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Niners Nation’s writers and podcasters want to watch 49ers’ games this season with you!
We’re excited to kick off the season and can’t wait to host our first live watch party for a regular season game.
The concept is simple, and it’s FREE!:
- Head to this link: https://www.getplayback.com/room/ninersnation
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- Participate and watch 49ers’ games with the Niners Nation community while interacting with fellow fans and your favorite writers/podcasters!
- You’ll get to ask questions and make comments during the game — all from your home!
You will only have to authenticate your TV provider and create an account for FREE!
We hosted a watch party earlier this preseason for the 49ers-Packers game, and here are some clips to give you an idea of what to expect.
This was a crazy moment on the stream when Trey Lance hit Danny Gray for the touchdown.
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You’ll get to interact with fellow Niners Nation writers Jason Aponte and Rich Madrid, along with myself and Vish Kumaran from 49ers’ Twitter.
You can ask questions, drop comments, hop on stage with us, all while enjoying the game live from the comfort of your own home. We’ll see you there on Sunday! | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/10/23338103/san-francisco-49ers-chicago-bears-nfl-watch-playback-niners-nation | 2022-09-10T13:39:31Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/10/23338103/san-francisco-49ers-chicago-bears-nfl-watch-playback-niners-nation | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Went a bargin in Sale yesterday morning @ $ 9 (DVD $8), I like Tinky\nVoT June June\nLynn Harrop June June. But will probably rent or at least have a Netlrfy queue? TBA and probably NetFLIEX because this way with time we both get to pick it up, although a biggie, you get first chance.\nJust bought this today on Etsy and looks awesome!! WEST MICHIGAN — Anyone else notice that lately every weekend you're making plans around the weather? Well, you're not alone! Precipitation has occurred at least once in West Michigan for the last four weekends in a row. Once the rain comes late tonight, we can mark this weekend as the fifth.
The first weekend with precipitation was August 13 & 14. On the 13th, we broke rainfall records, clocking in 1.35 inches of rain. The following weekend we received a trace to .35 inches of rain. The last weekend of August, we received .97 inches of rain. To kick off September we marked a trace on Saturday and 0.03 inches on Sunday.
Weekend 1— 1.91"
Weekend 2— 0.35"
Weekend 3— 0.97"
Weekend 4— 0.03"
We anticipate that rain will occur tomorrow, making it the fifth weekend affected by rain. For this weekend, we anticipate showers late tonight into Sunday. Rainfall looks to be spotty Sunday morning, but more widespread by Sunday evening. Showers look to continue into the start of the work week too. By Monday we could pick up anywhere between 0.25 inches to 1.5 inches of rain across West Michigan. | https://www.fox17online.com/weather/weather-articles/showers-on-sunday-would-make-for-the-fifth-weekend-in-a-row-with-precipitation | 2022-09-10T13:47:25Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/weather/weather-articles/showers-on-sunday-would-make-for-the-fifth-weekend-in-a-row-with-precipitation | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Selected works from the stunning Chilham Castle will go on auction next month. Items going under the hammer include a pair of matching Charles II kingwood oyster veneered wall mirrors expected to sell for between £30,000 and £50,000.
The auction will showcase the renowned late designer Christopher Gibbs' collection, curated for former owners Stuart and Tessa Wheeler. Gibbs was influential in the 'Swinging London' movement of the 1960s and his work combined pieces with history fitted in a modern context.
A 16th century Belgian biblical tapestry depicting the story of Abraham’s servant Eliezer meeting Rebecca by the well is expected to sell for between £20,000 and £40,000. The scene is woven in metal threads, wools and silks and measures approximately 335cm x 447cm.
Read more:Chilham: The gorgeous, tiny village near Canterbury named one of the UK’s prettiest villages
Other items on offer include a pair of blue and white Kangxi period Islamic dishes with an estimated value of £7-9,000. A late 17th century south Italian verre eglomise, tortoiseshell, rosewood, ebonised and ebony cabinet with painted panels could be yours for a starting price of £15,000.
The Chilham Castle: The Selected Contents from a Christopher Gibbs Interior auction will take place at Dreweatts in Newbury, Berkshire, and online on Tuesday October 4. Prospective buyers can view the items on-site at Chilham Castle between Wednesday September 28 and Sunday October 2.
Joe Robinson, Head of House Sales and Private Collections at Dreweatts, said: "When working with collections there are few words which garner as much respect as ‘supplied by Christopher Gibbs’. His name is synonymous with a refined understanding of interiors marked by a sublime subtlety, diversity and intense quality.
"To say something is ‘Gibbs approved’ may sound glib, but to have the selected contents of a ‘great’ country house like Chilham with items of historic importance, which were specifically chosen by him offers certain assurances that it has an aesthetic quality that is simply too good to miss.
"The selected contents from Chilham are a cross section of Gibb’s vision offering important works besides enigmatic decorative pieces which will not fail to excite the aspiring collector within us.”
Chilham Castle was built in Jacobean times, making it over 400 years old. The Castle's keep dates back even further to the Norman era.
In more modern times, Chilham has been used as a filming location for TV shows including Poirot and Dempsey and Makepeace. You can read more information about the auction, and view the full catalogue of on-sale items, here.
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The date of the Queens funeral is 'set to be Monday, September 19' and will be a public holiday. Charles was proclaimed King in an historic ceremony at St James Palace today (September 10).
Elizabeth II died on Thursday afternoon (September 8) at Balmoral, which has led to her eldest son becoming King Charles III and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort.
In his address to the Privy Council, King Charles III declared his mother's funeral will be a bank holiday. And it is believed the tradition-breaking funeral will be on Monday, September 19, at Westminster Abbey.
What do we know about Her Majesty's funeral?
The official date for Her Majesty's funeral has not yet been announced and is expected later today. But the funeral is expected to take place roughly 10 days after the public announcement of her death.
As she died on September 8 it would make the funeral on September 18. But since the announcement was made in the evening at 6.30pm, it is thought an extra day will be given to allow the complex preparations to take place.
The Queen will now lie in state until her funeral, before being buried alongside her parents and her husband Prince Philip in Windsor. Unlike her husbands funeral, which took place at Windsor Castle, the Queen's funeral will break tradition and held at Westminster Abbey.
There will be a national two minute silence held at midday. The funeral and committal service at St George's Chapel are expected to be broadcast.
The Queen is expected to receive a full state funeral which includes processing her coffin on a gun carriage to the abbey which is likely to be pulled by sailors using ropes rather than horses. It is understood members of the Royal Navy have been told to prepare to carry her coffin.
There will be a strict all-black dress code for members of the Royal Family, who are expected to follow behind the coffin. Military members will line the streets and join in the procession.
The service will take around one hour, and then a large ceremonial procession is set to accompany the coffin to Hyde Park, where it will be transferred from a gun carriage to a state hearse before travelling to Windsor. There will be another procession through Windsor before a the comital service at St George's Chapel.
The coffin will be lowered into the royal vault and The Queen’s final resting place will be the King George VI memorial chapel. It is an annex to the main chapel at Windsor Castle, where her mother and father were buried, along with the ashes of her sister, Princess Margaret.
Philip’s coffin will move from the Royal Vault to the memorial chapel to join the Queen’s.
As the Queen died in Scotland, Operation Unicorn has been launched, which lays out how Her Majesty's body will be taken from Balmoral to London. It has been reported the Queen's body will be returned to Buckingham Palace on the Royal Train.
Large crowds are expected to gather along the route which is likely to be the classic East Coast Main Line route. The final part of the route from Hitchin to King's Cross where the train will arrive, was the same route she used later in life when between her homes in London and Sandringham.
'My Mother’s reign was unequalled'
In his declaration of his commitment to the nation, King Charles said: "My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen. It is my most sorrowful duty to announce to you the death of my beloved Mother, The Queen.
"I know how deeply you, the entire Nation – and I think I may say the whole world – sympathise with me in the irreparable loss we have all suffered. It is the greatest consolation to me to know of the sympathy expressed by so many to my Sister and Brothers and that such overwhelming affection and support should be extended to our whole family in our loss.
