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JAMES SMITH CREE NATION, Saskatchewan (AP) — Canadian police arrested the second suspect in the stabbing deaths of 10 people in the province of Saskatchewan on Wednesday after a three-day manhunt during which they had found the body of his brother.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Myles Sanderson, 32, was located near the town of Rosthern in Saskatchewan at about 3:30 p.m. local time, an RCMP statement said.
An official familiar with the matter said Sanderson’s vehicle was rammed by police and he surrendered. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
The manhunt for the two brothers had entered its third day. The fugitive’s brother and fellow suspect, Damien Sanderson, 30, was found dead Monday near the stabbing sites. Police are investigating if Myles Sanderson, 32, killed his brother.
The stabbing rampage had raised questions of why Myles Sanderson — an ex-con with 59 convictions and a long history of shocking violence — was out on the streets in the first place.
He was released by a parole board in February while serving a sentence of over four years on charges that included assault and robbery. But he had been wanted by police since May, apparently for violating the terms of his release, though the details were not immediately clear.
His long and lurid rap sheet also showed that seven years ago, he attacked and stabbed one of the victims killed in the weekend rampage, according to court records.
Canadian Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said there will be an investigation into the parole board’s assessment of Sanderson.
“I want to know the reasons behind the decision” to release him, Mendicino said. “I’m extremely concerned with what occurred here. A community has been left reeling.”
Investigators have not given a motive for the bloodshed.
The Saskatchewan Coroner’s Service said nine of those killed were from the James Smith Cree Nation: Thomas Burns, 23; Carol Burns, 46; Gregory Burns, 28; Lydia Gloria Burns, 61; Bonnie Burns, 48; Earl Burns, 66; Lana Head, 49; Christian Head, 54; and Robert Sanderson, 49, One was from Weldon, 78-year-old Wesley Patterson. Authorities would not say how the victims might be related.
Mark Arcand said his half sister Bonnie and her son Gregory were killed.
“Her son was lying there already deceased. My sister went out and tried to help her son, and she was stabbed two times, and she died right beside him,” he said. “Right outside of her home she was killed by senseless acts. She was protecting her son. She was protecting three little boys. This is why she is a hero.”
Arcand rushed to the reserve the morning of the rampage. After that, he said, “I woke up in the middle of the night just screaming and yelling. What I saw that day I can’t get out of my head.”
As for what set off the violence, Arcand said: “We’re all looking for those same answers. We don’t know what happened. Maybe we’ll never know. That’s the hardest part of this.”
Court documents said Sanderson attacked his in-laws Earl Burns and Joyce Burns in 2015, knifing Earl Jones repeatedly and wounding Joyce Burns. He later pleaded guilty to assault and threatening Earl Burns’ life.
Many of Sanderson’s crimes were committed when he was intoxicated, according to court records. He told parole officials at one point that substance use made him out of his mind. Records showed he repeatedly violated court orders barring him from drinking or using drugs.
Canada’s Indigenous communities are plagued by drugs and alcohol.
“The drug problem and the alcohol problem on these reserves is way out of hand,” said Ivor Wayne Burns, whose sister was killed in the weekend attacks. “We have dead people and we asked before for something to be done.”
Myles Sanderson’s childhood was marked by violence, neglect and substance abuse, court records show. Sanderson, who is Indigenous and was raised on the Cree reserve, population 1,900, started drinking and smoking marijuana at around 12, and cocaine followed soon after.
In 2017, he barged into his ex-girlfriend’s home, punched a hole in the door of a bathroom while his two children were hiding in a bathtub and threw a cement block at a vehicle parked outside, according to parole documents.
He got into a fight a few days later at a store, threatening to kill an employee and burn down his parents’ home, documents said.
That November he threatened an accomplice into robbing a fast-food restaurant by clubbing him with a gun and stomping on his head. He then stood watch during the holdup.
In 2018, he stabbed two men with a fork while drinking and beat someone unconscious.
When he was released in February, the parole board set conditions on his contact with his partner and children and also said he should not enter into relationships with women without written permission from his parole officer.
In granting Sanderson “statutory release,” parole authorities said: “It is the Board’s opinion that you will not present an undue risk to society.”
Canadian law grants prisoners statutory release after they serve two-thirds of their sentence. But the parole board can impose conditions on that freedom, and inmates who violate them — as Sanderson did more than once — can be ordered back to prison.
Sharna Sugarman, who was organizing a GoFundMe for the victims, questioned the parole board for releasing him and wondered why Sanderson was still on the loose so many months after he was deemed “unlawfully at large.”
“That’s just egregious to me,” said Sugarman, a counselor who counted one of the stabbing victims as a client. “If they claim that they’ve been looking for him, well, you weren’t looking that hard.”
Mendicino, the public safety minister, said authorities have to make sure nothing like this happens again.
“It’s incredibly important that when someone is at large and there’s a warrant for their arrest, and they have an extensive criminal background, that all the resources are there to be able to apprehend that person as quickly as possible,” he said. “We do need to take a very careful look at what occurred.” | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/canadian-police-arrest-2nd-suspect-in-stabbing-rampage/ | 2022-09-07T23:01:55Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/canadian-police-arrest-2nd-suspect-in-stabbing-rampage/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A group of 61 migrants picked up by a cargo ship from a crippled fishing boat in the central Mediterranean have safely reached the island of Crete hours after a severely ill child on the freighter died while being airlifted to Greece, Greek authorities said Wednesday.
The Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian migrants had reportedly been stranded for days without provisions on a leaking fishing boat near Malta, after trying to sail from Lebanon to Italy about 10 days ago.
“We had tried pressing the Maltese, Italian, and Greek authorities for days to get them to authorize a ship in the vicinity of the migrants to rescue them,” Moroccan-Italian activist Nawal Soufy told the Associated Press. Soufy had been in contact with the migrants on board and rescue freighter, BBC Pearl, via satellite phone.
“We’re now waiting for the Greek authorities to respond to our queries about the migrants’ current situation.”
On Tuesday, a Greek navy helicopter had airlifted a 4-year-old girl with health problems and her mother off the BBC Pearl, but the child was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital on Crete.
The coast guard said the remaining 33 men, 7 women and 21 children disembarked from the Antigua and Barbuda-flagged ship early Wednesday at the port of Kali Limenes on southern Crete.
Two were taken to hospital with non life-threatening health issues, while the rest were temporarily put up in a sports hall in the town of Moires.
Greek authorities said it was not immediately clear when they were picked up by the freighter, where they had set off from and where they had been heading.
The coast guard said in a statement late Tuesday that the BBC Pearl had rescued them inside Malta’s search and rescue area. It said Greece received a request around midday Tuesday from Maltese authorities, who had been contacted by the cargo ship’s captain, to airlift the mother and child to safety.
The ship then altered course towards Crete to facilitate the airlift, the coast guard statement said.
The migrants on board had told their relatives and volunteer groups by satellite phone earlier that they have been without food, water, and baby formula for days.
A relative of one of the passengers, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, claimed the migrants were lost at sea, as their smuggler did not provide them with a navigation system, compass, or maps on the leaking, overcrowded boat.
The migrants also claimed that three children died due to dehydration before the group was rescued.
Once a country that received refugees, Lebanon has become a launching pad for dangerous migration by sea to Europe, as it struggles with an economic crisis over the past three years that has pulled three-quarters of its population into poverty.
There has been an increase in migrants seeking to travel on unsafe boats from troubled Lebanon to Italy, and Greek authorities have performed several rescues in recent weeks.
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Chehayeb reported from Beirut, Lebanon.
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Follow AP’s global migration coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/migration | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-61-migrants-rescued-by-freighter-off-malta-reach-crete/ | 2022-09-07T23:02:14Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-61-migrants-rescued-by-freighter-off-malta-reach-crete/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jim Thieret steps down from City Council; Central Committee to appoint new Ward 2 rep
MASSILLON – Ward 2 Councilman Jim Thieret on Tuesday resigned from the post he has held since 2020.
In a letter to City Council, the Republican thanked everyone for their help and support during his time on the council but said he needed to step down for his family.
"At this time, I must place my priorities on my family and I am confident that you will have no trouble finding a suitable candidate to assume the role of Ward 2 representative," he wrote.
Thieret said he will continue to serve the city and citizens any way he could but had to focus on his family at this time.
He was elected in 2019 to represent Ward 2 and re-elected in 2021.
City Council:Infrastructure, economic growth, safe neighborhoods main issues in Massillon ward races
Thieret said Wednesday his resignation came sooner than he anticipated but it was inevitable as he has purchased a home in the city but outside of Ward 2, adding that officials knew of his impending departure.
The retired Massillon firefighter teaches algebra and geometry full time at St. Thomas Aquinas.
"We had to make some choices and that wasn't a particularly easy one but it was going to happen," he said.
Thieret does not intend to seek a seat on City Council in his new ward. When he ran for re-election, he said if appointed to the seat, his second term would be his last.
He does not believe in career politicians.
During his tenure, Thieret worked to bolster the city's police force. Thieret started a neighborhood watch program on social media in 2020 to help keep an eye out for speeding motorists, car vandals, home burglars, dogs running at large, and loud noise or nuisance issues.
City Council:Massillon City Council mulls amended pay raises for mayor, auditor
According to Travis Secrest, elections systems manager at the Stark County Board of Elections, the Republican Central Committee for Massillon's Ward 2 will select Thieret's replacement. The committee has 45 days from the vacancy to appoint the new member. | https://www.indeonline.com/story/news/local/2022/09/07/massillon-ward-2-councilman-jim-thieret-resigns-republicans-to-name-replacement/65742701007/ | 2022-09-07T23:02:31Z | eonline.com | treatment | https://www.indeonline.com/story/news/local/2022/09/07/massillon-ward-2-councilman-jim-thieret-resigns-republicans-to-name-replacement/65742701007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Amazon (AMZN) might be scaling back its logistics investments after overestimating demand in the post-pandemic era, but the company is still investing heavily in one specific area – that of long-term storage.
Last week, the company announced AWD (Amazon Warehousing & Distribution), a new solution which lets sellers use new, purpose-built facilities for the storage of bulk inventory and automated distribution. There are no limits to the amount users can store at these warehouses, and when inventory is running low, products are automatically sent to Amazon’s fulfillment centers.
The new service is part of Amazon’s effort to provide a solution to what it terms the “three biggest pain points” for sellers in warehouse and distribution. These are the high costs of storage, the lack of capacity and complex fee structures.
Retail and Technology might still be the two main drivers of Amazon’s business, but Baird analyst Colin Sebastian thinks the continued efforts to build out 3PL (third-party logistics services) represent a “massive market opportunity,” which he believes could “disrupt legacy 3PL businesses.”
How big a market is this? The analyst previously noted that 3PL has a TAM (total addressable market) worth $500 billion. “Since then,” says Sebastian, “Amazon effectively built out freight forwarding, contract logistics and delivery.”
Akin to how AWS services were gradually added, Sebastian anticipates significant enterprise customers will come on board for its 3PL offering, making Amazon a “strong competitor in the market,” and giving some serious headaches to legacy transportation and logistics companies such as UPS and FedEx.
“Just as AWS was able to save companies from the capital and operating costs of owning on-premise IT infrastructure that was often underutilized and technologically constrained,” the analyst further expounded, “Amazon is providing similar on-demand solutions for manufacturers/ retailers in need of logistics services (or, as Amazon calls it: Supply Chain-as-a-Service).”
Good news for Amazon, then, but what does it all mean for investors? Acknowledging the strength of the company’s forward plans, Sebastian rates Amazon shares an Outperform (i.e. Buy), and his $150 price target suggests an upside of ~16% for the year ahead. (To watch Sebastian’s track record, click here)
The Street’s average target is a more exuberant $176.94, which suggests shares have room for 39% growth over the coming months. While one analyst remains on the fence regarding the ecommerce giant’s prospects, all 38 other recent reviews are positive, making the consensus view here a Strong Buy. (See Amazon stock forecast on TipRanks)
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It’s a big day for GameStop (NYSE: GME), the video game retailer that expanded into electronics, became a meme, went to the moon, and then lost most of its enormous gains. Today it reported earnings, and the news proved mixed but sufficiently encouraging to investors to spark a rally.
The news wasn’t all bad, nor was it all good. Earnings per share proved a surprise winner, of sorts. The company posted a loss of $0.35 per share. TipRanks consensus estimates called for a loss of $0.41 per share. Revenue, however, proved a disappointment. The company posted $1.14 billion in earnings, though the consensus looked for $1.27 billion.
I have long been bearish on GameStop, and nothing I saw today has changed that perception. I marvel at how long this company has lasted, despite so much working against it.
Its business model is in tatters, and its hopes for the future are slim. Throw in worsening macroeconomic conditions, and the end result is all the reason I need to stay away from this one.
The last 12 months for GameStop shares have been on a bumpy ride down for the most part. A year ago, at this time, shares were up around $50. By late November, they briefly broke through $60. Those gains didn’t last long, and by March 2022, GameStop fell to just under $19. More ups and downs followed, leading us to the present day, where shares are trading at around $26 per share.
What is the Prediction for GME Stock?
Turning to Wall Street, GameStop has a Moderate Sell consensus rating. That’s based on one Sell assigned in the past three months. GameStop’s price target of $7.50 implies 68.8% downside potential.
Investor Sentiment Features Bullish Insiders, Bearish Everyone Else
Pessimism about GameStop’s future runs throughout the investing ecosystem. GameStop currently has a Smart Score of 1 out of 10 on TipRanks. That serves as both the lowest score and the lowest level of “underperform.” Thus, it’s clear that most investors aren’t looking for big gains out of GameStop.
However, there’s one place where some optimism reigns, and that’s one of the oddest places of all: insider trading. Insider trading at GameStop is heavily Buy-weighted and has been for months. While none of the Buys have been Informative Buys, the sheer numbers in aggregate offer some insight here.
Over the last three months, Buy transactions beat Sell transactions by six to one.
The picture looks even brighter going back over the full year, where buyers again led sellers, this time by 11 Buy transactions to three sell transactions. To find an Informative Buy, however, you have to go back six months.
The Only Real Problem with GameStop is GameStop
As I mentioned previously, I’m always surprised this company is still around. Its business model is inherently in jeopardy, and that model only worsens when you throw massive inflation and terrible economic conditions into the mix.
GameStop’s primary stock in trade is new and used video games. Used video game sales were a great idea, allowing customers to pick up older games at comparative discounts and also trade in their old games for credit toward new ones.
It was a perfectly self-sustaining model; people bought new games and traded them in later, getting at least some credit toward other new games. Then, GameStop would mark up the used games, selling them for significantly more than they paid to get them. The old games could even be traded back in later to be resold for further profit.
In fact, the only thing that could derail that profit line would be for most people to buy games online direct from publishers or from a centralized hub managed by the system platform itself – and that’s what happened.
One need only look at Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox One S for proof of that one. The Xbox One S has no disc drive. While previous gaming consoles offered added value by allowing users to play DVD or Blu-Ray discs, the Xbox One S offered a discount gaming experience by only offering digital downloading of games.
While the somewhat more advanced Xbox One X continues to allow for disc access, actually finding one available for purchase has been a challenge for the last two years.
Before that, Microsoft facilitated digital game downloads for years. Its Xbox Live platform, as well as its more recent Xbox Cloud Gaming, paved the way for making digital downloads a part of everyday gaming. It’s also made GameStop much less relevant.
As recently as February, gaming industry studies revealed that physical games are a vanishing breed. Ars Technica found that the total number of physical game releases is on the decline and has been since at least 2018.
In 2018, there were 321 physical game releases. 2019 saw that number drop to 307. In 2020, that fell to 233, and just last year, that number dropped again to 226.
Fewer games purchased physically and fewer games available physically taint GameStop’s entire business model. While it’s made some efforts to pull out of that death spiral—made possible by the influx of cash from meme investors—those efforts haven’t exactly been effective.
Its move to online operations hasn’t helped sales much, especially with major platforms like Microsoft offering their own sales venues. Its move into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) had some success, but it was limited.
After an initial burst of interest, consumers left in droves, leaving GameStop to pull in a cut of the sales that measured about $140,000 in revenue for 30 days of operation.
GameStop is doubling down on digital asset sales, however. Earlier today, it announced a new partnership with FTX US. The move looks to draw more attention to GameStop’s lineup of digital assets. Meanwhile, certain GameStop stores will start offering FTX gift cards.
Conclusion: Low Appeal, Multiple Risks, a Bad Idea
Right now, GameStop is in a terrible position. It’s trading several times above its lowest and highest price targets, which suggests that the stock’s value is no longer connected to fundamentals in any clear way. It’s facing growing numbers of competitors in its online trade, and its retail storefronts don’t have much room for growth.
With GME’s primary stock in trade dwindling, trying to find a replacement will be a tall order. Either that or the company will have to shut down huge numbers of storefronts just to keep above water.
The latest earnings report won’t do it any favors, either. It came out ahead of consensus, yes, but it still turned in negative earnings. It hasn’t posted a positive quarter since March, and that was clearly holiday-assisted.
Its forays into NFTs didn’t exactly go far, and while it’s stepping up its momentum in digital asset sales, it’s hard to see how well digital pictures will sell in an environment where people are having a hard enough time keeping the lights on and the kids fed. It’s all the reason I need to stay out of GameStop, and that’s why I’m bearish. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/why-gamestop-stock-nysegme-is-rallying-in-after-hours-trading | 2022-09-07T23:02:58Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/why-gamestop-stock-nysegme-is-rallying-in-after-hours-trading | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pre-market breakdown
Australian shares are set to bounce back after yesterday’s drop, on the back of Wall Street gains overnight.
ASX futures were up 0.50% to 6,756.5 approaching 7am AEST.
The stock market is expected to take its cues from Wall Street, which saw major U.S stock indices finish the trading session overnight in the green.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq 100 increased by 1.4%, 1.83%, and 2.07%, respectively.
Local shares are expected to bounce back higher in early trading, after the S&P/ASX200 finished lower, dropping 97.20 points or 1.42%, to sit at 6,729.3 by close of trade.
The spot gold price was sitting at $US1,718, up 0.90% around 7am AEST.
The Australian dollar was up 0.57%, sitting near US67.30c at the local close, down around 1%.
Bitcoin (BTC-USD) was up just over 2%, sitting around $US19,300. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/australian-stock-market-today-2 | 2022-09-07T23:03:04Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/australian-stock-market-today-2 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A judge on Wednesday sentenced a former Puerto Rico legislator to more than four years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to bribery as part of a kickback scheme.
Nelson del Valle Colón, who was elected to Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives in 2004 and 2016, also was ordered to pay $190,000 in restitution.
He was accused of hiring two women to work in his office and demanding biweekly kickbacks from them ranging from about $500 to $1,300 for more than three years in exchange for their employment and salaries.
The two women have pleaded guilty and are scheduled to be sentenced later this month. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-ex-puerto-rico-legislator-sentenced-in-bribery-scheme/ | 2022-09-07T23:03:04Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-ex-puerto-rico-legislator-sentenced-in-bribery-scheme/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A record heat wave put California in a fossil fuel conundrum: The state has had to rely more heavily on natural gas to produce electricity and avoid power outages while Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration moves toward ending the use of oil and gas.
The heat wave that started more than a week ago has been hotter and longer than any other in the state, and it put unprecedented strain on power supplies. That prompted Newsom to plead with people to use less power to avoid rolling blackouts — a practice that involves cutting some people’s power to save energy so the lights can stay on for everyone else.
The effort worked, but meeting the state’s heightened energy demand also required activating generators fueled by natural gas, which is still a major part of the state’s power picture. The Democratic governor’s calls for conservation also drew criticism about new state policies governing electric vehicles and other measures that will only increase energy demand.
Newsom, speaking to reporters Wednesday, said the “pretty extreme” circumstances required the state to turn to more natural gas as a backup supply.
“We all want to accelerate the elimination of the gas, but it’s a sober reminder of reality,” he said.
Tuesday’s demand for 52,000 megawatts set a record, as triple-digit temperatures blanketed much of the state. Sacramento hit a record high of 116 degrees (47 degrees Celsius), and normally cooler places like San Francisco and San Diego also reached sizzling temperatures.
Demand will only climb in the years ahead. By 2045, when the state is mandated to get all of its electricity from non-carbon or renewable sources, demand is expected to be as high as 78,000 megawatts due to more electric home appliances and cars on the road, according California Energy Commission estimates.
To meet that demand, both the government and major utilities like Pacific Gas & Electric are working to scale up renewable sources such as solar and wind power, as well as large-scale batteries that can store that power for use at night. The California Public Utilities Commission last year ordered utilities to procure enough additional power for 2.5 million homes by 2026.
Newsom just signed legislation aimed at keeping the state’s last nuclear plant open for five years beyond its planned 2025 closure, and he suggested Wednesday that the plant could run even longer if needed.
The sun is typically the state’s biggest power source during the day. But as the hot weather arrived, natural gas surpassed renewables for more time over the past week, according to the California Independent System Operator, which is responsible for managing and maintaining reliability on the state’s power grid.
Gas was the primary energy source all day on Tuesday — the expected peak of the brutal temperatures.
Meanwhile, on Monday the state for the first time turned on four gas-powered generators to add more supply, enough to power 120,000 homes. It planned to rely on some diesel-powered generators as well.
But some of the state’s fossil-fuel plants have their own reliability problems. Several power plants, including aging gas-fired ones along California’s coast, partially broke down or produced less energy than planned, according to the ISO.
Four of the plants, which suck up ocean water to cool down their equipment, were slated to close in 2020, but the state has continually extended their lives to help stabilize the power supply. They now plan to stay open until at least 2023, but they could last even longer under legislation Newsom signed in June.
If the state wants to keep the old coastal gas-powered plants online beyond 2023, it needs to give the companies that own them more certainty about the future so they can decide whether to spend money to maintain them, said Siva Gunda, vice chairman of the California Energy Commission, the state’s energy planning agency.
“Everything has to be moved forward at full throttle” with the “ambitious aim” that cleaner energy sources make up most of the state’s power reserves, he said.
The intensity of the heat wave only emphasizes the need for California to move away from fossil fuels as quickly as possible, he said.
The grid challenges also provided plenty of fodder for Newsom’s political critics, who have argued that Democrats’ policies to move away from oil and gas don’t add up.
The state recently adopted new regulations aimed at ending the sale of most new gas-powered cars in the state by 2035. But during the heat wave, officials also urged people not to charge cars or use other large appliances at night. The state has not banned car charging, but instead urged people to do so during the day.
“Gavin Newsom — You have to buy an electric car. Also Gavin Newsom — But you can’t charge it,” Republican state Sen. Melissa Melendez tweeted Tuesday evening after the state sent out an emergency wireless alert urging people to reduce power use.
Environmental groups say planning failures led California to rely on natural gas — and even ramp up its use — during the heat wave. The state needs to set clearer goals and benchmarks to meet its clean energy targets and ensure that fossil fuels aren’t used as a backup, said Ari Eisenstadt, campaign manager for Regenerate California, a campaign aimed at ending fossil fuel use in the state.
“Folks have been talking about natural gas as a bridge for decades,” he said. “And if it were truly a bridge, we would have crossed it by now.”
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Associated Press journalist Michael R. Blood contributed reporting from Beverly Hills, Calif. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-heat-wave-puts-california-in-fossil-fuel-conundrum/ | 2022-09-07T23:03:49Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-heat-wave-puts-california-in-fossil-fuel-conundrum/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops killed a Palestinian militant during a firefight Wednesday in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The violence erupted after Israel carried out an arrest raid in a refugee camp near the city of Tubas.
The Israeli military said it carried out arrest raids across the West Bank as part of a monthslong crackdown on Palestinian militants. It said its soldiers came under fire during the arrest of a wanted person in the Faraa refugee camp in the northern West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said 21-year-old Younis Ghassan Tayeh died from a bullet wound to the chest. The Israeli military said Tayeh was shot while throwing firebombs at troops.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group issued a statement claiming Tayeh as one of “our martyrs.”
Israel has been conducting near-daily arrest raids in the West Bank for months, which were prompted by a spate of deadly attacks against Israelis earlier this year that killed 19 people.
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed during that time, many of them militants or people involved in clashes. But some civilians have also been killed, including one who inadvertently drove through a battle zone. A veteran Al Jazeera journalist covering the raids also was killed in May.
Israel on Monday said its investigation into the deadly shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh found there was a “high probability” an Israeli soldier had mistakenly killed her during a raid. She had been wearing a helmet and a vest that clearly marked her as a member of the media.
Israel says the arrest raids are meant to dismantle militant networks that have embedded themselves. The Palestinians say the operations are aimed at maintaining Israel’s 55-year military occupation of territories they want for an independent state.
Israel captured the West Bank, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Mideast war and the Palestinians seek those territories for a future state. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-israeli-troops-kill-palestinian-in-west-bank-firefight/ | 2022-09-07T23:03:55Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-israeli-troops-kill-palestinian-in-west-bank-firefight/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge revoked bond Wednesday for a man charged with killing a Memphis woman who was abducted during a pre-dawn run near a university campus.
Cleotha Abston, who told a Shelby County judge he prefers to be referred to as Cleotha Henderson, will be held without bond on charges including first-degree murder in the kidnapping and slaying of Eliza Fletcher, 34.
General Sessions Judge Louis Montesi had ordered him held on $510,000 bond Tuesday on charges of especially aggravated kidnapping, tampering with evidence, theft and fraud.
Henderson had faced only those charges before police on Tuesday identified a body found a day earlier behind a vacant duplex as Fletcher. He was then charged with first-degree murder and made his first court appearance on that charge Wednesday. The judge said the name change to Henderson would be placed in the court record.
The suspect’s public defender has filed a sealed motion regarding his future representation. Details of the motion have not been disclosed. The public defender has not commented publicly on specifics of the charges against Henderson.
Memphis police said Fletcher, a wife, mother of two and a kindergarten teacher, was jogging near the University of Memphis campus when a man forced her into an SUV after a brief struggle about 4 a.m.
Fletcher was reported missing when she did not return home from her regular morning run, and her cellphone and water bottle were discovered in front of a house owned by the university, authorities said.
U.S. Marshals arrested Henderson, 38, on Saturday after police detected his DNA on a pair of sandals found near where Fletcher was last seen, an arrest affidavit showed.
After more than three days of searching, police found Fletcher’s body just after 5 p.m. Monday. Police did not publicly confirm that the body was Fletcher’s until Tuesday morning.
Memphis Police Director Cerelyn “CJ” Davis said it was too early in the investigation to determine how and where Fletcher was killed. Davis said her body was found behind a vacant duplex. A police affidavit said officers noticed vehicle tracks next to the duplex’s driveway and they “smelled an odor of decay.”
Purple running shorts consistent with those Fletcher was wearing were found in a discarded trash bag nearby, the affidavit said.
Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy said Tuesday that Fletcher’s case was an “isolated attack by a stranger.” He stood by that comment Wednesday as he addressed the news media outside the courtroom.
The suspect previously kidnapped a prominent Memphis attorney in 2000, when he was 16 years old. He spent 20 years in prison for that crime, but he had been sentenced to 24. Some have questioned the release. Mulroy has noted Henderson served 85% of the sentence, which Mulroy said was “not unusual.” | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-man-charged-with-killing-memphis-jogger-held-without-bond/ | 2022-09-07T23:04:15Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-man-charged-with-killing-memphis-jogger-held-without-bond/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SEATTLE (AP) — The first day of classes at Seattle Public Schools Wednesday was cancelled and teachers are on strike over issues that include pay, mental health support, and staffing ratios for special education and multilingual students.
“No one wants to strike,” Seattle Education Association President Jennifer Matter said. “But SPS has given us no choice. We can’t go back to the way things have been.”
Contract talks continued.
The district said in an email to parents that it was “optimistic the bargaining teams will come to a positive solution for students, staff, and families.”
Districts around the country have faced labor challenges as the pandemic put extraordinary stress on teachers and students alike. An infusion of federal stimulus money has helped stabilize school district budgets, and teachers unions have sought to improve pay, resources and and working conditions after a difficult few years.
High inflation, a national teacher shortage and the goodwill teachers earned from their pandemic-schooling efforts are all bolstering union efforts, said Bradley Marianno, an assistant professor of education policy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
“By all measures, school budgets actually look pretty good right now,” Marianno said. “So as teachers union contracts are expiring, they’re looking for new deals that essentially send more funding to teachers and more funding to students.”
School in the Seattle suburb of Kent was supposed to start Aug. 25 but has been delayed as teachers there strike. Early Wednesday the union said it had reached a tentative agreement with the district.
Teachers in Columbus — Ohio’s largest school district — last week ended a brief strike, agreeing on a package that included 4% raises, includes plans for building improvements, reduced class sizes and innovative paid leave benefits.
In Denver, marathon bargaining sessions resulted last week in tentative agreement for an 8.7% raise for educators, a higher salary for first-year teachers, and more money from the district for health insurance costs.
Teachers in Minneapolis, Chicago and Sacramento walked out earlier this year before securing new contracts.
In Seattle, the school district has offered pay raises of an additional 1% above the 5.5% cost-of-living increase set by state lawmakers — far less than the union says it wants — plus one-time bonuses for certain teachers, including $2,000 for third-year Seattle teachers earning an English language or dual-language endorsement.
The union says it is opposing the district’s efforts to eliminate staffing ratios for special education students, saying that will mean more work for general education teachers and special education teachers alike. The union also says the district’s proposals would make general education teachers more responsible for supporting multilingual students. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-seattle-teachers-on-strike-over-pay-staffing-issues/ | 2022-09-07T23:04:35Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-seattle-teachers-on-strike-over-pay-staffing-issues/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday pledged his country’s support in resolving long-standing disputes in the Balkans that continue to threaten stability in the troubled region.
Speaking in the Serbian capital Belgrade, Erdogan expressed hope that a recent agreement settling a travel document dispute between Serbia and Kosovo can help further bolster regional stability.
Tensions recently soared between Serbia and Kosovo over a mutual refusal to recognize each other’s travel documents. The dispute was resolved through Western mediation but other problems remain. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008 which Belgrade won’t recognize.
“We are ready to extend our support and I hope that there is now a positive acceleration which will be sustained in the Balkans, because the Balkans can no longer tolerate these kind of problems,” Erdogan said at a joint press conference with Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic.
Erdogan’s stop in Belgrade was part of a tour of the Balkans. He visited Bosnia on Tuesday and on Thursday travels to Croatia where he will inaugurate a mosque.
Turkey has in recent years ramped up its presence in the Balkans, both politically and economically. Mainly Muslim Bosniak communities in Bosnia and Serbia have close relations with Ankara, while Turkish companies have increased investment in infrastructure projects throughout the region.
Erdogan also said Turkey would like to help three rival ethnic groups in Bosnia “find reconciliation.” Tensions there also have been simmering following the devastating 1992-95 war.
Erdogan and Vucic oversaw the signing of a string of cooperation agreements, including abolishing passports and simplifying travel between the two countries through the use of identity cards only. Serbia also asked for Turkey’s help to supply electricity from Azerbaijan through the coming winter amid a continent-wide energy crisis, Vucic said. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-turkeys-erdogan-pledges-help-to-bolster/ | 2022-09-07T23:04:51Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-turkeys-erdogan-pledges-help-to-bolster/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joey Gallo blasted a go-ahead, three-run homer in the second inning, Max Muncy added a pair of solo shots and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 6-3 on Tuesday night.
The NL West leaders reduced their magic number to seven and improved to 11-4 against their rival this season. All of the game’s runs came on homers.
Muncy, who came in hitting .186, went 3 for 4 and drove in three runs, satisfied at how the ball came off his bat.
“Home runs are obviously amazing and I’m happy I hit them, but just seeing the ball fly at the path is better,” he said. “I made a couple mechanical adjustments right before the game.”
