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Is CSU football playing Middle Tennessee or Middle Tennessee State? An investigation
Welcome to this investigation into a pivotal matter.
Is the Colorado State football team facing Middle Tennessee or Middle Tennessee State this weekend?
The people need to know. Folks like myself who have watched random college football games for a longtime automatically want to say "Middle Tennessee State" or "MTSU."
But the main athletics logo for whatever the school is called is "MT" and the game notes for Saturday's game (2 p.m. Sept. 10 at Canvas Stadium, FYI) clearly designate just "Middle Tennessee" with "State" nowhere to be found. Literally, I searched the entire game notes and the only times "state" is used is in reference to other schools or places.
Many folks around Conference USA recently knew to not use the "State" word. Being a Journalist and all, I had to investigate.
Naturally, I went to Google. "Middle Tennessee or Middle Tennessee State" and "Middle Tennessee State name change" and "when did Middle Tennessee State change name" sent me down the rabbit hole.
In 2015, our partners at the Daily News Journal in Murfreesboro wrote a story about the discussion, saying "a number of Middle Tennessee State University fans have longed for a name change to remove the 'State' from the school's name. Some would prefer the school change its name to the 'University of Middle Tennessee.' "
The story noted several other similar name changes, including Memphis State transitioning to the University of Memphis. "Middle Tennessee is not a state" a student section is chanting somewhere, I'm sure.
About the game:Everything you need to know about CSU against Middle Tennessee
It appears this was a hot topic of conversation in the area in the early-through-mid 2010's. A Facebook page supporting a name change still has some 1,600 followers despite no postings since 2015. A story on the 90.3 WLPN radio station website from 2015 quotes a student saying the name makes "us sound like basically a community college."
There was some surge in support for a transition to the "University of Middle Tennessee."
Conclusion: Any good investigation finds the answers and I have them. Sort of.
The official name of the school is still Middle Tennessee State University and MTSU is still used (heck, the school website is MTSU.edu). The NCAA, though, calls it "Middle Tennessee" on its FBS stats pages.
Per a staffer at Middle Tennessee, the athletics style guide says to drop the "State." It's become less stringent now, but still: "Middle Tennessee" is used on first reference and "MTSU" on subsequent references.
Of course, the logo on the helmets says just "MT."
Go figure.
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Providing Unprecedented Scope of Care and Resources
SANTA ROSA, Calif., Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa today opened a first-of-its-kind model to address homelessness. Caritas Village is a seven-year vision made possible by over $35M in private philanthropy, $6.9M in New Market Tax Credits, and $11.5 million from Project Homekey inspired by Governor Gavin Newsom's mandate to make homelessness a top priority in the State of California. An additional $5M from Jeff Bezos' Day 1 Families Fund was awarded to support family program operations and innovation.
At the heart of Caritas Village is Caritas Center, which features multiple wrap-around services that will help participants navigate their journey to permanent housing, while also preventing at-risk people from falling into homelessness. A 192-bed family shelter, childcare, healthcare clinic, drop-in center, and 38 recuperative beds are available in a facility built from the ground up with critical, life-changing services in mind. Next door, Caritas Homes includes 128 affordable homes built in partnership with experienced nonprofit developer Burbank Housing.
"Caritas will be the only facility of its kind to bring all these elements under one roof, provided by THE experts in the community," said Jennielynn Holmes, CEO of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa. "By replicating this model, we can dramatically alleviate if not end homelessness, not only in the county, but across the state and beyond."
Evaluated and endorsed by statewide and national organizations that invest in innovative solutions that address homelessness and poverty, Caritas has received financial support from Project Homekey, Tipping Point Community, Providence Health System, and Kaiser Permanente among many others.
"Catholic Charities has galvanized the Santa Rosa community to champion this cutting-edge facility and its robust services," said Congressman Mike Thompson. "Caritas Village will help our community address homelessness and is proof of concept that a community of like-minded people can unite to make amazing things happen."
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that serves and advocates for vulnerable people of all cultures and beliefs. Since 1954 Catholic Charities has provided direct services in Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, Humboldt, and Lake Counties, helping 20,000 people per year find and keep housing, achieve financial stability, and move their immigration journey forward.
Contacts:
John Pavik – jpavik@srcharities.org, 313-400-5494
Carrie Woodridge – CWooldridge@srcharities.org, 707.235.1399
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DALLAS, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Megatel Homes, one of the largest private homebuilders in the country, today announced that the company has closed out the development of Grayhawk, a 169-lot community of single-family homes in the Dallas suburb of Forney, Texas.
Ranging in size from 1,983 square feet to 2,608 square feet, homes in the community were most recently priced between $430,000 and $464,000.
Megatel's Grayhawk community is located in Kaufman County, which was the fastest-growing county in the nation between 2020 and 2021, as reported by U.S News & World Reports. Residents are migrating to Forney in response to the thriving job market, highly rated education system, and housing affordability. The city enjoys a wide array of job opportunities in the technology, engineering, and healthcare sectors. Niche.com, a website that rates cities and schools, cites Forney as one of the best suburbs in Texas in which to buy a home and it holds an "A" rating in diversity and schooling. According to Opendoor, an online company that sells residential real estate, in 2022 Forney ranked as the 8th "hottest" suburb for homebuyers in the United States. Homebuyers across the country are relocating to this growing Dallas suburb at an exponential rate.
"Forney has experienced tremendous growth in the past few years," said Zach Ipour, co-founder. "This Dallas suburb offers an abundance of opportunity in both the employment and housing sectors. We look forward to continued success in Forney from new home sales in our upcoming Bellagio lagoon community."
Megatel Homes is currently developing their highly anticipated lagoon community, Bellagio, in Forney. This revolutionary concept in the housing industry will combine residential living with resort-style amenities. The new community will feature a massive manmade lagoon with white sand beaches, a swim-up bar, and an expansive entertainment district.
"Megatel prides itself on applying innovative thinking to offer new developments that enhance the quality of life for the modern homebuyer without compromising affordability," explained Ipour. "We are excited to introduce this new residential development style to the city of Forney."
About Megatel Homes
Founded in 2006, Megatel Homes has emerged as one of the most successful homebuilders in the country. The company has had considerable growth, with more than 100 developments comprised of several thousand homes, completed since its founding. The company currently has more than 100 communities and is rapidly spreading throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
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A Lorton mother-son duo recently launched an inspirational activewear brand that gives back to the Virginia Special Olympics.
Tiffany Hamilton and her 16-year-old son Isaiah, who has high-functioning autism, co-founded the brand inspired by Isaiah. The brand sells T-shirts and hoodies with written slogans that promote positive affirmations, and 10% of the proceeds are donated to the Virginia Special Olympics.
Unaware of his high-functioning autism diagnosis until age seven or eight, Hamilton said her son went through many trials in school. It took a while to figure out his learning style, resulting in him attending four different middle schools.
"And in middle school -- which is a horrible age for any human being -- he went through bullying," Hamilton said.
So when she explained his diagnosis to him, she said he struggled to feel good about himself. That's when Hamilton started reinforcing positive affirmations.
"Be proud of the skin you live in. This is you, and you're amazing. You know, you are talented. You are smart. Don't let people define you," the mother said she'd tell her son.
Those affirmations are what helped Isaiah to feel good about himself, she said, they also helped to inspire Victor Wear.
"It really got through. He really started believing those inspiring things I would tell him," Hamilton said, adding that customers have shared similar stories of believing the inspiring slogans after putting on the clothing.
The mother and son chose the name Victor Wear because victors are people who overcome obstacles through grit and determination. Tiffany Hamilton said it's a word that describes every Special Olympian.
A significant motivation behind the brand is the employment statistics for people with autism. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, adults with autism experience "substantial unemployment and underemployment." The department says they also experience barriers to completing postsecondary education and training opportunities.
The statistics are one reason Hamilton plans to grow the company and employ people with disabilities.
"Think about the great resignation and so many employers who needed to find certain people, and you have this whole segment of people who can't get jobs ... it really makes no sense," she said.
Isaiah hasn't let his diagnosis stop him from achieving. He codes video games, participates in competitive swimming and bowling, sings and paints. The D.C. Chamber of Commerce awarded him the 2022 Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Hamilton said the skills that helped her son win the award are the same ones he contributes to the business. He helps with event planning, designing and marketing, and the ultimate goal is to make Isaiah the face of the company.
The activewear team also plans to start the "I'm a Victor Blog," a platform to showcase "stories of triumph." | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/fairfax-county-mother-son-duo-launches-inspirational-activewear-brand-portion-of-proceeds-go-to-virginia/article_e75f21be-303c-11ed-9245-07d8b1876206.html | 2022-09-09T17:43:50Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/fairfax-county-mother-son-duo-launches-inspirational-activewear-brand-portion-of-proceeds-go-to-virginia/article_e75f21be-303c-11ed-9245-07d8b1876206.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the past several months, Philadelphia has welcomed a handful of new Rally House stores to the area. The company is looking to commemorate these recently added locations by throwing a Grand Opening Weekend celebration at three Philly storefronts on September 17 & 18. This event will give devoted fans and customers several chances to win exciting prizes while browsing exceptional pro and college team gear.
Rally House is thrilled to maintain growth in the Philly market and help area fans win awesome prizes during the Grand Opening Weekend event. Customers can stop by three locations: Rally House Brinton Lake, Rally House Newtown, and Rally House Ivy Ridge.
There are multiple opportunities for customers to win prizes during this weekend celebration, starting with a scratch-off game ticket for the first 100 guests on Saturday and the first 100 guests on Sunday. Each scratch-off ticket includes a prize ranging from a $5 gift card to a Grand Prize $500 gift card.
During the Rally House Grand Opening Weekend event, guests can also register to win the perfect tailgating package for all the games coming up this season. The tailgate bundle consists of two chairs, one tent, one table, a cornhole set, and a $200 gift card. While only one contestant can win this package, all non-winning entries will still receive a consolation prize.
On top of incredible prizes to win, fans will also be able to shop a massive assortment of sports apparel and accessories during the Rally House Grand Opening Weekend celebration. These participating store locations carry diverse selections of pro and college teams, including favorites like the Philadelphia Eagles, Phillies, Penn State Nittany Lions, Temple Owls, and more.
Customers will have a blast competing for unique prizes and gearing up for an exciting football season during the Rally House Grand Opening Weekend event. And for even more high-quality merchandise that can ship to any state, patrons can visit www.rallyhouse.com today.
About Rally House
Rally House and Sampler Stores Inc. is a family-owned specialty boutique that offers a large selection of apparel, hats, gifts and home décor representing local NCAA, NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and MLS teams in addition to locally inspired apparel, gifts and food. Proudly based in Lenexa, Kansas, Rally House operates 125+ locations across 13 states.
CONTACT:
Jessica Foca, District Manager
jfoca@rallyhouse.com
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Police say a man slashed the tires of dozens of cars in a Dale City commuter lot on Wednesday, assaulted officers and tried to stab a police dog.
Police were called to the lot at 14090 Gemini Way just after 5:30 p.m. to investigate damage to parked cars and found a man had slashed tires in the lot earlier, then left on foot.
Later that evening, officers were called to the 14700 block of Darbydale Avenue to assist rescue workers with a man who originally had been reported as possibly unconscious, Prince William County Police Master Officer Renee Carr said in a news release.
"When rescue personnel arrived, the accused used a knife to damage one of the rescue vehicles," Carr said. No one was injured.
Officers arrived to find the man still armed with a knife. He ignored their commands to drop it, Carr said.
More officers and a police K-9 arrived to assist and during a brief struggle, the man attempted to stab the police dog with the knife, Carr said.
He was eventually taken into custody and taken to the hospital for minor injuries, then released to police custody.
Police matched the description of the commuter-lot tire slasher to the Darbydale suspect and found he allegedly damaged a total of 33 cars in the commuter lot, Merchant’s Plaza and along Darbydale Avenue. In most of the cases the tires were flattened or cars sustained damage caused by a sharp instrument, Carr said.
Police charged Ajmal Haqyar, 31, of no fixed address, with assault and battery on law enforcement, attempted malicious wounding of a police animal, resisting arrest, destruction of property and public intoxication, Carr said. | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/man-charged-with-slashing-tires-in-dale-city-commuter-lot-assaulting-police-dog/article_79b46996-2fcc-11ed-9a6c-476d679c9c7c.html | 2022-09-09T17:43:56Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/man-charged-with-slashing-tires-in-dale-city-commuter-lot-assaulting-police-dog/article_79b46996-2fcc-11ed-9a6c-476d679c9c7c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Peter Obi’s movement strengthens South-East chances to clinch Presidency ― Umahi
The Ebonyi State governor, Dave Umahi, on Friday, affirmed that the rising profile of the movement behind the Peter Obi presidential ambition is an indication that the South-East can no longer be ignored in national politics.
Speaking to correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, he said with the popularity of the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) and former Governor of Anambra State, the South East region environment is being primed for the presidency in the near future.
The governor maintained that even though he is a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and wants the ruling party to win the 2023 elections, he is thrilled by the momentum created by the Obi movement because is awakening awareness about the people of the South-East and their political relevance.
He said: “What happened during the primaries of PDP and APC were a kind of miscalculation by our people, but to say whether they’re ready for the presidency of the country anytime, I think that the movement of Peter Obi is an eye opener and that’s why I said I love what he’s doing, I’m encouraged by what he’s doing because if he’s not doing what he’s doing, it means that Southeast would have been forgotten.
“So, while my party takes the victory, he would have prepared a very good ground for the South-East presidency, so that nobody is going to write us off and you can see the level of his acceptability, which does not translate to victory over APC, I’m sure of that. But it’s a good movement and it reassures the Southeast people and the entire country that we’re accepted and that we’ll one become the President of this country. It’s very important.
“Peter Obi’s movement, and all the movements, are anchored on God’s will, it’s only God who knows who will win, but there must be a wish. As a party man, I would wish that our party wins and if God says no, the next person I’ll wish that should win is Peter Obi because I believe strongly, and I will say it anywhere, in this north/south presidency.
“After the North has taken eight years, there is no moral justification to be seeking to take another eight years, it should go to the South. So, I’m not wishing Peter Obi away. God has the final say and He has the power and gives to whomever He wishes.”
The Ebonyi governor distanced the relative peace in the South-East region from the emergence of Obi as a presidential candidate, apportioning the development instead to the improved security in the country.
Asked whether there was any connection between the lull in attacks in the region and Obi, Umahi argued: “You cannot technically assign the killings to Igbo presidency. You can see that security is improving generally in the country and it has nothing to do with the movement of Peter Obi.
“Peter Obi movement is a movement that is anchored on equity, justice and fairness.
“It may not translate to outright win, because I must defend my party, I must wish my party well, and I’m having the ticket of my party.
“But whether what he’s doing has meaning in, not only Southeast, it does have meaning. So, we must never attribute the killings in the Southeast to this kind of movement.”
On the chances of the APC in the South-East in 2023, the governor noted that the people will vote based on their interests.
The governor stated: “It’s going to be a different ballgame altogether because when campaigns start, the interest of our people. in terms of presidency, is there, you can’t wish it away, but everyone in South-East, holding the ticket of their party, is going to be struggling and he’s going to be fighting.
“You will not tell the guy that has the ticket of House of Assembly to look at the bigger picture of Igbo presidency. He may not see it. But that is not to say that Peter Obi is not going to get substantial votes in Southeast, it’s there.”
Governor Umahi revealed that he met President Buhari to invite him to commission the new Ebonyi State Governor’s Lodge, constructed by his administration in Asokoro, Abuja.
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School resumption date in Kano still Sept 12 ― Ministry of Education
The Kano State Ministry of Education has said that the resumption dates for schools for the commencement of the first term in the 2022/2023 session still stand on 12th September, 2022.
According to a statement signed by the Director, Public Enlightenment, Ministry of Education Kano State, Alhaji Aliyu Yusuf, members of the public are advised to disregard reports of extension of the resumption date.
He said, “the attention of the Kano State Ministry of Education has been drawn to a widely circulated rumour that the resumption dates to schools from the 3rd term vacation have been extended by one week.
“This rumour was cooked up by some elements who always want to create confusion in the minds of the parents and guardians whenever a vacation or break time is approaching an end.
“Parents and guardians of pupils and students of public and private primary and post-primary schools in the state should therefore note that the resumption dates for boarding schools remain Sunday 11th September while that of the Day schools is 12th September 2022 respectively”
While thanking the parents and guardians for their support and cooperation, the ministry is urging them to ensure compliance with the resumption dates as penalty awaits defaulters.
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Justices Adebayo Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin and Muhammed Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara state have convicted two siblings – Shekoni Kayode Taofeek and Shekoni Habeeb Damilare, alongside Adegbe Thankgod, for offences bordering on cybercrime and retention of proceeds of unlawful activities.
A statement by the head, of Media and Publicity of the antigraft agency, Wilson Uwujaren, on Friday, said that the people were convicted on Thursday, September 8, 2022, after pleading guilty to two-count charges bordering on retention of proceeds of unlawful activities, based on their arraignment by the Ilorin zonal command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
While Taofeek and Damilare were convicted by Justice Yusuf, Thankgod was jailed by Justice Sani.
Count two of the charges against Taofeek reads:
“That you, Shekoni Kayode Taofeek sometime between 13th January 2022 and 22nd August 2022 at Ilorin, within the judicial division of the High Court, did knowingly had under your control, the gross sum of N14,606,100 being part of the gross sum of N54,194,680.00 deposited in your Sterling Bank account number 0058929473 which is reasonably suspected to be unlawfully obtained and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 319(a) of the penal code”
Count one of the charges against Damilare reads:
“That you, Shekoni Habeeb Damilare between 30th March 2022 to 23rd August 2022 at Ilorin, Kwara State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did knowingly had under your control, the gross sum of N2,526,144.00 (Two Million, Five Hundred and in your account number 2136057626 with the name: Shekoni Habeeb Damilare domiciled with the United Bank of Africa Plc which you knew to be proceeds of criminal conduct and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 319(a) of the Penal Code”.
The defendants pleaded guilty to their respective charges when they were read to them.
Upon their pleas, counsels to the EFCC, Innocent Mbachie and Aliyu Adebayo, reviewed the facts of the cases and prayed the court to convict them accordingly.
Justice Yusuf, thereafter, convicted and sentenced Taofeek and Damilare to six months imprisonment each. While Taofeek’s sentence was without an option of a fine, Damilare was given an option of a fine of N100,000.
Justice Sani also convicted and sentenced Thankgod to three years imprisonment on each of the two-count charges of cybercrime levelled against him by the EFCC.
The judge gave the convict an option of a fine of N300,000 on count one, while no fine was awarded on count two. In addition, the judge ordered the forfeiture of landed property, one Toyota Camry car, an iPhone 13 and a Samsung phone used by the convict to commit the crime to the Federal Government.
The convicts were arrested by operatives of the Ilorin Command of the EFCC for internet-related offences. Further investigations showed that Taofeek had the sum of N14, 606,100 in his bank account which he could not account for. Damilare also had the sum of N2,526,144.00 in his account, which he could not justify. They were prosecuted and convicted.
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Led and backed by noteworthy Badger athletes and alumni, the collective combines NIL support with Life Currency™ and Rep Yourself programming to empower the whole of the student-athlete
MADISON, Wis., Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The landscape of college sports was fundamentally changed with the institution of Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) rules in 2021. Officially launched at a press conference in Madison, The Varsity Collective Charitable Fund, Inc. (The Varsity Collective) aims to write the definitive playbook on how Wisconsin student-athletes deserve to be supported in the NIL era to earn their value while bringing out their Badger best in the classroom, in the community, on the field and in the game of life.
As the first and only donor- and alumni-led NIL collective working on behalf of University of Wisconsin student-athletes, The Varsity Collective offers donation opportunities to a broad Badger community that includes organizations, donors and fans. Anyone interested in supporting Badger student-athletes can contribute by visiting www.thevarsitycollective.com.
The Varsity Collective is anchored in two purposes:
- Help student-athletes maximize their NIL through education, support and partnerships with community organizations.
- Equip student-athletes with lifelong insights and mentorship provided by Wisconsin alumni and former athletes at the top of professional fields like sports, finance, entrepreneurship, entertainment, marketing and communications and more.
In addition to its unmatched Life Currency™* and Rep Yourself programming, what sets The Varsity Collective apart from other donor-led collectives is its commitment to equitable access to NIL support and development programming for Badger student-athletes – regardless of gender or sport.
To bring this idea to life, The Varsity Collective will be guided by a Four Pillar Playbook that ensures sustainability, excellence and, most importantly, student-athlete empowerment:
"The Varsity Collective is far more than just an avenue for Badger student-athletes to benefit from their name, image and likeness," said Executive Chair and Wisconsin graduate Rob Master (c/o 1993). "It's an entire Badger community ready to rally behind them, lift them up and guide them as they become the best versions of themselves – during and after their playing careers."
NIL: Supporting Community and Charitable Organizations
The Varsity Collective's support for student-athletes will focus on bringing to life opportunities for donors and companies to sponsor charity events and philanthropic partnerships in collaboration with student-athletes. The Varsity Collective will work with the UW Athletic Department's internal NIL staff to maintain compliance with the text and spirit of NCAA guidelines and, above all, ensure all parties are acting in the best interest of Badger student-athletes.
NIL Branding Support Helps Badgers Rep Themselves
The Varsity Collective is about much more than sponsorships – it's about creating a personal brand that can translate to broader opportunities in life after college. The Rep Yourself program will feature a lineup of resources designed to help Badgers navigate NIL contracts and maximize their profile to unlock new arenas with a focus on personal branding. Notable alumni participating in the program include:
- DJ Hines, CEO of Hines Enterprises (c/o 2003)
- Rachel Goldflam, vice president of marketing & communications at David Yurman (c/o 2002)
- Kevin Hein, director – head of agency at Meta (c/o 1993)
Life Currency™ Programs to Bring Out the Badger Best
While Badger student-athletes excel in their sport, fewer than 2% of college athletes go on to play professionally – and a holistic collegiate experience will help prepare them all for life after sports. The Life Currency™ program will provide the framework for The Varsity Collective to transcend the popular concept of an NIL collective and venture into programming that will empower the whole of each Badger.
A number of superstar former Badgers who have gone on to find professional success have committed to acting as Life Currency™ speakers to mentor current student-athletes, including:
- Russell Wilson (Football, c/o 2012)
- JJ Watt (Football, 2008-10)
- Sarah Nurse (Women's Hockey, c/o 2017)
- Michael Finley (Men's Basketball 1991-94; c/o 2014)
- Craig Smith (Men's Hockey, 2009-11)
- Meghan Duggan (Women's Hockey, c/o 2011)
- Dana Rettke (Women's Volleyball, c/o 2021)
Additional Life Currency™ programming will be guided by Wisconsin alumni who have gone on to hold executive positions in major companies across a wide variety of industries, including:
- Ricky Sandler, Eminence Capital founder & CEO/CIO (c/o 1991)
- Wendy Straker Hauser, showrunner and executive producer (c/o 1997)
- Pete Marino, Molson Coors president of emerging growth (c/o 1994)
The collective will also invest in building a brand of its own, developing unique, sustainable opportunities to showcase current and former student-athletes alike through a variety of creative avenues. Two Varsity Collective podcasts hosted by former Badgers will lead the way in this effort:
- "The Varsity Beat," hosted by former Badger basketball star Sam Dekker (2012-15)
- "Badger Bigs," hosted by Badger football legend Joe Thomas (c/o 2007) and his wife, former Wisconsin women's basketball player Annie (Nelson) Thomas (c/o 2006)
VC Connect
The Varsity Collective's activity will be in the form of 501(c)(3) charitable engagements and direct work with student athletes. The Varsity Collective created a wholly owned LLC subsidiary, VC Connect, to facilitate businesses and organizations in connecting with Badger student-athletes and creating unique branding opportunities. For businesses and organizations interested in pursuing a branded sponsorship with Badger student-athletes, VC Connect will provide a simple, turnkey framework that facilitates aspects from offer coordination and tax document filing to supporting marketing and program management.
Led by Many of Wisconsin's Finest
Master, a marketing and media executive, led Unilever's integrated marketing and media efforts for two decades both globally and in the U.S. for iconic brands like Dove, AXE and Klondike. Additionally, he oversaw Unilever's NCAA partnership and launched their pioneering, purpose-led approach to NIL that includes mentoring and community programming.
- Leadership team members include:
Additional members of The Varsity Collective's leadership team will be added during the remainder of 2022 and throughout 2023.
Community-Driven Funding
The Varsity Collective's sustainability lies in not a single source of funding, but a community-wide approach. Over 400,000 living alumni, a vibrant business and non-profit community, and millions of fans across the country are ready to rally around our student-athletes with numerous options to get involved – from partnerships to one-time gifts and recurring contributions. Benefits for giving include access to events, meet-and-greets with Badger athletes and more.
To learn more about The Varsity Collective's vision to elevate Badger student-athletes today and for generations to come, support the collective with a contribution and stay up to date with breaking news, visit www.thevarsitycollective.com.
About The Varsity Collective Charitable Fund, Inc.:
Formed in 2022 by University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni and supporters, The Varsity Collective is the first and only donor- and alumni-led NIL Collective working on behalf of Wisconsin Badgers student-athletes. Through support for student-athletes with Life Currency™ and Rep Yourself programming, The Varsity Collective helps student-athletes maximize the NIL opportunity both during and after their playing careers. As a registered 501(c)(3), The Varsity Collective connects donors, student-athletes and nonprofits for charitable engagements. For the latest news and announcements, visit www.thevarsitycollective.com or connect with The Varsity Collective on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.
About VC Connect:
A wholly owned LLC subsidiary of The Varsity Collective Charitable Fund, Inc., VC Connect facilitates brand deals and partnerships between Wisconsin Badger student-athletes. VC Connect works to create unique branding opportunities that elevate all parties involved.
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Companies
IFC buys Sh19.2bn stake in Safaricom Ethiopia
Friday September 09 2022Safaricom and its partners in the Ethiopian venture will see their combined stake drop by up to 15.5 percent after the International Finance Corporation (IFC) announced a plan to purchase Sh19.2 billion ($160 million) worth of shares in the subsidiary.
Kenya’s biggest telco is the major shareholder in the Ethiopia venture with a stake of 55.7 percent and the entry of IFC as a shareholder could see its ownership drop to below the 50 percent mark, reducing its exposure in the populous nation.
Vodacom Group holds a 6.19 percent share of the business. Sumitomo Corporation and British International Investment (formerly CDC Group) control stakes of 27.2 percent and 10.9 percent respectively in Safaricom Telecommunication Ethiopia Plc (STE)—which is the operating arm of the venture.
The partners together paid $850 million (Sh102.2 billion) towards the licence fee.
ALSO READ: Safaricom pays IFC Sh474m for Ethiopia entry transactions
Safaricom indicated in books for the year ending March 2022 that the equity contribution by joint venture partners in the business totalled Sh105.2 billion, meaning that the injection of IFC’s Sh19 billion would leave them with a combined stake of 84.5 percent.
Safaricom’s stake is set to drop to about 47.1 percent, while those of Vodacom, Sumitomo and BII would decline to 5.23 percent, 22.99 percent and 9.21 percent respectively.
IFC’s new shareholding is expected at 15.46 percent, which would make the financier the third largest owner in STE behind Sumitomo.
IFC is also expected to provide debt financing to the venture at a later date but did not specify the amount saying the package is still under discussion.
“IFC’s investment will support STE’s countrywide mobile network roll-out and help position the company to comply with the terms of its license, which outlines the requirement for a specified population and geographic coverage targets and reasonable tariffs, universal accessibility and tele density target, amongst others,” said the IFC in its disclosures.
This is not the first IFC involvement in the venture with the institution having been paid a fee of $4 million (Sh481 million) for services rendered with the entry into the new market.
Safaricom did not disclose the services received from IFC but they could be mobilisation of loans or advisory on bidding for the licence, which was issued last year.
ALSO READ: Safaricom extends repayment of Sh47bn credit facilities
The new capital injection has come at a time when STE has started rolling out a large-scale customer pilot of its network in three regions of Ethiopia as it builds up to a national launch next month.
STE expects to switch on its network in 25 cities in Ethiopia by April next year, the company said in a statement.
On August 29, the firm carried out the first network pilot in Dire Dawa City and followed up with the second test in Harari Region in eastern Ethiopia from September 1. The company added that the third pilot began on September 7 in Oromia Region, starting in Haramaya City.
Expansion into Ethiopia’s telecommunications market is capital intensive, where the financial investment is expected to top the $1 billion (Sh120 billion) mark.
These funds are set to be raised mainly through debt. Safaricom had earlier said it was ready to take more debt in its role as the majority shareholder of the consortium.
The telco sees Ethiopia, a market with more than 100 million people and a relatively lower uptake of mobile and broadband services, as presenting significant growth opportunities.
The new operation has ambitions of achieving gross margins of 40 percent in 10 years. The target is backed by heavy investments that the subsidiary will make in hiring staff and building infrastructure to acquire customers in Ethiopia.
