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Full-price clothing retailers Gap and Kohl's are set to try out a pack-away strategy to try and offset losses experienced during last holiday season's markdown prices.
As industry publication Retail Wire reports, the practice is more commonly used by off-price retailers like the parent company for TJ Maxx and off-price retailer Nordstrom Rack.
Last week Gap said the strategy could help the company improve its use of cash flow and improve shareholder value for future seasons.
Gap CEO Bobby Martin said, "early results have been favorable with strong consumer feedback."
The company believes it will be able to mix in clothing stored away with new clothing that comes in and is put out for sale in the months ahead.
Gap finance chief Katrina O'Connell said, "We're confident that we will be able to integrate our pack and hold inventory with future assortments."
As CNN Business reported, Kohl's announced it was keeping an extra $82 million in inventory and plans to sell it before the upcoming holiday season.
Weakening consumer demand amid steady inflation has these retailers trying to find ways to manage their bloated inventory without future losses in revenue.
The CEO of another retailer, Carter's, is also employing the strategy.
Michael Casey said on an earnings call, "We are packing and holding inventory given the slowdown in demand we've seen in recent months."
While the strategy seems like it could work, storing inventory come with a cost, and there is no guarantee that the merchandise will sell in future seasons. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/gap-and-kohls-to-use-off-price-inventory-strategy-more-commonly-seen-with-retailers-like-tj-maxx | 2022-08-30T23:44:33Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/gap-and-kohls-to-use-off-price-inventory-strategy-more-commonly-seen-with-retailers-like-tj-maxx | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors in Chicago rested their case against R. Kelly on Tuesday.
They've presented two weeks of evidence and testimony of four accusers as the disgraced singer stands charged with child pornography and obstruction charges, the Associated Press reported.
According to the news outlet, the prosecutors' final accuser they put on the witness stand was a 42-year-old woman who went by the pseudonym “Nia.”
She detailed how he manipulated fans like her, so he could abuse them sexually and then toss them away, the news outlet reported.
Another witness, who went by the pseudonym “Jane," described how beginning in 1998, he sexually abused her hundreds of times. When the reported abuse began, she was 14, and Kelly was around 30, the Associated Press said.
According to the news outlet, defense attorneys will start presenting their case on Thursday, with closing arguments slated to begin next week.
In June, the Associated Press reported that a New York federal judge sentenced Kelly to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/prosecutors-wrap-up-their-case-in-r-kellys-trial | 2022-08-30T23:44:39Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/prosecutors-wrap-up-their-case-in-r-kellys-trial | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Last week, Oprah hosted a three-day celebration in Maui in honor of her dear friend Ava DuVernay’s 50th birthday. Today, we’re taking you inside the first day of festivities. Check back later this week for more!
Reaching another year of life is a big deal at any age—but marking your semi-centennial, as esteemed director and writer Ava DuVernay did last week, is particularly special. Oprah honored the 50th birthday of her dear friend with a three-day celebration that was nothing short of breathtaking.
DuVernay is known for projects like Selma, Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time, and Queen Sugar, which are all projects she collaborated on with Oprah. Their deep friendship began nearly a decade ago. When Oprah was working on the set of Lee Daniels’ The Butler in 2012, her costar David Oyelowo recommended she watch an indie film called Middle of Nowhere, which was directed by DuVernay. “I then googled who directed the movie because I had not heard of Ava DuVernay at the time,” Oprah said. “There was this beautiful photograph of this lovely Black woman who was wearing glasses just like me. I thought, I want to be her friend.”
Oprah was so impressed by her work that she devised a plan to meet DuVernay in person. “I ended up having an entire Mother’s Day brunch at my house that I staged so I could invite her,” Oprah shared. “We then started to work on Selma and actually became friends.”
After nearly a decade of friendship, Oprah wanted to go all out in honor of DuVernay’s milestone birthday. From the gift bags filled with some of Lady O’s favorite items to the touching speech DuVernay gave at the kickoff event, take a peek inside the first day of festivities here.
A Warm Welcome
Oprah always says that love is in the details, and her regard for her friend was evident in the care and attention given to every element of the event, starting with the welcome gifts awaiting guests when they arrived on Tuesday, August 23. Each woman in attendance found a Loro Piana Suitcase Stripe Bag (which is made of linen and cotton and features soft leather handles) filled with some of Oprah’s “most delightful favorite things” on the bed in their respective rooms. In true Maui fashion, the welcome note in each bag began with “Aloha,” then went on to explain the important Covid protocols, including daily testing.
The goodies included products from Dr. Barbara Sturm's skincare line, including a travel kit and a product set. “Their foam cleanser takes off all the makeup, and their enzyme cleanser then deep cleans," Oprah tells us. Lady O added that Dr. Barbara Strum’s products like the glow drops are perfect for days when you want to go without makeup.
Also in the ladies’ totes were Saltee sunscreen and an Olivia Von Halle pink satin sleep mask. The male guests were welcomed with a Paul Smith backpack and a black Olivia Von Halle satin sleep mask. “I love letting the sun wake me up, but when I don’t want that, I like Olivia Von Halle's lovely sleep masks,” says Oprah, who is also a fan of the brands' jumpsuits.
A few of the items were meant to be used during the R&R—recreation and relaxation—that were on the itinerary. Oprah was particularly excited about the Beysis water bottles: “Since we were going to offer hikes to people, I was looking for the perfect water bottle,” she says. She found the “smoothest” one and had the name of each guest engraved on their bottle. Guests who appreciate the perfect blend of fashion and comfort in their lounging and beach apparel were thrilled to find Roam slippers and a multicolored beach sarong from the Natalie Martin Collection in their totes.
When Oprah celebrated her own 50th birthday, everyone invited to her luncheon gave her a card with a personalized birthday message. “Words matter, and when you have a thoughtful opportunity to speak what you feel about somebody and then you write it down and give it to them, they always remember,” Oprah has said. She wanted to recreate the heartfelt idea, so each guest received a woven basket containing an envelope and note card on which they could write a personal message to DuVernay.
The Kick-Off Event
That evening, the celebration for DuVernay commenced at sunset with cocktails and dinner at the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea. As guests arrived at the event, they were greeted with intricate leis of assorted colors.
While the attire was technically “island comfortable,” the crowd and, of course, the guest of honor arrived looking especially radiant. DuVernay stunned in a luminous neon yellow ensemble. The close friendship between DuVernay and actress Niecy Nash was made clear during a playful moment when Nash encouraged the director to show more skin.
“I love it, but you didn’t need that tank top on,” Nash said humorously. DuVernay then explained that she tried her yellow ensemble without a tank top but decided against the more bare look. “I looked in the mirror and I was like, no,” DuVernay says, while the guests laughed. “She would love for me to give a lot of leg,” DuVernay tells Oprah Daily. “Whenever I go out with her, she’s like, ‘Oh my God.’”
DuVernay’s family was well-represented at the multi-event soirée with her mother, Darlene, in attendance, as well as her brothers, Kris and Nic, and her sisters, Jina, Laschica, and Tera. Gayle King also joined in on the fun, along with her daughter, Kirby Bumpus.
Director, writer, and actor Colman Domingo, who has made waves on Broadway and will appear in the upcoming The Color Purple film, led everyone in prayer to bless the meal. The delicious menu paid homage to food traditions unique to Maui, and included Honey Kiawe Bread Rolls, Roasted Pineapple and Pipikaula Salad, and decadent Chocolate Tartlets and Macadamia Nut Truffles for dessert.
The memorable evening was made even more joyous when DuVernay addressed her close friends and family, sharing how much their presence meant to her. “I could lose it, so I’m not going to,” DuVernay reflected. “I’m going to keep it all together and say I ask God, 'What did I do to deserve this gathering of people coming from all the places that you did to be with me on these days? And what did I do to deserve a friend who’d create this moment for us all?' So I don’t know what I did, but maybe he’ll tell me. I’m going to be listening, and I’ll be thanking you all throughout the time here, and thanking you forever for this.”
The revelry truly began when guests hit the dance floor to do the Electric Slide and shimmy to a slowed-down version of “This Is How We Do It.” The band was able to give classic songs a perfect Hawaiian twist.
As the night wound down, the sky lit up as fire dancers performed, the perfect finale to night one that promised much more fun to come.
Stay tuned for more exclusive details about the rest of the celebration. Tomorrow, we’re giving you a look inside the exciting party that marked DuVernay’s actual birthday, Oprah’s speech, and what brought the guest of honor to tears.
Cailey Griffin (She/Her) is the Editorial Assistant to Oprah Daily’s General Manager. In addition to assisting the GM, she also writes for Oprah Daily. She holds a Master of Science degree in journalism from Columbia University. She has interned at 60 Minutes, NBC News, and her work has appeared in Foreign Policy magazine. Outside of Oprah Daily, she can be found running around Harlem or listening to the Wicked soundtrack on repeat. | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a40999781/oprah-ava-duvernay-birthday-celebration-day-one/ | 2022-08-30T23:45:17Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a40999781/oprah-ava-duvernay-birthday-celebration-day-one/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kansas football coach Lance Leipold answered questions Monday morning prior to the Friday night season-opener against Tennessee Tech.
Leadership
Leipold has honed in on a couple of players on both sides of the ball as veteran leaders of this team. These players have not only excelled on the field during the offseason, but have also quickly brought the team together off the field.
One key player Leipold mentioned was star senior defensive back Kenny Logan Jr. Entering the 2022 season on the All-Big 12 Conference First-Team roster, Logan has been the cornerstone of the Jayhawk defense during his time at Kansas.
When asked about Logan, Leipold mentioned that the defensive back is never satisfied.
“All I am saying is that you can be on these lists, and you can have things happen, but if you get content with those, you are never going to have the season you anticipate,” Leipold said. “I am very pleased that Kenny has realized this in the past couple of weeks.”
Another name that Leipold has penciled in is junior receiver Luke Grimm. Catching three touchdowns last season, Grimm looks to bolster this wide receiver group with a strong presence on and off the field.
Optimism
Leipold’s first go-around as skipper was highlighted by wins over South Dakota and Texas. Since last spring, Leipold has added 14 transfers, including players from Ohio State, Michigan State, Purdue and Minnesota.
Leipold has mentioned that these players have all been performing exceptionally well in all OTA’s. He noted that all of them have bought into the mindset and culture of this year’s Kansas football team.
“Being the best version of yourself first, control what you can, and then the other stuff will take care of itself,” Leipold said. “Execution and all the little things that we look at during practice will pay off when it comes Friday night for these new guys.”
Kansas has suffered no injuries this offseason, producing a fully healthy roster going into Friday night’s game.
When asked about the upcoming matchup with Tennessee Tech, Leipold noted that playing FCS schools is no joke.
“When you play an FCS school, there is not as much knowledge on them. Coordinators change, and that can bring things that you are not ready to see scheme-wise,” Leipold said. “A lot of different things can happen in college football, so being sound in all three phases will be very important for us to get off to a good started.”
Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. against Tennessee Tech at David Booth Memorial Stadium on Friday, Sept. 2. | https://www.kansan.com/sports/embracing-leadership-optimism-heading-into-kansas-football-season-opener/article_fe5b86b0-27cb-11ed-a738-63581765263c.html | 2022-08-30T23:45:17Z | kansan.com | control | https://www.kansan.com/sports/embracing-leadership-optimism-heading-into-kansas-football-season-opener/article_fe5b86b0-27cb-11ed-a738-63581765263c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Monday night, the world eagerly watched Serena Williams walk into the iconic Arthur Ashe Stadium to see what could have been the last time we saw her play in the U.S. Open, a particularly powerful moment after Williams announced that she would soon retire from tennis earlier this month. But to watch the moment in person was a uniquely special experience, even for frequent tennis-goers like Gayle King, Oprah Daily’s editor at large. “I’ve been to the U.S. Open many times before, but the energy was different tonight,” Gayle told us of the Monday night match, where Williams beat Montenegrin player Danka Kovinic, winning 6-3, 6-3.
The immense occasion drew a high-profile crowd, full of celebrities who came out for the historic event, including Queen Latifah, Hugh Jackman, Laverne Cox, Vera Wang, and Anna Wintour. “Everyone can feel that this was different and that this was going to be special either way, win or lose,” Gayle said.
Yet, the star appeal wasn’t the only unmistakable result of the Serena effect. Gayle couldn’t help noticing that once the game was underway, Williams’s fans were very vocal in their support. “Most tennis matches don’t allow the crowd to yell the way this crowd was yelling in the middle of the match,” Gayle said. “‘I love you, Serena!’ It was a lot of that. The screams kept penetrating the air to the point that I thought the umpire was going to say something to quiet the crowd.” And at the moment that Williams did win, the crowd erupted even louder.
“In a way, I felt sorry for her opponent, Danka Kovinic, because it was so clear everybody in that stadium was pulling for Serena,” Gayle said. “We saw some good tennis, and there were some amazing shots from both of them. But in the end, everybody wanted Serena to win, and I think that must be hard. I don’t know how you play knowing that everybody was pulling for Serena.”
Following the match, Gayle was asked to host a brief ceremony that was specially designed to honor Williams and celebrate her decades-long career. It included a video tribute from Oprah, a speech from Billie Jean King, and a chance to hear from the tennis legend herself on her next chapter.
“You’re like that Beyoncé song, I’m one of one, the only one, don’t even try to compete with me,” Gayle told Williams, referencing “Alien Superstar” lyrics as she opened up the ceremony. Gayle took the chance to speak on behalf of the fans, admitting that we’re still all processing the news of her retirement.
“I always just gotta do the best that I can,” Williams said after thanking everyone for their support. “I feel so comfortable on this court and in front of everyone here, and when I step out on the court, I just want to do the best that I can do on that particular day.”
And although Gayle knew of this ceremony two weeks prior to the match, the tributes came as a surprise to Williams, who had no idea that she would be celebrated in this special way.
The moment landed right in the middle of history-in-the-making, and Gayle was tasked with balancing the bitterness of Williams’s last tournament with the sweetness of a new chapter for her. “This wasn’t the time to have a this-is-your-life kind of conversation,” Gayle reflected. “It was just a chance to get some moments with her.”
The ceremony offered a chance for Williams to feel the love and receive a big “thank you” that her fans so desperately wanted to give her during this transition. A sweet surprise tucked right at the end of the tribute was a sea of people holding up signs in the crowd that read, We ❤️ Serena.
Gayle said Williams was pumped and psyched following her victory. Gayle asked her, “Are you tired?” To which she responded like a true star: “Not at all.” Williams told Gayle that the crowd really helped her win the match.
Looking ahead this week to the next rounds of the tournament, we are all rooting for Serena to win big, but either way, Gayle says the athlete has nothing to prove. “Serena’s reign continues.” | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a41023979/us-open-serena-williams-gayle-king-ceremony/ | 2022-08-30T23:45:27Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a41023979/us-open-serena-williams-gayle-king-ceremony/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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The 33 Best Fall Movies That Elicit All of Those Cozy, Autumnal Vibes
The leaves may be falling, but our spirits are lifting.
The leaves are falling, the sweaters are coming out, and the fall themed treats and decorations are hitting the stores. Autumn officially arrives on September 22, and no matter where you live, you can experience the quintessential crisp climate by either going outside, or watching films set during the season. From apple picking to pumpkin carving and haunted houses, fall is one of the best seasons for group activities. As the days grow shorter (and colder for some) we can't help but acknowledge one of our favorite indoor activities: Movie night!
There are fall movies to satisfy every kind of craving. In the mood for a good romance? Fire up The Lake House and When Harry Met Sally. Nostalgic for the days of gathering school supplies? Head back to the classroom with movies ranging in tone from inspiring (Dead Poets Society) to wry (Selah and the Spades). Celebrate Halloween with Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic, and of course there's always the suspenseful Knives Out for some chunky knit inspo.
With their scenes of Thanksgiving feasts and foliage, these films—currently streaming on Netflix, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and beyond—will conjure up the very best of fall vibes.
Family gatherings can be dramatic, but Knives Out takes the drama to the next level. When Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), a successful crime novelist, is suddenly killed, all of his relatives are suspects. After all, they were all clamoring for a bit of his fortune. Knives Out also stars Ana De Armas, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, and more in their autumn finery. Daniel Craig reprised his detective role in the movie sequel Knives Out 2.
Oh captain, my captain! John Keating, a poetry-quoting, free-thinking English teacher, is one of Robin Williams's most inspiring roles. Keating provokes his class of straight-laced students to start thinking for themselves.
Fonnie (Stephan James) and Tish (KiKi Layne) fall in love against a backdrop of New York's changing seasons. The fall foliage is as glorious as their love affair. Shot for shot, If Beale Street Could Talk is a gorgeous movie.
The Sanderson sisters have been waiting for this moment. Centuries after their neighbors in Salem, MA turned on them, the witches (played by Sarah Jessica Parker, Bette Midler, and Kathy Najimy) are accidentally resurrected. Much has changed in New England since the Sanderson sisters were persecuted for witchcraft—but the autumn foliage is still spectacular and this remains a classic family-friendly Halloween flick. A sequel is set for Disney Plus later this year.
After seeing Sputnik cross the night sky, Homer Hickam (Jake Gyllenhaal), the son of a coal miner from West Virginia, is inspired to try launching his own rockets into space. Based on a true story, he goes on to become a NASA engineer.
When Harry Met Sally isn't limited to the autumn season—the movie spans years in Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally's (Meg Ryan) relationship. But one of Harry and Sally's most memorable conversations takes place among the falling leaves of Central Park. It's New York at its dreamiest (and most orange).
Isabella (Amy Irving) is a proudly independent New Yorker in her 30s, resisting her grandmother's efforts to set her up with a "nice Jewish boy" at every turn. But her Bubbe (Reizl Bozyk) might be right about Sam Posner (Peter Reickert), a pickle salesman on the Lower East Side.Directed by Joan Micklin Silver (who also wrote the play it's based on), Crossing Delancey preserves a bygone era of New York, especially in the colder months.
You don't need to like football to love Remember the Titans, a movie based on a true story. Set in 1971, the film follows a football team at a newly integrated high school. Coach Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) has to teach his team how to act like a team.
Practical Magic may have you wishing you were part of the close-knit Owens family, whose magical powers have passed through the generations. But there's a catch: The women of the Owens family, like Gillian (Nicole Kidman) and Sarah (Sandra Bullock), are cursed: The men they love will suffer an untimely death. This highly re-watchable movie follows the sisters as they try to lift the curse. Read Alice Hoffman's book series when you're done.
Carol director Todd Haynes helms this thoughtful 2002 movie, also about suburbanites forced to sublimate their desires. Cathy (Julianne Moore) and Frank's (Dennis Quaid) picture-perfect 1950's marriage is revealed, from the first scene on, to be a farce—even if the town's society paper is writing a column about them.
Just as autumn inevitably becomes winter, Will (Richard Keane) and Charlotte (Winona Ryder) know where their relationship is headed. Will is a notorious playboy and celebrity chef in New York. And Charlotte is a 21-year-old looking to experience the thrill and freedom of adulthood while she still can.
This Pixar movie is centered around the Mexican holiday of the Day of the Dead, in which folks honor their ancestors on November 1 and 2. Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez) ventures to the "other side" to connect with his family in order to lift a curse. Try to make it through this beautiful animated movie without crying.
John Irving's New England-set novels are ideal for curling up with during an autumn day—as is this movie, inspired by his book. Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire) is raised in an orphanage by Dr. Larch (Michael Caine). There, Homer becomes wrapped up in the orphanage's ecosystem, where Dr. Larch performs secret abortions for women like Candy (Charlize Theron). The Cider House Rules is a poignant coming-of-age story that unfolds among the landscapes of Maine.
Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) and Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) don't need to see each other to fall for each other. While exchanging emails, they build up an attraction. The only problem? Kathleen, the owner of a struggling independent bookstore, doesn't know that Joe is the heir to a rival big box bookstore that just moved in. You've Got Mail is one of the ultimate New York movies.
Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves play characters who fall in love across different dimensions, and are only able to connect in a glass lake house. Just go with it.
Back to school season means new notebooks, classes—and elections. Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) was born to run, and will do whatever it takes to win. Her teacher, Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick), attempts to thwart her path. Election is a portrait of an ambitious woman in her teenage form.
Clueless, a modern adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, spans a school year in Southern California. Alicia Silverstone's Cher considers herself an excellent matchmaker. But as chaos unravels thanks to her meddling, she learns she still has a lot of learning to do.
Heading back to school this season, or supporting someone who is? Channel your inner Elle Woods, Reese Witherspoon's iconic character in Legally Blonde, who proves she's more than capable at acing her time at Harvard Law, despite doubters.
Silver Linings Playbook is hard to categorize. Part football movie, part dance competition, part love story and exploration of mental health—and all-in-all, it's a wholly unique, redemptive watch. Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence's characters come together during a fall season in this David O. Russell film.
Considered one of the best Thanksgiving movies of all time, Planes, Trains and Automobiles pairs two SNL alums on an odyssey to make it home in time for the holiday after their planes are grounded due to a winter storm.
If watching exquisitely performed scenes of suburban tenseness is your thing, start with The Ice Storm, a portrait of two intertwined and dysfunctional families in New Canaan, CT. Directed by Ang Lee, the movie features an all-star cast of Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, Katie Holmes, and Sigourney Weaver.
The satirical movie Dear White People imagines a college campus as its own miniature country, with intense politics and heated rivalries. In the movie, which was later adapted into a Netflix show of the same name, students at a fictional Ivy League university navigate the politics of race through a wry and witty lens.
Good Will Hunting began as a script Matt Damon started while studying at Harvard University, and ultimately took to his childhood friend, Ben Affleck, who co-write the screenplay with him. Damon plays Will Hunting, a 20-year-old genius adrift in the world. While working as a janitor at Harvard, Will solves a difficult (nearly unsolvable) math problem on a blackboard. From there, Will finds guidance in Sean Maguire (Robin Williams), a psychologist who encourages Will to ask the necessary questions about his life's path.
In All That Heaven Allows, Jane Wyman plays a wealthy widow who falls for Rock Hudson, a younger landscape designer. It's set among the manicured lawns of Connecticut, where appearances are more important than substance. The autumn landscape is beautiful, and that's the point. But what's below the surface?
The title of this gives away the movie's mood: It's set among the muted tones of late autumn. And within that cooling atmosphere, relationships between a mother and daughter heat up. In her final film role, Ingrid Bergman plays a famous pianist reuniting with her daughter, Eva (Liv Ullmann), whom she had neglected as a child. Ingmar Bergman wrote and directed the film.
Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women, about four sisters seeing each other through life's changes, has been adapted countless times. Greta Gerwig's adaptation especially captures the feeling of fall in New England: The coziness of a fireplace, the majesty of the landscape. Skip ahead to Jo (Saoirse Ronan) and Laurie's (Timothée Chalemet) hillside confrontation for the ultimate fall scene.
For a unique back-to-school watch, look no further than Selah and the Spades, where popularity is a game with high stakes. The cliques, called factions, literally are involved with the black market. Haldwell is a prestigious boarding school, and Selah Summers (Greenleaf's Lovie Simone) is its queen bee—but she has to choose a successor.
Does the fox in Fantastic Mr. Fox sound familiar? Because he should—that sly voice is none other than George Clooney's. The all-star cast of Wes Anderson's stop-motion movie also includes Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, and Owen Wilson. An adaptation of a Roald Dahl novel, Fantastic Mr. Fox is about a fox who returns to his stealing ways after 12 years of "behaving." Fantastic Mr. Fox looks at autumn from an animal's perspective.
In the 1976 movie Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis plays a babysitter who, against all odds, outsmarts and outfights a serial killer. But Michael Myers (Nick Castle) wasn't done: He tormented people through many more sequels in the Halloween franchise. The 2018 movie Halloween had Curtis and Castle reprise their roles. Decades older, Curtis's charater, Laurie, is suffering from PTSD. The film shows the cost of being a "final girl" (the nickname for the last person standing in a slasher movie).
Tim Burton's adaptation of Sleepy Hollow is a moody one—that much is obvious from the overcast frames, each seemingly cloudier than the last. It's the perfect setting for an age-old ghost story about a headless horseman and a nervous schoolteacher named Ichabod Crane (played here by Johnny Depp) who finds himself facing down grim forces. | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/tv-movies/g36754758/best-fall-movies/ | 2022-08-30T23:45:37Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/tv-movies/g36754758/best-fall-movies/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sometimes, the best thing you can do for yourself is turn on Netflix, cue up a hilarious movie, and tune out the rest of the world. Luckily, there's a variety of standout films on the streaming service, from raunchy late-night comedies to sweet rom-coms to clever satires. There's a mix of old and new, too, so you can make it through a classic ’80s dramedy before switching to a star-studded Netflix original and then back again.
Whatever your genre preference is, Netflix likely has it. But to take the guesswork out of the process—and so you don't have to scroll through a seemingly endless number of titles—we've compiled some of the best comedy movies on Netflix right now. As of September 2022, these films are all available to stream.
Based on the young adult book trilogy by Jenny Han, this romantic comedy—the first of three—follows 16-year-old Lara Jean after secret love letters she wrote as a kid are mysteriously mailed to her five childhood crushes. What ensues, of course, is a love triangle, a fake (but real?) relationship, and lots of "woah woah woahs" from one love interest (if you know, you know).
Starring: Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, Janel Parrish
The protagonist of this satirical dark comedy is a Black telemarketer who begins using a "white accent" while speaking on the phone—and subsequently begins moving up the corporate ladder. Unfortunately, he's also pulled into a corporate conspiracy that has him questioning his entire value system.
When two astronomers learn that a world-ending comet is headed toward Earth, they attempt to warn everyone by embarking on a media tour. The film—which was nominated for best picture at the 94th Academy Awards—is a climate change satire, so when the scientists share that the world is in danger...the world doesn't really do anything to change.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep
This female-driven dramedy tells the interconnected story of six women in a small, tight-knit Southern town. Get the tissues ready: There are births, deaths, and a whole lotta community support.
Starring: Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Julia Roberts, Olympia Dukakis
If you're in the mood for something light and easy, put on this rom-com, which follows two overwhelmed assistants who come up with the genius idea of setting up their two demanding bosses on a date. Knowing how it's going to end is, truly, just part of the charm.
This classic John Hughes teen comedy has a great premise—high schooler Ferris Bueller decides to play hooky one day and run around Chicago with two friends—and it's chock-full of hilarious scenes, too. Read: the Art Institute montage, the crashed Ferrari, Ferris breaking the fourth wall, and, of course, the parade. Even if you've seen the movie more times than you can count, it'll still have you laughing.
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jennifer Grey
It's one of the most iconic teen comedies ever—and it'll bring you straight back to the early 2000s (not that you necessarily want that). Sixteen-year-old Cady has been home-schooled her entire life, so when she enters high school for the first time and gets sucked into the coolest clique—the Plastics—she learns that being popular isn't all it's cracked up to be.
It's one of the funniest movies of all time, probably, so you should really just watch it already. The Monty Python crew—full of their dry British humor—don chainmail and cloaks to become King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and search for—yup—the Holy Grail.
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
Although it's technically a thriller, this Netflix original has all the elements of dark comedy, too. Pike won the Golden Globe for best actress by playing Marla Grayson, a con artist who works as a court-appointed legal guardian. While embezzling from yet another of her elderly clients, she finds herself entangled with an actual murderous crime lord. If you love, well, rooting for the bad guy, you'll love the moral ambiguity (and sometimes just pure immorality) on display here.
Starring: Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage, Eiza González, Dianne Wiest
When an FBI agent who couldn't care less about her looks is assigned to go undercover as a contestant in the Miss United States beauty pageant, she's forced to undergo a full renovation. The makeover scene is truly iconic, and you won't be able to get enough of Sandra Bullock's hilarious fish-out-water situation.
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, Candice Bergen, William Shatner
The quintessential rom-com follows our lovebirds, Harry and Sally, for 12 years—from when they actively dislike each other, through years of friendship, and, well—we won't spoil the ending.
When childhood friends—who secretly harbored mutual crushes for years—run into each other after 15 years apart, they can't help feeling the attraction once again. Yet their worlds are completely different: Sasha is a famous chef, and Marcus plays in a local (read: unsuccessful) band. Come for Wong and Park's great chemistry, stay for Keanu Reaves's eccentric cameo.
Starring: Ali Wong, Randall Park, James Saito, Michelle Buteau
A Pride and Prejudice-inspired love triangle between Colin Firth and Hugh Grant? Sign us up. The British film is endlessly funny, following Bridget as she messes up (and then messes up again) while trying to succeed in her career and find love. Plus, there are two other movies in the series, so you can buckle in for a marathon if you're especially in need of a laugh.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
This critically acclaimed indie film is written and directed by Radha Blank—who also stars in it as a character named Radha who's looking for inspiration as she approaches her 40th birthday. Her solution? Becoming a rapper, of course.
This multigenerational love story is one of the best rom-coms, featuring an all-star cast and both hilarious and feel-good moments. It begins with the split of Cal and Emily Weaver, who were high school sweethearts, and follows a six-degrees-of-separation style story where everyone is in love with the wrong person—but eventually finds where they need to be.
Starring: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone
A family-friendly comedy that kids and adults alike will truly both enjoy, this film tracks the Mitchells as they (gulp) try to save all humans from a robot apocalypse. Makes your dysfunctional family vacation seem like a walk on the beach, right?
Starring: Danny McBride, Abbi Jacobson, Maya Rudolph
If political, satirical comedies are your speed, this Dick Cheney semi-biopic will be a riot. It gives a view of Cheney's rise to power—manipulating various government officials all the way to the vice presidency. Bale won the Golden Globe for Best Actor for his portrayal of Cheney.
Starring: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell
Another family-friendly one—but if you choose to watch it without your kids, that's cool, too. The completely lovable bear Paddington arrives in London and promptly begins looking for a home, and a family, to take him in.
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When you're hosting Thanksgiving, your table should be your focal point. (As a prelude to the delicious desserts, of course!) This is, after all, where your party will gather together to give thanks, break bread, drink wine, and maybe even bond over festive tunes.
And while you can certainly go all out with elegant Pottery Barn-style decorations complete with overflowing floral centerpieces, you don’t have to spend a fortune to create a beautiful table. With the right inspo photos (that’s where we come in) and a little creativity, you can fashion gorgeous place settings on a budget—we're talking dollar-store cheap. In this case, less truly is more, so you don't have to overthink it. Just go with the flow!
First, narrow in on your preferred aesthetic—think traditional farmhouse, classic elegance, or even modern and colorful. This will help you focus on what you need to buy, what you might be able to pull together from your own closet or even your backyard (think pine cones or evergreen sprigs), and what DIY decorations you might want to take on.
To get inspired, browse these photogenic spreads in a variety of tones and themes. You’re sure to find something that appeals to your senses—and is guaranteed to stand out in a sea of other tablescapes on your social feed come Thanksgiving day. This is the time to experiment with the patterns and props that speak to you the most. You might even consider making your own name place cards or decorative signs for the table.
But we should warn you: It might be difficult to pick just one! No matter which option you pick, your guests will remember the elegance for many Thanksgivings to come.
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Use Plenty of Natural Elements
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Don't be afraid of a bare table. (Bonus: You won't have to struggle to get those stubborn red wine stains out of your linens!) When you use plenty of natural elements—pine cones, eucalyptus, and white pumpkins—your Thanksgiving place settings will look just as elegant.
Think neutrals are boring? Not if you incorporate plenty of textures. When peppered with pampas grass, rattan vessels, and dried flowers, a mostly monotone table looks incredibly elegant.
If you love the traditional Thanksgiving look, make sure to include plenty of autumnal shades like brown, burnt orange, ivory, and moss. To enhance the classic farmhouse style, do as the designers at Flourish and Flounce did—add a shabby chic candelabra and create a table runner out of muted flowers and gourds.
Rather than the classic white linen, make a statement with something a little more unexpected—like a black-and-white buffalo check. When combined with jewel tones and natural accents like wheat sheaves, pine cones, and wood slices, the fun pattern is elegant enough for the holiday.
This lovely tablescape incorporates gorgeous vintage pieces, but another element that caught our eye was the use of decorative white pumpkins. Lovingly placed among items of brass, green, and silver tones, they're the perfect nod to the fall season.
An easy—and inexpensive—way to take neutral Thanksgiving table decor to more elegant and sophisticated heights? Add a selection of metallic accents, whether painted pumpkins or brass candlesticks.
You don't have to spend a fortune at Pottery Barn to create a beautiful Thanksgiving table. In fact, this elegant arrangement can be replicated for about $10. Most of the elements—the fruit and flowers—were found in the backyard. The rest—two bundles of Trader Joe’s spray roses and a persimmon—was purchased for just a few bucks.
There's something incredibly alluring about this bold, modern table designed by Ooh! Events. The aqua table runner provides the perfect backdrop for the stunning floral centerpiece, and the classic china ensures the look doesn't skew too far from traditional.
Save yourself some time, effort, and money—lean on reds and greens to bring your Thanksgiving table decor to life. This way, you can leave the centerpiece intact for another month. The bright red pomegranates, evergreen sprigs, and dried orange slices make the farmhouse-inspired setup perfectly suitable for Christmas, too.
Adding metallics like copper is one of the easiest ways to make neutral Thanksgiving table decor look instantly more elegant. Plus, who doesn't love a fancy Moscow mule as an aperitif?
For something a bit more unexpected, leverage eucalyptus and other natural greenery as your runner. Don't have a bunch of black plates and elegant gold flatware lying around? Consider renting what you need for the night through a company like Social Studies, which will ship you everything from the votives to the forks. When the party's over, simply rinse and send it back in their handy boxes.
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Love the idea of inexpensive decor that makes a big statement—especially once the sun goes down? Arrange pillar candles in a variety of heights, tuck evergreen around the whole thing, and make sure your place settings feature plenty of metallic accents.
Thanksgiving is a time to go all out on the fall theme, but these pumpkin-shaped napkin rings don't have to be bright orange, of course. No matter what color you choose, aesthetically, they'll fit right in.
For Thanksgiving table decor that will really wow, commission a larger-than-life floral centerpiece that spans the length of your farmhouse table. And don't worry: It's entirely possible on a budget. Visit a store known for a good flower selection (like Trader Joe's!) and DIY your own bouquet.
You don't have to select table decor in dark, moody hues to be Thanksgiving-appropriate. This light, bright blue-and-white tablescape expertly straddles the line between contemporary and traditional. Plus, it's a great option for those who live in warmer climates.
Instead of a traditional table runner, try kraft paper. To make it more elegant, add some calligraphy (you can use a stencil if need be), then top the whole thing with a gorgeous floral centerpiece. A nice bonus: You won’t have to wash anything—simply toss it when dinner is done.
With moody Thanksgiving table decor—dark tones and plenty of glowing candles—your holiday spread will skew ultra-romantic. It's the perfect aesthetic for an intimate gathering.
Equally modern and fun? A Thanksgiving table studded with soft pastel colors. It's easy to DIY: Just paint a variety of small pumpkins in the hues of your choice. To preserve your project for another year, make sure to use faux pumpkins.
How stunning is this? The founder of Bird's Party Blog, Cristina Riches (also known as "Bird"), has a simple formula to create this jewel-toned look. It includes colored glassware, bright taper candles, and more. She also suggests checking thrift stores for supplies.
This beautiful decor includes rich colors of orange, cream, brown, and green. The natural eucalyptus garland running down the center of the table draws the eye while bringing a piece of the outdoors inside.
This Thanksgiving table setting might inspire you to break out a fancy calligraphy pen—or a pretty marker—and write down the name of each guest in your best script. Everyone at your gathering will feel special, and might even take theirs home at the end of the night.
The "Grateful" message on this small blackboard place setting is a reminder of how important it is to gather together for Thanksgiving. This host (@rsvptomytable on Instagram) wrote that she listed "something different" on each one, using the moment to communicate her emotions to her attendees. How unique!
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If your typical morning is a blur of snooze button hits, phone scrolling, and rushing out the door, might we suggest something different? Developing a deliberate routine that includes a few healthy habits can make your AMs feel less harried, and in turn set the tone for a more mind—and more productive—day.
"Having a morning routine can do wonders for our health and our mood," says San Francisco Bay area-based clinical psychologist Samia Estrada, PsyD. When people's typical morning routines were disrupted during the early days of Covid-19, they reported feeling more stressed and burnt out, found one Personnel Psychology study. The good news? "As people started to reengage in a morning routine again, they began to see positive changes," Estrada explains.
Finding a morning groove can make you feel better, too. While figuring out what works best may take some trial and error, these expert-backed ideas are a great place to start.
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Get up a little bit earlier.
Being an early bird can boost your mood. Rising just one hour earlier was found to cut a person's risk of major depression by 23 percent, per a recent JAMA Psychiatry study. More time can mean more opportunities to be mentally present during your morning activities rather than rushing through them, says Estrada.
That might mean pouring a cup of coffee and noticing the feeling of the liquid warming your body or staying in bed a few minutes longer and soaking up the softness of your pillows and sheets. "It's the art of savoring, rather than the actual activity, that gives you the benefit," she explains.
Open the shades ASAP.
Or if not right away, at least within 20 minutes of waking up, recommends Michael Breus, PhD, clinical psychologist and author of Energize!. Exposure to morning sunlight not only helps you feel more awake in the AM, it'll support better sleep at night.
Direct sunlight triggers cells in your eyes to signal to your brain to turn off the production of the sleep-promoting hormone melatonin, Breus explains. "It also sets a time for when melatonin production should start again, which will determine when you feel sleepy at night before bed."
Don’t go straight for your phone.
If you're among the 80 percent of adults who reach for their smartphone within 15 minutes of waking up, consider opting out. The information overload from work emails, social media, and the news is overwhelming to your brain when you're first waking up, Estrada explains. That overwhelm cause your levels of the stress hormone cortisol to spike—and more easily flood your system throughout the day. That means you don't just feel more harried when you first get up but are prone to more tension all day long.
Drink a glass of water.
Don't worry; we're not saying you should skip your coffee. Just sip some H20 first. Even mild dehydration can cause cognition and focus to take a nosedive, research shows. And after seven to eight hours without liquid, you're likely teetering on the edge. "It's normal to wake up slightly dehydrated," says New York University adjunct professor of nutrition Lisa R. Young, PhD. "Your body functions overnight without hydrating, and even breathing and regulating your body temperature can lead to fluid loss." If the idea of downing cold water first thing sounds awful, a cup of hot herbal tea will also do the trick, Young says.
Make your bed.
Pulling up the covers and rearranging the pillows takes two minutes flat. But it can give you a burst of motivation that sticks around all day. Surveys show that three-quarters of adults who make their beds in the morning report still feeling accomplished at the end of the day.
Not that they're still gloating about their perfectly arranged covers, of course. Making the bed might make you more likely to tackle other items on your to-do list. "Doing something productive activates our brain's reward center. And the brain likes to feel that reward, so it seeks to complete more tasks so it can be rewarded again and again," Estrada explains.
Go outside.
Just 10 minutes spent sitting or walking outside can give you a feel-good boost, found a Frontiers in Psychology review. In addition to getting that surge of energy from the sun's light, exposure to natural spaces is tied to improved mood, less stress, increased attention, and even a greater ability to be empathetic and cooperative, according to the American Psychological Association.
And if you happen to notice a squirrel nibbling on a nut or a group of crickets chirping away, even better. "Animals and insects generally flee or remain very quiet in the face of danger. So it's theorized that, evolutionarily, we intuitively feel safe when we see or hear them," Estrada says.
Eat a protein-rich breakfast.
Having a morning meal with protein within two hours of waking can help support steady blood sugar levels and keep you from getting overly hungry, Young says. You'll be less likely to reach for a sugar snack mid-morning as a result, but that's not all. Regular breakfast eaters experience lower rates of depression and have better memories compared to those who skip out, research shows.
Don't worry too much about getting a certain number of protein grams, says Young. Just focus on food choices. Scrambled eggs with whole grain toast and sliced tomato, low-fat cottage cheese or Greek yogurt with fruit, or whole grain toast with peanut butter and a banana are all balanced, protein-rich choices.
Get moving.
You're probably already familiar with the near-endless benefits of regular exercise. But scheduling your workout for the morning may come with extra perks. Just 30 minutes of moderate-intensity walking performed in the morning can improve cognitive performance throughout the day, found a British Medical Journal of Sports Medicine study of older adults. An AM workout might also help you burn more fat throughout the day (if done before breakfast) and even sleep better at night.
Turn down the shower temp.
Sometimes a hot shower hits the spot like nothing else. But if you're up for a challenge, consider shifting the faucet to cold for a minute or two. Adults who routinely reported taking hot-to-cold showers experienced a 29 percent reduction in sick days compared to those who skipped the chilly bathing sessions, found one PLoS One study. Experts are still learning about the benefits of cold water therapy, but it's thought that cold showers could bolster your immune system, according to the Cleveland Clinic. (But skip this one if you have a heart condition, since the cold water can put extra stress on your ticker.) | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/health/a41003163/morning-routine-ideas/ | 2022-08-30T23:46:07Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/health/a41003163/morning-routine-ideas/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
These 25 Warm Winter Coats Will Help You Embrace the Cold
Keeping cozy has never looked so good.
When temperatures are dropping and extremely cold weather conditions are cluttering your seven-day forecast, that’s when you know it’s time to trade in your lightweight bombers and denim jackets for a warm winter coat (plus a sturdy pair of snow boots to match, of course).
What type of outerwear is best? Well, that will ultimately depend on your needs. Down, for example, is durable and provides unbeatable warmth (while being lightweight). Not to mention, these types of winter coats pack “down” nicely (see what we did there?), whether for travel or storage. However, natural down may not be ideal in wet conditions and could take a long time to dry. Pro tip: Check the technical properties of the specific coat you're eyeing.
Synthetic materials are also something to consider, as these are often water-resistant, making them ideal for snow or rain. However, they won’t be quite as warm or light as down (read: layer a thick sweater), but they’ll often be more budget-friendly. For something that feels pulled-together or structured, wool coats are offered in a wide range of stylish, tailored silhouettes—and they’re naturally water-resistant.
Whatever you choose—whether a thin puffer for your winter getaway, a cute date-night option, something for a ski weekend, or a stylish plus-size number for dressy occasions—keep an eye out for details like seam-sealed construction, insulated linings, hoods, storm flaps, and well-placed pockets. These extras will make all the difference when you’re braving the elements. And if you're looking for something new this season, plush teddy coats, leather, quilting, and bold statement colors are some top trends still turning heads.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Newmark has arranged a $260 million loan on behalf of RXR for the refinancing of 75 Rockefeller Plaza ("75 Rock"), a mixed-use office and retail tower located in the Plaza District of Midtown Manhattan, New York. The Newmark team was led by Vice-Chairmen and Co-Heads of the Debt & Structured Finance team, Jordan Roeschlaub and Dustin Stolly, along with Senior Managing Director Nick Scribani. Bank of America and Carlyle contributed to the financing.
