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NJ tosses ethics charges against Monroe school board members
MONROE – The state School Ethics Commission has voted to dismiss allegations that two township Board of Education members violated the state School Ethics Act.
The complaint against school board member Kenneth Chiarella was dismissed on Aug. 23 and the complaint brought by another board member against board President Christine Skurbe was dismissed the same day.
In the complaint against Chiarella, Kathleen Leonard alleged that at an April 25 board meeting and in an April 26 Facebook post, he made offensive, stereotypical and disparaging comments about "an entire class of people," by criticizing a resident, who previously had filed an ethics complaint against him in 2020. That complaint, which also involved alleged derogatory comments, also was dismissed.
The recent complaint stated that after the resident spoke at a board meeting about an issue involving the Booster Club and included the f-word, Chiarella said he wanted to "remind the public that when you come in here that this is not just some bar in Appalachia where you just drop the f-bomb and scream at people."
The following day, the complaint alleged, Chiarella posted on Facebook that speaking "as a private citizen, it felt like we were transported to Appalachia last night and the local dive bar closed early so the patrons came to the board meeting. Everyone should have to wash their hair and jeans before they come up screaming and dropping the f-bomb."
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Leonard argued that Chiarella's comments were "part of an overall pattern of making offensive and stereotypical remarks."
Chiarella defended his comments by saying he wanted to restore decorum to the board meeting after the resident's remarks
In dismissing the complaint, the School Ethics Commission wrote that Chiarella's comments do not "constitute a decision contrary to the educational welfare of children" or an action related to programs or policies.
Though Chiarella "clearly could have used more appropriate and respectful language to reclaim order at the board meeting," the commission wrote, no violation could be substantiated unless more factual evidence was presented.
The commission repeated what it had written in a previous decision dismissing ethics charges against Chiarella for using inappropriate words that the dismissal of the charges does not mean his speech is condoned and was not offensive.
In that previous complaint, Chiarella allegedly posted on Facebook in 2020 a “derogatory comment” stating that a local family had “chromosome issues.”
The commission wrote that it is up to the voters to pass judgment on Chiarella.
"It is incumbent upon the Monroe Township community to determine whether, at the time of election, an individual who repeatedly makes the kind of statements at issue here … should be elected to serve the needs of the district and its students," the commission wrote, adding "the voting members of the community have the power to choose the individuals who they feel are most fit to serve."
The other complaint also arose from the heated April 25 meeting.
Board member Katie Fabiano alleged that Skurbe violated ethics rules by providing "inaccurate information that confidential information was being leaked to the community."
According to the commission's ruling, the incident began when Fabiano's husband made a comment in the public portion of the meeting. When her husband returned to his seat, the complaint says, Skurbe "engaged in an argument" with him and accused Fabiano of "sharing confidential board information to (her) spouse without ever offering any evidence at all."
Those remarks, Fabiano argues, undermined her credibility and were a "clear effort to defame (Fabiano) in the community" solely to retaliate against (Fabiano) for (her spouse's) criticisms."
In her defense, Skurbe said Fabiano failed to show that Skurbe's comments were inaccurate or that the "inaccuracy was other than reasonable mistake or personal opinion."
Skurbe also argued that the First Amendment provides "expansive" protection to political speech and that the commission has no jurisdiction over defamatory speech.
The commission agreed with Skurbe that it has no jurisdiction over defamatory speech and that Fabiano had not provided any evidence that the comments were "other than a reasonable mistake or personal opinion."
The commission concluded its ruling with a response to comments made at the commission meeting about "frivolous" ethics complaints originating in Monroe.
"The commission reminds all members of the public that the commission is not a medium through which vendettas, quarrels, grudges and sour grapes are to be filed," the commission wrote. "The filing of complaints which are designed solely to 'settle the score' unnecessarily delay the processing of other complaints which concern behavior and conduct that may actually violate" the law.
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Hillsborough residents mount anti-warehouse campaign with several projects before planners
HILLSBOROUGH – There are four proposals to build warehouses before the township Planning Board and a fifth may be on its way.
And some township residents have begun organizing opposition to the proposals.
A "Stop Warehouses and Trucking" campaign was started, with a website, an online petition that has collected more than 1,800 signatures, a GoFundMe page to raise money for potential legal costs and yard signs throughout the eastern part of the township.
The campaign is centered on two proposals to build warehouses on Homestead Road on the east and west sides of the Route 206 bypass.
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The campaign was started to oppose a plan by Homestead Road LLC, of Boca Raton, Florida, to build two warehouses – one 368,995 square feet and the other 168,304 square feet – and a 6,000-square-foot office building on vacant land on Homestead Road just east of the Route 206 bypass.
In addition to neighbors' opposition, The Watershed Institute, formerly known as the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association, has notified the township that it has retained an expert to testify on the plan.
The next Planning Board hearing on that proposal is scheduled for Oct. 6.
Residents turned out Sept. 1 for the initial Planning Board hearing on a proposal by 279 Homestead Road to build a 137,413-square-foot building, 127,750 square feet to be used as warehouse space, at 279 Homestead Road on the west side of the Route 206 bypass.
"We have a pretty large crowd," said Planning Board Chairman Carl Suraci.
During the meeting, Township Committeeman Frank DelCore, who sits on the Planning Board, asked residents in attendance not to hold up signs and circulate petitions in the meeting room.
"This is not the forum," he said, suggesting residents go to the foyer outside the meeting room if they wanted to circulate the petitions.
One of the residential neighbors has hired a lawyer to object to the plan. The next hearing on that plan is scheduled for Nov. 3.
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The lawyer, Joseph Tauriello, told the board that the proposal was "too intense for the property" and requires 26 design waivers and nine variances.
Because the proposal requires a subdivision of the 17.1-acre lot, the board asked for a professional planner report from the applicant to justify the subdivision. The board cannot approve the site plan until the subdivision is approved.
The front 5.4 acres of the property already has a 69,339-square-foot industrial building with direct access to Homestead Road. The proposed warehouse would have no frontage on Homestead Road and would have a permanent easement for trucks and other vehicles across the front property.
On Sept. 8, the Planning Board is scheduled to start a public hearing on a proposal by JMJA4ABBEL, of Westfield, to build an 85,348-square-foot warehouse on Amwell Road, just east of the Willow Road intersection, between The Landing and Jay's Maintenance Yard and Tree Service. That site is about 1.5 miles northeast of the Homestead Road properties.
Craig Berlin who lives on Allshouse Road, a cul-de-sac of eight homes with an average value of $967,209 off Willow Road on the south side of the proposed warehouse site, has asked the Planning Board for a delay because "more time is needed to digest and evaluate the issues through legal counsel and/or land use experts (including a traffic expert)."
"There is not sufficient time to review everything, prepare opposition with or without experts, and then proceed with all of the information pertinent to this matter," Berlin wrote to the board.
The Amwell Road project is proposed by the same principal developer of the 279 Homestead Road proposal as well as a plan for a warehouse on Harvard Way.
The developer, Redcon, also has an application pending for a fourth warehouse on Millstone River Road that the Planning Board tentatively is scheduled to hear in December.
The Amwell Road plan calls for the warehouse on a vacant 11.35-acre property which is in the township's Corporate Development Zone where a warehouse is a conditional use.
The warehouse would be set back 270 feet from Amwell Road. An easement for a natural gas pipeline crosses the property.
The developer's community impact study says that the warehouse could generate 43 new jobs.
The study also finds that the development, with an assessment of $7.1 million, would generate, at 2020 rates, annual property tax revenue of $168,388.18 to be divided among the township, the school district and Somerset County.
The study also concluded that no additional public-school students would be generated by the project because there is no housing proposed.
The plan also calls for the removal of 292 trees, and the applicant is asking for an economic hardship waiver from the township ordinance that requires 338 replacement trees. The plan calls for 87 replacement trees.
The Green Hills Community in the northeastern part of the township have hired experts to battle a plan by Harvard Way JMJ4 LLC, of Westfield, to build a 107,366-square-foot warehouse at the southern end of Harvard Way off Route 206 next to their neighborhood.
Residents in the neighborhood on Johanson Avenue are opposing the warehouse because they fear it will worsen flooding. The neighborhood was inundated by unprecedented flooding last September from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
The next Planning Board hearing on that proposal is set for Oct. 13.
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'Our society needs positivity': GMC Student-Athlete Advisory Council begins work
Members of the Greater Middlesex Conference 2022-23 Student-Athlete Advisory Council convened at the East Brunswick Magnet School last month, commencing work to positively impact the scholastic sports landscape.
The council is composed of one student-athlete representative each from 34 conference member schools.
As scholastic sports returned to action in August 2020 following the height of the pandemic, the conference recognized a need to develop the council with the goal of helping all student-athletes navigate challenges they were facing on and off the field.
The conference’s leadership listens to and takes into account the input of council members, who act as liaisons for their respective school sports programs and school-communities, bringing ideas and feedback from peers to quarterly meetings.
“Our goal is to promote student-led change as well as inclusion and equity in the interscholastic high school sports program,” Council President Julian Counterman, a senior at Edison Academy, wrote in a letter to his peers in advance of last month’s meeting.
“Your school's voice in the changes that we make depends solely on your communication and representation at our quarterly meetings. As a representative, you are responsible for bringing ideas and initiatives from your school to the committee and advocating and implementing changes in your school by communicating with coaches, players, and your athletic director. For this reason, it is important to attend the meetings and come ready to discuss new ideas.”
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Conference Executive Director Frank Noppenberger and Conference President Mike Pede led last month’s meeting, during which council members engaged in robust discussion about myriad topics ranging from the conference’s two-tournament format for various sports to implementing a shot clock in basketball.
Group debate followed division breakout meetings during which council members from the conference’s Red, White, Blue and Gold divisions discussed among themselves various topics.
A proposed recommendation from last month’s meeting that the council will adopt is a Greater Middlesex Conference Appreciation Week with various activities slated next month to recognize game officials, sportsmanship, spectators, teachers, parents, and the athletic support community including coaches, trainers and administrators.
“We want this to be student-driven,” Noppenberger said. “We don’t want it coming from the athletics directors. We want to hear what the students have to say on issues and changes. We encourage the kids to be leaders and get involved.”
At the Student-Athlete Advisory Council’s inception, members met virtually and received encouragement and inspiration from guest speakers with local ties to the conference including three-time Olympic gold-medal winning women’s soccer star Heather O’Reilly (East Brunswick), Colorado Rockies scout Mike Garlatti (Highland Park) Olympic discus thrower Sam Mattis (East Brunswick) and Rutgers Special Assistant to the Head Coach Joe Susan (South River).
With the pandemic abating and council members allowed to convene in person, Noppenberger said he expects meetings to be even more productive.
“We were doing everything virtual and it worked, but the results of our first meeting this year was certainly evident,” Noppenberger said. “We’re still working and adjusting to make it more attractive to kids. We leave the decision up to the school (to select council members). They can use any criteria, any grade, any gender. We are looking for leaders that are going to speak up and be representatives of their school.”
Noppenberger said the council members were particularly attentive, respectful and conversational during last month’s meeting at which Woodbridge Athletics Director Joe Ward and former MyCentralJersey.com sports writer Greg Tufaro were among the guest speakers.
The conference’s athletics directors are being encouraged to send their female Student-Athlete Advisory Council members to attend an NJSIAA luncheon this month at the Westin in Princeton, where the state’s governing body will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Title IX.
Attendees are expected to report back to the council about the advancement of women’s sports and what needs must be met for them to continue to grow, Noppenberger said.
Other initiatives the council will be addressing include supporting school sports programs at all levels, engagement in the community, and celebrating events such as Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
“It’s no secret that our society needs positivity,” Noppenberger said. “What better way than through our youth and athletics.”
Greater Middlesex Conference 2022-23 Student-Athlete Advisory Council
Calvary Christian: Raegan Fogarty; Carteret: Kira Sliziewicz; Colonia: Mattison Chiera; East Brunswick: Nicole Motusesky; East Brunswick Magnet School: Scott Pede; Edison Academy: Julian Counterman; Edison: Haley Zampella; Highland Park: Lydia Lekhal; J.F. Kennedy: Sidney de Voogd; John P. Stevens: Marcella Iversen; Metuchen: Abby Kozo; Middlesex: Anthony Gonzalez; Monroe: Justin Graham; Mother Seton: Ashlie Jordan; New Brunswick: Joshua Nazario; North Brunswick: Saloni Agshiker; North Plainfield: Madeline Kruscynski; Old Bridge: Gabrielle Walker; Perth Amboy: Xavier Frias; Perth Amboy Magnet School: Jalena Santiago; Piscataway: Katie Engels; Piscataway Magnet School: Matti Miller; Saint Joseph: Charlie Algier; Sayreville: Abigail Mayer; Somerset Tech: Fiona Shanahan; South Amboy: Evalise Perez; South Brunswick: Harmehar Chhabra; South Plainfield: Madison O'Brien; South River: Gianna Rodriguez; Spotswood: Gabrielle Diaz; Saint Thomas Aquinas: Grace Farrell; Wardlaw-Hartridge: Gyrord Gregoire; Woodbridge Academy: Pranesh Rajamuthiah; Woodbridge: Taylor Pezulich. | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/09/07/gmc-student-athlete-advisory-council-begins-work-for-2022-2023/65742002007/ | 2022-09-07T12:43:52Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/09/07/gmc-student-athlete-advisory-council-begins-work-for-2022-2023/65742002007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WEDNESDAY
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Free “American Trombone!” recital at UW: 7:30 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall.
THURSDAY
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Business After Hours: 5:30-7 p.m., Western States Bank, 3420 E. Grand Ave.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
FRIDAY
NU2U street dance and costume party: 5-11 p.m., in front of the store at 5th and Garland streets in Laramie. Open for all ages.
SATURDAY
22nd annual Wyoming Buddy Walk: 9 a.m. to noon, Washington Park band shell.
Wyoming Archaeology Fair: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison and Historic Site. Free and open to the public, the fair will feature activities and educational booths, and the Wind River Dancers will perform traditional indigenous dance styles from 1-2 p.m.
Tailgate party for Wesley Foundation’s 100th anniversary: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tailgate Alley located in the stadium lot next to the indoor practice facility. The student ministry is marking 100 years at the University of Wyoming and First United Methodist. Free lunch picnic.
Summer Market Day at the fairgrounds: 3-6 p.m., beef barn.
SUNDAY
Special worship service for Wesley Foundation: 10 a.m., First United Methodist Church, 1215 Gibbon St., followed by a potluck. Special guest Bishop Karen Olivetto will attend and preach. All are invited to reminisce with former Wesley Foundation members and meet the recent generation of the organization.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
MONDAY
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Albany County Historic Preservation Board meets: 6 p.m. via Microsoft Teams. To attend and receive an invite, email a request to kcbard@charter.net.
TUESDAY
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Albany County Republican Party meets: 6 p.m., Albany County Public Library.
Sept. 14
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Sept. 15
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Sept. 16
Albany County CattleWomen meet: 11:30 a.m., location tbd. Visit wyaccw.com in the week before the meeting for location and more information.
Sept. 17
Walk to End Alzheimer’s: 9 a.m., Optimist Park, with music and food following the walk.
Higher Ground Fair: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site in Laramie. A celebration of the six Rocky Mountain states and the native first nations that also call the region home. Proceeds from ticket sales (kids admitted free) help support Feeding Laramie Valley. Fore more information or to volunteer, call 307-223-4300 or email info@highergroundfair.org.
Sept. 18
Higher Ground Fair: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site in Laramie. A celebration of the six Rocky Mountain states and the native first nations that also call the region home. Proceeds from ticket sales (kids admitted free) help support Feeding Laramie Valley. Fore more information or to volunteer, call 307-223-4300 or email info@highergroundfair.org.
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
UW Faculty Recital Series free performance: 3 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. This free performance features Nicole Riner on flute and Chi-Chen Wu on piano.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Sept. 19
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Sept. 20
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Sept. 21
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Sept. 22
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Sept. 25
UW Faculty Recital Series presents oboist Jennier Stucki: 3 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. Free to attend.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Sept. 26
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
America Sewing Guild Laramie Chapter meets: 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 1215 E. Gibbon St.
Sept. 27
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Sept. 28
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Sept. 29
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Sept. 30
Downtown Laramie Farmers Market: 3-7 p.m., parking lot north of Depot Park on South 1st Street.
UW Music presents Duo Cintemani: 7:30 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. This free performance features a critically acclaimed flute-guitar group.
Oct. 2
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 3
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 4
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 5
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Oct. 6
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Diabetes Support Group meets: 5:30-6:30 p.m. via Zoom. Email questions@ivinsosnhospital.org for the link.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Oct. 8
12th annual Kids Pumpkin Walk: Noon to 4 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site. A fun family event featuring outdoor activities, indoor games, education, candy, treats and plenty of pumpkins. Cost is $4 for adults, 17 and younger admitted free.
Oct. 9
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 10
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 11
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Albany County Republican Party meets: 6 p.m., Albany County Public Library.
Oct. 12
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Oct. 13
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Oct. 16
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Albany County Historic Preservation Board meets: 6 p.m. the second Monday of the month via Microsoft Teams. To attend and receive an invite, email a request to kcbard@charter.net.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 17
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 18
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 19
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Oct. 20
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Oct. 21
Albany County CattleWomen meet: 11:30 a.m., location tbd. Visit wyaccw.com in the week before the meeting for location and more information.
Oct. 23
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 24
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
America Sewing Guild Laramie Chapter meets: 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 1215 E. Gibbon St.
Oct. 25
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 26
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Oct. 27
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Oct. 30
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 31
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Nov. 1
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Nov. 2
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Nov. 3
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Diabetes Support Group meets: 5:30-6:30 p.m. via Zoom. Email questions@ivinsosnhospital.org for the link.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/announcements/whats-happening-sept-7-2022/article_c8304e02-2de0-11ed-be11-53215bf4697a.html | 2022-09-07T12:44:45Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/announcements/whats-happening-sept-7-2022/article_c8304e02-2de0-11ed-be11-53215bf4697a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
POWELL — Two hunt areas south of Powell have been listed as special chronic wasting disease (CWD) focus areas.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is looking for samples from deer hunters harvesting mule and white-tailed deer from areas 124 and 165 in the Greybull River Valley.
CWD is a fatal disease that affects ungulates, like deer, elk and moose, by attacking their central nervous system.
The prevalence of the disease in the two hunt areas is about 45%, according to department officials.
Wildlife biologists are in their third year of targeting the Greybull River herd and hope to have at least 200 samples volunteered by local hunters. The samples of lymph nodes will help the department better understand how it affects the health of the state’s deer and elk populations, said wildlife disease biologist Eric Maichak.
“If we can get enough samples, we’re able to focus our resources and get an estimate of prevalence within a short timeframe,” he said in a recent interview.
Hunter-submitted lymph node samples are crucial to managing the disease in wildlife herds, the department said in a press release.
“Game and Fish is requesting samples from herds we’ve not addressed in a while,” said Hank Edwards, Game and Fish wildlife health laboratory supervisor.
For the 2022 season, six deer Hunt Areas (59, 60, 64, 65, 157 and 171) are mandatory for samples. The closest mandatory sample areas to Powell are 157 and 171, which include Riverton and areas north and west of the city.
The department has tracked the distribution and prevalence of CWD since 1997. The disease has been making a slow march across the state for the past 50 years. It has been detected in 34 of 37 mule deer herds and 15 of 36 elk herds in Wyoming.
The department is constantly updating the state map to list new hunt areas where the disease has been found.
Last year, the department added Hunt Area 109 (west of Powell) to the list and has already added Hunt Area 143 (in Sublette County) this year.
There are very few hunt areas in the state where the disease hasn’t been found.
In the Shoshone River herd unit, testing has found 35% of adult mule deer bucks have been infected with the disease.
Bucks generally have higher rates of infection due to their larger ranges and higher contact rates with other deer.
White-tailed deer have a higher rate of infection than mule deer, while elk have a much lower prevalence for the disease, around 2%, Maichak said.
There is no known treatment, but testing is quickly improving, said Dr. Samantha Allen, the state’s wildlife veterinarian.
A promising new test called RT-QuIC uses nanoparticles of gold to help achieve fast results but has yet to be approved by the Federal Drug Administration.
Surveillance has also improved understanding of how deer might catch the disease environmentally. The department has taken more than a million photographs using automated scout cameras of deer at 49 separate salt licks and seven water sites. The analysis of the photos may give a clue to the disease spread by saliva, feces, close contact or prions shed in the environment as the disease takes its course and after death.
Typically, an infected deer can live between two to four years seemingly unaffected. It looks emaciated, drools and appears to be unaware of its surroundings in the short, final stage of the disease.
New testing techniques take time and cost money, Allen told commissioners in April. “Agencies need to really consider budget and staffing issues with increased testing for CWD,” she said.
Maichak hopes hunters will learn to remove lymph nodes to streamline the testing process. There’s a how-to video on the department’s CWD information website, and biologists and game wardens are happy to demonstrate the process when asked.
It is targeting bucks for the research, but the department is happy to test any sample hunters submit.
The U.S. Center for Disease Control has reported, to date, there is no strong evidence for the occurrence of CWD in people and it is not known if people can get infected with CWD prions.
“Hunters must consider many factors when determining whether to eat meat from deer and elk harvested from areas with CWD, including the level of risk they are willing to accept,” the CDC said in a recent publication.
Submitting a sample in the Powell area is easy, Maichak said.
Samples can be submitted at the convenient check stations during the any-deer season or through Northwest College’s biology department, which has been collaborating with Game and Fish in an effort to test a higher percentage of hunters’ harvests while at the same time giving students real world experience.
“We think it’s important that students get real, authentic hands-on experience,” said NWC Associate Professor of Biology Eric Atkinson when the college began the program.
“We’ve talked about this for years. Now there’s pressure to get at least 200 samples,” he said.
To submit a sample at NWC, call 307-754-6018 or the Cody Region Wyoming Game and Fish Department headquarters at 307-527-7125. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/cwd-prevalence-high-in-powell-hunt-areas/article_2f622ce2-2e1a-11ed-bf0d-dbb5d2d3cbff.html | 2022-09-07T12:44:51Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/cwd-prevalence-high-in-powell-hunt-areas/article_2f622ce2-2e1a-11ed-bf0d-dbb5d2d3cbff.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Award honors districts for commitment to critical skills education
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EVERFI, Inc., a leading social impact education innovator, today announced that 1,440 school districts across the U.S. and Canada are this year's recipients of the EVERFI Empowered Seal. Of the school districts being honored, 858 are first-time honorees, and 582 are repeat honorees. Now in its third year, the EVERFI Empowered Seal is a designation awarded to public school districts that have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to comprehensive, digital-first education strategies on topics such as financial literacy, social-emotional learning, sustainability, and health.
This year also introduces the Empowered Seal Scholarship. Students in Empowered Seal school districts who have completed at least one EVERFI course will be eligible to participate in an essay-based contest and compete for scholarships totaling $6,000. Ten students will be selected as winners, with two students winning a $1,000 scholarship and eight students each winning a $500 scholarship. Contests will be held in the fall and spring.
"With the unique challenges facing our society today, learners of all ages need education beyond just the core curriculum to have the necessary skills to be successful," said Alice Lee, senior vice president, K-12 Implementation, EVERFI. "We need to empower our youngest learners and those in our most vulnerable communities by addressing the missing learning layer and supporting students with scholarships to achieve their dreams, create change, and break generational cycles. We are proud to honor these school districts that have made the commitment to preparing students to navigate the opportunities and challenges not just of today but of the future."
School districts are awarded the EVERFI Empowered Seal based on a variety of criteria, including the Principles of Effective Prevention Programs published by Nation, et al. (2003), which outlines high-impact practices across diverse well-being topics widely adopted by education and prevention practitioners that EVERFI has adapted into measurable technology metrics. Additionally, districts and individual schools that have displayed a commitment to areas of critical learning, demonstrated by greater than 10 percent of the student population using EVERFI resources, are eligible to receive the EVERFI Empowered Seal.
Among this year's Empowered Seal Districts, five are in the nation's 10 largest school districts, and 37 are among the nation's largest 100.
"EVERFI allows our educators to enhance student learning through the use of engaging, interactive learning modules. The feedback students receive, as well as the instructor, allows us to reteach a concept if needed," said Ashlee Cappucci, supervisor for K-12 Physical Education, Health, and Dance, Hillsborough County School District (FL). "Our district utilizes the impact reports provided by EVERFI to take an overall glimpse on how we can improve instruction. EVERFI has been vital in helping our district grow and meet the needs of all of our students in health and wellness."
For more than 14 years, EVERFI has provided digital education covering areas of critical learning to K-12 students and is committed to supporting school districts in transforming the well-being and equity of their communities. The EVERFI Empowered Seal aligns with EVERFI's mission through empowering communities and raising awareness of the value of whole-child, real-world education.
To see the full list of recipients of the 2022 EVERFI Empowered Seal, visit https://everfi.com/k-12/empowered-seal/.
EVERFI from Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) is an international technology company driving social impact through education to address the most challenging issues affecting society ranging from financial wellness to mental health to workplace conduct and other critical topics. Founded in 2008, EVERFI's Impact-as-a-ServiceTM solution and digital educational content have reached more than 45 million learners globally. In 2020, the company was recognized as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company and was featured on Fortune Magazine's Impact 20 List. The company was also named to the 2021 GSV EdTech 150, a list of the most transformative growth companies in digital learning. Blackbaud, the world's leading cloud software company powering social good, acquired EVERFI in December of 2021. To learn more about EVERFI, please visit everfi.com or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or Twitter @EVERFI.
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CASPER — Wyoming could develop two new Amber Alert-type systems designed to help locate missing people quickly.
A legislative committee has requested staff draft a bill that would create the new alerts, and there appears to be substantial initial support.
Sen. Affie Ellis, R-Cheyenne, is co-chairman of the Wyoming Legislature’s Select Committee on Tribal Affairs. During a meeting last week, she asked for a bill draft on Ashanti and Silver alerts.
But it’s possible that state statute already allows law enforcement to launch such alert systems without legislative action.
The Ashanti Alert focuses on people over 17 years old, missing adults with “special needs or circumstances” and missing adults “who are endangered or have been involuntarily abducted or kidnapped.”
Meanwhile, the Silver Alert focuses on missing seniors — including those with mental disabilities such as dementia.
Wyoming is one of the few states that doesn’t have a formal Silver Alert. There appears to be support from various stakeholders for the initiative and an agreement that it would not be arduous to implement.
Jordan Dresser, Northern Arapaho chairman, said that the Ashanti Alert is something he’s “very interested in.”
Erick Blackburn, chief of police for the Wind River Reservation Bureau of Indian Affairs, also said that he thinks Wyoming should use it.
If Wyoming implements the Ashanti Alert, the state would be one of the first to do so.
“I do believe it would be a fairly easy lift with little to no revenue impact because we already have the system,” said Cara Chambers, director of the Wyoming Division of Victim Services. “It would just be adding more people to the criteria.”
When Virginia lawmakers were discussing implementing a similar system there, however, state police were concerned that “the public could become desensitized to alerts if they are too frequent.”
The Ashanti Alert Act was passed in 2018. It authorized the U.S. attorney general to establish a nationwide communications framework to enable regional and local search efforts for missing people who fall outside of the scope of the Amber and Silver alerts.
The Ashanti Alert would apply to adults “who kind of just fall through this gap, where the family believes something has happened that this person didn’t just leave of their own volition,” Chambers said.
While the Ashanti Alert is for Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults, the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous people, as well as sexual assault suffered by Native Americans, came up during the meeting.
Jessica Swallow, a Native American woman who lives on the reservation, delivered tearful public testimony about sexual predators that go unpunished on the reservation.
“I’d like to ask you, now that you have some more staffing, if you could take a look into the sexual assaults that go on on our reservation,” she said to Blackburn. “We have predators that walk our reservation and it’s scary. It’s really scary.”
Blackburn, who sat next to Swallow before the committee, responded.
“As far as sexual assaults, it is out of control here. The problem we run into is victims not wanting to be victims,” Blackburn said. “They don’t want to cooperate, they don’t remember what happened ... our biggest road bump or hurdle is getting victims to cooperate.”
Dresser provided a bit of an explanation for why some victims may not cooperate.
“I think [victims] see that nothing happens to those individuals. That it kind of goes nowhere,” he said.
Chambers said that a “more substantive update” from the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Task Force will come at the committee’s October meeting.
Through tears, Swallow pushed back against Blackburn’s testimony.
“One of my friends said something and she was getting death threats. She had to buy a gun and move out of the county,” she said. “I know she was cooperative and she was trying to get help, and she just couldn’t get the help. The only help was to go arm herself.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/state-s-alert-system-could-grow/article_2e8001a8-2e1c-11ed-b682-7f8097bea287.html | 2022-09-07T12:45:09Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/state-s-alert-system-could-grow/article_2e8001a8-2e1c-11ed-b682-7f8097bea287.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...AIR QUALITY ALERT CONTINUES UNTIL 1 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON...
The following message is transmitted on behalf of the Wyoming
Department of Environmental Quality, Air Quality Division and the
Wyoming Department of Health.
WHAT...Air Quality Alert for Wildfire Smoke.
WHERE...Portions of southeast Wyoming including Carbon county and
Albany county west of the Laramie range.
WHEN...The Air Quality Alert will continue through 1PM this
afternoon.
HEALTH INFORMATION...The Wyoming Department of Health recommends the
elderly, young children, and individuals with respiratory problems
avoid excessive physical exertion and minimize outdoor activities
during this time. Wildfire smoke is made up of a variety of
pollutants, including particulate matter and ozone, which can cause
respiratory health effect. Although these people are most susceptible
to health impacts, the Department of Health also advises that
everyone should avoid prolonged exposure to poor air quality
conditions.
CURRENT CONDITIONS...The Wyoming Department of Environmental
Quality, Air Quality Division offers near real-time air quality data
for Wyoming's monitoring stations and health effects information to
help the public interpret current conditions. Current air quality
conditions across the state of Wyoming can be found at
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...RED FLAG WARNING FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND A FIRE WEATHER
WATCH FOR THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE THURSDAY DUE TO GUSTY WEST WINDS
AND LOW HUMIDITY...
...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 7 PM MDT THURSDAY FOR
GUSTY WEST WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 418,
419, 420, 421, 422, 423, 424, 425, 427, 428, 429, 430, AND 432...
The National Weather Service in Cheyenne has issued a Red Flag
Warning, which is in effect from 10 AM to 7 PM MDT Thursday. The
Fire Weather Watch is no longer in effect.
* AFFECTED AREA...Fire weather zones 418 through 425. Fire
weather zones 427 through 430. Fire weather zone 432.
* WIND...West to northwest winds 15 to 20 mph sustained with
gusts to 35 mph possible.
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* HAINES...5 to 6.
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Outdoor burning is not recommended.
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An unseasonably warm afternoon Tuesday prompted many people to enjoy their lunch outside, like at The Sugar Mouse Cupcake House on the corner of 2nd and Garfield streets in downtown Laramie.
A haze was visible over downtown Laramie on Tuesday. The smoke came from wildfires in Idaho, prompting an air quality alert from the National Weather Service.
Cheryl Wood stirs hertea while enjoying the warm Tuesday afternoon outside at The Sugar Mouse Cupcake House in downtown Laramie with friend Kim Raska Miller. A recent heat wave continued with temperatures in the high 80s by early afternoon.
An unseasonably warm afternoon Tuesday prompted many people to enjoy their lunch outside, like at The Sugar Mouse Cupcake House on the corner of 2nd and Garfield streets in downtown Laramie.
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A haze was visible over downtown Laramie on Tuesday. The smoke came from wildfires in Idaho, prompting an air quality alert from the National Weather Service.
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Cheryl Wood stirs hertea while enjoying the warm Tuesday afternoon outside at The Sugar Mouse Cupcake House in downtown Laramie with friend Kim Raska Miller. A recent heat wave continued with temperatures in the high 80s by early afternoon.
The Laramie Valley is getting a late dose of summer this week as temperatures are expected to reach record-breaking levels and wildfire smoke from other Western states triggered an air quality alert.
The previous record for the day was 90 degrees in 1978, said National Weather Service meteorologist Gerald Claycomb.
The heat is expected to continue Wednesday and Thursday with highs forecast at 91 and 88 degrees, respectively.
If the forecast is correct, there will be three consecutive days of record-breaking heat for Laramie, Claycomb said. The hottest recorded temperature in the area for Sept. 7 is 88 degrees, recorded in 1959. The hottest Sept. 8 temperature was 85 in 1979.
With temperatures already in the high 80s by noon, the Tuesday lunch rush saw many people who normally would choose to eat outside stay in. The exception was shady areas.
At The Sugar Mouse Cupcake House on the corner of 2nd and Garfield streets downtown, friends Kim Raska Miller and Cheryl Wood enjoyed afternoon tea outside. Both said they only choose an outdoors table because it was in the shade.
“It’s just shady enough to be comfortable,” Wood said. “When that breeze hits, it feels really good. This is the life!”
Raska Miller called the hotter-than-normal stretch “delightful,” and that she intends to enjoy the heat while it lasts.
“It’s cold enough in Laramie for too long to not enjoy this,” she said.
To deal with the heat in the coming days, people should plan for more frequent water breaks when outdoors, according to the National Weather Service.
As if the heat isn’t reason enough to stay inside, the agency also advises people to limit their time outside because of low air quality caused by wildfire smoke.
A notable haze was visible in Laramie skies Tuesday from multiple wildfires in Idaho. This includes the Moose Fire, which had burned over 107,500 acres by Tuesday, according to Inciweb. Idaho is currently leading the nation for the number of wildfires, with 27 large fires burning in the state, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
People who are young, older or have respiratory health conditions should avoid exercise and stay indoors during the advisory. The rest of the population should limit exposure as well, according to the National Weather Service. The alert is in effect until 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Wyoming has one reported wildfire in the northern portion of the state. It burned 21 acres and is 100% contained, according Inciweb.