Other funding may yet come from American sovereign wealth fund US International Development Finance Corporation, which in late 2020 signed an agreement to lend up to $500 million (Sh60 billion) to the consortium towards the Ethiopia business.
ALSO READ: Safaricom share price rallies to Sh30 on new buying wave
The DFC loan would offer long-term financing on relatively favourable terms, given that its loans typically mature between five and 25 years, with repayment schedules set on a quarterly or semi-annual basis.
DFC, however, levies a series of special fees on its credit facilities, including upfront retainer (to cover due diligence), origination (payable once on the first disbursement), commitment (an annual percentage on undisbursed amount) and maintenance (an annual charge to cover the cost of monitoring the loan).
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Providing Unprecedented Scope of Care and Resources
SANTA ROSA, Calif., Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa today opened a first-of-its-kind model to address homelessness. Caritas Village is a seven-year vision made possible by over $35M in private philanthropy, $6.9M in New Market Tax Credits, and $11.5 million from Project Homekey inspired by Governor Gavin Newsom's mandate to make homelessness a top priority in the State of California. An additional $5M from Jeff Bezos' Day 1 Families Fund was awarded to support family program operations and innovation.
At the heart of Caritas Village is Caritas Center, which features multiple wrap-around services that will help participants navigate their journey to permanent housing, while also preventing at-risk people from falling into homelessness. A 192-bed family shelter, childcare, healthcare clinic, drop-in center, and 38 recuperative beds are available in a facility built from the ground up with critical, life-changing services in mind. Next door, Caritas Homes includes 128 affordable homes built in partnership with experienced nonprofit developer Burbank Housing.
"Caritas will be the only facility of its kind to bring all these elements under one roof, provided by THE experts in the community," said Jennielynn Holmes, CEO of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa. "By replicating this model, we can dramatically alleviate if not end homelessness, not only in the county, but across the state and beyond."
Evaluated and endorsed by statewide and national organizations that invest in innovative solutions that address homelessness and poverty, Caritas has received financial support from Project Homekey, Tipping Point Community, Providence Health System, and Kaiser Permanente among many others.
"Catholic Charities has galvanized the Santa Rosa community to champion this cutting-edge facility and its robust services," said Congressman Mike Thompson. "Caritas Village will help our community address homelessness and is proof of concept that a community of like-minded people can unite to make amazing things happen."
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that serves and advocates for vulnerable people of all cultures and beliefs. Since 1954 Catholic Charities has provided direct services in Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, Humboldt, and Lake Counties, helping 20,000 people per year find and keep housing, achieve financial stability, and move their immigration journey forward.
Contacts:
John Pavik – jpavik@srcharities.org, 313-400-5494
Carrie Woodridge – CWooldridge@srcharities.org, 707.235.1399
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LUND, Sweden, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors for Hansa Biopharma AB (publ) has today resolved to issue 850,769 new class C shares and to immediately thereafter repurchase such 850,769 issued class C shares, for the purpose of the long term incentive programs based on performance-based share rights adopted by the annual general meeting held on 30 June 2022 ("Share Rights Program 2022"), the long term incentive programs based on employee stock options adopted by the annual general meeting held on 30 June 2022 ("Option Program 2022") and/or previously adopted and outstanding incentive programs approved by the annual general meetings held 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 (the "Outstanding Incentive Programs"). Today's resolution by the board of directors was passed based on the authorisations granted by the annual general meeting held on 30 June 2022.
Svenska Handelsbanken AB (publ) will subscribe for all issued class C shares at a subscription price of SEK one (1) per share. All 850,769 issued class C shares will be repurchased by Hansa Biopharma AB (publ) at a purchase price of SEK one (1) per share. Following the share issue, the share capital will increase by SEK 850,769. The class C shares do not entitle to dividends and each share entitles to 1/10 voting right.
The purpose of the share issue and repurchase is to ensure delivery of shares to participants in, as well as to secure potential social contributions arising as a result of, the Share Rights Program 2022, the Option Program 2022 and/or the Outstanding Incentive Programs. The class C shares will be converted to ordinary shares before delivery to the participants in the programs.
Hansa Biopharma AB (publ) currently holds 1,747,243 class C shares and will, following the repurchase of the new 850,769 issued class C shares, hold all 2,598,012 class C shares in the company.
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Hansa Biopharma
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rally House has a wide reach across the Detroit area, and now the nationally recognized sports and merchandise retailer has landed west of the metro in Ann Arbor, MI. Rally House Arborland is the go-to destination for local merch and sports apparel to rep pro and college teams in the area, especially with the store's expansive Michigan Wolverines collection.
Rally House enjoys branching out to populous college towns, as it gives students, residents, and loyal fans a trusted outlet for all their team gear. "When customers stop into Rally House Arborland, they'll not only find an abundance of Wolverines gear and other stylish apparel, but they'll also find a dedicated team ready to help in any way possible," explains District Manager Monika Ross. "Our staff looks forward to helping area fans rep their favorite teams and local attractions, so come see us today!"
Customers will feel confident while shopping at Rally House Arborland, as the store keeps several brands known for their quality and style, such as Nike, Jordan, Mitchell & Ness, and New Era. There's also a wide range of professional and collegiate team assortments available, including area favorites like the Michigan Wolverines, Michigan State Spartans, Detroit Lions, Tigers, Pistons, and more.
Rally House Arborland also wants to help everyone flaunt their love for Michigan, which is where the store's vast local section comes in handy. Within this local collection, patrons will find eye-catching, unique apparel and gifts for numerous hometown icons, like Detroit Vs. Everybody, Stroh's Beer, and more.
The Rally House Arborland staff strives to deliver exceptional customer service and a fun in-person shopping experience. Customers can also shop online at www.rallyhouse.com, where products can be ordered and shipped to all 50 states.
Current store news and updates are available at www.rallyhouse.com/rally-house-arborland. Area fans can also stay up to date by following the store on Facebook (@RallyHouseArborland) and Instagram (@rallyarborland).
About Rally House
Rally House and Sampler Stores Inc. is a family-owned specialty boutique that offers a large selection of apparel, hats, gifts and home décor representing local NCAA, NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and MLS teams in addition to locally inspired apparel, gifts and food. Proudly based in Lenexa, Kansas, Rally House operates 125+ locations across 13 states.
CONTACT:
Monika Ross, District Manager
mross@rallyhouse.com
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas condemned a school district’s discussed transgender policy as potentially illegal and harmful, in anticipation of a deciding vote on the matter.
Parents, students and board members in the Gardner Edgerton School District discussed the contentious policy during July and August board meetings.
The policy would require students and staff to use pronouns from their original birth certificate, with changing rooms and restrooms designated solely for those assigned to the corresponding gender at birth. Students in violation of the policy would be disciplined, and parents who knew of policy violations could sue the district.
The ACLU of Kansas in a letter released Thursday said the proposed policy potentially violates federal antidiscrimination law and students’ constitutional equal protection rights, as well as federal and constitutional privacy laws.
School district superintendent Brian Huff said the policy would not be voted on during the Sept. 12 board meeting, though it would still be discussed as a proposed set of guidelines. Huff said the BOE looked at other districts’ transgender policies and got legal advice about the proposed transgender guidelines ahead of the meeting.
“We love our students and desire to provide the best education possible,” Huff wrote in an emailed statement to Kansas Reflector.
“This is a very delicate issue, and we wish to provide a safe and dignified educational environment for all our students,” he added.
Kansas ACLU legal fellow D.C. Hiegert, who authored the letter, said the accommodation provided in the policy for transgender students — single-occupancy changing rooms and restrooms — would still alienate and stigmatize transgender students.
Kansas currently has no laws that school districts must refer to students by their legal names, or use pronouns in connection with sex assigned at birth, Hiegert wrote.
Hiegert had spoken with a deeply concerned family in the district, who worried their child would suffer mentally and academically if the policy was enforced.
“There’s no reason for a policy like this,” Hiegert said. “There’s no reason to be kind of playing games with students’ health and safety when it’s not necessary.”
School board communication officials did not respond to Kansas Reflector inquiries regarding the number of transgender students within the school district.
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WICHITA, Kansas — For years, Black babies in Kansas faced an outsized chance of dying before their first birthday. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and things got even worse.
Now, a Black baby is nearly three and a half times as likely to die in the state as a white baby. While the nationwide rate of infant mortality dropped between 2019 and 2020, the rate in Kansas swelled about 19% — and for Black children, it surged nearly 58%.
That means that for every 1,000 Black children born, nearly 17 died within their first year of life. For white children, the rate is fewer than five out of every 1,000.
“We knew that (the pandemic) was going to impact Black infant mortality,” said Sapphire Garcia-Lies, a Wichita-based doula and the founder of Kansas Birth Justice Society, a nonprofit working to lower racial disparities around maternal and infant health. “But I don’t think any of us knew that it would be that bad.”
Black families run into more barriers in accessing health care before, during and after pregnancy, said Sharla Smith, a professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center who directs the Kansas Birth Equity Network. And the care those families get, she said, is often worse than what white families can expect.
“We see a lot of discrimination,” Smith said. “We’re also hearing from our parents that they’re not listened to.”
She said part of that stems from systemic racism in the health care system, including a dearth of Black and brown doctors.
Questions remain about what’s behind the increase in deaths in 2020. But Smith said that the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on Black communities — including higher rates of infection and death from the virus and job and income loss — likely played a role.
Black people experienced higher rates of COVID-19 and initial studies suggest that infection during pregnancy correlates with a higher risk of preterm birth. Premature birth is one of the leading causes of infant mortality.
In its report on the 2020 data, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment cautioned that a relatively small number of infant deaths, just 236 statewide, means the data can fluctuate year to year without necessarily reflecting a larger trend. Of the 2,369 births of Black babies, 40 died in their first year.
But researchers say such a dramatic jump in Black infant deaths is worrying.
“Yes, we should look at the numbers with some level of caution,” said Cari Schmidt, a professor at KU School of Medicine-Wichita and the director of the Center for Research for Infant Birth and Survival (CRIBS). “But I also think that we shouldn’t ignore the jump — because it could be an indication of the start of a trend.”
Or the continuation of a trend that Smith, the director of the Kansas Birth Equity Network, said has played out in the differences between the health of white and Black children for decades in the state.
“We need to pay attention,” said Smith. “Otherwise we’re never going to decrease these disparities, because we’re always going to say that it’s going to get better on its own — and it doesn’t get better on its own.”
The leading cause of white and Hispanic infant death in Kansas is birth defects. For Black babies, the leading cause is complications related to preterm birth and low birth weight — which experts say is often tied to social and environmental factors.
“Racism is a fundamental factor,” said Dawn Misra, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Michigan State University. “It affects things like segregation of housing, which affects neighborhood environments. It might affect the quality of health care you’re getting.”
She said racism also impacts maternal mental health and parental relationships that can make survival tougher for children. Racism, for instance, can play a role in depression. And depression can be related to premature births.
“Racism does relate to depressive symptoms,” Misra said. “Black men are experiencing a lot of strain in the U.S. as well … and then the (mother-father) relationship may have that stressor added onto it.”
Experts agree that focusing on mothers helps their children.
“You have to have a healthy woman to have a healthy baby,” said Christy Schunn, executive director of the Kansas Infant Death and SIDS Network. “There’s just no two ways around it.”
Kansas made a limited expansion of Medicaid for mothers for up to 12 months after giving birth. Previously, coverage ended after two months.
Meanwhile, grassroots initiatives like a free doula program offered by the Kansas Birth Justice Society hope to make a difference. Parenting classes offered in Black churches by CRIBS and the Wichita Black Nurses Association also aim to give infants a better start.
But CRIBS director Schmidt said there’s a long way to go.
“We need to have healthy families, healthy relationships, healthy persons prior to the pregnancy,” she said. “And we need to address those social determinants of health such as poverty.”
Rose Conlon reports on health for KMUW and the Kansas News Service. You can follow her on Twitter at @rosebconlon or email her at conlon@kmuw.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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TOPEKA, Kansas — A woman lost her appeal to wrestle custody of her grandchild from the Kansas foster care system when the Kansas Supreme Court ruled against her on Friday.
A 4-month-old, called N.E. in court documents, was placed into foster care. The baby’s grandmother wanted custody, but a lower court gave the child to a foster family, who ultimately adopted the child.
A Reno County judge said placing the child with the grandmother will “never be in a child's best interest” because she was disabled and “the alternative is a young healthy family.”
Attorneys for the grandmother shook off health concerns and said state law requires that family, or kinship placements, get the first chance at custody. Attorney Mitchell Engel, arguing for the grandmother, said in May 18 oral arguments that the judge’s ruling was erroneous.
“It just can’t be that an interested party, grandma who's supposed to get substantial consideration in this custody, has no ability to ever challenge these type of rulings based on no evidence,” Engel said.
The Kansas Supreme Court’s ruling against the grandmother didn’t say whether she was fit. Instead, it said she had no standing to challenge the decision because she didn’t appeal temporary custody orders and had no objection to the termination of parental rights. The majority opinion also says placement decisions are not appealable.
Court documents show the lower court had already ruled on decisions in the custody case before the grandmother's appeals were considered.
Justice Melissa Standridge dissented from the opinion and said the grandmother filed a motion for custody a month before the court considered adoption of N.E. and multiple months before parental rights were terminated. COVID-19 restrictions delayed some hearings.
The decision can have wide-reaching implications for how families appeal custody decisions and whether a ruling by the judge is final.
Blaise Mesa reports on criminal justice and social services for the Kansas News Service in Topeka. You can follow him on Twitter @Blaise_Mesa or email him at blaise@kcur.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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"I've been able to achieve beyond the expectations of the 26 year old that came here with a backpack, suitcase, and a lot of dreams."
Composer Jorge Sosa immigrated to the United States 20 years ago from Mexico, driven by his desire to be surrounded by "the best musicians in the room."
The story of immigrants and first generation Americans isn't always met with ease, however, and Sosa's work "I Am A Dreamer who No Longer Dreams" highlights the struggles of undocumented immigrants looking for a home in the states.
He explores those that have "one foot in the U.S. and one foot in [their] country of origin" and how drama and tension can unfold between this split in identity.
While Sosa's time in the United States has been overwhelmingly positive, he says that there hasn't been a lack of challenges. When faced with them, however, he responds with strength and grace.
"I choose to hold onto what is dear to me: family, friends, colleagues and music - [my life] is incredibly rich."
On this week's Sound Currents, hear more music from Jorge Sosa as well as works by other composers from Mexico.
Hosts
Sascha Groschang
Laurel Parks
Guest
Jorge Sosa, composer
Program
I Am A Dreamer who No Longer Dreams
by Jorge Sosa, libretto by Cerise Jacobs
Tian Hui Ng with Juventas New Music Ensemble; Rebecca Krouner - mezzo
Son de Harlem for String Orchestra in Two Movements
by Jorge Sosa
Chris Whittaker with the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra
Stray Birds
The Leaf Becomes
The World Has Kissed My Soul
That Love Shall Ever Lose
by Jorge Sosa, text by Ravindranath Tagore
Vanessa Becerra - soprano, Kathy Tagg - piano
Rio Bravo
by Gabriela Ortiz
Onix Ensemble; Carla Lopez-Speziale - mezzo-soprano, Alejandro Escuer - flute
Espejos en la arena - III. Polka derecha izquierda
by Arturo Marquez
Carlos Miguel Prieto with the Orquestra de las Americas; Carlos Prieto - cello
Concerto for Improvised Piano - II
by Eugenio Toussaint
Alondra de la Parra with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alex Brown - piano | https://www.kcur.org/show/sound-currents/2022-09-09/explore-this-composers-journey-from-mexico-to-america | 2022-09-09T17:57:23Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/show/sound-currents/2022-09-09/explore-this-composers-journey-from-mexico-to-america | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – A Greenville man was sentenced to 20 years Thursday for armed robbery at a convenience store.
Jeffery Keyon Timothy Griffin was convicted by a jury of armed robbery, possession of a weapon during a violent offense, pointing and presenting a firearm and resisting arrest.
Investigators said on November 2018, Griffin entered a 7-11 store on Old Buncombe Road with his face covered.
Griffin pointed a gun at a clerk while approaching him and demanded cash. He left the store on foot after the clerk obeyed.
The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office spotted Griffin near Poinsett Highway while en route to the 7-11. He was apprehended after a short foot chase.
Deputies seized the money and gun used during the robbery from Griffin. The suspect’s clothes also matched the clothing of the perpetrator seen on the store’s surveillance video.
Griffin will serve his sentence in the South Carolina Department of Corrections. | https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/upstate-man-receives-20-years-for-armed-robbery/ | 2022-09-09T18:00:16Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/upstate-man-receives-20-years-for-armed-robbery/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — Hours before dawn on March 1, 2003, the U.S. scored its most thrilling victory yet against the plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks — the capture of a disheveled Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, hauled away by intelligence agents from a hideout in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
The global manhunt for al-Qaida’s No. 3 leader had taken 18 months. But America’s attempt to bring him to justice, in a legal sense, has taken much, much longer. Critics say it has become one of the war on terror’s greatest failures.
As Sunday’s 21st anniversary of the terror attacks approaches, Mohammed and four other men accused of 9/11-related crimes still sit in a U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, their planned trials before a military tribunal endlessly postponed.
The latest setback came last month when pretrial hearings scheduled for early fall were canceled. The delay was one more in a string of disappointments for relatives of the nearly 3,000 victims of the attack. They’ve long hoped that a trial would bring closure and perhaps resolve unanswered questions.
“Now, I’m not sure what’s going to happen,” said Gordon Haberman, whose 25-year-old daughter Andrea died after a hijacked plane crashed into the the World Trade Center, a floor above her office.
He’s traveled to Guantanamo four times from his home in West Bend, Wisconsin, to watch the legal proceedings in person, only to leave frustrated.
“It’s important to me that America finally gets to the truth about what happened, how it was done,” said Haberman. “I personally want to see this go to trial.”
If convicted at trial, Mohammed could face the death penalty.
When asked about the case, James Connell, an attorney for one of Mohammed’s co-defendants — one accused of transferring money to 9/11 attackers — confirmed reports both sides are still “attempting to reach a pretrial agreement” that could still avoid a trial and result in lesser but still lengthy sentences.
David Kelley, a former U.S. attorney in New York who co-chaired the Justice Department’s nationwide investigation into the attacks, called the delays and failure to prosecute “an awful tragedy for the families of the victims.”
He called the effort to put Mohammed on trial before a military tribunal, rather than in the regular U.S. court system, “a tremendous failure” that was “as offensive to our Constitution as to our rule of law.”
“It’s a tremendous blemish on the country’s history,” he said.
The difficulty in holding a trial for Mohammed and other Guantanamo prisoners is partly rooted in what the U.S. did with him after his 2003 capture.
Mohammed and his co-defendants were initially held in secret prisons abroad. Hungry for information that might lead to the capture of other al-Qaida figures, CIA operatives subjected them to enhanced interrogation techniques that were tantamount to torture, human rights groups say. Mohammed was waterboarded — made to feel that he was drowning — 183 times.
A Senate investigation later concluded the interrogations didn’t lead to any valuable intelligence. But it has sparked endless pretrial litigation over whether FBI reports on their statements can be used against them — a process not subject to speedy trial rules used in civilian courts.
The torture allegations led to concerns that the U.S. might have ruined its chance to put Mohammed on trial in a civilian court.
But in 2009, President Barack Obama’s administration decided to try, announcing that Mohammed would be transferred to New York City and put on trial at a federal court in Manhattan.
“Failure is not an option,” Obama said.
But New York City balked at the cost of security and the move never came. Eventually, it was announced Mohammed would face a military tribunal. And then over a dozen years passed.
Kelley said talk of military tribunals two decades ago surprised many in the legal community who had been successfully prosecuting terrorism cases in the decade before. The concept of a tribunal, he said, “came out of the blue. Nobody knew it was coming.”
Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft was not in favor of tribunals and had been supportive of the Manhattan federal terrorism prosecutions, he said.
Now, Kelley said, with the passage of time it will be much more difficult to prosecute Mohammed in a tribunal, much less a courtroom. “Evidence goes stale, witness memories fail.”
The passage of time hasn’t dulled the memories of the victims’ families or dampened their interest in witnessing justice.
Eddie Bracken’s sister Lucy Fishman was killed at the trade center. The New Yorker opposed Obama’s proposal to move the trial to federal court — Mohammed is charged with “a military act,” and should be tried by the military, he reasoned. And while he is somewhat frustrated by the delays, he understands them.
“The whole world is looking at us and saying, ‘What are they doing after all this time?’” he said. But he realizes the case is “a process that the world is seeing, that needs to be done under a microscope. … It’s up to the United States to do their due diligence, make sure it’s done right.”
“The wheels of justice turn. They turn slowly, but they turn. And when the time comes, and it’s said and done, the world will know what happened,” he adds.
While Mohammed has lingered at Guantanamo, the U.S. killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in a 2011 raid and deputy-turned-successor Ayman al-Zawahri in a drone strike just this August.
Investigators with the military commission at Guantanamo Bay said he plotted the 9/11 attacks for three years. They cited a computer hard drive seized at his arrest which they said contained photographs of the 19 hijackers, three letters from bin Laden and information about some hijackers.
Mohammed, at his tribunal hearing, conceded in a written statement that he swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden, that he was on al-Qaida’s council and that he served as operational director for bin Laden for the organizing, planning, follow-up and execution of the Sept. 11 plot “from A to Z.”
According to the statement, he also took credit for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center; an attempt to down U.S. jetliners using bombs hidden in shoes; the bombing of a nightclub in Indonesia; and plans for a second wave of attacks after the 2001 attacks targeting landmarks like the Sears Tower in Chicago and Manhattan’s Empire State Building.
He also claimed credit for other planned attacks, including assassination attempts against then-President Bill Clinton in 1994 or 1995 and an assassination plot against Pope John Paul II at about the same time, the statement said.
Mohammed’s nearly two decades in legal limbo differs from the fate of his nephew, Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people, injured 1,000 others and left a crater in the parking garage beneath the twin towers.
Yousef is serving life in prison after being convicted at two separate civilian trials. He was also captured in Pakistan, in 1995, but was brought to the United States for trial.
At the time, Yousef said his right to kill people was comparable to the U.S. decision to drop a nuclear bomb in World War II. Mohammed has offered a similar justification, saying through an interpreter at a Guantanamo proceeding that killing people was the “language of any war.”
Bracken traveled to Guantanamo in 2012 to watch one hearing for Mohammed and his co-defendants, and would probably go again if a trial ever happened.
“I don’t know if I want to go there again to bring back all the hurt and pain. But if I’m allowed to go, then I guess I would go. Yeah. My sister would do that for me.”
“She’s that type of a woman,” he added. Then he corrected himself: “She was that type of a woman.” | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/9-11-self-professed-mastermind-still-awaits-trial-2-decades-later/ | 2022-09-09T18:00:18Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/9-11-self-professed-mastermind-still-awaits-trial-2-decades-later/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
One of the best trades of this decade will be copper or copper miners with deep inventories. It's well understood, right down to the government level, that we're going to need a lot of copper in the green transition and that existing mines aren't enough. At the same time, investors are unwilling to fund new mine construction because spot copper prices aren't great and because of inflationary cost increases in mine construction everywhere.
I'm tempted to think that's a story that's so well understood that there's no money to be made -- I've written about it many times -- but if you look at how copper miners trade, that's not the case at all.
The general consensus is that the big shortage will emerge in 2024 or 2025 as the green transition ramps up and China rebounds but at some point there will be stockpiling ahead of that.
Is that what's happening now? Bloomberg noted that yesterday's 2.4% rally in copper was the most in give weeks and that front month copper in London is trading with a $145/ton premium over the third month. That kind of backwardation is usually a sign of a tight physical market.
Even with the slowdown in China, imports there are up 8.1% ytd through August. At the same time, Chilean copper exports are down ytd.
ZeroHedge today also writes about the looming copper shortage and cites an S&P Platts report that warns the green transition could be derailed by the unavailability of copper.
Again, this is all well known to anyone who is paying attention. It all really comes down to the question of when to buy copper. It's certainly cheap now but it's fallen because of economic worries. However note that copper prices have held up better than many risk assets lately. The weekly chart here also shows that it found support at the 61.8% retracement of the 2020-2022 rally.
I think this is a tough trade right now because it could be dead money for a couple years but at some point between now and 2025, it's going to be a sensational trade. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/plenty-of-eyes-are-on-copper-20220909/ | 2022-09-09T18:01:33Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/plenty-of-eyes-are-on-copper-20220909/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Both the S&P index and NASDAQ index are trading to new session highs. In the process, they are also breaking above their 100 hour moving averages.
Looking at the S&P index, the 100 hour moving average comes in at 4045.94. The 38.2% retracement comes in at 4054.27. Both are being broken with the index currently trading at 4067.23, up 61 points or 1.53%.
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New She-Hulk Promo Teases the Remaining Episodes of the Season
This week brought us to the halfway point of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. However, there’s still more fun to be had over the next five weeks. Marvel has released another She-Hulk promo to set the stage for the series’ remaining episodes, which will bring several familiar faces back into the fold while also making space for some new ones.
At the end of this week’s episode, Titania (Jameela Jamil) served Jen with legal papers claiming ownership of the name “She-Hulk” for her own fashion line. With this, Jen is going to need a really good attorney to help her win her case. Luckily, fellow GLK&H counselor Mallory Book (Renée Elise Goldsberry) is on the job. But we can also expect the two larger-than-live adversaries to butt heads outside of the courtroom as well, culminating in a rematch that lets Jen show off her mean left hook.
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Aside from returning villains like Titania and Emil Blonsky/Abomination (Tim Roth), we can also look forward to the introduction of a few new characters. At least one upcoming episode will feature the live-action debut of Frog Man, who shows off his own Iron Man-inspired technology as he attempts to boost some big-screen TVs. And of course, Charlie Cox will make an appearance both in and out of costume as Matt Murdock/Daredevil. He even gives Jen some much-needed tips about navigating her double-life.
The next episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law will premiere next Thursday, September 15 on Disney+.
Are you excited to meet new characters on the show over the next few weeks? Let us know in the comment section below!
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→ Buy Now: $30, Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home
On any given day on Eric Kim’s Instagram account, his 150,000 faithful followers can watch the popular New York Times food writer and recipe developer at work: slicing, sautéing, and fermenting away on his stainless steel countertop in his Manhattan apartment’s kitchen. He meticulously—and artfully—documents all of his cooking processes for his viewers, like how to prepare white kimchi with kale and beets or re-create the perfect bowl of pasta al pomodoro that he had on a vacation in Lake Como. There is a common thread that unites his recipes: They’re delightfully unfussy.
“One time I got a message from someone saying, ‘I wish your recipes were harder,’” he quips in his Easy Cookies-and-Cream Pavlova video. “I was like, ‘things no one says.’”
When Kim calls on a Monday afternoon, he’s taking a break in between meetings at the New York Times where he creates recipes and writes a monthly column. Because of his role at the country’s preeminent daily newspaper, Kim is arguably one of the most visible Asian Americans working in food media. Kim has worked there full time for nearly a year now after writing his first piece for the paper in 2020. Before that, he served as a digital manager at the Food Network and a senior editor at Food 52; his work has also appeared in Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, and the Washington Post. During his brief but busy year at the New York Times, he released a collection of Korean essential recipes (Kim says that if he “could have only 10 Korean dishes for the rest of my life, these would be the ones”) and his first book Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home.
Though he does publish recipes of American favorites like spinach lasagna casserole and chicken soup, he’s probably best known for his focus on Korean dishes, whether it be exploring the legacy of the Korean War and its effect on the county’s cuisine through budae jjigae (army stew) or demystifying the process of making kimchi. Through his work, Kim is creating an oeuvre that is distinctly his—and very Korean American. Kim was born and raised in Atlanta, which he feels gave him a unique perspective on what Korean American cuisine is.
“It’s its own special thing,” Kim says. “That’s sort of the thesis of my book, to prove that there are so many different ways to cook Korean food, and you can’t deny that any of those ways are historically accurate. There are certain foods and food traditions that happen out of [diasporic] experiences.”
Kim has his dream job now, he says, but it wasn’t exactly what he first set out to do—he actually spent years in academia studying to become a professor. After a failed dissertation defense at Columbia in 2015—English Literature, in case you were curious—he decided it was time to try something different. “I was so depressed because I’d wanted to be a professor since 10th grade,” Kim says. “But I dropped out and I started at the Food Network in 2015, where I had an entry-level job inputting data for recipes. I had no idea there was this whole world where people were writing award-winning food journalism.”
In 2018, Kim landed his first stint as a food writer at Food52, owning the column “Table for One,” which celebrated the joy of meals made for just one person, everything from Passover during lockdown to the finer points of dining solo. “I consider that column my practice food writing,” he says. “I think writing is always practice. I feel myself getting better with each piece and that’s really exciting.”