"RXR is a prominent influencer for real estate in New York City, and their prowess in developing and owning some of the city's most iconic assets is unparalleled," said Roeschlaub. "The asset's fundamentals are reflective of lender requirements in today's market: A+ sponsorship, investment grade tenancy and a superior capital improvement program in proximity to tremendous lifestyle amenities," added Stolly.
Originally constructed in 1947, 75 Rock is a premier, Class-A office and retail building located in the heart of the world-famous Rockefeller Plaza, offering tenants proximity to well-renowned entertainment and dining options – Radio City Music Hall and The Rink at Rockefeller Center. 75 Rock's location offers unmatched accessibility across Manhattan and beyond, with immediate proximity to five subway lines, Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station.
The 627,000 square foot property boasts expansive floor plates that are conducive to a variety of layouts, and floor plan flexibility with WorxWell – RXR's data analytics software program that provides modular and adaptable spaces to address evolving tenant demands. Furthermore, 75 Rock features top-of-the-line amenities including a full-floor, members-only club space at the top of the building, designed by leading hospitality company Convene, as well as a highly desired outdoor space overlooking Rockefeller Plaza and 5th Avenue. Current office tenants at the property include Bank of America and WeWork. American Girl anchors the ground floor retail space.
Since acquiring the leasehold interest in 2013, RXR has proved its commitment to 75 Rock, which also serves as the company's New York headquarters. In 2017, the firm invested $150 million into a comprehensive building improvement program, which included restoration of the limestone building façade, a new lobby and main entrance, upgraded elevators, new windows and modernized building systems. 75 Rock also benefits from the recent renovation of Rockefeller Center, which has transformed the 22-acre site into an amenity-rich 24/7 destination.
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- Global disaster relief org. deploys emergency team
- 33 million people affected by devastating floods in Pakistan – 15% of the population. More than 1 million are displaced from their homes.
- Flash floods have ripped through large parts of the country, taking people's homes and livelihoods
- The organization's largest response to flooding was in Pakistan in 2010
- ShelterBox has responded to at least 75 flood disasters
/PRNewswire/ --Global disaster relief organization ShelterBox USA announced today it is deploying an emergency team to Pakistan to respond to devastating flooding and determine what aid it will provide.
ShelterBox, which provides emergency shelter and other essential items following disasters and during prolonged conflicts, will also launch an emergency fundraising appeal.
"ShelterBox's mission is to ensure no one goes without shelter after disaster, and our team in Pakistan will assess which communities are most in need, and how we can best meet the emergency shelter needs."
More than 33 million people across Pakistan have been affected by the flooding, and more than 1,100 people have died as homes have been sunk or been swept away.
The ShelterBox team aims to be on the ground in Pakistan this week to work with local partners -- including local Rotary districts – to assess shelter and other humanitarian needs and map a response. The team will focus on the hardest hit areas first, including Sindh, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and Balochistan.
ShelterBox has aid items prepositioned in the region.
"The flood waters are fast and lethal, and they do not discriminate. They are sweeping away anything in their path including people, homes, and livelihoods," said Haroon Altaf, ShelterBox Regional Director for Asia. "When there is so little dry land, and entire communities cut off, the logistics of getting shelter aid to the people in greatest need presents a complicated challenge."
Of Pakistan's 160 districts, 116 have been affected by the flooding. Sixty-six have official declared a "calamity" as waterways that feed the Indus River that runs through the country have burst through their banks. Nearly half a million people have crowded into relief camps after losing their homes.
More monsoon storms are forecasted later this month.
ShelterBox has responded to flooding in Pakistan previously, including a 2010 response that served thousands. It also has significant experience responding to flood disasters, deploying aid to at least 75 since it was founded in 2000. It has also responded to flooding in Sri Lanka, Paraguay, Kenya, Malawi and Peru.
For more information, please visit ShelterBoxUSA.org.
- Murray, ShelterBox CEO Sanj Srikanthan, and other ShelterBox staff available for interviews, including from Pakistan when they arrive.
- Archive images and b-roll from ShelterBox's 2010 response in Pakistan available at the link provided. More available upon request..
ShelterBox provides emergency shelter and other essential items to families who have lost their homes to disasters or conflict. In April 2021, ShelterBox surpassed providing support to two million people since 2000, responding to more than 300 disasters in nearly 100 countries. ShelterBox responds urgently to earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, cyclones, tsunamis, or conflict by delivering boxes of essential shelter, aid, and other life-saving supplies. Each iconic green ShelterBox contains a disaster relief tent for an extended family, blankets, a water filtration system, emergency lighting, and other tools for survival. The organization was nominated for a distinguished Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 and 2019. ShelterBox USA is based in Santa Barbara, California.
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Funding to be used for the extension of the company's "Everything-to-Revenue"™ Accelerators for the manufacturing, automotive, utilities and energy sectors and the acceleration of the company's related Salesforce and DocuSign services.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UPTIMA, a rapidly growing consulting firm, announced it has received funding from Salesforce Ventures and Docusign Ventures. With this investment, Uptima will continue to enhance its IP-based accelerators ("Everything-to-Revenue"™), business transformation and global project delivery capabilities. Uptima was founded in Israel in 2007 by co-founders Boaz Meridor and Sigi Wise and is recognized by Salesforce as a Navigator Expert in the Manufacturing sector and by DocuSign as a Platinum Partner.
Rooted in a strong culture based upon collaboration and recognized for its consultants' curiosity and customer stewardship, Uptima grew its consulting team by 200% in less than two years. Uptima's team is distributed across the United States, Canada, Israel, and Asia-Pacific, with a focus on sourcing and developing a diverse workforce. Women and veteran/military spouses comprise a very significant and growing proportion of the overall team.
Uptima is specialized and focused on Salesforce's Revenue Cloud Solutions (CPQ, Subscription Management & Billing, also referred to as "Quote-to-Cash"), Service Cloud, Salesforce Field Service (SFS) Solutions, and DocuSign CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management).
Uptima has built its brand through its track record of exceptional delivery and continuous customer success. As such, Uptima is recognized by Salesforce as one of the first Navigator Experts in "Managed Services" for their joint customers.
Adam Menzies, CEO of Uptima, said: "Manufacturers with the mission to enable superior and frictionless customer experience, supported by continuous growth and profitability, are partnering with Uptima to achieve operational excellence across their revenue generation and customer service processes, empowered by the Salesforce and DocuSign platforms. We are extremely pleased to collaborate closely with Salesforce and DocuSign to deliver leading solutions and accelerators for our clients, which provide the innovation, agility, and scale they require to be leaders in their markets."
Sigi Wise, co-founder of Uptima, said: "The continued support from both Salesforce and DocuSign, as well as this investment from both Salesforce Ventures and DocuSign Ventures, is the outcome of the outstanding work of our consultants and leadership team."
"The continued trust we are gaining from our customers, backed by this investment, will allow us to continue and build accelerators and best practices, accelerate and develop our talent, and reach more customers that can benefit from our expertise and innovation," added Boaz Meridor, Uptima's co-founder.
Achyut Jajoo, SVP and GM, Manufacturing and Automotive at Salesforce: "As a Salesforce expert partner in manufacturing, Uptima helps our customers succeed and optimize their value-chain with faster time to market, better monetized products, and superior customer service. We are thrilled to see how Uptima is quickly becoming a leading advisor and implementation partner for our customers."
Patrick Taylor, VP, Global Alliances and Partner Development at DocuSign, added: "Deepening our relationship with Uptima will help us accelerate how we simplify the contracting process for our customers. Uptima's "Everything-to-Revenue" delivery framework is aligned with our unique partnership with Salesforce and our strategy to enable customers to seamlessly automate the generation, negotiation and signing of agreements wherever their work gets done."
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TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, is awarded a $972 million contract for upgraded AMRAAM® missiles. This is the first AMRAAM contract to produce an entire lot of AIM-120D3 and AIM-120C8 missiles developed under the Form, Fit, Function Refresh, also known as F3R, which updates both the missile's hardware and software.
"This contract underscores the importance of AMRAAM in the warfighters' arsenal," said Paul Ferraro, president of Air Power for Raytheon Missiles & Defense. "These missiles, developed under the Form, Fit, Function Refresh, have the most advanced hardware and software needed to compete with peer adversaries."
In addition to providing missiles to both the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy, the contract also supplies AMRAAMs to 19 countries, extending the production line for both the U.S. and Allied partners.
Under the F3R program, engineers used model-based systems engineering initiatives and other digital technologies to upgrade multiple circuit cards and other hardware in the guidance section of the missile and to re-host legacy software in the AIM-120D3 and AIM-120C8 AMRAAMs. These variants combine System Improvement Program 3F software updates with F3R hardware, providing tremendous capability against advanced threats.
The U.S. Air Force had the first live-fire of the production version of AIM-120D3 in June 2022, showcasing the success of the missile against a target. There are two additional live fires planned for 2022.
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When Lucy Dickens got out of the Army two years ago, she found out pretty quickly that one thing she missed was the camaraderie and shared mission that came from being in the military.
“I just missed being around other veterans, other people fighting to make a difference for their country and their people,” she said.
Dickens is one of a team of about two dozen veterans from up and down the west coast who came to the small, unincorporated town of Otis with an organization called Team Rubicon. Their mission: to help clear charred trees from the properties of homeowners in the path of the Echo Mountain Fire, which swept through the community on Labor Day, 2020.
Team Rubicon is a non-profit that responds to natural disasters around the world. Many of its volunteers have previously served in the military.
Army veteran Matt Akers came from Seattle to serve as the incident commander in Otis, overseeing the team that's felling trees and sawing them into pieces.
“These trees are very expensive to be cut down," said Akers. "One of the great things about Team Rubicon is we’re able to come out and offer these services free of charge to the homeowners and the community.”
The people benefiting from this day’s work are Marc and Cheri McPherson. The two walked around taking meal orders from the volunteers working on their property.
Marc said he vividly remembers the night two years ago when a raging wildfire descended on their home of 18 years.
“We actually bugged out about one o’clock in the morning," he said. "We had no choice. We had embers flying over the house about the size of my body on fire, burning. And seeing the wind had shifted, coming this direction from Panther Creek. The temperature rose about 50 degrees within seconds, and we knew it was all over for the neighborhood at that time.”
The McPhersons ended up living in a hotel for the next two and a half months. They were among the lucky ones. Their house was badly damaged but was not among the nearly 300 homes the wildfire destroyed. But McPherson said repairing their home was only part of the recovery process. Their property was still covered with burnt, dead trees that could fall at any time. And he said their homeowner’s insurance wouldn’t pay to have them removed.
“We were so utterly under-insured," he said. "They covered $13,000 for the entire five acres, which was gone with the first cutting of the trees that they needed just to gain access back into the property.”
Cheri McPherson says when she learned that Team Rubicon volunteers would clear the hazardous trees from their property for free, she just couldn’t believe it.
“We thought we were going to have to live with this," she said. "We’re too old to take down trees, so we’re thrilled that these people are here for us.”
Team Rubicon’s Matt Akers says that’s the kind of reaction that motivates many of the volunteers.
“We’re just thrilled to be here to be a small component in the recovery effort," he said. "We know that it’s been a long road for the homeowners here, and will continue to be a long journey to recovery. But we hope this week that we’re here is a small step in that direction.” | https://www.klcc.org/disasters-accidents/2022-08-30/volunteer-blitz-clears-burned-trees-two-years-after-echo-mountain-fire | 2022-08-30T23:51:54Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/disasters-accidents/2022-08-30/volunteer-blitz-clears-burned-trees-two-years-after-echo-mountain-fire | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Atlanta prosecutor: Gang targeted celebrities, influencers
The 220-count indictment was filed Aug. 22 and charges 26 people.
ATLANTA (AP) — A prosecutor on Monday announced a sprawling indictment targeting members of what she said is a violent street gang that has been targeting the Atlanta area homes of famous athletes, entertainers and others who flaunt expensive possessions on social media.
Singer Mariah Carey, Marlo Hampton of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” Atlanta United player Brad Guzan and the Atlanta Falcons’ Calvin Ridley all had their homes broken into, the indictment says. The 220-count indictment was filed Aug. 22 and charges 26 people, most of whom are accused of violating Georgia’s anti-gang and racketeering laws.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said the crimes alleged in the indictment — carjacking, kidnapping, armed robbery, shootings, home invasions — were committed by members of the Drug Rich gang, which she said began to emerge in 2016 in a neighboring county. In addition to the celebrity targets, social media influencers were also victimized in home invasions and burglaries, Willis said.
“What they do is target people who show their wealth on social media,” she said. “So I do have a message for the public: Where it is kind of fun to put your things on social media and show off, unfortunately these gangs are becoming more savvy, more sophisticated in the way that they target you.”
But Willis also had a message for the alleged gang members: “If you thought Fulton was a good county to bring your crime to, to bring your violence to, you are wrong and you are going suffer consequences and today is the start of some of those consequences.”
Willis said the indictment, filed last week, represented a collaboration between different law enforcement agencies working together. Cracking down on gangs is a priority for Willis, and she said she intends to pursue tough penalties for people involved with violent gang activity.
“I am not going to negotiate with gang members. I am not going to allow pleas,” she said. “We are going to find you, we are going to convict you and we’re going to send you to the prison for the rest of your days, and I’m not apologizing for that.” | https://www.41nbc.com/atlanta-prosecutor-gang-targeted-celebrities-influencers/ | 2022-08-30T23:53:49Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/atlanta-prosecutor-gang-targeted-celebrities-influencers/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 32 |
Atlanta prosecutor: Gang targeted celebrities, influencers
The 220-count indictment was filed Aug. 22 and charges 26 people.
ATLANTA (AP) — A prosecutor on Monday announced a sprawling indictment targeting members of what she said is a violent street gang that has been targeting the Atlanta area homes of famous athletes, entertainers and others who flaunt expensive possessions on social media.
Singer Mariah Carey, Marlo Hampton of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” Atlanta United player Brad Guzan and the Atlanta Falcons’ Calvin Ridley all had their homes broken into, the indictment says. The 220-count indictment was filed Aug. 22 and charges 26 people, most of whom are accused of violating Georgia’s anti-gang and racketeering laws.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said the crimes alleged in the indictment — carjacking, kidnapping, armed robbery, shootings, home invasions — were committed by members of the Drug Rich gang, which she said began to emerge in 2016 in a neighboring county. In addition to the celebrity targets, social media influencers were also victimized in home invasions and burglaries, Willis said.
“What they do is target people who show their wealth on social media,” she said. “So I do have a message for the public: Where it is kind of fun to put your things on social media and show off, unfortunately these gangs are becoming more savvy, more sophisticated in the way that they target you.”
But Willis also had a message for the alleged gang members: “If you thought Fulton was a good county to bring your crime to, to bring your violence to, you are wrong and you are going suffer consequences and today is the start of some of those consequences.”
Willis said the indictment, filed last week, represented a collaboration between different law enforcement agencies working together. Cracking down on gangs is a priority for Willis, and she said she intends to pursue tough penalties for people involved with violent gang activity.
“I am not going to negotiate with gang members. I am not going to allow pleas,” she said. “We are going to find you, we are going to convict you and we’re going to send you to the prison for the rest of your days, and I’m not apologizing for that.” | https://www.41nbc.com/atlanta-prosecutor-gang-targeted-celebrities-influencers/ | 2022-08-30T23:53:49Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/atlanta-prosecutor-gang-targeted-celebrities-influencers/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 32 |
UPDATE: Arrest made in Courtland Ave. stabbing
UPDATE (2/2): Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones has provided more information concerning the incident at Courtland Avenue. The coroner’s office was called to the scene at 9:50 p.m., and Jones confirms that that the cause of death was a stabbing.
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UPDATE (1/2): An arrest has been made in a murder on Courtland Avenue. Investigators arrested 35-year-old Idris Alaka in connection to the death of 27-year-old Brittany Wright.
Deputies found Wright fatally wounded after being flagged down while on another call on Courtland. Deputies detained Alaka on the scene, he is now charged with murder, and aggravated assault and is being held without bond.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a death that occurred inside a home in the 1200 block of Courtland Ave.
Deputies were responding to an unrelated call on Courtland when a homeowner flagged them down, they entered the home and found a 27-year-old female victim fatally wounded. Deputies did detain a person of interest on scene for questioning. The circumstances behind the incident are under investigation. The name of the victim will be released once the next of kin has been notified.
More information will be released once it becomes available.
Anyone with information in reference to this incident is urged to contact the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME. | https://www.41nbc.com/female-found-fatally-wounded-on-courtland-ave-in-macon/ | 2022-08-30T23:53:55Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/female-found-fatally-wounded-on-courtland-ave-in-macon/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
UPDATE: Arrest made in Courtland Ave. stabbing
UPDATE (2/2): Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones has provided more information concerning the incident at Courtland Avenue. The coroner’s office was called to the scene at 9:50 p.m., and Jones confirms that that the cause of death was a stabbing.
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UPDATE (1/2): An arrest has been made in a murder on Courtland Avenue. Investigators arrested 35-year-old Idris Alaka in connection to the death of 27-year-old Brittany Wright.
Deputies found Wright fatally wounded after being flagged down while on another call on Courtland. Deputies detained Alaka on the scene, he is now charged with murder, and aggravated assault and is being held without bond.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a death that occurred inside a home in the 1200 block of Courtland Ave.
Deputies were responding to an unrelated call on Courtland when a homeowner flagged them down, they entered the home and found a 27-year-old female victim fatally wounded. Deputies did detain a person of interest on scene for questioning. The circumstances behind the incident are under investigation. The name of the victim will be released once the next of kin has been notified.
More information will be released once it becomes available.
Anyone with information in reference to this incident is urged to contact the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME. | https://www.41nbc.com/female-found-fatally-wounded-on-courtland-ave-in-macon/ | 2022-08-30T23:53:55Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/female-found-fatally-wounded-on-courtland-ave-in-macon/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Judge delays Gov. Kemp’s testimony in Georgia election probe
The judge agreed to a request from Kemp's lawyers to delay that testimony until after the Nov. 8 election
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge ruled Monday that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp must testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating possible illegal attempts by then-President Donald Trump and others to influence the 2020 election in the state — but not until after the November midterm election.
Lawyers for Kemp had argued that immunities related to his position as governor protect him from having to testify. But Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who’s overseeing the special grand jury, disagreed and said the governor must appear before the panel. But he did agree to a request from Kemp’s lawyers to delay that testimony until after the Nov. 8 election, in which the Republican governor faces a rematch with Democrat Stacey Abrams.
“The Governor is in the midst of a re-election campaign and this criminal grand jury investigation should not be used by the District Attorney, the Governor’s opponent, or the Governor himself to influence the outcome of that election,” McBurney wrote. “The sound and prudent course is to let the election proceed without further litigation or other activity concerning the Governor’s involvement in the special grand jury’s work.”
But once the election is over, McBurney wrote that he expects Kemp’s lawyers to “promptly make arrangements for his appearance.”
A delay could increase the likelihood that Trump will be a declared presidential candidate by the time the investigation moves toward its conclusion, further raising the political stakes. The investigation is one of several that could have serious legal consequences for the former president.
A statement from the governor’s office says McBurney “acknowledged the potential political impact of the timing of these proceedings and correctly paused” Kemp’s involvement until after the election. The governor plans to work with Willis’ team and the judge “to ensure a full accounting of the Governor’s limited role in the issues being investigated is available to the special grand jury.”
A spokesperson for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Also Monday, McBurney declined to quash a subpoena for lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who represented the Trump campaign. He’s scheduled to appear before the special grand jury on Tuesday, according to a court filing.
Willis opened the investigation early last year, prompted by a January 2021 phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during which the then-president suggested the state’s top election official could “find” the votes needed to overturn his loss. But the investigation’s scope has widened considerably since then.
Raffensperger and some other state officials have already appeared before the special grand jury, which McBurney noted in his ruling.
Willis has also been pursuing testimony from close Trump allies and advisers. Former New York mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, who’s been told he faces possible criminal charges in the investigation, testified earlier this month. U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, is currently fighting a subpoena in federal court. And Willis last week filed paperwork seeking to compel testimony from former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Trump-allied attorney Sidney Powell, among others.
Prosecutors have said they want to ask Kemp about Raffensperger’s call with the then-president, as well as his own contacts with Trump and others in the wake of the 2020 general election.
Kemp’s lawyers had argued he was protected by the principle of “sovereign immunity,” which says the state can’t be sued without its consent. But McBurney agreed with Willis’ team that the protection isn’t applicable because Kemp isn’t being sued and is instead being called as a witness to provide facts for a criminal investigation.
Kemp’s lawyers had also raised concerns about attorney-client privilege, and McBurney wrote that neither prosecutors nor grand jurors will be able to ask the governor about the contents of communications covered by that privilege. He said he’s aware of several conversations of interest to the investigation to which that privilege applies.
If there are disputes over what questions can be asked that cannot be resolved by the lawyers involved, they can be brought to McBurney “for resolution (or at least helpful direction),” the judge wrote.
McBurney’s ruling Monday came after communications between Kemp’s attorneys and Willis’ team over when and how the governor would provide information for the investigation broke down. In a footnote of his ruling, the judge noted that correspondence between the two sides that was attached to court filings showed a “lack of civility among the attorneys involved.”
Chesebro had argued that any testimony about his representation of the Trump campaign would be protected by attorney-client privilege. McBurney found that while much of what Chesebro did for the campaign is protected by privilege, there are topics of interest to the investigation that aren’t off limits.
In a court filing seeking to compel his testimony, Willis wrote that Chesebro was “an attorney working with the Trump Campaign’s legal efforts seeking to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere.”
As part of those efforts, he worked with Republicans in Georgia in the weeks following the election at the direction of the Trump campaign, Willis wrote. That included working on the coordination and execution of a plan to have 16 Georgia Republicans sign a certificate declaring falsely that Trump had won the 2020 presidential election and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors even though Joe Biden had won the state and a slate of Democratic electors was certified. | https://www.41nbc.com/judge-delays-gov-kemps-testimony-in-georgia-election-probe/ | 2022-08-30T23:53:56Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/judge-delays-gov-kemps-testimony-in-georgia-election-probe/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 35 |
Judge delays Gov. Kemp’s testimony in Georgia election probe
The judge agreed to a request from Kemp's lawyers to delay that testimony until after the Nov. 8 election
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge ruled Monday that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp must testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating possible illegal attempts by then-President Donald Trump and others to influence the 2020 election in the state — but not until after the November midterm election.
Lawyers for Kemp had argued that immunities related to his position as governor protect him from having to testify. But Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who’s overseeing the special grand jury, disagreed and said the governor must appear before the panel. But he did agree to a request from Kemp’s lawyers to delay that testimony until after the Nov. 8 election, in which the Republican governor faces a rematch with Democrat Stacey Abrams.
“The Governor is in the midst of a re-election campaign and this criminal grand jury investigation should not be used by the District Attorney, the Governor’s opponent, or the Governor himself to influence the outcome of that election,” McBurney wrote. “The sound and prudent course is to let the election proceed without further litigation or other activity concerning the Governor’s involvement in the special grand jury’s work.”
But once the election is over, McBurney wrote that he expects Kemp’s lawyers to “promptly make arrangements for his appearance.”
A delay could increase the likelihood that Trump will be a declared presidential candidate by the time the investigation moves toward its conclusion, further raising the political stakes. The investigation is one of several that could have serious legal consequences for the former president.
A statement from the governor’s office says McBurney “acknowledged the potential political impact of the timing of these proceedings and correctly paused” Kemp’s involvement until after the election. The governor plans to work with Willis’ team and the judge “to ensure a full accounting of the Governor’s limited role in the issues being investigated is available to the special grand jury.”
A spokesperson for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Also Monday, McBurney declined to quash a subpoena for lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who represented the Trump campaign. He’s scheduled to appear before the special grand jury on Tuesday, according to a court filing.
Willis opened the investigation early last year, prompted by a January 2021 phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during which the then-president suggested the state’s top election official could “find” the votes needed to overturn his loss. But the investigation’s scope has widened considerably since then.
Raffensperger and some other state officials have already appeared before the special grand jury, which McBurney noted in his ruling.
Willis has also been pursuing testimony from close Trump allies and advisers. Former New York mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, who’s been told he faces possible criminal charges in the investigation, testified earlier this month. U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, is currently fighting a subpoena in federal court. And Willis last week filed paperwork seeking to compel testimony from former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Trump-allied attorney Sidney Powell, among others.
Prosecutors have said they want to ask Kemp about Raffensperger’s call with the then-president, as well as his own contacts with Trump and others in the wake of the 2020 general election.
Kemp’s lawyers had argued he was protected by the principle of “sovereign immunity,” which says the state can’t be sued without its consent. But McBurney agreed with Willis’ team that the protection isn’t applicable because Kemp isn’t being sued and is instead being called as a witness to provide facts for a criminal investigation.
Kemp’s lawyers had also raised concerns about attorney-client privilege, and McBurney wrote that neither prosecutors nor grand jurors will be able to ask the governor about the contents of communications covered by that privilege. He said he’s aware of several conversations of interest to the investigation to which that privilege applies.
If there are disputes over what questions can be asked that cannot be resolved by the lawyers involved, they can be brought to McBurney “for resolution (or at least helpful direction),” the judge wrote.
McBurney’s ruling Monday came after communications between Kemp’s attorneys and Willis’ team over when and how the governor would provide information for the investigation broke down. In a footnote of his ruling, the judge noted that correspondence between the two sides that was attached to court filings showed a “lack of civility among the attorneys involved.”
Chesebro had argued that any testimony about his representation of the Trump campaign would be protected by attorney-client privilege. McBurney found that while much of what Chesebro did for the campaign is protected by privilege, there are topics of interest to the investigation that aren’t off limits.
In a court filing seeking to compel his testimony, Willis wrote that Chesebro was “an attorney working with the Trump Campaign’s legal efforts seeking to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere.”
As part of those efforts, he worked with Republicans in Georgia in the weeks following the election at the direction of the Trump campaign, Willis wrote. That included working on the coordination and execution of a plan to have 16 Georgia Republicans sign a certificate declaring falsely that Trump had won the 2020 presidential election and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors even though Joe Biden had won the state and a slate of Democratic electors was certified. | https://www.41nbc.com/judge-delays-gov-kemps-testimony-in-georgia-election-probe/ | 2022-08-30T23:53:56Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/judge-delays-gov-kemps-testimony-in-georgia-election-probe/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 35 |
Russian media: Ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dead at 91
MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, has died at 91, Russian media reported Thursday.
News organizations quoted a statement from the Central Clinical Hospital as saying he died after a long illness. No other details were given.
Though in power less than seven years, Gorbachev unleashed a breathtaking series of changes. But they quickly overtook him and resulted in the collapse of the authoritarian Soviet state, the freeing of Eastern European nations from Russian domination and the end of decades of East-West nuclear confrontation.
His decline was humiliating. His power hopelessly sapped by an attempted coup against him in August 1991, he spent his last months in office watching republic after republic declare independence until he resigned on Dec. 25, 1991. The Soviet Union wrote itself into oblivion a day later.
A quarter-century after the collapse, Gorbachev told The Associated Press that he had not considered using widespread force to try to keep the USSR together because he feared chaos in a nuclear country.
“The country was loaded to the brim with weapons. And it would have immediately pushed the country into a civil war,” he said.
Many of the changes, including the Soviet breakup, bore no resemblance to the transformation that Gorbachev had envisioned when he became the Soviet leader in March 1985.
By the end of his rule he was powerless to halt the whirlwind he had sown. Yet Gorbachev may have had a greater impact on the second half of the 20th century than any other political figure.
“I see myself as a man who started the reforms that were necessary for the country and for Europe and the world,” Gorbachev told The AP in a 1992 interview shortly after he left office.
“I am often asked, would I have started it all again if I had to repeat it? Yes, indeed. And with more persistence and determination,” he said.
Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Cold War and spent his later years collecting accolades and awards from all corners of the world. Yet he was widely despised at home.
Russians blamed him for the 1991 implosion of the Soviet Union — a once-fearsome superpower whose territory fractured into 15 separate nations. His former allies deserted him and made him a scapegoat for the country’s troubles.
Te official news agency Tass reported that Gorbachev will be buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery next to his wife. | https://www.41nbc.com/russian-media-ex-soviet-leader-mikhail-gorbachev-dead-at-91/ | 2022-08-30T23:54:02Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/russian-media-ex-soviet-leader-mikhail-gorbachev-dead-at-91/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 12 |
Russian media: Ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dead at 91
MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, has died at 91, Russian media reported Thursday.
News organizations quoted a statement from the Central Clinical Hospital as saying he died after a long illness. No other details were given.
Though in power less than seven years, Gorbachev unleashed a breathtaking series of changes. But they quickly overtook him and resulted in the collapse of the authoritarian Soviet state, the freeing of Eastern European nations from Russian domination and the end of decades of East-West nuclear confrontation.
His decline was humiliating. His power hopelessly sapped by an attempted coup against him in August 1991, he spent his last months in office watching republic after republic declare independence until he resigned on Dec. 25, 1991. The Soviet Union wrote itself into oblivion a day later.
A quarter-century after the collapse, Gorbachev told The Associated Press that he had not considered using widespread force to try to keep the USSR together because he feared chaos in a nuclear country.
“The country was loaded to the brim with weapons. And it would have immediately pushed the country into a civil war,” he said.
Many of the changes, including the Soviet breakup, bore no resemblance to the transformation that Gorbachev had envisioned when he became the Soviet leader in March 1985.
By the end of his rule he was powerless to halt the whirlwind he had sown. Yet Gorbachev may have had a greater impact on the second half of the 20th century than any other political figure.
“I see myself as a man who started the reforms that were necessary for the country and for Europe and the world,” Gorbachev told The AP in a 1992 interview shortly after he left office.
“I am often asked, would I have started it all again if I had to repeat it? Yes, indeed. And with more persistence and determination,” he said.
Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Cold War and spent his later years collecting accolades and awards from all corners of the world. Yet he was widely despised at home.
Russians blamed him for the 1991 implosion of the Soviet Union — a once-fearsome superpower whose territory fractured into 15 separate nations. His former allies deserted him and made him a scapegoat for the country’s troubles.
Te official news agency Tass reported that Gorbachev will be buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery next to his wife. | https://www.41nbc.com/russian-media-ex-soviet-leader-mikhail-gorbachev-dead-at-91/ | 2022-08-30T23:54:02Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/russian-media-ex-soviet-leader-mikhail-gorbachev-dead-at-91/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 12 |
Data out of South Korea for July 2022:Industrial output -1.3% m/m (for the y/y +1.5%)service sector output +0.3% m/mretail sales -0.3% m/m | https://www.forexlive.com/news/skorea-july-data-industrial-output-retail-sales-down-mm-service-sector-output-higher-20220830/ | 2022-08-30T23:58:01Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/skorea-july-data-industrial-output-retail-sales-down-mm-service-sector-output-higher-20220830/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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A trade via TD, short CHF/JPY. From the note:
- We add a short CHFJPY trade to our FX model portfolio
- entering at 143.05
- targeting 136
- stop loss at 147.25
TD citing:
- CHF is now the most overbought G10 currency - by a significant margin. ... TD's positioning framework .... CHF sits in the 97th percentile over the past 6m
- JPY sits in the 4th percentile
- At current levels of the US 10y, CHFJPY should be trading around 136
- MRSI's trading weights have a strong CHFJPY sell signal, reflecting its short CHF and long JPY bias. MRSI is short CHF on 7 of the 12 factors while long JPY on six factors. CHF scores poorly on carry, equity, risk, growth, positioning, terms of trade, and yield curve. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/td-like-short-chf-against-yen-target-is-136-20220830/ | 2022-08-30T23:58:13Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/td-like-short-chf-against-yen-target-is-136-20220830/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Info via Reuters on the release of Lloyds Bank monthly business barometer
- dropped to 16% in August from 25% in July
- Confidence among British businesses has sunk to its lowest since March 2021
- pay pressures stabilising after a recent rise
- "Business confidence declined for a third consecutive month as firms continue to face economic challenges in the period ahead and as inflation concerns intensify," Hann-Ju Ho, senior economist at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, said. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/uk-business-confidence-shows-a-sharp-drop-on-the-month-lloyds-business-barometer-20220830/ | 2022-08-30T23:58:19Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/uk-business-confidence-shows-a-sharp-drop-on-the-month-lloyds-business-barometer-20220830/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Horse racing drew a big crowd to the Sweetwater Events Complex over the weekend for the second and third races of the 2022 Sweetwater Downs season. There was a total of 20 races – 10 on Saturday, Aug. 27, and 10 more on Sunday, Aug. 28.
ROCK SPRINGS – Horse racing drew a big crowd to the Sweetwater Events Complex over the weekend for the second and third races of the 2022 Sweetwater Downs season.
There was a total of 20 races – 10 on Saturday, Aug. 27, and 10 more on Sunday, Aug. 28.
SATURDAY, AUG. 27, RESULTS
Apolitical Pro won the first race with a time of 13.349 seconds, earning $3,050.
Ms. Flaming Finish won the second race with a time of 17.683 seconds, earning $1,400.
Trump 45 won the third race with a time of 18.003 seconds, earning $1,400.
Suite Caroline won the fourth race with a time of 17.566 seconds, earning $1,400.
Jr. Dash of Coronado won the fifth race with a time of 17.858 seconds, earning $1,400.
Gg Ocean King won the sixth race with a time of 17.944 seconds, earning $1,400.
Corona Rage won the seventh race with a time of 17.763, earning $1,400)
Kaul Me Dashetta won the eighth race with a time of 41.032 seconds, earning $3,950.
Fantasy Suite won the ninth race with a time of 1:09.12 minutes, earning $4,050.
Go Thru the Hole won the 10th and final race of the day with a time of 1:22.16 minutes, earning $11,000)
SUNDAY, AUG. 28, RESULTS
Jess for Ashley won the first race with a time of 18.037 seconds, earning $3,050.
The Revenant Hawk won the second race with a time of 12.108 seconds, earning $3,050.
Makin Turtlemoves won the third race with a time of 17.638 seconds, earning $3,850.
One Handsome Eagle won the fourth race with a time of 17.970 seconds, earning $3,800.
Alfred Lee won the fifth race with a time of 17.598 seconds, earning $3,800.
Rahshas Kidd Trax won the sixth race with a time of 17.283 seconds, earning $3,700.
Smokin B won the seventh race with a time of 1:21.25 minutes, earning $3,500.
Furlongin for Luv won the eighth race with a time of 1:08.46 minutes, earning $4,050.
Bdr Jock won the ninth race with a time of 40.973 seconds, earning $5,700.
Time for Kisses won the 10th and final race of the day with a time of 1:08.38 minutes, earning $3,750. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/economy_and_labor/horse-racing-sweetwater-downs-draw-big-crowd/article_1a37bf6e-28af-11ed-9fc3-03cc4ed22d53.html | 2022-08-30T23:58:33Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/economy_and_labor/horse-racing-sweetwater-downs-draw-big-crowd/article_1a37bf6e-28af-11ed-9fc3-03cc4ed22d53.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- The US Mint announced five new quarter designs, including one that honors Hawaiian naturalist and cultural preservationist Edith Kanaka`ole.
Kanaka`ole’s quarter is part of the second annual US Mint’s American Women Quarters Program. The four-year program is set to run through 2025, with the Mint issuing five unique quarters each year.
The coins celebrate their accomplishments and/or contributions of trailblazing American women, the US Mint wrote of the program. The Secretary of the Treasury selected the final designs.
“Edith Kanaka`ole was a prominent leader in the revitalization of Hawaiian language and culture—notably as a renowned kumu hula,” said Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono.
“She helped preserve and spread Hawaiian language, traditions, and history, contributing so much to the Native Hawaiian community, Hawaii, and our nation. It is fitting that she be honored with this special recognition. I’m pleased to see the design for her commemorative quarter today, and I look forward to seeing these quarters put into circulation, so that people in every corner of our country can learn more about Edith Kanaka`ole and her remarkable life,” Hirono added.
According to the US Mint’s description, the Kanaka`ole’s quarter features her portrait with her hair and lei poʻo morphing into the elements of a Hawaiian landscape. The image is meant as a depiction symbolizing Kanakaʻole’s life’s work of preserving the natural land and traditional Hawaiian culture.
The coin also contains the inscription “E hō mai ka ʻike” which translates as “granting the wisdom,” and is a reference to the intertwined role hula and chants play in this preservation.
Edith Kanakaʻole was an indigenous Hawaiian chanter, Kuma Hula & custodian of native culture, & natural land. The reverse design of #HerQuarter features a portrait of Kanakaʻole with her hair & lei po'o morphing into the elements of a Hawaiian landscape. https://t.co/E8l7kTs2OApic.twitter.com/uIA1ttX1zE
Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) Board Chairman Carmen “Hulu” Lindsey issued a statement on the Kanakaʻole quarter, saying, in part, “The late Edith Kanaka’ole stood as symbol of the Hawaiian renaissance of the 1970s, helping to preserve and then educate the world on our culture, language, practices, and history. A legendary kumu hula, chanter, historian, and educator, Edith Kanakaʻole is now the first Native Hawaiian woman to be featured as a part of the 2023 American Women Quarters Program. There is no one more deserving of this honor, and we mahalo the U.S. Mint for recognizing the many contributions she made to her people, her state, the nation, and the world.”
The four other women who will be represented on the 2023 quarters include Eleanor Roosevelt, Maria Tallchief, Jovita Idar, and Bessie Coleman.
The five women selected for the 2022 commemorative quarters were Maya Angelou, Dr. Sally Ride, Wilma Mankiller, Nina Otero-Warren, Anna May Wong.
Matthew has been the digital content manager for KITV4 since September 2021. Matthew is a prolific writer, editor, and self-described "newsie" who's worked in television markets in Oklahoma, California, and Hawaii. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/hawaiis-edith-kanaka-ole-to-be-featured-on-2023-american-women-quarter/article_a0ee370e-28aa-11ed-be94-8b54694d384b.html | 2022-08-31T00:00:55Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/hawaiis-edith-kanaka-ole-to-be-featured-on-2023-american-women-quarter/article_a0ee370e-28aa-11ed-be94-8b54694d384b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
President Joe Biden on Tuesday delivered a forceful speech in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania that demonstrated his escalated rhetoric against "MAGA Republicans" in Congress months before the midterm elections.
During another amped up speech, Biden delivered a strong defense of the FBI amid increased threats following the agency's search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.
"It's sickening to see the new attacks on the FBI, threatening the lives of law enforcement agents and their families for simply carrying out the law and doing their job," Biden told a crowd in Wilkes-Barre.
Biden continued, "Look, I want to say this clear as I can: There's no place in this country, no place, for endangering the lives of law enforcement. No place. None, never, period. I'm opposed to defunding the police. I'm also opposed to defunding the FBI."
The FBI has seen heightened threats against bureau personnel and property in the wake of the Mar-a-Lago search, including some against agents listed in court records as being involved in executing the search warrant. Several Republicans in recent weeks have issued calls to "defund the FBI," signaling Trump's grip on the party.
The President also offered scathing criticism of Republicans in Congress who are aligned with Trump and refuse to condemn the violent January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
"Let me say this to my MAGA Republican friends in Congress: Don't tell me you support law enforcement if you won't condemn what happened on (January 6). Don't tell me. Can't do it. For God's sake, whose side are you on?" Biden said.
The President said, "You can't be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection. You can't be a party of law and order and call the people who attacked the police on January 6 patriots. You can't do it."
Biden criticized comments made over the weekend by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who said in an interview with Fox there would be "riots in the streets" if Trump were to be prosecuted.
"The idea you turn on a television and see senior senators and congressmen saying, 'If such and such happens, there'll be blood in the street?' Where the hell are we?" Biden said.
Tuesday's remarks built on Biden's unofficial midterm campaign kickoff that took place last week, in which he offered one of his sharpest rebukes of MAGA Republicans and told a group of Democratic donors that the "entire philosophy that underpins" the Make America Great Again agenda is "semi-fascism."
Biden was in Pennsylvania to promote his proposal to bolster police forces across the nation and reduce crime, which includes hiring and training 100,000 police officers over the next five years.
"When it comes to public safety in this nation, the answer is not defund the police, it's fund the police," Biden said.
Biden said, "I'm tired of not giving the kind of help they need. Folks, look, we're in a situation in this country where we have to give them additional resources they need to get their job done."
The President dedicated a significant portion of his speech to calling for a federal ban on assault weapons.
He spoke of his trip to Uvalde, Texas, after a mass shooting at an elementary school left 19 children and two teachers dead, and he said parents had to provide DNA to identify their children, "because the AR-15 just rips the body apart."
"And a 20-year-old kid can walk in and buy one?" Biden said, raising his voice. "DNA to say, 'That's my baby.' What the hell's the matter with us?"
Congress passed the first major federal gun safety legislation in decades earlier this summer, but Biden said more needs to be done.
The President was initially scheduled to unveil his "Safer America Plan" last month in Pennsylvania but his trip was postponed after he tested positive for Covid-19 the morning he was slated to fly to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
The plan asks Congress to appropriate more than $10 billion in funding over five years for the COPS Hiring Program in order to help fund the hiring and training of the additional police officers.
The President has repeatedly rejected calls from some Democrats and activists to "defund the police" and cut budgets to police departments and reallocate funding to social services to respond to non-violent crimes. The movement grew to national prominence following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020.
The President's Tuesday visit to Pennsylvania was the first of three appearances in the key battleground state over the next week. Biden is slated to deliver a primetime address in Philadelphia on Thursday and scheduled to travel to Pittsburgh on Labor Day.
This story has been updated with additional developments on Tuesday.
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Taking oral or inhaled glucocorticoids, a type of steroid used to curb inflammation in asthma and other autoimmune disorders, may be linked to damaging changes in the white matter of the brain, a new study found.
"This study shows that both systemic and inhaled glucocorticoids are associated with an apparently widespread reduction in white matter integrity," wrote study author Merel van der Meulen, a postdoctoral student at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, in the study published Tuesday in the journal BMJ Open.
White matter is the tissue that forms connections between brain cells and the rest of the nervous system. Having less white matter can slow the brain's ability to process information, pay attention and remember. Lower levels of white matter have also been connected to psychiatric issues such as depression, anxiety and irritability.
"This new study is particularly interesting in showing the extent to which white matter, which is required for neurons to connect with each other, is affected by medication use," said Thomas Ritz, a professor of psychology at Southern Methodist University who has researched the impact of steroids on people with asthma. He was not involved in the study.