Tyler Anderson (14-3) allowed three runs and eight hits in seven innings. The left-hander struck out three and walked two. Craig Kimbrel pitched the ninth to earn his 22nd save.
Muncy doubled leading off the second and Justin Turner walked before Gallo’s 408-foot shot to the right-field pavilion off Jarlin García (1-4) put the Dodgers ahead, 3-1.
Gallo’s bat had a small crack near the handle; he wasn’t sure if it was already broken or broke on the swing.
Gallo was acquired a month ago after a disastrous stint with the New York Yankees. The two-time All-Star’s homer was his fourth with the Dodgers and 16th overall. He made a nifty diving catch in left field that saved two potential runs and ended the second.
“I enjoy being here,” he said. “The lineup we have takes a lot of pressure off. I’m just kind of here. Anybody can take over a game.”
The Dodgers extended their lead to 5-1 on Muncy’s two-out, two-run homer to the right-field pavilion on the first pitch from García in the third.
García gave up five runs and four hits in 1 2/3 innings. He struck out three and walked one.
Muncy went deep to the left-field pavilion against Dominic Leone leading off the sixth.
Lewis Brinson homered on the first pitch of the game and Brandon Crawford added a two-run shot in the sixth for the Giants, who had their four-game winning streak snapped a night after hitting five homers in a 7-4 victory.
Right-hander John Brebbia opened the bullpen game for the Giants, allowing one hit in one inning.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Giants: Reinstated C Joey Bart from seven-day concussion list for his start behind the plate.
Dodgers: RHP Tony Gonsolin (forearm) played catch again but has residual soreness. Manager Dave Roberts remains optimistic the 16-game winner can be “fully ramped up” in time for the postseason. … INF-OF Gavin Lux (neck) won’t be going on the IL, Roberts said.
WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Dodgers left-hander Julio Urías says he’ll pitch for Mexico in next year’s World Baseball Classic.
He joins LA teammates Mookie Betts, Trea Turner and Will Smith who will represent the U.S. and Freddie Freeman, who’ll play for Canada, during the event in March.
Urías represented his country as a teenager, but the WBC will be the first time he does so as a professional. The Mexican left-hander hoped to pitch in the 2017 WBC, but the Dodgers wanted to limit their top prospect’s workload.
UP NEXT
Giants: RHP Alex Cobb (5-6, 3.58 ERA) is enjoying a strong second half. He struck out seven against the Phillies in his last start.
Dodgers: LHP Clayton Kershaw (7-3, 2.59) has a 1.99 ERA and 380 strikeouts in 55 career starts against the Giants.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Major League Baseball Players Association is joining the AFL-CIO in an effort to strengthen its position in the aftermath of one labor struggle and in the midst of another.
Executive director Tony Clark made the announcement Wednesday alongside AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler during an event at the National Press Club, discussing the MLBPA’s attempt to unionize minor leaguers following a nearly 100-day lockout that delayed the start of the season.
Clark cited lessons learned from 2020, when minor league baseball was not played, as a major impetus for this decision.
“Over the past couple of years, our experiences have suggested now is the right time to have that conversation,” he said. “We are in a world now where strengthening our organization, strengthening our player fraternity by bringing the minor leaguers under our umbrella, as well as joining the AFL-CIO and doing so alongside our brothers and sisters that are part of the labor movement, together we’re going to navigate that chaos, and together we’re going to work through it.”
Shuler called it “an incredible moment for the labor movement.” Clark said baseball players want to strengthen their organization by supporting minor leaguers and becoming part of the AFL-CIO.
The MLBPA is the 58th union to affiliate with the AFL-CIO, the largest labor federation in the U.S. with 12.5 million members. The AFL-CIO’s Sports Council already included players’ associations from the NFL, National Women’s Soccer League, United Soccer League and U.S. Women’s National Team.
The International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees, whose members are involved in broadcasting and staging major league games, voiced support for the move.
“Today’s announcement was a winning play by the players’ association,” president Matthew D. Loeb said in a statement. “We look forward to working in solidarity with the MLBPA to improve both the fan experience and the work lives of our members.”
The MLPBA on Tuesday asked management to voluntarily accept the union as the bargaining agent for minor leaguers. Bruce Meyer, the union’s deputy executive director, sent a letter to MLB Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem that claimed a majority of roughly 5,400 minor leaguers had signed authorization cards.
Clark repeated that assertion Wednesday, saying “thousands” of cards had been returned.
The MLBPA, which reached its first collective bargaining agreement for major leaguers in 1968, launched the minor league unionization drive Aug. 28. Players with minor league contracts, who earn as little as $400 weekly during the six-month season, would become their own bargaining unit within the MLBPA.
If MLB does not voluntarily accept the union, signed cards from 30% of the 5,000 to 6,500 minor leaguers in the bargaining unit would allow the union to file a petition to the National Labor Relations Board asking for a union authorization election. A majority vote in an election would authorize union representation.
“We support the MLBPA’s position, and so we’ll bring the full breadth and scope of the labor movement to back them up,” Shuler said. “And we hope that the league does the right thing.”
Baseball and the players settled on terms of a new collective bargaining agreement in March, ending the sport’s ninth work stoppage after 99 days and clearing the way for a full, 162-game regular season with opening day pushed back a week.
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SEATTLE (AP) — This time there were tears, on the court and in the stands. The finality of the situation finally hitting Sue Bird and the thousands that showed up hoping to see her career continue for at least 40 more minutes.
Chelsea Gray was simply too good, sending the Las Vegas Aces to the WNBA Finals by beating the Seattle Storm 97-92 in Game 4 of their WNBA playoffs semifinal series Tuesday night.
It brought an end to Bird’s illustrious career. With it came thanks from fans, tears and one last walk off the court in the same spot where Bird’s career began more than two decades ago.
“Kinda weird. Definitely surreal. I think initially … I felt sad about the season and the game. And I then think as the emotions started to come to the surface that was also what I know deep down in that was my last game,” Bird said.
Gray scored 15 of her 31 points in the fourth quarter and the Aces won the best-of-five series 3-1, all the games tense, pressure-packed and filled with spectacular shot-making. The Aces ended up making more, most notably Gray, who made five of six shots down the stretch and scored 12 of the final 20 points for the Aces.
“I don’t think anyone on planet Earth can guard her,” Seattle coach Noelle Quinn said. “She was unconscious.”
It will be the third Finals appearance in franchise history for Las Vegas. The Aces lost to Seattle in 2020 in the WNBA bubble played in Florida, and the franchise reached the Finals in 2008 while still in San Antonio, losing to Detroit.
“It’s kind of like the girl that beat Serena (Williams). It’s bittersweet,” Aces coach Becky Hammon said. “I know myself and our staff and team and organization have so much respect for Sue. She’s had a fairytale career, one that kids dream of. She got to live it.”
Breanna Stewart tied the WNBA playoff record with 42 points, just the fifth player to score 40 or more in a postseason game, and Jewell Loyd added 29. But Seattle failed to find a third scorer and the Aces had an answer for every charge Seattle made after Las Vegas surged in front early in the second half.
The Aces will get the spotlight in the Finals. On this night, the aftermath of the result was all about Bird and the conclusion to her two decades as a pillar to the Storm franchise and the WNBA.
Bird stayed on the court after the final buzzer, receiving hugs from the entire Aces roster. She wiped away tears while the crowd cheered and cried along with her, and chanted “Thank you, Sue.”
“I also wanted to kind of have one last moment to say thank you, to soak it all in because in some ways, it is a happy thing,” Bird said. “I’m proud of of everything we’ve accomplished here.”
The oldest player in the league at age 41, Bird started the year thinking she’d retire, but brought finality to the decision midway through the regular season.
Las Vegas spoiled the party in Seattle’s home regular-season finale when Bird was honored by the franchise and the league for her 21 seasons with the team and 19 as a player, missing two seasons with injury.
And it was the Aces that finally eliminated Bird and the Storm after four stressful games filled with big performances.
Bird closes out her career as one of the most decorated players of all-time: four WNBA titles, five Olympic gold medals, two collegiate titles at UConn, the WNBA all-time leader in assists and games played, and recognition as one of the great players during a golden generation for the league.
She’ll also take into retirement the definition of being a floor leader and ultimately a winner. But she wasn’t able to add a fifth title to that resume. Bird finished her final game with eight points and eight assists.
“As sad as it is that we’re we’re not having the ability to compete for a championship, I think what’s more devastating … is just the fact that we’re no longer going to be on the court with Sue,” Stewart said.
Gray was the biggest thorn for Seattle with her clutch shooting often late in the shot clock. Seattle pulled even at 67-all, only to have Gray hit a 3 as the shot clock expired.
Gray scored consecutive buckets later in the fourth to keep the Aces ahead, but her miss and Gabby Williams’ three-point play gave Seattle an 83-82 lead with 2:40 left.
That was Seattle’s last lead.
Wilson’s three-point play put the Aces back ahead 85-83 and Gray wouldn’t miss, her jumper with 30 seconds left giving the Aces a 92-87 lead. Wilson finished with 23 points and 13 rebounds. Gray finished as the first player in WNBA playoff history with 30 points and 10 assists in a game.
“When Chelsea is rocking and rolling my biggest thing is just getting the hell out of her way,” Wilson said. “At the end of the day, you just got to get out of the way and let people rock.”
OTHER RETIREMENT
Tuesday was also the final game for Seattle’s Briann January after 14 seasons in the league. January played for four teams with most of her career spent in Indiana.
RECORD HALF
Stewart’s 26 points in the first half was the most in the first half of a playoff game, topping the 24 points Angel McCoughtry had in the first half for Atlanta against Minnesota in 2011. McCoughtry finished that game with 38.
UP NEXT
Las Vegas will host either Connecticut or Chicago in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals on Sunday.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – The Obamas were back in the White House as President Joe Biden and the First Lady hosted them on Wednesday to unveil their official White House portraits.
“There few people I’ve ever known with more integrity, decency and moral courage than Barack Obama,” Biden said. “With Barack as our president, we got up every day and went to work full of hope.”
Former President Barack Obama praised the artist for capturing him as he is, saying “presidents so often get airbrushed, even take on a mythical status.”
Obama also said the head-on portrait will help viewers feel a connection.
“What I want people to remember about Michelle and me, is that presidents and first ladies are human beings like everyone else,” Obama explained.
The portraits will be displayed in the White House alongside portraits of all former presidents and first ladies, but the Obamas’ portraits will stand out.
Michelle Obama noted “a portrait of a bi-racial kid with an unusual name and the daughter of a water pump operator and a stay-at-home mom.”
The Obamas said they hope their portraits on the White House walls send a powerful message.
“It is so important to believe that every young kid who is doubting themselves to believe that they can too,” said Michelle Obama.
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This snippet from
Deutsche Bank on the benchmark US equity index, S&P 500.
DB outline what would trigger the risk of lower:
- in the event we slide into a recession, the sell-off has much further to go
- target in this case is 3000
But, if no economic recession:
- we expect the market to rally back sharply to its prior peaks
- maintain our S&P 500 target for year-end at 4750 | https://www.forexlive.com/news/deutsche-bank-maintain-their-year-end-sp-500-target-at-4750-but-outline-a-case-for-3000-20220907/ | 2022-09-07T23:18:15Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/deutsche-bank-maintain-their-year-end-sp-500-target-at-4750-but-outline-a-case-for-3000-20220907/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
UK Telegraph with the info
New UK PM Truss is moving quickly on oil and gas, this from earlier:
UK to grant 'dozens' of new North Sea oil and gas exploration licences
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The classic American tavern by Vandelay Hospitality Group opens September 8
DALLAS, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
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Known for its Chicago-inspired, classic American cuisine, D.L. Mack's will open its second location on September 8th in a handsome and comfortable old-world setting at 10720 Preston Road, Dallas, TX 75230. "Mack's" is fueled by Vandelay Hospitality Group, the rapidly expanding, Texas-owned-and-operated group behind classic American local favorites Hudson House, Drake's Hollywood, and Brentwood. D.L. Mack's blends the approachable, all-occasions feel of Hudson House with its own distinctly unique Chicago-inspired backdrop.
The 3,533 square foot space on the corner of Preston and Royal features reclaimed wood flooring from a 16th-century French church and reclaimed antique brick straight from 19th century Chicago. Details throughout the classic American tavern include black leather booths inspired by the classic automobiles of the mid-1900s, vintage light installments, vintage cigarette cards highlighting sports and movie stars of the early 20th century, black lacquered bar ceiling with custom brass and a glass back bar.
Just like the original location in University Park, D.L. Mack's food program will offer classic American cuisine by way of carefully sourced purveyors with an emphasis on house-made ingredients. Dishes are prepared from scratch in-house daily, featuring an all-day entrée set with shareable snacks, and of course, pizza. Dallas appetites have grown to love D.L. Mack's purist Chicago cracker crust tavern-style pizza offering. No deep dish to be found here. The thin crust is so crispy, it can't be folded. Other fan favorites include the Larchmont Salad, Blackened Redfish, and Garlic Shrimp Scampi.
The second D.L. Mack's post is just one of many openings this season by Vandelay Hospitality Group, which recently opened Brentwood, in North Dallas, as well as the group's first restaurant outside of Texas. Hudson House will open its fifth location in Los Angeles this year.
D.L. Mack's will open 7 days a week [11am-9pm Sunday - Wednesday and 11am-10pm Thursday - Sunday]. For more information on D.L. Mack's, visit www.dlmacks.com. Follow D.L. Mack's and Vandelay Hospitality on Instagram at @dlmacks and @vandelayhospitality.
Founded by CEO Hunter Pond in 2012, Vandelay Hospitality Group is rooted in developing hospitality brands and services that evoke a combination of rich American heritage, exquisite craftsmanship, eye for detail, and timeless charm. Concepts are framed with the local community at the forefront, often reviving former food and beverage spaces to match and add to the character of the neighborhood. Each property is designed in-house with polished eclecticism paying mind to artisanal aesthetics and a comfortable and timeless experience for all to enjoy. The Vandelay portfolio of sit-down and casual concepts include East Hampton Sandwich Co., Hudson House Restaurant & Raw Bar, Drake's Hollywood, D.L. Mack's, Brentwood Restaurant & Bar and The Anchor Bar (set to open in 2023). Vandelay's dedication to honest food and world-class service is built upon commitment and respect to employees and guests.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Wednesday it’s optimistic about a decline in monkeypox cases and an uptick in vaccinations against the infectious virus, despite worsening racial disparities in reported cases.
Promising to ramp up vaccination offerings at LGBTQ Pride festivals around the country in the coming weeks, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the deputy coordinator of the White House national monkeypox response, said more than 460,000 doses have been given. He stopped short of promising an end to the outbreak.
“Our goal is to control this outbreak in the U.S.,” Daskalakis said. “We’re seeing strong progress, really, getting shots into arms. Now that supply is less of an issue, we need to make sure we focus on maintaining demand.”
The U.S. leads the world with infections — as of Tuesday 20,733 cases had been reported — with men accounting for about 98% of cases and men who said they had recent sexual contact with other men about 93% of cases.
The virus, which can cause a rash, fever, body aches and chills, is spread through close skin-to-skin contact and prolonged exposure to respiratory droplets. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that any man who has had multiple male or transgender sex partners consider vaccination.
The number of infections is slowing after hitting a high of 870 cases in a single day on Aug. 22. But the decline has revealed deepening racial divides.
While cases in white men have dropped in recent weeks, Black people are making up a growing percentage of infections — nearly 38% during the final week of August, according to the latest data available. In the early weeks of the monkeypox outbreak, Black people made up less than a quarter of reported cases.
Latinos are also disproportionately infected, making up nearly a third of infections in recent weeks.
That trend means that public health messaging and vaccines are not effectively reaching those communities, said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
“That tells you there needs to be a major recalibration in your interventions,” Adalja said. “It’s not as impactful as it should be.”
The Biden administration has struggled since the beginning with its response to the outbreak when it was first identified in May. A million doses of the vaccine were awaiting use in the strategic national stockpile, but the U.S. only had 2,000 of those on hand. Shipping and regulatory delays forced a nearly two-month wait for most of the remaining supply, as men lined up for hours outside clinics in major cities hoping to get the shot.
White House officials said Wednesday they’ve rebounded from some of those early missteps, pointing to a recent decline in cases.
Daskalakis said the Biden administration worked to get vaccines directly into the hands of local organizations with ties to the LGBTQ community to increase uptake in Black and Latino communities. He pointed to efforts at recent Pride celebrations in Atlanta and New Orleans as evidence.
“Thousands of individuals are getting the protection against monkeypox that they may not have otherwise,” Daskalakis said. “These events demonstrate our strategy is working.”
In Louisville, Kentucky, 33-year-old Spencer Jenkins hasn’t been impressed with the government’s response to monkeypox. He spent weeks this summer trying to get a vaccine by signing up for long waitlists in cities hours away, including Washington and Chicago.
Jenkins got lucky when his doctor in Louisville was one of a few providers to be given doses of the shot early last month.
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Judge Pro Tem Aryn Masters is set to join the Yakima Municipal Court bench in January after approval Tuesday by the City Council.
Masters is a defense attorney in Yakima County Superior Court and has served as judge pro tem in Yakima, Selah and Yakima County District Court. She’ll take over for Judge Susan Woodward, who retires Jan. 18.
City Manager Bob Harrison said Woodward is one of three court leaders retiring in 2023, meaning significant personnel changes for the court. He recommended Masters to fill her position.
Judicial appointments are made at the recommendation of the city manager, per city code. Once approved by the council, the appointment is valid until the next municipal election in November 2023.
“Given the loss of so much institutional memory, Ms. Masters will provide strong continuity for maintaining the Municipal Court into 2023,” Harrison said in a memo to the council.
At the meeting, he said the appointment was being considered about three months in advance to give Masters time to wrap up her current defense cases in Yakima County Superior Court and give her time to complete judicial training.
Municipal Court Judge Kelly Olwell said Masters has been the court’s primary judge pro tem for the past seven years, actively involved in the court system and filling in for judges as needed. She is knowledgeable and has a wonderful judicial temperament, Olwell said.
“I think that this would be the most positive transition for the court considering that it is undergoing a number of different changes of very learned people,” she said. “This would help keep that stability going.”
Olwell is also expected to retire next year, although she has not yet announced a date. Court Services Manager Linda Hagert also retires Jan. 31, and the judges have appointed Records Administrator Jodi Stephens to fill that position.
Masters, who graduated from Gonzaga University School of Law and has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon, said she has wanted to become a judge since she was a child.
“This is the culmination of a lot of work to get here, and I’d be honored if you appoint me,” she said to the council Tuesday. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/city-council-appoints-aryn-masters-to-yakima-municipal-court-bench/article_f7de1074-2ecd-11ed-a25c-634cedd0c05c.html | 2022-09-07T23:24:16Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/city-council-appoints-aryn-masters-to-yakima-municipal-court-bench/article_f7de1074-2ecd-11ed-a25c-634cedd0c05c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Black Adam Poster Features All Four JSA Members
Black Adam has never seemed like the type of guy who plays well with others. But the latest key art for his big-screen debut forces him to share the spotlight with the Justice Society. With just over a month to go until the film hits theaters, Warner Bros. has released a brand new Black Adam poster featuring Dwayne Johnson’s titular anti-hero overlooking most of his supporting cast. You can check it out for yourself below.
Beneath Johnson’s larger-than-life visage, the poster grants us new looks at all four members of the JSA, including Atom Smasher (Noah Centineo), Hawkman (Aldis Hodge), Cyclone (Quintessa Swindell), and an unmasked Doctor Fate (Pierce Brosnan). We also see two other supporting characters in the bottom left-hand corner. Because they’re so tiny, it’s hard to make out who they are. But one of them might be Sarah Shahi’s Adrianna Tomaz, the resistance fighter who may or may not assume the mantle of Isis in the film.
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— DC (@DCComics) September 7, 2022
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Additionally, DC confirmed that Black Adam’s second full-length trailer will be premiering online sometime tomorrow. Johnson previously confirmed the trailer’s arrival earlier this week, when he shared an Instagram video of himself surprising fans at a recent Black Adam test screening. So it sounds like we can expect lots of new footage of the title character in action, as well as some additional plot details along the way.
Black Adam will fly into theaters on October 21.
What do you think of the new poster for the film? Are you excited to watch the new trailer tomorrow? Let us know in the comment section below!
Recommended Reading: Justice Society of America: Black Adam and Isis
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Harley Quinn’s New Showrunner Teases Her Direction For Season 4
Fans of Harley Quinn rejoiced last week when HBO Max ordered a fourth season of the beloved animated series. However, there’s at least one big change ahead. Original showrunners Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker are turning their full-time attention to the series’ upcoming spinoff, Noonan’s. In their place, Sarah Peters is taking over as Harley’s new head writer. It’s hard to speculate on the direction of the show’s future, especially with two episodes left in the current season. But while speaking with The AV Club, Peters dropped a few hints about what she has in mind for season 4.
Peters isn’t an outsider to Harley Quinn’s biting send-up of the DC Universe. She joined the show’s writing staff in season 2 and went on to write some of its most memorable episodes, the last of which was the season 3 premiere. Her work on the season 2 finale also landed her an Annie Award nomination last year for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production. In other words, she’s already demonstrated a knack for nailing the series’ tone, which means the characters are likely in good hands.
“The show’s tone is super specific, and I love the challenge of mixing emotionally grounded relationships, character-driven jokes, and then also, like, parademons and s**t,” said Peters. “Harley may be fighting Superman, but she’s thinking about an Instagram caption. That irony is my favorite place to draw stories and jokes from.”
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Aside from the winking satire, season 3 has put most of its focus on Harley’s blossoming romance with Poison Ivy. It sounds like this will remain the heart of the series with Peters in charge. But this doesn’t rule out any more fan service down the road. Plus, the usual helping of dark humor will be sticking around as well.
“My main goal as a writer on previous seasons has been to make Harley and Ivy’s relationship honest and relatable,” added Peters. “I believe when we run that kind of arc through high stakes stories and queef jokes, that’s when the show’s at its best. I hope to strike that balance with season four: bringing our amazing fans even more of what they love, as well as exploring new territory of what it means for these two badass superwomen, who see the world very differently, to move forward in their relationship.”
The penultimate episode of Harley Quinn‘s third season will premiere on HBO Max tomorrow, September 8.
Do you like the sound of what Peters has planned Harley’s next adventures? Let us know in the comment section below!
Recommended Reading: Harley Quinn The Rebirth: Deluxe Collection Vol. 1
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SALISBURY, Md.- Wednesday afternoon, set up was in full swing at the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center for a concert fundraiser. Put on by Hope and Life Outreach or HALO. Celeste Savage, the executive director at HALO says this concert will help the organization continue its outreach.
"This is a fundraiser," Savage said. "So every ticket sold goes straight back into HALO. To help offset the cost of operating our facilities."
And their outreach means so much as more and more people are experiencing hard times.
"We work with the homeless population of men women and children in the community and were just seeing the numbers just continue to grow," Savage said.
They hope this is another way to give back to the community as they celebrate 15 years of helping those in need. Along with music and fun, Christina Wilson, the spiritual development administrator, says there will also be a room of prayer for those with heavy hearts.
"It is bigger than a concert," Wilson said. "And we're praying that this will bring a revival to the city and that God will use HALO not just to help the homeless and the hurting but to make an impact on our city. "
The concert will only last a couple hours but the hope is the impact will last another 15 years. | https://www.wboc.com/news/halo-fundraising-concert-celebrates-15-years-of-community-outreach/article_e91faa34-2efa-11ed-a320-e338600838d8.html | 2022-09-07T23:37:18Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/halo-fundraising-concert-celebrates-15-years-of-community-outreach/article_e91faa34-2efa-11ed-a320-e338600838d8.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What is a chromatic scale?
We explain what a chromatic scale is and how to play one
Put simply, a chromatic scale involves playing all the notes (including sharps/flats) between two notes that are an octave apart.
For example, picture the keys on a piano – the heptatonic (seven-note) scale of C Major involves playing only the white keys: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, before reaching C again an octave higher. However, if you were to play a chromatic scale starting on C, you would play 12 notes before reaching C again –playing each white and black key (each semitone) in turn: C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B.
Playing chromatic scales can be useful when learning a new instrument, as each note is practised in turn, but this type of scale is also used within pieces of music. For example, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee makes use of chromatic scales, which help create the frantic feel of the piece when combined with its fast tempo.
When playing a piece of music in a particular key, any accidentals (sharps or flats not usually contained in that key) are also known as chromatic notes. | https://www.classical-music.com/features/musical-terms/what-is-a-chromatic-scale/ | 2022-09-07T23:37:21Z | classical-music.com | control | https://www.classical-music.com/features/musical-terms/what-is-a-chromatic-scale/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK — Brooklyn’s district attorney moved Wednesday to throw out nearly 400 convictions tied to 13 former police officers convicted of a variety of crimes committed while on duty.
In a statement, prosecutor Eric Gonzalez said that though an investigation didn’t uncover specific instances of officers fabricating evidence, their conduct cast doubt on the testimony they gave to secure the convictions.
“These former police officers were found to have committed serious misconduct that directly relates to their official job duties, calling into question the integrity of every arrest they have made," Gonzalez said. “A thorough review by my Conviction Review Unit identified those cases in which their testimony was essential to proving guilt, and I will now move to dismiss those convictions as I no longer have confidence in the integrity of the evidence that underpinned them.”
Forty-seven of the convictions were for felonies and 331 were for misdemeanors, mostly drug possession and traffic violations counts. More than 130 cases were tied to former officer Jerry Bowens, who was charged with supplying drugs to an informant and later shot and killed his ex-girlfriend while his criminal case was pending, according to Gonzalez.
Another 60 cases were connected to Eddie Martins, who pleaded guilty to receiving a bribe and official misconduct for releasing a woman from custody in exchange for sexual favors.
The cases stemmed from arrests that were made between 1999 and 2017. None of the defendants is currently incarcerated, according to the district attorney's office.
Gonzalez was scheduled to appear before a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge Wednesday afternoon to seek the felony dismissals. The misdemeanor conviction dismissals are expected to begin in Brooklyn Criminal Court later this month.
The Brooklyn investigation followed Gonzalez's decision last year to dismiss 90 convictions that relied on the work of former Detective Joseph Franco, who served in Brooklyn from 2004 to 2011. Franco was indicted in 2019 in Manhattan on perjury and other charges alleging he framed innocent people there. Franco has pleaded not guilty. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/brooklyn-da-seeks-to-toss-378-convictions-tied-to-dirty-cops/article_39c1561a-2efe-11ed-852e-e7764a421796.html | 2022-09-07T23:44:59Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/brooklyn-da-seeks-to-toss-378-convictions-tied-to-dirty-cops/article_39c1561a-2efe-11ed-852e-e7764a421796.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — A closely watched experimental drug for Lou Gehrig’s disease got an unusual second look from U.S. regulators on Wednesday, following intense pressure to approve the treatment for those with the fatal illness.
Patients and their families have rallied behind the drug from Amylyx Pharma, launching an aggressive lobbying campaign and enlisting members of Congress to push the Food and Drug Administration to grant approval.
The FDA has approved only two therapies for the disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which destroys nerve cells needed for basic functions like walking, talking and swallowing. The more effective of the two drugs extends life by several months.
In a rare move, the FDA convened a second meeting of neurology advisers who narrowly voted against the company's drug in March. The panel was reviewing new statistical analyses from Amylyx and planned to vote again on whether to recommend approval. The FDA is not required to follow's the group's guidance.
An internal review by FDA scientists posted ahead of the meeting struck a negative tone, concluding that the company's updated analysis was not “persuasive” and provided “no new data.” On the other hand, the FDA's instructions to the panel stressed the need for regulatory flexibility when considering drugs for deadly diseases.
A final FDA decision is expected later this month.
Dr. Billy Dunn, FDA's neurology review director, opened the meeting by noting the “concerns and limitations” with Amylyx's data, while emphasizing the need for new options for patients.
“We are highly sensitive to the urgent need for the development of new treatments for ALS,” Dunn said. “We have not made any final decisions on the approvability of this application.”
Dunn also noted that a larger study being conducted by Amylyx could provide “more definitive results” of the drug's effectiveness by 2024.
The ALS drug review is being closely watched as an indicator of FDA's flexibility in reviewing experimental medications for the terminally ill and its ability to withstand outside pressure.
“We’re here because there’s a lot of pressure,” said Diana Zuckerman of the nonprofit National Center for Health Research, which analyzes data and conducts medical research. “FDA is going the extra mile by saying you can have another meeting, but the company responded by giving them no new data.”
Amylyx conducted one small, mid-stage trial of its drug that showed some benefit in slowing the disease, but was plagued by missing data and other problems, according to FDA reviewers.
The Cambridge, Massachusetts, company says follow-up data gathered after the study showed the drug extended life. Patients who continued taking the drug survived about 10 months longer than patients who never took the drug, according to a new company analysis.
But FDA scientists said in their review that the new approach “suffers from the same interpretability challenges” as the original study.
On Wednesday, the FDA will again hear from patients and advocacy groups, such as I AM ALS, which has lobbied for more than two years to make the drug available.
“We have a drug that the entire ALS community is behind. Patients, clinicians, researchers all support this because of what we’ve seen in data from the trial,” said I AM ALS co-founder Brian Wallach, speaking through an interpreter. “That’s not the case with every drug.”
Amylyx’s medication comes as a powder that combines two older drugs: one prescription medication for liver disorders and a dietary supplement used in traditional Chinese medicine. Wallach and some other ALS patients already take the dietary supplement.
Hanging over the review is FDA’s controversial approval of the Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm last year, which was reviewed by the same agency scientists and outside advisers.
In that case, the FDA disregarded the overwhelmingly negative vote by its outside advisers, three of whom resigned over the decision. The FDA approval — which followed irregular meetings with drugmaker Biogen — is under investigation by congressional committees and federal inspectors. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/als-drug-gets-rare-second-review-at-high-stakes-fda-meeting/article_db69db92-2eed-11ed-9168-4767866e1ecd.html | 2022-09-07T23:45:05Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/als-drug-gets-rare-second-review-at-high-stakes-fda-meeting/article_db69db92-2eed-11ed-9168-4767866e1ecd.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple’s latest line-up of iPhones will boast better cameras, faster processors, and a longer lasting battery — all at the same prices as last year’s models, despite inflationary pressure that has driven up the cost of many other everyday items.
That pricing decision, revealed Wednesday during Apple's first in-person product event in three years, came as a mild surprise. Many analysts predicted Apple would ask its devout fans to pay as much as 15% more to help offset rising costs for many components.
The hoopla surrounding Apple's new iPhone 14 models is part of a post-Labor Day ritual the company has staged annually for more than a decade. Wednesday’s event was held on the company's Cupertino, California, campus at a theater named after company co-founder Steve Jobs. After Apple CEO Tim Cook strolled out on stage, most of the event consisted of pre-recorded video presentation that the company honed during previous events staged during the pandemic.
For several years, Apple’s new iPhones have mostly featured incremental upgrades to cameras and battery life, and this year's models were no exception. Pricing for the standard iPhone 14 will start at $799; the deluxe iPhone 14 Pro Max will start at $1099.
Among the latest improvements is a 48-megapixel camera in the Pro and Pro Max models that the company said will produce especially crisp pictures. The iPhone 13 versions of the Pro and Pro Max have 12-megapixel cameras. This year’s high-end models will also have always-on displays that stay lit even when the device is locked, a feature that has long been available on many smartphones powered by Google’s Android software.
Beginning in November, the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max will be able to send SOS messages via a new satellite feature — a safety measure intended to let users request help when in remote areas without a wireless connection.
