the time “had to let me go because the #FreeBritney campaign came out with all the pink T-shirts. I saw it on a lot of the morning shows and people [spreading it] by word of mouth and just by my fans knowing by heart that something was up.”
However, the pop star concluded, it was her family’s willing cooperation in her conservatorship that was “the main thing that hurt.” She admitted that she even “kind of stopped believing in God” at the time she was in the facility as she couldn’t understand how her family and everyone around her were able to “get away with it.” Spears continued, “The whole thing that made it really confusing for me was these people are on the street fighting for me, but my sister and my mother aren’t doing anything. It was like they secretly, honestly liked me being the bad one, like I was messed up. Otherwise why weren’t they outside my doorstep saying, ‘Baby girl, get in the car, let’s go?’…I couldn’t process how my family went along with it for so long. And their only response was, ‘We didn’t know.’” She added, “They literally killed me. They threw me away. That’s what I felt like: My family threw me away.”
In an apparent response to the recording, Spears’s mother, Lynne Spears, shared a happy photo of the two of them together on Instagram, writing, “Britney, your whole life I have tried my best to support your dreams and wishes! And also, I have tried my best to help you out of hardships! I have never and will never turn my back on you! Your rejections to the countless times I have flown out and calls make me feel hopeless! I have tried everything. I love you so much, but this talk is for you and me only, eye to eye, in private.”
Vanity Fair has reached out to Jamie Spears, who didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/britney-spears-conservatorship-treated-her-like-nothing-youtube-twitter | 2022-08-29T20:42:36Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/britney-spears-conservatorship-treated-her-like-nothing-youtube-twitter | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When Ana Mendieta died after a fall from a 34th-floor window in September 1985, she was a rising star in the art world whose promise was tragically cut short. When her husband, high-profile minimalist artist Carl Andre was acquitted of second degree murder three years later, a sort of détente emerged in the art world. His art was still displayed in museums and galleries across the world, but occasionally protests erupted to raise the issue of the artist’s late third wife. It was an uneasy equilibrium that has become increasingly familiar in the post–#MeToo era.
In a new podcast called Death of an Artist, which premieres on September 23, curator and art historian Helen Molesworth revisits that standoff with a focus on illuminating Mendieta’s life and work and documenting the complex reactions to her death among her social set. In new interviews with major art-world figures, like New Yorker critic Peter Schjeldahl and the anonymous feminist collective Guerrilla Girls, contributions from scholars, and archival audio from Robert Katz, a journalist who interviewed roughly 200 people connected to the couple’s case in the 1980s, it vividly presents the story anew.
In a video interview, Molesworth told Vanity Fair why she was interested in trying out a new format. “In my museum career, one of the things I really loved to do was give public tours and I think I really honed my ability to talk about works of art in an open language,” she said. “I was interested in seeing if I could migrate to become more of a storyteller, and to see if it was possible to do the visual in the podcast form, something I was interested in experimenting with.”
Molesworth was first approached to work on the podcast with Pushkin back in early 2020, and what followed was a personal journey. She remembers her first introduction to Andre’s work in the 1980s, and describes him as an early artistic “hero” in the first episode for his radical politics and heady approach to art. A few decades later, she was working as a curator at a museum that was considering bringing his retrospective to their galleries, when she started thinking more and more about what her moral responsibility might be when presenting Andre’s work.
So, signing onto work on Death of an Artist was a natural fit. “Selfishly, I knew if I took it on, I’d really have to deal with it,” she said. “If I didn’t take it on, I could continue to just pass it off, but dealing with it was something I was interested in doing.” By the time she finished, she had really confronted “the stark reality” of what happened to Mendieta, and it was “overwhelming.”
The show also weaves in a third strand, the growth of Mendieta’s legacy after her death. There was one thing that few anticipated back when Andre was acquitted and the community around him closed ranks: Over the next few decades, Cuban-born Mendieta’s work reached a new generation of artists and art historians, who saw its relevance and prescience to the preoccupations of the modern world, like the environment, migration, impermanence, and the body.
Studying the work closely helped Molesworth understand its thematic relevance in ways she hadn’t when she was first introduced to it in the context of second-wave feminism. “I don’t think I saw how important she is when it comes to things like migration, diaspora, the ridiculous fallacy of geography,” she said. “I didn’t understand her as in really thinking about the land, the earth, and environmental issues.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/death-of-an-artist-podcast-trailer-interview | 2022-08-29T20:42:42Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/death-of-an-artist-podcast-trailer-interview | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jennifer Lopez is dead set on finding out which one of her wedding guests violated their NDA in order to turn a profit off private footage of her big day.
Over the weekend, TMZ published cell phone footage taken of the pop star serenading her new husband at their wedding reception with a song written especially for the occasion. In the video, Lopez can be seen singing to Affleck, who is seated in a chair across from her with a huge smile on his face. She holds her mic out to the crowd who sings the refrain of the chorus, “Can't get enough of you,” along with her. And while surrounded by backup dancers, she continues to sing, “All night / I can feel the passion / in your eyes / I'm still in love with you.”
The clip was quickly shared amongst tabloids, as well as Lopez's many social media fan accounts. But she explained in a comment on a post by the Instagram account @jlow0rld that the video is a huge violation of her and Affleck's special moment. “This was taken without permission. Period. And whoever did it took advantage of our private moment,” she wrote beneath the post. “I don't know where you all are getting it from bc we had NDAs and asked everyone to not share anything from our wedding. That is our choice to share.” She added, “Anything I put out private is OnTheJLO and it's to share w my fans. Which I will do when I am ready to. This was stolen without our consent and sold for money. Thank you for caring I love you guys.” The account quickly deleted the video, per Lopez's wishes, and posted a screenshot of her comment in its place.
After getting legally married in July at Las Vegas's A Little White Wedding Chapel, Affleck and Lopez hosted a lavish three-day ceremony with over 100 guests in attendance at the 87-acre compound owned by the actor located on Hampton Island Preserve in Georgia. The ceremony was held on the lawn behind the mansion which was filled with white flowers, candles, and “live, laugh, love”-style signage. Affleck wore a white tuxedo jacket with black bow tie, while Lopez cycled through three gowns designed by Ralph Lauren for the event officiated by podcaster Jay Shetty, where guests were also encouraged to dress in all white. There was also a traditional Southern family-style dinner held the night before. A source told People that the newlyweds chose the Georgia home as it hold special meaning for them both. “Ben bought the property 20 years ago when they were engaged first time around,” they said. “They have a special connection there, and his 50th birthday was last week so it made sense to do it there and then.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-wedding-video-sold-tabloids-stolen-take-advantage-private-moment | 2022-08-29T20:42:48Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-wedding-video-sold-tabloids-stolen-take-advantage-private-moment | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Johnny Depp made his first TV appearance in a long time at the MTV VMAs over the weekend, and Amber Heard's sister Whitney Henriquez slammed the network's decision to include him.
Three months after the verdict in his defamation trial against his ex-wife, the actor made a brief digital cameo towards the beginning of the Video Music Awards ceremony on Sunday night. Depp's face was superimposed on the helmet of a Moonperson floating high above the stage of Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. He told the crowd, “You know what? I needed the work.” Later on during the show, he made another appearance as the show returned from commercial break, saying, “Hey VMAs, let's get back to the fucking music, shall we?”
While many Depp fans were delighted by the cameo, Henriquez expressed her disappointment with MTV's decision on social media. She came to her sister's defense, posting on her Instagram Stories, “@MTV you're disgusting and clearly desperate! I really hope that none of the people that made this call have daughters...#DVMAS #IStandWithAmberHeard.” She also posted a picture of Heard alongside the VMA logo which she put a big pink D in front of as "DV" is often used as shorthand for domestic violence.
Depp's on-screen cameo comes just a couple months after he won his lawsuit against Heard with a Virginia jury ruling that she is liable on three counts of defamation over her 2018 Washington Post op-ed regarding domestic violence, although she did not mention Depp by name in the piece. The actor was awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and Heard was also ordered to pay an additional $5 million in punitive damages. However, in the state of Virginia, punitive payments are capped at $350,000, so the damages instead total $10.35 million. The jury also awarded Heard compensatory damages of $2 million as part of her three defamation countersuits against Depp after his lawyer called her claims a “hoax” in the Daily Mail, among other inflammatory statements. In July, Heard 's request for the verdict to either be set aside or have a mistrial declared was rejected by a judge who denied her complaints surrounding the identity of one of the jurors on the case.
After this brief TV cameo, it seems that Depp could also be returning to the big screen in the near future. Earlier this month, Mads Mikkelsen teased that the actor who he was hired to replace in this year's Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore might not be totally cut out of the franchise after all. “It was very intimidating,” the actor told Deadline of assuming Depp’s role. “Obviously, well, now the course has changed—he won the suit, the court [case]—so let’s see if he comes back. He might.” He added, “I’m a big fan of Johnny. I think he’s an amazing actor...His fans were very, very sweet, but they were also very stubborn. I didn’t interact too much with them, but I could understand why they had their hearts broken.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/johnny-depp-mtv-vmas-surprise-appearance-amber-heard-sister-whitney-henriquez-disgusting-desperate | 2022-08-29T20:42:54Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/johnny-depp-mtv-vmas-surprise-appearance-amber-heard-sister-whitney-henriquez-disgusting-desperate | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The good news for Taylor Swift fans is the pop star has no shortage of new music headed their way.
While accepting the award for Video of the Year at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, the pop star used the opportunity to announce her forthcoming record. “I thought it might be a fun moment to tell you that my brand-new album comes out Oct. 21,” she said, promising her fans, “I will tell you more at midnight.” Then at midnight, she posted the cover art for the album, titled Midnights, on Instagram, featuring a photo of her wearing blue sparkly eyeshadow and red lipstick while sparking a lighter, as well as a second shot of her holding her head in her hand in a dimly lit room. Swift wrote alongside the image, “Midnights, the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life, will be out October 21. Meet me at midnight.”
She also shared a passage superimposed over the second image that read, “We lie awake in love and in fear, in turmoil and in tears. We stare at walls and drink until they speak back. We twist in our self-made cages and pray that we aren’t—right this minute—about to make some fateful life-altering mistake.” Swift added, "This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams. The floors we pace and the demons we face. For all of us who have tossed and turned and decided to keep the lanterns lit and go searching—hoping that just maybe, when the clock trikes twelve...we'll meet ourselves."
While Midnights seems to be an album full of brand new material, many fans felt that Swift dropped a whole lot of Easter eggs during the VMAs that she would be releasing a re-recorded version of her 2017 album Reputation next. Over the last two years, the singer has released her own versions of 2008's Fearless and 2012's Red in an effort to reclaim her music from her former manager Scooter Braun who purchased her masters from her former record label, Big Machine Records, in 2019. In her acceptance speech, Swift said that winning the award was “an indication we did something right.” For many of her listeners, that line immediately rang a bell as it's similar to one she repeats on the Reputation track “Call It What You Want,” in which she says, “I did one thing right.”
But the bigger clue seems to have been her choice in sparkly attire for the evening which resembled a dress she wore in the music video for “Look What You Made Me Do,” right down to the earrings which she appeared to wear an upside down version of to the VMAs. Swift also gave a look at her final outfit for the awards show on TikTok set to the Blackpink song “Pink Venom,” which was interpreted to be a reference to the snake imagery used throughout Reputation. And others noted that Midnights' release date also happens to fall on Kim Kardashian's birthday, a woman who was rumored to be the inspiration behind much of Reputation and whom the majority of those snake emojis were leveled at. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/taylor-swift-new-album-midnights-2022-vmas | 2022-08-29T20:43:00Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/taylor-swift-new-album-midnights-2022-vmas | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MTV VMAs 2022: The Best Looks of the Night
Where there’s music, there’s style, making the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards the place to be on Sunday night. Before rappers, pop stars, actors, and other genre-bending talent took the stage at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, the red carpet buzzed with award-worthy looks. A feast for the eyes on a steamy summer night, stars beat the heat by stepping out in silhouette-skimming cutouts, classic suiting, colorful couture, and more.
Lil Nas X made waves in a show-stopping creation from Harris Reed, whose otherworldly creations, the designer has said, fight “for the beauty of fluidity.” Taylor Swift dazzled in a sparkling Oscar de la Renta dress reminiscent of her Reputation-era looks, while Anitta opted for corseted couture from Schiaparelli. All in all, the biggest names in music came dressed to impress. While a Moonman might have been the most coveted accessory of the evening, these nine attendees took home top honors when it came to fashion. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/2022/08/mtv-vmas-2022-our-favorite-looks-of-the-night | 2022-08-29T20:43:06Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/2022/08/mtv-vmas-2022-our-favorite-looks-of-the-night | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK — Walmart filed a motion on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission in June that accused the nation's largest retailer of allowing its money transfer services to be used by scam artists, calling it an “egregious instance of agency overreach.”
In its lawsuit, the FTC alleged that for years, Walmart failed to properly secure the money transfer services offered at its stores, stealing “hundreds of millions of dollars" from customers. The agency said Walmart didn’t properly train its employees, failed to alert customers, and used procedures that allowed fraudsters to cash out at its stores. The FTC had asked the court to order Walmart to return money to consumers and to impose civil penalties on the company.
In a 41-page document, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division, Walmart laid out a number of what it called legally flawed claims, including that the agency lacked “constitutionally valid authority to sue for money or injunctive relief.” It said that the FTC is trying to hold Walmart liable for the criminal actions of completely unrelated third-party fraudsters even as Walmart has embraced a number of steps to stop such scamming.
Walmart argued that the agency is trying to contort a regulation called the Telemarketing Sales Rule that was aimed to go after telemarketers and those who actively help them but that Walmart is neither. Walmart also took issue with the FTC's claim that Walmart allegedly engaged in an “unfair" act or practice, or any ongoing or imminent misconduct under Section 5 of the FTC Act.
“To be clear, Walmart is now—and always has been—dedicated to its customers and shares the FTC’s goal of protecting customers from fraudsters," the Walmart filing said. "But this lawsuit is an egregious instance of agency overreach."
Walmart stores let shoppers to transfer money using three providers — MoneyGram, Ria Financial Services, and Western Union Co.
Walmart, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, said it has developed and implemented a host of anti-fraud measures—including customer warnings and employee trainings. Based on data available to Walmart, out of nearly 200 million money-transfer transactions processed at its U.S. namesake stores between 2015 and 2020, less than 0.08% were reportedly the product of fraud, according to the Walmart filing. And it said that some of that reported fraud may not be fraud at all, making the actual fraud rate even smaller.
In its argument by Walmart that the FTC overreached in its authority, Walmart cited a April 2021 Supreme Court case that makes it difficult for the agency to engage in a long-time practice of seeking to recover ill-gotten gains from individuals or companies that steal from consumers. As a result of the ruling, the agency will now have to rely on other lengthier and more complicated legal maneuvers to recoup dollars from defrauded individuals.
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Tens of millions of U.S. student loan borrowers are set to see debt relief after an announcement from President Joe Biden’s administration on Aug. 24.
The student loan forgiveness plan eliminates up to $10,000 in debt for people who meet certain income thresholds. Those who received federal Pell Grants as undergraduate students are eligible for $20,000 in debt relief if they meet the same requirements.
But the administration’s most recent plan isn’t the only avenue for debt forgiveness. Following the announcement, VERIFY reader Ashley asked the team if she’s still eligible for full federal student loan forgiveness as a public service worker.
THE QUESTION
Can eligible public service workers still get full federal student loan forgiveness?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, eligible public service workers can still get full federal student loan forgiveness through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
WHAT WE FOUND
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program was created by the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 during the George W. Bush administration, long before the Biden administration’s recent announcement about student loan cancellation.
The PSLF program forgives the full remaining balance on a qualifying person’s federal student loans after they have made 10 years’ worth of payments (totaling 120 payments).
While the Biden administration’s recent announcement makes a wider group of borrowers newly eligible for some debt forgiveness, it doesn’t do away with the PSLF Program.
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Betsy Mayotte, president and founder of The Institute of Student Loan Advisors, told VERIFY the broad student loan forgiveness plan “will in no way negatively impact people pursuing PSLF.”
Public service workers who are eligible for full student loan forgiveness should “continue following advice and steps toward PSLF and not see this new cancellation as a separate path,” Jessica Thompson, vice president at The Institute for College Access and Success, added.
Who qualifies for the PSLF program?
Borrowers need to have worked full-time for a federal, state, tribal or local government, the military, or a qualifying nonprofit. People can receive forgiveness under the program if they have had more than one employer over the course of 10 years. There is no income requirement to qualify.
People can search for qualifying employers and receive help applying for the program by using the Department of Education’s online PSLF Help Tool.
In the most recent announcement on student loan forgiveness, the Department of Education did say it is proposing some “long-term changes” to the PSLF program. Those include allowing more payments – including partial, lump sum and late payments – and certain kinds of deferments and forbearances such as those for PeaceCorps and AmeriCorps service, National Guard duty and military service to qualify for the PSLF program.
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What is the limited PSLF waiver and what changes does it make?
The Biden administration already established temporary changes to the PSLF program through a temporary waiver that is in effect through Oct. 31, 2022. These changes, which took effect in October 2021, make it easier for borrowers to receive credit for past payments.
The waiver may increase the amount of payments that qualify toward a borrower’s forgiveness, include periods of qualifying employment that didn’t previously count due to loan types or repayment history, and allow borrowers to seek forgiveness by consolidating into Direct Loans.
Enrollments in the PSLF program on or after Nov. 1, 2022 will not be eligible to take advantage of changes established by the waiver.
To qualify under the waiver, borrowers need to have at least one Direct Loan and at least one approved application for the PSLF program.
If borrowers have outstanding FFEL Loans or Perkins Loans, for example, they can still qualify by consolidating them into a Direct Loan and applying for the PSLF program no later than Oct. 31, 2022, the White House explains on its website.
The Federal Student Aid Office has an application on its website for a Direct Consolidation Loan, which allows borrowers to consolidate multiple federal education loans into one at no cost.
Here are the changes that the waiver establishes through Oct. 31:
- Past periods of repayment will now count toward whether or not a borrower made a payment, made that payment on time, for the full amount due, or on a qualifying payment plan.
- Forbearance periods of 12 consecutive months or greater, or 32 cumulative months or greater, count under the waiver.
- Months spent in deferment before 2013 will count under the waiver. The Department of Education will also include economic hardship deferment on or after Jan. 1, 2013. These periods of deferments will be applied to a person’s student loan account in fall 2022.
Periods of default on loans and in-school deferment still do not qualify under the waiver.
Dozens of U.S. Congress members recently urged Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cordona in a letter to extend the PSLF waiver until at least July 1, 2023, “when the Department’s proposed rules to improve and expand federal student debt relief programs, including PSLF, are currently on track to take effect,” a press release from Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) says. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/verify/student-loan/public-service-loan-forgiveness-program-full-student-debt-relief-explained/536-6927162a-6862-46d8-ae1b-35e4740f1b4a | 2022-08-29T20:43:16Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/verify/student-loan/public-service-loan-forgiveness-program-full-student-debt-relief-explained/536-6927162a-6862-46d8-ae1b-35e4740f1b4a | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Movie tickets will be $3 at Regal, AMC, more theaters Saturday
Movie tickets will be $3 on Saturday — a fraction of their regular price — for the first-ever National Cinema Day at the majority of movie theaters nationwide, including Regal Cinemas and AMC.
Why it matters: Labor Day weekend has long been considered one of the slowest weekends for theaters and this summer has been slow even though movie theater attendance has rebounded since theaters reopened following COVID closures.
- The explosion of streaming options coupled with the health crisis has changed moviemaking, and watching, permanently, Axios’ Hope King and Herb Scribner report.
- Cineworld, the parent company of Regal, is preparing to file for bankruptcy to restructure its massive debt load, the Wall Street Journal recently reported.
By the numbers: This year's box office, while up significantly from this point last year, is still down more than 30% compared to 2019, Axios’ Sara Fischer reports.
- So far in 2022, the percentage of box office revenue that has gone toward R-rated films is the lowest it's been in over 25 years.
National Cinema Day 2022
Driving the news: The Cinema Foundation, a non-profit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners, says the Sept. 3 discount will be available in more than 3,000 theaters and 30,000 screens.
- The one-day event features all movie tickets for only $3, including premium format screens like IMAX and Dolby Cinema, and for all showtimes.
- Saturday's showings will also feature exclusive previews from upcoming movies.
- A special Cinema Day website has been set up to find participating theaters.
Be smart: The $3 ticket price does not include tax and convenience fees such as online and third-party ticketing fees.
- Look for other promotions. AMC said in a tweet that it will have a "fountain drink and popcorn cameo combo" for $5 plus tax Saturday.
What they’re saying: “After this summer’s record-breaking return to cinemas, we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing,” said Jackie Brenneman, Cinema Foundation president, in a statement.
- “We’re doing it by offering a ‘thank you’ to the moviegoers that made this summer happen, and by offering an extra enticement for those who haven’t made it back yet,” Brenneman said.
- "This day is for movie lovers across the US, celebrating how movies are meant to be seen, on the big screen," said Ken Thewes, Regal's chief marketing officer, in a news release.
Meanwhile, MoviePass is moving forward with its comeback and says it will launch a new beta service on or around Labor Day.
- Aug. 29 is the last day to sign up for a free wait list but the service won't be available nationwide at first and "markets will be launched in waves."
More from Axios: | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/29/national-cinema-day-movie-tickets-discount | 2022-08-29T20:48:09Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/29/national-cinema-day-movie-tickets-discount | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Solomon Islands bars U.S. Coast Guard ship, raising China influence fears
The Solomon Islands did not allow a U.S. Coast Guard vessel to make a routine stop to refuel and resupply at a port in the Pacific island nation that has lately fallen under China's sphere of influence.
Why it matters: The Solomon Islands signed a security pact with China in April that the U.S. and Australia fear could allow Beijing to dispatch security forces there or even establish a naval base. Both countries have conducted significant outreach to the islands to restore their influence there, without clear success.
Driving the news: The U.S. government requested diplomatic permission for the Oliver Henry, a Guam-based Coast Guard cutter, to make a routine stop in Honiara on Aug. 23 but received no response, as Stars and Stripes was first to report.
- A Coast Guard spokesperson, Cmdr. Dave Milne, told Axios the Coast Guard "respects the sovereignty of our foreign partners" and looks forward to "future engagement opportunities with the Solomon Islands."
- But National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the White House was "disappointed" by the "regrettable" decision, noting that the ship ultimately diverted to Papua New Guinea.
- "Clearly we've seen the Chinese try to bully and coerce nations throughout the Indo-Pacific to do their bidding and to serve what they believe their selfish national security interests are rather than the broader interests of a free and open Indo-Pacific," Kirby said, clarifying that he was not referring to this specific incident but China's actions more broadly.
- The Soloman Islands Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment.
The big picture: Pacific Islands like the Solomons are “the stepping stones to East Asia,” Alex Gray, who served as director for Oceania and Indo-Pacific security at the National Security Council during the Trump administration, tells Axios.
- "If the Chinese gain sway in any of them, it changes the entire contour of what the U.S. and Australia and our allies can do in the entire region," Gray says.
Worth noting: A U.S. Navy hospital ship, the USNS Mercy, was allowed to dock in Honiara today as part of a long-planned humanitarian mission.
Go deeper: U.S.-China competition heats up in the South Pacific | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/29/solomon-islands-denies-port-coast-guard-ship | 2022-08-29T20:48:15Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/29/solomon-islands-denies-port-coast-guard-ship | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Air fryers have made our lives easier. From whipping up healthier desserts to baked potatoes and more, these little appliances have been a major timesaver.
And now it’s about to get even better, because you can buy disposable air fryer liners that make cleaning up a breeze. I mean, this is the home chef’s dream, isn’t it? A device that takes the edge off cooking and is easy to clean? Sign me up.
200 PCS Disposable Parchment Cooking Paper for Air Fryer
Made from food-grade parchment, these air fryer round liners are heat-resistant, non-sticky, waterproof and grease-proof and can withstand temperatures up to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. They’re also fluorescent-free.
A box of 200 air fryer liners sells for $9.99 — that’s about $0.05 a pop. Available in three different sizes (6.3-inch, 7.3-inch and 8-inch), the 6.3-inch air fryer liner is suitable for 2-5 quart air fryers. (Size and quantities vary, so be sure to select what will work best for your device.)
The company claims unlike the round liners sold with holes, this hole-less variety won’t inhibit oil flowing out of the hole and dirtying the fryer. The grease stays inside the filter thanks to its 1.8-inch deep sides. Because the air still circulates, food remains crisp. Be sure to use these liners after preheating.
With an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars and 1,699 global ratings, these air fryer liners come highly recommended. Several users called them “easy to use” or “a game changer.”
Dave P. loves these liners.
“A game changer for not having to clean your air fryer after each use,” he said.
And Christopher T. called them a “real time-saver!”
“We love using our air-fryer for all sorts of foods, but cleanup is sometimes a hassle,” he wrote. “We’ve always washed the baskets by hand to avoid wearing off the nonstick coating. These parchment liners work extremely well — they fit the basket perfectly, no leaks even for oily foods, and then we just toss the liner when done, easy-peasy!”
He added that he suspects his package will last him most of the year.
And Susan M. not only tells us that we “need this” but that “it makes clean up a breeze.”
We like that the company has a 100% money-back Guarantee for up to one year, where you can get a refund or replacement if you’re not fully satisfied.
You’ll want to keep an eye on your air fryer the first few times you use these, as several of the 1-star reviewers mentioned that the paper caught on fire inside their air fryers.
What do you think? Will adding disposable air fryer liners to your dinner routine make you use your appliance even more?
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At this juncture in pop culture's collective mediocrity, the vampire is considered passe. Upon the release of Anne Rice’s "Interview with a Vampire," there was a little explosion of vampire-related media.
That died away only to be resurrected once more by the release of "Twilight" and the deluge of tween and teen romance novels focused on relationships with supernatural creatures.
