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Many directors who find massive success with debut films struggle with what to take on next. Not Florian Zeller. The French playwright turned director, who won the best-adapted-screenplay Oscar for cowriting the 2020 drama The Father, was already hard at work at his follow-up as he was navigating the awards circus that year.
Zeller, working with his cowriter Christopher Hampton, was determined to adapt his 2018 play Le Fils—a story centering on divorced parents whose teenage son is struggling with mental illness. Zeller, who spent the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 writing the script, calls The Son, which is part of a trilogy of plays that also includes The Mother, his most personal work.
Zeller’s work has a knack for pulling uncomfortable emotions out of audiences. With The Father, we watched on as a woman (Olivia Colman) witnessed the unraveling of her father as he fell deeper into the depths of dementia (Anthony Hopkins, in an Oscar-winning performance). In The Son, which will debut at the Venice Film Festival on September 7 ahead of a theatrical release on November 11 by Sony Pictures Classics, parents played by Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern struggle to understand their teenage son’s (Zen McGrath) increasingly intense anger at life—and their attempts to help him often lead to disaster.
“It’s so difficult to be a good father or a good mother and to deal with a situation when you do not know what to do anymore,” says Zeller, who has a son and stepson with his wife Marine Delterme. He remembers how after the play debuted in Paris, audience members would come up to him afterward to share their own experiences with mental health and family issues. “This is when I really realized that so many people related to this,” he says. “There is so much shame and ignorance about mental health issues, that it was a way for me to share what I learned and also to open a conversation.”
In the film (Awards Insider debuts new exclusive images from The Son here), Nicholas can only describe his as a crushing weight taking away his will to live. That ambiguity only elevates his parents’—and audiences’—frustration about how to fix it.
“As an audience, what I really like is to be in an active position; not just to sit and to watch a story that’s already written and told, but to be part of the narrative and to be active,” says Zeller. “It’s a way to open the conversation and not to shy away from these topics, because I know that it takes time to face the right questions. And sometimes this is the time we do not have, to avoid tragedy.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/awards-insider-the-son-florian-zeller-interview-uncomfortable | 2022-09-05T17:22:24Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/awards-insider-the-son-florian-zeller-interview-uncomfortable | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It is admirable, in a way, that after Martin McDonagh’s third film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri brought him such accolades and attention, his next on-screen effort should be such a humble return to his playwriting roots. The Banshees of Inisherin, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Monday, will seem familiar to anyone who’s seen McDonagh’s two Aran Islands plays—now a trilogy that ends at the movies. Banshees—like The Cripple of Inishmaan,though far less like The Lieutenant of Inishmore—is quaint and quirky, melancholy and distinctively Irish, a better mode for a writer and filmmaker who gets inexact when he takes bigger swings (or travels overseas).
Set in the early 1920s, as the Irish Civil War rages on the nation’s main island, Banshees is about a friendship gone sour. Is there a metaphor there? Yes, I think so. Pádraic (Colin Farrell) is a dim and affable guy who tends to his livestock and spends time every day at the only pub in town. In the past, he’s been the inseparable drinking companion of Colm (Brendan Gleason), older and morose with a touch of the poet in him. But one day, Colm coldly declares that he doesn’t want to be friends with Pádraic anymore. Colm sees the end of his life looming and he can’t stand the thought of wasting any more time listening to Pádraic’s incessant, empty nattering. Pádraic is bruised but defiant, unable to accept that he could lose his only steady friend in a place as lonely as this.
It’s a curious thing, watching these two rough men in a rough place bicker over something as squishy as hurt feelings over a friendship—and for McDonagh to be the one staging it. But McDonagh adds, as he’s wont to do, a nasty twist: Colm, sick of of Pádraic’s protestations and entreaties, says he’ll start cutting off his own fingers any time Pádraic dares to bother him. His threat that like a dramatic bluff, until it very much doesn’t.
The film unfolds in grim and sorrowful episodes, ones that are funny in a sideways fashion, until McDonagh gently reminds us how deep the pain and confusion at the heart of both men really is. Now that he’s finally got some peace and quiet, Colm sets about writing a song, a folk tune he hopes will be sung long after he’s gone. He’s trying to build a legacy, some bit of him that will last, that will leave an impression on a world he feels he’s merely stumbling through inconsequentially. That he’s willing to harm himself so profoundly to do so suggests a far more serious malaise than anyone seems able to talk about. Pádraic, for his part, gradually gathers his daffy stupor and condenses it into anger. Maybe this is how wars begin.
The Banshees of Inisherin is not, I don’t think, a direct allegory for any one thing. Sure, the occasional shot of an explosion happening across the sea is there to remind us that there are bigger, more concrete things on the movie’s mind than this sad squabble alone. But the viewer probably shouldn’t go mad trying to draw direct lines between Pádraic and Colm’s sorry situation and matters of geopolitics. Gestures toward the larger civil war are, I think, serving a more allusive purpose, merely putting the film’s existential squabble in the soft focus of broader context. Or maybe McDonagh really is being that on-the-nose.
He’s a tricky writer to figure out sometimes. His aura of acclaim, hanging around him for decades now, makes one want to lean forward and listen closer, trying to detect the hidden mechanics whirring underneath his torrents of prickly wordplay and profanity. Sometimes, that process can be frustrating and yield little results, as it did recently in the Broadway production of Hangmen.
But Banshees is a sturdy vessel for such thematic exploration—set on such a picturesque but fading place, populated by souls all lost to various degrees. McDonagh’s version of isolated Ireland may be a bit condescending, rural farce that’s more snide than sweet. But Banshees is balanced by a decency, a sensitivity, that tempers some of McDonagh’s folksy stereotyping.
In that regard, he has enormous help from his cast. It’s a treat to see Farrell and Gleason, so glimmering with chemistry as talkative hitmen in McDonagh’s In Bruges, back together again. (Though moviegoers hoping for a narratively similar kind of adventure will be disappointed.) Farrell is the particular standout here, once again making the case that he is one of the more underappreciated movie stars of his era. He sands Pádraic’s most glaring dimensions—his irksome childishness, his mulish stubbornness—into human shape. It’s a soulful and intricate performance that never loses itself in tics.
Young Barry Keoghan, formerly Farrell’s castmate in The Killing of a Sacred Deer, is asked to load on a heap of idiosyncrasy, playing the addled town dunce who becomes Pádraic’s new confidant once Colm has forsaken him. But Keoghan, and McDonagh, find a way to even the character out, blending him into the texture of this finely tailored film. Kerry Condon, as Pádraic’s bookish and quietly ambitious sister, is also a welcome presence, a firm representative of the portion of the community who wants more and better for themselves, but without any haughty disdain for her fellow islanders.
A lesser film would keep all these characters in the confines of their shorthand descriptions, setting them off on visibly plotted lines. But choices and consequences seem almost organic in The Banshees of Inisherin, as if McDonagh is letting these people wander and transgress on their own. Those wary of McDonagh after the bulldozer that was Billboards should seek out this film; at its best, The Banshees of Inisherin whispers and laments and amuses the way McDonagh’s best stage writing does. And it offers the invaluable opportunity to see Farrell in his hangdog element, as Pádraic scrambles about trying to find purchase in the world, ever creaking and groaning in motion. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/banshees-of-inisherin-movie-review | 2022-09-05T17:22:26Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/banshees-of-inisherin-movie-review | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Betty Gilpin narrates the audiobook for her debut collection of essays, All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns, but she wouldn’t be caught dead listening to it. “I can’t do it,” she says over Zoom. “What if I’m in a horrific car accident and I’m found upside down on the 101 and my own audiobook is just playing, echoing out into the highway, and that’s the headline for, you know, Lamps.com that reports on my death?”
Interviewing Gilpin is not that much different than reading her book, out Tuesday from Flatiron Books, which feels like a transcript of her internal monologue, complete with the same sly barbs and self-deprecating jabs. In All the Women in my Brain’s opening pages, Gilpin assures readers that she hasn’t written a typical actor memoir. “I don’t have any delusions that the octogenarian auctioneers who have seen my Off-Broadway theatre canon are clamoring for my childhood timeline,” she writes. “Nor do I think the gentlemen who send me eight-by-ten printouts of my own breasts to sign are petitioning for my book—I’m not aware that they know I can read.”
Though Gilpin is a three-time Emmy nominee for her work in beloved but abruptly canceled Netflix series GLOW, and has starred in movies alongside Chris Pratt and Hilary Swank, she didn’t want readers to feel like they needed to know who she was to enjoy the book. “There are so many things about being an actress that are a pretty perfect allegory for just being a woman in the world, feeling like you have to cycle through selves to give whoever’s in front of you the girl that they want and feeling like you have to audition for the job you already have,” says Gilpin, who will next be seen in Showtime’s adaptation of the Lisa Taddeo novel Three Women. “I think that a ceramicist in Dayton could see themselves in that.”
Even so, her essays—about being raised by working actor parents, her drug-filled boarding school days, and her attempts to tamp down the dark thoughts and feelings that roil in her head—are deeply personal. So is her withering commentary about Hollywood, where she toiled for years before landing a recurring role on Nurse Jackie—only to be introduced to viewers in flagrante delicto on a hospital gurney.
Gilpin also writes revealingly about her marriage to Cosmo Pfeil and shares, for the first time, details about becoming a mother, to daughter Mary Babe, during the pandemic. The morning that we speak, she’s decamped from her family’s rental in Venice, CA—they live in New York when she’s not in Los Angeles for work—for a hotel in Burbank. She hopes to catch up on sleep while filming Mrs. Fletcher, a secretive new series from Watchmen creator Damon Lindelof and Young Sheldon writer Tara Hernandez, in which she stars as a nun battling a powerful artificial intelligence. Taking time for self-care is something Gilpin learned while working on GLOW. “Internally, I’m Eeyore smoking a Marlboro Red, and that’s just always going to be kind of the baseline,” she says. “So why not take some fish oil and get some sun also?”
Vanity Fair: You published several essays before writing All The Women in My Brain. When did you realize you had enough for a book?
Betty Gilpin: I had maybe five essays published. The word published feels so parchment-y, so Harvard-y, and my version of “publish” is I sat at my computer and sent an email. But at the beginning of the pandemic I had, through my acting agent, a writing agent, and she sort of suggested, “Why don’t you sit down and write a book of essays?” I was pretty nervous. Anytime my brain is aware of math or a result, creativity shuts down. And I was really worried about starting a book knowing that it was for a result by this date. But I think that the post-baby hormones were the perfect antidote. My daughter really upstaged any neuroses that I had. There’s that point postpartum where it just feels like there’s constant swelling classical music and magical butterflies in the room and you could move a Mack Truck by blinking—you’re just this sobbing superhero. I wrote the book during that time. Then the hormones, God, they change. [Laughs]. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/betty-gilpin-internally-im-eeyore-smoking-a-marlboro-red | 2022-09-05T17:22:27Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/betty-gilpin-internally-im-eeyore-smoking-a-marlboro-red | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Let us, if we can, put aside all the various mini-controversies that surrounded the lead up to the Venice premiere of Don’t Worry Darling. Now that the film has debuted, maybe we can just focus on the movie itself, which is neither triumph nor disaster. Director Olivia Wilde has made an obvious and intermittently entertaining sci-thriller, one that borrows heavily from many better things but uses those pilfered parts effectively enough. For a while, anyway.
The film takes place in what looks like 1960s Palm Springs, mid-century development ringed by threatening desert mountains. This is a planned community built by a shadowy corporation, one that has a vaguely messianic mission to advance humanity . . . somehow. The men, all handsome, go off to work each morning while the women, all pretty, look after the kids or soak themselves in afternoon cocktails with neighbor wives. (Or they do both.) It’s an arch blending of Mad Men chic (with a bright polish) and Manhattan Project secrecy. Of course, there is an ominous hum underlying all this sozzled good-living, the sense that nothing this perfectly secure and uniformly agreeable could be real.
We probably sense that because we’re familiar with The Stepford Wives, or The Truman Show, and other movies and television shows that present an outwardly pristine, if antiquated, design for living that ripples with sinister, unseen energy. Wilde’s film wears those influences plainly and without much re-styling. Still, the film looks good and is filled with peppery performances. In the lead is Florence Pugh, that great 20-something phenom who burst onto the scene a few years ago in Lady Macbeth and has since delivered one striking performance after another. If her cool scratch and mettle, in the form of housewife Alice, seem a bit out of place in this breezy world, that’s probably the point. She is meant to realize, as are we, that she doesn’t belong in this ordered place. Pugh sharply registers Alice’s mounting alarm, and she vibes well with the other wives, played by, among others, comedian Kate Berlant and Wilde herself.
And then there is the matter of Alice’s husband, Jack, who is played by little-known indie musician Harry Styles. I kid, of course. Styles is one of the biggest music acts on the planet at the moment, and this, his second film role, was once the buzziest thing about the movie. Seeing Styles on screen feels like something of an event, a sense of occasion that he rises to meet. Yes, there is some flatness when Styles gets to emoting, but he otherwise exists confidently within the picture. I don’t think he’s a Brando for the digital era or anything, but I would certainly be curious to see him in something else after this. (Like, say, My Policeman, which premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival next weekend.)
Don’t Worry Darling glides along, its jumble of repurposed elements in lively enough harmony until it’s time to knuckle down and really get into what’s happening to Alice. It’s then that Katie Silberman, Carey Van Dyke, and Shane Van Dyke’s screenplay begins to falter, as does Wilde’s direction. They show us essentially the same scene over and over again: Alice thinking she sees something unnerving only to be told, in gaslight-y terms, that she’s imagining things. She’s experiencing womanly hysteria, all the men in pressed white shirts and crisp suits who surround her insist. Wilde can’t figure out how to get the story out of this eddy; she stalls and repeats until it’s time to just go ahead and reveal what’s happening because the movie has to end at some point.
When that reveal comes, the film caves in. The intention here is to tell a pertinent story about women’s subjugation under the modern forces of anti-feminism, which has hardened online into a real-world aggressive sociopolitical ideology fueled by pseudo-intellectual public figures, red-pilled demagogues who have snaked their way into mainstream discourse—or, really, created their own mainstream. That’s certainly a salient topic for a film, but in Don’t Worry Darling’s execution, Wilde offers no new insights. There are even some contradictory elements to the grand secret premise of the film, a muddled clash of faux-empowerment and Handmaid’s Tale debasement.
Not that we really have much time to think about these matters. Once the film starts showing its cards, it hurries to its climax and conclusion, complete with an unconvincing car chase and a murder. What energy the movie had has been sapped. It staggers across the finish line as it asks us to consider something profound, a great re-awakening that will lead to a mighty reckoning for the movie’s bad men. We don’t get to see that bit, though, because Don’t Worry Darling has used up all its tricks.
What remains consistent and undaunted throughout, though, is Pugh, a commanding and centered actor who makes the most of the hash she’s served. There’s a vivid scene in which Alice confronts the community’s shifty, sauntering overseer, played with a cult leader’s menacing appeal by Chris Pine. The two crackle well together, and in their shared moments the film briefly feels spiky and inventive. If only their chemistry was the foundation on which Don’t Worry Darling was built, instead of its stack of blurry copies of things done better elsewhere, years ago. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/dont-worry-darling-movie-review | 2022-09-05T17:22:27Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/dont-worry-darling-movie-review | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years old. My brother, Poe, was nine, and my sister, Cisely, had just turned 14.” This is how Eve’s Bayou opens, embarking on a cinematic journey that blends memory, history, love, death, and mystery. As the film’s 25th anniversary approaches, the movie’s cultural significance—its iconic representations of Black girlhood and its depictions of a Southern African American family and community—remains undiminished by time. Eve’s Bayou is a powerhouse in the Southern Gothic tradition, one whose influence is clear on future works in the genre like Lemonade, Queen Sugar, and Lovecraft Country.
When Eve’s Bayou debuted on November 7, 1997, African American Vernacular English was still, offensively, known as Ebonics; Beyoncé hadn’t yet sung about “goin’ back to the South”; and the NAACP had been waging war against Merriam-Webster for its definition of the N-word. In her directorial debut, writer Kasi Lemmons highlighted an upper-middle-class Black family, and community at large, in a way that was real and raw, bursting with beauty and nuance. African American women and girls, particularly those from the South, saw themselves onscreen—not as caricatures, but as well-rounded characters, vivid and resplendent, a rarity at the time. The authenticity came from how Lemmons wrote from her own reality.
“I was at an audition and [was] asked to tell a story about my family,” Lemmons tells Vanity Fair over Zoom. “When I left the audition, I wrote it down. And so it started with a story about my aunt and my mother, and how they went to a fair one day and saw a fortune teller. And then I wrote another short story about a brother and sister who have to go and say goodnight to their great-uncle. It was very atmospheric, and then I realized that those two stories, both being about my family, went together. And then I wrote another story. And so on like that.”
Although Lemmons had initially set out to write a novel, she realized that the story would be better told onscreen. She could see the visuals and cinematic elements unfolding as she was writing, blending family stories with history, adding Creole influence and solid grounding in time and place.
Eve’s Bayou begins with a party at the Batiste house, where the love and devotion among the family members are almost palpable. Champagne is flowing; fancy chocolates and cigars are making their rounds. It’s the kind of party that requires guests to wear their best Southern cocktail attire (brilliant colors and statement jewelry, anyone?), then hit the dance floor and sweat their hair out. It’s carefree fun in a tight-knit community, with juicy gossip and lively music filling the home of “the best colored doctor” in the area.
The film is solidly rooted in African American tradition, reflecting Lemmons’s own cultural background. From the jazz-heavy musical score to the cinematography, which truthfully and magnificently captures the richness of various Black skin tones, it is an ode to the glory of a community too often reduced to rigid, banal dichotomies onscreen. It is a movie where a young Eve hums the chords of the Baptist hymn “Amazing Grace” between scenes depicting hoodoo, African American spiritual practices rooted in traditional West African religions.
Even the characters’ connection to the land is significant; the bayou was gifted to an enslaved Batiste ancestor after her medicine work saved her white slaveowner’s life. He freed her, gave her the bayou—and impregnated her with 16 children. It’s a story line that also rings true to the African American experience: the blurred lines around property and slavery, consent and freewill, race relations in the “genteel South,” and land on which African Americans have faced both horrors and triumphs, land to which they are bound by both blood and history. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/eves-bayou-movie-25th-anniversary | 2022-09-05T17:22:32Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/eves-bayou-movie-25th-anniversary | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Olivia Wilde brought her second directorial feature, Don’t Worry Darling, to the Venice Film Festival on Monday, and with it came the attendant aura of whispers, rumors, and sighs from its production. In recent weeks, there’s been some controversy about whether Shia LaBeouf had quit or was fired from the project, persistent queries into the nature of her relationship with Harry Styles, and whether or not she and the film’s lead, Florence Pugh, had a falling out.
While Pugh arrived too late to attend the film’s press conference, citing the difficulty of international travel keeping her from getting there in time (she is in Budapest, shooting Dune: Part Two), the topic did come up at the end of the promo session.
Addressing Wilde, who sat on the dais with Styles, Gemma Chan, and Chris Pine, a reporter asked if she would “just clear the air and address whether there has been a falling out there and if so why, because it’s something that people are discussing?”
Wilde responded, first by praising her star: “Florence is a force, and we are so grateful that she is able to make it tonight despite being in production on Dune,” she said. “I know as a director how disruptive it is to lose an actor even for a day so I’m very grateful to her and Denis Villeneuve for helping us—we’re really thrilled we’ll get to celebrate her work tonight.”
She then added, “I can’t say enough how honored I am to have her as our lead. She’s amazing in the film, and as for all the endless tabloid gossip and all the noise out there, I mean, the internet feeds itself. I don’t feel the need to contribute, I think it’s sufficiently well nourished.”
When another reporter attempted a follow-up concerning LaBeouf, the Venice moderator shut it down, saying Wilde “already answered that.”
Don’t Worry Darling makes its way to theaters September 23. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/olivia-wilde-venice-film-festival-dont-worry-darling | 2022-09-05T17:22:38Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/olivia-wilde-venice-film-festival-dont-worry-darling | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When INO opened its doors last summer, it was still somewhat overshadowed by its big sister OPSO—but the Summer of ’22 has been a very different story. A new menu, outdoor seating and some sexy cocktail additions (cucumber sours) mean this cosy little nook of a restaurant now regularly has a queue of 45 people outside. Not only are the dishes bursting with original Greek flavours, which are all cooked on an impressive rustic grill (this can be seen on the recommended counter seating), the quality of the ingredients shines through in every single one of them. And as well as going back for more of that taramasalata, for which the restaurant has become duly famous, it’s always good to see what’s new. Try the octopus taco with smoked tomato, onion crisps and olive oil flatbread, and the spanakopita (spinach pie finished on charcoal with Greek yoghurt). And you can enjoy the showstoppers while sipping your way through an extremely impressive wine list. V.F. had a bottle of the Gerovassiliou—difficult to nail the pronunciation, easy to polish off the whole thing. Bravo INO. INO, Soho
Daylesford near Kingham in the Cotswolds feels like an upscale country idyll on any day of the year, but it reaches peak pastoral delight during its annual Harvest Festival. This year’s (taking place on September 17–18) will celebrate the landmark 20th anniversary of everyone’s favourite organic store with a scene of autumnal abundance. There will be everything from hot air balloons and classic fairground rides to dog shows and the Daylesford Harvest Competition (categories include best carrot cake and best fruit jam, and entries will be accepted until 11am each day). But more to the point, guests can feast on food from the Daylesford Fire Pits, linger on long banquet tables, watch cookery demonstrations from guest chefs, and wash it all down at the Harvest Festival Bar, which will be stocked with Daylesford’s own festival cider, craft beers and organic wines from Chateau Léoube. Those looking for some time to unwind can head over to the Bamford Wellness Spa and Heritage Orchard for holistic activities, relaxing workshops and wellbeing talks. All in all, a glorious day out awaits. Daylesford Harvest Festival
It’s hard to resist Hari’s, the string of cult hair salons and purveyor of perfect blow-dries. But up until now it’s been a very west London affair, with spots in Chelsea, Notting Hill and Parson’s Green. So those residing south of the river will be very pleased to hear that a new salon has opened on the Northcote Road. It’s got the same vibrant character as the others, with interiors curated by Hari in collaboration with Kim Partridge Interiors, previous designer of Adare Manor. It’s flooded with natural sunlight, with a fresh air system powered by a state-of-the-art environmentally friendly heat pump plus a moss wall to breathe life into the salon (ideal if you’re spending foiled hours in here). The star-lit, fully reclining backwash area is hard to leave, especially if you’ve plundered the complimentary 111Skin face masks on offer here. Book now—it’s filling up fast. Hari’s Northcote Road
Globally recognised Italian bartender, consultant and drink designer (a title we aspire to) Pietro Rizzo has recently conjured up a pretty state-of-the-art experience at The Aubrey: Cocktail Omakase. Set deep within the private dining area with only eight counter seats, it’s an immersive and interactive experience that takes you on a journey through the expansive world of Japanese spirits. Guests can sip on umeshu, shochu, and sake with Asian herbs—but the best cocktail of the night? The Tomatini. Tomato liqueur is well worth your consideration, especially when shaken up by Pietro himself. And, of course, be sure to soak up some of the glorious concoctions with amuse bouche-style dishes. The mushrooms on brioche toast and slices of raw hamachi are heaven, and the perfect accompaniment to help avoiding a hangover the next morning. Bottoms up! The Omakase Bar at The Aubrey
Ingredients
40ml Toki
110ml Soda
5ml Japanese apple vinegar
Grapefruit twist
Method
1. Add cubed ice to a highball glass and stir to chill glass
2. Add Toki and vinegar to the glass and stir to chill
3. Top with soda
4. Garnish with grapefruit twist | https://www.vanityfair.com/london/2022/09/the-a-list-what-to-do-in-london-this-week-ino | 2022-09-05T17:22:52Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/london/2022/09/the-a-list-what-to-do-in-london-this-week-ino | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Liz Truss will be the next UK prime minister, taking over for Boris Johnson.
The next No. 10 tweeted: “I am honoured to be elected Leader of the Conservative Party. Thank you for putting your trust in me to lead and deliver for our great country. I will take bold action to get all of us through these tough times, grow our economy, and unleash the United Kingdom’s potential.”
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On Monday, Truss won 57% of member votes—a narrower victory than projected, according to the BBC–defeating former finance minister Rishi Sunak. She served as the foreign secretary and minister for women and equalities under Johnson. She also served in several Cabinet positions during the governments of David Cameron and Theresa May.
This was not a general election, so only a small group of dues-paying members of the Conservative Party—less than 0.3 percent of the UK population—voted on Monday. According to a YouGov poll published last week a mere 12% of the public expect that Truss will be a “great” or “good” prime minister, while 52% expect her to be “poor” or “terrible.” The next general election is slotted for January 2025.
Johnson announced he would step down in July, after a swath of scandals, including throwing parties during Covid-19 lockdown (“Partygate”) and his handling of the sexual assault allegations around M.P. Chris Pincher.
Truss is scheduled to travel to Balmoral, Scotland to see the Queen on Tuesday, which will make her the 15th British prime minister the Queen will have appointed during her reign. After she is appointed tomorrow, Truss will be the third woman to ever hold the position of UK prime minister, following Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May.
Truss will inherit a growing economic crisis–skyrocketing energy bills and a looming recession. She promised during her campaign to cut taxes and increase defense spending.
Although Truss and Sunak have been duking it out, an unexpected third candidate made his presence known across London: “Chief Mouser” Larry the cat. Billboards scrawled with “Larry For Leader” popped up around the city preceding Monday's vote. Larry the cat has been a furry friend of the past three prime ministers, scurrying around 10 Downing Street since 2011. | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/liz-truss-to-be-next-uk-prime-minister | 2022-09-05T17:22:58Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/liz-truss-to-be-next-uk-prime-minister | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Former President Donald Trump’s request for a special master was granted by the judge on Monday, allowing a third party to review the material seized in the FBI search on August 8.
According to the filing, Trump’s motion was “granted in part.” Judge Aileen Cannon wrote: “The Court hereby authorizes the appointment of a special master to review the seized property for personal items and documents and potentially privileged material subject to claims of attorney- client and/or executive privilege.”
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On top of this, the judge blocked the Justice Department from analyzing the material as part of its investigation until the special master has completed his review: “The Court also temporarily enjoins the Government from reviewing and using the seized materials for investigative purposes pending completion of the special master’s review or further Court order.” This move could potentially delay the DOJ’s criminal investigation into the former president.
However, the judge did not put a halt to the review of classified material by the Office of the Director of Intelligence.
This ruling puts an end to a back-and-forth between Trump and the courts in recent weeks. On August 22, Trump sought the appointment of a special master to oversee the review of the material seized in the Mar-a-Lago search. The court ordered the former president’s team to elaborate on his request and specify the relief he sought. Last Thursday, the judge indicated a “preliminary intent” to grant the former president’s request.
The judge wrote in the filing that although the Court sides with the DOJ, that “there has not been a compelling showing of callous disregard for Plaintiff’s constitutional rights,” the Court also took into account the personal material seized and the “unquantifiable potential harm by way of improper disclosure of sensitive information to the public” when making its decision. “As a function of Plaintiff’s former position as President of the United States, the stigma associated with the subject seizure is in a league of its own,” she added.
Trump appointed Judge Cannon in 2020 before leaving office. The Justice Department and Trump's legal team have until September 9 to submit a list of proposed special master candidates. | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/trump-appointed-judge-grants-special-master-request | 2022-09-05T17:23:04Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/trump-appointed-judge-grants-special-master-request | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ozzy Osbourne, co-founder of Black Sabbath, reality television star, and Prince of Darkness will perform at a special halftime show on September 8, when the Buffalo Bills visit the Los Angeles Rams at SoFI Stadium during week one of the NFL season. The announcement was made on Monday on social media by the Rams themselves. (Please envision a demonic ceremony involving communicative rams at this time.)
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The news is a bit surprising, given the frailty of Ozzy’s health these days. In a recent interview, the “Crazy Train” singer explained how he is only able to perform briefly, and essentially wedged into place. An appearance at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, in which he sang “Paranoid” (and the intro to “Iron Man”), left his wife Sharon Osbourne “very nervous” about a possible “trip on a wire.”
The rock icon suffers from Parkinson’s Disease, and has had multiple blood clots and staph infections, as well as neck surgery after a 2019 fall. Initially he rejected the call to perform with Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi for the Birmingham event, then came around, thinking “it’s one song—and I’ve sung it every fucking night for the last 55 years, so it’s not like I’m going to forget the fucking words!”
The appearance at SoFi stadium can also be interpreted as an olive branch to his fans in Los Angeles, where he has lived for decades, and the United States in general. He and Sharon have announced that they’ll be leaving the country in February next year, and returning to Great Britain. “It’s fucking crazy,” Ozzy said about the U.S., mostly focusing on gun culture.” Sharon added that “it’s a very weird place to live,” highlighting the political disunity in the nation. Ozzy also implied that to “live in L.A. for a few years” can make one a little loopy about things like vaccines.
The halftime gig will be his first time performing in the U.S. since an appearance with Travis Scott and Post Malone at the 2019 American Music Awards.
While neither Ozzy Osbourne nor Black Sabbath has ever played a Super Bowl Halftime show (could mainstream culture withstand an onslaught of such fiendish magick?), he did perform at the 2005 New England Patriots opener from inside of a giant football helmet. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/ozzy-osbourne-will-help-kick-off-nfl-season | 2022-09-05T17:23:10Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/ozzy-osbourne-will-help-kick-off-nfl-season | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, FLa. — Florida has began its first "Tool Time" tax-free holiday.
Running through September 9, the sales tax holiday will allow qualifying home repair and construction items that are purchased during this period to be exempt from tax.
Below are items eligible for the tax exemption:
Selling for $300 or less per item:
- Toolboxes for vehicles
- Power tools
Selling for $175 or less per pair:
- Work boots
Selling for $150 or less per item:
- Power tool batteries
- Handheld pipe cutters, drain opening tools and plumbing inspection equipment
Selling for $125 for less per item:
- Industry textbooks and code books
Selling for $100 or less per item:
- Tool belts
- Electrical voltage and testing equipment
- Shop lights
Selling for $75 or less per item:
- Toolboxes
Selling for $50 or less per item:
- Hand tools
- Safety glasses (per pair or the equivalent if sold in sets of more than one pair)
- Protective coveralls
- Duffle bags or tote bags
- LED flashlights
Selling for $25 or less per item:
- Work gloves
The Sales Tax Holiday does not apply to rentals of any of the eligible items nor to sales in an entertainment complex, airport, theme park or public lodging establishment.
For more information, visit 2022 Tool Time Sales Tax Holiday FAQs (floridarevenue.com). | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/qualifying-home-repair-construction-items-temporarily-tax-free-in-florida | 2022-09-05T17:24:25Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/qualifying-home-repair-construction-items-temporarily-tax-free-in-florida | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday granted a request by former President Donald Trump’s legal team to appoint a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home last month and also temporarily halted the Justice Department’s use of the records for investigative purposes.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon came despite the objections of the Justice Department, which said an outside legal expert was not necessary in part because officials had already completed their review of potentially privileged documents. The judge had previously signaled her inclination to approve a special master, asking a department lawyer during arguments this month, “What is the harm?”
The appointment is likely to slow the pace of the department’s investigation into the presence of top-secret information at Mar-a-Lago given the judge’s directive that the Justice Department may not for the moment use any of the seized materials for investigative purposes. But it is not clear that it will have any significant effect on any investigative decisions or the ultimate outcome of the probe.
Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump in 2020, said she would permit the continuation of a risk assessment of the documents being conducted by the U.S. intelligence community.
Trump’s lawyers had argued that a special master — usually an outside lawyer or former judge — was necessary to ensure an independent review of records taken during the Aug. 8 search. Such a review was necessary, they have said, so that any personal information or documents recovered by the FBI could be filtered out and returned to Trump and so that any documents protected by attorney-client privilege or executive privilege could also be segregated from the rest of the investigation.
The Justice Department had argued against the appointment, saying it was unnecessary since it had already reviewed potentially privileged documents and identified a limited subset of materials that could be covered by attorney-client privilege.
It also said Trump was not entitled to the return of any of the presidential records that were taken since he is no longer president and the documents therefore do not belong to him. And personal items that were recovered were commingled with classified information, giving them potential value as evidence, the department has said. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/judge-grants-trump-bid-for-special-master-in-document-search | 2022-09-05T17:24:37Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/judge-grants-trump-bid-for-special-master-in-document-search | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MILTON, Del.- A Lewes man was killed in a head-on crash while riding a moped in Milton Sunday night.
Delaware State Police say a 23-year-old man was riding a moped westbound on Lockerman Rd. approaching the intersection of N. Coastal Hwy around 11 p.m. A Mazda, driven by a 17-year-old Lincoln boy, was going northbound in the left lane of Coastal Hwy behind an unknown car, approaching the same intersection. For unknown reasons, the moped disregarded a "Do Not Enter" sign, and began going southbound in the left northbound lane of the highway. The unknown car then swerved to the right to avoid hitting the moped. The Mazda could not swerve in time, hitting the moped head-on.