All the iPhone 14 models will include a motion senor capable of detecting serious car crashes and automatically connecting to emergency services.
With inflation still hovering at its highest level in 40 years, consumers have curbed their spending on many discretionary items. That's likely contributing to a recent decline in smartphone sales, although the iPhone has fared far better than competing Android devices .
The dimming sales outlook prompted the research firm International Data Corp. to predict a worldwide decline in 2022 smartphone shipments of 6.5%, almost double the 3.5% decline it had estimated a few months ago. Despite that anticipated drop in sales, the average price for new smartphones is expected to finish this year about 6% higher than last year, IDC estimated.
Consumers have still been snapping up iPhones this year, even though Apple already charges among the industry’s highest prices. Apple sold an estimated 106 million iPhones through the first half of this year, an 8% increase from the same time last year, according to Canalys, another research firm.
Forrester analyst Thomas Husson hailed the new lineup for its faster chips, improved design and "some incremental innovative features.”
Apple shares edged up 1% in late afternoon trading.
The company's Apple Watch Series 8, meanwhile, will include a new temperature sensor intended to help women retrospectively track their ovulation cycles in addition to the crash detection feature also debuting on the iPhone 14. The price for the latest Apple Watch, available in stores Sept. 16, will start at $399, the same as last year’s model.
In an effort to broaden the appeal of wearable technology, Apple is rolling out a Watch Ultra model designed to be more durable and offering a variety of special features tailored for hikers, scuba divers and other outdoor enthusiasts. The Watch Ultra, available in stores Sept. 23, will carry a premium price of $799.
CCI Insight analyst Leo Gebbie predicted that the Ultra will compete with existing sports watch brands like Garmin and some luxury Swiss watchmakers that market their products around extreme sports.
Apple also took the wraps off its next generation of wireless earbuds, the AirPods Pro 2, which will also maintain a starting price of $249. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/apple-maintains-prices-on-new-iphones-despite-inflation/article_18190606-2ef0-11ed-9dbb-8fe3021c64cd.html | 2022-09-07T23:45:12Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/apple-maintains-prices-on-new-iphones-despite-inflation/article_18190606-2ef0-11ed-9dbb-8fe3021c64cd.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
JAMES SMITH CREE NATION, Saskatchewan — Canadian police arrested the second suspect in the stabbing deaths of 10 people in the province of Saskatchewan on Wednesday after a three-day manhunt during which they had found the body of his brother.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Myles Sanderson, 32, was located near the town of Rosthern in Saskatchewan at about 3:30 p.m. local time, an RCMP statement said.
An official familiar with the matter said Sanderson’s vehicle was rammed by police and he surrendered. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
The manhunt for the two brothers had entered its third day. The fugitive’s brother and fellow suspect, Damien Sanderson, 30, was found dead Monday near the stabbing sites. Police are investigating if Myles Sanderson, 32, killed his brother.
The stabbing rampage had raised questions of why Myles Sanderson — an ex-con with 59 convictions and a long history of shocking violence — was out on the streets in the first place.
He was released by a parole board in February while serving a sentence of over four years on charges that included assault and robbery. But he had been wanted by police since May, apparently for violating the terms of his release, though the details were not immediately clear.
His long and lurid rap sheet also showed that seven years ago, he attacked and stabbed one of the victims killed in the weekend rampage, according to court records.
Canadian Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said there will be an investigation into the parole board's assessment of Sanderson.
“I want to know the reasons behind the decision" to release him, Mendicino said. “I'm extremely concerned with what occurred here. A community has been left reeling."
Investigators have not given a motive for the bloodshed.
The Saskatchewan Coroner’s Service said nine of those killed were from the James Smith Cree Nation: Thomas Burns, 23; Carol Burns, 46; Gregory Burns, 28; Lydia Gloria Burns, 61; Bonnie Burns, 48; Earl Burns, 66; Lana Head, 49; Christian Head, 54; and Robert Sanderson, 49, One was from Weldon, 78-year-old Wesley Patterson. Authorities would not say how the victims might be related.
Mark Arcand said his half sister Bonnie and her son Gregory were killed.
“Her son was lying there already deceased. My sister went out and tried to help her son, and she was stabbed two times, and she died right beside him,” he said. “Right outside of her home she was killed by senseless acts. She was protecting her son. She was protecting three little boys. This is why she is a hero.”
Arcand rushed to the reserve the morning of the rampage. After that, he said, “I woke up in the middle of the night just screaming and yelling. What I saw that day I can’t get out of my head."
As for what set off the violence, Arcand said: “We’re all looking for those same answers. We don’t know what happened. Maybe we’ll never know. That’s the hardest part of this."
Court documents said Sanderson attacked his in-laws Earl Burns and Joyce Burns in 2015, knifing Earl Jones repeatedly and wounding Joyce Burns. He later pleaded guilty to assault and threatening Earl Burns’ life.
Many of Sanderson's crimes were committed when he was intoxicated, according to court records. He told parole officials at one point that substance use made him out of his mind. Records showed he repeatedly violated court orders barring him from drinking or using drugs.
Canada's Indigenous communities are plagued by drugs and alcohol.
“The drug problem and the alcohol problem on these reserves is way out of hand," said Ivor Wayne Burns, whose sister was killed in the weekend attacks. “We have dead people and we asked before for something to be done.”
Myles Sanderson's childhood was marked by violence, neglect and substance abuse, court records show. Sanderson, who is Indigenous and was raised on the Cree reserve, population 1,900, started drinking and smoking marijuana at around 12, and cocaine followed soon after.
In 2017, he barged into his ex-girlfriend’s home, punched a hole in the door of a bathroom while his two children were hiding in a bathtub and threw a cement block at a vehicle parked outside, according to parole documents.
He got into a fight a few days later at a store, threatening to kill an employee and burn down his parents' home, documents said.
That November he threatened an accomplice into robbing a fast-food restaurant by clubbing him with a gun and stomping on his head. He then stood watch during the holdup.
In 2018, he stabbed two men with a fork while drinking and beat someone unconscious.
When he was released in February, the parole board set conditions on his contact with his partner and children and also said he should not enter into relationships with women without written permission from his parole officer.
In granting Sanderson “statutory release,” parole authorities said: “It is the Board’s opinion that you will not present an undue risk to society."
Canadian law grants prisoners statutory release after they serve two-thirds of their sentence. But the parole board can impose conditions on that freedom, and inmates who violate them -- as Sanderson did more than once -- can be ordered back to prison.
Sharna Sugarman, who was organizing a GoFundMe for the victims, questioned the parole board for releasing him and wondered why Sanderson was still on the loose so many months after he was deemed “unlawfully at large.”
“That’s just egregious to me,” said Sugarman, a counselor who counted one of the stabbing victims as a client. “If they claim that they’ve been looking for him, well, you weren’t looking that hard.”
Mendicino, the public safety minister, said authorities have to make sure nothing like this happens again.
“It’s incredibly important that when someone is at large and there’s a warrant for their arrest, and they have an extensive criminal background, that all the resources are there to be able to apprehend that person as quickly as possible,” he said. “We do need to take a very careful look at what occurred.” | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/canadian-police-arrest-2nd-suspect-in-stabbing-rampage/article_96dfa57e-2efc-11ed-98ea-876b666cc645.html | 2022-09-07T23:45:18Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/canadian-police-arrest-2nd-suspect-in-stabbing-rampage/article_96dfa57e-2efc-11ed-98ea-876b666cc645.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The names of hundreds of U.S. law enforcement officers, elected officials and military members appear on the leaked membership rolls of a far-right extremist group that's accused of playing a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to a report released Wednesday.
The Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism pored over more than 38,000 names on leaked Oath Keepers membership lists and identified more than 370 people it believes currently work in law enforcement agencies — including as police chiefs and sheriffs — and more than 100 people who are currently members of the military.
It also identified more than 80 people who were running for or served in public office as of early August. The membership information was compiled into a database published by the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets.
The data raises fresh concerns about the presence of extremists in law enforcement and the military who are tasked with enforcing laws and protecting the U.S. It’s especially problematic for public servants to be associated with extremists at a time when lies about the 2020 election are fueling threats of violence against lawmakers and institutions.
“Even for those who claimed to have left the organization when it began to employ more aggressive tactics in 2014, it is important to remember that the Oath Keepers have espoused extremism since their founding, and this fact was not enough to deter these individuals from signing up,” the report says.
Appearing in the Oath Keepers' database doesn't prove that a person was ever an active member of the group or shares its ideology. Some people on the list contacted by The Associated Press said they were briefly members years ago and are no longer affiliated with the group. Some said they were never dues-paying members.
“Their views are far too extreme for me,” said Shawn Mobley, sheriff of Otero County, Colorado. Mobley told the AP in an email that he distanced himself from the Oath Keepers years ago over concerns about its involvement in the standoff against the federal government at Bundy Ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada, among other things.
The Oath Keepers, founded in 2009 by Stewart Rhodes, is a loosely organized conspiracy theory-fueled group that recruits current and former military, police and first responders. It asks its members to vow to defend the Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic," promotes the belief that the federal government is out to strip citizens of their civil liberties and paints its followers as defenders against tyranny.
More than two dozen people associated with the Oath Keepers — including Rhodes — have been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack. Rhodes and four other Oath Keeper members or associates are heading to trial this month on seditious conspiracy charges for what prosecutors have described as a weekslong plot to keep then-President Donald Trump in power. Rhodes and the other Oath Keepers say that they are innocent and that there was no plan to attack the Capitol.
The Oath Keepers has grown quickly along with the wider anti-government movement and used the tools of the internet to spread their message during Barack Obama's presidency, said Rachel Carroll Rivas, interim deputy director of research with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. But since Jan. 6 and Rhodes' arrest, the group has struggled to keep members, she said.
That’s partly because Oath Keepers had been associated so strongly with Rhodes that the removal of the central figure had an outsized impact, and partly because many associated with the group were often those who wanted to be considered respectable in their communities, she said.
“The image of being associated with Jan. 6 was too much for many of those folks,” she said.
Among the elected officials whose name appears on the membership lists is South Dakota state Rep. Phil Jensen, who won a June Republican primary in his bid for reelection. Jensen told the AP he paid for a one-year membership in 2014 but never received any Oath Keepers' literature, attended any meetings or renewed his membership.
Jensen said he felt compelled to join because he “believed in the oath that we took to support the US Constitution and to defend it against enemies foreign and domestic." He wouldn't say whether he now disavows the Oath Keepers, saying he doesn't have enough information about the group today.
“Back in 2014, they appeared to be a pretty solid conservative group, I can't speak to them now,” he said.
ADL said it found the names of at least 10 people who now work as police chiefs and 11 sheriffs. All of the police chiefs and sheriffs who responded to the AP said they no longer have any ties to the group.
“I don’t even know what they’re posting. I never get any updates,” said Mike Hollinshead, sheriff of Idaho’s Elmore County. “I'm not paying dues or membership fees or anything.” | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/elected-officials-police-chiefs-on-leaked-oath-keepers-list/article_03f8f824-2eec-11ed-b016-ef433a68686f.html | 2022-09-07T23:45:24Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/elected-officials-police-chiefs-on-leaked-oath-keepers-list/article_03f8f824-2eec-11ed-b016-ef433a68686f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The names of hundreds of U.S. law enforcement officers, elected officials and military members appear on the leaked membership rolls of a far-right extremist group that's accused of playing a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to a report released Wednesday.
The Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism pored over more than 38,000 names on leaked Oath Keepers membership lists and identified more than 370 people it believes currently work in law enforcement agencies — including as police chiefs and sheriffs — and more than 100 people who are currently members of the military.
It also identified more than 80 people who were running for or served in public office as of early August. The membership information was compiled into a database published by the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets.
The data raises fresh concerns about the presence of extremists in law enforcement and the military who are tasked with enforcing laws and protecting the U.S. It's especially problematic for public servants to be associated with extremists at a time when lies about the 2020 election are fueling threats of violence against lawmakers and institutions.
"Even for those who claimed to have left the organization when it began to employ more aggressive tactics in 2014, it is important to remember that the Oath Keepers have espoused extremism since their founding, and this fact was not enough to deter these individuals from signing up," the report says.
Appearing in the Oath Keepers' database doesn't prove that a person was ever an active member of the group or shares its ideology. Some people on the list contacted by The Associated Press said they were briefly members years ago and are no longer affiliated with the group. Some said they were never dues-paying members.
"Their views are far too extreme for me," said Shawn Mobley, sheriff of Otero County, Colorado. Mobley told the AP in an email that he distanced himself from the Oath Keepers years ago over concerns about its involvement in the standoff against the federal government at Bundy Ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada, among other things.
The Oath Keepers, founded in 2009 by Stewart Rhodes, is a loosely organized conspiracy theory-fueled group that recruits current and former military, police and first responders. It asks its members to vow to defend the Constitution "against all enemies, foreign and domestic," promotes the belief that the federal government is out to strip citizens of their civil liberties and paints its followers as defenders against tyranny.
More than two dozen people associated with the Oath Keepers — including Rhodes — have been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack. Rhodes and four other Oath Keeper members or associates are heading to trial this month on seditious conspiracy charges for what prosecutors have described as a weekslong plot to keep then-President Donald Trump in power. Rhodes and the other Oath Keepers say that they are innocent and that there was no plan to attack the Capitol.
The Oath Keepers has grown quickly along with the wider anti-government movement and used the tools of the internet to spread their message during Barack Obama's presidency, said Rachel Carroll Rivas, interim deputy director of research with the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project. But since Jan. 6 and Rhodes' arrest, the group has struggled to keep members, she said.
That's partly because Oath Keepers had been associated so strongly with Rhodes that the removal of the central figure had an outsized impact, and partly because many associated with the group were often those who wanted to be considered respectable in their communities, she said.
"The image of being associated with Jan. 6 was too much for many of those folks," she said.
Among the elected officials whose name appears on the membership lists is South Dakota state Rep. Phil Jensen, who won a June Republican primary in his bid for reelection. Jensen told the AP he paid for a one-year membership in 2014 but never received any Oath Keepers' literature, attended any meetings or renewed his membership.
Jensen said he felt compelled to join because he "believed in the oath that we took to support the US Constitution and to defend it against enemies foreign and domestic." He wouldn't say whether he now disavows the Oath Keepers, saying he doesn't have enough information about the group today.
"Back in 2014, they appeared to be a pretty solid conservative group, I can't speak to them now," he said.
ADL said it found the names of at least 10 people who now work as police chiefs and 11 sheriffs. All of the police chiefs and sheriffs who responded to the AP said they no longer have any ties to the group.
"I don't even know what they're posting. I never get any updates," said Mike Hollinshead, sheriff of Idaho's Elmore County. "I'm not paying dues or membership fees or anything."
Hollinshead, a Republican, said he was campaigning for sheriff several years ago when voters asked him if he was familiar with the Oath Keepers. Hollinshead said he wanted to learn about the group and recalls paying for access to content on the Oath Keepers' website, but that was the extent of his involvement.
Benjamin Boeke, police chief in Oskaloosa, Iowa, recalled getting emails from the group years ago and said he believes a friend may have signed him up. But he said he never paid to become a member and doesn't know anything about the group.
Eric Williams, police chief in Idalou, Texas, also said in an email that he hasn't been a member or had any interaction with the Oath Keepers in over 10 years. He called the storming of the Capitol "terrible in every way."
"I pray this country finds its way back to civility and peace in discourse with one another," he said. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/elected-officials-police-chiefs-on-leaked-oath-keepers-list/article_ea5306fe-2ef9-11ed-9629-43a5051cf3ee.html | 2022-09-07T23:45:30Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/elected-officials-police-chiefs-on-leaked-oath-keepers-list/article_ea5306fe-2ef9-11ed-9629-43a5051cf3ee.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Gabriel Testerman is seen in a picture provided by the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office. Testerman is a sergeant with the Wyoming Highway Patrol, but has been on administrative leave since May 2 pending a Laramie County criminal investigation, according to WHP. He was arrested Aug. 30.
CHEYENNE — A Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper arrested earlier this week is no longer in custody, a Laramie County jail official said Thursday.
Sgt. Gabriel Testerman bonded out Wednesday, Laramie County jail Capt. Don Hollingshead told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Testerman’s bond had been set at 10% of $100,000 at his initial appearance Wednesday in Laramie County Circuit Court, Hollingshead said.
Testerman was arrested Tuesday, according to a WHP news release distributed that day. He was stationed in Cheyenne. He was placed on administrative leave in early May after the agency learned of a Cheyenne Police Department investigation involving him, the news release said.
It’s unclear exactly what Testerman has been charged with. A Laramie County Circuit Court employee said Thursday that they “don’t have any information about that case.” No public documents had been filed in the case as of late Thursday afternoon, according to a WTE records search.
On Wednesday, Cheyenne Police Department Sgt. Kevin Malatesta told the WTE the law limits what the department can say about the case. He cited Wyoming statute 6-2-319(a), which prohibits a public employee from releasing information about an alleged perpetrator before charges are filed in district court.
Wyoming statute 6-2-319 applies to charges of sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual assault of a minor and soliciting.
Malatesta said he wasn’t sure why Testerman’s name was included in the Highway Patrol news release, but that “it was probably an attempt for transparency.”
The statute does say that “the actor’s name may be released to the public to aid or facilitate an arrest. This subsection shall not apply if release of the name or information is necessary to enforce an order for protection against the alleged actor.”
“We look at every allegation seriously – we’re investigating this just as we would any other,” Malatesta told the WTE on Wednesday. “The fact that this person is a law enforcement officer does not give them preferential treatment. We do our investigation in the same manner and with the same professionalism.”
On May 2, the Highway Patrol was contacted by the Cheyenne Police Department about an investigation involving a trooper, according to Tuesday’s news release. It said the trooper, Testerman, was immediately removed from service and placed on administrative leave pending the investigation.
WHP spokesperson Sgt. Jeremy Beck said Testerman has been with the agency since August 2005. Beck declined to provide any details about Testerman’s job duties.
An investigation is ongoing. The Highway Patrol is “cooperating fully with the investigation,” the news release said. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/trooper-no-longer-in-custody-at-laramie-county-jail/article_35f019dc-2d36-11ed-81ab-ffbbda9a2b28.html | 2022-09-07T23:46:04Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/trooper-no-longer-in-custody-at-laramie-county-jail/article_35f019dc-2d36-11ed-81ab-ffbbda9a2b28.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...AIR QUALITY ALERT IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM MDT THURSDAY...
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Carbon County...northern Albany County...north Laramie
Range...Converse and Niobrara Counties.
WHEN...Through 1PM Thursday
IMPACTS...Heavy smoke from wildfires in Idaho.
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
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for Wyoming's monitoring stations and health effects information to
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From left, Rawlins High senior ReggiLee Conley-Hellman, sophomore Kasadie O’melia and senior Morgan Lonn worked together to launch the ball over the net during a match against Laramie on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, in Laramie.
From left, Rawlins High senior ReggiLee Conley-Hellman, sophomore Kasadie O’melia and senior Morgan Lonn worked together to launch the ball over the net during a match against Laramie on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, in Laramie.
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Rawlins High sophomore Kendaie O’melia, right, serves the ball during a match against Laramie on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, in Laramie.
LARAMIE — The first week of full volleyball matches had a pair of regional teams meet at the net Tuesday night when Class 3A Rawlins took on 4A Laramie for a nonconference match at the LHS main gym.
Both teams showed efficiency and chemistry at times and areas needing improvement at other times as Laramie won in three sets 25-11, 25-18, 25-16.
The match showcased two programs with recent success. Rawlins won a 3A state title in 2019, and Laramie is defending back-to-back 4A state championships in 2020-21.
With five players over 6-feet tall, Laramie had a significant height advantage at the net, but the Outlaws compensated with scrappiness and taking advantage of keeping plays alive.
“Laramie is a tough team,” Rawlins coach Aubrey Griffiths said. “Obviously, they have way tall people and we have way short people. I think my girls fought pretty hard through most of the game. We made some silly mistakes and we gave them some easy stuff, but overall I’m not sad with how we played.
“We played aggressive and had fun. We knew what it was going to be like coming into it already playing them in Cheyenne. We knew their tendencies and how good they are. We just wanted to come here, have fun and play the game.”
The teams last met during the first weekend of the season at the Cheyenne Invitational on Aug. 27 with the Lady Plainsmen prevailing 25-14, 25-17 in a best-of-three sets format.
Laramie (8-4) took advantage of an 8-1 run to start the first set that featured no ties or lead changes with the final tally being the largest margin at 14 points.
“I’m really excited about our overall set distribution,” Laramie coach Jill Stucky said. “We were in-system enough where we could run the offense we wanted to run — move the ball toward the right side, toward the middle and toward the outside. Our setter had her choice of what she wanted to do, and Maddy (Stucky) distributed the ball pretty evenly throughout the group.”
Maddy Stucky notched 26 assists with six different players recording at least a kill.
The Outlaws bounced back early in the second set for a 4-4 tie before the Plainsmen used another 8-1 run for separation and a 12-5 lead. Rawlins closed the gap to five points at 23-18 late in the frame with a solo block from senior Kayli Phipps. Laramie junior Anna Sell ended the set with an ace for a 2-0 match lead.
The third set started with another early 4-4 tie and the Plainsmen later clinging to a one-point lead at 11-10 before a modest 5-1 run for a 16-11 difference and closed the match with a 6-2 run.
Sophomore Savanna Steiert led Laramie with 13 kills and admitted she and other new varsity players had to get used to playing in front of a large home crowd.
“It went pretty good. We made some little errors, and it was our first home game, so I think we were all a little bit nervous,” Steiert said. “But overall, we played really good and will be ready to bring it for our next home game. I was nervous playing in front of a huge student section for the first time, but it worked out fine and was fun.”
LHS junior Noel Jensen added seven kills and sophomore Michon Sailors had six kills. Defensively, seven players recorded at least a dig, led by Sell’s nine and Steiert and senior libero had eight each.
Team stats for Rawlins were not available.
The Plainsmen have a bit of a break from competition before beginning East Conference matches on Sept. 15 hosting Cheyenne East.
“We are going to work on some pressure serving and moving our middles around a little bit and not running the same thing over and over,” Jill Stucky said. “We have to progress as a team, develop as a team and have to move forward.”
The Outlaws (2-6, 1-0 3A Southeast) will return to quadrant play on Sept. 16 at Douglas.
David Watson is the WyoSports assistant editor. He can be reached at dwatson@wyosports.net or 307-755-3327. Follow him on Twitter at @dwatsonsports. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/sports/laramie-rawlins-meet-in-nonconference-action/article_2ac2464e-2f01-11ed-b257-c7cf56e67956.html | 2022-09-07T23:46:10Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/sports/laramie-rawlins-meet-in-nonconference-action/article_2ac2464e-2f01-11ed-b257-c7cf56e67956.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Western freshman midfielder McCall Hogge tries to shake off some defenders during Wednesday's game.
ROCK SPRINGS – The Western Wyoming Community College Lady Mustangs defeated Colorado Northwest Community College, 3-0, in the squad’s first home game of the regular season on Wednesday.
Under the bright, hot sun at Tiger Stadium at Rock Springs High School, the Lady Mustangs didn’t take their time getting on the scoreboard.
In the sixth minute of the game, freshman forward Emma Granthem found the back of the net with the assist coming from sophomore midfielder Corienne Henderson, giving Western a 1-0 advantage.
“The first half was a little rough. We played four games Friday, Saturday and Sunday on a road trip to Kansas. I think their legs were a little tired. They picked it up in the second half and it was much better,” said Western coach Brady Baldwin.
With the Lady Mustangs’ defense controlling most of the game, the squad was able to pressure on CNCC offensively.
In the 46th minute, Western sophomore defender Shelby Steele was able to connect on a penalty kick to make it a 2-0 game.
Later on, in the 81st minute, Granthem scored her second goal of the game by converting a penalty kick to make it 3-0.
Baldwin liked what he saw from the team for the most part. With games against Laramie County Community College and Western Nebraska Community College this weekend, he said he would like to see the team’s communication and possession of the ball get better.
“LCCC is always a good team and Western Nebraska is good this year. They beat Casper, so neither one of them is going to be a slouch. Communication is going to be huge and we just need to finish the ball. We’re having a little bit of issue finishing the ball, but when we’re able to find the back of the net, I think we’ll be good,” he said.
The Lady Mustangs play LCCC at Rock Springs Junior High School at 1 p.m. on Friday.
They play WNCC at 1 p.m. on Saturday at the same location. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/lady-mustangs-blank-cncc-3-0-in-first-home-game-of-the-season/article_7732efb2-2ef5-11ed-afc1-43680707676d.html | 2022-09-07T23:46:17Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/lady-mustangs-blank-cncc-3-0-in-first-home-game-of-the-season/article_7732efb2-2ef5-11ed-afc1-43680707676d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LANSING, Mich. — On August 31, the State Board of Canvassers were deadlocked about whether or not the Reproductive Freedom For All proposal should be on the November ballot. The board, which consists of two Republicans and two Democrats, were at a standstill — 2-2, along party lines — about the spacing of the words in the proposal. So, they didn’t certify.
A week later, on Wednesday morning, the Reproductive Freedom For All organization along with dozens of pro-choice supporters rallied in Lansing near City Hall to continue their push to get the proposal on the ballot.
“We’re out. We’re getting our volunteers energized around the need to restore Roe v. Wade here in Michigan,” said Nicole Wells Stallworth during an interview with Fox 17. “The State Board of Canvassers last week in their meeting declined to do a very procedural part of their duty, which was to certify our proposal for the November 8th ballot, on a deadlock vote.”
Stallworth is the executive director for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan. She said she was disappointed when she learned that the board was deadlocked. For months, RFFA and volunteers collected a record-breaking 750,000+ signatures to get it qualified to be on the ballot.
“This is an apolitical issue. Voters understand that. They understand that this is a medical access issue,” Stallworth said. “Any doctor will tell you that every pregnancy is different and anything can happen at any point during a woman’s pregnancy. We want doctors to make the right choices together with their patients about how to care for a pregnant person during their gestation.”
Stallworth said what was at stake was the dormant 1931 law that criminalized abortion in Michigan. However, Wednesday afternoon, Judge Elizabeth Gleicher of the Court of Claims ruled that the ban was unconstitutional.
However, that ruling doesn’t impact the future of the ballot proposal.
“I was very disappointed in [the board of canvassers]. Not surprised but very disappointed,” said Beata Lamparski of Fems for Democracy. “I was so glad that we had an alternative plan of action.”
That plan was a request to have the Michigan Supreme Court step in. Friday September 9 is the deadline to hear from the court.
Lamparski, who’s also a member of the Michigan Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Network, said she hopes they do and that they judicially decide the path ahead for the proposal.
In the meantime, she saw Wednesday’s rally as a positive step forward.
“I’d like to see it as a first step words getting this proposal on the ballot and passed in November to remind people that there is interest and that politics needs to stay out and voters need to step in,” Lamparski said. | https://www.fox17online.com/homepage-showcase/politics-need-to-stay-out-voters-need-to-step-in-pro-choice-activists-rally-in-support-of-ballot-proposal | 2022-09-07T23:47:09Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/homepage-showcase/politics-need-to-stay-out-voters-need-to-step-in-pro-choice-activists-rally-in-support-of-ballot-proposal | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Shelling resumed near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, with the warring sides trading blame again on Wednesday, a day after the U.N. atomic watchdog agency pressed for a safe zone there to prevent a catastrophe.
Russian forces fired rockets and heavy artillery on the city of Nikopol, on the opposite bank of the Dnieper River from Europe's largest nuclear plant, regional Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko said.
"There are fires, blackouts and other things at the (plant) that force us to prepare the local population for the consequences of the nuclear danger," Reznichenko said. Officials in recent days have distributed iodine pills to residents to help protect them in the event of a radiation leak.
In Enerhodar, where the power plant is located, Dmytro Orlov, the pre-occupation mayor, reported the city had come under Russian attack for a second time Wednesday and was without power. "Employees of communal and other services simply do not have time to complete emergency and restoration work, as another shelling reduces their work to zero," he said on the Telegram messaging app.
The Russian side blamed the Ukrainians. Vladimir Rogov, head of the Russia-installed Enerhodar administration, said on Telegram that heavy Ukrainian fighting had caused the city's blackout, and Russia's Defense Ministry blamed the outage on a Ukrainian attack on a power substation.
Russian rockets on Wednesday hit Mala Tokmachka 90 kms (55 miles) northeast of Enerhodar, killing three people and injuring five, Zaporizhzhia regional Gov. Oleksandr Starukh reported.
It's not possible to independently reconcile the conflicting reports of the fighting, which has caused international alarm.
The head of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, has warned that "something very, very catastrophic could take place" at the Zaporizhzhia plant and urged Russia and Ukraine to establish a "nuclear safety and security protection zone" around it. The fear is that the fighting could trigger a disaster on the scale of the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986.
Neither Moscow nor Kiev officials would immediately commit to a safety zone.
Conditions at the plant have worsened. Because of damage to external power lines from the fighting, the plant is generating electricity only to power safety systems that keep the reactor cores cool and prevent them from melting down, a Ukrainian official said. Any further power disruption could force the plant to use back-up diesel generators, requiring four diesel fuel trucks a day to travel through the fighting, said Oleh Korikov, Ukraine's acting chief inspector for nuclear and radiation safety.
"We could potentially be in a situation where we run out of diesel," he said. "And this can lead to an accident with damage to the active zone of the reactors and, accordingly, the release of radioactive products into the environment."
The plant had to activate its diesel generators late last month, according to Ukrainian officials.
Authorities could consider shutting down the plant, Korikov said, without offering details.
The plant's operator, Energoatom, said that despite the shelling, Ukrainian staff still working at the Russian-occupied plant will try to restore external power.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday defied pressure to halt the war, saying Moscow will forge ahead with its offensive and mocked Western attempts to stop Russia with sanctions.
Putin told an annual economic forum in the far-eastern port city of Vladivostok that even though the IAEA didn't assign blame for the shelling around the Zaporizhzhia plant, claims that Russian forces are responsible are "absolute nonsense." He asked rhetorically, "Well, are we shooting at ourselves or what?"
He claimed fragments of Western weapons have been found at the plant, denied that Russia has placed military equipment there and said he doesn't understand why Ukraine would fire on the facility, other than "to create an additional crisis."
Heavy fighting was reported on three fronts: in the north, near the city of Kharkiv; in the east, in the industrial Donbas region of mines and factories; and in the south, in the Kherson region, where Ukraine has mounted a counteroffensive to try to retake territory from the Russians.
Ukrainian forces have taken control of an unspecified number of towns in the Kherson region, military spokesperson Nataliya Humenyuk said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his nightly video address, also reported success in the Kharkiv region, without providing details.
The Ukrainian military said it had foiled Russian attempts to advance on a dozen settlements in the east, including the city of Bakhmut, which the UK defense ministry has identified as "probably Russia's planned main effort." Capturing Bakhmut would enable Moscow's forces to threaten Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, the region's two largest Ukrainian-held cities.
Sloviansk came under Russian fire on Wednesday, and a school and another building were damaged, according to mayor Vadym Lyakh.
Firefighters dug deep into the smoldering rubble of an apartment building and removed at least one body. Chunks of bricks, masonry and concrete lay among torn tree branches, broken glass and roof tiles. Metal doors, buckled by the blast's force, hung off their hinges.
The strike came at around 4 a.m., said resident Raisa Smelkova, 75, who lives in another part of the building. She and her husband were unhurt. The couple lived through the fighting in Ukraine in 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimea region.
"What is happening now is not just scary, it's gruesome," she said. "There is more destruction. Everything is worse. Just everything."