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, he decided to move back home to his parent’s Atlanta home to write his cookbook (which was released in March 2022). Being at home with his family while testing recipes helped him develop a deeper appreciation for his unique upbringing. “I realized how much I’d taken for granted what a Korean American place I’d lived in. Even though I did feel very much like an outsider—I was a gay Korean Catholic in the South—I recently learned when I was writing my Korean essentials package that Korean is actually the third most common language spoken in Georgia.”
In his book, readers can find homey Korean recipes like Doenjang Jjiggae with Silken Tofu and Raw Zucchini (Kim notes that his version of this classic Korean dish, made with fermented soybean paste, isn’t exactly traditional but is rich and filling), as well as “TV Dinner” recipes (quick dishes made for eating on a couch) like Maple-Candied Spam, which involves baking the beloved pork product with maple syrup until it’s crisp and caramelized.
One of Kim’s personal favorites from his book is his Weeknight Curry Rice with Eggplant, Spinach, and Lotus Root, which he threw together on a whim in his NYC kitchen when he wanted something uncomplicated and quick to eat. He later cooked the dish for his family—it was a major hit, and they insisted he put it in his book, even though he wasn’t planning on it. “It’s just a really comforting and filling dish and it makes me think of my family,” he says.
After Korean American was released, Kim received criticism from Korean readers who commented that his recipes weren’t “authentic” enough. However, he’s quick to push back on the idea of an “authentic” Korean recipe for any dish. “There’s a huge responsibility with writing about Korean food for the New York Times,” he says. “But when you call something inauthentic, what you’re actually saying is that person’s existence is null and doesn’t matter. To me, the more Koreans write about Korean food, the more we can expand our definition of what the cuisine is.”
That’s what Kim hopes to accomplish with his recipes and writing—to introduce people to new perspectives in an ultimately delicious (and hopefully unintimidating) way. “I’ve always felt that writing had so much power beyond just being pretty,” Kim says. “It can be very political and it can change people’s minds. Then when there’s a recipe at the end of it—that’s how you can really invite someone into your experience.” | https://www.afar.com/magazine/eric-kim-is-redefining-what-it-means-to-be-korean-american | 2022-09-09T18:06:15Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/eric-kim-is-redefining-what-it-means-to-be-korean-american | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
We’re not going to sugarcoat it—this year’s summer travel scene, complete with lengthy airport lines and ongoing flight disruptions, wasn’t exactly motivating. But as we transition into fall, with its cooler, more comfortable temps and reduced crowds, the international travel some of us may have held off on during a chaotic first half of the year is suddenly feeling a lot more enticing again. Bonus feature—fall is often a great time to score a good flight deal.
In fact, travel booking app Hopper reports that average round-trip international airfares for September and October have dropped to $754, down 19 percent (or $179) from summer prices. Round-trip domestic fares for this fall are down as well, having dipped 37 percent to $238—or $142 below average summer round-trip flights.
Now is also the ideal time to book holiday travel if you haven’t done so already. To get the best price, Hopper recommends booking at least three weeks in advance for domestic travel and at least four weeks in advance for international trips—add a few weeks to both for popular holiday travel dates and periods.
So, where is everyone heading this fall? In a survey of 2,700 international users, travel booking site Tripadvisor found that the top trending destinations for fall travel are:
- Turks and Caicos
- Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Singapore
- London
- Bangkok
- Boracay, Philippines
- Munich, Germany
- Como, Italy
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Moterosso al Mare, Italy
- Amsterdam
- Amalfi, Italy
- Dublin
- Sorrento, Italy
- Vancouver, Canada
But few things are more inspiring when it comes to travel than hard-to-resist airfare deals. So, we scoured our sources, and these are the current international airfare offers we found for autumn and beyond that are having us plotting our own upcoming adventures.
Flights to Iceland from $136 with Play Airlines
The low-cost Icelandic carrier Play Airlines, which launched stateside in December 2021, is running a sale on flights to Iceland from the U.S. for travel between September 2022 and March 2023. We found one-way September and October fares from New York Stewart International Airport (located about 90 minutes north of Manhattan) to Reykjavík–Keflavík Airport in Iceland starting at $136. This is a great opportunity to either explore Iceland or use the discounted transatlantic flight as a jumping-off point for heading to other destinations throughout Europe. Curious what it’s like to fly Play? Our special air correspondent, Barbara Peterson, recently hopped the pond with Play and reviewed it for us.
Round trip to Delhi, India, from $859 on Etihad
United Arab Emirates’ national carrier Etihad Airways has kicked off the fall travel season with a sale that is running now through September 16. Some of the highlights include round-trip economy flights to Abu Dhabi, Dubai, for $859, from Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. The deal also includes flights to Delhi, India, from Washington, D.C., starting at $859 (and from $879 out of New York). The carrier recently relaunched its Etihad Stopovers program, which offers discounted and complimentary stays at participating Abu Dhabi hotels before travelers continue on with their journey.
Fly to Canada for less than $100
Air Canada is currently running a sale through September 14 for travel from September 21, 2022, through May 31, 2023, and the deals are plentiful, including one-way flights from Los Angeles to Vancouver starting at $94. One-way flights from New York to Montreal start at $88 (and at $221 for flights from Los Angeles to Montreal). From Montreal, continue on to Paris with round-trip flights as low as $660.
One-way flights to Paris from $281 on French Bee
In addition to offering low-cost direct flights from San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Newark Liberty International Airport to Paris-Orly, French Bee is adding flights from Miami to Paris on December 15, with introductory one-way fares starting at $281. The Miami flights, which are currently available for booking, will operate three times weekly, on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday, and they will increase to four times weekly in April. French Bee has a partnership with Alaska Airlines that allows travelers to connect from destinations throughout the U.S. on a single ticket. French Bee flights take place on newer Airbus A350s.
Round trip to Lisbon from $389
If you’re looking for a great deal for one of our absolute favorite destinations in Europe—Portugal—look no further than TAP Air Portugal, which currently offers round-trip flights to Lisbon from New York as low as $389. But TAP doesn’t just offer great airfares for Portugal; the carrier also features deals to Barcelona, Dublin, Stockholm, and Copenhagen, among other coveted European cities. So before hopping the pond, you may want to check the latest airfare offers from TAP first.
Round-trip San Francisco to London on British Airways from $630
All eyes are on the United Kingdom right now, as the country mourns the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. Those feeling the pull to pay tribute to the late monarch will find enticing fall flight deals on British Airways, including round-trip fares from San Francisco to London from $630 and one-way fares from New York starting at $200. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/the-best-flight-deals-for-fall-2022 | 2022-09-09T18:06:22Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/the-best-flight-deals-for-fall-2022 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- kathy ireland® Worldwide (kiWW®), acknowledged earlier this year as the "most valuable woman-owned licensing firm in American history" by WWD, is expanding the company's fashion presence with a stunning ensemble of licensing partners.
Kathy Ireland said, "Fashion Week illuminates such extraordinary memories. This is the ideal time to announce our growth in the category our company knows best. 7th Avenue and its leaders are home. We believe many will be surprised by the assortment of wonderful clients, put together for us by our astounding Lee Mandelbaum and his great team at Legacy Licensing and Price Point Buying. Great appreciation to Linda Mandelbaum of Rylex, whose brilliance is with us every step of the way. Congratulations and welcome, with special thanks to the Hanan family of PPI, for believing in us when few doors in apparel were open, as well as our initial and beloved partners John and Marilyn Moretz."
Jon Carrasco and Stephen Roseberry, Worldwide Creative Director and President / CMO for kiWW, respectively, said: "We could not be happier with the leaders in these industries. Kathy, in tandem with Rocco Ingemi, our EVP of Fashion & Fine Jewelry, cautioned patience as we quietly grew these categories with extraordinary people. This year, our brand was named the 19th most successful brand worldwide, as published by License Global. Kathy became the youngest woman to enter the Licensing Hall of Fame, as well as the youngest Icon in the Furniture Industry, awarded by the IHFRA (International Home Furnishings Representatives Association). Kathy serves on the Boards of Directors for the NFLPI and WNBPA, Board of Advisors for Serena Williams, International Youth Chair for the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation, with over 25 hospitals in their portfolio. Co-Founder of Providence, a Christian education program, serving students from pre to prep school. Kathy is a member of the James Madison Program at Princeton University and is a Major Donor and Ambassador for the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. In addition to becoming the first civilian to serve on the National Board of Gastroenterology and bring awareness to Sheba Medical Center, frequently referred to as Tel Hashomer in Tel Aviv, Israel; UCLA acknowledges Kathy as one of the top ten women's health advocates in America - an honor which came after Kathy's leadership in establishing neonatal intensive care units throughout America. Last year, Kathy's accomplishments were honored by the International Religious Freedom Award, and she works tirelessly for human rights advocacy, speaking to the world from platforms as diverse as the United Nations, Forbes Global Conferences and educational forums including Harvard University. Kathy speaks many languages, and utilizing fashion, as well as her proceeds from it, to make our world better, is one of her greatest passions. Our additional clients will be announced in October."
Announcements include a multi-year renewal with PPI for continuing kathy ireland® Sleepwear & Intimate Apparel - a partnership which has achieved over 100 million dollars in sales in its first five years. "We believed in the power of the kathy ireland® brand from day one, and it continues to gather momentum and a powerful place in the fashion industry. After years of standing on our own, it's great to be joined by leading partners in the apparel industry. We have renewed our agreement with kathy ireland® Worldwide for many years, because the brand is exquisite, and Kathy and her team are incredible, innovative people. Kathy is the real deal," said Abe Hanan, on behalf of PPI.
MIVI™, the kathy ireland® Worldwide imprint which launched with men's underwear and loungewear with PPI, is now expanding into men's jewelry with Guild Consulting, as well as handwear from fashion to utility by Stout Gloves.
kathy ireland® Worldwide 2022 fashion licensing launches include renowned manufacturer Ikeddi for bestselling sportswear, pantsuits and daytime dresses.
Bagatelle International, specializing in outerwear, special occasion dress and denim will premiere on HSN in October, and become available at Macy's, among other luxury retailers later this year. President of Bagatelle Inc. Jamie Litvack notes, "We are honored to partner with Kathy, one of the most successful and empowering female entrepreneurs of our time. As soon as we met Kathy and her team, we knew we were all in."
Siskind, one of the nation's largest brand leaders, has acquired the license for slippers.
Guild Consulting is the licensee for men and women's jewelry. Ms. Ireland acknowledges Elizabeth Taylor as her beloved friend and mentor, as well as a great inspiration in fine jewelry design.
Swim fashion leader Amerex, has acquired the license in this iconic category from kathy ireland Worldwide.
BHFO.com, a national leader in online retail, features the finest brands, including Michael Kors, Calvin Klein, and Ralph Lauren, will now add kathy ireland® to its roster of designers.
The multi-year agreements and relationships were negotiated by Lee Mandelbaum of Legacy Licensing and Price Point Buying NYC. Mr. Mandelbaum exclusively represents kathy ireland® Worldwide fashion, in tandem with long term kiWW partners, John and Marilyn Moretz of Moretz Marketing.
Rylex LLC principal, Linda Mandelbaum, represents multiple categories for kathy ireland® Worldwide, including gardening, home, fintech, and more.
"This is a spectacular time for Kathy to re-emerge into an industry in which she became a global fashion icon," says Rona Menashe, CEO of Guttman Associates, Kathy Ireland and kiWW longtime media relations representative.
New York Fashion week is held in February and September of each year. It is a semi-annual series of events when international fashion collections are shown to buyers, the press, and the general public.
One of the least-known accomplishments of kathy ireland® Worldwide is its enormous entertainment sector. kiWW is responsible for presenting the reboot of The Waltons' Thanksgiving, which will be re-broadcast on HBO this year, partnering with the 5th largest music company in the world BMG, whose artists include Tina Turner, Bruno Mars, along with 7-time Grammy Award winners Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr., stars of The Original 5th Dimension, whose "blackbird: Lennon-McCartney Icons" album returned the duo to the Billboard charts after an absence of nearly 40 years, and became #1 on iTunes. The music was produced by Nic Mendoza, who is in studio now with the couple, recording their second and third BMG/kathy ireland Worldwide EE1 albums. SWC/kiWW has guided the careers of Janet Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli, and legendary vocalist and king of the Great American Songbook, Michael Feinstein.
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BENSALEM, Pa., Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Weber Inc. ("Weber" or the "Company") (NYSE: WEBR).
Class Period: August 2021 IPO
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 27, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Weber investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that Weber was reasonably likely to implement price increases; (2) that, as a result, consumer demand for Weber's products was reasonably likely to decrease; (3) that, due to the resulting inventory buildup, Weber was reasonably likely to run promotions to "enhance retail sell through"; (4) that the foregoing would adversely impact Weber's financial results; and (5) that, as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects, were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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Why Albania’s cyberattacks matter to the U.S.
A senior White House official sees this week's attribution of cyberattacks against the Albanian government to Iran as a much-needed step to establish cyber diplomacy norms.
Driving the news: Earlier this week, the U.S. government and Microsoft attributed a series of destructive cyberattacks against the Albanian government to Iranian state-sponsored hackers.
- In mid-July, hackers stole data from Albanian government servers and deployed both ransomware and malware wipers against a number of government agencies and organizations, according to Microsoft.
- Albania severed diplomatic relations with Iran on Wednesday, marking the first country to sever diplomatic relations because of a cyber conflict.
- The White House's National Security Council promised further actions to "hold Iran accountable for actions that threaten the security of a U.S. ally."
What they're saying: Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology, told Axios in a statement that this attribution is an essential part of the U.S. strategy to help establish cyber norms.
- "You make rules stick through action — this has happened in the sea, air, and is happening in space," Neuberger said. "We need to bring that approach to cyberspace."
- Neuberger added that many of the international cyber norms the United Nations adopts are based on pre-existing customs, so it's important for the U.S. to clearly demonstrate what is and isn't appropriate now.
Between the lines: Attributing a cyberattack is usually the ammunition countries need to pursue tougher diplomatic measures, including economic and trade sanctions.
The intrigue: The U.S. government has become quicker at publicly attributing state-backed cyberattacks in recent years.
- In May, just three months after a cyberattack on satellite communications provider Viasat, the U.S., the U.K. and the European Union attributed it to the Russian government.
- The administration also took three months to attribute a hack of Microsoft Exchange servers to Beijing last summer.
- Compare that to the 2017 NotPetya attack, where the U.S. government took eight months to publicly pin the global malware attack affecting thousands of businesses on the Russian government.
What's next: The Senate still needs to vote on Nate Fick's nomination to run a new cyber diplomacy bureau at the State Department, which will expand on the White House's cyber norms work.
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New York governor declares emergency over polio
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Friday declared a state disaster emergency over polio after an unvaccinated individual tested positive for the virus and officials have detected samples of polio in the city's wastewater.
Driving the news: Poliovirus has been detected in wastewater in New York counties, in addition to New York City, providing evidence of transmission of the contagious virus, which can lead to paralysis or meningitis.
- In an attempt to boost vaccination rates, the emergency declaration expands the number of individuals who are certified to administer vaccines against polio to include EMS workers, midwives and pharmacists.
- The order also requires healthcare workers to provide polio immunization data to the state's department of health, which will allow health officials "to focus vaccination activities where they are needed most."
What they're saying: "On polio, we simply cannot roll the dice," State Health Commissioner Mary Bassett said in a statement.
- "If you or your child are unvaccinated or not up to date with vaccinations, the risk of paralytic disease is real," she added. "I urge New Yorkers to not accept any risk at all."
The big picture: The state began monitoring wastewater after an unvaccinated individual tested positive for the virus in Rockland County, per New York's Department of Health.
- "All samples reported are samples of concern, meaning they are types of poliovirus that can cause paralysis in humans," the department noted.
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EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Voters in Rhode Island will have one more chance to cast their ballots on Primary Election this upcoming Tuesday.
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Here’s what you need to know before making your choice:
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Registered voters who want to cast their ballot in person can vote early or on Primary Election Day.
Individuals who applied for mail-in voting, but have not returned their ballots yet are encouraged to drop their ballots off in person. Mail-in ballots must reach the Board of Elections by 8 p.m. on Election Day. Ballots can be dropped off at a ballot drop box or in person at the Board of Elections.
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Governor
Rhode Islanders will soon decide who’ll have the state’s top job for the next four years.
Will incumbent Gov. Dan McKee win his first full term? Or will one of his Democratic challengers knock him out in the September primary?
- Dan McKee (D) [incumbent]
- Matt Brown (D)
- Helena Foulkes (D)
- Nellie Gorbea (D)
- Dr. Luis Daniel Muñoz (D)
- Ashley Kalus (R)
- Jonathan Riccitelli (R)
- Zachary Hurwitz (I)
- Paul Rianna Jr. (I)
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U.S. House District 1
- David Cicilline (D) [incumbent]
- Allen Waters (R)
U.S. House District 2
The current holder of this seat, Congressman Jim Langevin, announced earlier this year that he’s calling it quits after 11 terms in office.
- Omar Bah (D)
- Spencer Dickinson (D)
- Joy Fox (D)
- Allan Fung (R)
- Seth Magaziner (D)
- Sarah Morgenthau (D)
- David Segal (D)
Lieutenant Governor
Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos faces several challengers as she seeks to win her first full term. The former Providence City Council president was selected by Gov. Dan McKee after he succeeded former Gov. Gina Raimondo in March 2021.
- Sabina Matos (D) [incumbent]
- Aaron Guckian (R)
- Ross McCurdy (I)
- Cynthia Mendes (D)
- Paul Pence (R)
- Deb Ruggiero (D)
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Attorney General
- Peter Neronha (D) [incumbent]
- Chas Calenda (R)
Secretary of State
- Gregg Amore (D)
- Stephanie Beaute (D)
- Pat Cortellessa (R)
General Treasurer
- James Diossa (D)
- James Lathrop (R)
- Stefan Pryor (D)
Watch: RI General Treasurer Primary Debate (D) »
Providence Mayor
Current Mayor Jorge Elorza is term-limited, so voters in the capital city will choose a new mayor this fall.
- Gonzalo Cuervo (D)
- Nirva LaFortune (D)
- Brett Smiley (D)
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This Week’s Get Bioethanol Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 at Kansas Speedway … Dillon made his career-first start in the NASCAR Cup Series at Kansas Speedway in 2011 and has made a total of 17 NASCAR Cup Series starts at the 1.5-mile track, earning his best finish of sixth in May and October 2016. He earned a pair of 10th-place finishes at the track in 2021. He has also made five NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at the track, earning one pole award (2013) and a best finish of second (2012). In three NASCAR Truck Series races, Dillon has earned one pole award (2011) and a best finish of fourth (2014).
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The Round Of 16 … Austin Dillion is currently ranked 14th in the NASCAR Playoff standings,12 points out of 10th.
AUSTIN DILLON QUOTES:
How is Kansas unique compared to some of the other 1.5-mile tracks?
"Kansas Speedway has done a really good job with their banking. There’s a line right up by the fence that has a little extra grip. There’s an angle up there that I don’t think many tracks have figured out yet, but Kansas got it right. You can run from top to bottom there. The bottom groove is the preferred groove at the beginning, but it becomes too tight to try and run around there in turns one and two sometimes depending on what the balance of your race car is. I’ve enjoyed that track a lot ever since they repaved it. I wish every track could do as good as a job as Kansas has with repaves.”
Can this team win the trophy from where it starts in the NASCAR Playoffs?
“Why not? I’m confident at the tracks in the playoffs. RCR has shown speed at every type of track with Tyler Reddick winning the road courses, and the No. 3 team winning the speedway. At Martinsville Speedway, I finished third but was probably the second-best car there, and we probably should have won the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. I was really close there. I’m happy to be in this spot and I think we’re the underdog. Some people are already putting us out, which is just fine with me because it takes pressure off and we’ll go have fun and try to upset some of these guys. We’re taking it as survive and advance mode from here on out.”
Is there any problem flipping the switch for the NASCAR Playoffs?
“If anything, I’ve learned with 15 winners that you need to stay aggressive. I talked to the guys about it the other day. Some of the strategy calls we made over the last couple of weeks we probably wouldn’t have done it if we were racing for points. We maximize more points by being aggressive on strategy and putting ourselves in better position. So, I don’t think a whole lot is going to change. We’ll monitor where everybody is running during the race and go from there. I believe we should stay on the same strategy path that we’ve been on.”
How does your previous NASCAR Playoffs experience help you?
“Just knowing how every position matters. Looking back at a couple of times when you’re outside looking in and it came down to a point or two points, knowing that you have to get it at all cost.”
This Week’s Guaranteed Rate Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 at Kansas Speedway …Tyler Reddick will be making his seventh NASCAR Cup Series start at Kansas Speedway this weekend. Reddick has two top-10 finishes in six prior starts at the 1.5-mile speedway, with a best finish of seventh in 2021. The driver of the Guaranteed Rate Chevrolet led 24 laps in the May race at Kansas earlier this season. Reddick has three top-five finishes in three NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at Kansas, highlighted by a pair of second-place finishes.
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TYLER REDDICK QUOTES:
What are your thoughts entering Kansas this weekend?
“I like Kansas Speedway a lot. When we were at Kansas in the spring, we were really fast and just had some weird stuff happen to us. We’re just going to go in there and do our job and hopefully it’s a good day. I would love to be up front and running for the win. We were good enough to do that the last time we were there. We were just close enough to wide open there around the top where the bottom and middle weren’t that great but I think the gains that everyone has been making on these cars might open up the middle and bottom some more. That should be exciting and that should be a good thing.”
You enter Kansas Speedway 23 points above the cutline and after Darlington Raceway, a minimum of 10 drivers will advance to the next round based on points. Does that change your approach entering this weekend?
“No, not for me. I mean, we can’t let up. I was adamant about how I was going to approach the Playoffs this year and it was going to be one race at a time. We’re going to treat it like we’ve been treating all the races this season. We’re going to go out and do our job to the best of our ability and make the most of it. Certainly, if we’re having a tough day and we’re fighting really hard for one spot with somebody who doesn’t want to give it up I think at that point you’ve got to be smart. But for how we approach race weekend and the race, nothing changes. We just keep doing what we’ve been doing all year long. We’ve had good speed and a lot of things have been really close for us.”
This Week’s Whelen Engineering Chevrolet Camaro SS at Kansas Speedway ... Sheldon Creed will head to Kansas Speedway this weekend for the first time of his NASCAR Xfinity Series career. Creed has made five starts at the track in the NASCAR Truck Series, tallying one top five, two top 10s and 132 laps led. Creed finished runner-up in the Fall Kansas race in 2020, his best finish at the track. Creed is coming off an incredibly strong run last weekend at Darlington Raceway. He led 47 laps en route to a runner-up finish after a hard-fought battle in the final laps. Creed is currently 13th in the Playoff standings, the first driver below the cutline. There are two more races left for Creed to punch his ticket to the post-season.
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SHELDON CREED QUOTE:
You had a really strong showing at Darlington Raceway last weekend. Will that momentum help you at Kansas Speedway this weekend?
“Last weekend’s race was what our team needed. We stayed in that thing the entire day, we led laps, we showed how strong our team is and we brought a really fast racecar. I wish I got the win but to still finish second after a all the craziness in the final laps is an accomplishment. We can take that momentum with us this weekend to Kansas, another track that I really enjoy. We’ve been preparing and are ready to do exactly what we did at Darlington but finish one spot better. This will be my first start at Kansas in an Xfinity car but I feel confident in myself and the cars my team brings to the track. Practice and qualifying will be important this weekend because we want to start up front and stay there and see how our car stacks up.”
This Week’s United Rentals Chevrolet Camaro SS at Kansas Speedway ... Austin Hill will make his second career NASCAR Xfinity Series start at Kansas Speedway, his first as a full-time driver in the series with RCR. He made his first start at the track in 2020 and started 29th and finished fifth. Hill has a lot of experience at the track from his time competing in the NASCAR Truck Series. He made a total of six starts in his Truck Series career and had one win (2020), four top fives and five top 10s. He led total of 98 laps in those starts and had an average finish of 4.8. Hill grabbed his 15th top-10 finish of his rookie season last weekend at Darlington Raceway. He is currently holding onto sixth-place in the Playoff standings with only two more races before the post-season begins.
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AUSTIN HILL QUOTE:
You're heading to Kansas Speedway this weekend. You’ve seen success there in the Truck Series. Are you looking forward to Saturday’s race?
“Yeah, I really like Kansas Speedway. I enjoyed going there in the Trucks and finished fifth in my first NASCAR Xfinity Series start there. Our team had a few rough finishes and bounced back with a top-10 finish at Darlington last week. With that momentum and heading to a track that I feel really comfortable at, I think it will be a good weekend for us. I’m looking forward to practice and qualifying and looking at the speed in our car. Cup raced at Kansas earlier this season, but the Xfinity Series didn’t so I’m definitely going to do my research and see how the track ran and what changed so I’m ready. We’ve got two more races until the Playoffs begin and we want to take advantage of all the points we can and get another win.”
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Armani Williams, the first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver openly diagnosed on the autism spectrum is headed to Kansas Speedway for Friday night’s Kansas Lottery 200 with Reaume Brothers Racing thanks to a new partnership with HedgeHog Health.
Williams will pilot the No. 43 HedgeHog Health Chevrolet Silverado RST in the 19th Truck Series race of the season. Kansas Speedway will mark Williams’ third career Truck Series start and second of the season.
In July, he competed at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway for Reaume Brothers Racing.
HedgeHog Health caters to unique learners with devices and services geared toward individuals with ADHD and Autism.
A former special education teacher, CEO Parker Lynch created and patented the Hoglet, the world's first fidget computer mouse for learners who need to fidget to focus.
Since releasing the Hoglet, HedgeHog has gone on to open its first ABA center in Pinellas Park, Fla, with the intention of opening more locations in Florida, as well as other states.
Additionally, HedgeHog continues to innovate and create new products to reach unique learners worldwide.
“I am super pumped to add another NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race to my 2022 season this weekend at Kansas Speedway, especially carrying the support of a new and influential partner like HedgeHog Health.
“I have worked over the last several weeks to readily prepare for this opportunity and I’m excited to get to the track and have a performance that everyone can be satisfied with.”
For HedgeHog Health CEO Parker Lynch, their path to now includes a partnership in the incredibly popular NASCAR Camping World Truck Series with Grosse Pointe, Michigan native Williams was one they could not pass up.
"HedgeHog Health is thrilled for the opportunity for partnership with Armani Williams at Kansas Speedway,” offered Lynch. “HedgeHog was founded on inclusion and Armani is a shining example of the phenomenal things that can be accomplished by those on the Autism spectrum, so this feels like a perfect fit for our company.
As a Michigan-based small business, we are proud to be affiliated with Armani who is also a Michigander."
Williams, 22, graduated to the Truck Series after stints in the premier ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East, ARCA Menards Series West and the Canadian-based NASCAR Pinty’s Series.
For more on Armani Williams, please visit teamarmaniracing.com, like him on Facebook (Team Armani Racing) and follow him on Twitter (@TeamArmaniRacin).
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The Kansas Lottery 200 (134 laps | 200.1 miles) is the 19th of 23 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races on the 2022 schedule. Practice begins on Friday, September 9, 2022, from 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Qualifying will follow immediately beginning at 2:30 p.m. The 36-truck field will take the green flag shortly after 6:30 p.m. (7:30 p.m. ET) with live coverage on FOX Sports 1 (FS1), the Motor Racing Network (Radio) and SiriusXM NASCAR Channel 90. All times are local (CT).
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Two drivers took their first step toward conquering “The World” Thursday night at Eldora Speedway.
After 107 cars entered night one of the 52nd World 100, Jonathan Davenport and Hudson O’Neal stood tall earning $12,000 preliminary Feature victories and gained valuable momentum toward Saturday’s main event.
GROUP A Preliminary Feature- Jonathan Davenport
One night after finishing fourth in the Dirt Late Model Dream, Jonathan Davenport wasted no time returning to Eldora Speedway’s iconic Victory Lane.
The Blairsville, GA driver stormed past Jimmy Owens on Lap 6 of Thursday’s Group A Feature to claim the $12,000 prize on night one of the 52nd World 100.
The four-time World 100 winner said his team made changes throughout the day, helping his car return to its winning form.
“I think we’re one adjustment away from being perfect,” Davenport said. “We changed quite a few things today. We just couldn’t get a good balance on it.
“I wish the racetrack was like that last night. We might have been right back up here. It’s a phenomenal job, by my guys, Jason, Vinny, and Tyler. We all put our heads together and constantly changed on this thing. We changed things on the car, and it messed the balance up a bit, and I think we got it back there pretty good.”
Owens, a two-time World 100 winner, finished second after leading the race’s first five laps.
The Newport, TN driver stated he was happy with his car but needed to make a few more adjustments to stay with Davenport.
“I was just discussing with my guys about how we can get a little more stable in the corners,” Owens said. “I felt like we were good, but the 49 has been phenomenal all year. Another great year for those guys. Hats off to them.
“We got some work to do, and maybe we can make some improvements for the big race.”