But we are in another lull, probably exacerbated by superhero films and "Star Wars" being the dominant force of pop culture.
Zombies have been left in their graves, vampires have been staked, and while teen fiction concerning the supernatural is as profitable as ever, the film rights aren’t nearly as lucrative as they might have been ten years ago.
Japan is not immune to the draw of bloodsucking monsters. Anime has been a generally wonderful source of refreshing supernatural content, especially regarding vampires. ‘Blood +’ is well known as a classic of supernatural anime and the medium as a whole.
The lesser-known and absolutely stunning ‘Shiki’ gave a Japanese twist to the traditional vampire while creating one of the tensest anime of all time.
"Call of the Night" may join the annals of original and interesting Japanese takes on the vampire. Written by Kotoyama, who also does all the art, it follows Ko Yamori, a 14-year-old who has given up on school and life during the day to enter the world of the night.
While in any other setting but Japan, this would mean a lot of opportunities for skeeviness, in this series, the suburbs of Tokyo are pleasant, if not somewhat alien, when viewed under the streetlamps. Bars, salarymen heading home, maid cafes, karaoke, and arcades, all bathed in incandescent blankets, act as an alien world to those who have spent their lives under the sun.
In this nightscape, Ko meets the most alien of all creatures to stalk the night, vampires. Specifically, Nazuna Nanakusa takes a bite out of him and finds his blood particularly delicious.
But a simple bite does not turn a human. The human must be in love with the vampire to turn.
This becomes the emotional driving force behind the series. In the words of a tacky pop classic, Ko wants to know what love is. He wants to be a vampire more than anything and is dedicated entirely to falling in love with Nazuna.
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This sounds rather strange to a Western audience, surely. Especially if you haven’t had much experience with anime and manga where the male characters tend to have a real hard time processing any sort of romantic feelings, perhaps this plays into Japanese ideas of masculinity or cultural issues concerning gender.
I can’t speak for Japan, but I can say that once you get past the idea of a kid annoyingly spending so much time with an attractive vampire, kissing her, and still not being able to love her, you’ll find that there are some tender moments scattered in the eight volumes of "Call of the Night" released in the States.
The budding romance between Nazuna and Ko is the heart and soul of "Call of the Night," but what propels and fleshes it out is the side characters. A bevy of attractive vampires stalks the city along with Nazuna, all with their own proclivities and oddities.
A cross-dressing man who swings both ways, a woman who runs a maid cafe, and another who works as a nurse while supplying young vampires with a steady supply of blood. Ko spends plenty of time with these folks and learning that vampires aren’t monsters, just undead creatures trying to survive in their own way.
All the while, a vampire hunter lurks, a counterpoint to the passivity of the vampires with her penchant for violence. Here we are introduced to an interesting idea that vampires are weak to items from their human lives.
Vampires begin to forget their pasts at a certain point as a method of protecting themselves. By collecting that vampire’s human possession fueled with emotion, a hunter can turn that into a potent weapon that could weaken or kill the vampire.
That offers enough of an interesting and different take to make this more than your average romcom with a supernatural twist.
One of the biggest kudos I have for "Call of the Night" is that the author does a wonderful job of avoiding filler. Even when a plot is only there…it’s reliably entertaining regardless of how little it affects the overall story. The world is big yet tight. Characters are fleshed out enough that they can pop in and out and never feel like you missed something. And even throwaway secondary characters tend to be weird enough that they’re endearing.
Balancing romance, humor, and serious drama moments can be tough, especially in a medium like manga, where authors get very indulgent in aspects they feel the reader will latch onto (particularly sexuality). And while Kotoyama draws some lecherous panels and splash pages, it isn't as in-your-face as many of his contemporaries.
"Call of the Night" is one of my favorite manga of recent years, managing to be a melange of multiple genres while keeping things fresh and forward-moving without the need for constant filler. Its' vampires aren’t necessarily terrifying, but this isn’t a horror comic. This is an outlet to show how those who live different lives aren’t so different from the rest of us.
You can find out more on "Call of the Night" on Viz's website. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/call-of-the-night-explores-excitement-mundanity-of-nightlife-through-vampires | 2022-08-29T20:49:55Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/call-of-the-night-explores-excitement-mundanity-of-nightlife-through-vampires | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
IKEA is recalling nearly 2,100 espresso makers sold throughout the U.S. due to possible burn and injury hazards.
While the machines have not caused any reported injuries in the United States, four have been reported worldwide. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the recalled espresso makers with the stainless-steel safety valve “can burst and expel hot contents, posing burn or other injury hazards to consumers.”
The CPSC said there have been 16 reported incidents of espresso machines bursting.
Consumers with recalled products are encouraged to return them to IKEA for a refund. The products were generally sold for $19.99 from 2020 through 2022. Original proof of purchase is not required for a refund, IKEA said.
The products bear a date stamp between 2040 and 2204. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/ikea-recalls-espresso-maker-says-product-has-burn-hazard | 2022-08-29T20:50:13Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/ikea-recalls-espresso-maker-says-product-has-burn-hazard | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Unretiring isn’t new, but the professions older Americans are coming back to are not the same.
It’s taking on new meaning for people like Robert Harris and Christine Smith. Both of them decided to go back to work but pursue a different field: trucking.
“I was just sitting around the house all day getting fat and I just got tired,” recalled Harris. “I thought I gotta get out and do something.”
Harris used to work in a factory as a crane operator.
Smith left a corporate job some time ago and help raise her grandchildren. She decided to go to trucking school to help make ends meet.
“I feel like once I’ve achieved this, the horizon opens for me to make choices, to save money, to establish a legacy, a foundation.”
After dipping below usual levels of 3% during the beginning of the pandemic, unretirements are back, according to data from Indeed.
There were similar trends in unretirement coming out of the Great Recession. Once the labor market heated up, more retirees were lured back onto the job, suggesting the employment market may have more to do with unretiring than inflation or lessening concerns about the COVID-19 virus.
But this time, more retirees are planning to return to work in an industry different than the one they left. Resume Builder found 58% of retirees are making the switch.
While the financial benefits of working longer are clear, the health effects are not. A review of literature published over the last decade on employment found mixed health results in those over 64. The review found extending working life may have some benefits or a neutral effect but more so in men, those working part-time, and those working in higher-quality jobs.
Extending working life in a full-time job or in a less rewarding role may have adverse physical and mental health effects. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/study-finds-unretirement-isnt-healthy-for-everyone | 2022-08-29T20:50:50Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/study-finds-unretirement-isnt-healthy-for-everyone | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Research found Native Americans are living shorter lives because of the pandemic. Lower quality care and less access to care cut an average of four years off the lives of American Indian populations across the country, but there’s work happening right now to stop that trend.
It’s called the Urban Indian Health Confer Act. What it does is simple: it takes away red tape and gives better health care access to those who desperately need it.
Dr. Patrick Rock has dedicated his life to honoring two things: his roots and his tribal brothers and sisters.
“We, of course, go into this type of work to improve the health of people, and it feels like it's an uphill battle,” he said.
Dr. Rock has spent 25 years as a family doctor in Minneapolis and is also the CEO of the Indian Health Board of Minneapolis. He’s found American Indian healthcare in the city is often tougher than healthcare on the reservation.
“Urban Indian health has always been an afterthought,” said Rock. “Eighty percent of Native people live in urban centers, so off of tribal lands, off a reservation, and through the Indian Health Service, unfortunately, there's only about 1% of the total budget is proportioned to the urban programs across the United States.”
That means fewer doctors and clinics, but during the pandemic, it meant less access to the vaccine.
“We saw grave delays in vaccines in a population that needed it the most, and so it was very disappointing, devastating, and it probably cost lives needlessly. We don't want bureaucracy to get in the way of healthcare delivery,” said Meredith Raimondi of the National Council of Urban Indian Health.
Raimondi is now part of a coalition fighting for better healthcare policy alongside Dr. Rock. They’re supporting legislation introduced by Senators Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) called the Urban Indian Health Confer Act. The legislation is working its way through Congress now, and it has bipartisan support.
Traditionally, the federal government communicates with the Indian Health Service only, and then, the Indian Health Service delivers all communication, resources, and funding to urban Indian health programs.
This legislation would cut out the chain of communication and require the federal government to directly communicate with urban Native American health. That means sending healthcare supplies and funding directly to urban programs that need it.
“I firmly believe that Native people living in urban areas deserve an active voice in the policies that affect them,” said Sen. Smith. “I introduced the bipartisan Urban Indian Health Confer Act to help facilitate the open and free exchange of information and opinions between federal agencies and urban Indian organizations. It is an important step towards creating parity within the Indian Health System.”
“The entirety of the federal government is going to require itself to talk with Urban Indian Health, and has a lot of, I think, potential as far as lifesaving, but also, I think things such as improving quality of health care as well as saving health care dollars and making the system much more efficient,” said Rock.
“Lives are at stake, and it is the federal government's trust responsibility to provide health care services,” said Raimondi. “And it's not just to provide substandard health care services. It actually is to provide the highest health care service available.”
If this legislation passes, it may take years to see change in the urban American Indian healthcare system, but it’s a big step toward equity and preserving the rich tribal history that exists all around us. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/urban-american-indian-communities-may-soon-get-better-access-to-healthcare | 2022-08-29T20:51:08Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/urban-american-indian-communities-may-soon-get-better-access-to-healthcare | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Awards shows can be a time for winners to give credit where credit is due, or it can be a moment for them to address whatever they want to without anyone stopping them. At times, both of those things can occur in the same speech.
The MTV Video Music Awards aired on Aug. 28, and Lizzo took home the Impactful Video for Good award. Lizzo had been trending already because of some harsh statements made by comedian Aries Spears on Aug. 27.
“I can’t get past the fact that she looks like a s— emoji,” Spears said during an appearance on the “The Art of Dialogue” show. “She’s a got a very pretty face, but she keeps showing her body off, like come on.
“Y’all claim womanhood, sisterhood, and support for your sister when it comes to that ridiculous s—. But if you really gave a f—, why wouldn’t you go, ‘Black girl, we love your confidence, boo boo, but this ain’t it. This ain’t it.'”
Lizzo must have heard about the comments because, during her award speech, she addressed the less than flattering statements made about her.
“I want to say thank you so much for supporting me and loving me,” Lizzo said. “Now to the b—— that got something to say about me in the press. You know what, I’m not going to say nothing. They’ll be like ‘Lizzo, why didn’t you clap back?’ Because b—-, I’m winning, h–. Big b—- is winning.
Lizzo probably didn’t say all she wanted, but it was still a moment for her to let everyone know that regardless of the criticism on the outside, she’s winning. | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/29/lizzo-responds-to-aries-spears-comments-about-her-weight/ | 2022-08-29T20:55:38Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/29/lizzo-responds-to-aries-spears-comments-about-her-weight/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Two rap goliaths, Snoop Dogg and Eminem, got the crowd high (figuratively) during their performance at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022.
Leaning back on a black couch and brandishing a gigantic blunt, the Doggfather and Slim Shady blared lyrics from the “From the D 2 the LBC” through the metaverse that interspersed with their live performance.
Feigning shock, Eminem, 49, questioned his legendary collaborator about his monstrous-sized marijuana joint.
“Yo, hold on. Oh my God, bro! How’d you get that in here?” Eminem said.
“I got the connections,” Snoop lazily answered in his signature West Coast twang.
“Yo man, I feel like you’re getting me high again, bro. That s—‘s the size of my hand, dawg. That s—‘s gonna make me relapse,” Slim Shady responded in reference to being sober for 14 years and counting.
Following the brief chat, the pseudo-stoned rappers were transported into the metaverse:
Eminem & Snoop Dogg – From the D to the LBC #VMAs
— BOOK OF SHADY 📖 (@BookOfShady) August 29, 2022
After the metaverse showing, replete with cartoon avatars replacing the hip-hop heavyweights, Eminem donned a fur coat and finished the performance with Snoop.
Following their performance, notorious weed smokers Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong from the famous Cheech and Chong movies in the 1980s and ’90s took the stage.
“We just wandered over here because we smelled that last performance,” Cheech, 84, joked.
Check out the performance below. | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/29/snoop-dogg-and-eminem-literally-light-up-the-mtv-video-music-awards-video/ | 2022-08-29T20:55:44Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/29/snoop-dogg-and-eminem-literally-light-up-the-mtv-video-music-awards-video/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MUSKEGON, Mich. — U.S. Senator Gary Peters launched his yearly motorcycle tour through the state of Michigan on Monday.
The tour began in Muskegon, during which Peters took a boat tour to observe the restoration efforts of Muskegon Lake by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
“As Michiganders, the Great Lakes are not only in our DNA but a critical resource for drinking water, economic growth and job creation,” says Senator Peters. “That’s why I was proud to help enact the single-largest-ever investment in our Great Lakes through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This investment is a game changer for Michigan that will greatly expand restoration efforts to preserve and strengthen the Great Lakes for future generations.”
We’re told Peters had a hand in securing a historic investment to expedite cleanup efforts across nine crucial Michigan water bodies by the end of the decade.
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“When we passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill … $1 billion will be invested into Great Lakes Restoration,” Peters adds. “That means more money for the Muskegon area; that means more money for areas of concern all over the state of Michigan, as well as throughout the Great Lakes basin.”
Peters made his way to Traverse City to discuss the future of the Safeguarding Tomorrow through Ongoing Risk Mitigation (STORM) Act, according to Peters's office. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/lakeshore/muskegon/peters-begins-motorcycle-tour-with-visit-to-muskegon-lake | 2022-08-29T20:56:43Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/lakeshore/muskegon/peters-begins-motorcycle-tour-with-visit-to-muskegon-lake | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
2023: North-West APC vows to maintain, mobilise more supporters
• As Aruwa, Gusau became chairman and Secretary of Publicity Secretaries Forum
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Forum of Publicity Secretaries North-West has assured that the party will have a landslide victory in the zone that will make it difficult for other political parties to challenge the results of the elections.
This was even as it vowed to maintain its supporters as well as to mobilise more supporters.
The inaugural meeting of the forum which held at Ni’Immah Guest Palace, Kano on Monday was attended by all the Publicity Secretaries of the zone.
During the meeting the duo of Hon Ahmad Aruwa, APC Publicity Secretary Kano State and Mallam Yusuf Idris Gusau, APC Publicity Secretary, Zamfara State, were unanimously nominated as the forum’s chairman and Secretary respectively.
In a joint statement issued by the Chairman and Secretary of the forum Ahmad Aruwa and Yusuf Idris Gusau which made available to Tribune Online noted that the forum was formed with a view to compliment the efforts of the various state chapters.
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The statement maintained that, “it acknowledged the fact that publicity is key to the success of any election, owing to the vital role it plays during and after electioneering campaigns.
Thus, it posited that” North-West has the largest number of APC supporters which will effectively be maintained as well as more people will be mobilised to massively vote APC in all coming elections.
“We will also continue to enlighten the people on the achievements of APC through a rigorous media campaign, propaganda and strategies for the party to have a landslide victory that will be incontestable.
In the same development, the forum appointed Zamfara State Governor, Hon. Bello Matawalle as its Chairman Board of Trustee with Kano State Deputy Governor, Dr Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna as BOT Vice Chairman.
While Deputy Governor of Jigawa State, Mallam Umar Namadi, Dr Dikko Radda, Hon Ahmad Aliyu Sokoto and Dr Nasiru Yusuf NUT as members of BOT of the forum.
The inaugural meeting was attended by Publicity Secretaries of Kano, Jigawa, Kaduna, Zamfara, Katsina and Kebbi States while that of Sokoto sent his apologies.
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2023: North-West APC vows to maintain, mobilise more supporters | https://tribuneonlineng.com/2023-north-west-apc-vows-to-maintain-mobilise-more-supporters/ | 2022-08-29T20:57:00Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/2023-north-west-apc-vows-to-maintain-mobilise-more-supporters/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
At this juncture in pop culture's collective mediocrity, the vampire is considered passe. Upon the release of Anne Rice’s "Interview with a Vampire," there was a little explosion of vampire-related media.
That died away only to be resurrected once more by the release of "Twilight" and the deluge of tween and teen romance novels focused on relationships with supernatural creatures.
But we are in another lull, probably exacerbated by superhero films and "Star Wars" being the dominant force of pop culture.
Zombies have been left in their graves, vampires have been staked, and while teen fiction concerning the supernatural is as profitable as ever, the film rights aren’t nearly as lucrative as they might have been ten years ago.
Japan is not immune to the draw of bloodsucking monsters. Anime has been a generally wonderful source of refreshing supernatural content, especially regarding vampires. ‘Blood +’ is well known as a classic of supernatural anime and the medium as a whole.
The lesser-known and absolutely stunning ‘Shiki’ gave a Japanese twist to the traditional vampire while creating one of the tensest anime of all time.
"Call of the Night" may join the annals of original and interesting Japanese takes on the vampire. Written by Kotoyama, who also does all the art, it follows Ko Yamori, a 14-year-old who has given up on school and life during the day to enter the world of the night.
While in any other setting but Japan, this would mean a lot of opportunities for skeeviness, in this series, the suburbs of Tokyo are pleasant, if not somewhat alien, when viewed under the streetlamps. Bars, salarymen heading home, maid cafes, karaoke, and arcades, all bathed in incandescent blankets, act as an alien world to those who have spent their lives under the sun.
In this nightscape, Ko meets the most alien of all creatures to stalk the night, vampires. Specifically, Nazuna Nanakusa takes a bite out of him and finds his blood particularly delicious.
But a simple bite does not turn a human. The human must be in love with the vampire to turn.
This becomes the emotional driving force behind the series. In the words of a tacky pop classic, Ko wants to know what love is. He wants to be a vampire more than anything and is dedicated entirely to falling in love with Nazuna.
Further Reading for the Discerning Anime Fan: 'Kakegurui Twin' gambles with a safe, fun prequel to the fan-favorite anime
This sounds rather strange to a Western audience, surely. Especially if you haven’t had much experience with anime and manga where the male characters tend to have a real hard time processing any sort of romantic feelings, perhaps this plays into Japanese ideas of masculinity or cultural issues concerning gender.
I can’t speak for Japan, but I can say that once you get past the idea of a kid annoyingly spending so much time with an attractive vampire, kissing her, and still not being able to love her, you’ll find that there are some tender moments scattered in the eight volumes of "Call of the Night" released in the States.
The budding romance between Nazuna and Ko is the heart and soul of "Call of the Night," but what propels and fleshes it out is the side characters. A bevy of attractive vampires stalks the city along with Nazuna, all with their own proclivities and oddities.
A cross-dressing man who swings both ways, a woman who runs a maid cafe, and another who works as a nurse while supplying young vampires with a steady supply of blood. Ko spends plenty of time with these folks and learning that vampires aren’t monsters, just undead creatures trying to survive in their own way.
All the while, a vampire hunter lurks, a counterpoint to the passivity of the vampires with her penchant for violence. Here we are introduced to an interesting idea that vampires are weak to items from their human lives.
Vampires begin to forget their pasts at a certain point as a method of protecting themselves. By collecting that vampire’s human possession fueled with emotion, a hunter can turn that into a potent weapon that could weaken or kill the vampire.
That offers enough of an interesting and different take to make this more than your average romcom with a supernatural twist.
One of the biggest kudos I have for "Call of the Night" is that the author does a wonderful job of avoiding filler. Even when a plot is only there…it’s reliably entertaining regardless of how little it affects the overall story. The world is big yet tight. Characters are fleshed out enough that they can pop in and out and never feel like you missed something. And even throwaway secondary characters tend to be weird enough that they’re endearing.
Balancing romance, humor, and serious drama moments can be tough, especially in a medium like manga, where authors get very indulgent in aspects they feel the reader will latch onto (particularly sexuality). And while Kotoyama draws some lecherous panels and splash pages, it isn't as in-your-face as many of his contemporaries.
"Call of the Night" is one of my favorite manga of recent years, managing to be a melange of multiple genres while keeping things fresh and forward-moving without the need for constant filler. Its' vampires aren’t necessarily terrifying, but this isn’t a horror comic. This is an outlet to show how those who live different lives aren’t so different from the rest of us.
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2023: This is our last chance ― Tinubu
• Says we won't do what is comfortable but what is right for Nigerians
All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said the next general elections provide ample opportunity to turn around the fortunes of Nigerians.
He said if given the mandate, he was prepared to walk his talks on the socio-economic emancipation of Nigerians.
The APC presidential candidate gave the pledge, on Monday, in a tweet on his official handle.
He revealed that his administration would not do what is comfortable but what is right for Nigerians.
“We are not here to do what is comfortable. We are here to do what is right for our people and our country.”
“We are here to answer to a greater, higher calling. That calling is the love of Nigeria.
“We dare not miss this chance because we cannot be sure of another.”
YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
PDP Govs May Prevail On Ayu To Resign
THERE were indications on Sunday that governors elected on the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may have been asked to prevail on the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Iyorchia Ayu to consider resigning from office as a compromise over the raging feud in the party on power sharing….
We Do Not Want A President That Will Favour North —Baba-Ahmed
The spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed has chastised the political class for discussing Nigeria’s problems in foreign countries….
Atiku In Kano, To Receive Shekarau, Other Defectors Into PDP Today
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday arrived at the Aminu Kano International Airport after some days in London…..
I Have No Special Presidential Candidate —Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said he does not have a special candidate in the 2023 presidential election in the country, but only has a national agenda…
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2022-2023 CAROLINA CLASSIC MOVIE SERIES
INCLUDING THE SILENT SERIES AT THE CAROLINA, CHRISTMAS AT THE CAROLINA, CAROLINA CLASSIC HOLIDAY MOVIES, AND CHRISTMAS MOVIES IN THE CROWN
Greensboro, NC – The Carolina Theatre of Greensboro is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 Carolina Classic Movie Series, including the return of the Silent Series, Christmas at the Carolina (the theatre’s gift to the community), and holiday favorites in both the Betty & Ben Cone, Jr. Auditorium and in The Crown at the Carolina.
Carolina Classic Movie tickets are $7, taxes and fees included. Seniors, military, first responders, students, and educators save $1 per ticket. Carolina Theatre Movie passes will also be accepted at door. Available now at CarolinaTheatre.com, or through the theatre box office.
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Carolina Classic Movie THE GODFATHER Tuesday, September 13, 7pm
Calling all fans of The Offer: Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, this epic family drama (based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name) focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). When the don's youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. Although Michael tries to maintain a normal relationship with his wife, Kay (Diane Keaton), he is drawn deeper into the family business.
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. 1972. Rated R. 2 hour, 55 minutes.
Carolina Classic Movie PARIS IS BURNING Friday, September 16, 7pm
Presented in partnership with Greensboro Pride
The award-winning documentary Paris Is Burning has been igniting audiences and critics with its unblinking behind-the-scenes story of the fashion-obsessed New Yorkers who created "voguing" and drag balls. Focusing on drag queens living in NYC and their "house" culture, audiences are introduced to the community of the flamboyant and often socially shunned performers. While groups from each house compete in elaborate balls that take cues from the world of fashion, the film also touches on issues of racism and poverty, with interviews from a number of renowned drag queens, including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, and Dorian Corey.
Directed by Jennie Livingston. 1990. Rated R. 1 hour, 16 minutes.
Carolina Classic Movie CANDYMAN Tuesday, October 11, 7pm
Graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) befriends Anne-Marie McCoy (Vanessa Estelle Williams) while researching superstitions in a housing project on Chicago's Near North Side. From Anne-Marie, Helen learns about the Candyman, a hook-handed figure of urban legend that some of her neighbors believe to be responsible for a recent murder. After a mysterious man matching the Candyman's description begins stalking her, Helen comes to fear that the legend may be all too real.
Also starring Tony Todd, Kasi Lemmons, and DeJuan Guy. Directed by Bernard Rose. 1992. Rated R. 1 hour, 41 minutes.
The Silent Series at the Carolina: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Tuesday, October 25, 7pm
See the iconic silent movie, accompanied by acclaimed LIVE on the Carolina Theatre’s Robert Morton Pipe Organ! Original to the Carolina’s opening night in 1927, the organ is the only remaining Robert Morton Pipe Organ in the state.
In this horror classic, aspiring young opera singer Christine Daaé (Mary Philbin) discovers that she has a mysterious admirer intent on helping her become a lead performer. This enigmatic masked presence, Erik, is also known as the Phantom (Lon Chaney), a horribly disfigured recluse who lives underneath the Paris Opera House. When the Phantom takes Christine prisoner and demands her devotion and affection, her suitor, Vicomte Raoul de Chagny (Norman Kerry), sets out to rescue her.
Directed by Rupert Julian. 1925. Not Rated. 1 hour, 47 minutes.
Carolina Classic Movie HOCUS POCUS Wednesday, October 26, 7pm
Three outlandishly wild witches (Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy) return from 17th Century Salem after they're accidentally conjured up by some unsuspecting pranksters. The tricky 300-year-old trio sets out to cast a spell on the town and reclaim their youth, but first they have to get their act together and outwit three kids and a talking cat. Meanwhile, the kids are on a quest to steal the witches' book of spells to stop them from becoming immortal. Amok! Amok! Amok!
Directed by Kenny Ortega. 1993. Rated PG. 1 hour, 36 minutes.
Carolina Classic Movie CARMEN JONES Tuesday, November 15, 7pm
Take the Bizet opera about cigarette maker Carmen and the Spanish cavalry soldier Don Jose and translate it into the 1955 story of a parachute factory worker and a stalwart GI who is about to go to flying school. Cindy Lou travels to a wartime parachute manufacturing plant to say goodbye to her sweetheart Joe. Before the two can use his twenty-four-hour pass to get married, Cindy Lou’s concerns are aroused when Carmen Jones, a lively and beautiful factory worker who is desired by practically every man at the plant, asks Joe to pick her up for a private farewell party. What follows is a tragic tale of seduction and conflict with a fatal ending.
