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This condition was a head-scratcher for doctors.
A man in Turkey stunned medical teams when his head randomly began swelling to a concerning degree after spending time on the beach in the city of Zonguldak on Aug. 23, CEN reported.
On the third day, Caner Arik, 33 — an Istanbul call-center worker on vacation by the Black Sea in the country’s northern region — spotted the swelling and distortion of his facial features and rushed to seek medical attention.
His scalp was suffering from an extremely rare condition — one rarely seen beyond a person’s feet or hands — called heat edema, according to doctors at Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University Health Application and Research Centre.
“We have never encountered such a case before,” said Emergency Medicine Specialist Dr. Abdullah Cuneyt Hocagil. “After excluding the causes of localized edema in the body, we decided that the swelling on the forehead of the patient was a ‘heat edema’ . . . we started treatment for this.”
In standard cases, heat edemas usually come from a buildup of fluids into the hands and legs by way of downward gravity. They are caused by expanded blood vessels brought on by high temperatures, according to the University of Michigan.
A hot day at the beach — at a time Dr. Hocagil said the nation was experiencing severe humidity — serves as a shining example of the perfect conditions to manifest heat edema.
The doctor also came up with a rational explanation as to why Arik contracted the heat edema.
“This happened when our patient was lying by the sea, while he was wearing a hat that would prevent circulation,” Dr. Hocagil said. “That’s why it’s an interesting case . . . We will publish this situation as a rare heat-induced skin edema on the scalp at an international congress.”
Now Arik is recovering at home and doctors believe his symptoms will be passing soon. He granted medical workers permission to conduct a scientific study on his heat edema. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/man-develops-swollen-head-after-day-at-the-beach-stuns-docs/ | 2022-08-30T16:51:11Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/man-develops-swollen-head-after-day-at-the-beach-stuns-docs/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
There’s more to the dazzling Nike look that Serena Williams sported at the U.S. Open than meets the eye.
During her first-round win Monday against Danka Kovinic of Montenegro, Williams — who is set to retire from the sport following this year’s tournament — hit the court at Arthur Ashe Stadium in a figure skater-inspired ensemble that boasted plenty of sparkles, as well as diamond-encrusted sneakers, both of which included unique details.
For instance, Williams’ embellished bodice and tutu skirt were “inspired by the night sky above center court” in Queens, according to Nike’s Instagram page. Further, the six-layer skirt is a nod to the number of U.S. Open titles the 40-year-old athlete has won over the years.
As for Williams’ custom NikeCourt Flare 2s, the sneakers included a diamond-encrusted Swoosh, in addition to her initials that are featured on the medial side, per a Nike press release. Elsewhere, “the solid gold deubrés on the laces feature 400 hand-set diamonds in black ceramic created in collaboration” with her namesake jewelry collection, Serena William Jewelry. The shoes also sported the special messages of “queen” and “mama.”
Williams, who shares 4-year-old daughter Olympia with husband Alexis Ohanian, kept her dreams of chasing a 24th Grand Slam title alive on Monday evening after defeating Kovinic, 6-3, 6-3. Once the match concluded, Williams opened up about her post-retirement plans, sans the usage of the actual word.
“I called it an evolution,” she said. “I have my VC company, Serena Ventures, we invest in a lot of people. I really want to spend more time at home and work on my spiritual life. It’s like Serena 2.0. It’s still gonna be crazy and intense.”
Williams first announced her decision to step away from the game in a personal essay written as part of Vogue’s September 2022 issue.
“I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me,” Williams wrote.
“A few years ago I quietly started Serena Ventures, a venture capital firm. Soon after that, I started a family. I want to grow that family.”
Williams’ U.S. Open journey will continue Wednesday when she faces No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit of Estonia. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/serena-williams-2022-us-open-outfit-boasted-heartfelt-messages/ | 2022-08-30T16:51:43Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/serena-williams-2022-us-open-outfit-boasted-heartfelt-messages/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Little Mermaid isn’t the only sea dweller that wants to “be where the people are.”
The record-setting shark sightings and attacks of 2022 — around New York and other East Coast states — may not be a coincidence or viral myth: Contrary to popular belief, these oceanic predators really do frequent waters near crowded urban areas, according to a scary new study by the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science in Florida.
“We were surprised to find that the sharks we tracked spent so much time near the lights and sounds of the busy city — often close to shore — no matter the time of day,” said Neil Hammerschlag, the UM shark research and conservation program director who helmed the shocking research published in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series.
“We really thought they would, because studies of big land predators have found that wolves and bears and kind of the big land carnivores tend to avoid being around big cities,” he told Reuters. “[But] that’s not at all what we found with the sharks.”
Hammerschlag wanted to see if similar to these terrestrial carnivores, sharks steered clear of densely populated areas amid increasing urbanization worldwide.
To find out if this was the case, scientists monitored shark movement using a method called passive acoustic telemetry, according to a University of Miami press statement. Specifically, the scientists outfitted three different species of shark — bull, nurse and great hammerhead — with transmitters that emit ultrasonic sounds.
These were then linked to subaquatic “listening stations” off the coast of Miami and the Florida Keys, which gathered data regarding the sharks’ activity.
“When a shark swims within a few hundred feet of one of those listening stations, it can detect that transmitter, hears it, and will record that … that shark swam by that location,” Hammerschlag said. Researchers found that sharks were “spending quite a lot of time close to what we call like urban areas.”
“These sharks were cruising up and down the coastline in areas that, you know, there are people that bathe in the ocean,” the conservation crusader elaborated. “And we saw that, you know, even some aerial drone footage we saw of people out, you know, on Miami Beach and, unknown to them, there were sharks swimming around them, which is pretty crazy.”
It’s unclear why sharks prefer hanging out by metropolises, but scientists speculate that they become acclimated to urban sights and sounds, Reuters reported. Another theory is that these aquatic city slickers are attracted by land-based activities such as anglers discarding fish carcasses.
In light of these findings, the idea of going to a city beach might seem like “ringing a dinner bell” a la “Jaws.” However, Hammerschlag says that this discovery should actually reassure the public given the comparatively low numbers of attacks.
“Although this might make you a bit nervous, to me it just proves the point that sharks, you know, really don’t want to bite people, and that, in fact, sharks really tolerate people and tend to avoid them,” the shark-lover insisted. “But it just shows that just humans are not on the menu when it comes to sharks.”
In fact, this habituation to human hubs is “probably worse for the sharks than it is for us,” according to Hammerschlag.
“By spending so much time close to shore, sharks are at risk of exposure to toxic pollutants as well as fishing, which could impact their health and survival,” the scientist explained in the U of Miami statement.
Nonetheless, the findings coincide with a rash of attacks and sightings near population centers along the Eastern seaboard.
Just last week, two people were chomped on in the waters off Myrtle Beach, South Carolina — with one of the victims requiring hundreds of stitches after the vicious attack.
Meanwhile, New York waters have seen a major spike in shark bites, including six incidents off Long Island in July alone. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/sharks-frequent-waters-near-crowded-city-beaches-study/ | 2022-08-30T16:51:49Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/sharks-frequent-waters-near-crowded-city-beaches-study/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The state of Mississippi on Tuesday was scrambling to bring a long-neglected water treatment plant in its capital city back on line a day after it broke down, leaving about 180,000 residents without potable running water, possibly for days.
Gov. Tate Reeves on Monday evening declared a state of emergency for Jackson, with 150,000 residents, and surrounding communities where 30,000 more people live, warning residents not to drink the water.
“Until it is fixed, it means we do not have reliable running water at scale. It means the city cannot produce enough water to fight fires, to reliably flush toilets, and to meet other critical needs,” Reeves said, referring to the treatment plant.
Jackson, whose residents are more than 80% black or African American, according to US Census data, was already on a boil-water alert for a month.
Jeff Good, 58, owns a bakery, a pizza parlor and an Italian restaurant in Jackson. All three establishments were closed on Tuesday because of a lack of water pressure.
He had to tell his 210 employees to stay home, and in the restaurant business, he said, that means they don’t get paid.
“Their hours are canceled,” he said. “It’s a struggle and extremely stressful.”
The governor, a Republican, said state officials on Tuesday were to establish an incident command center at the O.B. Curtis Water Plant, which had been operating with smaller backup pumps after the facility’s main pumps were severely damaged.
Reeves said he learned on Friday that it was only a matter of time before the plant would fail to produce running water after years of poor operations and maintenance.
“Unfortunately, that failure appears to have begun,” he said, noting that state officials were working to fix the plant.
The state’s emergency management agency was in charge of distribution of bottled drinking water and tanker trucks for other water needs, he said, calling the operation a “massively complicated logistical task.”
Jackson Public Schools were closed on Tuesday as classes were moved online.
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, a Democrat, declared a water system emergency on Monday, saying the issue was caused by complications from the recent Pearl River flooding.
The floods created complications at the water treatment plant, which sits next to a reservoir that drains into the river just north of town, the city said in a statement. The water shortage was likely to last the next couple of days, it said.
In addition to the O.B. Curtis plant, which treats 50 million gallons (227,300 cubic meters) per day, the city operates the Fewell plant, whose normal production of 20 million was increased to 30 million gallons due to the situation.
The current crisis follows several episodes of disruption to the city’s water supply in recent years. In February, a pair of winter storms caused most residents in Jackson to briefly lose running water.
In 2016, customers were told of high lead levels in the city’s water supply caused by recurring faulty water treatment techniques. A year ago, the US Environmental Protection Agency issued an emergency order saying the water supply could contain E. coli, according to Mississippi Today. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/thousands-left-without-water-after-mississippi-water-plant-fails/ | 2022-08-30T16:51:56Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/thousands-left-without-water-after-mississippi-water-plant-fails/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ECB's Nagel's on the wires with some hawkish commentary:
- ECB must act decisively to preserve credibility, inflation won't return to target on its own
- ECB should not delay rate hikes out of fear of a recession
- Frontloading rate hikes reduces the risk of a painful downturn
- Larger rate hike reduces the risk of expectations getting the anchored; they are anchored for now
- Terminal rate is still unclear | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/ecbs-nagel-ecb-must-act-decisively-to-preserve-credibility-20220830/ | 2022-08-30T16:55:03Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/ecbs-nagel-ecb-must-act-decisively-to-preserve-credibility-20220830/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ECBs Stournaras:
- Will see peak of inflation this year
- Inflation to gradually decline 2023
- Risks to growth tilted to the downside
Meanwhile the EURUSD is continuing its rebound off of the 100 hour moving average bounce (US and day lows near 0.9981).
The price just reached 1.00346 which took the price above last Thursday's high price at 1.00328 briefly. If the pair is to continue its run to the upside getting above the 38.2% retracement of the move down from the August high at 1.00782 would be needed.
Nevertheless holding the 100 hour moving average keeps the buyers in play in the door open for further upside potential. | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/ecbs-stournaras-will-see-peak-of-inflation-this-year-20220830/ | 2022-08-30T16:55:09Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/ecbs-stournaras-will-see-peak-of-inflation-this-year-20220830/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ahead of the debut of its official loyalty program coming in 2023, Virgin Voyages has unveiled the details of a new perks program for 2022.
Rewards that guests booked to sail onboard the cruise brand can get include two exclusive perks and several rewards that will help sailors achieve elite status in the new 2023 loyalty program.
Virgin Voyages’ The Sailing Club Unveiled
In 2023, Virgin Voyages will launch its official loyalty program. Ahead of the launch, the Richard Branson-owned cruise line has released details on several perks available to guests this year. These perks, and previous onboard purchases, will help guests propel themselves to elite status in 2023.
Nirmal Saverimuttu, President and Chief Experience Officer: “This brand was built on innovation, so we’re taking a truly unique approach and developing a program that will give Sailors a taste of what’s to come while rewarding those who’ve supported the brand all along.”
Virgin Voyages is looking to reward guests that have been sailing onboard the two lady-ships, Scarlet Lady and Valiant Lady, since the cruise line started operations in 2021:
“I’ve met so many incredible Sailors – many who’ve voyaged with us more than ten times since we’ve launched – and this new program is a thank you for their commitment. We’d also love their help in shaping the future and are seeking their ideas to create a game-changing loyalty program they’ll fall in love with,” Saverimuttu continued.
Two Perks to Launch This Year
Virgin Voyages will offer two different perks in the coming months, aimed at helping guests achieve a higher status once the official loyalty program launches next year.
The first one, ‘Deep Blue Extras,’ will give guests that book a massive amount of extras once they set foot onboard, elevating them to VIPs. Included is one free Shake for Champagne.
When the Virgin Voyages Sailor App is shaken, a secret Virgin Voyages Champagne button is revealed. With just one press, a bottle of Champagne will be delivered to the guest.
Other extras include anytime boarding, premium Wifi when available, access to exclusive cocktail parties, and laundry service. Deep Blue Extras are available for all qualifying Sailors that sail from September through December 2022.
The second perk is the Red Hot Booking Bonus Months. Running between August 30 and November 15, 2022, any booking made in this period will qualify guests for special onboard spending perks and chances to win extraordinary experiences across the Virgin family.
This includes, for example, a trip to Ulusaba, Richard Branson’s private game reserve in South Africa. Guests will also receive an additional $200 in onboard credit.
Rewarding Past Guests
As a thank you to trailblazing guests who were the first to sail onboard Scarlet Lady and Valiant Lady, the cruise line is also introducing Tokens. These Tokens track all qualifying spending onboard to ensure Sailors are positioned for benefits in 2023.
All money spent with Virgin Voyages since the first cruise will be counted and tallied as Tokens and will fast-track guests to the highest tiers possible, unlocking even more perks in the next year.
Depending on how many times guests sailed, and even enrollment in other cruise and select airline travel rewards programs will designate guests to one of three participation tiers, each with even more perks.
Those who sailed in 2021 with Virgin are called Sea-Blazers. Amongst other perks, they will receive a $125 Bar Tab Bonus for life. Anyone who has sailed with Virgin Voyages twice in 2022 is a Sea-Rover. They will earn a $100 Bar Tab Bonus for two years.
Read Also: Loyalty Programs – Should You Stay Loyal to One Cruise Line?
First-time sailors who are enrolled in Virgin Atlantic Flying Club and Virgin Red in the US, as well as Capital One cardholders, will be matched in their status by Virgin. They will also receive a $100 Bar Tab Bonus valid for two years.
Nirmal Saverimuttu: “We are thrilled to introduce The Sailing Club and offer our loyal Sea-Blazers and Sea-Rovers our 2022 Perks Program as a thank you for being our biggest fans. We look forward to welcoming our future Match & Sea More Sailors to experience setting sail the Virgin Way.
Virgin Voyages is currently operating two ships. Scarlet Lady operates from PortMiami on cruises to the Bahamas and eastern and western Caribbean. Valiant Lady sails from Barcelona on seven-night cruises around the Mediterranean. | https://www.cruisehive.com/virgin-voyages-unveils-new-perks-program-for-2022/80082 | 2022-08-30T17:00:10Z | cruisehive.com | control | https://www.cruisehive.com/virgin-voyages-unveils-new-perks-program-for-2022/80082 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GUC launching outage text notification system
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Greenville Utilities is preparing to launch a text notification system that will inform customers about power outages around the clock.
According to the company, the messages will include an initial alert soon after the system indicates an outage that affects the customer, a link to the outage map and estimated restoration time, a follow-up alert when crews have arrived to the affected service area, and a final message indicating that power has been restored.
Customers who have included their cell phone number on their GUC account will be automatically enrolled in the system and can easily opt out.
The messages will not ask for personal information, according to GUC.
The service will begin in early September.
GUC is currently asking all customers to make sure their cell number is listed on their account by going to its website and updating the information in their User Profile. Customers can also used the online chat on GUC’s website or call 252-752-7166 during regular business hours to updated their contact information.
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Monroe girl, 14, electrocuted by downed wire, remembered as `ray of sunshine'
Monday night's storm turned deadly when a 14-year-old Monroe girl was fatally electrocuted by a downed power line in her backyard.
The victim has been identified as Elizabeth Jacobsen, who lived in the 1400 block of Peters Street, where the accident occurred. Monroe Police reported that she was walking with a friend in the backyard of her residence when they thought they smelled a bonfire. Elizabeth reportedly reached for what she believed was a stick, but it was actually the downed electrical line that remained charged.
Earlier report:14-year-old fatally electrocuted in Monroe in aftermath of thunderstorm
Monroe Public Safety officers and firefighters, as well as personnel from Monroe County Ambulance, responded to the scene around 7:41 p.m. They discovered Elizabeth was still in contact with the energized electrical line. She had succumbed to her injuries.
"She was a very sweet little girl and she was full of life," said The Rev. Heather Boone, a family friend and pastor of Oaks of Righteousness. "This is just a terrible tragedy and my heart breaks for the family and this community. She will be missed."
Monroe Public Schools interim Superintendent Andrew Shaw issued a statement "with great sadness" that the the loss of a member of the district was tragic. He encouraged parents to discuss with their children feelings they might be experiencing as part of the healing process.
"Our hearts are with her family and all who knew and loved Elizabeth," Shaw wrote. "There are no words to express the loss of this sweet girl who had her whole life ahead of her."
He stated that Elizabeth would have been a freshman at Monroe High School this year after completing eighth grade at Monroe Middle School "where she touched classmates and staff with her kindheart and bright smile."
He added that she will be dearly remembered by teachers and staff at Raisinville and Custer where she attended elementary school. The district will provide support to students and staff with social-emotional team members present at the middle school today to address student questions and needs for support. Counselors and social workers are available to any students or staff wishing to speak with someone at school.
Former MPS superintendent Julie Everly remembered Elizabeth as a ray of sunshine.
"For many, many years Elizabeth has been a ray of sunshine in our school and local community," Everly said. "She was so excited to finally be a teenager. Elizabeth had a unique instinct to know when someone needed a smile, a hug or friendship. She never hesitated to extend herself to someone in need whether she knew them or not. The loss of Elizabeth leaves us with heavy hearts as we remember what an inspiration she was to all in the school and Monroe community."
DTE reported that more than 260,000 customers remained without power Tuesday due to the severe storms and 70 mph winds that swept through Michigan. Officials crews were securing the more than 3,300 downed power lines. They said they expect to restore 80% of customers impacted by this storm by end of day Thursday.
DTE also requested anyone to report downed power lines or outages.
"Please be safe and remember to stay at least 20 feet from any downed power lines — assume they are live and dangerous," DTE said.
At the Jacobsen residence on Peters Street, DTE crews were on the scene to examine the back yard where the accident occurred. Elizabeth's step-sister, Elizabeth Chalupka, created a GoFundMe page to help raise donations.
"We were a little over three years apart in age...and she was the sweetest, most kind-hearted soul I ever met," Elizabeth wrote. "She loved everyone and had the world's biggest heart...This is an event that my family and I could have never predicted being in."
Thousands of Monroe County residences, mostly in the northern sections, remained without power Tuesday. It appeared most of the outages were north of the River Raisin in DTE territory with the exception of a large area in Monroe Township west of Telegraph Road and north of Dunbar Road. That area includes Monroe High School and the neighborhood known as Patterson Gardens, affecting between 1,500 and 2,500 customers in that area alone.
The storm apparently did most of its damage in northern Monroe County with the largest areas losing power in Carleton, Milan and Huron Township.
The Consumers Energy outage map for Monroe County showed only a smattering of outages, mostly in Bedford Township.
Staff member Blake Bacho assisted on this report. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/08/30/elizabeth-jacobsen-remembered-as-ray-of-sunshine/65463596007/ | 2022-08-30T17:04:11Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/08/30/elizabeth-jacobsen-remembered-as-ray-of-sunshine/65463596007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
North Stafford High School, affectionately known as North Nation, started the school year with a new principal after saying goodbye to Daniel Hornick, who led the Wolverines for the past five years.
Dashan Turner was officially announced and welcomed as the new principal for North Stafford at a Stafford County School Board meeting in mid-July.
“This is a happy return to school leadership for Dr. Turner,” said Stafford County Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Taylor. Turner most recently worked for Arlington County Public Schools, where he was the assistant superintendent for human resources.
He was previously the principal of Washington & Lee High School and Washington District Elementary School, both in Westmoreland County. Taylor said Turner helped both schools achieve full accreditation after a long hiatus of not being fully accredited.
Before that, Turner was superintendent for Colonial Beach Public Schools and director of administrative services for King George County Public Schools.
“My family and I are very excited to join the North Nation family,” Turner said in a statement. “I look forward to working with the school community, cultivating an atmosphere that is conducive to learning for all of our students and sharing the North Nation pride.”
At the School Board meeting, Turner spoke briefly as he prepared to take on his new role. He said he looks forward to being a part of the school.
“I’d like to thank Dr. Taylor and the School Board for the opportunity to work in such a wonderful school,” Turner said.
He’ll have big shoes to fill at North Stafford as he settles in to lead the school.
Hornick left North Stafford for a new job as superintendent of Orange County Public Schools. He has been an educator for 17 years, beginning as a social studies teacher, coach and mentor before taking on assistant principal and principal roles in Stafford County.
A strong proponent of career and technical education and training, Hornick insisted on and strived for a positive culture and climate, and he encouraged his students to pursue multiple pathways for excellence upon graduation, according to Taylor.
“Orange County is gaining a student-focused leader that will affect incredible change in his new role,” Taylor said of Hornick. “We are definitely losing an asset, and we wish him well in this well-deserved new position.”
Hornick said he was humbled and truly grateful for the new opportunity. He thanked his “exceptional” family at North Nation for their support – staff, students and families alike.
But Turner is up for the task at hand.
In his most recent roles as principal, he oversaw improvements in student achievement including with special-needs students and English-language learners, according to Taylor.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from Liberty University and a master’s degree in educational leadership from American Intercontinental University as well as a doctorate from North Central University.
Tracy Bell is a freelance writer who lives in Stafford County. | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/meet-dashan-turner-north-stafford-high-school-s-new-principal/article_d44880e2-286d-11ed-8027-1baa96b35770.html | 2022-08-30T17:08:00Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/meet-dashan-turner-north-stafford-high-school-s-new-principal/article_d44880e2-286d-11ed-8027-1baa96b35770.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL
COLGAN 3, PATRIOT 0: The host Sharks won Monday’s non-district match 25-17, 25-17, 25-16.
Colgan was led offensively by Aubrey Hatch with 13 kills, Brielle Kemavor with 7 kills and 2 blocks and Grace Smith with 5 kills. Paula Sigurani led the defense with 6 digs and 3 aces while Alexis Scipione conducted the offense with 24 assists. Colgan is now 1-0 and heads to Potomac on Wednesday.
SAMPAH ENTERS TRANSFER PORTAL
Woodbridge High School Antoine Sampah will continue his college football career at a new school.
LSU announced Monday in a press release that Sampah has entered the transfer portal.
“Antoine has worked hard to get healthy and he’s been medically cleared to continue his football career," LSU head coach Brian Kelly said, via the press release. "We wish him well in his return to football.”
In late July, LSU said Sampah had left LSU’s football team for medical reasons.
In two seasons, Sampah played in six games, including two in 2021. He recorded no statistics either season.
The linebacker arrived at LSU as the No. 1 player in Virginia for the class of 2020 by Rivals and the No. 3 player by 247Sports.com. | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/prince_william/local-briefs-colgan-volleyball-wins-its-opener-antoine-sampah-enters-transfer-portal/article_c9026766-285e-11ed-8038-8f9a13632b1d.html | 2022-08-30T17:08:07Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/prince_william/local-briefs-colgan-volleyball-wins-its-opener-antoine-sampah-enters-transfer-portal/article_c9026766-285e-11ed-8038-8f9a13632b1d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Unvaccinated NBA players, staff must test weekly for COVID
Published: Aug. 30, 2022 at 12:39 PM EDT|Updated: 31 minutes ago
(AP) - Unvaccinated NBA players and team personnel must submit to weekly COVID-19 testing this season.
The league told its clubs of that plan in a memo Tuesday.
There will be certain exceptions to that mandate. That includes when the unvaccinated person is considered to have been “recently recovered” from COVID-19.
But for all others, testing will not be required except when “directed by their team physician or a league physician or government authority.”
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Chris Rock has had enough of awards shows. Months after getting slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars, Rock revealed that he declined the Academy’s invitation to host next year’s Oscar ceremony.
According to The Arizona Republic, Rock discussed turning down the high-profile gig during a comedy set at the Arizona Financial Theatre in downtown Phoenix. The sold-out crowd urged Rock to discuss the infamous Oscar slap, with one fan reportedly screaming, “talk about it,” while Rock was onstage. Rock took the note and proceeded to compare Smith to Muhammad Ali, the legendary boxer Smith played in the 2001 biopic Ali; Smith received his first Oscar nomination for the role.
“He’s bigger than me,” Rock said. “The state of Nevada would not sanction a fight between me and Will Smith.”
Rock reportedly joked that hosting the Oscars would be like returning to the scene of a crime. During the bit, Rock also referenced the infamous O.J. Simpson trial, joking that hosting the Oscars for him would be akin to Simpson asking Nicole Brown Simpson “to go back to the restaurant.” The Arizona Republic said the Academy did not respond when asked to confirm that Rock was asked to host the 2023 Oscars ceremony.
Rock has hosted the Oscars twice previously, in 2005 and 2016. Deadline reported in June that Rock was also asked to host the 2022 Primetime Emmys, but declined. Rock has reportedly “moved on” from the slap, though he’s been joking about it in recent stand-up sets, including with Dave Chappelle. “I’m fine. I’m all right,” Rock said during Chappelle’s Hollywood Bowl show at the Netflix Is a Joke festival in May.
Smith, who went on to win the best actor Oscar for King Richard, has been banned from attending the Oscars for 10 years and publicly resigned from the Academy in April. In July, Smith issued an apology to Rock in a YouTube video. After explaining why he didn’t apologize to Rock during his Oscar acceptance speech, Smith said, “Chris, I apologize to you. My behavior was unacceptable. And I’m here whenever you’re ready to talk.” As of earlier this month, Rock had reportedly yet to reach out to Smith. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/chris-rock-says-he-turned-down-an-offer-to-host-the-2023-oscars | 2022-08-30T17:13:07Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/chris-rock-says-he-turned-down-an-offer-to-host-the-2023-oscars | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Netflix’s Inventing Anna opens with a playful disclaimer: “This whole story is completely true. Except for all the parts that are totally made up.” Rachel Williams—a former Vanity Fair staffer who was scammed out of around $62,000 by Anna Sorokin, then known as Anna Delvey—says that acknowledgment “does nothing to protect” her from the “tidal wave of vitriolic messages” she’s received since the show’s “negative portrayal” of her. (Williams was played by Katie Lowes in the Shonda Rhimes–produced scammer series.)
Williams filed a defamation suit against Netflix on Monday in a Delaware federal court, claiming that the streamer “made a deliberate decision for dramatic purposes” to “portray her as a greedy, snobbish, disloyal, dishonest, cowardly, manipulative and opportunistic person.” The suit argues that the show, which is up for three Emmys including outstanding limited series, depicts Williams as an opportunistic hanger-on who bums off Sorokin, leaves her in Morocco, and sells her out to authorities. (Rhimes and Shondaland aren’t named as defendants in the complaint. Vanity Fair has reached out to Netflix for comment.)
The complaint notes that Williams is one of the major characters in the Delvey saga whose full name, employer, alma mater, and home neighborhood remain the same in the series as in real life. Netflix gave fictitious names and biographical details to “Sorokin’s business lawyer, her boyfriend, and the wealthy socialite and her fashion designer acolyte,” but not the character based on Williams. In a statement to Vanity Fair, Williams’s lawyer, Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, said this was a key factor in the defamation suit.
“We filed the case because Netflix not only included false facts in Inventing Anna to make Rachel appear like a horrible person, but also because they used her real name and biographical details for the character,” Rufus-Isaacs told VF. “We don’t challenge Netflix’s right to include a lying, sponging, cowardly snob in their series, but they should have given the character a fictitious name and made sure that no one thought it was Rachel. Instead, her reputation has been devastated because viewers believed that they were watching how the real Rachel behaved. The abuse she received has been truly awful. This lawsuit seeks to vindicate her reputation and to remind creatives that they cannot create hate figures and give them real people’s names.”
Williams shared her accounts of the Delvey con in an essay for Vanity Fair and, later, a book, My Friend Anna. Inventing Anna is adapted from Jessica Pressler’s New York magazine feature, which was published after Williams’s initial piece. Netflix reportedly paid Sorokin $320,000 for her life rights, as Williams had already optioned her own story to Lena Dunham at HBO. (That project is no longer in development and the story rights have been relinquished to Williams.) In a statement to Deadline, Williams’s attorney suggested that Netflix did not change biographical details about Williams because “she had chosen to play for the other team, i.e., HBO.”
In her first interview about the series since its February 11 debut, Williams told Vanity Fair that she initially had “some unease” with the Netflix series upon reading Rachel’s character description, which bills her as “a natural-born follower” and “Anna’s greatest creation.” But she had no idea the show was “going to be reckless with facts, especially when the character is given my name,” Williams told VF. “To me, it’s not making a statement but convoluting truth in a way that’s dangerous.”