"To all of us as a family, as to this kingdom and the wider family of nations of which it is a part, my Mother gave an example of lifelong love and of selfless service. My Mother’s reign was unequalled in its duration, its dedication and its devotion. Even as we grieve, we give thanks for this most faithful life.
"I am deeply aware of this great inheritance and of the duties and heavy responsibilities of Sovereignty which have now passed to me. In taking up these responsibilities, I shall strive to follow the inspiring example I have been set in upholding constitutional government and to seek the peace, harmony and prosperity of the peoples of these Islands and of the Commonwealth Realms and Territories throughout the world.
"In this purpose, I know that I shall be upheld by the affection and loyalty of the peoples whose Sovereign I have been called upon to be, and that in the discharge of these duties I will be guided by the counsel of their elected parliaments. In all this, I am profoundly encouraged by the constant support of my beloved wife.
"I take this opportunity to confirm my willingness and intention to continue the tradition of surrendering the hereditary revenues, including the Crown Estate, to My Government for the benefit of all, in return for the Sovereign Grant, which supports My official duties as Head of State and Head of Nation.
"And in carrying out the heavy task that has been laid upon me, and to which I now dedicate what remains to me of my life, I pray for the guidance and help of Almighty God."
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One of Kent's much-loved coastal festivals is making its return this year with with its food festival, live music and plenty of family activities. The popular event is a celebration of Whitstable's historic and cultural connection with Oysters.
The historic festival will start from Friday, September 16 to Sunday, September 18 and will take place in and around the East Quay Venue and Long Beach are of the town. The event usually takes place in July but was cancelled in 2020 because of the pandemic.
The celebration went ahead last year, but without the food festival so this will be the first time it is back in full swing. Across Saturday and Sunday there will be a number of food stalls, a music stage and festival bar with a selection of craft ales in the Grading Shed adjacent to the East Quay.
Read more: All of the places in Kent where you can pay your respects to Queen Elizabeth II
There will be the chance to take part in an exclusive oyster farm tour with the Whitstable Oyster Trading Company that promises 'an experience like not other'. Participants will get to explore the oyster beds with an experienced oyster farmer, followed by a glass of bubbles and the chance to tuck into to some freshly shucked Whitstable Rock Oysters.
Other activities include, kite flying, crabbing, treasure hunt and more. Here is the full line up for the weekend:
Friday 16 September
Oyster Farm Tour Experience from 10:30am (tickets can be obtained online)
Kite Flying Picnic: 4-6pm
Saturday 17 September
Pirate Pottery: 11am-12pm
The Mud Tug: 12pm-3pm
The Landing of the Oysters: 4pm
Grotter Building: 4pm till dark
Lighting of the Grotters
Sunday 18 September
Community Beach Clean
Chalky Chalky at the street 1pm - 2:30pm
Treasure Hunt at Whistable Castle 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Crabbing 5pm - 6pm
Big Splash 6pm - 7pm
The festival is free to attend, however some activities require a ticket or a require a fee. For more details you can visit the website HERE.
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Will the bank holiday for the Queen’s state funeral be on Sunday September 18 or Monday September 19?
Prince Charles III was formerly proclaimed the new monarch at a ceremony in St. James’ Palace in London on Saturday morning.
The date on which Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral will take place is expected to be announced by Buckingham Palace soon.
King Charles III approved the day of his later mother’s funeral would be a bank holiday during the first part of his formal proclamation in St. James’ Palace in London - the second and final part of the proclamation took place on the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London at precisely 12.00pm on Saturday.
Will the Queen’s funeral take place on Sunday September 18 or Monday September 19?
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As set out in Operation London Bridge, the official plan for the coordination of the Queen’s state funeral, the day of the Queen’s death is to be referred to as D-Day or D-Day + 0.
Queen Elizabeth II passed away on Thursday September 8 which would normally mean Sunday September 18 would be D-Day +10 (D-Day +10 is set out in Operation London Bridge as the day the state funeral would be held).
However, according to some royal experts, because the death of the Queen was not formally announced until 6.30pm on Thursday September 8, D-Day became Friday September 9, 2022.
The reason this could be the case is to ensure those responsible for planning the state funeral are afforded the full time required and as set out in Operation London Bridge.
Will schools and businesses close?
If Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral takes place on Monday September 19, schools right across the United Kingdom will close.
Most businesses and many shops will also close as a mark of respect for the late monarch.
An extra bank holiday was approved earlier in 2022 to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.
Where will the state funeral be held?
The Queen’s funeral will be held in Westminster Abbey in London.
The late monarch is expected to be buried alongside her parents in Windsor Castle, in the King George VI memorial chapel.
The Queen’s late husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died in April 2021, will be moved from the Royal Vault at St. George’s Chapel and reunited with his late wife in the memorial chapel. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/will-the-bank-holiday-for-the-queens-state-funeral-be-on-sunday-september-18-or-monday-september-19-3838988 | 2022-09-10T14:03:17Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/will-the-bank-holiday-for-the-queens-state-funeral-be-on-sunday-september-18-or-monday-september-19-3838988 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
This week's show was recorded at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, with host Peter Sagal, official judge and scorekeeper Bill Kurtis, Not My Job guest Abbi Jacobson and panelists Luke Burbank, Faith Salie and Paula Poundstone. Click the audio link above to hear the whole show.
Who's Bill This Time
The Finale of the Crown; Don't Spit Baby; A Body For Business
Panel Questions
Hyperactive Mice
Bluff The Listener
Our panelists read three stories about artists who aren't struggling, only one of which is true.
Not My Job: A League of Their Own's Abbi Jacobson answers three questions about the XFL
Abbi Jacobson fell in love with A League of Their Own as a kid, so she jumped at the chance to help create a reboot for Amazon after her own show, Broad City, ended. But, can she answer our three questions about another league of their own? Specifically, the XFL.
Panel Questions
Where the Delivery Drone Ends; Lawnmower Unleashed
Limericks
Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: What's the Deal With Models; Kids Today Are Acting Old; Meower of Babel
Lightning Fill In The Blank
All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.
Predictions
Our panelists predict, after abs for CEOs, what will be the next status symbol for billionaires.
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At the 2022 U.S. Open tennis tournament, which wraps up this weekend in Flushing Meadows, N.Y., technology has won: game, set, match.
Human line judges at the tournament have been entirely replaced by optical technology to determine whether balls are ruled in or out. Immediately after impact, a recorded voice shouts out the call: "FAULT!" for a wayward serve; "OUT!" for a ball that lands long or wide in a rally.
Gone are player challenges to questionable calls. No more furious players spewing venom at umpires for a ruling that went against them.
By replacing human line judges with the optical system called Hawk-Eye Live, "we're providing the players a fairer playing field with a lot more integrity, a much higher accuracy call," says Sean Cary, who oversees officiating for the United States Tennis Association (USTA), which runs the U.S. Open.
In the past, Cary says, when a player challenged a line judge's call and it was reviewed through the Hawk-Eye tracking system, the human turned out to be correct about 75% of the time.
Now, Cary tells NPR, "the automated line calling system is right pretty much 100% of the time."
Put another way: "We are millimeter accurate in terms of our line calling," says Benjamin Figueiredo, director of tennis at Hawk-Eye Innovations.
Some players say Hawk-Eye is not foolproof, and does occasionally make erroneous calls. But most seem to support the shift.
"It's pretty tough to argue with a computer. You always lose that battle," says professional tennis player Noah Rubin, who competed at the U.S. Open from 2013-2019 at the junior and men's levels and was the 2014 Wimbledon junior boys' champion. Automated line calling, he says, "takes away that anxiety of, 'I really hope the line judge or chair umpire doesn't mess this one up.' "
Hawk-Eye Live uses 12 cameras to track the path of the ball through space.
"No sensors. No lasers," says the company's Figueiredo. "It's all through optical tracking. ... The entire system is calibrated to the court. And the cameras essentially identify the X, Y, Z position at any given point."
When the ball lands out, he says, "we're automatically triggering the noises that you hear on court through the P.A. system... to call 'fault' or 'out' calls in the same way that you're used to a line judge doing that."
