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INDIANAPOLIS — Prosecutors in Indiana announced they had charged a man in connection to a shooting that left one Dutch soldier dead and two others injured in Indianapolis on Saturday.
The Marion County Prosecutor's Office said on Thursday that they charged 22-year-old Shamar Duncan with murder, two counts of attempted murder, and disorderly conduct for his alleged role in the death of 26-year-old Simmie Poetsema and the injuries of two others.
Today, Prosecutor Mears and @IMPDnews announced Shamar Duncan has been charged for his alleged role in the Aug. 27 shooting that resulted in the death of Simmie Poetsema and injured two others. Duncan faces charges of Murder, two counts of Attempted Murder and Disorderly Conduct. pic.twitter.com/qrmzQ8MKqf
— Marion County Prosecutor’s Office (@MCProsecutors) September 1, 2022
"The initial confrontation did not involve any weapons," Prosecutor Ryan Mears said in a statement. "But unfortunately, after that initial confrontation concluded, an individual made the decision, made the choice to retrieve a weapon. And we are standing here with one person who has lost his life."
According to the Associated Press, an arrest affidavit stated that the Dutch soldiers were in Indiana for training at a military camp and were in Indianapolis enjoying a night off when they got into an altercation with Duncan and his friends.
According to the affidavit, witnesses told police that the soldiers tried to defuse the situation, but a brief fight erupted before someone from a passing pickup truck began shooting, the Associated Press reported.
After the shooting, Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren voiced his concern about gun violence in the United States, telling the Associated Press that they "really don’t expect this to happen" and that this was "very, very concerning" for them.
The news outlet reported that a judge ordered Duncan during a court hearing on Thursday to remain jailed without bond.
Deputy Police Chief Kendale Adams told the news outlet that one of the injured soldiers had returned to the Netherlands. The other wounded soldier is expected to return Thursday, Adams said per the Associated Press. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/indiana-man-charged-with-murder-in-fatal-shooting-of-dutch-soldier | 2022-09-01T21:36:03Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/indiana-man-charged-with-murder-in-fatal-shooting-of-dutch-soldier | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Record-breaking summer heat is hitting the U.S. West. It is expected to bring sustained high temperatures through Labor Day weekend by many forecast models as millions are living under heat advisories caused by a growing mega heat wave.
The Weather Prediction Center said temperatures could rise above 110F in some parts of the Southwest "where an excessive heat warning is currently in effect."
Over 55 million people are living under active high-temperature alerts in areas stretching from portions of the Northwest down to Southern California and in swaths of the U.S. that include at least 20 of the most populated cities in the country's West, according to meteorologists at CNN.
The National Weather Service in Los Angeles expects this to be a "prolonged heat event" and urged residents in affected areas to "be prepared."
A weather model shared by the service on Twitter shows an excessive heat forecast expected to extend through Labor Day weekend for their entire Southern California coverage area.
Thanks to our partners at @ReadyLACounty for getting the Heat Risk graphics out.
— NWS Los Angeles (@NWSLosAngeles) August 30, 2022
To find out more about Heat Risk, check out the website:https://t.co/5YfBnhG3CY
This will be a prolonged heat event for the entire area. Be prepared. #CAwx #LAHeat https://t.co/kOKwD7u5gU
Vulnerable populations are of particular worry for emergency services and meteorologists as elderly populations and those without proper air conditioning, or even workers who have to work outside, could experience serious heat illnesses in extended high temperatures.
Heatwaves have impacted multiple parts of the globe this summer. China has been experiencing its worst drought in decades amid a prolonged heatwave in many parts of the country that has caused safety issues for residents and halted agricultural production in many areas.
In the United Kingdom, England has seen multiple hottest summer days on record, according to official numbers out on Thursday, the BBC reported.
According to the country's Met Office, which tracks this data, four of the five hottest summers on record there have happened since 2003. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/mega-heatwave-builds-as-millions-currently-under-high-temperature-alerts-in-the-us-west | 2022-09-01T21:36:09Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/mega-heatwave-builds-as-millions-currently-under-high-temperature-alerts-in-the-us-west | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling nearly 200,000 large SUVs in the U.S. because the heating and cooling fan motors can fail and catch fire.
The recall covers Ford Expeditions and Lincoln Navigators from the 2015 through 2017 model years.
The Dearborn, Michigan, company says in government documents that it has reports of 25 fires caused by the motors, which are behind the glove box. Thirteen fires were limited to the blower motor area, while 12 involved extensive damage to the SUVs. Three fires damaged structures and one damaged another vehicle.
One person reported injuries to their hand and fingers, and all fire reports indicated that the vehicles were running at the time of the incident, Ford said in documents posted Thursday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The company says it’s not telling people to park the SUVs outdoors. It says some customers have reported inoperative fans, burning smells or smoke coming from the vents while the vehicle is on.
Dealers will replace the front blower motor assembly at no cost to owners, who will be notified starting Sept. 12.
It’s the second recent recall for the Expedition and Navigator due to problems that can cause fires.
In July, Ford expanded a May recall to 66,000 of the SUVs from the 2021 model year. The company told owners to park them outdoors due to a series of engine fires that could happen while the ignitions are off. Ford traced the cause to printed circuit boards that are susceptible to an electrical short. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/ford-recalls-nearly-200000-suvs-over-fire-hazard/ | 2022-09-01T21:38:56Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/ford-recalls-nearly-200000-suvs-over-fire-hazard/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Taco Bell employees at one Kansas City restaurant walked off the job Thursday to protest conditions at the store
Shift leader Fran Marion, who has worked at the 8215 Wornall location for a year, says the group chose to strike just before Labor Day to call attention to abusive customers, short staffing, lack of paid sick days, disrespectful management and low wages.
“A job shouldn’t be this difficult to come to and clock in and try to make a wage, not even a living wage,” she said.
Four workers stepped out of the restaurant at 12:30, in the middle of the lunch rush, to a cheering crowd from the workers rights organization Stand Up KC. They taped a sign to the door: “Closed due to STRIKE”!
During the 30-minute protest, supporters in the restaurant’s parking lot had to turn away vehicles who tried to enter.
Marion said the tipping point for her and other employees was an incident two weeks ago where equipment malfunctioned and flooded the floor of the restaurant.
“There was literally standing water throughout the store,” she said.
Marion and other employees tried to close the doors to customers for safety reasons. She said she was later written up for insubordination by her general manager for closing the store without asking first.
KCUR attempted to reach DRG, the company that owns this Taco Bell franchise, for comment, but they did not respond by press time.
Terrence Wise, another shift leader at the store and a member of Stand Up KC, was not working Thursday but attended the rally.
“We wanted something that had nothing to do with money or union rights,” Wise said. “We want respect and that’s what we’ve been dealing with at this Taco Bell: a lot of lack of respect.”
Wise said workers have been belittled by management and customers, and have received racist comments.
Wise, who has worked in fast food for nearly 20 years, said these conditions are not unique to this store but rather are endemic in the industry.
“Those are things we don’t need legislation passed for,” he said. “We want 15 (dollars an hour). We want a union. But most importantly, we wanted to be treated like human beings and we want to be respected on the job.”
Wise also said the rally also urged Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to support legislation similar to one that passed in the California Assembly on Monday, raising the minimum wage to $22 an hour by 2024.
Minimum wage in Missouri currently stands at $11.15.
Parson has asked legislators to pass a $15 minimum wage for state workers, although not private employees. His request stalled in the General Assembly earlier this year.
Thursday’s protest follows in the wake of Starbucks workers voting to unionize at several area locations. Taco Bell employees said they are mulling a similar idea.
Last year, McDonald’s workers in Kansas City and across the country staged a one-day strike to demand higher wages at franchised restaurants.
Wise also said the rally also urged Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to support legislation similar to one that passed in the California State Assembly on Monday, raising the minimum wage to $22 an hour by 2024. Wise hopes California Gov. Gavin Newsom will sign the bill. | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-09-01/taco-bell-staff-walk-out-of-kansas-city-restaurant-we-wanted-to-be-treated-like-human-beings | 2022-09-01T21:39:11Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-09-01/taco-bell-staff-walk-out-of-kansas-city-restaurant-we-wanted-to-be-treated-like-human-beings | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Elections officials across the country are reporting an increase in poll watchers and poll observers in the lead up to the midterms. But what happens when those keeping an eye on the democratic process are trained by groups promoting election disinformation?
A survey of elections directors in North Carolina found violations in 15 counties. Officials there observed poll watchers harassing voters and attempting to enter restricted areas to view confidential voting records, according to the Associated Press.
There were similar reports from Shasta County, California, where during the June primary elections, officials said observers tried to ‘intimidate’ them during the vote count.
And in Texas, the entire Gillespie County elections department resigned before the general election. In her resignation letter, the county’s election administrator cited “threats against election officials” and “dangerous misinformation” as reasons for stepping down from the position.
We speak with elections officials about the role of observers at voting sites, and who’s watching the poll watchers as they show up at polling places.
This conversation is part of our Remaking America collaboration with six public radio stations around the country. Remaking America is funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Labor Day weekend could mean more headaches and frustration for fliers By David Schaper Published September 1, 2022 at 1:20 PM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Airline pilots are warning that travelers may face more chaos this Labor Day weekend. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.klcc.org/2022-09-01/labor-day-weekend-could-mean-more-headaches-and-frustration-for-fliers | 2022-09-01T21:41:34Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/2022-09-01/labor-day-weekend-could-mean-more-headaches-and-frustration-for-fliers | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Millions of Americans live in mobile-home parks because they are the only place they can afford to buy homes. But many are now at the mercy of big companies that own the land underneath those homes.
Copyright 2022 NPR
Millions of Americans live in mobile-home parks because they are the only place they can afford to buy homes. But many are now at the mercy of big companies that own the land underneath those homes.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.klcc.org/2022-09-01/residents-of-mobile-homes-are-often-at-the-mercy-of-big-companies-who-own-their-land | 2022-09-01T21:41:40Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/2022-09-01/residents-of-mobile-homes-are-often-at-the-mercy-of-big-companies-who-own-their-land | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced Tuesday the city of Cottage Grove will receive a $5 million federal grant to revitalize its historic commercial district. The award is through a project of the Economic Development Administration (EDA) and funded by the American Rescue Plan.
The grant funds will be used to upgrade five blocks of Main Street- Cottage Grove, by installing new landscaping, improving utilities and updating accessibility features. The historic downtown is well known. It’s been the location for scenes in movies including Buster Keaton’s silent film, “The General,” and the iconic comedy, Animal House.
The grant received key support from Oregon’s U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley. The $5 million investment will be matched with $1.3 million in local funds and expected to create or retain 60 jobs, according to the city’s estimates. | https://www.klcc.org/news/2022-09-01/cottage-grove-secures-millions-to-revitalize-historic-downtown-district | 2022-09-01T21:41:52Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/news/2022-09-01/cottage-grove-secures-millions-to-revitalize-historic-downtown-district | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Danielle Kurtzleben is a political correspondent assigned to NPR's Washington Desk. She appears on NPR shows, writes for the web, and is a regular on The NPR Politics Podcast. She is covering the 2020 presidential election, with particular focuses on on economic policy and gender politics. | https://www.klcc.org/npr-politics/npr-politics/2022-09-01/as-the-midterms-approach-some-republicans-are-changing-how-they-talk-about-abortion | 2022-09-01T21:41:58Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/npr-politics/npr-politics/2022-09-01/as-the-midterms-approach-some-republicans-are-changing-how-they-talk-about-abortion | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Michelle Baran is the senior travel news editor at AFAR where she oversees breaking news, travel intel, pandemic coverage, airline, cruise, and consumer travel news. Baran joined AFAR in August 2018 after an 11-year run as a senior editor and reporter at leading travel industry newspaper Travel Weekly. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/how-air-travelers-rights-could-soon-significantly-improve | 2022-09-01T21:47:00Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/how-air-travelers-rights-could-soon-significantly-improve | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sky Zone, an indoor trampoline park and entertainment center, hosted its Prince William County location grand opening Aug. 24.
The newest complex is at 14555 Potomac Mills Road in Woodbridge.
Sky Zones feature freestyling jumping, skyslam basketball, ultimate dodgeball, ninja warrior courses, climbing walls and more.
Founded in 2004, the franchise “believes in the power of active play to make us healthier, happier, and more creative,” according to a news release. | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/new-sky-zone-now-open-in-woodbridge/article_734a82aa-2a33-11ed-989f-a7c26fcba049.html | 2022-09-01T21:49:46Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/new-sky-zone-now-open-in-woodbridge/article_734a82aa-2a33-11ed-989f-a7c26fcba049.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“I have been looking for a binder, but I have no clue where to get one? Does anyone know where I could get a reliable binder?” a gender-confused adolescent asked on TrevorSpace, the anonymous online forum for LGBT youth the well-funded and influential Trevor Project hosts.
An adult user replied with a list of brands that sell binders, which are devices worn under the clothes to conceal female breasts, adding, “I really recommend TransTape.”
“If it’s your first time I started with TomboyX compression tops,” another adult wrote.
This is the startling scene Rachel, a Brooklyn mom with a gender-dysphoric child, discovered when she went undercover as a pre-teen in the chat, searching for resources for detransitioners. She found none.
Instead, she opened a “Pandora’s box” of sexually perverse content, aggressive gender-reassignment referrals, adults encouraging minors to hide their transitions from their parents and many troubled kids in need of psychological counseling. She shared screenshots of the chat with National Review.
Rachel says she looked to the Trevor Project in desperation “when I thought my child was going to kill herself.” The organization frequently claims that LGBT youth are more than four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers. It calls itself a refuge for these people with its crisis services, including TrevorLifeline, TrevorText and TrevorChat.
Under the advice of a “highly credentialed” medical and mental-health team, Rachel and her husband decided to socially transition their child a few years ago, she told National Review.
After that, her child was hospitalized three times for self-harm and suicidality, including at least one suicide attempt. In New York, due to a ban on trans-questioning psychotherapy, so-called gender affirmation was the only legal option they could pursue, she said.
They were at their wit’s end, until her spouse sat her down and presented her with a PowerPoint, showing statistics that people who transition are, by a huge factor, much more likely than the general public to commit suicide.
“My jaw hit the floor. I said, ‘Oh my God, we’ve been lied to,’” she says.
Since then, Rachel, a lifelong Democrat and feminist, has been dedicated to exposing the child gender-transition craze, which she argues is driven by “predatory medicine” the government incentivizes.
In TrevorSpace, she got a bird’s-eye view of the progressive nonprofit giant that is claiming to save young lives but is really driving them further into existential rabbit holes, depravity and potential danger, she said.
She documented kids talking about how to buy binders, an undergarment that constricts breasts, behind their parents’ backs. “I know the way people usually do this is by ordering it to a friend’s house or something of the sort, but I don’t have anyone to do that with,” wrote a girl whose account says she’s under 18. “I have money and know where I want to get it from and all that. I just need a means of getting it.”
Another user suggested she have the binder sent to a post office where she could pick it up without her parents’ knowledge. Other users were referred to eBay to purchase a packer, an artificial appendage meant to mimic a penis.
When people sign up for TrevorSpace, they have the option of placing themselves within the age ranges of “under 18” or “18-25.” The community is open to people 13-24, according to the site. There is no system in place to confirm a person’s age, Rebecca says and National Review confirmed. She noticed entries from people claiming to be over 25 too, as well as guest accounts with no age listed.
Other teens, presumably girls transitioning to boys, testified to the effectiveness of Minoxidil, an over-the-counter medication that stimulates facial hair growth. “Can I get and use Minoxidil without my parents knowing?” a girl asked.
The kids Rachel followed on TrevorSpace spanned a diverse spectrum of gender disorientation, some confident in their belief that they are the opposite sex and some just gender curious. But, as Rachel observed, they were all pointed in one direction: gender transition. In a significant number of cases, adults gave minors this validation.
“I still feel more masc and more fem on days, but it doesn’t matter what I’m feeling I will always prefer to be a girl,” one youth wrote. “Does that make me trans or am I still genderfluid? Help I don’t know.”
An adult replied: “If I had to guess based on your post, I’d say it sounds pretty trans.”
The Trevor Project has subforums on “Transitioning,” “Fashion and beauty,” “Dysphoria” and “Gender queer, non-binary, and gender fluid,” but none on detransitioning or desistance — the common phenomenon of children “growing out of” their transgender identity as they age.
One adult posted a message touting previous invasive medical interventions, noting a willingness to pursue nullification surgery, which involves removing all external genitalia from the abdomen to the groin for the purpose of appearing nonbinary. “I am loving my medical transition now, and have discovered FtN/MtN surgeries that I am now considering. I’m glad I took my time in figuring out what felt best for me,” the user wrote.
Rachel then dove into an abyss of concerning sexual conversation. Some transgender-identifying adults confessed in detail their masturbation addictions and experiences with autogynephilia, the propensity of a male to become sexually aroused by the thought of himself as female, as well as autoandrophilia, the propensity of a female to become sexually aroused by the thought of herself as male.
An adult male wrote, “So I woke up this morning with a huge urge to masturbate, even though I knew I couldn’t, and it would hurt me if I did, I went and did it anyway. And it felt awful, the sensations I felt, the kind of orgasm I had, it was all male, and it just completely shattered my womanhood and served as a cruel reminder of the female sensations I can’t hope to feel because of the male body I was born in.”
In some cases, users under 18 spoke with adult users about their sexual preferences, including BDSM, polyamory and others. Users over 18 asked about paraphilia: “What’s the weirdest sexual thing you know?”
People responded with “gokkun” — the act of drinking multiple male ejaculations from a container; “bukkake” — the fetish of being covered with ejaculate; “scat play” — deriving sexual gratification from fantasies involving feces; and “forniphilia” — a form of bondage in which a person’s body is incorporated into furniture for sexual acts.
An 18-25 age user posted: “Can I just say they’re all rough doggystyle??” An under-18 user replied, “I’ve heard doggystyle hurts in a good way, but I wouldn’t know. I will say I’m not going to die a virgin. If I have to pull an Evan Hansen and bang a tree, I will.”
Rachel also ran into references to animal kinks, something that professed nonbinary drag queen Sam Britton, a recent Biden administration hire now nuclear waste deputy at the Department of Energy, has dabbled in.
Britton worked at the Trevor Project for four years, first as head of advocacy and government affairs and then vice president of advocacy and government affairs. He has bragged about participating in kink relationships as a “pup handler” — a person, typically a gay man, who enjoys taking care of other typically gay men who pretend to be dogs.
Alix Aharon, an anti-pornography campaigner and creator of Gender Mapper, which tracks gender-clinic locations across the country, was particularly alarmed that the Trevor Project encourages contact between kids and adult strangers.
“There should never be a situation in which a young girl is talking to a man. What was most disturbing was their forum and their chat service where you can chat to an adult if you’re a child,” said Aharon, who is on the board of the radical feminist Women’s Liberation Front.
Many messages National Review obtained showed users attempting to connect privately, on apps such as Discord, an instant-messaging social platform.
The Trevor Project did not respond to request for comment.
Blinded by its mission to affirm transgender-identifying youth, the Trevor Project ignores the underlying issues turning children, especially girls, to its offerings, Aharon said. For girls, “we call it the trifecta: eating disorder, mental illness and early exposure to porn,” she says. Instead of targeting those root causes, however, the organization leads youth deeper into delusion that they can become what they innately are not, she suggests.
In Republican-dominated states, the Trevor Project has fought to oppose bills outlawing reconstructive surgery and hormone therapy for children, as well as legislation barring males from competing in women’s sports.
The Trevor Project has also infiltrated classrooms nationwide. Steadily, it has increased its involvement in K-12 education, boasting that it has trained more than 20,000 educators “to create safe spaces in schools.”
And during the COVID-19 outbreak, many more youths found an outlet there. During the pandemic’s peak, between February and March 2020, TrevorSpace experienced a 40% percent surge in new registered users. By April, new registrations were up 139% compared with February.
Between August 2019 and July 2020, the Trevor Project added $35 million to its coffers, thanks to the largesse of many household-name brands. Rainbow-tier sponsors, which gave $1 million or more, include Google, Lululemon, Abercrombie and Fitch, Puma and Macy’s. Premier-tier sponsors, who gave $500,000 or more, include Proctor and Gamble, Harry’s, AT&T and Pinterest. Platinum-tier sponsors, who gave $250,000 or more, include Coca-Cola, Chipotle, Wells Fargo and YouTube.
There are dozens more gold-, silver-, bronze- and chrome-tier corporate donors, including State Farm, Aetna, Bank of America, FedEx, the Walt Disney Company, American Express and Best Buy.
From National Review. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/mom-discovers-depravity-in-trevor-projects-trans-chat-room/ | 2022-09-01T21:52:21Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/mom-discovers-depravity-in-trevor-projects-trans-chat-room/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
High School Football: Week 2 Scoreboard
There was plenty of action in the opening week of the high school football season.
But it's still too early to tell where each team across the state of Michigan will end up by the end of the regular season. The second week will provide more clarity as some teams look to continue strong starts while others look to prove themselves coming off a loss.
Like in Week 1, the schedule will be divided. The games will be split between Thursday and Friday night ahead of the Labor Day weekend.
We'll be keeping track of all of the action involving Monroe County Region teams. Check back to this page often to get the most up-to-date scores throughout the night.
WEEK 2 PRIMER
WEEK 1 REVIEW
TODAY'S GAMES
Erie Mason (2-0) d. Detroit Communications and Media Arts (0-2), forfeit
Flat Rock (1-0) at Airport (1-0), 7 p.m.
Livonia Clarenceville (1-0) at Dundee (1-0), 7 p.m.
Detroit Edsel Ford (0-1) at Gibraltar Carlson (1-0), 7 p.m.
Jefferson (1-0) at Riverview (1-0), 7 p.m.
Milan (1-0) at New Boston Huron (0-1), 7 p.m.
SMCC (0-1) at Grosse Ile (1-0), 7 p.m.
Fowler (1-0) at Summerfield (1-0), 7 p.m.
Whiteford (1-0) at Ida (0-2), 7 p.m.
FRIDAY'S GAMES
Monroe (0-1) at Ypsilanti Lincoln (1-0), 7 p.m.
Ann Arbor Pioneer (0-1) at Bedford (1-0), 7 p.m. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/09/01/high-school-football-week-2-scoreboard/65468304007/ | 2022-09-01T21:54:44Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/09/01/high-school-football-week-2-scoreboard/65468304007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BALTIMORE (CBS) - The two candidates vying to be Maryland's next governor have agreed to face off in a televised debate.
Democratic nominee Wes Moore and Republican nominee Dan Cox will meet on a stage hosted by Maryland Public Television on Oct. 12.
Moore took the crowded Democratic primary by leading former U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez by about 10 points and Comptroller Peter Franchot by about 17 points.
An author, military veteran, Rhodes Scholar and nonprofit CEO, Moore first gained recognition for his 2010 bestselling memoir, "The Other Wes Moore."
In the GOP primary, Cox, who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, defeated Kelly Schulz, who was endorsed by popular Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, who is term-limited.
Cox, an election denier who has taken a series of hard-line conservative positions, faces disdain from fellow Republican Gov. Hogan.
Hogan, who has called Cox 'a nutjob' said he has 'no chance' at becoming the governor shortly after Cox's nomination.
"I am glad Wes Moore has finally accepted an invitation to debate with me," Cox said in a statement. "So far, he has refused or declined to respond to several requests, including those from Morgan State University and the Maryland Federation of NARFE."
Moore has cited an unwillingness to platform Cox as a reason for declining to debate him. But now he says he sees it as an opportunity to contrast them as candidates.
"I look forward to the opportunity this October to contrast my vision and values with Dan Cox's far-right agenda," said Wes Moore. "The stakes of this election could not be more clear. If Dan Cox wins, he will ban abortion, undermine our free and fair election system, and defund our public schools."
Moore holds a big fundraising advantage over Cox so far in the governor's race — with more than 10 times the cash on hand when money raised by their running mates is added to the amounts they have raised, according to the latest campaign finance reports. | https://www.wboc.com/news/md-gubernatorial-candidates-moore-cox-to-face-off-in-televised-debate/article_fb001e78-2a22-11ed-a654-0bb079e08ca1.html | 2022-09-01T21:54:44Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/md-gubernatorial-candidates-moore-cox-to-face-off-in-televised-debate/article_fb001e78-2a22-11ed-a654-0bb079e08ca1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WESTOVER, Md. - A Somerset Intermediate School student was charged after texting a bomb threat against the school on Friday morning.
The Somerset County Sheriff's Office said that at around 7:24 a.m., deputies responded to the school, located in Westover, in response to a bomb threat delivered to the Somerset County Emergency Services via text messages to 911.
Deputies were on the scene minutes later and, in cooperation with the school administration, immediately initiated the evacuation of students, staff, and faculty. All students and staff were evacuated from the school by 7:45 a.m.
Somerset County sheriff’s personnel and K-9 units (Explosive Detection Canines) from the Maryland State Police and Berlin Police Department worked further to secure and search the school. The scene was cleared at around 9:30 a.m. by police, and no explosive devices or suspicious materials were found.
Somerset County sheriff’s detectives arrested one of the school's students in connection with the bomb threat approximately 40 minutes after the initial call. Several criminal charges were filed against student, who was also referred to the Department of Juvenile Justice. | https://www.wboc.com/news/somerset-intermediate-school-student-charged-after-bomb-threat/article_1024f11a-2a2e-11ed-b294-871e60d56a76.html | 2022-09-01T21:54:51Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/somerset-intermediate-school-student-charged-after-bomb-threat/article_1024f11a-2a2e-11ed-b294-871e60d56a76.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Forecast updated on Thursday, September 1, 2022, at 4:00 PM by WBOC Meteorologist Dan Satterfield (AMS-CBM).
DELMARVA FORECAST
Tonight:Clear and cooler with lower humidity. Low 64°. Wind: Light.
Friday: Sunny and pleasantly warm with low humidity. High 87° inland with temps. near 80° on the beaches. Wind: NE 6-12 mph. Winds NE 7-13 mph PM on the beaches PM.