Starring Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, as well as an uncredited dancing appearance by Alvin Ailey. Directed by Otto Preminger. 1955. Not Rated. 1 hour, 45 minutes.
Christmas at the Carolina THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL Saturday, December 3, 9am
FREE COMMUNITY EVENT
THE CAROLINA THEATRE’S GIFT TO THE COMMUNITY! Join us for a free morning of festive, family-friendly fun at the Carolina, with complimentary popcorn & drink, the movie on the big screen, and a visit with Santa!
The Muppets perform the classic Dickens holiday tale, with Kermit the Frog playing Bob Cratchit, the put-upon clerk of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine). Other Muppets—Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie Bear, and Sam the Eagle—weave in and out of the story, while Scrooge receives visits from spirits of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future. Directed by Brian Henson. 1992. Rated G. 1 hour, 29 minutes.
Carolina Classic Holiday Movie IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE Monday, December 12, 7pm
George Bailey is a small-town man whose life seems so desperate that he contemplates suicide. He had always wanted to leave Bedford Falls to see the world, but circumstances and his own good heart have led him to stay. (He sacrificed his education for his brother's, kept the family-run savings and loan afloat, protected the town from the avarice of the greedy banker Mr. Potter, and married his childhood sweetheart.) As he prepares to jump from a bridge, his guardian angel intercedes, showing him what life would have become for the residents of Bedford Falls is he had never lived.
Starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, and Henry Travers. Directed by Frank Capra. 1946. Rated PG. 2 hours, 12 minutes.
Christmas in The Crown THE PREACHER’S WIFE Monday, December 12, 7:30pm
The Reverend Henry Biggs is a good man who's doubtful about his ability to make a difference in his troubled community and home. Help is on the way in the form of an angel named Dudley who soon becomes the source of and solution to their problems.
This newer classic is a Gospel-infused remake of the 1947 film The Bishop's Wife.
Starring Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney B. Vance, Gregory Hines, Jenifer Lewis, Loretta Devine, and Lionel Richie. Directed by Penny Marshall. 1996. Rated PG. 2 hours, 4 minutes.
Carolina Classic Holiday Movie NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION Tuesday, Dec 13, 7pm
It’s a picture of the perfect family holiday gathering – just kidding! Clark Griswold wants to have a perfect family Christmas. Pestering his wife and children, he tries to make sure everything is in line with decking the halls and trimming the tree. Of course, things quickly go hilariously awry. Cousin Eddie and his family show up unplanned and start living in their camper on the Griswold property, and even worse, Clark's employers suddenly default on the holiday bonus he needs! Can Christmas be saved?!
Directed by Jeremiah Chechik. Starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, and Randy Quaid. 1989, Rated PG-13, 1 hour and 37 minutes.
Christmas in The Crown A CHRISTMAS CAROL Tuesday, December 13, 7:30pm
Unscrupulous businessman Ebeneezer Scrooge doesn't think much of Christian charity. But when the ghost of his deceased business partner appears to him, Scrooge is unsettled. Perhaps it’s not too late to change his ways and open his heart to the spirit of Christmas after all.
Starring George C. Scott and Frank Finlay. Directed by Clive Donner. 1984. Rated PG. 1 hour, 40 minutes.
Carolina Classic Holiday Movie HOME ALONE Wednesday, December 14, 7pm
When eight-year-old Kevin McCallister acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother sends him to sleep in the attic. The next morning, after the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true. His excitement sours when he realizes that two con men plan to rob the McCallister residence, though, and that he alone must protect the family home.
Directed by Chris Columbus. Starring Macaulay Culkin, Catherine O’Hara, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern. 1990, Rated PG, 1 hour and 43 minutes.
Christmas in The Crown THE BISHOP’S WIFE Wednesday, December 14, 7:30pm
Dejected by his efforts to raise money to build a cathedral, Bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) beseeches heaven for guidance, and is visited by Dudley (Cary Grant), who claims to be an angel. Henry is skeptical, then annoyed when Dudley ingratiates himself into the household as his assistant and—worse—wins the attentions of Henry’s long-suffering and kind wife (Loretta Young). When Dudley continues to intervene in Henry’s struggles, the bishop decides to challenge heaven.
Directed by Henry Koster. 1948. Not Rated. 1 hour and 49 minutes.
Carolina Classic Holiday(?) Movie DIE HARD Thursday, December 15, 7pm
New York City policeman John McClane is visiting his estranged wife and daughters on Christmas Eve. When he joins his wife at her office holiday party, the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise and everyone in it. McClane soon realizes that there is no one to save the hostages—except for him.
Starring Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, and Alan Rickman. Directed by John McTiernan. 1988. Rated R. 2 hours, 12 minutes.
Christmas in The Crown HOLIDAY AFFAIR Thursday, December 15, 7:30pm
Charming seasonal clerk Steve Mason (Robert Mitchum) catches beautiful Connie Ennis (Janet Leigh) in a fraudulent shopping scheme during the busy Christmas rush, but when he discovers that Ennis is a war widow and a single mother, he takes pity on her and just can't bring himself to turn her in. His supervisor takes notice and fires him on the spot. Mason befriends Connie and her young son, Timmy (Gordon Gebert), which may complicate her plans to marry boring nice guy Carl Davis (Wendell Corey)…
Directed by Don Hartman. 1949. Not Rated. 1 hour, 27 minutes.
Carolina Classic Holiday Movie ELF Monday, December 19, 7pm
Buddy was just a toddler in an orphanage until he stole away in Santa’s sack of presents. Thankfully, Santa’s elves accepted the boy and gave him a home. But as Buddy grows to adulthood, he’s still unable to shake the feeling that he doesn’t quite fit in – literally! Leaving the cheer of the North Pole, Buddy travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. As it happens, this is Walter Hobbs, a cynical businessman. After a DNA test proves paternity, Walter reluctantly attempts to start a relationship with the childlike Buddy with increasingly chaotic and jolly results.
Starring Will Ferrell, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen, and Zooey Deschanel. Directed by Jon Favreau. 2003. Rated PG. 1 hour, 37 minutes.
Christmas in The Crown CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT Monday, December 19, 7:30pm
Barbara Stanwyck stars as a famous expert on marriage, cooking, and homemaking who is asked by her publisher to host a national hero for Christmas dinner at her famous Connecticut home. It should be simple, but she must scramble to keep the secret that she’s single, can’t cook, and doesn’t own a home. With a lot of help, meticulous planning, and split-second timing, the urban sophisticate may just succeed, but the unforeseen happens when she falls in love with her guest.
Also starring Dennis Morgan and Sydney Greenstreet. Directed by Peter Godfrey. 1945. Not Rated. 1 hour, 42 minutes.
Carolina Classic Holiday Movie MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET Tuesday, December 20, 7pm
In this Christmas classic, an old man going by the name of Kris Kringle fills in for an intoxicated Santa in Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade. Kringle proves to be such a hit that he is soon appearing regularly at the chain's main store in midtown Manhattan. When Kringle surprises customers and employees alike by claiming that he really is Santa Claus, it leads to a court case to determine his mental health and, more importantly, his authenticity.
Starring Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Hara, John Payne, and Natalie Wood. Directed by George Seaton. 1947. Not Rated. 1 hour, 36 minutes.
Christmas in The Crown LOVE ACTUALLY Tuesday, December 20, 7:30pm
Nine intertwined stories examine the complexities of the one emotion that connects us all: love. Among the characters are David (Hugh Grant), the handsome newly elected British prime minister who falls for a young junior staffer (Martine McCutcheon), Sarah (Laura Linney), a graphic designer whose devotion to her mentally ill brother complicates her love life, and Harry (Alan Rickman), a married man tempted by his attractive new secretary.
Also starring Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Keira Knightley, and many more. Directed by Richard Curtis. 2003. Rated R. 2h, 16m.
Carolina Classic Holiday Movie A CHRISTMAS STORY Wednesday, December 21, 7pm
A beloved holiday classic based on author Jean Shepherd’s 1940s childhood, the wintry exploits of youngster Ralphie Parker are as relatable as they are hilarious. Nine-year old Ralphie spends most of his time dodging a bully and dreaming of his ideal Christmas gift, a Red Ryder air rifle. Unfortunately, his mother, his teacher, and even the Man in Red himself don’t agree. Determined to convince the world that it’s the perfect gift, Ralphie struggles to make it to Christmas Day with his glasses and his hopes intact.
Starring Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin, and Melinda Dillon. Directed by Bob Clark. 1983. Rated PG. 1 hour, 34 minutes.
Christmas in The Crown HOLIDAY INN Wednesday, December 21, 7:30pm
Nominated for three Academy Awards, Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire will sing and dance their way into your heart. Crosby plays a song-and-dance man who leaves showbiz to run an inn that is open only on holidays. Astaire plays his former partner and rival in love. And, of course, the soundtrack includes Irving Berlin’s ”White Christmas,” one of the biggest-selling recordings in music history!
Please note: THIS MOVIE CONTAINS A MUSICAL NUMBER PERFORMED BY BING CROSBY IN BLACKFACE.
Starring Crosby, Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, and Virginia Dale. Directed by Mark Sandrich. 1942. Not Rated. 1 hour and 42 minutes.
Carolina Classic Holiday Movie WHITE CHRISTMAS Thursday, December 22, 1pm and 7pm
* matinee + evening
Singers Bob Wallace and Phil Davis join sister act Betty and Judy Haynes to perform a Christmas show in rural Vermont. There, they run into General Waverly, the boys’ WWII commander, and learn that he is having financial difficulties; his quaint country inn is failing. So, what’s the foursome to do but plan a yuletide miracle: a fun-filled musical extravaganza that’s sure to put Waverly and his business in the black!
Starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Directed by Michael Curtiz. 1954. Not Rated. 2 hours.
Christmas in The Crown SHOP AROUND THE CORNER Thursday, December 22, 7:30pm
The film that inspired You’ve Got Mail, Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) and Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) are employees at Matuschek and Company, a general store in Budapest. At work, Klara and Alfred argue incessantly, never suspecting that they are carrying on a tender romance through the mail. Through their anonymously signed letters, the lovers agree to meet for the first time at a cafe, but when Alfred arrives at the rendezvous, he is astonished to discover that his secret love is Klara. Determined to keep it a secret, it isn’t until Christmas Eve at the shop that they reveal their true feelings.
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. 1940. Not Rated. 1 hour, 39 minutes.
Carolina Classic Holiday Movie IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE Friday, December 23, 1pm and 7pm
* matinee + evening
George Bailey is a small-town man whose life seems so desperate that he contemplates suicide. He had always wanted to leave Bedford Falls to see the world, but circumstances and his own good heart have led him to stay. (He sacrificed his education for his brother's, kept the family-run savings and loan afloat, protected the town from the avarice of the greedy banker Mr. Potter, and married his childhood sweetheart.) As he prepares to jump from a bridge, his guardian angel intercedes, showing him what life would have become for the residents of Bedford Falls is he had never lived.
Starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, and Henry Travers. Directed by Frank Capra. 1946. Rated PG. 2 hours, 12 minutes.
Carolina Classic Movie JAILHOUSE ROCK Tuesday, January 24, 7pm
Happy Birthday (month) to Elvis Presley! In his feature film debut, Elvis stars as Vince Everett, a young man convicted of manslaughter after being drawn into a bar fight while trying to defend a woman. In prison, Everett finds salvation when his cellmate, a country singer named Hunk Houghton (Mickey Shaughnessy), hears him sing and pegs him as a future star. Once released, Everett gets a job in a night club and meets Peggy Van Alden (Judy Tyler), a young woman who works for a record company and who, like Houghton, also sees talent in Vince.
Directed by Richard Thorpe. 1957. Not Rated. 1 hour, 36 minutes.
The Silent Series at the Carolina presents OUR HOSPITALITY Tuesday, January 31, 7pm
See the iconic silent movie, accompanied LIVE on the Carolina Theatre’s Robert Morton Pipe Organ! Original to the Carolina’s opening night in 1927, the organ is the only remaining Robert Morton Pipe Organ in the state.
Sole heir Willie McKay (Buster Keaton) journeys by train from New York City to Kentucky to claim his fortune amid a decades-old feud with the Canfield family. En route, he meets and becomes smitten with young beauty Virginia (Natalie Talmadge), who invites him to dinner. He realizes too late that she is the only daughter of patriarch Joseph Canfield (Joe Roberts). The rules of hospitality protect McKay from harm in their house, but he must outwit her brothers to resolve the feud.
Directed by Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone. 1923. Not Rated. 1 hour, 15 minutes.
Carolina Classic Movie LADY SINGS THE BLUES Tuesday, February 14, 7pm
Pop star Diana Ross portrays legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in this dramatic biopic. Beginning with Holiday's traumatic youth, the film depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay (Billy Dee Williams), her boyfriend and manager. Casting a shadow over even Holiday's brightest moments is the vocalist's severe drug addiction, which threatens to end both her career and her life.
Directed by Sidney J. Furie. 1972. Rated R. 2 hours, 24 minutes.
Carolina Classic Movie FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE Tuesday, March 14, 7pm
Agent 007 (Sean Connery) is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana (Daniela Bianchi) to lure Bond into helping them. Bond travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
Directed by Terence Young. 1964. Rated PG. 1 hour, 55 minutes.
Carolina Classic Movie CASABLANCA Tuesday, April 18, 7pm
Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such a man is Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one, especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's transport out of the country, and bitter Rick must decide what counts more: personal happiness or countless lives hanging in the balance.
Directed by Michael Curtiz. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains. 1942. Rated PG. 1 hour, 42 minutes.
The Silent Series at the Carolina presents THE CIRCUS Tuesday, April 25, 7pm
See the iconic silent movie, accompanied LIVE on the Carolina Theatre’s Robert Morton Pipe Organ! Original to the Carolina’s opening night in 1927, the organ is the only remaining Robert Morton Pipe Organ in the state.
Wrongfully accused of criminal acts, a tramp (Charlie Chaplin) unwittingly ducks into a big top, where his bumbling attempts to avoid the pursuing police officers earn the laughter and applause of the circus-goers. Impressed, the ringmaster (Allan Garcia) decides to employ the tramp as an entertainer. In between getting trapped in a lion's cage and partaking in clumsy high wire escapades, he falls for a beautiful show rider (Merna Kennedy), who unfortunately has eyes for a daring tightrope acrobat.
Directed by Charlie Chaplin. 1928. Not Rated. 1 hour, 12 minutes.
Carolina Classic Movie SHAFT Tuesday, May 9, 7pm
Cool private eye John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) first finds himself up against Bumpy (Moses Gunn), the leader of the black crime mob, then against black nationals, and finally working with both against the white mafia who are trying to blackmail Bumpy by kidnapping his daughter.
Directed by Gordon Parks. 1971. Rated R. 1 hour, 40 minutes.
Carolina Classic Movie MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS Tuesday, June 20, 7pm
It’s the classic MGM romantic musical comedy focusing on a family of four sisters on the cusp of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. The movie, with Judy Garland at the helm, spotlights the sisters' education in the ways of the world, which includes, but isn't limited to learning about life and love courtesy of the boy next door. In the end, love—accompanied by song, dance, and fantastic costumes, all in glorious Technicolor, of course—conquers all.
Also starring Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, and Tom Drake. Directed by Vincente Minnelli. 1944. Not Rated. 1 hour, 52 minutes.
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As the Carolina Theatre welcomes audiences back to Downtown Greensboro, here are the current health and safety guidelines in place to keep guests, performers, and staff as safe and comfortable as possible:
- · Masks are recommended and social distancing is encouraged, when possible.
- · Hand sanitation stations can be found throughout the theatre lobby, with regular cleaning of high-touch areas by theatre staff.
- · All theatre restrooms have been upgraded with touchless toilets, sinks, soap dispensers, and towel dispensers.
- · Paperless e-tickets are now in use for all events.
- · Please check specific event listings to verify individual show requirements.
The Carolina Theatre’s in-person Box Office is open Monday through Friday, from noon until 3PM.
Guests can also email ticketing questions to boxoffice@carolinatheatre.com. | https://www.yesweekly.com/film/2022-2023-carolina-classic-movie-series-at-carolina-theatre/article_d37e198e-27cc-11ed-83cf-4f1ed72c070c.html | 2022-08-29T20:57:15Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/film/2022-2023-carolina-classic-movie-series-at-carolina-theatre/article_d37e198e-27cc-11ed-83cf-4f1ed72c070c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New research shows a marine mammal, that is said to have reportedly inspired ancient tales of mermaids, is "functionally extinct" in China.
In a news release, researchers from the Zoological Society of London and the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that the dugong, also known as a "sea cow," hasn't had a presence in China at all since 2008.
In their study, which was published Wednesday in the Royal Society Open Science journal, researchers said the ocean's gentle giant is possibly the first large vertebrate to go functionally extinct in China’s coastal waters.
According to the study, the population of dugongs in Chinese waters began rapidly decreasing in the 1970s due to fishing, collisions with ships, and habitat loss.
Researchers surveyed 66 finishing communities in four Chinese provinces along the South China Sea to gain knowledge about sighting the animal, the society said in a press release.
According to the study, out of the 788 respondents, only 5% reported seeing a dugong, with the average last-sighting date 23 years earlier.
According to the study, only three respondents said they saw the dugong within the last five years.
"This exhaustive survey found no recent evidence of dugong survival across their known distribution in mainland Chinese waters," researchers said in the study. "The authors now recommend that the species’ regional status should be reassessed as Critically Endangered (possibly extinct)."
The animal was first designated for protection in 1988 by the Chinese State Council. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/study-finds-dugongs-are-functionally-extinct-in-china | 2022-08-29T20:57:20Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/study-finds-dugongs-are-functionally-extinct-in-china | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kids, Cake, and Carley Arrowood At 10th Annual Carolina Bible Camp Bluegrass Festival
MOCKSVILLE, NC – Carolina Bible Camp Bluegrass Festival is the place to be for kids and for the young at heart.
Still admitted free with a paying adult, children 12 and under will love the special activities planned just for them, including an outdoor easel for painting, old-fashioned sidewalk games, and free crafts. (Children 12 and older will enjoy them, too.)
The non-profit crisis pregnancy and adoption organization, AGAPE of North Carolina, is sponsoring the Kids’ Activities tent which features a long list of special events.
CARLEY AND KIDS!
At 1:45 p.m., bluegrass artist Carley Arrowood will be on hand to meet and greet kids and talk about growing up to be a professional musician.
Carley Arrowood was only 10 years old when she heard a 4-H friend playing bluegrass fiddle. That inspired Carley to begin studying violin in the Suzuki method. She later joined the Hendersonville Youth Orchestra and auditioned for bluegrass dup Darin and Brooke Aldridge while still in high school. After graduating, she immediately began touring with them, and now, after having won many awards, she is out on her own.
Also on hand to talk about their professions will be NC State Highway Patrol Trp. B. K. White; cardiology ICU Nurse Keysha Kendrick; teacher Sherie Conner, and preacher Gustavo Prato. Parents are invited to bring cell phones to this photo opportunity to make special photographs of their children with these uniformed professionals.
AND MORE KIDS’ ACTIVITIES
Middle School Teacher Charity Watkins will lead children on a Nature Walk from 2:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., including a Bible lesson. At 3:00 p.m., Andy King invites kids to join him at the Ga-Ga Ball Pit near the Kids’ Tent to learn how to play the fun and fast-paced game of Ga-Ga Ball.
Feel like a parade? Kids are invited to meet at the Kids’ Tent at 4:00 p.m. and prepare to introduce the 2023 festival’s lineup.
The Swicegood Group Picker’s Place (large shelter) is the place to be if you like participating in your picking. All ages are invited all day. A special kids’ segment, Music with Miss Laura, will take place from 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (Children under 10 years old should be accompanied by an adult, please.) Some percussive instruments will be provided but bring your own stringed instruments.
DID SOMEONE SAY CAKE?
Master Baker Bonnie Watkins has created a special confection to celebrate the 10th annual festival. The large, three-layer sheet cake will feature two chocolate cake layers, one red velvet layer, and lots of creamy melt-in-your-mouth icing. How big will it be to feed this festival crowd? Mrs. Watkins says there will be 10 pounds of butter, 54 eggs, 20 pounds of powdered sugar, and an entire cup of vanilla extract. A brief but special cake-cutting ceremony will take place at noon in the Dining Hall.
Tickets for the 10th Annual Carolina Bible Camp Bluegrass Festival are on sale now at www.cbcbluegrass.com. The lineup includes international favorites The Kruger Brothers; Junior Sisk Band; Carley Arrowood Band, and Big Ron Hunter. The festival, the 2019 and 2021 winner of the statewide Carolina’s Finest “Best Festival” award, will also offer two special workshops with brothers Uwe and Jens Kruger for an additional fee.
Always held the second Saturday in September, the family-friendly festival falls on September 10 this year. The Camp’s scenic 68-acre property featuring rustic cabins and the unique “Front Porch Stage” serve as the backdrop for the event.
Tickets for the all-volunteer produced Carolina Bible Camp Bluegrass Festival 2022 are on sale at www.cbcbluegrass.com. Ticket prices remain unchanged at $15 in advance and $20 at the gate; children under 12 are admitted free with a paying adult. Follow the festival on Facebook and Instagram for announcements.
Carolina Bible Camp Bluegrass Festival 2022 is sponsored in part by Brewer & Brewer Attorneys at Law, Carolina Hearing Doctors and Peak Eye Care. Media partners are Carolina Country, Winston-Salem Journal, YES! Weekly, and WAME radio.
The Mocksville, NC festival gates open at 10:00 a.m. Parking is free. Handicapped parking and assistance is available for guests with special needs. Children under 12 are admitted free. Lunch is served on the grounds for an additional charge. No alcohol, no coolers, no pets, please. Bring your own chair. The festival will be held rain or shine. Professional grade tents will keep guests comfortable.
Carolina Bible Camp is located at 1988 Jericho Church Road in Mocksville, NC, 27028. For more information, please contact CBC Bluegrass Festival Executive Director Lisa Brewer at (336) 262-6325. | https://www.yesweekly.com/foodanddrink/kids-cake-and-carley-arrowood-at-10th-annual-carolina-bible-camp-bluegrass-festival/article_e4b50180-27cd-11ed-99da-c7907006521a.html | 2022-08-29T20:57:21Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/foodanddrink/kids-cake-and-carley-arrowood-at-10th-annual-carolina-bible-camp-bluegrass-festival/article_e4b50180-27cd-11ed-99da-c7907006521a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GREENSBORO, NC (August 26, 2022) -- Join the Greensboro area Rotary clubs for their big 10th annual hotly contested barbecue competition for the Boss Hawg Championship trophy - with some of the best wood smoked pork, ribs, brisket, and chicken, along with a wide variety of sides, desserts, beer, and wine…all you can eat and drink.
“PIGSTOCK 2022”, A Day of Smoked BBQ & Bluegrass, A Rotary BBQ Competition Benefiting Children of Vietnam, will take place Sat., Nov. 5, 10am–5pm at the Shooting Star Horse Farm, 5624 Davis Mill Road in Greensboro.
Live bluegrass music will be provided by the bands Never Too Late, Hot Wax & The Splinters, and Briar Patch. Bring your instruments for fun open jam sessions accompanied by the bands on breaks.
All proceeds support the Children of Vietnam organization – including college educations for underprivileged Vietnamese youth (“Educating, Healing, Sheltering, and Nurturing”). More info available at pigstockbbq.com.
Tickets are available for all you can eat food with tea and water or food, beer, and wine: $35-$45. Children under 12 FREE – one paying adult must accompany each child. Tickets will be sold at the event or can be purchased in advance online:
https://secure.givelively.org/event/children-of-vietnam/pigstock-2022 | https://www.yesweekly.com/foodanddrink/pigstock-2022-a-day-of-smoked-bbq-bluegrass-set-for-sat-nov-5/article_8dc6eab6-27cb-11ed-97da-b70bc44edefc.html | 2022-08-29T20:57:27Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/foodanddrink/pigstock-2022-a-day-of-smoked-bbq-bluegrass-set-for-sat-nov-5/article_8dc6eab6-27cb-11ed-97da-b70bc44edefc.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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The stakes couldn't be higher for the International Atomic Energy Agency experts who will visit the plant in a country where the 1986 Chernobyl disaster spewed radiation throughout the region, shocking the world and intensifying a global push away from nuclear energy.
"Without an exaggeration, this mission will be the hardest in the history of IAEA," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.
Underscoring the urgency, Ukraine and Russia again accused each other of shelling the wider region around the nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, which was briefly knocked offline last week. The dangers are so high that officials have begun handing out anti-radiation iodine tablets to nearby residents.
To avoid a disaster, IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi has sought access for months to the Zaporizhzhia plant, which Russian forces have occupied since the early days of the six-month-old war. Ukrainian nuclear workers have operated the plant the whole time.
"The day has come," Grossi tweeted Monday, adding that the Vienna-based IAEA's "Support and Assistance Mission ... is now on its way."
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry spokesman said the team, which Grossi heads, is scheduled to arrive in Kyiv on Monday. In April, Grossi had headed an IAEA mission to Chernobyl, which Russian forces occupied earlier in the war.
The IAEA said that its team will "undertake urgent safeguards activities," assess damage, determine the functionality of the plant's safety and security systems and evaluate the control room staff's working conditions.
Ukraine's nuclear energy agency, Energoatom, warned Monday of Russian attempts to cover up their military use of the plant.
"The occupiers, preparing for the arrival of the IAEA mission, increased pressure on the personnel ... to prevent them from disclosing evidence of the occupiers' crimes at the plant and its use as a military base," Energoatom said, adding that four plant workers were wounded in Russian shelling of the city where they live.
Ukraine accused Russia of new rocket and artillery strikes at or near the plant, intensifying fears that the fighting could cause a massive radiation leak. So far, radiation levels at the facility, which has six reactors, have been reported to be normal.