However, "there's no reason for alarm," said neuroimmunologist Dr. Avindra Nath, the clinical director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, who was also not involved in the study. Doctors have long known that, if you give patients steroids, "the brain does shrink, but when you take them off the steroids, it comes back," Nath said.
Due to brain plasticity -- the ability of the brain to reorganize its structure, functions or connections -- "these could be temporary effects," he said. "They don't necessarily have to be permanent. White matter can repair itself."
Widespread use
Glucocorticoids are some of the most frequently prescribed anti-inflammatory medications due to their widespread use in a number of conditions, experts say.
In addition to asthma, both oral and inhaled glucocorticoids can be used to treat allergies, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Crohn's disease and other types of inflammatory bowel disease, eczema and other skin conditions, lupus, tendinitis, multiple sclerosis, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis.
However, glucocorticoid inhalers should not be confused with quick-relief inhalers used to stop an asthma attack. Quick-relief inhalers contain non-steroid medications that relax the muscles in the lungs, such as albuterol, levalbuterol and pirbuterol, which can open airways in minutes. Inhaled corticosteroids do not work in emergencies -- they are prescribed for longer-term control of inflammatory conditions.
Prior research has linked the long-term use of oral glucocorticoids to structural brain abnormalities and shrinkage of certain areas of the brain, as well as mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, confusion and disorientation. Studies have also shown that people who have lived with asthma have higher rates of cognitive and memory impairment later in life than people without the condition.
But much prior research has been small in scale, and at times, inconclusive, experts say.
The new study used data from the UK BioBank, a large biomedical research center that followed 500,000 residents of the United Kingdom from 2006 to 2010. From that database, the researchers were able to find 222 oral glucocorticoid users and 557 users of inhaled glucocorticoids who did not have a previous diagnosis of any neurological, hormonal or mental health disorder.
Those people underwent cognitive and mental health testing and received a diffusion MRI of the brain. Researchers pulled that data and compared those MRI and cognitive findings to over 24,000 people in the database who did not use steroids.
"To the best of our knowledge, this is the largest study to date assessing the association between glucocorticoid use and brain structure, and the first to investigate these associations in inhaled glucocorticoid users," wrote the study authors.
Inhalers had smallest impact
The study found the greatest amount of white matter damage in people who use oral steroids regularly over long periods of time. The mental processing speed of chronic oral steroid users tested lower than non-users. People on oral steroids also had more apathy, depression, fatigue and restlessness than non-users of steroids.
The smallest impact on white matter occurred in people who use inhaled steroids, the study found.
That fits with what doctors see in clinical practice, said pulmonologist Dr. Raj Dasgupta, an assistant professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He was not involved in the study.
"We don't see side effects as often with the inhaled form of glucocorticoids," he said. "And of course, mainstay of therapy for allergies and asthma is always going to be avoiding the triggers and making lifestyle modifications."
Pulmonologists and rheumatologists are cautious about prescribing the smallest dose of steroids needed to control symptoms, Dasgupta said, due to the large number of side effects from steroid use that can also impact health, including brain health.
"As a clinician, the minute you start a person on these medications, you're immediately thinking, 'How do I safely take that person off in a timely fashion?' Steroids cause weight gain, and weight gain is always going to be a risk for developing diabetes and high blood pressure,d" Dasgupta said.
"When you give steroids to people with diabetes, their blood sugar can go up," he added. "When you take steroids acutely, you could definitely have insomnia and trouble sleeping, and when you're on long-term steroids, it puts you at a high risk for infections because they are an immunosuppressant."
More research needed
The new study had limitations. For one, it was not able to determine steroid dose or track adherence, Ritz said.
"We know that only about 50% of patients with asthma take their medication as prescribed, and potential overreporting of intake is also an issue," Ritz said. "You should take your inhaled corticosteroids, which reduce the inflammation locally, as regularly as possible, albeit at the lowest possible dose that allows you to control you asthma.
"This study gives us another reason to keep the dosages low," he added.
Another limitation was that it was unable to differentiate between people who take steroid tablets and those who use infusions, according to study authors.
"The study mainly confirms what we know for a long time in asthma management: Take as few systemic (oral) corticosteroids as possible, as long as you are not a patient with severe asthma. Stick to inhaled steroids and discuss with your treating physician plans to step down medication regimens during good times," Ritz said.
"It's a very well done study," Nath said. "But the findings demand another study to be done to see how long these effects last and how they can be reversed."
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Mikhail Gorbachev -- the last leader of the former Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 -- has died at the age of 91.
Gorbachev died after a long illness, Russian state news agencies reported.
"Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev died this evening after a severe and prolonged illness," the Central Clinical Hospital said, according to RIA Novosti Tuesday.
The man credited with introducing key political and economic reforms to the USSR and helping to end the Cold War had been in failing health for some time.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences, Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told RIA Novosti.
Putin will send a message on Wednesday to Gorbachev's family and friends, RIA Novosti added.
With his outgoing, charismatic nature, Gorbachev broke the mold for Soviet leaders who until then had mostly been remote, icy figures. Almost from the start of his leadership, he strove for significant reforms, so the system would work more efficiently and more democratically. Hence the two key phrases of the Gorbachev era: "glasnost" (openness) and "perestroika" (restructuring).
"I began these reforms and my guiding stars were freedom and democracy, without bloodshed. So the people would cease to be a herd led by a shepherd. They would become citizens," he later said.
He will be buried next to his wife at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, RIA Novosti reported citing the Gorbachev Foundation.
From farm labor to party's rising star
Gorbachev had humble beginnings: He was born into a peasant family on March 2, 1931 near Stavropol, and as a boy, he did farm labor along with his studies, working with his father who was a combine harvester operator. In later life, Gorbachev said he was "particularly proud of my ability to detect a fault in the combine instantly, just by the sound of it."
He became a member of the Communist Party in 1952 and completed a law degree at Moscow University in 1955. It was here that he met -- and married -- fellow student Raisa Titarenko.
During the early 1960s, Gorbachev became head of the agriculture department for the Stavropol region. By the end of the decade he had risen to the top of the party hierarchy in the region. He came to the attention of Mikhail Suslov and Yuri Andropov, members of the Politburo, the principal policy-setting body of the Communist Part of the Soviet Union, who got him elected to the Central Committee in 1971 and arranged foreign trips for their rising star.
In 1978, Gorbachev was back in Moscow, and the next year he was chosen as a candidate member of the Politburo. His stewardship of Soviet agriculture was not a success. As he came to realize, the collective system was fundamentally flawed in more than one way.
A full Politburo member since 1980, Gorbachev became more influential in 1982 when his mentor, Andropov, succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as general secretary of the party. He built a reputation as an enemy of corruption and inefficiency, finally rising to the top party spot in March 1985.
'A man one can do business with'
Hoping to shift resources to the civilian sector of the Soviet economy, Gorbachev began to argue in favor of an end to the arms race with the West.
However, throughout his six years in office, Gorbachev always seemed to be moving too fast for the party establishment -- which saw its privileges threatened -- and too slow for more radical reformers, who hoped to do away with the one-party state and the command economy.
Desperately trying to stay in control of the reform process, he seemed to have underestimated the depth of the economic crisis. He also seemed to have had a blind spot for the power of the nationality issue: Glasnost created ever-louder calls for independence from the Baltics and other Soviet republics in the late 1980s.
He was successful in foreign policy, but primarily from an international perspective, with other world leaders taking note. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called him "a man one can do business with."
In 1986, face to face with American President Ronald Reagan at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, Gorbachev made a stunning proposal: eliminate all long-range missiles held by the United States and the Soviet Union. It was the beginning of the end of the Cold War.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 "for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community."
The pact that resulted, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, endured as a pillar of arms control for three decades until, in 2019, the United States formally withdrew and the Russian government said it had been consigned to the trash can.
Hard-liners revolt
While Gorbachev's arms control agreements with the US could be seen as also being in the Soviet interest, the breakaway of some of the countries of Eastern Europe, followed by German unification and NATO membership for the new unified Germany (West Germany had previously been in NATO), angered old-school Communists.
In August 1991, hard-liners had had enough. With Gorbachev on vacation in the Crimea, they staged a revolt. Boris Yeltsin, the president of the biggest Soviet republic -- Russia -- and a fierce critic of what he considered Gorbachev's halfway reforms, nevertheless came to his rescue, facing down and defeating the coup plotters.
But across the Soviet Union, republics -- one after another -- were declaring independence and on December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned as Soviet president. As he read his resignation speech, Gorbachev defined what likely will be his legacy: "The country received freedom, was liberated politically and spiritually, and that was the most important achievement."
The red flag that flew over the Kremlin, symbol of the USSR, was lowered. The Soviet Union -- was over and Yeltsin was in control. "We are living in a new world," Gorbachev said.
In April 2012, CNN's Christiane Amanpour asked Gorbachev whether he had engineered the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Gorbachev said there had been nothing in his speeches "until the very end" that had supported its disintegration: "The breakup of the union was the result of betrayal by the Soviet nomenklatura, by the bureaucracy, and also Yeltsin's betrayal. He spoke about cooperating with me, working with me on a new union treaty, he signed the draft union treaty, initialed that treaty. But at the same time, he was working behind my back."
In 1996 Gorbachev ran against Yeltsin for the Russian presidency but got less than 1% of the vote.
Speaking out post-presidency
Three years later, Gorbachev lost the love of his life -- his wife of 46 years, Raisa -- to cancer. The couple had one daughter, Irina. "In the worst moments I was always very calm and balanced. But now that she's gone -- I don't want to live. The central point in our lives is gone," he said.
But Gorbachev did go on, speaking out on nuclear disarmament, the environment, poverty -- and in his wife's memory, set up with the family the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation to fight children's cancer.
Previously, he had established the Green Cross -- to deal with ecological issues -- and the International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies, or Gorbachev Foundation. In 2011, Gorbachev also launched the annual "Gorbachev Awards" to celebrate "those who have changed the world for the better."
Gorbachev's involvement in Russian politics continued as well. He was head of the Social Democratic Party of Russia from 2001 until his resignation in 2004 over conflicts with party direction and leadership.
In 2007, he became head of a new Russian political movement -- the Union of Social Democrats, which in turn set up the opposition Independent Democratic Party of Russia.
He told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in 2012 that he agreed Russian democracy was "alive" but added: "That it is 'well'... not so. I am alive, but I can't say that I'm fine." He explained that the "institutions of democracy are not working efficiently in Russia, because ultimately they are not free."
Mixed legacy
In an interview with CNN in 2019, Gorbachev said the US and Russia must strive to avoid a "New Cold War" developing despite worsening tensions. "This might turn out to be a hot war that could mean the destruction of our entire civilization. This must not be allowed," he said.
And asked about the demise of the 1987 treaty he signed with Reagan, Gorbachev expressed a hope that such arms control agreements could be revived.
"All the agreements that are there are preserved and not destroyed," he said. "But these are the first steps towards destruction of [that which] must not be destroyed in any case." The ultimate goal of arms control, he added, must be to get rid of nuclear weapons completely.
Gorbachev's post-USSR life also included some surprises as he worked to raise money for his causes with appearances in advertisements for Pizza Hut and Louis Vuitton. In 2004 Gorbachev won a Grammy Award for best spoken word album for children for "Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Beintus: Wolf Tracks," which he recorded with former US President Bill Clinton and actress Sophia Loren.
Other awards included the 2008 Liberty Medal from the US National Constitution Center and Russia's highest honor, the Order of St. Andrew, which was given to him on his 80th birthday in 2011 by then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
But to the end, Gorbachev was a leader more respected in other countries than at home. In Russia, he was reviled by some for destroying the Soviet empire and by others for moving too slowly in freeing his nation from the grip of communism. In the West, however, he remains the Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped end the Cold War.
Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that Gorbachev died at 91.
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Full-price clothing retailers Gap and Kohl's are set to try out a pack-away strategy to try and offset losses experienced during last holiday season's markdown prices.
As industry publication Retail Wire reports, the practice is more commonly used by off-price retailers like the parent company for TJ Maxx and off-price retailer Nordstrom Rack.
Last week Gap said the strategy could help the company improve its use of cash flow and improve shareholder value for future seasons.
Gap CEO Bobby Martin said, "early results have been favorable with strong consumer feedback."
The company believes it will be able to mix in clothing stored away with new clothing that comes in and is put out for sale in the months ahead.
Gap finance chief Katrina O'Connell said, "We're confident that we will be able to integrate our pack and hold inventory with future assortments."
As CNN Business reported, Kohl's announced it was keeping an extra $82 million in inventory and plans to sell it before the upcoming holiday season.
Weakening consumer demand amid steady inflation has these retailers trying to find ways to manage their bloated inventory without future losses in revenue.
The CEO of another retailer, Carter's, is also employing the strategy.
Michael Casey said on an earnings call, "We are packing and holding inventory given the slowdown in demand we've seen in recent months."
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CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors in Chicago rested their case against R. Kelly on Tuesday.
They've presented two weeks of evidence and testimony of four accusers as the disgraced singer stands charged with child pornography and obstruction charges, the Associated Press reported.
According to the news outlet, the prosecutors' final accuser they put on the witness stand was a 42-year-old woman who went by the pseudonym “Nia.”
She detailed how he manipulated fans like her, so he could abuse them sexually and then toss them away, the news outlet reported.
Another witness, who went by the pseudonym “Jane," described how beginning in 1998, he sexually abused her hundreds of times. When the reported abuse began, she was 14, and Kelly was around 30, the Associated Press said.
According to the news outlet, defense attorneys will start presenting their case on Thursday, with closing arguments slated to begin next week.
In June, the Associated Press reported that a New York federal judge sentenced Kelly to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/prosecutors-wrap-up-their-case-in-r-kellys-trial | 2022-08-31T00:07:09Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/prosecutors-wrap-up-their-case-in-r-kellys-trial | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
'Great goal' from Celtic fan against Rangers hailed - and the hope of budget boost for proud manager as Queen of the South don't falter
Celtic fan Lee Connelly’s fine goal at Ibrox in the 3-1 defeat to Rangers was ultimately little more than a statistical footnote but the game in front of just over 30,000 fans at Ibrox will enhance the hand of Willie Gibson, the Queen of the South manager.
Connelly showed a moment of composure when he capitalised on Fashion Sakala’s slack ball towards Allan McGregor as he steadied himself before, briefly, taking the League One side onto a level footing.
"It was a great goal from Lee,” said Gibson. “He does it every day in training. We ask him to be more consistent in games because we know he has got. It is a special moment for him in front of a big crowd and he is a Celtic fan! Ultimately to come away with nothing is disappointing but the boys can be proud of their performance.
"You see what Rangers did to Ross County at the weekend when they scored four so when they scored so early you do fear that it might be a long evening. We knew what the draw with Rangers would entail with the crowd and the ticket money. Hopefully that can add to my budget a wee bit." | https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/rangers/great-goal-from-celtic-fan-against-rangers-hailed-and-the-hope-of-budget-boost-for-proud-manager-as-queen-of-the-south-dont-falter-3824907 | 2022-08-31T00:07:30Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/rangers/great-goal-from-celtic-fan-against-rangers-hailed-and-the-hope-of-budget-boost-for-proud-manager-as-queen-of-the-south-dont-falter-3824907 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Lowland League round-up: Spartans win but Hearts B and Edinburgh Uni suffer defeats
Spartans moved up to eighth in the Lowland League table after a 2-0 victory over Bo'ness United at Ainslie Park.
It was the perfect response from Dougie Samuel's men following the last-gasp heartache to league leaders East Kilbride at the weekend.
The hosts listed new loan signing Kieran Watson from FC Edinburgh among the substitutes. Following a goalless opening 45 minutes, Rhys Armstrong grabbed the opener within 60 seconds of the restart.
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The Jambos continued to press for a second but were stung five minutes before the interval as Scott Cusick fired home a deep cross.
Two minutes later the home side edged in front through Jamie Watson and two became three ten minutes after the restart when a Zac Butterworth volley was fired past Harry Stone in the visitors' goal.
Naismith made a couple of changes as Hearts chased the game and although they did find the net in stoppage time through Ferguson, it was too little too late.
Elsewhere, Edinburgh University are still searching for their second win of the campaign after the students slumped to a 3-0 defeat to Cowdenbeath at Central Park - Aiden Gilmartin, Stuart Love and Scott Sinclair all on target for the Blue Brazil. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/lowland-league-round-up-spartans-win-but-hearts-b-and-edinburgh-uni-suffer-defeats-3824912 | 2022-08-31T00:08:51Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/lowland-league-round-up-spartans-win-but-hearts-b-and-edinburgh-uni-suffer-defeats-3824912 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For whiskey lovers, the Kentucky Bourbon Trail is a bucket-list trip, full of opportunities to visit distilleries and learn about bourbon—plus, of course, plenty of sampling along the way.
Kentucky is the spiritual home of bourbon, an American whiskey made with at least 51 percent corn and aged in charred new American oak barrels. That said, many Kentucky distilleries also make other types of whiskey (like rye or American single malts) or other types of spirits. But if you’re headed to Kentucky, it’s a safe bet that you’ll find plenty of bourbon, first and foremost—including some pours you can’t find anywhere else. Here’s how to navigate the world of Kentucky bourbon.
What is the Kentucky Bourbon Trail?
The official “Kentucky Bourbon Trail” exists under the auspices of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association (they have literally trademarked the phrase), and it includes 18 distilleries, as well as 23 smaller distilleries designated as the “Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour.” This official trail doesn’t necessarily include every bourbon producer in the state. But it’s still a pretty comprehensive overview, and the KBT provides a useful way to organize a visit—including a website with plenty of maps and links. Those who prefer a hard-copy guide can purchase a Bourbon Trail Passport & Field Guide ($15) with similar info.
How long does it take to complete the Kentucky Bourbon Trail?
Kentucky’s bourbon distilleries are sprawled across the state, with most of them within about 100 miles from Louisville, the logical starting point for the journey.
It’s possible to visit a good number of the best-known distilleries within three or four days. Most visitors use Louisville as a home base, spending a day or two exploring the city’s “Whiskey Row” and other distilleries within city limits. From there, it makes sense to drive a few hours east toward Lexington, perhaps visiting Wild Turkey, Four Roses, and Woodford Reserve, then return to Louisville. The following day, head southbound toward Loretto, home of Maker’s Mark, stopping at Bardstown and its distilleries along the way. Expect to spend an hour or two at each distillery; visiting two or three distilleries a day is a realistic pace.
Yet quite a few are located further afield, in more rural areas, meaning more travel time is necessary to get there. (Green River, in Owensboro, is furthest removed; it’s even in a different time zone—but it’s only about 100 miles from Louisville.)
For people who want to visit all 18 distilleries, the KBT recommends at least five days. However, a week to nine days might make for a more relaxed and enjoyable experience, particularly for those who want to visit craft distilleries along the way or make a detour to explore surrounding areas.
In addition, the KBT recommends at least six days to visit the Kentucky Craft Distillery circuit; many of the facilities are near the core KBT distilleries or en route. It’s worth doing a little advance planning and mapping to maximize visits.
Which distilleries are on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail?
The site has a map of all 18 KBT distilleries—it’s essentially a who’s who of the bourbon names you’ll spot at a well-stocked bar or liquor store:
- Angel’s Envy
- Bardstown Bourbon
- Bulleit
- Evan Williams
- Four Roses Distillery; Four Roses Warehouse & Bottling (two different locations)
- Green River
- Heaven Hill
- James B. Beam
- Lux Row
- Maker’s Mark
- Michter’s
- Old Forester
- Rabbit Hole
- Stitzel-Weller
- Town Branch
- Wild Turkey
- Wilderness Trail
- Woodford Reserve
How to get around the Kentucky Bourbon Trail
Within Louisville, it’s easy to reach distilleries on foot or via taxis or rideshares. Beyond city limits, you need a car to get around; particularly in more rural areas, ridesharing isn’t always available. To delegate the transportation and/or planning, consider booking tours with a company like the famous Mint Julep or Pegasus Distillery Tours. They’ll shuttle you or your group around; many of the tours focus on specific interests, like culinary or horse farm tours, or offer VIP access to tastings or other experiences. However you’re getting around, don’t drink and drive.
How to plan a distillery visit
Planning ahead is strongly encouraged. Many distilleries are closed during the week (most often Monday and/or Tuesday), and hours may vary, so check a distillery’s website before heading out. (Also: Note that part of Kentucky is in the Central time zone, so you may need to factor that in.) For those traveling with kids: Some places welcome all ages, while others are limited to those 21 years old and over.
Do you need reservations for the Kentucky Bourbon Trail? Not always, but it helps, particularly during the peak summer and fall tourist seasons. That said, many tours are reservation only and charge a fee (around $20, usually, but that can range much higher when special bottlings, cocktails, etc. are involved). Often those guided tours come with special behind-the-scenes views and tastings. Most run about 60 to 90 minutes and land in the gift shop, which is usually available without taking a tour.
In general, visiting two or three distilleries in a day is plenty. Most tours cover the same “how-bourbon-is-made” info, and especially if you’re sampling, it all starts to add up. But it’s well worth it for bourbon fans looking to learn about America’s native whiskey and snap up hard-to-find bottles to add to a collection.
Where to stay
Louisville
Louisville is ideal as home base for a bourbon tour: In addition to distillery experiences available within city limits, it’s also relatively central to Lexington, Clermont, and Bardstown and has plenty of appealing bars, restaurants, and cultural attractions.
Consider a stay at Hotel Distil, a bourbon-themed hotel located in a historic building on Louisville’s “Whiskey Row”; the boutique-y 21c Museum Hotel is also home to stellar restaurant Proof on Main.
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You could also try Galt House Hotel, a much larger venue with views of the Ohio River, or the genteel Brown Hotel, which dates back to 1923 (check out the city skyline from the restored rooftop garden).
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Start with “Whiskey Row,” including Michter’s Fort Nelson Distillery (and its top-notch bar), Old Forester Distilling (keep an eye out for special whiskey drops here, such as the annual Birthday Bourbon), and Angel’s Envy. From there, the NuLu district offers the modern design of Rabbit Hole Distillery (and its second-floor Overlook bar, with drinks designed by the Death & Co team). Grab a rideshare for the five-mile drive to West Louisville to tour the historic Stitzel-Weller Distillery, which opened in 1935 but had been closed to the public for many years. (Attention horse fans: The Kentucky Derby Museum is nearby.)
Among the smaller Craft Trail distilleries nearby: Kentucky Peerless Distilling and Copper & Kings, an industrial-chic space that started as a brandy facility and has only recently begun producing bourbon. Look for the monarch butterfly garden out front and the rooftop restaurant/bar with sweeping waterfront views.
When the distilleries close, continue bourbon tasting at Louisville bars like the Silver Dollar, a honky-tonk-themed bar owned by Larry Rice; Justins’ House of Bourbon (it’s a bottle shop too—ask about the hidden whiskey tasting room, behind a wall of bourbons); or the 1920s-inspired Neat Bourbon Bar & Bottle Shop.
Day trip options from Louisville
Visit a couple of distilleries during each of these day trips with Louisville as a convenient home base, or combine them for a longer road trip. Here are a few potential options to build an itinerary.
1. Clermont
From Louisville, it’s about a 40-minute dive south to Clermont to reach James B. Beam Distilling—known for making Jim Beam, Knob Creek, and Basil Hayden, among others. They’ve been busy over at Beam: in May, the distillery cut the ribbon on a new $45 million “homestead experience.” The relaunch of the distillery and visitor center had been planned for 2020—Beam’s 225th anniversary year—but the pandemic set that back to spring 2022. The new space includes the Kitchen Table, a 5,000-square-foot restaurant and bar, and the Fred B. Noe Craft Distillery, a facility to explore new fermentation and distillation techniques.
2. Bardstown
Either starting out from Louisville or continuing on from Beam, head to Heaven Hill, the family-owned distillery that makes such legendary brands as Elijah Craig, Old Fitzgerald, and Henry McKenna, among many others. While there’s a new $135 million distillery planned for the site, coming in 2024, this remains a fine place to learn about bourbon production and snap up exclusive bottles.
See also two sleek, state-of-the-art newcomers: Lux Row Distillers and Bardtown Bourbon Company (the latter focuses on elaborate bourbon blends).
3. Lebanon/Loretto
Maker’s Mark is on many a bourbon lover’s must-see list. Visit the distillery and tour the grounds—but don’t leave without dipping your own bottle in the iconic red wax.
This might be the endpoint of a route heading south through Clermont and/or Bardstown. Since the distillery is fairly remote from Louisville, plan to stay overnight—if possible, at the Samuels House, an Airbnb-style house rental owned by the family behind Maker’s Mark, stocked with a collection of whiskey memorabilia.
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Add on a tour of Independent Stave Company to learn how barrels are made, and see firsthand how they’re charred with a burst of flame—a key part of the bourbon-making process. (Note: You can also go directly from Louisville to Maker’s Mark by helicopter.)
4. Frankfort/Lexington
From Louisville, it’s also about an hour east to Frankfort, home of Buffalo Trace. The already-sprawling facility is currently expanding (they’ve even turned it into the subject of a complimentary “expansion tour”). For now, enjoy a stroll through the botanical “bourbon gardens” and plan to return in 2023, when the new dining and tourism destination is unveiled. Continue on to Four Roses in Lawrenceburg, housed in a 1910 mission-style building, or Woodford Reserve in Versailles (pronounced “ver-sales”). Of note, Lexington, the “Horse Capital of the World,” is home to multitudes of thoroughbreds, so consider adding a horse farm tour to your itinerary.
5. Danville
About an hour south of Lexington, the picturesque Wilderness Trail Distillery is in the heart of Bluegrass territory. The distillery is a relative newcomer, having opened in 2013 and releasing its first bourbon in 2018. Yet it has garnered plenty of attention and is already expanding capacity. Starting with 44 acres, the distillery purchased another 124 acres in 2021, adding six new fermentation tanks and six new barrel houses. No wonder the distillery recently was switched from “craft distillery” to “distillery” by the KBT, the whiskey equivalent of moving up from the minor to the major leagues. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/a-complete-guide-to-the-kentucky-bourbon-trail | 2022-08-31T00:10:01Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/a-complete-guide-to-the-kentucky-bourbon-trail | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Federal officials are struggling to keep up with what the Department of Homeland Security has called “unprecedented” numbers of applications for its Global Entry program.
Global Entry is an expedited screening program meant to help travelers get through U.S. airport security checkpoints faster when returning from abroad. It costs $100 and includes TSA PreCheck, a program designed to save time getting through the initial TSA security screening. (On its own, TSA PreCheck costs $85.) The process for getting Global Entry includes a background check and an in-person interview after a preliminary approval. It’s the in-person interviews that are hard to come by and slowing down the process.
The high demand is being driven by a big rebound in travel and a backlog of interviews following a pandemic scheduling pause (from the onset of the pandemic until September 2020). Headlines about long wait times at airports throughout the world likely have global travelers looking into ways to expedite their air travel experience.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, wait times for Global Entry interviews are currently ranging between 6 and 18 months in most cases. In July alone, the agency received an average of 11,500 applications daily. Part of the issue is that interviews, which are required for obtaining Global Entry, were put on pause at the beginning of the pandemic until September 2020 when in-person interviews started again. Two years later, enrollment centers still face staffing shortages, further exacerbating the backlog.
But there are some possible solutions. Read on for tips and tricks to speed up the process if you’re waiting for Global Entry.
Participate in Enrollment on Arrival
Travelers who have already filled out their Global Entry application, paid the $100 fee, and have been conditionally approved can participate in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Enrollment on Arrival program, which eliminates the need for applicants to schedule an interview at an enrollment center to finish the application process. (It’s also helpful for those who don’t live near an enrollment center.)
“When landing in an international terminal, follow the signage directing you to CBP officers who can complete your Global Entry interview during your admissibility inspection,” the CBP website reads.
Once you land at an airport with Enrollment on Arrival, proceed to the Enrollment on Arrival desk, which should be near where the inbound passengers are processed. Let the agent know that you’ve been conditionally approved for Global Entry and they’ll start the interview. During the process they’ll take a photo and fingerprints, as well as go over a list of all the countries you’ve visited in the last five years. They’ll also confirm your current address, where your physical card will be mailed. The entire interview should take under 10 minutes.
To complete Enrollment on Arrival, applicants must have their valid passport, documents providing evidence of residency (driver’s license, mortgage statement, utility bill, etc.), and a permanent resident card (if applicable).
Sign up for Appointment Scanner
→ Sign up: Appointment Scanner, $29 for one month of alerts, appointmentscanner.com
While the next available Global Entry appointment online is often several months or more in the future, there is a service can help people (like AFAR’s deputy editor Tim Chester) who just need to complete the in-person interview portion of their application.
Called Appointment Scanner, the program constantly scans the Trusted Traveler site looking for canceled and rescheduled interviews for the Global Entry, NEXUS, or SENTRI programs. (The latter two also offer expedited clearance for prescreened travelers—NEXUS is for travel specifically between the U.S. and Canada, whereas SENTRI is for travelers going between the U.S. and Mexico.)
The service will then send you texts and emails alerting you as to when slots open up at your chosen location (out of more than 100 enrollment centers). Then you can jump on the Trusted Traveler Programs site and try to grab that coveted appointment. The service costs $29, a one-time payment for one month of alerts. If you haven’t secured an appointment in that time, you’d need to sign up again. The site says, “The average user gets between 10 and 25 appointment alerts per day, so you’ll have many opportunities to grab a convenient appointment in no time.”
You can ask for a refund within 30 days if you weren’t successful and unsubscribe to the alerts if you are.
Get TSA PreCheck instead
Because the queue has gotten so long, DHS has started encouraging travelers who primarily fly domestically to forgo Global Entry in favor of TSA PreCheck.
“If you do not travel multiple times per year internationally, we recommend applying for the TSA PreCheck Program,” DHS shared on its website. “Most TSA PreCheck applicants can schedule an appointment in less than two weeks and, if approved, can receive a Known Traveler Number (KTN) in about 3 to 5 days after the appointment.”
The primary difference between the programs is that PreCheck saves you time at TSA security screenings prior to departure within the U.S. (and recently from Nassau, Bahamas), while Global Entry also works to expedite arrivals at customs after you return to the United States from abroad.
Tim Chester contributed to this reporting. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/how-to-speed-up-your-global-entry-application | 2022-08-31T00:10:08Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/how-to-speed-up-your-global-entry-application | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
You don’t need the internet to tell you that there’s good eating in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Miami’s Little Havana, New Orleans’s French Quarter, or Charleston’s everywhere. These neighborhoods are the stuff of legend—their reputations precede them. But what about lesser-known global food havens in places like St. Louis, Missouri; Boise, Idaho; and Amarillo, Texas? What does their multicultural existence say about what it means to be American?
Admittedly, our interpretation of the word “neighborhood” is loose here. In some cases, it’s a tidy number of blocks nestled between clear cross streets. In others, the thoroughfare runs like a life-sustaining artery through multiple neighborhoods, feeding the divergent communities that flock to them. What all 10 districts and strips that follow have in common are the number of immigrant-, BIPOC-, and women-owned businesses that thrive there; the intrepid foodies who support them in droves; and, of course, ridiculously delicious food.
And so, we introduce AFAR’s best food neighborhoods in the United States, in no particular order . . .
Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, New York
It’s arguably the best food stretch in the best food borough in the best food city in the world—which sounds like an exaggeration until you step out of the Roosevelt Ave–Jackson Heights train station at 74th Street and, moving a few blocks in any direction, see the mind-boggling number of eateries at your disposal. Indian, Bangladeshi, Filipino, Ecuadorian, Italian—Queens has it all. It’s why global food tour operator Culinary Backstreets has run daily walking tours here since 2017, and it will introduce a Jackson Heights–exclusive tour next year. “Roosevelt Avenue is a gritty, dirty, messy, crazy, busy, vibrant street,” says head tour guide Esneider Arevalo, who was born in Colombia but moved to Jackson Heights when he was 18. Arevalo knows food, too: His mom, octogenarian Maria Piedad Cano, is the original Arepa Lady—a lawyer turned street cart vendor who famously got her start selling arepas under the 7 train.
For breakfast: Order a matcha latte and heart-shaped onigiri (rice balls stuffed with pickled plum, kimchi pork, or bacon and eggs) from 969 NYC Coffee, a homey café run by Japanese expat Oda Mitsumine.
For lunch: Phayul (37–59 74th St., second floor; 718-433-9682) is a no-frills favorite for steamed or fried Tibetan momos stuffed with juicy beef and comforting thenthuk, a soup with chewy, hand-pulled noodles and your choice of beef, chicken, or veg.
For dinner: A royal feast awaits at Argentinian restaurant La Fusta, technically in Elmhurst but under five minutes from the 82nd Street station on Roosevelt Ave. Here, grill platters are heaped high with morcilla (blood sausage), tira de asado (beef short rib), molleja (chicken gizzards), and chinchulines (beef intestines). Bring friends—and a shopping bag for leftovers.
For coffee and dessert: La Gran Uruguaya (85-7 37th Ave., 718-505-0400) presents a beautiful selection of cakes and pastries, some with Italian influence (e.g., cannolis stuffed with dulce de leche). The panaderia doubles as a sports bar, so settle in with a cup of coffee, a slice of chajá (peach meringue cake), and watch a fútbol match on TV with the locals.
It’s 5 o’clock, now what? Terraza 7 is a go-to spot for live Latin jazz and Afro Colombian music and rummy cocktails like the Currulao, a blended ice drink made with mango and pineapple.
Tip from a local: “When you first walk into Aroma Brazil (75–13 Roosevelt Ave., 718-672-7662), you’re confronted with an insane array of salads, salsas, rice and beans, fried yucca, and plantains, all sold by the pound,” says Arevalo. “You could go crazy just on the buffet, but save space on your plate and go to the window with the master griller. He’ll tell you what he’s grilling that day—picanha (rump cap), sausages—and you tell him how well you want it done. Everyone goes for the skirt steak, but I love the beef rib. And don’t skip dessert: The passion fruit mousse is outstanding, the Brazilian flan divine.”
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East Amarillo Boulevard in Amarillo, Texas
At the husband-and-wife-run African Safari Restaurant (5945 E. Amarillo Blvd., 806-471-0490), on the far east end of the food corridor that is East Amarillo Boulevard (aka Route 66), immigrants from Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, Nigeria, Kenya, and Ethiopia eat crispy fried goat, chicken drumsticks, and tilapia with capellini pasta in tomato sauce (a Somali standard) and generous plates of surbiyaan (Somali-style basmati rice). There are prayer rugs in the corner and soccer on the TV, because this is more than just a place to fill your belly; it’s a community hub. It’s hardly the only one dotting this diverse stretch of highway. Other draws include South Asian grocers, Mexican paleterias selling popsicles and ice cream, Salvadoran pupuserias, and eateries specializing in Chinese, Laotian, Thai, and Vietnamese cuisine.
For breakfast: At African Safari Restaurant, try a steaming cup of Somali chai with canjeero or sabaayad (flatbreads popular in Somalia), plus a filling order of fuul (pinto beans stewed to creamy perfection in an herbaceous tomato sauce). If you’re feeling adventurous at 9 a.m., know that the goat liver with onions gets rave reviews.
For lunch: Go wild on a plate of pupusas from El Carbonero. The griddled corn cakes are stuffed with beans, cheese, pork rinds, jalapeño, loroco flower, and every combination therein.
For dinner: Start with plates of Lao beef jerky with sticky rice and lemongrass-y chicken larb at pan-Asian restaurant Golden Lotus. For your main, you can do no better than a hearty bowl of hu tieu, seafood noodle soup brimming with shrimp, squid, and crab meat.
For dessert: Grab a real-fruit ice pops from taqueria cum paleteria El Mexicano (4509 E. Amarillo Blvd., 806-372-5123), available in coconut, strawberries and cream, tamarind, and mango with chile.
For a spicy snack: You can’t beat the pickled Cheetos at Tropico: Hot Cheetos topped with chunks of pickle, lemon, chamoy, and chile. A watermelon rusa, garnished with pineapple and mango and served with a flechazo (a straw coated in chamoy and chile powder), will wash it all down.
What to bring home: A jar of fermented tea leaves from Aye San Bu Myanmar Market (5621 E. Amarillo Blvd., 806-331-5325), so you can make authentic laphet (pickled tea leaf salad) long after your trip.
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The Grove in St. Louis, Missouri
Once the beating heart of St. Louis’s gay and lesbian bar scene, and now ground zero for young foodies, the Grove has everything: craft beer, kombucha, barbecue, soul food, from-scratch doughnuts, and enough international fusion (Korean Mexican! Ivorian Senegalese!) that you could eat your way around the world in the span of a single square mile. Even more impressive: Many of the indie businesses in this district have committed to lowering their environmental impact by setting up sustainable operations, partnering with the 501c3 nonprofit Green Dining Alliance to keep them accountable.
For breakfast: Songbird’s egg sandwiches are king. Aged white cheddar, applewood-smoked bacon, and a perfectly runny, farm-fresh egg are squished between two slices of toasted sourdough. Heaven.
For lunch: Get your grilled kebab fix at Sameem, the first—and only—Afghan restaurant in Missouri, pre-gamed with a velvety bowl of hummus from Sultan Mediterranean.
For dinner: At Chao Baan, the Prapaisilp family whips up dishes from Isaan, or northeastern Thailand, including khao soi (curry soup) and khao tod nam sod (crispy rice salad). At Creole with a Splash of Soul, passionate home cook Ronda Walker honors her roots with Cajun wings, ’gator bites, and po’boys. And at Grace Meat + Three, the restaurant lives up to its name with choose-your-own-adventure platters. (For the record, we choose fried chicken with honey-glazed cornbread, mac and cheese, and collard greens.)
For date night: The menu at Tempus, a fine dining temple from James Beard Award–nominated chef Ben Grupe, changes with the seasons, which right now means delicately plated tomatoes with whipped ricotta, cucumber, and herbs and peekytoe crab paired with Missouri rice, tom kha, and chile.
It’s 5 o’clock, now what? Explore the funky, forward-thinking beers at Rockwell Beer Co., a brewery housed in repurposed shipping containers. Or just pretend you’re in Tokyo at Takashima Record Bar, inspired by Japanese vinyl lounges and their ultra-high-end stereo systems. Browsing the collection with a Suntory highball in hand is half the fun.
Tip from a local: “Pork steak is a very big St. Louis thing,” says Gerard Craft, a Midwest dining pioneer and owner of more than half a dozen restaurants via his Niche Food Group (including brassWELL, the burger joint inside Rockwell). “They can be chewy and overcooked, but Beast Butcher & Block makes a very thick pork steak sandwich and it’s one of the best uses of barbecue I’ve ever had in my life. Legit.”
Pork steak is a very big St. Louis thing. They can be chewy and overcooked, but Beast Butcher & Block makes a very thick pork steak sandwich and it’s one of the best uses of barbecue I’ve ever had in my life. Legit.
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Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota
They don’t call it Eat Street for nothing. Just south of downtown, the global thoroughfare features myriad African, Asian, and Latin American grocery stores and halal meat markets, an all-night diner (the Nicollet Diner), Malaysian restaurant Peninsula, German biergarten Black Forest Inn, Greek gyro shop Christos, Trinidadian hole-in-the-wall Harry Singh’s Original Caribbean Restaurant, farmers’ market stalwart Rainbow Chinese, pho stars Pho 79 and Pho Tao Bay, and beloved banh mi purveyor Lu’s Sandwiches.
For breakfast: Tacos from the new Eat Street location of Centro, where owner Jami Olson, chef Jose Alarcon, and pastry director Ngia Xiong do supernatural things with eggs, house-made chorizo, and glittery guava rolls.
For lunch: Feel the burn of Pimento Jamaican Kitchen’s One Love Special: a combo plate with fire-grilled jerk chicken, slow-roasted jerk pork, coconut rice and beans, sweet fried plantains, island slaw, and a lip tingler of a sauce.
For dinner: At Quang, an always-bumping Vietnamese restaurant that’s been family-owned since 1989, broke U of M students bump elbows with Mayo Clinic physicians. They come for the enormous egg rolls, stay for the beefy noodle soups (bun bo hue is a fiery beef-and-pork hock stew with rice noodles), and lose their minds over surprise desserts like che dau, a sticky rice pudding made with black-eyed peas and coconut cream.
It’s 5 o’clock, now what?: Green tea gimlets and butterfly pea-infused margaritas beckon at Eat Street Social.
Tip from a local: “There’s a small restaurant in the back of Colonial Market grocery store where we often grab lunch,” say Gabriella Grant-Spangler, co-owner of Bebe Zito Ice Cream and an anchor tenant in the forthcoming Eat Street Crossing food hall, slated to open on Nicollet later this year. “We love the cinnamon coffee, which is not fancy but feels special, and the consistently great birria tacos, which come with a wonderful dipping broth. It feels like a hug.”
We love the cinnamon coffee, which is not fancy but feels special, and the consistently great birria tacos, which come with a wonderful dipping broth. It feels like a hug.
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Bench in Boise, Idaho
Boise’s famous Basque Block, a stateside collection of Basque restaurants, pintxos bars, and cultural institutions, gets all the attention, but the Bench neighborhood is home to a broader swath of food—including Afghan pastries, Cuban paninis, and a Bosnian-owned café serving sour cabbage and goulash (BoEx). It’s a go-to for people who want to taste the world but don’t want to dig out their passport—even more so during Treasure Valley’s annual Refugee Restaurant Week.
For breakfast: Pair a Turkish coffee with mohamra (walnut dip) and lambajun (flatbread sprinkled with meat) at Food Land Market, a bistro/bakery/coffee shop founded by Iraqi refugee Hana Mutlak.
For lunch: For 16 years, Argentinian Mexican couple Monica and Luis Bremmer have lured locals to Tango’s Empanadas with their delectable meat pockets. The Gaucho (ground beef, eggs, onions, olives, bell peppers, and spices) is a classic, but the chocolate-spiked mole chicken sparks conversation.
For dinner: Carne con papas and pollo frito a la Cubana are just two of the crowd-pleasers at Casablanca Cuban Grill, a decade-old eatery that executes owner Karina Sotera’s grandmother’s recipes to a tee.
For dessert: The magical saffron pudding and pistachio baklava at Sunshine Spice Cafe, a bakery run by two Afghan sisters who’ve been nominated for a James Beard Award.
What to bring home: Seed packets from Snake River Seed Cooperative or Galloping Gertie’s goat milk caramels made with Idaho huckleberries from artisan marketplace Lark & Larder.
Tip from a local: “If you’re into natural wine, Shadow Puppet is a great spot to settle in with a pét-nat and a plate of sumac-dusted fries,” says Tara Morgan, co-owner of Bench-based catering business Wild Plum Events and host of local multicourse greenhouse dinners. “The unpretentious, low-lit space is filled with vintage flourishes, and they recently partnered with Sundu’s Kitchen in Babylon, one of several Middle Eastern grocery stores on the Bench, to offer delicious bar snacks and entrées.”