Friday Night: Clear and pleasant. Low 65°. Wind: E 0-6 mph.
Saturday: Sunny and warm, but not that humid. High 86-87° inland with temps. near 81° on the beaches. Wind: NE 2-6 mph. Winds NE 5-10 mph PM on the beaches PM.
Forecast Discussion:
Look for clear skies and a slightly cooler night across the area tonight as a dry airmass settles over the region. Morning lows will reach the mid 60's at sunrise with a light west wind. Meteorological fall began at Midnight.
Friday will be sunny and it will be warm with lower humidity continuing. Look for temps. to reach near 87 degrees in the afternoon, but dew points will stay in the upper 50's to low 60's through the afternoon. Winds will be from the NE at 5-12 mph by afternoon.
Saturday will be sunny, and a little more humid as well. Afternoon temps. will be around 86-87 degrees with sunshine. A light NE wind will keep the beaches in the low 80's to upper 70's. An isolated shower is possible, but the rain chance is below 10%.
In the long-range, Sunday will be warmer with highs in the upper 80's and rising humidity. It will be a balmy afternoon with perhaps an isolated shower. Monday will be warm and humid with scattered thundershowers ahead of a weak cool front. Shower and clouds will linger into Tuesday with temps. in the mid 80's during the afternoon hours. Look for clouds and sun Wednesday and Thursday with temps. in the mid 80's.
The average high for today is 83 degrees with an average low of 64 degrees. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/warm-sunshine/article_f99e708e-2a2c-11ed-9c60-03a5b491d04c.html | 2022-09-01T21:55:03Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/warm-sunshine/article_f99e708e-2a2c-11ed-9c60-03a5b491d04c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ocimum gratissimum, also referred to as scent leaf, is a very medicinal leaf. It is an African leaf that is native to some parts of Africa and Asia. It is majorly used as a culinary herb because of its medical benefits, aside from its nice smell. It is known as ‘efinrin’ in Yoruba, ‘nchanwu’ in Igbo and ‘daidoya’ in Hausa.
Scent leaf is known for its strong aromatic herbal benefit to the body. It can be boiled, blended, and cooked as a vegetable stew or as a spice. It contains vital substances that are of great benefit to the body. It contains vitamin A, carbon, iron, phosphorus, and calcium.
Due to its power to cure illnesses, it is usually referred to as the fever leaf. Scent leaves have multipurpose uses. It can be used as a local ingredient to cook pepper soup, yam porridge, plantain porridge, jollof rice, beans, ukwa, ogbono soup or Egusi soup.
Scent leaf can also be a vegetable spice that adds to every meal a unique taste and aroma. It has great health benefits you might need to know about. It is not usually cultivated, especially before you can have it around. It is usually found around homes due to its uniqueness.
So just in case you find one growing around you, be sure that you have a great plant that can be of great medical benefit to you. Scent leaf has the following medicinal uses:
1. It fights bad breath
Research has it that chewing the stem of the scent leaf fights bad breath. Scent leaf kills bacteria in the mouth which eliminates bad breath. It is also good for your teeth. Fighting the bacteria in your mouth prevents mouth decay.
2. It prevents malaria or fever
As it is fondly called ‘fever leaf’, it is a potent treatment for malaria in Nigeria, especially when mixed with bitter leaf. You can boil, squeeze or smear it to drink in order to prevent sickness. It has been proven that people who take this often as a drink do not get sick easily. It builds a strong defence against malaria or fever.
3. It stops stomach ache, dysentery, diarrhea
Scent leaf is a herbal plant that calms the bowels. It also helps evacuate the bowels of any unwanted visitors that can be found in the body. By doing this, it eases stomach aches, stops dysentery, cholera, diarrhea, and other stomach discomforts.
4. It aids digestion of food
Cooking scent leaf as a vegetable soup, adding it to your food as a spice or boiling it as a tea helps aid proper digestion of food. Proper digestion of food reduces bloating.
5. It aids in the production of milk in the breast
Scent leaf is also medicinal for breastfeeding mothers. It helps with the production of milk in the breast.
6. It lowers blood sugar level
A lot of medicinal benefits can be found in scent leaves. It contains calcium and magnesium, which help to reduce the blood sugar level. Scent leaf protects the islets that produce insulin for the body. It also helps the heart function properly by eliminating unnecessary and harmful cholesterol from the body.
7. It can be used as a mosquito repellant
Do you know that having this plant around scares off mosquitoes? To reduce the population of mosquitoes and flies in your environment, you might just need to pluck the leaves and place them in strategic areas.
8. It cures colds and catarrh
Scent leaf is very medicinal for cold and catarrh. This is why people who have cold attacks request pepper soup with scent leaf. It clears nasal congestion easily.
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Woodbridge couple identified in apparent murder-suicide
WOODBRIDGE – Police identified the two people who died Wednesday at a home in the Fords section as a husband who apparently shot his wife before turning the gun on himself.
Lynn Jasper, 69, was identified as the woman found on the front lawn of her Soren Street home, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Woodbridge Police Director Robert Hubner. The body of her husband, James Jasper, 66, was found inside the home, authorities said.
Woodbridge police responded around 4:37 p.m. Wednesday to a 911 call reporting an unresponsive woman on the front lawn of a home. Arriving officers located a woman, later identified as Lynn Jasper, who had multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
Woodbridge police, along with multiple other law enforcement agencies, entered the house where James Jasper was found dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.
The case is being investigated as a murder-suicide, authorities said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Woodbridge Detective Perry Penna at 732-602-7326 or Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office Detective Ryan Tighe at 732-745-4335.
Email: srussell@gannettnj.com
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Big Central Conference football scoreboard, complete coverage: Week 1
Week zero is in the books with 23 of the Big Central Conference’s 59 teams having gotten underway. The first full slate of the season comes this weekend and we’ve got you covered.
A full schedule of games can be found below. Final scores of those contests, as well as links to stories and other coverage, will be updated on this page throughout the weekend.
MyCentralJersey.com's team of photographers and reporters will be staffing multiple games this weekend and providing complete coverage of all this weekend's action.
Week 1 live coverage plan:
THURSDAY, SEPT. 1
♦ Beat writer Andy Mendlowitz has coverage of Thursday night’s South Brunswick at North Brunswick game. Follow him on Twitter @Andy_Mendlowitz for live updates
♦ Reporter Harry Frezza will provide complete coverage of reigning state champ Hillsborough’s opener against East Brunswick
FRIDAY, SEPT. 2
♦ Reporter Josh Rosenfeld has our Game of the Week, as Philipsburg comes east to take on Sayreville, as two of the Top 5 teams in the BCC get together. He’s got live updates on Twitter @JoshPRosenfeld.
♦ Beat writer Simeon Pincus is headed to Union, as the Farmers welcome in Bridgewater-Raritan. Follow him on Twitter @SimeonPincus for live updates
♦ Reporter Harry Frezza heads to Bernardsville, as the Mountaineers take on Hillside. He has live updates on Twitter @TheFrez56
♦ Beat writer Andy Mendlowitz goes to Metuchen to cover St, Joseph’s opener against New Brunswick. Twitter updates @Andy_Mendlowitz
SATURDAY, AUG. 27
♦ Beat writer Simeon Pincus has coverage of Saturday’s Mastery Charter at Somerville game. Follow him on Twitter @SimeonPincus for live updates
Also, correspondent Marcus Borden will provide live updates, in-game video highlights and postgame interviews from Thursday's South Brunswick at New Brunswick game, Friday’s Phillipsburg at Sayreville meeting, and Saturday's New Brunswick at St. Joseph game. Follow him on Twitter @bordenfb4ever
In addition, our staff will provide full write-ups of every other game in the Big Central Conference and our local independent teams in our weekly roundup
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ADDITIONAL COVERAGE
For insight and analysis into this week’s contests, check out our picks column from Courier News football beat writer Simeon Pincus and Home News Tribune football beat writer Andy Mendlowitz.
Check it out:Big Central Conference preseason Top 15
Stay with MyCentralJersey.com throughout the year for the most comprehensive coverage of the Big Central Football Conference.
Season preview: A collection of links to the entire 2022 Big Central Conference and local football preview package
WEEK 1 SCHEDULE AND SCOREBOARD
Thursday, Sept. 1
Governor Livingston at A.L. Johnson, 6 p.m.
Pingry at Dover, 6 p.m.
Brearley at Manville, 7 p.m.
East Brunswick at Hillsborough, 7 p.m.
Monroe at Ridge, 7 p.m.
South Brunswick at North Brunswick, 7 p.m.
St. Thomas Aquinas at New Providence, 7 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 2
Delaware Valley at Roselle, 6 p.m.
Dunellen at Dayton, 6 p.m.
Hunterdon Central at Piscataway, 6 p.m.
Linden at Rahway, 6 p.m.
Perth Amboy at Carteret, 6 p.m.
Scotch Plains-Fanwood at Colonia, 6 p.m.
Summit at Woodbridge, 6 p.m.
Bound Brook at Middlesex, 7 p.m.
Bridgewater-Raritan at Union, 7 p.m.
Hillside at Bernards, 7 p.m.
Immaculata at Manheim Central, 7 p.m.
J.F. Kennedy at South Plainfield, 7 p.m.
J.P. Stevens at Edison, 7 p.m.
Montgomery at Franklin, 7 p.m.
North Hunterdon at Cranford, 7 p.m.
Phillipsburg at Sayreville, 7 p.m.
Plainfield at Elizabeth, 7 p.m.
Roselle Park at South Hunterdon, 7 p.m.
Somerville at Old Bridge, 7 p.m.
Tenafly at Highland Park, 7 p.m.
Voorhees at North Plainfield, 7 p.m.
Westfield at Watchung Hills, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 3
Belvidere at Spotswood, 1 p.m.
South River at Metuchen, 1 p.m.
New Brunswick at St. Joseph-Metuchen, 1 p.m. | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/01/big-central-conference-scoreboard-week-one/65462689007/ | 2022-09-01T21:57:19Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/01/big-central-conference-scoreboard-week-one/65462689007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TSX.V: DME
U.S. OTC: DMEHF
Frankfurt: QM01
VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - DESERT MOUNTAIN ENERGY CORP. (the "Company") (TSXV: DME) (OTC: DMEHF) (Frankfurt: QM01) is pleased to announce that it is proceeding with a non-brokered private placement offering to raise up to CAD $5.98 Million. Under the terms of the private placement, the Company will offer for sale up to 2.3 million Units (the "Units") at CAD $2.60 per Unit.
Each Unit will consist of one common share of the Company and one share purchase warrant (the "Warrants"), with each whole Warrant allowing the subscriber to purchase one additional share of the Company for a period of three years from the date of the closing at a price of CAD $3.50 per share. The expiry of the Warrants may be accelerated at the election of the Company by written notice if the closing price for the common shares on the TSX Venture Exchange shall be equal to or greater than CAD $7.00 per share for a minimum of ten consecutive trading days. Finder's fees are payable. Proceeds from the private placement will be utilized for working capital and general corporate purposes.
The Units will be subject to a 4-month hold period. The private placement is subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
Desert Mountain Energy Corp. is a publicly traded resource company primarily focused on exploration, development and production of helium, hydrogen and noble gases. The Company is primarily looking for elements deemed critical to the renewable energy and high technology industries.
We seek safe harbor
"Robert Rohlfing"
Robert Rohlfing
Exec Chairman & CEO
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in polices of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. The statements made in this press release may contain certain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual events or results may differ from the Company's expectations.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Such forward looking statements and information herein include but are not limited to statements regarding the Company's anticipated performance in the future the planned exploration activities, receipt of positive results from drilling, the completion of further drilling and exploration work, and the timing and results of various activities.
Forward-looking statements or information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company and its operations to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such statements. Such factors include, among others, changes in national and local governments, legislation, taxation, controls, regulations and political or economic developments in Canada and the United States; financial risks due to helium prices, operating or technical difficulties in exploration and development activities; risks and hazards and the speculative nature of resource exploration and related development; risks in obtaining necessary licenses and permits, and challenges to the Company's title to properties.
Forward-looking statements are based on assumptions management believes to be reasonable, including but not limited to the continued operation of the Company's exploration operations, no material adverse change in the market price of commodities, and such other assumptions and factors as set out herein. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements or information, there may be other factors that cause results to be materially different from those anticipated, described, estimated, assessed or intended. There can be no assurance that any forward-looking statements or information will prove to be accurate as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements or information. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information. The Company does not intend to, and nor does not assume any obligation to update such forward-looking statements or information, other than as required by applicable law.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired New York Police Department officer was sentenced on Thursday to a record-setting 10 years in prison for attacking the U.S. Capitol and using a metal flagpole to assault one of the police officers trying to hold off a mob of Donald Trump supporters.
Thomas Webster's prison sentence is the longest so far among roughly 250 people who have been punished for their conduct during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021. The previous longest was shared by two other rioters, who were sentenced separately to seven years and three months in prison.
Webster, a 20-year NYPD veteran, was the first Capitol riot defendant to be tried on an assault charge and the first to present a self-defense argument. A jury rejected Webster's claim that he was defending himself when he tackled Metropolitan Police Department officer Noah Rathbun and grabbed his gas mask outside the Capitol on Jan. 6.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Webster, 56, to 10 years in prison plus three years of supervised release. He allowed Webster to report to prison at a date to be determined instead of immediately ordering him into custody.
“Mr. Webster, I don't think you're a bad person,” the judge said. “I think you were caught up in a moment. But as you know, even getting caught up in a moment has consequences."
Webster turned to apologize to Rathbun, who was in the courtroom but didn’t address the judge. Webster said he wishes he had never come to Washington, D.C.
“I wish the horrible events of that day had never happened,” he told the judge.
The judge said Rathbun wasn't Webster's only victim on Jan. 6.
“The other victim was democracy, and that is not something that can be taken lightly,” Mehta added.
Federal prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of 17 years and six months. The court’s probation department had recommended a 10-year prison sentence. Mehta wasn't bound by the recommendations.
In a court filing, prosecutors accused Webster of “disgracing a democracy that he once fought honorably to protect and serve.” Webster led the charge against police barricades at the Capitol’s Lower West Plaza, prosecutors said. They compared the attack to a medieval battle, with rioters pelting officers with makeshift projectiles and engaging in hand-to-hand combat.
“Nothing can explain or justify Mr. Webster's rage. Nothing can explain or justify his violence,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Hava Mirell said Thursday.
Defense attorney James Monroe said in a court filing that the mob was “guided by unscrupulous politicians" and others promoting the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from the Republican incumbent. He questioned why prosecutors argued that Webster didn't deserve leniency for his 25 years of service to his country and New York City.
“That is not how we measure justice. That is revenge,” Monroe said.
In May, jurors deliberated for less than three hours before they convicted Webster of all six counts in his indictment, including a charge that he assaulted Rathbun with a dangerous weapon, the flagpole.
Also Thursday, a New Jersey man pleaded guilty to using pepper spray on police officers, including one who later died. Officer Brian Sicknick suffered a stroke the day after the riot and died of natural causes. He and other officers were standing guard behind metal bicycle racks as the mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.
Julian Khater, 33, pleaded guilty to two counts of assaulting or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon. He could face up to 20 years in prison, though will likely face a sentence ranging from about 6 1/2 to 8 years at a hearing set for December.
The case against Khater and a second man have been among the more notable brought by the Justice Department. George Pierre Tanios brought the pepper spray in a backpack. Tanios previously pleaded guilty and is also set to be sentenced in December.
Webster had testified at trial that he was trying to protect himself from a “rogue cop” who punched him in the face. He also accused Rathbun of instigating the confrontation.
Rathbun testified that he didn’t punch or pick a fight with Webster. Rathbun said he was trying to move Webster back from a security perimeter that he and other officers were struggling to maintain.
Rathbun’s body camera captured Webster shouting profanities and insults before they made any physical contact. The video shows that Webster slammed one of the bike racks at Rathbun before the officer reached out with an open left hand and struck the right side of Webster’s face.
After Rathbun struck his face, Webster swung a metal flag pole at the officer in a downward chopping motion, striking a bike rack. Rathbun grabbed the broken pole from Webster, who charged at the officer, tackled him to the ground and grabbed his gas mask, choking him by the chin strap.
Webster drove alone to Washington, D.C., from his home near Goshen, New York, on the eve of the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally, where Trump addressed thousands of supporters. Webster was wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a Marine Corps flag on a metal pole when he joined the mob that stormed the Capitol.
Webster said he went to the Capitol to “petition” lawmakers to “relook” at the results of the 2020 presidential election. But he testified that he didn’t intend to interfere with Congress’ joint session to certify President Joe Biden 's victory.
Webster retired from the NYPD in 2011 after 20 years of service, which included a stint on then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s private security detail. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1985 to 1989 before joining the NYPD in 1991.
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Associated Press writer Lindsay Whitehurst contributed to this report. | https://www.wtxl.com/media/v/content/62ca153f4ecf3b7e2f3605c5b799582f | 2022-09-01T21:58:38Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/media/v/content/62ca153f4ecf3b7e2f3605c5b799582f | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee seeking financial records from former President Donald Trump has reached an agreement that ends litigation on the matter and requires his accounting firm to turn over certain records to the panel.
The committee's leader, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, announced the settlement Thursday. It follows a July decision by the federal appeals court in Washington that narrowed what records Congress is entitled to obtain.
The long-running case began began in April 2019 when the House Committee on Oversight and Reform subpoenaed a wealth of records from Trump’s then-accounting firm, Mazars USA. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/house-committee-reaches-deal-to-get-trump-financial-records | 2022-09-01T21:58:44Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/house-committee-reaches-deal-to-get-trump-financial-records | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee seeking financial records from former President Donald Trump has reached an agreement that ends litigation on the matter and requires his accounting firm to turn over certain records to the panel.
The committee's leader, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, announced the settlement Thursday. It follows a July decision by the federal appeals court in Washington that narrowed what records Congress is entitled to obtain.
The long-running case began began in April 2019 when the House Committee on Oversight and Reform subpoenaed a wealth of records from Trump’s then-accounting firm, Mazars USA. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/house-committee-reaches-deal-to-get-trump-financial-records | 2022-09-01T21:58:44Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/house-committee-reaches-deal-to-get-trump-financial-records | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Siberian businessman that bought Russia's McDonald's locations as the Western company pulled out of the country amid its ongoing invasion of Ukraine offered to buy a packaging company from Finland, signaling a trend of flipping Western companies into Russian-owned enterprises.
Russia's Alexander Govor offered $151 million to buy the Finnish packaging company business Huhtamaki, Reuters reported.
Govor said earlier he paid a "symbolic" amount of money for McDonald's Corp restaurants in Russia in June and then relaunched the restaurants renaming them Vkusno & tochka, which translates to "Tasty and that's it" in Russian.
He will buy Huhtamaki's Russian businesses using a loan from state bank Sberbank along with a Cyprus-registered company called Espentina Limited, according to Reuters, citing documents for the closing.
Huhtamaki has been operating in Russia since 1993 and produces paper and plastic cups, along with lids and food containers. The company's customers have included Yum Brands' KFC and Restaurant Brands International Inc's Burger King and Nestle, and IKEA. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/owner-of-former-russian-mcdonalds-stores-to-buy-another-western-firm-signaling-new-business-trend | 2022-09-01T21:59:03Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/owner-of-former-russian-mcdonalds-stores-to-buy-another-western-firm-signaling-new-business-trend | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A federal judge handed down the longest sentence yet to a person connected to the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol.
According to NBC News, Thomas Webster was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday.
Webster, a retired New York City police officer, was charged with numerous felonies including assaulting an officer.
Prosecutors said Webster attacked an officer with a metal flagpole, tackled him and tried to remove his face shield and gas mask on Jan. 6, 2021.
He was found guilty on all charges in May 2022.
More than 850 people were arrested following the attack on the Capitol. The DOJ says 260 individuals are charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/retired-nypd-officer-gets-longest-sentence-yet-in-capitol-attack | 2022-09-01T21:59:09Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/retired-nypd-officer-gets-longest-sentence-yet-in-capitol-attack | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Avalara, Inc. (NYSE: AVLR)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Avalara, Inc. (NYSE: AVLR), in connection with the proposed acquisition of AVLR by Vista Equity Partners. Under the terms of the merger agreement, AVLR shareholders will receive $93.50 in cash for each share of AVLR common stock owned. If you own AVLR shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/avlr
CarLotz, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOTZ)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of CarLotz, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOTZ), in connection with the proposed merger of LOTZ with Shift Technologies, Inc. ("Shift"). Pursuant to the merger agreement, LOTZ shareholders will receive 0.692158 shares of Shift common stock for each share of LOTZ common stock. If you own LOTZ shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/lotz
Gemini Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMTX)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Gemini Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMTX), in connection with the proposed merger of GMTX with Disc Medicine, Inc. ("Disc"). Pursuant to the merger agreement, GMTX shareholders are expected to own approximately 28% of the combined company and Disc shareholders are expected to own approximately 72% of the combined company. Prior to the closing of the proposed merger, GMTX shareholders will be issued contingent value rights ("CVR's) representing the right to receive certain payments from proceeds received by the combined company, if any, related to pre-transaction legacy assets during the period ending one year following the closing of the merger. If you own GMTX shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/gmtx
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAWW)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAWW), in connection with the proposed acquisition of AAWW by a consortium of investors led by Apollo Global Management Inc. Pursuant to the merger agreement, AAWW shareholders will receive $102.50 in cash for each share of AAWW common stock owned. If you own AAWW shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/aaww
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Virtual fitness challenge to inspire thousands to holoholo (go out) while benefiting the nonprofit Friends of Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge
HONOLULU, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Calling all runners, joggers and walkers to the starting line! Beginning today, athletes of all levels can sign up for the third annual Hawaiian Airlines Holoholo Challenge. The Hawaiʻi inspired fitness experience runs throughout October and invites participants worldwide to track their progress with virtual routes inspired by scenic roads that wind through Hawaiʻi Island – also known as the Big Island.
"Each year, the Holoholo Challenge has been a fun way for Hawaiʻi lovers to commit to their personal wellbeing while virtually exploring the Hawaiian Islands – no matter where they are in the world," said Rob Sorensen, vice president of marketing at Hawaiian Airlines. "The Big Island is considered a world-class destination for endurance fitness, making it the perfect place for Holoholo athletes to get inspired and go BIG with their challenges."
Participants can take on one of two virtual courses: a solo 50-mile run/walk on Saddle Road, the high-elevation highway that stretches from Hilo to Waimea, passing between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa volcanoes, or a 125-mile solo run/walk or team relay across the southern section of Hawai'i Belt Road, starting in the rainforests of Hilo, through Kaʻū, and ending in the lava fields of Kona. Holoholo Challengers will also be encouraged to donate to Friends of Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge, a nonprofit working to protect a 32,830-acre parcel on the Island of Hawaiʻi that is home to 29 critically endangered species including seven birds, one insect, one mammal and 20 plants found nowhere else in the world.
"The Holoholo Challenge continues to expose Hawaiʻi nonprofits to new audiences and bring awareness to their important role in sustaining our islands' environment, culture and communities. We are inspired by the Friends of Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge and excited to support their work," added Debbie Nakanelua-Richards, director of community and cultural relations at Hawaiian Airlines.
Those embarking on this year's month-long challenge can stay motivated by creating a team, printing a bib to add to their race memorabilia, challenging friends or working out to Spotify playlists curated by Hawaiʻi's hometown airline. Registrants can also learn about Hawaiʻi Island's rich culture, history and unique geography on the Holoholo Challenge website, sign up for regular emails notifying them of their progress along the digital route, and join the popular Holoholo Challenge community on Facebook. Participants posting about their journey on social media can also use #HoloholoChallenge for a chance to be featured on Hawaiian Airlines' channels.
Finishers of the challenge will receive a collectible Hawaiʻi Island Holoholo Challenge medal, a choice of a limited-edition apparel item and an exclusive postcard map designed by POW! WOW! Hawaii Artist Aaron Kai. Those who refer friends to join the Holoholo Challenge can earn up to 40,000 bonus HawaiianMiles. HawaiianMiles members and Hawaiian Airlines® Bank of Hawaii World Elite Mastercard® cardholders will receive 20% off registration. Cardholders can also earn three HawaiianMiles for every dollar spent during sign-up.
Hawaiian introduced the Holoholo Challenge in October 2020 to foster wellness and connection amid times of heightened isolation due to COVID-19 restrictions. The virtual race debuted with two Oʻahu courses and attracted nearly 12,000 participants from Hawaiʻi and the U.S. mainland who completed approximately 852,700 miles. In 2021, the carrier introduced four new Maui routes and brought in 8,333 participants who completed nearly 595,000 miles. Since the Holoholo Challenge's inception, participants have raised nearly $120,000 for nonprofits in Hawaiʻi.
To learn more, visit HoloholoChallenge.com.
About Hawaiian Airlines
Hawaiian® has led all U.S. carriers in on-time performance for each of the past 18 years (2004-2021) as reported by the U.S. Department of Transportation and consumer surveys by Condé Nast Traveler and TripAdvisor have placed Hawaiian among the top of all domestic airlines serving Hawaiʻi. In 2022, the carrier topped Travel + Leisure's 2022 World's Best list as the No. 1 U.S. airline and was named Hawaiʻi's best employer by Forbes.
Now in its 93rd year of continuous service, Hawaiian is Hawaiʻi's biggest and longest-serving airline. Hawaiian offers approximately 130 daily flights within the Hawaiian Islands, daily nonstop flights between Hawaiʻi and 16 U.S. gateway cities – more than any other airline – as well as service connecting Honolulu and American Samoa, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and Tahiti.
The airline is committed to connecting people with aloha by offering complimentary meals for all guests on transpacific routes and the convenience of no change fees on Main Cabin and Premium Cabin seats. HawaiianMiles members also enjoy flexibility with miles that never expire. As Hawai'i's hometown airline, Hawaiian encourages guests to Travel Pono and experience the islands safely and respectfully.
Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. is a subsidiary of Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HA). Additional information is available at HawaiianAirlines.com. Follow Hawaiian's Twitter updates (@HawaiianAir), become a fan on Facebook (Hawaiian Airlines), and follow us on Instagram (hawaiianairlines). For career postings and updates, follow Hawaiian's LinkedIn page.
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New York unveils new requirements, sensitive place restrictions on guns in public. The rules, which went into effect on Thursday, are the result of a new state law amending public carry requirements. That was in response to the Bruen SCOTUS decision that invalidated New York’s discretionary requirement that applicants have a “proper cause” to obtain a concealed carry permit. Among other things, the new law updates permit requirements for applicants, like requiring 16 hours of training and submitting character references and social media history in order to demonstrate “good moral character.” The law also bars gun carrying in many locations, including private property unless proprietors allow it and anywhere the state has deemed a sensitive location. New York City officials were still scrambling to roll out the rules yesterday, including how — and where — Times Square would become a “gun free zone.” A spike in applications before the law’s rollout: Concealed carry permit applications have gone up across the state since June, including a 54 percent increase in New York City, according to the NYPD.
A judge denied a challenge to the new law. But his ruling suggests it will be tough to defend in court. U.S. District Court Judge Glenn Suddaby on Thursday denied a gun rights group’s request to block New York’s law hours before it went into effect, arguing that the plaintiffs lacked standing. But he also suggested their legal arguments had merits and that many aspects of the law — including its broad interpretation of what constitutes “sensitive locations” to restrict guns — were likely unconstitutional. That’s a sure warning sign for the law going forward, given that further challenges are all but assured.
An argument for why the Bruen case removes clarity for how courts assess gun laws. Last week, a federal judge ruled that there was no constitutionally valid historical precedent for a Texas law restricting people aged 18 to 20 from carrying handguns in public. The opinion showed the strong influence of the Supreme Court’s decision in Bruen, which asks courts to interpret whether there is a convincing historical tradition for gun regulations when evaluating their legality. In an analysis for the Duke Center for Firearms Law, gun law expert Jacob Charles argues that the test is problematic regardless of one’s opinions on gun rights. He points to the fact that nearly half of states had laws like Texas on the books in the late 1800s. But that didn’t satisfy the judge. “Despite the Bruen majority’s insistence otherwise, the history-only test neither circumscribes judicial discretion nor provides clarity or predictability to the law,” Charles writes. “In many ways, Bruen magnifies discretion, offering judges the opportunity to choose from whichever historical sources they want, with little guidance or guardrails.”
The bulk of Philadelphia’s violence prevention money may not be felt immediately. A report on the city’s FY 2023 budget from the City Controller’s Office analyzed the $208 million the city allocated to fight gun violence, a 35 percent increase from the previous year. Of that money, the analysis found that about 21 percent goes toward “evidence-based intervention programs that have been found to yield short-term reductions in shootings and homicides, with the rest of the funding going towards programs that will likely take years to produce measurable reductions in gun violence.” The rest of the money, the report argues, is geared toward solutions on a longer time horizon or that don’t have a lot of evidence about short-term effects.
Data Point
41 — the number of people who died by homicide in Baltimore in June, the deadliest month since the summer of 2015. This is who they were. [The Baltimore Banner] | https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/new-york-public-carry-gun/ | 2022-09-01T22:01:20Z | thetrace.org | control | https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/new-york-public-carry-gun/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Cliff Williams / The Outlook Staff at Lake Martin Community Hospital held a small ceremony to acknowledge the donation of tables to aid in staff breaks and patient’s family relaxation Wednesday. The tables replace aged wooden ones.
Generous donations will help staff, patients and families of patients at Lake Martin Community Hospital.
New commercial grade outdoor tables and benches were donated in memory of loved ones to replace old wood picnic tables used by staff and patient families.
“We had some old tables,” Ivy Creek Healthcare Executive Director of Marketing Heidi Smith. “A few staff may have pulled splinters out.”
Smith said the tables will create a better environment for everyone as an area to encourage relaxation and socialization.
“Our staff and patients are very deserving of a great place to sit and meditate, pray, visit and a fun place to sit down and visit,” Smith said. “It was kind of rough having functions out here. We had to haul tables out of the cafeteria to here. This is just going to be nice. It is a great place for families to meet and get away. People may be waiting for something in the emergency room and need a place to wait when they are tired of being inside.”
The tables were donated by the Treadwell family in memory of Dadeville native Allen Treadwell who was the hospital administrator from 1978 to 1984.
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“We are pleased to participate in this,” Treadwell’s son Mark Allen Treadwell said. “My dad enjoyed his time here. It was a time of great expansion. What you see now is the basic footprint he helped create.”
More tables were donated by Alabama Funeral Homes and Fredrick-Dean Funeral Home in memory of Madelyn Ann “Maddie” McClendon, Owen James Thomas, Barbara Hartley, Marilyn Langley Jennings and former Dadeville Police Chief David East Barbour.
Ivy Creek Healthcare CEO Mike Bruce said the tables are only part of a plan to freshen up the hospital.
“We are going to create new terraces and covers for [the tables] in the gathering areas,” Bruce said. “We are going to be painting the hospitals as part of a huge face lift.”
Cliff Williams is a staff writer for Tallapoosa Publishers.
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Azamara becomes the next cruise line to remove vaccination requirements for various cruises. Starting on December 1, 2022, guests sailing on any European or Caribbean cruise will not be required to provide proof of vaccination.
The only exceptions the cruise line maintains are when local regulations require them, which in the case of Azamara, includes a majority of cruises onboard three of the four ships. Azamara already removed the testing requirements on July 25 of this year.
Another Cruise Line Removes Vaccination Mandate
Azamara concludes its successful return to service by removing vaccination mandates for select cruises onboard its ships. Guests onboard vessels sailing from North America to the Caribbean and voyages in Europe will no longer be required to show proof of vaccination before boarding starting December 1.
“The safety of our guests and crew is our top priority and we have continued to closely monitor the evolving global situation,” said President of Azamara, Carol Cabezas.
“Azamara continues to implement the highest safety measures in accordance with the local health authorities and the current positive direction of the travel industry. We look forward to many being able to sail with us for the immersive cruising experience that we are known for and explore the wonderful destinations the Azamara way.”
For all cruises that do not sail in Europe or from North America, Azamara still requires vaccinations for all guests onboard.
This includes cruises onboard Azamara Quest, which sails in Asia and Australia this winter, onboard Azamara Journey around Africa, and onboard Azamara Pursuit around South America. Once these ships reposition to European or North American destinations, they will adopt the same requirements.
For now, this December, the only vessel sailing from the United States is Azamara Onward, operating Caribbean cruises from Miami.
The new measures do not apply to crew members working onboard the four cruise ships. The crew will still be required to be fully vaccinated and wear facemasks while working onboard, to minimize the risk of infection and transmission to all.
Testing Requirements
Azamara already removed the need for a COVID-19 test before boarding on July 25, 2022, and now expands this further to include the removal of vaccinations.
Regardless of the vaccination status, Azamara does encourage guests to get tested before the start of the cruise, yet does not require this test result to be shown before boarding. If guests need to test while onboard, this will be available free of charge.
As is the case with the vaccination requirements, many destinations still require pre-boarding testing. For all cruises outside of Europe and North America, guests must show a PCR test taken no longer than three days before embarkation or an Antigen test taken within one day before embarking on the ship.
While the one-day procedure seems excessively short notice, guests will have the opportunity to take a test before embarking on the ship in the terminal. The cruise line maintains a reasonable cost of $59 per test.
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Just in time to toast Labor Day and the end of summer, Carnival Cruise Line has introduced two new exclusive flavors of hard seltzers in the ThirstyFrog drink line.
The vodka-based drinks will be available on all Carnival cruise ships as well as at the cruise line’s private island destinations, Half Moon Cay and Princess Cays in The Bahamas.
New Tropical Hard Seltzers
The two flavors both have tropical vibes. The Piña Colada Hard Seltzer is reminiscent of the popular cocktail with hints of pineapple and coconut for a sweet, vibrant taste, while the Berry Hibiscus Hard Seltzer is a mixture of favorite summer berries and a hint of sweet hibiscus.
“For the last few years, hard seltzers have grown in popularity worldwide, and certainly we’ve seen that surge in popularity on board our ships as well,” said Edward Allen, vice president of beverage operations for Carnival Cruise Line.
“I am proud of our team and the hard seltzers they created, which are delicious and refreshing, expanding our high-quality Carnival offerings. I know our guests will enjoy them on board and on our private islands.”
The new drinks come in brilliantly colorful 12-ounce (355 ml) cans featuring the iconic red frog that signifies good times and delicious drinks aboard Carnival Cruise Line.
Each can is only 99 calories, making the drinks exceptionally popular with calorie-conscious cruisers and anyone who prefers a lighter, crisper beverage. Each 12-ounce can of seltzer is 5% alcohol by volume and uses all-natural flavoring.
Guest reaction to the announcement on Carnival Cruise Line brand ambassador John Heald’s Facebook page has been very positive, with many eager cruisers excited about the new drinks.
Exclusive Drink Offerings
The new hard seltzers are just two of the exclusive beverage offerings Carnival Cruise Line has available for thirsty guests.
Also available are Carnival-exclusive beers, including ParchedPig West Coast IPA, ThirstyFrog Caribbean Wheat, and ParchedPig Toasted Amber Ale beers, all of which are offered in cans throughout the Carnival fleet.
Carnival Vista launched the first-ever North American brewery at sea in 2016, bringing exclusive craft beer offerings to passengers.
Then, in 2019, the cruise line partnered with Brew Hub in Lakeland, Florida, to bring an exclusive line of canned beers throughout the Carnival fleet.
“To be the first cruise line to ever scale up its beverage operations by canning and kegging their own beer is unprecedented. My hope is that our guests will take a four-pack home with them to share with family and friends as a refreshing and memorable reminder of their cruise” Allen said of that fleet-wide beer offering.
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Following earlier reports and sightings of drink offerings onboard various ships, Norwegian Cruise Line has officially announced the switch from PepisCo soft drinks to Coca-Cola products.
This change is in conjunction with the inaugural sailing of the cruise line’s newest vessel, Norwegian Prima, which is already serving Coca-Cola beverages.
New Partnership Announced
With Norwegian Prima already serving Coca-Cola products onboard, Norwegian Cruise Line president and CEO Harry Sommer officially announced the new partnership with a toast with the iconic Coca-Cola Polar Bear at the ship’s three-story, glass-walled Penrose Atrium.
“With the historic debut of Norwegian Prima, Norwegian Cruise Line continues to push boundaries across every element of the guest experience, so it’s perfectly fitting that we are unveiling and bringing on board a fresh, new beverage partnership with Coca-Cola during the christening of Norwegian Prima,” Sommer said.
“As a company rooted in history, Norwegian Cruise Line is honored to align with a fellow beloved brand, Coca-Cola, and we look forward to leveraging this relationship to continue to enhance our guest experience.”
Cruise lines often offer exclusive partnerships with beverage companies with carefully negotiated contracts. These contracts may include better pricing and incentives to be an exclusive beverage partner than if multiple brands were offered on a single ship.
Similar exclusive partnerships are common at theme parks, hotel chains, and sports stadiums. Other cruise lines currently offering Coca-Cola products include Disney Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean International.
Where to Find Coca-Cola Products
The new Norwegian Prima is the first vessel in Norwegian’s 18-ship fleet to carry Coca-Cola as its official soft drink. The remaining NCL ships will all be fully switched over to Coca-Cola products by December 2022.
Guests onboard different vessels have already reported the expanding availability of Coca-Cola drinks, including on Norwegian Breakaway, Norwegian Epic, and Norwegian Joy.
Additional ships will begin offering Coca-Cola beverages as bars and lounges can be adequately supplied, but there has been no calendar announced of which ships will have which drinks when. For the next few weeks, it is possible that guests on different ships may be enjoying different brands of soft drinks.
It can be a challenge to make the switch even on a single ship, since each vessel has many different bars, lounges, and restaurants that all need to be equipped with adequate supplies and new branding to promote the new partnership.
Norwegian Prima, for example, features more than 30 bars, lounges, and restaurants that must be prepared to meet drink needs.
The largest ships in Norwegian Cruise Line’s fleet, the Breakaway-Plus vessels – Norwegian Escape, Norwegian Joy, Norwegian Bliss, and Norwegian Encore – have up to 22 bars and lounges, all of which have to be supplied with the new drink options, not counting restaurants and dining venues.
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While it seems like during his four decades of coaching Dan Eyman has employed every offense imaginable — and used his creative mind to develop all sorts of hybrids — there is one place he won't go.
Two, actually.
"I refuse to run the Wing-T," he announced without hesitation. Then, after a very brief pause, he added with a smile, "or the Wishbone."
Everything else has been in play for Eyman, whose adaptive zeal for Xs and Os lit up scoreboards in the CBBN during his 12 years as head coach at Eisenhower and has continued on at his alma mater, West Valley. As he enters his seventh season with the Rams, the affable coach has known for some time that this would be his last.
"It's like the old saying, 'You know when it's time.' I'm there," he said. "But I've still got so much energy and excitement for this season. It's going to be special for me."
Like so many others in so many ways.
There aren't many coaching resumes that have this diversity: Eisenhower's Branden Curtis broke the state rushing record with a 488-yard game on Eyman's watch in 2012. Then, two seasons ago, West Valley's Skyler Cassel set the Valley record with 520 yards in the air.
Big-chunk plays, whether on foot or up top, have been a specialty.
"I've always liked an offense that was designed to be explosive with an opportunity to score on every play," he explained. "But I've also had the philosophy of adapting to what you have. Creating the best possibilities is the fun part of it."
Since he took his first gig as an assistant at Deer Park in 1983, which led to six seasons as a head coach at Highland, Eyman has been an irony. What type of offense would you expect from a coach who was an offensive tackle at Yakima Valley College and Eastern Washington University?
Ground and pound, right? Lean on the trustworthy big boys, eat up the clock and win 14-7.
Not here, and not from the start.
While at Highland, Eyman immediately started tinkering with a pass-heavy approach. Brian Twardoski's 326-yard game in 1989 still stands as the school record, and Jim Williams led the Valley A League in passing yardage in Eyman's last two years.
"I've always been partial to the passing game," he said, "and back then I was crazy about Dennis Erickson's spread."
From Cowiche, though, Eyman stepped away from head coaching and join the staff at Eisenhower, where he was an assistant for Hall of Fame coach Greg Gavin for seven years. He broadened his experience with different position groups, took a turn as defensive coordinator, and simply enjoyed watching Gavin run the show.
"Greg has been a huge part of everything I've done," Eyman said. "I learned all the details of the game from him, the value in the little things, and just the way he communicated with everybody — the kids, the administration, and the community. He could break things down, throw a few three-dollar words in there, and you understood things."
When health issues forced Gavin to step down, Eyman was ready to take the reigns from his mentor and did so in 2002. Gavin, who preceded Eyman at EWU and was a two-time NAIA All-American center, made sure his protégé was reacquainted with the virtues of a ground game. But he never lost sight of his desire for a wide-open offense and when he developed his ideal blend of play-calling and personnel, the Cadets took off.
In 2009, Eisenhower reached the 4A state quarterfinals, set a school record with 11 wins and averaged 33 points a game. Eyman's offense dominated the league that year and held the top spot for the next four years, including a 2011 campaign when the Cadets set a still-standing CBBN record of 451 yards a game.
When Eyman stepped away after the 2013 season, he was the program's winningest coach with a 72-48 record over 12 years. When the West Valley job came open two years later, he was eager to return to Zier Road for his final chapter. His dynamic principles and instincts applied there just fine — the Rams led the CBBN in total offense in 2016 and 2017.
Eyman, of course, can joke his way out of any credit for any of this.
"Find an athlete who's special and have the quarterback throw it up for him," he said. "That's great coaching."
Last year, when West Valley was forced to cancel its first two games because of COVID, Eyman played catch-up with a mash-up offense, piecing together his favorite elements of the Air Raid, West Coast and Run-n-Shoot. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. But the mad scientist was always searching for the right mix.
In his final season, though, he's taking another ironic turn, handing the play-calling to his former Ike quarterback Kolney Cassel and going exclusively Run-n-Shoot. What comes of this, the first step at least, will be revealed Friday night when the Rams host Walla Walla.
A warm summer night, a new school year, a fresh field under the lights.
One final season opener.
"I don't know that I'm entirely done. I might do some coaching at the lower levels," he clarified. "But the year-round grind of head coaching, I'm ready to back off of that and let the young guys take over. I've always loved coaching kids, but there are too many bucket-list things still out there for me. The relationships and friendships from all these years, though, that'll always be with me." | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/prep_sports/dan-eyman-set-to-make-his-40th-season-of-coaching-his-last/article_728773fa-19ad-11ed-bd97-9f79ae2fde38.html | 2022-09-01T22:07:53Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/prep_sports/dan-eyman-set-to-make-his-40th-season-of-coaching-his-last/article_728773fa-19ad-11ed-bd97-9f79ae2fde38.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The newly-christened James Earl Jones Theatre announced Thursday that the official renaming and dedication ceremony will take place on Sept. 12, 2022.
Formerly known as the Cort Theatre, it was announced in 2021 that the 110-year-old house would undergo a $47 million restoration and expansion, as well as be renamed to honor of the EGOT winner.
“The dedication of the James Earl Jones Theatre honors one of the most beloved Broadway and film actors of all time,” Shubert Chairman and CEO Robert E. Wankel said in a statement.
“It’s fitting that the renaming of this beautifully restored building also be a moment in which to recognize the tremendous contribution of BIPOC people to Broadway,” his statement continued.
“Mr. Jones’ name quickly rose to the top of the Shubert Organization’s list due to his illustrious career performing in Shubert houses, his status in the black community, and his worldwide reputation as one of the most celebrated performers to ever grace the Broadway stage,” Wankel said of the esteemed, deep-voiced actor, who began his stage career in 1958 in “Sunrise at Campobello” at the Cort Theatre and subsequently starred in 21 Broadway productions, earning two Tony Awards.
Many of the refurbishments to the theater include a brand new modern annex to complement the historic theater as well as several new lounges for audience members and rehearsal space and offices for the theater’s staff.
Jones is also known for his voice work on the silver screen — perhaps most notably as Mufasa in “The Lion King” in both the 1994 animated and 2019 live-action versions, as well as the villainous Darth Vader from the “Star Wars” franchise.
Upon learning his name would be on the marquee, Jones was overwhelmed.
“For me, standing in this very building 64 years ago at the start of my Broadway career, it would have been inconceivable that my name would be on the building today,” Jones said.
“Let my journey from then to now be an inspiration for all aspiring actors.” | https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/47m-james-earl-jones-theatre-sets-opening-event-for-egot-namesake/ | 2022-09-01T22:08:43Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/47m-james-earl-jones-theatre-sets-opening-event-for-egot-namesake/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jurors at Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s sentencing trial will be allowed to see swastikas he drew on assignments, a Florida judge ruled Thursday — over objections from defense attorneys who argued their client was an equal opportunity killer.
Lawyers, in a failed attempt to bar the repugnant drawings from being entered into evidence, noted that Cruz murdered without regard for race or religion.
Presenting the Nazi symbols would be excessively prejudicial, they argued — adding that Cruz’s 2018 rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was not suggestive of racial hate.
The 17 students and staffers Cruz slaughtered, and the more than a dozen he injured at the Parkland, Florida school on Feb. 14, 2018, included black, white, Asian, Jewish and Hispanic people.
But Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer overruled the bid and allowed the images into evidence.
She also brushed aside an ensuing call for a mistrial prompted by her ruling, calling the request “disingenuous.”
Jurors will decide if Cruz, 23, will get life in prison or the death sentence for one of the worst mass shootings in the nation’s history.
Cruz’s attorneys have argued that his troubled upbringing warrants the lesser term, while prosecutors counter that the mass killing deserves the harshest penalty available.
Then 19, Cruz sprayed defenseless students and staffers with an AR-15 rifle on three separate floors on Valentine’s Day.
Prosecutors have stressed the indiscriminate brutality of the rampage — noting that Cruz circled back to some wounded students and finished them off.
The defense has highlighted Cruz’s troubled beginnings, including being put up for adoption by his crack-addicted prostitute mom as an infant. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/court-shown-swastikas-parkland-shooter-nikolas-cruz-drew-in-class/ | 2022-09-01T22:08:49Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/court-shown-swastikas-parkland-shooter-nikolas-cruz-drew-in-class/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Economic inequality has consequences. For poor people, it can hit everything from life expectancy to education.
But a new program in the nation's capital is trying to defeat those outcomes.
It's called Baby Bonds, though it works more like a trust fund.
Children of the city's poorest residents will get up to $25,000 by the time they reach adulthood.
The idea was first proposed by two economists in 2010 and was brought to the mainstream by a 2016 presidential candidate.
Sen. Cory Booker was an early supporter of the program in D.C. and emphasized that while this helps low-income families across races, there's one in particular that struggles more.
"We need to put forward a bold, aspirational vision for racial and economic justice in this country. I think Baby Bonds is a foundational piece of that," he said. "Right now, we live in an America where the members of the Forbes 400 wealthiest American households hold more wealth than all Black families in the United States combined."
The racial wealth gap is undeniable. Data from Brookings shows "the median white American in their early thirties had $29,000 more wealth than the median Black American of the same age." The gap is even bigger among older adults.
"Wealth is functional. Wealth allows you to generate other forms of resources and provides economic security," said Darrick Hamilton, one of the two economists who proposed Baby Bonds.
He testified before a Washington, D.C., council committee, arguing the idea isn't unprecedented in American life.
"This idea of Baby Bonds — although I get a lot of credit for architecting it in its modern-day form — is as old as the nation's founding. Thomas Payne talked about a scenario of Baby Bonds where he said that every American should be endowed with some plot of land so that when they become an adult, they'll be able to attend to that land and have the benefits of economic security of the benefits of that land."
Critics say it's expensive and unproven.
But Hamilton points to post-depression social programs President Franklin D. Roosevelt and others launched.
"I think we can look into our New Deal past and see that a White asset-based middle class was formed as a result of government entitlement," Hamilton said. "Programs like the GI bill, the Fair Housing Act that literally seeded Americans with some capital resources."
The first four years of the Baby Bond program are estimated to cost $32 million.
Still, the program is currently underway in D.C. and will likely be watched closely by other states considering the same idea.
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Boomerang page plan, Sept. 2 Sep 1, 2022 Sep 1, 2022 Updated 42 min ago Comments Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BOOMERANG page plan for FRIDAY, Sept. 2 A1 (send color)Tease 1TODAY’S PICK ‘Tragic outcomes’: Mentally ill face fatal risk with police, Page A3Tease 2:Sports teaseTease 3:HEALTH CARE EXPANSION State mulls joining mental health care compacts, Page A6MAIN PACKAGE: Ghost-busting: Local teen, wild mustang quickly build bond through training program, Abby (photos)Plague confirmed in Albany County cat, StaffMental health tied to safe schools, WNE (breakout)Jumps to A3A2 (send color)Today/tomorrowWorth notingWhat’s happening?WeatherCorrection policy A3 (send color)Today’s pick: ‘Tragic outcomes’: Mentally ill face fatal risk with police, AP (photo) – use first photo, plsFree overdose antidote available, WNEOpinions differ on WEA education lawsuit, WNE – can hold if you wantJumps from A1A4 (send B&W)Syndicated cartoonGoodman/Moynihan column (Other voices)Lowry column (Other voices)New letters policyA5 (send color)Obits (1 little one)Mysterious moth-eating bears have a people problem, WNE (file photo)Around WyomingVol. 142 No. 180 A6 (send color)State mulls joining mental health care compacts, WNE (file photos)Petitioners protest county’s gravel pit plans, WNE A7 (send B&W)Wire stuff A8 CLASSIFIED (send color)Yup, it’s the back of A Section today.B SECTION B1-B2 UW WRAP (send color) B3-B4 SPORTS (send B3 color, B4 B&W) B5-B6 COMICS/PUZZLES (send B&W) B7-B8 UW WRAP (send color) Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tags Wne Chemistry Transports Printing Politics Photo Plan Compact Health Care Color Petitioner Recommended for you Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. comments powered by Disqus Trending Now Highway Patrol trooper arrested Tuesday; charges unknown Crumbl Cookies opens location in Cheyenne Hoss Woodard is doing all he can to give Cheyenne a 'Little Taste of Texas' New Unitarian Universalist minister finds home in Cheyenne Police blotter 8-27-22 Latest Special Section 2022 UW Football Preview To view our latest Special Section click the image on the left. Latest e-Edition Wyoming Tribune Eagle To view our latest e-Edition click the image on the left. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/boomerang-page-plan-sept-2/article_ebfa5bae-2a3c-11ed-9ca0-d34bee9ffbd3.html | 2022-09-01T22:11:52Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/boomerang-page-plan-sept-2/article_ebfa5bae-2a3c-11ed-9ca0-d34bee9ffbd3.html | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Boomerang page plan, Sept. 2 Sep 1, 2022 Sep 1, 2022 Updated 42 min ago Comments Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BOOMERANG page plan for FRIDAY, Sept. 2 A1 (send color)Tease 1TODAY’S PICK ‘Tragic outcomes’: Mentally ill face fatal risk with police, Page A3Tease 2:Sports teaseTease 3:HEALTH CARE EXPANSION State mulls joining mental health care compacts, Page A6MAIN PACKAGE: Ghost-busting: Local teen, wild mustang quickly build bond through training program, Abby (photos)Plague confirmed in Albany County cat, StaffMental health tied to safe schools, WNE (breakout)Jumps to A3A2 (send color)Today/tomorrowWorth notingWhat’s happening?WeatherCorrection policy A3 (send color)Today’s pick: ‘Tragic outcomes’: Mentally ill face fatal risk with police, AP (photo) – use first photo, plsFree overdose antidote available, WNEOpinions differ on WEA education lawsuit, WNE – can hold if you wantJumps from A1A4 (send B&W)Syndicated cartoonGoodman/Moynihan column (Other voices)Lowry column (Other voices)New letters policyA5 (send color)Obits (1 little one)Mysterious moth-eating bears have a people problem, WNE (file photo)Around WyomingVol. 142 No. 180 A6 (send color)State mulls joining mental health care compacts, WNE (file photos)Petitioners protest county’s gravel pit plans, WNE A7 (send B&W)Wire stuff A8 CLASSIFIED (send color)Yup, it’s the back of A Section today.B SECTION B1-B2 UW WRAP (send color) B3-B4 SPORTS (send B3 color, B4 B&W) B5-B6 COMICS/PUZZLES (send B&W) B7-B8 UW WRAP (send color) Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tags Wne Chemistry Transports Printing Politics Photo Plan Compact Health Care Color Petitioner Recommended for you Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. comments powered by Disqus Trending Now Highway Patrol trooper arrested Tuesday; charges unknown Crumbl Cookies opens location in Cheyenne Hoss Woodard is doing all he can to give Cheyenne a 'Little Taste of Texas' New Unitarian Universalist minister finds home in Cheyenne Police blotter 8-27-22 Latest Special Section 2022 UW Football Preview To view our latest Special Section click the image on the left. Latest e-Edition Wyoming Tribune Eagle To view our latest e-Edition click the image on the left. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/boomerang-page-plan-sept-2/article_ebfa5bae-2a3c-11ed-9ca0-d34bee9ffbd3.html | 2022-09-01T22:11:52Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/boomerang-page-plan-sept-2/article_ebfa5bae-2a3c-11ed-9ca0-d34bee9ffbd3.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
CODY (WNE) — A raccoon, not a storm, is to blame for Cody’s Aug. 24 power outage, the second time in two years that a raccoon has turned off the lights. The electricity cutoff lasted for approximately two hours, from roughly midnight to 2 a.m.