Her defamation suit seeks unspecified damages and a jury trial as well as an injunction to have the alleged defamatory statements involving Williams edited out of Inventing Anna. “The show’s trying to straddle the divide between fact and fiction,” Williams previously said. “I think that’s a particularly dangerous space, more than the true-crime medium, because people sometimes believe what they see in entertainment more readily than what they see on the news.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/inventing-anna-rachel-williams-sues-netflix-for-making-her-look-horrible | 2022-08-30T17:13:13Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/inventing-anna-rachel-williams-sues-netflix-for-making-her-look-horrible | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When season 10 of The Goldbergs debuts later this month, it will be missing its patriarch. After Jeff Garlin’s exit from the hit ABC sitcom, which followed an H.R. investigation and multiple complaints of on-set misconduct, the series has opted to kill off his character.
“Well, [Garlin is] not going to be on the season, obviously,” co-showrunner Alex Barnow recently told Entertainment Weekly. Murray, his character, “will have passed, and we are sort of starting from a place of multiple months removed from his death.” Barnow said that the Goldberg family, led by Wendi McLendon-Covey, will be “very freshly” mourning the husband and father. “This is going to be a family that has not reconciled the fact that their father’s gone but has sort of moved on and has dealt with a lot of that. . .But Jeff won’t be in the series this year, and so far the stories have been largely about looking forward rather than looking back.”
The actor, who previously told Vanity Fair’s Maureen Ryan that he had “not been fired from The Goldbergs,” didn’t have creative input as to his character’s fate. “I’ve had a conversation with Jeff and he’s aware that he’s not being replaced,” Barnow said. “The truth is, I don’t know if he knows what his fate is, but I’m assuming he knows, would be the answer to that question. We haven’t had a subsequent conversation since the beginning of writing that he would have any specific clarity on that.”
When asked about allegations of misbehavior while filming, including physical and verbal conduct that reportedly made his co-workers uncomfortable, Garlin denied any wrongdoing to VF: “My opinion is, I have my process about how I’m funny, in terms of the scene and what I have to do,” he said last year. “They feel that it makes for a quote ‘unsafe’ workspace. Now, mind you, my silliness making an unsafe workspace—I don’t understand how that is. And I’m on a comedy show. I am always a kind and thoughtful person. I make mistakes, sure. But my comedy is about easing people’s pain. Why would I ever want to cause pain in anybody for a laugh? That’s bullying. That’s just uncalled for.” He is set to continue his role on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm when the show returns for its upcoming twelfth season.
Garlin initially departed The Goldbergs in the middle of shooting the show’s ninth season, creating a scenario in which his face had to be digitally superimposed on another man’s body for several scenes. He was continually paid for his appearances on the show, despite not being present on set, Variety reported. Co-showrunner Chris Bishop told EW of the tenth season, “It honestly feels like a huge reboot for us.”
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It’s hard to imagine a more majestic location than Aldo’s, the rooftop bar on the terrace of the legendary Le Sirenuse. Perched on the cliffs of the Amalfi coast, between the rolling mountains and the endless blue, Le Sirenuse is bewilderingly beautiful. John Steinbeck once summed it up perfectly: “It bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you’re there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone”. The knockout beauty, impeccable service and inexplicable charm have made it one of the most famous hotels in the world, deserving of a higher than five-star rating. Plus, it’s a convenient one hour and thirty minute drive from Naples, which, if taken by taxi, is like a private tour of the Amalfi Coast.
Like everything at Le Sirenuse, the rooms are home to sumptuous details in every single corner. Most bedrooms overlook the majolica tiled dome of Santa Maria Assunta and the endless blue of the sea beyond, but the interiors are almost as magical. Local antiques and wacky artefacts adorn all rooms—from family heirlooms to recent commissions from artists—and splendid potted banana trees are a vivid contrast to the white walls. Upon arriving back to your room after dinner, you’ll find a handwritten weather forecast (perfect for planning what to wear for those instagram pics) and chilled fresh water, plus a chocolate treat, to induce a perfectly pleasant slumber.
The phrase “breakfast of champions” rings true here. V.F. had never seen such a variety of cold meats, fresh fruits, homemade pastries and cheeses (it can almost take you through until lunch). And that’s just the buffet. From the menu, delicate avocado toast is served on fresh bread with a mini bottle of tabasco sauce, and the omelette was perfection. All this is enjoyed looking out to sea, catching up with friends made the night before or simply quietly contemplating all that beauty.
Dinner is a completely different affair. La Sponda is immaculate, romantic and extravagant in the best way. Surrounded by the sweet smell of the lavender Clematis vines, tables are awash with candles that mirror the stars above you and the entire evening is pulled off with incredible charm, thanks to effortlessly chic and polite waiters. While you’re eating beef carpaccio, truffle pasta and chocolate soufflé, a trio of musicians will serenade you with the euphonious sound of their guitar and mandolin—but with modern songs to make it a little more relevant.
The Sersale Family are known for many things, but perhaps their most famous accolade? Entertaining. If you’re lucky enough to be there when the family are staying (they have another beautiful bolthole in Rome) expect to be swiftly scooped up and involved in raucous parties or drinks that go on into the early hours. They create an atmosphere so wonderful that the next day you feel like other guests could be friends. Personal hospitality aside, Antonio and Carla Sersale have created the most wonderful hotel—a place that’s perfect to look at as well as be at, and tailored to everyone’s needs. It certainly lives up to its namesake. Like the irresistible call of a siren, it’s impossible not to get a little bit hooked on this hotel, as the regular crowd of artists, academics, actors and seasoned travellers that return year after year attest. A place one should, and simply must, return to. | https://www.vanityfair.com/london/2022/08/grand-detours-le-sirenuse | 2022-08-30T17:13:25Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/london/2022/08/grand-detours-le-sirenuse | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The key to success is to create something that people need and love, and most importantly nowadays, something that is good for the environment. That’s exactly what Negin Mirsalehi did. She built a stellar beauty brand, which is a harmonious fusion of everything she loves and cares about in one beautiful sustainable product.
V.F.:What inspired you to create the brand?
My family history of beekeeping, passing down the practices and heritage from generation to generation, and the power of bees and honey inspired me to create the brand. My father is a beekeeper and my mother was a hairdresser. We grew up using my father’s honey for a wide variety of purposes and my mum used it in her homemade hair products, which she also used on me and my sister. I once shared a photo of my dad and me in my family’s bee garden and was surprised by how many positive reactions I got—not just questions about my hair, but also those showing a genuine interest in my father’s bee garden. This motivated me to start the project I am most proud of—Gisou. It is very close to my heart as it is so closely inspired by my family and heritage.
V.F.:What are your big plans for the future?
We have a lot of exciting innovations debuting this year inspired by conversations we’ve had with our community on social media, via our Beauty Advisors online, in person and at our events. One thing that I’m very excited to share is that we have big plans for holiday this year as it’s a season that’s near and dear to our hearts at Gisou… stay tuned for exciting news to come!
V.F.:What’s your best piece of advice?
I say to anyone who wants to embark on something new or start a business: don’t be afraid. If this is really what you want, go for it! But don't underestimate it—it’s hard work, but trust the process and be inspired by your community. Maurits and I started Gisou in our living room. We had to create the packaging, branding, website and more all from scratch. Building this was a first for us, but we learned so much in the process and had a lot of fun along the way. When we launched, we invested a lot of time and energy into building the Gisou community, mainly through our pop-ups that we hosted in Paris and New York.
V.F.:How is it sustainable?
At Gisou, beekeeping has been a way of life for over eight generations. Our expert knowledge of the bees, beekeeping and the optimal way to sustainably harvest honey and propolis have infused every single product in our collection. As a part of our commitment to the planet, our mission is to connect every person to nature by inspiring bee lovers of all levels. Our efforts towards becoming a more sustainable company are to hold ourselves accountable and to never stop improving, focusing on these key pillars: evolving our bee-centred approach, raising awareness for the importance of honey bees and inspiring a new generation of beekeepers, increasing bee garden to bottle transparency and striving to make our formulations greener without compromising on function and quality.
V.F.:What are you most proud of?
Building a brand that I whole-heartedly believe in which reflects all the things Im passionate about is what I am most proud of! I love sharing my rich family history and beekeeping practices with the world and hope to inspire a new generation of beekeepers to keep this time-honoured practice alive. | https://www.vanityfair.com/london/2022/08/interview-negin-mirsalehi | 2022-08-30T17:13:31Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/london/2022/08/interview-negin-mirsalehi | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tony Ornato, the former Secret Service official whose work for former President Donald Trump has been under intense scrutiny by the January 6 committee, retired on Monday — potentially complicating one aspect of the panel’s inquiry. His exit was “long-planned,” he said in a statement, adding that he is leaving now to “pursue a career in the private sector.”
“I retired from the U.S. Secret Service after more than 25 years of faithful service to my country, including serving the past five presidents,” Ornato said in a statement to news outlets, explaining that he had been “planning this transition for more than a year.” Ornato ran Trump's security detail before joining Trump's White House staff — an unprecedented move — in 2019. He then returned to the Secret Service to run its training program.
Ornato, who has already reportedly met with the committee twice earlier this year, came under renewed attention over the summer when former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson delivered an explosive testimony about Trump’s actions on the day of the January 6 insurrection — including a secondhand account of Trump allegedly lunging at a member of his security team in an attempt to steer the vehicle he was in toward the Capitol where he'd urged supporters to go and “fight” for him. “I’m the fucking president,” Trump allegedly said. “Take me up to the Capitol now.”
Hutchinson said she heard about the incident from Ornato, the deputy chief of staff at the time, and Robert Engel, the head of Trump’s security detail. Anonymous sources told news outlets shortly afterward that Ornato “disputed” her testimony, while Trump and allies sought to cast doubt on her credibility. But members of the January 6 committee defended her: Republican Liz Cheney, the ranking member, told ABC News that investigators were “confident” in her testimony and that the panel would not “stand by and watch her character be assassinated by anonymous sources.” Some members of the committee, including Republican Adam Kinzinger, called Ornato’s own credibility into question.
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The committee — which Politico reports was skeptical of aspects of Ornato’s earlier closed-door testimony, including his claim that Trump did not know then-Vice President Mike Pence was at the Capitol — has sought an additional interview with the former deputy chief of staff, but he has apparently yet to sit down with investigators. (Anthony Guglielmi, a Secret Service spokesman, told Politico the agency has “continuously made Tony Ornato available.”) As the Intercept’s Ken Klippenstein reports, Ornato is scheduled to appear Wednesday before investigators from the Department of Homeland Security, and has indicated that he still plans to attend. But as a private citizen, investigators won’t have subpoena power over him. That could prove frustrating for investigations by the January 6 panel and the DHS inspector general, which is looking into deleted Secret Service text messages the House select committee had requested. The Secret Service only provided a single text to the DHS watchdog, who opened a criminal investigation into the matter, and says that any other texts related to the January 6 attack were permanently deleted as part of a plan to replace staffers' phones. The January 6 committee concluded its first series of public hearings on the 2021 attack last month. It has continued its investigation in the back half of the summer and is expected to hold additional hearings in the fall. | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/tony-ornato-retires-secret-service-january-6-committee | 2022-08-30T17:13:38Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/tony-ornato-retires-secret-service-january-6-committee | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Michael Jackson's two eldest children paid tribute to their late dad on what would have been his 64th birthday.
On Monday, Paris Jackson and Prince Jackson both posted photos of themselves as babies with the King of Pop on Instagram. Prince shared a carousel of photos of their family when they were just young children, writing in the caption, “Happy birthday to the greatest! Miss you more and more but I love you more and more with each day. Thank you for everything.” Michael's sister LaToya Jackson also commented on the post, “Prince he loved you guys with every once of his heart! Thanks for making him proud of you!” Paris shared a photo as well to her Instagram Stories of her late father planting a kiss on her head, writing over the shot, “hbd,” with a red heart emoji.
Paris and Prince are Michael's children from his brief marriage to Debbie Rowe in the late 90s, but the pop legend also had another son, who was formerly known as Prince Michael Jackson II or Blanket and now goes by Bigi, with a surrogate whose identity has never been disclosed. While Bigi is not on social media, he did open up a little about his father during an interview with Good Morning Britain in November of last year. While standing in a room in the Jacksons' Hayvenhurst compound decorated with photos of his late father performing over the years and a handful of his stage costumes, Bigi told the outlet, “There’s a lot of history in this house and the studio here. That’s what he was all about. That’s what each of us want to do: make things that people can enjoy and hopefully benefit their lives.”
The music legend died at 50 years old on June 25, 2009 at his home in Los Angeles, California from a cardiac arrest caused by a lethal combination of drugs administered to him by his personal doctor, Conrad Murray. In 2011, Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to four years in prison, but was released after serving less than two. And in the new documentary TMZ Investigates: Who Really Killed Michael Jackson, which premiered Monday, Murray reveals that he had no idea Michael was using 19 different fake IDs so he could go “doctor shopping” for prescriptions. “He made it look as though I was his sole physician,” he said. “If I had known that Michael was going to a dermatologist’s office or any doctor and being shot up or dripped up with opioids on a daily basis, there would be a two-step dance. One, he has a problem; two, I’ll take you to where you need to be treated—and if you fail to do that, I am out.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/michael-jackson-birthday-tribute-paris-and-prince-jackson-instagram | 2022-08-30T17:13:44Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/michael-jackson-birthday-tribute-paris-and-prince-jackson-instagram | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sylvester Stallone has responded to his estranged wife Jennifer Flavin’s divorce filing, denying her accusations that he has intentionally dissipated their joint marital assets.
The actor filed his response in Palm Beach County, Florida. According to court documents reviewed by People on Monday, he denied Flavin’s claims that he “engaged in the intentional dissipation, depletion and/or waste of marital assets which has had an adverse economic impact on the marital estate.” In addition, he opposed Flavin’s request to have “exclusive use” of their Palm Beach estate while the divorce is finalized in court. His estranged wife also requested that the court note any “conduct of each party” that might lengthen the separation process, asking it to encourage “mutual cooperation” in order to “reduce the cost” of legal fees. Stallone responded by saying that Flavin “hired counsel to represent her and agreed to pay them their legal fees.” He did not, however, oppose her request to “restore” her maiden name, agreeing that their marriage is “irretrievably broken.”
Flavin filed for divorce a couple days after Stallone was photographed covering up a tattoo of her face on his right bicep with a new tattoo of the bullmastiff Butkus, the dog from the Rocky films. However, the actor’s representative insisted that the cover-up had nothing to do with his feelings toward his wife, telling the Daily Mail, “Mr. Stallone intended to refresh the tattoo image of his wife, Jennifer, however, the results were unsatisfactory and, unfortunately, unfixable. As a result, he had to cover the original image with a tattoo of his dog from Rocky, Butkus. Mr. Stallone loves his family. The Stallones are presently filming a reality show together, which will debut on Paramount+.”
The Rocky star also refuted reports that his divorce stemmed from a disagreement over the couple’s pet rottweiler, Dwight. While admitting that they did have issues over how to care for the dog due to their bicoastal lifestyle and the fact that he was often away shooting new projects, Stallone assured TMZ that they “did not end the relationship on such a trivial argument.” He added, “We just went in different directions. I have the highest respect for Jennifer. I will always love her. She’s an amazing woman. She’s the nicest human being I’ve ever met.” He also pointed out that though he did cover up her face on his arm, he still has a big tattoo of Flavin across his back.
In an exclusive statement to People, Flavin said, “I’m sad to announce that after 25 years of marriage, I have filed for divorce from my husband, Sylvester Stallone. While we will no longer be married, I will always cherish the more-than-30-year relationship that we shared, and I know we are both committed to our beautiful daughters. I ask for privacy for our family as we amicably move forward.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/sylvester-stallone-jennifer-flavin-divorce-denies-intentional-dissipation-marital-assets | 2022-08-30T17:13:51Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/sylvester-stallone-jennifer-flavin-divorce-denies-intentional-dissipation-marital-assets | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
7 Books We Can’t Stop Talking About This Month
The autumnal equinox may still be three weeks away, but nighttime sure is falling awfully early, and the nip in the air is all but screaming the ascent of sweater weather. Besides, no shade to solar positioning, but Labor Day has long signaled the unofficial transition from summer to fall. If the seasonal shift has you longing for back-to-school shopping, might we recommend leveling up your office supplies (Brigitte Benkemoun’s artistic exploration, described below, was catalyzed by her husband purchasing a leather Hermès notebook cover) or trotting to your nearest indie bookstore and filling a tote with good reads?
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A council investigation into fly-tipping in an isolated rural area led to the discovery of a large cannabis factory in Kent. In May, Gravesham Borough Council's environmental enforcement team investigated a reported fly-tip in Batts Road, Luddesdown, where they found 30 sacks of waste containing the remains of illegal cannabis cultivation.
Investigations by the team led to a property in Chatham where it was believed the waste originated from, and details of a vehicle possibly involved in the offence. A raid was subsequently carried out at the property in Dunlin Drive, St Mary's Island, on August 24.
Officers from Kent Police gained entry to the property where around 160 cannabis plants were found growing in several rooms, while waste from the cultivation was found in the garage, awaiting possible further fly tipping. One person was arrested at the scene.
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Following the operation, Councillor Shane Mochrie-Cox, the borough council's cabinet member for community and leisure, said: "The rural areas of our borough suffer from a large number of incidents where the waste from illegal cannabis cultivation is fly-tipped. These often occur in isolated areas of natural beauty and have a serious impact on the environment and local communities as the waste dumped includes large amounts of contaminated compost, plastic and chemicals."
Cllr Mochrie-Cox added that Gravesham's environmental enforcement team attend all reports involving the fly-tipping of suspected cannabis cultivations, carry out thorough examinations of the waste recovered and work with Kent Police wherever evidence of its origin was uncovered. He said: "Fly-tipping is often linked to organised criminal gangs, none more so than where it is a by-product of large-scale illegal cannabis cultivation, which is often undertaken by multi-national organised crime groups who use properties under the guise of legitimate renters.
"Their activities often involve human trafficking and modern day slavery. The cultivations involve the use of a large amount of electricity taken illegally from the mains supply, often through dangerous wiring, and there is always the likelihood of fire and a serious risk to neighbouring properties.
"We will continue to work closely with our colleagues at Kent Police to tackle illegal drug production and the offences resulting from it." Enquiries by the borough council and Kent Police into this latest incident are continuing.
Anyone with information about illegal drug production or supply should call Kent Police on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Fly-tipping should be reported to Gravesham Borough Council's environmental enforcement team via Tipoff@gravesham.gov.uk or by calling 01474 337262.
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Following what marked an historic moment here in Kent earlier this summer, the project to release bison into the wild has now seen praise from a real Hollywood icon. Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio has been a well known climate activist for many years and has now recognised the incredible work of The Kent Wildlife Trust and The Wildwood Trust in bringing wild bison back to the UK.
On July 18, three large bison were released into the West Blean and Thorndean Wood situated between Canterbury and Herne Bay as part of the five-year long Wilder Blean project. It is hoped that through their natural processes, the bison will have a hugely positive impact on the environment around them.
Taking to Facebook, The Revenant star wrote: “European bison are the continent’s largest land animal and were extinct in the wild a century ago. They are recovering through reintroduction projects across Europe, and recently three were released into the Kent countryside in Canterbury, becoming the first wild bison to roam in Britain for thousands of years.
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“The Wilder Blean project’s mission is let the animals’ natural behavior to nourish the commercial pine forest into natural woodland, allowing for new plants, insects, and wildlife to thrive in this habitat.” Kent Wildlife Trust soon spotted the post and shared their excitement in an update of their own.
Kent Wildlife Trust responded: “How exciting to see that news of the bison release has reached Hollywood!! Thank you so much Leonardo DiCaprio for sharing information about our #WilderBlean project and for everything you're doing to raise awareness of the #climatecrisis.”
The bison are also just a short way away from the birthplace of another Hollywood icon. Pirates of the Caribbean star Orlando Bloom was born in the nearby city of Canterbury, and is known to be a friend of DiCaprio’s.
Meanwhile, another Hollywood icon has recently made headlines after showing interest in Kent’s wildlife. Fellow pirate and cinema icon Johnny Depp recently paid a visit to the Folly Wildlife Rescue in Tunbridge Wells where he was seen cuddling up to a badger. It has now been slightly more than one month since the bison were released, and the impact they have had on the area is already being felt. Kent Wildlife Trust has explained the trio are having a ‘remarkable impact’ on the landscape.
Bison Ranger Donovan Wright explains how, in just one month, they are already changing the structure of the woodland: “The bison have already had a remarkable impact. I did not expect it to be so sudden, but literally from the first day you could sense their presence in the woods. We have seen them create a network of paths opening up trails of up to a metre wide. And we are not the only ones using them, I have seen foxes, rabbits, and a slow worm sunbathing on one.
“They have healthy appetites, eating up to 35kg of vegetation a day, and with that come lots of fertilising and seed dispersal. The birds have figured out that bison droppings attract invertebrates. They have been pecking at the bison dung, feasting off insects.”
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Drivers are being warned to be aware of a number of law changes coming into force this week. From September 1, there will be a number of new rules drivers must follow, which could lead to people being fined if they infringe them.
The laws altering include some on mobile phones, speed limiters, driving into Europe and clean air zones. Motoring experts at LeaseCar.uk are raising driver awareness by advising on Highway Code changes that affect all UK motorists, Chronicle Live reports.
A spokesperson for LeaseCar.uk said: “It is really important for all drivers to keep an eye out on the changes to motoring rules this summer. No-one wants to be landed with a fine or severe driving penalty by simply not staying updated on new regulations.”
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To help prevent such a high number of fatalities, researchers have developed an Intelligent Speed Assistance system known as ISA. In spite of leaving the EU in 2020, the innovative ISA software technology was already made compulsory for all new cars in the UK as of 6 July, 2022.
A speed limiting device ensures specific speeds cannot be surpassed by moderating the vehicle’s engine power. The obligation to abide by the speed limit, however, will remain firmly under the driver’s control. As well as improving road safety for all users, ISA is playing a crucial role in the advancement of the self-drive evolution.
There is also a further tightening of laws surrounding mobile phone usage when driving. Motorists previously argued that they used their phones whilst at the wheel for ‘interactive communications’, such as scrolling through images or snapping photos.
But a driver could find themselves on the receiving end of a £200 fine and six penalty points on their driver’s licence if using a mobile phone for ‘any purpose’ - even when stationary at a red traffic light. Anyone passing their test within the past two years could even have their driver’s licence revoked and banned from driving altogether.
As of May, 2022 anyone driving an LGV, a van or cars/vans towing trailers to hire or sell goods within the EU – including Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway and Switzerland – require a standard international goods vehicle licence.
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Situated within beautifully landscaped gardens in Badgers Mount, Sevenoaks, Nesbit House offers residential, dementia and nursing care, as well as short breaks for the older community, all with a unique model of care.
Within the luxury care home you will find the homemakers - a team who create a vibrant community where residents enjoy a busy and active lifestyle with support where needed.
The homemakers not only provide the highest quality of care, but they focus on the tiny details that make each day special for every resident. From always keeping things clean and tidy, to offering support with hobbies and interests, the homemakers of Nesbit House make each day meaningful for residents.
A carer, housekeeper and companion
Nesbit House care home includes all the stunning features that you would expect from a high-quality, luxury care home, such as a wellbeing and beauty salon, an elegant café and a classic cinema. But as you walk through the doors you’ll notice the radically different way it provides personalised care for older people.
The homemakers of Nesbit House are carers, companions and housekeepers all in one person. They holistically support resident care needs just as they would in the residents’ own home, and the feedback from families has been wonderful, with many sharing how impressed they are with the new way of providing care.
One resident's family member said: “Despite the lovely facilities, I am aware this does not make a good home - it is the staff's care and attention, and Nesbit House excels at this. They have genuinely made a lot of effort to get to know my dad and his ways.”
Another daughter said: “The team work together in a holistic way to create a homely atmosphere. They encourage residents to participate in organised activities to enhance their wellbeing, but they also respect their need for quiet and privacy. Relatives of all ages are welcome and kept well informed. It is not possible to praise an individual member of staff, I would need to write a list.”
Award-winning care
The homemakers of Hamberley and Nesbit House are part of Hamberley Care Homes which was awarded Residential Care Provider of the Year this year for the second time, in recognition for its unique approach.
The judging panel congratulated the team for focusing on the resident’s experience of care above anything else. One judge said: “It is their ground breaking model of care that has been built around the homemaker role that sets them apart from the rest.”
Hamberley Care Homes believes the unique combination of homemakers, a wellbeing and lifestyle coach and an expert clinical team, working together within one of the most beautiful living environments in Sevenoaks, is the most effective way to deliver outstanding care.
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Over the past two weeks, 9 members of the 175th Wing, Maryland Air National Guard, participated in an Air Education and Training Command course at Warfield Air National Guard Base at Martin State Airport.
The Principles of Instruction course provides training to Airmen who are involved in various teaching or training programs such as traffic safety, security forces, self-aid buddy care, and more.
“We really cater this course toward non-AETC instructors and will travel to [anywhere] to provide this instruction to Airmen who will be doing any type of instructing,” said U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Giancarlo Martini, a faculty development instructor assigned to the 82nd Training Wing and lead instructor for the course. “It could be briefing a commander like our unit training managers have to do or a security forces briefing for their personnel during their S1 or S3 training, we cater our training for them.”
The course, which is taught by Mobile Training Teams out of Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas, takes two weeks and includes a block of classroom instruction followed by application of those new skills.
“The first week of the course is classroom instruction where we teach students the roles and responsibilities of an instructor, classroom management, learning styles, classroom setup, behavior management, and much more,” said Martini. “The second week of the course is where students apply the principles they learned and apply them to in-class presentations.”
During the application, the students have a 15-minute brief, an informal presentation on any topic, and a 30-minute final presentation, where they teach their students how to perform a skill and then are graded.
The Base Education and Training Management office secured this training after a late cancellation was opened by AETC on a first come, first served basis.
“We have had a lot of Airmen request this training, so I responded and said that the 175th Wing was definitely interested in holding this course,” said U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Natalie Nieves-Gonzalez, base education and training craftsman and course attendee. “It was important for us to get this training because there are a lot of [career fields] that require Airmen to do a lot of training within their squadron, so we were happy to bring the course here.”
The course is designed to give Airmen the confidence and skills to overcome public speaking fears and to help prevent using dated teaching models.
“Another main aspect of this course is we are trying to get away from the old mindset of a boring, structured class and move toward more student-centered, outside-of-the-box thinking when it comes to instruction,” said Martini. “I think the Air Force is moving in the right direction and is starting to move past the ‘death by powerpoint’ model that we’ve become accustomed to over the years.”
The Principles of Instruction course is taught at host-units across all major commands or at 982nd Training Group Field Training Detachment locations around the Air Force world-wide. Each Airmen who attends and completes this training course receives 3 credit hours toward a Community College of the Air Force degree.
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(The Hill) — Republicans hoping to seize control of the House in November are already setting their sights on what is, for many of them, a top priority next year: impeaching President Joe Biden.
A number of rank-and-file conservatives have already introduced impeachment articles in the current Congress against the president. They accuse Biden of committing “high crimes” in his approach to a range of issues touching on border enforcement, the coronavirus pandemic and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Those resolutions never had a chance of seeing the light of day, with Democrats holding a narrow control of the lower chamber. But with Republicans widely expected to win the House majority in the midterms, many of those same conservatives want to tap their new potential powers to oust a president they deem unfit. Some would like to make it a first order of business.
“I have consistently said President Biden should be impeached for intentionally opening our border and making Americans less safe,” said Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.). “Congress has a duty to hold the President accountable for this and any other failures of his Constitutional responsibilities, so a new Republican majority must be prepared to aggressively conduct oversight on day one.”
The conservative impeachment drive is reminiscent of that orchestrated by liberals four years ago, as Democrats took control of the House in 2019 under then-President Donald Trump. At the time, a small handful of vocal progressives wanted to impeach Trump, largely over accusations that he’d obstructed a Justice Department probe into Russian ties to his 2016 campaign. The idea was repeatedly rejected by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), not least out of fear that it would alienate voters in tough battleground districts.
The tide turned when a whistleblower accused Trump of pressuring a foreign power to find dirt on his political opponent — a charge that brought centrist Democrats onto the impeachment train. With moderates on board, Pelosi launched a formal impeachment inquiry in September of 2019, eight months after taking the Speaker’s gavel. Three months later, the House impeached Trump on two counts related to abusing power.
The difference between then and now is that liberals, in early 2019, were fighting a lonely battle with scant support. This year, heading into the midterms, dozens of conservatives have either endorsed Biden’s impeachment formally, or have suggested they’re ready to support it.
At least eight resolutions to impeach Biden have been offered since he took office: Three related to his handling of the migrant surge at the southern border; three targeting his management of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last year; one denouncing the eviction moratorium designed to help renters during the pandemic; and still another connected to the overseas business dealings of his son, Hunter Biden.
