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Given 25 years have passed under the bridge and the enormous amount that’s happened along the way, it’s easy to forget now how radically original Richard Williams’ vision for his tennis-playing daughters was when he first uttered it, especially when it came to Serena.
She was born only 15 months after her sister, Venus, and she was in the arena that October 1994 week at the Oakland Coliseum -- 28 years before her final singles match Friday at the US Open -- when her 14-year-old big sister beat former NCAA champ Shaun Stafford, a six-year tour veteran, in her pro debut. She was there a couple days later when Venus extended Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, then the No.2 player in the world, to three sets in the second round.
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“Let me start by making a statement: Fourteen is much too early to turn pro,” Sanchez Vicario said jokingly to reporters after escaping with the nerve-shredding win.
Venus arrived at that tournament having not played an official match in two years, not even a backwater tune-up for her big debutante night. Richard had pulled her from the junior circuit at age 12 after she won all 63 of her matches that year. Venus already stood 6-foot-1. And still -- still! -- Richard told anyone who would listen, Wait for Serena. Serena is really The One.
It’s natural to reminisce about that moment now that Serena announced her retirement at the age of 40. She ends her 25-year career as one of, if not the greatest player in tennis history, male or female. Even Roger Federer, for so long the leading men’s contender for that honor, yielded the GOAT title to Serena in a 2018 interview. So has everyone from Billie Jean King to Chris Evert, John McEnroe to Andre Agassi to Venus herself.
With 23 Grand Slam singles titles to her credit, including twice holding all four titles at the same time, Serena accomplished one of the toughest things to achieve in sports: She was an athlete who arrived with over-the-top hype and still exceeded expectations.
She is a prophecy fulfilled.
Though she and Venus were often seen as a pair, Serena had a transformative, sometimes tumultuous, ultimately transcendent career in far different ways than Venus. Serena is part Althea Gibson, but part Beyonce, too -- a fashionista, entertainer, business maven, sister, wife and mother, all while remaining a jock to the core. Her list of records and accomplishments is long and breathtakingly varied. And whatever she’s done, she’s brought so much passion to it people often can’t seem to pry their eyes away.
Serena is arguably the best example of a modern athlete who was not only peerless in her sport, but smartly leveraged the modern array of social media and entertainment platforms to expand her brand, enhance her global reach and catapult her influence and business portfolio to stratospheric heights.
You can argue only LeBron James rivals her. She has 15.2 million Instagram followers, nearly 11 million on Twitter, and among her friends are Sheryl Sandberg, Oprah Winfrey, Nike founder Phil Knight, everyone from rappers to royalty like Megan Markle and Prince Harry, the former Duchess and Duke of Sussex.
But even LeBron doesn’t take his fans so intimately into his professional life and personal journey as Serena has. She is fiercely smart and witty and temperamental, unabashedly outspoken and strong and sensual, hyper-competitive enough to have had some regrettable tangles with a US Open lineswoman and chair umpire that brought her censure, and yet vulnerable enough to admit some of the losses and personal attack on her over the years hurt like hell. And people respond to that. All of that.
Serena’s incinerating will to win was one of the most riveting things about her. She was remorseless, even when playing Venus. The power both sisters brought to the game was transfixing, never more so than when they were booming shots at each other. But only Serena’s serve has been called the best weapon in tennis history, and she hurled her whole body into her groundstrokes, often punctuating her swings with yelps and growls.
It was hard not to notice the more tense the match became, the louder Serena tended to become. It was as if a window into her soul was being flung open and you could literally see and hear and feel how desperately she wanted to win. In French, the term is un cri de Coeur: “A cry from the heart.”
Even when she drifted off the tour for long stretches, Serena never lost that drive once back. And there was always something affecting about that, given everything else she had going in her life. Her legacy and success were long ago assured. But Williams has always refused to be boxed in by old tropes or convention.
She has re-cast thoughts about what’s “appropriate” or “feminine” or “impossible.” She’s flicked away attacks on her musclebound build over the years and answered probing questions -- like, what it’s like to be an African American icon who married a white businessman, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian -- with grace.
“It just goes to show you that love truly has no color,” Serena has said.
Years ago, Serena was asked whether a woman from Turkey could ever be a tennis champion. She answered, "Well, there is a girl that is a champion from Compton, so anything is possible."
It feels like she’s been on stage forever, but it’s not an illusion. Serena won her first Grand Slam singles title ahead of schedule, at the age of 17, and her final one came at 35. Remarkably, 10 of her 23 Grand Slam titles came after her 30th birthday -- the last of them at the 2017 Australian Open, where she defeated Venus in the final. She didn’t lose a set during her seven-match tear though she was secretly eight weeks pregnant with her daughter, Olympia.
Even for Serena, working as feverishly as she did to return to tennis once Olympia arrived was an epic undertaking. Back in 2011, Serena had nearly died from a pulmonary embolism and she was smart enough to know she was in mortal danger again in 2017 after she had an emergency C-section necessitated because Olympia’s blood pressure in utero was dropping too low. As Serena later recounted to "Vogue" magazine, she felt short of breath the next day, willed herself out of her hospital bed and into the hallway to urgently call out for a nurse.
“I need a CT scan with contrast and a heparin [blood thinner] drip,” Williams correctly told the medics, who did an ultrasound at first instead. “A Doppler?” she challenged them. She was right. They were initially wrong. Before long, Williams was in surgery to deal with an abdominal hematoma, then surgery again to implant a filter to protect her from more blood clots in her lungs. Once she got home, she was in bed for six weeks.
By the time she arrived at the 2018 French Open, Serena had played only four singles matches since giving birth nine months earlier, marrying Ohanian and filming a bracingly intimate five-part HBO documentary about the previous year.
When Serena took center court, she skipped wearing a traditional tennis skirt and came out rocking a black full-length Lycra body suit. “Here comes Mom,” commentator Mary Carillo quipped on the Tennis Channel.
When Serena was told during her on-court interview after winning the match that her outfit was trending on Twitter, she smiled and said it was a nod to “All the moms out here that had a tough pregnancy and have to come back and try to be fierce in the middle of everything.
“Can’t beat a catsuit, right?” she said jokingly.
It was perfect. Self-assured. Self-deprecating. Fun.
The French Open eventually banned catsuits, then relented when there was an outraged hue and cry. Serena moved on to other things. Williams is constantly asked to volunteer what she’s enjoyed most about Olympia so far, and she always sounds absolutely smitten.
“Just holding her, and the way my heart skips a beat. I never thought of that," she said. "I’m that mom that takes my child everywhere with her. She inspires every step I take and I hope I inspire her, too, because while I try to teach her how to be a positive influence, she in fact teaches me how to be a stronger person every day. It’s the best part about being a mom. … She’s my mini-me.”
Serena’s tormented chase of Margaret Court’s Grand Slam titles record took on epic proportions as it dragged on, much like Ahab chasing his great whale. Few people think Serena needed to catch Court to be considered best ever. Like so many great athletes, it’s not just the numbers that elevate her. It’s the anecdotal memories, too, the amplitude of her talent, the twists in her backstory, the mountains she scaled.
Serena knows the tale of how she and Venus were taught tennis by their parents at first when they lived in a violent part of Compton, California, training on courts where broken glass and the pop-pop-pop of gunshots were common, sounds like a fable. But it’s always added another level of magic to their credulity-straining careers, and shows no dreams are too big when you work for what you want. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2183431/serena-williams-and-a-prophecy-fulfilled | 2022-09-03T03:59:35Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2183431/serena-williams-and-a-prophecy-fulfilled | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- WTA World No.1 for 319 weeks and winner of 39 Grand Slam titles announces her retirement from professional tennis
- American great played her last match at her 21st US Open, more than 25 years after making her WTA Tour debut
- Among 73 tournament wins, Serena’s haul of 23 Grand Slam singles titles, won over an 18-season span, is the Open Era record
- Leaves game as the only player to achieve a ‘Career Golden Slam’ in singles and doubles and as the prize money leader in women’s sports
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The WTA celebrates the extraordinary career of Serena Williams, who Friday retires from professional tennis as one the greatest champions in the history of sports.
After playing her first professional match in qualifying at Québec City in 1995, Williams made her WTA main-draw debut at Moscow in 1997. The following week, in Chicago, the 15-year-old upset World No.7 Mary Pierce and No.4 Monica Seles before being stopped by fifth-ranked Lindsay Davenport in the semifinals.
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Those results proved a sign of things to come. By the end of 1998, Williams was inside the world’s Top 20 and a Top 5 season finish in 1999 -- the year she won the first of her 73 singles titles (Paris Indoors) and 23 Grand Slam titles (US Open) meant she was on her way to redefining the game.
Williams first ascended to WTA World No.1 as a 20-year-old on July 8, 2002 and went on to spend 319 non-consecutive weeks in the top spot. Only Stefanie Graf and Martina Navratilova have topped the rankings longer. Williams shares with Graf a record streak of 186 consecutive weeks at the summit. Securing the year-end WTA No.1 ranking five times, Williams also finished in the Top 10 on 16 occasions. In April of 2017, at the age of 35, she became the oldest player to rank No.1, 15 years after her first reign.
Williams captured at least one singles trophy 11 years running (2007-17) and was champion at 26 different events, including eight times at the Miami Open presented by Itaú, seven at Wimbledon, seven at the Australian Open, six at the US Open and five at the season-ending WTA Finals. In addition to her success at Miami, she won all the other biggest WTA 1000 events -- the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, the Mutua Madrid Open and the China Open at Beijing.
Williams also enjoyed success in doubles, winning 22 of her 23 titles with Venus Williams. The sisters were unbeaten in 14 Grand Slam finals, and in the summer of 2010 jointly held the WTA Doubles World No.1 ranking for eight weeks. Serena’s first success at the majors actually came in mixed doubles, with titles at Wimbledon and the US Open in 1998, both with Max Mirnyi.
Additionally, Olympic triumphs make Williams the only player -- female or male -- to achieve a "Career Golden Slam" by winning the singles and doubles at all four majors at some point, as well as gold medals in both singles (2012 London) and doubles (2000 Sydney, 2008 Beijing and 2012 London, all w/V.Williams).
“Congratulations to Serena on her historic career in tennis,” said Steve Simon, WTA Chairman and CEO. “With her unmatched determination and drive to excellence, Serena became one of our sport’s greatest champions and captured the hearts of fans around the world. She will be greatly missed by the WTA family, but her legacy will inspire generations to come for what she has stood for and accomplished both on and off the court. We wish her every success and happiness as she embarks upon the next chapter of her life.”
Williams played her last Grand Slam final at the US Open, against Bianca Andreescu, in 2019 -- 20 years after she defeated then-World No.1 Martina Hingis for her first major at the 1999 US Open. Her last Grand Slam title came at the 2017 Australian Open, where she defeated Venus in the final while pregnant with her daughter, Olympia. No player of either gender has had success on the biggest stages over such a long period of time.
Following her second-round loss to Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic at the US Open on Friday (she remains in contention in doubles with Venus), Williams steps away with a remarkable 858-156 career win-loss record (.846) -- the fourth most singles wins in WTA history trailing only Navratilova (1442), Chris Evert (1309) and Graf (902). From her 81 Grand Slam appearances, she won a record 367 matches, ahead of Navratilova’s 306.
Among many records set, she is the all-time prize-money leader in women’s tennis, earning more than $94.6 million during her career. She topped the annual WTA prize money charts on six occasions (2002, 2008-09, 2013-15), and her 2013 earnings of $12,385,572 remains the WTA record for a single season.
Serena Williams: Key statistics and achievements
Ranking highlights
--WTA Year-End World No.1 on five occasions – 2002, 2009, 2013-15
--Total of 319 weeks as WTA World No.1 in singles – Third all-time, behind Graf (377) and Navratilova (332); first achieved top rankings week of June 8, 2002
--186 consecutive weeks at No.1 – Tied with Graf for longest streak
--16 year-end Top 10 seasons – 1999-2004, 2007-10, 2012-16, 2019; finished 11 of these seasons inside Top 5
--Oldest woman to rank No.1 – 35 years, 230 days of age (last held week of May 8, 2017)
--8 weeks as WTA World No.1 in doubles – Rose to top spot along with V.Williams on June 7, 2010
Title highlights
--Winner of 73 singles titles (73-25 record in finals) – Fourth on all-time list. Won at least one singles title in 11 successive seasons (2007-17); Tour leader/joint-leader for titles in seven seasons, and victorious at 26 different tournaments
--First WTA singles title – 1999 Paris [Indoors] (d. Mauresmo in F)
--Last WTA singles title – 2020 Auckland (d. Pegula in F)
--23 Grand Slam singles titles (23-10 record in finals) – Australian Open (7–2003, 2005, 2007, 2009-10, 2015, 2017), Roland Garros (3–2002, 2013, 2015), Wimbledon (7–2002-03, 2009-10, 2012, 2015-16), US Open (6–1999, 2002, 2008, 2012-14)
--Five-time WTA Finals champion – 2001 Munich, 2009 Doha, 2012 Istanbul, 2013 Istanbul, 2014 Singapore
--Four-time Olympic gold medalist – 2000 Sydney (doubles), 2008 Beijing (doubles), 2012 London (singles and doubles)
--23 doubles titles (23-2 record in finals) including majors (see below)
--14 Grand Slam doubles titles (14-0 record in finals) – Australian Open (4–2001, 2003, 2009-10), Roland Garros (2–1999, 2010), Wimbledon (6–2000, 2002, 2008-09, 2012, 2016) and US Open (2–1999, 2009); all w/V.Williams
--2 mixed doubles titles – 1998 Wimbledon, 1998 US Open, both w/Mirnyi
Match highlights
--858-156 career win-loss record – Fourth-most wins in Open Era, trailing only Navratilova (1442), Evert (1309) and Graf (902)
--367 Grand Slam match wins – All-time leader, ahead of Navratilova (306)
--Longest career match win streak – 34, ending in defeat by Lisicki in R16 at 2013 Wimbledon
--11 ties for USA in Billie Jean King Cup – 14-1 record in singles; 3-2 in doubles
--17 wins over reigning World No.1s – Second most of all time, behind Navratilova (18)
--Defeated Top 2 players at same event on eight occasions – 1999 US Open (Davenport, Hingis), 2000 Los Angeles (Hingis, Davenport), 2002 Miami (V.Williams, Capriati), 2002 Roland Garros (Capriati, V.Williams), 2005 Australian Open (Mauresmo, Davenport), 2007 Miami (Sharapova, Henin), 2012 Madrid (Sharapova, Azarenka), 2012 WTA Finals (Azarenka, Sharapova)
--H2H against key rivals (min. 12 matches) – 19-12 vs. V.Williams; 7-6 vs. Hingis; 10-4 vs. Davenport; 10-7 vs. Capriati; 10-2 vs. Mauresmo; 8-6 vs. Henin; 10-4 vs. Jankovic; 20-2 vs. Sharapova; 18-5 vs. Azarenka; 10-2 vs. Halep
Serena and Venus
--Overall head-to-head: 19-12
--All Finals – 9-3
--Grand Slam singles finals – 7-2; in Open Era, the only two women to play each other in four consecutive Grand Slam finals, from 2002 Roland Garros to 2003 Australian Open; Serena won all four meetings
--Grand Slam matches – 11-5
WTA Awards
--Player of the Year – 2002, 2008-09, 2012-15
--Comeback Player of the Year – 2004, 2018
--Most Improved Player of the Year – 1999
--Most Impressive Newcomer – 1998 | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2768410/wta-honors-inspirational-career-of-serena-williams | 2022-09-03T03:59:41Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2768410/wta-honors-inspirational-career-of-serena-williams | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK -- Like the champion she is, Serena Williams slugged away five match points in the final game. In the end, it wasn't enough.
Williams, perhaps the most decorated player in history, ended her tennis career Friday night at the 2022 US Open.
Ajla Tomljanovic won a third-round match 7-5, 6-7(4), 6-1 in front of a packed, passionate crowd in Arthur Ashe Stadium, the familiar venue where Williams won a record-equaling six US Open titles.
Williams, 40, who won an Open Era record 23 Grand Slam titles, will leave the game with some of the loftiest numbers of all time.
Strictly in terms of Hologic WTA Tour titles, Martina Navratilova leads the all-time list with 167, followed by Chris Evert (157), Stefanie Graf (107), Court (92) and Williams, with 73.
Beyond the bare numbers, though, Williams is credited with transforming the women’s game.
“I don’t think I’ve even taken a moment to realize any impact,” she said in New York, responding to tributes from Coco Gauff, Naomi Osaka and many others. “I understand it, but I don’t really meditate or think about it. I’ll have plenty of time soon to do all that.
“I never thought I would have that impact, ever. I was just a girl trying to play tennis in a time where I could develop this impact and be a voice. It was just so authentic because I do what I do, and I just do it authentically me.”
Today’s tennis is unquestionably deeper than it’s ever been, and players don’t play as many matches as they used to. And yet, despite several extended sabbaticals, Serena Jameka Williams’ accomplishments rank with the best of her sport. In a professional career that spanned 27 years, she:
- Won 73 WTA-level titles, fifth all time, and first among active players.
- Produced eight different reigns at No.1, from 2002-17, for a total of 319 weeks, third all time.
- Is the most recent player to simultaneously hold all four Grand Slam crowns -- twice, from 2002-03 and 2014-15.
- Finished with an overall match record of 858-156 (.846). She’s also 367-56 in Grand Slams and 108-15 at the US Open.
- Won more than $94 million in prize money, more than any woman in tennis history.
- Won four Olympic gold medals, three in doubles.
“[There’s] no happiness in this topic for me,” Serena wrote in a first-person essay for Vogue magazine. “The best word to describe what I’m up to is evolution. I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me.”
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Chris Evert, an 18-time Grand Slam singles champion herself, summed up Williams’ extraordinary career.
“For me,” Evert said after Williams withdrew from the 2021 Wimbledon event, “her legacy is already sealed.
“Even though she did not catch Margaret Court’s [all-time] record [of 24], it doesn’t matter. She is always the greatest of all.”
Here’s some further context:
From the time Williams won her first major, the US Open, in September 1999, to the last, the Australian Open in January 2017, Serena won 23 major titles and Venus seven. The rest of the tennis universe -- 18 different players -- managed to win a total of 40.
And that doesn’t include the Williamses’ additional 13 major finals appearances.
Together, they won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles. Incredibly, they never lost a final. Additionally, they each won three Olympic gold medals and a bronze.
They met 31 times, with Serena holding a 19-12 advantage. Remarkably, nine of those were Grand Slam finals, including a stretch of four of five from the 2001 US Open to the 2002 US Open.
While so much attention was focused on Serena’s challenge to equal Court’s record, consider the quality of her recent near-misses.
Williams was 35 years and 124 days old when she won that 2017 Australian Open, becoming the oldest women’s winner in a major. She then proceeded to reach four Grand Slam finals after that. At Wimbledon in 2019, Serena, at 37 and 291 days, was the oldest female major finalist, surpassing Navratilova’s record.
She was nearly 38 years old when she lost the US Open final later that year to Bianca Andreescu. Roger Federer, whose stellar career tracks similarly to Williams', reached only one major final after the age of 36, losing the 2019 Wimbledon final to Novak Djokovic.
Against Tomljanovic, Williams was bidding to become the oldest women to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam in the Open Era.
Her sustained longevity is even more astonishing because of the extended absences she’s endured.
In 2003, Williams underwent serious knee surgery and missed eight months. Seven years later she suffered a hematoma and a pulmonary embolism and was out for nearly one year. In 2017, after giving birth to her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian, she faced serious, life-threatening issues, was bedridden for six weeks, and ultimately missed another entire year. A hamstring injury sustained at Wimbledon in 2021 took her out for the rest of the year.
In the end, Williams took home seven Australian Open and Wimbledon titles, along with six US Open and three French Opens. Only Navratilova (nine Wimbledon crowns) had more Slam titles at a single event.
It’s also worth remembering that it was Serena, the younger sister, who provided the blueprint for the success of her older sister, winning the 1999 US Open -- at the age of 17. Serena was the first African American to win a major singles title since Althea Gibson in 1958.
One year earlier, she provided another example for Venus.
“This was like in ‘98 in Sydney,” Venus said that fortnight. “Serena was playing a top player, was down 6-1, 5-0. She was fighting like there was no tomorrow, like it was her last day on earth. After that, I reconsidered. I wasn’t such a fighter.
“After that, I became a fighter, too. That’s what I took from her game.”
Never one to shy away drama, Williams gifted the sellout crowd with a memorable match before taking her final curtain. They thanked her with a prolonged standing ovation, which brought tears to her eyes.
At the end, after more than 3 hours, after Tomljanovic converted her sixth match point, Williams looked weary. She had served for both sets with a 5-3 lead and somehow they both eluded her.
When the final forehand found the net, she approached the net and shook hands with Tomljanovic. She waved to the four sides of the stadium and placed her hand over her heart.
“Thank you, daddy, I know you’re watching,” Williams said in her on-court interview. “Thanks mom.”
Her voice cracked and the tears came faster.
“I wouldn’t be Serena if it wasn’t for Venus,” she continued. “She’s the only reason Serena Williams ever existed.
“It’s been a fun ride.” | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2776391/a-career-unmatched-serena-s-farewell-to-tennis | 2022-09-03T03:59:47Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2776391/a-career-unmatched-serena-s-farewell-to-tennis | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK - Serena Williams' legendary career came to a close at the US Open on Friday night as the 23-time major champion bowed out in a spirited battle to Ajla Tomljanovic, 7-5, 6-7(4), 6-1 in the third round. In a dramatic match that lasted over three hours, Williams saved six match points before the final point fell on Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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From Michelle Obama to Magic Johnson, Coco Gauff to Lebron James, here's how the world reacted to Williams' last stand.
Congrats on an amazing career, @SerenaWilliams!
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) September 3, 2022
How lucky were we to be able to watch a young girl from Compton grow up to become one of the greatest athletes of all time.
I'm proud of you, my friend—and I can't wait to see the lives you continue to transform with your talents. pic.twitter.com/VWONEMAwz3
The greatest to ever do it! @KingJames reflects on @serenawilliams legacy. #ThankYouSerenapic.twitter.com/0bRLhEsKQS
— UNINTERRUPTED (@uninterrupted) September 3, 2022
Sometimes all it takes to change the world is just being you. Thank you, Serena, for changing the game for so many. @serenawilliams pic.twitter.com/SQ2KqRLsxx
— Nike (@Nike) September 3, 2022
Team SW in the house 🏡#USOpen #SerenaWilliams pic.twitter.com/Iz0Lfa0XRI
— wta (@WTA) September 2, 2022
"I love #Serena just as much as you guys do." pic.twitter.com/7i1hrUsmAy
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 3, 2022
Serena, THANK YOU. It is because of you I believe in this dream. The impact you’ve had on me goes beyond any words that can be put together and for that I say thank you, thank you, thank you, GOAT! pic.twitter.com/qeNZlC05WJ
— Coco Gauff (@CocoGauff) September 3, 2022
.@serenawilliams you’re literally the greatest on and off the court. Thank you for inspiring all of us to pursue our dreams. I love you little sis!!!!!!
— Tiger Woods (@TigerWoods) September 3, 2022
25 years. Champion. Shero. Legend forever! @serenawilliams #USOpen pic.twitter.com/xdo4dy4fpP
— Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) September 3, 2022
I love you @serenawilliams It’s been the pleasure of a lifetime to watch you become what you have. Can’t wait to see what you do next. Thank you my old friend
— andyroddick (@andyroddick) September 3, 2022
Serena fighting until the last point, always. You've given so much to tennis, and so much to womens sports. Thank you @serenawilliams
— Alex Morgan (@alexmorgan13) September 3, 2022
I’m so grateful for @serenawilliams. What she has given this sport and us will never be lost on me. #ThankYouSerena
— Allyson Felix (@allysonfelix) September 3, 2022
We just witnessed the last US Open for the greatest of all time, Serena Williams!! Serena has meant so much to sports, the game of tennis, the world, every little girl, and even more to every little Black girl across the globe. @serenawilliams #ThankYouSerena
— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) September 3, 2022
It’s been a joy watching greatness! Congrats Serena!
— Derek Jeter (@derekjeter) September 3, 2022
Just ugly crying in my pajamas watching @serenawilliams
— Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) September 3, 2022
Forever the GOAT @serenawilliams - no matter how this riveting match ends!!
— shonda rhimes (@shondarhimes) September 3, 2022
Serena. Thank you for being you and the inspiration to so many men and women. I’ve never seen a more intense competitor and it was an honor to share a court with you and watch history. Simply the best. @serenawilliams
— James Blake (@JRBlake) September 3, 2022
"I wouldn't be Serena if there wasn't Venus."@serenawilliams 💙 @Venuseswilliams pic.twitter.com/C7RZXcf23E
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 3, 2022
The greatest to ever do it.
— ESPN (@espn) September 3, 2022
Thank you, @serenawilliams ❤️ pic.twitter.com/lZ6OezBoGu
Legend. 👑#ThankYouSerena | @WTA | @usopen pic.twitter.com/ACYmer7qjY
— ATP Tour (@atptour) September 3, 2022
Merci, @serenawilliams
— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) September 3, 2022
There will never be another Queen 🏆#RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/0UCTFLHv5J
More than tennis.
— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) September 3, 2022
More than one of the greatest.
You mean more to us than we can say, @serenawilliams 💙
Congrats on a legendary career 👑 pic.twitter.com/9HIY6yABET
A player like no other, a career like no other, a story like no other.
— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) September 3, 2022
Thank you, Serena 👑@serenawilliams | #Wimbledon pic.twitter.com/h6XDl8cRgQ
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by: Sam Knox Posted: Sep 2, 2022 / 11:24 PM EDT Updated: Sep 2, 2022 / 11:24 PM EDT SHARE CRANSTON (WPRI) — La Salle took down Moses Brown in their Injury Fund match by a final of 14-6. | https://www.wpri.com/sports/high-school-football/la-salle-tops-moses-brown-in-injury-fund-matchup/ | 2022-09-03T04:04:24Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/sports/high-school-football/la-salle-tops-moses-brown-in-injury-fund-matchup/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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ROCK SPRINGS – The Rock Springs High School Tigers dropped their home opener on Friday night to the No. 4 ranked Thunder Basin High School Bolts, 36-21.
The Tigers entered the game as the No. 5 ranked squad in the state and fall to a record of 1-1 early on this season.
After the game, Rock Springs head coach Mark Lenhardt expressed his disappointment in the loss, saying the team “let an opportunity to upset somebody get away.”
“We lost this game this week in practice. We had a lot of guys out sick. We had a lot of guys not there for things. When guys aren’t there for practice, you don’t expect to come out against a good opponent and play well,” Lenhardt noted.
He expressed his frustrations with Sweetwater County School District No. 1 for not allowing athletes to train in the weight room over the summer.
“It’s obvious that Thunder’s kids are in the weight room year-round. We need to find a way to get our players in the weight room year-round. I have been asking for it for four years and we don’t get that from our school district.”
It was a slow start to the game. It wasn’t until the final minute when Thunder Basin senior running back Dillon Glick punched in a two-yard touchdown to give the Bolts the lead.
The Bolts went up 10-0 about midway through the second quarter when senior kicker/running back Nic Black nailed a 22-yard field goal.
However, the Tigers marched down the field that allowed junior Rock Springs wide receiver Goodness Okere to get in the end zone from the two-yard line.
Rock Springs entered halftime, down 10-7.
The Tigers began the second half with the ball at their own 25-yard line. After struggling to get the first down, Lenhardt elected to go for it on fourth down with a fake punt, which worked last year.
“The thought process was that it was a look that I thought we had. We didn’t get the look we wanted and just flat out got beat, Lenhardt said of the play.
“We had to get three yards and we got two. Sometimes you roll the dice. We’re going to try to do anything we can to win the football game. I thought this game was very important in some ways. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t. Last year, we faked one and it worked.”
It allowed the Bolts to have good field position, beginning their first drive of the second half from Rock Springs’ 33-yard line. Thunder Basin’s Black was able to score the touchdown later in the drive to give the Bolts a 16-7 advantage.
The following possession, Rock Springs junior quarterback Michael Faigl found Okere for a 45-yard gain. The next play, Faigl found senior wide receiver Trenten Butcher with a screen pass that resulted in a 35-yard touchdown play to put the Tigers within two points, down 16-14.
The next possession, the Tigers’ defense forced the fumble and recovered the ball in Thunder Basin’s territory. The offense couldn’t capitalize, however, and the Bolts scored another touchdown on the following possession.
“I know our guys battled tonight, but I’m disappointed because when we got the ball back, we had a chance to take the lead there. But we had too many misassignments on offense. I know people are going to look at it and see that we gave up 36 points, but the reality is we lost this game because our offense lacked execution. We can’t expect our defense to hold up with as many subs as we’re playing,” Lenhardt said.
The Tigers did manage to score one more touchdown midway through the fourth quarter, but the deficit was too large to overcome.
Rock Springs travels to Gillette next Friday, Sept. 9, to play Campbell County High School. Lenhardt said he wants to see better effort from everyone in practice, leading up to the game.
“We’v got to get back to teaching basics, but we really got to coach the little things better. All of the coaches have to be engaged the entire practice and take it upon themselves to get their guys to do the job right. I think it starts with me, then it trickles down to the coaches. I can promise you I’m going to do a better job.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/no-5-ranked-tigers-drop-homeowner-to-no-4-bolts-fall-to-1-1-on/article_27ca49f8-2b39-11ed-a90a-3380730903e1.html | 2022-09-03T04:07:36Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/no-5-ranked-tigers-drop-homeowner-to-no-4-bolts-fall-to-1-1-on/article_27ca49f8-2b39-11ed-a90a-3380730903e1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Former President Trump on Saturday will hold his first rally since the FBI searched his home in Florida.
Trump is ostensibly heading to Pennsylvania to help boost support for the teetering campaigns of Senate candidate Mehmet Oz and gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, both of whom he backed in their Republican primary races.
But Trump is expected to unleash on President Biden, the Department of Justice and the FBI in a speech that will take place two days after Biden described Trump and his movement as an urgent threat to democracy.
Here are five things to watch:
How Trump addresses the FBI search
Saturday’s event in Wilkes-Barre will be Trump’s first political rally since FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago estate on Aug. 8.
The former president has addressed the search at length on Truth Social, his fledgling social media platform, but he has yet to speak about it in front of throngs of energized supporters, where Trump tends to use his most bombastic and incendiary rhetoric.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) in filings has laid out how it spent months unsuccessfully trying to get sensitive government documents back from Trump after he left office, culminating in the August search. A redacted affidavit indicated that the government received 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago with dozens of documents marked “secret” or “top secret,” raising concerns that additional highly sensitive materials were still at the residence and prompting the search.
The legal battle over Trump’s retention of government materials is still playing out in court as his team seeks to draw out the government’s investigation.
But Trump on Saturday is likely to whip his supporters into a frenzy, railing against the politicization of the FBI and DOJ and arguing he is the victim of a political witch hunt intended to discourage him from running for president in 2024.
How Trump responds to Biden warning he’s a threat to democracy
Trump will travel to a city just outside Biden’s hometown of Scranton two days after the president spoke in Philadelphia and described the former president’s political movement as a grave threat to American democracy.
“Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” Biden said in Philadelphia on Thursday, clarifying on Friday that he was not saying all Trump voters posed a threat to the country.
Biden highlighted Trump’s proclivity for casting doubt on election results, elevating conspiracy theories and attacking law enforcement, most recently over the search of his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Trump is likely to hit back at Biden when he takes the stage on Saturday night, according to one official close to the former president, framing the president’s remarks as a divisive attack on millions of Trump voters.
“Someone should explain to Joe Biden, slowly but passionately, that MAGA means, as powerfully as mere words can get, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump posted on Truth Social after Biden’s speech. “If he doesn’t want to Make America Great Again, which through words, action, and thought, he doesn’t, then he certainly should not be representing the United States of America!”
The expected back-and-forth between Biden and Trump underscores the degree to which the White House is trying to make the midterms a referendum on the former president as he backs candidates like Oz and Mastriano, the latter of whom has repeatedly cast doubt on the 2020 election results.
It also serves as a preview of a potential 2024 presidential race as Trump mulls another bid and Biden indicates he will seek reelection.
A Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday found Biden leading Trump by 6 percentage points in a hypothetical rematch of the 2020 election.
Trump looks to boost Oz and Mastriano
The primary purpose of Saturday’s rally is for Trump to boost the candidacies of Oz and Mastriano, as polls show both trailing their Democratic rivals.
Oz in particular has struggled to gain traction since Trump’s endorsement helped propel him to victory in a competitive primary over David McCormick, who had the support of other Trump administration officials.
A FiveThirtyEight average of polls showed Democrat Lt. Gov. John Fetterman leading Oz by 8 points, 48 to 40, and the nonpartisan Cook Political Report last week moved the race from “toss-up” to “lean Democrat.”
Fetterman has spent limited time on the campaign trail in recent weeks as he recovers from a stroke he suffered just before the primary, something the Oz campaign has seized on. But Oz has struggled to win over voters given his loose ties to Pennsylvania, and a boost from Trump could be critical to help close the gap.
Mastriano, meanwhile, has fully embraced Trump’s rhetoric about the 2020 election and other policies backed by the former president. Trump’s appearance on Saturday is certain to further solidify support for Mastriano among the base, but it remains to be seen if he can win over enough moderate voters to defeat Democratic rival Josh Shapiro.
A poll last week from Emerson College Polling shows Shapiro, the state’s attorney general, with a 47-44 lead over Mastriano, with 6 percent of respondents undecided.
Trump kicks off his general election push
Trump was active in the primaries, endorsing candidates and joining them in person before primary days, but Saturday will mark the former president’s first general election rally of the 2022 midterm cycle.
Sources in Trump’s orbit indicated he is likely to travel to battleground states in the two months remaining before Election Day, and particularly states with races involving his endorsed candidates that are likely to be competitive, like North Carolina, Michigan and Georgia.
Senate races in Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania, in particular, could help determine control of the Senate for the next two years, and each features candidates endorsed by Trump.
The former president remains very popular among Republicans, and GOP leaders will rely on him to help boost turnout.
One potential issue, however, is that Republicans have tended to underperform in elections where Trump himself is not on the ballot, such as the 2018 midterms and recent special House elections won by Democrats. Republicans hope that an active Trump in the next two months will lead to high turnout.
One former Trump campaign adviser also noted that how the former president’s preferred candidates fare could be a major factor in how easily Trump is able to clear the GOP field ahead of a 2024 primary. If several of his candidates lose and his influence appears to be diminished, it could embolden other Republicans interested in seeking the presidency, the official reasoned.
Rally underscores Pennsylvania’s importance
The presence of both Trump and Biden in Pennsylvania within days of each other reinforces the political importance of the Keystone State.
Trump’s rally on Saturday is being sandwiched by two visits from Biden. The president was in Philadelphia on Thursday for his speech about democracy, and he will travel Monday to Pittsburgh to mark Labor Day. Trump may also return to the state for another rally for Oz and Mastriano before November’s elections.
Pennsylvania was pivotal in deciding the presidency in 2016 and 2020, it will be a potential turning point in control of the Senate in 2022 and it will likely be a fierce battleground in 2024.
Biden carried Pennsylvania by roughly 80,000 votes, but the state was a major target of attacks from Trump and his allies after it took days to finish counting votes and determine the winner.
Given the state’s rules about when it starts counting mail ballots and other forms of early voting, a close race could provide another opening for Trump and his supporters to levy baseless claims of fraud should his preferred candidates lose. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/hill-politics/five-things-to-watch-in-trumps-first-rally-since-fbi-search/ | 2022-09-03T04:16:04Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/hill-politics/five-things-to-watch-in-trumps-first-rally-since-fbi-search/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Man, 39, rescued from Lake Michigan
CHICAGO - Chicago police rescued a man from Lake Michigan Friday night.
The incident occurred near the 6200 block of North Sheridan.
At about 6:30 p.m., a 39-year-old man was having a mental health crisis while under the influence of drugs, and jumped into the water.
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He swam out about a half-mile from shore, Chicago police said.
CPD Marine units were able to pull him onto their rescue boat and brought him to safety.
The man was transported to an area hospital for evaluation. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-39-rescued-from-lake-michigan | 2022-09-03T04:17:15Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-39-rescued-from-lake-michigan | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
'Money for Mongo': Event held in Schaumburg to raise money for former Bears player battling ALS
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. - A special event is happening this weekend to raise money for an ailing Chicago sports icon and his family.
The "Money for Mongo" event is happening at the Hyatt Regency in Schaumburg Saturday to honor '85 Bears Super Bowl Champion Steve Mongo McMichael, who is battling ALS.
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Several celebrities, including wrestling legend Ric Flair, are set to appear. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/money-for-mongo-event-held-in-schaumburg-to-raise-money-for-former-bears-player-battling-als | 2022-09-03T04:17:21Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/money-for-mongo-event-held-in-schaumburg-to-raise-money-for-former-bears-player-battling-als | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Rammstein blasts into Soldier Field for fiery performance
CHICAGO - It's a spectacle that draws fans from around the globe, and this Saturday, Rammstein is blasting into Soldier Field for an unforgettable performance.
The German rock band founded in 1994 is known for its pyrotechnic displays, but seldom plays in the United States.
"The show is designed to look very spectacular or very dangerous," said Nicolai Sabottka, Rammstein tour director.
Diehard fans from near and far have waited years to see the fiery performance in-person.
With more than 10 million albums sold worldwide, Rammstein is Germany’s most successful band of all time.
"I love the music, I love the beat and the fire show," said Kim Kucera, who is visiting from Iowa.
On its first-ever full scale North American Stadium Tour, Rammstein is taking center stage in the Windy City on Saturday, Sept. 3.
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Taking place at Soldier Field, the stage and set – comprised of 1,500 tons of steel – takes days to assemble. Flown in from overseas, the production parts are carried to the stadium in dozens of trucks and assembled by hundreds of crew members.
"We came over from Europe in seven 747 aircrafts, so it gives you a bit of an idea of the scale of it," said Sabottka.
Each show boasts nearly 600 pyro effects. The highest flames soar 60 feet in the air and reach over 1,000 degrees.
"It’s going to be cool. I’ve never been to an NFL stadium before, and I’ve never seen Rammstein before, so it’s like a double whammy," said Jake Kucera.
Visiting from Iowa, Jake Kucera's wife, Kim, got him hooked on Rammstein. She’s been a fan since the nineties and saw the band perform in Denver in 2012. She bought tickets for this tour in January of 2020 – waiting out the show’s pandemic postponements until now.
"Never thought I’d get to see them again and then two years ago they announced this tour. It was put off because of COVID, and now we’re finally here," said Kim Kucera. "It’s just an amazing stage show, and the beat is heavy and it’s awesome."
Saturday’s show, which starts at 7 p.m., is nearly sold out.
On Friday, Rammstein announced its Europe Stadium Tour, which kicks off next summer. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/rammstein-blasts-into-soldier-field-for-fiery-performance | 2022-09-03T04:17:27Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/rammstein-blasts-into-soldier-field-for-fiery-performance | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Talk about Bananas.
Former Red Sox and Phillies closer Jonathan Papelbon pitched for the Savannah Bananas — a Coastal Plain League team that’s gained fame for its antics — while wearing a kilt. But perhaps even more shockingly, he did it with his 2007 World Series trophy behind the mound.
Papelbon, who recorded the final out in Boston’s sweep of the Rockies in the 2007 Fall Classic, came out to his usual entrance song, “Shipping Up to Boston,” with the trophy in hand. He raised the trophy above his head before doing an Irish jig of sorts, befitting of the Bananas, then fired a pitch that missed inside.
Strangely, Papelbon rocked a No. 27 jersey, instead of the No. 58 that he wore throughout his 12 seasons in the big leagues.
Papelbon, 41, last pitched in the majors with the Nationals in 2016, but technically he never retired.
The rowdy right-hander told Rob Branford on WEEI’s Live BP Show in January that he doesn’t intend to hang up his cleats.
“I’m never going to retire. It’s never going to happen,” Papelbon said. “I don’t care if I’m on my death bed like Ted Williams thinking he can hit at 90. I’m just never retiring. That’s just the fact and how it’s going.”
While Papelbon had primarily stayed out of the limelight in recent years, he’s started to reemerge in headlines the past couple of months.
Papelbon dismissed the hype around Edwin Diaz’s entrance song “Narco” on a podcast last month, claiming his Dropkick Murphy’s song outranks that.
And in July, the controversial closer ragged on ESPN’s Derek Jeter docuseries “The Captain,” suggesting the network should produce a project on “the real captain,” referring to former Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/02/jonathan-papelbon-pitches-in-kilt-alongside-world-series-trophy/ | 2022-09-03T04:29:50Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/02/jonathan-papelbon-pitches-in-kilt-alongside-world-series-trophy/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Four men were injured in a drive-by shooting outside a motorcycle club that was hosting a party in Brooklyn Friday evening, police and sources said.
A suspect inside a white sedan opened fire in front of 223 Russell Street in an industrial section of Greenpoint at about 8:30 p.m., according to the NYPD.
“People started yelling that they were wounded, hurt,” witness Andrew Duszkiewicz told The Post.
A 24-year-old man was shot in the arm, a 41-year-old was hit in the head, a 30-year-old was struck in the back and the fourth victim was shot in the arm and grazed in the head, sources said.
All of the victims were expected to recover, officials said.
The address is home to a biker club, police said, and a party was underway at the time, according to law enforcement sources.
About a dozen motorcycles were lined up outside the club in the hours after the shooting.
Duszkiewicz, 55, said he was riding a Citi Bike when he saw gunfire erupt and called 911.
“A vehicle behind me started accelerating and I let him pass. He stopped in front here where motorcycles were parked and started firing,” Duszkiewicz told The Post.
“I dropped the bike to the ground over here and I was going to hide behind a vehicle because I thought they were going to shoot at me. The vehicle definitely stopped. After the final shot, I heard the screeching of the vehicle pull away.”
It was unclear if the victims were associated with the club or attending the party, but Duszkiewicz, a lifelong neighborhood resident, said it appeared as if the men were not seriously injured.
“They didn’t seem as if they were in horrible distress because they were large individuals, large men and I guess they could handle the pain,” he said.
The shocking display of violence in the industrial area, not far from a rapidly gentrifying residential community, also gave the Brooklynite pause.
“I still consider it to be … Mayberry from the “Andy Griffith Show.” Even now it’s still safe. It’s random but it happens,”
No arrests were made by late Friday.
Additional reporting by Jesse O’Neill | https://nypost.com/2022/09/02/nyc-biker-club-shooting-leave-4-injured-nypd/ | 2022-09-03T04:30:02Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/02/nyc-biker-club-shooting-leave-4-injured-nypd/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Hillside finishes strong to defeat Bernards
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Hillside High School’s football team used a strong second half Friday night to put Bernards away. The Comets avenged a loss to the Mountaineers last year with a season-opening 35-20 victory. Bernards is 1-1.
Hillside had three touchdowns wiped out by penalty, but managed to break free with standout senior quarterback Caleb Salters, senior running back Kyron Simonson and senior linemen Zamir Hawk leading the way. | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/03/big-central-conference-nj-football-hillside-finishes-strong-for-win/65462842007/ | 2022-09-03T04:35:02Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/03/big-central-conference-nj-football-hillside-finishes-strong-for-win/65462842007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Bridgewater-Raritan football rallies for dramatic win over Union
UNION TOWNSHIP (Union) – Three of the biggest advantages the Bridgewater-Raritan High School football knew it had this season were depth – especially at the skill positions – a stout defense, and a reliable, battle-tested varsity kicker.
All three proved absolutely crucial Friday night in the Panthers’ first win under new head coach Rick Mantz.
In a game that was scoreless through three quarters, senior Antione Hinton capped a 12-play 69-yard drive with a 2-yard game-tying TD run with 3:45 remaining in regulation, before senior kicker Sam Valeria added the point-after that proved to be the winner Friday night, and Bridgewater-Raritan’s defense did the rest, as the Panthers rallied for a 7-6 road win over Union at Cook Field.
Union had several chances fall by the wayside, including a late-third-quarter drive that ended when Brandon Amoafo recovered a fumble on the BR 1-yard line on a 1st-and-goal.
The Farmers finally broke through early in the fourth, thanks to a brilliant connection.
Faced with a 3rd-and-10 after quarterback Omalley King was nearly picked off on the previous play, Union delivered. King hit Omar Ibrahim with a perfectly placed pass as he crossed into the left side of the end zone, and it was 6-0 after the kick failed.
But Bridgewater-Raritan responded immediately to go ahead, before holding the Farmers without a first down on their ensuing possession to close it out.
“After halftime we just came out with a different mentality. We just wanted to pound the ball, and we just had the mindset that we weren’t going to give up,” said Hinton, a cornerback who was on Ibrahim when he caught the TD. “I didn’t have a good drive on the last one, I let one up, so I had to keep my head up. My team had faith in me and we drove down the field and got it done.”
“The kids never quit,” Mantz said. “I was wondering, when Union scored, would we be able to respond? And they did -- in a big way.”
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Eight different ball carriers had touches running the ball for Bridgewater-Raritan. Hinton led the way with 16 carries for 71 yards, with Joseph Locrotondo adding 56 yards on 12 carries.
Senior C.J. Michaels and junior Dane Sorrenson weren’t part of the running back group until the winning drive, but each picked up huge gainers on that trip down the field, as well as the ensuing drive that saw Bridgewater-Raritan run out the clock.
“We had some guys that were dinged up a little bit, so we had to have that depth,” Mantz said. “(Nice) to see Dane Sorrenson bust one like that; and C.J. (Stevens) popped one; and the fullback, little Joey Locrotondo, did an amazing job.”
“We’ve got a lot of weapons,” Hinton said. “We have guys that can do everything. From quarterback, top fullback to receiver. Every position on the field, we got it.”
The gamer started inauspiciously for Bridgewater-Raritan, which went 3-and-out on the game’s first drive, including a seven-yard loss on second down and a bad snap on the punt attempt that gave Union the ball at the Panthers 17-yard line. But BR held, stopping Union on the 11 on a 4th-and-4, with Frank Righetti stopping King for no gain.
Bridgewater-Raritan had a chance on its first drive of the second quarter, riding a 12-play, 77-yard drive to the Union 1-yard line, before a procedure penalty pushed the Panthers back. That brought in Valeira, who bounced a 23-yard field goal attempt off the upright, and the game remained scoreless.
He certainly got his redemption.
“He felt really bad, obviously the first half missing that field goal,” Mantz said, “But I said, ‘Sammy. Relax. You’re going to get another chance.’ And he did. And that’s why he’s a special kid and our kicker.”
In all, Bridgewater-Raritan’s defense held the Farmers to just 65 first-half yards, and just 243 for the game, with most of those coming on some big runs by senior Todd Francis in the second half. He finished with 161 yards on 18 carries, with 90 of those yards coming on four runs.
“(Defensive coordinator) DJ (Catalano) has done a great job with those guys,” Mantz said. “They were playing a little hurt and banged up, too. These (Union) guys are explosive. They’ve got weapons and speed and the quarterback is a great athlete. But we found a way to come up with a stop. We’d give up a big play, but we’d find a way to stop them on the next one – for the most part. That one over the top was a great throw and catch. Nothing you can do.”
WHAT IT MEANS
Bridgewater-Raritan, which fell to state-power Passaic Tech last weekend, secures its first victory under new head coach Rick Mantz. The Panthers are 1-1.
For Union, the loss snaps an 11-game winning streak over Big Central Conference opponents, going back to a Week 3 loss to Ridge in 2020. The Farmers are 0-1.
THEY SAID IT
“’Lock in’ was our mentality going into the third and fourth. That four-down stop was really big. We needed it.” – Bridgewater-Raritan running back/cornerback Antoine Hinton on his team’s attitude after a scoreless first three quarters.
WHAT’S NEXT
Bridgewater-Raritan opens its American Silver Division schedule at Hillsborough next Friday night. Union is at Westfield on Saturday in its American Gold opener.
BOX SCORE
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN (1-1) 0-0-0-7—7
UNION (0-1) 0-0-0-6 --6
SCORING
U – Omar Ibrahim 32 pass from Omalley King (kick failed)
BR – Antoine Hinton 2 run (Sam Valeira kick)
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING: BR—Bray 2-0, Spirra 23-19, Hinton 16-71, Locrotondo 12-56, Davis 2-11, Sorenson 2-27. CJ Stevens 6-64, Ca. Stevens 4-11; U—King 4-26, Stewart 4-11, Francis 18-161, Hinton 1-3.
PASSING: M— BR—Bray 2-5-0-0-48, Spirra 0-0-0-0; U—King 4-11-1-0-42.
RECEIVING: BR—Locrotondo 1-17, M. Maciolek 1-31; U—Ibrahim 2-38, Dorilas 2-4.
Simeon Pincus has been covering NJ sports since 1997. He can be reached at SPincus@GannettNJ.com. Follow him on Twitter @SimeonPincus. | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/03/bridgewater-raritan-nj-football-union/65462826007/ | 2022-09-03T04:35:08Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/03/bridgewater-raritan-nj-football-union/65462826007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
North Hunterdon cruises past Cranford to get second win of the season
CRANFORD − The North Hunterdon Lions had so many opportunities last season to chance to close a football game out, the opportunity to take a late lead, or the determination to cut a deficit, but wound up failing.
All five of the Lions losses last season came by two scores or less. Head coach Kevin Kley described 2021 as a “reboot”, as the Lions had a junior-heavy lineup that was still finding their way. North Hunterdon learned their lessons in 2021 and isn’t interested in anymore growing pains in 2022, instead wanting to trend upwards week-to-week.
The Lions (2-0) have done that so far this young season, and put on a dominating performance by defeating Cranford (0-1) 34-7 in a week one Big Central Conference tilt that was never in doubt.
Seniors Kente Edwards ran for two touchdowns, Luke Martini ran and threw for a touchdown each, and Alex Uryniak added a touchdown on the ground to lead North Hunterdon in a game that was circled on all of their calendars.
“This win feels great,” senior quarterback Luke Martini said. “We came here last year and blew it and came up just short in the end. But we came out here tonight and dominated in all aspects of the game and finished the game. We’ve been preaching finish, finish, finish. Finish practice, finish lifting, finish games. We came out here and won but more importantly we finished well.”
The Lions defense laid the foundation for their success tonight, as they forced Cranford into a three-and-out on the Cougars first two possessions, and then senior running back/linebacker Alex Uryniak intercepted Cranford senior quarterback Liam Godwin on their third possession.
North Hunterdon would end up capitalizing on the two three-and-outs with two touchdowns and just kept adding more defensive pressure to go along with a consistently powerful offensive performance.
“We have a strong senior class that knows how to lead and set the tone,” head coach Kevin Kley said. “[Cranford] is a really good team every year and [Erik Rosenmeier] is one of the best coaches in the area. We knew what we had to get out there, get a quick stop and score early. We feel like if we can get that three-and-out and then score right away, we feel that we really thrive off of that. It really allows one thing to pile on to another and today it rolled pretty well.”
What it means
The Lions avenged their opening night, overtime loss to Cranford last season by throttling the Cougars this time around. After starting off 1-3 last season and needing to rally to make the playoffs, North Hunterdon has started 2022 off at 2-0 and is gaining confidence by the day, headed by the likes of Martini, Uryniak, Kente Edwards, and Derek Vaddis.
Key plays
After forcing Cranford off the field quickly with a three-and-out to open the game, the Lions got the ball at their own 20.
After slowly moving the ball up the field for three plays, Martini connected with junior Tyler Anderson for 28 yards on a third-and-four, then Edwards ran for a 48-yard gainer inside the Cranford five-yard line a few plays later. Edwards would score from three yards out to open the scoring at 6-0 Lions.
Cranford would again go three-and-out on their next possession and the Lions capitalized. Martini scored from two yards out, then completed the two-point conversion to junior Joey Edwards and North Hunterdon quickly led 14-0.
With a 21-0 lead to open the second half, North Hunterdon took over at its own 40-yard line. Rather than starting to drain the clock to keep the Cranford offense off the field, Kley went in for the kill.
Two plays into the half Cranford was called for pass interference, then Martini connected with Vaddis one play later for a 47-yard touchdown to extend the lead, which was 28-0 after the PAT.
By the numbers
The 2022 season continues to be a coming-out party for Edwards and Uryniak, who dominated on both sides of the ball. Offensively, Edwards ran the ball 18 times for 138 yards and two touchdowns and Uryniak had 58 yards and a touchdown on nine carries.
In just two games Edwards has a total of 379 rushing yards and four touchdowns.
On the defensive end as a linebacker, Uryniak totaled 16 tackles and an interception. Edwards played in the secondary and racked up eight tackles on the night.
Martini had 170 yards and a touchdown on 12-of-15 passing and added a rushing touchdown as well.
Vaddis caught four passes for 77 yards and added a touchdown at the beginning of the third quarter.
They said it
Kley on last year’s game vs Cranford: “The one game that stuck with us from last year was here at Cranford. Our second game of the year and a game that we lost in overtime after being up by two touchdowns in the fourth quarter. It really led to our mantra all off-season and all preseason that we needed to finish. Against Hunterdon Central we finished the game but it wasn’t pretty. Tonight was a much better job finishing. I don’t think any game is necessarily a must-win but this was definitely one that we really wanted to win.”
Kley on the Lions’ offensive tempo: “We want to score a touchdown on the first play of every drive but at the same time once you get a lead you want to start eating into a clock a bit and move more methodically downfield. But the beauty of our team is that Kente can hit a home run anytime, Luke can throw a home run anytime like the third-quarter score and we’re also pretty good at getting three or four yards a pop whenever we need to. It’s nice to be able to do a lot of different things on offense.”
Martini on his performance tonight: “It’s huge for me. Week one, it’s always tough to start out with not the best individual performance but I just had to refocus for tonight. You watch the film and learn from your mistakes and just try to improve week to week. I think I did that well this week and played a much better game tonight.”
Martini on the Lions’ defensive performance: “It’s always huge when you start on defense and force a three-and-out and get the ball with 13 minutes on the clock. Then they force another three-and-our and then get a pick, it energizes the offense to do our job. We played very well all around tonight.”
What’s next
Cranford will play its first road game of the year at Summit next Saturday in what is the Big Central United Gold Division opener for both sides.
North Hunterdon will also play its division (Big Central Liberty Silver) opener next Friday night at Watchung Hills. | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/03/north-hunterdon-nj-football-cranford/65462831007/ | 2022-09-03T04:35:14Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/03/north-hunterdon-nj-football-cranford/65462831007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Phillipsburg football takes advantage of Sayreville miscues to win season-opener
SAYREVILLE — Big plays were the story Friday night as Phillipsburg, No. 23 in the USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey Top 25 rankings, outlasted Sayreville, 14-7, in the season opener for both schools on Friday evening.
Phillipsburg, No. 2 in the MyCentralJersey.com Big Central Conference rankings, scored on a 74-yard run by Xavier Moore in the first quarter and a 68-yard interception return by John Wargo in the third.
Sayreville, No. 5 in the BCC rankings, scored its touchdown on a 77-yard tear by Zaimer Wright in the third.
The Bombers squandered a touchdown on a fumble at the goal line in the third quarter and muffed a punt deep in its own territory midway through the fourth. The pick-six came after quarterback Michael Colonello suffered an upper body injury early in the third quarter and was thrown by a sophomore reserve making his first varsity pass attempt.
Moore was the game’s leading rusher with 161 yards on 18 carries, while Wright paced Sayreville with 123 yards on 19 tries.
What it means
Phillipsburg captured its season opener for the 14th time in the last 15 seasons, the lone blemish suffered in last season’s loss to St. Joseph of Montvale.
Sayreville lost its season opener for the fourth year in a row and opened 0-2 (or worse) in each of the last three campaigns.
The Stateliners also evened the series between the two perennial powers. Each side has won on the other’s home field. The Bombers' triumph carries more cache as it came in the opening round of the 2016 playoffs en route to the North 2, Group 4 title.
Key play
Sayreville had its best starting field position at the Phillipsburg 47 after getting a crucial stop on a fourth-and-2 near midfield early in the third quarter.
Colonello opened the drive with his best run of the night, a 13-yard keeper up the middle, but was shaken up on the play and did not return.
Three plays later, Wargo picked off a pass and delivered the game-winning touchdown with 1:32 remaining in the third quarter.
By the numbers
The Stateliners were able to move the ball on the ground all evening, gaining 201 yards on 21 first-half carries and finishing with 301 yards from 39 rushes.
The teams played a clean first half before a barrage of three turnovers in a four and a half minute span late in the third quarter. Sayreville committed three second-half turnovers and each cost it dearly.
Game ball
For all of Moore’s exploits, Wargo may have been the game’s most influential player.
He delivered the game-winning touchdown with his third-quarter pick-six, and also sent the tone for the contest much earlier, stuffing Wright for a two-yard loss on his first touch of the season.
Other than his touchdown sprint, Phillipsburg limited Wright, who ran for 1,400 yards and 25 touchdowns last fall, to 46 yards for his other 18 attempts.
They said it
“They broke off that one jet sweep and No. 2 (Wright) is an outstanding back, he’s one of the best in the state,” Phillipsburg coach Frank Duffy said. “I liked the way we responded after that. We had some adversity throughout that game and it really could have went the other way for us.”
“We have to give credit to Phillipsburg, they capitalized and we didn’t,” Sayreville coach Chris Beagan said. “Teams beat themselves and the team that makes the fewest mistakes wins the game. I thought our defense held tight all game long. I was proud of our defense the way they hung in there all game long.”
Up next
Both teams are on the road next Friday as Phillipsburg travels to Ridge, and Sayreville heads to New Brunswick. | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/03/phillipsburg-nj-football-sayreville-2022-season/65462815007/ | 2022-09-03T04:35:20Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/03/phillipsburg-nj-football-sayreville-2022-season/65462815007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On certain days, metal detectors and scanners at the Kannur airport become "non-functional". This happens when specific Customs officials on duty briefly squeeze their eyes shut.
In the words of smuggling gang leader Mr M, these officers would be on ‘setting’ at that time. (Smugglers use the word ‘setting’ to denote behind-the-door agreements with Customs officials).
Heaps of gold would flow out of the airport on such days. Malayala Manorama got a clear lead on one such tainted Customs official who abets smuggling gangs at Kannur airport. When we took up the matter with the airport Customs officials, they nodded in agreement.
The officials said an inquiry against the officer, especially his alleged dealings with gold smuggling gangs, is progressing. On August 14, a gold mixture weighing 1.416 kg concealed in the knee cap (worn to relieve knee pain) was seized at Kannur airport, and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) arrested the carrier.
No gang will be ready to bring in nearly 1.5 kg of gold and take the massive risk without the 'setting'. Carriers themselves will be in the dark about which of the officers collude with the gang, as what happened in the case mentioned above.
The Customs intelligence wing suspects the hand of the accused officer in aiding the carrier. (If the DRI team had not turned up, the carrier would have easily sneaked out of the airport without any trouble).
No hurdles, but golden opportunities
The gold smuggling gangs say sneaking in gold through the Mumbai and Delhi airports via 'setting' is relatively "easy and risk-free." There are not many flights to the airports in Kerala, so it's risky to smuggle gold through them continuously.
However, that is not the situation in Mumbai. There is a heavy rush of flights, and no one will monitor all the illegal activities.
Agent Shabeer appeared convincing when he disclosed that the most suitable time to sneak in gold through the airport is during emergencies or peak hours. Kerala-based gangs used such a ploy when they illegally flew in the yellow metal in large quantities via chartered flights during the Covid period.
The nexus between smuggling gangs and certain Customs personnel is such that they would collaborate and also pose hurdles to each other.
As per the information available, at times some Customs officials take the initiative to have a 'setting' with smugglers. Often such personnel would approach gangs through the carriers getting arrested at airports. The gangs also list such fallible officers and entice them for 'setting.'
They would first approach the Customs personnel through an agent near the airport. If they find that the officer in question can be lured into the trap, the smuggling gang in Dubai would directly contact them and fix the rate.
This officer will, in turn, make certain lower rung personnel too a part of the nexus. Often the ‘reward’ will be a fixed percentage of the profit. However, smugglers would often show their true colours here. They trick such Customs personnel into believing that only half a kg of gold was being sneaked out, while in reality, the quantity would be double or more. Such cases of double-crossing would come to light only when the carrier gets caught and reveals everything. The officials, too, act smart. After every 10 or 20 smuggling instances, they would occasionally catch the carriers of their gang.
Top-ranking officers too part of the nexus
Agent Shabeer threw more light into the dirty business. “When it comes to 'setting,' the Mumbai airport is the best. Certain high-ranking officers are part of the nexus. Full-batch ‘setting' means three to four kg of gold can be smuggled out in a single attempt.
The team of Agent Haneefka, a Kasaragod native, employs such a method. He will charge Rs 1.20 to 1.30 lakh per kg. Higher charges are demanded due to the presence of top-level officers. The 'carrier' charges are extra. Though the method is costly, it's risk-free. The officers will ensure safe passage. The contraband can be kept even in pockets and sneaked out," he said.
"The teams from Kasaragod and Koduvally have ‘settings’ in Mumbai and are ready for partnerships. We face minimum risk. They demand Rs 1.10 lakh a kilo as ‘setting’ charges. This will rise to Rs 1.50 lakh if the carrier expense too is included. We can smuggle up to three kg of gold in a single bid. Daily, two or three attempts can be easily made. The gangs based in Koduvally now smuggle gold through Mumbai."
"In the case of the Delhi airport, there is one Cargo Superintendent to help us. He was earlier part of our smuggling nexus. He got transferred out after some time but has returned. With him, it's very safe. He will take care of things very well. If that happens, you don't have to worry about anything," he added.
‘Setting’ in Kerala airports
"We have one official. But he is an alcoholic. Often, he will be drunk after duty hours. He may suddenly change his stance too. We will get in touch with him only if the situation warrants it. We can’t trust him fully if he is inebriated. We are told not to send any carrier having a passport address belonging to Kasargod. We will try it if we get a carrier hailing from Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, and Pathanamthitta. But if we could arrange a 'setting,' it's safe. He won't cheat. The work can be finished quickly," Shabeer said.