According to Cody Public Works Director Phillip Bowman, a raccoon entered into the Glendale substation, causing equipment to short out and knocking out all of the circuits.
The substation serves three separate circuits in the vicinity of Cody and Markham reservoirs, Bowman said.
The raccoon died during the incident, and the circuit it damaged had to be rerouted to one of the city’s existing circuits.
“The city circuits are now feeding that (area) on a temporary basis and (the) Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) is starting to test and confirm the status of the equipment where the actual short was caused by the raccoon,” Bowman said. “So whether or not it’s still operable and meets all of the testing requirements, we don’t know yet.”
In April 2021, a raccoon entered and caused damage to a separate circuit at the substation.
“All the substations are fenced around the perimeter, but it’s definitely a human fence,” Bowman said. “It’s there to prevent humans from entering it, but snakes, raccoons and birds can typically dig under and get through those fences.”
During the power outage, the city worked with WAPA, which owns the Glendale substation, to get the equipment fixed and the power back on.
“We assisted them with the necessary control checks to ensure the substation was safe to power up again,” Bowman said. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/raccoon-causes-power-outage-in-cody/article_710183e0-2a2e-11ed-bdc5-777a414ddb76.html | 2022-09-01T22:12:05Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/raccoon-causes-power-outage-in-cody/article_710183e0-2a2e-11ed-bdc5-777a414ddb76.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
POWELL – For years, maintenance to historic buildings at the Sunlight and Crandall ranger stations have been put off due to the lack of funding. Now, with the funds in hand, Shoshone National Forest crews and volunteers are hard at work in what they have termed the First Forest Initiatives.
The funding arrived thanks to the popular 2020 bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act. Now, the Shoshone and Bighorn national forests are able to do some much needed maintenance, including roads, bridges and historic structures.
The conservation legislation is using revenue from energy development to provide up to $1.9 billion a year through 2025 to provide needed maintenance for critical facilities and infrastructure in national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, recreation areas and American Indian schools. It will also use royalties from offshore oil and natural gas to permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund to the tune of $900 million a year to invest in conservation and recreation opportunities across the country.
One high-priority project is refurbishing a historic cabin at the Crandall Ranger Station. Built in 1936, the cabin is currently used to house seasonal employees, which is a crucial component for maintenance work needed in the forest.
“When it was built, the district ranger lived there with his family year round. So this is part of continuing that tradition of having Forest Service personnel living on the forest. That’s really something that we’re pretty proud of,” said Shoshone spokesperson Kristie Thompson.
The beautiful cabin had fallen into disrepair, she said.
“The work will be complete next year. Then, in the summer of 2024, we will begin the work at Sunlight Ranger Station,” she said.
Much of the work is being completed by HistoriCorps, a nonprofit that provides volunteers of all skill levels with hands-on experience preserving historic structures on public lands across the country. Volunteers work with field staff to learn preservation skills and then put those skills to work saving historic places on public land.
Volunteers are from across the country and are a mix of adult age groups. Revenue from the LWCF will also be used to fix roads and reduce sediment in the forest.
“The project will improve water quality, restore habitat for Yellowstone cutthroat trout and maintain future access to adjacent areas for the public, contractors, permittees or firefighters,” according to Donna Nemeth, Rocky Mountain Region press officer.
The funding amounts to $294,000 for the next three years.
“What that translates to because of our partnership with HistoriCorps, is completing over $1.2 million of deferred maintenance,” Thompson said.
The group also received over $1.5 million to fix a couple of roads on the forest that continuously slump during spring. Forest crews have tried to put a “bandaid” on the problem in the past, she said. One of the roads affected is Clay Butte, which goes up to the Clay Butte fire tower.
The work is ongoing this summer in conjunction with Beartooth Highway work.
The Bighorn National Forest is also receiving funds from the program and will be rebuilding bridges along Cedar Creek and Driveway Trail. The two trail bridges will be built above the high-water mark to improve stream functioning and protect adjacent trails from erosion.
It will also allow the forest to improve Canyon Creek Road and do channel improvements of the waterway. The plan is to reconstruct and relocate approximately 600 feet of road and construct a new bridge to an area where the stream crossing is stable.
Former President Donald Trump signed the Great American Outdoors Act into law on Aug. 4, 2020. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/construction/federal-money-to-help-save-forest-infrastructure/article_3ee6ad82-2a37-11ed-b28e-97a597406b2f.html | 2022-09-01T22:12:17Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/construction/federal-money-to-help-save-forest-infrastructure/article_3ee6ad82-2a37-11ed-b28e-97a597406b2f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GILLETTE – The evolution of COVID-19 treatments has progressed throughout the two-and-a-half years since the pandemic took hold.
While much of the priority has been on immediate interventions for more severe COVID-19 cases, remedies for long-term symptoms that vary in type and severity have also made strides. Some cases of long COVID continue to present in patients weeks and months after the initial infection.
To help patients with that wide range of symptoms, Campbell County Health Rehabilitation Services has implemented a long COVID rehab program that is malleable to individual patient experiences and needs.
“We were starting to see more and more patients who had been COVID positive at some point and were struggling to get back to work,” said Shannon Sorensen, CCH director of rehabilitation.
The observations from physical therapists matched those of physicians in cardiology and complex medicine, she said, who corroborated that relatively young patients have been returning with curious symptoms weeks and months after getting COVID-19.
“They had no education on the pacing,” said Kasi Jensen, a CCH physical therapist, about long COVID patients. “When they tried to go back to working out or the things that they did before, they would actually make all of their symptoms worse and were prolonging their recovery.”
Cases of long COVID are marked by symptoms of fatigue, trouble breathing, blood pressure irregularity, persistent brain fog and more.
“The fatigue is probably one of the biggest things we see,” Sorensen said.
Symptoms are not limited to feeling drained.
It could present as an unusually long recovery time after exercise. Or it can manifest with bouts of anxiety and depression. It could even come in the form of ear pain, dizziness or skin rashes.
So earlier this year, the physical therapy specialists created a formal rehab program to monitor, treat and manage symptoms of patients with long COVID.
Classifications
While the majority of patients with COVID-19 recover within a few weeks, there are several classifications for instances that last for extended lengths of time.
Acute COVID-19 is when symptoms continue within the first four weeks. Post-acute COVID-19 is when those symptoms last into the four to 12-week range and long COVID can be diagnosed when symptoms persist after 12 weeks.
One in 10 COVID-19 cases results in symptoms that linger beyond 12 weeks, according to World Physiotherapy.
That estimate may differ, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention referencing a study from June that found one in 13 adults in the U.S. experience long COVID symptoms.
“When we see it, these tend to be (patients) that were healthier and didn’t recover back,” Sorensen said.
The understanding of how prevalent the illness is has coupled with more information on how to treat its different symptoms.
“We have a lot more objective data and now we can educate and teach our patients on symptom management,” Sorensen said.
To treat those cases that have become increasingly common, providers take a slowed down and individualized approach.
Unlike other aspects of physical therapy, where the goal is to often safely ramp up patient activity, the goal with long COVID treatment is often to slow the patient down, Sorensen said. Patients typically attend one or two therapy sessions each week for six to eight weeks.
The treatment plans during those sessions vary depending on the patients and their symptoms. In general, it entails gauging a baseline, monitoring it and measuring improvements through individualized goals.
It could include using blood flow restriction bands on arms and legs to improve blood circulation, speech therapy techniques for brain fog symptoms, and an array of other options catered to the symptom being targeted.
“Basically, it’s a lot of graded exercise based on the patient response model,” Jensen said. “It’s very variable.”
Timelines for treatment also vary, and some have seen significant results in 6-8 weeks, Sorensen said.
“We’ve definitely seen some that have improved significantly, even to the point that they have discharged and gotten back to pretty much a prior level,” she added.
Others have continued treatment but with less frequency due to improved symptoms.
The program, which began around April, has been tweaked throughout its first four or five months of action.
Part of the goal is to educate patients on pacing themselves, breathing techniques and awareness and not overdoing it, as to avoid setbacks and bring awareness to others who may benefit from treatment. For as many new long COVID cases as Sorensen said have come through the rehabilitation clinic, there are likely more cases that have gone undiagnosed.
“I think a lot of people aren’t seeking help, too,” Jensen said. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/health_care/rehab-programs-help-long-covid-19-patients-recover/article_6fe68326-2a37-11ed-9044-3f215bc9ed87.html | 2022-09-01T22:12:23Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/health_care/rehab-programs-help-long-covid-19-patients-recover/article_6fe68326-2a37-11ed-9044-3f215bc9ed87.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Gas prices decline ahead of Labor Day weekend; 20% lower than July
(Gray News) - After numerous price hikes at the pump, it looks like we are seeing a dip in prices continue as we approach the unofficial end of summer.
According to GasBuddy, gas prices ahead of Labor Day weekend are expected to be the lowest since March 3 and 20% lower than on Independence Day, at an average of $3.79 per gallon nationally.
The soaring gas prices seen earlier in the year threw a wrench into most of our road trip plans. GasBuddy reports gasoline demand over Independence Day weekend was notably lower than in 2021, and the decline in gallons used in recent weeks continues to push demand down along with prices.
“It was a dizzying time as gas prices surged ahead of summer, which caused many Americans to rethink their summer travel plans,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy. “As the sun sets on summer, gas prices are in far more familiar territory and could continue to decline well into fall.”
For those hitting the road as summer travel season comes to a close, market analysts recommend shopping around for the best prices.
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2003: After winning the Australian Open in January, she became the fifth woman to hold all of the Grand Slam singles titles simultaneously, joining Maureen Connolly, Margaret Court, Stefanie Graf and Martina Navratilova. That also made her the ninth woman to complete the Career Grand Slam. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2772294/2000-2009-reign-of-dominance-begins | 2022-09-01T22:17:12Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2772294/2000-2009-reign-of-dominance-begins | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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The 2022 Western & Southern Open champion gets offensive and sends a message: Caro is back.
The 2022 Western & Southern Open champion gets offensive and sends a message: Caro is back. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2772307/serena-2020-current | 2022-09-01T22:17:19Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2772307/serena-2020-current | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Five of the world's Top 10 hit the courts for the second round of the US Open on Thursday.
US Open: Scores | Order of play | Draw
World No.1 Iga Swiatek cruised past 2017 champion Sloane Stephens on Arthur Ashe Stadium. Track how the rest of the Top 10 did throughout the day here!
Petra Martic def. [4] Paula Badosa 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-2
Croatia's Martic knows what it takes to rack up victories at Grand Slam events. The former Top 15 player has reached the Round of 16 or better at each of the four Grand Slam tournaments; nine times in total including fourth-round runs at the US Open in 2019 and 2020.
However, Martic was only 1-12 against Top 5 players on hard court entering her second-round clash with World No.4 Badosa. Once Badosa eked out the hour-long first set, improving to a splendid 13-2 in tiebreaks this season, Martic was close to another exit against Top 5 opposition on this surface.
Martic, though, rebounded with aplomb to sweep through the last two sets and earn the fourth Top 5 win of her career overall after 2 hours and 5 minutes of play. The 31-year-old was overwhelming down the stretch, totaling 20 winners to just nine unforced errors spanning the second and third sets.
Martic will face another marquee name in the third round: No.26 seed Victoria Azarenka, who beat Marta Kostyuk 6-2, 6-3. Former World No.1 Azarenka, the US Open runner-up in 2012 and 2013, won her only prior meeting with Martic, which was ten years ago on the indoor hard courts of Linz.
[8] Jessica Pegula def. Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-4, 6-4
Sasnovich came into the year's last major in good form, having reached the Cleveland final last week. She moved up to World No.32 in Monday's rankings, slightly too late to claim a seeding spot in New York. She is only two spots behind her career-high ranking of No.30.
However, American No.1 Pegula, a quarterfinalist at this year's Australian Open and Roland Garros, was able to bring Sasnovich back down to earth in 1 hour and 19 minutes on Louis Armstrong Stadium on Thursday.
"I'm glad I got through my first two matches doing what I needed to do and playing smart," Pegula said afterward. "It's only going to get tougher from here, so I'm just happy with each match and hoping the next match kind of goes the same way. Try not to get too ahead of myself."
World No.8 Pegula had six aces and converted five of her 10 break points to reach the US Open third round for the third straight year. A love break for 5-4 in the second set proved decisive for the American, and Pegula finished the match by sweeping 12 of the last 13 points.
Pegula, who is seeking her first trip to the US Open Round of 16, will next face qualifier Yuan Yue of China, who bested Irina-Camelia Begu 6-3, 7-6(6).
[9] Garbiñe Muguruza def. [Q] Linda Fruhvirtova 6-0, 6-4
Muguruza continues to show signs of life at the only major event where she has yet to reach the final, notching a 1-hour and 9-minute win over 17-year-old qualifier Fruhvirtova, who was making her Grand Slam main-draw debut this week.
Muguruza is still only 11-10 at the US Open, and she is just 11-14 in the 2022 season. But after two straight-sets wins over two of the rising teenagers on tour this week, the former World No.1 has some momentum behind her.
The Spaniard was unbothered in the opening set, where Fruhvirtova hit zero winners and won only five points in total. The Czech teen rebounded to take a 4-1 lead in the second set, but Muguruza's experience served her well as she claimed the next five games to triumph.
"I started playing very well, very concentrated, and very composed," Muguruza said. "Obviously in the second set I think she elevated her game, start to hit good groundstrokes and got me a little bit out of place. Luckily I stayed strong there at the end of the second set and managed to close it."
Muguruza will meet her fellow two-time Grand Slam champion Petra Kvitova in a blockbuster third-round encounter. No.21 seed Kvitova advanced by walkover after Anhelina Kalinina withdrew from their scheduled second-round match due to illness.
Kvitova leads Muguruza 5-1 in their head-to-head. Their most recent meeting came in the 2021 Doha final, which Kvitova won 6-2, 6-1.
More to come... | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2774207/top-10-roundup-martic-upsets-badosa-pegula-muguruza-win-at-us-open | 2022-09-01T22:17:25Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2774207/top-10-roundup-martic-upsets-badosa-pegula-muguruza-win-at-us-open | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK -- Heading into this US Open, Ajla Tomljanovic was feeling a bit sad. Serena Williams was retiring and she had never had the opportunity to play the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion. Lying in her hotel bed before the tournament, Australia’s highest-ranked player envisioned herself on the other side of the net from Williams in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
The good news? She was prescient and, yes, sometimes dreams do come true. The bad? She’s playing Serena Williams on Friday night (7 p.m. ET) in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
“She’s paved the way for so many, inspired me to go for my dreams,” the 29-year-old Tomljanovic said after locking up the third-round matchup. “Even her longevity. I’m kind of in the part of my career now where they call you on the older side. She’s made that kind of nonexistent.”
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Indeed, while Williams’ career has been a barrage of unmatched quality, there’s been an enormous dose of quantity, too. She turned professional at the age of 14, some 27 years ago. Twenty-five days from her 41st birthday, she again finds herself on the cusp of history.
A victory over Tomljanovic would make her the oldest woman to reach a Grand Slam Round of 16 in the Open Era that comprises more than a half-century. Williams is only the second female player in the Open Era to win two main-draw matches in a single US Open after turning 40, after Dr. Renee Richards in 1979.
'I have absolutely nothing to lose': Serena comes up big in US Open win
After losing the second set to No.2 Anett Kontaveit on Wednesday, Williams came back from a brief break “lighter” -- both physically and, perhaps, mentally.
— Ajla Tomljanovic (@Ajlatom) August 30, 2022
“Quite frankly,” she told reporters, “I just started hitting the ball.”
Said Kontaveit, “She was hitting it a little bit harder, missing a little bit less. She really switched it on from there.”
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This is what the great ones do. They flush away the past and swiftly pivot to the future. Buoyed by a rabidly partisan full house, Williams stroked 12 winners in that ultimate set, balanced by 12 unforced errors. Kontaveit, however, managed only three winners -- and produced 11 unforced errors.
It’s the kind of pressure Tomljanovic will feel as well. One thing she has going for her, though, is some powerful momentum. While Williams’ first and second-round opponents were a combined 1-for-8 in matches coming in, Tomljanovic is playing the best tennis of her life. She made the quarterfinals at Wimbledon for the second straight year (her career best in the majors), and has won 10 of her past 12 matches, going back to Toronto.
Despite the overwhelming crowd support, Williams has been feeling it, too. Aging athletes struggle not only with physical challenges, but also emotional ones. Against Kontaveit, she experienced some understandable moments of weakness under duress. Williams was serving for the first set at 5-3 and was broken.
Similarly, she was up 2-0 and 40-love in the third when Kontaveit came back to break her. It’s the same vulnerability she demonstrated in the four major finals she’s lost since winning the 2017 Australian Open.
It’s not unexpected when you’re defying -- denying? -- the gravity of age. Roger Federer, who is also 40, has played only 13 matches the past two years, none in 2022. Martina Navratilova played six matches before retiring at the age of 38, losing four of them.
For now, Williams is playing -- to paraphrase the late, great Prince -- like it’s 1999. It’s the secret of her surprising success so far.
“I just feel like I have had a big red X on my back since I won the US Open in ’99,” Williams said Wednesday in her post-match press conference. “It’s been there my entire career, because I won my first Grand Slam early in my career. But here it’s different. I feel like I’ve already won, figuratively, mentally. It’s just pretty awesome the things that I’ve done.”
Not to get too far ahead of ourselves, but things are opening up for her.
Already missing from her bottom half of the draw are the two players slotted in the top and bottom spots: No.2 Kontaveit (courtesy of Serena) and No.7 Simona Halep (qualifier Daria Snigur). Also gone is No.3 Maria Sakkari. If Williams manages to get past Tomljanovic, Liudmila Samsonova -- winner of 12 straight matches -- looms in the Round of 16. The highest seed left in her path, No.5 Ons Jabeur, could be waiting in the quarterfinals.
Tomljanovic will attempt to tune out all the white noise that will surround this highly anticipated match.
“No matter the fact that I’ve been a Serena fan since I was a kid,” she said, “on Friday night I’ll just be a competitor and I’ll try my best to win.”
Far easier said than done -- as Kovinic and Kontaveit discovered.
“I think it’s hard to block out when she’s standing across the net,” Tomljanovic said. “Like, I know who she is. I just remember watching her in the Wimby finals with my sister in front of the TV after my practices. It’s a little surreal to me that I made it, and played in the same era as her.
“I remember Novak [Djokovic] saying one time when they asked him a lot about this, when the crowd was against him, he just pretends it’s for him. When they chant, ‘Rafa, Roger, whoever,’ he hears `Novak, Novak.’ I kind of liked that response. I might use that on Friday night.” | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2774763/tomljanovic-s-strategy-to-stop-serena-block-the-noise | 2022-09-01T22:17:31Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2774763/tomljanovic-s-strategy-to-stop-serena-block-the-noise | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) Information Management (IM) and Clinical Informatics team has won the 2022 Capt. Joan Dooling Information Professional Team of the Year Award Aug. 16, for the deployment of MHS Genesis - the next generation DoD electronic health record system.
NMCSD’s Information Management Department (IMO) is a diverse team of active duty, civil service, and contract staff focused on providing high quality, reliable health care information systems to support patient care for our warfighters, beneficiaries, and retirees. In 2021, over 87 miles of new network cabling was installed to support 230 patient care areas during the six-week deployment of MHS Genesis.
"I am grateful and proud of the Naval Medical Center San Diego IT team. These skilled professionals are instrumental in the delivery of 'Ready Reliable Care' not only within the San Diego area, but they have also supported IT operations at Brooke Army Medical Center, Tripler Army Medical Center, and even onboard USNS MERCY leading up to the successful 2022 Pacific Partnership mission,” said Capt. Kim Davis, NMCSD director.
The Capt. Joan Dooling Award for Information Professional Excellence was established to recognize and encourage notable contributions in accomplishing Navy Medicine's mission by spotlighting the outstanding contributions of individuals or teams of individuals in the IM/IT medical, operational, and research communities. Capt. Dooling exemplified those characteristics with her groundbreaking efforts in the field of IM/IT supporting Navy Medicine's mission.
“We are incredibly honored and humbled to be selected for this award; however, we could not have accomplished any of this without the deliberate support from the entire NMCSD team, our leadership’s support, and without the patience and understanding of our beneficiaries,” said Cynthia Gulley, NMCSD IT division head. “As we integrate further in the Defense Health Agency network infrastructure, we look forward to opportunities for further collaboration, exploration and integration that contribute to increased readiness.”
The recognition was part of the 2022 Defense Health Information Technology Symposium, a three day annual conference, sponsored by the Defense Health Agency (DHA) in Orlando, Fla.
NMCSD’s mission is to prepare service members to deploy in support of operational forces, deliver high quality healthcare services and shape the future of military medicine through education, training and research. NMCSD employs more than 6,000 active duty military personnel, civilians and contractors in Southern California to provide patients with world-class care anytime, anywhere.
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CDC panel recommends updated COVID-19 boosters
Outside advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday recommended reformulated Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 boosters that target the Omicron strain for people age 12 and up.
Why it matters: The recommendation, via a 13-1 vote, was one of the last regulatory hurdles before the first updated COVID shots can go into Americans’ arms.
- CDC director Rochelle Walensky is expected to adopt the recommendation.
Driving the news: Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommend the new Pfizer-BioNTech booster for individuals 12 years and the Moderna vaccine for individuals 18 and up.
- Individuals should be at least two months out from getting their primary COVID series and their booster dose.
Between the lines: During the advisory committee's discussion, panel members expressed concerns about a lack of real-world data on the reformulated shots while expressing a desire in getting the vaccines out sooner rather than later.
- They also raised concerns that the original versions of the booster might get mixed up with the reformulated booster because of similarities in the cap design.
- Members also expressed concern that the length of time they recommended individuals wait after receiving a prior dose of COVID vaccines or boosters, or having a COVID infection was too short.
What we know: The vaccines are considered safe, COVID-19 vaccines and boosters provide high levels of protection against severe disease and the reformulated vaccines will expand individuals' immune response, CDC officials said during the meeting.
What we don't know: We don't know the incremental increase in vaccine effectiveness or the duration of protection, officials said.
- We don't know the rate of myocarditis, although officials said it's unlikely the newly retooled vaccines would increase rates of the heart condition.
Zoom out: More than 12.6 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been given worldwide since late 2020, per a Bloomberg tracker, including 609 million in the U.S.
- The U.S. government has already purchased 171 million of the Omicron-specific booster shots for this fall and beyond.
- During the ACIP meeting, CDC officials said they estimated more than 100,000 hospitalizations and more than 1 million hospitalizations could be averted with a fall vaccination campaign.
- They also estimate nearly 25 million cases of COVID could be prevented. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/01/cdc-panel-recommends-updated-covid-19-boosters | 2022-09-01T22:21:38Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/01/cdc-panel-recommends-updated-covid-19-boosters | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
VOLUNTOWN, Conn. (WTNH) — An investigation is underway after someone stole a “Welcome to Connecticut” sign in Voluntown.
The sign, which also has Gov. Ned Lamont’s name on it, disappeared near the Rhode Island state line on Route 165.
Taking a sign like this isn’t easy, since they’re heavy and bolted onto metal poles.
The Connecticut Department of Transportation plans on replacing it, though it will cost the state approximately $300.
The theft remains under investigation. Anyone who believes they know who took the sign is urged to contact Connecticut State Police at (860) 685-8000. | https://www.wpri.com/new-england/connecticut/welcome-to-ct-sign-stolen-in-voluntown/ | 2022-09-01T22:21:45Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/new-england/connecticut/welcome-to-ct-sign-stolen-in-voluntown/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) — A large section of Greenwich Bay will be open to shellfishing for the first time in 20 years on Friday.
The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announced Thursday that its changed the harvesting status of 180 acres from prohibited to conditionally approved.
Efforts to increase sewer cleanup and strengthen stormwater controls have led to improved water quality in the Nausauket area of the bay, according to the DEM.
“The improvements in the cove are the result of a combination of better stormwater management, extensive hook-ups to city sewer systems, and elimination of cesspools,” DEM Director Terry Gray said in a news release. “All these actions were driven by state programs and implemented in partnership with the city of Warwick. This opening is an example of vision, long-term infrastructure investments, and state-local-federal cooperation leading to cleaner water.”
