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A 20-year-old Newfane man who is facing charges in connection with a fatal hit-and-run accident had his bail revoked on Thursday.
Sean Kelahan, who was charged with manslaughter following a March 18 hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of Lockport resident Richard Howes III, was remanded to Niagara County Jail following a court appearance in front of Judge Caroline Wojtaszek.
Prosecutors contended in court that Kelahan violated the rules of his release when he was arrested for shoplifting in the Town of Cheektowaga. Prosecutors also argued that Kelahan was seen in videos and photos displaying behavior that violated the terms of his release.
Savoi laid out several pieces of evidence condemning Kelahan’s behavior, including videos showing Kelahan in Buffalo – a violation of his agreement to stay in Niagara County – being behind the wheel of a vehicle – though it could not be concluded as to whether or not he was driving it –, attempting shoplifting, being present at a fight moments before his curfew (7 p.m.), being at an Olive Garden with another arraigned suspect for an unrelated crime – also violating the terms – and giving alcohol to a cat.
Kelahan’s attorney, George Muscato, argued that besides the arrest, Assistant District Attorney Christine Savoia did not have sufficient evidence that his client had violated any terms. He held up his client’s hand and asked if any video had caught the tattoos adorned there.
Muscato said that the proceedings were not being fairly metered out to Kelahan and that he deserved a hearing where, as his attorney, he could meet the accusations.
“How am I supposed to represent this young man?” Muscato asked the court. “I might as well be in the hall.”
Muscato asked the judge to schedule a hearing on the matter at which time he could cross-examine the evidence, but Wojtaszek denied the motion, choosing instead to send Kelahan to county jail pending his next court appearance, which is scheduled for Sept. 16.
Wojtaszek noted that, under the terms of his release, Kelahan was to remain in Niagara County and should not have traveled to neighboring Erie County where he arrested for shoplifting.
“Cheektowaga is not in Niagara County last time I checked,” Wojtaszek said.
Outside the courthouse, friends of Howes were in good spirits from the judge’s decision.
“We really just want justice,” Amanda Watkins, a friend of Howes, said. “We have faith in the legal process.” | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/fatal-hit-and-run-suspect-remanded-to-jail/article_99aac9ba-2a32-11ed-a6ff-7b5b0ff19428.html | 2022-09-01T23:08:35Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/fatal-hit-and-run-suspect-remanded-to-jail/article_99aac9ba-2a32-11ed-a6ff-7b5b0ff19428.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Renovation of the Historic Post Office at 1 East Avenue is taking longer than expected.
David Chiazza, executive vice president of Iskalo Development Corporation, said in a statement this week that “pandemic impacts” pushed back the completion date from spring/summer 2022, and pushed up the cost, as many materials are harder to find for electrical, plumbing, HVAC piping, drywall and asphalt work. A labor shortage also affected the contractor, he said; and "unforeseen conditions" inside the century-old building ended up requiring redesign and rebidding of some rehabilitation work.
While Chiazza did not give a new date for completion, he said the impacts “substantially lengthened” the timetable. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/historic-post-office-renovation-behind-schedule/article_23181216-2a24-11ed-b92d-5f1da3b13a09.html | 2022-09-01T23:08:41Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/historic-post-office-renovation-behind-schedule/article_23181216-2a24-11ed-b92d-5f1da3b13a09.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After market close today, semiconductor giant Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) released its Fiscal Q3-2022 earnings results. Both earnings per share (EPS) and revenue came in stronger than expected. The company’s Q4 guidance also came ahead of market expectations. As a result, the stock is trending slightly higher in the after-hours session.
Broadcom’s revenue of $8.46 billion grew 25% on a year-over-year basis, beating the consensus estimate of about $8.41 billion. AVGO’s earnings per share came in at $9.73, beating the $9.56 estimate, and its Q3 non-GAAP net income was $4.24 billion, better than the ~$3.12 billion gain in the same quarter last year.
In addition, Broadcom’s free cash flow (FCF) margin was 51%, resulting in FCF of about $4.31 billion for the quarter, much higher than the $3.43 billion recorded last year. The company ended the quarter with nearly $10 billion in cash & cash equivalents but with $39.5 billion in debt.
In addition, AVGO’s upbeat revenue guidance definitely pleased investors. For Q4, AVGO is projecting revenue of $8.9 billion, implying 20% year-over-year growth at the midpoint. Analysts were expecting Q4 revenue to come in at $8.72 billion. Also, the company expects its EBITDA margin to be 63% in Q4.
What is AVGO Stock’s Price Target?
Turning to Wall Street, Broadcom stocks earns a Strong Buy consensus rating based on four unanimous Buy ratings assigned in the past three months. The average AVGO stock price prediction of $660 implies 34.1% upside potential.
Broadcom’s Dividend Prospects Look Enticing
Broadcom currently pays a relatively-high dividend, especially for a tech stock; its yield comes in at around 3.3%. Also, its nearly 35% five-year dividend compound annual growth rate (CAGR) makes it an enticing dividend-growth stock. With a free cash flow payout ratio hovering around the mid-40% range, Broadcom’s dividend seems safe, and there is plenty of room for further dividend increases.
The company should also benefit from the long-term growth trajectory of the semiconductor industry, which will aid its dividend growth.
Conclusion: Broadcom’s Solid Q3 Results Pleased Investors
Broadcom’s results were better than expectations in every aspect. This caused the stock to rally in the after-hours trading session (although only slightly). AVGO looks like a solid, high-growth dividend stock. It also has the backing of analysts, who are unanimously bullish on the stock. Therefore, it is one worth considering. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/broadcom-nasdaqavgo-reports-solid-q3-2022-results-here-are-the-numbers | 2022-09-01T23:08:44Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/broadcom-nasdaqavgo-reports-solid-q3-2022-results-here-are-the-numbers | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DETROIT — About 2 in 10 U.S. adults say they or someone close to them has had a personal experience with gun violence, according to a recent poll that shows Black and Hispanic adults are especially likely to have had their lives touched by it.
The poll by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 54% of Black Americans and 27% of Hispanic Americans reported that they or a close friend or family member experienced gun violence in the last five years, compared with of 13% of white Americans. Overall, 21% of U.S. adults reported a personal tie to gun violence, such as being threatened by a gun or being a victim of a shooting.
Ebony Brown, a 39-year-old accountant in Atlanta, is among those who has seen gun violence touch those close to her. Her brother was shot to death in 2002 in Jacksonville, Florida, while visiting from college.
“He was at the right place at the wrong time,” said Brown, who is Black.
An acquaintance of a friend pulled a gun during an attempted robbery at a home and shot several people, including Brown’s brother, who she said died instantly. Another person also was slain.
Brown said she doesn’t consider herself a gun lover, but she’s worried enough about becoming a victim of gun violence herself that she’s considering getting a handgun.
“I’m really getting ready to get one. I’ve been to the range,” Brown said. “My dad is a police officer and he wants me to have it.”
The survey was conducted after a stretch of mass shootings across the U.S., from a grocery store in New York, an elementary school in Texas and a Fourth of July parade in Illinois — along with a smattering of incidents of gun violence in cities across the U.S. that don’t always make national news but leave local communities on edge.
Professor Jens Ludwig, who is director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab, said the 1 in 5 people with a friend or family member who was a victim of violence was a “strikingly high number.”
It shows that those who experience gun violence “aren’t the only victims,” he said.
Ludwig compared the way gun violence affects entire communities to the COVID-19 pandemic, noting that the people who died or became very ill from COVID-19 weren’t the only ones affected; kids were kept home from school, businesses closed, and people couldn’t see loved ones.
The same is true with gun violence, Ludwig said. “People are changing the way they live,” he said.
For example, he said, when people who can afford to leave cities where gun violence is a big problem move out in droves, it hurts everyone still there.
He cited Detroit as one example. Gun-related homicides increased from 2016 to 2020, from a rate of 37.6 per 100,000 people to 45.4 per 100,000 people, according to FBI data collected by the pro-gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety. Black people were 2.1 times more likely to die by gun homicides than white people, according to the data.
Following a particularly violent summer weekend in Detroit that saw two dozen nonfatal shootings and seven homicides, Police Chief James White denounced the rising gun violence in the city and across the nation.
“We understand these numbers make media headlines, but to us they represent people,” White told reporters. “These represent families. This represents children. This represents husbands, wives, brothers and sisters. Our Detroit families are in pain. Neighbors near the gunfire are shaken and lives have been forever changed.”
While most Americans say they feel gun violence has increased nationwide and in their states, 59% of Black Americans and 45% of Hispanics said that gun violence is on the rise in their communities, compared with 34% of white Americans. Similarly, people living in urban areas are more likely to say gun violence is rising in their communities than those in suburban or rural areas, 51% to 39% to 27%.
That is in line with recent data from theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. The data has shown a spike in gun violence since the pandemic, with gun-related homicides increasing across the country in large and small metro areas and in rural areas. The data found Black people are disproportionately impacted by gun violence and are more likely to be the victims of gun crimes or homicides. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/poll-2-in-10-report-experience-with-gun-violence/article_9d3915e6-2a46-11ed-a6a0-f3968677f12e.html | 2022-09-01T23:08:48Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/poll-2-in-10-report-experience-with-gun-violence/article_9d3915e6-2a46-11ed-a6a0-f3968677f12e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU’RE IN THE PLACE YOU WANT TO BE HEADING INTO THE PLAYOFFS?
“I feel like we’re in a good place. I think we could be better for sure. But I think we’re in a solid spot mentally and in a position where we’ve learned some lessons that we can apply going forward.”
ARE YOU THE FAVORITE IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP?
“For me, there’s never a good answer, but I try to give an honest take on it. There’s been too many people good at different times. Just because we have a win more than other people doesn’t mean other people aren’t capable of winning or having a really good day. You have to respect the whole field. There are a lot of really talented drivers and a lot of really smart people working at these teams.”
IS 40 PLAYOFF POINTS ENOUGH TO FEEL A LITTLE COMFORTABLE IN THE FIRST ROUND?
“I don’t think anybody is safe at any point in time. You have to respect this format from Week One all the way to Week 10. I don’t think there is ever a period of time where you should think anything is taken for granted. No amount of playoff points is ever safe. Each round is so short. You could have two bad weeks back-to-back and do nothing wrong. Next thing you know, you’re in a position where you have to win the last race. That can happen to the guy who is first in points or the guy that is last. No one is safe from that.”
THIS IS AN UNFAMILIAR POSITION HAVING SO MANY PLAYOFF POINTS.
“It is. We talked about that a lot. We’ve never been in that position before. This is a good thing. I’d love us to put ourselves in that position more often year after year. It means you’ve probably had more fun that year. It also means you’re trying to hedge your bet. Nothing is guaranteed but it can certainly help. That’s the big one… we want to hedge that bet and better our odds as much as possible.”
NO ONE IS GOING TO HAVE ANY DATA ON BRISTOL BECAUSE IT WAS DIRT EARLIER THIS YEAR.
“That one is really interesting in my opinion. I’m excited to get to Bristol. It’s a really iconic event on our schedule. That fall night race is one that I always look forward to going to. I’m excited about that. Hopefully get it right because it will be a bit of a guess for everyone.”
ARE YOU ENJOYING YOU’RE RACING AND HAVING A GOOD TIME?
“Yeah, if things are going good then I probably have more fun than I do when they’re not. But that’s just how it is. If you’re having good runs and putting yourself in position to win or being fortunate enough to win a race, the fun meter is certainly going to naturally be higher than it would if the roles were not that way. We’ve been fortunate to have some good weeks over the course of the first 26. I want to be and I truly think we can be better for these last 10. That’s what it’s all about right now.”
YOU HAVE HALF THE FIELD FEELING LIKE THEY NEED TO GET BACK ON AND OTHER AGENDAS. DOES THAT COME INTO YOUR THINKING?
“For me, if it’s not going to make you go faster then it’s not worth your time. That’s the truth of this sport and trying to be successful on Sunday’s. You have to get your priorities in order of what matters to you and what’s going to make a difference come Sunday afternoon and how you do.”
THESE AGENDAS CAN IMPACT INNOCENT BYSTANDERS.
“They could and I can’t control that. I’m going to try and control the things that are in my hands and do the best I can with that. The only way to control things like that is to be out front. If you’re out front, you don’t have to worry about the mess. That’s the best way to navigate all those things. Sometimes things are just going to be out your hands, and there’s not much you can do about it.”
IN THE PAST, PEOPLE WOULD SAVE STUFF AND THEIR BEST PIECES FOR THE CHASE OR THE PLAYOFF. IS THAT POSSIBLE TO DO THAT NOW WITH THE NEXT-GEN CAR?
“I don’t know if that’s as relevant today as it was before, especially with the limited number of cars we have now. In 2020, we didn’t know whether we were going to make the final four or not until seven days prior, and we were able to get one together good enough to go compete. I think these teams are good enough now where they can make it happen.”
IS THE PLAYOFF FIELD MORE COMPETITIVE THIS YEAR?
“I definitely think it’s competitive. Look at how many people have won. That’s never happened. I think that answers the question in itself. Any of the guys in this 16 and even those who didn’t make the 16 could go and win more than one race in the last 10. So yes, it’s very competitive.”
WHAT’S THE CHALLENGE OF DARLINGTON?
“For me, you have to find the balance of the fast lane being around the wall – which is a difficult place to live all night for 500 miles – and the sun sets in a really awkward place there in turn three right in your face. It becomes hard to see the corner entry. To me it becomes a tale of two races the more I’ve done it and the more I’ve been a part of the race. In my opinion, it almost feels longer than the 600 for some reason. It feels like you’ve been racing for two days. You start in the daytime and end late at night. Balancing the event is probably the most important piece of going to Darlington; then making sure you have a car that’s put together that you haven’t bounced off the wall a bunch for those last 100 miles.”
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INAUDIBLE QUESTION
“No, I feel like we have a good shot. Our team has been trending in a better direction and our race cars have been fast all year. I think they are even faster now than they were, and now we just have to execute to match the speed in our car. That has been the area where really all teams have struggled this year is the execution. I feel like we have been getting better at that here lately and have been able to contend a little bit more, and in the playoffs I feel like there are a lot of my best tracks. So, definitely confident and look forward to the challenge.”
DO YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT WHERE YOU GUYS ARE HEADING INTO THE PLAYOFFS BECAUSE YOU HAVEN’T WON AS MANY RACES AS YOU DID LAST YEAR?
“Yeah, I feel good about it and we have contended often, we just haven’t executed well enough to win. There have been plenty of times this year where the guy that won the race, we were faster than them. Their team just did a really good job. I feel like lately. we have been executing our races good and we have been contending a little more. We won at Watkins Glen because we executed a good race. So, I think we are in a good spot. And like I said, there are a lot of good tracks for me, and I think we can contend and go get some wins.”
DO YOU FEEL LIKE A FAVORITE GOING IN THIS YEAR AS THE REIGNING CHAMPION?
“I don’t know. Maybe that is a better question for other people. I don’t know how to compare myself. I feel confident and I’m confident that we can go out there and win another championship. We have a championship team and we proved that last year. So, I don’t see why we couldn’t if we execute right and don’t have any DNFs or things like that.”
REGARDING DARLINGTON, ARE YOU CONFIDENT OF WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH THIS CAR KNOWING HOW YOU LIKE TO RACE?
“I don’t know. We ran at Darlington earlier this year and we blew up, but we had a fast car. Everybody looks at me as a guy that runs the wall, which in most cases is true. But at Darlington, at least in (turns) three and four, I tend to stay away from it.. slightly. I still run the top, but I give myself some room. But, I don’t know, it depends on how you hit the wall I think. You could graze the wall a lot better with the other car I think; but when you hit the wall, the car with the toe links and all are a little flimsy. Honestly, just try and stay out of the wall. That is the best case.”
WHAT DOES IT SAY THAT FOUR ROOKIES ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS?
“I don’t really think too much in it. Even though they are playoff rookies.. yeah (Austin) Cindric might be the only rookie, but playoff rookies, they are all professional drivers and they have all been in championship situations in their career that they have learned from. So, I don’t read too much into it, but I am not going to say they won’t race different or react differently than someone that has had experience in the playoffs.”
IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE SOMEBODY WON BACK-TO-BACK CHAMPIONSHIPS. DO YOU HAVE THAT AT ALL IN YOUR HEAD?
“I mean, I ultimately want to win the championship and I guess with that, you would be the first back-to-back winner since Jimmie Johnson. But I don’t let that add any more pressure on me. I think that also shows just how difficult this playoff format is to when Jimmie was winning. Him and his team were so good that it seemed like they could just stretch out in points to where now you can’t do that and you have to be.. . it’s like three mini race series. You can’t really stretch yourself out from anyone really.”
FOR HENDRICK, AS YOU APPROACH THE PLAYOFFS, IS IT ALL TOGETHER OR EACH TEAM A LITTLE MORE FOR ITSELF?
“If I am being honest, I feel like everyone works better together in the playoffs. I think because Rick (Hendrick) has four opportunities to win and we want to give him 100% opportunity to win once we get to Phoenix. I feel like we all work together closer, just the way I experienced it last year in the competition meetings and stuff like that. It’s no different, if not, better.”
WHAT WOULD A WIN AT THE SOUTHERN 500 MEAN TO YOU SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN SO CLOSE?
“That one is the next one on my list that I haven’t won. I really want to win and have been close so many times. I have been third at least once, second a couple of times. I’ve had the dominant car in that race a couple of times. I remember we had a great shot to win one year and (Brad) Keselowski beat me off pit road by like two inches and that was it.. that was the race. Lost control of the restart and lost the race. I know our car should be fast there this weekend and hopefully we can just put it all together and get that win we have been fighting for.”
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CAN THIS TEAM WIN THE TROPHY FROM WHERE IT STARTS THE PLAYOFFS?
“Why not? I’m confident at the tracks in the playoffs. RCR has shown speed at every type of track with Tyler (Reddick) winning the road courses, us winning the speedway. Martinsville, I finished third but was probably the second-best car there. And we probably should have won the 600 at Charlotte; I was really close there when you got down to it. I’m happy to be in this spot and I think we’re the dog. Some people are already putting us out, which is just fine with me because it takes pressure off and we’ll go have fun and try to upset some of these guys, and take it as survive and advance mode from here on out.”
ARE YOU PLAYING WITH HOUSE MONEY?
“We’ve been strong in a lot of race this year and have had opportunities to win more races than in years past – Martinsville, Fontana and Talladega. Those three – second, second and third – and Charlotte was the other one where I lost sleep over at the 600. And two of the first three races are 500 milers and long races have statistically been my better races.”
DO YOU FEEL DISRESPECTED A LITTLE BIT?
“No. I look at social media and we’re not usually the most popular guy and I’m cool with that. I want to go out there and do what I’ve done in the past in the playoffs and make it to the next round. One round that really sticks out to me a couple years back is I was two away from transferring to the third round at Talladega. Denny (Hamlin) got me by like a point, so I know how much every position matters in this deal. I want to take advantage of this opportunity, and the Next Gen car has created a lot of opportunities with 15 winners this season. Good tracks coming up for us.”
IS THERE ANY PROBLEM FLIPPING THE SWITCH FOR THE PLAYOFFS?
“If anything, I’ve learned with 15 winners is you need to stay aggressive. I talked to the guys about it the other day (that) some of the strategy calls we made over the last couple of weeks we probably wouldn’t have done it if we were racing for points. We maximize more points by doing other things; by being aggressive on strategy, putting ourselves in better position. So, I don’t think a whole lot is going to change. We’ll monitor where everybody is running during the race and go from there. I believe we should stay on the same strategy path that we’ve been on.”
HOW DOES YOUR PLAYOFF EXPERIENCE HELP YOU GOING INTO THIS?
“Just knowing how every position matters. Looking back at a couple of times when you’re outside looking in and it came down to a point or two points, knowing that you have to get it at all cost.”
HOW DID YOU NOT GET INVOLVED IN THE WRECK AT DAYTONA?
“As soon as I saw the 99 go up the track, I tried to get to the apron as soon as possible. A lot of things happened in between there. I call it the good Lord looking out for me. The backside of that, the toughest thing I had to do is get slowed up to miss the 21 car that was coming down the track because I had to gas up for a car that I saw in my peripheral that was coming down the track. It was square to gas, hard brake, downshift, move left and then everything opened up after that.”
WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST REACTION WHEN YOU SAW THE REPLAY?
“It’s so cool. It’s what’s great about being a race car driver is I’ll have those memories in the back of my head for the rest of my life. The in-car camera makes it very special for other people to see it, too. What people didn’t see probably or remember is the wreck before that. I was in a wreck going 180 down pit road with damage, blew a tire, went a lap down. So, the big wreck was one thing, but my heartrate was already up from the previous wreck when I thought we were in a good position at that point. I think we were third or fourth on the outside and we had come from 25th or 30th, and that wreck happens. Somehow it barely hits and nose on the right side, spin and I thought for sure I’m hitting inside wall of pit lane. The spotter does a good job of telling me to release the brake. I’m going backward, push the clutch in and cars are coming at me, so that in-car footage is what’s pretty wild actually.”
THE COOL FACTOR WILL NEVER LEAVE THAT SITUATION?
“We went through a lot of things in that race that made it special, and I won’t forget any of it.”
HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR PROSPECTS AT DARLINGTON?
“I love that track. People ask me what’s my favorite track and I’ve gone to saying the places you win, so Daytona and Charlotte. But Darlington is my favorite. It’s like driving back in time. It’s a driver’s track. Tire management comes into play. It’s a long race and you’re racing the racetrack. Historically, that’s been good for me.”
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More than 2,000 hot rods, customs, classics and muscle cars will invade Texas Motor Speedway Sept. 16-18 when the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association show gathers for the 29th Summit Racing Lone Star Nationals.
The Summit Racing Lone Star Nationals is three days of hot rods, customs, classics, muscle cars, trucks and imports for vehicles built through 1997.
Featured events during the weekend include the Goodguys Autocross Series, the Summit Racing "Big Hoss Shootout”, Nitro Thunderfest dragster exhibition, burnout competition, Summit Super Shopping Experience and Swap Meet and Cars 4 Sale Corral.
The Team Texas Driving School will provide four-lap stock car rides for an additional fee. There’s also the opportunity to cruise the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway race track in your own vehicle.
The Kids Zone will once again be a hive of activity for youngsters with free arts and crafts, games, prizes and more. The Kids Zone opens Saturday at 1 p.m. and Sunday at 11 a.m.
Spectator gates open each day at 8 a.m. and close Friday and Saturday at 5 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets for adults (13 and over) are $25 per day Friday and Saturday, with Sunday adult tickets at $20. Kids aged 7-12 are just $10 per day and free to children six and under. There will be complimentary guest shuttles into and out of the infield from the spectator parking lots.
Visit the Goodguys website at www.Goodguys.com for further information.
Texas Motor Speedway will play host to the 2022 NASCAR Playoffs on Sept. 24-25. The weekend will be highlighted by the NASCAR Xfinity Series Andy’s Frozen Custard 300 on Saturday, Sept. 24 (2:30 p.m. CT on USA Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Ch. 90, and PRN), and the NASCAR Cup Series Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 on Sunday, Sept. 25 (2:30 p.m. CT on USA Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Ch. 90, PRN, and 95.9 The Ranch).
The newly renovated Lil’ Texas Motor Speedway 1/5-mile dirt track will kick off the weekend of racing with the inaugural C. Bell’s MICRO MANIA. The four-day event (Sept. 21-24) features practice on Wednesday (Sept. 21), qualifying races Thursday and Friday (Sept. 22-23) and mains and finals Saturday (Sept. 24). Micro Sprints are smaller versions of full-sized sprint cars with side-mounted 600cc motorcycle engines that can generate 140 horsepower with similar chassis and body styles to the larger versions. NASCAR stars currently confirmed to participate include Christopher Bell, two-time NASCAR Cup Series Champion Kyle Busch and his son Brexton Busch, Sheldon Creed, Daniel Hemric, Brett Moffitt, and John Hunter Nemechek.
TICKETS:
For ticket information for the September 24-25 NASCAR Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 weekend, including full event and individual day tickets for C. Bell’s Micro Mania, please visit www.texasmotorspeedway.com.
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Mahoning Valley Speedway has announced a schedule change for Saturday, October 1. Originally planned was a Run What Ya Brung event but after careful evaluation of such it was decided to scrap that particular show and revise it with another.
The day will now consist of features for all regular track classes including Modifieds, Late Models, Sportsman Modifieds, Street Stocks, Pro 4s, Hobby Stocks and Futures. All classes will draw for heat starting spots.
The American Three Quarter Midget Racing Association TQ’s will still be on the docket as initially listed for that date. Jeff Kot claimed the victory when the TQ’s visited Mahoning on August 20 in what was yet another thrilling high speed affair for the winged racers who always provide outstanding action each time they compete here.
Furthermore the speedway is excited to announce they will be hosting Dirt Modifieds for the first time in three years. The 602 Crate Sportsman and Open Sportsman cars will be contesting in a 25-lap/$800-to-win feature.
These will be the same cars and under the same rules that compete regularly at such venues as Big Diamond Speedway, Grandview Speedway, New Egypt Speedway and Bridgeport Speedway.
Of recent the speedway management team has been receiving input about having the dirt Modifieds back for a special event and they feel this will be a great opportunity to do so. The 602 Crates and Open Sportsman cars should fit the bill perfectly for the reappearance of dirt Mods on the paved ¼-mile.
Any questions about the dirt Modifieds should be addressed to Operations Manager Todd Baer at 610-730-7470.
During intermission the 2022 class champions will also be recognized and honored for their well-earned accomplishments. There will be other driver honors handed out as well. The speedway is having this in place of a banquet with everyone in attendance now able to be on hand to enjoy the festivities.
With the arrival of the kids JuiceBox division coming to Mahoning on October 22, there is going to be a raffle taking place for a JuiceBox racer during the Champions Day. Raffle tickets will be sold throughout the day and the lucky winner must be present at the time of the drawing.
Adult grandstand admission for Champions Day is $14. Pits are $40.
Champions Day will also be the final tune-up for the season ending Fall Brawl II which will be taking place on Saturday, October 22. The Fall Brawl rain date is October 29.
Please log onto the official Mahoning Valley Speedway website at www.mahoningvalley-speedway.
MVS PR | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/speedway-news/72530-mahoning-valley-speedway-makes-schedule-adjustment-to-october-1-all-track-classes-to-run-return-of-dirt-modifieds-800-to-win-for-602-crate-open-sportsman-dirt-modifieds | 2022-09-01T23:14:36Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/speedway-news/72530-mahoning-valley-speedway-makes-schedule-adjustment-to-october-1-all-track-classes-to-run-return-of-dirt-modifieds-800-to-win-for-602-crate-open-sportsman-dirt-modifieds | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Riley Herbst Notes of Interest • The Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help A Hero 200 Saturday at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway will mark Riley Herbst’s milestone 100th career NASCAR Xfinity Series start. This is Herbst’s third fulltime season in the Xfinity Series and his progression is apparent. He has equaled or bettered his best previous finishes at 10 tracks on the schedule, including Darlington. In his 99 previous starts, Herbst has 14 top-fives and 49 top-10s dating back to his first career Xfinity Series start on June 17, 2018, at Iowa Speedway in Newton, where he finished an impressive sixth as a 19-year-old. • When Herbst last competed at Darlington on May 7, the driver of the No. 98 Monster Energy Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing finished third. It was yet another strong run for Herbst, who opened the year with a fourth-place drive in the season-opening race at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway. In the 23 races run this season, Herbst has scored five top-five and 15 top-10 finishes, the best being a pair of third-place efforts – Darlington and June 25 at Nashville (Tenn.) Superspeedway where Herbst started from the pole. The 23-year-old Las Vegas-native is on track for a career year in the Xfinity Series. His five top-fives equals his season-best effort in 2021 and he is only three top-10s away from eclipsing his season-long high of 17 top-10s earned in 2020. • Even when a top-10 can’t be had, Herbst gets all he can from his No. 98 Monster Energy Ford Mustang. This was evident in the Xfinity Series’ most recent race at Daytona last Saturday. Herbst posted a 15th-place finish, but that doesn’t tell the whole story of his race. He started sixth after qualifying was rained out and the field was set by the rulebook. Persistent rain and lightning delayed the start by more than three hours, and with a multitude of crashes in the waning laps that led to three attempts at a green-white-checkered finish, the race ended close to 1:30 a.m. Herbst was fast throughout, leading the field on lap 19 and again on lap 25 and finishing third in the second stage to grab eight bonus points. This placed Herbst second for the start of the final stage, but calamity soon came calling. On lap 73, Herbst was spun on the backstretch, necessitating a trip to pit road to clean the grill and repair some minor damage. He returned to the race in 33rd, and in nine laps he had rallied his way to ninth. A multicar crash on lap 99 set up the first green-white checkered finish. Herbst survived it and then two more attempts at a green-white-checkered finish, only to get spun out of the top-five on the final lap. His 15th-place result was his 18th top-15 of the season and his third straight top-15 at Daytona. • While Herbst is still seeking his first Xfinity Series win, his team – Stewart-Haas Racing – has been victorious twice at Darlington – August 2019 with Cole Custer and May 2020 with Chase Briscoe. • The Xfinity Series still has three regular-season races remaining before its playoffs begin Sept. 24 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. Herbst is solidly among the 12-driver playoff field. He is currently eighth in the driver standings with 643 points, 150 above the top-12 playoff cutoff line. A win would lock Herbst into the playoff field, but he can also secure his position by pointing his way into the postseason with continued consistency through the regular-season finale Sept. 16 at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway. Riley Herbst, Driver of the No. 98 Monster Energy Ford Mustang Daytona was an up-and-down race for you and the No. 98 Monster Energy team. You led two laps and finished third in the second stage, but you got spun not once, but twice in the final stage before finishing 15th. Talk about that race. “That race was rough. We just couldn’t catch a break between a tire going down and getting involved in incidents. I think people noticed our shear speed and determination to make it to the end. We were a car that could win and, as a driver, you always want it to end up differently. We just have to learn and move forward. There’s still a good bit of racing left to go this year.” Darlington is known as “The Track Too Tough To Tame.” What are your expectations as you return to the 1.366-mile oval after racing there earlier this season? “Darlington’s such a cool, historic racetrack, but it’s always been tough. It’s been a bit of a wild card for me. I’ve had some of my best races there and my worst. When we went there in May, we brought a car with speed and really turned some heads with a third-place finish. I think that was the moment that proved we were there to compete. The No. 98 team knows how to win there and we’ve been performing at a consistency to win. I know we can get it done.” What have you done in preparation for Darlington? “Darlington wasn’t my best track last year, but that seemed to be a trend. The May race this year was a testament to the hard work that this No. 98 Monster Energy team has put in. That third-place finish was the start to some great finishes throughout the summer. I’ve been going to the simulator, working with the team, and just rewatching old footage to try and learn how to tackle this racetrack. Hopefully, all the hard work will pay off on Saturday.” TSC PR | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/xfinity-series-news/72531-monster-energy-racing-riley-herbst-darlington-nxs-advance | 2022-09-01T23:14:42Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/xfinity-series-news/72531-monster-energy-racing-riley-herbst-darlington-nxs-advance | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Iran state media reporting statements from the Iranian Foreign Ministry.
- Says Iran has submitted a constructive response to US proposals on terms to revive the 2015 nuclear deal
- Says the response is aimed at finalising the talks
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This saga has been going on for months and months and months. Perhaps we are getting close to finalising talks. Or perhaps not.
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The point for oil traders is the view that if an agreement can be reached then it eases access to oil markets for Iranian exports and thus there is greater supply and thus, at the margin, prices will fall. It'll take time to ramp up Iranian oil exports of course. And, also of course, that fall in price is based on the 'all else being equal' assumption. Which, it never is. In this instance, for example, there may be a reduction in supply from OPEC+ if more Iranian oil enters the market.