Those proposals will expire with the end of this Congress. But some of the sponsors are already vowing to revisit them quickly next year. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), the lead sponsor of four of the impeachment resolutions, is among them.
“She believes Joe Biden should have been impeached as soon as he was sworn in, so of course she wants it to happen as soon as possible,” Nick Dyer, a Greene spokesman, said Monday in an email.
A noisy impeachment push from the GOP’s right flank could create headaches for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), the Republican leader in line to be Speaker, and other party brass just as the 2024 presidential cycle heats up.
On the one hand, impeaching Biden could alienate moderate voters and hurt the GOP at the polls, as was the case in 1998 following the impeachment of President Clinton. Already, GOP leaders like Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.) are throwing cold water on the impeachment talk, suggesting it could damage Republicans politically in the midterms.
On the other hand, ignoring the conservatives’ impeachment entreaties might spark a revolt from a Republican base keen to avenge the Democrats’ two impeachments of Trump, who remains the most popular national figure in the GOP. McCarthy knows well the perils of angering the far right: The Freedom Caucus had nudged Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) into an early retirement in 2015, deeming him insufficiently conservative, then prevented McCarthy from replacing him.
McCarthy’s office did not respond Monday to a request for comment.
The challenge facing Republican leaders in a GOP-controlled House will be to demonstrate an aggressive posture toward the administration, to appease conservatives, without alienating moderate voters in the process.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) appears to be walking that line. Last summer, she called Biden “unfit to serve as president,” but stopped short of endorsing his impeachment.
Stefanik’s office did not respond to requests for comment.
Another strategy GOP leaders may adopt is to impeach a high-ranking member of the administration, but not the president himself. Several resolutions have been introduced to do just that, separately targeting Vice President Harris, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
McCarthy, during a visit to the southern border earlier in the year, had floated the idea of impeaching Mayorkas if he is found to be “derelict” in his job of securing the border. And the concept has plenty of support among conservatives.
“Mayorkas and Garland have purposefully made our country less safe, politicized their departments, and violated the rule of law. In some instances, they have instructed their subordinates to disobey our laws. That is unacceptable,” Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), who has endorsed a number of impeachment resolutions this year, said in an email.
“Next January I expect the House to pursue my impeachment articles against Mayorkas as well as Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s impeachment articles that I co-sponsored against Attorney General Merrick Garland,” Biggs added.
Still, conservatives like Biggs, the former head of the Freedom Caucus, also want to go straight to the top by impeaching Biden. And it remains unclear if anything less than that will appease the GOP’s restive right flank — one that’s expected to grow next year with the arrival of a number of pro-Trump conservatives vowing to take on anyone they consider to be part of Washington’s political establishment.
Some Republicans said the decision whether to endorse impeachment next year will simply hinge on events. Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), for instance, has endorsed two impeachment resolutions this cycle related to the Afghanistan withdrawal, but “has made no decisions yet on supporting impeachment articles next year with Republicans in the majority,” according to spokesman Austin Livingston.
“He will wait to see what those efforts look like, specifically how they align with Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution,” Livingston said, referring to the section outlining Congress’s impeachment powers.
But others are eager to use a GOP majority to hold Biden’s feet to the fire. And that energy doesn’t appear to be fleeting, particularly when it comes to the border crisis, which could very well remain a hot topic six months from now.
Rep. Mary Miller (R), a strong Trump supporter who recently won an Illinois primary over the more moderate Rep. Rodney Davis (R), said Biden should be removed “for purposely ignoring our immigration laws.”
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U.S. Marine Corps UH-1Y Venom and AH-1Z Viper helicopters assigned to Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 773 conduct flight operations at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, Aug. 16, 2022. HMLA-773 launched three UH-1Y Venom and two AH-1Z Viper helicopters from McGuire Air Force Base and embarked them aboard the San Antonio class dock landing ship USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19) in support of an upcoming multinational exercise. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Colton K. Garrett)
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Dineo Khabele, MD is the first Black department chair, ever, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, which was founded in 1891. She serves as the Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the medical school.
She joined Washington University in June 2020 from the University of Kansas School of Medicine, where she was a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and of cancer biology, director of the Division of Gynecological Oncology, and vice chair for research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology.
Dr. Khabele’s ovarian cancer research is funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute. Her ovarian cancer research interests include chemotherapy resistance, DNA repair, epigenetic targets for therapy, and targeting the tumor microenvironment. She also is an outspoken researcher and critic of racism in the medical field and the profession’s failures in training, recruiting and retaining diverse medical professionals, particularly in elite subspecialties such as her own.
Dr. Khabele obtained undergraduate and medical degrees from Columbia College and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at The New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill-Cornell University Medical Center, followed by a clinical fellowship in gynecologic oncology and post-doctoral research training in cancer biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center. She was a scholar of the Reproductive Scientist Development Program and the Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Scholar/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The St. Louis American spoke to her about her work as an administrator, researcher and clinician and how she is trying to get the hang of St. Louis, having moved here during the COVID pandemic and its socially isolating protocols.
The St. Louis American: What is new and upcoming with the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine?
Dineo Khabele, MD: We are really excited that our obstetrics and gynecology specialty at Barnes-Jewish Hospital is ranked #3 in the country by US News and World Report. This speaks to the incredible talent, dedication and expertise of our teams at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. We are continuing to recruit to support our mission to deliver exceptional clinical care, cutting-edge research, and innovative educational programs. I am honored to lead our teams who have done incredible work while meeting the challenges of persistent COVID surges, financial set-backs, and staff shortages.
The St. Louis American: In recruiting, what are your methods and how is diversity integrated in your recruiting efforts?
Dineo Khabele, MD: For our senior leadership, we conduct national searches, with assistance from our internal search firm. We take a holistic approach, using a search committee, and we try to identify talent in a systematic way. For faculty positions, we have a holistic approach to make sure we’re not biasing the process. In terms of diverse candidates, we show them all the wonderful things we’re doing here in targeted ways. We show how we make a difference in providing exceptional clinical care to patients (including those from underserved areas in the region), conducting exciting new research, and training the next generation. If you have those values in mind, this is a great place to work. I am proud to say we have recruited 11 faculty from around the country since I started in 2020 and that 13% of our faculty in our department, are Black. This includes senior leadership; I myself am the first Black chair this medical school has had.
The St. Louis American: What is new and upcoming with your own research?
Dineo Khabele, MD: My research is focused on discovering new approaches to treat chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer. We use preclinical models of ovarian cancer to test new drug combinations that will hopefully be developed into clinical trials. I also support efforts to reduce disparities in cancer care for Black patients diagnosed with ovarian, uterine, and cervical cancers.
The St. Louis American: How do we reduce disparities in cancer care for Black patients?
Dineo Khabele, MD: I’ve created an office in our department called IDEA2 (squared), which stands for Inclusion and Innovation, Diversity and Discovery, Equity and Excellence, and Advancement and Advocacy. IDEA2 is our cultural pillar for how we provide clinical service, research and education. We are working on recruiting a more diverse workforce; we are tracking our metrics; and we are addressing our curriculum in collaboration with the rest of the medical school to make sure we are teaching people about ways to overcome health disparities.
From a clinical standpoint, we are finding innovative ways to create more patient-focused care. How can we better advocate for patients who are most vulnerable and entering into a complex healthcare system for treatment? We think that partnering with patient advocates will help. We are also conducting research on how to address a patient’s unmet needs. If a patient is late for their appointment, well, it turns out that they didn’t have transportation. How do we show empathy and understanding? And how do we connect them with transportation services?
IDEA2 work is not something that happens with the waving of a magic wand, right? This is hard, slow work, and we have to make sure that all of our clinicians and health care workers understand its importance. IDEA2 is now an integrated part of our mission as a department. It’s a cultural pillar and one of our values. If it’s not one of your values, then it’s not important; you’re not going to pay attention to it and that.
The St. Louis American: Your ovarian cancer research is funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute – how do you build and maintain such enviable relationships?
Dineo Khabele, MD: It’s really rough; it’s been tough; it’s been a long, steady career. Only 0.1% of investigators who receive RO1-level – the gold standard of NIH research funding, are Black – 0.1%! So, it has not been easy. I’ve had to find mentors and had to persist in finding ways to show them I could do research. And then I’ve had some mentors who believed in me more than I believed in myself; I’ve been told you can do it. I’ve had these targeted programs that provided funding to protect my time so that I could develop skills and apply for these bigger grants. Those are the things that help to support an early career, and having support from your institution to bridge funding and protect your time has been important for me as well.
The St. Louis American: You’re the lead author on a paper that offers perspective on James Marion Sims. Tell people who was James Marion Sims and why this was an important perspective.
Dineo Khabele, MD: J. Marion Sims is considered in many circles to be the father of gynecology, which is the specialty I practice, and, unfortunately, he performed experiments on enslaved Black women to perfect his procedure on how to fix a fistula, which is a hole that occurs from birth injury, from prolonged labor. (You can develop a hole between the vagina and the bladder, and you can develop a hole between the vagina and the rectum.) In particular, one enslaved woman, he operated on over 30 times. The only names we know for them are Lucy, Anarcha and Betsy. It is really hard to be in a field where someone is lauded as the father of your field when he performed experiments on people who look like me and who could have been my ancestors, and he continued to do this work even after anesthesia was available.
So, what we’ve done in our department, in honor of Lucy, Anarcha and Betsy, is we have created a lab award. In order to get funding, people must understand the history of J. Marion Sims, and we have a community advisory board that reviews these grants to make sure we are doing due diligence. Of course, research on human subjects now is very well regulated, and it’s important that everyone gets a chance to participate in it willingly, because that’s how you advance medicine. So, as a scientist, I thought it was really important that we reframe this story and what J. Marion Sims actually did to honor the women themselves.
The St. Louis American: You also have published on the role of race and gender in the career experience of Black surgeons, as well as intersectionality and the pipeline for Black academic surgeons. What is important about that research?
Dineo Khabele, MD: There are not enough Black surgeons. What’s really interesting and relevant to St. Louis is that Homer G. Phillips Hospital was one of three places in the country where Black surgeons could train after medical school. It was Howard University, Hubbard Hospital at Meharry College (where I used to work), and Homer G. Phillips. Howard is still around, and Hubbard is still around, but we don’t have Homer G. Phillips. A lot of that history is lost, and it’s still so difficult to train as a Black person in any surgical subspecialty. There are so few of us.
And, unfortunately, we are seeing that where Blacks students are entering these subspecialty programs, they have a higher rate of not finishing compared to their white counterparts. I am a member of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons, where some of this work is being published, and we are trying to do something nationally to change these dismal statistics: the opportunities for us to rise in the ranks, the recruitment, the training, paying attention to micro-aggressions, pipeline programs, all of these things are very important. I benefitted from targeted programs, from great mentors, and I’ve had the qualifications to do research and get grant funding and be subspecialty-trained, and I don’t want to be unique person in that regard. I want to make sure that whatever I do in this role is paving the way for that next generation.
The St. Louis American: You do so many things as an administrator, researcher and clinician. How do you find your balance?
Dineo Khabele, MD: I really love what I do. I just got out of the operating room just now. I love the patients. It’s a privilege to do what I do. To honor it, I want to make sure I’ve dedicated my time and my life to it. I have a very supportive spouse; we’ve been together since I was pre-med in college. We have one son in New York who has graduated from college. And then I have a very committed extended family. So, I do work really, really hard, long hours, but it’s very important work and I find it deeply satisfying. If we overcome challenges, if we’re able to pave the way for somebody else, I’m really driven to do that. It’s really hard to be a first and an only, and that’s been a lot of my career. I think you’ll see that, with a lot of people who are the first to do something that drives them to want to make sure that they’re not the last.
The St. Louis American: I never had heard of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. Why is that where you ended up going for your training?
Dineo Khabele, MD: That’s one of the examples – the person who ran that program at Einstein believed in me. It was really hard to get a spot in this the field of gynecological oncology; at the time that I applied, there were only 30 spots positions across the country. The person who ran the program at Einstein at that time thought I would be great fit for their program and that launched my career. | https://www.stlamerican.com/business/business_news/paving-the-way-for-that-next-generation/article_95e469d6-2860-11ed-8203-3b779dd6b247.html | 2022-08-30T17:34:08Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/business/business_news/paving-the-way-for-that-next-generation/article_95e469d6-2860-11ed-8203-3b779dd6b247.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Shannon T. Lassen said she wanted to work for World Wide Technology (WWT) long before she even interviewed for the job. Although she grew up in Houston, Texas, Lassen’s parents are originally from St. Louis. She’s traveled here often throughout her life and was very familiar with all things St. Louis. Lassen said she found the fact that the co-founders of the tech company-David Steward and Jim Kavanaugh-are Black and White men, tremendously appealing.
“Jim and Dave are two very different people. They came together with different backgrounds, different lifestyles experiences and created this masterpiece,” Lassen stated, adding, “And they celebrate that diversity; they made use of it, and I think it says something about World Wide’s success.”
In early 2020, Lassen, who has an educational and work background in business and human resources, had lost her luster for corporate life. Bureaucracy, politics, red tape, and mere lip service to change didn’t coincide with her idea of healthy and productive “diversity” work.
“I’m drawn to the idea of trying to make the workforce more reflective of underrepresented people, like me.” Lassen explained.
The police killing of George Floyd in May of that year made her desire to delve into diversity and inclusion issues even stronger.
“No one was talking about it at my previous job,” Lassen said. “Even though they were up in arms, people were so afraid to talk about it. I’ve never been one to shy away from my feelings but, for some reason, corporations were like ‘what do we do, what do we say?’”
Lassen posted an essay on her previous company’s in-house social page encouraging her coworkers to not just sit in silence as their colleagues of color showed up for work “having to pretend” everything was normal.
“It’s OK not to know what to say but say something,” Lassen wrote. “Just reach out and ask how they’re doing. It doesn’t have to be a big thing, but silence isn’t the answer.”
Lassen, who had gotten married in late 2019 and was working from home due to the pandemic, longed for meaningful change. She was contemplating starting her own business or working for a nonprofit when she applied at WWT, which provides information technology, supply chain solutions, products, and services.
The vetting process was long and intense. When she received the long-awaited news that she’d be hired as one of two “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion” program managers she was ecstatic. Executives at her new job,” she said, weren’t just paying “lip service.” WWT was serious about all aspects of diversity and inclusion. When she was officially hired, Lassen said executives made it clear that they were seeking to expand their diversity and inclusion programs.
“They want to make it part of the company’s DNA,” she bragged.
Along with her partner, Emily Robinson, Lassen said their strategic plan is designed to promote three specific outcomes in “Workforce Diversity, Business impact and Community Engagement.”
Workforce goals include recruiting a robust and diverse workforce, providing continuous cultural education, and embracing and celebrating differences. The business impactcomponent works to support cultures of inclusion that utilize experiences and unique capabilities to create innovative and creative business outcomes. Community Outreach centers around driving change and educating through community partnerships.
Reflecting on her 2020 experience after George Floyd’s death, Lassen excitedly discussed her company’s programs designed to facilitate healthy dialogue about possibly sensitive racial issues. WWT’s “Listening Tour” and “WWT Storytellers” are forums developed so employees can share real-life thoughts and feelings through dialogue and stories. The hope is to help them feel safe and valued and foster a sense of empathy and camaraderie across real and sometimes artificial boundaries.
“Equity,” Lassen emphasized, is the desired result of WWT’s 3-tiered approach.
“We focus so much on our workforce being reflective of our global company. We need to look like the people we serve. We need to have that diversity of thought, that innovation as a tech company and we want people to feel safe coming to work. At the end of the day, we realize that equity is the outcome. That means we want to make sure everybody can be their best version of themselves.”
It was a lesson Lassen said she learned when the “mean kids” in middle school caused her to question her own identity. She said cruel questions about her light skin or the proper way she spoke, briefly had her wondering if she was “black enough.”
“I think I was exposed to fighting for my identity really early and that sort of fueled my passion for what I do now. Colorism exists in many cultures. So, when I was growing up, I was called an Oreo-black on the outside but white on the inside. Then there was the ‘talking white’ thing. What does that even mean?”
Fortunately, Lassen has a father who is well grounded in his roots and birthplace, Louisville Mississippi. Anthony Thomas took his only daughter on annual trips to Louisville where she was regaled with stories from her grandparents and great grandparents about their heritage, legacy, and life in the segregated south.
Lassen’s dad also invested his love of music, culture and history in his daughter and helped her build the confidence she needed to embrace her identity and rich history.
She said that learning to accept and be comfortable with herself, has given her empathy with other people of color. As a global company, World Wide has employees and contracts across the globe. “Diversity” is expanded beyond the narrow parameters of black and white. To operate as a successful global business, Lassen stressed, the company must be aware, engaged, and respectful of a vast array of cultures, religions, and other ethnic idiosyncrasies.
“Our teams don’t work in silos. We know our workplace communities take in information differently and we want to make sure those cultural celebrations, holidays, and things like that are shared and lifted so we can learn and celebrate with them. We have to make sure the content we’re creating resonates with our different workforces. To do that, people in those regions need to help create that content.”
Lassen has found her “happy place” where she can put her talents and passions to practice. She said the popular perception of the information technology (IT) industry is “so forward thinking, so innovative and so diverse.”
It’s a misconception, she emphasized.
“I would say that underrepresented communities in IT spaces are still just that…underrepresented. It’s still predominantly white and predominantly male.”
But those challenges are exactly why Lassen enjoys her job.
“It feels great to know World Wide has all these programs in place to reach those who may not see themselves here. We’re intentionally reaching out to these underrepresented communities. It’s not just about recruiting either; it’s also about retaining the talent, making sure people aren’t leaving because of how they feel or how they’ve been treated or whatever the case.”
Lassen said she has happily and wholeheartedly adopted World Wide’s diversity, equity mission of inclusion.
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When Marcus Freeman leads Notre Dame against host Ohio State on Saturday, Sept. 3, he will do so knowing his team is No. 1, not Alabama.
I’m not talking about the Associated Press Top 25, I’m referring to the US News & World Report 2022 rankings of national collegiate institutions.
Of the Top 25 college football teams, Notre Dame’s No. 19 ranking made it the highest rated by U.S. News. This includes all the teams in the “Also receiving Votes” category. In actual football, The Fighting Irish are ranked No. 5 in the AP poll.
Before any Crimson Tide faithful get upset with me, I’m just sayin.’
No. 1 Alabama is in a tie at No. 148. As a reference point, Missouri is tied at No. 122 with several schools including the University of Kansas.
No. 2 Ohio State is at a very respectable No. 49, and here is something I found surprising.
No. 3 Georgia is No. 48. I’ve heard and read that it is an excellent school, but I didn’t realize it would rank that highly.
No. 4 Clemson is at No. 75, and then comes Notre Dame.
No. 6 Texas A&M comes in at No. 68, and No. 7 Utah made the top 100 at No. 99.
No. 8 Michigan is Notre Dame’s closest challenger, posting at No. 23.
No. 9 Oklahoma is at No. 127, and the Top 10 is rounded out by Baylor with a solid No. 75 ranking.
The school to watch that could enter the Top 25 and rise past Notre Dame in US News ranking is No. 9 Northwestern.
The Wildcats upset Nebraska in a game played in Ireland last Saturday, and that should land them with the “Others Receiving Votes.” The Cornhuskers were in that category, so obviously they are out.
With respective home games against Duke Sept. 10, and Southern Illinois-Carbondale on Sept. 17, Northwestern could be the academic/football leader in America.
HBCUs back in action
The Jackson State Tigers begin the season as defending SWAC champions and at No.1 in the HBCU-Pro Sports Media Association preseason poll. MEAC champion South Carolina State, which stunned JSU 31-10 in the 2021 Celebration Bowl, is tied at No. 2 with the Florida A&M Rattlers.
While its academic standards are in question, FAMU’s gritty performance at North Carolina on Saturday, August 27 must be applauded.
Twenty players, including FCS National Defensive Player of the Year linebacker Isaiah Land, were ruled academically ineligible two days before the game against the Tar Heels. The young men who did play held tough throughout the first half before bowing 56-24.
Getting back to the poll, the North Carolina A&T Aggies and Tennessee State Tigers are ranked Nos. 3 and 4, respectively.
The Southern Jaguars reached the top half at No. 5, and were followed by the Alcorn State Braves, Alabama A&M Bulldogs, Norfolk State Spartans, and North Carolina Central Eagles.
Prairie View A&M and Grambling State are just outside the Top 10.
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A BYU fan has been from all campus sporting event’s after repeatedly hurling a racial slut at Duke women’s volleyball player Rachel Richardson last week during a match. Richardson wrote on Twitter, BYU officials were slow to act when made aware, nor did they adequately address the situation immediately after the match. “No athlete, regardless of their race should ever be subject to such hostile conditions.”…NFL players voted Tom Brady as No. 1 in an NFL Network ranking of the Top 100 players. ESPN’s ranking has Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes No. 1 for a third consecutive season…Baltimore Orioles All-Star outfielder Cedric Mullins will help represent the United States in the World Baseball Classic next year. Of the first nine players announced for the team, Mullins is the lone Black player. Also slated to play are Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado of the St. Louis Cardinals… Gatorade is airing a commercial honoring Serena Williams, which is narrated by her friend Beyoncé. "When the world writes her down in history, we’ll begin where she started, with love. A love that started a movement. A movement to love exactly who you are.” Williams is also featured on the cover of the Sept. 12 edition of TIME, with the words “The Greatest.” | https://www.stlamerican.com/sports/sports_columnists/sports_eye/academics-are-in-spotlight-famu-flops-in-classroom/article_2cec6822-27f5-11ed-aff0-ff98b21f2c97.html | 2022-08-30T17:34:27Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/sports/sports_columnists/sports_eye/academics-are-in-spotlight-famu-flops-in-classroom/article_2cec6822-27f5-11ed-aff0-ff98b21f2c97.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Community raises money for family of mom killed in alleged target practice incident
GREENVILLE, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - The family of a woman who was killed in her home by a stray bullet is hoping to raise money for funeral expenses and her children.
Kesha Luwan Lucille Tate, 42, was killed Saturday evening in her house. Family members told WHNS she was in the kitchen when she heard gunshots coming from outside and went to look out the window. A bullet came through the window and struck her in the chest.
Deputies who responded to the reported shooting found Tate unresponsive. She was declared dead at the scene, according to WHNS.
The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office investigated throughout the night and determined one of Tate’s neighbors was conducting target practice outside of his home, which backs up to Tate’s property.
The sheriff’s office reported they charged Nicholas Sklyar Lucas in connection to Tate’s death.
“This is a senseless death that could have been avoided had the gun owner been responsible and chosen a safer place to target practice,” said Cherokee County Sheriff Steve Mueller. “It is mind-blowing that a person thinks it’s alright to target practice or discharge a gun within close proximity to so many other homes in a neighborhood.”
Family members said Tate leaves behind 10 kids.
“They’re literally devastated,” Tate’s sister Beverly Vercher said. “Especially the ones that actually saw it. All of them were there, but the older ones were actually in the room and saw it.”
Tate’s family is currently trying to raise money for her funeral expenses.
“I had to go pick out a casket, and it was hard,” said Tate’s mom, Beverly Wray. “I thought she would pick out a casket for me, and I had to go pick out one for her. It’s not right, he shot through that door and killed my baby. He killed my baby, now I have to bury her.”
Several local businesses are helping with the fundraising, including a salon and a restaurant. A GoFundMe has also been set up for the family.
According to deputies, Lucas was charged with involuntary manslaughter and shooting under the influence.
“We’re hoping that the justice system takes this seriously and realizes that he took a mom away from her kids,” Vercher said.
The sheriff’s office reported they are still investigating the incident.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Nikiesha Thomas was on her way to work one day when she told her sister that she was thinking about getting involved with domestic violence prevention.
The idea gave Keeda Simpson pause. Her younger sister had never mentioned anything like that before, and she was bringing it up in a phone call just days after filing for a protective order against her ex-boyfriend.
It was their last conversation.
Less than an hour later, Thomas' ex-boyfriend walked up to her parked car in a southeastern neighborhood of the nation's capital and shot through her passenger window, killing the 33-year-old.
It's cases like hers, where warning signs and legal paperwork weren't enough to save a life, that lawmakers had in mind this summer when they crafted the first major bipartisan law on gun violence in decades.
The measure signed by President Joe Biden in June was part of a response to a harrowing string of shootings over the summer, including the slaying of 19 children at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
The package included tougher background checks for the youngest gun buyers and help for states to put in place “red flag” laws that make it easier for authorities to take weapons from people adjudged dangerous.
Also tucked into the bill was a proposal that will make it more difficult for a convicted domestic abuser to obtain firearms even when the abuser is not married to or doesn’t have a child with the victim.
Nearly a decade in the making, lawmakers' move to close the “boyfriend loophole” received far less attention than other aspects of the legislation. But advocates and lawmakers are hopeful this provision will save lives and become a major part of the law's legacy.
“We have so many women killed — one every 14 hours, from domestic partners with guns in this country,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., a longtime advocate for the proposal, said before passage of the bill in June. “Sadly, half of those involve dating partners, people who aren’t married to someone, but they are in a romantic relationship with them in some way.”
Federal law has long barred people convicted of domestic violence or subject to a domestic violence restraining order from being able to buy a gun. But that restriction had only applied to an individual who is married to the victim, lived with the victim or had a child with the victim. As a result, it missed a whole group of perpetrators — current and former boyfriends or intimate partners — sometimes with fatal consequences.
At least 19 states and the District of Columbia have taken action on this issue, according to data compiled by Everytown for Gun Safety. Klobuchar and domestic violence advocates have worked for years to do the same on the federal level, with little success.
The struggle over defining a boyfriend in the law remained difficult to the end. Negotiations in Congress nearly broke down over the provision. The same thing happened in March when a similar bipartisan effort to reauthorize a 1990s-era law that extended protections to victims of domestic and sexual violence passed only after Democratic lawmakers took out the loophole provision to ensure Republican support.
“That was the toughest issue in our negotiations,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., a lead negotiator of the gun package, said of the loophole proposal. “The biggest discussion that took us a long time at the end was around the question of how you would get your rights back after you had been prohibited."
Murphy and other Democratic negotiators were able to persuade Republicans by including a narrow path to restoring access to firearms for first-time offenders after five years, only if they are not convicted of another misdemeanor for violent crime. For married couples, and those who have had a child together, the firearm ban is permanent.
To some advocates, more change is still needed. The legislation only partially closes the loophole because dating partners subject to a domestic violence restraining order, as in Thomas' case, are still able to buy and maintain access to firearms.
“It will for sure save lives. But also to be clear, this is a partial closure of what’s known as the boyfriend loophole. There’s still a lot of work to be done,” Jennifer Becker, the legal director and senior attorney for Legal Momentum, a legal defense and education fund for women, told The Associated Press.
Federal crime data for 2020 showed that out of all murder victims among intimate partners — including divorced and gay couples — girlfriends accounted for 37%, while wives accounted for 34%. Only 13% of the victims were boyfriends, and 7% were husbands.
In 2018, a group of researchers who looked at intimate partner homicides in 45 states from 1980 to 2013 found that when firearm prohibitions linked to domestic restraining orders included people who were dating, deaths dropped by 13%.
“It suggests that when you cast that wider net, by covering boyfriends, you are able to cover people who are more dangerous and potentially save more lives,” April Zeoli, a researcher at the University of Michigan who was part of that study, told the AP.
Thomas' family hopes the changes in the law will save lives and ensure their daughter's death wasn't in vain. They say Thomas was doing everything she could to protect herself when she left her yearslong relationship with 36-year-old Antoine Oliver in late September 2021.
It was only after her death in October that her family members found out that the protective order Thomas had filed three days earlier, detailing how her former partner had access to firearms and she felt unsafe, was never served. Sheriff’s deputies in Prince George’s County, Maryland, where Oliver lived, had been trying to reach him by phone.
When law enforcement finally reached Oliver, he told them he would come to accept service of the judicial order the following day. Instead, authorities said, he killed Thomas that day before fatally shooting himself.
“Some days I just sit and review the paper she had filed with the court just a few days prior and just think, what else could she have done to protect herself?" said Nadine Thomas, her mother. Gilbert Thomas, her father, said his daughter did everything she was supposed to do, but it was the system that failed her.
“She feared for her life and what did the police do? They called him and made arrangements for him to come to pick up the order,” he said. "There was no urgency placed on it."
But now the family is bracing for the anniversary of Thomas' killing. The weight of grief is heavy, particularly for her 11-year-old daughter, Kylei, whom Thomas had from a relationship before she met Oliver.
In the months before her death, Thomas had been making plans to buy a home for her and her daughter. She was saving up from her job with the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education, where she was assigned to an intervention program to help some of the district's most challenged students.
“We really were starting to map out some things and it just got taken away,” her sister, Keeda Simpson, said. “One of the last things we talked about was her wanting to evoke change for other women."
