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1010 Wines celebrates a banner freshman year as a hot spot for A-listers and locals.
Co-owned by sisters Leslie and LeAnn Jones, the Inglewood-based destination offers the largest selection of Black-owned wines in California, and delicious foods in a central location that’s second to none. Boasting a who’s who of A-list visitors, including Nas, Cedric the Entertainer, Niecy Nash, and more, the Jones sisters look to capitalize on their year one success to continue to propel their business into the future.
Reflecting on their first year in business Leslie Jones, who serves as president of 1010 Wines says it’s really about the people. Though she and LeAnn were hands-on in every aspect of the business, including the design, it’s all about the people.
“So what we have really learned is that people are the base of our business,” Leslie Jones shared with rolling out. We spent a lot of time curating our wine menu and creating our food menu. And all of those things are great, and that kind of keeps people coming in the door. But, the reason why people have supported us is that we make genuine relationships with our guests that come in the door. We know that the people who support us are the reason why we’re still here. So it’s less important for us to create a new food dish, it’s more important for us to connect with our guests that are here and make sure that they’re having a good time, and that they feel like this is a good space for them.”
While the wine may bring guests to Inglewood’s only wine bar, it’s the menu that steals the show. Dinner guests can enjoy fine dining selections like rib eye or shrimp and risotto not to mention a decadent selection of appetizers, soups, and options for Sunday brunch.
As Black-owned businesses continue to enter the marketplace, the most successful business owners like their success to running their race, support from both customers and mentors, and the importance of eliminating the need to compare themselves to others. With a solid year of operations under their belt, Leslie offered the following advice to new business owners no matter what industry they are looking to find success in.
“First thing is, don’t compare yourself in the age of social media,” says Leslie. “It’s really easy to see what other people are doing and say, ‘Oh, they’re further along than me,’ or ‘Oh, maybe I should be doing that.’
“I tell people all the time that if we modeled our wine bar, after all the wine bars that we researched on, I don’t think we would even be here a year later, our community is different, we’re different. And so we use those other businesses as references, but we don’t compare ourselves by any means,”
1010 Wines and Events is located at 1010 N La Brea Ave, Inglewood, CA 90302 For more information about dining, live events and more visit 1010wineandevents.com. Reservations are suggested to ensure seating. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/09/1010-wines-celebrates-a-banner-freshman-year-as-a-hot-spot-for-a-listers/ | 2022-09-09T19:08:28Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/09/1010-wines-celebrates-a-banner-freshman-year-as-a-hot-spot-for-a-listers/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The story of Pinocchio was written in 1881, yet the message is very relevant in today’s cultural landscape. When Pinocchio’s tormentors ask him, “Why would you want to be real, when you can be famous?” it feels like the writer knew we’d be living in a world centered around likes and followers as opposed to substance and hard work. Disney’s reboot stars award-winning actress Cynthia Erivo along with legendary actor Tom Hanks and brilliant newcomer Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, as the talking puppet that magically comes to life.
Erivo cleverly plays a slightly androgynous-looking blue fairy, a role that was previously tapped for blonde, blue-eyed actresses. Earlier this year, Erivo spoke candidly about how monumental snagging this role was for her and, more importantly, young Black and Brown children who have never seen themselves in such a coveted role.
“I love that I’m playing this role as myself, with my bald head and all,” Erivo stated proudly.
Although Disney was intentional about adding diversity to the film, the authenticity to the story remains true. Pinocchio takes on challenge after challenge, and thwarts distractions and villains galore all in a quest to become “real” and make his father, the puppet maker, proud. While the story is geared toward children, the overall message is one that transcends age, gender, race and background. The blue fairy instructs Pinocchio on the keys to becoming “real,” which is to show up in life as brave, truthful and unselfish. Those three timeless characteristics written in the 1880s still ring true today.
The all-new “Pinocchio” premiered Sept. 8 on Disney Plus. Check out the full interview with lead actor Benjamin Evan Ainsworth here: | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/09/2022-version-of-pinocchio-adds-diversity-but-retains-authenticity-and-appeal/ | 2022-09-09T19:08:34Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/09/2022-version-of-pinocchio-adds-diversity-but-retains-authenticity-and-appeal/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Director Terri J. Vaughn takes viewers on a journey of friendship, love and life decisions in her new Hallmark film “Unthinkably Good Things”. “Unthinkably Good Things” is playing now on the Hallmark Movie Channel.
Director Terri J. Vaughn takes viewers on a journey of friendship, love and life decisions in her new Hallmark film “Unthinkably Good Things”. “Unthinkably Good Things” is playing now on the Hallmark Movie Channel. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/09/director-terri-j-vaughn-reexamines-life-and-love-in-unthinkably-good-things/ | 2022-09-09T19:08:40Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/09/director-terri-j-vaughn-reexamines-life-and-love-in-unthinkably-good-things/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Sep. 7, 2022, a Florida woman named Tupac Amaru Shakur went before a judge after allegedly attacking an elderly man with a baseball bat on Sept. 6.
The 34-year-old shares the name with the rap icon, and her incident occurred 26 years to the day of the artist’s fatal shooting in Las Vegas in 1996.
Shakur allegedly hit the man several times with the bat outside of Hialeah Hospital on the morning of Sept. 6. The man ripped the bat away from Shakur and ran into the hospital. She then followed him inside and claimed she was the one being attacked with the bat.
The man suffered injuries to his face, upper lip, right arm, right hand, and right leg in the attack, and told the police that he recognized Shakur, who is homeless and lives in the area.
Shakur was taken to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, and was charged with aggravated battery on a person 65 or older. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/09/florida-woman-named-tupac-shakur-arrested-for-beating-man-with-baseball-bat/ | 2022-09-09T19:08:46Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/09/florida-woman-named-tupac-shakur-arrested-for-beating-man-with-baseball-bat/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for Democratic judicial candidates. This is intended to help introduce the candidates and their experiences to my readers. This year it’s mostly incumbents running for re-election, so it’s an opportunity to hear that talk about what they have accomplished. I am running these responses in the order that I receive them from the candidates. For more information about these and other Democratic candidates, including links to interviews and Q&As from the primary and runoff, see the Erik Manning spreadsheet.)
1. Who are you and in which court do you preside?
Tanya Garrison, Judge of the 157th Civil District Court.
2. What kind of cases does this court hear?
Civil cases in which parties are seeking equitable, declaratory, or monetary relief.
3. What have been your main accomplishments during your time on this bench?
Increased efficiency in calling cases to trial. Increased jury trials. Opening the Court for marriage equality. Began taking law school interns for the first time in the history of the Court. Named Trial Judge of the Year in 2021 by the Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists.
4. What do you hope to accomplish in your courtroom going forward?
More of the same. Increased educational opportunities for young lawyers and law students. Continued focus on continuing legal education for trial lawyers.
5. Why is this race important?
It is important to elect people to the trial courts who have experience in these courts as not only the judge but as practicing lawyers. Judges need to see the whole forest for the trees to effectively administer justice. Due process requires more than a since of fairness and equality. It requires knowing why the rules of procedure, rules of evidence, and rule of law exist so that they can be applied fairly and equally.
6. Why should people vote for you in November?
I’m a true believer in the jury system and that our civil courts are the best way to resolve disputes, and I know I will do a great job as a civil court judge. The Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is a crucial part of our democracy. The Third Branch of Government should be protected by judges that respect the importance of courtroom justice for all people.
I can best summarize the reasons I am running in three points: (1) passion for the work; (2) experience; and (3) perspective.
Passion. I truly love being a trial lawyer and working in the courtroom. I respect all parts of the process and believe that when the law is applied equally, the right result is possible. Being a Judge is my dream.
Experience. I have practiced civil trial law since I graduated law school in 2000 and have been a part of trial teams with over 20 commercial cases going to a full jury verdict. I am Board Certified in Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, and have almost 45 appeals with my name on them. I am a member of various trial law associations, including the American Board of Trial Advocates and the Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists. In 2011, I was named Outstanding Young Lawyer in Houston by the Houston Young Lawyers Association.
Perspective. I am someone who sincerely believes that the greatest part of our government is its people. The strength of our judiciary comes from the diversity of our people coming together to participate in our jury system. I am a lifelong Democrat who values all backgrounds and life experiences. I want to create a courtroom experience that welcomes everyone despite the fact that courtrooms and the controversies that are resolved there are intimidating and difficult. Everyone is entitled to a fair and impartial trial, and it is my goal to ensure that they get one. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106671 | 2022-09-09T19:08:47Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106671 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Atlanta rappers Young Thug, Gunna, and more than two dozen members of the YSL group have been in jail for the past four months on felony charges, including the RICO statute, that could land them in prison for decades if they are convicted.
During a court hearing for Thug on Sept. 8, the judge brought up the rapper’s social media activity, most notably a tweet that was sent to professional swimmer Michael Phelps. Many on social media have assumed that Thug has access to his phone in jail, but some think it’s somebody else tweeting for him.
I'm talking with my roommate and we're wondering if you could swim 100 miles from the middle of the ocean back to shore – @MichaelPhelps 🏊♂️
— Young Thug ひ (@youngthug) August 31, 2022
Brian Steel, Thug’s and Gunna’s lawyer, denied that the rapper has access to his cellphone in jail.
The judge countered, saying, “This is part of the conversation I had with all of you about your teams and everybody else. If people don’t need to know, you don’t need to disclose it. It’s going to get somebody either hurt or somebody in a lot of trouble.”
Steel then doubled down and said that someone else is tweeting for Thug while he’s in jail.
“That last tweet that was sent out to Michael Phelps is recorded,” Steel said in court. “It was a conversation that was recorded between [Young Thug] and a member of his close family, close friendships. He asked the other person who’s in control of his Twitter account to send that or the Instagram. That is not a reason to [restrict].”
The judge then concluded that Thug can intimidate witnesses if he can get a message out while he’s in jail.
Thug has been denied bond until the trial begins in January 2023. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/09/how-a-conversation-with-michael-phelps-could-get-young-thug-in-more-trouble/ | 2022-09-09T19:08:53Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/09/how-a-conversation-with-michael-phelps-could-get-young-thug-in-more-trouble/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for Democratic judicial candidates. This is intended to help introduce the candidates and their experiences to my readers. This year it’s mostly incumbents running for re-election, so it’s an opportunity to hear that talk about what they have accomplished. I am running these responses in the order that I receive them from the candidates. For more information about these and other Democratic candidates, including links to interviews and Q&As from the primary and runoff, see the Erik Manning spreadsheet.)
1. Who are you and in which court do you preside?
Judge Cory Don Sepolio of the 269th Civil District Court of Texas
2. What kind of cases does this court hear?
The 269th is a civil court dealing primarily with disputes over property, contracts, money, elections, injuries, health issues, and business activities, among others.
3. What have been your main accomplishments during your time on this bench?
I eliminated the ineffective practice of unnecessary court appearances. The Harris County Court house is a sophisticated yet often crowded venue. Recently the relocation of courts followed by the damage to the Criminal Court House in Harvey has the Civil Justice building overburdened. With electronic filing courts should allow matters to be heard on the submission docket rather than requiring all matters to have oral hearing. The pandemic lessened the burden yet created a health risk for in-person attendance. If oral hearings are requested courts should allow participation by telephonic appearance when appropriate. The 269th under my direction embraced “zoom” and eliminated unnecessary docket appearances. The litigants should have the option of choosing how they wish their matters heard. This change saves litigants on legal fees, parking and decreases courthouse crowding.
The best practice in most cases is for a judge to give limited instructions on voir dire and then turn the questioning over to the trial attorneys. In my career I sat through some judges’ voir dire that ran as long as five hours. This was on routine, non-capital cases. These lengthy speeches by the judges were ineffective, delayed justice, and annoyed the jurors. Judges should not use the courtroom for campaigning. During my time as judge of the 269th I read the required instructions, introduce the parties and staff, and provide an estimated time of trial prior to lawyer questions. This takes less than 10 minutes and is respectful of everyone’s time.
It is my primary duty to ensure a safe, fair, and unbiased venue for all litigants, witnesses and their attorneys. This is regardless of race, color, creed, orientation, gender or country of origin. Historically judges refused to follow the law regarding same-sex marriage. Many prior judges belonged to groups that discriminated against the Hispanic and immigrant communities. This is unacceptable. Since taking the bench I have fought to ensure justice for all.
I refuse to allow those who appear in the 269th to be harassed or frightened. Everyone is entitled to a fair day in court without outside burden.
I proudly implemented a method I call the “Batson pause” in trial where I ensure impermissible strikes are not permitted. In this way we prevent prospective jurors from impermissible discrimination due to their ethnic background or gender.
During the pandemic I issued a moratorium on dismissals for want of prosecution in the 269th. Many lawyers, witnesses, and litigants were ill or displaced during the pandemic and I did not believe it equitable to dismiss their cases simply because they could not respond to email inquiries during that time.
In 2022, the 269th has disposed of more cases than all 24 other civil district courts, except one.
4. What do you hope to accomplish in your courtroom going forward?
When I took the bench in 2019 I shared the 269th with two criminal district court judges as a result of the continuing displacement resulting from hurricane Harvey. In the early Spring of 2020, the pandemic shut down the courts the exact day the criminal court judges were able to return to their own courts. The past four years required sharing and patience to ensure justice functioned in all courts. Despite these obstacles the 269th has performed admirably and continued to try cases. I am thrilled to finally be back in the 269th and have all facilities to continue our mission of ensuring justice and equality to all litigants whom have cases in the 269th.
5. Why is this race important?
I cherish our judicial system and earnestly wish to maintain the integrity of our trial courts. We began this campaign with the goal of ensuring that the citizens, litigants, and trial attorneys of Harris County have a qualified and fair judge on the bench. Those of us who maintained active trial dockets in Harris County were frustrated by several years of practicing before temperamental and inexperienced judges. The litigants and lawyers whom the 269th serves expect the level of preparation and justice the court currently provides and deserve for it to continue. I shall see that it does.
6. Why should people vote for you in November?
Campaigning this long has come at a great sacrifice to my family. The time and effort spent on this campaign is great. I am determined to win this race and ensure experience, equality, and justice for all continues in the 269th Civil District Court. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106687 | 2022-09-09T19:08:55Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106687 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
I really hoped this would be a thing. If it isn’t, it’s a great wasted opportunity.
Ten years ago, a company calling itself Texas Central High-Speed Railway announced plans for a trailblazing bullet train that would whisk passengers between Dallas and Houston in 90 minutes. Company leaders exuded confidence that the trains would be running up to 205 miles per hour by 2020.
The potential for an American high-speed rail line captured the imagination of Texans and national train enthusiasts alike. At one point during an event celebrating the unbuilt high-speed rail line, then-Vice President Joe Biden told a Dallas crowd, “You’re going to lead this country into an entirely new era of transportation.”
But a decade on, there are still no new tracks between Dallas and Houston.
Through multiple business entities who often use some version of the Texas Central moniker, developers of the project spent years raising hundreds of millions of dollars for construction, fighting conservative lawmakers’ attempts to dampen their plans and buying land needed to lay the tracks. Perhaps the biggest battle, though, came from legal challenges to the company’s claims that state law allows it to forcibly purchase property when owners aren’t willing to voluntarily sell.
In June, the Texas Supreme Court settled the matter and handed the company what could be a watershed victory, ruling that Texas Central can use eminent domain for its high-profile project. By the time the court ruled, though, Texas Central’s board had reportedly disbanded and its CEO and president had resigned. The project’s original timeline had already gone off the rails (at one point the construction was slated to begin in 2017). And land acquisition seems to have all but stopped in the last two years, according to land records reviewed by The Texas Tribune.
A spokesperson for the company, who is employed by a consulting firm that handles Texas Central’s media requests, says the project is still in the works.
“Texas Central is continuing to seek further investment, and is moving forward with the development of this high-speed train,” Tom Becker, a senior managing director with FTI Consulting, said in a statement. “We appreciate the continued support of our investors, lenders, and other key stakeholders, as we continue to advance this important project.”
But the company and Becker have declined to answer specific questions about the leadership exodus, apparent slump in land acquisition, funding prospects and status of permits Texas Central would need to move forward. A federal transportation agency says it hasn’t had contact with the company in two years. The portion of Texas Central’s website that once listed executive leaders is now blank — as is the list of current job openings.
Texas Central’s relative silence on the recent developments has left supporters of the project, who would like to see two of the state’s largest economic engines more easily connected, in limbo. Opponents, who have long railed against the idea of a private company using eminent domain to seize Texans’ land, are cautiously hoping Texas Central won’t rebound.
Even if the company resurges, there remain major obstacles ahead to acquire land and finance an increasingly expensive project described as “shovel ready” as recently as 2020. The stakes of the high-speed rail project extend beyond the company and Texas. The 240 miles of relatively flat land between Dallas and Houston has long been heralded as the ideal location for what Texas Central and its supporters say could be the first leg of a national high-speed rail system that transforms the country.
There are few infrastructure projects in the country that can compare in size to the Texas rail line. A California high-speed rail project between Los Angeles and San Francisco also faces significant political, financial and legal hurdles. But Michael Bennon, the program manager at Stanford University’s Global Infrastructure Policy Research Initiative, hangs a lot of hope on the Texas project given the relatively short distance, estimated frequency of travel and the landscape between the two cities.
“If you can’t do high-speed rail in that corridor, it’s hard to imagine it working anywhere else,” Bennon said.
There’s a lot more, so read the rest. This is not the first possible elegy to what might have been with TCR. I’m of the belief that nothing is truly dead until you see the body, but I’m not feeling very optimistic right now. The damn shame of it all is that this was a great idea, and it should have worked. Lots of factors combined to make it not work – again, if this is indeed the end, which I still hope it isn’t – and I have no idea what could make something else work in its place. Honestly, at this point I’m not sure I’d live to see whatever that might be, given the ponderously long times these things take, whether or not they ultimately go anywhere. All I can say is that I hope the reports of TCR’s death are exaggerated. But I don’t have much faith that they are. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106787 | 2022-09-09T19:09:02Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106787 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After I wrote about the effort to get two new bike and pedestrian bridges built in the Heights area, with the intent of making some new connections across the White Oak Bayou and to the existing White Oak Bayou Trail, I realized that I didn’t have a good image in my head of where these proposed sites would be. The map on the A Tale Of Two Bridges page helps, but the conceptual pictures they have on the home page didn’t really put in context for me. (*) So I decided to head out on my own over a recent weekend, on my bike of course, to find the future landing spots and take some pictures.
(Note: you might also find it useful to bring up a Google map of the general area – here’s one centered on the Heights Bird Sanctuary, mentioned below. Later in the post I talk about points of interest farther south, and I found it helpful to see where I was on this map as well.)
The first place I visited was the junction of Allston and 5th streets – you should probably refer to that map as I go along. Basically, 5th street runs for one block west of Yale, then ends at Allston, which also ends there. At this little two-street cul-de-sac, there’s a mini-dog park on 5th and the Assembly at Historic Heights apartments on one side of Allston and more apartments on the other. There’s also a small grassy field that overlooks the bayou, with some people-made walking trails that take you into the nearby Houston Heights Bird Sanctuary. This is what you see from the cul-de-sac:
I walked from there to the steep (and on a wet day, slippery and treacherous) dropoff to the bayou. It was far enough down that I couldn’t really see it, and with the ground as slick as it was I wasn’t going to chance getting any closer. But you could easily see the bike trail from there:
You can see a bicyclist and a runner catching a breather if you zoom in. A bit to the east is an entrance to the trail from Bonner Street, but unless you live there or continue on to the I-10 service road, you can’t really get anywhere else from there. But you can easily get to the Yale and Heights Blvd ramps from the trail. Or you could continue west towards Patterson. The current alternative to get there is to go back to the Heights Bike Trail, two blocks north on Allston, then take it all the way to Bayou Greenways Park, just over the MKT Bridge by Studewood, and pick up the White Oak trail from there. It’s a long damn way that way.
Speaking of Patterson, here’s the view of about where a Patterson bridge would connect on the north side. There’s no specific feature here, just a stretch of 6th Street between Waverly and North Shepherd. It had started to rain by the time I got here, and I took temporary refuge under a stairway at The Standard apartments. Not the view I would have preferred to show, but you can at least see the new Patterson Park bar from here:
As I said, the landing point is this stretch of 6th Street, which now features MKT Heights as a destination. From Waverly you can get back to the Heights trail, which will connect back to the White Oak trail west of Durham; you can also get to the northern spur of the Heights trail on Nicholson.
That was the end of that day’s journey – I still had a rain-soaked ride home. By Sunday it was clear enough again, so I headed to the White Oak trail to see the perspective from the other side. I can’t say exactly where on the trail the bridge to 5th and Allston would be, but it’s in this vicinity, where you can see the Assembly apartments:
Part of that clearing I mentioned is where that utility pole is just left of the photo’s center. I was to the right from there, peeking out from the smaller trees, when I took the first picture.
The dead end of Patterson Street at the trail is a lot more obvious, and that’s where I took these last two pictures, one facing slightly east towards The Standard, and the other facing slightly west, in the general direction of MKT Heights.
I think the construction you can see in the west-facing picture on the bottom may be the back end of the East Bend apartments, which front onto North Shepherd. Patterson, on the side where I was, will have an on-street bike trail built soon per that Chron story. It will take you over I-10 to Washington Avenue. From there, you can eventually get to the Buffalo Bayou bike trails between Memorial and Allen Parkway either via Jackson Hill Street a couple of blocks east, or via Feagen to Spotts Park. You do have to cross Waugh to get there, which is dicey, but perhaps that will be addressed at some point as well. It’s still an amazing extension of the existing bike trail network, all thanks to two bridges and a new street trail. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited to see it all happen. Hope you enjoyed my little photo tour of what is to come.
(*) I did come across a better picture in this Axios Houston story as I started writing this post, but by then I’d already taken my own pics, and this one still wouldn’t have made sense to me without my own visit to the locations. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106806 | 2022-09-09T19:09:10Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106806 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Texas Progressive Alliance wishes everyone a happy unofficial first week of autumn as it brings you this week’s roundup.
Off the Kuff comments on the Harris County versus the Comptroller situation.
Socratic Gadfly offers up complex, multi-sided obituary thoughts on a major international death, that being, of course Mikhail Gorbachev, and a major US social activist authorial one, Barbara Ehrenreich.
Stace tells us about National Science Foundation Grant to Texas State University which will study border migrant deaths.
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And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Dr. Hannah Lebovitz relates a lovely story about a Jewish faith leader in Corsicana.
Your Local Epidemiologist has the Cliff notes on fall COVID boosters.
The 19th marks the first anniversary of SB8, the Texas vigilante bounty-hunter anti-abortion law, going into effect.
Texas 2036 previews the largest fund balance in our history.
The Observer talks to Librotraficante about combatting censorship.
D Magazine reports on some good First Amendment news. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106852 | 2022-09-09T19:09:18Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106852 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
I have three things to say about this.
On Friday, Gov. Greg Abbott told The Dallas Morning News that rape victims can take emergency contraception, like Plan B, to prevent a pregnancy. With abortion now banned in Texas, even in instances of incest or rape, the governor recommended the use of emergency contraception to ensure a victim of rape does not become pregnant.
But for the lowest-income people in Texas, emergency contraception isn’t widely accessible, advocates said — a consequence of the significant number of people of childbearing age who are uninsured and the state’s lack of programs that provide access to treatment like Plan B.
During a pre-recorded segment of Lone Star Politics, Abbott said of rape victims, “By accessing health care immediately, they can get the Plan B pill that can prevent a pregnancy from occurring in the first place. With regard to reporting it to law enforcement, that will ensure that the rapist will be arrested and prosecuted.”
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After signing Senate Bill 8 into law last September, which banned abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and didn’t provide exceptions for rape or incest, Abbott said the state’s goal was to eliminate rape. Abbott’s office did not return a request for comment on Saturday.
In 2020, Texas ranked 16th in the nation for total number of forcible rape cases per capita.
Emilee Whitehurst, the CEO of Houston Area Women’s Center, said a significant number of rapes aren’t reported, and the actual number of victims is higher than those that seek treatment at a hospital.
Whitehurst added that emergency contraception is not a substitute for abortion access in any way, but those responsible for the abortion ban in Texas have left victims of sexual assault with few options. She said it was insulting to hear that Plan B should be relied on to prevent pregnancies given the dangers victims of sexual assault already face.
“To presume Plan B could be a substitute for abortion care represents such a fundamental misunderstanding of the reality of women’s lives and our biology,” Whitehurst said.
While emergency contraception is available for purchase over the counter, it can cost $50 at a pharmacy. Some insurance plans cover the cost of emergency contraception, but those who are uninsured have to pick up that additional expense.
For women of childbearing age in Texas, more than a quarter had no health insurance in 2017 — the highest rate in the nation. This is caused, in part, because Texas has not expanded Medicaid and has one of the lowest eligibility standards in the country. A single parent with three children would have to earn less than $400 a month to qualify for Medicaid.
In addition to the lack of coverage, the state’s programs that target women’s healthcare don’t provide emergency contraception. Neither the Family Planning Program nor the Healthy Texas Women Program provide emergency contraception.
Title X clinics remain one of the few options for low-income people to access emergency contraception at an affordable cost. However, these federally-funded reproductive health clinics don’t operate in every community in the state.
1. How’s that plan to eliminate rape going, Greg? Making any progress on it?
2. Boy, it sure is a good thing that health care is so easily and affordably accessible in this state, especially for women and people of color and people who don’t have insurance.
3. It is true that Plan B remains legal in Texas, and that the author of SB8 insists that he doesn’t want to make Plan B illegal – for now, anyway. But come on, does anyone believe that the forced-birth fanatics don’t have the various types of emergency morning-after contraception in their sights? Those people already think Plan B is an abortifacient. It’s just a matter of time, unless there are other laws in place to ensure that it remains legal. In the meantime, here’s a question Greg Abbott will not want to answer: If a bill to ban Plan B passes the Legislature, would he sign it or veto it? We know what Beto would do. I think we can also be pretty sure about Abbott. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106894 | 2022-09-09T19:09:26Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106894 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Two of them, anyway.
Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley, one of Texas’ most prominent Republican local leaders, is backing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s Democratic challenger.
“The one person who I’ll support statewide that will get me a little in trouble: Mike Collier for lieutenant governor,” Whitley said on Y’all-itics, a WFAA politics podcast.
Whitley and Patrick have frequently clashed, and on the podcast Whitley slammed Patrick for waging “war on local elected officials.”
Just days after Whitley made the endorsement that crossed party lines, an out-going Republican state senator from Amarillo has followed suit. Kel Seliger plans to vote for Collier in November, a spokesperson for Seliger told The Texas Tribune. Seliger is one of the most senior Republicans in the upper chamber, but has also famously been at odds with Patrick. Neither Whitley nor Seliger are running for reelection.
At the center of Whitley’s disdain for Patrick is a bill shepherded by the lieutenant governor in 2019 meant to slow the growth of Texans’ property tax bills. The bill requires many cities, counties and other taxing units to hold an election if they wish to raise 3.5% more property tax revenue than the previous year, not counting the growth added by new construction.
But Whitley said the bill put Tarrant County in a tight position because property taxes are a major source of revenue for local governments. Meanwhile, Whitley said Tarrant County jails are housing more than 700 inmates that should be in state custody without additional funding from the state. The COVID-19 pandemic and the inability to make jail transfers contributed to state inmates being held in county jails, Community Impact reported.
“We’re paying 20 million plus a year because the state is not paying anything and yet they’re sitting down there talking about all the cash that they’ve got,” Whitley said.
For Seliger, his vote against Patrick this November comes after years of tensions with the lieutenant governor. Seliger is rare among Republicans in the upper chamber for his occasional willingness to go against Patrick. He has said he’s been punished for voting against a pair of the lieutenant governor’s top priorities in 2017, a bill aimed at restricting local governments’ abilities to raise property taxes and a program that would have subsidized private school tuition and home-schooling expenses. In the following session, Patrick stripped Seliger of his title as chair of the Senate Higher Education Committee. During a 2021 redistricting session, Seliger also voiced concern that Patrick was drawing his district to favor Seliger’s competitor.
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Whitley said he is backing Collier because of Collier’s experience controlling budgets. Collier, an accountant and auditor from the Houston area, is a self-described “numbers guy.” Collier also worked as a landman for Exxon, which Whitley said indicated the Democratic nominee understood the oil business.
“And I just think he’s someone who understands local control. And that’s what I’m looking for,” added Whitley, who as county judge is the county’s top elected official and administrator. “We do everything. We’re the front door for basically all the federal and the state services that the state and the federal government passed laws for us to do.”
This is all nice to see, as is Dan Patrick’s little temper tantrum in response. I’ve said before (many, many times) that nothing will change until Texas’ government changes, and the fastest way for that to happen is for enough people to change how they’ve been voting. I generally don’t believe that endorsements move a lot of votes, but they can move a few, and they can also signal that something is in the air. We’ll know soon enough if this makes any difference – if nothing else, we’ll see what if any effect there is in the precinct data – but I’ll say this much: If Dan Patrick’s political demise can be traced even in part to a fight over local control and bad blood over redistricting, there’s not enough sugar in the world to emulate how sweet that would be. The Chron has more.
UPDATE: And today, outgoing Sen. Eddie Lucio endorses Dan Patrick. I am so glad we are seeing the last of that jackass. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106905 | 2022-09-09T19:09:34Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106905 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Harris County’s new Elections Administrator has a chat with the Chron’s Jen Rice about his new job and the fact that early voting starts in less than seven weeks.
Why did you start working in elections and why do you continue doing it?
I started out with the Georgia Secretary of State as a securities enforcement attorney. And after a couple of years, enforcing the securities law, the elections division needed a staff attorney. So I became the assistant director of legal affairs for the state elections division, which then worked with the Georgia Secretary of State on a number of issues related to the state election board, election law enforcement, election code enforcement. And I guess you could say that … I kind of got bit by the public service bug, and that foray into the elections division in 2002 has turned into a lifetime of public service. I enjoy the fact that I’m supporting democracy and helping voters express their voice.
When election-related topics come up at Harris County Commissioners Court meetings, two of the commissioners typically raise the argument that elections should be run by elected officials, not an appointed election administrator, which was the model used in Harris County until 2020. Do you have a response to that criticism?
If we talk about the the county clerk who was running the election side of the process, they were responsible for the election side, but they had to get the information to actually conduct the election from the tax assessor. The tax assessor was responsible for the voter registration side. At the end of the day, you’re looking to two separate entities for accountability. And that gap allows for there to be this flux of, what really happened here? So, combining the two offices, you avoid that. It now becomes a single unit that’s responsible for the entire operation. And you actually have a greater level of accountability because both operations are now under the same unit and the information flows much better because there’s not a go-between.
The mail ballot rejection rate is an ongoing issue in Harris County. What is your plan for getting the mail ballot rejection rate down and to what extent are you expecting to be able to address that for this election?
The good news is that the team here has now experienced the new mail ballot requirements for now, I think, three elections. We’ve made a lot of internal strides on how to assist voters in making sure they provide the correct information to allow their ballot not to be rejected. And then if they, for whatever reasons, fail to include that information, we’ve identified internal procedures to immediately respond back to the voter, highlighting what needs to be corrected in order for that ballot to be resolved and counted. The unfortunate aspect about all of that is time. If a voter waits too late, then there’s a likelihood that the voter can’t cure an issue if they didn’t provide the correct information.
I’m fairly optimistic that we’ll have a good experience this fall. Some of the factors on which Tatum will be judged are how well the equipment works and how easily equipment errors are overcome, how long the lines are, how many mail ballots are rejected, and how long it takes to see results and updates on Election Night. My hope is that he and his office will communicate quickly and effectively when there are any issues – it’s a big county, probably over a million people will be voting, there will be issues – so that at least everyone will have a chance to be informed and make adjustments. I intend to do an interview with him myself at some point, but that can wait until after this election. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106909 | 2022-09-09T19:09:41Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106909 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It’s a start. It just can’t be the end.
Five Texas Department of Public Safety officers who responded to the Uvalde school shooting in May will face an investigation into their actions at Robb Elementary, the agency said.
The officers were referred to the inspector general’s office, which will determine if they violated any policies in their response to the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, said DPS spokesperson Travis Considine. The inspector general’s office will also determine if the five officers will face disciplinary actions.
The investigation was first reported by the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE.
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The announcement of an investigation into five DPS officers coincided with the first day of classes for Uvalde students, which marks 15 weeks since the shooting. Following Arredondo’s firing, residents called for further accountability from public officials, including the firing of school district employees.
Arnulfo Reyes, a Robb Elementary teacher who was shot and injured in Room 111, said the investigation into DPS officers “will give the families a sense of accountability” that they’ve demanded.
Reyes didn’t go back to teach his fourth-grade class Tuesday because he is still mentally and physically recovering from injuries to his left arm and lower back. Before the gunman was confronted, Reyes could hear officers outside of his classroom trying to negotiate with the 18-year-old. When officers stopped talking, Reyes thought the officers had “abandoned” him and his students.
