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Jenifer Lewis flips open her newest memoir, the cheerily titled Walking in My Joy: In These Streets, and appraises the first photo inside: a distressing black-and-white selfie of her swollen face. It’s a jarring first image—puffy cheeks, a miserable expression—and is starkly at odds with the book’s glamorous cover portrait, featuring Lewis in a floor-length pink gown, kicking up a foot ensconced in a bedazzled heel.
It’s meant to be outrageous. “How about this shit?” she exclaims over Zoom from her home in Los Angeles, holding the photo next to her face. “I put it in black and white, just to shock the fuck outta everybody. To go from this pretty, happy bitch to that! This is what stress looks like, bitches!”
This is the one-two punch of Lewis, the diva who loves to get real. Affectionately nicknamed the mother of Black Hollywood, she’s appeared in 400 episodic TV shows, 68 movies, and four Broadway shows. Among her hits? Playing Grandma Ruby in Black-ish, demanding matriarchs in Poetic Justice and What’s Love Got to Do With It and starring alongside Meryl Streep in Mother Courage and Her Children. In July, Lewis, currently starring in the Showtime series I Love That for You, cemented her achievements with a hard-earned star on the Walk of Fame. “Everybody [sent] flowers,” Lewis recalled. “My house looked like a funeral home at one point!”
Lewis chronicled her early successes in her first memoir, The Mother of Black Hollywood—a tart but sage tome about her career, her journey with bipolar disorder, and her sex addiction. Now she’s back with Walking in My Joy, which picks up where The Mother left off, chronicling her life during the Trump years and the pandemic. Walking has the same campy, conversational tone as Lewis’s first book. It’s decidedly funnier and louder, but also grounded by deeply personal stories, including a detailed examination of her relationship with an ex-boyfriend who scammed her out of $50,000. (He pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge in 2020.) There’s also a devastating story about Lewis’s friend Kathy Griffin, who called Lewis one night during the height of quarantine, afraid she had overdosed on sleeping pills.
“‘I need help’ [are] three of the most powerful words on the planet,” Lewis says. “And certainly the most difficult to say.” The book reflects that message, with Lewis writing about her own mental health struggles and how she herself has continued to push through. “Show business is easy,” she says. “Show business is brushing my teeth now. But mental, spiritual, and physical self-care is the most important thing. To put these thoughts and feelings into a book is one of the best things I’ve done because I have so much in me. So much gratitude. And so many crazy stories.”
Vanity Fair: The book is very political. There’s a very strong anti-Trump stance. There’s political spoken-word lyrics between each chapter. When did you decide to make politics a theme?
Jenifer Lewis: It’s a theme throughout because it is what I was living. When the Trump era came, a fire was lit under me politically. I knew it was a dangerous situation. I knew before he was elected he was mentally ill. I know what it looks like. He went on to display every symptom of a sociopath. It was just wrong. I had to do everything I could to let people know during a very difficult time that we’re going to be all right.
Those songs [in the book] were written after major events in this country. “Take Your Knee off My Neck” was after George Floyd. “We’re Going to Be All Right” was after the shooting in Florida [at Pulse nightclub]. One came from Parkland. There was an overhead camera shot of the kids coming out of the school with their hands above their heads, and I could see one little boy’s arms were extended forward. I knew he was in shock, because I know what shock looks like. God gave a snail a shell; shock is our shell when things can’t be processed. When the guy came into my apartment in New York with a knife. When I nearly drowned in the Pacific. When my girlfriend revealed to me my boyfriend was a con artist—these were times I went into shock. When I’m out in the world on tour with my books, I’m not selling books. I don’t need that money. Writing these books was giving these kids the knowledge that no matter how big the fire is, they can come through. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/jenifer-lewis-interview-walking-in-my-joy | 2022-08-31T17:54:02Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/jenifer-lewis-interview-walking-in-my-joy | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Middle Earth is, of course, entirely fictional. But arguably more than any other make-believe land, it feels like it might somehow exist. (And not just because New Zealand looks just like it, though that country does fine work as a stand-in.) That’s due both to the extensive detail in Tolkien's text and Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, which lovingly adapted the books better than anyone could have imagined.
All of this makes the prospect of returning to Middle Earth for Prime Video new series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power a little daunting. Hell, even Jackson couldn't recapture the magic for his trilogy of Hobbit films. How was a TV show going to even try? But perhaps the most shocking and heartening thing about the first two episodes of The Rings of Power is that the show really feels like Lord of the Rings, from the first moment that Morfydd Clark's Galadriel intones: "Nothing is evil in the beginning."
The Rings of Power, which was developed by showrunners Patrick McKay and JD Payne and based largely on Tolkien's appendices, is dense with exposition, but also manages to nail down the mystical poetry of this specific universe. It’s not clear yet whether the show can maintain this spark beyond its first two hours, or whether it will get bogged down by its own expansiveness. But, for now, it seems like The Rings of Power has pulled off the near-impossible.
Should you be worried about orienting yourself in the time and place of this new saga, McKay and Payne go to great lengths to set up just exactly what is happening in their prequel. It takes place during Middle Earth's Second Age, centuries before Frodo ever set out on his mission to destroy the One Ring. Galadriel's narration gets us up to speed, explaining how the elves left their home of Valinor to battle the villain Morgoth in a lengthy and devastating war. Though Morgoth was defeated, his henchman Sauron simply retreated, along with his orcs.
In the show's present day Galadriel has been hunting this unseen foe for years, seeking vengeance for her dead brother and convinced that a threat is lying in wait. Her elven brethren have grown frustrated with her search for evil in a time of peace, but she is a Cassandra portending doom. (Mount Doom, if you will.)
Clark's performance is the series' anchor point: She is both omniscient storyteller and protagonist. The character is portrayed by Cate Blanchett in Jackson's films as an ethereal force of benevolence that can turn frightening at a single moment. Clark, meanwhile, manages to ground her Galadriel in stubbornness and drive without losing that magic elven touch. Even when she twitches in anger, she seems to hover above the earth.
But even though she kicks things off, Galadriel is just one part of the puzzle. The episodes quite literally traverse the map of Middle Earth—illustrated in animated graphics—and check in with disparate plots that, one must assume, will eventually collide. There are echoes of what came before: Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot (Markella Kavenaugh) and Poppy Proudfellow (Megan Richards) are the Frodo and Sam stand-ins—two odd couple Harfoots (a breed of Hobbits) who get into mischief when an unknown being crosses their path. The mortal healer Bronwyn (Nazanin Boniadi) has a brewing romance with Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova), essentially an elf cop meant to make sure humans aren't aligning themselves with any forces of darkness. Their clandestine will-be love in the lands that will become Mordor bring to mind the romance of Aragorn and Arwen, with the genders reversed. By the second episode, we've also traveled inside the mountain mines of Khazad-dûm to meet the dwarf Prince Durin IV (Owain Arthur), whom the elf Elrond (Robert Aramayo), currently just a spritely aspiring politician, wants to recruit. He’s hoping Durin will help forge the titular rings of power, which will ultimately cause tons of chaos.
The dwarf kingdom, hidden inside rock, speaks to the impressively lush design of the show, which is heavily indebted to Jackson's interpretation—just as Bear McCreary's score owes much to Howard Shore's from the films. (Shore did return to do the main title theme.) A sequence in which Elrond and Durin ride what amounts to a dwarf elevator captures the grandiosity of what the showrunners are trying to achieve: a lived-in environment where all beings look small in face of the vast history. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/lord-of-the-rings-rings-of-power-tv-show-review | 2022-08-31T17:54:15Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/lord-of-the-rings-rings-of-power-tv-show-review | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BERLIN (AP) — The families of 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian attackers at the 1972 Munich Olympics have reached a deal with Germany over a long-disputed compensation claim, the German government said Wednesday.
Earlier this month, the families had threatened to boycott Monday's 50-year anniversary ceremony in Munich organized by German authorities because they said the amount they had been offered was too low.
“The German government welcomes the fact that it has now been possible to reach an agreement with the relatives on an overall concept to mark the 50th anniversary,” a spokesman for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.
“This includes the reappraisal of the events by a commission of German and Israeli historians, the release of files in accordance with the law, the classification and acceptance of political responsibility within the framework of the commemoration ceremony, as well as the provision of further recognition services by the federal government, by the state of Bavaria and by the city of Munich,” spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said.
The German news agency dpa and other media reported that Germany increased its offer to the families to around 28 million euros (dollars), up from the initial 10 million euros offer to the families, which would have included the payments already made. Of this, the federal government is to bear 22.5 million euros, the state of Bavaria 5 million euros and the city of Munich 500,000 euros, dpa reported.
The German government has not publicly revealed how much money it has offered.
The German president and his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog welcomed the agreement.
“We are pleased and relieved that an agreement on historical clarification, recognition and compensation has been reached shortly before the 50th anniversary,” Steinmeier said in a joint statement with Herzog, who will visit Germany next week and participate in the ceremony.
“The agreement cannot heal all wounds. But it opens a door to each other,” the statement said. “With this agreement, the German state acknowledges its responsibility and recognizes the terrible suffering of the murdered and their relatives, which we will commemorate next week.”
The negotiations over the amount of compensation and the release of further historical documents had been a lingering point of friction between the two countries that have built strong ties despite the enduring legacy of the Nazi Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were murdered during World War II.
Members of the Palestinian group Black September broke into the Olympic Village, killed two athletes from Israel’s national team and took nine more hostage on Sept. 5, 1972. The attackers hoped to force the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel as well as two left-wing extremists in West German jails.
All nine hostages and a West German police officer died during a rescue attempt by German forces. Relatives of the athletes accuse Germany of failing to secure the Olympic Village, refusing Israeli help and then botching the rescue operation.
Immediately after the attack, Germany made payments to relatives of the victims amounting to about 4.19 million marks (about 2 million euros or dollars), according to the country's interior ministry. In 2002, the surviving relatives received an additional 3 million euros, Germany’s dpa news agency reported.
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Nicole Beharie has a soft spot for everyday heroes. “I’m one of those suckers for shows where someone who’s been taking care of kids and kittens or whatever [gets] a home renovation,” she says in a phone call from Los Angeles. “You know what I mean?”
That’s why she gravitated toward Breaking, a film bursting with everyday heroes—albeit ones in a much more dramatic and devastating scenario than you’d find on HGTV. The film tells the true story of Brian Brown-Easley (John Boyega), a soft-spoken Marine veteran who holds a bank hostage after the government stops sending him disability checks. Beharie plays Estel Valerie, the bank manager who keeps Easley calm and sympathizes with him, refusing to leave even though she has ample opportunities to escape. “This is actually what happened,” Beharie says. “It’s not like, oh, what if this lady did that? This is what she did.”
It’s a knockout performance from Beharie, who navigates Estel’s desperation with unbelievable dignity and grace. But that’s par for the course for Beharie, who only needs a few seconds of screen time to leave an impression. See also Steve McQueen’s Shame, and a single 51-second scene from her turn as a scorned wife in Black Mirror that regularly goes viral on Twitter. It is, of course, better, for Beharie and for us, when she has more time to luxuriate, like in the three-season expanse of *Sleepy Hollow—*a star vehicle she departed due to illness and network callousness—or the critically acclaimed 2020 drama Miss Juneteenth.
After Breaking, she’ll next appear onscreen in The Morning Show, the Apple TV+ series starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston as warring anchors. Beharie will play Christina Hunter, a charismatic new anchor with a distinctly millennial point of view. “She’s coming in with a different energy and a different perspective,” Beharie says. “It’s good stuff. Great writing. All the characters are dynamic. Hopefully I’ll add my little funky thing to it.”
Vanity Fair: What element of the Breaking script or the character made you say, Yes, I want to do this?
Nicole Beharie: There’s so many exciting, aspirational war films in the Hollywood canon, but you never see the other side of that. You see all the big explosions and the medals and someone being a war hero, but I know for a fact—having family members who fought in different parts of the armed forces—all of them changed after having that experience. And I identified with Brian, in an experience I had with my uncle. I felt like it was an opportunity for me to have a part in bringing awareness to the other side of war, the part that we sweep under the rug.
Did you talk about this film with those family members?
No, no, no, no, no. Sometimes you do things and you hope that they’ll be pleased, you know? That I was thinking of you. That you were on my heart and that’s why I wanted to do this project. I’ve gotten responses from my cousins. They were like, We saw it! That was a good feeling.
People have also asked me if I got to meet with the woman who is based on Estel Valerie. My understanding is this was pretty traumatic for her, you know? We had statements and CCTV footage and photographs and the recordings of the police calls and 911 calls and all those things, so I had a lot to work with. I was like, if this is going to trigger somebody in that way, I don’t think it’s necessary. And the same goes for my family. Because honestly, it’s John, who had to deal with that aspect of the storytelling. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/nicole-beharie-interview-breaking | 2022-08-31T17:54:21Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/nicole-beharie-interview-breaking | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON (AP) — The two candidates vying to become Britain’s next prime minister were making their final push to win over Conservative Party members Wednesday, wrapping up a summer of campaigning ahead of a leadership announcement on Monday.
That decision — made by only about 180,000 party voters, not the country's whole electorate — couldn’t come soon enough.
Britain has been rudderless for weeks as it endures a deepening cost-of-living crisis, the worst to hit the country for decades. Since Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his impending resignation on July 7, a cascade of workers’ strikes has disrupted ports, trains and multiple industrial sectors as energy and food costs skyrocket and unions demand better pay.
Households are facing an 80% jump in energy bills triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, prices are set to soar even higher in the coming months and the U.K. economy is heading into a potentially lengthy recession.
The Conservative government has faced increasingly urgent calls for action to ease the pain, but officials have insisted that no new policy will be decided until a new prime minister is in place on Tuesday.
Tim Bale, a politics professor at Queen Mary University of London, said this summer has seen the Conservative Party looking “inwards rather than outwards” at a time when millions of Britons have been plunged into uncertainty and financial hardship.
“There is a feeling in the country that the last few weeks have been, in some ways, a bit of a waste of time,” he said. “I think the country’s just wanting the government to get on with it and wanting the government to tell them what they’re going to do to help them through what looks like a really, really difficult autumn and winter.”
The two leadership finalists, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, have been widely criticized for offering very little in the way of concrete policies to help households and businesses struggling to afford essentials.
Truss, the frontrunner, has spoken about tax cuts such as slashing sales taxes and is reportedly mulling more financial help targeting the most vulnerable households. But her supporters have said she will not finalize her plans to tackle spiralling costs before she becomes the leader –- a stance that seems tone deaf as charities, small businesses and even heads of schools plead for help and say they face closure unless there is significant government aid.
Neither Truss nor Sunak wanted to come forward with detailed plans, partly because they are reluctant to promise anything they couldn’t deliver as the economic outlook continues to worsen, Bale said.
Conservative ideology – and the way the new leader is chosen – also play a part in how the candidates have responded to the crisis.
“Conservative Party members probably don’t want to hear about having to increase the help to households from the state, since they believe that the state should do as little as possible,” Bale added.
Truss and Sunak, who have both declared their admiration for Margaret Thatcher and her ring-wing, small-government economics, are not campaigning for support from the wider U.K. public. Instead, they are seeking to win over the Conservative Party membership.
Only about 180,000 party members will have a vote in choosing the party leader, and that person will automatically become the next U.K. prime minister.
Meanwhile strikes or ballots for industrial action are being announced almost daily amid growing demands for pay rises to keep pace with inflation. Train drivers, postal and port workers, garbage collectors and lawyers have staged walkouts in recent weeks, and unions representing teachers, nurses and others are considering similar action.
An initial field of 11 Conservative candidates put their hats in the ring after Johnson quit in July, as his government was engulfed by ethics scandals. Revelations of pandemic lockdown-breaching parties in Downing Street, Johnson’s office and residence, eroded his authority for months, and Conservative lawmakers finally forced Johnson out over his appointment of a politician accused of sexual misconduct.
Johnson sought to strike an optimistic note Wednesday, highlighting positives during his term in office -– such as low unemployment and investments in rail and high-speed broadband –- and dodging questions about the cost-of-living crisis that his successor will inherit.
The U.K. has the “financial strength to get through” cost-of-living “pressures,” he told reporters. Asked whether Britain was broken in the final days of his leadership, he said: “Absolutely not. This country has got an incredible future and has everything going for it.”
Final campaigning was taking place later Wednesday in London, and the winner will be announced Monday. Johnson and his successor will then travel to Scotland to see Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday -– one to formally tender his resignation, and the other to be invited to form a government.
The queen’s meetings with prime ministers traditionally take place in London’s Buckingham Palace. But the 96-year-old monarch has suffered from mobility problems in recent months, and so the arrangements are being moved for the first time to the Scottish Highlands, where she traditionally spends her summers.
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By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press
Danica Kirka in London contributed to this report.
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“When I think back on my life, sometimes I’m surprised that it’s actually all true. I say to myself, one morning, I’ll wake up and find out that it’s all just a dream.”
With these words, Italian superstar Sophia Loren, the bombshell of classic films including Two Women and Marriage, Italian Style, sets the tone of her delightful 2014 memoir, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life. Using the charming conceit of going through a box of keepsakes during the Christmas season, she constantly refers to her life as a fairy tale, with the words “joy” and “fun” scattered throughout.
Those looking for a searing tell-all will be disappointed. In fact, Loren makes a point of saying that she ceremoniously burns her real diaries yearly. Instead, the self-professed go-getting perfectionist dishes breezily about beating Richard Burton and Peter Sellers at Scrabble, her obsession with her children, and her love of Italian cooking. If you’re looking for more details and dirt, Warren G. Harris’s 1997 Sophia Loren: A Biography, offers a cynical, slightly misogynistic take on Loren’s story which fills gaps she gracefully gallops past.
But this reviewer will take Loren’s sanitized version over Harris’s any day. In the world of celebrity autobiographies, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow is a refreshing change of pace. There is no self-pity or mean-spirited gossip to be found here—just a globe-trotting, sun-drenched Cinderella tale, with an ending worthy of a Disney movie. The book concludes with octogenarian Loren surrounded by her grandchildren, who are pondering their future careers. “’And what about you, Nonna?’ my wild ones shout in unison. ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ I laugh heartily. ‘Me? I don’t know, I have to think about it.’”
The Toothpick
Sofia Scicolone was born in Rome on September 20, 1934. In strict Catholic Italy, she was a child of shame: the illegitimate daughter of aspiring actress Romilda Villani, a Neapolitan beauty who had once won a Greta Garbo look-alike contest. Her father was a charming cad of noble origins named Riccardo Scicolone Murillo, who had seduced Romilda by claiming to be in the movie business, only to abandon her when she was pregnant.
Loren’s deep love of her homeland, disdain for her careless father, and pity for her mother’s life-long love for him (the couple would have another child, Maria, in 1938) are evident in every page. Alone in the city, Romilda’s milk soon dried up, and she was terrified her sickly baby would die. She had no choice but to flee to her parents in the sleepy seaside town of Pozzuoli in Naples.
Although Romilda was afraid her poor but proud family would not accept her illegitimate infant, Mama Luisa and Papa Domenico welcomed the two of them with open arms. Mama Luisa quickly found the starving baby a wet nurse, and the family went without meat to pay her. But the town of Pozzuoli was not so kind. Loren writes movingly of being a thin and “ugly” child who felt out of place with her beautiful mother and absent father. But she found solace with her family. “United we stand, divided we fall,” she writes, “is what the family always believed.”
When Loren was six, war came to Naples. Eight decades later, she vividly describes the horrors of World War II: the starvation, spending night after night hiding in a filthy crowded railway tunnel and being injured when a piece of shrapnel from a bomb pierced her chin.
Understandably, she does not mention the persistent rumors, documented by Harris, that her mother was a sex worker during the war. “Little by little everything came to a standstill — school, the Sacchini cinema and theater, the band playing in the town square,” Loren writes. “Everything stopped except for the bombs.”
Sophia’s Svengali
“As I was about to turn fifteen, I suddenly found myself living inside a curvy, glowing body, filled with life and promise,” Loren writes. “Whenever I walked down the streets of Pozzuoli, the boys would turn around and whistle after me.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/sophia-loren-memoir-cary-grant | 2022-08-31T17:54:28Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/sophia-loren-memoir-cary-grant | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GENEVA (CN) — The review committee of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination expressed deep concern Wednesday about the treatment of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, citing the recent Supreme Court ruling overturning abortion rights and continued brutality of law enforcement against people of color.
All 182 countries that belong to convention are required to undergo a regular review of the treaty’s implementation. This year, Azerbaijan, Benin, Nicaragua, Slovakia, Suriname, Zimbabwe and the U.S. were up for review.
The CERD committee undertook that regular review in August. The final report, published on Wednesday, notes a worrying increase in U.S. hate crimes and a lack of institutional support for minority groups.
The 18-person committee, composed of excerpts from across the globe, wrote that it is “concerned that the lingering legacies of colonialism and slavery continue to fuel racism and racial discrimination.”
Hundreds of activists traveled to the committee’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, to participate in the monthlong review that started earlier this month. Advocacy organizations presented evidence of racial inequities in the criminal justice system, socioeconomic disparities and access to reproductive rights. “Our joint report showed how the U.S. has long failed to live up to its international human rights treaty obligations on eliminating racial discrimination,” Lisa Borden, senior policy counsel at the Southern Poverty Law Center, said in a statement.
Her organization highlighted the disproportionate number of Black people who are incarcerated in the U.S. According to their research, Black people are five times more likely to be jailed and eight times more likely to be held in solitary confinement. Systemic racism in the criminal justice system was “one of the issues of particular importance,” committee member Mehrdad Payandeh told reporters on Wednesday.
The report criticizes U.S. law enforcement for continuing to engage in racial profiling, failing to prevent excessive force by law enforcement and harassment of racial justice activists. The committee “remains concerned at the brutality and use of excessive or deadly force by law enforcement officials against members of racial and ethnic minorities,” the report says.
The committee also expressed worry about the June 2020 Supreme Court ruling overturning the right to abortion. “The committee was deeply concerned about the disparate impact on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of racial minorities, particularly those with low income,” committee member Pansy Tlakula said during a press conference following the report’s publication. She called on the U.S. to take measures to ensure access to reproductive rights, including providing access to abortion.
Tlakula did praise the U.S. for passing Executive Order 13985, which directs agencies to account for racial inequities in their work. It was the first executive order issued by President Joe Biden when he took office in 2021.
Following an uptick of anti-Semitic incidents in the late 1950s, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution condemning racial, religious and national hatred, and declared such incidents as violations of the U.N. Charter. A group of African nations pushed for the U.N. to do more, calling on the organization to create treaty obligations for countries to act against discrimination. In 1965, the U.N. ratified the CERD, creating the first U.N. human rights treaty. It took effect in 1969, and the U.S. ratified it in 1994. This is the first time in 14 years the U.S. has undergone a review.
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GENEVA (CN) — The review committee of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination expressed deep concern Wednesday about the treatment of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, citing the recent Supreme Court ruling overturning abortion rights and continued brutality of law enforcement against people of color.
All 182 countries that belong to convention are required to undergo a regular review of the treaty’s implementation. This year, Azerbaijan, Benin, Nicaragua, Slovakia, Suriname, Zimbabwe and the U.S. were up for review.
The CERD committee undertook that regular review in August. The final report, published on Wednesday, notes a worrying increase in U.S. hate crimes and a lack of institutional support for minority groups.
The 18-person committee, composed of excerpts from across the globe, wrote that it is “concerned that the lingering legacies of colonialism and slavery continue to fuel racism and racial discrimination.”
Hundreds of activists traveled to the committee’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, to participate in the monthlong review that started earlier this month. Advocacy organizations presented evidence of racial inequities in the criminal justice system, socioeconomic disparities and access to reproductive rights. “Our joint report showed how the U.S. has long failed to live up to its international human rights treaty obligations on eliminating racial discrimination,” Lisa Borden, senior policy counsel at the Southern Poverty Law Center, said in a statement.
Her organization highlighted the disproportionate number of Black people who are incarcerated in the U.S. According to their research, Black people are five times more likely to be jailed and eight times more likely to be held in solitary confinement. Systemic racism in the criminal justice system was “one of the issues of particular importance,” committee member Mehrdad Payandeh told reporters on Wednesday.
The report criticizes U.S. law enforcement for continuing to engage in racial profiling, failing to prevent excessive force by law enforcement and harassment of racial justice activists. The committee “remains concerned at the brutality and use of excessive or deadly force by law enforcement officials against members of racial and ethnic minorities,” the report says.
The committee also expressed worry about the June 2020 Supreme Court ruling overturning the right to abortion. “The committee was deeply concerned about the disparate impact on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of racial minorities, particularly those with low income,” committee member Pansy Tlakula said during a press conference following the report’s publication. She called on the U.S. to take measures to ensure access to reproductive rights, including providing access to abortion.
Tlakula did praise the U.S. for passing Executive Order 13985, which directs agencies to account for racial inequities in their work. It was the first executive order issued by President Joe Biden when he took office in 2021.
Following an uptick of anti-Semitic incidents in the late 1950s, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution condemning racial, religious and national hatred, and declared such incidents as violations of the U.N. Charter. A group of African nations pushed for the U.N. to do more, calling on the organization to create treaty obligations for countries to act against discrimination. In 1965, the U.N. ratified the CERD, creating the first U.N. human rights treaty. It took effect in 1969, and the U.S. ratified it in 1994. This is the first time in 14 years the U.S. has undergone a review.
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Donald Trump’s legal problems appear to have gone from bad to worse overnight. In a court filing late Tuesday, the Department of Justice alleged that the former president and his associates not only failed to turn over highly classified materials he’d taken after leaving office —they concealed the documents and lied to officials who were seeking their return. Investigators “developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room,” the DOJ wrote in the filing, “and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.”
The filing includes some of the most damning evidence of obstruction the government has made public so far, including a photo of classified documents — some gathered by human intelligence sources — recovered from a box in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago office, “commingling” with personal items like framed magazine covers.
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The 36-page submission came in response to Trump’s call for a special master to be appointed to review documents he claims, dubiously, are subject to executive privilege. It details the lengthy fight to get Trump to turn over government materials to the National Archives, which culminated with the August 8 FBI raid on Trump’s Florida home. Throughout 2021, NARA attempted to get Trump and his representatives to “voluntarily” turn over the documents, the DOJ said in the filing. Trump sent the Archives 15 boxes of materials in January 2022, without claiming privilege over any of them. When NARA discovered the boxes contained classified documents, it referred the matter to the Justice Department. The DOJ struggled to get Trump and his associates to cooperate, and issued a subpoena in May after obtaining evidence that additional records remained at Mar-a-Lago. A counsel for Trump provided more documents to the FBI in June — handling them “in a manner that suggested the counsel believed that the documents were classified” — as well as a letter certifying that a “diligent search” was conducted by the former president’s team and that no other documents covered in the subpoena remained at Mar-a-Lago, where the counsel said all documents had been kept in a secured “storage room.” The Trump representative denied DOJ officials access to the area to confirm, however, according to the filing.
After further investigation suggested the records were still incomplete, the DOJ obtained its search warrant and conducted the raid on the Palm Beach club. “Evidence, thirteen boxes or containers contained documents with classification markings, and in all, over one hundred unique documents with classification markings—that is, more than twice the amount produced on June 3, 2022, in response to the grand jury subpoena—were seized,” according to the Tuesday night filing. “Notwithstanding counsel’s representation on June 3, 2022, that materials from the White House were only located in the Storage Room, classified documents were found in both the Storage Room and in the former President’s office.”
Added the DOJ: “That the FBI, in a matter of hours, recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the ‘diligent search’ that the former President’s counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform calls into serious question the representations made in the June 3 certification and casts doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter.”
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GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency is predicting that the phenomenon known as La Niña is poised to last through the end of this year, a mysterious “triple dip” — the first this century — caused by three straight years of its effect on climate patterns like drought and flooding worldwide.
The World Meteorological Organization on Wednesday said La Niña conditions, which involve a large-scale cooling of ocean surface temperatures, have strengthened in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific with an increase in trade winds in recent weeks.
The agency’s top official was quick to caution that the “triple dip” doesn’t mean global warming is easing.
“It is exceptional to have three consecutive years with a La Niña event. Its cooling influence is temporarily slowing the rise in global temperatures, but it will not halt or reverse the long-term warming trend,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said.
La Niña is a natural and cyclical cooling of parts of the equatorial Pacific that changes weather patterns worldwide, as opposed to warming caused by the better-known El Niño — an opposite phenomenon. La Niña often leads to more Atlantic hurricanes, less rain and more wildfires in the western United States, and agricultural losses in the central U.S.
Studies have shown La Niña is more expensive to the United States than the El Nino.
Together El Nino, La Niña and the neutral condition are called ENSO, which stands for El Niño Southern Oscillation, and they have one of the largest natural effects on climate, at times augmenting and other times dampening the big effects of human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and gas, scientists say.
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Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Beto O’Rourke, Rachel MaddowVirtually every poll this summer had Democrat Pat Ryan losing his campaign for Congress to Republican challenger Marc Molinaro, including one released on the day of the election. This week, Ryan joins Inside the Hive’s Joe Hagan to talk about his shock victory in a rural New York district that’s now being viewed as a bellwether for Democratic hopes this fall. Ryan’s campaign (to replace Antonio Delgado, who left his seat to become New York’s lieutenant governor) began at about the same time as the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft Dobbs opinion in May. Ryan, a former Army officer and West Point graduate, leaned into the abortion issue and discovered a highly energized Democratic base. His campaign, he says, focused on “freedom and choice and the idea that I don’t want the government telling me or my fellow Americans what to do in their personal lives. That is clearly a resonant thing, and really a patriotic thing, and so I think that's one of the big takeaways here.”
Along with the Dobbs decision, Ryan says, the January 6 hearings and the Mar-a-Lago raid have underlined the fragility of democracy in the face of GOP overreach, which has become a top issue among voters. “What we’re seeing happen nationally is a wake-up call that these are sort of deeper, more foundational rights,” Ryan says. “We’re not as divided as people might want to make us out to be.”