"I’m going to do whatever it takes — even if it’s a small thing — to help someone else that’s in her situation, not to lose their life," she added. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/in-new-gun-law-a-quiet-breakthrough-for-victims-of-abuse/article_9b8050aa-286d-11ed-a7a1-7fedcee4a6a4.html | 2022-08-30T17:42:51Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/in-new-gun-law-a-quiet-breakthrough-for-victims-of-abuse/article_9b8050aa-286d-11ed-a7a1-7fedcee4a6a4.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Best Names For a Female Cat: Here are 10 popular names to call your beautiful pet cats 🐈
Here are 10 of the most popular names for snuggly girl cats in 2022.
They love Dreamies and 16 hour snoozes yet they continue to be adored by many households across the world – cats are simply great animals.
Pet ownership has soared over the past couple of years, with admitting once they have were in the company of these adorable creatures, it was virtually impossible not be obsessed!
It is reported that the average cat owner actually own a minimum of two cats – though we are sure you may know some with many more.
However, if you’re welcoming a new kitty cat to your home and struggling for a name, here are 10 of the world’s most popular girl cat names in the year 2022, according to popular cat website supakit. | https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/family-and-parenting/best-names-for-a-female-cat-here-are-10-popular-names-to-call-your-beautiful-pet-cats-3722222 | 2022-08-30T17:42:52Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/family-and-parenting/best-names-for-a-female-cat-here-are-10-popular-names-to-call-your-beautiful-pet-cats-3722222 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ed Tase, a volunteer firefighter from the age of 14, was elected to a two-year term as president of the Firefighters Association of New York (FASNY) at this year’s 150th annual convention in Tarrytown.
Tase had been an active firefighter for Frontier Volunteer Fire Co., as well as South Lockport Fire Co., before working on the more administrative side of the calling and has a plan to build back the state’s weakened volunteer firefighters numbers to 10,000 more statewide.
And it is a calling.
“It’s a brotherhood,” Tase said Monday morning before driving to the State Fair to promote and recruit firefighters.
“It’s family,” he added. “It’s in your blood.”
Tase wanted to thank his family for supporting him over the years as a firefighter. He noted they gave up a lot in order to allow him to do what he needed to do.
“Our vacation every year was to go to the FASNY convention,” he said. “They knocked on doors and talked to people about supporting volunteer firefighting.”
The situation for FASNY is that less young, potential firefighters are joining the ranks, Tase said. He noted in this economy, where ordinarily individuals would have the time to dedicate to this profession are overworked already working two or three jobs. He felt that the state could do something to help them out.
“Right now it’s like a $200 tax credit to write off being a volunteer firefighters,” he said. “That should be better.”
Tase said that the town’s typically give their local volunteer companies $300,000 a year, but that doesn’t cover all the expenses that firefighters need. So, every year, firefighters are holding raffles and fundraisers to make up for the lack of revenue.
Also, firefighting isn’t just throwing wet stuff on flames, Tase said.
“There’s car crashes, EMS, medical calls,” he said.
Right now there are 37 active firefighters at South Lockport Fire Company. It should be more like 50 something, Tase said. He invites anyone who wants to find out what firefighting is all about to contact their local fire hall and get started in this much needed organization.
“New York state saves $3.3 billion every year through volunteer firefighters,” Tase said. “That’s the value of volunteer firefighters to the state of New York.” | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/local-firefighter-ed-tase-now-fasny-president/article_e45bbba8-27e0-11ed-a429-c3260975927f.html | 2022-08-30T17:42:57Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/local-firefighter-ed-tase-now-fasny-president/article_e45bbba8-27e0-11ed-a429-c3260975927f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
MOVIES
— Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown star in the satirical comedy “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul,” that’s playing in theaters and streaming on Peacock on Friday. Brown plays husband to Hall and the pastor of a Southern Baptist megachurch that needs a big comeback in the aftermath of a scandal. The directorial debut of Adamma Ebo premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. “Jurassic World: Dominion” also makes its debut on Peacock on Friday. The third and, supposedly, final installment to the “Jurassic World” series invites original “Jurassic Park” stars Laura Dern, Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum to join the Chris Pratt/Bryce Dallas Howard crew. Though not the best movie of the bunch, there are moments, especially when DeWanda Wise is on screen.
— In 1976, Maurice Flitcroft, a shipyard crane operator, entered the British Open without ever having played golf before and shot the worst qualifying round in the tournament’s history. His story gets a quirky, uplifting spin in “The Phantom of the Open,” starring Mark Rylance as Maurice and Sally Hawkins as his wife Jean, which is available on video on demand starting Tuesday. In her AP review, Jocelyn Noveck wrote that “The closing footage of the real Maurice is utterly fascinating and hints that perhaps his story wasn’t as sweet as the one we’ve just seen. But it’s hard to deny it’s been a darned enjoyable 18 holes.”
— Also available on VOD on Tuesday is the documentary “Explorer,” which delves into the life of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, who the Guinness Book of Records called “the world’s greatest living explorer.” That might have been in 1984, but according to his website he remains the only man alive ever to have travelled around the Earth’s circumpolar surface. And at 78, he’s getting more reflective than he ever has been before in director Matthew Dyas’ film.
— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr
MUSIC
— Yungblud has new music but you likely already knew that if you’ve watched any of ESPN’s coverage of the new college football season — his single “The Emperor” is part of the official TV anthem. Yungblud said he wrote the song when he was 17 as “an outburst of unfiltered energy that I knew would have its moment one day.” On Friday, he will release his self-titled third studio album, which features the previously released singles “The Funeral,” “Memories” (featuring Willow) and “Don’t Feel Like Feeling Sad Today.”
— Thrash metal icons Megadeth have put more than music on tap for their next sonic step. The band releases their 16th studio album, “The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!” on Friday and fans can watch the connected 7-minute “Night Stalkers: Chapter II,” the latest installment of a multi-part short film about troubled band mascot Vic Rattlehead. One of the tracks off the new album is “Soldier On!” and bandleader Dave Mustaine says it was inspired by “coming to the realization that you need to walk away from a relationship that’s very toxic, and how hard it can be to start down that road.”
— AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy
TELEVISION
— An epic battle of fantasy prequels is nigh. “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” debuts Friday on Amazon Prime Video, on the heels of HBO’s “House of the Dragon.” which is set two centuries before “Game of Thrones.” The Amazon series takes place much earlier in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” novels, with evil a threat to peaceful Middle-earth. Whatever the dueling body counts may be, “House of the Dragon” set a high bar for viewership: Nearly 10 million tuned in to make it the most-watched series premiere in HBO history. Amazon’s early brag is that a “The Rings of Power” promotional spot during Super Bowl LVI was the game’s most-watched trailer ever.
— The quartet of pals and business partners known as The Try Guys have gained a big YouTube following with their funny and offbeat willingness to venture into untested (for them) waters. They bring that approach to TV with “No-Recipe Road Trip with the Try Guys,” in which Ned Fulmer, Keith Habersberger, Zach Kornfeld, and Eugene Lee Yang visit restaurants in Nashville; Los Angeles; Charleston, South Carolina; Atlanta; and Santa Barbara, California, and make each eatery’s signature dish minus instructions. The series begins Wednesday on the Food Network and streams on discovery+. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/new-this-week-lord-of-the-rings-prequel-honk-for-jesus/article_37d78168-286d-11ed-8647-73b76f2f65ca.html | 2022-08-30T17:43:03Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/new-this-week-lord-of-the-rings-prequel-honk-for-jesus/article_37d78168-286d-11ed-8647-73b76f2f65ca.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — In the waning moments of Democrats’ four-decade hold on the House, I saw a gesture that seems unthinkable today. On the evening of Nov. 29, 1994, they let the top Republican preside, briefly, over the chamber.
It was a display of respect and affection toward Minority Leader Bob Michel, R-Ill., retiring after a 38-year House career served entirely under Democrats. He embraced with outgoing Speaker Tom Foley, D-Wash. Republicans were taking over in January under the combative Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., abandoning Michel’s consensus-building style.
Those feelings between leaders are all but gone. In their place are suspicion and even hostility, most starkly symbolized by magnetometers lawmakers must pass through before entering the House chamber.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., installed the metal detectors over GOP objections after the brutal Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack by supporters of then-President Donald Trump. Democrats also expressed concerns about Republican lawmakers who carry guns.
As I retire after nearly four decades covering Capitol Hill, that contrast and the forces behind it illustrate why I’ve loved covering Congress — and why I’ve recently felt dispirited.
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Congress is dominated by masters of political hardball who’ve survived a Darwinian culling of the nation’s most ambitious politicians. Covering them is like attending a riveting theatrical drama, except you get to wander behind the curtain and chat up the actors.
In a moment of irony, I saw Gingrich in 1998, then speaker, lash out at the very conservatives who’d powered his own rise after they opposed his budget deal with President Bill Clinton as a surrender. Gingrich mocked them as the “perfectionist caucus,” a bow to the compromises needed in a divided government. He soon announced his retirement.
Near midnight on Sept. 11, 2001, I watched Democrats and Republicans, in a show of solidarity on the Capitol steps, spontaneously sing “God Bless America.”
Pelosi triumphantly waved the gavel aloft in 2007 when she became the first female speaker. “For our daughters and our granddaughters, we have broken the marble ceiling,” the California Democrat said.
Eight years later, I saw awe in the eyes of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, a Catholic, as he greeted Pope Francis, whom he’d invited to address Congress.
I saw shock on Republicans’ faces the very next morning as they left a Capitol basement meeting where Boehner revealed he was quitting, hounded by a new generation of hard-right conservatives, the House Freedom Caucus.
Democrats and Republicans cheered when No. 3 House GOP leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana limped into the chamber in 2017, three months after being gravely wounded when a gunman attacked a Republican baseball practice.
I’ve seen change. Since Pelosi’s 1987 arrival, the number of women in Congress has multiplied from 25 to 146. There are around 130 lawmakers of color, up from 38.
And I’ve witnessed upheaval. Starting in 2017, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., and others resigned amid the #MeToo sexual harassment movement.
I had one deeply embarrassing close encounter with a freshly sworn-in president in 2001. I was assigned to a ceremonial Senate room where new presidents sign papers immediately after their inaugural address.
Someone brushed my elbow. Standing beside me was President George W. Bush. I tried drawing him out with a folksy, “So, how’d it go?” He parried what was likely his first reporter’s question as president with a nod, adding, “Good.”
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Since coming to Washington in 1983, I’ve seen debates over wars, terrorism, recessions, government shutdowns and taxes. Three of history’s four presidential impeachment trials. Fights over social justice, abortion, a pandemic.
I still overhear Democrats and Republicans making dinner plans. The sorrow over this month’s traffic accident death of Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., and two aides was bipartisan and heartfelt.
Yet today’s common ground seems narrower, the atmosphere darker, the stakes higher.
Pelosi referred to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as a “moron” after he opposed mask mandates in the House as the coronavirus pandemic spiked. McCarthy said it would be “hard not to hit her” with the gavel if he becomes speaker. His spokesperson called it a joke.
Both parties have fewer moderates. House districts increasingly drawn for partisan advantage push Democrats left, Republicans right as they appeal to their most activist primary voters.
Voters self-sort among social media and news outlets they believe. That hardens constituents’ views, further constraining lawmakers’ willingness to compromise.
Senate filibusters requiring bills to garner 60 votes are commonplace, derailing nearly anything without broad bipartisan support.
Through early this century, most Supreme Court nominees were approved easily.
In 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., refused to let President Barack Obama fill a Supreme Court vacancy, citing upcoming elections a full nine months away. Then just weeks before Election Day 2020, McConnell sped a Trump appointee through the Senate, giving the court a 6-3 conservative majority and McConnell a legacy achievement that outraged Democrats.
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None of that approximates Trump’s baseless assertion that the 2020 election was stolen from him, a claim rejected by dozens of courts, local officials and his own attorney general.
His false construct fueled the Jan. 6 insurrection. I wasn’t in the Capitol because of the pandemic, but there is no forgetting the death, injury, destruction and disheartening sense that democracy itself had been defiled.
Just hours after the mob was dispersed, more than half of House Republicans and eight GOP senators voted against certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. McCarthy initially said Trump “bears responsibility” for the attack but later blocked a bipartisan investigation.
Many Republicans have downplayed or deflected attention from that calamitous day. Trump remains his party’s dominant figure.
Republicans have backed Trump’s claims that this month’s court-sanctioned search of his Mar-a-Lago estate was politically motivated. The FBI is led by Trump-appointed Director Christopher Wray and emerged with sensitive national security documents that are federal property.
Anti-government rhetoric by politicians is not new. But these latest assaults on faith in government and the election system underpinning it — by potent influencers like a former president and his elected supporters — come amid authorities’ warnings about increased calls for violence, even civil war.
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Despite ever-tighter security, reporters still walk unfettered in most Capitol corridors.
I’ve bumped into celebrities from Muhammad Ali to Jon Stewart. But politicians have left the most lasting impressions.
Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas wielded light-speed wit. After the newly elected Clinton dined with GOP senators in a gesture of bipartisanship, he described a novel he’d read involving a murdered Democratic senator. “A happy ending!” Dole replied.
Gingrich’s hardening of partisan enmity — he counseled describing Democrats with focus group-tested words like “traitors” and “sick” — was sometimes answered in kind. Rep. Sam Gibbons, D-Fla., angrily left one 1995 House hearing on Medicare cuts Republicans wanted. “I had to fight you guys 50 years ago,” shouted Gibbons, who parachuted into France behind Nazi lines on D-Day.
I’ve seen agreements to authorize a military response to 9/11, keep the 2008 Great Recession from getting even worse and spend trillions of dollars to counter the pandemic.
Republicans have enacted huge tax cuts and created Medicare prescription drug coverage. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., recently muscled a top Biden priority to passage bolstering environment and health initiatives.
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Trump’s norm-busting four years featured constant clashes with Congress including Republicans, from whom he tolerated no dissent.
I prodded one Republican, privately critical of Trump, to talk on the record. “He’d send me to Gitmo,” he said.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., just 48, announced in early 2018 that he would retire. He later told author Tim Alberta he could not endure two more years working with Trump.
The cautious McConnell and impulsive Trump long had a fraught relationship. It was severed as McConnell, who voted to acquit Trump over Jan. 6 on the grounds that he’d already left the White House, immediately afterward blistered him as being “practically and morally responsible” for the riot.
I’ve seen lawmakers risk their jobs by backing the party line. Democrats lost dozens of seats in 1994 after rallying behind a Clinton deficit-reduction package. They lost again in 2010 after enacting Obama’s health care law.
And I’ve seen some infuriate colleagues by straying. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., elicited gasps with his decisive thumbs-down that derailed Trump’s effort to repeal Obama’s health care statute.
Ten House Republicans voted to impeach Trump over the insurrection. At least eight, including Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Trump’s most relentless GOP foe, will not be in Congress next year.
Lawmakers have recently approved accords helping Ukraine and veterans and modestly restricting guns — glimmers suggesting they can still work together.
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Job vacancies rose in July, dashing Fed hopes for cooling
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of open jobs in the United States rose in July after three months of declines, a sign that employers are still urgently seeking workers despite a weakening economy and high inflation.
The increase that the government reported Tuesday will be a disappointment for Federal Reserve officials, who are seeking to cool hiring and the economy by raising short-term interest rates to try to slow borrowing and spending, which tend to fuel inflation. Fed officials hope that their policies will serve primarily to reduce job openings and spare workers the pain of widespread layoffs and higher unemployment.
There were 11.2 million open jobs available on the last day of July — nearly two jobs, on average, for every unemployed person — up from 11 million in June. June’s figure was also revised sharply higher.
“The Fed has made very little progress in terms of narrowing the gap between labor supply and demand,” Aneta Markowska, chief economist at investment bank Jefferies, wrote in a research note.
Reducing the high demand for workers to a level closer to the available supply would ease the pressure on companies to pay higher wages to attract and keep workers. Higher pay has been passed on by many businesses to consumers in the form of higher prices, thereby intensifying inflation.
Last month, job openings rose in retail, warehousing and shipping, professional services, and in state and local education. Openings declined in manufacturing and health care.
The number of people who quit their jobs declined slightly in July, to 4.18 million from 4.25 million in June, according to Tuesday’s report. People typically quit jobs for a new position, usually at higher pay. As a result, fewer quits could lessen the pressure on companies to raise pay. But quitting still remains far above pre-pandemic levels, when it rarely topped 3 million.
The data released Tuesday also included a measure of layoffs, which slipped slightly in July. Despite high-profile reports of job cuts, the report reinforced the impression that most companies are holding onto the vast majority of their employees.
Job vacancies have been elevated since the economy began recovering from the pandemic recession more than two years ago. As demand has rapidly rebounded, employers have sought to quickly add workers.
When COVID-19 struck and widespread shutdowns were imposed in March and April of 2020, businesses slashed 22 million jobs. Yet not all workers have returned as the economy has recovered. There are now fewer people working or looking for work compared with pre-pandemic trends. The number of open jobs reached a record level of 11.9 million in March, before declining for three months. Before the pandemic, they had never topped 8 million.
The latest figures suggest that demand for workers remains hot. On Friday, the government will release its monthly jobs report, which is expected to show that 300,000 jobs were added, a slowdown from the previous month when hiring topped a half-million, but still a healthy number.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell and other policymakers have said they hope to reduce the number of open jobs without causing much higher unemployment. Larry Summers, a former Treasury Secretary, and Olivier Blanchard, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, have argued that such an outcome is unlikely.
“A reduction in (job) vacancies can take place without a big loss of employment, and this is the kind of soft landing anticipated” by Fed officials, Christopher Waller, a member of the central bank’s Board of Governors, said last month.
The Fed is trying to engineer a so-called soft landing — a slowdown in the economy that reduces inflation — currently near four-decade highs — without causing a recession.
Yet Blanchard and Summers argue that historically, job openings have never declined without an accompanying rise in layoffs.
“The sad truth is that there is no such thing as a slowdown without an increase in unemployment,” Blanchard wrote earlier this month, calling the Fed’s efforts to lower job vacancies without increasing layoffs “a vain hope.”
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Scotsman Obituaries: Josephine Tewson, actress best known for Keeping Up Appearances
Josephine Tewson, actress. Born: 26 February 1931 in London. Died: 18 August 2022 in London, aged 91
Never a household name like her ex-husband Leonard Rossiter, Josephine Tewson was, however, an instantly recognisable face from regular appearances in The Two Ronnies, Last of the Summer Wine and Keeping Up Appearances.
She played snobby Hyacinth Bucket’s nervy neighbour Liz in 43 episodes of the classic sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, forever shaking Hyacinth’s Royal Doulton and spilling the tea in response to some sudden shock, like the telephone ringing.
Tewson had a wonderfully expressive face and excelled at physical comedy. There was an element of pantomime about her characterisation of Liz.
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And it was in the pantomime Babes in the Wood at Shrewsbury Playhouse that she first met Rossiter. She was the principal boy, playing Robin Hood, and he was the Good Robber.
West End writer Julian Slade was in the process of casting his new musical Free As Air when a friend told him to check out two outstanding new talents in the Salisbury pantomime. He wound up casting both Tewson and Rossiter and Free As Air gave them their West End debuts in 1957.
They married the following year, but the union lasted only three years.
“He was a great actor, but a terrible husband,” Tewson said.
Rossiter was a comic genius, but a famously difficult person to get on with and Tewson complained of his womanising and lack of care for their relationship.
She had a rather more positive relationship with Ronnie Barker, though not a romantic one. “I entered the world of TV when I was performing in the West End with the lovely Ronnie Barker,” she said.
“I was in my late twenties at the time and was playing an old woman in her sixties [the housekeeper Mrs Drudge in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound]”.
Barker was working with David Frost, at a time when Frost was still very focused on comedy and satire rather than heavyweight interviews with former-presidents. Barker recommended Tewson to Frost. “He needed someone who was versatile, along with Ronnie Corbett as well.”
She became a regular on the show Frost on Sunday throughout its run from 1968 to 1970. She played Barker’s secretary Mildred Bates on the show Hark at Barker at much the same time and later on His Lordship Entertains.
And she turned up on numerous episodes of The Two Ronnies over the next decade. “So that’s how I got into TV and saddled with comedy,” she said.
Such was Barker’s respect and admiration that he wrote the role of Jane Travers on his 1988 sitcom Clarence especially for her. Barker played the myopic removal man Clarence and Tewson was the maid who agrees to a chaste trial marriage with him.
“If you're Julia Roberts or Judi Dench you expect people to write parts for you but not little old me,” she said.
Born Josephine Ann Tewson, she was the daughter of a nurse and a musician, who played double bass in the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Her mother’s father was Haydn Morley, a distinguished sportsman, who played football for Derby County and captained Sheffield Wednesday. He also played cricket for Derbyshire. Watching cricket was one of Tewson’s passions and she was a regular at Lord’s.
As a child she was painfully shy, but she came out of herself on stage when she took on the personae of other characters.
One of her teachers encouraged her to think of a career in acting and she abandoned thoughts of studying English at Durham University to enrol at RADA, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, in London.
Tewson acted with various provincial companies before that fateful meeting with Rossiter in Shrewsbury. Before becoming a regular on Frost on Sunday, she did appear in a series of straight roles on television. Early credits include Z-Cars, No Hiding Place and Emergency-Ward 10.
But after Frost on Sunday she became irrevocably associated with comedy.
Tewson was a regular on Dick Emery and Jimmy Tarbuck’s shows and had recurring roles in a string of sitcoms, including Coppers End, Son of the Bride, No Appointment Necessary, Rude Health and Odd Man Out. In the latter she played John Inman’s half-sister, which seemed to inspire the urban myth that they were related in real life.
Many of the shows were short-lived, but she played the prim landlady Mrs H in 23 episodes of the popular sitcom Shelley, with Hywel Bennet, in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Last of the Summer Wine had been going for 30 years by the time she joined as the prim librarian Miss Davenport in 2003. She stayed with it until writer Roy Clarke finally drained his final glass of vino in 2010, by which time Tewson had racked up 62 instalments of the cosy rural comedy. Clarke also wrote Keeping Up Appearances.
In later years Tewson proved a popular after-dinner speaker and developed a one-woman show drawing on her life in showbiz, entitled Still Keeping Up Appearances.
Tewson had married for a second time in the 1970s. Her husband Henry Newman, a dental surgeon, predeceased her. She did not have any children.
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Acquisition brings new carriers, lines of coverage, and expanded voluntary benefits offerings to clients of both companies
DALLAS, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BenefitMall, the leading provider of next-generation broker services, today announced the acquisition of Mutual Med, a Davenport, Iowa-based insurance distributor providing sales counseling and support for benefits agents serving large groups, small groups, and individuals.
With complementary carrier relationships and extensive voluntary benefits offerings, the acquisition of Mutual Med allows employer clients of both companies to access a wider range of carriers and networks. The addition of Mutual Med to the BenefitMall footprint strengthens the company's presence in the Midwest and furthers BenefitMall's expansion goals for 2022-2023.
"Mutual Med's strong reputation and dedication to providing brokers with expert guidance and competitive benefits offerings make it a great addition to BenefitMall," said Scott Kirksey, CEO of BenefitMall. "We enthusiastically welcome president and CEO Todd Vershaw, COO and CFO Rob Edel, and the rest of the Mutual Med team as we expand our mission to offer brokers the fastest, easiest, most trusted benefits selling experience."
Mutual Med will operate as a division of BenefitMall, continuing under its current name and leadership. In addition to serving current BenefitMall markets of Georgia and Texas, the acquisition adds new markets of Alabama, Illinois, Iowa, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Tennessee to BenefitMall's service territory. Their combined presence provides service in 24 states to agencies selling in 48 states.
"In joining the BenefitMall family, we found teammates who share our belief that human expertise is an essential part of guiding our clients through an ever-changing industry," said Todd Vershaw, president and CEO of Mutual Med. "BenefitMall has made incredible investments in developing technology and programs that our shared brokers nationwide will now be able to access."
For more information, please visit www.benefitmall.com.
Founded in 1986, Mutual Med has grown from a one-person operation to a thriving firm partnered with brokers across 10 different states. Headquartered in Davenport, Iowa, Mutual Med focuses primarily on rural markets with an emphasis on small group business, as well as individual and large group. Mutual Med has a reputation of premier broker and customer support and takes pride in being "brilliant at the basics," including sales guidance, quoting/enrollment services, and renewal processing.
Headquartered in Dallas, BenefitMall is the largest general agency partnering with a network of 20,000 Brokers to deliver employee benefits to more than 140,000 small and medium-sized businesses. BenefitMall uniquely leverages innovative technology backed by human expertise to provide the fastest, easiest, and most secure benefits selling experience for carriers, brokers, and their clients.
On August 8, CRC Group signed a definitive agreement to acquire BenefitMall in a transaction expected to close in the third quarter of 2022, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions. More information is available at www.benefitmall.com.
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The new styles mark the first 2100 semi-transparent resin series for the ever-growing G-SHOCK Women's line
DOVER, N.J., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Casio America, Inc. unveils the latest additions to its G-SHOCK Women's lineup with the GMAS2100SK, an extension of the popular Men's Skeleton series. Available in four colors, the Women's Skeleton x Metallic Dial collection seamlessly meshes function and fashion for the perfect everyday accessory.
Building off the success of the Men's Skeleton series, G-SHOCK answered the question of when they would provide a similar silhouette for women and the time is now. The GMAS2100SK showcases unique metallic dials - two of which are slightly polarized to add texture and two are monotone to further highlight the metallic accents – that play off of each other to create an intricate and in-depth watch face. The glossy finish on the colored resin lends itself to iridescence, sheen, and high-fashion – all where G-SHOCK found inspiration. Boasting all of the expected G-SHOCK qualities, with the added fashion-focus, this timepiece is one that watch aficionados, fashion-lovers, and women everywhere will choose as their go-to style.
The new timepieces come equipped with G-SHOCK's technology, including:
- Shock Resistant
- 200M Water Resistant
- 3-Year Battery Life
- Double LED Light (Super Illuminator)
- 5 Daily Alarms
- 1s, 24H, SPL Stopwatch
- 1s, 24H Timer
- World Time (31TZ + UTC)
- Hand Shift Feature
The GMAS2100SK will retail for $120 and will be available for purchase starting at the beginning of September at select G-SHOCK retailers, the G-SHOCK Soho Store and gshock.casio.com/us/. For more information about the G-SHOCK brand, please visit gshock.casio.com/us.
CASIO's shock-resistant G-SHOCK watch is synonymous with toughness, born from the developer Mr. Ibe's dream of 'creating a watch that never breaks'. Over 200 handmade samples were created and tested to destruction until finally in 1983 the first, now iconic G-SHOCK hit the streets of Japan and began to establish itself as 'the toughest watch of all time'. Each watch encompasses the 7 elements; electric shock resistance, gravity resistance, low temperature resistance, vibration resistance, water resistance, shock resistance and toughness. The watch is packed with Casio innovations and technologies to prevent it from suffering direct shock; this includes internal components protected with urethane and suspended timekeeping modules inside the watch structure. Since its launch, G-SHOCK has continued to evolve, continuing to support on Mr. Ibe's mantra "never, never give up." www.gshock.com/us/
Casio America, Inc., Dover, N.J., is the U.S. subsidiary of Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer electronics and business equipment solutions. Established in 1957, Casio America, Inc. markets calculators, keyboards, mobile presentation devices, disc title and label printers, watches, cash registers and other consumer electronic products. Casio has strived to realize its corporate creed of "creativity and contribution" through the introduction of innovative and imaginative products. For more information, visit www.casio.com/us/.
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MIAMI, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- What: The COVID-19 virus has been the most concerning infection for more than two years but now Monkeypox and in some areas, even Polio is stoking fear and confusion in our communities. In the Health Channel's one-hour virtual Town Hall, COVID & Monkeypox: The Facts, we will speak to the experts about the risks, treatments, and a path forward. We will also speak to Dr. Anthony Fauci about his retirement from the federal government.
When: Thursday, September 8th at 7 PM EST
Where: LIVE on Health Channel, @AllhealthGo's Facebook and YouTube pages and streamed on AllHealthTV.com
Who: Moderated by Health Channel host, Olga Villaverde, the outstanding panel experts include:
- Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director
- Michael Zinner, M.D. – CEO & Executive Medical Dir., Miami Cancer Institute
- Kavita Patel, M.D. – Primary Care Physicians VP, Johns Hopkins Medicine
- Carlos del Rio, M.D. – Assoc. Dean, Emory University School of Medicine
- Debra Houry, M.D. – Principal Deputy Director, CDC
Special thanks to the Eunice Joyce Gardiner Foundation for their generous philanthropy.