He added that he hopes other agencies’ officers are also investigated.
“It’s a glimmer of hope that there will be justice served,” Reyes said.
The story goes into the House committee investigation and report, and the responses from DPS director Steve McCraw, among other things with which we are familiar. I say this is a good start because there needs to be a transparent investigation into everyone’s actions on that horrible day. It’s not just Pete Arredondo and the local cops, and it’s also not just DPS. We need a full accounting of what happened, with consequences as needed for those who should face them. Until then, this is all unfinished business. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106914 | 2022-09-09T19:09:49Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106914 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In the end, he folded like a lawn chair.
Harris County is moving through the process of passing a fiscal 2023 budget with a 1 percent dip in the property tax rate, after the specter of the state blocking its approval eased in a Travis County courtroom Tuesday.
Prospects for approval of that $2.2 billion budget and the new tax rate next week remain unknown, however, hinging on whether enough members of Commissioners Court show up.
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar, despite recently threatening to block Harris County’s proposed budget over its alleged defunding of law enforcement, has not formally determined that the county violated state law or otherwise taken action to prevent county leaders from adopting a budget for the upcoming fiscal year, a state attorney said in court Tuesday.
The acknowledgment came as part of a county lawsuit challenging Hegar’s claims, including those from a letter last month in which the Republican comptroller told county officials they would need voter approval to pass their budget for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1.
Commissioners Court moved ahead with its budgeting process in the meantime, meeting Tuesday to consider the county’s property tax rate — a procedural step before the court can vote on next year’s budget. Officials first must propose the tax rate, the step taken Tuesday, then hold a public hearing, scheduled for Sept. 13. At that meeting, provided enough commissioners show up, the court can approve the rate and the budget.
On a 3-2 vote, the court on Tuesday proposed the overall tax rate for the county — comprising four rates covering county operations, the Harris Health system, the flood control district and the Port of Houston — at 57.5 cents per $100 of assessed value. That represents about a 1 percent decrease from the current rate of 58.1 cents per $100.
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In an emergency hearing before Travis County state District Judge Lora Livingston, attorney Will Thompson of the Texas Attorney General’s Office — which is representing Hegar and Gov. Greg Abbott in the lawsuit by the county — said the dispute “may be a situation where there’s much ado about nothing and the parties are in more agreement than they realize.”
“The comptroller just has not made a final determination,” Thompson said. “He has not done anything that binds Harris County at this stage. Harris County remains free to adopt a budget, in its normal process, following its normal rules for having public meetings and things like that.”
Instead of ruling on Harris County’s request for a temporary order preventing Hegar from blocking Harris County’s budget, Livingston told attorneys for the county and state to, essentially, put Thompson’s comments in writing in a formal court filing. She gave the two sides until Wednesday afternoon to submit the document.
The statement from Thompson came a week after Harris County Administrator David Berry sent Hegar a letter asking him to clarify whether he had “made or issued a determination that Harris County’s proposed budget violates the law” or prevented the county from adopting a budget.
Hegar responded by encouraging Berry to resolve the issue with the Harris County constables who initially complained about their funding.
“I understand that you want assurances from my office, but only Harris County can resolve this issue and clear the path to adopt its budget,” Hegar wrote.
See here and here for the background. It’s very clear from the state’s response to the lawsuit is that they were bluffing the whole time and they knew it. This is why the lawsuit was the right response, despite the whining from Constables Heap and Herman. You don’t concede when you’re right. Kudos to Judge Hidalgo, Commissioners Ellis and Garcia, and County Attorney Menefee for properly fighting this.
The rest of the story is about whether the two Republican members of the Court will break quorum again in order to prevent the budget and property tax rate from being passed. I don’t feel like deciphering their eleven-dimensional chess strategy this time around, so let’s just wait and see what happens. If we get the election results we want, we won’t have to worry about these shenanigans again. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106921 | 2022-09-09T19:09:57Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106921 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A federal judge in Fort Worth agreed Wednesday with a group of Christian conservatives that Affordable Care Act requirements to cover HIV prevention drugs violate their religious freedom.
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor also agreed that aspects of the federal government’s system for deciding what preventive care is covered by the ACA violates the Constitution.
O’Connor’s ruling could threaten access to sexual and reproductive health care for more than 150 million working Americans who are on employer-sponsored health care plans. It is likely to be appealed by the federal government.
This lawsuit is the latest in a decade of legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act, many of which have run through O’Connor’s courtroom. In 2018, O’Connor ruled that the entirety of the ACA was unconstitutional, a decision that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
At issue in the class-action lawsuit is a 2020 mandate requiring health care plans to cover HIV prevention medication, known as PrEP, free of charge as preventive care.
In the suit, a group of self-described Christian business owners and employees in Texas argue that the preventive care mandates violate their constitutional right to religious freedom by requiring companies and policyholders to pay for coverage that conflicts with their faith and personal values.
The lawsuit was filed in 2020 by Austin attorney Jonathan Mitchell, the legal mind behind Texas’ civilly enforced six-week abortion ban. In the suit, Mitchell also challenges the entire framework through which the federal government decides what preventive services get covered.
O’Connor threw out several of Mitchell’s arguments but agreed that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s system for deciding what health care services are required to be fully covered under the ACA violates the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
“At a high level, this lawsuit is part of a larger pushback against the government’s ability to regulate,” said Allison Hoffman, a law professor at Penn Carey Law at the University of Pennsylvania. “And then also asking what happens when regulations and religion clash.”
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The lawsuit specifically addresses PrEP, but O’Connor’s ruling, which addresses how the federal government can decide what preventive care is covered in employer health care plans, may end up having much more wide-reaching consequences, Hoffman said.
“We’re talking about vaccines, we’re talking about mammograms, we’re talking about basic preventative health care that was being fully covered,” she said. “This is opening the doors to things that the ACA tried to eliminate, in terms of health plans that got to pick and choose what of these services they fully covered.”
The American Medical Association, along with 60 leading medical organizations, issued a statement condemning the lawsuit.
“With an adverse ruling, patients would lose access to vital preventive health care services, such as screening for breast cancer, colorectal cancer, cervical cancer, heart disease, diabetes, preeclampsia, and hearing, as well as access to immunizations critical to maintaining a healthy population,” the organizations wrote.
While implementation has not been as universal as hoped, fully funded preventive care through the ACA has been shown to be largely effective at improving health outcomes, reducing health care spending and increasing uptake of these services.
It’s a familiar set of villains, including the hand-picked judge, making the same kind of tired arguments about how “Christians” deserve to be exempt from laws they don’t like, even at the expense of literally everyone else’s health. And while SCOTUS has regularly batted aside these malicious lawsuits, I don’t have any faith they’ll do the same this time. TPM, Reform Austin, and The 19th have more. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106924 | 2022-09-09T19:10:04Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106924 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Texas Supreme Court has opted to keep in place a legal process that allows minors to seek a judge’s approval to have an abortion without parental consent, though state law now bans the procedure in most circumstances.
Chief Justice Nathan Hecht had asked an advisory committee to the high court to make a recommendation on the matter last month, citing the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that overturned federal protections for abortion as the reason for the reconsideration.
The committee unanimously voted to keep in place the process, known as judicial bypass, and add new language spelling out that it will only be available to minors in the extremely limited circumstances allowed by Texas law: when their life or major bodily functions are at risk.
See here and here for the background, and here for the actual rules. I’m glad to see that my initial fear that this would be a disaster was off base. That said, while this is good news it’s not great news, and that’s because the judicial bypass process is even rarer than it was before the Lege passed that vigilante bounty hunter law. As the story notes, in the last month before that law was passed, 20 minors were able to obtain a bypass. In the first month after it passed, that number was two. I guarantee you, the need for this didn’t drop by ninety percent. Just the ability to get the care these girls need. The fact that it didn’t fall all the way to zero counts as a win these days. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106931 | 2022-09-09T19:10:12Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106931 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On one hand, the Galaxy appear to be headed in the right direction.
The Galaxy (11-11-6, 39) head to face Nashville SC (12:30 p.m., TUDN) on a five-game unbeaten streak, the longest of the season. However, the Galaxy are still below the playoff line in the Western Conference, three points behind seventh-place Portland.
“We’re five games unbeaten, I always like to look at the bright side of things,” midfielder Sacha Kljestan said. “We wished we would have had a few more points in there. We’ve led in all five of those games, so we’ve dropped some points for sure.
“We know that we’re battling all of these teams as we finish the season. Most of them are also battling for playoff spots. Some of them will probably be desperate as the season goes on. I think we just have to remain very disciplined in games because in the end of game, especially against teams that are desperate, it can be chaotic.”
The Galaxy had a 2-0 lead against Seattle (Aug. 19) and settled for a 3-3 draw. Against Toronto FC (Aug. 31), the Galaxy had a 1-0 lead at halftime and needed an 89th-minute goal from Riqui Puig to salvage a point with a 2-2 draw. Last Sunday, the Galaxy appeared on the verge of a 3-2 victory, but Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez failed to convert the penalty kick, leaving things tied at 2-2.
“We’ve had a lot of ups and downs,” Kljestan said. “We have not really had a long run of consistent games where the performances have been good and the results have been good. It’s been frustrating for a lot of people because I think that we all can agree that we have a lot more talent and I think we all think we should be higher in the table.
“Obviously, the points don’t lie, we are where we are and that’s a fact and we have to face the music and be ready to go. Right now, I feel like we’ve found a little bit of consistency, a little bit more grit, even though we’ve given up maybe a few too many goals in this stretch, I think we’ve started to defend better as a team again, like we did at the very beginning of the season. I think in the middle of the season we weren’t defending as a team very well, we were taking a few liberties and now I think that discipline is back. Once we get that 1-0 lead, we can’t let teams back in the game.”
The Galaxy has missed the playoffs the last two seasons and four of the last five years. The last three-year stretch of missing the playoffs came in 2006-2008.
“It takes that determination from everybody on the field, to know there are six games left, the playoffs are on the line, so every play matters,” Kljestan said. “It should have been like that the entire season and maybe we’ve had moments where we’ve taken off during the season, but right now, it’s all about the discipline and no plays off now.
“I know very well that the Galaxy over the last five, six years has not been what the Galaxy was in the first two decades of MLS and all the success we’ve had as a club. That’s not good enough, nowhere near good enough. The playoffs should be an absolute minimum and to miss the playoffs that many times is a big indictment on all of us that have been here. I feel like it’s a big stain on my career and I hope the other players feel that embarrassment as well that we owe so much more to this club and to these fans and I hope we get it right at the end of the season.”
Mark Delgado makes his return
Midfielder Mark Delgado missed the Galaxy’s two-game road trip to New England and Toronto FC, with what was initially labeled “Non-Covid Related Health & Safety Protocol.”
Delgado, who made his return in the Galaxy’s 2-2 draw last Sunday against Sporting Kansas City described what was wrong.
“It is basically a neurological dysfunction that’s going on and that’s causing concussion symptoms,” Delgado said Thursday. “I’m feeling a little better. Taking it day-by-day. I still am dealing with it, but it is getting better.”
“It was good to be back out there. … I was a little nervous because I didn’t want the symptoms to come back, but it felt good to be back out there,” he said.
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Fighting for survival as vultures circle, the Pac-12 received a lifeline last week from an unlikely source: The SEC.
Mississippi State president Mark Keenum, chair of the College Football Playoff’s Board of Managers, worked with his fellow presidents to approve the expanded, 12-team format for the 2026 season, if not earlier.
While no direct credit was given, Keenum would not have pushed the Board forward without support from SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, who has long believed in the need for college football to thrive from coast to coast.
Yes, the move serves the SEC’s purposes by clearing a path for more members to participate in the sport’s biggest and most lucrative event. Same with the other behemoth, the Big Ten.
But expansion also lends desperately needed viability to the Pac-12’s regular season by granting automatic bids to the six highest-ranked conference champions.
There are only 10 conferences. So long as the Pac-12 champ is ranked higher than its counterparts in the Sun Belt, Conference USA, Mid-American and either the Mountain West or American, a playoff berth awaits.
That is not a high bar.
Expansion effectively turns the Pac-12 championship into an early-round playoff game — and it has done the same for the title games in the ACC and Big 12.
As a result, the competitive component has taken on greater weight relative to the media revenue component within the broader realignment calculation.
As conferences decide whether to expand and schools mull whether to switch leagues, the impact on playoff access has enhanced significance.
Meanwhile, the Pac-12’s existential crisis has entered its third month. Until the Big Ten definitively ends its predation phase, the Pac-12 remains vulnerable to losing at least two and possibly four members (Washington, Oregon, Stanford and Cal) to the league that was once its peer and partner.
In that scenario, Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah would undoubtedly bolt for the Big 12 and, as we explained previously in a look at the future of the Power Five, the 107-year-old bastion of college sports on the West Coast would dissolve.
Our view remains unchanged: Pac-12 survival is a slight favorite over Pac-12 extinction. The most likely outcome calls for the 10 schools to unify around a medium-term media rights contract.
And if that’s the case … if the 10 schools coalesce … they should incorporate the reality of a 12-team playoff field into its strategic initiatives.
The conference was passive last summer, opting against expansion as the Big 12 teetered following the loss of Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC.
This time, the Pac-12 should take the lifeline tossed by the CFP presidents and adopt a more Machiavellian approach.
It should consider kneecapping the Mountain West and getting creative with membership in both major sports.
Here are three scenarios we believe the Pac-12 should pursue:
— Add San Diego State and either Fresno State or Boise State as either full-time or football-only members.
Why? Because those are the best programs in the MW.
In addition, SDSU brings the San Diego media market (No. 27 nationally) and a crucial foothold in the Pac-12’s most important recruiting region. Also, admission to the Pac-12 would keep the Aztecs out of the Big 12, which has designs on the West Coast.
Fresno State sits on the outskirts of the huge Sacramento media market (No. 20) and brings a rabid following in California’s heavily-populated Central Valley.
Boise State doesn’t fit the Pac-12 model in any form, except for its football success.
— Add San Diego State, Boise State and Fresno State in all sports and SMU as a football-only member.
Why? Because SMU would expand the Pac-12 footprint into the Dallas media market and strengthen the recruiting pipeline to the Lone Star State.
The school is No. 68 in the U.S. News and World Report rankings — ahead of every continuing Pac-12 university except Stanford, Cal and Washington — and owns a substantial endowment ($2 billion).
Also, the Mustangs recently unveiled a NIL program that compares favorably to any in the Pac-12.
No, they weren’t invited to the Big 12 — we presume Baylor and TCU blocked the move, wanting no part of an enhanced competitor in Dallas — but institutionally, the school fits better into the Pac-12 (or ACC) than it does the Big 12.
— Add San Diego State, Boise State and Fresno State in all sports, SMU as a football-only member, and Gonzaga as a basketball-only member.
Why? Because Gonzaga would instantly elevate the depleted Pac-12 basketball product and satisfy Arizona’s need for a second powerhouse. The Zags are the best possible replacement for UCLA among schools that aren’t currently members of the Power Five. (Hello, Kansas.)
Now, let’s outline the reasoning for our approach:
1. The competitive piece.
Grabbing San Diego State and Boise State, and perhaps Fresno State, would render the Mountain West obsolete in the new CFP format.
The winner of that diminished conference would have little chance of claiming one of the six automatic bids, hence solidifying the Pac-12 champion’s status as a playoff participant and further enhancing the value of its regular season.
2. The inventory piece.
More teams equate to more games and more content to offer network partners as the Pac-12 negotiates its next media contract.
With 12 or 14 teams in football, the Pac-12 could play late games on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
Three games per week over 13 weeks is 39 games (math!). At 3.5 hours per broadcast, that’s almost 140 programming hours in prime time, with little-to-no competition, for the 75 million people in the Mountain and Pacific Time Zones, plus interested fans in the eastern half of the country.
The Pac-12 can’t fill those windows without the inventory; it can’t provide the inventory without the games; and it can’t schedule the games without the teams.
3. The revenue piece.
Pac-12 schools already have trouble providing their football teams with the necessary resources compared to peers in the Big Ten and SEC. They certainly wouldn’t approve an expansion plan that undercuts new revenue by any significant amount.
But they won’t need to.
Mountain West schools currently receive roughly $4 million annually from the league’s deal with CBS and Fox. If offered membership to the Pac-12, they would happily accept reduced shares over the lifetime of the next contract cycle.
There is strength in numbers, and there are ways to increase numbers without decreasing the revenue shares for your premier programs.
Granted, the addition of quality teams from the Mountain West would increase competition for Pac-12 schools with designs on regular playoff bids.
Our view is the benefits of expansion — diminishing the Mountain West and enhancing the football inventory while not squeezing revenue — would offset the increased intra-conference competition.
It’s not like the Pac-12 would be adding USC.
As we saw with Utah, it takes time for successful football programs in the Mountain West to build the talent and depth needed to thrive in the Pac-12.
The conference could have expanded last summer. It could have added Houston or SMU. It could have decimated the Big 12, deploying the same strategy the Big 12 is now attempting to use against the Pac-12.
But the conference held off because the money wasn’t ideal and the institutional fits weren’t right.
Then it took a knife to the gut, courtesy of its Rose Bowl partner, and is fighting for life.
The CFP presidents have offered a chance for the Pac-12 to turn back the clock and execute on the expansion opportunity it declined last summer.
What was it that Einstein said about insanity?
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Residents of Central Pasadena’s Playhouse District have aspired for a green space in the neighborhood for more than a dozen years, but they’ll have to wait one more week until they can enjoy one.
The city intended to hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 10, to celebrate the opening of Playhouse Village Park, which is expected to feature open space for dogs and families, two gender-neutral restrooms, and 48 parking spaces in a plaza that can be converted into a community gathering area complete with shade structures. And, of course, there’s the christening of the much-awaited Van Halen Stage, named after the beloved band, given the group’s roots in the area.
However, the grand opening has been postponed to 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, according to Pasadena Public Information Officer Lisa Derderian, “due to inclement weather anticipated for this weekend.”
Residents of Central Pasadena’s Playhouse Village — formerly Playhouse District — have aspired for a green space in the neighborhood for more than a dozen years, long before a development boom brought a hub of apartments and condos to the area.
In the years since, locals have worked alongside Pasadena staff and the City Council to make the dream a reality.
Pasadena City Council unanimously agreed to name the park in April. In the same vote, the Council also unanimously agreed the attached stage area be named Van Halen Stage.
Other namesake considerations included Octavia E. Butler Park. But Councilmember John Kennedy, who represented the district where the park is, said the name Playhouse Village Park is “most appropriate.”
“I’m thrilled to participate in broadening the appreciation of Playhouse Village to not only embrace our favorite institutions, like Vroman’s… The Langham and the iconic Playhouse, but to also create a place where thousands of residents living nearby will also have a place to interact, relax and enjoy their neighborhood,” Kennedy said during the park’s groundbreaking ceremony. “This day has been a long time coming, but I am proud that all of us stayed the course.”
Councilman Andy Wilson described the project as “a brilliant execution” of space as he highlighted how the city wasn’t quite sure how to move forward with the project back in 2016.
“There was a real desire to have open space in this part of town,” Wilson said, “and we ran lots of scenarios trying to figure out how to make this happen. And, ultimately, I think the desire to improve our community to have open space became the glue where everyone gave a little bit.”
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Two members of the Proud Boys who founded an online group named “Murder the Media” pleaded guilty on Friday to obstructing the certification of the electoral college vote at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Nicholas Ochs — an “Elder” in the Proud Boys who founded the group’s Hawaii chapter — and fellow Proud Boy Nicholas DeCarlo traveled from Texas to Washington DC the day before the riot, which they participated in together, according to the plea agreements.
“We’re not supposed to be here, this is beyond the fence,” Ochs told DeCarlo as they arrived on the West Front of the Capitol during the attack, according to court documents.
“(W)e’re all felons, yeah!” DeCarlo said.
According to the plea agreement, both men threw smoke bombs at a line of police officers — though DeCarlo said he forgot to pull the bomb’s pin — before traveling inside the Capitol, smoking cigarettes in the Crypt and later meeting up with Proud Boys sergeant-at-arms Ethan Nordean, who has been charged separately with seditious conspiracy alongside several other leaders of the far-right group.
Nordean, DeCarlo, Ochs and one other Proud Boy, Paul Rae, engaged in a group hug when they met up inside the Capitol, later walking to the Rotunda, according to the plea. Rae also faces several charges for his actions that day.
Before leaving Capitol grounds, DeCarlo wrote “MURDER THE MEDIA” in permanent marker on a Capitol door, posing for a picture beside the freshly inscribed sign with Ochs.
The two men will be sentenced in December and face an estimated 41 to 51 months in behind bars.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Belk announced that Don Hendricks has been named chief executive officer of the company effective immediately. Hendricks has served as interim CEO since May 2022 and previously served as president and chief operating officer.
"I'm honored to take on the role of Belk's next CEO and continue my journey with this extraordinary company," Hendricks said. "Through my work with Belk's board, leadership team and talented associates, I believe the company is well positioned to build on its current momentum and achieve success now and in the future. Together, we will capitalize on the demand for great products at great prices, which Belk has long been known for, all while maintaining our unwavering commitment to customers and communities."
Hendricks joined Belk in 2016 as COO, later assuming responsibilities for Stores in 2019. As president and COO, Hendricks spearheaded the company's initiatives to enhance its omnichannel capabilities and was instrumental in leading the company through the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to joining Belk, Hendricks held senior leadership positions at Gymboree, Hot Topic and Torrid, including chief information officer and COO.
Lisa Harper, a member of the Belk Board of Directors, said, "Don is a proven leader who is motivated by creating the best products and customer experience possible. His passion shines through in all that he does, and we are grateful he will assume the role of CEO at this exciting time for the company."
Charlotte-based Belk, Inc., a privately-owned department store, opened its first store in 1888, beginning a legacy of selling great products at great prices, treating customers like family, and giving back to the community. Today, Belk serves customers at nearly 300 Belk stores in 16 Southeastern states, at belk.com and through the mobile app. For over 130 years, Belk has proudly put customers and community at the center of what they do, supporting local charities, organizations, and families when they need it most.
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King Charles III of England has given his first address as the monarch of the United Kingdom, a day after the passing of his mother, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, who died on Thursday, September 8, 2022, in Balmoral.
His speech: “I speak to you today with feelings of profound sorrow, says the King.
“Throughout her life, HM the Queen, my beloved mother, was an inspiration and example to me and to all my family.
“We owe her the most heartfelt debt any family could owe to their mother, for her love, affection, guidance and example.”
‘Her dedication never wavered’
She made sacrifices to duty, the King says. “Her dedication and devotion as sovereign never wavered, through times of change and progress, though times of joy and celebration, and through times of sadness and loss.”
Queen’s commitment made in 1947 defined her whole life – King Charles
“Alongside the personal grief that all my family are feeling, we also share with so many of you in the United Kingdom, in all the countries where the Queen was head of state, in the Commonwealth and across the world, a deep sense of gratitude for the more than 70 years in which my mother as Queen served the people of so many nations.
“In 1947, on her 21st birthday, she pledged in a broadcast from Cape Town to the Commonwealth to devote her life – whether it be short or long – to the service of her people.
“That was more than a promise. It was a profound personal commitment, which defined her whole life.”
King Charles III continues reflecting on his mother’s service.
“In her life of service we saw that abiding love of tradition together with that fearless embrace of progress which makes us great as nations,” he says.
“The affection, admiration and respect she inspired became a hallmark of her reign.”
“I pay tribute to my mother’s memory and I honour her life of service.
“I know that her death brings great sadness to so many of you.
“And I share that sense of loss beyond measure with you all.”
“When The Queen came to the throne, Britain and the world were still coping with the privations and aftermath of the Second World War and still living by the conventions of earlier times.
“In the course of the last 70 years, we have seen our society become one of many cultures and many faiths.
“The institutions of the State have changed in turn. But, through all changes and challenges, our nation and the wider family of Realms – of whose talents, traditions and achievements I am so inexpressibly proud – have prospered and flourished.
“Our values have remained and must remain, constant. The role and the duties of Monarchy also remain, as does the Sovereign’s particular relationship and responsibility towards the Church of England – the Church in which my own faith is so deeply rooted.”
‘I shall endeavour to serve you
The King continues as he speaks about succeeding his mother to the throne.
“As the Queen herself did with such unswerving devotion, I too now solemnly pledge myself throughout the remaining time God grants me, to uphold the constitutional principles at the heart of our nation.
“Wherever you may live in the United Kingdom or in the realms and territories across the world and whatever may be your background and beliefs I shall endeavour to serve you with loyalty, respect and love, as I have throughout my life.”
“My life will of course change as I take up my new responsibilities.
“It will no longer be possible for me to give so much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I care so deeply.
“But I know this important work will go on in the trusted hands of others.
“This is also a time of change for my family. I count on the loving help of my darling wife Camilla. In recognition of her own loyal public service since our marriage 17 years ago, she becomes my Queen Consort.
“I know she will bring to the demands of her new role the steadfast devotion to duty on which I have come to rely so much.”
‘I express my love for Prince Harry and Meghan’
In his speech King Charles III comments on his youngest son – the Duke of Sussex – and his wife.
“I express my love for Prince Harry and Meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas.”
Your condolences mean more than I can express – the King
Speaking next about his mother’s upcoming funeral, the King says: “In our sorrow let us remember and draw strength from the light of her example.
“On behalf of all my family, I can only offer the most sincere and heartfelt thanks for your condolences and support. They mean more to me than I can ever possibly express.”
The King ended his address with the following words:
“And to my darling Mama, as you begin your last great journey to join my dear late Papa, I want simply to say this: thank you.
“Thank you for your love and devotion to our family and to the family of nations you have served so diligently all these years.
“May ‘flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest.”
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A Magistrate Court sitting in Akure, Ondo state capital, has ordered the State Commissioner of Police to arrest and produce two traditional rulers parading themselves as monarch in their communities for impersonation.
The Court which issued the warrant of arrest to the Police Commissioner ordered him to produce the two suspected impersonators in court for the commencement of a criminal trial against them.
The Court said the two suspected impersonators parading have been parading themselves as Oba in Irele and Igodan Lisa in the southern part of Ondo state.
The order of the Court was made sequel to the application of the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice Ondo State, Sir Charles Titiloye
It will be recalled that sometime last week, the Governor of Ondo State, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, had directed the Commissioner of Police of Ondo State to arrest and prosecute the said suspects.
In Charge No MAK/423C/2022 filed by the Hon. Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice before the Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Oke Eda, Akure, Ademola Idowu Oloworiyibi was accused of conspiring with others now at large to unlawfully assume the Chieftaincy title of Olofun of Irele contrary to and punishable under section 516 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ondo state.
Oloworiyibi was also accused of permitting himself to be installed and parading himself in royal regalia as Olofun of Irele without the approval of the Ondo State Executive Council and in contravention of sections 15(1) and (2) of the Chiefs Law of Ondo State.
Similarly, in a separate Charge No. MAK/424C/2022 ADEYEMI AKINDE was accused of conspiracy and unlawful installation as the Olu of Igodan Lisa in contravention of the Chiefs Law of Ondo State.
The trial of the two suspects was stalled because of their absence in Court today. The trial Magistrate, F. A. Aduroja directed the Commissioner of Police to arrest and produce them on the next adjourned date. The case was thereafter adjourned to the 19th of September, 2022.
The state government while speaking through the State Commissioner of Information and Orientation, Mrs Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, during a press conference said: “Some persons have been parading themselves as Olofun of Irele in Irele Local Government and Olu of Igodanlisa in Okitipupa Local Government without the approval of the State Executive Council.
“The State Executive Council has decided that such persons be arrested and investigated for their infractions against the State Chieftaincy Law.”
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LeoLabs Awarded Contract From the US Department of Commerce to Support Space Traffic Management Prototype
Published: Sep. 9, 2022 at 1:00 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Agreement delivers industry-leading capabilities to the US Government, including Resident Space Object tracking data and conjunction alerts, powered by LeoLabs global network of radars
MENLO PARK, Calif., Sept. 9, 2022/PRNewswire/ -- LeoLabs, Inc., the world's leading commercial provider of low Earth orbit (LEO) mapping and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services, announced today an award to provide data and services to the US Department of Commerce to support the development of a US civil- led Space Traffic Management (STM) system. The announcement was made at the 9th session of the National Space Council in Houston, Texas.
Under this contract, LeoLabs will provide its operationally proven tracking and conjunction alert data products for a subset of Resident Space Objects (RSOs), including both real-time and archived data sets. The Department of Commerce will utilize these orbital data products to support testing and evaluation of a prototype STM system.
"We are honored to be selected by the Department of Commerce to provide high accuracy tracking and conjunction alert data products for its Space Traffic Management system," said Dan Ceperley, LeoLabs CEO and co-founder. "The traffic in LEO is growing exponentially, driven by commercial innovation and economic opportunity. Our space operations infrastructure is the only system designed to scale with that growth. LeoLabs was founded to drive innovation in Space Traffic Management, therefore we look forward to working with the US Government on this effort to ensure the continued success of the space industry."
This agreement demonstrates continued US leadership in STM and marks significant progress by the Department of Commerce towards fulfilling Space Policy Directive-3 (SPD-3), which calls for the development of a new national STM service managed by a civil government agency. This contract was issued as a sole-source award, providing the Department of Commerce access to LeoLabs space safety services which are currently utilized for over 60% of operational satellites in LEO.
About LeoLabs (www.leolabs.space)
LeoLabs provides critical mapping and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services to help secure safe and sustainable operations in low Earth orbit (LEO). LeoLabs services are powered by a vertically integrated space operations infrastructure stack, consisting of a global network of proprietary phased-array radars and an advanced cloud computing architecture. Our data products provide real-time alerts and insights to our government and commercial customers, allowing them to accomplish mission objectives, mitigate risk, and maintain competitive advantage in a constantly evolving threat environment.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHAT
9/11 Remembrance Ceremony
Presented by One Body Networking Inc. in partnership with NAACP Houston Branch
WHEN
Saturday, September 10, 2022 from 9 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.
WHERE
Young Women's College Preparatory Academy, 1906 Cleburne Street, Houston, TX 77004
WHO
- Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner
- U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, 18th District
- U. S. Congressman Al Green, 9th District
- HISD Superintendent Millard House
- Houston Councilwoman Dr. Carolyn Evans-Shabazz, District D
- Metro Police Chief Vera Bumpers
- Assistant HFD Chief Rodney West
- NAACP President Bishop James Dixon
- Janice Weaver, President & Founder, One Body Networking, Inc.
- Students, community leaders, and guests
VISUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Salute to First Responders
Blood Donors Giving Blood
Scholarship Presentation
Live Musical Vocalist Performances
One Body Networking Inc. is 501(c)3 non-profit organization that has built around paying it forward by hosting blood drives. The successful first annual blood drive was held at the Texas Woman Empowerment Center. Since then, One Body Networking, Inc. has continued hosting its official blood drive tour throughout Houston with various non-profit and educational institutions. Our motto is, "It's in your blood to save a life. We are many members, but One Body." For more information, visit https://onebodynetworking.org.
The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Houston Branch is to ensure the political, educational, housing, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. The Houston Branch is committed to advocating and serving our most vulnerable communities, who experiencing the brunt of food and health insecurities, during this COVID-19 Pandemic. For more information, visit https://naacphouston.org.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Tuya Inc. (NYSE: TUYA) pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with Tuya's March 2021 initial public offering (the "IPO") of the important October 11, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Tuya securities pursuant and/or traceable to the Registration Statement you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Tuya class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7007 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 11, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the IPO Registration Statement featured false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) a material portion of Tuya's China-based customers were engaged in the widespread and systematic manipulation of reviews and product offerings in violation of Amazon.com's terms of use; (2) prior to the IPO, a consumer investigation and data breach had exposed an illicit fake review scheme being perpetrated by many of Tuya's clients, among others, which included, among other things, the exposure of 13 million records of organized fake review scams linked to over 200,000 Amazon account profiles; (3) as a result, there was a substantial risk that a material portion of Tuya's significant customers would be barred from using Amazon.com's platform, negatively impacting Tuya's business, revenue, earnings, and prospects; and (4) as such, the IPO's Registration Statement's representations regarding Tuya's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities and expected growth did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, financial results, and trajectory of Tuya at the time of the IPO. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Tuya class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7007 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TripAdd, an ancillary service provider within the Blue Ribbon Bags Group, completed its multi-million dollar acquisition of Eddy Travels. The Blue Ribbon Bags Group plans to leverage their existing relationship with over 300 OTAs to promote the innovative TripAdd solution as well as Eddy Travels' A.I. powered chatbot.