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Columbia City in Seattle, Washington
In this historically diverse enclave in southeast Seattle, you’ll find American standards like biscuits and gravy at all-day breakfast spot Geraldine’s Counter, wood-fired Neapolitan-style pizza at Tutta Bella, build-your-own injera platters at Eritrean/Ethiopian haunt Kezira Cafe, chicken shawarma at Bananas Grill, vegan-friendly avocado curry at Bua 9 Thai Cuisine, and whole-fried tilapia or dry-fried goat with a side order of chapati or ugali at Kenyan staple Safari Njema Restaurant. Korean Hawaiian bruncherie Super Six closed this month, which is a blow to the neighborhood, but co-owners Kamala Saxton and Roz Edison say they’re turning the one-time auto repair shop into an outpost of Marination, complete with Korean Hawaiian–inspired lunch, dinner, and weekend brunch service, plus a full bar.
For breakfast: The colorful Tacos El Asadero bus (3513 Rainier Ave. S., 206-722-9977) serves desayuno seven days a week. Options include breakfast burritos, huevos rancheros, and machaca, a shredded, dried, and rehydrated beef dish that is popular in northern Mexico.
For lunch: Lil Red Jamaican BBQ & Soul Cuisine is not for the indecisive. Erasto “Red” Jackson does meat—succulent brisket, lip-smacking barbecue chicken, smoked sausage, sticky pork ribs, even oxtails—very, very well. Once you make up your mind, you’re then faced with a panoply of sides: greens, yams, plantains, mac and cheese, rice and peas . . . and wait, what’s that? Lumpia and coco bread, too? Mercy!
For dinner: The sustainability-first, nose-to-tail menu at Evan Leichtling and Meghna Prakash’s Off Alley changes with the whims of a hyper-local market, but there’s always something interesting on the pass: fried pig ear with blackberry vinaigrette, grilled quail with corn and cherry tomatoes, and so on. The wines are excellent, and the kitchen has mastered the fickle Dutch baby, which can be ordered bare bones with peaches and sugar or all gussied up with seared foie gras and strawberries.
Must-try coffee shop: Cayenne mochas and cashew milk lattes come with a side of rare vinyl at Empire Roasters and Records. The hybrid café/record store also makes waffles if you’re feeling peckish.
What to bring home: Fine olive oil, dried beans, and local honey from Persephone Market, a sweet little wine shop and artisanal pantry located next to Sicilian jewel La Medusa.
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South Valley/Barelas in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Settled in the 1600s, this neighborhood is the oldest in Albuquerque. It hugs the Rio Grande and Camino Real, a colonial-era trail that once led all the way to Mexico City and is now home to the South Broadway Cultural Center and National Hispanic Cultural Center. The latter houses Torreón, the largest concave fresco in North America, and the destination restaurant La Fonda del Bosque, where you may be tempted by the Chinese barbecued duck quesadilla or Albuquerque French Dip, served with a green chile red wine au jus. The area has a wealth of old-school panaderias and Mexican and New Mexican restaurants. Some have even made their way into popular culture, appearing on shows both real (Man vs. Food) and fictionalized (Better Call Saul).
For breakfast: La Mexicana Tortilla Co., founded in 1932, is best known for its breakfast burrito stuffed with eggs, hash browns, and your choice of hot dogs, Spam, chorizo, bacon, sausage, or carne adovada: pork smothered in red or green chile sauce and blanketed in melted cheese.
For lunch: The nearly century-old El Modelo is popular with actors filming in the area. The stuffed sopapilla—bursting with chile chorizo, refried beans, cheese, and lettuce—is the thing to get, but you can’t go wrong with the chile relleno burrito or fresh tamales.
For dinner: Black-owned Nexus Brewery + Smokehouse made its bones with brisket and burnt ends, but the catfish tacos and Enterprise sandwich (pulled pork, brisket, and hot links topped with green chile and coleslaw) are nothing to sniff at.
For the ’gram: “Grandma’s K&I Diner features the Travis, a 10-pound burrito with fries, smothered with red chili and cheese,” says Frank Sandoval, owner of the city’s Breaking Bad RV Tours. “It is out of the way but very popular among industry people in the area.”
It’s 5 o’clock, now what?: Sidetrack Brewing Company offers six-pour flights. The Buzz Bomb, a pale ale infused with Ethiopian cold brew from coffee shop-next-door Zendo, is one to try.
What to bring home: The Rail Yards Market hosts 150-plus vendors every Sunday from May through October. It’s a great place to pick up locally made nonperishables, such as red and green chile “Christmas” jam from Sandia Spice, green chile beef jerky from DurDe Jerky, and jars of Tio Frank’s New Mexican–style red and green chile sauce.
Tip from a local: “Barelas Coffee House, owned and operated by the Gonzales family for more than 50 years, is the most historic family-owned restaurant in Albuquerque,” says Dr. Margie Huerta, executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. “From U.S. Presidents to state governors, it’s a ‘must’ when visiting. Their carne adovada, pork cooked to perfection and smothered in homemade red chile, is truly unforgettable and the energy and vibe of the restaurant only adds to its popularity.”
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MLK in Chattanooga, Tennessee
This historic neighborhood, formerly known as Ninth Street, covers five blocks between Houston and University streets. It’s listed on the National Register as an area of historical significance because it is the birthplace of jazz greats Bessie Smith, Lovie Austin, and Yusef Lateef. In addition to the must-see Bessie Smith Cultural Museum, it’s a hub for Black-owned businesses. Briana Garza, owner of Chatt Taste Food Tours, launched her MLK Southern Cuisine Food Tour on Juneteenth 2020; it makes four stops in the neighborhood—all minority-owned businesses disproportionately affected by the pandemic. “I chose MLK because of its history,” she says, referencing long-shuttered music clubs, buzzing barber shops, community murals, and restaurants that are still kicking half a century later.
For breakfast: One block south of East Martin Luther King Boulevard is Syrup and Eggs, Ocia Hartley’s ode to all things griddled. Choose the blue cornmeal “taco” pancakes with sunny side-up eggs, pickled jalapeños, and carnitas or the cardamom-spiced Ain’t You a Southern Peach pancakes with smoked pecans and gingery honey butter.
For lunch: Chopped plates are popular around these parts: Try a chopped wiener with hot mustard at the 56-year-old Memo’s Grill (430 E. Martin Luther King Blvd.; 423-267-7283) or the chopped chicken at James Massengill’s Chatt Smokehouse. (His smoked ribs are no slouch either.) For a picnic with all the fixings, order a family meal from Champy’s Chicken, available in four sizes. The biggest bucket comes with 20 pieces of crispy chicken and five large sides.
For dinner: “Fish so good it will smack ya!” reads the sign outside Uncle Larry’s Restaurant, named after proprietor Larry Torrence. The uncle in charge knows his way around a fryer, delicately breading and cooking whiting, catfish, perch, and tilapia. If you want to leave room for dessert, trust that the banana pudding and red velvet cake are pure Southern goodness.
For a vegan option: Black-owned pizza chain Slim & Husky’s looks out for its animal friends with its Nothin’ But a V Thang pie, made with vegan cheese, pepperoni, and sausage crumble, plus spinach, red onion, and mushrooms.
For dessert: Poppytons Patisserie, the current restaurant-in-residence at Proof Bar & Incubator, churns out fruity hand tarts and a mean carrot cake.
What to bring home: A plastic bottle of Uncle Larry’s Smack ‘Em sauce—like tartar sauce on steroids. “It’s a game changer,” says Garza. “The best condiment I’ve ever had.”
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Havana Street in Aurora, Colorado
Less than 10 miles east of Denver, Aurora is the third most populous city in Colorado: home to 386,261 residents and more than 250 ethnic restaurants. The Havana Street corridor is particularly dense—the kind of thoroughfare where Indian (Chutney Indian Cuisine), Italian (Bettola Bistro), and Sudanese (Sudan Cafe & Khairat Bakery) restaurants rub shoulders with century-old diners (Sam’s No. 3) and Korean karaoke bars, hot pot restaurants, fried chicken joints, boba tea shops, and bingsu (shaved ice) vendors. From dawn till dusk, you never run out of tasty things to put in your mouth.
For breakfast: Hit up French Asian bakery Tous les Jours for pain au chocolat and walnut caramel scones, plus trickier-to-find treats such as taro cream bread, red bean doughnuts, and honeydew melon buns. The purple ube latte, available hot or iced, is a hit with the Instagram set.
For lunch: Just off Havana, Mariscos El Rey Dos is a seafood restaurant with a biblically long menu. Tuck into the ceviche Campechano (lime-cooked shrimp, fish, octopus, squid, crab, and abalone piled atop a tostada), chased with a Michelada.
For dinner: Get ready for the meat sweats. Whether you choose Korean barbecue (Dae Gee and Shin Myung Gwan are both popular) or Brazilian churrasco (Aroma do Brazil), the decadence is real.
For dessert: Embrace a mountainous “snow bowl” at Snowl Cafe, where the shaved ice flavors include sweet potato cheesecake, black sesame, and green tea.
For a carb fix: Head to Sara’s Market & Bakery for oven-fresh lavash, simit (seeded Turkish bagels), shirmal (saffron-flavored sweet bread), and barbari (yeast-leavened Iranian flatbread).
It’s 5 o’clock, now what?: Round up your happy hour crew for $8 soju and $7 beer at K-pub ThankSool Pocha, every Monday through Friday from 4 to 6 p.m.
Late-night haunt: The soju-fueled fun continues at Muse Noraebang & Cafe, a karaoke bar that stays open until 2 a.m. and helpfully serves honghap tang, a hangover soup made with mussels. With eight private rooms and Singapore Slings priced to move at $9 a pop, you’ll need it.
Tip from a local: “Pick up takeout and go paddleboarding at Cherry Creek State Park,” says Chance Horiuchi, executive director of the Havana Business Improvement District. The park surrounding the 880-acre reservoir has a sandy swimming beach; hiking, biking, and horseback riding trails; and an airfield for flying radio-controlled model aircraft.
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Arts District in Los Angeles, California
The late French bistro Church & State (R.I.P.) may have paved the way, but DTLA’s Arts District has really come into its own these past few years. The former industrial zone boasts some of the hardest reservations to score (looking at you, Bestia) and biggest restaurant openings (Enrique Olvera’s Damian, Stephanie Izard’s Girl & the Goat, etc.) For critics, the skyrocketing trendiness hurts its credibility, while others see the neighborhood as deftly towing the line between destination restaurants packed with out-of-towners and the kind of down-to-earth street grub that keeps locals coming back.
For lunch: East L.A. native Wes Avila started Guerrilla Tacos as a modest little food truck; now it’s a full-blown, pilgrimage-worthy taqueria. Order his Taco de Papa, a corn tortilla stacked with crispy Jack cheese, potato-and-mushroom guisado, rajas, and avocado salsa, or the Puffy Pocho, an as-fun-to-say-as-it-is-to-eat, deep-fried flour tortilla packed with ground beef and topped with aged cheddar, pico de gallo, avocado salsa, and chipotle cream.
For brunch: Manuela, tucked inside the sprawling Hauser & Wirth gallery, is a knockout on a Saturday morning: Tour the art, and then settle in for Kris Tominaga’s lauded cream biscuits and barbecued oysters with green chile butter.
For dinner: Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis are doing tantalizing things in the name of the Levant at Bavel, just 15 minutes from forever-booked Bestia. While you could feast on nothing but spreads and apps (hummus duck ‘nduja, ocean trout crudo with blueberry and urfa chile oil), you’d be remiss not to order the slow-roasted lamb neck shawarma with pickled vegetables. Even the desserts—think Persian mulberry ice cream or rose-clove chocolate doughnuts—punch above their weight.
It’s 5 o’clock, now what?: Throw back a creative cocktail (or three) amid greenery and glowing string lights at Alé Guzman’s always packed rooftop eatery LA Cha Cha Chá. The red bell pepper–mezcal Negroni is made with Del Maguey Vida mezcal and mole bitters, while the blue corn tortilla Old Fashioned seduces with Abasolo corn whiskey, nixta elote liqueur, and buttered blue corn masa.
Late-night haunt: From pro skateboarder turned pizzaiolo Salman Agah comes Pizzanista!, a slice joint open till midnight on weekends. His Sundays-only, macaroni-and-cheese pizza is L.A.-famous, but the North Shore pie—La Quercia speck and fresh-cut pineapple on a hand-stretched sourdough crust—is an instant classic.
What to bring home: Raid the shelves at Yangban Society’s Super, a mini mart selling canned and bottled cocktails, Korean fruit milks, face masks, incense, and other goods from Asian American–owned businesses. The makgeolli, or sparkling rice wine, is made exclusively for Yangban by L.A.-based sake company Sawtelle. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/the-best-food-neighborhoods-in-the-u-s | 2022-08-31T00:10:14Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/the-best-food-neighborhoods-in-the-u-s | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Move over, canvas safari tent; Tanzania has a new lodging option, this one in the form of a space-alien-looking dome. Set back from the famous Ngorongoro Crater and its plethora of lodges, the Highlands domes’ wild, remote, forest-edge location is one of the key selling points. The accommodations were custom-built to make it easy to take in incredible views. Asilia, the safari outfitter that owns these dwellings, prides itself on the authenticity of the experience, so trips to visit local Maasai communities are low-key and varied, with a different village visited each day. At more than 7,500 feet above sea level, evenings are chilly, but each dome tent is fitted with a high-output woodstove to keep guests cozy all night long.
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Move over, canvas safari tent; Tanzania has a new lodging option, this one in the form of a space-alien-looking dome. Set back from the famous Ngorongoro Crater and its plethora of lodges, the Highlands domes’ wild, remote, forest-edge location is one of the key selling points. The accommodations were custom-built to make it easy to take in incredible views. Asilia, the safari outfitter that owns these dwellings, prides itself on the authenticity of the experience, so trips to visit local Maasai communities are low-key and varied, with a different village visited each day. At more than 7,500 feet above sea level, evenings are chilly, but each dome tent is fitted with a high-output woodstove to keep guests cozy all night long.
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Evidence in Larimer County's 1978 Mata murders tested for DNA after case reopens
Evidence in the decades-old double homicide of two Fort Collins sisters has been tested for DNA with possibly more tests in the works — marking a major step in the reopened case against the man convicted in their killings.
Results from the testing of at least three unnamed pieces of evidence are expected to be ready to discuss by Tuesday, Nov. 8, when 68-year-old Santos Romero Jr. is due back in court in Larimer County for a status conference.
Romero was convicted of killing Rosemary Mata, 21, and Julia Mata DeLosSantos, 24, and has been serving two life sentences in the 1978 murder case — once billed by the Coloradoan as one of "the most drawn-out and highly emotional cases in Larimer County history."
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The sisters, who were last seen outside the Northern Hotel's dance club in the early hours of April 29, 1978, were found beaten to death on a rural roadside up Buckhorn Canyon later that morning.
In statements made to local law enforcement in 1978 and 1979 — including some under hypnosis — Romero's accounts over the years ranged from him saying he saw his brother and friend leave with the Mata sisters that night to saying he had memories of washing blood off of his hands in the creek along Buckhorn Road and, at one point, killing the sisters himself.
Romero was found guilty on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit sexual assault in early 1982.
Romero has since claimed his innocence and successfully appealed his conviction in 1985, asserting that he had expressed doubts prior to undergoing hypnotic interviews with local law enforcement in 1978 and 1979. But his successful appeal was overturned by the Colorado Supreme Court two years later.
In 2019, Romero filed a motion for post-conviction relief, alleging ineffective assistance of trial counsel. His case was reopened that September, court records show.
Earlier this year, Romero's defense team and the Larimer County District Attorney's Office agreed to retest three items for DNA but didn't specify which items. During a status conference Aug. 30, Romero's attorney, Jim Merson, told the court that while some testing has been done on the evidence, the DA's office wants to retest it in a consumptive way, meaning the evidence could not be tested again after the tests are performed.
Merson later told the Coloradoan he thinks they will move forward with the consumptive testing. He declined to answer specific questions about the testing, deferring comment until all of it has been completed.
In court Tuesday, Deputy District Attorney Joshua Ritter told Judge Susan Blanco the DA's office and Romero's attorneys will work to decide how and when that consumptive testing should be done, with results expected in the coming weeks.
Testing evidence for DNA in this case has been suggested since at least 2008, when Fort Collins man Tim Masters was exonerated in the 1987 murder of Peggy Hettrick using advances in DNA testing.
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In an Associated Press article from that year, then Larimer County District Attorney Larry Abrahamson said he reviewed 36 cases where DNA evidence could help the defendants. When asked if Romero's case had been reviewed, Abrahamson's office said no, saying Romero admitted to the act.
When asked about the possibility of DNA testing for a 2018 podcast and story on Rosemary's and Julia's murders, DA office spokesperson Jodi Lacey said Romero hadn't filed any motions requesting DNA testing since Abrahamson's 2008 review and that exhibits from his trial were destroyed in 2010.
Lacey declined to comment on the trial exhibits' destruction and any current testing when the Coloradoan inquired early this year, citing the case being reopened and its pending litigation as a reason.
Emails sent by the Coloradoan to Lacey were not returned as of 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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Fort Collins to spray south part of city for mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus
Fort Collins will spray for mosquitoes in the south part of town on Thursday, Sept. 1, and Tuesday, Sept. 6, after high levels of West Nile virus-infected Culex mosquitoes were found last week.
Spraying will take place roughly in the areas bordered by Drake and Harmony roads and Taft Hill and Ziegler roads, excluding the Rigden Farm and Dakota Ridge areas.
City officials recommend that residents in this area stay indoors, bring pets inside and keep doors and windows closed for 30 to 60 minutes after spraying to minimize pesticide exposure. Gardens, ponds and other water features can also be covered with a sheet or tarp to further protect them from the spray.
The city contracted with Vector Disease Control International, a company that uses a permethrin-based product applied in a fine mist using fogging trucks. You can follow the trucks' fogging at www.fcgov.com/westnile.
West Nile was first detected this season in mosquitoes in late July in the southeast and southwest parts of the city, according to the Larimer County health department. The city sprayed for mosquitoes in the southeast part of the city on July 28 and the northeast part of the city last Thursday and Sunday.
The first human cases of West Nile in Larimer County were detected last week, as well. The individuals who tested positive live in Berthoud and Fort Collins, according to the county health department.
Symptoms range from none to severe, with things like fever, nausea, vomiting, muscle weakness, aches, rash and headaches appearing three to 14 days after infection, the health department said.
How you can protect yourself: The Four D's
- Drain: Drain any standing water in your yard each week. Bird baths, clogged gutters and kiddie pools are common breeding sites.
- Dress: Wear lightweight, long-sleeved shirts and long pants while outdoors. Spray clothing with insect repellent.
- Defend: Apply insect repellent sparingly to exposed skin. Use an approved repellent according to its label.
- Dawn/Dusk: Limit time spent outdoors at dusk through dawn, when mosquitoes are most active and feeding.
Source: City of Fort Collins
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SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. — Spokane City Hall will be closed along with other city facilities, including Spokane Municipal Court and Spokane Public Library branches, in observance of Labor Day on Monday, Sept. 5.
During the holiday, garbage pickup and curbside recycling will be a day late all week with Friday’s pickup happening on Saturday.
Here is a list of some additional Labor Day closures and cancellations in Spokane:
- Parking meters will not require payments on Labor Day.
- All Spokane Public Library branches will be closed.
- The Spokane Municipal Court will be closed.
- My Spokane 311 employees will not be available for in person, phone, or online customer service inquiries. The public can access the 311 online app 24 hours a day as messages will be responded to the next day.
- Development Services Center employees will not be available on Labor Day.
- Spokane City Council has cancelled its meeting for the week of Monday, Sept. 5. The Council will meet next on Monday, Sept. 12, for its regular 3:30 p.m. briefing session and the 6 p.m. legislative session.
The City aquatic centers are closed for the season, but splash pads and golf courses will be open throughout the Labor Day weekend.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — A brush fire has been reported near West 8th Avenue and South Cannon Street in Spokane. The fire is located near I-90.
The cause and size of the fire are not known at this time. No evacuation orders have been given as of Tuesday evening.
Four engines and one helicopter with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) are currently responding to the fire. The Spokane Fire Department says the fire was near two homes and they were able to attack it aggressively. At this time, they are mopping up the fire and there is no acreage to report at this time.
KREM 2 has a crew heading to the scene of the fire that will provide additional information as we receive it.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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CHELAN COUNTY, Wash. — Level 3 evacuations are in place for a brush fire burning on Windy Ridge Lane in Chelan County.
Level 3 evacuations mean GET OUT NOW for residents living in that area.
According to Chelan County Emergency Management, Union Valley Road and Cagle Gulch Road are now open to residents only.
At this time, no structures are threatened by the fire. This means no homes or buildings are in danger. Residents should still evacuate for their safety.
This is a developing story and we will provide more updates as we receive them.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA will try again Saturday to launch its new moon rocket on a test flight, after engine trouble halted the first countdown this week.
Managers said Tuesday they are changing fueling procedures to deal with the issue. A bad sensor also could be to blame for Monday's scrapped launch, they noted.
The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket — the most powerful ever built by NASA — remains on its pad at Kennedy Space Center with an empty crew capsule on top.
The Space Launch System rocket will attempt to send the capsule around the moon and back. No one will be aboard, just three test dummies. If successful, it will be the first capsule to fly to the moon since NASA’s Apollo program 50 years ago.
Proceeding toward a Saturday launch will provide additional insight, even if the problem reappears and the countdown is halted again, said NASA's rocket program manager, John Honeycutt. That’s better “than us sitting around scratching our heads, was it good enough or not.”
“Based on what I’ve heard from the technical team today, what we need to do is continue to pore over the data and polish up our plan on putting the flight rationale together,” he said.
During Monday's launch attempt, readings showed that one of the four main engines in the rocket's core stage could not be chilled sufficiently prior to the planned ignition at liftoff. It appeared to be as much as 40 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) warmer than the desired minus-420 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-250 degrees Celsius), the temperature of the hydrogen fuel, according to Honeycutt. The three other engines came up just a little short.
All of the engines appear to be fine, according to Honeycutt.
The chilling operation will be conducted a half-hour earlier for Saturday afternoon's launch attempt, once fueling begins that morning. Honeycutt said the timing of this engine chilldown was earlier during successful testing last year, and so performing it sooner may do the trick.
Honeycutt also questioned the integrity of one engine sensor, saying it might have provided inaccurate data Monday. To change that sensor, he noted, would mean hauling the rocket back into the hangar, resulting in weeks of delay.
Already years behind schedule, the $4.1 billion test flight is the opening shot in NASA's Artemis moon-exploration program, named after the twin sister of Apollo in Greek mythology. Astronauts could strap in as soon as 2024 for a lap around the moon and actually attempt a lunar landing in 2025. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/nasa-reschedules-artemis-i-launch/507-c6330ca5-f08d-4ce5-9f3b-b0d4b213608b | 2022-08-31T00:15:23Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/nasa-reschedules-artemis-i-launch/507-c6330ca5-f08d-4ce5-9f3b-b0d4b213608b | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tennis
Williams wins first match at US Open
NEW YORK — In her first match at what is expected to be the last U.S. Open — and last tournament — of her remarkable playing career, even if she insists that she won’t quite say so, Serena Williams overcame a shaky start to overpower Danka Kovinic 6-3, 6-3 amid an atmosphere more akin to a festival than a farewell.
What memory will stick with her the most from the evening?
“When I walked out, the reception was really overwhelming. It was loud and I could feel it in my chest. It was a really good feeling,” said the owner of six U.S. Open championships and 23 Grand Slam titles overall, numbers unsurpassed by any other player in the sport’s professional era.
“It’s a feeling I’ll never forget,” she added. “Yeah, that meant a lot to me.”
This opening outing against Kovinic, a 27-year-old from Montenegro ranked 80th, became an event with a capital “E.” Spike Lee participated in the pre-match coin toss. Former President Bill Clinton was in the stands. So were Mike Tyson and Martina Navratilova, sitting next to each other.
The night session drew 29,000 folks, a high for the tournament — more than 23,000 were in Ashe; thousands more watched on a video screen outside the arena — and the place was as loud as ever. Certainly louder than any other first-round match in memory.
Daniil Medvedev had an easy start to his title defense, beating Stefan Kozlov 6-2, 6-4, 6-0.
Ukrainian Daria Snigur upset No. 7 seed Simona Halep 6-2, 0-6, 6-4 for her first tour-level win.
Andy Murray had one of the first upsets of the tournament by beating No. 24 seed Francisco Cerundolo 7-5, 6-3, 6-3.
Basketball
Storm has three players on All-Defensive teams
On Wednesday, three Seattle Storm players were recognized for their defensive efforts.
Breanna Stewart finished third in the Defensive Player of the Year voting behind winner A’ja Wilson and runner-up Alyssa Thomas. Wilson received 20 first-place votes, Thomas 13 and Stewart 13.
Stewart and Wilson highlight the WNBA All-Defensive first team that includes Natasha Cloud, Ariel Atkins and Sylvia Fowles.
Storm standouts Ezi Magbegor and Gabby Williams were selected to the WNBA All-Defensive second team.
It’s the fourth time Stewart has received All-Defensive team honors. She was a second team choice in 2016, 2020 and 2021.
And it’s the first all-league honor for Magbegor and Williams.
Google becoming first women’s only global partner: Google is increasing its investment in basketball, becoming the first women’s-only global partner with FIBA. The internet company entered a multiyear partnership with the WNBA in 2021 and now is working with basketball’s world governing body.
Unvaccinated NBA players, staff must test weekly: Unvaccinated NBA players and team personnel must submit to weekly COVID-19 testing this season, the league told its clubs.
Wall says he considered suicide: John Wall says he considered taking his own life during a time in the last three years when he was dealing with a torn Achilles and the deaths of family members at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Briefly
Baseball: MLB Players Association head Tony Clark is confident that at least 30% of minor league players will sign recently distributed union authorization cards in the coming days and weeks, paving the way for thousands more players to potentially join the organization. ... Arizona plans to bring back manager Torey Lovullo next season. ... Astros ace Justin Verlander was placed on the IL with a right calf injury. ... The Nationals placed Cade Cavalli on the IL with right shoulder inflammation. ... Two minor league players were suspended by MLB for drug violations.
Football: The Raiders traded Trayvon Mullen to Arizona for a conditional draft pick. ... The Eagles acquired defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson in a trade with New Orleans. ... Bills cornerback Tre’Davious White will get at least another month to rehab from a left knee injury after being placed on the PUP list.
Soccer: Bournemouth fired manager Scott Parker. ... Brazil winger Antony looks set to complete a move to Manchester United for $95 million. ... World Cup winner Paul Pogba paid 100,000 euros ($100,000) to an organized group including his brother that was trying to extort him for millions. ... The New York Yankees and a Los Angeles-based fund that includes LeBron James are becoming minority investors in Italian champion AC Milan.
Hockey: The Wild signed center Sam Steel to a one-year, $825,000 contract. ... The Penguins signed Mike Sullivan, their two-time Stanley Cup-winning head coach, to a contract extension. ... The United States had a 5-2 comeback win over Olympic champion Canada in group play at the women’s hockey world championship.
Horse racing: The future of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, tasked with developing and enforcing nationwide rules, was at stake before a federal appeals court in New Orleans, with challengers saying Congress granted the panel too much power.
Golf: Europe captain Luke Donald will have six picks for next year’s Ryder Cup in Italy. Ryder Cup Europe announced the qualification process for the 2023 event, with three automatic qualifiers coming from the leading players on the European points list and then the top three on the world points list. ... British Open champion Cameron Smith and Joaquin Niemann are among six players to leave the PGA Tour for Saudi-funded LIV Golf.
Cycling: Remco Evenepoel from team Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl pulled off an impressive time-trial victory in the 10th stage in Alicante, increasing his overall lead. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/morning-briefing-aug-31-2022/article_dec50e30-28b0-11ed-92b5-1feced100e35.html | 2022-08-31T00:19:19Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/morning-briefing-aug-31-2022/article_dec50e30-28b0-11ed-92b5-1feced100e35.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The trial in a civil suit between a Yakima business owner and city officials he claimed tried to punish him for opposing downtown plaza plans began Monday.
The dispute dates to November 2013, when a fire code inspector showed up at plaintiff Mark Peterson’s West Yakima Avenue furniture store hours after he and other business owners criticized former City Manager Tony O’Rourke over the downtown master plan, which included a plaza at the parking lot by Millennium Plaza, according to court documents.
At the inspection, fire code inspector Anthony Doan found that a basement showroom’s ceiling at H&H Furniture violated fire codes and ordered it fixed within about 90 days. Doan tried to conduct follow-up inspections of the property but was told that Peterson was not present, and he would have to reschedule when Peterson was there, court documents said.
The city then filed charges alleging that Peterson refused entry to building inspectors, but the charges were later dropped by prosecutors because Doan did not specify the scope of the inspection, court documents said.
Peterson filed a lawsuit against the city, O’Rourke, former Deputy Fire Chief Mark Soptich and Doan in 2017, alleging that the claim of fire code violations at H&H Furniture were in retaliation for Peterson’s free speech, according to court documents.
Peterson also claims the charges brought against him for refusing entry to building inspectors were malicious and that city officials named in the lawsuit engaged in civil conspiracy, court documents said.
The defendants in the case deny Peterson’s claims, saying the fire inspection was part of the city’s standard fire inspection program and that Peterson was prosecuted because he refused to allow a follow-up inspection, court documents said.
Peterson initially filed the lawsuit in Yakima County Superior Court, and the case was later transferred to U.S. District Court.
Voters and the Yakima City Council rejected the plaza project in 2018.
Opening statements were given before a jury Monday, and Peterson’s attorneys began questioning witnesses. Peterson is represented by attorneys Casey Bruner, Matthew Crotty and Matthew Mensik. The city and city officials are represented by Robert Christie and co-counsel.
The jury trial continues this week before Judge Thomas O. Rice at the William O. Douglas Federal Building at 25 S. Third St. in Yakima | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/trial-kicks-off-in-first-amendment-lawsuit-against-the-city-of-yakima/article_b68de478-2874-11ed-9aca-03ac31ed0e2d.html | 2022-08-31T00:19:25Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/trial-kicks-off-in-first-amendment-lawsuit-against-the-city-of-yakima/article_b68de478-2874-11ed-9aca-03ac31ed0e2d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After seven seasons, 203 wins and an NWAC championship, Kyle Krustangel has stepped down as Yakima Valley College’s head baseball coach.
Taking on an expanded role as head coach of the Yakima Valley Pippins, according to YVC, Krustangel posted a 31-18 record with a trip to the super regionals in his final season with the Yaks.
“First, I would like to say thanks to the YVC administration, athletic department, and community of Yakima for supporting our program the past seven years,” he said in a YVC release. “We had hundreds of student-athletes who excelled on and off the field during our tenure.”
Krustangel was named the NWAC’s coach of the year and ABCA regional coach of the year in his first season when YVC won the conference championship in 2016. It was YVC’s first NWAC title since the reign of Bill Faller, who won 11 titles from 1962 to 1983 and for whom the championship trophy is named.
“We are thankful for the efforts Kyle put into running the baseball program at YVC,” said Director of Athletics Ray Funk. “He returned the Bill Faller Trophy back to YVC after a 33-year hiatus and we wish him the best in his future.”
Krustangel’s 2018 squad was the NWAC runner-up and last year the Yaks finished the season, which didn’t have a postseason due to the pandemic, on an 18-game win streak. He had a 203-95 record over seven seasons.
After coaching the West Coast League’s Wenatchee AppleSox from 2017 to 2019, Krustangel took over the Pippins in 2020. Yakima Valley has made the WCL playoffs in each of the last two years, and this summer the Pippins were 20-7 in the South Division’s second half. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/college_sports/yvcc_sports/krustangel-steps-down-as-yvc-baseball-coach/article_6f7328aa-2892-11ed-b89b-335c16ffe2da.html | 2022-08-31T00:19:37Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/college_sports/yvcc_sports/krustangel-steps-down-as-yvc-baseball-coach/article_6f7328aa-2892-11ed-b89b-335c16ffe2da.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sophomore Courtney Standley put together 12 kills, 14 digs and 22 assists as Yakima Valley College opened its volleyball season with a five-set loss to Bellevue on Tuesday at Sherar Gym.
Bethany Hunt also had a double-double with 12 kills and 12 digs and Dale Schrier collected 10 kills for the Yaks against Bellevue, which prevailed 25-23, 21-25, 25-19, 25-27, 15-12.
Alandra Acido-Pastor joined Standley with the setting chores and piled up 29 assists for YVC, which hosts Umpqua on Thursday at 6 p.m. Umpqua defeated Pierce 3-0 on Tuesday.
YVC highlights: Nizhoni Tallman 19 digs; Brynn Widner 5 kills, 13 digs; Dale Schrier 10 kills, 3 blocks; Courtney Standley 12 kills, 14 digs, 22 assists; Alandra Acido-Pastor 29 assists, 12 digs; Bethany Hunt 12 kills, 12 digs. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/college_sports/yvcc_sports/yvc-volleyball-opens-at-home-with-3-2-setback-to-bellevue/article_b4785f44-28b8-11ed-b3ce-7fa87a882195.html | 2022-08-31T00:19:43Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/college_sports/yvcc_sports/yvc-volleyball-opens-at-home-with-3-2-setback-to-bellevue/article_b4785f44-28b8-11ed-b3ce-7fa87a882195.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Controversial rapper DaBaby will no longer perform at the Smoothie King Arena in New Orleans on Friday, presumably due to low ticket sales.
Ticketmaster’s listing for the concert was deactivated on Tuesday, and now reads “Unfortunately, the Event Organizer has had to cancel your event.”
Before it was taken down, Nola.com reported that ticket sales were scarce — with fewer than 500 purchased for an arena that can hold 14,000 concertgoers — for as low as $35 a pop.
Those who did buy a ticket will be automatically refunded, according to Ticketmaster.
On his website, DaBaby now only has two more scheduled tour dates left: one in Paris on Oct. 29 and another in Houston, Texas, on Nov. 12.
The Post has reached out to representatives for DaBaby for comment.
DaBaby has an extensive background of problematic behavior, including making homophobic and misogynistic comments at the 2021 Rolling Loud Miami festival.
“If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that’ll make you die in two to three weeks, then put your cellphone lighter up … Fellas, if you ain’t sucking d–k in the parking lot, put your cellphone lighter up,” he said at the time.
He doubled down on his statement on Instagram Live, saying, “I wasn’t going on a rant. That’s called a call to action. That’s what that’s called, ’cause I’m a live performer,” he said. “I’m the best live performer.”
That statement didn’t do well for him, either, and DaBaby later apologized on Twitter for his words, saying he wasn’t “trippin’” on the LGBTQIA+ community.
Still, his original remarks got him removed from that year’s Lollapalooza and New York City’s Governors Ball Music Festival lineup.
Radio stations even stopped playing Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” remix, which featured DaBaby, although the song was already a monster hit. Lipa later removed his name from the credits after fans’ backlash.
However, he was invited back to the 2022 Rolling Loud Miami festival in March.
But that wasn’t the end of DaBaby’s troubles. In April, the moment he appeared to force an uninterested fan to kiss him was caught on video.
Later that month, a property manager pressed felony battery charges against the rapper, stemming from serious injuries he claimed he suffered from trying to shut down a music video at his rental property. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/dababy-show-canceled-in-new-orleans-after-fewer-than-500-tickets-sold/ | 2022-08-31T00:26:28Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/dababy-show-canceled-in-new-orleans-after-fewer-than-500-tickets-sold/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The latest answers in the “will he or won’t he?’’ debates were answered Tuesday as the Giants made their cuts to get down to the 53-player limit. For now, it is a no for quarterback Davis Webb and a yes for wide receiver Darius Slayton.
For now.
Webb was waived despite a solid showing this summer. Slayton was retained despite a training camp and preseason slowed by injury, as he seemingly did not gain much traction with the new coaching staff. Both of these decisions are subject to change, of course, as the Giants are expected to be active on the waiver wire and players who made this cut will not be around by the end of the week. This is very much the “initial’’ 53-man roster.
This is unlikely to be goodbye for Webb, who at the very least could return on the practice squad, unless another team wants to sign him to its roster.
Sometimes a player does all he can to make the team but there is no place to put him. This is what happened to Webb. Daniel Jones and Tyrod Taylor are ahead of Webb on the depth chart, though, and, given the needs elsewhere, keeping three quarterbacks on the roster seemingly is not a move the Giants want to make.
“Relative to our roster management, that’s where we went at this point,’’ coach Brian Daboll said. “I think Davis has done a really good job. We’ll see how that all unfolds.’’
This is not the first time Webb was let go by the Giants. He is a 2017 third-round draft pick and spent his rookie year on the practice squad. He did not make the team in 2018, cut in favor of Kyle Lauletta, a draft pick of a new front office regime.
Webb spent one year on the Jets’ practice squad and the past three seasons with the Bills on their practice squad. Those three years gave him a full indoctrination into Daboll’s offensive system — Daboll was the offensive coordinator in Buffalo. That familiarity showed, as Webb completed 60 of 81 passes for 458 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions in his three preseason games.
“I think with how he played in the preseason and training camp you see his comfort in the system and how well he knew it,’’ Jones said. “That was a big part of all of us picking it up and learning it and he has been huge for that process.”
Taylor was forced out of the game last Sunday with a back injury but Daboll said Taylor should be fine.
Webb, 27, has made no secret of his desire to go into coaching but he wants to extinguish his opportunities as a player before moving on.
Slayton survived this round of cuts but it is no secret the Giants would trade him away if they can locate a deal that makes sense, considering he counts $2.5 million on the salary cap and he has not made a comfortable adjustment into Daboll’s passing attack. He has been slowed with a hamstring issue and was able to get on the field for the preseason finale.
“Yeah, we’ll see,’’ Daboll said of Slayton. “We’ll see where we’re at right now. We had a good conversation with Darius about expectation and role. He’s done a good job and we’re excited to have him.
“He had that little injury that he’s fighting through it. Right before that injury for that week, Patriots week, he was doing a good job at practice where you could see his speed and he did a good job with us.’’
Slayton, 25, caught eight touchdown passes as a rookie in 2019 and had 98 receptions his first two years before a dip last season. He knows he was pushed back on the depth chart this summer and that his name has come up in trade talks.
“Time will tell,’’ Slayton said. “I’m here today, and hopefully here going forward. Obviously, I’d love to be here, to keep playing with Mr. Jones. This is a great place. This is one of the best organizations in the world as far as sports go. I’d love to be here.’’
As for possibly being dealt away, Slayton said, “If people are calling them about me, that’s them. Obviously, their job is to do what’s best for them. Like, if the Rams call them and they’re like, ‘Hey, we’ll give you Aaron Donald for Darius Slayton,’ I’d make that trade, too. They field the calls because that’s their job. I don’t take it personal, though.’’
Daboll is a first-time head coach after 21 years as an NFL assistant. This was the first time he was the first to inform players they had been cut.
“That relationship that you build when you have to tell somebody that they didn’t make it,’’ Daboll said. “That’s always, at least for me, that’s tough.’’ | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/giants-cut-davis-webb-keep-darius-slayton-for-now/ | 2022-08-31T00:26:40Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/giants-cut-davis-webb-keep-darius-slayton-for-now/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Combating Fallacious Reasoning
The logical fallacies that every college student ought to recognize.
When I was young, I was transfixed by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! As I viewed and reviewed the drawings that appeared in the newspaper, I learned about a great many jaw-dropping oddities. But of all the shocking and bizarre marvels that I encountered, one curiosity stood out: the fate of Jeremy Bentham, the pioneering reformer and utilitarian philosopher who held that the most ethical policy choice was the one that produced the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
You perhaps recall that Bentham asked that after his death his remains be preserved, dressed in his own clothes. Even today, his mummified corpse remains on display in a glass case in University College London’s student center.
Bentham’s collected works currently consist of 34 volumes out of an anticipated total of 80. Alongside his Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation and his voluminous writings on criminal justice, political economy, press freedom and sexual morality is an 1824 volume that examines the canards, fallacies, illusions, sophistries, specious arguments, tautologies, technicalities, errors in logic, erroneous beliefs, distorted reasoning, willful falsehoods, word magic and other tactics used by defenders of the status quo to block reform, perpetuate selfish interests and preserve what Bentham called “systematized corruption.”
Bentham identified some 30 fallacies, distortions and other rhetorical strategies used by obstructionists to confuse, delay and alarm the public and obviate any possibility for social betterment. All of those rhetorical stratagems sound unnervingly familiar today:
- If you attack the government’s policies, then you are attacking the nation.
- What you propose is without precedent and therefore dicey.
- Your ideas may be good in theory but will be bad in practice.
Our students, I am convinced, would benefit enormously from understanding the spurious arguments used to deceive, trick and self-justify. Examples of such arguments include:
- Special pleading, appealing for special treatment and exemption from commonly accepted rules.
- Setting up a straw man, deliberating misrepresenting an argument by extremely distorting an opponent’s position.
- Slippery slope arguments that claim that an initial act will inevitably lead to a catastrophic conclusion.
- Arguments through repetition that involve repeatedly making an assertion without adequate explanation, evidence or proof.
- Circular reasoning, a tautology or argument that assumes what it is attempting to prove.
- Appeals to motive, that is, dismissing an argument by questioning the motives of its proponents.
- Appeals to emotion, arguments that rely on emotional manipulation, including those that exploit people’s anxieties and fears, prejudices, fantasies, or desire for approval or admiration.
For all the emphasis that higher education places on critical thinking, the sad fact is that colleges and universities devote even less sustained attention to cultivating this skill than to preparing students to write well. Instead, the academy parcels out logic, rhetoric and cognitive biases to a variety of departments, including behavioral economics, English, philosophy, psychology and sociology, with the result that few undergrads ever learn systematically how to evaluate arguments artfully or to recognize the fallacies and distortions that thwart effective reasoning.
I think it’s time to follow Bentham’s example and to devote more attention to cultivating students’ capacity to reason rigorously and logically and to identify fallacies in causation, motivation, mistakes in logic and gaps in reasoning.
Let me offer an example of someone who tried to do this.
Big-game hunting is as out of fashion within the academy as it is in the wild. I can’t think of a recent example of junior scholars attempting to make their reputation by savaging a senior scholar.