The DEM said the area had been closed to shellfishing since 2002 due to excessive fecal coliform levels in the water.
All of Greenwich Bay is conditionally approved for harvesting, meaning it’s only open under certain conditions that are conducive to safe shellfish consumption.
Visit the DEM’s website or call (401) 222-2900 for updates on shellfishing closures. | https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/west-bay/180-acres-of-greenwich-bay-open-for-shellfish-harvesting/ | 2022-09-01T22:22:09Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/west-bay/180-acres-of-greenwich-bay-open-for-shellfish-harvesting/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island Department of Health has recommended that four beaches close to swimming due to high levels of bacteria in the water.
The warning issued Thursday involved Scarborough State Beach (South) in Narragansett, Sandy Point Beach in Portsmouth, the Surfer’s Rock area of Second Beach in Middletown, and Conimicut Point Beach in Warwick.
The Health Department monitors the water quality at all of the state’s beaches throughout the summer to make sure it’s safe to swim.
No other beaches are closed to swimming at this time.
Visit the agency’s website for updates, or call its beach closings hotline at (401) 222-2751. | https://www.wpri.com/weather/ocean-bay-beach/4-ri-beaches-closed-to-swimming/ | 2022-09-01T22:22:27Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/weather/ocean-bay-beach/4-ri-beaches-closed-to-swimming/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When I think about My Favorite Things, I discover that they come from different parts of “me.”
Here’s what I mean.
What’s your favorite ice cream?
What’s your favorite music album?
What’s your favorite sweater?
For me: Chocolate, Steely Dan’s Aja, and a black cashmere V-neck pullover from Barney’s.
They’re all “my” favorites, but I think their “favoriteness” stems from different parts of “me.”
Here’s what I mean.
If you asked 100 people those three questions, how many would give the same answers as me?
Chocolate ice cream? America’s #1 favorite. About 17% prefer it to any other flavor. Good chance at least 15 people would say chocolate is their favorite. All hundred of us (presumably) share the same neurophysiological bodily equipment. That equipment has been shaped by billions of years of evolution to not only experience the physical pleasures of sweet foods, but also the emotional reaction that accompanies that pleasure. Let’s call it enjoyment— joy for short. We (almost) all share that part of “me” that enjoys sweets. That’s what makes ice cream so popular.
How about the album? We already know that there’s going to be a much wider variety here than in ice creams. The chances of even 2 of that 100 others choosing a Steely Dan album, not to mention Aja, are very remote. I share that part of “me” with a much smaller fraction of my contemporaries. The pleasure I experience comes from a much more limited spacetime context (let’s call it “cultural”) than ice cream’s. Besides the neurophysiological effects of Steely Dan’s music, I have to take its (personal-cultural) context in my life into account when considering its favor.
Aja was released in 1977, so it couldn’t have been my favorite earlier than that. Before then, I probably would have said The Beatles’ Rubber Soul, although I can’t be certain. When did Aja become my favorite? Hard to say, exactly. I was in graduate school when the album came out. Its complex melodies, rich harmonies, and enigmatic lyrics, sung by Donald Fagen and other unique voices, grabbed me quickly. I played it a lot, both when alone, and for anyone I could. I thought it was the epitome of cool, sophisticated musicianship.
Cool? Sophisticated? Not terms I’d use to describe chocolate ice cream. “Cool” and “sophisticated” are social judgments that I’m imagining others making about my Aja favoritism, because they’re judgments I make of others who feel the same as I do. Being thought to be “cool” or “sophisticated” are very different emotional reactions from the enjoyment I get from ice cream.
To be honest, I’m not certain that someone else didn’t tell me about Aja or play it for me the first time I heard it. In fact, I may have chosen it because it was that person’s favorite. Often, our favorites become favorites because they’re favorites of someone we know, or look up to (“all the cool people are listening to Steely Dan…”), or even (consciously or not) emulate/imitate. We’re sometimes a bit sheepish about admitting that. For some reason, we like to think we make things our favorites solely on our own, without being influenced by others. It’s why “jumping on the bandwagon” is such a pejorative term. So the “me” that favors Aja is a more deeply socially contextual (cultural) part than the one that prefers ice cream.
The sweater? Of those 100, I’d be willing to bet that not a single one would say their favorite is the same as mine. Of course, many people could choose a cashmere sweater as their favorite. Its tactile qualities are widely experienced as pleasurable. In addition, people are likely to make (mostly unconscious) judgments about others who wear cashmere sweaters. So, a cashmere sweater presents social signals, like Aja does. But there’s a difference. Social signals are particularly “strong” for favorite clothes. The things we wear in public are (intentionally or not) strong statements about who we are: “this is ‘me,’ a person who chooses to wear this sweater.”
But, unlike chocolate ice cream, the pleasure we derive from each sweater is unique. Every sweater becomes a favorite thing in a unique context; a very specific spacetime moment. While the social pleasure we derive from wearing the sweater is not insignificant, the deeper source of pleasure we are likely to experience is from the sweater’s biographical integration: the when/where/how/who of acquiring it. When did I acquire it? Was it a gift? From whom?
This sweater became a favorite of mine in the mid-90s. Before then, I had others (vertically-wide-striped wool knit cardigans were a big deal in the Bronx when I was growing up), but they were nothing like the Barney’s cashmere V-neck. It was the most expensive sweater I’d ever bought; it might still be! Before I bought it, I could never afford a sweater like this one, and didn’t appreciate the sensual experience of great cashmere. And it was from Barney’s, not a place where I’d ever shopped in the past! The sweater was a personal emblem, a marker of a transition to a new period in my life. No other person will ever experience the unique pleasure I experience when wearing this sweater, no matter where it goes after I’m gone. My emotional attachment to it as an object can’t be compared with my attachment to ice cream or Aja. Nor can it be replicated.
Aja and the sweater are social objects. Their selection as favorites was “influenced” by broader cultural forces (music styles; fashion), which undoubtedly played a role in me finding them desirable. The “messages” they convey about “me” are much more specific (“personal”) than the chocolate ice cream’s. Their meaning (to me and to others) is very different.
Ice cream—>Aja—>sweater
Embodied—>cultural/personal—>personal/cultural
Each object tells a slightly different story about slightly different facets of “me” at various points in spacetime. Moving from the general, incarnate, embodied (timeless?), pleasure of ice cream to the more cultural-contextual (mark of an era?) pleasure of the album, to the sweater’s unique biographical (moment-in-time?) pleasure is a journey into deeper, more personal dimensions of “me.”
In a way, our favorites provide different pleasures, in different ways, to different parts of “me”:
Ice cream—>the parts of “me” I share with billions (embodied/forever)
Aja—>the parts of “me” I share with millions (culture/bygone era)
Sweater—>the parts of “me” I share with no one else (individual history/unique psychological moments)
What about your favorites? What can you learn about your parts of “me” when you think about them? What about the new ones you established today?
Tom Guarriello is a psychologist, consultant, and founding faculty member of the Masters in Branding program at New York’s School of Visual Arts. He’s spent over a decade teaching psychology-based courses like The Meaning of Branded Objects, as well as leading Honors and Thesis projects. He’s spearheaded two podcasts, BrandBox and RoboPsych, the accompanying podcast for his eponymous website on the psychology of human-robot interaction. This essay was originally posted on Guarriello’s Substack, My Favorite Things.
Header Photo by Dane Deaner on Unsplash | https://www.printmag.com/creative-voices/my-favorite-things-me-and-my-favorites/ | 2022-09-01T22:22:51Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/creative-voices/my-favorite-things-me-and-my-favorites/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Troops of Operation Forest Sanity made further gains as they continued fighting patrols and clearance operations in the Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna State.
In a statement issued by the Commissioner for Insecurity and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, on Thursday, the troops embarked on the clearance patrol along the Birnin Gwari-Doka-Sabon Layi-Kuriga-Maganda-Farin Ruwa road.
According to the statement, the troops made contact with the bandits at Farin Ruwa and as a result two bandits were neutralised in the encounter.
Also, it noted that criminal elements were forced to withdraw under the troops’ superior firepower.
To this end, Kaduna commended the resilient of the troops with satisfaction.
“Kaduna State Government received the development with satisfaction, and commended the troops for another successful round of operations,” the statement read.
It further stated that clearance and fighting patrols will continue in the general area.
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There's a new kind of Covid-19 shot coming soon to a pharmacy or clinic near you.
The US Food and Drug Administration has authorized updated vaccines that target the original strain of the coronavirus as well as the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5. The hope is that these shots will improve protection against the currently circulating viruses that cause Covid-19.
Who should get these new shots? When will they be available? And why should you consider one?
Here's everything you need to know about the bivalent boosters.
What are bivalent vaccines?
These new bivalent vaccines carry instructions to help our cells make defenses against two strains of the virus that causes Covid-19. The shots direct cells to make antibodies that bind to certain parts of the spike proteins from both the original strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants, which share an identical spike.
BA.4 and BA.5 are the dominant variants in the United States, causing an average of 91,000 new infections each day.
"These are vaccines that are made, manufactured and delivered identically to the Covid mRNA vaccines that most of us have already gotten," said Dr. Gregory Poland, who leads the vaccine research group at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. "In a sense, you've just changed the blueprints."
Having twice the blueprints doesn't mean you're getting twice the dose of active ingredients, though.
"The total mRNA content -- the business part of the vaccine -- that leads to the immune response is the same amount," said Dr. William Gruber, senior vice president of vaccine research and development at Pfizer, which makes one of the updated vaccines.
Pfizer's booster is a 30-microgram dose that contains 15 micrograms of mRNA against the ancestral strain and 15 micrograms against the BA.4 and BA.5 variants. It is authorized for people as young as 12.
The company is also retooling its shots for children ages to 5 through 11 and will ask the FDA for authorization of those updated boosters in early October. It's working with the FDA to update vaccines for children ages 6 months through 4 years.
Moderna's bivalent booster is a 50-microgram dose, with 25 micrograms of mRNA designed to fight the ancestral strain of the coronavirus and 25 micrograms of mRNA designed to fight the BA.4 and BA.5 variants. It's authorized for people age 18 and older.
Where and when can I get an updated Covid-19 booster?
The government has already been taking orders for these vaccines, and now that the FDA has authorized them, millions of doses will ship to tens of thousands of sites across the country. These include community health centers, health departments and pharmacies.
As with past Covid-19 vaccines, these shots will be available free of charge. But they may be some of the last Covid-19 freebies from the government, which has said it's going to start commercializing treatments and vaccines this fall.
Pfizer says it has the capacity to ship up to 15 million doses by September 9.
Meanwhile, a panel of experts that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its vaccine recommendations will review the science behind the shots. At a meeting Thursday, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will consider who should get the shots and when people should get them. If the committee votes to recommend them and CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky signs off, people can start getting the shots right away.
"What I'm expecting is, after CDC action, you'll start seeing some places start giving some shots in arms over the weekend, but very relatively few because [of the] Labor Day weekend. And my expectation is over next week, or certainly over the next 10 days, you're going to start seeing these bivalent vaccines become widely available across the country," Dr. Ashish Jha, who leads the White House Covid-19 Response Team, told CNN.
The Biden administration expects appointment availability to ramp up over the first several days, with broad availability in a few weeks. People will be able to find locations at Vaccines.gov.
The government is also preparing to launch a campaign that will urge Americans to get their annual flu shot along with an updated Covid-19 booster. Research on this approach suggests that it's safe.
The updated Covid-19 inoculations will be the only game in town when it comes to boosters, at least for those 12 and up. The FDA says the older boosters are no longer authorized for this age group but will still be available as boosters for children ages 5 to 11.
How do we know the updated Covid-19 vaccines work?
These are the first Covid-19 vaccines that will be authorized for use in people after being tested only in mice. This is much the same process that's followed each year when annual flu shots are updated.
The FDA allowed companies to submit data from animal tests in order to speed these shots to the public. Studies in people are underway, according to Pfizer's Gruber.
Dr. Peter Marks, who directs the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said he expects that it will be a month or two before data on humans is available.
Officials say urgency with these boosters is warranted going into the fall, when Covid-19 is still circulating at high levels and influenza is expected to make a return.
But the decision to rely on animal studies has generated some controversy.
Some vaccine experts feel that animal studies don't provide sufficient evidence for these vaccines at this stage in the pandemic.
"You're asking people to get a new product for which there's no data," Dr. Paul Offit, who directs the vaccine education center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, told CNN. "Mice data are not adequate to launch 100-plus-billion-dose effort."
Offit says it makes sense to use data from animal studies for updates to annual flu vaccines because we've used those shots for decades, and we understand what biomarkers to look for when gauging whether they work. These so-called correlates of protection are not as well understood for the Covid-19 vaccines.
It's not just the shots that are different, Poland said. At this point in the pandemic, our immune systems are, too. Nearly all Americans have been infected with the coronavirus, vaccinated or both. Some people have had four or five doses of vaccine.
"So if you say to me, 'can you assure me that getting dose five or dose six of this new vaccine in the background of having received these previous doses is absolutely safe?' I'd say 'no, I can't.' We're extrapolating. And I think we ought to be clear about that," Poland said.
FDA officials point out that animal studies weren't the only data they reviewed to make their decision. They considered two other lines of evidence.
The first is the vaccines' track records. The same basic vaccines have now been given to hundreds of millions of people around the world. They have been shown to be extremely effective at preventing severe disease and death from Covid-19. Risks associated with mRNA vaccination are very, very low.
The second line of evidence comes from bivalent vaccines that may soon be used in Europe.
Earlier this year, Pfizer and Moderna presented an independent panel of experts who advise the FDA with data on a bivalent vaccine designed to target the original strain of Omicron, BA.1. That data showed that the vaccines boosted antibody responses and were well-tolerated. The UK has authorized these vaccines, but they will not be available in the US.
The BA.1 strain isn't circulating any more, and the FDA asked the manufacturers to update their US shots to include BA.4 and BA.5 instead.
Marks said in a briefing Wednesday that some evidence suggests that the BA.4 and BA.5 strains generate a stronger immune response than BA.1, which is another reason officials wanted to include them in the updated shots.
FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf said he understands that people may want to know more, but he's confident that these vaccines are safe and effective.
"It's fair for people to raise questions. But this really is the best consensus that we have among the experts that this is the best way to go. ... It's just painful to see people dying unnecessarily when there's a free treatment that would prevent their death," he said.
"I will be at the front of the line at the pharmacy getting my vaccination," said Califf, who will turn 71 next month. "I'm very confident about this."
In the past, tests of variant-specific vaccines have had lackluster results. It's hard to know what effect these bivalent vaccines could have.
In a recent preprint study, published ahead of peer review, scientists tried to estimate this with a meta-analysis, or a study of studies. The gathered estimates of antibody levels after booster doses against the ancestral strains, as well as against specific variants, and tried to use those levels to predict how well the shots would work.
They found that people got the biggest benefits from getting boosted, period. A booster against the ancestral strain of the virus that causes Covid-19 increased neutralizing antibodies 11-fold. The scientists estimated that would increase a person's protection against symptomatic infection over the next six months from 50% to 86.5%.
Variant-specific boosters worked a little better, but the difference wasn't dramatic. After those shots, protection against symptomatic infection over the next six months rose to 90.2%, just a 4.6% increase.
Are Covid-19 boosters safe?
A recent review of adverse events after mRNA booster vaccinations in adults the United States found that side effects were less common after booster doses than after second doses of the vaccine, and most were mild. About 1 in 8 adults reported a headache, fever or pain after a booster. In children and teens, commonly reported side effects after boosters were pain at the site of the injection, fatigue, headache and muscle aches.
Very rarely, mRNA vaccines can cause myocarditis, or swelling in or around the heart. After more than 80 million booster doses given in the United States, the government safety surveillance systems received 37 verifiable reports of myocarditis. Most of these were in men.
The highest rates of myocarditis in adults were in younger men -- ages 18 to 24. For every million booster doses given to men this age, the CDC expects about that about will have myocarditis. For adolescents, the rate is slightly higher but still extremely low: about 11 cases of myocarditis for every million doses.
Marks said that to minimize this risk, officials are directing that the vaccines be given at least two months after a previous dose.
"It seems to be associated when they're given closer to one another," he said.
Why are new shots needed?
The Covid-19 vaccines were due for an update.
As the coronavirus has been circulating, it has changed a lot. These changes have helped it slip past the antibodies that we made against older versions of the virus and older versions of the vaccine. As a result, it's gotten better at causing reinfections and breakthrough infections. Some of the monoclonal antibodies made to give people passive immunity against the virus have also stopped working against the new variants.
The hope is that giving people updated vaccines will improve their ability to fight off the infection and shore up protection against severe disease that causes hospitalization or death.
There is also some hope that updated boosters may slow the spread of the virus -- and thus the speed at which vaccine-busting variants appear.
The coronavirus is changing at blistering speed. In a meeting with FDA vaccine advisers last June, Trevor Bedford, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Reserach Center in Seattle, compared the speed of evolution of the viruses that cause Covid-19 to that of the viruses that cause influenza.
Among the faster influenza viruses, he said, it takes about three years for a new strain to emerge and start showing up in testing in significant numbers. Among the variants of the virus that causes Covid-19, the Delta variant pulled off this feat in a year. Omicron did it in three to four months.
So there is genuine concern that without something to slow transmission of the infection, we'll be forever stuck in catchup mode, waiting for faster and potentially more dangerous variants to emerge.
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MILILANI, Hawaii (KITV4) -- One person was killed and two others suffered serious injuries in a two-car crash in the Mililani area, Thursday morning.
The crash happened just before 7 a.m. on Kunia Road. Several crews with Honolulu Emergency Medical Services (EMS) responded to the scene near Kunia Road and Kunia Drive.
According to Honolulu Police (HPD) crash investigators, a 57-year-old man was driving a Toyota pickup and was making a left turn from Kunia Drive onto Kunia Road when he was T-boned by a Jaguar sedan that was heading southbound on Kunia Road.
When EMS arrived they said they found the 57-year-old driver dead at the scene. A 50-year-old woman who was a passenger in the Toyota suffered serious injuries in the crash. The 35-year-old man who was driving the Jaguar also suffered serious injuries.
The two injured individuals were taken to the emergency room. An update on their conditions have not been given.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation. HPD said speed may have played a factor in the crash. It is unclear if drugs or alcohol played a role, investigators said.
Honolulu Police shut down Kunia Road, from the Kunia Post Office to Kunia Camp, while crews worked the scene.
This is the 34th deadly crash on Oahu so far in 2022.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The annual Ride to Remember is set to return this coming Saturday and 22News spoke to organizers who said they are expecting a big turnout with hundreds of riders.
Ten years ago, the Ride to Remember began and continues to pay tribute to officers killed in the line of duty. The ride was first inspired by the death of Springfield Police Officer Kevin Ambrose. The ride also raises money for Christina’s House which is a nonprofit that supports women and children in need.
John Delaney the Ride Director for Ride to Remember told 22News, “As a result of their end of watch, we had a bicycle ride from Springfield to Boston, we’ve done it for 10 years. The first year we had 150 riders. The year before COVID we had over 500.”
The bike ride is set to start at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday and will make a stop at the Hillcrest Cemetery to honor officer Ambrose. Community members are encouraged to follow along the 50 mile route and support the over 300 riders all day Saturday. Riders will be escorted by police officers in motorcycles and will be led by the Thin Blue Line ‘Vette.
“It’s a sobering reminder that this ride was started because Officer Kevin Ambrose woke up one morning and dedicated his life to serving and protecting his community, keeping people like us safe,” expressed the former Executive Director of Christina’s House, Shannon Mumblo.
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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – There are currently 644 bridges in Massachusetts that are listed as structurally deficient. Of that total, there are 275 in western Massachusetts.
A new report from the Massachusetts Budget & Policy Center that was released Wednesday that states one in 12 bridges are in need of repair or replacement.
“Every bridge in our Commonwealth should be safe, well maintained, and open for travel. Bridges connect communities while linking goods to markets, workers to jobs, and families to essential services,” said Phineas Baxandall, Senior Analyst at MassBudget and co-author of the report. “Massachusetts state of bridge repair had improved under a previous $3 billion Accelerated Bridge Repair program that expired. The Commonwealth needs ongoing revenue invested in addressing our backlog of structurally deficient bridges.”