TripAdd will function as an embedded white label marketplace for ancillary vendors & travel providers. TripAdd will be using real-time machine learning technology to optimize bundles of 3rd party ancillary services by using customer data points. Eddy Travels' machine learning expertise will enhance TripAdd's capabilities and provide a better user & travel experience within the TripAdd ecosystem.
Several travel vendors have agreed to provide discounted pricing to TripAdd so partners can offer value added services to their customers. Partners that include TripAdd in their booking flows will gain access to an ever-growing vault of ancillary products, along with receiving real-time intelligence from the TripAdd Partner Dashboard.
Eddy Travels will continue to operate its travel focused chatbot and will rebrand its assistant as 'EddyAI'. Eddy AI's assistant uses machine learning technology for natural language understanding and personalization. The AI assistant processes user messages and answers the most common customer questions instantly.
Edmundas Balčikonis, Co-Founder and CEO at Eddy Travels commented, "The whole Eddy Travels team is super excited to join the TripAdd family. We have been partnering with the TripAdd Team from the US for a while and working together has been great. With all the exciting opportunities in the travel industry, the time is perfect for a merger. We are eager to help the travel industry recover with TripAdd ancillary marketplace and AI assistant technology under the new Eddy AI brand."
"We're extremely excited to bring the Eddy Travels Team onboard. Their expertise in machine learning and language processing brings a huge boost to our Development Team," said CEO of Blue Ribbon Bags and TripAdd, Gabriel Menkin. He added, "With this partnership and introduction of TripAdd, we're better positioned to provide the best in class service providers to our customers."
About Blue Ribbon Bags: Blue Ribbon Bags ("BRB") is the world's leading lost luggage tracking service. For only $5, BRB tracks and expedites the return of luggage lost by airlines. If the luggage cannot be returned to the passenger within 96 hours, BRB will provide the passenger with a satisfaction guarantee of $1,000. BRB covers every flight, everywhere in the world and sells it services in 90+ countries through OTAs, TMCs, airlines, travel insurance providers and credit cards.
About TripAdd: TripAdd is a digital marketplace for all things travel. TripAdd sources thousands of offers from some of the world's largest travel companies. Based on the customers trip details TripAdd selects the best product offers and combines them into personalized discounted travel bundles. Travel products such as tours, flight care, e-visa and much are more are included in bundles provided by TripAdd.
About Eddy Travels: Eddy Travels is an artificial intelligence powered travel assistant with voice understanding that allows people to plan their trips in minutes. Travelers can send a text or voice message to Eddy Travels assistant and get personalized suggestions for the best flights, hotels, car rentals and other travel-related services instantly. The digital assistant is available on Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Telegram, Viber, Slack, Line and WhatsApp. Over 4 million people worldwide have already used the Eddy Travels Assistant to receive product offers and FAQ answers in seconds.
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The historic plane will be celebrated October 15th, 2022 as it joins the Palm Springs Air Museum's aircraft on display
PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Walt Disney's Grumman Gulfstream I plane will journey from D23 Expo 2022 in Anaheim to Palm Springs, California where it will be celebrated mid-October when it is displayed alongside the Palm Springs Air Museum collection. In addition, a new exhibit will be constructed at the Museum and open on Walt Disney's birthday, December 5, 2022. This new exhibit will highlight the history of the plane—also known affectionately as "The Mouse"— and showcase its significance to The Walt Disney Company's history and its relevance to the Palm Springs Area. "We are so happy to have Walt's plane make a 'landing' at the Palm Springs Air Museum, just a few miles from where Walt and his family had vacation homes at Smoke Tree Ranch," said Walt Disney Archives director Rebecca Cline of the plane, which will be on long-term loan to the Museum. "It is the ideal setting for this incredible icon"
The newly repainted plane with updated wing edges and windows will be on view along with rarely exhibited items from the aircraft's interior, including a customized instrument panel originally located near Walt's favorite onboard seat that allowed him to monitor flight conditions; a telephone handset that gave Walt a direct line of communication to the pilot in the cockpit; a flight bag featuring an image of Mickey Mouse sitting on the tail of the iconic plane; and more. Walt's plane returned to the West Coast for the first time since October 8, 1992, when the plane landed on World Drive near Orlando, Florida, at the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park (now Disney's Hollywood Studios), where it resided as a part of the Studio Backlot Tour until 2014. The recent exterior repaint and finishing work, along with the cross-country move of the aircraft, was made possible thanks to collaboration and support from Walt Disney Imagineering.
In 1963, Walt acquired the iconic Gulfstream that would come to be known as "The Mouse." The interior of the plane, initially designed with creative input from Walt and his wife, Lillian, seated up to 15 passengers and included a galley kitchen, two restrooms, two couches, a desk, and nods to the mouse who started it all, including matchbooks and stationery adorned with a silhouette of Mickey Mouse. Mickey's initials were eventually included in the tail number of the plane, too, as N234MM, in 1967. Throughout its 28 years of service to The Walt Disney Company, the plane flew 20,000 hours and transported an estimated 83,000 passengers before it was grounded.
When they visit the Palm Spring Air Museum, guests will have the opportunity to learn about the role this iconic plane has played throughout the company's history:
- In 1963, Walt, members of his family, and company executives took off on a demonstration Gulfstream aircraft to explore potential locations, including Central Florida, for a proposed development often referred to as "Project X." After Walt received his own Gulfstream in early 1964, he made several trips to Florida that ultimately laid the foundation to bring the magic of Walt Disney World to life.
- Walt's plane flew a total of 277,282 miles back and forth between Burbank and New York to oversee preparations before and during the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair, an event that brought iconic attractions such as "it's a small world" to an East Coast audience and, later, to Disneyland.
- The plane also took Disneyland to new heights as Walt found inspiration for the look of the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction as he flew over the El Moro fortress in San Juan, Puerto Rico, while conducting research for the now fan favorite.
- "The Mouse" has a star-studded past, having been used for promotional tours for Disneyland as well as for classic movies such as The Jungle Book (1967), as well as making appearances in The Walt Disney Studios films The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) and Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), both of which starred Disney Legend Kurt Russell, who has ties to the Desert. The aircraft has also transported notable guests including Disney Legends Julie Andrews and Annette Funicello, as well as former U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, also frequent visitors to the Palm Springs area.
- Painted blue and white in 1985, Walt's plane embarked on goodwill tours and character visits to children's hospitals, adding to the company's history of giving back to the community.
The Palm Springs Air Museum is a living history museum that contains over 75 vintage airframes from the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, across spectrum of Military Aviation, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the F-117 Stealth Fighter inside the new Jim Houston Pavilion, to significant civilian aircraft like Clay Lacey's Lear 24. Many of the aircraft are airworthy and flown regularly. The planes are housed inside 91,000 square feet of open hangars and on the tarmac at our ten-acre facility. Additional displays and memorabilia are located throughout the hangars. The Museum is open daily from 10 am until 5 PM. Kids 12 and under get in free with paid adult admission. Warbird rides are also available. For more info, visit PalmSpringsAirMuseum.org or call 760-778-6262 during business hours.
For more than 50 years, the Walt Disney Archives has carefully safeguarded the most treasured items from The Walt Disney Company's history, including original scripts, movie props and costumes, Walt Disney's correspondence and script notes, theme park artifacts, merchandise, millions of archival photographs, and many of Walt's personal effects. Founded by Disney Legend Dave Smith in 1970, the Walt Disney Archives is a vital resource for every part of Disney, as well as an important research center for Disney scholars, researchers, and writers. The Archives also shares its countless pieces with Disney fans everywhere through its exhibitions and close association with D23: The Official Disney Fan Club.
The Palm Springs Air Museum is an educational non-profit organization whose mission is to Preserve, Educate and Honor.
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Kolkata: Kerala Blasters crashed out of the Durand Cup after a 0-3 defeat to Mohammedan SC in the quarterfinals on Friday.
Striker Dauda scored a second-half brace after SK Faiaz opened the scoring for Mohammedan inside 20 minutes.
With the first team preparing for the upcoming Indian Super League campaign, Kerala Blasters had rolled out its reserves for the Durand Cup.
The Blasters squad captained by goalkeeper Sachin Suresh finished with two wins and a draw besides two defeats.
Former Gokulam Kerala striker Marcus Joseph had a role in Mohammedan's opener as it was his cross that was netted by Faiaz.
The Blasters had a couple of chances to equalise in the first half, including a shot from Aimen being tipped over by Mawia.
The arrival of Dauda in the second half caused more problems for the Blasters' defence.
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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 US 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.
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.
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.
Dangerous rip currents threaten beachgoers along US East Coast
Despite passing hundreds of miles off the US East Coast, Hurricane Earl is likely to generate life-threatening rip currents along the Eastern Seaboard for the next several days.
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.”
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.
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.
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LONDON (CN) — New British Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced that her government will lift a ban on hydraulic fracturing for shale gas, as part of the United Kingdom's emergency response to an energy price crisis.
The technique known as fracking was banned in the U.K. in 2019 due to doubts surrounding its environmental and economic viability, as well as in response to long-running public opposition. However the new prime minister, who was appointed on Tuesday, had signaled her intention to explore all new avenues of energy generation, as Britain tries to stabilize its economy amid rampant inflation primarily driven by rising gas prices.
Announcing the move in the House of Commons on Thursday, Truss said, “We will end the moratorium on extracting our huge reserves of shale, which could get gas flowing in as soon as six months, where there is local support.”
“As a result of steps on shale and nuclear and the acceleration of renewables, I am today setting a new ambition for our country," she added. “Far from being dependent on the global energy market and the actions of malign actors, we will make sure the U.K. is a net energy exporter by 2040.”
Members of the British shale gas industry made clear their delight upon hearing the decision.
"Today's announcement sets the foundation for us to move towards gas self-sufficiency, and not be reliant on the whims of dictators, or the vagaries of international supply lines and prices," said Francis Egan, chief executive of extraction firm Cuadrilla, in a statement.
He added, "Without the strong measures set out today, the U.K. was set to import over two-thirds of its gas by the end of the decade, exposing the British public and businesses to further risk of supply shortage and price hikes down the line."
The government imposed a moratorium on fracking in November 2019, in response to a series of earthquakes over previous months associated with the drilling. A review by regulators was prompted by a 2.9-magnitude quake at one drilling site, which led to widespread property damage in the English seaside town of Blackpool. At the time, the U.K.’s Oil and Gas Authority concluded it was not possible to predict the size or timing of earthquakes that could be caused by the extraction of shale gas.
The earthquakes followed years of local opposition and civil groups campaigning against the practice. Almost a decade of sustained direct action saw local activists and environmental protesters regularly blocking access roads to drilling sites and locking or gluing themselves to critical machinery. The extent of the policing operation required to maintain drilling frequently became so expensive for local authorities that some police forces eventually advised extractors to conclude their operations.
The economic rationale for shale gas extraction in the U.K. has also been questioned. While the industry has been an economic success story in the U.S., geological formations make British shale gas much harder to extract, and it is also unclear whether the country has anywhere near the quantity of reverses required to have any noticeable effect on energy prices.
The final shale gas wells had been due to be sealed earlier this year, bringing the U.K.’s fraught relationship with fracking to a conclusive end. However, the sealing of wells was suspended by the government at the last minute, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Under previous Prime Minster Boris Johnson, the decision on whether to lift the ban was left largely unanswered, due to divisions in government over the move. But Truss was clear throughout the Conservative Party leadership campaign that she would seek to do so.
The decision to resume shale gas exploration puts the government's new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in an awkward position, due to his previous public opposition to lifting the fracking ban.
In February of this year, Kwarteng, who was then business secretary with responsibility for energy policy, stated that those who called for the return of fracking “misunderstand the situation.”
“The U.K. has no gas supply issues,” Kwarteng tweeted at the time. “The situation we are facing is a price issue, not a security of supply issue. Put simply: we have lots of gas from highly diverse and secure sources, but it is very expensive.”
He said the wholesale price of gas quadrupled in the U.K. and Europe, and fracking wouldn't materially affect the wholesale market price.
“Remember: renewables are cheaper than gas. U.K. renewable capacity is up 500% since 2010, but way more to do,” he said.
He later added the even if the ban were lifted “it would take up to a decade to extract sufficient volumes, and come at a high price to communities and our precious countryside.”
Kwarteng now finds himself the second most senior member of a government that is directly contradicting his previous position. The reversal of his stance was not lost on opposition politicians during parliamentary discussion on Thursday.
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer drew attention to a document produced by Kwateng’s previous government department, which described the idea that increasing U.K. gas production could influence wholesale gas prices as a “myth.”
Green Member of Parliament Caroline Lucas concurred with Starmer’s view, stating simply that Kwarteng was “right then, wrong now.”
The resumption of shale gas exploration in the U.K. is set to be accompanied by a broader expansion of oil and gas production in the North Sea. Truss said the government will issue more than 100 new oil and gas extraction licenses to firms.
Along with the announcement of shale, the expansion of fossil fuel extraction in the North Sea poses serious questions as to whether Britain remains committed to its United Nations-mandated carbon emission reduction plan.
Former Prime Minister Johnson was regarded as something of a convert to the climate agenda, after his government hosted the U.N.’s climate conference in 2021. And Kwarteng, the new chancellor, was previously regarded among the most committed in the British cabinet to the government's net-zero carbon emissions plan.
But it is less clear that Truss shares these commitments. She cut subsidies for solar energy during her previous stint as environment secretary, and frequently promised during the prime minister campaign to suspend funding for green initiatives.
In particular, her appointment of the divisive Jacob Rees Mogg, a climate skeptic, as business secretary has worried environmentalists. In the U.K., the business secretary also oversees the country’s energy and climate strategy.
“Anyone who thinks that bringing back fracking will solve the energy crisis is living in cloud cuckoo land. Fracking is a failed industry that’s unpopular and unfeasible," Friends of the Earth said in a statement Thursday in response to the announcement on shale gas extraction, “In the decade before it was banned, the industry only managed to frack two sites, and both were aborted due to earthquakes.”
The group added, “By breaking its manifesto promise on fracking, the government is showing that it’s completely out of touch with communities across the country. They have already defeated fracking once and they’re ready to do so again.”
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, R, has distanced himself from Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Cox since Maryland’s primary elections in July. Now, so are some of Hogan’s former campaign donors.
Democratic nominee Wes Moore has received nearly four times as much in donations from Hogan’s former financial supporters as has Cox, according to data analysis by Capital News Service.
Between July 19 and Aug. 23, following the primary elections and until the most recent campaign reporting period, former Hogan donors gave Moore’s campaign $117,861. During that same span, the governor’s former donors sent a mere $29,727 to Cox.
Cox raised a total of $195,000 and Moore raised nearly $1.9 million in the last reporting period, according to the Maryland State Board of Elections campaign finance report.
Included on Moore’s list of former Hogan donors is a political action committee for the Maryland Asphalt Association, which donated $5,000, and two energy utilities, Baltimore Gas and Electric, whose political action committee donated $1,000, and Benfield Electric Co., which donated $2,000.
Donations range from the maximum allowable amount per individual, $6,000, to $10. Donors included real estate firms, plumbing contractors, health care workers, lawyers and individuals.
Most of the Hogan-to-Moore donors that Capital News Service contacted declined to comment on their campaign contributions. Some were lobbyists who cited narrow political lines they did not want to cross, and others were business owners that wanted to keep their political connections private, despite the public availability of campaign donation data.
Gerard Evans, owner at Evans and Associates, a Maryland political lobbying firm based in Annapolis, was willing to speak about his donations. Evans is also an adjunct professor of public policy at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Evans described his donation to Moore as a way to navigate the changing political tides.
“We represent our clients,” Evans said, “and it is clear that Wes Moore is a winner. Based on my 47 years of experience in politics, Cox has zero chance of becoming governor of Maryland.”
Annapolis resident Paul Bollinger is another former Hogan donor who this year gave money to Moore. Bollinger said he contributes to campaigns as a private citizen because he believes his donation is one way to participate in the political process.
“I’m a big believer of putting skin in the game,” Bollinger said. “It’s really easy to sit on the sideline and complain. I’ve been a contributor to Republicans and Democrats for many many decades.”
Bollinger, a former registered Republican, is now unaffiliated in Maryland. He sent $300 to Hogan’s 2018 reelection campaign. He donated $125 to the Moore campaign in August.
When considering who to support in November’s gubernatorial election, Bollinger said he was looking for a candidate that best reflected his concerns. He works for a small Annapolis-based nonprofit that assists people with disabilities. He said he wants a candidate who supports health care policies for his clientele.
To Bollinger, that left only one option after the primaries: Wes Moore.
“Moore is looking to represent everybody in the state, not just a select group,” he said. “I’m strongly in favor of that.”
Despite his old affiliation, he did not consider supporting Cox.
“Some of his core ideas and beliefs are not positive for Maryland,” he said. “He may be a nice guy, I don’t know, but the positions he has on issues are not in line with mine.”
Nina Kasniunas, chair of the political science department at Goucher College, explained in an interview with Capital News Service why she believes some former Hogan donors are supporting Moore instead of Cox.
Kasniunas said a large number of Marylanders are fairly moderate in their ideologies, as demonstrated by the many Maryland Democrats who supported Hogan.
“When you have a candidate like Dan Cox who is part of the wing of the party that is in support of Donald Trump, what you’re seeing with the giving of Republicans to Wes Moore is a denunciation of that and what that stands for,” Kasniunas said.
Increasingly, Maryland Republicans have been distancing themselves or declining to offer full-throated support for Cox. In the most recent example, the Maryland Senate Republican Caucus Committee avoided endorsing Cox on Tuesday in a virtual press conference.
When asked if the committee was endorsing Cox for governor, Senate Minority Leader Bryan Simonaire, R-Anne Arundel, sidestepped the question by responding that his committee was not endorsing any statewide candidates.
“We’re solely focused on the Senate races,” Simonaire said.
In another showing of a Republican fissure, Barry Glassman, the Republican comptroller candidate and currently the county executive for Harford County, donated $500 to Moore.
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Tysons lost its Corner.
And, sorry, Wahoos, but West Falls Church is no longer affiliated with U.Va.
Those are two of five station name changes being implemented by Metro this weekend, as requested by the local jurisdictions and approved by the Metro board, according to a news release.
Effective Sunday, the Tysons Corner stop will be simply Tysons, matching other efforts to rebrand the area.
And the West Falls Church stop, which previously carried the secondary designation of "VT/UVA" will now have the secondary name of "VT" only, referring to Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia campus nearby. The campus was previously shared with the University of Virginia, but U.Va. decided a couple of years ago to move elsewhere in the region.
Metro's other three station name changes this weekend are all on the Maryland side of the transit system:
- White Flint will become North Bethesda
- Largo Town Center will become Downtown Largo
- Prince George’s Plaza will become Hyattsville Crossing
Metro said customers will see immediate changes on digital maps throughout rail stations and on bus displays as well as on wmata.com. Destination signs on Metrobuses and announcements also will recognize new station names. Printed maps will be gradually updated after new Silver Line stations and the Potomac Yard Station open for passenger service.
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Exclusive Preview – Savage Avengers #5
Exclusive Preview – Savage Avengers #5
Conan the Barbarian is dead! Now, we know that Marvel is losing the rights to Robert E. Howard’s signature creation at the end of this year. But would Marvel really kill Conan off as he goes out the door? Probably not. However, things really aren’t looking so good for Conan and his Savage Avengers. Months ago, a Deathlok from the future tried to kill Conan. And when Cloak and Dagger, Daredevil (Elektra), Weapon H, Black Knight, and Anti-Venom interfered, Conan and his unlikely allies were transported back to his native era: The Hyborian Age. Savage Avengers #5
Although Conan spent months living in the present, his old enemy, Thulsa Doom, was waiting for him in the past. Conan’s blood was needed to bring the serpent god, Set, into this world, which is why the barbarian hero is bleeding out from a slit throat. The assembled heroes were too late to save Conan, but they may be able to avenge him.
In Superhero Hype’s exclusive preview for Savage Avengers #5, writer David Pepose and artist Carlos Magno depict the final charge of the titular heroes against Thulsa Doom. However, this time the outcome may be different. Their former enemy, Deathlok, has been revealed as a future version of Miles Morales/Spider-Man. And he’s ready to lead these Avengers to victory.
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Here’s the official description from Marvel.
“The Hyborian Hunt’s shocking conclusion! Conan is dead. Long live Conan of Cimmeria. But with Thulsa Doom and the Cult of Set ready to accomplish their ultimate plan, the Savage Avengers might not have time to mourn.
Can Marvel’s deadliest heroes dig deep within themselves to save the past, present and future or will Deathlok’s journey across the timestream have been for nothing? With the fate of the world at stake, the Savage Avengers will face the threat the only way they know how — to the death.“
You can read the full preview in our gallery below. Savage Avengers #5 will hit comic book stores on Wednesday, September 14.
What did you think about this preview? Let us know in the comment section below!
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Cover illustrated by Leinil Francis Yu with colors by Sunny Gho. Pages illustrated by Carlos Magno, with colors by Espen Grundetjern, and letters by VC's Travis Lanham.Savage Avengers #5 cover
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Eman Esfandi Cast As Ezra Bridger In Star Wars: Ahsoka Series
One of the biggest lingering mysteries from Star Wars Rebels was the fate of fan-favorite Jedi-in-training, Ezra Bridger, who disappeared in the series finale. Essentially, Ezra sat out the events of the original Star Wars trilogy because he was stuck in parts unknown. However, Ezra’s whereabouts will finally be revealed in the upcoming Star Wars: Ahsoka series. Via Cinelinx and confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter, Eman Esfandi has been cast as Ezra.
Esfandi doesn’t have an extensive list of credits to his name. He previously appeared in Robert Rodriguez’s Red 11 and he had a small role in King Richard. His next film is The Inspection, which is currently playing at the Toronto Film Festival.
Taylor Gray provided the voice of Ezra throughout Rebels‘ entire four-season run. Ezra was an orphan with an affinity for the Force who was taken in by the crew of the Ghost. Under the tutelage of Kanan Jarrus, Ezra honed his abilities and trained to become a Jedi. Regardless, Ezra never officially received the title of Jedi. In the early days of the Rebellion, Ezra and his friends played a key role in the struggle against the Empire.
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Ezra’s disappearance in the Rebels series finale was intentionally vague. He and Grand Admiral Thrawn were trapped on an Imperial ship that was whisked away into hyperspace. The final scene of the series indicated that Ezra’s friends, Ahsoka Tano and Sabine Wren, would continue to search for him. Ahsoka’s live-action debut in The Mandalorian seemed to confirm the continuation of this story because she was specifically looking for Thrawn.
Rosario Dawson will once again play Ahsoka in the upcoming series, with Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Sabine. Hayden Christensen will reprise his role as Anakin Skywalker, while Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ivanna Sakhno, and Ray Stevenson have starring roles on the show.
Further details about Ahsoka may be announced at this weekend’s D23 Expo in Anaheim. Ahsoka will premiere on Disney+ in 2023.
What do you think about Eman Esfandi landing the role of Ezra Bridger? Let us know in the comment section below!
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New York: World number one Iga Swiatek rallied from a set down to beat Aryna Sabalenka 3-6 6-1 6-4 and reach her first US Open final, where she will meet Ons Jabeur on Saturday for the trophy.
After a sluggish start, the Pole came alive in the second set and overcame an early break in the decider by winning the final four games to see off the powerful Belarusian.
"Against Aryna you have to have the energy to push her back and be able to play those fastballs," Swiatek said in an on-court interview.
"In the first set, I lacked a little bit of that, so I needed to get it together. Drink some energy shots and just kind of go with it. I'm pretty glad that I did that."
With the win, Swiatek became the first Polish woman to ever reach the US Open final where she will face Jabeur, who became the first African woman of the Open era to do the same earlier in the day.
Both Swiatek and Sabalenka came out tense under the lights on Thursday but the sixth seed settled in first, finding a service rhythm and dialling in her forehand against Swiatek, who has struggled at times in the past against big hitters.
Sabalenka consolidated a break with an ace for 4-2 and captured the first set when she snuck to the net behind a huge forehand and sent a volley past the charging Swiatek.
But Swiatek, who was forced to battle back from a set down in her fourth-round match against Jule Niemeier, raised her level in the second, serving much better and breaking Sabalenka three times to level the contest.
Sabalenka responded early in the third, her confidence growing when her blistering backhand knocked her opponent backwards and onto the court as she raced out to a 2-0 lead.
But the feisty Swiatek refused to give in, breaking back with a backhand winner to level at 4-4 and advanced to her first final in Flushing Meadows when Sabalenka's backhand landed in the net.
The two-time French Open champion Swiatek will gun for her third Grand Slam title when she faces dynamic Tunisian Jabeur, who cruised to her semi-final with a straight sets win over Caroline Garcia.
Swiatek and Jabeur are 2-2 in their four career meetings.
"It's always tough and I'm pretty sure it's going to be physical," Swiatek said of Jabeur.
"She has such good hands, she is solid on the baseline and when she's going in so I have to be careful.
"I don't know what's going to happen. Right now, I'm just going to enjoy being in the final." | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/tennis/2022/09/09/us-open-swiatek-beats-sabalenka-enters-final.html | 2022-09-09T19:38:49Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/tennis/2022/09/09/us-open-swiatek-beats-sabalenka-enters-final.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Fishing: Darrin Ferguson aims to complete a glory double
Darrin Ferguson aims to complete a glory double on Saturday when he tackles-up in the final of the Knockout Cup at Alex's Pond, Orchill, near Auchterarder.
The 50-year-old angler has already won this season's championship hosted by the Edinburgh and Lothians Coarse Angling Club with one match to spare by edging Scott McGhee with club stalwart Tommy Lauriston in contention for third position after a late surge.
A potential grand slam has eluded Ferguson as Lauriston and Geoff Lowe, the club president, who have a combined age of 141 years, beat Ferguson and his partner Wullie McAuley (cor) in the pairs.
Laurison totalled 30lb and Lowe 23lb while Ferguson netted 33lb and is partner had a disappointing day and weighed in at 2lb.
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It is Ferguson's second club championship in five consistent years with a club which continues to grow in popularity and his success is a reward for consistency.
He won three individual matches and framed in several others and the Cumbernauld-based angler said he went back to basics to clinch the silverware.
Ferguson said: "I tried to simplify my approach this season. In the past I've mixed and matched and tried to copy the approach of others, but I ended up having inconsistent seasons. I stuck to my strengths this time and it paid off."
His bags in individual events have not been huge but they have been enough to frame and Ferguson admitted that most of his catches had come near the island at Orchill. In previous seasons they have been close-in or down the middle.
He said: "The pond has changed and I did not take my tip rod with me this season to matches, preferring to use my pole. "There was close competition from Scott (McGhee). The majority of the fish he lands are carp while I pick up other fish including silvers. Tommy (Lauriston) had a bad start, but he has done really well to move up the league in the later part of the campaign.
"He fished strongly in the last four matches to put himself in contention, but the title is now decided and he would have to bomb in the last match to be edged out of third spot."
The former Scottish international, who last fished for his country in 2008, was third in the recent Scottish Canal Championship and the Knockout Cup would be his if he beats Stewart Ritchie on Saturday.
Ferguson said: "Stewart is into carp and they have been sulky recently. If they stay like that on Saturday then I fancy my chances."
Elsewhere, Scotland's men's coarse fishing team are in Croatia for the world championships on Saturday and Sunday. James Woodrow (Cumbernauld), Colin Hart (Coatbridge), David McAuley (Wishaw), plus James Dornom (cor) from Currie and David Corcoran from Davidson's Mains, both Edinburgh, plus Gus Brindle from Dunfermline are competing in the 68th hosting of the event. Brindle is also the team manager from Fife.
Derek Brady from Glasgow is acting as support staff and reports indicate it was scorching during official practice when anglers were given access to the match lengths on the stunning River Drava. Five of six anglers are on duty each day of the match.
The championship has been held on rivers, canals and still waters and the water holds Prussian carp, dwarf catfish, grass carp, catfish, red perch, silver bream, ide and carassius, a member of the carp family.
Woodrow said that there were plenty of fish to be caught in practice and lots of methods to use.
The inaugural championship was held in West Germany in 1954 and won by Team England. Wales won in 1989 in Bulgaria and claimed third spot in 1981. Channel Islands were third in 1992.
Italy are the holders with the Czech Republic runners-up last year and England were third with France having won on 16 occasions, Italy 14 and England 13.
Locally, Stenhouse fly fishery near Burntisland is open again. A statement on on social media said: "Our hard work wasn't in vain. With the shorter days, a touch of wind and some rainfall, we are back in the game. The decision to shut was the correct thing to do. We are again seeing almost gin clear water and the algae has gone." Opening times are dawn to 5pm and double hook-ups have been reported this week.
Black Loch near Falkirk confirm that as we are moving into Autumn they are closed on a Monday and Tuesday. The settled weather resulting in many anglers recording double-figure catches and a regular had 30-plus fish.
Bosses say the wind was mainly easterly, with average temperatures around 17c, with excellent water clarity with dry flies tempting fish to the surface. Foam daddies plus yellow owl were working well along with buzzers.
Penicuik Angling Club were among groups who have fished there recently and the fishery is open from 9am to 4.30pm Wednesday to Sunday. To book call 07527254811 or send a message on Facebook.
Lake of Menteith near Stirling hosted the Scottish Open Championships and Stevie Plank was the winner. The water was also the venue for second part of the Scottish Ladies Championship and top rod was Lana Taylor (cor) with seven fish for 338cm. She also had the longest fish of 54cm.
Second was Deirdre Dunbar with four fish for 193cm and equal third were Sam Hayhurst and Irene Clarke. Both had three fish measuring 144cm. Hayhurst won the best newcomer trophy and the best combined catch over the Harlaw and Menteith heats was made by Clarke.
In West Lothian, Allandale Tarn's new Autumn hours are Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Saturday 9am to 8pm, Thursday and Friday 9am to 4.30pm, closed Tuesday. Phone 01506 873073 for more details.
Bowden Springs report that Robert Birrell tempted ten fish including a 7lb trout on buzzer and yellow dancer patterns and young Lachlan Peaston hooked into eight trout on cormorant and Ally McCoist patterns.
His father Andrew had a 9lb rainbow in a bag of two using diawl bach and Ally McCoist. Alan Purvis tempted a 7lb fish on diawl bach.
Clubbiedean above Bonaly in The Pentlands report klinkhammer and Adams are proving "irresistible" to trout and Bill Taylor, owner of nearby Glencorse Reservoir, said he has boats available on several dates in September. Phone 01968 678709 or 07703 255 955 or message [email protected] to check.
Loganlea's evening sessions are finished for the summer but Harlaw near Balerno continues to fish well with yellow owl, black and red buzzers, CDC, yelllow dancer and black and green lures producing good bags. Some anglers report double-figure catches and top of the water fishing is proving profitable according to Ronnie Robinson.
In the Borders, Hawick Angling Club 2019 warn that low water levels at Acreknowe, which is popular with locals and visitors, have exposed soft mud which is dangerous, especially to anglers wearing waders.
Finally, sea fishing and the Scottish Federation of Sea Anglers host the Erskine Open Shore event on Sunday, September 18, fishing from 1pm to 6pm. The peg draw is at 11.30am and this is a pre-book only competition with a maximum of 50. It is two hooks, measure and release with 18cm minimum. Entrants will be given a point for any fish under 18cm. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/other-sport/fishing-darrin-ferguson-aims-to-complete-a-glory-double-3838543 | 2022-09-09T19:40:28Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/other-sport/fishing-darrin-ferguson-aims-to-complete-a-glory-double-3838543 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LINCOLN, Neb. , Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest Sandhills Global aviation industry market reports indicate slight declines in asking values across the used piston single, turboprop, and jet aircraft categories in Sandhills marketplaces. Since the first few months of 2022, inventory levels have been rising from historic lows across all categories. This increase in inventory levels has impacted how quickly assets can be sold. "The number of days on market has been steadily increasing across most aviation segments," says Controller Department Manager Brant Washburn.
Sandhills' aviation products include Controller, Controller EMEA, Executive Controller, Charter Hub, Aviation Trader, Aircraft Cost Calculator, and AircraftEvaluator. AircraftEvaluator is Sandhills' proprietary asset valuation tool for all types of aircraft, built using the same technology behind FleetEvaluator. Widely used and trusted across equipment, truck, and trailer industries, FleetEvaluator identifies asset values with unparalleled accuracy.
The key metric used in all of Sandhills' market reports is the Sandhills Equipment Value Index (EVI). Buyers and sellers can use the information in Sandhills EVI to monitor equipment markets and maximize returns on acquisition, liquidation, and related business decisions.
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This report includes detailed analysis of asking values and inventory trends in the worldwide used aircraft market along with charts that help readers visualize the data. It describes and quantifies important trends in the buying and selling of used piston single, turboprop, and jet aircraft.