In other developments:
—Andrei Turchak, the leader of United Russia, the main Kremlin-directed political party, suggested that referendums on joining the Russian Federation could be held in the eastern Donbas and other Russia-controlled areas in Ukraine on Nov. 4, when Russia marks National Unity Day. Russia has already recognized some parts of the Donbas as sovereign.
—The United States said Wednesday that it has evidence showing "hundreds of thousands" of Ukrainian citizens have been interrogated, detained and forcibly removed to Russia. Russia dismissed the allegation as "fantasy," calling it the latest invention in a Western disinformation campaign.
—The Russian military on Wednesday ended large-scale drills in the country's east that involved forces from China. It was seen as another show of increasingly close ties between Moscow and Beijing, con trasting with tensions with the West over the war.
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Elena Becatoros in Sloviansk contributed to this report.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that he wants Mississippi's capital city to receive "its fair share" of federal money to repair a troubled water system that left homes and businesses without running water for several days.
Even with water flowing from taps and people again able to flush toilets this week, Jackson lacks safe drinking water. The city of 150,000 is in the sixth week of a boil-water advisory from the state health department because of concerns that low pressure could allow contaminants into the water.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan was in Jackson to meet with residents and state and local elected officials Wednesday. He touted the $1 trillion federal infrastructure law that President Joe Biden signed in November.
Mississippi is set to receive more than $4 billion from the law, with most of the money designated for highways and bridges, the White House said. The state's allocation includes $429 million over five years to improve water systems.
"It's our desire that the city of Jackson gets its fair share," Regan said during a meeting with community leaders. "It's our desire that the city of Jackson doesn't have to live with what you all have lived with for far too long."
Jackson's main water-treatment plant malfunctioned in late August after torrential rain caused flooding along the Pearl River. The influx altered the quality of the raw water entering the plant from a reservoir. That slowed the treatment process, depleted supplies in water tanks and caused a dangerous drop in pressure.
But even before the rainfall, officials said some water pumps had failed and a treatment plant was using backup pumps. A rental pump was installed last week, and the system's water pressure is back to normal.
Groups are distributing bottled water at drive-thru sites, and restaurants are bringing tanks of clean water from suburbs.
About 25% of Jackson's residents live in poverty, and the city's tax base has declined with a sharp decrease in population since 1980 — a change that happened along with mostly white flight that started about a decade after public schools began integrating in 1970.
Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson sat with Regan at the community meeting and toured Jackson's main water plant with the administrator, Gov. Tate Reeves and Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba. Other members of Mississippi's congressional delegation also participated in meetings with them about short-term and long-term solutions for the city's water problems.
"We do know that will require all of us working together to cut through the bureaucracy," Regan said during a news conference at Jackson State University.
Thompson pointed out during the community meeting that Regan is from North Carolina, which also has a large Black population.
"He understands the challenges, especially (for) communities of color," said Thompson, the only Black member of Mississippi's congressional delegation. "Under this current administration, they have taken the fact that many of these communities have been underserved by its government and tried to right the ship."
Jackson's water system has been fragile for years, with officials warning that widespread loss of service was possible. A cold snap in 2021 froze pipes and some water treatment equipment, leaving tens of thousands of people without running water. Similar problems happened again early this year, on a smaller scale. The EPA also told Jackson months ago that its water system violates the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/epa-leader-jackson-needs-fair-share-of-money-to-fix-water | 2022-09-07T23:50:20Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/epa-leader-jackson-needs-fair-share-of-money-to-fix-water | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Shelling resumed near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, with the warring sides trading blame again on Wednesday, a day after the U.N. atomic watchdog agency pressed for a safe zone there to prevent a catastrophe.
Russian forces fired rockets and heavy artillery on the city of Nikopol, on the opposite bank of the Dnieper River from Europe's largest nuclear plant, regional Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko said.
"There are fires, blackouts and other things at the (plant) that force us to prepare the local population for the consequences of the nuclear danger," Reznichenko said. Officials in recent days have distributed iodine pills to residents to help protect them in the event of a radiation leak.
In Enerhodar, where the power plant is located, Dmytro Orlov, the pre-occupation mayor, reported the city had come under Russian attack for a second time Wednesday and was without power. "Employees of communal and other services simply do not have time to complete emergency and restoration work, as another shelling reduces their work to zero," he said on the Telegram messaging app.
The Russian side blamed the Ukrainians. Vladimir Rogov, head of the Russia-installed Enerhodar administration, said on Telegram that heavy Ukrainian fighting had caused the city's blackout, and Russia's Defense Ministry blamed the outage on a Ukrainian attack on a power substation.
Russian rockets on Wednesday hit Mala Tokmachka 90 kms (55 miles) northeast of Enerhodar, killing three people and injuring five, Zaporizhzhia regional Gov. Oleksandr Starukh reported.
It's not possible to independently reconcile the conflicting reports of the fighting, which has caused international alarm.
The head of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, has warned that "something very, very catastrophic could take place" at the Zaporizhzhia plant and urged Russia and Ukraine to establish a "nuclear safety and security protection zone" around it. The fear is that the fighting could trigger a disaster on the scale of the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986.
Neither Moscow nor Kiev officials would immediately commit to a safety zone.
Conditions at the plant have worsened. Because of damage to external power lines from the fighting, the plant is generating electricity only to power safety systems that keep the reactor cores cool and prevent them from melting down, a Ukrainian official said. Any further power disruption could force the plant to use back-up diesel generators, requiring four diesel fuel trucks a day to travel through the fighting, said Oleh Korikov, Ukraine's acting chief inspector for nuclear and radiation safety.
"We could potentially be in a situation where we run out of diesel," he said. "And this can lead to an accident with damage to the active zone of the reactors and, accordingly, the release of radioactive products into the environment."
The plant had to activate its diesel generators late last month, according to Ukrainian officials.
Authorities could consider shutting down the plant, Korikov said, without offering details.
The plant's operator, Energoatom, said that despite the shelling, Ukrainian staff still working at the Russian-occupied plant will try to restore external power.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday defied pressure to halt the war, saying Moscow will forge ahead with its offensive and mocked Western attempts to stop Russia with sanctions.
Putin told an annual economic forum in the far-eastern port city of Vladivostok that even though the IAEA didn't assign blame for the shelling around the Zaporizhzhia plant, claims that Russian forces are responsible are "absolute nonsense." He asked rhetorically, "Well, are we shooting at ourselves or what?"
He claimed fragments of Western weapons have been found at the plant, denied that Russia has placed military equipment there and said he doesn't understand why Ukraine would fire on the facility, other than "to create an additional crisis."
Heavy fighting was reported on three fronts: in the north, near the city of Kharkiv; in the east, in the industrial Donbas region of mines and factories; and in the south, in the Kherson region, where Ukraine has mounted a counteroffensive to try to retake territory from the Russians.
Ukrainian forces have taken control of an unspecified number of towns in the Kherson region, military spokesperson Nataliya Humenyuk said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his nightly video address, also reported success in the Kharkiv region, without providing details.
The Ukrainian military said it had foiled Russian attempts to advance on a dozen settlements in the east, including the city of Bakhmut, which the UK defense ministry has identified as "probably Russia's planned main effort." Capturing Bakhmut would enable Moscow's forces to threaten Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, the region's two largest Ukrainian-held cities.
Sloviansk came under Russian fire on Wednesday, and a school and another building were damaged, according to mayor Vadym Lyakh.
Firefighters dug deep into the smoldering rubble of an apartment building and removed at least one body. Chunks of bricks, masonry and concrete lay among torn tree branches, broken glass and roof tiles. Metal doors, buckled by the blast's force, hung off their hinges.
The strike came at around 4 a.m., said resident Raisa Smelkova, 75, who lives in another part of the building. She and her husband were unhurt. The couple lived through the fighting in Ukraine in 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimea region.
"What is happening now is not just scary, it's gruesome," she said. "There is more destruction. Everything is worse. Just everything."
In other developments:
—Andrei Turchak, the leader of United Russia, the main Kremlin-directed political party, suggested that referendums on joining the Russian Federation could be held in the eastern Donbas and other Russia-controlled areas in Ukraine on Nov. 4, when Russia marks National Unity Day. Russia has already recognized some parts of the Donbas as sovereign.
—The United States said Wednesday that it has evidence showing "hundreds of thousands" of Ukrainian citizens have been interrogated, detained and forcibly removed to Russia. Russia dismissed the allegation as "fantasy," calling it the latest invention in a Western disinformation campaign.
—The Russian military on Wednesday ended large-scale drills in the country's east that involved forces from China. It was seen as another show of increasingly close ties between Moscow and Beijing, con trasting with tensions with the West over the war.
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Elena Becatoros in Sloviansk contributed to this report.
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Canadian police arrested the second suspect in the stabbing deaths of 10 people in the province of Saskatchewan on Wednesday after a three-day manhunt during which they found his brother's body.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Myles Sanderson, 32, was located near the town of Rosthern in Saskatchewan at about 3:30 p.m. local time, an RCMP statement said.
CANCELLED: Dangerous Persons Alert issued by Melfort RCMP: Myles Sanderson was located and taken into police custody near Rosthern, SK at approximately 3:30 p.m. today. There is no longer a risk to public safety relating to this investigation. Updates to come. ^km
— RCMP Saskatchewan (@RCMPSK) September 7, 2022
An official familiar with the matter said police rammed Sanderson’s vehicle, and he surrendered. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
The manhunt for the two brothers had entered its third day. The fugitive’s brother and fellow suspect, Damien Sanderson, 30, was found dead Monday near the stabbing sites. Police are investigating if Myles Sanderson, 32, killed his brother.
The stabbing rampage had raised questions about why Myles Sanderson — an ex-con with 59 convictions and a long history of shocking violence — was out on the streets in the first place.
He was released by a parole board in February while serving a sentence of over four years on charges that included assault and robbery. But he had been wanted by police since May, apparently for violating the terms of his release, though the details were not immediately clear.
According to court records, his long and lurid rap sheet also showed that seven years ago, he attacked and stabbed one of the victims killed in the weekend rampage.
Canadian Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said there would be an investigation into the parole board's assessment of Sanderson.
“I want to know the reasons behind the decision" to release him, Mendicino said. “I'm extremely concerned with what occurred here. A community has been left reeling."
Investigators have not given a motive for the bloodshed.
The Saskatchewan Coroner’s Service said nine of those killed were from the James Smith Cree Nation: Thomas Burns, 23; Carol Burns, 46; Gregory Burns, 28; Lydia Gloria Burns, 61; Bonnie Burns, 48; Earl Burns, 66; Lana Head, 49; Christian Head, 54; and Robert Sanderson, 49, One was from Weldon, 78-year-old Wesley Patterson. Authorities would not say how the victims might be related.
Mark Arcand said his half-sister Bonnie and her son Gregory were killed.
“Her son was lying there already deceased. My sister went out and tried to help her son, and she was stabbed two times, and she died right beside him,” he said. “Right outside of her home, she was killed by senseless acts. She was protecting her son. She was protecting three little boys. This is why she is a hero.”
Arcand rushed to the reserve the morning of the rampage. After that, he said, “I woke up in the middle of the night just screaming and yelling. What I saw that day I can’t get out of my head."
As for what set off the violence, Arcand said: “We’re all looking for those same answers. We don’t know what happened. Maybe we’ll never know. That’s the hardest part of this."
Court documents said Sanderson attacked his in-laws Earl Burns and Joyce Burns in 2015, knifing Earl Jones repeatedly and wounding Joyce Burns. He later pleaded guilty to assault and threatening Earl Burns’ life.
According to court records, many of Sanderson's crimes were committed when intoxicated. He told parole officials at one point that substance use made him out of his mind. Records showed he repeatedly violated court orders barring him from drinking or using drugs.
Drugs and alcohol plague Canada's Indigenous communities.
“The drug problem and the alcohol problem on these reserves is way out of hand," said Ivor Wayne Burns, whose sister was killed in the weekend attacks. “We have dead people and we asked before for something to be done.”
Myles Sanderson's childhood was marked by violence, neglect and substance abuse, court records show. Sanderson, who is Indigenous and was raised on the Cree reserve, population 1,900, started drinking and smoking marijuana at around 12, and cocaine followed soon after.
In 2017, he barged into his ex-girlfriend’s home, punched a hole in the bathroom door while his two children were hiding in a bathtub and threw a cement block at a vehicle parked outside, according to parole documents.
Documents said that he got into a fight a few days later at a store, threatening to kill an employee and burn down his parents' home.
That November, he threatened an accomplice into robbing a fast-food restaurant by clubbing him with a gun and stomping on his head. He then stood to watch during the holdup.
In 2018, he stabbed two men with a fork while drinking and beat someone unconscious.
When he was released in February, the parole board set conditions on his contact with his partner and children. They also said he should not enter into relationships with women without written permission from his parole officer.
In granting Sanderson “statutory release,” parole authorities said: “It is the Board’s opinion that you will not present an undue risk to society."
Canadian law grants prisoners statutory release after they serve two-thirds of their sentence. But the parole board can impose conditions on that freedom, and inmates who violate them -- as Sanderson did more than once -- can be ordered back to prison.
Sharna Sugarman, who was organizing a GoFundMe for the victims, questioned the parole board for releasing him and wondered why Sanderson was still on the loose so many months after he was deemed “unlawfully at large.”
“That’s just egregious to me,” said Sugarman, a counselor who counted one of the stabbing victims as a client. “If they claim that they’ve been looking for him, well, you weren’t looking that hard.”
Mendicino, the public safety minister, said authorities must make sure nothing like this happens again.
“It’s incredibly important that when someone is at large, and there’s a warrant for their arrest, and they have an extensive criminal background, that all the resources are there to be able to apprehend that person as quickly as possible,” he said. “We do need to take a very careful look at what occurred.” | https://www.wtxl.com/news/world/canadian-police-arrest-2nd-suspect-in-stabbing-rampage | 2022-09-07T23:50:51Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/world/canadian-police-arrest-2nd-suspect-in-stabbing-rampage | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Spectacular for Thursday!
Cooler temps next two nights
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - Wednesday was wonderful! Temperatures were pleasantly warm with lower humidity. The great weather continues into Thursday.
We look to stay dry into Thursday as drier air pushes in for a couple of days. Expect seasonable temperatures through mid-week. We’ll also have cooler overnight readings, ranging from the upper 50s to lower 60s.
By the upcoming weekend, rain chances climb yet again...this the result of a new system moving in from the south. Showers and storms look like a good bet both Saturday and Sunday. Additional cloudiness will keep daytime readings down a bit this weekend, but overnight readings will be warm and rather muggy this weekend. By early next week, all signs point toward another shot of less humid, early Fall-like air coming our way!
Bowling Green 3 day forecast:
THURSDAY: Mostly sunny and warm. High 84. Low 60. Winds NE at 8 mph.
FRIDAY: Increasing clouds. Scattered showers and thunderstorms possible toward evening. High 85. Low 67. Winds SE at 8 mph.
SATURDAY: Scat’d showers and thunderstorms likely. High 77. Low 66. Winds S at 7mph.
Today’s Climate Info for Bowling Green:
Today’s High: 84
Today’s Low: 68
Normal High: 86
Normal Low: 63
Record High: 105 (1925)
Record Low: 43 (1988)
Today’s Precip: 0.00″
Monthly Precip: 1.27″ (+0.41″)
Yearly Precip: 34.52″ (-1.11″)
Today’s Snowfall: 0.0″
Monthly Snowfall: 0.0″
Seasonal Snowfall: 15.5″
Today’s Sunset: 7:05 p.m.
Tomorrow’s Sunrise: 6:22 a.m.
Health & Allergies:
Air Quality: Good (Ozone Count: 10/ Small Particulate Matter: 19)
Mold Count: Moderate (7252 - Mold Spore Count)
UV Index: Moderate (7)
Pollen: 10.1 (High - Ragweed)
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Just a month after raising oil production by 100,000 barrels per day, OPEC is set to make a U-turn toward August production levels via a token production cut of the same volume throughout October. The decision will most likely have a positive impact on oil stocks like Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB) and Hess Corporation (NYSE:HES).
Why Is OPEC Cutting Oil Production?
Until a few hours ago, OPEC was expected to keep oil production steady this year, partly due to the resistance from Russia against an oil production reduction and partly because the cartel agreed to raise production by 100,000 barrels just last month. It turns out that the OPEC did, after all, defy Russia in a surprise move.
Russia, which is selling its oil to Asian countries at discounted rates after being shunned by the West, had strongly opposed the production cut, arguing that oil-consuming countries will immediately assume that the cuts are due to a supply surplus in the world. This sentiment can damage Russia’s leverage with its Asian buyers.
However, OPEC has a wider view in mind, which drove the decision. Last week, in a meeting, OPEC discussed the implications of a demand drop fueled by recession and another unpredictable bout of COVID-19 lockdowns in major nations. The group predicted that for the rest of this year and the next, the world is expected to experience a supply surplus of about 900,000 barrels a day as a result of the demand slowdown. Thus, a cut in production makes sense to reduce this surplus.
Coming to why this production target is critical to determining global oil prices, the United States Energy Information Administration reveals that OPEC members constitute about 40% of the world’s crude oil production. Additionally, export volumes from OPEC members make up about 60% of the total internationally traded petroleum. The sheer dominance in the market leads OPEC’s production decisions to influence oil prices.
Other Developments in the Oil Sector
Apart from the supply-trimming move by OPEC, another hope at better global oil supply was stymied when plans to revive the West’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, in which sanctions of the latter country would be lifted to allow oil trade, ran into a complication.
Last Friday, the White House denied Iran’s request for a closure of investigations by the U.N. nuclear watchdog. This means that the West has to wait longer for the U.S. and Iran to arrive at a mutually beneficial agreement before Iran can begin exporting oil again and improve global supply.
Back home, a Wall Street Journal research also found out that the Biden administration has leased out the lowest area of land for oil drilling during the President’s first 19 months in office. This reduces the chances of the U.S. becoming self-reliant in producing oil.
Not to mention, the Russia-Ukraine war shows no sign of stopping soon, sustaining the global shortage of gas supply.
Overall, lower production of oil both internationally and domestically puts the responsibility of meeting domestic oil demand on the shoulders of a handful of companies. This opens up solid opportunities for the following oil stocks.
Hess Corporation (NYSE:HES)
Global energy company Hess Corporation primarily engages in the exploration, production, refining, and marketing of crude oil, natural gas liquid, and natural gas. Tailwinds in the energy sector this year have led to the HES stock appreciating about 59% year-to-date.
Moreover, during the second quarter, Hess also brought 50 wells, demonstrating its efforts to increase production. The company expects to ramp up its production rates in the Bakken region to about 200,000 barrels per day by 2024.
Is HES Stock a Buy?
Barclays analyst Jeanine Wai recently maintained a Buy rating on the stock, saying that the initial concerns that the Alternative Minimum Tax will adversely impact oil exploration companies that are considered to be tax “safe-havens” are proving to be useless. This is because, despite the tax, companies like Hess are comfortably maintaining strong cash flow yields.
Wall Street has a firm conviction that Hess has a long road uphill ahead. HES stock enjoys a Strong Buy consensus rating based on eight Buys and one Hold. On average, Hess’ target price stands at $140.22, indicating an upside of 16% from current price levels.
Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB)
Oilfield services company Schlumberger’s technology and solutions for the production, drilling, and processing of crude oil and natural gas has served the oil and gas industry for 96 years. Exploration and offshore activity have picked up pace in recent months, keeping the demand for the company’s offerings steadily high.
The company recently increased its full-year revenue expectations on the back of likely traction in a multi-year upcycle.
Further, in its commitment to environmental cleanliness, Schlumberger introduced its new business in March, the Schlumberger End-to-end Emissions Solutions, whose technology will help the oil and gas industry achieve methane-free oil production. This has garnered the interest of environmentalist investors recently.
Moreover, as the global shortage of gas triggers more production activities in domestic exploration companies, the demand for Schlumberger’s technologies is likely to remain high.
Is SLB Stock a Buy or Sell?
In July, Evercore ISI analyst James West reiterated a Buy rating on SLB stock and raised the price target to $54 $51. In addition, the Wall Street consensus is bullish on SLB, with a Strong Buy rating supported by 11 Buys. Schlumberger’s stock price prediction points at an average price target of $50.82, which indicates upside potential of 33.49%.
Conclusion: Oil Will Always Get Back Up on Its Feet
Presently, the commodities market is volatile, with a lot happening in the oil and gas sector. The oil supply crunch that is pushing oil prices up (further fueling global inflation) might be having a positive effect on oil stocks now. However, experts are of the opinion that if a recession hits, the economy will take oil demand down with it. This might pose as a near-term concern for oil companies. However, going by history, oil demand always manages to regain its strength.
The world still has a long way to go before the automobile sector and other oil-guzzling industries can fully replace oil with alternative forms of energy. Thus, it can be safe to say that fundamentally strong oil companies like Hess and Schlumberger can make for good long-term investment choices. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/2-oil-stocks-poised-to-benefit-from-opecs-production-cuts | 2022-09-07T23:54:39Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/2-oil-stocks-poised-to-benefit-from-opecs-production-cuts | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Market closes lower, after RBA lifts interest rates by 0.5%
The market ended the day down, after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) increased the cash rate target by 50 basis points to 2.35%.
The S&P/ASX200 was down, falling 25.70 points or 0.38%, and sitting at 6,826.50 at the end of trading.
It’s the fifth consecutive month that the RBA has increased rates, as it seeks to reign in inflation, while keeping the economy on an even keel.
In a statement, RBA Governor, Philip Lowe, signalled further rate hikes ahead, as he works to return inflation to the 2–3 per cent range over time.
Lowe said inflation in Australia is the highest it’s been since the early 1990s and is expected to increase further over the months ahead.
The RBA rate hike stirred major Aussie bank stocks, with ANZ Bank (ASX:ANZ), National Australia Bank (ASX:NAB) and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX:CBA) all up shortly after the announcement.
Meanwhile, investors continued to flock to lithium stocks, with Global Lithium Resources (GL1) proving a stand out.
Gains trimmed in early afternoon, as market awaits RBA meeting
The S&P/ASX 200 has dropped to 6,858.10 in early afternoon trading, after hitting a three-day high of 6888.5 earlier in the day.
It comes ahead of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) meeting mid-afternoon, where the the RBA is tipped to raise interest rates.
Lithium stocks have rallied with Pilbara Minerals Limited (PLS) and Liontown Resources leading the charge, up 5.81% and 4.79% respectively.
Lithium commodity prices are up more than 280% for the year, on the back of surging demand for electric vehicle car batteries.
ASX opens higher
The S&P/ASX200 moved higher in the opening hour of trading, gaining 27.30 points or 0.40% to 6,879.50, ahead of today’s Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) meeting, which is set to result in another interest rate hike.
Zip Co Ltd. (ZIP) stocks bounced back after plunging yesterday, following news it would be removed from the ASX 200. Its shares increased by more than 6% in morning trading.
Across the market, Consumer Staples has been the best performing sector, up 0.64% for the past five days.
Overall the sectors have been mixed, with nine of 11 sectors lower over the last week.
Pre-market breakdown
Australian shares are set to open higher today, with ASX futures up 0.07% to 6,836.0, just before 6.30am AEST.
It follows a positive end to Monday’s trading, with the S&P ASX200 closing 0.34% higher at day’s end.
All eyes will be on the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) policy meeting today, with markets anticipating another interest rate rise in the offing.
Most analysts are expecting the RBA to deliver its fourth consecutive 0.5 percentage point rise, increasing the cash rate to 2.35% from 1.85%.
The Australian dollar was sitting near US68¢ at local close.
In northern hemisphere markets, there was no action on Wall Street, with markets closed for the Labor Day holiday, while European markets slipped back during their trading period.
Spot gold was sitting at $US1,710.00 an ounce, up 1.8%, approaching 7am AEST. Brent crude was at $US93.02 a barrel. Iron ore was sitting at $US97.85 a tonne. Bitcoin was hovering around $US19,700.
On the agenda
The market will be watching closely when the Reserve Bank of Australia announces its latest interest rate intentions at 2:30pm AEST, as it continues its bid to curb spending and inflation.
Consensus among analysts is that the RBA will hand down its fourth consecutive 0.5 percentage point rise, increasing the cash rate to 2.35% from 1.85%.
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JAMES SMITH CREE NATION, Saskatchewan (AP) — Canadian police arrested the second suspect in the stabbing deaths of 10 people in the province of Saskatchewan on Wednesday after a three-day manhunt during which they had found the body of his brother.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Myles Sanderson, 32, was located near the town of Rosthern in Saskatchewan at about 3:30 p.m. local time, an RCMP statement said.
An official familiar with the matter said Sanderson’s vehicle was rammed by police and he surrendered. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
The manhunt for the two brothers had entered its third day. The fugitive’s brother and fellow suspect, Damien Sanderson, 30, was found dead Monday near the stabbing sites. Police are investigating if Myles Sanderson, 32, killed his brother.
The stabbing rampage had raised questions of why Myles Sanderson — an ex-con with 59 convictions and a long history of shocking violence — was out on the streets in the first place.
He was released by a parole board in February while serving a sentence of over four years on charges that included assault and robbery. But he had been wanted by police since May, apparently for violating the terms of his release, though the details were not immediately clear.
His long and lurid rap sheet also showed that seven years ago, he attacked and stabbed one of the victims killed in the weekend rampage, according to court records.
Canadian Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said there will be an investigation into the parole board’s assessment of Sanderson.
“I want to know the reasons behind the decision” to release him, Mendicino said. “I’m extremely concerned with what occurred here. A community has been left reeling.”
Investigators have not given a motive for the bloodshed.
The Saskatchewan Coroner’s Service said nine of those killed were from the James Smith Cree Nation: Thomas Burns, 23; Carol Burns, 46; Gregory Burns, 28; Lydia Gloria Burns, 61; Bonnie Burns, 48; Earl Burns, 66; Lana Head, 49; Christian Head, 54; and Robert Sanderson, 49, One was from Weldon, 78-year-old Wesley Patterson. Authorities would not say how the victims might be related.
Mark Arcand said his half sister Bonnie and her son Gregory were killed.
“Her son was lying there already deceased. My sister went out and tried to help her son, and she was stabbed two times, and she died right beside him,” he said. “Right outside of her home she was killed by senseless acts. She was protecting her son. She was protecting three little boys. This is why she is a hero.”
Arcand rushed to the reserve the morning of the rampage. After that, he said, “I woke up in the middle of the night just screaming and yelling. What I saw that day I can’t get out of my head.”
As for what set off the violence, Arcand said: “We’re all looking for those same answers. We don’t know what happened. Maybe we’ll never know. That’s the hardest part of this.”
Court documents said Sanderson attacked his in-laws Earl Burns and Joyce Burns in 2015, knifing Earl Jones repeatedly and wounding Joyce Burns. He later pleaded guilty to assault and threatening Earl Burns’ life.
Many of Sanderson’s crimes were committed when he was intoxicated, according to court records. He told parole officials at one point that substance use made him out of his mind. Records showed he repeatedly violated court orders barring him from drinking or using drugs.
Canada’s Indigenous communities are plagued by drugs and alcohol.
“The drug problem and the alcohol problem on these reserves is way out of hand,” said Ivor Wayne Burns, whose sister was killed in the weekend attacks. “We have dead people and we asked before for something to be done.”
Myles Sanderson’s childhood was marked by violence, neglect and substance abuse, court records show. Sanderson, who is Indigenous and was raised on the Cree reserve, population 1,900, started drinking and smoking marijuana at around 12, and cocaine followed soon after.
In 2017, he barged into his ex-girlfriend’s home, punched a hole in the door of a bathroom while his two children were hiding in a bathtub and threw a cement block at a vehicle parked outside, according to parole documents.
He got into a fight a few days later at a store, threatening to kill an employee and burn down his parents’ home, documents said.
That November he threatened an accomplice into robbing a fast-food restaurant by clubbing him with a gun and stomping on his head. He then stood watch during the holdup.
In 2018, he stabbed two men with a fork while drinking and beat someone unconscious.
When he was released in February, the parole board set conditions on his contact with his partner and children and also said he should not enter into relationships with women without written permission from his parole officer.
In granting Sanderson “statutory release,” parole authorities said: “It is the Board’s opinion that you will not present an undue risk to society.”
Canadian law grants prisoners statutory release after they serve two-thirds of their sentence. But the parole board can impose conditions on that freedom, and inmates who violate them — as Sanderson did more than once — can be ordered back to prison.
Sharna Sugarman, who was organizing a GoFundMe for the victims, questioned the parole board for releasing him and wondered why Sanderson was still on the loose so many months after he was deemed “unlawfully at large.”
“That’s just egregious to me,” said Sugarman, a counselor who counted one of the stabbing victims as a client. “If they claim that they’ve been looking for him, well, you weren’t looking that hard.”
Mendicino, the public safety minister, said authorities have to make sure nothing like this happens again.
“It’s incredibly important that when someone is at large and there’s a warrant for their arrest, and they have an extensive criminal background, that all the resources are there to be able to apprehend that person as quickly as possible,” he said. “We do need to take a very careful look at what occurred.” | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/canadian-police-arrest-2nd-suspect-in-stabbing-rampage/ | 2022-09-07T23:58:45Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/canadian-police-arrest-2nd-suspect-in-stabbing-rampage/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The 49ers shocked the NFL world when they restructured Jimmy Garoppolo's contract to keep him with the team this season. After both Garoppolo and the Niners' top decision-makers openly discussed how he would move on from the organization throughout the offseason, both sides decided it was best to prolong their partnership at least a little bit longer. However, former 49ers left tackle turned analyst Joe Staley admitted that he has one big concern about the Niners locker room heading into the season.
In a radio appearance on Papa & Lund on KNBR, Staley, who was Garoppolo's teammate in the final three years of his career, discussed his biggest concern about having Jimmy G serve as Trey Lance's backup this season. Staley explained that he's worried about how the veteran players on the team, especially those who have gone on multiple postseason runs with Garoppolo, will react when Lance goes through growing pains in his first year as the starter.
"The thing that I'm worried about is that he's a first-year starter in the NFL, and he's going to have his rookie mistakes, some situations that don't look that great, and what I worry about with the team this year is if he goes out there and doesn't perform perfectly, are the guys in that locker room all of a sudden going to be like, 'we have a team that's built right now to win, and we have a quarterback that has taken us to where we want to be,'" Staley said.
He went on to add, "I personally believe Trey is going to do really well this year. I believe that the dimension that he brings to this offense is going to open it up, and I think Kyle has kind of been waiting for that deep threat down the field." However, Staley admitted that he expects Lance to have some ugly games this season, which will pressure on veterans like "George Kittle, Arik Armstead, Jimmie Ward... to keep that locker room together."
Here is Staley's full answer:
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Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year, we ask questions of the most plugged-in San Francisco 49ers fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate.
The regular season is upon us. Unfortunately, some in the national media will have you believe the quarterback the 49ers invested multiple first-round picks in has a short leash for a quarterback that failed to get the team over the hump.
That’s part of the distraction, at least outside of the locker room, that comes with Jimmy Garoppolo being on the roster. But, if the team starts 4-2 — a plausible projection — nobody will be calling for the backup.
So, faux quarterback drama aside, how are you feeling about San Francisco heading into Week 1? The opponent, the Chicago Bears, should provide optimism. Quarterback Justin Fields sounds like a person who expects to be under constant pressure:
#Bears QB Justin Fields said he's gonna be real with rookie LT Braxton Jones when adversity hits on Sunday.
— Sean Hammond (@sean_hammond) September 7, 2022
"I hope none of y’all [meaning the media] expect him to win every rep against Nick Bosa," Fields said.