The moped driver was not wearing a helmet and died at the scene. Identification of the victim is pending notification to the next of kin.
The driver of the Mazda and a 17-year-old passenger, were both properly restrained and taken to an area hospital, where they were treated and released with non-life-threatening injuries.
The roadway was closed for about four hours while the crash was investigated.
The Delaware State Police Troop 7 Collision Reconstruction Unit continues to investigate this incident. Troopers are asking anyone who witnessed this collision to please contact Cpl/3 K. Argo by calling 302-703-3264. Information may also be provided by contacting Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3. | https://www.wboc.com/news/lewes-man-killed-in-head-on-moped-crash/article_99621d64-2d2a-11ed-88ea-1f6eaa77478b.html | 2022-09-05T17:29:17Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/lewes-man-killed-in-head-on-moped-crash/article_99621d64-2d2a-11ed-88ea-1f6eaa77478b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A British OnlyFans model claims that being on the site has “ruined” her dating life as men presume she is “easy.”
“I love what I do but the success has come at a price — it’s ruined my dating life,” Fenella Fox, from Worcester, told NudePR.com.
Fox has 118,000 followers on Instagram and tons on OnlyFans and said she makes $200,000 a year off the site, according to Jam Press. The 28-year-old said she has a strict rule of not having sex until the third date, but most men she goes out with seem “impatient” to get to the bedroom.
“I would love to have sex — in fact, I’m desperate for it — but I’ve been pretty much celibate for five years because men just can’t seem to wait until the third date … they just assume I’m up for it straight away because of my job.”
Fox revealed that she doesn’t tell men about her rule because she would like to see how they act without knowing about it.
“I wonder if I’m more of a trophy f – – k in their minds and when that trophy isn’t as easy to get as they thought, they give up,” she said.
Fox noted one instance where she and a date went back to her apartment and when he was told they would not be having sex, the man got up and left.
“He looked me straight in the eyes and said: ‘I’m not attracted to you anymore,’ ” she recalled.
Fox, who has also tried dating apps, said that the pressure from society to find “the one” is also taxing.
“There’s so much pressure for women to find ‘the one’ — or men assume that because we’re nearing 30 we want marriage and kids — but I would love to just have great sex,” Fox told Jam Press.
“But I don’t like one night stands. Men don’t seem to have the patience to get to know me.” | https://nypost.com/2022/09/05/im-an-onlyfans-model-and-the-site-has-ruined-my-dating-life/ | 2022-09-05T17:30:41Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/05/im-an-onlyfans-model-and-the-site-has-ruined-my-dating-life/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Canadian battle rapper Pat Stay was fatally stabbed in Nova Scotia, Canada. He was 36.
Local police said the incident happened in downtown Halifax early Sunday morning. Stay was found with stab wounds and was taken to a hospital where he later died.
His death has been ruled a homicide and is being investigated.
No arrests have been made.
Eminem remembered Stay on Twitter, writing, “hiphop lost one of the best battlers of all time … RIP @patstay .. KINGS NEVER DIE.”
Fellow Canadian rapper Drake commented on a recent song Stay released, writing, “Pat Stay’s definitely one of, if not, the best.”
A GoFund Me, verified by the platform according to CNN, states that Stay is a dad to two young kids. The campaign was created to help the family with funeral expenses.
“We are setting up this fund to help raise money for our fallen brother’s family. He has been taken from the world far too soon and many will be devastated forever. Pat Stay was a very honorable man who was on his way to a bright future,” the fundraiser reads.
“Our heart hurts for his family and friends at this time so we hope to help ease some of the pain by ensuring his family has help through this process.” | https://nypost.com/2022/09/05/pat-stay-canadian-battle-rapper-dead-at-36-after-stabbing/ | 2022-09-05T17:30:53Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/05/pat-stay-canadian-battle-rapper-dead-at-36-after-stabbing/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LISBON – Pope Francis will not be able to visit Moscow and Kyiv until after a gathering of religious leaders in Kazakhstan on Sept. 13-15 on his doctor’s orders due to a knee problem, he told CNN Portugal in an interview to be aired in full later on Monday.
In an excerpt published on the channel’s website, Francis was asked about his previously announced plans to visit Ukraine and Russia following his recent trip to Canada to foster dialogue for the end of hostilities between the two countries.
“Now I cannot go because after the trip to Canada there’s been a bit of a setback with the knee recovery and the doctor banned it, saying ‘Before Kazakhstan you cannot travel,'” Francis said.
“But I have been maintaining contact over the telephone … Among all of us, something could be done. I’m following (the situation) with my pain and my prayers. But the situation is really tragic,” he said.
“I always believe that by having a dialogue, we advance.”
In an exclusive interview with Reuters in July, Francis said he wanted to visit Kyiv but also wanted to go to Moscow, preferably first, to promote peace.
He then told Reuters he had suffered “a small fracture” in the knee when he took a misstep while a ligament was inflamed.
Francis is due to be in the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan to attend the VII Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions.
Francis has implicitly accused Russia of “armed conquest, expansionism and imperialism” in Ukraine.
The Vatican has recently had to evoke his condemnations of the war to mend strained relations with Ukraine after Francis upset Kyiv by referring to Russian ultra-nationalist Darya Dugina, who was killed by a car bomb near Moscow, as an innocent victim of war. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/05/pope-says-he-cannot-visit-kyiv-or-moscow-due-to-knee-problem/ | 2022-09-05T17:31:05Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/05/pope-says-he-cannot-visit-kyiv-or-moscow-due-to-knee-problem/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Megan Lucky surprised herself at the 2022 U.S. Open.
The tennis fan, who has gone viral two Opens in a row for her beer-chugging talents, critiqued her Sunday performance after seeing how she measured up against last year’s moment.
“I knew this was coming and swore I was slower this year,” she wrote on her Instagram Story, “but damn so much closer than I thought.”
A video posted by both the official U.S. Open account and Lucky compares the 2021 and 2022 chugs, both finishing at 7.37 seconds.
Lucky teased her return in an Instagram post on Sunday.
“Some b–ch named Serena stole my thunder,” she wrote in a post. “@usopen release the tapes!!”
Whomever was working the camera — and the social media feeds — were seemingly prepared.
“It seems this is becoming tradition at this point,” the U.S. Open Tennis Twitter account posted. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/05/us-open-beer-chugger-megan-lucky-critiques-2022-performance/ | 2022-09-05T17:31:29Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/05/us-open-beer-chugger-megan-lucky-critiques-2022-performance/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Dundee-based aquaculture specialist Ace Aquatec nets key Americas distributor
Aquaculture tech firm Ace Aquatec – which boasts Scottish video game entrepreneurs Chris van der Kuyl and Paddy Burns as investors – has hired its first equipment distributor in North, Central and South America.
The tie-up will see Pisces supply the Dundee-headquartered firm’s stunners for tilapia, trout, salmon and seabass to its customers across the Americas, where fish welfare and ethical practices “have moved to the top of the agenda”.
The Scottish business added that Pisces has “extensive” experience in serving processors worldwide and an established network, and is “well-placed to supply Ace Aquatec’s in-water electrical stunner, which has a 100 per cent stun rate and an impressive record of reducing stress at harvest”.
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Ace Aquatec’s chief sales and marketing officer Tara McGregor-Woodhams said: “Pisces have been leading the way in fish processing since 1983 and are highly regarded as the best in class for manufacturing a range of award-winning fish processing machines. This partnership will help us to roll out and lead on the distribution of our stunning technology across the Americas, and gain key insight into one of our key target markets.”
Pisces Fish Machinery Inc chief executive Trevor Wastel said the partnership with Ace Aquatec is “exactly what the Americas market has needed”. He added: “In-water electrical stunning has long been on our radar for helping strengthen our full-line offering in the fish processing industry. Not only does it create a calmer processing line before bleeding and filleting, but it accelerates the move to higher welfare standards at every point of harvesting.”
The deal follows Ace Aquatec appointing Australia’s Fresh by Design as its first distributor in the Asia Pacific region.
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Kate Copstick mugging: Funding plea sees £12,000 raised after £8500 stolen in attack
A funding plea to help replace £8,500 of charity cash taken from a Scottish TV personality in a street mugging has seen more than £12,000 raised in a GoFundMe campaign in just 24 hours.
Kate Copstick, a festival reviewer for The Scotsman, was walking home through Shepherd’s Bush in London on Saturday evening with takings from her charity shop when she says two men in dark clothing and balaclavas kicked her to the ground and made off with the cash.
She had been due to fly out to Kenya on Monday to help women in need via her charity Mama Biashara, and had been planning to carry the cash with her due to ongoing issues with accessing money from a UK Bank.
But now a page has been set up to recoup some of the lost money, which was to be used to help a group of women fleeing female genital mutilation (FGM), forced marriage and extreme violence.
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As police confirmed they were investigating the attack, the GoFundMe page has already surpassed the charity funds lost, reaching more than £12,000.
Officers at the Metropolitan Police say there have not yet been any arrests.
A spokesperson said: “Police were called at approximately 8:30pm on Saturday, September 3 to reports of a woman robbed of a quantity of cash in Shepherds Bush, W12.
“Officers attended. The woman, aged in her 60s, was not seriously hurt during the incident.
"She stated two men approached her before forcing her to the ground and stealing cash from her rucksack.
“Enquiries into the circumstances continue including work to secure any viable CCTV evidence.
"Anyone with information that could assist police is asked to call 101”.
Ms Copstick said: “I was walking home, it wasn’t very late and the street I live on is very well lit. I heard running behind me and turned to see the kind of outfit you only normally see in TV dramas – someone dressed head-to-toe in black, with a full face balaclava.
"He grabbed for my bag and I began to scream and shout for help. He put me in a chokehold and suddenly a second man – dressed exactly the same – appeared.
"I thought they were going to kill me. They kicked me to the ground, took the money and ran.
"I live in a not-posh area of Shepherd’s Bush – there is crime, there are muggings, but it’s generally kids looking to steal a few quid, not full-grown men essentially dressed like ninjas.
"They didn’t take anything else, which sadly means I was very likely targeted, and that someone knew I would be carrying a significant amount of charity cash with me. I’m talking to the police about that now.”
The 66-year-old critic, director, producer and charity boss has had a long TV career hosting in the 1980s and appeared on children's TV shows Playschool and No 73 in the 1980s, as well as ChuckleVision in the 1990s.
At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Ms Copstick was a Perrier Comedy Award judge in 2003 and 2004 and she now works as one of the most respected comedy critics at the Fringe, writing for The Scotsman each August.
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How we work, when we work, how much we work – it's all shifting on a scale not seen in decades.
The pandemic left workplaces reimagined and workers changed. The number of job openings right now outnumbers people looking for work by almost two-to-one.
Last year saw a record exodus of workers, and companies say they are still struggling to hire. Millions have re-evaluated what type of work they were willing to do for what type of pay or benefits and in what type of environment.
On Labor Day, here's a snapshot of what's happening with American workers.
Jobs are growing, and workers are still quitting
Despite inflation and economic slowdown, the labor market remains tight. Employers kept adding jobs all summer, particularly in food and retail. Layoffs have been confined to pockets of the economy – the tech sector, cryptocurrency, home buying – and to select companies, like the beleaguered Bed Bath & Beyond.
Most employers would rather hold on to workers. Too many have grappled with short staffing: More than 4 million people quit their jobs each month for the past year, the highest in decades.
It's not just about the money, it's about worker well-being
While millions quit, others have felt emboldened to fight for change.
From baristas to warehouse staff to frontline nurses, more workers are filing charges of unfair labor practices against their employers or staging walkouts and strikes. They're demanding not just higher wages, but improvements to safety and wellbeing: longer breaks, more paid leave, more control over their schedules.
Office culture, too, has changed. Just over a third of workers were going to offices in person at the end of August in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, according to Kastle Systems, which tracks office card swipes. At Apple, J.P. Morgan, the Washington Post and other companies, workers have pushed back on the notion that they have to return to offices to be productive.
And the TikTok-fueled concept of "quiet quitting" has stormed into summertime work conversations: the idea of doing the bare minimum at work, skipping the hustle and those above-and-beyond tasks. Some, like Arianna Huffington, are dismayed at the idea, calling it a step toward quitting on life; while many experts and workers see the term as a misnomer, better described as boundary-setting for personal time.
Biggest American brands are getting their first unions
Labor organizers declared mid-2022 the #hotlaborsummer. Petitions to form a union are up almost 60% compared to last year, continuing to reverse a long-running decline in union interest. Many of these workers are in food and retail, coffee shops and non-profits, media and tech. Labor experts say more women and particularly women of color are leading the charge.
Unions have won first-time victories at big-name companies: Amazon and REI in New York, an Apple store in Maryland, Trader Joe's in Massachusetts and Minnesota, Chipotle in Michigan and of course Starbucks, where more than 200 stores nationwide have unionized in less than a year.
A union is about collective bargaining, but getting there is arduous
Companies have many paths to try to slow down or even undo labor organizing. A key goal for new unions is a collective-bargaining contract to seal their wage, benefit and other demands. But research finds that when an employer resists, only a small fraction of workers who unionize successfully reach a contract.
Legal delays are abundant. Amazon, for example, launched a monthslong appeal to overturn the historic union win at its Staten Island warehouse. Starbucks has so far begun negotiations with only three of more than 200 stores. Both companies have taken the remarkable step of challenging the fairness of the union election process itself.
Union membership remains low, though support is at a 57-year high
Only about 10% of U.S. workers belonged to a union as of early 2022. At the same time, the level of public support for unions has been growing for over a decade.
This summer, 71% of Americans told Gallup they approve of unions, a level not seen since 1965. Labor experts say support is even higher with younger people, potentially growing a new generation of organizers.
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Ondo State governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has re-appointed seasoned accountant and lawyer, Banji Alabi, as the chairman of the governing council, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic (RUGIPO), Owo.
Alabi was first appointed in 2018 for a four-year tenure which expired this year.
In a statement released to the media by his Chief Press Secretary, Olabode Richard Olatunde, Akeredolu applauded the achievements of the Alabi-led previous council, especially in infrastructure development.
A real estate guru whose firm is one of the leading developers at the world-class Atlantic City in Lagos State, Alabi was the first alumnus of RUGIPO to be appointed council chairman, and the first council chairman to be re-appointed in the history of the institution.
Attesting to Alabi’s sterling leadership quality, an octogenarian and member of the former council, Chief Andrew Aroloye, likened Alabi’s leadership of the council to that of an Israeli Army General.
“As our leader, I see you as a conceptualist. You have vision and time to drive home your belief for the destiny of RUGIPO through the group you led,” he said.
Some of the achievements of the former council led by Alabi include the construction of a multi-complex Administration Building housing the Rectory, Bursary and Registry; the construction of a new Faculty of Agricultural Technology building; new Faculty of Social Sciences, and Communication building, new academic staff offices for Department of Accountancy and Marketing, construction of new male and female hostels, among others.
Speaking shortly after his re-appointment, Alabi thanked Governor Akeredolu for providing the resources the previous council used to record the legacy achievements.
Other members of the new council are Prof (Mrs) Olubunmi Omoniyi; wife of late Ondo State governor, Mrs Olufunke Agagu; Mrs Morenike Alaka; Mrs Bosede Osunmakinwa; Evangelist Asagunla Olumuyiwa; state chairman of the ruling party, Ade Adetimehin; Femi James and Febi Adeyemi.
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the owner of De Rock Club, Ring Road, Ibadan, Adepoju Olawale Sunday and 21 other suspected internet fraudsters.
The club owner and the other suspected internet fraudsters, according to EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, were arrested in an intelligence-driven operation carried out by the operatives from the Ibadan Zonal Command of the anti-corruption commission.
Uwujaren informed that a couple: Aladenusi Adegboyeyega Ayodeji and Aladenusi Omowunmi Sadiat (aka Bonnie and Clyde) was among the 21 other suspected internet fraudsters arrested alongside Adepoju Sunday.
Others, according to the EFCC spokesman, were Ajuwon Omobola Ibrahim; Ogunniyi Atilade Stephen; Bolaji Olawale Quadri; Olajire Usthman Olamilekan; Ojo Faruq Kolapo; Kajero Babatunde Sodiq; Kareem Taiwo Abiodun; Bolaji Bolarinwa Toheeb; Banjo Micheal Toyin and Clement Clemson Adeseye.
Also arrested were Babalola Segun Samuel; Opeyemi Gbenga Omoyemi; Okesanya Seyi Matthew; Kareem Kehinde Damilola; Aledegbe Akinola Qodir; Akindele Ayodele Solomon; Adewopo Adesuyi John; Iyiola Dolapo Ridwan and Olabosinde Hammed Adesola.
The 36-year-old Sunday, a graduate of Industrial Chemistry from the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, also runs Helpline Foundation, Special Service Global Trust (S.S.G) Limited, all in Ibadan.
He was said to have been arrested with a 2020 Range Rover HSE Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV).
The EFCC spokesman stated that the suspects were arrested after a series of surveillance and intelligence on their alleged criminal activities.
He informed that items recovered from them include five cars; laptop computers; mobile phones and incriminating documents containing false presences.
Uwujaren added that they will be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded.
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What Arkansas football coach Sam Pittman said about injuries to Jalen Catalon and more
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas football had a physical game against Cincinnati in its opener and came away with injuries to prove it. The No. 23Razorbacks got the 31-24 win, but they lost a few key pieces in the process.
Preseason All-American safety Jalen Catalon left the game with an undisclosed injury. Nickelback Myles Slusher was helped to the locker room after making a hard tackle for loss on Cincinnati's tight end.
Arkansas coach Sam Pittman did not disclose what injuries the two defensive backs had suffered or if they would be back for the Razorbacks’ game against South Carolina (1-0) on Saturday (11 a.m. CT, ESPN).
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"We have no update on Catalon or Slusher," Pittman said Monday. "We really don't know what we're dealing with there."Losing Catalon for an extended period would be a huge blow to an Arkansas secondary that needs improvement in the coming weeks. It would be a personal loss, too, as Catalon missed half of last season with an injury. The Cincinnati game was the first action he saw since Oct. 9, 2021 against Ole Miss.
Slusher moved from safety to nickelback this offseason for the Razorbacks (1-0). Penn State transfer Trent Gordon is behind him on the depth chart. Pittman said beyond that, some other defensive backs could move over to fill in the gaps should Slusher miss games.
Defensive lineman Isaiah Nichols also left the Cincinnati game with an injury, but Pittman said he thinks Nichols will be fine.
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This is along the same lines as her speech. There's barely a word in there worried about falling growth.
This is along the same lines as her speech. There's barely a word in there worried about falling growth.
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There's a fundamental tension in the oil market.
Governments and consumers got used to the idea of $60 oil. To them, it feels like the 'right' price of oil. But oil companies and oil-dependent countries can't prosper (and in many cases survive) with $60 oil.
That's a mismatch that will need to be resolved and it won't be easy. OPEC+ cut quotas today by a token 100,000 barrels per day. Just now the White House White House said it's determined to take every step necessary to shore up energy supplies.
It's easy to blame OPEC but the big hole in global oil production compared to 2019 is from the US. Private producers aren't pumping as much. A new era of capital discipline has replaced the 'drill, baby, drill' mantality as companies are punished by shareholders for unnecessary spending rather than capital returns.
The genesis of the issue is cheap money and unrealistic promises by oil companies. During the shale revolution they promised profitability as cheap as $20 oil and Wall Street responded by throwing near-unlimited amounts of money at drilling. That essentially subsidized energy consumers for a decade.
This is the reckoning.
The problem is that governments and consumers don't realize that and think $60 oil will and should come back. At the end of the day though, it's the producers and companies that hold all the cards. OPEC in particular has a big role to play. If you take their comments at face value, they need to ensure a floor of prices at levels that incentivize enough production to prevent a spike. A year ago I might have thought that was $70-80 but we've seen those levels this year and there's not nearly enough drilling. That's because investors and companies are worried about a terminal decline in the oil industry. ESG has scared off investment.
Now I think the needed level to incentivize production is +$100 but that will require a large transfer of wealth from consumers to oil producers and no one is prepared for that trade off. So governments are fighting it ... and every day that goes by delays the much-needed investments. The irony is that may ultimately lead to oil prices much higher than $100. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/theres-a-fundamental-tension-and-misunderstanding-in-the-oil-market-20220905/ | 2022-09-05T17:50:07Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/theres-a-fundamental-tension-and-misunderstanding-in-the-oil-market-20220905/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Need a job? This firm is hiring in Middlesex County
MONROE – Leading global transport and logistics provider GEODIS plans to hire approximately 125 seasonal workers in the area in preparation for peak season, the company announced.
According to Insider Intelligence, the 2022 peak season is expected to see healthy consumer spending patterns continue after record 2021 holiday sales as global supply chains continue to stabilize. To anticipate demand, GEODIS plans to hire seasonal employees to join its existing workforce of more than 13,000 employees across the United States and Canada.
In total, GEODIS plans to hire approximately 5,000 seasonal workers across 20 campuses.
"With the economic conditions consumers and our clients are facing, it is now more critical than ever that businesses have a trusted third-party logistics partner with the expertise and team to navigate the unexpected," Anthony Jordan, GEODIS in Americas executive vice president and chief operating officer, said in a release. "At GEODIS, we are positioning ourselves to successfully steer through all of today’s supply chain dynamics for our customers."
GEODIS is hiring material handlers and equipment operators this peak season. GEODIS offers competitive pay along with referral bonuses. Additionally, GEODIS offers flexible schedules where feasible, the opportunity to choose between part-time or full-time seasonal work (including weekends and multiple shifts throughout the day to better accommodate work-life balance), an expedited payment option of up to 50% of the total paycheck before pay day through an on-demand program, and free access to telemedicine services on day one.
Along with prioritizing an employee-first work environment, GEODIS offers COVID-safe warehouses featuring socially distant workstations, frequent surface cleaning and extensive use of technology to help deliver ongoing reports within the warehouse to mitigate potential COVID-19 outbreaks. Additionally, GEODIS utilizes innovative technology to supplement its employee training to create a seamless onboarding process.
"At GEODIS, we offer the combination of a safe, collaborative atmosphere and great culture where our people come first,” Jordan said. “Everyone deserves to work in an environment that is positive, supportive and makes them feel valued, and that's what our team and managers continually bring to the table. In addition, our doors are open to those seeking temporary work or even a career. It doesn't matter who you are; all backgrounds are welcome.”
For more information on GEODIS’ seasonal positions, visit www.MyWarehouseJob.com. | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/money/business/2022/09/05/nj-jobs-seasonal-positions-middlesex/65462625007/ | 2022-09-05T17:51:54Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/money/business/2022/09/05/nj-jobs-seasonal-positions-middlesex/65462625007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Fatal shooting in Piscataway under investigation
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PISCATAWAY – Police are investigating after a male was found shot inside a vehicle early Monday and later died at the hospital, announced the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.
Police responded to a call around 4:02 a.m. Monday reporting a male with gunshot wounds inside a vehicle in the area of Aspen Court, according to the prosecutor’s office. The victim was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead, the prosecutor’s office said.
Authorities said they’re investigating the shooting as a homicide and asked anyone with information or surveillance footage of the area to call Piscataway Police Detective Kenneth Buco at 732-562-1100, ext. 2342 or Prosecutor’s Office Detective Ryan Tighe at 732-745-4335. | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/crime/2022/09/05/piscataway-nj-shooting-aspen-court/65473628007/ | 2022-09-05T17:52:00Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/crime/2022/09/05/piscataway-nj-shooting-aspen-court/65473628007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NJ marijuana workforce training coming to Central Jersey colleges
PLAINFIELD – The city is again partnering with Union College to offer a 15-hour training course on how to get entry-level jobs in the state's growing cannabis industry.
The online course, which will be held 6 to 9 p.m. on five Mondays from Sept. 12 to Oct. 10, is the third time the NJ Cannabis Certified program has partnered with Plainfield and the college.
"This historic partnership with the City of Plainfield is really one of a kind," Sarah Trent, founder of NJ Cannabis Certified and owner of Valley Wellness, a medical marijuana dispensary that will open on Route 202 in Raritan Borough in November, said in a news release. "I am not aware of any other municipality that has taken it upon themselves to fund cannabis workforce development training for their residents."
The course covers the human body’s endocannabinoid system, the basics of cannabis cultivation, an introduction to processing, products available in New Jersey and elsewhere, and the procedures working in a New Jersey medical cannabis dispensary and how to assist New Jersey medical marijuana program patients that have qualifying conditions.
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Mayor Adrian Mapp said the partnership with the college is part of Plainfield's revitalization.
"It is vital that as the City of Plainfield welcomes new industries that out residents benefit first," Mapp said in the release. "This means providing the avenue for them to get qualified and prepared to take advantage of opportunities as they become available."
Plainfield, Mapp said, is "experiencing a renaissance unlike anything seen in the past five decades. We are committed to lifting our community as we grow and improve."
The mayor said the city is "grateful" to partner with the college.
The feeling is mutual.
"We are excited to partner with the City of Plainfield and continue our mission to build a trained workforce by preparing students to succeed in New Jersey's rapidly expanding cannabis industry," Lisa R. Hiscano, executive director of Continuing Education and Workforce Development at the college, said in the release.
Cost of the course is $500. Valley Wellness has a limited number of tuition-waiver vouchers for veterans.
While students must be 18 years old to register for the course, most employers in the cannabis industry require workers to be 21 and pass a background test.
Registration can be done online.
Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg will also be offering the NJ Cannabis Certified program at the same time and dates. Cost is also $500. Registration can also be done online.
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'It's historic': Edison welcomes first female firefighters to department
EDISON – The first female firefighters were among 15 sworn into the Edison Fire Department on Thursday during a ceremony at Middlesex College that also including the promotion of 13 firefighters.
Stephanie Kirkpatrick and Cynthia Lewitter were welcomed to the department by Mayor Sam Joshi and fellow firefighters.
“I am so happy,” Kirkpatrick said. “This is a great town and a great place to start my career. I’m proud to be one of the first female firefighters in Edison but at the same time, I want to just be an Edison Firefighter. Period.”
“I am so excited and a little overwhelmed,” Lewitter said. “I worked hard for this and I know I will continue to work hard every day.”
The women join 13 others in the newly hired class which underwent rigorous training and testing before qualifying for the role. Two others, John Sacchi and Marcell Smith, were sworn in earlier this year.
“It’s historic. It’s long overdue," Acting Chief Andrew Toth said about the two women joining the department. "Hiring two female firefighters is a good start towards building a Fire Department that reflects the residents that we serve. In the coming years, we aim to hire more women and those from diverse backgrounds.”
During the ceremony nine existing firefighters were promoted to the rank of captain and four were promoted to battalion chief. The ceremony comes as Joshi’s administration seeks to bolster Edison’s public safety staff while reducing overall costs to taxpayers, township officials said.
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“These new firefighters are wonderful additions to our fire department,” Joshi said. “We hired them to maintain our commitment to public safety while decreasing the department’s budget.”
The new firefighters are filling vacancies created by retirements, Toth said during the ceremony.
Promoted to the rank of battalion chief were Eugene Enfield, Joseph Anselmo, Patrick Novia and Thomas Aszman.
Brian Stauder, Brian Mulhearn, Robert Sawicki, Joseph Toth, Danile Dinuzzo, Daniel Maurath, Peter Yackel, Richard Rodriguez and William Pellegrino were all promoted to the rank of captain.
Also sworn into the title of firefighters were James Eger, Nicholas Campbell, John Mocharski Jr., Anthony Agliata, Tyler Pepe, Jarrett Jeffries, Gary Keefe Jr., Michah White, Richard Kun, Michael Marcinczyk, Anthony Santiago, John Redman and Trey Taylor.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a safe and comfortable way to communicate through a vehicle window without shouting, becoming soaked or risking exposure to airborne germs," said an inventor, from Calhoun Falls, S.C., "so I invented the SHIRLEY SAFETY SYSTEM. My design can be utilized in the drive-through lane or when speaking to anyone outside of the vehicle."
The invention provides an effective way to communicate with others outside a vehicle. In doing so, it eliminates the need to shout through the glass. It also reduces the risk of being exposed to airborne germs and it helps to prevent rain from entering the window. The invention features a safe and convenient design that is easy to use so it is ideal for vehicle owners. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CSK-196, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) - Partly to mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Highs 85 to 90. Trade winds 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight, partly to mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows 70 to 75. Trade winds 10 to 20 mph.
Locally breezy trade winds will deliver an area of showery low clouds today into tonight, fueling an increase in windward showers. Trades will diminish slightly on Tuesday, and may ease further later in the week, delivering periodic clouds and showers to windward areas.
South-facing shore surf will remain low through the week with the continued passage of small, long period background south southwest swells. High swell from storm and gale force wind fetch regions south of New Zealand and the Tasman Sea, respectively, will be directed along the island's south southwest swell window paths today. These larger, medium to long period swells are timed to reach our local waters next weekend and may support near or slightly over head high surf along many south-facing shores. A series of small, medium period north swells from a couple of systems northwest of the state, between the western Aleutians and the International Date Line, will produce minor bumps to late week north-facing shore surf. Near term east wind wave chop will remain slightly elevated under these generally moderate to fresh east trades over and upstream of the islands. There is also a chance that the state could experience an additional weekend east swell generated from eastern Pacific Tropical Cyclone Kay as she moves near parallel to the Baja Peninsula.
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A CVS pharmacy store in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, May 2. Labor Day, which recognizes the many contributions workers have made to the prosperity of the United States, also marks the unofficial end of summer on the first Monday in September.
Labor Day, which recognizes the many contributions workers have made to the prosperity of the United States, also marks the unofficial end of summer on the first Monday in September.
Many Americans across the country will be celebrating the long weekend, but it can be confusing to figure out what will be open and closed to observe the holiday on Monday, September 5.
Here are the businesses and institutions that will be open and closed.
Retailers
Most major retailers, including Walmart, Target, CVS and major grocery stores like Kroger and Trader Joe's will be open. Notably, wholesale retailer Costco will be closed Monday. Make sure to check in with local businesses to see if they'll be closed in observance of the holiday.
Government
Federal offices, government buildings and post offices will be closed Monday. State and local courts and DMV offices will not be operating.
Financial institutions
Labor Day is a bank holiday, so most banks will be closed — however, online banking and ATMs will be available for use. The stock market will not be trading — the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will be dark.
Post office
USPS will be closed on Monday. UPS also will not be operating, but its Express Critical services will be available. While most of FedEx's services will be closed, its Custom Critical service will also be operating. | https://www.kitv.com/news/top-stories/labor-day-2022-whats-open-whats-closed/article_3aebb87b-9b2d-5747-9fda-f230bf3d34fc.html | 2022-09-05T17:53:35Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/top-stories/labor-day-2022-whats-open-whats-closed/article_3aebb87b-9b2d-5747-9fda-f230bf3d34fc.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For a city in the desert, water conservation must be a way of life. But amid a prolonged megadrought that has depleted water resources across the Southwest, the need to save every drop has intensified in Southern Nevada.
Las Vegas knows the stakes are high, and it isn't gambling on Mother Nature to solve its water problems.
Instead, the city is betting on extreme water-saving measures to keep the taps flowing. Here's how it intends to win.
Bet 1: Banning mega-pools
Las Vegans are no longer allowed to build giant swimming pools or spas at single-family homes.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority says there's been a proliferation of giant pools -- some larger than 3,000 square feet -- in recent years. The new building code limits new pools to no more than 600 square feet -- a move the Las Vegas Valley Water District says will save more than 32 million gallons of water over the next decade. The average pool size in southern Nevada is 470 square feet.
The idea was to prevent people from building pools that were more like "water features" at some homes, rather than recreational swimming pools, said Bronson Mack, public outreach officer for the Water Authority, which manages water resources for 2.2 million people including Las Vegas.
"A lot of these more affluent homes, they're not even occupied year-round," Mack told CNN. "And yet they have all of this water in their backyard."
Bet 2: Reclaiming all indoor water for reuse
Most of the Water Authority's conservation efforts focus on outdoor water. But indoor water can be recycled.
"Water that we used indoors all gets reclaimed," Mack said. "We treat that water to clean water standards, then return it to Lake Mead, our primary water source. Every gallon that we return to Lake Mead allows us to take another gallon out of the lake without counting against our limited water allocation."
According to the Water Authority, only 10% of its water comes from local groundwater. The other 90% comes from the Colorado River's Lake Mead, the largest man-made reservoir in the country, which continues to fall to record lows. In April, the Water Authority had to decommission one of the original intake valves in the lake because the water level had fallen so low.
And in August, the federal government enacted a Tier 2 shortage, which will limit the amount of water southern Nevada can pull from Lake Mead beginning in January by about 8.1 billion gallons a year.
Yet, on the Las Vegas Strip, glasses of water may still be served to restaurant customers since all that water will be recycled.