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New Zealand data
Terms of trade index -2.4% q/q
- expected -1.3%
- prior +0.5%
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While export prices rose:
- +3.7% q/q (expected -0.8%, prior +7.8%)
- export volumes +3.0% q/q (prior +7%)
import prices rose even more:
- +6.5% q/q (expected +2.5%, prior +7.2%)
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The New Zealand dollar has barely moved, it was not expected to on this data release. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/nz-data-q2-terms-of-trade-index-24-qq-expected-13-20220901/ | 2022-09-01T23:15:10Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/nz-data-q2-terms-of-trade-index-24-qq-expected-13-20220901/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
There is one and only one goal for Marquette women’s soccer: Score goals. Plural, non-singular goals. And not just goals, but standard issue soccer “I passed it over to you and you made a play and kicked it or heck, even intentionally headed it into the net.”
It has been 270 minutes of soccer so far this season. Marquette has scored two goals, both coming against Central Michigan in their lone win amongst their 1-2-0 record. One goal is officially on the board as an own goal, although it was briefly credited to Molly Keiper for corner kicking it to where it deflected off a CMU defender. The other goal is a penalty kick by Isabella Cook.
That’s it for goals for Marquette this year. Zero run of play goals in 270 minutes. Zero run of play goals on 20 total shots in three matches, although that’s slightly misleading since then-#16 Notre Dame held MU to just one shot. Still, zero regular-ass soccer goals in 19 shots in two matches is still not any good. Zero run of play goals on 10 shots on goal. Officially, Cook’s PK goes as a shot and a shot on goal, so those numbers are really 18 and 9 if you want to think about it that way.
This is all very bad for long term success.
Now, it’s a good sign for Marquette’s long term success that they’re dead even in shots against their last two (and/or non-Notre Dame opponents, if you prefer) at 19 apiece. The Golden Eagles have been underwater overall in shots in each of head coach Frank Pelaez’s first two seasons in charge at Marquette, so sitting at 50/50 in the two competitive matches is fantastic news. Long term, that’s going to benefit the defense, it’s going to benefit Mikki Easter in net, and in theory, hopefully, it’s going to benefit the offense. If they keep holding the line there and splitting the shots, then eventually goals are going to go in the net.
This weekend has two matches for Marquette against what should be beatable opponents if the Golden Eagles are destined to be in the six team Big East tournament. That’s going to require goals in the net, and preferably multiple goals in both matches. I’ll take wins, no matter how they get there, but right now? There’s an awful lot of foreboding nervous energy surrounding how things are going for the Golden Eagles, and they need to shake that off by putting the ball in the net a whole bunch.
Match #4: vs Illinois-Chicago Flames (0-2-1)
Date: Thursday, September 1, 2022
Time: 7pm Central
Location: Valley Fields, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Streaming: FloFC
Live Stats: Sidearm Stats
Twitter Updates: @MarquetteWSOC
Marquette is 1-0 all time against Illinois-Chicago. This remains weird, even with the Flames only having a team since 2014. The first ever meeting was last season in Milwaukee, and Rachel Johnson was credited with the game winning (and only) goal in that one.
There’s no other way around this: UIC hasn’t scored a goal yet this season. 3-0 loss at Louisville, 1-0 loss at home to DePaul, and a 0-0 draw on Sunday afternoon at home against Eastern Illinois. Taking the EIU draw into account, things are much worse than they look. UIC outshot the Panthers 18-4 in that game, and still came up empty on goals..... and that means the Flames were getting outshot 23-15 in their first two games combined. That’s not a disaster, but it definitely tells a different story than their current mark of 33 for and 27 against.
While there is an indication that maaaybe Marquette can get their act together against the Flames, it’s not all sunshine and lollipops. UIC did score four goals in a 4-1 exhibition victory over Central Michigan before the season officially got underway. This would be, of course, the same Central Michigan that Marquette had to fluke a win together against earlier this year. It’s exhibition play, so who knows what either team was really trying to do..... but that’s not an ideal sign for Marquette.
Without a goal to speak of, we have to take a peek at UIC’s conference projections to get a feel for what they are this fall. This is their first ever season in the Missouri Valley Conference, and the Flames were picked to finish 10th in the 11 team league. That’s with the MVC being a little scattershot this year as four teams got at least one first place vote. The only team behind UIC is Southern Illinois, which of course makes me very worried about what’s going on with the Salukis.
I presume we’re going to see Lauren Keiser start in net for the Flames on Thursday night. She’s started each of the past two matches after Sara Sanabria started the opener against Louisville but only went 45 minutes. Keiser went the full 90 minutes against EIU on Sunday after getting relieved at halftime against DePaul, so the trend is towards letting the 6’0” redshirt sophomore from Florida go the distance. She has yet to allow a goal this season, as DePaul’s marker came against Sanabria and has made eight saves in her 180 minutes of action.
Match #5: vs Green Bay Phoenix (2-1-0)
Date: Sunday, September 4, 2022
Time: 1pm Central
Location: Valley Fields, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Streaming: FloFC
Live Stats: Sidearm Stats
Twitter Updates: @MarquetteWSOC
Marquette is 13-1-0 all time against Green Bay. The two sides have not played since 2009 and the Golden Eagles are riding a 13 match winning streak after dropping the first ever meeting in the series. The Phoenix have not scored a goal against Marquette since 2004.
Everything was going right for Green Bay this season in their first 180 minutes of soccer. Five goals scored, no goals allowed, perfect 2-0 record. Can’t ask for much more from home dates against Chicago State and Western Illinois. Then their schedule dealt them a road date against #24 Wisconsin on Sunday evening and WELP, 3-0 loss. It was even worse than it sounds, as the Badgers outshot them 24-1 at McClimon Sports Complex. Even worse, their lone shot came in the 16th minute while the score was still 0-0. Woooof.
They had outshot their opponents 35-16 in the first two matches, so that’s probably more in sync with what the Phoenix actually are this season. Zoey Pagels is the only player to find the net twice this year, getting one each in the two matches that GB managed to get on the board. She’s tied for the team lead in points with McKayla Kertscher, who has a goal and two assists on the year. That’s pretty impressive at this point of the season, as that means Kertscher has assisted on half of GB’s goals that she hasn’t scored herself. That’s not going to last, but that’s still pretty great for three games in.
Annie Mason has played every minute in net so far this season. Thanks to those two shutouts, her goals against average sits at 1.00 even right now. While Wisconsin was letting it fly big time, she still only had to make seven saves to keep it at 3-0, and I say “only” because she made seven in the opener and six against DePaul. | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/9/1/23327427/marquette-golden-eagles-womens-soccer-preview-illinois-chicago-uic-flames-green-bay-phoenix | 2022-09-01T23:15:45Z | anonymouseagle.com | control | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/9/1/23327427/marquette-golden-eagles-womens-soccer-preview-illinois-chicago-uic-flames-green-bay-phoenix | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Bosch on Wednesday announced a $200 million investment to build hydrogen fuel-cell stacks for Class 8 semi trucks at its Anderson, South Carolina, facility.
Production is scheduled to start in 2026, and work has already begun on upgrades that include adding an estimated 147,000 square feet of floor space for fuel-cell manufacturing and related operations, Bosch said in a press release.
Bosch is an investor in Nikola, and the once-troubled fuel-cell vehicle company plans to use its fuel-cell tech. The Nikola Tre semi recently completed a testing program with Anheuser-Busch in California, in which prototype trucks logged over 12,000 miles and hauled two million pounds of freight, the release noted, adding that Nikola is continuing pilot testing with Total Transportation Services Inc.
Nikola plans to assemble production versions of the Tre at its own Arizona factory, but it’s also contracting with truck maker IVECO to have vehicles assembled at that firm’s German factory. Nikola had been favoring General Motors as the supplier for hydrogen fuel-cell hardware in North America, with Bosch for Europe. GM had also been slated to build Nikola’s Badger fuel-cell pickup.
That all changed when founder Trevor Milton was charged with securities fraud, and a broad memorandum of understanding between the companies was replaced by a far more limited partnership.
Although fuel cells are shifting to trucks, rather than passenger vehicles, Bosch might provide U.S.-built fuel cells to other truckmakers. It added fuel cells to its portfolio as part of a broad shift in the shadow of the VW diesel scandal that involved the supplier’s complicity in emissions “defeat devices,” and now plans to invest $1 billion in fuel-cell tech by 2024.
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- Renault Scénic Vision EV concept: Fuel-cell range extender enables smaller, lighter battery | https://www.wpri.com/automotive/internet-brands/bosch-plans-to-make-fuel-cells-for-electrified-semis-in-south-carolina/ | 2022-09-01T23:15:45Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/automotive/internet-brands/bosch-plans-to-make-fuel-cells-for-electrified-semis-in-south-carolina/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Thursday hailed economic and educational cooperation with Taiwan, marked by a $12 billion investment in his state by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.
Ducey spoke during a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, in the latest of a series of visits by U.S. political leaders that have stirred the ire of China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory and condemns all official contacts between Taipei and foreign governments that recognize Beijing.
Taiwan is a leader in the production of semiconductors, the critical chips that are used in everyday electronics and have become a battleground in the technology competition between the U.S. and China.
Arizona is also home to a base that trains Taiwan’s F-16 fighter pilots who are a major part in the island’s defenses against a threatened Chinese blockade or invasion. Arizona also plans to open a state representative office in Taipei and the sides have inked an agreement on cooperation in higher education. The TSMC investment is expected to create 2,000 jobs in Arizona, with the company taking numerous future workers for training in Taiwan.
“Arizona and Taiwan have many shared economic strengths specifically in technology and advanced manufacturing industries,” Ducey said.
“Both Arizona and Taiwan are global semiconductor leaders and it is in this industry where our partnership is the greatest. (The investment) has elevated the potential of what’s possible between Arizona and Taiwan,” the governor said.
Neither Tsai or Ducey directly mentioned China, although in her remarks, the president indicated current events were driving expanded economic links between the sides.
“In the face of authoritarian expansionism and the economic challenges of the post-pandemic era, Taiwan seeks to bolster cooperation with the United States in the semiconductor and other high-tech industries,” Tsai said.
“This would help build more secure and more resilient supply chains. We look forward to jointly producing democracy chips to safeguard the interests of our democratic partners and create greater prosperity,” she said.
Close links between Taiwan and Arizona date back to the state’s former senators Barry Goldwater and John McCain, conservatives who were strongly critical of Beijing.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan early last month made her the highest-ranking American official to visit in 25 years, prompting China to launch missiles over the island and send ships and planes across the midline of the Taiwan Strait.
The U.S. recently sent a pair of missile cruisers through the 180 kilometer (110 mile)-wide strait in a rejection of Chinese protests. Despite the lack of formal diplomatic relations, the U.S. remains Taiwan’s main source of political and military support and federal law requires it to ensure the island has the ability to defend itself against Chinese threats. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-arizona-gov-ducey-hails-taiwan-semiconductor-investment/ | 2022-09-01T23:16:07Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-arizona-gov-ducey-hails-taiwan-semiconductor-investment/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 34 |
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Thursday hailed economic and educational cooperation with Taiwan, marked by a $12 billion investment in his state by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.
Ducey spoke during a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, in the latest of a series of visits by U.S. political leaders that have stirred the ire of China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory and condemns all official contacts between Taipei and foreign governments that recognize Beijing.
Taiwan is a leader in the production of semiconductors, the critical chips that are used in everyday electronics and have become a battleground in the technology competition between the U.S. and China.
Arizona is also home to a base that trains Taiwan’s F-16 fighter pilots who are a major part in the island’s defenses against a threatened Chinese blockade or invasion. Arizona also plans to open a state representative office in Taipei and the sides have inked an agreement on cooperation in higher education. The TSMC investment is expected to create 2,000 jobs in Arizona, with the company taking numerous future workers for training in Taiwan.
“Arizona and Taiwan have many shared economic strengths specifically in technology and advanced manufacturing industries,” Ducey said.
“Both Arizona and Taiwan are global semiconductor leaders and it is in this industry where our partnership is the greatest. (The investment) has elevated the potential of what’s possible between Arizona and Taiwan,” the governor said.
Neither Tsai or Ducey directly mentioned China, although in her remarks, the president indicated current events were driving expanded economic links between the sides.
“In the face of authoritarian expansionism and the economic challenges of the post-pandemic era, Taiwan seeks to bolster cooperation with the United States in the semiconductor and other high-tech industries,” Tsai said.
“This would help build more secure and more resilient supply chains. We look forward to jointly producing democracy chips to safeguard the interests of our democratic partners and create greater prosperity,” she said.
Close links between Taiwan and Arizona date back to the state’s former senators Barry Goldwater and John McCain, conservatives who were strongly critical of Beijing.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan early last month made her the highest-ranking American official to visit in 25 years, prompting China to launch missiles over the island and send ships and planes across the midline of the Taiwan Strait.
The U.S. recently sent a pair of missile cruisers through the 180 kilometer (110 mile)-wide strait in a rejection of Chinese protests. Despite the lack of formal diplomatic relations, the U.S. remains Taiwan’s main source of political and military support and federal law requires it to ensure the island has the ability to defend itself against Chinese threats. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-arizona-gov-ducey-hails-taiwan-semiconductor-investment/ | 2022-09-01T23:16:07Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-arizona-gov-ducey-hails-taiwan-semiconductor-investment/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 34 |
A late burst of buying erased some of the stock market’s losses Thursday, leaving indexes mixed on Wall Street though still on pace to end lower for the week.
The S&P 500 rose 0.3% after having been down 1.3% earlier in the day. The benchmark index’s positive turn in the last 10 minutes of trading ended a four-day losing streak.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average also bounced back from an early slide to finish with a 0.5% gain, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite fell 0.3%. Several measures of small and mid-size companies also lost ground, including the Russell 2000, which closed 1.2% lower.
The mixed finish for stocks comes as traders look ahead to the Labor Department’s latest monthly job market snapshot Friday. The Federal Reserve will consider the August update on job and wage growth as it determines further interest rate hikes in its bid to slow the economy enough to bring down inflation.
“We’ll be able to get a better read on markets tomorrow after that number comes out,” said Sameer Samana, senior global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute. “At least right now, the path of least resistance for markets remains lower.”
The S&P 500 rose 11.85 points to 3,966.85, while the Dow added 145.99 points to 31,656.42. The Nasdaq slid 31.08 points to 11,785.13, its fifth straight drop. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 21.30 points to 1,822.82.
Gains in health care stocks, companies that rely on direct consumer spending and communications services providers helped lift the market. Johnson & Johnson rose 2.5%, Target gained 2.8% and Netflix added 2.9%.
Technology stocks were once again one of the heaviest weights on the market. Nvidia dropped 7.7% after the chipmaker said the U.S. government imposed new licensing requirements on its sales to China.
Energy stocks fell as the price of U.S. crude oil, which is coming off its third month of declines, dropped 3.3% to $86.61 a barrel. Chevron slid 1.6%.
Major indexes in Europe and Asia closed lower.
Treasury yields rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences interest rates on mortgages and other consumer loans, rose to 3.26% from 3.20% late Wednesday. The two-year Treasury yield, which tends to track expectations for Fed action, rose to 3.52% from 3.50% and is now at the highest level since 2007.
Bond yields have been rising along with expectations for higher interest rates, which the Federal Reserve has been increasing in a bid to squash the highest inflation in decades.
Stocks have been mostly racking up losses in recent weeks, wiping out much of the gains the market made in July and early August. Traders remain remain wary of how the economy will hold up as the Fed ratchets up interest rates to fight inflation.
The selling accelerated beginning last week, when Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell indicated that the central bank will likely need to keep interest rates high enough to slow the economy “for some time” in order to bring inflation down.
The Fed has already raised interest rates four times this year and is expected to raise short-term rates by another 0.75 percentage points at its next meeting later this month, according to CME Group.
Wall Street is worried that the Fed could hit the brakes too hard on an already slowing economy and veer it into a recession. Higher interest rates also hurt investment prices, especially for pricier stocks like technology companies.
The S&P 500 ended August with a 4.2% loss after surging 9.1% in July on optimism that the Fed might be able to ease back on raising rates following signs that inflation, while still high, was leveling off.
The July and early August market rally marked a brief positive turn for Wall Street after a weak first half of the year where the S&P 500 dropped 20% from its most recent high and entered a bear market. September may not offer much of a respite for investors, as historically it tends to be the worst month for stocks.
Investors have been closely watching economic data for any additional signs that the economy is slowing down or that inflation may be cooling or at least holding at its current level. Businesses and consumers have been hit hard by rising prices on everything from food to clothing, but recent declines in gasoline prices have provided some relief.
Strong U.S. employment data have helped fuel expectations of more interest rate hikes. The Labor Department reported Tuesday there were two jobs for every unemployed person in July, giving ammunition to Fed officials who argue the economy can tolerate more rate hikes to tame inflation that is at multi-decade highs.
On Thursday, the Labor Department said applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, the latest sign the job market continues to shine despite a slowing U.S. economy.
(backslash) | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-asian-shares-track-wall-street-slide-on-expected-rate-raises/ | 2022-09-01T23:16:14Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-asian-shares-track-wall-street-slide-on-expected-rate-raises/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 25 |
A late burst of buying erased some of the stock market’s losses Thursday, leaving indexes mixed on Wall Street though still on pace to end lower for the week.
The S&P 500 rose 0.3% after having been down 1.3% earlier in the day. The benchmark index’s positive turn in the last 10 minutes of trading ended a four-day losing streak.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average also bounced back from an early slide to finish with a 0.5% gain, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite fell 0.3%. Several measures of small and mid-size companies also lost ground, including the Russell 2000, which closed 1.2% lower.
The mixed finish for stocks comes as traders look ahead to the Labor Department’s latest monthly job market snapshot Friday. The Federal Reserve will consider the August update on job and wage growth as it determines further interest rate hikes in its bid to slow the economy enough to bring down inflation.
“We’ll be able to get a better read on markets tomorrow after that number comes out,” said Sameer Samana, senior global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute. “At least right now, the path of least resistance for markets remains lower.”
The S&P 500 rose 11.85 points to 3,966.85, while the Dow added 145.99 points to 31,656.42. The Nasdaq slid 31.08 points to 11,785.13, its fifth straight drop. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 21.30 points to 1,822.82.
Gains in health care stocks, companies that rely on direct consumer spending and communications services providers helped lift the market. Johnson & Johnson rose 2.5%, Target gained 2.8% and Netflix added 2.9%.
Technology stocks were once again one of the heaviest weights on the market. Nvidia dropped 7.7% after the chipmaker said the U.S. government imposed new licensing requirements on its sales to China.
Energy stocks fell as the price of U.S. crude oil, which is coming off its third month of declines, dropped 3.3% to $86.61 a barrel. Chevron slid 1.6%.
Major indexes in Europe and Asia closed lower.
Treasury yields rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences interest rates on mortgages and other consumer loans, rose to 3.26% from 3.20% late Wednesday. The two-year Treasury yield, which tends to track expectations for Fed action, rose to 3.52% from 3.50% and is now at the highest level since 2007.
Bond yields have been rising along with expectations for higher interest rates, which the Federal Reserve has been increasing in a bid to squash the highest inflation in decades.
Stocks have been mostly racking up losses in recent weeks, wiping out much of the gains the market made in July and early August. Traders remain remain wary of how the economy will hold up as the Fed ratchets up interest rates to fight inflation.
The selling accelerated beginning last week, when Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell indicated that the central bank will likely need to keep interest rates high enough to slow the economy “for some time” in order to bring inflation down.
The Fed has already raised interest rates four times this year and is expected to raise short-term rates by another 0.75 percentage points at its next meeting later this month, according to CME Group.
Wall Street is worried that the Fed could hit the brakes too hard on an already slowing economy and veer it into a recession. Higher interest rates also hurt investment prices, especially for pricier stocks like technology companies.
The S&P 500 ended August with a 4.2% loss after surging 9.1% in July on optimism that the Fed might be able to ease back on raising rates following signs that inflation, while still high, was leveling off.
The July and early August market rally marked a brief positive turn for Wall Street after a weak first half of the year where the S&P 500 dropped 20% from its most recent high and entered a bear market. September may not offer much of a respite for investors, as historically it tends to be the worst month for stocks.
Investors have been closely watching economic data for any additional signs that the economy is slowing down or that inflation may be cooling or at least holding at its current level. Businesses and consumers have been hit hard by rising prices on everything from food to clothing, but recent declines in gasoline prices have provided some relief.
Strong U.S. employment data have helped fuel expectations of more interest rate hikes. The Labor Department reported Tuesday there were two jobs for every unemployed person in July, giving ammunition to Fed officials who argue the economy can tolerate more rate hikes to tame inflation that is at multi-decade highs.
On Thursday, the Labor Department said applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, the latest sign the job market continues to shine despite a slowing U.S. economy.
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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 offer Americans a chance to get the 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. Pfizer said it expected to deliver 3 million doses to vaccination sites around the country by Tuesday.
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 more time passes 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 several 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 FDA wanted fall boosters to target the currently circulating omicron strains. 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.
Dr. Pablo Sanchez of the Ohio State University was the only CDC adviser to vote against recommending the shots. He said he believes the bivalent vaccine is safe and that he likely will get it.
But “I just feel that this was a bit premature” given the absence of human data on how well it works, he said.
Several CDC advisers said that to get the maximum benefit, people will need to wait longer between their last vaccination and the new booster than the two-month minimum set by the FDA. Waiting at least three months would be better, they said.
One more change: The FDA no longer authorizes use of the original-recipe boosters for anyone 12 or older — a source of potential confusion for people who had planned on getting a regular booster this week and now may have to wait for the new kind to arrive at their local pharmacy or clinic.
It’s not clear how many people will want an updated shot. Just half of vaccinated Americans got the first recommended booster dose, and only a third of those 50 and older who were urged to get a second booster did so.
The U.S. government has purchased 170 million doses from both companies — shots that will be free — and the CDC said 200 million people could be eligible.
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Associated Press Medical Writer Mike Stobbe contributed to this report.
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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 offer Americans a chance to get the 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. Pfizer said it expected to deliver 3 million doses to vaccination sites around the country by Tuesday.
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 more time passes 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 several 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 FDA wanted fall boosters to target the currently circulating omicron strains. 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.
Dr. Pablo Sanchez of the Ohio State University was the only CDC adviser to vote against recommending the shots. He said he believes the bivalent vaccine is safe and that he likely will get it.
But “I just feel that this was a bit premature” given the absence of human data on how well it works, he said.
Several CDC advisers said that to get the maximum benefit, people will need to wait longer between their last vaccination and the new booster than the two-month minimum set by the FDA. Waiting at least three months would be better, they said.
One more change: The FDA no longer authorizes use of the original-recipe boosters for anyone 12 or older — a source of potential confusion for people who had planned on getting a regular booster this week and now may have to wait for the new kind to arrive at their local pharmacy or clinic.
It’s not clear how many people will want an updated shot. Just half of vaccinated Americans got the first recommended booster dose, and only a third of those 50 and older who were urged to get a second booster did so.
The U.S. government has purchased 170 million doses from both companies — shots that will be free — and the CDC said 200 million people could be eligible.
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Associated Press Medical Writer Mike Stobbe contributed to this report.
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LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency has recommended the authorization of two coronavirus vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Inc., tweaked to include protection against an early version of the omicron variant.
In a statement on Thursday, the EU drug regulator said the two messenger RNA boosters offered protection both against the original version of COVID-19 and the omicron subvariant BA.1, which has since been overtaken globally by later omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5. Nearly 80% of coronavirus cases worldwide are now being caused by omicron BA.5, according to the World Health Organization.
The decision comes a day after the U.S. drug regulator cleared updated versions of COVID-19 vaccines incorporating protection against the later subvariants, after telling pharmaceuticals in June that any updated boosters must target the most recent versions of omicron.
The European Medicines Agency said adapted vaccines are expected “to help maintain optimal protection against COVID-19 as the virus evolves.” The regulator is also currently reviewing an updated version of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that aims to protect against the later BA.4 and BA.5 omicron variants.
Scientists hope the new boosters will trigger a strong response from the immune system to prevent not just serious illness but perhaps milder infections also – much like the original vaccines did earlier in the pandemic, before super-contagious mutants emerged.
It’s unclear how well the updated boosters will work since experts are still gathering data. But there’s evidence that they are safe, so waiting for more study on their effectiveness would risk another mutation appearing before people are immunized.
Last month, British authorities cleared an updated version of the Moderna booster that included protection against omicron subvariant BA.1, saying the shots would be offered to people 50 and over beginning in September.
In Germany, health minister Karl Lauterbach said that inoculations with the new vaccines could start next week and that “now is the optimal time to close vaccination gaps for the fall.”
Globally, coronavirus cases and deaths have been dropping for weeks, but scientists expect a surge of hospitalizations and deaths with the coming onset of winter in the northern hemisphere.
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Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.
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DENVER (AP) — The anxious-looking women talk directly to the camera, warning that the Colorado Republican running for the U.S. Senate opposes the state’s reproductive rights law and supports the conservative Supreme Court justices who revoked the constitutional right to abortion this summer.
“It’s not even close,” one says as the ad for the Democratic senator wraps up. “We need Michael Bennet fighting for us.”
The spot is significant because the man it slams on abortion, businessman Joe O’Dea, is a rare Republican supporter of at least some abortion rights. O’Dea said he would back a law to codify the protections of Roe v. Wade, though he opposes abortions after 20 weeks except in cases of rape, incest or to protect the life of the mother.
Analysts say similarly nuanced positions were once considered the political sweet spot in the complex world of abortion politics, coming closest to representing the views of the typical conflicted voter. But that may be changing as abortion restrictions kick in following the fall of Roe with the high court’s ruling in June.
“We are here in this country, right now, with patients traveling thousands of miles for care because politicians have been given the room for the least little bit of nuance,” said Adrienne Mansanares of Planned Parenthood Action Colorado during a recent news conference to back Bennet.
The message from Democrats: Republicans can’t be trusted on the issue, regardless of their personal beliefs.
In New Hampshire, Democrats are going after Republican Chris Sununu, who is running for reelection as a self-described “pro-choice governor,” for supporting a ban on abortions after 23 weeks of pregnancy.
In Connecticut, Democrats slammed as “extreme” former state Sen. George Logan in his race against Democratic U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes — despite Logan receiving an “A” rating in 2017 and 2018 from the Connecticut chapter of NARAL, an abortion rights group. Democrats note the rating was based on Logan’s statehouse votes on other issues of importance to NARAL such as paid family medical leave, rather than abortion.
Also in Connecticut, the Republican candidate for governor, Bob Stefanowski, is out with a television ad highlighting how he and his Democratic opponent “are both pro-choice.” In an interview, Stefanowski said he was responding to repeated Democratic attacks on abortion, which he compared to lies.
“I don’t know how many times I can say I’m not going to change Connecticut law,” Stefanowski said in an interview. “I’m going to support a woman’s right to choose.”
Abortion has become an increasingly partisan issue over recent decades, but public views have always been more shades of gray.
Typically, support for abortion rights is highest for women in the earliest stages of pregnancy and tapers off as the pregnancy advances, until it is lowest for abortions very close to delivery, said Jocelyn Kiley of the Pew Research Center. Still, exceptions for rape, incest and to protect the life of the mother are popular at all stages.
“Most Americans see this as a nuanced issue and not legal all the time or illegal all the time,” Kiley said. But, she noted, “it’s possible that Americans’ underlying opinions about this are shifting in the past couple of months.”
On June 24, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority overturned Roe and triggered abortion bans in at least 13 states, many of which don’t provide exceptions for rape, incest and to protect the life of the mother.
The reason this is happening, said Republican pollster Whit Ayres, is “you now have state legislatures that have taken positions opposed by 9 out of 10 Americans.”
“What the Dobbs decision has done along with these trigger laws is focus attention on the early part of pregnancy, not late term,” Ayres said.
While many people back some restrictions on abortion, especially after the first trimester, the most extreme measures introduced in some Republican-led states are at odds with public opinion, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll in July.
There are several signs that momentum is with abortion-rights backers. In conservative Kansas, a ballot measure to remove that state’s right to abortion lost by more than 150,000 votes. Democrats won a special election in a narrowly divided upstate New York swing district last week after their candidate focused on abortion. In a survey shortly after the Supreme Court ruling, Pew found that 62% of U.S. adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, the highest share in nearly 30 years of tracking the issue.
That’s emboldened Democrats to go after any Republican on abortion, regardless of the details of their position, said Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia who has long tracked the politics of reproductive health.
“Although the nuance on the issue is largely gone, the nuance of the case Democrats can make is stronger,” Lawless said.
She noted that Democrats can now make the more technical argument that any Republican elected increases the power of the party that overturned Roe and could spread abortion bans further across the country.
That’s an argument Colorado Democrats have tried to make, unsuccessfully, before. In 2014, Democratic Sen. Mark Udall lost his race to Republican Cory Gardner, an abortion rights opponent who defused the issue by backing over-the-counter women’s contraception to demonstrate he wasn’t hostile to reproductive health.
Gardner’s supporters mocked Udall as “Mark Uterus” for hammering relentlessly on abortion and they assured voters that Roe wasn’t at risk. Gardner lost his reelection bid in 2020, when Colorado voters replaced him with a Democrat supporting abortion rights after then-President Donald Trump picked now-Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the deciding vote in Dobbs, in the campaign’s final weeks.
Now Democrats are trying again with O’Dea. In an interview, the first-time candidate said of his opponent’s attack: “It’s pretty dishonest, pretty disingenuous.”
Yet in 2020, O’Dea voted for a statewide ballot measure to bar abortions after 22 weeks that failed by 18 percentage points. The measure didn’t contain exceptions for rape, incest or to protect the mother’s life. He now says he thinks those exceptions are essential and added that he would support allowing the termination of nonviable pregnancies.
He noted he wasn’t a candidate for office when the measure was on the ballot.
“I didn’t look at all the nuances,” O’Dea said.
Colorado has a long history of backing abortion rights. It was the first state to legalize the procedure in cases of rape, incest and to protect the mother, taking that step in 1967. Earlier this year, the Democratic-controlled Legislature passed one of the most sweeping laws protecting abortion rights, guaranteeing no restrictions on abortions regardless of when in the pregnancy they occur. O’Dea opposes that law because of his belief that abortions should be outlawed past 20 weeks.
The race is playing out as Colorado has become a refuge for women seeking care after the Dobbs decision activated trigger laws in nearby states, especially Texas.
Karen Middleton, a former Democratic state lawmaker who runs the reproductive rights group Cobalt, recalled in an interview talking to a woman with an ectopic pregnancy driving hundreds of miles from Texas to Colorado to obtain an abortion who began bleeding in a remote area between the states.
“We’re a lot less willing to compromise,” she said.
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Haigh reported from Hartford, Connecticut.
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(The Hill) – Former President Trump said he would be looking “very seriously” into full pardons for those charged in connection with storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, if he decides to run for a second term and wins the 2024 presidential election.
In an interview with conservative radio host Wendy Bell on Thursday, Trump further stated that he would consider it “very strongly and very favorably.”
The 45th president also shared that he was “financially supporting” some of the defendants who were in his office just days ago.
“I am financially supporting people that are incredible and they were in my office actually two days ago, so they’re very much in my mind,” Trump added.
“It’s a disgrace what they’ve done to them. What they’ve done to these people is disgraceful,” he said.
While Trump teased a potential 2024 run for the presidency, he stopped short of announcing it during the interview.
When asked by Bell if he would announce his run on the show, the former president shared, “Well the time is coming closer and I think you’re gonna be really happy. You have campaign finance laws that [don’t] allow you to … it’s crazy. It’s not smart. If you say it, everything changes and you have reporting and you have all things. But I will be doing something and I think you’re going to be happy.”
A Trump spokesperson did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment on how exactly he is supporting the Jan. 6, 2021, riot defendants.
Trump’s comments come on the same day that President Biden is set to deliver a prime-time speech from Philadelphia about protecting democracy, in which he will warn that Americans’ rights and freedoms are “under attack,” according to a White House official.