Ukraine has alleged that Russia is essentially holding the plant hostage, storing weapons there and launching attacks from around it, while Moscow accuses Ukraine of recklessly firing on the facility.
World leaders have called on the Russians to demilitarize the plant. Satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies on Monday showed armored personnel carriers on a road near the reactors, damage to a building's roof also near the reactors, and brushfires burning nearby.
Ukraine reported more Russian shelling in Nikopol, the city across the Dnieper River from the nuclear power plant, with one person killed and five wounded. The city has been hit by relentless shelling for weeks. In Enerhodar, just a few kilometers from the plant, the city's Ukrainian mayor, Dmytro Orlov, blamed Russian shelling for wounding at least 10 residents.
Kuleba, Ukraine's foreign minister, said in Stockholm that he expects the IAEA mission to produce "a clear statement of facts, of violation of all nuclear, of nuclear safety protocols." He added, "We know that Russia is putting not only Ukraine, but also the entire world at threat at the risk of nuclear accident."
In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia will ensure security of the IAEA mission and called on other countries to "raise pressure on the Ukrainian side to force it to stop threatening the European continent by shelling the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and surrounding areas."
Over the weekend, Energoatom painted an ominous picture of the threats at the plant by issuing a map forecasting where radiation could spread.
Elsewhere on the battlefield, the Ukraine military claimed it had breached Russia's first line of defense near Kherson just north of the Crimea, the peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Such an advance would represent a strategic breakthrough — if confirmed. Kherson is the biggest Ukrainian city that the Russians now occupy, and reports about Ukrainian forces preparing for a counteroffensive in the region have circulated for weeks.
For its part, Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces had inflicted heavy personnel and military equipment losses on Ukrainian troops trying to attack in three directions in Ukraine's southern Kherson and Mykoaiv regions, the state news agency Tass reported.
Residents reported explosions Monday at a Kherson-area bridge over the Dnieper River that is a critical Russian supply line, and Russian news reports spoke of air defense systems activating repeatedly in the city, with nighttime explosions in the sky Monday night.
Russian-installed officials, citing Ukrainian rocket strikes, announced the evacuation of residents of nearby Nova Kakhovka — a city that Kyiv's forces frequently target — from their workplaces to bomb shelters on Monday. In another Kherson region city, Berislav, Russian news agencies reported that Ukrainian shelling had damaged a church, a school and other buildings.
But in a war rife with claims and counterclaims that are hard to verify independently, the Moscow-appointed regional leader of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, dismissed the Ukrainian assertion of an offensive in the Kherson region as false. He said Ukrainian forces have suffered heavy losses in the area. And Ukraine's presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, cautioned against "super-sensational announcements" about a counteroffensive.
In the eastern Donetsk region, eight civilians were reported killed and seven wounded. Russian forces struck the cities of Sloviansk and Kostyantynivka overnight and the region's Ukrainian governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, urged residents to evacuate immediately.
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Andrew Katell contributed to this report from New York.
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Follow AP's coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/un-international-atomic-energy-agency-to-inspect-ukraine-nuclear-plant-in-urgent-mission | 2022-08-29T20:57:33Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/un-international-atomic-energy-agency-to-inspect-ukraine-nuclear-plant-in-urgent-mission | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Habitat Greensboro Dedicates Home in Willow Oaks
Greensboro, NC: On Saturday, August 27, Habitat Greensboro dedicated its sixth home in the Willow Oaks community. The home dedication was held for the Ahmed and Mohammed family – Hatim and Aisha, and their children Osama, Mohammed, Hiba, and Amjad.
David Kolosieke, President and CEO of Habitat Greensboro, began today’s dedication by recognizing the significance of the day, particularly given that the Greensboro Community would gather later in the day to celebrate the life of John Fisher, one of the founders of Habitat Greensboro. In acknowledging the build sponsors, Kolosieke shared, “It is the faith communities that joined together in November of 1987 to form Habitat Greensboro. And, today, the sponsor for this beautiful home is Building on Faith, which is the faith community.”
Representing the build sponsors, Amina Memon shared, “Habitat represents the best of America. When you are a person of color, when you are a person of a different faith, you look to institutions like this for everyone to come together to bring good … I love that they give back to the community because that is a very big part of Islam. We have five pillars in Islam. The third pillar is charity, to give back, is to help the needy, is to help the poor. By helping and by giving, we are being good Muslims. We are being good Americans. It’s every religion coming together to build. I am so proud to be a part of Habitat. I am so proud to have a group that will put in the hard work and the funds to give back.”
Sharing her Muslim faith, Memon offered a quote from the Quran. “Those who spend n charity will be richly rewarded.” Further sharing, “in our faith, it says that wealth that does not decrease by giving in charity, but rather grows and is purified, increasing also the individuals’ blessings and spiritual strength. By giving you are not depleting yourself, you are receiving, you are receiving more.”
The family is very excited about the opportunity to purchase their own house from Habitat Greensboro and begin making their house a home. With the fall holidays approaching, the family’s youngest child, Amjad, is most excited about being able to decorate for Halloween!
Hatim and Aisha will soon close on their new home and begin paying an affordable mortgage. All Habitat Greensboro partner families are guaranteed that their mortgage payments will be no more than 30% of their income. This provides families with an opportunity to build wealth and increases opportunities to invest in themselves.
About Habitat Greensboro
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Greensboro works toward our vision of a world where everyone has a safe and affordable place to live.
Habitat Greensboro homeowners help build their own homes alongside volunteers and pay an affordable mortgage.
Since 1987, Habitat Greensboro has served more than 520 families in Greensboro. In addition to the homeowners served locally, Habitat Greensboro provides funding to its affiliates in Honduras and Kenya, where the organization has helped build nearly 500 homes.
Visit our website at HabitatGreensboro.orgfor the latest news and updates. | https://www.yesweekly.com/kids_family/habitat-greensboro-dedicates-home-in-willow-oaks/article_d5579422-27ce-11ed-a314-b7b79449feff.html | 2022-08-29T20:57:33Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/kids_family/habitat-greensboro-dedicates-home-in-willow-oaks/article_d5579422-27ce-11ed-a314-b7b79449feff.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
# Laodetosauri\nsau kripto-Sàvih laktate vodi. I da sveta bili turs izopravec, no dugme staze\nkod hobotnasti.\nMaterali člansak sadržavljivalja se i odvozit ćut u želunu kada luta kod plakao je iz\nvazdih od la MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Research found Native Americans are living shorter lives because of the pandemic. Lower quality care and less access to care cut an average of four years off the lives of American Indian populations across the country, but there’s work happening right now to stop that trend.
It’s called the Urban Indian Health Confer Act. What it does is simple: it takes away red tape and gives better health care access to those who desperately need it.
Dr. Patrick Rock has dedicated his life to honoring two things: his roots and his tribal brothers and sisters.
“We, of course, go into this type of work to improve the health of people, and it feels like it's an uphill battle,” he said.
Dr. Rock has spent 25 years as a family doctor in Minneapolis and is also the CEO of the Indian Health Board of Minneapolis. He’s found American Indian healthcare in the city is often tougher than healthcare on the reservation.
“Urban Indian health has always been an afterthought,” said Rock. “Eighty percent of Native people live in urban centers, so off of tribal lands, off a reservation, and through the Indian Health Service, unfortunately, there's only about 1% of the total budget is proportioned to the urban programs across the United States.”
That means fewer doctors and clinics, but during the pandemic, it meant less access to the vaccine.
“We saw grave delays in vaccines in a population that needed it the most, and so it was very disappointing, devastating, and it probably cost lives needlessly. We don't want bureaucracy to get in the way of healthcare delivery,” said Meredith Raimondi of the National Council of Urban Indian Health.
Raimondi is now part of a coalition fighting for better healthcare policy alongside Dr. Rock. They’re supporting legislation introduced by Senators Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) called the Urban Indian Health Confer Act. The legislation is working its way through Congress now, and it has bipartisan support.
Traditionally, the federal government communicates with the Indian Health Service only, and then, the Indian Health Service delivers all communication, resources, and funding to urban Indian health programs.
This legislation would cut out the chain of communication and require the federal government to directly communicate with urban Native American health. That means sending healthcare supplies and funding directly to urban programs that need it.
“I firmly believe that Native people living in urban areas deserve an active voice in the policies that affect them,” said Sen. Smith. “I introduced the bipartisan Urban Indian Health Confer Act to help facilitate the open and free exchange of information and opinions between federal agencies and urban Indian organizations. It is an important step towards creating parity within the Indian Health System.”
“The entirety of the federal government is going to require itself to talk with Urban Indian Health, and has a lot of, I think, potential as far as lifesaving, but also, I think things such as improving quality of health care as well as saving health care dollars and making the system much more efficient,” said Rock.
“Lives are at stake, and it is the federal government's trust responsibility to provide health care services,” said Raimondi. “And it's not just to provide substandard health care services. It actually is to provide the highest health care service available.”
If this legislation passes, it may take years to see change in the urban American Indian healthcare system, but it’s a big step toward equity and preserving the rich tribal history that exists all around us. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/urban-american-indian-communities-may-soon-get-better-access-to-healthcare | 2022-08-29T20:57:39Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/urban-american-indian-communities-may-soon-get-better-access-to-healthcare | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Aug. 24, Heddie Dawkins wandered away from her family's home on Blockhouse Court at 1:30 a.m. in the morning. Eighty-one-year-old Dawkins has severe dementia. Since she was reported missing, crews have been searching for her with drones, boats, ATVs, and bloodhounds with no luck.
The search has included heavily wooded areas, deep creeks, greenway areas and the Piedmont Environmental Center.
Agencies involved in the search for Dawkins include the High Point Police Department, Guilford County Sheriff's Office, Guilford County EMS, High Point Fire Department and N.C. State Highway Patrol, which has used a helicopter to survey the area. Members of the community also have united to help in the search to bring her home.
Law enforcement and the community are continuing to conduct an active search.
Dawkins has mostly grey and black hair and was wearing a medium blue top and pants and dark blue sneakers when she apparently locked herself out of her home.
Police think she could be hurt. In another house's doorbell camera footage about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 2900 block of Cloverwood Drive she appeared to have blood on her face.
Police request that residents in the area near Blockhouse Court who have home security cameras check their footage. People also should thoroughly check their property, including fenced areas, storage buildings and vehicles in case Dawkins found her way into one.
Do not go by rumors of sighting, but if you see anything or have any information call 911 or 336-883-3224 so it can be checked and verified. | https://www.yesweekly.com/news/jamestown_news/community-units-to-find-missing-women-with-dementia/article_0c3487e6-27ae-11ed-a9a9-6bd7bc8d1439.html | 2022-08-29T20:57:39Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/news/jamestown_news/community-units-to-find-missing-women-with-dementia/article_0c3487e6-27ae-11ed-a9a9-6bd7bc8d1439.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has sent his felicitations to the Government and people of Yobe State on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the creation of the state.
Lawan, in a statement he personally signed in Abuja acknowledged the contributions of the past and present leaders to the development of the state and urged the people to continue to promote peace and security in the state and give maximum support to their leaders.
The statement reads:
“I felicitate the government and people of Yobe State as we mark the 31st anniversary of the creation of our dear state.
“I salute the founding fathers for their dream that gave birth to the state. I also thank the past and current leaders of the state for their commitment and dedication to the collective aspirations behind the creation of the state.
“Yobe State is our collective pride and its development will continue to be the focus of our people.
“Yobe state has experienced a tremendous transformation over the years. Like every other state, however, our state has its challenges but with continued unity of purpose among all Yobeans, these challenges will serve as opportunities for further development of the state.
“Let us all continue to promote peace and unity in the state and give our maximum support to the government of the state.
“I especially congratulate my friend and brother, the Governor of the state, His Excellency, Mai Mala Buni, for sustaining the tempo of development in the state. Your Excellency, let me assure you of our continued support for your administration.
“Governor Buni has demonstrated great capacity and commitment in handling the developmental and other challenges of the state. I am confident that with the continued support of all Yobeans, he will take our state to greater heights.
“Once again, I wish all Yobeans a happy anniversary.”
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Investors assessing the narrative for homebuilding company KB Home (KBH) face a tough dilemma. On one hand, its management team delivered solid results for its second quarter. Still, the other side of the equation is the tough economic environment. Between two conflicting forces, investors may want to consider opting for the conservative approach. I am bearish on KBH stock.
If earnings reports always correspond with market success, one would be hard-pressed to ignore KBH stock. For Q2, KB Home delivered adjusted earnings per share of $2.32. This figure beat Wall Street’s consensus estimate of $2.04, translating to a positive earnings surprise of 13.7%. This was a 55% increase from $1.50 per share on a year-over-year basis, which can be attributed to growth in revenue and margins.
On the top line, KB Home rang up sales of $1.72 billion. Again, this tally beat covering analysts’ consensus target, which was set at $1.61 billion, a positive surprise of 7.1%. Further, the latest revenue haul represented an increase of 19% compared to the prior year.
“We delivered strong results in the second quarter, generating significant year-over-year growth in revenues, operating income, and diluted earnings per share,” said Jeffrey Mezger, chairman, president, and CEO of KB Home. “With our ending backlog of over $6 billion, we are reaffirming our fiscal 2022 guidance, which we believe we are well positioned to achieve.”
Ordinarily, such results would yield strong market returns. To be fair, KBH stock did swing higher on the disclosure. However, since the announcement, shares are up only around 13%. Further, on a trailing-month basis, KBH shed almost 10%.
Clearly, momentum isn’t moving the right way, which brings the discussion to the other side of the fence.
The Fed Brings the Pain for KBH Stock
Tellingly, KBH stock ended up losing nearly 5% of its market value during the trading session on August 26. The culprit? A less-than-encouraging disclosure by Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell sent the broader equities sphere tumbling.
As the TipRanks Team reported, “Any hopes of the Fed’s pivot from its hawkishness were dashed on Friday when Powell reinforced the Fed’s stance. Now that July’s inflation data came below expectations, many were hoping that the Fed would ease its policy. However, Powell did not mince his words while reinstating that more aggressive interest rate hikes are on the way this year and that the central bank will not depend on a month or two of positive inflation data.
Now, investors are left to second-guess the effects of more rate hikes on the economy’s health. Once again, investors are reassessing their risk positioning and pulling out of risky bets. Being most sensitive to interest rates, the technology sector was hit the hardest.”
While the tech segment did suffer severe losses, Powell’s comments also bring poor tidings to KBH stock and its ilk. With borrowing costs set to rise in an effort to mitigate multidecade highs in inflation, homebuying sentiment will almost surely strain under the pressure.
In early August, I stated the following. “In 2021, the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar declined by 6%. However, just in the first half of this year, purchasing power dipped by 5.3%. Put another way, the rate of acceleration in currency erosion almost doubled this year.”
It just comes down to simple logical deduction. At a certain point, economic forces can only fleece the flock so much until consumers give up.
KB Home Stock and the Inventory Dilemma
As financial pressures build for millions of American families, investors can reasonably expect that homebuilders such as KB Home will incur rising inventory. Should the metric get out of hand, it would be a clear sign to run for the exits or hit the sidelines.
To be fair, management insists that it’s well-positioned to handle current market risks. “We believe the flexibility of our Built-to-Order business model will enable us to navigate these changing market conditions,” stated Mezger.
“Our model allows our customers to choose from a wide array of floorplans and price points, offering them the ability to personalize their home in a way that reflects what they value and can afford. Our approach resonates with buyers and is a key reason we have sustained among the highest absorption rates in the industry for many years.”
Still, investors should consider the hard data. In Q2 2022, KB Home’s days inventory line item was nearly 383, representing almost a 13% lift from the year-ago quarter. On a trailing-12-month basis, this metric stands at 372.15.
In its fiscal year ended November 2021, KB Home’s days inventory was 410.41. In the following year, it dipped down to 355.27, a historically healthy level under bullish circumstances. However, the key here is that the days inventory line item tends to fluctuate based on underlying economic dynamics.
For instance, in 2009, this metric was 376.29, moving up to 445 a year later. However, during the last housing boom in 2007, days inventory was at a subterranean 242.15.
Is KBH a Good Stock to Buy?
Turning to Wall Street, KBH stock has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on eight Buys, four Holds, and one Sell assigned in the past three months. The average KBH stock price target is $38.67, implying 29.5% upside potential.
Takeaway: KBH Investors Need to Read between the Lines
While investors shouldn’t dismiss what management teams say about their companies, ultimately, they must conduct their own independent research. Here, when assessing the days inventory metric, it’s moving northbound as rising borrowing costs are on the horizon. Frankly, that’s a bearish signal all day long for a home builder. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/kb-home-kbh-stock-read-between-the-lines | 2022-08-29T20:59:59Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/kb-home-kbh-stock-read-between-the-lines | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For the second year in a row, South Hardin emerged from one of their toughest weekend tournaments as champions.
The Tigers (7-0) dropped two sets at the Humboldt Tournament on their way to a title. To earn the crown, SH had to knock off three rated squads to finish unblemished.
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Hoka shoes were created by runners for everyone from neighborhood walkers to marathoners. The high-quality running shoes are known for being functional, durable and comfortable. They are designed to provide support in all the right places. However, they might not fit every budget.
If you love the style and long for the comfort of Hoka shoes but prefer something more affordable, Walmart’s Avia Women’s Hightail Running Sneakers might be just what you’re looking for. Similar in appearance to Hoka One One Clifton 6 shoes that start at well over $100 (the current edition is the Clifton 8, usually around $200), the Hightails have received excellent reviews. Better still, they’re available for under $30.
These women’s running shoes have a compression midsole and a high-abrasion rubber outsole. These features provide enduring performance with excellent cushioning for every step you take. In addition, the molded TPU heel and toe counter is sturdy and abrasion-resistant but also flexible to provide stability.
The shoe’s upper is lightweight, breathable woven mesh, and the EVA foam midsole provides excellent shock absorption without adding heaviness. The outsole is designed for complete ground contact, and the lace-up style offers additional support. The shoes wipe clean, as well.
These Hoka shoes dupes have an overall rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars on Walmart.com. Customers who reviewed the sneakers appreciate the comfort and support the shoes offer, as well as the excellent value.
“I saw these on TikTok and it said they compared to an expensive well-known name brand known for running, standing and walking,” wrote a reviewer named Kristy who also mentioned that her job requires standing. “I was skeptical, but they actually DO!! I ended up buying two pairs.”
“I absolutely love these sneakers,” wrote another reviewer. “I am a BIG BEAUTIFUL WOMAN (BBW) with leg and back injuries from a car accident. I have heel spurs and flat feet. These sneakers are comfortable, supportive, lightweight and sturdy. I got them just to wear in the yard and do cleaning and maintenance at home. I didn’t want to mess up any of my Nikes or Pumas that I normally wear. They fit true to size. These are comparable to my regular expensive sneakers.”
Reviewers report that the shoes run true to size.
If you have been hoping to try Hoka shoes but would like to start with something easier on the budget, you can get the Avia Women’s Hightail Running Sneakers at Walmart. They’re available in 10 colors, with basic options like black, white or cream and fun colors such as navy and teal, black and pink or purple. They also come in medium and wide widths, costing just $27.98.
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There is a 20-season period, beginning with the 1997-98 campaign, in which an annual case could be made for Gregg Popovich as NBA Coach of the Year. He won the award three times.
For most of this century the same case could be made in the NFL for Bill Belichick. Yet, the Associated Press bestowed him the award just three times.
This is how Shohei Ohtani’s MVP candidacy is going to be as long as he is a high-level pitcher and hitter — he can be given the award every year. It is just going to be a matter of how many times he is going to receive it. Popovich and Belichick did not become lesser coaches in any of those seasons. It was just a matter of if you thought someone else coached better, or — probably more often — if you liked the narrative of another coach (usually due to surprising team success) or voters independently reached the human-nature inspired group decision of wanting to elect different winners.
Because just in theory how do you get more valuable than having an All-Star hitter and starting pitcher housed in one person? And that is who Ohtani has been this year, just like last year. To date in 2022, he has basically been Pete Alonso at the plate and Nestor Cortes on the mound — how nice that all are in their age-27 seasons.
Through Sunday as hitters:
- Ohtani: .265/.358/.516, 28 homers, 77 RBI, 145 OPS-plus
- Alonso: .273/.350/.516, 31 homers, 105 RBI, 144 OPS-plus
Through Sunday as a pitcher:
- Ohtani: 128 innings, 2.67 ERA, 518 batters faced, .214/.264/.349
- Cortes: 131 innings, 2.68 ERA, 514 batters faced, .200/.249/.340
Ohtani does not play the field as Alonso does, but Alonso’s NL MVP viability hardly has anything to do with his defense. Meanwhile, Ohtani has 11 steals (though he’s been caught stealing eight times) and six triples — his 14 triples between 2021-22 leads the majors. The same human is sixth over the last two seasons combined in both extra-base hits (133, tied with Nolan Arenado) and strikeout percentage at 31.6 percent (minimum 250 innings pitched).
Of course, the MVP is just about the one season being played, and in that one Ohtani had both a 2.67 ERA and an .874 OPS going into the Angels’ series opener against the Yankees, who have the perceived AL MVP frontrunner in Aaron Judge. If the season ended today, I believe Judge should win the AL MVP.
In 2021, Ohtani won the AL MVP over Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Guerrero’s Blue Jays team did not make the playoffs as Judge’s Yankees are all but certain to do in 2022 (though Guerrero’s team was not eliminated until the last day of the season). Also, Judge is having a better offensive season this year than Guerrero did last season, plus will benefit from being a superior baserunner and defender, competently taking on center field to provide Aaron Boone more lineup maneuverability and being a leader — if not the leader — of the Yankees.
Of course, if Judge — who already had one more homer this season (49) than Guerrero Jr. had in 2021 — breaks the Yankees/AL/non-dubious single-season homer record by reaching at least 62, that also will add distinction and heft to his MVP case. With more than a month to go, Judge already has a higher Wins Above Replacement this year than Guerrero had last season — he also has more just as a position player than Ohtani has a hitter and pitcher, which doesn’t feel right.
But the case against Ohtani is hardly just WAR related. As it was last season, he’s doing what we have never seen before, but for a non-contending team. It is not his fault that the Angels start with the advantage of a Cy Young pitching candidate and MVP hitter in one person and still can’t even figure out how to sniff .500. But he is performing without the stress or significance that would come from meaningful games. Fittingly, he is teammates with Mike Trout, who for most of his career has been a brilliant player whose MVP candidacy has been hindered by playing for an addicted non-contender. Trout still has three AL MVPs — his first in 2014, the last time the Angels made the playoffs.
Like Trout, Ohtani (health permitting) looks as if he is going to force voters to weigh annually just how valuable what he does is. It is going to be quite a challenge each year because — just in theory — what can be more valuable than all he embodies?
Still, don’t feel bad for voters. That is not a more difficult job than what is coming this offseason when his team, his representatives and perhaps an arbitration panel will have to determine what to pay a singular player who hits and pitches at the top of his field.
Will those entities be determining the pay of a one- or two-time AL MVP? | https://nypost.com/2022/08/29/aaron-judge-or-shohei-ohtani-the-dilemma-mvp-voters-face/ | 2022-08-29T21:05:12Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/29/aaron-judge-or-shohei-ohtani-the-dilemma-mvp-voters-face/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Authorities in Accra, Ghana say they believe a man described as an intruder climbed into a zoo enclosure for a group of rare white lions and was mauled to death.
Police said they believed the man, said to be "middle-aged," was attempting to try and steal at least one of the rare white lion cubs in the enclosure.
Ghana's Forestry Commission said in a Sunday statement, "The intruder was attacked and injured by one of the lions within the inner fencing of the enclosure. The intruder has been confirmed dead from injuries sustained, and the body has been conveyed to the morgue."
Officials said a lioness and two cubs "remain secured in their enclosure at the Accra zoo" and assured the public that no lion escaped.
As the BBC reported, lions are rarely found in the wild in Ghana, but a small population could be found in the country's northern Mole National Park and the surrounding areas. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/lions-maul-man-to-death-in-ghana-after-he-allegedly-climbed-into-zoo-enclosure | 2022-08-29T21:05:16Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/lions-maul-man-to-death-in-ghana-after-he-allegedly-climbed-into-zoo-enclosure | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Medical device manufacturer Philips announced the company will expand on a previous recall in an ongoing effort to remove equipment that could have a contaminant in one of the plastic components.
Philips said the recall of respiratory machines with possible non-compatible material in one of the plastic components had reached 1,700 devices globally, Reuters reported.
No reports of injuries or harm to patients had been reported, according to Philips Respironics, which is a subsidiary of Philips.
Out of the 1,700 devices included in the voluntary recall, 386 of them were reported in the United States, but none of them were reported in the Netherlands, where the Dutch company is based.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), certain bi-level positive airway pressure (Bilevel PAP, BiPAP, or BPAP) machines are affected. Machines with affected components could have plastic in the device motor that could release certain volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
Machines could also fail and stop working suddenly, the FDA said in a statement.
386 machines were delivered to the U.S. by Philips between Aug. 6, 2020 and Sept. 1, 2021. Machines with serial numbers contained in the "Urgent Medical Device Recall" letter are affected, including:
- A-Series BiPAP A30 (Ventilator)
- A-Series BiPAP A40 (Ventilator)
- A-Series BiPAP V30 (Auto Ventilator)
- OmniLab Advanced+
Download and read the full letter here.
The potential risk of inhaling VOCs includes headache and dizziness. One could also experience irritation of the eyes, nose, airway, and skin. An allergic reaction could also be experienced as well as nausea or vomiting and there could be cancer-causing effects, the FDA said. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/philips-respiratory-device-recall-widens-company-cities-possible-plastic-contaminants | 2022-08-29T21:05:22Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/philips-respiratory-device-recall-widens-company-cities-possible-plastic-contaminants | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Father: A spy who needs to use his fraud family to help him get closer to a leader of a rival nation.