While the current heat wave was preceded by some monsoon rains, precipitation levels remain below average in Laramie. The area has received 5.53 inches so far this year, while the average is 8.01 inches.
A shift in temperatures is expected heading into the weekend, with low temperatures expected to dip to 39 degrees Saturday and 38 Sunday, Claycomb said.
He added that while these temperature changes are normal this time of year, anyone wanting to protect delicate plants in their gardens may consider covering their plants to protect them.
“September is when the cold fronts start moving in out of Canada, so we can have those big temperature swings like that,” Claycomb said. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/toasty-tuesday-record-breaking-temps-poor-air-quality-this-week/article_48a4f146-2e13-11ed-887b-5f2fc601abe6.html | 2022-09-07T12:45:16Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/toasty-tuesday-record-breaking-temps-poor-air-quality-this-week/article_48a4f146-2e13-11ed-887b-5f2fc601abe6.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ROCK SPRINGS – The biker community made a young man’s dream come true Sunday morning.
Motorcyclists from all over joined together to give Rock Springs resident Vincent Johnson, an 18-year-old with cerebral palsy, a ride that he will never forget.
For several years, it was Johnson’s dream to go on a motorcycle ride.
In order to make that dream happen, though, he needed to ride in a sidecar. His grandmother Susan Nay began reaching out, making calls and posting on Facebook in search of one so her grandson can fulfill his dream.
In May, she got in touch with Jay Weisgerber, a man from Alliance, Nebraska, who just so happened to have a sidecar. Weisgerber was living in Rapid City, South Dakota, at the time and was ready to make the trip.
Johnson’s health wasn’t doing well then, however, so the ride had to be postponed.
Weisgerber created a Facebook page called Vincent’s Ride and began posting on the Sweetwater Classifieds page to recruit local bikers to join him in making Johnson’s dream come true.
On Saturday, Sept. 3, Weisgerber, along with his dog and girlfriend, traveled 405 miles to give Johnson a quick ride around town.
“I didn’t even care if anybody else showed up. I was on a mission. I was dead set on giving this young man Vincent a ride,” Weisgerber said.
“People who want to donate ask, ‘Do you have a 501c3?’ and I say, ‘No. This has nothing to do with money.’ I’ve had people offer me money, pay my way, offer to pay for my motel and I had three different people who I have never met offer to let me stay at their house last night with my dog and my girlfriend. That’s how these people are coming together.”
“I’ve been a biker my whole life and it doesn’t surprise me a bit because that’s the way the biker community is.”
Nearly 60 bikers and members of the Sweetwater County community showed up to Johnson’s house Sunday morning, gifting him with an autographed helmet and t-shirt that was donated by Flaming Gorge Harley Davidson. Motorcycle clubs such as Bad Lands Bandits and Fallen Saints Red Desert, as well as the American Legion Riders, joined in on the ride.
“When people think of the bikers in our community, people have a negative thought of what being a biker is. This is the turnout you can get on a three-day weekend. All the organizational stuff goes away when it comes to this because we have a purpose and a focus,” said Grant Yaklich, vice director and chaplain of the American Legion Riders.
“The man who brought his sidecar here, Jay, he came here from Alliance, Nebraska. He’s a school bus driver and he has taken his three-day weekend to come to Rock Springs to do this for this young man because this is what his wish is. This is what his dream is.
“It doesn’t matter who you ride with, what you ride or how you ride, this is about the community and this is a great representation of what the biker community in this area stand for.”
Upon the bikers’ arrival, Nay was nearly brought to tears by the love and support her grandson had received.
“I am just overwhelmed,” said Nay after seeing the amount of people who showed up for her grandson’s wish. “I am very excited for Vincent and I think this is a fantastic thing these people are doing. He likes to try different things and he’s been talking about this one for several years now.
“I’m going to cry.”
When seeing the look on Johnson’s face when the bikers showed up to his house, Rep. Marshall Burt of House District 39, who is also a member of the Fallen Saints Red Desert Motorcycle Club, said, “This is what it’s all about.
“What a lot of people don’t realize, as bikers, we might have a bad perception because we wear a lot of leather and we may look a little standoffish, but bikers, in their nature, are very charitable individuals and as a group,” Burt said.
“There are a lot of events that happen throughout the year that bikers will show up to, donate a lot of their money. Being able to get together with fellow riders and enjoy the beautiful day to give back to the community is really what we focus on.
“That’s our goal. We always want to give back to the community.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/vincents-ride-bikers-make-young-mans-dream-come-true/article_52097ac8-2def-11ed-bbf4-b36ef205f597.html | 2022-09-07T12:45:22Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/vincents-ride-bikers-make-young-mans-dream-come-true/article_52097ac8-2def-11ed-bbf4-b36ef205f597.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In its 100-year history, the Wesley Foundation Campus Ministry has offered University of Wyoming students free lunches, religious retreats and even instruction on Christian clowning.
Today, both the outgoing and new director of the Methodist Church’s outreach program agree that at its core, the foundation provides something students say they need: A safe place to talk about faith — or anything else, for that matter.
In recent years, one of the most popular venues for that talk has been a weekly free lunch at the UW Student Union.
That history will be celebrated Saturday and Sunday at First United Methodist church, 1215 Gibbon St., Laramie.
“Thursday lunches were one of my favorite things that we did,” said Debra Juarez, a Methodist deacon who ended her tenure as director Aug. 31. “I think they held them for 15-18 years. We’d buy lunch for students. It went from one to 15 students to 60 students, which was unmanageable.”
Juarez said she initially tried, unsuccessfully, to include devotions with the lunches. When that didn’t work, she began putting interesting quotations on the tables. That got the conversations flowing.
“We would get off of religious topics anyway,” she said, with the discussions trending toward, “What do you think about this issue?”
“It was a community-builder rather than a religious thing,” she said.
Juarez said the lunches, as well as book clubs and Bible studies, were a way to “help introduce people to faith and think about God and life with God, talking about God in whatever way they are comfortable; a safe place to talk about your questions.”
“If you were raised in the Methodist Church or any church, it helped you grow into a faith that would fit you as you grew up,” she said. “Even if you never came to church and were on the periphery, you were part of something attached to a church and might not think that church is useless.”
Jason Harshberger, a pastor who took over the director’s position Friday, said he also sees communication as a big part of his role.
Faith-based support
A 2021 report by the Springtide Research Institute, a nonprofit groups that studies religious, social and cultural impacts on young people, shows that more than half of people ages 13-25 never attend church or attend once a year or less.
In that age group, only 16% said that they have turned to someone in a religious community in a time of crisis.
Harshberger said he sees the role of the campus ministry as not bringing students in, but in reaching out to them.
“This not getting them to come to what has been, but to find what excites them right now, see what does work for them instead of getting them here and hoping they will find us,” Harshberger said. “I want to walk with them.”
A decade of experience in campus ministry has shown him how important it is to reach out to students, he said.
“They are open and even longing for connections — people of faith, people of different ages, backgrounds, people different from them,” he said. “College students want to be invited into people’s homes and talk about their stories, build relationships.”
Not a lost cause
He also would like to see the Wesley Foundation encourage more intergenerational experiences, like football games or service projects in a local soup kitchen.
“Many believe this is a lost cause,” he said. “For me, we just need to look at it in a different way. We can help make life-changing relationships that impact our faith and help grow our faith. I’m an optimist.”
The chance to meet with students from other disciplines was something that Jacquie Holt, a 2022 UW graduate, said she found valuable. Holt was an intern at the foundation and participated in its events through all her years at UW.
“I made a lot of friends over a lot of different colleges. You would meet people across majors, across cultures,” she said.
She said the “laid-back” attitude within the foundation is something that makes students comfortable.
“A lot of my friends don’t like going to church. The older generation, they’re more strict for the rules and my friends don’t feel comfortable there,” Holt said. “Wesley was friendly, open, more comfortable than just coming to church,” Holt said.
Responding to the trend away from church is something organization’s board of directors plans to address in the coming years, said LeeAnn Gray, a foundation board member.
Gray participated in foundation activities as a UW student in the early 1980s.
“There’s been a lot of changes since I was in; not as much participation,” she said. “The times have changed and church is not as much of a factor any more.
“When I was in it, we probably had 20-30 people in our group, and now if seems like a dozen if we are lucky.”
Gray said she was drawn to the organization for the social connections, but she also values a religious focus.
“It was more the fellowship, being around other people, that was the big thing. When they have the same beliefs, they all kind of click,” she said. “The history is important. Being there that long shows that it is a good organization, when you can survive all the ups and downs over the years, a hundred of them. We are still there to help support the kids.”
The Wesley Foundation’s history has been captured in two publications, one celebrating the first 70 years, another ending with the 100th anniversary.
“Wesley is unique in many ways. Royalties from an oil well left to the Wesley Foundation in the will of a benefactor and a gas station lease in Laramie provide income and take fundraising pressure off the students and the Wesley Foundation Board,” Todd Adams wrote in “A History of the Wesley Foundation at the First United Methodist Church Laramie Wyoming, The first 70 Years: 1922-1992.”
Adams continues:
“At one time, Wesley met in one of the original buildings of old Fort Sanders, built in 1866, making it the oldest student center in the nation.
“The Wesley Foundation’s history is as colorful as its students and its leaders who have participated in a wide, sometimes bewildering, range of activities from traditional Bible study, basketball, volleyball, pingpong, skating, skiing, religious retreats, spring break work trips, community service projects, The Wesley Players, the Wes-Co-Weds, a Christian Clown workshop, the ‘Kiss a Frog’ retreat, The Skeptics Breakfast Hour, a Biafran rice and tea dinner, Faculty Fireside Chats, noncredit courses in the School of Religion, registering black voters in Mississippi, First Person Coffeehouse, The Gathering Place, weekend ‘Close Encounters of the Faculty Kind’ at Buckhorn Camp (not the Buckhorn Bar), ‘Free University’ courses, the Canterbury House (for interacting with international students), picnics, hikes, backpacking trips, South American work camps ... the list goes on.
“They have studied and discussed a wide range of issues and topics, from Christian theology, the life and teachings of Jesus, AIDS, the homeless, homosexuality, abortion, the environment,? and images of God,? to debating the existence of UFOs. Some of the activities, topics and titles are a mirror of what society was going through at the time, other are timeless.”
The clown college has vanished, but the diverse nature of activities and inquiries remains, said Juarez.
“Over 100 years, we’ve tried to do a lot of service projects, tried to do a mix of different opportunities, laser tag — this was the most fun event — but we also did help with the food bank. A lot of the students would help with the service projects,” she said.
“Another change since the foundation’s inception is the diversity in the group,” Juarez said. “While UW included women among its students and faculty since it opened, women were not well represented in the classes, and the foundation offered a program supporting the wives of UW students.
Today, Juarez said, the foundation mirrors the more diverse student population.
Bishop Karen Oliveto of the Mountain/Sky Conference of the Methodist Church, who will preach Sunday as part of the 100-year celebration, identifies as a lesbian and is married. She is the first openly lesbian bishop to be elected bishop. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/wesley-foundation-celebrates-100-years-on-uw-campus/article_560d7710-2e07-11ed-a768-efc5469d58fa.html | 2022-09-07T12:45:28Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/wesley-foundation-celebrates-100-years-on-uw-campus/article_560d7710-2e07-11ed-a768-efc5469d58fa.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CASPER — The Biden administration legally postponed the oil and gas lease sales scheduled for the first quarter of 2021, a federal judge ruled Friday, in a blow to Wyoming and oil and gas industry groups.
U.S. District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl of Wyoming determined that the first-quarter delays “were not arbitrary, capricious, or an abuse of discretion,” rejecting arguments from the state, the Western Energy Alliance and the Petroleum Association of Wyoming that they were.
The oil and gas industry maintains the Biden administration violated the Mineral Leasing Act, a 1920 law that requires the Department of the Interior to hold onshore lease sales at least quarterly in every state “where eligible lands are available,” by not leasing any federal lands to oil and gas companies for five consecutive quarters.
Skavdahl only considered the actions taken by the Interior Department during the first quarter, before the legal challenges were filed in Wyoming.
“Our initial reaction is disappointment,” Michael Pearlman, Gov. Mark Gordon’s communications director, said in a written statement.
“We continue to believe the cancellation of numerous lease sales is unlawful, and we will carefully review this decision and evaluate our options,” he added. “Regardless, Wyoming people should know that Governor Gordon will continue to fight to protect our state’s interests.”
Friday’s decision differs from last month’s ruling out of Louisiana, in which U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty found that the Department of the Interior acted unlawfully when it suspended first-quarter leasing, and barred federal officials “from implementing a Stop … on new oil and gas leases on public lands and in offshore waters,” in the 13 states involved in that case.
Wyoming was not one of them, though the state’s oil and gas interests said it was a promising sign.
Skavdahl, however, sided with the Interior Department, which said it postponed the sales because the associated environmental review did not meet heightened standards — particularly of leasing’s climate impacts — established by other federal courts, and it needed to redo those Trump-era assessments before holding a sale.
Environmental groups have successfully challenged federal oil and gas lease sales, including in Wyoming, over the last several years, with judges repeatedly vacating those leases or requiring the Interior Department to redo its climate analysis.
Two separate lawsuits were filed against the federal oil and gas lease sale held in Wyoming in June — the state’s first since President Joe Biden took office.
Shannon Anderson, staff attorney for the Powder River Basin Resource Council, said Skavdahl made clear in the decision that “if there’s a need to do additional environmental analysis, those lease parcels are not yet ready for leasing.”
The Powder River Basin Resource Council was one of the 21 environmental groups represented in the case by Earthjustice and the Western Environmental Law Center — both of which sued over the June lease sale — this time in support of the Interior Department.
“We are pleased to see this well-reasoned order in such an important case,” the groups said in a joint statement following the decision. “We hope that moving forward, the Biden administration won’t shy away from exercising its authority to limit oil and gas leasing in order to protect our climate and the environment.”
Taylor McKinnon, a senior public lands advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, another of the groups, said in a written statement that the ruling will help the Biden administration “bring federal fossil fuel programs to a swift and orderly end.”
That’s exactly what the oil and gas industry now fears the the Interior Department will do.
Skavdahl’s ruling “essentially gives a free pass to the Biden administration to never lease another acre, so long as they say they’re not finished with environmental review,” said Pete Obermueller, president of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming. “There’s no deadline. There is no mechanism by which to enforce them finishing environmental review. There’s really no avenue for us at this point, if the judge’s ruling stands.”
The decision is significant, he said, especially for the state’s smaller producers, which need to secure new leases in order to keep operating.
Environmental groups, including the Powder River Basin Resource Council, argue that the industry’s existing Wyoming leases and drilling permits are more than enough.
“They hold more than 13 million acres of public lands oil and gas leases, allowing them to continue operating as normal for years without causing market disruptions,” Bob LeResche, a board member, said in a written statement.
The Petroleum Association of Wyoming has not decided whether it will appeal.
“We have to digest it a little further, and figure out our next steps,” Obermueller said. “The court did not engage with really any of our arguments, which was very disappointing.”
Standing — the legal right to bring a lawsuit — proved central to Skavdahl’s decision.
He focused, initially, on “when the petitions for review were filed, what agency actions were being challenged, what agency actions actually had been made at that point,” Anderson said. “And limited the case significantly that way.”
The industry groups that sued in Wyoming over the leasing pause filed their lawsuit on Jan. 27, 2021, while Wyoming filed its petition on March 24, 2021.
Because the Interior Department delayed its planned March 2021 lease sales in between those dates, Skavdahl found that only Wyoming had standing to challenge the first-quarter delay — and none of the petitioners had standing to challenge the later second-quarter delay.
“As of (March 24), the DOI had postponed all March 2021 lease sales, which Petitioner Wyoming has standing to challenge in this lawsuit,” Skavdahl wrote. “However, at that time, the DOI still had time to hold second-quarter lease sales.”
It’s now up to the Biden administration to plan around the conflicting rulings.
The Interior Department has not announced another onshore oil and gas lease sale. With months of public participation required before federal leases can be sold, it’s looking less and less likely that Wyoming’s next sale will happen this year. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/wyoming-judge-sides-with-biden-on-federal-leases/article_c3fb741a-2e1c-11ed-a28f-276e12104d11.html | 2022-09-07T12:45:41Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/wyoming-judge-sides-with-biden-on-federal-leases/article_c3fb741a-2e1c-11ed-a28f-276e12104d11.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.K.'s Liz Truss inherits an economic nightmare
Britain's economy, rendered fragile and brittle by Brexit, has proved incapable of withstanding the twin scourges of the pandemic and energy price inflation. The result is a historic economic implosion.
By the numbers: One British pound is now worth just $1.15, down from $1.50 on the morning of the Brexit referendum in 2016.
- The Bank of England predicts that inflation will hit 13% this quarter. GDP will also turn negative this quarter, the Bank says — and will then stay negative through every quarter of 2023. After that, in 2024 and onwards, growth is projected to be "very weak by historical standards."
- Household incomes are expected to fall by 1.5% this year, after accounting for taxes and inflation, and by another 2.25% next year.
Driving the news: The government of incoming prime minister Liz Truss is expected to spend as much as £200 billion ($230 billion) to goose the economy and subsidize energy costs.
- The catch: Energy costs are high because demand exceeds supply. Government subsidies will only serve to increase the demand for energy, making it even harder for Britain to find the energy savings it needs.
The big picture: Truss was most recently elected to parliament in December 2019, just weeks before Britain formally left the European Union and months before the pandemic precipitated a seemingly endless litany of scandals surrounding the behavior of lawmakers from the ruling Conservative Party.
- The vote that made her prime minister involved just 141,725 voters, all of whom were party members.
The bottom line: Only 5% of Britons expect Truss to be a great prime minister, while 35% think she will be terrible.
- The financial markets seem to agree. Two-year U.K. government bonds are yielding 3.14%, compared to just 1.06% for their German equivalents. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/07/liz-truss-uk-economy-inflation-pound | 2022-09-07T12:45:47Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/07/liz-truss-uk-economy-inflation-pound | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Oh golly, there’s so much news lately that I can hardly keep up.
Let’s have a look around:
DID YOUR HEAR about the 80-year-old woman in Washington state who stepped out of the shower at her local gym and there was a guy standing there, in all his naked male plumage? She knew right away he was a guy, regardless of his preferred pronouns. (You can tell.)
She complained to management. And as a result she was advised not to come back to the gym since she was so intolerant. The problem was hers, according to the gym — not his — even though she was a longtime member.
This might not work in this age of so many dang gender identities, but I’m reminded of the age old response when confronted by some guy displaying plumage: “Wow, I’ve never seen one that small!”
Might work.
CABIN SEASON is getting short in southern Wyoming, and my essential role of poking the campfire and counting hummingbirds is coming to an end.
This was a good year for rain (no fire ban in my neck of beautiful Carbon County), the mosquitoes disappeared a few weeks early and there were lots of hummingbirds (I spotted as many as 12 at my feeders in mid-August). The flies, however, were horrible. Still are.
We’ve got a couple of those guns for shooting flies with salt, one at home, another at the cabin. But we’ve spotted a design flaw. After a few years, the salt reservoir (notice I’m not calling it a “clip” or a “magazine” to keep the gun experts off my back) starts to leak, leaving salt all over the place and you have to keep throwing it over your left shoulder for good luck.
Shooting Boone and Crockett-sized flies with salt is fun (I know a guy who hates guns who nevertheless loves shooting flies), but a healthy swat with a traditional swatter relieves stress and lets the surviving flies know you mean business.
I prefer the swatter. If I could find a military-grade fly swatter, I’d buy one.
PRESIDENT ‘Hey You Kids, Get Off My Lawn!’ was angrier and more crotchety than usual in his speech to the nation last week, calling people like us “MAGA people.” (Oh no! You want to make America great? Well, shame on you!)
The week before that, our semi-president called us “semi-fascists.” And he keeps saying we don’t believe in democracy.
(I believe in democracy. You’re the deep state denizens who told Facebook what they couldn’t say about the president’s nutty son before the election.)
My father used to say, “The empty wagon makes the most noise.”
True.
THE MOST CREATIVE name I’ve been called in recent years is a “degraded specimen” over, as I recall, reluctance to go hook, line and sinker with the COVID-19 vaccine craze.
The president once said they were “losing patience” with us. (Hey, I’ve had plenty of vaccines, just not these latest ones. Ever had a cholera shot, Mr. President? I have! Two, in fact. Hold onto your hat!) And a local columnist said we should be shunned.
You don’t hear so much of this intolerance lately, as the people who hectored and shunned us so vehemently seem to keep getting COVID despite their precious vaccines and swell boosters. And some of them die, putting into question the “milder case” argument.
Meanwhile, those of us who had COVID and got natural immunity seem to be doing much better. (How about that, Bullwinkle?)
So anyway, I think “degraded specimen” takes the cake for bullying intolerance. Sounds kind of “final solution” to me.
I NOTICE THAT those we-know-better-than-the-voters people now want to find someone to run against Chuck Gray in the General Election. Failing that, they want to change the duties of the secretary of state to keep Gray from having anything to do with elections.
Let me finish with this. If you think you know better than the voters of Wyoming (which didn’t work out too well for Liz Cheney), well, let me paraphrase comedian Jeff Foxworthy: Then you may be a RINO! | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/opinion/contributed_columns/hey-you-kids-get-off-my-lawn/article_486ee0b0-2dfa-11ed-9b25-579571390f8b.html | 2022-09-07T12:45:47Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/opinion/contributed_columns/hey-you-kids-get-off-my-lawn/article_486ee0b0-2dfa-11ed-9b25-579571390f8b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Abortion could drive Texas women to the polls
The end of Roe could make November complicated for Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Republicans.
Driving the news: Tom Bonier — a Democratic strategist and CEO of TargetSmart, a data and polling firm — says a "Roe wave" of new women voters, fired up by the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, could swamp GOP hopes of a red wave in November's midterms.
- "In my 28 years analyzing elections, I've never seen anything like what's happened in the past two months in American politics: Women are registering to vote in numbers I've never witnessed," Bonier writes in a New York Times op-ed.
By the numbers: More than 309,000 Texans either registered for the first time or updated their voter registration in the roughly two months between when the Dobbs decision came down and late August, per the Texas Secretary of State's office. Just under half of those were women, but voters are not required to disclose their gender.
- Registrations were relatively flat before the Dobbs decision, with total registration hovering around 17.2 million voters in Texas.
- Women have outnumbered men at the Texas polls in the presidential and midterm elections since at least 2014, per data compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Catch up quick: Texas' so-called "trigger law" made abortion — including for survivors of rape and incest — illegal in the state.
- Over the weekend, Abbott attempted to ease voters' minds, saying Texans who are victims of rape can instead take the emergency contraceptive Plan B.
- "We want to support those victims, but also those victims can access health care immediately, as well as to report it," Abbott told The Dallas Morning News and KXAS-TV.
- Democrat Beto O'Rourke's gubernatorial campaign quickly wrapped Abbott's remarks into a 30-second ad Tuesday, calling it a "cruel message" to victims.
Of note: Emergency contraception is less effective for those over 165 pounds, and must be taken within 24 hours of sex to be most effective.
Zoom in: Both parties are working to win over women voters in Texas.
- O'Rourke released additional TV ads last month criticizing Abbott over abortion.
- Meanwhile, Abbott joined Comptroller Glenn Hegar and Houston Sen. Joan Huffman in supporting the repeal of the sales tax on feminine hygiene products.
Zoom out: The states with the biggest surges in women registering after the Supreme Court decision were deep-red Kansas, where abortion rights triumphed in a referendum last month, and Idaho, Bonier writes.
- Key battleground states also showed large increases, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio, which are all facing statewide races in which the fate of abortion access could be decided in November.
- The New York Times found that in 10 states with available voter registration data, the number of women registering to vote rose by about 35% after the decision, compared with the month before the leak of a draft opinion. Men ticked up by 9%.
The bottom line: Texas remains pretty darn red.
- Although a majority of Texas voters do not support a complete ban on abortions, redistricting has helped shift swing districts further to the right.
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...RED FLAG WARNING FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND A FIRE WEATHER
WATCH FOR THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE THURSDAY DUE TO GUSTY WEST WINDS
AND LOW HUMIDITY...
...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 7 PM MDT THURSDAY FOR
GUSTY WEST WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 418,
419, 420, 421, 422, 423, 424, 425, 427, 428, 429, 430, AND 432...
The National Weather Service in Cheyenne has issued a Red Flag
Warning, which is in effect from 10 AM to 7 PM MDT Thursday. The
Fire Weather Watch is no longer in effect.
* AFFECTED AREA...Fire weather zones 418 through 425. Fire
weather zones 427 through 430. Fire weather zone 432.
* WIND...West to northwest winds 15 to 20 mph sustained with
gusts to 35 mph possible.
* HUMIDITY...7 to 15 percent.
* HAINES...5 to 6.
* IMPACTS...any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly.
Outdoor burning is not recommended.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions
are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of
strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can
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Cheyenne police arrest gas station employee after Monday stabbing
CHEYENNE – Cheyenne police have arrested a local man following a Monday evening stabbing incident, the department said in a Tuesday afternoon news release.
The suspect in the stabbing, Jason Singleton, 26, of Cheyenne, was an employee at a south Cheyenne gas station, CPD said. He was booked into the Laramie County jail on a felony charge of aggravated assault.
At about 8 p.m. Monday, officers were dispatched to an aggravated assault with a knife at the Big D Sinclair gas station at 100 North Greeley Highway. Responding officers found an adult male victim at the scene with a stab wound, according to the news release.
The victim had non-life-threatening injuries and was transported by American Medical Response to Cheyenne Regional Medical Center for treatment.
A preliminary investigation shows a male and female arrived at the location and entered into a verbal altercation with an employee of the gas station, later identified as Singleton. As the argument escalated, Singleton reportedly displayed a knife and stabbed one of the males. He then fled the scene on foot, the news release said.
Officers established a perimeter around the location and deployed CPD K-9 Pavel to track the suspect. Pavel tracked the suspect’s scent to the parking lot of the Red Lion Hotel, 204 W. Fox Farm Road. At the same time, dispatch advised officers that a Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper had observed the suspect entering the hotel.
A Laramie County Sheriff’s Office deputy located Singleton in the hotel with the knife still in his possession, the release said. Singleton was taken into custody without further incident.
Hannah Black is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s criminal justice reporter. She can be reached at hblack@wyomingnews.com or 307-633-3128. Follow her on Twitter at @hannahcblack. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/cheyenne-police-arrest-gas-station-employee-after-monday-stabbing/article_5c5e0d48-2e1e-11ed-b196-87677fb1ce3f.html | 2022-09-07T12:46:05Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/cheyenne-police-arrest-gas-station-employee-after-monday-stabbing/article_5c5e0d48-2e1e-11ed-b196-87677fb1ce3f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In Collaboration with Palram, PLANETech World Conference Will Introduce Temporary Structures Made with UBQ™ - Reducing Carbon Footprint and Promoting Circular Design
TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UBQ Materials announced today that PLANETech World 2022 will be the first global conference to incorporate its novel material, UBQ™, into temporary building structures. The global climate tech innovation community will gather in Tel Aviv on September 21, 2022, marking the first time a trade event will reduce the carbon footprint of its own construction by using UBQ's climate-positive raw material in place of conventional plastic.
UBQ Materials converts unsorted household waste, including all organics, into a post-consumer recycled thermoplastic for use in manufacturing thousands of durable products across industries.
Typical trade events utilize wooden structures, multicomponent plastics, printed fabric banners, all of which carry a significant environmental footprint and are nearly impossible to efficiently recycle. In partnership with UBQ Materials and thermoplastic sheets manufacturer Palram, elements of PLANETech World's infrastructure will be composed of Palboard™ multilayered PVC panels made with UBQ™.
"In-person conferences better enable climate tech innovators to collaborate with global stakeholders, but the climate impact of these events directly conflicts with the changes they are working to bring about," said Uriel Klar, Director of PLANETech. "By incorporating UBQ™ into our structures, we are creating a platform for climate tech companies to showcase their work, share knowledge, forge new partnerships and promote implementation, all while staying true to the goal of lower emissions and a healthier planet."
The innovative Palram building panels prevent up to 12 tons of CO2eq for every ton of UBQ™ used and will be collected by the manufacturer immediately following the event to be recycled into new panels. This product is the first of its kind, empowering PLANETech World to close the loop on its waste-to-production cycle several times over.
"Manufacturers around the world recognize that sustainability is now the rule rather than the exception, so being first to market with a circular solution is imperative," said Shai Michael, CEO at Palram. "PLANETech World is the inaugural use case, but we see incredible potential for PVC sheets made with UBQ™ in point of sale, signage, and other promotional items that are generally single use."
"Every product can be reimagined to have big environmental impact with simple material replacements," said Tato Bigio, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of UBQ Materials. "By replacing oil-based plastics with UBQ™ in conference infrastructures, we are demonstrating that events, as well as the larger building and construction industry, can serve as engines of a circular economy."
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The terror that mainstream conservative Republican politicians have felt over the threat of being called insufficiently conservative – of being tagged as Republicans in Name Only – has made governing difficult for them since the 1990s. But whenever they were the minority party in Washington, they could correctly assume that there was little electoral cost to mollifying the party’s right wing.
This year, that presumption may no longer hold up. With an incumbent president whose approval rating barely tops 40% and plenty of discontent about the economy, Democrats should be facing heavy losses. Instead, there are signs Republican might only make minor gains in the November midterms. The GOP could even lose seats in the Senate and among governors. And that is all due to Republican fears of being labeled RINO.
From the 2016 presidential campaign through the second impeachment vote in the Senate, Republicans have had plenty of opportunities to rid themselves of Trump. Yet time after time, they chose instead to stick with him, with the party and with party-aligned media giving Trump, who apparently cares little about public policy or the conservative movement, the ability to decide what counts as orthodoxy.
Given the legal trouble the former president has gotten himself into, being a “true conservative” now includes a requirement to defend Trump’s attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, as well as his right to classified material, including ultra-sensitive information about human intelligence, and store it willy-nilly at a not-even-close-to-secure location.
Republicans know that the weeks leading up to midterm elections aren’t a good time to pick a fight with the party leader, especially one who they believe won’t hesitate to turn against anyone who opposes him. That means the next opportunity to move away from Trump is probably after the November midterms. Until then, Republicans are probably stuck with whatever he does that disrupts the party’s attempts to run coherent campaigns and focus voters on President Joe Biden’s weaknesses.
Nominating extremist candidates who perform badly in general elections has occasionally been costly for Republicans. It’s getting much worse. To some extent, this is a consequence of having Trump around, but the former president’s support doesn’t carry that much clout.
Instead, the problem has been that the party simply doesn’t know how to protect itself from cranks and fraudsters. Republicans lack an effective counterargument against anyone who claims to be a true conservative and denounces everyone else for being RINOs. So inexperienced candidates with unpopular views, such as Arizona Senate nominee Blake Masters, or Pennsylvania gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, often get nominated – or they wind up dragging the eventual nominee so far from the mainstream that the nominee risks losing.
Democrats don’t always nominate moderates, and even healthy parties sometimes choose to embrace unpopular positions despite the potential electoral costs. But Republicans too often act as if the only question of any relevance is which candidate is the purest conservative. Relevant experience and appeal to independents is either ignored or actually considered a flaw.
It isn’t clear how much the Supreme Court’s decision to end the constitutional right to abortions will cost Republicans this fall. But it sure doesn’t appear to be helping. The court itself has become unpopular. Voters appear to be increasingly attached to abortion rights now that those rights have been threatened or eliminated; meanwhile Republican legislatures are passing all sorts of uncompromising bills.
We could chalk up some of this to a normal willingness to push through new policies, even at the cost of future electoral loss. But Republican moves following the court ruling, in addition to the court’s decision itself, seem reckless. Republican presidents and senators haven’t been satisfied with solidly conservative justices, such as current Chief Justice John Roberts or former Justice Anthony Kennedy. Trump, in particular, used judicial nominations to secure the support of the hardest-line activists within the Republican coalition, and Republican senators eagerly went along, only to find that if you put extremists on the court, you’re likely to get extreme decisions that put targets on the politicians who supported them.
The same goes for state legislators and governors who are unwilling to settle for most of a loaf when they can grab the whole thing. Abortion is one of several policy areas, along with guns and climate, in which Republican judges are taking extreme stands that are wildly popular among the most loyal Republican voters, but have little backing beyond them.
It’s still possible that Biden’s unpopularity will swamp everything else once the majority of voters start paying attention. But it’s also possible that for perhaps the first time in modern U.S. history, the party out of power will manage to throw away an election that they stood to win.
Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics and policy. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio and DePauw University, he wrote “A Plain Blog About Politics.” This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
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For decades, coal has been king for Wyoming’s economy and America’s energy production.
As political and economic climates continue to change toward more diverse electricity production and green energy, the Cowboy State also has become a leader in carbon research and evolution.
To that end, a group of University of Wyoming scientists is working to push Wyoming’s dependence on mining fossil fuels into using the state’s abundant carbon deposits in other ways. The researchers believe there are a range of cleaner, more efficient uses for the mineral — and they are coming closer to bringing those products into daily life.
On Friday, crews broke ground on a piece of land near Gillette that will soon become the site of a coal byproducts demonstration project. The UW Center for Carbon Capture and Conversion is leading the effort, partnering with Atlas Carbon and Wood for the leasing and engineering of infrastructure and technology.
The project will demonstrate how coal can be used to create a range of products such as asphalt, bricks and soil amendments that don’t require the pollutive burning process used in energy production.