It’s unclear whether Biden will explicitly mention Trump during his Thursday address, but plans for the speech suggest he’ll at least allude to the former president and his false claims about the 2020 election.
The former president reiterated recent comments he made at a Faith and Freedom event in Nashville, Tenn., last month where he said the defendants charged in the Capitol riot had their “lives destroyed,” claiming that most had been “charged with parading through the Capitol.”
Trump’s comments calling for pardons have also been criticized by his close allies, most prominently by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who shared that he thought the idea of offering pardons to Capitol riot defendants was “inappropriate.” The former president responded, calling the South Carolina Republican a “RINO,” or “Republican in name only.”
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden is sounding an alarm Thursday night about what he views as extremist threats to American democracy from the restive forces of Trumpism. He’s aiming to reframe the November elections as part of an unceasing battle for the “soul of the nation.”
Nearly two years after he defeated Donald Trump, it’s a reprise of Biden’s 2020 campaign theme, casting the midterm election stakes in as dire terms as those that sent him to the Oval Office. His prime-time speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia is laying out what he sees as the risks from those he has dubbed “ultra-MAGA Republicans” to the nation’s system of government, its standing abroad and its citizens’ way of life.
The explicit effort by Biden to marginalize Trump and his “Make America Great Again” adherents marks a sharp turn for the president, who preached his desire to bring about national unity in his Inaugural address. White House officials said it reflects his mounting concern about Trump allies’ ideological proposals and relentless denial of the nation’s 2020 election results.
“MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards,” Biden is saying, according to prepared remarks released by the White House. “Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.”
“For a long time, we’ve reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed. But it is not,” Biden says. “We have to defend it. Protect it. Stand up for it. Each and every one of us.”
Biden, who largely avoided even referring to “the former guy” by name during his first year in office, has grown increasingly vocal in calling out Trump personally. Now, emboldened by his party’s recent legislative wins and wary of Trump’s return to the headlines, Biden is sharpening his attacks.
Trump plans a rally this weekend in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden’s birthplace.
At a Democratic fundraiser last week, Biden likened the “MAGA philosophy” to “semi-fascism.”
In Philadelphia, White House officials said, Biden intended to hark back to the 2017 white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, which he says brought him out of political retirement to challenge Trump. Biden argues that the country faces a similar crossroads in the coming months.
Biden allies stress that he is not rejecting the entirety of the GOP and is calling on traditional Republicans to join him in condemning Trump and his followers. It’s a balancing act, given that more than 74 million people voted for Trump in 2020.
“I respect conservative Republicans,” Biden said last week. “I don’t respect these MAGA Republicans.”
Delivering a preemptive rebuttal from Scranton Thursday evening, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy accused Biden of trying to divide Americans, and blasted the Democrats’ record in Washington, pointing to rising inflation, crime and government spending.
“In the past two years, Joe Biden has launched an assault on the soul of America, on its people, on its laws, on its most sacred values,” he said. “He has launched an assault on our democracy. His policies have severely wounded America’s soul, diminished America’s spirit and betrayed America’s trust.”
Asked about McCarthy’s criticism, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said “we understand we hit a nerve” with the GOP leader, and quoted the Republican’s prior statements saying Trump bore responsibility for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Larry Diamond, an expert on democracy and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said calling Trump out for attacks on democracy “can be manipulated or framed as being partisan. And if you don’t call it out, you are shrinking from an important challenge in the defense of democracy.”
Even this week, Trump was posting on his beleaguered social media platform about overturning the 2020 election results and holding a new presidential election, which would violate the Constitution.
Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian at New York University, said it’s not unusual for there to be tension between a president and his successor, but it’s “unprecedented for a former president to be actively trying to undermine the U.S. Constitution.”
“The challenge that President Biden faces is to get on with his agenda while still doing what he needs to uphold the Constitution,” Naftali said. “That’s not easy.”
The White House has tried to keep Biden removed from the legal and political maelstrom surrounding the Department of Justice’s discovery of classified documents in Trump’s Florida home. Still, Biden has taken advantage of some Republicans’ quick condemnation of federal law enforcement.
“You can’t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection,” Biden said Tuesday in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.
Biden’s appearance Thursday night was promoted as an official, taxpayer-funded event, a mark of how the president views defeating the Trump agenda as much as a policy aim as a political one. The major broadcast television networks were not expected to carry the address live.
Biden’s trip to Philadelphia is just one of his three to the state within a week, a sign of Pennsylvania’s importance in the midterms, with competitive Senate and governor’s races. However, neither Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democrats’ Senate nominee, nor Attorney General Josh Shapiro, their pick for governor, was expected to attend Thursday night.
The White House intended the speech to unite familiar themes: holding out bipartisan legislative wins on guns and infrastructure as evidence that democracies “can deliver,” pushing back on GOP policies on guns and abortion that Biden says are out of step with most people’s views, and rejecting efforts to undermine confidence in the nation’s election or diminish its standing abroad.
The challenges have only increased since the tumult surrounding the 2020 election and the Capitol attack.
Lies surrounding that presidential race have triggered harassment and death threats against state and local election officials and new restrictions on mail voting in Republican-dominated states. County election officials have faced pressure to ban the use of voting equipment, efforts generated by conspiracy theories that voting machines were somehow manipulated to steal the election.
Candidates who dispute Trump’s loss have been inspired to run for state and local election posts, promising to restore integrity to a system that has been undermined by false claims.
There is no evidence of any widespread fraud or manipulation of voting machines. Judges, including ones appointed by Trump, dismissed dozens of lawsuits filed after the election, and Trump’s own attorney general called the claims bogus. Yet Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research polling has shown about two-thirds of Republicans say they do not think Biden was legitimately elected president.
This year, election officials face not only the continuing threat of foreign interference but also ransomware, politically motivated hackers and insider threats. Over the past year, security breaches have been reported at a small number of local election offices in which authorities are investigating whether office staff improperly accessed or provided improper access to sensitive voting technology.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The moment that the black wall telephone rang early on the morning of Sept. 29, 1978, in Stefania Falasca’s Rome apartment is imprinted in her mind. Then 15, Falasca remembers her father answering and hearing the voice of her uncle, a priest who worked at the Vatican, coming through the receiver: “The pope is dead!”
“But he’s already dead!” Falasca recalled her bewildered father exclaiming.
Like countless others around the globe, her father struggled to comprehend how 65-year-old John Paul I, elected as pontiff barely a month earlier — on Aug. 26, 1978 — could be dead, and confusedly first thought of Pope Paul VI, who had died in early August at age 80.
John Paul I, born Albino Luciani, is widely remembered more for his sudden, mystery-dogged death than for his life. Falasca, an Italian journalist for a Catholic publication, has toiled for more than a decade to change that and to convince the Vatican that he deserves to be a saint for how he lived his faith, as a priest, bishop, cardinal and, so briefly, as pontiff.
On Sunday, Pope Francis will beatify John Paul I, the last formal step before possible sainthood.
Formal efforts aimed at beatification can begin five years after a pontiff dies. For John Paul II, that rule was waived a few weeks after his death in 2005, in response to cries of “sainthood immediately!” rising up from the faithful during his funeral.
But it took 25 years for the beatification process for John Paul I to begin.
John Paul I “was a figure crushed between two pontificates,” Falasca said, speaking down the block from St. Peter’s Square. She was referring to his successor, John Paul II, one of history’s longest-reigning popes, and his predecessor, Paul VI, whose 15-year papacy saw him preside over Vatican Council II with its modernizing reforms. Both have been made saints.
In Luciani’s case, ”no historian was interested in the pope. Like he was passing briefly through time, forgotten,” Falasca said.
But writers seeing a best-selling who-done-it were interested.
The abrupt demise of Luciani, whose body was found in his bedroom of the Apostolic Palace and who was dubbed the “smiling pope” for his cheerful countenance, spawned instant suspicions.
In the first hours after his death, the Vatican offered differing versions, first saying that a male secretary found him, then admitting that the pontiff was found lifeless by the nuns who bring his morning coffee.
“They could have immediately said that it was the nuns and it wouldn’t have sparked any doubts, on the contrary, it would have given more guarantees,” Falasca said. One nun, Sister Vincenza, was well known to Luciani’s family.
The nuns later recounted they were told by the Vatican not to say they found him out of concerns it would seem improper for a woman to enter the pope’s bedroom.
At the same time, a monster financial scandal was growing involving an Italian bank that had links to the Vatican’s own bank. There were murky ties between a U.S. born prelate, now deceased, who was chairman of the Vatican bank and an Italian financier, dubbed “God’s Banker,” whose body in 1982 was found hanging under a London bridge in what was ruled a homicide.
Was Luciani about to crack down on officials linked to the Holy See’s secretive finances? Was he planning to root out corruption in Vatican bureaucracy?
“In God’s Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I,” a 1984 book by David A. Yallop, sold millions of copies. The Vatican concluded that Luciani was felled by a heart attack, after suffering chest pains he played down just before going to bed his last night. But Yallop, noting that no autopsy was performed, concluded he was poisoned by plotters connected to a secret Masonic lodge with links to the Vatican and its bank.
In 1987, another British journalist, John Cornwell, came to the Vatican to research claims of apparitions of the Virgin Mary in what was then Yugoslavia. Instead, a Vatican bishop asked him to write the “truth” of John Paul I’s death and promised him access to the pope’s doctor, his embalmers and others.
Writing his own best-seller, “A Thief in the Night,” Cornwell concluded that Luciani had “died of neglect.”
“In the very heart of the Vatican, this was neglect that was psychological,” Cornwell said in a phone interview from the English countryside. “They put too much work on him without proper help. They didn’t look properly after his health.”
“In other words, they had no respect for him, they thought he was a derisory pope, they said he was like Peter Sellers,” Cornwell said, referring to the English comic actor who often played bumbling roles.
Cornwell said some people were disappointed he found no evidence of murder, including one bishop. “I came across people inside the Vatican who were convinced” there was a conspiracy to eliminate Luciani.
Falasca says John Paul I “is not being beatified because he was pope.”
“He lived with exemplary method, faith, hope, charity,” she said. “He’s a model for everyone, precisely because he had borne witness to the essential virtues.”
John Paul I also broke molds, referring to himself as “I” in papal speeches, instead of the more impersonal traditional “we.”
“He was like a light breeze sweeping away centuries” of formalities, Falasca said. “His choice of being colloquial was a theological choice.”
She marveled that among his most cherished books was secular literature —by Mark Twain, Willa Cather and G.K. Chesterton, a British author famed for his character of a sleuthing priest.
For a Catholic to be beatified, the pope must approve a miracle attributed to prayerful intercession. In Luciani’s case, that miracle was the medically unexplained recovery in 2011 of an 11-year-old girl hospitalized in Buenos Aires with brain inflammation and septic shock.
Her parents pleaded with a priest from a nearby parish to come. As he rushed to her bedside, the Rev. Juan Jose’ Dabusti wondered to whom he should pray for her to live. Inspiration struck. He prayed to John Paul I.
But why invoke the name of a largely forgotten pontiff? Falasca said Dabusti told her that when he was 15, he heard the newly elected John Paul I speak and decided to become a priest himself, because Luciani was “very simple and very happy.” | https://www.wpri.com/news/breaking-news/ap-top-news/ap-crushed-by-2-papacies-john-paul-is-death-eclipsed-life/ | 2022-09-01T23:19:52Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/breaking-news/ap-top-news/ap-crushed-by-2-papacies-john-paul-is-death-eclipsed-life/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — During a primary debate in May, Iowa Republican Zach Nunn and his two rivals were asked to raise their hand if they thought all abortions should be illegal. “All abortions, no exceptions,” the moderator clarified.
Nunn’s left hand went up.
The image has shadowed the Iowa state senator as he seeks to unseat U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne, one of the most vulnerable House Democrats this election season. The two-term congresswoman has featured video of Nunn from the debate in TV ads she’s been running since early August.
Nunn is among well more than a dozen strictly anti-abortion Republicans running in competitive House, Senate and governor’s races this fall in Minnesota, Nevada, Kansas, Arizona and elsewhere who are trying to distance themselves from their past statements.
In newspaper op-eds, during interviews and on their campaign websites, Republican challengers who expressed support for banning most or all abortions — some in cases of rape, incest and to protect the life and health of the mother — are at a minimum downplaying those positions and at most backtracking at a time when abortion rights have complicated Republicans’ focus on the economy heading into the November midterm elections.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision recognizing a federal right to abortion, has prompted a backlash from abortion rights supporters and shined a light on politicians whose anti-abortion positions were only hypothetical when Roe was the law of the land.
“I think that the bait and switch will matter for those for whom abortion rights is a very important voting issue, which is an expanded group since Roe was overturned,” Christine Matthews, a pollster who has worked for Republicans, said of GOP candidates trying to soften their profile on the issue. “And it may matter to a wider group if it appears that they are deceptive.”
Accusing Axne of misrepresenting his position, Nunn wrote in an op-ed published in The Des Moines Register last month that he supported exceptions for rape, incest and the life and health of the mother when he voted in 2018 for a ban on abortions after six weeks — a measure that was blocked by the courts.
Asked in an Associated Press interview why he raised his hand to the “no exceptions” question during the debate, Nunn misstated the question as “Do you support life?” instead of the actual wording, “In your mind, should all abortions be illegal in this country? Hand up if you say yes.”
“Let me be perfectly clear. I believe life begins at conception,” Nunn said in the interview. “I recognize the viability of a child. I recognize the health of the mother.”
Still, in 2017, Nunn voted for a measure requiring women seeking an abortion to wait 72 hours, which included an exception to protect the life of the mother but made no mention of rape or incest.
In Kansas, Republican Amanda Adkins — who is running against two-term Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids — wrote in a Kansas City Star op-ed published last week, “I don’t support a federal ban on abortion.”
The mention came after months of silence by Adkins after the May leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion signaling Roe was in jeopardy. A decade earlier as Kansas’ Republican chair, Adkins had supported a strict abortion ban in the party’s platform.
Adkins’ Star piece also followed close on the heels of Kansas voters’ decisive rejection of a constitutional amendment that would have nullified a state Supreme Court decision guaranteeing the right to an abortion. Notably, the referendum failed in Johnson County — the teeming, suburban heart of Davids’ district — by more than 2-to-1. Adkins publicly supported the amendment.
Nunn’s and Adkins’ efforts to deemphasize their previous conservative stances on abortion are conspicuous. Others have been more subtle.
In a northwest Indiana district that includes working-class cities outside Chicago, Republican Jennifer-Ruth Green answered “none” in a 2022 online questionnaire before the Supreme Court overturned Roe that asked under “what circumstances should abortion be allowed?”
Yet, as the GOP nominee facing Democratic Rep. Frank Mrvan, Green says she supports an anti-abortion measure passed by the Indiana legislature in August that includes exceptions for rape, incest and the health of the mother.
In suburban Minneapolis, Republican Tyler Kistner, who lost narrowly to two-term Democratic Rep. Angie Craig in 2020, is challenging her again. In 2020, his website included a section on abortion that stated he wanted to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood. In this year’s campaign, his website does not mention abortion.
Republicans running statewide in battleground races have undertaken similar efforts.
Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters called abortion “demonic” during the GOP primary and called for a federal personhood law that would give fetuses the rights of people. He’s toned down his rhetoric more recently, deleting references to a personhood law from his campaign website and dropping language describing himself as “100% pro-life.”
In Nevada, where a 1990 referendum guarantees the right to abortion, Republican gubernatorial candidate Joe Lombardo said during a May primary debate that he would consider signing a ban on the Plan B pill. The pill, which is different from the abortion pill, can significantly lower the chance of pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex. But in late July, a month after the Dobbs decision, Lombardo’s campaign said he had no plans to ban contraception.
In August, after Justice Clarence Thomas indicated in the Roe reversal that other high court rulings, including ones protecting the use of contraceptives, should also be reconsidered, Lombardo said he would not block contraceptives and has since noted on his website that he would “ensure that contraceptives stay accessible to Nevadans.”
In the immediate aftermath of the Dobbs v. Mississippi decision overturning Roe, an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll showed 22% of U.S. adults named abortion or women’s rights, in an open-ended question, as one of up to five problems they wanted the government to address. That’s more than doubled since December, when an AP-NORC poll found a notable uptick in mentions of abortion from years before, likely in anticipation of the Dobbs ruling.
In Iowa, 60% of adults say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, according to a Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll taken in July, higher still in the suburbs.
That would seem to be a consideration for Nunn, running in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, which includes the metro area surrounding the capital Des Moines and its booming suburbs to the north and west, as well as vast tracts of more conservative, rural southwestern Iowa.
“While it’s a small group on both sides, it energizes them because it’s an important issue,” Nunn said, adding that Axne is “not even willing to have a conversation about where she’s been on this.”
The counterpunch is a veiled reference to bills including one passed in July in the Democratic-controlled House with Axne’s support that block limits on abortions late in a pregnancy — a position Republicans have characterized as extreme.
Republican pollster Whit Ayres said Dobbs has reversed earlier Republican momentum by increasing enthusiasm among abortion rights advocates.
“Clearly there’s been movement in the Democrats’ favor,” said Ayres, who is an adviser for a super PAC supporting Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s campaign. “The Dobbs decision gave them a reason to get engaged, and that’s evident in increased Democratic enthusiasm.”
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Associated Press writers Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix, Hannah Schoenbaum in Raleigh, N.C., and Gabe Stern in Reno, Nev., contributed to this report.
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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, mostly 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.
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. | https://www.wpri.com/news/breaking-news/ap-top-news/ap-microsofts-activision-blizzard-deal-gets-global-scrutiny/ | 2022-09-01T23:20:44Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/breaking-news/ap-top-news/ap-microsofts-activision-blizzard-deal-gets-global-scrutiny/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHILDERSBURG, Ala. (AP) — Michael Jennings wasn’t breaking any laws or doing anything that was obviously suspicious; the Black minister was simply watering the flowers of a neighbor who was out of town.
Yet there was a problem: Around the corner, Amber Roberson, who is white, thought she was helping that same neighbor when she saw a vehicle she didn’t recognize at the house and called police.
Within minutes, Jennings was in handcuffs, Roberson was apologizing for calling 911 and three officers were talking among themselves about how everything might have been different.
Harry Daniels, an attorney representing Jennings, said he plans to submit a claim to the city of Childersburg seeking damages and then file a lawsuit. “This should be a learned lesson and a training tool for law enforcement about what not to do,” he said.
A 20-minute video of the episode recorded on one of the officers’ body cameras shows how quickly an uneventful evening on a quiet residential street devolved into yet another potentially explosive situation involving a Black man and white law enforcement authorities.
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“Whatcha doing here, man?” Officer Chris Smith asked as he walked up to Jennings, who held a hose with a stream of water falling on plants beside the driveway outside a small, white house.
“Watering flowers,” Jennings replied from a few feet away. Lawn decorations stood around a mailbox; fresh mulch covered the beds. It was more than an hour before sunset on a Sunday in late May, the kind of spring evening when people often are out tending plants.
Smith told Jennings that a caller said she saw a strange vehicle and a person who “wasn’t supposed to be here” at the house. Jennings told him the SUV he was talking about belonged to the neighbor who lives there.
“I’m supposed to be here,” he added. “I’m Pastor Jennings. I live across the street.”
“You’re Pastor Jennings?”
“Yes. I’m looking out for their house while they’re gone, watering their flowers,” said Jennings, still spraying water.
“OK, well, that’s cool. Do you have, like, ID?” Smith asked.
“Oh, no. Man, I’m not going to give you ID,” Jennings said, turning away.
“Why not?” Smith asked.
“I ain’t did nothing wrong,” the pastor replied.
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Jennings, 56, was born in rural Alabama just three years after George C. Wallace pledged “segregation forever” at the first of his four inaugurations as governor. His parents grew up during a time when racial segregation was the law and Black people were expected to act with deference to white people in the South.
“I know the backdrop,” Jennings said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Meanwhile, the officers who confronted him on May 22 work for a majority-white city of about 4,700 people that’s located 55 miles (88 kilometers) southeast of Birmingham down U.S. 280. Most members of the city council and police department are white, as is the mayor, past police chief and current acting chief.
Jennings went into the ministry not long after graduating from high school and hasn’t strayed far from his birthplace of nearby Sylacauga, where he leads Vision of Abundant Life Ministries, a small, nondenominational church, when not doing landscaping work or selling items online. In 1991, he said, he worked security and then trained to be a police officer in a nearby town but left before taking the job full time.
“That’s how I knew the law,” he said.
Alabama law allows police to ask for the name of someone in a public place when there’s reasonable suspicion the person has committed or is about to commit a crime. But that doesn’t mean a man innocently watering flowers at a neighbor’s home must provide identification when asked by an officer, according to Hank Sherrod, a civil rights lawyer who reviewed the full police video at the request of the AP.
“This is an area of the law that is pretty clear,” said Sherrod, who has handled similar cases in north Alabama, where he practices.
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Cuffed and seated between two shrubs on the front stoop of his neighbor’s home, Jennings told Smith and Gable how his son, a university athletics administrator, had been wrongly “arrested and profiled” in Michigan after a young woman at a cheerleading competition said a Black man had hugged her.
Jennings said he felt “anger and fear” during his interaction with the Alabama police officers not only because of what happened to his son but due to the accumulated weight of past police killings — George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others — plus lower-profile incidents and shootings in Alabama.
“That’s why I didn’t resist,” he said.
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Jennings was already in the back of a patrol car by the time Roberson, the white woman who called police, emerged. Jennings, she told officers, was a neighbor and a friend of the home’s owner, Roy Milam.
“OK. Does he have permission here to be watering flowers?” Smith asked.
“He may, because they are friends,” she replied. “They went out of town today. He may be watering their flowers. It would be completely normal.”
Milam told the AP that was exactly what happened: He’d asked Jennings to water his wife’s flowers while they were camping in the Tennessee mountains for a few days.
A few moments later, officers told Roberson that a license plate check showed the gold sport utility vehicle that prompted her call in the first place belonged to Milam. They got Jennings out of the patrol car and he told them his first and last name.
“I didn’t know it was him,” Roberson told police. “I’m sorry about that.”
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The officers spent much of their remaining time on the scene in a discussion that began with a question from Smith: “What are we going to do with him?”
After weighing different options, they settled on a charge of obstructing governmental operations that was thrown out within days in city court. The police chief who sought the dismissal after reviewing the 911 call and bodycam video, Richard McClelland, resigned earlier this month. City officials haven’t said why he quit, but city attorney Reagan Rumsey said it had nothing to do with what happened to Jennings.
Childersburg’s interim police chief, Capt. Kevin Koss, didn’t return emails seeking comment.
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Michael Jennings is still friends with Milam, the neighbor with the flowers. Milam, who is white, said he feels bad about what happened, and the two men will continue watching out for each other’s homes, just as they’ve done for years.
“He is a good neighbor, definitely. No doubt about it,” Milam said.
Jennings also recently spoke with Roberson for the first time since the arrest.
The pastor, who lives less than a third of a mile from the police station, said he has not seen any of the three officers who were involved in his arrest since that day. He believes all three should be fired or at least disciplined.
“I feel a little paranoid,” he said.
Nonetheless, he still waves at police cars passing through his neighborhood, partly out of the Christian call to be kind to others.
“You’re supposed to love your neighbor, no matter what,” he said. “But you’ve heard the saying, ‘Keep your enemies close to you, too.’”
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CHILDERSBURG, Ala. (AP) — Michael Jennings wasn’t breaking any laws or doing anything that was obviously suspicious; the Black minister was simply watering the flowers of a neighbor who was out of town.
Yet there was a problem: Around the corner, Amber Roberson, who is white, thought she was helping that same neighbor when she saw a vehicle she didn’t recognize at the house and called police.
Within minutes, Jennings was in handcuffs, Roberson was apologizing for calling 911 and three officers were talking among themselves about how everything might have been different.
Harry Daniels, an attorney representing Jennings, said he plans to submit a claim to the city of Childersburg seeking damages and then file a lawsuit. “This should be a learned lesson and a training tool for law enforcement about what not to do,” he said.
A 20-minute video of the episode recorded on one of the officers’ body cameras shows how quickly an uneventful evening on a quiet residential street devolved into yet another potentially explosive situation involving a Black man and white law enforcement authorities.
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“Whatcha doing here, man?” Officer Chris Smith asked as he walked up to Jennings, who held a hose with a stream of water falling on plants beside the driveway outside a small, white house.
“Watering flowers,” Jennings replied from a few feet away. Lawn decorations stood around a mailbox; fresh mulch covered the beds. It was more than an hour before sunset on a Sunday in late May, the kind of spring evening when people often are out tending plants.
But moments before, a woman had dialed 911 about a “younger Black male” and gold SUV that she saw at the house even though the owners were away, according to a call transcript obtained by The Associated Press.
Walking toward Jennings, Smith told him that a caller said she saw a strange vehicle and a person who “wasn’t supposed to be here” at the house.
Jennings told him the SUV he was talking about belonged to the neighbor who lives there.
“I’m supposed to be here,” he added. “I’m Pastor Jennings. I live across the street.”
“You’re Pastor Jennings?”
“Yes. I’m looking out for their house while they’re gone, watering their flowers,” said Jennings, still spraying water.
“OK, well, that’s cool. Do you have, like, ID?” Smith asked.
“Oh, no. Man, I’m not going to give you ID,” Jennings said, turning away.
“Why not?” Smith asked.
“I ain’t did nothing wrong,” the pastor replied.
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Jennings, 56, was born in rural Alabama just three years after George C. Wallace pledged “segregation forever” at the first of his four inaugurations as governor. His parents grew up during a time when racial segregation was the law and Black people were expected to act with deference to white people in the South.
“I know the backdrop,” Jennings said in an interview with AP.
Meanwhile, the officers who confronted him on May 22 work for a majority-white city of about 4,700 people that’s located 55 miles (88 kilometers) southeast of Birmingham down U.S. 280. Most members of the city council and police department are white, as is the mayor, past police chief and current acting chief.
Jennings went into the ministry not long after graduating from high school and hasn’t strayed far from his birthplace of nearby Sylacauga, where he leads Vision of Abundant Life Ministries, a small, nondenominational church, when not doing landscaping work or selling items online. In 1991, he said, he worked security and then trained to be a police officer in a nearby town but left before taking the job full time.
“That’s how I knew the law,” he said.
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As Jennings and Smith argued over whether the pastor needed to show an ID, another officer walked into view.
His voice rising, Jennings asked who called the police.
“You see a Black man out here watering his neighbor’s flowers and you think it’s something illegal,” Jennings said loudly.
“I’m not saying nothing about …,” Smith responded.
“You have no right to approach me if I ain’t did nothing suspicious or nothing wrong,” Jennings said, gesturing with his right hand and continuing to hold the garden hose with his left. With the officers also talking, he added: “You want to lock me up? Lock me up. I’m not showing y’all anything. I’m going to continue watering these flowers.”
About 35 seconds later, after warning that Jennings could be charged with obstruction for walking away, officer No. 2, identified in a police report as J. Gable, put the preacher in handcuffs.
“I like this,” Jennings told them. He added: “It’s already a lawsuit.”
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Alabama law allows police to ask for the name of someone in a public place when there’s reasonable suspicion the person has committed or is about to commit a crime. But that doesn’t mean a man innocently watering flowers at a neighbor’s home must provide identification when asked by an officer, according to Hank Sherrod, a civil rights lawyer who reviewed the full police video at the request of the AP.
“This is an area of the law that is pretty clear,” said Sherrod, who has handled similar cases in north Alabama, where he practices.
Giving police the same name he routinely uses as the minister of a Black church, where ecclesiastical titles are important, Jennings identified himself, without any prompting, as “Pastor Jennings” within seconds of Smith’s approach. That might have been adequate for someone steeped in the culture of Black Christianity, but it wasn’t for white police officers.
The video shows the officers repeatedly accusing Jennings of failing to identify himself.
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Cuffed and seated between two shrubs on the front stoop of his neighbor’s home, Jennings told Smith and Gable that his son, a university athletics administrator, had been wrongly detained recently in Michigan after a young woman at a cheerleading competition said a Black man had hugged her.
“My son just got arrested and profiled,” he said. The incident, which didn’t result in any charges, happened about two months before Jennings’ confrontation with Alabama police, he told the AP.
A third Childersburg officer, identified as Sgt. Jeremy Brooks in a report, arrived while Smith was complaining loudly that Jennings wouldn’t listen and Gable was all but screaming at the pastor.
“You have to identify yourself to me,” Gable yelled.
“No, I don’t,” Jennings retorted repeatedly.
Smith returned to his patrol car while the argument continued. What Jennings said then is inaudible on the video, but a police report quotes him as telling Brooks: “Stop talking to me like I’m a boy.” But Jennings told the AP that he said something very different: “I told him, ‘I’m a full-grown man. You don’t talk to me like that, boy.’”
Whatever was said, it was enough for Smith.
“You know what? 10-15,” he shouted, using the police radio code for a prisoner in custody. “I ain’t going to sit there and have that, dude.”
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Apart from the recent experience of his son, Jennings said he felt “anger and fear” during the entire episode because of the accumulated weight of past police killings — George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others — plus lower-profile incidents and shootings in Alabama.
“That’s why I didn’t resist,” he said.
And, Jennings said, he already had experience dealing with suspicious white police officers in the racially integrated neighborhood where he and his family have lived for seven years.
Not long after moving in, he said, an officer cruised down the street while Jennings was out by the street checking the mail. The officer pulled over to question Jennings, explaining that he was responding to a caller’s claim that a Black man was going through mailboxes in the area, according to the preacher.
“I told him it was my house,” Jennings said. “He just went on.”
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Jennings was already in the back of a patrol car by the time Roberson, the white woman who called police, emerged. Jennings, she told officers, was a neighbor and a friend of the home’s owner, Roy Milam.
“OK. Does he have permission here to be watering flowers?” Smith asked.
“He may, because they are friends,” she replied. “They went out of town today. He may be watering their flowers. It would be completely normal.”
Milam told the AP that was exactly what happened: He’d asked Jennings to water his wife’s flowers while they were camping in the Tennessee mountains for a few days.
Watering flowers wasn’t the problem, Smith told Roberson. The issue, he said, was Jennings’ refusal to provide identification after acting “suspicious.”
Realizing that she’d called police because one neighbor was watering another’s flowers, Roberson said: “This is probably my fault.”
A few moments later, officers told Roberson that a license plate check showed the gold sport utility vehicle that prompted her call in the first place belonged to Milam. They got Jennings out of the patrol car and he told them his first and last name.
“I didn’t know it was him,” Roberson told police. “I’m sorry about that.”
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The officers spent much of their remaining time on the scene in a discussion that began with a question from Smith: “What are we going to do with him?”
After weighing different options, they settled on a charge of obstructing governmental operations that was thrown out within days in city court. The police chief who sought the dismissal after reviewing the 911 call and bodycam video, Richard McClelland, resigned earlier this month. Officials haven’t said why he quit, but city attorney Reagan Rumsey said it had nothing to do with what happened to Jennings.
Childersburg’s interim police chief, Capt. Kevin Koss, didn’t return emails seeking comment.
But the three officers, standing along the street as Jennings sat handcuffed in a police vehicle, talked among themselves about what happened.
“I said, ‘If you’ll just listen to me. You’re being audio and video recorded, and what we’re trying to do is identify yourself and find out what’s going on,’” Brooks, Smith’s supervisor, said on the video. “He wouldn’t even let me. He wanted to yell over me and say we’re racial profiling and talking to him like he’s a boy.”
Moments later, Smith walked around the house to the spot where Jennings had been watering flowers and shut off the spigot to the hose.
“I mean, all he had to do was identify himself,” he told Brooks.
“That’s it,” Brooks said.
“Jesus,” Smith muttered.
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Michael Jennings is still friends with Milam, the neighbor with the flowers. Milam, who is white, said he feels bad about what happened, and the two men will continue watching out for each other’s homes, just as they’ve done for years.