"Even if you don't drink that glass of water ... they're going to dump that down the drain, and all of that water gets reclaimed," Mack said, noting this practice began in the 1950s. "That dish is going to go through the dishwasher -- all of the dishwasher water gets reclaimed and recycled back to Lake Mead."
Bet 3: Keeping the Vegas Strip water-savvy
As for the Strip, the economic engine of southern Nevada, Mack said the region's resort, casino and hotel sector is not as water-wasteful as it seems, despite its reputation for excess.
Mack said it only uses 5% of the community's total water supply, while also making up its largest employment base, supporting some 40 million visitors a year.
There are also limitations on swimming pool size for the resorts based on the number of hotel rooms and guests they serve.
"We could turn on every shower and every sink in every hotel room on the Las Vegas Strip, and it wouldn't increase the amount of water we deplete from the Colorado River because all of that gets cycled back through our wastewater system, gets treated and returned to Lake Mead," Mack explained.
As for the Las Vegas strip's iconic fountains? They lose a lot of water to evaporation. According to the Water Authority, the fountain at the Bellagio is fed from a privately owned groundwater well and doesn't use water from the Colorado River. But it estimates those outdoor water features can lose 48 gallons of water per square foot a year to evaporation -- in a place where every drop counts.
The canals in the Venetian Resort recirculate their water, which does come from Colorado River. However, since the water is used indoors it can be reclaimed, Mack said.
As the climate crisis intensifies and water resources decline, the Las Vegas Valley Water District is considering a ban on all new ornamental water features at resort hotels, unless the feature is completely indoors and supplied by a privately owned water source.
Bet 4: Tearing out 'nonfunctional' grass
Grass has been a major focus for conservation efforts in Las Vegas -- especially grass that tends to be "nonfunctional," or is merely ornamental, on medians, in front of commercial buildings and even in front yards.
Since April, the Las Vegas Valley Water District has banned grass and spray-irrigation systems at all new properties. Schools, parks and cemeteries are exempt. Single-family homes built after 2003 are prohibited from having grass in front yards and limited on how much they can have in side and back yards.
"We have removed more than 200 million square feet of grass from this valley, but there's still about that much grass that remains," Mack said.
While getting rid of grass has been more widely embraced by homeowners, businesses have been slower to adapt. However, in 2021 the Nevada legislature passed a law that bans irrigating nonfunctional grass with water from the Colorado River.
SNWA estimates the grass law will ultimately save 10% of its total water supply.
"That's more water than is consumed by the entire Las Vegas Strip," Mack said, explaining that it takes 73 gallons of water per square foot every year to keep grass alive in the Mojave Desert. But drip-irrigated and drought-tolerant landscaping only requires 18 gallons per square foot a year.
Watering grass "is the least efficient way" we can use water, Mack said.
Bet 5: Strict irrigation schedules year-round
The Water Authority also has a rotating watering schedule based on the time of the year.
As of September 1, outdoor watering is limited to three assigned days a week for the fall. On November 1, the winter schedule drops to one day a week before going back to three days for the spring, beginning March 1.
In the summer months, watering is permitted six days a week starting May 1, but never during the hottest time of day -- between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. -- when the water is prone to evaporation in the desert heat.
Watering is always scheduled by neighborhood and is never permitted on Sunday.
Bet 6: Identifying water wasters
Since everyone in a community is on the same watering schedule, it makes it easy to identify the people and businesses flouting the rules.
The Water Authority has water waste investigators who will contact property owners, highlight the waste and give them a chance to fix the issue. If the problem isn't addressed, the owners will be fined, starting at $80 and then doubling for every subsequent violation.
Mack said there's still water waste happening daily, but the water authority has enforced these rules for about a decade.
"We had to be early adopters of that kind of activity," Mack said.
Bet 7: Taking advantage of Mother Nature
When Mother Nature makes it rain, Las Vegas goes all in.
This summer, Las Vegas was hit with a couple of monsoonal rain storms that helped ease some of the region's drought, but also left incredible damage in their wake. It only took a couple inches of rain for water to pour into casinos on the Strip.
Much of that storm water gets funneled into the Las Vegas Wash which flows out to Lake Mead. But even though it was a lot of water all at once, Lake Mead is huge, and it may only increase the lake level by fractions of an inch, Mack said.
What's most important when it does rain in the Las Vegas Valley, Mack explained, is getting customers to shut their irrigation off.
During one week of extreme rain in August, the community turned off its irrigation systems and some of its air conditioning systems, which also use water.
"That collectively saved about 250 million gallons of water," Mack said. "Saving water is desert living and we are in the middle of the Mojave Desert. Our community has been a city in the desert and now we are finally becoming a desert city."
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A Florida man was arrested Saturday after allegedly stalking a 6-year-old girl, telling her he would make her famous and turn her into a “big girl” as she played outside, authorities said.
Mark Greenburg, 55, of Deltona, is accused of at least 11 incidents over the past eight months in which he harassed neighbors, yelled at them and their kids with a megaphone, and drove past houses while recording children on his phone, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said.
In one incident, a father told deputies that Greenburg walked to the end of a driveway where his 6-year-old daughter was playing and made unusual comments, allegedly saying, “I’m going to make you famous” and “I’m going to turn you into a woman” or a “big girl.”
Several witnesses gave deputies similar accounts of Greenburg’s comments to the child, including that he said he was going to pick her up and take her to Disney World, the sheriff’s office said.
The girl’s father said Greenburg’s comments had gotten progressively worse and more frequent and that his daughter was afraid to go outside, according to deputies.
On Thursday and Friday, Greenburg was seen taking pictures outside the girl’s grandmother’s house in another neighborhood where she often visits, the sheriff’s office said.
The family believed Greenburg followed someone there because he has never been invited there and had no reason to know where the grandmother lives.
Deputies attempted to speak with Greenburg on Friday evening but said he refused to answer the door and told them he would talk another day.
Deputies obtained a warrant and took Greenburg into custody without incident on Saturday.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Shyheim Brown blocked LSU's extra-point attempt with no time left to give Florida State a 24-23 victory Sunday night, spoiling Brian Kelly's debut as Tigers coach.
Despite a slew of mistakes including a muffed punt with 2:15 left, LSU came within the extra point of tying it in the wild finish.
Florida State's Treshaun Ward fumbled at the LSU 1 with 1:20 to go, and Tigers quarterback Jayden Daniels drove LSU for a touchdown on a 2-yard pass to Jaray Jenkins with no time left.
With LSU fans celebrating an apparent two-touchdown comeback in the final 4:07 — and Florida State fans bracing themselves for what could have gone down as an infamous implosion — Brown deflected Damian Ramos' kick, touching off a Florida State celebration during which players wildly rushed the field.
Jordan Travis passed for 260 yards and two touchdowns for Florida State.
Travis' scoring passes came on a 39-yard throw to Ontaria Wilson on a flea flicker and a 27-yard pass that Wilson corralled with one hand while being interfered with. Travis also rushed for 31 yards on a combination of designed runs and scrambles, repeatedly leaving LSU pass rushers grasping air as he spun or darted away from pressure.
Tens of thousands garnet and gold-clad spectators helped sell-out the Superdome, virtually negating what could have been a home advantage for LSU in a game played just 80 miles from its Baton Rouge campus. And they left happy after Florida State (2-0) — coming off four straight losing seasons — prolonged a promising start to coach Mike Norvell's third season in charge.
This game was arguably more meaningful to Norvell than Kelly, who was lured from Notre Dame with a decade-long, $100 million contract designed to give him time to remake LSU football in his image. Kelly's staff includes only one assistant from last season, while 16 transfer players were brought in to patch up a roster in flux.
One of those transfers was former Arizona State QB Jayden Daniels, who started after a tight competition in camp with Garrett Nussmeier. He completed 26 of 35 passes for 209 yards and two TDS, both to Jenkins. Daniels also rushed for 114 yards.
Another transfer, running back Noah Cain (from Penn State), scored LSU's first TD from a yard out on fourth down late in the third quarter to make it 17-10.
Travis marched the Seminoles right back to the end zone, highlighted by a 15-yard completion to Johnny Wilson as the elusive QB jumped away from closing defenders. DJ Lundy finished the drive with a 1-yard TD run to make it 24-10 with 9:04 to go.
LSU took its only lead, at 3-0, on its first possession. But that drive stalled shortly after first-year center Garrett Dellinger's shotgun snap over Daniels' head on second and goal from the FSU 5.
Florida State's lead was just 7-3 at halftime after both teams blew red-zone opportunities.
LSU's line didn't look ready when the ball was snapped on a field goal attempt, and Jared Varse knifed in past left tackle Cameron Wire to block Damian Ramos' kick.
The Seminoles couldn't cash in on Malik Nabers first of two muffed punts, which FSU recovered on the LSU 16. Norvell kept the offense on the field on fourth and 2 from the 8, and Travis' pass to the far corner of the end zone fell incomplete.
TAKEAWAY
Florida State: Travis' numbers could have been better if not for some key drops. His combination of scrambling and passing ability gave LSU's defense fits that showed up more in the Seminoles' 392 net yards than in the final score. But the Seminoles inability to put away a game in which they were the superior team will have to be fixed.
LSU: The offensive line remains a work in progress and at times looked like a liability in the Tigers' opener. Daniels was the Tigers leading rusher by 91 yards. Meanwhile, LSU might have to find a punt returner other than Nabers. LSU was fortunate that the Seminoles squandered both of his muffs.
INJURIES
LSU: Starting defensive end Maason Smith left the game in the first quarter with a left knee injury. His knee appeared to buckle as he came down awkwardly from hopping near when the tackle was made.
EJECTED
LSU lost a second defensive end when Ali Gaye was ejected for a targeting foul against Travis as the QB released a his touchdown pass in the third quarter.
NEXT UP
Florida State: Visits Louisville to open its ACC slate on Sept. 16.
LSU: Hosts Southern on Saturday night.
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Elsa Avila slid to her phone, terrified as she held the bleeding side of her abdomen and tried to stay calm for her students. In a text to her family that she meant to send to fellow Uvalde teachers, she wrote: “I’m shot.”
For the first time in 30 years, Avila will not be going back to school as classes resume Tuesday in the small, southeast Texas town. The start of school will look different for her, as for other survivors of the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in which 21 people died, with an emphasis on healing, both physically and mentally. Some have opted for virtual education, others for private school. Many will return to Uvalde school district campuses, though Robb Elementary itself will not ever reopen.
“I’m trying to make sense of everything,” Avila said in an August interview, “but it is never going to make sense.”
A scar down her torso brings her to tears as a permanent reminder of the horror she endured with her 16 students as they waited in their classroom for an hour for help while a gunman slaughtered 19 children and two teachers in two adjoining classrooms nearby.
Minutes before she felt the sharp pain of the bullet piercing her intestine and colon, Avila was motioning students away from the walls and windows and closer to her. A student lined up by the door for recess had just told her something was going on outside: People were running — and screaming. As she slammed the classroom door so the lock would catch, her students took their well-practiced lockdown positions.
Moments later, a gunman stormed into their fourth-grade wing and began spraying bullets before ultimately making his way into rooms 111 and 112.
In room 109, Avila repeatedly texted for help, according to messages reviewed by The Associated Press. First at 11:35 a.m. in the text to her family that she says was meant for the teacher group chat. Then at 11:38 in a message to the school’s vice principal. At 11:45 she responded to a text from the school's counselor asking if her classroom was in lockdown with: “I’m shot, send help.” And when the principal assured her that help was on the way, she replied simply: “Help.”
“Yes they are coming,” the principal wrote back at 11:48 a.m.
It's unclear whether her messages were relayed to police. District officials did not respond to requests for comment on actions taken to communicate with law enforcement on May 24, and an attorney for then-Principal Mandy Gutierrez was not available for comment.
According to a legislative committee's report that described a botched police response, nearly 400 local, state and federal officers stood in the hallway of the fourth-grade wing and outside the building for 77 minutes before finally entering the adjoining classrooms and killing the gunman. Lawmakers also found a relaxed approach to lockdowns — which happened often — and security concerns, including issues with door locks. State and federal investigations into the shooting are continuing.
The district is working to complete new security measures, and the school board in August fired the district's police chief, Pete Arredondo. Residents say it remains unclear how — or even if — trust between the community and officials can be rebuilt even as some call for more accountability, better police training and stricter gun safety laws.
Avila recalls hearing the ominous bursts of rapid fire, then silence, then the voices of officers in the hallway yelling, “Crossfire!” and later more officers standing nearby.
“But still nobody came to help us,” she said.
As Avila lay motionless, unable to speak loud enough to be heard, some of her students nudged and shook her. She wished for the strength to tell them she was still alive.
A light flashed into their window, but nobody identified themselves. Scared it might be the gunman, the students moved away.
“The little girls closest to me kept patting me and telling me, ‘It’s going to be OK miss. We love you miss,’” Avila said.
Finally, at 12:33 p.m. a window in her classroom broke. Officers arrived to evacuate her students — the last to be let out in the area, according to Avila.
With her remaining strength, Avila pulled herself up and helped usher students onto chairs and tables and through the window. Then, clutching her side, she told an officer she was too weak to jump herself. He came through the window to pull her out.
“I never saw my kids again. I know they climbed out the window and I could just hear them telling them, `Run, run, run!’” Avila said.
She remembers being taken to the airport, where a helicopter flew her to a San Antonio hospital. She was in and out of care until June 18.
Avila later learned that a student in her class was injured by shrapnel to the nose and mouth but had since been released from medical care. She said other students helped their injured classmates until officers arrived.
“I am very proud of them because they were able to stay calm for a whole hour that we were in there terrified,” Avila said.
As her students prepare to return to school for the first time since that traumatic day, Avila is on the way to recovery, walking up to eight minutes at a time on the treadmill in physical therapy and going to counseling. She looks forward to teaching again someday.
Outside of a shuttered Robb Elementary, a memorial for the people killed overflows at the entrance gate. Teachers from across Texas stopped throughout the summer to pay their respects and reflect on what they would do in the same situation.
“If I survive, I have to make sure they survive first,” said Olga Oglin, an educator of 23 years from Dallas, her voice breaking.
“Whatever happens to a student at our school, it just happens to one of my kids,” Olgin said, adding that she as the first person to greet parents, students and staff at the door in the mornings, she likely would be the first person shot.
Ofelia Loyola, who teaches elementary school in San Antonio, visited with her husband, middle school teacher Raul Loyola. She was baffled at the delayed response from law enforcement on May 24, as seen on security and police video.
“They are all kids. It doesn’t matter how old they are, you protect them,” she said.
Last week, Avila and several of her students met for the end-of-year party they were unable to have in May. They played in the pool at a country club and she gave them each a bracelet with a little cross to remind them that “God was with us that day and they are not alone,” she said.
“We always talked about being kind, being respectful, taking care of each other — and they were able to do that on that day,” Avila said.
“They took care of each other. They took care of me.”
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Moon Landrieu, a transformational New Orleans mayor who helped usher in the rise of Black political power at City Hall and whose passion for public service spawned a political dynasty, died Monday morning at his home in New Orleans, his family told our media partners at The Advocate/Times Picayune. He was 92.
A state legislator and City Council member during the tumultuous end of government-sanctioned segregation, Landrieu ascended to the mayor’s office in 1970 in part by promising to make jobs and other opportunities available to Black New Orleanians, the newspapers report.
He oversaw the completion of the Superdome and the reshaping of the Central Business District as skyscrapers and major hotels took root. And before moving on to a Cabinet post in President Jimmy Carter's administration and later to a state appeals court judgeship, he handed the keys to an integrated City Hall in 1978 to New Orleans’ first Black mayor, Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial, starting a succession of African-American leaders interrupted only by his son, Mitch, who took office in 2010, the newspapers report.
Landrieu's daughter, Mary, was a U.S. Senator.
Here's what the governor had to say:
“Moon Landrieu was a courageous and defining voice for Louisiana and his beloved hometown of New Orleans. As a newly-elected member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, he was the only member to vote against a 1960 bill that sought to defy federal integration orders. He served with unwavering integrity throughout his long and storied career of public service — especially as mayor of New Orleans, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and judge for the Louisiana Court of Appeal. Moon was never afraid to be the man in the arena, and it’s because of his bold vision that we and millions of annual visitors are able to enjoy the iconic landscape of New Orleans as we know it today. In addition to his many contributions to our state and nation, he leaves behind the most enduring legacy of all – a family that continues his fight for equality. Donna and I are praying for his wife of nearly sixty-eight years, Verna, and all of his loving children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.”
Governor Edwards has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff on the day of the funeral.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday granted a request by former President Donald Trump’s legal team to appoint a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home last month and also temporarily halted the Justice Department’s use of the records for investigative purposes.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon came despite the objections of the Justice Department, which said an outside legal expert was not necessary in part because officials had already completed their review of potentially privileged documents. The judge had previously signaled her inclination to approve a special master, asking a department lawyer during arguments this month, “What is the harm?”
The appointment is likely to slow the pace of the department’s investigation into the presence of top-secret information at Mar-a-Lago given the judge’s directive that the Justice Department may not for the moment use any of the seized materials for investigative purposes. But it is not clear that it will have any significant effect on any investigative decisions or the ultimate outcome of the probe.
Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump in 2020, said she would permit the continuation of a risk assessment of the documents being conducted by the U.S. intelligence community.
Trump’s lawyers had argued that a special master — usually an outside lawyer or former judge — was necessary to ensure an independent review of records taken during the Aug. 8 search. Such a review was necessary, they have said, so that any personal information or documents recovered by the FBI could be filtered out and returned to Trump and so that any documents protected by attorney-client privilege or executive privilege could also be segregated from the rest of the investigation.
The Justice Department had argued against the appointment, saying it was unnecessary since it had already reviewed potentially privileged documents and identified a limited subset of materials that could be covered by attorney-client privilege.
It also said Trump was not entitled to the return of any of the presidential records that were taken since he is no longer president and the documents therefore do not belong to him. And personal items that were recovered were commingled with classified information, giving them potential value as evidence, the department has said. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/judge-grants-trump-bid-for-special-master-in-document-search | 2022-09-05T18:06:34Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/judge-grants-trump-bid-for-special-master-in-document-search | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Fans of The Weekend were left disappointed on Saturday after the singer stopped his show, mid-performance.
The singer was performing at SoFi Stadium when he stopped and told his fans that he couldn't go on because he lost his voice.
"This is killing me, I don't want to stop the show but I can't give you the concert I want to give you right now," The Weekend said.
In videos posted online, fans could be heard booing and yelling as The Weekend was apologizing.
The singer said he would make sure everyone got their money back. He added that he would return to Los Angeles to put on a show.
"I'm so sorry," he said. "I love you guys so much."
Late Saturday night, The Weekend tweeted, "My voice went out during the first song and I'm devastated. Felt it go out and my heart dropped."
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By Brian K. Sullivan and Joe Ryan | Bloomberg
California’s power grid will be pushed to near its limit Monday as the state wilts under a blistering and sustained heat wave.
With millions of homes and businesses cranking air conditioners to cope with temperatures above 110 degrees Fahrenheit, electricity use in the largest US state is forecast to hit 48.9 gigawatts Monday, the most since 2017. The state’s grid operator has asked residents to conserve as much as possible, warning the system could be short up to 4 gigawatts.
“California has been ridiculously hot and will be hot for a good part of the week,” Bob Oravec, a senior branch forecaster with the US Weather Prediction Center, said in an interview.
The prospect of blackouts underscores how grids have become vulnerable in the face of extreme weather as they transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. California has aggressively closed natural-gas power plants in recent years, leaving the state increasingly dependent on solar farms that go dark late in the day as demand for electricity peaks. At the same time, the state is enduring its worst drought in 1,200 years, sapping hydropower production.
Much of California is under an excessive heat warning for the next four days. Sacramento could reach 113 on Monday and 115 on Tuesday shattering records for those days, Oravec said. Downtown Los Angeles reached 103 on Sunday, which was the first time the temperature broke 100 this year.
The heat wave, which began the last week of August, is remarkable for both its ferocity and duration, officials said.
Each day the heat drags on, the risk of power failures rise. Searing temperatures seep into concrete over time, making it increasingly difficult to cool buildings. And the longer power plants run full tilt, the more likely they are to break down.
A grid emergency watch is in effect for Monday night. Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued an emergency proclamation to free up extra power supplies.
The fight to keep power flowing in California is complicated by wildfires near Los Angeles and San Diego that are threatening transmission lines and power plants, though there had been no major interruptions as of Sunday afternoon, according to Elliot Mainzer, chief executive officer of the California Independent System Operator, which runs the state’s grid.
A break from the heat will come across Southern California later this week, thanks to Tropical Storm Kay in the Pacific Ocean, Oravec said.
Kay, set to become a hurricane later this week, is forecast to edge up the coastline of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. As it moves north, the storm will pump moisture and clouds into Southern California and Arizona, taking an edge off the heat.
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Editor’s note: This is the Monday Sept. 5 edition of the “Game Day with Kevin Modesti” newsletter. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here.
Good morning and happy Labor Day. I can’t let the weekend go by without highlighting perhaps the single finest athletic performance of the year in Southern California.
First, headlines:
- Columnist Mirjam Swanson kicked off Week 1 in the NFL with a prediction the Rams might (or might not) want to hear.
- Andy Ruiz Jr. beat Luiz Ortiz at Crypto Arena, and here’s what could be next for the heavyweight from Imperial County.
- The Dodgers clinched the season series over the Padres, cutting their magic number to nine.
- The Angels lost but went 6-3 in consecutive series with the Blue Jays, Yankees and Astros.
- Javier Hernandez made “the wrong decision” on a last-minute penalty kick, his coach said, costing the Galaxy a win.
- LAFC’s losing streak is over.
- And we have day-after reports on opening-game winners USC and UCLA, and looks at what’s next for the Trojans and Bruins.
Now, let’s talk about Flightline’s 19¼-length victory in the Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Saturday. You can read coverage by Art Wilson for our papers here. Also stories by Bill Center for the San Diego Union-Tribune here, John Cherwa for the Los Angeles Times here, Tracy Gantz for Blood-Horse magazine here, and Jay Privman for the Daily Racing Form here.
Horse racing can be mystifying to many sports fans, but the ways handicappers and historians assess horses aren’t much different from the way we assess human athletes and teams. The questions asked include: What have they won? Who have they beaten? How did they look doing it? What do the numbers say? What kind of respect do opponents show?
Flightline’s performance at Del Mar, his fifth emphatic win in five career races over 16 months, demonstrates that the 4-year-old colt is at least as good as the best American thoroughbreds of the 2000s.
• He already has three victories in Grade I stakes, the most prestigious North American races. That’s something that even few Triple Crown stars achieve in their first five starts. The $1 million Pacific Classic is one of the sport’s heavyweight contests, for 3-year-olds and up, and Flightline won it like Mike Tyson in his prime.
(Flightline missed the Triple Crown races because he didn’t race for the first time until a week before the Kentucky Derby of his 3-year-old season. This is the main reason he isn’t as well-known as he could be.)
• The field he beat at Del Mar included no less than Country Grammer, winner of this year’s $12 million Dubai World Cup and runner-up in the $20 million Saudi Cup, the world’s richest thoroughbred races.
Flightline toyed with the best horses he has faced, in a 1¼-mile race that had been seen as a test of his ability to race around two turns.
• Taking the lead on the backstretch, leaving opponents far back in the haze on the turn for home, he evoked memories of no less than Secretariat in the 1973 Belmont Stakes moving (all together now) like a tremendous machine.
“Take a good look at this, ‘cause you’re not going to see this too often, maybe never again,” Del Mar announcer Trevor Denman told fans as Flightline raced alone past the grandstand. You can take a good look here.
• Looks can be deceiving, so what do numbers say?
Horse bettors have been doing analytics longer than baseball and other sports. The key racing numbers are speed figures, sort of an equine equivalent of baseball’s OPS+. The most-quoted speed figures, the ones popularized by former Washington Post racing writer Andy Beyer, awarded Flightline a figure (126) for the Pacific Classic win that’s the highest recorded on a dry track in North America since 1997.
• I said one factor in assessing an athlete is the respect shown by opponents. Are they so deferential that they try to steer clear of facing him? This is the unanswered question about Flightline, whose next start should come in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland, in Kentucky, on Saturday, Nov. 5.
With big money to be won in the Classic – even for the owners of horses who run second, third and so on – Racing Form writer David Grening reported East Coast trainers still plan to challenge Flightline.
So the challenge of proving Flightline to be one of the great modern American thoroughbreds goes on for trainer John Sadler, jockey Flavien Prat and the horse himself.
But so far, so … well, “good” doesn’t really do him justice, does it?
Art Wilson tweeted that Flightline’s Pacific Classic was the “most dominating performance I’ve witnessed in person.” That’s saying something, because Art has been going to the races since 1971.
TODAY
• Angels open a home series against the Tigers (6:38 p.m., BSW). There’s one month left in theregular season and Shohei Ohtani’s battle with the Yankees’ Aaron Judge for AL MVP.
• Dodgers and Giants (7:10 p.m., SNLA) have played lots of classic series in September. Not this September,with San Francisco 27½ games behind L.A.
• Angel City FC takes on the Mexico women’s national team in Copa Angelina at Banc of California Stadium (6 p.m., TUDN). Preview.
• Galaxy II, one point out of a USL playoff spot with sevengames to play, hosts Hartford Athletic in Carson (7:30 p.m., ESPN+).
• Del Mar’s 10-race Labor Day card (1 p.m.) features two minor stakes. Juan Hernandez, leading the jockey standings, rides favorite BigHopes in the Generous Portion.
READERS RESPOND
I asked college football fans how their views of USC or UCLA – or both – changed after the teams’ season-opening wins.
Tom Burns emailed with high praise for new USC coach Lincoln Riley: “Riley has the opportunity to join the ranks of coaches (John) McKay, (John) Robinson and (Pete) Carroll. (Saturday) was a good start in that direction. Rebuilding the Trojans is a huge task (but) eliminating dumb penalties, moving the ball and basic fundamentals will carry the day.”
NEXT QUESTION
Who’s the greatest racehorse in your lifetime? Email responses to KModesti@scng.com. I’ll print the best of them.
WELL-WISHES
Speaking of horse racing, happy retirement to Jay Privman, national correspondent for the Daily Racing Form. Jay’s farewell column recalls his beginnings at the Los Angeles Daily News.
280 CHARACTERS
The benefit of not being a fan of any team…. you can get excited/nervous about every game.
— James H. Williams covers UCLA football (@JHWreporter) September 5, 2022
– James Williams (@JHWreporter) while watching LSU score with :00 on the clock only to have Florida State block the PAT kick to save a one-point win last night.
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DELTONA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida man was arrested Saturday after a father reported he repeatedly catcalled his daughter and harassed neighbors over a period of several months.
According to a post on the Volusia Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, Mark Greenburg, 55, was arrested in Deltona on a warrant for aggravated stalking. Deputies sought the warrant after the girl’s father claimed Greenburg walked to his driveway and made several inappropriate comments toward the girl as she played outside.
Deputies said the alleged comments included “words to the effect of ‘I’m going to make you famous’ and ‘I’m going to turn you into a woman’ or a ‘big girl.'” Several witnesses reportedly corroborated the story, with some claiming Greenburg said he was “going to pick her up and take her to Disney World.”
“The arrest followed a series of complaints from close to a dozen witnesses who have reported his behavior, including at least 11 incidents reported to the Sheriff’s Office over the past 8 months,” the sheriff’s office wrote. They said these alleged incidents include Greenburg yelling at his neighbors with a megaphone and filming their children playing outside.
The father reportedly told deputies that the alleged harassment was getting progressively worse and his daughter is now afraid to go outside. The family said they suspect Greenburg followed the girl to her grandmother’s house, where he allegedly parked outside twice in two days and took photos.
Deputies said they attempted to contact Greenburg on Friday, but he refused. They then obtained a warrant for his arrest. Greenburg faces charges of aggravated stalking of a person under 16. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/im-going-to-turn-you-into-a-woman-florida-man-55-accused-of-stalking-6-year-old-girl/ | 2022-09-05T18:08:12Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/im-going-to-turn-you-into-a-woman-florida-man-55-accused-of-stalking-6-year-old-girl/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a nation-leading measure that promises to give more than a half-million fast food workers more power and protections.
Restaurant owners opposed Assembly Bill 257, warning it would drive up consumers’ costs.
The new law will create a new 10-member Fast Food Council with equal numbers of workers’ delegates and employers’ representatives, along with two state officials, empowered to set minimum standards for wages, hours and working conditions in California.
A late amendment capped any minimum wage increase for fast food workers at chains with more than 100 restaurants at $22 an hour next year, compared with the statewide minimum of $15.50 an hour, with cost of living increases thereafter.
“California is committed to ensuring that the men and women who have helped build our world-class economy are able to share in the state’s prosperity,” Newsom said Monday. “Today’s action gives hardworking fast-food workers a stronger voice and seat at the table to set fair wages and critical health and safety standards across the industry.”
Last week, the bill got full approval from legislators in Sacramento. A labor movement fighting for union status among fast food workers hailed the signature Monday.
“We look forward to having a say in creating safe and healthy workplaces across the fast-food industry and to AB 257 serving as a model for workers across the country who desperately need a seat at the table, ” said Anneisha Williams, a Los Angeles fast-food worker and leader in the Fight for $15 and a Union.
Co-author and Los Angeles Assemblymember Miguel Santiago on Monday said the measure would create “a system of fairness and respect for over 550,000 frontline fast-food workers throughout California while ensuring fast food businesses continue to thrive.”
Last week, almost every Republican senator spoke in opposition, including Sen. Brian Dahle, who also is the Republican nominee for governor in November.
“This is a stepping stone to unionize all these workers. At the end of the day, it’s going to drive up the cost of the products that they serve,” Dahle said. He added: “There are no slaves that work for California businesses, period. You can quit any day you want and you can go get a job someplace else if you don’t like your employer.”
Restaurant owners and franchisers cited an analysis they commissioned by the UC Riverside Center for Economic Forecast and Development saying that the legislation would increase consumers’ costs. Newsom’s administration also feared the measure would create “a fragmented regulatory and legal environment.”
A competing study commissioned by the union movement said California’s fast-food workers are paid nearly $3 an hour less — or nearly $6,000 less a year — than workers in comparable service-sector jobs across the state.
The wage debate has drawn attention nationwide, including on Capitol Hill where Democratic U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna has expressed hope it will trigger similar efforts elsewhere.
It’s “one of the most significant pieces of employment legislation passed in a generation,” said Columbia Law School labor law expert Kate Andrias. She called it “a huge step forward for some of the most vulnerable workers in the country, giving them a collective voice in their working conditions.”
The bill grew out of a union movement to boost the minimum wage.
International Franchise Association President and CEO Matthew Haller countered that the legislation “is a discriminatory measure aimed to target the franchise business model to bolster union ranks.”
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(The Hill) – A boy who went viral for his effusive praise of corn was invited to South Dakota’s “Corn Palace” and named the state’s official “Corn-Bassador” over the weekend.
The state’s Department of Tourism welcomed “Corn Kid” Tariq — whose commentary on corn in a Recess Therapy video was turned into a viral TikTok audio — to “the World’s Only Corn Palace” in Mitchell, South Dakota.
In the viral video, 7-year-old Tariq says that when he tried corn with butter, “everything changed.”
He famously described the vegetable as “a big lump with knobs” and juice. “I can’t imagine a more beautiful thing,” Tariq said in the interview.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) issued a proclamation rife with puns and references to Tariq’s viral video — declaring Sept. 3 as “Official Corn-bassador Tariq Day.”
“South Dakota is one of the top corn producers in the nation, providing nourishment to people across the globe but especially to Tariq, a 7-year-old boy who recently discovered that corn was real,” Noem noted in her declaration.
“Since being told that corn was real, Tariq believes wholeheartedly it tastes good, especially with butter; and… Tariq’s determination that corn is “awesome” and “a big lump with knobs (and) juice” has led him to be unable to imagine a more beautiful thing.”
Per local media, Tariq will also receive a scholarship to learn about South Dakota’s agrotourism industry. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/south-dakota-news/south-dakota-names-viral-corn-kid-its-official-corn-bassador/ | 2022-09-05T18:08:58Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/south-dakota-news/south-dakota-names-viral-corn-kid-its-official-corn-bassador/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Wrightsville Beach sees high number of rip current rescues
Published: Sep. 5, 2022 at 10:25 AM EDT|Updated: 4 hours ago
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C. (WECT) - The National Weather Service released information regarding a high number of rip current rescues performed on Sept. 4.
Per their report, the Wrightsville Beach Ocean Rescue performed 15-20 rip current rescues on Sunday.
According to the NWS, many beaches in southeastern North Carolina, including Wrightsville Beach, were at at moderate risk for rip currents on Sept. 5. Beachgoers are advised to pay attention to flag warning systems and to heed the advice of lifeguards and beach patrol.
For more information, please visit the National Weather Service website.
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Darrius Jackson had the highlight offensively for ECC with a 54 yard catch from Joshua Bauer in the first quarter. That catch was the lone score for the Panthers.
What was a manageable game for Ellsworth Community College quickly turned into a rout.