According to the interactive map from MassDOT the following bridges are listed as structurally deficient in western Massachusetts:
Hampden County Structurally Deficient Bridges
- Agawam: Route 5 over Westfield River built 1953 – MassDOT
- Amherst: Potwine Lane over Muddy Brook built 1850 – municipal
- Blandford: Route 23 over Pond Brook, built 1930 – MassDOT
- Chester: Lyman Road over Cook Brook, built 1900 – municipal
- Chester: Blandford Road over Walker Brook, built 1939 – municipal
- Chicopee: Pendelton Ave over Williamansett Brook, built 1950 – municipal
- Chicopee: (Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge) I-391, built 1979 – MassDOT
- Chicopee: (Joseph E. Presnal Memorial Bridge RR# 4.41) Route 116/Chicopee Street, built 1971 – MassDOT
- Granville: Route 57 over Bad Luck Brook, built 1930 – municipal
- Granville: Water Street over Seymour Brook, built 1950 – municipal
- Hampden: Rockadundee over Scantic River, built 1986 – municipal
- Hampden: South Road over Ballard Brook, built 1938 – municipal
- Hampden: Main Street over East Brook, built 1938 – municipal
- Holland: Marcey Place over Stevens Brook, built 1938 – municipal
- Holyoke: Appleton Street over second canal, built 1921 – MassDOT
- Holyoke: Appleton Street over first canal, built 1919 – MassDOT
- Holyoke: Brookwood Road over Whiting Street Reservoir Brook, built 1930 – municipal
- Ludlow: (Putts Bridge) Route 21 over Chicopee River, built 1930 – MassDOT
- Ludlow: Piney Lane over Broad Brook, built 1952 – municipal
- Ludlow: West Street over Chicopee River, built 1939 & reconstructed in 1993 – municipal
- Monson: Old Wales Road over Conant Brook, built 1938 – municipal
- Monson: Route 20 / Park Street over Quaboag, built 1939 – MassDOT
- Monson: Maple Street over Chicopee Brook, built 1930 – municipal
- Monson: Bunyan Road over Chicopee Brook, built 2007 – municipal
- Monson: Stafford Highway railroad, built 1850 & reconstructed 1960 – MassDOT
- Monson: Route 32 / Palmer Road over Chicopee Brook & NECRR, built 1937 & reconstructed in 1992 – MassDOT
- Monson: Hospital Road over Quaboag Stream, built 1940 – municipal
- Monson: State Avenue over Quaboag River, built 1929 – municipal
- Montgomery: Main Road over Powdermill Brook, built 1900 – municipal
- Palmer: Main Street over Ware River, built 1937 – municipal
- Palmer: Church Street over Ware River, built 1937 – municipal
- Palmer: Route 181/Palmer Street over Ware River, built 1938 – MassDOT
- Palmer: I-90 east, built 1957 & reconstructed in 1984 – MassDOT
- Palmer: I-90 west, built 1957 & reconstructed in 1984 – MassDOT
- Palmer: Flynt Street, built 1957 – MassDOT
- Russell: Blandford Stage Road over Stage Brook, built 1956 – municipal
- Springfield: St James Ave, built 1969 – MassDOT
- Springfield: Roosevelt Ave, built 1969 – MassDOT
- Springfield: Bradley Road over south branch of Mill River, built 1933 – municipal
- Springfield: Armory Street railroad, built 1934 – MassDOT
- Springfield: St James Ave railroad, built 1956 & reconstructed in 1969 – MassDOT
- Springfield: St James Ave railroad, built 1903 & reconstructed in 1992 – MassDOT
- Springfield: I-291/Dwight St, built 1967 – MassDOT
- Wales: Holland Road over Wales Brook, built 1956 – municipal
- Wales: Peck Road ober Vinica Brook, built 1956 – municpal
- West Springfield: Bernie Ave, built 1957 & reconstructed in 1994 – MassDOT
- West Springfield: Prospect Ave railroad, built 1926 – MassDOT
- West Springfield: Prospect Ave ramps, built 1968 – MassDOT
- Westfield: Holyoke Road over Pond Brook, built 1935 – municipal
- Westfield: City View Road over Jacks Brook, built 1950 – municipal
- Westfield: Shaker Road over Kellog Brook , built 1960 – municipal
- Westfield: Route 202 over I-90, built 1957 & reconstructed in 1988 – MassDOT
- Westfield: Route 202 over Litte River, built 1916 & reconstructed in 1951 – MassDOT
Hampshire County Structurally Deficient Bridges
- Belchertown: Bardwell Street over Jabish Brook, built 1940 – municipal
- Chesterfield: Damon Pond Road over Damon Pond, built 1960 – municipal
- Cummington: (Dudley Manor Bridge) Route 9 over east branch of the Westfield River, built 1939, MassDOT
- Cummington: Stage Road over north branch of the Swift River, built 1960 – municipal
- Deerfield: Conway Road over Mill River, built 1917 & reconstructed in 1933 – MassDOT
- Easthampton: Glendale Street over Manhan River, built 1938 – municipal
- Easthampton: Liberty Street over Lower Mill Pond, built 1956 – municipal
- Easthampton: I-91 south, built 1963 – MassDOT
- Easthampton: I-91 north, built 1963 – MassDOT
- Goshen: Route 9 over Stones Brook, built 1950 – MassDOT
- Granby: Route 202 over Turkey Hill Brook, built 1913 & reconstructed in 1932 – MassDOT
- Hadley: Route 47 over Russellvill Brook, built 1960 – municipal
- Hadley: N Hadley Road, built 1958 – MassDOT
- Hatfield: Elm Street railroad, built 1963 – MassDOT
- Huntington: Worthington Road over Pond Brook, built 1917 & reconstructed in 1940
- Northampton: Old Springfield Road over Mill River, built 1940 – municipal
- Northampton: Clement Street over Mill River, built 1894 & reconstructed in 1993 – municipal
- Northampton: Main Street over south channel of Mill River, built 1850 – municipal
- Northampton: Main Street over north channel of Mill River, built 1820 – municipal
- Northampton: I-91 south Route 5, built 1965 – MassDOT
- Northampton: I-91 north Route 5, built 1965 – MassDOT
- Northampton: I-91 north Hockanum Road, built 1965 – MassDOT
- Northampton: I-91 south Hockanum Road, built 1965 – MassDOT
- South Hadley: Morgan Street over Stony Brook, built 1949 – municipal
- Southampton: East Street over Manhan River, built 1933 – municipal
- Ware: Route 32 over Ware River, built 1937 – MassDOT
- Ware: North Street over Muddy Brook, built 1939 – municipal
- Ware: Old Por Farm over Flat Brook, built 1939 – municipal
- Ware: Route 9 over Ware River, built 1870 & reconstructed in 1938 – MassDOT
- Westhampton: Perry Hill Road over north branch of Manhan River, built 1956 – municipal
- Williamsburg: Bridge Street over Mill River, built 1918 & reconstructed in 1968 – municipal
Franklin County Structurally Deficient Bridges
- Bernardston: Route 5 over West Brook, built 1950 – MassDOT
- Bernardston: (Bridge Name RR # 45.05) Northfield Road near railroad, built 1967- MassDOT
- Bernardston: Northfield Road over Dry Brook, built 1967- MassDOT
- Bernardston: Northfield Road near I-91, built 1959- MassDOT
- Bernardston: Church Street over Fall River, built 1959 – MassDOT
- Buckland: Nilman Road over Clark Brook, built 1950 & reconstructed in 1900 – municipal
- Buckland: Charlemont Road over Maynard Brook, built 1930 – municipal
- Buckland: (Bridge Name: Iron Bridge) Route 2A/Bridge Street over Deerfield River, built 1890 & reconstructed in 1994 – MassDOT
- Charlemont: Legate Hill over Legate Hill Brook, built 1950 – municipal
- Charlemont: (Bridge Name: Bridge No. 3) S Chickley Road over Chickley River, built 1939 – municipal
- Charlemont: Route 2 over Brok, built in 1929 & reconstructed in 1950 – MassDOT
- Charlemont: Bridge Name: Bridge No. 1 McHaffie) S River Road over Albee Brook, built 1938 & reconstructed in 1960 – municipal
- Charlemont: Route 8A/ West Hawley Road over Deerfield River, built 1944 – municipal
- Colrain: Adamsville Road over Sanders Brook, built 1937 – municipal
- Colrain: (Br. No. 12) Adamsville Road over Vincent Brook, built 1939 – municipal
- Conway: (Br. No. 7) N Poland Road over Poland Brook, built 1940 – municipal
- Erving: Church Street over Keyup Brook, built 1940 – municipal
- Erving: Swamp Road over Keyup Brook, built 1923 – municipal
- Greenfield: (White Bridge) Turners Falls Road over Connecticut River, built 1936 – MassDOT
- Greenfield: (General Fredrick E. Pierce Bridge) Montague Road over Connecticut River, built 1947 – MassDOT
- Greenfield: I-91 north, built 1966 – MassDOT
- Greenfield: I-91 north railroad, built 1962 – MassDOT
- Greenfield – I-91 south railroad, built 1962 – MassDOT
- Greenfield: Route 2A/Main Street railroad, built 1847 – MassDOT
- Greenfield: W Log Plain railroad, built 1956 – MassDOT
- Greenfield: Route 2A/Lower Main over Green River, built 1957
- Leverett: Mill Yard Road over Sawmill River, built 1850 & reconstructed 1900 – municipal
- Montague: South Street over Sawmill River, built 1938 – municipal
- Montague: Fifth Street ober Utility Canal, built 1954 & reconstructed in 1992 – MassDOT
- Montague: Center Street over Sawmill River, built 1937 – municipal
- Montague: North Leverett Road over Sawmill River, built 1939 – municipal
- Montague: Route 63/ Federal Street railroad, built 1938 – MassDOT
- New Salem: Coolville ROad over west branch of the Swift River, built 1920 – municipal
- Northfield: Birnam Road over Mill Brook, built 1937 – municipal
- Northfield: School Street over Mill Brook, built 1937 – municipal
- Northfield – West Northfield Road railroad, built 1909 & reconstructed in 1987 – MassDOT
- Orange: Route 202 over Daniel Shays Highway, built 1955 – MassDOT
- Orange: Route 78/Warwick Road over Orcutt Brook, built 1937 – MassDOT
- Rowe: Leshures Road over Potter Brook , built 1980 – municipal
- Rowe: Ford Hill Road over Shppee Brook, built 1970 – municipal
- Rowe: Cyrus Stage over Potter Brook, built 1939 – municipal
- Shutesbury: Locks Pond Road over Sawmill River, built 1970 – municipal
- Warwick: Gale Road over Gales Brook, built 1950 – municipal
- Wendell: Perry Farm Road over Morman Hollow Brook, built 1950 – MassDOT
- Wendell: Kentfield Road over Whetstone Brook, built 1850 & reconstructed in 2000 – municipal
- Whately: Route 5 over I-91, built 1962 – MassDOT
Berkshire County Structurally Deficient Bridges
- Adams: S Willow Street over Hoosic River, built 1951- municipal
- Alford: N Egrmont Road over Seekonk Brook, built 1940 – municipal
- Alford: West Road over Scribner Brook, built 1947 – municipal
- Becket: Werden Road over Thomas Brook, built 1980 – municipal
- Becket: at Old Mill over west branch of the Westfield River, built 1938 – MassDOT
- Becket: Quarry Road over Cushman Brook, built 1939 – municipal
- Clarksburg: Cross Road over Hudson Brook, built 1928 – municipal
- Great Barrington: Division Street over Housatonic River, built 1950 – municipal
- Great Barrington: Cottage Street over Housatonic River, built 1934 & reconstructed in 1961- municipal
- Hinsdale: Maple Street over E branch of Housatonic River, built 1948
- Lanesborough: Route 7 Williamstown Road over Brodie Mountain Brook, built 1961 – MassDOT
- Lanesborough: Old Williamstown Road over Town Brook, built 1921 – MassDOT
- Lanesborough: Bridge Street over Town Brook, built 1945 – municipal
- Lee: (VFW 893 Veterans Memorial Bridge) ROute 102 over Housatonic River, built 1958 – MassDOT
- Lee: Mill Street over Washinton Mountain Brook, built 1911 & reconstructed in 1937 – municipal
- Lee: Meadow Street over Powder Mill Brook, built 1939 – municipal
- Lee: Silver Street over Greenwater Brook, built 1939 – municipal
- Lenox: (Bridge No. 4) Roaring Brook Road over Roaring Brook, built 1939 – municipal
- Monterey: Curtis Road over Konkapot River, built 1955 – municipal
- New Marlborough: (BRIDGE NO. 7) Lmbrt Crs Rd over Umpachene River, built 1938 – municipal
- New Marlborough: (BRIDGE NO. 1) Keyes Hill Road over Umpachene River, built 1938 – municipal
- New Marlborough: (BRIDGE N0. 4, Alexander) Norfolk Road over Umpachene River, built 1939 – municipal
- North Adams: (Greylock Bridge) Route 2/State Road over Hoosic River, built 1934 & reconstructed in 1958 – MassDOT
- North Adams: Brown Street over Hoosic River, built 1952 – municipal
- Otis: Tannery Road over west branch of Farmington River, built 1930 & reconstructed in 1969 – municipal
- Otis: Route 8 over Church Brook, built 1927 – MassDOT
- Otis: Route 8 over west branch of Farmington River, built 1917 – MassDOT
- Pittsfield: (Tel-Electric Bridge) Mill Street over west branch of Housatonic River, built 1907 – municipal
- Pittsfield: Hungerford over southwest branch of Housatonic River, built 1935 – municipal
- Pittsfield: Hancock Road over Daniels Brook, built 1930 – municipal
- Pittsfield: D Casey M Drive over Onota Lake, built 1940 – municipal
- Pittsfield: E New Lenox over Sackett Brook, built 1936 & reconstructed in 1989 – municipal
- Pittsfield: Elm Street over east branch of Housatonic River, built 1911 – municipal
- Pittsfield: Pecks Road over Onota Brook, built 1915 – municipal
- Pittsfield: Route 20 over Shaker Brook, built 1919 & reconstructed in 1932 – MassDOT
- Pittsfield: Pontoosuc over west branch of Housatonic River, built 1993 – municipal
- Pittsfield: Taconic I Road over west branch of Housatonic River, built 1920 – municipal
- Richmond: Route 41 over Furnance Brook, Built 1970 – MassDOT
- Sandisfield: Sandisfield Road, built in 1900 – municipal
- Savoy: Center Road over Center Brook, built 1938 – municipal
- Savoy: Black Brook Road over Black Brook, built 1939 – municipal
- Sheffield: Route 41 over stream, built 1915 – MassDOT
- Sheffield: East Road over Ironwork Brook, built 1850 & reconstructed in 1980 – municipal
- Sheffield: County Road over Ironwork Brook, built 1939 – municipal
- Sheffield: Kelsey Road over Schenob Brookm built 1915 – municipal
- Stockbridge: Averic Road over Larrywaug Brook, built 1920 – municipal
- Stockbridge: Intrlkn cross over Larrywaug Brook, built 1858 – municipal
- Tyringham: Jerusalem Road over Hop Brook, built 1938 – municipal
- Washington: New Lenox Road over Mill Brook, built 1930 & reconstructed in 1995 – municipal
- Washington: Whitney over Roaring Brook, built 1900 & reconstructed in 1950 – municipal
- Washington: Sargent over Depot Brook, built 1850 & reconstructed in 1921 – municipal
- Washington: New Lenox Road over Mill Brook, built 1900 & reconstructed in 1970 – municipal
- Washington: Lower Valley over Depot Brook, built 1930 & reconstructed in 1970 – municipal
- Williamstown: W Main Street over Hemlock Brook, built 1976 – municipal
- Windsor: Route 9 over Jenks Brook, built 1919 & reconstructed in 1952 – MassDOT
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As Braylon Price remembers it, he struggled with pretty much everything the first full school year of the pandemic. With minimal guidance and frequent disruptions, he had trouble staying on top of assignments and finishing homework on time.
It was so rocky his parents asked for him to repeat sixth grade — a decision they credit with getting him on a better track. “At first I didn’t really want to do it,” said Braylon, now 13. “But then later in the year I thought it would probably be better for me if I did.”
The number of students held back for a year of school has surged around the country. Traditionally, experts have said repeating a grade can hurt kids social lives and academic futures. But many parents, empowered by new pandemic-era laws, have asked for do-overs to help their children recover from the tumult of remote learning, quarantines and school staff shortages.
Twenty-two of the 26 states that provided data for the recent academic year, as well as Washington, D.C., saw an increase in the number of students who were held back, according to an Associated Press analysis. Three states — South Carolina, West Virginia and Delaware — saw retention more than double.
Pennsylvania, where the Price family lives, passed a pandemic-era law allowing parents to elect to have a redo for their kids. The following year, the number of retained students in the state jumped by about 20,000, to over 45,000 students.
Braylon’s mother has no regrets about taking advantage of the new law. “Best decision we could have made for him,” said Kristi Price, who lives in Bellefonte, in central Pennsylvania.
While the family’s two daughters managed to keep up with school despite limited supervision, Braylon struggled. He went back to in-person school for the first full academic year of the pandemic but it was “wishy-washy,” his mother said. Students were quarantined on and off, and teachers tried to keep up with students learning at home, online and in hybrid models. That winter, Braylon suffered a spinal cord injury from wrestling that forced him to go back to remote learning.
On his repeat of sixth grade, Braylon had an individualized education program that helped him build more focus. Having more one-on-one attention from teachers helped too. Socially, he said the transition was easy, since most of his friends had been in lower grades or attended different schools already.
Research in the education world has been critical of making students repeat grades. The risk is students who’ve been retained have a two-fold increased risk of dropping out, said Arthur Reynolds, a professor at the University of Minnesota’s Human Capital Research Collaborative, citing studies of students in Chicago and Baltimore.
“Kids see it as punishment,” Reynolds said. “It reduces their academic motivation, and it doesn’t increase their instructional advancement.”
But backers of retention say none of the research was conducted in a pandemic, when many children wrestled with Zoom lessons and some stopped logging in entirely.
“So many children have struggled and have had a lot of problems,” said Florida state Sen. Lori Berman, a Delray Beach Democrat. Berman authored a law aimed at making it easier for parents to ask for kindergarten to fifth graders to repeat a grade in the 2021-22 school year. “I don’t think there is any stigma to holding your child back at this point.”
Generally, parents can ask for children to be held back, but the final decision is up to principals, who make decisions based on factors including academic progress. California and New Jersey also passed laws that made it easier for parents to demand their children repeat a grade, although the option was only available last year.
In suburban Kansas City, Celeste Roberts decided last year for another round of second grade for her son, who she said was struggling even before the pandemic. When virtual learning was a bust, he spent the year learning at a slower pace with his grandmother, a retired teacher who bought goats to keep things fun. Roberts said repeating the year helped her son academically and his friends hardly noticed.
“Even with peers, some of them were like, ‘Wait, shouldn’t you be in third grade?’ And he’s just like, ‘Well, I didn’t go to school because of COVID,’” she said. “And they’re kind of like, ‘OK, cool.’ You know, they move on. It’s not a thing. So it’s been really great socially. Even with the parent circles. Everybody’s just like, ‘Great. Do what your kid needs to do.’”
Ultimately, there shouldn’t be just two options of repeating a grade or going on to the next, said Alex Lamb, who has been looking at research on grade retention as part of her work with the Center for Education, Policy Analysis, Research and Evaluation at the University of Connecticut to help advise school districts.
“Neither of those options are good,” she said. “A great option is letting students move on, and then introducing some of these supports that are research-backed, that are effective and that allow for academic and social-emotional growth of students and then communities.”
In Pennsylvania’s Fox Chapel Area School District, two students were retained at the behest of educators, while eight families decided their students would repeat a grade. Another six discussed the new legislation with the school and ultimately decided against holding their students back.
“As a school district, we take retention very seriously,” Superintendent Mary Catherine Reljac said. She said the district involves parents, a team of educators, school counselors and principals to help decide what is best for each child.
Price says Braylon’s retention helped him obtain an individualized education program, or IEP. The special ed plan gave him more support as he navigated sixth grade again. When he thinks about the difference between rounds one and two of sixth grade, Braylon said he felt like the extra support was instrumental, noting he likes having one-on-one aid from teachers sometimes.
“In online school, you didn’t really do that,” he said. “You did the work and then you just turned it in.”
He doesn’t want to be given the answer, he said, but guided enough that he can figure it out on his own.
“I think because of the pandemic, we, as parents, were able to see how much he was struggling and we were able to recognize that he was barely keeping his head above water, and that he needed more help in order to be successful on his own,” Price said. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/ap-u-s-news/more-kids-are-repeating-a-grade-is-it-good-for-them/ | 2022-09-01T22:28:31Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/ap-u-s-news/more-kids-are-repeating-a-grade-is-it-good-for-them/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. — Plan a fun long weekend with your family and friends and attend the events happening in Spokane for Labor Day weekend.
Residents and visitors can attend the annual Pig Out in the Park, the Americans and the Holocaust Gonzaga Library Exhibition, a free concert by the Spokane Symphony, the Tribe of Indians Pow Wow celebration or attend the Labor Day parade in Spirit Lake.
Here is the list of fun events taking place in Spokane this weekend:
Pig Out in the Park
Pig Out in the Park is returning to Spokane for Labor Day weekend for the first time in two years.
The public festival will run from Aug. 31 to Sept. 5 in Riverfront Park. The event will feature musical entertainment and dozens of local vendors.
You can look at all the food vendors and musical acts scheduled to be at the event by clicking here.
Gonzaga Library Exhibition
Gonzaga University’s Foley Center Library has been selected to host 'Americans and the Holocaust' from Aug. 23-Oct. 7.
This traveling exhibit from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and ’40s.
Based on the special exhibition of the same name at the museum in Washington, D.C., it will be on display in the Cowles Rare Books Room on the third floor of Foley Library. People can visit the exhibit during September on Wednesdays from 3-8 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 1-5 p.m. People can also visit it next month, from Oct.1-7 on Saturday and Sunday from 1-5 p.m. and Monday-Friday from 3-8 p.m.
Spokane Symphony free concerts
The Spokane Symphony will perform two free concerts. On Saturday, Sept. 3 from 3-6 p.m. at the Pavilion Par, in Liberty Lake, and on Monday, Sept. 5 at Comstock Park in Spokane for Labor Day at 6 p.m.
These outdoor concerts have been delighting thousands of people through Labor Day weekend with their lineup of popular classics and favorites from the worlds of Hollywood and Broadway. Come early and enjoy some danceable grooves from local band, Funky Unkle, at Comstock Park. The concert will be directed by conductor James Lowe.
Bring a picnic and enjoy the music!
Tribe of Indians Pow Wow & Celebration
The 106th annual Spokane Tribe of Indians Pow Wow & Celebration kicks off Thursday at 5 p.m.
The celebration continues through Monday, Sept. 5. at Tribal grounds, located at BIA Highway 183, in Wellpinit, WA, about one hour away from Spokane. Visit the Spokane Tribe of Indians website for full details.
Events Schedule list:
- Thursday, Sept. 1: Royalty Competition at 5 p.m. and Tiny Tot Grant entry at 7 p.m.
- Friday, Sept. 2: Pow Wow competition begins. Grant entry starts at 7 p.m.
- Saturday, Sept. 3: Grant entries at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.
- Sunday, Sept 4: 5k Fun Run at 9 a.m.. Grant Entry at 1 p.m. Pow Wow competition winners announced at the session's end.
- Monday, Sept. 5: Traditional Po Wow. Grant entry at 1 p.m.
Spirit Lake Labor Day Parade
A Labor Day Parade starts at 11 a.m. on Sunday in Spirit Lake. There will be vendors and more activities in the park after the parade, including a car show in the park put on by the Roy Racy VFW Post 1473 Spirit lake.
The longtime Labor Day celebration traditionally lasts just a few minutes, with a handful of entries that include people riding scooters and ATVs, flags and folks in colorful outfits. Lots of candy goes out to the kids. The parade is about two blocks long, going up Maine Street and making its way to City Park.
People are welcome to join the parade. The line up starts at 10:30 a.m. on the south corner of 3rd and Maine.
Wonder Saturday Farmers Market
The Wonder Saturday Market supports small farmers and the community. The market’s emphasis is on locally grown farm produce. People can enjoy entertainment, street food vendors, prepared food, and work from juried local artisans during the farmers market.
The market is located in Wonder Building at 835 N Post St, in Spokane.
The Farmers Market is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and it is located in Wonder Building at 835 N Post St, in Spokane. Get there early to shop, and then you can sketch your purchase.
Do you know about any other events happening around Spokane and North Idaho? Let us know and email us at webspokane@krem.com.
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COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Multiple factors helped tank the Coeur d’Alene School District’s levy Tuesday at the polls, including an opposition campaign by the local Republican party, reports our partners from the Coeur d'Alene Press.
The school plant facilities levy, if passed by voters, would have provided the school district with an additional $8 million per year over 10 years to support safety and maintenance needs in school buildings.
It required a 55% supermajority to pass, but received just 50.27% of the votes in favor, which was slightly more than the nearly 50% who voted against the measure.
"The failure of the levy does not change the fact that the district has some security measures and deferred maintenance issues that need to be addressed," Coeur d'Alene School Board Vice Chair Casey Morrisroe told The Press on Wednesday. "We will need to look at other options."
If approved, the levy would have provided funding to address more than $25 million in deferred maintenance projects, ranging from aging heating and cooling systems, roofs, water heaters and flooring to sound systems, alarm systems, door locks and security cameras.
"It’s unfortunate that the levy did not pass as the safety, security and maintenance needs of our buildings and district remain the same," Board Chair Rebecca Smith said.
Coeur d’Alene Superintendent Shon Hocker said district officials will take time this fall to evaluate the outcome and the district’s most-pressing safety and maintenance needs.
“I do expect the board of trustees will take up this discussion at one of its next meetings or workshops,” Hocker said. “It will be up to the trustees to decide if and when another plant facility levy request is appropriate.”
He said the district is grateful for the support it received.
“It just wasn’t enough to meet the higher passage requirement of 55% for this type of levy,” Hocker said.
He said the district is aware of efforts to oppose the levy.
“What is disappointing to see is the misinformation that appears intended to confuse or scare voters,” Hocker said. “We saw social media posts that portrayed the levy request as something far different than what it was. Voters deserve clear, honest answers, and that is what we will always provide. Unfortunately, some voters rely on social media sources that either present partial truths or blatant misinformation. We will continue to work hard to counter this misleading information moving forward.”
According to social media posts by Republicans affiliated with the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, the KCRCC paid for 10,288 text messages to be sent to voters in the school district. Some voters reported receiving a text message Tuesday around 7 a.m., an hour before polls opened, from the same number used by the KCRCC to send a text to voters on May 17, the date of the Republican primary.
Tuesday’s text message did not specifically state it was from the KCRCC; however, it did include inaccurate information: “Average household to pay $235 more/yr.” That calculation is based on an incorrect levy rate and does not reflect the current rate.
The proposed levy would have added about $.31 per $1,000 of taxable assessed value, based on the 2022-23 property valuation completed this past summer. A home assessed at $595,000, with the $125,000 exemption subtracted, would have a taxable value of $470,000. At $.31 per $1,000, the levy would cost this homeowner $147.70 more per year, not $235.
Two trustees on the school board, Allie Anderton and Lesli Bjerke, are active with the KCRCC, and they both voted in favor of floating the levy before voters. The Press emailed each of them Wednesday to ask how they felt about the opposition from their party, but neither responded by press time.
A TikTok post created following the levy’s failure shows Erin Barnard, a self-described conservative and blogger who runs the Kootenai County Spectator site, slowly taking a sip of red wine while a man, presumably her husband, dances behind her. The post says: “That feeling when the $80 million levy fails.”
Morrisroe said he could only speculate why some in the community did not support the levy.
"I hope we can engage them to learn more about their reasons," he said. "Based on questions directed to me and comments I saw online, I believe the primary concerns were with the property tax impact confusion, the state of the economy and the size and scope of the request. While I am unaware of any organized campaign to encourage people to vote 'no,' there appeared to be some individuals willing to say anything to cause confusion and skepticism."
Pastor Paul Van Noy at Candlelight Christian Fellowship, speaking Aug. 17 during a regular Wednesday evening service/Q&A at the Coeur d’Alene church, urged those listening to vote against the levy.
"Since we are talking about politics, I'm going to prepare to offend some of you," he said, from a podium. "I want you to vote 'no' on the school levy."
He told them to keep in mind two of Candlelight's members are school board members.
"This is a difficult situation, because there are certain things that our school district does need — air conditioning and some improvements in structure and so forth,” Van Noy said. “But this is an inappropriate bill.”
He said the levy will “cost everyone that lives in Kootenai County.” However, the levy would have impacted only residents of the Coeur d’Alene School District, which includes Hayden.
“And it is to help support — again, I'm not sorry for what I'm about to say — but with apologies, I'll at least say this: The public school system is not your friend,” Van Noy continued. “And they are on a mission to destroy your children and it's not something that we can be supportive of, so I don't think that we should be allowing for our money, that really belongs to the Lord, to be supporting our government-run schools."
Another likely factor in the levy’s failure at the polls was hesitation by some senior citizens in the community who expressed concerns about paying more taxes for the schools.
Senior citizens in some states other than Idaho don't pay property taxes or they pay reduced rates. For Idaho to follow suit, it would take action by lawmakers in Boise.
"As Idaho continues to grow as a retirement community, I certainly would support and encourage the Legislature to explore this issue," Morrisroe said.
Hocker said he would be in favor of exempting seniors from paying taxes that fund schools.
“In fact, I'd be in favor of creating a system of property tax relief that would lessen all property taxes a senior may have to pay,” he said.
North Dakota, where he recently moved from, he said, uses the Homestead Property Tax Credit and Renter’s Refund — property tax credits available to eligible seniors older than 65 or individuals with permanent or total disabilities. He said the goal of these types of tax credits is to provide relief from increased property taxes.
“I do believe that something like this would help Idaho schools pass these types of very important levies,” Hocker said. “Although many senior citizens in our community are actively engaged in and fully support our schools, many of these same seniors are on fixed incomes that are not always keeping up with today’s inflation rates.”
Hocker said it’s important to reiterate that the school district relies on taxpayers to provide for the funding gap created by the state of Idaho’s insufficient school-funding system.
“As your superintendent, I'm committed to never asking the board to present to our taxpayers a levy or a bond unless it is vital,” Hocker said. “We have approached the point in time where our facility needs are significant and we must find a way to ensure a safe and supportive learning environment for our students and all of the staff who are there to support them.”
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WASHINGTON — U.S. health advisers on Thursday endorsed new COVID-19 boosters that target today’s most common omicron strains, saying if enough people roll up their sleeves, the updated shots could blunt a winter surge.
The tweaked shots made by Pfizer and rival Moderna promise Americans a chance at their most up-to-date protection at yet another critical period in the pandemic. They’re combination or “bivalent” shots, half the original vaccine and half protection against the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron versions now causing nearly all COVID-19 infections.
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention struggled with who should get the new booster and when -- because only a similarly tweaked vaccine, not the exact recipe, has been studied in people so far.
But ultimately the panel deemed it the best option considering the U.S. still is experiencing tens of thousands of COVID-19 cases and about 500 deaths every day — even before an expected new winter wave.
“I think they’re going to be an effective tool for disease prevention this fall and into the winter,” said CDC adviser Dr. Matthew Daley of Kaiser Permanente Colorado.