The areas where the Niners are susceptible aren’t strengths for Chicago. The first two games feel like perfect “get right” contests for the Niners. The offensive line shouldn’t be overwhelmed, while the secondary’s biggest test Sunday is fifth-round pick from the 2020 NFL Draft, Darnell Mooney.
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Let’s take bold predictions to a completely another level. The 49ers open their 2022 season on Sunday vs. Chicago Bears and look to return to the NFC Championship game (and hopefully beyond).
As part of my season preview, here are some hot takes for the 49ers’ upcoming season. I promise I’ll try to come back at the end of the season and see how many of these actually came to fruition.
1. Nick Bosa will win Defensive Player of the Year
The momentum seems to be quietly building for Nick Bosa to win this award. Over the past few seasons, it’s typically gone to an edge rusher that accumulates a ton of pass-rushing stats by the end of the season. However, Bosa put up 15.5 sacks last season coming off the ACL injury, and I wouldn’t be shocked to see him reach the 20-sack mark (something he’s mentioned himself).
Bosa had the entire offseason to refine his game (not focus on rehab), and he should have an even-more talented defensive line to play with this season. If he can stay healthy for 17 games, I like the 49ers’ star pass rusher to win DPOY.
2. Brandon Aiyuk will lead the 49ers in receptions and receiving yards
Brandon Aiyuk quietly started to dominate towards the end of last season in the receiving game but was outshined by Deebo Samuel’s sheer dominance as a “wide back.” Aiyuk seemed to step up his game to another level this offseason, working with quarterback Trey Lance and developing that chemistry.
The 49ers’ coaching staff has been impressed with Aiyuk’s focus, attention to detail, and his development. Most around the team claimed that the former Arizona State receiver had the best training camp of any player on the team.
I think the offense this season is going to set up for No. 11 to be highly successful, and I think when it’s all said and done, he’s going to lead the team in catches and receiving yards.
3. The 49ers’ defense will have 15+ interceptions in 2022
49ers’ safety Jimmie Ward claimed that defense this year will be “pick city,” meaning they’ll rack up interceptions. They finished 2021 with nine interceptions — which feels like a higher number than I recall.
This pass defense has the talent to be very, very good at forcing turnovers this season. They were routinely turning the ball over in training camp, and I think it’s something that can carry over into the season.
If Charvarius Ward, Emmanuel Moseley, Samuel Womack, and Jimmie Ward can stay healthy for the majority of the season — they should be able to reach this mark.
4. Trey Lance will not be benched for Jimmy Garoppolo in 2022
The only scenario I see Jimmy Garoppolo playing for the 49ers this season is if Trey Lance gets injured.
The public pressure to replace Trey Lance will only come if the 49ers’ season starts to go off the rails and they lose a lot of games out of the gate. Even if Lance struggles, I think the 49ers’ roster is too talented, and there are enough easy games in the first ten weeks for them to avoid having a losing record.
In 2019, Garoppolo had nine touchdowns and seven interceptions through the first seven games, and the 49ers were 7-0. Garoppolo grew as that season went on, but he had his fair share of struggles early that season. I’m not saying the 49ers will experience similar success, but it won’t be bad enough to replace Lance.
5. Kyle Shanahan’s 49ers will win the NFC West
I believe the 49ers have a better top-to-bottom roster than the Los Angeles Rams and the Arizona Cardinals. The 49ers’ ceiling in 2022 hinges on the development of Trey Lance, but their floor is exceptionally high because of a talented defense, run game, and continuity along the coaching staff.
The 49ers finished with ten wins last season and only won two of their six divisional games. I think if the 49ers can go 4-2 or better in the division, they will run away with the NFC West and finish as one of the top seeds in the NFC.
The team is starting to believe, and if they can get off to a hot start (see 2019), they’ll be the champions of the NFC West when it’s all said and done.
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49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan met with the media ahead of practice to provide injury updates ahead of Week 1. Star tight end George Kittle suffered a groin injury during Monday’s practice, so he’ll sit out Wednesday. Shanahan said Kittle would be day-to-day:
“Not sure. I was hoping he’d be good today. He did it a little on Monday and not feeling good today. We’ll have to see day-by-day.”
The 49ers announced they signed tight end Troy Fumagalli and wide receiver Connor Wedington to the practice squad and released wideout Willie Snead IV.
I understand the Bears don’t pose much of a threat against the 49ers, but you want Trey Lance to hit the ground running with a full complement of his weapons. We’ll see if Kittle practices Thursday. If he doesn’t, it’s a safe bet that he won’t play Sunday.
Shanahan announced the team’s six captains:
Trent Williams
Fred Warner
Jimmie Ward
Arik Armstead
Nick Bosa
George Kittle
Naturally, questions arose about whether it was a big deal that Lance, the quarterback, wasn’t named a captain. Shanahan said Lance finished seventh in the team voting, while Deebo Samuel finished eighth.
Shanahan said they didn’t want to go with seven captains, saying he didn’t have an issue with Lance not being named, as rookies aren’t generally named captains. And yes, he’s aware Lance isn’t a rookie. But, Shanahan added: “I always look at the final tally. I could cheat if I wanted to.”
Much will be made of Lance not being named a captain, especially after Jimmy Garoppolo was for three years. If memory serves correctly, last season was the first for Jimmie Ward. Once you acknowledge Lance had to beat out five All-Pro players along with Ward, you realize he didn’t stand much of a chance.
Here’s Lance on not being named a captain:
“I don’t think you can look at any of those six guys and say, ‘that guy is a bozo.’ I voted for every one of those six guys. Those guys have proved it.”
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MANHATTAN, N.Y. (WPIX) — Manhattan DA Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. announced the return of more than a dozen antiquities worth more than $4 million back to Egypt Wednesday.
In total, 16 antiquities were returned to Egypt during a repatriation ceremony attended by Egypt’s Consul General Howaida Essam Mohamed and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York Acting Special Agent in Charge Ricky J. Patel.
“Today’s repatriation shows the breadth and prevalence of antiquities trafficking networks, but thanks to the work of our dedicated prosecutors and analysts, we have made tremendous progress in cracking down on this illegal activity,” said District Attorney Bragg. “We will not allow our borough to be used by dealers and traffickers to turn a profit off these stolen artifacts.”
The Manhattan DA’s office said it has been performing a multi-year, international criminal investigation into one of the world’s largest ancient art collectors and billionaire hedge fund manager, Michael Steinhardt. In total, 180 stolen antiquities were taken from Steinhardt with a value of over $70 million. The investigation resulted in a lifetime ban on having antiquities, a first-of-its-kind ban.
“Our cooperation with the New York District Attorney’s Office has been eventful and fruitful, to say the least, during the last few years,” said Mohamed. “It is safe to say that we can open an entire museum solely based on the artifacts repatriated via the support and efforts of the District Attorney of New York, and for that, we are eternally grateful.”
Nine pieces seized from Steinhardt were sent back to the people of Egypt. They were trafficked by Israeli antiquities dealers Rafi Brown and Gil Chaya. Brown would purchase antiquities from unlicensed diggers, middlemen and smugglers, according to the DA. Chaya and his then-wife would buy illegal antiquities directly from looters.
Five of these pieces were described as an Egyptian Hoard made up of gold and silver ornaments and plaques dating to 1300-1101 B.C.E. The Egyptian Hoard first showed up on the international art market in 1999, when Steinhardt paid $70,000 for them from Brown with no prior documentation.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art had a total of six items taken. Five items taken from the Met, valued at $3.1 million, came from an investigation into the Dib-Simonian trafficking network. The pieces were looted from archaeological sites in Egypt, smuggled through Germany or the Netherlands to France, and sold by the Paris-based Pierre Bergé & Associés to the Met.
According to the DA’s office, this investigation resulted in the indictment or arrest of nine people in France, including former Louvre Director Jean-Luc Martinez. Two of these pieces were the Stele of a Singer, which was sold to the Met in 2015, and Fayum Mummy Portrait, which the Met purchased in 2013.
Another piece was seized from the Met as part of an investigation into trafficker Georges Lotfi. He was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by this DA’s office in early September.
A bronze statuette called Kneeling Ruler or Priest is said to be from the 8th Century B.C.E. Lofti bought the statuette in 2005 and sold it in 2006 to the Met.
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'It frightens people': Adderall shortage impacting Chicago area
CHICAGO - There is a nationwide shortage of Adderall — the most commonly-prescribed drug to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD — and it is now affecting Chicago area patients and pharmacies.
"It frightens people," said Dr. Robert Shulman, a psychiatrist at Rush University Medical Center. "It frightens parents who have kids who are starting school right now. It frightens adults who are reliant on the medicine to get them through the work day. Patients can't get their medicines and we get a lot of phone calls, so it's a lot of extra work, and the patients have to call around to pharmacies to look and see where there is a supply."
Shulman attributes the Adderall shortage to several factors: demand and prescriptions for it at an all-time high following the pandemic, widespread misuse of the stimulant on places like college campuses, and limits on manufacturing imposed by the FDA.
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"With the increase in number of providers, increase in demand, increase in ease, more prescriptions are being written," Shulman said.
If the shortage persists, there are alternative treatments for ADHD that don't involve prescription drugs. At the Chicago Mind Institute in Northbrook, psychologists Dr. Jared Treiber and Dr. Elie Saltzman treat ADHD patients with a therapy called neurofeedback, which they said naturally retrains the wiring of the brain to maintain focus, through a series of reward-based exercises.
"Neurofeedback is a way that we can train and encourage the brain to operate more optimally and we can avoid using chemicals," said Saltzman.
"There's no electrical impulses, no medications," said Treiber. "We get plenty of people on all different types of stimulants come through here and by the end of treatment they either lowered their medication to a minimal dose or are completely off their medication."
In response to this shortage, the Chicago Division of the DEA issued an alert, saying that shortages like this heighten the risk of people getting medication illegally. It says the only safe medication comes from licensed pharmacies and medical professionals, and that anything else is dangerous and potentially lethal, especially with a recent spike in victims unknowingly ingesting fentanyl. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/it-frightens-people-adderall-shortage-impacting-chicago-area | 2022-09-08T00:16:20Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/it-frightens-people-adderall-shortage-impacting-chicago-area | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Minority marijuana license holders call on Illinois officials to loosen ownership regulations
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Marijuana was legalized in January 2020, and one organization is fuming saying there isn't one Black or brown owned cannabis business in Illinois.
Minority marijuana license holders are calling on the state to loosen ownership regulations in order to make it easier to create and build retail stores.
Many of them cite issues with the state's cannabis social equity program.
The program was designed to offer disadvantaged people and communities of color disproportionately impacted by the War on Drugs an opportunity to benefit from the cannabis industry.
But instead, license holders say the process has been plagued by red tape.
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"Since January of 2020, over $3 billion has been made through the cultivation and sale of cannabis in Illinois. Not a single dollar was made by a Black or brown business holder," said Ambrose Jackson.
The group says since Toi Hutchinson, a former member of the Illinois Senator, vacated the state's weed czar position late last year, they've had no point of contact for anyone in the governor's office to handle their issues. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/minority-marijuana-license-holders-call-on-illinois-officials-to-loosen-ownership-regulations | 2022-09-08T00:16:26Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/minority-marijuana-license-holders-call-on-illinois-officials-to-loosen-ownership-regulations | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
South Chicago shooting: Three ‘persons of interest’ being questioned after 2 men killed, 2 injured
CHICAGO - Police are questioning three "persons of interest" about a weekend shooting that left two men dead and two others wounded in South Chicago.
The victims were on the porch of a home in the 8600 block of South Kingston Avenue when two people approached and opened fire around 6:50 p.m. Sunday, Deputy Chief Larry Snelling said at a news conference at the scene.
Jason Mundo, 18, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to the University of Chicago Hospital, where he died, authorities said.
An unidentified man, 20, was struck in the buttocks and abdomen and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead.
Another man, 20, was shot in the abdomen and taken to the same hospital in fair condition. A man, 18, was struck in the forearm and thigh and listed in fair condition.
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Tom Kennington, pastor of the South Chicago Christian Center, said he knew the victims. Two of the men were brothers, and all four lived within a few blocks of the shooting, he said. One of the men who died had just graduated from high school and "had a super bright future," he said.
A woman who said she was staying with friends on Kingston said the block is usually quiet, and she doesn’t think twice about walking down the street at night. She said she was surprised when she saw the police tape.
"It’s sickening," said the woman, who declined to be named. "Everybody’s got a gun, I don’t know what they’re gonna do about it. It just keeps happening. On and on and on." | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/south-chicago-shooting-three-persons-of-interest-being-questioned-after-2-men-killed-2-injured | 2022-09-08T00:16:32Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/south-chicago-shooting-three-persons-of-interest-being-questioned-after-2-men-killed-2-injured | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Minutes before Industry’s former city manager was scheduled to take the stand in his own defense Wednesday, Sept. 7, his attorneys announced to the court that the accused administrator would not testify.
The defense decision, made in the early hours of the day, according to attorney Steve Cooley, follows a ruling barring former City Manager Paul Philips from disclosing information from the confidential meetings where the Industry City Council hashed out plans for a solar project now tangled up in a $20 million embezzlement scandal.
Though the ruling factored into its decision, Cooley said the defense team ultimately deemed Philip’s testimony unnecessary at this stage because they believe the prosecution failed to present a viable case against the longtime public official during the months-long preliminary hearing. Prosecutors do not have to establish guilt during a preliminary hearing, but they must convince the judge there is enough evidence to warrant a trial.
“They have not met their burden whatsoever,” Cooley said. “Their theories are meritless and their own evidence, after cross- examination, establishes that.”
Cooley declined to specify what evidence, saying only that it would be part of what will likely be the final arguments in the hearing later this month.
Both sides are expected to argue the merits of the case Sept. 30. Pastor advised prosecutors they will need to file a brief establishing a clear connection between Philips and the “misconduct of others” in advance.
Before then, the defense on Monday, Sept. 12, will call a single witness, a forensic auditor working for the District Attorney’s Office who was asked to confirm whether Philips’ received any monies associated with the project.
Philips is charged with a single felony count of misappropriation of public funds. Though prosecutors previously stated they did not have evidence that Philips received any of the $20 million that flowed from the city’s coffers, they have argued that Philips, through his leadership role, allowed — either intentionally or negligently — a developer proposing a solar farm to obtain the funds by fraudulent means, including through forged documentation. The developer, William Barkett, is accused of using more than $8 million of the funds on personal items, including a $2 million wedding for his daughter in the French Riviera.
While the Industry City Council did agree to pay up to $20 million toward the proposal, only about $11.5 million of the funds appeared on the council’s “register of demands,” a form of accounting that allows the City Council to approve requests for payments in bulk. The $8.5 million missing from the register potentially could violate state and city laws, which require city councils to vote on each payment before it is made.
Philips’ attorneys have downplayed the significance of the missing register entries, arguing that he was only carrying out the orders of the City Council.
The prosecution has spent much of the preliminary hearing setting the foundation for what the District Attorney’s Office described as an “uncharged conspiracy” that largely dealt with the other defendants.
Testimony and court records indicate the idea for the solar project predated Philips’ hiring in 2015 and that the proposal was initially brought to three council candidates — who would later become a new majority on the board — by Frank Hill, a former state senator charged with conflict of interest for allegedly playing both sides of the deal.
Hill allegedly made more than $700,000 from a company hired by Industry to provide oversight over the project, while simultaneously sharing an ownership stake in the development with Barkett. Hill and Barkett had previously pitched a similar project years earlier that was shot down by a prior administration.
The three new council members, who have not been accused of any crimes, later voted in support of the solar project, but at least two of them have since alleged they were manipulated by Hill.
The third defendant, Anthony Bouza, an attorney hired by Industry to negotiate with Barkett, allegedly did not disclose that Barkett owed him more $1.5 million.
Councilman Newell Ruggles originally told investigators that Philips sat in on the election planning meetings where the solar project was discussed prior to his hiring, but then later, under cross examination, Ruggles stated he may misremembered the meetings and that he could only recall a tour of the property that took place after the hiring.
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Don’t mess with her friends.
Courtney Cox has given fans another reason to laugh, after posting a hilarious clapback to Kanye West’s declaration that he doesn’t think “Friends” was funny.
Cox, 58, who starred as Monica Geller in the hit sitcom, responded to the 45-year-old rapper the only way she knows how — in an Instagram post that cheekily pokes fun at him.
West’s initial message, which has since been deleted, claimed he didn’t write many of his past viral tweets, including one from two years ago in which he said he didn’t find “Friends” amusing — though, now in hindsight, he “wishes” he had penned that one.
In response, Cox posted a clip showing herself dancing to West’s 2008 hit “Heartless” while she scrolls on Instagram, pausing when she see’s his post.
West’s deleted caption read, “I actually didn’t write the tweet that said ‘Friends wasn’t funny either’ but I wish I had. I’d love to know who thought of that.”
As the camera zooms in on the “Friends wasn’t funny” sentence, Cox furiously switches off her speaker and puts her phone down before walking away.
She captioned her clap back, “I bet the old Kayne thought Friends was funny.”
The clip has been viewed over 4.6 million times, with thousands of people commenting on Cox’s masterpiece.
“I love Friends as much as Kanye loves Kanye,” director Murray Cummings wrote.
“This is incredible,” magician Amy Wager laughed.
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For beleaguered White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, things are going sideways in a manner that’s reached comic proportions. While her boss President Biden runs around giving operatic and menacing speeches in front of blood-red backdrops, Jean-Pierre is left at the White House podium. Holding the bag. And so far, it isn’t going well.
Take her Tuesday press briefing, for example. Most of the reporters were teeing up rhetorical golf balls for her, but Jean-Pierre somehow managed to appear incompetent and hopeless, not once, not twice, but three times.
The first of the perplexing questions KJP flubbed concerned Sen. Ted Cruz’s invitation to visit the southern border and see the crisis there. You’d think that would be a reasonable suggestion given that only a tiny fraction of the migrants in Texas have supposedly crippled New York City, Washington, DC, and now Chicago in their modest busloads.
But no, a self-righteous Jean-Pierre declared, “I certainly don’t need lectures or invitations from Republicans about the border or border policies.” This only after saying she had been to the border back in 2018 when the Trump administration was “tearing babies out of their mothers’ arms.” Dramatic. She had no answer. She proffered no plan. Instead, she offered a farcical Dickens tale, and the deadly border crisis continues apace.
On a lighter note, when asked during Tuesday’s presser about Russian attempts to weaponize energy, Jean-Pierre cited Putin shutting down the “Nordstrom 1” pipeline. What? Is he cutting off Germany’s supply of Louboutin open-toe sandals and Hermès scarves? Or is it just Nordstrom Rack?
But the real winner in this hat trick of hair-brained replies came when a reporter confronted the press secretary with her past tweets saying former President Donald Trump and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp had stolen their election victories. Given all the recent hue and cry about the semi-fascism of those who dispute election results, the obvious question was asked: “If denying election results is extreme now, why wasn’t it then?”
At first, Jean-Pierre just chuckled and said she knew this question was coming — which is odd since if that’s true you’d imagine she would have had some reasonable answer at the ready. Instead, she said, “Let’s be really clear, that comparison you made is just ridiculous.”
Wait, what? That’s not really clear at all. It sounds like she’s saying that when she or Hillary Clinton or Stacey Abrams say an election was stolen, that’s just talk, no big deal. But when Republicans do it, it’s a threat to the very fabric of the American experiment. But that can’t be right because it makes no sense. Not that that has mattered to Biden’s team before.
These days we can all use a laugh, and the daily White House press briefing provides a plethora. But what we don’t get are any real answers. For example, the president says “MAGA Republicans” are a dark and dangerous force in America. Is that 70 million people or a handful of elected officials? Is it the whole “MAGA philosophy,” whatever that is, or just a few individuals? Nobody knows, and the story changes every day.
It’s bad enough we have a commander in chief who can’t speak for two minutes without angrily yelling, weirdly whispering or launching into labyrinthian old-man stories that go nowhere. The press secretary is supposed to translate for Grandpa Joe, but she might be less comprehensible than he is.
Say what you will about former press secretary Jen Psaki and her oft-times questionable relationship with the truth, at least when she put words together they made somewhat sensible sentences. Even for the carnival of incompetence that is the Biden administration, that shouldn’t be too much to ask. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/karine-jean-pierre-is-a-terrible-white-house-press-secretary/ | 2022-09-08T00:22:44Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/karine-jean-pierre-is-a-terrible-white-house-press-secretary/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Republican gubernatorial nominee Rep. Lee Zeldin is backing lower Manhattan residents blasting a proposed resiliency project approved by the Battery Park City Authority — which is controlled by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.
“Residents have pointed out that Wagner Park didn’t experience severe flooding during Superstorm Sandy. Others have raised concerns about the exorbitant cost,” Zeldin said Wednesday.
“Until these concerns and much more are addressed, the project should not move forward,” he said.
Construction is expected to begin in upcoming weeks, according to the Battery Park City Authority.
Officials say the overhaul is key to the $221 million South Battery Park City Resiliency Project aimed at protecting Manhattan from rising sea levels and natural disasters, especially given the growing dangers of storms fueled by climate change.
The project would do this by transforming the current relatively flat park into a hilly flood barrier adjacent to the existing esplanade, an approach similar to efforts on the East Side of Manhattan that have also faced pushback from locals protective of existing parks.
And the authority has dampened criticism from some critics like Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou and state Sen. Brian Kavanagh through changes announced last month.
“After more than three dozen public meetings on the project held over nearly six years, we’re proud to move forward with a plan that prioritizes science, has broad local support, and is shaped directly by this community feedback – including the recent addition of 74 percent more lawn space to Wagner Park,” Nick Sbordone, a spokesman for the Battery Park City Authority, said in a statement.
But some local residents remain opposed to the plan — and they are hoping that Zeldin’s involvement might help them spur Hochul to take action to put the breaks on construction ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
“We are very pleased that our efforts have raised the support of Congressman Lee Zeldin. We also hope to get the support — and intervention — from his opponent in the Governor’s race. Gov. Hochul should realize this is a big election issue for people across Lower Manhattan,” the Battery Park City Neighborhood Association Board Member Britni Erez said in a statement.
“She should stop this ill-conceived plan before it ruins our park and help us get a better, science-based resiliency plan,” the statement adds.
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Meet the Big Apple’s busiest burglar.
Jose Colon, 51, has more than 90 busts dating to 1991 and was out on parole after being sprung from prison in June — but keeps getting freed to strike again, according to law enforcement sources and official records.
“He’s the most prolific burglar in Manhattan right now,” one cop told The Post. “It has to be tens of thousands of dollars, if not a hundred.”
Colon’s latest brush with the law came Tuesday, when he was charged with five new heists in Brooklyn’s 76th Precinct — including for allegedly stealing two iPhones, construction supplies and an electric scooter.
“He’s relentless,” said another city cop. “He’s 100% an addict.
“It’s crimes of separation and opportunity,” he added. “He’s back out and back to his old tricks. Nothing solves the problem. The problem persists — just sweetheart deals.”
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said they have no record of Colon’s prior busts — but noted that cases that are no longer pending could be sealed.
But state corrections records show that Colon was sentenced to state prison in April last year on a third-degree burglary conviction out of Manhattan, serving more than one year behind bars before being released on June 9 this year.
Police sources said Colon was sentenced in that case after pleading guilty to two dozen separate 2020 Manhattan burglaries as part of a package plea deal — including for stealing goods from businesses shuttered during the COVID-19 shutdown in the city.
Colon was ordered held on bail for his latest alleged crime spree — but only because he was on parole after his June release.
“We are certain that he did well in excess of 100 burglaries,” said a law enforcement source. “He victimizes many people while only having to serve one sentence for dozens of crimes. “He’s back out again to victimize.
According to state records, Colon also served two earlier stints in state prison.
In 2010, he was sentenced to four-to-eight years in prison on a pair of third-degree burglary convictions, serving nearly five years before his release in 2015.
His first state prison stint came in 2004 when he was sentenced to up to five years in prison on third-degree attempted robbery and attempted burglary convictions.
Colon was paroled in that case in October 2008, the records show.
After his latest release, police sources said Colon allegedly set his sights on Brooklyn.
“What’s the point of sending him to jail? They let him out on parole and he’s out reoffending,” our source said. “Textbook case of recidivism.
“How many bites of the apple do you get?” he said.
Colon’s arrest this week revolves around five separate incidents, the sources said.
He is charged with stealing construction supplies worth nearly $4,000 from a Brooklyn garage on Aug. 28, one day after allegedly making off with a $600 scooter.
In the other incidents, Colon is accused of stealing two iPhones — worth $800 and $400 — in separate incidents and was finally taken into custody on a charge of possession of burglar tools, the sources said.
He was ordered held on $25,000 cash bail or a $50,000 bond at his hearing in Brooklyn court Wednesday — with prosecutors asking for higher bail. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/nycs-most-prolific-burglar-back-behind-bars/ | 2022-09-08T00:23:26Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/nycs-most-prolific-burglar-back-behind-bars/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Manhattan psychiatrist on Wednesday admitted to her role in the sensational sledgehammer attack of her baby daddy — nearly a decade after the love-gone-wrong attempted murder scheme, prosecutors said.
Pamela Buchbinder, 52, pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted assault and burglary in connection to the grisly Nov. 12, 2012 bludgeoning and stabbing of her ex, Dr. Michael Weiss, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Prosecutors alleged Buchbinder — who has been jailed since her 2017 arrest — enlisted her younger, bi-polar cousin Jacob Nolan to carry out the attempted hit on Weiss, also a psychiatrist.
Under the terms of a plea deal, Buchbinder is slated to received 11-years behind bars at her Oct. 11 sentencing.
Nolan – a rich kid from Ronkonkoma, LI – was convicted at trial of attempted murder in 2016 and is currently serving a 9 1/2 year sentence.
Prosecutors said Buchbinder and Nolan went to a Manhattan Home Depot the night before the attack and bought a 10-pound sledgehammer.
Buchbinder also allegedly gave Nolan a kitchen knife and drew him a map for how to get into Weiss’ West 57th Street home office.
Nolan repeatedly bludgeoned and stabbed Weiss all over his body.
Buchbinder had been arguing with Weiss over the visitation of their then-6-year-old son leading up to the incident. She even convinced her ex to name her as a beneficiary on his $1.5 million life insurance policy just days before the attack, prosecutors said.
Weiss survived the assault and gained full custody of their son.
“Pamela Buchbinder meticulously planned and plotted to kill Dr. Michael Weiss, enlisting the aid of her 19-year-old cousin Jacob Nolan,” DA Alvin Bragg said in a statement. “This brutal attack left Dr. Weiss, the father of her child, injured with multiple stab wounds to his body and traumatized by the brutal attack carried out by Nolan.”
“Today, she is being held accountable for her actions,” Bragg said.
Buchbinder’s lawyer Eric Franz told The Post his client’s guilty plea was not an admission of involvement in a plot to kill Weiss, given she only pleaded guilty to attempted burglary and assault.
The plea deal allows her to dodge the top count of attempted murder, and the possible of up to 25 years in jail had she been convicted at trial.
“After five years in Rikers Island she agreed to accept a plea which did not include anything concerning an attempt or desire to murder her ex,” Franz said. “She didn’t plead guilty to conspiracy.”
“There is no admission or agreement that she intended to kill anyone,” the lawyer added. “The case was overcharged.”
As for the DA’s statements about her admission to the plot: “They are entitled to the guilty plea but they are not entitled to misstate what that covers.”
Franz also said that any speculation that she was motivated by insurance money was “ridiculous” adding that the money she would have lost in child support payments if he died would have exceeded the life insurance money. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/psychiatrist-admits-to-role-in-bludgeoning-of-baby-daddy/ | 2022-09-08T00:23:32Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/psychiatrist-admits-to-role-in-bludgeoning-of-baby-daddy/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – Police have closed a section of High Street and I-391 Wednesday night for an investigation.
Our 22News crew could see police tape blocking off the end of the highway at the intersection of High Street. It is unknown at this time what they are investigating.
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Chief Warrant Officer 2 Keith Joell, an information services technician for 35th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, embraces his son, Ke’Shaun, after administering the oath of enlistment to him during a ceremony at the Camp Zama recruiting office in Japan, July 20, 2022. Joell's two other sons, Geovanni, left, and Julius, hold the U.S. flag behind them. Almost 20 years ago, Joell enlisted into the Army in a nearby office when Ke’Shaun was a newborn baby. (Photo Credit: Courtesy photo)
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NIMASA donates medical equipment in Abuja
THE Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has donated medical equipment to some hospitals in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja.
Presenting the items, the Director General of NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh who was represented by the Director Special Duties, Mr. Isichei Osamgbi explained that the donation was part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme.
The DG said the presentation to Asokoro District Hospital was symbolic and that other hospitals within the FCT were also billed to benefit from the donation.
He explained that the gesture was to support the Federal Government and other stakeholders in improving service delivery in the health care sector in Nigeria.
Responding, the Executive Secretary of the FCT Emergency Management Agency and the Medical Director of Asokoro District Hospital expressed deep appreciation for the kind gesture emphasising that the items would go a long way towards improving health care delivery in the FCT.
NIMASA has so far donated hospital equipment, educational materials, security intervention items and relief materials to states across the Federation as part of its 2022 CSR programme.
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[Breaking news update at 6:07 p.m. ET]
Myles Sanderson was found and taken into police custody Wednesday, according to a tweet from the Saskatchewan Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
[Previous story, published at 5:25 p.m. ET]
The 10 victims of the mass stabbing in Canada on Sunday range in age from 23 to 78 years old and all but one are from the Indigenous community of James Smith Cree Nation, according to authorities.
The Saskatchewan Coroner's Service and Saskatchewan Royal Canadian Mounted Police provided names and ages of the victims in a statement Wednesday but declined to confirm the relationships between them. Six of the victims share the last name Burns, two share the last name Head, and one shares the last name of the two suspects in the attacks.
The victims were identified as:
- Thomas Burns, 23
- Carol Burns, 46
- Gregory Burns, 28
- Lydia Gloria Burns, 61
- Bonnie Burns, 48
- Earl Burns, 66
- Lana Head, 49
- Christian Head, 54
- Robert Sanderson, 49
- Wesley Petterson, 78
Petterson is from Weldon, Saskatchewan, while the other nine victims are from James Smith Cree Nation.
Several family members of some victims spoke at a press conference Wednesday about their loved ones. Saskatoon Tribal Chief Mark Arcand identified Bonnie Burns as his sister and Gregory Burns as her son, and he said another of her sons was stabbed but survived.
"Let me be honest in saying this, we don't really know what happened. We just know that our family members were killed in their own home, in their yard," Arcand said.
In addition, 18 people were injured in the stabbing attacks, but authorities will not be releasing their identities. "We can confirm one young teen was injured and the remaining injured are all adults. We will not be confirming other specific ages," the agencies said.
Three patients were in critical condition and seven were in stable condition as of Tuesday, according to the Saskatchewan Health Authority.
The victim information was released as Canadian police have continued their massive search for one of the two suspects in the brutal attacks, which spanned 13 different crime scenes in the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, a nearby rural village in Saskatchewan.
Authorities have identified brothers Myles and Damien Sanderson as suspects. Myles Sanderson remains at large and is considered "armed and dangerous," while Damien Sanderson was found dead a day after the attacks with injuries that were not believed to be self-inflicted, police said.
Police have warned that Myles Sanderson may be injured. He is wanted on a warrant for three counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder and breaking and entering into a residence.
Police on Tuesday reported a potential sighting of Sanderson at the James Smith Cree Nation, but police later determined he was not in the community. The search has expanded to the entirety of the province of Saskatchewan, authorities said.
Some of the victims were apparently targeted, police say
It remains unclear what motivated the violence and how or whether the brothers knew any of the victims.
Some were apparently targeted while others may have been attacked randomly, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore said in a Monday briefing.