The Panthers were hanging with the third-ranked team in the nation the first 20 minutes. Only, midway through the second stanza the momentum shifted and Hutchinson Community College caught all the waves – running away with a 70-7 victory.
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2023: PDP should team up to deliver Nigerians from penury ― Aeroland
• As he inaugurates 5000 zonal Coordinators for Lagos West
Senatorial candidate for Lagos West on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Otunba Segun Adewale popularly called Aeroland has charged stakeholders and members of the party to team up ahead of the 2023 General Elections and deliver Nigerians, from abject penury mode pervading the country.
Adewale made the call while inaugurating 5000 Aero 2023 Campaign Coordinators, which took place during the PDP parley held in Alimosho to x-rayed the electoral potentials of the party and their ultimate target as well as galvanize and articulate winning strategies ahead of the lifting of the embargo placed on party campaigns.
The PDP senatorial candidate, who sadly noted that he had been robbed of the people given mandates twice and, therefore, not leaving anything to chances any longer, said by coming together, a lot of things would be fixed through contact with those that “have not been recognised hitherto” both at the wards and zonal levels.
According to Adewale, PDP has a membership strength of close to half a million in Lagos West Senatorial District, saying getting the votes of just 200,000 of them in the district alone was enough for the party to win elections.
“Let’s come together and win the election, by the time we made it to Government House, we will fix a lot of things, that is our plan, so we are not emphasising on going to meet the leadership, our emphasis is seeing the people here at the wards and zones level that have not been recognised hitherto. They are almost half a million so if you can get just 200,000 of them it is enough for us to win elections.
“In PDP, my leader is here, our plan is that we want to work with the members. It is much easy working with the members of the party, we have more than half a million members, if you can bring that based on our own data that we have now half a million members in PDP about fifty thousand per local government multiplied by twenty is one million, I am just giving you an estimate that we calculated on our own- half a million,” he said.
The PDP chieftain, therefore, tasked his loyal followers and over 5,000 zonal coordinators to think about the importance of collective responsibility geared towards guaranteeing eventual victory at the polls, just as he further urged party leaders and members in the state to shun division or camps which he said had been the bane of PDP in the state in previous elections, and rather to the advantage of the ruling APC.
“APC has never won an election in Lagos with a million votes, the last election was 700,000, so that means from PDP there was apathy, which stems from the fact that it is Agbaje’s group, Agbaje must fail. It is Jandor’s group, Jandor must fail because if he wins the election, Jandor would now be the leader in PDP, but they are making a mistake.
“I am looking at the bigger picture that I can’t because of one person allow millions of Lagosians to continue to be suffering.
“So in PDP, a leader would believe that somebody must lose so that his group must remain, forgetting that millions are dying, I know in this local government about ten people that died because they cannot afford N10,000 to treat malaria.
“So we can win elections inside PDP without even going out, we can raise at least minimum of 1000 voters per ward and we have about 30,000 wards,” he said.
Adewale commended President Muhammadu Buhari over his assent to the new Electoral Law, noting that the technological advancement brought into play by the introduction of beavers machines, that afford scientifically accurate data makes the process a lot more transparent and sincerely skewed towards restoring integrity to the system, and shut doors against any form of manipulations and godfatherism.
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“APC is not popular at all and that is the reason why APC relied on the collation of results at the ward centres, that is why they have draconian laws because they know that the results can be rigged and it is manual. But right now the introduction of beavers would change things.
“I did commend President Buhari owing to the new Electoral Bill he signed into law, Nigeria is going to change for the better because the right people would now have the opportunity to get into power.
“Our problem is the dearth of leadership in Nigeria, the people that want to serve are just trying to get into politics and governance but most of the time they lost out at the collation centre because in Nigeria if you want to represent your community you have to know a god-father.
“If you have no godfather supporting you, you can’t get to the top, so most people that you are seeing now, almost 90 per cent of the people ruling us are given the opportunity by the god-fathers only.
“So it is difficult for the right people whom God called to serve, many of them are not in governance, but with this new Law coupled with the BVAS machine, you will be surprised a lot of people that are really called and endowed with the competence to be in governance and politics will now come out and win elections easily,” Otunba Adewale stated.
On the possibility of having an implosion within the rank and file of PDP owing to Governor Nyesome Wike’s recent outburst, Adewale noted that his present mien was expected because his tenure as governor of Rivers State would end in six months’ time and would have no more relevance if he failed to negotiate appropriately, prior to that time.
He, however, affirmed that it was more essential for the governor to preach the message of cohesion amongst PDP members to herald the desired victory than castigating the party leadership.
Also speaking, the Chairman of the Campaign Council, Chief Taiwo Abayomi Kuye, corroborated Adewale’s stance, noting that Lagos was winnable for PDP any day, any time.
Kuye dismissed the possibility of any form of implosion in PDP, saying things had not gone to that level in the party, just as he pointedly noted that everybody at the gathering was Atikulated, and would work for the victory of all PDP candidates in the 2023 General Elections.
“On the crisis, somebody talked about implosion, I don’t think it has gone to that extent. Everybody you see here today are Atikulated, we will make sure we deliver Jandor, we will make sure we deliver Aeroland, we will ensure we deliver all Assembly candidates, we will ensure we deliver Atiku as the next president come, February 2023,” he said.
Director, Planning, Strategy and Education, Aero 2023, Dr Adebiyi Phillips, while noting that managing crisis was key as, according to him, the crisis exists within all other parties as well, urged PDP leaders and members to bury their hatchet and ego, and “come together as a body and face the elections for the purpose of retooling Nigeria.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/2023-pdp-should-team-up-to-deliver-nigerians-from-penury-%E2%80%95-aeroland/ | 2022-09-05T18:24:54Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/2023-pdp-should-team-up-to-deliver-nigerians-from-penury-%E2%80%95-aeroland/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ban on movement of cattle in Anambra will affect our existence, Miyetti Allah begs Soludo
The leadership of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MCBAN), South East zone, has appealed to Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State, not to enforce the ban on the movement of cattle by foot in the state.
The association says if enforced eventually, it would affect its members’ source of survival in the state.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that Governor Soludo, during a meeting with members of Anambra State Cattle Menace Committee at the Government House, Awka, last weekend, banned the movement of cattle on foot in every part of the state.
Addressing the committee, Soludo, said the ban was in compliance with the 2021 anti-open grazing law of the state, adding that enforcement would begin from September 2022.
According to him, now that we have a law banning open grazing, law enforcement agents have been directed to implement it.
“Though the law has been in existence since almost one year ago, cattle rearers keep parading certain areas in the state in contravention to the law,” Soludo said.
He added that his administration would ensure the implementation of the law by September.
He applauded members of the Anambra State Cattle Menace Committee for their devotion to duty, saying that the Anambra people have largely lived in harmony with herdsmen, but the herdsmen must conduct their businesses within the ambit of extant laws.
It was also gathered that former governor of the state, Willie Obiano had assented to the Cattle and Other Livestock Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Bill of Anambra State in 2021, but failed to enforce the ban.
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Reacting further to the development during their meeting held in Awka, on Monday, the leader of the association in the South-east zone, Gidado Siddiki, begged the governor to suspend the implementation at the moment to enable them to educate their members more on how to go about it.
“Majority of us (Fulanis), don’t know any business more than the rearing of cattle in this world. Some of us were born and bred in the business of rearing cattle in Anambra state. We have no other place to go.
“The herders are aware that the state governor has flagged off a massive tree planting exercise in the 181 communities as part of measures to control the spread of gully erosion in the state, and as law-abiding citizens, we have cautioned all our members and equally urged them to protect the trees in their various host communities.
“Our members have remained committed to peaceful coexistence with their host communities in the state and the South-east geopolitical zone at large.
“We, therefore, called on concern stakeholders including the media to help us beg the governor, if possible, to revise his decision on the ban,” Siddiki added. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/ban-on-movement-of-cattle-in-anambra-will-affect-our-existence-miyetti-allah-begs-soludo/ | 2022-09-05T18:25:21Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/ban-on-movement-of-cattle-in-anambra-will-affect-our-existence-miyetti-allah-begs-soludo/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FCT area council election tribunal assures of justice
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Council Election Appeal Tribunal has assured that it will deliver “pure, unadulterated, undiluted” justice in appeals filed before it in tandem with the provisions of the law.
The assurance was given on Monday by the chairman of the appeal tribunal, Justice Suleiman Belgore, at its inaugural sitting in at the High Court of the FCT, Apo, Abuja.
The chairman of the three-man appeal tribunal disclosed that its responsibilities would be discharged guided chiefly by both the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) and the Electoral Law 2022.
According to Belgore, “let us express that we fully comprehend the weight of the responsibility that has been placed on us. We ask ourselves the question ‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodes’ (who will guard the guardians themselves?). The answer being, nobody but God!
“In light of the knowledge of this divine overwatch, we undertake to the parties, senior and junior members of the bar, as well as the gallery at large that we will, to borrow the words of the Hon. Justice L. H. Gunmi (rtd), endeavour to deliver ‘pure, unadulterated, undiluted’ justice, in tandem with the provisions of the law.”
While assuring that each appeal will be disposed of in 60 days, the chairman, however, warned counsels appearing before it against delay tactics meant to stifle the tribunal’s smooth proceedings.
Belgore added that the tribunal would not tolerate comments or actions from lawyers geared towards staining the integrity of its members, adding, however, that they are allowed to play and dribble within the rules.
“I warn sternly that this tribunal will not bend backwards to accommodate spurious delay tactics meant to stifle smooth proceedings.
“I am therefore appealing to the ministers in the temple of justice not to seek to stretch our indulgence with frivolous applications because we are not prepared to budge.
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“We will dispose of every appeal within 60 days. We will also not tolerate comments or actions from members of the bar geared towards staining the integrity of the umpires of this tribunal.
“The ball of arguments is with the counsels. They are allowed to play and dribble within the rules while we officiate as is our own mandate,” he said.
He then pledged that members of the appeal tribunal would “discharge our functions without fear or favour,” while anticipating full cooperation of all concerned with a view to assisting them to score noble goals.
The chairman urged journalists covering the appeal tribunal’s proceedings to be fair in their reportage, assuring that their unfettered access to information would not be limited.
“We do not, therefore, want a situation that will seem as though the truth has come to some doctoring as that will only lead to a situation where we exercise our powers as judicial officers in ways that you will not want,” Justice Belgore warned.
He, therefore, appealed to law enforcement agencies, including the Department of State Service (DSS) and the police, to provide adequate security to the tribal when necessary.
“We appeal to the law enforcement agencies, the DSS and the police to stand in readiness to come to our aid whenever the need may arise as we desire a secure space to carry out our duties,” he said.
Other members of the appeal tribunal are Justice Yusuf Halilu and Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie.
While inaugurating the election tribunal and appeal tribunal on January 27, 2022, the FCT Chief Judge, Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf, expressed confidence that members would deliver justice to all cases brought before them.
“I know that the members are carefully chosen based on integrity and attitude to work.
“I, therefore, have no doubt that you go out to the field there, you will deliver justice to all the cases that will be determined before you,” the CJ had said, adding that they should uphold their integrity and live above board. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/fct-area-council-election-tribunal-assures-of-justice/ | 2022-09-05T18:25:48Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/fct-area-council-election-tribunal-assures-of-justice/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Drivers on the Abonema-Emohua-Kalabari route in Rivers State have called on the Inspector General of Police IGP, Usman Alkali Baba, to come to their aid over the constant killings and kidnaps of their members and passengers plying that route.
One of the drivers who gave his name simply as Justice, made the call Monday on the heels of the killing of one of their members named Salvation and the abduction of eight passengers on that route at the weekend.
The Abobema-Emohua-Kalabari road is the only road access connecting two local governments, Asari-Toru and Akuku-Toru and parts of Emohua in Rivers state to other parts of the state including Port Harcourt, the state capital.
According to reports, the bus passengers had taken off from Mile One Park in Port Harcourt with the passengers on a trip to Buguma when the gunmen ambushed them.
Justice pleaded with the IGP to intervene immediately as the drivers are law-abiding citizens and plying that route is their means of making a living and fending for their families.
He said: “Just yesterday (Saturday) the worst happened. They (gunmen) killed one of our drivers, Salvation. His remains are lying at the mortuary at Buguma and his passengers have been taken into the bush by the kidnappers and we don’t know what to do.”
He complained against the performance of police officers posted on the route to provide security saying “we have lost confidence in the government, they cannot protect lives and property, maybe because we are not violent, we cannot protect ourselves on the road again, so we are tired.”
The driver said that the presence of security personnel on the route has not solved the security challenges on the axis.
“Police on the route are just concerned about what they will get from drivers. Exploiting passengers, exploiting drivers. Their concern is just the number of jerry cans of kpofire (locally refined petroleum products) you carry.
“That is the concern of the police because we can not explain a situation where we have up to 9 security checkpoints on that road yet we have kidnappings. They killed our driver last night and we don’t know what would become of the passengers.”
The Rivers State Police Command confirmed the incident even as the image maker of the command SP Grace Iringe-Koko, assured that adequate security has been mobilized to the road to forestall future occurrences.
In his own reaction, Chairman of Asari-Toru Local Government Area, Onengiyeofori George, via a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr John Paul Braide, on Sunday in Buguma City, the local government Council charged the Police to safeguard the Abonnema – Emohua- Kalabari road, the only route to Kalabari land.
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Onengiyeofori who condemned the kidnapping incident on Saturday night sympathized with the bereaved family of the driver over their loss.
He also ordered the closure of Buguma motor park after 6 pm daily, warning all motorists and drivers alike to desist forthwith from endangering the lives of the people of Asari-Toru local government area by continuing to ply the route after the closure of the park.
But the youths of Kalabari ethnic nationality said the chairmen are not doing enough to curb kidnapping along the Emohua/Kalabari road.
They noted that that expressway is the only motorable road leading to the three Kalabari Local Government Areas veering off from Emohua.
Kalabari Clan Chairman of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Comrade Edward Asiki-Tams, told journalists that the youth of the region are ready to provide lasting security on the road in synergy with the Nigeria security operatives.
“Our challenge is lack of commitment on the part of the Chairmen to provide us with the needed tools and logistics to secure that road.
“If we man that road, no person born of a woman can kidnap, rob or commit crimes on that road,” he said.
The IYC chairman also advised politicians in the affected LGAs to empower the youth so as to bring them out of the creeks.
“No job creation, skill acquisition programmes nor any meaningful engagement for the youths. The youth are hungry and as a result, prefer to remain in the creeks.
“Though hunger cannot justify crime, but if they get empowerment from the politicians, philanthropists and business moguls in our area, a lot of them will leave the creeks and that will help to reduce the crime rate,” he said.
He appealed to the kidnappers to immediately release their victims unconditionally and forthwith desist from perpetrating such barbaric and criminal acts, noting that the upsurge in kidnapping can also reduce the Kalabari voting strength if it’s not promptly and holistically addressed before 2023.
“These consistent kidnap incidents mainly on the Emohua-Kalabari road will cause political fear-mongering that will lead to poor participation in the ongoing INEC continuous voters registration exercise which may possibly reduce our voting strength.
“In every responsible clime, security has always been citizens’ duty, therefore let us give maximum support and cooperation to governments at all levels devoid of political colouration, acrimony and ethnocentrism in making our environment a safe haven,” he added. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/kidnappings-commercial-bus-drivers-in-rivers-cry-out-to-igp-for-protection/ | 2022-09-05T18:26:21Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/kidnappings-commercial-bus-drivers-in-rivers-cry-out-to-igp-for-protection/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has denied meeting the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the controversial Muslim-Muslim ticket.
CAN said it has already taken a stand on the same faith presidential ticket and its stand has not changed.
A statement issued by the Special Assistant on Media to the CAN President, Luminous Jannamike, described as malicious a media report that said that the leadership of CAN met with Tinubu and has changed their stand on the same-faith ticket.
CAN said the position of the immediate past leadership of the Association has remained the same with the present leadership as far as the same-faith presidential ticket is concerned.
The statement reads: “The attention of the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has been drawn to a media report titled, ‘How Tinubu met, resolved Muslim-Muslim ticket with CAN’, which claimed that the apex Christian body has changed its position regarding the same-faith ticket.
“To say the least, the story is ridiculous, malicious, untrue and should be disregarded in its entirety by all reasonable members of the society.
“For the records, CAN took a position against the same-faith ticket imbroglio under the leadership of Rev. Dr Samson Ayokunle, its immediate past national president, and as a matter of fact, His Eminence Archbishop Daniel Okoh, stands on that same position.
“CAN not agree with every decision taken by politicians and political parties, but it respects their right to reach conclusions on issues that affect their electoral fortunes so long as they accord with the provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) and the Electoral Act (2022),
“For the umpteenth time, CAN reiterates that it is non-partisan, but remains willing to partner with all leaders and other relevant stakeholders towards achieving unity, peace and progress in our nation.
“Consequently, the umbrella Christian organisation cannot be antagonistic to any well-meaning political party or group as the nation warms up for a fresh round of elections in 2023 as claimed in the said report.
“In the same vein, it strongly condemns the attempt to make a mountain out of a molehill with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s presence at the 70th Birthday Celebration of the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
“The event was public and the friends of the celebrant and other good-spirited Nigerians donated to the building of The Kukah Centre, which is designed to be a veritable platform to propagate and promote the ideals of democracy and responsible leadership through research and intellectualism.
“The donations, which went directly to The Kukah Centre, have nothing to do with CAN. It is therefore mischievous to insinuate it was a sort of bribe money for Christian leaders to make a U-turn on their stance against same-faith ticket.
“As a faith-based organisation, CAN maintains that its conscience cannot be bought and its prophetic voice cannot be silenced with money.
“Finally, we call on political parties and their candidates to put the nation first in their considerations and prepare to serve the people with earnestness and humility.”
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For the people who have been considering what precisely the deal is with AKA’s guaranteed collection, “Mass Country,” the vocalist has quite recently delivered more insights concerning the task.
In a clasp shared on his checked Instagram pages, the vocalist demonstrated that he had finished work on the undertaking. Affectionately called the scrap god, AKA gave a few secrets about the undertaking, demonstrating he’s worked together with any semblance of Stogie T and Nasty C. you can look at the clasp beneath.
Following the declaration of “Mass Country,” and with the subtleties the vocalist has shared up until this point, a fever of hope has encompassed fans, some of whom are as of now yelling that they can hardly sit tight for the collection.
There’s no course of events for the arrival of the venture, nor has he uncovered the whole list of attendees for the undertaking. However, from the vibe of things, fans would need to hold on until the arrival of the task – not that there’s a positive delivery date yet.
Anyway, is great to realize that AKA is centered around new music and not on spitting diss tracks at individual musos, something a few fans had expected of him following Big Zulu’s “150 Bars.” obviously, we’ll be here to bring you “Mass Country.”
This South African Album ZIP Download is definitely going to be among the best hip hop releases that will be released this year. Thus, it will really find its way up top music charts and booming all the time across SA music lovers that love to listen to rap songs.
It has been four long years since the release of AKA’s last solo album, “Touch My Blood” and you can trust his fans to be HUNGRY for new music! Recently collaborating with 2020 breakout artist Costa Titch on their 2021 collaborative EP, “You’re Welcome”, The Supa Mega thinks it is now time to release his next album to the public.
The upcoming project, “Mass Country” is expected to be released later on in the year but AKA is wasting no time as he prepares some visual content for a couple of songs from the album. AKA took to social media to share a teaser clip that sees him and Nasty C on set, preparing to shoot a music video for their song that is taken off “Mass Country”. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/super-mega-akas-mass-country-album-is-done-and-ready-for-release/ | 2022-09-05T18:27:15Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/super-mega-akas-mass-country-album-is-done-and-ready-for-release/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(Mass Appeal) – Resolving conflict in a relationship with our partner is an essential tool for having a healthy and sound connection. Doctor Rob Robinson, clinical director of Family Care Counseling and Associates, joins us to talk about how we can make things better when conflict inevitably happens. | https://www.wwlp.com/massappeal/how-to-resolve-conflict-in-relationships/ | 2022-09-05T18:36:54Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/massappeal/how-to-resolve-conflict-in-relationships/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In 2016, Springsteen spoke about New Jersey, masculinity and wishing to be his stage persona: "People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy. ... I want to be that guy myself very often."
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In 2016, Springsteen spoke about New Jersey, masculinity and wishing to be his stage persona: "People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy. ... I want to be that guy myself very often."
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In 2016, Springsteen spoke about New Jersey, masculinity and wishing to be his stage persona: "People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy. ... I want to be that guy myself very often."
Copyright 2022 Fresh Air
In 2016, Springsteen spoke about New Jersey, masculinity and wishing to be his stage persona: "People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy. ... I want to be that guy myself very often."
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(NEXSTAR) – A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card recently sold for $12.6 million, becoming the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia on record. It broke the previous record set in early August during a private sale when a Honus Wagner card went for $7.25 million. A Wagner card set the record before that in August 2021, selling for $6.6 million.
It’s no secret that baseball cards – and sports memorabilia – have become a booming business over the last few years. In some cases, the trading card market has become so hot and the desire so great that retailers like Target had to restrict access to their trading card department.
During the first half of 2021 alone, eBay reported $2 billion in trading card transactions occurred on its site, with an average of one sports trading card being purchased every second.
But what is it that has caused the aforementioned Mantle and Wagner cards to sell for a cumulative $26.45 million?
Well, it’s all in the cards.
Wagner and Mantle are part of a trio of card sets considered the most desirable in sports collecting, Mike Provenzale, a production manager with Heritage Auctions told Nexstar. Those sets are the 1909 T206, the 1933 Goudey set, and the 1952 Topps set.
The 1909 T206
The first, the 1909 T206 set, was found in cigarette and tobacco packs from the American Tobacco Company. Notably small compared to modern cards, Provenzale referred to the run of cards as the “first landmark set.”
“That one is all about rarity,” he said, referring specifically to the Wagner card from that set. Only about 60 cards are known to exist, and “most of them are in horrible condition.”
Wagner is widely revered as one of the greatest players of all time. He was a shortstop who played primarily with the Pittsburgh Pirates during his 21 seasons and was among the first five players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936.
Now, 105 years since Wagner took the field, his T206 cards are bringing in millions of dollars at auctions. Due to their rarity, cards graded authentic – meaning they’re in worse condition than what is covered on the traditional one-to-10 scale – still have the potential to sell for millions of dollars.
The rarity surrounding Wagner’s card is often attributed to two stories, according to Provenzale. One is that Wagner, though a heavy tobacco user himself, didn’t want his card to be used to promote tobacco use among children. The other is that he wanted to be compensated for the company’s use of his image, an unusual request in the early 1900s. It’s still unclear why exactly Wagner cards are so hard to find.
The 1933 Goudey Gum set
While Wagner’s era of baseball cards were used to promote tobacco products, the 1933 Goudey set relied on a different product – gum. The Goudey Gum Company set out to create “a really incredible line” of cards to advertise their product, Provenzale explained. And while they accomplished their goal, making “one of the most aesthetically pleasing sets,” poor timing nearly hampered their success.
The set was released amid the Great Depression. But for just one cent, they could purchase a piece of Goudey Gum and get with it a baseball card. It worked – between 1932 and 1933, the company’s profits are said to have tripled, Provenzale said.
Some of the most well-known players, specifically Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, can be found in the 1933 Goudey set. Another, Hall of Famer Nap Lajoie, was said to be card number 106 in the set. But, in another brilliant marketing ploy by Goudey Gum, you could only get his card if you sent a letter to the company asking for it.
Ruth and Gehrig are valuable, but Lajoie carries a special worth. The majority of his cards carry a paperclip imprint on the top after being attached to the letter, according to Provenzale. A Lajoie card recently sold during a Heritage Auction went for $114,000. In 2019, a worn and tattered Ruth card from this set sold for just over $4,000. While cheaper in comparison to the Wagner and Mantle cards mentioned before, this card was graded as authentic.
The 1952 Topps set
Nearly two decades after Goudey Gum, the 1952 Topps set hit the market. These cards were the first that looked like the cards we’re now familiar with – the size normalized, stats were added to the back, and facsimile signatures were added to the front.
In addition to Mantle, considered the most popular of the 1952 Topps set, other cards include Willie Mays and Jackie Robinson. Mays and Robinson are valuable, Provenzale explained, but Mantle leads the pack.
This is largely due to how cards were released. At the time, cards were released in series. One-fifth of the cards were released before the season, a second round was released at the start, and so on through the season.
Mantle, a New York Yankee and “the face of 50s baseball,” was card number 311, Provenzale said. That put him in the final series but, because of production delays, that series wasn’t released until after the season had ended (and after the Yankees beat the then-Boston Dodgers in the World Series). The final round of cards didn’t sell well and most sat in a warehouse for over a decade.
The remaining cards from the series, including Mantle’s, were then loaded onto a barge and dumped into the Atlantic Ocean, according to Provenzale. Still, more examples of Mantle’s card are known to exist than Wagner’s.
What about error cards?
There is a particular subset of cards that many collectors thought would be incredibly valuable – those with an error.
“But, that isn’t always the case,” Provenzale explained. One of the most well-known error cards is that of Cal Ripken’s brother, Billy Ripken. He was initially photographed holding a bat that had an obscene phrase written on the bottom of the bat that went unnoticed at first. After Topps discovered the error, the original cards were pulled off the market and replaced with an edited version. Cards that aren’t edited can go for a couple hundred dollars, according to Provenzale.
Some error cards are lucky enough to be worth more than three figures. Provenzale noted another from the 1909 T206 set, Sherry Magie. When the cards were printed, they misspelled his name as ‘Maggie.’ Being that the card is unique and from one of the most iconic card sets, Provenzale said it could “do high five figures.”
What’s next?
But what about today’s market? Is there a card today that will be the next Honus Wagner or Mickey Mantle?
It’s possible. Previously, many cards were mass-produced, especially in the 1980s and 1990s, Provenzale explained. Manufacturers have created their own rarity, sometimes making cards known as ‘one to one,’ meaning they’re the only one available.
“Those one-of-one cards do sell for six and seven figures, even though it’s just manufactured rarity,” Provenzale said. Rookie cards can be largely valuable as collectors “love the book ends,” or those from the beginning and end of a player’s career.
If you have any of the previously mentioned cards, or your own set you feel could be of value, it’s important to do your research before rushing to sell. Experts at your local card shop or sports memorabilia store can help appraise your item, as can those with auction houses like Heritage Auctions.
Be wary of where you’re selling, though. Some shops may offer you less than what the card is worth in order to make a profit on it. Other outlets, like auction houses, where the percentage they keep is based on how much your card or item sells for. Online retailers like eBay, which has its own service to prove authenticity, will work in the same fashion.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/these-baseball-cards-have-sold-for-millions-of-dollars-but-why-an-expert-explains/ | 2022-09-05T18:37:36Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/these-baseball-cards-have-sold-for-millions-of-dollars-but-why-an-expert-explains/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LARAMIE – After taking a 38-6 thrashing at the hands of Illinois in the season opener, the University of Wyoming football team was hungry for an opportunity to prove that wasn’t who the Cowboys were going to be this year.
Staring down a 10-point deficit with the clock winding down in the fourth quarter, they received a chance to do just that Saturday afternoon. The Pokes delivered, storming back to beat Tulsa 40-37 in double-overtime at War Memorial Stadium.
Sophomore kicker John Hoyland drilled a career-long 55-yard field goal with 10:53 remaining to cut the deficit to seven, a moment UW coach Craig Bohl described as the turning point in the game. Junior quarterback Andrew Peasley then hit sophomore receiver Joshua Cobbs in stride up the right sideline for a 51-yard touchdown to tie the game with 6:19 left.
The teams swapped field goals in the first overtime, and Hoyland added another in the second. Tulsa proceeded to miss a game-tying attempt from 43 yards, sending the UW sideline streaming onto the field in celebration.
“We got down by 10, and we talked about believing,” Bohl said. “We had gone a couple three-and-outs, and we came up with a couple plays. I went down and I talked to John, and I knew where we were at on the field. I said, ‘OK, John,’ and he looked at me with a straight face and said, ‘Coach, I’ve got you.’
“He nailed it, which was pretty impressive. There was electricity that spread along the sidelines, because now it was a one-possession game, and a 55-yard field goal is pretty spectacular. Then things just began to go.”
Peasley, who was 5 of 20 for 30 yards and an interception in his UW debut, rebounded in a massive way to help lead the Cowboys to victory. The Utah State transfer completed 20 of 30 passes for 256 yards – the most by a UW quarterback since 2020 – and two touchdowns with no interceptions, while posting a passer rating of 160.3.
Bohl started to get emotional at his postgame news conference when discussing Peasley’s performance, as well as the criticism he received after the Illinois game.
“I have news for you guys, he ain’t got no six-figure NIL deal,” Bohl said. “He’s playing for Wyoming because he loves it.”
Peasley noted that it felt good to bounce back from a rough performance in the season opener, but quickly turned the topic to his teammates and what the win means for the Pokes as a whole.
UW had eight different players record catches, with Cobbs leading the team with five receptions for 77 yards. Sophomore receiver Will Pelissier added 67 yards on three catches, scoring his first career touchdown on a 48-yard strike from Peasley just before halftime, and adding 19 rushing yards on two carries. Sophomore tight end Parker Christensen had four receptions for 45 yards, as his position group saw their targets increase to six from just two the previous week.
“I transferred schools, and there were a lot of expectations for myself,” Peasley said. “(Bohl) knew that, and when you go 5 for 20 and kind of get your butt whooped in the season opener, it was tough for me. I just told everyone that we have to bounce back as a team. (Through) all this adversity, all through the week we were just grinding, and I feel like that showed today.
“There are always things we still need to work on. We’re going to watch film, and we’re going to be like, ‘Why did we do this, why did we do that?’ So there is still more to improve on, but overall, the offense and the defense, we all just took it to another level. We learned from our mistakes, and now we’re here.”
In last week’s loss to Illinois, the Cowboys fell behind on the second play from scrimmage. This time, it was UW that found the scoreboard almost instantly.
On the second play of the opening drive, sophomore defensive tackle Jordan Bertagnole sacked Tulsa quarterback Davis Brin near the 20-yard line, forcing a fumble. Junior defensive tackle Cole Godbout attempted to scoop up the loose ball and it bounced into the end zone, where sophomore linebacker Easton Gibbs pounced on it to put the Pokes up 7-0 just 37 seconds into the contest.
“We talked about coming out fast and finishing stronger than we did last week, and I think we did that well today,” Gibbs said. “It was big for us to jump on them fast. We talked about (how) it’s a momentum game, so to do that today felt really nice and got us on the right page.”
The defense forced another turnover with the game on the line in the closing moments of the fourth quarter.
UW appeared set to score the go-ahead touchdown, with a first-and-goal at the 7-yard line and less than two minutes on the clock. However, junior running back Titus Swen fumbled and Tulsa recovered, setting the Golden Hurricane up with the chance to deliver a game-winning drive.
Brin connected with Keylon Stokes for what would have been a 33-yard gain and third-down conversion, but sophomore cornerback Cam Stone delivered a jarring hit to knock the ball loose. Sophomore nickelback Keonte Glinton recovered to give the Pokes one last shot to win it in regulation, but Hoyland’s 44-yard attempt in the final seconds bounced off the top of the right upright.
“(Stone) has been a tremendous player over the past couple years for us, and he’s going to be an outstanding player for us,” Bertagnole said. “You always make mistakes throughout the game, and you’re never going to play a perfect game. Seeing him bounce back from some of the mistakes that he made ... just seeing him do that, and then coming up with that huge play, it took a lot of weight off our shoulders when we were turning in pursuit and saw him just hit stick to knock the ball out.”
Although the Pokes were out-gained 521-399, the defense allowed just 61 rushing yards on 32 carries, with Bertagnole, sophomore linebacker Shae Suiaunoa, sophomore defensive end DeVonne Harris and redshirt freshman defensive end Braden Siders each recording one sack. On the other side of the ball, the Cowboys did not allow a sack for the second straight week.
UW knows it has areas to improve, and cannot get satisfied after just one win. As they do every week, the Pokes plan to turn the page after 24 hours, and refocus for next weekend’s showdown with Northern Colorado.
On Saturday, though, they made sure to enjoy the moment.
“I need to learn the song,” Peasley said. “I probably shouldn’t say that, but it was good. No one was surprised. It was kind of like, ‘I told you,’ This is who we are, this is what we’ve been doing, and that’s why last week was such a disappointment to everyone.
“We knew we were better than that, so as a team, it’s probably the best feeling in the world. Just coming into the locker room and looking at one another, it’s all love. The stadium was rocking.”
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A pair of University of Wyoming football players were honored by the Mountain West on Monday after the Cowboys erased a 10-point, fourth-quarter deficit to take down Tulsa 40-37 in double-overtime.
Junior quarterback Andrew Peasley was named the conference’s offensive player of the week, while sophomore kicker John Hoyland received top special teams honors.