The Mother: An assassin who needs to use her fraud family to help her not get arrested by the secret police for being a possible spy because she's approaching 30 and isn't married.
The Daughter: A psychic who can read minds and loves her fraud family more than anything.
This is the set-up for one of the best anime of 2022. The three characters are each very different, trying to hide what they really are from each other while maintaining the facade of a normal family.
Set in a Berlin-inspired city, the center of tensions between the opposing nations of Westalis and Ostania, and heavily inspired by not just Cold War history, but like "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" or any James Bond movie, "Spy x Family" is a cornucopia of ideas and characters that somehow works and maintains originality despite borrowing ideas from so many sources.
Loid is a spy, a cold and calculating master of disguise who puts his life on the line daily because of a childhood spent in a warzone leaving him wanting to ensure no children have to experience what he did. Tasked with getting close to Donovan Desmond, the leader of Ostania's Unity Party, Loid (codename Twilight) adopts a young girl named Anya (a telepath), who he will then have enroll at an elite academy attended by Desmond's son.
Problem: Anya is a wild child prone to fantasy and bouts of ADHD, and an elite school may not be a perfect fit for her. She's six years old and just wants to have fun, not be another brick in the wall.
The anime goes back and forth between following Anya's school exploits, including gaining entrance and then going to classes and getting along with classmates, and Loid and Yor's lives outside the family.
All the while, there's that nucleus of the "fake" family and how all three are growing to love each other and get way too into their roles while lying to themselves that this isn't what they want.
The 12-episode first half of the season (the rest will be released in the Fall season) is fast-paced, only tripping up with the last episode adapting a one-shot chapter of the manga that was used to establish the characters and introduce the series to new readers.
It randomly pumps the brakes on the story, and having characters introduced at the finish line is bizarre. You can skip episode 12 and miss absolutely nothing.
The animation is fantastic, with all the characters being unique in design and memorable because of that. Much money and love went into how "Spy x Family" looks. On top of that, the soundtrack is full of memorable tracks, and the voice cast is at the top of their form.
"Spy x Family" is already one of 2022's best anime, a killer series with great characters, beautiful animation, and an adorable family dynamic. If you haven't given the series a chance, you should definitely check out the first episode — because, if nothing else, Anya's outbursts and wild faces will put a smile on your face.
Spy x Family is available on Crunchyroll. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/the-hilarious-and-adorable-spy-x-family-offers-something-for-everyone | 2022-08-29T21:05:34Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/the-hilarious-and-adorable-spy-x-family-offers-something-for-everyone | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TUCSON, Ariz. — "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection" hauls 13 games from the 1980s and 90s from the arcade, NES, Super Nintendo, Game Boy, and Sega Genesis.
Many of the games were used as inspiration for the fantastic "TMNT: Shredder's Revenge," which was released earlier this year.
Phil Villarreal: I grew up with all of these games. Going back through them was a rush of good and bad childhood memories. The two arcade beat-em-up games were among my favorites, and the ability to continue with a simple tap of the "start" button was a relief.
Revisiting the 1989 NES version — truly one of the worst and most difficult games I've ever played — was a little traumatic.
I adore the depth and breadth of this collection. It would have been easy to overlook the Game Boy games, but they made the cut. Revisiting the split-pea soup monochrome button-mashing platformers was an oddball treat.
Sean, as someone who's somewhat new to these older games, which stood out to you?
Sean Newgent: As a fan of classic beat-em-up games, I immediately hopped onto the four-player co-op arcade brawlers "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Turtles in Time."
The games are difficult, quarter-munching adventures that perfectly capture that little moment of gaming history where every cartoon and movie needed to be accompanied by a game where you walk down the street, and everyone wants to beat the tar out of you. These games inspired "Shredder's Revenge", which we both really enjoyed, Phil. But that said, I almost feel like these two games needed to be included as a part of that title, not just as context, but because everything else on this collection is of lesser quality.
The infamous NES game is probably more famous for raising "The Angry Video Game Nerd's" ire than anything else. Then a slew of old-school Game Boy games and even a "Street Fighter 2" clone that, while competent, doesn't feel like anything I, as a modern gamer, need to revisit.
There are modern concessions, some online matchmaking, and many "Game Genie"-esque ways to enhance the games to make them more palatable to the modern, challenge-challenged gamer. But some toggles can make the already nightmarishly difficult games that much more insurmountable.
What additions did you enjoy, Phil, and do you think the collection missed any games?
Phil Villarreal: I appreciated the comic panel-style menu system that lets you quickly scroll through the baker's dozen games and shows you how many players each can support.
I would have loved to have seen four-player support on some of the other brawlers, such as "Turtles in Time" and "The Hyperstone Heist."
More unlockables might have spiced things up as well. The ability to substitute the Japanese versions on the arcade versions was welcome, and the addition of online play — at least for the multiplayer titles — is a godsend.
This game feels as though it were geared specifically to players like me, with little awareness or care for those like you. Our differing reactions make sense. To me, this collection is a brilliant time capsule of the Pandora's Box that were the TMNT games of yore. I choose to embrace the good and look back with a wince and smirk at the bad.
Final thoughts, Sean?
Sean Newgent: I have fond memories of a few of the TMNT games of the PS2 era when the series had a windfall, thanks to a pretty successful cartoon. That was my introduction to the series that I've since realized was a parody of comic books that turned into a kid-friendly toy-peddling franchise. So in some ways, this collection is interesting because you get to see that period where the turtles were going from hard-edged parody to parent-approved raditude. That comes out in the comic panels and all the included extras, a treasure trove of high-quality scans of comics, manuals, and other materials that fans will enjoy.
But the rest of the package didn't enthuse me as a gamer in 2022. We've covered a lot of time capsule collections this summer, and part of my issues with the game may be burnout from that. But also, in comparison to many of those collections, this one doesn't have the games to back it up. Nothing here is a certified classic, so your mileage with this package will come down to whether or not you grew up with the games and whether you like "TMNT." As I'm not in either category, it leaves this collection less a necessity and more a curiosity.
Plus, for the $40 asking price, there are more modern, interesting games for which to shell out your cash.
The publisher provided codes. Phil played on Xbox Series X. Sean played on PS4.
Past game reviews by Sean and Phil:
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Diablo II Resurrected
NEO: The World Ends with You
Rainbow Six: Extraction
King of Fighters XV
WWE 2K22
Weird West
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
TMNT: Shredder's Revenge
Capcom Fighting Collection
Capcom Arcade: 2nd Stadium
Stray
Digimon Survive
Cult of the Lamb | https://www.katc.com/news/national/tmnt-the-cowabunga-collection-rounds-up-classic-turtle-exploits-in-one-spot | 2022-08-29T21:05:38Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/tmnt-the-cowabunga-collection-rounds-up-classic-turtle-exploits-in-one-spot | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
UPDATE: Opelousas Police Chief Martin McLendon provided more details about an incident that led to the evacuation of Donald Gardner Stadium in the middle of the high school football jamboree Friday night.
As we previously reported , rumors were flying that a shooting occurred, but that turned out to be not true. In a Facebook post, McLendon said there was a fight, but it was after the panic started. The chief said the panic that set people running may have been caused by a prank, but there was no gunfire.
"Obviously panic swamped the stadium, people began to run, and there are so many rumors that are circulating on social media I thought it was best that I would come to you and try to address those issues," he said. "The first thing I want to make clear is there was no gunfire, absolutely no shooting in this stadium last night."
McLendon said investigators are talking to school officials about some students who may have planned a "prank" that caused the panic, and he promised that OPD will be doing security at football games in the city this fall.
McLendon said several juveniles involved in the fight were arrested. He said police are not sure yet where the rumor about gunfire began, but a large group of people started running near one of the bands, the band members began to take cover, and the panic spread from there.
All the officers on duty at the stadium said there was no gunfire. He said officers there were to keep people safe so that everyone could enjoy the evening. He said those officers also are aware that there are juvenile delinquents in Opelousas, and "we know that they are going to be at a function like the jamboree."
The jamboree is supposed to be fun, he said.
"This was an opportunity for families to come and watch their kids play in the first game," he said. "The teachers from all six schools were here, the administrators, everybody was here. The stadium was packed. Security was in place, and something went wrong. Someone even called 911 and said there was a shooting and a victim."
The ambulance came and no wounded person was ever found. That didn't happen, he said.
"There was no shooting. There was panic that took place in this stadium," he said. "We did not shut down this stadium, nor did we prevent the game from being played. The panic caused this to happen."
Investigators are talking to school officials about students who may have planned to cause panic at the game, he said. He also implored people to stop spreading rumors on social media that hurt the city. If you have to talk about Opelousas online, talk the city up, he said.
If you want to see McLendon's statement for yourself, click here. | https://www.katc.com/news/update-on-evacuation-at-donald-gardner-stadium-during-friday-jamboree | 2022-08-29T21:05:56Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/update-on-evacuation-at-donald-gardner-stadium-during-friday-jamboree | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When it comes to living legends, there is no one that stands quite as tall and rockets to the forefront of our hearts and minds quite like as Elton John.
The iconic singer has brought brilliant talent and artistry to the globe for decades and continues to do so with his farewell tour and new music. The rocketman has had a whirlwind life, ruling his domain of the world like an emperor.
With a past filled with celebrity friends and feuds, wild parties of rock and roll, to health challenges and finally settling into sobriety and family life, John, 75, has lived a very full and fascinating journey.
He’s even been able to rally fellow pop stars like Britney Spears back to the world of music with their newest release “Hold Me Closer.”
So what makes him such a powerhouse? Was he meant to become one of the greatest musicians of all time? What lies ahead for his legacy? Join me as we dive into his stars because I’m a pop culture astrologer and I can see it all.
Elton John’s birth chart shows he was always meant to be a prolific muse
Elton John was born on March 25, 1947. This makes him a fiery Aries Sun with a grounded Taurus Moon. His birth time hasn’t been confirmed anywhere online, so until I have the honor of crossing paths with him someday (I can only hope, get at me!), we’ll instead focus on what we do, in fact, know. When it comes to elemental energy, John is heavily composed of Fire and Air. This should come as no surprise because he is tremendously passionate and charismatic as well as a profound communicator. These traits tend to appear when someone has a lot of these elemental energies.
When it comes to astrological aspects that run through his chart, there are a few different themes. First and most importantly, John is a revolutionary. Several planetary interactions emphasize this repeatedly. First, his Mars, the planet of drive, links to Uranus, the planet of the future. This makes him original, eccentric and a strong nonconformist. He is visionary and energetic in outlook, unafraid to be rebellious and go against the status quo in the pursuit of his goals.
He is a courageous, pioneering free spirit whose mission in life is to bring new ideas into being. His Neptune, the planet of imagination, is united with his Midheaven, bringing him tremendous success in a musical and artistic career. Uranus also dances with his Midheaven, too, making him a uniquely gifted individual, with both ambition and unconventional attitudes that have always held the power to change society at large. His Mercury, the planet of communication, is also united with Mars, bringing him an agile and aggressive mind, with an unending will to speak, connect and succeed.
The next major theme is that John is practically a divine channel of the muses. In a sense, this is because his birth chart heavily emphasizes his creative expression. I also can understand his indulgent and hedonistic past, too, because of how this overlays his chart, too. He’s extravagant and magnificent and is a creature of passion and pleasure. His Sun, ruling his life force, is opposite Neptune, amplifying his visionary magic tremendously. His Sun also spins with Jupiter, the planet of fortune and expansion, empowering him with divine luck, wealth and a larger than life personality.
No matter where he has gone, luck was always sure to follow. His Venus, the planet of art, prances with Jupiter, bringing him a regal and graceful energy and brilliance in creativity. Venus links to Uranus and his Midheaven, too, further empowering him with groundbreaking abilities to shock the globe. Last, as should come as no surprise, John was built for groundbreaking success.
Many planetary alignments speak of him as a leader. His Jupiter spins with Saturn, making him an excellent manager with the ambition and natural power to be honored and respected. He was meant to work within society at large. His Sun links to Pluto, bringing him a strong desire to be recognized and admired, and with his Sun also smiling upon Saturn, he has always possessed the concentration, focus and determination to put absolutely everything he has into his goals and accomplishments.
What are predictions for Elton John?
So what lies ahead for Mr. Elton John? Let’s take a peek! First and foremost, he is in an extremely important period of his life where wealth is going to be a key theme—and amassing even more. This is because Pluto and Saturn are drawing emphasis here. I would not be shocked to see him also utilizing his wealth in the coming decade to truly invest in social causes he truly believes in. He’s also drumming up plenty of inspiration in 2022 and will again beginning the summer of 2023—which will last until May 2024.
This is because Jupiter will sparkle and spin, casting hymns and love songs from his heart and mind. While I do think retirement is something that is on the docket, particularly because of the eclipses that are beginning to appear in 2023 and 2024, I still think he will always in a sense “be creating.” It’s moreso a lifestyle for him rather than just trying to capitalize on his sense of wealth—it’s actually more about the joy of doing so and the legacy of inspiration he is leaving behind. Towards the end of the decade, though, when Saturn moves into Aries over his Sun, he will feel a weakening.
This begins in 2026 till the end of the 2020s. This period of time will test him, but also give him an opportunity to reflect on the beauty he has built. I sure hope one day I get to sit with him over a meal and listen to his visionary perception of the world. You heard it here first.
Astrology 101: Your guide to the stars
- The 12 zodiac signs
- What are the astrology houses?
- Here’s what each planet represents
- Sun, moon and rising signs: Get to know your Big 3
Kyle Thomas is a globally recognized pop culture astrologer who has been featured in “Access Hollywood,” E! Entertainment, NBC & ABC television, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Hulu, Bustle, Elite Daily, Marie Claire and more. He is known for his cosmic guidance for celebrities, business executives and prominent influencers. His work harnesses the power of the stars in regards to entertainment lifestyle and trends affecting people worldwide. For more information, visit KyleThomasAstrology.com. | https://nypost.com/article/elton-john-birth-chart-zodiac-sign/ | 2022-08-29T21:06:43Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/article/elton-john-birth-chart-zodiac-sign/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BEIJING (AP) — More than 100,000 people had moved to safer areas by Monday as heavy rains brought flood risks to a region of southwest China that was devastated by a heatwave and drought for most of the summer.
Heavy rain was forecast for parts of Sichuan province and Chongqing city through at least Tuesday. Chongqing, a megacity built in a hilly area that also oversees the surrounding mountains and countryside, issued a flash flood warning for both days.
But China’s meteorological agency maintained a national orange alert for drought, the second highest level, as the heat persisted in many parts of the country's south, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It recommended strict water conservation and using emergency water sources to supply people and livestock.
The Sichuan emergency management administration said Monday that 119,000 people have been evacuated. One village under the jurisdiction of Guangyuan city recorded 18.8 centimeters (7.4 inches) of rain, state broadcaster CCTV said. The city was one of two in Sichuan most affected by the drought.
A national level IV emergency response for floods, the lowest in a four-tier system, is in effect in Sichuan, Chongqing and neighboring Gansu and Shaanxi provinces to the north. The hard, sunbaked soil left by the heatwave increases the risk of natural disasters when it rains, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The shift in the weather brought some relief from the heat, and full power was restored to factories in Sichuan after two weeks of restrictions stemming from reduced hydropower output.
The rain should help farmers whose rice, spicy Sichuan peppers and other crops were withering during an extended drought that reduced community reservoirs to mostly cracked earth.
Temperatures topped 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in what meteorologists called the strongest heat wave in China since record-keeping began in 1961.
Power in Sichuan for commercial and industrial use “has been fully restored,” CCTV said on its website. Household demand for air conditioning declined as temperatures moderated and the rainfall was starting to replenish hydroelectric reservoirs.
Hydropower generation in the province was up 9.5% from its low point, the state broadcaster reported. Daily power use by households declined by 28% from a peak of 473 million to 340 million kilowatt hours, the report said, citing Zhao Hong, marketing director for State Grid’s Sichuan subsidiary.
“The contradiction between power supply and demand in Sichuan will be basically resolved in the next three days,” Zhao was quoted as saying.
The falling hydropower production prompted Sichuan utilities to step up the use of coal-fired power plants, temporarily setting back efforts to reduce carbon and other emissions.
The share of power in Sichuan that comes from coal has jumped to 25% from 10% with 67 generating stations running at full capacity, according to Caixin, a Chinese business news magazine.
Sichuan usually is seen as a clean power success story in China, getting 80% of its electricity from hydropower.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark will increase its planned offshore wind capacity in the Baltic Sea to 3 gigawatts and hook it up to the German grid, a step toward weaning Europe off its reliance on Russian gas. When established in 2030, it should be able to supply electricity to up 4.5 million European homes.
A 470-kilometer (292-mile) undersea cable will run via the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm to northern Germany, enabling the power to be sent directly to the German electricity grid and on to the rest of Europe.
At present, Denmark and Germany have respective offshore wind energy capacities of 1.5 gigawatts and 1 gigawatt.
German Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck called it “a flagship project” and added that “with such projects among European partners, we achieve two key goals at the same time: European energy security and climate neutrality.” The deal was announced Monday in Copenhagen.
Denmark’s energy minister, Dan Jørgensen, added that “international cooperation is more urgent than ever before" to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to make Europe independent from Russian gas and oil.”
On Friday, Germany’s foreign minister said estimates show that wind from the Baltic Sea can produce “more than twice the installed capacity of all German coal-fired power stations.” The countries around the Baltic Sea “need to set the sails, work together and set course towards making our region more sustainable, more resilient and more secure,” Annalena Baerbock said.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said Germany remains committed to ending its greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, the earliest of any major industrialized nation. To meet the goal, his government has said it will close coal-fired power plants that were reactivated due to the war in Ukraine, end imports of Russian oil and coal this year and aim to stop using Russian gas within the next two years.
Monday’s announcement comes a day before a meeting in Copenhagen to discuss ways “to make the Baltic Sea region free of Russian energy and at the same time pave the way for a significant green transition,” according to the Danish government.
Those expected to attend include the president of the European Union’s executive commission, Lithuania’s president, the prime ministers of Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Denmark, and several energy ministers. ___ This story has been corrected to show that the German minister was not visiting Copenhagen.
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ATLANTA (CN) — A judge ruled Monday that Republican Governor Brian Kemp must honor his subpoena and appear before the special grand jury investigating potential criminal interference in the state's 2020 elections, but not until after the election on November 8.
During a hearing last week, Kemp's attorneys fought to quash his subpoena entirely, but pleaded that the judge at least delay his testimony to avoid any political interference with his current race for reelection.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who launched the investigation last year, was accused by Kemp's attorneys of "gamesmanship" for sending the governor a subpoena in the midst of an election cycle after he had agreed to provide her with a private video statement last month.
"This subpoena came only after weeks of tortured and tortuous negotiations over obtaining an interview with the Governor — the details of which do not bear repeating here, other than to note that both sides share responsibility for the torture and the tortuousness," wrote Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who is overseeing the grand jury.
Despite arguments from Kemp's attorney Brian McEvoy that the subpoena sparked mass media attention and speculation, prosecutors and the judge agreed that was self inflicted from filing their motion on the eve of the governor's scheduled appearance.
The public perception was that the governor had already given his testimony, so according to the District Attorney's office "no one would have even noticed" if Kemp had just complied to his agreed-upon appearance instead of challenging it last minute.
Also during Thursday's hearing, Kemp's attorney Derek Bauer referred to Kemp as "the king" in regards to a centuries old constitutional doctrine known as sovereign immunity, to which Bauer argued completely shields all state officials from jurisdiction without their consent.
Judge McBurney ruled that sovereign immunity does not extend to criminal proceedings and only protects the state from civil suits, which is not the purpose of the 23-person special grand jury's investigation.
"As described at the outset of this order, its purpose is unquestionably and exclusively to conduct a criminal investigation: its convening was sought by the elected official who investigates, lodges, and prosecutes criminal charges in this Circuit; its convening order specifies its purpose as the investigation of possible criminal activities; and its final output is a report recommending whether criminal charges should be brought," wrote Judge McBurney in his order.
As with other's who have been ordered to testify, such as Rudy Giuliani and Senator Lindsey Graham, prosecutors will be limited in what they are allowed to question the governor about.
"As with several other witnesses who, in response to their lawful subpoenas, raised concerns about various privileges, the Governor’s questioning will have limits. Neither the District Attorney nor the grand jurors may ask the Governor about the contents of any attorney-client privileged communications," the judge wrote.
"The court is aware of several conversations of interest to the investigation in which the Governor participated and to which the attorney-client privilege applies."
Kemp's testimony is sought by prosecutors primarily due to statements made by Donald Trump at a rally he held in Perry, Georgia, in September 2021. The former president told attendees that he “called his people” and told them to “find out what happened” in the state because there was “something wrong with this election," and specifically called out Kemp for not doing something about it.
While Trump has hinted at running again in 2024, the delay in testimony from Kemp and possibly from other crucial witnesses challenging their subpoenas, could further raise the probe's political implications.
Some have already testified including Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger about his phone call from Trump suggesting he “find” the votes needed to overturn his loss, as well as Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney who is a target of the investigation for promoting false claims of a rigged election.
The District Attorney's office filed petitions for more subpoenas last week, seeking testimony from former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell and others next month.
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TOKYO (AP) — Major South Korean battery maker LG and Japanese automaker Honda are investing $4.4 billion in a joint venture in the United States to produce batteries for Honda electric vehicles in the North American market, the two companies said Monday.
The plant’s site is still undecided, but construction will begin in early 2023, with mass production of advanced lithium-ion battery cells to start by the end of 2025, they said. It's likely to be near Marysville, Ohio, or Greensburg, Indiana, where Honda has huge factories that make its most popular models such as the Accord, CR-V and Civic.
The joint venture is to be set up this year, with the closing of the deal subject to regulatory approval.
“Our joint venture with Honda, which has a significant brand reputation, is yet another milestone in our mid- to long-term strategy of promoting electrification in the fast-growing North American market,” said LG Energy Solution Chief Executive Youngsoo Kwon.
The plant will produce batteries exclusively for Honda vehicles assembled in North America, including the company’s Acura luxury brand, according to a joint statement.
Honda's joint venture plant is part of a larger trend of automakers announcing U.S. battery factories as they try to establish a domestic supply chain for the next generation of vehicle propulsion. Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Hyundai-Kia, Stellantis and VinFast have announced plans for 10 U.S. battery plants.
A new U.S. law gives them even more incentive to build batteries in North America. It includes a tax credit of up to $7,500 that could be used to defray the cost of purchasing an electric vehicle. But to qualify for the full credit, the electric vehicle must contain a battery built in North America with 40% of the metals mined or recycled on the continent.
“Honda is working toward our target to realize carbon neutrality for all products and corporate activities the company is involved in by 2050,” said Honda Chief Executive Toshihiro Mibe.
LG, a leading manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and power systems, already makes them in joint ventures with U.S. automakers General Motors and Ford Motor Co., as well as South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, but has operations across the world, including the U.S., China and Australia.
Demand for electric vehicles is expected to grow in the U.S. and many other nations because of concerns about climate change and pollution, as well as rising gas prices. All of the world’s top automakers are strengthening their EV lineups.
LMC Automotive, a Detroit-area consulting firm, expects EVs to be 5.6% of U.S. new vehicle sales this year, rising to more than 36% by 2030. Globally, LMC says 8.6% of new vehicle sales will be electric this year, and that will jump to 33% by 2030.
Honda is working with GM to co-develop electric vehicles including Honda and Acura SUVs. The Honda is expected to go on sale in early 2024, followed soon by the Acura luxury brand. Honda also has said it plans to make its own electric vehicles later this decade.
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer
AP Auto Writer Tom Krisher contributed from Detroit.
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TOKYO (AP) — Major South Korean battery maker LG and Japanese automaker Honda are investing $4.4 billion in a joint venture in the United States to produce batteries for Honda electric vehicles in the North American market, the two companies said Monday.
The plant’s site is still undecided, but construction will begin in early 2023, with mass production of advanced lithium-ion battery cells to start by the end of 2025, they said. It's likely to be near Marysville, Ohio, or Greensburg, Indiana, where Honda has huge factories that make its most popular models such as the Accord, CR-V and Civic.
The joint venture is to be set up this year, with the closing of the deal subject to regulatory approval.
“Our joint venture with Honda, which has a significant brand reputation, is yet another milestone in our mid- to long-term strategy of promoting electrification in the fast-growing North American market,” said LG Energy Solution Chief Executive Youngsoo Kwon.
The plant will produce batteries exclusively for Honda vehicles assembled in North America, including the company’s Acura luxury brand, according to a joint statement.
Honda's joint venture plant is part of a larger trend of automakers announcing U.S. battery factories as they try to establish a domestic supply chain for the next generation of vehicle propulsion. Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Hyundai-Kia, Stellantis and VinFast have announced plans for 10 U.S. battery plants.
A new U.S. law gives them even more incentive to build batteries in North America. It includes a tax credit of up to $7,500 that could be used to defray the cost of purchasing an electric vehicle. But to qualify for the full credit, the electric vehicle must contain a battery built in North America with 40% of the metals mined or recycled on the continent.
“Honda is working toward our target to realize carbon neutrality for all products and corporate activities the company is involved in by 2050,” said Honda Chief Executive Toshihiro Mibe.
LG, a leading manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and power systems, already makes them in joint ventures with U.S. automakers General Motors and Ford Motor Co., as well as South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, but has operations across the world, including the U.S., China and Australia.
Demand for electric vehicles is expected to grow in the U.S. and many other nations because of concerns about climate change and pollution, as well as rising gas prices. All of the world’s top automakers are strengthening their EV lineups.
LMC Automotive, a Detroit-area consulting firm, expects EVs to be 5.6% of U.S. new vehicle sales this year, rising to more than 36% by 2030. Globally, LMC says 8.6% of new vehicle sales will be electric this year, and that will jump to 33% by 2030.
