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John McLellan: Sturgeon says we are strapped for cash but yet makes so many half-promises
Tuesday was a tale of two powerful politicians, both senior figures for over a decade; one from whom we knew what to expect, and the other we’re about to find out.
For all that Liz Truss has been a minster of ascending importance since 2012, her changing jobs and views make her one of the most difficult incoming Prime Ministers to predict.
But judging by yesterday’s assured performance at Prime Minister’s Questions she’ll be no pushover. Her credentials as a low-tax, small-state free marketeer were on show, but today is expected to announce emergency spending which will increase government borrowing by well over £100bn.
Circumstances have unquestionably forced her hand, but the anticipated energy price freeze looks unavoidable given the impact of crippling gas price rises on millions of people and thousands of employers. The big question is who pays, and the burden should not be borne entirely by tax-payers or bill-payers, none of whose fault this is.
The energy companies have been good at asking the government to spend public money to cover their customers, bills without volunteering a commitment of their own, and if we are all in it together windfall taxes should not be needed for them to do their bit.
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As for all being in it together, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has dedicated her political life to not being in the United Kingdom and her Programme for Government didn’t disappoint.
No state-reducing free-marketer she, and her demand for more windfall taxes and the removal of investment allowances would disincentivise power supply expansion when it’s needed most, threatening energy firms with punishment, not partnership.
Her biggest concern about tax cuts from Westminster was not the impact on UK debt, but the impact on her budget, despite Scottish public spending now £2,000 per head above the UK average.
Predictably, she presented a sheaf of interventions with an eye firmly on the popular vote built around previously announced increases in social security payments, but also included measures which could make things worse, not better, like a ban on domestic rent increases and evictions which threatens to crash the housing rental market, while a nationalised train company struggling to meet wage demands will also have its only source of income frozen.
As Edinburgh’s hospitality sector battles with soaring costs it now faces the implementation of a tourism tax, and as workers of all types wrestle with the soaring bills there is no halt to the workplace parking tax.
The constant gripe that there isn’t enough money has become wallpaper music, but for someone so apparently strapped for cash, it was remarkable just how many bills, projects, initiatives and half-promises she was able to make.
But as always, it’s not words but delivery which matter most, and like the pledges to “invest in vital improvements to ferry services”, to “drive forward our national mission to reduce drug deaths” and “to substantially eliminate the poverty-related attainment gap by 2026,” much of it was mitigation for failures going back 15 years.
Underpinning it all was an independence referendum her own law officers don’t believe she can hold, all the while claiming to “foster a spirit of solidarity to help each other through the challenges ahead”.
Solidarity, that is, with those who think constitutional upheaval in the next year is just what we need. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/john-mclellan-sturgeon-says-we-are-strapped-for-cash-but-yet-makes-so-many-half-promises-3834988 | 2022-09-08T07:25:59Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/john-mclellan-sturgeon-says-we-are-strapped-for-cash-but-yet-makes-so-many-half-promises-3834988 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ukraine war: New Edinburgh home for All Together Now star Vlad Melentiev who fled war in Ukraine
A young Ukrainian musician who reached the finals of a popular TV talent show has settled in Edinburgh, after hiding for months at a zoo in war-torn Kyiv.
Last year when Vlad Melentiev reached the final of All Together Now, a BBC equivalent to Britain’s Got Talent, he felt a step closer to his dream of a career in music.
But his life was shattered when the Russians invaded Kyiv just a week after he moved there. With nowhere to stay and no friends in the city yet the 21-year-old was forced to sleep at the local zoo - on the floor behind a tiger enclosure.
To escape the shelling Vlad, who has a heart condition, hid in a bomb shelter where he recorded a cover of a popular Ukrainian song.
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But as the war raged on, and with no prospect of finding a home or work, Vlad decided it was time to get out. He arrived in Edinburgh in June after his Gran helped him pay for the flight.
He said: “I feel safe and free here in Edinburgh. Kyiv was bad. I had no friends yet or a place to stay. I slept on the floor at the zoo behind the wall where tigers were. I went to sleep with the sound of bombs, people being killed and the animals making distressed noises.
"I never knew what the next day would bring. When I think back it’s as if it wasn’t real. It was hardcore.
"I can’t go back home, it’s occupied. It would be impossible. And Kyiv is still so dangerous. It got so bad and I had no work or accommodation so decided I had to move on and try to build my life again. Nobody can give me back the time I lost. All my stuff is back home and my family are in Donetsk and some in Poland. All I have now is my education.”
Vlad had lived in a war zone since the age of 13 when his life was first turned upside down after Russia annexed Crimea and occupied his hometown of Donetsk.
But he always found a way to keep his dream of becoming a professional musician alive.
The youngster has recorded soundtracks for films and performed as a lead vocalist with the National Donetsk Symphony Orchestra.
Now he is determined to realise his dream of a career in music and has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help pay for instruments, after starting a music course at Edinburgh College.
He added: "I had a dream of going to the Royal Conservatoire Scotland. But it seemed unrealistic for a regular boy from Ukraine. Now that I am here it feels like it is a sign. There are so many opportunities. My tutors and classmates are so amazing. I am lucky.”
His friend and the organiser of the fundraiser Karolina Bajbuz said: “People have been so kind already. It has been such a tough journey for Vlad to get here. He has faced so many obstacles but they didn’t break him.
"I hope that this money will help him move on with his life. Anything left over after instruments are bought would be to help him rent a room, buy food and clothes for the winter." | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/ukraine-war-new-edinburgh-home-for-all-together-now-star-vlad-melentiev-who-fled-war-in-ukraine-3835265 | 2022-09-08T07:26:19Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/ukraine-war-new-edinburgh-home-for-all-together-now-star-vlad-melentiev-who-fled-war-in-ukraine-3835265 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Forehead thermometers may not be as accurate in reading temperatures for Black hospitalized patients, compared to oral thermometers, according to researchers at Emory University and the University of Hawaii.
The chances of a forehead thermometer detecting fevers in Black patients were 26% lower than oral thermometers. Though the differences were small, the researchers noted that fevers could slip under the radar if the number is below commonly used thresholds.
"If fevers are going undetected, then alerts are not being activated," said Dr. Sivasubramanium Bhavani, lead author on the study and an assistant professor at Emory. "The differences in detection of fevers could lead to delays in antibiotics and medical care for Black patients."
The lag could even lead to an increased death rate in Black patients, according to the study.
In a sample size of 2,031 Black patients and 2,344 white patients, the oral and forehead temperatures were taken within an hour of each other on the patient's first day in the hospital. Temperatures did not vary significantly for white patients.
Why is this happening? There could be two reasons.
Forehead, or temporal, thermometers measure temperatures through infrared radiation. Skin pigmentation could affect its ability to emit light, radiation or heat, the study said, a concept known as skin emissivity. Though, a separate study published by the National Institutes of Health did not find significant variance in skin emissivity between skin tones.
Or, the varying temporal thermometer readings found in the study could be due to not scanning the forehead properly, researchers said.
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Updated September 7, 2022 at 8:11 PM ET
Anne Garrels, longtime foreign correspondent for NPR, died on Wednesday of lung cancer. She was 71 years old.
At NPR, Garrels was known as a passionate reporter willing to go anywhere in the world at a moment's notice if the story required it. She was also a warm and generous friend to many.
When she arrived at NPR in 1988, she already had a lot of experience under her belt — including 10 years in television news at ABC, where she was bureau chief in both Moscow and Central America.
Garrels made a strong impression on NPR's Deborah Amos. "She was this glamorous television reporter who came here," she said. "She didn't dress like the rest of us in the beginning. And she'd has this long and remarkable career before she landed here ... She was always braver than me, and I always understood that she was braver than me."
That bravery led Garrels into many war zones. And when it came to covering a war, she was there at the beginning, in the middle of the battle, and at the peace table. She was the kind of reporter who would drive alone across a war zone if that's what it took to get the story.
But in a 2003 interview with NPR's Susan Stamberg, Garrels insisted that she was not a "war junkie." "I didn't set out to be a war correspondent," she said. "The wars kept happening."
As Ted Clark, one her former NPR editors, remembered it, Garrels was a prolific reporter with a seemingly endless curiosity about the world.
"She went everywhere, she was on every continent. I looked at her stories on the NPR archives, and there were 90 pages. And on all kinds of subjects, not just political, not just military but social, artistic, cultural," Clark said.
NPR's Philip Reeves worked with Garrels on many stories from Iraq to Pakistan, but he first met her in Moscow. He said Garrels had a deep love and understanding of Russia.
"Unlike a lot of reporters who just go out there and collect quotes and relay them to their editors, Annie could actually get right inside the minds and hearts of people, and that's what made her an incredible reporter," he said.
As much as Anne Garrels loved Russia, she is probably best known for her reporting during the 2003 Iraq war. She was one of a handful of foreign reporters who remained in Bagdhad as the war began. As she told Susan Stamberg, she used a satellite phone for her reports and went to great lengths to conceal it from Iraqi authorities.
"And then I decided it would be very smart if I broadcast naked, so if that, god forbid, the secret police were coming through the rooms, that would give me maybe five minutes to answer the phone, pretend I'd been asleep and sort of go 'I don't have any clothes on!' And maybe it would maybe give me five seconds to hide the phone," she said.
Garrels later wrote about her wartime experiences in Iraq in a book called Naked in Bagdhad. NPR's Deborah Amos, who also reported from the Iraqi capital, remembered that Garrels sometimes took extraordinary risks to get a story.
Once, she had wanted to do a piece about cemetery workers in Najaf. "This was at the height of the killing and it was terrible in Bagdhad, and frightening. And so Annie rolled in a carpet in the back seat of a car, through the worst neighborhoods, so that she would not be visible," Amos said. "The piece was beautiful, and no one — of course, except for all of her colleagues — knew what it took for her to do that."
It's not that Garrels wasn't afraid, said her friend Phillip Reeves — it's just that her need to tell a story sometimes drove her to take risks that others wouldn't. And, Reeves said, it wasn't just her bravery that set Garrels' reporting apart from the rest of the pack. She had another great quality: empathy.
"I think at heart she loved people, actually. And that, in this day and age it's unusual, she gave them time. She would sit down with people and really talk through what had happened to them. So, when you were sitting next to her when she was doing that, you often saw a whole story unfold that you didn't realize was there, because Annie's imagining what it's like to be them," he said.
Those same qualities that made Anne Garrels a great reporter, said Reeves, also made her a great friend who will be sorely missed.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.klcc.org/npr-obituaries/npr-obituaries/2022-09-07/anne-garrels-longtime-foreign-correspondent-for-npr-dies-at-71 | 2022-09-08T07:28:50Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/npr-obituaries/npr-obituaries/2022-09-07/anne-garrels-longtime-foreign-correspondent-for-npr-dies-at-71 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Teen paralyzed in ‘freak accident’ at 1st high school football game
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (WCCO) - A Minnesota high school football team is coming together to support their teammate, who is recovering from a devastating injury that may have left him paralyzed.
Ethan Glynn, 15, started classes as a freshman at Jefferson High School in Bloomington, Minnesota. He took the field last Friday for what should have been the first game of a budding high school career.
But Glynn, known as “E” to his teammates, was severely injured as he made a tackle playing defense. It left him lying motionless on the field.
“It’s real, it’s fresh and it’s raw and it’s hard,” said Chad Nyberg, the high school’s activities director. “This is all just freak accident stuff, and there’s nothing that any one person did or cause of anything.”
Glynn “suffered a severe neck and spinal cord injury that… left him paralyzed from the shoulders down,” according to a CaringBridge post. He had multiple surgeries and spent time on a ventilator.
In addition to football, the 15-year-old was captain of his hockey team and loves playing baseball. His squad spent Wednesday night making signs and posters to raise his spirits.
“Some groups are doing some cards and things like that that will go to him. The football team is doing some gummy bracelets that they’re going to wear in support. The 9th grade team is getting some T-shirts made,” Nyberg said.
Glynn has a long road to recovery ahead, and even as his teammates hope to give him strength, coaches want them to know that being strong means acknowledging their own grief.
“It’s good to be vulnerable, right? And on your terms, too. Like when you feel it and stuff like that, you need to talk and process,” Nyberg said.
The freshman team will play their first game since Glynn’s injury on Thursday.
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Tri-City Americans goalie Tomas Suchanek had a pretty great summer as he got to play for the Czechian team at the World Junior Championships.
He said he enjoyed the experience particularly beating the U.S.
"I heard from my mom that a lot of guys were talking about it on television that I had an Americans mask and I played against them. I enjoyed that game so much."
He further says that the time playing for the national team will help him become a better goalie this season.
As for the 2022-23 campaign, Suchanek says their goal is to make the playoffs and that they have the team to do it.
"We can be a really interesting team this season. Everyone is older, we had some trades. I think we can be really good this season."
The Americans are in Everett this weekend for a preseason tournament. The Red Lion tournament at the Toyota Center is the following weekend.
The regular season begins September 23rd with the first home game October 8th.
Find out more at AmsHockey.com. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/sports/tri-city_americans/americans-goalie-looking-forward-to-great-season/article_77cf7716-2f35-11ed-8776-0317515a864d.html | 2022-09-08T07:38:25Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/sports/tri-city_americans/americans-goalie-looking-forward-to-great-season/article_77cf7716-2f35-11ed-8776-0317515a864d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Red flag warning in place until 11 p.m. tonight with strong, breezy conditions.
Lows tonight will be in the mid to low 50s and upper 40s.
Calmer wind speeds tomorrow and much cooler temps with highs in the mid 80s.
Plenty of sunshine tomorrow with smoky skies in the Blues and a light haze in south-central Washington.
Critical fire weather will come back on Friday as we see hot, breezy conditions in the forecast once again.
Tonight however there is a small chance of a stray thunderstorm through northeast Oregon and southeast Washington, but the t-storms look to remain mostly dry with a chance for lightning that could potentially start a fire.
Air quality has gotten better in the Blue Mtns. as the winds have pushed the smoke east. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/weather-forecast-sept-7/article_41c4bbd8-2f33-11ed-aacd-873c70dbf9f6.html | 2022-09-08T07:38:32Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/weather-forecast-sept-7/article_41c4bbd8-2f33-11ed-aacd-873c70dbf9f6.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YAKIMA, Wash. -- Those ages 18 and younger can ride public transit for free starting Oct. 1st. State leaders approved the 3 billion-dollar Move Ahead Washington transportation package over the next 16 years, according the state's department of transportation (WSDOT).
Qualified people can show a birth certificate, a valid ID, or a free Yakima Transit Youth Card when boarding. Free Yakima public transit include bus, the Yakima to Ellensburg commuter and Dial-A-Ride services.
Most high school students get free bus passes through their schools, so the city's passes aren't as necessary, said a Davis High School junior, Justin.
"It definitely helps us as to make sure we don't forget to get our [school's] bus passes," said Justin.
A Davis High School freshmen, Asher said they agreed with Justin. They said they take the bus to and from school together every day. Asher said they use their school bus pass on the weekends.
There are 40,000 youth riders, on average, every year, said the communications and public affairs director, Randy Beehler. He said the state's program will reimburse the city with youth bus fare lost revenue.
The idea is to give families more opportunities to see and do in Yakima, said Beehler.
"If we got to a point where we needed to be thinking about adding additional routes or maybe even adding addition buses, that would be positive," said Beehler.
Those ages 18 and younger can pick up a free Yakima Transit Youth Card at the downtown Transit Center or the Public Works Facility. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/yakima/some-yakima-high-school-students-said-the-citys-free-transit-passes-arent-necessary/article_45ce54cc-2f3e-11ed-a6d8-fb2f927e5fe7.html | 2022-09-08T07:38:38Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/yakima/some-yakima-high-school-students-said-the-citys-free-transit-passes-arent-necessary/article_45ce54cc-2f3e-11ed-a6d8-fb2f927e5fe7.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A savvy dad has managed to knock off £625 from his energy bill by updating one common kitchen appliance. Households are desperately trying to make savings as average energy bills are set to hit £3,549 a year from October.
Regulator Ofgem will raise its price cap in October, meaning it will be almost treble what it was last October, when it was increased to £1,277. And millions of people will be cutting back on using some appliances, especially if they are known to drain a lot of energy.
David Miles, 46, from Essex, bought a smart plug to monitor how much energy each appliance in his home uses. He went around his house plugging different appliances into the smart plug then monitoring energy performance via an app on his phone.
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“It tells me how much power each appliance is consuming at any given time and its average daily consumption," he told Express.co.uk. The app also allows him to turn the appliance on or off using his phone when he is out of the house.
David got a shock when he used the plug on his 25-year old American-style fridge freezer. “Incredibly, it ate up a fifth of my entire electricity bill," he said.
Over the course of a year, this fridge freezer was using a staggering 1,600 kilowatt hours (kWh) of power. “That’s the same as our friend's hot tub,” David says.
Today, each kWh of electricity costs 28p, according to regulator Ofgem. So at the moment, David's fridge is costing him £448 a year to run.
From October, when the energy price cap jumps from £1,971 a year to £3,549 a year for the average home, electricity will jump to 52p per kWh, a rise of almost 86%. This will drive up the cost of using his American fridge freezer to a staggering £832 a year, and David is taking action.
New fridge freezers cost between £350 and £2,000, depending on the make and model, but David considers buying a new one a good investment. Typically, a brand new fridge freezer will use a maximum of 400 kWh of electricity each year, which will cost him £208 a year when prices jump.
“That will save me at least £624 a year, so upgrading my fridge freezer will pay for itself in two or three years, plus I will also slash my home's carbon footprint," he said. David’s experience is far from unusual.
Research from consumer champion Which? showed that American fridge freezers are the second most expensive household appliance to run. Its research was carried out on June 30, when electricity cost 28p per kWh, but we have updated the numbers to reflect October’s 52p per kWh charge.
David, who lives with wife Jane, 48, and daughter Enfys, 17, and Alfie, 14, is bracing himself for October’s energy price rise, when he expects to spend £430 a month on electricity alone, with gas bills come on top. He is taking other measures to cut his energy usage, such as upgrading his gas boiler which he reckons will cost £4,000 but cut his gas bills by 20%.
“We could get our money back in four or five years," he added. David, whose firm The PPC Machine helps mortgage brokers and financial advisers find leads, says his toughest job is to make his children aware of the need to save energy.
He joked: “I'm teaching them that light switches can turn off as well as on.”
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Suella Braverman was appointed home secretary in one of new prime minister Liz Truss's first moves, replacing Priti Patel after she resigned. The former attorney general is seen as on the right of the Conservative Party, and was the first person to launch a bid to become the next Prime Minister before being eliminated after finishing last in the second round of voting.
Ms Braverman served in Boris Johnson’s cabinet since 2020, after becoming an MP in 2015 for the seat of Fareham. She is the daughter of Christie Fernandes, a refugee who fled tensions in Kenya to seek a better life in the UK. So what is her position on migration in the UK?
The new Home Secretary steps into the job as the Rwanda policy to send asylum seekers arriving in the UK through irregular routes to the east African country, is being challenged in court. This comes after the first deportation flight failed to take off following an intervention by the European Court of Human Rights in July.
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She then told Sky News: “I’m afraid the only solution to this problem, if we want to be honest with the British people on delivering Brexit and taking back control of our borders, is that we need to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.”
The UK was one of the states that drafted the ECHR and one of the first to ratify it in 1951. The Convention came into force in 1953. The Human Rights Act 1998 sets out the fundamental rights and freedoms that everyone in the UK is entitled to. It incorporates the rights set out in the ECHR into domestic British law.
'She has a choice'
Following the announcement, charities and campaigners have reacted on social media. Charity Safe Passage said: “Suella Braverman has a choice: to continue with the previous Government’s plans to cruelly punish refugees by banishing them to Rwanda - or instead build a new system of safe routes for all.”
Ms Braverman was appointed on Tuesday (September 6) and tweeted later that day: “Great to be at the Home Office this evening to meet the team as we begin our work: making our streets safer, supporting our security services and controlling immigration.”
It was revealed by The Independent she told civil servants that stopping asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats will be one of her key priorities as she arrived in her post.
Earlier this year, Ms Braverman claimed she was proud of the UK’s approach to refugees in a BBC Question Time episode. She replied to a member of the audience: ““I am very disappointed by the suggestion that there’s been some kind of inhumane approach here by the UK government.”
She added: ““The facts are we have a track record of which I am incredibly proud,” the minister alleged. “Whether it’s the Afghans, whether it’s Syrians, whether it’s Hong Kong citizens coming here – since 2015, we’ve rehoused and accommodated over 25,000 refugees.”
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Emergency responders from the Walker County Fire Rescue team, located in the State of Georgia, traveled to Ambrolauri, Georgia to instruct and train Georgian Emergency Management Service first responders in the expertise of high-angle rescue on Sept. 2, 2022.
This ten-day course aims to train Georgian EMS first responders on the basics of high-angle rescue. High Angle Rescue is a technical rescue tactic performed by trained professionals in the fire and emergency services field. In today’s environment, rescuers face the possibility of performing high-angle rescues such as high-rise buildings, mountainous terrain, and cell towers on a more consistent basis.
The Country of Georgia has multiple mountain ranges and high-rise buildings, so sharing and employing these rescue tactics are extremely useful and necessary.
Georgian Emergency Management Services first responders will be able to employ these specialized tactics when approaching difficult rescue situations requiring this specific rescue tactic.
“The Georgian first responders have been great,” said Eric Ashburn, the assistant chief of Walker County Fire Rescue. “They’ve been very receptive to the training and understand how important this skill set can be for them and their countrymen. With the number of mountains and high-rise buildings in this region and across the country, they’ll be able to utilize this training to save lives immediately.”
Comprehensive defense means that people are organized to defend the country against all forms of attack, both military and non-military. The high-angle rescue training is just a small quantity of the efforts the State of Georgia is facilitating to help the Georgians achieve their comprehensive defense plan.
Marietta Fire and Rescue team members executed their second year of swift water rescue training in conjunction with the high-angle rescue training.
“The State of Georgia has been partners with the Country of Georgia for 28 years, and we have a long history of civilian partnerships,” said Maj. Daniel Sekula, Bilateral Affairs Officer, Office of Defense Cooperation-Tbilisi. “Currently, we have three civilian organizations working within Georgia under our resiliency efforts, Marietta Fire and Rescue, Walker County Fire Rescue, and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.”
The Office of Defense Cooperation has initiated a pilot program in the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti region of Georgia. This program aims to strengthen the interoperability of ministries, medical infrastructure, disaster preparedness, and emergency response.
This three-year program aims to make a stronger, more resilient Georgia and build the foundation for future initiatives across the country.
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Hurricane Kay, now a Category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds of 100 miles per hour, has caused one Carnival cruise ship to significantly alter its planned itinerary.