“He is a good neighbor, definitely. No doubt about it,” Milam said.
Jennings also spoke recently with Roberson for the first time since the arrest. In the video, the handcuffed pastor assured her he would still be buying a graduation present for her son even though he wasn’t going to be able to make the party she invited him to.
Jennings, who lives less than a third of a mile from the police station, said he hasn’t seen any of the three officers who were involved in his arrest since that day. He believes all three should be fired or at least disciplined.
“I feel a little paranoid,” he said.
Nonetheless, he still waves at police cars passing through his neighborhood, partly out of the Christian call to be kind to others.
“You’re supposed to love your neighbor, no matter what,” he said. “But you’ve heard the saying, ‘Keep your enemies close to you, too.’”
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Reeves is a member of AP’s Race and Ethnicity Team. | https://www.wpri.com/news/breaking-news/ap-top-news/ap-watering-while-black-anatomy-of-a-pastors-alabama-arrest/ | 2022-09-01T23:21:27Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/breaking-news/ap-top-news/ap-watering-while-black-anatomy-of-a-pastors-alabama-arrest/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — Police departments across Newport County will be cracking down on impaired driving this Labor Day weekend.
The Middletown, Newport, Portsmouth, Jamestown, Tiverton and Little Compton police departments, as well as the Rhode Island State Police, are ramping up DUI patrols for the three-day weekend beginning Thursday.
The additional patrols will continue through Tuesday.
The goal of the campaign, according to police, is to educate the public about the dangers of driving under the influence and reduce the number of crashes caused by impaired drivers.
The Providence Police Department is lending its Breath Alcohol Testing (BAT) Mobile Unit and drug recognition experts to the cause so officers can further evaluate drivers believed to be intoxicated.
The BAT Mobile Unit will also allow officers to process DUI arrests from a centralized location.
Drivers should expect to see a strong police presence across Newport County throughout the holiday weekend.
Police also encourage other drivers to call 911 if they see someone driving aggressively or erratically. | https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/east-bay/police-increase-dui-patrols-ahead-of-holiday-weekend/ | 2022-09-01T23:21:42Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/east-bay/police-increase-dui-patrols-ahead-of-holiday-weekend/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — It’s no secret that rent is on the rise in Providence.
But a recently-released study reveals the monthly rent has gone up 11% in the capital city over the past six months.
Apartment List’s National Rent Report ranks Providence third in the country for fastest metro-level rent growth.
Alfonso Jimenez tells 12 News he’s experiencing the rent hikes firsthand.
“I am currently living with my mother because things are hard,” he explained. “I am working, I make good money, but it’s not enough.”
Jimenez said he’s currently working two jobs to not only make ends meet, but also save up enough to eventually move out.
“Rent is very expensive,” he said.
New York ranks just behind Providence, with rent also increasing by 11% over the past six months.
Andre Brown, who recently visited Providence with his family, told 12 News he and his wife bought a home just outside New York City nearly three years ago.
Brown said he’s happy they bought it when the prices were lower.
“We made a conscious decision to buy when rent prices at the time were high,” he said. “Now, they’re through the roof.”
The study reveals that Rochester, New York, has seen the biggest rent hike over the past six months, with residents paying 14% more to keep a roof over their heads.
Brown said he knows several people in New York who are moving out of the state because of the rent prices.
“They’re pulling their hair out,” he said. “They are moving to Florida … North Carolina, Georgia. But the ones that are still there are trying to find roommates.”
The study cites inflation as a contributing factor, with rent rising slightly faster than prior to the pandemic.
Nationwide, rent has increased more than 7% over the past six months. | https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/study-rent-up-11-in-providence-7-nationally/ | 2022-09-01T23:21:48Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/study-rent-up-11-in-providence-7-nationally/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — Three puppies in northeast Florida were saved from a burning house after a delivery driver noticed a fire in the home whose owner was away, fire officials said.
The driver for Amazon was delivering a package on Tuesday when she noticed smoke coming from the home and called 911. Firefighters rescued the pups from the home and revived them from smoke inhalation, according to Columbia County Fire Rescue. Firefighters contained the fire to the room where it was started.
“Thank you to the Amazon driver who noticed the smoke and called 911,” Columbia County Fire Rescue said in a Facebook post. “Since the homeowner was not at home at the time, she saved the home and the puppies’ lives!”
The county is located about 60 miles (about 97 kilometers) west of Jacksonville, Florida.
It’s not the first time a delivery driver has come to the rescue.
In January, a newspaper delivery woman in Georgia saved the lives of three adults, four children and several household pets after she noticed smoke billowing from the family’s garage. In July, a UPS driver administered emergency CPR to a girl who had nearly drowned in a swimming pool near Soap Lake, Washington. | https://www.wpri.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-delivery-drivers-actions-save-pups-from-florida-house-fire/ | 2022-09-01T23:22:00Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-delivery-drivers-actions-save-pups-from-florida-house-fire/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) — California firefighters worked in extreme conditions Thursday as they battled wildfires in rural areas north of Los Angeles and east of San Diego amid a blistering heat wave that is predicted to last through Labor Day.
Progress was made in containing both blazes but authorities warned that the explosive fire behavior that occurred after they erupted Wednesday showed the potential for what could happen during the prolonged torrid conditions.
“The days ahead are going to be challenging,” said Angeles National Forest Fire Chief Robert Garcia, one of the commanders of the battle against the Route Fire near the Interstate 5 community of Castaic in northwestern Los Angeles County.
The Route Fire was 12% contained after scorching more than 8 square miles (21 square kilometers) and destroying a house. Traffic on the major north-south interstate, a key route for big rigs, was jammed due to lane closures.
Temperatures in the area hit 107 degrees (42 Celsius) on Wednesday.
Seven firefighters had to be taken to hospitals with heat injuries, said Los Angeles County Fire Department Deputy Chief Thomas Ewald.
All were released, Ewald said, adding that he expected more heat emergencies.
Temperatures in much of California were so high that Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency and the state power grid operator asked residents to voluntarily reduce use of electricity during critical afternoon and evening hours.
After strong work by ground crews and helicopters and airplanes dropping water and fire retardant on the Route Fire, authorities planned to lift evacuation orders for a mobile home park and other homes, Ewald said.
“The big thing today is all about boxing the fire in,” he said.
In eastern San Diego County, the Border 32 Fire was 5% contained after swiftly growing to more than 6 square miles (15.5 square kilometers), the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said.
The fire burned at least four buildings, including a house, and prompted evacuations for some 400 homes in the Dulzura area near the U.S.-Mexico border. State routes in the area were closed and a school district called off Thursday’s classes.
There were “multiple close calls” as residents rushed to flee, said Cal Fire Capt. Thomas Shoots.
“We had multiple 911 calls from folks unable to evacuate” because their homes were surrounded by the fire, Shoots told the San Diego Union-Tribune.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection closed the Tecate port of entry with Mexico hours early Wednesday night because of the fire and said it wouldn’t reopen until conditions improved. Travelers could still use the 24-hour Otay Mesa crossing.
Wildfires have sprung up this summer throughout the Western states. The largest and deadliest blaze in California so far this year erupted in July in Siskyou County. It killed four people and destroyed much of the small community of Klamath River.
Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-california-wildfires-prompt-evacuations-amid-heat-wave-2/ | 2022-09-01T23:22:43Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-california-wildfires-prompt-evacuations-amid-heat-wave-2/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BEIJING (AP) — The U.N. accused China of serious human rights violations that may amount to “crimes against humanity” in a long-delayed report examining a crackdown on Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups. Beijing on Thursday denounced the assessment as a fabrication cooked up by Western nations.
Human rights groups have accused China of sweeping a million or more people from the minority groups into detention camps where many have said they were tortured, sexually assaulted, and forced to abandon their language and religion. The camps were just one part of what the rights organizations have called a ruthless campaign against extremism in the far western province of Xinjiang that also included draconian birth control policies and all-encompassing restrictions on people’s movement.
The assessment from the Geneva-based U.N. human rights office was released in the final minutes of High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet’s four-year term. It largely corroborated earlier reporting by researchers, advocacy groups and the news media, and it added the weight of the world body to the conclusions. But it was not clear what impact it would have.
Still, among Uyghurs who have fled overseas, there was a palpable sense of relief that the report had finally seen the light of day since many worried that it would never be published. Several saw it as a vindication of their cause and of years of advocacy work.
“The report is pretty damning, and a strong indictment on China’s crimes against humanity,” said Rayhan Asat, a Uyghur lawyer whose brother is imprisoned in Xinjiang. “It’s a really long-awaited recognition of the Uyghurs and their unimaginable suffering, coming from the world’s most authoritative voice on human rights.”
Human rights groups, the U.S., Japan and European governments also welcomed the report. It had become caught up in a tug-of-war between China and major Western nations as well as human rights groups that have criticized the repeated delays in releasing the document. Many Geneva diplomats believe it was nearly complete a year ago.
The assessment released late Wednesday concluded that China has committed serious human rights violations under its anti-terrorism and anti-extremism policies and calls for “urgent attention” from the U.N., the world community and China itself to address them.
Human rights groups renewed calls for the U.N. Human Rights Council, which meets next month, to set up an independent international body to investigate the allegations. But China showed no sign of backing off its blanket denials or portraying the criticism as a politicized smear campaign.
“The assessment is a patchwork of false information that serves as political tools for the U.S. and other Western countries to strategically use Xinjiang to contain China,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said. “It again shows that the U.N. Human Rights Office has been reduced to an enforcer and accomplice of the U.S. and other Western countries.”
In a sign of China’s fury, it issued a 122-page rebuttal, entitled “Fight against Terrorism and Extremism in Xinjiang: Truth and Facts,” that was posted by the U.N. along with the report.
The U.N. findings were drawn in part from interviews with more than two dozen former detainees and others familiar with conditions at eight detention centers. They described being beaten with batons, interrogated while water was poured on their faces and forced to sit motionless on smalls stools for long periods.
Some said they were prevented from praying — and were made to take shifts through the night to ensure their fellow detainees were not praying or breaking other rules. Women told of being forced to perform oral sex on guards or undergo gynecological exams in front of large groups of people.
The report said that descriptions of the detentions were marked by patterns of torture and other cruel and inhumane treatment and that allegations of rape and other sexual violence appeared “credible.”
“The extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim groups … in (the) context of restrictions and deprivation more generally of fundamental rights … may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity,” the report said.
It made no mention of genocide, which some countries, including the United States, have accused China of committing in Xinjiang.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomed the report, saying in a statement that it “deepens and reaffirms our grave concern.” He added: “We will continue to work closely with our partners, civil society, and the international community to seek justice and accountability for the many victims.”
The rights office said it could not confirm estimates that a million or more people were detained in the internment camps in Xinjiang, but added it was “reasonable to conclude that a pattern of large-scale arbitrary detention occurred” at least between 2017 and 2019.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes the assessment “clearly identifies serious human rights violations in the Xinjiang region,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Thursday. He said the U.N. chief “very much hopes” China will follow recommendations in the assessment.
Beijing has closed many of the camps, which it called vocational training and education centers, but hundreds of thousands of people continue to languish in prison, many on vague, secret charges.
The report called on China to release all individuals arbitrarily detained and to clarify the whereabouts of those who have disappeared and whose families are seeking information about them.
“Japan is highly concerned about human rights conditions in Xinjiang, and we believe that it is important that universal values such as freedom, basic human rights and rule of law are also guaranteed in China,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said.
Germany and Britain also welcomed its publication.
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who is also the frontrunner in the contest to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister, noted that the report “includes harrowing evidence, including first-hand accounts from victims, that shames China in the eyes of the international community.”
Human Rights Watch said the report laid a solid foundation for further U.N. action to establish accountability for the abuses.
“Never has it been so important for the U.N. system to stand up to Beijing, and to stand with victims,” said John Fisher, the deputy director of global advocacy for the group.
Rahima Mahmut, U.K. director of the World Uyghur Congress, said she was relieved the report is finally out — but had no hope it would change the Chinese government’s behavior and called on the international community to send a signal to Beijing that “business cannot be as usual.”
That the report was released was in some ways as important as its contents.
Outgoing rights chief Bachelet said she had to resist pressure both to publish and not publish. She had announced in June that the report would be released by end of her four-year term on Aug. 31, triggering a swell in back-channel campaigns — including letters from civil society, civilians and governments on both sides of the issue.
Why she waited until the last minute to release the report remains unclear.
Critics had said a failure to publish the report would have been a glaring black mark on her tenure.
“The inexcusable delay in releasing this report casts a stain” on the record of the U.N. human rights office, said Agnès Callamard, the secretary-general of Amnesty International, “but this should not deflect from its significance.”
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Keaten reported from Geneva. Associated Press journalists Dake Kang in Beijing, Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo, Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations, and Sylvia Hui in London contributed to this report. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-china-rejects-un-report-on-uyghur-rights-abuses-in-xinjiang/ | 2022-09-01T23:22:56Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-china-rejects-un-report-on-uyghur-rights-abuses-in-xinjiang/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BERLIN (AP) — Prices for gasoline and public transport in Germany surged Thursday as government subsidies expired, hurting commuters already struggling with high energy costs.
Germany’s biggest auto club, ADAC, said initial estimates indicated that the average price of one liter of E10 super was about 0.25 euros ($0.25) higher in the morning than the previous day. Diesel fuel was about 0.10 euros ($0.10) more expensive, it said.
Thursday marked the end of a temporary cut in gasoline taxes and a special 9-euro ($9) monthly public transport ticket unveiled by the government in May to ease the pain of inflation.
The discount public transport ticket, usable on all local and regional buses and trains, was hailed as a particular success for allowing millions of people to travel the country cheaply, while saving an estimated 1.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
Environmental campaigners have called for the tickets to be extended in some form. Germany’s transport minister says he is looking into the idea.
The government is trying to encourage consumers and businesses to save energy whichever way they can to prevent a shortage during the winter months, after Russia sharply reduced flows of natural gas to Germany. It recently announced that temperatures will be lowered in public offices this winter and the lighting on street advertising must be switched off at night.
Germany has pledged to wean itself off Russian gas within the next two years in response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine. On Thursday, the government announced that it is leasing a fifth floating terminal for importing liquefied natural gas. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-german-gasoline-transport-prices-jump-as-subsidies-expire/ | 2022-09-01T23:23:40Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-german-gasoline-transport-prices-jump-as-subsidies-expire/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BERLIN (AP) — A man has been charged in Germany with attempted incitement to murder after allegedly paying thousands of dollars in a series of attempts to engage a contract killer to slay the partner of a man he desired, only to discover he had been defrauded by a darknet website.
Berlin prosecutors said Thursday they had indicted the 28-year-old, who was arrested in April.
They said the suspect first tried winning over the object of his desire — who didn’t return his affections and already had a partner — using “witches’ curses” booked online.
The suspect allegedly decided in February to kill the man’s partner, prosecutors said in a statement. They said he registered with a site on the darknet — a part of the internet accessible only through specialized anonymity-providing tools — that appeared to arrange contract killings.
He allegedly provided the details, address and photos of the intended victim, stipulating that the killing should look like an accident or a robbery, and set a reward of $9,000 in bitcoin. He increased the sum on offer a few days later.
Two weeks after his first payment, according to prosecutors, the suspect was told online that the intended killer had been arrested but a replacement would jump in if he paid more. He agreed, bringing his payments to a total of $24,000 in bitcoin. He then complained when nothing happened.
In early April, the suspect demanded that a third contract killer be put on the case, according to prosecutors.
The following day, the website’s administrator told him that he had been dealing with a fraudulent site and that he couldn’t get his money back. However, the suspect was told that, if he wanted, he could offer his own services as a contract killer and defraud prospective customers, according to prosecutors.
He allegedly took up the suggestion, while still looking for other ways to hire a killer.
The suspect was identified and arrested thanks to a journalist’s research, prosecutors said. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-germany-man-charged-over-attempts-to-hire-contract-killer/ | 2022-09-01T23:23:47Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-germany-man-charged-over-attempts-to-hire-contract-killer/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s lawyers began mounting a defense Thursday in Chicago against federal charges of child pornography, enticement of minors for sex and fixing his 2008 state trial, with an initial witness contending the singer was himself a victim of blackmail.
The presentation to jurors won’t include Kelly taking the witness stand.
Judge Harry Leinenweber asked Kelly directly on Thursday if he would testify, and the Grammy Award winner said he would not.
The judge raised the issue minutes before attorneys for Kelly and two co-defendants began calling their first witnesses, endeavoring to counter two weeks of government testimony.
R. Kelly isn't the only person on trial - his co-defendants include the singer's longtime business manager Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown.
McDavid, who is accused of help rig Kelly's 2008 trial, said he would testify.
Brown, who is charged with receiving child pornography, said he wouldn't be testifying.
Kelly could face additional years in prison if convicted of one or two charges stemming from this case.
The singer was sentenced to 30 years in prison in June for racketeering and sex trafficking.
Closing arguments are set to happen in the middle of next week. | https://www.katc.com/entertainment/r-kellys-lawyers-start-defense-he-says-he-wont-testify | 2022-09-01T23:24:32Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/entertainment/r-kellys-lawyers-start-defense-he-says-he-wont-testify | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Clan's Cavalcade is back on the road after three year hiatus
Classic car and motorcycle drivers are gearing up for Clan Cancer Support’s first cavalcade since 2019, with participants taking a scenic trip to some of the north-east’s most prolific wood workshops.
The Wood Tour will take place on Friday, September 16, with pit stops throughout the day providing woodwork demos and activities with renowned wood sculptors and artists.
Drivers will set off from Threaplands Garden Centre after breakfast with stops at Christies Nurseries in Arradoul and Turlundie Wood Turners at New Pitsligo for a view of their young trees, followed by a Wood Turning demo from Wakeley Tree Surgeons.
The event will include lunch at The Last Bus Café in New Pitsligo, a tour of a new Eco house built by AG Stuart in Insch and a wood sculpting demonstration at Garry Shand Chainsaw Sculpting in Dufftown.
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Drivers will then return to Elgin for a two-course meal at The Sunninghill Hotel.
Clan is keen to hear from owners of classic cars and motorcycles who would like to join the tour which will raise awareness and vital funds for the cancer support charity.
Julie Ferguson, Clan’s Moray local services co-ordinator said: “We always look forward to the Cavalcade and we’re delighted to see its return in September after a three-year hiatus.
“This year’s theme of wood gives a nod to some truly unique and highly skilled businesses in the local area.
“This a highly anticipated annual event which draws many vintage and classic car owners from across the country whilst raising much needed funds for those affected by cancer in the local community, helping ensure Clan can provide vital support services to those in need.”
Clan’s Elgin centre is open Monday to Thursday offering support, information, and a range of complementary therapies, and is situated centrally on Elgin’s High Street.
A minimum of £50 in sponsorship is requested from vehicle owners to enter the Clan Cavalcade.
Additional fees are required for both meals on the day.
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Colleagues fundraise £4,500 for ARI and We Too! after workmate beats cancer
A local workforce has raised £4,500 for Aberdeen Royal Infirmary’s Breast Cancer Unit and charity We Too!, after being inspired by a colleague’s brave fight against breast cancer.
Ryan Duguid, Oliver Moore, Craig Smith, Pawel Pasko and Rebecca Laing, who work at Kintore-based OEG Offshore (OEG) alongside Kirsty Mortimer, were inspired to take part in the Beach Ballistic event at Balmedie Country Park earlier this month in recognition of her successful battle against the disease.
The group raised £2,250 through sponsorships for taking part in the challenge, which had been rescheduled due to the pandemic. Bosses at the firm matched this taking the total to £4,500.
Kirsty, a financial analyst for OEG, cheered her supportive team mates on from the side lines as they navigated the gruelling activity weekend.
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This included Pawel, taking part in both the 16km race on the Saturday, before running alongside his colleagues and winning the 8k obstacle course on Sunday.
All participants and spectators then joined a company BBQ arranged for all staff and their families.
The 27-year-old first noticed an unusual lump following her covid vaccine last summer and went on to receive chemotherapy and radiotherapy at ARI, as well as a lumpectomy to prevent the cancer from spreading any further.
Kirsty said: “It was a huge shock when I was first diagnosed with cancer last year. After visiting the doctor, they thought that, due to my age, it was most likely a cyst. However, further tests showed that it was breast cancer, which had already spread to my lymph nodes.
“There was no family history of the disease, and I felt otherwise, well. Thankfully, it was caught early and my treatment was successful. It was an emotional day when I rang the bell to celebrate being cancer free.
"Now with on going treatment hopefully stopping it from coming back, I’m looking forward to returning to the office after two and a half years working from home.”
Clive Hoskisson, UK Managing Director at OEG said: “Kirsty is an amazing young woman who is a very popular and valued member of our team. Everyone is over the moon that her treatment has been successful, and fundraising seemed an appropriate way for us to mark her achievement and support others going through the same journey.”
In addition, We Too! has also received part of the total raised, after a member of staff had nominated the charity in 2020. The local charity is a parent-driven organisation which aims to empower families of children with predominately hidden disabilities.
Phionna McInnes, chief executive of We Too! said: “I am absolutely blown away with the amount of money Kirsty and OEG has raised.
"As a small charity, this is fantastic and will go straight to our front line, where resources are needed.”
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Rangers dealt massive blow ahead of Celtic clash with injury doubt
Rangers could be without Tom Lawrence for Saturday’s derby clash with Celtic.
The Glasgow rivals meet at Celtic Park in the early kick-off on Sky Sports in an early season top of the table clash.
Rangers go into the fixture trailing the Scottish champions by two points in the Scottish Premiership. They may do so without Lawrence, according to The Scottish Sun, with the midfielder carrying a knee injury.
The 28-year-old sustained a knock at the end of Saturday’s 4-0 win over Ross County.
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He was rested for the midweek Premier Sports Cup clash with Queen of the South. Despite sitting it out, he could face more time on the sidelines.
Lawrence has started well after a summer move following the end of his contract at Derby County. He has started seven of the nine games in the league and Champions League qualifying, scoring three times.
John Souttar, Ben Davies, Filip Helander and Alex Lowry are also missing for the Celtic clash.
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What’s the best selfie tripod?
There are many ways to take a photo, but there is no better method than capturing your surroundings with you in the frame. The most common method is to hold a camera at arm’s length and snap away, whether with a cellphone or DSLR camera. But a selfie stick is a great choice for those who want the perfect composition and framing.
However, you still need to hold the selfie stick, creating the “disappearing arm” problem. A selfie tripod such as the Texlar 48-Inch Selfie Stick Tripod with Remote is an excellent alternative to prevent that.
What to know before you buy a selfie tripod
The tripod’s height
Consider where and how you’ll take most of your selfies and determine the best height for the tripod. Small tripods easily stand firmly on a desk or table, but there are also tripods with a bit more height to them. This comes in handy if you want to capture a photo while standing and there isn’t a lower surface available. Most selfie tripod makers combine a selfie stick and tripod into one gadget, with the tripod feet folding in to create the stick’s handle.
Device attachment
A three-legged metal stand is only one part of taking the perfect selfie. On top of the tripod is the component that keeps the camera or phone in place. The right attachment depends on your camera. You’ll need a sturdy grip or holder for a phone, but two plastic clasps won’t secure a digital camera or larger device. So you must ensure that the tripod attachment has the correct diameter screw on the top.
Most digital cameras have a tripod attachment hole on the bottom for this purpose.
Be aware of the dangers
Using a selfie stick isn’t dangerous, but it can be deadly if you aren’t aware of your surroundings. Several deaths have been linked to people going to extreme lengths to get the “perfect” selfie. Before buying a selfie stick or tripod, read up on the risks and when you shouldn’t use a selfie tripod.
What to look for in a quality selfie tripod
Sturdy construction
Taking photos is exciting, but it will end in heartache if your phone or camera detaches and crash to the ground. The tripod must be made from sturdy materials such as metal and hardened plastic. When fully extended, it must carry the full weight of the camera and not topple over in the slightest breeze. Its top clips and grabbers must be strong enough to prevent the camera from slipping out, while the nuts and bolts shouldn’t untie themselves if you can angle portions of the tripod.
Remote control
Since your arms can’t reach the camera on a tripod, you’ll need a secondary way to take the photo. Some cameras let you set up a timer, but you can never be sure when the photo is taken. The best solution for this is to get a good-quality tripod that comes with a Bluetooth remote control. Through the push of a button, you can compose the photos as you want them and snap away.
Large base and stable legs
A good-quality selfie tripod has a large base and stable legs to provide as much stability as possible. Look for a tripod that has non-slip rubber feet or some endcap to prevent sliding without scratching the surface you place it on.
How much you can expect to spend on a selfie tripod
The price depends on the maker, the length and if it comes with a small remote controller. A basic tripod that extends into a selfie stick costs $5-$10, while a sturdy gadget with a Bluetooth controller runs $20-$40.
Selfie tripod FAQ
Does a selfie tripod work with tablets?
A. For the most part, but you must ensure that the attachment to hold the tablet is large and strong enough to support it.
Do they require a battery?
A. The tripod doesn’t need a battery to operate, but an included Bluetooth remote control does. These are usually flat, round batteries, commonly found in wristwatches and very affordable.
What’s the best selfie tripod to buy?
Top selfie tripod
Texlar 48-Inch Selfie Stick Tripod with Remote
What you need to know: Compact and lightweight, this selfie tripod doubles up as a selfie stick.
What you’ll love: It has three sturdy legs attached to a metal pole with an adjustable holder for your phone. It is large enough to accommodate most Android phones, and from the iPhone 7 to the iPhone 13. The tripod is 8 inches at its shortest, but can extend to 48 inches. It comes with a rechargeable wireless remote, and there is a quarter-inch thread at the top for digital cameras.
What you should consider: Some users said that the legs keep opening when stored in a bag.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top selfie tripod for the money
SelfieShow Portable Selfie Stick Tripod with Wireless Remote
What you need to know: This affordable selfie tripod can securely grip phones in landscape and portrait orientation.
What you’ll love: At its shortest, this tripod is 7.6 inches, but it extends to 27 inches. The clamp head at the top can rotate 225 degrees, and it comes with a Bluetooth remote.
What you should consider: Some reviewers said the plastic bolt isn’t as tight as they had hoped.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Atumtek 51-Inch Selfie Stick Tripod
What you need to know: This selfie tripod stands 51 inches tall and has a detachable Bluetooth remote.
What you’ll love: Made from hardened plastic and metal, it’s strong enough to support most Android and iPhones. The legs stand 10.6 inches apart and have three non-slip pads on the bottom. The clamp head can rotate 180 degrees in either direction.
What you should consider: Some customers said the remote pops out of the holder.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which farmhouse end table is best?
Farmhouse furniture is a popular style that gives your space a cozy, down-home feel. It celebrates the aesthetics of simple rural living without forfeiting modern comforts. If you’re looking to furnish your room in this decor, adding some farmhouse end tables can add true rustic charm. Many farmhouse-style end tables are made out of distressed wood and come in light or neutral colors.
If you want a lovely two-toned piece, Laurel Foundry Modern Farmhouse Isakson Tall Trestle End Table is a top pick.
What to know before you buy a farmhouse end table
Farmhouse style elements
Farmhouse decor prioritizes function and practicality, which is why furniture in this style aims for simplicity over ornamentation. Many favor natural materials, such as reclaimed wood, wicker, metal and stone. The upholstery is often made of cotton, canvas or linen. Colors are also natural and neutral, highlighting earth tones, grays, whites and beiges. You’ll usually see accent colors in light blue, green or yellow.
Uses
An end table is a small table you can place next to your couch, sofa or comfy chair. They’re about the same height as the arm of a chair, making it easy to reach a book or a cup. End tables are also a great spot for a decorative vase, table lamp, clock or a candle.
Material
Most farmhouse end tables are made from wood. Natural wood showcases the grain, though some manufacturers paint their wooden end tables. Distressed or weathered wood is a popular look. You’ll also see end tables made from antiqued metal, such as bronze or iron, which have a vintage look.
Shape
End tables come in various shapes, often using a square, rectangular or round tabletop. Select end tables come in a drum or barrel shape. The main consideration when choosing a shape is that it’ll fit in the space you’re placing it. Farmhouse style focuses more on a mix-and-match style instead of a coordinated look, so don’t try too hard to match your end table with existing furniture.
Size
Most end tables measure 18 to 24 inches in height. You want your end table to be within 2 inches of the height of your sofa arm. Also, you don’t want an end table that’s lower than the sofa or chair you’re placing it next to. And you want it wide enough to place your items, ideally around 20 inches wide. Before purchasing an end table, check its dimensions to ensure it fits in your space.
What to look for in a quality farmhouse end table
Storage
For added versatility, select an end table that has storage. Look for tables with shelves beneath the tabletop for open storage or, if you prefer closed storage, one with a drawer or cabinet.
Nesting
Nesting farmhouse end tables come in a set of two or more tables. Each table fits beneath one another in descending sizes. This is a good option in small spaces because you can pull out the extra tables when you need them or leave them under the primary end table when you don’t.
Legs and accents
Most farmhouse end tables feature the traditional four legs. You may also see curved legs or a single, pedestal-style leg. While simplicity dominates the farmhouse style, you may also see minimal accents such as a scalloped apron or crossbuck.
How much you can expect to spend on a farmhouse end table
Quality farmhouse end tables vary in price depending on materials, size and brand. They start at $60 and can cost upwards of $200.
Farmhouse end table FAQ
Where does farmhouse style get its name?
A. Farmhouse style is influenced by the original homesteads in the rural U.S. when function and practicality were more important than frills. The early settlers sourced materials from one’s immediate surroundings, either through repurposing or relying on natural resources such as timber.
Can I use a farmhouse end table as a nightstand?
A. Absolutely. Many end tables have similar dimensions to a nightstand. Look for one with a drawer or cabinet to place by your antiqued bed.
What’s the best farmhouse end table to buy?
Top farmhouse end table
Laurel Foundry Modern Farmhouse Isakson Tall Trestle End Table
What you need to know: This beautiful natural wood tabletop features a matte metal frame and a shelf.
What you’ll love: The construction is heavy and sturdy. It’s easy to assemble. The wooden plank-style top is distressed. It also comes in solid, neutral colors, as well as a matching coffee table.
What you should consider: Not all reviewers liked the weathered look of the wood.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
Top farmhouse end table for the money
Laurel Foundry Modern Farmhouse Kistler Tall Wood End Table
What you need to know: You can’t get more rustic than this unfinished wood end table if you’re looking for an authentic, “roughing it” look.
What you’ll love: This reasonably priced table comes fully assembled. The rough, natural wood has a distressed look and a certain charm. The size is perfect.
What you should consider: A few reviewers noticed the stain came off and transferred onto other materials.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
Worth checking out
Andover Mills Oreland Tall End Table with Storage
What you need to know: The clean, simple design of this end table comes in classic farmhouse colors and will work well with any existing farmhouse items.
What you’ll love: This end table has a drawer for closed storage. It comes in white, gray oak and a light brown. It’s taller on the taller end at 23 inches high and works well next to platform beds. It only takes a few minutes to assemble.
What you should consider: It’s made from particleboard, so this end table isn’t as durable as authentic wooden ones.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
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Why leg day is your most important day
We all understand how physical activity can make the body stronger. But there is increasing evidence that physical activity combats depression as well. Still, with all the evidence we have of how important exercise is, there is one thing even diehard fitness fanatics tend to skip: leg day.
Judd NeSmith is the founder of Serious Fitness and BestReviews’ fitness expert. We asked him why leg days are so important to your fitness regime and if it’s ever OK to skip them. Here’s what we learned.
In this article: NordicTrack Select-A-Weight Adjustable Dumbbell Set, Bowflex SelectTech 840 Kettlebell and URBNFit Exercise Ball
What is leg day?
Many people do not realize or they neglect to consider that legs make up the entire lower half of the body. Leg day is any day that you focus on working out the glutes, hamstrings, calves and quads.