The U.S. Open's pivot to Hawk-Eye Live came in 2020, at the early peak of the COVID pandemic. To minimize the risk of infection spread, the tournament eliminated nearly all line judges, instead using Hawk-Eye Live on all but the two main courts. Tournament officials thought the system worked so well that now they use it exclusively.
With the switch to automation, about 250 line judges lost their jobs at the U.S. Open. But some of their voices live on: the recorded calls heard during play include the voices of line judges who went into a studio inside Arthur Ashe Stadium and, essentially, recorded their swan songs.
There are a variety of officials' voices in the database, male and female, calling plays with a range of dynamics and urgency.
"The thing that I think is really cool," says the USTA's Cary, "is that we've been able to program the system to know that if the ball is way out, it's going to be a softer out call. But if it's a really close one, like it would be with a live line umpire, they generally yell at the top of their voices to make sure everyone hears it."
Just like a baseball umpire, they're selling the call.
"Yes," agrees Cary. "Selling the call is a great way of explaining it."
Fewer people means a 'cleaner' court
Along with greater accuracy, Cary says there's another advantage to replacing line judges with automation. Now, with nine fewer people on the court, he says, "we're providing a much cleaner court for our broadcast partners and our sponsorship partners."
In other words, the TV networks and corporate sponsors are happier because the screen has less clutter – though Cary balks at that word: "I mean," he says, "clutter's not necessarily a nice word to call human beings."
The absence of line judges, however welcome, still strikes player Noah Rubin as visually odd.
"I'm usually not a tennis traditionalist," he says, "but there's something about having those line judges dressed up in the back of the court making the calls. There's definitely something missing there. It looks pretty empty on the courts."
But, he adds, "I think this is where sports have to get to. There's too much on the line to be decided by a missed call, by human error."
Other tournaments besides the U.S. Open have turned exclusively to Hawk-Eye Live instead of human line judges — including the Australian Open. There, the prerecorded voices making calls have included front-line workers who responded to both the COVID pandemic and wildfires, and the Aussie actress Rebel Wilson, who's a passionate tennis fan.
Last year, Hawk-Eye Innovation's Figueiredo caused a stir when he told the Sydney Morning Herald that his company had held discussions about replacing the "fault" and "out" calls with the names of sponsors shouted out instead.
"It's quite interesting," he said at the time. "You could have 'Ralph Lauren' being shouted out. That might wind a few people up after a while. It's certainly a possibility, yeah."
Asked about that prospect by NPR, Figueiredo responds cagily.
"Um ... there have been historical discussions that have been had," he says. "It's — um, it's not something that at the minute I guess anyone's particularly — well, has followed up on at the moment. ... It has previously been talked about. I guess I'd rather not go into details."
As for the U.S. Open, the USTA's Sean Cary predicts that automated line calling is here to stay: "Because we're providing a a fairer and more even contest to the players, with a higher level of integrity," he says, "it would be very difficult for us to move backwards now."
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One of the most exhilarating aspects of a new piece of jewelry is how it gleans in the light. That sparkle you see every time you see the light catch on it just right is pretty thrilling.
Yet, over time, rings, necklaces, bracelets and earrings naturally start to become scratched and tarnished. They can even become discolored from the buildup of daily dirt and grime. Lotions, body oil and smudges can all affect luster.
Jewelry and other prized pieces tarnish because of a chemical reaction between metal and oxygen. You see this a lot with silver. Any jewelry, despite the type of metal used to make it, should be cleaned consistently when worn regularly. Typically this entails gently doing some weekly or bi-weekly cleaning to keep it looking shiny.
Though you could just get the best jewelry cleaner you can find, you can actually do this at home with ingredients you probably already have on hand. We’ve researched the best ways to clean silver, gold and precious stones — and they’re incredibly simple!
How to Clean Silver at Home
The best jewelry cleaner for silver might surprise you: liquid dish soap. Mix a few drops with warm water and gently rub the silver to remove the tarnish. Then rinse with cold water and buff with a soft cloth.
If your piece is heavily tarnished, try mixing three parts baking soda to one part water to make a paste. Using a lint-free cloth, rub the paste into the jewelry, then rinse and buff.
Dedicated polishes, which come in liquids or pastes, can be messy to use, especially if you’re trying to sneak in a quick clean while you’re walking out the door. If you are in a hurry, disposable silver cleaning wipes or reusable treated cloths can remove tarnish (and restore shine!) quickly and neatly. Those might be worth the investment if you need them often.
If you’re looking for a quick DIY fix to bring a piece of silver back to life, reach for the toothpaste. This will shine it up in no time but isn’t recommended for long-term use because it won’t stop the tarnish from returning.
How to Clean Gold at Home
The best jewelry cleaner for gold is actually the same as silver: liquid dish soap. Soak pieces in warm soapy water for 5 to 15 minutes and then rinse and buff. Gold is soft and can scratch easily, so it’s best to avoid other regular household cleaners.
How to Clean Gemstones at Home
If you have diamonds, precious or semi-precious stones, such as rubies or emeralds, that need to be shined up and are set in gold, grab an old, soft toothbrush. You’ll want to grab your dish soap again, but this time reach for seltzer water, as the carbonation will loosen trapped soil and debris. Then, dip items in a bowl with cold water or run under the faucet. Just be sure to close or cover the drain as your jewelry will be slippery when wet.
How to Store Jewelry
The best way to prevent jewelry from tarnishing is to store it in felt away from other metals. Felt helps impede tarnish and moisture build-up. This is why you see it used so often in jewelry boxes.
Are you ready to bring back your jewelry’s sparkle?
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An upper-level trough and southerly flow is expected to drive moisture and heavy rainfall to the Tallahassee area and our coastal counties throughout the day. A flood watch has been issued for our region and will expire at 6:00 PM on Sunday. Please be cautious when out and about this weekend and remember if you encounter flood waters, turn around.
Rain chances will decrease early in the work week bringing a slight relief from showers and storms. Lows for the rest of the work week will linger in the low 70s with highs in the upper 80s. | https://www.wtxl.com/weather/saturday-morning-first-to-know-forecast-09-10-22 | 2022-09-10T14:19:48Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/weather/saturday-morning-first-to-know-forecast-09-10-22 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Hurricane Earl is hovering hundreds of miles south of Newfoundland and is currently a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph. Earl is expected to bring windy conditions over the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland until Sunday. The hurricane will also generate large swells that will affect Bermuda, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and parts of the Eastern United States.
A tropical wave is expected to move off the coast of Africa on Monday and currently has a low chance of development over the next 48 hours and 5 days. | https://www.wtxl.com/weather/saturday-morning-first-to-know-tropics-check-09-10-22 | 2022-09-10T14:19:55Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/weather/saturday-morning-first-to-know-tropics-check-09-10-22 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The 2022 Formula 1 World Championship continues this weekend with round 16, the Italian Grand Prix, taking place at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.
The Italian Grand Prix, like the British Grand Prix, has been on the F1 calendar since the inaugural 1950 season. It’s been held at Monza, located just outside of Milan, every year except 1980, when it was held at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari located at Imola. In recent years, F1 has held additional rounds in Italy to help cover for rounds in other locations canceled due to pandemic-related restrictions.
With the demise of the original track layout of the Hockenheimring in Germany, Monza remains the only historic high-speed track still hosting an F1 race. In the old days, there were no chicanes on the long straights, which made for some incredibly close racing, with dozens of overtaking moves every lap thanks to the slipstreaming effect.
But the Italian Grand Prix is much older than F1, as its first race was held in 1921. Monza was built the following year, making it 100 years old this year, and the circuit hosted its first Italian Grand Prix just a week after its completion.
Today, Monza’s 3.6-mile track layout consists of a series of straights and some tight chicanes, with drivers typically spending 76% of the lap time and 83% of the lap distance at full throttle. It delivers the fastest average speed of the season and the cars reach more than 200 mph in no less than four sections.
As a result, cars are set up for low downforce to maximize their top speeds. This in turn makes them more dependent on the mechanical traction from the tires to provide grip through the corners. Pirelli has nominated its C2 compound as the White hard, C3 as the Yellow medium, and C4 as the Red soft rubber compounds.