Honda is working with GM to co-develop electric vehicles including Honda and Acura SUVs. The Honda is expected to go on sale in early 2024, followed soon by the Acura luxury brand. Honda also has said it plans to make its own electric vehicles later this decade.
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer
AP Auto Writer Tom Krisher contributed from Detroit.
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LOS ANGELES (CN) — A New Jersey man was sentenced Monday to three years in federal prison for pretending to be a former New England Patriots player in order to acquire three 2016 Super Bowl championship rings, purportedly for nephews of quarterback Tom Brady, one of which sold for $337,000 at auction.
Scott Spina Jr., 25, must also pay $63,000 in restitution to a former Patriots players, identified only as T.J. in court filings, who had sold Spina his Super Bowl LI ring and other memorabilia but got paid with a bad check.
Spina, of Roseland, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in February to five counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and identity theft. His attorney had pleaded for a 2-year sentence, arguing that Spina had permanently changed his life for the better during time he served in prison for a separate fraud conviction before he was charged in the ring case, and that the chances of him being a recidivist were slim to none.
"Despite the fact that Mr. Spina paid a substantial debt to society by serving a sentence in which the goals of sentencing were achieved, the court must now send him back to prison, not because he was a recidivist and committed a crime subsequent to his release from prison, but for a crime that was committed prior to his arrest in the District of New Jersey but not prosecuted until after his release from his 35-month sentence," his attorney, Thomas Ambrosio, said in a sentencing request.
Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady was the most valuable player of Super Bowl LI, played on Feb. 5, 2017, when the New England team staged the biggest comeback win in Super Bowl history, coming back from 28-3 down to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in overtime. The dramatic and historic victory caused a tremendous demand for memorabilia from the game, according to prosecutors with the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.
Spina was a 19-year-old trader of sports memorabilia in 2017 when T.J. got in touch with him to sell his Super Bowl LI and college football rings. With the Super Bowl ring, Spina also received documents from the ring's manufacturer with T.J.'s user name and password to buy up to three "family rings."
The family rings are identical to player rings but are 10% smaller. Spina got in touch with the manufacturer, pretending to be T.J. and ordered three family rings but asked them to be engraved with Brady's name, so that he could give them as presents to the quarterback for his relatives.
Spina paid $33,000 for the three rings and sold them to a memorabilia dealer for $100,000. One of the rings was subsequently sold at auction.
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CAIRO (AP) — Sixteen rights groups on Monday urged Yemen’s Houthi rebels to end their siege of the country’s third-largest city, as the internationally recognized government said an overnight rebel attack killed at least 10 troops.
The groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, said in a joint statement the Houthi blockade of Taiz has severely restricted freedom of movement and impeded the flow of essential goods, medicine, and humanitarian aid to the city’s residents.
“Houthi restrictions have forced civilians to use dangerous and poorly maintained mountain roads that are the only connection between Taiz city’s besieged population and the rest of the world,” said Michael Page, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
The Houthis have imposed a siege on the government-held Taiz, the capital of the province by the same name, since March 2016. The southwestern city of is the junction of two crucial highways: an east-west road leading to the coastal city of Mocha on the Red Sea, and another north-south, to Sanaa via Dhamar and Ibb provinces.
The joint statement said Houthi-manned checkpoints prevented residents from bringing in essential items such as fruit, vegetables, cooking gas, dialysis treatment packets, and oxygen cylinders. They also “unlawfully confiscated some of these items,” it said.
"The siege of Taiz has become nothing more than a card on the negotiating table,” said Radhya Al-Mutwakel Chairperson of Mwatana for Human Rights.
Reopening the roads of Taiz and other provinces are part of the U.N.-brokered truce between the Houthis and the internationally recognized government, which initially took effect earlier in April and extended twice till earlier September. Both sides reported violations of the cease-fire but the truce has been the longest lull of fighting in Yemen's war, now in its eighth year.
Several rounds of U.N.-facilitated negotiations in the Jordanian capital of Amman failed to produce an agreement to ease the Houthi blockade of Taiz. In July, the rebels have rejected a U.N. proposal of a gradual reopening of Taiz roads, according to the U.N. mission in Yemen.
The internationally recognized government, meanwhile, said a Houthi attack overnight on the Dhabab area, east of Taiz city, killed at least 10 troops and wounded seven others, according to a statement carried by the official SABA news agency.
It said government troops repelled the Houthi offensive.
A spokesman for the Houthis was not immediately available for comment.
The Taiz blockade is part of Yemen’s brutal civil war since 2014, when the Houthis seized Sanaa and much of northern Yemen and forced the government into exile. A Saudi-led coalition entered the war in early 2015 to try restore the internationally recognized government to power.
The conflict has created one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises and over the years turned into a regional proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. More than 150,000 people have been killed, including over 14,500 civilians.
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BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
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(CN) — Of all alliances across the animal kingdom, those formed by bottlenose dolphins are the largest and most resemble humans, new research shows.
The cooperative, multilevel relationships formed among bottlenose dolphins — a species widely known in part because of its ability to be trained by humans, both for show and for military purposes, and whose intelligence may nearly rival or perhaps even surpasses humans — take aim at attracting females.
Male dolphins work together to attract and mate with females, and dolphins who are well-connected socially have better, easier access to mates, scientists found.
Their findings, published today in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), prove that animals can have relationships almost as complex as humans.
“Cooperation between allies is widespread in human societies and one of the hallmarks of our success. Our capacity to build strategic, cooperative relationships at multiple social levels, such as trade or military alliances both nationally and internationally, was once thought unique to our species,” Stephanie King, an associate professor from the University of Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences, and co-lead author on the study, said in a press release.
“Not only have we shown that male bottlenose dolphins form the largest known multilevel alliance network outside humans, but that cooperative relationships between groups, rather than simply alliance size, allows males to spend more time with females, thereby increasing their reproductive success,” King continued. (Emphasis in the original.)
For the study, researchers analyzed the alliances between 121 adult male Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins at Shark Bay in Western Australia.
The team found that male dolphins will band together either in two groups of three, or in four groups of 14 each, and compete with other groups of the same size for the attention of female dolphins.
The availability of female dolphins in an area influences how competitive males are to attract a mate, researchers found. Also, how well-connected a male is will help his chances of winning a mate considerably.
“We show that the duration over which these teams of male dolphins consort females is dependent upon being well-connected with third-order allies, that is, social ties between alliances leads to long-term benefits for these males,” Simon Allen of Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences, who contributed to the study, said. (Emphasis in the original.)
Scientists previously believed intergroup cooperation in humans evolved from our common ancestor, chimpanzees and required two features that distinguish humans from chimps: the evolution of pair bonds, and parental care by males. But this new research proves the previous hypothesis was incorrect.
“Our results show that intergroup alliances can emerge without these features [the evolution of pair bonds and parental care by males], from a social and mating system that is more chimpanzee like,” Richard Connor from the University of Massachusetts, who co-authored the paper, said.
Professor Michael Krützen, an author on the study and head of the Anthropology Institute at the University of Zurich said in the press release that it is unusual for an anthropology department to take up animal behavior.
“It is rare for non-primate research to be conducted from an anthropology department, but our study shows that important insights about the evolution of characteristics previously thought to be uniquely human can be gained by examining other highly social, large-brained taxa,” Krützen said.
Dolphins have long been widely admired for the tight-knit communities they form and respond to, for their nurturing behaviors and ability to be trained. But breakthrough discoveries in recent years into dolphin mating patterns have also shined a light on the complexities and dark side of dolphin mating practices.
Dolphins are polygamous, mating only with the same partner over a series of interactions, or even just one, and then moving on to another mate.
Females typically birth just one calf at a time every three to five years, without the help of a mate, and keep the calf at their side for five years. Gestation takes 12 months.
Male dolphins are sometimes quite romantic in their attempts to attract a partner: singing to her, bringing her gifts, displaying feats of acrobatics, or even fighting other potential suitors to attract the desired mate’s attention.
But other times, male dolphins do not try to win a female’s attraction with romance so much as through the help of their alliances with other males, sometimes working with other dolphins to chase a female down, and sometimes even separating her from her pod by force.
Although the research published today focuses exclusively on male dolphin cooperation in mating, previous studies have shown that female dolphins are also adept at forming alliances, oftentimes to help one another outsmart and escape bands of male dolphins.
King said in the press release that studies of dolphin alliances at Shark Bay will help understand human behavior and how it has developed over time.
“Our work highlights that dolphin societies, as well as those of nonhuman primates, are valuable model systems for understanding human social and cognitive evolution,” he said.
The researchers did not immediately reply to emails asking for additional information.
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(CN) — A much-anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive apparently was launched on Monday in a bid by Kyiv to turn the tide of the war and recapture territories lost along the Black Sea.
Intense fighting was reported northeast of Kherson, a port city of about 283,000 people located where the Dnieper River flows into the Black Sea. Kherson was the first city to fall under Russian control shortly after the start of the invasion.
For weeks, Ukraine has vowed that it will reclaim Kherson and push Russian forces out of the rest of the south, including Crimea, a highly strategic peninsula Moscow annexed in 2014. But achieving this goal in the short term would be immensely difficult and carries a high risk of failure for Ukraine. Russian and pro-Russian Ukrainian forces hold about 25,000 square miles of territory in the south, an area slightly smaller than Ireland.
Over the weekend and on Monday, there were reports of a barrage of Ukrainian missile strikes on Kherson, against bridges across the Dnieper and on Russian forces in the area. Ukraine claimed its troops had broken through the first line of Russia's defenses northeast of Kherson. But it remained far too early to assess the success of Ukraine's counteroffensive.
Russian military officials said they were holding the line and inflicting heavy losses on the attackers. Russia's defense ministry claimed more than 560 Ukrainian troops were killed in the offensive and that 26 tanks, 23 infantry fighting vehicles and two warplanes were destroyed.
Ukraine's defense ministry had not yet reported on the results of Monday's fighting in the south. In a late night video on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy exclaimed that Russian forces would be driven out of Ukraine, though he added that he would not divulge Ukraine's war plans.
"The occupiers should know: We will oust them to the border, to our border," Zelenskyy said. "If they want to survive, it is time for the Russian military to flee. Go home. If you are afraid to return to your home in Russia -- well, let such occupiers surrender, and we will guarantee them compliance with all norms of the Geneva Conventions."
One of his Zelenskyy's top advisers, Oleksiy Arestovich, confirmed in an online interview that the offensive was underway and vowed that Russian troops will be able to withstand the assault for up to a month, if not much less, as reported by Strana, a Ukrainian news outlet.
"I can say one thing: the events have begun, it seems to me. They will be more fun, meaningful and interesting every day," Arestovich said.
Late Monday, there were also reports of numerous Russian airplanes and helicopters leaving Crimea for the front lines and of heavy artillery exchanges.
Much of the fighting appeared to be taking place about 40 miles northeast of Kherson with Ukrainian forces seeking to reach the Dnieper River. Russia told workers in a town on the Dnieper called Nova Kakovka to shelter in bunkers after it came under heavy shelling.
New strikes also reportedly hit the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, a massive nuclear power plant about 110 miles northeast of Kherson under Russian control.
The plant has come under repeated attack, raising the specter of a radiation leak. Both sides accuse each other of shelling the plant at the risk of causing a disaster.
Ukraine alleges Russia is using the plant as a military staging area and that it wants to divert its energy away from Ukrainian-held territories. The nuclear plant, Europe's largest, provides Ukraine with about a third of its electricity.
On Monday, the International Atomic Energy Agency said both sides had agreed to allow a team of its experts to inspect the plant. The mission is expected to arrive there later this week and provide a clearer picture of the plant's status. IAEA inspectors also were expected to remain on site, which could help ease tensions over the plant. | https://www.courthousenews.com/ukraine-goes-on-offensive-in-the-south-inspectors-head-to-nuke-plant/ | 2022-08-29T21:17:41Z | courthousenews.com | control | https://www.courthousenews.com/ukraine-goes-on-offensive-in-the-south-inspectors-head-to-nuke-plant/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (CN) — An Orthodox Jewish university asked the Supreme Court on Monday to block a ruling that would force it to officially recognize an LGBTQ club on campus.
Yeshiva University — which has added secular degrees over time but was founded to prepare students for the Hebrew Orthodox ministry — claims recognizing a club known as the YU Pride Alliance goes against its religious beliefs.
“Yeshiva has determined, based on consultation with its Roshei Yeshiva — who opine on Jewish law for Jews all over the world — that an official Pride Alliance club, as described by Plaintiffs and as understood by the culture at large, would be inconsistent with Yeshiva’s religious environment and Torah values,” Eric Baxter, an attorney at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, wrote in the school’s application before the court.
The emergency filing — which was submitted to Justice Sonia Sotomayor — asks the court to halt a ruling from a trial court in New York before the state appeals court has weighed the merits of the case. Baxter said the court could also alternatively consider the application as a petition for writ of certiorari to grant the school relief. Yeshiva claims urgency is necessary since the school’s fall semester has already begun, as has the application process for the club.
Three former and one current student want the school to formally recognize the LGBTQ advocacy club. The club is expected to host events such as school-sponsored LGBTQ “shabbatons” and LGBTQ-themed Shalach manos during the fall semester.
In its application, Yeshiva said it had taken steps within the Torah framework to support LGBTQ students. These include continued enforcement of policies prohibiting harassment or discrimination and updating its diversity, inclusion and sensitivity training to reflect the concerns of LGBTQ students.
In 2019, the students requested an official approval for the Pride Alliance club, but, after consultation with students, rabbis and administrators, Yeshiva announced the club’s approval was denied. In April 2021, the students filed a lawsuit in Manhattan, saying Yeshiva had violated the New York City Human Rights Law by not approving the club.
The New York City Human Rights Law creates an exception for religious corporations, and Yeshiva claims it falls under it. A state trial court authorized discovery to find out if this was true but ultimately rejected the school’s assertion. The judge found that the school could not be considered a religious corporation under the law and granted summary judgment to the students.
Facing a court order to immediately recognize the club, Yeshiva unsuccessfully asked for a stay while its state-level appeal proceeds. Oral arguments are expected to take place this fall.
“If Yeshiva is forced to comply, the infringement of its religious liberty, and injury to its reputation as a bastion of Torah values and flagship Jewish university, will be irreparable,” Baxter wrote in the emergency application. “A stay to maintain the status quo is thus essential in aid of the Court’s jurisdiction.”
The application asks the court if the New York City Human Rights Law supersedes the school’s religious judgment to recognize student organizations consistent with its values. Yeshiva questions if the public accommodation law is neutral under the court’s 30-year-old precedent in Employment Division v. Smith — which says the First Amendment does not protect individuals engaging in illegal acts as part of a religious ceremony. The application also asks if the case should be overruled.
Yeshiva claims that being forced to recognize Pride Alliance violates church autonomy — something rooted in the religion clauses of the First Amendment.
“Here, a New York state court told a deeply religious Jewish university how it must resolve a plainly religious question: whether recognizing a Pride Alliance student club is consistent with Yeshiva’s sincere religious beliefs and Torah values,” Baxter wrote.
The school also claims the ruling violates the Free Exercise Clause by forcing it to abandon its religious decisions.
“Under this Court’s precedent, laws that burden sincere religious beliefs and are not ‘neutral’ and ‘of general application’ are subject to strict constitutional scrutiny,” Baxter wrote.
It is not yet clear if or when the court could respond to the application. The court is currently out on its summer recess and is expected to begin oral arguments for its next term on Oct. 3.
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SOUTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – The Southampton Council on Aging received funding that will be used to expand services for local seniors.
Senator John Velis made the announcement that $50,000 in American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA, funding has been given to the Southampton Council on Aging. Senator Velis had been pushing for some funding to go toward the Southampton Council on Aging so it can expand needed services.
Joan Linnehan, the director of the Council on Aging, told 22News this funding is appreciated by not only the council, but the senior community it serves.
“We’re looking forward to this extra money because I know we’re going to do some real creative programming and expand our center’s needs,” Linnehan said. “We have a lot of needs so we’ll be working with our Select Board and Council on Aging Board and making sure the money is spent well.”
The American Rescue Plan Act was passed by the federal government in March of 2021. It’s purpose is to provide financial relief to individuals and organizations like these, who were impacted by the pandemic.
This $50,000 funding was included in the state’s ARPA legislation that was passed by Governor Baker in December of 2021. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampshire-county/southampton-council-on-aging-receives-50000-in-arpa-funding-to-expand-services-for-local-seniors/ | 2022-08-29T21:18:00Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampshire-county/southampton-council-on-aging-receives-50000-in-arpa-funding-to-expand-services-for-local-seniors/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Home Recipes Chila\nNever try a sweet like you don' it with coke or pepr... but here\nMine.it like never before.. just one try... it gv ♥ n huh... you love\nme ... Chila...\nchawri da laddu,chaloda ladedu gaya\nThe following recipe does make about three dozen cookies but that variegates in different quantities by reducing some other quantities according to need OCEANA COUNTY, Mich. — Two people have been arrested in connection to the death of an Oceana County 4-year-old.
The boy reportedly died at a Shelby Township hospital after being found unresponsive in Grant Township in early July.
The Oceana County Sheriff’s Office says 32-year-old Jacob Shutter and 29-year-old Jodi Neino were taken into custody on Friday.
They both face charges related to manslaughter and child abuse in the second degree, deputies explain.
We’re told both suspects posted bond.
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Authorities in Accra, Ghana say they believe a man described as an intruder climbed into a zoo enclosure for a group of rare white lions and was mauled to death.
Police said they believed the man, said to be "middle-aged," was attempting to try and steal at least one of the rare white lion cubs in the enclosure.
Ghana's Forestry Commission said in a Sunday statement, "The intruder was attacked and injured by one of the lions within the inner fencing of the enclosure. The intruder has been confirmed dead from injuries sustained, and the body has been conveyed to the morgue."
Officials said a lioness and two cubs "remain secured in their enclosure at the Accra zoo" and assured the public that no lion escaped.
As the BBC reported, lions are rarely found in the wild in Ghana, but a small population could be found in the country's northern Mole National Park and the surrounding areas. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/lions-maul-man-to-death-in-ghana-after-he-allegedly-climbed-into-zoo-enclosure | 2022-08-29T21:18:26Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/lions-maul-man-to-death-in-ghana-after-he-allegedly-climbed-into-zoo-enclosure | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Back with another edition of this weekly installment, this time taking a closer look at a handful of plays from the 49ers’ 17-0 loss to the Houston Texans in their preseason finale. This was a rough game, no matter how you slice it.
The execution was sloppy, and the offense didn’t put any points on the board, but there were still some key things to take away from what was overall a snoozer to close out the exhibition portion of the schedule.
I’m going to start with a couple that I think have the strongest bearing on having an impact on the regular season, which means we are going to start with a couple of plays focusing on the quarterback position and first-time NFL starter Trey Lance.
1. Context matters
The first one is a play that has generated a ton of discussion over the last couple of days, and I am going to do my best to provide some insight into why this play unfolded the way it did.
The play I am referencing was a 3rd & 2 from the 49ers’ own 44-yard line with 13:19 remaining in the first quarter. Kyle Shanahan calls ‘Tony Spoon,’ which designates the stick route at five yards as the primary read, with a thru route as the secondary read in the progression. George Kittle runs the stick, with Brandon Aiyuk running the ‘thru’ route.
The important thing to note here, however, is that Deebo Samuel is running a go route, a built-in alert on this play. Meaning if Lance favors the look he gets on the go, the designated progressions on the stick and thru routes take a backseat.
The Texans lined up in a single high look, leaving Samuel one-on-one in press coverage on the outside with no safety help over the top. Lance, aware of this, decided to take a chance downfield with one of the best wide receivers in the league working on an island against a single defensive back.
Now given this context, the decision to throw this ball to Samuel was fine. The biggest criticism I saw was that Lance should have hit Aiyuk, who was open on the thru route, but again remember that Lance clearly made a decision to throw to the alert based on the coverage he saw, which is more than acceptable considering the rules for this specific play call.
We also don’t know how this is being coached to Lance. Shanahan and the offensive staff might emphasize attacking the go route on this call if a favorable matchup presents itself. But, ultimately, Lance was still well within his bounds to decide to throw this ball.
If you want to critique the placement on the throw itself, then that’s an entirely different discussion. But the criticism on the decision to throw this ball is well out of bounds and holds little to no factual basis.
Here is the full play:
Texans show a single high safety with a press look that leaves Deebo Samuel 1 on 1 with a corner on the outside with no help over the top
— Jordan Elliott (@JLeeElliott) August 28, 2022
You should want your QB to take this shot every single time pic.twitter.com/NdABwbi0fZ
2. Drift away
This second play happened on a 2nd & 4 from the 49ers’ own 18-yard line with 2:07 remaining in the first quarter. Shanahan dials up ‘Drift,’ which is designed to attack the intermediate level of the defense in the middle of the field off-play action. It is a staple of Shanahan’s offense, and a concept you will see ran quite frequently by San FranFrancisco’sense.
Malik Turner is going to be the primary read on this play, running the ‘Drift’ route, which calls for the receiver to push vertically for seven steps before breaking at an angle to the hole of the defense. The route dictates that this ball be thrown just outside of the hash, which generally gives the receiver a promising opportunity to generate some yards after the catch.
Lance put this ball just outside the hash. The problem is that he threw it at TurnTurner’st which forced Turner to go to the ground to catch this ball, all but eliminating an extremely favorable opportunity to pick up a big chunk of yards after the catch.
Here is the full play:
— JLeeElliott Film Burner (@splash_cousin) August 29, 2022
I highlighted a couple of things in this play that are important. First, I noticed many people who seemed to justify this miss because of the linebacker between the hashes (#57).
I’d like to make it very clear that the spot on the field was not what was wrong with this throw. The problem isn’t Lance needed to lead the receiver farther upfield. The issue is that he threw the ball so low that Turner had to go to the ground to get it, which prevented any extra yardage after the catch, which was readily available had this ball been thrown above to Turner.
To eliminate any doubt about this, I paused the cut-up and took a screenshot to show that the ball is not only yards away from the linebacker but already behind him before he ever has a chance to turn around and even entertain the thought of making a play on it.
Now that you’ve seen from the end zone angle that #57 had no way to make a play on this ball, I’m going to go back to the sideline angle to show you why a miss like this can be so costly, even if the pass is completed for a modest gain like it was.
Take a look at how much open-field Turner has to work with if he doesn’t fall to go to the ground and this ball hits him in stride.
It’sIt’sn more amplified when you see that the receiver and the corner at the top of the screen are both going to clear out upfield, creating an even bigger window for Turner to work with had this ball been placed better by Lance. This is a screenshot of the field in front of Turner just before the ball arrived.
Now I want to be clear about something. I am well aware that this is just a preseason game. I promise that I don’t need anyone else to explain to me that this throw, the statistics from this game, and the final score from this game in no way impact the 49ers' record when the regular season starts.
Lance is a young quarterback who is going to miss some throws here and there. Even the best of quarterbacks miss a throw like this from time to time. A throw like this stands out in an exhibition game because it is a layup throw within the offense Lance will be running this season.
The importance of hitting throws like this is much more magnified due to the growing pains that will likely occur as Lance finds his groove at the NFL level. Wasting opportunities to pick up massive chunks of yardage after the catch could prove very costly, given how inconsistent the rhythm of this offense will likely be while acclimating to a first-time starter under center.
3. I have the need, the need for zone read
This next play came on a 2nd & 10 from the 49ers' own 36-yard line with 13:36 remaining in the first quarter. This was fun, as Shanahan dusted off one of his old zone-read plays from his days in Washington when he had a mobile quarterback you might be familiar with.
The call is ’30 WAG’, and it’s designed to have Lance in the gun with trips to his left side. Jeff Wilson Jr. is in the backfield, flanking Lance on his right side. This play is designed to attack the backside defensive end and puts the responsibility on Lance to read the end on the backside and decide whether to give to Wilson Jr. or keep it and run.
Here is what Lance is looking at as he makes the decision to give or keep.
The end crashes upfield, and Lance makes the correct read by giving to Wilson Jr., who picks up eight yards on this carry. Here is the play:
— Jordan Elliott (@JLeeElliott) August 29, 2022
Also, to help clarify for anyone who was wondering why Charlie Woerner (#89) ended up where he did, Woerner has MDM (most dangerous man) responsibilities on this play, meaning he is responsible for being the lead blocker for Lance should he have decided to keep rather than handing off to Wilson Jr.
Nothing crazy about this play, but it gives a tangible example of how Shanahan plans on using the threat of Lance’s rushing ability to put defenses into conflict. We also got a glimpse of Wilson Jr.’s patience, vision, and explosion through the hole while running north to south.
4. It’s a trap!
This next one came on a 1st & 10 from the 49ers' own 22-yard line with 6:30 remaining in the first quarter. Shanahan is going to dial up a trap run for Wilson Jr. out of the gun in 11 personnel. This play only went for six yards, but I thought it did a great job illustrating why the 49ers have the requisite pieces to run between the tackles this season effectively.
Let’s start with rookie offensive lineman Spencer Burford, who is probably the most important player on the field for the offense on this trap call. The play's success depends on Burford’s execution as the pulling blocker. Trap calls unfold rapidly, and you need a pulling guard who can get off the line and get to their spot quickly.
Burford is that guy, and he shows off his lateral agility on this play by exploding off the snap and getting to the intentionally unblocked defender. I thought it also demonstrated how good Jeff Wilson is at running in tight windows, highlighting the vision and conviction Wilson runs with while working north to south between the tackles.
Nothing too complex to get into here, just a nice gain for six yards which is an objective win on first down. It probably would have gone for more if Jake Brendel had a better rep at center, but that’s a discussion for another day. Here is the play:
— Jordan Elliott (@JLeeElliott) August 29, 2022
5. Trey Area
This final play came on a 1st & 16 from the 49ers' own six-yard line with 2:37 remaining in the first quarter. Shanahan dials up a draw play that has Lance fake a throw to the right side before handing off to Trey Sermon, who is flanked to his left in the gun.