Defending World 100 winner Brandon Overton finished third, while Chris Madden and Johnny Scott rounded out the top five.
Group B Preliminary Feature- Hudson O’Neal
Hudson O’Neal had one goal in his World 100 preliminary Feature—get in clean air quick.
The Martinsville, IN driver, accomplished that goal immediately, thundering around Shane Clanton in Turn 2 to take the lead.
O’Neal dominated the Group B Feature at Eldora to earn the $12,000 triumph.
“I got a really good start there, and I knew I just needed to get the lead there and get to clean air as fast as I could,” O’Neal said. “The first [Feature] went caution-free, so I figured the second one would, too.
“The air plays such a big factor here. I swear it felt like I slowed down two seconds when I caught lap traffic.”
Clanton, from Zebulon, GA, crossed the line second after winning a Heat Race earlier in the night.
The “Georgia Bulldog” stated he’s optimistic about the rest of the weekend.
“Our car was good, we had a good starting spot, and I hope we can do it again tomorrow,” Clanton said. “This Capital Race Car is pretty good right now. Hopefully, we can just keep it up.”
Chris Ferguson rounded out the podium one night after making an early exit in the Dirt Late Model Dream.
The Mount Holly, NC driver was forced to switch to a backup car and stated he was thrilled with how well the car ran.
“I just want to give a special thanks to my crew for all the hard work,” Ferguson said. “The car was really good. I could just kind of hang with Shane and Hudson but couldn’t get momentum going like we needed to.
“I’m tickled to death; this is the first time I’ve raced this car here since 2018.”
Tim McCreadie finished fourth, and Garrett Smith rounded out the top five.
UP NEXT: The DIRTcar Late Models return to Eldora Speedway on Friday, Sept. 9, for night two of the 52nd World 100, as drivers will battle in twin 25-lap split-field Features paying $12,000-to-win.
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A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 49-Jonathan Davenport[3]; 2. 20-Jimmy Owens[2]; 3. 76-Brandon Overton[5]; 4. 44-Chris Madden[4]; 5. 1ST-Johnny Scott[1]; 6. 1-Brandon Sheppard[8]; 7. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[6]; 8. 157-Mike Marlar[7]; 9. 11H-Spencer Hughes[9]; 10. 8-Kyle Strickler[23]; 11. 1T-Tyler Erb[10]; 12. 19R-Ryan Gustin[16]; 13. 58-Garrett Alberson[14]; 14. 23-John Blankenship[12]; 15. 22S-Gregg Satterlee[15]; 16. 88-Trent Ivey[11]; 17. 42H-Tyler Carpenter[19]; 18. 83F-Jensen Ford[17]; 19. 25F-Jason Feger[20]; 20. 5-Mark Whitener[18]; 21. 31K-Kye Blight[13]; 22. 21K-Dakotah Knuckles[24]; 23. 99-Camaron Marlar[22]; 24. 10-Joseph Joiner[21]
A Feature 2 (25 Laps): 1. 71-Hudson O'Neal[2]; 2. 25-Shane Clanton[1]; 3. 22-Chris Ferguson[4]; 4. 39-Tim McCreadie[3]; 5. 10S-Garrett Smith[8]; 6. 9-Devin Moran[9]; 7. 7-Ricky Weiss[6]; 8. 32-Bobby Pierce[10]; 9. 9Z-Mason Zeigler[19]; 10. 19M-Wil Herrington[7]; 11. 11R-Josh Rice[15]; 12. 2S-Stormy Scott[11]; 13. 46-Earl Pearson Jr[18]; 14. 40B-Kyle Bronson[5]; 15. 18-Shannon Babb[14]; 16. 97-Michael Chilton[12]; 17. 17-Zack Dohm[13]; 18. 16-Tyler Bruening[23]; 19. 18C-Chase Junghans[17]; 20. 21-Billy Moyer Sr[21]; 21. 23H-Cory Hedgecock[16]; 22. 11K-Austin Kirkpatrick[24]; 23. C9-Steve Casebolt[22]; 24. 57-Zack Mitchell[20]
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Track: Kansas Speedway
Location: Kansas City, KS
Date: Saturday, September 10
Race: 7:00 p.m. ET (6:00 local)
Length: 100 Laps - 150 Miles
Coverage: MAVTV, FloRacing, MRN Radio, SiriusXM (channel 391, online channel 981), ARCAracing.com
Race Notes:
- Daniel Dye will make his second career start at the 1.5-mile Kansas Speedway on Saturday night, driving the GMS Racing No. 43 Race to Stop Suicide, Solar-Fit, KIX Country, Halifax Health Chevrolet SS.
- Dye's first start at Kansas came earlier this season, qualifying sixth and finishing third.
- DD will pilot the white Race to Stop Suicide No. 43 Chevy, with the chassis last run at Michigan International Speedway, where Daniel finished third.
- The 18-year-old Deland, Florida driver is currently second in ARCA Menards Series points, ten from the lead.
- Crew Chief Chad Bryant will call the shots from the pit box for Dye, and Derek Kneeland will spot the No. 43 GMS Racing Chevy.
- The 100-lap, 150-mile ARCA Menards Series Dutch Boy 150 event will air live on MAVTV and FloRacing at 7:00 p.m. eastern. In addition, fans can hear coverage on MRN Radio and SiriusXM Satelite Radio. | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72785-daniel-dye-kansas-preview | 2022-09-09T18:19:47Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72785-daniel-dye-kansas-preview | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The five NTT INDYCAR SERIES drivers still in contention to lift the Astor Challenge Cup made an early-morning pit stop Thursday at one of golf’s most iconic locations – the 17th green at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California.
Team Penske drivers Will Power, Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin were joined by Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon and Marcus Ericsson for a fitting photo at Pebble’s “Turn for the Championship.” They were flanked by the Astor Challenge Cup and scenic Stillwater Cove.
Pebble Beach, the No. 1-rated public golf course in America and home to some of golf’s greatest championships and champions, sits down the road from WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, the location of the season-ending Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey for the NTT INDYCAR SERIES (live, 2:40 p.m. ET Sunday, NBC).
Power leads the championship standings by 20 points over Newgarden and Dixon, with Ericsson 39 points back in fourth and McLaughlin 41 points back in fifth. Power can clinch his second series crown with a finish of third or better Sunday. With just 41 points separating five drivers, this is INDYCAR’s closest championship race in 19 years.
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The NASCAR Whelen Euro Series Drivers Recruitment Program will return with two test days on September 23 and December 16 at the NWES test track in Fontenay Le Comte, France. Additionally, drivers will also be able to enter the last two Club Challenge events of the season at Zolder (October 6) and Grobnik (October 28) and they will count towards the Recruitment Program.
For race car drivers from around the world who are interested in joining EuroNASCAR, it’s the best opportunity to join the championship and get support to kickstart their NASCAR careers. The program will once again offer financial support to the best prospects taking part in the Recruitment opportunities.
Many of the current top competitors in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series came from the Drivers Recruitment Program, including two-time EuroNASCAR Champion and current NASCAR Cup Series driver Loris Hezemans and EuroNASCAR PRO superstar Vittorio Ghirelli.
One of the highlights of the NWES ecosystem, the Drivers Recruitment Program has proven to be the best way to enter the world of EuroNASCAR. Experienced NWES PRO drivers support participants to discover the Pure Racing character of the car, while off track each DRP driver will meet NWES President and CEO Jerome Galpin and the series’ organization team to discuss their racing projects and potential needs to join the series.
The 2023 DRP offers drivers four different opportunities to approach the EuroNASCAR world:
- Discovery package: Includes 2 x on track sessions
- Advanced package: Includes 6 x on track sessions
- Pro package: Includes 1 dedicated car for a full day of testing
- Club Challenge event: Includes participation in one of the last two events of the Club Challenge – EuroNASCAR’s regularity-based competition – at Zolder and Grobnik.
Following the tests, NWES and its partners will offer to the best prospects scholarships to race the 2023 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series season. The scholarships will go from 5,000 € to 25,000 €.
The Drivers Recruitment Program is open to all drivers:
- Top drivers wanting to make history and write their names in the NASCAR Hall Of Fame
- Young talents willing to build themselves a NASCAR career
- Female drivers eager to battle for the title and the Lady Trophy
- Drivers wanting to compete at a high level and have great fun at affordable cost
- Special development program for Karting drivers without car-racing experience
More dedicated scholarships ranging between 2,000 € and 4,000 € will be also available for beginners willing to enter the regularity-based Club Challenge and take their first steps into motorsports.
Drivers from all over the world can apply for the program and register via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. A participation fee will be asked to each driver joining the Recruitment Program depending on the package of choice.
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The 2021 Food City 300, the regular season finale for the NASCAR Xfinity Series, was a race to remember at Bristol Motor Speedway for a variety of reasons.
There have been plenty of wild finishes at Bristol Motor Speedway over the years. However, there’s only been one finish where the winning driver did his post-race interview from the care center and the winning race car was too damaged to make it to the track’s famed rooftop Victory Lane for post-race photos.
That’s exactly what happened in the late evening hours that Friday at Bristol. Yes, if you missed it, shame on you. Last year’s Food City 300 was an instant classic by every measure of the phrase.
With a regular season championship title riding on the line, the top two points earners – AJ Allmendinger and Austin Cindric – were battling with class veteran Justin Allgaier in a tight rumble toward the checkered flag with only a few laps remaining in the race.
In that scene, the lead changed several times and all bets were off as to exactly which one of them was going to earn the victory.
On the final lap, Allmendinger and Cindric pulled side by side as they raced out of turn four toward the finish line and the two made contact as the checkered flag waved. The two cars were sliding at the finish line and Allmendinger’s Kaulig Racing Chevy edged its nose over first as the two cars spun in different directions and crashed into walls and other cars in the crazy finish’s wake.
It was a crazy scene. It was an epic scene. It was Bristol, baby.
“I’ve been covering NASCAR for more than 20 years, and it was one of the best finishes I’ve seen in the Xfinity Series,” said Heather Williams, sports reporter for WCYB TV. “Nothing like a car needing to be towed to victory lane.”
Except Allmendinger’s black, orange and white No. 16 was so badly damaged in the aftermath of the crash, it wasn’t even able to be towed to Victory Lane. Allmendinger did his post-race winner’s interview from the Ballad Health Care Center, and after being checked and released, he walked to Victory Lane where he posed for photos with Food City, BMS and NASCAR officials without his car.
He said he was going for broke at the end, with the Xfinity season title on the line and the opportunity to claim a BMS Trophy and Gladiator Sword at The World’s Fastest Half-Mile, he wasn’t letting up.
“That was crazy at the end,” Allmendinger said. “We had about a fourth-place car. I slid into Austin trying to throttle up and stay on the bottom. I expected to get run into. It happened in the previous corner. It’s frustrating to get hit that hard coming to the checkers, but we’re battling for the win. It’s Bristol, baby. Whether you love me or hate me, this is what makes the sport bad ass.”
The race ended on a green-white-checker finish in overtime, and Allmendinger seemingly appeared out of nowhere to challenge for the victory.
“Last year’s Food City 300 was one of the most exciting races - and one of the most spectacular finishes – in Bristol history,” said David McGee, noted motorsports historian and author.
“What people may forget is that finish is the only time all night that A.J. led and it was in overtime,” McGee continued. “He was top-10 in both previous stages on a night when Justin Allgaier and Sam Mayer both led a lot, as did eventual season champion Daniel Hemric. But once Cindric got around Allgaier with less than 60 to go it looked like he would pull away to the title, but A.J. was just not to be denied on that final restart in overtime.”
With the victory, Allmendinger locked up his spot as the top seed for the Xfinity Series Playoffs. Just as significant, he checked off that important race car driver bucket list item of getting a win at The Last Great Colosseum.
“I haven’t had a lot of chances to get a win at Bristol, so you know what? When you have a chance to do it, you’ve got to go do it,” Allmendinger said. “If I don’t take that chance, I don’t belong in a race car, because my team deserves the win.”
It was such a wild night that runner-up Cindric heard from a vocal contingent in the grandstand after the race when he was interviewed by NBC pit reporter Marty Snider.
“He wanted to win really bad and I hate that it completely destroyed our Ford Mustang,” a visibly dejected Cindric told Snider in the heat of the moment. “I feel like maybe I shouldn’t have given up the bottom. It looked like the 7 (Allgaier) got loose there and then A.J. drove straight through us. Hey, a helluva race, and I tried.
“That’s why there's people in the grandstands, they want to see that battle,” Cindric continued. “As much as I hate it, it's about them, they love it. I just got booed and cheered tonight, I don't know what's going on.”
A recent panel of journalists, racing historians and Bristol experts ranked the race No. 2 on the top 10 list of wildest finishes in BMS history, behind the 1995 Night Race when Dale Earnhardt and Terry Labonte tangled for the first time on a final lap at Bristol. It received a lot of consideration to be ranked as the wildest finish.
“Move over Earnhardt-Labonte, there’s a new greatest finish in Bristol Motor Speedway history,” said Jeff Birchfield, veteran motorsports journalist for the Johnson City Press and Kingsport Times-News. “That was the lede I wrote for the next day's papers. While there may be other opinions where it ranks, no one can deny it was an all-time classic with A.J. Allmendinger and Austin Cindric pushing themselves and their cars to their absolute limits.”
Fans will want to make sure they are at BMS for the 2022 edition of America’s Night Race, Sept. 15-17, and cheer on more of NASCAR’s greatest drivers as they push their machines to the edge of high-performance potential. The weekend begins with Zane Smith, John Hunter Nemechek, Ben Rhodes and defending winner Chandler Smith battling for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory Thursday night in the UNOH 200 presented by Ohio Logistics (Sept. 15, 9 p.m., FS1, MRN Radio). The rising stars in the ARCA Menards Series also will take on the challenging half-mile bullring in the Bush’s Beans 200 as part of the Thursday night doubleheader (Sept. 15, 6:30 p.m., FS1, MRN Radio).
On Friday, Sparks are sure to fly once again in the Food City 300, as NASCAR Xfinity Series favorites Allmendinger, Allgaier, Noah Gragson, Austin Hill, Ty Gibbs and Josh Berry will be trying to lock in their Playoff positions in the season’s final regular season race (Sept. 16, 7:30 p.m., USA Network, PRN Radio) while others like Ryan Sieg, Landon Cassill and Sheldon Creed are in an intense battle to make one of the 12 Playoff spots. The stars of the NASCAR Cup Series will take to the track on Saturday for the Bass Pro Shops Night Race (Sept. 17, 7:30 p.m., USA Network, PRN Radio), you’ll get to see all of your favorite drivers racing hard to advance in the first elimination race of the Playoffs.
To purchase tickets, please visit www.bristolmotorspeedway.com or call the BMS Ticket Sales Center at (866) 415-4158. Fans can also purchase tickets at any Food City location through Sept. 6.
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To a child that is hospitalized and dealing with an injury, illness, or other trauma a soft, cuddly Teddy Bear can bring comfort, a smile and a ray of sunshine to the child’s outlook.
For National Teddy Bear Day, Friday, Sept. 9, South Boston Speedway Senior Director of Marketing and Administration Carly Brashears delivered Speedy Bears, bear houses, activity books, crayons, diecast race cars and stickers to Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital officials as part of the Sixth Annual Speedy Bear Brigade powered by Kaulig Giving.
South Boston Speedway, in partnership with The NASCAR Foundation, raised funds to provide Speedy Bears and other items to pediatric patients at the hospital. Funds for this year’s project were raised in a 50/50 drawing held during the speedway’s June 25 SRX event at the speedway.
“Last year the Speedy Bears put smiles on several of our kids’ faces,” said DeShonta Roberts, BSN, RN, Clinical Manager, Medicine Unit 3 (East 5) at Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital. “We appreciate the thoughtful donation of Speedy Bears and other goodies again this year. Thanks for providing our pediatric patients with a little buddy to hang on to for comfort during a time that can be very scary for them.”
The team at South Boston Speedway was very happy to be involved with the project that can help put a smile on the face of a child dealing with an illness or injury.
“It’s always a pleasure to partner with The NASCAR Foundation and find fun ways to brighten a child’s day when other moments in their world are feeling dark and scary,” Brashears said. “Hugging a teddy bear always makes me feel better, so I hope these Speedy Bears and other items bring smiles to many little faces! The team at South Boston Speedway is also very thankful Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital openly welcomed our outreach for this opportunity and volunteered to raise donations during the June 25 SRX event at the speedway.”
This year’s Speedy Bear Brigade powered by Kaulig Charitable Giving Programs are the biggest to date with nearly 70 hospitals participating in race markets across the United States and Mexico. The initiative culminates on National Teddy Bear Day on Friday, Sept. 9, with events in Akron, Ohio, home to Kaulig Giving headquarters and during NASCAR’s Kansas Speedway race weekend.
The Kaulig Foundation is a private family foundation of Northeast Ohio established in 2018 by Matt and Lisa Kaulig. Matt Kaulig is the owner of Kaulig Racing which fields entries in the NASCAR Xfinity Serries and NASCAR Cup Series. Halifax County, Virginia native Chris Rice, son of South Boston Speedway Consultant Cathy Rice, is the president of Kaulig Racing.
NASCAR fans are encouraged to join the Speedy Bear Brigade by making a $25 donation to The NASCAR Foundation to sponsor a Speedy Bear and send an inspirational message to a child in the hospital. As an additional incentive, Kaulig Giving has offered a $25,000 challenge grant.
Country Roads Truck Show Set Saturday, Sept. 17 At South Boston Speedway
The Country Roads Truck Show, featuring a wide variety of vehicles, will be held Saturday, September 17 from 12 noon until 5 p.m. in the infield area at South Boston Speedway.
This is the second year that the event hosted and promoted by Thorpe Money Ent., a North Carolina-based group that promotes numerous truck shows in the region, is being held at South Boston Speedway.
The Country Roads Truck Show is an event car and truck enthusiasts do not want to miss. Visitors to the show will also see classic and custom cars along with a wide variety of trucks, low riders, ATVs and much more.
04trac will be performing live during the show. Other artists will be announced later. The performances are sponsored by Kuntry Boys Tire & More.
Gates will open at 11 a.m. Tickets are priced at $20 each for spectators and $40 for showing and will be sold only at the gate on the day of the event. The only gate open for spectators and participants to enter the event is through the speedway’s pit gate located in turn two.
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(WXIN) – The world of Thomas the Tank Engine is welcoming its first character with autism to the island of Sodor.
Bruno the brake car will make his debut on the season 26 premiere of “Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go” on September 12 on Cartoon Network’s Cartoonito.
According to a release, Mattel Television crafted the character with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), Easterseals Southern California, and writers and spokespeople with autism, including Daniel Share-Strom and Aaron Likens.
Chuck Smith, the voice actor who plays Bruno, also has autism.
Bruno is described as a “detail-oriented” brake car that enjoys schedules and routines. He rolls in reverse at the rear of the train, said to give him a unique view of the world, much like people with autism.
A lantern on Bruno’s red exterior will indicate his emotional state, moving when he is excited or nervous.
Mattel said Bruno was carefully crafted to “ensure an accurate fictional representation of an autistic child in the real world.”
“The most important aspect of Bruno’s development was getting autistic input throughout the process of creating the character and his interactions with his world,” said Zoe Gross, director of advocacy at ASAN.
Bruno will feature in the broader realm of the Thomas and Friends franchise including on a YouTube series, musical album, “Thomas & Friends Storytime” podcast, an upcoming special, and select merchandise.
The upcoming season of “Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go” will feature new original songs as Thomas and his pals zip around tracks on adventures fueled by friendship.
The original “Thomas & Friends” television show debuted in 1984 and ran until 2021. “Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go” premiered in 2021 on Cartoon Network.
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This year’s group of 49er wide receivers are deemed the best under head coach Kyle Shanahan. San Francisco has a foundational mixture of talents that should unleash a new striking vertical offense. We will answer the looming questions for the five rostered wide receivers and look at a few plays to set the tone for the season below.
Can Aiyuk unlock his star potential?
I agree with Akash that Brandon Aiyuk will lead the 49ers in passes and catches. You can read his five hot takes for the 49ers’ 2022 season here. Shanahan had Aiyuk under a microscope last season, and tensions were eased when Aiyuk impacted the game.
The Aiyuk touchdown versus the Green Bay Packers in Week 3 was one of my favorite examples of Aiyuk redeeming himself last year. Aiyuk outgrew the rift with Shanahan by showing up when it matters. Accountability is significant in the NFL, and Aiyuk has owned everything Shanahan said.
An early glimpse of the Lance and Aiyuk stretching the field in 2022. The “Yac bros” have produced multiple quarterbacks, but Lance’s arm strength puts him in a different hemisphere. However, his deflating underthrow targeting Aiyuk versus the Houston Texans was a bit of a letdown. Look for the Lance to Aiyuk connection to be redeemed early versus the Chicago Bears Sunday.
This last play shows Aiyuk’s All-Pro potential. Explosive plays sell in the NFL, and Aiyuk can earn himself a hefty new deal with incredible plays like these.
Will the ‘wide back’ only play wide receiver this year?
Lance not being team captain with Jimmy Garoppolo on the roster is mildly alarming compared to Deebo Samuel not having a C patch. Samuel’s heroic efforts at wide back and receiver kept San Francisco’s offense afloat all year.
This 83-yard touchdown arguably saved Kyle Shanahan’s playoff hopes. However, Samuel made plays in numerous formations all over the field, and we’ll have to see if he is in a more reserved receiver role this year.
First, you see Samuel create an explosive play after recognizing man coverage. Then, the proof is in the pudding as to why Shanahan wants to give Samuel so many carries. Samuel has the best vision on the team and will continue to be a spark every time he touches the ball.
Samuel’s last effort is another “put the team on his back doe” play that set up a 49er touchdown. Shanahan’s offense can target more than the intermediate level of the field if Lance can nail his progressions.
Can Jennings continue to play at a high level?
Jauan Jennings showed why the 49ers kept him in the stable despite injuries when he showed he could use his 6-foot-3 frame. Jennings caught buzz in last year’s joint practices with the Los Angeles Chargers and kept the flame on third downs for the Niners through the regular season.
Every play in overtime feels like fourth down. Trailing in sudden death with playoff aspirations can feel like life and death, and I watched it on TV. Jennings catches this 50-50 ball with ice in his veins. Jennings can win at all three levels on the field and will be a key piece to a strong receiving core in San Francisco.
A fearless catch by Jennings on third down shows he “has that dog in him.” Jennings can be plugged anywhere and can have a solid contributing season. His physicality at the catch point should increase his targets.
How will the rookie Gray be used?
San Francisco selected Danny Gray out of SMU in the third round of the 2022 NFL Draft. The speedster will primarily line up in the slot with the threat of taking the top off any defense. Coaches will always say, “ you can’t coach speed or size.”
Gray had some inconsistencies in the preseason (as a rookie receiver should), but overall he looks to be a contributor in his first year. Stretching the defense vertically will be a new theme for San Francisco’s offense, and Gray nearly does that on every play. He can split two-high safeties from the slot, run past cornerbacks at any time, and turn upfield on speed outs. The three-play reel may not scream “All-Rookie” team, but it gives you a glimpse of how dynamic this 49er receiver core is.
Special teamer looking to become a reliable pass-catcher
Last but not least, we have former Pittsburgh Steelers Ray-Ray McCloud. McCloud led the NFL in punt return yards and had his most productive season as a receiver last year. That will only grow in an offense that’s known to share the wealth.
I expect McCloud to be used in a Rich James-like role where explosive plays will be there for the taking. I hate to compare McCloud to James’ lackluster production, but James was given several opportunities as a mid-intermediate to a deep threat. McCloud will have to prove he won’t turn the ball over, or we may see him in the dog house.
Outlook
None of these receivers can produce without opportunity, starting with Kyle Shanahan and the quarterback. The receivers can minimize turnovers by avoiding drops, running clean routes, and winning in one-on-one situations. San Francisco has too many ball winners that can create an explosive offense to have a dull offense. Lance has several weapons on hand for the Chicago Bears. It’s normal if the 49ers get off to a dull start; shoot, I’m sure several teams will, with the NFL kicking off with Week 1. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/9/23320384/49ers-aiyuk-samuel-jennings-gray | 2022-09-09T18:27:07Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/9/23320384/49ers-aiyuk-samuel-jennings-gray | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Sunday, the San Francisco 49ers will face off against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field Kickoff is scheduled for 10:00 AM on the west coast, meaning we are so close to having football back in our lives.
To help us prepare for the dawning of a new season and the first matchup on the 49ers' slate, we reached out to Windy City Gridiron to give fans an early scouting report on the Chicago Bears. Big thanks to Patti Curl for the informative responses!
You can check out my answers to Patti's questions right here.
1.) Going into his second season as the Bears'starting QB, there's been a big shakeup in the organization for Justin Fields, which includes a new coaching staff/front office, the departure of Allen Robinson, and four new faces along the offensive line. Do you think Fields has been put into a better position to grow and succeed this year, or is it just more of the same?
People will tell you continuity is good for a young quarterback, and it's bad to have three different offenses in three different years. That's fine conventional wisdom, but there are exceptions to every rule. When something's not working as bad as the Bears' offense was not working last year, any change is good, and I'm optimistic the specific changes in this instance go beyond addition by subtraction.
Luke Getsy is bringing some things that should be well suited to Fields from Green Bay, but he's also bringing the perspective that an offense should be built with the player's strengths in mind and adapt based on what's working and what isn't. Nagy seemed to want to remake the 2017 Chiefs despite wildly different players and the fact that the Chiefs have already evolved since that glorious moment in Nagy's own career.
The O line will likely start worse than last year: Jason Peters played well from them, and James Daniels was probably better than current new-to-guard starter Tevin Jenkins. But it's young and in a good position to develop throughout the year and into the future. The receiving corps is a work in progress, but Mooney was the functional WR1 last year, Velus Jones Jr. brings some exciting playmaking potential, and Pringle, Harry, (former 49er) Pettis, and St. Brown are all retreads with adequate floors and potential to show more with a new opportunity. That transition may be rough but should ultimately be for the best.
Overall, it will probably be a rocky transition that I'm confident will be more than worth it in the end.
2.) It was a bumpy season for Roquan Smith, undoubtedly the defense's best player, that culminated with a trade request. He's now decided to play out his rookie contract and let the chips fall where they may. What are the odds that Smith plays for the Bears in 2023?
That's a tough one. The Bears and Smith are clearly not on the same page vis a vis his value. I can see a scenario where he takes a leap forward playing Leonard's role in Matt Eberflus' defense, and the Bears feel comfortable paying him the top LB contract, and everyone is happy. But even if he plays like a top LB, there's no guarantee the Bears in a semi-rebuild will be willing to prioritize paying that position.
I also think the likelihood he plays on the tag is low—more likely a tag and trade—unless the Bears really believe they are pushing for a title in 2023, it doesn't make a lot of sense to spend the capital and lose the potential trade value for a year of great linebacker play in a strive-for-wildcard type season. I'll say 2:1 odds he's on a different team.
3.) Darnell Mooney has been slotted to fill the number one receiver role in Robinson's absence. While not possessing prototypical size (173 lbs, 5'11"), he quietly managed to compile 81 receptions, 1,055 yards, and 4 touchdowns. What should Niners fans look out for when they see Mooney on the field?
They should look to see their shiny new cornerback get roasted by one of the most underrated route runners in the league. Seriously, Mooney is a solid all-around receiver and good route runner who has developed some nice chemistry with Justin Fields. I think he'll have a good season that improves on last year's numbers, but he won't keep the Bears from eyeing the first-round receivers in next year's draft.
4.) What's the best, most realistic outcome for Matt Eberflus' first season as the Bears' head coach? What do you need to see from him to give you hope for the future and bury the memory of Matt Nagy forever?
The best, most realistic outcome is to finish the season around .500 with a top 14 defense by football outsiders' metrics. The offense will show growth over the course of the year, and Justin Fields will prove he can elevate the players around him. It will be clear the team plays hard while having significantly fewer penalties than last season. At least one Bear will have him as a groomsman at his wedding, and there will be an end-of-season karaoke party where he brings down the house with a rousing rendition of Bryan Adams's "Summer of '69."
5.) Do fans of the Chicago Bears have nightmares about Deebo Samuel's 83-yard tunnel screen scamper on 3rd and 20 that completely swung the game and season's momentum in the 49ers' favor? Or are those just reserved for Aaron Rodgers and his disputed ownership of the team?
Deebo's scamper falls into the category of momentarily annoying on the Bears fan torture scale. I'd honestly forgotten about it until you brought it up. Aaron Rodgers is a recurrent daymare for Bears fans, but he probably haunts Packers fans more at this point as they become increasingly anxious about how he will next embarrass them in the news or when he will eventually leave their team to a future of Jordan Love and perpetual mediocrity that slowly leads to an appropriate level of irrelevance for a cheese-drenched flyover team.