“We’ve got some other things that we can use coal for, and I’m a strong believer in repurposing something like that,” said Trina Pfeiffer, one of the researchers on the project. “It’s a natural resource; why wouldn’t you use it?”
A refinery is the result of investigations UW researchers began in 2016 to explore ways solvent extraction and pyrolysis could be used to create other useful things from coal byproducts.
Solvent extraction is when liquids are removed from coal. These liquids can be used to make asphalt for roads and shingles.
The process of pyrolysis includes heating coal at a temperature up to 1,562 degrees Fahrenheit to remove volatile matter, or “the material you don’t want,” Pfeiffer said.
The process creates a material called coal char, which can be used to create bricks and other building materials like insulation foam and concrete. The university already has built a small house made of char bricks and grown corn and sugar beets with char soil amendment, which helps with water retention.
Once the pyrolysis unit is completed around the end of 2024, researchers will be able to demonstrate their work on a larger scale. This will mean transitioning from processing multiple kilograms of coal per day to multiple tons per day, Pfeiffer said.
The solvent extraction unit is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2025.
The products can provide environmentally friendly alternatives to materials that are already in common use, Pfeiffer said. Char bricks are cured by the sun rather than in a kiln, which cuts down on carbon dioxide emissions. And unlike traditional asphalt, coal asphalt doesn’t use petroleum.
The solvent extraction process does emit some CO2, but researchers also are exploring ways to capture the harmful gas that’s produced in the project to reach a net zero emissions goal for the project.
While still in early stages, one piece of technology that could be used to capture emissions is a bioreactor that uses CO2 to feed algae. As the algae grows, it can be used as a soil amendment.
Economic impact
These new technologies come at a time when business leaders across Wyoming are scrambling to find ways to keep the state’s economy afloat as clean energy takes priority over coal.
“I think it really helps the future of coal,” Pfeiffer said. “It rebrands it into something that is not ‘evil.’”
Less than 15 years ago, coal accounted for 50% of the energy production in the United States, with more than 40% for that coming from Wyoming’s Powder River Basin.
That has done a 180-degree turn, with coal now accounting for 10.5% of the nation’s energy consumption, outpaced by renewables at 12.2%, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Overall, petroleum accounts for the largest slice of the U.S. energy diet at about 35%, with natural gas at 31.3%. Nuclear is the caboose on this train at about 8%.
The key to the UW project’s success will be creating a product that is affordable enough to appeal to a wide range of consumers, and doing it in a way that makes money for Wyoming, said UW economist Rob Godby.
While throughout Wyoming’s history with coal, the resource has been primarily used for one thing, Godby said — energy production. New technologies open the potential for the state to diversify its economy by offering a wide range of items that are made with the material.
“We could develop technologies that create demand for coal, but the real value in using that coal is turning it into higher-value products,” Godby said.
This could be a challenge, especially since the petroleum industry already creates so many materials with its byproducts, Godby said. Still, the effort would be well worth it in a state that relies on coal revenues for education and other services in the absence of a large tax base.
Pfeiffer said that while she doesn’t know whether or not the technology being developed and tested through the Gillette-area demonstration will keep all of the state’s large open-pit coal mines open, it has the potential to save some of the smaller ones.
“I believe in the program and the process, and I believe it could help the country, the world and closer to home it’s going to help Wyoming a lot,” she said. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/cleaning-up-coal-uw-researchers-collaborate-to-demonstrate-byproduct-production/article_568ab5bc-2d36-11ed-a279-c7f11fe011ca.html | 2022-09-07T12:46:36Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/cleaning-up-coal-uw-researchers-collaborate-to-demonstrate-byproduct-production/article_568ab5bc-2d36-11ed-a279-c7f11fe011ca.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SHERIDAN — From the possibility of heat stroke and inclement weather to the significant fire risk, the later summer months bring certain risks for those living in the Rocky Mountain West. Luckily, experts offer a wide range of guidance to encourage everyone to enjoy the end of the season.
“One of the things that I think most people like to do when they are outside is enjoying an alcoholic beverage,” Sheridan County Sheriff Allen Thompson said. “In the heat of summer, that is a dangerous proposition.”
Thompson stressed the dehydration that alcohol causes. Alcohol is a diuretic, causing all of the fluids in the body to be removed through the renal system.
It is important to drink water along with the alcoholic beverage due to the problems dehydration brings. From nausea to death, dehydration can escalate fast, making it an essential consideration during the heat.
Nearing the record high of 107, Sheridan has had a very warm summer compared to previous years. In this case, drinking water and eating full meals is a must when high temperatures hit the plains.
Caring for oneself will ward off heat exhaustion and heatstroke, both of which, if left untreated, can cause death as well.
Along with water, finding shade is another method to keep away the extreme heat.
For individuals who have pets, Thompson emphasized the importance of taking care of them as well, keeping them out of crowded areas and providing food and water.
“Hot surfaces, direct sunlight and tons of people is not a great combination for pets,” Thompson said.
When taking the festivities to the backcountry, experts recommend having the proper equipment, and plan for extreme circumstances.
Essentials include the following:
Food
Cooking supplies
Comfortable shoes
Tent
Weather-appropriate clothing
Emergency and hygiene supplies
Water, methods to cleaning water
Blankets or sleeping bag
The Wyoming Ready app provides detailed checklists and resources for advice on safely taking on the wilderness. It also details preparedness for various severe weather conditions.
Experts recommend telling other family members or friends where you’re going and designate a return time with friends and family.
Other traditional summer pastimes — such as cooking s’mores or telling ghost stories — center around campfires; however, this comes with its own set of responsibilities.
Sheridan County Fire Warden Chris Thomas stressed the importance of keeping any campfire manageable, having the correct tools and always watching the fire.
“Always have adequate water and tools when using a fire,” Thomas said. “We work better with shovels than just sticks and rocks.”
Wildlife can also pose risks while recreating in the summer months.
“Always be prepared and be aware of your surroundings when it comes to snakes,” Sheridan County Emergency Management Coordinator Jesse Ludikhuize said. “Make sure that you are not quiet in any way.”
There are very few deadly snakes that live in Wyoming; however, if a pet, for example, gets struck, most veterinarians do carry anti-venom for animals. To prevent all bites, Ludikhuize recommends individuals stay on the paths and not venture into the tall brush.
Other animals such as bears, mountain lions and moose need to be observed with caution.
When approached by a bear, to prevent an attack, make oneself look larger. In the event that the bear goes to attack an individual, with grizzly bears, the best method is laying on the ground stomach down, clasping the hands behind the neck to protect oneself.
When confronted with a black bear, one should try to escape into a car or building.
If that is not possible, fighting back is one’s best option, according to the National Park Service.
Similar to responding to a bear encounter, when faced with a mountain lion, make oneself look larger.
If the mountain lion proceeds, throw rocks at it, aiming for the head. The best way to prevent a fatality is fighting back and protecting one’s neck and throat.
One of the most common encounters with a moose happens to those fishing near the willows. If it is possible to place a tree between oneself and the moose, that is the best option. Generally, once the moose believes individuals are far enough away, it will leave them alone.
With all of the wildlife in the mountains and the backcountry, the best way to prevent these encounters is traveling with larger groups. It is also important to not leave food or garbage out in one’s campsite that will eventually attract bears.
Going to and from the mountain, it is important to make sure that trailers are hooked up properly.
Chains on a trailer that hit the pavement can cause grass fires along the road. Although the side of the road is mowed down, it can still cause a substantial fire, Thomas said.
Trailers can also cause fires through the tires and brakes heating up, loss of axle lubricant and electrical problems.
There are a plethora of ways a trailer can cause a fire. Ultimately, owners need to maintain their trailers and keep them in good condition to allow for continued safe trips.
Typically, the summer months are also categorized by a substantial number of thunderstorms.
“Wyoming has more deaths per capita than any other state due to lightning strikes,” Ludikhuize said. “It is important that people make sure that if they see or hear lightning or thunder to seek shelter.”
Most of the lightning fatalities occur in the mountains, totaling eight deaths and 70 injuries from 1996 to 2013, according to the National Weather Service.
Whether one is backpacking in the mountains or taking a stroll on a local walk path, the final summer months can provide an excess amount of safety concerns from heat exhaustion to snakes.
As long as individuals take measures to keep these risks at bay, the last summer months can be a memorable time. Most of the precautionary actions are common daily occurrences such as drinking water and eating proper meals. Others include more detailed planning, such as packing for a backpacking trip. Although risks such as thunderstorms may drive people inside, it is important to enjoy the summer heat before the first snow covers the fields. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/final-summer-months-expose-new-hazards/article_6c736a78-2d3f-11ed-994a-23244837880e.html | 2022-09-07T12:46:43Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/final-summer-months-expose-new-hazards/article_6c736a78-2d3f-11ed-994a-23244837880e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An animated horror comedy featuring Danny DeVito as the voice of Satan is “clearly evil,” says a Republican congressman from Louisiana whose Facebook post denouncing “Little Demon” had reached millions of people by Tuesday morning.
U.S. Rep Mike Johnson objected to the sitcom aired by FX Networks. Its website says the series is about a woman and her 13-year-old daughter who are trying to live normal lives even though Satan is the girl’s father and wants custody of her soul.
A trailer for the show, which airs its fourth episode late Thursday, played during Sunday night’s TV broadcast of Louisiana State University’s football opener against Florida State.
“I couldn’t get to the remote fast enough to shield my 11-year-old from the preview, and I wonder how many other children were exposed to it — and how many millions more will tune in to the new series, owned and marketed by DISNEY,” the congressman and vice chairman of the House Republican Conference wrote on Monday.
FX Networks and Hulu, where the show is streamed, are among entertainment assets that Disney bought from Fox in a stock deal worth about $52.4 billion in late 2017.
On the show, DeVito voices the role of Satan and his daughter, Lucy DeVito, plays Satan’s daughter, Chrissy the Antichrist. Aubrey Plaza plays the mother. New episodes are broadcast at 10 p.m. Thursdays on FXX.
Disney and FX Networks did not immediately respond on Tuesday to emails requesting comment.
Johnson posted on Tuesday that more than 6.1 million people have read his earlier post — more, he said, than watched Sunday’s game, “which the latest ratings say dominated Sunday night TV with 5.87 million total viewers.”
He had written online Monday: “Our job as parents is to guard the hearts and minds of our kids. This culture has become alarmingly dark and desensitized and this is not a game. Disney and FX have decided to embrace and market what is clearly evil. STAY FAR FROM IT.”
Although many people thanked Johnson for the post and talked about boycotting Disney, many others disagreed with Johnson’s assessment. Some noted that “Little Demon” was made for and marketed to adults. Children should be in bed by 10 p.m., some wrote. Others said people opposed to the show’s existence are trying to make networks shelter their children when that’s a job for parents.
Johnson responded on Tuesday in a Facebook message and tweet that also were linked to from his House webpage.
“Free speech is an important principle, and in this country, everyone can obviously make their own decisions about what media they and their families consume,” he wrote. ”But a corollary is that Christians have the freedom to fulfill our obligation to ‘speak the truth in love’ (Eph. 4:15), even — sometimes most importantly — when it may not be popular.”
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The owner of Elk Mountain Ranch asserts that four Missouri hunters who corner-hopped to hunt public land near his property caused damages that could exceed $7 million.
An attorney for Iron Bar Holdings LLC, official owner of the ranch, made the claim in documents that are part of a trespassing civil suit filed against the hunters in February. As part of the lawsuit, which is now in the U.S. District Court for Wyoming, Iron Bar attorney Gregory Weisz signed a disclosure statement that alleges damages of between $3.1 million to $7.75 million.
Weisz signed the document Aug. 29 and served it on those involved in the corner-crossing case. A source allowed WyoFile to see the document on the condition of anonymity.
The damage figure is “the most egregious thing I’ve seen,” said Land Tawney, the president and CEO of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, a nationwide sportspersons’ conservation group that has supported the hunter’s defense. By claiming such large damages, the ranch owner is continuing a pattern of bullying, this time in court, Tawney said.
Some ranchers see the issue differently. A decision that corner crossing or other ways of accessing public land is not trespassing could devalue a ranch “by the fact it’s no longer closed property – it’s open to public crossing,” said Jim Magagna, executive vice president of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association.
The civil suit alleges that the four men trespassed when they crossed from one piece of public U.S. Bureau of Land Management land to another at the four-corner intersection with two pieces of property belonging to Elk Mountain Ranch. In the checkerboard-pattern of land ownership in Carbon County, the men hunted on the public land without setting foot on private property.
The suit claims the men trespassed by passing through the airspace above the ranch, interfering with “the exclusive use, possession, and control” of the property. Attorneys for Iron Bar distributed the disclosure document as part of the legal process that requires parties to list and share potential witnesses and a computation of alleged damages in preparation for a trial, the date of which has not been set.
The disclosure statement is four pages long and is supported by what one source said is another 104 pages of deeds, an appraisal and other material. The disclosure statement says it is likely that Fredric Eshelman, a North Carolina businessman, would testify for Iron Bar Holdings. The Carbon County prosecuting attorney identified Eshelman as the owner of Elk Mountain Ranch during a related criminal trespass trail in April.
$31-million ranch
The list of alleged damages includes a $10 figure for civil trespass damages, according to the disclosure statement. It also lists an estimate of actual damages of between $3.1 million to $7.75 million.
Those alleged actual damages arise from a 10%-25% diminution of the value of Iron Bar Holdings’ property, according to the disclosure statement. To support the claim, material appended to the statement includes an appraisal of the ranch.
Norman C. Wheeler & Associates, a Montana company specializing in rural property appraisals, appraised the Elk Mountain Ranch at $31.31 million in 2017, according to a document with the company letterhead that’s attached to the disclosure statement. That value included 22,042 acres and $5.96 million in buildings.
In addition to the civil lawsuit, hunters Phillip Yeomans, Bradly Cape, John Slowensky and Zachary Smith faced criminal trespass charges for the same incident filed by the Carbon County attorney. A Carbon County Circuit Court jury in April found them not guilty of criminal trespass and trespassing to hunt, misdemeanor charges filed after their 2021 trip to Wyoming.
The civil case could have implications for accessing an estimated 8.3 million acres of public land across the West, 2.44 million of which are in Wyoming. That’s the acreage estimated to be “corner locked” by any interpretation of the law that prohibits corner crossing, according to an analysis by the onX digital mapping company.
The hunters believe the Unlawful Inclosures Act of 1885 allows them access to public land.
Wyoming Backcountry Hunters and Anglers organized a GoFundMe campaign to ensure the hunters could defend themselves regardless of their financial resources. Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, the nationwide umbrella group to which the Wyoming chapter belongs, sought to support the hunters’ civil defense to ensure the case was decided in federal, not state court, an issue that’s since been resolved.
Private property rights
BHA president Tawney said the $3.1 million-$7.75 million damages figure continues a pattern of behavior by Elk Mountain Ranch owners and operators.
“The ranch manager bullied these [hunter] guys” when he confronted them on public land in the field, Tawney said. “They bullied the prosecuting attorney” in Carbon County and convinced her to file criminal charges, he said.
“And now they try to use these other tactics of bullying against all public land users,” he said. Lawsuits that claim exorbitant damages are “a tactic wealthy individuals use over and over again” to intimidate others, he said.
Backcountry Hunters and Anglers is not fighting against private property rights, he said.
“This is about keeping [open] the opportunity for the public to access public land,” he said. “We want willing partners, but also access to public land that is rightfully ours.”
Magagna’s stock growers group, along with Wyoming Wool Growers Association, filed an amicus brief in the civil suit on behalf of landowners who believe corner crossing is trespassing. Such filings are allowed so that parties can weigh in on cases in which they may have information, expertise and insight even though they are not a party to the action.
“We’re not taking any position with specifics of this case,” Magagna said. The issue affects private property rights and the right to control access, “including corner crossing and reasonable airspace,” he said.
The stock and wool growers amicus brief does not address damages, said Karen Budd-Falen, a Cheyenne attorney who filed 41 pages, including attachments, for the agricultural groups. It does attack the hunters’ position that the UIA allows corner crossing.
“Questions as to the existence and scope of a person’s property right have long been a creature of state law,” Budd-Falen wrote. She quoted a court decision that “property interests are not created by the Constitution, but … are created and their dimensions are defined by … an independent source such as state law.
“Congress did not reserve any means of access to [public] reserved lands in the checkerboard,” the brief reads. “Simply put, the [hunters’] argument that federal law authorizes trespass across private property is patently incorrect… The Unlawful [I]nclosures Act did not repeal the prohibition against trespass on private lands to access federal lands.”
Budd-Falen contends the issue should be settled by the Wyoming Supreme Court, not in the federal venue.
Iron Bar Holdings attorney Weisz did not respond to requests for comment Friday morning.
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Cultural Trust Fund grant applications now submitted electronicallyThe next Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund grant application deadline for projects, events and activities scheduled to begin after Jan. 1 is set for 11:59 p.m. Oct. 1.
WCTF grants are restricted to nonprofit and governmental entity applicants based in Wyoming and require a match, though that match can be cash or appropriate in-kind contributions.
Beginning with this year’s grant application deadline, the application process will be conducted electronically.
To get complete information on the grant application process and review guidelines, visit wyoculturaltrust.com.
Applicants can still submit a draft application for review prior to deadline through the grant portal. Cultural Trust Fund Program Coordinator Renée Bovée will review drafts and provide comments through the grant portal.
Contact Bovée at renee.bovee@wyo.gov or 307-777-6312.
NWS: Cheyenne has hottest summer on recordCHEYENNE (WNE) — The National Weather Service in Cheyenne reported this city has just experienced the hottest meteorological summer (June, July and August) on record.
The average of 70.7 degrees Fahrenheit beat the old one of 70 degrees from 2020.
Overnight lows were particularly warm in 2022, NWS reported through Twitter.
While the afternoon high temperatures were hot this year, with an average of 85.5 degrees locally, the warm overnight lows carried 2022 to the No. 1 spot at an average of 55.9 degrees.
In addition to the heat, the weather service reported this summer was quite dry, especially over the high plains.
Cheyenne had its 8th-driest summer on record, while in Nebraska, Scottsbluff and Sidney each had their 4th-driest summers.
Experts said mountains benefitted somewhat from a robust monsoon.
This was the first year on record in which the temperature did not drop below 50 degrees for all of July and August.
The top-10 warmest summers on record also occurred at Scottsbluff (2nd warmest), Laramie (3rd), Sidney (3rd) and Rawlins (5th).
Next appearance postponed for fiancé of missing womanGILLETTE (WNE) —The pre-trial hearing and potential jury trial has been postponed for the man accused of stealing money and running up credit cards belonging to a woman missing from Gillette since March.
Nathan J. Hightman’s pre-trial hearing, originally scheduled last week, was moved to Nov. 3.
Hightman, 38, pleaded not guilty June 8 to two counts of theft, two counts of crimes against intellectual property and unlawful use of a credit card, all felonies.
The Gillette Police Department investigation into the disappearance of Irene Gakwa, Hightman’s fiancée, is ongoing and as of Thursday, there are no new updates, said Deputy Chief Brent Wasson.
Police arrested Hightman on May 6 after he was suspected of transferring money from bank accounts held by Gakwa into his own electronic money-transferring Zelle account and using two of her credit cards in the weeks after her disappearance.
All bank transfers and credit card uses were made after Gakwa was reportedly last seen. Gakwa was the only one authorized to use the bank account, according to the affidavit of probable cause in the case.
Gakwa was reported missing March 20.
Hightman eventually told police Gakwa had moved out of the home around the end of February. He said she came home from a restaurant, packed her clothes into two plastic bags and said she was leaving Gillette, according to the affidavit.
Hightman told police he had “zero communication” with Gakwa after that day.
Police found that Gakwa and Hightman talked over the phone regularly before she went missing, said Police Detective Cpl. Dan Stroup during Hightman’s preliminary Circuit Court hearing in May.
A search of Hightman’s residence in late March found Gakwa’s Capital One credit card lying on the counter in plain view. More than 40 different credit card transactions were made after she was reportedly last heard from.
Gakwa’s Visa card was used to buy a pair of boots, jeans and a shovel from Walmart in Gillette on Feb. 25. Surveillance video from the store showed Hightman buy the items, according to the affidavit.
Hightman remains out on a $10,000 bond.
State gets grant to help adults reentering the workforceGILLETTE (WNE) — The state has received a grant to help adults who are re-entering the workforce after being released from prison.
The Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, in partnership with the Department of Corrections, was recently awarded a $3.9 million Pathway Home 3 Grant.
Providing justice-involved individuals and incarcerated adults with critical skill building and support services before and after release, the grant provides the opportunity for these individuals to successfully re-enter their communities and the labor force.
The grant is job-driven and builds connections with local employers who enable returning citizens to secure employment, while advancing equity for individuals —including incarcerated women— who face significant barriers to labor market re-entry.
Robin Sessions Cooley, director of the Department of Workforce Services, said the state will teach returning citizens skills such as job readiness, employability, digital literacy and job search strategies.
“The grant also provides for additional occupational training, leading to industry-recognized credentials to reduce the likelihood of recidivism,” Cooley said in a press release.
Both agencies will work in collaboration to serve 400 participants over the three-year course of the grant.
“The Department of Corrections is very appreciative of the collaboration with the Department of Workforce Services,” said Dan Shannon, director of the Department of Corrections. “Our common goal of public safety is a key factor and this partnership will provide those confined a validated opportunity for success when returning to our communities.”
Sheridan WYO Rodeo Queen wins Miss Rodeo Wyoming
SHERIDAN (WNE) — 2022 Sheridan WYO Rodeo Queen Reata Cook has been named Miss Rodeo Wyoming 2023.
Cook will be the fourth Miss Sheridan WYO Rodeo to hold the Miss Rodeo Wyoming title.
She has dedicated her year as Sheridan WYO Rodeo queen working to empower young women. Currently pursuing a degree in elementary education from Chadron State College, Cook partnered with Joey’s Fly Fishing Foundation to run a “Just for Girls” fishing camp this summer.
The experience, she said, allowed her to empower young girls and learn their stories.
“As a rodeo queen, I am not only an ambassador for the sport of rodeo but I like to reach out to those little girls because I was in their shoes once…” Cook said. “Now, I get to be that for little girls [across] the state of Wyoming.”
The Miss Rodeo Wyoming Association was founded in 1977 to support and guide Miss Rodeo Wyoming, a woman who promotes agriculture, professional rodeo and the Western way of life while embodying professionalism and grace, organization officials said in a press release earlier this week.
As next year’s Miss Rodeo Wyoming, Cook will receive a $2,000 scholarship from the Miss Rodeo Wyoming Foundation as well as several award items, including a saddle, silver spurs, belt buckle and several pairs of chaps. She will also accompany the current queen to the Miss Rodeo America pageant this November.
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I’ve spent countless hours since the late 1970s listening to lawmakers wrangle over how much to spend on K-12 schools. The rhetoric rarely changed much, and neither did the predictable outcomes: When the Legislature fails to meet students’ needs, school districts and the Wyoming Education Association ask courts to intervene.
Last month, the WEA sued the state again. As they say, the only thing harder than learning from experience is … not learning from experience. More than four decades on, the Wyoming Legislature still insists on doing things the hard way. At least they’re consistent.
The latest lawsuit was born out of frustration, after years of watching the Legislature fail to establish a permanent, sustainable source of revenue for school districts. This wasn’t a rush to sue by the organization that represents most of the state’s teachers. WEA’s response to being repeatedly rebuffed by the Legislature was restrained.
Because the quality of Wyoming education is beginning to suffer, WEA President Grady Hutcherson said, the association was compelled to act. He cited increased class sizes, aging buildings and the need to improve school security.
Wyoming teacher salaries were once among the highest in the nation, but those days are gone. The state has not kept up with inflation in their block grants to districts for more than a decade. Salaries have stagnated, making it difficult for districts to recruit and retain teachers, especially in rural areas.
In a series of four lawsuits against the state by the WEA and school districts, the Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed the Legislature must provide a high-quality, fair and equitable education system for every student. No exceptions.
The high court ordered an exhaustive process called “recalibration” to be conducted every five years, to adjust the funding formula based on current costs.
During booms, the Legislature sometimes exceed what their consultants recommended. But whenever the fossil fuels industry struggles, lawmakers look for ways to reduce education spending.
In 2017, the Legislature ordered a special recalibration, with Senate deficit hawks admitting they wanted to use the process to justify deeper education cuts. Many senators complained Wyoming wasn’t getting the “bang for the buck” it should have, compared to the money it spends. These complaints ignored the fact that the Equality State’s standardized test scores were ranked the highest in Western states.
Much to these legislators’ chagrin, their recalibration consultant said Wyoming needed to increase K-12 spending by $70 million annually. At the Senate leadership’s insistence, school funding was cut a total of $100 million over the next three years. The decrease would have been much greater if the House didn’t force the Senate to compromise.
Then, during the 2020 recalibration, experts called for a $100 million hike – essentially restoring what was cut. But the Senate – pointing to dwindling fossil fuel industry revenue – wanted to shave off at least $100 million more. Rather than legislating new revenue sources, for several years lawmakers have used the “rainy-day fund” to pay for a large portion of school funding. In 2020, the House only agreed to cuts if a half-cent state sales tax hike would be automatic if the fund dropped below $650 million.
The Senate refused any sales tax increase, and the House wouldn’t budge. Lawmakers used federal COVID relief funds to maintain the existing budget, sparing it the $100 million cut, but not changing the state’s tax structure or providing the funding that court-mandated consultants deemed necessary.
Now, with extra federal funds drawing down, the Legislature still doesn’t have a plan to fix an estimated $300 million annual education shortfall.
In its lawsuit, WEA reminds lawmakers that lack of revenue is not an excuse the courts will accept. The state Supreme Court has also spelled out in previous rulings that it doesn’t matter that other state agency budgets have been cut significantly:
“Supporting an opportunity for a complete, proper, quality education is the Legislature’s paramount priority (emphasis added); competing priorities not of constitutional magnitude are secondary, and the Legislature may not yield to them until constitutionally sufficient provision is made for elementary and secondary education.”
Wyoming, with a Permanent Mineral Trust Fund worth more than $9 billion, is hardly a poor state. It has the resources to pay for a school system that meets the mandate. Those resources are simply being diverted elsewhere, like the rainy-day fund and assorted permanent trusts. If rerouting existing revenues doesn’t do the trick alone, the Legislature has an obligation to raise current taxes or establish new ones.
“The Wyoming Education Association is committed to seeking justice for our students,” Hutcherson said.
Sen. Chris Rothfuss, D-Laramie, told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle the Legislature “lacks the political will … to do the right thing, because they know they won’t [be re-elected] if they vote to raise taxes.”
State polls consistently show residents don’t want education budget cuts. Yet they keep electing extremist, anti-tax and anti-education legislators.
This is why the WEA needed to sue the state. I hope many school districts join as plaintiffs, to again show state officials they can’t get away with underfunding education and thumbing their nose at the courts.
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Arista Networks and White Box Vendors Gain Share
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a recently published report from Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, networks, and data center industries, global Data Center Switch sales grew in excess of 20 percent in 2Q 2022, reaching an all-time high for the quarter as well as for the first half of the year. The growth was broad-based across a number of vendors. However, only Arista and white box vendors were able to gain revenue share during the quarter.
"We have been forecasting a double-digit growth in the market; driven by ongoing strong customer demand, balanced by supply challenges," said Sameh Boujelbene, Senior Research Director at Dell'Oro Group. "However, vendors' ability to work through these supply challenges and deliver the level of shipment witnessed during the quarter beat our expectations, although it came at higher logistics and component costs. We expect supply constraints to persist through the remainder of the year and to continue to shape the market as well as vendors' performance," added Boujelbene.
Additional highlights from the 2Q 2022 Ethernet Switch – Data Center Report:
- Double-digit growth was recorded across all major customer segments: Cloud Service Providers (SPs), Telco SPs as well as Large Enterprises. Each one of these segments reached a record revenue level for the quarter and the first half of the year.
- To our surprise, the robust growth was broad-based across all regions, including China which has experienced several weeks of lockdown in multiple cities during the quarter.
- 200 Gbps and 400 Gbps approached 2 M ports and comprised more than 10 percent of the shipments and nearly 20 percent of the revenues during the quarter. As anticipated, this growth was driven by an accelerated adoption from large Cloud SPs as well as some deferred revenues that got recognized during the quarter.
The Dell'Oro Group Ethernet Switch – Data Center Quarterly Report offers a detailed view of the market, including Ethernet switches for server access, server aggregation, and data center core. (Software is addressed separately.) The report contains in-depth market and vendor-level information on manufacturers' revenue; ports shipped; average selling prices for both Modular and Fixed Managed and Unmanaged Ethernet Switches (1,10, 25, 40, 50, 100, 200, 400, ≥800 Gbps); revenue split by market segments as well as regional breakouts. To purchase these reports, please contact us by email at dgsales@delloro.com.
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“I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.”
— Part of the modern Hippocratic Oath, written in 1964 by Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University, and used in many medical schools today.
When he first stepped foot in the U.S. Capitol as Wyoming’s junior senator in 2007, Casper Republican John Barrasso was seen as someone who would represent the state’s residents and their best interests well.
A board-certified orthopedic surgeon, the hope was that Gov. Dave Freudenthal’s choice to replace Sen. Craig Thomas after his death would bring his medical experience to bear in ways that would improve health care for Wyomingites and the rest of the country.
Instead, after he was elected to the position in 2008, it seems his main goal became standing in the way of anything Democrats hoped to accomplish, while working to elevate his own status and authority.
Time after time, Sen. Barrasso was pictured standing to one side of Senate President Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as the latter took questions from reporters. And he quickly became the go-to guy for Fox News, standing in the Capitol rotunda’s mezzanine and putting President Barack Obama and his goals on blast.
The irony, of course, is that throughout his ultimately unsuccessful fight against the Affordable Care Act, “Dr. Barrasso” failed to offer an alternative that his fellow Republicans could get behind. In fact, it was the senior member of Wyoming’s delegation, Sen. Mike Enzi, who presented “Ten Steps to Transform Health Care in America,” even before Obamacare became law.
Since being re-elected in 2012 and 2018, Sen. Barrasso has continued to rail against the nation’s only successful effort in recent years to extend health insurance to those who can’t afford to buy it on the open market. In 2019, he published online several of the speeches he had delivered on the Senate floor under the clever title “Dr. Barrasso’s Second Opinion.” Each time, he pointed out what was wrong with the ACA without offering any better options, other than saying Republicans were working to lower prescription drug prices.
The most telling evidence of how far the now senior senator from the smallest-populated state in the country was willing to go to gain or retain power was his failure to speak out during the COVID-19 pandemic. If there was anyone in Congress who should have challenged President Trump’s ignorant, deadly advice to shun face coverings and drink bleach to combat the novel coronavirus, it should have been the former president of the Wyoming Medical Society and member of the American Medical Association’s Council of Ethics and Judicial Affairs.
Where was he when Gov. Mark Gordon stood in front of the media to announce the cancelation of summer 2020 rodeos statewide to try to limit the virus’s spread? Where was he when the governor finally imposed a mask mandate in public places? Where was he when anti-maskers demonstrated in front of the state Capitol, and Gov. Gordon stood face to face with people shouting that he was a tyrant and destroying our economy?
Nowhere near Cheyenne, of course.
Now, two years before his next re-election bid, we learn just how far removed from his constituents’ health care needs Sen. Barrasso really is.
Recently, Casper resident Kala McWain spoke with a Wyoming Tribune Eagle reporter about her efforts to get our federal lawmakers to support the Medical Nutrition Equity Act. McWain and her husband, Jake, have been told their youngest son has a genetic metabolic disorder called phenylketonuria, or PKU, which prevents his body from processing regular foods properly.
As a result, the McWains will need to feed their son special medical food and formula for the rest of his life, at a cost well over $1,000 per month. Which is why they are pushing for this legislation, which would require private insurance providers and federal health care programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program to cover this type of nutrition when it is required to prevent severe disability or death.
Kala McWain said she met with representatives of both Sen. Cynthia Lummis and Rep. Liz Cheney’s offices a year ago, but both took information back without action. She said she was especially hopeful when she met with Sen. Barrasso around the same time, since he was a medical doctor. However, she said she left feeling defeated because although he has said every life is important, he refused to sign on as a sponsor of the bill.
In a statement to the WTE for our story, a spokesperson for Sen. Barrasso said the senator “appreciates the McWain family for meeting with him and raising awareness about this important issue and legislation. As co-chair of the Senate Rare Disease Caucus, he understands how critical it is for families in Wyoming to have access to medically necessary foods and supplements.”
If that’s true, why didn’t he immediately sign on as a sponsor? If he is so supportive, why should the McWains have to continue their lobbying efforts, as they have in the year since those initial conversations?
According to the National PKU Alliance, there are roughly 16,500 people in the U.S. who can’t eat or process regular foods. Why are Sen. Barrasso and his colleagues failing to advance this lifesaving legislation for so few people? It’s not like doing so would be the tipping point that bankrupts the federal government.
(Late Wednesday afternoon, after being contacted by the WTE for comment for this editorial, Sen. Barrasso’s office told Kala McWain the senator has decided that he will sign on as a sponsor of the Medical Nutrition Equity Act. So far, Sen. Lummis had not indicated whether she will join him, and Rep. Cheney has not signed onto the House version.)
Wyoming residents should be asking themselves at this point whether Sen. Barrasso is truly representing all of the people of Wyoming. If he won’t readily stand up for folks like the McWains, is he really looking out for you and your needs?
Long ago, we stopped being surprised by most of the unproductive, partisan comments coming from Sen. Barrasso’s office. Unlike former Sen. Enzi, who believed in working with Democrats to get things done for the American people, Sen. Barrasso seems determined to be more of a roadblock than a pilot car.