Carnival Panorama has now dropped one port of call altogether, rescheduled two other port visits, and added a substitute port to its current voyage, all because of the storm’s projected impact.
Carnival Panorama Changes Itinerary
The Vista-class Carnival Panorama is currently sailing what was to have been a 7-night roundtrip Mexican Riviera itinerary from Long Beach, California. Other than the ship’s departure on Saturday, September 3, 2022, very little now remains of the original itinerary plan.
The ship was to have enjoyed two days at sea, visited Puerto Vallarta on Tuesday, September 6, followed by a visit to Mazatlan on Wednesday, and the final port of call in Cabo San Lucas on Thursday before another day at sea and returning to Long Beach on Saturday, September 10.
Instead, the ship’s route was altered, and after just one day at sea, Carnival Panorama called on Cabo San Lucas on Monday, September 5. When guests returned to the ship after their port visit, they were informed about further itinerary changes.
The ship’s captain, Luca Lazzarino, notified guests via letter that it is now necessary to change the planned port visits even further due to the development of then-Tropical Storm Kay, which has since strengthened into Hurricane Kay.
The visit to Mazatlan was moved to Tuesday, September 6, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., instead of the original 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. call on Wednesday.
Wednesday and Thursday are now days at sea, with the visit to Puerto Vallarta canceled entirely. Instead, the ship will visit Ensenada on Friday, September 9, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
These dramatic itinerary changes will undoubtedly be disappointing to many passengers, but the safety of the ship, its passengers, and its crew always remains the top concern.
“The safety of our guests and crew remains our main priority,” the letter read. “So, we will continue to monitor the weather and provide you with further updates as necessary.”
Because of the changes, all pre-purchased Carnival shore tours for Mazatlan were moved to the new visit date, and tours for Puerto Vallarta were refunded to guests’ onboard accounts. The ship’s Shore Excursions team was working to finalize tour options for Ensenada, which were made available to guests as soon as possible.
Hurricane Kay Impacting All Baja Peninsula
The significant alterations to Carnival Panorama‘s itinerary are due to Hurricane Kay, which is currently at the same latitude as Cabo San Lucas but approximately 200 miles west off the coast.
While the storm’s hurricane wind field is small, all of the southern Baja Peninsula – including Cabo San Lucas – is under a tropical storm warning at this time.
Further tropical storm warnings, hurricane watches, and hurricane warnings are posted further up the coast of the peninsula, as the storm is moving north-northwest at 13 miles per hour.
While the storm is not expected to strengthen further and is in fact slowly losing strength, it is simultaneously drawing closer to the Mexican coast and can have a significant impact on port communities.
The system is expected to weaken from a hurricane to a tropical storm the further north it goes, and is likely to make a westerly turn before reaching as far north as Ensenada. At its current rate of movement, the storm will reach the northern part of the Baja peninsula early Saturday morning, long after Carnival Panorama will be out of the region.
Stay tuned to Cruise Hive for updates throughout all of hurricane season for impacts from both Pacific and Atlantic storms. | https://www.cruisehive.com/carnival-cruise-ship-changes-itinerary-due-to-hurricane-kay/80975 | 2022-09-08T07:48:54Z | cruisehive.com | control | https://www.cruisehive.com/carnival-cruise-ship-changes-itinerary-due-to-hurricane-kay/80975 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — Several dozen faculty at Eastern Michigan University began a strike Wednesday after their union and the school's administration failed to agree on a new labor contract.
They held signs aloft calling for a fair contract outside Welch Hall on the school's Ypsilanti campus, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) southwest of Detroit. The faculty say health care plans are growing more costly.
Hours later, Eastern Michigan filed a lawsuit in Washtenaw County Circuit court seeking to have a judge order striking faculty back to their classrooms.
The faculty union, which had warned Tuesday of the strike, had said the administration was not bargaining in good faith. Negotiations were expected to continue Wednesday despite the strike. The previous contract expired last month and Eastern Michigan’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors voted 91% in favor of authorizing more than 500 tenured and tenure-track faculty to stage a strike.
Engineering professor and union president Mohamed El-Sayed said the two sides’ issues “will be settled at the bargaining table, not in a courtroom.”
“Instead of filing lawsuits which have no merit, EMU administrators should focus their efforts on good faith bargaining so we can reach a fair agreement which supports our students,” El-Sayed said.
The Associated Press left an email Wednesday afternoon seeking comment from the school on the injunction filing.
Chemistry instructor Heather Holmes walked the picket line Wednesday and told MLive.com that the university is insisting on a faculty health care plan that is more costly than previously bargained plans.
One proposal would raise premiums by roughly $8,000, she said.
“The main thing being that the administration is trying to force us to take a deal in health care that none of the other groups on campus have,” Holmes said. “And we’re asking for the same deal that they’ve got.”
The school has said classes will be held as scheduled through the week. Students have been advised to report to classes and wait at least 15 minutes to determine whether their instructor will be teaching.
“It is unfortunate that rather than continue to follow the mediator’s path, with active negotiations still underway, the faculty union is asking its members to walk out and disrupt students’ education just seven days into the semester," Eastern Michigan spokesman Walter Kraft said Tuesday in a statement.
The school also said it has filed for state-appointed independent fact finding to help reach a solution with the union.
“We understand the union’s frustration with being asked to share more of the increasing costs of providing health care to employees and families," Kraft added. "But there are very few employers and employees in the United States, or among the other bargaining units at this university, that have not had to make similar adjustments to health care costs.”
Junior Allison Prieskorn told MLive.com that some of her instructors have said they will suspend grading until a strike is over.
“As part of the education program myself — I’m early childhood — I agree that teachers should have equal rights and get certain things,” Prieskorn said. “But as the student perspective, it’s a little difficult and has caused a lot of confusion in my classes on whether we’re going to have class or not and what this means for the rest of the year. If I don’t have my classes that I’ve already paid for, then am I getting refunded for them?"
About 16,300 students were enrolled at Eastern Michigan in 2020. It's faculty last struck in 2006 for two weeks.
Full-time EMU faculty earned $101,300 on average in salary and health care benefits between 2021 and 2022, according to documents released by the administration Monday. Associate professors earned $85,600 and assistant professors made $74,000. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/eastern-michigan-u-faculty-strike-for-equity-in-health-care | 2022-09-08T07:49:34Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/eastern-michigan-u-faculty-strike-for-equity-in-health-care | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government has decided to implement a 12-hour single duty system for workers of the debt-ridden public transport body, KSRTC, to turn it into a profit making entity.
While agreeing to a single duty system, the Congress-affiliated trade union Transport Democratic Federation (TDF) said that it has to be for eight hours duration and not 12 hours as proposed by the state government.
The pro-CPI(M) Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), did not say anything on what should be the timings under the system, but stated that it has to be brought into effect within six months from October 1 after arriving at a consensus with everyone.
Both unions aired their views while speaking to the media after a meeting with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on September 5 where it was also decided to clear before Onam, the salary arrears of state-run KSRTC's workers who have been agitating for several months over delayed payment of their wages.
In connection with payment of salary arrears, the government also issued an order on September 6 directing release of Rs 100 crore to KSRTC from the funds earmarked for the transport authority under the budget.
After the September 5 meeting, a statement from the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) had said that a 12-hour single duty system would be implemented and duties would be assigned on rotation on a zonal basis.
It had also said that the 12-hour shift would also include a four-hour rest period.
Besides, the CMO statement had also said that the system would be first implemented in ordinary and fast passenger services and would be applicable for six days in a week.
Initially, it has to be made applicable to 50 per cent of the staff and thereafter, the percentage can be increased or decreased, it had said.
However, the TDF has said it was not agreeable to the 12-hour shifts and said the timings should be according to the Motor Transport Workers Act of 1961.
Speaking to media persons after the meeting, they had said that if the 12-hour shift was implemented, those coming to work from far off places and have to commence work at 6 am would not be able to return home before 7-8 am as they have to hand in accounts, park the buses, etc. after end of duty.
Thereafter, they will reach home only around 10 pm and such work timings for six days a week would be injurious to the health of the drivers and conductors which in turn could prove dangerous to passengers travelling on KSRTC buses, the TDF leaders had said.
"We are agreeable to an 8-hour single duty system," they had said.
The same contention was raised by the Congress-led UDF opposition in the state assembly last week. In reply to that, Kerala Transport Minister Antony Raju had said that the 12-hour shift would also contain a 4-hour rest period when the drivers and conductors can take naps or relax.
Raju had also said in the House that after signing an agreement, which also provided for a new salary structure, the trade unions were opposing the single duty system.
Both TDF and CITU had also alleged, before the media, that the KSRTC management had given misleading reports about employees' salaries to the state government and the Chief Minister.
The state government, in the CMO statement of September 5, had contended that the single duty system would lead to increased earnings for the employees, reduce strain of long distance driving, bring down accidents, around 600 to 800 more buses can be pressed into operation and could increase KSRTC's revenue generation by another Rs 20-25 crore every month. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/08/kerala-govt-ksrtc-duty-system-12-hour.html | 2022-09-08T07:50:41Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/08/kerala-govt-ksrtc-duty-system-12-hour.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Government has spent around Rs 15,000 crore directly from the exchequer for Onam this time.
The major components were disbursal of salary, bonus and advance for government employees, disbursal of various welfare pensions for the beneficiaries for the last two months, and the money spent for giving Onam kits to all ration card holders through the public distribution system.
Apart from this spending, the State Government gave Rs 300 crore to the KSRTC for disbursing salary and pension.
The State Government had earmarked Rs 1,000 crore in the Budget this year as grant for the KSRTC. But this spending is all set to rise to Rs 1,500 crore.
The State Government has managed to find resources for meeting part of its Onam expenses this time by taking a loan of Rs 4,000 crore from the Reserve Bank of India.
Though the pay commission had recommended 10 per cent salary hike for government employees last time, the State Finance Department's assessment is that in reality the government's salary and pension commitments have witnessed a 30 per cent hike.
Besides, many projects which were announced before the last Assembly polls are now taking a heavy toll on the State exchequer.
Austerity measures on the cards
The State is likely to witness tighter financial control since there is a substantial dip in revenue on the one side and there is an unexpected increase in expenditure on the other side.
The State is estimating a slump of Rs 23,000 crore in revenue due to various adverse decisions of the Central Government such as the reduction in the State's loan availing limit, stoppage of GST compensation package and the reduction in grant meant to fill the fiscal deficit gap of the State.
The State Finance Department is now deeply worried over how to tide over the situation. So, there is all likelihood of the government going for cutting down the expenditure of many existing projects. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/08/kerala-govt-onam-spending.amp.html | 2022-09-08T07:50:47Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/08/kerala-govt-onam-spending.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kozhikode: Amidst reports of the increasing number of rabies cases in the state and the widespread attack on people by stray dogs, there is another cause of worry for the public.
Kerala may face an acute shortage of anti-rabies vaccines soon. Within five months, the State has already used 62 per cent of the overall stock meant for the whole year.
To tide over any such shortage, the Kerala Medical Services Corporation Limited (KMSCL) has asked the vaccine distribution company to speed up the supply of the stock of 49,940 vials of anti-rabies vaccines, the order for which was given by the government on August 17.
According to the estimate by the government, more than double the expected vaccine quota is used daily these days.
The order for supplying equine anti-rabies vaccines was earlier given to the Hyderabad-based VINS Bioproducts Limited by the government.
26 people bitten by stray dogs on Onam eve
Even with Kerala's stray dog menace making headlines in major newspapers across the state for the past many days, it seems little has been done to curb the problem.
On Wednesday, twenty-six people were bitten by stray dogs across the state. Of them, several are children.
Eight people, including a child, were bitten by stray dogs at Kattakkada in the state capital.
The injured sought treatment at Thiruvananthapuram Medical College hospital.
Six, including a Plus One student, suffered dog bites at Idukki's Rajakkad and Upputhara panchayats.
In Kottayam, stray dogs barged into the compounds of five houses at night in Kottayam's Ettumanoor and bit six people.
In Ernakulam, SI Ratheesh Babu of Alangad police station in Paravur was bitten by his pet dog while on duty.
Another person doing his rounds delivering newspapers in Chittoor was also bitten by a dog.
In Thrissur, an auto driver and an Uttar Pradesh native were attacked by stray dogs. Meanwhile, in Malappuram, two persons suffered dog bites.
The incidents, which come on the eve of Onam, have once again pulled the veil on the mismanagement plaguing local self-government bodies.
Local self-government bodies are entrusted with the culling of stray dogs in their respective areas.
Stray dog menace claims 7 lives in 4 months
The stray dog menace has worsened in Kerala leading to seven deaths in four months from May 2022.
The deceased - all between the ages of 12 and 65 - are 12-year-old Abhirami, Mohammad Razan (12) from Malappuram's Chelembra, Omana (65) from Murikkasseri in Idukki, Sreelakshmi (19) from Palakkad, Kamalakshi (59) from Palakkad's Kumaranalloor and Perambra native Chandrika (53). They died of rabies infection.
Thrissur native Thaivalappil Sheela (52) died of a heart attack on the fourth day after a dog bite.
Of the seven deceased, all except Omana had taken rabies vaccinations.
Omana informed the hospital about the dog bite weeks after the incident as she developed an inflammation on her leg.
Though she was given a vaccine then and sent home, she died later on. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/08/kerala-stray-dogs-rabies-vaccine.html | 2022-09-08T07:51:06Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/08/kerala-stray-dogs-rabies-vaccine.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Hawaii Rep. Matt LoPresti is off the hook for drunk driving after an Oahu judge granted LoPresti's motion to dismiss the case for lack of probable cause.
Honolulu police arrested LoPresti at 11:45 p.m. on June 16 on suspicion of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant (OVUII).
Police released the body camera video from that night, and KITV4 obtained the redacted police report.
According to the police report, Sgt. Steven Chun said LoPresti's car was in the shoulder lane of Fort Weaver Road with its hazard lights flashing. Chun pulled over to investigate what he thought was a possible domestic argument case.
The body cam video shows LoPresti arguing with Chun for several minutes about taking a breath test, and LoPresti kept insisting he did nothing wrong.
The police report says Ofc. Mariah Ah Tou transported LoPresti to the Kapolei Police Station. Ah Tou said: "During the transport, I could smell the odor of an alcoholic type beverage within the vehicle. Once LoPresti departed out of my vehicle and upon my return, the odor of an alcoholic type beverage could no longer be detected."
LoPresti later agreed to take a blood test, and a blood sample was taken from him about three hours after he was arrested. Police did not release the results of that test.
LoPresti was charged with OVUII, a misdemeanor, and he was released after posting $500 bail.
After granting LoPresti's motion to dismiss the case on September 2, the court refunded his $500 bail.
The case was dismissed with prejudice so it cannot be refiled.
LoPresti represents District 41 (Ewa, Ewa Beach, Ewa Gentry, Ewa Villages, Hoakalei, and Ocean Pointe). He ran unopposed in the August Democratic primary election for his district, and will face Republican David Alcos in the November general election.
LoPresti did not respond to KITV4's request for comment.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) - Teens across Hawaii are encouraged to apply for the 2022-2023 Lifesmarts Competition, a state-wide educational competition focused on important life skills.
The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) Office of the Securities Commissioner will hold a full Lifesmarts program for the first time in two years.
“We are excited to once again host the full Hawaii LifeSmarts program,” said Securities Commissioner Ty Nohara. “We encourage students statewide to participate in this free national educational program.”
Lifesmarts is a free, educational program that focuses on teaching critical life skills in five areas: Personal Finance, consumer rights and responsibilities, health and safety, the environment, and technology.
Teams are required to consist of one adult teacher/coach and at least four students.
High school or “Varsity” teams can participate in the online portion of the competition from Monday, October 17, 2022 until Friday, December 9, 2022 at 7 p.m. HST. The top four (4) highest scoring teams will be invited to compete at the state championship competition in Honolulu on February 17, 2023. The winning team will represent Hawaii at the national LifeSmarts competition, scheduled for April 27-30, 2023, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
For more information and to apply, visit lifesmarts.org.
For more information about the Hawaii LifeSmarts program, please visit www.lifesmartshawaii.com or contactLifeSmarts Assistant State Coordinator, Gloryana Akapo.
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Airmen assigned to the 621st Air Control Squadron simulate mobile command and control (C2) from a vehicle at Yongin Army Base, Republic of Korea, Aug. 31, 2022. The 621st ACS conducted tests of their mobile tactical C2 vehicle and its capabilities across the Korean peninsula throughout the month of August. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Dwane R. Young)
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Col. Scott Morgan, 607th Air Support Operations Group (ASOG) commander and Airmen assigned to Osan Air Base brief Col. Lee, Dae Ok ASO Wing, Air Support Coordination Center, commander, on command and control contingency operations at Yongin Army Base, Republic of Korea, Aug. 31, 2022. The 607th ASOG is primarily responsible for supporting the Korean Theater Air Control System by maintaining ground radar sites. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Dwane R. Young)
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This year’s Africa Climate Week (ACW 2022) ended last weekend in Libreville, Gabon, having helped build important regional momentum in the fight against climate change ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference COP27 in Egypt in November.
According to a statement by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the event brought together more than 2,300 participants from governments, multilateral organizations, the private sector and civil society in person, with many more joining the over 200 individual sessions virtually.
The meeting explored two key themes that are critical for Africa and indeed the world – striving for a global average temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius and attaining a resilient future.
The opening session featured a ministerial dialogue on the challenges of mobilizing and accessing climate finance at scale to spur the implementation of countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and priority national climate plans and strategies.
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According to the African Development Bank, Africa will need as much as $1.6 trillion between 2020-2030 to implement its climate action commitments and NDCs.
Egypt’s Foreign Minister and COP27 President-Designate, Sameh Shoukry, said: “The discussions at Africa Climate Week have reiterated the need to further accelerate climate action on all fronts, namely in adaptation, loss and damage, climate finance, and adopting more ambitious mitigation measures to keep the 1.5-degree target within reach. The geopolitical realities and energy crisis confronting the world have opened the door for backtracking on climate commitments and we must do everything to ensure this does not happen. COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh will strive to continue the vital dialogue needed to move from ambition to action. Working with all parties to deliver implementation that will see a just and managed transition to a new and sustainable economic model to save lives and livelihoods.”
Lee White, Gabon’s Minister of Water, Forests, the Sea, and Environment, said: “Here in Libreville, we have truly seen the powerful potential of regional collaboration to create credible and durable responses to climate change. As we head towards COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in just a few weeks’ time, regional collaboration needs to be stronger than ever. COP27 must be the implementation COP, where we show how the Paris Agreement will be achieved through policies and programmes, through innovation and transformation.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/africa-climate-week-ends-with-increased-momentum-for-climate-action-ahead-of-cop27/ | 2022-09-08T08:10:00Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/africa-climate-week-ends-with-increased-momentum-for-climate-action-ahead-of-cop27/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
THE All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) has ditched the winner of Yobe North senatorial district ticket, Bashir Sheriff Machina, and his counterpart in Akwa-Ibom North-West senatorial district, DIG Udom Udo Ekpoudom (retd).
Speaking in an interview with the Nigerian Tribune on Tuesday, national publicity secretary of the ruling party, Felix Morka, said the duo of Senate president, Ahmad Lawan, and the immediate past Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Honourable Godswill Akpabio, remained candidates of the party in Yobe North and Akwa-Ibom North West, respectively.
The position of the APC contradicted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) claim that the Senate president and former minister of Niger Delta Affairs did not contest the valid primaries and could not have emerged candidates in their senatorial districts.
Both Lawan and Akpabio were presidential aspirants at the last June APC convention where Senator Bola Tinubu emerged as standardbearer.
Festus Okoye, national commissioner and chairman voters education and publicity at the commission, in a recent interview maintained that the ruling party had no candidate for Yobe North and Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial districts.
He said: “In these two constituencies, two names were forwarded and the commission made a determination that the names were not persons who emerged from a validly conducted party primaries and we did not publish their names. That is where we are.
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“Their (Lawan and Akpabio) names were uploaded by the APC to our candidates’ nomination portal but the commission made a determination that they were not the candidates that emerged from valid party primaries.
“The commission did not publish their names and their particulars in their constituencies. So, the implication is that as of today, the APC does not have candidates in those two constituencies.”
Amidst speculation that INEC had accommodated the nominations of Lawan and Akpabio as candidates for the 2023 general election, the commission through Okoye, also denied doctoring and backdating documents to accommodate the nominations of the duo as senatorial candidates for the 2023 general election.
In Akwa Ibom, Ekpoudom and Akpabio had been laying claim to the senatorial ticket of the APC. Ekpoudom has maintained that he duly participated in the Akwa Ibom North-West APC senatorial district primary held on May 27, 2022, in line with the 2023 election timetable and guidelines of the party.
Akpabio, however, claimed that he emerged the winner in the rescheduled primary for the same senatorial district.
The immediate past Resident Electoral Commissioner, Akwa Ibom State, Mr Mike Igini, was embroiled in a cold war with the Akwa Ibom State faction of the APC, led by Mr Stephen Ntukekpo and the South-South zonal chairman, Victor Giadom, as Iginni insisted that INEC would only recognise the winner of the primaries it monitored.
He denied the claim that INEC monitored the re-run APC primaries that produced Akpabio. He added, “The primary was concluded on the 27th of last month. The one that was conducted was monitored by INEC and the report has been submitted to Abuja. INEC is not aware of any senatorial primary conducted on Thursday (June 9) that was monitored by INEC.”
Morka, however, told the Nigerian Tribune that the party has the final say on valid candidates for the general election.
He said: “The party is the party and the party has conducted its primaries and submitted the list of its candidates to INEC. In the case of Akwa-Ibom North-West, Godswill Akpabio and in the case of Yobe North, we have the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan.”
Asked why Machina who won the Yobe North-East was dropped, the APC national publicity secretary declined further comments as he noted that there was a subsisting case in court.
He said: “I believe they are in court at the moment, that’s the last I heard, they are in court and I won’t speak to it. “ I have told you that Lawan is our senatorial candidate, I will like to leave it at that. They are in court and I would not like to be interrogated further on that.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/apc-inec-set-for-collision-over-yobe-akwa-ibom-senatorial-tickets/ | 2022-09-08T08:10:07Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/apc-inec-set-for-collision-over-yobe-akwa-ibom-senatorial-tickets/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
At the 2019 United Nations General Assembly meeting, President Muhammadu Buhari made a pledge that Nigeria would plant 25 million trees. The Director-General of the Forestry Institute of Nigeria (FRIN), Professor Adeshola Adepoju has said that FRIN is still working to fulfill the mandate despite the challenges brought about by the covid-19 pandemic and the upsurge in insurgency in the country.