Kozhikode
‘Setting’ is readily available in Karipur.
Kannur
"It will cost Rs 70 000 to smuggle 750 grams of gold via 'setting.' This can go up to a maximum of 1 kg. We have to tell them the matter and give some additional amount. When the profit was nearly Rs three lakhs, they asked for a reward of Rs 60,000. Now that the profit from the smuggling business has gone high, they are also demanding more. But we should be careful as the passenger traffic in Kannur airport is less. We can’t sneak in gold continuously."
Kochi
"If we need, we can set up a setting. We can send our goods with the help of families. We can approach women who return from the Gulf after spending three months with their husbands.”
The staff stabbing in the back
Shabeer claims gold smuggling happens without carriers too. “In this case, 24 gold bars of Tola 116.64 grams were smuggled in one go. Some crew of certain foreign airlines and the staff deployed at the Mumbai airport were behind this.
"It works like this. The contraband is brought to rooms of the airline staff outside the Dubai airport and handed over to them. They will return it to us in Mumbai the next day morning. Since it’s a risky ploy, the charges are a bit higher. The airline crew should be given 10,000 dirhams (Rs 2.2. lakh).
"Those who hand over the contraband in Mumbai should be given Rs 12 000 per gold bar (total of Rs 2.88 lakh). The total expense will come to around Rs 5.08 lakh. Since 2.784 kg of gold is smuggled, the profit will be around Rs 10 lakh after the costs," he revealed.
Another method is to sneak in the gold with the help of the same airline crew. The carrier will hide the gold among tissue papers or in waste bins at the aircraft lavatories. The crew will sneak the gold out. "However, we would know about the aircraft used only at the last minute. The Customs officers usually won't enter and inspect the plane of big airlines," he said.
(This is the third part of the investigative series on gold smuggling by Malayala Manorama.)
Part 1: The capsule that crosses the seas! How gold smuggling thrives without a bar | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/gold-smuggling-series-third-part.html | 2022-09-03T04:58:29Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/gold-smuggling-series-third-part.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived here on Friday evening to attend the 30th southern zonal council meeting of the south Indian States and Union Territories to be held in the Kerala state capital on September 3.
Besides Shah, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Chief Ministers and Ministers of other southern states -- Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana -- and Lieutenant Governors of the southern Union Territories of Puducherry, Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar Islands would take part in the meeting.
The meeting would hold discussions on matters of interest among the states and also between the states and the central government, according to a release issued by the Chief Minister's office (CMO).
The CMO had also said that a special cultural programme would be held for those attending the council meeting. The programme would be part of the week-long Onam celebrations in Kerala.
The Union Minister and Chief Ministers have been invited to witness the Nehru trophy boat race scheduled in Alappuzha on September 4.
On arrival here, Shah was greeted by a large crowd of BJP members, workers and supporters who were waiting for hours outside the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport holding party flags and braving the rain.
The Union Home Minister for a brief moment waved to his supporters and party workers, who shouted 'Bharat mata ki jai' and 'Jai jai BJP' slogans, from atop an open jeep after coming out of the airport.
Thereafter, he left the airport in another vehicle.
Shah would also be attending a Scheduled Castes meeting organised here by the state BJP on Saturday afternoon. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/03/amit-shah-arrives-kerala-south-zonal-meet.amp.html | 2022-09-03T04:58:31Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/03/amit-shah-arrives-kerala-south-zonal-meet.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pathanamthitta: The condition of a girl, who took three anti-rabies vaccine shots after getting bitten by a stray dog, has worsened.
Abhirami, 12, was admitted to Kottayam Medical College Hospital on Friday night in critical condition.
Abhirami is the daughter of Harish from Sheena Bhavan, Mandappuzha Cherthalappadi in Perunad. She was attacked and bitten by a stray dog when she went out to buy milk on Perunad Carmel Engineering College Road on August 14. There were six bite wounds on her legs and another one on her face near the eye.
The first vaccine was taken from Pathanamthitta General Hospital. The next two doses were taken from Perunad Family Health Centre. The hospital had informed that the fourth dose of vaccine was due on September 10.
As the girl had developed some physical discomfort, she was taken to a private hospital in Pathanamthitta on Thursday. She was sent home from the private hospital after taking an X-Ray. On Friday evening, her condition worsened. She was foaming at the mouth and her eyes rolled upwards. She was taken to the Pathanamthitta General Hospital immediately.
After being assessed as highly critical, she was taken to the Kottayam Medical College Hospital on Friday night. Abhirami is a 7th grade student at Mailapra SH School.
20 people died of rabies infection in 2022
With anxiety mounting in the state over the recent deaths of some people due to rabies infection despite vaccination, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had recenty assured that the government would set up an expert panel to examine the quality of the anti-rabies vaccine being given in hospitals in the state.
Chief Minister said the recent deaths due to the rabies infection have triggered a huge concern among people and a panel could be deployed to study about the vaccines also.
A total of 20 people have died due to rabies infection in Kerala so far this year. Of them, 15 persons had not taken the prescribed anti-rabies vaccine and one had accepted the jab only partially.
However, four among the deceased had received the vaccine as prescribed by the health experts.
While the total number of reported dog bites was over 1.35 lakh in 2017, it has shot to 1,83,931 so far this year. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/03/pathanamthitta-girl-anti-rabies-vaccine-critical.amp.html | 2022-09-03T04:58:55Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/03/pathanamthitta-girl-anti-rabies-vaccine-critical.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A suspect accused of possessing child pornography who is tied to the 2017 murders of two teenage girls in Delphi, Indiana, has been soliciting sexual favors from women who write him in prison, according to two podcast hosts.
“In addition to wanting money, women have been contacting him, and he is trying to exploit them sexually in order to give them information about the case,” podcast host and attorney Kevin Greenlee told Fox News Digital. “There was a particularly striking exchange where a … young woman was asking about the case and talking about church, and he responded very quickly by turning it into a sexual conversation.”
Kegan Kline, 27, is currently in custody in Miami County, Indiana, for 30 counts of child pornography-related charges dating back to 2016 and 2017. He was linked to the Delphi murders after he was reportedly in contact with one of the victims, 14-year-old Libby German, the night before she was murdered, according to FOX 59 Indianapolis.
German and Abigail Williams, 13, were found murdered on the morning of Feb. 13, 2017, after German’s sister dropped the pair off at the entrance of a hiking trail the day prior.
Kline allegedly made plans to meet up with German at the bridge where her body was found the next day, but he denies that he had anything to do with the girls’ killings and has not been charged in connection to the Delphi case.
Greenlee and journalist Áine Cain who host “The Murder Sheet” podcast and have been following the Delphi murder case, were recently in contact with Kline via a messaging platform that Kline can use to communicate with others outside prison.
One woman who wrote to Kline told the podcast hosts that the suspect offered to give her information if she allowed him to masturbate in front of her via FaceTime. He also reportedly attempted to get the adult women who have contacted him in prison to perform sexual favors in exchange for information, which Greenlee noted in the latest episode of “The Murder Sheet” podcast is particularly disturbing given the crimes Kline is accused of.
In addition, Kline repeatedly told Cain and Greenlee that he would not divulge any information without payment, which the podcast hosts declined to do as journalists.
“Don’t message me again. You have put out so much bulls*t against me. I get you have a podcast and want money from this, but it’s wrong what you’re doing, Aine,” Kline said in one message to Cain that she and Greenlee discussed in their latest podcast episode.
“There is a lot of misinformation. People doing interviews that don’t even know me, Aine, and lying all about me. I’m very upset about it. I’m having a hard enough time,” another message from Kline read.
“How many questions are you wanting to ask? I’ll answer some, but not for free. Everyone is making money off my name, and I’m sitting in here hungry with nothing,” Kline said in another message, which does not support what sources have told the podcast hosts about Kline gaining a significant amount of weight in prison.
The podcast hosts have reported extensively on the Delphi murders and Kline, and they wanted to reach out to the suspect to give him a chance to share his side of the story. When Cain and Greenlee asked Kline what they got wrong in their reporting, he evaded the question and said he would only provide answers in exchange for $400.
“I would characterize our conversation with Kegan Kline as pretty brief,” Cain explained. “… He expressed disapproval of some of our reporting on him. We asked him for clarification. He didn’t provide it. The main thing that we took out of it was that he wants to charge people money to interview him about the Delphi case.”
Indiana court documents obtained by Cain and Greenlee in May and August also indicate possible developments in the case involving Kline.
Cain and Greenlee recently received an anonymous tip that led them to the Wabash River in Peru, Indiana, — not far from Kline’s home that was raided in 2017 after the Delphi murders — on Aug. 23, where they witnessed and photographed authorities searching the water with various tools.
On Aug. 19, the Indiana State Police petitioned the Miami County Circuit Court for custody of Kline, though he currently remains in Miami County.
In March, Cain and Greenlee obtained a 2020 transcript of an ISP interview with Kline that was accidentally posted online.
According to the transcript, which has since been sealed in the court record, Kline told police he communicated with German on the day she was killed. The transcript also revealed that Kline searched “How long does DNA last” on his computer and failed a police polygraph.
In December 2021, ISP said in a Facebook post that it had uncovered a fictitious Instagram account under the username “Anthony_Shots” during its investigation into the murders. The transcript indicates that Kline had access to the account, which had been in contact with German. Kline told investigators, however, that he gave the account password to “a lot of people,” according to the document.
“This profile was being used from 2016 to 2017 on social media applications, including but not limited to, Snapchat and Instagram,” Indiana police said in the Facebook post. “The fictitious anthony_shots profile used images of a known male model and portrayed himself as being extremely wealthy and owning numerous sports cars. The creator of the fictitious profile used this information while communicating with juvenile females to solicit nude images, obtain their addresses, and attempt to meet them. Pictured below, you’ll see images of the known male model and images the fictitious anthony_shots profile sent to underage females.”
Police say German used her cellphone to snap images of a man walking across the railroad bridge shortly before she and Williams were killed on Feb. 13, 2017. German also recorded the man believed to be the killer ordering the friends “down the hill.”
Authorities are asking anyone who may know something about the Instagram profile or anything about the case to contact law enforcement at abbyandlibbytip@cacoshrf.com or 765-822-3535. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/03/indiana-child-porn-suspect-kegan-kline-tied-to-delphi-murders-soliciting-sexual-favors-from-prison/ | 2022-09-03T05:03:35Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/03/indiana-child-porn-suspect-kegan-kline-tied-to-delphi-murders-soliciting-sexual-favors-from-prison/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Lessons learned at an early age helped propel Holly Parran Cousins into a career in education.
Her grandmother, Maimee Tyler, was an educator at Lane College during the 1930s. Cousins’ mother, Barbara, instilled the importance of education to her, and backed her words with action.
She obtained a college degree after raising five children, while working full time as a cartographer for the Defense Mapping Agency.
After graduation from Webster High School, Cousins earned a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts at Webster University and then her Masters degree in education.
She devoted more than 30 years to children’s education, serving 17 years as an elementary school teacher in the Jennings School District.
For her lifelong devotion to the classroom and excellence preparing young people for the future, Holly Cousins has been selected as the 2022 St. Louis American Foundation Lifetime Achiever.
She will be honored during the milestone 35th Annual Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship and Awards Gala on October 1 at America’s Center in downtown St. Louis.
While working in the Jennings School District at Fairview Elementary School, Cousins created the Special Friends program, which paired teachers and students as mentors and mentees.
After two years of success, the program was rechristened as "Special Friends Extended,” which paired each classroom from kindergarten to 8th grade [over 400 students] with professionalsfrom the St. Louis community.
“They would visit twice a year, and as high impact professional mentors had one-on-one, get-acquainted meetings with their mentee,” she explained.
“They then adjourned to class with that mentee, led a discussion and spoke to that class, guided by lesson plans that were prepared for each grade level on life skills.”
The importance of maintaining academic excellence, good character, citizenship, as well as advice on how to pursue career goals were part of the sessions.
If students had a career path in mind, they gained guidance from mentor’s on how to reach that goal.
The wide range of mentors included lawyers, doctors, engineers from various fields, dentists, architects, journalists, judges, psychiatrists, authors, teachers, elected public officials, first responders, clergy members, business and civic leaders and STEM professionals.
The program was expanded to five Jennings schools, three schools in the Riverview Gardens School District and a high school in Central California for four years.
She accomplished this feat while still teaching at Fairview, receiving no pay for nurturing her innovative project.
Since its modest creation in 2006, the program currently reaches 2,500 students yearly.
Always seeking new ways to help her school district, Cousins raised funds for a playground at Fairview, and library furniture for two other schools.
After retiring from teaching in 2013, Cousins continued the program maintaining a constant presence in schools and children's lives.
When COVID-19 struck in 2020 and schools were closed or operating on a limited schedule, Cousins “re-engineered and reimagined” her program.
The mentoring portion was reinstated, but only at Jennings High School. She added another dimension to the program: providing scholarships to JHS graduates.
Special Friends Extended has continued as the Holly Cousins Special Friends Extended Scholarship. Established in 2021, it awards two scholarships of $3,000 each to two graduating senior students “who demonstrate high academic achievement, leadership, promise and contribute to a positive social environment.”
Four scholarships have been awarded, one going to Joye Graham. She was a member of the National Honor Society and a former Fairview student.
She won the award along with Marena Keys, a National Honor Society member who was first in her class at JHS in 2022.
The motto of Special Friends Extended has always been “If they can see it, they can be it,” Cousins said. These words were spoken to her by her mother when Cousins first shared the ideas and elements of the program with her in 2006.
In addition to teaching, Cousins is a painter and has two of her works juried at Coastal Art Gallery in Half Moon Bay, California.
She was a co- recipient of the Frankie Muse Freeman/Norman R Sealy Commitment to St. Louis Award in 2017, was awarded the Peabody Locos Leadership in Education Award in 2011.
She served as a Board of Trustee member of the Saint Louis Art Museum from 2004 to 2012 and was a Forest Park Leffingwell Society Hat luncheon co-chair in 2011. She helped raise approximately $500,000 for Forest Park Forever.
She is a member of The Girl Friends, Inc., and The Paupers Club of St. Louis.
Cousins also serves on the Women’s Society Washington University Board.
She was born to Holland and Barbara Tyler Parran, and has four siblings, Cheryl, Holland Jr., Diana, and Faye.
She is married to Steve Cousins, a former partner at Armstrong Teasdale and current CEO of Cousins Allied Strategic Advisors. She has two daughters, Stephanie, an OBGYN physician, and Heather, a film editor. They both reside in California. | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/a-friend-of-education/article_fa9db900-2b16-11ed-a8f8-13c24ee7d8ad.html | 2022-09-03T05:05:44Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/a-friend-of-education/article_fa9db900-2b16-11ed-a8f8-13c24ee7d8ad.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pianolas: what they are and how they differ to the 'reproducing piano'
All you need to know about the pianola, which was hugely popular in the early 20th century
What is a pianola?
‘Pianola’ was the registered trade-name for the ‘player pianos’ made by the New York-based Aeolian Company. It became, albeit incorrectly, the generic term for any mechanically-operated piano that used piano rolls. From about 1900-1930 they were wildly popular.
Pianola types
There are, basically, two distinct sorts of pianola. Both operate using the same principles: a paper roll, hand-punched with holes that correspond to the duration and pitch of the notes, unwinds by means of a machine powered by two foot treadles (or electricity). Air pressure supplied through bellows activates the hammers of the piano through the holes in the paper. There are ‘piano players’ or ‘push-ups’ – an independently-housed machine containing sets of pneumatically-controlled felt-covered levers that fit over the keys of any ordinary piano – and ‘player pianos’, where the mechanism is built into the piano. Interpretation of the music is entirely down to the ‘pianolist’.
How did pianolas differ to the ‘reproducing piano’?
These are quite distinct from the ‘reproducing piano’ (another Aeolian copyright name) introduced in 1904. The rolls for these were ‘recorded’ on a specially equipped piano that could recognise all the expression, dynamics and tempos of a pianist’s performance. The interpretation relied on the play-back mechanism of the reproducing piano. Unlike pianolas, they were extremely expensive to own. Some cost more than the price of an average house, which is why there wasn’t much demand for music written for two reproducing pianos…
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What is harmony in music?
Discover the different types of harmony.
What is a harmony?
In music, a harmony refers to two or more complementary notes played or sung at the same time. For example, a choir may sing in harmony, with one section singing the melody while other sections sing the accompanying harmony.
As another example, when playing the piano, the right hand will most likely play the melody (the main recognisable tune), while the left hand will simultaneously play complementary notes or chords that work with the key and melody, and therefore create the harmony.
What are the different type of harmonies and techniques?
Four-part harmonies are frequently used in music, with the parts separated into the different ranges of soprano, alto, tenor and bass. This configuration may be used in arrangements for choral music as well as string quartets, for example.
Four-part harmonies are also often used in music written for keyboard instruments, such as the piano. For example, the left hand may play a series of triad chords (which contain three notes – the root and the third and fifth intervals above it), while the right hand plays the melody.
Harmonies can have different structures. For example, a piece may include parallel harmonies (also known as parallel motion), which is where two voices (or parts) travel in the same direction (up or down the scale) with the same number of intervals (the jumps between notes – from B to G, for example).
Other types of harmony include similar motion, where both parts travel in the same direction but with different intervals.
Static motion involves both parts repeating notes – for example, part one may play B, B, while part two plays G, G.
Oblique motion involves one part travelling up or down the scale while the other part plays the same note repeated.
Meanwhile, contrary motion sees one part travelling up the scale, while the other part travels down the scale.
All of these harmony techniques are used to help create extra interest, texture and dimension to a piece of music. | https://www.classical-music.com/features/musical-terms/what-is-harmony-in-music/ | 2022-09-03T05:07:03Z | classical-music.com | control | https://www.classical-music.com/features/musical-terms/what-is-harmony-in-music/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Which is Shostakovich's best symphony?
Rebecca Franks shares her personal ranking of her top seven symphonies by the great Soviet composer, Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich wrote 15 symphonies, spanning his entire creative life from when he was a teenage student at the Petrograd (now St Petersburg) Conservatory to not long before his death in the 1970s, by which point he was internationally renowned.
Most of the Soviet composer’s symphonies were about ‘the endless battle between good and evil,’ the composer’s son Maxim told The Times; Shostakovich’s life under a communist regime was inextricably tied to his artistic output.
Here is my run-down of Shostakovich's top seven symphonies.
The best Shostakovich symphonies
7. Symphony No. 1
In seventh place Shostakovich's first symphony. Where better to start this list than at the very beginning? Perhaps it’s provocative to place Shostakovich’s earliest symphony, written when he was just 19, above the eight other symphonies omitted from this list. But the first three symphonies tend to be overlooked – and the First is more than worth a listen, even if it’s later on that Shostakovich hits his symphonic stride. After its public premiere in 1926, a few years after it was written, this was the piece that put the young Soviet composer on the international map, with conductors taking it into their repertoire.
6. Symphony No. 5
Shostakovich's fifth symphony is in sixth place. The Fifth is regularly described as Shostakovich’s most popular symphony. After the the official damning of his successful opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, denounced in a Pravda article titled ‘muddle instead of music’, Shostakovich needed to write something to please the Soviet authorities. The result was Symphony No. 5, his ‘practical creative answer of a Soviet artist to just criticism’. Yet if the finale outwardly purports to offer triumph and celebration at the conclusion, there’s more than enough ambiguity for it to be heard as a hollow victory. The relentless repetitions of the note ‘A’ in the strings tell a quite different story. It is, Shostakovich reportedly said, ‘as if someone is beating you with a stick and saying your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing.’
5. Symphony No. 13
In fifth place is Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13. There’s no ambiguity in this symphony, which begins with a denunciation of anti-Semitism and Soviet indifference, with the first of five poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. The ‘Babi Yar’ Adagio gives the symphony its sobriquet, referring to the site where Nazis massacred Jews in 1941, and which was left without a memorial by the Russians. A fleet-footed satirical Allegretto mocks dictators who think they can stifle humour, followed by an Adagio that laments and pays tribute to the lot of women. Fear seeped into every corner of life in the Soviet Union, and it’s the subject of the Largo, before a finale that honours those who sacrificed their careers to maintain their integrity. Set for bass soloist, men’s chorus and a large orchestra, the Thirteenth is a courageous act of creative defiance that still resonates today.
4. Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 4 is in fourth place. This daring three-movement symphony is, says, the Grove Dictionary of Music, a ‘colossal synthesis of Shostakovich’s musical development to date’ – including his first three symphonies. The 29-year-old composer had nearly completed the piece, in 1936, when the critical Pravda article came out (see ‘Symphony No. 5’) but he decided not to change a note of the Fourth in response – even though it fell far from the demands of Socialist Realism. Yet at some point during the rehearsal process, the premiere was cancelled, perhaps as a result of pressure from the authorities. It wasn’t until 1961, in the decade after Stalin’s death, that the piece was heard in public. The ghost of Mahler is heard in its musical style and vast canvas (125 musicians) – and for all its dense strangeness, this symphony has risen in the public opinion since its premiere.
3. Symphony No. 15
In third place is Symphony No. 15. If all of Shostakovich’s symphonies have their bleak moments, the Fifteenth’s brand of bleakness is, well, the bleakest of all. This strange symphony skitters on the edge of absurdity and irony, its quotes from Rossini and Wagner inexplicable yet brilliant; its spare orchestration often unexpected yet always just right. Film-maker David Lynch said he was inspired by Symphony No. 15 when he made his film Blue Velvet – if you want an idea of just how weird, enigmatic and wonderful this piece is. Listen, question, just don’t expect any answers.
2. Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8 is in second place. The Eighth was, for pianist Sviatoslav Richter ‘the most important work’ by Shostakovich. The composer wrote the symphony in 1943, not long after the success of his Seventh ‘Leningrad’ Symphony, and under pressure to reflect the official triumphant mood after Soviet military gains over the Nazis. Shostakovich said in an interview that, ‘on the whole, it is an optimistic life-affirming work’, and the five movements do trace a journey from C minor to C major. But for many listeners, the music’s general demeanour suggests that his statement shouldn’t be taken at face value. Within this symphony is all the suffering, trauma and loss of war. If it ends in hope, it is only that somehow, afterwards, there are some survivors clinging on to the possibility of life.
1. Symphony No. 10
And the winner is the Symphony No. 10. Of all the symphonies, it’s the Tenth that packs the surest punch, seeming to speak both of the private and public, of torment and tyrants. It opens with a long Moderato, almost half the entire piece, that dances a slow waltz, tracing desolation, desperation, and deep weariness of the soul. ‘Structurally it is the most perfect single orchestral movement [Shostakovich] ever wrote,’ said conductor Mark Wigglesworth. It’s followed by a ferocious, fortissimo Allegro that, according to the (contested) book Testimony, was Shostakovich’s portrait of Stalin. Whatever the truth, the sheer rage unleashed in this music speaks volumes.
Shostakovich called the third movement a ‘nocturne’, but in fact it is another waltz, one filled with codes. Not only is the composer’s musical monogram – DSCH – stamped all over it, but a haunting horn call traces the so-called ‘Elmira’ motto, signifying a student with whom Shostakovich had fallen in love. The finale begins with slow, chilling music; it ends with a defiant statement of the DSCH motto and whirling energy. The Tenth Symphony was premiered on 17 December 1953; Stalin had died in March that year. | https://www.classical-music.com/features/works/shostakovichs-best-symphonies/ | 2022-09-03T05:07:09Z | classical-music.com | control | https://www.classical-music.com/features/works/shostakovichs-best-symphonies/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Nicola Benedetti launches the Virtual Baroque Sessions
The Benedetti Foundation will be running a week of online sessions, with guest artists ranging from violinist Rachel Podger to lutenist Elizabeth Kenny
The Benedetti Foundation has announced the launch of the Baroque Virtual Sessions, which will provide a week of online tuition on Baroque music-making.
From Monday 26 September, sessions will be hosted on social media, Zoom and YouTube, with live online sessions on 1 and 2 October.
Open to participants of all ages and stages, the sessions will be hosted by Baroque experts including violinist Rachel Podger, violist Clifton Harrison, cellist David Watkin, double bassist Carina Cosgrave, harpsichordist Steven Devine, percussionist Adrian Bending, oboist Leo Duarte, horn player Ursula Paludan Monberg and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny (lute).
Nicola Benedetti - Founder and Artistic Director of the Benedetti Foundation - commented, ‘This music can unlock a freedom inside of us. I have experienced it myself and I am desperate for everyone else to experience that too. I really hope you will join our incredible team of Baroque musicians to discover more about this joyous music.’
The sessions will consist of three stages:
1.Join in on social media: Monday 26 – Friday 30 September
Join in on the Benedetti Foundation’s social media platforms where short participation and information videos will be released from the Baroque experts. The videos will also be hosted on the Benedetti Foundation website.
2.Meet the Experts: Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 October
The team of Baroque specialists will deliver a series of live sessions on zoom across the weekend exploring the energetic and revolutionary world of baroque music. Participants may join as many sessions as they wish, and all sessions will be recorded and will be available to watch back within three months.
3.Discover Baroque Series: From Monday 26 September
Join the Benedetti Foundation on YouTube for Part 2 of the Discover Baroque Series hosted by David Watkin.
To get involved, sign up here.
Photo of Nicola Benedetti: Sara Platt
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Hannah Nepilova is a regular contributor to BBC Music Magazine. She has also written for The Financial Times, The Times, The Strad, Gramophone, Opera Now, Opera, the BBC Proms and the Philharmonia, and runs The Cusp, an online magazine exploring the boundaries between art forms. Born to Czech parents, she has a strong interest in Czech music and culture. | https://www.classical-music.com/news/nicola-benedetti-launches-the-virtual-baroque-sessions/ | 2022-09-03T05:07:15Z | classical-music.com | control | https://www.classical-music.com/news/nicola-benedetti-launches-the-virtual-baroque-sessions/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sarasota Opera announces its 2022-23 season Advertisement feature Sarasota Opera announces its 2022-23 season Tickets are now on sale for Sarasota Opera’s 2022-23 season featuring world-class opera productions, special events and concerts. 2022 Fall Season Opera Join Sarasota Opera for its 64th season during 2022-23. This fall audiences will be treated to plenty of recognisable favourites, such as Cimarosa’s The Secret Marriage (Il Matrimonio Segreto). The opera tells the tale of a social-climbing father who wants his eldest daughter to marry an aristocrat, and is prepared to buy his way in. This will be the first-ever run of The Secret Marriage in Sarasota Opera’s history. The fall lineup also features Sarasota Youth Opera’s performances of The Secret World of Og by Canadian composer Dean Burry, with orchestration commissioned specifically for the Youth Opera. The story has been a favourite with children since it was first published in 1961 – and the last time the work was performed at the Sarasota Opera House was in 2016. Discover more 2023 Winter Opera Festival The 2023 winter season kicks off on 18 February with an enduring classic and one of Giacomo Puccini’s most popular operas, Madama Butterfly. A Sarasota Opera favourite since its debut at the theatre in 1968, the story follows Cio-Cio San, a young geisha often called Madama Butterfly, who marries an American naval officer who then leaves with the promise that he will return one day. This production sees soprano Raquel González making her Sarasota Opera debut. The Winter season also presents Mozart’s comedy, Don Giovanni – the first time the work has been shown at the opera house since 2011. Audiences will be transported to 17th century Spain for a tale of obsession, betrayal, crime and retribution revolving around the infamous lover Don Juan, who leaves a path of broken hearts wherever he goes. The winter lineup also includes a US opera premiere — Thérèse by Massenet, which tells a story of unrequited love during the French Revolution. All operas will be performed in the original language with translations above the stage. Tickets for Sarasota Opera’s upcoming 2022-23 season are on sale now. | https://www.classical-music.com/sarasota-opera-announces-its-2022-23-season/ | 2022-09-03T05:07:21Z | classical-music.com | control | https://www.classical-music.com/sarasota-opera-announces-its-2022-23-season/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CAIRO, Ga. (WTXL) — The Cairo High School marching band is this week's ABC 27's Friday Night Overtime Band of the Week. The band performed on Friday at Cairo High School.
Thomasville defeated Cairo 36-27 in the football game.
CAIRO, Ga. (WTXL) — The Cairo High School marching band is this week's ABC 27's Friday Night Overtime Band of the Week. The band performed on Friday at Cairo High School.
Thomasville defeated Cairo 36-27 in the football game. | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/abc27s-friday-night-overtime/abc-27-friday-night-overtime-band-of-the-week-cairo-high-school | 2022-09-03T05:10:55Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/abc27s-friday-night-overtime/abc-27-friday-night-overtime-band-of-the-week-cairo-high-school | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW ORLEANS (WTXL) — Florida State fans are ready for Sunday's showdown in the Superdome. Some have been waiting for this weekend for a while, while others came on a whim, but all are ready to let the good times roll.
Florida State sold out of their 30,000 ticket allotment before LSU, and Sunday's game is sold out. | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/fsu/florida-state-fans-arrive-in-new-orleans-ready-to-let-the-good-times-roll | 2022-09-03T05:11:01Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/fsu/florida-state-fans-arrive-in-new-orleans-ready-to-let-the-good-times-roll | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — One person was hospitalized Friday night after a report of shots fired in Kalamazoo.
Officers say the call came in just after 8:00 for shots fired on Trimble Court. As officers were responding to the area, they got another call about a person that was shot on Charles Avenue.
Officers were able to reach a 37-year-old Kalamazoo man. He was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
Officers do not have information on a suspect.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety or Silent Observer at 269-343-2100. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/one-injured-after-shooting | 2022-09-03T05:15:57Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/one-injured-after-shooting | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Las Vegas man accused of attacking bus driver for not taking daughter to school
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5/Gray News) - A Las Vegas man is accused of attacking a Clark County School District bus driver after he refused to take his daughter to school.
The suspect identified as Otis Tanner, faces multiple charges after the Aug. 18 incident.
According to CCSD Police, the incident occurred around 6:34 a.m. as Valley High School Students were being taken to school.
According to CCSDPD, the bus driver was on his route when a man walked onto the bus.
The driver reportedly told the suspect to exit, but he refused.
The suspect reportedly positioned his body in the aisle, telling the bus driver, “make me, make me,” when he was told to exit the bus.
The bus driver reportedly grabbed the suspect’s arm, which led to him hitting the driver in the face multiple times with a closed fist, the arrest report said.
The suspect also reportedly kicked the driver from the bus to the ground outside and continued punching him, according to the report.
The bus driver told CCSDPD that he feared for his life and the lives of the students, according to the report.
Eventually, the driver pulled out a tire iron from the bus for self-defense.
The suspect then told the driver he was now a “mark” and that he “will be watching for him,” CCSDPD said in the report.
The altercation stemmed from an incident on Aug. 17, after the suspect’s daughter was not on the student list to be transported on his bus, so the driver refused to take her.
The bus driver reported feeling dizzy and sore after the altercation, causing him to request medical treatment because he thought he was going to vomit, CCSDPD said.
Multiple students had videos of the incident, according to CCSDPD.
Videos showed the bus driver grabbing the suspect’s arm to remove him from the bus before he started hitting the driver, the report said.
The suspect was arrested Aug. 19 near his home.