The weather at Monza this time of year tends to be hot, which is good as the long straights mean the tires can cool too much when the weather is milder. The current forecast calls for warm and sunny conditions during both Saturday’s qualifying session and Sunday’s race, with 82 degrees Fahrenheit expected to be the top temperature.
Going into the weekend, Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen leads the 2022 Drivers’ Championship with 310 points. Second and third places are held by Red Bull’s Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc who each have an equal 201 points. In the Constructors’ Championship, Red Bull leads with 511 points. Ferrari is second with 376 points and Mercedes-Benz AMG is third with 346 points. Last year’s Monza winner was Daniel Ricciardo driving for McLaren.
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Talks between Porsche and Red Bull concerning a partnership in Formula 1 have come to an end without a resulting deal, Porsche announced on Friday.
Porsche said it was seeking a deal that would be “based on an equal footing,” not only regarding the supply of a new Porsche power unit but also for control of the team.
It was previously reported that Porsche was set to acquire 50% of the team.
Since a deal couldn’t be achieved, the two parties jointly decided to end the talks, Porsche said on Friday.
Porsche hasn’t abandoned its desire to enter F1 just yet. It said the new power unit regulations due to be introduced in 2026 make the series an “attractive environment” that will continue to be monitored.
The new regulations call for lower costs and the use of 100% sustainable fuels, something that has also proven attractive for fellow Volkswagen Group brand Audi. Audi announced in August it will enter F1 in 2026 when the new regulations are introduced by partnering with an existing team believed to be Sauber, which currently races as Alfa Romeo. The Sauber-Alfa Romeo deal is scheduled to end after 2023.
Like Porsche, Audi plans to develop its own power unit.
Porsche has a history in F1. It competed as a constructor in the 1950s and ’60s and then briefly as a power unit supplier in the 1980s and early ’90s. While Audi hasn’t competed in F1, it does have a history of Grand Prix racing, having dominated on racetracks together with Mercedes-Benz during the 1930s, when it was called Auto Union.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats desperately needed the vote of Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia to get their signature legislative priority across the finish. So they did what Washington does best: They cut a deal.
To help land his support for a bill hailed by advocacy groups as the biggest investment ever in curbing climate change, Manchin said he secured a commitment from President Joe Biden and Democratic leaders to move a permitting reform package for energy projects through Congress before Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year.
Now the climate bill is law, and Manchin is ready to collect. But key Democratic constituency groups are lining up against the proposal, calling it bad for the country and the climate. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and dozens of House members agree.
The fissure could complicate the party’s efforts to keep the focus on this summer’s major legislative victories going into the November midterm elections, which will determine which party controls the House and the Senate. More immediately, the divide is testing the ability of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to keep enough Democrats in line to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of the month.
Schumer is pushing ahead. He said this week that he would attach Manchin’s preferred measure to must-pass legislation that would keep the federal government running into mid-December.
To win over skeptics, some Democrats are stressing that Manchin’s proposal to streamline environmental reviews for energy infrastructure projects would be good for renewable energy, too.
A summary of the proposed legislation has been circulating among Senate Democrats in recent days and was obtained by The Associated Press. It states that the package being developed is key to meeting climate goals by developing interstate transmission lines that will transport electricity from Midwestern wind farms, for example, to major East Coast cities.
“Unfortunately, today these higher voltage, longer lines across multiple jurisdictions are not getting built,” the summary said.
The summary states that about 20 large transmission projects are ready to move forward with some federal support.
“Reforms to address permitting, siting and cost allocation concerns are key to building these projects,” the document says.
In interviews, key Democratic senators stressed a similar message, calling the energy proposal complementary to the massive climate package that passed last month.
“Right now, there’s just too much delay in solar and wind and geothermal, so I want at every possible opportunity to speed up permitting for renewables,” said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.
Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, said the permitting effort is about making sure bedrock environmental laws are followed in a more timely manner, such as concurrent reviews by government agencies rather than one agency beginning its work after another has finished.
Schatz said the “old environmental movement” was built around stopping inappropriate projects. But the “new environmental movement” is built around building an unprecedented amount of clean energy.
“In order to do that, we’re going to run into the same regulations that have stopped bad projects for a number of years,” Schatz said. “If we’re going to actually meet our clean energy goals, we’re going to need to build big planet-saving projects, and that means the federal regulations that slow them down have to be looked at very carefully.”
Legislative text incorporating Manchin’s priorities has not yet been released, but among the goals he has set out is establishing a maximum timeline for permitting reviews, including two years for major projects and one year for lower-impact projects. Manchin also wants a statute of limitations for filing court challenges and language that would enhance the federal government’s authority over interstate electric transmission projects determined by the Secretary of Energy to be in the national interest.
Finally, he wants to require all relevant agencies to take the steps necessary to permit the construction and operation of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 303-mile (487-kilometer) pipeline, which is mostly finished and would transport natural gas across West Virginia and Virginia.
The proposed route crosses more than 1,100 streams and will disturb 6,951 acres (2,813 hectares) of land, including 4,168 acres (1,687 hectares) that have the potential for severe water erosion. When fully complete, the pipeline will deliver up to 2 billion cubic feet (56 million cubic meters) of natural gas per day to markets in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
Legal battles have delayed completion by nearly four years and doubled the pipeline’s cost, now estimated at $6.6 billion. Manchin also wants to give the federal appeals court in Washington jurisdiction over any further litigation regarding the project.
More than 70 House Democrats signed onto a letter Friday calling on Pelosi to keep the permitting provisions out of the spending bill, or any other must-pass legislation this year.
“We remain deeply concerned that these serious and detrimental permitting provisions will significantly and disproportionately impact low-income communities, indigenous communities, and communities of color,” the lawmakers wrote.
Sanders directed his ire mostly at efforts to open the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Speaking on the Senate floor, he cited the litany of climate disasters taking place around the globe — from record-breaking droughts in the West and in China, to massive flooding in Pakistan, to the melting of glaciers that he said could place major U.S. cites underwater in coming decades.
“At a time when climate change is threatening the very existence of the planet, why would anybody be talking about substantially increasing carbon emissions and expanding fossil fuel production in the United Sates?” Sanders said. “What kind of message does this send to the people of our own country and to suffering people all over the world?”
Schatz called the Mountain Valley Pipeline a “different animal” that he normally would not accept, but “we’ve made a deal with Joe Manchin.” He said that deal, which led to the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act last month, has put the U.S. on a path to achieving the most emission reductions in the nation’s history.
That bill uses changes in the tax code to move the U.S. to cleaner sources of energy. It gives tax breaks to consumers who buy electric vehicles, solar panels and more energy-efficient appliances, and it also provides financial incentives for the manufacturers of such products. Plus the bill spends billions of dollars on such things as transitioning the fleet of the U.S. Postal Service to electric vehicles.
Advocates project the bill puts the U.S. on track to cut emissions 40% below 2005 levels by 2030.
“In the net, this is not a close call,” Schatz said. “… I don’t like this pipeline, but it’s not the main environmental problem on the planet. The main environmental problem is that we’re not doing enough wind and solar. And now we’re about to see wind and solar energy take off like a rocket ship.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is introducing some of its most radical rules next season, adopting a pitch clock and limiting defensive shifts after concluding modern analytics created a slower, less entertaining sport.
The decisions were made Friday by the sport’s 11-man competition committee over the unanimous opposition of the panel’s four players. Commissioner Rob Manfred pushed for the innovations along with a management team that included former Boston and Chicago Cubs executive Theo Epstein, now an MLB consultant.
“The influx of data in our industry,” Epstein said, “have not improved the game from an esthetic standpoint or from an entertainment standpoint. So in my role now, it’s my responsibility to try to look at the big picture, think about what’s great for fans.”
Players supported the third major initiative: larger bases that are expected to lessen injuries and lead to more stolen bases because of a decreased distance of 4 1/2 inches.
Manfred called the rules an attempt to “bring back the best form of baseball.”
“Number one, fans want games with better pace,” he said during a news conference. “Two, fans want more action, more balls in play. And three, fans want to see more of the athleticism of our great players.”
Union head Tony Clark was noticeably absent, as he was at the announcement of an agreement in March that ended a 99-day lockout.