Bears fan nightmares generally revolve around Jim McMahon injuries, double doinks, and prior coaches and or quarterbacks returning to the team to repeat the greatest hits of humiliating blunders. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/9/23341969/49ers-bears-5-questions | 2022-09-09T18:27:13Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/9/23341969/49ers-bears-5-questions | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan joined KNBR Friday morning, saying, “I know I enjoyed it in the background, just watching the score,” of the Rams game on Thursday night.
It’s only Week 1, but that’s a tone-setter. Matthew Stafford’s arm looks toast. Los Angeles couldn’t block, run, or rely on anyone outside of Cooper Kupp. The Niners had to be licking their chops watching that game.
Shanahan, as always, had to talk about his quarterbacks. When asked if he was fully committed to Trey Lance since the team brought back Jimmy Garoppolo:
Guys, this is Trey’s first year starting for us. We were letting go a $24 million starting quarterback to do that. We got him back for a backup price. I don’t think that has to do with not having faith in your starter.
That’s the tone of someone frustrated from the same questions and the obvious disconnect between those on the outside and those in the locker room. In Kyle’s mind, the team got a bargain for Garoppolo. That’s why he remains on the roster.
He’s repeatedly stated that this is Trey’s team and even said both quarterbacks know Lance has the keys to the offense. But, as we’ve seen this week, it hasn’t stopped analysts from predicting Lance would lose his job.
Shanahan discussed how Garoppolo not landing elsewhere is why they went in the direction to bring him back. He also wasn’t too happy about Lance receiving criticism for not being named a captain:
“And the whole captain vote is kind of a joke to me. Bosa finally got enough votes to get up to No. 6 and look at those six people in front of Trey. I think they were all pretty worthy of that vote, and just to give it to a guy in his first year because he’s a quarterback, the only reason we would hae done that is to avoid questions in articles. And that’s really not what we do. We tried to do what the team votes for. If I would have guessed the votes, I would have guessed he would have been right where he was at, so I got really no problem with it at all.”
Kyle Juszczyk has been a captain before. Deebo Samuel, coming off a historical season, wasn’t named a captain. Yet, because of the position he plays, there was a mild uproar about Lance not being named a captain.
Samuel and Juszczyk play as large of a role as anyone on offense outside of the quarterback. Also, they’re proven stars in this league. It’s a silly argument, and I understand why Shanahan says it’s a joke.
We focus on these topics when there aren’t games to analyze. Thankfully, football is here. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/9/23344593/49ers-lance-captain-garoppolo-rams | 2022-09-09T18:27:19Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/9/23344593/49ers-lance-captain-garoppolo-rams | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After 11 Israeli athletes died in a terrorist attack, American runner Frank Shorter was sure the 1972 Olympics were over. Nothing’s worth more than human life, he thought: “We’re going home.”
But once the decision was made to continue the games, Shorter never hesitated. He would run in his event, the marathon, because not competing would mean “they win” — the terrorists. So on Sept. 10, 1972, Shorter toed the starting line in Munich, West Germany, where he had been born in 1947 while his father worked there as a military doctor, and he ran for the gold medal. He finished the 26.2-mile race in 2 hours, 12 minutes and 19 seconds, more than 2 minutes ahead of the second-place finisher.
Shorter was the first American winner of the Olympic Marathon since 1908 and no man from the United States has won it since. Joan Benoit won the women’s Olympic marathon in 1984, the first time the event was held for women. She’s the only American winner of the women’s event.
Frank Shorter’s 1972 Olympic gold medal. (Courtesy of Frank Shorter)
When Benoit ran into the stadium in Los Angeles in 1984 the crowd erupted. When Shorter entered the Olympic Stadium in West Germany 12 years earlier there was confusion. An imposter, a young man, had run onto the track before Shorter and crossed the finish line before he did. Shorter didn’t hear a cheering crowd: He heard whistles, which he interpreted as booing, and he wondered what was going on. He thought maybe that noise was aimed at him because Americans weren’t supposed to win the marathon. Shorter says his relatives watching on TV in the U.S. were more upset than he was, and anyone watching the ABC broadcast heard commentator Erich Segal shout, “That’s not Frank. That’s an imposter, get that guy off the track!” “Love Story” author Segal was a runner and had been one of Shorter’s professors at Yale University. The two got to talk about what happened that night when Segal took Shorter and his family out to dinner.
“I really never felt robbed, I didn’t feel cheated,” Shorter says about the imposter. “I realized I didn’t run for the roar. I didn’t run for that cheer because it has never bothered me.”
Shorter ran for other reasons. The biggest reason at that time in his life, at age 24, was his fellow runners: Athletes he trained and competed with, like Kenny Moore and Jack Bacheler. Both were on that 1972 U.S. Olympic team and ran the marathon with Shorter that September day when Shorter stood taller than anyone else on the podium.
“It was very important to me on the victory stand, thinking about representing the U.S. running community, which at that point had that been undervalued,” Shorter says, “and I knew I was so fortunate because I knew so many of the guys on the distance team who I’d trained with and were my friends. We were all together and we all made it to the Olympics and I was the fortunate one who got a medal.”
Kenny Moore just missed a medal in that 1972 Olympic Marathon. He finished 4th. (Jack Bacheler was 9th, by the way) and after those Olympics Moore wrote wonderful stories about running and runners for Sports Illustrated and other publications. Moore died May 4th, which makes this 50th anniversary of the 1972 Olympic Marathon bittersweet for Frank Shorter. “We were equals,” he told men, “maybe I wasn’t even his equal. Kenny was a wonderful man.”
Frank Shorter at his home in Falmouth, Massachusetts, holds a photo of him running in the 1972 Olympics. He won a gold medal in that marathon which occurred after 11 Israelis were killed at the Olympics. (Alex Ashlock)
On race day, Sept. 10, 1972, Shorter said he got up and he felt pretty good. That feeling carried over into the marathon. Nine miles into the race he did what had planned and trained to do. He picked up the pace. He surged. He looked back. No one followed him. He was alone and basically out of sight for much of the rest of the race because the Munich marathon course had a lot of twists and turns. His lead over the rest of the runners grew and grew. He was never threatened.
Sitting in his home in Falmouth, Massachusetts, 50 years later thinking about that race and his late friend Kenny Moore, Shorter wonders what would have happened if he had told Moore about the breakaway. Perhaps Moore would have joined him in the lead, and maybe he would have won his own medal.
“I kind of wished I had turned to him when we were warming up and said ‘Kenny I’m going early,'” Shorter says. It’s not a regret. It’s a big what if.
Shorter didn’t feel cheated when an imposter finished ahead of him in 1972. But after what happened at the Montreal Olympics in 1976, he did. An unknown runner from East Germany, Waldemar Cierpinski, won the gold medal in the marathon and Shorter won silver — but not the gold he deserves in hindsight. Cierpinski also won the 1980 Olympic Marathon in Moscow [an Olympics the U.S. boycotted after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan] but he was later implicated in East Germany’s state-sponsored doping system, dosing its athletes with performance-enhancing drugs. Shorter would eventually become a leading figure on the anti-doping movement.
Today, Shorter and his wife Michelle live in Falmouth, moving to Massachusetts from Colorado last year. Falmouth just happens to be home to a very famous road race (which the couple ran for the first time in August as residents) and part of the reason it’s famous is Shorter. A local bartender named Tommy Leonard watched him win the Olympic Marathon and thought, wouldn’t it be great if we could get Shorter to run on Cape Cod?
It took a couple of years but it happened. Shorter won his first Falmouth in 1975, repeated as champion the next year, and his duels with Bill Rodgers became the stuff of legend. And it’s partly thanks to that day in Munich, a day that also had a much bigger impact, way beyond Cape Cod. It helped launch a running boom in America, with countless people buying their first pair of running shoes and hitting the roads. Including me.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.klcc.org/2022-09-09/50-years-after-winning-the-olympic-marathon-frank-shorter-reflects-on-the-games-marked-by-tragedy | 2022-09-09T18:28:56Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/2022-09-09/50-years-after-winning-the-olympic-marathon-frank-shorter-reflects-on-the-games-marked-by-tragedy | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
With Red Flag warnings in place throughout western Oregon, utilities are planning to strategically shut down electricity to reduce the chance that wind-blown power lines will spark a new fire. That, plus the existing Cedar Creek Fire in eastern Lane County, has the region on high alert.
This post will be updated with new information about evacuations, power shutoffs, and related closures.
EVACUATIONS
A map of evacuation areas for the Cedar Creek Fire is available at this link.
As of late Friday morning, the following evacuation notices were in effect:
Level 3: (GO NOW)
A large swath of wilderness and forest areas to the north and east of Waldo Lake
Level 2: (BE SET)
The High Prairie area of Oakridge, including all of High Prairie Rd, Brock Rd, Bar BL Ranch Rd, Nubian Way, Mountain View Rd, and Huckleberry Lane.
Some forested areas east and north of Waldo Lake. Refer to this website for specific areas.
Level 1: (BE READY)
All of Oakridge and Westfir, excluding the High Prairie area, which is in Level 2.
ROAD CLOSURES
All primary highways remain open at this time, including Oregon Hwy 58. Some Forest Service roads in the vicinity of the Cedar Creek Fire are closed, and forest officials urge people to stay out of the area.
Separately, a planned two-week closure of U.S. Highway 20 east of Sweet Home for construction has been delayed until at least Sunday because of the high wind in the forecast.
POWER SHUTOFFS
Known as "Public Safety Power Shutoffs," the pre-emptive action is meant to reduce the chance of rapid wildfire spread during windy conditions. These shutoffs have been used in California, but have been rarely deployed in Oregon. The following list is from information provided to KLCC, or gleaned from utility websites, but may not be exhaustive. Some utilities have been notifying affected customers directly.
EWEB:
Power outages will start as soon as 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9. Power outages will impact about 3,000 customers east of Hayden Bridge up to Vida, including the following areas: Camp Creek and Upper Camp Creek, Cedar Flats, Deerhorn, Walterville
Lane Electric Cooperative:
Lane Electric Cooperative will implement a public safety power shutoff starting at 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9 through the evening of Saturday, Sept. 10. This outage will impact nearly all members, with the city centers of Oakridge, Lowell, and Veneta remaining powered to provide key services.
Pacific Power:
The utility has designated areas in six western Oregon counties for possible shutoffs, including parts of Douglas, Linn, Marion, Polk, Lincoln and Tillamook Counties. As of 11 a.m. on Friday, power remained on in those areas. Pacific Power said it anticipates shutting power to affected communities later in the day on Friday. The utility has a map of potentially affected areas on its website.
Pacific Power has also announced the opening of three "community resource centers" in areas that could be affected by power shutoffs. The centers will be open from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, unless power is restored sooner. The locations are:
Glide High School – 18990 N. Umpqua Highway, Glide.
Bethel Baptist Church – 645 Cleveland Street, Aumsville
Sankey Park – 877 14th Ave, Sweet Home
Consumers Power:
The utility said it "may execute" a Public Safety Power Shutoff in the following areas: Sweet Home, Stayton, Scio, Lyons, Elkhorn, Detroit, Idanha, Marion Forks, and the Rogers Mountain and Mt. Tom areas. As of mid-day Friday, no outages were reported in the Consumers Power service area. However, with conditions expected to change throughout the day, outages may occur with no advance notice.
EPUD:
EPUD did not list any planned outages on its website, but says response times may be longer and wind-related outages are more likely to occur.
Portland General Electric:
By mid-day Friday, Portland General Electric had already implemented Public Safety Power Shutoffs in the Mount Hood and Columbia River Gorge, along with Estacada and Scotts Mills. The utility said additional shutoffs are expected throughout the day, including in Oregon City, Portland's West Hills, and areas of higher elevation in parts of Washington and Yamhill Counties. The utility has a website listing current and anticipated outages.
SCHOOL CLOSURES
Sweet Home schools are closed Friday.
Oakridge Schools released students at 10:30 a.m. Friday. All afternoon and evening activities are canceled.
Crow-Applegate-Lorane School Dist.: Due to power outage, all schools are ending at 12:30pm Friday. Normal bus routes will take students home and families are welcome to pick up. No after school care. | https://www.klcc.org/disasters-accidents/2022-09-09/power-shutoffs-and-evacuations | 2022-09-09T18:29:28Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/disasters-accidents/2022-09-09/power-shutoffs-and-evacuations | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Garrels, who died Sept. 7, reported on conflicts from the U.S.S.R., China, Bosnia and Afghanistan. Her most heralded dispatches were from the 2003 Iraq war. Originally broadcast in 2003.
Copyright 2022 Fresh Air
Garrels, who died Sept. 7, reported on conflicts from the U.S.S.R., China, Bosnia and Afghanistan. Her most heralded dispatches were from the 2003 Iraq war. Originally broadcast in 2003.
Copyright 2022 Fresh Air | https://www.klcc.org/npr-world-news/2022-09-09/remembering-npr-international-correspondent-anne-garrels | 2022-09-09T18:29:47Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/npr-world-news/2022-09-09/remembering-npr-international-correspondent-anne-garrels | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WRPD arrests 4 for drugs, guns
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Warner Robins Police Department made 4 arrests Wednesday for drug sales.
According to WRPD, Narcotics investigators served a search warrant at 311 Woodlawn Avenue around 1 p.m. and arrested 4 people after finding several different drugs.
The 4 arrested have charges ranging from Sale of THC, Sale of Psychedelics, Sale of Edible THC, Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Firearms, as well as singular charges for Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, and Tampering with Evidence on two of those arrested. One of the 4 arrested is 16-years-old, so they were released to the Houston County Juvenile Division.
The other 3, Kristopher Dickerson, Michelle Pait, and Davion Marshall were taken to the Houston County Detention facility. | https://www.41nbc.com/4-arrested-in-warner-robins-for-drugs-guns/ | 2022-09-09T18:30:15Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/4-arrested-in-warner-robins-for-drugs-guns/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WRPD arrests 4 for drugs, guns
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Warner Robins Police Department made 4 arrests Wednesday for drug sales.
According to WRPD, Narcotics investigators served a search warrant at 311 Woodlawn Avenue around 1 p.m. and arrested 4 people after finding several different drugs.
The 4 arrested have charges ranging from Sale of THC, Sale of Psychedelics, Sale of Edible THC, Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Firearms, as well as singular charges for Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, and Tampering with Evidence on two of those arrested. One of the 4 arrested is 16-years-old, so they were released to the Houston County Juvenile Division.
The other 3, Kristopher Dickerson, Michelle Pait, and Davion Marshall were taken to the Houston County Detention facility. | https://www.41nbc.com/4-arrested-in-warner-robins-for-drugs-guns/ | 2022-09-09T18:30:15Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/4-arrested-in-warner-robins-for-drugs-guns/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Chevron on Emery Highway robbed, BCSO looking for suspects
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an armed robbery that took place in the early hours of Friday, September 9th, at a Macon gas station.
According to BCSO, the incident happened around 2:05 a.m., when 2 male suspects entered the Chevron gas station at 584 Emery Highway and brandished a long rifle, demanding money from the cash registers. After taking the cash, the suspects ran towards Woolfolk Street. Nobody was injured during the incident.
Both suspects were seen wearing dark clothing and masks.
Anyone with information about this incident is urged to call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
Stay with 41NBC for more updates as information is released. | https://www.41nbc.com/chevron-on-emery-highway-robbed-bcso-looking-for-suspects/ | 2022-09-09T18:30:21Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/chevron-on-emery-highway-robbed-bcso-looking-for-suspects/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Chevron on Emery Highway robbed, BCSO looking for suspects
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an armed robbery that took place in the early hours of Friday, September 9th, at a Macon gas station.
According to BCSO, the incident happened around 2:05 a.m., when 2 male suspects entered the Chevron gas station at 584 Emery Highway and brandished a long rifle, demanding money from the cash registers. After taking the cash, the suspects ran towards Woolfolk Street. Nobody was injured during the incident.
Both suspects were seen wearing dark clothing and masks.
Anyone with information about this incident is urged to call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
Stay with 41NBC for more updates as information is released. | https://www.41nbc.com/chevron-on-emery-highway-robbed-bcso-looking-for-suspects/ | 2022-09-09T18:30:21Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/chevron-on-emery-highway-robbed-bcso-looking-for-suspects/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The stray dogs' menace in Kerala has caught the attention of the Supreme Court that on Friday urged the state government to find a solution.
Hearing a batch of petitions on the growing issue of stray dog bites in the state, a Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and JK Maheshwari also said those feeding the strays 'should be responsible for vaccinating them'.
A report in Live Law quoted Justice Sanjiv Khanna's oral remark. "I am also a dog lover and there are many other dog lovers here… What I had thought was that the people who feed dogs should be allowed to do so, they can keep a number or mark on the dog and they will be responsible for vaccinating them and bearing the cost if a person is attacked," remarked the Justice.
'Sterilisation is best option, open for suggestions'
Kerala's newly appointed Minister for Local Self Government Department, MB Rajesh said it was hopeful of coming up with practical solutions when the matter comes up for hearing before the Supreme Court next on September 28.
Rajesh told Manorama News that the government will also address the problem with food-waste disposal along with finding other possible options to ensure public safety.
"The best solution right now is sterilisation and urgent steps are being taken. But we are getting suggestions from all corners, including the possibility of enclosing stray dogs in the respective panchayat facilities and feeding them regularly," said Rajesh.
The minister also alleged that there was rampant abandonment of pet dogs. "There is also an argument that pet dogs abandoned by their owners are attacking people. And post-Covid there has been a rampant abandonment of dogs, which is something that cannot be allowed either." | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/09/stray-dog-attacks-kerala-supreme-court.html | 2022-09-09T18:33:50Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/09/stray-dog-attacks-kerala-supreme-court.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Yakama Nation awarded $400k for sex offender notification
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Marjorie Hobart and Cragg Hines have been tapped as the Arlington County Democratic Committee’s “Distinguished Democrats” for 2022.
The two will be honored during an event to be held Sept. 17 in Crystal City.
Hobart was the longtime executive director of the Arlington Education Association. Hines is a retired journalist. Both have been active in multiple roles for local Democrats.
The Distinguished Democrat award is effectively a lifetime-achievement accolade presented by the party while also raising funds in the heart of election season. Previous recipients have included Peg Hogan, Charley Conrad, Herschel Kanter, Joan McDermott, Charlene Bickford, Richard and Jean Barton, Sharon Davis and, last year, the couple Tom and Mary Margaret Whipple.
For information, see the Website at www.arlingtondemocrats.org.
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COVID-era learning loss, building security, the persistent academic-achievement gap and the future of capital projects all were part of the Arlington School Board candidate forum held Sept. 6 and sponsored by the Arlington County Civic Federation.
“We need to get our schools back on track,” said James “Vell” Rives, who like his opponent Bethany Sutton has more than 20 years’ residency in the county and several students currently in its public schools.
That means keeping classrooms open “no matter what it takes,” Rives said during the forum.
Unlike the County Board debate that immediately preceded it and focused largely on the twin topics of housing and zoning, the School Board questions and answers were on a broader array of issues. Both candidates seemed in agreement that the current School Board and school-system leadership were at risk of losing further trust with the community.
Sutton, who garnered the Arlington County Democratic Committee’s endorsement and therefore stands as the odds-on favorite come Nov. 8, said many in the community believe that the School Board “simply rubber-stamps” proposals brought to it by the staff, although she added that oversight is “sufficient” at the present time – while musing aloud whether “sufficient” was the standard Arlington parents and students should expect.
Neither oversight of senior staff nor community engagement is “close to sufficient,” countered Rives, who criticized School Board members for not taking formal votes on issues ranging from the closure of schools in the wake of the pandemic to the removal of school-resource officers.
The 2022 School Board race comes as evidence mounts at the local, state and federal levels that school leaders may have made a catastrophic error in judgment in keeping classrooms closed as long as they did in the wake of COVID’s first arrival. Learning loss remains palpable in the recently released state Standards of Learning exams, or SOLs, taken by students last spring, even though some Northern Virginia school leaders have attempted to put a fig leaf over the shortcomings by suggesting they are moving back toward pre-pandemic levels.
At the forum, Rives hit the (now deferred) proposal to eliminate grading of student homework, while Sutton said the school system has to do more to solve the seemingly intransigent gaps in achievement between students of various socioeconomic groups.
While there has been a rotating band of School Board members in recent years, the five-member body has been exclusively under the control of Democrats since the departure in 2007 of Republican David Foster.
Rives said discussion and decision-making would benefit from having “just one person” – in this instance, him – “from outside their circle.” But getting into office is a heavy lift for anyone who doesn’t have the Democratic endorsement.
The seat opened up when Barbara Kanninen announced she would not seek a third four-year term. Kanninen becomes the fourth board member to depart in three years, following Tannia Talento (four years), Nancy Van Doren (six years) and Monique O’Grady (four years) out the door.
Kanninen in 2020 ran for the Democratic endorsement in a special election necessitated by the death of County Board member Erik Gutshall.
Though leading in total votes, Kanninen did not receive the requisite 50 percent and found herself leapfrogged in later rounds of “ranked-choice” voting by Takis Karantonis, who won the endorsement, the subsequent special election and then the 2021 general election.
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Participation in the 2022 Northern Virginia Senior Olympics will stand 20 percent higher from last year, with the oldest participant more than double the minimum age of 50 years old.
A total of 831 individuals have registered for the 40th annual competition, with opening ceremonies slated for Saturday, Sept. 10 at 9:30 a.m. at Thomas Jefferson Community Center in Arlington, followed by track competition indoors at the facility.
Running through Sept. 24, competition will take place at 25 different venues, with participants competing in 70-plus events.
“Pickleball, track, field and table tennis have garnered the most registrants,” said Herb Levitan, who chairs the non-profit organizing committee.
The most seasoned of competitors is Vera Punke of Arlington, who has registered to play duplicate bridge. She is 107 years young.
Northern Virginia Senior Olympics is sponsored by the governments of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, Fauquier and Prince William counties and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church, along with the financial contributions of sponsors.
All events are open to the public; results will be posted on the organization’s Website at www.nvso.us throughout the competition. Northern Virginia Senior Olympics began in 1982 with just 75 participants.
Though canceled in 2020 owing to the pandemic, it returned in the fall of 2021.
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Coco Gauff will make her Top 10 debut in singles when the WTA rankings are updated on Monday, Sept.12. She will become the youngest player to reach this ranking bracket in 16 years.
Gauff's spot within the Top 10 was secured following her run to the US Open quarterfinals.
At 18 years and 183 days old, Gauff will be the youngest woman to debut in the Top 10 since 17-year-old Nicole Vaidisova in 2006. She is also the youngest American to achieve the feat since Serena Williams at age 17 in 1999.
In addition to making the last eight at the US Open, Gauff has enjoyed a stellar season in 2022, highlighted by her first Grand Slam final at Roland Garros. She also advanced to the semifinals of the WTA 250 Adelaide International and WTA 500 bett1open (Berlin), and reached the quarterfinals at WTA 1000 events at the Qatar TotalEnergies Open (Doha), National Bank Open presented by Rogers (Toronto) and WTA 500 Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic (San Jose).
She will be the third American to make her Top 10 debut this season, following in the footsteps of Danielle Collins in January and Jessica Pegula in June.
This is the second major ranking milestone for Gauff this season. She earned the WTA World No.1 Doubles Ranking in August, where she became the second-youngest player in history to achieve this feat.
Click here to read more on Gauff's season and journey to the WTA Top 10.
Coco Gauff set to break into WTA Top 10 for first time
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NEW YORK -- It’s appropriate the two most dominant players of the year will play the last match of this season's last Grand Slam. Iga Swiatek has more wins than anyone else on tour and can become the first woman to win two majors in a single season since Angelique Kerber did it six years ago. Ons Jabeur, second behind Swiatek in wins, is playing in her second straight major final.
No one is trending this year in tennis quite like Jabeur. Before making the Wimbledon final, Jabeur had played in 20 Grand Slam tournaments and never progressed past the quarterfinals. On Saturday, she takes on Swiatek (4 p.m. ET) for the US Open title.
This one, Jabeur said, already feels different.
😘
— wta (@WTA) September 9, 2022
Two worthy #USOpen finalists 🙌@iga_swiatek | @Ons_Jabeur pic.twitter.com/WrO5W4now7
“Feels more real, to be honest with you just to be in the finals again,” she told reporters after defeating Caroline Garcia 6-1, 6-3 in the semifinals. “At Wimbledon I was kind of just living the dream, and I couldn’t believe it. Even just after the match, I was just going to do my things and not realizing it was an amazing achievement already.
Swiatek vs. Jabeur: Who has the advantage in the US Open final?
“But now just I hope I’m getting used to it, just happy the fact that I backed up the results in Wimbledon and people are not really surprised I’m in the finals, but just going and going and just doing my thing.”
Jabeur will do her thing one more time Saturday afternoon at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center when she faces Swiatek, who fought through a difficult semifinal, but played her best tennis down the stretch.
Advantage whom? WTA Insider Courtney Nguyen and Greg Garber each make a case for their victory.
Advantage, Swiatek
Greg, let me just quote Jabeur herself:
“You know, Iga never loses finals, so it's going to be very tough.”
In the past two years, no one has been able to stop the Swiatek train on championship weekend. She has not come close to losing a set in her past nine finals, which includes two Roland Garros titles and five WTA 1000s. In their only match this year in the Rome final, Swiatek recalls the match being “really tight.”
Swiatek won it 6-2, 6-2.
💪🏼Keep believing. Keep fighting. Keep improving. What a night, What a feeling. See you in the @usopen final!
— Iga Świątek (@iga_swiatek) September 9, 2022
💪🏼Nie przestawaj wierzyć. Nie przestawaj walczyć. Nie przestawaj pracować. Co za wieczór...Widzimy się w finale US Open! pic.twitter.com/d9qWFVmWET
Look, I’m not blind. I’ll concede that Jabeur has looked in better form all tournament. This has not been the Swiatek we saw run roughshod over the tour for the first half of the season. She has had to scratch and claw her way through as she battled herself, the opponents and the conditions.
“Here I just try to accept maybe that sometimes I'm not going to trust myself,” Swiatek said, “and I still needed to prove to myself in a couple of matches against heavy hitters, to see how it's going to go and maybe come back a couple more times.”
Swiatek has done her best with what she has on any given day and her problem-solving has been impressive. Unlike Jabeur, Swiatek has beaten not one, but two Top 10 players in New York. A win Saturday would be her 10th straight against Top 10 opposition.
2013 - Iga Swiatek is the first female player to reach the final at the Roland Garros and at the US Open in the same campaign since Serena Williams in 2013. Collector.@WTA @WTA_insider #USOpen #USOpen2022 #USOpentennis pic.twitter.com/9e8F345vyK
— OptaAce (@OptaAce) September 9, 2022
"In Indian Wells, I had a pretty similar situation, because it's so dry out there that I had also a hard time controlling the ball,” Swiatek said. “At the end, I did. I played some three-set matches, but still I was the one to win it. It's something that I needed, that I didn't have when I was younger, to actually be able to sometimes, maybe not win ugly, but win when you're not feeling 100% on.
On Saturday, Swiatek, 21, has a chance to be the youngest player to hold three career majors in the same season since Maria Sharapova (who was 20 when she won the 2008 Australian Open). All signs point to Swiatek further cementing herself as one of the game's "biggest champions." -- Courtney Nguyen
Advantage, Jabeur
As you know, Courtney, it’s a bottom-line business.
Well, Jabeur has simply won more matches over the past two years than any other player -- 92. More than Swiatek, more any of the six different Grand Slam champions that have been crowned over that time. And now, she’s poised to become the seventh.
Jabeur ousts Garcia to reach second straight Grand Slam final
A lot of people (including me) thought Garcia had a chance to win this thing. She was the hottest player in tennis, with a streak of 13 consecutive victories going back to Cincinnati, but Jabeur threw cold water on her, beating her at her own power game.
7 - Ons #Jabeur is only the 7th female player to reach the final in Wimbledon and at the #USOpen in the same year since 2000 after Venus Williams, Lindsay Davenport, Serena Williams, Justine Henin, Vera Zvonareva and Angelique Kerber. Phenomenal.@WTA @WTA_insider pic.twitter.com/hUDXbn5RQU
— OptaAce (@OptaAce) September 9, 2022
There were eight aces, 21 winners -- and for the first time in her 57 matches this year, Jabeur did not yield a single break point. At the same time, she won 42 of the 67 rallies of four shots or fewer.
For the tournament, Jabeur has a stout 34 aces -- and has won return games 55 percent of the time (31-for-56). Those are nice numbers to have going into the last Grand Slam match of the year.
“But she did read very well my serve, always bringing back the first serve,” Garcia told reporters. “Didn’t give me a lot of points. That’s what it feels like. I had no free points.
“Her placement and target are really good. She mixed it up pretty good. Her ball toss is pretty low, so it’s kind of weird to read, kind of unusual. It does not bounce very high, so it’s pretty low on slice. Yeah, it’s a combination of everything.”
Jabeur has split her four matches against Swiatek, with the two-time French Open champion winning their last meeting.