He told police he knew why he was stopped and admitted to hitting the driver multiple times, the report said.
He will face charges of burglary, battery on a protected person, and threat to a school employee.
According to court records, his bail was set at $25,000. His next court appearance was set for Sept. 27.
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EAST CHINA SEA (Sept. 1, 2022) Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 3rd Class Donald Elliott, from Kansas City, Missouri, assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious assault carrier USS America (LHA 6), directs an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25, Det. 6, on the ship’s flight deck while sailing in the East China Sea, Sept. 1, 2022. America, lead ship of the America Amphibious Ready Group, is operating in the 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready-response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Theodore C. Lee)
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HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Sept. 1, 2022) – Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Tiana Bautista, from Marietta, California, handles surgical tools while assisting in a surgery aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during Pacific Partnership 2022. Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific. Pacific Partnership is a unifying mission that fosters enduring friendships and cooperation among many nations. The year’s mission in Solomon Islands will include participants from the United States, Japan and Australia. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Drace Wilson)
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NHRA Set For The U.S. Nats
NHRA’s 2022 “regular season” will conclude over Labor Day Weekend with a traffic jam in the pits at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.
A total of 25 Top Fuel dragsters and 18 Funny Cars are scheduled to compete in the prestigious 68th annual Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals beginning today. It’s the largest Top Fuel field for a point-paying race in the Camping World Drag Racing Series since 2013, headlining a count of more than 925 cars across NHRA’s professional and Sportsman classes.
“There’s a lot of cars that are really good and I like it,” said Steve Torrence, the four-time/reigning Top Fuel world champion. “It’s exciting to me to pull up to the staging lanes and see it full of Top Fuel cars and know that you’ve really got to work for it. This is the biggest race in our sport and to have that many cars, I look forward to it and I’m excited about it. There’s so much at stake. You can’t struggle to get in because so many cars are going to be battling it out.”
Torrence is chasing a second straight Indy victory after earning his first Wally trophy of the season at the most recent national event in Brainerd International Raceway in Minnesota. Remarkably, the win was Torrence’s first since prevailing last November at the 2021 season-ending Auto Club NHRA Finals in Pomona, Calif.
“We didn’t forget how to win but, dang, it sure felt like it,” said Torrence, driver of his family-owned Capco Contractors dragster. “I have all the confidence and faith in the world in this team because that car is always bad to the bone. Maybe we’re getting our stuff together at the right time because we’re charging for that (fifth world title).”
Torrence’s 52nd career win may wind up among his personally most satisfying, as he trailered fellow-Texan/eight-time world champ Tony Schumacher in a showdown between two of the most dominant drivers in Top Fuel history.
Torrence’s second straight win at BIR propelled him past Justin Ashley and into third place in driver points led by 2016 world champ Brittany Force of John Force Racing.
Torrence (Top Fuel), Tim Wilkerson (Funny Car), Erica Enders (Pro Stock) and Eddie Krawiec (Pro Stock Motorcycle) all scored event wins at IRP last summer. This edition will be carried on both the FOX broadcast network and Fox Sports 1 (FS1), including live eliminations coverage starting at noon (EDT) on Monday, Sept. 5, on FS1 and continuing at 2 p.m. on FOX.
“Everybody in this field is good and it’s going to be awesome,” said Mike Salinas, the team-owner/driver who trails Force by 94 points. “Everyone is going to bring your ‘A’ game. It’s great racing for all of us and I can’t wait.”
In addition to setting the professional fields for the Countdown to the Championship Playoffs, “The Big Go” will feature the Pep Boys NHRA All-Star Callout in both Top Fuel and Funny Car. Drivers in the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series and FuelTech NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by D-Wagon also will compete at IRP. The fastest Super Stock cars will challenge for a bonus purse during the Dodge HEMI Challenge as well.
Racing in the NHRA Top Fuel Harley Drag Racing Series is on the schedule along with the Constant Aviation NHRA Factory Stock Showdown category and Mountain Motor Pro Stock. And for the third consecutive year, Sportsman racers will face-off in the JEGS Allstars bonus event.
The U.S. Nats is the 16th of 22 races during the 2022 season. Top Fuelers Torrence, Salinas, Ashley and Force _ along with eight standouts in Funny Car _ will have the opportunity to bag two wins this weekend during the Pep Boys NHRA All-Star Callout. Coupled with the 25-car field in Top Fuel and five qualifying sessions, Ashley expects every 1,000-foot pass to be critical.
“I absolutely love it and I think it naturally brings out the best in you as a driver and as a team,” said Ashley, driver of the Phillips Connect Toyota dragster. “At the same time, the pressure is on to put your best foot forward. We’re trying to win the Callout, we’re trying to win the U.S. Nationals. You have to make sure you bring it each and every time, and I think we’ll see a really quick field and a lot of competitive racing.”
In Funny Car, Robert Hight is aiming to lock up the regular season championship by adding to his hefty 250-point lead over fellow three-time world champ Matt Hagan.
Third on the class all-time wins list behind team-owner/16-time world champ John Force (155) and two-time/reigning world champ Ron Capps (70), Hight is chasing win No. 60 during a career-best season. Hight is poised to become just the sixth Funny Car driver to win as many as seven races during a single season.
Included on his resumè are three U.S. Nats victories (2006, 2008 and 2013). Hight’s only No. 1 start was in 2009 when he lost in the final round to teammate Ashley Force Hood. But in doing so, he qualified for the Countdown in the 10th and final position. Hight would go on to win the first of his three championships, becoming the only driver in any category to prevail from a last-place start.
“The U.S. Nationals are a big deal. There’s a lot going on this weekend with the five qualifying runs and the Callout,” said Hight, driver of the Automobile Club of Southern California Chevrolet Camaro SS. “Most importantly, it’s the final race before the Countdown begins.
“This Auto Club Chevy team has worked hard all season _ that’s what’s gotten us to the points lead. Doing well at ‘The Big Go’ will carry over to the Countdown, where the points reset and we really have to be on it. It’s going to be a long weekend; hopefully we can make it worth it and come out with a win or even two.”
Meanwhile, Bob Tasca III is looking to continue his personal version of Funny Car summer. Tasca scored his second straight win and third in the past four national events at Brainerd. Tasca was the only driver in both nitro categories to make clean runs on every 1,000-foot pass on race day, finishing the final with a lap in 3.945-seconds at 329.42 mph in his Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Mustang against Capps.
Erica Enders has dominated Pro Stock at the U.S. Nationals of late, winning the past two races. The four-time world champ also has been setting the pace in the Factory Hot Rod class this season with six victories en route to a huge point lead over runnerup Aaron Stanfield. A third consecutive event victory would move Erica into impressive company, and also mark her fourth career Indy win.
“It’s hard to explain the meaning of Indy to someone on the outside,” said Enders, driver of the Melling Performance/Elite Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro SS. “But it is everything. It’s the Super Bowl of drag racing. The U.S. Nationals is the last regular-season race and it’s worth points-and-a-half. Team Elite is in a great position…and I’m more ready than ever.”
A fifth world title would tie Enders with arch-rival/reigning world champ Greg Anderson of Ken Black Racing. Incredibly, Anderson is still seeking his first win of the season _ and milestone 100th of his career.
The next Pro Stock Motorcycle win for Eddie Krawiec will be his landmark 50th. A four-time PSM world champion, Krawiec has finished as runnerup at the two most recent races aboard his Vance & Hines Suzuki. Both of those defeats were against point-leader Joey Gladstone.
“I’m right there and I feel like I’ve got a really good motorcycle,” said Krawiec, a three-time winner at IRP. “You just need things to roll your way. There’s a lot of great motorcycles in the class, but Indy is the race you want to win. To have three wins at Indy, it’s just cool to say I’m a world champion and I’ve won Indy.”
Krawiec has vaulted four spots in the standings over the past two races, evidence of an increased comfort level aboard his new Suzuki _ one of 22 Pro Stock Bikes entered this weekend.
“I’m starting to come into my own with my Suzuki program and I’m really starting to understand what the bike wants and where it wants to be,” said Krawiec, a former factory Harley-Davidson rider with Vance & Hines. “It probably took me about five runs to get acclimated, but in this class getting acclimated is just not good enough.
“Anytime you change bikes, you have to learn, and it takes time. You can never perfect it, but you want to be able to get it right without thinking about it and we’re getting closer to that. We’re getting better and better at where the bike needs to be.”
Professional qualifying is scheduled to begin with one round at 6:30 p.m. (EDT) this evening, two rounds of qualifying on Saturday, Sept. 3, at 1:15 and 5:00 p.m. and the final two rounds on Sunday, Sept. 4, at noon and 3:30 p.m. Final eliminations are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. on Labor Day Monday, Sept. 5.
Semifinals of the Pep Boys NHRA All-Star Top Fuel Callout take place on Saturday at 2:40 p.m., with the final round at 6:25 p.m. On Sunday, the Pep Boys NHRA All-Star Funny Car Callout will begin with the opening round at 1:20 p.m., the semifinals at 2:45 p.m. and the final at 4:55 p.m.
Television coverage will include competition on Fox Sports 1 from 1-3 p.m. on Sunday followed by the Pep Boys NHRA All-Star Funny Car Callout from 4-5:30 p.m. Qualifying will continue from 5:30-7 p.m. on Sunday, also on FS1. On Monday, live coverage from eliminations will begin at noon on FS1 and continue on FOX from 2-5 p.m.
First-year NHRA team-owner Tony Stewart will head from the IRP pits to the FOX broadcast booth to join Brian Lohnes and Tony Pedregon for Monday’s eliminations. Stewart added NHRA team-owner to his Hall of Fame resumè this season with the debut of Tony Stewart Racing. The two-car nitro team features three-time Funny Car world champ Matt Hagan and Top Fuel star (and wife) Leah Pruett, as the teammates have combined for four wins during the 2022 season.
Stewart, a three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion, will add his candid insight to the coverage.
“It’s a great opportunity to have a motorsports icon and a new NHRA owner like Tony to join the NHRA on FOX broadcast during the U.S. Nationals,” said NHRA Vice President of Broadcast Steve Reintjes. “Tony is passionate about the NHRA, and he brings his experience from his recent role as an analyst during select NASCAR on FOX events to the NHRA broadcast booth. It’s a natural fit for Indy, our highest-profile NHRA event.”
NHRA crew chief Phil Shuler has joined Tony Schumacher’s Top Fuel team fielded by Maynard Family Racing in an official capacity. Shuler will work with JCM crew chief Todd Okuhara and assistant crew chief Marc Denner fulltime as co-crew chief alongside Okuhara.
“The addition of Phil to our team became a must-do as I watched the brain trust of Todd, Phil and Marc work with Tony and our crew to attain the victory in Seattle,” said team-owner Joe Maynard, referring to Schumacher’s Western Swing victory last month at Pacific Raceways in Kent, Wash.
As a tuning duo, Okuhara and Shuler have a long history in the nitro ranks. They worked together from 2003 to 2006 at Don “The Snake” Prudhomme’s operation before joining Don Schumacher Racing in 2006, where they collaborated on cars driven by Jack Beckman, Gary Scelzi, Jerry Toliver, Cory McClenathan and Spencer Massey through 2016.
Ahead of the 2017 season, Okuhara was named crew chief on Leah Pruett’s machine, and Shuler joined the U.S. Army team where he served as assistant crew chief of the Schumacher-driven dragster. Shuler’s tenure on the Army car marked his first time working with the winningest Top Fuel driver in NHRA history, and he was an integral part of the team’s second-place finish in 2018.
“After the 2019 season, I stepped away from nitro racing to work on Pro Mods, but I’m happy to be back out on the NHRA circuit fulltime again and reunite with Todd and Tony,” said Shuler, who has served in a variety of “chief” roles the last 20 years. “Todd and I have a long history together, and Tony and I worked together for a few years on the Army car. This is my first time working with Marc Denner, and I think our group has found a good balance as far as how we all complement each other.
“For me, being away from fuel racing for two years allowed me to look at things differently. You learn things from other forms of racing such as Pro Modifieds, Drag Radial and Outlaw cars that applies to nitro racing.”
For Schumacher _ an 86-time national event winner gearing up to run for a ninth Top Fuel world championship _ the addition of Shuler rounds-out his tuning lineup.
“They just work well together, plain and simple,” Schumacher said of the Okuhara/Shuler combination. “On their own, they’re both great but when they are able to collaborate, they’re even better. It’s clear our team has been making big strides as of late, and I feel good about the direction we’re headed in.”
Schumacher has vaulted from 12th in points to eighth since the Western Swing event at Sonoma, Calif., placing the Texan in the title hunt conversation. “We have the capability to run right up there with the top-ranked cars in the category,” said Schumacher, who rolls into this weekend’s U.S. Nationals as a 10-time event winner. “I feel good about our abilities to keep this momentum rolling into the Countdown.”
Point standings (top-10) heading into the 68th annual Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals:
Top Fuel _1. Brittany Force, 1,206; 2. Mike Salinas, 1,112; 3. Steve Torrence, 1,076; 4. Justin Ashley, 1,070; 5. Josh Hart, 797; 6. (tie) Shawn Langdon, 761; Leah Pruett, 761; 8. Tony Schumacher, 703; 9. Doug Kalitta, 692; 10. Antron Brown, 668.
Funny Car _1. Robert Hight, 1,411; 2. Matt Hagan, 1,161; 3. Ron Capps, 1,105; 4. Bob Tasca III, 1,043; 5. John Force, 1,033; 6. J.R. Todd, 789; 7. Alexis DeJoria, 775; 8. Cruz Pedregon, 752; 9. Tim Wilkerson, 645; 10. Chad Green, 524.
Pro Stock _1. Erica Enders, 1,156; 2. Aaron Stanfield, 1,030; 3. Kyle Koretsky, 798; 4. Greg Anderson, 781; 5. Troy Coughlin Jr., 696; 6. Dallas Glenn, 668; 7. Mason McGaha, 604; 8. Camrie Caruso, 570; 9. Matt Hartford, 553; 10. Bo Butner, 528.
Pro Stock Motorcycle _1. Joey Gladstone, 724; 2. Angelle Sampey, 660; 3. Eddie Krawiec, 628; 4. Steve Johnson, 621; 5. Matt Smith, 615; 6. Angie Smith, 577; 7. Jerry Savoie, 541; 8. Karen Stoffer, 534; 9. Marc Ingwersen, 378; 10. Ryan Oehler, 298.
Editor’s Note: John Sturbin is a Texas-based journalist specializing in motorsports. During a near 30-year career with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, he won the Bloys Britt Award for top motorsports story of the year (1991) as judged by The Associated Press; received the National Hot Rod Association’s Media Award (1995) and several in-house Star-Telegram honors. He also was inaugural recipient of the Texas Motor Speedway Excellence in Journalism Award (2009). His list of freelance clients includes Texas Motor Speedway, the Dallas Morning News, New York Newsday, Rome (N.Y.) Daily Sentinel, Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller Times, NASCAR Wire Service, Ford Racing and Used Car Dealer magazine). | http://www.racintoday.com/archives/99265 | 2022-09-03T05:25:32Z | racintoday.com | control | http://www.racintoday.com/archives/99265 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LA PUENTE – If this is what the CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs looks like in a few months, Bishop Amat better hope it doesn’t get the invite.
Bishop Amat was hoping that some nostalgia, a sold-out crowd, or the magic of Kiefer Stadium would somehow summon it to something improbable.
But reality is reality.
St. John Bosco showed why it’s the No. 1 ranked team in the country by MaxPreps and other publications by scoring on its first three possessions, and the rout was on, finishing with a 42-7 victory and running clock in the fourth quarter.
Bishop Amat (2-1) won its first two games and was ranked No. 8 in CalPreps’ Southern Section rankings, so this is what a first-round match-up could look like if the Lancers go on to have a strong season and win the rest of their games, which they’re capable of doing.
Amat will have a week off before resuming non-league games against Leuzinger and Damien before Mission League play begins. What playoff division Amat ultimately lands in is something that will evolve over the next several weeks.
But whether it’s St. John Bosco or Mater Dei, Amat is just over-matched against the nation’s best.
“They didn’t come in here to get upset, they came here to whip our butts,” Bishop Amat coach Steve Hagerty said of St. John Bosco. “Everyone they play they’re going to do the same. So, we’ll take it and get better and we will show up after our bye next week and be better as a result.”
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Bishop Amat is the only Southern Section team not in the Trinity League that is playing St. John Bosco before the playoffs begin. Bosco opened with a 52-14 win over Allen High in Texas last week, and has other non-league games against teams from Oregon, Hawaii and Modesto before league play begins.
On Friday, you could tell why few in the area want to play them.
“They’re a good team, that’s why they’re rated high,” Hagerty said. “We don’t match up too well up front, which is probably the biggest difference. We have to get better doing things, and we will. This is a journey that we’re on, and playing teams like this will get us there. When you play better teams you get better.”
St. John Bosco quarterback Pierce Clarkson, a Louisville commit, threw for 222 yards and a touchdown and also scored on a 32-yard run in three quarters before exiting the game. Braves running back Cameron Jones had a big night, rushing for 160 yards and two touchdowns.
Braves coach Jason Negro said it was about what he expected.
St. John Bosco coach Jason Negro on 42-7 win over Bishop Amat. pic.twitter.com/07c4yhlc42
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“I thought we played pretty well,” Negro said. “I was worried about a hangover coming from Texas last week. It’s been hot all week and our kids are tired a little bit. But we started fast and kind of held on. We didn’t play well all night, but that’s to be expected and we have to get better next week.”
Amat quarterback Richie Munoz passed for 82 yards and threw a 1-yard touchdown pass in the final minute to Julien Lopez to avoid the shutout. Freshman Ryan Salcedo came in late to finish with 11 carries for 37 yards.
On the Braves’ opening drive, they went 60 yards on 10 plays, culminating with Jones’ 1-yard touchdown run and 7-0 lead with just over seven minutes remaining in the quarter.
The Braves got a stop and went to work again.
Even after a penalty negated a big play, Clarkson answered with a 90-yard touchdown pass to Eric Denham for a 14-0 lead.
The Braves continued to pour it on in the opening quarter, with Jones breaking free for a 42-yard touchdown run and 21-0 lead with 1:17 to go in the quarter.
Then it was Sylvester’s turn midway through the second quarter, busting loose on a 64-yard run, and then Clarkson scored on a 32-yard run in the final seconds of the half for a 35-0 lead.
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We are at a pivotal moment to strengthen our state’s economy and position ourselves as the leader in the fight against climate change. Governor Gavin Newsom can lead the way by signing legislation that encourages investment in efficient, environmentally friendly equipment in the greenest state in the nation.
In 2019, Bloomberg named California the most innovative economy in the United States, but our state has attracted only 1 percent of new manufacturing investment in the country.
Assembly Bill 1951, which reached the governor’s desk with overwhelming support, will energize our economic engine by eliminating the state and local sales tax on most manufacturing equipment purchases.
In 2011, at the California Manufacturing Summit, then Lieutenant Gov. Gavin Newsom stated that we need leadership, and if “you want manufacturing jobs, you gotta fight for it.” AB 1951 throws a haymaker to make sure we win this fight.
The Economic Strategy Institute reports that AB 1951 would bring $1.5 billion to $3.5 billion in new investment to California. In addition to jobs, this creates tax revenue that flows to state and local governments to invest in essential services and programs.
Assemblymember Tim Grayson, D-Concord, and 10 coauthors from various parts of the state introduced AB 1951 because they understand that for California to keep and grow manufacturing jobs, our tax policy needs to be reformed.
The reform in AB 1951 is urgent because California currently double-taxes production, taxing the manufacturing equipment and the products made with the equipment. In contrast, 43 other states do not tax manufacturing equipment (38 states exempt the equipment from sales tax, and the other five do not impose a state sales tax in the first place).
The sales tax rate in California ranges from 7.25 percent to 10.75 percent, depending on the area. This high extra cost can be a deal-breaker for a business owner considering buying a significant piece of machinery to ramp up production.
Tri Tool Technologies, a Rancho Cordova-based manufacturer, designs and builds equipment utilized in aerospace, life science, and energy, and is budgeting $1 million for equipment. CEO Christopher Belle says he is debating where to invest, since the money will go further in other states.
Some local governments opposed the bill late in the process based on the belief that sales taxes on equipment are a great source of revenue. They project revenue “losses” without acknowledging that revenue doesn’t exist without investment. High taxes discourage companies from buying equipment in California – and when there is no sale of equipment, there is no sales tax for the cities and counties to collect and spend.
By keeping the purchases in California, however, AB 1951 will help local governments gain long-term revenue from the annual property tax on equipment. Unlike homeowners and renters, businesses pay an annual tax on the market value of everything from desks and computers to large machines. This “business personal property” tax helps pay for local government to provide public education, infrastructure improvements, law enforcement, firefighting, healthcare workers, and other services. Unlike a one-time sales tax, this tax is an ongoing source of revenue.
AB 1951 represents a golden opportunity for Gov. Newsom to make California an even more attractive place for perfecting groundbreaking inventions and using advanced, environmentally smart production methods that protect us from climate change. We urge the governor to join the 100 lawmakers who voted for AB 1951 and sign the bill.
Robert Gutierrez is the president and CEO of the California Taxpayers Association. Lance Hastings is president and CEO of the California Manufacturers & Technology Association.
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ANAHEIM — Reid Detmers’ encouraging second half hit a snag on Friday night.
The Angels’ rookie left-hander had been one of the team’s most pleasant stories since rediscovering his slider two months ago, but he struggled through a rough outing in a 4-2 loss to the Houston Astros.
Detmers, 23, came into the game with a 3.47 ERA and a no-hitter on his resume in 2022. He had a 1.97 ERA in his previous eight starts, since his one-start return to Triple-A.
Detmers was charged with four runs – equaling the most he’d allowed in any game in the past two months – in 4-1/3 innings on Friday. Two of the runs scored after he was out of the game.
“It was just one of those things,” Detmers said. “You feel good the whole time but something clicks and you just can’t get those outs. I don’t know. I don’t know how to explain it.”
Detmers had little trouble with the Astros in the first two innings, but the story changed after that.
In the third, Chas McCormick turned on a fastball over the inside corner and lined it into left field for a double, with the ball falling just out of the reach of Ryan Aguilar. After a strikeout, José Altuve hit a ball that bounced off third base and popped into the air, going for a single.
Jeremy Peña smacked a changeup at his shins off the left field fence, for a run-scoring double. Alex Bregman hit a fly ball to center, driving in another run.
In the fourth, Detmers worked in and out of a jam, stranding runners at the corners with a popout and two strikeouts. He couldn’t get out of the fifth, though. After two walks and a single loaded the bases, Detmers was done for the night.
At that point, manager Phil Nevin made the somewhat surprising decision to go with José Marte, who had made only one of six appearances in the majors this season in games that were within three runs. Nevin said it was a “fair question” to ask why he didn’t use someone else, but he pointed out that the bullpen was thin because he didn’t want to use Jimmy Herget or Andrew Wantz. He did have Wantz warm up briefly in the fifth when the Angels were threatening to cut into the 4-0 deficit.
Nevin said he thought Marte could get a ground ball or a strikeout, and also that it would be a good test for the 26-year-old. He did get two strikeouts, but he also walked two, both pushing home runs.
“He’s been throwing strikes and we’ve got to see what some of these guys do too, as well,” Nevin said. “We’re trying to win games and I thought that was my best chance to win the game right there in fifth inning.”
That turned out to be the difference in the game. After the Astros took a 4-0 lead, Angels relievers Zack Weiss, Aaron Loup and Jaime Barria retired all 12 hitters they faced over the final four innings. For Weiss, it was his first big league game in four years, after he had failed to retire any of the four hitters he faced in his debut, which was still his only big league appearance until Friday.
While the bullpen kept the Angels in the game, the hitters couldn’t do much, even though Astros starter Lance McCullers Jr. was also not sharp over his 5-2/3 innings.
“Lance probably would tell you he probably didn’t have his best stuff, falling behind guys and some walks,” Nevin said. “We just couldn’t get one across. A lot of that happened with two outs but we just didn’t get the big one.”
The Angels stranded two in the first, left the bases loaded in the third and left two on in the fifth.
In the sixth, they finally got on the board. Taylor Ward singled, Mike Ford walked and Matt Duffy drove a double into left-center, knocking in one. A Matt Thaiss sacrifice fly drove in another to cut the deficit to 4-2.
The Angels put the tying run on base with a single and a walk in the seventh, but Ford took a called third strike to strand them, as the Angels finished the night with one hit in nine at-bats with runners in scoring position. They didn’t have a baserunner in the eighth or ninth.
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A much-loved couple who have owned a newsagents in Tunbridge Wells for 30 years shared an emotional goodbye to their many customers as they retire. Sam and Rai Patel have run P&D News on St John's since 1992 and during their time have served and made friends with generations of people.
At a party at their newsagents, more than 200 people came to the shop one last time to show their affection and gratitude to the Patel family and wish them well, as they finally leave behind those early mornings, seven days a week.
The family is very well-known in St John's and the wider area and their two grown-up children went to school in Tunbridge Wells. The business is on the main route to many schools in the area, so the couple has also seen a steady stream of youngsters through their doors during their time.
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But the couple, Sam, 64, and Rai, 62, have now retired and are looking forward to spending more time with their children, daughter Dina, and son Parin, along with his wife Nisha. They will rest a little first but are looking forward to travelling and "see the world a bit more" said Dina.
Dina, who now lives in London like her brother and sister-in-law, spoke on behalf of her parents, but asked them beforehand what they wanted to say. "The main thing for them is they have just really enjoyed being part of the community and seeing how the community has evolved over the last 30 years. I think they have built really strong connections with the community around St John's.
"They will miss that the most, that interaction. They are not the only ones who have been there that long, a lot of people have lived in the area for the same time, people who were kids when we arrived and started families and had their own children. "
"I was six when I arrived. I went to Southborough Primary and then to Tunbridge Wells Girls Grammar Schools and my brother went to St John's and Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys. We grew up here and at 18 went away to university. We are both very much part of the community."
'Very emotional day'
Talking about their parents' retiring, Dina said: "It was a lot of early mornings! It was seven days a week. So they were there all the time. I think it is very hard work but I think they have really enjoyed it because it gives them a little bit of a social side to the shop.
"They have built some really good friendships and relationships in the community. This is something that is really important to them. We saw that on Saturday.
"Mum was just overwhelmed by the number of presents and people coming in and wishing them well. They want to use this article to say thank you to everyone who bought them cards and flowers.
"They have filled the living room with them! They have been overwhelmed by the attention and the affection the community has shown to them.
"And they want to say thank you to everyone who supported them over the years and really been there for them as a business and as a family." She said Saturday's celebration was also a chance for her and her brother to see people they hadn't seen for a long time.
"It was like a wedding, when people saw us, they said "oh, you've grown!". We had closed on Friday afternoon and on Saturday we had sandwiches and drinks and invited the locals to say a final goodbye.
"I think we ended up with at least 200 people. It was a very emotional day. We keep saying it is "bitter sweet".
"On the one hand, it is great for them to stop and enjoy their life and see the world a bit more, at the same time it is something they have done for 30 years, the business they built. They will miss all the people and as we have seen from everyone who lives in the area, they are really going to miss them too."
She said there would be many older folks in the community who perhaps might live alone and would miss their daily or regular chats when they popped in for a newspaper. I think my parents will take a bit of time to rest and I think travel is pretty high up there on their list. I think they will spend more time with us, me and my brother and enjoy themselves," she said. The family is now looking for someone to rent the space.
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Taco Bell is coming to Dover - and there's not long to wait. The Mexican-inspired brand's first restaurant in the town at St James' Park has been confirmed.
The new restaurant will be based next to Cineworld. It's the latest expansion to Taco Bell's Kent premises, with sites in Maidstone, Chatham, Dartford and one also soon to open in Canterbury.
The first 100 customers through the door will be treated to a free taco and a t-shirt. The new store will also digital kiosks to use for both in-store and takeaway orders when it opens on September 7.
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Tasty tacos, burritos and nachos are just some of the items that will be available. There's also churros, loaded fries and a value menu. Taco Bell Dover's opening hours will be 11am-11pm, seven days a week.
Lucy Dee, from Taco Bell, said: "We’re delighted to be able to bring Taco Bell to Dover. People have been crying out for more Taco Bells and we’re very pleased to be able to deliver to the Dover community, creating local jobs despite challenging circumstances.
"We look forward to feeding residents from whether it be via home delivery, click & collects, takeaway or dine in”.
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MAKAKILO (KITV)- With recent rate hikes on O'ahu, electricity is top of mind for many. One condo complex says its dealing with outages. Makakilo Hale 2 Board Vice-President Sheral Graham is keeping an eye on the electrical system at the condo complex. One of the units is only working on half power, and has been for some time.
Another unit recently suffered the same problem. “They can only use one major appliance at a time. So if you have the stove plugged in then the microwave won't work. If you are using the washer and dryer, then the stove won't work. Stuff like that,” said Graham.
A year and a half ago, it wasn't just a unit or two losing power. The complex noticed multiple other residents dealing with this issue. It's shocking to them the threat it provided. “There are several people in this complex who are on hospice care,” said Graham.
They got to the bottom of the problem, the electric system was about 50 years old. “We are installing new electrical panels, new breakers, new busbars and things like that,” said Graham.
The complex planned out changes in 10 buildings that correct the power issues in all 120 units. “Engineers submitted drawings and plans to Department of Planning and Permitting. It was a 5 month wait,” said Graham. It was the pandemic.
The Department of Planning and Permitting says there is now a three-month backlog for the initial processing. A public information official says the delay is caused by a combination of factors, including low staffing. But that delay was until April of 2020, and it’s now September 2022.
“HECO is explaining to us they are waiting on cabling. And they cannot come out and finish this job because of supply chain issues,” said Graham. She says getting the right supplies isn't the only issue HECO has brought up as reason for the delays.
“HECO said they just didn't have people to come out and do the inspections that allow us to finalize the job,” said Graham.
KITV 4 reached out to HECO with questions on if there is a backlog on electrical work and if there are any issues causing delays. The company said it “could not get back to KITV4 on this today. But if the issue involves circuit breakers on the inside, that would be a contractor issue, not the electric company”.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — A collision on State Route 290 westbound near Argonne Rd. is blocking lanes in both directions, according to the Spokane Regional Transportation Management Center (SRTMC).
There is no information at this time on who was involved in the crash or if there are any serious injuries. Drivers should use an alternate route in that area until further notice, SRTMC says.
This is a developing story and we will provide more updates as they become available.
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As the 2022-2023 academic year gets underway next week, local district superintendents are highlighting what’s new and different in their schools.
After two years in a pandemic and most districts employing hybrid learning practices, social distancing and masking to stop the spread of COVID-19, the newest thing is that it’s all “back to normal.”
“We’re back in school and without restrictions,” Jacob Reimer, superintendent of Barker Central School District, said. “Things being back to normal is what we’re looking forward to.”
“Athletics are about to rock,” he added.
In Newfane, Superintendent Mike Baumann said, the district is eager to put its new stadium in use and the elementary school is introducing a technology literacy program.
“This will teach younger kids how to use social media and get savvy with technology,” Baumann said.