But just because we’re not surprised doesn’t mean we’re not disappointed. In a state with so few representatives elected to speak on our behalf, we believe we could do better. If the senator can’t summon the courage to “do no harm” and start supporting those who elected him, it’s time to find someone who can.
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Worker shortage magnifies Iowa's childcare crisis
An ongoing lack of workers is hampering attempts to mitigate Iowa's childcare crisis, multiple family advocates tell Axios.
Why it matters: Affordable, quality care is essential for a child's development.
- Childcare — or the lack of it — plays a crucial role in the state's overall workforce and economy.
State of play: Childcare centers across the state are operating below capacity because of staff shortages, Dawn Oliver Wiand, director of the Iowa Women's Foundation, told Axios.
- Some before- and after-school programs — including three of Des Moines' Metro Kids sites — haven't opened.
Driving the news: The childcare sector is recovering slower than others from the pandemic, according to an analysis of U.S. labor statistics published last week by the Center for American Progress.
- Nearly 25% of childcare jobs nationwide — roughly 88,000 positions — lost during the pandemic have not been recovered.
- Meanwhile, nonfarm and private sector jobs have returned or have improved beyond pre-pandemic levels.
Flashback: Iowa was struggling before the pandemic with a shortage of childcare spaces, prompting Gov. Kim Reynolds to form a task force to identify solutions.
- Nearly $37 million in grants were announced in January to assist more than 100 projects across the state to create a projected 5,200 new enrollment opportunities.
What's happening: The foundation is advocating for more businesses to partner with daycares and community initiatives to improve programs and boost childcare worker wages.
- Businesses that partner with daycare programs are, in return, sometimes guaranteed access to openings for their employees.
Zoom in: Since the pandemic, Oakridge Academy Early Learning and Preschool program in DSM increased its minimum wage from $12.50 to $15 an hour.
- That's around the statewide average, according to Indeed.com.
- Still, ongoing staff vacancies mean the program is able to care for about 10 fewer infants than it is licensed for, Teree Caldwell-Johnson, president of Oakridge Neighborhood, which runs the program, tells Axios.
Yes, but: Increasing employee pay has helped, said Caldwell-Johnson, who is also a DSM school board member and was on the governor's task force.
- The academy has full staffing in other areas and is accepting applications to care for children between the ages of 3 and 5.
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Nashville at-large council candidates eye 2023
The field is already beginning to form for next year's critical at-large Metro Council races, with just two incumbents vying for reelection.
Why it matters: The five at-large council members represent all of Davidson County and wield significant influence on the issues handled by the city's legislative body.
- Councilmembers Bob Mendes and Sharon Hurt are term-limited. Councilmember Steve Glover resigned from his seat earlier this year following health issues.
Driving the news: Councilmembers Burkley Allen and Zulfat Suara confirmed to Axios they intend to run for reelection.
- Councilmember Jeff Syracuse, who represents the Donelson area, is term-limited for his district seat but announced last month he is running at-large.
- An executive with the music rights organization BMI, Syracuse has focused on music industry-related issues and preservation during his eight years on the council.
Be smart: Incumbent at-large members carry enormous advantages when they run for reelection. In fact, an incumbent at-large council member has never lost a bid for a second term in at least the last 20 years.
The latest: In addition to candidates currently serving on the Metro Council, political newcomer Tony Chapman has filed to run for an at-large seat next year.
- Chapman, a Republican, tells Axios he was inspired to run after getting to know former Councilmember Tony Tenpenny.
- "I think sometimes the ordinary, average, run-of-the-mill citizen doesn't get represented," Chapman says.
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CHEYENNE – Garet Schlabs has been focusing on technique since he moved to cornerback last season.
The Cheyenne East senior grew up playing safety and linebacker, so cornerback was completely new to him last fall. He listened closely as his coaches explained the fundamentals and responsibilities of the position. Schlabs also picked the brain of teammate Kaleb Romero – who was second in Class 4A with five interceptions in 2020 – to learn the finer points of the position.
“Corner is a hard position, especially at the varsity level,” Schlabs said.
Schlabs was no slouch when it came to defending outside receivers a year ago. He tallied three interceptions and broke up seven other passes, but was confident he could be even better this fall.
Schlabs is off to a good start.
He snared an interception during the Thunderbirds’ 33-7 victory at Natrona County and returned it 45 yards for a touchdown. Schlabs grabbed a second interception late in the contest, but that was nullified by a late hit penalty.
He also caught eight passes for 83 yards to earn Prep Athlete of the Week honors from WyoSports’ Cheyenne staff.
Schlabs’ focus on technique helped put him in position to nab his pick-six.
“I was getting out of my back pedal too early the prior week, so I was trying to stay in my back pedal and stay in my drop,” he said. “(Natrona quarterback Wyatt) Powell overthrew it, and I got a good break on the ball.
“I got a couple good blocks from the guys in front of me, and was able to return it.”
The interception return touchdown put No. 1-ranked East up 21-0 on the third-ranked Mustangs. It wasn’t a nail in Natrona’s coffin by any means, but it was deflating. The play was one Schlabs might not have made as a junior.
“My technique wasn’t what it is now,” he said. “My technique allowed me to come over and make that play in the middle.”
East coach Chad Goff agrees that Schlabs has improved greatly since the time last year.
“He wasn’t bad, by any means, but he just kept getting better and better throughout last season, and he already looks so much better this year,” Goff said.
Schlabs is an all-state guard on the basketball court, and helped guide East to a state runner-up finish this past winter. Goff pointed to that arena to help Schlabs get up to speed as a cornerback.
“He can shut anybody down in basketball, which made his move to corner easy,” the coach said. “I leaned on his background knowledge there and told him, ‘Those receivers are nothing more than guards trying to get by you.’”
The analogy clicked for Schlabs.
“That’s how I started thinking about it,” he said. “Thinking about it like defense in basketball, where you’re just trying to stay in front of someone, really helped a lot.”
Others recognized for their efforts include:
n Bridger Brokaw, boys cross-country, Cheyenne Central: The junior placed second at the Wyoming Invitational with a personal-best time of 16 minutes, 18.6 seconds.
n Izzy DeLay, Brinkley Lewis and Emily Mears, girls swimming and diving, Central: DeLay, a junior, won three events and placed second in another during dual meets last week.
Lewis, a senior, won the 1-meter diving competition at both events.
Meares, a junior, won three events and took second in another during those meets.
n Nash Coleman, boys golf, Cheyenne East: The sophomore won the Outlaw Invitational in Rawlins with a two-round score of 149.
n Barrett Georges, girls golf, Central: The senior won the Outlaw Invitational in Rawlins with a two-round score of 160.
n Elysiana Fonseca, Gracin Goff, Boden Liljedahl, Janie Merritt and Bradie Schlabs, volleyball, East: Fonseca, a senior, posted 65 kills and 19 blocks to help the Lady Thunderbirds go 6-2 at the Evanston Border War tournament.
Goff, a junior, dished out 89 assists to go with 22 digs.
Liljedahl, a senior libero, posted 75 digs.
Merritt, a junior, had 44 digs and 27 kills on the weekend.
Schlabs, a junior, posted 104 assists, 38 digs and 24 kills. She also served up seven aces on Friday.
n Drew Jackson, football, East: The junior rushed for 112 yards and a touchdown on 19 carries during East’s win at Natrona. He also had a receiving touchdown and nabbed an interception.
n Dalton Schaefer, football, Pine Bluffs: The senior rushed for 187 yards and two touchdowns during the No. 2-ranked Hornets’ 34-26 win at top-ranked Shoshoni on Thursday. Schaefer also caught a pass for 32 yards before leaving the game with an injury.
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Regional Overview
The early September heat wave persists a little longer, but comes to an end starting Friday. Temperatures are expected to drop drastically. Daytime highs could drop 20 to 30 degrees on Friday and Saturday. There could be some snow in the high country to the north, particularly in the Bighorn Mountains. This hint of Fall is short-lived this time around, though, with a rebound by Sunday. It is the start of the yo-yo season, but September is always a month where the weather can throw in a few surprises. We know to get out and enjoy the great weather before the next little dip, and this weekend looks like a little dip followed by a quick rebound.
Ranking Categories
H (One fish): to ensure fish dinner go to the local grocery store
HHHHH (Five fish): toss a line and get a fish; the fish aren’t picky
Granite, Crystal and North Crow reservoirs
HHH
The buzz: The fishing is good at Granite and Crystal reservoirs, but on the slow side at North Crow. There is still a cyanobacterial bloom advisory at the west causeway of Granite Reservoir. Typically, they dissipate as temperatures drop, so that could come soon. This is also a great time of year to enjoy the hiking and biking trails.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Nightcrawlers
Spawn sacs
Magnum eggs
Bead head prince nymphs
Copper Johns
Scuds
Chironomids
Wooly buggers
Leech patterns
Sloans and Absarraca lakes
HH½
The buzz: For those looking for a quick outing to start or end the day, these lakes are a great option. Both are fishing well and should get even better as temperatures cool.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Worms
Powerbait
Salmon eggs
Marshmallows
Adams
Copper Johns
Renegades
Pole Mountain
HHH
The buzz: The fishing action is lively. Moss can be a hassle, so good aim is needed when casting. The action tends to pick up this time of year with the start of the brook trout spawning season. The aspen leaves are just starting to turn, but leaf-peeping season is on the way.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Nightcrawlers
Grasshoppers
Renegade
Adams
Orange scuds
Lightning bugs
Bead head prince nymphs
Elk hair caddis
Laramie Plains lakes
HHH
The buzz: The fishing is good across the basin, but Twin Buttes is the hot spot. It’s also quite good at Meebour. The action is on the slow side at Lake Hattie, but the salmon are coming closer to the shore and that action should pick up soon.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Nightcrawlers
Salmon eggs
Rapalas
Blue fox vibrax
Hornbergs
Black leeches
Egg patterns
Damsel nymphs
Laramie River
HH
The buzz: The river is running low with the angling on the slow side. Look for hidden holes to find the fish.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Worms
Salmon eggs
Panther martins
Pine squirrel leeches
Mason’s mouse
Copper Johns
Caddis nymphs
Thin mints
Snowy Range
HHH
The buzz: The fishing is good to very good across the Medicine Bow Mountains. Both Lake Owen and Rob Roy Reservoir are fishing well. Expect the brook trout to start moving into the shallows as temperatures continue to drop.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Nightcrawlers
Panther martins
Elk hair caddis
Miracle mile peanut
Vanilla buggers
Bead head zug bugs
North Platte River and Encampment River – Saratoga Valley
HH
The buzz: The fishing is good on the North Platte River, but slow on the Encampment River. Flows on the North Platte are only 81 cubic feet per second at Northgate, and down to just 21 cfs on the Encampment.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Small spinners
Rapalas
Bead head prince nymphs
Tricos
Green drakes
Stonefly nymphs
North Platte River – Grey Reef
HHH
The buzz: The fishing is quite good with the flow at 2,500 cubic feet per second. The best action is with those out on boats. The flow is swift enough to make wade fishing tricky.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Mepps
Rapalas
Scuds
Hot head leeches
Pine squirrels
San Juan worms
Purple rock worms
Vanilla buggers
Tricos
Caddis
North Platte River – Miracle Mile
HHH
The buzz: The Mile is fishing well, as is typical for this time of year. With the flow around 550 cubic feet per second, the wade fishing is good.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Panther martins
Tricos
San Juan worms
Sparkle worms
Olive wooly buggers
Thin mints
Split foam backs
Wheatland Reservoir No. 3
HH
The buzz: The algal bloom at Wheatland Reservoir No. 3 continues, but it is a big reservoir with plenty of angling in areas where the bloom is absent. Water levels are low, but the boat ramp is still usable.
Suggest bait, lures and flies:
Nightcrawlers
Mealworms
Powerbait
Cyclones
Rapala shad raps
Bead head prince nymphs
Crayfish patterns
Glendo
HH½
The buzz: The lake level is low, but that is typical this time of year. There’s still plenty of water thanks to the large size of the reservoir. The catching is on the slow side. The marina and Reno Cover boat ramps are open, but the Whiskey Gulch ramp is temporarily closed for repairs.
Suggest bait, lures and flies:
Bottom bouncers
Nightcrawlers on worm harnesses
Shad raps in perch, shad
Spoons
Crank baits
Blood baits (for catfish in the liver and beef flavors)
Vertical jigging
Grayrocks Reservoir
HHH
The buzz: The fishing is quite good. Temperatures are warm, but the fish are still biting. Anglers report catching walleye, perch, crappie and bass. There’s something for everyone.
Suggest bait, lures and flies:
Worm harnesses with leeches
Nightcrawlers on worm harnesses (gold, silver, burnt orange blades)
Blood baits for catfish (chicken, liver, beef and cheese flavors)
Hawk Springs
HH½
The buzz: Both the walleye and catfish action continues to improve. Go early or late in the day for the results, but there should be decent action even in the middle of the day with the cooler temperatures later this week.
Suggest bait, lures and flies:
Worm harnesses with leeches
Nightcrawlers with worm harnesses (gold, silver, burnt orange blades)
Blood baits (for catfish in the liver and beef flavors)
Cheese
Reservoir levels
Alcova: 98.2% full
Boysen: 89.1% full
Guernsey: 64.2% full
Glendo: 21.0% full
Grey Reef: 90.4% full
Keyhole: 63.9% full
Pathfinder: 30.4% full
Seminoe: 51.3% full
River flows
North Platte River at Northgate: 81 cubic feet per second
North Platte River above Seminoe Reservoir: 153 cfs
North Platte River near Miracle Mile: 540 cfs
North Platte River at Grey Reef: 2,500 cfs
Encampment River near town of Encampment: 20 cfs
Encampment River at Hog Park: 23 cfs
Laramie River near Laramie: 11 cfs
Boat ramp openings
Glendo Reservoir: The Marina and Reno Cove ramps are open.
Guernsey Reservoir: All ramps are open.
Boysen Reservoir: All ramps are open.
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Philadelphia Eagles free safety Marcus Epps, left, reacts after making an interception during Sunday’s game against the New York Jets in East Rutherford, N.J.
The University of Wyoming will be well-represented on NFL Sundays yet again this fall, as 11 former Cowboys are currently on NFL rosters. Here’s a look at where they’re currently earning paychecks and a little about what they’ve accomplished to this point.
Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills: The fifth-year quarterback is entering his fourth full season as the Bills’ starting quarterback. Allen has started 60 of the 61 games he has played in, completing 1,245 of his 1,999 passes (62.3%) for 14,114 yards, 103 touchdowns and 46 interceptions.
The 6-foot-5, 237-pounder also has rushed for 2,325 yards and 31 touchdowns on 422 carries.
Marcus Epps, Philadelphia Eagles: Epps is listed as the Eagles’ starting free safety. He is entering his fifth season, and has posted 115 tackles (76 solo), eight pass breakups and three interceptions in 45 career games. He has started eight games.
Tanner Gentry, Buffalo Bills: The 27-year-old wide receiver is on Buffalo’s practice squad, which is where he spent all of last season. Gentry has not caught a pass in a regular-season game since 2017. He played for the Chicago Bears that year, catching three passes for 35 yards across four games (three starts).
Tashaun Gipson, San Francisco 49ers: The 12th-year pro was a late addition to the 49ers’ training camp roster. He was inked to the practice squad just days after being one of the final roster cuts. Gipson has started 118 of his 126 career games, making 512 tackles (359 solo), 46 passes defensed, 24 interceptions and a sack. He also has recovered two fumbles and forced another.
Carl Granderson, New Orleans Saints: The fourth-year defensive end is listed as a second-stringer for the Saints. Granderson has 50 tackles (27 solo), nine sacks, a pass breakup and two forced fumbles in 39 career games. All four of his career starts came last season.
Tyler Hall, Los Angeles Rams: The defensive back is on injured reserve entering his third NFL season. He has played in 12 career games, primarily on special teams. Hall has six tackles (four solo).
Chad Muma, Jacksonville Jaguars: The rookie linebacker is listed as a second-stringer for the Jaguars. He was selected in the third round of this year’s draft with the No. 70 overall pick.
Mike Purcell, Denver Broncos: The nose tackle is entering his sixth season in the NFL. He is listed as the Broncos’ second-stringer. Purcell has started 24 of the 44 games he has played across five seasons with Denver and San Francisco. He started 10 of 13 games for the Broncos last season. For his career, Purcell has 90 tackles (45 solo), two sacks, a pass breakup and a fumble recovery.
Chase Roullier, Washington Commanders: The 6-foot-4, 312-pound center is entering his sixth NFL season. He has started 61 of 67 career games. Roullier’s 2021 campaign was ended when he suffered a fractured left fibula during the season’s eighth game. He is listed as Washington’s starter.
Logan Wilson, Cincinnati Bengals: The third-year pro is the Bengals’ starting linebacker. He has started 15 of the 25 games he has played in, including Cincinnati’s 23-20 loss to the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl 56. Wilson has recorded 133 tackles (73 solo), two sacks, four passes defended, six interceptions and one forced fumble.
Andrew Wingard, Jacksonville Jaguars: The fourth-year strong safety is currently listed as a second-stringer for Jacksonville. Wingard started all 15 games he played in last season, and has started 21 of 44 games in his career. He has 165 tackles (106 solo), two sacks, five pass breakups and three interceptions. He also has forced one fumble and recovered another. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/pokes-in-the-pros-11-former-uw-standouts-on-nfl-rosters/article_3fc8a356-2e22-11ed-9132-9f6160047bd5.html | 2022-09-07T12:47:54Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/pokes-in-the-pros-11-former-uw-standouts-on-nfl-rosters/article_3fc8a356-2e22-11ed-9132-9f6160047bd5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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University of Arkansas chancellor search down to four
The search for a new University of Arkansas chancellor has been whittled down to four candidates from at least 20.
The candidates are:
- Charles Robinson — The interim chancellor has worn many hats at the U of A, most recently as provost and executive vice chancellor for academic and student affairs. Full bio and resume.
- Daniel Reed — A computational science professor at the University of Utah, he’s also worked as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. Full bio and resume.
- Cynthia Young — The founding dean of Clemson University's College of Sciences. Full bio and resume.
- Jay Ackridge — The provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and diversity at Purdue University. Full bio and resume.
Flashback: Former chancellor Joe Steinmetz resigned in January 2021, citing the challenge of leading the school in "today's polarized society," according to the AP.
- Steinmetz had recommended the statue of the late Sen. J. William Fulbright be moved in response to complaints about Fulbright’s support of segregationist legislation. Republican lawmakers told Steinmetz that would violate a new state law protecting monuments and could result in criminal charges.
What's next: The finalists will each participate in public forums later this month as a part of two-day visits to campus including meetings with students, faculty, staff and university supporters, according to the U of A.
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Ovation Formulations Soon to be Potentially Available in Over 2800 Dispensaries
VANCOUVER, BC and LAS VEGAS, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - (CSE: OVAT) (OTCQB: OVATF) – Ovation Science Inc. ("Ovation" or the "Company") a topical and transdermal cannabis product development company with a patented skin delivery technology Invisicare®, is pleased to announce it has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement for its cannabis formulations for the states of Oklahoma, Missouri, New Mexico and Mississippi with Stash House Distribution ("Stash House"). Stash House is a leading national cannabis manufacturing, sales, and logistics company. Ovation receives a royalty based on wholesale sales in each state. With this agreement, Ovation solidifies its marketing strategy to increase revenues by licensing into new states and activates its growth momentum across North America.
"Launching our topical products with Stash House with their highly experienced product marketing and distribution team in four states, is an important step for the Company," said Terry Howlett, CEO of Ovation Science. " This expansion will now establish our products in markets that really need our science-based products. He added, "We have teamed up with Stash House as they are an experienced manufacturer and distributor, with a robust technology platform. They have both the knowledge and expertise to ensure our products will resonate with dispensaries and customers."
"We are eager to bring Ovation's formulations into our portfolio", said Shane Finn, COO of Stash House. "We were enticed by the science that backs Ovation's technology and know that consumers will immediately reap the benefits of these products. We have a very well-established distribution network in Oklahoma, and currently launching in Missouri, followed by New Mexico, and Mississippi in Q4. We plan to introduce Ovation's formulations under our brand and rapidly expand across these states by targeting key dispensaries with great products with proven technology and that is why we are so excited about this opportunity and to work with Ovation Science."
Ovation's expansion marks a significant increase in the availability of Ovation products through its licensees from the current 92 dispensaries in Nevada to a potential 2,800+ dispensaries over 5 states (Total estimated number of licensed dispensaries).
Ovation leverages its expertise in the pharmaceutical industry to develop highly effective, proprietary products. What makes Ovation's products different from any other topical cannabis products on the market is its superior delivery of CBD / THC and other cannabinoids using its proprietary skin delivery technology Invisicare®. Invisicare has over twenty years of research and development in the pharmaceutical industry; specifically, dermatology. Ovation formulates two types of topicals; ones that remain on the skin to deal with "skin issues" and transdermal creams that allow the CBD (cannabidiol), and/or the THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and other cannabinoids to be absorbed through the skin into the bloodstream. Studies show Ovation's products have a 10 times greater release of CBD to the skin and over 5 times greater penetration compared to other products tested.
Statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Stash House Distribution (www.stashhousedistro.com) manufactures and distributes a wide variety of cannabis finished form products to meet the needs of dispensary customers. In Oklahoma, Stash House solidified market strength by partnering with some of the most recognized national brands. Their proprietary technology platform enables stress-free 24-hour dispensary ordering and brand transparency at its customers' fingertips. This technology platform coupled with robust experience in distribution and sales separates Stash House from the rest of the market.
Ovation Science Inc. is a research and development company that develops topical and transdermal consumer products including its CBD/THC and other cannabinoid formulations which are licensed out and also distributed under Ovation's own brands; ARLO CBD Beauty and InVibe® MD ("health & wellness" line); all made with its patented Invisicare® skin delivery technology. The Invisicare technology enhances the delivery of ingredients to and through the skin and is protected by patents and proprietary formulations which cannot be duplicated. With over twenty years of topical and transdermal drug delivery experience in the pharmaceutical market, Ovation's management and science team have created a unique pipeline of over thirty proprietary medical / wellness topical and transdermal products along with a line of anti-aging / beauty formulas. Ovation earns revenues from royalties on licensees' sales and the sale of Invisicare, along with revenue from its own product sales. Ovation has offices in Vancouver, BC Canada and Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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Lindsey O'Neill appointed SVP and chief communications and corporate responsibility officer; Tara Leweling named as chief diversity and sustainability officer
SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- USAA announced today that Lindsey O'Neill has been appointed to an expanded role as senior vice president and chief communications and corporate responsibility officer. O'Neill, who was named as vice president and chief communications officer in 2020, will now have additional responsibilities leading the company's corporate responsibility function, including The USAA Foundation, Inc., and The USAA Educational Foundation. She will focus on outreach, support and advocacy for military families, core to USAA's company mission since its founding in 1922.
Tara Leweling, who joined the company earlier this year to lead environmental, social and governance (ESG), will serve in an expanded role as vice president and chief diversity and sustainability officer. She will lead enterprise-wide diversity, inclusion and sustainability initiatives to drive meaningful impact for USAA's employees, members and communities. Both executives will report to Ameesh Vakharia, USAA's chief strategy and brand officer.
"There is significant purpose in the work that our employees carry out every day serving military families," said Vakharia. "I'm excited to broaden Lindsey and Tara's roles on my leadership team because they bring incredible experience and passionate leadership. We have a unique opportunity through these concentrated efforts to make an even greater impact on the financial security of the military community as USAA embarks on its second century of service."
Both leaders will work with teams across the organization to create programs that boost innovation, increase empathy and empower employees to better serve members and their communities. This will continue the momentum towards sustainable practices that positively impact society.
O'Neill has previously led communications, events and corporate responsibility, which included volunteerism and corporate giving, at companies across several industries. Since joining USAA in 2014, she has held numerous leadership roles including employee communications, public relations, chief of staff to the CEO and, most recently, vice president of corporate communications. In this new role, O'Neill will lead philanthropic strategy to include employee citizenship and volunteer programs that are implemented throughout the military community and communities where USAA's employees work.
"Being a passionate advocate for the military is at the heart of what we do at USAA every day. The mission to serve America's military community informs everything we do and will continue to be our guiding light," said O'Neill. "It's an incredible privilege to lead these teams and tell the story of USAA."
Leweling proudly served nearly 22 years in the U.S. Air Force, including the U.S. Mission to NATO and National Security Council. She then transitioned to the private sector as a leader in financial services with roles in public affairs, corporate responsibility and sustainability at large banks and insurers. Leweling will help advance the company's diversity, equity, and inclusion and ESG programs. This move recognizes the deep connection that sustainability efforts have in engaging stakeholders, especially diverse communities.
"I'm truly honored to build on USAA's strong history and tradition in diversity and sustainability," said Leweling. "It's inspiring to be part of USAA's next century of anticipating and responding to the changing needs and expectations of our military members, veterans and their families."
About USAA
Founded in 1922 by a group of military officers, USAA is among the leading providers of insurance, banking, and investment and retirement solutions to more than 13 million members of the U.S. military, veterans who have honorably served and their families. Headquartered in San Antonio, USAA has offices in eight U.S. cities and three overseas locations and employs more than 38,000 people worldwide. Each year, the company contributes to national and local nonprofits in support of military families and communities where employees live and work. For more information about USAA, follow us on Facebook or Twitter (@USAA), or visit usaa.com.
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25 Twin Cities art events you don't want to miss this fall
The Twin Cities' arts scene is in full swing. Here are the hottest events you don't want to miss this fall.
Events
🏰 Cocktails at the Castle, a late-night party hosted by the American Swedish Institute, lets guests explore the museum after hours. Suggested attire is bathrobes and clogs, inspired by the current exhibition "The Morning Dip". Sept. 9.
🦋 Minneapolis Monarch Festival celebrates the migration of monarch butterflies from Minnesota to Mexico with live music, dance performances and hands-on experiences with butterflies. Sept. 10.
🍻 Oktoberfest celebrations take over local breweries and museums, including 612 Brew, Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative, the Germanic-American Institute and Utepils Brewing. Sept. 9, 10 and 16.
🌾 The Wild Rice Festival is an educational and delicious opportunity to learn more about our state crop. Expect traditional harvesting presentations, hands-on apple cider pressing and plenty of wild rice soup. Sept. 17.
🍂 Scarecrows in the Garden brings unique scarecrows created by local artists to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Sept. 17 - Oct. 31.
👗 Fashion Week MN is back this fall with nine shows by a variety of local designers. Sept. 18-25.
🌊 Owámni Falling Water Festival, held on the banks of the Mississippi, is a celebration of Indigenous culture with displays on both sides of the river. Oct. 9.
🎃 Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular at the Minnesota Zoo is a family-friendly exhibit with over 5,000 glowing carved pumpkins. Tip: Go early in the season for the freshest pumpkins. Oct. 1 - Nov. 7.
Exhibits
🎨 The Weisman Art Museum's fall exhibition "We Are Working All The Time!" features three decades of work from Minnesota-based artist Piotr Szyhalski. Open now.
📔 Minneapolis Institute of Art displays its collection of 18th-century French fashion magazines for the first time in its new "Revolution à la Mode" exhibit. Opens Sept. 10.
🏰 The Minnesota Children's Museum adds eight medieval storybook-themed displays for "The Amazing Castle" exhibition. Opens Sept. 17.
🎟 Walker Art Center brings dozens of new sculptures by Greek artist Jannis Kounellis to the museum for "Six Acts at the Walker". Opens Oct 14.
🔍 The Minnesota History Center gets interactive with the "Sherlock Holmes: The Exhibition," where visitors can solve a possible murder. Opens Oct. 22.
Live music
🎺 The Selby Avenue JazzFest brings a full day of free jazz performances to St. Paul. Sept. 10.
🎸 Powderhorn Porchfest hosts 12 local bands of various genres on three porches in South Minneapolis. Sept. 17.
🪩 Infrasound Equinox takes over Harmony Park Music Garden in southern Minnesota for a three day electronic dance music festival. Oct. 6-9.
🎉 Lizzo returns to Minneapolis for "The Special Tour" at Xcel Energy Center. It's about damn time. Oct. 11.
🎹 Crazy Broke Asians, a mini music festival at the Cedar Cultural Center, celebrates Asian excellence in the Twin Cities community. Oct 21.
Performing Arts
🇻🇳 "A Different Pond," based on the book by local poet Bao Phi, shares the story of a Vietnamese family building a life in Minneapolis. Sept. 30 - Oct. 23.
🎻 "Enigma: A 360° Experience" is an "enveloping sonic and visual journey" by Chicago's Spectral Quartet in the Bell Museum's planetarium. Nov. 4-5.
🎭 "Sally and Tom" makes its world debut at the Guthrie, examining American history through the lens of theater. Oct. 1 - Nov. 6.
🐈 "Cats," the Broadway musical currently touring North America, takes over the Orpheum Theater for just a few days. Oct. 25 - 30.
👩🏼🦳 "Six" at the Ordway Theater remixes the stories of Henry VIII's six wives and features an all-female cast and band. Oct. 25 - Nov. 6.
General activities
🍁 See the Twin Cities' fall colors from above at these four scenic overlooks.
🚘 Drive across Minnesota for fall foliage and stay at a cool Airbnb.
🚶🏼♀️ Go for a scenic stroll at some of the metro's best nature centers.
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Which soft-sided carrier for cats is best?
While it can be challenging to travel with cats, the right carrier makes all the difference. Soft-sided carriers for cats are lighter and easy to store, and some cats find them more comfortable and inviting than hard-sided carriers.
Choosing a carrier that’s the right size for your cat is vital, but you’ll also want to consider factors such as ventilation as well as the number of doors. If you’re looking for a roomy carrier with a great track record, the Petseek Extra-Large Cat Carrier is ideal.
What to know before you buy a soft-sided carrier for cats
Size
A good cat carrier should be large enough for your cat to stand, sit and turn around in. However, it shouldn’t be so large that it’s difficult to carry. Ideally, the longest side of a carrier should be roughly one-and-a-half times the length of your cat, from the tip of the nose to the base of the tail. If the length of the carrier is correct, the width and height are often just right, too.
Doors
Soft cat carriers have zippered access points, or doors, throughout the carrier. Depending on the model, they can have doors on either end, on the side and on the top of the carrier. Most have a combination of these options.
If your cat doesn’t like going in their carrier, the more access points, the better. It will give you options to help get your cat inside. Many find it easier to put cats into their carrier through the top door.
What to look for in a quality soft-sided carrier for cats
Ventilation
Cat carriers need plenty of ventilation to allow for proper airflow, which will ensure your cat stays comfortable. Most soft-sided cat carriers have mesh windows for ventilation on at least three sides, but the more the better.
Handles and carry straps
In addition to carry handles, many soft carriers have shoulder straps as well. Some cat parents find it more comfortable to carry their cat on their shoulder, especially over long distances. Padded straps and handles also increase comfort while carrying your cat.
Airline-approved
If you need a carrier to take your cat on a flight, make sure you choose one that’s airline-approved. Also, check your airline’s rules on bringing a pet on board before you make a purchase.
Collapsible
Some carriers have collapsible frames so they take up less storage space when not in use. In some cases, carriers are tricky to collapse and erect, which can be frustrating.
How much you can expect to spend on a soft-sided carrier for cats
The most affordable soft-sided carriers for cats cost around $20-$30, while the largest and most durable cost as much as $60-$75. This may vary depending on additional features and brand names.
Soft-sided carrier for cats FAQ
Should I cover my cat’s carrier while traveling?
A. Covering a carrier with a blanket or sheet blocks out unfamiliar sights and dampens sounds, which can help cats feel less nervous when traveling. However, it also impedes airflow somewhat, so don’t cover carriers on long journeys or very hot days. It’s best to use a cover made from a breathable material.
How do I make my cat comfortable in a carrier?
A. You can make cats more comfortable in their carriers by adding blankets, small beds or crate pads. Throwing a few treats or some catnip treats works well for some cats, but others are too stressed to take much notice of them.
How long can a cat stay in a carrier?
A. If you’re taking your cat on a long journey, you might be wondering how long they can comfortably stay in a carrier. It’s best not to exceed four to six hours without a break, though this isn’t always possible on long flights. Talk to your veterinarian to make sure they are healthy enough for travel.
What’s the best soft-sided carrier for cats to buy?
Top soft-sided carrier for cats
Petseek Extra-Large Cat Carrier
What you need to know: Thanks to its large size, this carrier is perfect for chunky cats or two felines who don’t mind sharing space.
What you’ll love: The steel frame feels strong and sturdy. It opens on three sides and has clips that go through the zippers to keep doors from opening. You can use the buckles and loops to attach it to a seatbelt or keep it in place during travel.
What you should consider: There’s no support in the base, so it can sag when carrying a heavy cat.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top soft-sided carrier for cats for the money
Henkelion Soft-Sided Cat Carrier
What you need to know: With doors on the end, side and top, you have plenty of ways to get your cat inside.
What you’ll love: It’s well-ventilated, featuring mesh panels on most sides. The side pocket is useful for holding any feline essentials. There’s a cozy machine-washable fleece mat inside and the shoulder strap has padding for extra comfort.
What you should consider: It could be stronger overall — nervous cats could potentially claw and damage the material.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
PetAmi Premium Airline Approved Soft-Sided Pet Travel Carrier
What you need to know: This airline-approved carrier fits most airlines’ requirements for in-cabin travel.
What you’ll love: It’s well-ventilated and has a comfortable removable fleece pad to keep your cat comfy. The door zippers have safety buckles, so they can’t come undone. There’s a zippered pocket on one side and a small side zipper for access to feed, pet or give water to your cat.