He made the remarks when a team from the National Forest Trust Fund (NFTF), led by its chairman, Dr Shehu Ahmed, paid a two-day working visit on Tuesday and Wednesday to FRIN headquarters in Ibadan.
Professor Adepoju told Nigerian Tribune that the twin challenges of the covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown in 2020, and insurgency issues had affected planting of trees on the field. However, the institute would continue to play its part in fulfilling the mandate.
He said, coivid-19 and insurgency “have not really affected it much. In terms of us planting, it has affected us. In terms of us achieving our aims via other means, it may not be as we expected it to be.
“But I always tell people, although it is not something to be excited about, that even the issue of insurgency has limited the number of people going to the forest to commit atrocities like illegal felling of trees and poaching. That has, in a way preserved our forest. That is not to say we encourage banditry and all of that.
“We are still going ahead with the project but not at the pace or scale we would have wanted it.”
He added that, “Mr President’s commitment in 2019, August 23 to be precise, was to keep us busy. Without that, we probably would not have the scale-up mandate.
“But that statement was in furtherance of us doing what we’re supposed to do. Having that mandate has enabled us to do more, and it is in line with the National Forest Policy.”
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Speaking on the progress made by the National Forest Trust Fund, Professor Adepoju, who chairs its technical committee noted that “So far we have done a one-year calendar planting. We have also done one advocacy meeting and also one national stakeholder meeting, particularly with those who are in the business of exporting forest products out of the country to see how we can partner with them to curb all the illegalities in our forest estates. The council has been able to bridge the gap between the policy, ministry, agencies, and stakeholders, particularly the private sector. We have worked together and it is yielding fruit.
“We have been able to mobilise resources and identify the critical stakeholders to work with to ensure that forest estates are sustained.”
On his part, the chairman, Dr Ahmed while recognizing the important role of FRIN plays in the pursuit of the country’s forestry policy stated that the role of the private sector and the general public was equally important.
Also speaking the, a member of the NFTF visiting team and Conservator General of National Park Service, Ibrahim Goni, said that he had observed that the institute had done well to increase the forest cover within its boundaries.
Other members on the team included Honourable Aro Moshood Abiodun representing the Sawmillers Association of Nigeria and Processed Wood Producers & Marketers Association Of Nigeria (PROWPMAN), Adedayo Mahmeed, Director, Technical Programmes, Nigerian Conservation Fund (NCF), Dr Gloria Ujor, Director of Nigerian Environmental Study Action Team (NEST), among others.
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Freeport-area home prices rise 26.2% in August, with houses for sale in high demand
A typical Stephenson County home listed for $164,000 in August, up 26.2% from the previous month's $130,000, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows.
The median list home price in August was up about 28.7% from August 2021. Stephenson County's median home was 1,941 square feet for a listed price of $80 per square foot.
The Stephenson County market was busy, with a median 37 days on market. A month earlier, homes had a median 31 days on market. The market added 68 new home listings in August, compared with the 104 added in August 2021. The market ended the month with some 109 listings of homes for sale.
The median home prices issued by Realtor.com may exclude much, or even most, of a market's homes. The price and volume represent only homes that are single-family homes, condominiums or townhomes. They include existing homes, but exclude most new construction as well as pending and contingent sales.
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Across all of Illinois, median home prices were $299,900, falling slightly from a month earlier. The median Illinois home for sale had 1,695 square feet at list price of $172 per square foot.
Across the United States, median home prices were $435,050, down 3.1% from a month earlier. The median American home for sale had 1,890 square feet, listed at $222 per square foot.
The median home list price — the midway point of all the houses or units listed over a period of time — is used more often in this report instead of the average home list price because experts say the median offers a more accurate view of what's happening in a market. In finding the average price, all prices of homes listed are added and then divided by the number of homes sold. This measure can be skewed by one low or high price.
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq. and the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") are investigating the proposed sale of BBQ Holdings, Inc. (NasdaqGS: BBQ) to MTY Food Group Inc. (TSX: MTY). Under the terms of the proposed transaction, shareholders of BBQ will receive only $17.25 for each share of BBQ that they own. KSF is seeking to determine whether this consideration and the process that led to it are adequate, or whether the consideration undervalues the Company.
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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.
An end to the virus' spread, however, is not in sight.
“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 Wednesday, 21,274 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.
Monkeypox, 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 men or transgender people who have had multiple male 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 roughly a third of infections.
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 monthslong 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 isn't so sure.
Jenkins spent weeks this summer trying to get a vaccine by signing up for long waitlists in cities hours away, including Washington and Chicago. He got lucky when his doctor in Louisville was one of a few providers in the city to get doses of the shot early last month.
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Forecast Updated on Thursday, September 8, 2022, at 3:30am by WBOC Meteorologist Mike Lichniak
Today: Partly to mostly sunny with a chance of a pop-up shower or two. Highs: 78-83. Winds: NE 5-20+ mph.
Tonight: Turning mostly clear. Lows: 61-70. Winds: E 5-10 mph.
Friday: Mostly sunny. Highs: 78-84. Winds: SE-E 5-15 mph.
Friday Night: Mostly clear. Lows: 62-68. Winds: SE 5-10 mph.
Saturday: Mostly sunny. Highs: 80-85. Winds: SE-S 5-15 mph.
Sunday: Partly to mostly sunny with chance for a few evening showers / storms. Highs: 80-86. Winds: S-SW 5-20+ mph.
There is a chance of a couple lingering showers early this morning and even during the day, we may see a chance of a pop-up shower possible. I think most of us will be dry on this Wednesday with temperatures holding in the 70s at the beach and if clouds hold all day long, this would be the grayest place to be with the wind off the Atlantic. Inland with more sunshine later in the day, I think we will see temperatures jump into the 70s to around 80 degrees. That breeze from the northeast will continue all day long with some gusts closer to the beach over 25-30 mph. This is going to cause issues with some minor coastal flooding and it will be rough in the waters of the Atlantic for the next couple of days.
We should dry out for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Temperatures climb up into the mid 80s by the weekend and the humidity will start to go up a bit more as the wind turns more out of the south. Things have changed a bit with the forecast throughout the day yesterday and it now looks like we may see the chances for some showers and storms will go up late Sunday evening and linger into Monday and Tuesday. At this point, I am going to dry things out by the middle of next week, but be aware that the models are struggling with the next storm and how long it will linger in the area. This forecast is going to be shifting a lot over the coming days as there is a lot of uncertainty within the suite of models this morning as we get past the 5th and 6th day of the forecast. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-summary/things-will-continue-to-improve-heading-toward-the-weekend/article_624c8d98-2f49-11ed-b651-17197c404603.html | 2022-09-08T08:23:12Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-summary/things-will-continue-to-improve-heading-toward-the-weekend/article_624c8d98-2f49-11ed-b651-17197c404603.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
By BRIAN MAHONEY and HOWARD FENDRICH
NEW YORK — This was a match that would not end. Should not end, one might say. Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, two of the brightest young stars of men’s tennis, traded shots of the highest quality and countless momentum swings across five sterling sets for 5 hours, 15 minutes until Alcaraz finally won the last point at 2:50 a.m. on Thursday, the latest finish in U.S. Open history.
It was “only” a quarterfinal, no trophy at stake, yet was as taut a thriller as this tournament has produced or, likely, will, a tour de force of big cuts on the full sprint and plenty of guts, a 6-3, 6-7 (7), 6-7 (0), 7-5, 6-3 victory for the No. 3-seeded Alcaraz, a 19-year-old from Spain.
“Honestly,” said Alcaraz, who saved a match point in the fourth set, “I still don’t know how I did it.”
He also used words such as “unbelievable” and “amazing.” No hyperbole there.
Alcaraz, whose five-set victory over 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic ended at 2:23 a.m. on Tuesday, reached his first Grand Slam semifinal and is the youngest man to get that far at the U.S. Open since Pete Sampras won the title at 19 in 1990. Alcaraz, who has a chance to move up to No. 1 in the rankings next week, will face No. 22 Frances Tiafoe of the United States on Friday.
This match began Wednesday evening at about 9:45 p.m. and easily surpassed the previous mark for latest time of finish at the U.S. Open, which had been 2:26 a.m., shared by three matches.
“I always say you have to believe in yourself all the time,” Alcaraz said. “The hope is the last thing that you lose.”
After his much more mundane, three-set victory over Andrey Rublev in a quarterfinal that ended at about 4:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Tiafoe was rather prescient when asked about Alcaraz and Sinner.
“I just hope they play a marathon match, super-long match,” Tiafoe said with a smile, “and they get really tired come Friday.”
The clock already was past 2 a.m. when Coco Gauff, the 18-year-old American who was the runner-up at the French Open and bowed out in the U.S. Open quarterfinals on Tuesday, spoke for anyone paying attention to Alcaraz vs. Sinner when she tweeted: “this match is insane. I leave at 6am for the airport but I refuse to sleep and miss this. #Sinner #Alcaraz”
Still, even with thousands and thousands of empty seats, there were enough who remained on hand to make as much noise as a full house at times. Both players would wave their rackets or motion with their arms to encourage the fans to get even louder. And, naturally, the fans would oblige.
It was as back-and-forth as could be. The highlights were too many to list. Just one: Alcaraz won one point after extending a rally by wrapping his racket behind his back to make contact with the ball. One more: Alcaraz fell onto his backside, then sprung up to race to smack a backhand that won that point.
After taking the first set, Alcaraz held five set points in the second — but Sinner saved them all.
In the third, Alcaraz broke to lead 6-5 and served for that set — but Sinner broke to force a tiebreaker that he dominated.
In the fourth, it was Sinner who served for the victory at 5-4, even coming within a point of victory there — but Alcaraz broke there and wound up pushing what already was a masterpiece to a fifth.
And in the fifth, after another memorable shot — a running backhand passing winner that sailed just past Sinner’s outstretched arm — to earn a break point and a chance for a 5-3 lead, Alcaraz put a finger to his ear.
He would convert that chance, then serve it out. When the end arrived, Alcaraz dropped to his back, his chest heaving, and covered his face with his hand.
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Roundup: Tri-Valley girls soccer bounces back
NEWTON TOWNSHIP — Katie Davis and Naveah Peffers provided all the offense Tri-Valley needed to get back to its winning ways on Wednesday night.
Peffers and Davis scored two goals each and the Scotties rolled to a 5-0 win against host Maysville in a Muskingum Valley League match at the Maysville Athletic Complex.
Maddie Garber also scored for the Scotties (2-3-1), which entered with two consecutive losses to Fairfield Union and Wooster in nonleague matches. Goalie Ali Yingling needed just one save to record the shutout.
Another strong defensive effort was paced by defenders Bailey Woods, Marley Labishak, Lauren Cox, Kylie Secrist and Savannah Rexroad.
Cols. School for Girls 3, Rosecrans 0: The Unicorns topped the visiting Bishops in a nonleague match.
No details were provided.
Boys Golf
Sheridan 162, West Muskingum 176 New Lexington 188,: Reed Coconis shot 1-over-par 37 for medalist honors in an MVL trimatch at Perry Country Club.
Cooper Winders had 39, Blake Turnes 41 and Levi Currence 45 for Sheridan; Jack Porter had 39, Jacob Allen 41, Reid Lemity 44 and Nick Anton 52 for West M.
Drew Barnette and Caden Gibson had 45 and Brody Agriesti and Hunter Heavener 49 for New Lexington.
John Glenn 154, Meadowbrook 187, Morgan 201: Noah Dever fired an even-par 35 to earn medalist honors in an MVL match on the front nine at Wildfire.
Owen Van Fossen added 36, Cooper Briggs 40 and Hayden Gensor 43 for the Muskies, who improved to 19-0 in league matches.
Damon Baier and Steve Grafton had 45, Ben Coss 47 and Owen Dennis 50 for Meadowbrook; Wyatt Weaver paced Morgan with 46, Craig Gorrell added 50, Nate Silvus 51 and Kaden Garrett 54.
Rosecrans 168, Philo 173: Weston Hartman shared medalist honors with 38 to pace the Bishops in a nonleague match on the front nine at Jaycees.
Charlie Peterson also shot 38 for Rosecrans; Nathan Hart posted 43 and Evan Bauer 48.
A.J. Layton also had 38 and Addison Mershon 41 for Philo, which also saw Josh Gooden shoot 47.
Boys Soccer
New Lexington 1, Sheridan 1: The host Panthers and Generals played to a tie in the Muskingum Valley League at Jim Rockwell Stadium.
Connor Spicer scored in the third minute of the first half for New Lexington, which took a 1-0 lead into halftime.
Thad Nikodym provided the equalizer for Sheridan at the 22:41 mark of the second half.
Girls Golf
John Glenn 167, River View 178: Elise Abrams shot 38 for medalist honors as the Muskies won an MVL match at Wildfire.
Abby McCullough added 40, Carlie Ellsworth 44 and Addy Burris 45 for John Glenn.
Paige Nicely's 40 paced River View, which also saw Kortnee Mickle shoot a personal-best 45, Caily Shriver 45 and Chloey Geog 48.
Sheridan tops Tri-Valley at Vista: Morgan Wamer shot 43 for medalist honors to pace the Generals in an MVL match at Vista Golf Club.
Ryan Satterfield added 44, Adi Calendine 49 and Haven Jenkins 54 for Sheridan, which shot 190.
Scores were not reported for Tri-Valley.
Boys Soccer
Rosecrans 1, Lancaster Fisher Catholic 0: The Bishops pulled out a Mid-State League-Cardinal Division match at Mattingly Family Field.
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A parent has slammed her daughter's school for reportedly threatening to cut the bows off her socks if she wore them again, contrary to uniform policy. The mum - who asked not to be identified - says that when her 11-year-old arrived at Dixons Brooklands Academy in Manchester on Monday morning, she was told in no uncertain terms that her uniform wasn't up to code.
The issues didn't stop at her socks, however, as the school also allegedly told the girl that she had to replace her 'inappropriate' tote bag reports the Manchester Evening News. Sharing a photo of her daughter's black socks and bag, she says she can't understand why the school has taken issue with them - and not just with her daughter.
"I'm just disgusted that kids have had a threat like this on their first day at high school," she said. "It doesn't state on any letters from school that no bows are allowed or no tote bags. As long as it holds everything you need for school it shouldn't be a problem."
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The mum-of-three added: "Apparently Year 9 have to wear office wear clothes and some people have mentioned that they take tote bags and handbags with them. I don't know why it's different for other years." She said her daughter was upset when she returned home on Monday and asked whether she could move schools.
On Tuesday she took her old rucksack from primary school and wore some grey socks without bows, but the mum says she has now been given a detention for this in two weeks' time. "She received a 12 minute detention," said the mum, adding: "It's totally crazy."
Formerly Manchester Health Academy, the Wythenshawe school was renamed in January after transferring to Dixons Academies Trust. It's the third school to join the trust's 'North West Hub'; the other two are in Liverpool while the rest of the Trust's schools are in West Yorkshire.
A spokesperson denied that the above threats had been made. "At no time would any staff member cut parts of a child’s uniform," they said, continuing: "Dixons Brooklands Academy has the highest of expectations for all students and we wish to congratulate our new students who made an excellent start yesterday.
"They looked fabulous in their new academy uniform. Uniform expectations were shared with all families on several occasions and every child was given financial support to purchase their new uniform.
"With regards to school bags we have stated that a bag should enable students to carry books, homework, equipment, their planner and a water bottle. In cases where bags do not meet this requirement we will work with individual families to resolve this."
The spokesperson added that every child was provided with a £65 allowance to help with uniform costs, and that "expectations were circulated to parents in advance on several occasions". "Bags need to be able to carry all a child’s books and equipment and keep them protected including whilst travelling to and from school. Older students have the same rules for bags," they said.
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As the summer comes to a close and normality after the holidays sets in, now is the perfect time to do something for yourself again.
A great way to do that is getting back to the gym.
Dover District Leisure Centre (DDLC) has a mission to put its heart and soul into ‘creating active places and healthy people’ - it’s about creating a place for everyone, so you're sure to find the right place for you this autumn.
Passionate about helping people stay physically active and emotionally engaged in fitness, sport and wellbeing, its gyms contain a range of equipment versatile enough to accommodate people of all abilities, ambitions, shapes and sizes.
Using the gym will put you on the right path to losing weight and body fat, building muscle and toning up, strengthening your core, increasing stamina, and improving your cardiovascular fitness and wellbeing. Whatever goal you have, DDLC instructors and personal trainers are ready and waiting to meet you and help you on your fitness journey.
Something to suit everyone
DDLC's membership options have something to fit everyone.
Premium memberships include gym, swim and classes with 14 days advance booking rights (all memberships will require a one off joining fee), with prices varying for different age groups.
If you want to get results in a more time-effective way around all of your other commitments, then personal training could be for you - it isn't just for celebrities!
DDLC's trainers have different specialisms but are all focused on supporting you to reach your goal through fun and engaging sessions. Sessions can be 30 minutes or 60 minutes.
Visit the website to find out how much your membership or personal training session would be.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, VA — The midterm election is less than 8 weeks away.
One topic you might not think of is the future of renewable energy and how energy gets produced in this country.
Does it involve more drilling for oil or does it involve new technologies like wind turbines?
GOING OFFSHORE
Covering the future of energy isn't easy. At times, it even requires a boat
That is especially true when it comes to covering offshore wind energy.
And traveling nearly 30 miles off the coast of Virginia, one of the largest federal leases to build offshore wind turbines anywhere in the country is found in action.
John Larson, the Director of Public Policy for Dominion Energy, is the tour guide on a two-hour journey from Virginia Beach.
"These are decade-long projects," Larson tells the crowd of mostly Dominion employees and environmental activists who have been invited on the boat ride.
Larson says if a wind turbine project gets approved at your favorite beach one day there is a good chance the lessons learned from this project will impact it.
The federal government approved this as a research lease with the goal to one day have nearly 200 turbines powering over 600,000 homes.
"If you come back in a couple of years at the end of 2026 you would see a total of 178 turbines out here," Larson said.
WHY POLITICS MATTER
You might not think your vote impacts projects like this, but it does.
That's because building and maintaining wind turbines isn't cheap. The total cost of this project is approaching $10 billion, with each turbine only expected to last 30 years.
Incentives passed by Congress often encourage companies to take on projects like this – which is why control of Congress matters.
"What do you say to the critics who say this is a lot of money and time and there are cheaper ways to power people's homes," Larson said.
"This is the most transformational time for the energy industry since they began stringing electric wires to power people's homes and businesses," he said.
"We have to have a diverse portfolio as we move forward," Larson added.
To be clear Larson isn't political and Dominion is committed to finishing this project regardless of who wins.
However, he says when utility companies get their energy from a variety of sources that can mean cheaper bills for you, especially when oil markets spike.
"It takes away the volatility of fuel," Larson added.
WHERE THINGS STAND
As far as the politics of this, it's not as if Republicans are completely against wind projects, although votes do matter.
Not a single Republican voted for the Inflation Reduction Act this summer, which provided billions of dollars worth of incentives to build turbines.
This election, many conservatives are campaigning on traditional oil and gas production in the United States, which can be cheaper, as a way to bring down the price of gas instead.
Former President Donald Trump has even spoken up -- posting online recently some reasons as to why he is against wind turbines.
"Our eagles, and all other birds, are being decimated by the Chinese-built windmills. World's most costly energy," Trump wrote on Truth Social last month.
IMPACT ON BIRDS
Scott Lawton oversees environmental issues for Dominion and says their turbines are equipped with cameras and antennas to detect bird strikes.
"You don't see a lot of avian activity," Lawton said.
"We've been monitoring for almost two years now we've had no observed impacts," Lawton added.
So as you prepare to vote this election, know that your vote matters and impacts which way the political winds blow.
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During a time that has brought the shock of the Uvalde mass shooting, restrictions on reproductive rights, and climate-related disasters, a large national poll of Latino voters found that their priorities have experienced a significant shift. For example, abortion is now among the top five issues for Latino voters for the first time ever. Worries about gun violence and crime, health care and abortion are rising dramatically. Jobs and the rising cost of living, as in the past, also remain priorities.
As the second-largest group of voting-age Americans, with many not solidly aligned with either party, Latino voters can be a powerful and stabilizing force in American politics. But misconceptions about this diverse and multiracial voting community persist. This has led to ineffective engagement with these voters, who already face increasing obstacles on the path to the voting booth.
Attempts to put Latino voters in an “either/or” box have consistently led to oversimplifications and mistaken assumptions about this community. The poll released by our organizations provides a trove of new data to show the nuanced views too often ignored in politics.
For instance, the survey respondents highly value self-reliance, but also believe that government has an important role to play in ensuring a level playing field. We found that Latinos tend to reject taking away people’s rights. On abortion, for example, 75% agree that no matter their own personal beliefs, it’s wrong to make abortion illegal and to take that choice away from others (this includes 76% of Catholics and 68% of non-Catholic Christians). On gun violence and crime, 72% of Latino voters were concerned about easy access to guns, and 60% say that elected officials need to find a way to put an end to school shootings. Inflation and jobs that don’t pay enough to make ends meet are top issues that Latinos want elected officials to address.
Given these priorities, it is not surprising the poll found that two-thirds of Latinos see greater alignment with the Democratic Party, with one-thirds favoring the Republican Party. This is in line with how Latinos have historically voted. Republicans have gained some ground, which they lost in elections in the last two decades, but there’s little evidence to support the current talk of a major shift to the Republican Party among Latino voters overall.
Yet neither party should take comfort from the recent poll results. The fact that Latinos are overwhelmingly concerned about inflation and the economy is a warning to Democrats who control the White House and Congress. And Republicans should be alarmed that continued GOP silence or endorsement of white supremacy is a big negative for Latino voters. Some 84% of these voters say it is important to them for elected officials and other leaders to speak out against hate groups, and 55% say they could not vote for a candidate supported by white supremacist/nationalist groups.
Both parties fall below previous peaks in Latino support. A big reason is limited long-term engagement with these voters, with more than two-thirds of voters reporting no contact from either party, including in many battleground states. Not surprisingly, this lack of engagement, compounded by disinformation, has diminished Latino voters’ ability to evaluate candidates and make informed decisions.
To fill this gap, our organizations have joined forces in a multistate partnership, bringing together the largest national Latino field electoral operation and a network of community-based organizations and programs serving millions of Latinos annually to expand civic participation.
This extensive $15 million civic engagement effort will work with Latino voters in eight states: Arizona, California, Georgia, Florida, Nevada, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Texas. This year the partnership aims to register over 100,000 voters and to reach out to the nearly 2 million voters whom we connected with in 2020 to prevent voter drop-off this year.