Why do people skip leg day?
NeSmith thinks the answer is simple: “Training the lower body is a lot harder than training the upper body, so some people take the easy way out,” he said. “They just do the easy exercises like chest presses, rows, pullups and bicep curls. When you ask them to train their lower body with any kind of squat variation or dead lift variation, they shy away from lower body exercises because they are hard.”
Why is it so important to train the lower body?
Overall fitness
“To be fit overall, you have to do more than just walking or running or riding a bike,” NeSmith said. “You have to perform some strength-training exercises to help you build more muscle, to burn more calories, to prevent injuries and help improve your posture.”
NeSmith explained that the quads, glutes and hamstrings make up the largest muscle groups in the body. Whenever you recruit those muscles in a strength-training exercise, you’re going to burn more calories because those muscles need more energy to perform. But what people don’t understand is when you engage those larger muscle groups, it will help you build more muscle throughout the entire body.
“When you perform any type of squat exercise or dead lift exercise or any kind of compound movement in the gym, you are going to raise your growth hormone and your testosterone levels, which is going to build more lean muscle in the entire body,” NeSmith said.
Preventive care
“A lot of injuries happen because people have very weak hips,” NeSmith began. “They have a weak hip imbalance, meaning they are either weak in their hamstrings, weak in their glutes or weak in their quadriceps. When you have a weak hip imbalance, it leads to a lot of issues, such as lower back pain, knee pain and even neck and shoulder pain. This is because your hips are your foundation. It’s the center of all movement, so when someone is weak in their hips they are definitely at jeopardy of having a lot of muscle imbalances which can cause pain throughout the body and lead to injuries. That is why it’s really important to train your legs.”
Should older people ease up on leg day?
As you get older, building and maintaining more lean muscle becomes a big concern. NeSmith said it is even more important to continue to work out once you are over 50 because you need lean muscle mass to prevent osteoporosis and sarcopenia.
Osteoporosis
“Osteoporosis is bone loss. You lose bone density because you are not doing enough weight-bearing exercises, so you can’t protect and build stronger bones,” NeSmith said.
Sarcopenia
“Sarcopenia is common with a lot of individuals who only do cardiovascular exercise. They may just ride bikes throughout the week or walk or jog or run. This is great for cardiovascular health, but it doesn’t provide enough resistance as a stimulus to build and maintain lean muscle. Sarcopenia is when someone older gets frail because they do not have enough muscle mass to support their joints,” NeSmith said.
How many times a week should you focus on your legs?
NeSmith is a fan of the full-body workout. If you have 45 minutes to an hour to spend in the gym, and you want to burn more fat and get leaner, you should work your chest, your back, your quadriceps, your hamstrings, your glutes, your biceps and your triceps. According to NeSmith, this is because “you get a phenomenal muscle-building response when you train the body as a whole.”
However, if you are more concerned with bodybuilding or you are a strength-training enthusiast, NeSmith recommends four days at the gym.
This routine would look something like the following:
- Monday, train lower body
- Tuesday, train upper body
- Wednesday, work cardio
- Thursday, train lower body
- Friday, train upper body
Alternatively, you could do a full-body workout every other day, such as Monday, Wednesday and Friday or Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Should you ever skip leg day?
“Absolutely,” NeSmith responded. “And for a lot of my clients, that’s not uncommon because they are athletes. Let’s say you were running a 5K, a 10K or a marathon, and your race is on a Saturday. I would tell you not to work your lower body with resistance probably that entire week because you want to have fresh legs for your race. The same goes for cyclists who have a race or for serious recreational athletes who compete in a sport that requires their legs. If you are playing in a competitive soccer league and you have an important game on Saturday, for example, skip your leg day on Friday.”
Products to help you get the most out of leg day
NordicTrack Select-a-Weight Adjustable Dumbbell Set
A quality pair of dumbbells helps you get the most out of your lower body exercises, such as squats and lunges. This offering from NordicTrack lets you quickly choose from 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10 and 12.5 pounds to customize your workouts. Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Bowflex SelectTech 840 Kettlebell
A kettlebell can deliver a high-intensity lower body workout in as little as 15 minutes. This model has a weight selection dial that adjusts from 8 to 40 pounds, offering convenience while saving you storage space. Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Using a balance ball lets you increase the range of lower body exercises you can perform, giving you a comprehensive workout that targets all the desired muscle groups. The URBNFit stability ball is made with anti-slip, anti-burst, high-quality PVC that can handle a 600-pound weight load. Sold by Amazon
The TRX PRO3 Suspension Trainer
Besides providing a high-intensity workout, a suspension trainer can give you confidence to really dig deep and maximize your range of motion when it comes to lower body exercises. This pro set gives you three suspension anchors, rubber-grip handles, padded foot cradles, access to the TRX Training Club app and more. Sold by Amazon
Sweet Sweat Mini Loop Resistance Bands
Resistance loop bands add resistance to your exercises, so you can gently increase the intensity. There are five bands in this set which range from 5 to 40 pounds. Sold by Amazon
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Russell Wilson’s five-year, $245 million extension includes a $50 million singing bonus, $77 million in the first eight months and a whopping $165 million in guarantees — all before he takes his first snap for the Denver Broncos.
Wilson left money on the table, however, declining to reset the NFL’s stratospheric quarterback market.
“For me, it wasn’t really about how much, necessarily,” Wilson said Thursday. “It was about how many — how many Super Bowls we win. And that was really the focus.”
Wilson didn’t want to handicap general manager George Paton as he builds his roster around him. So, he took $49 million on average in new money, $1 million less than Aaron Rodgers did with his four-year, $200 million deal earlier this year to stay in Green Bay.
In terms of the all-important guaranteed portion of his contract, Wilson comes in with the third-most lucrative deal in the NFL, behind Deshaun Waton’s fully guaranteed $230 million deal with Cleveland and the $189.5 million in guarantees that Kyler Murray received in his five-year, $230.5 million deal with Arizona.
Wilson’s decision to take less will presumably affect Lamar Jackson’s negotiations with the Baltimore Ravens on a contract extension and could have ripple effects when rising stars Justin Herbert and Joe Burrow come up for new deals in the years ahead.
The extension keeps Wilson, 33, under contract in Denver through the 2028 season for $296 million. It’s the biggest contract in Broncos history and one of the largest ever in the NFL.
Wilson’s new deal comes three weeks after the league approved the $4.65 billion sale of the team to the Walton-Penner ownership group that represented the largest amount ever paid for a professional sports franchise anywhere in the world.
Led by Walmart heir Rob Walton, his daughter, Carrie Walton Penner, and son-in-law Greg Penner, it’s by far the wealthiest ownership group in the NFL.
“I’ve worked closely on this over the last three weeks,” Paton said. “And Greg rolled up his sleeves and he was a big help: his support, his communication, his responsiveness and, of course, the resources were instrumental into us getting this deal done.”
Penner called Wilson “a dynamic leader whose positive impact is felt throughout our entire team and community. Our organization is fully committed to winning and competing for Super Bowls with Russell as a Bronco for many years to come.”
Wilson had two years and $51 million left on his deal when the Broncos acquired him from Seattle for five draft picks and three players in a franchise-changing trade six months ago. That $51 million has been restructured.
Penner said last month that Paton’s trade for Wilson in the spring made the Broncos an even more attractive asset.
“It’s critical to have a great quarterback in this league and coming in this organization with Russell in place is a tremendous benefit for us,” Penner said.
“On our first diligence trip in May here, one of the first people we ran into the hallway when Rob, Carrie and I were here was Russell,” Penner added. “Right away, we got a sense of how positive he is as a leader. He is just such a dynamic individual. I can’t wait to see him on the field.”
Wilson will make his Denver debut on Sept. 12 when the Broncos open the season at Seattle, where Wilson played for a decade, leading the Seahawks to two Super Bowl appearances and one championship.
Wilson’s 113 victories, including one in Super Bowl 48 over the Broncos, are the most for a quarterback in his first 10 NFL seasons. He’s made the Pro Bowl eight times and he missed the playoffs just twice in his first decade in the league.
Star safety Justin Simmons said when he heard of Wilson’s new deal, “the first thing I thought of was: well deserved. He’s a proven quarterback in this league, a Hall of Famer, and I’m happy for him — he’ll have to take me to dinner or something, a very expensive one.”
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Budgeting is the best financial discipline you should have. Budgeting is a financial plan that consists of both present and future expenses in order of importance.
Having a budget keeps you in check as much as it can financially. Without a plan, there is nothing to keep you in check. It helps you track your expenses, pay bills on time, and also save for emergencies and future expenses.
Budgeting helps you keep track of your expenses to achieve your financial goals. With a budget, you wouldn’t have to spend the money you don’t have. That might make you end up in debt. It is an indication of proper financial planning.
There are several reasons you need to consider budgeting. You need a financial plan for financial security and stability. Below are the reasons you need to consider budgeting.
1. To avoid overspending
Having a budget helps you cut your spending. This is because you would have your eyes fixed on a price after making a budget. A budget requires that you list what you want and the possible prices.
2. To enable financial discipline
Budgeting is one of the best ways to financially discipline yourself. You don’t want to keep buying everything that comes your way.
It helps you to adhere strictly to your financial goals without other distractions.
3. To curb excess spending habit
A budget is a lifesaver. It helps you to take cognisance of your spending habits. It cautions against unnecessary expenses that could cause a financial downturn. It helps you refocus and concentrate on your laid down goals.
4. To help you save more
You save more when you budget because, while cutting down on your expenses, you have more to save up for the future. It helps you build an emergency fund that can be of help during times of emergencies.
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MILAN (AP) — Sergiño Dest is set to become the first American to play for AC Milan in Serie A after the Italian champion signed the defender on loan from Barcelona on Thursday, shortly before the transfer window shut.
Milan also has the right to buy the U.S. international at the end of the season-long loan deal, with the fee reportedly fixed at 20 million euros ($19.9 million).
The move comes a day after AC Milan’s ownership transferred from one American entity to another, as RedBird Capital Partners completed a deal to purchase a controlling interest in the seven-time European champion for 1.2 billion euros ($1.2 billion) from Elliott Management. The deal includes a minority stake in Milan for the New York Yankees.
The 21-year-old Dest, who only flew into Milan on the morning of transfer deadline day, could face a tough debut as the Rossoneri’s next match is Saturday’s derby against city rival Inter Milan.
The only previous American player Milan has signed was Oguchi Onyewu, in 2009. The former U.S. defender had an eighteen-month spell at Milan but only made one Champions League appearance before being sidelined for almost a year with injury and then leaving the club, shortly after a training ground spat with teammate Zlatan Ibrahimović.
Dest has a Surinamese-American father and Dutch mother and chose to play for the United States instead of the Netherlands, where he was born and raised. He has scored two goals in 17 matches for the national team.
Dest started his career at Ajax before moving to Barcelona two years ago for a fee of 21 million euros (then $24.7 million), going on to make 72 appearances and netting three goals.
Dest never fully met expectations at Barcelona and couldn’t establish himself as a regular starter. He had plenty of minutes in his first season, under coach Ronald Koeman, but then his playing time gradually decreased. He had chances under coach Xavi Hernández during the Europa League last season but again couldn’t take advantage of them. He had not made any appearances this season other than in friendlies.
Dest’s signing continues Milan’s policy of sticking with the blend of youth and experience that helped to end its lengthy wait for the Serie A title. Most of the players it has signed this summer have been 21 or under.
The Rossoneri also signed teenage midfielder Aster Vranckx from Wolfsburg on loan on deadline day.
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An intimate relationship involves two people coming together for emotional and physical intimacy. However, it is important that you have a healthy relationship. This is because of your mental wellbeing.
You must be very sensitive to see the signs of an unfavourable relationship. And there are various signs to look out for. These signs will help you figure out if you are in an unhealthy relationship or not.
The signs are also referred to as “red flags.” If present, they imply that you might be in a toxic, abusive, or aggressive relationship.
Here are signs to look out for in a relationship. If you notice the following red flags, then you might be in an unhealthy relationship.
1. If it tampers with your self esteem.
A relationship that reduces your self worth is not worth it. Relationships are meant to build up and not tear down. If you notice your self esteem is going down, then this is a cue for you to either work it out with your partner or take a bow out of the relationship.
2. If the other person sees your progress as a challenge
A progressive relationship is one where the two partners are interested in each other’s success. They both celebrate their wins and achievements together, without envy or a sense of defeat.
When you begin to notice that your partner does not feel happy about your small wins or any achievements, it is a sign that the relationship isn’t meant for you.
3. If your relationship doesn’t have a purpose
There is a popular saying that when the purpose of something is not known, abuse is inevitable. The purpose of your relationship means the reason you are both coming together. Is it for a long term commitment (marriage) or a short time commitment.
If your partner doesn’t have a mutual purpose with you as regards your relationship, then be sure that your ship is sailing with no specific destination.
4. If you are emotionally abused
Emotional abuse is when someone plays with your feelings and emotions. It can be so damaging that it eventually affects you mentally.
If a guy or a lady who happens to be your partner plays with your feelings, due to your past or present mistakes, you don’t have to wait till you get mentally drained and frustrated before you use the door.
5. If your partner has no respect for you in public
Respect is reciprocal. Regardless of how successful, wealthy, and influential either partner is, respect is very important in every relationship both privately and publicly.
No man or woman has the right to belittle you or embarrass you in public no matter how bad your mistakes can be. If your partner insults you publicly with or without been remorseful later, the you need to either talk it out with him (if he is willing to change) or you walk out respectfully out of the relationship.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The next woman who must deal with the daunting task of playing Serena Williams at the U.S. Open, Ajla Tomljanovic, considers herself an admirer of the 23-time Grand Slam champion.
“I’ve been a Serena fan,” Tomljanovic said, “since I was a kid.”
Tomljanovic, an Australian who is 29, will face Williams, who turns 41 next month, for the first time on Friday night — in front of what is sure to be another exuberant and partisan full house — in the third round at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
“She kind of has that aura, like Roger (Federer), Rafa (Nadal), and deservedly so,” Tomljanovic said. “I always get happy when she says ‘Hi’ to me.”
Tomljanovic recalled watching on TV as Williams won major trophies. Also tuning in over the years — but never across the net from Williams in a match until this U.S. Open — was the player Williams beat in the second round on Wednesday, No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit, who’s 26. Same for the player Williams beat in the first round on Monday, Danka Kovinic, who’s 27.
This is not why Williams is winning these contests in what is expected to be the last tournament of her career, but it sure can’t hurt.
Must not be easy to try to defeat someone whose success is oh-so-familiar, someone you looked up to before you turned pro yourself, someone you admire to this day.
“Oh, it factors in a lot. When I was young, I knew I had to beat members of a certain generation to move up. And Serena’s always been the one to beat,” said Billie Jean King, the Hall of Famer who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles in the 1960s and 1970s, plus another 27 in women’s doubles and mixed doubles.
“It can work in your favor if you thrive on playing the best player ever and you know it’ll help your career if you win,” King said in a telephone interview Thursday. “But the other side of the coin is, ‘Oh, no! I have to play her?’ And with the crowd, the history, you really have to try to embrace the situation and the occasion.”
That certainly is not easy.
Especially when Williams is playing as well as she did against Kontaveit, particularly in the moments that mattered the most in the 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2 victory — the first-set tiebreaker and the third set.
“Well,” Williams said with a laugh, “I’m a pretty good player.”
Sure is.
And her opponents sure know it, of course.
Back when Williams and her older sister Venus — they were scheduled to play in the first round of doubles together Thursday night — were swapping the No. 1 ranking the way other siblings might share clothing and meeting each other in nine all-in-the-family finals at Grand Slam tournaments, they often took the court with something of an advantage that went beyond their considerable talents.
Some other players were simply in awe.
So even though Williams plays less, and wins less, nowadays than she used to in her heyday — her 2022 record was 1-3 before this week — listen to what Kovinic had to say about learning she was drawn to face the American at Flushing Meadows: “I was happy. I won’t lie. I’m honored to play against her, never mind whether I win or lose. It’s a privilege to share the court with Serena.”
How did that go? Williams won 6-3, 6-3.
Here is what Kontaveit’s thoughts were when her matchup against Williams was assured: “I’m really excited. I was really rooting for her to (advance to the second round). I’ve never played against her. I mean, this is the last chance. Better late than never.”
Kovinic and the 46th-ranked Tomljanovic expressed similar sentiments.
Jessica Pegula, a 28-year-old American who is seeded No. 8 in New York and won Thursday to reach the third round, played Williams once, losing to her in the final of a tournament at Auckland, New Zealand, in January 2020.
“I knew it was a big moment. … I felt OK, but then once we started playing and you could kind of feel her power — and feel her hitting a winner, coming at you, serving — I think that’s when you’re like, ‘Oh, wow, I’m playing Serena,’” Pegula said. “I think we all kind of have those moments for the first time.”
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Demand is increasing for data and analytics around the world
Providing global insurance solutions supported by unmatched datasets
DENVER, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Intermap Technologies (TSX: IMP) (OTCQX: ITMSF) ("Intermap" or the "Company"), a global leader in 3D geospatial data and intelligence solutions, today announced Generali Romania is expanding its risk assessment capabilities by incorporating Intermap's Aquarius RMA ("Aquarius") flood risk solution into its core insurance processes.
Generali Romania leverages flood maps that are produced using Intermap's high-resolution digital terrain models, hydrology data and comprehensive information from the National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management of Romania. The flood hazard maps cover more than 90,000km along rivers. It includes boundaries for 20-year, 100-year and 500-year flood extents, as well as maps of maximum flood depth for each of the periods.
"Generali Romania is one of the leaders of the housing and corporate insurance segments and we are now able to optimize our flood risk evaluation resources through a pioneering collaboration in the Romanian market. This is an important step for making insurance coverage reflect the real-time flood risk as well as to help our clients through better risk counseling and prevention solutions," said Ales Tausche, Chief Insurance Officer, Generali Romania.
"With historic flooding from Pakistan to Mississippi, record wildfires from Greece to California, and catastrophic drought exacerbated by extreme heat waves around the world, climate resilience efforts are urgent," commented Patrick Blott, Intermap Chairman and CEO. "Intermap's global solutions leverage its unmatched, proprietary datasets, global consistency and precision, and speed delivering high-resolution, rapid updates anywhere in the world. These unique capabilities enable insurers across multiple regions to understand and underwrite peril risk anywhere on Earth."
Intermap's Aquarius solution is a cloud-based flood risk assessment software that greatly simplifies the access to critical datasets and advanced tools and is customizable to meet different specific customer needs. The Company's software solution is composed of multiple analytics and geocoding capabilities, providing Generali Romania with a comprehensive picture of the possible flood risk in specific areas and estimated volume of claims and length of service interruption in affected areas. The datasets are continually updated to ensure customers have the latest information in the areas where they operate. This enables customers to optimize several areas of the insurance process, from primary underwriting, risk engineering, product methodology and development, to actuarial science, claims and reinsurance.
For more information, visit www.intermap.com/european-solutions.
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Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Intermap (TSX: IMP; OTCQX: ITMSF) is a global leader in geospatial intelligence solutions, focusing on the creation and analysis of 3D terrain data to produce high-resolution thematic models. Through scientific analysis of geospatial information and patented sensors and processing technology, the Company provisions diverse, complementary, multi-source datasets to enable customers to seamlessly integrate geospatial intelligence into their workflows. Intermap's 3D elevation data and software analytic capabilities enable global geospatial analysis through artificial intelligence and machine learning, providing customers with critical information to understand their terrain environment. By leveraging its proprietary archive of the world's largest collection of multi-sensor global elevation data, the Company's collection and processing capabilities provide multi-source 3D datasets and analytics at mission speed, enabling governments and companies to build and integrate geospatial foundation data with actionable insights. Applications for Intermap's products and solutions include defense, aviation and UAV flight planning, flood and wildfire insurance, disaster mitigation, base mapping, environmental and renewable energy planning, telecommunications, engineering, critical infrastructure monitoring, hydrology, land management, oil and gas and transportation.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Nick Kyrgios was bothered by what he thought was the smell of marijuana during his U.S. Open match Wednesday.
The Wimbledon runner-up complained during his second-round victory over Benjamin Bonzi about the scent, asking chair umpire Jaume Campistol to warn the crowd inside Louis Armstrong Stadium.
“You don’t want to remind anyone not to do it or anything?” Kyrgios asked during a changeover in the second set.
Armstrong features concession stands along the concourse level above the court and Campistol appeared to be telling Kyrgios the smell could be coming from their kitchens.
“Obviously, I’m not going to complain about food smells,” Kyrgios responded. “Obviously, not.”
Kyrgios said after his 7-6 (3), 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 victory that he is asthmatic.
“When I’m running side to side, I’m struggling to breathe,” he said. “Probably not something I want to be breathing in in between points.”
The No. 23 seed from Australia was his usual animated self during the match, carrying on conversations with himself and people in the seats. He received a warning for using profanity when the target of his anger was somebody in his box who Kyrgios didn’t feel was being supportive enough.
The noise of New York is a challenge for many players, and Kyrgios struggled not only with the chatter of the fans but with the roars of the trains that can be heard from outside the open-air stadium.
“For someone that’s struggled to focus in my career, I’m really trying hard to put my head down and play point by point, try to dig myself out of some certain situations. It’s hard because there’s a lot of distractions,” Kyrgios said. “Obviously, a lot of heckling going on as well. People are saying things. I got to be very careful with what I say these days.”
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NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: COIN) between April 14, 2021 and July 26, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important October 3, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Coinbase securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Coinbase class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8095 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 3, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Coinbase custodially held crypto assets on behalf of its customers, which assets Coinbase knew or recklessly disregarded could qualify as the property of a bankruptcy estate, making those assets potentially subject to bankruptcy proceedings in which Coinbase's customers would be treated as the Company's general unsecured creditors; (2) Coinbase allowed Americans to trade digital assets that Coinbase knew or recklessly disregarded should have been registered as securities with the SEC; (3) the foregoing conduct subjected Coinbase to a heightened risk of regulatory and governmental scrutiny and enforcement action; and (4) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Coinbase class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8095 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A Ukrainian player declined to shake hands with Victoria Azarenka after the three-time U.S. Open runner-up from Belarus beat her at Flushing Meadows on Thursday.
Marta Kostyuk waited at the net with her racket held up, which Azarenka tapped with her racket following her 6-2, 6-3 victory.
Belarus helped Russia launch its invasion of Ukraine in February, and Kostyuk said it had been on her mind since she saw the U.S. Open draw that she may have to play Azarenka in the second round.
“It’s pretty personal,” Kostyuk said. “It wasn’t a personal match for me because it was Vika specifically, but overall it was not just a casual match that I play in a tournament.”
Asked about the traditional handshake that follows a match, Kostyuk said: “I just don’t think it’s the right thing to do in the circumstances I’m in right now.”
Azarenka said she had already faced that situation with a Ukrainian player when she played Dayana Yastremska last month in Washington.
“It is what it is. I just move on,” Azarenka said. “I cannot force anybody to shake my hand. It’s their decision.”
Kostyuk said she texted Azarenka a day before the match to inform her there would be no handshake. Azarenka returned the text, telling Kostyuk she was no longer onsite, so Kostyuk dropped the subject because she wanted to deliver the message in person.
Azarenka said she reached out to all the Ukrainian players she has a relationship with in March after the invasion. Kostyuk isn’t one of them, but Azarenka said she tried nevertheless.
“Well, I’ve offered many times through the WTA, because I believe that there is a sort of sensitivity. I’ve been told that that’s not a good time,” Azarenka said.
“If Marta wants to speak with me, like she texted me yesterday, I replied. I’m open any time to listen, to try to understand, to sympathize. I believe that empathy in the moment like this is really important, which has, again, been my clear message in the beginning.”
Kostyuk questioned Azarenka being part of the “Tennis Plays for Peace Exhibition” that the U.S. Tennis Association held the week before the tournament to raise money for Ukraine. Azarenka was dropped from the lineup the day of the event, which helped generate more than $1 million for humanitarian assistance.
“Everyone is trying to be super democratic about this thing that happened and because it’s like, my nation is being killed daily, I’m going to tell you from my perspective very quickly so I don’t think I ever want to answer this question again,” Kostyuk said. “Imagine there is a World War II and there is a fundraiser for Jewish people and a German player wants to play. During the war, not 70 years after the war happened. During the war. I don’t think Jewish people would understand.”
Azarenka, a member of the WTA Tour players council, said the important thing was that the event was held, not whether she was part of it.
“I feel like I’ve had a very clear message from the beginning, is that I’m here to try to help, which I have done a lot,” Azarenka said. “Maybe not something that people see and that’s not what I do it for. I do it for people who in need, juniors who need clothes, other people who need money or other people who needed transportation or whatever. That’s what is important to me, to help people are in need.”
Russian and Belarussian players were banned from Wimbledon in response to the war. They are allowed to play at the U.S. Open, without their nations or their flags being listed.
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Bohlender Funeral Home identifies new location in Fort Collins
Bohlender Funeral Home has found a potential new home near the intersection of East Horsetooth and South Timberline roads.
The funeral home, now located in the heart of Old Town, put its longtime home on the market more than a year ago with hopes of finding a new location within the city.
Confluent Development is considering building a six-story, 200-unit apartment building at Bohlender's current location at 121 W. Olive St. Bohlender has been in that location since the 1960s.
Preliminary plans filed last week by Bohlender show a change of use for 3350 Eastbrook Drive from offices to a funeral home and crematory. Gary Bohlender said renovations would include a chapel with seating for about 200 people, a reception area and one crematory system with the possibility of two others.
"The bones of the building look good," said Bohlender, who has the building under contract. "We will be mostly opening some things up." The site is on the market for $2.4 million and is being listed by CBRE.
Plans will be reviewed by the city's planning department on Thursday, Sept. 8. Minimal exterior renovations will occur, aside from a canopy over the front entrance.
The move could happen in about a year if everything goes according to plans, Bohlender said.
Confluent's proposal for 121 W. Olive St. and 120 W. Magnolia St.includes a land swap with CenturyLink, which owns adjacent property.
The swap will allow Confluent Development to have a rectangular parcel on which to develop its project, which includes parking and retail on the southeast corner of Olive and Mason streets.
The property is in the Canyon Avenue area of downtown, and city code allows up to six-story buildings in the area.
According to plans, retail businesses would front the Olive and Mason intersections, with a retail entry in the center of the site on Mason and walk-up apartments on the south side of Mason and the east side of Olive above retail.
Redevelopment will end the property's nearly 100-year history as a funeral chapel. A funeral chapel first opened on the site in the 1930s as Day Funeral Home, Bohlender said. It later became Warren Funeral Chapel, where Bohlender's father, Milo, worked as vice president from 1964 to 1982, when it became Bohlender Funeral Chapel.
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Restaurant serving salad, smoothies and grain bowls to open after Labor Day
Crisp & Green, a Minnesota-based fast-casual restaurant specializing in salads, grain bowls and smoothies, will open in Harmony Commons, 3581 E. Harmony Road, on Saturday, Sept. 10.
This is the fast-casual franchise's second location and features signature and build-your-own salads and grain bowls, smoothies and acai bowls to meet a variety of dietary preferences.
Crisp & Green takes over the former ACT Pilates location at Harmony Commons.
The franchise is locally owned by Fort Collins franchisee Andrew Rauch.
“We’re trying to bring a very strong presence to Fort Collins, and Colorado in general, which we think is an excellent market, a great fit for our brand and our offering," Rauch said in a news release.
More:Sub shop opens, Starbucks in the works on same Laurel Street stretch in Fort Collins
Grand-opening celebrations are from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Sept 9, with 50 percent off online and app orders.
For Saturday's opening, Crisp & Green has partnered with Grit Fort Collins fitness studio, which will hold a free on-site fitness class at 9:30 a.m. At 9:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, it will offer a yoga class from Foss Yoga.
Crisp & Green has restaurants in Minnesota, Florida, Texas, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota as well as one existing Colorado location in Denver. More than 16 Colorado locations are in the works, according to the news release. Its Lakewood location will open later this summer.
Interested?
Crisp & Green is located at 3581 E. Harmony Road and will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily beginning Sept. 10. For more information, visit https://crispandgreen.com/locations/harmony-commons/.
Coloradoan reporter Erin Udell contributed to this report. | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2022/09/01/crisp-green-to-open-in-fort-collins-after-labor-day/65467876007/ | 2022-09-01T23:29:50Z | coloradoan.com | control | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2022/09/01/crisp-green-to-open-in-fort-collins-after-labor-day/65467876007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s lawyers began mounting a defense Thursday in Chicago against federal charges of child pornography, enticement of minors for sex and fixing his 2008 state trial, with an initial witness contending the singer was himself a victim of blackmail.
The presentation to jurors won’t include Kelly taking the witness stand.
Judge Harry Leinenweber asked Kelly directly on Thursday if he would testify, and the Grammy Award winner said he would not.
The judge raised the issue minutes before attorneys for Kelly and two co-defendants began calling their first witnesses, endeavoring to counter two weeks of government testimony.
R. Kelly isn't the only person on trial - his co-defendants include the singer's longtime business manager Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown.
McDavid, who is accused of help rig Kelly's 2008 trial, said he would testify.
Brown, who is charged with receiving child pornography, said he wouldn't be testifying.
Kelly could face additional years in prison if convicted of one or two charges stemming from this case.
The singer was sentenced to 30 years in prison in June for racketeering and sex trafficking.
Closing arguments are set to happen in the middle of next week. | https://www.wtxl.com/entertainment/r-kellys-lawyers-start-defense-he-says-he-wont-testify | 2022-09-01T23:38:52Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/entertainment/r-kellys-lawyers-start-defense-he-says-he-wont-testify | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — “When you’re on social media you can make a lot of noise with that. Especially because it’s like everybody will be seeing it. It could even possibly reach Beyonce. You can make a lot of noise being on social media. I definitely think it’s an effective way,” says Nariyah Brewer.
428 FAMU students were supposed to move back to on-campus housing unit, Phase III dorm but instead were postponed for move in until Friday.
FAMU freshman Nariyah Brewer believes taking the housing issue to social media can be beneficial to help move things along. Although she has not experienced housing issues she feels for her fellow Rattlers and wish they were having the same experience she is.
“I hear about the housing, like the hotels that they’re putting the students in, some of the students don’t really like the hotels. So, I really think FAMU should be doing everything they can possible for the students,” says Brewer.
One suggestion that Brewer thought could help was reimbursing students for their housing inconvenience.
Housing Director Dr. Jennifer Wilder tells me the move in date was pushed back in order to ensure the units were in perfect conditions for students.
“We’re sorry for the inconvenience. I know this has not been— this has been a very frustrating and challenging situation for everyone. We are doing the best we can and we look forward to them returning to phase III,” says Wilder.
Students are expected to be able to move back into their dorms by 1pm Friday. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/famu-housing-move-in-date-gets-postponed | 2022-09-01T23:38:58Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/famu-housing-move-in-date-gets-postponed | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
VALDOSTA, Ga. (WTXL) — The Valdosta Police Department announced Thursday that it is investigating an armed robbery at a restaurant.
On Wednesday at midnight, Valdosta Police Officers responded to a Waffle House located on the 1300 block of North St. Augustine Road after a call to emergency dispatch about a robbery.
When officers arrived at the scene, witnesses stated a subject entered the restaurant with a firearm and demanded money. After receiving an undisclosed amount of money, the suspect fled the scene.
The report notes that no one was injured, while detectives and crime scene technicians went to the scene to investigate and process the location for evidence.
The Valdosta Police Department requests anyone with information related to the incident to contact the Valdosta Police Department by calling 229-242-2606. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/valdosta-police-department-investigating-armed-robbery-at-a-restaurant | 2022-09-01T23:39:04Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/valdosta-police-department-investigating-armed-robbery-at-a-restaurant | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Russian news outlets report that Russian oil executive Ravil Maganov has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow.
According to the Russian state-sponsored news outlet Interfax, Maganov was being "fell from a window at Central Clinical Hospital," and "he died from injuries sustained.”