Comparing the tweak that has been studied in people and the one the U.S. actually will use, "it is the same scaffolding, part of the same roof, we’re just putting in some dormers and windows,” said Dr. Sarah Long of Drexel University.
The CDC is expected to adopt that recommendation soon, the last step before shots can begin. Millions of doses are expected to reach vaccination sites nationwide by Labor Day, CDC officials said.
The original COVID-19 vaccines still offer strong protection against severe illness and death, especially among younger and healthier people who’ve gotten at least one booster.
But those vaccines were designed to target the virus strain that circulated in early 2020. Effectiveness drops as new mutants emerge and the longer it’s been since someone’s last shot. Since April, hospitalization rates in people over age 65 have jumped, the CDC said.
The new updated shots are only for use as a booster, not for someone's first-ever vaccinations. The Food and Drug Administration cleared Pfizer's bivalent option for people 12 and older while Moderna's is for adults only.
A big unknown: Exactly how much benefit people will get from one of those extra shots.
The CDC said more than 1,400 people have been included in studies of a prior tweak to the vaccine recipe — targeting an earlier omicron strain named BA.1. That omicron-targeting combo shot proved safe and able to rev up virus-fighting antibodies — and European regulators on Thursday recommended using that type of booster.
In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration wanted fall boosters to target the currently circulating omicron strains — and rather than waiting until possibly November for more human studies to be finished, the agency accepted mouse testing that showed the newer tweak sparked a similarly good immune response.
That's how flu vaccines are updated every year, the CDC noted.
Still, several CDC advisers said that to get the maximum benefit, people will need to wait longer between their last vaccination and getting the new booster than the two months that the FDA set as the minimum. Waiting at least three months would be better, from the last shot or if someone had recently recovered from COVID-19, they said.
Before this new COVID-19 booster update, people 50 and older already were urged to get a second booster of the original vaccine — and those who did saw some extra protection especially the longer it had been since their last shot, said CDC’s Dr. Ruth Link-Gelles.
The new combination booster “should provide at least similar or better protection against omicron since it’ll be a better match” to today's virus strains, she told the panel. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/cdc-recommends-updated-covid-boosters/507-30eef351-6a40-4b20-b500-157176bc0ee5 | 2022-09-01T22:32:34Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/cdc-recommends-updated-covid-boosters/507-30eef351-6a40-4b20-b500-157176bc0ee5 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — Thousands of jogging strollers have been recalled after a child was injured when their fingertip got caught in the stroller's rear brakes.
According to the notice posted by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the recall involves more than 14,000 UPPAbaby all-terrain RIDGE jogging strollers, which have an extendable canopy with a mesh window and zipper pocket, disc hand brake system and adjustable handlebar with wrist strap.
The issue is that the stroller's rear disk brakes feature openings that pose an amputation hazard if a child who isn't in the stroller gets their fingertip caught in the openings while it's being used.
According to the recall, there has been one report of a child, who was not in the stroller at the time, suffering a fingertip amputation. In the notice posted on UPPAbaby's site, the company said they believe that injury was "likely due to consumer misuse."
The serial numbers of the recalled products, which appear on the right side of the stroller frame above the rear wheel of the stroller, begin with “1401RDGUS.” The model number “1401-RDG-US” is printed on the left side of the stroller frame above the rear wheel of the stroller.
The recalled jogging strollers were sold from Oct. 2021 through Aug. 2022 for about $600. The strollers were available at BuyBuyBaby, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Pottery Barn Kids and other children’s stores nationwide and online at Amazon.com.
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SEATTLE — As students return to school across Washington state, drivers may want to brush up on the rules when it comes to school buses loading or unloading students.
Drivers who violate the rules can face a $500 ticket, per state law.
So when is it OK for a driver to pass a stopped school bus with its stop-arm out?
When you should stop for a school bus
Drivers overtaking or meeting a stopped school bus that is picking up or dropping off students are required to stop before reaching the bus when there is a visual signal to do so. Drivers are expected to wait until the school bus begins moving again or there are no longer visual signals to stop.
This pertains to:
- Drivers traveling in either direction on a two-lane road
- Drivers traveling in the same direction as a school bus with a turn lane in the middle (note: vehicles traveling in the opposite direction do not need to stop)
- Drivers traveling in the same direction as a school bus if there is a median or island between opposing directions (note: vehicles traveling in the opposite direction do not need to stop)
- Drivers traveling in the same direction as a school bus on a road with three or more lanes (note: vehicles traveling in the opposite direction do not need to stop)
Some buses are also now equipped with cameras specifically installed to catch drivers who do not stop when a stop-arm paddle is out.
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Chicago police search for person of interest in South Side murder
CHICAGO - Chicago police are asking for the public's help identifying a man who is a person of interest in a murder that happened last year.
The homicide occurred in the 3800 block of South Michigan Avenue sometime between the dates of June 11 and 15, 2021.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Chicago police detectives at 312-747-8380.
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Police searching for suspect who escaped custody near Elmhurst golf course
ELMHURST, Ill. - Authorities in Elmhurst are searching for a suspect who escaped police custody Thursday afternoon on the Eisenhower Expressway.
Devin M. Revels, 27, broke free from an Elmhurst police car about 2:01 p.m. near westbound I-290 near the Austin Avenue exit, according to Elmhurst police.
Earlier Thursday, Revels and another suspect were arrested near Cicero and Erie streets in Chicago for allegedly stealing a catalytic converter.
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While being taken back to DuPage County for processing, Revels allegedly kicked out the back window of the squad car and ran on the expressway near Austin Boulevard.
Officers lost sight of him after he fled into the woods along the south side of the Columbus Park Golf Course, police said.
Revels was described by police as a Black male, 5-foot-11, 160 pounds with a face tattoo. He was last seen wearing a tan shirt and was handcuffed.
Elmhurst and Chicago police are involved in the search along with police K-9s and a helicopter, police said.
Anyone with information about Revels' whereabouts is asked to call 911 immediately.
Revels has a lengthy criminal record in Cook County that includes aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, multiple domestic violence charges and possession of a substance.
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Florida mom’s post about how toddler's creepy doll scored them perks at Disney World goes viral
GROVELAND, Fla. - Many children might find Chloe the doll a bit – terrifying. But not Briar!
The adorable 3-year-old from Central Florida loves her ‘Creepy Chloe’ doll with glowing red eyes so much that she dresses her up like a princess and takes her on trips to Walt Disney World – which has scored the family some pretty cool perks.
Her mom, Brittany Beard, says Briar fell in love with the baby doll with gray, cracked skin after seeing her at the Spirit Halloween store.
"She said, ‘But I’m it’s mommy and it needs me!’" Brittany wrote in a now viral Facebook post. "Briar named the doll Chloe and I then immediately nicknamed her Creepy Chloe. I’m pretty sure Creepy Chloe is stealing my soul when I sleep."
In the post, Brittany detailed their latest trip to Magic Kingdom and how her daughter's scary sidekick got everyone into the Halloween spirit! During breakfast at the Grand Floridian, the pastry chef surprised Briar and Chloe with a spooky cupcake and a mini handmade chocolate Haunted Mansion poster. The family then went over to Magic Kingdom where Briar was set up with a photoshoot and visited The Haunted Mansion – where Creepy Chloe obviously fit right in.
"There was a 50 minute wait to get on the ride but when they saw Briar, they immediately whisked her away into the secret ‘Servants Quarters’ where we got to see the keys to all rooms and the bells that ring to call the servants up," Brittany said in the post. "Then they popped us right out into the stretching room. The cast members were waiting for us when the doors opened to present us with official Haunted Mansion Caretaker certificates and to walk us right on to the ride. It was so magical!"
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The photos of Briar and Chloe have gone viral, racking up thousands of shares and likes. The duo even have their own Instagram page, CreepyChloeandBriar, where you can follow their adventures!
Despite the doll's unsettling features, Brittany says Chloe is here to stay.
"So all in all, I guess the moral of the story is when your 3 year old throws a fit over absolutely needing a super creepy Halloween doll… buy the doll. Creepy Chloe might be stealing my soul while I sleep, but we are making the best of our time left over here!" | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/florida-mom-shares-how-toddlers-creepy-doll-scored-them-special-perks-at-disney-world | 2022-09-01T22:43:33Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/florida-mom-shares-how-toddlers-creepy-doll-scored-them-special-perks-at-disney-world | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Former NYPD cop gets 10 years in prison for Jan. 6 attack
NEW YORK - A retired NYPD officer was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in prison for attacking the U.S. Capitol and using a metal flagpole to assault one of the police officers trying to hold off a mob of Donald Trump supporters.
Thomas Webster's prison sentence is the longest so far among roughly 250 people who have been punished for their conduct during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021. The previous longest was shared by two other rioters, who were sentenced separately to seven years and three months in prison.
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Webster, a 20-year NYPD veteran, was the first Capitol riot defendant to be tried on an assault charge and the first to present a self-defense argument. A jury rejected Webster's claim that he was defending himself when he tackled Metropolitan Police Department officer Noah Rathbun and grabbed his gas mask outside the Capitol on Jan. 6.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Webster, 56, to 10 years in prison plus three years of supervised release, noting that along with Rathbun, "the other victim was democracy." He allowed Webster to report to prison at a date to be determined instead of immediately ordering him into custody.
Thomas Webster (L) and another man inside the Capitol during the January 6 riot.
Federal prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of 17 years and six months. The court’s probation department had recommended a 10-year prison sentence. Mehta wasn't bound by the recommendations.
In a court filing, prosecutors accused Webster of "disgracing a democracy that he once fought honorably to protect and serve." Webster led the charge against police barricades at the Capitol’s Lower West Plaza, prosecutors said. They compared the attack to a medieval battle, with rioters pelting officers with makeshift projectiles and engaging in hand-to-hand combat.
"Each individual attack on an officer at the West Plaza weakened the defensive line, fueled the crowd, and brought the rioters one step closer toward disrupting our democracy," they wrote.
Defense attorney James Monroe said Webster was "swept up in the fervor of the large crowd" but didn't join many other rioters in entering the Capitol. Monroe said the mob was "guided by unscrupulous politicians" and others promoting the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from the Republican incumbent.
"These forces championed by former President Donald Trump exerted an extraordinary amount of influence over those Americans present at the Capitol on Jan. 6 though their relentless disinformation," Monroe wrote.
In May, jurors deliberated for less than three hours before they convicted Webster of all six counts in his indictment, including a charge that he assaulted Rathbun with a dangerous weapon, the flagpole.
Also Thursday, a New Jersey man pleaded guilty to using pepper spray on police officers, including one who later died. Officer Brian Sicknick suffered a stroke the day after the riot and died of natural causes. He and other officers were standing guard behind metal bicycle racks as the mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.
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Julian Khater, 33, pleaded guilty to two counts of assaulting or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon. He could face up to 20 years in prison, though will likely face a sentence ranging from about 6 1/2 to 8 years at a hearing set for December.
The case against Khater and a second man have been among the more notable brought by the Justice Department. George Pierre Tanios brought the pepper spray in a backpack. Tanios previously pleaded guilty and is also set to be sentenced in December.
Webster had testified at trial that he was trying to protect himself from a "rogue cop" who punched him in the face. He also accused Rathbun of instigating the confrontation.
Rathbun testified that he didn’t punch or pick a fight with Webster. Rathbun said he was trying to move Webster back from a security perimeter that he and other officers were struggling to maintain.
Rathbun’s body camera captured Webster shouting profanities and insults before they made any physical contact. The video shows that Webster slammed one of the bike racks at Rathbun before the officer reached out with an open left hand and struck the right side of Webster’s face.
After Rathbun struck his face, Webster swung a metal flag pole at the officer in a downward chopping motion, striking a bike rack. Rathbun grabbed the broken pole from Webster, who charged at the officer, tackled him to the ground and grabbed his gas mask, choking him by the chin strap.
Webster drove alone to Washington, D.C., from his home near Goshen, New York, on the eve of the Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rally, where Trump addressed thousands of supporters. Webster was wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a Marine Corps flag on a metal pole when he joined the mob that stormed the Capitol.
Webster said he went to the Capitol to "petition" lawmakers to "relook" at the results of the 2020 presidential election. But he testified that he didn’t intend to interfere with Congress’ joint session to certify President Joe Biden 's victory.
Webster retired from the NYPD in 2011 after 20 years of service, which included a stint on then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s private security detail. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1985 to 1989 before joining the NYPD in 1991.
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Associated Press writer Lindsay Whitehurst contributed to this report. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/former-nypd-cop-gets-10-years-in-prison-for-jan-6-attack | 2022-09-01T22:43:39Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/former-nypd-cop-gets-10-years-in-prison-for-jan-6-attack | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
'Heartbreaking loss': Chicago police officer dies by suicide Thursday, CPD says
If you or a loved one is feeling distressed, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The crisis center provides free and confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to civilians and veterans. Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-8255 or text HOME to 741-741 (Crisis Text Line)
CLICK HERE for the warning signs and risk factors of suicide. Call 1-800-273-TALK for free and confidential emotional support.
CHICAGO — The Chicago Police Department is mourning the loss of an officer who died by suicide on Thursday.
"The Chicago Police Department has experienced the heartbreaking loss of an off-duty officer today to an apparent suicide. We ask that the people of Chicago pray for this officer’s family, loved ones, and fellow officers as they mourn this devastating loss," CPD said in a statement.
Further details regarding the deceased officer weren't immediately released.
Last week, CPD announced they are working with the "National Alliance on Mental Illness" to get officers the help they need.
Through the partnership, the organization says it has identified a need to offer mental health support to officers because law enforcement culture has focused on "toughening up," which has prevented officers from seeking help.
The organization says it has worked with CPD's crisis intervention program since 2004.
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Twenty sworn Chicago police officers have died from suicide since 2018, including five this year, according to figures provided by a police spokesman. In 2017, a report by the U.S. Department of Justice found the department’s suicide rate was 60% higher than the national average.
The deaths have highlighted the mental health issues facing sworn officers, and have renewed condemnation of the department’s decision to routinely cancel days off, a practice that underscores deep staffing woes.
If you or a loved one is feeling distressed, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The crisis center provides free and confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to civilians and veterans. Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-8255 or text HOME to 741-741 (Crisis Text Line)
CLICK HERE for the warning signs and risk factors of suicide. Call 1-800-273-TALK for free and confidential emotional support.
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Jogging strollers recalled after rear brakes cut off child's fingertip
More than 14,000 jogging strollers sold by UPPAbaby have been recalled after a child’s fingertip was amputated by a stroller’s rear disc brakes.
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the company’s all-terrain RIDGE jogging strollers have openings that can cause amputation or laceration if fingers get caught in the openings while the stroller is in use. There has been one report of a child who was not in the stroller losing a fingertip after it got caught in the stroller’s rear brakes.
The recall involves all of the all-terrain RIDGE models, which have an extendable canopy with a mesh window and zipper pocket, disc hand brake system and an adjustable handlebar with a wrist strap. The model number "1401-RDG-US" is printed on the left side of the stroller frame.
About 14,400 strollers have been sold at BuyBuyBaby, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Pottery Barn Kids and other children’s stores from October 2021 through August 2022. The strollers are also available on Amazon and sell for about $600., the CPSC said.
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Woman caught in the crossfire after suspects open fire on each other on Chicago's West Side
CHICAGO - A woman was shot in the chest after being caught in the cross-fire of two vehicles on Chicago's West Side Thursday afternoon.
At about 2 p.m., the 37-year-old woman was on a porch in the 1100 block of South Francisco when two vehicles were driving by and occupants in the vehicles began firing shots at each other, Chicago police said.
The victim was caught in the cross-fire and shot in the chest.
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She was transported to an area hospital in serious condition.
The victim was not the intended target, police said.
No one is in custody.
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GREENFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Greenfield Police Chief Robert Haigh is back at work after an investigation found no credible evidence he had violated city policy.
That investigation started as a special jury found the Police Department had racially discriminated against their only black employee. Following Wednesday’s joint statement from the Mayor’s Office and Police Department, both declined to go on camera.
On May 6th, a special jury in a civil suit found the Greenfield Police Department discriminated against retired Officer Patrick Buchanan. Chief Robert Haigh was put on paid administrative leave that same day.
According to the Mayor’s Office Wednesday, that was not in response to the jury’s decision but over an investigation into a conversation on April 22nd in the Hampshire County Superior Court parking lot. The Mayor’s office said Haigh interpreted that as “an attempt to circumvent court proceedings”.
While Haigh remained on leave during the investigation, 22News reported on May 27th that Lieutenant Dodge returned to work.
Dodge was a plaintiff in the civil case and testified on behalf of Buchanan.
The Mayor’s office said the investigation has now concluded there was:
- No credible evidence Chief Haigh violated city policy
- Insufficient evidence the “other employee” violated policy or attempted to extort Haigh
- There was insufficient evidence either committed perjury on the stand.
As Chief Haigh was on paid administrative leave, the Greenfield Police Department faced budget cuts. Now, Haigh writes he is eager to get back to work.
“Though there have been some setbacks in recent months, we are steadfast in our desire to build and enhance positive relationships in the community we serve,” Haigh said in a statement.
The Mayor’s office said Chief Haigh cooperated with the investigation fully, however the other party and his legal counsel declined to participate in the investigation. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/franklin-county/greenfield-police-chief-haigh-reinstated-following-investigation/ | 2022-09-01T22:45:24Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/franklin-county/greenfield-police-chief-haigh-reinstated-following-investigation/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Los Angeles County officially moved into the “low” COVID-19 activity level on Thursday, Sept. 1, thanks to a falling rate of new infections and the pace of new virus-related hospital admissions continuing to slow.
But the county’s public health director warned that despite the move, transmission of the virus remains widespread, and she urged continued precaution against infection.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moved Los Angeles County into the “low” category Thursday, with the average rate of new COVID-19 infections falling below the threshold of 200 per 100,000 residents. The official infection rate as of Thursday was about 193 new cases per 100,000 residents.
The county’s hospitalization numbers also remained low, with the average daily rate of new virus-related admissions estimate at 9 per 100,000 residents — below the CDC’s threshold of 10 per 100,000 residents.
Those statistics were good enough to move the county out of the “medium” activity category. The move has no practical effect for residents, since it will not trigger any changes in public health protocols, with most restrictions already lifted.
“Moving into the low community level reflects minimal stress on the hospital care system in L.A. County associated with COVID-19,” Barbara Ferrer, director of the county’s Department of Public Health, said during an online briefing. “However, viral transmission with a case rate of just below 200 is still high, as it represents about 2,600 new cases a day. Our hope is that we can continue to slow transmission so that we reach a weekly case rate of less than 100, which would drop that daily number of new cases to 1,400.”
Ferrer has also noted that the official number of new cases reported each day is an undercount of actual virus activity in the county, since many people rely on at-home tests, the results of which are not reported to the county.
The county reported another 2,566 new cases on Thursday, along with 17 new virus-related deaths.
The average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus was 8.3% as of Thursday.
Ferrer again noted a glitch in the data-reporting system hospitals use to share COVID-19 patient numbers with the state, leading to some fluctuations in the figures over the past week. But the state on Thursday reported 760 COVID-19-positive patients in Los Angeles County hospitals, down from 796 on Wednesday. Of those patients, 90 were being treated in intensive care, up from 79 a day earlier.
Health officials have said roughly 43% of COVID-19-positive hospital patients were actually admitted for virus-related illness, while the others were admitted for other reasons, with some only learning they were infected when they were tested at the hospital.
Los Angeles County was placed in the CDC’s “high” virus level in mid-July — a couple of weeks after Independence Day and a little more than a month after Memorial Day — because its new infection rate surpassed 200 per 100,000 residents and its average daily virus-related hospitalization rate went above 10 per 100,000 residents.
The county lingered in that category for about a month, raising the possibility of a new indoor mask-wearing mandate, although health officials ultimately decided against re-imposing the rule.
On Aug. 12, the county moved back to the “medium” category when the hospitalization rate fell below 10 per 100,000 residents.
Next week, Ferrer said, the county is expected to begin offering the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine booster doses specifically engineered to combat the omicron variant of the coronavirus. The county anticipates receiving 170,000 doses of the new booster shots by the middle of next week, she said.
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220901-N-YC738-1001 QUANTICO, Va. (Sept. 1, 2022) — The U.S. Naval Community College, in partnership with Western Governors University, began its first classes for the Associate of Science in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance September 1, 2022. There were 178 active duty enlisted Sailors, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen to start the first USNCC-designated naval-relevant competency-based associate degree program. The United States Naval Community College is the official community college for the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. To get more information about the USNCC, go to www.usncc.edu. Click on the Inquire Now link to learn how to be a part of the USNCC Pilot II program. This graphic was created using text and shapes. (U.S. Navy graphic illustration by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Xander Gamble/released)
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Hulu’s Hellraiser Reveals the First Look at Jamie Clayton’s Pinhead
Jamie Clayton will have big shoes to fill when she stars as the new Pinhead in Hulu’s upcoming continuation of the Hellraiser saga. But ahead of the film’s October premiere, fans are finally getting their first look at the actress in costume. Entertainment Weekly has just debuted several new images from the film, including our first proper glimpse at Clayton in full Pinhead regalia. Additionally, Clayton shared the photo on her official Twitter account. You can check out her post below.
Overall, Clayton’s take on the iconic Cenobite doesn’t stray too far from what we’ve seen before. There are few noticeable tweaks from the character’s classic look, including what looks like some brand new neckwear. But in the end, the design is unmistakably Pinhead. And it also helps that Clayton already has Doug Bradley’s seal of approval. While appearing at Silver Screen Con in Massachusetts last weekend, the original Pinhead actor (via Bloody Disgusting) affirmed that he’s just as excited to watch Clayton’s performance as the rest of us.
FIRST OFFICIAL PIC #Hellraiser @hulu OCTOBER 7th @bruckmachina pic.twitter.com/9QH7HpvxE9
— Jamie Clayton (@MsJamieClayton) September 1, 2022
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EW also got a chance to speak with the new film’s director, David Bruckner. And although many of us saw the simple Hellraiser title and assumed that Spyglass was rebooting the franchise, Bruckner insists that this isn’t the case. Instead, the movie takes place in the same continuity as the 1987 original.
“This is not a remake,” said Bruckner. “I just didn’t think you could ever remake the original Hellraiser. It’s too much its own thing and it would be, I think, perilous territory for filmmakers, because how do you top that? This is a new story in the Hellraiser universe.”
Hellraiser will arrive on Hulu on October 7.
What do you think of the first photo of Clayton as Pinhead? Give us your impressions in the comment section below!
Recommended Reading: Hellraiser Omnibus Vol. 1
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A 4-year-old took a loaded handgun to school, authorities in Texas said.
According to the Corpus Christi Police Department, someone spotted the gun on Wednesday morning and called for the officer who was working at the school.
Police said the officer immediately took possession of the weapon.
Investigators determined the gun belonged to the child's parents.
Paul Torres, 30, was arrested and charged with making a firearm accessible to a child and abandoning or endangering a child.
The Corpus Christi Police Department reminded people that they need to ensure that their firearms are securely stored away from children.
"We recommend that all guns are unloaded, trigger locked, and in a locked gun safe, or pistol box with the ammunition locked away separately," the department said in a statement. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/father-faces-charges-after-police-say-4-year-old-took-handgun-to-school/article_86bae436-2a44-11ed-8e29-eb5bfab8f844.html | 2022-09-01T23:05:07Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/father-faces-charges-after-police-say-4-year-old-took-handgun-to-school/article_86bae436-2a44-11ed-8e29-eb5bfab8f844.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The new Giants coaching staff never seemed to have much use for Blake Martinez, the veteran inside linebacker, and, as it turns out, Martinez will not be playing for that new staff, as he was released on Thursday.
The move is surprising but not shocking, given the nature of the way the spring and summer went down with Martinez. He was coming off surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament, an injury that limited him to three games last season. Martinez made a full recovery and was able to participate in the latter stages of training camp and got into the preseason games. Something did not connect, though.
Martinez, 28, was not a fit in new defensive coordinator Wink Martindale’s pressure-filled scheme but he was the only proven inside linebacker on the roster. In his only full year with the Giants, he amassed 151 tackles in 2020 and was a big favorite of Joe Judge and Patrick Graham, the defensive coordinator. Graham entrusted Martinez with the green-dot helmet, signaling in the defensive calls to Martinez.
Once Martindale came aboard, he gave the defensive call responsibility to safety Xavier McKinney. Martinez was a team captain the past two years but when the player voting was revealed earlier this week, Martinez was not one of the 10 players voted in as team captains.
The inside linebacker position was suspect before this move with Martinez. Tae Crowder returns as a starter. In reserve, there is Carter Coughlin, Austin Calitro and rookie Micah McFadden.
Martinez in 2020 signed a three-year contract worth $30 million after putting up huge tackle numbers (144, 144, 155) the previous three years with the Packers. This was not a salary dump by the Giants, however. He returned to the team this year with a restructured deal that lowered his 2022 base salary to $1.25 million.
Martinez’s spot on the roster was taken by offensive lineman Tyre Phillips, who was claimed off waivers by the Ravens and awarded to the Giants. Phillips’ salary cap hit is $895,000. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/giants-cut-linebacker-blake-martinez-amid-disconnect/ | 2022-09-01T23:05:13Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/giants-cut-linebacker-blake-martinez-amid-disconnect/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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I-84 eastbound is closed from exit 216, six miles east of Pendleton, and exit 374 in Ontario, due to a wildfire between milepost 365 and 367. Westbound lanes are also closed to all traffic between Ontario and Baker City.
OR 245 southwest of Baker City is also closed to all but local traffic.
Fire crews are currently fighting a wildfire in the area, but high winds are making it difficult.
The I-84 road closures could be in place for hours. Travelers are asked to call 800-9776368 for updates. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/fire-closes-i-84-east-of-pendleton/article_48aa6214-2a3c-11ed-b218-634b76b30a79.html | 2022-09-01T23:05:13Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/fire-closes-i-84-east-of-pendleton/article_48aa6214-2a3c-11ed-b218-634b76b30a79.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Tickets for the 14th annual Tri-Cities International Film Festival (TRIFI), go on sale Thursday, September, 1st.