What you should consider: It has a wire frame, which doesn’t hold its shape, as well as steel frame options.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Representatives for the men’s and women’s U.S. national teams on Tuesday signed their historic collective bargaining agreements with U.S. Soccer, formally closing a long and sometimes acrimonious fight over equal pay.
The federation announced in May that it had struck separate agreements with the players’ unions on contracts that run through 2028. The new contracts include identical pay structures for appearances and tournament victories, revenue sharing and equitable distribution of World Cup prize money.
A signing ceremony was held following the women’s friendly match against Nigeria at Audi Field in Washington, with Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh among those on hand.
“I have to give a lot of credit to everyone involved, the women’s national team and their PA (players’ association), the men’s national team and their PA, and everyone at U.S. Soccer. There were so many people that helped, that worked together to make this happen,” said U.S. Soccer President Cindy Parlow Cone, herself a former national team player. “And it wouldn’t get pushed over the line without the men jumping in and being on board with equal pay.”
After years of struggling for equitable pay and treatment, The U.S. women filed a federal gender discrimination against U.S. Soccer in 2019. The lawsuit drew international attention, prompting fans to chant “Equal Pay!” when the United States won the Women’s World Cup final in France.
In February, the two sides settled the lawsuit, with U.S. Soccer agreeing to pay the women $24 million. But the settlement was contingent on reaching new labor agreements with both teams.
The men had been playing under the terms of a CBA that expired in December 2018. The women’s CBA expired at the end of March, but talks continued after the lawsuit was settled.
The sticking point in negotiations was World Cup prize money, which is based on how far a team advances in soccer’s most prestigious tournament. While the U.S. women have been successful on the international stage with back-to-back World Cup titles, differences in FIFA prize money meant they took home far less than the men’s winners. American women received a $110,000 bonus for winning the 2019 World Cup; the U.S. men would have received $407,000 had they won in 2018.
The unions agreed to pool FIFA’s payments for the men’s World Cup later this year and next year’s Women’s World Cup, as well as for the 2026 and 2027 tournaments.
Because the men’s national team players are currently in league play, the CBA was signed by USNSTPA Executive Director Mark Levinstein. Women’s players Crystal Dunn, Becky Sauerbrunn and Sam Mewis also signed, along with USWNTPA Executive Director Becca Roux.
Sauerbrunn addressed the crowd.
“I want to thank all of you guys for the support, all the social media posts, the messages of support, the chants of `Equal Pay’ at really funny times, showing up at our games. You guys make the difference and you are truly, truly the best fans in the world,” she said.
Former players Kristine Lilly, Briana Scurry and Lori Lindsey also attended the on-field ceremony after the U.S. defeated Nigeria 2-1.
With the CBAs accepted, a federal judge in August gave preliminary approval approved the settlement. A hearing to finalize it is set for December.
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Representatives for the men’s and women’s U.S. national teams on Tuesday signed their historic collective bargaining agreements with U.S. Soccer, formally closing a long and sometimes acrimonious fight over equal pay.
The federation announced in May that it had struck separate agreements with the players’ unions on contracts that run through 2028. The new contracts include identical pay structures for appearances and tournament victories, revenue sharing and equitable distribution of World Cup prize money.
A signing ceremony was held following the women’s friendly match against Nigeria at Audi Field in Washington, with Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh among those on hand.
“I have to give a lot of credit to everyone involved, the women’s national team and their PA (players’ association), the men’s national team and their PA, and everyone at U.S. Soccer. There were so many people that helped, that worked together to make this happen,” said U.S. Soccer President Cindy Parlow Cone, herself a former national team player. “And it wouldn’t get pushed over the line without the men jumping in and being on board with equal pay.”
After years of struggling for equitable pay and treatment, The U.S. women filed a federal gender discrimination against U.S. Soccer in 2019. The lawsuit drew international attention, prompting fans to chant “Equal Pay!” when the United States won the Women’s World Cup final in France.
In February, the two sides settled the lawsuit, with U.S. Soccer agreeing to pay the women $24 million. But the settlement was contingent on reaching new labor agreements with both teams.
The men had been playing under the terms of a CBA that expired in December 2018. The women’s CBA expired at the end of March, but talks continued after the lawsuit was settled.
The sticking point in negotiations was World Cup prize money, which is based on how far a team advances in soccer’s most prestigious tournament. While the U.S. women have been successful on the international stage with back-to-back World Cup titles, differences in FIFA prize money meant they took home far less than the men’s winners. American women received a $110,000 bonus for winning the 2019 World Cup; the U.S. men would have received $407,000 had they won in 2018.
The unions agreed to pool FIFA’s payments for the men’s World Cup later this year and next year’s Women’s World Cup, as well as for the 2026 and 2027 tournaments.
Because the men’s national team players are currently in league play, the CBA was signed by USNSTPA Executive Director Mark Levinstein. Women’s players Crystal Dunn, Becky Sauerbrunn and Sam Mewis also signed, along with USWNTPA Executive Director Becca Roux.
Sauerbrunn addressed the crowd.
“I want to thank all of you guys for the support, all the social media posts, the messages of support, the chants of `Equal Pay’ at really funny times, showing up at our games. You guys make the difference and you are truly, truly the best fans in the world,” she said.
Former players Kristine Lilly, Briana Scurry and Lori Lindsey also attended the on-field ceremony after the U.S. defeated Nigeria 2-1.
With the CBAs accepted, a federal judge in August gave preliminary approval approved the settlement. A hearing to finalize it is set for December.
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New Delhi: A report prepared by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) underlines the many reasons for its continued electoral debacle in Kerala.
It cites the party's failure to influence the Christian vote bank as one of the primary concerns.
Even though the party has made inroads into several places, consolidating the votes - even the Hindu mandate - for visible objectives remains tedious still.
The report also blames the party's state leadership for failing to convert those who have shown some leeway to the BJP.
It states that though the conditions are not favourable for BJP to flourish in Tamil Nadu and Telangana, the party leadership in these respective states have established a well-organised system.
The report was prepared by a team after visiting 144 Lok Sabha constituencies. These constituencies will be looked at again from October to January.
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Kottayam: The Mahatma Gandhi University on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court against the Kerala High Court's order to cancel the appointment of Rekha Raj as an assistant professor at the School of Gandhian Thought and Development Studies.
A division bench of the High Court had cancelled her appointment and directed the university to appoint Nisha Velappan Nair in her place.
Nisha was the second rank holder on the list.
The HC order came on Nisha's petition alleging that there were many snags in the university's appointment process.
The university's decision to move to the apex court was made after a meeting held with the Higher Education Department.
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Is the coronavirus on its way out?
You might think so. New, updated booster shots are being rolled out to better protect against the variants circulating now. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has dropped COVID-19 quarantine and distancing recommendations. and more people have thrown off their masks and returned to pre-pandemic activities.
But scientists say no. They predict the scourge that’s already lasted longer than the 1918 flu pandemic will linger far into the future.
One reason it’s lasted this long? It’s gotten better and better at getting around immunity from vaccination and past infection. Scientists point to emerging research that suggests the latest omicron variant gaining ground in the U.S. — BA.4.6, which was responsible for around 8% of new U.S. infections last week — appears to be even better at evading the immune system than the dominant BA.5.
Scientists worry the virus may well keep evolving in worrisome ways.
HOW LONG WILL IT BE AROUND?
White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said COVID-19 will likely be with us for the rest of our lives.
Experts expect COVID-19 will someday become endemic, meaning it occurs regularly in certain areas according to established patterns. But they don’t think that will be very soon.
Still, living with COVID “should not necessarily be a scary or bad concept,” since people are getting better at fighting it, Jha said during a recent question-and-answer session with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. “Obviously if we take our foot off the gas — if we stop updating our vaccines, we stop getting new treatments — then we could slip backwards.”
Experts say COVID will keep causing serious illness in some people. The COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub made some pandemic projections spanning August 2022 to May 2023, assuming the new tweaked boosters adding protection for the newest omicron relatives would be available and a booster campaign would take place in fall and winter. In the most pessimistic scenario — a new variant and late boosters — they projected 1.3 million hospitalizations and 181,000 deaths during that period. In the most optimistic scenario — no new variant and early boosters — they projected a little more than half the number of hospitalizations and 111,000 deaths.
Eric Topol, head of Scripps Research Translational Institute, said the world is likely to keep seeing repetitive surges until “we do the things we have to do,” such as developing next generation vaccines and rolling them out equitably.
Topol said the virus “just has too many ways to work around our current strategies, and it’ll just keep finding people, finding them again, and self-perpetuating.”
HOW WILL THE VIRUS MUTATE?
Scientists expect more genetic changes that affect parts of the spike protein studding the surface of the virus, letting it attach to human cells.
“Every time we think we’ve seen the peak transmission, peak immune escape properties, the virus exceeds that by another significant notch,” Topol said.
But the virus probably won’t keep getting more transmissible forever.
“I think there is a limit,” said Matthew Binnicker, director of clinical virology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. “What we’re really dealing with, though, is there’s still a lot of people across the world who don’t have any prior immunity — either they haven’t been infected or they haven’t had access to vaccination.”
If humanity’s baseline level of immunity rises significantly, he said, the rate of infections, and with that emergence of more contagious variants, should slow down.
But there is a chance the virus could mutate in a way that causes more severe illness.
“There’s not any inherent reason, biologically, that the virus has to become milder over time,” said Dr. Wesley Long, a pathologist at Houston Methodist. The fact it may seem milder now “is likely just the combined effect of all of us having some immune history with the virus.”
While scientists hope that continues, they also point out that immunity gradually wanes.
WILL THE NEXT VARIANT BE ANOTHER VERSION OF OMICRON?
Omicron has been around since late last year, with a series of super transmissible versions quickly displacing one another, and Binnicker believes “that will continue at least for the next few months.”
But down the road, he said it’s likely a new variant distinct from omicron will pop up.
The recent wave of infections and re-infections, he said, “gives the virus more chances to spread and mutate and new variants to emerge.”
CAN PEOPLE INFLUENCE THE FUTURE OF THE VIRUS?
Yes, experts said. One way is to get vaccinated and boosted.
“We have a virus out there that’s still circulating, still killing hundreds of Americans every day,” Jha said in a press briefing Tuesday. But, he added: “We now have all of the capability to prevent, I believe, essentially all of those deaths. If people stay up to date on their vaccines, if people get treated if they have a breakthrough infection, we can make deaths from this virus vanishingly rare.”
Not only does vaccination protect against severe disease and death, it raises the level of immunity globally.
CDC director Rochelle Walensky said Tuesday that up to 100,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations and 9,000 deaths could be prevented if Americans get the updated booster at the same rate they typically get an annual flu shot this fall. About half of Americans are typically vaccinated against the flu each year.
People can also keep protecting themselves by taking other precautions like, for example, wearing masks indoors when COVID rates are high.
Longtime nurse Catherine Mirabile said it’s important not to dismiss the dangers of the coronavirus – which sickened her twice, nearly killed her husband and left them both with long COVID. Daily deaths still average around 450 in the U.S.
“People really need to look at this and still take this seriously,” said the 62-year-old from Princeton, West Virginia, who is now on disability. “They could end up in the same shape we’re in.” | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/is-covid-19-winding-down-scientists-say-no/article_e1802390-2e36-11ed-a449-13b287b5ed66.html | 2022-09-07T12:55:45Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/is-covid-19-winding-down-scientists-say-no/article_e1802390-2e36-11ed-a449-13b287b5ed66.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
You might assume that a story about the color orange (and Florida) can only mean one thing. Although I admit I am tempted to skew sarcastically partisan, forget the new orange. I’ll stick to the old.
While researching the roots of fruits and vegetables as commercial trademarks, I found this delightful, little-known mascot for the Florida Citrus Exchange (founded in 1909), known as Seald Sweet. Around 1910 the little guy with the head of an orange and torso of a grapefruit stood for good taste, freshness and sweet juice. Unlike many in the mascot genre, he was a rather discreet fellow whose sole mission was to promote natural goodness, at least for the white middle class (e.g., the symbolism of his top hat and pince-nez).
I wish I knew who designed it. The orange-grapefruit guy whet this reporter’s whistle, and I’d like to give credit where its due, for he’s just one of the many orphans of commercial trade culture. | https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-orange-you-glad-orange-isnt-the-new-anything/ | 2022-09-07T12:55:47Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-orange-you-glad-orange-isnt-the-new-anything/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Jury Awards Baylor Medical College More Than $48M
A jury on Tuesday awarded Baylor Medical College $48.5 million for damages caused by COVID-19, Claims Journal reported.
It said the case "appears to be the first jury verdict in a lawsuit that sought insurance coverage for lost business income and other damages caused by the virus." Baylor sued Lloyd’s of London in the case.
“I do think that Baylor was somewhat uniquely situated because we could establish the presence of the virus on the property throughout the period of coverage,” said Robin O’Neil, Baylor's lawyer. Hundreds of cases have been decided against policy holders who sued. But the Baylor Medical College remained open throughout the pandemic. And Baylor purchased insurance without the usual virus exclusion.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WHNT) — Nearly 500 pounds of beef jerky products made by a Knoxville, Tennessee, company are being recalled over concerns of listeria contamination.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the recall announced on Sept. 6 affects products made by the Magnolia Provision Company, Inc.
The following ready-to-eat beef jerky items were made on Aug. 25, 2022, and are subject to the recall:
- 2-oz. packages of “BEEF JERKY EXPERIENCE CHOP HOUSE STYLE PRIME RIB FLAVORED BEEF JERKY” with “EXP 8/25/23” displayed on the back of the package.
- 8-oz. packages of “BEEF JERKY EXPERIENCE CHOP HOUSE STYLE PRIME RIB FLAVORED BEEF JERKY” with “EXP 8/25/23” displayed on the back of the package.
- 16-oz. packages of “BEEF JERKY EXPERIENCE CHOP HOUSE STYLE PRIME RIB FLAVORED BEEF JERKY” with “EXP 8/25/23” displayed on the back of the package.
The problem was found when the company reported to the FSIS that a third-party lab confirmed the presence of listeria in a tested sample.
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacteria that can cause fatal infections in children, the elderly, or those with weakened immune systems.
While those with listeria infections typically suffer high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, those who are pregnant can have miscarriages or stillbirths.
No confirmed reports of adverse reactions have been reported at this time.
These products will have an establishment number of “EST. 8091” inside the USDA mark of inspection. The items, according to the FSIS, were shipped to retail locations across the country.
Officials urge anyone that has these products to throw them out or return them to where they were purchased.
For questions or concerns, you can call the toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline at 888-MPHotline (888-674-6854) or send an email here. | https://www.wspa.com/news/500-lbs-of-beef-jerky-recalled-over-listeria-concerns/ | 2022-09-07T13:05:55Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/500-lbs-of-beef-jerky-recalled-over-listeria-concerns/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thousands of claimants on Universal Credit could miss out on benefits due to changes to the system this month. Around 114,000 people could be forced to meet new criteria of the Intensive Work Search regime.
People on the scheme will have to attend weekly or fortnightly appointments at the local job centre. Claimants with no earnings or with earnings below the so-called Administration Earnings Threshold (AET) will also be placed on the scheme.
Claimants including those who have reported a health condition that does not affect their ability to work, are normally required to attend mandatory face-to-face work search reviews. When the AET rises this month, hundreds of thousands of people are projected to be put on the Intensive Work Search regime, Liverpool Echo reports.
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The Department for Work and Pensions has said the AET will be raised from £355 to £494 a month for a single claimant and from £567 to £782 a month for a couple. If people find work they could see their Universal Credit payments reduced, or stopped altogether.
The proposed alterations are set to take place on September 26 and are designed to take people out of the "light touch" system for jobseekers' payouts. The "light touch" system for Universal Credit currently applies to people who are in work but need a top-up payment due to low incomes.
There will be more stringent rules meaning more pressure and expectations including more meetings with work coaches and increasing searches for work or taking on more work hours. Under the current regime, people are still encouraged to increase their earnings so that they no longer need to get a top-up from Universal Credit but the requirements are less stringent than for those who are lowest paid or out of work.
A Department for Work and Pensions statement explaining the changes said: "Since its introduction in 2013, the AET has not kept pace with the increases in the National Living Wage, with the result that the number of hours needed to work to earn the AET has fallen over time. The adjustment will bring the AET back to its original ‘parity’ with the National Living Wage."
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The DWP has issued an urgent warning over a new phone scam. The scam involves National Insurance numbers in which crooks dial victims using an automated service.
People are being warned that the Department for Work and Pensions will never use an automated call system to contact customers and if you receive such a call it is probably a scam.
DWP posted on Twitter: “Be fraud aware and protect your personal details at all times. Your information could be used by criminals to commit benefit and other fraud.
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“DWP never use an automated call system for contacting customers. If you receive an automated message about your National Insurance number, it is probably a scam.”
The video guidance adds: "If you believe you have been targeted, contact Action Fraud. You can report a scam on the Action Fraud website here or by calling 0800 123 2040."
It comes after around a year since the last spate of NI based phone scams. Tens of thousands of incidents were reported by June 2021 to Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, the Daily Record reports.
Last year’s scam involved victims receiving an automated phone call, during which they are told their "National Insurance number has been compromised".
They are then instructed to ‘press one on their handset to be connected to the caller in order to supposedly fix the issue and get a new National Insurance number. But following these instructions lead to sinister consequences.
Once connected to the "caller", victims are pressured into handing over personal details - which the fraudsters claim is to enable them to receive a new National Insurance number, giving the criminals personal details enables them to commit fraud using the victim’s credentials and information.
If you suspect that you may have been contacted by a scammer claiming to be from the DWP or other official bodies, hang up and call them directly. If you believe you have been hit by a scam then call your bank or building society immediately and iform the police via 101.
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Liz Truss has promised that she will announce the plans for tackling the energy bills crisis tomorrow (September 8), making the pledge during her first PMQs as Prime Minister this afternoon. She confirmed the timeframe in response to a question from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who challenged her on who will foot the bill for the freeze she is reportedly set to implement.
Telling the House of Commons that “energy producers will make £170bn in excess profits over the next two years”, Sir Keir said: “The Prime Minister knows she has no choice but to back an energy price freeze, but it won’t be cheap and the real choice, the political choice is who is going to pay. Is she really telling us that she is going to leave this vast excess profits on the table and make working people foot the bill for decades to come?”
Ms Truss was not drawn on who would pay in her answer, instead reaffirming that action will be taken to give people “certainty” over the coming months. During PMQs, Ms Truss said: “That is why I as Prime Minister will take immediate action to help people with the cost of their energy bills and I will be making an announcement to this House on that tomorrow.”
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In response to Ms Truss confirming the timeframe, Starmer said in the Commons: “Well, I look forward to tomorrow’s statement, but the money has got to come from somewhere. And she knows that every single pound in excess profits she chooses not to tax is an extra pound on borrowing that working people will be forced to pay back for decades to come.
“More borrowing than is needed. That’s the true cost of her choice to protect oil and gas profits, isn’t it?”
Ms Truss replied: “The reality is that this country will not be able to tax its way to growth. The way we will grow our economy is by attracting investment, keeping taxes low, delivering the reforms to build projects quicker."
The new PM has barely got her feet under the table at Downing Street, having assumed office yesterday (September 6) after a meeting with the Queen at Balmoral where she was invited to form a new government. Having defeated opponent Rishi Sunak by 81,326 to 60,399 votes, Ms Truss used her maiden speech to promise that she will put Britain “on the path to long-term success”.
The short-term is the more immediate concern, as the predicted cost of energy over the coming months threatens to plunge millions into fuel poverty. Energy regulator Oftem has increased the price cap by 80%, meaning the average household's yearly bill will rise from £1,971 to £3,549 on October 1.
With some experts warning that the cap could top £7,000 by next year, Truss has been compelled to intervene because the government support already on offer is not considered to be enough. A freeze is not the only option under consideration; cutting national insurance, scrapping green levies on bills and one-off payments are reportedly all possibilities.
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A man has been jailed following a stabbing in the centre of Maidstone. Michael Jibowu stabbed his victim three times during an alleged unprovoked attack in Week Street earlier this year.
Jibowu attacked the 18-year-old, who police say was known to him, on the evening of April 23. The victim was leaving a takeaway with his friends at the time.
Jibowu was standing in the street as the victim exited the premises. They briefly spoke, before the 20-year-old suddenly lunged at him inflicting wounds to his neck and torso.
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Police say the victim retreated into the restaurant to seek medical attention. He was taken to hospital but later discharged.
Officers then examined CCTV footage from the local area. They identified Jibowu as a suspect and he was arrested on April 26 at an address in London.
Jibowu, of Upper Wickham Lane, Welling, pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm at Maidstone Crown Court. He has been jailed for two years and eight months.
Investigating officer Detective Constable Andy Julier, from Kent Police, said: "This was a shocking assault in a busy town centre that resulted in a young man suffering multiple stab wounds. He was fortunate that some local volunteers with medical training were on hand to give assistance until the arrival of paramedics.
"Jibowu fled the scene with no concern for the condition of his victim. However, immediate enquiries by attending officers and diligent investigations over the following two days ensured he was identified, tracked down and ultimately brought to justice."
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The Royal Navy has sent three warships to shadow a Russian Navy task force as it sails past the Kent coast in the English channel. Type 23 frigates HMS Westminster, HMS Lancaster and HMS Richmond were deployed to track the convoy, along with a patrol ship and helicopters.
One of the vessels being followed is Slava-class cruiser, Marshal Ustinov, the sister ship of the Moskva which was sunk in the Black Sea in April, amid the war in Ukraine. The Royal Navy has also been keeping watch on Udaloy-class destroyer, Vice-Admiral Kulakov and tanker Vyazma as the task force returns from the eastern Mediterranean, where it has been supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine since February.
Meanwhile, patrol ship HMS Mersey has shadowed Russian military research ship Akademik Ioffe as it travels south past Dover, into the English Channel.
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A Royal Navy spokesman said: "The frigates and their helicopters used an array of cutting-edge sensors and modern naval technology to keep close watch in the Celtic Sea and through the English Channel."
HMS Westminster's commanding officer (CO) Commander Ed Moss-Ward said: "Maritime security in the sea areas around the UK is crucial to our prosperity and resilience.
"The Royal Navy routinely responds to escort warships in UK territorial waters and the adjacent sea areas to ensure compliance with maritime law, to deter malign activity and to protect our national interests. Escorting the Russian task group has demonstrated that the Royal Navy is committed to maintaining maritime security and to co-operating with our Nato allies."
The Russian ships had been shadowed from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Celtic Sea by HMS Lancaster, as part of Nato's fast response task force in the Atlantic. HMS Westminster then deployed from Portsmouth to intercept the convoy in the Celtic Sea, where Marshal Ustinov was refuelled by the tanker Vyazma, while HMS Richmond waited in the English Channel.
Commander Tom Johnson, CO of HMS Lancaster, said: "Working together allows Nato allies to respond to security challenges at pace and collectively deter potential aggressors.
"Exchange of personnel further deepens Nato cohesion and interoperability so that the alliance can swiftly and efficiently react to any threat. Lancaster's team work exceptionally hard to ensure we are always ready to respond to any threat at a moment’s notice."
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Marine Corps League of Southern Kentucky helping with flood, tornado relief efforts
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - The Marine Corps League in Bowling Green is continuing to support Eastern Kentucky flood victims.
You may recognize many of their endeavors when it comes to their Toys For Tots program which has grown in size and productivity each year.
The program supports less fortunate children by giving them the gift of toys, and these heroes put forth every effort to put a smile on their faces every time.
Now during Kentucky’s time of need over the last 10 months with the devastating December tornadoes and the historic flooding in Eastern Kentucky, these veterans are here to give their time and energy toward the community once again.
After everything they do for people across the state, they’re asking for the community to support them in their goal of giving back in any way they can.
The Marine Corps of Southern Kentucky is setting up a situation in which you can mail the group donations.
Once it’s set up, people can donate to the Marine Corps League Attz. Bob Metz 413 on Beachwood Lane.
You can also find out more information about this group of veterans here. or visit this page to aid with their Toys for Tots program.
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Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland took their high-flying scoring acts into Europe as the Champions League returned on Tuesday, while last season’s standout star Karim Benzema limped off with an injury after less than 30 minutes.
Mbappé and Haaland both netted two goals as their respective clubs Paris Saint Germain and Manchester City began their European campaigns with victories, underlining just why those two teams are again among the favorites for the title.
Real Madrid’s chances of defending its crown probably depend largely on having a fully fit Benzema, but the France forward had to come off with an apparent knee injury in the 30th minute against Celtic. Second-half goals from Vinícius Júnior, Luka Modric and Eden Hazard still secured a 3-0 win for the Spanish giant in Glasgow.
Benzema was in a league of his own in the competition last season, netting 15 goals in 12 games to lead Madrid to the title. But Mbappé and Haaland look ready to challenge the Frenchman for the status of Europe’s top striker as they try to lead their clubs to an elusive first Champions League title.
The 23-year-old Mbappé, who has seven goals in five league games so far, scored his double in the first 22 minutes of a 2-1 home win over Juventus to become the youngest player to reach 35 goals in the competition — beating the mark held by teammate Lionel Messi.
The 22-year-old Haaland has 25 goals in 20 Champions League games — also a record — after scoring once in each half of Man City’s 4-0 win at Sevilla. The Norway striker, who has 10 goals in six Premier League games this season, has now netted on his Champions League debut for three clubs — Salzburg, Borussia Dortmund and City.
Also, Dinamo Zagreb upset Chelsea 1-0 at home while Serie A champion AC Milan was held to a 1-1 draw at Salzburg.
MBAPPÉ SINKS JUVE
Mbappé’s opening goal for PSG came after just five minutes following some audacious link-up play from Neymar.
Mbappé played a short pass to the Brazilian before making a run into the area, with Neymar holding onto the ball just long enough before chipping it over a defender and into the path of the France striker, who volleyed it first-time past goalkeeper Mattia Perin.
The second came after he exchanged passes with Achraf Hakimi and beat Perin with another first-time finish. United States midfielder Weston McKennie pulled one back for Juventus in the 53rd, creating a tense finale in Paris.
In the other Group H match, Benfica defeated Maccabi Haifa 2-0.
CHELSEA STRUGGLES
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang couldn’t give Chelsea’s stuttering attack any kind of instant spark as the Blues failed to impress once again following an inconsistent start to the season.
Aubameyang made his Chelsea debut after his move from Barcelona, playing with a face mask to protect his injured jaw, and had one goal ruled out for offside while his teammates repeatedly failed to beat goalkeeper Dominik Livaković.
Instead it was Mislav Oršić who continued his scoring streak against English teams, racing away from Wesley Fofana — another of Chelsea’s marquee signings — to score on a breakaway in the 13th minute.
“It’s an underperformance from us,” said Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel, whose team has lost twice in the Premier League already. “We are clearly not there where we need to be. …. At the moment everything is missing.”
Noah Okafor put Salzburg ahead against Milan near the half-hour mark by shooting through the legs of goalkeeper Mike Maignan, but Alexis Saelemaekers equalized before the break.
Rafael Leão then nearly won it for Milan in stoppage time when he had a shot deflected off the post.
US international Sergiño Dest came on in the 57th minute for his Milan debut following his transfer last week from Barcelona, one of six Americans in action on the night.
CITY ROLLS IN SPAIN
Haaland could well be the piece that Man City has been missing as it repeatedly came up short in Europe under Pep Guardiola.
The Norwegian again showed his uncanny ability to be in the right place at the right time as he was on hand to steer in a cross from Kevin De Bruyne in the 21st minute and then tapped in a rebound for the third goal in the 67th. Phil Foden and Ruben Dias scored the other goals for City in a dominant performance at Estadio Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán.
Also in Group G, Marco Reus took his tally to 22 goals in 57 Champions League matches by opening the scoring in Borussia Dortmund’s 3-0 win over Copenhagen. U.S. international Gio Reyna set up the other two goals for Dortmund, exchanging passes with English teenager Jude Bellingham in a slick move for the third.
HAZARD STEPS UP
If Benzema has to miss significant time for Madrid, Hazard signaled that he may be ready to pick up some of the slack.
The Belgium playmaker — who was on the bench before replacing Benzema — set up the first two goals before scoring the third himself against Celtic. It was his first Champions League goal in 651 days and first in any competition since January.
Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti was hopeful that Benzema will be back soon, though.
It seems not so serious,” Ancelotti said about the striker’s injury.
Callum McGregor had nearly put Celtic ahead in the first half when he struck a fierce shot against the post in the 21st minute.
In the other Group F game, Maryan Shved scored twice as Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk beat RB Leipzig 4-1. Shakhtar’s domestic season only recently started after a lengthy break because of Russia’s invasion but the team got some help from Leipzig goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi for the first goal.
Gulacsi made the blunder of the evening by giving the ball away to Shved as he stood well outside his own area, giving the midfielder a simple finish into an empty net.
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Chelsea sacked manager Thomas Tuchel on Wednesday the day after his team suffered a shock 1-0 defeat away by Dinamo Zagreb in their opening game of the Champions League.
The Premier League club confirmed on its website that they had parted company with the German coach who guided Chelsea to Champions League glory in his first season. “On behalf of everyone at Chelsea FC, the club would like to place on record its gratitude to Thomas and his staff for all their efforts during their time with the club," the club said. "Thomas will rightly have a place in Chelsea's history after winning the Champions League, the Super Cup and Club World Cup in his time here.”
While Chelsea have not started the season especially well, having lost two of their opening six Premier League games, Tuchel's exit is still a surprising move.
He made an instant impact when replacing Frank Lampard in January 2021, reviving the team's Premier League season and taking them to the Champions League final where they beat Manchester City.
Under Tuchel Chelsea also won the UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup last season. Chelsea finished third in the Premier League last season as their expected challenge to Manchester City and Liverpool's domestic dominance failed to materialise.
They also reached the FA Cup and League Cup finals, losing to Liverpool on penalties on each occasion. Tuchel, formerly manager of Paris St Germain and Borussia Dortmund, is the first managerial casualty since new American owner Todd Boehly took over the club.
"As the new ownership group reaches 100 days since taking over the Club, and as it continues its hard work to take the club forward, the new owners believe it is the right time to make this transition," the statement said.
Fans of the club were familiar with managerial sackings during the long reign of previous owner, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, but Tuchel's departure after 99 games in charge of the club was unexpected. Although there have been signs of stagnation with Chelsea winning only seven of their last 16 Premier League matches.
Attention will now turn to Tuchel's successor with former Tottenham Hotspur and PSG manager Mauricio Pochettino a likely target for the west Londoners. "Chelsea's coaching staff will take charge of the team for training and the preparation of our upcoming matches as the Club moves swiftly to appoint a new head coach," the club said. "There will be no further comment until a new head coach appointment is made." | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/09/07/thomas-tuchel-fired-as-chelsea-head-coach.html | 2022-09-07T13:17:52Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/09/07/thomas-tuchel-fired-as-chelsea-head-coach.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Most elections are, at least in part, reactions to the results of the last election. Usually, that means they function as a referendum on the last election's winners and their performance in office.
It is unusual, if not unprecedented, for the midterm cycle to focus on the conduct of the last election — a kind of referendum on the legitimacy of the system itself.
By that standard, 2022 qualifies as unusual indeed.
Donald Trump and his followers, who now represent the activist core of the Republican Party, have insisted on making 2022 a do-over of 2020. Their essential argument is not that President Biden has failed or been a bad president, but that he was never legitimately elected president in the first place.
Trump has in fact this past week demanded he be "reinstated" as the "rightful winner" of the 2020 election or that the election be re-run "immediately" because Facebook had been advised by the FBI not to trust certain stories about Biden's son, Hunter, during the 2020 campaign.
Trump continues to insist, after 20 months, that he won an election that he lost by more than 7 million in the popular vote and by 306-232 in the Electoral College. Neither he nor his acolytes have produced any evidence to undermine those totals. But they have eroded confidence in the system and its caretakers to the degree that a majority of Republicans tell pollsters they think the election was "stolen."
The rest of the GOP, including prominent leaders such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, would clearly prefer to talk about Biden and about inflation, gas prices, crime and immigration. But they cannot wrest the party's megaphone back from the man who has monopolized it since 2015. And whatever they think of Trump personally, they are as reliant as he is on the support and donations and votes of his followers. So they fall in line, or they fall silent.
The rise of election denial in the GOP
Moreover, a new generation of candidates has emerged and surged in GOP primaries by stressing their embrace of Trump's claims.
Trump has endorsed 159 candidates who are election deniers for state and federal offices this year, and about 80% of them have already won their Republican primaries, according to a survey by The New York Times. A separate survey by The Washington Post found 87 election deniers among candidates for offices that will matter to the vote certification of the next election in six battleground states he narrowly lost in 2020 (Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin). Of that number, 54 have already won their primaries.
"The 2020 election was stolen," say the MAGA candidates who wear Trump's favor, adding, "You know it and I know it." That statement of assurance is usually the only proof offered. And the crowd at the rally roars back its affirmation.
The "you know it and I know it" mantra is also available in a variety of display formats. You can go on Amazon today and order it on a package of 10 waterproof vinyl car decals, or go elsewhere for it on a doormat or on a polyester flag measuring 15 square feet.
From the standpoint of a fact-checker, there is no evidence of fraud sufficient to support that claim. After nearly two years of recounts, ballot reviews, expert examinations and court cases, that remains the bottom line. The 2020 election has been scrubbed and studied as none other in U.S. history, and the consensus conclusion remains that it was run more smoothly and counted more reliably than ever.
So why do Trump's people continue to deny the outcomes, and why do crowds cheer?
Perhaps, because in politics, myth can be as powerful as fact — and at times it may well be more so.
Claims of voter fraud have become integral to Trump's brand. But he did not invent the idea of a stolen election. He exploited it as no one had before, to be sure, but he was mining a lode that had been opened long ago and tapped as a rich source of grievance for generations.