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SOUTH FLORIDA PBS is Florida's largest public media company, including Public Broadcasting stations WXEL-TV, serving the Palm Beaches and the Treasure Coast and WPBT2, serving Miami-Dade and Broward counties, and the Health Channel, the only 24/7 channel dedicated to health in the nation. SOUTH FLORIDA PBS connects organizations and institutions across our region and preserves South Florida's history. Leading the way in this global society, SOUTH FLORIDA PBS serves diverse communities from Key West to the Sebastian Inlet and from the Atlantic Ocean west to Lake Okeechobee. SOUTH FLORIDA PBS is committed to creating and presenting unique arts, education, and cultural heritage programming, and tells different local stories across a variety of digital media platforms. Some of our award-winning productions include James Patterson's Kid Stew, Changing Seas, Art Loft, and Your South Florida. For more information, visit https://www.southfloridapbs.org.
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The company will use funds to build-out current assets,
and to purchase additional cannabis companies and licenses.
CHICAGO, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 1937 Group, Ltd. (www.the1937group.com), regarded as the first minority-owned vertically-integrated cannabis company in Illinois, announced it recently secured $17M in new funding. The company closed a binding financing agreement with the private investment group, SGG Enterprises LLC.
The funds will be used for the build-out of current assets, and for the purchase and build-out of additional Illinois cannabis establishments.
The 1937 Group was established to be the parent company for multiple Illinois licensed cannabis companies, including a 52,000 sq ft cultivation operation currently under construction (Helios Labs), a retail operation (Parkway Dispensary), and a cannabis transportation company (Highwaymen Security).
The company is also in the process of securing an additional Craft Grow license and four (4) additional Illinois retail dispensary licenses.
"It is important that we capitalize as the leading social equity entrant in the Illinois regulated cannabis market," said Ambrose Jackson, CEO of The 1937 Group. "During these times, when venture markets have seemingly dried up, our ability to secure capital and consummate this deal is a great indicator that we have the right team and the right strategy in place; and that we can execute on our vision of becoming not only one of the first new operators to the market, but also one of the most impactful."
The terms of the agreement establish a disbursement schedule of $13M in equity shares and $4M as a debt note.
Qualified individuals and entities interested in investing with The 1937 Group or any of its ventures, may contact Ambrose Jackson at: Ambrose.Jackson@1937group.com, or Mayur Shah at: mvshah1133@gmail.com.
About The 1937 Group:
The 1937 Group, Ltd., is the first minority-owned, vertically integrated cannabis company based in Chicago, and as such, is committed to creating opportunities for others whose voices often get overlooked. The company currently has ownership of several Illinois cannabis licenses, including Retail, Cultivation and Transportation.
The name "The 1937 Group" is inspired by the Marihuana Act of 1937, which fueled pervasive racial discrimination against Mexican-Americans and Blacks, and widespread imprisonment for what is now a legal activity in the majority of the United States.
Connect with The 1937 Group and its group of companies:
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The leading influencer management company Digital Brand Architects (DBA), a United Talent Agency (UTA) company, announced today that it has acquired golf marketing and digital talent management company, Digital Golf Collective (DGC). The addition of DGC to DBA's portfolio serves to expand the company's footprint into the sports industry, reinforcing DBA's continued growth in tandem with the rapidly evolving creator economy and further exemplifying how boundless the influencer industry has become.
DBA will leverage its expertise in digital talent management, brand development and extensive resource network to expand upon DGC's existing opportunities and capabilities in digital talent representation, brand marketing, social media management and strategic partnerships within sports and lifestyle.
"From our first meeting, I was immediately struck by the vision Jess and Sean laid out and how seamlessly it aligned with our own perspective on the world of content creation," said Penchansky. "Their success in such a niche area is indicative of their creative approach and I am thrilled that they are part of the DBA team. Together we will be able to expand opportunities for our clients and evolve our business in fresh ways."
Founded by seasoned marketing executives and entrepreneurs Jess McAlister and Sean Guerrero, DGC was born out of passion and the immense opportunity within the golf industry to manage strategy and branding for leading creators, brands, events and tournaments. All of DGC's individual digital talent and branding clients, including Tisha Alyn, Ryan Rustand and Cassandra Meyer, will join DBA's roster of leading digital talent. Under DBA, DGC's day-to-day operations will continue to be run by McAlister and Guerrero, who will dually report into DBA CEO Raina Penchansky and SVP of Finance AD Rastogi.
"After creating and shaping the influencer marketing economy within golf, this is an exciting moment for the future of DGC and our clients," said McAlister and Guerrero in a joint statement. "As golf keeps trending upwards as the fastest growing segment in sports, the timing couldn't be better for us to join the expansive networks of DBA and UTA."
"The partnership between DBA and DGC will allow both companies to capitalize on the significant opportunity within the multi-billion dollar golf industry," said Rastogi. "With the sizable increase in spending across equipment, apparel, accessories, entertainment, travel and lifestyle, this partnership is a logical next step in our growth."
The acquisition further marks the opportunity to broaden the conversation around golf as a lifestyle within the creator economy and amplify the consistent disruption of traditional entertainment.
About Digital Brand Architects
Digital Brand Architects is the industry leader in the influencer management and marketing landscape, representing a world-class portfolio of social media-oriented personalities, creators, and publishers whose total reach spans over 450 million. Founded in 2010, DBA was the first digital influencer management company to recognize the rise of new media voices and manage them as individual talent. In 2015, DBA launched Digital Brand Products (DBP) to empower its talent and other digital-native properties in developing, manufacturing and selling their own merchandise. In 2018, DBA launched Dear Media (DM), a women-focused podcast network that hosts over 50 shows fronted by top-tier talent with a combined following of more than 60 million across social channels.
About Digital Golf Collective
Digital Golf Collective is a minority-owned full-service marketing and talent brand management company focused on the golf industry. Founded by two of the leading digital and branding leaders in golf, DGC was born out of necessity, large scale opportunity, and passion for the greatest sport in the world. DGC represents and works with the market share of leading influential voices and brands within golf today. With the founders having launched and created the influencer economy within the golf industry, DGC aims to move the game forward for what the future holds for the sport, creators, media, and its partners.
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MILWAUKEE, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Talent Solutions Right Management, the career and talent development expert within ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN), announced today that it has been named by Forbes as one of America's Best Management Consulting Firms for the second year. The expert coaching and in-person workforce development consultancy also won in 2020. Forbes originally designed the annual list to help business leaders evaluate management consulting firms as the demand for consulting services continues to rise across all sectors.
"We are honored to be included among the top management consulting firms in the U.S. once again this year," said Karel van der Mandele, Senior Vice President at Talent Solutions Right Management. "Our consultants and coaches remain committed to helping our customers and candidates tackle their toughest talent and career development challenges." Right Management received three stars in the Human Resource Consulting category.
"Given the business and talent landscape many are facing, I am proud that we can be a trusted advisor to our clients to navigate today's complexity," said Beth Linderbaum, Senior Vice President at Right Management. "As NA Delivery Leader, each day I get to see how Right Management helps individuals, leaders, and organizations connect to their deeper purpose and enable cultures that support empowerment and belonging."
Forbes partnered with Statista to produce its seventh annual list of America's Best Management Consulting Firms. This installment was compiled by surveying 7,500 partners and executives of management consultancies, as well as approximately 1,300 senior executives who worked with such firms over the last four years. The list is divided into 16 sectors—from aerospace and defense to financial institutions—and 16 functional areas—including strategy, sustainability, and digital transformation. The 218 firms that received the most recommendations are ranked according to star ratings: five stars for "very frequently recommended," four stars for "frequently recommended" and three stars for "recommended."
Talent Solutions Right Management is the global career and talent development expert within ManpowerGroup®. They have helped organizations become more agile, attractive, and innovative by creating a culture of career management and learning that nurtures future talent, motivates and engages people, and provides individuals with opportunities to increase their value throughout their careers. Its approach is centered on the fact that organizations thrive when individuals are successful in their careers. We have spent the last 35+ years identifying workforce challenges and developing innovative solutions, enabling our globally informed methods to be time-tested across more than 50 countries. For more information, visit: www.right.com.
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Announcement comes as the Sarasota area sees a substantial rise in luxury real estate sales and a sustained shift of buyers moving away from northern, urban locales to high-value waterfront properties in the Sunshine State.
NAPLES, Fla., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ELITE AUCTIONS, a leader in luxury real estate auctions and marketing, announced the latest addition to its lineup of luxury residential, commercial, and undeveloped real estate listings selling at auction without reserve this summer.
Going to the auction block September 24 is 8347 Midnight Pass Rd, located at the southern end of barrier island Siesta Key and three miles south of Siesta Key Beach.
The 6,512 sq-ft home is being offered fully-furnished, and features a boat dock with a 16,000 lb lift and a private kayak launch, along with lush tropical landscaping, an elevator to all three floors, and stunning views of Little Sarasota Bay.
The residence was recently listed for sale at $7.9 million according to publicly-accessible real estate data sources.
8347 Midnight Pass Rd joins a number of Sarasota-area properties that ELITE AUCTIONS has marketed for auction recently, and comes as the Sarasota-Manatee County area sees a massive surge in demand for luxury real estate, and record-high sales.
Commenting on the announcement and the areas's massive increase in demand for high-end luxury real estate, Randy Haddaway, Founder & CEO of Elite Auctions said, "Sarasota luxury real estate, particularly, waterfront properties like this one located near the world-famous Siesta Key Beach, have never been in higher demand or sold for as much money as they are today. And anyone looking for a turnkey home like this, should expect competition."
Haddaway says that partly explaining the trend of rising prices is the steady increase in wealthy buyers from the Northeast who are accustomed to high price points for custom luxury homes in prime locations.
"This home is exactly what those buyers are looking for," says Haddaway. "It exemplifies the kind of property that's in high demand right now, but in short supply."
8347 Midnight Pass Rd is open for previews on weekends, 1-4 PM, beginning Saturday, September 3, and Sunday, September 4, with a final preview the day before the auction on Friday, September 23.
The auction will be held on-site at the property, Saturday, September 24, 2022, at 11 AM EDT, with registration beginning at 9 AM. Remote bids will be accepted by phone. Broker participation is encouraged.
ELITE AUCTIONS has marketed more than $2 billion of high-value property and luxury yachts for auction with no reserve, accelerating the sale of more than $450 million in luxury assets. Its luxury home auction team is dedicated to helping sellers achieve the best value for their property and secure a sale quickly.
Media Contact
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Director of Marketing, Elite Auctions
239-218-5417
Kris@EliteAuctions.com
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NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Supreme Court of the State of New York yesterday granted a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Republic of Kazakhstan against Daniel Chapman and New York-based investment firm Argentem Creek Partners.
In December 2013, a Swedish arbitral tribunal awarded the owners of Tristan Oil approximately $500m in compensation for a harassment campaign and illegal expropriation of assets by Kazakhstan's authorities in 2010.
The Award has since been recognized in multiple jurisdictions, including the U.S., Sweden, Luxembourg, Italy and France. A group of bondholders, including Argentem Creek, is due to receive 70% of the Award proceeds under a sharing agreement with the claimants.
Since December 2013, Kazakhstan has refused to pay and instead adopted a multijurisdictional legal strategy designed to frustrate the Award and avoid compliance with its binding international treaty obligations.
As part of these efforts, in June 2020 Kazakhstan filed a lawsuit in the United States against Daniel Chapman and Argentem Creek Partners, alleging that Argentem Creek Partners' financing of attempts to enforce the Award constituted fraud. On August 29 2022, Judge Andrew Borrok of the Supreme Court State of New York granted a motion to dismiss this lawsuit.
Judge Borrok described Kazakhstan's main argument as "an impermissible collateral attack of a confirmed arbitration Award," adding that "there can be no action for aiding and abetting fraud without an underlying fraud."
The ruling states that the arbitration Award was obtained in Sweden and that the Award could only be set aside by a Swedish court, noting also that a US court had recognised the Award and that those findings were "entitled to full faith and credit."
"Arguments that the Award were obtained by fraud were indeed considered and rejected by the court in Sweden," Judge Borrok added.
The ruling stated that the November 2021 decision of a court in Belgium to uphold an appeal against the Award was also "wholly irrelevant".
Kazakhstan also made further arguments which were described by the judge as "unavailing."
Dan Chapman, CEO of Argentem Creek Partners, said:
"This is an important victory against the instigators and accomplices of this outrageous strategy who sought to weaponize American and European courts through false allegations and intimidation, hoping to obstruct payment of a final binding and non-appealable Award. Those particular officials who have led this failed strategy should stand aside and let pro-investment and pro-reform voices in Kazakhstan move this situation towards a rational conclusion."
Paul Butler, Partner at Akin Gump, said:
"Needless to say we are very pleased that after hundreds of pages of briefing on the matter, the Court has completely dismissed Kazakhstan's complaint against Argentem and Mr. Chapman and found, as we have argued all along, that their unfounded claims of derivative fraud were merely an unlawful collateral attack on a validly confirmed arbitration award that Kazakhstan has steadfastly refused to pay. We hope this will end Kazakhstan's ill-advised attempts to use US courts to intimidate investors from protecting their fiduciary interests in an award that the Court found was entitled to the full faith and credit of US law."
For a history of the Tristangate dispute and an archive of all related court document and news articles, please visit www.tristangate.com
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DELAWARE, Ohio, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Greif, Inc. (NYSE: GEF, GEF.B), a global leader in industrial packaging products and services, announced today that its Board of Directors has declared quarterly cash dividends of $0.50 per share on its Class A Common Stock, and $0.75 per share on its Class B Common Stock. This dividend declaration represents an 8.7% per share increase from the quarterly dividends declared on June 7, 2022 and August 31, 2021.
"We are excited to continue growing our recurring dividend," said Larry Hilsheimer, Greif's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. "This increased dividend supplements our recently announced share repurchase program, which together provide a compelling investment opportunity to our shareholders."
The dividends are payable on October 1, 2022, to stockholders of record at the close of business on September 16, 2022.
Greif is a global leader in industrial packaging products and services and is pursuing its vision: be the best performing customer service company in the world. The Company produces steel, plastic and fibre drums, intermediate bulk containers, reconditioned containers, containerboard, uncoated recycled paperboard, coated recycled paperboard, tubes and cores and a diverse mix of specialty products. The Company also manufactures packaging accessories and provides filling, packaging and other services for a wide range of industries. In addition, Greif manages timber properties in the southeastern United States. The Company is strategically positioned in over 35 countries to serve global as well as regional customers. Additional information is on the Company's website at www.greif.com.
Contact:
Matt Leahy
740-549-6158
matthew.leahy@greif.com
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Opening of the newly renovated and rebranded hotel offers an authentic coastal stay where historic charm and seaside hospitality collide
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Pacifica Hotels, the largest owner and operator of boutique hotels along the Pacific Coast, unveils the latest addition to its portfolio with the debut of Hotel Virginia Santa Barbara, Tapestry Collection by Hilton. Hotel Virginia Santa Barbara opens its doors after an extensive remodel and rebrand, offering 61 well-appointed guest rooms and suites.
Founded in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara, the newly reimagined Hotel Virginia Santa Barbara invites guests to immerse themselves in stunning Spanish architecture, experience the sights and sounds of the city, and absorb the beauty emanating from the sparking California coastline. Wanderers, artists, wine lovers and foodies unite on energizing State Street, a must-see destination for any visitor. It's true what the locals say: Santa Barbara has it all.
"We are excited for the opening of Hotel Virginia Santa Barbara as we continue our partnership with Tapestry Collection by Hilton," said John Pedlow, chief operating officer at Pacifica Hotels. "Santa Barbara is such a special destination, and this hotel will truly immerse guests in all that the California coastal lifestyle has to offer."
Property highlights include personalized services, unmatched experiences and distinctive dining alongside complimentary WiFi and more. Guests can fuel up for a full day of adventure at new on-site eatery Brisa Café + Bar, which serves coastal comfort dishes including a refreshing acai bowl and Californian favorite, the breakfast burrito. For those on the move, Brisa Café + Bar is ready for whatever the day will bring with grab-and-go options, cold pressed juices and a special focus on coffee culture with selections from local roasters.
Travelers are invited to experience the city with their five senses: witnessing street art and live performances just steps away in the spirited Funk Zone, savoring local flavors inspired by exotic destinations, diving into the ever-evolving music scene at Santa Barbara's Historic Theatre District, breathing in the salty ocean air, and running their fingers along the decorative ironwork infused with the heart and spirit of Spain.
Designated by the city of Santa Barbara as a local landmark in March 2000, Hotel Virginia Santa Barbara combines the historical marrow of two buildings within the now single structured property.
Hotel Virginia Santa Barbara, Tapestry Collection by Hilton is part of Hilton Honors, the award-winning guest loyalty program for Hilton's 18 world-class hotel brands. Hotel Virginia Santa Barbara, Tapestry Collection by Hilton is located at 17 W. Haley St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Reservations can now be booked here for September 1, 2022 and beyond.
Pacifica Hotels was formed in 1993 to consolidate the hospitality operations of Invest West Financial Corporation, which has been involved in the acquisition, development, refurbishing and operating of quality hotel properties and other commercial real estate properties for almost 30 years. Today, Pacifica Hotels is the largest owner and operator of boutique hotels on the Pacific coast. Pacifica Hotels' 40 independent and flagged properties in key California cities from San Diego to San Francisco, as well as Hawaii, feature outstanding locations, AAA 3 and 4-diamond ratings, upgraded amenities and high standards of guest service. For complete hotel descriptions and reservations, visit www.pacificahotels.com.
Tapestry Collection by Hilton is a portfolio of 75 original hotels that offers guests unique style and vibrant personality, and encourages guests to explore the local destination. With plans for global expansion, every Tapestry Collection property is united by the reliability that comes with the Hilton name, in addition to the benefits of the award-winning Hilton Honors program. Experience a positive stay at Tapestry Collection by Hilton by booking at tapestrycollectionbyhilton.com or through the industry-leading Hilton Honors app. Hilton Honors members who book directly through preferred Hilton channels have access to instant benefits. Learn more about Tapestry Collection by Hilton at newsroom.hilton.com/tapestry, and follow the brand on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
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TORRINGTON, Conn., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Therap Services, a Person-Centered, Data Driven solution provider in Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS), Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) and other human services settings, has introduced a new Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Dashboard in its Business Intelligence platform to help service providers visualize graphics from comprehensive analytics on their Scheduling/EVV data. The module also offers myriad reporting features, data comparison & data filtering capabilities for service providers to further develop a Data-Driven approach to enhance and improve their Person-Centered services for individuals.
The Business Intelligence platform in Therap can be used for aggregating agency-wide data and reporting through several dashboards. Service providers working in the human services field can create meaningful reports across several dashboards from the captured data at their agency using Therap's Business Intelligence Dashboards. Furthermore, users can easily navigate through these data using comprehensive graphs & charts, helping them determine scopes and opportunities for quality improvement, enhanced agency performance and identification of trends.
Therap's HIPAA compliant Scheduling/Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) module is designed for states & providers to build staff schedules (for in-home & community based services), track staff hours and monitor individual service allocation. This module also has a self check-in feature that allows users who are schedulable for that specific service to check in without an approved Schedule Slot in advance. This option is helpful for flexible services where the scheduler is not creating slots in advance.
Therap Services offers mobile solutions (Android and iOS) with adaptable tools that allow users to record essential data for services delivered from point-of-service remotely in home and community settings. Therap's Mobile Applications include geolocation features, electronic timestamps and also support offline capability. Therap's EVV Dashboard generates statistical presentation of Scheduling/EVV data of an agency. Using this data, users can generate extensive reports to display records of services provided to individuals and induce prompt payment for the provided services.
For more information on Therap's Business Intelligence Performance Dashboards, please visit https://www.therapservices.net/products/business-intelligence-platform-offers-agency-performance-dashboards/
Therap's comprehensive and HIPAA-compliant software is used in human services settings for documentation, communication, reporting, EVV and billing.
Learn more at www.therapservices.net.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Value is a determining factor in outside counsel selection, according to 94% of clients surveyed by law firm service experts at Wicker Park Group. The desire to deliver more client value is at the heart of Troutman Pepper Plus, the firm's standard-setting program that aims to connect clients with additional resources, create innovative solutions, and provide key insights to deliver efficiency and build stronger relationships.
"At Troutman Pepper, we've prioritized client service for years," said Managing Partner Tom Cole. "Troutman Pepper Plus is our next iteration of client service. The program harnesses the expertise and talents of business professionals across the firm to add more value, insight, and collaboration into our client relationships."
"We are thrilled to officially launch Troutman Pepper Plus, which leverages our industry-leading client listening program to uncover client needs and develop customized solutions that deliver real value to clients," said Dan Pulka, Troutman Pepper's chief client experience officer. "Since 2020, we have met with hundreds of firm clients to understand what value means to them and have worked on projects ranging from launching an outside counsel scorecard to building complex legal project management dashboards. We are excited to engage with even more clients on adding value to the relationship."
Troutman Pepper Plus combines the services of attorneys and skilled professionals across the firm to provide clients with tailored solutions in areas like innovation, diversity, pricing, legal project management, pro bono, and more. Clients of all sizes and across industries are already benefiting from the program.
- For an innovative pharmaceutical company, the firm built a web-based platform to allow the client to monitor its full IP portfolio, including filing status, upcoming deadlines, and countries with IP assets.
- A financial services client requested measurable diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) targets for the team staffing its matters. The agreed-upon financial incentive helps the client advance its internal DEI goals and objectives and rewards the firm for achieving established DEI targets.
- Following changes in the law department at one of the firm's largest clients, Troutman Pepper teams engaged with the client on a number of projects to improve internal efficiencies, including developing custom technology solutions, designing methods to evaluate outside counsel, and providing guidance on implementing contract lifecycle management systems.
"As in-house counsel continue to prioritize legal operations to implement DEI programs, automate legal processes, and embrace new tech solutions, having a defined program like Troutman Pepper Plus can make all the difference," said Partner P. Thao Le. "I have personally tapped the program to design a custom solution for a prospective client. The client was impressed that we went the extra step to demonstrate how we could provide value, and it helped in winning the business."
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 U.S. cities. The firm's litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients' most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
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ECBs Wunsch is the next ECB official to speak, saying:
- ECB has to move quickly on rates to a level that may be restrictive
- may be going towards a technical recession, or worse
The ECB rate decision will take place next Thursday with the market split on whether it's going to be 50 or 75 basis points. From comments from ECB officials, the idea of 75 basis point is certainly something that is on the table for discussions.
However, ECB's Stournaras is adding to earlier comments by tilting more toward 50 basis points. Says:
- Further gradual normalization will be appropriate
- Neutral rate estimated between 0.5% and 1.5%
- Don't need to take very large steps; need to be prudent
The last comment seems to be counter to the idea of going in hard with a 75 basis point hike. | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/ecbs-wunsche-have-to-move-quickly-on-rate-hikes-to-a-level-that-may-be-restrictive-20220830/ | 2022-08-30T17:51:43Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/ecbs-wunsche-have-to-move-quickly-on-rate-hikes-to-a-level-that-may-be-restrictive-20220830/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BOSTON, Mass. — Public transit systems across the country are reaching a breaking point, as decades of underfunding are now causing serious safety and maintenance issues leading to delays and even closures, impacting millions of people every day.
In Boston, Massachusetts, officials from the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority recently implemented a 30-day shutdown of the state's Orange Line, a subway line that runs through the heart of Boston and carries an estimated 100,000 people each day. But not a single train is moving right now as crews work to make emergency repairs after a slew of safety failures, including a 43-year-old train that recently caught fire on a bridge prompting one rider to jump into a river below.
"It’s a huge deal but you have to get at the level of people affected to see it," said Josh Ostroff with Transportation for Massachusetts.
Transit advocates nationwide are saying the crisis playing out in Boston could become the new reality for millions of other Americans as aging infrastructure begins to break down.
"You start to see the failures in our systems," said Mike Schipper with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Each year, ASCE gives public transit a report card. In 2021, America received a D- due in part to a $176 billion backlog in unfunded projects and repairs.
"What’s happened around the country is we’re trying to do our best to put service on the streets every day," Schipper said.
The failure to address even the most basic infrastructure needs is leading to catastrophic failures and shutdowns like the one now playing out in Boston.
"This really speaks to a structural, long-term deficit," said Richard Dimino with the group A Better City.
Even in cities like Denver, where the light rail was built less than 30 years ago, advocates say it's important to remember that newer transit systems are no longer brand new. Trains have a useful life of about 30 years and buses should only be on the road for 12. But decades of underfunding means cities have stretched those years out far beyond what’s often safe.
"The ability to keep them on the street is difficult because they break down a lot," Mike Schipper said.
At the end of the day, it is riders paying the price for America not paying up for transit. Advocates are worried once riders leave public transit because of unreliability they won’t come back.
"The lesson to be learned from all of this is to take care of the state of good repair and invest in good repair," Richard Dimino said.
The Infrastructure Bill passed last year added $39 billion to help fund transit projects over the next five years. Industry advocates say it's a step in the right direction but still a fraction of what's really needed. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/after-decades-of-underfunding-americas-public-transit-systems-are-failing | 2022-08-30T17:54:57Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/after-decades-of-underfunding-americas-public-transit-systems-are-failing | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Chris Rock claims he turned down an offer to host the Oscars next year.
Rock made the claim during a show in Phoenix, according to the Arizona Republic. Deadline reports that Rock was also offered a Super Bowl commercial, but declined that as well.
Rock was the victim of an on-stage attack at this year's Academy Awards ceremony. Will Smith slapped Rock on live TV after he joked about Jada Pinkett Smith's short hairstyle.
Months after the slap, Smith publicly apologized to Rock.
"My behavior was unacceptable and I am here whenever you are ready to talk," Smith said.
Smith has been banned from the Oscars for 10 years for the slap. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/chris-rock-claims-he-was-asked-to-host-next-years-oscars | 2022-08-30T17:54:57Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/chris-rock-claims-he-was-asked-to-host-next-years-oscars | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
VACAVILLE, Calif. — Hundreds of thousands of tomatoes caused a major traffic jam on a California freeway on Monday.
The California Highway Patrol said around 5 a.m., a tractor-trailer spilled its cargo after it lost control, hit another car, then slammed into the center median, The New York Times reported.
The agency said the incident happened on Interstate 80 in Vacaville, which is located about 35 miles northeast of Sacramento.
@ChpSolano is at a crash involving a big-rig hauling tomatoes that went through the center divide. Multiple lanes closed WB and EB on I-80 near Alamo in Vacaville. Please avoid the area and use alternate routes. Please drive safe pic.twitter.com/RR058UypVn
— CHP SOLANO (@ChpSolano) August 29, 2022
According to officials, one car got stuck in the spill, which led to a chain reaction of crashes involving seven vehicles, the newspaper reported.
Officials told the newspaper that three people, including the truck driver, had minor injuries.
According to law enforcement officials, one person was hospitalized with a broken leg, The Times reported.
Both sides of the interstate were closed for several hours so crews could clean up and remove the semi.
Troopers said all lanes were reopened about 12 hours later.
All lanes are now open Eastbound and Westbound. Please drive safe
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Stores are also trying to eliminate all the extra inventory that arrived later than expected because of supply chain issues. Companies want to get products off shelves before the holidays.
“The lack of discounts really became evident when goods weren’t available for sale and so retail stopped putting goods on sale, when in fact they didn’t have enough to sell,” said retail expert Mark Cohen. “That was a temporary illusory trend that, I think, has come and gone and we’re not going to see that come back anytime soon.”
Cohen expects discounts to be back for the holidays, but he doesn’t expect the supply chain to be fully resolved.
“There’s going to be, in my opinion, this holiday a mix of empty shelves reflecting things customers want but can’t get and lots of excess inventory that keeps coming ala the sorcerer’s apprentice that may represent things that no longer of appeals to customers,” Cohen said.
He expects sales of casual clothes, exercise equipment and home furnishings that have piled up.
There could be a shortage of the hot fashions of the season. You may also see a lack of cold weather products because stores started to be more conservative with their advanced planning last year. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/retailers-expected-to-have-more-sales-this-holiday-season | 2022-08-30T17:55:25Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/retailers-expected-to-have-more-sales-this-holiday-season | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
How Can Art-Inflective Experienties Shape Citize? (Work with Winn Schwetz)\nThis project works directly toward engagement across institutionally organized divisions: from university campus/administration through out into city culture. Project development: Work on 2 art commisions and the coartivatory art+practicum: [“How Could it Not (Stinka)!” (with Troy Dexter) a sound sculptural park, part II Despite cases leveling off in the U.S., Texas on Tuesday reported the first monkeypox-related death in the nation.
Texas health officials said the Houston-area resident was severely immunocompromised. Officials are examining what role monkeypox had in the person’s death.
“Monkeypox is a serious disease, particularly for those with weakened immune systems,” said Dr. John Hellerstedt, state health commissioner. “We continue to urge people to seek treatment if they have been exposed to monkeypox or have symptoms consistent with the disease.”
Monkeypox cases dropped slightly last week nationally compared to the week prior. To date, there have been 18,101 cases of monkeypox reported in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In most cases, monkeypox is painful but not life-threatening.
Typical symptoms of monkeypox include a rash, fever, malaise, headache, and muscle aches.