“No one expects to agree on everything, that’s crazy,” Ryan observes. Voters “just want you to not bullshit them—no more bullshit. Be real, be a human being, be outraged that freedoms are literally being ripped away from people. And when you do that, it connects. That should not be surprising, but somehow in today’s politics the bar is so low that it somehow does connect and stand out.”
Also this week: Cohost Emily Jane Fox talks to Hive correspondent Joe Pompeo about his juicy exclusive interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, amid her new role and the broader shifting landscape of cable news.
The following interview was edited for clarity.
Vanity Fair: In a district like NY-19 in rural upstate New York, which is 50/50 Republican-Democrat, and a bellwether for the national electorate, it’s thought that whichever party has the base enthusiastic, wins. So if the Trump voters and the Republicans are not as enthusiastic, or they don't have the energy, then the Democrats have the upper hand. Is that how this race worked?
Pat Ryan: The way I think about it is, whoever gives something for people to come out and vote for, something constructive, something that they feel they can be a part of—I think right now our politics are so divided, and very cynical, and there's this huge leadership gap, and who can actually come in and just kinda remind us, we actually share the vast majority of things in common, some of these core values that I think we've gotten away from as, as a lot of people try to drive wedges, are this idea of freedom and choice, and the idea that I don't want the government telling me or my fellow Americans what to do in their personal lives—that is clearly a resonant thing, and really a patriotic thing. So I think that's one of the big takeaways here. We’re not as divided as people might want to make us out to be.
It has been thought there was no centrist voter anymore, it was just extremes. It was interesting that you ran on on the abortion issue because it made me wonder whether abortion is, in fact, a centrist value.
It is, again, about the fact that this is a right and a freedom that was hard won over decades, if not centuries, to have personal choice, on such a personal thing, and not have the government tell you what to do there. I think that clearly we are seeing, from Kansas to our race here, that is a broadly, widely held American view. I don't think it's even about the political ideology; I think these kind of core threats we're seeing to democracy, to fundamental rights, to voting rights, these actually, to me, transcend party. We're still looking at this in red-blue partisan framing, and I get why that's become increasingly entrenched in the country, but what I actually think we're seeing happen nationally is a wake up call that these are deeper, more foundational rights and issues. And again, that actually makes me really hopeful for the country that that's still there.
This was a short, hot election. You got into this only a few weeks ago—how did you get into this?
So, it was early May when now-Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado was called up to be lieutenant governor. This seat opened, triggered the special election. So right around the same time that that happened was when the Dobbs decision was leaked. And so our campaign really has sort of been on that same trajectory and timeline if you will. It's been fast and furious, but in a lot of ways, from a campaign perspective, that's forced us to really only focus on what mattered, to work way harder.
You know, my opponent had been in this race for well over a year. All the conventional wisdom, every single poll—I mean, there was a poll that came out the day of the special election that had me losing by 8%. So all these people are still using this old framing and these old methods, and I think people are missing what's actually happening on the ground, that Americans are smart and they're proud of these common values, with freedom being at the top of the list when you actually talk to anyone and really try to listen to what they care about. And when you center that, people get it and they respond. And I think we have to realize the political ground is shifting and we've been able to sort of take the offensive. And ‘we’ not just being Democrats, ‘we' being a broad coalition of Americans. | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/donald-trump-joe-biden-beto-orourke-rachel-maddow | 2022-08-31T17:54:40Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/donald-trump-joe-biden-beto-orourke-rachel-maddow | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MADISON, Wis. (CN) — A Wisconsin federal judge on Wednesday ruled disabled voters who need help from someone else to place their absentee ballot in the mail or return it to the municipal clerk cannot be barred from getting that assistance under state law because it is a federally protected right.
Whether disabled voters can get third-party help with absentee voting has been in question in the Badger State since a Wisconsin Supreme Court decision in July banned ballot drop boxes outside a municipal clerk’s office and essentially held that no one but a voter themselves can physically return their absentee ballot.
The high court stopped short of saying that a voter could not have someone else place their ballot in the mail, but days after its decision Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe said at a press conference that “right now, the voter is the one required to mail the ballot.”
Subsequent press releases from the WEC—a six-member, bipartisan board of commissioners appointed by state officials who themselves appoint the commission’s administrator for state Senate confirmation—backed off from any perceived policy statement or statutory interpretation in Wolfe’s comment and declined to offer the commission’s opinion on what disabled voters’ rights are regarding voting assistance, instead leaving that responsibility to clerks.
Four Wisconsin voters—all of whom suffer from muscular dystrophy or cerebral palsy or are otherwise paralyzed and cannot move or hold a ballot without assistance—sued the WEC in federal court on July 22, asking a judge to declare they are entitled to assistance in both mailing their absentee ballots and returning them in person.
The voters claimed that, without such a ruling, they would face the possibility of their ballot being tossed or the threat of sanctions for violating the law—that, or the choice to risk their health and safety by attempting to vote in person.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Peterson gave them the relief they were after, stating the Voting Rights Act ensures disabled voters can ask a person of their choosing for voting assistance, regardless of what state law on absentee voting says.
“Voters shouldn’t have to choose between exercising their federal rights and complying with state law. But that is the position plaintiffs find themselves in, and that is in part because defendants have refused to provide clarification. If defendants cannot or will not give plaintiffs assurances that their right to vote will be protected, this court must do so,” Peterson wrote.
Peterson construed the voters’ motion for a preliminary injunction as a motion for summary judgment, granted the motion and closed the case.
The Barack Obama appointee also issued a separate injunction permanently enjoining the WEC and Wolfe from enforcing state law to block disabled voters from getting assistance to mail or deliver absentee ballots to clerks. He gave them until Sept. 9 to tell clerks in writing that the VRA requires that voters that need it must be allowed to get help voting in those ways by someone of their choice.
The voters also brought claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act and the First and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, but the VRA claims were sound enough for Peterson to dismiss the remaining claims without considering them.
The WEC and a lawyer for the voters did not immediately provide comment on the court’s ruling Wednesday morning.
In his summary judgment decision, Peterson dispensed with the WEC’s arguments against the voters’ motion, including that, though the commission enforces the state’s election laws, they are the wrong defendants to sue because it's Wisconsin’s roughly 1,800 municipal clerks who decide in the moment which ballots get thrown out, not the commission.
Peterson noted that the WEC did not dispute that’s a real risk the plaintiffs face, and he chided the commission for refusing to clarify voters’ rights and clerks’ responsibilities in light of recent changes in Wisconsin’s voting laws.
Despite saying in court that they agree the disabled voters are entitled to the assistance they sought, “the statements and memos from defendants since [the Wisconsin Supreme Court decision on drop boxes] was issued are either inconsistent with their litigation position or simply punt the question to more than 1,800 municipal clerks. This leaves disabled voters vulnerable and municipal clerks confused,” Peterson said.
The voters pointed out in their lawsuit that clerks in Brown and Dane counties have already started telling voters they cannot receive third-party assistance with absentee voting. Now, under Peterson’s ruling, the WEC will have nine days to clearly communicate to clerks that the opposite is true.
Wisconsin’s next election is a closely watched set of midterm contests on Nov. 8.
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Emma Heming shared how she's been coping following the announcement of her husband Bruce Willis's recent aphasia diagnosis in honor of National Grief Awareness Day.
The model posted a video montage to her Instagram account on Tuesday night showing everything she and her family have been doing over the last three months set to the soundtrack of “I Say A Little Prayer” by Aretha Franklin. “This was the summer of self discovery—finding new hobbies, going out of my comfort zone and staying active,” she wrote in the caption. “My grief can be paralyzing but I’m learning how to live along side it. As my step-daughter [Scout Willis] told me, grief is the deepest and purest form of love. I hope you find some comfort in that too.” She finished off the caption with a revolving heart emoji and the hashtags, “#nationalgriefawarenessday #griefawareness #liveitup.”
Heming's messages comes five months after her family announced Willis's diagnosis and retirement from acting via an Instagram post first shared on his daughter Rumer Willis's account. They wrote at the time, "To Bruce’s amazing supporters, as a family we wanted to share that our beloved Bruce has been experiencing some health issues and has recently been diagnosed with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive abilities. As a result of this and with much consideration Bruce is stepping away from the career that has meant so much to him." The message went on to say that, "This is a really challenging time for our family and we are so appreciative of your continued love, compassion and support. We are moving through this as a strong family unit, and wanted to bring his fans in because we know how much he means to you, as you do to him." They concluded by adding, "As Bruce always says, 'Live it up' and together we plan to do just that."
Aphasia is a language disorder caused by damage sustained to the area of the brain that controls language expression and comprehension, often due to events such as a stroke or head trauma. It leaves the sufferer unable to communicate or effectively use language. They can also sometimes have difficulty understanding others’ speech as well.
Following the diagnosis, a source told People that, for now, Willis and his big, blended family just want to treasure every moment they have together. “Emma is especially grateful for the daughters she shares with Bruce,” they said, noting that the family celebrated daughter Mabel’s tenth birthday two days after announcing this sudden retirement. “Everyone is focused on all the happy moments they are able to share,” they added. Another source close to the actor explained that his family is focused on “doing whatever they can [to support him],” and, “They have rallied around him in a big way to help Bruce cope with what is to come.” While a source close to Emma concluded, “As someone facing health challenges, Bruce couldn’t be part of a better family. It’s been shocking. And it’s not easy seeing a spouse decline. But she’s trying to keep it together for him.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/bruce-willis-aphasia-diagnosis-wife-emma-heming-grief-paralyzing | 2022-08-31T17:54:46Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/bruce-willis-aphasia-diagnosis-wife-emma-heming-grief-paralyzing | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Charlize Theron has spent the summer in modified Roman Holiday fashion. Like Audrey Hepburn in the 1953 classic, Theron has been hard at work at the city’s Cinecittà studios, in this case filming the sequel to Netflix’s The Old Guard, a taut action movie about a band of immortal mercenaries. Also like Hepburn, Theron is momentarily a brunette, albeit with a short asymmetrical cut befitting her hardened character, Andy—short for Andromache of Scythia. Fan sites for the comic-book series pinpoint Andy’s origins to the Western Steppe, circa 4,700 BCE, giving her an understandably weary worldview. But Theron (South Africa, 1975) is joyfully embracing her role as a movie star stationed in the Eternal City.
“I’ve never been a person to just sit on my couch and procrastinate, or not take advantage of the access that I have in the outside world—to go and do something that is just really fun or mischievous. Or naughty. Or something that makes you laugh,” Theron says by phone, explaining how she’s soaking up as much Italian life as possible. It’s a late summer morning in Rome. The actor begins by asking, like a concerned citizen, what time it is at the other end of the line. “A cool 4:55 a.m.,” I reply, trying to sound upbeat and breezy, but the effect is more of a syllabic rasp. “Oh my God, girl!” Theron answers. “I apologize. I’m the asshole who made you wake up so early.” She squeezes in three more apologies, as if call times don’t frequently have her in a makeup chair before dawn. This is the Theron I’ve been hoping to reach: preternaturally grounded, tells it like it is, attuned to the world.
Theron is a change artist of a generation. Her live-wire portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in *Monster—*helped along by prosthetic teeth, bleached brows, and an extra 30 pounds on her 5-foot-ten frame—earned her a best actress Oscar in 2004. Later that fall, Theron presented a different kind of blonde (Hollywood waves, sculpted cheekbones) as the new face of Dior’s J’Adore perfume. Over the intervening 18 years, as Theron cycled through disparate roles—corporate minder in the sci-fi horror Prometheus (2012), grease-smeared Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), neon-lit spy in Atomic Blonde (2017), beleaguered mother in Tully (2018)—she has continued to shape-shift in golden-toned J’Adore campaigns, many by music-video director Jean-Baptiste Mondino.
The latest iteration of the fragrance, J’Adore Parfum d’Eau, could be imagined almost like a prequel to the 1999 original. A novel formulation entirely without alcohol, it evokes a primordial mingling of flowers and water—elevated in its composition (there are notes of jasmine sambac, magnolia, and neroli to tease out), but rendered, quite simply, as dew. Somehow the combination of structural refinement and at-ease delivery evokes its front woman, statuesque and straight-talking. In the below conversation, she thoughtfully unspools about hedonistic leanings, scent in storytelling, and an upcoming role, before signing off with a goodwill entreaty: “Go back to bed!”
Vanity Fair: I was re-watching some of the early J’Adore ads, which have you climbing up silk fabric like an aerialist or wading through a bathhouse. What would you say is the imagined backstory for the J’Adore woman? I feel like she has stories to tell.
There was a hope for this to have some longevity in that narrative, so that we could see an evolution. But for me, the most important thing was always to just have an awareness of the world. [Dior is] a luxury brand, so let’s hold a mirror up and see what’s going on in the world.
I feel like there were real moments throughout our 18-year creative relationship where there was a detailed place for that. When we made the campaign with the bathhouse [in 2018], the women’s movement was coming to the forefront. There was this feeling that women were really understanding their power and standing together, so it was impossible to even imagine that campaign just being about me. Having it be so inclusive and diverse was something that I really appreciated and, I think, says a lot about who Dior is. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/charlize-theron-interview-dior-jadore-parfum-deau | 2022-08-31T17:54:52Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/charlize-theron-interview-dior-jadore-parfum-deau | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Leonardo DiCaprio and girlfriend Camila Morrone have reportedly broken up.
The couple has decided to go their separate ways after over four years of dating, according to a source who confirmed the news to People. DiCaprio and the model kept their relationship extremely private since they were first linked in January 2018 after they took a trip to Aspen, Colorado. In February 2020, they made their official public debut as a couple, walking the red carpet separately but sitting together front row at the Oscars. The last time the pair was photographed together was over the Fourth of July weekend when they were spotted taking a walk along the beach with their dogs in Malibu, California. Since then, DiCaprio has been seen vacationing solo in Europe with his close friend, Tobey Maguire and, last week, was spotted dining with friends in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, earlier this month, Morrone was photographed spending time with her mother in St. Tropez.
Until recently, it seemed as though everything was smooth sailing between the actor and Morrone. In July 2019, an insider told People that the pair were “pretty serious,” adding, “It’s definitely not a casual relationship. Camila spends a lot of time at his house.” They explained that the pair did a lot of traveling together, going from Coachella to the Cannes Film Festival to promote DiCaprio's film Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood. They continued, “Camila is long known as Leo’s girlfriend. And Leo introduced her to both of his parents long ago.” And in June 2020, yet another source told the outlet that DiCaprio “loves being with” her and throughout the pandemic lockdown they “spent 24/7” together. “They are very close,” the insider concluded.
In a December 2019 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Morrone opened up about their relationship for the first time, explaining that, “There's so many relationships in Hollywood—and in the history of the world—where people have large age gaps. I just think anyone should be able to date who they want to date.” She added that it was “frustrating” to only be known for her relationship with DiCaprio. “I feel like there should always be an identity besides who you're dating,” she said. “I understand the association, but I'm confident that will continue to slip away and be less of a conversation.”
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Madonna may be entering her mid-sixties, but the pop legend's lust for life hasn't waned.
The singer posted a video to her YouTube channel on Tuesday to celebrate the release of her new remix album, Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones, in which she does her take on Vogue's signature “73 Questions” videos, answering fifty questions from fans about her album, life, career, and personal preferences. As Madonna walks around her Hamptons estate, she's asked about her greatest guilty pleasure, which she reveals is “sex.” And clearly she had coitus on the brain at the time of filming as sex was also her answer for her zodiac sign, her favorite thing to make, what keeps her going, the secret to her success, her life mantra, and her current favorite obsession. Hardly surprising for someone who literally wrote the book on the subject.
Given that fact, it also makes a certain amount of sense that when Madonna was asked about a decision she made “that looking back, maybe wasn't the best idea,” she easily answered, “getting married...both times!” But thankfully, the pop legend doesn't have to live with too much regret over either of those relationships because at another point in the video she explains that the biggest lesson she's learned in this life “is that none of this is real.”
Madonna was married to Sean Penn from 1985 to 1989, and then went on to marry director Guy Ritchie in 2000 before splitting in 2008. The Grammy winner has one daughter, Lourdes, from her relationship with actor Carlos Leon and a son, Rocco, whom she shares with Richie. They also have an adopted son, David, who is now 16. Madonna later adopted her daughter Mercy, also 16, as well as 10-year-old twins Estere and Stella. While she and Penn had a tumultuous relationship that was often splashed across the tabloids, in the years since their divorce they've remained on friendly terms with the actor even attending a number of his ex-wife's concerts. And in 2016, they were spotted holding hands during Penn's charity gala for Haiti.
In 2011, Ritchie opened up to Details magazine about their marriage, explaining, “I stepped into a soap opera, and I lived in it for quite a long time. I'll probably be more eloquent on it 10 years from now. The experience was ultimately very positive... I'm glad I got married.” The director has since gotten re-married to actress Jacqui Ainsley in 2015 and they share three children together. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/madonna-sex-obsession-regrets-borth-marriages-sean-penn-guy-ritchie | 2022-08-31T17:55:04Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/madonna-sex-obsession-regrets-borth-marriages-sean-penn-guy-ritchie | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Five years ago, Prince William and Prince Harry honored the 20th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death by appearing in Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, a touching HBO documentary where they shared memories of their close bond with their mother. Wednesday marks 25 years since the car crash that took her life in Paris, and after a very public falling out, the brothers will be honoring the day thousands of miles apart.
According to a royal source who spoke to People, William will be spending the day quietly with Kate Middleton in Windsor, where they are settling into a new home, Adelaide Cottage, and preparing for their three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, to begin attending a new school next week.
Harry, on the other hand, will spend the day with his wife Meghan Markle, and their two children, Archie and Lili Mountbatten-Windsor, in California. In a speech for his charity Sentebale last week, Harry elaborated on their plans. “I want it to be a day filled with memories of her incredible work and love for the way that she did it,” he said. “I want it to be a day to share the spirit of my mum with my family, with my children, who I wish could have met her.”
Though the brothers were both in London to celebrate Queen Elizabeth and her Platinum Jubilee in early June, they were not seen together publicly, and William and Kate were not present at the birthday party Harry and Meghan threw to celebrate Lili’s first birthday, due to their trip to Wales to take part in jubilee celebrations. Later that month, when William turned 40 on June 21, an insider told Us that Kate had been “trying to play peacemaker” between the brothers without much success.
“[She] had a quiet word with the boys separately, even going as far as calling Harry in Montecito and suggesting that he reach out to William on his birthday,” the magazine’s source said. “The issue is William and Harry are both overly stubborn, so there’s not much hope.”
Last July, the brothers did meet in London to unveil a statue dedicated to their mother on what would have been her 60th birthday. Though they met at Kensington Palace, they only exchanged a few words, and William reportedly did not invite Harry to a party he threw afterward to honor some of the palace’s employees.
Ultimately, the brothers’s rift is a reminder of what was lost when Diana died. In an interview with CBS News, Richard Kay, a Daily Mail columnist and friend of the late princess, said he thought her presence would improve their relationship. “If she was still with us, there would have been no split between Harry and William,” he said. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/prince-william-and-prince-harry-25th-anniversary-diana-death | 2022-08-31T17:55:10Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/prince-william-and-prince-harry-25th-anniversary-diana-death | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
All the Must-See Looks From the 2022 Venice Film Festival
Summer may be winding down, but the Venice Film Festival is just heating up.
Beginning August 31, the 79th Venice International Film Festival kicks off the fall film-festival season with highly anticipated films like Noah Baumbach’s White Noise, Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, and the Ana de Armas–fronted Blonde all making their debut. Stars are arriving in droves to the picturesque Italian city and whether they’re making their entrance via gondola, striking a pose next to a canal, or saving it all for the red carpet, there are fashionable moments abound.
With premieres, photo-calls, and lots of events running throughout the duration of the festival (which ends September 10), actors will be promoting their latest projects while showcasing dazzling designs from some of the biggest names in fashion. From laid-back off-duty style (think cool camp shirts and polished polos for men) to statement-making looks (like modern twists on classic suiting and plays on menswear for women), festival-worthy fashion will surely be a feast for the eyes.
As Hollywood takes over Venice, see some of our favorite looks from the red carpet and beyond. Want to keep tabs on everything going on during the Venice Film Festival? Follow along for live updates here. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/2022/08/all-the-must-see-looks-from-the-2022-venice-film-festival | 2022-08-31T17:55:16Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/2022/08/all-the-must-see-looks-from-the-2022-venice-film-festival | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The colder months are approaching, but that doesn’t mean you can’t add a splash of color to your wardrobe. The ’80s look is back, which means bright and bold is in. If you rather opt out of the bright colors, earth tones are always a win as well. Here are five colors to expect to see in the months ahead.
1. Emerald
Emerald has been a popular color since the start of 2022. The way Monica paired this Emerald “cardigan dress” from black-owned boutique, Hanifa, with an edgy look underneath is where vogue meets streetwear. If you have a bold personality or even want to get in touch with your daring side, this color is a way to have all eyes on you this fall season.
2. Russet
If you are going for a cozy look in the upcoming months, then the color russet is right for you. Russet is sure to add a bit of spice to your everyday life. This neutral color looks great on all skin tones and will give you a boost of confidence too. The dress below is from the black-owned boutique, Rehab Couture, and can double as a look on-the-go or on a date night out with your significant other. The choice is yours.
3. Chartreuse
Chartreuse is an entire mood and should be worn every season. It brings a slice of high fashion to everyday life and will leave a lasting impression. Just because the fall and winter seasons call for jackets and coats, doesn’t mean the color can’t be part of your wardrobe. There are no rules when it comes to fashion, so be sure to make it fun. Add a pop of color this upcoming season with this fleece coat from black-owned brand, Joan Shepp.
4. Bright Blue
Bright blue has been a sleeper for awhile, but she is here to make a comeback this season. This color will be the “diamond of the evening” no matter the occasion. Bright blue adds a touch of royalty to your wardrobe with a sophisticated aura. Great for brunch vibes or happy hour, you can get this bold look from black-owned boutique, Dream Girls Kloset.
5. Mustard
We had to save the best for last, but mustard will be a popular color for all the bubbly girls this season. It’s a way to show off your warm personality even in the colder months. It can even double up as an earth tone depending on the way you style it. Mustard is a great color for a casual date night or even a day with the girls. You can retrieve this look from black-owned boutique, Rehab Couture. We are currently obsessing over the sleeves on this dress. | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/31/5-colors-to-add-to-your-wardrobe-for-the-cooler-months-ahead/ | 2022-08-31T18:00:42Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/31/5-colors-to-add-to-your-wardrobe-for-the-cooler-months-ahead/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It’s the 10th year of the Atlanta Black Pride Weekend Festival and multiple events are planned. The LGBTQIA+ community is showing their pride through music, dance, film, fashion, and poetry.
The ABPW will begin Thursday, Sept. 1, at the official Mayor’s Welcome Reception. On Friday, Sept. 2, the Unity Ball Rebooted and inaugural Influencer Dinner will be held at the Starling Atlanta Midtown host hotel. On Saturday, Sept. 3, the events will include the annual Whether Block Party, the inaugural ABPW Film Festival at the IPIC Theatre and Whiipped University — an erotic dance and theatrical experience.
Sunday, Sept. 4, will focus more on music and poetry. There will be a Poetry Slam & Jazz Brunch and a Pure Heat Community Festival. In the past, ABPW has featured artists like Cardi B, Lil’ Kim, Keyshia Cole and more. This year, attendees can expect to see Kandi Burruss and Joseline Hernandez as well.
Labor Day, Sept. 5, will be an all-day party made up of the annual Booze Cruise, Drip Day Party, and the annual All-White Party. Each day will have a selection of nightclub events as well.
An impactful weekend is on the horizon, but the inaugural ABPW Film Festival is expected to show another side of the LGBTQIA+ community through the art of film. Attendees can expect to see special guests such as Jussie Smollett, Shanté Paige, Amanda Shelby, Jerrie Johnson and more.
If you don’t have any Labor Day weekend plans, Atlanta Black Pride Weekend invites all to attend. The weekend is sponsored by Gilead, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, and AARP. | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/31/atlanta-black-pride-weekend-events-to-attend/ | 2022-08-31T18:00:48Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/31/atlanta-black-pride-weekend-events-to-attend/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ever since her transition into adulthood, singer Chlöe Bailey has become renowned for being very risqué and provocative.
The elder sister from the singing duo Chlöe x Halle has not deviated from the script with her latest pose, where she told her five million Instagram followers that she has gone to the bathroom “on ’em.”
Bailey didn’t elaborate on what she was trying to convey with this pose, who she was dissing or why she was barefoot. But nearly half a million people liked it.
The singer also talked recently about pushing through her insecurities in her music, which may give the impression that Bailey is always confident.
“That’s what I’m striving to be, if I’m 100 percent honest,” she says — “as much as people think I’m so confident, 80 percent of the time I feel the complete opposite of that. That’s why I put so much of myself into my music. That’s where I feel like myself and where I belong in this life—whenever I’m onstage. The girl I see and I watch sing back, she intimidates me. I’m like, ‘Who the hell is that?’ ” she told Essence magazine.
“Back then, our look was very Atlanta, very Southern country and very Siamese twins,” Chlöe jokes. “I look back at photos and videos and cringe. It’s so fun to see the evolution and how we were once just like, ‘OK, as long as it’s color-coordinated and we have matching things, then we’re good.’ ” | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/31/chloe-bailey-poses-topless-photo/ | 2022-08-31T18:00:54Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/31/chloe-bailey-poses-topless-photo/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DaBaby has had a rollercoaster ride of a career, and it may be due in part to the way he carried himself throughout the years. It now looks like all of those things are coming back to haunt him.
On Aug. 30, it was reported that the rapper will no longer perform at the Smoothie King Arena in New Orleans on Friday, due to low ticket sales.
Ticketmaster deactivated the concert, and it now reads “Unfortunately, the event organizer has had to cancel your event.” Before the event was taken down, there were fewer than 500 tickets purchased, but the arena holds 14,000 people. The tickets were also as low as $35.
The only two tour dates left on DaBaby’s website are in Paris, France, and Houston, Texas.
Circling back to his rollercoaster career, the rapper has done many controversial things in the past two years. During his Rolling Loud performance in 2021, he made homophobic and misogynistic comments, saying “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— in the parking lot, put your cellphone lighter up.”
In February 2022, DaBaby was in the news for fighting the brother of DaniLeigh, the singer whom he used to date and who is the mother of one of his children.
In April 2022, a video showed DaBaby trying to force a fan to kiss him who looked uninterested in doing so. Later that month, TMZ reported that a property manager pressed felony battery charges against the rapper, claiming he suffered serious injuries after being attacked by the rapper at a music video shoot. | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/31/dababy-mishandled-his-career-now-hes-paying-for-it/ | 2022-08-31T18:01:00Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/31/dababy-mishandled-his-career-now-hes-paying-for-it/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A family who missed a swimming pool session went to the beach instead–and saved a child’s life.
Paul Brennan, 49, and his children were on vacation when they went to Southerness beach in Scotland, in the U.K. His kids had missed a morning swimming pool session and the family decided to head to the seaside instead.
But the North Ayrshire Athletics Club coach sprang into action after noticing a child on an inflatable unicorn. The kid had become separated from his relatives and began edging further away from the shoreline.
Brennan’s 76-year-old father, James, initially took the plunge to save the 10-year-old boy–despite the fact he had not swum in 40 years.
“I didn’t even know if I was going to make it to save the boy, but my dad influenced my decision. I’m not certain I would have done if it my father didn’t go out first–it was a now or never momentary decision, and I’m so happy we were able to save the kid,” said Brennan, from Saltcoats, Scotland.
Brennan was staying at Southerness Holiday Park on a family vacation with his parents and two children, Luca, 14, and Lorena, 10. Brennan noticed his elderly father had already begun the heroic venture out to sea.
“I was on the phone to the coastguard 999 [the national maritime for search and rescue’s emergency phone line], I turned around to look at the inflatable and my dad, who is not the strongest swimmer, was already in the water! The 10-year-old boy’s family were in complete panic, absolutely hysterical, and in the moment I decided to head straight out,” Brennan said.
The tide was heading out, and Brennan was swimming in relatively still waters, but with an off-shore wind.
“When I reached my dad I told him to go back to shore–he annoyingly refused but I just kept swimming and he realized he couldn’t do much more so began heading back. He played a big role in it all. I eventually reached the boy in around 10-15 minutes–he was completely distraught,” he said.
“I said to him, ‘Hey, you’re safe now’ and he gave me a big smile, and that’s when I pushed him in–one hand pulling us to shore, the other on the inflatable. But then I turned around and saw how far away we actually were–it was a bit frightening,” Brennan said.
After a near-half-hour swim back to shore, Brennan was greeted with a tremendous reception by the boy’s grateful family and coastguards.
“The boy’s family were all crying and giving me hugs. It brought a tear to my eye as well. Re-uniting the kid with his loved ones was a special moment that will live with me for a long time,” Brennan recalled.
Brennan has since received messages of thanks from the boy’s mother, who said: “You are a hero in my eyes, for you not to even think twice and swim to my son’s rescue, you deserve a medal. I will never forget you and I don’t think my family will either.”
A post from North Ayrshire Athletics Club afterward read: “Take a bow, Paul Brennan. You sir, are incredible, a true hero.”
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Showtime has returned to the field.
The Howard Marching Band is led by director Kelvin Washington, senior drum major Keanu Powell, and seniors Sanaa Davis-McClain and Jailen Johnson. With the return of twirlers for the first time in 15 years, the Bison have put together a quality group on the field after two years of a pandemic.
The group’s leaders spoke to rolling out after the first show at the 2022 Cricket MEAC/SWAC Challenge.
What makes this group so special?
Washington: No. 1, these kids are from 18 different countries. We represent probably 32 different states in his band program. It’s just the collaboration of bringing all these students together to have a great year for showtime.
How was the experience of rehearsing through Zoom during the pandemic?
Powell: I came to Howard when COVID wasn’t a thing. So I came out freshman year, and it was amazing. COVID hit us hard. The Zoom life is definitely not for me, and it’s not for a band, honestly.