The loss to Elena Rybakina in the Wimbledon final had a lingering effect on Jabeur -- and I suspect, in the larger picture, that was a good thing. Jabeur was in a funk in the summer hard-court season, losing three of five matches in San Jose, Toronto and Cincinnati. But here at the US Open, she’s rediscovered her rhythm, her eclectic verve.
As the first African and Arab woman to progress to these highest levels of professional tennis, Jabeur has received a great deal of attention. But as Garcia noted, it comes with a price.
“I’m sure it’s a lot of pressure on her shoulder,” Garcia said. “But she looks like to be managing it really well.”
The win against Ajla Tomljanovic -- who took out Serena Williams in the third round -- in the quarterfinals featured a 10-8 tiebreak win in the first set that underlined her determination. That will, that want-to will carry Jabeur to a first major title come Saturday. -- Greg Garber | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2786987/can-jabeur-stop-swiatek-the-game-s-best-closer-in-the-us-open-final- | 2022-09-09T18:40:16Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2786987/can-jabeur-stop-swiatek-the-game-s-best-closer-in-the-us-open-final- | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
8 wounded, 2 fatally, in Chicago shootings Thursday
CHICAGO - Two men died and six other people were shot Thursday in Chicago, including a gunman killed and two bystanders wounded in a shootout shortly after midnight on the West Side.
- About 12:30 a.m., a 53-year-old man and another man were arguing in the 5800 block of West Madison Street when they each drew a gun and started shooting, Chicago police said. The 53-year-old was shot multiple times and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died. A woman, 42, and a man, 23, who were nearby were wounded. The man was shot twice in the back and was transported to Mount Sinai Hospital. The woman was taken to Stroger Hospital with a gunshot wound to the arm. Both were listed in fair condition. The other gunman fled the area on foot.
- Late Thursday, a 28-year-old man was fatally shot while outside his car in East Garfield Park on the West Side. He was in the 3100 block of West Madison Street when two people walked up and one of them fired a handgun about 11:50 p.m., police said. The man was shot in the chest and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died.
- Earlier in the day, a man was shot while driving in Gage Park on the Southwest Side. The man, 29, was in the 3300 block of West 54th Street when a person shot toward his car about 4:20 p.m., striking him in the leg, police said. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition.
- A 23-year-old woman was injured in a drive-by shooting in Roseland on the South Side about five hours later. She was standing on a sidewalk in the 10800 block of South Michigan Avenue when a car drove up and someone inside opened fire about 9:15 p.m., police said. She was taken to Christ Medical Center in good condition with a gunshot wound to the arm.
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A 33-year-old man hospitalized in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the chest was among at least two other people wounded by gunfire Thursday in Chicago.
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British royal family members receive new titles following death of Queen Elizabeth II
LONDON - Royal family members of the House of Windsor have received new titles after the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96.
After Britain's longest-reigning monarch died at Balmoral Castle Thursday, Prince Charles immediately succeeded his mother as king of the U.K.
In addition to Charles, Prince William, Kate Middleton and Charles’ wife, Camilla Parker-Bowles, assumed new titles, with potential new titles for Prince Edward and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's children — Archie and Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor.
King Charles III and Camilla, Queen Consort wave after viewing floral tributes to the late Queen Elizabeth II outside Buckingham Palace on Sept. 9, 2022 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
Prince Charles inherited his late father Prince Philip's title, the Duke of Edinburgh, following Philip's death in 2021.
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After Prince Charles ascended to the throne Thursday, Prime Minister Liz Truss confirmed his new title in a speech honoring the queen outside Downing Street.
"Today the crown passes, as it has done for more than a thousand years, to our new monarch, our new head of state, His Majesty King Charles III," Truss said.
In addition to his title of the Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward was named the Earl of Forfar by Queen Elizabeth on his 55th birthday in 2019.
However, King Charles III could pass down his former Duke of Edinburgh title to his younger brother.
Royal experts are divided over whether he will choose to appoint the dukedom to Prince Edward as the new reigning monarch has previously indicated a wish to streamline the monarchy.
Prior to the queen's passing, Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton's official titles were the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
The couple will now be known as the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and Cambridge, a change that was confirmed by the renaming of their official social media accounts.
The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall are titles traditionally bestowed on the eldest son of Britain's reigning ruler and his wife.
In addition, they may be given the Prince and Princess of Wales, titles that were previously held by William's father Charles, and late mother Diana.
Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis (C), accompanied by their parents the Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, arrive for a settling in afternoon at Lambrook School, near Ascot on Sept. 7, 2022 in Brac
King Charles III's wife Camilla Parker-Bowles, formerly the Duchess of Cornwall, has become Queen Consort.
After Camilla married Charles in 2005, it was announced she would take the title of Princess Consort instead of Queen Consort when her spouse became king. The decision was made out of respect to Charles' late ex-wife Princess Diana.
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall during her visit to the Antiques Roadshow at The Eden Project on Sept. 6, 2022 in Par, England. (Photo by Hugh Hastings - WPAPool/Getty)
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However, Queen Elizabeth released a statement in February 2022 in which she announced her wish to bestow the title of Queen Consort on Camilla.
"When in the fullness of time, my son Charles becomes King, know you will give him and his wife Camilla the same support you have given me; and it is my sincere wish that, when that time comes, Camilla will be known as Queen Consort as she continues her own loyal service," Queen Elizabeth said.
Though Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle will retain their titles as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after stepping away from their role as senior royals in 2020, their son Archie and daughter Lilibet could possibly become a prince and princess.
FILE - Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and their baby son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor meet Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his daughter Thandeka Tutu-Gxashe at the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation during their royal tour o
In 1917, King George V issued a decree that the children and grandchildren of a reigning sovereign have the automatic right to the titles prince or princess and HRH (His/Her Royal Highness).
As King Charles III has taken the throne, his grandchildren Archie and Lilibet have technically become royals.
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Chicago City Council committee endorses ordinance to protect abortion rights
CHICAGO - Illinois in general and Chicago in particular are an oasis of freedom surrounded by states that have enacted what activists call "extreme anti-abortion" and anti-gender affirming laws in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
On Thursday, Chicago alderpersons took a giant step toward making certain out-of-staters arriving in the city seeking care unavailable in their home states are not further victimized by becoming targets of investigation.
The Committee on Health and Human Relations approved an ordinance championed by Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez (33rd).
It would prohibit the Chicago Police Department or any other agency of local government from cooperating in investigations that seek to criminalize women who come to Chicago seeking abortions and other reproductive care. It would also shield medical providers who treat those patients and those who help, such as by providing information, transportation and housing.
Modeled after the Welcoming Cities Ordinance that has made Chicago a "sanctuary city" for undocumented residents, the ordinance also calls for expanding Chicago’s 311 non-emergency line to provide information and resources to people seeking access to abortion and gender-affirming care.
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"I want to thank the immigrant rights movement for giving us the blueprint — for fighting so hard — so that Chicago could be a welcoming city for immigrants, which now we can use to protect everybody else. Everybody else that is in need of refuge," Rodriguez Sanchez told her colleagues.
"This speaks to how our struggles are interconnected and how our city is responsible for acting with solidarity towards the people that are the most marginalized and the most impacted by a system that oppresses them."
Mike Ziri, director of public policy for Equality Illinois, said reproductive rights and LGBTQ rights are "inextricably linked to the right to privacy, bodily autonomy and the freedom to be ourselves and build our own families without discrimination or criminalization."
He "believed" Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas when he wrote in his concurring opinion overturning Roe v. Wade that the Supreme Court "should reconsider its past rulings protecting contraception, same-sex relationships and same-sex marriage," Ziri said.
But, Ziri added: "Attacks against LGBTQ communities are not what is next on the agenda. They’re already happening."
"The attorney general of Texas … said he would defend any Texas law that sought to re-criminalize same-sex relationship. Also in Texas, parents of trans youth are being accused … and investigated by state government of ‘child abuse’ for affirming and supporting their trans children. Just for loving their children. And in Florida recently, the state government has ended Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care for all ages," Ziri said.
Likewise, Brigid Leahy, vice president of public policy for Planned Parenthood of Illinois, said there has been a "dramatic surge in patients forced to flee" abortion bans in their home states.
It’s expected to increase dramatically — with an "immediate impact" on Chicago — when Indiana’s abortion goes into effect next week, she said.
"Abortion patients from other states are often confused and anxious about what the laws are here and whether or not they might be at risk of prosecution or civil action for coming to Illinois for care. This ordinance will make sure that the city’s resources are not used to further intimidate, harass and block these patients from getting the care that they need," she said.
Alicia Hurtardo of the Chicago Abortion Fund talked about pressures facing out of state patients seeking refuge in Chicago.
"One woman flying from Texas across multiple state lines with her young daughter just to come to Illinois to pick up pills for her abortion, since she couldn’t access care in her home state. A caller drove five hours to get here from Ohio because their appointment was already canceled at home due to the implementation of a six-week ban. This caller didn’t trust making an appointment in Indiana, even though it was closer, just in case another ban was put in place. Which now we know isn’t an off-base assumption to make," she said.
"We’re here to take that logistical and financial burden off of our callers as much as we can. But protection from criminalization is something that we’re leaning on our … elected officials to provide."
In 1985, then-Mayor Harold Washington issued an executive order prohibiting city employees from enforcing federal immigration laws.
He made the move — setting stage for Chicago’s sanctuary city ordinance — to protest the federal government’s decision to question people seeking city services and conduct random searches of city records in an effort to find and prosecute undocumented immigrants.
Two months ago, Lightfoot followed Washington’s playbook, signing an executive order enacting those same protections for those seeking abortions and gender-affirming care in Chicago.
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Cyclist killed in Chicago crash devoted time to help disadvantaged youth
CHICAGO - Friends remember the joking and the laughter that always followed Samuel Bell, who relished his work on behalf of disadvantaged youth.
"Sam had some of the most amazing stories [about] these children whose brothers and fathers died due to gang violence," said Kevin Klein, a friend who worked with Bell at the Midtown Educational Foundation. "He was able to work with these kids to keep them off the street and keep them on a good path."
Thursday morning, Bell was riding a motorized bike in the 700 block of North Milwaukee Avenue in River West when a driver in a Hyundai sedan hit him, according to Chicago police. He died at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He was 44.
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The driver was cited for failing to yield the right of way on a left turn.
Samuel Bell (Provided)
The Midtown Educational Foundation works with low-income youth in Chicago by providing programs aimed at academic excellence, virtue development, individual attention and parental engagement, according to the organization’s mission statement.
"Meeting these kids he mentored as high schoolers or sixth graders as adults, and seeing the impact he had on their lives and the regard that they held him in, was just so amazing," Klein said. "He was so focused on helping others."
Angel Justiniano, 30, was in a program at the organization from 4th grade through high school before he became a program manager for the organization in college and began working with Bell.
He told the Sun-Times that Bell also worked as a board member and "brought in dozens of people within the organization who donated their time and resources."
"He stayed committed to the organization and the mission, and that was just him," Justinianao said. "He made it [the organization] his second home. If you reach out to anyone in the organization who had association with it in the last 12, 13, 14 years, they know who Sam Bell was and what he did."
Justinianao described Bell as someone who was "exactly what you’d want in a friend and mentor."
"It’s this aura about him, it was genuine," Justiniano said. "He was the guy in the room that everyone gravitated toward.
"Every time I think of him, I’ll think of him in a sharp suit always looking awesome, but also having such a great personality and being very personable," Justiniano added.
That was just as true during pick-up basketball games among volunteers and staff members.
"He was always the guy on the court to make you laugh," Justiniano said. "If you missed a shot, he’d let you know about it."
Klein described Bell as a "very outgoing person and the life of the party." He recalls one year where he and Bell wore matching homemade astronaut costumes for Halloween.
"He always wanted to make sure everybody had a good time," Klein said. "He would go well out of his way to make sure you were smiling, even if he didn’t know you very well."
Those who knew Bell were in shock after learning about his death.
"I feel like if I text him right now, I’d get a text back," Justinianao said, his voice breaking. "I know he probably wouldn’t want me to tear up … He’d probably tell me to man up or make a joke.
"He’d want us to have a beer in his memory and remember him for all the good times and take it from there." | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/cyclist-killed-in-chicago-crash-devoted-time-to-help-disadvantaged-youth | 2022-09-09T18:44:00Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/cyclist-killed-in-chicago-crash-devoted-time-to-help-disadvantaged-youth | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Fire at St. Charles home causes $100K worth of damage
ST. CHARLES, Ill. - A home in St. Charles caught fire Thursday night, causing $100,000 worth of damage.
St. Charles Fire department said the report came in around 7:42 p.m. at a home located at 3401 Greenwood Lane.
The residence was unoccupied at the time and no injuries were reported.
The fire was brought under control in about 30 minutes, officials said.
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Category 2 Hurricane Earl generating life-threatening rip currents along US East Coast
Hurricane Earl is moving away from Bermuda after brushing the archipelago with gusty winds and heavy rain, but even as it heads out into the open waters of the North Atlantic, life-threatening rip currents will continue to spread along the U.S. East Coast.
As of Friday morning, Hurricane Earl was centered less than 200 miles east-northeast of Bermuda with maximum sustained winds estimated at 100 mph – a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, making it the strongest Atlantic tropical cyclone of the season so far.
The current status of Hurricane Earl. (FOX Weather)
Some strengthening is still expected through Friday night, though Earl is no longer predicted to become a major hurricane (Category 3 or stronger).
However, Earl is forecast to transition into a powerful hurricane-force (at least 75 mph) extratropical low-pressure system by Saturday as it heads farther out to sea.
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The projected path and intensity of Hurricane Earl. (FOX Weather)
Due to Earl's close brush with Bermuda, a Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect for the archipelago as strong wind gusts continue Friday morning.
Conditions on Bermuda will quickly improve through the day, but rainfall totals are expected to range from 1 to 3 inches before Earl completely moves away later Friday.
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A Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect for Bermuda. (FOX Weather)
Despite passing hundreds of miles off the U.S. East Coast, Hurricane Earl is likely to generate life-threatening rip currents along the Eastern Seaboard for the next several days.
Earl will generate a dangerous rip current threat along the U.S. East Coast. (FOX Weather)
Anyone visiting East Coast beaches should stay out of the surf, as rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore and into deeper water.
"The key takeaway message for anybody in the U.S. as regards to what we're expecting with Hurricane Earl: Just be careful on the beaches because we do have that rough surf potential that can lead to rip currents and become quite dangerous," FOX Weather meteorologist Jane Minar said.
Three other areas to watch for development
In the central tropical Atlantic, an area of low pressure centered about 1,100 miles east of the Caribbean islands has a well-defined center of circulation. However, strong upper-level winds have caused most of the disorganized shower and thunderstorm activity associated with the low to be displaced well to its northeast.
According to the FOX Forecast Center, strong upper-level winds in this region are forecast to persist for the next several days, so it's becoming less likely that a short-lived tropical depression or tropical storm will form.
The National Hurricane Center currently gives the system a low chance of development. If it does happen to become a tropical storm with winds of at least 40 mph, it will earn the name "Fiona."
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring the central tropical Atlantic for possible development. (FOX Weather)
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Additionally, a tropical disturbance centered several hundred miles south of the Cabo Verde Islands is producing a disorganized area of showers and thunderstorms.
According to the FOX Forecast Center, any development of this disturbance is expected to be slow to occur as it moves west or west-northwestward at 15 to 20 mph across the eastern and central tropical Atlantic through the middle of next week.
The NHC currently gives the tropical disturbance a low chance of development in the next five days, but those odds could increase beyond the five-day outlook, so be sure to check back for updates.
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring the eastern and central tropical Atlantic for possible development (FOX Weather)
Meanwhile, another tropical disturbance is forecast to move off the western coast of Africa by early next week.
According to the FOX Forecast Center, some gradual development of the disturbance will be possible after it emerges over the water and generally heads westward over the far eastern tropical Atlantic.
The NHC currently gives the tropical disturbance a low chance of development in the next five days, but similar to the other tropical disturbance mentioned above, those odds could increase beyond the five-day outlook.
FOX Weather will keep you updated with the latest information on all these areas to watch in the tropics.
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Princeton University to cover all college costs for students from families earning less than $100K
Princeton University announced a major expansion of its financial aid policy for students from families earning less than $100,000 annually, meaning they will pay nothing for tuition, room, and board.
In addition, many students from families with income over $100,000 will also receive additional financial support, including families at higher income levels who have multiple children in college. The university noted that most of the additional scholarship funding will benefit families earning less than $150,000.
"One of Princeton’s defining values is our commitment to ensure that talented students from all backgrounds can not only afford a Princeton education but can flourish on our campus and in the world beyond it," President Christopher L. Eisgruber said in a press release Thursday. "These improvements to our aid packages, made possible by the sustained generosity of our alumni and friends, will enhance the experiences of students during their time at Princeton and their choices and impact after they graduate."
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The new financial aid policies will take effect for all undergraduates starting in fall 2023.
The university estimates that roughly 25% of undergraduates or 1,500 students are expected to receive the aid that will cover the entire cost of tuition, room, and board. The university's website boasts that 83% of its recent seniors graduated debt free.
Princeton lists the cost of attendance for the 2022-23 academic year at $79,540, which includes:
- Tuition: $57,410.
- Room: $10,960.
- Board: $7,670.
- Estimated miscellaneous expenses: $3,500.
Under the new expanded program, Princeton will increase the annual miscellaneous expense from $3,500 to $4,050. The university said that the expanded allowance will, "provide more flexibility for student to cover course books and other miscellaneous expenses." Additionally, Princeton will make it possible for the students with the highest financial need to bring two guests to campus for first year move-in and for senior year Commencement.
Princeton also said that currently 62% of its undergraduate students receive financial aid, with the average aid package totaling $62,200.
The New Jersey Ivy League university visually broke down the expected cost for families per year paired with their income.
It shows families making $75,000 and $100,000 with an expected total cost of $0 and families making $150,000 with a cost of $12,500. The chart goes up to families who annually make $300,000, and the expected total tuition cost is $50,000—still significantly lower than the current cost of attendance without any financial aid.
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"President Eisgruber continues to emphasize Princeton’s commitment to talented students from across the country and around the world," Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Karen Richardson said. "The changes to our already generous financial aid policies will be an important part of the work that the Office of Admission does to recruit students from various socioeconomic backgrounds, showing them that a Princeton education is an affordable education." | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/princeton-university-to-cover-all-college-costs-for-students-from-families-earning-less-than-100k | 2022-09-09T18:44:24Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/princeton-university-to-cover-all-college-costs-for-students-from-families-earning-less-than-100k | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Ottawa County dispatchers say the incident is happening north of the Grand River near the intersection of Kenowa Avenue and Burton Street.
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Smash-and-grab burglar hits Northwest Indiana salon, steals cash register
MUNSTER, Ind. - Police are investigating a smash-and-grab burglary Thursday at a salon in Munster, Indiana.
The suspect smashed the glass front door between 2 a.m.-3:30 a.m. to enter Radiance Salon located at 8231 Hohman Avenue, according to Munster police.
The suspect took the cash register which was later recovered behind a nearby residence, police said.
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Police said the surveillance camera of a neighboring business caught the suspect casing the salon shortly before the burglary occurred.
The suspect arrived on a high-seated bicycle, wearing dark-colored clothing and a green baseball hat, according to police. The bicycle and other items were recovered in the neighborhood.
No one is in custody as Munster Police Detective continue to investigate. The police department is asking neighboring businesses with cameras to the north and west of the salon to review their surveillance footage in case the suspect was captured on video.
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ELK MILLS, Md. — Authorities in Maryland say five people were found dead inside a home Friday morning after an apparent shooting in a suburb an hour outside Baltimore.
The department's spokesman Lt. Michael Holmes told the Associated Press that deputies discovered the bodies when they were called to an Elk Mills residence around 9 a.m. to investigate a reported shooting.
The Cecil County Sheriff's Office said on its Facebook page that there was no current threat to the public.
More details surrounding their deaths have not been released.
Scripps station WMAR reported that the sheriff's office is set to hold a press conference at 2 p.m. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/official-5-people-found-dead-inside-maryland-home | 2022-09-09T18:44:39Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/official-5-people-found-dead-inside-maryland-home | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DNA evidence found on a napkin helped lead a jury to find Jerry Westrom guilty of murdering Jeanie Childs after the case went cold for 29 years, WCCO-TV reported.
The outlet reported that investigators found his DNA at the crime scene on a bloody bathroom towel, washcloth and shirt. Investigators also said they found his bloody footprints at the 1993 crime scene in Minneapolis. They then connected his DNA to him on a genealogy website.
To confirm they had their suspect, investigators waited for Westrom to throw a napkin away at a hockey game he attended.
Derek Fradenburgh, the jury foreperson, told WCCO that there was no explaining away the bloody footprint.
"Even the most charitable reading was one of the footprints for sure were his,” he told the outlet.
The jury reached the verdict in less than two hours.
Westrom claimed that he did not know Childs. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/used-napkin-helped-minnesota-investigators-connect-1993-murder-to-man | 2022-09-09T18:44:52Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/used-napkin-helped-minnesota-investigators-connect-1993-murder-to-man | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Moncada 5 for 6 with 2 HR, White Sox blast A’s 14-2
OAKLAND, Calif. - Yoán Moncada went 5 for 6 with two home runs and five RBIs, Dylan Cease stuck out nine in six scoreless innings and the Chicago White Sox hammered the Oakland Athletics 14-2 on Thursday night.
Chicago had 21 hits, including 10 extra-base hits, in its highest-scoring game of the season. It has won seven of its last nine games.
"It feels good," Moncada said through a translator. "It’s fun when you see everybody contributing and adding to the team."
Romy González went 4 for 5 with a homer and three RBIs. Elvis Andrus, released by the A’s in August, and Eloy Jiménez also homered.
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"It was nice to see those bats," White Sox acting manager Miguel Cairo said. "Moncada, Gonzo, everyone had good at-bats."
Cease (14-6) reached 206 strikeouts for the year, becoming the seventh White Sox pitcher with multiple 200-strikeout seasons. The right-hander allowed three hits and two walks after coming within one out of a no-hitter in his last start against the Minnesota Twins.
"It’s definitely a big accomplishment, something I’m proud of," Cease said about the milestone. "We know every game, every inning, every pitch matters right now. So to go out there and make a statement, both on the pitching and the offensive side, is important."
Oakland has lost three in a row and seven of its last eight.
Andrus and Moncada started the game with back-to-back home runs off of JP Sears. Andrus singled home another run in the second, followed by Moncada’s second homer of the night, a three-run shot.
Sears (5-2) surrendered a career-high six runs on eight hits and a walk in two innings, leading A’s manager Mark Kotsay to believe he might have been tipping his pitches.
"We definitely saw something that could have led to the results," Kotsay said. "It definitely makes it easier at this level when you know a changeup is coming or off-speed is coming and you know a fastball is coming. But that’s a good-hitting team and they’re playing really well."
Jiménez tacked on a two-run homer in the fourth. Adam Engel singled in another run in the fifth, followed by an RBI double by Moncada two batters later.
The White Sox added four runs in the sixth on an RBI single by Andrew Vaughn and a three-run homer by González to make it 14-0.
The A’s finally scored in the eighth inning on a sacrifice fly by Shea Langeliers. Sheldon Neuse followed with an RBI groundout.
CAIRO WINS AGAIN
Cairo improved to 7-3 as acting manager as Tony La Russa remains away from the team with an unspecified health issue.
"There’s nothing official, nothing that we know," Cairo said of La Russa’s return. "We’re waiting to see. We don’t know yet. ... I talk to him every day. He’s doing fine."
Cairo has served as La Russa’s bench coach for the last two years. He filled in as manager for last season’s Field of Dreams game when La Russa attended his brother-in-law’s funeral.
"I love the challenge (of managing)," Cairo said. "I love the adrenaline. I love the butterflies that you get during the game. If he comes back, he’s the manager. I’m the bench coach."
TRAINER’S ROOM
White Sox: OF Luis Robert missed his second straight game after getting hit on his left fingers during a swing on Tuesday in Seattle. He is also dealing with a sore left wrist. "It’s day-to-day," Cairo said. "We’re going to see how he feels tomorrow and we’ll just go from there."
Athletics: 2B/OF Tony Kemp returned to the lineup after missing Wednesday’s game with groin tightness. He led off and went 1 for 2 with a single and a walk ... OF Skye Bolt (right knee patella subluxation) went 1 for 4 with an RBI single in a rehab appearance with Triple-A Las Vegas. ... RHP Zach Jackson continues to recover from a strained right shoulder and could still return before the season ends. "We’re still optimistic that we can get him back," Kotsay said. "I think he just needs to, in the next probably seven days, make some decent improvement."
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The United States just hit a huge milestone in the world of organ donation reaching 1 million transplants.
“It’s not so much about the 1 million, it’s about the million ones,” said United Network for Organ Sharing CEO Brian Shepard. “There are a million individuals restored to health, and not just to health, but to their families, to their workplaces, to their congregations, to their communities."
Shepard said the H.S. is the first country in the world to reach a million. He said collaboration is a big reason we're so far ahead.
"Some of these organizations, you might think of as competitors, but really, in transplant, folks are working together, they’re sharing best practices, they’re sharing what they’ve learned and the system advances,” he said.
The first human organ to ever be transplanted was a kidney back in 1954. Kidneys have led the way since, followed by livers, hearts and lungs.
Shepard said recent advancements have also allowed for more non-traditional transplants.
“Hand and face transplants, the field of uterus transplants has really sort of appeared all of a sudden and is making a tremendous difference in people’s lives who are trying to have children,” he said.
More than 40,000 transplants are performed in the U.S. each year, double what it was 25 years ago. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/1-million-lives-saved-in-the-us-through-organ-transplants | 2022-09-09T18:48:10Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/1-million-lives-saved-in-the-us-through-organ-transplants | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — Hours before dawn on March 1, 2003, the U.S. scored its most thrilling victory yet against the plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks — the capture of a disheveled Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, hauled away by intelligence agents from a hideout in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
The global manhunt for al-Qaida's No. 3 leader had taken 18 months. But America's attempt to bring him to justice, in a legal sense, has taken much, much longer. Critics say it has become one of the war on terror’s greatest failures.
As Sunday's 21st anniversary of the terror attacks approaches, Mohammed and four other men accused of 9/11-related crimes still sit in a U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, their planned trials before a military tribunal endlessly postponed.
The latest setback came last month when pretrial hearings scheduled for early fall were canceled. The delay was one more in a string of disappointments for relatives of the nearly 3,000 victims of the attack. They've long hoped that a trial would bring closure and perhaps resolve unanswered questions.
“Now, I’m not sure what’s going to happen,” said Gordon Haberman, whose 25-year-old daughter Andrea died after a hijacked plane crashed into the the World Trade Center, a floor above her office.
He's traveled to Guantanamo four times from his home in West Bend, Wisconsin, to watch the legal proceedings in person, only to leave frustrated.
“It’s important to me that America finally gets to the truth about what happened, how it was done,” said Haberman. “I personally want to see this go to trial."
If convicted at trial, Mohammed could face the death penalty.
When asked about the case, James Connell, an attorney for one of Mohammed's co-defendants — one accused of transferring money to 9/11 attackers — confirmed reports both sides are still “attempting to reach a pretrial agreement” that could still avoid a trial and result in lesser but still lengthy sentences.
David Kelley, a former U.S. attorney in New York who co-chaired the Justice Department’s nationwide investigation into the attacks, called the delays and failure to prosecute “an awful tragedy for the families of the victims.”
He called the effort to put Mohammed on trial before a military tribunal, rather than in the regular U.S. court system, “a tremendous failure” that was “as offensive to our Constitution as to our rule of law.”
“It’s a tremendous blemish on the country’s history,” he said.
The difficulty in holding a trial for Mohammed and other Guantanamo prisoners is partly rooted in what the U.S. did with him after his 2003 capture.
Mohammed and his co-defendants were initially held in secret prisons abroad. Hungry for information that might lead to the capture of other al-Qaida figures, CIA operatives subjected them to enhanced interrogation techniques that were tantamount to torture, human rights groups say. Mohammed was waterboarded — made to feel that he was drowning — 183 times.
A Senate investigation later concluded the interrogations didn't lead to any valuable intelligence. But it has sparked endless pretrial litigation over whether FBI reports on their statements can be used against them — a process not subject to speedy trial rules used in civilian courts.
The torture allegations led to concerns that the U.S. might have ruined its chance to put Mohammed on trial in a civilian court.
But in 2009, President Barack Obama’s administration decided to try, announcing that Mohammed would be transferred to New York City and put on trial at a federal court in Manhattan.
“Failure is not an option,” Obama said.
But New York City balked at the cost of security and the move never came. Eventually, it was announced Mohammed would face a military tribunal. And then over a dozen years passed.
Kelley said talk of military tribunals two decades ago surprised many in the legal community who had been successfully prosecuting terrorism cases in the decade before. The concept of a tribunal, he said, “came out of the blue. Nobody knew it was coming.”
Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft was not in favor of tribunals and had been supportive of the Manhattan federal terrorism prosecutions, he said.