Deep and tenacious roots
For the "election deniers," and for many Americans who accept the 2020 results but still think voter fraud is a big problem, the roots of these beliefs are deep.
The Heritage Foundation, long an anchor on the right among think tanks in Washington, devotes a page of its website to voter fraud and offers a database of cases. It also offers a disquisition on ballot stuffing and voter intimidation and other forms of malfeasance common in the 1700s and 1800s and early 1900s.
The prime example cited by Heritage is an election stolen by the notorious Democratic machine in New York City known as Tammany Hall. It happened in 1844. More recent examples cited include a mayoral primary in East Chicago, Ind., in 2003.
The figure of 1,182 is cited for the total of criminal prosecutions for voter fraud in recent years, most of them dealing with improper registration or fraudulent use of absentee ballots. They are listed as 2022 cases, but on further inspection they date back over a period of years and arise from primaries as well as general elections. The database does not mention that in 2020 alone there were more than 50 million votes cast in primaries and more than 158 million in the November election.
William Safire was a White House speechwriter for President Richard Nixon who later spent decades writing columns on politics and language for The New York Times. In his popular New Political Dictionary, he wrote extensively on "ballot box stuffing" and "cemetery voting." He, too, went back to Tammany Hall rigging outcomes for the Democrats in New York City in the 1800s, while also allowing that the Republican strongholds in upstate New York were often suspect in their reporting as late as the 1920s.
Safire noted that many had believed the 1960 presidential election was tipped to John F. Kennedy and running mate Lyndon B. Johnson by vote theft in rural Texas counties and the heavily Catholic precincts of Chicago, where the Democratic machine of Mayor Richard J. Daley held sway. One story often repeated among Protestant Republicans in Illinois described school buses shuttling nuns around the city on Election Day, unloading them to vote at every Catholic parish they passed.
Still, in Safire's treatment, these phenomena were historical artifacts of an era before mechanized and later digitized voting became the norm and cheating became more challenging. The Florida vote counting fiasco in 2000, which struggled for weeks to ascertain a reliable result, ended the era of complacency on this score. In the end, the Supreme Court upheld a count by which George W. Bush won the state by just over 500 votes, thus securing Florida's crucial contribution to his minimum-margin win in the Electoral College.
Since then, the administration of U.S. elections has been thoroughly examined and renovated. The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) devoted billions to upgrading the election infrastructure, and many states instituted reforms of their own to facilitate and improve their voting and counting systems.
At the same time, the Bush White House was directing the Department of Justice to investigate thoroughly the possibility that voter fraud in major cities was padding the Democratic vote in swing states. The probe began in 2002 and five years later had little to show for its work. The federal Election Assistance Commission, tasked with finding fraud, reported that while some abuses had occurred, they were far from systematic or pervasive enough to matter much.
Nevertheless, the search went on and some U.S. attorneys around the country felt they were being pressured to prioritize prosecutions for voter fraud. Several resigned, and the allegations became part of the investigation Democrats began into the department after taking the majority in Congress in 2006. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, appointed by Bush in 2005, resigned in 2007.
Trump brings the issue back to the fore
Talk of voter fraud simmered down a bit thereafter. But the issue returned to prominence when Trump, after years of pumping up the "birther" conspiracy about Barack Obama's citizenship, shifted his focus to voter fraud in 2016. The only way he could lose, he said often that year, was if the election were stolen.
When he won that year, Trump still leveled angry allegations of voter fraud, perhaps because he had lost the national popular vote by nearly 3 million. He said between 3 million and 5 million non-citizens had voted in California alone, but he offered no proof whatsoever. He then appointed a bipartisan commission to find the proof, not just in California, but nationwide.
The commission was soon identified with the aggressive tactics of its vice chairman, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who had sent requests around the country for extensive voter data. Many states, both red and blue, resisted or flat out refused. Dissension broke out within the commission, which disbanded after seven months without having found any evidence of voter fraud.
Nonetheless, Trump was back in the 2020 cycle predicting he could only lose if there was fraud, and that stance once again segued into a fury of denial and denunciations when he lost. While he struck out in the courts at the state and federal level (the Supreme Court refused to hear any of the appeals), Trump took his case to the public and has had considerable success in sowing doubt among his sympathizers.
At least one of the other Republicans eyeing the 2024 presidential election cycle, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, has also made voter fraud a signature issue. In August, he held a news conference at which he announced the filing of charges against 20 Floridians who he said had voted illegally in 2020.
With rows of his "election police" posed behind him, DeSantis said he was outing ex-offenders who had no right to vote because of the seriousness of their crimes. It was later reported that at least some of the ex-offenders had believed their rights had been restored by a referendum Florida voters had approved by a big margin in 2018.
Getting stronger still?
Ricky Hatch is a Republican in Weber County, Utah, who has been an election official there since 2012. He is among several local election administrators from around the country who appear in a forthcoming book by CBS News reporter Major Garrett and David Becker, a previous longtime elections lawyer with the Department of Justice who founded the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research. In The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of "The Big Lie," Garrett and Becker detail the travails of the ordinary citizens on the front lines of the voting struggle.
Hatch said some of his neighbors cannot be persuaded even when he personally demonstrates to them how all the machinery of the process works right there in their home county. "They say, 'I know your machines have been hacked by China,' " Hatch reports. "I show them there is no means to hack the machines, that nothing is connected. They just say, 'They have been hacked, you just don't know it.' "
Hatch says he has heard objections from skeptics over the years, but nothing like the wall of denialism erected by Trump.
"I hate saying this, but he has the same characteristics as a cult leader," Hatch says. "He pulls people into a belief system. I thought it would die down. ... It's getting stronger."
At a minimum, the issue of voter fraud seems undiminished in its ability to galvanize certain categories of voters and create doubt about the outcome of elections.
Perhaps that should not be surprising. Voter fraud exists, but its prevalence and importance are less a matter of fact than of belief. Relying on that belief to explain away unpalatable election results is an exercise of faith, but one that millions find more acceptable than all the arguments and evidence from experts, courts and academics.
In the end, articles of faith are just that. Whether you consider faith to be higher than reason or simply unreasonable, such beliefs can be largely immune to factual refutation or rational argument. And they can be powerful motivators of human behavior, including at the polls.
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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
It was a wild ride today as a team of nuclear inspectors from the United Nations made their way to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine. The team was able to reach and gain access to the plant, and they have begun their work to assess its safety.
NPR's Elissa Nadworny is in Dnipro, Ukraine. Hey, Elissa.
ELISSA NADWORNY, BYLINE: Hi, Ari.
SHAPIRO: It sounds like it was a really intense journey for the inspectors to get there. Tell us what they went through.
NADWORNY: Well, yeah, it certainly had the world on the edge of their seats. So to get there, they had to pass through active fighting. They came from the city of Zaporizhzhia, which is still Ukrainian controlled. But they had to go through the gray zone. That's where the two sides meet each other. And then they had to enter Russian-held territory. There were some really long delays at checkpoints. There was heavy shelling along the way. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, who's leading this team, he said that he was briefed on the military situation, but he felt the mission must proceed because the stakes of a nuclear disaster were just too high to wait.
SHAPIRO: And despite the shelling, despite the checkpoint delays, they made it. So what do we know about the visit?
NADWORNY: Yeah. The weeks-in-the-making visit finally happened. So Grossi said he was able to gather a lot of information. He saw the main things he needed to see.
RAFAEL GROSSI: I have just completed a first tour of the key areas that we wanted to see. Of course, there's a lot more to do.
NADWORNY: He said his team plans to continue working past this initial visit.
SHAPIRO: Any information on operations at the plant?
NADWORNY: Well, because of shelling again today, the plant had some damage. So there was a power supply line that went down. Workers had to shut down one of the reactors. Another idle reactor lost power and had to be switched to a generator. That's all according to Energoatom, which is the organization tasked with nuclear safety in Ukraine. The head of that organization said they are using all efforts to get that reactor back online.
SHAPIRO: What's Moscow saying about all this?
NADWORNY: Moscow has been supportive of the mission. Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, had this to say.
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SERGEY LAVROV: (Speaking Russian).
NADWORNY: He's saying, "we're doing everything we can for the nuclear station to function and the inspectors to arrive."
But Russia continues to blame the shelling in and around the plant on Ukraine, claiming that they're sabotaging the visit. On Twitter, the deputy Russian ambassador to the U.N. said Russia had requested a meeting next week of the U.N. Security Council to discuss the situation at the plant and Ukraine's, quote, "reckless behavior."
SHAPIRO: OK. So Russia blames Ukraine for the shelling, but what does Ukraine say about that?
NADWORNY: Ukrainian officials say it's Russia who's doing the shelling. And today, NPR had a chance to talk with Dmytro Orlov. He is the mayor of Enerhodar, which is the city that's closest to the plant.
DMYTRO ORLOV: (Non-English language spoken).
NADWORNY: He says you can tell the shelling is coming from nearby Russian-occupied territory because the time between hearing the shot and hearing the resulting explosion is just a few seconds.
SHAPIRO: All right. Well, what's next in this saga?
NADWORNY: Well, the IAEA mission is expected to be ongoing over the next few days. The main team has departed the plant tonight, but a few members are going to stay behind to continue working. Grossi, he has said, you know, he wants to keep a contingent of inspectors at the plant permanently, but it's still unclear exactly how that's going to look.
SHAPIRO: That's NPR's Elissa Nadworny reporting from Ukraine. Thanks a lot.
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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
In Chile, the country's young president, Gabriel Boric, is facing a big test. On Sunday, Chileans will decide whether to ratify a new constitution to replace the current one, which was written during the country's military dictatorship. Polls predict voters will reject this new constitution. As NPR's John Otis reports, that would be a blow for President Boric.
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UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER: (Shouting in Spanish).
JOHN OTIS, BYLINE: In the streets of Santiago, a boisterous crowd waves Chilean flags and banners that say rechazo - that's Spanish for rejection.
UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting) Rechazo. Rechazo.
OTIS: They're urging people to reject Chile's draft constitution, which they claim is a radical left-wing document that would turn the nation upside down. Much of their anger is directed at President Gabriel Boric, who's a big supporter of the new Magna Carta.
UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting in Spanish).
OTIS: At 36, Boric, a leftist, is Chile's youngest ever president. He sports a beard, tattoos on his arms and never wears a necktie. Boric was sworn in in March amid rising inflation, unemployment and street crime. But rather than taking action, the president has dithered, says Camila Quiroz, an industrial engineer taking part in the march.
CAMILA QUIROZ: Like, come on. You have to do something. You have the power, you know. You have the people. And why you don't do anything? We are living in chaos. We are living in a dangerous place.
OTIS: A survey this week by Chilean polling firm Cadem puts Boric's job approval rating at just 39%.
CLAUDIO FUENTES: It was very expected that you have a reduction of popularity. But what is new in Boric is that this went very quick. And...
OTIS: No honeymoon.
FUENTES: No honeymoon at all.
OTIS: That's Claudio Fuentes, who teaches political science at Diego Portales University in Santiago. He and others describe Boric as something of an accidental president. As an opposition congressman, Boric helped broker a deal that ended violent protests in 2019 that threatened to bring down Chile's right-wing government. To address the protesters' demands for everything from better pensions to free university education, Chile began the long, slow process of writing a new constitution.
GLORIA DE LA FUENTE: (Speaking Spanish).
OTIS: Analyst Gloria de la Fuente says Boric's role in defusing the 2019 crisis helped him leapfrog past more experienced candidates to win the presidency last December. Once in office, Boric botched efforts to pacify indigenous protests in southern Chile. He's struggling with the country's highest inflation rate in nearly 30 years. Meanwhile, his government agenda is largely on hold because it depends on passage of the draft constitution.
RODRIGO ESPINOZA: (Speaking Spanish).
OTIS: "The result," says political analyst Rodrigo Espinoza, "has been government paralysis that has further eroded Boric's popularity."
UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting in Spanish).
OTIS: At a rally to drum up support for the new constitution, I meet Bernardita Aninat, who trains teachers in Santiago. She says that problems like inflation are global trends beyond Boric's control.
BERNARDITA ANINAT: I think he's done a good job, but it's hard. And also, it's five months in a sort of a crisis. The world is all turned up and down.
OTIS: In a recent interview on Chilean TV, Boric admitted that he's off to a rough start.
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PRESIDENT GABRIEL BORIC: (Speaking Spanish).
OTIS: He said, "I think we have to be humble and learn from the mistakes." But things could get even rockier for his administration. Polls show that once-robust support for the draft constitution is waning due to its controversial platforms. Some call for stronger protections for the environment and indigenous groups that could put the brakes on the country's lucrative mining industry. Other articles call for eliminating Chile's Senate and legalizing abortion. Although the polls may be wrong, Fuentes, the university professor, says that Boric is bracing for the draft constitution to be rejected.
If the no vote wins, does that mean disaster for Boric?
FUENTES: I don't think so. I mean, probably, you will see a very quick reaction of him trying to negotiate a new path to have a new constitution.
OTIS: However, starting the constitutional rewrite process all over again, as Boric has suggested, could mean several more years of gridlock for his government. John Otis, NPR News, Santiago, Chile. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | https://www.klcc.org/npr-world-news/2022-09-02/chilean-president-gabriel-boric-faces-his-biggest-political-challenge-yet | 2022-09-07T13:22:18Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/npr-world-news/2022-09-02/chilean-president-gabriel-boric-faces-his-biggest-political-challenge-yet | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
Most of the U.N. nuclear inspectors sent this week to assess a Russian-occupied power plant in Ukraine have left, but a few remain behind. They will continue to monitor the safety of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. NPR's Elissa Nadworny joins us now from Dnieper, Ukraine. Elissa, thanks so much for being with us.
ELISSA NADWORNY, BYLINE: You bet, Scott.
SIMON: Team was only able to visit the plant after months of negotiations, and it was not an easy journey, was it?
NADWORNY: That's right. They had the world on the edge of their seats. To get there, they had to pass through active fighting before they entered Russian-held territory. There were some long delays at checkpoints. There was heavy shelling on their way, but the team decided that the stakes were just too high for them to wait.
SIMON: And how did the visit go once they made it to the plant?
NADWORNY: So the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said his team was able to tour key zones of the plant. They talked with Ukrainian workers staffing the plant as well as people who live in the town where the plant is. He said they were able to see everything they requested to see. And remember, all of this is to avoid a meltdown, a radiation leak which could likely spread beyond just Ukraine. And in addition to human health risks, it would also be extremely harmful to nearby farmland.
SIMON: What did the inspectors learn?
NADWORNY: Grossi says they have three main concerns - the physical integrity of the plant, the power supply and the working conditions of the Ukrainians who are maintaining the plant. Physical conditions - OK, so it's important to remember that Russia took control of the plant back in March, but the most intense shelling actually started just in August. So it's a more recent trend.
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RAFAEL GROSSI: The physical integrity of the facility has been violated not once, but several times.
NADWORNY: Grossi said he himself saw impact holes, markings on the building from artillery shelling. And when it comes to the power supply, a nuclear power plant needs electricity to run safely - most importantly, to keep its reactors cool. That's what happened in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011. The reactor lost power. Power supply has been a big issue in Zaporizhzhia. Nearby shelling on the day that the team visited caused an emergency shutdown at one of the plant's two operating reactors. It's back online now. Grossi said the power lines had been targeted. And this is a really pointed statement, he said. It was clear that those who have military aims know that's how to, quote, "hit it where it hurts." He said they don't have enough information yet to determine if the damage was caused deliberately or by accident. And then there's the working conditions. He said the plant is operating, but the conditions are not ideal. He praised the Ukrainian experts for continuing to work under such circumstances.
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GROSSI: They work very, very well. But of course, there is a tension. There is a latent tension there because of the obvious reasons, of the war.
SIMON: Elissa, what happens next?
NADWORNY: Six inspectors are going to stay at the plant. Four are going to be there until next week, continuing to work. And then there's going to be two inspectors that stay at the plant permanently to keep an eye on things.
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GROSSI: It is no longer a matter of A said these and B said the contrary. Now the IAEA is there. And this is, like I said, from night to day.
NADWORNY: Grossi said they're going to stay at the plant indefinitely. The team is going to brief the U.N. Security Council about their findings on Tuesday.
SIMON: Elissa Nadworny in Ukraine, thanks so much for being with us.
NADWORNY: Thank you.
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U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon shot into the spotlight on Monday after granting former President Trump’s request for an independent mediator to examine materials the FBI recovered during a search at his Mar-a-Lago residence last month.
Cannon, who was appointed by Trump in 2020, made the divisive decision after hearing arguments from the ex-president’s lawyers, who pushed for the special master, and attorneys from the Department of Justice (DOJ), who said the former president’s claims of privilege were unwarranted.
She ultimately ordered that a special master be appointed to determine what seized materials are protected by attorney-client and executive privilege. The ruling also directed the DOJ to temporarily stop using the retrieved materials for “investigative purposes” in an effort to “uphold the value of the special master review” — effectively pausing the department’s investigation.
Cannon, who sits on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is now tasked with choosing a special master to sift through the more than 11,000 documents and asked both sides to provide a list of possible contenders for the job by Friday. The DOJ, however, can still appeal the ruling.
Here are five things to know about Cannon.
Trump appointed, bipartisan approved
Trump nominated Cannon to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in April 2020. At the time, she was an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, working in the criminal division of the appellate section.
The Senate confirmed Cannon on Nov. 12, five days after major networks called the 2020 election for President Biden, in a bipartisan 56-21 vote. Twelve Democrats supported her appointment, and 23 senators did not vote.
During her confirmation process, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) asked if she had “any discussions with anyone — including, but not limited to, individuals at the White House, at the Justice Department, or any outside groups — about loyalty to President Trump.”
Cannon responded “no” in writing.
Member of the Federalist Society
Cannon has been a member of the Federalist Society since 2005, according to a judicial nominee questionnaire she submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee in April 2020. The group is made up of conservative and libertarian lawyers, law students and scholars.
Cannon said she joined the Federalist Society when she was a student at the University of Michigan Law School. She was asked during her confirmation process about why she joined the group.
“I did so because I enjoyed the diversity of legal viewpoints discussed at Federalist Society meetings and events,” Cannon responded in writing.
“I also found interesting the organization’s discussions about the constitutional separation of powers, the rule of law, and the limited role of the judiciary to say what the law is—not to make the law,” she added.
Six of the nine justices currently sitting on the Supreme Court — all of whom were nominated by Republican presidents — are members of the Federalist Society, in addition to a number of GOP senators.
Cannon ruled in the Pelosi, Ocasio-Cortez threats case
Cannon is not new to presiding over high-profile litigation. In April, the federal judge sentenced a man to 18 months in prison for making threats against Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
Paul Hoeffer, 60, pleaded guilty in February to interstate transmission of threats to injure and admitted to threatening to kill the two congresswomen in March 2019 and November 2020. He also threatened a district attorney in Illinois.
But the 18-month sentence from Cannon was significantly shorter than the 3 1/2 years of prison time prosecutors had asked for. And it was more than a year shorter than the minimum punishment under federal sentencing guidelines, according to The Palm Beach Post.
Hoeffer’s legal team requested a shorter sentence because their client was diagnosed with cancer.
Cannon had signaled support for a special master
Cannon’s ruling did not come as a total surprise — the judge days earlier said it was her “preliminary intent” to install a special master to sift through documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.
“The court hereby provides notice of its preliminary intent to appoint a special master in this case,” Cannon wrote in a court filing on Aug. 27, before either side presented their arguments at a hearing.
The New York Times called the pre-argument signal “unusual.”
In that same filing, she also scheduled a hearing to take place at a federal courthouse in West Palm Beach, rather than the location in Fort Pierce, Fla., where she usually conducts business, according to the Times.
From Colombia to the Southern District of Florida
Cannon — who was born in 1981 in Colombia — made a number of stops in the legal world before landing at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
After receiving a bachelor of arts degree from Duke University in 2003 and earning her juris doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 2007, Cannon began clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in Des Moines, Iowa, where she worked for a year. The bench was Republican-appointed, according to the Times.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WHNT) — Nearly 500 pounds of beef jerky products made by a Knoxville, Tennessee, company are being recalled over concerns of listeria contamination.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the recall announced on Sept. 6 affects products made by the Magnolia Provision Company, Inc.
The following ready-to-eat beef jerky items were made on Aug. 25, 2022, and are subject to the recall:
- 2-oz. packages of “BEEF JERKY EXPERIENCE CHOP HOUSE STYLE PRIME RIB FLAVORED BEEF JERKY” with “EXP 8/25/23” displayed on the back of the package.
- 8-oz. packages of “BEEF JERKY EXPERIENCE CHOP HOUSE STYLE PRIME RIB FLAVORED BEEF JERKY” with “EXP 8/25/23” displayed on the back of the package.
- 16-oz. packages of “BEEF JERKY EXPERIENCE CHOP HOUSE STYLE PRIME RIB FLAVORED BEEF JERKY” with “EXP 8/25/23” displayed on the back of the package.
The problem was found when the company reported to the FSIS that a third-party lab confirmed the presence of listeria in a tested sample.
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacteria that can cause fatal infections in children, the elderly, or those with weakened immune systems.
While those with listeria infections typically suffer high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, those who are pregnant can have miscarriages or stillbirths.
No confirmed reports of adverse reactions have been reported at this time.
These products will have an establishment number of “EST. 8091” inside the USDA mark of inspection. The items, according to the FSIS, were shipped to retail locations across the country.
Officials urge anyone that has these products to throw them out or return them to where they were purchased.
For questions or concerns, you can call the toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline at 888-MPHotline (888-674-6854) or send an email here. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/500-lbs-of-beef-jerky-recalled-over-listeria-concerns/ | 2022-09-07T13:28:41Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/500-lbs-of-beef-jerky-recalled-over-listeria-concerns/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pupils across Kent are returning to classrooms this month as the summer holidays come to an end. Competitive intake numbers across the county’s schools mean that parents have already turned their thoughts to school places for next year.
Applications for primary and secondary places open later in September with the first deadline as early as October 31. In Kent, up to three-quarters of the county’s parents did not get their first choice at the most oversubscribed schools.
It comes as exclusive figures have revealed that just 23 per cent of those who listed Kent’s hardest to get into school - Dartford Grammar School - as their first choice were able to secure a place for this September. This equated to a rate of 3.6 for first place preference applications and just 147 of 648 were successful.
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Saint George’s Church of England School was the hardest primary school in the county to secure a place with 2.5 first preferences received for each of the 30 places offered. Just 39 per cent of those who put the school as their first choice secured a place with an additional one second preference and no third choices successful.
Overall, 83 per cent of applicants got their first choice of secondary school, up from 81 per cent in 2021. For primary school applications the rate of successful applicants remained at 92 per cent.
This year applicants had already taken their tests so knew whether they were eligible to be considered - in previous years the applications were made before tests were taken which led to more rejections. A full list of the 10 hardest to get into primary and secondary schools in Kent based on Department for Education National Offers Day data can be found below.
Dartford Grammar School - secondary - Dartford, Kent
Total number of places offered: 179
Number of first preferences: 648
Percentage of first preferences: 22.7
First preferences to places: 3.6
All preferences: 1591
All preferences to places: 8.9
Dartford Grammar School for Girls - secondary - Dartford, Kent
Total number of places offered: 178
Number of first preferences: 457
Percentage of first preferences: 34.6
First preferences to places: 2.6
All preferences: 1306
All preferences to places: 7.3
Saint George’s Church of England School - primary - Gravesend, Kent
Total number of places offered: 30
Number of first preferences: 75
Percentage of first preferences: 38.7
First preferences to places: 2.5
All preferences: 160
All preferences to places: 5.3
Wilmington Grammar School for Boys - secondary - Dartford, Kent
Total number of places offered: 181
Number of first preferences: 180
Percentage of first preferences: 38.9
First preferences to places: 1
All preferences: 1009
All preferences to places: 5.6
Brompton Academy - secondary - Medway, Kent
Total number of places offered: 218
Number of first preferences: 475
Percentage of first preferences: 42.7
First preferences to places: 2.2
All preferences: 956
All preferences to places: 4.4
Cranbrook School - secondary - Cranbrook, Kent
Total number of places offered: 59
Number of first preferences: 118
Percentage of first preferences: 46.6
First preferences to places: 2
All preferences: 211
All preferences to places: 3.6
The Pilgrim School - primary (with nursery) - Medway, Kent
Total number of places offered: 30
Number of first preferences: 63
Percentage of first preferences: 47.6
First preferences to places: 2.1
All preferences: 110
All preferences to places: 3.7
The Judd School - secondary - Tonbridge, Kent
Total number of places offered: 180
Number of first preferences: 319
Percentage of first preferences: 50.8
First preferences to places: 1.8
All preferences: 796
All preferences to places: 4.4
Tonbridge Grammar School - secondary - Tonbridge, Kent
Total number of places offered: 179
Number of first preferences: 321
Percentage of first preferences: 51.4
First preferences to places: 1.8
All preferences: 830
All preferences to places: 4.6
Bobbing Village School - primary - Sittingbourne, Kent
Total number of places offered: 30
Number of first preferences: 58
Percentage of first preferences: 51.7
First preferences to places: 1.9
All preferences: 173
All preferences to places: 5.8
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Target is dropping the mandatory retirement age for its CEO and extended its contract with Chief Executive Brian Cornell for three years.
Cornell would have passed the age of 65 in that span.
“In discussions about the company’s longer term plans, it was important to us as a board to assure our stakeholders that Brian intends to stay in his role beyond the traditional retirement age of 65,” said Monica Lozano, the lead independent director of Target’s board.
Sales have grown steadily since Cornell took the top job in 2014, and Target became a lifeline to millions of people trying to limit their exposure during the pandemic.
The company is trying to navigate tremendous shifts in consumer behavior with the worst of the pandemic in the rearview mirror while it wrestles with soaring prices and rising wages for workers.
The company also announced Wednesday that Arthur Valdez, executive vice president and chief supply chain and logistics officer, will retire. Valdez will be succeeded by Gretchen McCarthy, senior vice president, global inventory management. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/target-nixes-mandatory-retirement-age-for-ceos-cornell-staying/ | 2022-09-07T13:29:39Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/target-nixes-mandatory-retirement-age-for-ceos-cornell-staying/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SHERRARD, Ill. (WHBF) — The woman who kept nearly 200 dogs at her home in Sherrard is pleading not guilty to the animal cruelty charges against her.
On Tuesday, 59-year-old Karen Plambeck demanded a jury trial when she appeared in Mercer County Court. Plambeck faces three counts of aggravated animal cruelty for keeping 198 dogs, most of them collies, in unsafe conditions. The Mercer County Sheriff’s Office and Animal Control discovered the dog hoarding situation in mid-August.
Plambeck’s plea now has animal rescuers across the Midwest all asking the same question: How can she make that plea?
“How can you sit there and say you’re not guilty when those animals were skinny, they were covered in poop, they were matted?” asked Amber Stephenson, a volunteer with New Beginnings Pet Rescue of the Quad Cities who helped take the dogs off Plambeck’s property in August.
“I’m just flabbergasted, is the best I can say,” Stephenson continued. “She (Plambeck) doesn’t have a conscience. There’s no moral standards if you can sit there and go into a courtroom and say, ‘Nope, I didn’t do anything wrong.'”
Because of Plambeck’s plea, custody of the dogs is up in the air, meaning animal control can’t give the collies new homes yet. Stephenson says that puts an even greater emphasis on donations, as the dogs will continue to be animal control’s responsibility for at least another month-and-a-half. She says their greatest needs right now are monetary donations rather than food.
“I believe they were so overwhelmed with the dog food donations, they were greatly appreciative,” Stephenson said. “But I think now it’s more monetary donations to help with vet care, grooming.”
Stephenson also wants to remind everyone that Plambeck has a history of animal cruelty. She was charged with abusing horses in 2019.
“I just want people to keep their minds open that this is the second time that she has done this to our community,” Stephenson said.
Plambeck’s next court appearance will be a preliminary hearing on Oct. 18 at 9 a.m. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/woman-facing-animal-cruelty-charges-pleads-not-guilty-animal-rescuers-react/ | 2022-09-07T13:29:52Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/woman-facing-animal-cruelty-charges-pleads-not-guilty-animal-rescuers-react/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MIAMI (WFLA) — The Food and Drug Administration has announced a recall of smoked salmon sold in 10 states over a potential listeria contamination.
The FDA said St. James Smokehouse of Miami voluntarily recalled 93 cases of Scotch Reserve Scottish Salmon after a routine sampling by the Washington State Department of Agriculture detected the bacteria in the product.
The salmon was distributed to stores in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Washington State and Wisconsin.
Listeria monocytogenes is a dangerous bacteria that can cause fatal infections in children, the elderly, or those with weakened immune systems.
While those with listeria infections typically suffer high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, those who are pregnant can end up having miscarriages or stillbirths. Recently, a pregnant woman said she lost her baby to a listeria infection from ice cream produced by Big Olaf Creamery.
The affected salmon has a lot number of 123172 and the UPC code 060022710356. No other products, brands or lots are associated with this recall.
If you have this type of salmon, dispose of it immediately or return it for a refund.
As of Friday, no infections have been reported. If you have questions about the recall, call 305-461-0231. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/smoked-salmon-sold-in-10-states-recalled-over-listeria-contamination/ | 2022-09-07T13:30:11Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/smoked-salmon-sold-in-10-states-recalled-over-listeria-contamination/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce (NBCC), has taken a step further to strengthen its partnership with British American Tobacco Nigeria (BAT Nigeria).
The NBCC delegation, which was led by the Deputy President, Mr Ray Atelly on behalf of the President and Chairman of the Chamber’s Council, Mrs Bisi Adeyemi, was recently received by the Director, External Affairs, BAT West and Central Africa, Mrs Odiri Erewa-Meggison, during a courtesy visit to the BAT Regional Head Office for West and Central Africa in Lagos.
In his address, Mr Atelly said that the NBCC’s objective is to promote the interests of Nigerian and British companies, seek collaborative ways to improve trade relations and promote the mutual interests of both countries through its various activities.
While pledging the NBCC’s willingness to partner with BAT Nigeria, Atelly urged the company to actively participate in NBCC’s groups and committees’ initiatives, and further draw on the benefits of collaboration with like-minded companies with mutual interests and governance priorities.
In her address, Erewa-Meggison expressed the desire of the company to collaborate with key stakeholders like the NBCC.
“As the market leader covering 25 markets across West and Central Africa, we appreciate the need to stay close to key stakeholders in the industry.
“We have consistently been among the top five exporters in Nigeria and are self-sufficient in terms of forex as we look inward to fund our export.
“We operate a model that can be replicated by other exporters and are willing to share insights with other companies so that they can achieve the same feat, considering the recent forex crisis affecting the real sector in the country.
“We want to be the catalyst that drives investment in the country and we pride ourselves as a trail-blazing multinational holding ourselves to very high standards,” she added.
Odiri also highlighted BAT’s new corporate agenda to build a better tomorrow aimed at reducing the health impact of its business, noting that the transformation of BAT is also closely linked to its corporate social investment and environmental, social and governance objectives. She stated that BAT Nigeria funds the British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (Ltd/Gte) (BATNF) with one per cent of its revenue and is considering increasing the percentage of the funding as it looks forward to executing more agro-projects that impact the lives of Nigerians.
Other members of the NBCC delegation who were present include Mr Seyi Adeyemi, Vice President, NBCC; Mrs Theresa Ananyi, Hon Life Vice President; Mrs Anne Rinu, Head of the Advocacy Committee; and Mrs Ejiroghene Kajoh, Assistant Director, Membership.
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Kathy Griffin is catching heat Wednesday following a political tweet some social media watchdogs are now calling out as “threatening.”
The controversial standup comic threw herself into the fiery pits of Twitter when she suggested that if Americans want to endure a fatal historical throwback — then they should vote for red in the forthcoming election.
“If you don’t want a Civil War, vote for Democrats in November. If you do want Civil War, vote Republican,” Griffin, 61, wrote Tuesday, sparking a viral debate in the comments section.
People weren’t happy with her statements, which ignited a medley of responses from others.
“This is WRONG. Crazy Hollywood Leftie threatening ‘Civil War’ if Dems don’t win. Sadly, this is today’s Left: angry, hateful & violent,” Texas senator Ted Cruz tweeted in response.
Christian author Jeremy Kappell chimed in: “The inherent message here couldn’t be more clear. If you don’t vote Democrat, there will be war. King George III had a similar message for the colonists just prior to our Independence. Don’t be bullied by Hollywood Propagandists.”
“SICK. @kathygriffin threatens a Civil War if people choose to vote Republican. Will Twitter suspend? This is the same person who promoted violence against Trump by holding a bloody mockup of his head,” online commentator Yossi Gestetner added, referencing the infamous 2017 photo of Griffin posing with a ketchup-smeared effigy of former President Donald Trump.
“Sooo… Kathy Griffin is now threatening a Civil War on behalf of Democrats if Republicans win… got it,” writer Tim Young added.
In a follow up tweet, the Emmy- and Grammy-winning “My Life on the D-List” star explained: “You guys. The maga blue checks are at it again. Because they are constantly threatening Civil War, they are now trying to suggest that I am the one who is threatening a Civil War. Because you know, that’s my thing.”
However, there were others who supported her statements. “People purposefully misconstruing what Kathy Griffin tweeted is so 2022,” a user said, alongside a snap of a Trump fan wearing a “MAGA Civil War January 6, 2021” jacket. “She means that Reps WANT civil war and Dems don’t. It’s not a threat, it’s an observation.”