Coming back from that, we just hit the ground running. Last year, it was tough because he was just coming from off of Zoom, and we just tried to get the band program back to where it was. Now, we see that we’re going in a different direction. We have a lot of people who stepped up to the plate, and it’s just been good.
How do you handle the responsibility and expectation that comes with attending Howard?
Davis-McClain: I think it comes full circle on the field through the Showtime Marching Band, but also when we get back to school. When we’re in our classroom, and when we’re networking. Howard University is the mecca, it brings people together. It’s this amazing place to develop. That’s the Howard University culture and especially Black culture.
The cheerleaders were cheering you on during the performance. How does that type of support feel?
Davis-McClain: Oh, it’s amazing. It makes what we do so much better. Just coming out, leaving our hearts on the field, having all of our family members, supporters, friends and classmates come out and support us. It really makes us feel good, and have that Howard University spirit.
The first show is done. How did you feel about it?
Johnson: I feel amazing. My team killed it.
What’s your favorite part of performing?
Johnson: My favorite part of performing is the fans. We see so many young Black women. It’s always so great to see how much they love us and to inspire them.
How can people support Howard’s band?
Washington: Financially.
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Melina (Joyful Drake) is a strong Black woman who finds a new spark in life in Unthinkably Good Things. Melina and her girlfriends discover new passions in beautiful Italy. Unthinkably Good Things is available now on the Hallmark movie channel.
Melina (Joyful Drake) is a strong Black woman who finds a new spark in life in Unthinkably Good Things. Melina and her girlfriends discover new passions in beautiful Italy. Unthinkably Good Things is available now on the Hallmark movie channel. | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/31/joyful-drake-plays-strong-woman-in-unthinkably-good-things/ | 2022-08-31T18:01:18Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/31/joyful-drake-plays-strong-woman-in-unthinkably-good-things/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards did not hold back when it came to individuality, diversity and inclusivity. Although, this year they brought an element of surprise after being the first award show to feature a metaverse performance and add an award category for “Best Metaverse Performance”.
Rap Legends Snoop Dogg and Eminem performed as if they were the NFTs, “Bored Apes.”.They brought a human aspect to the cartoon apes and instead of them performing on stage like most music performances, their performance transitioned into virtual reality. It was similar to watching an episode of Black Mirror.
The technology has some wondering what this means for award shows moving forward.
The Bored Ape Yacht Club website states, the “Bored Ape Yacht Club is a collection of 10,000 Bored Ape NFTs.” In other words, a series of unique digital collectibles living on the Ethereum blockchain.” For those unfamiliar with NFTs, this stands for “non-fungible tokens.” The Bored Ape Yacht Club was founded in 2021, and is in the cryptocurrency industry. The blockchain is the technology that makes cryptocurrency possible.
These NFTs are a series of cartoon apes that have grown a cult following, and Snoop Dogg and Eminem are just two among many well-known celebrities that own their own ‘Bored Ape’ NFTs.
Bringing NFTs to the entertainment and music industry is game changing and might become the new norm for awards shows moving forward.
The metaverse is no longer on private platforms but is becoming mainstream. Soon enough, we will no longer have to turn on our phones or TVs to experience the metaverse. One day we could possibly be living in a virtual reality in everyday life.
This could affect the way money is managed, the way we entertain ourselves and the way information is accessed. MTV showcasing the metaverse on a largely viewed public channel is just the beginning.
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Nick Cannon alerted the public earlier this year that he might have more kids in the future. And onn Aug. 24, Nick Cannon posted a three-minute video on Instagram that showed a maternity photo shoot with his ex-girlfriend Brittany Bell. Cannon and Bell already have two kids together, 5-year-old Golden “Sagon” and 19-month-old Powerful Queen.
Cannon also has 11-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe with ex-wife Mariah Carey, and 13-month-old Zion and Zillion with Abby De La Rosa. His son Zen, who he shares with Alyssa Scott, died in December 2021 after being diagnosed with brain cancer.
Many people have questioned Cannon’s decision to have more children, including Vivica A. Fox, who recently chimed in on the topic on the “Cocktails with Queens” show.
“I don’t like it,” Fox said. “Y’all can be like ‘He got money,’ this, that, and the third. The foundation of Black families, especially a strong father figure, is needed. This just isn’t a good representation of it in my opinion.”
Fox said at the end of the day, parenthood is about more than just providing money and doing photo shoots with the pregnant women.
“He’s there to take pictures and it’s cute, and ‘Oh my God, I’m at the birthday party, ” Fox said. “Children deserve a father figure, especially young boys. They need positive father figures, especially African Americans. I’ve seen so many people that in the past have dated athletes and gotten child support. What if he gets hurt? Things happen.” | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/31/vivica-a-fox-shares-why-shes-not-a-fan-of-nick-cannon-having-so-many-kids/ | 2022-08-31T18:01:31Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/08/31/vivica-a-fox-shares-why-shes-not-a-fan-of-nick-cannon-having-so-many-kids/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LELAND, Iowa (KCAU) — Two children and one adult were taken to a local hospital on Tuesday after a crash in Clay County.
According to a release from the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, a 16-year-old was driving an Elantra north on 160th avenue, and as they reached 400th Street, they didn’t stop for a stop sign. This resulted in a collision in the intersection with a woman driving an Excursion.
The Excursion entered the north ditch, and it rolled several times, according to the release.
The release stated that the driver of the Excursion, and two children passengers were transported to a local hospital for treatment of their injuries.
The driver of the Elantra sought medical attention for minor injuries. They were subsequently charged with failure to obey stop signs and failure to provide proof of financial responsibility. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/rollover-sends-2-children-1-adult-to-hospital-after-clay-county-crash/ | 2022-08-31T18:04:53Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/rollover-sends-2-children-1-adult-to-hospital-after-clay-county-crash/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Mikhail Gorbachev — the last leader of the Soviet Union and Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped bring an end to the Cold War — has died at age 91. The Russia where he died is a very different place from the Soviet Union where Gorbachev grew up and became president.
William Taubman is a biographer, professor emeritus at Amherst College and author of “Gorbachev: His Life and Times.” He talks with Here & Now‘s Lisa Mullins.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Pakistan is on the long road to recovery after catastrophic flooding. Nearly a million people need shelter. More than a thousand are dead.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd gets the latest from NPR’s Diaa Hadid.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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I remember when I worked as a post-surgery RN. I’d see patients suffering side effects from surgeries back then.
Each morning when the elevator opened on my floor, I would get a list of patients who were feeling mighty sore.
I remember when I worked as a post-surgery RN. I’d see patients suffering side effects from surgeries back then.
Each morning when the elevator opened on my floor, I would get a list of patients who were feeling mighty sore.
They all had major surgery. Let’s say they’d been tuned up. But now were nauseated ‘cuz they seemed to be plugged up.
I’m not talking ‘bout their sinus or that brown stuff in the ear. I’m talking down there farther south and a little to the rear.
There is an old time remedy of mineral oil to cure. It’s awful to the taste, but it will loosen you for sure.
That mineral oil will clean you out. It’ll find a way somehow. I told an older patient, “Just be glad you’re not a cow.”
That fellow gave a look at me like, “Have you lost your mind?” He was hobbling for the toilet, left me standing there behind.
I couldn’t help but notice how he hobbled extra fast. He was ‘bout to feel relief, his constipation wouldn’t last.
I said, “You see when I was young, we milked cows on the farm. Those danged old cows would get plugged up. A sure cause for alarm.
“But we always had a quart or two of mineral oil on hand. We’d pour it down the cow. If not, the cow would soon expand.”
I wondered how a cow could drink a quart of mineral oil. It wasn’t long before her innards rumbled in turmoil.
The growling and the gurgling gas would soon come flying out. The mineral oil had remedied the plugged up cow, no doubt.
I learned that you should never, ever stand back at their rear. My cousin caught a blast and it was more than just a smear.
So then I told him, “Sir I see you’ve been up twice to go. The mineral oil has done its job, and not a bit too slow.
“I’ll stand back here and help you make your way back to the john. But please give me a warning if a cough is coming on.”
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Tim Adams will depart CFTV this fall after most successful Tin Cup yet
Nonprofit staff, board members, donors, and volunteers celebrated another record-breaking Tin Cup Giving Challenge on Aug. 24, and marked the more bittersweet news of Community Foundation of Teton Valley executive director Tim Adams’s upcoming departure from the valley.
In 2022 the Tin Cup brought in $2.5 million, a 13% increase over last year. Participating nonprofits raised $1.5 million, and the Challenger Fund total was just shy of a million dollars, which enabled a 50% match to all nonprofits up to $25,000. Almost half of the participating nonprofits reached that cap this year.
With 1,308 individual donors in 2022, the Community Foundation was able to again claim its favorite statistic: one in every four households in the valley donated.
In the 15 years since its inception, the Tin Cup Challenge has raised just under $21 million to support the health, well-being, education, recreation, and culture of Teton Valley.
“It’s an incredibly powerful statement about who we are as a community, what we believe in, and what we value,” Adams said after announcing the totals at Wednesday’s award ceremony.
“I’m humbled that I got to be a part of this community and I got to be a part of all of you and what we do,” he continued. “Although I am leaving, this community will always be a huge part of my heart, and is something I will steadfastly share to anyone who will listen to me about what an incredible community this is and what incredible people are in this valley.”
Adams had announced earlier this month that he and his family would be moving out of the area in late fall. While he has only led the Community Foundation for four years, Adams has been a pillar of the nonprofit community for almost two decades; before joining CFTV in 2018, he was the executive director of Teton Valley Trails and Pathways for 11 years.
Adams started his nonprofit career when he was an undergrad and spent over 30 years with organizations like North Carolina Outward Bound School, Yosemite Institutes, and YMCA. Adams, his wife Shawn, and their two sons moved to Teton Valley in the early 2000s.
During his time at TVTAP, Adams helped enable the construction of multi-use paths in Victor and Driggs, oversaw the growth of the winter grooming program and the Wydaho Rendezvous Bike Festival, and pieced together funding for projects that are only now coming to fruition, like the Teton Centennial Trail path and underpasses on the highway between Mike Harris and Trail Creek campgrounds.
Dan Verbeten, who served for six years on the TVTAP board and then took Adams’s place as executive director, said that Adams had left the organization with a solid foundation that enabled a smooth transition.
“I have a real appreciation for the small details he manages and keeps in mind while steering the ship in the big picture,” Verbeten said. “His legacy in nonprofits here goes beyond the physical, tangible pieces he’s accomplished, although there are a lot of those.”
Valley Advocates for Responsible Development attorney Anna Trentadue worked with Adams and TVTAP in the earliest phases of the Teton Creek Corridor Project before he started at the Community Foundation.
“Tim is so hard working and so bright and so damn likeable,” she said with affection. “He very humbly commands respect.”
Along with Adams, Trentadue and Verbeten were some of the few nonprofit staff members who have participated in all 15 of the Tin Cup Challenges. Trentadue remembers that in the first year, after Teton Valley organizations “had to leave the nest” and stop fundraising through the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole’s Old Bill’s Fun Run, the new CFTV raised $900,000 total.
“I remember Cathy O’Connor crying when she announced the numbers,” Trentadue said about the organization’s first executive director. “And even through the Great Recession and the pandemic, the numbers didn’t drop. In times of adversity, people double down and give more. And when more people move here, they learn that it’s cool to support the community and nonprofits. It’s what we do.”
CFTV grant committee chair Nan Pugh pointed out that before he left TVTAP Adams was the first recipient of the Dawn Banks Nonprofit Leadership Award in 2017, an award that the Community Foundation established in memory of beloved staff member Dawn Banks.
“That speaks to his leadership,” Pugh said. “It was really fitting that he became the ED of the Community Foundation. To grow the Tin Cup a million dollars through a pandemic—he’s been a really steady, even-keeled leader for the community. He was a rock.”
Verbeten agreed. “There’s zero ego in his leadership style. That’s part of what makes him so effective and so approachable, and those qualities are really important for someone who is in the role of supporting so many local nonprofits. There’s a quote, ‘to be a leader is not to be the best but to bring out the best in others.’ That’s totally Tim Adams.”
Adams will work with the Community Foundation board and staff through November. The executive director position is posted at cftetonvalley.org/nonprofit-job-board. | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/freeaccess/ending-on-a-high-note/article_74ed5bde-248c-11ed-9a3f-3b359f6b4734.html | 2022-08-31T18:13:09Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/freeaccess/ending-on-a-high-note/article_74ed5bde-248c-11ed-9a3f-3b359f6b4734.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Large wildfires can affect hunts and access, even after the fires are out
Hunters planning their first trips want to pay close attention to fire closures and be prepared to alter their plans if necessary.
Large wildfires can affect hunts and access, even after the fires are out
Hunters planning their first trips want to pay close attention to fire closures and be prepared to alter their plans if necessary.
Large fires are common in Idaho and are often burning when archery season opens at the end of August. Fires can created large closure areas that temporarily curb hunters’ access to some areas. To see current area closures and fire boundaries go to Fish and Game’s Idaho Fire Map.
Fire conditions change as cooler, wetter arrives in late summer and fall, but it’s important that hunters know fire closures can extend far beyond the boundaries of fires that are active, or recently extinguished. Land closures can continue into October, even if weather cools and we get rain or snow, however, officials typically try to reopen areas when they are safe.
Idaho Fish and Game will try to keep hunters informed of the latest fire news on its fire information page.
Hunters should also be aware of safety restrictions on campfires, gas engines, and other potential fire sources in many areas of the state. Check with the Forest Service, BLM, or other land manager to find out if fire restrictions exist in your hunting area.
These restrictions typically limit campfires and other open flames to designated areas, such as campgrounds.
Hunters have options if their hunt area is affected by fire
Fires can affect some hunts, particularly controlled hunts, but it’s rare that access to a hunting area is completely blocked for the duration of the hunt, and fires usually are not large enough to close an entire hunting unit.
Hunters affected by a fire closure can typically adjust their schedules to hunt later in the season, or find open areas within the hunting unit.
However, hunters with controlled hunt tags may exchange them for general season tags before the controlled hunt begins, but controlled hunt fees will not be refunded.
Hunters may also exchange general tags, such as elk tags, to hunt in a different zone if tags are still available, but tags must be exchanged before the season begins, and there is a fee to exchange tags.
Fish and Game may consider requests for rain checks for controlled hunts if access to a hunting unit is completely blocked because of a wildfire. Rain checks would be valid the following year, if approved, and offered only for the same species and hunt area as the current tag.
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Editor’s Note: Due to Mercury’s departure from retrograde or something, Miz Riv can no longer commune with the cosmos and this will be her final installment of astrology-adjacent advice and admonishments. Thanks for shedding a little light onto this mortal coil, Miz Riv!
Aries (March 21- April 19): Of all the things you could be wondering about, you decide to let your brain focus on where a dog’s elbow really is? Solid question for sure, but don’t linger there too long.
Taurus (April 20- May 20): I recently found a greeting card that said, “having one good friend is worth more than ten thousand relatives”. I couldn’t agree more. Blood is not always thicker than water. Having a chosen family is a powerful testament to love and real acceptance. You get to choose what’s best for you Taurus.
Gemini (May 21-June 20): You’re not chubby, you’re “family fat”. It’s a term I recently learned from a vet who was talking about a dog. That means you are well loved, happy, have access to food, and are cared for. Remember that next time you get down on yourself for your jeans fitting a little tighter than you remember.
Cancer (June 21-July 22): Honey, I know it’s tough but you have got to learn to accept the compliments people pay you! Don’t you even think about making up an excuse as to why you don’t deserve that compliment. You’re smart and funny and beautiful and creative and all around rad. These are just the facts.
Leo (July 23-Aug 22): YOLO!!! Amirite?? In light of having only this one precious life we have to live, I want you to know that you’re doing a bangup job. You’ve put yourself out there. You’re living your life on max volume. You’re loud and proud. Keep it up.
Virgo (Aug 23-Sept 22): While it’s true that you will probably give yourself a heart attack with all the bad and delicious food that’s waiting for you at the East Idaho State Fair in Blackfoot this next week, just do it. You only live once. Navajo tacos and cotton candy are the future. Your future.
Libra (Sept 23-Oct 22): Sweet baby jeebus, the valley’s kids are back in school. Can I get an AMEN!? No more roaming packs of sticky troublemakers that you have to yell at to get out of your yard. Just kidding. I like sticky troublemakers.
Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21): Look at you already planning out your Halloween costume. I love your commitment to the holiday, and the season of Scorpio. I have no doubt that you will nail it, like always.
Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 21): Speaking of the state fair in Blackfoot…I know you want to go and get a wristband to ride all the rides until you make yourself sick. And I say, do it. Book a room so you don’t have to drive home afterwards and make a whole trip out of it.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 19): Word on the street is that meditation helps lower stress. I wouldn’t know, I’m too stressed to even try. But you totally should! Please report back if it does indeed help mellow you out.
Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18): Goodbyes are hard. But don’t think of it so much as goodbye, but more like see ya later alligator, vaya con Dios, hasta la pasta, sayonara, happy trails, fare-thee-well, cheerio, live long and prosper, and my personal favorite…watch out for deer and perverts!
Pisces (Feb 19-Mar 20): And….exhale. It’s time for you to make a nest out of blankets in your living room and watch all the Netflix. There will be no “being productive” in your downtime. Your only job now is to rest. Focus on regaining your strength. In good time you will be back to your warrior ways, but for now Netflix and ice cream. | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/freeaccess/miz-riv-s-horoscopes---august-31/article_c86ea9da-2580-11ed-81d2-bb79455ab26a.html | 2022-08-31T18:13:22Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/freeaccess/miz-riv-s-horoscopes---august-31/article_c86ea9da-2580-11ed-81d2-bb79455ab26a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“Hi, Annie! Is now a good time for us to chat?” I asked as I stepped into her booth, redolent with her aromatic lavender flowers and products.
“Yes, come on in!” she responded brightly.
“Refresh me on the when-abouts of your farm, Annie. It’s been a while since we chatted last…”
“My husband, Jeff, and I were living in Sandy, Utah when we bought forty acres in Tetonia in the early 2000’s. Jeff had grown up in Jackson, and we’d looked for property over there, but – well, you know. And we came across this vacant land in Tetonia. We dreamed of being organic farmers when we retired – Jeff was a full-time engineer at the time, and I was a math writer writing texts for elementary through high school kids — so we bought the land.
“In 2014, Jeff opted for early retirement. He had a tractor, and we had land. So, we moved to our property in Tetonia knowing it was unrealistic for us to be large-scale organic farmers but keen to work the land. We looked for something more realistic. Jeff suggested a lavender farm, knowing I loved lavender. Of course I agreed! As our land is on the Jackpine Pinochle Loop, we decided to call our farm Jackpine Lavender.
“We did research to see if lavender would grow at 6500 feet in our climate – which it does. And then we joined the U.S. Lavender Growers Association where we found vast resources available to us as well as a big conference every two years. Pre-pandemic, we went to a conference in Oregon where we got lots of useful information as well as more great resources. Online, we found an organic lavender farmer in Oregon who walked us through the organic lavender-growing process, and from whom we got our seeds and then seedlings.
“We started some plants from seed, but they are hard to start, especially in quantity. So we started with 100 plants from seeds and another 700 from seedlings. We have ten different varieties – eight English lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) and two French lavender (Lavandula X-intermedia). French lavender are longer-stemmed and have a stronger smell. I call it ‘happy lavender’. English lavender has calming, relaxing aromas and is the culinary lavender. The dried buds – also referred to as flowers – are used. Their potency increases with drying as with any fresh herb. Lavender goes well with so many other flavors, especially citrus. And it’s the defining herb in Herbes de Provence, you know.”
“So, Annie, tell me about working empty land,” I was keen to know.
“Jeff had been a carpenter in Jackson before he went to engineering school,” she began. “Part of our dream was to build a barn with space for the tractor, Jeff’s workshop, and a lavender work space below with a modest living area for us upstairs. Our son, Renzo, helped him. In the meantime, we lived in a trailer on the property. Sadly, Jeff passed away almost two years ago now. It was unexpected…
“I decided to stay on the farm, and now Renzo and a carpenter, Tom, are finishing the barn. The farm was our dream; and I just couldn’t leave.”
“We’re happy you stayed, Annie. I know how much the farm means to you,” I told her. “Jeff was the soap maker, wasn’t he?”
“Yes. And that’s a whole different process. I’m not ready yet. Besides, I prefer the culinary and other lavender products I make – my sugars, teas, honeys, herb and spice rubs, and salt and pepper blends. And my bath salts, therapeutics for sunburn, chapped hands, and aromatherapy. And my dryer bags, smudges (better than incense!), sachets and potpourri.”
“How do you make your oils, Annie?”
“I use a steam distillation process where I put lavender in a large vat with water that boils and creates steam. The steaming process releases the oil which moves up through a tube where it condenses to leave the oil on the top and the hydrosol (flower water) on the bottom. It’s that essential oil I use in my sprays, salves, and aromatherapy blends. I make one salve with arnica and the other with cayenne, my ‘icy hot’ one! Both salves also contain peppermint and rosemary essential oils. I love doing it all – I feel like a little chemist working with my oils and my aromatherapy blends!
“My lavender has to grow in harsh conditions where I am. So it works hard to flourish the way it does. I love the earth and my plants. It all keeps me in a place I need to be.”
This last reminded me of a poem, “Lavender Fields” by Joanne Butler, most of which I quote here:
“In the summer sun
Your reach for my hand
And guide me atop
Of this magical land
We are caught in the moment
Of awe and amaze
Upon this purple vision
Of beauty we now gaze
As of vivid dreams
Nestled in the trees
An idyllic slice of heaven
Gently swaying in the breeze
In the lavender fields…
I want to stay forever
In this little world of ours…” | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/freeaccess/this-week-at-teton-valley-farmers-market-jackpine-lavender-ann-mcmullen/article_4be7ad94-27bf-11ed-8e0f-f37ef31b0cad.html | 2022-08-31T18:13:28Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/freeaccess/this-week-at-teton-valley-farmers-market-jackpine-lavender-ann-mcmullen/article_4be7ad94-27bf-11ed-8e0f-f37ef31b0cad.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Valley Voices, the informal storytelling group modeled off of forums like Cabin Fever in Jackson and The Moth Radio Hour, is taking its show on the road this fall and partnering with new organizations to share vignettes from the community.
Tim Gruber started Valley Voices last year and held the first storytelling event in December, working with the Mental Health Coalition to solicit tales of “Hunkering Down.”
“I’ve always been a big fan of storytelling events,” Gruber told the Teton Valley News last November, before the first event. “Back east we had a really cool storytelling event where there would be a line up of storytellers, and then depending upon the theme they’d reach out to an organization in the area and it would benefit that organization.”
He wasn’t sure what to expect, and was stunned that over 75 people showed up to Highpoint Cider that December evening to listen or share their stories.
“I was definitely not expecting that,” he said.
Valley Voices has since partnered with Family Safety Network, Friends of Teton River, Girls Actively Participating, and ABC, to name only a few. The $5 entry fee at Highpoint goes directly to the nonprofit, and each organization has the chance to educate more residents about its mission.
“I think it stemmed from Mountain Academy and learning what people are doing here,” Gruber said. He teaches second and third grade at the Victor school and has guided his students in researching and interviewing various nonprofits that have an impact on the community. “It’s been incredibly educational, learning about people’s vested interests and how much work they put forth.”
The team at the cider taproom has been an invaluable support crew for the Valley Voices events. Gruber said that owners Alex and Andrew Perez and manager Kate Driscoll are “great people with their heads and hearts in the right places.” As a result of Valley Voices, he actually got a part-time job at the bar.
“All the events they put on and their belief system and what they value—they’re a huge asset to the community,” he said. “We align on so many things.”
While he loves Highpoint, Gruber is excited to add a couple new venues to the list. On Sept. 15 Valley Voices and Hole Food Rescue will have an outdoor event at Canewater Farm in Victor, with a theme of “Rescue.” Then, on Nov. 10, the show is coming to Driggs; Foxtrot Fine Art will host stories with the theme of “Still” in tandem with a still life exhibit.
“People here are so willing, they’re ‘yes and’ people who want to contribute and add to an idea or event,” Gruber said, reflecting on exciting conversations he’s had with people like Foxtrot gallery owner Katy Ann Fox.
Anyone who wants to share their own story can email valleyvoices33@gmail.com to reserve a time slot. Participants are promised a high five, a free drink, and a verbal validation that they’re awesome, Gruber said.
“It’s fun to meet people at these events and also see how many people are doing great work and pouring their hearts into causes they believe in. It’s definitely inspirational,” he added. “I’ve only been here a year but I’ve gotten to know the community and begin to understand the larger questions that people are putting their heads and hearts into.” | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/news/community/valley-voices-expands-to-new-venues-for-fall-storytelling-slams/article_46449bf2-23de-11ed-996e-fb01a7a7744c.html | 2022-08-31T18:13:34Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/news/community/valley-voices-expands-to-new-venues-for-fall-storytelling-slams/article_46449bf2-23de-11ed-996e-fb01a7a7744c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Education, for the vast majority of people, has always had an order.
The first bell rings and all of the students sit down in the classroom. The teacher begins their lesson. This is repeated hour after hour and day after day, year after year.
Suddenly, the final bell rings.
Your little one is now out in the world, all grown up. Taking on responsibilities and tasks, transformed into a young adult. It can all go by in the blink of an eye.
Perhaps there is no greater moment than the start of this journey.
Kimberly Smith has seen many of these journeys start. A lifelong educator, Smith has seen countless children come into the classroom. Through those endeavors, Smith began to wonder.
What if there wasn’t a classroom?
After more than a decade of teaching indoors, Smith finally answered that question late last spring when she founded Wildhaven, an early childhood forest school.
“Being outside, for me as an educator, it sounded like a much healthier environment for me than being inside with 20 kids for 8 hours a day,” said Smith.
While Smith primarily started Wildhaven from an alternative education standpoint, she was also happy to try and help ease the childcare crunch that Teton Valley was experiencing.
“Another reason I started Wildhaven was because I saw a need in our community that wasn’t being met fully and wanted to contribute in a way that would enrich the lives of those who live there,” said Smith.
Wildhaven’s curriculum, serving preschool-aged children (3 to 5 years old), aims to teach little ones life lessons through interaction with natural environments. Locations include friendly hiking trails, serene spots by a creek, or a clearing in a forest, among others.
Students are given the freedom to explore their surroundings. Never out of eyesight or earshot, the children interact with each other and learn how to carry themselves properly.
“I feel like I am teaching the children from a young age how to appreciate where they are and how accessible how these beautiful natural spaces are to them,” said Smith. “I hope it carries on with them through their lives that they continue to adventure in this way and they continue to have the wonder for their natural environment that is so close to them and respect for it.”
Smith maintains her authority in class by prioritizing the importance of mutual trust.
“Trust is a big thing. They know that if teacher Kim can’t trust you, then they can’t go and play freely which is such a big thing of what we do at forest school,” said Smith.
A typical day for the children begins by meeting at a trailhead or other location where they are dropped off by their parents. From there they gather and introduce themselves by using a hello song.
“I started noticing they are really into their names and so we do a short little circle where we sing a hello song and write their names on a little board as we sing to each child. It isn’t a super academic sit-down, it’s more like you’re really into your names, lets incorporate this into our morning to touch base,” said Smith.
Materials such as paintbrushes, paper, colored pencils, and books are brought out and supplied to the children. Smith will then give them the freedom to play, either with or without those materials.
Class runs from 9 a.m. to noon, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The schedule maintains a balance between giving the children enough time to develop experiences and their energy levels.
“Some days they are constantly moving, moving, moving. I want them to be able to do that. We take breaks when I can tell that they have been moving a lot. They wear themselves out quickly,” said Smith.
With an outdoor school, exposure to outdoor elements is also a factor in the length of class time.
“If it is kind of a hairy day in the rain or snow, we had some snow in the spring, that is a good amount of time for them to be out in the elements and for them to feel a good amount of discomfort but not an unsafe amount of discomfort. It is just enough that it’s like ok, we’ve been out for 3ish hours, and now we’re ready to go home and have lunch and dry out,” said Smith.
If the weather is less than ideal, classes will be canceled, postponed, or moved to a more suitable location. Safety is of utmost importance in those decisions, which the kids have some say in.
“The reminders I give them involve ways to be safe. Where are some places to play safely right now? They help me create safe spaces for the day. We observe our environment. Where can we challenge ourselves today and where can we be safe today? They are great at that and have become better and better the more they come at assessing the risk and staying where they feel safe and where I can hear them and see them,” said Smith.
Through having the freedom to independently play, the children gain confidence and independence.
“I have heard a lot of feedback on how much their children are becoming more confident and more independent,” said Smith.
Families of the students are noticing the progress they have made while out on personal adventures.
“When the kids are going out with their families they are picking out plants that we talked about or talking about the shapes of the sticks. It puts an academic spin on a life that they already live in our area, and it enriches them a little more.”
Those values are exemplified at the end of the day when each child is emboldened to pack up their packs.
“When it’s time to hike out I encourage them to pack up on their own. That is a good time for me to encourage their independence. I am always there to help, but I have found that they learn very quickly because they are all doing it for a reason. They feel internally motivated to do that and it is a good way for them to learn how to dress themselves and have ownership over their own things,” said Smith. | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/news/education/learning-in-the-wilderness-of-life/article_f9e2f19b-9e96-5ca5-8fe4-a169798a05f2.html | 2022-08-31T18:13:40Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/news/education/learning-in-the-wilderness-of-life/article_f9e2f19b-9e96-5ca5-8fe4-a169798a05f2.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Notices for the board of county commissioners public hearing appeared in the Teton Valley News on June 8 and 15, but did not include information on the planning and zoning commission’s recommendation of denial that happened on June 14. The county received two requests for reconsideration of the code and zoning map adoption as a result, but the BOCC denied the requests on Aug. 25.
On Aug. 24, the Teton Board of County Commissioners denied two requests for reconsideration of the adoption of the new zoning map and land development code, stating that legislative decisions aren’t subject to reconsideration and that the zone changes were property noticed.