U.S. and Canada Used Piston Single Aircraft
- Pre-owned piston singles charted their seventh straight month of inventory increases with a 2.4% month-to-month gain in August. Inventory for this category was up 32% year-over-year in August.
- Sandhills' EVI showed a corresponding cooling off in asking values with a 0.5% M/M decrease. Still, asking EVI for used piston singles was up 24% YOY.
U.S. and Canada Used Turboprop Aircraft
- The used turboprop category logged its sixth consecutive month of inventory growth with a 4.5% M/M increase in August. Inventory levels have been steadily rising by about 5% to 10% each month, although they remained down 41% YOY.
- Asking values for used turboprop aircraft appear to be reaching a peak with a 1.5% M/M slide in August. Asking EVI for the category showed a 28% YOY increase.
Global Used Jet Aircraft
- Worldwide pre-owned jet aircraft inventory continues to expand, marking its seventh straight month of growth in August. Jet asking values eventually responded, and have now tapered off for three months in a row.
- Used jet inventory levels demonstrated an 8% M/M improvement in August and were down 2% YOY. Asking EVI decreased 0.9% M/M and was up 21% YOY.
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As the many mothers who’ve left their jobs to cope with pandemic remote schooling can testify, “free” household labor isn’t really free. It always entails the opportunity cost of what you could otherwise be doing.
But women’s domestic tasks get short shrift in the history of labor-saving technology because historically much of that work received no direct monetary compensation. “We are all familiar with our grandmothers’ adage, ‘A woman’s time is nothing,’” wrote an essayist in 1870, lamenting how little inventive effort was going toward easing women’s domestic burdens. Whether by unpaid housewives or poorly paid servants, the work still had to be done.
It’s a good time to remember that the history of women’s work sheds light on the broader questions raised by labor-saving technologies, past and present. Viewed through the lens of women’s experiences, inventions often derided as job-killers look like “Engines of Liberation,” the title of an influential 2005 article by economists Jeremy Greenwood, Anath Seshadri and Mehmet Yorukoglu.
By making women more productive and opening new demands for their services, labor-saving technologies gave them greater control over their time, more freedom to choose their occupations and the earning power to shape their own lives— all while propelling economic changes that boosted the overall standard of living.
Consider a few examples:
The Water-Powered Grist Mill
This technology for grinding grain spread through Europe in the Middle Ages, revolutionizing how women spent their time. To digest cereal grains like wheat, humans first have to remove their husks and turn them into flour. That means many hours of pounding and grinding. As late as the 1990s, women in rural Mexico were still using these traditional methods to produce masa, the corn flour in tortillas. Food historian Rachel Laudan estimates that it takes about five hours of grinding to produce enough masa to supply a family of six with a day’s tortillas.
Grist mills opened up women’s time for other tasks, most prominently spinning. Less arduous than grinding grain, it was no less necessary or time-consuming. A Medieval woman using a spinning wheel would have spent about 110 hours spinning enough wool for a pair of trousers.
By freeing women to produce more yarn, historian Constance H. Berman argues, grist mills enabled the wool-based trade that set off the commercial revolution of the late Middle Ages, leading to new financial institutions and the rise of prosperous new centers like Antwerp, London, and Florence. “It is possible that without this change in women’s work,” she writes, “such industry would not have taken off as it did.”
Spinning mills
Spinning remained the bottleneck in textile production. “The spinners never stand still for want of work; they always have it if they please; but weavers are sometimes idle for want of yarn,” wrote the agronomist and travel author Arthur Young, who toured northern England in 1768. Supplying a single weaver, he noted, took at least 20 spinners.
In a workforce of 4 million Britons, economic historian Craig Muldrew estimates, well over a million women were working as spinners. Their labor was the biggest expense in cloth production other than raw fiber, often totaling more than twice the cost of weaving. Yet spinners’ wages were pitiful, for the simple reason that it took so many hours to produce a useful amount of yarn. The spinning machines that set off the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s changed that calculus. Suddenly yarn that once required days to spin could be had in hours, or even minutes.
Before the Civil War, the “mill girls” of New England found new independence in the region’s textile plants. Although the work was grueling, the mills gave young women their own incomes and a chance to broaden their horizons. “There are girls here for every reason, and for no reason at all,” one wrote in an 1844 edition of the Lowell Offering, a magazine published by female mill workers. Many were drawn by the opportunity to buy their own clothes. By making “pretty gowns and collars and ribbons” affordable, the textile revolution created a powerful enticement to cash employment.
Even when wages and working conditions worsened, mill work gave women new forms of autonomy, including the role of labor leaders. The work offered women a public identity, beyond hearth and home.
Rotary presses
That mill girls could publish their own literary magazine testifies to another invention rarely noted as a liberator of women: the steam-powered rotary printing press. Invented in the 1840s, it increased printing speeds tenfold, a pace soon doubled by an invention allowing machines to print both sides of the paper simultaneously. By lowering the cost of high-volume printing, the new technology vastly expanded the market for books, magazines and newspapers — and the writers to fill them.
Fiction writers like the Brontë sisters and Louisa May Alcott, as well as many now-forgotten popular authors, could now make an independent living. With Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë earned 25 times her salary in the hated job of governess. Alcott ground out “blood and thunder tales” for magazines and wrote Little Women for the money.
“Newspaper girls” filled the columns of the mass-market press. Touting their own lifestyle in articles, they created a new model of “the bachelor girl,” a single professional woman distinct from the sad stereotype of the old maid. “These women are for the most part our best modern type, educated, energetic, independent, enterprising,” declared The New York Press in 1894.
Some female journalists offered womanly advice or chronicled the social whirl, while others pursued investigative reporting. In her Memphis newspaper, Ida B. Wells exposed lynching in the South. New York World reporter Nellie Bly went undercover in a mental hospital. Elizabeth L. Banks labored in sweatshops on the Lower East Side and lived on $3 a week, “telling each day in the paper just what I had to eat, and describing all my comforts and discomforts.” In London, she hired out as a maid and worked in a laundry.
The sewing machine
It was widely recognized as the exception to 19th-century inventors’ indifference to the value of women’s time. “It is the only invention that can be claimed chiefly for woman’s benefit,” declared the New York Times in 1860. A sewing machine bought on time could clothe a family or set up a business.
Working with a hand needle, a good seamstress took about 14 hours to make a shirt. With a sewing machine, she could do the same job in an hour. It was an early example of “the robots are taking our jobs.” In an 1888 essay titled “Labor-Saving Machines as an Evil,” the Ohio journalist Samuel Rockwell Reed used the sewing machine as a prime example, singling it out for “enhancing the hard fate of women” by putting hand-sewers out of work. A single machine, he calculated, “deprives 25 children and five widows of bread.”
The claim was actually satirical. Human history, Reed pointed out, is a progression of such inventions. The steel needle replaced the bone needle, with which “three or four wives might be sufficiently employed in making up one man’s rude garments, whereas such facility was given to this by the invention of the steel needle that he hardly had a need of one wife.”
Instead of impoverishing widows and orphans, the sewing machine made seamstresses more productive, giving rise to a large ready-to-wear industry. Although we now remember it mostly for its sweatshops and the labor activism they sparked, it offered generations of mostly female workers, from the Lower East Side to Vietnam, the first step out of poverty.
The washing machine
Elizabeth Banks’ stint wading through soapy water points to another liberating invention: the electricity-powered washing machine. Before its arrival, laundry was such a laborious task that even poorly paid shop girls hired someone else to do it. Just reading the list of “equipment for a home laundry” in a 1900 laundry manual is exhausting.
In “Engines of Liberation,” Greenwood, Seshadri and Yorukoglu cite a study of farm wives that found that doing a 38-pound load of laundry by hand required four hours, with another four or five for ironing. Using electrical appliances, the washing took just 41 minutes and the ironing an hour and 45 minutes. The number of steps walked in the process was cut almost 90 percent. “No man worth his salt would spend a seventh of his time at a tub,” declared journalist Allan L. Benson in a 1912 Good Housekeeping article.
“Power laundry machinery is not so expensive that people in ordinary circumstances cannot afford to buy it, whereas washing by hand is so hard that no woman should do it,” Benson wrote. “It makes no difference who the woman is, whether she is a housewife or a servant, washing is too hard for her. In the winter, it invites pneumonia. At all times of the year, it is drudgery.”
Synthetic fibers
A 19th-century laundress would have envied her 1940s counterpart, but even by the mid-20th century, washing, drying and ironing still took plenty of time and attention. The invention of nylon in 1934 set off a materials revolution— the advent of synthetic fibers and plastics— and further eased the laundry burden.
Synthetic fibers fostered a fundamental fashion shift that continues to today’s pandemic yoga pants. “More than looks,” writes business historian Regina Lee Blaszczyk, “the characteristic that I call ‘high performance’ distinguished the panoply of postwar products from their early-20th-century predecessors….Curtains that could be drip dried, uniforms that never needed ironing, and sweaters that could be washed without shrinking reduced domestic burdens.” When large numbers of American women entered the workforce in the 1970s, they did so wearing easy-care polyester pantsuits.
Over the succeeding decades, synthetic fabrics got better— softer, more breathable, less likely to snag and pill, more varied in look and feel. Today’s women— and men— are free to use their time in more productive and fulfilling.
Looking back on the endless labors of our foremothers reminds us that it’s easy to create jobs by making work harder and slower. But you create wealth— and freedom— by making it faster and easier. The next time you throw a detergent pod into a load of clothes and go off to work on your laptop, consider all the could-be washerwomen now doing something else. | https://www.printmag.com/creative-voices/how-job-killing-technologies-liberated-women/ | 2022-09-09T19:42:51Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/creative-voices/how-job-killing-technologies-liberated-women/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Apollo vet Josh Harris launches new Wall Street firm
Josh Harris, the Apollo Global Management co-founder who also owns several pro sports clubs, on Friday launched a new alternative asset management firm called 26North.
Backstory: Harris stepped down from day-to-day management at Apollo in 2021, after losing a power struggle tied to a relationship between fellow Apollo co-founder Leon Black and Jeffrey Epstein.
- Harris tried to push out Black earlier than Black wanted to go, and Black ultimately got to pick his successor — Marc Rowen, Apollo's third co-founder. Black later sued Harris for allegedly conspiring to ruin his reputation, but the case was thrown out by a judge.
- Harris formally left Apollo's board and executive committee earlier this year, upon the completion of its merger with insurer Athene. Since then he's been investing out of a family office, and maintaining part ownership of the Philadelphia 76ers and the New Jersey Devils (via the Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment Group).
Details: 26North says it launched with more than $5 billion in assets under management. Its private equity business will be led by Mark Weinberg (Brookfield Asset Management) while its private credit unit will be led by Brendan McGovern (Goldman Sachs).
- Other execs include Lance West (ex-Centerbridge, Goldman), Evan Zemsky (Apollo), Tina Raja (Blackstone) and Cole Charnas (Security Benefit Life).
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BYU says it found no evidence of racist slurs at volleyball match
BYU did not find any evidence to support allegations that fans used racial slurs during a volleyball match against Duke late last month, the school said Friday in a statement.
The big picture: BYU's investigation came after allegations that one of the school's fans committed racial heckling against a player for the Duke University women's volleyball team last month. BYU banned the fan who allegedly shouted racist remarks, but that ban has since been lifted.
Driving the news: The university said it did not find "any evidence that that individual engaged in such an activity. BYU sincerely apologizes to that fan for any hardship the ban has caused."
- For its investigation, BYU said it reached out to more than 50 people who attended the match, including students, fans, staffers, personnel and more from both Duke and BYU.
- "Our fight is against racism, not against any individual or any institution," the school said.
Duke University issued a statement Friday after BYU released its investigation findings.
- "The 18 members of the Duke University volleyball team are exceptionally strong women who represent themselves, their families, and Duke University with the utmost integrity," Nina King, Duke's vice president and director of athletics, said in a statement.
- "We unequivocally stand with and champion them, especially when their character is called into question. Duke Athletics believes in respect, equality and inclusiveness, and we do not tolerate hate and bias."
Catch up quick: Lesa Pamplin wrote on Twitter last month that her goddaughter, Rachel Richardson, "was called a n----r every time she served" by a BYU fan at an event between BYU and Duke in Utah at the end of August.
- Richardson said at the time that the BYU coaching staff was notified of the incident, but "failed to make the necessary steps to stop the unacceptable behavior. ... They also failed to address the situation immediately following the game when it was brought to their attention again."
- BYU immediately apologized to Richardson, saying the school "will not tolerate behavior of this kind." The university then banned the fan.
Go deeper: Fan banned from BYU matches after allegedly shouting racist slurs | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/09/byu-racism-investigation-duke-volleyball | 2022-09-09T19:43:56Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/09/byu-racism-investigation-duke-volleyball | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Two Jan. 6 rioters, including Proud Boys Hawaii leader, plead guilty
Two men, including the leader of the Hawaii chapter of the Proud Boys, pleaded guilty on Friday to a felony charge for their involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, per the Department of Justice.
Driving the news: Nicholas Ochs, 36, who founded Hawaii's Proud Boys chapter, and Nicholas DeCarlo, 32, of Fort Worth, Texas, pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding.
- Both men stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 and DeCarlo, while there, wrote "Murder the Media" on a door, while Ochs filmed him, per the DOJ.
- "Murder the Media" was also the name of the men's social media channel.
- Ochs and DeCarlo also "rummaged through a U.S. Capitol Police duffel bag" and DeCarlo took a pair of plastic handcuffs, per the DOJ.
- Federal guidelines for Ochs, who was arrested on Jan. 7, 2021, and DeCarlo, arrested on Jan. 26, 2021, call for sentences between about 3 1/2 years and four years in prison, AP reports.
The big picture: The DOJ has arrested more than 870 individuals in connection to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, including more than 265 individuals who have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement, per the DOJ.
What to watch: The sentencing for both men is expected in December, per AP.
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Cheyenne Transit Program Director Renae Jording poses for a portrait outside of the administrative offices along West Lincolnway in Cheyenne on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Jesse boards a Cheyenne Transit Program bus stops along West 17th Street in Cheyenne on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Cheyenne Transit Program Director Renae Jording poses for a portrait outside of the administrative offices along West Lincolnway in Cheyenne on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
CHEYENNE – Looking to bounce back from COVID-related limitations, the Cheyenne Transit Program hopes a new plan will help bus service in the Capital City better serve its residents.
CTP ceased running its regular routes during the pandemic in favor of on-demand service, which could be requested by riders either through a smartphone app or by calling the transit office. And while the program's director says the on-demand service has largely been a success, she and Cheyenne's mayor say they also believe it's important to reinstate route-based service.
For the past three weeks, CTP has been trying out the first part of a new fixed-route system, developed by Jording and consultants using heat maps of ridership. It runs on Lincolnway to Central/Warren avenues, then over to Dell Range Boulevard.
With all three planned phases implemented, there would be four fixed routes based on, and likely further adjusted to, ridership demand.
Another goal of the new routes would be less time on the bus than on pre-pandemic fixed routes. The current average ride time is 13.84 minutes, which Jording said was not happening with the former fixed routes.
"The old route system – did it work? Yes. People could ride the bus. But it took you way too long to get from" point A to point B because of the way the routes were structured, Jording said.
She said the pause on fixed-route service during the pandemic was the perfect time to rethink what Cheyenne's bus routes looked like. This led to the 2022 Cheyenne Transit Development Plan, which Jording expects will be completed by the end of year.
Ridership 'not great'
Jording said it's averaging 26 to 28 riders per day, which she said is "not great." But she noted that CTP has not yet done any kind of mass publicity of the new route, which they plan to do soon.
Still, as a whole, the transit system averaged 83 new riders per month between January and July, Jording said.
She said public transit ridership steadily decreased in Cheyenne, along with most municipalities across the country, throughout the pandemic. People "don't need transportation like they needed it before," the director said. "The pandemic changed us, as a whole, and so what people need and want is totally different than what we gave them" previously.
The transit program moved to on-demand service because it was "the only way we could limit the number of people on a bus at one time" while social distancing requirements were in place, Jording said.
Once those were lifted by Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon, CTP didn't have enough staff to reinstate the routes, Jording said. No positions were lost because of the pandemic, she said. But during that time, they did lose some people to retirement, some didn't want to work during the pandemic, and others said they would not wear a mask while working and decided to leave their jobs.
"We didn't replace them because of how we were providing service. We didn't need them at that time," Jording said.
A new federal licensing requirement also added more barriers to receiving a commercial driver's license, the director said, meaning a longer training period before new drivers can start jobs.
Several of CTP's vehicles are also currently out of service, with vital parts on backorder for lengthy periods of time.
Looking forward
Because of these issues, the transit director said it's hard to put a timeline on when each phase might be implemented.
"It'll depend on vehicles. It'll depend on drivers. It'll depend on money," she said. "The funding is not so much an issue, because we're still getting our grant funding. The city is still supporting us 100%, the county is still supporting us, the state is still supporting us. That's not as much of an issue as it is that it's taking three years to get replacement vehicles."
Jording said seniors and people with disabilities are a big part of those served by CTP buses, but it also serves a large number of people who don't fit into either of those categories.
A public meeting on the plan was held Aug. 31, both in person and via Zoom. About 20 members of the public attended that meeting, which Jording called "the best attended public meeting" of her career.
While she's certainly heard some complaints from residents during the pandemic about the loss of fixed-route service, she thinks that kind of sentiment has only been about 10% of the total feedback.
About 90% of the comments she hears about the on-demand service is that it's "better than it was before," and "don't take it away," Jording said. On the app, ratings for on-demand rides are 98% positive, she said.
Still, a certain segment of past, current or potential riders also wants to be able to rely on predictable bus routes.
"There's places people need to go, and they need to be able to count on a bus and not have to call each time," Mayor Patrick Collins told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. "So, I'm excited about this new evolution. We're probably going to have to spend a little bit of time to try it for a while, see what works, and modify it until we finally get it to where it works for everybody."
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The Wind River Dancers return to the Archeology Fair this year, giving a performance from 1-2 p.m. Saturday at the even being held at the Wyoming Terriorial Prison State Historical Site.
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The Hide Working exhibit is one of many presentations at this year’s Archeology Fair. The event is this Saturday at the Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historical Site.
The Wind River Dancers return to the Archeology Fair this year, giving a performance from 1-2 p.m. Saturday at the even being held at the Wyoming Terriorial Prison State Historical Site.
Courtesy Photo/State Historic Preservation Office
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The Hide Working exhibit is one of many presentations at this year’s Archeology Fair. The event is this Saturday at the Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historical Site.
There’s a chance to smash rocks, dig in the dirt, form pots out of mud and throw pointy sticks through the air. It’s the perfect opportunity for anyone who likes to get a little dirty and try their hand at new things.
Or maybe listening to music and watching others perform is more your cup of tea. No matter your preference, there’s something for everyone at this year’s Archeology Fair.
The Wyoming Territorial Prison in Laramie comes alive Saturday with a step back in time to both historic and prehistoric times. The fair is put on by the Office of the Wyoming State Archeologist and the State Historic Preservation Office, along with numerous other state and federal agencies.
It runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site and is free and open to the public.
Amanda Castaneda, Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month coordinator at the State Historic Preservation Office, said there is plenty for the family to enjoy throughout the day.
“The Archaeology Fair is an exciting event that allows people of all ages to connect with and learn about various aspects of Wyoming history,” Castaneda said. “This is the biggest public event that we put on as part of Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month and has become a much-beloved annual celebration that is both educational and fun.”
While many of the booths are hands-on, others are more show-and-tell such as one featuring Billy Probert demonstrating traditional 19th century blacksmithing.
Casteneda said one of the new activities this year is yucca processing. Yucca is a stiff succulent prairie plant sometimes referred to as Spanish bayonet. Participants work with yucca leaves to extract its fiber and make cordage.
Also new this year are performances by the Twaynes, a father-son group that will play throughout the event. This fiddle-guitar duo plays a wide range of music from country, classical, Cajun and wild instrumentals.
“We also have an animal hide working demonstration that is very cool,” Casteneda said. “Visitors will get to see the process of working on animal hides, including the scraping, smoking and tanning of the hides.
“Also returning this year are the Wind River Dancers. It has been several years since they have been at the fair so we are thrilled to have them back to share their cultural traditions. They perform a variety of Indigenous dance traditions from 1 to 2 p.m.”
A popular activity every year is atlatl throwing. An atlatl looks like a very long arrow or spear attached to a stick. The stick has a notch or hook and the arrow or spear is placed in the notch. The thrower brings both the stick and spear to eye level, aiming at the target. Then, for the throw, the arm snaps forward to release the spear, but not the stick.
The result is that arrow or spear goes much faster and farther than if it thrown with a bare hand.
Whether it’s throwing an atlatl, digging in the dirt, listening to music or watching Native American traditional dance, the Archeology Fair really has something for everyone.
Editor's note: This has been corrected to reflect Billy Probert is teaching the blacksmithing class. Also, Willie LeClair will not be giving a presentation, as was originally reported. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/education/dig-this-archaeology-fair-has-something-for-everyone/article_b2b10cfa-3066-11ed-b920-17b188e8800a.html | 2022-09-09T19:44:17Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/education/dig-this-archaeology-fair-has-something-for-everyone/article_b2b10cfa-3066-11ed-b920-17b188e8800a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- Jones at Kansas Speedway: Following their win at Darlington Raceway last weekend, Erik Jones and the No. 43 FOCUSfactor Chevrolet team now head to Kansas Speedway where Jones will make his 13th-career Cup Series start at the 1.5-mile track. In his previous 12 starts at the track, Jones has three top-five finishes, five top-10 finishes and a career-best finish of third in 2019.
In addition to his Cup Series starts, Jones has two starts at the track in the Xfinity Series. Both races ended with 15th-place finishes after fuel milage played a role in the finish of the races. In both starts Jones was contending for the win and leading laps, including leading 186 of 200 laps in the 2017 event.
With one start in the Truck Series, Jones led 151 of 167 laps before fuel milage caused the team to finish the race in the 11th position, one lap down.
- First-Career Cup Series Start: Kansas Speedway will always be a special place for Erik Jones. In 2015, while competing full-time in the NASCAR Truck Series, Jones made his Cup Series debut filling in for the injured Kyle Busch. Starting the race from the 12th position, Jones was able to race his way in to the top 10 and lead one lap before a rookie mistake late in the race caused the No. 18 car to make contact with the outside wall. With too much damage to continue, Jones was credited with a 40th-place finish.
- Darlington Recap: Making his 10th-career Cup Series start at Darlington Raceway, Jones started the 2022 Southern 500 from the 15th position and led the final 23 laps to earn his first win of the season. With a fast car and strong pit stops all race, Jones earned his second Southern 500.
- Focused on Winning: FOCUSfactor will serve as the primary partner on Jones's Chevrolet Camaro for Sunday’s race at Kansas Speedway.
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- From the Driver’s Seat:
“Kanas has been a good place to me over the years. I feel like I’ve had some really good cars there and some really good runs, just haven’t been able to close it out. I thought our car there in the Spring was really good and we had the wheel issue with the wheel getting stuck on. I think we’ve got our mile-and-a program a little bit stronger even since then in some ways. So, if we can just go and be up there with the Playoff guys at the end, I think we’ll have a shot with our FOCUSfactor Chevy.”
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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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Driver: Kaz Grala
Primary Partner(s): Buchanan Hauling & Rigging
Manufacturer: Chevrolet Silverado RST
Crew Chief: Steven Dawson
2022 Driver Points Position: 30th
2022 Owner Points Position: 18th
Engine: Ilmor Racing Technologies
Notes of Interest:
Still Truckin’: This weekend at Kansas Speedway, Young’s Motorsports welcomes back Kaz Grala as the driver of the No. 02 Young’s Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado RST who returns to the organization for the 10th time during the 2022 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
The former Truck Series winner has competed for Young’s Motorsports at Las Vegas (Nev.) Motor Speedway, Circuit of the Americas (COTA), Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway Dirt Track, Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway, Knoxville Raceway, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Pocono (Pa.) Raceway, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park and most recently at Richmond (Va.) Raceway last month.
This weekend’s Truck Series race at Kansas is an added race to Grala’s 2022 schedule.
Sponsor Intel: For the 19th Truck Series race of 2022, Young’s Motorsports welcomes new partner Buchanan Hauling & Rigging as the primary marketing partner on Grala’s No. 02 Chevrolet Silverado RST for the Kansas Lottery 200.
Buchanan Hauling & Rigging was established in 1996 with one truck, two trailers and dreams to supply quality transportation at a fair market rate, build long-lasting business relationships and provide high-quality jobs to drivers and owner-operators.
The Buchanan Advantage is comprised of sound, ethical business practices performed by professionals who adhere to our safety pledge: "Setting the Standard for Safety One Mile at a Time."
Welcome Back: For Kansas, Young’s Motorsports and Kaz Grala welcome back Sim Seats as an associate marketing partner on the No. 02 Chevrolet Silverado RST.
Since 2009, Sim Seats has been designing and fabricating high-quality made-in-the-USA driving simulators including motion systems, triple monitor mounts, sim racing accessories, complete turn-key iRacing ready packages and even custom fabrication.
Their customer base includes all racers from amateur to pro ranks.
The Lowdown: Earlier this year Young’s Motorsports confirmed that Grala who will race in all three of NASCAR’s national divisions throughout the 2022 season will pilot the No. 02 Young’s Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado RST for 12 races throughout the season including Friday night’s race at Kansas Speedway.
In addition to Las Vegas, COTA, Bristol, Sonoma, Knoxville, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Pocono, Indianapolis, Richmond and Kansas, Grala will also compete at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway and the penultimate race of the year at Homestead-Miami (Fla.) Speedway.
2022: In his nine Truck Series races this season as the pilot of the No. 02 Young’s Motorsports flagship entry, Grala has delivered a season-high seventh-place finish in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in the O’Reilly Auto Parts 150.
In addition to his top-10 finish at Mid-Ohio, Grala has also delivered two top-15 finishes with 14th place efforts twice in March at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) and in the inaugural Door Dash 250 at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway in June.
In his other events for the Mooresville, N.C.-based team, Grala has finished 30th at Las Vegas, and 26th twice at the Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway Dirt and Knoxville Raceway, 23rd at Pocono Raceway, a solid 20th in the TSport 200 at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park and 22nd at Richmond (Va.) Raceway last month respectively.
Kaz Grala Truck Series Kansas Speedway Stats: Friday night’s Kansas Lottery 200 at Kansas Speedway will mark Grala’s second NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start at the Kansas City 1.5-mile track.
In 2017, Grala started sixth and finished eighth in the Toyota Tundra 250 for GMS Racing.
Kaz Grala Truck Series Speedway Stats: At NASCAR Camping World Truck Series tracks classified as a speedway, Grala has made 18 starts throughout his career with three top-five and 11 top-10 finishes and carrying an average finishing position of 12.9.
Richmond Raceway | Worldwide Express 250 Race Recap: In the most recent NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Richmond Raceway, Grala made his 44th career Truck Series start.
After starting his ninth race of the Truck Series season from the 26th place starting position, Grala patiently maneuvered his way through the field and conquered a respectable 22nd place finish at the checkered flag.
Calling the Shots: Guiding Grala as crew chief of the No. 02 Young’s Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado RST is crew chief Steven Dawson.
A long-time Young’s Motorsports employee, Dawson will serve as crew chief for just his 19th Truck Series race. The Kansas Speedway 200 will be his second race as crew chief at the 1.5-mile oval.
Dawson, 34, is a native of Concord, N.C.
Follow on Social Media: For more on Kaz Grala, please visit, kazgrala.com, like him on Facebook (Kaz Grala) and follow him on Twitter (@KazGrala).
For more on Young’s Motorsports, please visit YoungsMotorsports.com, like them on Facebook (Young’s Motorsports), and follow them on Instagram (@youngsmotorsports) and Twitter (@youngsmtrsports).
Kaz Grala Pre-Race Quote:
On Kansas Speedway: “Kansas Speedway is a track I don’t have much experience at, but I do remember it being a lot of fun running the top in the 2017 Truck race.
“I love tracks that you can move around on, and Kansas definitely gives you plenty of options as a driver, which I think suits my driving style.
“Hopefully we’ll be able to put our No. 02 Buchanan Hauling & Rigging Chevrolet Silverado RST where we need to under the lights on Friday night to battle with the big teams.”
Driver: Spencer Boyd
Primary Partner(s): Probuilt Pool & Patio
Manufacturer: Chevrolet Silverado RST
Crew Chief: Ryan “Pickle” London
2022 Driver Points Position: 26th
2022 Owner Points Position: 30th
Engine: Ilmor Racing Technologies
Notes of Interest:
Back To Familiar Territory: Fan favorite Spencer Boyd returns to Kansas Speedway settled in aboard his new Truck number and leadership eyeing his first top-10 of the 2022 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and second win of his Truck Series career.
No. 138: This weekend at Kansas Speedway, Boyd will make his 138th career NASCAR start. Boyd has three starts in the NASCAR Cup Series, 50 starts in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, and will make his 85th start in Trucks when the green flag waves Friday night.
The highlight of his NASCAR career is a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series win at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway in October 2019 driving for Young’s Motorsports.
Welcome To The Team: This weekend at Kansas Speedway, Spencer Boyd and Young’s Motorsports welcome Probuilt Pool & Patio as the primary marketing partner for the 19th race of the 2022 Truck Series season.
Probuilt Pool & Patio specializes in luxury outdoor living space. The finest quality sunrooms, screen rooms, outdoor kitchens, decks, patios and fiberglass pools in the Midwest.
Established in 2006, they have spent the last two decades proudly building a reputation of trust and quality with our customers.
Probuilt Pool & Patio serves five major metropolitan areas – Kansas City, St. Louis, Omaha, Columbia, and Central Iowa with pool brands like Imagine Pools, Aqua Technics, Alaglas, Latham, Aviva and San Juan.
Bucks for the Brave: This weekend at Kansas Speedway, Boyd will continue to promote Record Rack’s Bucks for the Brave initiative.
NASCAR Driver, Spencer Boyd is continuing his efforts to support the men and women who have served in the line of duty. Veterans (no longer serving) and retired First Responders (Law Enforcement, Firefighters, EMTs) can win the hunting experience of a lifetime thanks to long-time Boyd partner, Record Rack® premium wildlife feed (brand owned by Cargill, Inc.)
Nominations for heroes are now open to submit for the annual Bucks for the Brave charitable event through September 11, 2022.
Bucks for the Brave is an all-expense paid trip that will take place in early November. The event will be hosted at Trinity Oaks’ Thumbtack Ranch in Batesville, TX, which is the only nationally recognized Purple Heart Ranch in the United States.
One winner from each of our eight categories will be chosen: Army Veteran, Marine Corps Veteran, Navy Veteran, Air Force Veteran, Coast Guard Veteran, Retired Firefighter, Retired Law Enforcement and Retired EMT.
Spencer Boyd Truck Series Kansas Speedway Stats: Friday night’s Kansas Lottery 200 at Kansas Speedway will mark Boyd’s eighth start at the 1.5-mile speedway.
In his seventh previous efforts, he has earned a track-best of 17th after starting 18th in the 2019 Digital Ally 250 for Young’s Motorsports.
He holds an average finish at Kansas of 23.7.
Spencer Boyd Truck Series Speedway Stats: At NASCAR Camping World Truck Series tracks classified as a speedway, Boyd has 48 starts throughout his career carrying an average finishing position of 24.1.
Richmond Raceway | Worldwide Express 250 Race Recap: In the most recent NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Richmond Raceway, Boyd made his 84th career Truck Series start.
After starting his 18th race of the Truck Series season from the 32nd place starting position, Boyd encountered struggles during the race which left him 32nd at the checkered flag.
To The Point(s): Entering Kansas, Boyd sits 28th in the championship standings.
85 points separate Boyd from 20th in the championship standings currently held by Parker Kligerman with five races remaining this season.
160 points separate Boyd from 15th in the championship standings occupied by Chase Purdy.
Young’s Motorsports’ No. 12 team secures 30th in the Truck Series owner standings.
Chasing That W: Boyd is eyeing his second career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory for himself and Young’s Motorsports.
In 2019 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, Boyd pulled an upset during the Truck Series Playoffs by winning the Sugarland Shines 250 at the 2.66-mile superspeedway edging Todd Gilliland by 0.027 seconds.
Truck Series Rundown: In six years of Truck Series competition, Boyd has 84 career Truck Series starts with one win, two top-five and three top-10 finishes, and a championship best of 17th in 2019 and carries an average finish of 23.4.
Calling the Shots: Guiding Boyd as crew chief of the No. 12 Probuilt Pool & Patio Chevrolet Silverado RST is veteran crew chief Ryan “Pickle” London.
He will crew chief his 64th NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Friday night. In his previous 63 races, he has one win, two top-five, and four top-10 finishes to his resume.
This weekend marks his fourth race as crew chief at the track nestled in the heart of oz.