“Players live the game — day in and day out. On-field rules and regulations impact their preparation, performance, and ultimately, the integrity of the game itself,” the union said in a statement. “Major League Baseball was unwilling to meaningfully address the areas of concern that players raised.”
The pitch clock will be set at 15 seconds with no runners on base and 20 seconds with runners — up from the 14/19 tested at Triple-A this season and 14/18 at lower minor league levels.
There will be a limit of two of what MLB calls disengagements — pickoff attempts or steps off the rubber — per plate appearance, and a balk would be called for a third or more unless there is an out. The disengagement limit, which some players predict will beneft baserunners, would be reset if a runner advances.
A catcher is required to be in the catcher’s box with nine seconds left on the clock and a hitter in the batter’s box and focused on the pitcher with eight seconds remaining. Penalties for violations will be a ball called against a pitcher and a strike called against a batter.
A batter can ask an umpire for time once per plate appearance, and after that it would be granted only at the umpire’s discretion if the request is made while in the batter’s box.
The clock, which some players suggested be altered for late and close situations, has helped reduce the average time of a nine-inning game in the minor leagues from 3 hours, 4 minutes in 2021 to 2:38 this season. The average time of a nine-inning game in the major leagues this year is 3:07, up from 2:46 in 1989 and 2:30 in the mid-1950s.
“It reminded me of the game that I grew up watching in the ’70s and ’80,” said former outfielder Raúl Ibañez, now an MLB senior vice president.
Two infielders will be required to be on either side of second and all infielders to be within the outer boundary of the infield when the pitcher is on the rubber. Infielders may not switch sides unless there is a substitution, but five-man infields will still be allowed, MLB executive vice president Morgan Sword said.
Shifts have soared from 2,357 times on balls hit in play in 2011 to 28,130 in 2016 and 59,063 last year, according to Sports Info Solutions. Shifts are on pace for 68,000 this season.
“I think fans will cherish the moments absent the extreme defensive shifts when games are decided not by whether their team’s infield is positioned by the perfect algorithm, but by whether their team’s second baseman can range to make an athletic dive playing with everything on the line,” Epstein said.
MLB’s season batting average has dropped from .267 in 1997 to .243 this year, with a team’s average runs declining from 4.77 to 4.33.
“The game has evolved in a way that nobody would have chosen if we were sitting down 25 years ago to chart a path towards the best version of baseball,” Epstein said. “Nobody would have asked for fans to have to wait more than four minutes for balls to be put into play. Nobody would have asked for generational lows and stolen bases, triples and doubles.”
Base size will increase to 18-inch squares from 15 — first basemen are less likely to get stepped on.
In addition, each team will be allowed a sixth mound visit in the ninth inning next year, if it has used five during the first eight innings.
Until last winter, MLB needed one year advance notice to amend on-field rules without union approval but the March lockout settlement established the committee. Cardinals pitcher Jack Flaherty, Rays pitcher Tyler Glasnow, Blue Jays infielder/outfielder Whit Merrifield and Giants outfielder Austin Slater represented players Friday, a group that included Cubs infielder Ian Happ as an alternate.
“It’s going to be hard on guys. … It’s a shame that that we weren’t taken more seriously,” Merrifield said. “It’s an overcorrect and they’re going to have to tweak it. And that’s just what we were trying to avoid.”
Seattle chairman John Stanton headed the committee, which included include St. Louis CEO Bill DeWitt Jr., San Francisco chairman Greg Johnson, Colorado CEO Dick Monfort, Toronto CEO Mark Shapiro and Boston chairman Tom Werner, along with umpire Bill Miller.
“It’s hard to get consensus among the group of players on changing the game,” Manfred said. “I think at the end of the day what we did here was about giving fans the kind of game they want to see.”
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AP Sports Writer Stephen Hawkins contributed to this report.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem asked a state ethics board to dismiss a complaint against her without a public hearing and to seal off certain records, documents released Friday by the state’s Government Accountability Board show.
The Republican governor, who is widely seen as eyeing a 2024 White House bid, argued in an April motion that the state’s attorney general, a fellow Republican who filed the complaint, was out for political retribution and should be removed from the complaint. Noem had pushed former Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg to resign and later for his impeachment over his involvement in a fatal car crash.
The attorney general’s complaint was sparked by a report from The Associated Press last year that Noem had taken a hands-on role in a state agency. Shortly after the agency moved to deny her daughter, Kassidy Peters, a real estate appraiser license in July of 2020, Noem held a meeting with Peters and key decision-makers in her licensure. Days after the meeting, Peters signed an agreement that gave her another opportunity to meet the licensing requirements.
The South Dakota Legislature’s audit committee, controlled by Republicans, unanimously approved a report in May that found Noem’s daughter got preferential treatment.
The records released Friday provided some new insight into an inquiry that the Government Accountability Board has conducted mostly in secret for nearly a year. The three retired judges who evaluated the ethics complaint unanimously found last month that there was enough evidence for them to believe that Noem “engaged in misconduct” by committing malfeasance and a conflict of interest.
The board has said “appropriate action” would be taken against Noem, though it didn’t specify the action. It’s also not clear whether Noem will request a contested case hearing before the board to publicly defend herself against the allegations.
Neither her office nor her campaign said Friday whether she will proceed to a public hearing. She has continued to publicly insist that she did nothing wrong.
The records show that Noem, in a 29-page motion to the board, launched a range of arguments for dismissing the complaint. Her attorney, Lisa Prostrollo, mocked Ravnsborg’s allegations as “nonsensical,” a “political attack” and based on “far-fetched conspiracy theories.”
The motion argues Noem’s daughter joined the July 2020 meeting to provide her perspective as an applicant and attempts to defend how that was appropriate while she was facing a denial of her license. Government ethics experts have said the timing and circumstances of the meeting created a clear conflict of interest for the governor.
Noem’s attorney argued that the Government Accountability Board did not have the constitutional power to act against the governor or evaluate the complaint against her. And the lawyer suggested that Ravnsborg, who had been forced from office, be removed from the complaint and replaced with the deputy attorney general who was overseeing the office at the time.
The board in August denied Noem’s motion. However, it did appear to later pay some heed to Noem’s requests. It dismissed two of Ravnsborg’s allegations that she misused public funds, and sealed off certain records from being released.
Ravnbsorg suggested that the board launch a full investigation into the episode by hiring a Minneapolis law firm. However, the board appears ready to settle the matter. It closed the complaint and has so far kept it a secret what “action” it may take against the governor, though it has suggested the complaint could be reopened later.
The secrecy of the board’s potential action against the governor has prompted some criticism from government ethics experts who say the board should be transparent.
“I would hope that they would make public their plan of action as soon as possible,” Karen Soli, a former Democratic state lawmaker who helped create the board, told the AP last month.
Noem also made a motion to strike certain documents from the record, but it is not clear what those records were because the board did not release that motion. The board’s attorney, Mark Haigh, said the motion was not released because it contained the list of redacted records.
The board previously voted to redact records that “contain privileged information” related to a state fund for paying litigation. The agency’s former director, Sherry Bren, received a $200,000 payment from the fund to settle an age discrimination complaint she filed after Labor Secretary Marcia Hultman pressured her to retire in December of 2020.
Meanwhile, the board has sent a separate complaint to Mark Vargo, the attorney general who Noem appointed to replace Ravnsborg, to investigate her use of state airplanes. Ravnsborg alleged that her use of the state-owned plane to fly to political events and escort family members around the state violated a state law that only allows the aircraft to be used for state business.
Vargo’s office said Friday that, “to avoid even the appearance of impropriety,” he has requested Hughes County State’s Attorney Jessica LaMie to oversee the Division of Criminal Investigation’s work and make any charging decisions.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon utilities shut down power to tens of thousands of customers on Friday as dry easterly winds swept into the region in the hopes that it would lessen the risk of wildfires in extremely dry and hot conditions.
Power shut-offs due to extreme fire weather, common in California, are relatively new to the Pacific Northwest. The plans, which were part of permanent rules approved in May to manage wildfire danger in high-risk areas, mark the new reality in a region better known for its rain and temperate rainforests.