New school resource officers are reporting for work in the Starpoint and Royalton-Hartland districts.
“We’ve got a second school resource officer, so, we will have two now to roam around our campus,” Starpoint superintendent Sean Croft said.
An SRO is being employed for the first time in the Roy-Hart district. A contract with Middleport Police Department should be finalized by the school board next week, interim superintendent Jill Heck said.
In the Lockport district, interim superintendent Mike Bonnewell said 2022-2023 will be “the most traditional school year we’ve had since Covid struck.” One new program stemming from the district’s pandemic experience will be the availability of online tutoring for students in grade 7 through 12, he said. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/local-districts-back-to-normal-in-22-23/article_28309346-2b13-11ed-8e04-0f8c25c89fe1.html | 2022-09-03T05:42:13Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/local-districts-back-to-normal-in-22-23/article_28309346-2b13-11ed-8e04-0f8c25c89fe1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Principal Dawn Wylke will be a familiar sight in the hallways at Lockport High School once classes begin Tuesday. She’s the one who stands tall, accessible to every student, freshman through senior, giving directions to classrooms and making appointments with students to talk about their future.
Those appointments, mentioned with reverence by fellow educators at the high school, are the meat and potatoes of Wylke’s administrative style. Of the students entering or returning to LHS, Wylke’s peers say, many of them will learn firsthand how much those appointments mean to the rest of their life.
Wylke started out as a math teacher at LHS and that may explain her technical diligence. Teachers and counselors talk about the spreadsheets that Wylke keeps for every student, tracking their attendance, behavior and academic performance, and they note she won’t hesitate to call a student into her office, close the door and go over their spreadsheet with them, looking for insight into what the student can do as their next step into the real world.
“We make sure no one falls through the cracks,” Wylke said.
LHS guidance counselor Kristin Isherwood said Wylke is well invested in the work she does for every student and is open to hearing their concerns.
“She’s very approachable, very accessible,” Isherwood said.
The support system for LHS students involves myriad areas that can affect their health and well-being.
“We aren’t just here for school books and pencils anymore. It’s definitely moved beyond those walls,” Wylke said.
Counselors, psychologists and social workers are all tapped to help ensure students’ welfare by getting their needs met, whether the need is transportation, food, social-emotional assistance or something else that’s tied into their academic success. Part of the principal’s job is to oversee that effort, and according to Isherwood, Wylke prizes the role.
“Dawn is in all of it and wants to be a part of it. She takes her role seriously and cares about the community,” Isherwood said.
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After teaching math for three years, Wylke was appointed the director of special education and student services for Lockport City School District. She was appointed high school principal in 2017. All the while, she has maintained that there is a place in the world for every student when they graduate.
“I think students develop a passion, regardless of what that is,” Wylke said. “We have to teach certain subjects, because of state and federal law, but bigger than that is being able to determine what they like and what they don’t like.”
As an educator, Wylke assigns high value to the development of students’ “soft” skills, that is, habits and behaviors that will help them succeed after high school: Professional writing, public speaking, work ethic, coping with different or unexpected situations, teamwork, empathy for others.
“All of those things that are required in any job you do, whether that’s in college, or the military or directly into the workforce,” she said.
And Wylke has supported LHS teachers’ ideas for fostering soft skills in both regular classes and special courses, as well as extracurricular programs.
Business teacher Jill DiTullio, who developed and oversees the Career Pathway Academies at LHS, said that support means a lot.
“A lot of times teachers have a vision, but not all administrators support that. Dawn is very interested and open to teachers’ suggestions,” DiTullio said.
Wylke “has made LHS the best that it can be,” English teacher Megan Menges added. “She’s in the trenches.”
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Patrick Call, a 2022 graduate of LHS, said Wylke “really went above and beyond for me to make sure that my high school ended the way I wanted. I honestly don’t think there’s many people out there in the world in that job who would sacrifice their own time to make another’s time better.”
Call, who is now studying computer aided design at Niagara County Community College, said Wylke was always looking for the best programs and people to bring into LHS.
“Every single day that I walked into that high school I knew I’d see someone, somewhere, talking to Mrs. Wylke with a smile on both their faces,” he said. “That’s why I think Dawn Wylke is the perfect fit for the job. She brings the entire school together, pushing it forward to better things.”
Not every student has great experiences with their principal. 2022 LHS graduate Charlie Baggett, 17, said he bears no ill will toward Wylke but they’ll never see eye-to-eye on his absenteeism during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic making him ineligible to participate in the school musical in his senior year. Even so, her decisions weren’t all wrong, he conceded.
“She does care for her students. and I have to give her credit,” Baggett said. “The district has put a lot of emphasis on sports, and she put emphasis on — and was a big supporter of — the arts.”
In the end, Wylke’s presence at LHS is felt. While she resides on Grand Island, it’s impossible to tell her apart from the rest of the Lockport community, so familiar is her hollering at a sporting event or clapping after a particularly difficult solo in a school concert. Every month, she meets with the student-staffed Principal’s Advisory Council to look over data and bounce ideas off the students.
As for keeping individual students on track, DiTullio observed, “Dawn takes it personally if a student doesn’t know what to do next. She shuts the door and meets one-on-on to listen to them and find that next step.” | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/standing-tall-for-students-success/article_138d83a6-2a4e-11ed-9a19-83d67e48a1a5.html | 2022-09-03T05:42:19Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/standing-tall-for-students-success/article_138d83a6-2a4e-11ed-9a19-83d67e48a1a5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — An 18-year-old man is hospitalized in critical condition after a shooting in Kalamazoo Friday night.
The shooting happened shortly before 10:20 on Hotop Avenue near Riverview Drive.
Officers say they were responding to a shots fired call when another call came in about a person that was shot on Bridge Street.
Officers were able to make contact with the Kalamazoo man who was taken to the hospital for life-threatening injuries, he's listed in critical condition.
Officers don't have information on a suspect at this time. The investigation into the shooting continues.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety or Silent Observer at 269-343-2100. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/kdps-man-in-critical-condition-after-shooting | 2022-09-03T05:42:21Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/kdps-man-in-critical-condition-after-shooting | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For the first time since Danny Horn’s last season at Benjamin Russell, the Wildcats are 3-0.
Behind another dominating defensive performance, the Wildcats defeated region opponent Calera 23-6.
“We always want a shutout, but more importantly we got the win,” said head coach Smitty Grider. “This feels great. I could not be happier. This is nothing short of amazing.”
To start 3-0 in his first season at the helm, Grider said his main goal coming into the job was to restore the tradition of winning at Benjamin Russell. So far, he has been successful.
“We are bringing Wildcat pride back,” Grider said.
As is almost tradition for the Wildcats, Malcolm Simmons and Corri Milliner both found the end zone in the first half.
Milliner started the scoring off for the home team with a quick slant over the middle. Entering the night, Milliner was third in the state in touchdown receptions and total receiving yards.
Simmons found his score in a much more difficult manner, as the junior had to run well over 100 yards total to find pay dirt.
Taking the ball up the left side, Simmons lowered his shoulder up and through a would-be defender. The contact slowed him down, but he was able to make a quick cut right and got free across the middle of the field.
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Simmons scored on the far right side of the end zone, completely opposite of where he started.
“We got guys like Malcolm Simmons and Corri Milliner that just make plays all over the field,” Grider said.
A blocked PAT and a missed field goal had the score only at 13-0 at half, but the damage had been done.
Calera had only scored 20 points all season coming into the contest, and Benjamin Russell was able to stifle the Eagles’ anemic offense.
Opening the third quarter, senior Bryan Simmons forced a fumble on Calera’s quarterback that resulted in a field goal.
The only time Calera mustered any offense was on its final drive of the game, where the Eagles were able to march down the field largely in part to penalties to score in garbage time.
“I could not be prouder of how the defense played tonight,” Grider said.
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Central Coosa County fell to Vincent Friday night 65-0.
The Cougars’ loss marked their second of the season after a Week 1 loss to Verbena.
“Vincent’s a good team,” head coach Shundell Russaw said. “They tackle well. They have a good scheme they run.”
The night got off to a rough start for Coosa when Vincent scored in just three plays on its first drive of the game.
Facing an early deficit, Coosa tried to attack Vincent through the air, but the Yellowjackets picked off a screen pass on Coosa’s first offensive play.
Vincent scored on the next play and after a 2-point conversion, led 16-0.
Coosa recorded its best drive of the game trailing 16 where it found itself with a first-and-goal inside the Vincent 10-yard line. But a false start pushed the Cougars back and facing a long fourth-and-goal, threw an interception to end the drive.
It was all Vincent after that as Coosa was unsuccessful moving the ball.
“We just gotta improve on tackling, on fundamentals and just knowing football,” Russaw said. “It hurts, but it’s motivation to go back to work and get better. We just can’t give up.”
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Quarterback Antoneo Grant showed a lot of tenacity on the field, clearly battling a lingering injury throughout the first half but refusing to leave the game even with his team down.
“He’s a high-character kid,” Russaw said. “He’s a definite leader. He’s only a sophomore and a majority of our starters are sophomores, so the future is bright.”
At halftime, Coosa trailed 47-0, and the second half was played with a running clock.
Coosa elected to take out its starters for the second half with the score lopsided and give some of the younger players some valuable playing time with a lot of the season left to play.
For Russaw, he was pleased with the backups in the second half.
“I found some JV players that competed a little harder,” Russaw said. “I played all seventh, eighth and ninth graders in the second half, and they came out here and competed.”
Russaw acknowledged that it’s hard to see bright spots in an overwhelming loss but urged everyone to remain committed to his team.
“I plan on being here for a long time,” Russaw said. “These are growing pains. It’s a hard pill to swallow. It’s going to be hard to sleep tonight. We’re just going to continue to work hard.”
Coosa faces Isabella at home next week in a regional matchup. | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/sports/central-coosa-loses-to-vincent-65-0/article_1a7c266a-2b41-11ed-957f-43d3a56bdbb7.html | 2022-09-03T05:54:27Z | alexcityoutlook.com | control | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/sports/central-coosa-loses-to-vincent-65-0/article_1a7c266a-2b41-11ed-957f-43d3a56bdbb7.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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After an unexpected week off due to rain, Dadeville came out stronger than ever and crushed region foe Weaver, 39-6.
“We ran the ball well, threw the ball well, our defense played well,” head coach Roger McDonald said. “We just played really well all around tonight.”
The night started off perfectly for Dadeville, as the Tigers were able to force a three-and-out on Weaver’s first possession.
Punting away to speedster Phil Dowdell, the senior took the punt to the house to open the floodgates for the away team.
It did not take long for Dadeville to find the end zone again as the Tigers’ defense forced a Weaver fumble and picked the ball up for another score. Senior Kenneth Garrett was the lucky recipient of the scoop-and-score touchdown.
The two scores were separated by less than a minute.
With a 27-0 lead at the end of the first quarter, Dadeville was comfortably ahead and able to impose its will all throughout the contest.
Freshman Brandez Eason found the end zone again for his third score of the year.
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Horseshoe Bend students showed up dressed out in hard hats and orange vests hoping to help their home team construct a historical win over 2A Region 3 rival Lanett at home on Friday night.
Lanett had different plans and brought their imaginative sledgehammers that broke through Horseshoe Bend’s defense to score 39 points en route to a 39-6 win.
The Generals gave it their all in the first quarter as the first 15 ended with Lanett leading 14-6 after scores by both teams, as Horseshoe Bend quarterback James Smith lobbed a pylon fade over a defender to senior Cully Sharpe after the Tigers drove the field with a long reception and chunk runs by Alajawon Whitfield.
Under duress during the second quarter from an incoming rushing linebacker, Smith tossed the ball into the air to what was a wide-open receiver, before watching the ball float for what seemed like minutes and eventually fall into the clutches of a Tiger cornerback who positioned himself underneath for the interception.
“New rule in high school, just throw it away, and that’s something we’ve got to work with. Just a little bit of decision making there but I think we’ll be able to work on that in the upcoming week,” said Horseshoe Bend head coach Jeremy Phillips about the interception.
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This is the first season that quarterbacks cam mimic college and pro ball and throw a football away when under pressure instead of taking a sack, so long as the quarterback is out of the passer’s pocket and the ball passes the neutral zone.
Outside of the turnovers, Phillips wasn’t pleased with his team’s performance against a talented opponent. An opponent likely to be faced in the playoffs if both teams advance past the regular season finale.
“We didn’t show up; we thought we had opportunities, especially in the first half. In a ball game against these guys, you gotta score touchdowns, and we just weren’t able to,” Phillips said. “Blown coverages, missed blocking assignments. Playing a good team, you can’t do that kind of stuff."
The Tigers muffed a punt return in the third quarter that Generals’ linebacker Ethan Mitchell scooped up inside of the red zone, but the team ultimately failed to advance the ball to the end zone through four down attempts.
The Generals stay home for two weeks in a row and prepare for a 2A Region 3 against Luverne for the first matchup in years as Horseshoe Bend made the move from 2A region 3 to region 4. | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/sports/horseshoe-bend-falls-to-lanett-39-6/article_176fa858-2b40-11ed-ac7a-5f1a1e4f971c.html | 2022-09-03T05:54:39Z | alexcityoutlook.com | control | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/sports/horseshoe-bend-falls-to-lanett-39-6/article_176fa858-2b40-11ed-ac7a-5f1a1e4f971c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Scattered thunderstorms in the morning, then mainly cloudy during the afternoon with thunderstorms likely. High 86F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70%..
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Five different Rebels scored Friday night for Reeltown Coach Matt Johnson, and it’s something Johnson is OK with.
After all, the 41-0 win over LaFayette to open region play erased a few recent memories of a loss to Tallassee and seeing a game against rival Dadeville postponed.
“We had a bad taste in our mouth and were ready to get it out,” Johnson said. “I told the guys before the game to come out fast and physical. That is what we have been preaching.”
After throwing the ball around a little to open the season at Tallassee, the win against Lafayette saw Johnson and the Rebels returning to the roots of former coaches Duane Webster and Jackie O’Neal. And it’s something the Rebels will continue to do.
“We went back under center in the ‘I’ and ‘bone,” Johnson said. “That is our identity and what it’s going to be. The kids have been preached that.”
Arthur Woods scored twice and Zy Collins, Buck Thompson, Omor Ponds and Xavier Thomas also ran for touchdowns.
“I don’t know how many guys touched the football but we have a good rotation in the backfield,” Johnson said. “We have a good group of backs playing both sides of the ball. It was good to keep them fresh.”
The Rebel coach said the week off gave them a chance to get some players healthy, especially Collins who entered the Tallassee game with an ankle sprain.
“When he is healthy, he is explosive,” Johnson said.
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The Rebels ended the night with 331 rushing yards on 39 attempts, mostly in the first half. Action was limited in the second half as Reeltown was already up 34-0 and the running clock meant far fewer plays.
Defensively, Woods led the Rebels with a fingertip interception in the first half.
“The interception was great coverage and what is good is that was a good receiver he was covering,” Johnson said.
Johnson said Woods is great at being in position to make the play.
“Arthur is a great football player,” Johnson said. “He may be small, but he is a physical kid. You run the ball, and he is at the line of scrimmage. He does a good job of reading his keys. He does a good job of filling the gap on the run. He is just an athlete.”
Xavier Thomas also had an interception for the Rebels.
Cruise Johnson, Tae Martin, Zach Riley and JJ Kendrick had sacks for the Rebels.
Johnson said there are a few mistakes the Rebels need to clean up before traveling to Goshen next week but he is happy to see his team accept returning to old school Reeltown football.
“We are flying to the football,” Johnson said. “We are under control reading our keys. We take care of the football. That is who we are.”
Cliff Williams is a staff writer for Tallapoosa Publishers.
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Anticipating a tough winter in light of the war in Ukraine, three Balkan states agreed Friday to help each other with potential food or energy shortages and have urged the European Union to include the volatile region in its support plans.
The leaders of Serbia, North Macedonia and Albania held a summit in the Serbian capital Belgrade as part of the so-called Open Balkan initiative aimed at strengthening regional economic ties and stepping up joint efforts for EU membership.
“We are facing a hard winter and anyone who says different would not be fair and would not be telling the truth,” said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
Officials said agreements signed at the summit include a pledge not to limit food exports between the three countries and to cooperate on energy imports as electricity and other prices have soared throughout Europe.
Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama called on the EU not to repeat its “shameful behavior” during the coronavirus pandemic that he said forced Balkan nations to turn to China, Russia and Turkey to quickly acquire vaccines.
“Prospects are really worrisome,” said Rama who suggested that the coming winter could be the worst since World War II. He added that the energy crisis will put a severe strain on the budgets of Balkan countries which will need additional EU support to purchase energy.
Countries in the Western Balkans include Albania, Serbia, Bosnia, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo which are all at different stage in the EU accession process. The region is still plagued by instability stemming from the wars in the 1990s’ and the economic hardship that followed.
EU and U.S. officials have hailed the Open Balkan initiative as a way to boost regional cooperation and free trade by easing border procedures and taxes. The leaders of Serbia, Albania and North Macedonia have urged other countries in the region to join the project.
“This was the right step at the right moment,” said North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski. “We are here together to send a message of solidarity between our states and governments and readiness to jointly tackle the crisis and the tough winter that we are facing.”
Also present at the gathering were the foreign ministers of Turkey and Hungary who pledged their countries’ help to the region and urged the EU to speed up the accession agenda.
The meeting in Belgrade is the first after the EU launched accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania in July after years of waiting. While Western Balkan countries say they remain committed to the integration into the bloc, there have been fears Russia and China could step in as the process drags on.
Concerns of renewed instability have mounted recently after tensions between Serbia and Kosovo surged last month over problems with recognition of each other’s vehicle license plates and identity documents.
Serbia does not recognize Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence. The EU has been mediating in the dispute but Belgrade maintains close relations with Moscow and has relied on Russia and China in its bid retain claim on the former province. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-3-balkan-countries-to-work-on-averting-food-energy-shortage/ | 2022-09-03T05:56:21Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-3-balkan-countries-to-work-on-averting-food-energy-shortage/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BERLIN (AP) — The German government confirmed Friday that families of 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian militants at the 1972 Munich Olympics will receive a total of 28 million euros (dollars) in compensation.
The figure — which includes payments already made — had previously been reported by German and Israeli media but not officially communicated by the government.
It’s a significant increase from the initial 10 million-euro offer to the families ahead of the 50th anniversary of the attack, which will be commemorated on Monday.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz “is very glad about the agreement achieved with the families of the victims,” government spokesman Steffen Hebesteit told reporters in Berlin.
“Germany is emphasizing its responsibility for the mistakes that were made there in 1972, but also in the decades that followed,” he added.
As part of an agreement with the families, Germany has agreed to acknowledge failures that authorities made at the time and to allow German and Israeli historians to review the events surrounding the attack.
Members of the Palestinian group Black September broke into the Olympic Village, killed two athletes from Israel’s national team and took nine more hostage on Sept. 5, 1972. The attackers hoped to force the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel as well as two left-wing extremists in West German jails.
All nine hostages and a West German police officer died during a rescue attempt by German forces. Relatives of the athletes accuse Germany of failing to secure the Olympic Village, refusing Israeli help and then botching the rescue operation.
Immediately after the attack, Germany made payments to relatives of the victims amounting to about 4.19 million marks (about 2 million euros or dollars), according to the country’s interior ministry. In 2002, the surviving relatives received an additional 3 million euros, Germany’s dpa news agency reported.
Asked whether Germany would welcome an apology for the attack from the current Palestinian leadership, Hebestreit said: “Yes, I would.”
He said the issue was not discussed at a recent meeting in Berlin with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who dismissed questions about a possible apology and accused Israel of committing “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians, sparking outrage in Germany and beyond. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-germany-confirms-28m-settlement-with-munich-attack-families/ | 2022-09-03T05:57:20Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-germany-confirms-28m-settlement-with-munich-attack-families/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MADRID (AP) — The mayor of a southern town in Spain said Friday that an oil slick from a damaged and partly sunken bulk carrier ship off Gibraltar has reached a nearby Spanish beach.
La Línea de la Concepción Mayor Juan Franco said fuel from the leakage had been pushed by winds and currents to the beach.
The leakage occurred Thursday but divers sealed the source. The environmental impact or the quantity of oil spilled was not immediately clear.
“What has entered is a worrying spillage but it is not a tragedy,” Franco said. He said the most important issue was to remove the remaining fuel oil on the tanker safely.
Gibraltar officials said early Friday that 80% of the diesel on the ship had been removed but that some 180 tons of heavy fuel are still on board. The ship was ordered grounded in the shallows after colliding Monday with another vessel in the bay of the British territory located at the western entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.
A government spokesman said there had been no further seepage of heavy fuel since Thursday and that the situation was under control.
The spokesman, who was not authorized to be named publicly, said the ship had been carrying 250 tons of diesel and still had 183 tons of heavy fuel oil and 27 tons of lubricant oil in its tanks.
The heavy fuel oil is potentially more damaging to the environment and more difficult to extract, raising concerns in Spain and Gibraltar for marine life and tourism in the area.
Fabian Picardo, the head of Gibraltar’s government, told Spain’s Cadena SER radio that work would begin on removing the heavy fuel after the diesel is fully extracted.
The usually busy port of Gibraltar remains closed, but the neighboring Algeciras port in Spain is fully operational.
The 178-meter (584-foot), Tuvalu-registered OS 35 was carrying a cargo of steel bars. The LNG carrier with which it collided sustained little damage. No one was injured in the collision.
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Sanwo-Olu’s wife asks Lagos market women to be security conscious
WIFE of the Lagos State governor, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, has called on market stakeholders in the state to be sensitive and responsive to security concerns as a way to avert attacks.
Sanwo-Olu said it was essential for market men and women to reject unhygienic practices, including indiscriminate dumping of waste, blocking of drainages and street trading.
The governor’s wife made the call on Friday at a one-day seminar themed ‘Market Sanitation, Security and Safety for Market Leaders’, organised by the Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials (COWLSO).
The seminar was also graced by the wife of the deputy governor, Mrs Oluremi Hamzat; Special Adviser to the Governor on Local Government and Community Affairs, Mr Bolaji Kayode Robert; chairman of Surelere Local Government, JimohSulaimon Yusuf; the White Cap chiefs, market leaders, among others.
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Dr Sanwo-Olu, who is the chairperson of COWLSO, charged the market stakeholders to join efforts in intelligence gathering by channeling information to the appropriate quarters to ensure that “potential security threat is nipped in the bud.
“We have purposely included the security and safety of our markets as part of the topics at this seminar for obvious reasons; that security is everybody’s business and as market men and women and community leaders, we must be conscious of the need to make our security a priority.
“When we see something, let us not only say something but do something to ensure that a potential security threat is nipped in the bud,” she said.
The governor’s wife said there must be proper identification of everyone trading in the market, saying monitoring and evaluation of security activities in the market “must be a daily affair and also in every community.”
She said: “As market men and women, you must take ownership of security in your markets, and you have to speak up and speak out loud and clear when you suspect any suspicious movement or activity around you.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/sanwo-olus-wife-asks-lagos-market-women-to-be-security-conscious/ | 2022-09-03T05:59:27Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/sanwo-olus-wife-asks-lagos-market-women-to-be-security-conscious/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BERLIN (AP) — Two earthquakes hit Liechtenstein just as lawmakers in the tiny Alpine principality were debating the pros and cons of quake insurance.
Lawmaker Bettina Petzold-Maehr had just warned that the chances of all Liechtenstein citizens being affected by an earthquake striking the country was high when the first small temblor hit shortly before 2 p.m. (1200GMT) Thursday.
Petzold-Maehr laughed and continued until the second quake struck, visibly shaking the room.
“This is getting a bit much, you never know if there’ll be aftershocks,” speaker Albert Frick said, announcing a 15-minute recess.
Records by the German Research Centre for Geosciences showed a magnitude 4 earthquake hit Liechtenstein, which is sandwiched between Switzerland and Austria, Thursday afternoon.
Liechtenstein police said no injuries or damage were reported, and gave a magnitude of 3.9 for the quake.
Liechtenstein has a population of just under 39,000 and a surface area of 62 square miles (160 square kilometers), making it slightly smaller than Washington, D.C. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-strange-news/ap-liechtenstein-shakes-as-lawmakers-debate-quake-insurance/ | 2022-09-03T05:59:45Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-strange-news/ap-liechtenstein-shakes-as-lawmakers-debate-quake-insurance/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II will skip the Braemar Gathering, a popular Highland Games event, as she struggles with issues getting around.
The 96-year-old monarch previously decided to formally appoint Britain’s new prime minister on Tuesday at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, where she is vacationing, rather than return to London for the traditional ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
Her eldest son and heir Prince Charles, who normally accompanies the monarch to the gathering, will attend. British media reported Friday that the decision was made for the comfort of the monarch, who has struggled with what the palace describes as “mobility issues’’ since last year.
Elizabeth has spent much of the past two years at Windsor Castle, west of London, where she took refuge during the pandemic. She has kept working throughout this period, although most of her tasks have been carried out virtually, including meetings with ambassadors, health workers and schoolchildren. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-queen-elizabeth-ii-to-skip-highland-games-event-in-scotland/ | 2022-09-03T06:00:07Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-queen-elizabeth-ii-to-skip-highland-games-event-in-scotland/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Amazon Studios has launched “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” a series is based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings which take place long before “Lord of the Rings” and “Hobbit” films and books.
It’s a television production of epic proportions, with an estimated price tag of $465 million for its first eight episodes, with plans for a 50-part story arc.
In recent weeks the cast and producers have revealed some of the behind-the-scenes challenges that went into bringing the second age of Tolkien’s Middle-earth to screens.
IS THE SHOW JUST FOR HARDCARE TOLKIEN FANS?
“I don’t think anyone needs to do any homework. Of course, having a prior knowledge of the lore and the world will only enhance the experience. But I think you can go into it as a complete new fan of Tolkien and Tolkien’s world.” — Charlie Vickers, who plays Halbrand, a human shipwreck survivor.
“I’m really hoping that we’re going to bring some new fans to this kind of work in this world building in this sort of world. I think that it’s quite diverse. There are obviously families and kids and things like that who would love it. But equally people like me that love fantasy and still read it and go and see the movies and films and whatever — I think that will appeal as well.” — Sara Zwangobani, who plays the harfoot Marigold Brandyfoot.
WHAT TO EXPECT
“I feel the main character for me in Tolkien’s work is Middle-earth itself. If we can get that, then the characters will make sense and come from there. I really hope that then there will be something for everyone because the main bit is being immersed in another land.” — Morfydd Clark, who plays elven commander Galadriel.
“There is great evil in Tolkien and there is in this show. But we felt that it was important that even evil sort of had a point of view. We thought that was that was true to him. The first line in the show is ‘Nothing is evil in the beginning.’” — Patrick McKay, a showrunner and executive producer.
“There’s fear matched with bravery. And I think we live in a world now where society and external forces can sometimes dim that instinct, that fiery instinct to just to just do, which we idealistically rely on for ourselves.” — Sophia Nomvete, who plays a dwarven princess.
“Definitely I feel the weight of expectation on my character because he’s obviously been portrayed in the films and people have an idea of who he is already. But this is set thousands of years before that, at a point where, you know, we’re exploring his, well, my character’s beginnings, understanding his relationships with his family, his friends, his place in the world, and what he really wants to do.” — Maxim Baldry, who plays Isildur, the human leader who obtains an all-powerful ring.
ON TRANSFORMING INTO A MIDDLE-EARTH CHARACTER
“Two-and-a-half hours in the makeup chair every day. And I sang songs with my fellow actors, Megan Richards, Markella Kavenagh. I talked to my great team. Sometimes I just thought about my character and what I was going to do for the day. Actually, we had a lot of fun in the makeup chair. Two-and-a-half hours sounds like a long time, but actually we had a great time, So, it was like no time passed.” — Sara Zwangobani, on the time it took makeup and prosthetic artists to transform into harfoot Marigold Brandyfoot.
“Three hours to put it on, and 45 to take it off. So, it is a big part of the day. It really was. And I became very good friends with the makeup artist and the prosthetics artist, as well.” — Owain Arthur, on the time it took makeup and prosthetic artists to transform him into King Durin IV.
“This is an iconic, necessary, revolutionary moment and I am very proud to fly the flag for generations to come in a franchise of this scale.” — Black actor Sophia Nomvete who plays the dwarf princess Disa.
“I think when people talk about the budget of the series, one thing that I keep saying is that I don’t think people want a budget version of this story. You do not want to see sort of pieces of things falling off sets and costumes that look like rentals. I think you need the resources to tell a story of this scale.” — Cynthia Addai-Robinson, who plays the queen-regent of Númenor.
WHISKING AWAY TO ANOTHER, ISOLATED, WORLD
“We filmed during a pandemic, a global pandemic. It was difficult because we were away from loved ones for almost two years and our support systems. But what that did is it sort of forced us to to lean on each other. And that is is a bonding experience like no other.” — Nazanin Boniadi, who plays a human healer and single-mother.
“It was difficult, yes. But we also had the particular privilege to be working. At one point, we were the only show that was shooting in the world — our colleagues had their shows paused and even canceled. The world was indoors and we were still able to go to set every day. That was also a fire that fueled our our performances. I think for everyone this became more than a show. It was our lives and it was a letter and a testament letter of love to all the fans and everyone else in the world that was indoors.” — Ismael Cruz Córdova, who plays an elf soldier.
“From the very first moment, I think even from the audition stage, we’re not really meant to kind of share anything. So I remember when I got cast, and I got cast in the middle of lockdown, and I couldn’t tell anyone. And then I left the country and I didn’t tell anyone where I was going because I thought, ’Well, if I tell them where, they’re going to know, they’re going to know exactly what it is.” — Cynthia Addai-Robinson, who plays the queen-regent of Númenor.
HONORING TOLKIEN
“Those who both love Tolkien and who are passionate about Tolkien and have read every single little every ounce of work that they possibly is by Tolkien — I hope that they respond to it and connect to it for sure. But I also do hope that there are kids that haven’t been introduced yet and that, you know, maybe they will be inspired to go back to the books and rediscover them or discover them for the first time.” — Markella Kavenagh, who plays a young harfoot girl.
“Obviously, it will be compared with inevitably other current fantasy shows and particularly the (Peter) Jackson movies. But the world is very different and we’ve started out with some brand new characters, some characters from Tolkien that have never been played before or never featured in a live-action TV show. I think because it is a brand new thing, it’s more exciting than worrying.” — Charles Edwards, who plays Celebrimbor.
“I think we are not the mothers. We are but midwives or doulas at best. This is Tolkien’s baby and this is his world. And we’ve just seen it as our responsibility to hopefully bring it into being in a fresh, new way. If people feel his voice and his themes and his tones in the show even a little bit, we’ll just be thrilled. So we can’t wait for people to watch.” — Patrick McKay, showrunner and executive producer.
WHAT ABOUT THAT OTHER BIG FANTASY SHOW?
“Obviously, it will be compared with inevitably other current fantasy shows and particularly the (Peter) Jackson movies. But the world is very different and we’ve started out with some brand new characters, some characters from Tolkien that have never been played before or never featured in a live-action TV show. I think because it is a brand new thing, it’s more exciting than worrying.” — Charles Edwards, who plays Celebrimbor.