Citing an unnamed law enforcement source, state-sponsored news agency Tass reported that the 67-year-old died by suicide, the Associated Press reported.
According to the Associated Press, the Russian news outlets reported that Maganov's body was found on the hospital grounds.
But in a press release, Lukoil said Maganov “passed away following a serious illness,” but no other details were given, the Associated Press and CNBC reported.
Tass reported that Maganov was admitted for a heart attack at the hospital and was taking antidepressants, the Associated Press reported.
Maganov's death marks the latest in a string of Russian energy executives who have died unexpectedly this year, CNBC and the Associated Press reported.
According to CNBC, Maganov is the eighth Russian energy executive to die suddenly this year. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/body-of-russian-oil-executive-found-on-grounds-of-moscow-hospital | 2022-09-01T23:39:10Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/body-of-russian-oil-executive-found-on-grounds-of-moscow-hospital | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
While clouds broke in many north Florida counties this evening, allowing late sunshine to come through, lingering pockets of clouds and rain will affect southern Georgia communities at various times tonight. The heaviest rain will be north of US 84 as storms in the interior counties. Downpours can trigger spots of flooding. Any late-night storms will dwindle by midnight, leaving scattered clouds and temps able to fall into the lower 70s for lows. Friday's highs will top out around 90°, but can fall short with an early buildup of clouds and developing rain in some regions by midday. The same hazards of spot flooding, flash flooding, and frequent lightning will be present Friday afternoon. The holiday weekend outlook keeps active showers and storms in the picture from time to time, with periods of sunshine to balance things out. Temperatures will retain their average seasonal levels in the low 90s for highs and low to mid 70s for lows.
--Casanova Nurse, Chief Meteorologist | https://www.wtxl.com/weather/thursday-evening-first-to-know-forecast-09-01-2022 | 2022-09-01T23:39:35Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/weather/thursday-evening-first-to-know-forecast-09-01-2022 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Two days after getting her COVID booster shot, Victoria Lang had an “insane” period.
That one abnormal flow uncovered a shocking diagnosis — the 30-year-old pharmacist had cancer.
“I woke up in the morning and I had to run and get a towel to hold under me,” Lang told South West News Service. “I know what is normal for me and what my periods are like and this was insane.”
At the time — March 2021 — news was circulating about vaccines possibly affecting menstrual cycles, so Lang decided to wait 24 hours to see if things would get better. But the next day, she said she continued to bleed heavily.
Lang, who lives in Scotland, noted that she had a few bruises on her knees and shoulders but since she knew how she got them, she said, “alarm bells weren’t going off.
“But the bruises did take ages to heal properly.”
She called her physician, who ran some blood tests. The next day, her doctor told her she needed to go to the hospital, according to SWNS.
“I knew at that point something was seriously wrong and I had leukemia in my head,” she told the news service.
A doctor told her that it might be leukemia, but that they needed to take a bone marrow sample for confirmation. After being diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia, Lang spent 42 days at a cancer center — and told SWNS that the blood cancer might not have been discovered as quickly if it she hadn’t noted the abnormal period.
Lang said she gained weight and went up a dress size. She added: “I have been left with really bad stretch marks, you would think I had had twins, but my skin just couldn’t cope with it.”
The disease is now in remission and Lang is having normal periods again.
“I would say to people to just trust your instincts, you know what is normal about your own body,” she told SWNS. “I knew my period wasn’t right and if I hadn’t called the doctors to discuss it then I might not have been diagnosed as quickly.” | https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/i-had-a-really-bad-period-and-it-led-to-this-shocking-diagnosis/ | 2022-09-01T23:41:12Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/i-had-a-really-bad-period-and-it-led-to-this-shocking-diagnosis/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When King Gustav of Sweden presented James (Jim) Thorpe with his gold medals for winning the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics, he was reported to declare, "You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world."
Less than a year later, the International Olympic Committee would strip Thorpe of his medals and strike his record-breaking performances from its record books.
In a partial reversal of its 1913 decision, the IOC declared Thorpe the co-winner of the two events and presented commemorative gold medallion's to his family in 1983, 30 year's after the athlete's death.
It wasn't until July of this year that Jim Thorpe's Olympic achievements were restored to the IOC record books and he once again stood as the only athlete to win both the pentathlon and decathlon.
Author David Maraniss talked about the life of Thorpe, "a troubled, but incredibly talented man."
David Maraniss discusses "Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe" at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 8 at Unity Temple on the Plaza, 707 W. 47th Street Kansas City, Missouri 64112. Tickets available through Rainy Day Books. | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2022-09-01/author-says-what-olympian-jim-thorpe-did-remains-unparalleled | 2022-09-01T23:41:13Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2022-09-01/author-says-what-olympian-jim-thorpe-did-remains-unparalleled | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
De-escalation training has become a crucial aspect of educating police officers — both for recruits and veterans on the force. But that hasn't always been the case.
"The responsibilities of the modern day police officer are so much greater," said Sgt. Ward Smith of the Kansas City Police Department's firearms training and tactics division.
"We really wanted to expand into the thought process, decision making, and expand the abilities of our people to address the varying situations they find themselves in on a regular basis," he said.
Sgt. Smith joined KCUR's Up To Date to explain how he trains officers to de-escalate potentially violent situations.
- Sergeant Ward Smith, Kansas City Police Department firearms training and tactics division | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2022-09-01/kansas-city-police-department-trains-officers-to-de-escalate-potentially-violent-situations | 2022-09-01T23:41:19Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2022-09-01/kansas-city-police-department-trains-officers-to-de-escalate-potentially-violent-situations | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Any area with less than one dentist for every 5,000 people is classified as a dental health professional shortage area.
With a hefty donation of $250,000 to fund scholarships at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry, GEHA is hoping to address these shortages through higher education. The financial aid also aims to attract a more diverse workforce to the dental field, which is overwhelmingly white.
KCUR's Up To Date was joined by an assistant dean from the UMKC School of Dentistry and a scholarship recipient to learn about what these dollars mean to them.
- Richie Bigham, assistant dean for student programs at the UMKC School of Dentistry
- Jessica Woods, UMKC dental hygiene student and scholarship recipient
KCUR is licensed to the University of Missouri Board of Curators and is an editorially independent community service of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2022-09-01/umkc-school-of-dentistry-receives-250-000-in-scholarships-from-geha-to-address-dental-deserts | 2022-09-01T23:41:26Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2022-09-01/umkc-school-of-dentistry-receives-250-000-in-scholarships-from-geha-to-address-dental-deserts | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Deputies search for Macon man, missing since April
Freddie King was last seen by his friend on April 15th
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office needs the public’s help in locating a missing man. They are trying to find 47-year-old Freddie DeWayne King. Deputies say King was last seen by his friend on April 15, 2022. Patrol deputies reported seeing King walking down an embankment, near the Ocmulgee Heritage Trail on April 25th.
King is around 5’11 in height and has a weight listed at 300lbs. He may have lost a lot of weight and could be a lot smaller in size.
Deputies checked several areas where King is known to visit. His family says that King is homeless and has some mental health issues.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Freddie DeWayne King is asked to call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or call the Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME. | https://www.41nbc.com/deputies-search-for-macon-man-missing-since-april/ | 2022-09-01T23:41:31Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/deputies-search-for-macon-man-missing-since-april/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Deputies search for Macon man, missing since April
Freddie King was last seen by his friend on April 15th
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office needs the public’s help in locating a missing man. They are trying to find 47-year-old Freddie DeWayne King. Deputies say King was last seen by his friend on April 15, 2022. Patrol deputies reported seeing King walking down an embankment, near the Ocmulgee Heritage Trail on April 25th.
King is around 5’11 in height and has a weight listed at 300lbs. He may have lost a lot of weight and could be a lot smaller in size.
Deputies checked several areas where King is known to visit. His family says that King is homeless and has some mental health issues.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Freddie DeWayne King is asked to call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or call the Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME. | https://www.41nbc.com/deputies-search-for-macon-man-missing-since-april/ | 2022-09-01T23:41:31Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/deputies-search-for-macon-man-missing-since-april/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
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. Here is how the rest of the Top 10 did on Day 4:
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.
[6] Aryna Sabalenka def. Kaia Kanepi 2-6, 7-6(8), 6-4
In the most unpredictable match of the day, Sabalenka came back from a 6-2, 5-1 deficit and saved two match points in the second-set tiebreak to avenge her 2022 Australian Open loss to upset specialist Kanepi.
Ten of Kanepi's 15 career Top 10 wins have come at Grand Slams, including two this year over Sabalenka in Melbourne and Muguruza at Roland Garros. It seemed like another one was just around the corner as she served for the match two times in the second set.
Sabalenka, though, surged all the way back into the tiebreak, where Kanepi again took a big lead, moving ahead 5-2. But the pair jockeyed back and forth in the breaker from there, and after saving two match points -- one courtesy of a netcord-assisted pass -- Sabalenka leveled the clash.
The two power hitters slammed groundstrokes at each other in a tight third set as well, where Sabalenka served for the match for the first time at 5-4. Kanepi grabbed two break points in that game to extend the match even further, but Sabalenka held firm to wrap up the win on her third match point.
When all was said and done, Kanepi won more points, had more winners, and fired fewer unforced errors than Sabalenka. But Sabalenka stood taller at key moments down the stretch, converting her lone break point of the third set, while Kanepi was 0-for-3 during that timeframe. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2774207/top-10-wrap-sabalenka-saves-match-points-martic-upsets-badosa-at-us-open | 2022-09-01T23:41:31Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2774207/top-10-wrap-sabalenka-saves-match-points-martic-upsets-badosa-at-us-open | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Man sentenced to 25 years in child molestation case in Houston Co.
The sex offender will serve 25 years in prison for aggravated child molestation.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A sex offender will serve 25 years in prison for aggravated child molestation in Houston County. Judge Bo Adams sentenced 40-year-old Jonathan Allan Bennett in Houston County Superior Court, Wednesday.
Bennett pleaded guilty to charges, and he will be on probation for the remainder of his life. Bennett will also have to register as a sex offender.
According to Houston District Attorney William Kendall, the charges in this case stem from acts of sexual abuse committed by Bennett between October 2008 and October 2010. Kendall says Bennett’s victim was as young as five years old when the abuse started.
“Our children must be protected,” said Kendall. “When something bad happens to them, we must show them that our law enforcement and prosecutors will hold those criminals accountable for their actions.”
“Unfortunately, these types of crimes are all too common in the world we live in,” said Assistant District Attorney Justin C. Duane. “With yesterday’s sentence, there is one less predator in our community. I am grateful that justice was done and, hopefully, the victim and their family will be able to find closure on such a horrific chapter in their lives.”
The Houston County District Attorney’s Office also thanks the Houston County Sheriff’s Office, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, and the Crescent House Child Advocacy Center in helping with this case. | https://www.41nbc.com/man-sentenced-to-25-years-in-child-molestation-case-in-houston-co/ | 2022-09-01T23:41:37Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/man-sentenced-to-25-years-in-child-molestation-case-in-houston-co/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Man sentenced to 25 years in child molestation case in Houston Co.
The sex offender will serve 25 years in prison for aggravated child molestation.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A sex offender will serve 25 years in prison for aggravated child molestation in Houston County. Judge Bo Adams sentenced 40-year-old Jonathan Allan Bennett in Houston County Superior Court, Wednesday.
Bennett pleaded guilty to charges, and he will be on probation for the remainder of his life. Bennett will also have to register as a sex offender.
According to Houston District Attorney William Kendall, the charges in this case stem from acts of sexual abuse committed by Bennett between October 2008 and October 2010. Kendall says Bennett’s victim was as young as five years old when the abuse started.
“Our children must be protected,” said Kendall. “When something bad happens to them, we must show them that our law enforcement and prosecutors will hold those criminals accountable for their actions.”
“Unfortunately, these types of crimes are all too common in the world we live in,” said Assistant District Attorney Justin C. Duane. “With yesterday’s sentence, there is one less predator in our community. I am grateful that justice was done and, hopefully, the victim and their family will be able to find closure on such a horrific chapter in their lives.”
The Houston County District Attorney’s Office also thanks the Houston County Sheriff’s Office, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, and the Crescent House Child Advocacy Center in helping with this case. | https://www.41nbc.com/man-sentenced-to-25-years-in-child-molestation-case-in-houston-co/ | 2022-09-01T23:41:37Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/man-sentenced-to-25-years-in-child-molestation-case-in-houston-co/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
New York Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell is helping Mayor Eric Adams get a level of love from cop union leaders that would have been unthinkable while Bill de Blasio was still calling the shots in City Hall.
“She listens. She implements. And she actually cares about the cop on the street,” Patrick Lynch, the firebrand president of the Police Benevolent Association, gushed to The Post on Thursday after naming Sewell “Person of the Year” at the PBA’s annual convention in Albany.
The recognition for the NYPD commish comes at a politically fraught time for Adams, with rising crime fueling new fights over how best to balance civil rights with support for law enforcement officers trying to do their jobs.
But as his first year in office winds down, relations with the infamously combative PBA are no problem compared to the reception given to de Blasio in the first year that featured famous images of cops turning their backs on him at the funeral of two slain police officers.
“In the past. We were at the table but nobody was listening,” Lynch told The Post.
Previous winners of the award include ex-Govs. Andrew Cuomo and George Pataki, former Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr., and two-time NYPD commish William Bratton while he was leading the LAPD in 2009.
A warm relationship between union leadership and the Adams administration was forged on Sewell’s first day on the job, said Lynch, when she personally responded after an off-duty cop in Manhattan was shot while napping in between shifts.
“Standing next to you in shock like us all but pushing through at our best when things are at their worst was our police commissioner and that’s why you’re our person of the year,” Lynch said while presenting the award to Sewell.
The first female honcho in NYPD history hardly followed a conventional path into the good graces of the union repping the rank-and-file in the most famous police department in the country.
A PBA press release cast her as a “virtuoso performer in law enforcement” who acquired experience in hostage negotiations, undercover work, and battling terrorism while rising in the Nassau County Police Department where she reach the rank of chief of detectives.
Sewell told union delegates that beat cops are not getting the love they deserve amid an ongoing spike in crime following the COVID-19 pandemic, controversial criminal justice reforms, and ongoing calls to defund the police.
“There are people throughout the city that want, need, and support you. I have met them. They are not always on Instagram, TikTok, or Twitter,” Sewell told a packed room of union delegates Thursday.
“I may not always get it right — but I believe in you,” she added.
A pre-recorded video appearance by Adams at the PBA convention highlighted how much relations have changed between City Hall and the union since the former NYPD captain took office alongside Sewell on Jan. 1.
“At the 128th annual convention of Police Benevolent Association, I’m proud to salute the great work of the NYPD and all our law enforcement professionals,” Adams said in the video.
Yet, amid the happy words, beer, and lunch at The Desmond Hotel near the Albany Airport were hints of dissatisfaction coming from the ranks, who the Adams administration recently ordered to spend less time socializing while walking their beats across the city.
“Maybe we should have a ‘no-congregating policy’ here too,” PBA First Vice President John Puglisi quipped while describing late-night carousing among union leaders the night before. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/x-nypd-commish-amid-warming-ties-to-city-hall/ | 2022-09-01T23:42:37Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/x-nypd-commish-amid-warming-ties-to-city-hall/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sexual assault spike spurs military to focus on prevention
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alarmed by a dramatic increase in reported sexual assaults in the military, defense leaders said Thursday they want to beef up prevention, but they are struggling to find people to hire and are still developing programs they think can work, after nearly two decades of trying.
The idea of preventing a sexual assault before it happens isn’t new. The military services have been casting about for ways to do it for years and appear to have made little progress. But this year, officials said they are bolstered by an infusion of $479 million to hire as many as 2,400 personnel for a new “prevention workforce.”
The latest assault numbers show how much prevention programs haven’t worked. Overall, the number of reported sexual assaults involving members of the military jumped by 13% last year, driven by significant increases in the Army and the Navy.
At the same time, nearly 36,000 service members said in a confidential survey that they had experienced unwanted sexual contact — a dramatic increase over the roughly 20,000 who said that in a similar 2018 survey. The conclusion, said officials, is that more service members than at any time before are experiencing some type of unwanted sexual contact, and far fewer are reporting it.
“The decline in the reporting rate,” said Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., “suggests trust and faith in the military is on the wrong trajectory.” Speier, who heads the House Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee, said she plans to hold a hearing in the coming weeks on the issue.
The survey found that military units that have poor command climates or have instances of gender discrimination or sexual harassment are more likely also to see more serious sexual assaults. So one prevention effort is focused on better assessing military commanders at all levels, and using command climate surveys to weed out poor leaders.
Army leaders — who saw an increase of nearly 26% in reported assaults last year — said they realized last summer that the numbers were trending badly. Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston said the service had been spending most of its energy on responding to assaults, rather than how to prevent them.
As a result, the Army is improving how it does command climate surveys, including randomly selecting soldiers to provide feedback and using those surveys in determining promotions.
“I expect our leaders to maintain positive command climates where our soldiers feel safe and can thrive,” said Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, adding that the Army is committed to focusing more on prevention and reforming the systems.
Another program the Army started involves more immediate training for younger recruits as they move to their first duty posts.
Grinston said the new training, done in the first 72 hours of a soldier’s arrival, involves vignettes and role-playing to instruct troops on proper behavior and what to do if something bad starts to happen. He said that at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, where the program is in use, the number of sexual assault cases to date this fiscal year is about half of what it was last year.
Other bases, including Fort Hood in Texas, are doing similar training, teaching soldiers how to identify problems and react better and more quickly. Moving the training to earlier in a soldier’s first job puts greater emphasis on it and is designed to set the tone for behavior going forward.
Building a new prevention workforce, however, is only slowly getting off the ground. A key challenge is the tight labor market, said Beth Foster, executive director of the Pentagon’s office of force resiliency.
“That’s been a challenge for us,” said Foster. “It is difficult in the labor environment in this country right now to hire specialized personnel.”
She said the department is developing a recruitment plan and hopes to tap into colleges and universities and also seek professionals who are military spouses or veterans. She said it’s difficult to say how many — if any — people have actually been hired because the various military services are doing that themselves.
Once in place, the money and the hiring will “go a long way toward funding and sustaining change over time,” said Nate Galbreath, acting director of the Pentagon’s sexual assault prevention and response office.
More than half of those in the survey said they were not satisfied with the response of their chain of command or law enforcement to their particular incident, and 30% to 40% were unhappy with the assault response staff. Those totals, said department officials, showed a sharp, and unusual, decline in trust since 2018, when the survey was last conducted.
The distrust was far greater among women.
For example, just 39% of women said they trusted the military to treat them with dignity and respect, and 40% didn’t trust that the military would ensure their safety after the assault incident.
Ashlea Klahr, director of health and resilience research for the Pentagon, said some of the decline may reflect a broader distrust in the military and other government organizations that has deepened in recent years.
“We also see declining retention intentions, and declining confidence in potential recruits and in their influencers in terms of whether or not the military is doing a good job of addressing sexual assault,” she said.
In addition, assault prevention and response staff — including victims’ advocates, lawyers and response coordinators — reported a sharp spike in stress, job burnout and fatigue. They complained about the impact of the pandemic on their ability to treat people and do their jobs.
Unwanted sexual conduct — which includes everything from rape to touching — increased across the board last year in the military. In addition to the Army’s nearly 26% jump, the increase in Navy reports was about 9%, the Air Force was a bit more than 2% and the Marine Corps was less than 2%.
The big increases come as all the services — particularly the Army —- are struggling to meet recruiting goals this year. Officials agree that increased sexual assaults can hurt recruiting, as parents and other influencers become more wary of allowing young people to serve.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wbko.com/2022/09/01/sexual-assault-spike-spurs-military-focus-prevention/ | 2022-09-01T23:46:41Z | wbko.com | control | https://www.wbko.com/2022/09/01/sexual-assault-spike-spurs-military-focus-prevention/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
1 in 5 Americans have experience with gun violence: Poll
About a fifth of U.S. adults say they or someone close to them has had an experience with gun violence in the past five years, a new poll found.
The big picture: There are significant racial and ethnic disparities in experiences with gun violence, per the poll done by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
- Black Americans are four times more likely, and Hispanic Americans are twice as likely, as white Americans to report such an experience.
By the numbers: Three-fourths of Americans view gun violence as a major problem, and 8 in 10 say gun violence is on the rise in the U.S., according to the poll.
- Fewer believe it's increasing in their state (66%) or local community (39%).
- Those living in urban areas (51%) are more likely to believe that gun violence is on the rise in their communities than those living in suburbs (39%) and rural communities (27%).
1 big thing: Many Americans want to both prevent gun violence and protect gun rights.
- 52% say it is both very important to prevent mass shootings and very important to ensure people are able to own guns for personal protection.
Yes, but: There is broad public support for a variety of gun control policies, and 71% of Americans say gun laws should be stricter.
What they're saying: "The poll highlights that gun violence has touched the lives of many Americans, especially Black and Hispanic Americans, and there is significant public concern about this," Jens Ludwig, director of the University of Chicago's Crime Lab, said in a statement.
- "Despite the polarizing climate surrounding these issues, the poll also reveals strong public support for policies to prevent gun violence, which may help to foster increased consensus among policymakers to further act," he added.
Of note: The poll was conducted between July 28 and Aug. 1, following a series of deadly mass shootings, including at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and a July 4 parade in Illinois.
Methodology: The poll has a margin of error of +/- 3.8 percentage points at the 95% confidence level among all adults. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/01/gun-violence-experience-americans-poll | 2022-09-01T23:55:31Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/01/gun-violence-experience-americans-poll | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jan. 6 panel seeks interview with Newt Gingrich
The Jan. 6 select committee on Thursday requested an interview with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) about his involvement in events leading up to the Capitol riot.
Why it matters: The request indicates the panel is still pursuing new investigative avenues even as they prepare to hold more hearings and put out a comprehensive report in the coming months.
Driving the news: In a letter to Gingrich, a close Trump ally, Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) cited emails he sent to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows about "fake" Trump electors.
- In a Nov. 12, 2020 email, Gingrich wrote: "Evans makes the point that all the contested electors must meet on [D]ecember 14 and send in ballots to force contests which the house would have to settle."
- In another email to Meadows at 10:42pm on Jan. 6, 2021, after the violence at the Capitol subsided, Gingrich allegedly asked "[a]re there letters from state legislators about decertifying electors[?]"
- "Accordingly, you appear to have been involved with President Trump’s efforts to stop the certification of the election results, even after the attack on the Capitol,” Thompson said in the letter.
Gingrich was also in frequent touch with senior Trump advisors about post-2020 election ads promoting baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, according to the letter.
- It cited one email exchange on Dec. 8 in which Gingrich urged the Trump campaign to hone in on fraud claims in Georgia in an ad including a “call-to-action.”
- Gingrich wrote to Trump advisors, including Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, that the ads would aim to “arouse the country’s anger” and convince Trump’s supporters to “bring pressure on legislators and governors.”
What's next: Thompson requested a "voluntary transcribed interview" with Gingrich on the week of Sept. 19.
- Gingrich did not immediately respond to a request for comment. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/01/jan-6-panel-seeks-newt-gingrich-interview | 2022-09-01T23:55:43Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/01/jan-6-panel-seeks-newt-gingrich-interview | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Monday Morning Quarterback Club will meet on Monday, Labor Day, when Nancy Leahy and Don Erickson will be the featured speakers.
The meeting begins at 11:45 a.m. in the Players Club Lounge at Suntides Golf Course. Lunch service is available, and the public is invited. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/leahy-erickson-at-monday-qbs/article_7f44f496-2a3d-11ed-8bab-b7cc092c2bf2.html | 2022-09-01T23:56:26Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/leahy-erickson-at-monday-qbs/article_7f44f496-2a3d-11ed-8bab-b7cc092c2bf2.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Basketball
Cavaliers acquiring All-Star Mitchell
CLEVELAND — All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell is on his way to the Cleveland Cavaliers, who acquired one of the NBA’s best scorers Thursday in a blockbuster trade with the Utah Jazz, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.
Cleveland is sending guard Collin Sexton, forward Lauri Markkanen and rookie guard Ochai Agbaji along with three unprotected first-round picks to the Jazz, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because it still must be approved by the league.
ESPN was the first to report Mitchell’s exit from Utah.
Sexton, who played in just 11 games last season before undergoing knee surgery, will sign a four-year, $72 million contract as part of a sign-and-trade agreement with Utah, his agent Rich Paul confirmed for AP.
Baseball
Minor league unionization getting interest
TAMPA, Fla. — Minor league baseball players are a hearty bunch. They’re used to long bus rides, low pay, low job security and have traditionally thought of those drawbacks as the cost of chasing a Major League Baseball dream.
Some of those things might be starting to change.
The MLB Players Association took the step of sending out union authorization cards earlier this week, paving the way for thousands more players to potentially join the organization.
Signed cards from 30% of minor leaguers in the bargaining unit would allow the union to file a petition with the National Labor Relations Board asking for a union authorization election, which would be decided by majority vote. Minor league players would have a separate bargaining unit from their big league counterparts.
MLB suspends Martinez: Major League Baseball suspended free agent pitcher Carlos Martinez for 85 games for violating its joint domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse policy.
MLB said the punishment is retroactive to June 19. Under the policy, Martinez will participate in a confidential evaluation and treatment program supervised by the league’s joint policy board.
Football
Titans’ Landry tears ACL in practice
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee outside linebacker Harold Landry III tore an ACL in practice, leaving the two-time defending AFC South champion Titans without their reigning sack leader for the season, a person with direct knowledge of the injury told The Associated Press on Thursday.
ESPN reported Landry tore an ACL during practice Wednesday, which was closed to reporters after the first 20 minutes.
Saints safety Maye arrested: New Orleans safety Marcus Maye was arrested in what authorities termed a “road rage incident,” and he was booked with one count of aggravated assault with a firearm.
Falcons place Jones, others, on IR: Atlanta linebacker Deion Jones, who missed most of the preseason while recovering from offseason right shoulder surgery, will open the season on injured reserve.
The Falcons also placed offensive guard Jalen Mayfield, cornerback Isaiah Oliver, defensive lineman Marlon Davidson and tight end John FitzPatrick on injured reserve.
Darnold goes on IR: Carolina placed Sam Darnold on injured reserve, meaning the backup quarterback will miss at least the first four games of the regular season.
Tennis
No handshake for Ukraine, Belarus players
NEW YORK — A Ukrainian player declined to shake hands with Victoria Azarenka after the three-time U.S. Open runner-up from Belarus beat her at Flushing Meadows on Thursday.
Marta Kostyuk waited at the net with her racket held up, which Azarenka tapped with her racket following her 6-2, 6-3 victory.
Asked about the traditional handshake that follows a match, Kostyuk said: “I just don’t think it’s the right thing to do in the circumstances I’m in right now.”
Kyrgios fined for conduct: Nick Kyrgios was fined $7,500 for unsportsmanlike conduct during his second-round victory.
Briefly
Soccer: American defender John Brooks signed a one-year contract with the Portuguese club Benfica. ... Sergiño Dest is set to become the first American to play for AC Milan in Serie A after the Italian champion signed the defender on loan from Barcelona. ... FIFA judges banned official Obert Zhoya from Zimbabwe for five years for sexually harassing female referees. ... Chile’s appeal hearing to challenge Ecuador’s place at this year’s World Cup because of an alleged ineligible player has been set for Sept. 15.
Hockey: The Stars signed goaltender Jake Oettinger to a $12 million, three-year contract.
Golf: Ross McGowan shot a bogey-free, 9-under 62 to lead by one stroke at the Made in HimmerLand in Denmark. ... Rusty Strawn won five of the opening six holes and never trailed in a 3-and-2 victory over Doug Hanzel in the U.S. Senior Amateur final at The Kittansett Club.
Cycling: Remco Evenepoel overcame a fall with about 45 kilometers (28 miles) to go in the 12th stage of the Spanish Vuelta to keep his overall lead. Olympic champion Richard Carapaz won the stage with a dominant run on the final climb to earn his first Vuelta victory.
Track and field: The world indoor track championships in China were postponed for a third time, pushing the event first scheduled for 2020 back to 2025. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/morning-briefing-sept-2-2022/article_3232b2e4-2a45-11ed-b3df-9ba54729920f.html | 2022-09-01T23:56:33Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/morning-briefing-sept-2-2022/article_3232b2e4-2a45-11ed-b3df-9ba54729920f.html | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Basketball
Cavaliers acquiring All-Star Mitchell
CLEVELAND — All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell is on his way to the Cleveland Cavaliers, who acquired one of the NBA’s best scorers Thursday in a blockbuster trade with the Utah Jazz, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.
Cleveland is sending guard Collin Sexton, forward Lauri Markkanen and rookie guard Ochai Agbaji along with three unprotected first-round picks to the Jazz, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because it still must be approved by the league.
ESPN was the first to report Mitchell’s exit from Utah.
Sexton, who played in just 11 games last season before undergoing knee surgery, will sign a four-year, $72 million contract as part of a sign-and-trade agreement with Utah, his agent Rich Paul confirmed for AP.
Baseball
Minor league unionization getting interest
TAMPA, Fla. — Minor league baseball players are a hearty bunch. They’re used to long bus rides, low pay, low job security and have traditionally thought of those drawbacks as the cost of chasing a Major League Baseball dream.
Some of those things might be starting to change.
The MLB Players Association took the step of sending out union authorization cards earlier this week, paving the way for thousands more players to potentially join the organization.
Signed cards from 30% of minor leaguers in the bargaining unit would allow the union to file a petition with the National Labor Relations Board asking for a union authorization election, which would be decided by majority vote. Minor league players would have a separate bargaining unit from their big league counterparts.
MLB suspends Martinez: Major League Baseball suspended free agent pitcher Carlos Martinez for 85 games for violating its joint domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse policy.
MLB said the punishment is retroactive to June 19. Under the policy, Martinez will participate in a confidential evaluation and treatment program supervised by the league’s joint policy board.
Football
Titans’ Landry tears ACL in practice
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee outside linebacker Harold Landry III tore an ACL in practice, leaving the two-time defending AFC South champion Titans without their reigning sack leader for the season, a person with direct knowledge of the injury told The Associated Press on Thursday.
ESPN reported Landry tore an ACL during practice Wednesday, which was closed to reporters after the first 20 minutes.
Saints safety Maye arrested: New Orleans safety Marcus Maye was arrested in what authorities termed a “road rage incident,” and he was booked with one count of aggravated assault with a firearm.
Falcons place Jones, others, on IR: Atlanta linebacker Deion Jones, who missed most of the preseason while recovering from offseason right shoulder surgery, will open the season on injured reserve.
The Falcons also placed offensive guard Jalen Mayfield, cornerback Isaiah Oliver, defensive lineman Marlon Davidson and tight end John FitzPatrick on injured reserve.
Darnold goes on IR: Carolina placed Sam Darnold on injured reserve, meaning the backup quarterback will miss at least the first four games of the regular season.
Tennis
No handshake for Ukraine, Belarus players
NEW YORK — A Ukrainian player declined to shake hands with Victoria Azarenka after the three-time U.S. Open runner-up from Belarus beat her at Flushing Meadows on Thursday.
Marta Kostyuk waited at the net with her racket held up, which Azarenka tapped with her racket following her 6-2, 6-3 victory.
Asked about the traditional handshake that follows a match, Kostyuk said: “I just don’t think it’s the right thing to do in the circumstances I’m in right now.”
Kyrgios fined for conduct: Nick Kyrgios was fined $7,500 for unsportsmanlike conduct during his second-round victory.
Briefly
Soccer: American defender John Brooks signed a one-year contract with the Portuguese club Benfica. ... Sergiño Dest is set to become the first American to play for AC Milan in Serie A after the Italian champion signed the defender on loan from Barcelona. ... FIFA judges banned official Obert Zhoya from Zimbabwe for five years for sexually harassing female referees. ... Chile’s appeal hearing to challenge Ecuador’s place at this year’s World Cup because of an alleged ineligible player has been set for Sept. 15.