“MAGA Republicans are riled up because Kathy Griffin pointed them out for being domestic terrorists and now they’re playing the victim card insisting she’s calling for civil war,” one commenter wrote, while another interjected: “A lot of the people who said not to give a s–t about what Kathy Griffin says, are suddenly giving massive s—s about what Kathy Griffin said. Good for her.” | https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/kathy-griffin-slammed-for-saying-republicans-will-start-a-civil-war/ | 2022-09-07T13:39:43Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/kathy-griffin-slammed-for-saying-republicans-will-start-a-civil-war/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Washington State teenager has gone from missing person to the subject of a murder investigation, police said.
Gabriel Michael Davies, 16, of Olympia, was reported missing last Wednesday after failing to show up to football practice, according to the Tacoma News Tribune.
Authorities located found the football player’s vehicle near Millersylvania State Park. Davies himself was found late Thursday in what police termed “suspicious circumstances.”
Detectives reportedly found a small amount of blood and a smashed cell phone around Davies’ car.
Although the teen was initially returned to his family, by Friday night he was arrested and booked at Remann Hall Juvenile Detention Center.
Davies was arrested alongside Justin Yoon, 16. The teens are suspected in the death of Daniel McCaw, 51.
McCaw was reportedly found shot and stabbed to death in his Orting home on Thursday. Police were dispatched to the residence after the victim failed to appear at work for four days.
Authorities believe McCaw was dead for at least 24 hours before his body was discovered. No firearms were found on the scene.
According to charging documents, both teens face charges of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, first-degree burglary and second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm.
Sergeant Darren Moss, a spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Department, confirmed that McCaw and Davies knew each other. According to court documents, McCaw had long-standing ties to Davies’ mother, and the three previously lived together.
A report by FOX13 Seattle stated that Davies and Yoon were captured on surveillance footage outside McCaw’s house in the early morning of Aug. 28. The pair allegedly entered the home through the dog door.
They appeared to take multiple items from the house, including a possible handgun. Detectives said that Davies later showed them where he and Yoon disposed of two guns from McCaw’s home.
In a bizarre twist, court documents also include Davies’ father’s claim that his son was approached by the victim’s “‘biker buddies’” to steal something from the residence.
The father told investigators that the “specific outlaw motorcycle group” followed his son on Wednesday, pulled him out of his vehicle and smashed his face against the car before “roughing him up.”
The group reportedly ransacked his son’s car searching for the stolen item.
Police confirmed that McCaw was stabbed and shot several times. Autopsy results are pending.
Bail for both Davies and Yoon is currently set at $1 million. A judge will determine if the teens will be charged as adults. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/missing-teen-gabriel-davies-found-then-arrested-for-murder/ | 2022-09-07T13:40:07Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/missing-teen-gabriel-davies-found-then-arrested-for-murder/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jacob deGrom has been sensational since his return from injury. He’s got a chance to continue that dominant run when the favored Mets face Pittsburgh in the first game of a day-night doubleheader on Wednesday.
Since his return on Aug. 2, deGrom has allowed just eight runs in 36 ¹/₃ innings to spin a 1.98 ERA — even lower than the mark from his most recent Cy Young season (2.43).
He also boasts a higher strikeout rate (43 percent) than in that year, having fanned at least nine batters in five straight starts with just one run allowed in each of his last two outings.
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That’s bad news for this lowly Pittsburgh lineup. It entered the week with the third-worst run production since Aug. 20, posting eight games of two runs or fewer in the 14 games.
DeGrom has allowed more than two runs just once since his return, and he’s held opposing lineups to one or fewer runs in four of his six starts.
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Good luck scoring a run on this bullpen and elite closer Edwin Diaz, whose record-setting strikeout numbers have made it nearly impossible to catch up late against New York. Don’t expect a different story here.
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Sunken but not stirred.
Footage captured the calamitous moment that a massive superyacht named “007” sank — with five passengers inside — in Greece
The maritime disaster occurred Friday night after the 160-foot vessel, which reportedly sails under a British flag but is owned by a Swiss businessman, experienced a GPS malfunction off Kythos Island, SWNS reported. This reportedly prompted the captain to bring it closer to shore than was advisable.
As a result, the James Bond-themed luxury boat hit the rocks, and began taking on water with five passengers inside.
“In trying not to be sunk, he sailed closer to shore, in less than 10 meters depth — and that’s how the ship got to that position,” explained a boat owner who witnessed the catastrophe.
Accompanying footage, uploaded to Youtube, shows the swanky vessel, which sports a helipad, lying half-sunken on its side around 50 feet from the nearby Kolona Beach.
Thankfully, all five passengers were rescued and transported to safety before the “007” sank. “No people were hurt,” described the aforementioned eyewitness. “The coastguard was immediately aware and sent help in the night.”
Rescuers also erected an anti-pollution perimeter in the area, although there was reportedly “no diesel leakage or damage to the scenery,” the bystander said.
Local authorities will launch a probe into the sinking of the “007,” which was delivered in 2006 by the Bodrum-based shipyard Aegean Yacht, but whose owner remains unknown.
Along with a helipad, the superyacht reportedly boasts five cabins, including a master suite, and can reportedly sleep ten people.
This isn’t the first time a luxury vessel has visited Davy Jones’ locker of late. Last month, heart-pounding footage emerged of a 130-foot superyacht capsizing and sinking stern-first into the water off the Italian coast.
In February, a Ukrainian man was arrested for partially sinking his Russian tycoon boss’s $7.7 million luxury super yacht in Spain in protest over the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/video-captures-moment-160-foot-007-superyacht-sinks/ | 2022-09-07T13:40:38Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/video-captures-moment-160-foot-007-superyacht-sinks/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The new face of big tech stocks should be MATANA and not FAANG, said Principal Analyst and the Founder of Constellation Research, Ray Wang, in a video interview with Yahoo Finance Live. MATANA is the abbreviation of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMN), Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), and Alphabet (formerly Google) (NASDAQ:GOOGL). TipRanks’ data shows that Wall Street analysts maintain a bullish outlook on the shares of these tech giants. However, only two stocks (MSFT and AAPL) have an Outperform Smart Score.
Now, let’s examine why Wang’s recommendation holds ground in the current market dynamics.
Why MATANA?
For years, the FAANG fraternity represented big tech players that included Meta Platforms (earlier Facebook) (NASDAQ:META), Apple, Amazon, Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), and Google. Wang suggests dropping Meta Platforms and Netflix from the list and adding Microsoft, Tesla, and Nvidia to the group.
The analyst’s comments have come amid the underperformance of these mega-cap stocks in 2022. Not only this, the fact that Netflix and Meta are struggling more than the others to stay relevant to their stakeholders may have somewhat shaken Wang’s trust, triggering his suggestion to drop them from the FAANG list.
Notably, heightened competition is taking its toll on Netflix’s and Meta’s businesses. Further, the pullback in ad spending and regulatory concerns (primarily for Meta) remains a drag.
What Does TipRanks’ Data Indicate?
Using TipRanks’ stock comparison tool, here is the summary of how these big tech stocks stack up on TipRanks’ valuable datasets.
The graph shows that analysts maintain a Strong Buy rating consensus on AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, and GOOGL stocks. However, they are cautiously optimistic about TSLA and NVDA. Further, barring Apple and Microsoft (with a Smart Score of ‘Perfect 10’), the other four stocks sport a Neutral Smart Score on TipRanks, implying they could perform in line with the broader market.
Bottom Line
Macro headwinds impacting consumer and enterprise spending and supply-chain shortages could continue to hurt the prospects of these tech giants. However, analysts’ favorable outlook indicates that the fundamentals of the MATANA stocks remain intact.
Notably, investors can leverage TipRanks’ valuable stock screeners like the Top Smart Score Stocks to find out which shares can outgrow others.
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Smith & Wesson (NASDAQ:SWBI) is slated to release its Q1 Fiscal 2023 (ended July 31) results on September 8, after the closing bell. Going by the company’s history of reporting weak Q1 results and the current economic trends, it looks like SWBI could fall short of Street’s expectations in the quarter.
The company primarily designs, manufactures, and markets firearms and offers a complete range of emergency preparedness solutions. Over the past eight quarters (two years), SWBI has floundered in two quarters, missing earnings estimates in Q2 and Q3 of Fiscal 2022.
Factors That May Have Influenced SWBI’s Q1 Performance
The consensus estimate for earnings per share for the quarter stands at $0.21, which suggests a year-over-year decline of almost 87%.
During the last reported quarter, SWBI delivered an earnings surprise of 22%. The company has also been consistently improving its operating cash flow for the past two quarters. The deleveraged balance sheet is expected to have supported this momentum in the to-be-reported quarter as well.
The company’s strategy to streamline business operations to achieve more flexibility and save costs is driving significant margin expansion, which might have been a bottom-line driver.
However, historically, Q1 has been the slowest quarter for the company. Even though volumes are expected to pick up during the hunting (Q2) and holiday seasons (Q3), they are expected to have been low in the to-be-reported quarter.
Not to mention, the impact of rising inflation on people’s spending power could also get reflected in the company’s Q1 results.
Moreover, the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), which is accepted as a proxy for consumer firearm demand, dropped 4.5% in July. This may have been a major headwind in Q1.
Is SWBI a Good Stock to Buy?
In the past three months, only one analyst has reiterated a Buy rating on SWBI stock, leading to a Moderate Buy consensus rating. SWBI’s average price target of $26 reflects 93.16% upside potential.
Final Thoughts
With years of operations, the company dominates the consumer firearm market. Considering its continued efforts to streamline its operations and survive various market cycles, SWBI stock looks lucrative at current levels. Prospective investors could consider buying this stock, which has lost 24.7% so far this year. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/will-smith-wessons-nasdaqswbi-q1-results-meet-streets-expectations | 2022-09-07T13:41:18Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/will-smith-wessons-nasdaqswbi-q1-results-meet-streets-expectations | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Shares of clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Biophytis (NASDAQ:BPTS) are up in today’s pre-market session after promising top-line results from a Phase 2-3 study evaluating its Sarconeos for respiratory failure associated with COVID-19.
In the study, Sarconeos (BI0101) lowered the risk of respiratory failure or early death by 39% vs placebo at 28 days which was the primary endpoint of the trial.
The drug presents a good safety profile and further results are expected to be presented at an international scientific conference in the coming months.
The company is also looking at the possibility to amend and continue the Early Access Program (EAP) to make the treatment available as early as this winter. It has already received an EAP in Brazil and further EAP filings could be made in the U.S. and Europe as well.
Read full Disclosure | https://www.tipranks.com/news/biophytis-nasdaqbpts-stock-soars-on-promising-sarconeos-top-line-data | 2022-09-07T13:41:25Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/biophytis-nasdaqbpts-stock-soars-on-promising-sarconeos-top-line-data | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Glaukos Corp. (NYSE: GKOS) stock is surging on Wednesday as the pharmaceutical and ophthalmic medical technology announced positive topline data for both fast and slow release Phase 3 pivotal trials of iDose TR.
iDose TR is the company’s novel formulation of travoprost, a drug used to reduce Intraocular pressure (IOP) in the treatment of open-angle glaucoma (OAG) or ocular hypertension. The positive topline data indicates that it offers a suitable alternative to daily eye drop treatment.
Glaukos stated that the Phase 3 trials achieved the pre-specified primary efficacy endpoint for both the fast and slow release models of iDose TR through three months.
93% of patients in the trial for slow-release iDose TR remained well-controlled on the same or fewer topical medications to reduce IOP at 12 months after a single dose of iDose TR was administered.
Thomas Burns, Glaukos Chairman, and CEO commented on the results, “We are very pleased to announce these robust and replicative positive Phase 3 pivotal data results for iDose TR, which mark a major milestone for our company and powerfully reaffirms our view that iDose TR can be a transformative novel technology able to fundamentally improve the glaucoma treatment paradigm for patients.”
The company plans to move ahead with filing a New Drug Application (NDA) with the U.S. FDA for the slow-release iDose TR model and expects the FDA review and decision to be completed by the end of next year. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/glaukos-nyse-gkos-stock-shoots-up-following-positive-topline-data-for-idose-tr | 2022-09-07T13:41:38Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/glaukos-nyse-gkos-stock-shoots-up-following-positive-topline-data-for-idose-tr | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Economists have said that new Prime Minister Liz Truss’s plan to freeze soaring energy bills could curb inflation in the UK over the coming months.
The price cap is expected to be announced on Thursday and is expected to freeze average energy bills at around £2,500 a year.
Shares in pub owners such as Whitbread (GB:WTB) and Wetherspoons (GB:JDW) rose in early trading on the news.
UK inflation ‘could have peaked’
Speaking to MPs, the Bank of England’s Chief Economist Huw Pill said that the move could lower headline inflation.
Pill said, “One of the things that does seem to be under consideration is a change to the relationship between gas prices and retail gas prices in a direction that will lower headline inflation, relative to what we were forecasting, where that relationship was based on the mechanics of the Ofgem price gap.”
“So I think that in the short term it would tend to weigh on inflation. Net-net on the implications for headline inflation in the short-term, I would expect that to see a decline.”
UK interest rate rises ahead?
But Pill, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee which sets interest rates, declined to speculate on whether the move might have an impact on the bank’s monetary policy. .
He said, “I think that not only does it depend on the macroeconomic effects of the various fiscal changes that could be envisaged, but I think there is just too much uncertainty to have a strong view right now, given the lack of details.”
Other economists suggested that the move meant that inflation in Britain will already have peaked.
Elizabeth Martins, UK economist at HSBC said, “Cancelling all or most of the planned October and January prices rises … could be a gamechanger in our view.
“It would mean that, on a mechanical basis, inflation might already have peaked.”
Last month, Goldman Sachs warned that Inflation could hit 22.4% in 2023 if prices for natural gas remain as high as they currently are.
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee is due to have its next interest rate meeting on September 15.
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research warned last month that the Bank of England would need to raise interest rates to 3% to bring down inflation.
Another 21 economists suggested that the bank would raise interest rates by 0.25% in September – after a 0.5% raise in August.
British consumer price inflation rose to 10.1% in July, up from 9.4% in June, in the highest figure since February 1982, according to the Office of National Statistics. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/liz-trusss-100-billion-energy-plan-could-stop-inflation-rising-in-britain | 2022-09-07T13:41:50Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/liz-trusss-100-billion-energy-plan-could-stop-inflation-rising-in-britain | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
United Airlines Holdings (NASDAQ:UAL) has indicated it could stop services to the John F. Kennedy airport in New York if the airline does not receive additional slots at the airport.
Further, buoyed by robust demand, the company now sees its third-quarter top-line increasing 12% over the third quarter of 2019. Importantly, the Adjusted operating margin is seen improving to ~10.5%.
Earlier guidance had provided for a top-line growth of 11% and an adjusted operating margin of 10%.
CASM-ex is expected at 16% versus the prior guidance of 16% to 17%. The Street expects United to post an EPS of $2.07 for Q3. In the year-ago period, the company had posted a net loss per share of $1.02, better than the consensus estimate of $1.58.
Shares of other Airlines are mixed today with Delta AirLines (NYSE:DAL) and Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV) in the green while Ryanair Holdings (NASDAQ:RYAAY) experiencing weakness in the first hour of trade.
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Shares of tech giant Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) have lost substantial value this year. A slowdown in growth and overall selling in tech stocks weighed on its share price. Despite the decline, NVDA stock has negative signals from hedge funds, corporate insiders, and retail investors, implying the stock could remain pressured in the short term.
But before reaching a conclusion, let’s examine why Nvidia stock is down and what’s on the horizon for its investors.
Why Is Nvidia Share Price Falling?
Nvidia manufactures ICs (integrated circuits) and high-end GPUs (graphics processing units). It witnessed an overwhelming demand for its products, leading to a rally in its stock price. Come 2022, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, COVID-led restrictions in China, and macro weakness across many parts of the world weighed on Nvidia’s growth and dragged its stock down.
It’s worth mentioning that NVDA stock has lost over 50% of its value this year alone. While macro and geopolitical headwinds continue to play spoilsport, the U.S. government’s hardened stance to prevent technology transfers to China (including Hong Kong) and Russia and the new license requirement for exports to these countries further pose challenges.
What Is the Prediction for Nvidia Stock?
Analysts remain cautiously optimistic about Nvidia’s prospect, given the increase in headwinds and a slowdown in its business. NVDA stock sports a Moderate Buy consensus rating on TipRanks based on 23 Buys and eight Holds. Further, due to a noteworthy decline in its price, NVDA’s average price target of $209.60 implies 53.6% upside potential.
Moreover, as stated above, hedge fund managers, corporate insiders, and retail investors have lowered their exposure to NVDA stock.
Hedge funds sold 417.9K NVDA stock last quarter. Meanwhile, insiders sold NVDA stock worth 36M during the same period. Also, 0.8% of investors holding portfolios on TipRanks lowered their exposure to NVDA stock in the last 30 days. Overall, NVDA stock carries a Neutral Smart Score of four out of 10.
Bottom Line: Ongoing Headwinds to Limit Upside in the Short Term
The U.S. government’s license requirement for exporting its A100 and forthcoming H100 ICs to China and Russia, continued sales decline in the gaming and professional visualization segment, a slowdown in the data center revenues, and supply constraints could limit the upside in NVDA stock in the short term.
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Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune received a visit on August 31, 2022 from Rear Admiral Cynthia Kuehner, commander for Naval Medical Forces Support Command. NMFSC leads and manages “all medical training, education, professional development, and instruction for the production of highly trained and ready medical personnel” within the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Kuehner, who also serves as the Nurse Corps director, received a tour of several areas in the Medical Center where she was able to interact with nursing staff. RDML Kuehner also honored several employees with coins for their commendable work.
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Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune received a visit on August 31, 2022 from Rear Admiral Cynthia Kuehner, commander for Naval Medical Forces Support Command. NMFSC leads and manages “all medical training, education, professional development, and instruction for the production of highly trained and ready medical personnel” within the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Kuehner, who also serves as the Nurse Corps director, received a tour of several areas in the Medical Center where she was able to interact with nursing staff. RDML Kuehner also honored several employees with coins for their commendable work.
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WIESBADEN, Germany – The Wiesbaden Resiliency Center brings together agencies such as the American Red Cross, Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention program, Army Wellness Center, and the Exceptional Family Member Program – all under one roof with the Health Clinic and Religious Services Office in close proximity. (Photo by Roland Schedel, USAG Wiesbaden Public Affairs)
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TALLAHASSEE, Fl. (WTXL) — On Tuesday night, the Leon Lions volleyball team welcomed in the Vikettes from Lowndes in their home opener. The Lions cruised in set one by a score of 25-17, then captured set two 25-14 and set three 25-17.
The sweep would give Leon their third win of the season.
"We needed a home game, we had been on the road, we had played six matches down there in South Florida with crazy great talent, a lot of North Florida teams were down there so we got to see them as well, but I think the biggest thing is coming back," said Leon head volleyball coach Angie Strickland. "This is our first home game, getting a win under your belt and then taking this and utilizing it at practice."
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There are quite a few big bend football teams off to a great start here in 2022 and one of those are the Eagles from North Florida Christian.
The Eagles enter week three 2-0 as they have big goals in year two under head coach Brent Hill.
NFC scored 56 points in their first two wins over the likes of Leon and Mariana but this group is looking for a whole lot more.
The guys are hoping to build off their six wins from a year ago and according to coach, it is their experience at a few key positions that can help them get to where they want to be.
"The old saying is good teams are led by coaches, great teams are led by players and we have veterans now, I could name quite a few but quarterback is definitely one of them, JP does a great job, Traylon, Leon, Ashton, Josh, Ray, we can adjust a little bit quicker because we have more experience," said Coach Hill. "You know last year it was my first year, they were getting to know me and I am getting to know them, we're getting to know the system, so this year is a little bit more fun as far as making those quick adjustments."
It's a team hoping to get better each week and up next the guys will host Jefferson County on Friday night. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/nfc-football-seeks-sustained-success-under-brent-hill | 2022-09-07T13:53:30Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/nfc-football-seeks-sustained-success-under-brent-hill | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Austin-Bergstrom International Airport reported a power outage early Wednesday morning, forcing the airport to ground all outgoing flights for several hours. FlightAware also said that all inbound flights were being held at their city of origin Wednesday.
The airport said before power was restored that officials were looking into the cause of the outage.
The airport said it experienced its second-busiest day ever on Friday, processing 34,611 passengers in a single day.
Transportation Security Administration officials said passenger traffic nationwide during the Labor Day Weekend exceeded 2019 levels. It was the first holiday weekend since the start of the pandemic that exceeded 2019 levels. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/texas-airport-power-outage-causing-flight-delays | 2022-09-07T13:53:39Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/texas-airport-power-outage-causing-flight-delays | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Lewis Capaldi reveals he has Tourette’s syndrome
Lewis Capaldi has revealed he has Tourette’s syndrome and has received Botox treatment in his shoulder to help control his tics.
The 25-year-old Scottish singer opened up about his recent diagnosis during an Instagram Live, explaining he is still learning about the condition which causes a person to make involuntary sounds and movements called tics, according to the NHS website.
Capaldi admitted he was relieved to discover he has the condition as he originally feared he might have a degenerative disease.
Speaking during his Instagram Live, he said: “I have Tourette’s. I’ve always had that apparently… so I do a shoulder twitch quite a lot.”
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The Someone You Loved singer said his diagnosis is a “new thing” and he has not “really learnt much about it” yet, but he has received Botox injections in his shoulder to alleviate the tics and that “worked for a bit”.
Capaldi said when doctors first told him he has the condition, it made “so much sense”.
He added: “When I look back at my interviews from like 2018, I can see that I’m doing it.
“But it comes and goes. I’ll go sometimes months without doing it.
“I thought I had some horrible degenerative disease so I’ll take Tourette’s.”
The singer told his fans that “some days it’s more painful than others”, and it can be quite comfortable but he feels it “looks a lot worse than it is”.
He said the triggers for the condition can be frustrating, adding: “The worst thing about it is when I’m excited I get it, when I’m stressed I get it, when I’m happy I have it.”
Capaldi said he was opening up about his diagnosis as he had seen people question whether he was taking cocaine.
He said: “Do you think before I play to 20,000 people as an anxious person I’m going to take a big line of cocaine? Never going to happen.”
The singer’s 2019 debut album Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent received critical acclaim and went on to become the biggest album of the year, according to the Official Charts Company.
He is releasing his new single Forget Me this Friday with a new album to follow. | https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/lewis-capaldi-reveals-he-has-tourettes-syndrome-3834774 | 2022-09-07T13:57:19Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/lewis-capaldi-reveals-he-has-tourettes-syndrome-3834774 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Mystery woman still unidentified 16 years after washing ashore on Scottish beach
People living who lived in the Republic of Ireland in the mid-2000s are being urged to help solve the mystery of a woman's identity after her remains were found on a Scottish beach.
The discovery was made at Port Logan beach on the south-west Scotland shoreline on November 22, 2006.
Glasgow Caledonian University's (GCU) Scottish Cold Case Unit has been working to establish the woman's identity.
They now believe she may have entered water in the Dublin Bay area at least 16 years ago..
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This is based on tidal flows, the weather and the location of where the body was found, which was the filming location for the BBC’s hit drama Two Thousand Acres of Sky.
The woman is thought to have been in the water for up to six months, so may have gone missing in the spring or summer of 2006.
Forensic work has indicated that she was aged between 30 and 50, was of thin build, and between 4ft 11in and 5ft 4in tall.
She was wearing size 10 black Bay Trading trousers, a white BHS size 34C bra and tan-coloured tights.
Tidal movements in the area are complex with some bodies which enter the water off the east coast of Ireland and in Welsh waters washing up on Wigtownshire beaches, while others are discovered in Lancashire.
An updated facial reconstruction image of "Port Logan Woman" was produced last year.
Dr Maureen Taylor, co-director of the Scottish Cold Case Unit at GCU, said: "The team have been undertaking a number of inquiries around the clothing she was wearing, a geographical profile of the location she was found, sea and air incidents and missing women from the UK and Ireland.
"Although she was found in south-west Scotland, it may be that she had lived in, spent time in, or had travelled to or from Ireland.
"Is there a friend or relative that you haven't heard from or lost contact with who may have gone missing in the spring or summer of 2006? Is there someone who used to come to your place of work or leisure activities that you no longer see?"
Dr Taylor added: "We hope the facial reconstruction jogs someone's memory and adds more pieces of the puzzle as to who she might be."
Anyone with information can email [email protected] or complete a form online at https://bit.ly/3bQA2hD.
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Sweets and desserts can act as a ‘gateway’ that leads teens to adopt unhealthy eating habits
The finding could help teens to reduce risk factors associated with high blood pressure from eating too much junk food.
Cutting back on just a few types of unhealthy food can lead to the adoption of healthier overall eating habits, a study led by a high school student in Florida has found.
The study, carried out at Florida’s Broward College, has shown how the consumption of so-called ‘gateway’ foods– like sweets, ice cream and pastries – can be an indicator of the wider intake of ultra-processed foods, and that eating fewer of these may help teens to cut down on their overall junk food consumption.
The research may help to reduce risk factors associated with high blood pressure from eating too much junk food, the researchers say.
The findings are being presented at the American Heart Association’s Hypertension Scientific Sessions 2022, in San Diego.
“The good news is that even small changes, such as reducing how often you eat a few gateway foods, may reduce overall consumption of unhealthy foods and have a big impact on your overall health,” said Maria Balhara, the 16-year-old high school student who is leading the study.
The Ultra-processed food types in question are often described as ‘junk food’. These are high in sugar, salt, unhealthy ‘trans-fat’ (trans fatty acids) and artificial flavours and colours. The Florida study highlights how these ultra-processed foods such as bread, cereals, desserts, soft drinks and processed meats, make up over 60 per cent of the calories that Americans eat each day.
“Ultra-processed foods are designed to be hyper-palatable, or engineered to be as addictive as possible,” said Balhara.
“They’re also cheap and convenient, which makes them hard to resist. Most people are eating too many of these foods without realising it.”
Balhara gathered data on how often a sample of her fellow teenagers had consumed 12 ultra-processed food products over eight previous weeks. This included biscuits, sweets, crisps, chocolate, energy drinks, frozen desserts, soft drinks, pastries, smoothies, syrup-sweetened coffee or tea, white bread and processed meat.
The study featured 315 teen participants aged 13-19 from 12 high schools in South Florida. The researchers gave them survey to complete called the Processed Intake Evaluation (PIE), which assessed the frequency of their consumption of processed food, between February and April 2022.
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While an increase in eating frozen desserts was associated with an 11 per cent increase in ultra-processed foods, an increase in eating pastries saw a 12 per cent rise, and an increase of sweets saw a steep rise of 31 per cent.
“For teenagers whose consumption of ultra-processed foods has not yet been established, certain gateway foods such as candy (sweets), store-bought pastries and frozen desserts should be avoided, since increased consumption of these foods appears to lead to increased consumption of other processed foods,” said Balhara.
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Is there anything better than the smell of freshly baked apple pie on a crisp fall morning? Maybe not usually, but this fall, Angry Orchard is taking everything you love about apple pie and turning it into a cold, hard cider.
Angry Orchard’s new Natural Baked Apple Pie Style hard cider is gluten-free and has 5% alcohol by volume (ABV). The brand describes the flavor as a “sweet blend of juicy apples paired with nutmeg, creamy vanilla ice cream and topped off with buttery, baked notes” and says it’s “the perfect fall dessert in a can.”
This one’s for hard cider fans and anyone tired of all the pumpkin spice flavors that come with fall. The bottle’s packaging shows the company’s signature apple sitting on a slide of apple pie covered in vanilla ice cream.
The new Baked Apple Pie flavor can be found exclusively in Angry Orchard’s Fall Haul Variety Pack, now in stores nationwide. The pack also includes three other flavors: Crisp Apple, Cinnful Apple and another new offering, Hardcore Dark Cherry Apple imperial cider.
The Crisp Apple flavor features flavors of juicy, crisp and slightly green apples, while Cinnful adds notes of smooth and spicy cinnamon. The new Hardcore Dark Cherry Apple flavor is an imperial cider, which means it has higher alcohol by volume than other ciders. While the other three flavors have an ABV of around 5%, Hardcore Dark Cherry Apple has an ABV of 8%.
A blend of crisp apple and tart cherry sweetness, Hardcore Dark Cherry Apple is Angry Orchard’s first nationally-available 8% ABV cider. While it comes in the Fall Haul Variety Packs, you can also purchase it in a six-pack of 12-ounce cans.
You’ll find a few products by other hard cider brands hitting stores or becoming available online for the fall season as well, including brews from Austin Eastciders, Blake’s Hard Cider Co., Shacksbury and Strongbow.
Is hard cider one of your go-to fall drinks?
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The major indices
Indices
Stock market indices represents an index that measures a particular stock market or a segment of the stock market. These instruments are important investors as they help compare current price levels with past prices to calculate market performance.The main two parameters for indices are that they are both investable and transparent. For example, investors can invest in a stock market index by buying an index fund, which is structured as either a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund, and track an index. The difference between an index fund's performance and the index, if any, is called tracking error. Most major countries boast multiple indices. Commonly traded indices include the S&P 500, NASDAQ-100, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA), EURO STOXX 50, Hang Seng Index, and many more.Stock market indices can be characterized or segmented by the index coverage set of stocks. The overall coverage of an index constitutes an underlying group of stocks, most commonly grouped together by underlying investor demand.How to Trade IndicesRetail brokers offer indices exposure through the use of contracts-for-difference (CFDs) or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Each are popular ways to trade specific markets and are almost always on offer at most brokers.Investors can choose between multiple types of indices that traditionally fall within several categories. This includes country coverage, regional coverage, global coverage, exchange-based coverage, and sector-based coverage.All indices are ultimately weighted in a number of different ways. The most common mechanisms include market-capitalization weighting, free-float adjusted market capitalization weighting, volatility weighting, price weighting, and others.
Stock market indices represents an index that measures a particular stock market or a segment of the stock market. These instruments are important investors as they help compare current price levels with past prices to calculate market performance.The main two parameters for indices are that they are both investable and transparent. For example, investors can invest in a stock market index by buying an index fund, which is structured as either a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund, and track an index. The difference between an index fund's performance and the index, if any, is called tracking error. Most major countries boast multiple indices. Commonly traded indices include the S&P 500, NASDAQ-100, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA), EURO STOXX 50, Hang Seng Index, and many more.Stock market indices can be characterized or segmented by the index coverage set of stocks. The overall coverage of an index constitutes an underlying group of stocks, most commonly grouped together by underlying investor demand.How to Trade IndicesRetail brokers offer indices exposure through the use of contracts-for-difference (CFDs) or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Each are popular ways to trade specific markets and are almost always on offer at most brokers.Investors can choose between multiple types of indices that traditionally fall within several categories. This includes country coverage, regional coverage, global coverage, exchange-based coverage, and sector-based coverage.All indices are ultimately weighted in a number of different ways. The most common mechanisms include market-capitalization weighting, free-float adjusted market capitalization weighting, volatility weighting, price weighting, and others.
Read this Term are trading mixed in early US trading with modest gains or losses. The NASDAQ index is looking to snap a 7 day losing streak. The S&P and Dow have been down 6 the last 7 trading days. A snapshot of the market currently shows:
- Dow industrial average -3 points or -0.01% at 31142
- S&P index +4.72 points or 0.12% at 3912.67
- NASDAQ
NASDAQ
The Nasdaq Stock Market or NASDAQ is an American stock exchange. It trails only the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in market capitalization and is part of a network of stock markets and options exchanges.Launched back in 1971, NASDAQ is the acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. Since then it is known simply as NASDAQ and has become one of the most influential exchanges worldwide.The NASDAQ was the world’s first electronic stock market, and has since assumed the majority of major trades that had been executed by the over-the-counter (OTC) system of trading.What Makes Up the NASDAQ?In particular, the exchange also features the NASDAQ Composite, which includes almost all stocks listed on the NASDAQ stock market. Along with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA) and S&P 500 Index, this is one of the three most-followed stock market indices in the United States.Overall, the NASDAQ stock market has three different market tiers. This includes the Capital Market, or an equity market for companies that have relatively small levels of market capitalization. The listing requirements for small cap companies are less stringent than for other Nasdaq markets that list larger companies with significantly higher market capitalization.Additionally, the Global Market is made up of stocks that represent the Nasdaq Global Market. The Global Market consists of 1,450 stocks that meet the exchange’s financial and liquidity requirements, and corporate governance standards.Finally, the Global Select Market is a market capitalization-weighted index made up of 1,200 US-based and international stocks that represent the Global Select Market Composite.
The Nasdaq Stock Market or NASDAQ is an American stock exchange. It trails only the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in market capitalization and is part of a network of stock markets and options exchanges.Launched back in 1971, NASDAQ is the acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. Since then it is known simply as NASDAQ and has become one of the most influential exchanges worldwide.The NASDAQ was the world’s first electronic stock market, and has since assumed the majority of major trades that had been executed by the over-the-counter (OTC) system of trading.What Makes Up the NASDAQ?In particular, the exchange also features the NASDAQ Composite, which includes almost all stocks listed on the NASDAQ stock market. Along with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA) and S&P 500 Index, this is one of the three most-followed stock market indices in the United States.Overall, the NASDAQ stock market has three different market tiers. This includes the Capital Market, or an equity market for companies that have relatively small levels of market capitalization. The listing requirements for small cap companies are less stringent than for other Nasdaq markets that list larger companies with significantly higher market capitalization.Additionally, the Global Market is made up of stocks that represent the Nasdaq Global Market. The Global Market consists of 1,450 stocks that meet the exchange’s financial and liquidity requirements, and corporate governance standards.Finally, the Global Select Market is a market capitalization-weighted index made up of 1,200 US-based and international stocks that represent the Global Select Market Composite.
Read this Term index up 45.41 points or 0.4% 11589.65
- Russell 2000 down 1.368 points at -0.07% at 1791.01
The yields are moving lower today which may help out stocks a bit.