In early July, the commissioners had voted unanimously to adopt the new code and map, after nearly ten years of stops and starts in the process of replacing the county’s 30-year-old code regulating land use applications.
Opponents of the new LDC, which gets rid of minimum lot size requirements in favor of using average density to determine how many lots can be created in a subdivision, have said that it impacts their ability to subdivide their properties and will drive up property costs and exacerbate the housing crisis. Proponents have said it will curtail speculative development and protect the county’s natural resources.
The LDC went into effect in early August, although land use applications that are already being processed are being reviewed under the code that was in effect when they were submitted.
The two entities that requested a reconsideration of the board’s July decision, Solimar LLC and Thistle Brooks Farm LLC, cited the fact that notices of the public hearing to adopt the code and map did not include information about the Teton County Planning & Zoning Commission’s recommendation on the matter.
At a public hearing on June 14 that was supposed to check an administrative box in the land development code adoption process, the P&Z voted 4-2 to recommend denial of a new zone map and asked the county commissioners to perform an economic impact study of the new zones.
Notices for the BOCC’s June 29 public hearing had already been posted and printed in the newspaper before that recommendation was made. Idaho statute 67-6509 says that “If the governing board will conduct a subsequent public hearing, notice of the planning and zoning commission recommendation shall be included in the notice of public hearing provided by the governing board.”
After reviewing the requests and discussing them with the county’s legal counsel, the commissioners opted to deny them.
During a special meeting on the morning of Aug. 24, commission chair Cindy Riegel clarified that the conversation would be focused only on the reconsideration request for the zoning map change, not the code adoption.
“There’s no right to judicial review of an ordinance adopted by the board of county commissioners,” Riegel said. “Ordinance is law; just like the legislature makes laws, we make laws.”
Commissioner Bob Heneage called the rationale for the zone change reconsideration request a “technical flaw” that “only carries weight if it’s accompanied by a specific resultant harm to the applicant such as an alleged drop in property value. No such specific allegations accompanied the complaint about the failure to itemize the planning and zoning commission’s recommendation in the BOCC’s notice for public hearing, therefore the request should be denied.”
Riegel pointed out that the four public hearings held by P&Z and the BOCC had been “extremely well-attended,” that the county website has had “consistently good information” about the ongoing process, and that the county has received hundreds of written comments throughout the update. She added that the people who asked for the reconsideration had appeared at nearly every hearing or had at least provided written comment.
Riegel said that overall she felt “very comfortable with the public notification of the three-year process we’ve been going through to update our land development code and zoning map based on our comprehensive plan.” | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/news/local_government/commissioners-deny-code-reconsideration-requests/article_5c42853e-23db-11ed-b21e-4327094f31a3.html | 2022-08-31T18:13:46Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/news/local_government/commissioners-deny-code-reconsideration-requests/article_5c42853e-23db-11ed-b21e-4327094f31a3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Baggage handler killed in belt loader entanglement at New Orleans airport
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE/Gray News) - An airport worker is dead after her hair was caught in a belt loader at the New Orleans airport, officials say.
The 26-year-old, identified by the Jefferson Parish Coroner’s Office as Jermani Thompson, was injured Tuesday at around 10 p.m on the apron, an area where aircraft are parked, loaded, unloaded, refueled, boarded and maintained, the director of communications for Louis Armstrong New Orleans Airport said.
A spokesperson for GAT Airline Ground Support, where Thompson was employed, said she was working to offload a plane that had landed, WVUE reported. They say her hair got tangled in a belt loader.
“We are heartbroken and are supporting her family and her friends as best as we are able. Please send your well wishes to everyone at our New Orleans station during this very difficult time,” the CEO of GAT Airline Ground Support said.
Thompson was taken to a hospital, where she died.
“We extend our deepest condolences following the tragic death of a team member of our ground handling business partner at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans. Our thoughts are with her family and loved ones during this difficult time,” a spokesperson for Frontier Airlines said in a statement.
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Re-offenses in Teton County’s juvenile probation system are on the rise according to chief juvenile probation officer Renee Leidorf, who gave a presentation to the Teton Board of County Commissioners at its Aug. 22 meeting.
The county’s juvenile probation system is responsible for monitoring adults that have a probation agreement as a result of a misdemeanor conviction as well as all juvenile offenders. Adult felony offenders are administered probation through the State of Idaho’s probation system.
Both adult misdemeanor and juvenile segments are high in terms of caseload, but there has been little change from last quarter in the juvenile segment. Adult misdemeanor caseload has shown a seemingly minor, but impactful increase.
According to Leidorf’s quarterly reports, there has been a 26-case increase in adult misdemeanor offenders in the probation system since the last quarter of 2021, for a total of 130. Data provided by Teton County Sheriff’s Office administrative manager Mitch Golden showed that there were 76 reports of all controlled substance incidents in Teton County from Jan. 1, 2021 to Sept. 1, 2021.
During that same timeframe in 2022, reports of all controlled substance incidents in Teton County rose considerably to 125.
Drug testing results have also continued to show light on the growth of substance abuse in Teton County. Commissioner Michael Whitfield called the trend “concerning.” Leidorf echoed the sentiment.
“The one thing that we are really concerned about is fentanyl,” said Leidorf. It is the second quarter in a row that fentanyl has shown up in the county’s probation system.
“Seeing a new substance is definitely a red flag,” Leidorf continued.
The number of positive marijuana tests has also increased, but Leidorf stated that those numbers should be taken with caution as marijuana notably persists in humans’ body systems.
Detention days used have also steadily increased since the new year, with zero being used during the last quarter of 2021. Twenty-three were used in the first quarter of 2022 and 53 were used in the second quarter of 2022.
The messaging of Leidorf’s presentation was shaped by an increase in the number of detention days used, which is a trend that is continuing in this quarter.
“While I was presenting my quarterly report I knew they would see a rise in detention days,” said Leidorf.
Although most of the juvenile caseload is made up of kids who are on the right track, there are a couple of re-offenders that are causing frustration according to Leidorf.
“Most of them are getting through this and doing it beautifully, but I do have a handful of kids who are struggling right now,” said Leidorf.
Leidorf uses detention days as the “last resort” for those in the system. She attested to the other methods that are used before detention days.
“If they’re in treatment we might increase treatment, there are other things such as a curfew and I crank that down a little bit. I also may work with parents and see if I can educate them a little bit more on what may deter this kind of behavior,” said Leidorf.
Like most departments in the county, Leidorf’s is short-staffed. While she is working overtime, among other adjustments, the department can still maintain suitable supervision levels.
“I don’t think that’s the case,” said Leidorf when asked if there is a correlation between low staffing and re-offenses. “We have supervision levels, standards based on those levels meaning if someone is at low risk, I see them once a month. If someone is moderate, I see them once every two weeks. We’re able to maintain that but right now I am budgeted at 32 hours a week and I am working beyond that, around 35 to 40.”
“I am still able to maintain supervision. We have had my admin assistant kick in and she is doing some client work that isn’t typical for her. We are managing it, but we are managing it with people working outside of their job classification,” said Leidorf. | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/news/probation-data-points-to-growth-of-substance-abuse-in-county/article_559d53ee-248f-11ed-85dc-cb53c1e9b6e4.html | 2022-08-31T18:13:53Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/news/probation-data-points-to-growth-of-substance-abuse-in-county/article_559d53ee-248f-11ed-85dc-cb53c1e9b6e4.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ask just about any Idahoan, and they can explain the significance of a belt buckle. For some, including those familiar with the rodeo circuit, it represents a major achievement. For others, it’s a reflection of style and personality. Either way, a belt buckle can say a lot about who you are and what matters to you.
Seat belts may not figure into most people’s thinking when they talk about or display their favorite buckle. They may not be stylish, and every car has them. But when it comes to celebrating a major achievement, like safely reaching your destination with friends and loved ones, it’s the most important buckle you own – one that we can all feel proud to wear.
Most Idahoans use a seat belt – in fact, nearly 86% choose to do so on a regular basis. But sadly, there are those who don’t take full advantage of this basic safety equipment, with tragic consequences. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 60% of the passenger vehicle occupants who were killed in the Gem State in 2020 were unrestrained. Others survive a serious crash but may suffer severe injuries that affect them for the rest of their lives.
The Idaho Transportation Department reported that failure to wear a seat belt was a factor in the crash deaths of 75 Idahoans last year. If all of them had been wearing a seat belt, it is estimated that 38 people may have been saved.
When you’re involved in a crash, there are usually three types of collisions. The first is between the vehicle and the object that it struck (or that it was struck by). The second is between the body of a vehicle occupant and some part of the vehicle – hopefully just the seat belt or an air bag. The third is a rapid jolt and potential trauma of the skeletal and muscular systems, as well as internal organs. Seat belts can reduce the damage from the second and third collision types.
Members of the traffic safety community encourage everyone to consistently wear a seat belt, even if you have a vehicle that is equipped with other safety features like air bags, forward collision warning, or automatic emergency braking. Please buckle up regardless of the time of day, the weather, the distance of your trip, your vehicle speed, or the proximity to your home. Wear a seat belt when riding in the front AND back seat of all vehicles.
In addition to wearing a seat belt yourself, please encourage your loved ones and those who are sharing the ride to do the same. If you feel uncomfortable bringing up the subject, please remember that expressing concern for someone’s safety is a great way to show how much you care.
As Idahoans, we’re used to proudly displaying a belt buckle for one reason or another, and seat belts should be no exception. The stakes are simply too high for anything else. | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/opinion/editorials/idahoans-should-make-seat-belts-their-best-buckle/article_968c03a9-19b2-567c-beb5-ffdd1041c255.html | 2022-08-31T18:13:59Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/opinion/editorials/idahoans-should-make-seat-belts-their-best-buckle/article_968c03a9-19b2-567c-beb5-ffdd1041c255.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Abortion used to be free to the state, and you used to be free to choose it. Financially, no tax dollars supported it. Ethically, you had the freedom to talk (or not talk) to a doctor about one, as could any other troubled woman or abused child. They had the free agency to make their decisions, as did you.
Our elected officials removed our free agency without our explicit consent. By law, they mandated that every pregnancy must be maintained at nearly all costs.
Those costs aren’t ethical or hypothetical. Your paycheck is funding the removal of your freedom. Idaho is being sued by the federal government for being in conflict with EMTALA. Federally, you have the right to emergency treatment, and Idaho’s abortion laws are trying to remove that right.
Said differently, your paycheck is funding both sides of the court battle. The federal government is taking your tax dollars so federal lawyers can fight Idaho. Idaho is raiding your paycheck for state tax dollars so our lawyers can defend laws that we knew were unconstitutional and unwise.
Abortion may not be a freedom you want, but it is expensive to lose it. You will pay twice for it, no matter the outcome. More importantly, we’re setting an expensive precedent that says we will pay for our elected official’s religious beliefs, even if they never asked for our approval of them. | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/opinion/letters_to_editor/paying-twice-to-lose-our-freedom/article_2664cb2a-27a5-11ed-81df-0b33e58157b0.html | 2022-08-31T18:14:05Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/opinion/letters_to_editor/paying-twice-to-lose-our-freedom/article_2664cb2a-27a5-11ed-81df-0b33e58157b0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: The AICC on Wednesday rejected a section of party leaders' demand that the electoral rolls for the Congress presidential polls be made public, saying it was an "in-house procedure" and any member can get its copy from any of the Pradesh Congress Committee offices.
All India Congress Committee general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal, who was in Kerala to review the arrangements being made for the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra next week, said any party member can check the copy of the electoral rolls at any of the PCC offices.
"This is an in-house procedure and it is not supposed to be published for all the public to see," Venugopal told reporters in Alappuzha while responding to a query.
Talking to PTI, the senior leader said Madhusudan Mistry, who is the chairman of the Congress' central election authority, has already given a statement to the media in this regard.
"There is no such practice in the Congress. We will continue to follow the old practice," Venugopal said.
His statement comes as voices seeking fairness in the upcoming polls to elect the new Congress president grew louder on Wednesday, with party leaders Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor and Karti Chidambaram demanding that electoral rolls be made public to ensure transparency in the process.
(With PTI inputs) | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/31/cong-prez-poll-electoral-roll-cannot-be-public-kc-venugopal.amp.html | 2022-08-31T18:14:42Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/31/cong-prez-poll-electoral-roll-cannot-be-public-kc-venugopal.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Premium woman-owned salon relocating due to rapid business growth
TEMPE, Ariz, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lacquer Nails & Spa, Tempe's premier salon for professional manicures, pedicures, and spa services, announced today its retail expansion and grand opening of its new Tempe location. Accompanying this expansion will be the recruitment and hiring of incremental workers to meet the growth in demand.
Established in 2020 during the peak of the pandemic, this woman-owned business has experienced significant growth in new clientele, both male and female, seeking a sophisticated, high-quality salon experience. Lacquer Nails & Spa's word of mouth referrals have contributed to a 30% increase in new clients for the company over the past 12 months.
The new location for Lacquer Nails & Spa will be at 930 West Broadway Road, Suite 12, in the same plaza as the current Tempe location. This new facility will be twice the size of the previous space , with more spa stations and greater capacity to serve its growing clientele base. Currently, the salon staffs approximately 20 professional nail technicians, but is actively working to recruit and hire 30% more workers.
"We owe the success of our business to our thousands of amazing clients who have supported us these past two years," said Kristina Huang, founder of Lacquer Nails & Spa. "Every day we strive to deliver comfort, quality, style, and cleanliness so our guests depart from our salon with beautiful nails and a beautiful feeling. Our new Tempe location will deliver that feeling even better."
The new salon will be even more upscale in its design, with modern, high-fashion interior decor, comfortable spa changes, and personal amenities. The grand opening for the new location will be on Tuesday, September 13, from 3pm to 7pm. The VIP event will feature a DJ, complimentary beverages and appetizers, prizes, and a range of discounted spa services to commemorate the special day.
About Lacquer Nails & Spa: Established in 2020, Lacquer Nails & Spa is a growing provider of professional nail and spa services. In addition to its Tempe location, Lacquer's original location remains in Scottsdale. In total, the two locations will staff nearly 50 workers and serve thousands of clients in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Visit Lacquer Nails & Spa
Lacquer Nails & Spa - Tempe
930 W Broadway Rd
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Tempe, AZ 85282
Phone: (480) 361-1529
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RemotePC™, a leading remote access service provider, has added new functionality to their award-winning remote desktop offering by releasing RemotePC™ Host, which allows users to securely view and manage their Android devices or Chromebooks from any mobile device, desktop, or the web.
While many businesses around the world have switched to a work from home or hybrid work model, it's important that no matter what type of device they are using to get their work done, they are able to access and manage it securely from anywhere with no interruption.
With RemotePC™, users already had the ability to access their Mac, Windows, or Linux desktop devices from anywhere, as well as being able to access those desktops from iOS and Android mobile devices. Now RemotePC™ Host users can access their Android devices and Chromebooks, making RemotePC™ one of the most versatile solutions available, helping all types of users work efficiently from wherever they are, on any device.
When accessing the remote Android device, users can leverage features such as:
- Real-time screen sharing - share the screen of your Android mobile device and Chromebook with any other mobile, desktop, or web browser.
- Copy-paste text - effortlessly copy text from remote Android mobile or Chromebook and paste on your local mobile device or computer.
When it comes to remote access, security is paramount, which is why RemotePC™ uses TLS v 1.2/AES-256 encryption for transferring user authentication data between remote computer and local computer. Personal Key, a unique password set for each computer, acts as an extra layer of protection.
RemotePC™ is also one of the most affordable remote access solutions for both individual users, large businesses, and everything in between:
- Consumer plans start at just $19.50/year.
- For smaller businesses, pricing starts at $79.50 for the SOHO plan, which offers unlimited licenses for access to 10 computers.
- The RemotePC™ Team plan offers access to 50 computers for $299.50/year
- Enterprise plan allows access to 100 computers for $599.50/year.
Add-on purchases are offered for all business accounts if extra computers are needed.
The addition of support for Android hosts comes with no extra charge attached, letting all users take advantage of this new feature. RemotePC™ Host is available in the Google play store.
IDrive Inc. is a privately held company specializing in cloud storage, online backup, file sharing, remote access, compliance and related technologies. Core services include IDrive®, RemotePC™ and IBackup.The company's services help over 4 million customers back up over 500 Petabytes of data.
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In the current times of rising prices, consumers are catching a break, having to shell out less for binge-watching their favorite shows or staying in touch with their loved ones. The development underscores an interesting dynamic where cable companies and wireless carriers are having a go at capturing each other’s turfs. This includes Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR), T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS), and Verizon (NYSE: VZ), among other names.
The move is seen as a way to retain customers for cable operators, but these companies are not setting up their own cellular infrastructure and are entering into resale agreements with wireless companies.
This week, the biggest private broadband provider in the U.S., Cox Communications, forayed into the mobile space with the pilot introduction of Cox Mobile. This new mobile phone service will initially be available in three markets, and Cox will expand it to other markets on a rolling basis.
Cox already caters to about seven million customers in 18 states, and customers of its new offering will be able to use its internet at home and via its over four million wifi hotspots.
The dynamic, in turn, is a way for wireless carriers such as T-Mobile to utilize excess capacity to tap new users that were earlier using broadband.
While Comcast and Charter have joined hands with Verizon, Altice has teamed up with T-Mobile. Last month, Comcast reported higher second-quarter revenue on the back of gains in Movie Studios and Theme Parks, but its broad subscriber numbers remained flat. This was the first time in about two decades that Comcast failed to add net-new broadband users. Charter, too, reported a decline in its user base recently.
What is Comcast’s Stock Price Forecast for 2022?
Wall Street has a Moderate Buy consensus rating on the stock. The average Comcast price target is $46.83, which implies 29.1% upside potential. That’s after a 28% slide in share price so far in 2022.
Comcast’s user base trend underscores the heated competition from wireless names such as T-Mobile and Verizon Communications, which have added millions of users to their services.
Shares of T-Mobile have risen ~25% so far in 2022, and investors could see further gains given the company’s recent second-quarter performance. In Q2, it added 1.7 million net postpaid customers. This figure was more than the combined gains made by AT&T and Verizon during this period. Further, it continued to take strides in high-speed internet user additions, ending the quarter with over 1.5 million customers. This indicates a net customer addition of 560,000.
Moreover, T-Mobile has also teamed up with SpaceX to provide services in areas across the globe that have no connectivity.
Is T-Mobile a Buy, Sell, or Hold?
Analysts, in the meantime, have a Strong Buy consensus rating on T-Mobile, and the average TMUS price target is $174.53. This implies 20.8% upside potential in the stock on top of its recent price run-up.
Additionally, on August 29, Morgan Stanley’s (NYSE: MS) Simon Flannery reiterated a Buy rating on T-Mobile alongside a price target of $159.
The analyst expects T-Mobile to undertake a stock buyback program later this year and estimates repurchases worth $12 billion in 2023. That’s a significant chunk of T-Mobile’s ~$182 billion market capitalization.
Who Wins From These Turf Wars?
As cable operators and wireless service providers try to grab parts of each other’s turfs, both have their limits. Capacity limitations mean carriers cannot add customers beyond a threshold. Cable companies do not have the cellular infrastructure and remain at an advantage only in areas where they already have a presence and can offer new services under a bundled offering. The ultimate winners may be the consumers themselves, as heightened competition can continue to drive down prices. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/how-the-internet-service-war-impacts-t-mobile-nasdaqtmus-and-comcast-nasdaqcmcsa | 2022-08-31T18:23:56Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/how-the-internet-service-war-impacts-t-mobile-nasdaqtmus-and-comcast-nasdaqcmcsa | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Shares of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) have been on a roller-coaster ride over the past year. Despite getting hit with a 30% haircut this year, the stock still finds itself up more than 370% off its pre-pandemic highs. The broader market sell-off has been unforgiving to the high-multiple growth stocks that doubled up many times in 2020 and 2021. Though Tesla has surrendered a portion of the gains, it’s unclear whether Elon Musk’s EV powerhouse will be able to continue bucking the trend as rates continue to rise.
Tesla is executing, and its secular tailwinds seem strong enough to overpower a mild recession in 2023. Still, the stakes are incredibly high, and a modest quarterly fumble could see Tesla running itself off the treadmill.
Though Tesla’s stewardship has been nearly flawless, given the harsh environment, I think the easy money has already been made in the name. Further, potential negative catalysts beyond macro storm clouds may stand between TSLA stock and new highs.
Elon Musk’s execution is admirable, but investors must be realistic with year-ahead return assumptions on a stock that’s already doubled up many times over in just a few years. The valuation still looks stretched, in my opinion, with near perfection expected moving forward.
Tesla short-sellers have been proven wrong time and time again. It’s unclear as to whether they’ll ever be proven right. Regardless, valuation concerns are warranted. With so many Elon Musk fanatics and profound secular trends powering the name, there will surely be a wave of buyers on any pronounced plunges. I am neutral on the stock.
Can Tesla Stock Fight Off a Recession and Hungry Rivals?
Although I’m a believer in the economic profits to be had in the EV market, I think the recession will act as a serious road bump for Tesla. Further, competitive pressures could mount while auto demand looks to take a turn for the worst. Tesla has a profoundly-powerful brand that could help it hold its own over rivals. That said, few firms are immune to economic downturns, especially those in cyclical markets. The auto market is arguably one of the most cyclical out there.
For Tesla to hold its own through what could be a choppy 2023, it needs to continue out-innovating its peers. Cutting-edge innovation could allow Tesla to continue taking share, even as the EV space gets more crowded with time. Though Tesla’s tech prowess is respectable, the stock already has a tech multiple.
In a prior piece, I stated that Tesla’s tech multiple could be put into question as industry peers catch up. Indeed, EVs are exciting today, and it seems smart to bet on the pioneer. The same could be said about Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and the streaming market five years ago. The streaming market has matured in a major way, and there are doubts about whether streaming stocks are worthwhile, given the spending required to keep users engaged.
Netflix may have been an exciting first mover, but rivals have caught up, and the stock has since suffered a vicious valuation reset. It’s no longer valued as an innovative high-tech stock; it’s valued more like a premier media company at just shy of 20 times trailing earnings.
Now, EVs are far more sophisticated than streaming. However, it’s unclear how Tesla will grapple with a wave of competition over the next five years. If rivals close the gap, Tesla could be in for a Netflix-like valuation reset from tech innovator to auto company. Various analysts covering the name have price targets that imply downside moves in excess of 50% from current levels.
Conversely, if Elon Musk can continue raising the bar, Tesla stock may never look back. There’s still a lot of market share for Tesla to take as it looks to dominate the roads of tomorrow. Further, the autonomy wildcard is another exciting development that could warrant an even higher-tech multiple.
At writing, TSLA stock goes for 13.4 times sales. If demand remains robust through a downturn, a considerable amount of multiple compression could be in the cards.
In any case, I’d much rather be in Ford (NYSE:F), an underdog in the EV space that trades at a far cheaper multiple. Ford has brand recognition built over the decades. However, Tesla seems to be “sexier” through the eyes of younger, more affluent consumers. As the two brands clash, it will be interesting to see how EV market dynamics change.
Is Tesla Stock a Buy?
Turning to Wall Street, TSLA has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on 19 Buys, five Holds, and six Sells assigned in the past three months. The average Tesla price target is $314.58, implying upside potential of 14.2%. Analyst price targets range from a low of $126.65 per share to a high of $526.61 per share.
Tesla Stock Takeaway — Risks are Too High for Value Investors
Tesla stock has been far more resilient in the face of the tech-driven market sell-off than I would have thought. It has proven that it’s not just another pandemic-era house of cards waiting for a breeze to knock it over. Still, ongoing outperformance has caused certain analysts to place high expectations on the name for future quarters. As a result, the current valuation leaves little room for error, which makes it too risky for value investors. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/tesla-stock-can-it-hold-its-sky-high-multiple | 2022-08-31T18:24:03Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/tesla-stock-can-it-hold-its-sky-high-multiple | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The National Elk Refuge has received a diesel-fueled crematory in which it plans to incinerate the carcasses of elk possibly infected with chronic wasting disease.
Officials at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reserve in Jackson have applied for a permit from the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality to operate the “mobile crematory for ungulates.”
The state agency regulates emissions from engines like the one to be used in the crematory and is scrutinizing the application.
The crematory recently arrived at the 24,700-acre reserve on a semi-trailer. It will be installed at a maintenance facility at the north end of the refuge, a site generally off-limits to the public.
The DEQ permit would allow emissions from the crematory chimney, none of which are expected to include the CWD infecting agent — malformed proteins called prions. Incineration is one of the few known methods of eliminating the prions, which can otherwise linger in the environment, including in plants and soil, for years.
CWD is a nervous system disorder similar to mad cow disease that withers animals before their inevitable death. Infected animals shed the misshapen proteins through bodily fluids, feces and decomposing tissue.
Infected elk usually don’t show symptoms during the first year of infection and can spread prions during that time. They usually die within two years of infection, according to refuge documents.
Any infection would threaten the refuge and the 11,000 or so elk in the Jackson Elk Herd, part of which inhabits the reserve in winter.
“Based on the contract standards, it’s not possible for those prions to go airborne,” Eric Cole, senior wildlife biologist at the refuge, said. No smoke will be visible from the incinerator chimney, according to the refuge’s application to the DEQ.
The crematory will reduce a carcass weight by 95% and ashes “will be sterile and biologically inert,” the DEQ application states.
“Carcass incineration is part of the approved CWD response strategy,” signed in April 2021, Cole said. “Any elk exhibiting CWD symptoms will be euthanized, sampled and the carcass will be incinerated.”
A hunter in Grand Teton National Park’s elk reduction program in 2020 killed a cow elk just north of the refuge that tested positive for CWD. With that, the Jackson Elk Herd was officially deemed infected.
Although CWD has not been detected within the refuge itself, wildlife managers are fearful it will arrive there and spread among animals concentrated on supplemental feed doled out in the winter.
“Somewhat surprisingly,” there have been no discoveries of CWD-infected elk in the Jackson herd since the one found in 2020, Cole said.
“Most likely CWD is only at trace levels within the bounds of the Jackson Elk Herd,” he said.
That’s based on a robust sampling of elk that die on the refuge during winter, elk killed by hunters on the refuge, elk that are killed or die in Grand Teton National Park and hunter-killed elk sampled by Wyoming Game and Fish Department in other parts of the herd’s habitat. About 7,000 elk spend time on the refuge during the winter while the rest of the 11,000-strong herd winters on a couple of Wyoming Game and Fish feedgrounds in the Gros Ventre River drainage or on other lands, mostly north of Jackson.
Each year the agencies — Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and Game and Fish Department — collect between 300-400 lymph node samples from dead elk to analyze. That collection allows biologists to surmise, with 95% confidence, that the infection rate in the herd hovers at or below 1%, Cole said.
Under the CWD strategy, refuge workers will kill elk that look to be infected and dying of CWD. Symptoms include lethargy, excessive salivation, a drooped head and other similar signs of a deteriorating central nervous system.
There’s no practical way to test a living elk for CWD.
“Based on past experience, any elk that is exhibiting CWD symptoms is unlikely to survive for long,” Cole wrote in an email. “Euthanizing animals exhibiting CWD symptoms is an important way to reduce disease transmission to other animals and help ensure the health of the Jackson Elk Herd.”
“This [euthanasia and incineration] is likely one of the most effective ways we can do that,” he said of maintaining herd health. “This is the strategy we’re committed to.”
Refuge workers will incinerate all suspect carcasses, he said, without waiting for the results of CWD tests, which can take weeks to receive.
Elk that die for reasons other than suspected CWD — those that are killed by predators, for example — will be left for a period for scavengers to exploit. “After they are scavenged, the remaining bones will be collected and incinerated,” Cole said.
Annual elk antler collection by Boy Scouts would not be affected unless science emerges that shows antlers can transmit the disease, Elk Refuge Manager Frank Durbian said.
The plan calls for incinerating only elk carcasses from the refuge. Even though it is called a mobile crematory, it will be used in one location only, under current plans. Once the crematory is operating, suspect carcasses will be moved directly to the incinerator using a front-end loader or other dedicated machine.
Carcasses will be loaded through a door at the top of the incineration chamber. They will burn at between 1,600-1,800 degrees Fahrenheit.
The crematory and trailer weigh about 33 tons. The assembly cost $486,526, not including the air permit and consultant support, refuge officials said.
The crematory could be used up to 500 hours a year and can incinerate up to 1,000 pounds of carcass an hour, according to its specifications. An average mature elk weighs between 700 and 1,100 pounds, according to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, suggesting that the crematory could incinerate up to about 550 elk a year.
There is no firm evidence that CWD prions can infect people. But experiments show the cousin of the human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease can move from ungulates to primates — specifically macaque monkeys — even through the ingestion of muscle meat.The Centers for Disease Control and other agencies recommend not consuming meat from an animal infected with CWD. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/elk-refuge-gets-crematory-for-cwd-infected-animals/article_15a674cc-27a1-11ed-affc-cf75e60966d2.html | 2022-08-31T18:24:09Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/elk-refuge-gets-crematory-for-cwd-infected-animals/article_15a674cc-27a1-11ed-affc-cf75e60966d2.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD), in its current form, has only been around for several months and only reported its quarterly earnings once. The results were less than ideal. Yet, WBD shares are currently trading at a rock-bottom valuation multiple. Plus, one popular program could spark a turnaround for this struggling streaming business. Consequently, I am bullish on Warner Bros. Discovery stock.
Warner Bros. Discovery is a global media services company that offers theatrical, television, and streaming content. However, it’s evident that the company will have to shift its focus to its streaming business as more people opt to cut the cable cord. It’s a necessary transition for Warner Bros. Discovery, but it means that the company will have to compete with the reigning king of streaming content, Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX).
That’s much easier said than done, of course. Don’t count Warner Bros. Discovery out of the race yet, though. The company holds the rights to some famous names in contemporary programming: TNT, CNN, The Food Network, Discovery, TLC, and HGTV should sound familiar.