Follow on Social Media: For more on Spencer Boyd, please like him on Facebook (Spencer Boyd Racing) and follow him on Instagram (SpencerBoydpr) and Twitter (@SpencerBoyd).
For more on Young’s Motorsports, please visit YoungsMotorsports.com, like them on Facebook (Young’s Motorsports) and follow on Instagram (youngsmotorsports) and Twitter (@youngsmtrsports).
Spencer Boyd Pre-Race Quotes:
On Kansas Speedway: “I am always excited to race in the Midwest, Kansas is one of my favorite mile and a half’s and racing under the lights makes it that much better. Looking forward to a good weekend with our No. 12 Probuilt Pool & Patio Chevrolet Silverado RST.”
On Bucks for the Brave: “I so look forward to this event every year,” said Boyd. “It’s hard to put into words the impact that these heroes’ stories have had on me.
“I’m proud to bring light to Record Rack’s efforts in the Veteran and First Responder community. We have been partners for five seasons now so it’s almost like a family reunion when we get together. I love it.”
Driver: Jesse Little
Primary Partner(s): National Carwash Solutions (NCS)
Manufacturer: Chevrolet Silverado RST
Crew Chief: Andrew Abbott
2022 Driver Points Position: 28th
2022 Owner Points Position: 31st
Engine: Ilmor Racing Technologies
Notes of Interest:
Little’s Back: This weekend at Kansas Speedway, Young’s Motorsports welcomes back Jesse Little as the driver of the No. 20 Young’s Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado RST.
Little returns to the organization for a bonus of his already 12 confirmed races aboard the team’s flagship entry.
This is the third of the last four races where Little has piloted the No. 20 Young’s Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado RST and will mark his 12th race of the 2022 season.
Sponsor Intel: For the 19th Truck Series race of 2022, Young’s Motorsports welcomes National Carwash Solutions as the primary partner of the No. 20 Chevrolet Silverado RST.
National Carwash Solutions (NCS) is the leading carwash service and systems provider in North America. NCS has established the only direct end-to-end customer service and support network with over 500 service personnel.
NCS is known for its comprehensive solutions for owners, operators, and investors.
The NCS family of brands includes legacy names such as MacNeil, Ryko, Vacutech, PurClean, TSS, Armor All ProfessionalⓇ, Rain-XⓇ, Blue CoralⓇ, Black MagicⓇ and LustraⓇ.
Founded in 1973, the NCS headquarters is located in Grimes, Iowa.
"We at National Carwash Solutions are excited to launch our new look and promote all of our car wash chemical and equipment brands with Young Motorsports this weekend at Kansas,” offered Greg Heyer, National Carwash Solutions senior vice president and general manager.
Approaching Stretch Drive: Friday night’s Kansas Lottery 200 indicates Jesse Little is approaching the stretch drive of his 2022 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series program with the veteran Mooresville, N.C.-based team.
Little kicked off his partial schedule with the Mooresville, N.C.-based team with an impressive sixth-place finish aboard the No. 02 Shriners Children's Hospitals Chevrolet Silverado RST after starting a season-high ninth in the season-opening race at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway in February.
Overall, he has captured one top-10, three top-15s, six top-20s and holds an average finish of 19.7 entering the second race of the 2022 Truck Series season from the Heart of America.
Jesse Little Truck Series Kansas Speedway Track Stats Friday night’s Kansas Lottery 200 at Kansas Speedway will mark Little’s second NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start at the Kansas City 1.5-mile track.
In May, Little started 22nd and finished 24th in the Heart of America 200 for Young’s Motorsports.
Jesse Little Truck Series Speedway Stats: At NASCAR Camping World Truck Series tracks classified as a speedway, Little has made 33 starts throughout his career with five top-10 finishes, while also carrying an average finishing position of 18.6.
Richmond Raceway | Worldwide Express 250 Race Recap: In the most recent NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Richmond Raceway, Joey Gase took the helm of the No. 20 Virginia Life Chevrolet Silverado RST.
After starting the race from the 30th place starting position, Gase contended for a strong top-20 finish before an unscheduled pit stop resulted in a 29th place finish.
Calling the Shots: Guiding Little as crew chief of the No. 20 National Carwash Solutions Chevrolet Silverado RST is veteran crew chief Andrew Abbott.
He will crew chief his 99th NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Friday night.
In his previous 98 races, he has one pole, two top-five and seven top-10 finishes
to his resume.
This weekend marks his ninth race as crew chief at the track nestled in the heart of oz.
Follow on Social Media: For more on Jesse Little, please like him on Facebook (Jesse Little Racing) and follow on Instagram (@JesseLittle97) and Twitter (@JesseLittle97).
For more on Young’s Motorsports, please visit YoungsMotorsports.com, like them on Facebook (Young’s Motorsports), and follow them on Instagram (youngsmotorsports) and Twitter (@youngsmtrsports).
Jesse Little Pre-Race Quote:
On Kansas Speedway: "I'm thrilled to get back behind the wheel with the Young's Motorsports team at Kansas. I'll have a longtime friend and partner on board the 20 truck, Greg Heyer, from National Carwash Solutions and look forward to giving them a great showing.
“Kansas can be an equalizer for us as its multiple grooves and fairly abrasive on tires. I'm hoping we can have a strong qualifying run and then maintain our track position from there."
Race Information:
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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Thursday night at Lakeside Speedway was all about Sam Hafertepe, Jr., as the driver of the Hills Racing/Heidbreder Foundation No. 15 dominated the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network.
Leading flag to flag for his third National Tour score of the season, and 61st since 2010, the win makes Hafertepe the first repeat winner with the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series in eight tour appearances at the Kansas oval.
“It’s fun to get on big tracks like this where we can get on the wall and race like that,” said Sam, who is third all-time in wins with the National Tour.
“We’re still working on the car. We were trying a left rear shock package tonight that is different from what we normally run, but luckily, we were able to work out front and get the win, but we still have some work to do when we’re not in clean air. We always want to be better, and without Miles [Hill] and everyone who helps us, we couldn’t do this.”
Battling through the opening lap with Matt Covington, the No. 15h found his stride quickly to begin pulling away. Into traffic in the first seven laps, Sam was quick to move on the slower machines as the battle for second began to pick up between Matt Covington and Dylan Westbrook.
Able to work back to silver on the No. 47x, the race for second turned into a three-car battle with the No. 24 of Garet Williamson into the mix. Cat and Mouse through traffic until Lap 20; red lights came on as Westbrook slipped through the cushion in the first turn and flipped violently into the fence. Dylan was able to walk away as the track went under an open red to repair the fence.
Restarting at the last fully completed lap, the green flew with 19 in the books.
Using slower cars in the lineup to his advantage, Hafertepe was quick to run away as the race for second picked up where it left off, but with a new contender as Jason Martin pursued the position.
Unstoppable to a 7.513-second advantage for Hafertepe at the finish, it was Garet Williamson who came out on top of the race for second. Making the pass on Covington on Lap 23, the No. 24 was followed by Jason Martin for his 13th career podium finish. Matt Covington ended up fourth, with Wayne Johnson battling his way to fifth after starting eleventh.
Riley Goodno crossed sixth, with Blake Hahn moving from 12th to seventh. Jake Bubak, after suffering a flat in his Heat that relegated him to 19th on the grid, advanced to eighth, with Chris Martin ninth from 13th. Making a run after the restart, Ryan Bickett improved to 10th from 16th.
The 23-car field broke into a trio of SCE Gaskets Heat Races. Wins went to Sam Hafertepe, Jr., Jason Martin, and Dylan Westbrook. The Driver’s Project overall quick qualifier was Jake Bubak, who set a new ASCS Track Record at 14.560-seconds. The previous record was established on August 2, 2022, by Blake Hahn at 15.023-seconds.
The next event for the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network is Saturday, September 10, at Caney Valley Speedway for the Sooner/Shocker Showdown.
Featuring fireworks following the races, the night is co-sanctioned with the American Bank of Oklahoma ASCS Sooner Region presented by Smiley's Racing Products and will also include Factory Stocks, Pure Stocks, and USRA Tuners. Pits will be open during the day for teams to pull in. Grandstands open at 5:00 P.M. with racing at 7:00 P.M. (CDT). Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for seniors, and free for kids 12 and under. Pits are $40. Caney Valley Speedway is located at CR 1300 in Caney, Kan. More info on the Speedway can be found at http://www.
The 2022 season will mark the 31st year of competition for the American Sprint Car Series. Spearheaded by the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network, the ASCS Nation includes Regional Tours that encompass both wing and non-wing competition.
For fans not able to attend, the series can be seen live on two platforms, with RaceOnTexas.com on FloRacing.com featuring National Tour events in tandem. Both are subscription-based sites. FloRacing.com is $20 per month, billed annually at $150 per year. RaceOnTexas.com All Access is $39.99 per month.
For other news, notes, and information on any of the tours under the ASCS banner, log onto http://www.ascsracing.com
Race Results:
Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour
ASCS Warrior Region
Lakeside Speedway (Kansas City, Kan.)
Thursday, September 8, 2022
Car Count: 23
The Driver's Project Group Qualifying
The Drivers Project Qualifying 1 (3 Laps): 1. 27B-Jake Bubak, 14.560[5]; 2. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr, 14.561[6]; 3. 95-Matt Covington, 14.583[3]; 4. 2C-Wayne Johnson, 14.588[1]; 5. 52-Blake Hahn, 14.636[7]; 6. 44-Chris Martin, 14.911[4]; 7. 187-Landon Crawley, 15.187[2]; 8. (DNS) 21-Gunner Ramey, NT
SCE Gaskets Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 36-Jason Martin[4]; 2. 24-Garet Williamson[2]; 3. 22-Riley Goodno[3]; 4. 98P-Miles Paulus[6]; 5. 2-Chase Porter[1]; 6. 17B-Ryan Bickett[7]; 7. 10-Landon Britt[5]; 8. 10P-Dylan Postier[8]
The Drivers Project Qualifying 3 (3 Laps): 1. 47X-Dylan Westbrook, 14.871[4]; 2. 45X-Kyler Johnson, 14.936[2]; 3. 1X-Tim Crawley, 15.085[7]; 4. 55B-Brandon Anderson, 15.279[1]; 5. 53-Joe Beaver, 15.408[5]; 6. 16-Dustin Clark, 15.652[3]; 7. 17F-Chad Frewaldt, 16.494[6]
SCE Gaskets Heat Races (All drivers advance to the A-Feature)
SCE Gaskets Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[3]; 2. 95-Matt Covington[2]; 3. 2C-Wayne Johnson[1]; 4. 52-Blake Hahn[5]; 5. 44-Chris Martin[6]; 6. 187-Landon Crawley[7]; 7. 21-Gunner Ramey[8]; 8. 27B-Jake Bubak[4]
SCE Gaskets Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 36-Jason Martin[4]; 2. 24-Garet Williamson[2]; 3. 22-Riley Goodno[3]; 4. 98P-Miles Paulus[6]; 5. 2-Chase Porter[1]; 6. 17B-Ryan Bickett[7]; 7. 10-Landon Britt[5]; 8. 10P-Dylan Postier[8]
SCE Gaskets Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 47X-Dylan Westbrook[4]; 2. 55B-Brandon Anderson[1]; 3. 1X-Tim Crawley[2]; 4. 45X-Kyler Johnson[3]; 5. 53-Joe Beaver[5]; 6. 16-Dustin Clark[6]; 7. 17F-Chad Frewaldt[7]
A-Feature
Lucas Oil A-Main (25 Laps): 1. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[2]; 2. 24-Garet Williamson[5]; 3. 36-Jason Martin[4]; 4. 95-Matt Covington[1]; 5. 2C-Wayne Johnson[11]; 6. 22-Riley Goodno[6]; 7. 52-Blake Hahn[12]; 8. 27B-Jake Bubak[19]; 9. 44-Chris Martin[13]; 10. 17B-Ryan Bickett[16]; 11. 98P-Miles Paulus[9]; 12. 1X-Tim Crawley[8]; 13. 45X-Kyler Johnson[10]; 14. 55B-Brandon Anderson[7]; 15. 187-Landon Crawley[15]; 16. 2-Chase Porter[17]; 17. 53-Joe Beaver[14]; 18. 10P-Dylan Postier[22]; 19. 21-Gunner Ramey[23]; 20. 10-Landon Britt[21]; 21. 16-Dustin Clark[18]; 22. 17F-Chad Frewaldt[20]; 23. 47X-Dylan Westbrook[3]
Lap Leader(s): Sam Hafertepe, Jr, 1-25
Hard Charger: Jake Bubak +11
Quick Time: Jake Bubak -14.560-seconds (NTR)
High Point Driver: Jason Martin
Provisional(s): N/A
ASCS Online:
American Sprint Car Series: http://www.ascsracing.
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Broadcast: RaceOnTexas.com on FloRacing.com
Live-Scoring [Where Applicable]: MRP Live
2022 Race Winners: Wayne Johnson – 4 (3/18 – Devil's Bowl Speedway; 6/18 – Boothill Speedway, 6/25 - I-70 Motorsports Park; 7/23 – I-30 Speedway); Derek Hagar – 3 (3/25 – I-30 Speedway; 6/17 – Texarkana 67 Speedway; 9/5 – Lake Ozark Speedway); Sam Hafertepe, Jr. – 3 (5/29 – Thunderbird Speedway; 8/4 – Knoxville Raceway; 9/8 – Lakeside Speedway); Tim Crawley – 2 (7/22 – Batesville Motor Speedway; 7/26 – Tulsa Speedway); Dylan Westbrook – 2 (5/28 – Lake Ozark Speedway; 7/27 – Caney Valley Speedway); Blake Hahn – 2 (8/2 – Lakeside Speedway, 9/2 – Lake Ozark Speedway); Matt Covington – 2 (7/1 – Boone County Raceway; 7/28 – 81-Speedway); Seth Bergman – 1 (3/19 – Devil's Bowl Speedway); Aaron Reutzel – 2 (3/26 – I-30 Speedway; 8/6 – Knoxville Raceway); Jake Bubak – 1 (7/2 – WaKeeney Speedway); Zach Blurton – 1 (7/3 – WaKeeney Speedway); Gunner Ramey - 1 (7/15 – U.S. 36 Raceway); Brian Brown – 1 (8/5 – Knoxville Raceway);
2022 Driver Points (Top 15): 1. Blake Hahn 2,810; 2. Wayne Johnson 2,748; 3. Tim Crawley 2,684; 4. Matt Covington 2,670; 5. Jason Martin 2,658; 6. Brandon Anderson 2,482; 7. Landon Crawley 2,294; 8. Landon Britt 2,291; 9. Kyler Johnson 2,284; 10. Ryan Bickett 2,186; 11. Dylan Postier 2,095; 12. Garet Williamson 1,993; 13. Dylan Opdahl 1,685; 14. Dylan Westbrook 1,580 15. Sam Hafertepe, Jr. 1,043
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Perris Auto Speedway promoter Don Kazarian has released the purse for the 26th Annual Heimark Anheuser Busch/Budweiser Oval Nationals at Perris Auto Speedway on November 3rd, 4th, and 5th. The high-profile race will feature the Amsoil USAC/CRA and USAC National Sprint Cars. In addition to posting the purse, entry is now open for the race (link is posted below). Tickets for the annual event should be on sale late next week.
The November 3rd and 4th preliminary nights will pay $5,000.00 each to win and $500.00 to start. Saturday’s finale will reward the winner with a $20,000.00 payday. The runner-up will take home $10,000.00 and the third-place finisher will pocket $5,000.00. The race will pay $1,000.00 to start. The total purse for the three nights of racing is $118,270.00. The link for the purse is http://www.perrisautospeedway.com/2022/22ovalpurse.pdf.
Entry for the premiere traditional sprint car race west of the Mississippi is open now. Pre-entry is $100.00 if paid for our postmarked by October 21st. Entries postmarked after that date or paid in person at the gate are $250.00. Entry forms can be downloaded and printed at the following link http://www.perrisautospeedway.com/2022/22ovalentry.pdf.
Advance tickets for the Oval Nationals should be for sale in 10 days and will be available online at https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/pas/7 or by calling 1-800-595-4849.
Kevin Thomas Jr. is the defending race champion and has won three of the last four Oval Nationals. Besides 2021, the Cullman, Alabama native’s other two victories came in 2018 and 2019. Thomas is one of four drivers who have won the Oval Nationals three times. The first to turn the hat trick was Campbell, California’s Bud Kaeding with triumphs in 2001, 2002, and 2007. The “People’s Champ,” Dave Darland of Lincoln, Indiana, notched three wins in the race in 2005, 2006, and 2013. Nine-time CRA champion Damion Gardner took home the race’s famous eagle trophy in 2009, 2011, and 2016.
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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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Stating it will be bringing the Carnival Cruise Line fleet in line with industry practices, the Miami-based cruise line is introducing several changes to its onboard products.
The changes include modifications to the complimentary room service offerings for breakfast, including more a la carte options, and a hike in the onboard WI-FI prices.
On a positive note, the cruise line will bring back the always popular Dr. Seuss Green Eggs & Ham Breakfast. The changes will be effective starting with all cruises departing on or after October 1, 2022.
Carnival Implements Several Changes to Onboard Products
Carnival Cruise Line has been notably busy in the last year with tweaking the onboard offerings. In a letter sent to all travel agents on September 9, the cruise line states it is implementing even more changes, starting October 1, 2022.
According to the cruise line, it has carefully studied guest patterns onboard since its restart in July 2021. This includes what dining and food options have been popular vs. which have been less popular.
As a result of this market research, the Carnival is updating its room service menu to add more options on an à la carte basis while maintaining a complimentary breakfast offering each morning.
Complimentary options include continental breakfast options, and the a la carte option consists of breakfast sandwiches, which will now be expanded.
According to Carnival Cruise Line, these changes are consistent with industry trends and provide the company opportunities to continue to work toward meeting sustainability goals.
Which complimentary items would be removed from the breakfast menus and which items would be placed on the a la carte menu is not clear at this time. The rollout of the new menus will start on October 1. What is clear is that guests will be getting a greater variety to choose from, but at an extra cost.
Carnival said the following: “Effective with all cruises departing on or after October 1, 2022, we will be rolling out the expanded room service menu across our fleet. In addition to the complimentary breakfast selections, we will be adding choices which reflect what we believe will meet more guest preferences.”
The complimentary continental choices with à la carte selections will be available from 6:00 AM to 10:00 AM, and for the rest of the day, from 10:00 AM to 6:00 AM, there will only be an à la carte selection available.
More Changes on the Way
Besides the changes we’ve seen over the last months and weeks from Carnival, such as cutting back on a wide range of dining services, venues, and operating times, which the company announced back in August, there are some more changes to come.
First of all, Carnival Cruise Line is finally bringing back the always-popular Dr. Seuss Green Eggs & Ham Breakfast. As with the room service menu changes, this event will return on October 1.
The Dr. Seuss Green Eggs & Ham Breakfast allows kids and those young-at-heart to enjoy a fantastical feast with The Cat in the Hat and Friends, brightly colored fruit, gravity-defying pancake stacks, funky french toast, “Moose Juice” ‘n’ ”Goose Juice,”… and much more.
Lastly, Carnival is also implementing a price hike for the onboard WIFI packages. Due to the rising costs of internet connections at sea, the company has implemented a minor price change. How minor the price hike would be is unclear. However, purchases made before the price change effective on October 1st will be at the current rates.
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Three social media influencers who travel the country and magnet fish in various locations had their federal citations for illegal activity on Fort Stewart dismissed Sept. 9 in the Statesboro federal courthouse of the Southern District of Georgia, U.S. District Court.
The three men were each cited around June 24 by Fort Stewart Conservation Law Enforcement for recreating without a permit; entering a restricted area; and unauthorized magnet detecting (prohibited by local Fort Stewart regulations governing the use of recreational areas on the installation). The federal judge dismissed the tickets because the men made an effort to get permission from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to magnet detect and did call police after discovering unexploded ordnance.
Regardless of the citations’ dismissals, Fort Stewart law enforcement officials said magnet detecting remains illegal on Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield. Law enforcement also said the brazen nature the men displayed by pulling up more than 80 unexploded munitions and not stopping after one led to the citations being issued.
“It’s illegal,” said Carl Smith Jr., Fort Stewart supervisory conservation law enforcement officer. “Our hunting, fishing, and recreation policy letter prohibits it.”
Magnet detecting is not legal on Stewart-Hunter for two reasons: the danger of unexploded ordnance and cultural resource protection.
Fort Stewart’s many ranges and ongoing training make the presence of unexploded ordnance being in the environment a reality, regardless of how it got there, Chris Woods, garrison safety officer, said.
“It’s important to be aware that touching an unexploded ordnance, no matter where you find it, places you in grave danger,” Woods said. “The Army’s Three Rs was designed to prevent the tragedies that could occur if a person chooses to handle a UXO.”
Fort Stewart’s rich history has left several cultural items behind in the environment, said Brian Greer, the installation’s cultural resource officer. The Army is charged with preserving and protecting these archeological items.
“If you are training or recreating on the installation and encounter any artifacts, please leave them undisturbed,” Greer said. “Removal or damage to any archeological site can result in criminal or civil penalties. Removal of these artifacts destroys the record of our past.”
While being cautious of UXO and cultural resources is a given, Jonathan Garrow, a Fort Stewart Directorate of Public Works wildlife biologist said Fort Stewart is still one of the most recreational friendly installations he’s worked on. The nature of Fort Stewart’s mission fits neatly into ecological conservation, he said.
“One of the neatest things about our jobs as natural resource managers on a military installation is that the same acreage a soldier can go out and train to become proficient in his line of work, on a weekend, he can also go out and go deer hunting and go fishing or take his son or daughter fishing on that land,” Garrow said. “That’s a really neat task we undertake here. The same ecosystem management principles we’re abiding by that are directly benefiting the maneuver space and the wildlife and the fishery.”
Garrow also explained while the Fort Stewart Fish and Wildlife Branch does work with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, it does not have jurisdiction over recreation activities on federal property. Part of the reason is because of Fort Stewart’s training mission, which leads to unique hunting rules.
“All our hunting activities, except for alligator hunting, have a 9:30 p.m. checkout,” Garrow said. “You must be checked out and out of our training areas by 9:30 p.m. Our rules and regulations can all be found on the iSPortsman website.”
Fort Stewart officials said the munitions’ lot numbers indicated they are from the 1970s or 1980s and are training rounds for the Light Antitank Weapon. Also, although dumping ammunition and not following proper turn-in procedures is prohibited, prosecution of any individuals involved is not possible due to statute of limitations and no longer being in the military.
Fort Stewart officials also said no search for additional ordnance will be conducted. The installation is a training installation where unexploded ordnance being found is a reality. Following the Three Rs is vital, installation leadership said.
“We strongly emphasize people follow the 3 Rs—Recognize, Retreat, Report—when coming across any ordnance you may find in the training area,” said Garrison Commander Col. Manny Ramirez. “As soon as you find or see one item that just doesn’t look right, make the right call and call 911.”
Fort Stewart’s 756th Ordnance Company (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) secured the items found in the magnet detecting incident and disposed of them.
To get more information on how to use Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield’s outdoor opportunities, visit https://ftstewart.isportsman.net/. To familiarize yourself with the outdoor policy, go to https://ftstewart.isportsman.net/files/Documents%2Fpolicy_memo_34_sop_09_sep_2021.pdf
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Carnival Panorama, which has had its current 7-night Mexican Riviera itinerary already upended by Hurricane Kay, is now skipping a call in Ensenada due to the storm’s continued impact on local weather conditions.
While the storm has been downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, high winds and rough seas have made it unsafe to dock in Ensenada, and the ship will instead enjoy a day at sea on Friday, September 9, 2022.
Ensenada Visit Canceled
Carnival Panorama was not initially scheduled to visit Ensenada on the current sailing, but instead was planned to visit Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, and Cabo San Lucas.
Earlier in the cruise, however, as Tropical Storm Kay strengthened into Hurricane Kay, the ship’s itinerary was dramatically altered and ports shifted and canceled to keep the vessel and everyone aboard safe.
The visit to Ensenada was an addition to the altered itinerary, since Puerto Vallarta had to be canceled. The ship was scheduled to visit Ensenada today, Friday, September 9, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
As the storm progressed, however, the port visit has been canceled due to ongoing high winds and waves that make docking conditions unsuitable.
Instead, Carnival Panorama is spending an additional day at sea before the scheduled return to Long Beach, California, on Saturday, September 10. There is no delay expected for the ship to return to her homeport, nor are there any alterations announced for the ship’s next itinerary, which is also a 7-night Mexican Riviera itinerary.
At this time, tracking data shows Carnival Panorama cruising north on her return to Long Beach at a leisurely 10 knots (11.5 miles per hour).
Guests onboard the Vista-class ship have reported windy and rainy conditions, with upper outside deck areas closed for safety, including the adults-only Serenity retreat on deck 15. The main pools have also been closed and partially drained for safety reasons.
During these types of conditions, the ship’s Cruise Director, Fun Squad, and other entertainment staff generally work to offer more indoor activities for passengers to enjoy, including trivia challenges and other games, dance lessons, craft projects, live music, and more.
The 133,868-gross-ton Carnival Panorama can accommodate 4,008 guests when at double occupancy, and as many as 5,146 passengers when fully booked. The ship is also home to more than 1,400 international crew members who strive to provide excellent service no matter what the sailing conditions.
Storm Impacts Mexico
Kay has now been downgraded to a tropical storm, but is currently showing maximum sustained winds of 50 miles (80 kilometers) per hour. The center of the storm is just off the coast of the Baja peninsula, approximately 130 miles (209 kilometers) south of Ensenada.
The storm’s wind field, however, is extensive and tropical storm force winds are likely to be felt as far north as Tijuana, well beyond Ensenada. Carnival Panorama is now cruising well outside the storm’s wind field.
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Following the example set by Royal Caribbean earlier this month, boutique cruise line SeaDream has installed the SpaceX high-speed Maritime internet connections onboard its two small cruise yachts.
SeaDream Yacht Club, which operates Seadream I and Seadream II, has recently made a 10 million USD investment to renovate its two vessels. The renovations include a complete refit of all the interior and exterior furnishings onboard, bringing the yachts back into the realm of luxury cruising.
SpaceX Provides High-Speed Internet To Seadream
Elon Musk has hit a home run by bringing his SpaceX Starlink internet connectivity to the high seas. After Royal Caribbean Group announced a few weeks ago that it would be bringing the technology to its ships, now boutique cruise line SeaDream Yacht Club has done the same.
The company, which operates two small luxury cruise yachts, Seadream I and Seadream II, will offer guests Starlink’s high-speed internet connectivity while onboard.
As the vessels are small and carry only 112 passengers and 95 crew members, guests can expect to experience Starlink’s complete package.
“I am proud to announce that SeaDream is at the forefront of technology, becoming the first boutique travel line to implement Starlink on board. This innovation optimizes our guests’ experience by putting high-speed Internet at their fingertips—so they can stream their favorite entertainment, work remotely, and connect with friends and family back home,” said Andreas Brynestad of SeaDream.
In fact, due to the small size of the vessels, Brynestad expects that the Seadream yachts will be able to offer guests the fastest internet available at sea, which has already been tested for two months onboard:
“The small size of our yachts provides a distinct advantage, in that we can deliver a larger amount of Internet per person on board—quite possibly making us the fastest Internet on the seas. In the two short months since introducing Starlink, we have received remarkable positive feedback from guests and crew alike.”
The choice of Starlink as an internet provider onboard cruise ships is not surprising. The older satellite systems have always been a technology that lacked many things, in particular speed. But, these systems have also been incredibly expensive. Per month, companies would expect to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly; for larger companies, even millions.
Starlink’s systems cost only 10,000 dollars as a one-time installation fee and around 5000 dollars monthly as a subscription fee. Even now, companies are increasing their WIFI access fees onboard cruise ships, so the move to Starlink is undoubtedly understandable.
Seadream Yacht Club Brings Back Luxury
Built in 1984 and 1985, Seadream I and Seadream II are not the youngest ships in the industry. The company announced in January of this year it would be investing 10 million dollars to bring the ships back to the standards they are known for. Besides the move to include Starlink as an internet provider, it included many more enhancements.
Since January, both vessels have undergone a complete renovation of all staterooms, starting from bare steel, with the installation of all-new hardware and soft furnishings and streamlined storage areas. All staterooms now have USB/USBC charging ports, Wi-Fi, and sensor lighting.
There are new 55-inch LED TVs with a wide selection of movies, TV channels, and an infotainment system. The outer decks have been fitted with new teakwood decks, and the vessel has new Balinese Dream Beds, sun loungers, and stargazers handcrafted from mahogany.
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Viking Cruises and shipbuilding giant Fincantieri have signed a deal for four more cruise ships, bringing the total number of vessels built by the Italian shipbuilder for the cruise company to eighteen.
The options for two of the builds were put in place back in 2018, and the cruise line has now signed a contract for those builds to go forward. The building of a fifth and sixth additional vessel has also been signed. The tidal value of the agreements amounts to 1.7 billion euros.
Six More Ocean Going Cruise Ships for Viking Cruises
The success of the move to ocean-going cruises is moving along as planned for Viking Cruises. It is so successful the cruise line has now made plans to have four additional ocean-going cruise ships built by Italian shipbuilders Fincantieri.
The cruise line had already signed an option for six ships back in March of 2018, of which two have already been committed.
The cruise line and shipbuilder have now signed the contracts for a third and fourth ship and the agreement for the fifth and sixth units, subject to access to financing as is the industry practice.
Deliveries for the four new cruise ships are scheduled for 2026 and 2027, and two more vessels will be delivered in 2028. The total investment from Viking Cruises is around 1.7 billion euros, spread between the four ships.
Viking Cruises Continues to Grow at Record Speed
Since the company first ordered ten ships in 2012, following a move from being a river ship cruise line, to including Ocean cruises, Viking has made incredible progress in what many considered an already saturated market. Since 2015, the company has managed to bring out one vessel each year, only missing out in 2020 due to the pandemic.
Viking has achieved this by steadily remaining at the top end of guest ratings and has won multiple prizes for the best cruise line. In 2018, Viking Orion was named one of the World’s Best Places to Stay for 2018.
The company succeeded by marketing primarily to an older, well-off demographic, offering everything from free internet to a complimentary excursion in each port and free beverages during meals, including wine and beer.
“We have become known as much for what we are as what we are not,” says Richard Marnell, Viking’s Senior Vice President of Marketing. “We offer a travel experience with no casino, no children, no umbrella drinks, and no nickel-and-diming.”
“Our unique approach to destination-focused ocean cruising is built upon our success in river cruising. Our Chairman, Mr. Torstein Hagen, often says we are the thinking person’s cruise, not the drinking person’s cruise.”
Follow One Design but Make It Better
Viking cruise ships follow the same design throughout the fleet. However, since the launch of the 47,842 gross tons Viking Star, each subsequent vessel has been updated and upgraded to include the most modern safety equipment and procedures, navigational equipment, and guest facilities.
The four newest generation Viking cruise ships will see those same upgrades and be fitted to be used with Hydrogen fuel cells. Viking will likely not be making a move to LNG-powered cruise ships.
Torstein Hagen, the founder and chairman of Viking Cruises, has been critical of cruise operators moving to LNG-powered ships. According to the chairman, LNG would be more environmentally harmful due to the methane released.
With the new vessels running, at least partially, on Hydrogen, it would allow them to sail emission-free in specific fragile environments such as the Norwegian Fjords.
The total number of ocean-going cruise ships built by Fincantieri will reach 18 by 2028. This includes the sixteen 47,842 gross tons cruise ships, with space for 930 guests, two purpose-built 30,150 gross tons, 378-passenger expedition vessels, Viking Octantis and Viking Polaris. | https://www.cruisehive.com/viking-and-fincantieri-sign-deal-for-four-more-cruise-ships/81112 | 2022-09-09T19:49:17Z | cruisehive.com | control | https://www.cruisehive.com/viking-and-fincantieri-sign-deal-for-four-more-cruise-ships/81112 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, Kan. – McConnell’s Innovation lab is the place where Airmen can go to 3-D print, create prototypes, and even create new inventions that have been put to use here on base. Utilizing the ingenuity of Airmen, the Innovation Lab affords Airmen an area to troubleshoot work center problems and foster ideas for new inventions.
The Innovation Lab is responsible for rapid prototyping and creating solutions to help the 22nd Air Refueling Wing, and some of these solutions can be applicable to the wider Air Force. The lab is in hangar nine, otherwise known as the “Stearman Hangar” and it is located on the Guard side of the base near the Civil Engineering building. Their purpose is to help enable a quick response for anyone on base in need of their productions.
“An Airman was able to find a solution of a boom creating friction with an aircraft as a result of it being too close, a bracket was made at the Innovation Lab, and he was able to solve the issue by creating separation,” said Tech Sgt. Ryan Winn, NCOIC of the Innovation Lab. “We have
also taken a large part in creating things that have helped Explosive Ordinance Disposal such as creating materials for detonation that not harmful to the environment.”