“I think when you look at a genre like fantasy, you can use the biggest stories to tell things that are very relatable. People want to get lost in the stories and they want to feel things and you need a big, big canvas to be able to do that. I’m a huge ‘Game of Thrones’ fan. I’m going to be watching ‘House of the Dragon.’ I have a friend on ‘House of the Dragon.’ I think this idea of having to choose one or the other — you can watch both. You can watch more. I will be watching more. So, if you’re a fan of genre, this is this is an incredible time.” — Cynthia Addai-Robinson, who plays the queen-regent of Númenor.
___ Associated Press reporters Mike Cidoni Lennox in Los Angeles, Krysta Fauria in San Diego, Berenice Bautista in Mexico City and Mark Kennedy in New York compiled material for this story.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government will send $1 billion worth of federal grants for manufacturing, clean energy, farming, biotech and more to 21 regional partnerships across the nation, President Joe Biden and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo announced Friday.
The 21 were chosen from 529 initial applicants vying for grants that were part of last year’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. The Biden administration has repeatedly laid out a vision for the economy that is more self-sufficient and driven by high-tech manufacturing and the development of renewable energy.
“We designed this program by thinking about people and places,” Biden said at a White House event. “This is about jobs in their communities for them, not having to leave or not having to go on unemployment. ”
Unlike much of the pandemic aid that was meant to address immediate needs, the grants are part of a longer-term effort to revitalize parts of the country that have needed an economic jolt. The money will include funds for existing industries and capital for new ventures. The grants are the largest ever for local economic development provided by the Commerce Department, Raimondo said.
She said the effort is personal for her. Her father lost his job at a watch factory in Rhode Island
“The whole point of this is we’re not going to let you get left behind as we transition to a more digital economy, to a more technical economy, to a green economy,” Raimondo said in an interview.
The grants include $65.1 million for California to improve farm production and $25 million for a robotics cluster in Nebraska. Georgia gets $65 million for artificial intelligence. There is $63.7 million for lithium-based battery development in New York. Coal counties in West Virginia would receive $62.8 million to help with the shift to solar power and find new uses for abandoned mines.
“I can’t tell you how much this means to our hardworking people in West Virginia,” said that state’s Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who attended the announcement virtually.
Raimondo estimated that the investments, which will be provided over five years as reimbursements, will result in at least 100,000 jobs.
Solidly Republican states such as Oklahoma and South Dakota received funding, and money also is going ahead of November’s midterm elections toward political battlegrounds that could decide control of Congress. There is $44 million for regenerative medicine in New Hampshire, where Democrat Maggie Hassan is defending her U.S. Senate seat. Pennsylvania, which has an open Senate seat, is set to receive $62.7 million for robotics and artificial intelligence.
Raimondo said the winners were chosen based on merit rather than politics
“Let me ask you: How is this going to play out on the political scene?” Biden asked the Pennsylvania team attending Friday’s event virtually.
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, a Democrat, quickly answered with a campaign ready line: “President Biden continues to invest in people and in jobs and in our future.”
The massive amount of coronavirus aid at the start of Biden’s tenure helped to accelerate job growth as the U.S. recovered from the pandemic. But accompanying the hiring was a burst of inflation that hit a 40-year peak this summer, crushing consumer sentiment and putting the administration on the defensive to show how its policies are helping the economy.
Even as much of the coronavirus money has been disbursed, the administration has said it still needs more to contain the disease and its variations. On Friday, the White House said it would seek $7.1 billion for additional vaccines and personal protective equipment as well as $2 billion for free at-home coronavirus tests as part of a broader emergency funding request.
Biden had earlier sought $22.5 billion from Congress to address and prevent outbreaks, a figure that lawmakers reduced to $10 billion in negotiations. But that additional funding was never passed by Congress despite confirmed cases that are now averaging about 90,000 daily.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tried to minimize the lack of funding after the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved modified booster shots of the vaccines. Jean-Pierre said booster shots would be available after the Labor Day holiday as the administration has worked with local partners.
The grants for economic development indicate that the relief package could have a multidecade impact that goes beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The New Orleans area will receive $50 million to use hydrogen produced by wind power that does not cause carbon emissions, a meaningful change in Louisiana, a state that has long depended on fossil fuels.
“With clean hydrogen, we can remain an energy state — but become an energy state of the future that has less impact on the environment,” said Michael Hecht, president and CEO of Greater New Orleans Inc., an economic development nonprofit. “When money and morality come together, you get stuff done.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-biden-administration-awards-1-billion-for-economic-projects/ | 2022-09-03T06:00:44Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-biden-administration-awards-1-billion-for-economic-projects/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — CNN White House correspondent John Harwood said he’s exiting the news channel, an abrupt departure that comes amid other CNN changes.
“Today’s my last day at CNN,” Harwood said in a tweet posted Friday. He said he was proud of the work and called himself “lucky to serve the best in American media,” including stints at the St. Petersburg Times, Wall Street Journal, NBC and CNN.
“Look forward to figuring out what’s next,” he said on Twitter.
“We appreciate John’s work covering the White House, and we wish him all the best,” CNN said in a statement.
Last month, CNN canceled its weekly “Reliable Sources” media analysis show after three decades on the air, and host Brian Stelter left the network. The show appeared to be an early casualty in CNN’s effort to be less confrontational politically — a priority of Chris Licht, who became the network’s chairman and CEO in the spring, and his boss, David Zaslav, head of the Warner Bros. Discovery parent company.
Harwood came to CNN in 2020 from CNBC, where he was chief White House correspondent.
About two hours before Harwood announced he was leaving CNN, he was on-air discussing President Joe Biden’s speech Thursday, in which Biden called former President Donald Trump an extremist treat to the nation.
Harwood said that Biden’s “core point in that political speech about the threat to democracy is true. Now that is something that is not easy for us as journalists to say. We’re brought up to believe there’s two different political parties with different points of view, and we don’t take sides in honest disagreements between them.
“But that’s not what we are talking about. These are not honest disagreements. The Republican party right now is led by a dishonest demagogue,” Harwood said, in part. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-john-harwood-exits-cnn-amid-changes-at-the-news-channel/ | 2022-09-03T06:01:14Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-john-harwood-exits-cnn-amid-changes-at-the-news-channel/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Crawford County gets new school, football field
You would never know by looking at the parking lot of Crawford County Middle and High School that the old high school used to stand in its place.
ROBERTA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — You would never know by looking at the parking lot of Crawford County Middle and High School that the old high school used to stand in its place.
The freshly-paved parking lot is in front of a brand new facility that houses the high school and middle school.
“We were having mechanical problems and things like that with the building, so it was time for that school to phase out,” Interim Superintendent for Crawford County Schools Christopher Ridley explained. “That was why we decided to close that school and build a new middle and high school complex.”
Ridley says the middle and high school complex now has top-of-the-line safety features. It also provides more options for academics and recreation.
“Students are excited about volleyball,” he said. “We’re just getting volleyball this year. For academics, we have our healthcare field. We have some of our CTE courses that are new as well.”
In addition to a brand new building, the school also has a brand new football field. An anonymous donor and SPLOST funds paid for the $1.2 million turf field.
Crawford County Head Football Coach Craig Puckett says the field is top of the line with CoolPlay technology.
“Everybody’s just excited about it and loving the opportunity to get out there and just be on something nice. The school is beautiful now,” he said. “Our facilities are great, and there’s just an overall attitude that everyone is excited and thankful for what we have.”
Crawford County Middle and High School Principal Chad Chafin says the football field will be used for football, soccer and more.
“I’ve talked to the band director about next year having a single A competition here for bands our size,” hes aid. “JROTC can actually have competitions on the field. We can use it for several aspects.”
According to Ridley, the district plans to use SPLOST funds to update other facilities throughout the county. The old middle school is now the elementary school, and the old elementary school is now a primary school for the district. | https://www.41nbc.com/crawford-county-gets-new-school-football-field/ | 2022-09-03T06:01:56Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/crawford-county-gets-new-school-football-field/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Crawford County gets new school, football field
You would never know by looking at the parking lot of Crawford County Middle and High School that the old high school used to stand in its place.
ROBERTA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — You would never know by looking at the parking lot of Crawford County Middle and High School that the old high school used to stand in its place.
The freshly-paved parking lot is in front of a brand new facility that houses the high school and middle school.
“We were having mechanical problems and things like that with the building, so it was time for that school to phase out,” Interim Superintendent for Crawford County Schools Christopher Ridley explained. “That was why we decided to close that school and build a new middle and high school complex.”
Ridley says the middle and high school complex now has top-of-the-line safety features. It also provides more options for academics and recreation.
“Students are excited about volleyball,” he said. “We’re just getting volleyball this year. For academics, we have our healthcare field. We have some of our CTE courses that are new as well.”
In addition to a brand new building, the school also has a brand new football field. An anonymous donor and SPLOST funds paid for the $1.2 million turf field.
Crawford County Head Football Coach Craig Puckett says the field is top of the line with CoolPlay technology.
“Everybody’s just excited about it and loving the opportunity to get out there and just be on something nice. The school is beautiful now,” he said. “Our facilities are great, and there’s just an overall attitude that everyone is excited and thankful for what we have.”
Crawford County Middle and High School Principal Chad Chafin says the football field will be used for football, soccer and more.
“I’ve talked to the band director about next year having a single A competition here for bands our size,” hes aid. “JROTC can actually have competitions on the field. We can use it for several aspects.”
According to Ridley, the district plans to use SPLOST funds to update other facilities throughout the county. The old middle school is now the elementary school, and the old elementary school is now a primary school for the district. | https://www.41nbc.com/crawford-county-gets-new-school-football-field/ | 2022-09-03T06:01:56Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/crawford-county-gets-new-school-football-field/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Historic Cannonball House opens time capsules previously buried under Confederate monuments
Cannonball House officials and Macon-Bibb County officials opened two time capsules recovered after relocating two downtown Confederate monuments.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Cannonball House officials and Macon-Bibb County officials opened two time capsules recovered after relocating two downtown Confederate monuments.
History leaped from two copper boxes Friday when two time capsules were opened that had previously been buried under two Confederate monuments in downtown Macon.
Crews recovered the capsules after moving Confederate monuments on Cotton Avenue and Poplar Street.
The monuments were relocated to Whittle Park at Rose Hill Cemetery, and the capsules were held inside the county vault until the county presented them to the Historic Cannonball House.
Earl Colvin, chairman of the board of directors for the Cannonball House, says the time capsules have found their perfect home.
“We’re able to go back 150 years and touch a piece of time that involved the lives of other people,” he said. “Today to see artifacts that were placed in there so long ago is really special. This just adds to the momentum of what we’ve already got going. These artifacts in themselves are very special in the fact that they came from a time period that represents the period that the house was built, so it’s important to us to remember all parts and aspects of our history.”
The Cotton Avenue capsule, which had not been opened since 1956, includes artifacts from the Civil War, including a photograph of a confederate soldier. There were also newspapers from the 1880s inside and even an original copy of “Gone with the Wind.”
“As you’re going through that and you’re touch all of these old things that you know that somebody in 1878 touched those things, it’s just almost chill bumps to the point of emotional,” Cannonball House Executive Director Cheryl Aultman said. “It was just wonderful to see all of that stuff.”
All artifacts unveiled from both time capsules will be displayed inside the Cannonball House’s Civil War Museum.
Addition items from the time capsules:
- Muster rolls for 15 Middle Georgia Confederate regiments
- Asketch of the 2nd Ga Battalion
- Army maps taken from the body of Captain J. G. Roger, 12th Georgia regiment
- Several coins and Confederate war bonds
- Engraving of Confederate iron clad Virginia.
- Yearbooks from the Colonel Thomas Hardeman UDC chapter from the 1950s and from the Sidney Lanier Chapter UDC from 1931-1954.
- A Stone Mountain half dollar coin dated 1925.
- A medallion featuring R. E. Lee on one side and Stratford Hall on the other, dated 1929, that was sold to raise funds to restore the historic Stratford home of the Lee family.
- An original edition of “Gone With The Wind” by Margaret Mitchell.
- Several city directories from the 1950s
- 1955-56 Wesleyan College Catalog
- 1955-56 Mercer University Bulletin
- 1955 Macon Telephone Directory.
- 1956 Al Sihah Mystic Messenger.
- Two UDC magazines from 1956.
- Sidney Lanier Chapter UDC reminisences By Mrs. Issac Winship.
- A 1940 program from the dedication of Willingham Chapel at Mercer University.
- 1933 Mercer at Penfield (1833-1871) Centennial Celebration program booklet.
- Program dated January 1954 of the inauguration of George Boyce Connell, 16th President of Mercer University.
- Letter from Henry H. Tucker, President of Mercer University to R. E. Lee conferring upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, dated July 10,1866 and copy of letter from Lee in reply, dated 18 July 1866
There are a few more items that are too wet to open yet. The Cannonball House is attempting to dehumidify them and are hopeful they can be saved. The large 1956 metal box had taken on moisture over the years, damaging many of the items enclosed. | https://www.41nbc.com/historic-cannonball-house-opens-time-capsules-previously-buried-under-confederate-monuments/ | 2022-09-03T06:02:02Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/historic-cannonball-house-opens-time-capsules-previously-buried-under-confederate-monuments/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Historic Cannonball House opens time capsules previously buried under Confederate monuments
Cannonball House officials and Macon-Bibb County officials opened two time capsules recovered after relocating two downtown Confederate monuments.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Cannonball House officials and Macon-Bibb County officials opened two time capsules recovered after relocating two downtown Confederate monuments.
History leaped from two copper boxes Friday when two time capsules were opened that had previously been buried under two Confederate monuments in downtown Macon.
Crews recovered the capsules after moving Confederate monuments on Cotton Avenue and Poplar Street.
The monuments were relocated to Whittle Park at Rose Hill Cemetery, and the capsules were held inside the county vault until the county presented them to the Historic Cannonball House.
Earl Colvin, chairman of the board of directors for the Cannonball House, says the time capsules have found their perfect home.
“We’re able to go back 150 years and touch a piece of time that involved the lives of other people,” he said. “Today to see artifacts that were placed in there so long ago is really special. This just adds to the momentum of what we’ve already got going. These artifacts in themselves are very special in the fact that they came from a time period that represents the period that the house was built, so it’s important to us to remember all parts and aspects of our history.”
The Cotton Avenue capsule, which had not been opened since 1956, includes artifacts from the Civil War, including a photograph of a confederate soldier. There were also newspapers from the 1880s inside and even an original copy of “Gone with the Wind.”
“As you’re going through that and you’re touch all of these old things that you know that somebody in 1878 touched those things, it’s just almost chill bumps to the point of emotional,” Cannonball House Executive Director Cheryl Aultman said. “It was just wonderful to see all of that stuff.”
All artifacts unveiled from both time capsules will be displayed inside the Cannonball House’s Civil War Museum.
Addition items from the time capsules:
- Muster rolls for 15 Middle Georgia Confederate regiments
- Asketch of the 2nd Ga Battalion
- Army maps taken from the body of Captain J. G. Roger, 12th Georgia regiment
- Several coins and Confederate war bonds
- Engraving of Confederate iron clad Virginia.
- Yearbooks from the Colonel Thomas Hardeman UDC chapter from the 1950s and from the Sidney Lanier Chapter UDC from 1931-1954.
- A Stone Mountain half dollar coin dated 1925.
- A medallion featuring R. E. Lee on one side and Stratford Hall on the other, dated 1929, that was sold to raise funds to restore the historic Stratford home of the Lee family.
- An original edition of “Gone With The Wind” by Margaret Mitchell.
- Several city directories from the 1950s
- 1955-56 Wesleyan College Catalog
- 1955-56 Mercer University Bulletin
- 1955 Macon Telephone Directory.
- 1956 Al Sihah Mystic Messenger.
- Two UDC magazines from 1956.
- Sidney Lanier Chapter UDC reminisences By Mrs. Issac Winship.
- A 1940 program from the dedication of Willingham Chapel at Mercer University.
- 1933 Mercer at Penfield (1833-1871) Centennial Celebration program booklet.
- Program dated January 1954 of the inauguration of George Boyce Connell, 16th President of Mercer University.
- Letter from Henry H. Tucker, President of Mercer University to R. E. Lee conferring upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, dated July 10,1866 and copy of letter from Lee in reply, dated 18 July 1866
There are a few more items that are too wet to open yet. The Cannonball House is attempting to dehumidify them and are hopeful they can be saved. The large 1956 metal box had taken on moisture over the years, damaging many of the items enclosed. | https://www.41nbc.com/historic-cannonball-house-opens-time-capsules-previously-buried-under-confederate-monuments/ | 2022-09-03T06:02:02Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/historic-cannonball-house-opens-time-capsules-previously-buried-under-confederate-monuments/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Juvenile arrested in Forsyth after law enforcement responds to burglary in progress
A juvenile male is charged with burglary after the Monroe County Sheriff's Office says it was dispatched to a burglary in progress Friday.
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A juvenile male is charged with burglary after the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office says it was dispatched to a burglary in progress Friday.
Deputies entered the apartment through an unsecured door and did not see the suspect.
“After watching surveillance video obtained from the victim, the male was located shortly after the burglary, inside a vehicle attempting to exit the apartment complex,” the post read. “Deputies conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle and located a male juvenile inside the vehicle. The juvenile was identified as the male inside the residence.” | https://www.41nbc.com/juvenile-arrested-forsyth-law-enforcement-responds-burglary-progress/ | 2022-09-03T06:02:08Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/juvenile-arrested-forsyth-law-enforcement-responds-burglary-progress/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Juvenile arrested in Forsyth after law enforcement responds to burglary in progress
A juvenile male is charged with burglary after the Monroe County Sheriff's Office says it was dispatched to a burglary in progress Friday.
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A juvenile male is charged with burglary after the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office says it was dispatched to a burglary in progress Friday.
Deputies entered the apartment through an unsecured door and did not see the suspect.
“After watching surveillance video obtained from the victim, the male was located shortly after the burglary, inside a vehicle attempting to exit the apartment complex,” the post read. “Deputies conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle and located a male juvenile inside the vehicle. The juvenile was identified as the male inside the residence.” | https://www.41nbc.com/juvenile-arrested-forsyth-law-enforcement-responds-burglary-progress/ | 2022-09-03T06:02:08Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/juvenile-arrested-forsyth-law-enforcement-responds-burglary-progress/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Crawford County welcomes Wilkinson County
Both teams were vying for their first win of the season. The Eagles were 0-2, while the Warriors were 0-1 after a BYE last week.
ROBERTA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Crawford County Eagles hosted the Wilkinson County Warriors Friday night.
Both teams were vying for their first win of the season. The Eagles were 0-2, while the Warriors were 0-1 after a BYE last week.
Check out the highlights from J.B. Hawkins Sports Complex: | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-crawford-county-welcomes-wilkinson-county/ | 2022-09-03T06:02:14Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-crawford-county-welcomes-wilkinson-county/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Crawford County welcomes Wilkinson County
Both teams were vying for their first win of the season. The Eagles were 0-2, while the Warriors were 0-1 after a BYE last week.
ROBERTA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Crawford County Eagles hosted the Wilkinson County Warriors Friday night.
Both teams were vying for their first win of the season. The Eagles were 0-2, while the Warriors were 0-1 after a BYE last week.
Check out the highlights from J.B. Hawkins Sports Complex: | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-crawford-county-welcomes-wilkinson-county/ | 2022-09-03T06:02:14Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-crawford-county-welcomes-wilkinson-county/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s been more than a decade since President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, welcomed back George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, for the unveiling of their White House portraits, part of a beloved Washington tradition that for decades managed to transcend partisan politics.
President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, are set to revive that ritual — after an awkward and anomalous gap in the Trump years — when they host the Obamas on Wednesday for the big reveal of their portraits in front of scores of friends, family and staff.
The Obama paintings will not look like any in the White House portrait collection to which they will be added. They were America’s first Black president and first lady.
The ceremony will also mark Michelle Obama’s first visit to the White House since Obama’s presidency ended in January 2017, and only the second visit for Barack Obama. He was at the White House in April to mark the 12th anniversary of the health care law he signed in 2010.
Portrait ceremonies often give past presidents an opportunity to showcase their comedic timing.
“I am pleased that my portrait brings an interesting symmetry to the White House collection. It now starts and ends with a George W,” Bush quipped at his ceremony in 2012.
Bill Clinton joked in 2004 that “most of the time, till you get your picture hung like this, the only artists that draw you are cartoonists.”
Recent tradition, no matter the party affiliation, has had the current president genially hosting his immediate predecessor for the unveiling — as Clinton did for George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush did for Clinton and Obama did for the younger Bush.
Then there was an unexplained pause when Donald Trump did not host Obama.
Two spokespeople for Trump did not respond to emailed requests for comment on the lack of a ceremony for Obama, and whether artists are working on portraits of Trump and former first lady Melania Trump.
The White House portrait collection starts with George Washington, America’s first president. Congress bought his portrait.
Other portraits of early presidents and first ladies often came to the White House as gifts. Since the 1960s, the White House Historical Association has paid for most of the paintings.
The first portraits financed by the association were of Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson, and John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, said Stewart McLaurin, president of the private, nonprofit organization established by first lady Kennedy.
Before presidents and first ladies leave office, the association explains the portrait process. The former president and first lady choose the artist or artists, and offer guidance on how they want to be portrayed.
“It really involves how that president and first lady see themselves,” McLaurin said in an interview with The Associated Press.
The collection includes an iconic, full-length portrait of Washington that adorns the East Room. It is the only item still in the White House that was in the executive mansion in November 1800 when John Adams and Abigail Adams became the first president and first lady to live in the White House.
Years later, first lady Dolley Madison saved Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of Washington from almost certain ruin. She had White House staff take it out of the city before advancing British forces burned the mansion in 1814. The painting was held in storage until the White House was rebuilt.
President and first lady portraits are seen by millions of White House visitors, though not all are on display. Some are undergoing conservation or are in storage.
Those that are on display line hallways and rooms in public areas of the mansion, such as the Ground Floor and its Vermeil and China Rooms, and the State Floor one level above, which has the famous Green, Blue and Red Rooms, the East Room and State Dining Room.
Portraits of Mamie Eisenhower, Pat Nixon, Lady Bird Johnson and Lou Henry Hoover grace the Vermeil Room, along with a full-length image of Jacqueline Kennedy. Michelle Obama’s portrait likely will join Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush along the Ground Floor hallway.
The State Floor hallway one floor above features recent presidents: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Gerald Ford’s portrait and the likeness of Richard Nixon — the only president to resign from office — are on view on the Grand Staircase leading to the private living quarters on the second floor.
Past presidents’ images move around the White House, depending on their standing with the current occupants. Ronald Reagan, for example, moved Thomas Jefferson and Harry S. Truman out of the Cabinet Room and swapped in Dwight Eisenhower and Calvin Coolidge.
In the Clinton era, portraits of Richard Nixon and Reagan, idols of the Republican Party, lost their showcase spot in the Grand Foyer and were replaced with pictures of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Truman, heroes of the Democrats. Nancy Reagan temporarily moved Eleanor Roosevelt to a place of prominence in the East Room in 1984 to mark the centennial of her birth.
One of the most prominent spots for a portrait is above the mantle in the State Dining Room and it has been occupied for decades by a painting of a seated Abraham Lincoln, hand supporting his chin. It was placed there by Franklin Roosevelt.
Bill Clinton’s and George W. Bush’s portraits hang on opposing walls in the Grand Foyer.
Clinton’s would be relocated to make room for Barack Obama’s if the White House sticks to tradition and keeps the two most recent Oval Office occupants there, McLaurin said.
“That’s up to the White House, to the curators,” he said.
The association, which is funded through private donations and the sale of books and an annual White House Christmas ornament, keeps the portrait price well below market value because of the “extraordinary honor” an artist derives from having “their work of art hanging perpetually in the White House,” McLaurin said.
Details about the Obamas’ portraits will stay under wraps until Wednesday.
Biden will be the rare president to host a former boss for the unveiling; he was Obama’s vice president. George H.W. Bush, who held Ronald Reagan’s ceremony, was Reagan’s No. 2.
Betty Monkman, a former White House curator, said during a 2017 podcast for the White House Historical Association that the ceremony is a “statement of generosity” by the president and first lady. “It’s a very warm, lovely moment.”
The White House portraits are one of two sets of portraits of presidents and first ladies. The National Portrait Gallery, a Smithsonian museum, maintains its own collection and those portraits are unveiled before the White House pair. The Obamas’ unveiled their museum portraits in February 2018.
Linda St. Thomas, chief spokesperson for the Smithsonian Institution, said in an email that a $650,000 donation in July from Save America, Trump’s political action committee, was earmarked for the couple’s museum portraits. Two artists have been commissioned, one for each painting, and work has begun, St. Thomas said.
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Associated Press writer Jill Colvin in New York contributed to this report. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-big-reveal-biden-to-help-unveil-obama-white-house-portrait/ | 2022-09-03T06:02:14Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-big-reveal-biden-to-help-unveil-obama-white-house-portrait/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: FPD welcomes Brookstone to Macon
The FPD Vikings hosted the Brookstone Cougars Friday night at George S. Johnson Memorial Stadium.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The FPD Vikings hosted the Brookstone Cougars Friday night at George S. Johnson Memorial Stadium.
This was the Vikings’ first game of the season. The Cougars came into the game 1-0.
Check out the highlights below: | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-fpd-welcomes-in-brookstone/ | 2022-09-03T06:02:20Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-fpd-welcomes-in-brookstone/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: FPD welcomes Brookstone to Macon
The FPD Vikings hosted the Brookstone Cougars Friday night at George S. Johnson Memorial Stadium.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The FPD Vikings hosted the Brookstone Cougars Friday night at George S. Johnson Memorial Stadium.
This was the Vikings’ first game of the season. The Cougars came into the game 1-0.
Check out the highlights below: | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-fpd-welcomes-in-brookstone/ | 2022-09-03T06:02:20Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-fpd-welcomes-in-brookstone/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Northeast hosts Fitzgerald
The Northeast Raiders hosted the Fitzgerald Purple Hurricanes at Henderson Stadium Friday night.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Northeast Raiders hosted the Fitzgerald Purple Hurricanes at Henderson Stadium Friday night.
Here are the highlights: | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-northeast-hosts-fitzgerald/ | 2022-09-03T06:02:26Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-northeast-hosts-fitzgerald/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Northeast hosts Fitzgerald
The Northeast Raiders hosted the Fitzgerald Purple Hurricanes at Henderson Stadium Friday night.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Northeast Raiders hosted the Fitzgerald Purple Hurricanes at Henderson Stadium Friday night.
Here are the highlights: | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-northeast-hosts-fitzgerald/ | 2022-09-03T06:02:26Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-northeast-hosts-fitzgerald/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Northside faces Warner Robins in our Game of the Week
The Demons come into the game 0-1 after losing to Lee County in Week 1. The Eagles were looking to make it two wins in a row after beating Peach County 35-7 last week.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – In one of the biggest rivalries in the state, the Warner Robins Demons took on the Northside Eagles Friday night.
The Demons come into the game 0-1 after losing to Lee County in Week 1. The Eagles were looking to make it two wins in a row after beating Peach County 35-7 last week.
Shaaz Peerani has the highlights from The MAC: | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-northside-plays-host-to-warner-robins-in-our-game-of-the-week/ | 2022-09-03T06:02:32Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-northside-plays-host-to-warner-robins-in-our-game-of-the-week/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Northside faces Warner Robins in our Game of the Week
The Demons come into the game 0-1 after losing to Lee County in Week 1. The Eagles were looking to make it two wins in a row after beating Peach County 35-7 last week.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – In one of the biggest rivalries in the state, the Warner Robins Demons took on the Northside Eagles Friday night.
The Demons come into the game 0-1 after losing to Lee County in Week 1. The Eagles were looking to make it two wins in a row after beating Peach County 35-7 last week.
Shaaz Peerani has the highlights from The MAC: | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-northside-plays-host-to-warner-robins-in-our-game-of-the-week/ | 2022-09-03T06:02:32Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-northside-plays-host-to-warner-robins-in-our-game-of-the-week/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Perry travels to Jones County
The Greyhounds (2-0) were looking to stay unbeaten on the season. The Panthers (0-1) were trying to get their first win of the season after losing 57-56 to Houston County.
GRAY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Jones County Greyhounds hosted the Perry Panthers at Greyhound Field on Friday night.
The Greyhounds (2-0) were looking to stay unbeaten on the season. The Panthers (0-1) were trying to get their first win of the season after losing 57-56 to Houston County.
Bill Shanks has the highlights: | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-perry-travels-to-jones-county/ | 2022-09-03T06:02:38Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-perry-travels-to-jones-county/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Perry travels to Jones County
The Greyhounds (2-0) were looking to stay unbeaten on the season. The Panthers (0-1) were trying to get their first win of the season after losing 57-56 to Houston County.
GRAY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Jones County Greyhounds hosted the Perry Panthers at Greyhound Field on Friday night.
The Greyhounds (2-0) were looking to stay unbeaten on the season. The Panthers (0-1) were trying to get their first win of the season after losing 57-56 to Houston County.
Bill Shanks has the highlights: | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-perry-travels-to-jones-county/ | 2022-09-03T06:02:38Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-highlights-perry-travels-to-jones-county/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Westside hosts Morrow
The Seminoles and Mustangs both came into the game unbeaten at 2-0 this season.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Westside Seminoles welcomed the Morrow Mustangs from south metro Atlanta on Friday night.
The Seminoles and Mustangs both came into the game unbeaten at 2-0 this season.
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THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Westside hosts Morrow
The Seminoles and Mustangs both came into the game unbeaten at 2-0 this season.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Westside Seminoles welcomed the Morrow Mustangs from south metro Atlanta on Friday night.
The Seminoles and Mustangs both came into the game unbeaten at 2-0 this season.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added a healthy number of jobs last month, yet slowed their hiring enough to potentially help the Federal Reserve in its fight to reduce raging inflation.
The economy gained 315,000 jobs in August, a still-solid figure that pointed to an economy that remains resilient despite rising interest rates, high inflation and sluggish consumer spending. Friday’s report from the government also showed that the unemployment rate rose to 3.7%, up from a half-century low of 3.5%. Yet that increase was also an encouraging sign: It reflected a long-awaited rise in the number of Americans who are looking for work.
“It’s a very positive report and still holds open the possibility for a soft landing,” said Ellen Gaske, an economist at PGIM Fixed Income, referring to the Fed’s goal of slowing the economy enough to cool inflation without going so far as to cause a recession.
Prices are rising at nearly the fastest pace in 40 years, which has handed congressional Republicans a hammer to use against Democrats in the fall congressional elections. Texas Republican Rep. Kevin Brady noted Friday that rising wages aren’t keeping up with inflation, leaving Americans with “shrinking paychecks.”
The White House has pushed back, claiming credit for what it calls evidence that the economy remains on firm footing.
“Jobs are up, wages are up, people are back to work and we’re seeing some signs that inflation may be, may be … beginning to ease,” President Joe Biden said Friday.
Inflation did fall to an 8.5% annual rate in July from 9.1% in June, mostly as gas prices steadily dropped. Prices at the pump fell to $3.81 a gallon Friday from a peak of $5.02 in mid-June. But inflation has declined in the past only to jump higher again, and few economists are willing to declare yet that it has peaked.