This effort, of course, does not absolve political parties from their obligation to do better, particularly given pervasive underinvestment in Latino civic participation.
At a time when this country is experiencing unprecedented challenges to democracy, we need to join forces to defeat those seeking to undermine our power to advance solutions. We are not alone in this commitment, but it’s time for Democrats and Republicans to make engaging with Latino voters a central priority. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/commentary-the-nuanced-political-views-among-diverse-latino-voters-are-overlooked/article_c823c18e-2e0b-11ed-b15b-6737860bae8c.html | 2022-09-08T09:23:57Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/commentary-the-nuanced-political-views-among-diverse-latino-voters-are-overlooked/article_c823c18e-2e0b-11ed-b15b-6737860bae8c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Our freedoms are at stake this November — vote
To the editor — It is real! Democracy, our Constitution and our freedoms as we know them today are at severe risk.
Yes, inflation is high, and yes, gas is still expense. Those are temporary hardships we have faced throughout our history.
But today the severe risks posed by leaders in the MAGA cult will have everlasting consequences if not stopped.
Don’t take for granted what we have achieved over our history — it can be destroyed as fast as lightning.
We are at a perilous time. As a nation, do we want to give in to a minority which evokes violent methods, speaks lies and conspiracies? Do we just accept authoritarian rule, or stand up, speak up and say no more?
It’s time to settle our differences, stop the madness, create a unified front together, not as Democrats, independents or Republicans, but as Americans. We can resolve our policy differences, be a beacon of light once again.
If we let things slip, our dream of a more perfect union will fade and perish. The world needs us to stop the madness, to lead for all. We must take care of our delicate democracy and work together for the dream.
Our survival and our freedom are on the ballot. Vote!
STEVE GAULKE
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Energy announcement: How standing charges for energy bills in Scotland compare to the rest of the UK
Many in the UK face the prospect of significant hikes in energy bills as the new price cap comes into place.
From October 1, many standing charges will go up as the cost of energy soars – but the basic price of energy is set to go up further for many due to an increase in standing charges.
Standing charges have always varied based on where you live, due to different costs to supply homes with power.
We take a look at standing charges and how they vary across the UK.
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What is a standing charge?
A standing charge you pay at a fixed cost no matter how much energy you use to cover the cost of supply of gas and electric.
A unit rate is then added on top of said charge based on the energy you use.
Almost all consumer bills include a standing charge; a fixed daily payment covering the costs of supply and other levies.
What are the standing charges for electricity from October 1, 2022?
We take a look at the standing charges across the UK, the previous charge under the current cap and the new cap, with Scotland’s in bold.
Scotland has one of the highest standing charges in the UK according to data on Money Saving Expert.
Standing charges for electricity in the UK
North West – Standing charge from 47.19p per day to 48.33p per day
Northern – Standing charge from 53.83p per day to 54.97p per day
Yorkshire – Standing charge from 53.44p per day to 54.58p per day
Northern Scotland – Standing charge from 54.96p per day to 56.10p per day
Southern – Standing charge from 48.33p per day to 49.48p per day
Southern Scotland – Standing charge from 54.56p per day to 55.70p per day
North Wales & Mersey – Standing charge from 52.50p per day to 53.64p per day
London – Standing charge from 37.14p per day to 38.28p per day
South East – Standing charge from 46.61p per day to 47.75p per day
Eastern – Standing charge from 42.89p per day to 44.03p per day
East Midlands – Standing charge from 49.68p per day to 50.83p per day
Midlands – Standing charge from 53.05p per day to 54.19p per day
Sothern Western – Standing charge from 56.52p per day to 57.67p per day
South Wales – Standing charge 53.07p per day to 54.21p per day
What is the new bill set to be?
Prime Minister Liz Truss will soon announce her “bold” plan to guard households and businesses against crippling costs while ramping up domestic energy supply.
The new premier is expected to tell MPs on Thursday that domestic bills will be frozen at around £2,500 as part of a package to ease the cost-of-living crunch.
The suggestion is it will be funded through borrowing, with Ms Truss rejecting the idea of applying a windfall tax on the bumper profits made by oil and gas companies to cover the cost – reported to be up to £150 billion.
Ahead of Thursday’s announcement, Ms Truss acknowledged families and businesses across the country are concerned about how they will “make ends meet” over the coming months.
She blamed rising global prices on Russian president Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine and “weaponisation” of gas supply in Europe. | https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/energy-announcement-how-standing-charges-for-energy-bills-in-scotland-compare-to-the-rest-of-the-uk-3825734 | 2022-09-08T09:26:44Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/energy-announcement-how-standing-charges-for-energy-bills-in-scotland-compare-to-the-rest-of-the-uk-3825734 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Liz Truss energy announcement: Will energy bills be frozen? How to watch Liz Truss announcement and what time is her statement?
New Prime Minister Liz Truss is set to deliver the government’s energy bills plan in the House of Commons amid a growing cost of living crisis.
Liz Truss will on Thursday set out a plan to save households and businesses from financial ruin with an intervention to try and save thousands of households from soaring energy bills.
Ms Truss told the Commons on Wednesday: “I will make sure that in our energy plan we will help to support businesses and people with the immediate price crisis, as well as making sure there are long-term supplies available.
“I understand that people across our country are struggling with the cost of living and they are struggling with their energy bills.
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What is Liz Truss expected to announce on energy bills?
Ms Truss confirmed her plan, expected to freeze household bills at around £2,500, will be set out in Parliament.
The Prime Minister is expected to announce a plan to freeze domestic bills in England, Scotland and Wales at around £2,500 – some £500 higher than the current cap but £1,000 below the level they are expected to hit in October and many thousands below rises predicted over the next six months.
The policy, which could cost as much as £150 billion according to The Times, will be funded through borrowing and general taxation and is still being finalised by Ms Truss.
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng cautioned the leaders that the Government will have to borrow more money in the short-term to help households and businesses through the energy and cost-of-living crisis.
What time is Liz Truss energy announcement and how to watch?
It is not yet known when Liz Truss will give an update on her plan to tackle soaring energy costs.
The energy announcement is expected by around 11:30am – but could vary based on other events in the House of Commons.
A general debate on the UK energy cost is scheduled in the parliamentary schedule after business questions to the leader of the House.
It is believed the announcement will come as part of this general debate, and not as a ministerial statement.
The announcement will be available to watch on major news channels and Parliament TV.
Will energy bills be frozen?
While energy bills are set to be frozen, they are still set to rise from current levels.
According to reports, energy bills are set to rise by some £500 higher than the current cap, but £1,000 below the level they are expected to hit in October.
The new Chancellor of the Exchequer has said that the Government will take “decisive action” to help British people through the energy crisis, in his first meeting with the country’s top banks and insurers.
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng delivered the message after an hour-long meeting with City leaders at the Treasury on Wednesday morning.
Will the energy bills plan be paid for by a windfall tax?
While energy firms have announced record profits, Liz Truss has ruled out the idea of windfall taxes on the big oil and gas producers, saying this would reduce tax revenues and discourage vital investment.
She has continually rejected the idea of using a windfall tax on the bumper profits made by oil and gas giants to fund the package, reported to cost up to £150 billion.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said the existing windfall tax imposed under Boris Johnson still stands, despite Ms Truss’s opposition to such levies.
And Downing Street indicated that the moratorium on fracking in England could be lifted in Ms Truss’s energy package despite the 2019 Conservative manifesto opposing an end to the ban without science showing it can be done safely.
The matter was raised in the Commons during Prime Minister’s Questions.
In response to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who has pushed for a levy on the £170 billion of “excess profits” that oil and gas producers are expected to enjoy over the coming years, Ms Truss rejected a windfall tax.
“I am against a windfall tax, I believe it is the wrong thing to be putting companies off investing in the United Kingdom just when we need to be growing the economy,” she said.
Liz Truss replied that she understood people were “struggling with the cost of living” and energy bills, but that the UK will not be able to “tax its way to growth” and that she will “make sure that in our energy plan we will help to support businesses and people with the immediate price crisis, as well as making sure there are long-term supplies available.
She said that if taxes are put up and raised to the same level as France, it will put off investors.
Corporation tax had been due to increase from 19% to 25% in 2023, but Ms Truss said that would deter investors and the UK cannot “tax its way to growth”.
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Canada stabbings: Second suspect Myles Sanderson dies after arrest
The final suspect in the stabbing rampage in and around a Canadian reserve is dead from self-inflicted injuries after being captured by police an official has said.
Myles Sanderson, 32, was found near the town of Rosthern as officers responded to a report of a stolen vehicle being driven by a man armed with a knife, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said.
Officers forced Sanderson’s vehicle off the road and into a ditch, assistant commissioner Rhonda Blackmore, commander of the RCMP in Saskatchewan, said at a news conference. He was detained and a knife was found inside the vehicle, she said.
She said Mr Sanderson went into medical distress after he was arrested. She said CPR was attempted on him before an ambulance arrived, and emergency medical personnel then took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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“All life-saving measures that we are capable of were taken at that time,” she said.
Ms Blackmore gave no details on the cause of death. “I can’t speak to the specific manner of death,” she said.
But an official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, earlier said Mr Sanderson died of self-inflicted injuries, without giving any further details.
Video and photos from the scene showed a white SUV off to the side of the road with police cars all around. Air bags had deployed in the SUV.
Canadian police earlier said they had arrested the suspect.
The manhunt for the two brothers had entered its third day. The fugitive’s brother and fellow suspect, Damien Sanderson, 30, was found dead on Monday near the stabbing sites.
Police are investigating if Myles Sanderson 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 crime 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, Mr 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. | https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/canada-stabbings-second-suspect-myles-sanderson-dies-after-arrest-3835536 | 2022-09-08T09:27:17Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/canada-stabbings-second-suspect-myles-sanderson-dies-after-arrest-3835536 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The rash of injuries to the Yankees’ roster forced them to be flexible in Wednesday’s doubleheader against the Twins — and it worked.
With Josh Donaldson on the paternity list and DJ LeMahieu unavailable due to a right toe injury. Isiah Kiner-Falefa started both games at third base, his first at the spot since 2020 while with the Rangers. And Oswald Peraza, just called up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, got the start at shortstop.
The results were solid, as Kiner-Falefa sparked the game two 7-1 win with a grand slam and played solid defense at third in the 5-4, 12-inning opener.
“He was making plays for us all night,” Gerrit Cole said. “And the grand slam was a momentum shift.”
“Whatever it takes to win, that’s all I care about,” Kiner-Falefa said. “I was on a 100-loss team last year. I want the opportunity to make a postseason run.”
He also had two more hits on the day with runners in scoring position, as he continues to be among the most productive hitters in the American League in those situations.
And Peraza had another good game at short, including a nice charging play on Jake Cave’s slow hopper in the ninth inning of the game one win.
The rookie also had his best day at the plate, reaching base four times — with three hits — in the opener and adding a double in game two.
Asked before the doubleheader if Kiner-Falefa would see more time at third down the stretch due to the presence of Peraza, who has proven to be adept at short, Boone didn’t rule it out.
“Not necessarily, but look, who thought we’d be in this position a couple days ago?” Boone said of the team’s injury woes that forced Estevan Florial to start in center field and Oswaldo Cabrera in right in both games.
“Anything is on the table,” Boone said of how he’ll construct his roster until his regulars regain their health. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/08/isiah-kiner-falefa-oswald-peraza-give-yankees-lineup-a-boost/ | 2022-09-08T09:29:31Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/08/isiah-kiner-falefa-oswald-peraza-give-yankees-lineup-a-boost/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Aaron Judge’s march toward 61 continued on Wednesday when he hit his 55th homer of the season in the first game of a doubleheader against the Twins.
Though many believe Judge will be considered the new home run champ if he passes Roger Maris’ mark of 61 due to Barry Bonds PED ties, Judge himself indicated he didn’t agree, saying that Bonds’ 73 homers is still the legitimate milestone.
“The record’s the record,” Judge said after the Yankees swept the twin bill against Minnesota. “That’s what I go by. I watched him as a kid flip the ball into the bay with ease. That hasn’t changed.”
Judge first expressed the sentiment in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, saying, “No one can take that from him.” But Judge said he’s not going after Bonds’ number or Maris’, for that matter.
“I’m not really chasing or looking at anything,” Judge said of his move up the home run leaderboard. “It’s just happening.”
And he doesn’t plan on gunning for 73, either.
“Not really,” Judge said. “That was a pretty unreal year. That’s a hard number to catch.”
Roger Maris Jr., is preparing for Judge to pass his late father’s milestone that was set in 1961 and said it was “disappointing” that Judge didn’t consider Maris’ record as the real one.
“I think a lot of people still look at Dad’s as the real record,” Maris said by phone. “So that was surprising to me.”
And he was somewhat surprised for another reason, since Judge will be a free agent after the season and while he’s going to get a tremendous contract even if he doesn’t hit another homer, he’d likely do even better if he was considered the holder of the true home run record.
“He’s got a lot on the line if that’s what he believes,” Maris said. “So he better start hitting more of them. Maybe he is going after Bonds, with the way he’s killing it lately.”
Wednesday’s homer in game one gave Judge home runs in four straight games. The recent hot streak is also making plans difficult for Maris, who would like to be at the game if Judge is set to get 62.
“This has caught everyone off guard,” Maris said. “He’s definitely killing it. I think we all expected him to get it at this point, but I don’t think anyone saw him going off like this. Anything can happen, but at this point, he looks like he’ll get to the mid-60s. And then, who knows?”
His homer on Wednesday gave Judge the franchise record for a right-handed hitter, previously held by another PED-tainted player, Alex Rodriguez.
And he’s showing no signs of the attention getting to him, which was not the case when Maris was going after Babe Ruth’s record of 60 in 1961.
“It shows how strong and consistent he is,” Maris said. “But the circumstances are way different. Dad was chasing Ruth and had [Mickey] Mantle with him. No one wanted him to get it: The writers, the commissioner, the fans. It seems like everyone is pulling for Judge.”
Including Maris — to a point.
“We like Dad having the record, but records are made to be broken and you have to like greatness and getting to see it,” he said. “You’d be crazy not to applaud what he’s doing.” | https://nypost.com/2022/09/08/yankees-aaron-judge-doubles-down-on-real-home-run-record/ | 2022-09-08T09:29:49Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/08/yankees-aaron-judge-doubles-down-on-real-home-run-record/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ch. Capt. Jacqueline Pippin, 8th Fighter Wing chaplain, delivers an invocation during a memorial ceremony on Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Sept. 8,, 2022. Ch. Pippin also provided military working dog Alan and his team with a prayer during his final salute ceremony in July, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Timothy Dischinat)
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Military working dog Ricky sniffs a kennel belonging to MWD Alan during a memorial ceremony on Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Sept. 8, 2022. MWD Alan served as a dual-purpose intruder and narcotics detection dog. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Timothy Dischinat)
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Weight loss is a time-consuming process in most cases, especially if you are aiming for a sustainable weight-loss plan. Losing weight is no easy feat. The journey could prove to be an overwhelming one for many, especially when the results are not quick.
Moreover, it is worthy of note that each body takes its own time to process and adapt to changes. Therefore, if you are looking to lose weight, it is advised that you start with wise choices. Your diet plays a major role in weight management. It can make or break your fitness goals. Eating fruits may prove to be a game-changer of sorts. Fruits are not only stuffed with vital antioxidants and minerals, but they could also help burn belly fat naturally.
Studies have shown that fruits do not only help with better and proper digestion of food, but they also aid in balancing blood sugar which usually helps in burning belly fat, and weight loss.
According to foodndtv.com, here are some fruits that will help you get rid of belly fat.
1. Tomato
Tomatoes tend to stimulate the production of the amino acid called carnitine, which is an organic molecule that is known to play a crucial role in the regulation of fatty acid and energy metabolism. The tangy goodness of tomatoes may do wonders to cut your belly fat.
Tomatoes have high fibre content and are also enriched with a compound known as 9-oxo-ODA which helps decrease lipids in blood and ensure healthy weight loss.
2. Apple
Apples are particularly rich in pectin, a fibre that breaks down slowly. Fresh apples are packed with healthy flavonoids and fibre that may help burn belly fat. The fibres present in apples promote satiety. If you feel full, you will naturally binge less. Apples are also very low in calories and sugar content, which makes them an ideal bet for weight loss.
3. Guava
Guava is another fruit that will help you get rid of belly fat. This green fruit is one of the most loved winter fruits of all time. It is loaded with dietary fibres, which helps keep you satiated and prevents bingeing.
The glycaemic index or GI value of guava is also very low, which enables the slow release of sugar in the bloodstream. This promotes better insulin activity and weight management too.
4. Pineapple
Pineapple is a nutrient-rich fruit containing vitamin C, manganese, thiamine, copper, fibre, and vitamin B-6. Pineapples can flatten your tummy, prevent stomach distention, and help your body burn a few extra calories.
Additionally, the fruit contains one very important enzyme: bromelain, which is found in the stem and within the juice of a pineapple. This enzyme metabolises protein, contributing to some health benefits, including a flatter abdomen.
5. Watermelon
When you’re trying to get rid of belly fat, low-calorie foods that fill you up, such as watermelon, can aid your weight loss efforts. Although watermelon’s direct effects on losing belly fat are not very popular, it still doesn’t change the fact that the fruit makes a healthy addition to a weight loss plan.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, VA — The midterm election is less than 8 weeks away.
One topic you might not think of is the future of renewable energy and how energy gets produced in this country.
Does it involve more drilling for oil or does it involve new technologies like wind turbines?
GOING OFFSHORE
Covering the future of energy isn't easy. At times, it even requires a boat
That is especially true when it comes to covering offshore wind energy.
And traveling nearly 30 miles off the coast of Virginia, one of the largest federal leases to build offshore wind turbines anywhere in the country is found in action.
John Larson, the Director of Public Policy for Dominion Energy, is the tour guide on a two-hour journey from Virginia Beach.
"These are decade-long projects," Larson tells the crowd of mostly Dominion employees and environmental activists who have been invited on the boat ride.
Larson says if a wind turbine project gets approved at your favorite beach one day there is a good chance the lessons learned from this project will impact it.
The federal government approved this as a research lease with the goal to one day have nearly 200 turbines powering over 600,000 homes.
"If you come back in a couple of years at the end of 2026 you would see a total of 178 turbines out here," Larson said.
WHY POLITICS MATTER
You might not think your vote impacts projects like this, but it does.
That's because building and maintaining wind turbines isn't cheap. The total cost of this project is approaching $10 billion, with each turbine only expected to last 30 years.
Incentives passed by Congress often encourage companies to take on projects like this – which is why control of Congress matters.
"What do you say to the critics who say this is a lot of money and time and there are cheaper ways to power people's homes," Larson said.
"This is the most transformational time for the energy industry since they began stringing electric wires to power people's homes and businesses," he said.
"We have to have a diverse portfolio as we move forward," Larson added.
To be clear Larson isn't political and Dominion is committed to finishing this project regardless of who wins.
However, he says when utility companies get their energy from a variety of sources that can mean cheaper bills for you, especially when oil markets spike.
"It takes away the volatility of fuel," Larson added.
WHERE THINGS STAND
As far as the politics of this, it's not as if Republicans are completely against wind projects, although votes do matter.
Not a single Republican voted for the Inflation Reduction Act this summer, which provided billions of dollars worth of incentives to build turbines.
This election, many conservatives are campaigning on traditional oil and gas production in the United States, which can be cheaper, as a way to bring down the price of gas instead.
Former President Donald Trump has even spoken up -- posting online recently some reasons as to why he is against wind turbines.
"Our eagles, and all other birds, are being decimated by the Chinese-built windmills. World's most costly energy," Trump wrote on Truth Social last month.
IMPACT ON BIRDS
Scott Lawton oversees environmental issues for Dominion and says their turbines are equipped with cameras and antennas to detect bird strikes.
"You don't see a lot of avian activity," Lawton said.
"We've been monitoring for almost two years now we've had no observed impacts," Lawton added.
So as you prepare to vote this election, know that your vote matters and impacts which way the political winds blow.
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Last summer, a utility worker stumbled across a well — one of thousands of abandoned, unplugged oil and gas wells scattered across Kansas — just 15 feet from a stream in La Cygne, an hour south of Kansas City.
Such sites bear witness to the state’s history of fossil fuel production — and they can leak pollutants into the air and water generations after they’ve been forgotten.
Tens of millions of federal tax dollars will help the state seal thousands of openings over the next several years, though many will remain unaddressed.
Old wells in Kansas can date back to the start of oil and gas drilling in the region in the mid-1800s.
Operators behind unprofitable sites often walked away without plugging the holes properly — if at all.
Unplugged wells can leak methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. Their pipes can break, letting in groundwater that disappears down the holes forever.
Other times, changes in pressure can push contaminated fluids from the bottom of the wellbore toward the surface, where it seeps into the surrounding earth and water.
So closing the holes involves more than sealing the top. Workers have to fill much or all of the underground pipes. It took 120 sacks of cement to plug the La Cygne well.
Landowners continue to discover long-forgotten wells.
“A farmer may see a wet spot in their field. Or there may be a puddle that bubbles,” said Ryan Hoffman, director of the Kansas Corporation Commission’s conservation division. “It could be you’re just out walking in the woods and you find something.”
The agency, which regulates oil and gas, investigates. It looks for any records of who drilled, but many of the sites predate modern regulation and recordkeeping. Or else the companies no longer exist.
So Kansas adds the sites to its formidable to-do list.
Sometimes, the wells aren’t even that old.
In 2014, the Commission found a leaky well drilled in 1982 and closed just two years later by a company that no longer existed. So the agency paid to re-plug it.
Federal dollars will speed the work
In a typical year, Kansas manages to plug a couple of hundred abandoned wells. Since it started charging a fee to oil and gas companies in the 1990s to help pay for that work, the state has knocked 11,000 wells off its to-do list.
But state officials say it’s likely that just as many remain.
The wells that pose the most obvious risk to people and groundwater — like the situations in La Cygne and Wichita — get priority.
Last year’s federal infrastructure legislation puts billions of dollars toward speeding the effort to seal abandoned wells across the country.
The Kansas Corporation Commission gets $25 million to plug about 2,300 wells over the next two to three years. Those wells are scattered across the state.
After that, the KCC could get another $33.6 million to seal a few thousand more.
Kansas will seek bids soon to start the federally funded work. Hoffman hopes a tight labor market won’t slow progress.
“It’s the unknown,” Hoffman said. “Are we gonna be able to find people who are willing to come do the work?”
Celia Llopis-Jepsen is a reporter for the Kansas News Service. You can follow her on Twitter @celia_LJ or email her at celia (at) kcur (dot) org.