It's also unknown if the brothers carried out the attacks at the same time, according to Blackmore.
The first stabbing was reported on the James Smith Cree Nation at 5:40 a.m. local time. Minutes later, several more calls came in about stabbings at other locations, police said.
The nation has a population of around 3,400 people with about 1,800 members who live on the reservation, according to its website.
By 9:45 a.m., authorities were reporting victims in multiple locations, including one in Weldon.
Lydia Gloria Burns, a first responder, was responding to a crisis call when she was caught up in the violence and killed, her brother Darryl Burns told Reuters, though the agency didn't say if the call was related to the stabbings.
"She was butchered," her brother Ivor Burns said to Reuters.
The discovery of Damien Sanderson's body a day after the attacks also raised questions about his brother's involvement in his death. But police said Monday that it was unclear if Myles Sanderson was involved.
"It is an investigative avenue that we are following up on, but we can't say that definitively at this point," Blackmore said.
Suspect had a 'lengthy' criminal history and was released by parole board
Myles Sanderson was described as being approximately 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighing about 240 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. Police on Tuesday released an updated photo of him.
Blackmore previously said that Sanderson had warrants out for his arrest before the stabbings.
"Myles' record dates back quite a number of years and it includes both property and persons crimes," Blackmore said, without elaborating on the alleged crimes.
"His actions have shown that he is violent and so we're continuing to emphasize for people to remain vigilant," Blackmore added.
Sanderson was granted statutory release by the Parole Board of Canada, according to a ruling made on February 1, 2022.
Statutory release is a presumptive release by law that allows an offender to serve part of their sentence in the community under direct supervision, according to the board. By Canadian law, the Correctional Service of Canada must release most offenders with supervision after they have served two-thirds of their sentence, if they have not already been granted parole, except for those serving a life sentence.
The board said in the ruling that it didn't believe Sanderson would present a risk to the public if released. The decision did note his long criminal history and that he was assessed by a psychologist for a "moderate risk of violence."
"Your criminal history is very concerning, including the use of violence and weapons related to your index offences, and your history of domestic violence which victimized family, including your children, and non-family," the ruling states.
In a statement, the Parole Board said it "extends its thoughts to the victims, their families and all those who have been impacted as a result of these senseless and horrific acts of violence."
Citing the Privacy Act, the board said it could not discuss specifics of an offender's case.
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MILILANI, Hawaii (KITV4) -- An elderly moped rider is in critical condition after crashing into a Toyota van in the Mililani area on Tuesday.
The crash happened just before 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday. According to Honolulu Police crash investigators, a 47-year-old man was heading west on Meheula Parkway in Mililani in a Toyota van.
The van driver attempted to make a right hand turn into the parking lot at Mililani High School it was struck on the right by the moped.
Investigators say the 76-year-old man driving the moped was trying to overtake the van on the right at the time of the crash. The moped driver was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.
According to police, the moped driver was initially taken to the hospital in serious condition but his condition deteriorated while at the hospital and he is now listed in critical condition.
The van driver was not injured in the crash and remained at the scene, police said.
The crash is still under investigation. Police say it is still unknown if speed, drugs or alcohol played a factor.
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Hardly a day goes by without a major new development in the Mar-a-Lago investigation, whether it's a document drop from the Justice Department, a stunning comment from former President Donald Trump, a fireworks-filled court hearing or a long-awaited ruling.
The Justice Department's criminal probe into potential mishandling of classified materials is ongoing. The damage assessment is underway by US intelligence agencies. And the political fallout is still being shaped, as the November midterms approach and the 2024 election looms.
Here's a breakdown of what's going on and where things are headed in the investigation.
What's in the classified documents?
The government has recovered at least 325 unique classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, according to court filings describing Trump's turnover of materials in January, the subpoenaed documents he returned to the Justice Department in June and the fruits of August's FBI search.
We've known that some of these files were at the very highest level of classification, including some in an "SAP" program that severely restricts who can access the information. But since this scandal burst into public view, the big mystery has been: What are these classified files about?
Details have been very hard to come by -- after all, these are national security secrets. But on Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that one of the documents seized by the FBI during the August 8 search described "a foreign government's military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities."
"That's the kind of strategic information that can do tremendous damage," CNN's chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller said Wednesday on "CNN Newsroom."
Where do things stand right now?
On Labor Day, federal District Judge Aileen Cannon issued a landmark ruling, granting Trump's request to appoint a "special master" to independently review everything that the FBI carted away from Mar-a-Lago.
The immediate next steps look like this: The judge ordered Trump's lawyers to confer with the Justice Department and prepare a joint filing explaining their views on who should serve in the position, what their exact responsibilities should be, how they should be paid, how fast they should do their work and more. The deadline for this major court filing is Friday at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Meanwhile, the judge blocked the Justice Department from using any of the seized materials in connection with the ongoing criminal probe. That could slow down then investigation. The judge allowed the US intelligence community to finish its review of potential national security fallout.
Will the Justice Department appeal?
Cannon's ruling has been critiqued by a wide array of legal scholars, Trump critics, and even some former Trump allies, who described the decision as an unprecedented hamstringing of a major criminal investigation. (Cannon is a Trump appointee.)
Prosecutors have 30 days since the ruling dropped on Monday to file an appeal. The Justice Department has only publicly said so far that it's "examining the opinion" and mulling next steps.
Former Attorney General William Barr -- a Trump loyalist during his tenure, who broke with Trump over the 2020 election and is now a Trump critic -- says prosecutors should pursue an appeal.
"The opinion, I think, was wrong, and I think the government should appeal it," Barr said Tuesday in a Fox interview. "I don't think the appointment of a special master is going to hold up. But even if it does, I don't see it fundamentally changing the trajectory. I don't think it changes the ball game so much, as maybe we'll have a rain delay for a couple of innings."
There's a chance prosecutors will try to move full speed ahead on the special master process, while they simultaneously appeal the part of Cannon's ruling that blocked criminal investigators from doing anything with the fruits of their Mar-a-Lago search, like showing them to a grand jury.
What is the political fallout?
We're in uncharted territory, and the political fallout isn't clear yet. Both sides see an opening, but centrist voters seem to have sided against Trump as it relates to the Mar-a-Lago affair.
The Mar-a-Lago search has catapulted into Trump's top-of-mind. It's all over his social media pages, with multiple postings almost daily, filled with "deep state" conspiracy theories. At a rally last weekend in Pennsylvania in support of his handpicked candidates for Senate and governor, Trump devoted meaningful time during his speech to attacking the FBI and Justice Department.
On the other side, it's possible that the investigation could give a boost to Democrats, who have used the probe to attack Trump and raise the prospect of him possibly getting indicted or jailed.
Politically speaking, the reaction has been predictable. Polling indicates that most Republicans have Trump's back in the investigation, while most Democrats think he broke the law. So, it's more insightful to analyze how independent voters are assessing the fast-moving investigation.
A strong majority of independents, 59%, said the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago to protect national security, compared to just 41% who disagreed, according to a recent CBS News/YouGov poll. A Wall Street Journal poll found that only about one-third of independents believed that the FBI search was "just another example of the endless witch hunt and harassment" against Trump.
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Fall sweaters are some of the best things about autumn. They are easy to throw on and go with almost anything. Soft and cozy, fall sweaters look great on their own or layered. They keep you warm and they make wonderful transition pieces as the seasons change.
Stocking your closet with various fashionable and comfortable fall sweaters will help you look stylish and feel amazing. We have curated a collection of top fall sweaters with outstanding ratings on Amazon to help you find the perfect new pieces for your autumn wardrobe.
Astylish Chunky Knit Cardigan ($39)
A casual, slouchy cardigan is perfect for cool autumn mornings or brisk fall evenings. This heavy-knit cardigan has more than 13,000 ratings and overall grade of 4.3 stars out of 5. Customers who reviewed this fall sweater love the oversized look and the way it fits.
“I live in the north where anytime of year it can get unexpectedly cold, this cardigan is so warm and comfy, I wear it nearly every day around the house and bring it to work often,” wrote reviewer Sam Seitz. “I always get compliments on it. It is well made and easy to clean. I ordered a size up because I love feeling like I’m being wrapped up in a cozy blanket, it fits that feeling perfectly. If I could give this cardigan 10 stars I would.”
This fall sweater is 15% off at $38.99 as of this writing, and an additional 20% off coupon is available on the product page, making it a serious steal. In addition, it’s available in dozens of colors and sizes S through 2XL.
Zesica Long Sleeve Turtleneck ($37)
This 100% acrylic chunky knit sweater features a cozy turtleneck and rolled edges on the cuffs and hem. The loose-fitting, solid-colored sweater is perfect to pull over a pair of jeans or leggings.
It’s machine washable for easy care and available in a whopping 16 colors, including mint, taro and teal. The pullover sweater is on sale for $36.99 and a 10% off coupon is also available on the product page.
Lillusory Oversized Tunic Sweater ($41)
This tunic-style sweater has a flattering cowl neck and a fun asymmetric hem. It has 4.3 stars with more than 4,800 ratings. Customers say it is super soft and well-made.
“Perfect length to wear with leggings or skinny jeans,” wrote a reviewer who purchased four of these fall sweaters. “Quality garment. Very well made and the turtle neck is nice and stylish. Sleeves are slightly 3/4 so if you like longer sleeves you can size up but I like to hike my sleeves up a bit.”
Many note that it runs large, so if you want a closer fit, you may want to size down. This fall sweater, $40.99, is available in more than 36 colors.
Asvivid Criss-Cross V Back Sweater ($37)
Flirty and fun, this sweater is unique because You can wear it in two ways. You can wear it as a backless sweater or wear the criss-cross cutout side in front over a tank top or camisole if desired. Made of 100% cotton, it is soft, breathable and comfortable.
This fall sweater, $36.95, has more than 6,000 ratings and 4.4 stars. Many colors are available, including coffee, wine and apricot. Sizes range from S to 2XL.
OmicGot Off the Shoulder Sweater ($25)
With more than 6,500 ratings and 4.2 stars overall, this sweater is popular because of its fit and style.
“I am obsessed with this shirt,” wrote a reviewer named Renae. “It fits perfectly and is very flattering. Hides the problem areas without being too loose making you look even bigger. I’m tempted to get one in each color!”
The rayon/polyester sweater is hand-wasahble only. It features a true batwing sleeve design and a flattering cut. This sweater, $24.99, comes in 14 colors.
Anrabess Turtleneck Asymmetric Hem Sweater ($40)
With a high turtleneck and asymmetrical hem, this sweater draws attention. It features long batwing sleeves and a tunic length that’s perfect to pair with leggings or skinny jeans. The soft, slightly stretchy fabric is comfortable and forgiving. With more than 24,700 ratings and 4.4 stars, this sweater comes in dozens of colors like Celadon, Nutmeg and Denim Blue. At $39.99 with a 20% off coupon available on the product page, it’s sure to become a staple in any fall wardrobe.
Zesica Crew Neck Striped Color Block Sweater ($36)
Colorful and comfy, this pullover sweater has more than 8,700 perfect ratings. Customers appreciate the softness, quality and variety of color choices.
“The sweater looks exactly like the picture and I am absolutely in love with it,” a reviewer wrote. “I’m crazy about the length as it can be tucked in a little bit or hang straight and it’s not long…it sits at my hips. I also love the loose and flowy arms on this particular sweater as well as the fact that it’s not super heavy but will keep me warm and can be layered underneath. I’ve tried it with leggings, with jeans, and with dress pants and it looks amazing with all three.”
This fall sweater, $35.99, comes in more than two dozen color blocked and striped styles.
Saodimallsu Oversized Sweater ($32)
Soft, big and chunky, this flattering cowl sweater looks made for autumn weather. With slouchy sleeves and ribbed cuffs and hem, it will keep you snug all season. The machine washable sweater has more than 11,200 ratings and 4.3 stars.
This sweater is currently 35% off at $31.98, and a 10% off coupon is available on the product page. With 40 colors to choose from, there’s a sweater to suit every style.
Blooming Jelly Sweater with Pearls ($48)
This pretty sweater looks great with jeans but is dressy enough to pair with a skirt or slacks. This fall sweater has more than 1,600 ratings and 4.3 stars. Customers say they appreciate the quality, especially since the pearl beads are sewn on.
“I can’t tell you how much I love this sweater it’s gorgeous,” wrote reviewer Deborah Clager. “I get so many compliments and it looks high-end. Highly recommend!!”
The soft acrylic sweater, $49.99, is available in 12 colors. Sizes range from XS to 2XL.
Sipaya Color Block Hoodie Sweater ($30)
This lightweight sweater has an open-knit structure and trendy color block design, perfect for a day at the pumpkin patch. The hooded sweater has coordinating drawstrings and a loose-fitting style. It is machine-washable in cold water.
This sweater is currently more than half off at $26.99. It comes in 10 color schemes such as Khaki, Caramel and Burgundy. Sizes range from S to 2XL.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that he wants Mississippi's capital city to receive "its fair share" of federal money to repair a troubled water system that left homes and businesses without running water for several days.
Even with water flowing from taps and people again able to flush toilets this week, Jackson lacks safe drinking water. The city of 150,000 is in the sixth week of a boil-water advisory from the state health department because of concerns that low pressure could allow contaminants into the water.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan was in Jackson to meet with residents and state and local elected officials Wednesday. He touted the $1 trillion federal infrastructure law that President Joe Biden signed in November.
Mississippi is set to receive more than $4 billion from the law, with most of the money designated for highways and bridges, the White House said. The state's allocation includes $429 million over five years to improve water systems.
"It's our desire that the city of Jackson gets its fair share," Regan said during a meeting with community leaders. "It's our desire that the city of Jackson doesn't have to live with what you all have lived with for far too long."
Jackson's main water-treatment plant malfunctioned in late August after torrential rain caused flooding along the Pearl River. The influx altered the quality of the raw water entering the plant from a reservoir. That slowed the treatment process, depleted supplies in water tanks and caused a dangerous drop in pressure.
But even before the rainfall, officials said some water pumps had failed and a treatment plant was using backup pumps. A rental pump was installed last week, and the system's water pressure is back to normal.
Groups are distributing bottled water at drive-thru sites, and restaurants are bringing tanks of clean water from suburbs.
About 25% of Jackson's residents live in poverty, and the city's tax base has declined with a sharp decrease in population since 1980 — a change that happened along with mostly white flight that started about a decade after public schools began integrating in 1970.
Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson sat with Regan at the community meeting and toured Jackson's main water plant with the administrator, Gov. Tate Reeves and Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba. Other members of Mississippi's congressional delegation also participated in meetings with them about short-term and long-term solutions for the city's water problems.
"We do know that will require all of us working together to cut through the bureaucracy," Regan said during a news conference at Jackson State University.
Thompson pointed out during the community meeting that Regan is from North Carolina, which also has a large Black population.
"He understands the challenges, especially (for) communities of color," said Thompson, the only Black member of Mississippi's congressional delegation. "Under this current administration, they have taken the fact that many of these communities have been underserved by its government and tried to right the ship."
Jackson's water system has been fragile for years, with officials warning that widespread loss of service was possible. A cold snap in 2021 froze pipes and some water treatment equipment, leaving tens of thousands of people without running water. Similar problems happened again early this year, on a smaller scale. The EPA also told Jackson months ago that its water system violates the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/epa-leader-jackson-needs-fair-share-of-money-to-fix-water | 2022-09-08T00:39:42Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/epa-leader-jackson-needs-fair-share-of-money-to-fix-water | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
An image of a bonobo in the wild, cradling another species (a baby mongoose) has captured attention as the photograph has become a finalist in the Wildlife Photographer of the year contest 2022 held at Britain's National History Museum (NHM).
The photographer, Christian Ziegler, already won “Highly Commended Image” in the 58th iteration of the contest, which nominates 100 entries to judge out of tens of thousands of submissions for the prize.
The curiosity came around about how the primate came to be holding the little animal and where the mother was. Had she been killed?
According to the NHM, Ziegler tracked a group of bonobos into a flooded forest and spotted a young male bonobo holding a mongoose pup.
Ziegler said, "'The bonobo held and stroked the little mongoose for more than an hour."
He said it was "carrying the pup carefully as it climbed a tree to eat fruit."
According to NHM, bonobos are mainly herbivorous and mostly feed on plants. However, they have been observed hunting at times.
Ziegler said he observed the primate eventually released the pup unharmed and theorized that it might have been taken when the mongoose mother was killed.
Dr. Barbara Fruth, director of the LuiKotale Bonobo Project, told the BBC, "We know from captivity that bonobos care for individuals other than their own species."
Fruth said that in the wild, it's a different story for the species.
Ziegler said he had been tracking the group of bonobos wading chest-deep in water in the flooded forest while on a days-long photography expedition in the Salonga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
"I was so surprised to see how he carried the mongoose with such care. I immediately started to follow him and document it," he said.
Fruth said the bonobo might have been planning to eat the mongoose pup, as they have been observed hesitating before killing, after catching their prey when hunting. Bonobos have been observed, experts say, starting to eat their prey while still alive.
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BALTIMORE - Ships from around the world sailed into the Port of Baltimore, kicking off Maryland Fleet Week and Flyover Baltimore (MDFW), Sept. 7, 2022. This year's MDFW includes ship tours, Baltimore Inner Harbor flyovers, static displays, and Fleet Week festivals at multiple locations throughout Baltimore Sept. 7-13, both in-person and online. This is the third time Baltimore has hosted Fleet Week.
Participating ships include dock landing ship USS Carter Hall (LSD 50), Freedom-variant Littoral Combat ship USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul (LCS 21), Military Sealift Command (MSC) Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport USNS Newport (T-EPF-12), Canadian Royal Navy Kingston-class coastal defense vessel HMCS Moncton (M-708), U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James Rankin (WLM-555), and Danish Tall Ship Danmark. National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA), and Army Corps of Engineers vessels are also available.
Flyover units include Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 2, Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 1, Fighter Squadron Composite Twelve (VFC-12), Training Air Wing 4 (TW4), Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadrons 14 & 15 (HM-14; HM-15), and Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 365 (VMM-365) with flights scheduled Sept. 9-11.
Rear Adm. Nancy S. Lacore, Commandant, Naval District Washington, discussed the partnership between the Navy and Baltimore.
"Fleet Week is a tradition for Baltimore and the U.S. Navy that goes back years,” said Lacore. “Past Fleet Weeks proved just how magnificent this historic city, its port, and its people are and how skilled you are as partners to the Navy and planning and executing such a complex event. We are glad to be back for Fleet Week."
MDFW is an opportunity for the citizens of Maryland and the City of Baltimore to meet Sailors, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen, as well as see firsthand the latest capabilities of today’s maritime services. More than 2,300 sea service members are expected to participate this year.
For more information on ways to enjoy MDFW fleets, flights, and festivals, visit mdfleetweek.org. Follow @mdfleetweek on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter for an insider perspective through virtual ship tours and behind the scenes experiences.
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Gaborone, BOTSWANA – The North Carolina National Guard (NCNG) sponsored the 6th iteration of the African Military Law Forum (AMLF) with the Botswana Defence Force at the Grand Palm Convention Center, here, Aug. 6-10.
The forum was co-sponsored by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and brought together African military legal professionals from 37 African countries to discuss the legal dynamics in preparing their military forces and executing military operations.
This event was significant because it included the launch of the Women’s African Military Professional Legal Network (WAMPLN). The purpose of the WAMPLN is to further integrate women legal advisors into every facet of the military where they can provide a unique perspective and impact as it relates to the law. To do this, Shannon Meehan, an expert in gender considerations in armed conflict, discussed integrating the concept of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Women, Peace and Security (WPS) strategic framework during the first plenary session. The WPS framework underscores the DoD’s role as a global model for diversity and inclusivity while working with partner nations to support women’s meaningful participation within defense and security sectors.
According to the Interim Deputy U.S. Ambassador to Botswana, Kundai Mashingaidze, U.S. policy has recognized that when women are fully involved and consulted in efforts to build peace and security, there is a positive correlation with reducing armed conflict, sustaining peace agreements, developing democratic systems of governance, and ensuring long-term security and recovery of communities and nations.
“Despite evidence that when women directly participate in negotiations, a peace accord is 35% more likely to last more than 15 years, women are still consistently absent from places where decisions are being made,” said Mashingaidze. “Incorporating a WPS strategy requires a whole of government approach. It cannot be the singular domain of the military, or the diplomats, or the politicians. We all need to work together to achieve this.”
NCNG Assistant Adjutant General of Sustainment, Brig. Gen. Cristina Moore – the state’s first Hispanic female general – believes these conversations are the first step to gender integration of African militaries. As more African countries empower women to join their ranks, the ideology of the monolithic women is slowly beginning to change. Moore spoke of her own personal and professional experiences during the forum and challenged the male-dominated audience to look beyond societal norms.
“We’ve talked about it, and you’ve asked how women can be employees, mothers, military professionals, business owners, or wives at the same time,” said Moore. “And I will tell you, this is how you do it. I’m all of these things and in a dual-military home. I don’t say this to boast, I say this to show you that it can be done and done successfully. I encourage all of your countries to take these steps and you’ll find that you will have a stronger force because of it.”
Moore along with Col. (retired) Rick Fay, NCNG chief legal advisor, participated in the AMLF as panelists to discuss the interplay between commanders and their legal advisors and effective ways to enhance their relationship and ensure mission accomplishment. Moore emphasized the importance of commanders understanding the legal limitations of what they can and cannot do and building a trusted relationship with their legal advisors.
“The legal advisor’s role is to identify the rules of law for you to make your decision, but as the commander, it’s solely your decision,” said Moore. “Whether in peacetime or combat operations, this relationship does not work if you start the relationship in a time of crisis. As a commander, your time with your legal advisor shouldn’t be only when it’s needed, it should be on a regular and consistent basis – a top priority.”
At the conclusion of the event, the general body voted for the next executive leadership council of the AMLF – electing five women and three men – many of which are Botswanan.
“I am honored I was chosen to be a part of the AMLF and witness the leadership of our Botswanan partners, as well as the representatives from the other countries,” said Moore. “The minority, alone, cannot advocate for gender integration and equality, it takes the acknowledgement and support of the majority to begin true change, which was mentioned in the AMLF and seen in the election results. The election of the majority female leadership council by their male counterparts paves the way for women in all African nations.”
The NCNG has a bilateral partnership with the country of Botswana, part of the NCNG State Partnership Program, which consists of military-to-military and civilian-to-civilian engagements – allowing the NCNG to be a mechanism for building capacity and capabilities in Botswana.
The U.S. National Guard’s State Partnership Program began in 1993 with partnerships between the National Guard of designated states and newly independent Eastern European countries. Currently, there are currently 13 state partnerships between the United States and African Nations: North Carolina and Botswana; California and Nigeria; New York and South Africa; Michigan and Liberia; Utah and Morocco; Vermont and Senegal; Wyoming and Tunisia; Kentucky and Djibouti; Massachusetts and Kenya; and Indiana and Niger. The North Dakota Guard is partnered with three countries: Ghana, Togo, and Benin.
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Police captured the second of two suspects accused of fatally stabbing 10 people in and around an Indigenous community of Saskatchewan, Canadian authorities said Wednesday.
Myles Sanderson, 30, was taken into custody days after officials were first notified of the bloody rampage that unfolded Sunday morning on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the town of Weldon.
"There is no longer a risk to public safety relating to this investigation," police in Canada declared in announcing that Sanderson had been located and taken into custody in Rosthern, Saskatchewan, Wednesday afternoon.
It still wasn't clear what might have led brothers Myles and Damien Sanderson, 31, to go on their violent spree that appeared to include both targeted victims and random people, officials said.
Damien Sanderson was found dead on the James Smith Cree Nation in Saskatchewan at 11:30 a.m. Monday with visible injuries that are not believed to have been self-inflicted, police said.
In addition to the 10 slayings, Myles and Damian Sanderson are suspected of injuring 18 people during their attacks that spanned 13 crime scenes.
Saskatchewan police got their first of several stabbing reports at about 5:40 a.m. Sunday, and by 7:12 a.m. authorities had the names of their suspects.
James Smith Cree Nation is about 200 miles north of the provincial capital, Regina.
The Saskatchewan slayings have shaken all of Canada, where violent crime is relatively rare.
There were about 750 homicides in Canada in 2020, a nation of about 38 million people.
That's in stark contrast to the United States, with nearly nines times the population, where there were more than 21,500 homicides in 2020, according to the FBI.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he's been in close contact with Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and James Smith Cree Nation leadership during this crisis.
"I let them know our government is ready to assist in any way we can, and that we’re here to support the people of Saskatchewan during this difficult time," Trudeau said in a statement Monday. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/second-suspect-in-deadly-canada-stabbing-spree-apprehended-officials-say/article_872fc4e4-2efa-11ed-84ad-3f57942c15e0.html | 2022-09-08T00:43:29Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/second-suspect-in-deadly-canada-stabbing-spree-apprehended-officials-say/article_872fc4e4-2efa-11ed-84ad-3f57942c15e0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YAKIMA COUNTY, Wash. - Deadly crashes have been on the rise this year and many of the people involved in them did not wear their seatbelts, that's according to Washington State Patrol (WSP).
In 2022, WSP responded to 23 deadly crashes on state highways in our area. This number includes Yakima County, the Tri-cities and Walla Walla. Trooper Chris Thorson said over half of them were not wearing seatbelts.
"You are four times more likely to die in a collision if you're not wearing a seatbelt," Trooper Thorson said.
In Yakima County specifically, the Yakima County Sheriff's Office (YCSO) responded to 25 deadly crashes this year. Traffic Sergeant Wes Rasmussen said this is the highest number in the history of the traffic unit which started in 2017. He did not have numbers for how many people didn't wear their seatbelts on hand. He did say most people do a pretty good job of wearing them during the day time.
According to the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, about 95% of Washington drivers wear their seatbelts. Trooper Thorson said at night, it's a different story.
Neither he nor Sgt. Rasmussen could explain why less people wear them at night, but they're are different possibilities as to why.
"It's dark out and a lot of people have tinted windows and they think that they're probably gonna get away with it because law enforcement can't see in your vehicle," Trooper Thorson said.
He said it could also be related to more people driving under the influence at night, but there's no statistics that can prove that.
Sgt. Rasmussen said some people don't wear them properly because they can be uncomfortable or because they fear injury if they get into a wreck, but he says nothing is worse than death.
"I have been to wrecks where the victim, the person that did die, would have been absolutely fine had they been wearing their seatbelt," Sgt. Rasmussen said.
When it comes to buckling your kids in right, WTSC lists out how to do it properly in Washington. If they are younger than two years old they should be in the backseat in a back-facing car seat. If they are toddlers or preschool aged they should ride in a front-facing one with a harness. School-aged kids should be in a booster seat until they are four feet and nine inches tall. All kids under 13 years old need to ride in the back seat.
You can click HERE to watch how to put in a car seat.
Motorcycles don't have seatbelts so if you're riding one of those this summer you have to really pay attention on the roads.
"Riding a bike is a bit different paying attention to the drivers around you and upcoming hazards," he said. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/over-half-of-the-victims-in-deadly-crashes-this-year-didnt-wear-their-seatbelt/article_ab22f5b0-2eff-11ed-b818-6fd216a314f4.html | 2022-09-08T00:43:31Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/over-half-of-the-victims-in-deadly-crashes-this-year-didnt-wear-their-seatbelt/article_ab22f5b0-2eff-11ed-b818-6fd216a314f4.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KENNEWICK, Wash. — A Diocese of Yakima priest was arrested in Benton County on September 7 for the suspected charges of third-degree rape. The Kennewick Police Department investigation into an incident at a home owned by the priest around August 19 and 20 led to the 49-year-old’s arrest.
The priest had served at multiple churches in Tri-Cities and in Spokane, and was reportedly preparing for an international trip just a couple weeks after the incident. Diocese Bishop Joseph J. Tyson ordered the accused priest to stop all public ministry during the investigation, according to the press release from the Pastoral Office. He was also told he could not leave the country or contact the accuser.
The woman who reported the incident had told another priest within hours, saying she went over for a friendly dinner before it happened, then she left on her own the next morning. She was supported in her decision to undergo a medical exam and to report the incident to the police, according to the press release.
“We are shocked and saddened by these developments,” said Bishop Tyson. “I am grateful that the woman came forward immediately and trusted another of our priests well enough to confide in him and to bring this matter to light.”
The priest is in Benton County Jail awaiting possible charges. The Diocese of Yakima must pay him while he waits for charges, as he is innocent until proven guilty in both civil and church law, according to the press release. The church will not, however, pay for his legal defense. He has been ordered by the church to check in with another priest every day, which he reportedly has.
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YAKIMA, Wash. — A father in Yakima was arrested for illegally possessing a firearm, violating a protection order and interfering with custody after an incident with his infant and the child’s mother over Labor Day weekend.
The man was refusing to give the child to their mother, despite a court order against him that kept him from contacting or maintaining custody of the kid. He was found by Yakima police officers at Randall Park, who ordered him to stop.
He ran away with the child in hand.
The man was ultimately stopped and arrested, and the child was not hurt. The father was searched, revealing a loaded handgun, which is also against his court order. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/yakima-father-arrested-after-running-from-officers-with-child-in-hand/article_e716376c-2f04-11ed-b0c8-6f326c50f6cb.html | 2022-09-08T00:43:40Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/yakima-father-arrested-after-running-from-officers-with-child-in-hand/article_e716376c-2f04-11ed-b0c8-6f326c50f6cb.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NANJING, China, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InxMed Co., Ltd, a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicates to developing innovative therapies targeting drug resistance and metastasis for hard-to-treat solid tumors, today announced the dosing of the first patient in its Phase 2 pivotal study evaluating IN10018, a highly potent and selective oral inhibitor of focal adhesion kinase (FAK), in combination with pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD) in patients with platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian cancer (PROC).
The Phase 2 pivotal study is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial investigating the efficacy and safety of IN10018 in combination with PLD in patients with PROC. A total of 168 PROC patients will be enrolled and randomized in a 2: 1 ratio to receive IN10018 in combination with PLD or placebo of IN10018 in combination with PLD treatment in a double-blind manner.
Progression-free survival (PFS) as assessed by blinded independent central review (BICR) will be used as primary efficacy endpoint and overall survival (OS) will be used as key secondary efficacy endpoint. Objective remission rate (ORR), overall disease control rate (DCR), duration of remission (DOR), etc. as assessed by BICR and investigator will be other secondary efficacy endpoints.
InxMed previously reported results from its Phase Ib study of IN10018 in combination with PLD on ASCO 2022, demonstrated promising antitumor efficacy and a well-controlled safety profile in the treatment of patients with PROC.
The Phase 2 pivotal study was initiated in August 2022 and is expected to be completed in Q1 2024. The company also has completed a Type B Meeting discussion with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and planned to submit US IND for a Phase 2 pivotal study evaluating IN10018 in combination with PLD for PROC in US by September this year.
InxMed set up a global clinical development program for IN10018. Clinical trials currently underway in the US, China and Australia are designed for platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian cancer, NRAS mutant metastatic melanoma, triple-negative breast cancer, head and neck cancer, pancreatic cancer, and other solid tumors that are still lacking effective treatment. IN10018 received fast track designation from the US FDA in August 2021, and breakthrough designation from China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) in April 2022 for the treatment of patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.
About InxMed
InxMed is a clinical-stage biotech company established in the end of 2018. The company dedicates on developing innovative therapies targeting stroma microenvironment and solid tumor resistance and metastasis, especially new drug development on anti PD-1/PD-L1 treatment drug resistance. InxMed committees to building an efficient engine for clinical translational science and proof of concept platform driven by in-depth understanding of disease biology and being a China based biotech company with global impact. We have built translational medicine and clinical development team across Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, United States, Canada and Australia. We have built a highly differentiated pipeline and established partnership with various multinational pharmaceutical companies including Merck, Roche and Boehringer Ingelheim.