Peasley completed 20 of 30 passes for 256 yards and two touchdowns, while rushing for an additional 45 yards in the win. The Utah State transfer had no turnovers, and led the Cowboys on six scoring drives — including two in the fourth quarter to send the game to overtime. His first touchdown pass was a 48-yard strike to Will Pelissier in the final minute of the first half, while his second was a 51-yard completion to Joshua Cobbs that tied the game with 6:19 left in regulation.
Hoyland was 4 for 5 on field goal attempts, including 2 for 2 in overtime. He connected on a career-long 55-yarder that sparked the comeback with 10:53 remaining in the fourth quarter, with his other makes being from 25, 25 and 30 yards. He was also 4 for 4 on extra-point attempts, and had six of his seven kickoffs go for touchbacks.
This marks the second MW player of the week honor for both Peasley and Hoyland, who were previously recognized during the 2020 season. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/football/peasley-hoyland-earn-mw-player-of-the-week-honors/article_c882aad8-2d38-11ed-a941-5736f26090ae.html | 2022-09-05T18:42:00Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/football/peasley-hoyland-earn-mw-player-of-the-week-honors/article_c882aad8-2d38-11ed-a941-5736f26090ae.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WYOMING, Mich. — The 17-year-old Burger King employee who alleges she was assaulted on the job over a cup of soda spoke to FOX 17 on Monday.
Isabela, who didn’t want her last name used, was the manager at the 28th Street fast food restaurant on Sunday when a customer in the drive-thru line complained about soda running down the side of his cup.
“I just simply wiped the drink off and handed it to him and told him have a nice day,” said Isabela, “and that’s where it all started.”
According to Isabela, the customer still wasn’t satisfied and drove off, only to come back into the restaurant a few minutes later, jumping behind the counter and grabbing a stack of cups himself while berating employees.
“He starts filling them up and pouring them all over the walls, all over the floor in front of the pop machine and just throwing drinks all over,” she said. “Like just throwing a tantrum.”
When Isabela and another 15-year-old employee tried to confront him, she says the customer punched, kicked, and body slammed Isabela so forcefully that she blacked out.
“I just remember thinking like, woah, what is happening right now? I’m being picked up, spun around, kicked, punched,” she said. “It’s just a pop, you know? It’s just a pop.”
Isabela said the man’s final punch to her forehead required 11 stitches. She also sustained a cut above her eye, bruising on her neck from choking, and a bruise on her thigh. The other 15-year-old employee, whose family spoke to FOX17 over the phone Monday, suffered a broken jaw, several broken teeth, permanent nerve damage and had to undergo reconstructive surgery Monday afternoon.
Eventually, the customer left and employees took pictures of his license plate before going into the bathroom to hide and wait for police.
“We all just sat there and we cried,” said Isabela. “It got so frantic. It was so much blood, and it was just so much chaos.”
The Wyoming Department of Public Safety confirmed to FOX17 on Sunday that they are aware of the incident and are investigating. They also indicated they were aware of the suspect’s name but as of Monday, there was no word of an arrest or any charges.
Ironically, on Labor Day weekend, Isabela says it’s a frustrating reminder that fast food workers are rarely treated with the respect they deserve. She’s unsure if she’ll return to work, despite receiving well-wishes from management shortly after the incident.
“Where am I supposed to work at?” she said. “I am 17 years old I can’t go be a physician or I can’t go be a veterinarian at 17 years old. You need to respect the people in the drive-thru and the people behind the counter because if we’re not doing it who’s going to do it?”
The family of the 15-year-old employee said they were informed by Burger King management that all their bills would be covered through the franchise's on-the-job worker’s compensation program.
If you have any information about this incident, call Wyoming DPS at 616-530-7309. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/kent/its-just-a-pop-teen-describes-assault-at-wyoming-burger-king | 2022-09-05T18:43:49Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/kent/its-just-a-pop-teen-describes-assault-at-wyoming-burger-king | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LAKE MICHIGAN, Mich. — Deputies say a man’s body was found in Lake Michigan about 12 miles off the shoreline of a Berrien County community.
The Berrien County Sheriff’s Office says the U.S. Coast Guard received information that a sailboat captain had found the body of an unidentified man about 12 miles off the shoreline of the Berrien County community of Shoreman shortly before noon on Sunday, September 4.
The body was recovered and turned over to the Berrien County Sheriff’s Office.
According to police, the body will be taken to Western Michigan University for an autopsy and identification. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/lakeshore/body-found-in-lake-michigan-12-miles-from-berrien-county-shoreline | 2022-09-05T18:43:55Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/lakeshore/body-found-in-lake-michigan-12-miles-from-berrien-county-shoreline | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
I’m delighted because the project was fund the year round with generous donators who are supporting children across India (251. in schools already and this website explains and displays projects undertaken over twenty yeats!). Here, from their first, young students and in a more formal presentation in Pashnauanad on 03 Oct when we took the photos.\nPlease enjoy these, all three young adult males: Abid Nabil Qaiyom of As pandemic stimulus money has run out for many Americans, debt is starting to mount again and it is leading to signs of trouble, particularly in the auto industry where car repossessions are on the rise.
“The national average that they’re expecting for repossessions for 2022 is around 2.2 million, so when you go back to 2019 at the 1.7 million mark, sure, that’s a relatively large increase,” said Chris Benson, vice president of collection at Ent, a credit union with around $7 billion in assets.
Data published in May by the New York Fed shows auto debt in our country rose by $87 billion in the year ending in March 2022.
Benson says some of that rise can be attributed to the used car market as car values rose by more than $10,000 over the course of the last year, but some of it can also be attributed to the liberal spending practices afforded to some by the pandemic.
“You know, looking at the last two years, you have to take into consideration the government assistance programs that were available to members, repossession and foreclosure moratoriums, stimulus funds. I think that had a big impact on keeping delinquency charge off, repossession, and foreclosure at minimum,” said Benson
There is no federal database that tracks auto loan default or repossession numbers, but there are entities that take snapshots. In June, Ford’s CFO said delinquencies were increasing, and in August, the auto-news site Jalopnik did an analysis that showed car repossessions are up 11% among subprime borrowers since 2020 and have doubled from 2% to 4% among prime borrowers, or those with good credit scores.
Benson says if you find yourself in a difficult position with a loan to be fully transparent with your lender. He says there are workarounds like lowering the amount you pay monthly or pausing the loan for a short amount of time while you get your finances in order. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/auto-loan-delinquencies-and-repossessions-are-on-the-rise | 2022-09-05T18:44:07Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/auto-loan-delinquencies-and-repossessions-are-on-the-rise | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SUMMERVILLE, Ga. — Flood watches were in effect in the U.S. southeast early Monday as forecasters warn of the possibility of torrential downpours on Labor Day across already saturated ground.
Among the hardest-hit areas in this weekend’s storms was northwest Georgia, where 12 inches (30 centimeters) of rain fell in some spots, forecasters said.
The flooding knocked out water service to parts of Georgia's Chattooga County, authorities said.
“Our main thrust right now is getting our water situation back in hand,” said Earle Rainwater, who owns Rainwater Funeral Home in Summerville and serves as the Chattooga County coroner.
“Without water, you can’t do anything,” he said Monday. “We don’t have water except for bottled water and what’s in the creeks.”
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Sunday declared a state of emergency in Chattooga and Floyd counties. That directed all state resources to help with “preparation, response and recovery activities.”
In Chattooga County, several people had to be rescued from their homes on Sunday, especially in lower-lying areas of the county, Rainwater said. “They used Jon Boats, they used kayaks, they used anything that would float."
Waves of showers and storms were expected to develop Monday in the region, as moisture from the Gulf of Mexico continues to stream across the South, the National Weather Service said. Some training storms — storms that drop several inches of rain as they move over the same areas like train cars — were also possible, the weather service said.
Parts of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia were under flash flood watches through Monday evening. The chance for flash flooding also extended to the northeast, into Pennsylvania and parts of southern New England, the weather service said.
Church pastors and volunteers planned to distribute water on Monday in the small towns of Summerville and Trion, according to the Chattooga County Emergency Management Agency.
“We’ve never had anything like this before,” Summerville Mayor Harry Harvey said.
After visiting the community’s flooded water treatment plant Monday morning, Harvey said, “Things are not as bad as we thought they were, or as bad as they could be.”
Workers were at the site Monday assessing the damage. By late Monday or early Tuesday, “we should have a much better assessment as to what needs to be done,” Harvey said.
Chattooga County, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of Atlanta, is home to about 25,000 people. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/flood-threat-continues-in-georgia-other-southern-states | 2022-09-05T18:55:51Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/flood-threat-continues-in-georgia-other-southern-states | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 12 |
SUMMERVILLE, Ga. — Flood watches were in effect in the U.S. southeast early Monday as forecasters warn of the possibility of torrential downpours on Labor Day across already saturated ground.
Among the hardest-hit areas in this weekend’s storms was northwest Georgia, where 12 inches (30 centimeters) of rain fell in some spots, forecasters said.
The flooding knocked out water service to parts of Georgia's Chattooga County, authorities said.
“Our main thrust right now is getting our water situation back in hand,” said Earle Rainwater, who owns Rainwater Funeral Home in Summerville and serves as the Chattooga County coroner.
“Without water, you can’t do anything,” he said Monday. “We don’t have water except for bottled water and what’s in the creeks.”
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Sunday declared a state of emergency in Chattooga and Floyd counties. That directed all state resources to help with “preparation, response and recovery activities.”
In Chattooga County, several people had to be rescued from their homes on Sunday, especially in lower-lying areas of the county, Rainwater said. “They used Jon Boats, they used kayaks, they used anything that would float."
Waves of showers and storms were expected to develop Monday in the region, as moisture from the Gulf of Mexico continues to stream across the South, the National Weather Service said. Some training storms — storms that drop several inches of rain as they move over the same areas like train cars — were also possible, the weather service said.
Parts of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia were under flash flood watches through Monday evening. The chance for flash flooding also extended to the northeast, into Pennsylvania and parts of southern New England, the weather service said.
Church pastors and volunteers planned to distribute water on Monday in the small towns of Summerville and Trion, according to the Chattooga County Emergency Management Agency.
“We’ve never had anything like this before,” Summerville Mayor Harry Harvey said.
After visiting the community’s flooded water treatment plant Monday morning, Harvey said, “Things are not as bad as we thought they were, or as bad as they could be.”
Workers were at the site Monday assessing the damage. By late Monday or early Tuesday, “we should have a much better assessment as to what needs to be done,” Harvey said.
Chattooga County, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of Atlanta, is home to about 25,000 people. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/flood-threat-continues-in-georgia-other-southern-states | 2022-09-05T18:55:51Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/flood-threat-continues-in-georgia-other-southern-states | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 12 |
Fans of The Weekend were left disappointed on Saturday after the singer stopped his show, mid-performance.
The singer was performing at SoFi Stadium when he stopped and told his fans that he couldn't go on because he lost his voice.
"This is killing me, I don't want to stop the show but I can't give you the concert I want to give you right now," The Weekend said.
In videos posted online, fans could be heard booing and yelling as The Weekend was apologizing.
The singer said he would make sure everyone got their money back. He added that he would return to Los Angeles to put on a show.
"I'm so sorry," he said. "I love you guys so much."
Late Saturday night, The Weekend tweeted, "My voice went out during the first song and I'm devastated. Felt it go out and my heart dropped."
The Weekend's website has not published a new tour date for Los Angeles. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/the-weekend-abruptly-stops-la-concert-due-to-vocal-issues | 2022-09-05T18:56:03Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/the-weekend-abruptly-stops-la-concert-due-to-vocal-issues | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Expiration dates on at-home COVID-19 test kits may not be completely accurate.
According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), some of the expiration dates were extended as the agency received new data that showed the products still worked.
Different brands have different expiration dates.
The tests that the federal government sent to people this year now have a 12-month shelf life, according to the FDA.
The FDA has a list of approved at-home tests with updated expiration dates on its website.
The FDA says people should not use COVID-19 tests beyond any updated expiration date. Officials say test results from those tests may not be accurate. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/your-at-home-covid-19-test-may-not-have-expired-after-all | 2022-09-05T18:56:15Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/your-at-home-covid-19-test-may-not-have-expired-after-all | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A creep wearing shorts emblazoned with the word “Rude” tried to rape a woman and robbed her inside her Manhattan NYCHA apartment over the weekend, cops said.
The perv followed the 53-year-old woman into her building on the grounds of the Lillian Wald Houses on the Lower East Side around 9 a.m. Sunday and forced his way into her apartment, authorities said.
Once inside, he displayed a knife and tried to rape the woman, police said.
He grabbed the victim’s cellphone and $20 cash before fleeing on foot, officials said.
The victim was taken to Beth Israel Medical Center for treatment, authorities said.
Cops were still looking for the suspect Monday.
In addition to the distinctive shorts, the suspect wore a silver head-wrap, black T-shirt and chain around his neck, cops said.
He is described as approximately in his 20s, 5 feet 7 and 150 pounds, with a dark complexion, slim build and facial hair, authorities said. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/05/creep-wearing-rude-shorts-tried-to-rape-woman-in-nyc-apartment-cops/ | 2022-09-05T19:01:38Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/05/creep-wearing-rude-shorts-tried-to-rape-woman-in-nyc-apartment-cops/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — Republicans blasted the FBI as politically biased Monday after The Post reported that disgraced ex-FBI agent Timothy Thibault was the “point man” for former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski — and never followed up with him about his bombshell claims.
Bobulinski alleged one month before the 2020 election that Joe Biden was involved with his son Hunter and brother Jim’s dealings with Chinese energy company CEFC, which reportedly paid the Bidens $4.8 million in 2017 and 2018.
Bobulinski, who heard radio silence from Thibault, alleged that he spoke with Joe Biden about the Chinese government-linked CEFC deal and that the then-candidate was referred to as the “big guy” due a 10% cut in a new corporate entity. Another Hunter Biden business associate, James Gilliar, also identified Joe Biden as the “big guy.”
“Unfortunately, Tony Bobulinski’s first-hand eyewitness testimony regarding President Biden’s knowledge of Hunter Biden’s compromising web of foreign financial entanglements, especially with the Chinese, was not only ignored by the media, but also by the FBI,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told The Post.
“The suppression and censoring of his testimony and Hunter’s influence peddling impacted the 2020 election to a far greater extent than anything Russia or China could have ever achieved,” said Johnson, a former chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
“Where does it stop?” tweeted Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee.
“According to brave whistleblowers, Timothy Thibault: -Tried to shut down an avenue of the Hunter Biden investigation. -Cooked the books on ‘domestic violent extremism’ cases. -Hid intel on Hunter and the ‘Big Guy’ Joe Biden.”
The FBI did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Thibault retired from the FBI last week following a firestorm of criticism over his anti-Trump social media posts and whistleblower allegations that he buried Hunter Biden material.
Thibault’s social media barbs against Republicans resemble the anti-Republican attacks by FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page during the bureau’s investigation of possible Russian collusion with Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
In a July letter outlining whistleblower complaints to his office, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote that Thibault and another FBI employee, supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten, allegedly were involved in “a scheme” to “undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation.”
Auten “opened an assessment which was used by a FBI Headquarters (‘FBI HQ’) team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease,” Grassley wrote.
“[V]erified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation,” Grassley wrote.
Thibault, meanwhile, allegedly tried to kill off a valid avenue of investigation of possible Hunter Biden criminality.
“In October 2020, an avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting was ordered closed at the direction of ASAC Thibault … [when] all of the reporting was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants,” Grassley wrote.
“Thibault allegedly ordered the matter closed without providing a valid reason as required by FBI guidelines … [and] subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future.”
Under questioning from Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) last month, FBI Director Chris Wray said alleged bias in the Hunter Biden case was “deeply troubling.” But Wray cut short questions, saying he had to catch a flight. It was later alleged that he skipped out on the oversight hearing for a personal vacation.
The FBI’s Baltimore field office is leading the Hunter Biden case, under the supervision of the US Attorney’s Office in Delaware.
Bobulinski has not been called before a grand jury investigating Hunter Biden for potential financial crimes, including tax fraud, money laundering and unregistered foreign lobbying.
A different person who testified before the grand jury, however, was asked about the identity of the “big guy,” The Post previously reported — suggesting that Bobulinski’s testimony may be relevant.
Joe Biden’s involvement with Hunter Biden’s business enterprises often is murky, but he regularly met with his son’s foreign business associates during his vice presidency, and on some occasions Hunter Biden joined his father aboard Air Force Two for official travel that doubled as business trips. The extent to which Hunter and his father exchanged money linked to overseas business dealings is unclear.
Immediately after coming forward in October 2020, Bobulinski sat for more than five hours of questioning by the FBI’s Washington Field Office. He also gave the FBI the contents of three cellphones to corroborate his story. The FBI said Thibault would be Bobulinski’s “point man” for future communications.
Bobulinski’s attorney called Thibault to establish contact after his client’s questioning in October 2020, but never heard from him again.
Thibault’s alleged social media activity included a retweet of a Lincoln Project message that called Trump a “psychologically broken, embittered and deeply unhappy man” and a tweet saying that he wanted to “give Kentucky to the Russian Federation.”
Hunter Biden recently cut the IRS a check for about $2 million in an acknowledgment that he failed to pay taxes on foreign income. The funds reportedly were provided by Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, but it’s unclear what repayment if any he must make and the belated payment doesn’t prevent prosecution.
The first son’s overseas dealings gained significant attention this year when the Washington Post and New York Times in March belatedly verified documents from a former Hunter Biden laptop that were first reported by The Post in October 2020.
Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s business deals continues to present conflicts of interest for the president.
Emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop indicate that his father, then vice president, attended a 2015 DC dinner with a group of his son’s associates from Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan. A photo depicts Joe Biden posing with the Kazakhstani group — and one day after the dinner, Vadym Pozharskyi, an executive at Ukrainian gas company Burisma, emailed the then-second son to thank him for the opportunity to meet his father.
Hunter Biden earned a reported $1 million per year to serve on Burisma’s board while his dad led the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy.
Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina, an alleged attendee of the 2015 dinner and the widow of a former mayor of Moscow, has not faced US sanctions this year in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite Biden sanctioning many other members of Russia’s elite. Baturina allegedly paid a Hunter Biden-linked company $3.5 million in 2014.
And the CEFC deal involving Bobulinski isn’t the Biden family’s only entanglement in China.
Also in China, Hunter Biden co-founded an investment firm called BHR Partners in 2013 less than two weeks after flying with his father to Beijing aboard Air Force Two. Hunter introduced Joe Biden to BHR CEO Jonathan Li in the lobby of a hotel in China’s capital.
The fund is controlled in part by state-owned entities. Hunter Biden’s attorney Chris Clark said less than a week after President Biden’s November summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping that the first son divested his 10% stake in BHR Partners, but Hunter Biden and the White House provided no further details and online business records indicate that Hunter Biden still owns the 10% stake. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/05/gop-slams-fbi-suppression-of-hunter-biden-whistleblower-bobulinski/ | 2022-09-05T19:01:50Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/05/gop-slams-fbi-suppression-of-hunter-biden-whistleblower-bobulinski/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(iSeeCars) – A car title is a legal document that proves you own a vehicle, much like a deed to a house. Every vehicle sold in the United States comes with a title, and although the exact information on the document varies by state, car titles always include a vehicle’s VIN and year, make, and model of a vehicle as well as its odometer reading. Regardless of whether you buy a new or used car from a dealer or from a private seller, you’ll receive a car title.
Along with showing proof of ownership, a car title also lets you know if a vehicle is damaged or is defective. If you’re shopping for a used car, you may come across a vehicle with a salvage title that indicates water damage. And as we approach peak hurricane season, thousands of flood-damaged cars will likely enter the market in the coming months. What does that mean and should you avoid salvage title and flood-damaged vehicles? We have the answers.
Salvage Title Vehicle: What it Means
There are two categories of titles: clean and branded. A clean title means that a vehicle has a clean record, while a branded title means that a vehicle has incurred serious damage that needs to be disclosed. The most common branded title is a salvage title. (For more examples of branded title vehicles, check out our handy guide.)
If a car has a salvage title, it means that the vehicle has sustained significant damage and has been deemed a total loss by an insurance company. That most likely means that the vehicle was in a major accident, and the cost to repair the vehicle exceeds what it’s worth. In that case, the insurance company will pay out a damaged vehicle claim for the value of the car to its owner and take possession of the vehicle. Or, it could mean that the car was the victim of a severe weather event, like hurricane flooding or a hail storm.
After the car gets towed to an impound lot owned by the insurance company, it’s sent to a salvage auction house specializing in cars that have suffered an untimely demise. The car is most often bought by a junkyard and its parts are used for scrap metal or to repair other vehicles. Or, if the damage isn’t too significant, an auto body shop may repair and resurrect the car. If the once salvaged car passes inspection, it will be resold with a rebuilt title. (Check out our What is a Rebuilt Title Guide to learn more.) Lastly, a dealer may choose to sell the car as is in hopes that it will attract a buyer who is willing and able to repair it.
How Does a Car Become a Salvage Title Vehicle?
Salvage title laws vary from state to state. For example, what one state defines as a salvage vehicle may be different in another state. However, in most states a salvage title includes a vehicle in one of the following categories.
- The vehicle has collision damage.
- The vehicle had flood damage. Some states will specifically mention flood damage on a vehicle’s title, while others will classify flood damage as a salvage title.
- The vehicle was damaged by a fire.
- The vehicle has sustained major damage from a storm such as hail or a tornado.
- The car has been stolen and recovered after the insurance company determined it a total loss.
In New York State, a vehicle must be branded as a salvage if it is eight model years or newer, and if the vehicle was destroyed or received damage in the amount of 75% or more of its value when the damage occurred.
In Florida, a vehicle must be labeled as salvage if an insurance company declares it as a total loss. However, the percentage for what is total loss classification varies. It can be if repair costs total as little as 50 percent or as much as 95 percent of a vehicle’s value.
In most states, it is illegal to drive salvage title cars on public roads. To learn about what is considered a salvage vehicle in your state, check with your local department of motor vehicles (DMV).
Dangers of Flood Damaged Vehicles
Vehicles are built to get wet, but they’re not designed to get flooded. A car that is the victim of flooding has likely been submerged in multiple inches to multiple feet of water. Being flooded to that extent can wreak havoc on a car, causing anything from glitchy electronics to ruined engines depending on how much water ended up in the car.
Cars deemed to have flood damage get bought back by the insurance company and are sent to the auction, where they typically are sent to the crusher. But sometimes people try to fix and flip a flood car. Just like cars with salvage titles, flood-titled cars are to be avoided.
Beware of Title Washing
Because states have different regulations on what constitutes a salvage car, moving the car to a state with more lenient laws can have the brand removed from the title. Because titles are issued by the state’s RMV, a vehicle will get a new title if it’s sold in another state.
A title can also be rebranded by physically altering it. Some title-washing schemes involve a seller making physical changes to the paper document that remove all evidence of branding.
Title washing is a federal crime and can result in hefty fines or even prison.
Should You Buy a Salvage Title Car?
There are many risks to buying a salvage title car. Here is what you should look out for.
- Safety Risks: The main downside to buying a salvage title car is the inherent safety risk. Because these cars have incurred significant damage, there’s a chance that they haven’t properly been repaired. Even if the car has been completely rebuilt and passed an inspection, it may not have been repaired well. There are safety hazards that an inspection cannot determine such as if the airbags will deploy in the event of an accident.
- Risk of Fraud: Sellers of salvage title cars will likely claim that the damage was minor because they will be desperate to make a sale. Salvage titles are as-is sales, so there is no warranty protection when buying a salvage vehicle.
- Difficult to Insure and Finance: Some insurance companies will not provide coverage for salvage title vehicles, while other insurers will only provide limited coverage at a high premium. Many banks and lenders also won’t provide auto loans for salvage title vehicles.
- Low Resale Value: When it comes time for you to sell or trade-in the vehicle, it will have a low resale value. Some dealerships don’t buy salvage vehicle cars, so you may have trouble getting rid of it.
In some circumstances, there can be benefits for car buyers when purchasing a salvaged vehicle.
- Significant Savings: You might come across a vehicle that has only had cosmetic damage such as from a hail storm. As a result it will be significantly discounted.
- If You’re a Mechanic: If you have the ability to fix a car, then buying a salvage title car doesn’t come with the same risks. You could either use the parts to fix other cars or repair the car so it’s operable again.
How to Know If a Car Has a Salvage Title
Before purchasing a used car, it’s important to obtain a vehicle history report such as Carfax or Autocheck and to run a VIN check. The iSeeCars VIN Check report provides a comprehensive analysis that includes up to 200 data points to help answer all the questions shoppers should have before buying a used vehicle.
The iSeeCars VIN Check provides title information depending on the state DMV. It will let you know if the vehicle has a clean title or if it has a salvage or other type of branded title.
The comprehensive report will link to vehicle history reports from CarFax and AutoCheck, and in many cases they will be free. The vehicle history report will provide detailed information about the vehicle’s title. For example, if a salvage certificate was issued after an accident, the vehicle history report will provide details about the accident and where the vehicle sustained damage.
If the price of a used car seems too good to be true, you should do your research to see if it’s because it has a salvage title. It’s important to know this information early in the process before you get too attached to the vehicle.
The Bottom Line
Buying a car with a checkered past in the form of a salvage title comes with many risks. Although a salvage title vehicle may seem like a good deal, the potential safety risks likely outweigh the savings. The added insurance costs and lack of financing options also detract from the car’s upfront cost. There might be the occasional diamond in the rough that was properly repaired or only had minor damage, but flood-damaged cars should be avoided at all costs. While it is important to have every used car inspected by a trusted mechanic before purchasing, this is especially important if you are considering purchasing a salvage car. A mechanic can pay special attention to the areas of the vehicle that were damaged to see if they have been properly repaired.
More from iSeeCars.com:
- Buying a Car Out of State: What You Should Know
- 24 Things to Keep in Your Car
- What to Look For When Buying a Used Car
If you’re ready to take to the web for your own car buying process, you can search over 4 million new and used cars with iSeeCars’ award-winning car search engine that helps shoppers find the best car deals by providing key insights and valuable resources, like the iSeeCars VIN check report. You can also filter by title, ensuring the cars you find have clean titles.
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The Japanese government wants the nation’s youth to get drunk for their country.
Officials have launched a campaign to lure more young people into buying booze so the debt-ridden country can reap tax revenue from liquor sales, according to reports.
The “Sake Viva!” campaign – created by the country’s tax agency – seeks business proposals from young people or groups with ideas on how to “revitalize” the nation’s booze industry, Bloomberg reported.
The campaign faced fierce criticism online, but a number of quirky proposals have flowed in, according to the BBC.
One pitch included famous actresses “performing” as virtual bar workers in completely digital clubs, the BBC reported.
The campaign comes as tax revenue from alcohol sales in Japan has dried out in recent years – potentially caused by an aging population and shifting tastes amongst young people.
In 2020, liquor sales in Japan amounted to about 2% of the total tax revenue, a 13% decrease from 2016, according to Bloomberg.
Over the past quarter century, residents of Japan have also reduced the amount of liquor they consume in an average year.
In 1995, an average person drank about 22 gallons of alcohol per year in the country, according to the BBC. In 2020, a Japanese person drank about 16 gallons per year.
Japan has the highest national debt in the world compared to its GDP. The country currently owes about $8.3 trillion, more than twice the size of its economy, the Wall Street Journal reported. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/05/japan-urges-young-people-to-drink-more-alcohol/ | 2022-09-05T19:02:02Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/05/japan-urges-young-people-to-drink-more-alcohol/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHICAGO (WGN) — A man armed with an ax was shot and killed by a security guard in Chicago Sunday.
According to Chicago Fire Department officials, the incident took place at a marijuana dispensary at around 10 a.m. in the city’s Greektown neighborhood.
Chicago police said the man got into an argument with the guard, 37, outside of the business. The man began to swing the ax and hit the guard in the leg.
Police said the two men struggled and the guard fired shots, hitting the man with ax.
Fire officials said the man was 20 years old. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to police.
The security guard was also taken to the hospital in and is in good condition, according to police. | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/ax-wielding-man-fatally-shot-by-security-guard-at-chicago-dispensary/ | 2022-09-05T19:02:04Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/ax-wielding-man-fatally-shot-by-security-guard-at-chicago-dispensary/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NEXSTAR) – A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card recently sold for $12.6 million, becoming the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia on record. It broke the previous record set in early August during a private sale when a Honus Wagner card went for $7.25 million. A Wagner card set the record before that in August 2021, selling for $6.6 million.
It’s no secret that baseball cards – and sports memorabilia – have become a booming business over the last few years. In some cases, the trading card market has become so hot and the desire so great that retailers like Target had to restrict access to their trading card department.
During the first half of 2021 alone, eBay reported $2 billion in trading card transactions occurred on its site, with an average of one sports trading card being purchased every second.
But what is it that has caused the aforementioned Mantle and Wagner cards to sell for a cumulative $26.45 million?
Well, it’s all in the cards.
Wagner and Mantle are part of a trio of card sets considered the most desirable in sports collecting, Mike Provenzale, a production manager with Heritage Auctions told Nexstar. Those sets are the 1909 T206, the 1933 Goudey set, and the 1952 Topps set.
The 1909 T206
The first, the 1909 T206 set, was found in cigarette and tobacco packs from the American Tobacco Company. Notably small compared to modern cards, Provenzale referred to the run of cards as the “first landmark set.”
“That one is all about rarity,” he said, referring specifically to the Wagner card from that set. Only about 60 cards are known to exist, and “most of them are in horrible condition.”
Wagner is widely revered as one of the greatest players of all time. He was a shortstop who played primarily with the Pittsburgh Pirates during his 21 seasons and was among the first five players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936.
Now, 105 years since Wagner took the field, his T206 cards are bringing in millions of dollars at auctions. Due to their rarity, cards graded authentic – meaning they’re in worse condition than what is covered on the traditional one-to-10 scale – still have the potential to sell for millions of dollars.
The rarity surrounding Wagner’s card is often attributed to two stories, according to Provenzale. One is that Wagner, though a heavy tobacco user himself, didn’t want his card to be used to promote tobacco use among children. The other is that he wanted to be compensated for the company’s use of his image, an unusual request in the early 1900s. It’s still unclear why exactly Wagner cards are so hard to find.
The 1933 Goudey Gum set
While Wagner’s era of baseball cards were used to promote tobacco products, the 1933 Goudey set relied on a different product – gum. The Goudey Gum Company set out to create “a really incredible line” of cards to advertise their product, Provenzale explained. And while they accomplished their goal, making “one of the most aesthetically pleasing sets,” poor timing nearly hampered their success.
The set was released amid the Great Depression. But for just one cent, they could purchase a piece of Goudey Gum and get with it a baseball card. It worked – between 1932 and 1933, the company’s profits are said to have tripled, Provenzale said.
Some of the most well-known players, specifically Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, can be found in the 1933 Goudey set. Another, Hall of Famer Nap Lajoie, was said to be card number 106 in the set. But, in another brilliant marketing ploy by Goudey Gum, you could only get his card if you sent a letter to the company asking for it.
Ruth and Gehrig are valuable, but Lajoie carries a special worth. The majority of his cards carry a paperclip imprint on the top after being attached to the letter, according to Provenzale. A Lajoie card recently sold during a Heritage Auction went for $114,000. In 2019, a worn and tattered Ruth card from this set sold for just over $4,000. While cheaper in comparison to the Wagner and Mantle cards mentioned before, this card was graded as authentic.
The 1952 Topps set
Nearly two decades after Goudey Gum, the 1952 Topps set hit the market. These cards were the first that looked like the cards we’re now familiar with – the size normalized, stats were added to the back, and facsimile signatures were added to the front.
In addition to Mantle, considered the most popular of the 1952 Topps set, other cards include Willie Mays and Jackie Robinson. Mays and Robinson are valuable, Provenzale explained, but Mantle leads the pack.
This is largely due to how cards were released. At the time, cards were released in series. One-fifth of the cards were released before the season, a second round was released at the start, and so on through the season.
Mantle, a New York Yankee and “the face of 50s baseball,” was card number 311, Provenzale said. That put him in the final series but, because of production delays, that series wasn’t released until after the season had ended (and after the Yankees beat the then-Boston Dodgers in the World Series). The final round of cards didn’t sell well and most sat in a warehouse for over a decade.
The remaining cards from the series, including Mantle’s, were then loaded onto a barge and dumped into the Atlantic Ocean, according to Provenzale. Still, more examples of Mantle’s card are known to exist than Wagner’s.
What about error cards?
There is a particular subset of cards that many collectors thought would be incredibly valuable – those with an error.
“But, that isn’t always the case,” Provenzale explained. One of the most well-known error cards is that of Cal Ripken’s brother, Billy Ripken. He was initially photographed holding a bat that had an obscene phrase written on the bottom of the bat that went unnoticed at first. After Topps discovered the error, the original cards were pulled off the market and replaced with an edited version. Cards that aren’t edited can go for a couple hundred dollars, according to Provenzale.