The festival showcases independent, international films locally and runs from Friday, October, 14th to Sunday, October, 16th.
The best films from 120 submissions and 16 countries will be shown.
Local filmaker Augustin Dulauray's documentary Hanford, will be featured in the documentary category.
Saturday, October, 15th will feature the winners of a 72 hour film challenge, a contest where teams of local filmmakers have three days to write, edit and shoot a 5 minute film.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) — A federal judge indicated Thursday he will likely deny a long-shot attempt for acquittal by disgraced Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, eight months after a jury convicted her on wire fraud charges.
Holmes founded the Silicon Valley-based company Theranos at 19, saying she aspired to make blood testing cheaper and more efficient. She claimed her startup, which raised $945 million from investors like Rupert Murdoch, developed technology capable of testing for conditions, including cancer and diabetes, using only a few drops of blood. Her company began to fall after a 2015 Wall Street Journal investigation revealed holes in its testing methods and technological capabilities.
The jury convicted Holmes on four counts of wire fraud but deadlocked on three other charges after a week of deliberation.
A Silicon Valley jury also found former Theranos executive Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani guilty on all 12 counts of fraud he faced, amid the collapse of the $9 billion blood testing company. Balwani was accused of teaming up with friend and onetime romantic partner Holmes to defraud investors. Their trials were split up after Holmes' legal team filed that she planned to make accusations about their relationship since 2002 in her defense.
Holmes did not blame Balwani for the company’s problems. Instead, she gave a surprise testimony accusing him of sexual abuse. She is scheduled to be sentenced in September.
But this past May, Holmes asked U.S. District Judge Edward Davila to overturn the conviction and acquit her. At Thursday's acquittal hearing in San Jose, she sat quietly while her attorneys argued her case is worthy of an acquittal on the grounds that no rational juror would have found her guilty of conspiracy and wire fraud. Attorney Amy Saharia, a partner at Williams & Connolly, reminded the judge that an acquittal is not a call for a new trial, and serves as a “safety valve” where the defense can argue that the jury could not have rationally made their determination of a verdict.
Saharia said the government did not present enough evidence to prove the allegations in the original indictment. She said they did not prove a conspiracy between Holmes and Balwani, using text messages and emails about the state of the company and whether they knew their technology was not working as represented to their investors.
“There’s simply no evidence of an agreement or a meeting of minds between Ms. Holmes and Mr. Balwani,” she said. “There's no evidence in those text messages of a conspiracy to defraud inventors, with no message discussing lying to investors." She said the government pointed to the two co-managing the company and communicating about its operations, and the desire to keep it financially stable, to fill “holes in the evidence.”
Saharia also argued the government did not prove Holmes knew she was committing fraud regarding her technology’s capabilities. Even Holmes’ knowledge of acquiescence in another person’s crimes is not evidence of a conspiracy, “unless there is evidence of a meeting of minds," she said.
Davila asked whether all the pieces of different evidence presented to the jury as a whole could lead a reasonable juror to surmise guilt with all details considered. He pointed to text messages pointing to the condition and inadequacy of the Theranos lab and concerns about a person leaking information about what was happening inside the lab. To all of this evidence, Saharia said the defense maintains that there was not enough to prove the charges in the government’s indictment and believes the jury’s finding was “irrational.”
“There is no evidence that Ms. Holmes thought she was doing something wrong, that she was intending to fraud,” she said.
Representing the U.S. government, prosecuting attorney Kelly Volkar said the defense had not met the requirements for arguing for a motion to acquit, which requires reviewing all evidence in a light most favorable to the prosecution. She said on those grounds, they do not have a case for now arguing the government did not have sufficient evidence to prove their allegations in Holmes’ indictment.
She said the government presented many pieces of evidence showing misrepresentations of the company, including that Holmes sent doctored pharmaceutical reports to companies like Walgreens and sent news articles with information she knew was false to investors. She said they proved the company was “underwater” in 2009 and that Holmes and Balwani misrepresented the financial state of the company later on to keep it afloat.
Volkar said her team proved the defendants were “two people who are lying to an investor about the state of their lab, the state of the technology, in order to get money.”
“It’s not just that Balwani and Holmes were the most senior executives in the company,” Volkar said. “It’s not just that they had more than a decade-long romantic relationship, it's not just that they were in constant communication. What they were discussing and talking about showed that they knew information that they didn't share with investors. And it's all of that together that is sufficient evidence.”
Davila preliminarily denied Holmes' motion to acquit but said he will review all of the additional material before issuing a final order.
“At this point, overall the court finds that looking at this through the lens most favorable to prosecutors, that the evidence does support the jury’s findings in this case,” Davila said. He told Saharia he saw enough evidence to show Holmes conspired with Balwani to keep their company going, despite the condition of the lab they were aware of and knowing false information about the company’s technology and finances was given to investors.
He reminded the two that Holmes' trial lasted about four months, and the jury spent more than a week deliberating before reaching their verdict.
“Preliminarily, a reasonable juror could find there was evidence of misrepresentation to investors that support the finding of guilt as to those (four) counts,” Davila said.
Neither side responded to requests for comment by press time.
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ATLANTA (CN) — A federal judge on Thursday again ruled that U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham must testify before a special grand jury investigating potential criminal efforts to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results.
This is the second time that U.S. District Judge Leigh May rejected the South Carolina Republican’s request to quash his subpoena entirely.
However, this time May agreed with Graham’s attorneys that prosecutors cannot ask him questions about his “investigatory fact-finding on the telephone calls to Georgia election officials, including how such information related to his decision to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.”
The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office has said that Graham is a necessary witness in the investigation because of phone calls he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff following the 2020 presidential election, during which Graham allegedly asked about reexamining certain absentee ballots "to explore a more favorable outcome" for Trump.
Attorneys for Graham argue that the senator's call were only to ask questions to personally inform himself about allegations of voter fraud in Georgia for his upcoming certification decision.
“Given that the Electoral Count Act designates the responsibility of certification to the members of Congress, the Court finds that a member of Congress could, pursuant to this duty, engage in individual investigatory efforts to understand a state’s voting procedures so as to inform his or her eventual decision to certify the results of a presidential election,” wrote May, a Barack Obama appointee.
She ruled that this area of inquiry constitutes legislative activity, which Congress members are shielded from testifying about under the U.S. Constitution’s speech or debate clause.
But such protections do not guard Graham from questioning about “any alleged efforts to encourage Secretary Raffensperger or others to throw out ballots or otherwise alter Georgia’s election practices and procedures," the ruling states.
Any inquiry from the grand jurors into Graham’s alleged communications and coordination with members of the Trump campaign and their post-election activity in Georgia, as well as any related public statements he made, will be permitted.
Raffensperger, who has already testified, has publicly stated that he has a different interpretation of Graham’s motive behind the calls. The fellow Republican told reporters in November 2020 that Graham called and “implied for us to audit the envelopes, and then throw out the ballots for counties who [have] the highest frequency error of signatures.”
But prosecutors allege that Graham not only spread election fraud disinformation during appearances on Fox News, but has told reporters that Raffensperger's statements about the calls were false.
“In this way, and contrary to Senator Graham’s framing of the 'objective facts,' the public dispute regarding these calls is not reducible to a mere disagreement over Senator Graham’s 'real' motivations; instead, there is a fundamental factual dispute as to the very nature and substance of the phone calls and what Senator Graham actually stated and suggested on the calls,” May wrote.
The judge sided with arguments from the district attorney’s office that the scope of the probe is much broader than just the context of Graham’s statements, extending to whether there were "multi-state, coordinated efforts” to influence the results of Georgia’s 2020 election and elsewhere.
Graham was originally supposed to testify on Aug. 23, per the judge’s initial order the week prior. But a delay was ordered by the 11th Circuit, which sided with the senator and instructed the lower court to consider granting a partial quashal of his subpoena or modifications to it, to clarify the scope of the district attorney's questioning.
Although his appearance is becoming more inescapable, it is still not imminent as the case now returns to the Atlanta-based federal appeals court, where a three-judge panel will consider Graham’s challenge again following May’s new ruling.
The 23-person grand jury is already expected to be seated through at least the end of the year, as the judge overseeing it on Wednesday postponed Republican Governor Brian Kemp’s appearance until after the state’s November elections.
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(AP) — Microsoft’s plan to buy video game giant Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion could have major effects on the gaming industry, transforming the Xbox maker into something like a Netflix for video games by giving it control of many more popular titles.
But to get to the next level, Microsoft must first survive a barrage of government inquiries from New Zealand to Brazil, and from U.S. regulators emboldened by President Joe Biden to strengthen their enforcement of antitrust laws.
In the United Kingdom, regulators on Thursday threatened to escalate their investigation unless both companies come up with proposals within five days to ease competition concerns. More than seven months after Microsoft announced the deal, only Saudi Arabia has approved it.
“A growing number of countries are subjecting major global transactions to deeper scrutiny,” said William Kovacic, a former chairman of the five-member U.S. Federal Trade Commission. “Many of the jurisdictions that are exercising that scrutiny are significant economies and can’t be brushed off.”
Microsoft has faced antitrust scrutiny before, most notably more than two decades ago when a federal judge ordered its breakup following the company’s anticompetitive actions related to its dominant Windows software. That verdict was overturned on appeal, although the court imposed other, less drastic, penalties on the company.
In recent years, however, Microsoft has largely escaped the more intense regulatory backlash its Big Tech rivals such as Amazon, Google and Facebook’s parent company Meta have endured. But the sheer size of the Activision Blizzard merger has drawn global attention.
The all-cash deal is set to be the largest in the history of the tech industry. It would give Microsoft, maker of the Xbox console and gaming system, control of popular game franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush. There's also a growing sense that past review of Big Tech mergers was too lax — such as when Facebook bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014.
“Collectively, that means that the kinds of concessions you’re going to have to make become more difficult,” Kovacic said.
The possibility of Microsoft gaining control of Call of Duty has been particularly worrisome to Sony, maker of the PlayStation console that competes with Microsoft's Xbox. In a letter to Brazilian regulators, Sony emphasized Call of Duty as an “essential” game — a blockbuster so popular and ingrained that it would be impossible for a competitor to develop a rival product even if they had the budget to do so.
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The U.K. watchdog's preliminary inquiry raised similar worries. It said Microsoft’s control of popular Activision Blizzard games raised concerns that the deal would hurt rivals in multi-game subscription services and the cloud gaming market.
One solution could be a settlement in which Microsoft agrees to ensure that console-making rivals such as Sony or Nintendo won’t be cut off from popular Activision Blizzard games. Microsoft has already publicly signaled its openness to that concept.
Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, has said the company committed to Sony to make Activision games like Call of Duty “available on PlayStation beyond the existing agreement and into the future” -- although many are skeptical about how long those promises would last if not set into regulatory consent decrees.
On the other hand, Microsoft also has a much better reputation in Washington than it did in 2000. It is "seen as more reasonable and sensible” on issues such as data privacy, Kovacic said.
Microsoft has also been working to win over skeptics in the U.S., starting with a labor union that's been trying to organize Activision Blizzard employees. Democratic lawmakers have also expressed concern about allegations of Activision's toxic workplace culture for women, which led to employee walkouts last year as well as discrimination lawsuits brought by California and federal civil rights enforcers.
In March, the Communications Workers of America had issued a call seeking tougher oversight of the deal from the U.S. Department of Justice, the FTC and state attorneys general. But a June 30 letter from the union to the FTC said it had switched to supporting the deal after Microsoft agreed “to ensure the workers of Activision Blizzard have a clear path to collective bargaining.”
Gaming represents a growing portion of Microsoft’s business, despite the company’s efforts to portray itself and Activision Blizzard as “small players in a highly fragmented publishing space,” per a document filed with New Zealand's Commerce Commission.
In 2021, Microsoft spent $7.5 billion to acquire ZeniMax Media, the parent company of video game publisher Bethesda Softworks, which is behind popular video games The Elder Scrolls, Doom and Fallout. Microsoft’s properties also include the hit game Minecraft after it bought Swedish game studio Mojang for $2.5 billion in 2014.
The Redmond, Washington, tech giant has said the gaming acquisitions will help beef up its Xbox Game Pass game subscription service and its mobile offerings, particularly from Activision Blizzard's King division, which makes Candy Crush.
Dutch game developer Rami Ismail said Microsoft’s subscription-based service has thus far been a positive for smaller game studios trying to get their content to users. But he’s unsure about the long-term impact of the merger.
“Xbox Game Pass as a product has been really good in getting interesting, creative games funded that might not have the normal market reach to be successful,” Ismail said. “On the flip side, as power consolidates, there is less of an incentive to do anything like that.”
Microsoft rivals are also consolidating. Sony in July closed on a $3.6 billion deal to buy Bungie Inc., maker of the popular game franchise Destiny and the original developer of Xbox-owned Halo. Take-Two Interactive, maker of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, in May completed a $12.7 billion deal to acquire mobile gaming company Zynga, maker of FarmVille and Words With Friends.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A helicopter herds thousands of impalas into an enclosure. A crane hoists sedated upside-down elephants into trailers. Hordes of rangers drive other animals into metal cages and a convoy of trucks starts a journey of about 700 kilometers (435 miles) to take the animals to their new home.
Zimbabwe has begun moving more than 2,500 wild animals from a southern reserve to one in the country’s north to rescue them from drought, as the ravages of climate change replace poaching as the biggest threat to wildlife.
About 400 elephants, 2,000 impalas, 70 giraffes, 50 buffaloes, 50 wildebeest, 50 zebras, 50 elands, 10 lions and a pack of 10 wild dogs are among the animals being moved from Zimbabwe’s Save Valley Conservancy to three conservancies in the north — Sapi, Matusadonha and Chizarira — in one of southern Africa’s biggest live animal capture and translocation exercises.
“Project Rewild Zambezi,” as the operation is called, is moving the animals to an area in the Zambezi River valley to rebuild the wildlife populations there.
It's the first time in 60 years that Zimbabwe has embarked on such a mass internal movement of wildlife. Between 1958 and 1964, when the country was white-minority-ruled Rhodesia, more than 5,000 animals were moved in what was called “Operation Noah.” That operation rescued wildlife from the rising water caused by the construction of a massive hydroelectric dam on the Zambezi River that created one of the world’s largest man-made lakes, Lake Kariba.
This time it's the lack of water that has made it necessary to move wildlife as their habitat has become parched by prolonged drought, said Tinashe Farawo, spokesman for the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority.
The parks agency issued permits to allow the animals to be moved to avert “a disaster from happening,” said Farawo.
“We are doing this to relieve pressure. For years we have fought poaching and just as we are winning that war, climate change has emerged as the biggest threat to our wildlife,” Farawo told The Associated Press.
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“Many of our parks are becoming overpopulated and there is little water or food. The animals end up destroying their own habitat, they become a danger unto themselves and they encroach neighboring human settlements for food resulting in incessant conflict,” he said.
One option would be culling to reduce the numbers of wildlife, but conservation groups protest that such killings are cruel. Zimbabwe last did culling in 1987, said Farawo.
The effects of climate change on wildlife is not isolated to Zimbabwe. Across Africa, national parks that are home to myriad wildlife species such as lions, elephants and buffaloes are increasingly threatened by below-average rainfall and new infrastructure projects. Authorities and experts say drought has seriously threatened species like rhinos, giraffes and antelope as it reduces the amount of food available.
For example, a recent study conducted in South Africa's Kruger National Park linked extreme weather events to the loss of plants and animals, unable to cope with the drastic conditions and lack of water due to longer dry spells and hotter temperatures.
The mass movement is supported by the Great Plains Foundation, a non-profit organization that works “to conserve and expand natural habitats in Africa through innovative conservation initiatives,” according to its website. The organization is working with the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, local experts, the University of Washington-Seattle’s Center for Environmental Forensic Science and Oxford University’s Department of Zoology, according to the website.
One of the new homes for the animals moved in Zimbabwe is Sapi Reserve. the privately-run 280,000-acre private concession is east of Mana Pools National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its splendid setting along the Zambezi River that forms the border between Zimbabwe with Zambia.
Sapi “is the perfect solution for many reasons,” Great Plains chief executive officer Dereck Joubert said on the foundation’s website.
“This reserve forms the middle-Zambezi biosphere, totaling 1.6 million acres," wrote Joubert. "From the 1950s until we took it over in 2017, decades of hunting had decimated wildlife populations in Sapi Reserve. We are rewilding and restoring the wild back to what it once was.”
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WASHINGTON — A retired New York Police Department officer was sentenced on Thursday to a record-setting 10 years in prison for attacking the U.S. Capitol and using a metal flagpole to assault one of the police officers trying to hold off a mob of Donald Trump supporters.
Thomas Webster’s prison sentence is the longest so far among roughly 250 people who have been punished for their conduct during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021. The previous longest was shared by two other rioters, who were sentenced separately to seven years and three months in prison.
Webster, a 20-year NYPD veteran, was the first Capitol riot defendant to be tried on an assault charge and the first to present a self-defense argument. A jury rejected Webster’s claim that he was defending himself when he tackled Metropolitan Police Department officer Noah Rathbun and grabbed his gas mask outside the Capitol on Jan. 6.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Webster, 56, to 10 years in prison plus three years of supervised release. He allowed Webster to report to prison at a date to be determined instead of immediately ordering him into custody.
“Mr. Webster, I don’t think you’re a bad person,” the judge said. “I think you were caught up in a moment. But as you know, even getting caught up in a moment has consequences.”
Webster turned to apologize to Rathbun, who was in the courtroom but didn’t address the judge. Webster said he wishes he had never come to Washington, D.C.
“I wish the horrible events of that day had never happened,” he told the judge.
The judge said Rathbun wasn’t Webster’s only victim on Jan. 6.
“The other victim was democracy, and that is not something that can be taken lightly,” Mehta added.
Federal prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of 17 years and six months. The court’s probation department had recommended a 10-year prison sentence. Mehta wasn’t bound by the recommendations.
In a court filing, prosecutors accused Webster of “disgracing a democracy that he once fought honorably to protect and serve.” Webster led the charge against police barricades at the Capitol’s Lower West Plaza, prosecutors said. They compared the attack to a medieval battle, with rioters pelting officers with makeshift projectiles and engaging in hand-to-hand combat.
“Nothing can explain or justify Mr. Webster’s rage. Nothing can explain or justify his violence,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Hava Mirell said Thursday.
Defense attorney James Monroe said in a court filing that the mob was “guided by unscrupulous politicians” and others promoting the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from the Republican incumbent. He questioned why prosecutors argued that Webster didn’t deserve leniency for his 25 years of service to his country and New York City.
“That is not how we measure justice. That is revenge,” Monroe said.
In May, jurors deliberated for less than three hours before they convicted Webster of all six counts in his indictment, including a charge that he assaulted Rathbun with a dangerous weapon, the flagpole.
Also Thursday, a New Jersey man pleaded guilty to using pepper spray on police officers, including one who later died. Officer Brian Sicknick suffered a stroke the day after the riot and died of natural causes. He and other officers were standing guard behind metal bicycle racks as the mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.
Julian Khater, 33, pleaded guilty to two counts of assaulting or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon. He could face up to 20 years in prison, though will likely face a sentence ranging from about 6 1/2 to 8 years at a hearing set for December.
The case against Khater and a second man have been among the more notable brought by the Justice Department. George Pierre Tanios brought the pepper spray in a backpack. Tanios previously pleaded guilty and is also set to be sentenced in December.
Webster had testified at trial that he was trying to protect himself from a “rogue cop” who punched him in the face. He also accused Rathbun of instigating the confrontation.
Rathbun testified that he didn’t punch or pick a fight with Webster. Rathbun said he was trying to move Webster back from a security perimeter that he and other officers were struggling to maintain.
Rathbun’s body camera captured Webster shouting profanities and insults before they made any physical contact. The video shows that Webster slammed one of the bike racks at Rathbun before the officer reached out with an open left hand and struck the right side of Webster’s face.
After Rathbun struck his face, Webster swung a metal flag pole at the officer in a downward chopping motion, striking a bike rack. Rathbun grabbed the broken pole from Webster, who charged at the officer, tackled him to the ground and grabbed his gas mask, choking him by the chin strap.
Webster drove alone to Washington, D.C., from his home near Goshen, New York, on the eve of the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally, where Trump addressed thousands of supporters. Webster was wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a Marine Corps flag on a metal pole when he joined the mob that stormed the Capitol.
Webster said he went to the Capitol to “petition” lawmakers to “relook” at the results of the 2020 presidential election. But he testified that he didn’t intend to interfere with Congress’ joint session to certify President Joe Biden ‘s victory.
Webster retired from the NYPD in 2011 after 20 years of service, which included a stint on then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s private security detail. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1985 to 1989 before joining the NYPD in 1991. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/ex-nypd-officer-sentenced-to-record-10-years-for-jan-6-riot/article_de355118-2a46-11ed-ac81-3f20a40a4f72.html | 2022-09-01T23:08:29Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/ex-nypd-officer-sentenced-to-record-10-years-for-jan-6-riot/article_de355118-2a46-11ed-ac81-3f20a40a4f72.html | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 40 |
WASHINGTON — A retired New York Police Department officer was sentenced on Thursday to a record-setting 10 years in prison for attacking the U.S. Capitol and using a metal flagpole to assault one of the police officers trying to hold off a mob of Donald Trump supporters.
Thomas Webster’s prison sentence is the longest so far among roughly 250 people who have been punished for their conduct during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021. The previous longest was shared by two other rioters, who were sentenced separately to seven years and three months in prison.
Webster, a 20-year NYPD veteran, was the first Capitol riot defendant to be tried on an assault charge and the first to present a self-defense argument. A jury rejected Webster’s claim that he was defending himself when he tackled Metropolitan Police Department officer Noah Rathbun and grabbed his gas mask outside the Capitol on Jan. 6.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Webster, 56, to 10 years in prison plus three years of supervised release. He allowed Webster to report to prison at a date to be determined instead of immediately ordering him into custody.
“Mr. Webster, I don’t think you’re a bad person,” the judge said. “I think you were caught up in a moment. But as you know, even getting caught up in a moment has consequences.”
Webster turned to apologize to Rathbun, who was in the courtroom but didn’t address the judge. Webster said he wishes he had never come to Washington, D.C.
“I wish the horrible events of that day had never happened,” he told the judge.
The judge said Rathbun wasn’t Webster’s only victim on Jan. 6.
“The other victim was democracy, and that is not something that can be taken lightly,” Mehta added.
Federal prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of 17 years and six months. The court’s probation department had recommended a 10-year prison sentence. Mehta wasn’t bound by the recommendations.
In a court filing, prosecutors accused Webster of “disgracing a democracy that he once fought honorably to protect and serve.” Webster led the charge against police barricades at the Capitol’s Lower West Plaza, prosecutors said. They compared the attack to a medieval battle, with rioters pelting officers with makeshift projectiles and engaging in hand-to-hand combat.
“Nothing can explain or justify Mr. Webster’s rage. Nothing can explain or justify his violence,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Hava Mirell said Thursday.
Defense attorney James Monroe said in a court filing that the mob was “guided by unscrupulous politicians” and others promoting the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from the Republican incumbent. He questioned why prosecutors argued that Webster didn’t deserve leniency for his 25 years of service to his country and New York City.
“That is not how we measure justice. That is revenge,” Monroe said.
In May, jurors deliberated for less than three hours before they convicted Webster of all six counts in his indictment, including a charge that he assaulted Rathbun with a dangerous weapon, the flagpole.
Also Thursday, a New Jersey man pleaded guilty to using pepper spray on police officers, including one who later died. Officer Brian Sicknick suffered a stroke the day after the riot and died of natural causes. He and other officers were standing guard behind metal bicycle racks as the mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.
Julian Khater, 33, pleaded guilty to two counts of assaulting or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon. He could face up to 20 years in prison, though will likely face a sentence ranging from about 6 1/2 to 8 years at a hearing set for December.
The case against Khater and a second man have been among the more notable brought by the Justice Department. George Pierre Tanios brought the pepper spray in a backpack. Tanios previously pleaded guilty and is also set to be sentenced in December.
Webster had testified at trial that he was trying to protect himself from a “rogue cop” who punched him in the face. He also accused Rathbun of instigating the confrontation.
Rathbun testified that he didn’t punch or pick a fight with Webster. Rathbun said he was trying to move Webster back from a security perimeter that he and other officers were struggling to maintain.
Rathbun’s body camera captured Webster shouting profanities and insults before they made any physical contact. The video shows that Webster slammed one of the bike racks at Rathbun before the officer reached out with an open left hand and struck the right side of Webster’s face.
After Rathbun struck his face, Webster swung a metal flag pole at the officer in a downward chopping motion, striking a bike rack. Rathbun grabbed the broken pole from Webster, who charged at the officer, tackled him to the ground and grabbed his gas mask, choking him by the chin strap.
Webster drove alone to Washington, D.C., from his home near Goshen, New York, on the eve of the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally, where Trump addressed thousands of supporters. Webster was wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a Marine Corps flag on a metal pole when he joined the mob that stormed the Capitol.
Webster said he went to the Capitol to “petition” lawmakers to “relook” at the results of the 2020 presidential election. But he testified that he didn’t intend to interfere with Congress’ joint session to certify President Joe Biden ‘s victory.
Webster retired from the NYPD in 2011 after 20 years of service, which included a stint on then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s private security detail. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1985 to 1989 before joining the NYPD in 1991. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/ex-nypd-officer-sentenced-to-record-10-years-for-jan-6-riot/article_de355118-2a46-11ed-ac81-3f20a40a4f72.html | 2022-09-01T23:08:29Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/ex-nypd-officer-sentenced-to-record-10-years-for-jan-6-riot/article_de355118-2a46-11ed-ac81-3f20a40a4f72.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 40 |
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