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SPOKANE, Wash — The Spokane County Interstate Fair has 'All Systems Go!' right around the corner. People will be flocking to the fairgrounds to get a taste of the food and to see the sights.
Here's what you need to know to keep your fair going experience as smooth as possible:
General Opening and Closing Times
The fair will be open from Sept. 9-18, 2022. Opening times will vary, but all fair outdoor booths and barns will close at 10 p.m.
- Monday through Friday: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
- Saturdays: 10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
- Sundays: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Rides open at 3 p.m. Monday-Friday and noon on Saturday and Sunday.
Address
The fair will be held at the Spokane County Fair and Expo Center, located at
404 N Havana Street.
Information on how to get to the fair from your current location can be found here.
Tickets and Admission Fees
Tickets are available online and at the fair entrance for purchase. Tickets purchased at the Main Gate entrance can only be bought with cash. ATMs will be located around the fairgrounds.
Tickets are required for entry into the fairgrounds and separate tickets are required for events such as the rodeo and featured artists' concerts.
Ticket prices at the door are as follows:
- Adult: $13.00
- Youth (7-13) and Senior (65+): $10
- Military: $10
- Children (6 and under) Free
Once fairgoers buy a ticket, they have all-day access to the fair with a hand stamp that will be given at the entrance. Just present it at the door for all-day reentry.
Parking
The fair will have two parking lots to accommodate vehicles— one at the Main Gate, and another at the South Gate entrance. Parking will cost $5 in addition to fair entry tickets and last all day. Parking can only be paid for with cash.
Additional information about parking can be found here.
Ride Prices and Restrictions
Tickets for rides at the fair can also be bought at the fair entrance. Bracelets will let riders ride unlimited rides all day.
- Through Sept. 9-11, and Sept. 16-18, ride bracelets will be $37
- Through Sept.12-15, ride bracelets will be $35
Riders must be at least 42 inches tall to ride alone. Riders 36 inches and under cannot ride rides alone.
Depending on the ride, there may be other weight and height restrictions.
Map
A map of the fair is available to help you plan your trip. Check it out for locations of ATMs, restrooms, booths, and more.
For additional information about the fair, click here.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Oregon-based rock band Modest Mouse will be taking their sound to the Knitting Factory in downtown Spokane.
The show is on November 19, 2022. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets can be found here.
The band will be trekking the United States in support of their 'Lonesome Crowded West' 25th Anniversary tour. The album of the same name, which came out in 1997, will be played in its entirety live for the first time.
Formed in Issaquah, Washington in 1992, Modest Mouse has gone through a number of member changes. For the tour, the band will consist of singer/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, multi-instrumentalist Russell Higbee and lead guitarist Simon O'Connor.
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COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Movie star Reese Witherspoon took time to visit a popular Coeur d'Alene book store on Wednesday and shared photos from her visit on her Instagram account.
The "Legally Blonde" and "Little Fires Everywhere" star stopped off at The Well-Read Moose in Coeur d'Alene to browse the store's book selection. She posted a video of herself on her Instagram story with the caption "in my happy place."
She also shared a video of the book written by the cast of the Netflix show "The Home Edit," which she was featured on, and a photo of a poster inside the book store titled "Advice from a Moose."
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SPOKANE, Wash. — A part of the Chelan River may return to become a new fishing spot once more.
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) will host a virtual meeting to gauge public comment on opening the upper section of the Chelan River for fishing.
Earlier this year, the WFDW accepted a petition to open a section of the upper Chelan River for fishing. It was closed around 2015 to help restore the population of fish and repair the loss of the fish population that came with the practice of catch-and-release mortality.
With the petition in place, the WDFW is now setting up a meeting with the public to establish whether or not the area should be open to the public once more for fishing.
The meeting will take place on Sept. 14, and will be virtual. The WFDW is asking people to register in advance or be ready to join by phone or on the Zoom app with the code (861 1255 8305).
Click here for more details on the petition.
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WASHINGTON — Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed Wednesday that the Senate will vote on legislation to protect same-sex marriage “in the coming weeks” as a bipartisan group backing the bill negotiates changes to gain more Republican support.
The vote, expected by the end of the month, comes as Democrats and a small group of Republicans are moving to safeguard same-sex marriage following the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and the federal right to an abortion. Lawmakers fear the court's ruling, and a concurring opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas, indicate that an earlier high court decision protecting same-sex marriage could come under threat.
“We all want to pass this quickly,” Schumer said. “I hope there will be 10 Republicans to support it.”
A bipartisan group of senators, led by Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, is working to round up those ten GOP votes needed to overcome a filibuster and get the legislation through the 50-50 Senate.
“I think the momentum is going in the right direction,” Baldwin said after the bipartisan group met on Wednesday.
The Senate push for the historic vote — and the openness by some Republicans to back it in an election year — reflects a seismic shift on the issue since the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision legalizing gay marriage nationwide. Some 70% of U.S. adults in a June Gallup poll said same-sex unions should be valid under the law.
The bill protecting same-sex marriage cleared the House in a July vote with the support of 47 Republicans – a larger than expected number that gave the measure a boost in the Senate.
To win over more Senate Republicans, negotiators are planning to introduce amendments aimed at addressing concerns from some about “religious liberty” – the rights of religious institutions or religious business owners to oppose same-sex marriage, for example. Supporters say such religious liberty is already enshrined in law, but new language would simply make that clear.
Another proposed tweak to the bill would make clear that a marriage is between two people, an effort to ward off some far-right criticism that the legislation could endorse polygamy.
Baldwin and two of the Republicans supporting the marriage bill, Maine Sen. Susan Collins and North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, said Wednesday that the group was drafting the amendments to address the concerns they've heard from their GOP colleagues.
“There’s no harm in doing it,” Tillis said, even though some Democrats have pointed out that those rights are already protected under law.
Collins said the amendment would “make crystal clear that it does not in any way infringe religious liberties” and allow Republicans to have input on the bill.
“I’m never confident until the roll is called but we’re making good progress,” Collins said.
The legislation would repeal the Clinton-era Defense of Marriage Act and require states to recognize all marriages that were legal where they were performed. The new Respect for Marriage Act would also protect interracial marriages by requiring states to recognize legal marriages regardless of “sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin.”
So far, three Republicans have said they will vote for the legislation and are working with Baldwin and others to pass it: Collins, Tillis and Ohio Sen. Rob Portman. A fourth GOP senator, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, has supported same-sex marriage in the past. Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, who is up for reelection this year, has said he doesn’t see a “reason to oppose it” but has talked on both sides of the issue in recent weeks.
Several other Republican senators have said they are undecided or have declined to comment.
“I don’t have anything for you on that at this point,” Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey said Wednesday, when asked if he would vote for the bill.
Indicative of the political shift, many of the Republicans who are opposing the bill aren’t arguing whether same-sex marriages should be recognized by the government. They say instead that they believe the Supreme Court is unlikely to overturn Obergefell.
“I don’t think that’s a pressing matter,” said Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who is up for re-election this year. “There’s no threat to same-sex marriage in America.”
Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said the effort is a “show vote” and Democrats are playing politics.
Baldwin, who is the first openly gay senator and has been working on gay rights issues since she first entered state politics in the 1980s, said she disagrees with that assessment.
“It’s not” just politics, Baldwin said. “It’s very real for a whole lot of people.”
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Here’s the question: Did Sunday’s 5-0 win over Green Bay tell us a lot about Marquette women’s soccer or did it tell us a lot about Green Bay’s team?
Through MU’s first four matches, the Golden Eagles had scored just one run of play goal all season, and that was Josie Bieda’s equalizer in their 1-1 draw against Illinois-Chicago. In the fourth match of the year. Sunday against Green Bay? Marquette had three run of play goals by halftime, heck, they had them by the 23 minute mark of the match, and then they tacked a fourth one on in the 73rd minute.
If that’s a shift in tactics by Marquette, if that’s a solution found by the coaching staff, if that’s the players figuring out how to play with each other a little bit better as the season goes along, then that’s great! Big roadblock out of the way, onwards and upwards, etc. you get the idea.
If that’s “actually, Green Bay isn’t particularly great and Marquette ran straight through them,” that’s not great. Let’s be clear about it: Outshooting them 22-3 and winning 5-0 isn’t a bad thing. Sometimes what you need the most is an overwhelming victory to shake all the bugs out of the system. But if it was more taking advantage of a team not prepared for what was about to happen to them, then Marquette has to be careful about what lessons they take away from it.
This weekend will give MU a chance to figure out what they have. These appear to be two winnable games for them, and the fact that the two facilities are just five miles apart gives the Golden Eagles a chance to relax to a certain extent between Thursday evening and Sunday afternoon. They can get to the Twin Cities and focus on playing the best 180 minutes of soccer they can. It might be a big weekend for Marquette as well, since they have just one non-conference contest remaining after Sunday afternoon. Before you know it, the Golden Eagles will be kicking off against DePaul on September 22nd, and then the rubber really hits the road.
Match #6: at St. Thomas Tommies (3-1-1)
Date: Thursday, September 8, 2022
Time: 4pm Central
Location: South Field, St. Paul, Minnesota
Streaming: TommieSports.com
Live Stats: Sidearm Stats
Twitter Updates: @MarquetteWSOC
Marquette is 1-0-0 all time against St. Thomas. The first ever meeting was last season as the Tommies made their jump up to Division 1, and the Golden Eagles won 3-0.
As mentioned, last year was UST’s first ever season in Division 1 and.... it did not go so great. They went 4-12-1 overall and 2-7-0 in Summit League action. Considering that, 3-1-1 to start the year is pretty great. Not particularly sure what wins over Drake, Chicago State, and Northern Iowa mean towards being picked to finish eighth in the Summit League this year, but hey: They went 1-1-1 against those three teams last season, so this is, by default, an improvement. On top of that, they were leading Green Bay 2-0 when that game was called on account of weather, and they lost 2-0 to the Phoenix a year ago.
This game may be a strong defensive test for the Golden Eagles. St. Thomas is outshooting opponents nearly by coming up on six shots a game, 12.8 to 7.2 on average. For comparison’s sake, Marquette is barely above water at 50-49 on the season, although that does include a mollywhopping by Notre Dame in the opener. UST has turned that shot advantage into a 6-1 goals advantage on the scoreboard, so while they’re controlling matches, they’re barely north of a goal per game.
Two of those six goals this season have come from Camryn Rintoul, who has started in four of their five contests and leads the team in shots with 10 as well. This is all very fascinating stuff, as the sophomore from Apple Valley is listed as a defender/midfielder on the Tommies’ roster. Is that going to last? Maybe not, as she hasn’t scored in the last three matches and only tallied one shot in their most recent contest.
Annie Bantner has played all but 45 minutes this season, taking the second half off in St. Thomas’ 1-0 win against Chicago State. As you would expect with just one goal allowed this season, her stats are stellar. She’s allowing 0.22 goals per 90 minutes and stopping nearly 92% of shots on frame. Marquette’s #1 goal for the match has to be ruining Bantner’s sparkling record to start the year.
Match #7: at Minnesota Golden Gophers (2-3-1)
Date: Sunday, September 11, 2022
Time: 1pm Central
Location: Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium, St. Paul, Minnesota
Streaming: B1G+, which means paying $10 for a month’s subscription of Minnesota or $15 for the whole league.
Live Stats: Sidearm Stats
Twitter Updates: @MarquetteWSOC
Marquette is 2-4-1 all time against Minnesota. The series started back in 1993 and it took until 2009 before the Golden Eagles picked up a win. The most recent meeting was a 1-0 MU victory in Minnesota back in 2019.
Minnesota is on a hot streak at the moment, picking up a 4-0 win over Drake and a 3-1 road victory against North Dakota in their last two contests. Whether they’ll still be on that hot streak by the time Marquette gets to Robbie Stadium on Sunday is up for debate, as they’ll host Nebraska-Omaha on Thursday evening for their 7th match of the season.
As you can guess, that recent hot streak means they started out the year poorly. After a 1-1 draw on the road against Baylor, they dropped their next three matches. Losing 2-1 at then-#7 TCU isn’t that big of a deal, but it is a bummer since the Gophers were leading 1-0 when the clock clicked over to 84:00. That just makes their follow up loss — 1-0 at home to Cal Poly — even worse, and then they dropped a 1-0 decision on the road against Mississippi State as well. Both of those matches featured second half goals by the other team, so it seems that maaaaaybe Marquette can wear Minnesota down.
Senior forward Izzy Brown is in her second season with the Gophers after transferring in from North Carolina after her first two seasons of competition. She led Minnesota in goals last season with six, and she’s already halfway to that mark this season. Brown is the only Minnesota player to score more than once so far in 2022, but she’s not leading the team in shots. McKenna Buisman has 12 attempts so far, while Khyah Harper has 11 against eight for Brown. We’ll have to see what that means in general for the Gophers’ attack, and it is important to note that they’re outshooting teams 64-40 on the season so far.
Barring a total surprise, Megan Plaschko will be in net for the Gophers on Sunday. The senior from Eagan has played every minute so far this season, even with two sophomores backing her up. With five goals allowed in five matches, she’s averaging a precise 1.00 goals per 90 minutes this year.... but she’s only stopping 67% of shots on frame. If MU can tip the field towards the Gophers’ defense, that bodes well for the chances to pick up a win.
One final note on this match: We have to point out that Erin Chastain is running the show for Minnesota. You might remember her as the head coach at DePaul for 14 seasons. She won two Big East regular season titles and one tournament title, qualified for a pair of NCAA tournaments, and guided the Blue Demons to the first national ranking in program history. Why is she in the Land of 10,000 Lakes? Because sometimes you hire one of the 10 best scorers in program history to coach your team. Can’t knock the decision making by Minnesota or Chastain here, but it’s safe to say that she’s familiar with how MU head coach Frank Pelaez might want things to go since Pelaez was an assistant at Marquette for years and years during her time in Chicago. | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/9/7/23341280/marquette-golden-eagles-womens-soccer-preview-st-thomas-tommies-minnesota-golden-gophers | 2022-09-08T00:49:39Z | anonymouseagle.com | control | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/9/7/23341280/marquette-golden-eagles-womens-soccer-preview-st-thomas-tommies-minnesota-golden-gophers | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Golden Gate Global (GGG) is excited to announce that the EB-5 investors can now file their I-526E petitions for GGG's current investment opportunity, Brooklyn Basin Phase 2.
GGG's successful litigation together with other leading regional center operators against the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) resulted in a favorable settlement agreement, which was approved by Judge Chhabria on September 1, 2022. The settlement agreement clarifies the I-956F receipt requirement and thus allowing EB-5 investors to file their I-526E petitions in the Brooklyn Basin Phase 2 EB-5 project effective immediately.
Brooklyn Basin Phase 2 is the first of GGG's new investment opportunities in California. The project is located in a TEA (Targeted Employment Area), thereby qualifying those that subscribe eligible for set-aside visas under the renewed regional center program. The EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 allows concurrent filing of Form I-526E and Form I-485, in effect making a conditional EB-5 visa benefits immediately available for those whose who are already in the United States on another visa and whose country is current (i.e., not backlogged) on the visa bulletin.
The Brooklyn Basin Phase 2 EB-5 project represents Signature Development Group's most recent multifamily developments in Brooklyn Basin following the great success of the Orion which included 241 apartment units and was completed in August 2019.
This is the 13th EB-5 fund offered by Golden Gate Global. GGG has maintained a perfect track record of project approvals and has raised $650 million in EB-5 funds.
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I posted this back in June when USD/JPY had leapt rapidly higher. Its done so again and the chatter of BOJ yen intervention is all over the place again.
So I'll repeat it.
we have seen intervention, its just been in verbal form.
All those remarks about wanting FX to move stably, yen moves not to be too rapid - you've heard all these many times in the past months as the yen has dropped. they are a first-stage intervention. Mild stuff but effective to begin. They quickly lose their impact though.
So, what about actual intervention, that is, the Bank of Japan entering the FX market to buy yen? (Please note the BOJ will conduct the operation, but it'll be at the direction of Japan's Ministry of Finance - thats how they do things in Japan).
What you want to be listening out for is more specific, and it'll go very much like this, key phrases to be aware of:
we do not want to see one-sided moves in FX
we do not want to see excessive moves in FX
FX movement is not reflecting fundamentals
we will not tolerate speculative movement
The Ministry of Finance will combat excessive moves
Watch out for those. I will be and will let you know also.
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Its just after 8.30am in Tokyo and USD/JPY is up[ 50+ points from its early Asia lows already: | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/heres-what-to-watch-for-to-warn-of-imminent-bank-of-japan-boj-yen-intervention-20220907/ | 2022-09-08T00:54:09Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/heres-what-to-watch-for-to-warn-of-imminent-bank-of-japan-boj-yen-intervention-20220907/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Florence Pugh to Skip Don’t Worry Darling’s American Premiere
We won’t be getting a follow-up to the seemingly tense scene on the red carpet at Don’t Worry Darling’s debut in Venice. While the film will have a proper American premiere in New York City with a cast Q&A session later this month, star Florence Pugh will not be attending. In fact, according to Rolling Stone, Pugh and director Olivia Wilde aren’t presently scheduled to jointly promote the film in any capacity again.
The official reason is the same one that was given in Venice as to why Pugh arrived later than the rest of the cast and had to skip that press conference: she’s busy in Budapest filming Dune: Part Two. Which is fair enough. (Although, as many have pointed out, both films are produced by Warner Brothers, meaning the studio theoretically could have found ways to free up Pugh’s schedule to better accommodate Darling’s promotion.) The Dune franchise is obviously more important to Warner Brothers’s bottom line, and the production is already balancing the busy schedules of Pugh’s in-demand costars Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Austin Butler, Léa Seydoux, and others.
Still, even scheduling wouldn’t explain why Pugh didn’t seem to acknowledge Wilde nor her co-star Harry Styles at the premiere. Even some insiders aren’t sure what exactly is going on.
“From what I understand, there is friction, but I don’t know why,” one source told Rolling Stone. Two other sources, however, said Pugh didn’t approve of Styles and Wilde’s on-set relationship. Still, some are sticking to the story that the entire situation is merely being blown out of proportion by the Internet.
“Do I think her and Flo hate each other? Absolutely not. Was it fun and enjoyable on set? Absolutely. Were [Wilde and Styles overtly] romantic, or did she favor him? Nope. She was very professional,” added another source.
“It’s shocking to me that all this is going on… I never noticed one second of tension on that set. Not one second,” added one of the sources.
Rolling Stone adds that the film, “won’t have a press junket before its opening and has just a few engagements planned, none that involve Wilde and Pugh in the same place at the same time.”
That would imply Pugh may actually end up doing some form of further promotion for the film, just not directly with Wilde.
Whatever the case, Pugh does seem to have taken to Wilde’s “Miss Flo” nickname for her. Her glam team now has shirts with the moniker on them. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/florence-pugh-dont-worry-darling-premiere-skip | 2022-09-08T00:56:50Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/florence-pugh-dont-worry-darling-premiere-skip | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kanye West Continues His Feud With the Cast of Friends
While Kim Kardashian is launching a private equity firm, Kanye West is on Instagram picking feuds with the cast of Friends. He even caught the attention of Courteney Cox, who decided to stick up for her show.
West, who loves to regularly delete his Instagram photos, didn’t actually log on to the app to drag Friends specifically. Rather, he wanted to clear a few things up. A doctored screenshot of West’s Instagram claiming that Kardashian had digestive health problems (“like way more than a normal person should”) was, in fact, fake.
“Someone copied my style of text and wrote something not funny,” West wrote.
Unprompted, he went on to explain that he also never wrote a tweet claiming that “Friends wasn’t funny, either,” despite another fake screenshot going around. “I know you guys gonna be disappointed but I actually didn’t write the [tweet].”
“I wish I had,” he continued. “I’d love to know who thought of that.”
Cox apparently decided to offer the official cast response. She uploaded a video of herself reading the caption, and turning off West’s music.
Oddly, this isn’t the first time West had gotten in an online tiff with the cast of Friends. Jennifer Aniston once said that it was “not funny” to vote for West in the 2020 presidential election, which, naturally, caught West’s ire. He replied on Twitter, “Wow that Rogan interview got ‘em shook.” This is apparently when the doctored tweet about Friends started circulating.
Whatever the case, West used the rest of his Instagram caption to list the people that he did find funny. They included: himself, Elon Musk, Jerrod Carmichael, and Kevin Hart, but specifically in Jumanji. He also took time to take another swipe at Pete Davidson.
West has since deleted the Instagram post. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/kanye-west-courteney-cox-friends-feud | 2022-09-08T00:56:56Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/kanye-west-courteney-cox-friends-feud | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kim Kardashian Is Launching a Private Equity Firm
Kim Kardashian started her career as a derided reality star. Soon, she may be a lawyer with her own private equity firm. As she’s said, “Not bad for a girl with no talent.”
Yes, according to The Wall Street Journal, Kardashian is launching SKKY Partners. She’s teaming up with Jay Sammons, the former head of consumer investments for Carlyle Group, the private equity giant with more than $376 billion in assets. Kardashian’s “momager” Kris Jenner is joining as a partner as well, of course. Kardashian and Sammons will share the titles of co-founders and co-managing partners (offices will be split between Boston and Los Angeles).
Great. So what exactly does the mean for those of us without MBAs? Well, private equity firms are basically investment companies that provide funding for (and sometimes take a controlling interest in) other companies. SKKY will concentrate on backing companies in the “consumer products, hospitality, luxury, digital commerce, and media as well as consumer-media and entertainment businesses” according to WSJ. Venture capital firms often look to invest in up-and-coming businesses, or buy out struggling companies they think they can turn around. The companies are then sold for profit.
“The exciting part is to sit down with these founders and figure out what their dream is,” Kardashian told the newspaper. “I want to support what that is, not change who they are in their DNA, but just support and get them to a different level.”
Sammons says he’s known the Kardashians for years, and approached them about the potential venture earlier this year. He left his post at Carlyle in June to launch the firm. In many ways, his background makes him an ideal partner for the Kardashian-Jenner empire. At Carlyle, he helped lead investment in companies like Philosophy skincare, Beats by Dre headphones, the streetwear label Supreme, Moncler, and Golden Goose.
Kardashian, of course, already has her own growing portfolio of businesses, most notably Skims, the shapewear company that was recently valued at $3.2 billion. That company, however, will raise money from other investors.
Although they don’t get as much attention as, say, consumer-facing tequila companies or skincare lines, several celebrities do maintain their own investment firms. Serena Williams has Serena Ventures (investments include tech and beauty companies), Jay Z has Marcy Venture Partners (which has invested in Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty), Snoop Dogg has Casa Verde Capital (investments, obviously, include several cannabis companies), and Ashton Kutcher famously has Sound Ventures.
Normal people save. The rich and powerful invest. And the most powerful of them all start their own investment firms. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/kim-kardashian-private-equity-skky | 2022-09-08T00:57:02Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/kim-kardashian-private-equity-skky | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Meet Designer Duran Lantink, Fashion’s New Radical
The designer, whose fashion can be seen on Beyoncé in her latest Tiffany & Co. campaign, made his mark on Amsterdam Fashion Week—and is moving on to Paris Couture.
Only the designer Duran Lantink could bring together Spanish DJ and performance artist Virgen Maria, Steve Madden shoes, and live strippers in the Red Light District for a truly theatrical, eye-popping runway presentation during Amsterdam Fashion Week.
“I like clashes rather than things going smoothly,” Lantink says with a laugh, seated in his studio just a few days before the show took place on September 1. His design team nearby was in the midst of putting the final touches on a globe-like silver jacket inside the raw and industrial studio space, and a massive heap of coats were piled onto the designer's favorite place to dream up new designs: his couch. Ever since he can remember, Lantink has been interested in taking apart designer garments and splicing them back together, or remaking existing work into new things entirely. When he was 12, he took his grandmother’s tablecloth and combined it with dad’s Diesel jeans to create a miniskirt. He also has an affinity for collaging designer shoes in a manner not unlike Frankenstein.
The list of extreme upcycling projects Lantink has been involved in is endless. He had his first runway show just last year; for his May 2022 presentation follow-up, he tapped members of SistaazHood, a support group for trans women sex workers in Cape Town, with whom he’s worked for almost a decade, to host a cinematic and emotional show in which each model styled themselves. He’s also gone on to dress the celebrity set, designing pieces for Billie Eilish and Janelle Monáe (remember those vagina pants she wore in the “Pynk” video?), Doja Cat—and most recently, Beyoncé, for her latest Tiffany’s ads.
“I have a very expensive taste,” he says. “I always pick the most expensive stuff, but it’s not that I think, ‘Oh, this might be expensive,’ I just like the design.” Heavily inspired by his mother’s sense of style growing up, his first taste for fashion came around when he witnessed her collection of Jean Paul Gaultier and Margiela. “In the late ‘80s, in Amsterdam, there was a huge party scene and I was always looking at my mom dressing up,” he says. “I was obsessed with those clothes rather than materials. So for me, it was really looking at fashion from a styling point of view, and it was logical to cut those things up and mesh it and create my own world out of it.” And despite multiple labels as a sustainable brand, “The idea never came from, ‘Let's start recycling.’”
Because of that, Lantink’s pieces are one-offs, each unique. “I don’t want to necessarily call it couture, but I think it's very important that you find your unique style in a way,” he says of the main message behind his brand. “It’s important for the people that like my clothes or want to buy my clothes. They don't necessarily have to be part of a group or community. It could be very much individual persons that like to express themselves in a [certain] way.”
For the aforementioned Steve Madden event during Amsterdam Fashion Week, Lantink was careful to not refer to it as a collaboration, but rather an “evening curated” by him. Bags and shoes from the so-obviously-polar-opposite Steve Madden brand lined the intimate Moulin Rouge club’s walls, as various acts, chosen by Lantink, stepped up to perform. The headliner of the night, Virgen Maria, opened the event wearing a laser bra and closed out the venue alternating between pole dancing and DJing, wearing Lantink’s globular jacket before stripping down to sunglasses, a G-string bikini, and her signature pout. The artist Berat Bebek swung around the pole to the tune .Perhaps most visually stunning of all was singer and movement artist Christian Yav in an oversized, boxy red suit, whose performance verged on spiritual.
“The Red Light district has been seen as touristy and druggy, but somehow it's the most beautiful part of Amsterdam,” Lantink says. “I really wanted to do something to also pay respect toward sex work and all these activities that go on in the neighborhood.”
Lantink’s aesthetic is totally extreme, slightly meme-like, and deeply personal to him. Think: full-length leopard coats, slashed from existing Dries Van Noten and Stand Studio jackets; or puffy black dresses, created from Balenciaga and Acne Studios garments. “It’s always been like, ‘I think that sleeve would be a great top, or those pants would be a great dress.’ That’s just my way of thinking.”
Sure, Lantink is part of the now-ubiquitous generation of designers who upcycle, but rather than take scraps of fabric or hand-me-downs, he’s not afraid to cut up splurgy designer fashion. Another thing that stands out about Lantink is his perspective on the title of “designer.” He easily shifts between calling himself an artist and a curator. “I like it to be open,” he says. “If you search for materials, you’re also curating the material,” he says. “Having an eye to see what works or what doesn’t work is what I’m exploring now.” Next up, the designer will be moving to Paris full-time, and will unveil a couture show in the city in January. If his latest show was anything to go by, it’s sure to be revolutionary. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/duran-lantink-upcycled-designer-interview-2022 | 2022-09-08T00:57:08Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/duran-lantink-upcycled-designer-interview-2022 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Gigi Hadid Will Always Value Virgil Abloh’s Support of Her Design Dreams
The model and Guest in Residence designer shares the inspiration behind her new cashmere label—and the one person she’d love to dress in it.
Gigi Hadid is many things: a young mother, a creative, and a celebrated model chief among them. As of September 7th, she is also the founder and creative director of Guest in Residence, a classic yet colorful luxury cashmere brand that’s challenging what it means to be a genderless label in fashion today.
“In designing this collection, it was never about one person or one kind of person,” she told W via a voice memo sent from the brand’s launch dinner at Le Chalet in New York City on September 6. “I tried to keep in my mind that I [would want to] buy something and gift it to my friend or my mom or my daughter or my grandparent.”
Much like art, Hadid sees cashmere as an investment to be purchased thoughtfully and passed down through loved ones. From the looks of her friends and family who came to toast her last night—Mohamed Hadid, comfortable in a heather gray button down and pumpkin colored socks; Bella Hadid adding her own personal style to a cropped cardigan; and Tan France in a matching polo-and-short set—the model’s mission to create a multigenerational collection could be considered accomplished. “It was important that these pieces have a classic quality to them, but also a timelessness, and a factor of youth and funk,” she added.
Gigi Hadid and Mohamed Hadid
Gigi and Bella Hadid
Although Hadid was surrounded by friends including Emily Ratajkowski and Antoni Porowski dressed in her designs for a night of drinks, dancing, and decadent French cuisine, there was one person whose absence was deeply felt: Virgil Abloh. Hadid remembers the late designer and long-time friend as a supporter of her cashmere line in its early days—and his voice is one that the model still thinks of every time she designs. “If I had to choose one person to dress in Guest in Residence, it would be my amazing friend, Virgil, who has inspired me so much in my life,” she said. “I really hoped he would be here to see the day of Guest in Residence. I would love to see him in it. I think about him in it all the time.”
The core collection of Guest in Residence is now available to shop here. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/gigi-hadid-guest-in-residence-cashmere-brand-dinner-party-interview | 2022-09-08T00:57:15Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/gigi-hadid-guest-in-residence-cashmere-brand-dinner-party-interview | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Best Parties of New York Fashion Week Spring 2023
The spring 2023 season of New York Fashion Week officiall kicks off September 9, but attendees like Gigi Hadid and Julia Fox were out in full force ahead of schedule. The former assembled her closest friends and fam, namely her sister Bella and Emily Ratajkowski—to mark the launch of Guest in Residence, her new cashmere brand. As for Fox, she put the finishing touches on her pink eyeliner and found herself a booth at American Bar to celebrate the newly five-year-old agency, The Jeffries. Trust us when we say it’s just beginning: Bottega Veneta, Opening Ceremony, and Susan Alexandra are just some of the brands that are hosting exclusive festivities on NYFW eve. Here, keep track of all the many goings-on.
Emily Ratajkowski embraced the big pants trend and palled around with Guest in Residence’s Isaac Ross.
And of course, she made sure to congratulate her BFF Gigi.
Queer Eye’s Tan France and Antoni Porowski caught up with the stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson.
Elsewhere in the city, Julia Fox turned the Jeffries’s fifth anniversary dinner at American Bar into an opportunity to try out a new kind of statement eyeliner.
Evan Mock linked up with Kailand Morris, the model son of Stevie Wonder.
Ella Emhoff, another scion-slash-model, was ready for her closeup.
Mock also got to spend time with his costar Zion Moreno off the Gossip Girl set.
The photographer Wolfgang Tillmans—who’s just a week away from the opening of his Museum of Modern Art retrospective—made a surprise appearance. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/new-york-fashion-week-spring-2023-parties | 2022-09-08T00:57:21Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/new-york-fashion-week-spring-2023-parties | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Senators seek to clarify gay marriage bill doesn't protect polygamy
Senators spearheading a bill to codify marriage equality rights are eyeing fixes to the legislation that would clarify it does not protect polygamous relationships or marriage between more than two individuals.
Why it matters: It's one of the steps being taken to secure the 10 Republican votes needed to break a filibuster and send the House-passed bill to President Biden's desk.