The ace in the proverbial hole for Warner Bros. Discovery, however, is HBO and its streaming counterpart, HBO Max. In particular, there’s one HBO Max program that’s so popular that it practically broke the Internet. This, along with the ultra-low share price of Warner Bros. Discovery, creates a compelling value proposition for audacious, risk-tolerant traders.
Investors Should be Aware of WBD Stock’s Growing Pains
Don’t get the wrong message here. Warner Bros. Discovery stock may be exceptionally cheap, but there are valid reasons for the sell-off. The company is experiencing difficult growing pains, and its first quarterly report didn’t inspire confidence in Warner Bros. Discovery.
Sure, it’s tempting to look at Warner Bros. Discovery’s trailing 12-month P/E ratio of 7.34 and then back up the truck to buy as many shares as possible. After all, that’s a heck of a bargain; for comparison, Netflix’s P/E ratio is 19.51.
On the other hand, it’s not wise to jump at a low-P/E stock without figuring out why the share price tumbled. What caused WBD stock to slide from $18 to $13 and change in a few months? The primary culprit, it seems, is Warner Bros. Discovery’s current lack of profitability.
The second quarter of 2022 provided Warner Bros. Discovery’s with an opportunity to impress Wall Street with its first quarterly reports as a combined company. The results weren’t ideal, however, as Warner Bros. Discovery reported $9.8 billion in quarterly revenue, missing the analyst consensus estimate of $11.8 billion.
Furthermore, the company ended Q2 2022 with 92.1 million global DTC (direct to consumer, i.e., streaming) subscribers. This represents a relatively minor increase of 1.7 million versus 90.4 million subscribers
at the end of the first quarter.
Plus, here’s the most disappointing part. Analysts expected Warner Bros. Discovery to report quarterly earnings of $0.11 per share, but the actual result was a loss of $1.50 per share. That’s a hard pill for the shareholders to swallow, no doubt.
Warner Bros. Discovery is Making HBO Max Leaner
In order to pivot back to profitability, Warner Bros. Discovery is going to have to take decisive action. As it turns out, the company is trimming some of the fat from its HBO Max content offerings while also slimming down its workforce.
Bear in mind that achieving profitability typically means increasing revenue, but can also involve cost cuts. This explains why Warner Bros. Discovery would choose to implement a 14% workforce reduction in its HBO division, including the company’s HBO Max unit.
This, presumably, is part of CEO David Zaslav’s efforts to overhaul Warner Bros. Discovery into a leaner business. All in all, it’s been reported that Zaslav has been “tasked with $3 billion in cuts” – painful, ambitious, and probably necessary for Warner Bros. Discovery’s long-term viability.
Also part of the overhaul, apparently, is the cutting of Batman: Caped Crusader and five other animated projects from HBO Max’s lineup. Previously (and somewhat notoriously), HBO Max also purged the in-progress Batgirl film from its lineup, so don’t hold your breath if you’ve been waiting to see that one.
Interestingly, after Warner Bros. Discovery disclosed its disappointing Q2 earnings results, Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) analyst Steven Cahall stated, “Succeeding in streaming is hard enough, so we prefer names without the added baggage for now.” Perhaps, we can now say that Zaslav is engineering a baggage-reduction effort in earnest. Only time will tell, though, whether Warner Bros. Discovery can get lean enough to satisfy Cahall and the analyst community as a whole.
Instead of relying on underperforming streaming content, Warner Bros. Discovery can lean on winners like Game of Thrones sequel House of the Dragon, which was so popular that it actually crashed HBO Max. Having drawn 10 million viewers upon its premiere, House of the Dragon has already been renewed for a second season – and might provide Warner Bros. Discovery with a second chance at streaming market success.
Is WBD Stock a Buy, Sell, or Hold?
Turning to Wall Street, WBD has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on eight Buys, eight Holds, and one Sell assigned in the past three months. The average Warner Bros. Discovery price target is $24.13, implying 81.6% upside potential.
Conclusion: Should You Consider Warner Bros. Discovery Stock?
It’s difficult to recommend Warner Bros. Discovery wholeheartedly and without reservation. The company had a rough second quarter; there’s no denying the obvious. If the company can continue to cut costs responsibly and come up with more big winners like House of the Dragon, Warner Bros. Discovery might just pose a serious threat to the likes of Netflix while rewarding its battle-worn shareholders with hard-won, long-term returns. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/this-is-what-itll-take-to-turn-wbd-stock-around | 2022-08-31T18:24:09Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/this-is-what-itll-take-to-turn-wbd-stock-around | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHEYENNE – Gov. Mark Gordon has announced that Wyoming is taking legal action to "protect the oil and gas industry."
To do that, the state has filed a motion to intervene in a pair of cases that were filed by a coalition of advocacy groups seeking to challenge the June 2022 Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease sale. Wyoming is joining the BLM and other states to defend the lease sale.
The coalition of advocacy groups allege that the Bureau’s lease sale violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). In its opposition filings, Wyoming challenged the groups’ claims, and asked the court to allow it to intervene because the state’s sovereign and economic interests will be adversely affected were the lawsuit to succeed.
“Wyoming is committed to defending her interests and her industries in the courts when they are threatened,” Gordon said in a Tuesday news release. “It is sad that every lease sale now leads to a challenge, and that NEPA has become little more than a meal ticket for litigious special interest groups.”
The state argues in both briefings that it has a legally protected economic interest in the outcome of this case, and the legal challenge threatens the state’s interest. The filings note that the oil and gas lease sale collected over $13 million in bonus bids, entitling the state to more than $6 million in revenue. In addition, if the lawsuits are successful, Wyoming will not receive its share of rentals and federal mineral royalties from the leased parcels.
In the second case, Wyoming has joined Montana, Oklahoma and Utah to argue it would suffer harm if the suit were successful. In addition to citing its financial interest, Wyoming notes that 123 of the 173 federal parcels challenged in the suit are located in Wyoming. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/economy_and_labor/governor-wyoming-files-court-challenges-of-june-oil-and-gas-lease-sale/article_da4b5188-2951-11ed-8aa8-0709d2e9a5bd.html | 2022-08-31T18:24:15Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/economy_and_labor/governor-wyoming-files-court-challenges-of-june-oil-and-gas-lease-sale/article_da4b5188-2951-11ed-8aa8-0709d2e9a5bd.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NEXSTAR) – Country music singer Luke Bell was found dead in Arizona, police confirmed Wednesday.
Bell was reported missing in Tucson on Aug. 20, according to the New York Post. Police told Nexstar he was found six days later, on Friday, in the midtown neighborhood of Tucson.
More specifically, the 32-year-old was found on 5500 block of E. Grant Rd., said Officer Frank Magos of the Tucson Police Department.
No cause of death has been released. Police said the investigation into Bell’s death is ongoing.
Bell, a Wyoming native, released three albums throughout his music career. His last single, “Jealous Guy,” was released in 2021.
“A little bit honky tonk and a little bit Texas, with healthy dashes of Bakersfield and vintage Nashville, singer/songwriter Luke Bell records in a throwback style, but writes from his own well-traveled experiences,” reads a biography of the singer.
His style at times made him sound like a singer of another era, fans said.
“I come from a traditional background. The things that I love are traditions, you know, cowboy culture and American culture,” Bell said in an interview with The Boot in 2016. “When I started digging back through records and listening to older music, I kind of became fascinated with all the techniques and flat-tire shuffles on the drums on Ray Price records or the George Jones boogie and guitars. … That’s kind of what my work has been, studying old music and using different techniques and experimenting a bit to make my own brand of sound.”
That style landed him spots playing alongside pioneer musicians of the genre such as Willie Nelson and Dwight Yoakam, according to The Boot. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/country-singer-luke-bell-dead-at-32/ | 2022-08-31T18:24:17Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/country-singer-luke-bell-dead-at-32/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CLEVELAND (WJW) — The impact of the Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade continues to have an effect. A northeast Ohio woman was forced to travel out of state for an abortion that she says saved her life.
“We were on such a high with the pregnancy. We were buying clothes, we had the name picked out, we were planning a baby shower, parties and stuff,” said Justin George of Brook Park, referring to his wife, Tara’s, pregnancy.
However, their world came crashing down at Tara George’s 20-week ultrasound appointment.
“Our doctor did her own scan to look at everything, and she pretty much was like, ‘We need to have a serious conversation. We are noticing things with the baby that are extremely dangerous for him and for you,'” said Tara George.
Her OB-GYN said their baby would not likely survive once he was born, so they were left with two options.
“We could see if he could make it to a point to even have him at all and not have anything dangerous happen to me as far as my health since I have a blood clotting disorder,” she said. “Or the only other option would be to go through and terminate early.”
A difficult decision was made even more so by Ohio’s Heartbeat Bill, which bans abortions after six weeks of gestation.
Tara George said the Cleveland hospital told them they couldn’t terminate the pregnancy because she was past that time.
“Knowing Tara’s health was on the line and the baby’s chance of survival was slim, I really thought that in Ohio, everyone said that they were gonna do anything to protect the mother. I honestly never even thought twice that they would say no to us, and then when they did, we had to start finding other options,” said Justin George.
The couple contacted doctors in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Maryland before deciding on a hospital in Michigan.
“We got a call shortly after saying unfortunately they weren’t going to be able to help me. The next
morning, thankfully, they called back and said they worked it out,” said Tara George. “They were able to take us as long as we could get there by a certain time, which ended up happening.”
She is still recovering both mentally and physically, but she said there are other women going through similar situations.
“With everything going on in Ohio, unfortunately, there are a lot of women that are feeling very scared and very nervous to even try to have their own family because heaven forbid something happens to them,” she said.
The Georges want to try to get pregnant again but say they are hesitant due to talk of Republican leaders looking to further restrict access to abortion, including banning travel across state lines for the procedure. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/extremely-dangerous-woman-forced-out-of-state-for-life-saving-abortion/ | 2022-08-31T18:24:20Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/extremely-dangerous-woman-forced-out-of-state-for-life-saving-abortion/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Operation Brock contraflow system on the M20 in Kent will be deactivated this Saturday (September 3). This has been confirmed today (August 31) by National Highways and Kent Resilience Forum.
The contraflow has been in place on a 13-mile section of the M20 between junctions eight, for Maidstone, and nine, at Ashford, since July reflecting the risk of potential cross-channel travel disruption during this period. According to National Highways, this "period of potential disruption has now eased" so Kent Resilience Forum has agreed it is the right time to deactivate the contraflow.
The contraflow will be removed overnight from 8pm on Saturday, with the coastbound M20 between junctions seven and nine and London-bound M20 between junctions nine and eight re-opened to two lanes by 6am on Sunday (September 4). A 50mph speed limit will remain in operation on the coastbound and London-bound M20 carriageway between junctions eight and nine.
Read more: Man in his 70s dies after crash at Folkestone bus station
The moveable barrier will remain in place on the London-bound M20 between junctions nine and eight to allow contractors to resume the works which were in place prior to the contraflow being needed, with lane three closed on the coastbound to protect the workforce carrying out the work in the central reservation. Sean Martell, head of service delivery at National Highways, said: "Recently, we have all seen how busy Kent roads have been due to the cross-channel travel disruption, which has seen the deployment of Operation Brock.
"We are grateful for people's patience while the contraflow system has been in place - it has enabled us to keep Kent moving. National Highways will remove the contraflow overnight on Saturday, with the M20 reopening on Sunday morning. We will, however, leave the barrier out on the London-bound carriageway for the safety of our workforce while we continue our work in the central reservation."
Clearly signed diversion routes will be in place on the A20 to help road users reach their destination.
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The Sublette County Sheriff’s Office, Sublette County Public Health and Wyoming Highway Patrol have had a partnership to host free child safety seat inspections.
SHERIDAN – Legislation designed to increase child safety on Wyoming roads is being considered by the Wyoming Legislature’s Transportation, Highways and Military Affairs committee this interim session.
Proposed legislation 23-LSO-0025 would require all children younger than the age of 2 to be placed in a rear-facing safety restraint system and increases the fine for failing to ensure young children are in the proper restraint system.
All who do not comply with this requirement would face a fine of no more than $100 for the first offense and no more than $200 for the second offense, according to the proposed legislation. The $100 fee for a first offense can be waived upon providing proof of the purchase and installation of a proper child safety restraint.
Existing Wyoming law requires children younger than 9 years of age to be “properly secured in a child safety restraint system in a seat of the vehicle other than the front seat” but does not require children younger than 2 to be restrained in a rear-facing car seat. Currently, fines for improperly restrained children are set at $50 for a first offense and $100 for a second offense.
Car crashes remain one of the most common sources of death for children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2019, 608 child passengers died in motor vehicle crashes and more than 91,000 were injured.
Always buckling children in age- and size-appropriate car seats, booster seats and seat belts reduces death and serious injuries by up to 80%, the CDC said. For those younger than age 2, the CDC recommends the use of rear-facing car seats as a way to absorb most of the crash forces and support the baby’s head, neck and spine in the event of a crash. When young children ride forward-facing, their heads are thrown forward, which could potentially result in spine and head injuries.
Currently, 16 states – plus the District of Columbia – require rear-facing seats for passengers younger than age 2.
The proposed changes to the child restraint legislation are not new to the Wyoming Legislature.
During the 2021 general session, the legislature considered an identical bill known as House Bill 23. While the bill failed to pass the House during third reading with a vote of 26-34, many legislators, including Rep. Kevin O’Hearn, R-Mills, expressed support for the bill at the time.
{div class=”subscriber-only”}{p dir=”ltr”}{span}“This bill is very important, not only to Wyoming, but to the United States, as more kids are killed and severely injured in vehicle accidents than in any other matter,” O’Hearn said.{/span}{/div}
{div class=”subscriber-only”}{p dir=”ltr”}{span}23-LSO-004 was scheduled to be considered and discussed by the transportation committee during their meeting in Rock Springs this week. Due to a busy schedule, the committee postponed their consideration until the committee’s next meeting, which will be held from Nov. 3-4 in Cheyenne.{/span}{/div}
{div class=”subscriber-only”}{p dir=”ltr”}{span}If the bill draft is approved during that meeting, it could proceed to the 2023 general session this spring.{/span}{/div} | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/government_and_politics/car-seat-legislation-could-be-returning-to-wyoming-legislature/article_f41f8944-2951-11ed-a265-03dc6b6d528e.html | 2022-08-31T18:24:28Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/government_and_politics/car-seat-legislation-could-be-returning-to-wyoming-legislature/article_f41f8944-2951-11ed-a265-03dc6b6d528e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NEXSTAR) – Don’t make him turn this plane around.
A pilot with Southwest Airlines was heard scolding a traveler who allegedly AirDropped unsolicited “naked pictures” to other passengers ahead of a recent flight from Houston to Cabo San Lucas.
He also threatened to return the plane to the gate if the nudes didn’t stop.
“So here’s the deal, if this continues while we’re on the ground, I’m going to have to pull back to the gate, everybody’s going to have to get off, we’re going to have to get security involved and it’s … vacation is going to be ruined,” the pilot can be heard saying in a video shared to TikTok by passenger Teighlor Marsalis last week.
“So you folks, whatever that AirDrop thing is, quit sending naked pictures and let’s get yourself to Cabo,” the pilot added.
The video has since been 2.6 million times.
Marsalis told Nexstar that the plane was preparing to leave on Aug. 24 when the male passenger “AirDropped a nude photo of himself” to everyone else on the plane.
One of the travelers told a flight attendant, who subsequently informed the pilot, Marsalis said. She added that there were no more unsolicited AirDrops for the remainder of the trip.
“The flight made it happily to Cabo with no more nudes!” Marsalis said.
Southwest Airlines provided a statement to Nexstar in response to Marsalis’ viral clip, but declined to share further details or confirm whether any of the passengers were barred from future flights.
“The safety, security and wellbeing of Customers and Employees is the Southwest Team’s highest priority at all times,” the airline wrote. “When made aware of a potential problem, our Employees address issues to support the comfort of those traveling with us.”
Apple’s AirDrop feature, available on iOS devices, allows users to share photos, videos or files with other Apple devices that are “within Bluetooth and WiFi range.” The sender does not need specific contact information for recipients, though users can choose to restrict unsolicited AirDrops from unknown senders. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/pilot-scolds-southwest-airlines-passenger-for-allegedly-airdropping-naked-pictures-to-entire-plane/ | 2022-08-31T18:24:55Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/pilot-scolds-southwest-airlines-passenger-for-allegedly-airdropping-naked-pictures-to-entire-plane/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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IRS revokes tax-exempt status of North Carolina NAACP
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s influential state chapter of the NAACP has lost its federal tax-exempt status for failing to file tax returns for three years, according to the federal government.
The Internal Revenue Service stripped the civil rights organization’s state chapter of its tax-exempt status May 15 under a process that automatically revokes the designation for nonprofits that fail to file federal tax returns for three consecutive years, according to a post on the IRS site. The status change was made public this month.
The state chapter has been a prominent voice in decrying the policies of the state’s Republican-controlled legislature, including challenging voter access laws in recent years. Earlier this month, the civil rights group scored a victory when the state Supreme Court ruled a lower court must consider nullifying a voter ID mandate approved by citizens in 2018.
The loss of federal tax-exempt status was first reported by The News & Observer in Raleigh. The newspaper reports that experts on charitable giving say losing the status could hinder fundraising efforts and potentially drain the organization’s resources through taxes on donations and fines.
The newspaper also reported that the national NAACP intervened in 2019 to place the state chapter under a punitive administratorship, giving the national organization more input in how the state branch is staffed and operated. The state and national organizations are working to restore the branch’s tax-exempt status.
Da’Quan Love was recently appointed by the national organization to serve as executive director of the North Carolina NAACP. He told WRAL-TV he views his role as a consultant to help the state chapter shore up its finances as the national organization performs a multi-year audit of its finances. He previously served as a leader of the Virginia branch of the NAACP.
“The national NAACP has launched a financial audit, a full financial, multi-year audit of the state conference as well as all the branches in the state of North Carolina to rectify these issues and get to the bottom of these challenges and ensure that this does not happen again and we’re in good financial standing,” Love told WRAL.
He said the national organization will provide the state chapter with resources and support so it can continue its civil rights work including get-out-the-vote efforts ahead of the November election.
The loss of tax-exempt status became public weeks after former state chapter president The Rev. T. Anthony Spearman was found dead in his home. A cause of death has not been released. Spearman, who lost a bid in 2021 for reelection to lead the state chapter, had filed a lawsuit against state and national NAACP officials accusing them of defaming him and conspiring to remove him from the presidency.
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2023 election: CSOs kick against Buhari’s nominees as INEC Resident Electoral Commissioners
• Urge Senate to nullify partisan nominees
Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) operating in Nigeria, on Wednesday, kicked against President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominees as Resident Electoral Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
According to the Situation Room, the three nominees: Professor Mohammed Lawal Bashir, Dr Ugochi Pauline Onyeka and Dr Queen Elizabeth Agu, respectively have questionable credentials regarding their ability to be non-partisan.
The Coalition which comprises over 70 CSOs under the aegis of Situation Room, expressed the concerns via a statement on the ‘Nomination of persons with political affiliations for confirmation as INEC Resident Electoral Commissioners’, jointly signed by Convener and the two Co-Conveners of Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, Ene Obi; Asma’u Joda and James Ugochukwu.
“The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room (Situation Room) has asked the Senate Committee on INEC to reject the nomination of Prof. Mohammed Lawal Bashir, Dr Ugochi Pauline Onyeka and Dr Queen Elizabeth Agu as Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on grounds of partisanship and likelihood of bias.
“Prof. Bashir is openly affiliated with and contested in the Governorship primaries of a political party in Sokoto State in the 2015 General Elections. The Situation Room also raised concerns about the nominations of Dr Ugochi Pauline Onyeka from Imo State and Dr Queen Elizabeth Agu from Ebonyi State.
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“Dr Onyeka was a former staff of INEC who was allegedly redeployed on account of her open association with political parties while Dr Agu is reported to be a member of a political party and held a political appointment as an Acting Chief of Staff to Governor David Umahi up until June 2021.
“Section 156(1) of the Nigerian 1999 Constitution, as amended, makes it mandatory that an appointee at INEC shall not be a member of a Political Party. Item F, paragraph 14 of the third schedule to the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria forbids a partisan person as a member of INEC – a body charged under the Constitution to independently conduct free and fair elections.
“President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of people who are clearly partisan into INEC amounts to a major attempt at undermining efforts to improve the credibility of the electoral body, and contradicts the President’s public claim that he will bequeath a better electoral process to Nigeria.
“We wish to remind President Buhari that he was a beneficiary of a fair and credible electoral process in 2015.
“Appointing a person who is a member of a political party into INEC will affect the independence of the electoral body and citizens’ confidence in the electoral process.
“Consequently, Situation Room has called on the Senate Committee on INEC to whom the nomination was referred to by the Senate Plenary to recommend rejection of the three nominees on grounds of partisanship and likelihood of bias in carrying out the duties of a REC.
“Situation Room is calling on the Senate to rise up, once again, to insist on a non-partisan and independent membership for INEC, particularly at this critical time.”
This Is Our Last Chance —Tinubu
2023 election: CSOs kick against Buhari’s nominees as INEC Resident Electoral Commissioners | https://tribuneonlineng.com/2023-election-csos-kick-against-buharis-nominees-as-inec-resident-electoral-commissioners/ | 2022-08-31T18:29:08Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/2023-election-csos-kick-against-buharis-nominees-as-inec-resident-electoral-commissioners/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
2023: Uneasy calm as APC postpones Tinubu’s meeting with Amaechi, Osinbajo, others
•I am not aware-- Keyamo •NANS politics disrupt NWC meeting
Despite the claim of forging ahead as a united political family, indication has emerged that the frosty relationship between chieftains of the All Progressives Congress has not been addressed.
A meeting between the party presidential candidate, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the 22 other presidential aspirants fixed for Wednesday was aborted on Tuesday night.
A statement issued by one of the aspirants and convener of the aborted roundtable, Dr Nicolas Felix, said a new date will be communicated soon.
The statement read, “Please be informed that the strategic meeting of 2023 Presidential Aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC), scheduled to hold on Wednesday the 31st of August has been postponed.
“A new date for the meeting will be communicated soon. Apologies for any inconvenience(s) that this might cause.”
Expected to attend the meeting to brainstorm on adopting winning campaign strategies to assist the candidate was former and serving governors, former Ministers and federal lawmakers who sought for the ticket won by Tinubu last June at the Presidential Convention held at Eagles Square.
The list included former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi; former Science and Technology Minister, Ogbonnaya Onu; former Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba and former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio.
Serving governors to storm the venue are: Governors Yahaya Bello ,Dave Umahi Abubakar Badaru, Ben Ayade and Kayode Fayemi, of Kogi, Ebonyi, Jigawa,Cross Rivers and Ekiti States, respectively.
From the National Assembly are Senate President, Ahmad Lawan; former Ogun State governor and serving senator, Ibikunle Amosun; Senator Ajayi Boroffice and Rochas Okorocha.
Others are two-term Zamfara State governor, Ahmad Sani; a former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole; Pastor Tunde Bakare; and Businessman, Dr Nicolas Felix.
Also to grace the meeting to brainstorm on how to win the 2023 elections are former Information Minister, Ikeobasi Mokelu; Businessman, Tein Jack-Rich and the only female aspirants, Uju Ken-Ohanenye.
While the statement that conveyed the postponement was silent on the reason for aborting the gathering aimed at “adopting winning campaign strategies that seek to carry every Nigerian along in our bid to coast home to victory ahead of the 2023 general elections, ” investigation revealed that the indifference of most of the aspirants to the meeting informed the postponement.
” Some of them gave excuses that the date given was not convenient; some did not even acknowledge the invite.”
The party source revealed that the meeting in the United Kingdom between the APC presidential candidate and certain governors of the main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party might have worsened the bad relationship between Tinubu and some of the power blocs in the APC.
According to the party source, the former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi who came second in the race for the APC presidential ticket was particularly taken aback that Tinubu allegedly sealed a deal with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, to give the latter governorship candidate support in next year general elections while the Rivers Governor would promote the APC presidential candidate in the southern state.
Further checks revealed that one of the aspirants invited for the strategic meeting, Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo travelled out of the country on Wednesday for an official engagement in the United States.
In a telephone interview with Nigerian Tribune, Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo who is the spokesperson of the APC Presidential Campaign Council however said he was not aware of any meeting fixed for Wednesday between Tinubu and presidential aspirants.
He said:” I am not sure that such a meeting was in the offing today ( Wednesday). I am actually not aware.”
Meanwhile, the weekly meeting of the APC National Working Committee could not hold on Wednesday following an uproar caused by a face-off between a former aspirant for the office of National Youth Leader, Segun Dada and some of the security details of the party’s national chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu.
According to the investigation, Dada who came with some members of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) to secure the APC national chairman’s support for one of the aspirants for NAN’S President, Umar Farouk from Bayero University, Kano believed to be Tinubu’s anointed choice met a rebuff from the Chief Security Officer who was acting on instructions not to allow them to gain entrance to the APC national chairman waiting room for guests.
Party source confided in Nigerian Tribune that before the emergence of Tinubu as a presidential candidate, Usman Baba Kankia, a student of Ahmadu Bello University, (ABU) Zaria was the anointed choice of certain power brokers in the Presidency which informed the cold reception given Kankia. The NANS election is expected to hold on Thursday.
Policemen attached to the party national secretariat and officers of the Department of State Services had to use tear gas canisters to disperse Dada and the students who came with him who insisted on having an audience with the APC national chairman.
Senator Adamu had to hurriedly leave the party secretariat. Surrounded by his security details, he snubbed the NANS presidential aspirant and his entourage who accosted him and were anxious to seek an audience with him.
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The Nigerian Security Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has granted licenses to 20 private guard companies to operate in Nigeria.
The Commandant-General of NSCDC, Abubakar Audi on Wednesday, in Abuja while presenting the licenses to the private security guard companies asked them to be good ambassadors of the Corp and the Corp will not hesitate to weld the big hammer on any company whose director departs from the good character of the company.
Audi said: “The position which you occupy as private guards companies is very central and germain to the cooperate existence of this nation.
“Many of you may have considered the process of getting the license thorough from your personal experience must have made you appreciate that the Corp pays attention to details, while it’s not our intention to make it cumbersome.
“We want to issue licenses to people who have a track record of being impeccable in character. I want to believe you will continue to be of high integrity and by extension good ambassador of the Corp.
“We shall not hesitate to weld the big hammer from any company whose directors depart from the good character which forms the basis for the grant of these licenses. While I appreciate your instincts in ensuring the process, kindly note that the license is not for business profit alone but an opportunity for you to contribute your quota to the development of this nation” he warned.
The National President private security guard association, Wilson Osamgbado thanked the NSCDC for their support of their organization and described it as a marriage situation which can not be separated.
Olumide Ijegun, one of the awardees, speaking on behalf of the companies called for cooperation and not a competition among the companies for the good of the country.
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- NCDSC gives licence of operation to 20 private security guard companies | https://tribuneonlineng.com/ncdsc-gives-licence-of-operation-to-20-private-security-guard-companies/ | 2022-08-31T18:29:17Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/ncdsc-gives-licence-of-operation-to-20-private-security-guard-companies/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thirty-nine police officers have been promoted from the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) to the rank of Superintendent of Police (SP), in Anambra State.
The promotion ceremony took place at the State Police Headquarters Amowbia, on Wednesday.
Addressing the officers, the State Police Commissioner, CP Echeng Echeng, warned that the command under his watch, will not tolerate any form of indolence from errant officers.
The commissioner said the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba was working hard to reposition the force, and that in Anambra State, he is not relenting to ensure that all personnel of the force in the command conformed with the goal of attaining a repositioned force.
“According to him, today, we are here to decorate 39 of you, who were promoted from DSP to SP. The IGP deemed you fit for this promotion, after the approval of the Police Service Commission.
“These authorities have all your details and have looked into your efforts in the force and found you worthy to be promoted.
“You may receive new postings from today, and wherever your posting takes you, you need to serve the police well. The force will not tolerate any form of ill behaviour from you. What the IG has been doing through promotion and other welfare packages is to ensure that your morale is high, so we will not tolerate less from you.”
The command’s spokesperson, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, who moderated the decoration exercise stated that the high number of promoted officers from Anambra showed that the efforts of men and officers of the command in the fight against crime have not gone unnoticed.
“The promotion also shows that Anambra State Police command is firm. Despite the security challenges, we are witnessing promotions in Anambra.
“This shows that our efforts have not gone unnoticed. We are ever ready to fight crime and ensure safety in Anambra State, and the promotion will spur us further,” Ikenga said.
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Thirty-nine police officers have been promoted from the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) to the rank of Superintendent of Police (SP), in Anambra State.
The promotion ceremony took place at the State Police Headquarters Amowbia, on Wednesday.
Addressing the officers, the State Police Commissioner, CP Echeng Echeng, warned that the command under his watch, will not tolerate any form of indolence from errant officers.
The commissioner said the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba was working hard to reposition the force, and that in Anambra State, he is not relenting to ensure that all personnel of the force in the command conformed with the goal of attaining a repositioned force.
“According to him, today, we are here to decorate 39 of you, who were promoted from DSP to SP. The IGP deemed you fit for this promotion, after the approval of the Police Service Commission.
“These authorities have all your details and have looked into your efforts in the force and found you worthy to be promoted.
“You may receive new postings from today, and wherever your posting takes you, you need to serve the police well. The force will not tolerate any form of ill behaviour from you. What the IG has been doing through promotion and other welfare packages is to ensure that your morale is high, so we will not tolerate less from you.”
The command’s spokesperson, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, who moderated the decoration exercise stated that the high number of promoted officers from Anambra showed that the efforts of men and officers of the command in the fight against crime have not gone unnoticed.
“The promotion also shows that Anambra State Police command is firm. Despite the security challenges, we are witnessing promotions in Anambra.
“This shows that our efforts have not gone unnoticed. We are ever ready to fight crime and ensure safety in Anambra State, and the promotion will spur us further,” Ikenga said.
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HOUSTON (KIAH) — Goodbye, summer. Hello, (meteorological) fall!