Portland General Electric halted power to about 30,000 customers in 12 service areas — including the posh West Hills neighborhood of Portland — and Pacific Power shut down service to more than 7,000 customers in a small community on the Pacific Coast, where a wildfire burned two years ago, and in pockets southeast of the state capitol of Salem.
Schools in the areas with planned power outages canceled classes and authorities urged residents to charge cellphones and be ready to evacuate at a moment’s notice.
The winds were whipping up a wildfire southeast of Eugene, Oregon, that had been burning in the wilderness for a month but was now making a run toward the small community of Oakridge, where residents were ordered to evacuate. Gov. Kate Brown declared a fire emergency late Friday for the Cedar Creek Fire as it encroached on the 3,200-person town.
Climate change is bringing drier conditions to the Pacific Northwest and that requires strategies that have been common in fire-prone California for the past decade or more, said Erica Fleishman, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University.
Wind patterns haven’t changed, but those winds are now coinciding more frequently with drier vegetation and hotter temperatures — a toxic mix for fire ignition, rapid spread and extreme fire behavior, she said.
“I don’t know whether this is the solution, but it’s an interim effort to manage wildfire risk,” Fleishman said. “People are going, ‘Oh my gosh!’ The areas we thought were safe, they’re realizing those are not immune to fire anymore. The fire likelihood is changing.”
The proactive power shutoffs were just the second for Portland General Electric ever. The utility shut down power to 5,000 customers in 2020 near Mount Hood during firestorms that ravaged the state. Extreme winds over Labor Day weekend led to wildfires that burned more than 1 million acres (405,000 hectares), destroyed 4,000 homes and killed at least 11 people — and utilities were blamed for some of those fire starts.
Pacific Power, another major utility in Oregon, said the shutoffs Friday were the first the company has ever done. The company put a wildfire mitigation plan in place in Oregon in 2018 that includes studying wind and weather patterns to predict high-risk areas.
The utility was sued last year by residents in two towns that burned to ashes in the 2020 wildfires who blamed the company for not shutting down power in advance of the devastating wind storm.
Pacific Power has since hired a team of meteorologists to make fire weather forecasts and is spending more than $500 million to “harden” its electric grid in high-risk areas by replacing wooden poles with carbonized ones and encasing power lines and conductor boxes to reduce the chances of a spark, said Drew Hanson, a Pacific Power spokesman.
“You can look at the West in general and climate change has impacted areas from Southern California, and then Northern California and now up into this region as well, we’re seeing those same conditions,” he said.
“It’s something we are taking very seriously. We realize the changing landscape. We’ve been changing and evolving along with it.”
A number of blazes are burning in Oregon and Washington state.
Just south of Salem, firefighters using at least two planes and a helicopter tried to douse the flames of a wildfire that spread from grass to stands of trees, blanketing parts of the Willamette Valley in smoke.
The largest in Oregon 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 Friday had burned a total of nearly 214 square miles (554 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 52 square miles (135 square kilometers). On Friday, officials ordered a level 3 “go now” evacuation for residents of greater Oakridge, Westfir and High Prairie areas due to increased fire activity.
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, officials said.
The Rum Creek Fire was also burning in southwest Oregon and was almost halfway contained at about 33 square miles (82 square kilometers).
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon utilities shut down power to tens of thousands of customers on Friday as dry easterly winds swept into the region in the hopes that it would lessen the risk of wildfires in extremely dry and hot conditions.
Power shut-offs due to extreme fire weather, common in California, are relatively new to the Pacific Northwest. The plans, which were part of permanent rules approved in May to manage wildfire danger in high-risk areas, mark the new reality in a region better known for its rain and temperate rainforests.
Portland General Electric halted power to about 30,000 customers in 12 service areas — including the posh West Hills neighborhood of Portland — and Pacific Power shut down service to more than 7,000 customers in a small community on the Pacific Coast, where a wildfire burned two years ago, and in pockets southeast of the state capitol of Salem.
Schools in the areas with planned power outages canceled classes and authorities urged residents to charge cellphones and be ready to evacuate at a moment’s notice.
The winds were whipping up a wildfire southeast of Eugene, Oregon, that had been burning in the wilderness for a month but was now making a run toward the small community of Oakridge, where residents were ordered to evacuate. Gov. Kate Brown declared a fire emergency late Friday for the Cedar Creek Fire as it encroached on the 3,200-person town.
Climate change is bringing drier conditions to the Pacific Northwest and that requires strategies that have been common in fire-prone California for the past decade or more, said Erica Fleishman, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University.
Wind patterns haven’t changed, but those winds are now coinciding more frequently with drier vegetation and hotter temperatures — a toxic mix for fire ignition, rapid spread and extreme fire behavior, she said.
“I don’t know whether this is the solution, but it’s an interim effort to manage wildfire risk,” Fleishman said. “People are going, ‘Oh my gosh!’ The areas we thought were safe, they’re realizing those are not immune to fire anymore. The fire likelihood is changing.”
The proactive power shutoffs were just the second for Portland General Electric ever. The utility shut down power to 5,000 customers in 2020 near Mount Hood during firestorms that ravaged the state. Extreme winds over Labor Day weekend led to wildfires that burned more than 1 million acres (405,000 hectares), destroyed 4,000 homes and killed at least 11 people — and utilities were blamed for some of those fire starts.
Pacific Power, another major utility in Oregon, said the shutoffs Friday were the first the company has ever done. The company put a wildfire mitigation plan in place in Oregon in 2018 that includes studying wind and weather patterns to predict high-risk areas.
The utility was sued last year by residents in two towns that burned to ashes in the 2020 wildfires who blamed the company for not shutting down power in advance of the devastating wind storm.
Pacific Power has since hired a team of meteorologists to make fire weather forecasts and is spending more than $500 million to “harden” its electric grid in high-risk areas by replacing wooden poles with carbonized ones and encasing power lines and conductor boxes to reduce the chances of a spark, said Drew Hanson, a Pacific Power spokesman.
“You can look at the West in general and climate change has impacted areas from Southern California, and then Northern California and now up into this region as well, we’re seeing those same conditions,” he said.
“It’s something we are taking very seriously. We realize the changing landscape. We’ve been changing and evolving along with it.”
A number of blazes are burning in Oregon and Washington state.
Just south of Salem, firefighters using at least two planes and a helicopter tried to douse the flames of a wildfire that spread from grass to stands of trees, blanketing parts of the Willamette Valley in smoke.
The largest in Oregon 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 Friday had burned a total of nearly 214 square miles (554 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 52 square miles (135 square kilometers). On Friday, officials ordered a level 3 “go now” evacuation for residents of greater Oakridge, Westfir and High Prairie areas due to increased fire activity.
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, officials said.
The Rum Creek Fire was also burning in southwest Oregon and was almost halfway contained at about 33 square miles (82 square kilometers).
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ELKTON, Md. (AP) — Two adults and three children were found shot to death Friday at a Maryland house after a man called 911 from the home to report a shooting, authorities said.
Cecil County Sheriff Scott Adams said a man, a woman and three children — in the 5th, 7th and 8th grade — were found Friday morning in a large two-story home in Elk Mills. Authorities did not immediately release the identities of the victims, but said there is no ongoing threat to the public.
The shooting occurred on a cul-de-sac in an area of residential streets interspersed with wooded areas about 60 miles (97 kilometers) northeast of Baltimore and a few miles west of the Delaware state line.
“It’s a horrific day, and I know everybody’s prayers are appreciated. … My phone hasn’t stopped ringing from people concerned about this and upset about this,” Adams said.
“It’s grief is what it is at this point,” Adams said. “Anytime you have a loss to these levels. Any loss is terrible, but a loss to this level, which is not a common thing — it’s certainly not a common thing here in Cecil County — it’s tragic and terrible and it takes a long time for people to process.”
Deputies were called to the home just after 9 a.m. by a man who said three children and a woman had been shot and killed, Holmes said. Deputies made entry to the home and also found a man dead. A semi-automatic handgun was located near the dead man.
The sheriff declined to say what the motive might have been. He said that his office has no records of deputies responding to calls at the house.