- 2 year 3.476%, -3.1 basis point
- 5 year 3.398%, -5.7 basis points
- 10 year 3.292%, -5.9 basis points
- 30 year 3.448%, -5.6 basis points
In other markets:
- spot gold is trading down on $0.80 or -0.06 at $1700.85
- spot silver is trading up $0.13 or 0.73% at $18.12
- WTI crude oil is trading down $3.40 at $83.43
- bitcoin is trading just below the $19,000 level at $18,906
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SCOTT, LA- Residents living within the city of Scott can head to the maintenance building at 118 Lions Club Rd Saturday, September 10th to participate in the hazardous waste collection day.
Participants must show proof of residency such as a driver's license or water bill.
This collection is for household items only. Large quantities from businesses, farms, or commercial operations will not be accepted.
The collection accepts, plants, automobile batteries, motor oil, antifreeze, household cleaners and chemicals, old appliances, refrigerators, stoves, hot water heaters, computers, monitors, stereo equipment, networking equipment, test equipment, walkman products, etc.
Tires are limited to 5 per vehicle. No tires over 500 pounds will be accepted.
Items that are prohibited include infectious and medical waste, biological and radioactive materials, compressed gas cylinders, ammunition, fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, and explosives.
For more information, contact Mayor Jan-Scott Richard at 337-233-1130. | https://www.katc.com/news/lafayette-parish/the-city-of-scott-hosts-its-annual-household-hazardous-waste-collection-day | 2022-09-07T14:09:26Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/lafayette-parish/the-city-of-scott-hosts-its-annual-household-hazardous-waste-collection-day | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
1) Do all humans belong by birth in a church that claims exclusvie membership for all Christ' heirs, to rule in God name. That church would call Christ king over them, by claiming a superior law over our governor , president over, who has all civil civil authority (citing St. Louis Beradine ), and we would denude God his universal , general claim as judge over those without , to whom that church with superior claims makes more appe DETROIT (WXYZ) — When it comes to a fire, seconds matter, and that's why firefighters say it's critical to get out of your home as soon as you suspect it's on fire.
"A lot of people are under the assumption is those flames that kill. It's that smoke," Detroit Fire Chief James Harris said.
That's you're not safe in any building that's burning, even if you can't see the flames. It's the smoke that incapacitates you before you even know it
"Things can be replaced and people can't," Livonia Fire Chief Robert Jennison said.
Just last week in Livonia, we saw how three teens spotted smoke coming from a house that was on fire. The elderly woman and her son knew it was burning, but it seems they were overwhelmed with confusion and panic. Their decisions could have been deadly.
"The lady wanted to go get jewelry and her other belongings out of the house," Ethan Morche said. "I had to forcibly pull her out of the house."
"I mean, that scares me. Obviously, the most important thing when your smoke detectors go off and you know there's a fire, get out of the house, as fast as you can," Jennison said.
That's because, in addition to producing toxic smoke, fire is eating up that oxygen or displacing it with other gasses. When the oxygen level in the air is at 21%, that's like breathing normal outside air, but when it drops to 17%, impaired judgment and poor coordination set in. At 12%, people experience headaches, dizziness, nausea and fatigue. At 9%, they are unconscious, and at 6%, cardiac arrest and even death.
"People are in panic mode, they don't understand what they need to realize. And that smoke alarm goes off. You get low when you go," Harris said.
"I always preach when I talk to all the kids or the seniors or whatever group I'm talking to. The first thing we always talk about is if there is a fire, get out. If there are things that you want in the home, let us know. And that's our job. We'll go in there and retrieve items as we're extinguishing the fire," Livonia Fire Captain Timothy Eskin added.
He said to have a plan. Look for two ways out of any room and practice the plan.
The National Fire Protection Association has helpful videos to guide you.
"Children can sleep through a smoke alarm even if it's right next to them. So always check their room and stay with them as you exit the house," the NFPA video said.
"Have a plan, if the fire alarms go off, this is what we're going to do. And this is where we're going to meet," Jennison said.
"When I go to the elementary schools, one of the first things we teach is crawl low, under smoke, because the cleaner air is at the bottom towards the ground," Eskin said.
Also, sleep with the doors closed. That will buy you a little bit of time before the fire can spread and burn you and get through the bedroom door.
If you have pets, firefighters say don't run around the house trying to find them.
"If there was a fire in the house, get out on leave your doors open. So hopefully those animals do get out. But if don't go back through the house, looking for your dog, your cat, your whatever, tell us we'll go back inside. And we will look for those pets as we're extinguishing the fire," Eskin said.
Many fire departments like Livonia have special equipment if a pet needs to be revived. They have different muzzles for different animals to provide them oxygen.
"We have gone into houses and pulled out cats, dogs, six-foot iguanas. And we've actually had cases where we've revived animals and brought them back," Eskin said.
Remember, you don't have as much time as you think, so test your smoke alarm monthly and make sure it's in working order.
"They think they have a split second. And they don't," Harris said.
"Where we find most of our victims in a fire is usually by a window or by a door because the took too long to get out and couldn't find their way out," Eskin added. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/fire-chiefs-urge-people-to-come-up-with-fire-escape-plans-things-can-be-replaced-people-cant | 2022-09-07T14:09:26Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/fire-chiefs-urge-people-to-come-up-with-fire-escape-plans-things-can-be-replaced-people-cant | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- Trade balance for July 2022 -70.70B vs -70.3B estimate
- Goods trade balance (revised) for July -90.19B vs -89.06B preliminary. Last month -98.59B
- Services $20.44 billion surplus
- exports -0.2% vs. Junes -1.7%. Total exports 259.29 billion vs. 258.76 billion in June.
- imports -2.9% vs. June -0.2%. Total imports 329.94 billion vs. 339.64 billion
- China trade deficit $-34.4 billion vs. June deficit of $-36.95 billion
- capital goods imports $72.78 billion vs. June $72.29 billion
- oil imports price $102.27 vs. June $104.81. The prices up 56.8% from July 2021
The US runs a trade deficit on goods and a trade surplus of services. The goods trade deficit is at the lowest level since October when it reached $-82 billion. For the overall trade balance including services is at the lowest level since October 2021 when it reached -$67.1 billion.
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For decades, presidents and first ladies have invited their predecessors back to the White House for the unveiling of their presidential and first lady portraits.
But during the presidency of Donald Trump, the tradition was interrupted.
On Wednesday, after a longer-than-expected wait, former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama will have their White House portraits unveiled at a ceremony hosted by President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden.
For President Biden, it’s an opportunity to pay homage to his two-time running mate when he campaigned for vice president.
“Over the course of their eight years together in office, a close partnership between the two men grew through the highs and lows of the job and of life,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “President Biden and Dr. Biden are honored to have former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama back to the White House for the unveiling of their portraits, which will hang on the walls of the White House forever as reminders of the power of hope and change.”
The last time such a ceremony was held was in 2012 when the Obamas welcomed former President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush.
“President Bush, his cabinet, his staff, many of you who are here today, went out of your ways -- George, you went out of your way -- to make sure that the transition to a new administration was as seamless as possible,” President Obama said at the 2012 ceremony.
Whether Biden would host such a ceremony for Trump remains unclear. Jean-Pierre declined to answer whether Biden would do such a ceremony for his predecessor. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/bidens-welcomes-obamas-to-the-white-house-for-portrait-unveiling | 2022-09-07T14:09:32Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/bidens-welcomes-obamas-to-the-white-house-for-portrait-unveiling | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The GBPUSD continued its wander to the downside today and and in the process got within 5 pips of the March 2020 low at 1.1408. The risk focuces trader have leaned against the level and ther has been a modest bounce. The pair currently trades at 1.1427.
What would a break below the 1.1408 level take the price?
A move below would have the GBPUSD trading at the lowest level since March 1985 (37+ year lows). The low price in 1985 reached down to 1.0545.
Drilling to the hourly chart below, the pair's move off the low did move above the swing low from Mondays trade at 1.14425, but has not been able to sustain momentum above that level. If the pair is going to go higher needs to get above that level and also the earlier swing low today at 1.1450, and stay above. That's just the minimum. A more important level would be at 1.14951. That was the low from September 1 and near the low from yesterday's trade. Above that is the 100 hour moving average 1.15232 (and moving lower).
Yesterday the price moved above the 100 hour moving average for the 1st time since August 26, but after trying to hold above, the level gave way and buyers turned to sellers. Ultimately if the buyers are to take control, getting above that moving average and staying above is key. | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/gbpusd-test-pandemic-low-finds-risk-focused-buyers-20220907/ | 2022-09-07T14:09:35Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/gbpusd-test-pandemic-low-finds-risk-focused-buyers-20220907/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BEIJING (AP) — The death toll in this week’s earthquake in western China has jumped to 74 with another 26 people still missing, the government reported Wednesday, as frustration rose with uncompromising COVID-19 lockdown measures that prevented residents from leaving their buildings after the shaking.
The 6.8 magnitude quake that struck just after noon Monday in Sichuan province caused extensive damage to homes in the Ganze Tibetan Autonomous Region and shook buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose 21 million citizens are under a strict COVID-19 lockdown.
Following the quake, police and health workers refused to allow anxious residents of apartment buildings out, adding to anger over the government’s strict “zero-COVID policy” mandating lockdowns, quarantines and other restrictions, even while the rest of the world has largely reopened.
Footage circulating online showed residents of the central city of Wuhan, where the pandemic is believed to have originated in late 2019, chanting “lift the lockdown, refuse to be tested" at police.
The restrictions have prompted protests online and in person, rare in China's tightly controlled society where the all-powerful Communist Party can easily sentence people to months or years in prison on loosely defined charges such as “picking quarrels and provoking trouble."
In all, 65 million Chinese in 33 cities, including seven provincial capitals, are currently under varying levels of lockdown. The government is also discouraging domestic travel during the Mid-Autumn Festival on Saturday and the weeklong National Holiday at the start of October.
Outbreaks have been reported in 103 cities, the highest since the early days of the pandemic in early 2020.
Monday's quake was centered in a mountainous area of Luding county, which sits on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau roughly 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Chengdu, where tectonic plates grind up against each other.
China’s deadliest earthquake in recent years was a 7.9 magnitude quake in 2008 that killed nearly 90,000 people in Sichuan. The temblor devastated towns, schools and rural communities outside Chengdu, leading to a years-long effort to rebuild with more resistant materials. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/china-earthquake-deaths-rise-to-74-as-lockdown-anger-grows | 2022-09-07T14:09:38Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/china-earthquake-deaths-rise-to-74-as-lockdown-anger-grows | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The survivors who were able to walk out of Sandy Hook Elementary School nearly a decade ago want to share a message of hope with the children of Uvalde, Texas: You will learn how to live with your trauma, pain and grief. And it will get better.
They know what's ahead. There's shock, followed by numbness. There are struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder. Anxiety. Survivor's guilt. Anger that these shootings continue to happen in America. Reliving their trauma every time there's another mass shooting.
They know it will be hard to say they are from Uvalde. That well-meaning adults will sometimes make the wrong decisions to protect you. That grief can be unpredictable, and different for everyone.
“It’s been nine years since Sandy Hook,” said Ashley Hubner, 17, who was a second grader at the Newtown school when 20 children and six educators were killed on Dec. 14, 2012. “We had nine years for this to not happen again. And yet it did. And now these kids are going to have to go through the same exact thing. That’s just, like, heartbreaking."
On May 24, a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. It was so striking to the Sandy Hook survivors because of how similar it was to their tragedy. Now on the cusp of adulthood, the survivors of Sandy Hook are telling their stories, some for the first time, about growing up as a mass shooting survivor to help the children in Texas, who return to school this week.
`I FEEL LIKE I'VE GROWN ALONGSIDE OF IT.'
Marie Gay was a 9-year-old third grader at the Sandy Hook school when the gunman shot his way into the building and killed the 26 victims, including her little sister, Josephine. All the children who died were first graders.
“Initially I thought it was a bear, the gunshots,” said Gay, now an 18-year-old college student. “I don’t know. We lived in rural Connecticut. I heard them and my first thought was, ’Oh, there’s totally a bear just banging on the walls of the school.'”
Marie said the adults around her were all well-intentioned, but some of what they did after the tragedy bothered her.
Her teachers would take her out of the classroom before conducting any emergency drills. They were also careful not to use phrases like “bullet points” around her, which she found silly.
She also felt “icky” about the thousands of gifts that poured into Newtown for all the children of Sandy Hook. She got upset the day hundreds of those presents were passed out to children who lined up outside the local intermediate school to get a doll or a game, she said.
“All that I could think about at the time was the one child in my sister’s class who survived,” she said. “I know I went through a lot too, but in my brain, I was like, I’m not understanding how all these people are like clamoring for gifts.”
Marie said the shooting in Uvalde brought so many feelings. It was disheartening, she said, but also made her want to get out there and fight for things like mental health reform and gun control.
She said she would tell the children of Uvalde that grief is individual and that their path forward will be their own — and to be gentle with themselves and kind to others. Their pain and grief will remain a part of them, but they will learn to live with it. She still gets anxiety in lecture halls and looks for exits when she’s in a classroom.
“There’s reminders of it daily here at random times,” she said. “But I feel like I’ve grown alongside of it and it’s made me a better person.”
`I THINK WHAT HAPPENED CHANGED MY ENTIRE LIFE.'
For Ashley Hubner, the trauma became part of her life as she grew up. Sometimes she became sad and cried. But it wasn’t until middle school that her symptoms, including PTSD and depression, started to overwhelm her.
They would hit her harder around the anniversary of the shooting.
Ashley, now a senior at Newtown High School, was sitting in a circle with her second-grade class for its usual morning meeting when the shooting started. Her sister, a kindergartner who also survived, was in another classroom.
Ashley and her classmates ran to the cubby area to hide. They heard their teacher call police to report an active shooter. The school intercom system clicked on, and everyone could hear gunshots, screaming and crying.
They were also frightened by footsteps they heard on the roof, which they didn’t know at the time were those of first responders. When police finally came to lead them out, she and her classmates didn’t want to open the door because they thought bad guys could be impersonating officers.
“We didn’t want to let them in,” she said. “And so like every single kid in my class screamed, ‘No!’ And it was so heartbreaking to hear a bunch of little kids screaming ‘No.' But thank God we opened the door and it was actually the police.”
The children formed a line. They were told to put their hands on the shoulders of their classmates and to close their eyes — to avoid seeing any of the carnage — as they were led out of the building. They were brought to a nearby firehouse, where she was reunited with her sister.
It was only last year that she was diagnosed with PTSD, depression, anxiety and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Many students have said they weren’t diagnosed with mental health and other disorders until years later, likely because they were so young at the time of the shooting and their symptoms didn’t fully develop for a while.
“I think what happened changed my entire life,” she said. "Maybe when you’re an adult like you have trauma and then you’re able to kind of like overcome it because you had this person who you were before.
“But when you’re so young,” she said, “you don’t really have the person that you were before. You just take your surroundings and you take what you’re taught and you take that trauma and you make it a part of your life and you grow up with that and you have to like process that in the years forward.”
Ashley said she gets angry sometimes at her parents and adults and kids in school for not recognizing her problems earlier or not believing her when she told them what she was going through. She began therapy only recently.
“Take what you are feeling and, like, do that research and like get that help,” she said, offering advice to Uvalde survivors. “It’s so important to like know who you are and know what you have and like what you’re dealing with so that you can go through life a lot easier and like make your quality of life better.”
`FOCUS ON HEALING YOURSELF.'
In her college application essay, Liv Doscher wrote about how she and her classmates were forced into a more mature mindset because of what happened in their school.
“I don’t think anyone no matter your age should have to go through something like that,” she said. “But kids are not equipped to deal with stuff like that. No one is, but especially kids.”
Liv and her third-grade classmates ran to a carpet in their room when they first heard what turned out to be gunshots. Some thought it was a joke at first and laughed, she said. Others, like her best friend, started crying immediately. Liv was confused.
Her teacher put some paper over the window in the door to the hallway, but it fell down. Liv was nervous to look at the door in fear of what she might see. Plus the shades on the windows to the outside were up. Liv felt exposed and vulnerable.
Then police officers ran by the windows to the outside, saw the children and yelled at them to go into an adjoining classroom that shared a door with theirs. With the blinds down, the other classroom was very dark, and she couldn't recognize people to find comfort.
“I remember just kind of trying to see in the dark, trying to recognize people,” she said.
Police led the students and teachers out of an exit on the opposite side of the school from the shooting. Liv remembers seeing an officer with “a huge gun.” She didn’t even know then what a gun was.
Like Ashley, she suffered for years with anxiety, especially at school, before being diagnosed and treated. She learned last year that she has ADHD, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety.
She said it took so long because she kept what she was feeling inside, didn’t understand her emotions and didn’t reach out for help. She often felt numb. In December 2020, around the eighth anniversary of the shooting, she became extremely depressed and missed two weeks of school.
“I couldn’t get through days without crying,” she said. “And you don’t really realize it’s so debilitating sometimes."
Her parents got her into therapy, which she credits for helping her cope. At school, there were frustrations in the years after the shooting, said Liv, now 18. One of the problems was not enough communication between school staff and students about what help and services were available to address mental health and other issues. Many school staff avoided talking about the shooting, she said, apparently to avoid retraumatizing students.
“I understand wanting to protect us, but we’ve seen the worst of it. We were there that day,” she said.
Students were only recently given two mental health days that do not count as absences. When the anniversary fell on a school day, she said, kids would be crying in the hallways trying to get to class. She was critical of school officials for not offering accommodations such as increased passing time between classes.
To the Uvalde children, Liv said not to be afraid, or ashamed, to communicate what you are feeling.
“Focus on healing yourself and focus on working through the trauma, what happened,” she said. “But also, you know, focus on holding onto life before and searching for positive things because there’s so many positive things. Finding pictures. Finding people that mean a lot to you. Just take that and just appreciate that.
“A huge part of that is like to not feel shame about where you are in your healing process,” she said. “Don’t compare yourself to others. Don’t feel invalid because someone may have it worse.”
“I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE STILL STRUGGLING WITH THIS TODAY.”
There have been several different kinds of therapies since the shooting to help Jackie Hegarty cope with PTSD. New mass shootings are a trigger, bringing her back to the day of the Sandy Hook shooting. Loud noises still startle her.
She was doing yoga with her second-grade class when the shooter opened fire right across the hall. She didn't know what the gunshot sounds were. Kids in her class thought maybe a janitor dropped a trash can or somebody dropped a chair or a desk.
But no one could drop a trash can that many times.
“I remember running to my cubby and sitting on my backpack,” said Jackie, 17, who is a senior at Newtown High School. “And I remember being grateful that I was farther away from the door because I thought that the kid that was closest to the wall was going to get shot first."
That Friday, like others, the children in her class got to bring in their favorite stuffed animals to watch movies with them. On that day, however, Jackie forgot hers — it wasn't in her backpack when she went to reach for comfort.
Her class and teacher sat anxiously in the dark classroom. After the shooting ended and the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, had killed himself, police got to Jackie’s classroom and told them to cover their eyes as they were led out of the building. Along the way, Jackie opened her eyes. She doesn't like to talk about what she saw.
“Once we were leaving, I was wondering how that could have happened so closely to me and that that could have been me and how come I’m walking out of the school right now and they aren’t,” she said. She is a triplet, and her two siblings survived.
When she and Liv went to the March For Our Lives anti-gun violence event in the nation’s capital this summer, there were a few moments of panic after someone yelled something during a moment of silence. People in the crowd started running away. She couldn't breathe, and kept running. Her chest tightened. She felt like she was going to throw up. She felt guilty for not being able to stay with her friends.
“But I shouldn’t have to be still struggling with this today and still having to search for treatment methods to improve my quality of life and to make me feel better because of how I react to things or, you know, the triggers and the stimuli I have. I’ll flinch with a loud noise.”
Jackie said she would tell the Uvalde children to not bottle up their feelings and to talk to family and friends.
“Because it’s so important to talk this stuff through and know that their feelings are validated and that we’re going to do everything that we can to make sure that things like this don’t have to happen,” she said.
“We’ve been through a similar thing and we want them to know that we care about them and they’re loved,” Jackie said.
`I HAVE JUST NOW GOTTEN THE ABILITY TO SAY I AM FROM SANDY HOOK.'
The days that followed her brother Chase's death at Sandy Hook Elementary are hard for Brittany Kowalski to remember. She does remember how trauma was inflicted on her family by others.
People spreading misinformation that the shooting was staged by actors emerged, the town was filled with media and a police officer guarded the family's driveway.
“Between harassing phone calls from Sandy Hook “truthers,” international news people trying to come into the house while we mourned the loss of my brother, having to keep the blinds down for weeks, maybe even months, because photographers were walking through the woods to get around the police vehicle in our driveway … It felt like an alternate universe,” she said.
She was a freshman in a math class at Newtown High School when the shooting started, and the school went into lockdown. She and other students with siblings at Sandy Hook were called into an auditorium. She called her parents, but there was no answer.
“I couldn’t tell you how many people were in the room, but it felt like the sea of people was thinning out in both the slowest yet fastest time frame," she said. "All of the people dissipated until I was the last person who hadn’t heard back."
Over the next several years, she said, she would lie and tell people she was from other nearby towns. She calls it avoiding the “Oh, you're from Sandy Hook” conversation. She didn't want to console people for how they felt about what she had lived through.
“The feeling of empathy and pity are too similar when you are known due to a traumatic event that had global coverage. It’s been almost 10 years and I have just now gotten the ability to say ‘I am from Sandy Hook’ without the full amount of anxiety tangled into it."
She would tell the children of Uvalde that you don’t have to grieve the same way the person next to you is grieving. She has Chase’s ashes tattooed on her chest.
“I still go to therapy, I still have days that feel like I have a rain cloud over my head but I have always been able to pull myself out of it or have someone in my support system give me a little extra help when needed. Texas brought up a lot of old emotions that I thought I had fully worked through. The disappointment, the anxiety and the hole in my heart seemed to rip back open.” | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/raised-with-trauma-sandy-hook-survivors-send-hope-to-uvalde | 2022-09-07T14:09:46Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/raised-with-trauma-sandy-hook-survivors-send-hope-to-uvalde | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Serena Williams demanded attention until the very end.
ESPN says her third-round match at the U.S. Open was the most-watched tennis match in the network's 43-year history.
Williams lost to Ajla Tomljanović in what was likely her final professional tennis match. The three-hour match averaged 4.8 million viewers and peaked with nearly 7 million tuning in.
That smashed the network's previous record, which was set in 2012 when Roger Federer beat Andy Murray for the Wimbledon title.
Williams, a 23-time grand slam winner, said prior to the U.S. Open that she is "evolving" away from tennis and wants to grow her family.
In addition to thrilling fans on TV, Williams is also responsible for another record this year at the U.S. Open. More than 29,000 fans attended her first match of the tournament. That's the most-ever to watch a match at Arthur Ashe Stadium. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/serena-williams-farewell-match-was-most-watched-in-espn-history | 2022-09-07T14:09:52Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/serena-williams-farewell-match-was-most-watched-in-espn-history | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Police have charged Abston with murder and abduction.
The Commercial Appeal reported that Abston was previously convicted of abduction at age 16. He was released from prison in 2020.
Police said a surveillance video shows Fletcher in a struggle with a person before being forced into an SUV around 4:30 a.m. last Friday.
Fletcher's husband contacted police when she didn't return from her run. Authorities said her phone and water bottle were found near the area where she was abducted.
Her body was found on Monday. Police told the Commercial Appeal that Abston refused to tell authorities where her body was located after he was arrested on Sunday.
Authorities said Tuesday it was an "isolated" incident. Nationally, these incidents are considered rare.
"In contrast to whatever baseless speculation you may have seen, we have no reason to think this was anything other than an isolated attack by a stranger," said Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy.
Over the weekend, Memphis Police said that 38-year-old Cleotha Abston was charged with her abduction. He was held on a $500,000 bond. Murder charges were added on Tuesday.
According to CNN, police connected Abston to Fletcher's kidnapping after finding one of his sandals in the area where Fletcher was kidnapped. Abston's cell phone records also place him at the crime scene.
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Funding round follows 400% revenue growth and increased adoption of Carbyne's next-generation mission critical technologies in the last 12 months
NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carbyne , the leading provider of cloud-native emergency contact center solutions, announced today that it raised $56 million in Series C funding. Cox Enterprises and Hanaco Growth Fund co-led the latest round, joined by new investors Valor Equity Partners, General Global Capital, TalC, and Sandiip Bhammer alongside existing investors including Founders Fund, FinTLV, Elsted Capital Partners, and former CIA Director General David Petraeus. The company has raised $128 million to date.
The Series C funding follows a 400% increase in U.S. revenue and a 185% jump in total contract value over the past 12 months. This investment in Carbyne will allow the company to accelerate the digital transformation of mission-critical operations and government service centers primarily in the USA. Moreover, the investment will allow Carbyne to accelerate global expansion and continue growing its B2B business which allows corporations to increase situational awareness and collaborate more efficiently during emergencies. The opportunity to roll out secure contact center technologies for mission-critical use cases such as protecting customers and clients, extends to almost every Fortune 1000 company globally. Carbyne will also continue to invest in emerging technologies, building AI and NLP-based capabilities into its APEX platform with the support of top-tier technology partners.
Rising crime rates and citizen expectations, coupled with outdated emergency response systems, have led the House Committee to approve a $10B package to revamp legacy infrastructure and implement NG911 technologies like Carbyne. Local governments are increasingly seeing the benefits of the cloud as a technology that allows for both the simple deployment of advanced technological capabilities and long-term cost savings on maintenance and support. The govtech industry, which hasn't fundamentally changed in decades, is ripe for disruption.
The company recently secured several large multi-year contracts, including agreements with the city of NewOrleans, Louisiana for its APEX platform, Volusia County, Florida for its Universe platform, and GlobalMedicalResponse(GMR) for both its Bridge Desk & APEX products. Carbyne and GMR developed BridgeDesk, a distributed asset management solution to oversee emergency personnel, vehicles, and equipment in real time. With APEX, GMR's contact centers will be able to receive and share live video, images, and locations from individuals in critical situations in which every second counts.
"We're doing to public safety what Amazon did to on-premise storage. We are redefining how emergency contact centers and government service teams operate by moving everything to the cloud," said Amir Elichai, CEO and Founder of Carbyne. "Emergency providers and local governments are using legacy systems to solve modern problems – a declining proposition. They are increasingly recognizing the value that our cloud-based platforms provide to their communities. In addition to expanding our footprint in emergency services, we are also seeing new opportunities from businesses in adjacent industries. With the support of our latest funders, we are extending our reach to more communities and businesses who need to modernize their legacy mission critical communication tech stack."
"Communities across the U.S are experiencing higher levels of emergency calls related to crime, stress, and mental health," said Lior Prosor, Founding Partner at Hanaco Ventures. "Emergency contact centers and crisis hotlines are under significant stress and need more advanced technology to effectively respond with the right resources to save lives. One of the challenges of the public safety industry is that it is mostly on premise. This can prevent it from adopting the new technologies available to other sectors. We are proud to continue supporting the Carbyne team in their mission to bring cutting edge technologies to PSAPs via the cloud."
Carbyne has established itself as the leading global mission-critical, cloud-native contact center provider. The company protects over 400 million people globally and helps 911 call takers manage 150 million emergency calls each year. Its mission is to save lives, maximize efficiency, and minimize response times for emergency responders.
"Revamping legacy infrastructure in the U.S. is long overdue," said Davis Roberson, associate vice president of strategy and investments at Cox Enterprises. "The technology Carbyne delivers is resilient, interactive, and secure. We are looking forward to working with Carbyne to bring this critical technology to more communities and organizations."
Carbyne's software has industry-leading uptime, highest-tier cloud security, and custom API hooks for each unique organization's data integrations. Its life-saving solutions serve over 120 states and local governments globally.
Carbyne (Headquartered in New York, NY) is a leading global provider of cloud-native mission-critical contact center solutions. Carbyne is one of the largest rich-data providers for emergency response centers, delivering over 250M data points per year all in a unified platform. Our technologies enable emergency contact centers and select enterprises to connect with callers as well as connected devices via highly secure communication channels without needing to download a consumer app. With a mission to redefine emergency collaboration and connect the dots between people, enterprises, and governments, Carbyne provides a unified cloud-native solution that provides live actionable data that can lead to more efficient and transparent operations and ultimately save lives. With Carbyne, every person counts. Learn more at www.carbyne.com
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OAKVILLE, ON, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - CHS USA Inc., a company of Canadian Hospital Specialties Limited (CHS), completed the acquisition of SandBox Medical LLC (SandBox Medical), effective September 1st, 2022. This acquisition will increase CHS' presence in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) and Pediatric market, while providing innovative products for premature babies and full-term newborns. SandBox Medical and CHS are both known in the healthcare industry for high quality and reliable products.
"The acquisition of SandBox Medical provides CHS with an opportunity to offer customers a broader portfolio of innovative solutions in the NICU and Pediatric areas, as well as expanded channels for distribution. This acquisition also reinforces our commitment to expand our footprint in the very important United States market with SandBox products and other neonatal products." states Mike Canzoneri, President and CEO of CHS.
SandBox Medical has always strived to be a company "Making a Difference" for caregivers and parents by providing top notch customer service, research, product development and products to impact the comfort of newborns they care for. CHS' focus on excellent customer service and innovation provides an ideal fit for the acquisition.
Canadian Hospital Specialties Limited (established 1967) is a privately held medical device manufacturer and specialty distributor located in Oakville, Ontario. Customers served are in the acute hospital and non-acute healthcare space in Canada and Internationally. CHS self-manufactured products (MED-RX®) and third-party represented products span across a wide variety of clinical categories including respiratory, anesthesia, perfusion, interventional radiology, biopsy, drainage, diagnostic imaging, pharmacy, vascular access, infection prevention, neuro and cardiac diagnostics, and general med-surg. The MED-RX line is produced in Oakville, ON, and is predominantly comprised of single use disposable trays, kits, and tubing used in a variety of procedures such as IV starts, feeding, biopsy, and thoracic drainage.
SandBox Medical is based in Pembroke, MA, and is the manufacturer and source for JollyPop® Pacifiers and other products designed for premature babies and full-term newborns. Founded in 2009, SandBox Medical has prided itself on bringing innovations to the market such as the CoverMe® disposable swing cover and Jellies® gel pillow and positioning aid.
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- Rates rise to 3.25% -- highest since April 2008
- Prior was 2.50%
- The Governing Council still judges that the policy interest rate will need to rise further
- Economy evolving broadly in line with the July projection
- Removes reference to front-loading hikes
- The housing market is pulling back as anticipated
- Surveys suggest that short-term inflation expectations remain high. "The longer this continues, the greater the risk that elevated inflation becomes entrenched"
- BOC continues to expect the economy to moderate in the second half of this year
- There is no press conference scheduled for today
The tone of the statement is more-hawkish than expected but there's no clear guidance. Many analysts thought 3.50% would be the top but that's looking unlikely. The BOC appears to be unbothered by house prices, which are down by about 18% since February.
Like many other central banks, they're also warning about higher short-term inflation expectations.
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The Bank of Canada today increased its target for the overnight rate to 3¼%, with the Bank Rate at 3½% and the deposit rate at 3¼%. The Bank is also continuing its policy of quantitative tightening.
The global and Canadian economies are evolving broadly in line with the Bank’s July projection. The effects of COVID-19 outbreaks, ongoing supply disruptions, and the war in Ukraine continue to dampen growth and boost prices.
Global inflation remains high and measures of core inflation are moving up in most countries. In response, central banks around the world continue to tighten monetary policy. Economic activity in the United States has moderated, although the US labour market remains tight. China is facing ongoing challenges from COVID shutdowns. Commodity prices have been volatile: oil, wheat and lumber prices have moderated while natural gas prices have risen.
In Canada, CPI inflation eased in July to 7.6% from 8.1% because of a drop in gasoline prices. However, inflation excluding gasoline increased and data indicate a further broadening of price pressures, particularly in services. The Bank’s core measures of inflation continued to move up, ranging from 5% to 5.5% in July. Surveys suggest that short-term inflation expectations remain high. The longer this continues, the greater the risk that elevated inflation becomes entrenched.
The Canadian economy continues to operate in excess demand and labour markets remain tight. Canada’s GDP grew by 3.3% in the second quarter. While this was somewhat weaker than the Bank had projected, indicators of domestic demand were very strong – consumption grew by about 9½% and business investment was up by close to 12%. With higher mortgage rates, the housing market is pulling back as anticipated, following unsustainable growth during the pandemic. The Bank continues to expect the economy to moderate in the second half of this year, as global demand weakens and tighter monetary policy here in Canada begins to bring demand more in line with supply.
Given the outlook for inflation, the Governing Council still judges that the policy interest rate will need to rise further. Quantitative tightening is complementing increases in the policy rate. As the effects of tighter monetary policy work through the economy, we will be assessing how much higher interest rates need to go to return inflation to target. The Governing Council remains resolute in its commitment to price stability and will continue to take action as required to achieve the 2% inflation target.
The final paragraph in the previous statement:
With the economy clearly in excess demand, inflation high and broadening, and more businesses and consumers expecting high inflation to persist for longer, the Governing Council decided to front-load the path to higher interest rates by raising the policy rate by 100 basis points today. The Governing Council continues to judge that interest rates will need to rise further, and the pace of increases will be guided by the Bank’s ongoing assessment of the economy and inflation. Quantitative tightening continues and is complementing increases in the policy interest rate. The Governing Council is resolute in its commitment to price stability and will continue to take action as required to achieve the 2% inflation target. | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/bank-of-canada-hikes-rates-by-75-basis-points-vs-75-basis-points-expected-20220907/ | 2022-09-07T14:13:20Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/bank-of-canada-hikes-rates-by-75-basis-points-vs-75-basis-points-expected-20220907/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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