The autumnal equinox, which marks the beginning of astronomical fall, isn’t scheduled to arrive until Sept. 22. But for weather and climate record-keeping purposes, the seasons are neatly divided into “meteorological” seasons of three months each — and “meteorological fall” consists of September, October and November.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center believes that most of the U.S. is likely to experience warmer-than-normal temperatures over the course of September, October and November.
The map below shows nearly the entire country in shades or orange, indicating NOAA’s forecast for a warm fall. The darker shades of orange around Colorado and the Northeast mean those states are the most likely to see hotter-than-average temperatures.
The rain outlook isn’t quite as clear, but favors a drier-than-normal season for a large swath of the country. Only Washington state and Florida are looking wetter than usual, while Colorado, Utah, southern Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky all have especially high chances of a dry meteorological fall.
Some of the most populated areas, along the coasts, for example, fall in the “equal chances” category. This doesn’t mean these areas will see near-normal precipitation, but rather that these areas have an equal chance of above-normal, below-normal or near-normal precipitation. Essentially, there is no clear indicator to make a confident forecast one way or another.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center weighs several factors into their long-range outlooks. One of those is the ongoing La Niña pattern. La Niña means the sea surface temperatures of the Pacific Ocean near the equator are cooler than normal, which impacts global weather patterns in a specific way.
The warm temperatures and potentially dry skies are an ongoing drought concern, a NOAA spokesperson told Nexstar earlier this month. La Niña lasting through the fall and winter would likely mean making a very bad drought even worse for the band of states from California to Texas, which are seeing the worst drought conditions.
The outlook for September, specifically, indicates that temperatures in a large area of the West are leaning toward warmer-than-normal. But there’s also a large area (mainly in the Southeast) in the vague “equal chances” range.
September’s precipitation outlook is even more tricky. Again, a large area falls in the “equal chances” forecast zone. Of course, in September, the wild card for the Gulf Coast states is the arrival of a tropical system. As of Wednesday, a named storm is not expected to make landfall within the next five days.
La Niña, which often has an impact on hurricane season in the Atlantic, runs through November. La Niña years typically correspond with busy and especially destructive hurricane seasons, and this year NOAA expects somewhere between three and five “major” hurricanes to form. | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/noaa-releases-fall-outlook-predicting-warm-and-dry-weather-for-many/ | 2022-08-31T18:30:41Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/noaa-releases-fall-outlook-predicting-warm-and-dry-weather-for-many/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NEXSTAR) – Don’t make him turn this plane around.
A pilot with Southwest Airlines was heard scolding a traveler who allegedly AirDropped unsolicited “naked pictures” to other passengers ahead of a recent flight from Houston to Cabo San Lucas.
He also threatened to return the plane to the gate if the nudes didn’t stop.
“So here’s the deal, if this continues while we’re on the ground, I’m going to have to pull back to the gate, everybody’s going to have to get off, we’re going to have to get security involved and it’s … vacation is going to be ruined,” the pilot can be heard saying in a video shared to TikTok by passenger Teighlor Marsalis last week.
“So you folks, whatever that AirDrop thing is, quit sending naked pictures and let’s get yourself to Cabo,” the pilot added.
The video has since been 2.6 million times.
Marsalis told Nexstar that the plane was preparing to leave on Aug. 24 when the male passenger “AirDropped a nude photo of himself” to everyone else on the plane.
One of the travelers told a flight attendant, who subsequently informed the pilot, Marsalis said. She added that there were no more unsolicited AirDrops for the remainder of the trip.
“The flight made it happily to Cabo with no more nudes!” Marsalis said.
Southwest Airlines provided a statement to Nexstar in response to Marsalis’ viral clip, but declined to share further details or confirm whether any of the passengers were barred from future flights.
“The safety, security and wellbeing of Customers and Employees is the Southwest Team’s highest priority at all times,” the airline wrote. “When made aware of a potential problem, our Employees address issues to support the comfort of those traveling with us.”
Apple’s AirDrop feature, available on iOS devices, allows users to share photos, videos or files with other Apple devices that are “within Bluetooth and WiFi range.” The sender does not need specific contact information for recipients, though users can choose to restrict unsolicited AirDrops from unknown senders. | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/pilot-scolds-southwest-airlines-passenger-for-allegedly-airdropping-naked-pictures-to-entire-plane/ | 2022-08-31T18:30:52Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/pilot-scolds-southwest-airlines-passenger-for-allegedly-airdropping-naked-pictures-to-entire-plane/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(Mass Appeal) – One of the most important ways to keep learning, no matter your age, is to make learning fun and exciting. Clarissa Leverich, Family Engagement Coordinator with the Springfield Museums is here to show us a fun activity to keep your kids interested in learning. | https://www.wwlp.com/massappeal/literacy-fishing-to-make-learning-fun/ | 2022-08-31T18:34:43Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/massappeal/literacy-fishing-to-make-learning-fun/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In 1982, the cost of a first-run movie ticket in the United States was $3. These days in some cities, you can pay $20 for seats for premium showtimes.
Was any 2022 film worth such a steep price? I don’t think so. I certainly haven’t seen a new or recent release meriting that kind of cost. What movie would be worth $20? Probably the restored, uncut, 227-minute version of “Lawrence Of Arabia” from 1962 on the largest screen possible with extraordinary sound.
The current average ticket price, which includes discounted seats for seniors, students and children, is $9.17 in the United States.
What’s especially important about 40 years ago is that many movie lovers, scholars and reviewers consider 1982 to be the best year for films since the Golden Age Of Hollywood, which is accepted to have run from 1915 to 1965, although most people consider the studio era of the '30s, '40s and '50s to constitute the true Golden Age.
Movies released in 1982 make up an extraordinary list. More on that later.
On National Cinema Day, which is this Saturday, The Cinema Foundation, the donor-supported non-profit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners, is giving American movie fans a present.
Tickets at most theaters across the country will only be $3 for every movie, every showtime, and every format. In Buffalo-Niagara, this includes the AMC, Regal, and Dipson chains, as well as the North Park.
In a press release, The Cinema Foundation stated that the one-day event will be held at more than 3,000 participating locations with more than 30,000 screens, “bringing together audiences of all ages to enjoy a day at the movies.” Special previews of upcoming films will be shown, and an extended edition of this year’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” will be screened in selected theaters.
Cinema Foundation President Jackie Brenneman said, “after this summer's record-breaking return to cinemas, we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing and offer a thank you to the moviegoers that made this summer happen, and by offering an extra enticement for those who haven't made it back yet.”
The Associated Press reported that Labor Day weekend is historically one of the slowest weekends for theaters. If organizers consider National Cinema Day a success, it could become an annual event.
In metro Buffalo, $3 gets you into the North Park’s two Saturday evening showings of “Chicken Strips: The Trials And Tribulations Of Becoming A Garage Band,” which is a locally-made narrative feature about a group of friends trying to organize themselves into a cohesive rock and roll unit. Director, co-writer and producer Colin Taylor, who also plays Kyle, was born, raised and educated in Buffalo. According to a statement, Taylor has “been making films with my friends ever since I was a kid and loved storytelling. ‘Chicken Strips’ is a passion project I have been working on since 2017, and I am excited to share it with the world.”
Regarding 1982, the list of movies released is genuinely extraordinary. Here are 40 titles for the 40 years that have gone by.
How about these popular entertainments? “Tootsie,” “Diner,” “Fast Times At Ridgemont High,” "The World According To Garp,” “Poltergeist,” “An Officer And A Gentleman,” “Author! Author!,” “Shoot The Moon,” “The Verdict,” “Francis,” “My Favorite Year,” “Night Shift,” “Personal Best,” “Deathtrap” and “The Year Of Living Dangerously.”
1982 includes two motion pictures with strong Buffalo connections. The romantic comedy “Best Friends” stars Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn and was shot in Buffalo on Summit Avenue, between Jewett Parkway and West Oakwood Place, just around the corner from architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s magnificent Darwin Martin Complex. Scenes were also filmed at the Central Terminal. “Making Love” is the first major American studio drama with a gay relationship (Michael Ontkean and Harry Hamlin) as the focal point of the film. The screenplay is written by Buffalo’s Barry Sandler, who graduated from Kenmore West High School.
If you appreciate major directors of the era, there’s Richard Attenborough’s “Gandhi,” Walter Hill’s “48 Hours,” Martin Scorsese’s “The King Of Comedy,” Steven Spielberg’s “E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” “Alan J. Pakula’s “Sophie’s Choice,” John Carpenter’s “The Thing,” Francis Ford Coppola’s “One From The Heart,” Werner Herzog’s “Fitzcarraldo,” Costa-Gavras’ “Missing” and Woody Allen’s “A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy.”
Musicals sang and danced aplenty in 1982, including “Victor/Victoria,” “Grease 2,” “The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas” and “Annie.” Science fiction dazzled with Harrison Ford in Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner,” the original “Tron” and “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” which many, myself included, consider to be the best “Star Trek” adventure. Sylvester Stallone boxed his way back into the ring with “Rocky III” and introduced the character of Rambo in “First Blood.”
There was a new eerily mythic “Cat People,” which is directed by Paul Schrader and stars Nastassja Kinski and Malcolm McDowell. Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) showed up again to hunt for clues in “Evil Under The Sun.”
For folks who love their movies over-the-top, or even mesmerizing, there were two fantastical imagist delights: the psychological drama “Pink Floyd – The Wall,” and the experimental “Koyannisqatsi: Life Out Of Balance” with music by Philip Glass and breathtaking cinematography from Ron Fricke.
New films released so far in 2022 can’t hold a candle to the treasures that were delivered to audiences in 1982. I wish The Cinema Foundation had booked some of the wonderful classics from 1982 to watch on a large theater screen.
Regardless, $3 to sit in a theater will be a wonderful opportunity for many to continue, and for some to recapture, the moviegoing experience. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/lifestyles/on-screen-3-movie-ticket-saturday-includes-a-feature-made-in-buffalo/article_44333040-28b0-11ed-878e-e7f2a37ce98a.html | 2022-08-31T18:41:09Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/lifestyles/on-screen-3-movie-ticket-saturday-includes-a-feature-made-in-buffalo/article_44333040-28b0-11ed-878e-e7f2a37ce98a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SCHOHARIE — A judge rejected a plea agreement that would have meant no prison time for the operator of a limousine company involved in a crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York, drawing applause and tears Wednesday from victims’ relatives who packed the court.
State Supreme Court Justice Peter Lynch, who was not presiding over the case when the deal was reached a year ago in Nauman Hussain's case, called the agreement “fundamentally flawed."
It would have spared Hussain prison time, angering the families of the people killed when brake failure sent a stretch limo full of birthday revelers hurtling down a hill in 2018.
The judge’s rejection caught lawyers and relatives off-guard.
“I can’t even put into words how I feel. Totally unexpected. Thank God,” said Jill Richardson-Perez, the mother of limo crash victim Matthew Coons. “I’m in a better place now.”
Kevin Cushing, who lost his son Patrick in the crash, said the families “have a hope for a bit of justice to be served in the future, where we didn’t have any justice served in the past."
Defense attorney Chad Seigel said they were “shocked” and that the judge's move was “unheard of.”
Hussain, who operated Prestige Limousine, had been charged with 20 counts each of criminally negligent homicide and second-degree manslaughter in what was the deadliest U.S. transportation disaster in a decade.
The agreement had called for Hussain to plead guilty only to the homicide counts, resulting five years of probation and 1,000 hours of community service. Lawyers for both sides said last year the plea agreement assured a resolution in a case that would have faced an uncertain outcome if presented to a jury.
Lynch noted that a state Department of Transportation out-of-service sticker had been placed on the limousine a month before the crash. State police recovered the sticker from Hussain’s car after his arrest. Prosecutors have argued that Hussain took the sticker off the limo’s windshield so that he could use it for more jobs.
To the judge, Hussain’s actions showed he knew the risk of putting the limousine on the road the day of the crash, and a guilty plea to only criminally negligent homicide does not reflect that. Lynch called the deal “completely disingenuous and unacceptable to this court.”
Lynch gave Hussain’s lawyers the choice of accepting a sentence of 1 1/3 to four years in prison or withdrawing his guilty plea. They chose the latter.
Seigel said afterward that the DOT sticker had “absolutely nothing to do with defective brakes.”
“Collectively, we made a decision that it would be in the best of all all involved — not only our client but the members of the community — to put this matter behind them. A little monkey wrench was thrown in that," Seigel said. "So the judge forced our hand and we’re ready for trial."
District Attorney Susan Mallery left court without commenting.
Hussain, who sat with his head lowered for much of the proceeding, declined comment afterward.
While the National Transportation Safety Board concluded the crash was likely caused by Prestige Limousine’s “egregious disregard for safety” that resulted in brake failure, the board said ineffective state oversight contributed.
Attorneys for Hussain say he tried to maintain the limousine and relied on what he was told by state officials and a repair shop that inspected it.
Axel Steenburg rented the 2001 Ford Excursion limousine for wife Amy’s 30th birthday on Oct. 6, 2018. The party group, ranging in age from 24 to 34, included Axel’s brother, Amy’s three sisters and two of their husbands, and close friends.
En route to a brewery, the limo’s brakes failed on a downhill stretch of road in Schoharie, west of Albany. The vehicle blew through a stop sign at over 100 mph (160 kph) and crashed into a small ravine.
The crash killed the limo driver, 17 passengers, and two bystanders outside the store.
Mallery’s office has said Hussain allowed passengers to ride in the limo despite having received “multiple notices of violations” from the state and having been told repairs were inadequate. State police said the vehicle should have been taken out of service because of brake problems identified in an inspection a month before the crash.
Under New York law, second-degree manslaughter entails conduct that “creates or contributes to a substantial and unjustifiable risk that another person’s death will occur” — a risk that the perpetrator consciously disregards. Criminally negligent homicide, on the other hand, involves failing to perceive such a risk, the judge noted.
The next court date has been set for Sept. 14. Hussain, who had been on interim probation, will go out on bail and be subject to GPS monitoring. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/judge-nixes-no-prison-deal-in-2018-limo-crash-that-killed-20/article_92e3be90-2959-11ed-af2f-3f98d15fd2e9.html | 2022-08-31T18:41:16Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/judge-nixes-no-prison-deal-in-2018-limo-crash-that-killed-20/article_92e3be90-2959-11ed-af2f-3f98d15fd2e9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK — Young people are following the news but aren't too happy with what they're seeing.
Broadly speaking, that's the conclusion of a study released Wednesday showing 79% of young Americans say they get news daily. The survey of young people ages 16 to 40 — the older of which are known as millennials and the younger Generation Z — was conducted by Media Insight Project, a collaboration between The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the American Press Institute.
The report pokes holes in the idea that young people aren't interested in news, a perception largely driven by statistics showing older audiences for television news and newspapers.
“They are more engaged in more ways than people give them credit for,” said Michael Bolden, CEO and executive director of the American Press Institute.
An estimated 71% of this age group gets news daily from social media. The social media diet is becoming more varied; Facebook doesn't dominate the way it used to. About a third or more get news each day from YouTube and Instagram, and about a quarter or more from TikTok, Snapchat and Twitter. Now, 40% say they get news from Facebook daily, compared with 57% of millennials who said that in a 2015 Media Insight Project survey.
Yet 45% also said they get news each day from traditional sources, like television or radio stations, newspapers and news websites.
The poll found that about a quarter of young people say they regularly pay for at least one news product, like print or digital magazines or newspapers, and a similar percentage have donated to at least one nonprofit news organization.
Only 32% say they enjoy following the news. That's a marked decrease from seven years ago, when 53% of millennials said that. Fewer young people now say they enjoy talking with family and friends about the news.
Other findings, such as people who say they feel worse the longer they spend online or who set time limits on their consumption, point to a weariness with the news, said Tom Rosenstiel, a University of Maryland journalism professor.
“I wasn't surprised by that,” Bolden said. “It has been a challenging news cycle, especially the last three years.”
About 9 in 10 young people say misinformation about issues and events is a problem, including about 6 in 10 who say it's a major problem. Most say they've been exposed to misinformation themselves.
Asked who they consider most responsible for its spread, young people pointed to social media companies and users, politicians and the media in equal measure.
That may surprise people in the media who believe they are fighting misinformation, and are not part of the problem, Bolden said. A significant number of people disagree.
“Whether that's accurate or not, the people in this business have to deal with that perception,” he said.
He suggested that it's important for news organizations to better explain what it is that they do and how coverage decisions are made, along with taking a step back to make clear how government functions, as well as holding leaders to account.
The percentage of people who say “news stories that seem to mostly create conflict rather than help address it” and “media outlets that pass on conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated rumors” are a major problem exceeded the number of people concerned about journalists putting too much opinion in their stories, the survey found.
That would seem to point a finger at cable news outlets that fill air time with debates on particular issues, often pitting people with extreme points of view. New CNN chief executive Chris Licht has recently called on his network to cool the overheated segments.
“There are people who have grown up in this world of political food-fight media, and this is the only world they know,” said Rosenstiel, who worked on the survey as Bolden's predecessor at the press institute. “They might have heard their parents talk about Walter Cronkite, but they haven't seen that.”
The topics people ages 16 to 40 say they most follow in the news? Celebrities, music and entertainment, at 49%, and food and cooking, at 48%, top the list. At least a third follow a wide range of other issues, including health and fitness, race and social justice, the environment, health care, education, politics and sports. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/survey-finds-young-people-follow-news-but-without-much-joy/article_2a045ad8-2945-11ed-b295-bb89fde8cde1.html | 2022-08-31T18:41:22Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/survey-finds-young-people-follow-news-but-without-much-joy/article_2a045ad8-2945-11ed-b295-bb89fde8cde1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK — U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year from 2020, according to a government report being released Wednesday.
In the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the estimated American lifespan has shortened by nearly three years. The last comparable decrease happened in the early 1940s, during the height of World War II.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials blamed COVID-19 for about half the decline in 2021, a year when vaccinations became widely available but new coronavirus variants caused waves of hospitalizations and deaths. Other contributors to the decline are longstanding problems: drug overdoses, heart disease, suicide and chronic liver disease.
“It's a dismal situation. It was bad before and it's gotten worse,” said Samuel Preston, a University of Pennsylvania demographer.
Life expectancy is an estimate of the average number of years a baby born in a given year might expect to live, given death rates at that time. It is "the most fundamental indicator of population health in this country," said Robert Hummer, a University of North Carolina researcher focused on population health patterns.
U.S. life expectancy rose for decades, but progress stalled before the pandemic.
It was 78 years, 10 months in 2019. In 2020, it dropped to 77 years. Last year, it fell to about 76 years, 1 month.
The last time it was that low was in 1996.
Declines during the pandemic were worse for some racial groups, and some gaps widened. For example, life expectancy for American Indian and Alaskan Native people saw a decline of more than 6 1/2 years since the pandemic began, and is at 65 years. In the same span, life expectancy for Asian Americans dropped by about two years, and stands at 83 1/2.
Experts say there are many possible reasons for such differences, including lack of access to quality health care, lower vaccination rates, and a greater share of the population in lower-paying jobs that required them to keep working when the pandemic was at its worst.
The new report is based on provisional data. Life expectancy estimates can change with the addition of more data and further analysis. For example, the CDC initially said life expectancy in 2020 declined by about 1 year 6 months. But after more death reports and analysis came in, it ended up being about 1 year 10 months.
But it's likely the declines in 2020 and 2021 will stand as the first two consecutive years of declining life expectancy in the U.S. since the early 1960s, CDC officials said.
Findings in the report:
—Life expectancy for women in the United States dropped about 10 months, from just under 80 years in 2020 to slightly more than 79 in 2021. Life expectancy for men dropped a full year, from about 74 years to 73.
—COVID-19 deaths were the main reason for the decline. The second largest contributor was deaths from accidental injuries — primarily from drug overdoses, which killed a record-breaking 107,000 Americans last year.
—White people saw the second biggest drop among racial and ethnic groups, with life expectancy falling one year, to about 76 years, 5 months. Black Americans had the third largest decline, falling more than eight months, to 70 years, 10 months
—Hispanic Americans had seen a huge drop in life expectancy in 2020 — four years. But in 2021, life expectancy for them dropped by about two months, to about 77 years, 7 months. Preston thinks good vaccination rates among Hispanics played a role.
The report also suggests gains against suicide are being undone.
U.S. suicides rose from the early 2000s until 2018. But they fell a little in 2019 and then more in 2020, the first year of the pandemic. Experts had wondered if that may have been related to a phenomenon seen in the early stages of wars and national disasters in which people band together and support each other.
The new report said suicide contributed to the decline in life expectancy in 2021, but it did not provide detail. According to provisional numbers from a public CDC database, the number of U.S. suicides increased last year by about 2,000, to 48,000. The U.S. suicide rate rose as well, from 13.5 per 100,000 to 14.1 — bringing it back up to about where it was in 2018. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/us-life-expectancy-plunged-again-in-2021-down-nearly-a-year/article_e13b9bcc-2958-11ed-b138-57696bae32ce.html | 2022-08-31T18:41:28Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/us-life-expectancy-plunged-again-in-2021-down-nearly-a-year/article_e13b9bcc-2958-11ed-b138-57696bae32ce.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Buick has unveiled the new Envista compact crossover for China.
It’s the second model to adopt Buick’s new design language which was previewed with the recent Wildcat EV and Electra-X concept vehicles, and has since appeared on the GL8 Century minivan sold in China.
Buick has yet to say whether the Envista or a vehicle like it will be sold in the U.S., though we know the Envista name has been registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
When asked for comment, Buick spokeswoman Paige Tatulli told Motor Authority, “We are excited about the reveal of the Buick Envista in China, but have nothing to announce in regards to new products coming to our North American portfolio at this time.”
Measuring 182.6 inches in length, the Envista is about an inch shorter than Buick’s Envision crossover and is differentiated by a coupe-like profile. It could join Buick’s U.S. lineup as an alternative to the Envision.
Key traits of Buick’s design language present on the Envista include the forward-leaning nose, slit-like lights, and revised tri-shield Buick badge. The interior features a simple design that is dominated by a curved panel integrating a pair of 10.3-inch screens for the instrument cluster and infotainment hub. Other technologies include a surround-view camera system, voice activation and navigation powered by Baidu, and Buick’s own Tune Melody-branded audio system developed with audio signal processing company Arkamys.
Buick said the Envista is based on a new platform for compact crossovers. The platform is likely to be a member of parent company General Motors’ VSS (Vehicle Strategy Set) portfolio of modular platforms designed for internal-combustion vehicles.
In China, the Envista will be offered with a 1.5-liter turbo-4 in combination with a continuously variably transmission (CVT). The engine delivers a peak 181 hp to the front wheels, or enough for 0-62 mph acceleration in 7.9 seconds. There isn’t a performance option, though buyers will be able to add a sportier look via an available GS pack which features a blacked-out grille, 18-inch wheels, and red brake calipers.
The Envista starts sales in China later this year priced from 150,000 renminbi (approximately $21,745).
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Wang Xiyu (CHN) d. [3] Maria Sakkari (GRE) 3-6, 7-5, 7-5
Former junior No.1 Wang's improvement in 2022 has flown under the radar, but the Chinese 21-year-old burst out on the major stage with the first Top 10 win of her career.
Since April, Wang has compiled a 29-13 record to climb from No.150 to her present career-high of No.75. This stretch has included four finals -- three at ITF level, and the Valencia 125 in July -- before a semifinal run in Washington and a quarterfinal in Granby over the past month. By contrast, last year's semifinalist Sakkari came into the US Open with a meagre 1-3 record in her lead-up tournaments.
Wang's left-handed forehand was the star shot of the day, garnering her 26 of her 35 winners; a highly effective pattern that became very familiar was a heavy crosscourt to open the court followed by a searing down-the-line winner. But over the first two sets, her consistency and ability to deal with Sakkari's first serve were more questionable.
A moment to savor for Xiyu Wang!
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) August 31, 2022
She captures her first-career win over a top-10 player.#USOpen pic.twitter.com/UA0elD5QdF
In the second set, Wang twice went up a break, only for errors to creep in when ahead. Having served 11 aces in her first-round win over Diane Parry, Wang committed 12 double faults against Sakkari. In the end, she required a double fault from the Greek to get over the line in the second set.
But after falling behind 3-1 in the decider, Wang was supremely impressive as she ironed out her mistakes and gritted out a number of extended exchanges -- without sacrificing her easy power or bold shotmaking. Both players' levels rose as the match approached its climax, but Wang's greater control and aggression netted her two consecutive winners to reach match point in the final game. She converted for a 2-hour, 43-minute triumph when Sakkari sent a backhand wide.
In the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time, Wang will face either No.29 seed Alison Riske-Amritraj or Camila Osorio in a bid to make the second week.
[5] Ons Jabeur (TUN) d. [WC] Elizabeth Mandlik (USA) 7-5, 6-2
Jabeur was the first victor of Day 3, reaching the third round of the US Open for the third year in a row with a 1-hour, 14-minute win.
It was rarely plain sailing against the impressive Mandlik, one of this summer's breakout talents. The 21-year-old had already gotten a taste of pushing a Top 10 player to the limit in San Jose a month ago, when she was barely edged out in the second round by Paula Badosa in a third-set tiebreak. Mandlik made a confident start, and her neat all-court technique effectively countered Jabeur's creativity in the first set, during which she won eight of 11 points at net.
No.144-ranked Mandlik twice went up a break and served for the set at 5-4 -- but at that point, Jabeur's experience told. A slew of backhand errors came off Mandlik's racquet to bring up break point, and the Wimbledon runner-up converted with a delightful dropshot-volley combination.
That was the start of a six-game run for Jabeur that took her to a 3-0 second-set lead. Mandlik made one last stand to break back, but a series of superb backhands put Jabeur in control again -- including her 23rd winner of the day, a perfectly angled pass, on her first match point.
Jabeur will next face No.31 seed Shelby Rogers, who booked her place in the third round of the US Open for the fifth time with a 7-5, 6-1 defeat of qualifier Viktoria Kuzmova. Jabeur owns a 2-0 head-to-head lead over Rogers. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2771214/wang-xiyu-upsets-sakkari-jabeur-eases-past-mandlik-at-us-open | 2022-08-31T18:41:47Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2771214/wang-xiyu-upsets-sakkari-jabeur-eases-past-mandlik-at-us-open | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TUCSON, Ariz. — When Colin Kaepernick placed his political ideas above his pro football aspirations, he ignited a national conversation and sacrificed his sports career.
The documentary "Kapernick and America" takes a long, hard look at the figure's ascension and evolution.
The image of Kaepernick — a look of defiant pride on his face — taking a knee during the pre-game national anthem has become an iconic symbol of the two Americas in which we live.
Supporters see Kaepernick's protest as a bold, courageous stand in the face of institutional racism that turns a blind eye to police brutality against minorities.
Detractors see the protest as a cynical, selfish stance of a millionaire with fading athletic talents attempting to draw attention to himself while disparaging the freedoms and privileges that allowed him to ascend to his heights.
Directors Thomas Rockwell and Ross Hockrow take a decidedly pro-Kaepernick bent, focusing on Kaepernick's athletic martyrdom. Placing his ideals over his on-field aspirations, he was seemingly blackballed by the league when he started free agency.
Teams seemed unwilling to give him a shot at playing again, fearful of the PR backlash they'd face by signing him.
Using interviews with Kaepernick, then-San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh, and broadcasters Don Lemon and Pam Oliver, the documentarians recount the tale of the unlikely superstar.
A Black child adopted by white parents, Kaepernick grew up straddling multiple cultures.
His flashy style and tattooed torso made him a figure of controversy even before he took his political stance. Once Kaepernick began kneeling, he became a symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement and dog whistle grandstanding from politicians.
The doc gives voice to Kaepernick's opponents but focuses on insipid, angry interviewees who bubble with barely-disguised prejudice. They burned and made shooting squad targets of Kaepernick dolls and jerseys.
Some more coherent Kaepernick opponents would have more thoroughly rounded out the package.
Even though the support of Kaepernick's ideals may be divided in 2022, the doc argues, history will likely be on his side. The man known for kneeling will likely stand through the ages as a civil rights figure.
RATING: 3 stars out of 4. | https://www.wtxl.com/entertainment/powerful-doc-kaepernick-and-america-examines-sports-driven-protest | 2022-08-31T18:41:48Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/entertainment/powerful-doc-kaepernick-and-america-examines-sports-driven-protest | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida sued federal health officials on Wednesday, accusing them of stalling the state's plan to import lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Food and Drug Administration at a news conference.
“Florida has been ready to deliver cheaper prescription drugs to those that need them for nearly two years,” DeSantis said. “The lack of transparency by the Biden administration during the approval process, and failure to provide records on the importation proposal, is costing Floridians who are facing rising prices across the board due to inflation."
The U.S. pharmaceutical industry for years has faced complaints over high prices and has been able to successfully lobby against proposals to import drugs at lower costs. Critics have argued importing drugs could lead to risks of counterfeit or ineffective medications that would be difficult for American governments to regulate.
Democratic President Joe Biden has backed such importation programs as a way to lower prices, signing an executive order in 2021 that directed the FDA to work with states on developing proposals to ship drugs to the U.S. under federal law.
A spokesman from the Department of Health and Human Services declined to comment, citing pending litigation.
Florida's Republican-controlled Legislature approved the state's importation program in 2019, but it requires approval from federal health officials before it can take effect. The state estimates taxpayers could save up to $150 million annually under the program, with supporters saying the drugs would still need to meet FDA standards and that 80% of drug ingredients used in the U.S. are foreign-made now.
In its lawsuit, Florida wrote that the FDA has asked for several minor clarifications to the state's proposal and alleged the agency is “dragging its feet and protecting big pharmaceutical companies."
“Given the near-universal support for programs like Florida’s, it seems the FDA’s reluctance to approve Florida’s SIP Proposal is a nod to the large pharmaceutical companies that oppose these importation programs because they yield increased competition and lower prescription drug prices,” the lawsuit reads.