The August hiring gain was down from 526,000 jobs that were added in July, and it fell below the average increase of the previous three months. Wage growth weakened a bit last month, too, which could also serve the Fed’s inflation fight. Average hourly pay rose 0.3% from the previous month, the smallest gain since April. Businesses typically pass the cost of higher wages on to their customers through higher prices, thereby fueling inflation.
Gaske suggested that the figures could allow the Fed to raise its benchmark short-term interest rate by a half-percentage point at its next meeting later this month, rather than by three-quarters of a point, as many Wall Street traders and some economists have expected. Either size increase would exceed the Fed’s typical hike of a quarter of a percentage point. When the Fed increases its rate, it leads over time to higher rates on mortgages, auto loans and business borrowing and can weaken the economy.
The Fed is rapidly raising rates to try to cool the economy and reduce inflation. Some economists fear, though, that the Fed is tightening credit so aggressively that it will eventually tip the economy into recession.
Most industries added workers last month, with the biggest increases in professional and business services, which gained 68,000 jobs. That sector includes architects, engineers and some tech workers. Health care added 61,500 jobs, retailers 44,000.
Some companies, particularly in technology, have announced layoffs in recent months. On Wednesday, Snap, the parent company of the social media platform Snapchat, said it would cut 20% of its staff. The fitness equipment maker Peloton, the stock trading app Robinhood and the online furniture Wayfair have also said they are laying off workers. Bed, Bath & Beyond says it will close 150 stores and slash its workforce by 20%.
Yet with unemployment still very low and many businesses desperate to find workers, people who have been laid off are still finding plentiful opportunities elsewhere. One eager employer is TruBlue Total House Care, which does home renovations and repairs, with a focus on making homes safer for senior citizens.
Sean Fitzgerald, president of TruBlue, based in Cincinnati, said all its 87 locations have posted job openings. The number of people applying has risen recently, he said — a welcome sign for a company that has been short-staffed since soon after COVID-19 struck in the spring of 2020.
“We have far more demand than we do employees,” Fitzgerald said. “Our biggest hurdle continues to be getting enough qualified employees hired.”
To help retain its workers, TruBlue in some cases is lending company vehicles to employees and paying for gas.
Fitzgerald said a slowdown in home building, one consequence of the Fed’s rate hikes, has likely cost some construction workers their jobs, making it a bit easier for his company to hire.
Becky Frankiewicz, president of the staffing firm Manpower Group North America, said that laid-off workers, particularly in technology, are being quickly rehired. Software development, she said, is the second-most in-demand skill, behind nursing. The job market is the “eye of the economic hurricane,” she said, with hiring resilient despite the turmoil created by weaker growth and high inflation.
But Frankiewicz said she is starting to see some early signs that employers are dialing back: Job postings at Manpower were down 6% in August from a month ago. Wage growth has also started to plateau.
Mathieu Stevenson, CEO of Snagajob, an hourly hiring platform, said his firm has also seen a small decline in job postings, though hiring is still strong. Some employers, after being short-staffed for so long, appear to have figured out how to get by with fewer workers, he said — a trend that could slow future job gains.
“People are less panicked by the understaffing, because they’ve just gotten so accustomed to operating with it,” Stevenson said. “And so they’re much less aggressive about how hard they’re trying to hire.”
Recent data has painted a somewhat conflicting picture of the economy. The broadest measure of the economy’s output — gross domestic product — has shrunk for two straight quarters, meeting one informal definition of a recession. Yet another measure, focused on incomes, indicates the economy expanded in the first half of the year, albeit slowly.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell, in a high-profile speech last week, made clear that the central bank was prepared to continue raising short-term interest rates and to keep them elevated to keep fighting inflation. Powell warned that the Fed’s inflation fight would likely cause pain for Americans in the form of a weaker economy and job losses.
The Fed chair also said the job market was “clearly out of balance,” with demand for workers “substantially exceeding” the available supply. Friday’s jobs figures and a report earlier this week that showed the number of job openings rose in July suggest that the Fed’s rate hikes so far haven’t restored much balance.
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THE END ZONE SCOREBOARD: Scores from Week 3 of high school football
Here are Middle Georgia's high school football scores from Week 3.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Here are Middle Georgia’s high school football scores from Week 3:
Games featured on The End Zone:
Warner Robins 17, Northside 10 – Final/Overtime
Perry 42, Jones County 14 – Final
Wilkinson County 53, Crawford County 13 – Final
Fitzgerald 28, Northeast 27 – Final
Westside 40, Morrow 14 – Final
Brookstone 34, FPD 28 – Final/Overtime
***For highlights of the games featured on The End Zone, click here.***
Other scores:
Brentwood 27, GMC 16 – Final
Trinity Christian 31, Mary Persons 20 – Final
Houston County 58, West Laurens 0 – Final
Ware County 41, Baldwin 3 – Final
Dodge County 44, Washington County 21 – Final
ACE 63, Pataula Charter 22 – Final
Pike County 49, Southwest 20 – Final
Macon County , Dooly County – No score reported
Claxton 19, Hawkinsville 6 – Final
Early County 19, Schley County 17 – Final
Lamar County 21, Dublin 20 – Final
Jenkins 35, East Laurens 7 – Final (Thurs.)
Tattnall Square 64, Athens Christian 37 – Final
Greene County 27, Hancock County 18 – Final
Atkinson County 34, Telfair County 14 – Final
Windsor 24, Westminster Schools of August 19 – Final
Montgomery County 14, Taylor County 8 – Final
Stratford 42, Riverside Military Academy 20 – Final (Thurs.)
Long County 60, Treutlen 13 – Final (Thurs.)
Johnson County 47, Warren County 6 – Final (Thurs.)
David Emmanuel Academy 22, John Hancock Academy 3 – Final (Thurs.)
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THE END ZONE SCOREBOARD: Scores from Week 3 of high school football
Here are Middle Georgia's high school football scores from Week 3.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Here are Middle Georgia’s high school football scores from Week 3:
Games featured on The End Zone:
Warner Robins 17, Northside 10 – Final/Overtime
Perry 42, Jones County 14 – Final
Wilkinson County 53, Crawford County 13 – Final
Fitzgerald 28, Northeast 27 – Final
Westside 40, Morrow 14 – Final
Brookstone 34, FPD 28 – Final/Overtime
***For highlights of the games featured on The End Zone, click here.***
Other scores:
Brentwood 27, GMC 16 – Final
Trinity Christian 31, Mary Persons 20 – Final
Houston County 58, West Laurens 0 – Final
Ware County 41, Baldwin 3 – Final
Dodge County 44, Washington County 21 – Final
ACE 63, Pataula Charter 22 – Final
Pike County 49, Southwest 20 – Final
Macon County , Dooly County – No score reported
Claxton 19, Hawkinsville 6 – Final
Early County 19, Schley County 17 – Final
Lamar County 21, Dublin 20 – Final
Jenkins 35, East Laurens 7 – Final (Thurs.)
Tattnall Square 64, Athens Christian 37 – Final
Greene County 27, Hancock County 18 – Final
Atkinson County 34, Telfair County 14 – Final
Windsor 24, Westminster Schools of August 19 – Final
Montgomery County 14, Taylor County 8 – Final
Stratford 42, Riverside Military Academy 20 – Final (Thurs.)
Long County 60, Treutlen 13 – Final (Thurs.)
Johnson County 47, Warren County 6 – Final (Thurs.)
David Emmanuel Academy 22, John Hancock Academy 3 – Final (Thurs.)
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WEED, Calif. (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire in rural Northern California injured several people Friday, destroyed multiple homes and forced thousands of residents to flee, jamming roadways at the start of a sweltering Labor Day weekend.
The blaze dubbed the Mill Fire started on or near the property of Roseburg Forest Products, a plant that manufactures wood veneers. It quickly burned through homes, pushed by 35-mph (56-kph) winds.
Annie Peterson said she was sitting on the porch of her home near the Roseburg facility when “all of a sudden we heard a big boom and all that smoke was just rolling over toward us.”
Very quickly her home and about a dozen others were on fire. She said members of her church helped evacuate her and her son, who is immobile. She said the scene of smoke and flames looked like “the world was coming to an end.”
Suzi Brady, a Cal Fire spokeswoman, said several people were injured.
Allison Hendrickson, spokeswoman for Dignity Health North State hospitals, said two people were brought to Mercy Medical Center Mount Shasta. One was in stable condition and the other was transferred to UC Davis Medical Center, which has a burn unit.
California is in the grip of a prolonged drought and now a brutal heat wave that is taxing the power grid as people try to stay cool. Residents have been asked for three consecutive days to conserve power during late afternoon and evening hours when energy consumption is highest.
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. In the last five years, California has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in state history.
Southern California saw two large fires break out earlier in the week. The last evacuation orders for those were being lifted around the time the Mill Fire started midday Friday. Flames spread fast and about 7,500 people were under evacuation orders that covered the small city of Weed and surrounding areas, which are about 250 miles (402 kilometers) north of San Francisco.
Olga Hood heard about the fire on her scanner and stepped onto to the front porch of her Weed home to see smoke blowing over the next hill.
With the notorious gusts that tear through the town at the base of Mount Shasta, she didn’t wait for an evacuation order. She packed up her documents, medication and little else, said her granddaughter, Cynthia Jones.
“With the wind in Weed everything like that moves quickly. It’s bad,” Jones said by phone from her home in Medford, Oregon. “It’s not uncommon to have 50 to 60 mph gusts on a normal day. I got blown into a creek as a kid.”
Hood’s home of nearly three decades was spared from a blaze last year and from the devastating Boles Fire that tore through town eight years ago, destroying more than 160 buildings, mostly homes.
Hood wept as she discussed the fire from a relative’s house in the hamlet of Granada, Jones said. She wasn’t able to gather photos that had been important to her late husband.
Willo Balfrey, 82, an artist from Lake Shastina, said she was painting Friday afternoon when her grandson, who is a member of the California Highway Patrol, called to warn her of the fast-spreading flames.
“He said, ‘don’t linger, grab your computer, grab what you need and get out of the house now. It’s coming your way.’ So I did,” Balfrey said.
She grabbed a suitcase full of important documents, as well as water and her computer, iPhone and chargers, and headed out the door.
“I’ve reached the philosophy that if I have all my paperwork, what’s in the house is not that important,” she said.
She stopped to get her neighbor and they drove to a church parking lot in Montague, where about 40 other vehicles were also parked.
Rebecca Taylor, communications director for Roseburg Forest Products based in Springfield, Oregon, said it is unclear if the fire started near or on company property. A large empty building at the edge of company property burned she said. All employees were evacuated, and none have reported injuries, she said.
The plant employs 145 people, although not all were on shift at the time, Taylor said.
“We’re just devastated to see this fire affecting the community in this way,” she said.
In Southern California, firefighters were making progress Friday against two big wildfires.
Containment of the Route Fire along Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles increased to 37% and it remained at just over 8 square miles (21 square kilometers) , a Cal Fire statement said. On Wednesday, seven firefighters working in triple-digit temperatures had to be taken to hospitals for treatment of heat illnesses. All were released.
In eastern San Diego County, the Border 32 Fire remained at just under 7 square miles (18 square kilometers) and containment increased to 20%. More than 1,500 people had to evacuate the area near the U.S.-Mexico border when the fire erupted Wednesday. All evacuations were lifted by Friday afternoon.
Two people were hospitalized with burns. Three homes and seven other buildings were destroyed.
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Do smart devices constantly listen to you?
Smart devices can enhance your life in numerous ways. Still, some people feel they listen in on their private conversations. Most smart devices have built-in microphones, so it isn’t just paranoia that leads people to believe they’re being spied on. To learn more about how smart devices work and whether they always listen, we sat down with our tech expert, Jaime Vazquez.
Everything you need to know about smart device privacy
Do smart devices listen all the time?
It is fair to say that smart devices listen 100% of the time. Still, it’s important to note that this doesn’t mean they record 100% of the time.
Many smart devices have an indicator, such as a light, that lets you know when they’re recording. These devices have microphones programmed to listen for specific wake words. For example, most Echo devices listen for the word “Alexa.”
A smart speaker starts recording when it hears its wake word. Once the device finishes recording your command, it sends the order to a server that processes your request and stops recording.
Is there anything you can do to stop your smart device from listening?
Although your smart speaker doesn’t record everything you say, it is natural to want to prevent it from listening throughout the day.
When asked how you can stop your devices from listening, Vazquez said, “They all have controls that let you set availability schedules. For example, you can set the Echo Kid’s Edition to stop listening to commands after a specific time of day. If you know someone named Alex or Alexa, it may be worth updating the wake word on your Echo devices. If you really want to take control of your devices, you might consider plugging them into smart plugs so you can easily turn them off when you aren’t using them.”
Which smart devices have the best privacy track record?
When shopping for a smart device, it’s worth considering which brand has the best history of protecting its customers’ privacy. Per Vazquez, “Apple has the best privacy track record overall, followed by Google and Amazon. That said, I would rank Amazon as the most proactive about privacy. They really got their privacy act together in 2020 and rolled out a framework that gave users a ton of control over their privacy. Now, Alexa sets the standard for the level of control you should have.”
Do smart devices with cameras watch you throughout the day?
Most camera-equipped smart devices only record video when you activate a feature that requires it. Amazon’s Echo Show devices have a built-in camera cover you can use when you don’t want it to record.
If you have a smart device that doesn’t have a built-in camera cover, you can typically buy one for less than $20.
Other privacy tips to consider
- Think about your smart device’s location: You likely don’t need a smart speaker in every room. Try using your device’s wake word in an adjacent room to test the distance it can hear and record. Additionally, it may be worth leaving them out of your home office if you’re worried about them recording you while you work.
- Explore privacy controls: All smart devices have privacy settings. After you’ve set your device up, take a minute to explore its settings and ensure you’re comfortable with the level of privacy it offers.
- Unplug them when you don’t need them: If you mainly use your voice assistant on the weekends, it may be worth unplugging throughout the week. You aren’t likely to need them when you’re on vacation, so they can be left unplugged until you get back.
- Let your guests know you have smart devices: People may have different levels of comfortability with smart speakers. When you have a guest over for the first time, it may be worth turning them off or letting your guests know.
- Request your data from the manufacturer: Apple, Amazon and Google allow you to request an email containing all the data they have collected about you, including data from smart devices.
Smart device privacy products our expert recommends
This option lets you turn devices on and off from your phone. You can use it to shut your smart devices down when you aren’t using them. It has three smart outlets and two USB ports. Many were impressed with how easy it is to set up.
Sold by Amazon
Metal Magnetic Sliding Web Camera Cover
Smart devices aren’t the only machines that can record you. It’s worth buying a cover for your webcam if you’re concerned about your privacy. This pack of covers is made of durable metal and uses magnets to keep the slide in place.
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This top-notch smart device can be used to watch TV, set calendar updates and manage routines. It has a built-in camera cover, and you can turn the microphone off with the click of a button.
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Logitech C920e HD 1080p Mic-Enabled Webcam
This affordable webcam has a built-in cover for your privacy. The camera automatically zooms in, so your face is centered in the frame. It is surprisingly easy to set up. Many were impressed with the picture quality.
TP-Link Kasa Smart Plug With Energy Monitoring
This handy plug is ideal for turning your smart devices off easily. It monitors your energy usage and lets you set schedules to lower your bills. It is compatible with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Microsoft Cortana. Many people said they loved how intuitive it was.
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This features numerous privacy controls, including a button that deactivates the microphone. It is compact and easy to use. It sounds surprisingly good. This is available in blue, black and white.
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Which toaster oven is best?
When it comes to selecting a toaster oven, it’s good to know what you’re getting into. Unlike their simple relative, the toaster, today’s toaster ovens have gotten sophisticated and complex. They can do it all: toast, reheat, bake, dehydrate and even air-fry.
Not every toaster oven is going to be worth sacrificing counter space. But two trusted brands — Breville and Black and Decker — are creating hardworking appliances that might even be able to take the place of a conventional oven.
When it comes to a Breville toaster oven vs. a Black and Decker, it can be helpful to consider what you need. While Breville toaster ovens are complex appliances with all the bells and whistles, Black and Decker versions are simpler, but get the job done.
Breville toaster oven
Breville toaster ovens consistently earn top marks among home cooks and product reviewers. The brand is noted for high-performing appliances that are as good-looking as they are durable. Moving away from Breville’s humble toasters, the toaster oven has some serious wattage and can make short work of anything you need to bake.
Breville toaster oven pros
The biggest argument for a Breville toaster oven is its performance. The Element IQ system is a Breville trademark and uses separate quartz elements to heat the area of the oven that is occupied. The larger the oven, the more quartz elements there are, resulting in even heating and fast cooking.
These toaster ovens also feature a nonstick interior coating for easy cleaning, and some of the larger models have an interior light so you can keep an eye on what’s cooking.
Breville toaster oven cons
Breville toaster ovens are among the most expensive out there. The most affordable version is also the most basic, but they range in price from $150-$430 or more.
If you want more features, the oven gets pretty big. The largest model takes up nearly 2 feet of countertop and is over 18 inches deep.
Best Breville toaster ovens
The convection system in this oven reduces cooking time and bakes more evenly. Five independent quartz elements focus heat in the area where the food is being baked. It has nine separate cooking functions and an easy-to-read LCD. Sold by Amazon and Sur La Table
Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro and Countertop Convection Oven
You can replace more than one appliance with this versatile toaster oven. It has 13 separate cooking functions, including a dehydrator, air fryer and convection oven. The extra large capacity means you can roast a 14-pound turkey in 30% less time than a standard oven. Sold by Amazon and Wayfair
This oven is perfect when counter space is tight but you still want the expanded functionality. It has three rack positions and an auto shut-off function for safety. It fits pizzas up to 11 inches and a six-muffin tin. It comes with a 10-inch by 10-inch enamel baking pan. Sold by Amazon
Black and Decker toaster oven
Black and Decker may be most well-known for its power tools, but its kitchen appliances have also gained popularity as people recognize their utility. Black and Decker toaster ovens aren’t flashy but are easy to use and produce consistent results.
Black and Decker toaster oven pros
Black and Decker toaster ovens offer good basic functions and feature roomy interiors. However, one of their biggest pros is the price. These economical appliances start at $75 and stay below the $200 mark regardless of features.
Black and Decker toaster oven cons
Some users weren’t happy with the lack of fine-tuning available. Most models don’t offer the opportunity to set the baking temperature, and those that do can be finicky and imprecise.
The dual-position racks also mean that cooking is less even, and the outside of the toaster oven gets hot when in use.
Best Black and Decker toaster ovens
Black and Decker 8-Slice Toaster Oven
This toaster oven has a temperature range of 150 to 450 degrees. It heats quickly and evenly and has three rack positions. There are specific settings for bagels and pizza, but it also performs the same functions as an oven. The stainless steel finish looks great on the counter. Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Black and Decker Countertop Convection Toaster Oven
It features one-touch controls that let you toast, bake and broil. It has convection cooking and two rack positions. Toast up to six slices of bread at once or prepare a 12-inch pizza. This comes with a two-year warranty and a baking pan to get you started. Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Black and Decker Extra-Wide Crisp ‘N Bake Air Fry Toaster Oven
When you are cooking for a crowd, this is the way to go. This toaster oven fits a 9-inch by 13-inch pan with handles, eight slices of bread or a 12-inch pizza. It has five basic functions — bake, broil, toast, keep warm and air fry — and uses a 60-minute timer. Sold by Amazon
Should you get a Breville toaster oven or a Black and Decker toaster oven?
For sheer durability, good looks and performance, a Breville toaster oven is the best choice. These countertop workhorses have enough power and size to handle an entire holiday meal.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans placed Pro Bowl linebacker Harold Landry III on injured reserve Friday.
The Titans did not cite a reason for Landry going on IR. A person with direct knowledge of the injury confirmed reports that Landry tore an ACL in practice Wednesday. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the Titans have not commented on the nature of Landry’s injury.
Tennessee also claimed outside linebacker Derrek Tuszka on Friday. The 6-foot-4, 251-pound Tuska has played in 24 games combined with Denver in 2020 and Pittsburgh in 2021. He had two sacks and a forced fumble with the Steelers last season.
Tennessee also placed wide receiver Racey McMath on injured reserve Thursday. The Titans placed 26 on injured reserve last season and used an NFL-record 91 different players, most in a non-strike season. The NFL changed the rules this offseason to allow only eight players to return from injured reserve to the roster.
Landry was coming off the best year of his career with 12 sacks, earning his first Pro Bowl nod. The 41st overall pick in the 2018 draft out of Boston College was rewarded with a five-year extension worth up to $87.5 million with $52.5 million guaranteed.
The 26-year-old Landry helped the Titans tie for ninth last season with 43 sacks. Tennessee was the only NFL team with at least three different players with at least eight sacks. Landry had started every game for three straight seasons.
Landry ranked 10th in the NFL with his 12 sacks. He has a team-high 31 sacks over the past four seasons. Landry’s total is the second-most for this franchise over his first four seasons since 1982 when individual sacks became an official NFL statistic.
The reigning AFC South champs open the season Sept. 11 against the visiting New York Giants.
The loss of Landry is a big blow, but the Titans have outside linebacker Bud Dupree on the other side. He got his own big deal in March 2021.
Dupree said in June that he spent the 2021 season recovering from the torn ACL he injured in December 2020 and didn’t feel like himself until the Titans’ divisional playoff loss, when they had nine sacks.
Tennessee also has linebacker Rashad Weaver, who broke a leg in the third game last season. He was the Titans’ fourth-round pick in 2021 out of Pittsburgh, where he was a consensus All-American.
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TOKYO (AP) — The head of the U.S. Environment Protection Agency said Friday that advanced nuclear technology will be “critical” for both the United States and Japan as they step up cooperation to meet decarbonization goals.
Michael Regan, after holding talks with his Japanese counterpart Akihiro Nishimura in Tokyo, told a joint news conference that nuclear energy in their countries plays a role and “the opportunities for advanced nuclear technology will be critical if we’re going to meet our climate goals.”
“I think the science tells us that we have to respond to the climate crisis with a sense of urgency and nuclear energy and nuclear technology has and can have a role in continuing with a zero emissions contribution to the climate,” he said, showing support for Japan’s recent shift toward returning to nuclear energy.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said last week he instructed his government to consider developing safer, smaller nuclear reactors, in a renewed emphasis on nuclear energy years after many of the country’s plants were shut down.
Kishida said Japan needs to consider all options of energy mix, including nuclear, to bolster its “green transformation” effort to curb emissions of greenhouse gases and to secure stable energy supply. Japan has pledged to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
Anti-nuclear sentiment and safety concerns rose sharply in Japan after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant meltdowns, but the government has been pushing for a return to nuclear energy amid worries of power shortage following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a global push to reduce greenhouse gases. Japan has faced criticism for saying it will phase out fossil fuel use by 2050 without showing clearer timeline.
While maintaining a 20%-22% target for nuclear energy as part of its energy mix for 2030, Japan’s government had previously insisted it was not considering building new plants or replacing aged reactors, apparently to avoid stoking criticism from a wary public. Kishida’s recent comment represents a sharp change from that stance.
Kishida asked a government panel to decide by the end of the year on its proposal for the development and construction of “new innovative reactors,” such as small modular reactors, while also considering extending operational lifespan of aging reactors.
President Joe Biden also believes that it is an “all hands on deck approach,” Regan said, adding that investments in nuclear technology and carbon capture will complement the big potential for renewable energy.
U.S. and Japanese environment heads also agreed to cooperate to speed up global effort to achieve decarbonization as well as curb ocean plastic pollution, chemicals and other environmental issues.
Biden last month signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act that includes energy provisions aimed at creating savings by providing tax credit for new purchases of some electric vehicles and for home owners who invest in energy-efficient equipment.
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(KTLA) – Police in California are asking for help in finding the driver of a van who was caught on video running over a man who had fallen off a scooter.
It happened around 8:55 p.m. Saturday when Luis Lopez was riding an electrical scooter in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights neighborhood, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Lopez lost his balance, fell to the asphalt and was knocked unconscious, surveillance video released by police on Tuesday showed.
Lopez, 40, remained still on the ground when a white Ford Econoline van ran over him, dragging him about 25 feet before he was dislodged.
The driver of the van is then seen taking off without stopping to check on Lopez.
“It appears that the driver did stop because the brake lights were illuminated, enough for him to see what he ran over,” Detective Juan Campos said. “I need that driver to come forward and talk to me and turn himself in and tell me the other side of the story.”
Firefighters responded to the scene and transported Lopez to a hospital with severe injuries. He was in stable condition and expected to recover.
In a video recorded by the LAPD, Lopez pleaded for the driver to turn himself or herself in.
“Please,” he said in Spanish while lying in a hospital bed with braces on both his legs, bandages on his arms and cuts on his face. “Look how you left me.”
Lopez’s wife, Fatima Lopez, said her husband’s injuries include a fractured skull and ribs and internal bleeding.
She said the couple’s 7-year-old daughter has been inconsolable after the crash, which has turned the family’s life upside down.
“She cries every day for him. That’s the hardest part,” she said.
A reward of up to $25,000 is available for information leading to the driver’s identity, apprehension and conviction.
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Boris Johnson legacy: As the Prime Minister departs, what are the highs and lows of his premiership?
It is difficult to define Boris Johnson’s premiership, a man who while shaping Britain’s future also undelivered and was forced to resign over a scandal.
Mr Johnson resigned just two years and 348 days into the job in a tenure mere months longer than his predecessor Theresa May, who he himself forced out.
The Prime Minister leaves able to claim to have got Brexit done, dealt with the Covid pandemic, built diplomatic bridges with Ukraine and won a historic majority.
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His opponents may dismiss the Eton-educated MP as a serial liar, but the Prime Minister was, at least briefly, a man who enjoyed success that often defied logic.
He secured a Brexit deal many thought impossible, helped Britain unlock through a world-leading vaccine procurement scheme, and helped co-ordinate the Western response to the Ukraine crisis.
Then there is ‘Partygate’, the Chris Pincher scandal and moral issues that speak to his worst instincts and flexibility with the truth.
For all his flaws, Mr Johnson has done more to leave a mark on British politics in a short time than leaders who secured multiple terms.
But what are the best and worst aspects of his tenure, and how will he be remembered?
Brexit
Regardless of views on the European question, getting a Brexit deal was an achievement Mr Johnson will hope defines his premiership.
Not only did it end months of impasse with the bloc, it also united a Tory party previously fighting itself over what version of Brexit to support.
While getting his own MPs to back the agreement was an achievement, it was his threats of no-deal that helped to force European Union leaders to compromise, albeit only a little.
That's not to say there are not problems, not least with Brexit shrinking the economy by 4 per cent in the long term, compared to 2 per cent from Covid.
On fishing, the industry has been devastated and continues to ask for more support, while there remain lorry queues at Dover.
Then there is the Northern Ireland protocol, which Mr Johnson will be glad is a problem for his successor.
Mr Johnson had promised “no checks on goods going from GB to NI, or NI to GB” and told businesses if they were ever handed paperwork to fill in, they could throw it in the bin.
Brexit was also the issue that helped the Tories win in the so-called ‘Red Wall’ constituencies in working-class parts of the north of England.
Mr Johnson won the battle so strongly even Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has promised not to take Britain back into the EU single market or customs union.
The outgoing Prime Minister has settled the European question, and delivering Brexit remains the strongest highlight of Mr Johnson’s political career.
Covid
The other defining event of his premiership was linked intrinsically to coronavirus – a disease that put Mr Johnson in intensive care and left more than 180,000 people dead.
His handling of the pandemic overall is hard to judge until the sweeping UK-wide inquiry is undertaken, but there is no doubt the handling of the response boosted Mr Johnson’s popularity.
With almost daily coronavirus briefings, Mr Johnson was seen to lead on the issue, albeit not quite to the level of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
His Government delivered vaccines for everyone in the UK and furlough for the majority of workers, meaning Great Britain was therefore able to unlock before any other major European country.
By August 2021, the furlough scheme had supported 1.3 million businesses and 11.6 million jobs, preventing a crisis of mass unemployment.
However, Mr Johnson’s hesitation on imposing a lockdown in March 2020 cost “thousands of lives”, according to the House of Commons’ science and health committee.
He delayed again at Christmas of that year, and the full impact of putting the infected into care homes remains to be seen.
Then there are Mr Johnson’s alleged comments over allowing "bodies (to) pile high in their thousands" rather than impose another national lockdown across the UK.
Denied by Downing Street, they were confirmed by others, including the Prime Minister’s former chief aide Dominic Cummings.
While certainly some measures during the response to Covid were a high of his premiership, there were always things in the background detracting from it.
Partygate
Unfortunately it is impossible to think of the Covid response and not consider ‘Partygate’ – a series of scandals that helped bring Mr Johnson down.
A total of 126 fines were issued to 83 individuals for breaking Covid rules in Downing Street, something that happened under Mr Johnson’s watch between May 2020 and April 2021.
Named Operation Hillman, the investigation by the Metropolitan Police took nearly four months and cost about £460,000.
Fined for attending parties, Mr Johnson is under investigation for misleading the house by saying he knew nothing about them.
And Lord Pannick, the lawyer hired by the UK Government, has since claimed the inquiry into whether Mr Johnson misled MPs over Partygate is "unfair" and "fundamentally flawed".
Mr Johnson’s denials when he attended events was made worse by a soft touch to his allies, defending both Mr Cummings and former health secretary Matt Hancock for their own breaches.
Mr Cummings drove to Barnard Castle during lockdown with Covid symptoms, while Mr Hancock had an affair in his office.
Sleaze
There were yet more scandals with the Owen Paterson affair, when Mr Johnson tried to save the former Northern Ireland Secretary of State from suspension by overhauling the Parliamentary standards system.
Mr Paterson made a “serious breach” of the rules by meeting with ministers on behalf of a company and not declaring his interests.
Following a huge backlash, the Government U-turned and Mr Paterson resigned.
This, along with Mr Pincher resigning over sexual harassment allegations, left Mr Johnson without authority.
Mr Pincher is alleged to have made unwanted sexual advances to another MP in 2017, and assaulted two more in June of this year.
It was mistakes away from policy that brought Mr Johnson down, with the Prime Minister denying he knew of specific complaints when he did before appointing Mr Pincher as deputy chief whip.
Mr Johnson’s response when his allies were in trouble was a clear low of his tenure, and one that ultimately contributed heavily to his downfall.
Ukraine
Mr Johnson will hope his defining legacy is on Ukraine, where he promised to maintain high levels of defence spending, without giving a figure.
The Prime Minister’s decisive response and strong rhetoric on Ukraine has made him a hero in the country and grown his reputation abroad.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy referred to Mr Johnson as such last month. A street in Ukraine has been named after Mr Johnson to honour his support.
Just days before his resignation, Mr Johnson urged Nato countries to honour their commitment to spend a minimum of 2 per cent of gross domestic product on defence, and the Prime Minister has vowed to be involved even after he leaves office.
The response has in part led to the energy crisis, but Mr Johnson insists better days are coming.
For a man so obsessed with legacy, Ukraine presents a new crisis to focus on, and a way to continue this legacy despite no longer leading Britain.