The Kansas News Service is a collaboration of KCUR, Kansas Public Radio, KMUW and High Plains Public Radio focused on health, the social determinants of health and their connection to public policy.
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On a quiet stretch of road near Longview Lake just before dawn on the last Saturday in August, a hit-and-run driver killed Charles Criniere, taking a husband from his wife and a father from his 10 children. Criniere was out for his regular weekly bike ride.
He wasn’t the first person to die in traffic that morning and he wouldn’t be the last. U.S. traffic fatalities are running at a 20-year high. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that car and truck crashes killed almost 43,000 Americans last year.
“That's like a regional jet crashing every day, a regional jet carrying 125 people crashing every single day of last year,” says Mark Chung, an executive vice president at the National Safety Council.
The 10.5% jump in deaths last year was the worst increase on record. And the roadway death toll continues to climb.
The grim spike comes after a long decline beginning in the 1970s, following major advances in vehicle safety features, road design and seatbelt compliance.
“It's a massive reversal from improvements that have been made on the roads over the years,” says Cathy Chase, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety.
Chase says the COVID-19 pandemic was behind the change.
“Our roadways were turned into racetracks and excessive speed really went out up through the roof and more people were driving while impaired,” Chase says.
She says bad habits motorists picked up during the pandemic have persisted, even as COVID restrictions have eased. So, on average, people are driving faster and more recklessly, and now, unlike at the height of the pandemic, there are more cars on the road to hit.
Kansas City Police Sgt. Corey Carlisle sees the results. Carlisle says most deadly crashes used to happen on major highways. Now, he says, they’re common on city streets.
“We're stopping people going 120 — I mean that's if they stop. So the new trend is high speeds, not stopping for the police,” Carlisle says.
Police in Kansas City, as is the case in many other cities, are short-staffed. They’re making fewer stops. And for safety’s sake, they won’t get into a high-speed chase just for a traffic violation.
But Carlisle says Kansas City cops are making close to triple the number of impaired driving arrests that they were making before the pandemic. And they’re catching people drinking more and smoking stronger marijuana than in the past.
Cops are also seeing a lot more drivers come back positive for the synthetic opioid fentanyl, often in combination with other drugs like PCP and heroin.
As of the end of August, Kansas City traffic fatalities were up 25% over a year earlier. But here the spike in traffic deaths came in 2020, when 103 people, including 18 pedestrians, died in wrecks.
While newer cars are safer, they’re also often bigger, faster, and heavier than they used to be, making them more lethal.
“If you're driving a 3,000-pound vehicle at 50 to 100 miles an hour, you're weaponizing that car. And you’re the one pulling the trigger,” Carlisle says.
It's largely an American problem. Chung says no other developed countries are seeing surges in traffic deaths.
“In fact, they're seeing decreases in roadway fatalities,” Chung says. “So, we're not doing something right.”
That said, American roadways are still much safer than they were in the 1960s, when the death rate per mile was about three times higher than today.
And a flood of new improvements is on the way, thanks to President Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed by Congress last year. Those changes will take years to take effect, but it calls for better headlights that adjust to light conditions and on-coming cars automatically.
Eventually, new cars will all come with systems designed to detect and prevent drunk driving. Hoods and bumpers are changing to make them less deadly to pedestrians and cyclists, following European standards. And new cars will have automatic braking systems that fire when a car is about to hit something.
“The technology is to assist the driver in recognizing that obstacle. And if you're not fast enough to apply the brakes, it will do that for you,” Chung says.
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Rep. Sharice Davids has served Kansas' 3rd congressional district since being elected in 2018, but since then, the layout of her district has changed. With the addition of rural areas and the ousting of half of Wyandotte County, Davids is now representing — and running for re-election in — more conservative territory.
Davids acknowledges that she has some learning to do, but she's confident that her track record will win her another term in the U.S. House. KCUR's Brian Ellison spoke with Davids about lowering consumer costs and expanding abortion access after the recent Roe v. Wade decision and Kansas abortion amendment defeat.
You can also hear Ellison's interview with Davids' Republican opponent, Amanda Adkins.
Contact the show at news@kcur.org. Follow KCUR on Twitter and Facebook for the latest news.
Kansas City Today is hosted by Nomin Ujiyediin. It is produced by Byron Love, Trevor Grandin and KCUR Studios, and edited by Gabe Rosenberg and Lisa Rodriguez.
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U.S. House candidate Amanda Adkins sees 2022 as her year to defeat incumbent Rep. Sharice Davids in Kansas’ 3rd congressional district.
The district looks significantly different from the one Davids won in 2020. While it once contained all of Johnson and Wyandotte counties, it now encompasses the more-rural counties of Miami, Franklin and Anderson in their entirety.
To the north, the county of Wyandotte has been cut in half along Interstate 70, removing a section of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area from the district.
The redraw has largely aided Republicans, with the addition of rural conservative voters in the south and the removal of urban liberal voters in the north..
For KCUR’s daily news podcast Kansas City Today, Brian Ellison recently spoke with both Davids and Adkins about their priorities ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
Here is his conversation with Adkins, a former Cerner executive, about about what issues she’s focusing on in the final months of her campaign, how she will reconcile her anti-abortion views with a constituency that has been shown to strongly favor reproductive rights.
This interview has been edited for clarity.
Brian Ellison: What are you hearing from voters as their top issues? .
Amanda Atkins: I find when I'm out talking to voters that there really are two key issues that are top of mind for people. First, in general, the economy, and inflation is the first thing always cited by people.
The reason is at 8.5%, an average household in the 3rd congressional district right now, they're suffering. They're paying, roughly, an extra $6,000 per year for the just cost of goods and services. So that's a really big problem for people.
In addition to that, earlier this week, I was down at the Southern border in Texas, and I hear from people a lot that they're very worried about border security, national security, and the implications for crime and drugs coming into this community. So that's the second thing that comes up consistently.
If you become part of a Republican majority in the House of Representatives, what legislation would you advance?
Let's talk about some of the causes of inflation in this country. Even a liberal, left wing economist like Larry Summers had told president Biden, and leaders like Sharice Davids, that too much reckless federal spending would contribute to inflation.
One of the big starting points was the American Rescue Plan in the spring of 2021. Sharice Davids voted for it. They were given advanced warning that it would contribute to inflation.
You see where we're at today, $6,000 per household in extra costs for goods and services, which is a lot of money for most families. My commitment to the people in the 3rd congressional district always is limited government.
I commit to reducing the deficit. The Republican Study Committee has a plan to completely reduce the deficit within five years. I absolutely support that. I would be a member of the Republican Study Committee. I also think that we need to commit to the American people on getting to a balanced budget in general, in this country. We haven't seen a surplus since, I think, 2001.
What would you not spend money on that we're spending money on now? What would you cut?
First of all, the commitment that I make is I believe strongly that the federal government should be focusing and investing in areas that are enumerated in the constitution as being a core responsibility of government. Obviously, national security, the military or national defense being one of the most important areas. The Republican Study Committee plan included cuts on all sides.
One of the things is an example that they pointed to on the discretionary side. There are a whole bunch of new regulations that have been introduced in the part of the Biden administration that could be rolled back that would contribute significantly to cutting overall government expenses.
Like what?
I’ll give you a recent example of something that was recently passed that I can assure you has been very unpopular here. The so-called Inflation Reduction Act has in it a lot of additional and new funding for the IRS.
Another topic that's been very much on the minds of a lot of Kansas voters is abortion and abortion rights. You have identified as “very pro-life."
Should voters in Kansas, the majority of whom say they support abortion rights, be taking that into account when they cast their ballot in this election?
I am a pro-life candidate. At this point are we're in a very different time period with the Dobbs decision that was made by the U.S. Supreme Court to give decision-making related to abortion and abortion policy back to the states. That decision has been made. From my perspective it is no longer a federal issue.
For that reason, I would not be in support of a congressional ban on abortion. I think the decision making needs to happen here at the state level. We already have visited that issue here in our primary.
Most people that I talk to say that is not the issue that comes up. What comes up are issues related to daily experience, families suffering, inflation rate, concerns about security, and, in general, the future of the country.
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MTOS can provide cities with tools to monitor mobility services and help model future system upgrades and new transportation policies
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from Guidehouse Insights explores how municipal transportation operating systems (MTOS) can manage and optimize urban mobility.
Cities are continually responding to urban transportation challenges such as increasing levels of travel demand and the complex management of numerous modes of both public and private transportation. The rising demand for passenger transportation and urban deliveries increases congestion and results in a significant impact on air quality, safety, and quality of life. According to a new report from Guidehouse Insights, the expanding number of modes of urban mobility, such as shared micromobility, and the anticipated arrival of highly automated vehicles is increasing complexity and driving the need for real-time data to manage transportation systems efficiently.
"While cities are taking actions to improve urban mobility, travelers are demanding a reliable and efficient transportation system that provides accurate travel information," says Sagie Evbenata, senior research analyst with Guidehouse Insights. "An MTOS could be a valuable instrument for smart cities, providing them with the tools to monitor and optimize mobility services and help to model future system upgrades and new transportation policies."
Stakeholders in the mobility ecosystem—including automakers, mapping data companies, and technology companies—are developing solutions to address urban mobility challenges and piloting them in cities around the world. These systems could form key components of an MTOS to manage and optimize future urban mobility. Besides delivering better transportation service to customers, an MTOS could provide cities with the tools to monitor mobility services and help model future system upgrades and new transportation policies, according to the report.
The report, Cities Should Now Evaluate the Benefits of Municipal Transportation Operating Systems, examines the mounting pressures on cities to provide efficient, safe, and sustainable mobility systems and considers how an MTOS could provide an effective solution. It features some of the notable pilots being conducted in various cities that develop and demonstrate the benefits these technologies offer. Recommendations are provided for how key stakeholders can benefit from the development of MTOSs and provide maximum value to cities. An executive summary of the report is available for free download on the Guidehouse Insights website.
Guidehouse Insights, the dedicated market intelligence arm of Guidehouse, provides research, data, and benchmarking services for today's rapidly changing and highly regulated industries. Our insights are built on in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets. The team's research methodology combines supply-side industry analysis, end-user primary research, and demand assessment, paired with a deep examination of technology trends, to provide a comprehensive view of emerging resilient infrastructure systems. Additional information about Guidehouse Insights can be found at www.guidehouseinsights.com.
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World Bank's IFC says it plans to invest $160 mln in Safaricom Ethiopia
Safaricom Ethiopia, partly owned by Kenyan telecoms operator Safaricom, started phased operations in August in the country's Dire Dawa city and Haramaya this month.
Safaricom Ethiopia, partly owned by Kenyan telecoms operator Safaricom, started phased operations in August in the country's Dire Dawa city and Haramaya this month.
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World Bank's IFC says it plans to invest $160 mln in Safaricom Ethiopia
Safaricom Ethiopia, partly owned by Kenyan telecoms operator Safaricom, started phased operations in August in the country's Dire Dawa city and Haramaya this month.
NAIROBI: The World Bank's private investment arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), said on Thursday it planned to inject up to $160 million in equity into telecoms firm Safaricom Ethiopia to help fund its capital expenditure.
Safaricom Ethiopia, partly owned by Kenyan telecoms operator Safaricom, started phased operations in August in the country's Dire Dawa city and Haramaya this month.
Safaricom led a consortium that also includes South Africa's Vodacom and Britain's Vodafone which secured Ethiopia's second operator licence in May 2021 for $850 million.
"The proposed IFC transaction comprises an up to $160 million equity investment in the Company to help fund ... capex requirement," IFC said in a statement on its website on Wednesday.
"A separate debt package is also being discussed," it added without giving more details.
The Safaricom consortium is financially backed by British development finance agency CDC Group and Japan's Sumitomo .
Safaricom Ethiopia has said it planned to have its network active in 25 cities by April 2023.
It will be a competitor to state-owned Ethio Telecom, whose proposed sale of a 40% stake as part of a broader government plan to open up the economy was put on hold in March.
Getting a universal access services licence will allow Adani Data Networks to offer mobility services in all the six circles if it wants. However, the company denied any plans to enter consumer mobility. "Please note that our intention is not to be in the consumer mobility space," the Adani Group said in response to ET's query. The company also gave reference to an earlier statement that said it bought the airwaves for setting up its private networks. | https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/world-banks-ifc-says-it-plans-to-invest-160-mln-in-safaricom-ethiopia/94072153 | 2022-09-08T09:55:48Z | afar.com | control | https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/world-banks-ifc-says-it-plans-to-invest-160-mln-in-safaricom-ethiopia/94072153 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
I think that pretty much says it all. The warnings today are a step up on verbal intervention but they are still merely what it is, just verbal intervention. The threat of any real intervention in the market is still a bit of a reach and unless the yen quickly tumbles to 150.00 on the dollar, we are unlikely to see Japanese authorities hit the panic button.
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HONOLULU (KITV-4) The Honolulu Police Department continues to turn to technology to help in fighting crime. The Automated License Plate Readers, or "ALPRs", are helping HPD find stolen cars.
HPD now has 21 ALPR units that capture computer images of license plates. The machines compare plate numbers against those of stolen cars--or cars driven by people suspected of criminal activities. HPD says, ALPR systems are like having more eyes on the road to investigate and to help detect possible criminal activity.
"We all know we’re short staffed so we’re trying to utilize technology to be a force multiplier," says Capt. Parker Bode, Honolulu Police Dept. "And the more eyes we get on the road, the better we can to protect the community. Because the ALPR system can process license plates faster than a patrol officer."
“I realize that some people that it might be too much big brother and government watching the people, but when you look at it from that these devices help us fight and find the criminals who are preying on society," says Will Espero, former Hawaii State Senator.
In August, HPD reports, the Automated License Plate Reader System detected 39 stolen license plates, 30 stolen vehicles and 3 wanted vehicles.
“If an officer is patrolling diligently and the camera detects and reads a license plate, that’s fair game," says Capt. Bode. “If he or she gets what we call a hit -- meaning the license plate that is read is on a hot list, the vehicle stolen, license plate stolen, etc., -- the officer will confirm with dispatch that the vehicle for example is stolen, or license plate is stolen then the officer can take enforcement action.”
The cost of each unit is about $18,000, and the total cost of maintenance since the ALPR system started in 2013 at HPD, is estimated at $75,000.
Captain Bode says HPD has submitted a Homeland Security grant for 20 more ALPR systems. The hope is that the Department of Defense will give the final approval in November.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in TuSimple Holdings Inc. ("TuSimple" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TSP) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of TuSimple investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons who: (a) purchased or otherwise acquired TuSimple common stock pursuant and/or traceable to documents issued in connection with TuSimple's April 15, 2021 initial public offering; and/or (b) that purchased or otherwise acquired TuSimple securities between April 15, 2021 and August 1, 2022, both dates inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
TSP investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) TuSimple's commitment to safety was significantly overstated and defendants concealed fundamental problems with the Company's technology; (ii) TuSimple was rushing the testing of its autonomous driving technology in order to deliver driverless trucks to the market ahead of its more safety-conscious competitors; (iii) there was a corporate culture within TuSimple that suppressed or ignored safety concerns in favor of unrealistically ambitious testing and delivery schedules; (iv) the aforementioned conduct made accidents involving the Company's autonomous driving technology more likely; (v) the aforementioned conduct invited enhanced regulatory scrutiny and investigatory action toward the Company; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in TuSimple during the relevant time frame, you have until October 31, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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Why "zero-down" mortgages are gaining ground
You can expect more banks to start offering mortgages that don't require some first-time buyers to save up a large down payment — part of an effort to close the racial and ethnic homeownership gap, which is a big piece of the racial wealth gap.
Driving the news: Bank of America's recently announced "zero down payment" loans for first-time homebuyers in predominately Black and Hispanic neighborhoods who meet certain income requirements.
- Two other banks, JPMorgan Chase and TD Bank, offer similar programs. If they were adopted widely in both the public and private sector, programs like these could truly make a dent in the racial homeownership gap — but so far they haven't been.
Details: Bank of America's "zero down payment" loans are a bit of a misnomer. They do technically require a down payment, but the bank is offering grants of as much as $15,000 to cover it.
- So buyers don't have to come up with the down payment, but they are not borrowing the entire cost of the home, and they wind up holding some measure of equity right off the bat.
- That's distinct from the zero-down loans that, along with questionable underwriting standards, helped make such a mess in the run-up to the Great Recession.
What they're saying: "There are a handful of banks that are interested in this," said Liam Reynolds, a research assistant at the Urban Institute who co-wrote a piece about these types of programs earlier this year.
- If the programs proliferate, "then they do have the ability to actually make a meaningful dent in the homeownership gap," he told Axios.
Why now: The programs are gaining traction now partly because of the renewed focus on racial equity coming out of the protests of 2020 and because of the White House's support, Reynolds said. "It has certainly helped that the administration has encouraged them so much."
- Back in 2020, BofA and JPMorgan both pledged to spend billions of dollars on racial equity. JPM's program is related to its pledge, though it hasn't capped the amount of money it can spend.
- BofA's program complements their pledge, but the funding is separate, a spokesperson told Axios: "This program aims to address the unique challenges and needs that minority homebuyers face."
BofA also has a separate, and very similar program, launched in 2019, that offers down payment grants in 69 markets across the country.
- That grant program, which has stricter criteria than the bank's latest offering announced last week, lent out more than $9.5 billion in mortgages in total, helping 36,000 people.
- That sounds big, but consider that the bank lent out $14.5 billion in mortgages over just three months this year.
State of play: These programs allow lenders to target neighborhoods that are predominantly Black or Hispanic.
- The banks use what's called a special purpose credit program (SPCP), a policy made possible by the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act, that actually permits lenders to discriminate in order to help disadvantaged borrowers.
- Federal regulators across several agencies have issued guidance on SPCPs over the past year or so encouraging their use.
Zoom out: The origins of the racial homeownership gap lie with the actions of the federal government and the private sector. Through redlining, they worked in concert to exclude majority Black neighborhoods from mortgage lending.
- Black buyers couldn't get the federally backed mortgages that helped launch so many Americans into the middle class, setting them on a path to providing generational wealth.
- The practice was outlawed in 1968 but its legacy haunts the housing market to this day.
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Democrats get another chance to campaign on health care
For the second election cycle in a row, a Republican-appointed federal judge in Texas has given Democrats an opening to campaign on saving the Affordable Care Act — an opportunity they relish.
Why it matters: Weaponizing the GOP's 2017 attempt to repeal and replace the ACA was hugely successful for Democrats in the 2018 midterms. Republicans have been eager to talk about anything but the ACA since then, but Judge Reed O'Connor has twice now issued decisions that put key tenets of the law at risk.
Driving the news: O'Connor yesterday ruled the federal government cannot require a Christian-owned company to cover HIV preventative medication because it violates their religious rights under federal law.
- He also found that the ACA's requirement that insurers cover care recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is unconstitutional, although he upheld the law's requirement about the recommendations of two other agencies.
- "If today's ruling stands, colonoscopies, Pap smears, PrEP, and a broad range of preventive pregnancy-related services may no longer be covered w/o cost sharing," KFF's Alina Salganicoff tweeted.
Flashback: O'Connor is the same judge that sided with GOP state attorneys general in a case that argued the ACA is unconstitutional and should be struck down.
- The case went to the Supreme Court, which heard arguments in 2020 but ultimately upheld the law.
What they're saying: "This extreme MAGA ruling comes just months after the Republican-controlled Supreme Court discarded precedent and privacy in overturning Roe v. Wade," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement hours after the decision was released.
- "As extreme MAGA Republicans work to rip away life-saving drugs, Democrats are fiercely defending health freedom, protecting access to health care and lowering the cost of prescription drugs," she added.
Be smart: The Supreme Court's decision to overturn the federal right to abortion this summer arguably gave Democrats their most effective campaign message of the cycle, ahead of what was expected to be a red wave this fall.
- If Pelosi's statement is any indication, the party will eagerly tie that decision to yesterday's and make November's election even more about health care.
Between the lines: Democrats have been trying to make the case that Republicans support undoing popular health care policies — like their recently-passed prescription drug law that allows Medicare to negotiate directly with manufacturers — in addition to highlighting the party's support for abortion bans.
- "Don't get it twisted: the GOP does have a health care agenda, and it includes cutting Social Security and Medicare and banning abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest," the DNC wrote in an email earlier this week.
- But Democrats' case that the GOP will try again to repeal and replace the ACA or to repeal the drug law hasn't been particularly convincing, and has been based mostly on stray comments from not-particularly-relevant lawmakers.
- In reality, vulnerable Republicans have mostly been silent on health care.
What we're watching: O'Connor has yet to say how broadly the decision applies, and the preventive services requirements are still in place for now. He's asked both parties to submit proposals for the "scope of the relief," or the implementation of the decision.
- And even if he ends up blocking the enforcement of those requirements, the decision will almost certainly get appealed. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/08/democrats-health-care-campaigns-midterms-courts | 2022-09-08T10:03:55Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/08/democrats-health-care-campaigns-midterms-courts | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Famine is coming to East Africa
More than 7 million people in Somalia are in dire need of food assistance. And the UN has warned that famine there is “at the door." East Africa has had four straight failed rainy seasons, for the first time in more than half a century. That, combined with rising food prices exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, are endangering an estimated 20 million people in the Horn of Africa region.
- Plus, how a ruling on HIV PrEP meds could affect access to other preventative care.
Guests: Axios' Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath, Emily Peck, and Tina Reed.
Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alexandra Botti, Lydia McMullen-Laird, Fonda Mwangi, Robin Linn, Alex Sugiura, and Ben O'Brien. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893.
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- "Famine is at the door" in Somalia, UN aid chief warns
- Federal judge rules that mandated HIV PrEP coverage violates religious freedom
NIALA: Good morning! Welcome to Axios Today!
It’s Thursday, September 8th.
I’m Niala Boodhoo.
Here’s what you need to know today: how a ruling on HIV PrEP meds could affect access to other preventative care.
But first, today’s One Big Thing: famine is coming to East Africa.
NIALA: More than 7 million people in Somalia, half of its population, are in dire need of food assistance. And the UN has warned that famine there is “at the door.” East Africa has had four straight failed rainy seasons for the first time in more than half a century. That combined with rising food prices exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, are endangering an estimated 20 million people in the Horn of Africa region. Axios deputy world editor, Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath is here with the big picture. Hi Laurin-Whitney.
LAURIN-WHITNEY: Hi. Nice to be here.
NIALA: How much has the war made the food situation worse in Somali and East Africa?