The federal lawsuit, filed in Tampa, asks the court to rule that the FDA and HHS have delayed Florida's proposal and to force the agencies to make a determination on the plan.
The drug industry lobby, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which had opposed Florida's importation plan as unsafe, did not immediately return an emailed request and voicemail seeking comment Wednesday. | https://www.wtxl.com/media/v/content/57be1dbd66aae00b1912db8319352b01 | 2022-08-31T18:41:55Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/media/v/content/57be1dbd66aae00b1912db8319352b01 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Rivian has a new feature on the way that’s sure to be handy the next time you’re camping or perhaps using the vehicle at a worksite.
It’s called Camp Mode, and it will be available in the next over-the-air update for Rivian’s R1T and R1S electric pickup truck and SUV. Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe took to Twitter over the weekend to give a preview of just what Camp Mode entails.
Had help beta testing Camp Mode. Can’t wait for you to try it! Rolling out very soon in next OTA update… pic.twitter.com/JNoOAjWupr
— RJ Scaringe (@RJScaringe) August 27, 2022
The highlight is the ability to have the vehicle’s suspension automatically level itself if parked on a slope. For anyone who likes to sleep in their vehicle, it means no more nights where it feels like you’re sleeping on the side of the hill. Someone using the vehicle for work can also ensure that everything will be plumb; the vehicle can be evened out to level a cooking surface, something you can also do with Rivian’s available slide-out kitchen.
The mode also adjusts ambient settings like the noise level and switches off the displays, for example, if you want a quiet and dark atmosphere to sleep at night. And there’s the ability to dial down how much energy the vehicle is using while stationary, helping to preserve the battery, something Scaringe referred to as the “vehicle going into a deep sleep.” There’s also the ability to control exterior lights in case you want to light up certain parts of a campsite.
Rivian’s vehicles have already impressed us so much so that we awarded the R1T our Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2022 award. However, the company continues to improve the vehicles with features like Camp Mode. In June it also added a Pet Comfort feature that allows drivers to control the interior climate while away so that a pet left behind for short stays will remain comfortable.
Following a price increase earlier in the year, Rivian’s R1T and R1S now start from $73,000 and $78,000 respectively. Those prices net a dual-motor all-wheel-drive system and standard battery good for about 260 miles of range.
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Skeletal remains found in Tennessee nearly 40 years ago have been identified as a young female, and authorities know what happened to her.
Authorities say Tracy Sue Walker went missing from the Lafayette, Indiana, area in 1978. Her remains were found in Campbell County, Tennessee, in 1985.
This year, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says a sample of Walker's remains was sent to a lab that analyzes human DNA.
The lab provided investigators with a possible relative, who was living in Indiana.
Investigators say they located potential family members, obtained their DNA and determined Walker was related to them.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation still doesn't know how Walker got to the state or the circumstances surrounding her death.
Anyone who can assist with the investigation is asked to call 1-800-TBI-FIND. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/dna-match-helps-authorities-identify-remains-of-indiana-girl-after-nearly-4-decades | 2022-08-31T18:42:13Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/dna-match-helps-authorities-identify-remains-of-indiana-girl-after-nearly-4-decades | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
If you have gone to the pump recently, perhaps you have noticed the sticker price of gas dropping each day. Across the country, the average price for a gallon of gas has fallen for 76 straight days, the second-longest streak on record dating back to 2005.
It was less than three months ago when the average price of a gallon of gas nationally was $5.02, the highest number on record. Today, that number is much lower: $3.84, as of August 31. According to AAA, and those who understand the oil industry, it will likely continue to drop.
“Sixty percent of that price is based off what crude oil is going for,” said Skyler McKinley of AAA Colorado. “We have seen crude oil plummet significantly in the past several months and that has been tied to the decrease in gas prices.”
Crude oil is a raw natural resource that is taken from the earth and then refined into usable fuel like gas. Like most commodities, it is traded on the market at various prices that are determined by supply and demand, and currently, demand is not great—meaning its price, much like the price of gas, has been falling.
“Fundamentally, there are jitters about a global recession that has made investments in crude not that wise,” said McKinley. “Of course, we use a lot less oil if we are entering into a recession, and the markets are reacting in kind. Consumption has fallen. Americans have changed their driving behaviors. AAA surveys show up to 65% of drivers have changed their behaviors, not just because of the high price of gas, but because of the high price of just about everything. They’ve decided and planned their lives to use less gas.”
This map from AAA shows the average price for a gallon of gas across every state in the country. In 19 states, most of them in the Northeast and West, gas prices are higher than the national average of $3.84. The cheapest gas you will find in the country is in the South, where a typical gallon will run you just over $3.40, according to AAA.
In a few weeks, the US gas supply will switch over to winter blend fuel as it does every fall. It provides a little less energy, but Americans drive less during the winter. AAA says that will knock off an additional $0.10 or so from what you are paying at the pump. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/gas-prices-are-falling-at-a-historic-rate-heres-why-experts-say-it-will-continue | 2022-08-31T18:42:31Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/gas-prices-are-falling-at-a-historic-rate-heres-why-experts-say-it-will-continue | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GENEVA (AP) — China’s top U.N. envoy said Beijing remains “firmly opposed” to the release of a long-anticipated report about Xinjiang from the office of U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, just hours before her self-imposed deadline for its publication was set to expire Wednesday — her last day on the job.
Ambassador Zhang Jun said China had repeatedly told Bachelet, whom China welcomed in May for a trip that included a visit Xinjiang, that Beijing did not want the report to be released — and echoed a string of Chinese claims that Western pressure on her was to blame if the report does get out.
“We haven’t seen this report yet, but we are completely opposed to such a report, we do not think it will produce any good to anyone,” Zhang told reporters outside the Security Council. ”We have made it very clear to the high commissioner and in a number of other occasions that we are firmly opposed to such a report.”
“We all know so well that the so-called Xinjiang issue is a completely fabricated lie out of political motivations, and its purpose is definitely to undermine China’s stability and to obstruct China’s development,” he added.
Beijing’s demands to keep a lid on a report have fanned a tug-of-war for diplomatic influence with the West over the rights of the region’s native Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups.
The report, which Western diplomats and U.N. officials said was all but ready for months, was unlikely to plumb significant new ground beyond the string of findings from independent advocacy groups and journalists who have documented concerns about human rights in Xinjiang for years.
But Bachelet’s report comes with the imprimatur of the United Nations, and the member states that make it up. The run-up to its release fueled a debate over China’s influence at the world body and epitomized the diplomatic chill between Beijing and the West over human rights, among other sore spots.
Bachelet said in recent months that she received pressure from both sides to publish – or not publish – the report and resisted it all, treading a fine line all the while noting her experience with political pressure during her two terms as president of Chile.
In June, Bachelet said she would not seek a new term as rights chief, and promised the report would be released by her exit date on Aug. 31. That led to a swell of back-channel campaigns — including letters from civil society, civilians and governments on both sides of the issue.
She hinted last week her office might miss her deadline, saying it was “trying” to release it before her exit.
Over the past five years, the Chinese government’s mass detention campaign in Xinjiang swept an estimated 1 million Uyghurs and other ethnic groups into a network of prisons and camps, which Beijing called “training centers,” but former detainees described as brutal detention centers.
Beijing has since closed many of the camps, but hundreds of thousands of people continue to languish in prison on vague, secret charges.
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Lederer reported from the United Nations. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-deadline-looming-china-vies-to-block-un-report-on-xinjiang/ | 2022-08-31T18:42:53Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-deadline-looming-china-vies-to-block-un-report-on-xinjiang/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON (AP) — Fans of the late Princess Diana placed tributes outside the gates of her Kensington Palace home on Wednesday, marking the 25th anniversary of her death in a Paris car accident.
An arrangement of white chrysanthemums spelling out “Princess Diana” sat among dozens of photos and messages left by admirers, some of whom said they make annual pilgrimages to the spot to remember the tragedy.
“We just come here, do the memorial and, you know, we just chat about things that she used to do, you know, to … let people know that we will never forget the princess, we will never forget what she’s done,’’ said Julie Cain, 59, who traveled 300 miles (480 kilometers) from Newcastle in northern England. “We just want her legacy kept, like, going as long as possible.”
Diana died on Aug. 31, 1997, at the age of 36, stunning people around the world who felt they knew the princess after seeing her successes and struggles play out on TV screens and newspaper front pages for 17 years. The tributes left outside Kensington Palace on Wednesday were a small reminder of the mountains of flowers piled there in the days after Diana’s death.
Diana was the focus of constant media attention from the moment she was engaged to marry Prince Charles until the night she died. Her fairytale wedding, ugly divorce and efforts to build a new life all made headlines.
The public watched as she blossomed from a shy teenager into an international style icon who befriended AIDS patients, charmed Nelson Mandela and walked through a minefield to promote the drive to eradicate landmines. Along the way, she showed the royal family, particularly her sons William and Harry, how to connect with people and be relevant in the 21st century.
On Wednesday morning, Cain and her friend Maria Scott, 51, paid their respects to Diana as dawn broke over the palace, just as they do every year.
“There was just something about that girl that really stood out. And of course, I watched the wedding, the fairy-tale princess,’’ Scott said. “And, you know, you see, she was like part of your life because you were seeing that every day on the television. She was in newspapers, magazines. She was all over. And you felt like she was part of your life.” | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-fans-of-princess-diana-gather-to-mark-her-death-25-years-ago/ | 2022-08-31T18:43:02Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-fans-of-princess-diana-gather-to-mark-her-death-25-years-ago/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Wednesday authorized its first update to COVID-19 vaccines, booster doses that target today’s most common omicron strain. Shots could begin within days.
The move by the Food and Drug Administration tweaks the recipe of shots made by Pfizer and rival Moderna that already have saved millions of lives. The hope is that the modified boosters will blunt yet another winter surge — and help tamp down the BA.5 omicron relative that continues to spread widely.
“These updated boosters present us with an opportunity to get ahead” of the next COVID-19 wave, said FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf.
Until now, COVID-19 vaccines have targeted the original coronavirus strain, even as wildly different mutants emerged. The new U.S. boosters are combination, or “bivalent,” shots. They contain half that original vaccine recipe and half protection against the newest omicron versions, BA.4 and BA.5, that are considered the most contagious yet.
The combination aims to increase cross-protection against multiple variants.
“It really provides the broadest opportunity for protection,” Pfizer vaccine chief Annaliesa Anderson told The Associated Press.
The updated boosters are only for people who have already had their primary vaccinations, using the original vaccines. Doses made by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech are for anyone 12 and older while Moderna’s updated shots are for adults — if it has been at least two months since their last primary vaccination or their latest booster. They’re not to be used for initial vaccinations.
There’s one more step before a fall booster campaign begins: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must recommend who should get the additional shot. An influential CDC advisory panel will debate the evidence Thursday — including whether people at high risk from COVID-19 should go first.
The U.S. has purchased more than 170 million doses from the two companies. Pfizer said it could ship up to 15 million of those doses by the end of next week. Moderna didn’t immediately say how many doses are ready to ship but that some will be available “in the coming days.”
The big question is whether people weary of vaccinations will roll up their sleeves again. Just half of vaccinated Americans got the first recommended booster dose, and only a third of those 50 and older who were urged to get a second booster did so.
It’s time for U.S. authorities to better explain that the public should expect an updated COVID-19 vaccination every so often, just like getting a fall flu shot or a tetanus booster after stepping on a rusty nail, said University of Pennsylvania immunologist E. John Wherry.
“We need to rebrand it in a societally normal-looking way,” rather than a panicked response to new mutants, Wherry said. “Give a clear, forward-looking set of expectations.”
Here’s the rub: The original vaccines still offer strong protection against severe disease and death from COVID-19 for generally healthy people, especially if they got that important first booster dose. It’s not clear just how much more benefit an updated booster will bring — beyond a temporary jump in antibodies capable of fending off an omicron infection.
One reason: The FDA cleared the modifications ahead of studies in people, a step toward eventually handling COVID-19 vaccine updates more like yearly changes to flu shots.
FDA vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks stressed the agency considered “the totality” of evidence. Pfizer and Moderna have previously brewed vaccine doses updated to match earlier mutants — including the omicron strain named BA.1 that struck last winter — and tested them in people. Those earlier recipe changes were safe, and the BA.1 version substantially boosted virus-fighting antibodies — more than another dose of the original vaccine — although fewer that recognized today’s genetically distinct BA.4 and BA.5 strains.
But instead of using those BA.1 shots, FDA ordered the companies to brew even more up-to-date doses that target those newest omicron mutants, sparking a race to roll them out. Rather than waiting a few more months for additional human studies of that very similar recipe tweak, Marks said animal tests showed the latest update spurs “a very good immune response.”
“One needs to refresh the immune system with what is actually circulating,” Marks said. That’s why FDA also is no longer authorizing boosters made with the original recipe for those 12 and older.
The hope, Marks said, is that a vaccine matched to currently spreading variants might do a better job fighting infection, not just serious illness, at least for a while.
What’s next? Even as modified shots roll out, Moderna and Pfizer are conducting human studies to help assess their value, including how they hold up if a new mutant comes along.
And for children, Pfizer plans to ask FDA to allow updated boosters for 5- to 11-year-olds in early October.
It’s the first U.S. update to the COVID-19 vaccine recipe, an important but expected next step — like how flu vaccines get updated every year.
And the U.S. isn’t alone. Britain recently decided to offer adults over 50 a different booster option from Moderna, a combo shot targeting that initial BA.1 omicron strain. European regulators are considering whether to authorize one or both of the updated formulas.
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Over time, Lynn Lief found herself with less and less work to offer to teenagers.
For more than 40 years, Lief and her family employed up to 500 middle and high schoolers to detassel corn in July and August. Based in York, Nebraska, she ran buses to pick up teens in neighboring Seward and all the way to Lincoln one hour away.
Her family contracted for Syngenta as well as Monsanto, the St. Louis-based agricultural behemoth that German-based Bayer bought in 2018 for $68 billion. Lief was in the business of finding workers to detassel more than 2,700 acres of corn controlled by the two large agriculture companies throughout her region of southeast Nebraska.
New advances in herbicides and plant breeding over the years meant Monsanto needed fewer people to detassel corn. And of those fewer people Monsanto used, more of them were migrant workers.
It became unsustainable for Lief to hire all these teens with so little work to do.
“It was hard for our kids because they used this for so long as an income and some of them had worked for us for years,” she said.
Lief first detasseled at 13 years old. More than 40 years later, she is out of the corn detasseling business altogether. For her, that was an adjustment.
“I never knew what you did in July other than detasseling,” she said.
Other corn detasseling operations have faced similar experiences as seed companies like Bayer, Syngenta and Remington Seeds, which control a growing amount of the Midwest’s cropland, increasingly use the H-2A visa program to hire temporary migrant workers. The H-2A program allows agriculture companies to hire migrant workers if they cannot find enough domestic workers.
For decades, corn detasseling has been more than just a job for Nebraska teenagers. Pulling the tassel off the top of corn stalks to prevent self-pollination paid well above minimum wage and offered pay raises to return following years. And, given the manual labor involved, detasseling was seen as a rite of passage for teenagers in Nebraska and the rest of the Corn Belt, a task that taught lessons in work ethic for young Midwesterners.
A Nebraska Public Media News investigation found that in Nebraska, hundreds of teenagers have expressed interest in detasseling corn at the same time seed companies opted to use migrant workers.
Nebraska Public Media News also learned that job postings for corn detasseling contained misleading or unrealistic job requirements that appeared to discourage local workers from applying.
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts’ administration sought to direct seed companies toward using local workers, but the U.S. Department of Labor intervened and said temporary guest workers had already been approved and must be used.
One of the major companies involved with detasseling authored a presentation that detailed its decision to prioritize migrant workers because they required less company oversight and were more productive.
The result is what local detasseling contractors say is a vanishing opportunity for local teenagers and the use of migrant workers who are sometimes taken advantage of for the benefits of their employers.
“Detasseling is a huge cultural part of the state of Nebraska,” said Taylor Gage, a former staffer for Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts. “Really one of the biggest and most important aspects of this is it helps bridge the urban-rural divide.”
‘710 employees wait-listed’
In 2019, Gov. Ricketts took note of a wait-list that contained hundreds of Nebraskans who were interested in detasseling corn that summer. So, it came as a surprise to learn that contractors for seed companies had been approved to hire migrant workers under the H-2A program.
The H-2A visa, created in 1986, allows agricultural companies to hire seasonal temporary foreign workers. But companies can only bring on H-2A workers after they’ve shown that they tried to hire local workers and found there’s not enough interest or capability.
Ricketts wrote to federal officials later that year to let them know local workers wanted to detassel corn.
“In 2019, Nebraska detasseling (harvest) companies had 710 employees wait-listed,” Ricketts wrote in a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor, “but certifications were still granted for H-2A workers to perform detasseling.”
Ricketts heard from local contractors who raised concerns about the trend of contractors for seed companies using H-2A workers. His letter urged the Department of Labor to reform the H-2A program by requiring seed companies to first petition the local contractors for the amount of available work before they can apply for migrant workers, which is not currently a requirement.
“This requirement would ensure that the hiring of American workers is prioritized and prevent seed companies from manipulating the system by indirectly employing H-2A workers through the utilization of third-party harvest companies when there are more than adequate numbers of American workers who are willing to perform the needed services,” Ricketts’ letter said.
Asked about Ricketts’ letter, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) said a wait list of available teenage laborers amounted to insufficient evidence to prompt federal officials to act.
“Such a waitlist may show individuals are interested generally in employment in a certain area, such as corn detasseling, but it is not evidence that U.S. workers actually applied for a specific job opportunity offered in conjunction with an H-2A application or U.S. workers applied and were unlawfully rejected,” a department spokesperson said in a statement.
In order for the U.S. DOL to reject an H-2A application, the department needed evidence that Nebraska workers both applied to those jobs and were unlawfully rejected, according to the spokesperson.
But Nebraska Department of Labor officials investigated job postings for detasseling jobs and found signs that job descriptions discouraged local applicants.
Deceptive job descriptions
John Albin, the Nebraska Labor Commissioner, and Bradley Pierce, the director of re-eeployment services at Nebraska’s DOL, checked postings for detasseling jobs listed on their website – NEworks.nebraska.gov.
Pierce said NDOL found no evidence that wages were discriminatory, or that migrant workers were treated unfairly.
But Nebraska labor officials discovered that seed companies and H-2A contractors posted what appeared to be deceptive job descriptions.
Some of the job descriptions said detasseling work would last through October, far later in the season that usually wraps up by the end of August — and during a time when teenagers return to school.
“You don’t have to be an agronomy major to know that nobody's detasseling in Nebraska in October,” Albin said.
Some postings required workers to be at least 18 years old, even though people as young as 12 can detassel legally in Nebraska.
Other job applications asked for hemp detasseling.
“Hemp cannot be detasseled,” Pierce wrote in an email to the U.S. DOL’s Chicago office in May 2020.
Listing a job with unreasonable age requirements, unnecessary experience, much longer seasons and overly-detailed job responsibilities are among various tactics to strategically yield few — especially teenage — applicants, Albin and Pierce said.
“Obviously, some of the terms and conditions were not conducive with the local employment of youth,” Pierce said.
Asked whether or not these actions appeared to be intentional and deliberate, Albin said he didn’t know.
“It's difficult to read anyone's mind, and I think we're pretty good administrators, but mind readers, we're not,” Albin said. “It certainly can have that effect.”
In 2020, Nebraska rejected four H-2A petitions for detasseling jobs, but the U.S. Department of Labor overruled Nebraska. A state workforce agency does not have the authority to reject federal H-2A petitions. Under federal rules, Nebraska’s DOL could change what’s included in job applications. Albin and Pierce now amend any job applications seen with deceitful or disingenuous hiring tactics.
“It's sad to consider that a win because that's how it should be in general,” Pierce said.
‘We don’t find enough people’
Javier Chapa defends the use of H-2A workers.
He owns Chapa Global Contracting Inc., and has worked in the agricultural labor business for 34 years out of McAllen, Texas.
During detasseling season, Chapa runs one of the many H-2A migrant crews working in Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota. In Nebraska, he contracts with Remington Seeds.
“We don't find enough people (who want) to do the job, and I understand the reason: Because it's hard work,” Chapa said from his pickup truck parked outside of Hastings, Nebraska. “I mean, the youngest generations, they go to school to try not to be in the fields.”
Since 2013, he’s hired H-2A workers because, he said, Chapa Global Contracting's job postings have yielded very few local applicants.
"We give priority to the American people. We’re advertising but sometimes nobody calls. If somebody calls and wants to work, we have to hire."Javier Chapa, Chapa Global Contracting Inc.
Chapa writes the job descriptions for detasseling jobs with the help of lawyers and employment experts. He also petitions the federal government for H-2A workers. He said both Remington and his company follow DOL rules.
“We don’t try to take nobody’s job,” Chapa said. “We just tried to cover what the local people don’t want to do or they can’t do.”
Chapa was the only H-2A contractor who agreed to an interview for this story.
Triple M and Gulf Citrus, Florida companies that both contract with Bayer, did not respond to nine interview requests. Rodriguez Harvesting, another H-2A contractor that’s based in Georgia and works with Syngenta, declined an interview request.
Multiple Syngenta employees in Nebraska did not return calls seeking comment. A corporate spokesman declined an interview request but provided Nebraska Public Media written answers to a detailed list of questions.
“Third-party contractors are responsible for assembling and hiring the mix of workers and would be best to answer any questions regarding their hiring practices,” the spokesman wrote in a statement.
The Syngenta spokesman said H-2A workers provide seed companies with flexibility, which is why they are needed.
“In general, having access to both local workers and H-2A workers — both hired/provided by third-party contractors — allows seed companies to balance the inconsistent schedules of young people working in the local labor crews,” the spokesman wrote. “Many young people involved in detasseling typically have other summer activities that conflict with their ability to work during the key part of the season.”
According to the spokesman, who declined to provide details about the workforce Syngenta uses to detassel corn, three-fourths of the detasseling is supported by local workers.
“Young people are a key part of our success to completing this important seed production work, allowing us to deliver the quality products that farmers need to meet their crop demands.”
‘I was a little upset’
Heather Scar runs a pig farm in western Iowa, near the small town of Adair, between Omaha and Des Moines. She ran detasseling crews of mostly local teenagers for 11 years.
AgReliant Genetics, one of the two corn seed companies she worked for, told her in May they didn’t need her team this year.
“I was a little upset because there wasn't any indication that we wouldn't be coming back this year until they called,” she said.
Scar also detasseled fields for what was then Monsanto, which Bayer bought in 2018. The largely agrochemical company told Scar three years ago it would be using other contractors for the summer’s detasseling. Both AgReliant and Bayer later told her those were H-2A migrant crews, she said.
Tiffany Wenzel lost her Michigan acres in 2020.
“I'm trying to see if we can get those acres back,” Wenzel said.
Wenzel, 41, took over her family farm and detasseling business that started long before she was born. Before Wenzel’s family business, Myers Detasseling, closed, it employed up to 200 workers who traveled in five buses to the “corn capital of the world.”
Michigan is home to two major corn seed companies near Constantine, Michigan, in the southwest corner of the state.
Bayer informed Wenzel she wasn’t needed this year because of a decrease in acres Bayer would need to detassel, she said.
“They were pleased with our work,” Wenzel said. “It was nothing against our company, but they simply didn't need as many contractors.”
At first, Wenzel said she was relieved. For the first time in years, she could attend a July wedding. But later in the summer, she saw detasselers out in the fields, and she realized she missed being out there. She said she felt slighted because the work is still being done – just not by her crew.
She spoke to her Bayer representative, who told her at least some of the new crews were H-2A workers.
“If I have local workers who can do the work, then I should be given that precedence over a non-local crew,” she said.
Multiple Nebraska detasselers who are still in business declined to comment for this story out of fear of retribution from seed companies.
Migrant worker motivation
In a presentation obtained by Nebraska Public Media through a public records request, Bayer laid out its rationale for choosing H-2A workers.
The Bayer presentation, which was sent by the Nebraska Department of Labor’s general counsel to a federal employee, says the seed company will use more “independent” labor in future.
The H-2A program fits under this “independent” classification and forgoes Bayer’s responsibility to provide workers compensation, liability or unemployment insurance because an H-2A contractor would take responsibility. In some cases, the company would also be relieved from paying for housing, transportation and even drinking water for detasselers. Independent agricultural labor only requires Bayer to provide personal protective equipment.
The other option is the “traditional” labor models, which include local teenagers, and require more direct involvement from Bayer, like timekeeping and payroll.
The presentation also acknowledges raising the minimum age to 14 years old discouraged what it called the “feeder effect.” In other words, raising the minimum age would reduce the number of workers who catch on to corn detasseling at a young age and return to the job the following year.
This shift to H-2A workers by Bayer reflects a larger trend in the industry. In the last 10 years, the number of H-2A workers in Corn Belt states has exploded.
H-2A workers aren’t limited to detasseling corn. According to data from the U.S. DOL, many migrants herd sheep, construct farm equipment or harvest fruit. Attorneys who specialize in farmworkers’ and migrant workers’ rights at Iowa Legal Aid said H-2As are often used regularly in the pork industry in that state.
Nebraska has seen a nearly 250% increase in H-2A workers from 2015 to 2021, according to a Nebraska Public Media analysis of data from the U.S. DOL. H-2A workers also rapidly increased in other Corn Belt states over the same time frame. In 2015, for example, the DOL approved 809 H-2A workers for work in Illinois. In 2021, the DOL approved 3,010.
The Bayer presentation also said there’s less corn for workers to detassel because of new developments in crop herbicides and genetically modified corn that requires less manual labor.
“While we’ve seen some shifts in labor as a whole, across Nebraska, the vast majority of our workers continue to be local youth laborers,” a Bayer spokesperson wrote in a statement. “The entire industry continues to face challenges in recruiting youth workers, and in many cases, these positions go unfilled.”
In 2020, the chief operating officer of Bayer’s crop science division sent a letter to Ricketts after the two spoke.
“I appreciate your passion for agriculture and your interest in our operations in Nebraska,” Brett Begemann wrote to Ricketts from St. Louis. “At Bayer, we support the opportunity to provide employment in the communities where we have sites located. Nebraskans, both youth and adult, will always be a critical part of our summer labor force.”
The letter was obtained through a public records request to the governor’s office.
Begemann said in the letter (dated May 6, 2020) that Bayer would employ 2,050 to 2,670 youth and 187 to 207 adult H-2A workers for detasseling that summer.
Bayer also declined interview requests. In a statement for this story, the Bayer spokesperson stressed detasseling looks much different today than a generation ago.
“Migrant labor crews allow us to address our detasseling labor needs, while also diversifying our workforce and providing valuable talent in other parts of our production operations, including harvest, for example,” the spokesperson wrote. “Using this workforce in this manner helps us streamline our approach to meeting our labor needs.”
Vulnerable workers
Danny Reynaga, a Legal Aid attorney in western Nebraska, said the shift to migrant work has been clear in his line of work.
“It's very common to run across H-2A workers, especially when you're speaking with other folks in the advocacy world particularly here in Nebraska,” the Scottsbluff attorney said.
The son of migrant workers said farm work has changed over the last few decades because advancements in farming equipment and chemicals have eliminated traditional agricultural worker jobs.
“I think what we have now is a much more intense, more focused need — and it's for a shorter period of time,” Reynaga said. “That's where these H-2A workers are coming in.”
And while these jobs and the H-2A program are undeniably necessary for the industry, employers sometimes take advantage of migrant workers.
“When you see a lot of H-2A workers, you're going to see more worker rights issues.”Danny Reynaga, Nebraska Legal Aid attorney
“The fact of the matter is that H-2A workers are vulnerable, to a large extent, and most would say, probably more vulnerable than U.S. workers for a variety of reasons,” said Reynaga.
Reynaga and Iowa Legal Aid lawyers say common worker rights issues can manifest in wage theft, not getting paid when they should, poor housing or being overworked. Migrant workers can be vulnerable because they may not speak the common language and a fear of being blacklisted for future work if they raise concerns.
“If you're an employer, what you want out of your workforce is productivity,” Reynaga said. “And when you hire H-2A workforce, typically you're going to get productivity. You're usually hiring someone who's done this before, who's coming year after year, and, by most regards, is going to be a good solid worker.”
Nebraska Legal Aid settled a lawsuit in 2021 against Florida-based Gulf Citrus, a company that contracts migrant workers in Nebraska to detassel.
The 13 migrant workers who sued said Gulf Citrus did not record all the hours they worked, did not credit them with all the acres they completed and did not give them promised bonuses, as reported by the Lincoln Journal Star.
Gulf Citrus showed menus with meals including grilled meat and chicken, burritos and tacos. For several days in a row, the workers were only served eggs, rice and onions, according to the lawsuit. The drinking water in the fields was dirty and tasted bad. An airplane sprayed pesticides on a field next to where the migrant crew worked, leading to breathing problems and an asthma attack for one worker who did not get medical care.
When asked if seed companies chose an H-2A workforce over domestic labor, Reynaga wouldn’t say there’s systemic oppression of migrant workers.
“I'm also not going to go as far as to say that there wouldn't be those talks,” he said. “I'm sure, at some level, there is that discussion – that idea that you can get away with a little bit more with H-2A workers.”
It’s not lost on Chapa, who runs the H-2A contracting business, that migrant workers are sometimes treated poorly by employers. But that’s not the case in the slightest with him, he said.
“We get treated fairly,” Chapa said. “I respect my workers because they are human beings.”
‘We’ll see what happens’
At age 13, Daniel Miller is already 5 feet 9 inches tall. His mom, Katie Miller, detasseled as a teenager and thought her son would be perfect for tall corn.
“I thought it'd be a cool thing — fun,” Daniel said. “Well, not really fun, but maybe fun. Something to do that would get me some money.”
The homeschooler from Lincoln was one of the hundreds of applicants stuck on waitlists this year. His mom thought a waitlist for detasseling was unusual. When she detasseled, there was such a high demand.
By the time Daniel applied, it was late in the summer so he didn’t get another summer job. He said he’s saving up for a PlayStation and a television. That will have to wait until next year when he applies again.