Hockey: The Stars signed goaltender Jake Oettinger to a $12 million, three-year contract.
Golf: Ross McGowan shot a bogey-free, 9-under 62 to lead by one stroke at the Made in HimmerLand in Denmark. ... Rusty Strawn won five of the opening six holes and never trailed in a 3-and-2 victory over Doug Hanzel in the U.S. Senior Amateur final at The Kittansett Club.
Cycling: Remco Evenepoel overcame a fall with about 45 kilometers (28 miles) to go in the 12th stage of the Spanish Vuelta to keep his overall lead. Olympic champion Richard Carapaz won the stage with a dominant run on the final climb to earn his first Vuelta victory.
Track and field: The world indoor track championships in China were postponed for a third time, pushing the event first scheduled for 2020 back to 2025. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/morning-briefing-sept-2-2022/article_3232b2e4-2a45-11ed-b3df-9ba54729920f.html | 2022-09-01T23:56:33Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/morning-briefing-sept-2-2022/article_3232b2e4-2a45-11ed-b3df-9ba54729920f.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Students are getting worse at reading and math, according to a national study. The new numbers show a dramatic drop in student performance in the United States – and education leaders are looking at ways to fix it.
Each year, the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests 9-year-old students. This year, for the first time, kids scored worse in math and reading scores fell more than they have in 30 years.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says the numbers are upsetting.
“As a father and an educator, it’s disturbing,” Cardona said.
He blames both the pandemic and the Trump administration for the scores.
“The efforts were not there to safely reopen schools. It was a lot of rhetoric but no action,” Cardona said.
Now that kids are back in the classroom, education leaders have work to do to make up for the lost learning. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten is optimistic kids can make a comeback.
“We are pedal to the medal to help kids achieve, recover and thrive,” Weingarten said.
Secretary Cardona says states should be using money from the American Rescue Plan to improve schools.
“Providing the resources needed so that we’re not talking about teacher shortages. We should be talking about smaller class sizes, about ongoing tutoring,” Cardona said.
Weingarten suggests that federal leaders can also help educators connect to share best practices.
“What are the strategies that are really working to actually help accelerate instruction?” Weingarten said.
She also says political division over curriculum debates and book bans are distracting from learning.
“We need to create a can-do, problem solving, unifying, back to basics environment in schools,” Weingarten said. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/washington/washington-dc/student-scores-drop-dramatically-in-national-study/ | 2022-09-01T23:59:36Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/washington/washington-dc/student-scores-drop-dramatically-in-national-study/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CRISFIELD, Md. - Main Street in Crisfield was quiet Thursday afternoon.
But every so often, the sounds of hammers on metal were a clue that something big was brewing.
The event is the National Hard Crab Derby, which over 75 years has become a Crisfield institution.
"We've had several generations here that have grown up going to the Crab Derby," said Stevie Ritchey, chairwoman of the Crab Derby. "There are a lot of people that grew up going to it as a kid, they take their kids, their kids take their kids. So at this point I think it's mostly just the fact that it's nostalgic."
In addition to the Derby, the weekend event features food, live music, and craft vendors.
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"I am very excited because it's something everybody always talks about around here," said Karene Fisher, visiting Crisfield from Stockton, Md. "You can't say you're from the area if you haven't been here, so yeah, I can't wait to go."
Business owners on Main Street have faced many challenges recently with the pandemic and the resulting economic uncertainty, and events like the Derby have them stoked.
"Business has been slow over the last couple of years," said Tim Howlett, co-owner of Tim & Doris' Country Store. "It got worse this year. COVID was pretty rough, obviously. But when you have events like this, it gives us a shot in the arm because of the slowness that's going on."
The reigning Miss Maryland, Kayla Willing, who was also Miss Crustacean 2020, said the Derby is about so much more than just the events.
"The stories behind it and the stories that people have to share about those events are just so rich in cultural significance," Willing said. "So if you like Maryland, if you like Maryland history, that is all the more reason to come out this evening."
Admission to the Derby is $5 per person. But on Sunday, admission is free if you are wearing an official National Crab Derby 75th Anniversary t-shirt. You can get your shirt at the Crisfield Chamber of Commerce on Main Street, or at the Derby itself.
More information about the Derby can be found here. | https://www.wboc.com/news/diamond-anniversary-for-crisfield-crab-derby/article_efe24f74-2a41-11ed-81b7-bb7612c106fe.html | 2022-09-02T00:00:47Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/diamond-anniversary-for-crisfield-crab-derby/article_efe24f74-2a41-11ed-81b7-bb7612c106fe.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Accomack County Officials are pushing for a $45 million project that would build a new parking lot for Assateague Islands National Seashore. It's an expensive project, so county officials are hopeful that money will come from grants or the federal government. If it's approved, a new parking lot would be built a mile north of the current one.
The current parking lot has caused park services a lot of trouble, because it requires constant repair after bad storms. The new lot would be built in a more stable area, and the hope is that it wouldn't need as much upkeep, therefore keeping more spots available. However, island locals aren't so sure they want to see this project get approved.
"I think the parking lot, in my opinion, is sufficient," said Ron Collins.
Collins family has a house on Chincoteague Island, and his dad grew up and still lives there.
"I understand there is some issues when storms come in and they have to repair it some, but I think moving it at this point could do more harm to the environment," said Collins.
People who are on Assateague Island for vacation, like Annette Higgins, who is visiting from Atlanta, wouldn't mind better parking options.
"I think it's a great idea overall because this is a difficult part of the island, because the water does just go right up over it," said Higgins.
Higgins has also seen first hand what a bad storm can do to the parking situation.
"We've been here when sections of the parking lot are closed when they're working, it was a couple years ago, but yeah there was an entire section of the parking lot that was closed because of storms," said Higgins.
However, both parties opinions on this matter may end up being irrelevant in the end. According to one Accomack County official, even if the project is approved, the start date is still a ways down the road. | https://www.wboc.com/news/potential-parking-lot-relocation/article_f3a6e482-2a44-11ed-84e7-d3adfd87681d.html | 2022-09-02T00:00:53Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/potential-parking-lot-relocation/article_f3a6e482-2a44-11ed-84e7-d3adfd87681d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SALISBURY, Md. - Schools over Delmarva are facing bus driver shortages.
Schools in Talbot County, Wicomico County, and Worcester County say, they are not experiencing a shortage in bus drivers for pick-up and drop-off, but they are with substitute drivers. Substitute drivers are used to transport students to things like field trips and sports teams.
Wicomico County's Director of Transportation, Desmond Hughes, says they experienced a major shortage last year, but they have just enough now. Within the past three weeks they have filled 12 positions. Hughes says in order to get and retain drivers was raising their pay and consolidating bus routes. Hughes says, "driving a school bus is not a cup of tea. It is the only job, as a matter of a fact, where all of your challenges are behind you. So, most people opt to drive other types of commercial vehicles."
Talbot County schools says, "Talbot County Public Schools has been minimally impacted by the bus driver shortage, as all of our full time runs are staffed at this time. Where we are primarily short on staff is in substitute drivers."
Worcester County Public School's Manager of transportation, Kim Heiser says, "We were not necessarily affected by it here, in Worcester. But, I do know that when we meet across the state, they are experiencing a little bit of a driver shortage. Certainly after the pandemic, it increased. I do not know that everyone has fully rebounded from it yet." They are also facing shortages in substitute drivers.
But what happens if a driver gets sick and another has to cover?
Privately contracted bus driver for Worcester County, Harry Wimbrow, says those bus drivers would be working double shifts. Wimbrow says, it's exhausting. "Games might not be over between 7 o'clock, in the evening, and you could be gone until 10 o'clock in the evening. So, it's actually overtime. You are working on another time schedule. My school bus day starts at 5:30 a.m. and if I am running the bus for athletics, I never know what time I'm going to be home," says Wimbrow.
Wicomico County School officials say, they've lost 19 percent of their drivers, since the pandemic. They've bounced back in finding some drivers, but others are taking a different route. | https://www.wboc.com/news/school-bus-driver-shortages-hit-locally/article_5491290e-2a47-11ed-a7a4-bf621eab0b6d.html | 2022-09-02T00:00:59Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/school-bus-driver-shortages-hit-locally/article_5491290e-2a47-11ed-a7a4-bf621eab0b6d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Measuring the Value of Higher Education | Wednesday, October 5, 2022 at 2PM ET
September 1, 2022 - 5:15pm
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supported the work this year of the Postsecondary Value Commission, which came up with a new way to evaluate colleges. It focuses on the experience of students, and especially of minority students, of women and of those from low-income backgrounds. Join Inside Higher Ed Editors Scott Jaschik and Doug Lederman, as they discuss the articles and essays in the newly-released compilation, "Measuring the Value of Higher Education," which examines the efforts of the Gates Foundation, and of other groups to judge the value of higher education.
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Police in Columbus, Ohio, have released body camera video that shows a police officer fatally shooting an unarmed Black man in his bed.
Donovan Lewis, 20, died Tuesday after being shot by Columbus Police Officer Ricky Anderson, a 30-year veteran with the Columbus Division of Police assigned to the K9 Unit, according to a police statement.
Rex Elliott, an attorney for Lewis' family, said at a news conference Thursday morning that there was no justification for the officer to discharge his weapon.
"Donovan was unarmed, and he was abiding by police commands to come out of his room when he was shot in cold blood by Officer Anderson," he said, with Lewis' mother, father, siblings, grandmother aunt and family friends gathered around him. They were not ready to offer comments or answer questions, the attorney said, but they were "just a few of the many people that have had their lives altered forever because of the events of early Tuesday morning."
The shooting is under investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, and Anderson is currently on leave, Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant said at a news conference Tuesday.
The shooting happened around 2 a.m. Tuesday at an apartment building where uniformed officers were serving a felony warrant for domestic violence and assault and improper handling of a firearm, Bryant said at the news conference. A news release by police indicated the male who was shot, later identified as Lewis, as the person sought in the felony warrant.
"The officers knocked on the door for several minutes ... acknowledging themselves as Columbus Police officers," Bryant said. Two men were taken
Police body camera video shows them knocking and calling out to occupants repeatedly for more than eight minutes. They called for "Donovan" by name several times.
Eventually, a man came to the door and was taken into custody by police, Bryant said. He told officers he'd been asleep, and they took a knife from his pocket. A second man inside the apartment was taken into custody about a minute later.
Officers asked if anyone else was inside the apartment, Bryant said, but were unable to determine that, and Anderson and a K9 were then called in by Columbus Police to see if anyone else was inside.
"Once the K9 officer arrived on the scene, additional announcements were made for anyone else inside to come out or the K9 was going to be released inside of the apartment," Bryant said.
In the police body camera video, the K9 is seen barking outside a back bedroom door, then officers enter the apartment and warn they are going to send a dog in.
An officer is seen opening the bedroom door, where a man is seen on a bed.
Bodycam video shows Anderson firing a single shot at a man, later identified as Lewis, moments after opening the bedroom door.
During the news conference, Bryant showed the body camera video frame-by-frame, asserting that the moment Anderson opened fire, it appeared Lewis was holding "something" in his hand.
A vape pen was later found next to Lewis on the bed, Bryant says. Once Lewis was handcuffed, video shows, officers began rendering aid.
Lewis was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:19 a.m., according to the Columbus Police statement.
Lewis' death follows a string of other police shootings
Attorneys for the officer expressed sympathy for Lewis' family in a statement Thursday, but said police officers "are forced to make split-second decisions in response to the actions of others."
"When we analyze police involved shootings, we must look to the totality of the circumstances and we are expressly forbidden from using 20/20 hindsight, because unlike all of us, officers are not afforded the luxury of armchair reflection when they are faced with rapidly evolving, volatile encounters in dangerous situations," the statement by attorneys Mark Collins and Kaitlin Stephens said. "Because of this, the law allows a reasonable officer to be mistaken, just as the law allows us as non-police officers to be mistaken."
"We are sure the investigation will be thorough," they said, "and we certainly hope the process of any future legal proceedings will be more fair than what we have seen in the recent past."
Bryant, the police chief, said Tuesday officers are "put in compromising, potentially life-threatening situations" every day, "in which we are required to make split-second decisions."
"As the chief, it is my job to hold my officers accountable, but it's also my job to offer them support and make sure that I give that to them through the process," Bryant said. "If they do the right things for the right reasons, we will support them. If they do something wrong, they will be held accountable."
But Elliott, the family's attorney, called Lewis' death "utterly senseless" at Thursday's news conference, saying "excessive deadly force was recklessly used by officer Anderson when he shot and killed an unarmed Black man."
"How many more lives are going to be lost to this type of reckless activity? How many more young Black lives will be lost? How many more families like Donovan's will need to appear in news conferences like this one," Elliott asked, "before our leaders do enough to put a stop to these barbaric killings?"
The incident is just the latest in a string of deadly and controversial law enforcement shootings involving the city's Black residents in recent years that have prompted protests over racial injustice and a review by the US Department of Justice into the Columbus Division of Police.
A Franklin County Sheriff's Office deputy fatally shot Casey Goodson Jr. in December 2020 as the 23-year-old tried to enter his home with a Subway sandwich. The deputy was working for the US Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force looking for violent offenders at the time, police said, but Goodson was not the individual being sought. A grand jury indicted the deputy on two counts of murder and one count of reckless homicide.
Later that month, a Columbus police officer fatally shot Andre Hill as officers responded to a report of a man who was sitting in his SUV for an extended period. The officer in that case was fired and charged with murder, and the city council later voted to approve a $10 million settlement to Hill's family, the largest in the city's history.
Ma'Khia Bryant, 16, was killed in another shooting last April when Columbus police responded to her foster home, where Ma'Khia had been arguing with another young woman over a messy home and unmade bed. Police body camera video showed Ma'Khia lunge at the other woman with a knife, and a grand jury later declined to indict the officer who fired the fatal shot.
Lewis' family has appreciated the support it has receive from the community so far, Elliott said, and they asked that any gatherings or protests remain "peaceful and supportive and constructive."
"Reality is, if we don't gather, and we don't indicate how upsetting this is to all of us, we're never going to see change," the attorney said.
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While the Northern Lights, a phenomenon that sees ethereal streamers of colored light pirouette across the night sky, are often relegated to the climes nearest the Arctic, on rare occasions, they can make their way as far south as the Lower 48 U.S. states.
This weekend may be one of those extraordinary times.
Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute rank the probability of seeing the aurora borealis on a scale of zero to nine, which is called the Kp Index. The higher the number is, the better the probability the nighttime spectacle will occur. It also means that there’s a larger swath of the hemisphere that could potentially see the aurora.
For September 3 and 4, that number is six (and a five on September 5). That means the Northern Lights could be visible as far south as Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and all of the Northeastern states. However, it’s more probable that if the dancing display happens in the continental U.S., it’ll be seen in the northern parts of Washington, Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Maine.
What causes the Northern Lights—and when might we see them again?
The aurora borealis is caused when the sun shoots electrically charged protons and electrons toward the Earth during a solar storm. As those elements meet the Earth’s magnetic field, they’re attracted to the poles, where they excite and mix with the gases in our atmosphere. When the particles mix with oxygen, green and red lights appear; they glow blue and purple when they join with nitrogen. It’s the same process at work in neon signs.
Even if you don’t get to see the kaleidoscopic illuminations this time, your chances will only improve over the next few years. There’s an 11-year cycle that has historically predicted when the lights would be most visible. In the years closest to solar maximum (slated to happen in 2024), the shows are more frequent, energetic, and colorful (whereas they’re more lethargic in the years near solar minimum). They’re only going to get better and more frequent in the coming years, although they are also more active around the fall and spring equinoxes.
Tips for seeing the Northern Lights
It’s a good idea to download a mobile app, like Northern Light Aurora Forecast, to get a better idea of the likelihood of seeing the Northern Lights in your area. It can help spell out when the show might take place, if at all.
It’s worth noting that it’s only possible to see the Northern Lights when the sky is clear, and they’re not competing with ambient city lights. For your best chance, find an area, like the top of a hill, where you can have unobstructed sky views to the north.
If the conditions are good and you’ve found a solid lookout spot, remember to have patience. Much like it’s impossible to predict the exact moment it’ll start snowing, there’s no way of saying with certainty exactly when the aurora borealis will appear (or how long it will last). | https://www.afar.com/magazine/the-northern-lights-could-make-an-appearance-in-the-lower-48-this-weekend | 2022-09-02T00:12:10Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/the-northern-lights-could-make-an-appearance-in-the-lower-48-this-weekend | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s lawyers began mounting a defense Thursday in Chicago against federal charges of child pornography, enticement of minors for sex and fixing his 2008 state trial, with an initial witness contending the singer was himself a victim of blackmail.
The presentation to jurors won’t include Kelly taking the witness stand.
Judge Harry Leinenweber asked Kelly directly on Thursday if he would testify, and the Grammy Award winner said he would not.
The judge raised the issue minutes before attorneys for Kelly and two co-defendants began calling their first witnesses, endeavoring to counter two weeks of government testimony.
R. Kelly isn't the only person on trial - his co-defendants include the singer's longtime business manager Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown.
McDavid, who is accused of help rig Kelly's 2008 trial, said he would testify.
Brown, who is charged with receiving child pornography, said he wouldn't be testifying.
Kelly could face additional years in prison if convicted of one or two charges stemming from this case.
The singer was sentenced to 30 years in prison in June for racketeering and sex trafficking.
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DEL MAR — Twenty-six years ago, in front of a record Del Mar on-track crowd of 44,181, Cigar was thought to be unbeatable. He’d gone 10 for 10 en route to Horse of the Year honors in 1995 and he was the 1-5 morning-line favorite heading into the 1996 Pacific Classic.
Cigar had won 16 consecutive races heading into the sixth edition of Del Mar’s signature event. Only nine months earlier, after his sterling victory in the ’95 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Belmont Park, track announcer Tom Durkin described him as “the unconquerable, invincible, unbeatable Cigar.”
Then came that fateful August afternoon in ’96 when, on a day when it was tough to navigate through an on-track throng that had come to witness another Cigar victory celebration, he was no longer invincible. No longer unbeatable, thanks to the Richard Mandella-trained Dare And Go, a 39-1 longshot who breezed past Cigar in the stretch en route to a 3 1/2-length victory with such ease that it was difficult to digest the fact the winner had won only one of five starts that year heading into the Classic.
But bettors ignore Mandella in a big race at their own peril. He started another horse in the race, Siphon, who brought his own five-race winning streak into the Classic and had won the Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park only weeks earlier. Despite the two-horse entry, Mandella wasn’t high on his chances to find the winner’s circle.
“I went in with two good horses, did very well, but I didn’t really think anybody would beat Cigar. It just turned out that way,” Mandella said this week during the Pacific Classic draw for Saturday’s $1 million race. Siphon finished third despite having thoroughly beaten Dare And Go in the Hollywood Gold Cup.
But after Cigar got caught up in a torrid pace duel with Siphon, the 1-10 favorite had little left to hold off Dare And Go and jockey Alex Solis in the stretch. By the time the leaders hit the eighth pole, it wasn’t a question of whether Dare And Go would win, but by how much.
“You could see it in the middle of the (far) turn,” Mandella said. “When (Dare And Go) dropped down, he looked like a sports car. He took off.”
Mandella finds it hard to believe it’s been 26 years since one of the biggest upsets in the history of the sport.
“We were just talking and it seems like a couple of years ago that Best Pal won it the first time,” he said.
This year Mandella has two more horses ready to take on a 1-5 morning-line monster who has won his four starts by 43 1/2 lengths. Flightline, despite never having run two turns, is thought by many to be unbeatable Saturday. His jockey, Flavien Prat, is of the opinion that he’ll have no trouble navigating the Pacific Classic distance of a mile and a quarter. But as trainer Bob Baffert likes to point out, you never know until they do it.
What does Mandella think of Flightline?
“He looks pretty good,” he said in a candidate for understatement of the year.
Can one of his two entries, San Diego Handicap winner Royal Ship or 30-1 longshot Extra Hope pull off an upset?
“(Flightline) is probably unbeatable,” Mandella said.
Will he have trouble stretching his speed over two turns?
“I wouldn’t think so,” he said.
Asked where he’d like to see Royal Ship as the field turned for home, Mandella had a simple answer.
“I’d like to see him flying through the wire in front at the finish,” he said.
There are four Grade I winners in Saturday’s six-horse field, but Mandella’s second entrant, Extra Hope, isn’t one of them. At 30-1, you’d be apt to ignore him, but history has taught us not to ignore 30-1 shots trained by Mandella in the Pacific Classic.
“Extra Hope likes to take it to ’em,” he said. “He likes to move along near the front end. He’ll be there, keep ’em honest.”
Just like his trainer.
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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Darren Hopkins, 22nd Airlift Squadron C-5M Super Galaxy loadmaster, inspects a C-5M after landing at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado, Aug. 24, 2022. During the trip, the aircrew also delivered over 90,000 pounds of humanitarian aid to Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Karla Parra)
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U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Chelsea Boehme, right, 22nd Airlift Squadron C-5M Super Galaxy flight engineer instructor, trains Tech. Sgt. Joseph Kesler, 22nd AS flight engineer journeyman, on a C-5M at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, August 26, 2022. The C-5M transported over 90,000 pounds of humanitarian aid to Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, while aircrew members received training as part of the Major Command Service Tail Trainer program. The program, managed by Air Mobility Command, allots monthly flight hours to the C-5M specifically for training. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Karla Parra)
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U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Dominic Thibodeaux, left, 22nd Airlift Squadron loadmaster instructor, debriefs Staff Sgt. Kevin Garcia-Andrade, 22nd AS loadmaster, on loading procedures during a flight over the Caribbean Sea August 26, 2022. The C-5M transported over 90,000 pounds of humanitarian aid to Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, while aircrew members received training as part of the Major Command Service Tail Trainer program. The program, managed by Air Mobility Command, allots monthly flight hours to the C-5M specifically for training. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Karla Parra)
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Gabriel Testerman is seen in a picture provided by the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office. Testerman is a sergeant with the Wyoming Highway Patrol, but has been on administrative leave since May 2 pending a Laramie County criminal investigation, according to WHP. He was arrested Aug. 30.
CHEYENNE – A Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper arrested earlier this week is no longer in custody, a Laramie County jail official said Thursday.
Sgt. Gabriel Testerman bonded out Wednesday, Laramie County jail Capt. Don Hollingshead told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Testerman's bond had been set at 10% of $100,000 at his initial appearance Wednesday in Laramie County Circuit Court, Hollingshead said.
Testerman was arrested Tuesday, according to a WHP news release distributed that day. He was stationed in Cheyenne. He was placed on administrative leave in early May after the agency learned of a Cheyenne Police Department investigation involving him, the news release said.
It's unclear exactly what Testerman has been charged with. A Laramie County Circuit Court employee said Thursday that they "don't have any information about that case." No public documents had been filed in the case as of late Thursday afternoon, according to a WTE records search.
On Wednesday, Cheyenne Police Department Sgt. Kevin Malatesta told the WTE the law limits what the department can say about the case. He cited Wyoming statute 6-2-319(a), which prohibits a public employee from releasing information about an alleged perpetrator before charges are filed in district court.
Wyoming statute 6-2-319 applies to charges of sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual assault of a minor and soliciting.
Malatesta said he wasn't sure why Testerman's name was included in the Highway Patrol news release, but that "it was probably an attempt for transparency."
The statute does say that "the actor's name may be released to the public to aid or facilitate an arrest. This subsection shall not apply if release of the name or information is necessary to enforce an order for protection against the alleged actor."
"We look at every allegation seriously – we're investigating this just as we would any other," Malatesta told the WTE on Wednesday. "The fact that this person is a law enforcement officer does not give them preferential treatment. We do our investigation in the same manner and with the same professionalism."
On May 2, the Highway Patrol was contacted by the Cheyenne Police Department about an investigation involving a trooper, according to Tuesday's news release. It said the trooper, Testerman, was immediately removed from service and placed on administrative leave pending the investigation.
WHP spokesperson Sgt. Jeremy Beck said Testerman has been with the agency since August 2005. Beck declined to provide any details about Testerman's job duties.
An investigation is ongoing. The Highway Patrol is "cooperating fully with the investigation," the news release said.
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Exclusive Excerpt From See You At San Diego: An Oral History of Comic-Con
Excerpt From See You At San Diego: An Oral History of Comic-Con
In the past few decades, San Diego Comic-Con has grown far beyond its comic book roots. Over time, the biggest comic book convention in the country grew to become a pop culture event that drew thousands of fans from across the world…and attention from the Hollywood studios. Next week, Fantagraphics is publishing See You At San Diego: An Oral History of Comic-Con, Fandom, and the Triumph of Geek Culture. As the title implies, author Mathew Klickstein has assembled an oral history of Comic-Con from the men and women who made it what it is today. And in Superhero Hype’s exclusive excerpt from the book, we see the beginning of the show’s transformation into a destination for superhero, sci-fi, and fantasy films and TV shows.
Roger Freedman: As a scientist, I will say I’m super excited to think about the fact that the animation studios — for instance, Dreamworks — has a “head scientist” who has a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Harvard, who works with all these computer tools that actually make the physics turn out right. So, when you’re looking at a movie — for instance, How to Train Your Dragon, where you see the dragon actually doing an inside loop, with Hiccup riding on the back of it — the aerodynamics are actually correct. Or something as simple as a physicist from San Jose State University was hired by Dreamworks to make sure all the physics was correct, as well.
Even with something like Madagascar 3, there’s a scene where the zebra character that’s voiced by Ben Stiller is walking on a tightrope. There’s lots of visual references for bipeds walking on tightropes, but nothing for quadrupeds. So, how do you make that work? They actually hired a physicist to figure that out: How would the rope actually behave? And that’s done correctly in the film now. So, it’s exciting to me, as an animation fan, as a science fiction fan, and as a scientist, that all those worlds have come together and have led to this tremendous blossoming in all this popular media that I enjoy so much.
Joe Russo (Filmmaker): I remember being at Iron Man, and thinking at the time that VFX, visual effects, have reached a point where it felt photorealistic enough to me that a movie like that could be made and supported in the way that I didn’t study the VFX the entire time I was watching the movie or get pulled out of the film. Marvel really ushered that in. Without mainstream support, that would’ve never happened. So, I feel that, as a geek, as a comic book fan, I have to embrace and appreciate that aspect of it, because it’s what allowed my dreams to come true and be seen on the screen in a way that felt very real to me.
Scott Aukerman: That’s a big part of Comic-Con culture: special effects. The fact that a guy like Tom Savini is a superstar at Comic-Con is incredible, because he’s created these things that have so enraptured us. He should be famous! He should be just as famous as George Clooney, as far as I’m concerned!
Paul M. Sammon: I was the computer graphics supervisor on Robocop 2. So, I was not only someone writing about and watching all of this happen, but someone with over a decade of experience in the evolution of special effects. And from my point of view, it was very interesting to see how Comic-Con, again, was the Petri dish for so much of all of this.
Now, there was also the World Science Fiction Convention, which is a big deal, too. But Comic-Con was this eclectic group of people who were far more scattered in their interests than those attending Worldcon were for science fiction alone. At Comic-Con, you had and have all sorts of different kinds of people and fans coming together and often ending up working together to make so much of what we’re talking about here happen, even on a very technical, science-based level. Because those are the kinds of people Comic-Con attracts year after year.
Barry Alfonso: It was a confluence of a lot of things. Not only was it the faithfulness and the dedication of the Comic-Con people in the seventies, but it was all these changes in technology, too. Yes, the real demarcation point was Star Wars. The whole game changed when Star Wars came out, when fantasy films could be done that didn’t look ridiculous, that looked heroic. And then Close Encounters and on and on, and the Superman movie with Christopher Reeve. It became possible to make these movies that were serious looking. That was important, too. We at Comic-Con were encouragers of this, but we were also keepers of the flame. We kept the flame alive when it was not a big business to be into comic books, when it was a subculture. We had the faith and made it possible for it to take off later. How we individually made it take off, I’m not sure. I certainly didn’t. But collectively we prepared the launching pad. At the very least, we did do that.
Jim Valentino: In the early days, we had some guests come from what was out there as far as these comic book movies and TV shows, and that brought some fans into Comic-Con. But not like how it is today. And that doesn’t really get going until a few decades after Adam West’s Batman, for example.
Barry Short: By the time Michael Keaton’s Batman came around in 1989, I was a retailer. I had a comic book store in Orange County, California for about eighteen years. And people coming into the store were really excited about the new Batman movie. As a retailer, I can tell you that I was selling Batman merchandise — and a lot of it – when that movie was coming out. It was a huge boost to my business, and I’m sure to the business of many, many other comic retailers all over the country. The people who hopped on with Batman did just fine.
Which is funny to think about now, because it’s true that at first we were all confused when Michael Keaton’s casting was announced. It didn’t really make much sense to us. We were expecting somebody who was a little more beefy and a little more heroic, and Keaton at that point was basically kind of a “light comedy” actor. So, he wasn’t the guy that we expected to play Batman. And there was definitely a little bit of an uproar about that among the fans at first. But it turned out he was an okay Batman. And he was a fantastic Bruce Wayne, which made for a very interesting contrast.
And I think that contrast was part of some of the themes that Tim Burton was going for in the movie — that you really had to distinguish who this guy was in his day-to-day life versus who he was when he was Batman, that they were two very different aspects of the same person. I mean, you could believe that Adam West’s Bruce Wayne was Batman right away, because there wasn’t a great distinction between the two of them in the way that they interacted with people and the way that they looked, you know? Adam West’s Bruce Wayne and Adam West’s Batman were pretty similar guys.
Whereas Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne and Michael Keaton as Batman are like two completely different people. You wouldn’t look at Keaton’s Bruce Wayne and say, “Wow, you remind me of Batman.” But you sure would with Adam West. So, it was an interesting take, and it took a while for us to adapt to it. But I think it ended up being brilliant.
Mark Evanier: When Tim Burton’s Batman movie was announced, there was a great excitement. Batman was going to get a high-budget major motion picture, and nobody knew what kind of movie it was going to be. And nobody knew who was going to play Batman. At that year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Adam West showed up, on his own. He came down and was running around the convention, trying to lobby people to demand that he — being the star of the sixties Batman television show — be cast in the role of “Batman.”
He wanted the job. His career, I think, was pretty cool at the time. And he saw himself as someone that the fans still thought was Batman. I don’t think he understood that a lot of comic fans thought that his Batman version was done with contempt for the character and contempt for our love of him, due to some of the campiness of the show. Adam West didn’t seem to understand at first that he was not going to be cast in the kind of movie that Tim Burton was planning to make. Tim Burton’s Batman was taking a complete shift, and it was kind of an anti-sixties-camp Batman movie. He was the wrong person for it.
Barry Short: Some of us were a little disappointed that he didn’t at least get a cameo of some kind. It seems like they ought to have been able to throw him a bone. But I don’t think that Tim Burton was necessarily interested in that. I think he was looking for a much cleaner break. Yes, in the Superman movie back in the seventies, you had Lois Lane’s parents played by Kirk Allyn and Noel Neill, who were the original Superman and Lois Lane in the serials.
So, you did have those nifty little cameos. But they weren’t really known at the time anymore, and they were such small characters, anyway. Not nearly as glaring as it would’ve been if Adam West had done a cameo in Burton’s Batman. They really were trying to make a break with the past, and to do something altogether new with Batman. Which meant, sorry: no Adam West.
Mark Evanier: I thought that Mr. West was a lovely man. He did a fine job doing the kind of Batman that the producers of the sixties show wanted to do. My view of that show was colored forever by meeting a few of those people behind the show and realizing how much contempt they did have for the character, for the premise, for anyone who would take the comic books as seriously as some of us did. And so, though I love the people in it – like Adam West, Julie Newmar, and Burgess Meredith, and so on – I never really liked the way the character was portrayed. I was glad to see somebody invert it and do something different with Batman, even though I actually didn’t even like what Tim Burton did with it either. But at least it wasn’t done with a kind of a snide view of the people who love Batman.