Domestic policy
Despite a historic majority, Mr Johnson’s domestic policy is sorely lacking and a clear low of his premiership.
Tory MPs have spent the past year desperate for the Government to do something, with some suggesting Mr Johnson wanted to be Prime Minister solely so he could say he had been.
Mr Johnson broke his 2019 manifesto pledge not to raise taxes by announcing that National Insurance Contributions would rise by 1.25 percentage points from April 2022.
His promise of 40 new hospitals never came to fruition and, despite renaming a department ‘Levelling Up, money is still not being evenly distributed and there is still a housing crisis.
While Covid was a factor, many of his own MPs have voiced their views to The Scotsman that Mr Johnson’s domestic record was a disappointment.
The self-appointed minister for the Union also struggled in Scotland, with the leader of the Scottish Tories, Douglas Ross, twice calling for him to go.
Breaking up his own ‘Union Unit’, Mr Johnson was hesitant to visit Scotland, and Tory MPs north of the border felt he was a hindrance to their electoral chances.
The internal market bill has made the UK Government able to invest directly in Scotland while bypassing Holyrood, but it did not directly lead to any electoral boost for the Scottish Tories.
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Nicola Sturgeon accused of overseeing litany of broken promises ahead of Programme for Government
Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of overseeing a litany of broken promises.
The Scottish Conservatives said the First Minister’s administration had failed to deliver on at least 26 policy pledges from last year’s Programme for Government (PfG).
This sets out the Government’s legislative programme for the coming parliamentary year, with the next PfG due on Tuesday.
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The Tories said the “most glaring failures” included unfulfilled pledges to protect police funding, provide free school meals for all primary school pupils and fully embed medication-assisted treatment standards to tackle Scotland’s drug deaths epidemic.
Party chairman and MSP Craig Hoy said: “The Scottish public will be wary of trusting anything that comes out Nicola Sturgeon’s mouth next Tuesday because of her abject failure to deliver on last year’s Programme for Government.
“This extensive list of broken promises – many of them on key SNP commitments – is a shocking catalogue of failure.
“But it’s hardly surprising. After all, this Nationalist government is so obsessed with pushing for another divisive independence referendum that it neglects the day-to-day business of running the country it is meant to be governing competently.
“The U-turn on the Nationalist coalition’s pledge to protect police funding has had very serious implications at a time when violent crime is rising.
“Equally, the failure to deliver their much-vaunted pledge to provide free school meals for all primary pupils is very significant at a time when household budgets are under extreme pressure from the global cost-of-living crisis.
“The huge surge in drug-related deaths since she became First Minister ought to shame Nicola Sturgeon. Yet her Government is lamentably dragging its heels on its pledge to fully embed MAT standards across Scotland.”
A Scottish Government spokeswoman said: “Many of the Programme for Government 2021/22 commitments have been met already, including the publication of the National Strategy for Economic Transformation and doubling the Scottish Child Payment.
“Households and businesses across the country are facing a serious cost crisis, exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the UK Government’s approach to Brexit.
"As we look to the next PfG, outlining ambitions for 2022/23, the Scottish Government’s priorities continue to be responding to the cost crisis, building a fairer, greener country and securing a prosperous recovery from the pandemic.”
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Should the UK be following Liz Truss's lead and re-designating China as a formal threat?
When a senior member of the Chinese government stopped in Scotland to visit then-first minister Alex Salmond before travelling onwards to London, it was a clear sign of the increasingly close relationship between Scotland and China.
The visit, by premier Li Keqiang, came in 2011 – the same year Scotland became the first UK nation in 17 years to be granted the loan of two of China’s most precious commodities – giant pandas.
The ten-year lease, to host Yang Guang and Tian Tian at Edinburgh Zoo, was extended last year, while trade between the two countries has continued to grow in the decade since the pandas’ arrival.
"Scotland is the first stop in my British visit,” Mr Li said at the time. “Sino-British relations have seen smooth development for a long time, and friendly co-operation between China and Scotland has also been in constant development.”
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However, recent months have seen an end to the “golden era” of relations enjoyed by the UK and China over the past decade.
Allegations of human rights abuses – such as those detailed in a long-awaited report released this week by the United Nations into the Chinese government’s arbitrary detention of Uighurs and other ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang – as well as tensions over Taiwan and Hong Kong and fears over data mining have sparked a suggestion from Westminster’s foreign secretary – and potential prime minister – Liz Truss that she could reopen an integrated review.
While the review, published last year and setting out British priorities in diplomacy and defence over the next decade, labelled China as a “systemic competitor”, Ms Truss now apparently plans to re-categorise the country as an official “threat”, elevating it to the same category as Russia.
The stance is at odds with that adopted by other Western countries, such as the US and European Union nations.
If Ms Truss does take a tough line on Beijing, the move could have serious implications for Scotland too, reversing years of economic partnerships worth tens of millions a year. According to Scottish Government data, in 2018, Scotland sold £635 million worth of goods to China. This totalled 1.9 per cent of Scotland’s total international exports and was a rise of 8.7 per cent since 2013.
The Scottish Government’s language around China has also changed in recent months.
“The focus of the Scottish Government’s policy on China remains to support political, economic, cultural, education and social relationships with the people China in keeping with the values of Scotland,” it told The Scotsman.
“This means working constructively on global priorities such as tackling climate change, as well as challenging China in areas of concern, such as human rights. The Scottish Government will keep all policies under review.”
However, the economic potential of China clearly remains a draw. Ms Truss’s comments came just two days before Holyrood’s external affairs minister, Angus Robertson, publicly celebrated the launch of the first container shipping route between Scotland and China.
The container, of toys, textiles and furniture, that arrived in Greenock was refilled with a million bottles of whisky to be shipped back to China, with demand for Scotland’s top export sky rocketing as disposable income among the Chinese middle classes continues to grow. According to the Scotch Whisky Association, the value of direct exports has increased from under £10m in the early 2000s to around £200m in 2021 – with potential to grow much further.
Professor Jane Duckett, director of the Scottish Centre for China Research at the University of Glasgow, said she believed a hard-line stance by the Westminster Government could scupper Scotland’s economic bounty.
"In Scotland, we’ve benefited from tourism from China,” she said. “Whisky and salmon are important exports, while Chinese students contribute a lot for the local economy as well.
"In terms of Scotland's relationship with China, foreign relations is a reserved power, and so the focus of relations between Scotland and China has been on developing economic ties.
"There has been this quite strong economic relationship between Scotland and China for some time. But I am not sure the Chinese government would be able to distinguish Scotland from the rest of the UK and say, well, we're not going to trade with England, but we will trade with Scotland.”
She also points to the fact Ms Truss’s attitude could isolate Britain politically at a time when it has already taken a step back from Europe through Brexit.
“It's interesting that she's wanting to strike out in this way because it would somewhat put the UK out on a limb if we were to take that stance,” said Prof Duckett. “I think European countries, and the US, although they are cautious in the dealings with China, wouldn't want to do something radical in terms of fully decoupling – becoming less integrated with China and economically and in other ways. So the UK might end up being quite isolated in that position.”
The Chinese consulate in Edinburgh is confident its close relationship with Scotland will continue, despite Westminster – and Holyrood’s – rhetoric. Former chancellor Rishi Sunak, who is running to become prime minister against Ms Truss, has also indicated his distrust of China, pledging to close down all Confucius Institutes in the UK if he is elected.
"We have good relations with Scotland on an economic and political level,” a consulate spokesman said. “I'm quite confident that the Scottish Government or the Scottish people will have an independent judgement and a rational view about China. So I am quite confident that we will continue to deepen these relations.”
The Confucius Institute has been compared to the British Council, or Germany’s Goethe Institute as a cultural office abroad. However, critics have claimed it is a propaganda arm for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Indeed, a former senior CCP official, Li Changchun, once commented that Confucius Institutes were "an important part of China's overseas propaganda set-up".
The Scottish Government has long been supportive of the organisations, insisting language skills and cultural awareness are essential for young people in Scotland. The Government part-funded the launch of the Confucius Institute for Scotland, based at the University of Edinburgh, along with Chinese authorities. Meanwhile, a report published this week by news website The Ferret revealed since the 2015/16 financial year, the Scottish Government gave the Confucius Institute for Scotland’s schools eight grants totalling £5,333,388.
The Chinese Consulate-General welcomes Scottish Governmental support for his cultural endeavours.
“They are opportunities rather than any threat,” his spokesman said. “This point was made very clearly by the Scottish Government education secretary.”
However, for human rights campaigners, Ms Truss’s hard-line stance is a recognition of the issues they have raised for years.
Mark Clifford, president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong, said he believed Scotland, and the rest of the UK, should cut its economic ties with China, warning trade has too powerful an impact on foreign policy. Citizens of Hong Kong, which was under British control until 1997, have protested after seeing some freedoms stripped away since the transfer of sovereignty.
"There has been, and there continues to be, a lot of naivety about the possibilities for trade with China,” said Mr Clifford. “The whole idea of a golden era is over, but I think there's still this vestigial sense that China or the Middle Kingdom represents the potential of vast untold riches and wealth for business. Trade is not neutral, and particularly when it comes to the broader strategic aims of China, trade is always subordinate to politics and that means loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party and what it wants.
"Given China's stated ambition to unseat the West and to impose its own rules on the world, I think it's good that Britain, given its long and deep relationship with China and continuing importance in global affairs, is really welcome. But I remain sceptical until I really see what happens.”
He added: "Many civil servants still harbour illusions about China – about the possibilities on trade, but also on just the need for a warm and close diplomatic relationship. And it's easy to dismiss them as panda huggers. Britain – and many other people – have been willing to overlook really bad behaviour by China. But now I think we're past that point as we see China and whether it's in Xinjiang, the new report that just came out, or in Hong Kong, and, of course, Taiwan, I think it's time for the world to drop its illusion.”
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BEAVERTON, Ore. — A Beaverton police officer pulled a 34-year-old man from a vehicle that caught fire after a crash early Tuesday morning. The Beaverton Police Department (BPD) shared police body-cam footage with KGW showing the rescue unfold.
Beaverton police officers and deputies with the Washington County Sheriff's Office responded to a roll-over crash around 2:30 a.m. on Aug. 30 near Southwest Hocken Avenue and Southwest Jenkins Road. The vehicle was on its side and flames were shooting high into the air when law enforcement arrived to the scene.
Police body-cam footage shows the Beaverton police officer break the vehicle's sunroof, and he can be heard instructing the driver to escape.
Small explosions from the vehicle pushed the officer back, BPD said, and the driver was unresponsive to the officer's commands. Video shows the police officer attempt to grab the driver by the arm multiple times before he's eventually able to pull him out of the vehicle through the sunroof.
BPD has not identified the officer and said he declined to comment.
Officers "saw evidence of impairment, which is believed to have contributed to the crash," BPD said.
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RICHLAND, Wash. - A former Richland credit union employee has been charged with stealing tens of thousands of dollars from an ATM, according to Richland Police Department Lieutenant Damon Jansen.
Suspicious activity was noticed at a HAPO Credit Union in October 2021. It wasn't until January 2022 that RPD was notified, according to Jansen. Based on the officers report, the Prosecutor's Office decided to charge Meghan Brooks with stealing $75,000 from a mobile ATM.
The report states Books was considered a good employee before the investigation with no prior issues. She was the manager and supervisor of the mobile ATM program. The ATM was built into a van that was taken to events, offering customers access to cash at remote events.
Brooks was recently charged in court.
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Iran briefly seizes 2 US sea drones in Red Sea amid tensions
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s navy seized two American sea drones in the Red Sea before letting them go Friday as U.S. warships neared, officials said, in the latest maritime incident involving the Navy’s new drone fleet in the Mideast.
Iranian state television aired footage it said came from the deck of the Iranian navy’s Jamaran destroyer, where lifejacket-wearing sailors examined two Saildrone Explorers. They tossed one overboard as another warship could be seen in the distance.
Iran has no coastline along the Red Sea, a crucial international waterway lying between the Arabian Peninsula and northeastern Africa.
State TV said the Iranian navy found “several unmanned spying vessels abandoned in the international maritime routes” on Thursday.
“After two warnings to an American destroyer to prevent possible incidents, Jamaran seized the two vessels,” state TV said. “After securing the international shipping waterway, the Naval Squadron No. 84 released the vessels in a safe area.”
It added: “The U.S Navy was warned to avoid repeating similar incidents in future.”
The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet identified the seized drones as Saildrone Explorers. Those drones are commercially available and used by a variety of clients, including scientists, to monitor open waters.
“The unmanned surface vessels were unarmed and taking unclassified photos of the surrounding environment while loitering in an assigned patrol area at least 4 nautical miles from the nearest maritime traffic lane,” the 5th Fleet said.
“The vessels posed no risk to naval traffic and had been operating in the general vicinity of the Southern Red Sea for more than 200 consecutive days without incident.”
The Navy’s guided-missile destroyers USS Nitze and USS Delbert D. Black responded to the seizure at 2 p.m. Thursday and each deployed MH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters, the 5th Fleet said. Iran ultimately released the drones at 8 a.m. Friday.
Initially, the Iranian sailors tried to cover the drones with tarps and deny they had them, a U.S. official said. Cameras on the drones also went missing during the incident, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss unpublicized details about the seizure.
This marks the second such incident in recent days as negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers hang in the balance.
The earlier incident that began Monday night involved Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, not its regular navy, and occurred in the Persian Gulf. The Guard towed a Saildrone Explorer before releasing it as an American warship trailed it. Iran had criticized the U.S. Navy for releasing a “Hollywood” video of the incident, only to do the same Friday in the Red Sea incident.
The 5th Fleet launched its unmanned Task Force 59 last year. Drones used by the Navy include ultra-endurance aerial surveillance drones, surface ships like the Sea Hawk and the Sea Hunter and smaller underwater drones that resemble torpedoes.
The 5th Fleet’s area of responsibility includes the crucial Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all oil passes. It also stretches as far as the Red Sea reaches near the Suez Canal, the waterway in Egypt leading to the Mediterranean, and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off Yemen.
The region has seen a series of maritime attacks in recent years.
Off Yemen in the Red Sea, bomb-laden drone boats and mines set adrift by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have damaged vessels amid that country’s yearslong war. Near the United Arab Emirates and the Strait of Hormuz, oil tankers have been seized by Iranian forces. Others have been attacked in incidents the Navy blames on Iran.
Those attacks came about a year after then-President Donald Trump’s 2018 decision to unilaterally withdraw from Iran’s nuclear deal, in which sanctions on Tehran were lifted in exchange for it drastically limiting its enrichment of uranium.
Negotiations to revive the accord now hang in the balance. The U.S. cast doubt Friday on Iran’s latest written response over the talks.
Iran now enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels as officials openly suggest Tehran could build a nuclear bomb if it wishes to. Iran has maintained its program is peaceful, though Western nations and international inspectors say Tehran had a military nuclear program up until 2003.
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Associated Press journalist Mehdi Fattahi in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report.
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RICHLAND, Wash. — Hundreds of people came to Wye Park on September 1 to attend a Yakama Nation event raising awareness about an illegal causeway bridge damaging local salmon survival. Leaders spoke about a causeway between Wye Park and Bateman island, saying it was built illegally as an earthen bridge.
The causeway reduces river flow, impacting salmon migration in the Yakima River and the Columbia River, according to the press release from the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. It reportedly also causes higher water temperatures and sedimentation, which draws in invasive species.
Yakama Nation leaders called for the immediate removal of the causeway and additional steps to protect and restore the salmon species. Numerous community groups and legislators attended as solutions and fundraising efforts were discussed.
Those in attendance advocated for the creation of a comprehensive legislative action plan, which would fund fish passages and restoration work, increase resources for fish population protection, ensure new infrastructure projects respect tribal rights and sovereignty and put tribal and fishery leaders in charge of restoration. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/yakama-nation-calls-for-removal-of-illegal-causeway/article_51ae765c-2b45-11ed-8834-47c951b089c9.html | 2022-09-03T06:10:07Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/yakama-nation-calls-for-removal-of-illegal-causeway/article_51ae765c-2b45-11ed-8834-47c951b089c9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YAKIMA, Wash. -- West Valley School District has two new mental health counselors this 2022 school year. One-third of high school students said they struggled with mental health in 2021, according to the CDC.
The new high school mental health counselor, Aadriana Hernandez, said her main goal is eliminate any negative stigma or stereotype around mental health and asking for help. In just the first two weeks of school, Hernandez said she's helped close to 100 students.
Hernandez said she wants students to know they aren't alone. She said she's there for them whether they may be struggling with substance use disorders, anxiety, depression or trauma.
"I have so many students coming and saying I need help with A, B and C and they're not afraid to come in and ask for that," said Hernandez.
Teens 13 and older can get behavioral or mental health help without consent of a parent or guardian, according the state's Healthy Care Authority.
Depending on the circumstance, West Valley School District students can get mental health counseling through insurance, based on income or by a school's right-off.
Students can almost immediately start mental health counseling with Hernandez. Students just need to go in the high school's counseling center or call the district's mental health counseling agency, Catholic Charities. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/yakima/new-mental-health-counselors-for-students-in-middle-junior-high-and-high-school-at-one/article_c8e42d7e-2b41-11ed-87be-e792d41d1380.html | 2022-09-03T06:10:14Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/yakima/new-mental-health-counselors-for-students-in-middle-junior-high-and-high-school-at-one/article_c8e42d7e-2b41-11ed-87be-e792d41d1380.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
During the last weekend in June, a group of Proud Boys showed up to protest at a Drag Queen Story Hour event at a library in Sparks, Nevada. As the demonstration ended, one of the protesters approached the library with a gun, prompting bystanders to run for cover. A month later, protesters with the anti-abortion group Operation Save America were arrested after trying to infiltrate a Planned Parenthood in Nashville, Tennessee. One of them had a handgun.
Guns and extremism have long been intertwined in America. Over the last decade, firearms have surpassed explosives as the weapon of choice for domestic extremists, with shootings accounting for 75 percent of killings by far-right or anti-Semitic extremists, according to a June report from the Anti-Defamation League. Meanwhile, the unwinding of state gun laws over the past two decades has helped boost civilian gun ownership to almost 400 million — with nearly half of those guns owned by just 3 percent of Americans. Easier access to firearms in general has also made it easier for extremists to acquire guns and display them in public.
But the far right is not a monolith. Some groups view gun rights as central to their ideology, while others use firearms as a more precise tool to inspire fear, project authority, and intimidate. To get a sense of the landscape, we turned to Mark Pitcavage, senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, who has studied the far right for nearly three decades and advises police and prosecutors on domestic terrorism issues. A military historian, Pitcavage worked on federal anti-terrorism initiatives after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and has served as an expert witness in terrorism and extremism cases.
What is the far-right extremist movement?
By standard definition, American far-right extremism comprises more than a dozen different movements that advocate for a variety of far-right causes. These movements include groups organized around white supremacy, anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism, anti-government extremism, anti-abortion extremism, nativism, involuntary celibacy (“incels”), the alt-right, and the militia movement.
“The far right has had a long association with violence, and much of that has been firearms-related violence,” Pitcavage said.
Which of those movements are centered around guns?
Primarily militias, which are armed groups operating independently of established governments. Members follow a hierarchical command structure and often conduct drills in military attire.
The modern militia movement emerged in the early 1990s, largely as a reaction to federal gun control measures, like the Brady background check law and the assault weapons ban, as well as botched actions by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas. Militias also experienced a resurgence during former President Barack Obama’s first term. The emergence of social media gave these groups the opportunity to spread their message further and faster than ever before, Pitcavage said.
“These days, most extremists of virtually any stripe don’t necessarily actually belong to a formal organized group,” he said. “But the militia movement does tend to be more group-oriented than other movements.”
Another group that centers Second Amendment ideology is the Boogaloo movement, which is “smaller and newer” than the militia movement but “also has very strong ties to the gun subculture,” Pitcavage said. Boogaloo is a loose assortment of doomsday preppers, anti-government extremists, and Second Amendment activists that emerged in 2019. As The Trace has reported, the beliefs of its largely white, right-wing supporters run the gamut, but gun rights are the central theme, because firearms are the tools they say they need to fight the civil war they believe is coming. The movement’s ties to guns are so strong that at least one gun company has used Boogaloo memes in its marketing.
“They don’t have a lot of beliefs other than they really like guns, they really hate cops, and they want some sort of revolution,” Megan Squire, a computer scientist who researches online extremism at Elon University, told The Trace in 2020. “You pretty much have to be weapons-trained and interested in weapons to be a Boogaloo adherent.” Boogaloo members used converted machine guns to attack a federal courthouse in 2021.
Also engaging with some paramilitary training are accelerationist white supremacist groups like The Base, which aim to foment a race war; neo-Nazi groups like the Atomwaffen Division, started in Florida in 2015 by a former National Guardsman; and armed border vigilante groups, which patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in search of undocumented migrants, cartels smuggling drugs, and sex traffickers.
These border-patrolling vigilante groups claim they’re providing a function of law enforcement, Pitcavage said. Groups active in recent years include Patriots for America, Veterans on Patrol, and Arizona Border Recon. In some places, border vigilantes have been tolerated by and even worked alongside U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.
Border vigilantes have also been convicted of gun crimes. In 2020, the leader of the United Constitutional Patriots, a group known for rounding up migrants at gunpoint on the New Mexico border, was sentenced to nearly two years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. That same year, another member of the group was sentenced to 21 months in prison for impersonating a federal Border Patrol agent. In 2016, the leader of Rusty’s Rangers, a Texas group, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for illegally possessing firearms as a felon.
Which far-right groups aren’t as focused on firearms?
Other groups tend to use firearms only in limited circumstances. That includes white supremacist groups that aren’t accelerationist (in other words, not actively trying to foment civil war or social collapse); anti-government extremists like the sovereign citizen movement; single-issue extremists like anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, and anti-public-lands extremists; and militant social movements like the Proud Boys.
Non-accelerationist white supremacist groups are generally more united by ideology than tactics, Pitcavage said. “If you see a white supremacist flash demonstration or something like this, most of the time, they’re not bringing firearms with them.” But that doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous. “All types of extremists not only engage in ideological violence, but also engage in non-ideological violence for the exact same reasons that other people do,” he said. “This is especially true for white supremacists, in part because large segments of the white supremacist movement also were engaged in a lot of traditional crime,” including people incarcerated for drug, robbery, or domestic violence offenses who join race-segregated gangs while in prison. Racist extremists have also committed mass shootings, workplace killings, and other attacks in which ideology wasn’t the main motivator. “For white supremacists, violence is generally an accepted thing,” said Pitcavage, who has educated tens of thousands of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers on terrorism and extremism issues since he first began tracking the rise of the militia movement in the early 1990s. “And in some cases, it’s an admired sort of thing. Because of this, there can be among white supremacists a more general readiness to use firearms.”
Three Percenters and Oath Keepers groups are often made up of military veterans and law enforcement officials who say they’re more loyal to the Constitution than to the government, and reserve the right to disobey laws that they believe are unconstitutional. Both groups have provided armed security for Republican lawmakers, participated in armed standoffs against federal agents, patrolled businesses during pandemic lockdowns, and guarded Confederate monuments.
Oath Keepers, in particular, tend to take a defensive posture in public, and believe that reacting to violence rather than provoking it allows them to claim the moral high ground. But several Oath Keepers have been charged with seditious conspiracy over their participation in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Prosecutors allege that they discussed storing guns at a hotel in Virginia so that a “quick reaction force” could shuttle to Washington, D.C., in the event of a government takeover.
The Proud Boys are an exclusively male group that grew out of the alt-right in 2016 and encourages political violence. The group “doesn’t have much of a record of firearms violence,” Pitcavage said. But its leader was arrested ahead of the Capitol insurrection and charged with conspiring with followers who participated in the riot. Prosecutors say he also met with the founder of the Oath Keepers the day before the attack.
Among single-issue extremist movements, the anti-government public lands movement has flourished in states where the vast majority of land is owned by the federal government, including Nevada and Idaho. Armed groups have engaged in standoffs with federal law enforcement over ranchland in Nevada in 2014 and a wildlife refuge in Oregon in 2016. The battle over public lands has become a flashpoint in the anti-government extremist movement, with federal land management employees reporting at least 360 threats and assaults between 2013 and 2017, according to the Government Accountability Office. Incidents range from phone threats to attempted murder.
Anti-abortion extremists don’t typically carry guns when they protest outside of women’s health clinics, but they have perpetrated violence. According to data published in December by the National Abortion Federation, 11 abortion providers were murdered between 1977 and 2020, all but one with a gun. Anti-abortion activists were also responsible for 26 attempted murders and 956 threats of harm or death during that period.
How often do far-right extremists actually use guns?
There are few situations in which extremists intentionally fire their weapons to further their cause, Pitcavage said, reflecting on what he’s noticed from tracking these groups closely over the last few decades. They’ll take firearms to an Antifa rally in anticipation of a street clash, and, if they ever shot someone, they would maintain it was in self-defense. Members of the “sovereign citizen” movement, who deny the legitimacy of nearly all government, may be spurred to gunfire by perceived government overreach into their personal lives, and typically lash out at police officers at traffic stops, as well as at zoning officials and staffers of child-protective services.
“Out of all the public events over the past five years involving extremists, there have been very few where extremists actually shot their weapons,” Pitcavage said.
Pitcavage identified two potential flashpoints that could spark extremist violence in the public sphere: battles over Supreme Court justices, and presidential elections. Clashes of this kind, as we saw with January 6, can involve everyday Americans not typically active in extremist circles. “What you really have to worry about when your society becomes so polarized is that it’s not just extremists who become willing to consider violence,” he said. The country’s direction is concerning, he said, adding: “We’re still going towards, and we’re still engaged in, increased polarization and increased confrontation, and I don’t see much in the way of mitigating factors that can act as a brake. Does America actually have a stomach or not for civil conflagration? That would not be a test I’m confident we would pass.”
How else do extremism and gun culture intersect?
Far-right extremism has worked its way into gun lobby messaging, most infamously in the mid-1990s, when the National Rifle Association vilified federal agents as “jack-booted thugs” in a fundraising mailer six days before the Oklahoma City bombing. The incident prompted former President George H.W. Bush to publicly resign from the group. The NRA had adopted extremist messaging to capitalize on “a huge upswell of anger at the government” following the ATF operations in Ruby Ridge and Waco, Pitcavage said. That anger was felt not just by extremists, but also by the general public. The NRA’s messaging, which compared federal agents to Nazis, was an attempt “to find any sort of sentiment in the public that they might be able to use to justify or protect firearms,” he said.
Extremists have used gun-rights rhetoric to attract new recruits. After the January 6 insurrection, moderators on online forums popular with right-wing activists instructed members to use conspiracy theories about hypothetical gun confiscation to recruit Trump supporters. As The Trace’s Chip Brownlee reported last year:
Few issues appeal to and unite such a broad swath of the American right quite like gun rights. Abortion restrictions animate religious conservatives while often alienating more libertarian or anti-authority elements of the right. Tax policy may anger pro-business conservatives, but does not draw out the same emotional response. But fervent opposition to gun restrictions is a unifying force for the right.
What can be done to prevent armed extremist violence?
States can pass laws that allow cities to enact their own ordinances regulating guns, Pitcavage said. Currently, only a handful of states allow municipalities to enact their own gun laws. States could also tighten gun ownership and carry requirements. Thirty years ago, two-thirds of states required residents to obtain permits to carry concealed firearms; today, half allow concealed carry, even without a permit. That loosening of gun laws has allowed people who might have been denied guns or carry permits in the past to amass weapons. And while every state has some type of law addressing paramilitary activity, they’re rarely enforced, and they don’t apply to militant social movements that don’t technically fit each state’s specific definition of a militia.
“There appears to be, at this point in time, no prospect for using laws and regulations to rein any of this in,” Pitcavage said. “So, we’re basically embarking upon a national experiment in which the people are the involuntary subjects. And going forward, we’re going to be seeing how many people get shot, wounded, killed, or threatened or intimidated by weapons.” | https://www.thetrace.org/2022/09/gun-culture-proud-boys-domestic-terror/ | 2022-09-03T06:23:17Z | thetrace.org | control | https://www.thetrace.org/2022/09/gun-culture-proud-boys-domestic-terror/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What To Know Today
NEW from THE TRACE: What do guns mean to extremists? Guns and extremism have long been intertwined in America, but radical groups are not monoliths. Some view gun rights as central to their ideology, while others use firearms as a more precise tool to inspire fear, project authority, and intimidate. To get a sense of the landscape, we turned to Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism who has studied the far right for nearly three decades, to help guide us through an explainer on the issues. Jennifer Mascia has that piece here.
California’s Legislature fails to pass new public carry limits post-Bruen. Just as New York unveiled its new concealed carry permitting rules and prohibitions on guns in so-called sensitive places, Golden State lawmakers failed to pass their own wide-ranging measures. The bill would have instituted more than three dozen new gun restrictions, but failed to get the two-thirds support required under state rules relating to legislation that goes into effect immediately. (A simple majority, which was at hand, would have allowed the bill to go into effect in January). A separate measure that would have imposed a 10 percent tax on all retail handgun purchases in the state to fund gun violence prevention programs and research also failed. California’s concealed carry rules — like those in New York and other states with discretionary, may-issue licensing schemes — were invalidated by the Supreme Court’s decision in Bruen. Democratic leaders in the Golden State pledged to bring up the bill again in December.
An Ohio police officer fatally shot an unarmed Black man in his bed. On Wednesday, Columbus police released body camera footage of the incident that happened around 2 a.m. on Tuesday while police were serving an arrest warrant. Officers handcuffed two men in the apartment before announcing they would send in a police dog to the room of 20-year-old Donovan Lewis, and calling him to come outside. A voice on the video can be heard saying, “They are sleeping.” An officer, Ricky Anderson, followed the dog to Lewis’ room, opened the door, and fired almost immediately after the light turned on and Lewis rose from the bed. Lewis died at the hospital shortly after. In Ohio, Black people are about five times more likely to die by the police than white people, according to one estimate.
Can “hot spot” policing improve police-community relations? A new study looking at the policy that focuses law enforcement in areas where violent crime clusters suggests that it could. Researchers polled more than 1,000 community members in areas with elevated crime across two unnamed medium-sized cities in the mid-Atlantic. They found that residents had more positive views on policing when they saw frequent patrols and positive interactions between law enforcement and community members, while views were more likely to be negative when community members saw lots of aggressive police enforcement or investigative activity.
Americans bought an estimated 1.4 million guns last month, according to our tracker that analyzes FBI data. This seasonally adjusted figure includes about 840,000 handguns and 550,000 long guns (rifles and shotguns). The total figure was down 5 percent from the previous August and nearly identical to the tally in July of this year.
Data Point
About half — the share of the almost 48,000 Americans who died by suicide in 2020 who used a gun. Overall, some 90 percent of suicide attempts with a firearm are fatal. [The Trace]
September is National Suicide Prevention Month. See our guide for resources on where to find help if you’re experiencing suicidal thoughts or depression. | https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/california-public-carry-bruen/ | 2022-09-03T06:23:23Z | thetrace.org | control | https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/california-public-carry-bruen/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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