The bodies were in different locations in the house. Video from the scene showed the home with cream siding and red shutters and a detached garage surrounded by police tape. Numerous law enforcement vehicles were at the scene.
A neighbor, Tom Driscoll, who can see the residence where the shooting happened from his home, said that a couple with three children had lived there for at least five years. He said the parents kept to themselves, but the children once brought cookies at Christmas and would sometimes bring his dogs back to him if they wandered.
He said the children were homeschooled, a detail that the sheriff had earlier confirmed. Driscoll said he would see the two girls and a boy playing on a swing set in their yard or on a trampoline.
“I don’t know why anyone would want to hurt those children. I really don’t, Driscoll said. “Things must have been really bad somehow.” | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national/ap-sheriff-3-children-among-victims-shot-to-death-in-maryland/ | 2022-09-10T14:30:11Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national/ap-sheriff-3-children-among-victims-shot-to-death-in-maryland/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Five people died Saturday in New Zealand after the small charter boat they were aboard capsized, authorities say, in what may have been a collision with a whale. Another six people aboard the boat were rescued.
Police said the 8.5-meter (28-foot) boat overturned near the South Island town of Kaikōura. Police said they were continuing to investigate the cause of the accident.
Kaikōura Police Sergeant Matt Boyce described it as a devastating and unprecedented event.
“Our thoughts are with everyone involved, including the victims and their families, their local communities, and emergency services personnel,” Boyce said.
He said police divers had recovered the bodies of all those who had died. He said all six survivors were assessed to be in stable condition at a local health center, with one transferred to a hospital in the city of Christchurch as a precaution.
Kaikōura Mayor Craig Mackle told The Associated Press that the water was dead calm at the time of the accident and the assumption was that a whale had surfaced from beneath the boat.
He said there were some sperm whales in the area and also some humpback whales traveling through.
He said locals had helped with the rescue efforts throughout the day but the mood in the town was “somber” because the water was so cold and they feared for the outcome of anybody who had fallen overboard.
Mackle said he’d thought in the past about the possibility of a boat and whale colliding, given the number of whales that frequent the region.
“It always plays on your mind that it could happen,” he said, adding that he hadn’t heard about any previous such accidents.
Mackle said the boat was a charter vessel typically used for fishing excursions. News agency Stuff reported the passengers belonged to a bird enthusiasts’ group.
Police said they were still notifying the relatives of those who died, and couldn’t yet publicly name the victims.
Vanessa Chapman told Stuff she and a group of friends had watched the rescue efforts unfold from Goose Bay, near Kaikōura. She said that when she arrived at a lookout spot, she could see a person sitting atop an overturned boat waving their arms.
She said two rescue helicopters and a third local helicopter were circling before two divers jumped out. She told Stuff that the person atop the boat was rescued and a second person appeared to have been pulled from the water.
Kaikōura is a popular whale-watching destination. The seafloor drops away precipitously from the coast, making for deep waters close to the shore. A number of businesses offer boat trips or helicopter rides so tourists can see whales, dolphins and other sea creatures up close.
Compliance agency Maritime New Zealand said it sent two investigators to the scene and would be conducting a thorough investigation once recovery operations had concluded.
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This summer’s drought is expected to cause a patchy array of fall color starting earlier in the leaf-peeping haven of New England while the autumn colors are likely to be muted and not last as long in the drought- and heat-stricken areas of the south.
In New England, experts anticipate the season, which typically peaks in October, to be more spread out with some trees changing earlier or even browning and dropping leaves because of the drought. Other places, like Texas, could see colors emerging later in the fall due to warm temperatures.
“We will still have brilliant colors in New England because of the fact that we have so many different kinds of trees and they’re growing on kind of ridges, and kind of slopes and wetlands,” said Richard Primack, a professor of plant ecology at Boston University. “You know we will have good color but the color will probably be more spotty than usual.”
Leaf peeping is big business in places like New England, where millions of visitors from around the country and world bring in billions of dollars.
Everyone from inns to diners often count on this business to get them through the rest of the year. But predicting when those colors will peak is not an exact science; requiring experts to consider everything from temperature, the length of the day and stresses like pests and drought.
In Vermont, the 18-room Mad River Barn, an inn in Fayston, typically sells out for about three weeks in a row starting in late September, said inn manager Jess Kotch. But those leaf-peepers don’t make reservations far in advance.
“Typically we get so many inquiries for last-minute stays through that period that I don’t even really start thinking about it until this week and next week,” she said.
This year, drought is one of the big concerns in many parts of the country.
Severe and even extreme drought set in this summer in southern New England and remains in some areas, while up north parts of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine are in a moderate drought or are abnormally dry. In those northern New England states, the color will depend on the health of the individual trees and is expected to be good to variable.
“Where you have those real dry sandy soils or you know, trees that have had health issues accumulating over time you may see some effect on fall foliage on those trees,” Wendy Scribner, a forestry field specialist with the University of New Hampshire extension service, said. “But I think we just have so many of them that we still will see some coloration.”
In Oklahoma, where much of the state is in severe or extreme drought, the trees are expected to change earlier than usual and it will be quicker. Some oak trees started browning and dropping leaves this summer, said Alex Schwartz, district silviculturist for the Oklahoma Ranger Districts of the Ouachita National Forest.
“When the trees experience moderate to severe drought stress like we’ve had, what they’re going to do is they’re going to probably stop that production — what little they’ve had over the summer —- stop that production a lot quicker, and they’re not going to produce a lot of those other pigments like the carotenoids that bring out those other fall colors,” he said.
The same thing is happening on some ridgetops in Connecticut where oak trees in thin dry soils are browning and dropping leaves early, meaning they’re shutting down. And many southern New England beech trees, whose leaves typically turn yellow and orange in the fall, have been hit by beech leaf disease, causing them to drop their leaves, said Robert Marra, a forest pathologist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.
“It’s going to have a very serious impact on fall colors in the sense that most of the beeches, many of them throughout southern New England, were hit so badly by beech leaf disease this year that they’re just dropping, they don’t have leaves on them to change color,” he said.
In Texas, the colors are likely to be muted and warm temperatures could push back the change, said Mac Martin, partnership coordinator for Texas A&M Forest Service.
“We’re going to probably get a shorter window of the fall colors that we get here in general as well as probably less kind of brilliant colors,” he said.
Visitors to the White Mountain Hotel and Resort in North Conway, New Hampshire, are not holding off in making reservations, said Carol Sullivan, director of sales and marketing.
“The last two years for us have been very strong, and that is the same prediction for us this year, that we will have an equally strong, if not even stronger, fall foliage season, regardless of what the weather does,” she said.
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LONDON (AP) — Two days after his mother’s death elevated him to the throne, King Charles III was officially proclaimed Britain’s monarch Saturday in a pomp-filled ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism — and, for the first time, broadcast live online and on air.
Charles, who spent seven decades as heir apparent, automatically became king when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died on Thursday. But the accession ceremony was a key constitutional and ceremonial step in introducing the new monarch to the country, a relic of a time before mass communications.
Scores of senior British politicians past and present, including new Prime Minister Liz Truss and five of her predecessors, gathered in the ornate state apartments at St. James’s Palace for the meeting of the Accession Council.
They met without Charles, officially confirming his title, King Charles III. The king then joined them, vowing to follow his mother’s “inspiring example” as he took on the duties of monarch.
“I am deeply aware of this great inheritance and of the duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty which have now passed to me,” he said.
Speaking of his personal grief, he said: “I know how deeply you and the entire nation, and I think I may say the whole world, sympathize with me in this irreparable loss we have all suffered.”
The new king formally approved a series of orders — including one declaring the day of his mother’s funeral a public holiday. The date of the state funeral has not been announced, but it is expected to be around Sept. 19.
This is the first time the accession ceremony has been held since 1952, when Queen Elizabeth II took the throne.
Charles was accompanied at the ceremony by his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, and his eldest son Prince William. William is now heir to the throne and is now known by the title that Charles long held, Prince of Wales.
The ceremony ended with a royal official publicly proclaiming King Charles III the monarch from a balcony at the palace. In centuries past, this would have been the first official confirmation the public had of their new sovereign.