Barry Short: I have to say that, at least among the people that I was interacting with at that time, there was kind of an underlying feeling that Hollywood was trying to exploit us, as opposed to trying to appeal to us. Yes, there were always people at Comic-Con who were going to be excited that a big name director or a big name actor or actress was going to be there. That’s always going to be the case. Yes, it’s exciting they’re there so much now. I totally get it.
But I also think that, for a lot of us — especially the older folks who were there in the early days when this wasn’t really as much the case — there’s a little bit of cynicism about it now. Which can be disappointing when we think about all these Hollywood people coming more and more now to the Con. Mostly, we just ignore that and go on about the parts of Comic-Con that we love.
Jim Means: Now it’s sort of “flipped,” and everybody thinks of Comic-Con as a place to sell movies and television shows. It’s gone from being fan-driven to more studio-driven, you know? More corporate-driven these days. I think that’s what people are saying when they say, “Oh, I remember the days when it was just comic books and science fiction.” I think they’re thinking back to when it was their own love for those things that made it fun to go to Comic-Con. And now it’s different. It’s a spectacle.
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After Death of New Jersey 2-Year-Old Left in Car in Family's Own Driveway, Tips to Prevent Hot Car Deaths
Experts say even the best of parents or caregivers can unknowingly leave a child in a car, and the end result can be injury or even death. Twenty-two children have died in hot cars so far this year.
A New Jersey toddler died after being left in a hot car in her family’s own driveway Tuesday, officials said.
Volunteer firefighter Megan Kingston, who lives across the street from the family, tried desperately to save the 2-year-old girl’s life. After pulling the child from the vehicle, Kingston performed CPR and tried to cool her down before emergency responders arrived.
The toddler, who hasn’t been identified, was inside a gray Honda Civic for about seven hours, police said. The circumstances behind the child being forgotten in the car were not clear.
Temperatures in Somerset were in the 90s, but it would have only taken a few minutes for the inside of the car to reach 125 degrees. Additionally, a child’s body overheats three to five times faster than an adult body, experts say.
Neighbors said they would never forget the cries of anguish from the child’s mother when she realized her daughter had died.
“I saw the mother come out and collapse to the ground,” one neighbor told Inside Edition. “The paramedics took her to the ambulance and took her away.”
Twenty-two children have died in hot cars so far this year.
Four of those children died within the span of a week in August, according to Kids and Car Safety, a nonprofit is dedicated to saving the lives of children and pets in and around motor vehicles. More than 1,000 children have died in hot cars nationwide since 1990, the organization reports. “Even the best of parents or caregivers can unknowingly leave a sleeping baby in a car; and the end result can be injury or even death,” Kids and Car Safety says. “The most dangerous mistake a parent or caregiver can make is to think leaving a child alone in a vehicle could never happen to them or their family.”
The average number of U.S. child hot car deaths is 38 per year, which averages to about one every nine days.
Eighty-seven percent of children who have died in a hot car are 3 and younger, the organization reports. Fifty-four percent of heatstroke deaths in vehicles involve children 1 and younger.
“Rear-facing child safety seats do not look any different to the driver if they are occupied or empty, which can cause a parent to think the child is no longer in the car with them,” the organization says.
And 68% of children who get into vehicles on their own are male and most are between the ages of 1 and 4.
“Kids and Car Safety believes the solution to these preventable tragedies is a combination of detection and alert technology in all vehicles and education,” the organization says. “This technology is readily available and affordable and should be included in all vehicles.”
Tips parents and caregivers should consider include:
- Place the child’s diaper bag or item in the front passenger seat as a visual cue that the child is with you.
- Make it a habit of opening the back door every time you park to ensure no one is left behind. To enforce this habit, place an item that you can’t start your day without in the back seat (employee badge, laptop, phone, handbag, etc.)
- Ask your childcare provider to call you right away if your child hasn’t arrived as scheduled.
- Clearly announce and confirm who is getting each child out of the vehicle. Miscommunication can lead to thinking someone else removed the child.
- Keep vehicles locked at all times, especially in the garage or driveway. Ask neighbors and visitors to do the same.
- Never leave car keys within reach of children.
- Use childproofing knob covers and door alarms to prevent children from exiting your home unnoticed.
- Teach children to honk the horn or turn on hazard lights if they become stuck inside a car.
- If a child is missing, immediately check the inside, floorboards and trunk of all vehicles in the area carefully, even if they’re locked.
- Never leave children alone in or around cars; not even for a minute.
- If you see a child alone in a vehicle, get involved. Call 911 immediately. If the child seems hot or sick, get them out of the vehicle as quickly as possible.
- Be especially careful during busy times, schedule changes and periods of crisis or holidays. This is when many tragedies occur.
- Use drive-thru services when available (restaurant, bank, pharmacy, dry cleaner) and pay for gas at the pump.
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After Surviving a Mass Shooting, Whitney Austin Is on a Mission to Help Others Do the Same
Five years ago, mother-of-two Whitney Austin earned a label no one wants: mass shooting survivor. A hailstorm of bullets pierced her body as she entered a Cincinnati bank, a moment that forever changed her and her life's work.
It turns out, tending to a gunshot wound is less intuitive a process than some might think. I, for one, didn’t think one would have to reach a hand inside and around the bleeding injury.
Nor could I have guessed it would take nearly the whole roll of gauze to effectively pack what appeared, on the surface of the flesh, to be a tiny (if simulated) bullet hole.
And those are the steps required before even beginning to apply any pressure to a wound. I had incorrectly assumed that was the only thing I’d have to do before first responders arrived if I found myself at the scene of a mass shooting, which, according to research by Everytown, occur an average of 20 times a year in the United States.
I learned this grim but, considering the country’s statistics around gun violence, necessary lesson at a Whitney/Strong fundraising event, taking part in one of the workshops held that day to teach first aid to gunshot victims. “There have been many instances in the mass shooting world in which people died, and they didn’t need to. If someone would have had a tourniquet or basic EMS training, their lives could have been saved,” explained Whitney Austin, the founder of the nonprofit organization. “It’s not going to prevent gun violence, but this is a way to act in an emergency.”
Having been a survivor of a mass shooting herself, somehow living through being shot 12 times, Whitney is uniquely qualified to speak so authoritatively on what to do in a mass shooting. And she takes seriously her position as a survivor of gun violence as she works to make a difference. “When the nurses and physicians told me that I was a miracle, that I survived 12 shots,” she said. “That was the moment I realized that I received a gift that nobody else gets and that I needed to pay it forward.”
The Day Whitney Austin's Life Changed
The morning of Thursday, September 6, 2018, began like any other day for Whitney Austin and her family. It had been a sunny late summer day in Louisville, Kentucky, and Whitney, a mother of two who worked as a bank executive, began her hour-and-a-half-long commute to Cincinnati.
Whitney made the trip a couple times a month to her company’s corporate headquarters there. While she usually stayed overnight, she was only planning on staying for the day this time, and she was looking forward to seeing her young kids, 5 and 7 at the time, when she got home that evening.
On her drive, Whitney called friends to catch up between listening to a podcast about banking. She dialed into an important call just as she parked her car in the underground garage, and made her way toward the office.
Walking through Fountain Square, Whitney was extra careful crossing the street, knowing how quickly and carelessly people moved around at that time of day.
Whitney was on a conference call for work as she went through the revolving doors, when she was hit by a barrage of bullets.
“It was so forceful that I collapsed just in the quadrant of that revolving door, and started to think, ‘What is happening to me? What is this?’” Whitney recalled. “And I remember thinking, ‘Nobody’s close to me, so I could not have been stabbed. I have this burning sensation all throughout my body.
“‘These have to be bullets,” she continued, “and if these are bullets, then this has to be a mass shooting. This has to be a mass shooting, because this is what happens in America.’”
Understanding Gun Violence in America
I first met Whitney five years after she became a rare survivor of a mass shooting.
We met on a hot Kentucky summer day at her home in a picturesque suburb of Louisville. She spoke gently in a slight Southern accent as she recounted the events of the day in 2018 that claimed the lives of three people, as well as the life of the shooter.
The media would call it “the Cincinnati bank shooting,” but for Whitney, “that day” and “September 6th” was all that had to be said to know what she was referring to.
Although four people died that day, it wasn’t a particularly well-known or widely remembered event. No one I chatted with outside of the Whitney/Strong event recalled it. Given the drumbeat of mass shootings, perhaps that’s not surprising.
That seems to be the fate of many incidents of mass violence. Everytown, a nonprofit research organization founded after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, found that there have been 279 mass shootings in the United States since 2009
But for Whitney, that day changed everything.
“When the nurses and physicians told me that I was a miracle, that I survived 12 shots,” she said. “That was the moment I realized that I received a gift that nobody else gets and that I needed to pay it forward.”
Today, Whitney no longer works at the Fifth Third Bank. She gave up that world shortly after the shooting, and now heads a nonprofit organization, Whitney/Strong, dedicated to curbing gun violence and supporting victims like herself. Alongside a small team of volunteers and staff, Whitney now spends her day giving firearm safety talks with at-risk youth and families, teaching first aid for mass violence scenarios and fundraising for more research into the impact of gun violence.
How Whitney Austin Survived a Mass Shooting
After being shot multiple times, Whitney attempted to run away, but discovered quickly she couldn’t. As she tried to dial 911, reaching for the phone she dropped when she was initially shot, Whitney felt the next barrage of bullets rain down on her body.
“At that point, I just thought, ‘There’s nothing else I can do. All I can do is play dead and pray and hope that something changes in favor so that I can get out of this situation,’” Whitney said. “And it was awful, I was coughing up blood, I was thinking of my family, I was saying my prayers. I really thought this is it. I’m never going to get out of this situation.”
Exactly one minute passed between the moment Whitney was initially shot and when officers reached her. But as she lay injured on the floor of the revolving door waiting to be saved, time all but stood still.
“As soon as I saw an officer in front of me—Officer Al Staples who I now know really well— I just started shouting at him. I said, ‘I am a mother. I have a 5- and 7-year-old. I need to be their mother. You need to save me,’” Whitney said. “The most important thing was, I need to go home. I need to be a mommy. I need to still be a mommy.”
Police shot and killed the shooter moments later, putting an end to his rampage. Authorities later said the shooting lasted four minutes and 28 seconds.
Whitney was pulled out of the revolving door by Staples and brought to safety.
About 125 miles away, her husband Waller was working on home renovation projects. The day began in a rush as Whitney left the house, quieted after Waller returned him from dropping off their children at school, and had settled into a steadily productive but serene morning.
And then Waller got the call.
Waller answered the call on speakerphone. As sirens blared in the background, a man who identified himself as a Cincinnati police officer asked to speak with Mr. Austin.
“I just thought she was dead, just right there,” he recalled. “I know you aren’t supposed to be thinking about the worst scenario, but it was just a surreal situation.”
Waller was told that his wife had been shot multiple times. “I just lose it. I lost it. I’m like, is she still conscious? Is she breathing? Is she alive? What’s going on? What is happening? Who would do this? I just don’t, I don’t get it.”
At the same time, first responders were using equipment they fortunately had on hand to try to stop Whitney’s severe bleeding. While she focused on her breathing and tried to pay attention to her heart rate, Whitney asked to be put on the phone with her husband.
“I could hear Waller in a state of despair,” Whitney said. “As soon as I got a chance, they gave me the phone and I said, ‘I’ve been shot all over. It hurts so bad, but I’m breathing deeply. My heart is beating strongly and my brain is working fine. Get up here right now.’”
Rushing to His Wife's Side
What are the first things that should go through someone’s mind when they’re told their loved one has been shot multiple times? That’s the question that raced through Waller’s mind again and again as he sped toward Cincinnati with his mother in the passenger seat.
“It was the first time I’d ever driven past 100 miles an hour in my Tahoe,” Waller said, “I was cussing all the people in the passing lane slowing me down from getting to my wife. I’m thinking every second could be her last breath.”
As Waller drove, his mother scanned the radio for any updates about the shooting and checked the Facebook post Waller made before getting behind the wheel asking friends and families to pray for his wife’s survival.
They arrived at the University of Cincinnati hospital within an hour.
Waller walked into Whitney’s hospital room and saw her for the first time since they said goodbye that morning. She lay in a hospital bed with tubes connecting her to machines, still soaked in blood and half asleep. Dozens of doctors, nurses and medical residents ran various assessments on her.
“I looked at her, and she was still gorgeous,” Waller said.
Though Whitney wasn’t fully alert, the medical staff’s message in that moment came through loud and clear, and continues to stay with her today.
“They looked at me and they said, ‘You’re a miracle. You were shot 12 times and none of those bullets hit any major organs or arteries,’” she recalled. “It was just really clear to me. I got this massive sign.”
The next 10 months were nearly as grueling as the shooting itself, Whitney said. “Every single day, I did therapy, whether it was physical therapy, occupational therapy, psychiatric therapy, it was like a full-time job with all the therapy,” she said. “On top of that, I had four different surgeries over the course of a year and a half. I had to learn how to increase my lung capacity. I mean, it goes on and on and on.”
During that time, she reflected on what she now referred to as her miracle. “What were the thousands of things that went right that led to me living? And the thousands of things that went wrong that led to others dying?”
Putting more thought into the issue of gun violence, Whitney soon came up with a plan to launch Whitney/Strong, a nonprofit organization focused on making progress in reducing gun violence by finding common ground on a very polarizing issue.
“People think that it's a lost cause, that there is no way we can ever come together because we disagree too much as gun owners and non-gun owners, Republicans and Democrats, and that is a very fatalistic view of the issue,” she said. “We can do better.”
Whitney/Strong's Work
A person suffering serious blood loss can die in less than 5 minutes, but the average response time for first responders is 7 minutes – a statistic that can mean life or death if a witness did not know the proper procedures to stop or slow blood loss.
That was one of the many facts I and the others learned at the TEN20 Craft Brewery, where the Whitney/Strong team held their May 18 fundraiser. We also practiced packing wounds and applying tourniquets on rubber dummies as law enforcement and first responder volunteers advised us on our stance and pressure.
Also in attendance was Whitney’s mom, Donna Stevenson. “I’m not going to stand over someone and let them die,” Donna explained. This had been the first time she learned how to respond in an emergency situation involving blood loss despite. “I [now] have some kind of skills to help them.”
Donna said Whitney was mostly cleaned up by the time she first saw her after the shooting, but she couldn’t get over the blood she spotted underneath her fingernails. “That got to me as a mom,” Donna said. “This is what happened. That really happened to her.”
Looking around at the hundreds of people at the event feeling as empowered to act as she did after the training, Donna told me, “She was meant to survive. She was meant to do this. She’s always been my head strong daughter and the bank executive and she is very capable and she will make a difference in this world.”
Attendees mingled over food and drinks as Whitney and other shooting survivors talked about what they went through, as well as the work Whitney/Strong is doing. It was at this event that the organization launched the “Save-A-Life Kit,” an enhanced first-aid kit with the specific equipment necessary to stop a major bleed or injury.
The following day, Whitney and her team spoke at the Cabbage Patch Settlement House, an organization that supports at-risk youth and their families. “What can we do right now to make sure we’re reducing violence in the communities that see it at its highest levels?” Whitney said. “Nobody's OK with our increased rates of violence that’s happening in our Black and brown communities.”
That day’s programming was very different from the events of the day prior. Parents from the community were invited to take part in a discussion about gun safety and safe storage.
“It’s a public health issue. So many people are affected by it no matter your age, your race, your income status,” said former Sergeant Quinones Corniel, who was still with the Louisville Police Department when he spoke at the event. “We’re seeing an influx of children shot because of the lack of safe gun storage inside of homes.”
The children and young people in attendance also were invited to take part in a discussion. Whitney was joined by Terrell Williams, a volunteer with Whitney/Strong who after becoming a victim in a carjacking gone wrong began to share his story. After talking about what they both went through, the pair fielded questions and comments from about a dozen teenagers.
Some wondered about Whitney and Terrell’s specific stories and motivation to make a difference. Others asked about the charges teenagers can face if caught with a firearm. A few rolled their eyes. At one point, a teen mentioned their classmate once showed up to school with a gun. They put it on their desk before class even began.
“I grew up in this neighborhood,” Terrell said, relating to many of the teens listening to his story that day. “I’ve seen gun violence. It’s normalized, but it shouldn’t be.”
Between speaking engagements and community events, the Whitney/Strong team also funds gun violence research. They have launched a project with the Louisville School of Public Health that examines the ecomonic impacts of gun violence, and have partnered with the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to better understand youth suicides completed by firearm.
“For decades, we didn’t know what caused gun violence. We didn’t know the impact of gun violence. We didn’t know what would stop gun violence,” Whitney said. “Where we can help, we will.”
Armed with evidence gathered by new research, the Whitney/Strong Foundation also works with bipartisan leaders to push forward legislation that supports stronger safe gun-handling laws.
“There are way too many people operating in silos that say, OK, well we're just gonna do what all the gun owners want or we're just gonna do what all the non gun owners want or just pick your political party,” Whitney said. “We get so distracted by these solutions that don't seem to move that it's really easy to say, this is never going to get any better when that's not true. We have much to agree upon, let's move on those things.”
Going Back to 'That Day'
“That day” sticks with Whitney every day. She’s reminded of “that day” every time she’s unable to meet the full range of motion she once was able to take for granted. The sporadic pain in her chest from the shrapnel that was never removed continues also serves as a reminder of “that day.” And she still grapples with survivor’s guilt, though “it was much more intense in the beginning,” she said.
There are plenty of reminders outside of her body, too. Each mass shooting that occurs in the U.S. transports Whitney back to Sept. 6, 2018.
Whitney couldn’t help but note that our meeting came not long after the mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Markets in Buffalo, New York, that took the lives of 10 Black shoppers, and the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 young students and two teachers.
“As more incidents of mass violence erupt in our country, it takes me right back there,” she explained. “I learned a long time ago that for me and my healing process, it’s important to stay somewhat removed from those stories and the details of the victims, and to put my energy into something productive, which is trying to prevent gun violence.”
Her work with Whitney/Strong and through gun violence prevention initiatives has helped Whitney begin to heal. Her journey to mental and emotional wellbeing has been less than linear, but in her darkest moments, where advocacy and therapy fail, she thinks about her story of survival.
This is, for Whitney, what being the recipient of a miracle requires.
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Baby in Spain Dies After Being Hit With Orange-Sized Hail Stone During Freak Storm
A 20-month-old baby died from head injuries during a short but turbulent storm in Spain.
A 20-month old baby died after getting hit by a giant hailstone during a storm in Spain on Tuesday, according to reports.
The toddler had reportedly been struck by a hail stone that measured 4 inches in diameter — the size of an orange, according to the New York Post.
The storm was described as, “short but very intense” and struck Catalonia, Spain, on Tuesday evening, according to the Spanish site Murcia Today.
According to the outlet, the baby was rushed to a local hospital, but ultimately died the next morning due to severe head trauma.
According to The Independent, this “freak” storm was the worst in the area in two decades. Several others obtained injuries during, including cuts, bruises, and broken bones.
According to The New York Post, local firefighters reportedly fielded more than 40 calls for both “assistance to the injured,” in addition to damage to buildings, wiring, and other property.
Areas of Spain, including Catalonia and Barcelona, continue to be under warnings for extreme or “violent” weather, according to Murica Today.
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Immunocompromised Texas Man First to Die With Positive Monkeypox Diagnosis: State Health Officials
A Texas man recently died and had monkeypox — an investigation is ongoing to determine the role the virus had in the man's death.
On Tuesday, Texas reported the first death in a severely immunocompromised person who was diagnosed with monkeypox, according to state health department officials.
According to experts, monkeypox is described as painful, and often presents with a rash. Other common symptoms include fever, chills, head and muscle aches, swollen lymph nodes, and lethargy.
The virus can last two to four weeks, and spreads through close contact with someone who is infected, according to the CDC.
“Monkeypox is a serious disease, particularly for those with weakened immune systems,” said Dr. John Hellerstedt, DSHS commissioner, said in a press release from the Texas Department of State Health Services.
“We continue to urge people to seek treatment if they have been exposed to monkeypox or have symptoms consistent with the disease.”
According to The New York Post and Reuters, over 90 countries where monkeypox is not endemic — or native — have reported over 470,000 cases. Countries reporting monkeypox deaths include Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, India and Spain, according to Reuters.
As a result, the World Health Organization has declared the outbreak a global health emergency.
Scott Pauley — a spokesman for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — says that, while painful, the virus is not generally fatal, including cases caused by the variant of the virus now circulating in the United States – Clade IIb.
According to the CDC, anyone can become infected with monkeypox, which spreads through close contact with an infected person. However, nearly all of the more than 18,101 monkeypox cases in the United States have occurred among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.
The case of the adult in Texas who died is still under investigation to see what role monkeypox played in the death, in the recent press release.
Pauley said in an email that the agency is aware of the reported death.
“CDC continues to closely monitor the monkeypox outbreak and we are actively working with Texas officials to investigate this situation,” he said.
“Until the investigation is complete, it is premature to assign a specific cause of death.”
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Labor Day Weekend Travel Tips Include Leaving for Your Destination Early and Exercising Patience, Experts Say
Millions plan to take to the roads and the skies this Labor Day weekend, which may make the fifth busiest travel weekend a bit of a headache for some. But there are steps travelers can take to make getting to their destination as painless as possible.
Nearly 13 million people are expected to fly to their destinations for the Labor Day holiday, the fifth busiest travel weekend in the U.S. of the year.
More than 12.7 million people plan to fly from U.S. airports between Thursday and Monday, according to travel-booking app Hopper, which also indicated about 1.8 million people are flying abroad.
About 2.6 million people are expected to leave from U.S. airports each day of Labor Day weekend. Peak air travel is expected to occur Friday, and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia, Denver International Airport in Colorado and Los Angeles International Airport in California will be the busiest over the holiday weekend, according to Hopper.
Those taking to the air should plan to pack some patience, as lines are sure to be long and flight delay and cancellation rates are higher than in years past.
Fliers may also want to consider utilizing a new feature on the Department of Transportation’s website that rates airlines for how they treat passengers when flights are delayed or canceled and answer questions such as who offers meal vouchers or hotel rooms to stranded passengers, and who doesn’t.
Though gas prices are about $1 less a gallon than they were earlier this summer—currently averaging nationally at about $3.82 per gallon, according to AAA—tens of millions are expected to hit the road for the long weekend as well.
Experts say travelers planning on driving to their destinations should aim to leave early and plan their route ahead of time.
Drivers should also make sure their car is in good condition in the event they experience excessively hot weather in the traffic in which they undoubtedly experience.
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Ohio Gymgoer Calls 911 After Getting Stuck Upside Down on Equipment
Christine Faulders was working out at her 24-hour gym at 3 a.m. After 12 minutes hanging upside down, she called 911 on her smartwatch. “As soon as my feet were back on the ground, I laughed at myself all day long."
An embarrassed gymgoer is speaking out after getting stuck upside down on a piece of equipment.
Christine Faulders went to work out with a friend at their 24-hour gym in Ohio. It was 3 a.m., so they were the only two members there.
She called out for friend Jason, but he was in the next room lifting weights and couldn't hear her. After hanging upside down for six minutes, she called 911 on her smartwatch.
“I'm stuck in this reverse back decompression thing,” she told the dispatcher. “I think the thing went too far, and I'm just stuck upside down, and I cannot get myself right-side up.”
After 12 long minutes with the blood rushing to her head, cops finally arrived to free her. It took just a couple seconds to get her upright.
“As soon as my feet were back on the ground, I laughed at myself all day long,” Faulders said.
She had a minor headache afterwards and felt a bit fuzzy, but was OK other than.
As for getting on the contraption again — “Probably not,” she said.
Faulders says people have been asking why she posted such an embarrassing video, but says sometimes you just have to laugh at yourself and move on.
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South Carolina Man Is Charged With Murder After Cops Say Target Practice Kills Mother of 9
The Cherokee County Coroner ruled the manner of death a homicide.
A South Carolina man is facing new charges after police say target practice with a friend turned into the suspected murder of a neighbor.
Kesha Tate, 42, was killed Aug. 27 when a bullet from her neighbor's target practice hit her in the chest, according to a statement released by the coroner. Tate leaves behind nine children, one as young as 4 years old, reported WYFF.
Nicholas Skylar Lucas, 30, was reportedly shooting a satellite propped against a tree with a friend when a bullet hit Tate, who was looking out the window to see why she heard gunshots, according to police.
Tate was hit in the chest and her last words to her children were, “Go get help. I love y’all,” reports WJHG.
The mother of nine was pronounced dead when police arrived on the scene, according to the Coroners statement.
In footage obtained by NBC 29 of a recent bond hearing, authorities said they originally suspected that the bullet that struck Tate had ricocheted off the satellite Lucas was shooting, but after the autopsy the coroner determined that there was no evidence to support that theory.
The Cherokee County coroner, Dennis Fowler, told Inside Edition Digital that he has ruled the cause of death to be a gunshot wound to the chest, and the manner of death a homicide.
With the updated information from the coroner, authorities have dismissed the original involuntary manslaughter charge and have upgraded it to a murder charge. Lucas also has been charged with discharging a firearm into a dwelling and for the use of a firearm while under the influence, according to public records.
In footage obtained by NBC 29, when asked to speak or if he had any questions, Lucas expressed his confusion over the situation.
“I got a lot of questions. From how it went from-- this was a complete accident. I don't understand why anybody would ever think I was out to get that woman or whatever they might think. I went and helped that woman every day she needed help. She always asked me for help, I was always in my backyard Why would I ever go-- I'm really confused by this whole situation,” said Lucas.
When the judge told Lucas to talk to the investigators about his confusion, Lucas got visibly annoyed and stated, “haven't talked to them (the investigators)”.
Tate’s family also was given a chance to speak at the bond hearing.
“First I want to say thank you guys for the investigation that you did. This has been a real tragedy for our family, mostly because she has children, her children were everything to her and she was everything to them. She had some children who just lost their father nine months ago, she was all they had. We want justice for her, she deserves that,” said Beverly Vercher, Kesha Tate’s sister.
A GoFundMe page was created by Tate's daughter Traleekia for funeral expenses. As Aug. 31. the page has exceeded its $6,000 goal, raising nearly $6,800.
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Texas School Board Declines 'In God We Trust' Signs Written in Arabic or With Rainbow Colors
Some civlians are out to prove maybe you can mess with Texas.
A Texas school board has declined “In God We Trust” signs written in Arabic or with rainbow colors after a civilian living in the area offered them at a recent meeting, WFAA reported.
The sign in Arabic did feature what appeared to be an upside-down American flag, which signifies the country is in distress.
The board of the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, declined the offer of the signs at a meeting earlier in the week after a civilian named Srivan Krishna tried to donate them, according to Washington Times.
However, the school district did accept "In God We Trust" signs from a Christian conservative cellphone company called Patriot Mobile on August 15 to be displayed at all schools, according to WFAA.
Patriot Mobile made the donation after Texas lawmakers passed a law in 2021 known as SB-797 that required schools to display posters featuring the saying “In God We Trust” if they are privately donated, WFAA reported.
SB-797 requires public schools to display donated signs containing the phrase “In God We Trust” and “may not depict any words, images, or other information other than [that].”
After the board declined Krishna’s offering, telling him they had enough signs, according to NPR, he said, “Why is more God not good?"
"The statute does not contemplate requiring the district to display more than one copy at a time," board president Cameron Bryan told Krishna during the meeting which was broadcast online.
The civilian disagreed, saying the law doesn't refer to how many posters should be displayed, "It doesn't say you have to stop at one. So that is your decision to stop at one."
"I think it's kind of un-American to reject posters of our national motto," Krishna added.
Inside Edition Digital has reached out to Krishna for comment but has not heard back.
Inside Edition Digital has also reached out to the Carroll Independent School District in North Texas for comment but has also not heard back.
Krishna’s offering comes less than a week after Florida activist Chaz Stevens launched a GoFundMe campaign to create “In God We Trust” signs in Arabic, as he pointed out on the crowdfunding site, “law seemingly presumes these signs are written in English. Oopsie.”
Stevens spoke to Inside Edition Digital via email last week about his campaign and he felt compelled to act on this because “sometimes an act of stupidity requires an even greater act of stupidity.”
Following the school board’s denial of Krishna’s offering, Stevens spoke to Inside Edition Digital again via email in a follow-up interview.
Stevens said the he does not know Krishna but praised what he did, saying, “good for him!”
“[I] saw he used our creative, and that cracked me up. We’re putting all of our content (digital assets) into an access library for everyone’s use. The more the merrier! Get off your tush and get in the game with Chaz!” Stevens declared.
Stevens said it's “not surprising,” that the school board reacted as they did, adding, “however, not good news … well, for those who want to have God’s name on the building,” because “this week, we’ll begin to flood the Texas public school system with our posters – Arabic, Hebrew, Vulcan, Klingon, Spanish, and hell, I’ve lost track of all the variations.”
Stevens said that his next steps in his process are to “send out a boatload of posters, a ton of really nice painted pieces, stick up a few billboards, continue to mercilessly troll the State of Texas. And get ready for filing a lawsuit or two. All made possible by the generous contributions of our amazing supporters. Keep the donations coming people!”
He said that he felt “violated” after the school board said it had no obligation to accept Krishna’s donations of signs because the district had already accepted signs from Patriot Mobile.
“First, it’s one God sign, and then copies of God signs across campus, but they don’t have time to deal with other donations? Seems to me, if lack of bandwidth is the issue, then everyone should play by the same rules, not just the first person, er, sign, across the finish line.”
As of press time, Stevens' GoFundMe campaign has raised over $47,000 and has a goal of $250,000.
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U.S. Life Expectancy Estimates Have Fallen to the Worst Levels Since 1996: CDC Report
A recently released report from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention shows that life expectancy rates for U.S. adults have dropped since 1996, with different demographics having different leading causes of death.
Estimates for American life expectancy has fallen to the worst levels since 1996, according to estimates in a new federal report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
This makes the second year in a row of lowering life expectancy estimates following the beginning of COVID-19, according to CBS News.
Health officials say the drop in life expectancy from 2019 to 2021 — falling by almost 3 years to right over an estimate of 76 – is now the country's worst two-year decline on record since 1923, according to the provisional estimates.
"The declines in life expectancy since 2019 are largely driven by the pandemic," the agency said in a news release.
"COVID-19 deaths contributed to nearly three-fourths, or 74%, of the decline from 2019 to 2020, and 50% of the decline from 2020 to 2021."
To date, over one million Americans have COVID-19 listed as the cause on their death certificates, according to the latest data from the agency.
According to the report, the second biggest cause of death was "unintentional injuries." This made up almost 16 percent of the decline and was "largely driven by drug overdose.”
The report noted that the impact of these causes varied widely among demographic groups. COVID-19 was a major player for white, Black, and Native demographic groups:
- Among white Americans in 2021, the virus resulted in a 54.1% drop
- The virus was responsible for 35% of the life expectancy decline in Black Americans
- 21.4% of the decline in American Indian and Alaska Native people was due to the virus
- <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/202107.htm" rel="" target="_blank">According to the CDC</a>, Hispanic Americans saw the worst drop in life expectancy of any group, with 90% of their decline blamed on COVID-19 during the first year
- Cancer drove 21.4% of the life expectancy decline of Asian Americans in 2021
According to the report, the difference in life expectancy between men and women widened from 5.7 to 5.9 years in 2021. This gap by natal sex had fallen to just 4.8 years in 2010.
The estimates offer one of the earliest looks into the impact of the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic on American life expectancy, according to the report.
Last week, the CDC released final estimates broken down by state for 2020.
These estimates showed life expectancy in the first year of the pandemic drop in every state and the District of Columbia, and more detailed figures and breakdowns for 2021 are expected over the coming months, according to the CDC.
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