Some error cards are lucky enough to be worth more than three figures. Provenzale noted another from the 1909 T206 set, Sherry Magie. When the cards were printed, they misspelled his name as ‘Maggie.’ Being that the card is unique and from one of the most iconic card sets, Provenzale said it could “do high five figures.”
What’s next?
But what about today’s market? Is there a card today that will be the next Honus Wagner or Mickey Mantle?
It’s possible. Previously, many cards were mass-produced, especially in the 1980s and 1990s, Provenzale explained. Manufacturers have created their own rarity, sometimes making cards known as ‘one to one,’ meaning they’re the only one available.
“Those one-of-one cards do sell for six and seven figures, even though it’s just manufactured rarity,” Provenzale said. Rookie cards can be largely valuable as collectors “love the book ends,” or those from the beginning and end of a player’s career.
If you have any of the previously mentioned cards, or your own set you feel could be of value, it’s important to do your research before rushing to sell. Experts at your local card shop or sports memorabilia store can help appraise your item, as can those with auction houses like Heritage Auctions.
Be wary of where you’re selling, though. Some shops may offer you less than what the card is worth in order to make a profit on it. Other outlets, like auction houses, where the percentage they keep is based on how much your card or item sells for. Online retailers like eBay, which has its own service to prove authenticity, will work in the same fashion.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/these-baseball-cards-have-sold-for-millions-of-dollars-but-why-an-expert-explains/ | 2022-09-05T19:02:22Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/these-baseball-cards-have-sold-for-millions-of-dollars-but-why-an-expert-explains/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FORD FINISHING RESULTS
4th – Joey Logano
6th – Michael McDowell
7th – Brad Keselowski
11th – Aric Almirola
13th – Ryan Blaney
14th – Cole Custer
16th – Austin Cindric
21st –Harrison Burton
26th – Chris Buescher
27th – Chase Briscoe
28th – Todd Gilliland
29th – BJ McLeod
32nd – Cody Ware
33rd – Kevin Harvick
34th – JJ Yeley
JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Mustang – “It’s a solid day but a missed opportunity is probably where I would put it. With so many others having trouble, every time you come to the Southern 500, especially in the playoffs, you’ve just got to survive and you get a solid finish. That’s what we were able to do is finish fourth after so many teams had issues. We had plenty of our own issues, too. We gave up track position a couple times and then we got caught with that caution and lost track position fairly late in the race, and then we just battled hard. It’s really hard to come up through the field here. It’s really hard to pass and was able to kind of battle back and get a top five out of it, which is OK. I mean, you’ve got to be happy about it because we scored a lot of points and that’s what it’s all about here in the first round, but also a missed opportunity to win the Southern 500 and I really want that one. That one stings a little bit because I think we were better than the cars in front of us if we had the air. If we were able to stay towards the front we could tune to cleaner air, instead of going in the back and trying to tune to dirty air. We just set ourselves back too far.”
HARVICK HAD A PARTS ISSUE AND EVERYBODY HAS THE SAME PARTS. DO YOU WORRY ABOUT THAT? “Absolutely. I mean, I worry about it for two reasons. One, it took a lot of points away from him today and he’s racing for a championship – stuff that’s out of his control and out of his team’s control. That’s concerning. The second thing that’s concerning is his car’s on fire. Maybe that’s the first thing that should be concerning is that cars are still catching on fire. We’ve got to fix that.”
AUSTIN CINDRIC, No. 2 Discount Tire Ford Mustang – “We didn’t take ourselves out of it tonight and that was certainly goal number one. I just wish we would have made more progress in the car tonight. We really struggled on the short runs and really got my lunch money taken on restarts and felt like we could hang with the rest of them on the long runs, but anytime we’d try to fix that we’d kind of just hurt the rest. It’s certainly something to learn for tonight and those restarts and I lost track position really kept killing us, but we didn’t take ourselves out of it. We were able to come away with more points than a lot of guys, so I’ll take it, but I’m certainly not satisfied with it.”
WAS THIS THE MOST CHALLENGING RACE OF YOUR CAREER LIKE YOU SAID EARLY THIS WEEK? “Yeah, I just wish I would walk out feeling like I learned more, to be honest. That’s the frustrating thing when you feel like you haven’t made enough gains throughout a race this long, so it’s certainly challenging. The team kept me in the game and some days that’s all you can ask for.”
RYAN BLANEY, No. 12 Menards/Moen Ford Mustang – “The caution hit us at the wrong time, but we were gonna be fine and then we had to re-pit for a wheel that was gonna be loose. You can’t do that when there are 20 laps to go in the race. It’s just unfortunate, but, like I said, we stayed in it all day and got some decent stage points and at least finished.”
WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT SOME OF THESE TOP GUYS HAVING ISSUES IN THE FIRST PLAYOFF RACE. IT’S HAPPENED BEFORE. “I think it always happens this way. I don’t know, it’s the jitters of the first playoff race and running at Darlington. It’s a tough spot and you see a lot of mistakes that are self-induced and some that are not self-induced, but there always seems to be problems. It’s a good thing we didn’t have too bad of a problem.”
CHASE BRISCOE, No. 14 HighPoint.com Ford Mustang – “We just really struggled with the balance. At the beginning of the race we were starting off extremely tight and then we got to where we were extremely loose and then we had nowhere to go with the 9 car when he wrecked. That kind of killed our day, but we were able to get lucky because a lot of those guys had issues, too. It’s not the way we wanted to start the round by any means, but we’re gonna have to improve and we’re probably gonna have to win. I don’t even know what the points look like, but we shouldn’t have been in that situation where we were struggling anyway. We just couldn’t find the balance. It’s unfortunate, but we know what we’ve got to do now and that’s what we’ll try to go do.”
DID YOU SEE THE 9 COMING BACK UP THE TRACK? YOU OBVIOUSLY WOULD HAVE AVOIDED IT IF YOU COULD HAVE. “When he went into one he just plugged the fence and then he started spinning and he went down, and I felt like if I stayed up on the bank I didn’t feel like he was gonna come up, and then right when he came up I saw him coming and I locked them up. Once I locked them up I was just sliding with him. I wish I could do it over again. Obviously, it’s way easier in hindsight, but it was a split-second decision and I made the wrong decision.”
KEVIN HARVICK, No. 4 Busch Light Ford Mustang – THAT LOOKED LIKE A SCARY FIRE. WHAT LED TO THAT? “I’m sure it’s just crappy parts on the race car like we’ve seen so many times. They haven’t fixed anything. It’s kind of like the safety stuff. We just let it keep going and keep going. The car started burning and as it burned the flames started coming through the dash. I ran a couple laps and then as the flame got bigger it started burning stuff up and I think right there you see all the brake fluid that was probably coming out the brakes and part of the brake line, but the fire was coming through the dash. What a disaster for no reason. We didn’t touch the wall. We didn’t touch a car and here we are in the pits with a burned up car and we can’t finish the race during the playoffs because of crappy ass parts.”
SO IT WASN’T AN ENGINE ISSUE ORIGINALLY? “No, I just stopped. The rocker was on fire for a couple laps. I just stopped because I couldn’t see anymore because the flames were coming through the dash and I couldn’t make myself sit in there and burn up.”
MICHAEL MCDOWELL, No. 34 FR8 Auctions Ford Mustang – “We had a really fast FR8 Auctions Ford Mustang. We were really good on the long run, but honestly we just needed to execute a little bit better on pit road. We just lost a few spots each time and then had to pass those cars back and lose a little bit of momentum, but Darlington is a tough place. Running 500 miles here is just tough and to run as competitive as we did all night and run up front I’m really proud of the effort, but I’m not surprised, either. We’ve had speed. We’ve been fast. We’ve had a lot of top 10s this year. That was probably one of our better performances on what I would call a mile-and-a-half style racetrack, so we’re making good gains. Everything is good and in a positive direction, so I’m thankful to get out of here. We had a couple close calls like you would image in a 500-mile race, but I’m proud of the effort.”
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Sunday night’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway was the first race of the NASCAR Playoffs with three Toyota Camry TRD drivers starting their march towards competing for this year’s championship. Two of those drivers – Denny Hamlin (second) and Christopher Bell (fifth) both earned top-five finishes while Bubba Wallace (ninth) also scored a top-10 finish as he is competing for the owner’s championship in the No. 45 Camry for 23XI Racing. Kyle Busch, who is also competing in this year’s Playoffs won the second stage of the race and led a total of 155 laps (of 367) before his engine expired with less than 30 laps remaining in the race. Fellow Toyota teammate, Martin Truex Jr. also led 48 laps of the race before also experiencing engine issues forcing an early end to his race.
Toyota Post-Race Recap
NASCAR Cup Series (NCS)
Darlington Raceway
Race 27 of 36 – 501.3 miles, 367 laps
TOYOTA FINISHING POSITIONS
1st, Erik Jones*
2nd, DENNY HAMLIN
3rd, Tyler Reddick*
4th, Joey Logano*
5th, CHRISTOPHER BELL
9th, BUBBA WALLACE
15th, TY GIBBS
31st, MARTIN TRUEX JR.
30th, KYLE BUSCH
*non-Toyota driver
TOYOTA QUOTES
DENNY HAMLIN, No. 11 Sport Clips Haircuts Toyota Camry TRD, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 2nd
Was there anything you could have done in the closing laps to get around Erik Jones?
“Not without contact. Last night in the Xfinity race, there was like two-and-a-half minutes of fall off in the last 15-lap run and I think it was about a second for us in a 15-lap run. The speeds are so fast and so much on-throttle time, it’s just an air game. Erik (Jones) just did a great job. I also have to thank Sport Clips, sorry I couldn’t run the Xfinity race yesterday. Always proud to always carry the Sport Clips colors here at Darlington. Just a great day for Erik and a great day for our team.”
Were you concerned when you saw the 19 and the 18 have engine issues in the closing laps?
“We can’t come in and change the engine and we’re not going to give up track position so there’s nothing we’re going to do about it to fix something even if it’s obvious anyway. That late in the race, I just looked at it and said it was a tough one for those guys obviously. It’s a bummer, but there’s nothing I’m going to change in the car so I just concentrate on doing the best I can as the driver.”
How much more did you need on the final run to try to catch Erik Jones?
“Just tried to get the wheels to slide or spin on entry. Tried to do everything I could to get the car to respond with the front, but just a lot tighter than what we had been all day. I think Kyle (Busch) said he had the same thing. Might have just been a track thing, but overall we weren’t great on short run, but obviously we were good on the long run. Just needed that thing to go green.”
How were your pit stops overall tonight?
“We had some good ones, we had some bad ones and then we had some good ones again at the end, which is where you need them. We got fortunate on the one cycle where it went long and we got a caution. It allowed us to gain some of that track position back. Just not enough, but congratulations to Erik Jones, that’s pretty awesome.”
CHRISTOPHER BELL, No. 20 Yahoo Toyota Camry TRD, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 5th
How do you feel about your race overall tonight?
“Overall, a good points day, but just disappointed. Our Camrys were super-fast, but I don’t know, just whenever you have your teammates that are running one, two, three and you’re struggling to get up there and race with them, it’s disappointing. Overall, good day and it’s a good way to start this Playoff stretch and hopefully we can continue the momentum.”
Were you able to make passes during the race or was that challenging tonight?
“I don’t know if anybody could pass exceptional, but our teammates could make their way to the front so I’m disappointed with fifth just because of how strong our teammates were and we were always kind of back there always in that outside of the top-five range. Caught a couple bad breaks, but a couple good ones at the end and ended up fifth with some stage points. Overall a good day for the Yahoo Camry and we’ll try and build on this and continue the momentum into Kansas.”
How worried were you when you saw what happened to the 18 and 19 in the closing laps with both experiencing engine issues?
“It wasn’t ideal, that’s for sure. Especially after Richmond when we saw Ty Gibbs have an engine issue and then myself and Kyle (Busch) both had engine issues at Watkins Glen. It’s definitely on the back of our minds, but I have all the faith in the world that the guys at TRD will get it figured out and we’ll keep it rolling.”
BUBBA WALLACE, No. 45 Root Insurance Toyota Camry TRD, 23XI Racing
Finishing Position: 9th
How was your race today overall?
“All in all, a decent day for our Root Toyota Camry team. Just have to get better at calling the adjustments and getting on top of our balance to stay ahead of the curve. All in all, just proud to come out of here with a finish. Good car for us, just have to keep on trucking onto Kansas.”
TY GIBBS, No. 23 Monster Energy Toyota Camry TRD, 23XI Racing
Finishing Position: 15th
How was your race car overall tonight?
“We were really fast when the sun was setting but needed to make some different adjustments to keep our Monster Energy Toyota Camry TRD fast into the night. The team did a good job, but we were just a little off tonight.”
KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 M&M’s Toyota Camry TRD, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 30th
What happened in the closing laps of the race that ended your evening?
“Engine broke. Just unfortunate circumstances for us tonight. The guys did a great job and brought a really fast M&M’s Toyota Camry. Just real proud of the effort. All the stuff the guys have done and gone through – just all the news and everything that’s going on all year. They’ve dug in and never given up and continue. Just had a great car and don’t have anything to show for it. That’s what I really, really hate about it.”
How are you feeling right now?
“I don’t know. The sun will come up tomorrow.”
After such a dominant performance in the race, what happened that ended your night early?
“The engine broke. We were obviously leading a lot of laps and had a really fast car. Proud of the guys and their fight. The guys on pit road tonight were awesome. Had a lot of fun being up front, leading laps like that and show what we’re made of. I just hate that we can’t finish with the points we need.”
MARTIN TRUEX JR., No. 19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota Camry TRD, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 31st
What did you feel in the engine before your race was over?
“I lost power steering and the car started overheating real quick and losing power. Kicked some belts off or something. Thanks to all my guys and everybody at JGR (Joe Gibbs Racing), TRD, everybody at Bass Pro for supporting us all year. It’s been tough and this is another tough night for sure, but we’ll come back next week and fight again.”
How would you describe your emotions right now?
“Just mad. Upset, angry. We deserve better and no matter what we do this year it seems wrong. When we run good, stuff goes wrong and when we run bad, nothing happens. Just one of those years that we can’t get anything to go our way. It’s about the fifth time I should have won this race and I’ve only won it once so pretty pissed off.”
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In a race that had more twists and turns than a Victorian melodrama, Erik Jones put the vaunted No. 43 Chevrolet back in Victory Lane for the first time since 2014.
In a remarkable run to the finish in the season’s first NASCAR Cup Series Playoff race, Jones held off Denny Hamlin in a 20-lap run to the finish to win the Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway for the second time.
The Sunday night race took its toll on more than a handful of Playoff drivers, as Jones became the first non-Playoff driver to win the first postseason event since NASCAR introduced the elimination format in 2014.
The victory was Jones’ first of the season, the third of his career, and the first for Petty GMS Racing since that organization was former by merger before the 2022 campaign. The win was No. 200 for the 43 car number, which NASCAR Hall of Famer and car owner Richard Petty drove to seven series championships.
“Richard hasn't been to Victory Lane at Darlington probably since he last won here,” said Jones, referencing Petty’s 1967 victory in the Southern 500. “It's just awesome. Just so proud of these guys, Petty GMS and (sponsor) Focus Packer Crew.
“We've been so close all year, and I didn't think today was going to be the day. It was going to be a tough one to win, I knew, but no better fitting place. I love this track. I love this race. On that trophy twice, man. I was pumped to be on it once, but to have it on there twice—pretty cool.”
The victory was the first in the Cup Series for crew chief Dave Elenz. Jones won his first Southern 500 in 2019, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing but was released after the 2020 season in favor of Christopher Bell. On Sunday night, Jones held off a former teammate in Hamlin, who ran out of time in his pursuit of Jones and finished in the runner-up spot, .252 seconds behind the race winner.
“Well, I mean, I never lost any belief in myself through any of it,” Jones said. “I knew I could still do it, and I just knew we needed to grow the program to do it, and we have. We've brought on a lot of great people in the last year. Dave Elenz called a great race today. His first Cup win—that's pretty cool for him.
“I'm excited, man. We've been talking about this day a long time, and it is redemption in a lot of ways. Very fitting that it's here at this race again. I felt like this was the race that saved my job the first time around, and coming back here with this win, I guess it puts you back on the map.”
Tyler Reddick ran third, followed by pole winner Joey Logano, who vaulted to the top of the Playoff standings, six points clear of second-place William Byron, who finished eighth on Sunday.
Jones got his chance at the front of the field when Kyle Busch, who had led a race-high 155 laps, suffered a blown engine as he prepared for the final restart. Busch had inherited the top spot when his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Martin Truex Jr., suffered a similar failure on Lap 333 of 367.
But those retirements barely scratched the surface of the drama that unfolded throughout the race. Disaster befell Chase Elliott and Kevin Harvick. Kyle Larson and his team accomplished an amazing salvage job.
And the Playoff picture remained just as uncertain as it had been entering the grueling 500-mile contest at the Lady in Black.
After a catastrophic Playoff opener, Elliott, the regular-season champion, is the series leader no more.
Elliott spun sideways in Turn 2 on Lap 113—two laps short of the end of Stage 1—cracked the back of his No. 9 Chevrolet and slid down the track into the path of Chase Briscoe, who couldn’t avoid the collision.
Elliott nursed his car to pit road where his team tried in vain to repair the damage, but with the right rear toe link and upper and lower control arms broken, the task was hopeless. The 10-minute time allotment under NASCAR’s damaged vehicle policy ran out, and Elliott retired from the race in last place (36th).
The 15-point advantage Elliott carried into the Playoffs was gone. Elliott scored the minimum one point for his efforts at Darlington and fell to ninth in the Playoff standings, 14 points ahead of 16th-place finisher Austin Cindric in 13th.
“I just hit the wall in (Turns) 1 and 2 and broke something in the right-rear,” Elliott said succinctly. And how would he approach the next Playoff race at Kansas Speedway? “A lot better than we did today.”
A solid run by 2014 series champion Harvick went up in flames on Lap 275. As he lost speed while running ninth, Harvick radioed to his crew, “My rocker panel’s on fire.”
Flames erupted on both sides of the car. Harvick parked the No. 4 Ford on the apron and scrambled from his smoke-filled cockpit. Harvick exited the race in 33rd place and dopped to the bottom rung of the Playoff standings, 13 points below the current cut line.
Larson, the reigning series champion, brought his car to pit road on Lap 79, sensing his engine was about to expire. He lost three laps as his team worked under the hood of the No. 5 but returned to the track and the “gremlins” disappeared after a few laps.
Using wave-arounds and his status as beneficiary under caution to advantage, Larson regained the lead lap and finished 12th, averting a major hit in the standings.
Notes: The last driver to win a race in the No. 43 was Aric Almirola, who took the car to Victory Lane on July 6, 2014 at Daytona… Logano led the first 37 laps from the pole and 64 overall, but an issue with the left front tire cost him valuable time during a green-flag pit stop on Lap 75, and he never regained the track position he lost… Ross Chastain lost a lap when he returned to pit road for an unscheduled stop on Lap 160 to address a loose wheel. He finished 20th, one lap down… Cindric, Austin Dillon, Briscoe and Harvick are the four drivers below the current cut line with two races left in the Round of 16. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72644-erik-jones-holds-off-denny-hamlin-in-action-filled-southern-500 | 2022-09-05T19:08:48Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72644-erik-jones-holds-off-denny-hamlin-in-action-filled-southern-500 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
17th
13th
14th
“Tonight, we wanted it all with the BetMGM Chevy and we didn’t get that, but there are some positives to our race at Darlington Raceway. Our BetMGM Chevy was tight from the word "go.” During the middle of the race, we had something that was decent, but it was too loose at the end and, overall, not great. I just wish we would’ve brought something a little better than that. The positive is that we're not last in points anymore. We made some improvements on the point situation so it was a decent night because of that. We’re just going to have to bring a better hot rod to Kansas Speedway and keep trying to advance to the next round of the NASCAR Playoffs.”
-Austin Dillon
Tyler Reddick and the No. 8 Lenovo Chevrolet Earn Top-Three Finish at Darlington Raceway
3rd
4th
5th
“We were battling a lot tonight in the Lenovo Chevrolet at Darlington Raceway. My cool suit went out, I was battling a tight race car, and I even needed a pep talk from my crew chief and spotter at one point during the race. I just couldn’t quite put the whole race together. I feel like I didn’t do a good job getting into the box tonight. I was a little inconsistent, so I wish I could have been better there. Last time we were here, I felt like I was pretty good at that, so I just got to figure out what changed. There’s always something to be learned. All things considered, it turned out okay. At one point we were in a pretty tight spot. I think Ty Gibbs, Austin Cindric and myself got sandwiched together off of the wall in Turn 4, so to rebound like we did and get third out of it was a really good night. It’s what we needed in the NASCAR Playoffs. Certainly, when you’re that close and one spot away on the restart from having the lead it stinks. We’ll head to Kansas and try for a win.”
-Tyler Reddick
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Kevin Lacroix almost claimed another win at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park this Sunday, as NASCAR Pinty's concluded their last road course event of the season.
The driver of the #74 Lacroix Tuning | NAPA Auto Parts | Valvoline. car finished second after this fiery race. "With the championship race so close, I needed this win," said Kevin Lacroix after the race.
He was well on his way to climbing on the top step of the podium after setting the fastest time in Saturday morning's practice session and 3rd in qualifying.
At the start of the WeatherTech 200, Lacroix took the lead after just a few laps. Leading the field, Lacroix built a comfortable lead that melted during the first caution. Taking advantage of the caution flag, half of the field came down pit road, first for fuel, then a second time for the left side tires, and a third time for the right side tires.
The then race leader Andrew Ranger opted for a different strategy, staying on track. Starting 9th, Lacroix worked his way up to 3rd, where he was stuck behind Andrew Ranger and Marc-Antoine Camirand for a while before claiming second place.
The race had two more cautions. The last one spiced up the battle for the win with a few laps to go. Lacroix started in the second position and had to overtake Camirand while watching out for Gary Klutt behind. Camirand took advantage of the fight between Lacroix and Klutt to pull a gap. However, with two laps remaining, Lacroix was able to catch up with his main competitor. The 51-lap race ended with Lacroix in second place.
"Marc-Antoine (Camirand) did not make any mistakes during the race," explained the driver of the #74 NAPA Auto Parts | Valvoline | Lacroix Tuning car. "It was hard to fight against him, but we had a great car, especially at the end. I wish the race would have lasted longer, but he deserved the win, and we are happy with 2nd place!"
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Chattooga County Schools will be closed for the next two days, due to the water outage in the county.
According to the school system’s website, schools will be closed on Tuesday, September 6 and Wednesday, September 7.
Here is the full statement from school officials:
“After speaking with officials from the City of Summerville in charge of the water Tuesday morning, I have been advised that we are looking at being without water until sometime later this week. Without water, we are unable to flush toilets, wash hands, drink from the fountains, or prepare lunches. Because of this situation, the Chattooga County School System will be closed Tuesday (9/6/2022) and Wednesday (9/7/2022). We will continue to stay in contact with City officials as we move forward this week so that informed decisions can be made to best protect and serve our families. Please continue to check our website, social media and local news outlets for school updates concerning Thursday and Friday. Also, if any of our families need assistance during this trying time, please do not hesitate to contact a school system employee.
Thank you,
Jared Hosmer
Chattooga Strong
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Labor Day, which recognizes the many contributions workers have made to the prosperity of the United States, also marks the unofficial end of summer on the first Monday in September.
Many Americans across the country will be celebrating the long weekend, but it can be confusing to figure out what will be open and closed to observe the holiday on Monday, September 5.
Here are the businesses and institutions that will be open and closed.
Retailers
Most major retailers, including Walmart, Target, CVS and major grocery stores like Kroger and Trader Joe's will be open. Notably, wholesale retailer Costco will be closed Monday. Make sure to check in with local businesses to see if they'll be closed in observance of the holiday.
Government
Federal offices, government buildings and post offices will be closed Monday. State and local courts and DMV offices will not be operating.
Financial institutions
Labor Day is a bank holiday, so most banks will be closed — however, online banking and ATMs will be available for use. The stock market will not be trading — the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will be dark.
Post office
USPS will be closed on Monday. UPS also will not be operating, but its Express Critical services will be available. While most of FedEx's services will be closed, its Custom Critical service will also be operating.
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We all have friends who are always reading books. Friends who say they read 3-4 books a month and we're thinking 'how do you do that?'. First, who has the time to read that many books a month? Speed readers and people who can read without distractions from their own minds.
President John F Kennedy could read up to 1,200 words a minute. The average is around 250. Imagine how many books you could read in a year if you were closer to JFK's reading ability.
That's what the app, Outread, claims to do. Not 1,200 words a minute, but a lot faster than you're probably reading now.
The speed reading trainer has exercises and techniques to train your brain to read faster while comprehending what you're reading. The app says one of the things that slow us down as we read, is that inner voice we hear as we see the words, (the voice that says 'I've read that somewhere else,' and 'wonder if I need to mow the grass this weekend.') Another reading speed bump is how our eyes physically move from one side to the other of the page.
One reading exercise in the Outread app improves peripheral vision and short-term memory by placing a grid of numbers on the screen. Your task is to find those numbers in order as quickly as possible.
The app offers a few techniques to improve your speed. One shows highlighted text on a page one or two words at a time. You decide if you want the highlights to move at 300 words per minute or 800 wpm. The more you read, the more you'll find you can speed things up incrementally.
What are you reading during these techniques and drills? Outread+ includes books such as "The Great Gatsby", and other classics you never got around to reading. Dozens of books from all genres to choose from. You can also use the app to read articles from Forbes and other magazines as well as things you've saved in other apps.
I can't say for certain the app is the reason, but after using it for a few hours, my time on these tests improved and I gradually increased my reading speed to over 400 words per minute.
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NOAA's hurricane hunters, famous for flying into the world's most ferocious weather, have a job which is not for the faint of heart, often being tossed in severe turbulence while flying at a mere 10,000 feet.
Now, the hurricane hunters have raised the bar, entering new territory. Literally.
"We're taking the aircraft to a place we've never done before," noted Dr. Jason Dunion, a meteorologist for NOAA's research division and lead scientist for the new mission.
"I look at the flight we just had as trailblazing," he emphasized. "We've never taken the NOAA hurricane hunters out that far east. We've kind of opened the door to trying and doing more science out there."
Up until now, hurricane hunters had only flown into storms about midway across the Atlantic to investigate.
But last month, for the first time ever, the NOAA hurricane hunters "hunted" a potential storm all the way across the Atlantic, near the Cape Verde Islands, August 9-12 on a groundbreaking mission.
"We see a lot of our hurricanes coming from a nursery over Africa," Dunion explained. "It's just south of the Sahara Desert, and little tropical disturbances come out of that nursery, and they account for over half the named storms that we see in the Atlantic and about 80% to 85% of the major hurricanes that we see."
West Africa is a hurricane 'nursery'
The 'nursery' is the breeding ground for hurricanes. Studying storms before they form will greatly improve forecasts, by determining early on which storms will form and which ones will fizzle.
The data they gather will show why storms track a certain way, why some intensify while others weaken, and which ones are worth obsessing over for more than a week as they make the long journey across the Atlantic.
"The benefit of working from Cape Verde is we can get more observations of what's actually happening in the atmosphere earlier, so that the forecast models have the best information available to make the best possible forecasts," outlined Capt. Jason Mansour, the project's aircraft commander.
He was one of the nine-member crew, alongside Dunion, and flying into hurricanes is nothing new for either. They have experienced some of the worst weather on Earth. Dunion recalled his experience while flying into Hurricane Dorian in 2019.
"That was when it was intensifying from a Category 5 to a Category 5+. I felt like a feather in the wind that day," Dunion recalled, adding, "I think we had about three to four G forces. That's something that someone who's getting launched into space would feel."
The mission in August was different. The crew wasn't facing a Category 5 storm bearing down on the US, but the science behind the mission could be just as powerful.
Studying storms before they form near Africa, to better forecast closer to home
"Stuff that we do is about national security. It's about making sure that the public knows, 'Am I at risk? Do I have to evacuate?' And that's what NOAA, the United States science agency, specializes in," Monsour stressed. "Making sure we have the best possible data, so the best possible decisions can be made."
Data gathered from the tropical waves will be input into computer models used to forecast storms. Right now, the forecast is much more reliable until about five days out. Further out, it's not.
If real-time data can be put into the computer models, when the storm is on the opposite side of the Atlantic, the models have much less 'guessing' to do and could initialize the storm properly.
Right now, forecast models basically guess where the center of the storm is until hurricane hunter aircraft can fly inside it to pinpoint where exactly the center is. The lack of early data can cause a lot of errors in the long-term track of the storm.
With hurricane hunters flying into the storm from its inception, there would be much less guessing, and it would improve the hurricane track forecast and the intensity forecast immensely. The improvements would result in everyone, from government officials to emergency managers to the general public, being able to plan for hurricanes more efficiently and effectively.
"The hurricane center forecast, right now, out to five days for future potential for storms. And we can see a time coming when it's going to be a seven-day forecast," explained Dunion. "If you're looking out seven days, you really need to be looking out farther east, out toward [Cape Verde]."
Saharan dust's role in suppressing hurricane development
Saharan dust is often talked about during hurricane season as "choking storms." The dry air associated with the dust off the west coast of Africa creates a hostile environment for hurricanes, prohibiting their ability to grow and develop.
The crew flew into the Cape Verde Islands during a Saharan dust event, and seeing it firsthand left the crew in awe.
"Being boots on the ground in Cape Verde and seeing this dust layer with my own eyes was incredible," Monsour recounted. "I see this wisp of this dust coming off the African coast from satellite, which is cool, but actually being able to see it in an operational setting with my own eyes was very unexpected and very impressive."
Both Monsour and Dunion described the Saharan dust as an "eerie fog" as they flew closer to Africa.
Until now, hurricane hunter flights were much closer to the US, so the Saharan dust was much more diffused by the time it made it across the Atlantic. This was a first for the crew, who saw the dust lift off the continent. They said the views were breathtaking.
"Unbelievable views of these dusty skies that in a layer from about one to three miles in the atmosphere, it's just this layer of dust, really thick dust," Dunion described.
The crew is hoping to fulfill one more mission to the Cape Verde Islands this hurricane season, but Mother Nature will determine when and if it happens.
The storm they explored in early August did not become a tropical system, but Dunion noted they can learn just as much from a storm that forms as a storm that doesn't, as his crew took a new era of forecasting to new heights.
"Those are the steps you have to take if you want to advance the science," Dunion asserted. "I think NOAA took a really big step as far as being able to really operate across the Atlantic."
Tracking two named systems
Last week, two systems in the tropics were given names, leaving us with Danielle and Earl to watch this week. Neither system poses a threat to the mainland US, however, they could be of interest if you are traveling.
Tropical Storm Earl is located about 175 miles north of St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands. The storm is expected to continue on a northward path during the next few days. Right now, Earl has sustained winds of 50 mph, with higher gusts.
"Slow strengthening is forecast over the next several days, and Earl could become a hurricane later this week," the National Hurricane Center wrote.
Even though Earl is moving away from the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, there will still be effects felt on the islands.
"Earl is expected to produce additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 4 inches, with isolated storm totals of 8 inches, across the Leeward Islands, U.S. and British Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico through Monday," said the hurricane center.
The current forecast track has Earl passing to the east of Bermuda on Friday at hurricane strength.
Elsewhere in the Atlantic, Hurricane Danielle is out in the open Atlantic with winds of 90 mph. Danielle is expected to slowly weaken over the next few days as it drifts to the northeast. By early next week, remnants of Danielle could impact the United Kingdom, bringing rain and wind to the region.
Lastly, there is a tropical wave off the coast of Africa the hurricane center is watching as well. They are giving the system a 40% chance of development during the next few days.
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Forget breakfast, lunch and dinner. People can't get enough of the in-between.
Big companies report that snack sales are soaring. Net sales of Doritos, Cheetos, Ruffles, PopCorners, Smartfood and SunChips grew by double digits in the second quarter. Retail sales of Pirate's Booty jumped about 32% and SkinnyPop sales increased about 17%.
That's partially because snacks are getting more expensive, and because people are getting back to their lives outside the home and want food they can eat on the go.
But it's not just that. Eating habits have changed, and people are increasingly snacking instead of eating traditional meals. About 64% of consumers across the world said that they prefer to eat several small meals throughout the day, rather than a few large ones, according to a 2021 snacking survey by Mondelez. That's up from 59% in 2019. About 62% reported replacing at least one meal a day with snacks.
America's eating habits have always changed with the times. The Industrial Revolution ushered in the three-meals-a-day template. Packaging innovations at the dawn of the 20th century introduced snacks to the mainstream. Massive supermarkets gave consumers a seemingly endless array of bright, shiny items to choose from.
And during the pandemic, the major shift in how millions of Americans work opened up new snacking categories — that's good news for snack sellers, but not for our health.
The US snack market grew from about $116.6 billion in 2017 to an estimated $150.6 billion in 2022, and is forecasted to grow to $169.6 billion in 2027, according to Euromonitor International, which includes fruit snacks, ice cream, biscuits, snack bars, candy and savory snacks in the category.