LAURIN-WHITNEY: Yeah, well, a lot of these countries, particularly in the Horn of Africa have heavily relied on, um, wheat, and other food and also fertilizer, etc. from Ukraine and Russia. I think in Somalia, historically about 90% of their wheat has come from, um, one of the two countries. So when the war started, a, prices went up, because obviously, it was harder to get wheat out, but also Russia was blockading a lot of exports of wheat, particularly from, uh, Ukraine. We've seen some progress on getting some of that wheat out um, but it's, it's already had an enormous impact on countries that were relying on it.
NIALA: And what about climate change? How has the drought affected people's ability to grow their own food there?
LAURIN-WHITNEY: For years, climate scientists have said that Somalia and other parts of the horn of Africa would continue to face dry, dry seasons. And we've seen that, four consecutive rainy seasons that have failed. The fifth one is projected to fail. It might continue past that. So this is obviously having like an enormous impact on people who are trying to grow their own food, but also on places where Somalia was getting food from.
NIALA: Laurin-Whitney the last time famine was declared in Somalia was in 2011. Critics warned then though that the official famine designation came too late. Is the same thing happening now?
LAURIN-WHITNEY: Yeah. Aid groups say it is. And they're, they're warning that if international governments and groups continue to wait until formal declaration is put into place, it's gonna have detrimental impact on people in Somalia. And what's particularly heartbreaking about the situation now is UN officials and aid groups have warned that the situation today is exponentially worse than what Somali faced in 2011. And I think that's what's really scary. And also it comes at a time where the attention isn't necessarily on places like Somalia or the Horn of Africa or places that have had sort of protracted humanitarian crises. So it kind of just like floats under the radar. And I think that's what's really scary and sad. And as a reporter, that's what makes me wanna continue to focus on these sort of places that people often forget because it's become, unfortunately, the norm.
NIALA: Famine was avoided in this region in 2016 and 2017. And the UN talked about that this week too. What needs to happen so that we could hopefully be in that situation instead of 2011?
LAURIN-WHITNEY: Yeah, I mean, I think first and foremost, the UN says that they need more resources and they need more funding. There's been a lot of funding shortfalls, not just in Somalia or East Africa, but sort of across the world due to the war in Ukraine. Obviously, um, it was great that governments have poured money into helping Ukrainian refugees or those displaced inside Ukraine. But that means there's a lot of money that isn't going to sort of these protracted conflicts or humanitarian crises. And that's really, really hard on humanitarian groups, and the UN who are sort of at the forefront of trying to stop things like famine from happening. So I think that's probably what the UN would say is most needed in the situation right now.
NIALA: Axios deputy world editor Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath. Thanks Laurin-Whitney.
LAURIN-WHITNEY: Thank you.
NIALA: So a follow-up and clarification for you on a story from yesterday. It was about Bank of America’s pilot program to offer ‘zero down’ mortgages for first-time home buyers in predominantly Black and Brown neighborhoods in Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, Miami and LA. The announcement gained a lot of attention, but the loans are a little different than they may sound. Axios Markets Correspondent Emily Peck took a closer look at the fine print.
EMILY PECK: There's something that everyone is missing here. These mortgages actually do require a down payment. The cool thing is the bank grants people that money. So this isn't a program where folks borrow a hundred percent of the cost of a new home. That's a dodgy practice that can leave home buyers on very shaky financial footing, like what we saw happen during the run up to the great recession. This program now is a different kind of thing and the experts I'm talking to have high hopes that if this kind of things catch on more widely, that it's a way to make a dent in the home ownership gap between Black and white americans. I'm watching this very closely to see if they catch on. Stay tuned.
NIALA: That’s Axios’ Emily Peck.
In a moment: a new ruling around religious freedom could change access to some kinds of preventative healthcare.
Plus, how a ruling on HIV PrEP meds could affect access to other preventative care
NIALA: Welcome back to Axios Today. I'm Niala Boodhoo. A federal judge in Texas yesterday ruled the government can't require companies to cover preventative medication for HIV. Two Christian businesses, and six other plaintiffs argued the affordable care act mandate to cover HIV prep violated their religious rights. And the judge agreed. Axios’ Tina Reid says this could have far reaching consequences for preventative care. Hi Tina.
TINA: Hi.
NIALA: Tina. How effective is prep and who was it meant for?
TINA: PREP is more than 90% effective in preventing the transmission of HIV, and it's recommended for adults who are at high risk of getting HIV, which includes men who have sex with other men.
NIALA: So what exactly does the ACA say about preventative care? How did this come under the mandate?
TINA: So under the Affordable Care Act, most insurance plans must cover certain recommended preventative services. That includes HIV testing for people ages 15 to 65 and HIV prep for adults who are at high risk of getting HIV.
NIALA: And so what did the judge say about why he ruled this way?
TINA: The judge in this case said that the Department of Health and Human services did not provide any compelling evidence to argue that private religious corporations should be required to cover HIV, preexposure prophylaxis or PREP. And that it actually violated something known as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which is a law that ensures that interests in religious freedom are protected
NIALA: And so how could this have far reaching consequences? What other preventative care services or populations could be affected by this decision?
TINA: So there are a number of different preventative services that are covered under this piece of the ACA. And so it'll be hard to find people that won't be impacted. It covers everything from breast cancer screenings, lung cancer screenings, cervical cancer screenings, to tobacco cessation services, certain prenatal care services, fall prevention for older adults, depression screening. So it covers a really wide range of different preventative services.
NIALA: So then if all of these other preventative screenings could be affected, does that mean people would lose access to this in the short term?
TINA: So to be clear, the judge struck down an ACA requirement that insurers provide these services recommended by the US Preventive Services Task Force without cost sharing. What this could mean is that insurers may not be required to provide every single one of those services without cost sharing while most likely they would offer some of them. So actually, while this case was about religious freedom, it has much more far reaching implications. Whether insurers will have to cover a wide range of these no-cost preventive health services in the future. And that's what advocates are worried about.
NIALA: Axios’ Tina Reed. Thank you.
TINA: Thank you Niala.
NIALA: That’s it for us today! You can reach our team at podcasts at axios.com or reach out to me on twitter. Or you can text me at (202) 918-4893.
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Muslims Comprise Only 1% of Characters on Popular TV Series, Finds New Research
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Numbers often do tell a story, a rather murky one. Sample this: out of the 200 top-rated television series aired in the U.K., U.S., Australia, and New Zealand, only 1% of story arcs focused on Muslim characters and their stories. If these narratives existed at all, these shows were mostly linked to place their characters as “outsiders” and within the context of violent acts and behaviors.
These were the worrying findings of a report on Muslim representation on popular television shows. Titled “Erased or Extremists: The Stereotypical View of Muslims in Popular Episodic Series,” the study was published by researchers at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The researchers looked at television shows that aired between 2018 and 2019, inspecting some 8,885 characters who had speaking roles across 200 shows. Think of programs like Eastenders, Next of Kin, Empire, Russian Doll, Grey’s Anatomy, The Simpsons, Jack Ryan, FBI, and more.
Out of these, there were only 98 Muslim characters across the massive breadth of characters crafted for television. There was one Muslim character for every 90 characters coming from other social backgrounds. And almost 87% of the series examined featured no Muslim characters. If one were to further dilute this number: there were 4,432 speaking characters across 100 shows in 2019. Only 11 of them were Muslim characters.
The report articulates the proliferation of cultural stereotypes through data, portraying a “disheartening reality of Muslims on screen.”
The question of representation must also spill over to consider what good portrayal should look like, and the damage harmful representation can do. This reality is also presented in violent and dehumanizing ways. For instance, more than two-thirds of the characters were portrayed as “foreigners,” people who aren’t native English speakers but “outsiders” to the cultural audience where these shows were being viewed. This is despite the fact that Muslims remain among the most racially and ethnically diverse religious group in the world — whose roots go beyond the Middle-east or North Africa.
In Jack Ryan, the Muslim characters shown in Nigeria were members of the Boko Haram militia. “If not directly involved in perpetrating violence linked to faith-based beliefs by the stories, Muslim characters were in military roles or were family and friends of extremists. In other words, when Muslim characters were located in Muslim-dominated countries, they were somehow connected to terrorist activity,” the study authors noted. Almost 37.2% of Muslim characters were shown as “criminals” in these shows, while 40% of characters were targets of violent attacks. Abundant research shows how religious, ethnic, and racial minorities are often otherized and alienated from the larger national identity.
Language becomes a site of violence too. The common words used to disparage characters on these shows went something like this: “terrorist,” “pedophile,” “monster,” “school shooter,” and “psychopath.”
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These depictions indicate how abruptly and violently the presence of Muslim lives can go “from mute to menacing,” as one op-ed noted. The crisis of representation is not limited to television alone. Last year, a study by the same researchers showed fewer than 2% of characters in movies released between 2017 and 2019 were Muslims.
The fact of gender here is also a pertinent inclusion. If the racist tropes show men as violent and aggressive, women are portrayed to be oppressed and caged to an anti-feminist system. The research showed that out of all the Muslim characters with speaking time, only 30% of them were women, and more than half of them were portrayed as women always wearing hijab. They were typically depicted in emotional and physical torment, and were almost always unemployed as compared to their male counterparts.
“We didn’t see them really leading their own storylines or showing them in empowering roles — which, again, creates this light that Muslim women cannot be leaders and they cannot be empowered,” said Al-Baab Khan, one of the authors of the study. And empowerment only ever comes by distancing themselves through stirring gestures from one’s religious values. Netflix’s Spanish teen drama Elite — although not considered within the ambit of this study — relies on this construction. One of the show’s leads, Nadia, walks into a club having removed her headscarf, drinks alcohol, and has sex with her white friend. “Instead of a nuanced approach to her identity, the once-oppressed teenager must make a statement,” argued writer and activist Mariam Khan.
Even shows that otherwise treat Muslim story arcs with sensitivity and care, such as Ramy, may not afford the same dignity to female characters. “Muslim women are indeed varied and complicated, but portraying them as largely absent of agency, or somehow wholly separate from the temptations or crises that Ramy himself navigates, excludes them from the modern millennial existence in a way that rings false,” noted culture writer Shamira Ibrahim in 2019.
One can make the argument that some representation is better than no representation, but they would be misguided. Such tepid attempts in the form of the “hijab-wearing cool Muslim,” as Sahar Ghumkor’s wrote in The Political Psychology of the Veil: The Impossible Body, work towards a “normalization” of the western gaze. “It is through the very act of normalization, the one does not become human, but rather assimilated.”
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The implications spell out in bold, red letters — writings on the wall that can be read from a distance. On one level, “for Muslims, this sends a message that they don’t belong or don’t matter,” said actor Riz Ahmed, whose production company Left Handed Films also funded the study. The stereotypes that find oxygen in pop culture create a blinkered understanding of what people look like and how they act, reducing them to caricatures representing a cultural and social identity, instead of real people with complex inner lives.
“[TV shows] play a big part in shaping how we understand the world, each other, and our place within it,” Ahmed noted. “This study reminds us that when it comes to Muslim portrayals, we’re still being fed a TV diet of stereotyping and erasure.” The cliches homogenize incredibly diverse narratives, cultural fissures, and individual identities — effectively making the line between social values and individual agency indistinguishable.
A cousin of the Bechdel test — which looks at women’s representation in pop culture — is the Riz Test. Its parameters are two-fold: are the characters in a TV show or film identifiably Muslim? And if so, are they portrayed as “terrorists,” “angry,” “anti-modern,” misogynists, or threats to western values? The bulk of cinema as it exists right now would fail this measure of authentic and meaningful representation. Stories of people who are Muslim spill beyond checking diversity boxes.
The conversation of representation on screen also lends itself to accountability in the real world. “Not only is this radical erasure an insult,” said Al-Baab Khan, “but it also has the potential to create real-world injury for audiences, particularly Muslims who may be the victims of prejudice, discrimination, and even violence.” These portrayals are implied forms of aggression, fostering a culture of fear of and around the community.
The scale and severity of Islamophobia have played out in stark terms globally, so much so that the anti-Muslim hatred reached “epidemic proportions” last year. An echo of this could be read within the backlash Ms. Marvel (2022), a Marvel TV show featuring a Muslim female character in the lead, received.
This epidemic of invisibility currently relies on prejudice and stereotypes that are monochromatic in nature. It screams of laziness, a rigid inertia to change and consider narratives beyond our pigeonholed worldviews. The counter naturally then lies in lending a shade of richness and color and complexity to people’s lives.
An instructive example comes in the form of Dr. Dahlia Qadri in Grey’s Anatomy or Omar Zidan in FBI. The said characters were presented as native English speakers, framed as co-workers, friends, citizens, or neighbors within the larger story arc. “This is an important way for media to showcase the reality that Muslims are community members rather than people who only live in other parts of the world,” the study authors noted.
Cinema, for all intents and purposes, continues to rely heavily on ethnic, racial, gendered, and religious stereotypes. But it can no longer disavow any responsibility for its real and reel reverberations. This is not just a storytelling industry producing mass entertainment, but a dynamic and reactive archive of people’s aspirations and anxieties. And while an industry is meant to typecast people, art must be held to greater responsibility. | https://theswaddle.com/muslims-comprise-only-1-of-characters-on-popular-tv-series-finds-new-research/ | 2022-09-08T10:07:42Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/muslims-comprise-only-1-of-characters-on-popular-tv-series-finds-new-research/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tennessee: Four people were dead and three wounded after a 19-year old man went on a shooting spree in Memphis here,the city's police department said in a media briefing on Thursday.
Memphis Police Chief C. J. Davis said that the suspect Ezekiel Kelly was apprehended on Wednesday after multiple shootings.
At least one of the shootings was posted on Facebook. Earlier on Wednesday, police had warned the public to remain indoors until he was detained, after alerting them about an armed and dangerous man responsible for multiple shootings.
"We are getting reports he is recording his actions on Facebook," police said then.
One brief video posted on Facebook showed a man rambling "this is for real" and using coarse language as he opened the door of a shop and fired twice at the first person to come into view. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2022/09/08/us-shooting-memphis-tennessee.html | 2022-09-08T10:10:19Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2022/09/08/us-shooting-memphis-tennessee.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III delivers opening remarks at the fifth meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is also participating in the meeting.
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BERLIN (AP) — Clean energy now provides more employment than the fossil fuel industry, reflecting the shift that efforts to tackle climate change are having on the global jobs market, according to a report Thursday.
The International Energy Agency said a post-pandemic jobs rebound in the sector has been driven by emissions-cutting technologies such as electric vehicle production, building insulation, solar projects and wind farms.
Clean energy, which under IEA’s definition also includes nuclear power, is now estimated to account for more than half the 65 million energy sector jobs across all regions except Russia and the Middle East.
However, the Paris-based agency said high energy prices including for fossil fuels have seen an upswing in employment, notably for liquefied natural gas infrastructure. Many countries in Europe are scrambling to find alternatives to Russian gas supplies due to t he war in Ukraine.
It also noted that wages in clean energy jobs lag behind those in the fossil fuel industry, where unionization rates are higher and risky work has been compensated with higher pay. The exception is nuclear, due to the highly skilled labor needed, the agency said.
“Countries around the world are responding to the current crisis by seeking to accelerate the growth of homegrown clean energy industries,” said IEA’s executive director, Fatih Birol. “The regions that make this move will see huge growth in jobs.”
He urged companies, labor representatives and governments to ensure that clean energy projects provide high quality employment and attract a diverse workforce. Women are significantly underrepresented in the energy sector, which as a whole accounts for about 2% of the global workforce, IEA said.
Where possible, fossil fuel workers should be given the option to retrain for clean energy jobs, the agency said. It predicted could up to 14 million new clean energy jobs could be created by 2030, with an additional 16 million workers switching to new roles related to clean energy.
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IEA report: https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-employment
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RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday President Joe Biden has approved additional military aid to Ukraine worth up to $675 million, an announcement that came as he gathered allies to renew their commitment to military support “for the long haul.”
Austin said at the start of a meeting with senior officials from allied countries at the United States’ Ramstein Air Base in Germany that Biden approved the latest tranche of U.S. assistance on Wednesday.
He said that the package includes howitzers, artillery munitions, Humvees, armored ambulances, anti-tank systems and more.
Austin said that “the war is at another key moment,” with Ukrainian forces beginning their counteroffensive in the south of the country. He said that “now we’re seeing the demonstrable success of our common efforts on the battlefield.”
“The face of the war is changing and so is the mission of this contact group,” Austin told the meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, which was attended by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukraine’s defense minister as well as officials from allied countries.
“We will work together to train Ukraine’s forces for the long haul. We will work together to help integrate Ukraine’s capabilities and bolster its joint operations for the long haul,” he said. “We will work together to upgrade our defense industrial basis to meet Ukraine’s requirements for the long haul, and we will work together for production and innovation to meet Ukraine’s self-defense needs for the long haul.”
“We must evolve as the fight evolves,” Austin said. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-u-s-approves-up-to-675m-in-further-military-aid-to-ukraine/ | 2022-09-08T10:19:42Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-u-s-approves-up-to-675m-in-further-military-aid-to-ukraine/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 45 |
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday President Joe Biden has approved additional military aid to Ukraine worth up to $675 million, an announcement that came as he gathered allies to renew their commitment to military support “for the long haul.”
Austin said at the start of a meeting with senior officials from allied countries at the United States’ Ramstein Air Base in Germany that Biden approved the latest tranche of U.S. assistance on Wednesday.
He said that the package includes howitzers, artillery munitions, Humvees, armored ambulances, anti-tank systems and more.
Austin said that “the war is at another key moment,” with Ukrainian forces beginning their counteroffensive in the south of the country. He said that “now we’re seeing the demonstrable success of our common efforts on the battlefield.”
“The face of the war is changing and so is the mission of this contact group,” Austin told the meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, which was attended by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukraine’s defense minister as well as officials from allied countries.
“We will work together to train Ukraine’s forces for the long haul. We will work together to help integrate Ukraine’s capabilities and bolster its joint operations for the long haul,” he said. “We will work together to upgrade our defense industrial basis to meet Ukraine’s requirements for the long haul, and we will work together for production and innovation to meet Ukraine’s self-defense needs for the long haul.”
“We must evolve as the fight evolves,” Austin said. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-u-s-approves-up-to-675m-in-further-military-aid-to-ukraine/ | 2022-09-08T10:19:42Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-u-s-approves-up-to-675m-in-further-military-aid-to-ukraine/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 45 |
GREENFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Franklin Country is welcoming back its annual fair for the 173rd year, but there could be some delays if you plan on attending.
People should plan ahead and give themselves a little more time to make sure they can enjoy a day at the fairgrounds. MassDOT announced that a section of Wisdom Way from the Green River Cemetery to the intersection of River Street and Mill Street will be closed in Greenfield due to ongoing construction.
In order to accommodate the Franklin County Fair, a detour will be in place Thursday through Sunday. Traffic will be diverted from River Street down Laurel Street to Fairfield Street.
To help people get to the fair, free parking and shuttle buses will be available on Saturday and Sunday. Pick-up locations are located at the Greenfield Parking Garage and the old Court House parking lot on Munson Street.
The shuttle will run continuously from 10:00 A.M. until 10:00 P.M. both days. If you do plan on driving, reduce your speed and use caution.
Here are the opening times for the Franklin County Fair:
- Thursday- Gates open at 3:00 P.M.
- Friday – Gates open at 3:00 P.M.
- Saturday – Gates open at 8:00 A.M.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In recent days, President Joe Biden has sharpened his attacks against Donald Trump and the so-called MAGA Republicans for posing a threat to democracy. He’s likened the philosophy undergirding the dominant strain of the modern-day GOP to “semi-fascism.”
And Democrats are taking notice.
The gloves-off, no-holds-barred approach from Biden as of late has emboldened Democrats across the country, rallying the party faithful ahead of the November elections even as his harshest rhetoric makes some vulnerable incumbents visibly uncomfortable.
Biden’s increasingly stark warnings about Trump-fueled elements of the Republican Party are making up the core part of his midterm message, combined with repeated reminders to voters about recent Democratic accomplishments and a promise that democracy can still produce results for the American people. But it’s the blistering statements from Biden about his predecessor and adherents of the “Make America Great Again” philosophy that have given many Democrats a bolt of fresh energy as they campaign to keep control of Congress.
“It’s a particularly strong issue for our base,” said Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan, who leads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the official campaign arm of Senate Democrats. “Folks want us, want people to show that there is a clear contrast in the election between where Democrats are and Republicans have been.”
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., noted that “politics is somewhat like a team sport, and the president is the quarterback.”
“The team is not going to fight hard if they don’t see the team leader fighting hard,” said Khanna, who backed Bernie Sanders during the 2020 presidential primaries but has since been a vocal liberal defender of Biden.
Biden’s forceful campaign-year posture comes as Democrats are feeling more optimistic about the midterms, when the party controlling the White House has historically faced losses in Congress. A combination of legislative accomplishments, polarizing Republican candidates and voter fury stoked by the overturning of Roe vs. Wade have Democrats feeling they could see smaller losses in the House than initially anticipated, while retaining their barebones majority in the Senate.
The president began road-testing his midterm message at a rally in the Washington suburbs late last month, as he railed against a Republican ideology that he said largely resembled “semi-fascism.” The White House chose Philadelphia’s Independence Hall as the backdrop for last week’s address that outlined the danger that Trump’s “extreme ideology” posed to the functioning of U.S. democracy.
And in a pair of Labor Day events in critical midterm battlegrounds, Biden continued to hammer the contrast while becoming even more comfortable in invoking his predecessor, whom he had avoided referring to by name for much of his presidency.
“You can’t call yourself a democracy when you don’t, in fact, count the votes that people legitimately cast and count that as what you are,” Biden said Monday in front of a union crowd in Pittsburgh. “Trump and the MAGA Republicans made their choice. We can choose to build a better America or we can continue down this sliding path of oblivion to where we don’t want to go.”
Biden will headline another political event Thursday, hosted by the Democratic National Committee in suburban Maryland. There, the president will speak about “the choice before Americans” on issues of abortion, Social Security and Medicare, democracy, school safety and climate, and how “extreme MAGA Republicans are working to take away our rights,” according to a Biden adviser who requested anonymity to preview his remarks. That will be followed by a trip to Ohio on Friday, a state where the Senate contest between Democrat Tim Ryan and Republican J.D. Vance is becoming increasingly competitive.
Those close to Biden say the president has never shied away from a political fight.
“He’s always made the case very aggressively when he thinks the other side is wrong,” said Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., who has known Biden since the 1980s. “I think he’s always tried to lift up the country and tried to appeal to our better angels while at the same time, making the case for when he thinks the other side is on the wrong track.”
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said issues of democracy, as well as Trump himself, are increasingly becoming topics of concern for voters.
“More and more people are feeling that, you know, this former president broke the law over and over and over again, and people around him are still doing his bidding to undermine our democracy,” she said. Stabenow commended Biden’s recent approach, noting that “threats are only going up, not down.”