But earlier in time, a devastating article or review was one pathway to professional prominence. The last (failed) example that I recall was a full-scale attack on the great Southern historian C. Vann Woodward’s argument that Reconstruction ended as a result of a clandestine compromise reached in a smoke-filled Washington, D.C., hotel room. Woodward pushed back hard, leaving the critique in the dust.
The most striking example of big-game hunting in my discipline was David Hackett Fischer’s Historians’ Fallacies. Inspired in part by Bentham’s treatise, Fischer’s 1970 book was by turns witty, irreverent, sarcastic, gleeful, brutal and ruthless. Among the 112 fallacies he identifies are those involving formulating a historical argument, substantiating a historical interpretation and drawing conclusions and generalizations.
His named perpetrators of shoddy thinking included many of the history profession’s most towering practitioners, including Henry Steele Commager, David Donald, Don E. Fehrenbacher, Oscar Handlin, Alan Heimert, Richard Hofstadter, Samuel Eliot Morison, David M. Potter and Kenneth Stampp.
Some of the fallacies that Fischer discusses are history-specific. These include:
- The fallacy of the absurd analogy, the tendency to draw comparisons that are inappropriate, like the recurrent tendency to assume that it is always 1938 and that Western foreign policy is on the verge of appeasing a foreign power.
- The telescopic fallacy, historians’ propensity to assume that a critical transformation just happens to take place in the period they are studying, rather than to regard this as a long-term development.
- The fallacy of presumptive continuity, the assumption that only social change needs to be explained while historical continuities can be taken for granted.
But other fallacies that Fischer describes can be found in virtually every discipline that studies human behavior. These include:
- The pathetic fallacy, the propensity to treat something that is abstract, like capitalism, as if it were animate.
- The fallacy of misplaced precision, in which a scholar grossly overstates the reliability, exactness or accuracy of a statistic.
- The idealist fallacy that treating human beings as if they were always rational actors.
- The fallacy of indiscriminate pluralism, in which a scholar enumerates multiple causes without examining their relative importance.
- The fallacy of post hoc, propter hoc, assuming that because one thing preceded another, the first thing caused the other.
Historians’ Fallacies charts an uneasy middle ground between formal studies of logic and rhetoric and the naïve, unsophisticated reasoning and theorizing about motivation, causation, factual significance and generalization that mar all too many history books and articles. Fischer’s volume is therefore vulnerable to the charge that it simply offers a laundry list of examples of slapdash, careless thinking,
Still, his book suggests the kind of course that many beginning college students might benefit from. Such a class would introduce students to the fallacies and misguided modes of thought that lead people into error.
A course like this would not be a substitute for more advanced classes in formal reasoning or cognitive distortions. But by introducing students to errors in reasoning, it might help many undergraduates think and write more self-critically.
What might such a course cover?
1. Fallacies of inquiry: Common research errors include availability bias (the tendency to overvalue evidence that is recent or readily accessible), confirmation bias (the propensity to overvalue evidence that reinforces preexisting beliefs) and sampling errors, selection bias and survivor bias (assuming that those people or things that are sampled are representative of a more comprehensive population or consciously or unconsciously cherry-picking evidence).
2. Fallacies of reasoning: Errors in logic include attribution bias (the tendency to misattribute human behavior to character traits rather than to situational, structural or contextual factors); spurious correlation (relationships that appear causal but are in fact due to chance or a confounding variable); and intentionality fallacy (concluding that the value or meaning of a work or action reveals an actor or creator’s motives).
3. Fallacies of explanation: Flawed accounts of causation, context and consequences include anthropomorphism or reification (assigning human-like traits to a nonhuman entity or abstract concept); bias blind spots (the tendency to ignore the way that prejudice and partiality can influence perception); cognitive dissonance (consciously or unconsciously justifying an earlier attitude or assumption and rejecting or downplaying contradictory evidence); framing effects (in which people’s choices are shaped by the way a question is framed or the options that they are offered); and the genetic fallacy that an idea or concepts origins defines its current meaning
4. Fallacies of generalization: Faulty conclusions might be a product of the following: a false dilemma or dichotomy that artificially limits the available options; the ecological fallacy of ascribing certain characteristics to an individual based on a group’s characteristics; or inductive fallacies, conclusions that are drawn from limited, unrepresentative or biased evidence or that are excessively sweeping.
Scholarship in the humanities and social sciences is an interpretive, question-asking, problem-solving enterprise. It is not simply descriptive or expository. We need to do a better job, I think, in teaching students how to:
- Read closely. Mortimer J. Adler’s 1940 volume, How to Read a Book, offers four strategies that I still find useful: the elementary (simply reading the book from beginning to end to familiarize yourself with its contents), the inspectional (focusing on the preface, the table of contents, the conclusion and the topic sentences to understand the book’s basic argument and organizational structure), the analytical (to grasp the larger theoretical or conceptual problem that the work is addressing and its methodology and evidence base) and the synoptic (critically comparing one work against others on the same topic).
- Formulate meaningful research questions. The first step is to enter into a scholarly conversation. That requires a student to grasp existing interpretations and debates and to identify things that are problematic in the previous scholarship. These might include questions, evidence, case studies or points of view that haven’t been adequate considered. A meaningful research question must be researchable and feasible. It might be interpretive, argumentative, predictive, evaluative or comparative, but it must be clear and nuanced and go beyond mere description. Such questions inevitably grew more refined as one researches a topic.
- Frame and substantiate an argument or interpretation. This requires a student to advance a hypothesis, thesis, argument or interpretation that is specific, relevant and arguable, but that isn’t simplistic or merely commonsense or opinion that can’t be corroborated with evidence and argumentation. Then, typically, the student must review the existing literature, define key terms, adopt and explain an appropriate methodology and conceptual framework, weigh, analyze and interpret evidence and consider counterarguments and opposing points of view.
- Conclude an argument or interpretation with a bang. An effective conclusion doesn’t simply recap, restate or summarize. It offers provocative insights that go beyond the paper’s earlier arguments and interpretation. It teases out the research’s implications and extracts lessons or generalizations. Much as effective essays typically begin with a punch, a lead that captures a reader’s attention (for example, with a provocative anecdote, quotation or statistic, a snappy metaphor or analogy or a reference to an anniversary), they close with a kicker, a punchy, memorable ending.
Jeremy Bentham may have died in 1832, but just as his mummified corpse endures, so should his ideas about the fallacies and distortions that impair thinking and warp arguments.
Every business or craft has its trade secrets, classified information, proprietary knowledge and secret formulas. But the academy should not be like that. Instructors need to ensure that every student acquires a command of the strategies that professional scholars use to read closely and critically, think rigorously, research meticulously and write persuasively.
Don’t assume that students pick up those skills by osmosis. Make sure your students acquire the toolkit that is essential to academic success.
Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.
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What’s Next After Loan Forgiveness
The field is now open for a more sensible conversation about how we finance and organize higher ed going forward.
In the aftermath of President Biden’s action on reducing the student loan debts of millions of Americans, like a lot of others, I’ve been wondering, what’s next?
At this point, the question as to whether or not our debt-financed system of individuals financing their educations makes any sense is all over but the shoutin’.
That shoutin’ is coming from those on the right who are demonizing the action for political purposes (often looking foolish in the process), along with folks like Obama administration economist Jason Furman and other centrists who want to argue that the aid is not well targeted to people who need it, blah blah blah, and of course someone is going to find a way to take it to a partisan Supreme Court, which won’t have a problem finding a rationale to strike it down should it want to.
Putting aside that Sturm und Drang, something important has been made clear in this process: a system that requires individuals to take on debt for a benefit that is not going to materialize is fundamentally unfair. I’ve always thought that the most persuasive rhetorical position on the issue was that it is important for the country to hold up its end of the bargain when it comes to its promises. As I said in a previous blog post,
We the people struck a bargain: if you work hard and get an education, whatever that education cost, you will be paid back in increased economic prosperity. For a couple of generations now, that deal has not been in place. Education has become a form of what Tressie McMillan Cottom calls “negative social insurance.” Rather than being a ladder up, for many it has become an anchor holding them down. The high cost to individuals as documented by Sara Goldrick-Rab has resulted in even worse cascading effects for students who could not persist in their studies not because they couldn’t hack it academically, but because they simply could not afford it.
Canceling the debt is a way of saying we screwed up, that we thought this would work, but it didn’t. Our bad.
As Beth Popp Berman argues, the Biden administration action shows that the dominant economic style of thinking was actually sidelined here in favor of an explicit acknowledgment that people had gotten a raw deal. This acknowledgment has much larger implications. Berman again: “The idea that we can more fairly finance higher education by encouraging people to become better investors in their human capital has failed.”
It actually failed a while back, but now, even some economists are recognizing the limits of their previous framework, as seen in a New York Times op-ed by Harvard economist and professor of education Susan Dynarski. Dynarski states up front that her thinking on canceling student loan debt changed explicitly because the bargain that students thought they were signing up for didn’t exist.
Using a framing that I employed a blog post here in 2016 (cough, cough) Dynarski shows how the cost of a year’s tuition at UMass-Boston in the 1970s could be paid for with 375 hours of minimum-wage work. Today, even though Massachusetts has one of the highest minimum wages in the country ($14.25), it would take 1,100 hours of work to fund the cost of a year’s tuition and fees.
(It’s actually much worse in my home state of Illinois for those who want to attend my alma mater, the University of Illinois.)
It is a big deal that Ivy League faculty are now talking about this issue on these terms.
Still, what’s next? We haven’t addressed the underlying problem of college costs, and without doing that, we’re looking at either never-ending cycles of debt acquisition and forgiveness or simply immiserating the next generation with debt.
There are a number of proposals around limiting the interest on student loans or changing the terms for public service loan forgiveness, but as to the latter, Ryan Cooper points out that this may create a situation where institutions are incentivized to jack up tuition in order to realize more revenue, knowing (or hoping) that students will ultimately be let off the hook. To prevent this, he suggests some kind of price controls on tuition for institutions that accept students who receive loans, which is almost every institution.
But as Cooper also notes, there is a shorter route to the goal of making higher ed affordable without burdening successive generations with unpayable debt or requiring elaborate bureaucratic structures to police and manage. As he says, “It would be better and simpler to pay tuition for public schools directly out of tax revenue.” This would also have the benefit of being cheaper and more efficient than the current kludged-together system.
Nathan Tarkus debunks the idea that this is a giveaway to individuals. The system as it has been operating is really a way for students to be given access to credit by the government, money which is immediately turned over to the schools. He argues, “Even what does not go to the school is, in a larger sense, a subsidy to higher education. That’s because those students need to cover their basic living expenses, in order to be able to continue attending school” (emphasis in original).
Tarkus argues that the institutions have income, while students are left with debt, and “If this were simply a direct subsidy paid out to schools for providing students education, everything would be the same—except the student would not have debt, and this transaction would be officially booked as government spending. However, the school’s income would be exactly the same.”
Given that the lion’s share of revenue at public institutions now comes from student tuition, and that the human-capital theory of taking on debt for an education credential has been utterly exploded, what is the remaining rationale for not moving toward a direct subsidy of public institutions in order to make them at least affordable, if not free?
None that I can see.
While there are a lot of moving parts to making this happen, it likely looks something like a federal subsidy that requires certain levels of state contributions to institutions for eligibility. There are all kinds of mechanisms—such as requiring a certain number of in-state students—that will make states funding their own institutions more attractive.
What’s next is showing not only that the way we finance higher education doesn’t make any sense, but that the way we finance higher education creates a fundamental disconnect between institutions and mission.
There’s a quote I often share from Carol Christ, now chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, who said in 2016, “Colleges and universities are fundamentally in the business of enrolling students for tuition dollars.”
The “sham” of merit aid, explained recently by Kevin Carey at Slate, shows how the chase for revenue privileges the students who can most afford college and leaves many students indebted at the maximum possible level.
Students who must take on debt to attend are put at an educational disadvantage to their peers, requiring them to divide their attention between work and their studies in order to mitigate the amount of debt.
Human-capital theory turns higher education into a great sorting mechanism where the rich get to start at the midpoint of the race. It turns out that lots of people are now recognizing that this doesn’t make any sense.
That’s what we should be talking about next.
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3 Questions for CU Boulder on Growing Application-Free, Performance-Based Degrees
A conversation with Robert McDonald, professor, dean of the university libraries and senior vice provost of online education.
Three years ago, CU Boulder announced its first performance-based degree on Coursera, a master of science in electrical engineering (M.S.-E.E.). This degree removed applications entirely. Any students who maintain a B average in a series of gateway courses are automatically admitted.
My friend Quentin McAndrew, current academic strategist at Coursera and former assistant vice provost at CU Boulder, who helped archetype the degree, says, “When we were creating the program, ‘Why?’ became our mantra. Why does the admissions process have to work the way it does? Why can’t we reimagine it to truly test students’ ability to complete the work of the degree? That constant questioning led us to create a program that is truly open and accessible while still being rigorous and scalable.”
Over the last year, the university saw the number of students in its M.S.-E.E. program grow by 30 percent, so I chatted with Robert H. McDonald, CU Boulder’s senior vice provost of online education, to hear more about how they’ve done it and what they’ve learned.
Q: CU Boulder was an early innovator of the application-free admissions movement. Now, the trend is gaining traction with other colleges, like West Texas A&M University and West Virginia’s Davis & Elkins College. What lessons have you learned about how to make a performance pathway work for students while still delivering the high-quality content CU Boulder is known for? Have you seen this admissions process increase diversity in your degree programs?
A: In a traditional master’s program, students go through a rigorous application process that usually requires transcripts, an application essay and letters of reference. Those who are accepted can wait up to a year for classes to begin, and fees are paid up front and may not be fully recoverable if things do not go well. Such a system favors those with resources such as money and time and discourages those who do not fit into the traditional profile of a master’s degree candidate—working professionals, caregivers, those who need to jump-start their careers immediately and those from financially disadvantaged backgrounds. Much like the programs that you mentioned, our performance-based pathways for our master’s programs seek to include more students who can qualify for admissions but aim to eliminate the fear of rejection and the typical single annual admissions point for those who need our master’s-level degree programs.
We’ve learned—and continue to learn—so much about making graduate degree programs available to broader audiences since we first launched performance pathways in 2019. Our performance pathways open up opportunities for more people to benefit from our degree offerings. We offer our courses six times a year in eight-week terms, so students can begin when their schedule permits. They can try out courses and only pay the full fee towards the degree after they know that they can pass. Moreover, every pathway course has an associated noncredit version that allows students to test their readiness for the degree content. Student progress in the noncredit version automatically transfers to the for-credit version once the student pays tuition and registers for the course. This means students can test their readiness in a low-stakes environment and then apply successful progress to the degree program when they’re ready through our stackable courses.
We are also excited to iterate our degree experience based on what we’ve learned so far from student behavior and success. We recognize that many of our prospective students are new to the field or are changing careers, so we have created prep courses to help our students master the foundational skills before taking their degree courses. Students who are unsure of their readiness can now take prep courses and feel more confident about taking the performance-pathway courses. This allows us to bring in students from more diverse backgrounds, such as those without technical training.
We remain committed to our goal of providing the highest-level curriculum to a broad audience that traditionally doesn’t have access to a CU Boulder credential or a residential experience. We have seen that providing noncredit versions of the pathways, prep courses and multiple enrollment terms benefits students not just within the U.S. but globally. According to student-reported data, the master of science in data science program enrolled students from 89 countries in its first year of operation, while the master of science in electrical engineering has enrolled students from 94 countries since the degree launched in 2019. We are proud that our innovations in online education are creating opportunities globally.
Mattison Hineline, a student living in Malaga, Spain, said she values the opportunity the program is providing for her to make a career change. As someone without programming experience, she appreciates the support she gets from the student online community via Slack.
“This degree is the best option for those who come from nontechnical backgrounds and who want to learn on their own schedule,” Hineline said.
Q: Tell me about how faculty helped create CU Boulder’s online degrees on Coursera from the bottom up. What did this look like in practice—from curriculum design to prioritizing hands-on learning? How did having open courses, or MOOCS, already created on Coursera impact the process?
A: All of our courses are designed by CU Boulder faculty, who are responsible for the course content, assessments and grading rubrics, and our courses present the same curriculum as the on-campus degree versions. We provide learning experience designers (LXDs) and student assistants to support our faculty as they design courses that can be scaled. Our LXDs help faculty think about translating courses from on-campus residential to an online, asynchronous course experience. The LXDs also work with faculty to implement the learning and assessment strategies that best fit their teaching style and student outcomes so that we can build courses according to the instructors’ strengths. We believe this attention to high-level curriculum, teaching strengths and intentional design ensures that students have an optimal experience through both their individual courses and the full degree program.
Nearly all of our for-credit courses are presented in a parallel open version, which allows us to reach larger audiences but also requires us to think about how to reach audiences that we do not regularly connect with. This means building courses that are clearly delivered—both in terms of content delivery and curriculum flow—and that provide students a meaningful experience, all while teaching a rigorous master’s-level curriculum. We also have a catalog of noncredit courses not associated with our degree programs that are built by faculty from across the university. Our goal is to capture the individual teaching style and unique student outcomes in every open course. Our suite of open courses and experience-building courses from domains across campus has given us the experience we need to build learning experiences that implement new tools and novel teaching approaches, both of which inform our approach to curriculum development in our for-credit courses.
Q: Last time we talked, you had one online degree. Now, you have three online degrees with “performance-based” admissions and four stackable graduate certificates. It’s incredible growth. Is it easier or faster to grow online programs once you have one program launched? What tools and strategies have you implemented to keep tuition affordable while still setting students up for success?
A: We’re thrilled with the growth we’ve seen because it reflects our university’s commitment to reaching nontraditional audiences who are not able to come to our campus for a residential experience. Our first degree on the Coursera platform, the M.S.-E.E., was revolutionary and required both a new way of thinking about degrees and a new way to deliver those degrees in terms of student experience and administrative processes. Our goal was to scale a top-ranked engineering degree so that we meet the widest possible audience. To do this, we had to scale our enrollment services through an automated enrollment and tuition payment system. We could not have done this without an incredible group of thought leaders and innovators from the electrical engineering department, the registrar’s office, the bursar’s office, the Graduate School, the Office of Information Technology, University Information Systems, and our online innovation office, which is now known as the Office of Academic and Learning Innovation. These constituents were willing to change and modify existing systems and work to build a new experience from the ground up for our students in those programs.
We’ve learned a lot since then, and we have expert operational and visionary teams composed of staff and faculty from the offices referenced above who are able to implement new degrees using many of the systems and processes we developed for the M.S.-E.E. At the same time, we want our degree experiences to reflect the unique needs of the subject matter of those degrees. With every new degree we’ve launched, we’ve incorporated new curricula, which require us to modify some of our automated systems. When we built our initial M.S.-E.E. program, we knew that we wanted to be able to add new degrees and this openness to innovation helped us develop a standard model for those programs wanting to deliver an online degree program on the Coursera platform and the flexibility to add their own requirements. We have been able to meet those challenges because of the foundational work we’ve done prior to the launch of the M.S.-E.E. degree and the cross-collaboration that we have enabled with our campus administrative and academic units.
We now employ an automated system to integrate new students into our student management system, collect tuition at the point of purchase, and enroll students in four graduate certificates and three degree programs, all of which have their own specific requirements. We’re proud of the work of our support teams and support of our campus leadership, both of which were necessary to build the robust but flexible automated system that serves students throughout the life cycle of their degree experience.
Sriram Sankaranarayanan, professor of computer science, explains how we do this within the course experience: “In order to set up students for success, we have course facilitators who conduct regular office hours and pass on issues faced by the students to the instructor at regular intervals. Their feedback has helped the instructors fix issues in a timely manner. Another strategy has been to design programming assignments that allow students to solve challenging problems but also get near-instantaneous feedback through test cases and hints. The use of Jupyter notebooks has been particularly helpful in this context since it allows us to incorporate descriptive text and useful pre-programmed functionality that students find helpful. Furthermore, the structure of the notebooks helps students build up solutions incrementally through smaller steps that add up to solving a challenging problem.”
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Citing her experiences as a Providence public school parent and former student, mayoral candidate Nirva LaFortune pitched a new education plan Tuesday that includes a teacher academy, expanding pre-K and removing police officers from schools.
“For too long, we have allowed politics to take priority over our children,” LaFortune, a city councilwoman who represents Ward 3 on the East Side of Providence, said in a news conference outside George J. West Elementary School.
The six-page plan she released pitches a teacher residency program starting at Mount Pleasant High School, which she said has an “underfunded” teacher academy now. The proposed program would partner with Rhode Island College to train and support teachers in light of the ongoing teacher shortage.
On the first day of school Monday, Target 12 reported 101 classrooms were not staffed with a certified, full-time teacher, and 162 total teaching positions remained vacant. (The vacant classrooms will be covered by substitutes.)
LaFortune also proposed partnering with banks and major nonprofits to offer a forgivable loan or home down payment program that would incentivize teachers to live in Providence. She noted that one of her daughter’s teachers at Nathan Bishop Middle School lives in their neighborhood.
“One of the things that I love seeing is when she sees him walking with his children and his family down the street, and she knows that her teacher is part of our community and he understands the community that he serves,” LaFortune said.
LaFortune is running against Gonzalo Cuervo and Brett Smiley in the Sept. 13 Democratic primary for mayor. The primary winner will be the only candidate on the ballot in the general election.
In a mayoral forum on Monday night hosted by the Jewish Alliance of Rhode Island and moderated by a 12 News reporter, the candidates were asked how they would tackle the teacher shortage.
“I’ve heard from so many teachers in the last six months who tell me the joy has been sucked out of the job,” Smiley said. He said Providence should provide for stability and continuity for teachers, rather than constantly changing the plan for how to improve the district.
Cuervo said he worked as a substitute teacher briefly last year, calling it an “eye-opening experience” where he saw low morale among teachers.
“There’s so much acrimony, and so much anger and so much finger-pointing” amid the state takeover of the school system, Cuervo said. He said the district should provide consistency and adequate pay to teachers, and also proposed a homebuyer assistance program for teachers.
LaFortune’s new education plan also proposes accelerating school construction projects and offering a chance for older students to make money while helping with repairs in their schools. She would also propose to create an apprenticeship program for students to start careers after high school.
Calling the state takeover “disastrous,” LaFortune wants to return the schools to local control, but she has not proposed a specific timeline to do so. Her plan says she would “conduct an assessment” and create a plan to transition the schools back to the city.
“It is time to elect a parent, not a politician, to help get our children’s futures back on track as
they head back to school,” LaFortune said.
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Philly backpedals on Harriet Tubman statue plans
The city is reversing course on its plans for a permanent Harriet Tubman statue after facing backlash for commissioning the work from a white artist without providing an opportunity for artists of color to be considered.
What's happening: Mayor Jim Kenney and the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy announced in a statement Tuesday that the city will now hold an open call for artists for a statue that celebrates Tubman's history "or another African American's contribution to our nation's history."
Catch up fast: A statue of Harriet Tubman by artist Wesley Wofford sat outside City Hall for nearly three months earlier this year as part of a temporary exhibit celebrating the abolitionist's 200th birthday.
- In March, before the artwork left town for the next leg of its tour, the city announced it had commissioned Wofford to create a permanent statue in Tubman's honor.
- Shortly after, Black artists and community members criticized the closed selection process.
- In mid-August, seven City Council members wrote to the Creative Economy Office about the plan for the statue, saying "taxpayer dollars towards Philadelphia's public art should be prioritized with Philadelphia artists," per the Inquirer.
What's ahead: The call for artists will open before year's end, the city says, and an artist and design selected by fall 2023.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Drug Enforcement Administration issued a warning Tuesday about brightly colored fentanyl pills being distributed across the country.
So-called “rainbow fentanyl” mimics other illicit pills but are made to look like candy and appeal to young people, DEA representatives said in a news release.
Drug cartels are manufacturing Illicit fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid that is 50-to-100 times more potent than morphine, and combining it with other drugs. Just a few grains are deadly.
Last year, the DEA launched its “One pill can kill” campaign as a warning. The pills are often blue and have “M” and “30” stamped on them. The rainbow pills have the same markings but are in different colors.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stats released in May show that there were an estimated 107,622 drug overdose deaths in 2021 – a jump of almost 15% from 2020, which was 30% higher than the year before that.
“Rainbow fentanyl — fentanyl pills and powder that come in a variety of bright colors, shapes, and sizes — is a deliberate effort by drug traffickers to drive addiction amongst kids and young adults,” DEA administrator Anne Milgram said in a statement. “The men and women of the DEA are relentlessly working to stop the trafficking of rainbow fentanyl and defeat the Mexican drug cartels that are responsible for the vast majority of the fentanyl that is being trafficked in the United States.”
Some of the product is manufactured in clandestine labs in Mexico. Others are pressed right here in the U.S., officials said.
Authorities in several states are warning of the deadly drug. The Department of Justice announced last week that task force officers seized a large batch of the colorful pills during a bust in Morgantown, West Virginia. In Oregon, officials with the the U.S. Attorney’s Office urged residents to beware of the potentially lethal pills.
In recent months, DEA agents have also pulled thousands of suspected fentanyl pills off Las Vegas valley streets.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA will try again Saturday to launch its new moon rocket on a test flight, after engine trouble halted the first countdown this week.
Managers said Tuesday they are changing fueling procedures to deal with the issue. A bad sensor also could be to blame for Monday’s scrapped launch, they noted.
The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket — the most powerful ever built by NASA — remains on its pad at Kennedy Space Center with an empty crew capsule on top.
The Space Launch System rocket will attempt to send the capsule around the moon and back. No one will be aboard, just three test dummies. If successful, it will be the first capsule to fly to the moon since NASA’s Apollo program 50 years ago.
Proceeding toward a Saturday launch will provide additional insight, even if the problem reappears and the countdown is halted again, said NASA’s rocket program manager, John Honeycutt. That’s better “than us sitting around scratching our heads, was it good enough or not.”
“Based on what I’ve heard from the technical team today, what we need to do is continue to pore over the data and polish up our plan on putting the flight rationale together,” he said.
During Monday’s launch attempt, readings showed that one of the four main engines in the rocket’s core stage could not be chilled sufficiently prior to the planned ignition at liftoff. It appeared to be as much as 40 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) warmer than the desired minus-420 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-250 degrees Celsius), the temperature of the hydrogen fuel, according to Honeycutt. The three other engines came up just a little short.
All of the engines appear to be fine, according to Honeycutt.
The chilling operation will be conducted a half-hour earlier for Saturday afternoon’s launch attempt, once fueling begins that morning. Honeycutt said the timing of this engine chilldown was earlier during successful testing last year, and so performing it sooner may do the trick.
Honeycutt also questioned the integrity of one engine sensor, saying it might have provided inaccurate data Monday. To change that sensor, he noted, would mean hauling the rocket back into the hangar, resulting in weeks of delay.
Already years behind schedule, the $4.1 billion test flight is the opening shot in NASA’s Artemis moon-exploration program, named after the twin sister of Apollo in Greek mythology. Astronauts could strap in as soon as 2024 for a lap around the moon and actually attempt a lunar landing in 2025. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/take-2-nasa-aims-for-saturday-launch-of-new-moon-rocket/ | 2022-08-31T00:31:23Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/take-2-nasa-aims-for-saturday-launch-of-new-moon-rocket/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
We had better than expected data from Japan on industrial output and also retail sales.
While correlation is not causation (especially for Japanese data releases!) my headline to the post has tenuously linked the wee bid creeping to yen with the data. Probably a foolish thing to do!
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Before President Joe Biden concluded a visit to South Korea on Sunday, he offered a brief message to the nuclear-armed dictator to the north, who US officials believe could be preparing for a provocation during the US leader's visit to Asia.
"Hello," Biden said when asked his message for Kim Jong Un. "Period."
The succinct greeting reflected the Biden administration's so-far-unsuccessful attempts at restarting diplomacy with Pyongyang. Attempts at outreach to the North have gone mostly unanswered. Instead, Kim has intensified missile launches and could be preparing for a seventh underground nuclear test.
Biden, who touched down in Tokyo early Sunday evening, said he was prepared for such contingencies to occur during his first trip to Asia.
"We are prepared for anything North Korea does. We've had — thought through how we're going to respond to whatever they do. And so I'm not concerned," Biden said.
He was speaking before visiting with some of the nearly 30,000 American service members stationed here as a last stop on his visit to South Korea.
The Americans deployed on the Korean Peninsula have long acted as a signal of US military strength in a region made anxious by the nuclear-armed nation to the north. Increasingly, they also act as a reminder of Western muscle in a region heavily influenced by China.
Biden observed a joint airspace control center where members of the US and South Korean militaries work alongside each other to monitor airspace made tense by North Korea's intensifying missile tests.
"Our alliance is formed through shared sacrifices of the Korean War and several decades later thanks to you the Republic of Korea is a strong thriving democracy," Biden told the group, standing near a large screen showing images of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Biden opted not to visit the DMZ on his visit, unlike his predecessors, because he wanted to see US servicemembers at their base.
"All the American troops that are here and your families, thank you for what you do for our country and our allies," he said. Later, he joined a group of military families for ice cream.
Earlier in the day, the President met with Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun in Seoul, where he highlighted $11 billion in new investments from the Korean automaker, including $5.5 billion to open a new electric vehicle factory in Savannah, Georgia.
One of Biden's primary objectives in visiting Asia this week has been to reaffirm his commitment to two key alliances while also seeking ways to further expand cooperation. He'll depart South Korea for Japan later in the day, bringing with him a similar message of reassurance that America's longtime ally in the Pacific can depend on the United States as a reliable security and economic partner.
A day earlier, Biden and his South Korean counterpart, President Yoon Suk Yeol, wrote in a joint statement they were open to expanding joint military drills that Biden's predecessor scaled back, believing them too costly and provocative. Biden said cooperation between the two countries demonstrated "our readiness to take on all threats together."
The expanded military exercises will be aimed at ensuring "what it takes to best ensure military readiness and best ensure our ability to work closely together," a senior administration official said Sunday, though declined to offer a timeline or guidance on the scope of the expanded drills.
"Mr. President, your country's democracy shows the power to be able to deliver for its people," Biden told Yoon during a toast at the start of a state dinner on Saturday evening. "We're proud to say, the generals with me today can say as well, that our armed forces stand side by side, standing on a peninsula for seven decades to preserve the peace and make possible that shared prosperity."
He was likely to take a similar message to Japan, which also hosts a sizable population of American service members and maintains a mutual defense treaty with the United States. Increased provocations from North Korea and territorial grabs by China have caused deep concern in the country, which has looked to the US for assurances about its security.
Biden is expected to call on Emperor Naruhito at his imperial palace before meeting Monday with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who took office last fall. Later, he'll unveil the outlines of a trade plan for Asia that officials hope can generate wide support. And he'll conclude his visit with a summit of the Quad collective — comprised of the United States, Japan, India and Australia — that is widely seen as an attempt to counter China's military and economic ambitions.
Biden has sought on his trip to link the parallel sets of economic and security issues that have emerged in his discussions with leaders. His trade outline, viewed as a scaled-down alternative to the Trans Pacific Partnership trade pact scrapped by his predecessor, is expected to place heavy emphasis on resilient supply chains decoupled from Chinese parts — a message he conveyed at multiple points in Seoul.
Among the other myriad issues he hopes to raise — which include regional security, trade, the Covid pandemic and the Ukraine war — is the question of improving ties between the two countries he is visiting this week. Relations between Japan and South Korea have worsened over recent years, a combination of long-simmering historical resentments and more recent trade actions.
Biden told reporters in Seoul on Saturday "it's critically important" the US, South Korea and Japan have a "very close trilateral relationship."
He said the current state of the world, where autocratic regimes like China and Russia have challenged democratic norms, demands the rest of the world stick together, despite lingering differences.
"Things have changed," Biden said during his news conference. "There's a sense among the democracies in the Pacific that there's a need to cooperate much more closely, not just militarily but also economically and politically."
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Safaricom has begun providing 2G, 3G, and 4G network services in Ethiopia—four months later than it was expected to.
In May 2021, it led a group of international network providers—Vodafone, Vodacom, CDC Group Plc, and Sumitomo Corp—to secure an $850 million licence to operate in the country.
It was set to launch in April but didn’t, for undisclosed reasons.
Gradual launch
Now, Safaricom has decided to launch its operations in the country intermittently, starting with Dire Dawa. The Ethiopian town’s residents can now purchase Safaricom SIM cards from Kezira, Meskelegna, and Cornell areas, and have access to Safaricom’s 2G, 3G, and 4G coverage.
Customers will be able to make domestic and international calls on the state-owned Ethio Telecom network, and customer service will be available to them in Amharic, English, Afaan Oromo, and Ag-Somali languages.
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7-Day Weather Forecast for Clarion County
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Today – Showers and thunderstorms before 4pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 4pm and 5pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. High near 76. Southwest wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Tonight – A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Patchy fog before 2am, then patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 58. Southwest wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday – Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 77. West wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
Wednesday Night – Mostly clear, with a low around 54. West wind 3 to 6 mph.
Thursday – Sunny, with a high near 76. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning.
Thursday Night – Mostly clear, with a low around 46.
Friday – Sunny, with a high near 81.
Friday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 57.
Saturday – Mostly sunny, with a high near 85.
Saturday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 59.
Sunday – Mostly sunny, with a high near 81.
Sunday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 56.
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AAA: Gas Prices Continue to Fall in Pa.
CLARION CO., Pa. (EYT) – Gas prices are seven cents lower in Western Pennsylvania this week at $4.189 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report.
This week’s average prices: Western Pennsylvania Average $4.189
Average price during the week of August 22, 2022, $4.254
Average price during the week of August 30, 2021, $3.323
As of Tuesday, August 30, Clarion County drivers are paying an average of $4.19 a gallon for regular unleaded gasoline. In Venango County, the standard price is $4.23. Forest County drivers are paying an average of $4.28 a gallon. The average in Jefferson County is $3.99.
The average price of unleaded self-serve gasoline in various areas on Monday, August 29:
$4.174 Altoona
$4.223 Beaver
$4.240 Bradford
$4.009 Brookville
$4.237 Butler
$4.216 Clarion
$4.079 DuBois
$4.194 Erie
$4.161 Greensburg
$4.194 Indiana
$4.125 Jeannette
$4.223 Kittanning
$4.215 Latrobe
$4.237 Meadville
$4.267 Mercer
$4.192 New Castle
$4.140 New Kensington
$4.239 Oil City
$4.185 Pittsburgh
$4.208 Sharon
$4.271 Uniontown
$4.237 Warren
$4.091 Washington
Trend Analysis:
The national average for a gallon of gas fell a nickel this past week to $3.85. Even though crude oil prices increased slightly over the past week, lower domestic demand for gasoline is keeping gas prices lower. Today’s national average is $1.16 less than the record set in mid-June and 71 cents more than a year ago.
According to new data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), gas demand decreased from 9.35 million barrels per day to 8.43 million barrels per day last week. This rate is 920,000 barrels per day lower than last year. Moreover, according to EIA, total domestic gasoline stocks remained almost unchanged week over week. With gas demand down and supplies unchanged, prices at the pump continue to fall. This steady daily decrease, now in its 74th consecutive day, is the longest streak since October 11, 2018 when the national average price of gas fell for 85 consecutive days.
Motorists can find current gas prices nationwide, statewide, and countywide at GasPrices.AAA.com.
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Burrows and Kaye Save the Day for Hobbled Keystone in Hard-Fought 3-0 Volleyball Sweep of Franklin
KNOX, Pa. (EYT/D9) — Players in walking boots and ankle braces.
Another with her elbow and back wrapped.
The preseason has been rough for the Keystone volleyball team.
(Above, Audrey Borrows, left, and Kennedy Kaye of Keystone.)
A rash of injuries has already tested the Panthers’ depth.
On Monday night in the season opener against Franklin, Keystone’s experienced roster paid some early dividends in a 25-21, 25-22, 25-23 sweep of the Knights.
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“Luckily we have some pretty good players we can throw in there,” said Keystone coach Bryan Mong. “They make the job tough because I have to decide who’s who.”
With senior Sydney Bell and Emma Plummer hobbled by ankle injuries suffered within two days of each other during the final week of camp, the Panthers were in need of some players to fill the void.
Several filled in admirably.
Audrey Burrows, a junior, had four key kills in the sweep. She also played a solid middle.
“Audrey is an ice-in-the-veins kind of girl,” Mong said. “Nothing seems to rattle her. She stays at one level of calmness and it helps her when she’s out there on the court in tough situations.”
Senior Reagan Mays also came up big with nine service points, two aces, eight digs, and 13 assists and senior Karley Callander had three aces.
“It was a good way to start and it’d be nice to build off that momentum,” Mong said. “We have some injuries and a week off. Hopefully, we can get healed up and we can come back and build off of this.”
The usual subjects also shined for Keystone.
Senior outside hitter Leah Exley led the way with a team-high 10 kills and four aces; Senior middle Natalie Bowser added six kills, three blocks, five assists, six digs, and an ace.
Senior libero Kennedy Kaye had 28 digs while playing with a balky lower back that has bothered her all camp, as well as a sore right elbow to boot.
“It was definitely a change in our starting six will all the injuries,” Kaye said. “But you have to adapt. You have to keep going. I mean, we’re all a team and anyone can play anywhere. We need to trust each other.”
Even though her back was hurting — she had it wrapped during in the third set and finished off the match gingerly— Kaye didn’t want to come off the court.
“It needs adjusted,” Kaye said, smiling. “I took a dive out there and kind of twisted it the wrong way.”
“That back bites her every once in awhile,” Mong said. “I ask her, ‘You want to come out?’ She always says no. She’s a tough kid and she’s just going to keep playing through it. She puts a lot of abuse on her body at that position.”
It was a hard-fought sweep for Keystone.
The Panthers jumped out to a 7-1 lead in the first set before Franklin eventually closed to 14-13 after a kill by senior outside hitter Sydni Hoobler, who had eight in the match.
Keystone went on another run to push the lead back to 19-13 and cruised to the 25-21 win.
The second set was more of the same. After trading points in the first part of the set, the Panthers went on another pivotal spurt to lead 20-15 on the way to a 25-22 win in the set No. 2.
Franklin finally got its first lead of the match in the third set and was up 15-9 at one point before Keystone stormed back. The Panthers’ first lead of that set came at 18-17 following an ace by Exley.
Bowser closed out the match with a kill and a 25-23 third-set triumph.
Despite the loss, Franklin coach Matt Jones was pleased with how his team played against the defending District 9 Class 2A champions.
“We knew we were up against a good team and we played even with them a lot,” Jones said. “We just had little stretches, like right at the beginning of the first game and right in the middle of the third game, where we struggled a little bit. But we did some good stuff tonight.”
Franklin also had its problems on serve-receive at times.
Part of the reason for that is the strength of Keystone’s servers.
The Panthers had 10 aces in the match.
“They have some power servers,” Jones said. “We were on our heels a little bit trying to pass. We played them pretty tough. We’re a little disappointed because we thought we could come out with maybe a set or two. One thing happens differently here or there and maybe we win 25-23 in a couple of them.”
Franklin libero Gabby LaJeunesse had a big night with 35 digs.
“We started out strong serving, but in the third game we had a little bit of trouble,” Mong said. “We’ve worked a lot on placement and they have a great libero. I was telling them, ‘We need to get it to the left or the right; she’s putting them up.’
“We played summer league (with Franklin) and I’ve seen improvement from them just from summer until now,” Mong added. “Hats off to them.”
Keystone will face off against rival Redbank Valley at home on September 6.
Those two teams have played each other in the D9 final in each of the last two seasons. Redbank won two years ago; Keystone last season.
“We have to focus hard in practice,” Kaye said. “Redbank is a big rival. We know we’re good. We just have to trust each other and work together.”
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Clarion County Photo of the Day
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Clarion County Recipe of the Day: Multi-Cooker Smoked Paprika Chicken
Enjoy the richness of this seasoned sauce!
Ingredients
1 medium onion, chopped
4 bone-in chicken breast halves (3 pounds)
1 cup chicken broth
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 to 2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon smoked paprika
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
Dash hot pepper sauce
1 cup sour cream
Directions
-Add onion to the inner pot of a large multi-cooker; top with chicken. In a small bowl, combine flour and broth until smooth. Whisk in tomato paste, garlic, paprika, salt, thyme, and hot pepper sauce. Pour over the chicken. Lock pressure lid. Press pressure function; select poultry setting. Set to medium cook time (30 minutes). Start.
-Quick-release pressure. Remove chicken. Stir sour cream into cooking juices; remove and keep warm. Wipe the inner pot clean.
-Place chicken on a wire rack with handles; lower it into the inner pot. Cover with an air-frying lid. Press the air fry function; select poultry setting. Press timer; set to short cook time (25 minutes). Cook until lightly browned. Serve chicken with reserved sauce.
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Clarion Man Charged With Choking 9-Year-Old Boy, Smacking Him on Back of Head Due in Court Today
CLARION CO., Pa. (EYT) – A hearing for a Clarion man who was charged with choking a nine-year-old boy and smacking him on the back of his head is due in court on Tuesday afternoon.
According to court documents, a preliminary hearing for 44-year-old Robert L. Stevenson is scheduled for Tuesday, August 30, at 1:30 p.m. with Magisterial District Judge Timothy P. Schill presiding.
He faces the following charges:
– Strangulation – Applying Pressure to Throat or Neck, Felony 2
– Simple Assault, Misdemeanor 1
Stevenson is lodged in the Clarion County Jail on $25,000.00 monetary bail.
Details of the case:
According to court documents, the Clarion Borough Police Department on June 30 filed criminal charges against 44-year-old Robert L. Stevenson in Magisterial District Judge Duane L. Quinn’s office.
The charges stem from an incident that occurred at a residence in Clarion Borough on Wednesday, June 29, involving Robert Stevenson.
Around 5:40 p.m. on Thursday, June 30, a nine-year-old known juvenile came to the Clarion Police Department with his father to report that he had been physically assaulted the previous evening by Stevenson, according to a criminal complaint.
The juvenile told police he was in his bedroom on Wednesday, June 29, around 11:00 p.m., when he asked his mother for a drink of water. His mother said she would get him a drink and started downstairs. Stevenson then started yelling that the boy should be able to get his own drink, the complaint states.
Stevenson eventually came into the victim’s bedroom, grabbed him by the throat, and covered his nose and mouth with the other hand. The victim stated that Stevenson then threw him to the ground and smacked him on the back of the head. Stevenson then picked up the juvenile around the stomach, threw him on the bed, and told the juvenile to not come out of the bedroom until morning, the complaint states.
The victim’s mother then brought him a glass of water to his bedroom, the complaint notes.
During the interview with police, the boy stated it was hard for him to breathe during this incident and that he gasped for air when Stevenson took his hands off of his neck, according to the complaint.