This run looked like it was designed to go into the A gap on the strong side, but a great effort from the 1-technique on HousHouston’sensive line threw a wrench into this play for the 49ers offense. Aaron Banks sells the pass set before appearing to attempt to push upfield and block the weak side linebacker.
As Banks looks to move upfield to make this block, he is eaten up by the 1-technique. (quick side note, that 1-tech is rookie Kurt Hinish, who had a handful of plays in this game where he wrecked shop. I think Hinish was the best player on the field in this game.)
Watch how Hinish can eat blocks from both Banks and Brendel and, as a result, keep the weak side backer free to fit the running lane that Sermon is supposed to run through.
It looks like Sermon could read the weak side backer shading into the run gap he was directed to run into and decided to bounce this run back to the outside for a nice gain.
Sermon also showed an ability to make a defender miss in space, and if not for Desmond King being left unblocked from the back side, Sermon probably ends up picking up even more than the twelve yards he ended up with on this carry. Here is the full play:
— Jordan Elliott (@JLeeElliott) August 29, 2022
This was an extremely encouraging rep from Sermon. He demonstrated vision, awareness, and balance through contact in one play. Sermon mentioned that having a year in the system under his belt allows him to play faster, and making snap decisions like this is a great example.
If Sermon runs into the A gap where this play is designed to go, he likely only picks up a yard or two at most. Instead, he trusted his instincts and what he saw from the defense and ran to the outside with conviction for a nice gain—a very encouraging rep from the 2021 third-round pick. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/29/23325937/49ers-texans-5-plays-preseason | 2022-08-29T21:21:13Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/29/23325937/49ers-texans-5-plays-preseason | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Former Ohio State running back Trey Sermon has been the target of heavy criticism early in the preseason. That criticism followed him from last season when rookie Sermon didn’t perform up to the mark. The 49ers traded up in the third round to draft the Ohio State tailback, but the returns didn’t match the investment.
In his first two preseason games, Sermon rushed for less than two yards per carry — totaling 19 yards on 11 carries. Thursday night was his best performance of the preseason, carrying the ball eight times for 20 yards while forcing a missed tackle.
Sermon’s burst was more visible on Thursday. He’s been battling — and playing through — an injury, but the 49ers’ young tailback finally seemed to flash some of his talent.
#49ers' RB Trey Sermon actually had some burst and juice to his runs on Thursday night. Might be more space to run or the fact that he's a week removed from injury.
— Akash Anavarathan (@akashanav) August 29, 2022
Regardless, I think the way John Lynch spoke about him earlier in the week probably solidifies his spot on the 53. pic.twitter.com/84iZUp78kf
While the 49ers have tried to diversify their run schemes over the past few years, I think Sermon looks far more comfortable as an inside runner between the tackles than he does running the wide zone.
Trey Sermon just looks so much more comfortable running inside than he does outside. Also check out Spencer Burford clearing the way here.
— Akash Anavarathan (@akashanav) August 29, 2022
Just think because of his draft position and what the #49ers have seen from Sermon during TC, he's going to make the team over Mason. pic.twitter.com/YOzpgXqr7C
The logjam at the running back position has been a hot topic of debate for 49ers fans on social media, but I think internally, the 49ers have been more confident of Sermon making this 53-man roster.
Before Thursday’s contest, here’s what 49ers’ general manager John Lynch had to say about Sermon’s roster spot:
He worked incredibly hard and had a tremendous offseason. Hasn’t showed up in the games, but throughout training camp has been one of our best players.
After this quote from Lynch, I had a feeling that the 49ers’ brass was leaning toward keeping Sermon on their roster after what he’s shown in practices and the meeting room.
I believe that three running backs have secured their roster spot: Elijah Mitchell, Jeff Wilson Jr., and Ty Davis-Price. I think JaMycal Hasty is widely viewed as one of the more complete backs on this team, who can run, catch passes, pass protect and even play special teams. That would be the four leading contenders — but I think Sermon squeaks onto the team, with Jordan Mason being released.
Sermon’s draft status as a third-round pick probably buys him an extra season with the 49ers, but it’s going to be an uphill battle to find carries with this group. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/29/23326483/49ers-trey-sermon-roster-criticism | 2022-08-29T21:21:19Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/29/23326483/49ers-trey-sermon-roster-criticism | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
We can expect plenty of cuts around the league over the next 30 hours. There will be notable names that were drafted high, such as Jaguars wide receiver Laviska Shenault. Others might include old friends, like safety Jaquiski Tartt.
Per Adam Caplan, the Philadelphia Eagles released Tartt Monday morning. Jimmie Ward is out for the first month of the season. We don’t know if Ward will be out longer. I’ve seen some Twitter doctors speculate he could be out closer to two months than one. We’ll see.
We’ve seen the struggles from the safeties behind Ward. George Odum had his fair share of whiffs when it came to tackling, while Tarvarius Moore had issues in coverage.
Kyle Shanahan relies on veterans. The team brought in Tashaun Gipson, but he looked like a player who needed more time to play himself into shape as he was a step slow. Enter Tartt.
Tartt signed a one-year deal with Philadelphia this past offseason. He played 59 snaps in Week 2 for Philly and started in their final game against the Dolphins.
I reached out to SB Nation’s site manager for the Eagles, Brandon Lee Gowton. He said the coaching staff didn’t seem to love him, as Tartt was running with the third team — mind you, this is on a team with zero safety depth. There’s a chance the Eagles could bring Tartt back since he’s a vested veteran, but the 49ers shouldn’t give them that opportunity.
The 49ers know what they are getting in Tartt. There would be no guessing games, as was the case with Gipson. Tartt’s one of the most intelligent football players I’ve seen. A few years ago, Richard Sherman spoke highly of him:
Jaquiski Tartt on the market?
— Leo Luna (@LeoLuna93) August 29, 2022
: @WirthTM pic.twitter.com/9p1lyyyv3M
Many will remember his dropped interception against the Rams in the NFC Championship and forget the 49ers wouldn’t have made that game had Tartt not run down Aaron Jones before the end of the first half the week prior in Lambeau Field.
Would you re-sign Tartt? For me, it’s a no-brainer. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/29/23327107/49ers-eagles-tartt-re-sign | 2022-08-29T21:21:25Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/29/23327107/49ers-eagles-tartt-re-sign | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The 49ers roster is down to 77 after releasing two more players on Monday afternoon. Cornerback Ken Crawley and offensive lineman Dohnovan West were cut.
Crawley played 64 snaps in the first and second preseason games. He has experience but never did anything to separate himself from the pack during training camp. The 49ers will likely roll with Deommodore Lenoir and Ambry Thomas at the position as their depth players for the second year in a row.
Some had high hopes for West after the draft, but West was another player who failed to impress. He appeared in each preseason game, logging 77 snaps. West allowed a quarterback hit and a pair of pressures and seemed to have gotten worse with each game he played.
As these releases continue to come in, remember that the 49ers will bring some of them back on the practice squad. Also, they could look outside of the building if they see fit.
As for practice Monday, Trent Williams missed his second day as he was sick once again. Mike McGlinchey was in full pads. Dre Greenlaw was not in person, though the reason is unknown. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/29/23327836/49ers-roster-tracker-west-crawley | 2022-08-29T21:21:31Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/29/23327836/49ers-roster-tracker-west-crawley | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Our pilot stood on the roof of the yellow submarine named John, floating beside a Lake Superior islet where cliffs rise straight from the water and end in a shock of pines.
Six passengers from the cruise ship Viking Octantis approached on an inflatable Zodiac motorboat. One by one, we climbed on top of the sub, then down the hatch into a submerged cockpit. I took my assigned seat and gazed out the panoramic windows. Today the waters of this big, cold lake, which are often crystal-clear, glistened with an opaque aquamarine.
The passengers, who had been together for the past six days on a Viking cruise of the Great Lakes, laughed nervously, remembering a casual line from the submarine safety video: “If the pilot becomes unconscious, press the green button.” I eyed the green button, just below the controls.
We wouldn’t be needing it.
The pilot, Philip, relayed our location to Octantis and filled the diving tanks with water, as the sub slipped below the surface. We gently descended, ever deeper into the turquoise abyss. At some 130 feet, Philip activated the thrusters and navigated to the base of a rock wall. I realized that Pyritic Island far above us was merely the tip of a tall sea stack. We were now at the bottom of it — and I was glimpsing the world’s largest freshwater body as very few people have.
Submarine dives are just one way Viking is trying to thread the needle for leisure cruising and scientific exploration in Octantis’ maiden season. When the Norwegian-flagged cruise line announced in 2020 plans for two new expedition-class ships, purposely built for Antarctica and the Great Lakes, it promised to be a sea change for tourism on our inland seas. The gleaming white, $225 million Octantis debuted in harbors from Toronto to Duluth this spring, on a string of lake-spanning itineraries. Its sister ship Polaris will follow in its wake.
In late July, I found my way onto Octantis’ seven-day, Canada-centric “Great Lakes Explorer” cruise from Milwaukee to Thunder Bay, Ontario. I wanted to find out if the Viking experience lived up to the hype — and the luxury-caliber pricing. I went into it as something of a cruise skeptic. But I love the Great Lakes — so I had to be on this cruise.
New vistas
On a Saturday morning my cruise companion and I flew to Milwaukee and shuttled to the docked 665-foot Octantis, where a mostly retirement-age demographic lined up for vaccination and customs checks. Upon embarking on the 378-passenger ship, it was hard not to be dazzled.
A fifth-deck restaurant with sweeping views and an endless supply of chef-driven international food. A Nordic spa. A performance and assembly space backed by a two-story window. Spacious communal areas and hidden nooks, decorated with hundreds of — get this — books, immaculately curated around polar and discovery themes. How would they not slide off their shelves?
Viking’s head of science and sustainability, Damon Stanwell-Smith, led a tour of “The Hangar” in the bowels of the vessel. There were two modern submarines, John and Paul (presumably George and Ringo are on the sister ship); two so-called “Special Operations” Boats (SOBs, in crew lingo), built for speed with shock-absorbing seats; and 17 inflatable Zodiac boats for nimble, small-group touring. And there were kayaks. All together, the Hangar is the base for what Viking calls “putting the toys in the water.”
But before playing with toys, I decompressed. My companion and I soaked in a trio of outdoor pools on the stern — the lukewarm Tepidarium, the hot Caldarium and the icy Frigidarium — as we watched the Brew City skyline disappear on the horizon like a shrinking island. After a sunset dinner of shellfish bouillabaisse and clam linguine in the Italian restaurant Manfredi’s, we had a nightcap in the Explorer’s Lounge to the sounds of an indie duo with an enchanting singer-pianist from Kyiv.
I also paid extra for a guided Nordic bathing ritual: repeated cycles in the spa’s steam room or sauna followed by shocking visits to the cold-bucket shower or snow-shower room, and ultimately a foot massage.
Our 215-square-foot Scandinavian king suite was as comfortable as any five-star hotel, with one rock-star feature: a floor-to-ceiling retractable window, which allowed us to immerse ourselves in the scenery as it slid by like a Kodak carousel. I left the window wide open on the warm, black night on Lake Michigan, sleeping hard to the crashing of waves and whooshing of the ship. Every morning we would wake to find a surprising new vista through that picture window.
The first morning, we passed under the third-longest suspension bridge in the United States, as we entered Lake Huron for our first port of call, Mackinac Island. Passengers boarded Jedi-orange tender boats to the bicycle-happy Michigan isle where cars are famously banned.
We rode a horse-drawn carriage up to the gargantuan Grand Hotel, still embracing its luxury 1887 roots. After a tour of the quirkily colored suites, we settled in for a lunch of local smoked whitefish in the airy restaurant. I rented a modern cruiser bike and took to the 8-mile paved trail that rims the island, circling back to the lost-in-time downtown. We returned to Octantis on the last tender, definitely wanting more Mackinac.
Toys in the water
On this cruise, each port of call turned out to be more beautiful than the last. Across the Canadian border, that included three days devoted to Huron’s 120-mile Georgian Bay, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve with little development beyond the port of Parry Sound, Ontario, and the Irish-flavored outpost of Killarney.
Georgian Bay is also home to the Thirty Thousand Islands, the world’s largest freshwater archipelago, and the billion-year-old bedrock of the Canadian Shield. Amid that constant stream of scenery, the crew kicked off its “toys in the water” program of subs and SOBs, kayaks and Zodiacs.
Before the cruise, I had wondered if the science angle was a marketing gimmick. But the Viking expedition team walks the talk, with several ongoing research projects onboard — including work on microplastics — and partnerships with Cambridge and Cornell universities and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The multinational roster includes a climatology and oceanography specialist, two ornithologists, a geologist, a population geneticist and several naturalists, all of whom double as guides. All this allows for a deeper cruise experience than, say, sailing to a Caribbean waterpark island.
After passengers watched field scientists release a weather balloon from the ship at dawn, its real-time atmospheric data was projected at Expedition Central, which functions like a fancy version of the flight tracker on an airplane. A whiteboard was filled with lists of “wildlife we have met,” including cormorants, sandhill cranes, watersnakes, red bats and otters; one tour group had reportedly encountered a swimming black bear cub. On a too-short but invigorating kayak tour, a large painted turtle darted under my boat.
In addition to being fun, the “toys” play a key role in the science, too. A Special Ops boat might be used to deploy a camera for underwater mapping. The Great Lakes bottoms are still largely a frontier, and the mapping could have a future application in the exploration of shipwrecks. Viking should definitely get on that; submarine dives to some of the Great Lakes’ 10,000 shipwrecks would be tourism gold.
Why did this cruise favor Canadian waters? It turns out that the Jones Act of 1920 bars non-U.S. ships with non-American crews from operating special craft, so for now, the toys stay out of the water in Viking’s U.S. ports such as Duluth, Mackinac and the Apostle Islands. (Stanwell-Smith sounded hopeful that that could change, but time will tell.)
In Georgian Bay, I rode a Zodiac to the shores of the classic Okeechobee Lodge, a wood-paneled respite that took me back to the Minnesota lake-cabin resorts of childhood. My three-hour hike to an area peak was canceled due to a wet morning, so I hopped on another Zodiac to explore the quartz-inflected walls of misty Baie Fine, one of the longest freshwater fjords in the world.
Our guide Emily Cunningham, a young marine biologist from England, dropped a cone-shaped plankton net in the fjord and dragged it behind the boat for five minutes, with guests assisting as she shared a story about one of the Zodiacs being punctured by an Antarctic leopard seal. In Expedition Central the next day, we looked at the samples under a microscope, with Emily pointing out phytoplankton, zooplankton and other denizens of the bottom of the food chain.
Such experiments and talks are commonplace during the cruise, so curious passengers can get their science on as much — or as little — as they want. “We don’t undertake anything just for the optics. Nothing we do is for show and tell,” Stanwell-Smith told me. “And that goes to sustainability, as well.”
Superior day
Departing Georgian Bay, we entered a summer storm, and I was thrown off-guard by the sole night of relatively rough sailing. By dawn, though, the books were still on the shelves, and Octantis was calmly coasting through the international tangle of islands between Huron and Superior.
At Sault Ste. Marie on the Michigan side, passengers gathered on the bow to watch Octantis slowly advance into one of the Soo Locks. Lake Superior waters flowed into the lock, raising the vessel about 23 feet. The gates opened and on Day 6, we were finally sailing the Big Lake. Sunset afforded a rare view of Michipicoten, the second-largest island in Superior, looking like a jagged lost world.
The next day we woke up beside the Sleeping Giant. The itinerary’s only Lake Superior port of call is centered around Silver Islet, Ontario, a historic mining community near where a pure vein of silver was discovered in 1868. It sits on the end of a 32-mile peninsula along with Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, where towering basalt cliffs are said to be the Ojibwe spirit Nanabijou, turned to stone when white men found the silver. The mining village is now a semi-isolated enclave where the rustic lakefront cottages are called “camps,” the fifth-generation residents all know each other and a historic gravesite is overgrown with pines.
After a morning in the village, I took the submarine dive at Pyritic Island, whose name curiously invokes fool’s gold. Later I zipped on a snug drysuit and joined the last kayak tour of the cruise. Conditions were perfect, so guide Elsa Ross from Montreal led us out to conquer the necklace-shaped Shangoina Island. We took in a riot of colors, from emerald waters to fallen stones covered in golden lichens known as “fairy puke.” Lines of quartz were visible in the sea cliffs, which Elsa noted is where prospectors would look to find the silver.
We crossed to the actual Silver Islet, now just a pile of smooth eroded stones, debris from the mining process over a century ago. Circling the islet, we felt vertigo as we floated over a pair of spooky, gaping rectangular holes leading to the deep. We realized that we were perhaps the first people from Octantis to find the 1,200-foot, 19th-century mine shaft. It was a fitting end to a cruise about discovery. That evening, Octantis sailed the short remaining distance to Thunder Bay.
Throughout the cruise I met many energetic older people — and some middle-aged ones — who were thrilled to be kayaking, hiking or diving, but a few guests seemed blissfully unaware of (or uninterested in) the expeditions. I wondered if there was a slight disconnect between Viking’s Great Lakes adventures and the well-heeled “bucket list” cruising cohort. But Octantis’ sailings have sold quickly just as they are. And a lower-cost, family approach would be a completely different kind of cruise than what Viking has forged.
All I know is, the Octantis plied these lakes for seven days at a leisurely 18 knots — and it still went by too fast for me. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/with-its-new-ship-octantis-and-expeditions-among-the-great-lakes-viking-aims-to-get/article_c1397d7e-27d9-11ed-8169-cf51681c7801.html | 2022-08-29T21:35:00Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/with-its-new-ship-octantis-and-expeditions-among-the-great-lakes-viking-aims-to-get/article_c1397d7e-27d9-11ed-8169-cf51681c7801.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Performing the Army Combat Fitness Test plank exercise, Command Sgt. Maj. Jeffrey Ricketts, 266th Quartermaster Battalion CSM, competes with Taylor Anne Boyd, a civilian visitor from Chester, Virginia, during the Meet Your Army open house Aug. 27 at Fort Lee, Virginia. The youngster won the event and was presented a battalion coin. (U.S. Army photo by Patrick Buffett)
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Stocks closed broadly lower on Wall Street Monday, adding to their hefty losses from last week when the Federal Reserve pledged to keep interest rates high as long as it takes to tame inflation.
The S&P 500 fell 0.7% after wavering between small gains and losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6% and the Nasdaq composite lost 1%. Smaller company stocks also fell, pulling the Russell 2000 0.8% lower.
The selling was widespread, with technology and health care stocks among the biggest weights on the market. Only energy and utilities stocks rose.
The market is coming off its worst weekly pullback since mid-June after Fed chief Jerome Powell indicated on Friday that the central bank will raise rates into next year and keep them elevated as it tries to quell demand and bring down prices for goods and services.
The open-endedness implied by how long the Fed may have to keep raising rates has, for now, quieted speculation on Wall Street that recent data showing more moderate inflation would prompt the central bank to act less aggressively.
“We’re in this period where you’re going to see volatility be more of the norm versus the exception and will probably continue until, frankly, inflation gets under control and that then sets the motion for the Fed to become a little bit more dovish,” said Terry Sandven, chief equity strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management.
The Fed’s last two hikes have been by 0.75 points, and Wall Street is expecting a third such increase in September, according to CME Group. Some investors had hoped that the Fed would ease up on rate hikes into next year if inflation subsides. That sentiment led to a rally for stocks in July and early August. All three major indexes are now lower this month.
On Monday, the S&P 500 fell 27.05 points to 4,030.61. The benchmark index fell 3.4% Friday, its biggest single-day drop since mid-June.
The Dow dropped 184.41 points to 32,098.99, while the Nasdaq slid 124.04 points to 12,017.67. The Russell 2000 gave up 16.89 points to 1,882.94.
Technology stocks, among the biggest decliners so far this year, led the way lower. Apple fell 1.4%.
Health care stocks also lost ground. Drug delivery technology company Catalent slumped 7.4% for the biggest drop in the S&P 500 after giving investors a disappointing revenue forecast.
Energy stocks made gains as U.S. crude oil prices rose 4.2%. Exxon Mobil rose 2.3%.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which follows expectations for longer-term economic growth and inflation, rose to 3.11% from 3.03% late Friday. The yield on the two-year Treasury, which tends to track expectations for Fed action, rose to 3.43% from 3.38%.
Investors have been closely watching economic reports to get a better sense of how much the economy is slowing and whether inflation is starting to cool from the hottest levels in four decades.
The Fed’s preferred gauge of inflation decelerated last month, while other data shows consumer spending slowed. Wall Street will get several more updates on the economy this week.
The Conference Board will release its latest reading on consumer confidence on Tuesday.
The government will release its closely watched monthly jobs report on Friday. The employment market has remained resilient amid a broader slowdown for the economy. That has helped temper worries that the U.S. is facing a potential recession.
European markets also closed lower and Asian markets closed lower overnight. Chinese economic data showing a drop in industrial profits indicated that a strong recovery there will take time, amid fresh COVID-19 restrictions. | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-asian-shares-slide-on-wall-street-drop-that-ended-last-week/ | 2022-08-29T21:39:58Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-asian-shares-slide-on-wall-street-drop-that-ended-last-week/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Paula Reto won the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour victory, closing with a 4-under 67 for a one-stroke victory over Nelly Korda and Hye-Jin Choi.
“I’m really, really excited and just proud of myself for being able to stick through the shots and the routines,” Reto said. “Sometimes, I find that’s really hard to do, especially if you know you have only a few holes left.”
Reto finished at 19-under 265 at Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club. The 32-year-old South African opened with a course-record 62.
She’s the fourth South African winner on the LPGA Tour, following Sally Little, Lee-Anne Pace and Ashleigh Buhai — the British Women’s Open champion this year.
“I was trying not to watch the leaderboard,” said Reto, who played in the final group with Choi and Narin An. “I sort of knew where the girls in my group were, so I was just trying to make sure I stayed with them or maybe one or two ahead. That was the only thing I could control. You can’t do too much.”
Korda missed a chance to reclaim the No. 1 ranking, also shooting a 67.
“I think I had a decent shot at it,” Korda said. “I played good golf, and honestly, I’m just grateful that I am playing golf and I’m out here, and I’m enjoying every second of it.”
Choi, tied for the third-round lead with fellow South Korean rookie An, had a 69.
Three-time champion Lydia Ko had a 63 to finish fourth at 17 under.
An shot a 72 to tie for sixth at 15 under.
Alena Sharp was the top Canadian, shooting a 67 to tie for 17th at 10 under. Canadian star Brooke Henderson tied for 49th at 5 under after a 69 in front of a large gallery.
“It was amazing,” Henderson said about the fans . “I didn’t necessarily expect that because I was thinking, you know, they should go and see some really good golf happening. It’s amazing that they were out there the whole time, just so many people. I felt the love all week.”
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The end goal has always been a complete national ban on abortion. The “return it to the states” nonsense is a dodge to make you think it won’t be that bad and the people claiming it’s about a national ban are just fearmongering. The actions and words of the forced-birth fanatics make it clear what is really happening.
Two top antiabortion groups have crafted and successfully lobbied for state legislation to ban or further restrict the predominant way pregnancies are ended in the United States — via drugs taken at home, often facilitated by a network of abortion rights groups.
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, 14 states now ban or partially ban the use of those drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, which are used in more than half of all abortions.
But the drugs remain widely available, with multiple groups working to help provide them even to women in states with abortion bans. Students for Life of America and National Right to Life Committee, which have played leading roles in crafting antiabortion laws, hope to change that with new legislation.
The groups are pursuing a variety of tactics, from bills that would ban the abortion-inducing drugs altogether to others that would allow family members to sue medication providers or attempt to shut down the nonprofit groups that help women obtain and safely use the drugs.
Their strategy reflects the reality that abortion access today looks vastly different from that of the pre-Roe world, one without easy access to abortion medications from out-of-state or overseas pharmacies.
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Students for Life is taking a different tack in efforts to limit or outlaw medication abortion — crafting and backing bills that restrict access to the drugs themselves.
Among the seven bills the group has successfully lobbied to pass, each requires women to see a physician in person to receive the medications rather than receiving them through the mail. The mandates vary from state-to-state, but most require a physical examination, a test to determine the blood type of the baby, an ultrasound to determine the stage of the pregnancy, a disclosure of safety risks and a follow-up examination after the procedure. In many of the states, the medications could only be used in a limited set of circumstances, like in Oklahoma where its use is restricted to ending early pregnancies that resulted from rape or incest — or if the woman’s life is in danger.
Telehealth appointments for the procedure are also prohibited under the bills.
In some cases, doctors are required to tell their patients that they can potentially reverse the effects of mifepristone and stop the abortion process — something that the American Medication Association has said is “a claim wholly unsupported by the best, most reliable scientific evidence.”
“So many states in the abortion arena have been playing with misinformation like this, relying on the antiabortion movement instead of medical professionals and what the science shows,” said Wendy E. Parmet, co-director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy & Law. “Some states have required physicians say it causes breast cancer — which is also false.”
The ultimate goal of Students for Life is to block access to drugs entirely. The group is seeking criminal sanctions for the physicians and organizations that “manufacture, distribute, prescribe, dispense, sell or transfer” the drugs in the state.
If passed, the laws would be most effective in blocking prescriptions made by doctors in states where abortion is still legal — typically through telehealth appointments — to patients who reside in states where medication abortions are banned in all circumstances.
Experts say it is unlikely that law enforcement would be allowed to enter a state to arrest a doctor where they have no jurisdiction. However, state medical boards could penalize doctors — including revocation of their medical licenses — if they determined they are not licensed to practice medicine with someone who resides outside their state.
“It’s not as bad as going to prison, but it’s certainly something that no doctors want to have to do — be in a position where they are having to defend their license,” said Hearn, McCormack’s attorney, who is also a physician.