Now, Kelley said, with the passage of time it will be much more difficult to prosecute Mohammed in a tribunal, much less a courtroom. “Evidence goes stale, witness memories fail.”
The passage of time hasn’t dulled the memories of the victims' families or dampened their interest in witnessing justice.
Eddie Bracken's sister Lucy Fishman was killed at the trade center. The New Yorker opposed Obama's proposal to move the trial to federal court — Mohammed is charged with “a military act,” and should be tried by the military, he reasoned. And while he is somewhat frustrated by the delays, he understands them.
“The whole world is looking at us and saying, ‘What are they doing after all this time?’” he said. But he realizes the case is “a process that the world is seeing, that needs to be done under a microscope. … It’s up to the United States to do their due diligence, make sure it’s done right.”
“The wheels of justice turn. They turn slowly, but they turn. And when the time comes, and it’s said and done, the world will know what happened,” he adds.
While Mohammed has lingered at Guantanamo, the U.S. killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in a 2011 raid and deputy-turned-successor Ayman al-Zawahri in a drone strike just this August.
Investigators with the military commission at Guantanamo Bay said he plotted the 9/11 attacks for three years. They cited a computer hard drive seized at his arrest which they said contained photographs of the 19 hijackers, three letters from bin Laden and information about some hijackers.
Mohammed, at his tribunal hearing, conceded in a written statement that he swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden, that he was on al-Qaida’s council and that he served as operational director for bin Laden for the organizing, planning, follow-up and execution of the Sept. 11 plot “from A to Z.”
According to the statement, he also took credit for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center; an attempt to down U.S. jetliners using bombs hidden in shoes; the bombing of a nightclub in Indonesia; and plans for a second wave of attacks after the 2001 attacks targeting landmarks like the Sears Tower in Chicago and Manhattan’s Empire State Building.
He also claimed credit for other planned attacks, including assassination attempts against then-President Bill Clinton in 1994 or 1995 and an assassination plot against Pope John Paul II at about the same time, the statement said.
Mohammed's nearly two decades in legal limbo differs from the fate of his nephew, Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people, injured 1,000 others and left a crater in the parking garage beneath the twin towers.
Yousef is serving life in prison after being convicted at two separate civilian trials. He was also captured in Pakistan, in 1995, but was brought to the United States for trial.
At the time, Yousef said his right to kill people was comparable to the U.S. decision to drop a nuclear bomb in World War II. Mohammed has offered a similar justification, saying through an interpreter at a Guantanamo proceeding that killing people was the “language of any war.”
Bracken traveled to Guantanamo in 2012 to watch one hearing for Mohammed and his co-defendants, and would probably go again if a trial ever happened.
“I don’t know if I want to go there again to bring back all the hurt and pain. But if I’m allowed to go, then I guess I would go. Yeah. My sister would do that for me.”
“She’s that type of a woman,” he added. Then he corrected himself: “She was that type of a woman.”
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ELK MILLS, Md. — Authorities in Maryland say five people were found dead inside a home Friday morning after an apparent shooting in a suburb an hour outside Baltimore.
The department's spokesman Lt. Michael Holmes told the Associated Press that deputies discovered the bodies when they were called to an Elk Mills residence around 9 a.m. to investigate a reported shooting.
The Cecil County Sheriff's Office said on its Facebook page that there was no current threat to the public.
More details surrounding their deaths have not been released.
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Princeton University is making it easier for people to attend college.
The university will cover the full cost of tuition, room and board for undergraduates whose families make less than $100,000. Those students will also be given $4,050 annually to be used for books and other expenses.
Approximately 1,500 Princeton undergraduates are expected to benefit from the financial aid program. Princeton said that's more than 25% of the undergraduate student body.
“Princeton’s generous financial aid program has transformed the socioeconomic diversity of our undergraduate student population, allowing more students from across backgrounds to learn from one another’s life experiences,” said Dean of the College Jill Dolan.
The new financial aid program is in effect for the fall 2023 school year.
The annual tuition cost for people who do not qualify for financial aid is $79,540. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/princeton-offering-free-college-for-students-whose-families-earn-less-than-100k | 2022-09-09T18:48:35Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/princeton-offering-free-college-for-students-whose-families-earn-less-than-100k | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. officials are considering broadening recommendations for who gets vaccinated against monkeypox, possibly to include many men with HIV or those recently diagnosed with other sexually transmitted diseases.
Driving the discussion is a study released Thursday showing that a higher-than-expected share of monkeypox infections are in people with other sexually transmitted infections.
Dr. John T. Brooks, chief medical officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s monkeypox outbreak response, said the report represents a “call to action.”
Brooks told The Associated Press on Thursday that he expected vaccine recommendations to expand and that “the White House, together with CDC, are working on a plan for what that will look like.”
Currently, the CDC recommends the vaccine to people who are a close contact of someone who has monkeypox; people who know a sexual partner was diagnosed in the past two weeks; and gay or bisexual men who had multiple sexual partners in the last two weeks in an area with known virus spread.
Shots are also recommended for health care workers at high risk of exposure.
The vast majority of monkeypox cases are in men who have sex with men who reported close contact with an infected person during sex. But the new CDC report suggested infections in people with HIV and other STDs may be a bigger issue then previously realized.
The report looked at about 2,000 monkeypox cases from four states and four cities from mid-May to late July.
It found 38% of those with monkeypox infections had been diagnosed with HIV, far higher than their share of the population among men who have sex with men.
The study also found that 41% of monkeypox patients had been diagnosed with an STD in the preceding year. And about 10% of those patients had been diagnosed with three or more different STDs in the prior year.
There were racial differences. More than 60% of Black Americans with monkeypox had HIV, compared with 41% of Hispanic people, 28% of whites and 22% of Asians.
Jason Farley, an infectious disease expert at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, said men of color who have sex with men should be at the front of the line for monkeypox vaccine doses. Within those racial and ethnic groups, the next priority should be anyone living with HIV or was recently diagnosed with a STD, he said.
The study has several limitations, including that the data may not be nationally representative, the authors said.
Brooks said the findings could lead to vaccines being recommended for people with recent STD infections, people with HIV, people taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medications to prevent HIV infection and, possibly, prostitutes.
Discussions of expanding eligibility will have to take into account supply of the two-dose vaccine. And any substantial expansion of monkeypox vaccination recommendations may also be subject to review by CDC’s outside vaccine advisers, health officials say.
Also on Thursday, the CDC sent a letter to state and local health departments that said federal funds for HIV and STD prevention can also now be used against monkeypox. Cases in the U.S. seem to be declining, officials say.
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Authorities in Georgia say two people are in custody after two sheriff's deputies were killed Thursday in an Atlanta suburb.
On Thursday, the Cobb County Sheriff's Office tweeted that the deputies "died in the line of duty" while attempting to serve a warrant.
Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens told multiple news outlets that at around 7:45 p.m., the deputies showed up at a residence in Marietta to serve a warrant. The deputies knocked on the door and rang the doorbell, but no one answered.
According to the Associated Press, Owens said the deputies had returned to their vehicle when a car pulled up. After getting out of their vehicle, the deputies began talking to the suspect when shots were fired, Owens said.
Owens said the deputies were able to call for help and a SWAT team and other law enforcement agencies arrived at the scene.
According to the NBC affiliate WXIA-TV, an hours-long standoff ensued before the suspects were taken into custody.
The names of the suspects and the deputies have not been released.
Owens said the deputies had both been with the department for more than five years, the Associated Press reported.
Owens said the deputies were serving a warrant for failure to appear on a theft charge by deception, the news outlet reported. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/sheriff-2-deputies-killed-while-attempting-to-serve-warrant-in-georgia | 2022-09-09T18:48:53Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/sheriff-2-deputies-killed-while-attempting-to-serve-warrant-in-georgia | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DNA evidence found on a napkin helped lead a jury to find Jerry Westrom guilty of murdering Jeanie Childs after the case went cold for 29 years, WCCO-TV reported.
The outlet reported that investigators found his DNA at the crime scene on a bloody bathroom towel, washcloth and shirt. Investigators also said they found his bloody footprints at the 1993 crime scene in Minneapolis. They then connected his DNA to him on a genealogy website.
To confirm they had their suspect, investigators waited for Westrom to throw a napkin away at a hockey game he attended.
Derek Fradenburgh, the jury foreperson, told WCCO that there was no explaining away the bloody footprint.
"Even the most charitable reading was one of the footprints for sure were his,” he told the outlet.
The jury reached the verdict in less than two hours.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Voters will determine whether to place abortion rights in the Michigan Constitution, the state Supreme Court declared Thursday, settling the issue a day before the fall ballot must be completed.
Abortion rights would be guaranteed if the amendment passes on Nov. 8. A 1931 state law makes it a crime to perform most abortions, but the law was suspended in May and a judge this week followed up by striking it down as unconstitutional.
Though appeals of that decision are likely, the law would be trumped if voters approve the amendment in the fall election.
There are political implications beyond the ballot question.
Democrats say the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is mobilizing voters and will help Democratic candidates this fall, when top races including governor, secretary of state and attorney general are on the Michigan ballot. They point to conservative Kansas, where voters overwhelmingly defeated a measure that would have allowed the Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten restrictions or ban the procedure outright.
In Michigan, a state elections board on Aug. 31 deadlocked along party lines on whether the abortion initiative should appear on the ballot, with Republicans voting no and Democrats voting yes. The 2-2 tie meant the measure wasn’t certified for the ballot.
Supporters submitted more than 700,000 signatures, easily clearing the minimum threshold. But Republicans and abortion opponents argued the petitions had improper or no spacing between certain words and were confusing to voters.
“What a sad marker of the times,” Chief Justice Bridget McCormack said in a brief statement that accompanied the Supreme Court’s 5-2 order.
McCormack said “there is no dispute” that every word was legible and in the correct order.
Republican members of the Board of State Canvassers “would disenfranchise millions of Michiganders not because they believe the many thousands of Michiganders who signed the proposal were confused by it, but because they think they have identified a technicality that allows them to do so, a game of gotcha gone very bad,” McCormack said.
The majority was made up of McCormack, three other Democratic justices and a Republican justice. Two Republicans dissented.
The court directed state canvassers, who meet again Friday, to sign off on the ballot question. Tony Daunt, a Republican who had voted against the proposal, last week said that the board would obey a court order.
Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat who supports abortion rights, hailed the decision.
“Our state Constitution provides the people with direct access to the democratic process and that access should not be limited by appointed individuals acting beyond the scope of their duty,” Nessel said.
A group called Citizens to Support MI Women and Children said it will campaign against the amendment. Right to Life of Michigan also will be a major opponent.
“Current events continue showing us that any nation that sees the next generation as an existential threat — rather than an existential necessity — has no future,” Right to Life said on Facebook.
There was no immediate comment from Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who is in favor of the ballot question and is seeking reelection. Her Republican opponent, Tudor Dixon, opposes abortion rights except to save the life of the mother.
Results of a poll published this week by The Detroit News and WDIV-TV showed abortion and women’s rights was the top issue motivating Michigan residents to vote in November, ahead of inflation and cost of living, education, and the economy and jobs. The poll also showed a majority of likely voters support a proposed constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights.
In a dissent, Justice Brian Zahra said supporters of the abortion question did not have a “clear legal right” to the ballot.
“Words separated by spaces cease being words or become new words when the spaces between them are removed,” Zahra said.
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Burnett reported from Chicago and White reported from Detroit.
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LONDON (AP) — Prince Charles has been preparing for the crown his entire life. Now, at age 73, that moment has finally arrived.
Charles, the oldest person to ever assume the British throne, became King Charles III on Thursday following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. No date has been set for his coronation.
After an apprenticeship that began as a child, Charles embodies the modernization of the British monarchy. He was the first heir not educated at home, the first to earn a university degree and the first to grow up in the ever-intensifying glare of the media as deference to royalty faded.
He also alienated many with his messy divorce from the much-loved Princess Diana, and by straining the rules that prohibit royals from intervening in public affairs, wading into debates on issues such as environmental protection and architectural preservation,
“He now finds himself in, if you like, the autumn of his life, having to think carefully about how he projects his image as a public figure,” said historian Ed Owens. “He’s nowhere near as popular as his mother.”
Charles must figure out how to generate the “public support, a sense of endearment” that characterized the relationship Elizabeth had with the British public, Owens said.
In other words, will Charles be as loved by his subjects? It’s a question that has overshadowed his entire life.
A shy boy with a domineering father, Charles grew into a sometimes-awkward, understated man who is nevertheless confident in his own opinions. Unlike his mother, who refused to publicly discuss her views, Charles has delivered speeches and written articles on issues close to his heart, such as climate change, green energy and alternative medicine.
His accession to the throne is likely to fuel debate about the future of Britain’s largely ceremonial monarchy, seen by some as a symbol of national unity and others as an obsolete vestige of feudal history.
“We know the monarch and certainly the monarch’s family – they’re not meant to have political voices. They’re not meant to have political opinions. And the fact that he’s been flexing, if you like, his political muscle is something that he will have to be really careful with … lest he be seen as unconstitutional,” said Owens, who wrote “The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53.”
Charles, who will be the head of state for the U.K. and 14 other countries, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, has defended his actions.
“I always wonder what meddling is, I always thought it was motivating,” he said in “Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70,” a 2018 documentary. “I’ve always been intrigued if it’s meddling to worry about the inner cities, as I did 40 years ago and what was happening or not happening there, the conditions in which people were living. If that’s meddling, I’m very proud of it.”
In the same interview, however, Charles acknowledged that as king, he wouldn’t be able to speak out or interfere in politics because the role of sovereign is different from being the Prince of Wales.
Charles has said he intends to reduce the number of working royals, cut expenses and better represent modern Britain.
But tradition matters, too, for a man whose office previously described the monarchy as “the focal point for national pride, unity and allegiance.”
That has meant a life of palaces and polo, attracting criticism that Charles was out of touch with everyday life, being lampooned for having a valet who purportedly squeezed toothpaste onto his brush.
But it was the disintegration of his marriage to Diana that made many question his fitness for the throne. Then, as he aged, his handsome young sons stole the limelight from a man who had a reputation for being as gray as his Saville Row suits.
Biographer Sally Bedell Smith, author of “Prince Charles: the Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life,’’ described him as being constantly overshadowed by others in the family, despite his destiny.
“I think the frustrations are not so much that he’s had to wait for the throne,” Smith told PBS. “I think his main frustration is that he has done so much and that … he has been sort of massively misunderstood. He’s sort of been caught between two worlds: the world of his mother, revered, now beloved; and Diana, the ghost of whom still shadows him; and then his incredibly glamorous sons.”
It took years for many in Britain to forgive Charles for his admitted infidelity to Diana before “the people’s princess” died in a Paris car crash in 1997. But the public mood softened after he married Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005 and she became the Duchess of Cornwall.
Although Camilla played a significant role in the breakup of Charles and Diana, her self-deprecating style and salt-of-the-earth sense of humor eventually won over many Britons.
She helped Charles smile more in public by tempering his reserve and making him appear approachable, if not happier, as he cut ribbons, visited houses of worship, unveiled plaques and waited for the crown.
Her service was rewarded last February, when Queen Elizabeth II said publicly that it was her “sincere wish” that Camilla should be known as “Queen Consort” after her son succeeded her, answering questions once and for all about her status in the Royal Family.
Prince Charles Philip Arthur George was born Nov. 14, 1948, in Buckingham Palace. When his mother acceded to the throne in 1952, the 3-year-old prince became the Duke of Cornwall. He became Prince of Wales at 20.
His school years were unhappy, with the future king being bullied by classmates at Gordonstoun, a Scottish boarding school that prides itself on building character through vigorous outdoor activities and educated his father, Philip.
Charles studied history at Cambridge University’s Trinity College, where in 1970 he became the first British royal to earn a university degree.
He then spent seven years in uniform, training as a Royal Air Force pilot before joining the Royal Navy, where he learned to fly helicopters. He ended his military career as commander of the HMS Bronington, a minesweeper, in 1976.
Charles’ relationship with Camilla began before he went to sea, but the romance foundered and she married a cavalry officer.
He met Lady Diana Spencer in 1977 when she was 16 and he was dating her older sister. Diana apparently didn’t see him again until 1980, and rumors of their engagement swirled after she was invited to spend time with Charles and the royal family.
They announced their engagement in February 1981. Some awkwardness in their relationship was immediately apparent when, during a televised interview about their betrothal, a reporter asked if they were in love. “Of course,” Diana answered immediately, while Charles said, “Whatever ‘in love’ means.”
Although Diana giggled at the response, she later said that Charles’ remark “threw me completely.”
“God, it absolutely traumatized me,” she said in a recording made by her voice coach in 1992-93 that was featured in the 2017 documentary “Diana, In Her Own Words.”
The couple married on July 29, 1981, at St. Paul’s Cathedral in a globally televised ceremony. Prince William, now heir to the throne, was born less than a year later, followed by his brother, Prince Harry, in 1984.
The public fairy tale soon crumbled. Charles admitted to adultery to a TV interviewer in 1994. In an interview of her own, Diana drew attention to her husband’s relationship with Camilla, saying: “There were three of us in this marriage.”
The revelations tarnished Charles’ reputation among many who celebrated Diana for her style as well as her charity work with AIDS patients and landmine victims.
William and Harry were caught in the middle. While the princes revered their late mother, they said Charles was a good father and praised him as an early advocate for issues like the environment.
Tensions persist inside the royal family, underscored by the decision of Harry and his wife, Meghan, to step away from their royal duties and move to California in 2020. In a televised interview, they later said a member of the royal family had raised “concerns and conversations” about the color of their baby’s skin before he was born. The explosive revelation forced William to publicly declare the family wasn’t racist.
Charles soldiered on, increasingly standing in for the queen in her twilight years. In 2018, he was named the queen’s designated successor as head of the Commonwealth, an association of 54 nations with links to the British Empire. The process accelerated after the death of her husband, Prince Philip, on April 9, 2021.
As Elizabeth declined, he sometimes stepped in at the last moment.
On the eve of the state opening of Parliament this year, on May 10, the queen asked Charles to preside, delegating one of her most important constitutional duties to him — evidence that a transition was underway.
Camilla said in a 2018 documentary that Charles was comfortable with the prospect of being king.
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U.S. Coast Guard members render a salut to the National Flag during a 9/11 observance ceremony on Coast Guard Base Alameda, Calif., Sept. 9, 2022. On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives in the terror attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Hunter Schnabel)
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CHICAGO (AP) — The Connecticut Sun made no secret about wanting revenge against Chicago in the teams’ WNBA Playoffs semifinal series, especially after the Sky sent them packing from the semifinals in 2021 while on the way to the title.
“We come up here every year and Chicago kicks our (butt),” Sun forward DeWanna Bonner said of the Sky, who swept all four regular-season meetings.
Jonquel Jones had 15 points and 10 rebounds and the Sun overcame an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter, beating the Sky 72-63 on Thursday night in the decisive fifth game. The Sun scored the final 18 points to overcome a 63-54 deficit with 4:46 remaining.
All the Sun starters scored in double figures and Connecticut advanced to the Finals for the third time overall and first time since 2019.
Connecticut will face the top-seeded Las Vegas Aces for the WNBA title. The first game of the series is Sunday in Las Vegas.
“There will be a new champion in this league,” Sun coach Curt Miller said. “There will be a first-time franchise champion. There will be a new coach, once again, that will be a first-time champion.”
Chicago was attempting to become the first team to repeat as WNBA champions since the Los Angeles Sparks in 2001-02.
Jones scored inside to put the Sun ahead with two minutes left, hitting an ensuing free throw for a three-point lead. A pull-up jumper by Courtney Williams with 47.5 seconds remaining gave the Sun a five-point cushion, and DeWanna Bonner knocked down four free throws to put the game out of reach.
Connecticut outscored Chicago 25-5 in the fourth quarter, recovering from a disastrous third period in which it scored eight points and turned the ball over seven times.
“When adversity hits, sometimes we fold,” Natisha Hiedeman said. “Not no more, we’re not folding no more. As you all saw (after) the third quarter, we picked up right back up once again. Now we’re going to the championship. Job not done yet.”
Kahleah Copper led the Sky with 22 points on 8-for-19 shooting, including 3 of 5 from long distance, and added four steals.
Bonner chipped in with 15 points, Hiedeman added 14 and Williams and Alyssa Thomas each added 12 for Connecticut.
Emma Meesseman, who finished with 14 points on 6-for-14 shooting and six rebounds, gave the Sky an 11-point lead with 7:20 to play.
Chicago coach James Wade called the late collapse “one of the biggest disappointments” of his professional career.
“We haven’t had a quarter like that, and to end the season off it, (that) didn’t display what we’ve actually done,” Wade said. “I just wish I could’ve got them a bucket and I just couldn’t. It’s just a tough feeling.”
In the opening half, the Sun continued the torrid shooting they had in Game 4, when they made 56.9% of their shots. But that slowed in the third quarter, as the Sky defense tightened.
Candace Parker buried a 3-pointer and Copper followed with three-point play to give Chicago a 10-point lead entering the fourth. But Chicago’s shooting went cold and the Sky missed their last eight shots.
“Of course it was not intentional, but maybe we stopped attacking,” Courtney Vandersloot said. “(Maybe) we were scared to lose, rather than trying to win. But I feel like we got good looks, we just didn’t knock them down.”
Parker finished with seven points and nine rebounds.
DOUBTERS BEWARE
Miller called the Sun’s fourth quarter performance “historic,” but he is well aware his team will once again be considered underdogs in the final against Vegas.
“Not many people will pick us against Vegas either, and that’s OK,” Miller said. “We’re going to prepare and try to make it a Connecticut Sun style of game.”
To do so, he’ll rely on more stellar post play from Jones, Thomas and Brionna Jones.
“(Parker) is an incredible, all-time great in this league,” Miller said. “But I hope that someone writes (about how) the combination of JJ, AT and Bri Jones have knocked her out three of the last four years. I hope that post group gets credit for what they do, night in and night for us.”
PARKER’S DECISION
Parker once again finds herself with a difficult decision about retirement after the 36-year-old decided to hunt back-to-back titles this year with Chicago.
“I’m going to go back and reevaluate whether I’m able to continue to play at the level that I hold myself to,” Parker said. “And I think that’s the biggest thing, I don’t ever want to cheat the game. I won’t cheat the game.”
Just as in 2021, Parker will take her time weighing her options during the offseason.
“So when I’m not able to go out and play and be the Candace that I want to be, I won’t play,” Parker said. “And I think that comes in the offseason.”
WINDOW CLOSED?
Parker, Vandersloot and Quigley all indicated they would make decisions about their basketball futures during the offseason.
All three of their contracts are set to expire. The same goes for Belgian forward Meesseman, who joined the Sky on a one-year deal in February.
“Every single day, we are all committed, 100% invested into winning a championship and making history,” Vandersloot said. “We fell short, but it wasn’t for lack of effort. It wasn’t for lack of commitment.”
Quigley reflected on her tenure with the Sky and expressed gratitude for how she and Vandersloot, now married, came to meet in Chicago.
“I never imagined it ending up like this or having the career I had,” Quigley said. “Especially being able to do it in Chicago with my family, meet my wife, it’s unbelievable. I couldn’t ask for anything better.”
TIP-INS
Connecticut’s 18-0 scoring run to end the game is the longest scoring run any WNBA team has mounted to finish a playoff game. … Chicago averaged over 40 points in the paint throughout the season, but scored just 24 on Thursday. … Parker added nine more boards to extend her all-time WNBA playoff record to 609 rebounds. She surpassed Tamika Catchings (598) on Tuesday.
UP NEXT
Chicago will face the top-seeded Aces in Las Vegas in the opener of the WNBA Finals on Sunday afternoon.
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Col. Lucas Teel, 4th Fighter Wing commander, speaks at the Wayne School of Technical Arts ribbon cutting ceremony at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, Sept. 9, 2022. WSTA will be comprised of students for the local community and military children, each will make up 50 percent of the total enrollment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kevin Holloway)
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National Park Service warns people to avoid beaches around Rodanthe this weekend
RODANTHE, N.C. (WITN) - The National Park Service is warning visitors to avoid one section of the Outer Banks this weekend.
The Cape Hatteras National Seashore says people should avoid the beach in the Rodanthe area until early next week.
The two-mile stretch is between the north end of Rodanthe and South Shore Drive.
That’s the same area where a couple of homes were destroyed back in May.
Authorities say Hurricane Earl, which is far off the coast, is producing ocean overwash on these beaches. The rough surf, debris from nearby homes, open and damaged septic tanks, along with house-moving activities are causing dangerous conditions.
Cape Hatteras says conditions should improve by early next week.
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Carnegie Mellon University has yet to indicate whether it will take any disciplinary action against a linguistics professor whose tweet wishing for Queen Elizabeth II to suffer an “excruciating” death earned her widespread condemnation, including from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
The Pittsburgh, Pa., university released a statement distancing itself from the incendiary posts by Uju Anya.
“We do not condone the offensive and objectionable messages posted by Uju Anya today on her personal social media account,” CMU said in a statement posted to Twitter.
“Free expression is core to the mission of higher education, however, the views she shared absolutely do not represent the values of the institution, nor the standards of discourse we seek to foster.”
But the statement did not specify whether the school plans to discipline Anya. The Post has sought comment from Carnegie Mellon.
Experts told The Post that the university is caught between a rock and a hard place — the competing forces of “cancel culture” and the “legal ramifications” of firing or suspending a professor.
It is unclear if Anya is tenured. Her title as associate professor suggests that she does not have tenure. Nevertheless, firing her could be complicated.
“It’s more of a contractual impediment,” Scott Schneider, partner at the law firm of Husch Blackwell in Austin, Texas, told The Post. It is likely that Anya’s contract includes free speech protections that do not permit the school to terminate her for comments she makes on social media, Schneider said.
Baruch Labunski, the CEO of Toronto-based marketing firm Rank Secure, told The Post that Carnegie Mellon’s carefully worded statement was crafted in a way to give the school a “back door out of the situation” by “saying that she tweeted it from her personal account.”
“She didn’t do it as a representative of CMU nor did she do it while working,” he said.
As the world learned of Queen Elizabeth II’s death, Anya, who is an associate professor of second language acquisition at Carnegie Mellon, tweeted on Thursday: “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying.”
“May her pain be excruciating.”
Anya’s tweet was so over-the-top that it compelled Bezos to respond.
The world’s third-richest man quoted Anya’s tweet and wrote: “This is someone supposedly working to make the world better?”
“I don’t think so,” Bezos added. “Wow.”
A Twitter commenter responded to Anya by saying: “Ewww you stink.”
“You mean like your p—y?” the professor replied.
Twitter deleted Anya’s tweet, saying it violated its terms of service, which bar expressions wishing harm or injury to others. But the academic refused to apologize, instead doubling down on her tirade against the late monarch.
“If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star,” she tweeted again on Thursday.
Anya was born in Nigeria, which was a British protectorate from 1901 until 1960. Elizabeth II ascended to the throne in 1952 after the death of her father, George VI.
Outraged Twitter users demanded that school administrators terminate Anya.
“I’m sorry – but that is simply not good enough,” one Twitter user wrote.
“No decent institution could keep anyone on their staff who expresses such beliefs. I can’t believe that she has not breached her contract of employment.”
Another Twitter user who claimed to have children enrolled at the school demanded that the professor be fired.
“You know what to do or I’ll be withdrawing my kids from that uni,” she wrote.
CMU has a track record of upholding freedom of speech regardless of political persuasion.
Two years ago, the school refused to fire Richard Grenell, a former Trump administration official who was named senior fellow at CMU’s Institute for Politics and Strategy, in the face of intense backlash to his appointment.
FIRE, the free speech advocacy group, praised CMU as a “green-light institution” for “largely living up to the ideal of the university as a marketplace of ideas.”
Some students who have taken Anya’s classes said they did not enjoy the experience.
“She is the worst teacher that you can have,” one student who is said to have taken her course when she taught at the University of Southern California in 2014 wrote on the RateMyProfessors.com website.
The student wrote that she was “unfair, rude, and very unorganized.”
Another wrote that she was “very arroagant” and was “by far the worst teacher I’ve ever had.”
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A suspected ransomware attack on Holiday Inn has crippled the hotel giant’s ability to book reservations online, resulting in sharp occupancy drops that have sparked legal threats from franchisees, The Post has learned.
InterContinental Hotels Group, which owns Holiday Inn as well as 15 other brands including Crowne Plaza, said hackers breached its systems on Monday, forcing it to shut down its online reservation booking portal.
In response to the hack, which also blocked many customers from booking Holiday Inn rooms on third-party sites such as Expedia and Booking.com, IHG said it was able to resume “intermittent” service on Wednesday.
Some franchisees, however, told The Post that significant disruptions continued to plague the system as of early Friday. Customers who are trying to book rooms can only log onto Holiday Inn’s site and make reservations about half the time, according to Vimal Patel, a franchisee who operates Holiday Inn Express hotels in LaPlace, La. and Donaldsville, La.