The Innovation lab has a lot of different tools in order to make this happen including a wide-range of capabilities from wood working with table saws and plangers, also six different kinds of Computer Numerical Control machines.
Recent Innovation Lab projects have included a deployable solar-powered radio box, a tool to clear concrete jams in a Bagela Asphalt Recycler, to increase safety during runway repair; working with Wichita State University students to create an autonomous robot which uses ultraviolet C-lights to clean grocery stores; and 3-D printing of face shield frames for local
healthcare workers, during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airmen have commonly used the various tools available to them to make items such as plaques or posters for their office.
“You don’t have know the solution,” said Master Sgt. Andrew Parise, superintendent of the Innovation Lab. “All we need is your idea, come to us with a problem and we can either help you figure it out, or we can reach out through lots of different avenues and come up with a solution.”
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Step back in time for glimpse of pioneer life, crafts at Yankee Peddler Festival
LAWRENCE TWP. – The Yankee Peddler Festival returns to Clay's Park Jellystone Resort this weekend.
In its 49th year, the annual festival features more than 200 artisans and demonstrators over three weekends. They offer handmade items forged the same way pioneers did 200 years ago. Guests also can sample food from apple fritters to turkey legs cooked over open fires.
"This is a juried show and we only get the best people (to offer their goods)," said Frank Cajka, vice president of the Yankee Peddler Association.
The festival runs from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and Sept. 17 and 18 and 24 and 25.
Yankee Peddler:48th annual festival returns to Clay's Park
Yankee Peddler returns guests to a time when crafting was the only way of life
Yankee Peddler recreates pioneer America in the shaded woods of Clay's Park.
The festival gives attendees the chance to immerse themselves in a time when crafting was a way of life between the years of 1776 to 1825.
All crafters and vendors are required to dress in appropriate attire at all times. They must also demonstrate their craft a minimum 50% of the time. Artisans and crafters provide guests with information about their crafts.
Festival-goers can get a glimpse of covered-wagons, Mountain Men, Native Americans and blacksmiths, as well as enjoy the offerings of food vendors.
The festival has grown since its inception in 1972, attracting thousands of guests each weekend.
"Last year was interesting. We didn't know what to expect," Cajka said.
They saw some longtime vendors pull out of the event for a number of reasons, including retirement, illness or fear of the virus, he said.
Yankee Peddler:Festival canceled, would have been 48th year
"Some of those people are back this year and will be back next year. Others we may never see again," Cajka added.
Because of regulations imposed by the Stark County Health Department, the festival layout had to be reconfigured. They reduced the number of gates and relocated some of the vendors.
"Believe it or not, it was one of the most successful years in terms of sales for vendors in the history of the festival," Cajka said. "Some people who have been with us 40 or more years said it was their best year ever. That was a statement of real rebound after what happened in 2020."
The changes didn't seem to impact visitors. Cajka said he always receives complaints but last year not one about the changes.
Guests, he said, enjoyed not having to walk as far so the more compact layout and two gates will continue this year.
Cajka admitted the festival and participants are facing new issues with inflation and the recession.
"We'll have to see how it goes. Last year, no one knew what to expect and it's the same this year," he said.
Ticket prices remain the same.
Something for everyone at Yankee Peddler
Besides the artisans, guests will encounter town criers, wandering magicians, puppet and marionette shows, and a Civil War encampment.
Guests can visit the butterfly gazebo and learn about the process of spinning and weaving from the Algonquin Spinning and Weaving Guild.
Kids and adults can enjoy pony rides, a petty zoo and other entertainment.
Cajka said there is exciting entertainment lined up for this year's event, including Jeff Pilkinton, a chalk artist from Indiana. During the second weekend, which is also children's weekend, he will create a 10-by-20-foot 3-D chalk drawing.
"You stand in one place and you see a 3-D figure arise out of the drawing," he said. "It's really remarkable."
A new act ― Celtic Sisters ― will perform on the main stage during the third weekend. The performers are no strangers to the festival, Cajka said. As children, they performed at the event with their families.
"They are accomplished singers, dancers and violin players," he added.
The East Coast bluegrass band The Plate Scrapers are back by popular demand. This week, baritone Steve Madewell will entertain the crowds.
Attendees won't leave hungry. A variety of fare is offered, including barbecue, beef stew, Reuben and sausage sandwiches, corn on the cob, turkey legs, fish and chips, and soups, including the return of the crowd-favorite bean soup.
"It's a big deal," Cajka said of the soup's return. "We haven't had it for the last three years when the Lions Club left. We have a couple of women who started a soup concession and they do a very nice job and they will be providing a lot of soups including the bean soup."
For those looking for a more modern take on crafts, the festival also features artisans and crafters from today in the Yankee Peddler Today area.
"We always add some new things and we are really excited about our new entertainers. Let's just hope the four-letter word stays away," Cajka said, alluding to rain.
Festival shines spotlight on area
Lawrence Township Trustee Mike Stevens has seen the crowds travel in and out of his township throughout the festival's nearly 50 years.
During that time, local organizations, churches and Boy and Girl Scouts have been able to participate and raise funds through their sales of food and beverages.
"It's a plus for the exposure of our community," he said. "It's a beneficially healthy event for the area and as a former employee of Clay's Park, I know it has helped promote the facility to a different crowd of people that it attracts with its swimming and camping activities."
Helping with the parking, Stevens has seen travelers from throughout Ohio and surrounding states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York and West Virginia.
"We welcome the impact and the influx," Stevens said. "It is our opportunity to show our community. It's been nothing but positive for our community."
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If you go
What: Yankee Peddler Festival
Where: Clay's Park Jellystone Resort, 13190 Patterson Street NW, Lawrence Township
When: 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sept. 10-11, 17-18 and 24-25
Cost: Tickets are $10 for adults; $9 for seniors; $3 for children ages 6 to 11; and free for children 5 and younger.
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Western New York residents are asked to be on the lookout for Spotted Lanternfly (SLF) after a population was found in the Buffalo area this week.
An advisory was put out by the state Department of Agriculture and Markets on Friday. SLF is a destructive pest that feeds on more than 70 plant species, including tree-of-heaven, and critical crops in New York such as grapevine, apple trees and hops.
“We are concerned about the significant number of adult Spotted Lanternfly that have been found in Buffalo, especially with its proximity to the Concord grape growing area in Western New York. SLF can have a devastating impact on vineyards, as we’ve seen in neighboring states, so we need everyone’s help to be on the lookout for this invasive and to report it immediately,” state Agriculture Commissioner Richard A. Ball said.
In New York, SLF was first observed on Staten Island in August 2020, and since then the population has been reported in all New York City boroughs, Long Island, Port Jervis, Sloatsburg, Orangeburg, Ithaca, Binghamton, Middletown, Newburgh, Highland, and now in Buffalo, in a residential area adjacent to an active rail line. As of Sept. 9, more than 100 adults had been found.
Ag and Markets staff are continuing to monitor the Buffalo neighborhood. While the SLF population is described as "significant," Ag and Markets said the area was surveyed this past April and no egg masses were found. No old egg masses have been found this month, it added.
The public is encouraged to help slow the spread of SLF in Western New York by reporting any sightings immediately to agriculture.ny.gov/reportSLF.
In addition to reporting, residents are asked to:
— Take pictures of the insect, egg masses, or infestation you see and, if possible, include something for size, such as a coin or ruler.
— If possible, collect the insect. Place in a bag and freeze, or place in a jar with rubbing alcohol or hand sanitizer.
— Note the location (street address and ZIP code, intersecting roads, landmarks, or GPS coordinates).
Adult SLF are approximately 1 inch long and half an inch wide at rest, with eye-catching wings. Adults are active from July to December and begin laying eggs in September.
Signs of an SLF infestation may include: sap oozing or weeping from open wounds on tree trunks, which appear wet and give off fermented odors; 1-inch-long egg masses that are brownish-gray, waxy and mud-like when new (old egg masses are brown and scaly); and massive honeydew build-up under plants, sometimes with black sooty mold developing.
While SLF can jump and fly short distances, they spread primarily through human activity. They can lay their eggs on any number of surfaces, such as vehicles, stone, rusty metal, outdoor furniture and firewood. Adult SLF can hitch rides in vehicles, on any outdoor item, or cling to clothing or hats, and be easily transported into and throughout New York. Residents are encouraged to thoroughly inspect vehicles, luggage and gear, and all outdoor items, for egg masses and adult SLF. Adults should be removed and egg masses scraped off.
First discovered in Pennsylvania in 2014, SLF has since been found in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia, Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, and Ohio.
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Weather Authority Alert..... High Fire Danger, Smoke, Air Quality, Wind
Hazy/smokey sunshine today with increasing winds by midday. Gusts Northeast at 20-30 mph will produce a high fire danger across the region through tomorrow night. Morning temperatures in the 50s, mid 70s by noon and afternoon highs low-mid 80s.
Red Flag Warning - Most of WA and OR... Noon Today-11 PM Saturday
- Critical Fire Danger
- Gusts NE 20-30 MPH
- Rapid Fire Spread
- No Outdoor Burning
- Be Firewise
- NE Winds Could Complicate Firefighting Efforts
The fire threat will continue Saturday with highs in the mid 80s-near 90. Smoke from fires across the Pacific Northwest is finally impacting our air quality. Many locations in eastern WA/OR are seeing moderate to unhealthy air quality this morning. Expect the air quality to get worse tonight as northeasterly winds push dense smoke, from fires in northern Idaho, into the southeast WA and northeast OR.
Air Quality Alert - Southeast WA and Northeast OR... 8 PM Tonight-Monday Morning
- Counties... WA: Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield, Asotin; OR: Morrow, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa
- Unhealthy Air Quality
- Especially for young, elderly and people with heart or lung disease
High pressure is overhead on Sunday with lighter winds and warmer temperatures, highs in the upper 80s-low 90s. Mid and high level clouds begin to increase late Sunday and Monday as a moisture plume, from Tropical Storm Kay, moves into the Pacific Northwest. We may even see a stray or thunderstorm Monday in the mountains. Highs cool into the mid-upper 80s. Models continue to struggle with upper level low next week. Right now it appears we will only have a slight chance for a stray shower next Tuesday. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/fire-smoke-and-wind/article_e002dc22-3063-11ed-b34b-63b5587d1394.html | 2022-09-09T20:07:21Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/fire-smoke-and-wind/article_e002dc22-3063-11ed-b34b-63b5587d1394.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...BREEZY AND DRY CONDITIONS TODAY AND SATURDAY...
...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM
PDT SATURDAY FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER
ZONES OR610, OR611, OR639, OR640, OR641, WA690, WA691, WA694, AND
WA695...
* AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zones 610 East Slopes of Central
Oregon Cascades, 611 Deschutes National Forest -minus Sisters
Ranger District, 639 East Slopes of the Northern Oregon
Cascades, 640 Central Mountains of Oregon, 641 Lower Columbia
Basin of Oregon, 690 Kittitas Valley, 691 Lower Columbia
Basin, 694 Yakama Alpine District and 695 East Washington
South Central Cascade Mountains.
* WINDS...Northeast 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
Strongest winds will be along and near the Cascade crest.
* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 10 to 15 percent with poor
recovery expected tonight.
* IMPACTS...Dry conditions with gusty winds could cause enhanced
fire weather behavior and allow existing fires to more easily
spread. Northeasterly component of the wind could also
complicate attack efforts.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions
are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of
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The Washington State Department of Health has updated its guidance for at-home COVID testing, including changing the way self-testing results should be reported.
The full guidelines are available on the DOH website.
Washington residents are now asked to report positive tests through the Say Yes! COVID Test Digital Assistant.
The Say Yes! COVID test program continues to offer up to 10 free tests to Washington households per month. Tests can be ordered at the Say Yes! COVID Home Test Website.
"We encourage every family to have at-home tests on hand with the start of school and approaching fall respiratory virus season. By reporting results through the SYCT digital assistant, Washingtonians can help public health understand the burden and trajectory of infections in Washington state, " said Lacy Fehrenbach, Chief of Prevention, Safety and Health. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/doh-releases-updated-covid-testing-guidance/article_4f8859b4-3069-11ed-a074-130721d4fba5.html | 2022-09-09T20:07:32Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/doh-releases-updated-covid-testing-guidance/article_4f8859b4-3069-11ed-a074-130721d4fba5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Dad Confesses He Faked Kidnapping Story for More Attention on His Stolen Car: Cops
Cops say Anthony Gray was arrested and charged with filing a false report.
Cops say a Houston man has confessed to lying to authorities after they say he fabricated a story that his infant child was inside his car when it was stolen early Thursday morning in hopes that the police would search for his vehicle quicker.
Anthony Gray, 38, called 911 just after 5 a.m. Thursday, saying his Jeep Cherokee had been stolen from a gas station with his son inside the car, according to reports.
Gray said the men, possibly in their 20s, jumped out of red Kia Optima, got into his vehicle and took off with it, according to Click2Houston.
However, the father then claimed that his infant son was in it, which led cops to take immediate action to find the child with alerts going out to all local news stations and on social media, Click2Houston reported.
After the news broke across the local stations, a relative of Gray’s called police to say the child was safe and sound with them, according to ABC13.
Cops say that around 7 a.m., deputies found the Jeep Cherokee three miles away from the gas station at a house, according to ABC13.
Just after 10 a.m., Sgt. Beall confirmed with ABC13 that the infant was with his grandmother the entire time and never in the car with the father. The grandmother lives about a half mile from the gas station, according to Maj. Susan Cotter of HCSO, who told ABC13.
Cops then claimed that Gray told them that he lied to them about his son being in the Jeep so that they would look faster and more vigorously, according to reports.
Sheriff Ed Gonzalez of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office later confirmed the news on Twitter.
“HCSO Investigators have determined the infant was never with him. Child was at a relative’s house, and male claims he falsified the kidnapping to get a better response to his stolen vehicle. Anthony Ray Gray (38) has been arrested and charged with Filing a False Report,” he wrote.
Gray reportedly bonded out Friday morning, according to Click2Houston. It remains unclear if he has legal representation and if he has entered a plea.
Inside Edition Digital has reached out to the HCSO office for comment and has not heard back.
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Iconic 'Halloween' Villain Michael Myers Spotted on Florida Beach Much to Vacationer's Delight
Todd Easter and several friends were staying near the water while on vacation from Birmingham, Alabama, when Easter stepped out onto the patio and spotted the man dressed as Michael Myers strolling in the sand.
With the passing of Labor Day weekend comes the closing of the summer, and for some, the immediate start of spooky season. Such was clearly the case for one beachgoer who took to the beach in Panama City, Florida, dressed as iconic “Halloween” antagonist Michael Myers.
Todd Easter and several friends were staying near the water while on vacation from Birmingham, Alabama, when Easter stepped out onto the patio and spotted the man in the sand.
“It was early in the morning, probably about 8:30 a.m. or so, there wasn’t that many people out on the beach,” Easter said, laughing that he at first thought he was seeing things. “Since we had been out the night before, I thought, am I still… there is no way.”
But Easter’s eyes did not deceive him.
Photos he captured showed the masked man minding his own business on the beach, strolling about, and approaching only those who wanted to interact with the legendary “Halloween” villain.
“He definitely wasn’t trying to be a menace. He was not intrusive to anybody’s space, nothing like that,” Easter said. “He would wave to people who said hi. I got my pictures when people who were up on the balconies started shouting, ‘Michael!’ and he was looking.”
Easter said he saw the man on the beach for about 30 minutes and knew that he must have been staying at his same complex, but never again saw a person wearing the Michael Myers costume.
Easter mentioned it to his friends after they woke up.
“The three other guys I was with, they were all asleep. Well, they all work for a haunted house... One guy has a Michael Myers tattoo. They’re all mad at me now saying I should’ve woken them up,” Easter said with a laugh.
Though not nearly as passionate about the Halloween holiday as his friends who help run the Warehouse 31 haunted house in Pelham, Easter was still glad to have spotted the unique beach bum while enjoying the morning sun.
“I don’t know why he had all that going on,” he said. “But I thought it was funny. I thought it was hysterical.”
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King Charles Greets Mourners in London as More Tributes Pour in for Queen Elizabeth II
The United Kingdom has entered a 10-day mourning period with many events canceled, such as the English Premier League and the coveted Mercury Prize music award ceremony.
In his first trip to Buckingham Palace as king, His Majesty King Charles III arrived in London Friday from Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
He greeted cheering crowds gathered outside the palace as some sang "God Save the King” as he embarks on his first day of duties since taking the throne following the passing of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday.
King Charles is said to have a stacked schedule where he will meet with the United Kingdom's prime minister, Liz Truss, who is new to the job after being appointed earlier this week and was the final prime minister to meet the Queen Tuesday, NBC reported.
The United Kingdom has entered a 10-day mourning period with many events canceled, such as the English Premier League and the coveted Mercury Prize music award ceremony.
There were 96 gun salutes across the United Kingdom by the Royal military Friday. One round fired off to mark each year of the queen’s life.
The gun salutes were followed bells tolling at London’s Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral and Windsor Castle in the city of Windsor.
The news comes as Great Britain and the world continue paying tribute to the queen.
During his Toronto concert Thursday night, Elton John, who was knighted by the queen and became friends with the royal family, paid tribute to her at his gig, according to Variety.
“We have the saddest news about the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth,” he said. “She was an inspiring person to be around — I’ve been around her and she was fantastic. She led the country though some of our greatest and darkest moments with grace, decency and a genuine care and warmth.
“I’m 75 — she’s been with me all my life and I feel very sad that she won’t be with me anymore. But I’m glad she’s at peace, and I’m glad she’s at rest, and she deserves it because she’s worked bloody hard,” he added, Variety reported.
Paul McCartney, who was also knighted by the queen, took to Twitter to express his condolences as well as honoring King Charles III. The “Her Majesty” singer posted, “God bless Queen Elizabeth II May she rest in peace Long live The King.”
Rolling Stones frontman and artist also knighted by Queen Elizabeth, Sir Mick Jagger, posted a photo of her majesty on Instagram with the caption, “For my whole life Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II has always been there. In my childhood I can recall watching her wedding highlights on TV. I remember her as a beautiful young lady, to the much beloved grandmother of the nation. My deepest sympathies are with the Royal family.”
British Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton posted an image of the queen on Instagram with a lengthy caption that also expressed his memories of her, his sorrow and condolences.
“I had the incredible honour of being able to spend time with her. It is something I’ll never forget,” he wrote. “We talked about our shared love of dogs and she was incredibly generous with her time. I know the whole nation and many others around the world will be mourning her loss and my thoughts and prayers are with her family and all those close to her, who have lost a loved one. Rest in Peace.”
Mel B of the Spice Girls posted an image of the “Wannabe” group meeting the queen during their heyday and a caption, “Today is the saddest day. We have lost an incredible lady who all of us grew up with and had so much respect for.”
Inside Edition Digital reporter TC Newman was outside Buckingham Palace Thursday as the news broke that the queen passed and flags were lowered to half-mast. She also spoke to people who were outside the palace paying tribute to the queen.
One British man, Oliver Graves, who was born and raised in London told Newman, “We have all been expecting it today but it was still a gut punch,” when he saw the flag get lowered.
One American couple who happened to be in London on holiday went to the palace as tourists and came witnessing history. The couple, Frank and Buzzy Smith of Raleigh, North Carolina, said they love tradition, the British and “their funny little words,” and were inside their hotel room when they heard the news and came running back to the palace.
Frank added, “we followed her for years and have a feeling for her and her legacy and the wonderful things she has done.”
“This is a very special day for us to be here,” Buzzy said.
Visit our latest coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's passing to stay up to date
Queen Elizabeth II, queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other sovereign countries whose work earned her respect and admiration from around the world, died Thursday in Scotland. She was 96.
"The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon," Buckingham Palace said in a statement Thursday.
Outside Downing Street Thursday, Prime Minister Liz Truss said "we are all devastated" at the news of the queen's death, which she called a "huge shock to the nation and the world."
Saying the queen was a "rock on which modern Britain was built," the prime minister added, "Britain is the great country it is today because of her.
It's been estimated that 90% of the people alive today have known of no other monarch of England than Queen Elizabeth II. She was just 26 when she ascended to the throne, and her enduring presence transcended the United Kingdom to become a beloved figure all over the world."
In 1957, she made her first state visit to the United States, and over the years, met 13 U.S. presidents.
She oversaw 15 British prime ministers during her long reign including Winston Churchill, Tony Blair, and Margaret Thatcher.
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Treasure Hunter Uses Metal Detector to Find Lost Ring on Beach After Woman's Social Media Plea
A man who saw the post looked for the couple's family heirloom for two days using a metal detector and finally found it on the third day.
A woman was reunited with her precious wedding ring after losing it on the beach in New Hampshire, thanks to a determined treasure hunter who saw her plea on social media.
Francesca and Austin Teal were enjoying a beautiful day on North Beach and tossing a football around when Francesca's ring came off.
“I put my hand out, the football hit my hand in the perfect way that my ring popped right off and fell into the ocean,” Francesca said.
The ring — a family heirloom that had been passed down for generations — was now in the Atlantic Ocean.
“She gave one big gasp, and I went running over and I knew exactly what had happened,” Austin said.
The couple immediately began searching the waters, but soon “realized it was going to be a needle in a haystack,” Francesca said.
At wit's end, Francesca decided to ask for help finding her lost ring in a Facebook post. Treasure hunter Lou Asci saw it, and headed to the beach with his metal detector.
“The first two days that I was here and had to drive home after not getting it was extremely disappointing,” Asci said.
Then, on day three of his search, there it was.
“I took a picture of it and sent it to Francesca, saying, ‘Please tell me this is the ring, so I can finally get off this beach,’” Asci said.
The couple couldn’t believe it, and Austin burst into tears, Francesca said. Now the ring is back on her finger, right where it belongs.
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HOME-SCHOOLING
Like many royals of her time and before, Elizabeth never went to a public school and was never exposed to other students. Instead, she was educated at home with Margaret, her younger sister.
Among those who taught her was her father, along with a senior teacher at Eton College, several French and Belgian governesses who taught her French, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, who taught her religion.
Elizabeth’s schooling also included learning to ride, swim, dance and the study of fine art and music.
“NO. 230873”
During World War II, young Princess Elizabeth briefly became known as No. 230873, Second Subaltern Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor of the Auxiliary Transport Service No. 1.
After months of campaigning for her parents’ permission to do something for the war effort, the heir to the throne learned how to drive and service ambulances and trucks. She rose to the rank of honorary Junior Commander within months.
‘GREAT MIMICKER’
Elizabeth often gave the impression of a serious demeanor, and many have noted her “poker face,” but those who knew her described her as having a mischievous sense of humor and a talent for mimicry in private company.
Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has said the queen could be “extremely funny in private — and not everybody appreciates how funny she can be.”
Bishop Michael Mann, the monarch’s domestic chaplain, once said that “the queen imitating the Concorde landing is one of the funniest things you could see.” Ian Paisley, the Northern Irish clergyman and politician, also noted that Elizabeth was a “great mimicker” of him.
ROYAL TAXPAYER
She may have been the queen, but she paid taxes too — at least since 1992.
When Windsor Castle, the queen’s weekend residence, was ravaged by fire in 1992, the public rebelled against paying millions of pounds for repairs.
But she voluntarily agreed to pay tax on her personal income. She said she would meet 70 percent of the cost of restoration work, and she also decided to open her home at Buckingham Palace to the public for the first time to generate extra funds from admission fees.
LITTLE LILIBET
The queen was christened Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor of York, in honor of her mother, paternal grandmother and paternal great-grandmother. But as a child, she was endearingly known as young Lilibet by her family — said to be because she couldn’t pronounce “Elizabeth” properly.
In a letter to her grandmother Queen Mary, the young princess wrote: “Dear Granny. Thank you very much for the lovely little jersey. We loved staying at Sandringham with you. I lost a top front tooth yesterday morning,” before signing off, “Love from Lilibet.”
The nickname became more widely known after Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, named their daughter Lilibet Diana in 2021.
A STEADFAST ROMANCE
Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip enjoyed a stable relationship for more 70 years, a union that far outlasted the marriages of three of her four children: Charles, Anne and Andrew.
“He has been quite simply my strength and stay all these years,” the queen said of Philip on their 50th wedding anniversary.
Their story began in 1939, when Prince Philip of Greece, a handsome 18-year-old naval cadet, was detailed to entertain the 13-year-old Elizabeth for a day. Several years later, Philip was invited to join the royal family at Windsor Castle at Christmas, and he soon made discreet inquiries whether he would be considered an eligible suitor.
The couple married in Westminster Abbey in 1947. When Philip died in 2021 at age 99, Elizabeth described his passing as leaving a “huge void” in her life, according to their son, Andrew.
MULTIPLE BIRTHDAYS
Elizabeth was born on April 21, 1926, but it was sometimes confusing for the public to know when to celebrate.
There was no universally fixed day for her “official birthday” — it’s either the first, second or third Saturday in June, and was decided by the government.
In Australia, her birthday was celebrated on the second Monday of June, while in Canada, was marked on a Monday either on or before May 24, Queen Victoria’s birthday.
Only the queen and those closest to her celebrated her actual birthday in private gatherings.
HOW MANY CORGIS?
It’s widely known that Elizabeth loved corgis — Princess Diana reportedly called the dogs the queen’s “moving carpet” because they accompanied her everywhere.
She owned more than 30 corgis over the years. She also had two “dorgis” — crossbreeds of dachshund and corgi — named Candy and Vulcan.
Elizabeth was photographed hugging one of the dogs as far back as 1936 at age 10, and was given a corgi named Susan for her 18th birthday. The breed was introduced to the royal family by her father, King George VI, in 1933, when he bought a male corgi called Dookie from a local kennel.
As queen, she also technically owned the thousands of mute swans in open British waters, and had the right to claim all sturgeons, porpoises, whales and dolphins, according to a statute from 1324.
‘A PRETTY NICE GIRL’
The queen inevitably became the subject of pop songs.
The Beatles immortalized her with the tongue-in-cheek “Her Majesty,” calling her “a pretty nice girl” though “she doesn’t have a lot to say.” The brief song, sung by Paul McCartney and recorded in 1969, appeared at the end of the “Abbey Road” album.
Other musical treatments weren’t so kind. The Sex Pistols’ anti-monarchist “God Save The Queen,” released right before her Silver Jubilee in 1977, was banned on British television.
TEA AND SANDWICHES
Queen Elizabeth II reportedly loved jam sandwiches with her tea. She recorded a sketch ahead of the Platinum Jubilee celebration with Paddington Bear. She joked with the character, saying she kept her sandwich in her iconic handbag. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/what-you-may-know-about-queen-elizabeth-ii | 2022-09-09T20:24:43Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/what-you-may-know-about-queen-elizabeth-ii | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It’s official... I haven’t quite become Mr Self Defense Yet.. so we took me out here for this shoot lmao (swipe to left)....but really....i really couldn’t hit someone I swears ??!!!???.....my new book DIRRT GAME RELOA? is OUT and ready #prebuy (swipes again): it shows not every guy on campus would try getting money ?...... but then again it shows my Cheese is always "grate." I mean, when you have cheese, it's the sign you're having a "gouda" day, and you could "disa-brie" ... I mean, disagree.
But everything is always "cheddar" — excuse me — better, with cheese.
Okay, okay, a little cheesy, I know.
When it comes to Swiss cheese, it feels like something is missing.
Why does it have holes?
First off, the cheese experts actually call those holes "eyes."
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And they're caused by carbon dioxide bubbles that form in the cheese.
Time to put on our scientist cap and put Swiss cheese under the microscope.
Bacterial culture called "propionibacterium"— or "props" for short, are behind the eyes.
This bacteria is in hay, grass and soil and ends up in milk from cows.
That milk makes its way to a cheese factory where it's standardized, pasteurized, and brined.
After that, the cheese sits in a warm room which helps the props form those carbon dioxide bubbles.
Those bubbles are left alone while the cheese ferments, resulting in its eyes.
The holes used to be seen as a deformity, and cheesemakers tried to eliminate them.
But today, they're a distinct part of Swiss cheese.
In fact, the cheese industry even pays the government to rate its cheese.
Grade-A Swiss cheese has eyes that are between three-eights of an inch and thirteen-sixteenths of an inch in diameter.
And with more than 300 million pounds of Swiss cheese produced annually in the U.S. — that's a lot of eyes.
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Pollocksville man charged in New Bern shooting
Published: Sep. 9, 2022 at 4:01 PM EDT|Updated: 21 minutes ago
NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) - There’s been an arrest in a shooting that happened earlier this week in New Bern.
New Bern police arrested Tazvone Stewart and charged him with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.
The shooting happened around 1:15 p.m. Tuesday in the 900 block of Main Street. Police said the victim was found at CarolinaEast Medical Center suffering from non-life-threatening injuries.
The 23-year-old Stewart, who is from Pollocksville, was jailed on a $100,000 secured bond. He has a first court appearance on Monday.
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This royal deed has been passed to a new heir apparent.
A bona fide palace in Greenwich, Connecticut, has found a buyer. The 100-plus-year-old fortress sold for more than $10 million in an all-cash deal after four months with its current listing brokerage — and years after being on and off the market with various others. It was last listed for $10.39 million.
“There are no homes of this size and grandeur located within a 5-minute drive to downtown Greenwich and a mere 45 minutes from Manhattan,” Douglas Elliman listing agent Stephanie Bo Li, who represented both sides of the deal, told The Post of 17 Hemlock Drive in April, at which time it sought $11.8 million. According to Li, the 14-bedroom estate is “the largest castle in Greenwich” and “unlike most other castles that have dark small rooms or a medieval-feel to its interior, Hemlock features magnificent-sized rooms and floor-to-ceiling windows that fill the home with natural light.”
Due to an NDA, Douglas Elliman could not reveal the new buyer. Its former owner, a Ms. Fong, purchased the property in 2017 and sold it to relocate closer to her children, who are moving away for school. Among her favorite features of castle life was its built-in insulation: The stone structure retains warmth in the winter and a coolness in the summer, she previously told The Post through Li.
Built in 1913, the 17-bathroom compound was originally called the Freestone Castle and was constructed by the prominent architect James C. Green and Israel Putnam, a direct descendant of a Revolutionary War general of the same name. He was known for riding through the streets of Greenwich to warn residents of the Brits’ impending attack. Over the years, its owners have included Harry H. Frazee, the former Boston Red Sox owner known for trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees.
The royalty-worthy house is located on a sequestered crest and includes both old-world character including ornate wood and stone craftsmanship, and modern comforts, including a gym with “deluxe aerial yoga hammock,” eight fireplaces, a stone veranda with a built-in grill and a screening room. Set on 4.18 acres of “park-like grounds,” the main residence measures 13,500 square feet. There is also a carriage house and a staff apartment — each 3,400 square feet — on the property. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/09/connecticut-castle-sells-for-more-than-10m-in-all-cash-deal/ | 2022-09-09T20:25:15Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/09/connecticut-castle-sells-for-more-than-10m-in-all-cash-deal/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (NEWS10) – On Friday, the Lake George sidewalks were packed with pedestrians. Some were on foot, searching for something special to see. Others were camped out on lawn chairs, next to parking lots with paid parking for the busy weekend ahead. On the side of a busy Route 9, they knew that the sights would come to them at the Adirondack Nationals Car Show.
This year’s show runs from Sept. 8-11 in the village, spanning both Charles R. Wood Festival Commons and the front property of Fort William Henry Hotel and Conference Center. Thousands of classic cars, spanning eras and points of origin, came to the village for a weekend of show-and-shine by day, and cruises down Canada Street by night.
While many cars show bright colors, some have more specific angles. A couple replica cop cars flashed their lights from their places in the park. Nearby, one car’s black paint had a bit of a different makeup – as demonstrated by its owner, who crouched, drawing racing stripes onto it with chalk.
“This car has looked like this for about three years,” said Gwen Clark, of Massachusetts, next to her chalkboard-painted vintage Chevrolet Camaro. “I haven’t had that much time to work on it, and I’m trying to decide what kind of stripes I want to put on it. I’m just drawing stripes to see how I like them, and maybe tomorrow I’ll wipe them off and try some different stripes.”
Clark recently opened her own garage – Gwen’s Cars – and may put her name or the business’ on the door of the Chevy. Passersby gave her some suggestions for other things to draw. She says she’ll consider the suggestions.
The Adirondack Nationals Car Show is a beloved annual tradition for motorists – Clark has come for years herself. For others, it’s been generations. At the Fort William Henry lot, a black Chrysler is coupled by a plaque telling the story of the four generations of family history behind it.