The federal government has been working to make scarce monkeypox vaccines available. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday the government is in the process of producing 1.1 million shots open to the public.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky said late last week that she is “cautiously optimistic” the U.S. is seeing mitigation measures begin to bring cases down.
“We’re actually seeing vaccines get out, behaviors change, harm reduction messages being heard and implemented. And all of that working together to bend the curve, if you will,” she said. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/texas-reports-first-us-based-monkeypox-related-death | 2022-08-30T17:55:32Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/texas-reports-first-us-based-monkeypox-related-death | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Panel recommends removing Confederate names from military schools
A congressional commission reviewing military property named after Confederate leaders recommended Monday that West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy rename structures that commemorate the Civil War figures.
Why it matters: The commission's recommendations, which include removing depictions of and dedications to Gen. Robert E. Lee from West Point, are part of a broader effort to rename military installations that bore the names of Confederate military officers.
What they're saying: In the second part of its final report to Congress, the Naming Commission wrote that the commissioners did "not make these recommendations with any intention of 'erasing history.'"
- "Rather, they make these recommendations to affirm West Point’s long tradition of educating future generations of America’s military leaders to represent the best of our national ideals," it added.
- "Cadets of the present who devote their lives to national service should do so in an environment and setting that honors the greatest examples, traditions, and leaders of our past."
- The commission is made up of several former military officials and is chaired by Michelle Janine Howard, a retired U.S. Navy four-star admiral.
The big picture: The commission specifically recommended that the Army rename a barracks, a housing area, a child development center, a road, and a gate named after Lee at West Point. It also recommended removing a portrait of the general currently displayed in Jefferson Hall, the library.
- "No doubts exist that Robert E. Lee fought for the Confederacy: he was its most effective and storied leader, and by the end of the Civil War, Lee had risen to General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States," the commission wrote.
- "Lee’s armies were responsible for the deaths of more United States Soldiers than practically any other enemy in our nation’s history," the commission said.
- It also recommended West Point remove honors for Confederate Gens. P.G.T. Beauregard and William Hardee.
- As for the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., the commission said the Navy should rename two buildings and a road named after Confederate Adm. Franklin Buchanan and Matthew Maury, a Confederate naval officer who "viewed African Americans as unworthy of life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness."
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Lawmakers launch fact-finding mission in bid to protect consumers
Lawmakers, in a bid to enhance consumer protection, are asking government agencies as well as major crypto exchanges for more information about what they're doing about cryptocurrency-related fraud.
Why it matters: The House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy has used its heft in Washington to press companies for information on everything from metals toxicity in infant formula to advertising practices for e-cigarettes. The latest ask — all documents pertaining to crypto fraud dated January 1, 2009 (or the earliest date per the firms' respective founding dates), are due by Sept. 12.
What's happening: "Given the growing popularity of cryptocurrencies both as a form of payment and as an investment, I am concerned by the rapid growth of fraud and consumer abuse," Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), the chair of the subcommittee, said in letters addressing government agencies as well as major exchanges.
- The letters were sent Tuesday to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chair Gary Gensler, the Federal Trade Commission's Lina Khan, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Rostin Behnam as well as leaders of major crypto exchanges at Coinbase Global, FTX US, Binance, Kraken and KuCoin.
Details: Krishnamoorthi cited the FTC's estimate that losses from crypto scams are on track to surpass $1 billion this year.
- "I am also concerned by the apparent lack of action by cryptocurrency exchanges to protect consumers conducting transactions through their platforms," he said.
- Coinbase, FTX US, Binance and Kraken did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Of note: The congressman is a member of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus, a bipartisan group formed to bring together industry and lawmakers to study blockchain technology.
Context: The subcommittee's fact-finding mission comes amid a slate of reports due out soon per President Joe Biden's executive order in March that, among other things, put top consumer watchdogs FTC and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to task on how to police crypto transactions.
- The CFPB in May issued an enforcement memorandum, addressing deceptive practices including misuse of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo or misrepresenting deposit insurance coverage.
- Meanwhile, the FTC has homed in on crypto scams and stepped up publishing crypto educational materials.
The other side: Many of the largest crypto exchanges, for their part, have been engaged in publishing educational materials in blog posts, tweets and entire sites dedicated to detailing the finer points of digital assets investing.
- FTX launched "Get to Know Crypto" just this month.
- Coinbase Global just rolled out a voter registration tool saying it was part of a "as part of a broader education initiative" in a blog post last week and has an explainer on all the different ways scammers might target them.
- Binance also has a how-to on identifying and avoiding crypto scams and offers personal finance tips.
The bottom line: "By implementing audit policies, requiring certain disclosures, delisting, and adopting other safety mechanisms, cryptocurrency exchanges can—and should—create safer environments for consumers," Krishnamoorthi said. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/30/crypto-fraud-lawmakers-letter-consumer-protection | 2022-08-30T17:55:38Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/30/crypto-fraud-lawmakers-letter-consumer-protection | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Cybersecurity's public-private salary gap
The gap between cybersecurity professionals' salaries in private industry and the public sector shows little sign of closing any time soon, per data from Lightcast.io, a labor market research firm.
Why it matters: The pay disparity makes the Biden administration's giant hiring challenges — filling thousands of security and other tech-related positions in government — that much harder.
Details: From a 12% private-sector premium in 2019, the gap closed significantly to 8% in 2020 as the pandemic disrupted the labor market. In 2021, it bounced up to 15%, and it's 14% so far this year.
Of note: It took three years for the pay level for a typical public-sector cybersecurity worker to catch up to what a private-sector pro was making in 2019.
Yes, but: High-skilled labor in tech and other fields generally pays better outside government than in it.
- People take government jobs anyway because they want to gain experience they can't get anywhere else — or just want to serve the nation.
Between the lines: The Lightcast data is based on advertised salaries. Private-sector employees in tech, particularly in startups, often receive additional compensation in the form of equity or stock options. That pay is much harder to quantify and is not included in this comparison.
Flashback: Last winter, the Biden White House launched an effort to boost cybersecurity recruiting in both the public and private sectors to fill what the administration estimated were 600,000 vacancies across both the public and private sectors. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/30/cybersecurity-public-private-salary-gap | 2022-08-30T17:55:45Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/30/cybersecurity-public-private-salary-gap | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Biden admin to cancel $1.5B in loans for Westwood College students
The Department of Education announced Tuesday that it will cancel $1.5 billion in student debt for 79,000 students who attended the now-defunct Westwood College.
The big picture: The news comes less than a week after the Biden administration announced broad student loan forgiveness for millions of Americans.
- The Education Department said Westwood College lied to students about the value of its programs, as well as their future job prospects.
- The Department of Education earlier this month canceled all remaining federal student loans to borrowers that attended ITT Technical Institute over a decade for similar reasons.
- The department "has now approved $14.5 billion in discharges for nearly 1.1 million borrowers whose colleges took advantage of them," per Tuesday's announcement.
Driving the news: "The Department has [...] concluded that the school engaged in widespread misrepresentations about the value of its credentials for attendees' and graduates' employment prospects," the announcement said.
- The department said it will clear federal student loans for borrowers who attended any location of Westwood College between January 1, 2002 through November 17, 2015. The school closed in 2016.
What they're saying: "Westwood College's exploitation of students and abuse of federal financial aid place it in the same circle of infamy occupied by Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute," Education Department Under Secretary James Kvaal said the announcement.
- "Westwood operated on a culture of false promises, lies, and manipulation in order to profit off student debt that burdened borrowers long after Westwood closed," Kvaal added.
Go deeper: Student loan forgiveness in hands of "understaffed and overcommitted" agency | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/30/education-biden-student-loan-westwood-college | 2022-08-30T17:55:51Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/30/education-biden-student-loan-westwood-college | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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If your favorite saying when pouring a cup of coffee is, “Oh, look. Another glorious morning. It makes me sick!” then this Hocus Pocus mug will be a must. Just in time to sip your favorite brew while watching “Hocus Pocus 2,” the Disney Store has released a unique cup that no fan of the Sanderson Sisters should be without.
The cauldron-style black ceramic mug has “Disney Hocus Pocus” printed on the front. But what really makes this Hocus Pocus mug exceptional is that green brew appears to spill over the edges, and “Trouble is Brewing” appears on the back when you fill it with hot liquid.
The Hocus Pocus mug holds up to 18 ounces of your favorite warm drink. It also comes with a 5-inch long ceramic spoon that looks like a wooden spoon. Complete with a small hole in the handle and a bit of leftover potion remaining on the head of the spoon, this utensil is perfect for stirring a dab of newt saliva, a dash of pox or even cream and sugar.
This unique Hocus Pocus mug has a high-gloss glaze. However, because of its color-changing properties, it isn’t dishwasher or microwave safe. Be sure to hand wash it only, and add hot beverages, such as coffee, cocoa or witch’s brew, directly to the mug, rather than adding liquid and heating it.
The Hocus Pocus Color Changing Mug with Spoon is available at the Disney Store for $24.99. Right now, you can get free shipping on orders of $75 or more when you use the promo code SHIPMAGIC.
If you would like to start a collection of cauldron-shaped mugs or add to your existing Hocus Pocus collection, Amazon has a Hocus Pocus mug with an appealing iridescent glaze.
This 12-ounce cauldron-inspired mug is ceramic and features the phrase, “It’s just a bunch of Hocus Pocus” in glittering gold print. The long ceramic “wooden” spoon has an intricate design that will help you whip up potions with ease and fun.
The mug has a 4.8-star overall rating. Customers who reviewed this dishwasher-safe ceramic cup say it makes an excellent gift.
“This mug is a gift for a Hocus Pocus fan,” wrote reviewer KPage. “Really cute for a Witchy potion to start the day!”
“Very cute and original, just like in the Disney store,” wrote Genoveva Rivera, who also shared a photo of the Hocus Pocus mug.
This Hocus Pocus Iridescent Cauldron Mug and Spoon Set is available for $42.60.
Will you be adding these magical mugs to your Sanderson Sisters collection?
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Guatemala intensifying crackdown on human rights defenders, group warns
A Guatemalan human rights group is warning that the country's government has intensified its crackdown on rights defenders, journalists and judicial workers.
Driving the news: The group, Udefegua, has documented more than 560 attacks, including police brutality and “spurious” and “unfounded” criminal cases.
- The organization has recorded more than 2,645 such attacks since January 2020, when President Alejandro Giammattei took office.
- The group documented 1,642 attacks during the entire four-year term of Giammattei's predecessor, Jimmy Morales.
The big picture: The U.S. has added key members of Giammattei's government, including Attorney General Consuelo Porras, to its list of "corrupt and undemocratic actors."
- The U.S. and rights groups have accused Porras and other officials of obstructing justice, including in anti-corruption investigations. At least 15 judges and district attorneys have gone into exile in the last year after facing threats or attempted imprisonment for their anti-corruption cases against business people and officials.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed concerns earlier this year over those judges’ situations.
- Guterres added to those concerns this month when El Periódico's José Rubén Zamora, publisher of a newspaper that has run several stories uncovering government corruption, was arrested on charges of money laundering. Zamora denies any wrongdoing.
- Udefegua also highlighted cases of harassment against Indigenous women and student activists by police forces.
What they’re saying: “I thought that we had hit bottom with Jimmy Morales, but no,” Jordán Rodas, the outgoing Guatemalan human rights ombudsman, told AP in mid-August. Giammattei is behaving “like an emperor," Rodas added. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/30/guatemala-crackdown-human-rights-defenders-journalists | 2022-08-30T17:55:58Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/30/guatemala-crackdown-human-rights-defenders-journalists | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SALISBURY, Md. - Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore on Tuesday announced that it is the recipient of $500,000 of a $38.8 million gift from philanthropist Mackenzie Scott, who donated to 26 JA operations throughout the country.
The donation received by JAES will goes toward the completion of the Perdue Henson Junior Achievement Center, a 25,000-square-foot facility in the Oak Ridge Commons on U.S. 50 in Salisbury that will house more than 10,000 students a year when it opens in fall 2023.
“We are eternally grateful to Mackenzie Scott for choosing us to be one of the 26 recipients of this extremely gracious gift,” said Jayme Hayes, president of JAES. “This donation will ensure the Perdue Henson Junior Achievement Center becomes a gleaming pillar of education on the Shore, giving our students the knowledge and resources to succeed in the global economy.”
Scott chose Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore as one of the 26 recipients through thorough research of the organization’s operations and its mission. Last year, JAES reached nearly 12,500 students in seven counties – Talbot, Caroline, Dorchester, Wicomico, Worcester, Somerset, and Accomack.
The Perdue Henson Junior Achievement Center will also be the first of its kind on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, offering JA capstone programs such as JA BizTown and JA Finance Park. Both will allow students to interact with local businesses to discover how these organizations benefit them as consumers but also show the opportunities that await in their own backyard.
“The Perdue Henson Junior Achievement Center will continue JA’s mission of preparing young people for success,” Hayes said. “Because of the partnerships we’ve made with our local business community, regional leaders and more, Mackenzie Scott was able to see through her research what kind of impact this facility will have on our students. We’re so thankful she is able to share our vision!”
Scott’s $38.8 million is the largest gift from a single donor in the organization’s 103-year history.
Junior Achievement USA will be using its portion of the gift to build network capacity and new learning channels that the organization said will benefit all 102 JA operations across the country. | https://www.wboc.com/news/junior-achievement-of-the-eastern-shore-receives-500k-gift-from-philanthropist-mackenzie-scott/article_2ed29928-286c-11ed-83fc-877547b48904.html | 2022-08-30T17:56:21Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/junior-achievement-of-the-eastern-shore-receives-500k-gift-from-philanthropist-mackenzie-scott/article_2ed29928-286c-11ed-83fc-877547b48904.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
1934 Robert Johnson lynching remembered in Tampa
The people of Tampa unveiled a historical marker Monday in memory of Robert Johnson, a Black man who was the victim of a lynching in 1934.
- Johnson's is the first of at least four lynchings in Hillsborough County the community hopes to mark with historical placards, in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative's National Memorial for Peace and Justice, also known as the Lynching Memorial, in Montgomery, Ala.
Driving the news: A grassroots group, led by Tampa City Council member Luis Viera, planted the marker on a prime piece of downtown real estate near the Tampa Riverwalk, south of the Madame Fortune Taylor Bridge.
- The placard relays what is known about the killing, which was covered by the daily newspapers at the time but remains shrouded in mystery. No one was ever held accountable.
Flashback: In the wee hours of the morning of Jan. 30, 1934, the city police handed Johnson, who had been arrested two days earlier during an assault investigation and cleared, to an armed man who claimed to be law enforcement.
- That man, T.M. Graves, said he was a "deputy constable" and was transporting Johnson to county jail on outstanding warrants.
- Graves later testified he was surrounded by cars in downtown Tampa, kidnapped, and driven two hours north to the Hillsborough River at 50th Street, where Johnson was shot five times.
- Graves reported the killing, led police to the body, and showed bruises from what he said was an assault, but no assailant was ever named. Several probes were fruitless.
Context: Florida led the South in lynchings per capita from 1880 to 1940, and Johnson's would soon be overshadowed by the spectacle lynching of Claude Neal in Jackson County, west of Tallahassee, in which some 5,000 white people participated in the mutilation and hanging of a Black farm hand.
- That murder, in late October 1934, was broadcast far and wide by the then-fledgeling NAACP and brought the United States Congress closer than ever to passing anti-lynching legislation.
Yes, but: No bill would pass, despite more than 200 attempts, until this past March, 88 years later, when President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law.
The latest: In addition to erecting the marker, the group collected soil from the site of the lynching and sent it to the EJI's Legacy Museum, where a collection of more than 800 similar jars of soil from lynching sites across the country is on display.
- EJI invites every community where one of the 6,500 lynchings of Black people in America occurred to confront their history through its truth and reconciliation program.
What they're saying: "It's so important that we don't try to gloss over it," U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor said at the unveiling of the Johnson marker Monday. "It's time now to continue with this reckoning."
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FELTON, Del. - Delaware State Police are investigating a late Monday night motorcycle crash in Felton that claimed a Maryland man's life.
It happened at around 11:30 p.m., when a Suzuki sport-style motorcycle was traveling westbound on Burnite Mill Road and approaching the intersection with Berrytown Road. Police said the operator of the motorcycle crossed the double-yellow line on Burnite Mill Road to pass another vehicle. After passing this vehicle, the motorcyclist moved back into the westbound lane of travel. However, police said that in doing so, the operator lost control of the motorcycle and went off the northern edge of the roadway. The motorcycle then struck several trees, which led to the operator sustaining critical injuries.
The motorcyclist, a 28-year-old man from Ridgely, Md., was transported from the scene to an area hospital. He succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday morning. Identification of the victim is pending notification to the next of kin.
No other vehicles were involved in this incident and no other injuries were reported. The roadway was closed for approximately two-and-a-half hours while the collision was investigated and cleared.
The Delaware State Police Troop 3 Collision Reconstruction Unit continues to investigate this incident. Troopers are asking anyone who witnessed this collision to contact Sgt. J. Wheatley by calling 302-698-8451. Information may also be provided by contacting Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333 or via the internet at www.delawarecrimestoppers.com. | https://www.wboc.com/news/md-man-killed-in-felton-motorcycle-crash/article_13bfb7cc-2882-11ed-8981-6f03cd9b8fa5.html | 2022-08-30T17:56:27Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/md-man-killed-in-felton-motorcycle-crash/article_13bfb7cc-2882-11ed-8981-6f03cd9b8fa5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SNOW HILL, Md. - A 32-year-old Snow Hill man will spend the rest of his life behind bars following his conviction on multiple charges related to the continuous sexual abuse of a pre-teen child.
The Worcester County State's Attorney's Office said Tuesday that on Aug. 25, Cody Jolley was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences plus 75 years in the Division of Corrections for his conviction on the charges of four counts of second-degree rape, two counts of sexual abuse of a minor, sexual solicitation of a minor, two counts of third-degree sex offense, attempted rape, and two counts of fourth-degree sex offense.
Jolley was found guilty by a jury after trial in the Worcester County Circuit Court on May 18, 2022. The Honorable William Jones of the Dorchester County Circuit Court presided over the case and imposed the sentence, ordering Jolley to serve a total of 105 years of active incarceration, with 60 of those years as a mandatory minimum sentence with no parole eligibility.
If released, Jolley must register as a lifetime sex offender, have no contact with minor children, submit a DNA sample, and will be monitored by special offender supervision.
Prosecutors said the charges stem from a complaint of sexual abuse made by a third-grade student and reported to the Worcester County Sheriff's Office in May 2021. A forensic interview of the child was conducted by a social worker at the CRICKET Center, Worcester County’s Child Advocacy Center.
Further investigation by detectives revealed Jolley had abused the child for more a year and resulted in Jolley being placed under arrest and indicted on multiple sex offenses. | https://www.wboc.com/news/snow-hill-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-on-child-sex-charges/article_3d44b6c0-2872-11ed-a874-2f3a31e7b67f.html | 2022-08-30T17:56:33Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/snow-hill-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-on-child-sex-charges/article_3d44b6c0-2872-11ed-a874-2f3a31e7b67f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Bathing a Dog Properly: Here are 10 expert tips on the best way to bath your adorable dog 🐶
Dog bathing can prove to be quite the challenge for many dog owners, and is often postponed for as long as possible – with neither human or pet particularly enjoying the process.
But it’s a job that needs done, particularly if your pooch has rolled in something smelly, and online searches have doubled recently on how to do it properly.
To help out the thousands of people who have recently welcomed pets into their homes over the global pandemic, the experts at online shower retailer Showerstoyou.co.uk have researched the top tips for bathing your dog at home.And for those who find their dog hates the idea of hopping into the bathtub Martin Smith, owner of Showerstoyou.co.uk, has some specific advice, explaining: “For those dogs that hate being bathed, it is important to normalise the bathtub. Many of us wash dogs very infrequently to the point that dogs feel nervous about being bathed. However, you can attempt to use the bathroom and tub when it's dry as a feeding location - creating a positive association with being in or near the bathtub. Another tip that works well is to place a Licki mat in the bathtub so that the dogs can have a treat, and are distracted while in the bath.”
So, here’s how to correctly bathe a dog.
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Cheap Dogs: Here are the 10 least expensive breeds of adorable dog to buy as a puppy - including the loving Jack Russell Terrier 🐶
With puppy ownership continuing to soar post-lockdown and prices rocketing due to the increased demand, here are 10 dog breeds that are, relatively, cheap to buy. These are the least expensive breeds of lovable dog to buy as puppies.
The last two years have seen many of us welcome a new four-legged friend into our homes, as the Kennel Club saw dog ownership rise by nearly eight per cent during the global pandemic.
But with 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your perfect pup – whether you want a large dog, family-friendly dog, or crossbreed.
There’s even academic guidance to seek out, with Psychologist Stanley Coren’s book ‘The Intelligence of Dogs’ ranking breeds by instincts, obedience, and the ability to adapt.
One thing worth bearing in mind is that certain breeds cost more to buy than others – with some breeds reaching prices of several thousand pounds.
So, here are the 10 breeds of dog that won’t break the bank to purchase as puppies.
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Hikma Pharmaceuticals (GB:HIK) shares started a downward trend after it reported its interim results for 2022 on August 4 – but the stock might offer a decent option for longer-term investors.
The company’s revenues were flat at $1.2 billion, as revenue growth in injectables and branded medicines segments was offset by a decline in generics segment. The company downgraded its guidance for generics for the full year.
Shareholders reacted adversely, and the stock has lost 30% of its value since then. Overall, the stock has been trading down by 46% in the last year.
Looking more closely at the numbers, the performance doesn’t feel so bad, and the recent fall has led to a buying opportunity for the shares.
What does Hikma Pharmaceuticals make?
Hikma manufactures and sells a vast range of generic, branded, and specialty medicines for global customers. The company has a product portfolio of around 670 medicines and 32 manufacturing plants.
Product categories include oncology, pain management, antibiotics, respiratory, cardiovascular, and many more.
The company operates through three business segments: branded, injectables, and generics. Some of its products are amoxicillin, prednisone, Robaxin, argatroban, amoclan and Suprax.
The road ahead
The company’s generics segment revenue saw a decline of 18% due to the tough competitive conditions in the market, especially in the U.S. The performance was also hit by some product delays, which are now expected in 2023.
The company expects its generics revenue to be in the range of $650 million to $675 million for the full year 2022, instead of $710-750 million as announced earlier.
The company is positive about the new launches, including Ryaltris and Xyrem, which will bring the generics business back to growth in 2023.
Hikma is also focused on its injectable segment, which is a high-margin business. This segment saw its operating profit go up by 12% and the operating margin grew to 38.8%. The company further expanded its European market by launching its injectable business in France. Moreover, it is further investing in MENA to produce injectables locally in the region.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals dividends
The company announced an interim dividend of 19 cents per share, up from 18 cents last year. The company’s dividend yield is 3.03%, higher than the sector average of 1.57%.
Time and again, the company has proven its intentions of growing shareholder returns. Even though the yield is not the highest in the sector, it is stable and supported by profits.
Is Hikma Pharmaceuticals a buy?
According to TipRanks’ analyst rating consensus, Hikma is a Moderate Buy. It has a total of five ratings, including two Buy and three Hold recommendations.
The HIK target price is 2,029.4p, which represents a 51.1% change in the price from the current level. The price has a high and a low forecast of 2,937p and 1,750p, respectively.
Conclusion
Despite its recent woes, the company’s strategy of product expansion will lead to more growth opportunities. A diverse portfolio, when combined with its dividend track record, makes it an attractive opportunity for investors. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/hikma-pharmaceutical-a-stock-to-hold-for-the-long-term | 2022-08-30T18:01:05Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/hikma-pharmaceutical-a-stock-to-hold-for-the-long-term | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Midlothian Crimebeat August 22-28
Here is your latest weekly round-up of crime in Midlothian, for August 22-28, as reported by Police Scotland.
DALKEITH:
A 48 year old man was charged in connection with a theft from shop premises at High Street, Dalkeith, which occurred on Wednesday, August 24.
At around 11am on Wednesday, August 24, a white DAF truck parked on Woodburn Road was entered and property was stolen. Enquiries are ongoing.
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On Friday, August 26, a warrant was executed at an address in the Woodburn area of Dalkeith where a small amount of cocaine was recovered. A 31 year old man was issued with a fixed penalty ticket in connection with the incident.
At 6.15pm on Friday, August 26, a theft occurred at shop premises in Newmills Road, Dalkeith. On being challenged by staff the man and woman involved left behind the items, which were recovered. Enquiries are ongoing to trace them.
NEWTONGRANGE / MAYFIELD:
A 41 year old woman was arrested by police in the Willow Road area of Mayfield on Monday, August 22 in connection with a number of outstanding warrants and was held in custody to appear at court. She was also found to be in possession of heroin and issued with a fixed penalty notice in connection with the drugs offence.
Between 2am and 3.30pm on Wednesday, August 24, a summer house at Beveridge Avenue, Mayfield was broken into and items were stolen. Enquiries are ongoing.
On Thursday, August 25, officers were carrying out patrols when they observed a vehicle being driven in Mayfield Road without insurance. A 30 year old man was cautioned and charged in connection with the incident. A report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal. The vehicle was also seized.
GOREBRIDGE:
At around 7.30pm on Wednesday, August 24, two women were reported to have entered shop premises in Hunterfield Road and stolen items. Enquiries are ongoing.
In the early hours of the morning on Friday, August 26, a shed was entered in Barleyknowe Street. Items stolen were subsequently found nearby. Enquiries are ongoing.
Between 8am and 11am on Thursday, August 25, a house in Carlowrie Place was broken into, no property appears to have been stolen. Enquiries are ongoing. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/midlothian-crimebeat-august-22-28-3823795 | 2022-08-30T18:02:13Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/midlothian-crimebeat-august-22-28-3823795 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Come along and sing along with Linlithgow Rugby Club’s Male Voice Choir
Going to a concert should always be a treat, but to actually get invited to visit the performers and have the opportunity to sing with them is something special.
That is what Linlithgow Rugby Club’s Male Voice Choir are offering this month, hosting an open evening on Monday, September 12 in the rugby clubhouse at 7.30pm for anyone who enjoys singing and feels they could benefit themselves and enhance the choir by becoming a member.
Linlithgow’s only male voice choir has been in existence for more than 25 years, and after what seems like an age, Linlithgow Rugby Club’s Male Voice Choir has just restarted rehearsals in the hope that the worst of the Covid epidemic is over.
Choir chairman, Peter Russell said: “Our members are keen to once again take to the stage and entertain audiences wherever they may be. Already we have plans for concerts later this year and into 2023 which will include us singing with a world-famous Welsh choir and hosting a community choir from Denmark.
“In the past we have travelled to a number of overseas events which have included reciprocal visits to Langdon in France, choral festivals in Cork and Belgium as well as tours of China and Canada.
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“We have sung twice in London’s Albert Hall and also in Edinburgh’s Usher Hall; always well supported by our travelling fans, also known as our wives and families. This is one of the social aspects of the choir, which allows our families to get to know each other and enjoy the social interaction.
“As we are planning to continue with our programme both at home and abroad we are looking to grow our numbers to ensure that we have the personnel to fulfill these commitments.
“So, if you have a love of music and feel you could join our group, we would love to see you. Our existing members will be delighted to welcome you into the choir.”
One other person who has been frustrated by the long break caused by the pandemic has been musical director Jim McGuigan who said: “After such a long time without a performance I am sure that the members of our choir are keen to return to our regular practice sessions and get back on stage.”
He added: “For me, one of the major pleasures is seeing how we can take a new piece of music, spend the time learning our individual parts and then coming together to build the piece to a standard that will entertain our knowledgeable and appreciative audiences.
“As Peter pointed out, we will be delighted to welcome and support any local singers into our friendly club. If you are new to Linlithgow then we offer a great way of meeting like-minded people in a comfortable atmosphere. Give it a try and come along to our open night on September 12.” | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/come-along-and-sing-along-with-linlithgow-rugby-clubs-male-voice-choir-3824633 | 2022-08-30T18:02:47Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/come-along-and-sing-along-with-linlithgow-rugby-clubs-male-voice-choir-3824633 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Edinburgh council rejects bid for Capital to twin with Gaza
Councillors have rejected a bid to twin Edinburgh with the Palestinian city of Gaza.
Let us know what you think and join the conversation at the bottom of this article.
A petition calling for the link – which would have been on the same basis as the twinning with cities like Munich, Xi’an, Vancouver and Nice – attracted 362 signatures.
But after legal advice the council’s policy and sustainability committee declined to hear deputations, including from the Mayor of Gaza City, who wanted to speak in favour of the move.
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And it also agreed not to allow the petitioner Pete Gregson, founder of the Edina-Gaza Twinning Association (EGTA), to address the committee.
Council leader Cammy Day said the council had agreed in 2019 that there should be no new twinning arrangements.
And the committee instead backed his proposal to ask the Edinburgh Partnership – which brings together the council, police, NHS, the Chamber of Commerce, Edinburgh University and others – to consider whether there were any activities or projects its members may wish to work with the people of Gaza on.