Driving the news: Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Wednesday the move is being discussed after some Republican lawmakers privately raised concerns.
- "We are listening carefully to the concerns that have been raised by some of our colleagues," Collins told reporters.
- She cited a "drafting error" in the bill: "One part of the bill, it makes very clear that marriage is between two individuals, and another part of the bill, the language needs to be clarified."
- Baldwin told Axios: "I don't remember the first person who raised it, but in any event, the amendment we’re working on clarifies so there's no uncertainty about it."
Yes, but: Both senators stressed that the fix is geared toward assuaging the concerns of key senators and that the bill wouldn't open the door for legalized polygamy in any case.
- "There is not a single state that allows for polygamous marriages," said Collins.
What we're hearing: The fixes would come as part of an amendment the senators have been crafting for the last month to clarify that the bill also wouldn't infringe on religious liberty, according to a source close to the negotiations. That amendment is key to getting swing Republicans on board.
- "The current version, I wouldn't vote for it because of all the issues raised about religious liberty," Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), adding that he'd need to "look at the amendments" before deciding whether he would vote for a changed version.
- Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), one of the senators supporting the bill, said the amendment would "address legitimate concerns. I think it's made the bill better."
What's next: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said at a press conference on Wednesday the bill will be voted on "in the coming weeks."
- With in-person talks underway, senators whipping GOP support for the bill projected confidence that the votes will be there when it's brought to the floor.
- "I think the momentum is going in the right direction, and, yeah, I think it's going to have good support," said Baldwin. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/08/gay-marriage-bill-polygamy | 2022-09-08T00:59:38Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/08/gay-marriage-bill-polygamy | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Batman: The Animated Series Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary
September 5 marked a watershed moment for the caped crusader as Batman: The Animated Series celebrated its 30th anniversary. Created by Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm in 1992, the series built on the momentum that Tim Burton’s Batman and Batman Returns created in the years prior. Also, this groundbreaking animated show is one of the best depictions of Batman in film or television.
Despite being a cartoon, the series presented Bruce Wayne and his adventures in Gotham City in a much darker manner. The voice cast included Kevin Conroy as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Loren Lester as Dick Grayson / Robin, Bob Hastings as Commissioner Gordon, and Mark Hammil as the Joker. Furthermore, Timm and Paul Dini invented the Joker’s girlfriend and accomplice: Harley Quinn. Harley’s popularity has only grown since her debut on the show.
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The series also kicked off the DC Animated Universe. For the first time since Super Friends ended, Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman existed in the same shared animated universe. Subsequent shows included Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures, Batman Beyond, Static Shock, The Zeta Project, Justice League, and Justice League Unlimited.
Today, fans can stream the entire series on HBO Max. Additionally, HBO Max previously ordered Batman: Caped Crusader, a new animated series from Timm, The Batman director Matt Reeves, and J.J. Abrams. However, Warner Bros. Discovery recently dropped several animated projects including Caped Crusader. While this was upsetting news, services such as Apple TV+, Hulu, and Netflix have all expressed interest in picking up Caped Crusader.
What is your favorite episode of Batman: The Animated Series? Leave your answer in the comments below!
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Scoop: Dems' accidental GOP data mine
A slip-up by social media giant Snap allowed leading Democratic campaigns and party committees to unwittingly tap into a vast repository of Republican voter data to hone their midterm ads, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: There's no indication Snap was aware of or facilitated that data sharing, and the company said it's taking steps to rectify the oversight. But the blunder underscores the sensitivities surrounding reams of voter data that have become a highly valuable political commodity.
Context: On Snap and other platforms, political advertisers can target their ads to highly specific user segments — frequently relying on data brokers that hoover up information on voters' interests, activities, spending habits and other criteria.
Driving the news: Snap's political ad archive shows multiple Democratic and progressive organizations were able to target their ads on the platform using data maintained by the Republican-aligned firm i360.
- The firm is affiliated with the political and philanthropic network founded by billionaire Charles Koch.
- Its data was used to target Snapchat ads by groups including the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams' gubernatorial campaign.
- There's no indication that any of the advertisers knew they were using i360 data or took any steps to exploit it beyond normal ad targeting decisions.
Between the lines: i360 and a Democratic counterpart, TargetSmart, make data available to other advertisers on the platform but limit availability to preapproved lists of allied organizations.
- Snap told Axios an internal oversight allowed non-approved entities — including political and ideological adversaries — to use data from both companies to target their ads.
- TargetSmart data was used to hone ads from the Daily Wire, a prominent conservative media outlet.
What they're saying: "Unfortunately, due to an internal mistake, we didn’t follow this usual process — which resulted in these two companies' services being used by advertisers outside of the process, impacting a small number of ads," a Snap spokesperson told Axios.
- The spokesperson stressed that the advertisers inadvertently permitted to use those audience segments were not given access to i360's or TargetSmart's underlying data, or to any Snapchat user data.
- "We take full responsibility for this mistake, and as soon as we became aware of it, we took action to correct the issue, notified the two vendors, and are working to rectify payments to each of them. We are also taking steps to ensure this doesn’t happen again," the spokesperson said.
An i360 spokesperson told Axios: "i360 did not authorize this use of its data, and its agreements with advertising platforms like Snap do not allow for the use of its political data by these organizations."
The big picture: The Snapchat ads that used data from adversarial firms represent a tiny fraction of political advertising during the 2022 midterm cycle.
- The mixup will nonetheless spur concerns about the way valuable political data is being shared, according to Eric Wilson, a veteran Republican digital strategist.
- "i360’s Republican clients and their donors will be surprised to learn that their data is being used to help Democrats, Planned Parenthood and other opponents," Wilson told Axios. "They should ask if and how their campaign activities were used to enhance the data provided via Snapchat." | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/08/snap-voter-data-republican-democrats | 2022-09-08T00:59:57Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/08/snap-voter-data-republican-democrats | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FALL RIVER, Mass. (WPRI) — The 42-year-old Fall River man convicted of brutally beating his friend to death with a hammer in 2018 will spend the rest of his life behind bars, according to the Bristol County District Attorney’s office.
Adam Levesque was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the murder of 39-year-old Lance Correia.
“[Levesque] committed a brutal and senseless murder of his friend over drugs,” Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn said. “He has a violent criminal history and the sentence imposed by the court is well deserved.”
Levesque was found guilty back in August following an eight-day trial, during which prosecutors proved he violently attacked Correia upon learning that $2,000-worth of heroin had gone missing.
Correia was found unconscious and bleeding profusely from his head. He was hospitalized for more than a month before succumbing to his injuries.
Levesque was eventually arrested in New York and charged with second-degree murder. He will be eligible for parole in 2047. | https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/se-mass/man-to-serve-life-in-prison-for-deadly-hammer-attack/ | 2022-09-08T01:00:08Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/se-mass/man-to-serve-life-in-prison-for-deadly-hammer-attack/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Local New Briefs
ODOT hiring for season
ZANESVILLE − The Ohio Department of Transportation District 5 will be having a winter season hiring event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday at the Zanesville Office, 3399 East Pike.
Applicants must have a valid Class A or B CDL with tanker endorsement, a good driving record and submit to a drug screen and background check. Positions pay $19.15 an hour. Fill out applications in advance at tranportation.ohio.gov/jobs.
Auditions for Christmas show upcoming
ZANESVILLE − Auditions for "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" will be at 7 p.m. Sunday and Monday at the Zanesville Community Theatre, 940 Findley Ave.
The director is Sheryl Wise with Jan Kiikka as producer. There are roles for six women, nine girls, four men and eight boys with several roles open in the children's ensemble. Performances are Nov. 4 to 6 and 11 to 13. Go to zct.org for more information.
Abbot having book sale
ZANESVILLE − A fall book and media sale will be from noon to 7 p.m. Sept. 15 and 16 at Abbot Senior Living, 1258 Greenwood Ave.
Donations of used CDs, DVDs, puzzles and games are still being accepted and can be dropped off at the facility prior to the sale. Proceeds will provide entertainment and other special events for residents. Call 740-453-2781 for more information.
Genesis releases new podcast
ZANESVILLE − A new edition of the Sounds of Good Health with Genesis podcast from Genesis HealthCare System has been released at genesishcs.org/podcast.
"How to Prevent Opioid Use Disorder and When to Seek Treatment" features Dr. Larry Cowan of Genesis Behavioral Health. He describes multiple scenarios leading to opioid addiction and that education is the best way to prevent addiction. Treatment options for those with addictions are also shared.
CFLP taking comments on resolution
NEWARK − The board of directors of the Coshocton-Fairfield-Licking-Perry Solid Waste District is taking comments from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 regarding a resolution of preliminary designation, which includes a list of solid waste facilities to receive municipal solid waste.
The designation will not result in any change to fees for residents or businesses that send waste to in-district landfills. Waste hauled to other facilities will be charged $2 per ton, following an approved application for a designation waiver. This will be effective Jan. 1.
The resolution with list of facilities is available at cflpswd.org or at the district office, 675 Price Road, Newark.
Benefit dinner set
GRATIOT − A Hannah Circle Benefit Dinner for dine-in or carryout will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Oct. 8 at the Gratiot United Methodist Church, 345 South St. Cost is a donation only.
Menu features pulled pork, macaroni and cheese, baked beans, apple sauce, dinner rolls, pumpkin pie and assorted drinks. Call Karla Jones for more information at 740-877-5758.
Breakout Bash on Friday
ZANESVILLE − The seventh annual Breakout Bash The Barn supporting Six County National Alliance on Mental Health is Sept. 10 at The Barn, 1947 Linden Ave.
Performers are Matt Frampton at noon, Sharwahl at 1:30 p.m., Rolling Rockers at 3:30 p.m., Funknado at 5:30 p.m., Levi Jameson at 7 p.m. and The River Rats at 8 p.m.
Summer cooling help available
The Ohio Department of Development and MEOAG, Community Action Agency of Muskingum County, are offering a home energy assistance summer crisis program through Sept. 30 for those income eligible.
One must provide copy of most recent energy bills, social security cards and proof of income of household members, proof of citizenship, proof of disability if applicable and physician documentation on the need off cooling assistance if there isn't someone older than 60 in the home.
One can get up to $500 for a regulated utility or $800 for an unregulated utility for assistance with a utility bill or to purchase an air conditioner or fan or to pay for central air repairs.
Call 740-302-8404 to schedule an appointment or for more information. In 2021, 464 families were assisted by the program in Muskingum County.
SWCD to meet Tuesday
ZANESVILLE − The Muskingum Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors will meet in regular session at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Rural Services Building, 225 Underwood St.
Genesis awarded by AHA
ZANESVILLE − Genesis HealthCare System recently received the American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines Resuscitation Gold Award for the sixth consecutive year.
The award recognizes Genesis for consistently implementing the most up-to-date research-based treatment guidelines outlined by the AHA for patients who suffer cardiac arrests in the hospital. The measures include protocols for patient safety, medical emergency team response, effective and timely resuscitation (CPR) and post-resuscitation care.
ZCA memberships offered
ZANESVILLE − The Zanesville Concert Association is selling memberships for its concert season at Secrest Auditorium. The first concert is at 3 p.m. Oct. 2 with Alias Brass.
Membership includes four local shows and six reciprocal shows for the Knox County Concert Series in Mount Vernon. Adult memberships are $65 for all 10 concerts. Children can attend for free with a paying adult and college students are free with a current identification card.
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When the NASCAR Cup Series returns to Kansas Speedway this weekend for the second race in the division’s 10-race playoff, a host of drivers and teams are looking to grab the spotlight as the season winds down.
While Corey LaJoie and his Ryan-Sparks led No. 7 Spire Motorsports team missed the playoffs and won’t be racing for championship honors this season, the team will be turning heads on the track while making an impact, locally, for the Neosho (Mo.) School District.
Spire Motorsports has partnered with Circle B Diecast to showcase the Neosho Wildcat Nation aboard LaJoie’s No. 7 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 in Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400, honoring the school system Circle B president Brent Powell attended as a young student.
“When thinking of ideas for paint schemes this year, I wanted to run a tribute to the area I’ve always considered home,” said Powell. “I hope both past and present students from Neosho are extremely proud when they see Corey’s car on the track. I can’t think of a better driver or team to represent the Wildcat Nation than Corey LaJoie and Spire Motorsports.”
Neosho School District is made up of 11 campuses stretching from the Historic Downtown Square all the way to Goodman, Mo., educating approximately 4,700 children and young adults. The district’s mission is to prepare the youth of its community to be people who are intelligent, driven, and make lives better for those around them.
“Everyone is very excited to see our Wildcat speeding around the track,” said Jim Cummins, Superintendent of Neosho School District. “We never imagined a day when our school system would be represented in a NASCAR Cup Series race. Our entire district is very appreciative and will be cheering on the Circle B Diecast/Wildcat Nation car!”
In eleven previous Cup Series starts at the Kansas City (Kan.) oval, LaJoie has logged six top-25 finishes, including a 19th-place effort in the series most recent visit to the track. Dating back to 2011, the Concord, N.C., native also has one NASCAR Xfinity Series’ and one ARCA Menards Series’ start at Kansas Speedway.
“As one of my longtime supporters, I’m happy to represent Brent’s childhood school system,” said LaJoie. “I’m excited for that mean-looking Wildcat on the side of our Spire Motorsports/Circle B Diecast Chevy to give us some extra speed this weekend.”
Heading into Sunday’s race at Kansas Speedway, LaJoie has earned 11 top-20 finishes during the 2022 season, including a series/career best, fifth-place finish in March at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
“Brent, his wife LaDonna, and Circle B Diecast have been a part of the Spire family for almost its entire existence,” explained Spire Motorsports president Bill Anthony. “It’s extremely gratifying to see how both organizations have grown and evolved over the years. We’ve partnered on so many fun projects in the past, it’s great to see Brent pass his partnership assets on to his alma mater and shine a spotlight on the Neosho Wildcat Nation.”
The Hollywood Casino 400 from Kansas Speedway will be televised live on USA Sunday, September 11 beginning at 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The 28th of 36 races on the 2022 NCS schedule will be broadcast live on the Motor Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.
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Live Fast Motorsports (LFM) and Circle B Diecast announced today their partnership for the NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway on Sept. 11, 2022.
The No. 78 Ford Mustang will also feature 76 race fans’ names on the decklid this weekend. Circle B Diecast and LFM teamed up this spring to allow dedicated race fans the opportunity to land their name, or a loved one’s name, on the decklid of B.J. McLeod’s ride.
Owners, Brent & Ladonna Powell, started in motorsports merchandise in 1999 with their own Action Racing Collectibles Authorized Dealer retail shop. The entire team at Plan B Sales has been involved in the wholesale and/or retail of licensed motorsports merchandise for a combined 80+ years.
“Circle B Diecast is looking forward to teaming up with Live Fast Motorsports at Kansas Speedway,” said Owner, Brent Powell. “It’s been an exciting process to fill No. 78’s decklid with race fans’ names over the course of the 2022 race season. We featured race fans’ names on BJ’s car this spring at Charlotte Motor Speedway and it was a hit. We are eager to see it come to life again this weekend.”
“Our team is excited to return to Kansas this weekend for the Cup Series race,” said LFM co-owner and driver, BJ McLeod. “Having Circle B Diecast on the car is always exciting and fans appreciate the patriotic scheme. Our team is looking forward to this Sunday’s race.”
Tune in to the NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022 at 3 PM ET on USA Network. Buy tickets at kansasspeedway.com/events.
For more information about Circle B Diecast, please visit www.circlebdiecast.com.
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Notes of Interest ● Dorothy was right. There’s no place like home. And for Kevin Harvick, home is an intermediate racetrack. With apologies to those in Harvick’s hometown of Bakersfield, California, the veteran racer has made the intermediate tracks that comprise the majority of the NASCAR Cup Series schedule his home. Of Harvick’s 60 career NASCAR Cup Series wins, 24 have come at intermediate-style racetracks. Kansas Speedway in Kansas City is one of them – a sweeping, D-shaped oval that has produced high speeds and daring, side-by-side racing since its debut in 2001. Harvick has competed at the track for every one of its Cup Series races – one of only two drivers to do so (Kurt Busch being the other) – and has amassed quite the history in his 33 career starts. Three wins, five second-place finishes, 11 top-threes, 12 top-fives, 19 top-10s and 949 laps led make Harvick one of the most successful drivers in Kansas’ relatively young history. His average start is 13.4, his average finish is 9.1 and he has a lap completion rate of 98.7 percent. ● Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas serves as the second race of the 10-race playoffs. Harvick, driver of the No. 4 Rheem Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing, is a part of the 16-driver playoff field, but he comes into the race last among his playoff counterparts. Harvick finished 33rd in the playoff opener last Sunday at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway when his car caught fire less than 100 laps from the finish. A potential top-10 result went up in smoke. It put Harvick 13 points below the top-12 cutoff line, as only the 12 highest drivers in points after the third playoff race next Saturday night at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway will advance to the second round of the playoffs. A win at either Kansas or Bristol will punch Harvick’s ticket to the Round of 12. ● Winning is what got Harvick into the playoffs. His victory Aug. 7 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn secured his spot in the playoffs for a 13th consecutive season and his 16th overall since the playoffs began in 2004. Harvick then put an exclamation point on his playoff standing by winning Aug. 14 at Richmond (Va.) Raceway to earn the ninth seed heading into Darlington. ● Kansas is one of the 10 tracks that make up the NASCAR Playoffs, and of Harvick’s 60 career NASCAR Cup Series victories, 23 have come at the remaining playoff venues. Three of those wins have been at Kansas, while Harvick also has three wins apiece at Bristol and Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. He has two wins at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and one win each at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, Homestead-Miami Speedway and Martinsville (Va.) Speedway. The remaining nine wins were earned at the most valuable playoff venue – Phoenix Raceway, home to the championship-deciding race. The only playoff track where Harvick doesn’t have a win is the Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway Roval. ● Harvick won his first NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas in the 2013 Hollywood Casino 400 with a massive 1.140-second margin over runner-up Kurt Busch. Harvick scored his next Kansas win in the 2016 Hollywood Casino 400 with another impressive performance, crossing the stripe 1.183 seconds ahead of next best Carl Edwards. Harvick’s most recent Kansas victory came in May 2018 when he beat Martin Truex, Jr., by .390 of a second. ● Harvick, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon lead the NASCAR Cup Series in wins at Kansas with three victories apiece. Only Harvick, Hamlin and Logano are still active, and only 10 of the 17 Cup Series winners at Kansas are active. Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 marks the 34th Cup Series race at Kansas. ● Harvick’s 12 top-fives at Kansas are the most among active drivers, as are his 19 top-10s, and both are by a wide margin. Next best in top-fives are Kyle Busch and Hamlin with 10 top-fives apiece. And when it comes to top-10s, Truex is next best with 15 top-10s. ● No one has led more laps at Kansas than Harvick. His 949 laps led around the 1.5-mile oval are 146 more laps than Truex, his nearest pursuer in this category. ● Harvick is good at Kansas even outside of the NASCAR Cup Series. He has six top-fives across 11 NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at the track, with the highlight being a victory in September 2006 when he beat Matt Kenseth for the win by .423 of a second. Kenseth retired from NASCAR upon the conclusion of the 2020 season and was recently named to the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2023. ● With Harvick currently in his 22nd year of NASCAR Cup Series competition, a familiar name is back with the driver of the No. 4 Ford Mustang. Rheem, America’s No. 1 water heating brand and major air conditioning and heating manufacturer, is commemorating its 15th year in racing, and as a part of the celebration, Rheem partnered with Harvick and the No. 4 team in 2022. The pairing reunites Rheem with Harvick, a relationship that began in 2007 when Harvick won the Daytona 500 in dramatic fashion, beating NASCAR Hall of Famer Mark Martin for the victory by .02 of a second in a frantic, green-white-checkered finish. It led to Rheem serving as a primary partner for Harvick’s Xfinity Series team, Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI), in 2008. Rheem’s debut with KHI came on May 2, 2008 at Richmond where Harvick finished second in the Lipton Tea 250. Harvick delivered Rheem its first victory as a primary sponsor on Feb. 27, 2010 when he won the Sam’s Town 300 at Las Vegas. Rheem aligned as a primary partner with Harvick in the NASCAR Cup Series in 2011 and stayed with him through the 2013 season before Harvick joined Stewart-Haas Racing in 2014. This weekend at Kansas, Rheem will entertain more than 200 customers, including 100 from Air Management Supply, a three-time Rheem “Wholesaler of the Year”, and Chemours, a global chemistry company with leading market positions in titanium technologies, thermal and specialized solutions, and advanced performance materials. Kevin Harvick, Driver of the No. 4 Rheem Ford Mustang Do you have an extra gear that you grab for the playoffs? “When the Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus era was in full swing, we had to make some decisions on how we wanted to race. We wanted to race like them, and that was championship mode every week so that you didn’t have to figure out how to do something differently when you got to the playoffs. You couldn’t put on this new face or this new mindset, or decide you’re going to do this differently or that differently. You’ve got to have that figured out before you get there and rely on your abilities and the things that you’ve done in the past. You’ve just got to continue to do that going forward, and hopefully the cars are better and you can rely on that extra speed as you go into the playoffs. We try to do the same things week after week. Rodney (Childers, crew chief) doesn’t have a demeanor change whether the sky is falling, or if it’s cold or hot outside, or the car is fast or slow, he’s pretty much the same guy. That helps us all because he’s so even-keeled about everything that he does.” Winning at Michigan was the obvious turnaround for your season. What did you see before that win others on the outside of your race team did not? “We see everything. Since we came back from the off weekend in June and went to Nashville and had a good weekend and were able to be competitive and run in the top-five, really from that point on things have been progressing well and the cars have had some decent speed and we’ve been able to make some changes here and there with things with the team. And I think as we’ve gone along for a month and a half, the cars had speed, we just had no luck to go along with it. But we knew things were headed in the right direction, and it was just a matter of putting ourselves in the right position and continuing to do that and having the scenarios turned around and having a little bit of good luck. That’s all turned around and, hopefully, that wave up is as long as that wave was down.” After the win at Michigan, you won the very next week at Richmond. How satisfying were those back-to-back victories? “I think the most gratifying part of it all was the fact that we all worked through it together. As you look at the new car and not really understand a lot that’s going on with it because it’s so drastically different, it made you look at things a lot differently than what you did before. For myself and Rodney, we’ve been around this for a long time, and having to forget all of the stuff that you’ve done, you’re going to the same racetracks, but it’s a different thought process. It’s a different process of how you get to that answer than what it used to be. You had to be somewhat open-minded, and I can be open-minded if it’s something that you want to do.” Kansas has historically been a very good track for you, but in the series’ prior visit back in May, you finished 15th. What are your expectations for your return to Kansas this weekend? “Kansas was an OK race for us. I think the tire’s a little bit different, a little less stagger this time, so that’ll change the setups a little bit as we go into Kansas. You have to be good middle to the top of the racetrack in order to make good time at Kansas and be able to survive on the long run and make enough speed. So you’re going to need to be comfortable from the middle of the racetrack up to the top to make good lap times, so that’s what we’ll concentrate on.” Middle to the top of the racetrack is where you want to run at Kansas, but when do you adjust that line in the event you’re getting beat? “I’m going to always want my car to be versatile just because if you are married to that top lane and your car won’t work anywhere else, you don’t have a really good chance of making time and passing people. If you get married to that top lane and catch 15th, 16th place in the field and they’re also married to that top lane, it becomes difficult to pass and then your gaps shrink rapidly as you’re trying to make your way through the field. You need to have some versatility. If your car’s decent up top, you can make good lap times up there, regardless, and park yourself in front of the guys who are also wanting to run up the top. But if your car’s a little more versatile than others, you can kind of swing down through the middle, especially in turns three and four.” Your history at Kansas is impressive. Three wins, five second-place finishes, 11 top-threes, 12 top-fives, 19 top-10s and 949 laps led across 33 career NASCAR Cup Series starts. What makes you so good there? “I think Kansas has been a great racetrack and, really, from a driver’s standpoint, a fun racetrack because of the fact that it’s worn in so well. You can race at the top of the racetrack, which is the preferred groove as the tires wear out. It’s faster at the bottom of the racetrack on new tires. But as a driver, having options is something that is a lot of fun. With Atlanta having been repaved along with some of the other racetracks, Kansas has become one of the more unique racetracks because of the fact the asphalt and the shape of the racetrack is so driver-friendly, as far as where you can drive on the racetrack. You can literally drive from the wall to the apron all the way around the racetrack. So, it’s a fun racetrack. It’s been good to us and, hopefully, we can continue that trend on Sunday in our Rheem Ford Mustang.” By being able to move around on the track at Kansas, can you be more aggressive with these cars than you can at other tracks? “In certain situations. I think from pushing, restarts, things like that, you can be pretty aggressive with them, but you also have to be pretty careful with them in certain spots, because it can get out from underneath you pretty quickly.” Race strategy, particularly at Kansas, has come into play in recent races. While strategy is more in the realm of your crew chief, Rodney Childers, when it dictates a race outcome instead of sheer performance, do you have to sort of switch your mindset, perhaps by finding some patience even when you want to just go as hard as you can? “These cars, in certain situations, have worn the tires a lot more than what they’ve done in the past. Kansas can be a high-wear racetrack just because of the way that the surface has aged, which is a great thing. So, I think for a lot of that, you’ll just have to see what the pit windows are and what the tire wear is when we go there. But it’s definitely a racey track. Those guys can see a lot more on the pit box than I can see in the car, so I usually just go with what they tell me and kind of roll from there.” TSC PR | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72704-rheem-racing-kevin-harvick-kansas-advance | 2022-09-08T01:09:04Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72704-rheem-racing-kevin-harvick-kansas-advance | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
No. 19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota Camry TRD News and Notes
- TRUEX AT KANSAS: Martin Truex Jr. is a two-time NASCAR Cup Series winner at Kansas Speedway. The Mayetta, New Jersey native swept the track’s races during his 2017 championship campaign. Overall, Truex has posted six consecutive top-10 finishes and 10 top-10s in his past 11 starts at the 1.5-mile track. When the Cup Series traveled to Kansas in May, Truex started ninth and finished sixth.
- DARLINGTON RECAP: Truex finished 31st in last Sunday’s race at Darlington Raceway after a mechanical issue ended the No. 19 team’s night early. Prior to the misfortune, Truex raced his way from 17th to finish fifth in stage one and second in stage two. As the night progressed, the Bass Pro Camry continued to improve and Truex was leading the race by more than five seconds with less than 40 laps remaining before the untimely trouble.
- BASS PRO SHOPS: A longtime supporter of Truex and NASCAR, Bass Pro Shops will be featured as the primary sponsor of the No. 19 Camry this weekend at Kansas Speedway. Bass Pro Shops is North America’s premier outdoor and conservation company. Founded in 1972 when avid young angler Johnny Morris began selling tackle out of his father’s liquor store in Springfield, Missouri. Today the company provides customers with unmatched offerings spanning premier destination retail, outdoor equipment manufacturing, world-class resort destinations and more.
- RED, WHITE, AND BLUE: Truex’s No. 19 Bass Pro Shops Camry will feature a red, white, and blue design for this weekend’s race to recognize the anniversary of September 11th and to honor the United States military, first responders, and Bass Pro Shops’ relationship with the United Service Organizations (USO).
- JGR AT KANSAS: Joe Gibbs Racing owns seven NASCAR Cup Series wins at Kansas Speedway. In 111 combined starts at the 1.5-mile tri-oval, the organization has tallied 31 top-five finishes, 50 top-10s, three pole awards, and 1,380 laps led. Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Matt Kenseth, and Tony Stewart have all taken JGR to victory lane at Kansas.
- STRONG DAY AT KANSAS: When the Cup Series raced at Kansas Speedway earlier this season, Joe Gibbs Racing’s quartet flex its muscled. All four drivers finished inside the top six led by Kyle Busch in third. In addition to their race day success, Christopher Bell started the weekend off strong by capturing the pole.
- TUNE IN: Coverage of this weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway begins, Sunday, September 11, at 3 p.m. ET on USA Network, MRN Radio, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
Martin Truex Jr., Driver of the No. 19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota Camry TRD
What do you expect going back to Kansas this weekend?
“I think it’s going to be a good race. The last time there, it seemed like we were able to move around and run all over the place so that makes it a lot of fun to drive. We had a really strong car there and just got messed up a little bit on pit road and lost our track position, but we were able to drive back to the front a few times. I think we’re better in every aspect of the team and that will give us a good shot on Sunday.”
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No. 11 Acumatica Toyota Camry TRD News and Notes
- HAMLIN AT KANSAS: Denny Hamlin is one of three active drivers with three NASCAR Cup Series wins at Kansas Speedway. He visited the track’s victory lane in 2012, 2019, and 2020. Overall, Hamlin has posted four top-five finishes in the past six races at Kansas, including a fifth-place finish last fall and fourth earlier this season. Hamlin’s success at Kansas also extends to the NASCAR Xfinity Series where he won in 2008.
- DARLINGTON RECAP: The No. 11 team turned in a solid effort in last Sunday’s playoff opener at Darlington Raceway. After starting 11th, Hamlin methodically worked his way forward during the first stage as he ended up second. During stage two, he ran inside the top five early before being shuffled down the running order through a series of restarts late in the segment. In the final stage, he found his way back into contention and was hounding eventual race winner Erik Jones in the closing laps before ultimately finishing second.
- CUP DEBUT: In October 2005, Kansas Speedway played host to Hamlin’s NASCAR Cup Series debut. The Chesterfield, Virginia native started seventh and finished 32nd that weekend.
- OWNING VICTORY LANE: In addition to Hamlin’s three victories as a driver at Kansas Speedway, his race team – 23XI Racing – captured the win with Kurt Busch behind the wheel when the Cup Series visited Kansas Speedway in May. That day, Busch led a race-high 116 laps on the way to the team’s second victory.
- ACUMATICA: Acumatica, the world’s fastest-growing cloud ERP company, will be featured as the primary sponsor of Hamlin’s No. 11 Toyota Camry TRD for Sunday’s race at Kansas Speedway. Acumatica is a leading innovator in cloud ERP with customers located around the world. Acumatica ERP delivers adaptable cloud and mobile technology with a unique all-inclusive user licensing model, enabling a complete, real-time view of your business anytime, anywhere. Through its worldwide network of partners, Acumatica provides the full suite of integrated business management applications, designed to help mid-sized companies thrive in today’s fast-moving markets.
- JGR AT KANSAS: Joe Gibbs Racing owns seven NASCAR Cup Series wins at Kansas Speedway. In 111 combined starts at the 1.5-mile tri-oval, the organization has tallied 31 top-five finishes, 50 top-10s, three pole awards, and 1,380 laps led. Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, and Tony Stewart join Hamlin on the list of drivers who have taken JGR to victory lane at Kansas.
- STRONG DAY AT KANSAS: When the Cup Series raced at Kansas Speedway earlier this season, Joe Gibbs Racing’s quartet flex its muscled. All four drivers finished inside the top six led by Kyle Busch in third. In addition to their race day success, Christopher Bell started the weekend off strong by capturing the pole.
- TUNE IN: Coverage of this weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway begins, Sunday, September 11, at 3 p.m. ET on USA Network, MRN Radio, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
Denny Hamlin, Driver of the No. 11 Acumatica Toyota Camry TRD
Talk about the team’s mindset going to Kansas after a strong start to the playoffs…
“We’re looking forward to Kansas this weekend. We feel like this is an opportunity to run well based on how our season has gone and how we ran there in the spring. For us, we need to be a little bit better than what we were then, but we feel like we can certainly do that. It’s also an exciting weekend welcoming Acumatica on board for their first NASCAR race, so we want to put on a good show for them and hopefully continue building momentum here in the playoffs.”
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