“My grandfather worked at a Chrysler dealership, and my father always had Chryslers, and it got passed onto me,” said Mike Cummings of Saratoga Springs. “It means a lot that I kept the family tradition going, and I’m a Mopar guy – all my cars at home are Mopar vehicles.”
At Charles R. Wood Festival Commons, the collection of cars was coupled by an alley of vendors, selling everything from car parts and t-shirts to fried food and drink to fight the sun.
The schedule runs through the whole weekend, with more show-and-shine and racing on Saturday. On Sunday, winners will be judged in various categories from 8:30 a.m. to noon at Fort William Henry. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/photos-vintage-car-show-rolls-through-lake-george/ | 2022-09-09T20:25:27Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/photos-vintage-car-show-rolls-through-lake-george/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
This skateboarding feud has done a full 180.
The famed green bench that was stolen from Tompkins Square Park by a group of Philly skaters has been snatched back by a mystery “owner” and may be bound again for the Big Apple, officials said.
The backless 13-foot bench — iconic in the world of skating because it features a curve for extra-gnarly grinds and slides — was moved to the popular skateboarding park Cecil B. Moore Station Plaza near Temple University Philly last week.
Campus cops were soon called by someone who claimed to be the rightful owner and then yanked it out of the park Tuesday, according to NPR.
“After providing evidence of ownership, including a receipt of purchase, Temple University Police assisted the owner with the bench’s recovery. With the bench now back in the rightful owner’s possession, it is expected to return to New York City,” the university said in a statement.
The bench was previously stolen from a park in Santa Ana, Calif. in 1995 and then appeared in a video of pro skater Anthony Van Engelen in 2003.
Two years ago, Van Engelen opened a skate shop in New York City and left the bench in nearby Tompkins Square Park for skaters to thrash.
But he said he’s not the mystery owner.
“For 99% of humanity, it’s just a chunk of steel,” he told NPR. “I hope as many people who want to skate it, get a chance to skate it, and it just goes forever.”
Crystal Howard, a spokeswoman for the New York City parks department, told The Post, “This is not our property – it belongs to the skateboarders.”
She said she didn’t have their names, and didn’t know if the bench would be returned to the park.
On Wednesday, a photo that emerged on Instagram appeared to show the bench near the James River in Virginia, but it’s not clear when the photo was taken. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/09/iconic-skater-bench-stolen-from-nyc-park-snatched-back-by-owner/ | 2022-09-09T20:25:46Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/09/iconic-skater-bench-stolen-from-nyc-park-snatched-back-by-owner/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tour de Corgi adds Queen Elizabeth category to honor the late corgi lover
Tour de Corgi, an annual Fort Collins festival and parade in which corgis dress up and parade around town, will include a new element this year to honor Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday.
Throughout her life, the queen was a known corgi lover who owned more than 30 of the dogs, according to the American Kennel Club. Princess Diana reportedly called the corgis "a moving carpet," and the queen called them "the girls" and "the boys," according to the BBC.
“We all have a very strong affection for her as a fellow corgi lover,” Tour de Corgi founder Tracy Stewart told the Coloradoan through tears. “I think it's just you know, our dogs are such a big part of our hearts that it creates a very heartfelt connection.”
Stewart said Tour de Corgi will now include a “Queen Elizabeth and her corgis” section of the costume contest "in memoriam and to honor her." Stewart said a winner and runner-up will be named for the new category. This year's event is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 1.
Other categories include “Purdiest,” “Baddest to the Bone” and “Funniest Furry.”
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What to know about this year's Tour de Corgi
When: 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 1
Where: Civic Center Park
Ready for a corgi conga line? Fort Collins' beloved Tour de Corgi — a corgi-centric festival capped off with a corgi parade — will be back in Old Town this October. Vendors will open at 9:30 a.m., a corgi costume contest starts at 10 a.m. and the parade kicks off from Civic Center Park at noon. Tour de Corgi shirts can be purchased at tourdecorgi.org through Sunday, Sept. 11.
And here's a video from last hear to hold you over until Oct. 1:
USA Today and Coloradoan reporter Erin Udell contributed to this report.
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Becky Hammon's Las Vegas Aces face one of her former Colorado State coaches in WNBA Finals
Becky Hammon’s meteoric rise to the top of the WNBA in her first season as a head coach has her Las Vegas Aces in the Finals, where they’ll face a Connecticut Sun team coached by one of her assistant coaches during her All-American career at Colorado State.
Sun coach Curt Miller was an assistant at CSU under Tom Collen during the 1998-99 season, the Rams’ best ever.
The Aces and Sun will begin the best-of-5 series for the WNBA title at 1 p.m. Sunday (TV: ABC).
With Hammon leading the way, the Rams went 33-3 and advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. The point guard averaged 22.9 points, 3.8 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game that season and finished her career as a three-time All-American and the Western Athletic Conference’s all-time scoring leader.
Hammon went on to play in the WNBA and became one of the league’s all-time greats. Playing seven seasons with the New York Liberty and six with the San Antonio Silver Stars (now the Las Vegas Aces), she was a six-time All-Star and was named to the league’s 15th, 20th and 25th anniversary teams.
More:11 women who changed sports for the better in Fort Collins and beyond
Following her playing career, Hammon became the first female full-time assistant coach in the NBA with the San Antonio Spurs and guided the team’s Las Vegas Summer League team to a title in 2015. She later became the first female to coach an NBA team in a regular-season game, taking over in the second quarter of a Dec. 30, 2020, game against the Los Angeles Lakers following the ejection of Spurs’ head coach Gregg Popovich.
After interviewing for several NBA head-coaching jobs in recent years, Hammon was hired last December to coach the Aces and guided the team to the Western Conference championship in her first season. She was recently named the WNBA Coach of the Year. The Aces earned their spot in the best-of-5 WNBA Finals by ending superstar Sue Bird's storied career with a 3-1 conference finals win over the Seattle Storm.
The Sun won the Eastern Conference championship Thursday night over the Chicago Sky in a decisive Game 5 to reach the Finals for the second time in Miller’s seven seasons as coach. The Sun lost 3-2 to the Washington Mystics in the 2019 WNBA Finals.
Following Hammon’s graduation from CSU, Miller spent two more seasons as an assistant in Fort Collins before landing his first coaching job at Bowling Green for the 2001-02 season. He spent 11 seasons at Bowling Green, going 258-92, earning Mid-American Conference coach-of-the-year honors six times and guiding the team to the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 in 2006.
That was followed by two seasons at Indiana, where his teams went 32-32 before he stepped down, citing personal and family reasons.
Miller spent the 2015 WNBA season as an assistant with the Los Angeles Sparks and was hired the following year as head coach of the Sun, a team he has led to the playoffs for six straight seasons.
More:CSU legend Becky Hammon voted into Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
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Well, this is awkward.
Ohio Democratic Senate candidate Tim Ryan attended President Biden’s Friday speech touting the construction of a new computer chip factory in the Buckeye State — but only after again discouraging the commander-in-chief from seeking a second term.
Ryan told reporters Friday that he stood by his remarks earlier this week that the 79-year-old president should consider retirement.
“The president said from the very beginning he was going to be a bridge to the next generation, which is basically what I was saying,” said Ryan, a congressman who represents a district in northeastern Ohio south of Cleveland.
Asked by reporters if Biden should run again, Ryan said, “That’s up to him.”
On Thursday, Ryan told Youngstown’s WFMJ-TV that he was not in favor of Biden, who turns 80 in November, running again for president in 2024.
“My hunch is that we need new leadership across the board, Democrats, Republicans. I think it’s time for, like, a generational move for new leaders on both sides,” Ryan said.
“People, I think, want some change,” he added. “And, you know, it’s important for us to, I think on both parties — like these leaders who have been around for a while — I think it’s time for some generational change, which of course I’ve been trying to do for a while now.”
The president didn’t mention Ryan’s Senate bid while speaking at the site of Intel’s future semiconductor plant in New Albany, 15 miles northeast of Columbus — a notable contrast from the president’s Monday visit to Pennsylvania, where he shared a stage with another Democratic Senate candidate, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman.
Biden lavished praise on retiring Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman and Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty but gave short shrift to Ryan.
“I want to thank Rob Portman for being the gentleman and decent man that he is and for showing that Democrats and Republicans can work together to get big things done for our country … You’re leaving a hell of a legacy,” Biden said.
“Thanks to the bipartisan group of the Ohio congressional delegation here today,” the president continued.
“Tim Ryan, thank you for your leadership, always representing the interests of working people. Thank you, Congresswoman Joyce Beatty. And, you know, I don’t think we could have gotten the infrastructure bill done without Joyce. She was the final capstone.”
Recent polls show Ryan narrowly trailing Republican JD Vance in the longtime swing state — and the Democratic candidate admitted to CNN last week that he’s making a point of presenting himself to voters as a political independent rather than a Democrat, despite voting with Biden’s position 100% of the time in the House.
“The Democratic brand, as we know, and you and I have talked about this for a long time, is not good in a lot of these places,” Ryan said at the time.
Ryan isn’t the only Ohio Democrat keeping Biden at arm’s length ahead of the midterm elections.
Rep. Marcy Kaptur, another northern Ohio Democrat, attacked Biden in a recent campaign ad for “letting Ohio solar manufacturers be undercut by China” — saying she’s been “fighting back” against Biden and “working with Republican Rob Portman.”
“She doesn’t work for Joe Biden. She works for you,” the Kaptur campaign ad says. The longtime lawmaker did not attend the president’s Friday event.
Biden has repeatedly insisted that he plans to seek a second term, despite the fact that he would be 86 years old upon leaving office.
In an effort to beat back speculation that he will retire, Biden reportedly told former President Barack Obama earlier this year that he sincerely plans to run again.
Biden in March said that he would be “very fortunate” to face former President Donald Trump in 2024 — as Trump readies his own comeback bid after narrow losses to Biden in swing states in 2020.
At a White House press conference in January, Biden said he intends to keep Vice President Kamala Harris as his running mate in 2024.
And in December, Biden said in an interview with ABC News anchor David Muir that he’d run again if he’s in “good health.”
“If I’m in the health I’m in now — I’m in good health — then, in fact, I would run again,” Biden said. “I’m a great respecter of fate. Fate has intervened in my life many, many times.”
But there also have been moments of uncertainty — as some commentators note that Biden cannot say he’s retiring, even if that’s possible, because saying so would instantly make him a less-influential “lame duck” and shift focus onto candidates to replace him.
In December, Harris told the Wall Street Journal in an interview that she and Biden had not discussed whether they are running together for re-election and that she was unaware of whether Biden is running for a second term — sparking speculation that Biden may step down.
Biden received the most votes of any candidate in US history in 2020 amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic, but his approval rating plunged following the chaotic troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 and has hovered near 40% this year.
Although Biden has sought to reframe the midterm elections as a referendum on Trump, Democrats face political trouble due to the worst inflation since the early 1980s, rising violent crime, record illegal immigration, and a COVID-19 death count more than double what it was when the president took office. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/09/tim-ryan-attends-biden-event-after-urging-prez-to-step-aside-in-2024/ | 2022-09-09T20:26:37Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/09/tim-ryan-attends-biden-event-after-urging-prez-to-step-aside-in-2024/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Two Georgia deputies were fatally shot in what a sheriff described as an ambush as the cops tried to serve an arrest warrant.
The bloodshed — the officers were the first to die in the line of duty in over 30 years — erupted just west of Marietta in Cobb County around 7:45 p.m. Thursday.
“What I can tell you in this moment is this — in plain terms it is simple, my two deputies were ambushed this evening and killed,” Sheriff Craig Owens told reporters at a press conference. “The two suspects we believe are the perpetrators of this crime are currently in custody and are being held at the Cobb County Police Department for questioning.”
The names of the slain deputies and the suspects were not immediately made public.
The deputies were trying to serve a warrant on a suspect for failure to appear on a theft charge. They knocked on the door of a home and went back to their patrol vehicle when another car pulled up.
Owens said the two deputies got out of their car and were talking to a suspect when shots were fired from a vehicle and a house.
The deputies were able to radio for help, and backup officers swarmed the neighborhood in the Atlanta suburb.
A four-hour-long standoff with at least one suspect followed the gunfire. It was resolved just after midnight Friday, reported Fox 5.
The sheriff said two suspects were detained and questioned. No charges were immediately announced.
“Our hearts are broken here in Cobb County, and it’s going to take some prayers to help us get back to where we need to be,” Owens said. “But it’s not going to be an easy road.”
The deputies had each served in the department for more than five years, Owens said. They are the first officers to die in the line of duty in Cobb County since 1990. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/09/two-georgia-deputies-ambushed-killed-serving-warrant/ | 2022-09-09T20:26:44Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/09/two-georgia-deputies-ambushed-killed-serving-warrant/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A new “economic blueprint” released by the White House on Friday claims President Biden has set the stage for a booming, post-pandemic recovery — despite near-record inflation and widespread fears of a devastating recession.
Hours before the president’s visit to the battleground state of Ohio, the self-serving, 58-page document said Biden’s “bold and decisive action” had “laid the foundation for the strongest and most equitable economic recovery in modern history.”
It also touted Biden’s purported “significant progress” battling inflation, pointing to “a decline of more than $1.20 in gas prices this summer” — despite the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded having surged to a record $5.016 on his watch, hitting the mark on June 14, according to AAA.
In addition, the White House claimed that “overall prices” declined “moderately” in July — when the year-to-year inflation rate was 8.5 percent, a smidgen below June’s 9.1 percent, which was the highest in more than four decades.
July’s inflation report also revealed that wholesale food prices were 1 percent higher than in June, pointing to the likelihood that grocery prices will keep climbing for months.
The spin from the White House came just one day after the Ipsos polling group released data showing that 66 percent of Americans surveyed said the country was on the wrong track, with 30 percent pointing to the economy, unemployment and jobs as its biggest problem.
Even Biden’s fellow Democrats were most worried about the economy, with 23 percent ranking it the nation’s No. 1 problem, along with 36 percent of Republicans and 33 percent of independents.
An ABC News/Ipsos poll on Wednesday also showed Americans had more faith in Republicans’ ability to handle the economy, with 34 percent favoring the GOP, compared to just 25 percent who said they trusted Democrats on the vital issue.
Meanwhile, the BlackRock investment firm warned Tuesday that the Federal Reserve didn’t appear to be “prioritizing economic implications over pressure to curb inflation.”
“We think getting inflation back to central bank targets means crushing demand with a recession,” company analysts wrote.
“The US economy has already stalled. Now we see recession in the cards early
next year.”
Last month, Fed Chair Jerome Powell triggered a 1,008-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average when he said efforts to curb inflation would inevitably “bring some pain to households and businesses.”
On Thursday, Powell said he hoped to “avoid the very high social costs” that accompanied interest rate hikes during the early 1980s and that his goal was a “soft landing” that avoids a recession.
But many experts expect the Fed will raise its benchmark interest rate by 0.75 percent for the third time in a row later his month to try to tamp down inflation.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who served under President Barack Obama, has repeatedly said inflation won’t be brought under control without massive job losses.
Last week, Summers called hopes for a soft landing “the triumph of hope over experience” and said he’d be “surprised if we get to the [Fed’s] 2 percent inflation target without an unemployment rate that approaches or exceeds 6 percent.”
Biden’s trip to the site of a planned Intel chip factory in Ohio came amid a tight race for the US Senate seat held by retiring Republican Rob Portman.
The battle pits Republican J.D. Vance, a first-time candidate who gained fame with his bestselling, 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” against Democrat US Rep. Tim Ryan, who recently admitted that the “Democratic brand” was a liability in many parts of the Buckeye State. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/09/white-house-releases-economic-blueprint-amid-near-record-inflation/ | 2022-09-09T20:26:58Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/09/white-house-releases-economic-blueprint-amid-near-record-inflation/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Fabian Pacheco
Highland football, junior
Bouncing back from two knee surgeries, Pacheco ran for 179 yards on 24 carries and scored the first touchdown on his home field to lead the Scotties to a 16-6 victory over Wapato last week. That effort helped Highland earn its first season-opening win in 12 years. The Scotties play at Lake Roosevelt on Friday and return home next week to host Dayton-Waitsburg.
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Shaela Allen-Greggs
Davis volleyball, senior
The Pirates' four-year varsity veteran put together 17 kills and 23 perfect passes while serving 15-for-16 in Tuesday's five-set home-opening win over Toppenish. Allen-Greggs earned all-CBBN second-team honors as a junior and sophomore and has had that longevity in basketball as well. As a junior she made the CBBN's second team and was also selected to the all-defense squad. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/prep-spotlights/article_df8e400e-2e30-11ed-b703-b7b3c662db5f.html | 2022-09-09T20:32:27Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/prep-spotlights/article_df8e400e-2e30-11ed-b703-b7b3c662db5f.html | 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.
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HERNDON, Va. — All it takes is one glance at Paul Veneto and his trademark "Miracle" t-shirt to get a glimpse into his life's journey.
"I know people think this: 'What's this guy doing in the middle of the street with his beverage cart?'" he said.
To understand that, you have to look back to September 11, 2001, when Veneto was a flight attendant for United Airlines. His normal weekday route was flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles.
A few days before 9/11, his work schedule changed for that week, a twist of fate that saved him, but took the lives of his friends and co-workers.
"I believe, no question in my mind, that I have survived what I went through in my personal life to do this," he said.
What he's doing is Paulie's Push 2: The Pentagon.
It's a follow-up journey to his push last year, when he walked an airline beverage cart 200 miles, from Boston’s Logan Airport to Ground Zero in New York City, in honor of his fallen colleagues.
"There's only one thing I gotta do: push this cart to New York," he said at the time, during part of his walk through Connecticut.
This year, he wanted to do something slightly different.
"I had a lot of thinking to do because there was so much information that happened last year,” he said, “and I had a lot of soul searching and wondering 'Can I? You know, should I?'''
He decided he should—this time honoring those lost on American Airlines Flight 77. He is walking a nearly 40-mile journey from where the flight departed at Dulles Airport in suburban Washington, D.C, to where it crashed into The Pentagon.
Paulie sees it as a path to healing, not just for himself, but for those who come out to see him.
"And then, all of a sudden, I come walking down the street with a beverage cart and the neighbors are talking to each other. It was crazy!” he said. “And they would come up and one neighbor would walk away and the other one would say, 'You know something? I haven't talked to that guy in five years.'"
It's also touching the lives of those who know what it's like to work high in the sky.
Retired flight attendant Karen Murphy first met Paulie when they both trained early on in their careers.
"I was scheduled to fly on 175 on Sep. 12 and I know he was upset because he had a very similar schedule,” Murphy said. “We both narrowly missed 9/11 based on scheduling.”
Like others, Murphy said she appreciates what Paulie is doing and came out to walk part of the way to the Pentagon with him.
"I kept thinking about the flight attendants because they were the first responders," Murphy said, “and I felt like the flight attendants weren't getting the same attention and what Paulie is doing I think has been therapeutic for flight attendants, including myself."
Yet, there's one more reason Paulie keeps pushing.
"I'm keeping this thing alive for the generation that's coming up behind us. And that's important to me - that I see these families with their kids,” he said. “They had no idea what 9/11 was and so I know that those parents are telling them about 9/11."
Paulie is planning to do a similar walk for 9/11 next year in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed. He said it is important that the sacrifices made by so many that day are forever remembered, adding, "We can't forget it." | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/former-flight-attendant-reprises-unique-journey-to-honor-those-lost-on-9-11 | 2022-09-09T20:32:44Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/former-flight-attendant-reprises-unique-journey-to-honor-those-lost-on-9-11 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOGAN, Utah (KSTU) — A coffee shop brought in paranormal investigators to back up their claim that the location is haunted.
Workers at Country No Nonsense Coffee, in Logan, Utah, have no doubts that spirits visit their shop.
"I definitely believe it is haunted; for sure, like I said, with everything going on it would just be hard to debunk it as fake," said assistant manager Gretchen Zitting.
"We would just make jokes about it, like, “Oh, it’s the ghost again,” and just blow it off, but once I caught the growl on security, I was like, 'OK, it’s something darker, something more. Maybe we should look into this a little more,'" said owner Sarah Avalos.
The shop employees were so spooked, that they decided to call in the experts to collect evidence.
“It’s good to get proof though, so people don’t think we’re crazy," said Avalos. "It’s good to have evidence."
The investigators say they caught a motion light turning on with no one around to trigger it. Audio clips supposedly contain a growl, the sound of an elephant, and a conversation where they say you can hear the spirit gasp.
Investigators also shared a video where something took over their computer screen for 17 minutes when their WiFi was off.
"I like watching 'Ghost Hunters,' and it takes a lot to catch something, you have to be there for hours and they caught a lot in three hours. I’m surprised that they caught so much," Avalos said.
But the spirits don't stop the four walls of the coffee shop. Avalos says they continue to make their presence felt in the batting cages right next door.
"It’s always been interesting, but after we caught the growl, I didn’t want to be here at night. I was just like, let’s hurry and close, hurry and get out of here, because it’s a whole different feel at night," Avalos said.
The paranormal investigators join with Avalos and shop employees in saying the place is haunted. Now those who work inside on a daily basis are trying not to upset the ghosts, goblins or ghoulies.
"If you do show reaction to it, that will make it stronger and, if anything, we just really want it to pass on and leave us alone," said Avalos. "I try not to think about it too much."
Country No Nonsense Coffee workers say they’re hoping to do ghost tours in October, but plan to stop after Halloween so they don’t irritate the spirits.
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LONDON — For the better part of an hour, Harry Cromack navigated closed roads and swelling crowds outside of Buckingham Palace on Friday. In his hands, he carries a bouquet of flowers that he's determined to leave at the gates of Queen Elizabeth II's London home.
The flowers weren’t his though. Cromack brought them here for both his mother and grandmother who live outside of London and couldn't make it to pay their respects in person.
"They both have a lot of admiration for the Queen," he said as he walked between barriers set up by police near the Royal Palace.
Even a blockade set up for King Charles III's arrival could not deter Cromack. After an hour on foot and at least two miles of walking, he made it with flowers in hand to the gates of Buckingham Palace, where he gently placed the bouquet amid a memorial that continues to grow here for Her Majesty the Queen of England.
"She’s been around for such a long time; that’s why so many people felt like they had to come," he added.
Cromack was not alone in on his mission to make it to Buckingham Palace just one day after the Queen died at age 96. Thelma Winterborne made the trek here as well. The 86-year-old brought flowers for her 102-year-old friend who couldn’t make it.
"It might be the last thing I can do for her," she said.
London is a city consumed in grief right now. And on every street corner is a reminder of the Monarch they’ve lost. Even in her death, Her Majesty the Queen is in many ways omnipresent.
Even Americans vacationing in the UK altered their travel plans to travel to London to witness history after her passing on Thursday, including Rick Rohr and Ingrid Swords from Colorado.
"We just wanted to feel what it was like to be here with all these thousands and thousands of people," Swords said. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/thousands-travel-from-afar-to-pay-respects-to-queen-elizabeth-ii-outside-buckingham-palace | 2022-09-09T20:32:48Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/thousands-travel-from-afar-to-pay-respects-to-queen-elizabeth-ii-outside-buckingham-palace | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-reigning monarch in British history. She lived in the public eye for 96 years. But there are some things people may not know about the girl who was born in London.
HOME-SCHOOLING
Like many royals of her time and before, Elizabeth never went to a public school and was never exposed to other students. Instead, she was educated at home with Margaret, her younger sister.
Among those who taught her was her father, along with a senior teacher at Eton College, several French and Belgian governesses who taught her French, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, who taught her religion.
Elizabeth’s schooling also included learning to ride, swim, dance and the study of fine art and music.
“NO. 230873”
During World War II, young Princess Elizabeth briefly became known as No. 230873, Second Subaltern Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor of the Auxiliary Transport Service No. 1.
After months of campaigning for her parents’ permission to do something for the war effort, the heir to the throne learned how to drive and service ambulances and trucks. She rose to the rank of honorary Junior Commander within months.
‘GREAT MIMICKER’
Elizabeth often gave the impression of a serious demeanor, and many have noted her “poker face,” but those who knew her described her as having a mischievous sense of humor and a talent for mimicry in private company.
Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has said the queen could be “extremely funny in private — and not everybody appreciates how funny she can be.”
Bishop Michael Mann, the monarch’s domestic chaplain, once said that “the queen imitating the Concorde landing is one of the funniest things you could see.” Ian Paisley, the Northern Irish clergyman and politician, also noted that Elizabeth was a “great mimicker” of him.
ROYAL TAXPAYER
She may have been the queen, but she paid taxes too — at least since 1992.
When Windsor Castle, the queen’s weekend residence, was ravaged by fire in 1992, the public rebelled against paying millions of pounds for repairs.
But she voluntarily agreed to pay tax on her personal income. She said she would meet 70 percent of the cost of restoration work, and she also decided to open her home at Buckingham Palace to the public for the first time to generate extra funds from admission fees.
LITTLE LILIBET
The queen was christened Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor of York, in honor of her mother, paternal grandmother and paternal great-grandmother. But as a child, she was endearingly known as young Lilibet by her family — said to be because she couldn’t pronounce “Elizabeth” properly.
In a letter to her grandmother Queen Mary, the young princess wrote: “Dear Granny. Thank you very much for the lovely little jersey. We loved staying at Sandringham with you. I lost a top front tooth yesterday morning,” before signing off, “Love from Lilibet.”
The nickname became more widely known after Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, named their daughter Lilibet Diana in 2021.
A STEADFAST ROMANCE
Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip enjoyed a stable relationship for more 70 years, a union that far outlasted the marriages of three of her four children: Charles, Anne and Andrew.
“He has been quite simply my strength and stay all these years,” the queen said of Philip on their 50th wedding anniversary.
Their story began in 1939, when Prince Philip of Greece, a handsome 18-year-old naval cadet, was detailed to entertain the 13-year-old Elizabeth for a day. Several years later, Philip was invited to join the royal family at Windsor Castle at Christmas, and he soon made discreet inquiries whether he would be considered an eligible suitor.
The couple married in Westminster Abbey in 1947. When Philip died in 2021 at age 99, Elizabeth described his passing as leaving a “huge void” in her life, according to their son, Andrew.
MULTIPLE BIRTHDAYS
Elizabeth was born on April 21, 1926, but it was sometimes confusing for the public to know when to celebrate.
There was no universally fixed day for her “official birthday” — it’s either the first, second or third Saturday in June, and was decided by the government.
In Australia, her birthday was celebrated on the second Monday of June, while in Canada, was marked on a Monday either on or before May 24, Queen Victoria’s birthday.
Only the queen and those closest to her celebrated her actual birthday in private gatherings.
HOW MANY CORGIS?
It’s widely known that Elizabeth loved corgis — Princess Diana reportedly called the dogs the queen’s “moving carpet” because they accompanied her everywhere.
She owned more than 30 corgis over the years. She also had two “dorgis” — crossbreeds of dachshund and corgi — named Candy and Vulcan.
Elizabeth was photographed hugging one of the dogs as far back as 1936 at age 10, and was given a corgi named Susan for her 18th birthday. The breed was introduced to the royal family by her father, King George VI, in 1933, when he bought a male corgi called Dookie from a local kennel.
As queen, she also technically owned the thousands of mute swans in open British waters, and had the right to claim all sturgeons, porpoises, whales and dolphins, according to a statute from 1324.
‘A PRETTY NICE GIRL’
The queen inevitably became the subject of pop songs.
The Beatles immortalized her with the tongue-in-cheek “Her Majesty,” calling her “a pretty nice girl” though “she doesn’t have a lot to say.” The brief song, sung by Paul McCartney and recorded in 1969, appeared at the end of the “Abbey Road” album.
Other musical treatments weren’t so kind. The Sex Pistols’ anti-monarchist “God Save The Queen,” released right before her Silver Jubilee in 1977, was banned on British television.
TEA AND SANDWICHES
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An Airman from the 704th Test Group, reveals the name of the 704th Test Group incoming commander during a change of command ceremony, at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, Sep. 9, 2022. The 704th TG is responsible for producing the next generation of fighter pilots through their testing and evaluation capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Corinna Diaz)
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Forecasters warned Thursday that strong, gusting winds and low humidity will cause extreme fire danger across western Oregon and Washington this weekend as authorities encouraged residents to charge cellphones and have an evacuation plan ready.
Starting Friday, a dry east wind with gusts of up to 50 mph (80 kph) will be accompanied by low humidity, setting up a situation ripe for fire danger, the National Weather Service said.
Gov. Kate Brown in a media briefing Thursday encouraged Oregonians to continue to be prepared, have a plan in place and to do anything they can to prevent human-caused fires.
“Each one of us can make a difference over the next 48 to 72 hours,” she said. “Our goal here of course is to make sure that we save lives and protect property.”
Travis Medema, chief deputy state fire marshal, said the predicted combination of dry winds, low relative humidity and an unstable atmosphere could lead to explosive fire growth.
“We are at a critical point in the 2022 fire season in terms of fuels and weather,” he said. “Any new starts that occur could be very problematic.”
Areas from the Columbia River Gorge south to Douglas County in western Oregon are most at risk from the forecasted east winds, he said. Fire crews, including several from Washington state, have been sent to those areas in an effort to quickly respond to fires that spark.
Meanwhile, Pacific Power notified about 12,000 customers in Linn, Douglas, Lincoln, Tillamook, Marion and Polk counties that their power would be shut off early Friday to prevent fire starts from snagging or broken power lines.
The utility said Thursday evening that wind prone, rural areas deeper in the mountains would experience shutoffs first and that others would happen as the windstorm progresses Friday.
Portland General Electric officials will also likely shut off power in 10 areas because of the risk of fire, impacting about 30,000 customers, officials said. The utility will closely monitor conditions and will give several hours of notice before turning off power, it said.
Because of the planned power outages, several Oregon schools will be closed Friday, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.
The Santiam Canyon and Sweet Home school districts are in Linn County where Pacific Power has said power would be cut. Both districts canceled school in response.
Cities and towns across the region, including the oceanfront city of Seaside, also instituted burn bans in anticipation of the fire danger that included beach bonfires and camping fires.
The impending weather was reminiscent of severe winds that hit over Labor Day weekend in 2020, fueling Oregon wildfires that burned more than 1 million acres (405,000 hectares), destroyed 4,000 homes and killed at least 11 people across the western part of the state.
This weekend's winds were not expected to approach the speed and intensity of those in 2020, but forecasters said there was still a chance of “rapid fire spread” on both new fire starts and on fires already burning in Oregon and in Washington state.
Fire weather watches and red flag warnings have been forecast for much of western Oregon and Washington starting Friday with high temperatures around 90 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius).
Officials with the Department of Natural Resources in Washington state also said the expected east wind event, paired with already-critical fire weather conditions, could result in severe wildfire activity.
“West of the Cascades, this will likely be the highest fire danger of the season as hot, dry winds leave normally damp fuels such as grass & moss ready to burn and primed for rapid spread,” DNR officials said on Twitter.
“It’s important to remember that we’re all in this together,” Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz said. “Practicing good prevention habits keeps our skies clear and our firefighters safe.”
A number of blazes are burning in Oregon. The largest is the Double Creek Fire burning in northeastern Oregon near the Idaho border. The fire grew by nearly 47 square miles (122 square kilometers) Wednesday because of wind gusts up to 50 mph (80 kph) and as of Thursday had burned a total of nearly 158 square miles (409 square kilometers). It's threatening about 100 homes near the community of Imnaha.
In Central Oregon, the Cedar Creek Fire east of Oakridge has burned nearly 47 square miles (122 square kilometers). That fire prompted new mandatory evacuations Thursday for several recreational areas and campgrounds in Linn, Deschutes and Klamath counties and for residents in greater Oakridge and Westfir areas to be ready to evacuate.
The Van Meter Fire, which started Wednesday, is burning on Stukel Mountain about 13 miles (21 kilometers) southeast of Klamath Falls. One home and four structures have been destroyed and about 260 structures are threatened by that blaze, Medema said on Thursday.
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LONDON, UK — As the United Kingdom mourns a beloved queen, the nation is already wondering how King Charles III will reign and whether his monarchy will depart from the traditions of his mother.
If his first full day on the throne is any indication, Charles seemed ready to chart at least a slightly different course.
When Charles traveled to Buckingham Palace for the first time as the new king Friday, his limousine snaked through a sea of spectators then stopped short of the palace gates before he got out and shook hands with well-wishers. Charles looked more like a U.S. president on the campaign trail than the latest steward of a 1,000-year-old hereditary monarchy.
It’s not that Queen Elizabeth II didn’t meet her subjects. She did, often. But this felt different — a bit less formal, a bit more relaxed. Charles spent almost 10 minutes greeting people pressed up against the crowd-control barriers, smiling, waving, accepting condolences and the occasional bouquet of flowers as the audience broke out in a chorus of “God Save the King.”
After inspecting the tributes to his mother lined up outside the palace, he waved once more and walked through the gates with Camilla, the Queen Consort.