The committee also accepted a call from Lib Dem group leader Kevin Lang that the question of any new twinning agreements should be considered again as part of a wider review.
Green councillor Alex Staniforth wanted a report from officials on how a twinning with Gaza or some similar arrangement might work. He said: “We are looking at a situation in Palestine and Gaza that is completely unacceptable. This month 16 children died as a result of the siege on Gaza. I understand the nervousness about getting involved and that this is a nuanced and difficult situation, but when children are dying what we say matters and what we should say is we will not support a state of apartheid.” But his call was defeated.
Afterwards, Mr Gregson said he was sad at the decision and believed the councillors had been fearful of the repercussions of the proposed link.
But he said the EGTA would carry on working with the people of Gaza anyway. He said: "We are currently engaged in providing English classes on Zoom to Gazan postgraduate students and disadvantaged children; we are also getting websites built in Gaza for Scottish traders. The work will go on.” | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/council/edinburgh-council-rejects-bid-for-capital-to-twin-with-gaza-3824736 | 2022-08-30T18:03:02Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/council/edinburgh-council-rejects-bid-for-capital-to-twin-with-gaza-3824736 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Gareth Evans explains his plans for re-shaped Hibs Under-18s squad
Hibs youth coach Gareth Evans has explained the long-term approach he is adopting with his under-18 squad this season.
Hibs were crowned Under-18 Club Academy Scotland Elite Youth League champions last season, but many of the players who were part of that squad have moved up an age group and are now part of the development squad.
Former Hibs striker Evans, 55, has been reshaping his under-18 squad with a core of younger players who will have a couple of years to develop at under-18 level and was delighted to see the progression in Friday’s 5-2 win over St Mirren on Friday night after two narrow defeats to start the campaign.
“We are building this year,” Evans told the club website. “We have a really young team so it’s nice to play well and get a result, but the most important thing is that they get an experience of playing football at this level.
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“Hopefully come next year, when a lot of them will still be eligible to play for the U18s, they have the experience to help them move forward in their careers.
“I’m delighted with the first half performance and there were a few good individual performances in there as well.”
The youngsters have some tough youth league games coming up against Rangers at HTC tonight (Tuesday) followed by matches against Celtic and Hearts in the coming weeks.
Josh Landers, who was recently called into the Scotland U16s squad, was one of the young standout performers on Friday against Saints, grabbing the fifth goal.
Evans believes playing at such a high level and at higher age group will allow the youngster from Innerleithen to develop and become a regular within the Scotland U-16 squad.
The coach added: “Josh is playing regularly now in U18s football with a 2007 birthday, which means he has another three years at this level.
“We try and promote players as early as we can to play at the best level that they can and hopefully that has helped Josh get into the Scotland squad and this experience does help him when he goes away with the national team.” | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/hibs/gareth-evans-explains-his-plans-for-re-shaped-hibs-under-18s-squad-3823989 | 2022-08-30T18:04:22Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/hibs/gareth-evans-explains-his-plans-for-re-shaped-hibs-under-18s-squad-3823989 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jack Ross sacked: Dundee United axe manager after humiliating 9-0 defeat by Celtic
Former Hibs boss Jack Ross has been sacked by Dundee United after just seven games in charge, following a humiliating 9-0 defeat by Celtic at Tannadice.
The club record home defeat was United’s fifth successive loss, a run that included a 7-0 hammering away to AZ Alkmaar in the Europa Conference League and a 4-1 thumping by Hearts at Tynecastle.
Ross, who had signed a two-year contract, departs after only 10 weeks in the job with United two points adrift at the bottom of the cinch Premiership.
United confirmed he has been "relieved of his duties with immediate effect", with former Livingston and Hearts coach Liam Fox taking interim charge. The Tangerines are are to Livingston in a last-16 Premier Sports Cup tie on Wednesday.
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Ross, 46, was appointed in June to succeed Tam Courts, who led United to fourth place last season and secured European football for the first time in a decade before joining Budapest Honved.
It was a return to the top flight of Scottish football for the manager who was dismissed by Hibs in December last year just 10 days before the Premier Sports Cup final against Celtic at Hampden.
He had presided over a poor run of form in the league at Easter Road, but many pundits were surprised by the Easter Road club’s sudden decision after he had guided Hibs to the Scottish Cup final, a third place finish and European football at the end of season 2020/21.
But Ross has had a disastrous start to his tenure at Tannadice, picking up just one point from from five matches. That came when Kilmarnock snatched an injury-time equaliser on the opening day of the season.
United followed that up with a stunning 1-0 victory over AZ 1-0 in the first leg of their Europa Conference qualifier but the optimism and confidence soon disappeared.
United have conceded 24 goals in their five-game losing streak, while scoring just one.
The former Alloa, St Mirren and Sunderland boss made eight new signings in the summer, including marquee arrivals Steven Fletcher, Aziz Behich and Dylan Levitt, but his has failed to deliver and Ross has paid the price. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/jack-ross-sacked-dundee-united-axe-manager-after-humiliating-9-0-defeat-by-celtic-3823842 | 2022-08-30T18:04:44Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/jack-ross-sacked-dundee-united-axe-manager-after-humiliating-9-0-defeat-by-celtic-3823842 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A new booster shot could arrive in Kansas City as early as Labor Day and a local health department is using a community survey to gauge demand.
The Platte County Health Department is administering the three-question form in preparation for the bivalent vaccine, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration are set to consider this week. The bivalent vaccine targets the original COVID-19 strain as well as the currently dominant omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5
Aaron Smullin, a spokesperson for the Platte County Health Department, said the department is preparing for a September release of the booster and expects that demand could be high, especially now that school has resumed.
“The survey is designed to get an idea if folks are interested in getting the bivalent vaccine but also how would they like to receive that vaccine,” Smullin said. “Is it a drive-through method? Is it coming to a regular clinic? Or, if we find that the need is much larger than we originally thought, potentially scaling up our operation to a much larger vaccination site."
The third question asks respondents which brand of vaccine they prefer. Smullin said just over 50% of the county has been vaccinated thus far.
Across the Kansas City metro, the seven-day daily average of COVID-19 cases has dropped to 254, according to the latest report Tuesday by the Mid-America Regional Council. The report marks a continued decrease in seven-day daily averages since July.
The MARC figures also show hospitalizations down from 76 to 73 per day — a notable decrease since a summer high of 101 on July 24.
Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis who conducted a clinical trial of bivalent vaccines said it would be best suited for newer strains of the COVID-19 virus. The current vaccine is based on the original strain that emerged in 2019.
Researchers say they hope the new generation of vaccines will better prepare the body for variants and make the infection more like a common cold. But they say vaccines will likely still require regular updates to match circulating versions of the virus.
With colder temperatures looming and hospitals already dealing with reduced staffing and bed space, Smullin said filling out the survey and getting vaccinated are important.
“We know in the wintertime we saw that huge surge of COVID across the Kansas City metro area,” Smullin said. “We do not want to have another winter that is like that, so getting vaccinated is truly one of the best ways to flatten that curve.” | https://www.kcur.org/health/2022-08-30/as-school-restarts-platte-county-hopes-a-new-covid-booster-will-prevent-another-year-of-outbreaks | 2022-08-30T18:13:30Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/health/2022-08-30/as-school-restarts-platte-county-hopes-a-new-covid-booster-will-prevent-another-year-of-outbreaks | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Will Bauer
Reporter / ProducerWill Bauer joined Nebraska Public Media in 2021 after graduating from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He now produces the statewide TV talk show "Speaking of Nebraska" and is a general assignment reporter. Will is a Minnesota native, enjoys golfing in his free time and holds three undergraduate degrees. | https://www.kcur.org/will-bauer | 2022-08-30T18:13:36Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/will-bauer | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Banks around the city are locking out ATM users at night in an effort to keep out homeless people — some of whom have been using the vestibules as toilets, sources tell The Post.
Branches of Chase, City National Bank and Citizens have been quietly locking their doors even to customers who have a bank card as early as 10 or 11 p.m. and reopening them in the early morning, The Post has learned.
Bank branch employees told The Post that ATM lobbies have become refuges for homeless people who sleep in them overnight or use the space as toilets, leaving “poop” behind and creating a safety hazard for both employees and customers who are afraid to enter the lobbies.
“A lot of stuff happens at night,” said an ATM technician who did not want to be identified because he’s not authorized to speak to the media.
He added that some banks, including Bank of America branches, “periodically” shut their ATM lobbies overnight.
Bank of America did not respond for comment.
Citizens acknowledged the disruption to its service, citing “safety issues.”
“Like a number of other banks, we have temporarily closed some ATM vestibules overnight at certain New York City branch locations where we have seen repeat activity that could present a potentially dangerous situation for our customers or colleagues,” spokesperson Eleni Garbis said in a statement.
A spokesman for Chase, Jerry Dubrowski, said the situation is “fluid” and that the bank is “constantly evaluating the environment in a community.”
Some Chase branches may close for a period of time and then reopen for full 24-hour access again, he said, adding that the limited hours apply to a minority of Chase branches in the city.
Some banks have hired security guards to sit inside the vestibules in the early evening hours, Matt Roberts, president of the 17th Precinct Community Council, told The Post, adding that some homeless people have bank cards and can let themselves into the lobbies.
In April, The Post documented the homeless problem in ATM lobbies, including photos and accounts of a shirtless man sitting on the floor of a Bank of America surrounded by his belongings, others sprawled out on sleeping bags and a couple shooting up drugs.
Earlier this year, banks began to put pressure on the NYPD to remove people from the lobbies, according to Roberts, whose precinct covers Midtown East neighborhoods including Murray Hill and Sutton Place.
But after a March incident in which two NYPD officers were attacked by a homeless man at a Citibank branch on Park Avenue when they asked him to leave the lobby, Roberts called on the banks to simply lock their doors overnight.
Roberts is bracing for the issue to become a bigger problem when lower temperatures arrive and the “city is kicking people out of the subways,” he told The Post.
In the meantime, several banks are heeding his advice and simply locking their doors overnight, including the Chase branch at 1120 Sixth Ave., which closes its ATM lobby at 10 p.m. and reopens it at 7 a.m. The nearby City National Bank branch closes its ATM lobby at 11 p.m., reopening it at 6 a.m.
City National did not respond for comment.
“Unfortunately the private customers of ATM systems during off hours will be the collateral damage,” Roberts said. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/nyc-banks-shutting-doors-overnight-to-atm-users-to-keep-out-homeless/ | 2022-08-30T18:18:21Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/nyc-banks-shutting-doors-overnight-to-atm-users-to-keep-out-homeless/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The city Transportation Department on Tuesday dispatched trucks with flashing electronic billboards around Times Square to warn tourists and others that they can’t carry a gun in the area without soon facing arrest.
Two white DOT pickup trucks towed the electronic signs around the Crossroads of the World ahead of a new law that bans even legal concealed firearms from such designated “sensitive areas” starting Thursday, 1010 WINS radio reported.
“TIMES SQUARE — GUN FREE ZONE — LICENSED GUN CARRIERS AND OTHERS — MAY NOT ENTER WITH A GUN UNLESS OTHERWISE — SPECIALLY AUTHORIZED BY LAW VIOLATION — OF THIS PROHIBITION IS A FELONY,” the messages said, according to a video clip posted on Twitter.
The city’s subways and buses, schools, libraries, airports, bars and entertainment venues are also among the “sensitive locations” specified in the law that Gov. Kathy Hochul signed on July 1.
The move came in response to a landmark decision by the US Supreme Court that will ease the way for people to obtain licenses to carry handguns across the state.
The high court’s 6-3 ruling struck down a 1913 law, known as the Sullivan Act, that required applicants for pistol permits to show “proper cause” as to why they needed to pack heat in public.
The City Council’s Public Safety Committee was holding a hearing Tuesday on a bill to define the boundaries of Times Square and to authorize the NYPD to adopt rules so people with so-called carry permits who live or work there can still enter the area with their weapons.
The bill’s sponsor, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Queens), has said the Supreme Court’s ruling posed a “very serious” threat to the Big Apple and at one point called on state lawmakers to designate virtually the entire city a “sensitive location.”
Adams, who has apparently given up on that request, noted the DOT’s mobile billboards during Tuesday’s hearing.
“I’d like to see these signs in a lot more areas around the city of New York,” she said.
NYPD lawyer Robert Barrows testified that the department wasn’t planning to flood Times Square with additional cops to enforce the new law.
But Barrows, the NYPD’s executive director of legal operations and projects, said new training would help officers spot people carrying weapons.
Barrows also said the NYPD is using social media to try to identify people who might try to bring guns into Times Square and other prohibited sites. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/nyc-mobile-billboards-warn-against-bringing-guns-to-times-square/ | 2022-08-30T18:18:28Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/nyc-mobile-billboards-warn-against-bringing-guns-to-times-square/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A student was killed and two others were injured at a Portland college when a pillar on campus collapsed while the victims were lounging in hammocks on Monday night — on the first day of classes.
Six people were lying in three hammocks by the pool at Oregon’s Lewis & Clark College around 8:15 p.m. when one of the brick columns supporting the hammocks buckled and fell, witnesses told Portland Fire & Rescue, according to OregonLive.com.
The 19-year-old male victim was pronounced dead at the scene by responding paramedics despite CPR attempts.
Portland Fire spokesperson Terry Foster said the deceased man appeared to have been struck by the toppled column, which was 9 to 10 feet tall and measured 20 by 20 inches.
An 18-year-old woman suffered injuries to her arm, and another 18-year-old female student sustained abdominal injuries in the accident, according to Portland Fire’s statement. Both survivors were taken to OHSU to be treated.
The students involved in the accident had not been identified as of Tuesday morning.
A spokesperson for the private liberal arts college released a statement addressing the deadly incident.
“We are devastated to report that earlier this evening, a tragic accident occurred on the undergraduate campus in which one of our students was killed and two others were injured,” Lois Davis wrote.
“We are deeply saddened by the shocking loss of a member of our community.”
Monday was the first day of classes at Lewis & Clark College. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/student-killed-after-pillar-collapses-at-lewis-clark-college/ | 2022-08-30T18:18:58Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/student-killed-after-pillar-collapses-at-lewis-clark-college/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
'Ask CTA' program kicks off at Chicago rail and bus stations, seeking rider input on safety
CHICAGO - Chicagoans are getting the chance to tell the CTA what they want to see change to make buses and trains safer for riders across the city.
The transit agency launched its "Ask CTA" program Tuesday morning, allowing the public to meet and provide input directly to CTA managers on areas that need improvement.
The action plan was a surprise to many riders who didn’t have time to stop and chat before catching a train or bus to work or school.
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CTA managers were inside the Blue Line California station in Logan Square to hear riders concerns and suggestions. CTA officials said it’s an effort to show appreciation for current customers and to welcome others back.
Officials said the Covid-19 pandemic caused staffing shortages that impacted reliable service, followed by increased violent crime on trains and busses and around stations.
Commuters said they avoid certain lines or stops and have a lot to consider when taking public transportation.
"I'm coming home from work at night when it gets dark. It gets kind of concerning," one female rider said. "It's nice to see police presence around by a train, by the Orange line around rush hour. That makes you feel a little bit better. The safety issue, my life and other peoples lives getting hurt, is really a main factor. It just makes your mobility lessened and the fear. Who wants to go to work and be scared something's going to happen?"
Another rider said one of his biggest concerns is service reliability.
"The issue with CTA is always consistent service I think. Knowing you can depend on a train or a bus coming every 10 or 15 minutes depending on the time of day, especially morning commute and evening commute," the man said.
The community outreach will continue at train stations and bus stops around the city for the next several weeks. Officials said a schedule for future events will be available on the CTA's social media channels. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/ask-cta-program-chicago-rail-bus-stations-seeking-rider-input-safety | 2022-08-30T18:30:39Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/ask-cta-program-chicago-rail-bus-stations-seeking-rider-input-safety | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Barbie adds Madame C.J. Walker doll to ‘Inspiring Women Series’
LOS ANGELES - Madame C.J. Walker, the country’s first female millionaire, has now been added to Barbie’s line of "Inspiring Women" dolls.
Walker, who was Black and whose real name was Sarah Breedlove, created and marketed hair products for African American women at the turn of the 20th century. Her path to riches would be noteworthy in any era, but it’s particularly impressive given the discrimination and roadblocks women and blacks had to endure at the time.
The doll is dressed in a floral printed blouse paired with a full-length turquoise skirt. Walker is holding a miniature replica of her original Wonderful Hair Grower product.
RELATED: Ida B. Wells: Black journalist and activist honored with Barbie doll
The doll is available for purchase on Amazon, Walmart, and Target for $35.
Madame C.J. Walker Barbie doll (Credit: Mattel)
"As a pioneer in entrepreneurship, philanthropy and activism, creating the blueprint for the self-made American businesswoman and innovators of the twentieth century, Madam C.J. Walker is an embodiment of our Barbie Inspiring Women series. We’re honored to welcome her into this group of trailblazing women and introduce more kids to her journey of becoming one of the nation’s first widely successful female founders, "Lisa McKnight, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Barbie & Dolls, Mattel, said in a statement to FOX Television Stations.
Walker, who was born in 1867 and died in 1919 at age 51, was not only an extremely successful business woman, but a philanthropist as well. She gave generously to what are now known as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and fought for anti-lynching laws.
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Her legacy continues through MADAM by Madam C.J. Walker cosmetics. It’s a haircare collection inspired by Madam C.J. Walker in collaboration with her great-great granddaughter, A'Lelia Bundles, available at Walmart.
Madame C.J. Walker Barbie doll (Credit: Mattel)
Barbie rolled out its "Inspiring Women Series" to pay tribute to women who took risks and changed the course of history.
Last year additions included Dr. Maya Angelou, Helen Keller, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Ida B. Wells and Dr. Jane Goodall were added earlier this year.
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Man sought for sexually abusing woman near North Side Red Line station
CHICAGO - Chicago police are looking for a man who sexually abused a woman earlier this month near a CTA Red Line station on the North Side.
On Aug. 10 around 7:25 a.m., a man approached a woman near the Fullerton Red Line stop and asked for a cigarette before grabbing her and sexually abusing her, according to a CPD community alert.
The man is described as in his early 20s and roughly 5-foot-9. He was wearing a blue light winter jacket and acid wash jeans, according to police.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Area Three detectives at (312) 744-8261 or submit a tip anonymously at CPDtip.com.
No further information was immediately available. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-sought-for-sexually-abusing-woman-near-north-side-red-line-station | 2022-08-30T18:30:58Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-sought-for-sexually-abusing-woman-near-north-side-red-line-station | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
More Americans smoke marijuana than cigarettes, poll finds
A majority of people say they smoke marijuana more than cigarettes, based on data from a new Gallup poll.
Sixteen percent of Americans say they currently smoke marijuana with 48% of respondents sharing that they have tried it at some point in their life — the highest rate ever recorded by Gallup. Last year, 12% of respondents said they used marijuana.
The poll released on Aug. 16 was part of a study that examined people’s attitudes regarding marijuana’s benefits to society.
RELATED: Half of Americans think marijuana is bad for society, poll finds
Gallup’s poll finds that marijuana use was higher among adults between the ages of 18 and 34 with 30% responding that they smoke pot and 22% consume marijuana edibles. These numbers are significantly lower in both categories for adults 35 to 54 years old (16%) and Americans 55 and older (7%).
The analytics and research company conducted a related poll on Aug. 26 that collected responses for a survey discussing alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use among Americans.
A new record low of 11% of adults reported smoking cigarettes with approximately three in 10 nonsmokers stating they used to smoke, a steep drop in cigarette use compared to 45% in the 1950s.
RELATED: Frequent marijuana use may lead to higher risk of heart disease, study finds
In 2019, Gallup conducted a poll that found 83% of people believed smoking is "very harmful" compared to 14% who responded that it’s "somewhat harmful." More than nine in 10 adults agreed smoking caused cancer. Approximately 91% of smokers interviewed by Gallup in 2015 said they wished they never started smoking.
With marijuana use higher among most Americans, the poll reveals that Americans are divided in their views on marijuana, but support for legalization is still large.
RELATED: Senate bill would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level
Gallup held phone interviews with 1,013 people 18 or older in all 50 states and Washington, DC. When asked what effect they thought marijuana had on society, 49% of respondents said it was positive, while 50% said cannabis has negatively impacted society.
However, 68% of adults think marijuana should be legal, Gallup shared. Most adults who have ever tried marijuana believe its effects on users and society as a whole are positive. The survey revealed that 72% of people who have never tried marijuana think it’s bad for society.
Senate bill would decriminalize marijuana
In July, three prominent Senate Democrats introduced legislation to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, despite slim chances that the bill will pass.
The Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, introduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sens. Cory Booker and Ron Wyden, would remove marijuana from the list of federal controlled substances, but it could still be outlawed at the state level.
Recreational marijuana is legal in 19 states, Washington, D.C, and Guam, while 37 states allow some form of medical marijuana. Six states could vote on ballot measures legalizing marijuana in the November midterm elections, and should they pass, will join those 19 states.
House passes bill to legalize marijuana known as MORE Act
On April 1, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass legislation to legalize marijuana at the federal level, one step closer to decriminalizing cannabis in the United States.
Though 18 states have legalized recreational use and 37 allow for some sort of medical marijuana, the remaining federal prohibition has created headaches for the industry in states where it is legal — making it hard for businesses to get banking services and loans.
RELATED: House passes bill to legalize marijuana at federal level, called MORE Act — what's next
Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, is expected to face strong headwinds in the Senate — its debate and vote in April gave House lawmakers the chance to state their views on a decriminalization push.
The MORE Act would essentially remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act list and decriminalize it. The measure would require federal courts to expunge prior marijuana convictions and conduct resentencing hearings for those completing their sentences.
RELATED: Florida recreational marijuana initiative launched
The bill passed with a mostly party-line vote of 220-204. All but two voting Democrats backed the measure, while only three Republicans did. It still needs approval in the Senate before it could head to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
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It’s cut-down day, as the 49ers and teams around the NFL will be required to trim their rosters down to 53 players by 1 PM pacific time. However, before we get into these projections, I just wanted to take a moment to highlight how rough this day is for a lot of people around the NFL.
People will be forced to say goodbye to teammates, friends, and even family members. This is also the end of the road to a lifelong dream for a lot of these players. I ask that you show some compassion and understanding as many of these individuals are faced with the news they are at the end of their football journeys.
Having said that, here is how I expect the 49ers roster to shake out to start the 2022 season.
Quarterbacks (2)
Trey Lance, Jimmy Garoppolo
Trey Lance is self-explanatory, we all saw that coming. What nobody saw coming however, was the 49ers restructuring Jimmy Garoppolo’s contract with the intention of having him serve as Lance’s backup.
This entire situation is too much to break down in a roster projection article, but what a turn of events this ended up being. Focusing solely on the football side of things, the 49ers insulated their quarterback room by retaining a proven winner at the position who is familiar with the team as well as the scheme.
With the restructure, the combined 2022 cap hits of Lance and Garoppolo now comes in just north of 16 million. That is less than 13 other quarterbacks in the league on their own, and is more than good value to ensure you have two capable quarterbacks on a roster that is ready to win right now.
I think the 49ers will ultimately keep one of Nate Sudfeld or Brock Purdy on the practice squad, and as of now I would give Purdy the edge based on his cost and the way he has performed in the preseason.
Running Backs (5)
Elijah Mitchell, Jeff Wilson Jr., Trey Sermon, Tyrion Davis-Price, Kyle Juszczyk
The running backs are one of the most challenging position groups to project for a couple of reasons. Number one is that performance in training camp and the preseason aren’t the only factors at play here. The 49ers invested significant draft capital into Sermon and Davis-Price over the last two years, and their positions are all but solidified.
The other is that the roster is so deep that it would be hard to justify carrying six backs at the expense of weakening the depth somewhere else on the roster.
This leaves Jordan Mason and JaMycal Hasty as the odd men out, despite both showing flashes during the preseason. I think Mason gets called up at some point during the season because he is too talented to remain on the practice squad. I just don’t think it happens to start the year.
Wide Receivers (6)
Deebo Samuel, Brandon Aiyuk, Jauan Jennings, Danny Gray, Ray-Ray Mccloud, Malik Turner
Another position group where most of the spots were likely locked up well before we got into the dog days of training camp. Gray has shown explosive upside as a vertical threat, and McCloud is poised to bring tremendous value to the receiving room while moonlighting as the primary returner on special teams.
That left one spot up for grabs, which goes to Turner. Of the remaining options, Turner checks the most boxes. He is a veteran, and he adds value as someone with a track record of contributing on special teams, and possibly most importantly to Shanahan, he practices hard.
Shanahan mentioned Turner was covering as much distance as anyone based on their GPS tracker, something the 49ers head coach has made no secret that he feels is an indicator of how much effort a player is putting out there on the practice field.
Tight Ends (3)
George Kittle, Charlie Woerner, Tyler Kroft
Kittle has that top spot locked down for as long as he would like, and Woerner will all but assuredly make the team as their primary blocking specialist at the position. So that left one spot remaining, which I believe should go to Kroft, a seven-year veteran who has spent time with the Bengals, Bills, and most recently, the Jets last season.
Kroft is a reliable player who has started 48 games in his NFL career. When you’re talking about the third tight end on the roster, dependability is enormously important. This leaves long-time 49er Ross Dwelley off the list, and while I don’t think Dwelley had a lousy preseason, I was more impressed by what I saw from Kroft.
Offensive Line (8)
Trent Williams, Aaron Banks, Jake Brendel, Spencer Burford, Mike McGlinchey, Daniel Brunskill, Colton McKivitz, Jason Poe
The starting five seems pretty set in stone when the entire group is healthy. Daniel Brunskill is a Swiss army knife capable of playing any of the five spots on the line, providing tremendous value as a utility piece with starting experience and the capability to be plugged in anywhere at a moment’s notice.
Colton McKivitz held his own when he filled in for Williams in a must-win game in week 18 last year, and he continued to improve during the preseason. I project McKivitz to be the swing tackle.
This group rounds out with Poe, the rookie interior lineman that quickly became a fan favorite in San Francisco. Poe looks capable of sliding in at either guard spot, and the ability to have McKivitz and Brunskill both play tackle makes it easier to roster a player whose role is likely confined to the interior spots on the line.
Defensive line (11)
Nick Bosa, Arik Armstead, Javon Kinlaw, Samson Ebukam, Kevin Givens, Hassan Ridgeway, Charles Omenihu, Jordan Willis, Kemoko Turay, Drake Jackson, Kerry Hyder Jr.
This is the deepest position group on the team, full stop. The 49ers have made it clear they will spare no expense when it comes to this unit, and keeping eleven players capable of contributing is on brand for a team that wants to send wave after wave from their defensive front at opposing offenses.
Bosa, Ebukam, Willis, Turay, and Jackson give you a more traditional player playing off the edge. Givens, Ridgeway, and Kinlaw give you a prototype gap stuffer that can play on the interior. Omenihu, Hyder, and Armstead offer the versatility to do both.
This group is stacked, and having the ability to trot out eleven players of this quality should allow the frontline starters to stay fresh late into games and further into the season.
Linebackers (5)
Fred Warner, Dre Greenlaw, Azeez Al-Shaair, Oren Burks, Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles
The 49ers not only boast the best trio of linebackers in the league, I think they have the best group top to bottom. Warner and his ability to impact all three levels of the defense set the standard for the position in the modern NFL. In addition, Greenlaw and Al-Shaair both possess tremendous range and their ability to operate in space opens things up in a big way for this defense.
Burks is poised to be a leader on a special teams unit in desperate need of one while also showing he can slide in as needed should any of the starting three miss time.
Flannigan-Fowles is a converted safety, and it’s apparent when you see his ability to cover ground in the open field. Flannigan-Fowles looked good when he filled in last season, particularly in the Minnesota game. Having a linebacker that talented to round out the position group is an embarrassment of riches.
Cornerbacks (5)
Charvarius Ward, Emmanuel Moseley, Samuel Womack, Deommodore Lenoir, Ambry Thomas
The starting unit is strong. So far, Ward looks to be worth every penny and then some that the 49ers shelled out when they signed him in free agency this past offseason. Moseley is one of the better second corners in the entire league, and Womack has rapidly ascended into a starting role after an extremely impressive preseason to start his NFL career.
Lenoir has shown he can step up into a starting role when needed and put together quite a few noteworthy reps during camp practices and preseason games. Finally, Thomas, who fans may not be high on, but the 49ers were when they spent a third-round pick on him just a season ago.
The team saw something they liked when they selected Thomas as high as they did. It’s reasonable to expect that they still believe in their ability to develop Thomas and his plus athletic traits into a valuable contributor on this team moving forward.
Also essential to remember Jason Verrett is on the PUP list, so a decision will have to be made down the line when he is healthy enough to return to action. It just doesn’t affect the cut down to the final 53.
Safeties (5)
Jimmie Ward, Talanoa Hufanga, George Odum, Tarvarius Moore, Tashaun Gipson
Ward will start the season on injured reserve, but he has to be on the final 53-man roster beforehand. Hufanga looks poised for a starting role as he enters year two, and Moore makes his return after missing last season with a torn Achilles.