Stevenson was arraigned at 8:40 p.m. on Thursday, June 30, in front of District Judge Jeffrey C. Miller.
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Clarion Native and Global Music Award Winner Katherine ‘Kat’ Farnham Coming to Foxburg
FOXBURG, Pa. (EYT) – Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts is bringing 9-Time Global Music Award winning and internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter/pianist Katherine “Kool Kat” Farnham back to the region.
Farnham and her three piece band back–-Denny Jiosa, guitar; Roy Vogt, bass; and Rich Adams, drums–will be performing at Foxburg’s Lincoln Hall on Saturday, September 17 at 7:30 PM .
This amazingly talented, four-octave vocalist and classically trained pianist and diverse artist crosses musical styles, and for her Lincoln Hall audience will be performing songs from her most recent award-winning album “Love Philosophy”. Her set will combine originals with well-loved jazz and Latin jazz standards, adult contemporary, Broadway, soul, R&B, fusion and well known favorites, such as “Besame Mucho”, Billie Holiday’s “Good Morning Heartache”, and the smash Broadway hit “People”.
Tickets are: Adults $25, Members $20, and Students $15. Call early to reserve: 724-659-3153, pay by check or cash at the door, or BUY ONLINE at alleghenyriverstone.org.
September 17 also is All Clarion Arts Day in Foxburg – beginning at the Red Brick Gallery. Arrive early before the 7:30 p.m. concert for a wine and cheese opening from 5 to 7:00 p.m. for the exhibit of 5 Clarion Artists: Mary Hamilton, Carolyn Shiffhouer, H.O. “Jake” Jacobson, Karl Jacobson and Darren Troese. Those attending the 5 Clarion Artists Meet the Artists reception on September 17 will receive a voucher to only pay the $20 ARCA member price for Kat Farnham’s 7:30 p.m. concert in Lincoln Hall.
Calling herself a jazz and Americana roots musician, Kat’s actual roots trace back to Clarion, PA, as a graduate of Clarion Area High School.
Whether dressed in the elegance and glamour of vintage chic or in street-savvy, hip attire, this gorgeous woman was the former “Miss Teen Autumn Leaf Festival.” Raised in a musical family, her father, Dean, a Clarion University professor, was a musician-arranger-scholar who in his earlier life toured as a trombonist with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops and performed with the Baltimore Symphony and the Sante Fe Opera. Kat took piano lessons from her mom, an early influence, as she was a concert pianist herself and Director of the New England Conservatory’s Wellesley Branch. A young prodigy, Kat wrote her first song at age 5 during a family road trip and performed her first vocal solo the same year. She went on to graduate summa cum laude from the Boston’s renowned Berklee College of Music.
When she won the LA Music Award for Female Singer Song Writer of the Year, Kat was hailed as one of the industry’s most promising new artists – a promise she continues to fulfill with each new, inspiring and award winning album and single release. Having been compared to such diverse artists as Norah Jones, Joni Mitchell, Sarah Vaughn, Diana Krall and Celine Dion, LA Music Awards noted that “…she writes prolifically of love, passion, hope and myth with a thoughtful integrity that both illuminates and entertains.” Hers is a musical and soulful message relevant for our times. All Music Guide says “Her lyrics are heavy and meaningful, but her vocalizing is soaring.” | https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/30/clarion-native-and-global-music-award-winner-katherine-kat-farnham-coming-to-foxburg/ | 2022-08-31T00:42:31Z | exploreclarion.com | control | https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/30/clarion-native-and-global-music-award-winner-katherine-kat-farnham-coming-to-foxburg/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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CNET: Newbie Woman Busted for Selling Meth to Confidential Informant
MADISON TWP., Pa. (EYT) – Clarion County Narcotics Enforcement Team busted a local woman for reportedly selling methamphetamine to a confidential informant.
Court documents indicate criminal charges were filed against 30-year-old Sabrina Renee Deapen, of New Bethlehem, in Magisterial District Judge Jeffrey C. Miller’s office on Friday, August 26, 2022.
According to a criminal complaint, CNET (Clarion County Narcotics Enforcement Team) utilized a C.I. (confidential informant) on December 27, 2021, to conduct a controlled purchase of methamphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance, from Sabrina Deapen in exchange for $400.00 in U.S. currency.
The C.I. and Deapen communicated via social media, phone calls, and text messages to set up the transaction for a half ounce of meth for $400.00. Deapen agreed to meet the C.I. in the Rimersburg area around 9:00 p.m. on December 27, according to the complaint.
According to the complaint, Deapen told the C.I. that “they had to run to Oil City to pick up the meth” and several hours passed before the transaction took place
The transaction eventually occurred around 1:05 a.m. on December 28, and Deapen provided the C.I. with three ziplock baggies of suspected Crystal Methamphetamine, the complaint states.
On March 10, 2022, a forensic scientist with the Erie Regional Lab issued a lab report indicating that the contents seized by police contained 12.45 grams of Methamphetamine, a Schedule II Controlled Substance, according to the complaint.
Deapen faces the following charges:
– Manufacture, Delivery, or Possession With Intent to Manufacture or Deliver, Felony
– Conspiracy – Manufacture, Delivery, or Possession With Intent to Manufacture or Deliver, Felony
– Criminal Use of Communication Facility, Felony 3
– Possession of Controlled Substance, Misdemeanor
– Use/Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Misdemeanor
She is currently awaiting a preliminary hearing.
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SPONSORED: ‘Red, White, and Blue’ on Sale at Deer Creek Winery Through Labor Day!
SHIPPENVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – Deer Creek Red, Fryburg White, and Buck Run Blue are on sale at Deer Creek Winery for $29.99 through Labor Day.
The sale runs from Tuesday, August 30, through Monday, September 5.
Deer Creek Red
Two of Deer Creek’s favorite grapes blended together, Fredonia and Niagara. This is a delicious, sweet, and refreshing wine to share with those you love.
Fryburg White
The sweet grapey aroma leads to a wonderful experience. Enjoy a glass with your friends. Bold Niagara flavor.
Buck Run Blue
This blueberry wine is as smooth as a buck running through the midnight blue. Enjoy it as an after dinner wine or poured over your favorite dessert. It is 100% Blueberry Wine with a Sweetness Scale 3 (Scale 1 Dry to 4 Sweet).
Stop in at Deer Creek Winery located at 3333 Soap Fat Road, Shippenville, Pa., and sample their Deer Creek Red, Fryburg White, and Buck Run Blue, as well as other wines to discover your Vinotype.
For more information, visit Deer Creek Winery at Facebook.com/DeerCreekWinery and https://www.deercreekwine.com/.
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Featured Local Job: Full-time Road Maintenance Person
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 @ 07:08 AM
Monroe Township currently has an opening for a Full-time Road Maintenance person.
Competitive wage and benefits.
CDL and ability to operate road equipment required.
Please send or present your resume and qualifications to:
Monroe Township Office
17956 Route 68
Sligo PA 16255
Monroe Township is an equal opportunity employer.
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Hearing for Modular Home Manufacturer Employee Charged With Stealing Copper Scrap, Power Tools Set for Today
CLARION CO., Pa. (EYT) – A hearing for a modular home manufacturer employee charged with stealing nearly $3,000.00 worth of copper scrap and power tools is scheduled for Tuesday morning.
According to court documents, a preliminary hearing for 44-year-old Glenn A. Fox II, of Clarion, is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 30, with Magisterial District Judge Duane L. Quinn presiding.
He faces the following charges:
– Theft of Secondary Metal, Felony 3
– Receiving Stolen Property, Misdemeanor 1
Details of the case:
According to a criminal complaint, PSP Clarion were notified by a local modular home manufacturer on June 28 that several power tools and a significant amount of copper scrap had gone missing from the company’s work site. It was related that the staff at the manufacturing company was informed by a known female that Glenn Fox had been stealing tools and copper.
On June 28, police were provided with descriptions of the missing tools, which were DeWalt and battery-powered, and they were engraved or stamped with an identifying marking, as well as possessing either a marking in permanent marker or a kind of tape.
Police then made contact with the known female who had reported the thefts to the company. The female related all the tools were in a garage located on McGregor Road in Clarion. She also related that Fox had been stealing copper wire from the company and burning it in the yard before taking it to scrap. She added that Fox keeps all the receipts he had from scrap copper within his vehicle, the complaint states.
Police received permission to search the garage. They observed five DeWalt tools, two DeWalt battery chargers, and a Wagner Heat Gun as a result of the search. The value of the items totaled $1,596.00. Police then informed the company of the items recovered, and a representative confirmed the tools were the property of the company by their identifying markings, according to the complaint.
Fox was taken into custody on June 28 at the modular home manufacturer where he was still working. He was read his Miranda rights, and he consented to answer questions at the PSP Clarion station. Prior to departure from the scene, police requested consent from Fox for a search of his vehicle, and troopers located 14 receipts from a Clarion-based scrap yard. The receipts displayed multiple dates ranging from July 17, 2021, to June 18, 2022, and the amount of copper scrap that Fox had turned in at the scrap yard, totaled $963.35, the complaint states.
Fox was then transported to PSP Clarion and interviewed.
During the interview, Fox related he had received the power tools from a friend of his relative, but could not remember his full name. Fox told police he did not remove the tools from his work site, but they were brought and left there by his relative’s friend. He then reportedly admitted to taking the copper wires from the work site, relating that he was told by a worker that he better not get caught taking the wire instead of placing them in the area where scrap wires are collected by the company, according to the complaint.
It was confirmed that the company does not permit its employees to remove the excess copper wires to scrap themselves and that the company has its own method of recycling the copper wires, the complaint notes.
On July 5, police acquired four receipts from the Clarion-based scrap yard, indicating Fox had scrapped an additional $385.95, making a total value of $1,349.30 worth of copper turned in by Fox, the complaint states.
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Man Steals Car in Lake Lucy, Crashes It in Lucinda
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 @ 12:08 AM
WASHINGTON TWP., Pa. (EYT) – A 26-year-old man is in hot water after he allegedly stole a car and crashed it in the Lucinda area.
Marienville-based State Police said a 55-year-old Tionesta man told investigators he went to bed around midnight on August 28 and woke up later that morning to discover his vehicle had been stolen.
The vehicle was parked outside his Wolfs Corner Road residence at the time of the theft.
Police said the vehicle was later recovered following a hit-and-run crash in the Lucinda area.
According to police, a 26-year-old Pittsburgh man was arrested in connection with the incident.
No further details have been released as of Tuesday morning.
The incident remains under investigation.
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Pa.’s Unreliable Lobbyist Disclosure Website is Getting a User-friendly Upgrade
HARRISBURG, Pa. — An initiative to improve the online system that lobbyists use to disclose which organizations have hired them and how they spend money to influence policy got a major boost in this year’s state budget.
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A line item listed only as “Lobbying Disclosure” under the Department of State’s general appropriations budget is funded at $714,000 for the fiscal year that started in July — a 150% increase over the previous year. The money is a mix of dollars from the state’s general fund and fees paid by lobbyists, principals, and lobbying firms for licensure.
According to a Department of State spokesperson, the money will fund an IT upgrade to a system that has been criticized as lagging, unintuitive, and often down.
“The new lobbying disclosure module will give the lobbying community new tools to register and manage lobbying records,” the agency spokesperson said. “Development of the module is in its early stages, but it is the department’s expectation that the user interface and the reporting functions will be more intuitive and user-friendly than the current system.”
A 2019 report commissioned by the state House Government Oversight Committee found that Pennsylvania’s lobbying disclosure laws make it easy to underreport expenditures and difficult to ensure compliance.
State Rep. Seth Grove (R., York), then chair of the committee, told Spotlight PA he’s unsure if the report influenced the spending increase. “I’d like to think [the report] triggered it, but I don’t think the administration gives a crap what the legislature does,” he said.
Justin Fleming — president of the Pennsylvania Association for Government Relations (PAGR), a professional association for lobbyists — said the system desperately needs an update. He said lags when updating the website have resulted in inaccurate disciplinary action and delays that required multiple attempts for users to update the organizations or people that they worked with.
“It is something that we have talked about in PAGR for years. We certainly welcome the resources being allocated,” said Fleming. “Everybody’s time is wasted if the system isn’t working”
A Spotlight PA analysis found that 15 line items received a more than 100% boost in this year’s budget. Other programs included:
- “Agricultural preparedness and response,” + 1033.3%: This line item got a major increase — from $3 million to $34 million — so the state can respond to animal diseases, invasive pests, and other emergencies that affect the state’s agriculture industry. Around $8 million has already been used to target spotted lanternflies.
- “The University of Pennsylvania — Center for Infectious Disease,” +541%: The additional $1.6 million in funding was allocated as the result of the bird flu outbreak last year and its effect on the poultry industry. A spokesperson for the Department of Agriculture also cited the threat of African swine fever.
- “Ready to Succeed Scholarships,” 331.3%: This program is intended to aid low-income students in secondary academic institutions and is administered by the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency. It awards up to $2,000 to full-time students to cover tuition, books, and other living expenses. The agency requested $16.4 million but received nearly $24 million.
- “Susquehanna River Basin Commission,” +261%: This commission was created in the 1970s to coordinate conservation efforts with the various federal and state agencies that the river traverses. Environmental projects in Pennsylvania saw a huge increase in funding this budget cycle. The Susquehanna River Basin Commission’s funding went from $205,000 to $740,000.
- “Local municipal relief,” +144.2%: This money can be used to assist people or political subdivisions that were affected by disasters, public safety emergencies, or other situations deemed worthy by the Department of Community and Economic Development to repair damages to residences and private or public property. Funding is limited to projects that don’t qualify for federal assistance, and the average grant is $150,000. A spokesperson for the department said the program’s positive reception warranted the funding increase.
Spotlight PA’s Stephen Caruso contributed reporting.
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Robert Jon Nathaniel Lewis
Robert Jon Nathaniel Lewis, of Piney Dam Road, Clarion, a well-known local building contractor and Monroe Township Supervisor, passed away August 29, 2022 in his home after a period of declining health.
Robert was born April 4, 1934 to Floyd D. Lewis and Dorothy Elliott Lewis in Williamsburg.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a sister, Betty Edmonds (Junior) and two brothers, Don D. Lewis (Betty Dee), and Elliott “Pete” Lewis (Sally).
His surviving siblings are Patricia Smith (Robert) of Sun City, AZ, Kay Means of Greenville, SC and Jenny Bowen of Clarion.
Robert married the former Linda S. Reed in March, 1978.
They had four sons, Jason Floyd (Amanda) of Clarion; Nathaniel Jon (Sheri) of State College, and Benjamin Lucas (Charity) of Knox.
He was preceded in death by his fourth son in 2018, Adam Ray (State College).
He had six sons to a previous marriage, Steve of DuBois, Tim (Cheri) of South Carolina, Mark of Clarion, and Dan (Keri) of Iowa.
He was preceded in death by sons, Phillip A. and Jonathan W., and daughter-in-law, Linda (Mark), all of Clarion.
Robert has several grandchildren and great grandchildren who adored their “grandpa” and he always looked for opportunities to share an adventure or a game with them.
He is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.
Robert graduated from Clarion High School in 1951.
He started working with his father, a stone mason, at the age of 15 and worked until he retired at the age of 85.
He worked in the construction industry for Clarion Contractors for several years and worked in a couple partnerships, Lewis and Booth Construction and Double B Builders.
He had his own business, Robert J. Lewis, Contractor, until he stopped working.
While he started out in masonry with his father and uncles, he eventually worked with carpentry, residential and business, new construction and remodeling.
His work can be found throughout Clarion and the surrounding areas.
During those years he mentored many young men and established many friendships in the trade.
He remained interested in the work of his children and there is no doubt he instilled a strong work ethic in them.
Robert served as a Monroe Township Supervisor for 31 years and was currently still serving in that position.
He had a passion for the work of the government and serving the people he represented.
Currently he was president of CCATO and still wanting to actively promote issues he felt important to the township and the county.
Robert was an active member of the Clarion Lions Club for 26 years.
He attended the Williamsburg Community Church of God, which he helped build, and where he served as an adult Sunday School teacher for many years.
In addition, he was a member of the Clarion County Camp of the Gideons International for 35 years, serving in various positions throughout those years.
He was passionate about the ministry and loved to share his thoughts on the Bible and the Lord through many different Bible studies, conversations and prayer meetings.
In his free time Robert liked to garden and experiment with gardening.
He also spent time “tinkering” with wood in his latter years experimenting with different projects and sharing with others.
Robert loved his family and enjoyed playing board games with his grandchildren, always challenging them.
Friends and family will be received on Wednesday, August 31, 2022 from 2pm to 4pm and 6pm to 8pm at the Goble Funeral Home and Crematory, 330 Wood St., Clarion, Pa 16214.
An additional viewing will be held Thursday, September 1, 2022 from 10am to 11am at the Trinity Point Church of God, 180 W. Trinity Drive, Clarion, Pa 16214.
Funeral services will be held at 11am at the church with Pastor Bruce Wilson of Trinity Point Church of God and Pastor Tom Young of the Williamsburg Church of God officiating.
Interment will take place in the Reidsburg Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Robert’s name to the Gideons International, P.O. Box 134 Clarion or the Clarion Forest VNA Hospice, 271 Perkins Rd., Clarion.
Friends and family may send online condolences, order flowers and memorials, and obtain additional information by visiting www.goblefh.net.
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Shirley L. Kope
Shirley L. Kope, 86, of Utica, passed away on Sunday, August 28, 2022 at Meadville Medical Center where she was able to have all her family close beside her during the final hours of her life.
She was born on February 20, 1936 in Franklin, PA to John Blair and Irene (Stone) Blair.
On January 13, 1961 Shirley married the love of her life, Glenn Kope.
She worked at Polk Center as an RSW for over 17 years; and was employed in various other professions throughout her life.
Mrs. Kope was a member of the Franklin Church of the Nazarene.
She loved the Lord and is now rejoicing in Heaven.
She loved everyone and never said a negative word about anyone.
She was a prayer warrior and loved sending cards to people in which her and Glenn would pray over.
Most of all, she loved spending every special occasion with her family.
They were her greatest joy in life.
Survivors left to cherish her memory are her loving husband of 61 years, her forever love, Glenn Kope; children, Karen (Lou) Rice, Brian Kope, and Barry (Amy) Kope; grandchildren, Heidi (Patrick) Hoey, Amanda Rushmore, Bailey Gifford, Ben Kope, Emily Kope, Lakken Kope, Brian James Kope, Justin Kope, Justin Baughman, Brandi Sloss, Jamie Tomlinson, Ryan Kelly, Rachelle Kelly, Courtney Lawson, George Lawson, and Jacob Kope; multiple great-grandchildren; one sister, Nancy Miller; one sister-in-law, Virginia, and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; step-mother, Alice Blair; brother, John “Jack” Blair, Jr.; sister, Marian Tologo; brother-in-laws, Albert Tologo and Ronald Miller.
Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Rose and Black Funeral Home & Crematory, Inc., Stoneboro.
Friends and family are welcome to the Franklin Church of the Nazarene, 393 Pone Lane, Franklin, PA 16323, from 12-3 pm on Wednesday, August 31, 2022 with funeral service to follow at the church at 3pm with Pastor Dave Smith officiating.
Memorial contributions or donations may be made to the Franklin Church of the Nazarene, 393 Pone Lane, Franklin, PA 16323.
To send online condolences and tributes please go to wwww.roseandblackfh.com.
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SPONSORED: Cooper Tire’s Late Summer Sale Continues at Kerle Tire Company!
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 @ 12:08 AM
CLARION, Pa. (EYT) – Get $70.00 in rewards when you purchase a new set of four qualifying Cooper® tires purchased by September 5, 2022, at Kerle Tire Company in Clarion!
The following tires qualify for the rewards:
– Discoverer® AT34S TM
– Discoverer AT3XLT TM
– Discoverer STT Pro TM
– Discoverer S/TMAXX TM
– Discoverer Rugged Trek®
CLICK HERE for the Rebate Form.
Visit Kerle Tire Company’s website here to see their full line of tires or call 814-226-6657 for more information.
Kerle Tire Company is located at 1283 Mays Road, Clarion, Pa.
(Photos by Dave Cyphert of ProPoint Media Photography)
Kerle Tire Company: your one-stop, on-the-spot tire headquarters for a complete line of quality tires!
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SPONSORED: Webco Industries Opens CareATC Family Health Services to Provide Care for Employees
OIL CITY, Pa. (EYT) – Webco Industries opened the Webco CareATC Family Health Services in Oil City on Tuesday, August 23.
This new facility provides primary, preventive, illness and injury care free of charge to all Webco employees enrolled in the health plan, as well as covered spouses and dependents aged two and up.
Employees with chronic health conditions will be able to manage their care through CareATC, saving time and money.
“At Webco, people make the difference. It only makes sense for us to take care of our employees’ health through premier programs like CareATC,” explained Bobbie Jones, Webco Human Resource Manager for Oil City.
Providing care free of charge means that employees enrolled in Webco’s health plan will pay no copay, deductible, or coinsurance costs for CareATC services. Labs and medications provided during an employee’s visit will also be provided at no cost.
“We strongly encourage all employees to take advantage of Webco’s health plan and health benefits, including no-cost services like CareATC. We choose to be an employer of choice in every community that we operate in, and that means taking care of our employees in the best way possible,” said President and COO of Webco Industries Dave Boyer.
In addition to primary, preventative, illness and injury care, treatments and services available through CareATC to Webco employees who utilize the health care plan include, but are not limited to:
Adult Immunizations
Allergies / Asthma
Annual Physicals
Cold / Flu / Congestion
Diabetes Management
Generic Medications
High Blood Pressure
High Cholesterol
Lab Work / Tests
Minor Injuries
Personal Health Assessments (PHA)
Sport Physicals
Telemedicine
Thyroid Disorders
Tobacco Cessation
Well Woman Exams
Webco CareATC Family Health Services is located at 22 Seneca Street, Oil City, Pa.
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Tina M. Lorenz
Tina M. Lorenz, 65, of Lincolnton, North Carolina and formerly of Rimersburg, passed away on Tuesday, August 23, 2022, at her home following an extended illness.
Born on October 24, 1956, in Butler, she was the daughter of the late Harold Gale and Margie Annie Louise (Womeldorf) Smeltzer.
Tina worked as a nurse for the Kindred Nursing Center.
She is survived by three children, Dawn Eakes and her husband, Johnnie of Lincolnton, N. C., Keith Lorenz and his wife, Mary of Charleroi, and Teri Lee Gill and her husband, Tracey of Cherryville, N. C., seven grandchildren, three great grandchildren, and three sisters, Iva “Sue” Tyson (Don Chandler), and Dianne Billotte (Edward) both of East Brady, and Dorthy Runyan (Dan Guntrum) of Rimersburg.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a sister, Carol Jean Best, and three brothers, Vincent, Terry, and John Smeltzer.
Visitation will be on Monday, August 29, 2022, from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 at the Alcorn Funeral Home in Hawthorn.
The funeral service will be on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, at the funeral home at 11:00 am with Pastor Doug Henry officiating
Interment will be in the Squirrel Hill Cemetery, Porter Township, Clarion County.
Online condolences may be sent top the family at www.alcornfuneralhome.com.
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Who’s Hiring in Clarion County
A look at which local companies are hiring in Clarion County and surrounding areas.
Do you have a job listing that you’d like to include in this list? E-mail the listing to [email protected] or call 814-297-8004.
FEATURED JOBS
Automotive Painter/Auto Body Technician
Gatesman Auto Body
Gatesman Auto Body is looking for a hard-working employee who cares about turning out the highest quality repairs possible.
FULL-TIME Automotive Painter/Auto Body Technician
Experience Required.
Pay based on experience and skill level. Benefits Available. Weekends off. Paid Holidays.
Family-owned and operated Body Shop for over 70 years.
Gatesman Auto Body looks forward to hearing from you.
APPLY IN PERSON OR ONLINE AT www.gatesmanautobody.com
814-226-9468
28177 Route 66, Lucinda, PA 16235, [email protected]
All Seasons Temporaries Inc. Offers Multiple Positions
All Seasons Temporaries, Inc.
All Seasons Temporaries, Inc. has several new job openings in the local area.
Legal Secretary
8:00am-5:00pm
Monday- Friday
WE PAY WEEKLY!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Retrieving and routing incoming mail, preparing outgoing mail and delivering to the post office at the end of the day
- Collection of data from insurance companies, banks, tax collectors, clients and real estate agents
- Answering phones, greeting and assisting people who come into the building
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Must be able to maintain confidentiality at all times
- Must be able to use Microsoft Word and Excel
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Industrial Painter
3:30pm- 12am Monday – Friday
10:30pm-7am Sunday – Thursday
WE PAY WEEKLY!!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Read work orders- analyze required paint operations
- Perform hand spray techniques over a lengthy time span
- Examine products or work to verify conformance to specifications
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Must be able to lift up to 40lbs.
- Steel toe/ composite toe shoes
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Lumber Stacker
7am-3:30pm
WE PAY WEEKLY!!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Stack lumber anywhere between 12’- 16’ to customers specifications with a partner
- Quality control and clip plywood 8’ 12’ to customers’ specs, with a partner
- Using an air nailer, compound miter saw, table saw, or circular saw at some point
- Need to learn all of the paperwork involved, adding, subtracting, ect. (Math)
- Physical job fast paced
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre- employment screening
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Warehouse Associate
8am- 4:30pm Monday- Friday
WE PAY WEEKLY!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Process orders to be shipped out to customers
- Marking and labeling stock product
- Assisting in unloading trucks and checking in product
- Sorting items according to organization standards
- Light Fork Lift driving
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Must be able to lift up to 40lbs
- Must be able to bend, twist, kneel, push, pull, and reach the duration of shift
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Accounts Payable Clerk
8:00am- 5:00pm
WE PAY WEEKLY!!!
Duties( But not limited to):
- Process invoices in compliance with financial policies and procedures
- Facilitate payments of invoices according to terms
- Maintain accounts payable files
- Crosstrain on production payroll duties
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in accounting
- Knowledge of various accounts payable software
- Solid understanding of basic bookkeeping and accounts payable principles
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Grinder
7am- 3:30pm Monday – Friday
WE PAY WEEKLY!!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Grinding metal surfaces to the proper specifications
- Responsible for knowledge and operation of handheld grinders
- Stack sheets of metal upon completion of grinding
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre- employment screening
- Steel toed boots
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Bundler- Meadville
$12.50 to $13.50/hr. non- exempt
Light forklift driving, packaging bundles of pipe, use of banding and crimping to band pipes together.
Monday through Thursday, 6:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (some Fridays as needed for overtime, would be eight hours)
Pay Rate: $12.50- $13.50/hr. non- exempt
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Must have steel-toed shoes
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Stick Layers and Bin Tenders– Marienville, Titusville, and Endeavor
$15/hour – 1st and 2nd Shifts – Non-exempt
Job Requirements:
- Ability to lift, bend, twist, and stand for duration shift
- Must pass pre-employment screening
- Must have steel-toed boots
- Must have general mathematical skills
- Must abide by all safety protocols
- Understand lockout protocols
- Must be able to work with a team
Duties (but not limited to):
- Stack and sort lumber in appropriate slots
- Count pieces in stacks
- Tag bundles
- Operate machines and make sure they do not jam
- Clean machines when they are down
- Maintain clean workspaces
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
About All Season’s Temporaries Inc.
All Season’s offices are located at 1288 Liberty Street in Franklin and 113 N. Broad Street in Grove City.
For more information, call 814-437-2148 for the Franklin office or 724-458-6777 for the Grove City office.
Interested individuals may contact either office for available assignments.
Full-time Road Maintenance Person
Monroe Township
Monroe Township currently has an opening for a Full-time Road Maintenance person.
Competitive wage and benefits.
CDL and ability to operate road equipment required.
Please send or present your resume and qualifications to:
Monroe Township Office
17956 Route 68
Sligo PA 16255
Monroe Township is an equal opportunity employer.
Administrative Assistant
Kahle’s Kitchens, Inc.
Kahle’s Kitchens, Inc. in Leeper PA currently has an opening for an administrative assistant.
Duties to include, but not limited to, answering phones, entering accounts payable, shipping items via FedEx, entering customer invoices, and filing.
Applicant should be proficient in Microsoft office, have good communication skills, and be able to work well with others, basic accounting knowledge is a plus but not required.
The position is full-time Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. shift. Benefits include health and vision insurance, 401k, and vacation.
Pay dependent on experience. The applicant may be subject to drug testing.
Kahle’s Kitchens, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
If you are interested please fill out an application in person at 7488 Route 36, Leeper, Pa 16233.
Multiple Positions at Clarion Area School District
Clarion Area School District
The Clarion Area School District is accepting applications for multiple positions for the 2022-2023 school year.
Positions include:
- Girls Varsity Softball Head Coach
- Full-Time Evening Custodian
- Custodial Substitutes
- Part-Time Food Service Worker
- Daily Food Service Substitutes
- Paraprofessional
- Day-to-Day Secretarial Substitute
All applicants must possess or be able to obtain the required clearances. Applicants should send a letter of interest and references to:
Dr. Joseph Carrico, Superintendent
Clarion Area School District
221 Liberty Street
Clarion, PA 16214
Applications review will begin immediately and continue until the deadline of September 1, 2022.
Superintendent
Keystone School District
Keystone School District, located in Knox, Pennsylvania, Clarion County, is searching for a Superintendent that possesses excellent leadership, communication, and decision making skills.
The District is comprised of two buildings including a K-6 elementary and a 7-12 Jr./Sr. High School with a total enrollment of 900 students. Keystone School District maintains a student-centered approach to education and strives for innovative programs to foster education for all students. The District is host to a superior faculty with a recently negotiated five-year contract. The District provides a one-to-one Chromebook initiative, universal classroom SMART Boards, and other instructional technology resources. An experienced and strong Administrative team, clerical staff and Business Office provides effective support and dedicated building leadership. The District has been able to formulate and initiate an eight-year building and infrastructure improvement plan while sustaining a strong fund balance and remaining debt free. The District also has the support of two community foundations that lend financial support and guidance toward technology integration. The Keystone School District Board of Directors is prepared to offer the successful Superintendent candidate a competitive salary that is commensurate with experience and skills.
Deadline for applications is October 14, 2022.
If you would like to schedule a visit to the District or are interested in applying, please contact Kristoffer Willison, Board Secretary, [email protected] / (814) 797-5921.
Registered Nurse (RN)
Clarview Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
Clarview Nursing & Rehabilitation Center currently has openings for Part-time and Per diem Registered Nurses (RNs).
BENEFITS:
- 401(k)
- 403(b)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
SIGN-ON BONUS $3,000 FOR PART-TIME
NOW OFFERING NEW COMPETITIVE WAGES
ABOUT CLARVIEW NURSING & REHABILITATION CENTER
A caring family atmosphere… that is what they offer at Clarview for their residents and employees! The benefits of working at Clarview include meaningful work, connection to a mission, and the caring relationships you will develop with the staff and residents around you. Their “We Care” program is helpful for everyone who enters their building and is driven by their caring and dedicated staff. Join the team effort to put residents and their families first and learn skills that are valuable as you advance in your healthcare career!
Clarview, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center is located at 14663 Route 68, Sligo, PA 16255. Country Springs, a personal care community, is also part of the Clarview family. For more information, visit www.clarviewnursing.com.
THE REGISTERED NURSE POSITION
Clarview’s RNs provide professional nursing care to residents as prescribed by a physician and in accordance with nursing practice standards. RNs supervise day-to-day nursing functions, assess resident needs, develop and implement care plans, and evaluate medical resident care.
They currently have the following opportunities available:
- Part-Time
- Per Diem
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd Shift
TOP AREAS OF FOCUS FOR RNs:
- Supervise nursing staff in the day-to-day delivery of resident care
- Administer medication and treatment per physician orders, care plans, and policies/procedures
- Note changes in resident physical and emotional status
- Solve problems and make improvements in the delivery of resident care
- Make resident rounds on a regular basis
- Performs all charting and recordkeeping in accordance with regulations, policies and procedures
- Promotes and encourages harmonious relationships with and among colleagues
- Ensure open and productive communication among the nursing team
- Model professional behavior and leadership qualities at all times
Click here to apply: https://www.clarviewnursing.com/employment
Day and Afternoon at UFP Parker
UFP Parker
UFP Parker now has both Day and Afternoon positions open for a variety of skill levels.
If you are looking for a career with a comprehensive benefits package and multiple avenues for advancement, join their winning team at UFP Parker.
Want to see what they are all about? Call or text Shelly at 814-316-1033 to schedule a tour!
Apply online today at www.ufpi.com/careers
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
Clarview Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
Clarview Nursing & Rehabilitation Center currently has openings for Part-time and Per diem Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs).
BENEFITS:
- 403(b)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
SIGN-ON BONUS $1,500 FOR PART-TIME
NOW OFFERING NEW COMPETITIVE WAGES
ABOUT CLARVIEW NURSING & REHABILITATION CENTER
A caring family atmosphere… that is what they offer at Clarview for their residents and employees! The benefits of working at Clarview include meaningful work, connection to a mission, and the caring relationships you will develop with the staff and residents around you. Their “We Care” program is helpful for everyone who enters their building and is driven by their caring and dedicated staff. Join the team effort to put residents and their families first and learn skills that are valuable as you advance in your healthcare career!
Clarview, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center is located at 14663 Route 68, Sligo, PA 16255. Country Springs, a personal care community, is also part of the Clarview family. For more information, visit www.clarviewnursing.com.
THE LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE POSITION
Clarview’s LPNs provide professional nursing care to residents as prescribed by a physician and in accordance with nursing practice standards. LPNs supervise day-to-day nursing functions, assess resident needs, develop and implement care plans, and evaluate medical resident care.
They currently have the following opportunities available:
- Part-Time
- Per Diem
- 2nd and 3rd Shift
TOP AREAS OF FOCUS:
- Supervise nursing staff in the day-to-day delivery of resident care
- Administer medication and treatment per physician orders, care plans, and policies/procedures
- Note changes in resident physical and emotional status
- Solve problems and make improvements in the delivery of resident care
- Make resident rounds on a regular basis
- Performs all charting and recordkeeping in accordance with regulations, policies, and procedures
- Promotes and encourages harmonious relationships with and among colleagues
- Ensure open and productive communication among the nursing team
- Model professional behavior and leadership qualities at all times
Click here to apply: https://www.clarviewnursing.com/employment
Counselor – Education/Prevention
Abraxas Youth & Family Services
Abraxas Youth & Family Services currently has an opening for a Counselor – Education/Prevention to join their team at Abraxas I in Marienville, PA.
Education and Prevention Counselor also known as Intervention Counselor works directly with Adolescents at their inpatient drug and alcohol treatment program – starting pay is $15.77 per hour! In this role, you will be helping youth BUILD BETTER FUTURES.
Seeking individuals to provide a full range of counseling and/or case management services to youth with substance abuse/dependency problems.
Join their wonderful team of dynamic, multidisciplinary healthcare professionals, who collaborate to provide youth with evidence and competency-based treatment, increasing their chances for sustained recovery from active addiction.
Salary: $15.77 – $22.15 per hour
Bonus: $3,000 Sign On Bonus
Shift: Days and Evenings
Who Abraxas Is:
Abraxas Youth & Family Services is a national nonprofit human services provider dedicated to Building Better Futures for at-risk youth, adults, and families. Our diversified array of services includes alternative education, outpatient counseling, in-home services, shelter, detention, residential treatment and re-entry/transition services.
Since 1973, Abraxas team members have positively impacted the lives of those they serve and the communities in which they live.
Benefits & Perks:
Abraxas provides a competitive and comprehensive benefits program that offers the protection, peace of mind, and flexibility designed to support you – both at home and at work.
- Medical & Dental & Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Basic Life & Short-Term Disability Insurance
- 403(b) Savings Plan
- Life Assistance Program (LAP)
- Tuition Assistance Program
- Paid Time Off (PTO) * Paid Holidays * Paid Training
- Advancement Opportunities
In this role, you will:
- Provide direct supervision, leadership, and serve as a role model to clients while interacting in a therapeutic and meaningful manner.
- Observe client behavior and intervene appropriately, as dictated by policy and individual client treatment plan.
- Develop and implement individualized treatment plans while shaping the course of treatment for assigned clients.
- Coordinate and implement case management activities for assigned clients.
- Provide individual and caseload group counseling, as well as family conferencing for assigned clients.
- Complete required documentation, such as progress and court reports, discharge summaries, treatment plans, etc.
- Facilitate various treatment and life skills groups via standardized group curricula.
- Participate in case consultations, treatment reviews, administrative reviews, and other multi-disciplinary meetings for assigned clients.
- Attend court hearings for assigned clients.
- Communicate and maintain regular contact with families, caseworkers/probation officers/guardians ad litem/etc. and provide thorough updates of progress for assigned clients.
- Conduct scheduled and random head counts to provide effective people security.
- Assist with mentoring and on-the-job training of newer team members.
- Support the Abraxas philosophy and mission and promote the Seven Key Principles of care.
- Demonstrate appropriate use of Safe Crisis Management techniques and skills.
Hiring Requirements:
Why Should I Consider Abraxas?
- At Abraxas, they celebrate the richness of their diverse employees and the communities they serve. They are actively committed to building a culture of awareness and belonging, as they strive to ensure they are a welcoming, inclusive, and culturally competent organization.
- As they work to make a difference in people’s lives, they are dedicated to respect, equity, and the engagement of those they serve and their employees.
- As a provider of trauma-informed care, they firmly believe in recovery and that their clients can lead fulfilling and meaningful lives, and they consider it an honor and a privilege to assist them in their journey.
- Whether you’re looking to begin a rewarding career or you’re a seasoned professional wanting a new challenge, Abraxas has a place for you and opportunities for development at all levels.
- At Abraxas, their staff is at the core of everything they do. That is why they are committed to providing you with competitive pay and comprehensive benefits options that help make your life easier and healthier, with a focus on providing choice when it comes to physical, emotional, and financial wellness. Their benefit options meet you where you are in your life and set you up for success both in and outside of work.
- If you want to have a positive impact in the lives of others, join Abraxas!
Equal Opportunity Employer
Abraxas Youth & Family Services, an affiliate of Apis Services Inc., offers a rewarding career for those passionate about making a difference in the lives of others. Abraxas is a great place to start your career whether you have a high school diploma or GED, military experience, some college, or a bachelor’s or advanced degree. If you are interested in counseling, juvenile justice, psychology, social work, teaching, or just want to make a difference, they have a career path for you.
Apis Services, Inc. provides administrative services to a variety of businesses and non-profit agencies so they can focus on their individual goals and missions. Apis serves 30+ affiliates throughout the USA including locations in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Colorado, New Jersey, and North Carolina.
“Join Us in Building Better Futures!”
Interested in joining their outstanding team? If you have any questions, you can contact them by email at [email protected]
Give them a Call at (814) 927-6615 and Brenda or Wendy will be happy to help you!
Apply online by following this link.
Also, you can explore other positions that Abraxas has to offer on their website. https://jobsatabraxas.org/careers.html
Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
Clarview Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
Clarview Nursing & Rehabilitation Center currently has openings for Full-time; Part-time; and Per diem CNAs.
*$2,500 SIGN-ON BONUS FOR FULL-TIME AND $1,200 FOR PART-TIME
NOW OFFERING NEW COMPETITIVE WAGES!
ABOUT CLARVIEW NURSING & REHABILITATION CENTER
A caring family atmosphere… that is what they offer at Clarview for their residents and employees! The benefits of working at Clarview include meaningful work, connection to a mission, and the caring relationships you will develop with the staff and residents around you. Their “We Care” program is helpful for everyone who enters their building and is driven by their caring and dedicated staff. Join the team effort to put residents and their families first and learn skills that are valuable as you advance in your healthcare career!
Clarview, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center is located at 14663 Route 68, Sligo, PA 16255. Country Springs, a personal care community, is also part of the Clarview family. For more information, visit www.clarviewnursing.com.
BENEFITS:
- 403(b)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Paid training
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
THE CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT POSITION
Clarview is looking for compassionate and detail-oriented Nursing Assistants who are ready to help residents in a long-term care setting. This position requires a great deal of physical strength and energy, so they are interested in hiring someone who is physically fit, enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and has proven experience in patient care. The Nursing Assistant will work directly with the medical staff to help residents with daily living activities, so it is important that the ideal candidate has an upbeat personality and can maintain a positive work environment.
Click here to apply: https://www.clarviewnursing.com/employment
Exterior Door Assembler
Derstine Doors
Derstine Doors, a manufacturer of quality, affordable exterior doors, is seeking motivated individuals to add to their assembly team.
Derstine Doors offers …
- Monday through Friday work week
- Competitive wages
- Benefits package
- Paid vacation
Interested individuals should contact Don @ 814-538-9333 or apply in person @ 991 McEwen Road, Sligo, PA
Weekend Assembly Line Worker
Beverage-Air
Beverage-Air, in Brookville, currently has openings for Assembly Line Workers.
As an Assembler (3 days/12 hours, Friday- Sunday), you will lend a hand in creating innovative, high-quality refrigeration products. Starting hourly rate from $15.50 (no experience required – they will train you) up to $18.50 (with 5+ years of relevant, manufacturing experience). You will receive 40 hours of pay per week for 36 hours of work; 5% employer match on 6% employee contribution to 401(k) – worth at least $1,400; pay progression review 12 months after hire date; 84 hours of holiday pay; and first- year paid vacation of up to 40 hours!
What You’ll Do:
- Work within a team to assemble components or entire units
- Perform varied tasks
- Conduct quality inspections on parts and products
- Prepare finished products for shipment
- Maintain a clean and orderly work area
What You Bring:
- Prior experience working as part of a team having responsibility for assembling an entire product or component of a product in a manufacturing environment is a plus!
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred
- Teamwork – you work well with others and like to collaborate
- Attention to detail – you pay attention to the little things that make a difference
- Manual dexterity – you have the ability to move your hand quickly, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects
- Focus – you work quickly while staying focused for extended periods
- Organization – you believe in “a place for everything and everything has its place.”
- Accountability – you can be trusted and relied upon
- Self-motivation – you meet or exceed performance goals without someone looking over your shoulder
Beverage-Air is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. Beverage-Air is committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $15.50 – $18.50, corresponding with experience
How to apply: Visit https://beverage-air.com/careers/ and click on Apply Now.
Assembly Line Worker
Beverage-Air
Beverage-Air, in Brookville, currently has openings for Assembly Line Workers.
As an Assembler (4 days/10-hours, Monday-Thursday) you will lend a hand in creating innovative, high-quality refrigeration products. Starting hourly rate from $13.50 (no experience required – they will train you) up to $18.50 (with 5+ years of relevant, manufacturing experience). You will receive 5% employer match on 6% employee contribution to 401(k) – worth at least $1,400; pay progression review 12 months after hire date; 80 hours of holiday pay; and first-year paid vacation of up to 40 hours!