"Snacking today, it is pervasive," said Sally Lyons Watt, executive vice president at the market research company IRI. "It's a lifestyle."
Not until recently, though.
From three square meals to snacks whenever
It may be the norm today, but historically, eating three meals a day was "certainly not standard," said Ashley Rose Young, a food historian at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. The practice came into vogue in the United States thanks to the Industrial Revolution, when factory schedules dictated workers' eating patterns.
"You would want to have a meal prior to heading to work to fuel you through the day," said Young. Then "there would be a midday break, to refuel your energy ... and then a post-work meal."
As meals grew standardized in the United States, new rules around eating emerged — and with them, new attitudes toward snacking.
In the 19th century, snacks like peanuts were sold by street vendors, and stigmatized for being associated with the working class and poor, Abigail Carroll explained in "Three Squares," her 2013 book about American snacking and eating habits. "When meals — especially dinner — became more social, more mannerly, and more rigidly defined, snacking became transgressive," she wrote.
But food sellers saw a business opportunity in snacks — if they could figure out a way to get them off the streets and into the home. To do that, they needed better packaging, something that would seal an item and keep it fresh.
Eventually, one set of entrepreneurs cracked the code, kicking the door open for the rest of the industry. Their product? Cracker Jack.
Snacks hit the mainstream
Frederick and Louis Rueckheim, German brothers who lived in Chicago, developed the sweet popcorn and peanut snack. In 1896, they traveled with it from city to city sharing samples and spreading the word about the product, Carroll recounted. To keep Cracker Jack fresh longer, they worked with a man named Henry Eckstein, who developed a special wax lining for the bags it was sold in. In following years, companies like Nabisco and Kellogg built on that technology or adapted it for their own items, kicking the door open for others.
Over the years, other shifts in American culture and technology made snacking on-the-go even more attractive, noted Young, the food historian.
Microwaves, first introduced in 1955, allowed for a whole new type of packaged foods. And after World War II, more people started buying their groceries from mass retailers, rather than their neighborhood green grocer. "You have these huge supermarkets with shelves and shelves full of boxed snacks," Young said, which contributed to the country's snacking culture.
And once millennials started shopping for themselves, the trend accelerated further.
Snacking today
Boomers and Gen Xers tend to indulge in a snack in the afternoon or evening, said IRI's Watt, who has been tracking snacking trends for decades. Millennials, however, also snack in the morning.
"Millennials really did start to change the way in which [people] eat," said Watt. "You definitely started to see smaller meals and or snacks ... being consumed throughout the day," she said.
Then the pandemic hit, and another shift occurred, Watt noted: People started eating more late-night snacks.
That was partly because of how people spent their days during the pandemic. With kids stuck at home during traditional working hours, some parents put in more work hours at night and reach for snacks to refuel. Others developed new routines that included staying up later.
The option of a late-night treat without having to leave your home became newly available thanks to the sudden proliferation of 15-minute delivery services, which encouraged people to order an item or two when they had a sudden craving.
Now, as people return to the office and a more regular work schedule, they may be less interested in late-night snacking. But food sellers will likely keep trying to market food for that timeframe. "I don't think they're going to fall off and not be relevant," said Watt.
Not all snacks are the same
So what does all this snacking mean for our health? It depends on what you consider a snack.
"Those who are picking whole fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy products, lean protein sources, or are conscious of the portion size of their snack — it can sometimes help them meet certain recommendations and guidelines," said Jessica Bihuniak, a registered dietitian and assistant professor of clinical nutrition at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development.
But other items, like candy, soda or chips, with saturated fats, high sodium levels and added sugars, can create unhealthy habits. "Regular intake" of these types of items "can increase a preference for these types of foods, leading to a change in eating behaviors and diet quality," according to the Harvard School of Public Health's Nutrition Source, the school's general guide to healthy eating.
Snack sellers offer so-called "better for you" options, which may have less sugar or come in smaller packs for portion control. For some, such alternatives can be very helpful when it comes to weight management, said Bihuniak, noting that people should be mindful of serving sizes because smaller packages may still have more than one serving.
When it comes to shelf-stable packaged goods — even those that claim that they're better for you — consumers should read the nutritional information on the packages.
"They did something to it to make it shelf stable," Bihuniak said. "The important part there is looking at food labels," she said, and watching out for sodium content, added content and saturated fat. Your healthiest option, she said, is probably something that doesn't come in a package at all, like a piece of fruit or a crunchy veggie.
It's also worth noting that recent studies have found that all ultra-processed foods are linked to cancer and early death.
It's less clear whether when or how often you eat matters. For some, it's just easier to snack rather than carve out time for sit-down meals, Bihuniak said. But as long as you're making the right food choices, "I think that's completely fine."
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President Joe Biden has been celebrating Labor Day in Pittsburgh on-and-off for more than a decade, twice using the city's parade as a testing ground while he contemplated a presidential run.
When he returns to the city Monday, others' races will be front and center, including Pennsylvania's increasingly nasty Senate contest. Yet Biden's own political strength will be put to the test as he embarks upon his most intensive in-person politicking since before the Covid-19 pandemic.
In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania on Monday, Biden heralded his economic record while celebrating "the dignity of American workers" at events with organized labor.
But he also hit back at "extreme" Republicans as he endeavors to render the upcoming vote not just a referendum on his own record but a choice between himself and the chaos cultivated by his predecessor.
"I want to be very clear up front. Not everyone Republican is a 'MAGA Republican.' Not every Republican embraces that extreme ideology. I know, because I've been able to work with mainstream Republicans my whole career," Biden said at Laborfest in Milwaukee.
"But the extreme MAGA Republicans in Congress have chosen to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division," he said. "But together we can and we must choose a different path: forward."
Democrats hope to flip two Republican-held Senate seats in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and their success or failure will be viewed as a key indicator of the party's -- and Biden's -- political power ahead of the 2024 presidential contest.
Biden's own political future was the subject of anxious speculation over the summer as the 79-year-old President suffered low approval ratings and a string of setbacks. Biden's intentions remain a lingering question, though he insists he plans to run again.
But the unofficial kickoff to the midterm campaign season has coincided with a string of policy successes for Biden and his party, easing some of the Democratic pressure surrounding the President's leadership and political acumen.
Biden hopes to use his recent victories to boost Democrats and avoid what once was viewed as an inevitable midterm drubbing. He is also betting the reminder to voters of the dysfunction surrounding former President Donald Trump will benefit Democrats in November.
In Wisconsin, Biden chastised the state's incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, a top Trump ally, for downplaying the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol, where Trump's supporters sought to disrupt the electoral vote count.
"Sen. Johnson said it was by and large a peaceful protest," Biden said. "Have you seen the videos what happened that day?"
Biden's advisers have laid plans for the President to travel two or three times a week in the run-up to the November vote. Because his presidential bid was hampered by the pandemic, Biden has not aggressively campaigned in-person since he was competing in the Democratic primary in early 2020.
At campaign-style events over the past two weeks, Biden has demonstrated an eager willingness for the trail. During a fiery rally in Maryland, he excoriated Republicans for standing in the way of his agenda, which he touted as transformational for middle class Americans.
Later, during an official event in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Biden called for tougher new gun laws, including a ban on assault weapons, and accused Republicans of fealty to the gun lobby.
And speaking at Independence Hall in Philadelphia last week, in what was an official White House event despite the political message, Biden issued a dire warning about "MAGA Republicans" seeking to undermine American democracy, a speech he'd been contemplating for months as he grew increasingly concerned at Trump's hold on the GOP.
Monday's events signaled a return to a more consistent theme for Biden: The importance of organized labor in building the middle class and strengthening worker protections. Biden's endorsement from key unions have helped fuel his many political campaigns, support he is consistently looking to repay.
In memos and strategy documents prepared over the month of August, Biden's team spelled out their dual-track midterm message: framing Republicans as extremists and promoting his own list of accomplishments.
Yet for much of the summer, it remained an open question whether Biden would be a welcome guest on the campaign trail or shunned by Democrats looking to separate themselves from a historically unpopular president.
When Biden visited Cleveland in July to deliver an economic speech, Ohio's Democratic Senate candidate, Rep. Tim Ryan, declined to attend. He opted to campaign in another part of the state instead.
Other Democratic candidates declined to say explicitly whether they wanted Biden to join them on the campaign trial in the fall.
"I will welcome anybody to come to Arizona, travel around the state at any time. As long as I'm here, if I'm not up in Washington in session, and talk about what Arizona needs," Sen. Mark Kelly, running for reelection in Arizona, said on CNN, stopping short of directly asking Biden to come.
With only one exception on Monday, Democratic candidates appeared eager to appear with Biden. In Milwaukee, he appeared with Gov. Tony Evers, the Democratic incumbent running for reelection against Trump-backed Republican Tim Michels.
The Democratic Senate candidate, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, did not appear with Biden, though the President advocated for him during his speech.
In Pittsburgh, Biden is planning to see both the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, and the US Senate candidate, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman.
His stop in Pittsburgh will mark his third visit to the commonwealth in the span of a week, and his 16th stop in the Keystone State since taking office.
Both Shapiro and Fetterman are also facing Trump-backed opponents, Doug Mastriano and Dr. Mehmet Oz. At a rally in Wilkes-Barre over the weekend, Trump sought to boost his endorsed candidates but spent much of his speech railing against Biden and the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Trump labeled Biden an "enemy of the state" in his speech, delivered near Biden's hometown of Scranton.
In Boston, meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris echoed Biden's message drawing contrasts with what the White House describes as "extremist" Republicans.
"Every day, workers fight to move our country forward. And yet, we must recognize that there are those in Congress who are fighting to drag us back. In Congress, in statehouses across our nation, extremist, so-called leaders are fighting to turn back the clock," she said during remarks to the Greater Boston Labor Council's annual breakfast.
"Let's not let extremist so-called leaders turn back the clock. We know what's at stake, we know what we stand for, we know when we fight, we win, we love our country, and all of this is worth it," she said.
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Democrats focused on secretary of state races this year have a warning for their party: If you think the aftermath of the 2020 election was troubling, 2024 could be even worse if we fail to invest in these campaigns.
As then-President Donald Trump fumed about his loss following the 2020 election, secretaries of state -- the top elections officials in their states -- were at the forefront of pushing back against his false claims of electoral fraud. While the unexpected new prominence has helped secretary of state candidates pull in more money and attention this cycle, some Democrats worry the party is not focused enough on these contests and, in turn, is risking chaos around the 2024 presidential election if a slew of Trump-backed, election-denying candidates are able to win and the former President follows through on his desire to run for the White House again.
"They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election," President Joe Biden said Thursday of "MAGA Republicans" in a Philadelphia speech on protecting democracy. "And they're working right now as I speak in state after state to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself."
Election deniers have won Republican primaries across the country -- including in states that will be central to the 2024 presidential election.
In Nevada, Jim Marchant, an unsuccessful congressional candidate in 2020, says that his No. 1 priority would be to "overhaul the fraudulent election system in Nevada" and that he would not have certified Biden's 2020 win in the state. In Arizona, state Rep. Mark Finchem has falsely claimed that Trump won the 2020 election, called for the arrest of Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and proposed widespread restrictions on voting in the state. And in Michigan, Kristina Karamo -- who has falsely claimed that Trump won the state in 2020 -- rose to prominence by alleging to have witnessed voter fraud as a poll challenger during the state's count of absentee ballots.
"Everything we do every single day to ensure the American people can elect, freely choose their election officials, is directly tied to January 6 and the far right and Trump's all-out assault on democracy," said Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, the chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, referring to last year's attack on the US Capitol by pro-Trump rioters. "We believe that democracy literally is on the ballot."
To some Democrats, however, the party hierarchy has not fully grasped the threat of what election-denying candidates would mean as their state's top election officials.
"There has been improvement. Do I think it is enough? No," said Ellen Kurz, founder and president of iVote, a Democratic outside group focused on secretary of state races. "If I was running the (Democratic National Committee), I would make this the top priority. It's a no-brainer for me."
'A seismic shift' for secretary of state races
The 2020 election represented a high-water mark for prominence of the secretary of state position. The sitting President was calling out secretaries by name, including some Republicans, and urging his supporters to put pressure on these offices to refuse to certify elections in states he had lost.
In several states, the secretary of state is appointed by the governor, but the position is an elected office in a majority of states, albeit one that voters haven't usually prioritized. Both Republican and Democratic campaigns raised tiny sums compared with other statewide counterparts, and few aired ads on television.
That has shifted since the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol, reflected in fundraising by top secretary of state candidates and the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State.
An insurrection makes a difference. The aftermath of the 2020 election forced more Americans to recognize that our country is at a crossroads and our democracy is in peril," said Kim Rogers, executive director of the Democratic secretary of state group, noting that Trump's pressure campaign on state officials after his loss and the global pandemic have also contributed to the attention. "I think across the board, all of those factors culminated in people recognizing that secretaries of state are one of our last lines of defense. And people are paying attention now."
She added: "As a collective, 2020 really was a seismic shift in the focus on these races."
Nowhere was that clearer than at Rogers' group, which works to elect Democratic secretaries of state. At the start of 2022, the group reported that it had raised "$4.5 million in 2021; over $2 million more than reported in 2020 and $3 million more than in the entire 2018 cycle." As of late August, the group has raised $16 million this cycle.
And in some races, Democratic candidates for secretary of state have raised up to five times what they had collected in earlier elections.
Michigan incumbent Jocelyn Benson announced in August she had raised $2.1 million in 2022. At the same point in 2018, the candidate had only raised $134,000. In Minnesota, Democrat Steve Simon raised nearly $400,000 in 2021 for his reelection bid, more than three times what he raised in his 2018 campaign. Simon is running against Republican Kim Crockett, who said last year that changing the rules around voting following the 2020 "big rig" was "our 9/11."
A study by the liberal-leaning Brennan Center for Justice at New York University's law school found that candidates in the six biggest secretary of state races of 2022 -- Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada and Wisconsin -- had raised $16.3 million as of the start of August, more than double what hopefuls had raised at the same point in 2018. In Nevada alone, where Marchant is facing off against Democrat Cisco Aguilar, the two candidates raised $2.6 million this cycle through the end of June the report found, more than five times the total that secretary of state candidates had raised at the same point in 2018.
For top law enforcement officials in these states, the outcome of these races could be significant.
Aaron Ford, the Democratic attorney general in Nevada, has watched Marchant's rise with apprehension. Ford's office was involved in a lawsuit Marchant filed after the Republican's 2020 loss to Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford in Nevada's 4th District. The lawsuit claimed voter fraud but was dismissed.
"I know firsthand what it would be like to have someone in the office such as Mr. Marchant. It's not lost on me at all," Ford said, referencing the litigation after the 2020 election. If he were to win and worked to dispute the 2024 election, Ford added, "I could envision a scenario where that constitutional officer would be sued by my office. It is incumbent on me, the attorney general, to defend the Constitution of the United States and the state of Nevada ... especially when it relates to something as important as elections."
Ford is running for a second term this year. Marchant did not respond to CNN's request for comment.
More could be done
Even as money flows into these races, the total spending in these contests remain small, especially compared with races for governor and Congress, and there are concerns that national Democrats aren't doing enough.
"The reality of an election cycle is everyone is trying to focus on their level of the ballot," said a Democratic operative working on secretary of state races. While the operative acknowledged there has been a bump in attention on these contests as Democrats make the case that "democracy is on the ballot," more could be done.
"We welcome any additional support," the operative said.
Asked about their involvement in secretary of state races, a Democratic National Committee official did not detail any direct involvement but said the party "has been investing earlier and more robustly in the DASS battlegrounds, making direct investments in the coordinated campaigns and state parties that support Democratic candidates up and down the ballot in these targeted states."
The official noted that in Arizona, Nevada, Michigan and Georgia -- four of the Democratic secretary of state association's top targets -- the party has invested $11 million. The committee also transfers $12,500 to each state party every month to help with all campaigns, including down-ballot races.
Advocates for secretary of state races argue, however, that the impact of more money could be significant. While secretary of state contests have grown more expensive -- and many of the candidates are competing for crowded air time in states with other top-flight statewide races -- their cost still pales in comparison to other contests, allowing a little money to go a long way.
That's a lesson iVote, the Democratic group that exclusively focuses on secretary of state races in swing states, has learned since its founding in 2014. Its budget then was $4.5 million, a number that grew to $7.5 million in the 2018 cycle. For the 2022 cycle, the group plans to spend $15 million, double its spending from four years ago.
"There are these small races, down-ballot races that are going relatively unnoticed that will determine if we have a free and fair election," said Hari Sevugan, a senior adviser to iVote. "Because pro-democracy candidates won these seats in 2018, our democracy survived in 2020. Who wins these seats in 2022 will not only determine what the election looks like in 2024, but what our democracy looks like the day after."
Kurz, who has been involved in secretary of state races for years, echoed that sentiment, arguing that Democrats cannot ignore what some Republican nominees are saying they will do if they win.
"Let's just say one of these people win, and they refuse to certify the votes because they don't like the results," Kurz said. "It's a constitutional crisis if the election is close, as it usually is. So, how could there be anything more important than making sure that we get pro-voting advocates of free and fair elections into these offices?"
"What's more important than that?" she added.
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A Democratic member of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol said Sunday that he expects the panel's final report to come out "by the end of the year."
"Well, certainly by the end of the year, because we're like Cinderella at midnight," Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin told "Face the Nation" on CBS. "Our license runs out at the end of the year, but under House Resolution 503, that's a significant part of our responsibility, to report to the American people about how to prevent coups, insurrections, political violence and attacks on our democratic process going forward."
CNN reported in July that sources have said the bipartisan committee has already started writing its report, but there is still much debate over which direction it should go. A key question the panel will have to answer is whether the report should include a criminal referral of former President Donald Trump.
Most select committee members feel that the public hearings held earlier this year have clearly laid out that Trump committed a crime for his role leading up to and on January 6 but believe it is up to the Department of Justice to pursue further.
As the committee prepares for the end-of-year sprint, Raskin said Sunday that he hopes its members are able to hear testimony from several key people, including former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas.
"I would say (Thomas) has a relevant testimony to render, and she should come forward and give it. I don't want to overstate her role," he said. "We've talked to more than 1,000 people, but we'd like to hear from Gingrich and we'd like to hear from her, too."
The committee wants to learn more about communications Gingrich had with senior advisers in the Trump White House about television advertisements that relied on false claims about the election.
And January 6 panelists have also been pushing for testimony from Thomas, whose support of the efforts to overturn Trump's 2020 electoral defeat have come under scrutiny given her husband's participation in a case that was before the US Supreme Court concerning the select committee investigation. One of her lawyers said in a June letter to the panel that he "does not believe there is currently a sufficient basis to speak with" the conservative activist.
Meanwhile, Raskin said he hopes the committee receives voluntary testimony from former Vice President Mike Pence, whose potential cooperation with the lawmakers would make him the investigation's most high-profile witness and could further expose Trump's scheme to overturn his 2020 election loss.
"I think he has a lot of relevant evidence, and I would hope he would come forward and testify about what happened," Raskin said. "We're trying to get everybody to come forward voluntarily. ... I would assume he's going to come forward and testify voluntarily."
Pence said last month that he would give "due consideration" to any formal invitation to testify before the committee, while hinting at potential executive privilege issues.
Asked if his comments Sunday about Pence were intended to suggest the January 6 committee has made progress in trying to secure the former vice president's testimony, Raskin told CNN that he just assumes "everyone will testify voluntarily, especially if they have nothing to hide."
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Just months after the devastating mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, students are set to return to class on Tuesday. But survivors will never return to the building where 19 of their classmates and two teachers were massacred in May.
Robb Elementary School will be demolished, Uvalde's mayor, Don McLaughlin, said during a July city council meeting, according to CNN affiliate KSAT-TV.
"We could never ask a child to go back, or a teacher to go back into that school ever," said McLaughlin.
Demolishing schools after a mass shooting has become common enough that there is a federal grant process available, according to Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez.
That such a process even exists is depressing, Gutierrez told KSAT-TV in May.
"What kind of world are we living in that legislation was created for razing these schools?" he said.
Other schools have also taken the path of destroying buildings after a mass tragedy.
"In many cases, these schools are closed or entirely renovated in an attempt to decrease the traumatic reminders that they have become for community members," said the Center for Violence Prevention at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
It's not clear when Robb Elementary School will be razed and if it will be replaced with another school or whether a memorial or other building will take its place.
In the meantime, survivors of the attack will attend classes at other schools in the school district.
The district's superintendent, Hal Harrell, has laid out plans to make schools safer.
But some families still don't feel comfortable returning and are transferring to other districts or taking classes online. A total of 416 students have transferred out of the district, and 136 have enrolled in virtual education, according to KSAT-TV.
Here's a look at what happened to other schools after horrifying attacks:
Sandy Hook Elementary School
Date of attack: December 14, 2012
Location: Newtown, Connecticut
Number of victims killed: 26 (including 20 children ages 6 and 7 and six adults)
What happened to the school: The entire school was razed and rebuilt.
Three weeks after the gruesome attack, Sandy Hook students traveled to the nearby city of Monroe and started attending classes at Chalk Hill Middle School, which was no longer being used as a middle school.
Four years after the massacre, a newly rebuilt Sandy Hook Elementary opened to students -- including fourth graders who were kindergarteners during the bloodbath.
Columbine High School
Date of attack: April 20, 1999
Location: Littleton, Colorado
Number of victims killed: 13 (including 12 students and one teacher)
What happened to the school: Columbine High School closed for the rest of the school year. Officials said the attack damaged about 23,000 square feet of the school and left an estimated 900 to 1,000 bullet and shrapnel holes in the walls and ceilings.
Four months later, at the beginning of the new school year, most of the school reopened -- except for the library, where most of the carnage took place. It was demolished and replaced with a newly built school library, called the Hope Library.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Date of attack: February 14, 2018
Location: Parkland, Florida
Number of victims killed: 17 (including 14 students and three staff members)
What happened to the school: Students returned to the campus two weeks after the massacre. But the school's Building 12, where most of the victims were killed, was closed off behind emergency tape with its windows covered.
A new building later replaced the temporary classrooms students had been using in the wake of the slaughter.
Santa Fe High School
Date of attack: May 18, 2018
Location: Santa Fe, Texas
Number of victims killed: 10 (including eight students and two teachers)
What happened to the school: Students returned 11 days after the bloodshed.
Even though there were only two days left in the school year, senior Kaitlyn Richards said she didn't want her high school career to end with the massacre.
"I don't know if we'll ever be ready to go back to school," she told CNN affiliate KTRK the day school resumed.
"But I don't want that last day to be my last memory of my senior year. I just want to know I can see all my classmates once again."
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The man charged in connection with the abduction of a still-missing Memphis teacher served prison time for an aggravated kidnapping more than 20 years ago, court records show.
Cleotha Abston, 38, pleaded guilty in November 2001 to the charge of especially aggravated kidnapping. He was released in November 2020, according to court records.
The Shelby County District Attorney's Office told WREG Abston was convicted in the kidnapping of a local attorney in 2000.
Abston is currently facing the same charge of especially aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence in the abduction of Eliza "Liza" Fletcher.
Fletcher, 34, a mother of two, was jogging around 4 a.m. Friday when a black GMC Terrain SUV passed by her, according to surveillance footage obtained of the incident. A man was then seen getting out of the vehicle and "ran aggressively" toward Fletcher and forced her into the passenger side of the SUV. Once both individuals were inside the SUV, the vehicle remained in a parking lot for about four minutes before driving away, according to the footage cited in an affidavit obtained by CNN.
The affidavit stated police found "physical evidence that she suffered serious injury."
Abston was arrested Saturday after police found the GMC Terrain in a parking lot near his residence, according to the affidavit. The vehicle had the same distinguishable damage and partial license plate identification seen in the surveillance footage from Fletcher's abduction.
Abston attempted to flee after US Marshals located him nearby, the affidavit said.
The suspect is being held in the Shelby County Jail on $500,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday, according to jail records. It is unclear whether he has an attorney.
DNA recovered from a pair of sandals found near where authorities believe Fletcher was abducted helped investigators identify and arrest Abston, according to the affidavit.
Surveillance footage captured from a local theater the day before Fletcher's disappearance showed Abston wearing what authorities believe are the same pair of Champion slide sandals found at the crime scene, according to the affidavit.
Additional surveillance footage matched with statements from Abston's employer confirmed the vehicle in question belongs to a woman associated with Abston's home address.
Cell phone records also place Abston at the site during the time of Fletcher's abduction on Friday morning, the affidavit said.
Fletcher's damaged phone was found near the scene where she was abducted, CrimeStoppers Executive Director Buddy Chapman said, according to a news release obtained by CNN affiliate WHBQ.
According to the affidavit, a witness said she saw Abston at his brother's house after the abduction. Both the witness and his brother said Abston was behaving oddly as he cleaned the interior of his SUV and washed his clothes in the sink.
Photos released by police show Fletcher running in the neighborhood near the University of Memphis. She was last seen wearing a pink jogging top and purple running shorts, police said in an alert.
Fletcher is White, 5 feet 6 inches tall, with brown hair and green eyes, police said. She weighs 137 pounds.
Her family is offering a $50,000 reward through CrimeStoppers for information leading to an arrest in the case, WHBQ reported.
"We look forward to Eliza's safe return and hope that this award will help police capture those who committed this crime," her family said in a statement shared by Chapman.
In a post on Twitter, St. Mary's Episcopal School said Fletcher is a junior kindergarten teacher.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a tweet it is assisting Memphis police in the investigation.
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A federal judge has granted former President Donald Trump's request to appoint a "special master" to review materials that the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago last month.
The decision, from Trump-appointed District Judge Aileen Cannon, is a significant victory for the former President, who has railed against the Biden administration and Justice Department since the search was executed four weeks ago.
"As a function of Plaintiff's former position as President of the United States, the stigma associated with the subject seizure is in a league of its own," Cannon wrote. "A future indictment, based to any degree on property that ought to be returned, would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude."
Cannon ordered that a third-party attorney, from outside the government, be brought in to review the materials that were taken from Trump's home and resort in Florida. The order also halts the Justice Department from continuing its review of the materials seized from Mar-a-Lago "pending completion of the special master's review or further Court order."
The classification review and intelligence assessments being conducted by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, however, will be allowed to continue.
Both sides have until Friday to nominate special master candidates and their specific duties.
Trump's lawyers argued that a special master was needed because they don't trust the Justice Department to fairly identify privileged materials that would need to be excluded from the ongoing criminal probe.
Trump blasted the Justice Department and the seizure at his rally in Pennsylvania this weekend.
"This egregious abuse of the law is going to produce a backlash the likes of which nobody has ever seen before," he said. "... these same exact people at Justice and the FBI, these same exact people, along with outside scum, are at it again with the horrific raid of my home. They just go on and on and they have to be stopped."
However, Cannon wrote that Trump had not proven that his constitutional rights were disregarded.
"(T)he Court agrees with the Government that, at least based on the record to date, there has not been a compelling showing of callous disregard for Plaintiff's constitutional rights," she wrote.
But Cannon cited several reasons for bringing in the special master, among them "the interest in ensuring the integrity of an orderly process amidst swirling allegations of bias and media leaks." She also cited the historic nature of the case.
The judge said the special master will be tasked with reviewing "seized property for personal items and documents and potentially privileged material subject to claims of attorney-client and/or executive privilege."
She added: "The Court is mindful that restraints on criminal prosecutions are disfavored but finds that these unprecedented circumstances call for a brief pause to allow for neutral, third-party review to ensure a just process with adequate safeguards."
FBI obtained Trump medical and tax information in search, judge says
The Justice Department has said that its own "filter team" already finished its review of the Mar-a-Lago documents -- and found a small set of attorney-client privileged records.
In court documents, DOJ said a "limited" number of records potentially covering attorney-client privilege were filtered out, and that the department was following the procedures it laid out to a magistrate judge when it sought the warrant, but Cannon had questions about its results.
The Justice Department also obtained "correspondent related to taxes," and medical documents during the search, according to the privilege team report that remains sealed but Cannon described Monday.
Cannon noted that Justice Department lawyers had acknowledged it seized some "[p]ersonal effects without evidentiary value," as well as 500 pages of material potentially subject to attorney-client privilege.
"To appoint a special master to make privilege determinations while simultaneously allowing the Government, in the interim, to continue using potentially privileged material for investigative purposes would be to ignore the pressing concerns and hope for the best," the judge said.
She wrote that Trump's "individual interest in and need for the seized property" was one reason to rule in favor of Trump's requests for a special master.
Cannon also said that the privilege review team's report outlined "at least two instances in which members of the Investigative Team were exposed to material that was then delivered to the Privilege Review Team."
"Those instances alone, even if entirely inadvertent, yield questions about the adequacy of the filter," she wrote.
"The United States is examining the opinion and will consider appropriate next steps in the ongoing litigation," said Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley.
Friday deadline for Trump, DOJ to propose special master candidate
Cannon set a Friday deadline for Trump's lawyers and Justice Department prosecutors to negotiate the special master's "duties and limitations" and to submit a list of potential candidates to serve in the role.
She also wants both sides to propose a schedule for the special master's review and to spell out how the person will be compensated for their work.
"The exact details and mechanics of this review process will be decided expeditiously following receipt of the parties' proposals," Cannon wrote.
Because the lawsuit demanding the special master was filed by Trump two weeks after the search, it has raised questions among legal observers what role a special master could even play, given that by that time the Justice Department was likely well on its way to finishing its review of the evidence.
The scope of a special mater will be key.
The DOJ had asked for the review, if it was granted, to focus on materials potentially covered by attorney-client privilege. Trump has been asking for the special master on the basis of there being executive privilege concerns with the seizure of the records.
At the hearing, according to reports, the judge said that Trump's ability to assert executive privilege as a former president was unsettled law. But she also had pointed questions for the Trump team about what the review they were seeking would look like.
If the two sides don't agree on the parameters for the soon-to-be appointed special master, they should explain their differences in a court filing, Cannon ruled Monday.
Cites Kavanaugh's recent Supreme Court ruling
Explaining why she was ordering a special master review for material potentially covered by executive privilege, Cannon said that the Justice Department had not convinced the court that those concerns should be "disregarded," as she went on quote from how the Supreme Court described its move in a dispute this year over Trump January 6 documents, including a statement from Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The DOJ had "arguably overstate[d] the law," Cannon wrote, when asserting that executive privilege had no "role to play here because Plaintiff -- a former head of the Executive Branch -- is entirely foreclosed from successfully asserting executive privilege against the current Executive Branch."
"The Supreme Court did not rule out the possibility of a former President overcoming an incumbent President on executive privilege matters," Cannon wrote.
She quoted from both the 1977 decision Nixon v. Administrator of General Services and from the order released this year by the Supreme Court when it refused to block the Archives' release to House January 6 investigators Trump White House documents.
"Further, just this year, the Supreme Court noted that, at least in connection with a congressional investigation, '[t]he questions whether and in what circumstances a former President may obtain a court order preventing disclosure of privileged records from his tenure in office, in the face of a determination by the incumbent President to waive the privilege, are unprecedented and raise serious and substantial concerns,'" Cannon wrote, quoting from the Supreme Court order.
Cannon added a line from a statement Kavanaugh wrote with that Supreme Court order: "A former President must be able to successfully invoke the Presidential communications privilege for communications that occurred during his Presidency, even if the current President does not support the privilege claim. Concluding otherwise would eviscerate the executive privilege for Presidential communications."
Jumping off of those quotes from the Supreme Court, Cannon wrote Monday that "even if any assertion of executive privilege by Plaintiff ultimately fails in this context, that possibility, even if likely, does not negate a former President's ability to raise the privilege as an initial matter."
Judge was confirmed after presidential election
Cannon of the Southern District of Florida, was nominated by Trump to the bench in May 2020 and confirmed by the Senate in a 56-21 just days after the presidential election in November 2020.
She previously served as an assistant US attorney in Florida in the Major Crimes Division and as an appellate attorney, according to written answers she gave to the Senate during her confirmation process.
A University of Michigan Law School graduate, Cannon clerked for a federal judge and later practiced law at a firm in Washington, DC, where she handled a range of cases, including some related to "government investigations," she told the Senate.
At her 2020 nomination hearing, Cannon thanked members of her family and shared the impact of their experience on her own life.
"To my loving mother ... who, at the age of 7, had to flee the repressive Castro regime in search of freedom and security, thank you for teaching me about the blessing that is this country and the importance of securing the rule of law for generations to come," she said.
This story has been updated with additional details.
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There are hundreds of decision-making central bankers in the world and thousands of employees advising them but time after time they prove that they only think with one collective mind.
The collective groupthink at central banks is an ongoing disaster. It means that any collective mistake is amplified across the globe.
At the dawn of the pandemic that meant central banks together rolling out enormous QE packages, including the Fed pledging 'unlimited' purchases that reached $300 billion per day.
That was followed by promises to keep rates zeroed out (or lower) for many years. Less than a year ago, the RBA was till promising not to lift rates from 0.1% until 2024. That flawed guidance inflated many bubbles, including in Australian housing.