“It was impressive, touching, a good move to come out to the crowds,” said Ammar Al-Baldawi, 64, a retiree from Hertfordshire who was among the throngs outside the palace. “I think that’s where the royal family needs to communicate with the people now."
There are more difficult issues ahead, most pressingly how the 73-year-old king will carry out his role as head of state.
The laws and traditions that govern Britain’s constitutional monarchy dictate that the sovereign must stay out of partisan politics, but Charles has spent much of his adult life speaking out on issues that are important to him, particularly the environment and development.
His words have caused friction with politicians and business leaders who accused the then-Prince of Wales of meddling in issues on which he should have remained silent.
The question is whether Charles will follow his mother’s example and muffle his personal opinions now that he is king, or use his new platform to reach a broader audience.
In his first speech as monarch, Charles sought to put his critics at ease.
“My life will of course change as I take up my new responsibilities,'' he said. “It will no longer be possible for me to give so much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I care so deeply. But I know this important work will go on in the trusted hands of others."
Ed Owens, a historian and author of “The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53,” said it’s unlikely Charles will suddenly stop talking about climate change and the environment — issues where there is a broad consensus about the urgent need for action. That may push the boundaries of what a constitutional monarchy looks like, he said.
Such “vigorous promotion” of the consensus “is something we’re going to see that is going to be different compared to his mother’s reign,” Owens said before Charles became king.
John Kerry, the U.S. special envoy for climate, said he hopes Charles will continue speaking out about climate change because it is a universal issue that doesn’t involve ideology. Kerry was in Scotland to meet with the Prince of Wales this week, but the session was canceled when the queen died.
“It doesn’t mean he’s involved in the daily broil of politics or speaking for a specific piece of legislation,” Kerry told the BBC. “But I can’t imagine him not … feeling compelled to use the important role of the monarch, with all the knowledge he has about it, to speak out and urge the world to do the things the world needs to do.”
Constitutional lawyers have debated for years whether Charles has pushed the boundaries of conventions designed to keep the monarchy out of the political fray.
His so-called Black Spider Memos — named for his spidery handwriting — to government ministers have been cited as evidence that he wouldn’t be neutral in his dealings with Parliament.
The debate has also spilled over into fiction.
In the 2014 play “King Charles III,” playwright Mike Bartlett imagines the new king, uncertain of his powers and moved by his conscience, causing a constitutional crisis by refusing to sign a new law restricting press freedom.
It is an illustration of the tensions inherent in a system that evolved from an absolute monarchy to one in which the sovereign plays a largely ceremonial role. While Britain’s unwritten constitution requires that legislation must receive royal assent before it becomes law, this is considered a formality that the monarch cannot refuse.
In an interview for a 2018 documentary broadcast on his 70th birthday, Charles said he would behave differently when he became king because the monarch has a different role than the Prince of Wales.
Even so, he questioned the criticism he has received over the years.
“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,” he wondered. “If that’s meddling, I’m very proud of it.”
On another issue facing the new king, Charles has said clearly that he intends to reduce the number of working royals and cut expenses as he seeks to ensure the monarchy better represents modern Britain.
Robert Lacey, a royal historian and adviser on the Netflix series “The Crown,” said this initiative underscores the important role of Prince William, who is now heir to the throne.
William has already made the environment one of his primary issues, and he is likely to take an even more prominent role in this area now that his father is king, Lacey told the BBC.
But there is another clue to the new king’s plans for his reign, and that’s his choice of a name.
Before Elizabeth’s time, there was a tradition that British monarch’s would choose a new name when they ascended the throne. Charles’ grandfather, for instance was known as Bertie before he became King George VI. There was some thought Charles would choose to be known as King George VII in honor of his grandfather.
But Charles rejected the idea and kept his own name. That’s a “clear message” that the king will continue to champion the causes he backed as Prince of Wales, Lacey said.
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LONDON, UK — As the United Kingdom mourns a beloved queen, the nation is already wondering how King Charles III will reign and whether his monarchy will depart from the traditions of his mother.
If his first full day on the throne is any indication, Charles seemed ready to chart at least a slightly different course.
When Charles traveled to Buckingham Palace for the first time as the new king Friday, his limousine snaked through a sea of spectators then stopped short of the palace gates before he got out and shook hands with well-wishers. Charles looked more like a U.S. president on the campaign trail than the latest steward of a 1,000-year-old hereditary monarchy.
It’s not that Queen Elizabeth II didn’t meet her subjects. She did, often. But this felt different — a bit less formal, a bit more relaxed. Charles spent almost 10 minutes greeting people pressed up against the crowd-control barriers, smiling, waving, accepting condolences and the occasional bouquet of flowers as the audience broke out in a chorus of “God Save the King.”
After inspecting the tributes to his mother lined up outside the palace, he waved once more and walked through the gates with Camilla, the Queen Consort.
“It was impressive, touching, a good move to come out to the crowds,” said Ammar Al-Baldawi, 64, a retiree from Hertfordshire who was among the throngs outside the palace. “I think that’s where the royal family needs to communicate with the people now."
There are more difficult issues ahead, most pressingly how the 73-year-old king will carry out his role as head of state.
The laws and traditions that govern Britain’s constitutional monarchy dictate that the sovereign must stay out of partisan politics, but Charles has spent much of his adult life speaking out on issues that are important to him, particularly the environment and development.
His words have caused friction with politicians and business leaders who accused the then-Prince of Wales of meddling in issues on which he should have remained silent.
The question is whether Charles will follow his mother’s example and muffle his personal opinions now that he is king, or use his new platform to reach a broader audience.
In his first speech as monarch, Charles sought to put his critics at ease.
“My life will of course change as I take up my new responsibilities,'' he said. “It will no longer be possible for me to give so much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I care so deeply. But I know this important work will go on in the trusted hands of others."
Ed Owens, a historian and author of “The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53,” said it’s unlikely Charles will suddenly stop talking about climate change and the environment — issues where there is a broad consensus about the urgent need for action. That may push the boundaries of what a constitutional monarchy looks like, he said.
Such “vigorous promotion” of the consensus “is something we’re going to see that is going to be different compared to his mother’s reign,” Owens said before Charles became king.
John Kerry, the U.S. special envoy for climate, said he hopes Charles will continue speaking out about climate change because it is a universal issue that doesn’t involve ideology. Kerry was in Scotland to meet with the Prince of Wales this week, but the session was canceled when the queen died.
“It doesn’t mean he’s involved in the daily broil of politics or speaking for a specific piece of legislation,” Kerry told the BBC. “But I can’t imagine him not … feeling compelled to use the important role of the monarch, with all the knowledge he has about it, to speak out and urge the world to do the things the world needs to do.”
Constitutional lawyers have debated for years whether Charles has pushed the boundaries of conventions designed to keep the monarchy out of the political fray.
His so-called Black Spider Memos — named for his spidery handwriting — to government ministers have been cited as evidence that he wouldn’t be neutral in his dealings with Parliament.
The debate has also spilled over into fiction.
In the 2014 play “King Charles III,” playwright Mike Bartlett imagines the new king, uncertain of his powers and moved by his conscience, causing a constitutional crisis by refusing to sign a new law restricting press freedom.
It is an illustration of the tensions inherent in a system that evolved from an absolute monarchy to one in which the sovereign plays a largely ceremonial role. While Britain’s unwritten constitution requires that legislation must receive royal assent before it becomes law, this is considered a formality that the monarch cannot refuse.
In an interview for a 2018 documentary broadcast on his 70th birthday, Charles said he would behave differently when he became king because the monarch has a different role than the Prince of Wales.
Even so, he questioned the criticism he has received over the years.
“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,” he wondered. “If that’s meddling, I’m very proud of it.”
On another issue facing the new king, Charles has said clearly that he intends to reduce the number of working royals and cut expenses as he seeks to ensure the monarchy better represents modern Britain.
Robert Lacey, a royal historian and adviser on the Netflix series “The Crown,” said this initiative underscores the important role of Prince William, who is now heir to the throne.
William has already made the environment one of his primary issues, and he is likely to take an even more prominent role in this area now that his father is king, Lacey told the BBC.
But there is another clue to the new king’s plans for his reign, and that’s his choice of a name.
Before Elizabeth’s time, there was a tradition that British monarch’s would choose a new name when they ascended the throne. Charles’ grandfather, for instance was known as Bertie before he became King George VI. There was some thought Charles would choose to be known as King George VII in honor of his grandfather.
But Charles rejected the idea and kept his own name. That’s a “clear message” that the king will continue to champion the causes he backed as Prince of Wales, Lacey said.
It was his father, Prince Philip, who identified ways in which the neutral monarchy could advocate for youth development and the environment — "really important causes that they could push forward without being accused of partisanship,” he said. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/king-charles-ii-transition-after-queen-elizabeth-ii-death/507-90d7977b-341e-4ff8-a63c-187da122e7aa | 2022-09-09T20:38:21Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/king-charles-ii-transition-after-queen-elizabeth-ii-death/507-90d7977b-341e-4ff8-a63c-187da122e7aa | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 36 |
An analysis by insurance provider Insurify ranked cities in the U.S. by employment opportunity and affordability, as well as transit costs and livability. St. Louis was named #1. Here’s a look at the 10 best cities, along with their score, for new grads to start their careers:
St. Louis: 100
Minneapolis, Minnesota: 98.3
Rapid City, South Dakota: 88.8
Pittsburgh: 85.5
Lincoln, Nebraska: 84.9
Portland, Oregon: 78.9
Fargo, North Dakota: 75.8
Fort Wayne, Indiana: 73.7
Denver: 73.3
Tampa, Florida: 73.0
Six out of the top 10 cities are located in the Midwest, including the top three. These cities have relatively low costs of living while offering comparable transit and entertainment options to larger coastal cities.
According to the Regional Business Council, “For the last 15 years we have continually heard from our 4,000 young professionals on why St. Louis has been the best decision for them, and how much the Young Professionals Network (YPN) has provided them with the essential professional connections, diverse social opportunities and a vehicle to give back.” RBC CEO Kathy Osborn stated “This recognition is indeed a remarkable accomplishment for St. Louis.” | https://www.stlamerican.com/business/business_news/st-louis-named-best-u-s-city-in-the-nation-for-new-graduates-to-start/article_e3367e86-2fd6-11ed-bec1-ab91e3d9f66c.html | 2022-09-09T20:40:07Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/business/business_news/st-louis-named-best-u-s-city-in-the-nation-for-new-graduates-to-start/article_e3367e86-2fd6-11ed-bec1-ab91e3d9f66c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
'We can learn quite well but without making those relationships stronger in some really crucal circumstances. When your children don't like you, or their partners hate what their seeing them turning a child abject.\nKaren Gledwyn - Principal Teacher Edu... (142.75 seconds). (Ireland / BAFTA / BANFF - IBC Media Teac...: Learning Through Part. Principal,... |) See it (IAC A federal judge in Florida has dismissed former President Donald Trump's lawsuit against former first lady Hillary Clinton and former top FBI officials, calling it a "200-page political manifesto."
According to his lawsuit, Trump claimed the former Democratic presidential nominee, former FBI Director James Comey, and others conspired against him by claiming that he coordinated with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election, USA Today reported.
On Thursday, District Judge Donald Middlebrooks dismissed the case, saying that the lawsuit contained “glaring structural deficiencies” and that many of the “characterizations of events are implausible," the Associated Press reported.
In his lawsuit, Trump claimed that Clinton and the Democratic National Committee "worked together with a single self-serving purpose: to vilify Donald J. Trump," USA Today reported.
In his ruling, Middlebrooks wrote that none of Trump's claims supported that there was a conspiracy against him, the Associated Press reported.
In 2019, special counsel Robert Mueller's concluded after a special investigation that investigators "did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," the Associated Press reported.
According to the news outlet, Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba, said the former President would appeal the dismissal. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/judge-dismisses-trumps-lawsuit-against-clinton-fbi | 2022-09-09T20:41:54Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/judge-dismisses-trumps-lawsuit-against-clinton-fbi | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
#if SOLVE\n.h\" + Q38W01V-HEADER_EXTENDQ \"//!!\" Q.NW2I1-EXTND QWZ_W4LNQ873 QRDNSRD6T-3XU S74\n;38B_G:1B1ZR8CQ4KC#\"QI4P2XAH)L$PZ Dignitaries, heads of state, and others who want to pay their final respects to Queen Elizabeth II are converging on London to pay their final respects.
Each person has their own way of grieving a loss. One woman decided to bring the ashes of her grandmother, who she says "loved the Queen."
"I brought my nan with me today, her ashes. She loved the queen," she said.
The BBC spoke to many people out and about London who laid flowers and shed tears and talked about memories of Queen Elizabeth II over the years.
"So, we brought her with us, yeah she loved the Queen, absolutely loved the Queen," the woman said as she wore a somber, mostly black outfit.
She said, in age, that her grandmother and the Queen were just a year apart.
People from all walks of life and many countries spoke about how they felt the Queen was a unifying spirit and entered their lives with meaning.
Another woman said, "It's the end of an era, 70 years, it'll never happen again. She was the calm amongst the storms, but you always knew she'd be a constant presence." | https://www.fox17online.com/news/world/days-of-mourning-after-death-of-queen-elizabeth-ii-woman-brings-nans-ashes-to-pay-final-respects | 2022-09-09T20:42:00Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/world/days-of-mourning-after-death-of-queen-elizabeth-ii-woman-brings-nans-ashes-to-pay-final-respects | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HERNDON, Va. — All it takes is one glance at Paul Veneto and his trademark "Miracle" t-shirt to get a glimpse into his life's journey.
"I know people think this: 'What's this guy doing in the middle of the street with his beverage cart?'" he said.
To understand that, you have to look back to September 11, 2001, when Veneto was a flight attendant for United Airlines. His normal weekday route was flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles.
A few days before 9/11, his work schedule changed for that week, a twist of fate that saved him, but took the lives of his friends and co-workers.
"I believe, no question in my mind, that I have survived what I went through in my personal life to do this," he said.
What he's doing is Paulie's Push 2: The Pentagon.
It's a follow-up journey to his push last year, when he walked an airline beverage cart 200 miles, from Boston’s Logan Airport to Ground Zero in New York City, in honor of his fallen colleagues.
"There's only one thing I gotta do: push this cart to New York," he said at the time, during part of his walk through Connecticut.
This year, he wanted to do something slightly different.
"I had a lot of thinking to do because there was so much information that happened last year,” he said, “and I had a lot of soul searching and wondering 'Can I? You know, should I?'''
He decided he should—this time honoring those lost on American Airlines Flight 77. He is walking a nearly 40-mile journey from where the flight departed at Dulles Airport in suburban Washington, D.C, to where it crashed into The Pentagon.
Paulie sees it as a path to healing, not just for himself, but for those who come out to see him.
"And then, all of a sudden, I come walking down the street with a beverage cart and the neighbors are talking to each other. It was crazy!” he said. “And they would come up and one neighbor would walk away and the other one would say, 'You know something? I haven't talked to that guy in five years.'"
It's also touching the lives of those who know what it's like to work high in the sky.
Retired flight attendant Karen Murphy first met Paulie when they both trained early on in their careers.
"I was scheduled to fly on 175 on Sep. 12 and I know he was upset because he had a very similar schedule,” Murphy said. “We both narrowly missed 9/11 based on scheduling.”
Like others, Murphy said she appreciates what Paulie is doing and came out to walk part of the way to the Pentagon with him.
"I kept thinking about the flight attendants because they were the first responders," Murphy said, “and I felt like the flight attendants weren't getting the same attention and what Paulie is doing I think has been therapeutic for flight attendants, including myself."
Yet, there's one more reason Paulie keeps pushing.
"I'm keeping this thing alive for the generation that's coming up behind us. And that's important to me - that I see these families with their kids,” he said. “They had no idea what 9/11 was and so I know that those parents are telling them about 9/11."
Paulie is planning to do a similar walk for 9/11 next year in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed. He said it is important that the sacrifices made by so many that day are forever remembered, adding, "We can't forget it." | https://www.katc.com/news/national/former-flight-attendant-reprises-unique-journey-to-honor-those-lost-on-9-11 | 2022-09-09T20:42:30Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/former-flight-attendant-reprises-unique-journey-to-honor-those-lost-on-9-11 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency after wastewater testing found evidence of polio in Nassau County.
Polio had recently been detected in Rockland, Orange and Sullivan counties.
So far, only one identified case of polio has been detected. An unvaccinated man in Rockland County suffered from paralysis of the legs after contracting polio.
Hochul's declaration allows more health care professionals to administer polio vaccines, including nurses, midwives, paramedics and pharmacists.
Health officials are urging all unvaccinated New Yorkers to get immunized right away.
"On polio, we simply cannot roll the dice," State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett said. "If you or your child are unvaccinated or not up to date with vaccinations, the risk of paralytic disease is real. I urge New Yorkers to not accept any risk at all."
According to the Centers for Disease Control, about 1 in 100 individuals will develop severe disease after contracting polio, including permanent paralysis, which could turn fatal. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/hochul-declares-state-of-emergency-in-ny-due-to-polio | 2022-09-09T20:42:36Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/hochul-declares-state-of-emergency-in-ny-due-to-polio | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A federal judge in Florida has dismissed former President Donald Trump's lawsuit against former first lady Hillary Clinton and former top FBI officials, calling it a "200-page political manifesto."
According to his lawsuit, Trump claimed the former Democratic presidential nominee, former FBI Director James Comey, and others conspired against him by claiming that he coordinated with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election, USA Today reported.
On Thursday, District Judge Donald Middlebrooks dismissed the case, saying that the lawsuit contained “glaring structural deficiencies” and that many of the “characterizations of events are implausible," the Associated Press reported.
In his lawsuit, Trump claimed that Clinton and the Democratic National Committee "worked together with a single self-serving purpose: to vilify Donald J. Trump," USA Today reported.
In his ruling, Middlebrooks wrote that none of Trump's claims supported that there was a conspiracy against him, the Associated Press reported.
In 2019, special counsel Robert Mueller's concluded after a special investigation that investigators "did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," the Associated Press reported.
According to the news outlet, Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba, said the former President would appeal the dismissal. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/judge-dismisses-trumps-lawsuit-against-clinton-fbi | 2022-09-09T20:42:42Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/judge-dismisses-trumps-lawsuit-against-clinton-fbi | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The "Wheel of Fortune" puzzle board is getting a facelift.
Previously, the board consisted of 52 individual monitors. Now, it'll be a single LED screen with two sensors that will activate when it detects movement, CBS Media Ventures said in a press release.
The show's co-host Vanna White used to manually turn or touch the monitors' sides for the letters to appear on the board, which hadn't been updated in 20 years, according to the press release.
Now, all White has to do is run her hand over the screen, and a letter will appear, the company said.
According to the press release, the laser technology used in the new board has also been used on NASA's Mars rovers.
The game show is set to kick off its 40th season on Sept. 12. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/wheel-of-fortune-puzzle-board-getting-a-facelift-ahead-of-its-40th-season | 2022-09-09T20:43:00Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/wheel-of-fortune-puzzle-board-getting-a-facelift-ahead-of-its-40th-season | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Cheese is always "grate." I mean, when you have cheese, it's the sign you're having a "gouda" day, and you could "disa-brie" ... I mean, disagree.
But everything is always "cheddar" — excuse me — better, with cheese.
Okay, okay, a little cheesy, I know.
When it comes to Swiss cheese, it feels like something is missing.
Why does it have holes?
First off, the cheese experts actually call those holes "eyes."
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And they're caused by carbon dioxide bubbles that form in the cheese.
Time to put on our scientist cap and put Swiss cheese under the microscope.
Bacterial culture called "propionibacterium"— or "props" for short, are behind the eyes.
This bacteria is in hay, grass and soil and ends up in milk from cows.
That milk makes its way to a cheese factory where it's standardized, pasteurized, and brined.
After that, the cheese sits in a warm room which helps the props form those carbon dioxide bubbles.
Those bubbles are left alone while the cheese ferments, resulting in its eyes.
The holes used to be seen as a deformity, and cheesemakers tried to eliminate them.
But today, they're a distinct part of Swiss cheese.
In fact, the cheese industry even pays the government to rate its cheese.
Grade-A Swiss cheese has eyes that are between three-eights of an inch and thirteen-sixteenths of an inch in diameter.
And with more than 300 million pounds of Swiss cheese produced annually in the U.S. — that's a lot of eyes.
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The U.S. is struggling to solve its homelessness crisis.
The number of Americans living on the streets and in shelters is growing.
"This is home. Housing is so expensive, and you can't afford [it]. I would be killing myself to pay rent," said Knoye Brown, who lives in a tent.
Those rent prices are only increasing.
And that means even more Americans will have a difficult time affording housing.
When you add in record high inflation, that leaves America's homeless even more vulnerable.
In 2020 nearly 600,000 Americans will be left without a home, according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness.
The non-profit organization's data shows that homelessness has improved by 10% since 2007.
But in 2020, the U.S. saw a 30% increase in unsheltered homelessness.
And in recent months, homelessness has reached crisis levels in major cities across the country.
This year Knoxville saw a 50% increase in its homeless population, Long Beach, California, saw a 62% increase since 2020 and
Phoenix saw a 33% spike.
Homelessness can come in many forms and can impact all ages.
In January 2020, 70% of the homeless were individuals, and 30% belonged to families with children.
"I wasn’t able to finish school because I didn’t know where I would sleep after school. So I would stay where I was at, so I had a spot," said Conner Showen, a former young homeless person.
States and cities have set aside more funding to try to curb the issue.
New York has more than doubled its spending to over $3 billion since 2014.
Colorado’s governor approved $45 million to convert a youth corrections facility into a homeless recovery campus.
And in New Mexico, $10 million is going to communities to buy old motels and hotels and transform them into transitional housing.
These are just a string of new methods in an attempt to tackle a problem that goes back decades.
According to Bloomberg, homelessness first peaked after the Civil War when veterans without jobs struggled to find housing and freed slaves struggled to find affordable homes or jobs.
From then on, affordable homes were demolished in many minority neighborhoods as part of urban renewal.
In the 1970s, investment in public housing started to decline when President Richard Nixon imposed a moratorium on new public housing after he declared them a failure and instead pivoted to housing subsidies.
And in the 80s, welfare programs to support those in need were cut under President Ronald Reagan’s economic plans to lower taxes for businesses.
Bloomberg adds the AIDS crisis that hit the LGBTQ+ community, a drug epidemic and mass incarceration of people, specifically Black or Hispanic people, also fueled the problem.
This was further exacerbated by policies that favor single-family housing zones.
According to the New York Times, most land plots are designed for single-family houses. Many state laws and zoning rules limit the land that can be used to build multi-unit buildings, like apartment buildings that can house multiple families.
"Really it’s a blend of a trifecta of affordable housing, mental illness and substance abuse. When you add those three at various levels for each person, this is what we’re facing," said Jeff Hicks, the executive director of Hope Rescue Mission.
Other states like California and Oregon have taken different approaches and passed laws in recent years to end single-family zoning so more affordable housing can be built.
Some cities, like Missoula, Montana, have moved toward sanction camps, known as temporary safe outdoor spaces.
"49% of the people that have gone through here are now permanently in housing, recovery, or in areas where we mended some family situations, but they have not turned back to the system," said April Seat, the director of outreach at Hope Rescue Mission.
In the last year, a number of state legislatures introduced bills that some say criminalize homelessness.
In Tennessee, it’s now a felony for homeless people to camp in parks or other public property. Some argue this is not the solution.
"I believe it’s only a misdemeanor, but with a small misdemeanor and a failure to appear, now you have warrants. You can be jailed at any time, it’s difficult to walk into a state building or federally funded building because you’re worried instead of getting help or resources, you’re scared you’re going to get indebted to a lack of it all," said Seat.
Others, like Judge Glock with the Cicero Institute, believe camping bans are the right path to helping the homeless long-term.
And record-high inflation is adding another hurdle for Americans struggling to keep up with rising rent prices.
For some, those rent price increases are simply unaffordable.
"We do see people falling into homelessness because they can’t afford rent. It’s not like it’s being raised $30 to $60 and some areas are raising $200," said Seat.
According to government data reviewed by the LA Times, new rent leases have increased by more than 11% year-over-year.
And polling from Freddie Mac found a majority of renters saw a rent price hike in the last year.
One in five say they’re "extremely likely" to miss a payment.
The severity of America's homeless problem ranges depending on the city and state, but cities across the country are taking action to address the problem.
The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness says the solution is to tackle the housing issue, integrate healthcare, strengthen crisis response systems and build career pathways. But this can’t be done without building and fostering partnerships to address the root causes of homelessness.
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Dignitaries, heads of state, and others who want to pay their final respects to Queen Elizabeth II are converging on London to pay their final respects.
Each person has their own way of grieving a loss. One woman decided to bring the ashes of her grandmother, who she says "loved the Queen."
"I brought my nan with me today, her ashes. She loved the queen," she said.
The BBC spoke to many people out and about London who laid flowers and shed tears and talked about memories of Queen Elizabeth II over the years.
"So, we brought her with us, yeah she loved the Queen, absolutely loved the Queen," the woman said as she wore a somber, mostly black outfit.
She said, in age, that her grandmother and the Queen were just a year apart.
People from all walks of life and many countries spoke about how they felt the Queen was a unifying spirit and entered their lives with meaning.
Another woman said, "It's the end of an era, 70 years, it'll never happen again. She was the calm amongst the storms, but you always knew she'd be a constant presence." | https://www.katc.com/news/world/days-of-mourning-after-death-of-queen-elizabeth-ii-woman-brings-nans-ashes-to-pay-final-respects | 2022-09-09T20:43:18Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/world/days-of-mourning-after-death-of-queen-elizabeth-ii-woman-brings-nans-ashes-to-pay-final-respects | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For Alisa Mixon, a computer analyst who lives in Florissant, MO, Jordan Peele’s “Nope” was the movie that made her finally say “Yes, I’m going back to the theater.”
After more than two years of COVID-related lockdowns, health restrictions and permanent closures, Mixon is among the millions who have returned to movie theaters this summer. According to the Hollywood Reporter, “major theater chains are finally starting to see a box office recovery” due to the summer blockbuster season with releases that include Nope, Beast, League of Super-Pets, Minions: The Rise of Gru and Bullet Train.
Mixon, a self-described “supporter of Black films,” said seeing “Nope” was a necessary precursor before November’s release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” Mixon said her cautionary trek to 24:1 Cinema on Page Avenue last month turned out to be an experience she didn’t know she missed.
“To be honest, I enjoyed them (movies) at home. That whole experience was pretty good because the concession stand was cheap,” Mixon said with a laugh. “But I did kind of miss the camaraderie of looking at films with an audience, everybody reacting to things, especially horror films.”
Although the pandemic made her hesitant, Mixon and a group of girlfriends decided to make “a date” out of their first theater experience. They met at a black-owned restaurant, Goss'Up Pasta, across the street from the Cinema before attending an early Sunday afternoon showing of Peele’s movie. The experience was quite delightful.
“My girlfriends and I were able to have the after-movie conversation that I had missed,” Mixon explained. “Being able to talk about the movie we had just experienced at the same time; I missed the different group interpretations. It was so satisfying that we promised to do it again. It may become our Sunday theme.”
Mixon’s experience is what executives like Rolando Rodriguez, Chairman, President & CEO of Marcus Theaters, attribute to the rebound of local movie theaters.
“Yes, that’s what people want, the typical evening out and that’s what we offer at Marcus Theaters,” said Rodriguez whose company owns eight multiplexes in the area, including the Wehrenberg Theaters chain purchased in 2016.
Rodriguez said Marcus Theaters have combined all the elements Mixon spoke of for the ultimate movie-going experience.
“Many of our customers come out before the movie and enjoy cocktails and dinner. They go to our lounges afterwards that typically have a 20-foot screen and experience sporting events while talking about the movie they just watched. Instead of the typical 21/2-hours, it’s now become a three-to-four-hour experience.”
Rodriguez, who was born in Cuba, came to the United States as a child with his family. They first settled in California then migrated to Kansas City because his parents had relatives. Rodriguez said he has been a lover of movie theaters since the age of 15 when he was hired as a ticket-taker at the Embassy Theaters in Kansas.
The pandemic was a challenging time for movie theaters, like any other consumer-related business, Rodriguez said. But, the good news, he insisted is that movie theaters are rebounding.
“This summer was very exciting to see a lot more films getting released (through theaters). And the second thing is that consumer confidence is starting to rebuild. Whether it’s restaurants or retail, we’re all going through that process of rebuilding consumer confidence and them being comfortable around a lot of people.”
Ruth Harker, vice president and head of engineering at Swan Packaging hasn’t gotten to the comfort level Rodriguez mentioned. Harker, a Webster Groves resident said she has no plans to return to the movie theaters.
“Maybe it’s because I’m getting older but there’s so much hate in the world,” Harker said while detailing why her family stopped going to the movies. “There are shootings in theaters. Another reason we didn’t go back is because people weren’t wearing masks. I had tuberculosis as a kid and if I can avoid being exposed, I’m going to do it.”
Before the pandemic hit, St. Louis County resident and education consultant, Mark Anthony Jones was an avid movie-goer, attending the theater twice a week. The last movie he saw was Tyler Perry’s “A Madea Family Funeral” in 2019. Going to the theatre became almost impossible due to theater closings or limiting seating due to COVID limitations.
“They had all these restrictions; ‘you can’t do this, or you can’t do that.’ It sucked all the fun out of the experience. It wasn’t worth going…no fun in it.” Jones confessed.
Jones will see the movie, Bad Boys 4, which actor Martin Lawrence said is still in development despite the controversy surrounding his co-star Will Smith. Until then, Jones said he’s’ completely satisfied with what streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Prime offers from the comfort of his home.
Nathan Lee, a St. Louis native who has relocated to Fort Worth TX, shares Jones’ satisfaction with streaming services.
“I realized that I don’t have to see something at the movies,” Lee said. “I have Netflix, Hulu, Prime, Paramount and Disney. If movies are not on Redbox, I’ll just wait ‘til they come out on cable. You know they have 65-inch TVs now so I can have the big-screen experience while I’m at home in my underwear.”
Lee spoke to a painful post-COVID reality for theater-owners. According to the Motion Picture Association’s (MPA) annual “theme report,” streaming has had a definite impact on the movie theater industry. According to the report, in 2021, streaming services increased to 353.2 million in the United States, up 14% from 2020.
Rodriguez relegated the rise in streaming services to the two-year-plus pandemic.
“There really wasn’t an option. Most of the people were staying home; you had no choice,” Rodriguez argued. “Streaming has always existed. Netflix has been around a long time. The competition is not really with us; it’s with other streaming services.
Rodriguez said there’s actually a symbiotic relationship between new films released through movie theaters and those released through streaming.
“If a movie does well in theaters, then it will do well in streaming. If it doesn’t do well in theaters, it usually won’t do well in streaming.”
As far as he’s concerned, streaming is better suited for original series like “Game of Thrones, Squid Games or Ozarks.”
“When you think about streaming, it’s almost like binge-watching,” Rodriguez argued, adding: “You’re watching a series, episode after episode. It’s like watching an elongated film. That’s what I think is happening.”
Clarissa Rile Hayward, a professor of political science at Washington University and the author of “How Americans Make Race: Stories, Institutions, Spaces,” is on the fence. Before the pandemic she frequented small movie houses like the HiPointe Theatre or the Moolah Theatre which closed during the pandemic. She’s fully vaccinated and boosted but still has her concerns.
“It’s about not doing something super risky health-wise. The disease keeps evolving and mutating and we can’t keep up with it,” Hayward said while expressing her doubts about ventilation systems in theaters.
Rodriguez said fears of ventilation systems in theaters should be “put in the past.”
“When you go watch a movie, you have 40-foot-high ceilings, you have special filtration happening through the places. In many entertainment (venues) people sat together, they talked, they ate…in theaters you didn’t have that. Unfortunately, we were unjustly punished when we had a pretty good environment to be around people.”
Hayward also wants to see Peele’s latest movie” in the theater. She said she’s in the process of making a calculated decision.
“I’ve flown, I’ve eaten in restaurants, I teach, I’ve been in classrooms. So, in general if it’s an activity that’s not replaceable, I’m more likely to do it. With movies, if you just wait a little bit, you can just catch it at home.”
Still, like Mixon, Hayward said Peele’s movie may draw her back to the theater.
“His films are a little different. They’re like an event. You kind of want to see it with people in the theater with everybody reacting.”
Sylvester Brown Jr. is The St. Louis American’s inaugural Deaconess Fellow. | https://www.stlamerican.com/your_health_matters/covid_19/back-to-the-movies/article_941b9848-2eed-11ed-a31c-db97c470f7f4.html | 2022-09-09T20:44:08Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/your_health_matters/covid_19/back-to-the-movies/article_941b9848-2eed-11ed-a31c-db97c470f7f4.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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