What You’ll Do:
- Work within a team to assemble components or entire units
- Perform varied tasks
- Conduct quality inspections on parts and products
- Prepare finished products for shipment
- Maintain a clean and orderly work area
What You Bring:
- Prior experience working as part of a team having responsibility for assembling an entire product or component of a product in a manufacturing environment is a plus!
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred
- Teamwork – you work well with others and like to collaborate
- Attention to detail – you pay attention to the little things that make a difference
- Manual dexterity – you have the ability to move your hand quickly, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects
- Focus – you work quickly while staying focused for extended periods
- Organization – you believe in “a place for everything and everything has its place.”
- Accountability – you can be trusted and relied upon
- Self-motivation – you meet or exceed performance goals without someone looking over your shoulder
Beverage-Air is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. Beverage-Air is committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $13.50 – $18.50, corresponding with experience
How to apply: Visit https://beverage-air.com/careers/ and click on Apply Now.
Servers and Hosts
Sweet Basil Restaurant and Bar
Sweet Basil Restaurant and Bar is currently hiring full-time positions for servers and hosts.
Sweet Basil offers a competitive wage and health insurance.
Applicants must possess the following qualities:
- Friendly and positive attitude
- Reliable, dedicated, and strong work ethic
- Loves working in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
- Willing to work nights, various shifts, and weekend
Full-time and part-time positions are available.
No experience is required.
Apply in person at the restaurant located at 21108 Paint Blvd, Shippenville, PA 16254, The restaurant opens at 11:00 a.m. seven days a week.
Night Supervisor or Overnight Safety Supervisor
Abraxas Youth & Family Services
Abraxas Youth & Family Services currently has an opening for a Night Supervisor or Overnight Safety Supervisor to join their team at Abraxas I in Marienville, PA.
At Abraxas, you will be part of a team helping at-risk adolescents BUILD BETTER FUTURES.
Abraxas I (AI) provides adolescent treatment programs for substance abuse, delinquency, and medically necessary mental health services. Their 90-acre campus is nestled in the Allegheny National Forest in northwestern Pennsylvania.
Have you ever thought about a career in the behavioral health field? Ready to make a positive impact on the lives of at-risk adolescents? They’ve got the job for you!
Salary: $42,500 Annually
Bonus: $5000 Hiring Bonus
Shift: Overnights, Graveyards, 3rd Shift
Who They Are:
Abraxas Youth & Family Services is a national nonprofit human services provider dedicated to Building Better Futures for at-risk youth, adults, and families. Their diversified array of services includes alternative education, outpatient counseling, in-home services, shelter, detention, residential treatment, and re-entry/transition services.
Since 1973, Abraxas team members have positively impacted the lives of those they serve and the communities in which they live.
Benefits & Perks:
Abraxas provides a competitive and comprehensive benefits program that offers the protection, peace of mind, and flexibility designed to support you – both at home and at work.
- Medical & Dental & Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Basic Life & Short-Term Disability Insurance
- 403(b) Savings Plan
- Life Assistance Program (LAP)
- Tuition Assistance Program
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Training
- Advancement Opportunities
Night Supervisor Summary:
In this role, you will ensure campus-wide security and the safety of clients and staff. You will help develop and implement the program and schedule, and supervise the overnight team during the hours of 11 pm-7 am.
Night Supervisor Responsibilities Include, but are not limited to:
- Ensure the safety and security of the facility by conducting perimeter checks, facility-wide headcounts, implementing personnel management strategies, and responding to crisis and non-emergency situations as the supervisor-in-charge
- Maintain employee schedules that provide adequate coverage to ensure safety for both clients and employees
- Develop and implement systems to organize and monitor work activities
- Structure, implement, and facilitate new employee on-the-job orientation
- Conduct effective supervisory conferences and performance evaluations with employees, document the content of such meetings and evaluations, and provides feedback to them
- Schedule employee training to ensure that all mandatory training requirements are met
- Conduct fire drills during client sleeping hours, as scheduled
- Provide breaks for team members during the overnight shift and complete basic direct-care responsibilities during those intervals. Assist evening and morning supervisors during times of need, on occasion
- Demonstrates appropriate use of Safe Crisis Management (SCM) and provides effective supervision to staff regarding the use of SCM
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in human services field and one-year experience in residential treatment are preferred; OR
- Associate’s degree or (sixty) 60 credit hours from an accredited college/university and three (3) years’ work experience with children
- Supervisory experience is also preferred
- Ability to self-start, work independently and adhere to timelines on a consistent basis with a minimum of assistance and supervision
- Ability to participate and maintain Safe Crisis Management (SCM) certification
- At least twenty-one (21) years of age
- Driver’s License
- Physical exam that includes TB and drug testing
- Criminal clearances (State Police, FBI and State Child Abuse Clearances)
- Satisfactory completion of background screening and applicable pre-employment checks, including but not limited to employment and/or personal reference and driving records
- Ability to work with computers and the necessary software typically used by the department
Why Should You Consider Abraxas?
- At Abraxas, they celebrate the richness of their diverse employees and the communities they serve. They are actively committed to building a culture of awareness and belonging, as they strive to ensure they are a welcoming, inclusive, and culturally competent organization.
- As they work to make a difference in people’s lives, they are dedicated to respect, equity, and the engagement of those they serve and their employees.
- As a provider of trauma-informed care, they firmly believe in recovery and that their clients can lead fulfilling and meaningful lives, and they consider it an honor and a privilege to assist them in their journey.
- Whether you’re looking to begin a rewarding career or you’re a seasoned professional wanting a new challenge, they have a place for you and opportunities for development at all levels.
- At Abraxas, their staff is at the core of everything they do. That is why they are committed to providing you with competitive pay and comprehensive benefits options that help make your life easier and healthier, with a focus on providing choice when it comes to physical, emotional, and financial wellness. Their benefit options meet you where you are in your life and set you up for success both in and outside of work.
- If you want to have a positive impact in the lives of others, join them!
Equal Opportunity Employer
Abraxas Youth & Family Services, an affiliate of Apis Services Inc., offers a rewarding career for those passionate about making a difference in the lives of others. Abraxas is a great place to start your career whether you have a high school diploma or GED, military experience, some college, or a bachelor’s or advanced degree. If you are interested in counseling, juvenile justice, psychology, social work, teaching, or just want to make a difference, they have a career path for you.
Apis Services, Inc. provides administrative services to a variety of businesses and non-profit agencies so they can focus on their individual goals and missions. Apis serves 30+ affiliates throughout the USA including locations in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Colorado, New Jersey, and North Carolina.
Join Them in Building Better Futures!
Thank you for your interest in a rewarding career at Abraxas Youth & Family Services. Please consider applying for employment with them!
If you have any questions, you can contact them by email at [email protected]
Apply online by following this link.
Also, you can explore other positions that Abraxas has to offer on their website. https://jobsatabraxas.org/careers.html
Direct Care Personnel/ CNAs
New Light, Inc.
New Light, Inc. is now accepting applications for Direct Care Personnel.
Are you a compassionate person looking for a great career opportunity?
This position will provide support for intellectually/developmentally disabled individuals in a community-based residential program.
- Competitive hourly wages ($12-$14/hr.)
- Restraint/restriction free agency
- Weekends a must!
- Benefit package available!
- Open availability is greatly appreciated!
- Paid vacation!
- Opportunity for advancement in the company!
CNAs needed!
All interested individuals may contact the HR Dept. at New Light, Inc., PO Box 761, Clarion, PA 16214 or call 814-226-6444 x103 or email [email protected]
Pre-employment criminal background check must be free of any serious offenses.
New Light, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
Police Officers
Emlenton Borough
The Emlenton Borough is hiring new and experienced police officers for an expanding, rural police department.
Positions Available:
- Full-Time Chief
- Full-Time Patrolman
- Part-time Patrolman
Seeking applicants with strong community policing skills suited for small-town/rural police work. Competitive wages, benefits, flexible scheduling.
Full-Time Chief: $25-$30/hr + benefits
Full-Time Patrolman: $20-$25/hr + benefits
Part-Time Patrolman: $20-$25/hr
Application available online at https://emlentonpaborough.com or call 724-867-8611.
Mail application and resume to:
Emlenton Borough
PO Box 537
Emlenton, PA 16373
Applications due by Aug 29, 2022.
Licensed Massage Therapist
Spine & Extremities Center
Spine & Extremities Center, of Clarion, currently has two openings for Licensed Massage Therapists.
Full or part-time positions available performing therapeutic massage.
Spine & Extremities Center will supply the patients and supplies.
Flexible schedule, friendly working environment, and convenient scheduling through their own branded app for patients.
Competitive compensation commensurate with experience.
Please submit your resume to:
[email protected] or call 814-227-5855 and ask for Lindsay.
Receptionist/Caseworker
Clarion County Domestic Relations Office
The Clarion County Domestic Relations Office currently has an opening for a Receptionist/Caseworker.
POSITION: Receptionist/Caseworker, Full-Time, 70 hours per pay
DEPARTMENT: Domestic Relations, Clarion, PA
PAY GRADE: Starting at $11.82/hr
BENEFITS: Up to family coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance effective first of the month after the date of hire (employee pays 12.5% of the premium, the county pays 87.5%). $1,500 stipend if you do not need the county insurance. Life insurance coverage at no cost to employees. 5 Vacation days first year, 10 vacation days starting the second year, 3 personal days per year, 10 sick days per year, and 13 paid holidays off. Enrollment in Clarion County’s Pension plan (vested after 5 years, eligible to retire at 55 with 20 years of service).
POSTING DATE: Wednesday, August 3, 2022
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Wednesday, August 17, 2022, at 4:00 p.m.
QUALIFICATIONS: Two-year business or paralegal degree, or equivalent experience. Strong typing skills and accounting experience.
OVERALL OBJECTIVES:
This employee provides clerical duties and administrative support to the Domestic Relations staff.
For specific details related to this job including Essential Functions; Supervision Received; Working Conditions; Physical and Mental Conditions; Qualifications; and Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities; please download and review this .pdf file.
HOW TO APPLY
A County application and transcripts are required to be considered for the advertised vacancy. Applications are only accepted for positions in which the county is actively recruiting. Applications received for positions not being advertised or general/blanket applications will be discarded.
Applications are available:
- Online by visiting:
www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php - In-Person by visiting the Clarion County Human Resource Office on the 2nd floor of the Administration Building located at 330 Main Street, Clarion, PA 16214
- By fax or e-mail. You must contact the Clarion County Human Resource Office by calling 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 to share your e-mail or fax number.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Wednesday, August 17, 2022, at 4:00 p.m.
CLARION COUNTY IS A DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE
APPLICANTS WHO REQUIRE SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS DUE TO A DISABILITY SHOULD CONTACT THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AT 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 FOR ASSISTANCE.
High School Cafeteria Monitor
Keystone School District
Keystone School District currently has an opening for a High School Cafeteria Monitor.
Position available immediately at the Keystone School District.
2.5 Hours per day
The salary would be $11.80 per hour.
Interested candidates should send a Letter of Interest; Current Act 34, 151, 168, and FBI Clearances; and Three (3) Letters of Reference to:
Mr. Michael McCormick
Acting Superintendent
451 Huston Avenue
Knox, PA 16232
Deadline: August 19, 2022 or until position is filled.
Production Workers
Eden, Inc.
Eden, Inc. in Knox, currently has several vacancies in its painting and millwork areas.
Part-time and full-time opportunities exist for interested individuals with starting rates based on experience.
After a 90-day probationary period, full-time employees are eligible for all company benefits (medical, dental, vision insurance; paid holidays, vacation, and sick time; retirement plan with a company match; and life insurance.
Apply in person at 210 Miller Street in Knox.
Welders, Fabricators and General Shop Employees
Witherup Fabrication & Erection, Inc.
Witherup Fabrication & Erection, Inc. located in Kennerdell, PA is seeking Welders, Fabricators, and General Shop Employees.
Competitive compensation and benefits opportunity.
Please email your resume to [email protected]
or bring your resume to :
Witherup Fabrication & Erection, Inc.
431 Kennerdell Road
Kennerdell, PA 16374
814 385 6601
Elections/Voter Registration Coordinator
Clarion County Department of Elections
The Clarion County Department of Elections currently has an opening for an Elections/Voter Registration Coordinator.
POSITION: Elections/Voter Registration Coordinator, Non-Exempt, Full-Time, 80 hours per pay
DEPARTMENT: Department of Elections, Clarion, PA
PAY GRADE: Starting Rate, $15.00 per hour
BENEFITS: Up to family coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance effective first of the month after the date of hire (employee pays 12.5% of the premium, the county pays 87.5%). $1,500 stipend if you do not need the county insurance. Life insurance coverage at no cost to employees. 5 Vacation days first year, 10 vacation days starting the second year, 3 personal days per year, 10 sick days per year, and 13 paid holidays off. Enrollment in Clarion County’s Pension plan (vested after 5 years, eligible to retire at 55 with 20 years of service).
POSTING DATE: Wednesday, August 3, 2022
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Wednesday, August 17, 2022, at 4:00 p.m.
OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF JOB:
This is an upper-level clerical position that is responsible for managing and coordinating the various activities related to maintaining updated county-wide voter registration records and performing the associated duties that are required to prepare for the Primary and General Elections each year.
For specific details related to this job including Essential Functions; Other Duties; Supervision Received; Working Conditions; Required Qualifications; and Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities; please download and review this .pdf file.
HOW TO APPLY
A County application and transcripts are required to be considered for the advertised vacancy. Applications are only accepted for positions in which the county is actively recruiting. Applications received for positions not being advertised or general/blanket applications will be discarded.
Applications are available:
- Online by visiting:
www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php - In-Person by visiting the Clarion County Human Resource Office on the 2nd floor of the Administration Building located at 330 Main Street, Clarion, PA 16214
- By fax or e-mail. You must contact the Clarion County Human Resource Office by calling 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 to share your e-mail or fax number.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: August 17, 2022, at 4:00 p.m.
CLARION COUNTY IS A DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE
APPLICANTS WHO REQUIRE SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS DUE TO A DISABILITY SHOULD CONTACT THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AT 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 FOR ASSISTANCE.
All Seasons Temporaries Inc. Offers Multiple Positions
All Seasons Temporaries, Inc.
All Seasons Temporaries, Inc. has several new job openings in the local area.
Lumber Stacker
7am-3:30pm
WE PAY WEEKLY!!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Stack lumber anywhere between 12’- 16’ to customers specifications with a partner
- Quality control and clip plywood 8’ 12’ to customers specs, with a partner
- Using an air nailer, compound miter saw, table saw, circular saw at some point
- Need to learn all of the paperwork involved, adding, subtracting, ect. (Math)
- Physical job fast paced
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre- employment screening
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Warehouse Associate
8am- 4:30pm Monday- Friday
WE PAY WEEKLY!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Process orders to be shipped out to customers
- Marking and labeling stock product
- Assisting in unloading trucks and checking in product
- Sorting items according to organization standards
- Light Fork Lift driving
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre- employment screening
- Must be able to lift up to 40lbs
- Must be able to bend, twist, kneel, push, pull, and reach the duration of shift
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Grinder
7am- 3:30pm Monday – Friday
WE PAY WEEKLY!!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Grinding metal surfaces to the proper specifications
- Responsible for knowledge and operation of handheld grinders
- Stack sheets of metal upon completion of grinding
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre- employment screening
- Steel toed boots
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Bundler- Meadville
$12.50 to $13.50/hr. non- exempt
Light forklift driving, packaging bundles of pipe, use of banding and crimping to band pipes together.
Monday through Thursday, 6:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (some Fridays as needed for overtime, would be eight hours)
Pay Rate: $12.50- $13.50/hr. non- exempt
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Must have steel-toed shoes
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Stick Layers and Bin Tenders– Marienville, Titusville, and Endeavor
$15/hour – 1st and 2nd Shifts – Non-exempt
Job Requirements:
- Ability to lift, bend, twist, and stand for duration shift
- Must pass pre-employment screening
- Must have steel-toed boots
- Must have general mathematical skills
- Must abide by all safety protocols
- Understand lockout protocols
- Must be able to work with a team
Duties (but not limited to):
- Stack and sort lumber in appropriate slots
- Count pieces in stacks
- Tag bundles
- Operate machines and make sure they do not jam
- Clean machines when they are down
- Maintain clean workspaces
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Hoist Operator
6am-2:30pm Monday- Friday
$15/hr. Non- Exempt
Located in Titusville, PA 16354
WE PAY WEEKLY!!!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Maneuver hoist properly so that the flow of production is not interrupted
- Must maintain a clean and safe workplace
- Must follow directions as provided by various departments
- Excellent benefits package upon f/t eligibility requirements being met
About All Season’s Temporaries Inc.
All Season’s offices are located at 1288 Liberty Street in Franklin and 113 N. Broad Street in Grove City.
For more information, call 814-437-2148 for the Franklin office or 724-458-6777 for the Grove City office.
Interested individuals may contact either office for available assignments.
Equipment Mechanic/ Technician
Bobcat of Clarion
Bobcat of Clarion is currently seeking an experienced mechanic to join their team.
This is a full-time position Monday through Friday. Paid holidays and a generous benefits package are available.
Pay will be based on experience and skill level.
For more information, please call Human Resources at (716) 372-4063 x 216 or email [email protected]
Regional Senior Products Agent
Burns and Burns Insurance
Burns and Burns Insurance currently has an opening for a Regional Senior Products Agent.
Job Location: Clarion, PA, 16214, USA
Job Category: Insurance Sales
Job Type: Full-Time
Remote Type: No
Job Description
THERE IS NO CEILING TO YOUR SUCCESS!
Burns and Burns Insurance is looking to better their company by hiring motivated workers who care about their customers. With a family-oriented office environment, Burns and Burns Insurance is searching for a qualified candidate who is ready and willing to learn how to best serve their clients.
Salary: $40,000.00 – $60,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Family-oriented environment/ culture
- Vacation and sick time
- Paid holidays
- Health insurance, flexible spending account, group life insurance, long-term disability
- Multiple carrier appointments. Unlike captive agents, Burns and Burns represents over 60 carriers, which means they are able to assist their clients with more options to best fit their needs
- EEOC
401K & profit sharing
Responsibilities:
New Sales:
- Identifies and develops insurance prospects and appropriate markets
- Responds to referrals quickly and effectively
- Perform cost-benefit and needs analysis of existing/potential customers to meet their needs
- Creates and maintains client or prospect lists
- Designs insurance plans and recommends coverages to clients
- Creates insurance proposals; makes sales presentations to prospective and existing clients on new and renewal business
- Completes and submits applications and related documentation to appropriate insurance markets
- Prepares, requests, and delivers binders to insureds
- Educates clients concerning agency payment expectations and cancellation procedures
- Asks for referrals from insureds to help generate new business
- Develop a deep knowledge on the differences between a variety of Medicare carriers to ensure that you are placing clients in the plan that best fits their needs
Retention and Continuous Marketing:
- Reach out to customer leads through cold calling
- Expedite the resolution of customer problems and complaints to maximize satisfaction
- Explains coverages and exclusions and documents explanations on automated file for future reference
- Develops a book of business that is profitable for both the agency and the carrier
- Reviews existing policy coverages, at least annually, to upgrade accounts and remarket, if necessary
- Assists service staff to collect client information in preparation of schedules of insurance, summaries, and renewal proposals
- Reviews appropriate policy change requests and other account activity
- Documents automated file as appropriate. Uses each client contact as an opportunity for coverage review and marketing of need covered
- Establish, develop and maintain positive business and customer relationships
- Accepts and handles any duties/prospects as assigned by agency management
Personal and Organizational Development:
- Participates in sales meetings
- Identifies training needs with assistance from managers. Develops a personal improvement plan, and take responsibility for learning and improving technical and sales skills regularly
- Reads and interprets technical manuals and insurance information from carriers, vendors, publishers, etc
- Responsible for passing ALL yearly federal (AHIP) and carrier-specific exams relating to Medicare sales
- Continuously improve through feedback
- Keep abreast of best practices and promotional trends
- Analyze the territory/market’s potential, track sales, and status reports
- Coordinate sales effort with team members and other departments
Requirements:
Education: High school diploma
Experience: Insurance experience is a plus.
Life & health license required.
As well as:
- Strong time management skills
- Attention to detail-job requires being careful about details and completing tasks thoroughly
- Integrity – job requires being honest and ethical
- Concern for others-job requires being sensitive to others’ needs, feelings, and being helpful on the job
- Adaptability – job requires being open to change and to consider variety in the workplace
- Initiative – job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges
Interested individuals may apply by submitting his/or her resume to Bree Daugherty at [email protected]
Clerical Assistant
Cook Forest Top Hill Cabins
Cook Forest Top Hill Cabins currently has and opening for a Clerical Assistant.
Duties include, but are not limited to, answering phones, handling online and phone reservations, entering accounts receivables and payables in QuickBooks, shipping items, completing monthly reports in Microsoft Excel, filing, balancing check registers, ordering supplies, and scheduling cleaning staff. Other duties as required.
Applicant should be proficient in Microsoft Office (Word and Excel), have good communication skills, and work well with others, basic accounting knowledge is a plus but not required.
The position is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday part-time 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Position is all year round but reduced hours during December through March each year.
Pay commensurate with experience. The applicant may be subject to drug testing.
If interested, please complete an application in person at Cook Forest Top Hill Cabins office, 2808 Forest Road, Vowinckel, PA 16217. You may also call for additional information: 814-927-6922.
Cook Forest Top Hill Cabins is an equal opportunity employer.
Administrative Assistant
Forest County
Forest County Transportation is seeking a full-time Administrative Assistant in the Transportation Office located in Marienville.
General computer and typing skills are required. The candidate must work well with the public and possess excellent communication skills. Experience in Excel and QuickBooks is preferred. Must pass required clearances, a drug screening, and possess a valid driver’s license. Occasional driving may be needed.
Applications and resumes may be submitted to the Forest County Courthouse 526 Elm Street #3, Tionesta, PA 16353 (814-755-3537).
This is a full-time (Monday-Friday) 40-hour-per-week position at $11.25 per hour. The position offers excellent health, dental and vision insurance benefits along with paid time off, holiday pay, and retirement benefits.
Full-Time Special Education Teacher
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6 currently has an opening for a Full-Time Special Education Teacher.
Deadline August 5, 2022
Full-Time Special Education Teacher (Emotional Support/Learning Support at Pathways)
Full-time professional union position (185 days annually) with salary and benefits per the collective bargaining agreement. Requires valid certification/licensure in PA for Special Education. Acts 24, 34, 114, 126, 151, and 168 clearances are required. Experience in Emotional Support preferred. This is a bargaining unit position.
General Responsibilities include (but are not limited to): Position is working with MS and HS students at the Pathways Adolescent Center in Oil City (7:45 am- 3:15 pm). Requirements include writing IEPs, knowledge of special education regulations, good communication – both oral and written, interpersonal skills, competence in related technology, standing, sitting, stooping, lifting up to 20 pounds – with occasionally up to approximately 40 pounds, walking. Position also includes coordinating with RIU6, service providers, families, and school district personnel to meet the needs of each individual learner, providing the best care, safety, welfare, and security for the students in our care.
Please send a letter of interest and application materials to Teresa Baker via email, [email protected] , or mail to Riverview Intermediate Unit 6, 270 Mayfield Road, Clarion, PA, 16214.
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6 reserves the right to withdraw this posting without filling the position.
Full-Time Special Education Teacher
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6 currently has an opening for a Full-Time Special Education Teacher.
This position is available for the start of 2022-2023 school year.
Deadline to apply is August 5, 2022.
Full-Time Special Education Teacher (Autism Support K-6 at Oil City 7th Street Elementary)
Full-time professional union position (185 days annually) with salary and benefits per the collective bargaining agreement. Requires valid certification/licensure in PA in Special Education. Acts 24, 34, 114, 126, 151, and 168 clearances are required. This is a bargaining unit position.
General Responsibilities include (but are not limited to): Position is working in elementary autism support, grades K-6, at Oil City 7th Street Elementary. Requirements include knowledge of special education, autism, both oral and written, interpersonal skills, competence in related technology, standing, sitting, stooping, lifting up to 20 pounds – with occasionally up to approximately 40 pounds, walking. Position also includes coordinating with RIU6 and district administration, regular education teachers, and families to meet the needs of each individual learner, providing the best care, safety, welfare, and security for the students in our care.
Application materials can be sent to Teresa Baker, [email protected], via email or mailed to Riverview Intermediate Unit 6, 270 Mayfield Road, Clarion, PA, 16214.
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6 reserves the right to withdraw this posting without filling the position.
Paraprofessional (Educational Assistant)
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6 is anticipating eight positions to be available as a Paraprofessional (Educational Assistant).
Positions that will be working in Venango (3-4 positions), Forest (1-2 positions) & Clarion (3-4 positions) counties in IU6 classrooms, exact locations will be determined on August 1 after the Annual Bid Meeting for current staff members. The students are in Autism, Multi-Handicapped, and Emotional Support classrooms. Current openings are in the following schools: West Forest, Valley Grove Elementary, Oil City 7th Street, Franklin HS, Keystone Elementary, North Clarion Elementary and HS, Union HS, and Redbank Intermediate School.
These positions are full-time positions (184 days) working in Special Education. Requires valid high school diploma and Acts 34, 114, and 151 clearances, highly qualified certification preferred (RIU6 will provide training if needed). These are bargaining unit positions. Hours are roughly 7:30 am- 3:00 pm depending on the school schedule in the school you choose.
General Responsibilities include (but are not limited to): Providing the best care, safety, welfare, and security for the students in our care; providing assistance to the instructional staff in the classroom with a focus on your assigned students; and coordinating with RIU6 and school district personnel to meet the needs of the individual learner.
Send application information to Teresa Baker via email, [email protected] , or mail to Riverview Intermediate Unit 6, 270 Mayfield Road, Clarion, PA, 16214. Application packet may include, but is not limited to, letter of interest, resume, standard job application, clearances, certifications, transcripts, and any related training certifications for working with children.
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6 reserves the right to withdraw this posting without filling the position.
Part-Time Physical Therapist
Clarion Forest VNA
Clarion Forest VNA currently has an opening for a Part-time Physical Therapist.
The candidate best fit for this position is well organized, has excellent documentation skills, and desires a more flexible, family-friendly schedule with one-on-one patient interaction.
Join in a rewarding environment with a family-oriented work setting!
All wages are commensurate with experience and/or education.
Employment applications may be obtained at www.cfvna.org and sent with a resume to Human Resources, 271 Perkins Rd, Clarion, PA, 16214. For more information please contact Human Resources at 814-297-8400.
Clarion Forest VNA, Inc. is committed to the principles of equal employment. Clarion Forest VNA, INC. complies with the requirements of the CMS Interim Final Rule, effective 1/27/2022, requiring mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, or CMS required allowance for exemption.
Full-Time Elementary Teacher
Clarion Christian School
Clarion Christian School is now accepting applications for a Full-time Elementary Teacher.
A Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary or Early Childhood Education is preferred. Candidates must have clearances.
Please send a letter of interest, resume, teaching certificate, three references, and required clearances to:
Mrs. Lisa Smith, Administrator
Clarion Christian School
15952 Route 322, Suite 2
Clarion, PA 16214
or email [email protected]
Submit applications by August 8, 2022. Clarion Christian School will continue to receive applications until the position is filled.
Automotive Painter/Auto Body Technician
Gatesman Auto Body
Gatesman Auto Body is looking for a hard-working employee who cares about turning out the highest quality repairs possible.
FULL-TIME Automotive Painter/Auto Body Technician
Experience Required.
Pay based on experience and skill level. Benefits Available. Weekends off. Paid Holidays.
Family-owned and operated Body Shop for over 70 years.
Gatesman Auto Body looks forward to hearing from you.
APPLY IN PERSON OR ONLINE AT www.gatesmanautobody.com
814-226-9468
28177 Route 66, Lucinda, PA 16235, [email protected]
Cooks, Waitstaff, and Bartenders
Clarion American Legion Post #66
The Clarion American Legion Post #66 currently has openings for cooks, waitstaff, and bartenders.
Flexible full and Part-time hours are offered.
Competitive pay including fantastic tips.
- Excellent work environment
- Part-time or full-time
- Hours to fit your schedule
Clarion American Legion Post #66 is considered one of the best places in Clarion for a low-keyed, low-stress-related job that has more than competitive wages and is a great place to be associated with.
Join now and enjoy the benefits of working as one of their outstanding team players.
Call 814-226-9482 to schedule an interview or stop in at 530 Main St, Clarion, and pick up and application.
Food Delivery Service Workers
The Nutrition Group
The Nutrition Group now hiring Meal Delivery Drivers Full-time & Part-time for Ford City Commissary
Duties include preparing and/or delivering meals to the Armstrong Co Jail, Indiana, & Clarion Counties.
Competitive Wages are offered. Sign on bonuses after 30 and 90 days worked.
Paid Holidays and Vacation.
Apply at www.tngcareers.com or in person at 105 Valley View Dr, Ford City, PA 16226. Call 724-763-8608 to arrange an interview.
EOE/AA Compliant.
Food Delivery Driver
The Nutrition Group
The Nutrition Group is looking for Home Meal Delivery Drivers for morning shifts.
Are you a morning person and looking for the perfect part-time job? Are you looking to supplement your income?
The Nutrition Group is looking for motivated drivers that will pick up and deliver meals to seniors at their homes from the Clarion & Rimersburg senior centers areas.
Wages are based on driving routes, Monday-Thursday and there are no weekend hours! Sign-on bonus after 30 and 90 days worked.
Paid holidays and vacation.
Apply at TNGCareers.com or call 724-763-8608.
Central Accounting Deputy Director
Clarion County Central Accounting Office
The Clarion County Central Accounting Office currently has an opening for a Deputy Director.
POSITION: Central Accounting Deputy Director, Full-Time, 80 hours per pay
DEPARTMENT: Central Accounting, Clarion, PA
PAY GRADE: $15.00-$19.30/hr.
BENEFITS: Up to family coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance effective first of the month after the date of hire (employee pays 12.5% of the premium, the county pays 87.5%). $1,500 stipend if you do not need the county insurance. Life insurance coverage at no cost to employees. 5 Vacation days first year, 10 vacation days starting the second year, 3 personal days per year, 10 sick days per year, and 13 paid holidays off. Enrollment in Clarion County’s Pension plan (vested after 5 years, eligible to retire at 55 with 20 years of service).
POSTING DATE: Friday, July 22, 2022
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Friday, August 3, 2022, at 4:00 p.m.
QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s degree with an accounting major or associate degree from an accredited college or university supplemented by fifteen credits in accounting. Two years of prior budgeting and financial statement reporting, and analysis are required. Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and Word; or any acceptable combination of experience/training.
OVERALL PURPOSE OF JOB:
To provide accounting services relative to the financial reporting for County to include monthly reconciliations and analysis to support financial statements.
For specific details related to this job including Essential Functions; Other Duties; Supervision Received; Working Conditions; Physical and Mental Conditions; Qualifications; and Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities; please download and review this .pdf file.
HOW TO APPLY
A County application and transcripts are required to be considered for the advertised vacancy. Applications are only accepted for positions in which the county is actively recruiting. Applications received for positions not being advertised or general/blanket applications will be discarded.
Applications are available:
- Online by visiting:
www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php - In-Person by visiting the Clarion County Human Resource Office on the 2nd floor of the Administration Building located at 330 Main Street, Clarion, PA 16214
- By fax or e-mail. You must contact the Clarion County Human Resource Office by calling 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 to share your e-mail or fax number.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Friday, August 3, 2022, at 4:00 p.m.
CLARION COUNTY IS A DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE
APPLICANTS WHO REQUIRE SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS DUE TO A DISABILITY SHOULD CONTACT THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AT 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 FOR ASSISTANCE.
All Seasons Temporaries Inc. Offers Multiple Positions
All Seasons Temporaries, Inc.
All Seasons Temporaries, Inc. has several new job openings in the local area.
Lumber Stacker
7am-3:30pm
WE PAY WEEKLY!!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Stack lumber anywhere between 12’- 16’ to customers specifications with a partner
- Quality control and clip plywood 8’ 12’ to customers specs, with a partner
- Using an air nailer, compound miter saw, table saw, circular saw at some point
- Need to learn all of the paperwork involved, adding, subtracting, ect. (Math)
- Physical job fast paced
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre- employment screening
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Fork Lift Operator
8am- 4:30pm Monday- Friday
WE PAY WEEKLY!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Process orders to be shipped out to customers
- Marking and label stock product
- Assist in unloading trucks and checking in product
- Sort items according to organization standards
- Light Fork Lift driving
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre- employment screening
- Must be able to lift up to 40lbs.
- Must be able to bend, twist, kneel, push, pull, and reach duration of shift
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Grinder
7am- 3:30pm Monday – Friday
WE PAY WEEKLY!!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Grinding metal surfaces to the proper specifications
- Responsible for knowledge and operation of handheld grinders
- Stack sheets of metal upon completion of grinding
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre- employment screening
- Steel toed boots
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Bundler- Meadville
$12.50 to $13.50/hr. non- exempt
Light forklift driving, packaging bundles of pipe, use of banding and crimping to band pipes together.
Monday through Thursday, 6:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (some Fridays as needed for overtime, would be eight hours)
Pay Rate: $12.50- $13.50/hr. non- exempt
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Must have steel-toed shoes
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Stick Layers and Bin Tenders– Marienville, Titusville, and Endeavor
$15/hour – 1st and 2nd Shifts – Non-exempt
Job Requirements:
- Ability to lift, bend, twist, and stand for duration shift
- Must pass pre-employment screening
- Must have steel-toed boots
- Must have general mathematical skills
- Must abide by all safety protocols
- Understand lockout protocols
- Must be able to work with a team
Duties (but not limited to):
- Stack and sort lumber in appropriate slots
- Count pieces in stacks
- Tag bundles
- Operate machines and make sure they do not jam
- Clean machines when they are down
- Maintain clean workspaces
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Shipping and Receiving/ Forklift Operator
6am-2:30pm Monday – Friday
Located in Titusville, PA 16354
WE PAY WEEKLY!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Prepare loads
- Load and unload trucks
- Maintain proper documentation
- Warehouse inventory
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Must be reliable
- Must have forklift experience
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Hoist Operator
6am-2:30pm Monday- Friday
$15/hr. Non- Exempt
Located in Titusville, PA 16354
WE PAY WEEKLY!!!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Maneuver hoist properly so that the flow of production is not interrupted
- Must maintain a clean and safe workplace
- Must follow directions as provided by various departments
- Excellent benefits package upon f/t eligibility requirements being met
About All Season’s Temporaries Inc.
All Season’s offices are located at 1288 Liberty Street in Franklin and 113 N. Broad Street in Grove City.
For more information, call 814-437-2148 for the Franklin office or 724-458-6777 for the Grove City office.
Interested individuals may contact either office for available assignments.
Part-Time Special Education Paraeducators- Union SD
Union School District
Union School District is seeking, a caring, applicant for a Part-Time Paraeducator located at Sligo Elementary School for the 2022 – 2023 school year.
Candidates for consideration should be enthusiastic, joyful, and motivated. Union School District values candidates that possess an understanding of child development and a caring disposition. They are eager to welcome to their team a colleague committed to building strong student, staff, and family relationships and one who is committed to self-development.
Qualifications: Demonstrated enthusiasm for working with school-age children, 3–5 years of experience working with students (preferred), Associate’s degree (preferred), confidence when working with others, and strong social and communication skills.
Please submit a letter of interest, resume, general application, along with current Act 34, Act 151, Act 168, FBI Fingerprint, CPR, and First Aid clearances to:
Dr. Elena Steidinger, Director of Special Education
354 Baker Street, Suite 2
Rimersburg, PA 16248
or via email at [email protected] Applications can be found at www.unionsd.net.
Review of applications will begin immediately, however, applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
Union School District is an equal opportunity employer.
Full-time Home Health Aides
Clarion Forest VNA, Inc.
CFVNA is now hiring Full-time Home Health Aides.
The candidates best fit for these positions are well organized, have excellent documentation skills, and desire a more flexible, family-friendly schedule with one-on-one patient interaction.
Join in a rewarding environment with a family-oriented work setting!
Requirements:
- CNA preferred but not required
- CPR certification
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Must have a current valid PA Driver’s License and reliable transportation
- Able to work in a variety of settings and conditions
Hours are primarily Monday-Friday 8:00 AM-4:00 PM plus rotating weekends, holidays, and evenings as necessary.
Full-time employees are eligible for paid time off; health, HSA with match, dental, and vision insurance; supplemental policies; and more!
All wages are commensurate with experience and/or education.
Employment applications may be obtained at www.cfvna.org and sent with a resume to Human Resources, 271 Perkins Rd, Clarion, PA, 16214. For more information, please contact Human Resources at 814-297-8400.
Clarion Forest VNA, Inc. is committed to the principles of equal employment. Clarion Forest VNA, INC. complies with the requirements of the CMS Interim Final Rule, effective 1/27/2022, requiring mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, or CMS required allowance for exemption.
Administrative Assistant
Kahle’s Kitchens, Inc.
Kahle’s Kitchens, Inc. in Leeper PA currently has an opening for an administrative assistant.
Duties to include, but not limited to, answering phones, entering accounts payable, shipping items via FedEx, entering customer invoices, and filing.
Applicant should be proficient in Microsoft office, have good communication skills, and be able to work well with others, basic accounting knowledge is a plus but not required.
The position is full-time Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. shift. Benefits include health and vision insurance, 401k, and vacation.
Pay dependent on experience. The applicant may be subject to drug testing.
Kahle’s Kitchens, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
If you are interested please fill out an application in person at 7488 Route 36, Leeper, Pa 16233.
Full-time Registered Nurses for Home Health & Hospice
Clarion Forest VNA, Inc.
CFVNA is now hiring Full-time Registered Nurses for Home Health & Hospice.
The candidates best fit for these positions are well organized, have excellent documentation skills, and desire a more flexible, family-friendly schedule with one-on-one patient interaction.
Join in a rewarding environment with a family-oriented work setting!
Requirements:
- Licensed as an RN in Pennsylvania
- 1-year recent acute care experience preferred; Home Health and/or Hospice a plus
- CPR certification
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Must have a current valid PA Driver’s License and reliable transportation
- Able to work in a variety of settings and conditions
Hours are primarily Monday-Friday 8:00 AM-4:00 PM plus 1 weekend/month, 2 holidays/year, and rotating evenings. Evening hours are scheduled visits between 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM as needed.
Full-time RNs are salaried with a generous bonus system in place.
Flex scheduling is available!
Full-time employees are eligible for paid time off; health, HSA with match, dental and vision insurance; supplemental policies; and more!
All wages are commensurate with experience and/or education.
Employment applications may be obtained at www.cfvna.org and sent with a resume to Human Resources, 271 Perkins Rd, Clarion, PA, 16214. For more information please contact Human Resources at 814-297-8400.
Clarion Forest VNA, Inc. is committed to the principles of equal employment. Clarion Forest VNA, INC. complies with the requirements of the CMS Interim Final Rule, effective 1/27/2022, requiring mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, or CMS required allowance for exemption.
Paraprofessional (Classroom Assistant)
Keystone School District
Keystone School District currently has an opening for a Paraprofessional (Classroom Assistant).
High School Position available with the 2022-23 School Year.
Candidate should be highly qualified or willing to completethe requirements or have at least 24 college credits.
Salary is $16.40 per hour.
Interested candidates should send Letter of Interest, Resume, Certificate, Current Act 34, 114, 151 and 168 Clearances and Three (3) Letters of Reference to:
Mr. Michael McCormick
Acting Superintendent
Keystone School District
451 Huston Avenue
Knox, PA 16232
Deadline: August 5, 2022, or until position is filled.
Multiple Positions at Clarion Area School District
Clarion Area School District
Clarion Area School District currently has openings for multiple positions.
Positions Include:
- Part-time Elementary Music Teacher
- High School Industrial Arts Teacher
- Personal Care Attendant
- Paraprofessional
- Part-time Food Service Employee
All positions are beginning the 2022-2023 school year.
For more information on how to apply, go to www.clarion-schools.com or call 814-226-6110.
Applications are due by July 27, 2022.
All Seasons Temporaries Inc. Offers Multiple Positions
All Seasons Temporaries, Inc.
All Seasons Temporaries, Inc. has several new job openings in the local area.
Lumber Stacker
7am-3:30pm
WE PAY WEEKLY!!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Stack lumber anywhere between 12’- 16’ to customers specifications with a partner
- Quality control and clip plywood 8’ 12’ to customers specs, with a partner
- Using an air nailer, compound miter saw, table saw, circular saw at some point
- Need to learn all of the paperwork involved, adding, subtracting, ect. (Math)
- Physical job fast paced
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre- employment screening
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Fork Lift Operator
8am- 4:30pm Monday- Friday
WE PAY WEEKLY!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Process orders to be shipped out to customers
- Marking and label stock product
- Assist in unloading trucks and checking in product
- Sort items according to organization standards
- Light Fork Lift driving
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre- employment screening
- Must be able to lift up to 40lbs.
- Must be able to bend, twist, kneel, push, pull, and reach duration of shift
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Grinder
7am- 3:30pm Monday – Friday
WE PAY WEEKLY!!!
Duties (But not limited to):
- Grinding metal surfaces to the proper specifications
- Responsible for knowledge and operation of handheld grinders
- Stack sheets of metal upon completion of grinding
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre- employment screening
- Steel toed boots
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Bundler- Meadville
$12.50 to $13.50/hr. non- exempt
Light forklift driving, packaging bundles of pipe, use of banding and crimping to band pipes together.
Monday through Thursday, 6:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (some Fridays as needed for overtime, would be eight hours)
Pay Rate: $12.50- $13.50/hr. non- exempt
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Must have steel-toed shoes
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Stick Layers and Bin Tenders– Marienville and Endeavor
$15/hour – 1st and 2nd Shifts – Non-exempt
Job Requirements:
- Ability to lift, bend, twist, and stand for duration shift
- Must pass pre-employment screening
- Must have steel-toed boots
- Must have general mathematical skills
- Must abide by all safety protocols
- Understand lockout protocols
- Must be able to work with a team
Duties (but not limited to):
- Stack and sort lumber in appropriate slots
- Count pieces in stacks
- Tag bundles
- Operate machines and make sure they do not jam
- Clean machines when they are down
- Maintain clean workspaces
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
About All Season’s Temporaries Inc.
All Season’s offices are located at 1288 Liberty Street in Franklin and 113 N. Broad Street in Grove City.