“I hope that the opportunity is still in place for Nebraska teens and kids,” Katie Miller said. “Next year is a new year. We'll see what happens.”
This story comes from the Midwest Newsroom, an investigative journalism collaboration including IPR, KCUR 89.3, Nebraska Public Media News, St. Louis Public Radio and NPR.
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A young woman says she was randomly slapped on a Manhattan train last week — and the harrowing attack led her to the realization, “F–k New York,” she said in a now-viral TikTok video.
Native New Yorker Vesly Beato, 22, was with her 15-year-old cousin on a northbound 1 train heading home to Inwood Friday afternoon when a stranger hit her as the train pulled into the West 66th Street – Lincoln Center station, she told WABC.
“This man slaps the s–t out of me and runs off the damn train,” Beato said in a TikTok she posted Sunday — that has since racked up 1.4 million views.
“Mind you, we didn’t make eye contact not once. He couldn’t see my face because I had a mask and glasses … He could not see me. I was looking down.”
“I remember hearing the slap, looking up, seeing everybody looking at me and my cousin crying and being confused as to what the f–k is going on,” she said. “I didn’t even feel the slap. That’s how in shock I was. And all I remember was people saying, ‘She’s bleeding.’”
“I was so f–king embarrassed, bro, I start[ed] crying. I’m like, did he really just hit me? Was it me that he hit? … I’m like, Did I do anything to deserve this s–t, yo? Like, what the f–k did I do to him?”
She said she was hospitalized after the attack.
“I’m just glad that this is all [the attacker] left on my face,” she said in the video. “Because you hear so many stories about people getting shot, people getting killed.”
She said the assault changed her opinion of the city.
“The worst part is there’s nothing I could have done to help the situation,” she said in the viral clip. “If I would have been looking up, he would have smacked me … If I had pepper spray, I wouldn’t have time to pepper-spray him. If I had a knife, I wouldn’t have had time to stop him.
“There was nothing I could have done to fix this situation,” she continued. “I guess the moral here is, f–k New York.
“I used to love it here, but it’s not the same.”
It’s unclear whether Beato’s attacker was homeless, but she said she remembered his dirty shoes.
The NYPD did not have any information on the incident Wednesday morning.
The incident came weeks after a similar attack on the Upper East Side.
An 80-year-old woman was on a southbound No. 6 train at the 68th Street-Hunter College station around 4:30 p.m. August 6 when a male stranger hit her multiple times on her head, back and shoulder without saying a word, authorities said.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian detainee held without charge or trial by Israel said Wednesday that he will suspend his nearly six-month hunger strike after reaching an agreement that will see him released in October.
Lawyers and physicians have warned that the Khalil Awawdeh, a 40-year-old father of four, was at risk of dying and already suffering neurological damage from the prolonged hunger strike. In recent pictures, he resembles a human skeleton, his skin tightly stretched over a bony frame.
In a video circulated online Wednesday and apparently shot from his hospital bed, Awawdeh confirmed that an agreement had been reached for his release, calling it a “resounding victory” for the Palestinian people.
Awawdeh was protesting being held without charge or trial in what’s known as administrative detention. Israel says the practice is needed to keep dangerous militants off the streets without revealing sensitive intelligence. The Palestinians and rights groups say it denies detainees the basic right of due process.
The Commission of Detainee Affairs, part of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said Awawdeh had reached an agreement that would see him released on Oct. 2, “after fighting an epic battle for which he sacrificed his flesh and life.”
It said he will remain in an Israeli hospital until he has fully recovered.
There was no immediate comment from Israeli officials, and the exact details of the agreement were unclear.
Israel accuses Awawdeh of being a member of the Islamic Jihad militant group, an allegation he denies. The group had demanded his release as part of the cease-fire that ended three days of heavy fighting in Gaza earlier this month, without identifying him as a member.
Ahlam Haddad, Awawdeh’s lawyer, said this week that her client weighs 37 kilograms (around 80 pounds) and is suffering from neurological damage. He took vitamins over two weeks in June when he thought his case was being resolved but has otherwise only had water since the strike began in March, his family says.
Israel had officially suspended his arrest, but he remained in custody at an Israeli hospital.
Several Palestinians have gone on prolonged hunger strike in recent years to protest being held in administrative detention. In most cases, Israel has eventually released them after their health significantly deteriorated. None have died in custody, but many have suffered irreparable neurological damage.
Israel is currently holding 743 administrative detainees, the highest number since 2008, according to the Israeli human rights group HaMoked, which tracks the number using official figures obtained through freedom of information requests.
The number of administrative detainees has shot up in recent months as Israeli forces have carried out nightly raids in the occupied West Bank following a series of deadly attacks against Israelis earlier this year. Nearly all administrative detainees are Palestinian, as the practice is rarely used with Jewish detainees.
“Administrative detention should be a rare, exceptional measure, but it’s standard practice in Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, with hundreds of people held for months at a time, without charge or trial, solely on the basis of secret information,” said Jessica Montell, the director of HaMoked. “All of these detainees should be given a fair trial or released immediately.”
Israel is currently holding some 4,400 Palestinian prisoners, including militants who have carried out deadly attacks, as well as people arrested at protests or for throwing stones. The Palestinians view all of them as political prisoners held for resisting Israel’s 55-year military occupation of territories the Palestinians want for a future state.
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Krauss reported from Ottawa, Ontario. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/ap-palestinian-detainee-to-end-nearly-6-month-hunger-strike/ | 2022-08-31T18:48:26Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/ap-palestinian-detainee-to-end-nearly-6-month-hunger-strike/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — In the Latvian capital of Riga, an obelisk that soared high above a park to commemorate the Soviet Army’s capture of that nation in 1944 was toppled last week. It crashed into a pond to the cheers of those watching.
Days earlier in Estonia, a replica of a Soviet tank with the communist red star was removed by cranes and trucked away to a museum — one of up to 400 destined for removal. And in Poland, Lithuania and Czechia, monuments to the Red Army have been coming down for months, a belated purge of what many see as symbols of past oppression.
Russia’s war on Ukraine has given a renewed push to topple the last remaining Soviet monuments in nations that regained their sovereignty from Moscow more than three decades ago. These countries now belong to NATO and the European Union and are staunch supporters of Ukraine.
At the end of the communist era, when Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia regained their independence from the Soviet Union and Poland and its neighbors rejected Moscow-backed communism, those nations began renaming streets and purging the most hated symbols, including statues of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin and other communist bosses. Many of these relics are now housed in museums.
In Warsaw, authorities in 1989 quickly toppled a monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, a Polish aristocrat who organized the Soviet secret police after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Under his rule, the Cheka, the forerunner of the KGB, was responsible for a wave of terror.
Such changes followed the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who died in a Moscow hospital on Tuesday at the age of 91.
But memorials to Soviet soldiers or their role in defeating Nazi Germany remained in many places, met with indifference or respect for the ordinary soldiers who died fighting Adolf Hitler’s brutal regime.
The war in Ukraine, however, has triggered memories of how some of those soldiers also raped local women and carried out other war crimes.
Krista Sarv, the research director for the Estonian History Museum, said after statues of Lenin and other leading communists were toppled in the 1990s, people could largely ignore the other memorials. But views changed suddenly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, and now the memorials “scream loudly about occupation and annexation.”
Karol Nawrocki, the head of Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance which is overseeing the removal of the monuments, says “before our eyes, history has become a living experience.”
“Dressed in the uniforms of the Russian Federation, with Lenin and Stalin in their heads and hearts, Russian soldiers ‘liberate’ Ukraine by murdering women, children and killing soldiers,” Nawrocki said.
“Let it be clear: There is no place in the Polish public space for any commemoration of the totalitarian communist regime and its people,” he added.
A 2016 decommunization law had already called for a purge of communist symbols and names, but some municipalities did not have the money for that, so the institute has stepped in to help. Since February, the Polish institute has identified 60 monuments for removal — and has toppled more than 20.
In Lithuania, a number of remaining Soviet memorials have been removed since the spring to little protest. But in Latvia and Estonia, which have sizeable Russian minorities, the removals have stirred greater emotions, with local Russians — and the Russian government — seeing it as an offense against their war heroes.
Dmitry Prokopenko, a Russian-speaking Latvian who opposed removing the Riga obelisk, said his grandparents fought and a great-grandfather died in the fight “for freedom against the Nazis.” To him, the memorial honored their sacrifice.
“Latvia is a land where Latvians and Russians live together,” he said. “I think that one part of the state, one part of the country, should respect also the rights of the other part.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday released a lengthy statement denouncing the demolition of Soviet monuments in the Baltic countries as “barbaric” and threatening Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia with retaliatory measures.
In apparent slap against Poland, Belarus last week reportedly leveled a memorial containing the graves of Polish wartime soldiers.
Polish officials declared that action barbaric, given that Poland has a policy of not disturbing the graves of Soviet soldiers. Rafal Leskiewicz, a historian with the Polish remembrance institute, explained “as Christians, we treat graves as holy ground. It doesn’t matter who is in the graves.”
In some cases locals support keeping Red Army memorials because of its role in defeating Nazi Germany. Some fear the erasure of historical memory, or see an affront to their own ancestors who fought alongside the Soviets.
In Poland’s northern city of Gdansk, there’s been a heated debate about a Soviet T-34 tank on Victory Avenue, and the city has decided not to remove it. The tank commander was a Polish lieutenant, and Polish soldiers played a key role in freeing the former German city of Danzig from the Nazis.
In an open letter, two descendants of wartime Polish soldiers expressed their indignation at the removal of monuments.
They recalled that Polish soldiers died fighting with the Soviets to free Poland from the Nazis and that the Soviet victory resulted in Poland receiving a swath of defeated Germany’s territory and cities including Gdansk and Wroclaw. They also noted it was the Red Army that liberated Auschwitz, Majdanek and many other Nazi death camps.
“Had it not been for the victory of Polish and Soviet soldiers in May 1945, Poland might not have existed at all,” said the letter by magazine editor Pawel Dybicz and historian August Grabski.
But many other Poles note that World War II broke out after Soviet Union and Nazi Germany agreed secretly in 1939 to carve up Poland and the Baltic states. Only after Germany betrayed and invaded the Soviet Union did the Red Army begin to fight the Germans.
Even before Russia’s war in Ukraine, the monuments have been a source of tensions.
In 2007, the relocation of a World War II monument of a Red Army soldier in Tallinn, Estonia, sparked days of rioting.
In 2013, an artist put up a statue depicting a Soviet soldier raping a pregnant woman next to the Gdansk tank. The unauthorized sculpture was quickly removed. After Russia invaded Ukraine, a different artist covered the tank with a large hand-sewn Ukrainian flag to protest what he called the “tyranny” of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In March, as Poland was figuring out a timetable for taking down Soviet monuments, a resident of the northern city of Koszalin took matters into his own hands. He drove an excavator onto a cemetery and toppled the statue of a Soviet soldier being hugged by a girl.
Nawrocki says the official removal of Soviet monuments in Poland is progressing at “a very fast pace, but it is a matter that should have been settled long ago.”
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LARRABEE, Iowa (KCAU) — Multiple people sustained injuries as a structure collapsed in Larrabee.
According to a release from the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, emergency responders received a report of an unfinished building collapse on Tuesday.
The release stated that the building was in the process of being constructed and had collapsed with the construction crew working on it.
One person was flown to a hospital with severe injuries, one was transported by ambulance for minor injuries, and three people were privately taken to receive treatment for minor injuries, according to the release.
The release specified that no names will be released at this time.
Assisting crews included the Larrabee Fire and Rescue, Cherokee Regional Ambulance, Wings Air Rescue, and the Iowa State Patrol. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/building-collapse-sends-5-people-to-hospital-in-siouxland/ | 2022-08-31T18:50:51Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/building-collapse-sends-5-people-to-hospital-in-siouxland/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Bitcoin evangelist Michael Saylor is being sued by the District of Columbia for tax evasion, the DC attorney general reported. His company, Microstrategy, is also being sued for conspiring with him to evade taxes. Shares of the company -- which holds a huge position in bitcoin -- are down 4.5% and at the lowest in six weeks.
"Today, we’re suing Michael Saylor - a billionaire tech executive who has lived in the District for more than a decade but has never paid any DC income taxes - for tax fraud," said DC Attorney General Karl Racine in a tweet.
He noted that it was the first lawsuit brought under whistleblower laws related to misrepresenting their place of residence.
"We’re also suing his company, MicroStrategy, for conspiring to help him evade taxes he legally owes on hundreds of millions of dollars he’s earned while living in DC," Racine said.
So far there's been no response from Saylor but he could be facing an enormous tax bill if he loses this case. | https://www.forexlive.com/Cryptocurrency/michael-saylor-sued-for-tax-evasion-in-washington-dc-20220831/ | 2022-08-31T18:50:56Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/Cryptocurrency/michael-saylor-sued-for-tax-evasion-in-washington-dc-20220831/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The US continues to lead a chart to place a price cap on Russian oil. The Russians are clearly worried because they've moved to supply long-term price contracts with some countries at substantial discounts.
This kind of mechanism has never been tried before so it's tough to model out. Any drop in Russian oil supplied to the market is bearish for oil but the thinking at the moment is that they'll trans ship it and find a way to get it to market. However it could lead to some local price dislocations.
Crude attempted a rebound today and nearly got back to unchanged but it's slumped again in the past two hours to settle down $2.09 to $89.55 and it's continued to slide after settlement. The August low was $85.87 and that's they key level to watch. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/yellen-says-substantial-progress-made-on-g7-russia-oil-price-cap-20220831/ | 2022-08-31T18:50:56Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/yellen-says-substantial-progress-made-on-g7-russia-oil-price-cap-20220831/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The US stocks opened higher, traded negative, recovered back into positive terrritory and is now back in the red. The declines are led by the Dow 30 with Salesforce, Caterpillar and Chevron moving lower the worst performers Crowdstrike which reported better than expected results after the close last night are nevertheless down -5.26% highlighting the risk to even high value, high growth stocks that are off highs but still trade at a premium - especially in a rising rate environment.
Looking at the S&P and Nasdaq indices, both are trading back below the 50% of the move up from the June lows. That is a bearish tilt each
For the S&P that 50% midpoint level comes in at 3981.08. The index currently trades at 3959 down -27 points or -0.68%. Stay below is more bearish.
For the Nasdaq it's 50% midpoint is at 11867.93. It currently trades at 11828.01, down -54 points or -0.46%
The Dow moved below its 50% midpoint yesterday and stayed below it on the run higher near the US open. That midpoint comes in at 31967.44. The high today reached 31066.04. | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/stocks-tilting-back-in-the-red-20220831/ | 2022-08-31T18:51:07Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/stocks-tilting-back-in-the-red-20220831/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Prosecutors are preparing to charge the driver they say hit and killed retired Yakima Valley College nursing director Wendy Baker in June.
Yakima County Prosecuting Attorney Joe Brusic said he met with Sheriff Bob Udell and detectives Tuesday to go over evidence in the case.
“I feel very good that we can file a charge, but we need to go over some things,” Brusic said. “It’s a circumstantial evidence case.”
Brusic said he’s hopeful he can file charges on Wednesday.
Baker was riding west around 10:30 a.m. June 12 in the 11000 block of Summitview Road off the road near the fog line when a GMC Denali pickup truck, which was also heading west, crossed the line and struck her, deputies said.
A witness saw the crash and tried to follow the pickup, but lost sight of it in the 13000 block of Summitview Road, according to a Sheriff’s Office news release.
Baker died from blunt-force trauma to her head and body, Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice said earlier. She was 66.
Following up on numerous tips, deputies found the truck at a construction site in the East Valley area the following Friday, sheriff’s spokesman Casey Schilperoort said.
Baker retired from Yakima Valley College in 2021, where she taught nursing and was interim nursing director at the college since 2019.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 509-574-2500 or Yakima County Crime Stoppers at 800-248-9980. Tips can be submitted online at https://bit.ly/yccrimestoppers. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/prosecutors-preparing-charges-in-hit-and-run-death-of-retired-yvc-instructor-wendy-baker/article_159e4cd0-294e-11ed-b398-2f887074d65c.html | 2022-08-31T18:51:38Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/prosecutors-preparing-charges-in-hit-and-run-death-of-retired-yvc-instructor-wendy-baker/article_159e4cd0-294e-11ed-b398-2f887074d65c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana abortion clinic operators filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block the state’s ban on abortions before it takes effect in about two weeks. .
The lawsuit filed in a Monroe County court claims the ban, which includes limited exceptions, “strips away the fundamental rights of people seeking abortion care” in violation of the Indiana Constitution. It asks for a judge to block the law from going into effect on Sept. 15, arguing the ban “will infringe on Hoosiers’ right to privacy, violate Indiana’s guarantee of equal privileges and immunities, and includes unconstitutionally vague language.”
Indiana’s Republican-dominated Legislature approved the tighter abortion restrictions during a two-week special legislative session that ended Aug. 5, making it the first state to do so since the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated federal abortion protections for abortions by overturning Roe v. Wade in June.
The Indiana law includes exceptions, allowing abortions in cases of rape and incest, before 10 weeks post-fertilization; to protect the life and physical health of the mother; and if a fetus is diagnosed with a lethal anomaly.
The legal question of whether the Indiana Constitution protects abortion rights is unclear, said Ken Falk, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, which filed the lawsuit.
Falk pointed to a 2004 state appeals court decision that said privacy was a core value under the state constitution that extended to all residents, including women seeking an abortion. But the Indiana Supreme Court later upheld a law mandating an 18-hour waiting period before a woman could undergo an abortion while not deciding whether the state constitution included a right to privacy or abortion.
The leader of Indiana’s most prominent anti-abortion group argued the state constitution protects life as among the “inalienable rights.”
“We are confident the state will prevail and pray the new law is not blocked from going into effect on September 15, knowing that any delay will mean the indiscriminate killing of unborn children will continue at abortion clinics across Indiana,” Indiana Right to Life CEO Mike Fichter said in a statement.
Jennifer Drobac, an Indiana University law professor, said she believed the argument that the state constitution prohibits lawmakers from stripping legal privileges from some residents that are available to others is a strong argument against the abortion ban.
“When you look at people who become pregnant, their medical care is being regulated in a way that the medical care of people who do not become pregnant is not being regulated,” she said. “Men, for example, can access the full panoply of available medical resources in a health situation.”
Under new Indiana law, abortions could be performed only in hospitals or outpatient centers owned by hospitals, meaning all abortion clinics would lose their licenses. Any doctors found to have performed an illegal abortion would be stripped of their state medical licenses and could face felony criminal charges punishable by up to six years in prison.
Indiana’s ban followed the political firestorm over a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled to the state from neighboring Ohio to end her pregnancy. The case gained wide attention when an Indianapolis doctor said the child came to Indiana because of Ohio’s “fetal heartbeat” ban.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of abortion-rights supporters including Planned Parenthood, which operates four of Indiana’s seven licensed abortion clinics, along with groups that operate two of the other clinics and a doctor who performs abortions.
It will be heard by a judge in southern Indiana’s Monroe County, which includes the liberal-leaning city of Bloomington and Indiana University’s main campus. All nine of the county’s nine judges are Democrats, while all other counties with abortion clinics have judges who’ve either been elected as Republicans or been appointed by Republican governors.
The ACLU’s Falk said the suit was filed in Monroe County because an abortion clinic is located there but did not respond to a question about whether the group was seeking a friendly judge.
Drobac said she believed filing in the complaint in Bloomington could be where the ban opponents “have the greatest opportunity for success.”
Republican legislative leaders said they believed the abortion restrictions would be upheld by the courts.
“We set out to pass a bill in the special session that would protect life and support mothers and babies, and that’s what we did,” Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray said in a statement. “It was always our intent to draft a bill that could withstand a constitutional challenge, and I hope to see that will be the case.”
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Arleigh Rodgers is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Arleigh Rodgers on Twitter at https://twitter.com/arleighrodgers | https://www.wspa.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-indiana-abortion-clinics-sue-to-block-states-near-total-ban/ | 2022-08-31T18:51:29Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-indiana-abortion-clinics-sue-to-block-states-near-total-ban/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 29 |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana abortion clinic operators filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block the state’s ban on abortions before it takes effect in about two weeks. .
The lawsuit filed in a Monroe County court claims the ban, which includes limited exceptions, “strips away the fundamental rights of people seeking abortion care” in violation of the Indiana Constitution. It asks for a judge to block the law from going into effect on Sept. 15, arguing the ban “will infringe on Hoosiers’ right to privacy, violate Indiana’s guarantee of equal privileges and immunities, and includes unconstitutionally vague language.”
Indiana’s Republican-dominated Legislature approved the tighter abortion restrictions during a two-week special legislative session that ended Aug. 5, making it the first state to do so since the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated federal abortion protections for abortions by overturning Roe v. Wade in June.
The Indiana law includes exceptions, allowing abortions in cases of rape and incest, before 10 weeks post-fertilization; to protect the life and physical health of the mother; and if a fetus is diagnosed with a lethal anomaly.
The legal question of whether the Indiana Constitution protects abortion rights is unclear, said Ken Falk, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, which filed the lawsuit.
Falk pointed to a 2004 state appeals court decision that said privacy was a core value under the state constitution that extended to all residents, including women seeking an abortion. But the Indiana Supreme Court later upheld a law mandating an 18-hour waiting period before a woman could undergo an abortion while not deciding whether the state constitution included a right to privacy or abortion.
The leader of Indiana’s most prominent anti-abortion group argued the state constitution protects life as among the “inalienable rights.”
“We are confident the state will prevail and pray the new law is not blocked from going into effect on September 15, knowing that any delay will mean the indiscriminate killing of unborn children will continue at abortion clinics across Indiana,” Indiana Right to Life CEO Mike Fichter said in a statement.
Jennifer Drobac, an Indiana University law professor, said she believed the argument that the state constitution prohibits lawmakers from stripping legal privileges from some residents that are available to others is a strong argument against the abortion ban.
“When you look at people who become pregnant, their medical care is being regulated in a way that the medical care of people who do not become pregnant is not being regulated,” she said. “Men, for example, can access the full panoply of available medical resources in a health situation.”
Under new Indiana law, abortions could be performed only in hospitals or outpatient centers owned by hospitals, meaning all abortion clinics would lose their licenses. Any doctors found to have performed an illegal abortion would be stripped of their state medical licenses and could face felony criminal charges punishable by up to six years in prison.
Indiana’s ban followed the political firestorm over a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled to the state from neighboring Ohio to end her pregnancy. The case gained wide attention when an Indianapolis doctor said the child came to Indiana because of Ohio’s “fetal heartbeat” ban.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of abortion-rights supporters including Planned Parenthood, which operates four of Indiana’s seven licensed abortion clinics, along with groups that operate two of the other clinics and a doctor who performs abortions.
It will be heard by a judge in southern Indiana’s Monroe County, which includes the liberal-leaning city of Bloomington and Indiana University’s main campus. All nine of the county’s nine judges are Democrats, while all other counties with abortion clinics have judges who’ve either been elected as Republicans or been appointed by Republican governors.
The ACLU’s Falk said the suit was filed in Monroe County because an abortion clinic is located there but did not respond to a question about whether the group was seeking a friendly judge.
Drobac said she believed filing in the complaint in Bloomington could be where the ban opponents “have the greatest opportunity for success.”
Republican legislative leaders said they believed the abortion restrictions would be upheld by the courts.
“We set out to pass a bill in the special session that would protect life and support mothers and babies, and that’s what we did,” Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray said in a statement. “It was always our intent to draft a bill that could withstand a constitutional challenge, and I hope to see that will be the case.”
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Arleigh Rodgers is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Arleigh Rodgers on Twitter at https://twitter.com/arleighrodgers | https://www.wspa.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-indiana-abortion-clinics-sue-to-block-states-near-total-ban/ | 2022-08-31T18:51:29Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-indiana-abortion-clinics-sue-to-block-states-near-total-ban/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 29 |
Police say a reckless driver caused a four-car crash Tuesday on Nob Hill Boulevard in Yakima that left an older man seriously injured.
A 37-year-old man was spotted driving recklessly at 12:50 p.m. on Nob Hill Boulevard near Seventh Avenue. The driver continued at speeds double the speed limit before crashing into another vehicle driven by an 80-year-old man, according to a Yakima Police Department news release.
The 80-year-old man’s vehicle struck two other vehicles as the suspect’s vehicle partially rolled and came to a rest on its side, the release said.
The 80-year-old was taken to Yakima Memorial Hospital with serious injuries and transferred to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, the release said.
Another driver was treated at Memorial for minor injuries.
Police arrested the suspect driver on suspicion of vehicular assault. Intoxicants were not a factor in the crash, the release said.
Anyone with information or video regarding the crash is asked to contact Sgt. Scott Grant at 509-728-6625 or scott.grant@yakimawa.gov. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/two-injured-when-reckless-driver-caused-4-car-pileup-in-yakima/article_6431f3e0-294b-11ed-bc27-1b5843032f15.html | 2022-08-31T18:51:45Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/two-injured-when-reckless-driver-caused-4-car-pileup-in-yakima/article_6431f3e0-294b-11ed-bc27-1b5843032f15.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Washington is home to more than 1,000 wineries and now we can also say we’re home to the best one as well.
USA Today’s 10 Readers Choice Awards recently named Long Shadows Vintners as the best wine tasting room in America.
Hailing from France, Gilles Nicault is the Director of Winemaking for Long Shadows and has been since the tasting room opened in 2003.
“I came in 1994 to Washington State for the wine industry,” Nicault said. “And it was like 75 wineries in the entire state back in 1994. And now fast forward, we have more than a thousand wineries.
Created by Allen Shoup, the former CEO of Chateau Ste. Michelle, Long Shadows pairs some of the biggest names in the world of wine making along with Columbia Valley grapes to create their different varieties of wine.
“I think it's important for us to kind of share with our customers, people that's going to come here, to taste not only our wine but share what Washington state's all about if they don't know it yet,” Nicault said.
Aside from the wine, the tasting room itself is spectacular. Not only does the outdoor seating have stunning views of the rolling hills in the area, but the inside features Chihuly glass art from Dale Chihuly himself.
Long Shadows' Walla Walla tasting room is open seven days a week from 11 a.m. until 5 pm.
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Nope Film Review, My Old School reaction and the best sci-fi films ever made - The Scotsman film podcast
The Scotsman film review show are back as they give their reaction to Jordan Peele and his summer sci-fi blockbuster movie ‘Nope’, while choosing their favourite sci-fi and alien moves of all time.
Join us once again as The Scotman’s film fanatics Graham Falk and Dave Hepburn return after a month away with the latest episode of our film ‘vodcast’ (Not) Everyone’s A Film Critic.
After a month filled with Edinburgh Festival fun, the team finally get back together to pull apart this summer’s biggest blockbusters alongside our topic of the week – which this week features a big, massive deep dive into aliens in Hollywood.
As it so often is, a slow summer has ensued at cinemas across the UK, as the nations soaks up the sun and makes the most of the good weather – HOWEVER – one of the biggest releases decided to launch on the big screen in spite of that and, in true Jordan Peele fashion, it appears to be making quite a splash.
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After winning several awards for his astonishingly good films ‘Get Out’ and ‘Us’, Peele is back with a new concept and a new message with sci-fi horror hit ‘Nope’.
The film centres on two siblings who run a California horse ranch that provides horses for Hollywood as they discover something wonderful – but incredibly sinister - in the skies above. Meanwhile a former child film star that runs a theme park adjacent to them profits on the mysterious, deadly and otherworldly phenomenon.
As ever, the American director poses uncomfortable questions to his audience, as his dedicated fanbase look for answers as to what ‘Nope’ may represent in society.
But – most importantly – did Dave and Graham like the movie, or not? There’s contrasting opinion and plenty of theory poured in for good measures. Why not give us your thoughts in the comments below?
Elsewhere, Dave gives his thoughts on Alan Cummings latest hit, ‘My Old School’. A true story, Cummings play the role of a real-life 30-year-old adult who poses as a 17-year-old school boy in order to reclaim his youth and get a second chance at his dream.
There’s buckets of discussion on Mad God too, which is getting a limited cinematic releases this week.
However, with aliens, science fiction and ‘things in the sky’ top of the agenda, we delve into a topic close to our hearts – aliens, little green men and their role in Hollywood.
We look at which sci-fi/alien flicks had the biggest impact on us growing up, why they are so good and what we learnt from them. Do you agree with our list? Have a watch of this week’s episodes and let us know.
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COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — When the North Idaho State Fair closed its gates Sunday, it was time for Alexcia Jordan and team to take a well-earned rest, as reported by our news partners, the Coeur d'Alene Press.
But it's a short rest, because planning is already underway for next year.
"I'm so proud to be part of a group of people who just want to continually seek to improve," said Jordan, general manager and CEO of the annual event that set an attendance record for its 10-day run from Aug. 18-27.
The North Idaho State Fair saw 168,567 guests come to the Kootenai County Fairgrounds this year, a 9% increase. It also set a single-day record of about 18,000 visitors Saturday.
Jordan said while they were confident of a good year, the numbers were higher than anticipated.
"We didn't expect to see that much in growth," she said.
She attributed their success to the variety of activities, attractions and exhibits the fair offers, along with commitment to maintaining tradition.
The fair marked its 100th year with the theme "Salute to a Century."
"It still holds that rural charm," Jordan said.
The rodeo, as usual, was a fan favorite, and kids and adults enjoyed the rides. The 4-H critters and contests commanded crowds and the concerts did well, despite a heatwave with temperatures in the 90s.
"It just went really smoothly this year," she said.
Jordan and crew huddled Monday to talk about the fair and what they plan to do for an encore next year.
She said they'll stick with the 10-day format that was introduced last year, a change from the usual five days.
She said the additional days allow them to space out crowds so they can enjoy everything at the fair without waiting in long lines.
"We were busy every day, but the only day it felt crowded was the last Saturday," Jordan said.
Next year's fair is already set for Aug. 18-27. The theme hasn't been determined yet, but Jordan and team are working on it.
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