Odum is another player who was primarily brought in for their impact on special teams while providing some depth at the position. Gipson is a seasoned veteran with 132 starts under his belt at the NFL level and someone I expect the 49ers to rely on early while Ward starts the season on injured reserve.
Specialists (3)
Robbie Gould, Mitch Wishnowsky, Taybor Pepper
They are people too! And yes, they count just the same as any other position against the final 53. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/30/23327538/49ers-53-man-projection | 2022-08-30T18:35:46Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/30/23327538/49ers-53-man-projection | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Today was supposed to be about the 49ers finalizing their 53-man roster. That’s still happening, but we’ll be on Jimmy watch as the Niners threw everyone a curveball by restructuring his contract Monday.
It’s impossible to narrow San Francisco’s reasoning down to a single point for why they kept Garoppolo. So that’s exactly what we’ll do below.
Akash: The 49ers under Paraag Marathe have been a value-oriented operation. They always believe in striking a deal, executing a contract, or negotiating trades that benefit them with the highest value in return. In simple terms, the 49ers’ brass believed they had a starting NFL quarterback on their roster in Jimmy Garoppolo and did not want to release him with no value in return.
Ultimately, they determined that lowering his base salary to $6.5M and keeping him on the roster in 2022 for a potential mid-season trade or compensatory pick in return was worth the potential locker room drama.
Kyle Shanahan believes that his locker room culture is strong enough to withstand anything, and this latest move would be the strongest test of that.
Rob: Hubris. Plain and simple. The 49ers think their culture is strong enough to avoid a potential split locker room when Trey Lance loses a game they would otherwise win with Jimmy Garoppolo under center. That same hubris probably helped them keep Deebo Samuel on the team after his trade request, but it could be their undoing here.
Dealing with a disgruntled wide receiver is far different than having to navigate a schism in the locker room due to a quarterback controversy. Kyle Shanahan supposedly stopped using Trey Lance in the red zone last year because a group of veterans came to him and said he was undercutting Jimmy Garoppolo’s leadership of the team. So what’s he going to do if the 49ers struggle and that same group of veterans demands that Jimmy Garoppolo become the starter? There’s a reason vanity is Al Pacino’s favorite sin.
Kyle: Value/history. We have to look at this through the lens of Kyle Shanahan. He’s been consistent in saying the team wasn’t going to give Jimmy away for anything. The last thing he saw was his backup quarterbacks throw two head-scratching interceptions in the preseason finale against the Texans.
For $6.5 million, Garoppolo is a steal when you consider the alternative of possibly having to rely on Nate Sudfeld or Brock Purdy for a game or two. I would agree that Shanahan is hedging his bets here by making Garoppolo more available by making his contract more affordable. But in the back of his mind, he’s been burned twice during his tenure as a head coach.
Assuming San Francisco was never going to use whatever money they saved by outright releasing Jimmy, this scenario presents the best of all worlds in Kyle’s mind, which is how we got here.
Kyle protects himself from injury while upgrading and gets another set of eyes who can help Trey, all while not ruling out a possible trade.
Marc: Because he’s not that good, but the 49ers think he is. I posted a bit about this on Twitter, but it was particularly noteworthy to me when Shanahan said he thought Garoppolo was the 49ers’ best quarterback since Steve Young a few weeks ago. Sure, there has not been a Hall of Famer under center for San Francisco since Young’s retirement, but Jeff Garcia, Alex Smith, and Colin Kaepernick all have pretty strong cases that they were better than Garoppolo. Garcia and Smith combined to reach seven Pro Bowls during their careers, and I think it’s fair to say Kaepernick would have reached one if some things had shaken out differently.
Obviously, this isn’t a conversation about where Garoppolo ranks among all-time 49ers signal-callers, but Shanahan doesn’t lie about that kind of stuff to the media. He really thinks Garoppolo is better than Garcia, Smith, and Kaepernick ever were. Herein lies the reason Garoppolo is still on the team. Shanahan is looking around the league baffled that teams aren’t crawling over each other to get Garoppolo for a third-round pick. While everyone around the league views Jimmy G (at best) as a tier above players like Baker Mayfield and Teddy Bridgewater, who are usually cheap free agents or net Day 3 picks. For some reason, even though the 49ers traded a massive package to move up and draft Lance, they never came to terms with how mediocre of a quarterback Garoppolo is. It’s the reason they refused to hand the keys to Lance last season. Unwilling to let go of a player they evaluate so highly, the Niners opted to keep Garoppolo in San Francisco.
Yinon: Uncertainty. Not necessarily with Trey Lance, but this is one of those situations where you can choose to interpret it any way you want it to and make anything mean to be something. I’ve been doing the Nuggets for well over a year now, and I’ve seen how the main media figures have been reacting to every QB-related development as time has went on.
Right now, everybody’s confused. It reminds me of that period in March-April 2021, the lead-up to the draft after the 49ers made their trade. Whenever it’s clear that nobody knows what Kyle and John are thinking… my sense is that Kyle and John don’t even know what they’re thinking yet. The only thing they know is that anything can happen in football. Instead of letting that natural chaos dictate your fate, why not try to get ahead of it any way you can? I think the net discomfort of Lance getting hurt and Nate Sudfeld stepping in for a playoff run overtook the net discomfort of Jimmy’s presence, potentially negatively impacting Trey.
I don’t think it’s Kyle and John one way or another saying anything about Trey. They wouldn’t start him if they didn’t think he was good. I don’t think it’s Kyle and John one way or another saying anything about Jimmy. They’d cut him if he was terrible and would have already traded him if he was such a stud. A braver coach/GM duo might get rid of Jimmy anyway just to empower Lance as much as possible, but I’d imagine that Shanalynch would consider that a naive thing to do with your starting quarterback. Not after 2018, 2020, and if Lance was starting last year, a good chunk of 2021. Otherwise, I guess they just couldn’t quit that jawline. That’s as good of a guess as anybody’s at this point in time.
Jason: I’d say it’s a bit of PTSD for Shanahan and not wanting to see Nate Sudfeld or Brock Purdy take meaningful snaps during the season. For the most part, any starting QB getting injured for an extended time means doom for a team's season, but the 49ers and Shanahan know that fact better than most. When you look at the restructured numbers, it’s a steal for the security Shanahan is seeking and for the best backup quarterback in the NFL.
You had to assume the 49ers would at least attempt to restructure with my hesitance being with Garoppolo accepting. One benefit of the restructure is that Garoppolo becomes more enticing at his price point if a team gets desperate during the year. Once again, showing the patience this front office has been preaching about with Garoppolo all offseason.
There is a no-trade clause, but I’d imagine that’s more of a line in the contract that means Garoppolo needs to be involved in any trade and needs his approval. Shanahan believes he has built a locker room and culture that can withstand any sort of external noise, and it will be put to the test immediately. It appears a conversation has taken place with Lance and Garoppolo about who is the starter and the plan for both.
That message will need to be heard loud and clear by the locker room, and unfortunately, the questions about Garoppolo will only continue and get louder. It’s Trey Lance’s team, but Shanahan clearly needed his security blanket, and you can disagree with it while I understand that part, at least. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/30/23328147/49ers-jimmy-garoppolo-roundtable | 2022-08-30T18:35:52Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/30/23328147/49ers-jimmy-garoppolo-roundtable | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Most of us thought that the 49ers would part ways with Jimmy Garoppolo this offseason because of his $26.9M salary cap hit and potential savings of $25.5M if released or traded.
The 49ers could have turned the team over to Trey Lance while clearing out a large chunk of cap space with one move, but instead, they chose to insulate the quarterback room in the event of injury (or poor play).
On Monday, San Francisco decided to restructure Jimmy Garoppolo’s contract and bring him back for the 2022 season and here are the details below:
- Base Salary: $6.5M (fully guaranteed)
- Per Game Roster Bonuses: $500k
- Play-Time Incentives: $8.45M (Not Likely To Be Earned)
- Salary Cap Hit: $8.94M
The 49ers will pay Garoppolo a base salary of $6.5M, which is fully guaranteed. It’s less than Trey Lance’s base salary this season, which Albert Breer mentioned was important for the team and Lance.
He keeps his per-game roster bonuses, which means he’ll receive 1/17th of $500k every time he’s on the active game-day roster.
ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler added that Garoppolo has play-time incentives, meaning every time he starts or wins a game as a starter, he’ll earn a certain amount of money.
Overall, his salary cap hit was reduced from $26.9M to $8.94M, saving the 49ers nearly $17M in cap space. After today’s moves, the 49ers have the fifth-most cap space in the NFL at $21.3M, per OverTheCap.
The 49ers’ quarterback room is going to cost a little over $16M this upcoming season, which is less than 13 NFL starting quarterbacks’ cap hits in 2022. Ultimately, it results in potential locker room weirdness, but the 49ers are betting on having an inexpensive but experienced quarterback room this season with a roster that’s ready to win it all. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/30/23328326/san-francisco-49ers-jimmy-garoppolo-salary-cap-ramifications-nfl | 2022-08-30T18:35:59Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/30/23328326/san-francisco-49ers-jimmy-garoppolo-salary-cap-ramifications-nfl | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kyle’s update, 11:04 AM PT: 49ers waived CB Qwuantrezz Knight. He’s a safe bet to return to the practice squad
Kyle’s update, 10:30 AM PT: Per The Athletic’s Matt Barrows, the 49ers waived rookie LB Segun Olubi. He’s energetic and athletic. We can expect him back on the practice squad.
Kyle’s update, 9:53 AM PT: The 49ers released rookies Jason Poe, JaMycal Hasty, and Tariq Castro-Fields. Poe is a bit of a surprise for some, but he had issues during the preseason. Some of them were due to things he couldn’t control, like his height. Poe is promising and should return via the practice squad.
Castro-Fields looked like a sixth-round pick. He’ll need time to develop, as you’d expect. He’s another candidate for the practice squad.
I wouldn’t say Hasty is a big surprise. He’s fine, but Hasty has a very specific role. This is likely good news for Jordan Mason, who the Niners couldn’t risk losing through waivers. Mason has the potential to be a game-changer.
#49ers’ reported cuts so far:
— Akash Anavarathan (@akashanav) August 30, 2022
CB Tariq Castro-Fields
CB Ken Crawley
CB Ka'Dar Hollman
WR Marcus Johnson
OT Jordan Mills
OL Jason Poe
WR Willie Snead
WR Tay Martin
OL Dohnovan West
18** more cuts to go to get the team down to 53 players.
Kyle’s update, 9:15 AM PT: The Niners released WR Willie Snead. The veteran was brought after the start of training camp, but his drop in the end zone in the preseason finale was his lasting impression.
Kyle’s update, 9:02 AM PT: WR Marcus Johnson has been released, per Tom Pelissero. The wide receiver room seems set, with Malik Turner earning the final spot.
We’ll see what San Francisco decides to do at running back, tight end, offensive line, and defensive line. If we get any surprises, they’ll be at those positions.
Kyle’s update, 8:40 AM PT: Per Aaron Wilson, the 49ers have released offensive tackle, Jordan Mills. He was signed on August 6. Mills had an opportunity to earn the swing tackle spot once Jaylon Moore was injured, but never separated himself from the pack.
The 49ers have yet to release anybody on Tuesday morning, but that won’t last long. Until then, let’s take a look at some of the other roster cuts that are going on around the league.
After trading for former 49er quarterback Nick Mullens, the Vikings waived 2021 third-round pick Kellen Mond. Remember this gem?
There’s some speculation that the Texans will go after Mond. Based on a limited sample size, it didn’t seem like he had much to offer.
The Lions waived cornerback A.J. Parker, who started 13 games for them last season. San Francisco might be interested in Parker, as you can never have enough depth. Parker fared well against the NFC West last season, including only allowing 52 yards on ten targets late last year against the Cardinals.
One name that might get Kyle Shanahan’s attention is tight end O.J. Howard, who the Bills released Tuesday morning. Buffalo took a $2.62 million dead cap hit for Howard not to be on their team. The former first-round pick hasn’t done anything significant in the NFL since 2019. If you remember, when he was at Alabama, most of his production came off a couple of games. Still, at 27, with his size and speed, it might be worth a flyer.
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As more states make recreational marijuana legal, there is evidence that legalization leads to more usage.
According to a study released last week in the journal Addiction, people born in states where cannabis was made legal were 24% more likely to use cannabis after legalization.
The study also examined 111 sets of identical twins. Most sets of twins included one person who lived in a state where cannabis is legal and the other twin living somewhere it is not. The study found that an identical twin who lived in a state with legalized marijuana was 20% more likely to use it.
While the study gives strong evidence that legalization leads to higher usage, there might be some caveats.
“One potential alternative explanation for increases in use associated with legalization could be that it instead reflects an increased openness to report activities that are no longer illegal. We cannot determine whether this is the case, but we note that we also saw increases in reported cannabis use by residents of illegal states,” the authors wrote.
Although marijuana possession is now legal in states such as Colorado, it remains a crime at the federal level. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/legalizing-cannabis-appears-to-increase-usage-study-finds | 2022-08-30T18:36:07Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/legalizing-cannabis-appears-to-increase-usage-study-finds | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
By Emily Wagster Pettus and Michael Goldberg | Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi’s capital city is grappling with multiple water problems — too much on the ground after heavy rainfall in the past week, and not enough safe water coming through the pipes for people to use.
Parts of Jackson were without running water Tuesday because flooding exacerbated longstanding problems in one of two water-treatment plants. The city of 150,000 had already been under a boil-water notice for a month because the Health Department found cloudy water that could cause digestive problems.
“They are making it impossible for us to do business in Jackson, Mississippi,” restaurant owner Derek Emerson told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Emerson and his wife, Jennifer, own the upscale Walker’s Drive-In. He said they have been spending $300 a day for bottled water in the past month.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said late Monday that he’s declaring a state of emergency for Jackson’s water system, and he issued the proclamation Tuesday. He said the state will try to help resolve problems by hiring contractors to work at the treatment plant.
Low water pressure left some people unable to take showers or flush toilets and officials said the low pressure caused concern for firefighting. Those who did have water flowing from the tap were told to boil it to kill bacteria that could make them sick.
“The water is not safe to drink, and I’d even say it’s not safe to brush your teeth with,” the state health officer, Dr. Dan Edney, said Monday.
Some restaurants closed. Jackson State University brought in temporary restrooms for students.
President Joe Biden has been briefed about Jackson’s flooding and water problems, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday on Twitter.
“FEMA is working closely with the state officials to identify needs, and the EPA is coordinating with industry partners to expedite delivery of critical treatment equipment for emergency repairs at the City of Jackson water treatment facilities,” she said.
Reeves said the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency will start distributing both drinking water and non-potable water, and the National Guard will be called in to help. The governor said he understands people’s frustrations.
The problems at the water treatment plant came after the city appeared to largely avoid widespread flooding from a Pearl River swollen by days of heavy rain. One home was flooded Monday but Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said the water did not rise as high as expected. Earlier projections showed about 100 to 150 buildings in the Jackson area faced the possibility of flooding.
The National Weather Service said the Pearl River crested Monday at about 35.4 feet (10.8 meters). That is short of the major flood stage level of 36 feet (10.97 meters). Parts of Jackson flooded in 2020 after the river rose above that level.
Jackson has two water-treatment plants, and the larger one is near a reservoir that provides most of the city’s water supply. The reservoir also has a role in flood control.
Lumumba — a Democrat who was not invited to the Republican governor’s news conference — said flooding has created additional problems at the treatment plant, and low water pressure could last a few days.
“What I liken it to is if you were drinking out of a Styrofoam cup, someone puts a hole in the bottom of it, you’re steady trying to fill it while it’s steady running out at the bottom,” Lumumba said.
Jackson has longstanding problems with its water system. A cold snap in 2021 left a significant number of people without running water after pipes froze. Similar problems happened again early this year, on a smaller scale.
The mayor said last week that fixing Jackson’s water system could cost $200 million. That is more than two times the $75 million the whole state is receiving to address water problems as part of the recent bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Legislative leaders reacted with alarm to Jackson’s latest water system problems.
“We have grave concerns for citizens’ health and safety,” Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said in a statement Monday, suggesting the state take a role in trying to solve the issue.The Republican House speaker, Philip Gunn, said he has been contacted by hospitals, businesses and schools “pleading that something be done to address the water crisis in Jackson.”
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The 49ers have already begun trimming their roster down to 53. In about two hours, they need to finalize their roster. And while there’s a deadline at 1 PM PT, there will be plenty more transactions in the coming days.
Deadlines to know
Tuesday, August 30 — 1 PM PT: Every team must have their roster down to 53 players.
Not only must teams finalize their roster, but this is the deadline to place any player currently on active/PUP or active NFI on reserve/PUP or reserve/NFI. The 49ers’ candidates include Jason Verrett, Jimmie Ward, and Kalia Davis. If a player is moved, they’ll be ineligible for the season’s first four games.
If not, then then the players are considered “active” on the 53-man roster, with no injury designation, and the team can cut them. It’s important to note that no player may be moved to the reserve/PUP or NFRI list if they are not already on the active/PUP or NFI.
Wednesday, August 31 — 9 AM PT — Teams must have their waiver claims in for players waived in the cutdown from 80 to 53.
At 9 AM-ish, teams will be notified if they were awarded any players off waiver. Once those notices are sent out, teams can start to sign players to their 16-man practice squad. Then, the frenzy begins.
Wednesday, August 31 — 1 PM PT — Teams can start to place players on their 53-man roster on IR with an eligibility to return after a minimum of four games. Any player placed on IR before this deadline will be lost for the entire season.
Waiver wire rules
Waived vs. Released
When a player is cut, they are either “waived” or “released.” A player with four accrued seasons is “released,” meaning their contract is terminated, and they are a free agent that can sign anywhere immediately.
A player with less than four accrued seasons is “waived,” meaning their contract stays intact until they go through the waiver wire process. So, the 49ers released Ken Crawley on Monday. They waived rookie Dohnovan West.
Waiver claim process
A waived player can be claimed by any other team looking for players. There is a period in which any team that wants a waived player submits a claim. At the end of the claim period— 9 AM PT on Wednesday in this case— the team with the highest waiver priority gets the player and his contract. If a player is not claimed in that window, their contract is terminated, and they are free to sign anywhere.
San Francisco is rolling the dice that Jason Poe, JaMychal Hasty, and some other youngsters they likely want back to return to the practice squad.
Waiver wire priority
Waiver wire priority is determined by last year’s standings—or the 2022 NFL Draft order prior to any trades. So for the Niners, they are 29th in the waiver priority. They’ll need to hope the player they covet is off the radar of the rest of the NFL.
San Francisco maintains the No. 29 waiver priority until after Week 3, when the 2022 record will decide the waiver wire order.
Once a team is awarded a player, they must decide on a corresponding move to make room for him—assuming there is not already a roster spot open—by 1 PMT PT that day.
Practice squad rules
Size
Under newly-adopted rules, teams can now build a 16-man practice squad.
Eligibility
It seems as though these eligibility rules change yearly. In short, every single free agent is eligible to sign to a team’s practice squad. However, there are limits on certain kinds of players, depending on each player’s experience.
Here’s a look at those types of players and the maximum of each type allowed on the 16-man roster:
- Players with an unlimited amount of experience: 6 players maximum
- Players with two or fewer accrued seasons: 10 players maximum
- Players with no accrued seasons or were active less than 9 games in one season: 16 players maximum
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The Justice Department announced Monday that a Washington D.C. man who was in the process of joining the Proud Boys was sentenced to 55 months in prison for his actions during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Federal prosecutors say Joshua Pruitt was sentenced to more than four years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. He must also pay $2,000 in restitution.
According to court documents, while inside the Capitol Visitor's Center, the 40-year-old encountered then-Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and his security detail, who were evacuating from the Senate Chamber on Jan. 6, 2021.
"A member of the security detail saw Pruitt approaching. As a result, Senator Schumer and his security detail reversed course, running away from the elevator and back down the ramp," prosecutors said in court documents.
Prosecutors said Pruitt was arrested the evening of the insurrection for violating a city curfew. He was federally charged the next day, the agency said.
Pruitt pleaded guilty on June 3 to a charge of obstruction of an official proceeding, prosecutors said. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/rioter-who-encountered-sen-schumer-during-insurrection-sentenced-to-over-4-years-in-prison | 2022-08-30T18:36:16Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/rioter-who-encountered-sen-schumer-during-insurrection-sentenced-to-over-4-years-in-prison | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
There are very few high school football coaches who think like La Mirada’s Mike Moschetti when it comes to scheduling.
But Moschetti will point to the results when making his case. When he coached La Mirada to three championships in the 2015 season, which began with the CIF Southern Section Southeast Division title and finished with the CIF State Division III-AA title, it was also a season that saw lopsided losses to powerhouses St. John Bosco (76-8) and Mater Dei (42-7).
Moschetti will always tell you iron sharpens iron, and that’s his recipe to be prepared for the playoffs, whatever division comes their way.
For a public school, La Mirada (1-1) has as tough a schedule as anyone in Southern California. After opening with a 27-24 victory over El Toro, they lost last week to one of the best public schools in Orange County, falling to Yorba Linda, 28-13, a game that Moschetti thought was there for the taking.
“We could be 0-2 or 2-0, and I love how we came out and competed against Yorba Linda,” Moschetti said. “Our physicality is as good as its been in a long time. We held them to about 30 yards rushing and they have a good team, good quarterback, good skilled guys, and I still thought we were dominating, going up and down offenisvely and physical on defense.
“We missed some chances to score in the red zone and were down a touchdown going to the fourth quarter. We gave up two long pass plays and the game got away from us. So, I thought it was a winnable game against a very good team and that’s why we play these games, to measure ourselves and get better.”
It’s going to be like this every week for La Mirada.
They take on Trinity league teams over the next two weeks, facing Servite (0-2) on Friday at Excelsior Adult School, followed by a road game with national powerhouse Mater Dei the following week.
La Mirada will also have a non-league game against Sunny Hills, then enter the new Gateway league, which includes nemesis Mayfair along with Dominguez, Warren, Downey and Paramount.
There is no week off, and that’s how Moschetti likes it.
“The Trinity League is the best in the country, then I would put the Baseline League next, followed by the Mission League and then our league is right there after that. It’s a great league and that’s the reason why we challenge ourselves each week.”
Moschetti doesn’t believe in scheduling winnable games. He believes you schedule the best you can to learn from it, and utlimately get better. That was his blueprint in 2015 that led to titles and his plan nearly every year he’s been in charge.
“With the power rating (Calpreps) they have now for the playoffs, a lot of coaches are making a mistake playing down,” Moschetti said. “I think it’s going to hurt them in the long run. My philosphy is play the toughest you can and make each week matter and make the preparation matter.
“Look, kids want to play in big games. We don’t enjoy playing some team and beating them 50-0. I think you get more out of getting beat 50-0 than by beating someone like that. I’ve seen our kids show up after taking a shellacking in the past. It didn’t hurt them. It didn’t set us back. They learned from it and we got better.”
It also helps that La Mirada appears to have the talent to take on tough challenges, and they’re youthful too, starting six sophomores and three freshman.
The three freshman are Gavin Lannon, a highly regarded wide receiver and safety along with Kimani Tuitasi, a 6-foot-3, 230-pound linebacker and tight end. And there is also Jordan Lauago, a running back and defensive back.
Still, do they have a shot at somelike Servite? It’s an interesting game because the Friars lost their first two games and are far from the talented team that reached last years’ Division 1 championship game.
“I know (Servite) coach (Troy) Thomas really well,” Moschetti said. “The guy preaches culture, toughness and they live in the weightroom and play for the guy next to them. Trust me, we got our hands totally full and have to find a way to keep the game close. They lost to Rancho cucamonga, who has guys and speed all over the place, and Mission Viejo, who I think has the best offense coach Chad (Johnson) has had since he’s been there.
“Servite might not be the same team that played for the CIF title, but they’re still Servite, so you know what you’re up against.”
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — A Sioux City man was charged with child abuse resulting in injury after he allegedly beat a child that was in his care on July 6.
According to court documents, the 8-year-old victim was allegedly hungry so their aunt told them to take some money from Leon Bearshield, of Sioux City, to buy snacks. Afterward, the child went to a friend’s house.
When Bearshield found out what happened, he allegedly got angry and went to the child’s friend’s residence. Upon arrival, Bearshield yelled, “Where are they at?” and found the child hiding in a closet, according to the documents.
The documents specified that Bearshield allegedly grabbed the child by their hair and yanked them out and began slamming them into a wall multiple times. The child tried to make their way down the hallway when he grabbed the child’s hair again and threw them down once more.
While the two made their way to Bearshield’s residence, he allegedly slapped them repeatedly in the face, legs, and arms, according to the documents.
When Bearshield and the child got to the home, he had calmed down enough to apologize to the child and laid down for a nap. Once he’d fallen asleep the child ran to a neighbor’s house who took the child to a local hospital. The documents stated that the child had marks and bruises on their face and indicated that the injuries hurt.
A warrant for Bearshield was issued on Monday and he was charged with Child Endangerment resulting in bodily injury. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for September 9, at 9 a.m.
The documents included previously felony offenses that Bearshield had been convicted of, including possession of a controlled substance – methamphetamine in 2020, theft by unlawful taking in 1998, and first-degree forcible sexual assault in 2002. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/sioux-city-man-charged-for-allegedly-beating-child-for-using-money-for-food/ | 2022-08-30T18:36:39Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/sioux-city-man-charged-for-allegedly-beating-child-for-using-money-for-food/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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If your favorite saying when pouring a cup of coffee is, “Oh, look. Another glorious morning. It makes me sick!” then this Hocus Pocus mug will be a must. Just in time to sip your favorite brew while watching “Hocus Pocus 2,” the Disney Store has released a unique cup that no fan of the Sanderson Sisters should be without.
The cauldron-style black ceramic mug has “Disney Hocus Pocus” printed on the front. But what really makes this Hocus Pocus mug exceptional is that green brew appears to spill over the edges, and “Trouble is Brewing” appears on the back when you fill it with hot liquid.
The Hocus Pocus mug holds up to 18 ounces of your favorite warm drink. It also comes with a 5-inch long ceramic spoon that looks like a wooden spoon. Complete with a small hole in the handle and a bit of leftover potion remaining on the head of the spoon, this utensil is perfect for stirring a dab of newt saliva, a dash of pox or even cream and sugar.
This unique Hocus Pocus mug has a high-gloss glaze. However, because of its color-changing properties, it isn’t dishwasher or microwave safe. Be sure to hand wash it only, and add hot beverages, such as coffee, cocoa or witch’s brew, directly to the mug, rather than adding liquid and heating it.
The Hocus Pocus Color Changing Mug with Spoon is available at the Disney Store for $24.99. Right now, you can get free shipping on orders of $75 or more when you use the promo code SHIPMAGIC.
If you would like to start a collection of cauldron-shaped mugs or add to your existing Hocus Pocus collection, Amazon has a Hocus Pocus mug with an appealing iridescent glaze.
This 12-ounce cauldron-inspired mug is ceramic and features the phrase, “It’s just a bunch of Hocus Pocus” in glittering gold print. The long ceramic “wooden” spoon has an intricate design that will help you whip up potions with ease and fun.
The mug has a 4.8-star overall rating. Customers who reviewed this dishwasher-safe ceramic cup say it makes an excellent gift.
“This mug is a gift for a Hocus Pocus fan,” wrote reviewer KPage. “Really cute for a Witchy potion to start the day!”
“Very cute and original, just like in the Disney store,” wrote Genoveva Rivera, who also shared a photo of the Hocus Pocus mug.
This Hocus Pocus Iridescent Cauldron Mug and Spoon Set is available for $42.60.
Will you be adding these magical mugs to your Sanderson Sisters collection?
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A brick column reportedly collapsed at Lewis & Clark College, leaving a student dead and two others injured.
The college, in Portland, Oregon, called the incident a "tragic accident" and said it was working to contact the students' families.
"We are deeply saddened by the shocking loss of a member of our community," the college said in a statement.
According to NBC News, witnesses told authorities that several people were in hammocks Monday as the brick column fell toward them.
A 19-year-old man was identified as the person who died. The injured included two 18-year-old women.
The incident happened on the first day of the semester.
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The recent death of a U.S. diplomat marks the second time a State Department employee was killed this summer while riding a bike.
In a news release on Friday, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said they were called to the scene on Aug. 25 just after 4 p.m. after a flatbed truck struck a bicyclist.
Deputies said 42-year-old Sarah Joan Langenkamp was in the bicycle lane when she was struck and then ran over by a truck that was turning into a parking lot.
Langenkamp was pronounced dead at the scene, deputies said.
The name of the truck driver has not been released.
Officials told ABC News that the investigation into the crash is still ongoing.
According to ABC News and FOX News, Langenkamp served as a diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The State Department confirmed with the news outlets that Langenkamp is the second federal employee killed this year while bike riding.
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