I’ve blogged about this in various forms before, and it’s important to keep in mind that this is where the forced birth fanatics want to go, and will go if they’re not stopped. Enforcing these kinds of laws will be extremely intrusive, wherever the exist. I have meant that in the past to mean that law enforcement will need to get all kinds of access to your mail, your phone logs, your browsing history, and so on, but there’s another way in which having such laws on the books will curtail everyone’s privacy. You will have to be extremely careful about what you say to whom, and you won’t be able to trust anyone you don’t know. That includes medical professionals and anyone who works for or with them.
If you are looking to end your own pregnancy, your own doctor may be your downfall.
Between 2000 and 2020, law enforcement in 26 states investigated or arrested at least 61 people for allegedly aborting their own pregnancy or helping someone else do so, according to a report released earlier this week by the legal advocacy group group If/When/How. And in 45 percent of those cases, it was healthcare providers or social workers who tipped off police.
In another 26 percent of the cases, people “entrusted with information”—like partners, parents, and friends—reported their ostensible loved one to police.
“The research really clearly confirms that the biggest threat to the privacy of abortion seekers is other people,” said Laura Huss, senior researcher for If/When/How. “That breakdown of trust and ethics and the patient-doctor relationship is really alarming.”
The report, which examined the criminalization of self-managed abortions while Roe v. Wade was still the law of the land, offers a stunning glimpse at how people who get abortions in this post-Roe era may be targeted and threatened by law enforcement. Although abortion opponents often insist that they do not want to punish pregnant people for abortions, abortion rights supporters have long pointed out that pregnant people have already faced criminal consequences—and there’s no way to ensure they’ll be kept out of an anti-abortion dragnet.
Gotta say, as a child of the 70s and 80s, all this gives me serious Soviet Union vibes. I’m old enough to remember when Republicans and conservatives thought that was a bad thing. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106602 | 2022-08-29T21:42:08Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106602 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOS ANGELES — As of Monday morning, the forecast in Pasadena for UCLA football’s season opener against Bowling Green was 102 degrees and sunny.
“Try to get a dome built between then and now,” coach Chip Kelly joked on Monday about how to deal with the heat.
On a more serious note, Kelly said that the Bruins will rely on their depth to keep fresh bodies in the game. Hydration and practicing at the time the game is played are part of the plan, too.
“It’s obviously a little bit cooler here than it is up there. But you can’t manufacture that,” the coach said. “It’s not like we can get reflective mirrors out there and make it a little bit hotter for training sessions.”
Morning practice start times have been moved up to roughly 9:30 a.m. and the scout team has been donning orange jerseys to match Bowling Green, complete with numbers that correspond to Bowling Green players.
Numbers like No. 3, for example, which is Falcons quarterback Matt McDonald.
“When the rush gets home, he can stay alive and he’s made some really really big plays,” Kelly said. “He’s got his eyes downfield. He’s a lot like Russell Wilson that way. Some guys when they look to scramble, they look to run. He’s looking to make plays.”
Chase Artopoeus has been reliable and valuable as a scout team quarterback for the last two seasons, carefully watching film in order to best emulate what opposing signal-callers will look like on the field. Kelly called Artopoeus an “unsung hero” for his consistent hard work within his job.
UCLA quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson also has consistency on his mind ahead of Saturday’s game. He said he’s ready to see the consistency he’s established not just in fall camp but in the years leading up to his fifth season as a Bruin pay off.
“Going from fall camp to now game week, the habits are going to stay the same,” he said. “It’s the foundation I’ve laid before and so now just adding on to that and just staying consistent with it has been the biggest part of this week so far.”
UCLA looks to remain constant in what it can control this week. It seems as though the heat is the most out of its control. Jake Bobo, a redshirt-senior receiver from Duke, shuddered at the thought of the upcoming 100-plus temperatures.
“Coming from Durham, I think that’s prepared me a little bit for 102,” he said. “But until you’re in it, I don’t know how much you can prepare for that.”
Mixing the old with the new
Thompson-Robinson and Bobo are two fifth-year players with experience and advice to lend, albeit in different ways.
True freshman quarterback Justyn Martin has steadily grown and developed during camp, Kelly has observed, and Thompson-Robinson has been by his side all throughout.
The chemistry in the quarterback room is apparent in practices, with players providing support and advice for each other between repetitions.
“We’re always trying to help each other,” Thompson-Robinson said. “It’s a lot easier hearing it from your own teammate and brother than it is hearing it from your coach who’s screaming and yelling at you.”
Bobo is in his first full season at UCLA after becoming a leading receiver for Duke in his senior year. Players and coaches have praised his ability to make the catch on 50/50 balls, but he doesn’t confine himself to that role.
He’s been a returner during special teams practice in addition to his role as a receiver and has been a supportive teammate — the latter something he saw himself as when he first arrived on campus.
“Just come in and be a guy that guys just talk to, who Dorian can rely on,” Bobo said, in a slight leftover Southern drawl from his time in Durham. “That’s what I felt like, coming in this year as an older guy.
“But at the end of the day, I came out here to win games and whatever I can do to help this team do that, I’m going to do.”
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Hopefully we can eat enough of them to mitigate their impact.
They may be delicious, but they’re also invasive.
Texas Parks and Wildlife announced Thursday that several Australian redclaw crawfish were recently discovered again at an apartment complex pond in the Brownsville area.
Labeled an invasive species by the EPA, redclaw crawfish can reproduce prolifically and grow to a significant size, comparable to a lobster, according to TPWD.
They also taste like lobster.
Redclaw crawfish were first detected in the South Texas pond in 2013, according to TPWD. The pond is connected to a nearby water channel.
Collectively, the discoveries are just the second instance of the species being found in the wild in the U.S. The other happened in California.
TPWD Aquatic Biologist Dr. Archis Grubh said he found three additional redclaw in July, two miles away from the apartment pond.
“We don’t know when these invasive crawfish were first introduced or how far they have spread, but we do know they can have a negative effect on local species and biodiversity,” Grubh said in a release.
The problem is that once these things get into the environment, they’re very hard to eradicate, and they wreak havoc on the native species. The main cause of their appearance is very likely people dumping their personal aquariums into a nearby body of water. Don’t do that, y’all. Anyway, I hope we put a lot of effort into catching these things and serving them up in restaurants, but in the meantime if you spot any of them in the wild, let the TPWD know at [email protected] | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106607 | 2022-08-29T21:42:16Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106607 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“We live in deeply conspiratorial times. The spread of misinformation has never happened more speedily, never been so easy to monetize, never felt so inescapably ingrained in our daily lives. It covers every aspect of our being, from politics to academia to, of course, celebrity. Since my field of interest is mostly the last one, I’ve been privy to some truly bananas conspiracy theories involving the most famous people on the planet. They’re always ridiculous, frequently terrifying, and seldom easy to explain away. They’re also inadvertently extremely revealing about the ways that we dehumanize others as part of a ceaseless search for answers that do not exist.”
“The qualities that make a Nickelodeon Kid are also the traits that would make us challenge Nickelodeon. We were the kids who learned about terrorism, climate change, and AIDS on Nick News. And yes, Linda Ellerbee even taught us about child abuse. We learned to ask the hard questions and challenge questionable behavior. If we can’t trust that Nickelodeon is safe and ethical, we might as well change the channel.”
“4 underrated parts of the Inflation Reduction Act”.
RIP, Virginia Porter Moss, last surviving adult actor from It’s A Wonderful Life.
RIP, Pete Carril, Hall of Fame basketball coach at Princeton.
Pardon me while I give my extremely tiny violin a tune-up.
Guess I need to start watching Sandman soon.
“What is ‘soft’ censorship? When school districts don’t ban books, they still limit student access”.
“Justice, apparently, was only recently invented — some time in the 1960s, perhaps — so evaluating the justice or injustice of any person or group’s “values and mores” before then is just an anachronistic projection of “contemporary social justice issues” into the foreign country of the past.”
“Yelp is adding a prominent consumer notice to crisis pregnancy center listings to more clearly distinguish them from clinics that provide abortion services”. Your move, Google.
“A summer of drought has revealed long-submerged relics across the globe. Some bring us back decades, while others boast histories of thousands of years. A park in Texas now claims one of the oldest revealed this summer – dinosaur footprints dating back over 113 million years.”
RIP, Jerry Allison, drummer for Buddy Holly and The Crickets, who co-wrote the songs “Peggy Sue” and “That’ll Be The Day”.
RIP, Len Dawson, Hall of Fame and Super Bowl champion quarterback with the Kansas City Chiefs.
RIP, Gary Gaines, former head coach at Odessa Permian high school, made famous by Friday Night Lights.
Here’s one way to tell that The Former Guy is really scraping the bottom of the legal barrel these days.
“Letter shows National Archives, DOJ, and Biden gave Trump every chance to return documents”.
I love an Ichiro Suzuki story.
“The rise of the ‘Morally Dubious Podcaster’ in pop culture”.
Don’t read too much news. It’s not good for you.
Will the last creator at HBO Max please turn out the lights?
“Star Trek icon Nichelle Nichols is taking one final journey through the final frontier. Celestis Inc., a private space flight company that works with NASA, will include some of the actress’ ashes on a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket as part of the upcoming Enterprise flight, scheduled to take off sometime later this year.”
“Pair Trump’s attitude toward the intelligence services, whistleblowers, and witnesses of all kinds, with his incredible disdain for protecting classified information, and it’s a recipe for utter catastrophe. The revelation of a “NOC list,” giving away dozens of undercover operatives in vital roles, may be the subject of adventure fiction, but it seems like an all-too-real possibility for Trump.”
RIP, E. Bryant Crutchfield, inventor of the Trapper Keeper. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106644 | 2022-08-29T21:42:24Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106644 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pop your popcorn, this should be fun.
U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, one of the GOP’s highest-profile critics of former President Donald Trump, plans to set her sights on U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and other Republicans who she says “made themselves unfit for future office” by going along with Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election.
The Wyoming Republican, who lost a primary this month to Trump-backed attorney Harriet Hageman, launched a political action committee with her campaign funds and now says she plans to use the PAC to go after “election deniers.”
Cheney, a leading member of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, told the Wall Street Journal that her first targets include Cruz, who she said “took steps that fundamentally threatened the constitutional order and structure in the aftermath of the last election.”
Cruz led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying President Joe Biden’s election win and objected to Arizona’s electoral votes less than an hour before demonstrators breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, pointing to “unprecedented” — and unproven — allegations of voter fraud. Cruz at the time was pushing for an “emergency audit,” which he has argued could have provided the final say Trump supporters needed to accept the results.
Cruz’s Senate term runs through 2024. The Texas Republican has said he would run again for president “in a heartbeat” after coming in second to Trump in the 2016 GOP primary.
Just so we’re clear, I don’t expect this effort to make much difference politically. I respect Liz Cheney for her principled stand for democracy and truth in the face of all kinds of resistance, but I’m under no illusions that she’s suddenly a force for progressive politics. I’m just hoping she’ll land some punches on a guy who needs to be regularly punched. I have no expectations beyond that. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106685 | 2022-08-29T21:42:31Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106685 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
By Alex Tanzi | Bloomberg
More than one in 10 new Texas residents who relocated there from within the US over the past three years came from California, and the influx is fueling growth in businesses such as In-N-Out Burger, according to Placer.ai, a location-analytics firm.
Foot-traffic data compiled by Placer.ai show that between July 2019 and July 2022, 11.1% of new Texans originated from California — the most of any other state. About 1.6% of newcomers in the Dallas metropolitan area came from Los Angeles.
The Irvine-based chain In-N-Out Burger, which opened its first Texas restaurants in 2011, has seen a boost in customers, according to Placer.ai data.
Monthly visits to In-N-Out burger restaurants in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area — which has roughly two-dozen of them — were up 24.4% in July compared with three years earlier, Placer.ai said in a report. That’s far outpacing the average of fast-food restaurants in the region.
“Perhaps Texans are being encouraged to visit In-N-Outs by newcomers, or maybe visits are being driven by Californians looking for a taste of home,” Placer.ai said in the report. “Either way, the Texas success of this California-based chain reveals the growth potential of regional brands.”
Trader Joe’s, another California brand that expanded in the Lone Star state about a decade ago, also saw above-average foot traffic in Texas over the past couple of years, the data shows.
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A few more details, anyway.
Charles Bonner served the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District with the multibillion-dollar claim Monday, requesting compensation for the victims. Bonner told The Texas Tribune he intended to serve Uvalde city leaders on Tuesday evening at a City Council meeting.
As evidence of the school district’s responsibility, the claim pointed to a Texas House committee’s report that investigated the shooting as well as law enforcement’s response. The report, which was published a month ago, found that “systemic failures and egregious poor decision making” contributed to the gunman’s ability to get inside a classroom and law enforcement’s delayed response in confronting him.
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The claim, which could become a precursor to a class-action lawsuit, puts the would-be defendants of a potential suit on notice. Bonner said he hopes to reach a settlement ahead of the class-action suit, but if those parties don’t come to the negotiating table, he plans to file the federal lawsuit in September.
Bonner said the claim seeks to establish a medical monitoring fund to pay for counseling for those affected by the incident and further compensation for the victims of the shooting, their families and the other people in the school on the day of the tragedy.
As it stands, the class named in the prospective lawsuit covers nine families of shooting victims, but Bonner said he expects that more people impacted by the shooting will sign on moving forward.
“The theme of this invitation to negotiate is accountability, responsibility and justice, and that’s what we want for everyone in that class. We will leave no victim behind,” Bonner said.
See here for some background on the lawsuit, and here for more on that House committee report. I don’t know what might qualify this as a class action lawsuit – I know that having multiple plaintiffs isn’t enough for that. I do know that $27 billion could pay for a lot of counseling and still provide for significant “further compensation”. I don’t expect there to be a settlement, though one presumes with an opening bid of $27 billion there’s plenty of room to negotiate, so we’ll see what the filing looks like next month. Any lawyers want to comment on this? ABC News and the Express News have more. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106697 | 2022-08-29T21:42:39Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106697 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne had been writing screenplays together for two decades when Amazon Studios announced it had acquired the rights to make a TV series based on the fantasy world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord Of The Rings.”
And who wouldn’t want to do that?
“We, along with half the other writers in Hollywood, raised our hands and said we’d love the opportunity,” Payne says during a recent video call with McKay and producer Lindsey Weber. “We should be so lucky.”
Both loved the works of Tolkien. McKay’s mother gave him “The Hobbit” when he was in fifth grade. Payne came to Middle-earth through director Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” and devoured the source material.
So they had strong ideas from the start of their quest.
“We started thinking, ‘OK, here’s what Amazon bought the rights to,’” Payne says. “There are hundreds, probably thousands, of potential stories within that of material. And as we looked around, very quickly we arrived at the time period of the Second Age.”
The Second Age of Middle-earth takes place thousands of years before the Third Age known from the books and movies. Though it’s not entirely disconnected from that world, Payne notes.
“We felt like this is Tolkien’s great untold epic,” he says. “This era is pregnant with so many amazing stories.
“You have the forging of the Rings of Power. The rise of the Dark Lord Sauron. The last alliance of elves and men.
“Amazon wanted to make something really large, and so we came in right away saying we want to make a 50-hour mega-epic,” Payne says. “And that, very quickly, I think, got their attention.
Four years after Amazon hired McKay and Payne to make the series, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” premieres on Prime Video on Friday, Sept. 2. As they spoke a few weeks before that, they seemed still unable to believe this dream came true.
Though, as McKay notes, nobody thought Frodo could complete his quest, either.
“Our impression was we were sort of dark horses in a way, and underdogs in a way,” he says. “But sometimes underdogs have a great history in Tolkien.”
Scouring the Second Age
The story told in “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” was drawn from Tolkien’s appendices to “Lord of the Rings,” his mytho-histories in “The Silmarillion,” and clues scattered throughout his best-known works that refer to earlier times.
“Our process of adapting it was finding every single one of those threads that talk about this era, but also talking about the histories of each of these cultures,” McKay says.”
Sometimes that meant they could use a character familiar to most fans. Because elves rarely die, the series features a younger Galadriel, a character played by Cate Blanchett in Peter Jackson’s films, and here by Morfydd Clark.
There are no Hobbits in the Second Age, though their predecessors, known as Harfoots, provide the lightness and good cheer of their hairy-footed descendants.
“Finding those breadcrumbs is the beginning of a process of thinking about who those people might have been,” McKay says. “What do we know about the Hobbits in the Third Age and Frodo and Sam? What are the qualities we associated with Hobbits? Bravery and loyalty. Where did that come from?
The first season’s characters are about half from the books, half newly imagined, he says.
“Tolkien left us the seeds that are so rich with possibility and imagination,” McKay says. “All we have to do is water them a little and a huge tree springs up.”
Making Middle-earth
Weber had worked with Payne and McKay at Bad Robot Productions as head of its film department. While she grew up reading Tolkien and had held onto her collection of his books through every house move over the years, she needed a small bit of convincing to join them on their journey.
“The short version is they convinced me to run away and join the fellowship,” she says, laughing.
“We asked Lindsey and she said, ‘Oh, no,’” Payne says. “And then about 24 hours later she’s like, ‘OK, I’m thinking about it.’”
It was, Weber says, a project too exciting to pass up.
“As a fan, I wanted to see it, and I started thinking about how much fun it would be to make this thing,” she says.
“I believe what you said – having heard what we wanted to do – was there are hundreds of thousands of decisions that now need to be made, and every single one of them we have to get right,” Payne says.
“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” is a massive production, one of – if not the – most expensive TV series ever made.
Its first two episodes establish a sweeping backdrop, mostly filmed in New Zealand and Wales, that includes the cities where humans, elves and dwarfs live along with the natural grandeur of land and sea.
This Middle-earth is diverse. Where “Lord of the Rings” featured young male Hobbits, the new show spotlights two young female Harfoots. This Third Age of Middle-earth features more humans, elves, and dwarfs of color, too.
McKay says that was largely a function of the vast canvas – 50 hours over five seasons – which allowed them to go more deeply into the cultures of Tolkien’s universe.
“We never approached casting or writing in a stunt way of trying to make a statement,” he says.
“I think the question was always, ‘What feels like Middle-earth?’” Weber says. “And friendships, love stories, these things feel inherently Tolkien.”
As a producer, Weber says casting kept her awake at night.
“Oh my gosh, how are we going to find all of these people across all these worlds?” she says, recalling how she worried in the dark, sleepless hours. “We saw thousands and thousands of people and somehow managed to assemble this group you’ll meet in season one.
“It just seems impossible, all of the sorts of miracles it took to complete this production.”
With great power
In July, San Diego Comic-Con served as a sort of coming out party for “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” Payne, McKay and Weber, and a large part of the cast, filled Hall H for a preview of the series hosted by talk show host Stephen Colbert, a self-described Tolkien super fan.
“It was really, really fun,” Payne says of finally getting to show a little of what’s to come. “Storytelling is a thing that humans have been doing for thousands of years. We’ve been working very hard on the story, but now we’re getting to share it around the fire with people, and see what this means to people.
“Especially in this time of our world’s history,” he says. “There are a lot of challenges out there right now, and a lot of people are hurting for a lot of different reasons.
“And Middle-earth has a unique ability to find people in their pain, and to bring them a kind of hope and a kind of light that is really unique in the world of entertainment. It almost goes beyond entertainment and comes into a real spiritual experience.”
It’s a project, McKay and Payne say, for which they feel a great responsibility.
“We consider ourselves to be the stewards of Tolkien,” Payne says. “Trying to bring it from one medium to another medium is a joyful thing. And seeing it start to touch people, and to see those reactions, is immensely gratifying.”
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Just a thought. Even just paving over less of them might be wise.
At the far west end of Houston along the Katy Freeway, where the concrete city gives way to bigger sky and taller grass, signs advertising new master-planned communities greet you before anything else, pointing left and right to new neighborhoods going up where prairie used to be.
While Harris County officials say the new development is not happening in the floodplain — since it is built atop mounds of fill — and will not increase flood risk downstream because of drainage requirements, such as detention ponds, the fact remains that development covers the prairie sponge with concrete.
Prairies serve as natural flood mitigation, absorbing more water than other types of land, retaining water in their natural depressions and slowing down the flow with their tall grasses.
The Houston region used to be covered in that type of vegetation, back when the state’s coastal prairie was 9 million acres of grass and wetlands. Less than 1 percent of coastal prairie remains in Texas, much of it in the Katy prairie — an area difficult to define these days since it continues to shrink, but in the 1990s was roughly bounded by the Brazos River, U.S. 290, Highway 6 and Interstate 10.
After Hurricane Harvey, then-Harris County Judge Ed Emmett took a strong position on the prairie in an opinion piece published in the Houston Chronicle.
“Officials at all levels should commit to preserving the Katy Prairie as a national or state park or nature preserve,” Emmett wrote. “That single act might do more to protect our community than any other. It will not only reduce future flooding, it will send a clear signal that we have a new attitude — that we recognize the value of maximizing natural green space and we understand the importance of allowing waterways to function without interference.”
That has not happened.
In the five years since Harvey, thousands of new homes have been built on the prairie and former rice farms above the Addicks and Barker reservoirs.
The reservoirs operated as intended in Harvey, but homes upstream and downstream of Addicks flooded anyway, prompting lawsuits that still are being litigated. The flooded homes were not a surprise to those who predicted development within the reservoir and upstream of it — combined with extreme rainfall — would lead to disaster.
Today’s new development continues a trend that has been underway for decades.
Between 2010 and 2020, nearly 100,000 people moved into the Harris County portion of the Addicks Reservoir watershed — a 138-square-mile area that drains into the reservoir — increasing the population there from 295,694 to 390,402, according to the Harris County Flood Control District.
In the Katy prairie area, from 2001 to 2019, 60,404 acres changed from having no pavement to some amount of development.
You can read the rest, there are lots of pictures from Harvey and earlier times to help you visualize it all. Harris County took some small steps towards discouraging development in flood plains, but as long as the county is growing and builders are looking for new tracts of land on which to build, this is what we’re gonna get. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106709 | 2022-08-29T21:42:47Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106709 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Chip Kelly was asked by reporters last Friday about why some players were wearing orange jerseys at practice. He jokingly gave a technical response that perhaps belied the larger point: UCLA football is finally back.
“We’re playing Bowling Green in a week,” Kelly said. “We start next Saturday, Sept. 3. We’re going to play a football game. It’s supposed to be at the Rose Bowl, from what I understand.”
Indeed, a season featuring perhaps the highest expectations in the Kelly era begins Saturday with a matinee at the Rose Bowl against Bowling Green – the first of three consecutive nonconference games.
UCLA will then play Alabama State and South Alabama the following two weeks. If all goes to plan, the Bruins will travel to Colorado on Sept. 24 with a 3-0 record and brimming with confidence after three blowout wins.
In a coach’s world, though, it’s still one week at a time.
“Every week, you have to be prepared for whoever you’re playing,” Kelly said.
Bowling Green will be the first team from the Mid-American Conference to play in the Rose Bowl, and it will be the first matchup between UCLA and the 15,000-student university that is located 15 miles south of Toledo, Ohio.
For Bowling Green head coach Scot Loeffler, the trip out west will be a “great opportunity to play a very good football team in an unbelievable venue.” Loeffler grew up throwing the football around on New Year’s Day, imagining that he was playing in the Rose Bowl Game.
“It gives me goosebumps,” Loeffler said. “The hair stands on your neck, on your arms. It’s an unbelievable venue. Always has been, always will. I think it’s my favorite bowl game, hands down.”
Bowling Green hasn’t had a winning season in six years, going 4-8 last year and 2-6 in conference play. The Falcons do have an experienced quarterback, though, with redshirt senior and Newport Beach native Matt McDonald entering his third season as the starter.
McDonald recorded 2,555 passing yards and 13 touchdowns last season. He started at Mission Viejo High School and spent his first two seasons at Boston College before transferring to Bowling Green ahead of the 2020 season. McDonald’s father, Paul McDonald, played in the Rose Bowl as a quarterback at USC in the late 1970s, helping the Trojans capture a share of the national championship in 1978.
Kelly said Bowling Green seems like a pass-first offense and praised McDonald for his ability to create, adjust at the line of scrimmage and make plays on the run.
“It seems like he’s a sharp, really well-coached kid,” Kelly said. “He also makes a lot of plays off-script, so when the rush gets home, he can stay alive.”
Bowling Green averaged 102.3 rushing yards per game last season, which was last in the MAC. That could mean a good opening-game tuneup for a UCLA defense that defended well against the run last season but struggled against the pass. UCLA gave up 260.2 passing yards per game last season, last in the Pac-12.
Bowling Green’s signature win last season was a 14-10 road victory at Minnesota, a nine-win team that finished the year with a bowl win. The upset of a Big Ten opponent has the attention of future Big Ten member UCLA, with the coaching staff showing players film from that game.
“They play hard when you watch them on tape, so we’re very aware,” Kelly said. “Especially when you watch what they did to Minnesota, at Minnesota last year. They were really physical in that football game, so it’s a good football team.”
The Falcons also return nine starters on a defense that led the MAC in passing defense last year.
Bowling Green is much more experienced this year, according to Loeffler. Last year, it fielded one of the youngest rosters in the country and the coach said it cost them. Loeffler claimed his team could have won seven games last year, but gave away wins due to inexperience.
“I hope to goodness we can see us finish games,” Loeffler said. “We were inconsistent. We could beat anyone in the country and we could lose to anyone in the country, and that was evident.”
Last year, Bowling Green opened the season with a 38-6 loss at Tennessee, with a roster full of teenagers.
This time, while the Rose Bowl is a different environment from Bowling Green’s 24,000-seat Doyt L. Perry Stadium, the coach doesn’t see the moment being too big.
“I think this team is much more mature,” Loeffler said. “I don’t think a stadium or a crowd … is going to phase them whatsoever. They’ve been there. They’ve done it.”
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