That was followed by a collective belief that inflation was 'transitory', something that was repeated ad nauseum at this time last year, including Powell at Jackson Hole.
That was followed by a hasty retreat and now a sloppy series of disruptive rate hikes.
There should have been some kind of reckoning but the same leaders are doing it again. Now at the alter of groupthink is the message that rates must be jacked up even in the face of a recession in order to anchor inflation expectations. The idea is that the public needs to take the rate medicine now or risk a worse inflation infection later.
We've heard just about every Fed member say that now and it was followed by the ECB's Schnable at Jackson Hole who succinctly outlined the new ethos:
"Even if we enter a recession, we have little choice but to continue the normalization path ... If there was a de-anchoring of inflation expectations, the effect on the economy would be even worse."
Today it was the BOE's Mann and I'm sure that when the BOC, RBA and ECB hike rates this week, they'll all be singing from the same choirbook.
Maybe they're right. Certainly no one wants a repeat of the 1970s, which is the inflation ghost they're fighting against.
What's so troublesome is that no one I can find -- at least publicly -- is pushing for anything else. What happened to that transitory thinking? Gasoline prices are down and supply chains are loosening. To even talk about it is now taboo.
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The European Commission’s energy agency recommends an “emergency wholesale price cap” on natural gas supplies.
The two options they cited are:
- A cap on prices for gas from Russia
- A system that would differ from country to country
The discussion document is partly irrelevant now with Russia closing Nord Stream 1 but gas still flows from Russia via other pipelines.
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Everything That Happened at the Don’t Worry Darling Premiere
Ostensibly Florence Pugh, Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde attended the Venice International Film Festival to premiere their movie Don’t Worry Darling in the same glamorous manner thousands of movies have premiered there before. Yet, the world is keenly aware by this point the trio is navigating multiple interpersonal narratives egged on by both the traditional gossip columns and social media. Wilde, the film’s director, and Styles, reportedly dating now for over a year, seemed to avoid having photos taken side-by-side lest they invite “official couple’s debut” headlines. Pugh, meanwhile, flew in late, missing the press conference. The official word is that she was too busy filming scenes for Dune: Part II, though the rumor mill claims she was bothered by Wilde and Styles’s relationship and behavior on set.
Here, a breakdown of everything that happened.
The afternoon started with Styles and Wilde joining co-stars Chris Pine and Gemma Chan for the film’s official press conference. Notably, Pine and Chan formed a human buffer between the rumored couple at all times. According to The New York Times, the questions were all rather milquetoast. Though, one about Pugh’s absence was asked.
Wilde responded that, as a director, she understood how disruptive it can be to leave a film shoot, and heaped praise on Pugh. “I can’t say enough how honored I am to have her as our lead,” the director said. “As for all the endless tabloid gossip and noise out there, the internet feeds itself. I don’t feel the need to contribute. I think it’s sufficiently well-nourished.”
A follow-up question about Shia LaBeouf’s recent claims he wasn’t really fired from the film was shut down by the moderator.
Times journalist Kyle Buchanan tweeted that about five minutes after the press conference’s most dramatic moment, Pugh was spotted in Venice for the first time.
Pugh arrived in a casual, purple set from Valentino with her grandmother at her side. One video of Pugh toasting a camera with a Venetian spritz widely proliferated on social media. Though, it should be noted Pugh’s seeming minimal promotion of the film isn’t necessarily unique. Another film in which she stars, Sebastián Lelio’s The Wonder, premiered on Friday at the Telluride Film Festival to mostly positive reviews with no involvement from the busy star (though, its possible any press will be timed for that film’s premiere on Netflix later in the fall).
The actual red carpet premiere was more notable for what didn’t happen: any interactions between any combination of Pugh, Styles and Wilde aside from one group photo option with the rest of the cast.
Pugh arrived in a shimmering sheer Valentino gown with her grandmother as her date. She seemed in good spirits. She palled around with Pine on the red carpet, and posed for photos with her female cast mates Gemma Chan and Sydney Chandler.
At one point, the cameras caught Styles greeting the comedian Nick Kroll, who has a supporting part in the film. Though, for the most part both Wilde and Styles remained lone wolfs on the carpet aside from the group photo.
Inside the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema, all parties did clap for each other as their names were called before the opening credits rolled.
Shortly after that moment, reviews from press screenings held earlier began to drop.
The verdict? Decidedly mixed.
Praise was heaped on Pugh’s acting, and Styles was noted for his raw promise as an on-screen presence. Though, thoughts on whether the film itself held together were less uniform.
“Things keep barrelling along thanks to both Pugh and the plot’s punchy critique of certain recent trends in the internet’s more testosterone-raddled dark corners,” read The Telegraph’s four star review. “With a smudgy red-lipsticked grin, Don’t Worry Darling drags them out into the blazing desert light.”
“Don't Worry Darling wants to be a transhumanist Truman Show, but ends up playing out more like a mostly okay episode of Black Mirror,” claimed SlashFilm.
“Although this critic initially fell for the promise of its Pleasantville-meets-The Truman Show premise, that enthusiasm dimmed sharply upon discovering that the film’s feminist lessons are as simplistic as its obvious plot turns,” wrote The A.V. Club.
The film hits American theaters in wide release on September 23rd. The mixed reviews seem to indicate the cast and crew won’t be drawn into a long Oscar campaign with the rumors sure to follow. Though, don’t be too sure. It wouldn’t be the first time a Hollywood film was greeted with so-so notices at a European film festival only to still be lavished with nominations later on. The reception of both the larger review corps and actual audiences can always differ from the festival set. The praise for Pugh’s performance in particular should keep her in the Best Actress conversation for the time being. Stay tuned. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/dont-worry-darling-premiere-florence-pugh-harry-styles | 2022-09-05T19:23:01Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/dont-worry-darling-premiere-florence-pugh-harry-styles | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Visual Appreciation of Fine Artists Appropriating Commercial Photography
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art didn’t have to look too deep into its collection to find source material for “Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising.” The degree to which artists have appropriated advertising techniques to further agendas of their own—since the 1970s in particular—is so prominent that the bulk of the works on view through December 18 come from within the institution itself. Featuring 34 artists such as Barbara Kruger, Hank Willis Thomas, Sara Cwynar, and Roe Ethridge, the Rebecca Morse-curated exhibition highlights what she describes as an “under-recognized” relationship between commercial and fine art photography. And indeed, while we’re all aware of how Andy Warhol carried what he learned as an ad illustrator over to his fine art practice, you may be surprised by how many have manipulated the visual codes of capitalist marketing to their advantage in the decades since.
Divided into five categories—Stock Photography, Product and Color Photography, Image and Text, The Magazine, and Humor—the show breaks down the many ways in which the aforementioned overlap has manifested in recent memory. There are excerpts from series like Hank Willis Thomas’s “Fair Warning,” which reimagines old cigarette ads, and Sandy Skoglund’s “Food Still Lifes,” which turns imagery from commercials of yore into spotlights of the anti-fascist Yugoslavian women who fought against the Nazis. And if you’re familiar with Sarah Charlesworth, it’ll come as no surprise that the late artist is among those whose work is featured: “Objects of Desire” was also the title of the seminal posthumous ’80s series that made it clear why she was just as key to the Pictures Movement as names like Cindy Sherman.
A can’t-miss kickoff to this fall’s packed arts season, take a look inside “Objects of Desire,” newly on view at LACMA, here.
Ericka Beckman, Spoonful, 1987.
Jo Ann Callis, Untitled (Jayne Mansfield), #8 from the series “Cheap Thrills and Forbidden Pleasures,” 1993.
Sarah Charlesworth, Figures, 1983, from the series “Objects of Desire.”
Image from Toiletpaper (December 2012), courtesy of the artists and LACMA Balch Art Research Library.
Back cover of Adbusters: Journal of the Mental Environment 8, no. 31 (August/September 2000).
Elad Lassry, Persian Cucumbers, Shuk Hakarmel, 2007.
Lucas Blalock, Untitled (deck prism), 2009.
Robert Heinecken, Recto/Verso #7: 'Strong Teeth Make Good Art,' Anne Tucker, 1988.
Hank Willis Thomas, Believe It, 2010.
Sandy Skoglund, Luncheon Meat on a Counter, 1978.
Roe Ethridge, Celine Bracelet for Gentlewoman, 2014. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/objects-of-desire-lacma-exhibit | 2022-09-05T19:23:09Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/objects-of-desire-lacma-exhibit | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Vivienne Westwood Fall ’92 Channeled Marlene Dietrich at Her Chicest
Welcome to Forgotten Runway, a deep dive into some of the more niche presentations in fashion history—which still have an impact to this day. In this new series, writer Kristen Bateman interviews the designers and people who made these productions happen, revealing what made each one so special.
Vivienne Westwood’s fall 1992 runway was filled with fashion muses prancing down the runway, cosplaying as fully animated caricatures of old Hollywood stars. Inside a Paris museum hallway covered in red curtains, the show, titled “Always on Camera,” featured a female air pilot wearing a silver metallic cap and draped trousers, a silver screen starlet in the now-infamous Frans Hals lace-trimmed babyface corset, and mock daytime TV doyennes donning severely tailored suits in pink leopard print with matching, massive, heart-shaped bags. “The inspiration for the show was, clearly, Marlene Dietrich, and the Hollywood, silver-screen era,” Andreas Kronthaler, Vivienne Westwood’s creative partner and husband of decades who co-designed the collection, tells W. “She is one of the most outstanding movie actresses in terms of the image she created for herself—very much so with the help of her director in the beginning, Josef von Sternberg, who pushed her appearance to an extreme. I don’t think we have ever seen something like that since.”
“Always on Camera,” though not often talked about as much as some of Westwood’s other shows, left a major impact on fashion and Westwood’s body of work. This was the first time the brand showed outside of Azzedine Alaïa’s house and atelier in Paris’s Marais, establishing the label as a major player in the European fashion scene. The introduction of the pink leopard print would become a house code—later covering shoes, handbags, socks, and corsets. Carrie Bradshaw even carried a luggage trunk with the pattern in an episode of Sex and the City.
By the time “Always on Camera” took place in 1992, Vivienne Westwood had grown to be a powerful voice in the industry, especially as a female designer who constantly pushed the fashion conversation forward, bending boundaries that touched politics and socioeconomics. She created new silhouettes that her contemporaries like Jean Paul Gaultier would later reference. (Take, for example, the cone bra-like, underwear-as-outerwear seen in her spring 1982 “Buffalo/Nostalgia of Mud” collection, or the mini-crini skirt she presented between 1985 to 1987, designed as a new version of Victorian crinoline. This style challenged the longer, more demure puff skirts released by Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Lacroix at the time.) “Always on Camera” was a character study of fashion storytelling.
Today, it’s nearly impossible to scroll through social media without seeing a Vivienne Westwood piece worn by the biggest stars. The corsets and pearl necklaces have gained massive popularity for a new generation on TikTok, and there’s an explosion of archival Vivienne Westwood imagery appearing on Pinterest, Twitter, and Instagram—where mood board-inspired accounts like @thewestwoodarchives go viral every time they post.
Back in ’92, the designer’s presence was just as felt in the fashion industry. The way Westwood interpreted prints was unequivocally unique, as she often worked with fine art references. For “Always on Camera,” she took the abstract image of Dietrich and pushed it into new territory: putting an iconic photo of Dietrich posing in front of a car wearing a men’s suit and transposing it onto denim.
“There was a lot of denim in this collection where we etched Marlene Dietrich’s face onto the material and cut up garments—eyes on the bum pocket, lips on the crotch. We played with her image, made layers, cut up jean jackets and skirts,” says Kronthaler. Hand knitted pieces were printed with glitter lace and topped off with padding around the chest and shoulders for an extreme silhouette. Hairstylist Mark Lopez created vintage-inspired coifs that looked like they were from decades past.
Dietrich’s film Morocco was a major source of inspiration for Kronthaler, he tells me as he thinks back on it: “These very overdrawn eyebrows and this very particular beauty just hitting you, and she says the words in a soft German accent: ‘I don’t need any help,’” he recalls of Blond Venus, 1932, in which the actress is dressed up as a gorilla and performs a striptease. Then, The Devil Is a Woman, from 1935: “The costumes are the absolute end of what’s possible,” he adds. “They’re made by Travis Banton. It’s the greatest costume film ever made, and hasn’t only inspired me—it has inspired every fashion designer I know.”
Of course, Dietrich was known for her androgynous style and penchant for suits. “Another important part of the collection is suiting, which was made in very special estate tweed—we had it woven in Scotland—and we made these exaggerated men’s suits,” Kronthaler says. “Of course, the great thing about it all was the proportion, which was achieved through elevated platforms which lifted the girls up to an extreme height. They were 22 centimeters higher than they were supposed to be, wearing heels hidden under these elongated Marlene Dietrich trousers.”
A few of the pieces touched on Westwood’s punk foundation, too. “I remember there were some clothes made out of ‘display’ velvet—a floor-length trench coat with matching shocking pink hair,” Kronthaler adds, recalling Westwood’s earliest work, which incorporated rubber, safety pins, and other non-traditional materials. “Shocking pink is the color of this era, and we always made things out of the most unusual fabrics.”
As Dietrich was the big inspiration behind the show, the brand invited her to attend and sit front row; she unfortunately couldn’t make it. “We delivered an invitation to her at the Avenue Montaigne because of course, everybody who has the choice wants to spend the autumn of their life in Paris,” Kronthaler remembers. “But she was too ill then, and died a month or so later, in her nineties.”
True to most of Vivienne Westwood’s 1990s shows, the finale of “Always on Camera” saw a procession of big ball gowns waltzing down the runway. This time, they were made out of tulle, printed in trompe l’oeil glitter lace, resembling Dietrich herself in the 1947 film Golden Earrings, in which she played a glamorous, nomadic Gypsy. “The title of the collection ‘Always on Camera’ had a lot to do with the philosophy then,” Kronthaler says. “‘Always dress up, because one is always on camera’—and, in any case, one never knows what happens...You always want to look the best you can, because it is the first impression you make that will last forever.” Few designers explore fantasy the way Westwood does—and few cinematic icons held their own unique style in the way that Dietrich did. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/vivienne-westwood-fall-1992-archival-runway-marlene-dietrich-vintage-show | 2022-09-05T19:23:11Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/vivienne-westwood-fall-1992-archival-runway-marlene-dietrich-vintage-show | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — In a legal victory for former President Donald Trump, a federal judge on Monday granted his request for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home and also temporarily halted the Justice Department’s own use of the records for investigative purposes.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon authorizes an outside legal expert to review the records taken during the Aug. 8 search and to weed out from the rest of the investigation any that might be protected by claims of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege. Some of those records may ultimately be returned to Trump, but the judge put off a ruling on that question.
The order came despite the strenuous objections of the Justice Department, which said a special master was not necessary in part because officials had already completed their review of potentially privileged documents. The department said it was reviewing the decision.
The order almost certainly slows the pace of the department’s investigation into the presence of top-secret information at Mar-a-Lago, particularly given the judge’s directive that the Justice Department may not for the moment use any of the seized materials as part of its investigation into the storage of government secrets at the Florida property. That injunction is in place until the yet-to-be-named special master completes his or her work, “or further court order.”
“The Court is mindful that restraints on criminal prosecutions are disfavored, but finds that these unprecedented circumstances call for a brief pause to allow for neutral, third-party review to ensure a just process with adequate safeguards,” Cannon, a Trump appointee, wrote in her 24-page order.
Even so, it is not clear that the decision will have a significant effect on long-term investigative or charging decisions or the ultimate outcome of the probe. A separate assessment by the U.S. intelligence community of the risk posed by the apparent mishandling of classified records will continue under the judge's order.
“While this is a victory for the former President, it is by no means an overwhelming win for him,” David Weinstein, a Florida criminal defense lawyer and former Justice Department prosecutor, said in an email. “While it is a setback for the government, it is also not a devastating loss for them.”
Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said Monday that “the United States is examining the opinion and will consider appropriate next steps in the ongoing litigation.” A lawyer for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The department and Trump's lawyers are to submit by Friday a list of proposed special master candidates.
Trump’s lawyers had argued that a special master — usually an outside lawyer or former judge — was necessary to ensure an independent review of records taken during the search and so that any personal information or documents could be filtered out and returned to Trump.
In this case, the seized records “include medical documents, correspondence related to taxes, and accounting information,” according to the judge's order.
The judge said it was too soon to know whether Trump will be entitled to the return of any of the records, but “for now, the circumstances surrounding the seizure in this case and the associated need for adequate procedural safeguards are sufficiently compelling to at least get Plaintiff past the courthouse doors.”
Though Cannon did not order the Justice Department to immediately return any of the seized documents to Trump, she said she found persuasive his lawyers' arguments that he faced potentially “irreparable injury” by being denied access to records that might be of significant personal interest to him. She said the investigative process had, so far, been “closed off” to him.
“As a function of Plaintiff’s former position as President of the United States, the stigma associated with the subject seizure is in a league of its own,” Cannon wrote. “A future indictment, based to any degree on property that ought to be returned, would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude.”
The Justice Department had argued against the appointment, saying it was unnecessary because it had already reviewed potentially privileged documents and identified a limited subset of materials that could be covered by attorney-client privilege.
The department had also said that Trump was not entitled to the return of any of the presidential records that were taken since he is no longer president and the documents therefore do not belong to him. And personal items that were recovered were commingled with classified information, giving them potential value as evidence, the department has said.
Though prosecutors had argued that Trump, as a former president, had no legal basis to assert executive privilege over the documents, the judge said he was entitled to raise it as a concern and allowed for the special master to look for records that might be covered by that privilege.
“The major sticking point, I think, is that the executive privilege documents were included” in the judge’s decision, said Richard Serafini, a Florida criminal defense lawyer and former Justice Department prosecutor. He said he expected the department to appeal the order.
Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump in 2020, had signaled in a brief order last month that she was inclined to appoint a special master and did so again during arguments last week, asking at one point, “Ultimately, what is the harm in the appointment of a special master to sort through these issues without creating undue delay?” | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/trump-special-master/507-a4b919b1-b31e-4fb3-9ec2-0330f17e891e | 2022-09-05T19:24:36Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/trump-special-master/507-a4b919b1-b31e-4fb3-9ec2-0330f17e891e | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON D.C., DC — A federal judge on Monday granted a request by former President Donald Trump’s legal team to appoint a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home last month and also temporarily halted the Justice Department’s use of the records for investigative purposes.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon came despite the objections of the Justice Department, which said an outside legal expert was not necessary in part because officials had already completed their review of potentially privileged documents. The judge had previously signaled her inclination to approve a special master, asking a department lawyer during arguments this month, “What is the harm?”
The appointment is likely to slow the pace of the department’s investigation into the presence of top-secret information at Mar-a-Lago given the judge’s directive that the Justice Department may not for the moment use any of the seized materials for investigative purposes. But it is not clear that it will have any significant effect on any investigative decisions or the ultimate outcome of the probe.
Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump in 2020, said she would permit the continuation of a risk assessment of the documents being conducted by the U.S. intelligence community.
Trump’s lawyers had argued that a special master — usually an outside lawyer or former judge — was necessary to ensure an independent review of records taken during the Aug. 8 search. Such a review was necessary, they have said, so that any personal information or documents recovered by the FBI could be filtered out and returned to Trump and so that any documents protected by attorney-client privilege or executive privilege could also be segregated from the rest of the investigation.
The Justice Department had argued against the appointment, saying it was unnecessary since it had already reviewed potentially privileged documents and identified a limited subset of materials that could be covered by attorney-client privilege.
It also said Trump was not entitled to the return of any of the presidential records that were taken since he is no longer president and the documents therefore do not belong to him. And personal items that were recovered were commingled with classified information, giving them potential value as evidence, the department has said. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/judge-grants-trump-bid-for-special-master-in-document-search/293-824d56d1-3a14-4f7f-9de4-cdbe1ae38612 | 2022-09-05T19:24:42Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/judge-grants-trump-bid-for-special-master-in-document-search/293-824d56d1-3a14-4f7f-9de4-cdbe1ae38612 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — As the vehicle turned right from Mullan Avenue onto Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive early Saturday afternoon, the driver veered close to the North Idaho Centennial Trail — in the lane designated for bikes, reports our partners at the Coeur d'Alene Press.
The driver realized his mistake and suddenly veered left to return to the lane where he belonged.
Later, the driver of a truck went to turn off Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive onto East Potlatch Hill Road, moving into the right-hand turn lane that is shared with cyclists, according to the road markings. That prompted two surprised trail walkers to step back and look on.
The confusion, while smoothing out over the past weeks, continues at times on a roughly half-mile section of Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive, when the lanes were recently chip sealed and reconfigured.
The two eastbound lanes between Mullan Avenue and Potlatch Hill Road were reduced to one, and a new bike lane was created. There's a buffer lane for a short stretch close to Mullan that may eventually become a grassy swale or some type of barrier to separate the trail as it is for most of Coeur d'Alene Lake Drive.
The two westbound lanes in that area also became one.
There’s a new, wide center lane, designated by yellow striping for turns, that's not often used.
Got all that?
You’re not alone if you don’t.
The new alignment has left some a bit baffled as to why the changes were made in connection with a trail that is popular with cyclists, walkers and runners.
In a humorous letter to the editor, James Miller of Coeur d’Alene wrote, “... it is finally agreed to make the street striping as confusing as possible, leave the entire center section paved and totally unusable, place all bicycle lanes as close as possible to the single-traffic lanes, put up as many painted road signs as possible to help direct unsure traffic and then try to figure out how to sell this abomination to the public.”
Janis Illenstine of Coeur d’Alene was equally annoyed.
“I can’t understand how such a hazardous and baffling design could have been approved,” she wrote.
“The many double white lines make it confusing as to where you can legally and safely turn, enter or exit streets and businesses,” Illenstine wrote.
Chris Bosley, city engineer of the Coeur d'Alene Lake Drive project, said they have received several calls from people questioning the changes.
“There’s a little confusion,” he said.
He said the city is planning additional pavement markings to help clear things up and better define that the trail is only for pedestrians and cyclists. The ultimate goal is “improved safety for all users."
The city recently issued a press release to explain the reconfiguration.
As a part of negotiations for the jurisdictional transfer of Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive from the Idaho Transportation Department to the city of Coeur d’Alene, a master plan was developed for the corridor, the release said.
Public meetings were held and in January of 2018, the Coeur d’Alene City Council approved the master plan and the transfer of Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive from Sherman Avenue to Silver Beach Road.
ITD transferred the remaining portion to Higgins Point to the Eastside Highway District.
Changes to the corridor were delayed until the surface could be improved to allow for the new striping configuration per the approved Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive Master Plan, the release said.
This year, Eastside Highway District and the city partnered to apply a chip seal surface to the corridor.
Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive was also reconfigured through restriping to the current three-lane section.
"Although no pavement is planned to be removed between the Centennial Trail and the travel lanes at this time, an approved future development between The Coeur d’Alene Golf Course and Bakery by the Lake will provide the desired separation at the time of construction,” the release stated.
In the short-term, additional pavement markings will be installed on the Centennial Trail to better define it as strictly for use by pedestrians and bicyclists.
Bosley said the new bike lanes adjacent to the travel lanes are intended for faster cyclists, such as those training for Ironman, to avoid conflicts on the trail with dog walkers and others moving at a leisurely pace.
"Double white lines were installed next to the bike lanes to create a buffer space, providing additional separation between the motor vehicle travel lanes and the bike lanes," the release said. "The new bike lanes on each side of the roadway are designed for one-way traffic, as indicated by the arrows."
Additional double white lines were installed to separate the bike lane from the Centennial Trail.
A two-way left turn lane was added to provide safe left-turn areas and separation between directions of travel. Prior to the restriping, no left turn lane was available at The Coeur d’Alene Resort Golf Course, according to the release.
"The new configuration for Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive meets the intent of the Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive Master Plan, increases separation between the Centennial Trail and motor vehicle traffic, reduces potential trail conflicts, improves safety for turning vehicles, and reduces future maintenance costs," the release said.
Some still have doubts.
Rick Carr of Coeur d’Alene wishes they had left well enough alone.
In an Aug. 14 letter to The Press, he wrote.
“What was wrong with what we had? Two lanes each direction, a trail lane that accommodated bikes and walkers or runners. Now we have double white lines on the east to west side; double-double white lines going east, another lane marked 'bike' away from the trail and closer to traffic, which does not appear wide enough for even two riders from different directions to pass one another."
“Whoever is responsible for this has some explaining to do!” he wrote.
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YAKIMA — The Yakima Police Department is warning residents that a cougar was seen Monday morning in the area of Randall Park.
The department posted on Facebook that the animal was seen just off 48th Avenue near the park, and officers were out trying to find it.
"Please stay clear of the area of Randall Park in Yakima off of 48th," the department posted. "If you live in the area please bring your children and pets inside and stay safe!"
Anyone with further information about the cougar is asked to call the Yakima Police Department at 509-575-6200. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/yakima-police-search-for-cougar-near-randall-park/article_22327424-2d47-11ed-b790-33f73ce2bb83.html | 2022-09-05T19:26:39Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/yakima-police-search-for-cougar-near-randall-park/article_22327424-2d47-11ed-b790-33f73ce2bb83.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A car crash sent a sedan from a side street through a barrier and onto a precarious ledge on the side of an interstate in Richmond, Virginia, on Sunday afternoon.
Virginia State Police said officers attempted to stop a 2018 Acura MDX sedan in the area of St. James Street and W. Baker Street in around 4:30 p.m.
According to police, the driver of the car quickly accelerated, lost control, overcorrected and went through a fence. The car then rolled onto the shoulder of northbound I-95.
The driver, an 18-year-old woman from Richmond, was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. State police said she will be charged with felony eluding a police officer and unauthorized use of a vehicle.
There were two additional teenagers inside the vehicle at the time of the crash who were uninjured. State police said the crash remains under investigation. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/woman-charged-after-car-crashes-nearly-falls-onto-interstate/ | 2022-09-05T19:31:42Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/woman-charged-after-car-crashes-nearly-falls-onto-interstate/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
2023: Don’t whip up religious sentiments, Adeola-Akande charges politicians
A former leader of the House of Representatives, Honourable Mulikat Adeola-Akande, has warned politicians against religious sentiments in the build-up to the 2023 general election.
She spoke in Igboho, Oyo State, on Monday during the foundation laying ceremony of a mosque being built by the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Mr Michael Lana, and friends in memory of the late Barrister Bolaji Agoro.
Honourable Adeola-Akande, who is the SDP’s senatorial candidate for Oyo North, said: “Many people would clamour that Christians should be elected instead of Muslims, while some Muslims would say Christians should not be elected. Today, Michael Folorunso Lana, who is a Christian, has come to fulfill the dream of the late Barrister Bolaji Agoro, a Muslim.
“They were friends but Barrister Agoro is no more. He could have pocketed his money because the man who made a wish is no more alive. People like this are scarce and that is why we at crossroads.
“We are at a point where we must check anybody seeking elective positions very well. Men of God should pray for us and we are optimistic that SDP shall take the reigns of governance in Oyo State. Let us continue the good work.”
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Earlier, the SDP governorship candidate, Lana, said: “We appreciate all, including the family of Bolaji Agoro. We came here to have a small foundation laying ceremony in fulfillment of the dream of late Agoro.
“He was my friend as well as a younger brother. People knew us in legal practice. Around 8:00p.m. one faithful day, he called me and later decided to pray in his office, but as he stooped down to pray, he slumped and gave up the ghost.
“Before he died, he told me his wish because he was to be confirmed as a judge. He told me that his utmost wish was to become a judge and to build a mosque in Igboho.
“He told me that he wanted me to be a part of the building of the mosque so I told his younger brother what he discussed with me before he passed on. Bolaji Agoro was a lover of humanity and worshipper of God.”
Among party officials in attendance at the event were the chairman, Michael Okunlade; party leader, Abdulrahman Aloyinlapa, among others. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/2023-dont-whip-up-religious-sentiments-adeola-akande-charges-politicians/ | 2022-09-05T19:34:39Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/2023-dont-whip-up-religious-sentiments-adeola-akande-charges-politicians/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A 33-year-old plumber, Gbenga Olamilekan, was on Monday paraded by the Osun State chapter of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for looting the house of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Akinwale Lawanson, and made away with his television set, two pairs of shoes, a laptop and some pieces of clothes at his residence in Ilesa of the state.
While parading the suspect at the state command of the Corps, the NSCDC Commandant, Sunday Agboola, represented by the Acting Public Relations Officer of the command, Kehinde Adeleke, stated that, “the suspect is a plumber who has been working for the complainant, Hon Akinwale Lawanson for over six years.”
She explained that the suspect used to repair the faulty plumbing pipes and other connections in the six flat apartments of the complainant before the stole his items from the complainant’s house.
According to her, “the suspect allegedly gained access to the complainant’s house and carted away his television, a laptop, two pairs of canvas, kitchen utensils and a keg of palm oil.”
Meanwhile, “the suspect made a confessional statement admitting his culpability of the alleged crime,” Adeleke stressed.
While speaking with newsmen, the suspect confirmed he committed the offence and that he perpetrated the act with intention of returning the items after making use of them.
According to him, “I am a close ally to Honourable (Lawanson) and we use to hang out together. I took the items truly but was apprehended.”
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Rumble as another faction nullifies Babayemi’s expulsion from Osun PDP
Expulsion of the former governorship aspirant of the Osun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Dotun Babayemi, from the party over alleged anti-party activities is now causing ripples as another faction within the party in Gbongan, Ayedaade Local Government Area of Osun State nullified his expulsion, saying executive members of Babayemi’s Ward 02 who had last week announced the expulsion were illegal and not recognised by the court.
Speaking on the expulsion at a press conference held at PDP Local Government Secretariat, Oke Church of the town on Monday, Secretary of the PDP Ward 02 in the community, Mr. Adekunle Munurudeen described the allegation of anti-party activities levelled against Babayemi as mere fabrication.
He however described the expulsion as facade and nullity, arguing that “Babayemi was the authentic candidate of the party for the 2022 governorship election in the state because his political camp is the valid group that has duly elected Ward Executive that can commence a disciplinary process by virtue of Section 57 of the Peoples Democratic Party Constitution, 2017 as amended.
“The persons who claimed to be the Ward 2 Executive Committee upon which they purportedly carried out the alleged expulsion of Omooba Dotun Babayemi, usurped the powers of the Ward 2 Executive Committee.
“The authentic and valid Ward 2 Executive Committee of the party was confirmed by a valid and subsisting Court Order on the 3rd of March, 2022 and subsequently re-affirmed on the 10th of March, 2022.
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“The following ordinary PDP members from Ward 2, namely; Chief Julius Awodeji, Hon Isiaka Rabiu, Bukayo Ogunleye and Lekan Adegbenle etc, who purportedly expelled Omooba Dotun Babayemi as Ward 2 Executive Committee, were not the duly elected Ward 2 Executive who were recognized and authenticated by Court of competent jurisdiction on the 3rd of March, 2022 and re-affirmed on the 10th of March, 2022 in Suit No: HIJ/6/2022.
“The said purported Disciplinary Proceedings and the subsequent expulsion of Omooba Dotun Babayemi by persons not recognised by the PDP Constitution and valid court orders is the greatest fraud and albeit void ab initio and of no legal consequences.
“As a result, the whole exercise was procedurally wrong as the constitution of party was flagrantly abused and not adhered to. To this effect, all the aforementioned PDP members who partook in this illegal charade are hereby suspended from the party pending the constitution of a Disciplinary Committee to evaluate their actions and that necessary steps in line with the Constitution of our great party PDP, are taken,” he submitted.
Meanwhile, Babayemi had earlier approached the Supreme Court after he lost at the Federal High Court and Court of Appeal in a suit he instituted against the nomination of Senator Ademola Adeleke as the July 16 governorship candidate of the party.
It will be recalled that Babayemi was expelled from the party as announced last week Friday by acclaimed party executive members from his eqrd in Gbongan over alleged anti-party activities.
After the announcement of the expulsion, the Babayemi campaign organization in a statement by its spokesperson, Mr. Kayode Oladeji said, “those who carried out the shenanigans they called expulsion of Omooba Dotun Babayemi from the PDP, are ignorant of the rules that govern the party.”
According to him, “they and their sponsors are only being clever by half in their bid to browbeat Babayemi, a man of the people. They are jesters who enjoy amusing themselves.”
But the acclaimed secretary of the ward explained that they arrived at the decision after an emergency meeting held on July 12, 2022 and after extensive deliberations resolved and set up a seven-man disciplinary committee to look into the petitions written against him and to look for appropriate recommendations on the allegation.
According to him, “Prince Babayemi however failed to appear before the committee to respond to the allegations at the expiration of the seven days which lapsed on 19th of July, 2022.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/rumble-as-another-faction-nullifies-babayemis-expulsion-from-osun-pdp/ | 2022-09-05T19:35:19Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/rumble-as-another-faction-nullifies-babayemis-expulsion-from-osun-pdp/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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