As a result, Patel said his hotels this week are operating at less than 50% occupancy, estimating they would be at around 75% if the IHG national reservation system weren’t compromised. For next week, about 20% of his rooms are currently reserved — half the normal rate for mid-September, he said.
“Next week is when things are supposed to pick up pretty fast,” Patel said, noting that his locations mainly serve business customers.
Rich Gandhi, a Holiday Inn franchisee in Exton, Pa., reported similar drops in bookings, claiming that he has sent multiple emails to the IHG operations team and has received no response. Accordingly, Gandhi said he plans to file a class-action suit against IHG on behalf of Holiday Inn franchisees in the coming days.
“The franchisees are getting murdered here and IHG doesn’t care,” Gandhi said.
On Tuesday, IHG Chief Executive Keith Barr said the Monday hack had “significantly disrupted” the company’s online booking, as well as its customer service centers and internal communications. A day later, Barr said the company’s web and mobile portals had been reactivated, but warned that “services will remain intermittent as we work to ensure the stability of our systems and we are expecting continued disruption.”
Holiday Inn representatives didn’t respond to requests for further comment from The Post.
Gandhi gripes that the company’s franchisees — whose hotels account for 71% of its 880,000 rooms worldwide, according to IHG’s 2021 annual report — pay IHG a technology fee equal to about 2% of gross revenue.
“If their computer system is flawed why are they charging us a technology fee?” Gandhi asked.
Patel said he asked IHG this week about getting reimbursed for his losses. In response, he says he was told that franchisees are on the hook for any losses from security breaches.
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Throughout the last decade, the U.S. has seen immense growth in frequent internet usage, as one-third of Americans say they're online constantly, while 9 out of 10 say they surf the web several times a week, according to a March 2021 Pew Research poll.
That immense surge in activity has helped people stay more connected to one another, but it's also allowed for the widespread proliferation and exposure of hate speech. One fix that social media companies and other online networks have relied on is artificial intelligence—to varying degrees of success.
For companies with giant user bases, like Meta, artificial intelligence is a key, if not necessary tool for detecting hate speech — as there are too many users and pieces of violative content to be reviewed by the thousands of human content moderators already employed by the company. AI can help alleviate that burden by scaling up or down to fill in those gaps based on new influxes of users.
Facebook, for instance, has seen massive growth, from 400 million users in the early 2010s to more than two billion by the end of the decade. Between January and March 2022, Meta took action on more than 15 million pieces of hate speech content on Facebook. Roughly 95% of that was detected proactively by Facebook with the help of AI.
That combination of AI and human moderators can still let huge misinformation themes fall through the cracks. Paul Barrett, deputy director of NYU's Stern Center for Human Rights, found that every day, 3 million Facebook posts are flagged for review by 15,000 Facebook content moderators. The ratio of moderators to users is one to 160,000.
"If you have a volume of that nature, those humans, those people are going to have an enormous burden of making decisions on hundreds of discrete items each work day," Barrett said.
Another issue: AI detected to root out hate speech is primarily trained by text and still images. This means that video content, especially if it's live, is much more difficult to automatically detect as possible hate speech.
Zeve Sanderson is the founding executive director of NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics.
"Live video is incredibly difficult to moderate because it's live, you know, we've seen this unfortunately recently with some tragic shootings where, you know, people have used live video in order to spread, you know, sort of content related to that. And even though actually platforms have been relatively quick to respond to that. We've seen copies of those videos spread, so it's not just the original video, but also the ability to just sort of to record it and then share it in other forms. So, so live is extraordinarily challenging," Sanderson said.
And, many AI systems are not robust enough to be able to detect that hate speech in real-time. Extremism researcher Linda Schiegl told Newsy that this has become a problem in online multiplayer games where players can use voice chat to spread hateful ideologies or thoughts.
"It's really difficult for automatic detection to pick stuff up because if you're you're talking about weapons or you're talking about sort of how are we going to, I don't know, a take on this school or whatever it could be in the game. And so artificial intelligence or automatic detection is really difficult in gaming spaces. And so, it would have to be something that is more sophisticated than that or done by hand, which is really difficult, I think, even for these companies," Schiegl said.
This story was originally published by Tyler Adkisson on Newsy.com | https://www.katc.com/news/national-politics/the-race/artificial-intelligence-is-now-used-to-track-down-hate-speech | 2022-09-09T18:58:17Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national-politics/the-race/artificial-intelligence-is-now-used-to-track-down-hate-speech | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — The reality is political violence is a real threat facing our country.
The Department of Homeland Security has issued bulletins and so has the FBI. Examples have even emerged in recent weeks of the threats officials of both political parties are facing.
This summer, after the Supreme Court decision on abortion, a man was arrested with a gun and charged with attempting to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh near the justice's home.
In July, Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-NY) was attacked by a man at a political rally.
This past week, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal revealed to the Washington Post that an armed man yelled outside her home in Seattle for over an hour.
Also, there was the FBI raid at former President Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-lago, and the FBI office in Cincinnati was attacked by a Navy veteran, who police say had extremist ties.
On Capitol Hill in 2017, there were around 3,900 threats against members of Congress, according to Capitol Police records.
Last year, there were over 9,600.
OPENING UP
One Member of Congress has been especially forthcoming about the threats he is facing. Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), one of only two Republicans on the January 6th committee, posted on Twitter audio of some of the threatening voicemails his office has received.
"I pray that it be God's will that you suffer," one caller said.
"We know where you live," another called threatened.
Threats of violence over politics has increased heavily in the last few years. But the darkness has reached new lows. My new interns made this compilation of recent calls they’ve received while serving in my DC office.
— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) July 5, 2022
WARNING: this video contains foul & graphic language. pic.twitter.com/yQJvvAHBVV
INCREASED SECURITY
Those threats, as well as others, have resulted in taxpayers footing the bill for more security for members of Congress. Typically, only those in senior leadership positions, like the Speaker of the House or the minority leader, are given protection.
In recent weeks, security officials at the capitol have approved $10,000 worth of security upgrades for the homes of members of Congress to pay for things like new alarms, doors or lighting.
ISSUE FOR VOTERS
Voters are beginning to take these threats seriously and some recent polls are showing the threat of political violence driving some voters this election.
In fact, a CBS/Yougov poll from late August shows that 64% of Americans believe political violence will increase from here.
In January of 2021, after the January 6th attack, only 51% of Americans thought that.
A recent NBC poll identified the threat of political violence as a driving force among voters this election. | https://www.katc.com/news/national-politics/the-race/the-threat-of-political-violence-looms-over-this-election | 2022-09-09T18:58:23Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national-politics/the-race/the-threat-of-political-violence-looms-over-this-election | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The United States just hit a huge milestone in the world of organ donation reaching 1 million transplants.
“It’s not so much about the 1 million, it’s about the million ones,” said United Network for Organ Sharing CEO Brian Shepard. “There are a million individuals restored to health, and not just to health, but to their families, to their workplaces, to their congregations, to their communities."
Shepard said the H.S. is the first country in the world to reach a million. He said collaboration is a big reason we're so far ahead.
"Some of these organizations, you might think of as competitors, but really, in transplant, folks are working together, they’re sharing best practices, they’re sharing what they’ve learned and the system advances,” he said.
The first human organ to ever be transplanted was a kidney back in 1954. Kidneys have led the way since, followed by livers, hearts and lungs.
Shepard said recent advancements have also allowed for more non-traditional transplants.
“Hand and face transplants, the field of uterus transplants has really sort of appeared all of a sudden and is making a tremendous difference in people’s lives who are trying to have children,” he said.
More than 40,000 transplants are performed in the U.S. each year, double what it was 25 years ago. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/1-million-lives-saved-in-the-us-through-organ-transplants | 2022-09-09T18:58:29Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/1-million-lives-saved-in-the-us-through-organ-transplants | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
COLORADO SPRINGS — One of the Supreme Court justices is set to appear at a judicial conference in Colorado on Friday.
Chief Justice John Roberts will be interviewed during a “fireside chat” event by Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Timothy M. Tymkovich and Jerome A. Holmes, the Associated Press reported.
The news outlet reported that this marks his first appearance since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The society's counselor Gregory Kerwin told the Associated Press that the conversation would probably focus on Robert's career rather than current events.
Although Roberts didn't vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, he did vote to uphold Mississippi's ban on most abortions, the news outlet reported. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/chief-justice-john-roberts-set-to-speak-at-colorado-conference | 2022-09-09T18:58:35Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/chief-justice-john-roberts-set-to-speak-at-colorado-conference | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A restaurant in Virginia faced backlash after it posted a 9/11-inspired menu.
The Clubhouse at Aquia Harbour in Stafford posted a menu online that featured items like "First Responder Flatbread, "Never Forget" sampler and the "Remember-tini," according to Newsweek.
A manager at the restaurant reportedly apologized for the menu. He said he wanted to bring attention to the "horrific day," according to WJLA.
The restaurant has posted a new menu for Sunday. It has a football theme.
Nearly 3,000 people died in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Ahead of the 21st anniversary, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation declaring Sunday a day of remembrance. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/restaurant-scraps-9-11-themed-menu-following-backlash | 2022-09-09T18:59:00Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/restaurant-scraps-9-11-themed-menu-following-backlash | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BOULDER, Colo. — It's a question that's started a debate in communities across the country: should schools keep overdose-reversing spray Narcan in classrooms or on campus?
As opioid overdoses continue to rise, especially among teens, more and more schools are saying yes.
After multiple students overdosed in the Boulder Valley School District in Boulder, Colorado, the community and the district worked together to get Narcan stocked in schools to help save the next student who overdoses from dying.
“The opioid crisis that's happening across the United States is scary, and people are dying, and families are affected. It's a really big deal,” said Jennifer Kerker, a registered nurse and school nurse consultant at Monarch High School in Boulder.
A study from UCLA found that the rate of overdose deaths among U.S. teenagers nearly doubled in 2020, then went up again in the first half of 2021.
That's why Kerker says schools need to be ready to help.
“The only problem with Narcan is not having it when you need it,” said Kerker. “Students want to protect themselves. They want to protect their friends, and parents want to help keep their students safe. Narcan is one way we can do that.”
In the short time since her school had Narcan, Kerker had to use it on a student that was unresponsive.
“Having this medication and knowing we had it in the bag was actually really reassuring. We didn't hesitate. I gave it, and I was glad I had it on hand.”
More than half of states now allow school systems to stock Narcan in schools, and seven states require it for either high schools or colleges. Those states include Oregon, Arizona, Tennessee, Maryland, Rhode Island, Washington, and Connecticut.
However, many say having the option to have Narcan isn't enough because even in states where Narcan is allowed, many schools still don't stock it.
In 2022, students have overdosed and died in schools in Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada and New Jersey.
Despite the grim reality, there is hope, too. A school in Kansas City that carried Narcan was able to save a student's life.
In Boulder, Colorado, Dad Ryan Christoff saw Narcan bring his own teenage daughter back to life.
“Her lips were blue. Her face was kind of a pale green,” recalled Christoff. “I was, you know, shaking her, trying to wake her up, you know, just yelling her name.”
Christoff didn't know Sofia was using drugs, but police used Narcan just in case. It worked.
“I don't look at it like that was the day she overdosed,” said Christoff. “I look at it like that was the day that my daughter was brought back to life."
Christoff is so grateful for his daughter’s second chance and for the fact that Sofia's school is one that now carries Narcan. Christoff is now a community advocate dedicated to getting rid of the stigma around using Narcan and is educating parents and nearby schools.
“We need to face that head-on, with our eyes open and realize, 'OK, people are using drugs and they're dying. Let's start with harm reduction. How can we keep them from dying?'"
The good news, Christoff said, is that help is free. The company that makes Narcan will send any school two boxes of doses at no cost.
Christoff just hopes schools see the value in a simple tool that can have a deep impact on our students.
“I'm positive that by the schools having it, they are going to save a lot of lives,” said Christoff.
Christoff said he is proud of his community for embracing the mission to help save student lives. The school district worked with Boulder County Public Health on this project and involved the entire community.
“Boulder County Public Health works closely with our school districts to reduce overdoses, including training on accessing and administering Naloxone,” said Lexi Nolen, interim executive director. “Taking even one pill can be a fatal mistake if it contains even a small amount of fentanyl, and there is no way to be sure of the pill’s content.”
BCPH recommends following these steps to help prevent overdoses:
- Assume that any pills purchased from a non-pharmacy source may contain a lethal dose of fentanyl and follow all precautions to prevent and respond to an overdose.
- Ensure that you, and those you are with, carry Naloxone and know how to administer it. Naloxone can reverse the effects of opioid overdoses. Fentanyl is stronger and may require additional doses of Naloxone.
- Always call 911 if you suspect someone has overdosed. Colorado has the Good Samaritan Law, and you will not be charged with drug possession in amounts for personal consumption if you call 911 and remain present until help arrives.
- Don’t use alone. If you can’t be with someone else, plan to have someone check in on you so that they can come help you if needed. If you are with someone else who is also going to use, have someone else check in with both of you.
- Start with a small dose every time you have something new. You can always add more, but you cannot subtract.
- Test your drugs using fentanyl strips. However, if it does not alert to fentanyl, it does not mean it is not there. The fentanyl may still be in another untested part of the pill or another unknown synthetic.
Resources:
• Overdose prevention: boco.org/overdose-prevention [boco.org]
• How to dispose of drugs: boco.org/TheWorksProgram [boco.org]
• Talk to a harm reduction specialist: Georgia Babatsikos, 303-441-1100 | https://www.katc.com/news/national/schools-across-the-country-stocking-narcan-to-stop-student-overdoses | 2022-09-09T18:59:06Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/schools-across-the-country-stocking-narcan-to-stop-student-overdoses | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
We have a good old-fashioned duel between a quarterback and a cornerback in the media.
Richard Sherman and Dan Orlovsky sparred back and forth on Twitter amid Matthew Stafford’s poor performance as the defending Super Bowl champion Rams lost by three touchdowns at home to the Bills in the NFL season opener.
This all began when Sherman responded to a film breakdown from NFL analyst Brian Baldinger, who showed Bills defensive back Dane Jackson baiting Stafford into an interception.
Sherman touted this strategy by Jackson as being the “future” of cornerback play, and Orlovsky chimed in, essentially blaming the interception on a miscommunication between Stafford and tight end Tyler Higbee.
Sherman disagreed. “Stafford being Stafford,” he wrote.
Orlovsky responded, “Sherm we don’t have to start 2022 like this champ cmon lol.”
Sherman stood his ground, tweeting, “Nothing to start. Led the league in picks last year. Just because he’s your buddy doesn’t mean the facts change.”
Orlovsky backed Stafford up on the Lions from 2014 through 2016, and defended his former teammate: “Led league in TDs last year and won the SB with as clutch a postseason as anyone at that position has ever had.”
Sherman was not on the same wavelength.
“Lmao clutch?” he asked. Lmao Tartt dropped the pick. Lmao laughable. You will be a homer for your friend. More power to you. The tape doesn’t match.”
Stafford threw for 5.9 yards per attempt and tossed three interceptions in Thursday’s loss to the Bills.
Sherman, a longtime cornerback for the Seahawks, Niners and Bucs, now is an analyst at Amazon and hosts a podcast for Colin Cowherd’s Volume media network. Orlovsky is an analyst at ESPN. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/09/richard-sherman-calls-dan-orlovsky-a-homer-for-matthew-stafford/ | 2022-09-09T18:59:07Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/09/richard-sherman-calls-dan-orlovsky-a-homer-for-matthew-stafford/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The boil water advisory for Lawtell Water Works District 1 has been lifted.
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COLORADO SPRINGS — One of the Supreme Court justices is set to appear at a judicial conference in Colorado on Friday.
Chief Justice John Roberts will be interviewed during a “fireside chat” event by Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Timothy M. Tymkovich and Jerome A. Holmes, the Associated Press reported.
The news outlet reported that this marks his first appearance since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The society's counselor Gregory Kerwin told the Associated Press that the conversation would probably focus on Robert's career rather than current events.
Although Roberts didn't vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, he did vote to uphold Mississippi's ban on most abortions, the news outlet reported. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/chief-justice-john-roberts-set-to-speak-at-colorado-conference | 2022-09-09T19:02:21Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/chief-justice-john-roberts-set-to-speak-at-colorado-conference | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
# アフガンシカッフサザ\n\n株 フィツーソイフェラの樓本社の本鶏事物が瓠を时で奕くと そのごくき てんりえだもあっでこころにつねまさらすもほどほふはこすほをよなげほでまがねて�� BOULDER, Colo. — It's a question that's started a debate in communities across the country: should schools keep overdose-reversing spray Narcan in classrooms or on campus?
As opioid overdoses continue to rise, especially among teens, more and more schools are saying yes.
After multiple students overdosed in the Boulder Valley School District in Boulder, Colorado, the community and the district worked together to get Narcan stocked in schools to help save the next student who overdoses from dying.
“The opioid crisis that's happening across the United States is scary, and people are dying, and families are affected. It's a really big deal,” said Jennifer Kerker, a registered nurse and school nurse consultant at Monarch High School in Boulder.
A study from UCLA found that the rate of overdose deaths among U.S. teenagers nearly doubled in 2020, then went up again in the first half of 2021.
That's why Kerker says schools need to be ready to help.
“The only problem with Narcan is not having it when you need it,” said Kerker. “Students want to protect themselves. They want to protect their friends, and parents want to help keep their students safe. Narcan is one way we can do that.”
In the short time since her school had Narcan, Kerker had to use it on a student that was unresponsive.
“Having this medication and knowing we had it in the bag was actually really reassuring. We didn't hesitate. I gave it, and I was glad I had it on hand.”
More than half of states now allow school systems to stock Narcan in schools, and seven states require it for either high schools or colleges. Those states include Oregon, Arizona, Tennessee, Maryland, Rhode Island, Washington, and Connecticut.
However, many say having the option to have Narcan isn't enough because even in states where Narcan is allowed, many schools still don't stock it.
In 2022, students have overdosed and died in schools in Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada and New Jersey.
Despite the grim reality, there is hope, too. A school in Kansas City that carried Narcan was able to save a student's life.
In Boulder, Colorado, Dad Ryan Christoff saw Narcan bring his own teenage daughter back to life.
“Her lips were blue. Her face was kind of a pale green,” recalled Christoff. “I was, you know, shaking her, trying to wake her up, you know, just yelling her name.”
Christoff didn't know Sofia was using drugs, but police used Narcan just in case. It worked.
“I don't look at it like that was the day she overdosed,” said Christoff. “I look at it like that was the day that my daughter was brought back to life."
Christoff is so grateful for his daughter’s second chance and for the fact that Sofia's school is one that now carries Narcan. Christoff is now a community advocate dedicated to getting rid of the stigma around using Narcan and is educating parents and nearby schools.
“We need to face that head-on, with our eyes open and realize, 'OK, people are using drugs and they're dying. Let's start with harm reduction. How can we keep them from dying?'"
The good news, Christoff said, is that help is free. The company that makes Narcan will send any school two boxes of doses at no cost.
Christoff just hopes schools see the value in a simple tool that can have a deep impact on our students.
“I'm positive that by the schools having it, they are going to save a lot of lives,” said Christoff.
Christoff said he is proud of his community for embracing the mission to help save student lives. The school district worked with Boulder County Public Health on this project and involved the entire community.
“Boulder County Public Health works closely with our school districts to reduce overdoses, including training on accessing and administering Naloxone,” said Lexi Nolen, interim executive director. “Taking even one pill can be a fatal mistake if it contains even a small amount of fentanyl, and there is no way to be sure of the pill’s content.”
BCPH recommends following these steps to help prevent overdoses:
- Assume that any pills purchased from a non-pharmacy source may contain a lethal dose of fentanyl and follow all precautions to prevent and respond to an overdose.
- Ensure that you, and those you are with, carry Naloxone and know how to administer it. Naloxone can reverse the effects of opioid overdoses. Fentanyl is stronger and may require additional doses of Naloxone.
- Always call 911 if you suspect someone has overdosed. Colorado has the Good Samaritan Law, and you will not be charged with drug possession in amounts for personal consumption if you call 911 and remain present until help arrives.
- Don’t use alone. If you can’t be with someone else, plan to have someone check in on you so that they can come help you if needed. If you are with someone else who is also going to use, have someone else check in with both of you.
- Start with a small dose every time you have something new. You can always add more, but you cannot subtract.
- Test your drugs using fentanyl strips. However, if it does not alert to fentanyl, it does not mean it is not there. The fentanyl may still be in another untested part of the pill or another unknown synthetic.
Resources:
• Overdose prevention: boco.org/overdose-prevention [boco.org]
• How to dispose of drugs: boco.org/TheWorksProgram [boco.org]
• Talk to a harm reduction specialist: Georgia Babatsikos, 303-441-1100 | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/schools-across-the-country-stocking-narcan-to-stop-student-overdoses | 2022-09-09T19:02:37Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/schools-across-the-country-stocking-narcan-to-stop-student-overdoses | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Vehicle stolen from Zanesville involved in high speed chase
PARKERSBURG, WV − A Florida woman in a vehicle stolen from Muskingum County led West Virginia law enforcement on a high speed chase before crashing in a fiery wreck this week.
A Jeep SUV was reported stolen from the Pump and Pantry on West Pike at 6:52 am on Wednesday, said Captain Jeff LeCocq of the Muskingum County Sheriff's Office. Later that day officers attempted to stop the vehicle on I-77 near Parkersburg for speeding, doing 84 mph in an 70 mph zone. Instead of stopping, the driver, Skye Grissinger of Englewood, Florida, fled, reaching speeds of 110 mph.
Grissinger continued southbound, weaving in and out of traffic, according to a criminal complaint filed in Wood County Court. After driving for eight miles, Grissinger did a u-turn through the median, almost striking a semi-truck, before continuing northbound at speeds exceeding 100 mph. A few miles later, officers noticed flames coming from the hood of the Jeep, the complaint said. Grissinger crashed while swerving around slower moving vehicles, hitting the center median near mile marker 172 near Parkersburg. The vehicle was then consumed by fire.
Law enforcement took Grissinger into custody. According to a story in the Parkersburg News and Sentinel, Grissinger was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries. According to the complaint, the vehicle was stolen from Zanesville.
Grissinger is charged with fleeing and possession of a stolen vehicle. Charges have not yet been filed in Muskingum County, LeCocq said. | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/local/2022/09/09/vehicle-stolen-from-zanesville-involved-in-high-speed-chase/66825379007/ | 2022-09-09T19:06:53Z | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | control | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/local/2022/09/09/vehicle-stolen-from-zanesville-involved-in-high-speed-chase/66825379007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SEATTLE — There will be no class Friday for Seattle Public Schools (SPS) after teachers went on strike over issues that include pay, mental health support, and staffing ratios for special education and multilingual students.
The first day of school was set for Wednesday, Sept. 7.
Seattle Education Association (SEA), the union representing SPS teachers, announced authorization to strike after a vote over the Labor Day Weekend concluded Tuesday morning. The union said 95% of the votes from SEA members were in favor of authorizing a strike. The strike began at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Educators plan to picket at schools across Seattle every weekday until an agreement with the district can be reached and the strike ends.
Student meals will be provided at several school sites. Free sack lunches are available for all students and will be available for pick up from around 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Locations and details can be found on the district's Family Resources page.
SPS is also working with community partners on child care resources. School athletics are expected to continue even amid the strike, the district said.
The city of Seattle is also offering recreation activity hubs at eight community centers for school-aged children. Families can register online starting Sept. 8. Find a list of the centers here.
A spokesperson for the Washington Education Association said in a statement Wednesday that bargaining was ongoing between the two sides.
The next collective bargaining session between the SEA and SPS is scheduled for 9 a.m. Friday. The union and district are expected to meet through the weekend if a tentative agreement is not reached Friday.
Families will be notified by 3 p.m. if there is no school the next day, according to SPS.
SEA educators said they are fighting for "student support, reasonable workloads, and respectful pay" from SPS. The SEA told KING 5 some progress has been made with the district, but not on the big topics.
SPS said it proposed a 6.5% pay increase to help with the cost of living in Seattle. However, the union said the state has already funded a 5.5% pay increase, so the district is only adding a 1% increase to their salary.
Another big topic in the negotiations is hiring more teachers and support staff to help with class sizes and caseloads. A teacher KING 5 spoke with Friday morning said this is an opportunity for the district to bring in more diverse voices.
“The staff should be a representation of the students in the school. That is the biggest thing,” said Special Education Teacher Ibi Idowu. “Kids need to see teachers that look like them. They need to have books that represent who they are. When we talk about being culturally responsive, that's what it means. It's not just saying that it's demonstrating what that looks like.”
Another big topic in negations is the district moving into an inclusion model for special education students. This means students with an individualized education program would be placed in classrooms in a general education setting with the rest of their peers. The union said this would not be successful unless the district provided funding to make sure special education students have the resources they need.
“If our students are going into the classroom, and let’s say they don’t read, if they don’t have picture support, if they don’t have that audio, they can’t talk to text, if they don’t have access to those things, that inclusion model that we’re talking about, [then] placing those students into the classroom is not going to be successful for them,” explained Idowu.
Bryan Manzo, a counselor at Eckstein Middle School, told KING 5 Thursday morning that there is one counselor for every 370 students at the school, which makes it challenging to give each student the time and attention they deserve.
“I do think that we lost our opportunity and access for two years," explained Manzo. "I think that, you know, for some folks, they might catch up in different ways, but to understand how as a community of diverse learners and educators that takes time and it takes a lot of thoughtful attention."
Manzo added that the COVID-19 pandemic heightened mental health struggles for students.
"The needs were off the charts, students' academic needs, their mental health needs, the social-emotional supports,” said SEA President Jennifer Matter, in regards to why more student supports are necessary.
SPS is among several districts across Washington dealing with potential or active educator strikes.
Teachers in Kent, the state's fifth-largest district, went on strike on Aug. 25. The Kent Teachers Association said the union and the district came to a tentative agreement "in the wee hours of the morning" on Sept. 7, and union members approved the new collective bargaining agreement with the district later that day. Classes at most schools began on Sept. 8, two weeks after they were scheduled to start. The first day of kindergarten is expected to be Sept. 13.
Eatonville also is navigating negotiations with their union, while Port Angeles saw a tentative agreement reached between the union and district on Monday.
SPS issued a statement saying the district has offered legal mediation to reach a contract agreement before Sept. 7, but that the offer was declined by the SEA.
While the union wants higher pay for the lowest paid staff, a bulk of its demands include better support systems for special education and multilingual programs, plus better control over class sizes. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/education/seattle-education-association-authorizes-teacher-strike/281-5d8453cf-740c-4685-8a13-14997f7e91b1 | 2022-09-09T19:06:53Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/education/seattle-education-association-authorizes-teacher-strike/281-5d8453cf-740c-4685-8a13-14997f7e91b1 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Sept. 7, Benjamin Banneker High School in Union City, Georgia, was awarded $10,000 from the Witherite Law Group for their second annual Great Atlanta Band Challenge. In a historic move, they also awarded $2500 each to the other 7 schools in the top ten for a total of $47,500.
During the presentation of the check, the marching band performed a repertoire of songs in front of the crowd, and the radio station 97.5 Atlanta was present as well for the award.
Emanuel Johnson, Benjamin Banneker’s band director, and Adewale Odetunde, an attorney for the Witherite Law Group, spoke with rolling out about the high school being awarded.
How does it feel to be rewarded for your and your band’s hard work?
Emanuel Johnson: I feel like this is an amazing win for Benjamin Banneker’s marching band. We’re going to use this money to do a few different things, as far as more exposure for our students, get them out of College Park so they can travel, and continue to give them opportunities that are going to make them college and career ready.
We started the contest dead last. We had zero votes, while everybody else had thousands. We rallied our community, our band program, and our school community. Our principal allowed me to get on the intercom every morning and give a shout-out to the school and try to garner some opportunities to get some votes for our students.
Why did you want to continue the Great Atlanta Band Challenge?
Adewale Odetunde: What we want to do is to meet the needs of the communities that we’re in, and the big marching band programs across the state and the country. For us to be able to do this with Benjamin Banneker High School and for us to give back and know that the kids are going to appreciate it is going to be huge for them.
What makes your school the best marching band in Georgia?
Odetunde: The fact that we have so many young musicians, most of our students come from not knowing how to play instruments or having very little experience. I’m proud to say that we have first, second, and instrumentalists that are turning out this great. That’s a testament to their hard work and testament to their parents. Dedication to getting their kids here every morning for band camp, picking them up every evening, making sure that their band dues are paid, and making sure they have their physicals.
I want to give a big shoutout to our band parents and our band community for rallying behind these kids and making sure they have what they need. I also want to shout out to the kids who are playing in the band, and our auxiliary flag and dance team for putting in their time and work to make Benjamin Banneker High School look great look and phenomenal. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/08/benjamin-banneker-high-school-awarded-10k-for-great-atlanta-band-challenge/ | 2022-09-09T19:08:22Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/08/benjamin-banneker-high-school-awarded-10k-for-great-atlanta-band-challenge/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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