Still, the sharper-edged posture from Biden has been more complicated for Democrats competing in some of the most contested Senate races this cycle, as they seek to attract support from voters who may have backed Trump in 2020.
While she stressed that she has “concerns about attacks on our democracy,” Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., said in an interview with WMUR News 9 in New Hampshire that “I think President Biden’s comments just painted with way too broad a brush.” Hassan is considered one of the party’s most vulnerable incumbents, although she won’t know her Republican challenger until the state’s Sept. 13 primaries.
Asked about those same Biden remarks, Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., told The Associated Press that he hadn’t seen them.
“I think a president has a right to give his opinion,” added Kelly, who is facing Republican Blake Masters in one of the most closely watched Senate contests this fall. “You know, I don’t share all of his opinions. But he has a right to give his opinion.”
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said he didn’t like the phrase “semi-fascism,” calling it “awkward.”
“But are they leaning toward fascism? Certainly,” Durbin said. “When you deny the results of an election, when you’re talking about mobs in the street taking over, I mean, that to me is not consistent with democratic values.”
Republicans have accused Biden of divisive rhetoric in his string of speeches, particularly with his Philadelphia address. They say the president has tagged tens of millions of Americans who supported Trump as threats to democracy, although both the president and his aides have been careful to distinguish elected officials from voters themselves.
GOP officials still believe Biden remains a liability in competitive districts and states, although his approval ratings have brightened somewhat in recent weeks as the White House notched a series of achievements and as Trump’s legal troubles — starting with the FBI search of his southern Florida estate — have dominated headlines.
“I hope Biden keeps going around the country,” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said in a Fox News interview Tuesday night. “I hope he goes to every swing state and gives his raving lunatic speech everywhere around the country.”
Yet in those swing states, more Democrats who had initially shied away from joining Biden are increasingly comfortable in doing so. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat who is in one of the most closely contested gubernatorial races nationwide, joined Biden in Milwaukee on Monday, although Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes stayed away.
After avoiding other presidential visits to the state, Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman, a Democrat, appeared with Biden in Pittsburgh.
Peters, the DSCC chairman, said it was up to each Democratic candidate to decide whether to appear alongside Biden, but said he believed the president was an asset. Peters noted that he was the sole Democratic candidate in 2014 to actively campaign with President Barack Obama during a midterm year heavily favorable to Republicans.
“Everyone ran away. I had him come in, and I won,” Peters said. “So that’s my data point.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-gloves-off-biden-embraces-tough-tone-on-maga-republicans/ | 2022-09-08T10:20:53Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-gloves-off-biden-embraces-tough-tone-on-maga-republicans/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What were the first piano recordings?
Did you know the first piano recordings took place in the late 19th century? And featured a 12 year-old who went on to be one of the greatest pianists ever?
The first recordings by a significant pianist were done by the 12-year-old Josef Hofmann who made some non-commercial cylinders for Edison in 1888 (now lost). Hoofmann went on to become one of the best pianists of all time
A year later, Brahms made a famous cylinder recording featuring his (just discernible) Hungarian Dance No. 1 on the piano. Cylinders from Moscow have survived featuring the playing of Sergei Taneyev (1891), Anton Arensky (1892/4), the great Paul Pabst (1895) and Anna Essipova (1898) as well as four of Hofmann’s (1895/6).
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On disc, Cécile Chaminade recorded a number of her works in 1901 for the G(ramophone) &T(ypewriter) label, followed by Grieg in 1903, but Saint-Saëns was the earliest-born pianist to make an acoustic record (G&T, 1904). However, the earliest-born pianist to make a recording of any kind was Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) who made piano rolls of his own works in 1905. The first piano concerto to be recorded was Grieg’s in 1910 (Wilhelm Backhaus for HMV). | https://www.classical-music.com/features/instruments/first-piano-recording/ | 2022-09-08T10:28:54Z | classical-music.com | control | https://www.classical-music.com/features/instruments/first-piano-recording/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FORECAST: Terrific Thursday with sunshine, low humidity
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- Patchy river/valley fog this morning
- Low humidity today
- Rain returns Friday night and lasts through the weekend
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Today features sunny skies and low humidity with highs in the low 80s.
Clear skies remain tonight as lows fall into the 50s and low 60s. Patchy fog is possible once again.
Heat and humidity return on Friday. Clouds increase from south to north as highs climb into the mid-80s. Rain chances remain low through the day ahead of our next system.
Clouds continue to increase Friday night before rain moves in early Saturday morning. Clouds limit lows to the 60s.
Rain chances return late Friday into Saturday morning. Showers and thunderstorms stick around at least through Monday as highs hover in the 70s for most. Heavy rain over the weekend may lead to localized flooding issues.
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Each day, thousands of patients get a call or letter after being discharged from U.S. hospitals. How did their stay go? How clean and quiet was the room? How often did nurses and doctors treat them with courtesy and respect?
The questions focus on what might be termed the standard customer satisfaction aspects of a medical stay, as hospitals increasingly view patients as consumers who can take their business elsewhere.
But other crucial questions are absent from these ubiquitous surveys, whose results influence how much hospitals get paid by insurers: They do not poll patients on whether they've experienced discrimination during their treatment, a common complaint of diverse patient populations.
Likewise, they fail to ask diverse groups of patients whether they've received culturally competent care.
And some researchers say that's a major oversight.
Kevin Nguyen, a health services researcher at Brown University School of Public Health, who parsed data collected from the government-mandated national surveys in new ways, found that — underneath the surface — they spoke to racial and ethnic inequities in care.
Digging deep, Nguyen studied whether patients in one Medicaid managed-care plan from ethnic minority groups received the same care as their white peers. He examined four areas: access to needed care, access to a personal doctor, timely access to a checkup or routine care, and timely access to specialty care.
"This was pretty universal across races. So Black beneficiaries; Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander beneficiaries; and Hispanic or Latino or Latinx/Latine beneficiaries reported worse experiences across the four measures," he said.
Nguyen said that the surveys commonly used by hospitals (called Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, or CAHPS) could be far more useful if they were able to go one layer deeper — for example, asking why it was more difficult to get timely care, or why they don't have a personal doctor.
It would also be more helpful if CMS publicly posted not just the aggregate patient experience scores, but also showed how those scores varied by respondents' race, ethnicity, and preferred language.
Such data can help discover whether a hospital or health insurance plan is meeting the needs of all versus only some patients. Nguyen did not study responses of LGBTQ+ individuals or, for example, whether people received worse care because they were obese.
Hospital surveys — and how to game them — has become big business
The health care provider surveys are required by the federal government for many health care facilities, and the hospital version of it is required for most acute care hospitals. Low scores can induce financial penalties, and hospitals reap financial rewards for improving scores or exceeding those of their peers.
The CAHPS Hospital Survey, known as HCAHPS, has been around for more than 15 years. The results are publicly reported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to give patients a way to compare hospitals, and to give hospitals incentive to improve care and services. Patient experience is just one thing the federal government publicly measures; readmissions and deaths from conditions including heart attacks and treatable surgery complications are among the others.
Dr. Meena Seshamani, director of the Center for Medicare, said that patients in the U.S. seem to be growing more satisfied with their care:
"We have seen significant improvements in the HCAHPS scores over time," she said in a written statement, noting, for example, that the percentage of patients nationally who said their nurses "always" communicated well rose from 74% in 2009 to 81% in 2020.
But for as long as these surveys have been around, doubts about what they really capture have persisted. Patient experience surveys have become big business, with companies marketing methods to boost scores. Researchers have questioned whether the emphasis on patient satisfaction — and the financial carrots and sticks tied to them — have led to better care. And they have long suspected institutions can "teach to the test" by training staff to cue patients to respond in a certain way.
National studies have found the link between patient satisfaction and health outcomes is tenuous at best. Some of the more critical research has concluded that "good ratings depend more on manipulable patient perceptions than on good medicine," citing evidence that health professionals were motivated to respond to patients' requests rather than prioritize what was best from a care standpoint, when they were in conflict.
Hospitals have also scripted how nurses should speak to patients to boost their satisfaction scores. For example, some were instructed to cue patients to say their room was quiet by making sure to say out loud, "I am closing the door and turning out the lights to keep the hospital quiet at night."
A new push to survey hospitals about discrimination
About a decade ago, Robert Weech-Maldonado, a health services researcher at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, helped develop a new module to add to the HCAHPS survey "dealing with things like experiences with discrimination, issues of trust." Specifically, it asked patients how often they'd been treated unfairly due to characteristics like race or ethnicity, the type of health plan they had (or if they lacked insurance), or how well they spoke English.
It also asked patients if they felt they could trust the provider with their medical care. The goal, he said, was for that data to be publicly reported, so patients could use it.
Some of the questions made it into an optional bit of the HCAHPS survey — including questions on how often staffers were condescending or rude, and how often patients felt the staff cared about them as a person — but CMS doesn't track how many hospitals use them, or how they use the results. And though HCAHPS asks respondents about their race, ethnicity and language spoken at home, CMS does not post that data on its public patient website, nor does it show how patients of various identities responded compared to others.
Without wider use of explicit questions about discrimination, Dr. Jose Figueroa, an assistant professor of health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health, doubts HCAHPS data alone would "tell you whether or not you have a racist system" — especially given the surveys' slumping response rates.
One exciting development, he said, lies with the emerging ability to analyze open-ended (rather than multiple-choice) responses through what's called natural language processing, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze the sentiments people express in written or spoken statements as an addendum to the multiple-choice surveys.
One study analyzing hospital reviews on Yelp identified characteristics patients think are important but aren't captured by HCAHPS questions — like how caring and comforting staff members were, and the billing experience. And a study out this year in the journal Health Affairs used the method to discover that providers at one medical center were much more likely to use negative words when describing Black patients compared with their white counterparts.
"It's simple, but if used in the right way can really help health systems and hospitals figure out whether they need to work on issues of racism within them," said Figueroa.
Press Ganey Associates, a company that a large number of U.S. hospitals pay to administer these surveys, is also exploring this idea. Dr. Tejal Gandhi leads a project there that, among other things, aims to use artificial intelligence to probe patients' comments for signs of inequities.
"It's still pretty early days," Gandhi said, adding, "With what's gone on with the pandemic, and with social justice issues, and all those things over the last couple of years, there's just been a much greater interest in this topic area."
Direct outreach to improve cultural competence
Some hospitals, though, have taken the tried-and-true route to understanding how to better meet patients' needs: talking to them.
Dr. Monica Federico, a pediatric pulmonologist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado in Denver, started an asthma program at the hospital several years ago. About a fifth of its appointments proved no-shows. The team needed something more granular than patient satisfaction data to understand why.
"We identified patients who had been in the hospital for asthma, and we called them, and we asked them, you know, 'Hey, you have an appointment in the asthma clinic coming up. Are there any barriers to you being able to come?' And we tried to understand what those were," said Federico.
At the time, she was one of the only Spanish-speaking providers in an area where pediatric asthma disproportionately affects Latino residents. (Patients also cited problems with transportation and inconvenient clinic hours.)
After making several changes, including extending the clinic's hours into the evening, the no-show appointment rate nearly halved.
Patient satisfaction surveys are embedded in American health care culture and are likely here to stay. But CMS is now making tentative efforts in surveys to address the issues that were previously overlooked: As of this summer, it is testing a question for a subset of patients 65 and older that would explicitly ask if anyone from a clinic, emergency room, or doctor's office treated them "in an unfair or insensitive way" because of characteristics including race, ethnicity, culture, or sexual orientation.
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Community bands date back to the American Revolution. The Association of Concert Bands estimates that there are more than 1,000 of them around the country. Several have been playing since the 19th Century, including The Allentown Band in Pennsylvania, which began in 1828. The pandemic has battered these amateur bands but they're getting back to performing, especially after Labor Day.
The Metropolitan Atlanta Community Band, a predominantly African-American band, is gearing up for a concert in November, its first in more than two and a half years.
Every one of its performances opens with "Freedom Fanfare," a 68-second piece originally arranged in 1971 for a college football team that incorporates the melodies of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," "Lift Every Voice and Sing" and the gospel song "Take My Hand, Precious Lord."
"When I first joined the band, I noticed a genuine love for each other, they just like to hang out with each other and that culture is established," said Allen Ward, the band's associate director. "People who play in community bands, for the most part, they don't leave. We have at least eight to 10 members who's been in the band since its inception [26 years ago]."
The pandemic has not only halted many of the community bands' indoor concerts but also taken away their rehearsal spaces. To cope with this new reality the Atlanta band staged outdoor performances with seven-piece combos. The Allentown Band recorded the concerts it usually performs before a live audience of students in a local symphony hall and posted the recordings online.
Another challenge was getting band members to practice on their own.
"The physical skills needed to play an instrument develop slowly but deteriorate rapidly," said Chuck Van Buren, conductor of the Perinton Concert Band near Rochester, N.Y. "And not having a goal, such as being prepared for rehearsal, or looking forward to a concert, made it difficult for them to keep up a practice regimen. And frankly, some of our older members began to wonder if this was going to be the end of their playing career. Would they ever get back when we finally resume? Would they be too old? Would they lose interest?"
Sixteen of the Perinton Concert Band's 50 members have been music educators. Eleven of them are retired.
To limit their possible exposure to COVID, older band members have tended to be more cautious about returning to the bandstand than their younger peers. But for these elderly musicians, community bands have been a lifeline.
"Making music helps older people keep sharp," said Diane Hawkins-Cox, CEO of the Metropolitan Atlanta Community Band. "It's important for older people to maintain connections with other people. And I think community bands are an important outlet for that."
More than one musician NPR spoke with said that three generations of their family had played in community bands. Trombone player Ezra Wenner has been in the Allentown Band for more than three generations.
Wenner joined the band 80 years ago after being recruited by his high school band director, Albertus Meyers, who also served as the Allentown Band's conductor. Meyers was a coronet player who was a featured soloist in John Phillips Sousa's band. At one point there were at least 19 members of the Allentown Band that had played in the Sousa band.
"When I first joined the band, the majority of our concerts were Sunday school picnics," said Wenner, who is now 95 and still playing. "Today we're playing Carnegie Hall. We're playing Kennedy Center. We did three or four European tours."
Meyers conducted the Allentown Band for 50 years. The current conductor, Ronald Demkee, has held the baton for 45 years. He stands for election every year.
Demkee realizes the turn-out for performances has been declining over the years.
"We still have pretty good audiences in numbers and they're certainly enthusiastic. But when I was in the band, it was not uncommon for us to have 1,500 or 2,000 people in the audience. We just don't see that [kind of turn out anymore] and I think that may be true around the country, actually," said Demkee.
That's certainly the case with the Callicoon Center Band, which has been performing in a small Catskill Mountain town in New York since 1934. Its band membership and audience have been declining, especially during the pandemic.
Town Band, a new documentary, chronicles the band's commitment to keep going. The film's director, Alice Elliott, has been attending concerts for 40 years.
"The bandstand sits empty for six days and then all of a sudden for an hour at night, it becomes this place of entertainment, of community of, intergenerational mixing," said Elliott. "The idea that music and the arts can create community is extremely powerful."
"If bands didn't play this kind of music, the songs would be lost because they're not played on the radio, they're not taught in music schools. So, these bands are doing a service reminding us of historical American music, trends in American music, music that's been brought over by people all over the world."
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Children had more access to food in 2021 compared to the previous year. But for other population groups, such as the elderly and women living alone, food insecurity was on the rise, according to the Agriculture Department.
The rate of food insecurity was 6.2% for households with children in 2021, a decrease from 7.9% in 2020. The national average is 10.2%.
The Department of Agriculture defines being food insecure as having had "difficulty at some time during the year providing enough food for all their members because of a lack of resources."
Rates of food insecurity increased for households with no children, especially for women and senior citizens who live alone.
Rates declined for households with children under age 18, married couples with children, households with single mothers, and households in the South.
The average American spent $62.50 per person every week on food.
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NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Columbia Journalism School Professor Emerita Ann Cooper about her friend, former NPR foreign correspondent Anne Garrels.
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A quarter of American adults say they live in fear of being attacked in their own neighborhoods, according to a poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The poll, conducted between June and July of this year and including a sample of 4,192 adults, found that Americans of color were more likely than white Americans to say they feared being threatened or physically attacked.
The poll found that a quarter of Black respondents, 26% of Latinos, 36% of Native Americans, 21% of Asian adults, and 19% of white adults say they have feared someone might threaten them harm in their own neighborhoods.
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NPR interviewed several poll respondents about their individual reasons for feeling unsafe in their communities. Their answers ranged from looming threats of violent racism to fears of societal collapse due to politics.
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He experienced overt racism in his youth and now fears for younger relatives
Paul Ongtooguk, an Alaskan Inuit man living in Anchorage, has lived with this kind of fear for most of his life.
"Growing up, we went through the era when it was just open racism about being Alaskan Native," he says.
Outside of Alaska, Ongtooguk says that people are less familiar with the appearance of Alaskan Natives, often leading to strangers making crude and offensive stereotypes about his race.
"This one was really weird. I was in Philadelphia, somebody asked me if I was an octoroon," Ongtooguk said, referencing an offensive, outdated term for a person of 1/8th Black ancestry. "I had to look it up."
At 65 years old, Ongtooguk says he thinks he has aged out of much of the overt racism that occurred in his youth, but he still fears for younger family members.
Thousands of miles southeast in a small Texas town, 64-year-old Annette Jackson says her experience with violent racism has only worsened in recent years.
A white man approached her in Walmart after the 2016 election and spat in her face
Following Donald Trump's 2016 White House victory, Jackson, who is of mixed race but presents as a woman of color, says she was assaulted by a white man while working her job at a Walmart deli counter.
"He said 'Trump won,' and then he spit in my face," she says.
Jackson says she reported the incident to management, but no further action was taken.
"It's like Trump won so they had a right to treat me in a kind of way."
Jackson's example, while extreme, is not unusual.
Last year, the FBI said that 2020 had seen the largest number of reported hate crimes since 2008. Attacks against Black and Asian Americans saw the most significant increases in that period.
Jackson claims Black, white, Hispanic and Native American ancestry, and says she presents as a woman of color.
"I don't feel safe at all," she says. "I would hesitate to call the police in fear they'd shoot me instead of the person I'm calling the police on. There are people that ride around with the Confederate flags hanging out the back of their trucks. And, you know, I don't feel safe. I don't feel safe in America."
Some attributed their fear to other powerful voices
Not everyone polled shared the same ideas on the root of violent crime.
Bernardo Medina, 71, is a Puerto Rican born American living in New Jersey.
He says he feared most for national security and blamed Democrats in power for "emboldening" enemies of the United States.
"The Democrats sold out this country's national security long ago," he says. "Starting with the Clintons. Later, the Obamas. And now the Bidens became rich by selling out this country. Plain and simple. The criminals are in power and the good people have to live in fear."
He also blamed the Black Lives Matter movement and 2020 protests against police brutality for degrading social discourse.
Those protests were overwhelmingly peaceful and sought to bring attention to state-sanctioned racist violence against Black people.
"They deceived a lot of people with their nice talk and then took the money," he says of Black Lives Matter national leadership, which has come under fire in recent months over accusations of financial impropriety. "It's all a hoax. It's all a game."
The unraveling of the nation's social fabric was a common theme among respondents.
"I hope to never have to use my gun, but we've gone to gun safety classes in case we ever had to"
Ernesto, a Black 37-year-old resident of a Philadelphia suburb, says social unrest was behind most of his fears for himself and his family. He declined to provide his last name.
"I feel like people aren't understanding of different points of view anymore," he says. "You never know where you'll go, where you will no longer be welcome because of your point of view. People have preconceptions and prejudices that they amplify now. And I don't know if it's because we hear about it more through social media or if it's actually the case."
"I never felt discriminated against," he says. "I knew it existed, but I never felt it directly against me. Whereas now I'm afraid that I will be because you hear about it so much more and so often. So, yeah, I'm totally afraid of traveling the country. I don't want to go somewhere and end up in a place that I didn't realize would be unwelcoming to someone like me."
Also compounding Ernesto's concerns is the looming threat of gun violence, which he says keeps him from traveling into the city any more than is necessary.
And since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, he says that he and his wife have begun stockpiling supplies in the event that something catastrophic happens. He says he doesn't trust the government to be able to care for his family in times of crisis.
"We have food supplies, we have generators, we have our evacuation plan so that I feel like I don't need to wait for the government to give me instructions or assistance to take care of myself," he says. "I hope to never have to use my gun, but we've gone to gun safety classes in case we ever had to. And we know that there might be a time when we have to."
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Atlantic Ocean:
Thursday: Small Craft Advisory. N 15-25 knots. Seas: 6-8 feet.
Friday: Small Craft Advisory. NE 15-25 knots. Seas: 6-8 feet.
Chesapeake Bay:
Thursday: Small Craft Advisory until Noon. NE 10-20 knots. Waves: 1-3 feet.
Friday: NE 5-10 knots. Waves: 1 foot.
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Thursday: NE 10-15 knots. Seas: 1-3 feet.
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A ProPublica-Texas Tribune report finds that Texas state law enforcers sought to shift blame to local law enforcement for the Uvalde school shooting in May that killed 19 children and two teachers.
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Mar-a-Lago has dominated the headlines in recent weeks, courtesy of the now famous FBI search on former President Donald Trump's Florida residence.
But long before it housed government documents, the opulent mansion had a rich and lively history. And it all begins with a wealthy heiress.
Mar-a-Lago's early party years
Marjorie Merriweather Post was an heiress to the Postum Cereal Company – which eventually became "General Foods Corporation." Post took over the company at just 27-years-old after her father died, which made her one of the world's richest women of the time.
She named this Palm Beach property fittingly. "Mar-a-Lago" means "Sea to Lake" in Spanish – and like the name suggests, it has the Atlantic Ocean on one side and Lake Worth on the other.
Mar-a-Lago was just one of her properties. Another notable home of Post's was the Hillwood Estate in Washington, D.C., which is now a museum.
Construction on Mar-a-Lago took four years and cost Post about $7 million (which translates to more $100 million today.) Houses like Mar-a-Lago embodied the roaring '20s — a time of booming wealth and consumerism.
Freelance journalist and PhD student Michael Luongo examined the Post Family Papers at University of Michigan and covered Mar-a-Lago's history for Smithsonian Magazine.
"Even by Palm Beach standards, Mar-a-Lago was grandiose," he wrote.
The property sits on about 20 acres, and the house is massive. It's more than 37,000 square feet, complete with 58 bedrooms and 33 bathrooms. It's decorated with 36,000 historical Spanish tiles, imported Italian stone, thousands of feet of marble, and gold-plated fixtures and gold leafing throughout the house.