For more information, call 814-437-2148 for the Franklin office or 724-458-6777 for the Grove City office.
Interested individuals may contact either office for available assignments.
Specialized Heavy Haul Driver
Barber Trucking
Barber Trucking, based out of Brookville, PA is seeking a full-time experienced Specialized Heavy Haul Driver for their Oversized Division.
They are a family-owned company that treats you like family and like a part of the team.
Want a position with home time throughout the week and weekends? Apply today!
Qualifications needed include:
- A Valid Class A CDL License
- 2 Years of Class A CDL Driving Experience
- 4 Axle Experience
- Experience with Heavy Equipment
Many other benefits that they offer are vacation pay, holiday pay, 401k, and a newer Peterbuilt.
Do you have a job listing that you’d like to include in this list? E-mail the listing to [email protected] or call 814-297-8004.
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Verdill Scores Four Goals as Clarion-Limestone Boys Soccer Team’s Offense Erupts in 12-0 Win Over Oil City
STRATTANVILLE, Pa. (EYT/D9) – It only took about six minutes of game action for Clarion-Limestone to shake off some nerves and a weather delay before the start of the contest to erupt for a 12-0 victory over the Oil City at the C-L High School Football Field on Monday evening.
(Above, Bailee Verdill scored four goals in the season-opening win for Clarion-Limestone/submitted photo.)
“We had some nerves at the start of the game, plus the delayed start probably didn’t help,” said C-L head coach Don Montgomery. “Once we settled down and got into the flow of the game, I felt our guys did a very good job in all phases of the game”
Bailee Verdill got things started for C-L at the 34:27 mark. It was the first of four goals on the evening for him.
Freshman Danny Schweitzer scored his first career goal at 24:42. Three minutes later Verdill added his second goal. Thomas Uckert scored his first of two at the 18:43 mark of the first for a 4-0 lead.
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The Lions tacked on four more goals in the first half with Verdill getting the hat trick at 16:01. Reece Geiger, Wyatt Boyden, and Schweitzer rounded out the scoring for an 8-0 halftime lead.
Verdill, Boyden, Uckert, and Jason Megnin scored in the second half to set the final score.
“Overall, I was really pleased with the effort,” said Montgomery. “The ability to share the ball and having so many different goal scorers. It isn’t just one guy as we have many guys who have the ability to put the ball in the back of the net.”
Uckert also added a pair of assists in the game, while Boyden and Geiger each added a helper. Brendan Betwy picked up a pair of assists while Blaise Cunningham and Tyler Bingham each added an assist.
C-L outshot Oil City 24-2.
“We still talked about some things we can begin to fix tomorrow,” said Montgomery. “Some things we might have gotten away with tonight that we probably won’t get away with against some of the stronger opponents that we’ll be playing. We’ll enjoy this one tonight and come back and hopefully be ready to play Forest Area.”
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Wayne Samuel Roach
Wayne Samuel Roach, 87, of Oil City, was called to his eternal home on Saturday, August 27, 2022 at UPMC Northwest in Seneca with his daughters by his side.
Born on December 4, 1934, he was the son of the late George S. and Laura D. Swihart Roach.
He graduated from Oil City High School in 1952.
He was so happy to recently attend his 70th class reunion party at the Arthur Steffee residence in Foxburg this past June.
He worked at Union Furniture while attending college in Pittsburgh.
He then went on to work at Joy Manufacturing in Franklin, retiring in 1997.
On August 28, 1954, he married his high school sweetheart, Gretchen C. Thomas, at Good Hope Lutheran Church.
They celebrated 65 years of marriage in 2019.
Gretchen preceded him in death on June 6, 2020.
Wayne’s forty-year career at Joy Manufacturing began as a maintenance man.
He had a very strong work ethic; he worked his way up to machinist and then a general foreman in the machine shop.
He valued his years at Joy Manufacturing and made many lasting friendships.
The “Joy Boys” enjoyed hunting and fishing together through the years.
While his girls were young, he became a Boy Scout Leader for many years through the Good Hope Lutheran Church; he had such fond memories of his adventures with “his boys” and instilled in them many valuable life lessons.
His faith was a very important part of his life.
He was an active member of the Good Hope Lutheran Church, where he served in many capacities throughout the years.
He had a kind, giving spirit throughout his life and would help others in any way he could.
After he retired, Wayne became an avid golfer with his wife.
They ventured to golf courses far and wide with his brother and sister-in-law, Butch and Gloria Aughenbaugh, where laughter and fun always ensued.
He also enjoyed playing in his men’s league at the Sleepy Hollow Golf Course.
Wayne and his wife enjoyed traveling.
They were blessed to travel to Alaska and Hawaii.
They spent several winters in Myrtle Beach with friends Jack and Judy Blaine.
They became snowbirds in Bradenton, FL.
They enjoyed many fun trips with the Gallavanter’s Club.
They also took several family trips to Black Lake, NY, where laughter and shenanigans abounded.
Wayne made sure his children and grandchildren took a yearly vacation, starting when they were young.
Chautaqua Lake was their favorite place to go every summer.
Everyone enjoyed fishing and tubing in grandpa’s boat, which he took great pride in.
As his health declined, he found joy in the little things, especially his dog, Lily, and mowing on his John Deer tractor.
Wayne is survived by his two daughters, Karen Chrispen and husband Rex, and Kelley McHenry and husband, Barry all of Oil City; five grandsons, Danny Gutowski and wife Ashley of Oil City, Bobby Chrispen of Oil City, David McClellan and wife Jennifer of Oil City, Jacob Serafin of Oil City, and Matthew McClellan and wife Sara of Raleigh, NC; five great grandchildren, Trevor and Gracie Gutowski, and Alayna and Carter Chrispen, and the newest addition, Charlotte Mae McClellan, who was born on August 19, 2022.
Also surviving are two sisters, Gloria Aughenbaugh of Oil City and Nancy Thomas-Lake of Buffalo as well as many special nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents and wife, Gretchen, he was preceded in death by his only brother, Kenneth Roach; brothers-in-law, Robert Thomas, LeRoy Thomas, Forest Thomas, Merritt Thomas, Charles “Butch” Aughenbaugh, and Michael Gulla; a sister-in-law, Earldean Gulla; and two nieces, Kimberly Kurtich and Cathy Goodman.
Visitation will be held at the Morrison Funeral Home on Wednesday, August 31, from 4 to 7 pm.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, September 1, at the Good Hope Lutheran Church in Oil City at 11 am, with an hour of visitation before the funeral, with the Rev. Michael Parsh and the Rev. Sandra Jones co-officiating.
Interment will be in Shaw Farm Cemetery.
The family would like to express their sincere gratitude to the doctors and nurses at UPMC Northwest, especially Dr. Lencer, for their compassionate care and kindness to Wayne and his family during his hospital stay.
If desired, memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the Salvation Army, or Good Hope Lutheran Church.
To leave the family a special message, obtain directions, or view other helpful services, please visit www.morrisonhome.com.
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Williamson Family Thanks Community for Heart Touching Tribute to Their Father
The children of the late Jim Williamson, Eric Williamson and Brianne McPherson, submitted the following thank you later following Friday night’s tribute to their father.
(Photo by Dave Cyphert of ProPoint Media Photography)
We want to take a moment to thank everyone that attended the Wildcats Football game on Friday, August 26 to honor and remember our Dad, Jim Williamson. We especially want to say thank you to Dave and Davey Eggleton, Brad Frazier, Jess Quinn, Corey Rex and others in the Wildcat community for organizing such a wonderful event.
He would have been humbled by the amount of former players, coaches and students that shared stories and memories. We loved having the opportunity to laugh and reminisce with people we know he respected and cared about. Even though our Dad may not have liked being the center of attention, that night was such a heartfelt celebration of how he truly made a difference in the lives of so many.
Coach Clyde Conti, thank you for your meaningful speech. Our Dad enjoyed his years with you not only as an assistant coach, but as your friend too.
On behalf of our family, thank you again for honoring our Dad and your Coach, Jim Williamson.
-Eric Williamson & Brianne McPherson
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SALEM, Ore. – The rugged majesty of the Pacific Northwest provides for a boundless range of outdoor activities, both for local residences and flocks of travelers eager to get back to nature after two previous summers of pandemic health protocols.
Mountain climbing, windsurfing, and discovering meandering trails along hilly beaches are popular activities to challenge enthusiastic travelers in the region. For most, a day enjoying the natural environment can energize and restores a person’s weathered spirit. But even the best prepared and experienced explorers can find themselves stranded, lost, or injured in vulnerable wilderness areas.
At any given time, there is no shortage of incidents large or small around the state that local Search and Rescue (SAR) teams respond to, often calling on the Oregon Department of Emergency Management (OEM) and the Oregon National Guard for assistance.
“There’s some type of SAR operations in the state every single day,” said Scott Lucas, State of Oregon SAR Coordinator with OEM. “As big as the state is and with so many remote wilderness areas, we typically have close to 1,100 SARs a year.”
Lucas also said that more people are exploring new places they are unfamiliar with, not knowing the area, terrain, and weather conditions, especially during the excessive heat-related injuries this summer. SAR missions also take away resources – including SAR teams, volunteers, gear, and time.
"Know before you go may seem like obvious advice, but it makes a difference when it comes to staying safe,” said Lucas.
Though only a fraction of those cases requires Oregon Army National Guard aviation support, many of the mountain rescues where climbers are severely injured could not be accomplished without helicopter assistance.
“Air rescues are vital for life-threatening injuries,” Lucas explained. “For most mountain rescue situations, the hiker has injuries that prevent them from being moved by rescue climbers, and being exposed to the elements is a critical factor too.”
While coordinating with all 36 counties of Oregon, Lucas said in most cases, requests are generated from local sheriff’s offices that need the additional SAR support assets. The Oregon Emergency Response System process creates an Incident Report Number where federal and state assets can then be directed to the counties requesting support.
As these missions are assigned to the Oregon National Guard, they pass through the Joint Operations Center (JOC) to get the mission launched.
“There have been several high profile rescues recently where we have used Blackhawk helicopters to conduct rescues at Diamond Lake (on Aug. 10) and on Mt. Hood (on July 2) supporting high elevation missions,” Lucas said.
The Army National Guard maintains both HH-60M Blackhawks and UH-72A Lakota’s for search and rescue operations at McNairy Field in Salem, and in special cases, CH-47 Chinooks at the Pendleton Army Aviation Support Facility (AASF) can be called upon for assistance.
The state Aviation and Safety officer Col. Brian Houston initially receives a call from Scott Lucas, and the decision is made if the Army can fly the mission. If the mission is a go, then Col. Houston will call Maj. Daniel Russell, Operations Officer at AASF 1 in Salem.
“We support domestic operations so most of the time our full-time staff are the ones that execute the search and rescue missions,” said Russell, describing how the missions are staffed. “The people who go fly the mission are often times our part-time drill status members.”
Russell, a Blackhawk pilot, is ‘dual-hatted,’ working full time as the supervisor of training, and then in his M-day (Guard members who perform weekend drill and not on full-time duty) status as the Battalion S-1, Human Resources Officer for the 2nd Battalion, 641st Aviation Regiment. He will then put the “call out” in the form of a mass text asking for volunteers that are available.
“We don’t always have a full crew that works here during the week so we rely on this list of volunteers,” he said. “Most of the missions we fly are done by our M-day crews.”
By asking for volunteers, Russell can keep a list of ready volunteers sharp and spread the experience across the force. Those crews are made up of service members who are commercial pilots or have jobs working as medical first responders for community hospitals in their civilian jobs. A normal SAR crew will have a pilot, co-pilot, crew chief, and flight paramedic.
“I am actually always very impressed with our ability to respond to something as a primary part-time force – that’s something that most people don’t know because they assume we have a dedicated full-time SAR force.”
In 2022, the Oregon Army National Guard has flown 10 SAR missions, nine of those using the Blackhawks to recover patients. This includes the well-published July 2 rescue at Mt. Hood.
According to Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, the climber lost his ice ax and fell approximately 600-700 feet from the summit ridge to the rocks above the Hot Rocks fumarole and sustained serious injuries. Portland Mountain Rescue and the Crag Rats reached the injured 43-year-old climber from Happy Valley by mid-day, and around 1:00 p.m. the Oregon National Guard Blackhawk arrived. They first dropped off two flight paramedics, who secured him with a litter so they could hoist him into the helicopter for transport to a hospital in Portland.
This was followed by another SAR helicopter mission on Aug. 10, 2022, successfully rescuing an injured hiker at Diamond Lake, Oregon. Douglas County (SAR) requested air assets to assist in the search for a 37-year-old female hiker who suffered a broken ankle and was dehydrated. In both rescues, the hoist system on the Blackhawk was critical, as well as the experience of the crew to work in demanding terrains.
Though many of the rescues come in the warm weather months, the mission is year-round.
“It’s not just during the spring and summer,” said Sgt. 1st Class Mark Carter, the senior crew chief working at AASF 1 in Salem. “We have snowmobilers and hunters that get lost and loggers who can get pinned down that we need to recover.”
The unit keeps two aircraft ready at all times and Carter helps the crews coming in with having their gear ready to go.
“I spent 12 years on active duty before joining the National Guard in 2002, but we spend more time doing our jobs in the Guard because of these types of missions,” Carter said. "It’s what I do -- and I do it because of the mission.”
With these types of missions, Russell is quick to point out there are many unsung heroes that work behind the scenes. This includes Guard members working in communications and support.
“They answer the radios, track and relay communication. This includes making calls to the hospitals to make sure they know we’re coming,” said Russell. “Whenever we do these missions, I get the flight crews to come in but I also get them [support team] to come in as well…their just not on the helicopter.”
With so many moving pieces, both in the air and on the ground, it takes a total team approach to help search, rescue, recover and transport those who have become lost or injured throughout the region’s rugged, scenic landscapes.
“At the end of the day, people love being in the unit because it’s one of the reasons we joined and we get to do it,” said Russell. “Literally, we’re saving lives – it doesn’t get any better than that.”
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Gazing out into the sea of beaming faces, the bespectacled man clutches the metallic frame of an award. His eyes, darting from the crowd and back to his hands, are stern but kind, the type of look a proud grandfather might wear watching their family. He stands tall and lean, towering in front of his onlookers, much like the buildings he has assisted in creating during his time as a civil engineer.
Lawrence Seeba, or Lee, as he is affectionately known around the office, is retiring after a total of 37 years of civilian service and was awarded the Civilian Service Commendation Medal. He was the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Japan Engineer District (JED) Chief of Construction division.
Accepting the award in front of his adopted U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Japan Engineer District (JED) family, Lee was met with the strong handshake of another one of JED’s father-figures – the commander.
“We are so grateful for your steadfast leadership during your time with us,” said JED commander, Col. Gary Bonham. “From the bottom of my heart, I thank you for your service.”
A native of Bismarck, ND, young Lee’s exposure to the engineering career field came from his father, who was also a civil engineer with over 30 years of service.
“[Thanks in part to my father,] I was able to view a lot of construction placement before I could even legally work,” Seeba remembered. “[From the beginning,] I had a passion to build – I still do.”
Following in his father’s footsteps and focusing on his growing need to build, Seeba graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering, which is when his real entrance into the field began.
“[After graduating,] I started working as a maintenance supervisor at a steel mill,” Seeba said. “I then had my first child and decided to move back to Omaha to continue work as a mechanical contractor.”
With his family growing and his career in engineering on the rise, Lee’s move back to Omaha would prove to be a life-altering one, as it eventually introduced him to USACE and their construction division, of which he would later become a cornerstone.
“[Upon moving back,] I finally decided to try [working for] the USACE Construction Division in 1985,” mused Lee. “I worked with them for a few years while in Omaha, before [relocating abroad.]
After his entrance into USACE and a tour back in Omaha, Lee enjoyed a whirlwind tour in Europe, during which he was present when the Berlin Wall was finally destroyed. His duty stations have brought him to locales from Alaska to Colorado where he continued to hone his skill set and establish himself as an integral part of USACE’s worldwide team.
In 2016 however, Seeba accepted an offer from the JED, working for the Iwakuni office as a resident engineer, where he holds special memories. It was also a tour where he managed contracts exceeding the billion-dollar range.
Seeba played an integral part of the Defense Policy Review Initiative, or DPRI, a joint-Japanese supported force redistribution plan to include reducing the U.S. footprint on Okinawa and positioning U.S. forces in more strategic locations.
“I remember sitting on my balcony with my wife, Emilie, looking out at all of the construction cranes lined up in the distance [near one of the bases,]” said Lee. “I made a lot of friendships over there, but I remember feeling really satisfied with all of the structures we built there…we made those bases what they are today.”
Following that, Lee made his way down to Okinawa for a tour, ending in 2018, upon which he made his final stop in his career at the Camp Zama JED Office, where he assumed his role as their Chief of the Construction division.
Bringing decades of competent engineering experience to the table, along with a calming and friendly demeanor, Lee quickly cemented himself as an ally to his fellow engineers.
“The level of professionalism here at JED has never failed to impress me,” Seeba remarked. “Working together was an incredible experience.”
But Lee’s most important structures he’s helped build during his career were all the friendships he has made along the way –the self-professed “grandfather” to hundreds of his employees and close friends he has met.
“Emilie and I have had the opportunity to make a lot of important connections here in Japan,” Lee said. “All of my teammates here are like my family – I feel like they’re all my grandchildren, my extended family.”
Seeba’s imprint of course extends to JED’s commander, who fondly considers him to be a critical asset.
“Lee has been such a steady presence during his time here,” remarked Bonham. “He’s the type of man who whenever he enters the room, you just feel at ease knowing that [Lee] will take control of the whatever situation is present.”
Today, Lee takes his last steps around the Camp Zama JED building before his official retirement begins.
“There are no words I can express for all of my thanks and pride [I hold] to all I know,” Lee said. “In the end [of my career,] the highlight is the extended family relationships I have with the people [I’ve met] all over the world.”
Although Lawrence Seeba’s story as a civilian service employee is nearing its end, in true engineer fashion, he had one last piece of advice for his team.
“No matter what the problem is, [or what you face] the answer is the same, in the Corps of Engineers ‘WE BUILD.’”
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Nearly one month after a fiery crash killed five people and an unborn baby at a Windsor Hills intersection, the county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Aug. 30, called for a series of studies and immediate steps aimed at slowing traffic at the crossroad and other high-danger roadways.
“Disturbingly, traffic fatalities have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, and reckless speeding, street takeovers and erratic driver behavior has become widespread,” Supervisor Holly Mitchell wrote in a motion that was approved on a 4-0 vote Tuesday, with Supervisor Sheila Kuehl absent.
“We need to explore the availability of additional tools to improve our infrastructure and to hold people accountable to mitigate dangerous driver behavior and keep people alive.”
Her motion called for a series of reports from county officials, and instructs the Department of Public Works to hire an outside contractor “to conduct an after-action review” of the response to the Aug. 4 crash at La Brea and Slauson avenues, with a report back to the board in 60 days.
It also called on Public Works officials to “take appropriate actions to slow down excessive speeds on La Brea Avenue and Slauson Avenue and surrounding areas including, but not limited to, consideration of off-the-shelf and/or quick-build safety improvements” within 30 days.
The motion also calls for county staff to explore what possible changes in state and local law could help further regulate speed in the area, through methods such as “automated speed enforcement and red-light cameras at key intersections.”
It also calls for the development in 60 days of a complete “Community Traffic Safety” plan for the Windsor Hills/Ladera Heights area that includes a study of possible “road diets to curb excessive speeding.”
Nicole Lorraine Linton, a 37-year-old traveling nurse, is accused of speeding her Mercedes-Benz into the intersection of La Brea and Slauson around 1:40 p.m. Aug. 4, broadsiding a vehicle and causing a fiery, chain-reaction crash that killed 23-year-old Asherey Ryan of Los Angeles, who relatives said was 8 1/2 months pregnant.
Her unborn child, Armani Lester, also died in the crash and is considered a victim, along with Ryan’s 11-month-old son Alonzo Quintero and 24-year-old boyfriend, Reynold Lester of Los Angeles.
They were all in one car, traveling to a pre-natal doctor’s appointment for Ryan, relatives said.
Also killed in the crash were Nathesia Lewis, 43, and her friend 38-year-old Lynette Noble, who were in another car.
Eight other people were also injured.
During Tuesday’s meeting, Mitchell acknowledged the “emotional pain and trauma” the crash caused for the entire Windsor Hills community, and residents beyond that area.
“I live off of La Brea,” she said. “Not in that immediate community, but that’s my main thoroughfare that I traverse in the course of my life. … The Slauson corridor is an area I’m very familiar with and (I) completely feel the anxiety and sense of loss that we heard many callers express today.”
She called traffic fatalities “endemic” in the county, adding, “Black people are dying from them at a disproportionate rate.”
Linton was hospitalized after the crash but survived. She was charged with six counts of murder and five counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said his office could not file a manslaughter charge in a case involving an unborn child.
Linton’s arraignment is set for Oct. 26. She has a bail review hearing scheduled for Wednesday.
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COSTA MESA — First, there was the news.
Defensive lineman Breiden Fehoko had made the Chargers’ 53-man roster Tuesday.
Then, there was the emotion.
Fehoko shared the joyful moment with his family and friends.
Then, there was more emotion.
Fehoko later recalled his conversations with his family, including his father, Vili.
“I’ve been cut twice,” Fehoko told reporters before choking up and pausing to collect himself.
“He was happy,” he said of his talk with his dad. “My mom left me a voicemail. She was tearing up a little bit. My fiance cried a little bit, too, this morning. My brother called me. I texted him and I said, ‘We’re going to be good.’ It’s funny. He read it and said, ‘Man, you’ll be good. Some team will pick you up.’
“I said, ‘No, no, no, we’re going to be good.’
“He read it wrong.”
Fehoko laughed.
“It’s just been one of those rides,” he said. “I’ve always had to battle from the bottom up. I’ve had to grind for everything I’ve got, but I wouldn’t want it any other way. I wouldn’t want things handed to me on a silver platter. I always want people to challenge me. I always want the room to expect more out of me.”
Fehoko was a standout lineman at Farrington High School in Honolulu, then played for two seasons at Texas Tech before transferring to LSU for his final two. The Chargers signed him as a free agent in 2020, then waived him, then signed him to the practice squad. He played two games in 2020.
He signed again in 2021, then was waived again, then signed again to the practice squad. He played eight games in 2021, starting once. He made 13 tackles, including a career-high five in the Chargers’ loss to the Houston Texans in the season’s second-to-last game.
Fehoko, 25, could be headed for a similar experience this season as he’s had the past two. He was one of six interior defensive linemen named to the Chargers’ squad, but that was Tuesday and a great deal could happen between cutdown day and the end of the regular season on Jan. 8.
As expected, Sebastian Joseph-Day, Jerry Tillery, Austin Johnson, Morgan Fox and Otito Ogbonnia made the 53-man roster. Christian Covington, an eight-year veteran from Rice, didn’t make the cut after playing 96 career games with the Chargers, Cincinnati, Dallas and Houston.
“Nothing is ever guaranteed,” Fehoko said. “The faces you see in the room now are totally different faces by the end of the year. Injuries happen. We’re in the middle of a pandemic. So, a lot of things can change. You always want to approach this day-by-day, but you want to make sure you’re doing everything to make sure you’re helping out the team the best way possible.”
Coach Brandon Staley referred to Fehoko as “a Charger, for sure.”
“He’s got a lot of things you look for in a football player,” Staley said. “Toughness. He’s really smart for a defensive lineman in terms of really being a general in the middle (of the defensive line), a commander. That can be an advantage for you. He’s just a tough, rugged football player.”
NUMBERS GAME
Michael Bandy led the Chargers with 18 receptions for 172 yards and two touchdowns in three exhibition games, but he didn’t make the 53-man roster. He simply couldn’t crack the top five wide receivers the Chargers kept: Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, Jalen Guyton, Joshua Palmer and DeAndre Carter.
“We felt like the five that we kept, those were the right guys to keep,” Staley said. “I feel like all five of them had really quality training camps. That was the thing that really stood out to us. All five of those guys are improving. Mike and Keenan are leading the way for us.”
In the end, it was injuries that might have cost defensive back Mark Webb Jr. a spot on the roster, according to Staley. Webb, a seventh-round draft pick from Georgia in 2021, simply wasn’t on the field often enough to beat out Deane Leonard, a seventh-round draft pick from Ole Miss in ’22.
“Certainly, it’s not an indictment of his talent or his ability,” Staley said. “But you have to be out there. We’re hoping to keep working with him. That’s just part of the NFL. I think that if Mark can be out there on a consistent basis, then we know that he has a lot of the stuff that you’re looking for in the secondary.”
Any players, including Bandy and Webb, who were cut before the NFL’s deadline Tuesday could be added to the practice squad after clearing waivers.
INJURY UPDATES
Cornerback J.C. Jackson is wearing a walking boot after undergoing minor ankle surgery last week, and Staley said he was working out with his teammates in the weight room. Staley wasn’t sure if Jackson would be sound enough to play in the season-opening game, though.
Running back Isaiah Spiller returned to the practice field after suffering an ankle injury in the Chargers’ Aug. 20 exhibition loss to the Dallas Cowboys. Staley said Spiller’s availability for the opener against the Las Vegas Raiders was “still up in the air,” but he was “trending positive.”
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NEW YORK — After throwing four simulated innings in Miami on Saturday, Clayton Kershaw said he knew when he would be returning to the Dodgers’ starting rotation but he didn’t want to say.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts knew as well obviously, but he wasn’t ready to say until after Kershaw threw a bullpen session on Monday.
Now we all know.
Kershaw will come off the injured list on Thursday and make his first start since his recurring back problem flared up again four innings into a start at San Francisco on Aug. 4.
Kershaw’s second trip to the IL this season will last slightly shorter than the first. The three-time Cy Young Award winner missed just over a month after a similar flare-up in early May.
The decision to have Kershaw start Thursday against the New York Mets allows the Dodgers to keep giving Dustin May extra rest between starts. Since returning from Tommy John surgery, May has pitched on as little as four days’ rest just once – between his fourth and fifth rehab starts with Triple-A Oklahoma City.
Kershaw’s return follows Tony Gonsolin going to the IL with a forearm strain. Roberts had said the Dodgers planned to roll with a six-man rotation for two weeks “bare minimum” after Kershaw’s return. With Gonsolin’s injury now, that will require another promotion for Ryan Pepiot, Michael Grove or another pitching prospect (Bobby Miller was promoted to Triple-A almost two weeks ago).
“The easy answer is we’re going to stick with five (starters),” Roberts said Tuesday. “But it wouldn’t surprise me if we inserted somebody at some point to give guys an extra day. But I don’t know when that’s going to be. I don’t.”
BULLPEN HELP
Before Tuesday’s game, the Dodgers sent Monday’s fill-in starter Michael Grove and struggling reliever Phil Bickford to Triple-A and added right-handers Jake Reed and Heath Hembree as fresh arms to a bullpen that covered 15 innings during the four-game series in Miami.
Infielder Eddy Alvarez was designated for assignment to open a 40-man roster spot for Hembree.
Reed had joined the Dodgers in Miami on the taxi squad. Hembree, 33, was a member of the Boston Red Sox bullpen when they beat the Dodgers in the 2018 World Series. He has bounced around five organizations since then. He started this season with the Pittsburgh Pirates, posting a 7.16 ERA in 20 appearances and getting released in June. The Dodgers signed him to a minor-league contract and Hembree had a 4.82 ERA in 10 appearances for OKC.
PLAYOFF PREVIEW
The two best teams in the National League will square off for three games at Citi Field. It could very well be a preview of a postseason series should the Dodgers and Mets continue on their current trajectories.
The Mets still have work to do to hold off the Atlanta Braves, who started Tuesday just three games back in the NL East. The Dodgers, meanwhile, long ago boat-raced the NL West and can view this series as an information-gathering exercise.
“I think we’re looking forward to it because it’s a heckuva ballclub,” Roberts said. “I guess the thing you sort of want to see is how this team is because it’s comprised different than last year. So you just want to continue to gather information. That’s how I look at it. Obviously, the fans are excited to see Mets and Dodgers. I’m looking at it as a potential opponent down the road. But it’s going to be a fun series.
“They’re playing good baseball. They have all year. … All games, I guess, aren’t created equally. We like to think they are in the clubhouse. But it’s going to be an exciting series.”
UP NEXT
Dodgers (LHP Tyler Anderson, 13-2, 2.69 ERA) at Mets (RHP Jacob deGrom, 3-1, 2.15 ERA), Wednesday, 4:10 p.m., SportsNet LA, MLB Network, 570 AM
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By Joshua Goodman | Associated Press
MIAMI — A Los Angeles attorney detained in Venezuela is pleading for help from the Biden administration, saying in a secretly recorded jailhouse message that he feels forgotten by the U.S. government as he faces criminal charges at the hands of one of the nation’s top adversaries.
Eyvin Hernandez, who has been detained for five months, describes in the recording how he has dedicated the past 15 years to public service as an employee of the Los Angeles County public defender’s office, seeking fair treatment for often penniless clients.
“No one should be abandoned at the time of their greatest need and when they’re most vulnerable,” he said in the almost two-minute recording, which was provided to The Associated Press by Hernandez’s family. “However, I don’t feel like my government feels that way about me.”
In a calm voice, Hernandez said he and other Americans imprisoned in Venezuela — there are at least 10, including five oil executives and three veterans — feel “like our government has abandoned us.”
Hernandez’s appeal comes as the Biden administration is under pressure to do more to bring home roughly 50 Americans it believes have been wrongfully detained by hostile governments around the world. Much of the focus is on Russia, where the U.S. has taken the unusual step of proposing a swap of a convicted arms dealer for WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner. U.S. officials have for months been quietly pursuing a separate deal with Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government in Venezuela, which holds the largest contingent of Americans suspected of being used as bargaining chips.
Henry Martinez said his brother sent him the voice message Aug. 21. A copy was also provided to the State Department, which has been weighing whether to turn Hernandez’s case over to the administration’s special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, Roger Carstens.
In the recording, Hernandez said it’s been months since he or any of his fellow Americans have seen a courtroom, nor do they have any hopes of getting a fair trial.
“This place is meant to break you psychologically and spiritually,” he said of confinement at a maximum security prison housing many of Maduro’s opponents. “We’re all innocent, yet we’re being charged and treated as terrorists.”
He said the uncertainty, isolation and human rights violations are taking a toll, with two Americans having already attempted suicide and a third on the brink with daily mental breakdowns.”If you don’t get us out soon, then there might not be anyone left to save,” he said.
The AP was unable to verify Hernandez’s claims. But United Nations officials have long complained about the lack of independence for Venezuelan judges and prosecutors and about conditions at the facility where Hernandez and several other Americans are being held.
A State Department spokesman declined to comment on Hernadez’s case, citing privacy limitations, but said the agency continuously reviews the detentions of Americans overseas. He also noted that the U.S. government has issued an advisory warning Americans to avoid all travel to Venezuela due to the risk of wrongful detentions and threats from illegal armed groups, especially along the country’s porous borders.
Hernandez, who turned 44 in jail, was arrested March 31 along the Colombia-Venezuela border. His family says he traveled there from the city of Medellin with a Venezuelan friend who needed to get her passport stamped to resolve an issue with her migratory status in Colombia. His family said he never intended to enter Venezuela, and he was due to fly home three days later.
But the two apparently fell into the hands of criminal gangs.
Upon arrival by bus to the city of Cucuta, they hailed a taxi for the short drive to the Simon Bolivar International Bridge, according to an account Hernandez shared with his family. A fourth individual hopped in the front seat, purportedly offering his services as a guide who could help them navigate the confusion at the border, an area overrun by squatters, criminal gangs and a mass of people making their way back and forth in illegal crossings.
Before they knew it, the cab was stopped along a dirt path, and the two were ordered to get out and walk across the invisible border separating the two countries.
Once Hernandez realized his mistake, it was too late to turn back. A man carrying a rifle demanded he cough up $100, according to his family. When he protested that he didn’t have any cash, they put a hood over his head.
When his captors found his American passport, they told him he was in trouble and handed him over to security forces, who kept him incommunicado for weeks.
Adding to the Hernandez family’s anguish is the fact that he isn’t classified as wrongfully detained, a definition that covers Americans believed innocent or jailed for the purpose of exacting concessions from the U.S. Without such designation, a process that can take months, the U.S. government’s ability to push for his release is limited.
At least three of the 11 other Americans known to be detained in Venezuela are in a similar state of limbo. They include Jerrel Kenemore, a computer programmer arrested within a week of Hernandez, and two former Green Berets who took part in a blunder-filled beach attack in 2020 aimed at overthrowing Maduro.
Biden last month signed an executive order aimed at providing more information to families of Americans detained abroad and imposing stiff sentences on the criminals, terrorists and government officials holding them.
Maduro’s socialist government is a harsh critic of U.S. foreign policy. But more recently, as the Biden administration has shown a willingness to review the Trump-era policy of punishing Maduro with sanctions and calling for regime change, the outlook for a possible release has improved.
In March, the Maduro government freed two Americans following a surprise trip to Caracas by senior White House and State Department officials, including Carstens, who met with Hernandez in a subsequent wellness check on detained Americans in June. Maduro also vowed to resume negotiations with his opponents, although has so far failed to follow through.
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Days before nearly 4 million residents in Southern California will be asked to suspend outdoor watering for 15 days from Sept. 6 to Sept. 20, and during one of the worst heat waves of the year, officials with the Metropolitan Water District shared details about repairing the leak in a massive water pipeline.
Residents of dozens of cities and communities from Burbank to Long Beach, and from Malibu to Pomona, and including areas served by the Central Basin Municipal Water District, Foothill Municipal Water District, Three Valleys Municipal Water District and West Basin Municipal Water District, will be impacted by the restrictions during the repairs.
The repairs were required after officials discovered a leak in the 36-mile-long Upper Feeder pipeline owned by the Metropolitan Water District, which moves water from the Colorado River to California.
Officials said that in April they discovered the leak, whose location they won’t identify aside from saying it is in Riverside County. The pipeline has been providing water at a reduced capacity following efforts by a crew to perform temporary repairs.
Now, the district plans to fix it permanently to avoid a disastrous failure of one of the region’s most crucial water systems.
“What we want to make sure is that we don’t have a catastrophic failure of that critical pipe,” said Adel Hagekhalil, the Metropolitan Water District’s general manager, during a Tuesday, Aug. 30 press conference. “Because if that fails,” he said, “it’ll be an emergency and we will lose water.”
Hagekhalil referred to the repairs needed for the leaking pipe as performing “emergency surgery versus a catastrophic surgery.”
Although the streaming press conference held on Tuesday was marred by sound problems, Hagekhalil got across his message that the leak is a reminder that the water district needs to invest in its aging infrastructure.
Brent Yamasaki, the district’s system operations manager, said during the press conference that “the shutdown has been months in the making.”
“Imagine you’ve got a bridge with a pipeline on it, it’s 1,000 feet (across) and it crosses a river,” Yamasaki said. “You don’t want to do this in the wintertime when it’s raining.” He said crews will be working 24/7 to complete the repairs.
Maritza Fairfield, a spokeswoman with the Metropolitan Water District, said in a phone interview that the district is declining to share the exact location of the broken pipeline in Riverside County due to security concerns.
The pipeline has been running at reduced capacity since the district discovered that a bellows joint had cracked, Fairfield said, adding that crews “applied a temporary repair that allowed us to keep operating at reduced capacity.” Bellows joints are flexible elements that absorb movements in a pipe system.
“As soon as we were made aware of it, we made the temporary repair,” she said, adding that it took crews nearly 10 weeks to manufacture a bellows joint to replace the joint that cracked.
It’s unclear how large the leak was, but the district doesn’t normally shut down a pipeline for minor repairs, Fairfield noted.
“It’s more of a leak that we need to address now,” she said. “It’s definitely significant.”
Now that a replacement for the broken part is ready to be installed, officials said, the district is ready to complete long-term repairs.
The reason the district launched repairs during one of the worst heat waves of the year, Fairfield explained, is because “we can’t project the weather ahead of time. We did wait until after Labor Day to be able to schedule this shutdown, but we have to do the work.”
Starting Sept. 6, the Upper Feeder pipe will stop operating completely to allow workers to conduct repairs.
The Upper Feeder delivers water from the Colorado River, but during the repairs, Fairfield said, the district will be switching over to supplies from the California State Water Project — a multipurpose water storage and delivery system that stretches nearly 705 miles and delivers water through a network of canals, pipelines, reservoirs and hydroelectric power facilities.
In a normal year, a pipeline shutdown wouldn’t be an issue, Fairfield said, because the district would just switch over to the State Water Project’s supply. But those supplies are extremely limited due to the record-breaking drought, she said, adding that “the situation is more difficult.”
The upcoming water ban sparked criticism from residents and businesses who feared the two-week shutdown would destroy their trees, gardens and lawns.
Officials with the water district recommended using water collected from the shower to water plants, and to start deep-watering trees on Sept. 5, the day before the start of the ban. They said mulching is important to saving gardens and trees. Experts say using mulch can save 20-30 gallons of water per 1,000 square feet each time residents water their gardens and lawns.
The two-week ban on residential watering, Sept. 6-Sept. 20, applies to 4 million residents in the below communities. See the map for areas affected, shown in deep yellow, and locations of free mulch, shown as red dots:
Altadena, Artesia, Bell, Bell Gardens, Bellflower, Beverly Hills, Burbank, Carson, Cerritos, Claremont, Commerce, Compton, Covina, Cudahy, Culver City, Diamond Bar, Downey, East Los Angeles, East Whittier, El Segundo, Florence-Graham CDP, Gardena, Glendale, Glendora, Hawaiian Gardens, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Huntington Park, Inglewood, La Cañada Flintridge, La Habra Heights, La Mirada, La Verne, Lakewood, Lawndale, Lomita, Long Beach, Lynwood, Malibu, Manhattan Beach, Maywood, Montebello, Monterey Park, Montrose, Norwalk, Palos Verdes Estates, Paramount, Pasadena, Pico Rivera, Pomona, Rancho Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach, Rolling Hills, Rolling Hills Estates, Rowland Heights, San Dimas, San Fernando, Santa Fe Springs, Signal Hill, South Gate, South Whittier, Torrance, Walnut Park.
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I spent a long weekend in Portland, Oregon, and had the usual great time in one of my favorite cities. Having a great time could have been predicted — unlike the temperatures.
A week before my departure, highs during my stay were going to be in the mid-90s. As my trip got closer, the forecasted highs dropped into the 80s, and then the low 80s. To be safe, I packed one long-sleeve shirt and a pair of jeans along with short-sleeve shirts and shorts.
By the time I touched down, the short-term predictions were in the 70s, with lows in the 50s. This proved accurate. I donned my single long-sleeve shirt every morning and every evening, sometimes with a second layer, and wore my jeans daily. The shorts, and most of my short-sleeve shirts, remained in my suitcase.
“How is Claremont, California?” the desk clerk asked jovially when I checked in. “About 15 degrees hotter than here,” I replied.
Portland having no baseball team, I visit the city — this was my sixth time — to pursue my other interests: bookstores, record stores, dining, public transit.
Powell’s Books is by some measures the largest bookstore in the world, occupying an entire city block and stocking a million books over four floors.
I think it’s four floors. It might be five. You take a few steps up here to one room, a few steps down over there to another, and if you walk through the right door, you find a mezzanine with a lower floor. It’s a little like San Diego’s old Horton Plaza, where you might get lost and not mind it.
Because Powell’s is overwhelming, I go for an hour or so every day to check out a different area: nonfiction one day, science fiction and mystery another, fiction and literature last.
Even with 1 million books, Powell’s doesn’t have everything. I brought my want list, which is full of out-of-print titles, and most weren’t available. But I bought four books at the main store and a fifth at the Hawthorne branch, and that’ll occupy some time.
Likewise, I hit up two record stores. Everyday Music has shrunk since my last visit, giving up two-thirds of its floor space, but it’s still large. I had no idea Loudon Wainwright III, one of my favorite singer-songwriters, had a brand-new record until idly flipping through the CD bins. The wryly titled “Lifetime Achievement” is about turning 75.
And Music Millennium, which required a bus ride to reach, is always worth the effort. Founded in 1969, it seems to still be going strong. My two jazz CD purchases (Ella Fitzgerald, Pharoah Sanders) won’t hurt.
Speaking of buses, I was all over them. I rode a bus out to the breakfast joint Gravy in the Boise neighborhood; down to SE Hawthorne to the other Powell’s; and from Music Millennium in Laurelhurst to Khao Man Gai in East Portland and then back to my Pearl District hotel.
At the chicken-rice specialist Khao Man Gai, by the way, the gregarious guy at the register waggled his fingers above the printer waiting for my receipt to rise up, saying, “Sim, sim, salabim.” I laughed.
“Thank you,” he said. “You’re the first person to laugh at that joke.”
“I grew up watching ‘Jonny Quest,’” I told him.
Portland has New York City-level transit, amazing for a city of 650,000. Streetcars, light rail and buses serve the city. The Max light rail will whisk you between downtown and the airport terminals for $2.50.
(Meanwhile, as mentioned here before, the Inland Empire will be virtually transit-free for Labor Day weekend, and it’s been a while since we heard anything about 325,000-population Riverside’s concept for a streetcar line.)
Buying a transit pass in Portland involves a technology that was new to me. A friendly bus driver explained it to me. Tap your credit card against the reader at the fare box and you’re charged $2.50. The information on your pass is stored…somehow.
If you tap again for another ride within the pass’ window of time, 2 1/2 hours, the reader will show that you’re good. Tap later in the day, and you’ll be charged a final $2.50, and the reader will declare, “Day pass earned!” Ditto for any further fare taps.
You don’t achieve a lot while on vacation, and why should you? It’s a vacation. Earning a day pass was where I peaked.
Because Portland is a walkable city with short blocks, I got 12,000 or more steps a day. At one point, getting to one destination was 17 minutes whether I took transit or walked, so I walked.
One walk was intentional. That was crossing the Willamette River on foot via Tilikum Crossing, a cable-stayed bridge that is solely for pedestrians, cyclists and transit.
Southern Californians would probably riot if cars weren’t allowed on a bridge. I don’t know how Portlanders feel, but dozens of them were making their way across on that sunny Sunday, including on scooters.
That was on my last full day in Portland, when the high was 83 and I finally got to wear a short-sleeve shirt.
brIEfly
On Monday afternoon as my connecting flight home prepared to leave Oakland, which was 71 degrees, the flight announcement included the report that Ontario was 92 degrees. Passengers chuckled apprehensively. One man was overheard joking to his wife: “Want to stay here?”
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