Post was a hostess at her core – her New York Times obituary says she built Mar-a-Lago because her first Florida home "became too small for her parties."
"Florida in the 1920s and the 1930s served the same role that it does now: it was a place where people vacationed," Luongo told NPR. "But we are not talking about your ordinary middle class family going to Disney. We are talking about the very elite who would come down to Palm Beach, who would come down to parties that she would host."
Post hosted royals and diplomats, elaborate parties, and charity events, including the International Red Cross Ball. And plenty of this was open to the Palm Beach community surrounding Mar-a-Lago.
"She also was very keen on ensuring that the underprivileged were invited to events so that they could experience, for example, musical concerts," Luongo said. "[Post was] a woman of means, very wealthy, very keen, very understanding of the importance of her role in society."
According to Luongo, she hired the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus in 1929 to perform for underprivileged children for a charity fundraiser. It was important to her that these events made money for the charities she was supporting.
"She found ways to ensure that costs were reduced for a smaller organization," Luongo said. "She made sure that if she opened up her doors, that it would serve a social purpose in the sense of society, but also serve a social purpose in uplifting society for those who were from poorer backgrounds or for charities."
Mar-a-Lago was made a national historic site in 1969 by the Department of the Interior, and it was later placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
When Post died in 1973, she willed Mar-a-Lago to the federal government to be used as a retreat for Presidents and diplomats – she wanted it to be a "Winter White House."
Ultimately, that didn't end up happening because the government deemed it too costly to maintain. Houses like these are known as "white elephants" — a property that's so big and expensive it becomes a burden.
"There were other examples of houses like this that don't exist anymore. By the [1950s and 1960s], as tastes changed, as houses were sold by families, as people could no longer afford them," Luongo said. "That's why many over the years had been demolished."
A bargain buy for a real estate mogul
When the Marjorie Merriweather Post Foundation put it up for sale, and after multiple purchases fell through, that's when then real estate mogul Donald J. Trump entered the picture.
In December 1985, Trump purchased the property from the foundation for $5 million. He also paid millions more to purchase Mar-a-Lago's antiques.
"He did get a beautiful property at a very, very low amount of money," Luongo said.
"Without Donald Trump, would that house have been preserved or not? So that's another thing to think about," he said. "But, you know, it's a beautiful piece of history and was always a piece of history."
In 1995, Trump transformed his private residence into "The Mar-a-Lago Club" that we know today, where the initial fee to join is $200,000.
Fast-forward to 2017, former President Trump started referring to Mar-a-Lago as his own "Winter White House." Post's influence lived on through the glitzy interior of Mar-a-Lago that was featured as a backdrop for White House events and press conferences. During his Presidency, Trump hosted world leaders at the estate, including Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and China's President Xi Jinping.
After his presidency, Trump moved to Mar-a-Lago full time. But most recently, Mar-a-Lago has been making headlines for the FBI investigation to seize government documents from the property.
In many ways, Mar-a-Lago is Post's legacy, and now it is part of former President Trump's too. It's hard to know how Post would feel about Mar-a-Lago today.
"I can't be in her mind, but I think in many ways she would be intrigued," Luongo said. "I think that as somebody who used her position to promote the United States, to promote notions of equity, to promote notions of diplomacy... I think in that sense, she would probably be appalled."
So in a way, Post got her wish: for Mar-a-Lago to live on as a "Winter White House."
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The Niagara River Greenway Commission refused to give a letter of approval for the Railyard Skatepark project in Lockport on Tuesday.
The park is in the midst of being designed by Grindline and construction is expected to be completed before the end of the year. The project will replace the aging wooden structures at Outwater Park with a fully realized concrete skatepark. The cost of the facility is $500,000 with $250,000 being paid by Build to Play in a matching grant. The greenway funds were expected to make up $30,000 of those matching dollars.
In May, the Niagara County Legislature resolved to support the funding of the park to the tune of $30,000. The project had been reviewed by the Ad Hoc Committee for Parks, Recreation and Tourism Fund, and it was expected that the Niagara River Greenway Commission, another gatekeeper for county funds, would concur.
However, according to Greg Stevens, chair of the Niagara River Greenway Commission, the Legislature’s resolution was only good as a “letter of support” and the second step toward actually obtaining the funds is slightly nuanced.
“The greenway commission then reviews the project for consistency,” Stevens said of the process where he is most involved, noting that it could not deliver on the legislature’s promise.
In a mayor’s update, Tuesday, – a replacement for the work sessions originally held once a week in City Hall – Mayor Michelle Roman informed council members and the public present that the commission did not find the project to be consistent with the intent of greenway funds.
“They now feel the skatepark is too far away from the (Erie Canal) to be considered a greenway project,” Roman said.
Stevens sized up the concerns of his commission. He said it didn’t see enough tie-ins to the Empire State Trail or the Canal Trail and it also didn’t see any plans on green infrastructure for stormwater, which could also “rank” the project higher on the commission’s checklist, but the paperwork for such a project was not forthcoming.
“Great project,” he said. “But it’s a local recreational asset. Great for Lockport, but we didn’t see any regional impact.”
However, according to Stevens, there is still another option. The final step for funding is to approach the Niagara County Host Community Standing Committee, the group that holds the authorization to fund projects with or without a letter of recommendation from the greenway commission.
“They don’t require consistency to vote, ‘yes’,” Stevens said.
Legislator Rich Andres, chair of the ad-hoc committee, said that he and the legislature will be working with Roman to take care of anything that might stand in the way of the Niagara County Host Community Standing Committee from voting for the project.
“We’ll be working with them in the county to get the application in such a way for it to approved in November,” he said
In terms of the skatepark’s construction schedule, Roman said that no changes would be made. The project will still be done before the end of the year.
As to whether the design and construction of the park would have to change, taking into account any less funding, Roman was optimistic.
“I’m confident we’ll get the money,” she said. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/skatepark-grasps-at-greenway-funds/article_c6392d40-2ef2-11ed-874f-bbf8d52052f9.html | 2022-09-08T10:33:59Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/skatepark-grasps-at-greenway-funds/article_c6392d40-2ef2-11ed-874f-bbf8d52052f9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — A shooting rampage across Memphis came to an end Wednesday night at 9:20, when Memphis Police took 19-year-old Ezekiel Dejuan Kelly into custody.
City leaders hosted a press conference just after midnight Thursday morning. The final tally from the incident was four dead, three injured.
On social media, where he allegedly livestreamed one of the killings, he went by various spellings of the name Zeek Huncho.
Shelby County court records revealed authorities quickly filed a warrant for first-degree murder for Kelly on Wednesday as the search for him continued in the city.
Court records also showed more about the teen’s background: He faced four felony charges, including two counts of attempted murder, one count of reckless endangerment and one count of possession of a firearm in 2020 at the age of 17.
Sources told WREG he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of aggravated assault in the case in 2021. He received three years in that case, but was already released.
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said Kelly had been released March 16 after serving 11 months of a three-year sentence.
Kelly wrote in social media posts during the rampage that he wouldn’t return to jail. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/what-we-know-about-ezekiel-kelly-suspect-in-memphis-mass-shooting/ | 2022-09-08T10:34:03Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/what-we-know-about-ezekiel-kelly-suspect-in-memphis-mass-shooting/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
World Bank's IFC says it plans to invest $160 mln in Safaricom Ethiopia
NAIROBI, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The World Bank's private investment arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), said on Thursday it planned to inject up to $160 million in equity into telecoms firm Safaricom Ethiopia to help fund its capital expenditure.
Safaricom Ethiopia, partly owned by Kenyan telecoms operator Safaricom SCOM.NR, started phased operations in August in the country's Dire Dawa city and Haramaya this month.
Safaricom led a consortium that also includes South Africa's Vodacom VODJ.J and Britain's Vodafone VOD.L which secured Ethiopia's second operator licence in May 2021 for $850 million.
"The proposed IFC transaction comprises an up to $160 million equity investment in the Company to help fund ... capex requirement," IFC said in a statement on its website on Wednesday.
"A separate debt package is also being discussed," it added without giving more details.
The Safaricom consortium is financially backed by British development finance agency CDC Group and Japan's Sumitomo 8053.T.
Safaricom Ethiopia has said it planned to have its network active in 25 cities by April 2023.
It will be a competitor to state-owned Ethio Telecom, whose proposed sale of a 40% stake as part of a broader government plan to open up the economy was put on hold in March.
(Reporting by George Obulutsa; Editing by Bhargav Acharya and David Evans)
((george.obulutsa@thomsonreuters.com; Reuters Messaging: george.obulutsa.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))
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Canada’s horrific knife rampage over as last suspect dies
ROSTHERN, Saskatchewan (AP) — The last suspect in a horrific stabbing rampage that killed 10 and wounded 18 in western Canada is dead following his capture, and police hope the stunning end to a gripping hunt that stretched into a fourth day will bring some peace to victims’ families.
One official said Myles Sanderson, 32, died from self-inflicted injuries Wednesday after police forced the stolen car he was driving off a highway in Saskatchewan. Other officials declined to discuss how he died, but expressed relief the final suspected killer was no longer on the loose.
“This evening our province is breathing a collective sigh of relief,” Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore, commander of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Saskatchewan, said at a news conference Wednesday night.
The other suspect, Sanderson’s 30-year-old brother, Damien Sanderson, was found dead Monday near the scene of the bloody knife attacks inside and around the James Smith Cree First Nation reserve early Sunday. Both men were residents of the Indigenous reserve.
Blackmore said Myles Sanderson was cornered as police units responded to a report of a stolen vehicle being driven by a man armed with a knife. She said officers forced Sanderson’s vehicle off the road and into a ditch. He was detained and a knife was found inside the vehicle, she said.
Sanderson went into medical distress while in custody, Blackmore said. She said CPR was attempted on him before an ambulance arrived, and emergency medical personnel then took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
“All life saving measures that we are capable of were taken at that time,” she said.
Blackmore gave no details on the cause of death. “I can’t speak to the specific manner of death,” she said.
But an official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, earlier said Sanderson died of self-inflicted injuries, without giving any further details.
Video and photos from the scene showed a white SUV off to the side of the road with police cars all around. Air bags had deployed in the SUV. Some photos and video taken from a distance appeared to show Sanderson being frisked.
An independent investigation by members of Saskatchewan’s Serious Incident Response Team went to the arrest site and will review Sanderson’s death and police conduct.
The federal public safety minister, Marco Mendicino, also stressed that the events will be investigated.
“You have questions. We have questions,” he told reporters during a Cabinet retreat in Vancouver, British Columbia, adding: “There will be two levels of police who will be investigating the circumstances of Myles Sanderson’s death.”
His death came two days after the body of Damien Sanderson was found in a field near the scene of the knife rampage. Police are investigating whether Myles Sanderson killed his brother.
Blackmore said that with both men dead, authorities will find it hard to figure out what set off the rampage.
“Now that Myles is deceased we may never have an understanding of that motivation,” she said.
But she said she hoped the families of the stabbing victims will find some comfort that neither of the Sandersons remains a threat.
“I hope that this brings them closure. I hope they can rest easy knowing that Myles Sanderson is no longer a threat to them.”
Some family members of the victims arrived at the scene Wednesday, including Brian Burns, whose wife and son were killed.
“Now we can start to heal. The healing begins today, now,” he said.
The stabbings 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 Sunday’s stabbings, according to court records.
Mendicino, the public safety minister, has 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.”
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. The other victim was from Weldon, 78-year-old Wesley Patterson.
Authorities would not say if 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 Burns 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.
Many of Canada’s Indigenous communities are plagued by drugs and alcohol.
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.
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Associated Press writer Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City contributed to this report.
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A dramatic picture has emerged showing a car crashed into Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford this morning (September 8). The car has crashed into the hospital's branch of Marks & Spencer at the front of the building.
The photo above was taken at 9:09am although it is not yet clear exactly how the crash happened. It shows a car crashed into the building and lots of shattered glass.
In a statement, Kent Police said: "Kent Police was called at 9am on Thursday 8 September 2022 to a report of a car colliding with a shop within the grounds of Darent Valley Hospital. Officers are assisting at the scene. No serious injuries have been reported."
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- Business owner helps black women going through cancer treatment feel more confident | https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/car-crashes-darent-valley-hospitals-7561107 | 2022-09-08T10:45:49Z | kentlive.news | control | https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/car-crashes-darent-valley-hospitals-7561107 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Divert, Yarger compete in state shooting tournament
Two Monroe County 4-Hers competed in the 4-H Shooting Sports State Tourmament. The tournament was held this summer at Centerline of Calhoun County in Bellevue.
Hunter Divert from the Sharp Shooters 4-H Club and Justin Yarger from the Crazy 'Bout Critters 4-H Club competed in the shotgun trap division.
Hunter shot 44 out of 50 clays, which put him in a tie for third-place. Justin shot 43 out of 50 clays, which put him in a tie for fourth-place.
"Congratulations to both Hunter and Justin for a job well done and for representing Monroe County shootings sports," Monroe County 4-H said.
Also this summer, after a two-year COVID hiatus, the Monroe County Shooting Sports Association hosted the 2022 Tri-County Archery Tournament at the Washtenaw Sportsman's Club on Aug. 21.
27 4-Hers from seven counties competed.
"Monroe County was well represented by 16 youth, with 10 of those earning medals," Monroe County 4-H said. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/09/08/divert-yarger-compete-in-state-shooting-tournament/65742370007/ | 2022-09-08T10:46:39Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/09/08/divert-yarger-compete-in-state-shooting-tournament/65742370007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Two Monroe County 4-Hers visit Washington, D.C.
The Monroe News
Two Monroe County 4-Hers recently spent a week in Washington, D.C. for Citizenship Washington Focus.
Justin Yarger from the Crazy 'Bout Critters 4-H Club and Stephen Wiesler from the Wise Acres 4-H Club took a bus to the nation's capital with 28 other Michigan 4-Hers. The students learned about citizenship and leadership.
"They spent their time meeting other 4-Hers from all over the U.S. while touring the capitol along with stops in Arlington and Gettysburg," Monroe County 4-H said. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/09/08/two-monroe-4-hers-visit-washington-d-c/65742364007/ | 2022-09-08T10:46:45Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/09/08/two-monroe-4-hers-visit-washington-d-c/65742364007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Fighting flooding: City of Monroe spends $6.4M for storm sewer improvements
After years of discussion, the City of Monroe is moving forward with a plan it hopes will finally alleviate frequent flooding issues in its St. Mary's Gardens neighborhood.
On Tuesday, council voted to award a $6,422,400 contract for the St. Mary's Gardens Subdivision Storm Sewer Improvements to E.R. Zeiler Excavating, Inc. of Temperance, which was the low responsible bidder for the project. Council also approved a professional services contract with the Spicer Group to provide construction engineering services and administration for this project, which has a completion date of next September.
According to information included in council's agenda packet, the construction phase of this project is being largely funded through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). The professional services portions of the project will be paid from other city funds.
The project will see storm sewer leads installed directly in front of the approximately 150 homes present in this neighborhood, which is bounded by Hendricks Drive on the south and Mason Run Drain on the north. The collection system will be up-sized and deepened, and all roadways within the project area will be reconstructed. A pump station will also be installed entirely below grade within Calgary Park.
The city has for years been exploring how to alleviate the frequent and severe flooding issues in the neighborhood that occur during heavy rainfall due, according to a combination of undersized and adverse grade storm sewers and the fact that many of the homes in the area have sump pumps, footer tiles, and roof drains tied into the sanitary sewer system.
"The project, obviously, is a significant project for the community," said Monroe Mayor Robert Clark. "It's been discussed for years now, we've had this on the agenda to try to figure out how to resolve significant flooding issues within a very large area of our community that was built decades ago when (the homes) did not require these items. It's a significant project, we've talked about it for many years, and as the funding became available it's being moved forward at this time."
"Great things are coming for the people of the St. Mary's Gardens subdivision," added Councilman Brian Lamour. "They've been waiting a long time for this, with the flooding of their basements and whatnot, but this should take everything back to normal for them. We're hoping their streets, and the whole area should come to a much better living quality there. At long last we are finally getting this done, getting this project started, and all I can say is I greatly appreciate all the work the city staff has put into it.
"I'm grateful, on behalf of the constituents benefiting from this." | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/09/08/fighting-flooding-city-spends-6-4m-for-storm-sewer-improvements/65742825007/ | 2022-09-08T10:46:51Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/09/08/fighting-flooding-city-spends-6-4m-for-storm-sewer-improvements/65742825007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Quarry clean-up: Progress made at Lake Monroe, but trespassers still a problem
Sonny Chapman was alarmed when he saw the texts and videos on his teenager's phone. So he drove over to Lake Monroe, the private quarry located off of E. Dunbar Road in Monroe Township, to see for himself where his child and their friends had been going.
There, beneath the shrubbery near the quarry's edge, Chapman saw with his own eyes what he had seen and read about on-screen: a make-shift campsite littered with sleeping bags, discarded beer cans, snacks and soft drinks as well as other evidence of teenage mischief.
"Parents, when your child is saying they are staying the night with a friend and you don't follow up, they might be there," Chapman wrote in a message to The Monroe News.
Progress has been made to clean up Lake Monroe, a years-long popular spot for trespassing swimmers, but there's still work to be done as mostly teens and young adults continue to claim the private property for their own.
Formerly known as France Stone Quarry, the private swimming hole for years has attracted young people looking to swim the deep waters and dive from the steep, rocky cliffs that ring the lake and its crystal blue waters. The youths find any way they can to access the property, despite the threat of their vehicles being towed or Monroe County Sheriff’s Deputies issuing them a trespassing citation.
The unwanted visitors would previously leave mountains of trash everywhere they went, including in the yards of the homes that ring the quarry.
Enough was finally enough.
Over the past few years, the sheriff's office has beefed up its presence at the site, which Monroe Township Supervisor Al Barron says has done wonders to alleviate the issues. The lake's primary owner, Bill Gross, has also worked to clean up his property and make it harder for trespassers to gain access.
"My grandson lives right across the street there and he says 'Yeah, it's a lot better,'" Barron said. "You don’t see kids walking down the road as much... (Gross) has cleared out some of (the trash and weeds) and, again, you don’t see that many kids walking down the street like you used to."
In a statement to The Monroe News, the sheriff's office said that "the property owner was made aware (of the issue with the campsite)," and "We encourage them to clean up the campsite to mitigate further issues."
Gross' attorney and daughter, Kerry Bondy, issued a statement to The Monroe News saying that the issue is being addressed and reminding everyone that the entire quarry is private property.
"The property owner was recently provided information as to remote locations around the quarry where discarded items have been discovered," Bondy wrote. "The property owner does not have any personal knowledge as to hangouts for teenagers or otherwise. Work has commenced by the owner to provide for the clean-up and removal of debris and litter left behind by trespassers and that work will continue.
"The public should be made aware yet again, that the Quarry Lake and the real property surrounding it, are 100% private and that no one should enter the Lake or any Quarry property unless invited by a property owner," Bondy continued. "The presence and efforts of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department in addressing the illegal entry onto private property has gone a long way toward addressing the issue and is sincerely appreciated by the numerous surrounding property owners as well as the community at large. Trespassers and those who cause property damage will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law." | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/09/08/quarry-clean-up-progress-made-at-lake-monroe-but-trespassers-still-a-problem/65742816007/ | 2022-09-08T10:46:57Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/09/08/quarry-clean-up-progress-made-at-lake-monroe-but-trespassers-still-a-problem/65742816007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
God of climate change might reside in California
One of the joys of federalism is having 50 quasi-independent states all being "experiments in democracy." As each legislates and regulates for its own pieces of geography, we can see what works and what doesn’t work. Theoretically, what works will spread to other states, and the nation, to emulate the good stuff and avoid the bad. That’s the theory, anyway.
The reality is something else, and California especially shows the problem. The key is in the definition of "what works." A state dominated entirely by the woke left, which pretty much defines California, is going to have a different take on what "working" means. If California were like, say, Wyoming, the rest of us who are not enthralled with wokeness could largely ignore it. But California, containing as it does nearly 10% of the population of the United States, is much too large to ignore. Moreover, given the interconnectedness of all states, notwithstanding federalism, what California does can impact you directly, sooner or later.
The latest moves by California in service to the pagan gods of environmentalism and the chief god of climate change is to do what it can to ban the use of hydrocarbons. The priests of this god unceasingly tell us that consumption of hydrocarbons will warm the planet until we all die, sometime around 2050 in the latest revelations. All prior prophecies of disaster have been wrong, but never mind. Like some of those who follow the Christian God and predict the end of the world decade after decade, we should perhaps be a bit humble about presuming to know the mind of gods, pagan or otherwise.
No matter. Facts and faith often have a tenuous relationship to one another. Besides which, predictions of imminent doom often sell a lot of books.
So what is the latest move by California to serve the god of climate change? (I keep hoping the worshippers of climate change would give the god a name as the ancients did. Jupiter? Apollo? Mercury? This would simplify things. Feel free to submit suggestions.) California now plans to ban the sale of non-electric cars by 2035. So what, you say, I don’t live in California. However, California is the largest single market for cars, and auto manufacturers will have to comply or cease selling cars there. Given that push, and federal subsidies and regulations all pushing in the same direction, it is not hard to see GM, Ford and all the rest moving to an all-electric fleet. They are already making noises in that direction.
Reality will, of course, rear its ugly head. Where is all the electricity going to come from to charge all those millions of cars? Fairy dust? Wind and solar are an expensive and utterly unrealistic and undependable bad joke. Wherever in the world these sources are used people pay up for ever higher utility bills, and suffer brownouts and blackouts to boot. Half the day is dark, after all. Nukes would work, but the god of the Environment hates nukes even more than hydrocarbons. Once the sales ban goes into effect, how long before all gas-powered vehicles, including everything from lawnmowers to tractors, are banned? Five years? Ten years? It certainly won't be long. If you move to California, presumably after 2035 you cannot bring in your non-electric vehicle.
But it gets worse. California has decided — who knows how — that 43% of all greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings — including your house. That’s more than cars. So gas hookups in new construction are being banned even as you read this. Like to cook on a gas stove? Or heat with gas? Too bad. More electricity required to come from somewhere.
A recent article applauding California’s efforts to assuage the god of Climate stated as follows: "It has been noted that there are no easy environmental fixes, and tackling future issues will require greater sacrifices going forward." What might those be?
Pagan gods have always demanded sacrifices. The god of Climate is no different.
Charles Milliken is a professor emeritus after 22 years of teaching economics and related subjects at Siena Heights University. He can be reached at milliken.charles@gmail.com. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/09/08/charles-milliken-god-of-climate-change-california/65475354007/ | 2022-09-08T10:47:03Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/09/08/charles-milliken-god-of-climate-change-california/65475354007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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