David White, the Garter King of Arms, made the proclamation flanked by trumpeters in gold-trimmed robes before leading cheers — “hip, hip, hooray!” — for the new king.
Gun salutes rang out in Hyde Park, at the Tower of London and at military sites around the U.K. as he announced the news, and scarlet-robed soldiers in the palace courtyard doffed their bearskin hats in a royal salute.
The proclamation was read out in the medieval City of London and at other locations across the U.K.
Two days after the 96-year-old queen died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland following an unprecedented 70 years on the throne, people still came by the thousands to pay their respects outside Buckingham Palace in London. The scene was repeated at other royal residences across the U.K. and at British embassies around the world.
Britain is holding a period of mourning for the queen, with days of carefully choreographed ceremonies marking the death of the only monarch most people have ever known.
For many Britons, her passing, though long expected, is a destabilizing experience. It comes at a time when many Britons are facing an energy crisis, the soaring cost of living, the uncertainties of the war in Ukraine and the fallout from Brexit.
The country has also just seen a change of leader. Truss was appointed by the queen on Tuesday, just two days before the monarch died. On Saturday, Truss and other senior U.K. lawmakers lined up in the House of Commons to take an oath of loyalty to the new king.
Normal parliamentary business has been suspended during a period of mourning for the queen. The House of Commons was holding a rare Saturday session so lawmakers could pay tribute to the late monarch.
Charles struck a note of continuity on Friday, vowing in a televised address to carry on the queen’s “lifelong service,” with his own modernizing stamp.
The new monarch looked to both the past — noting his mother’s unwavering “dedication and devotion as sovereign” — and the future, seeking to strike a reassuring note of constancy while signaling that his will be a 21st-century monarchy.
He reflected on how the country had changed dramatically during the queen’s reign into a society “of many cultures and many faiths,” and pledged to serve people in Britain and the 14 other countries where he is king “whatever may be your background or beliefs.”
He also tried to overcome a reputation for aloofness in his first hours as monarch, spending time shaking hands with some of the thousands who came to leave flowers and pay tribute to the queen at the gates of Buckingham Palace. He was greeted with shouts of “Well done, Charlie!” and “God save the king!” One woman gave him a kiss on the cheek.
In the next few days the queen’s body will be brought from Balmoral, first to Edinburgh and then to London, where she will lie in state before a funeral at Westminster Abbey.
In his speech, Charles struck a personal note, speaking of his sorrow at the loss of “my darling Mama.”
“Thank you for your love and devotion to our family and to the family of nations you have served so diligently all these years,” he said, ending with a quote from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” — “May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.’”
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Parts of Southern California were lashed by severe winds from a tropical storm Friday that brought high humidity, rain and possible flooding to the parched region but also the promise of cooler temperatures after a 10-day heat wave that nearly overwhelmed the state’s electrical grid.
Firefighters had feared powerful winds that topped 100 mph (161 kph) could expand the massive Fairview Fire burning about 75 miles (121 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles but instead crews made significant progress and pegged Monday as a day when they should have full containment. More than 10,000 homes and other structures remained threatened and evacuation orders were still in place.
Hurricane Kay made landfall near Mexico’s Bahia Asuncion in Baja California Sur state Thursday, but it quickly weakened into a tropical storm by the time it reached Southern California. Still winds, were ferocious in places — speeds reached 109 mph (175 kph) on San Diego County’s Cuyamaca Peak, the National Weather Service said.
The tropical conditions added a swelter to the heat wave that saw temperatures soar past 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) in many parts of California this week. Even places like San Diego, renowned for its temperate climate, baked in the heat.
By late morning Friday a steady rain pelted downtown San Diego as Charles Jenkins swept the accumulating puddles away from the tarps of his makeshift home.
“The heat was killer, so for now this feels good,” Jenkins said. “I just hope the water doesn’t get too high. But I will rough it. I’ve got pallets I can put underneath to keep out the rain.”
Around 1 p.m. as rain continued, a Navy-contracted, twin-engine plane carrying two civilian pilots slid off the end of a runway after it touched down at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado and parked in a spit of sand. The plane’s nose was damaged but the pilots were able to depart on their own and were taken to a hospital for observation, Naval Base Coronado spokesperson Kevin Dixon said.
Though rainfall generally was moderate across Southern California Friday there was a chance of isolated thunderstorms and heavy downpours into Saturday. With flooding possible, officials in coastal cities posted warning signs in low-lying areas and made sandbags available to the public.
September already has produced one of the hottest and longest heat waves on record for California and some other Western states. Nearly 54 million people were under heat warnings and advisories across the region this week as temperature records were shattered in many areas.
California’s state capital of Sacramento hit an all-time high Tuesday of 116 degrees (46.7 C), breaking a 97-year-old record. Salt Lake City tied its all-time high temperature Wednesday at 107 degrees (41.6 C).
On Tuesday, as air conditioners whirred amid the stifling heat, California set a record for power consumption and authorities nearly instituted rolling blackouts when the electrical grid capacity was at its breaking point.
Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. In the last five years, California has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in state history.
While firefighters made progress against the Fairview Fire, the fast-moving Mosquito Fire in the foothills east of Sacramento doubled in size Friday to at least 46 square miles (119 square kilometers) and threatened 3,600 homes in Placer and El Dorado counties, while blanketing the region in smoke.
Flames jumped the American River, burning structures in the mountain hamlet of Volcanoville and moving closer to the towns of Foresthill, home to about 1,500 people, and Georgetown, population 3,000. More than 5,700 people in the area have been evacuated, said Placer County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Josh Barnhart.
David Hance slept on the porch of his mother’s Foresthill mobile home when he woke up to a glowing red sky early Wednesday morning and was ordered to evacuate.
“It was actually fricking terrifying, cause they say, ‘Oh yeah, it’s coming closer,’” he said. “It was like sunset in the middle of the night.”
Hance left behind most of his electronic gear, all his clothing and family photos and fled to Auburn, where he found his mother, Linda Hance, who said the biggest stress is wondering: “Is my house still there?”
Organizers of the Tour de Tahoe announced Friday they were canceling the annual 72-mile (115-km) bicycle ride scheduled Sunday around Lake Tahoe because of the heavy smoke from the blaze — more than 50 miles (80 km) away — and noted that cycling is a “heavy cardio activity that does not pair well with terrible air quality.” Last year’s ride was canceled due to smoke from another big fire south of Tahoe.
The Mosquito Fire’s cause remained under investigation. Pacific Gas & Electric said unspecified “electrical activity” occurred close in time to the report of the fire on Tuesday.
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Antczak reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writers Stefanie Dazio and Christopher Weber in Los Angeles, Noah Berger in Auburn, California, Scott Sonner in Reno, Nevada, and Gillian Flaccus in Portland, Oregon, contributed to this report. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national/ap-storms-fierce-winds-complicate-california-wildfire-fight/ | 2022-09-10T14:30:25Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national/ap-storms-fierce-winds-complicate-california-wildfire-fight/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) announced news of a “cheating scandal” Friday that had likely cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars and put the success of roughly a thousand students in Pasco County in doubt.
“Plain and simple, this was a cheating scandal — greed and cheating at the most bearish level,” said FDLE Tampa Bay Special Agent in Charge Mark Brutnell.
The year-long investigation began after an anonymous caller dialed Agriculture Education Services and Technology (AEST) and claimed they cheated on an old exam. AEST is responsible for making the test banks that are provided to the Florida Department of Education.
Before AEST could initiate its own state-wide audit as a result of the anonymous tip, another phone call and text alleged cheating by teachers at Hudson High School in Pasco County.
Brutnell said the audit revealed several striking irregularities.
First, the tests, which consist of 50 or 100 questions, take students between 30 and 45 minutes to complete, on average. But students taking the test at Hudson High School were completing them in as little as five minutes.
“Hudson High School had a higher pass rate than any other school in Florida,” Brutnell said. “Hudson High School issued the most certificates state-wide. Ten times the number than the school behind them.”
Why?
“For each successfully completed AEST exam, the scheduling teacher receives a bonus from the FDOE of $25 or $50 depending on the exam,” Brutnell added.
In addition, the FDOE paid Pasco County School District between $400 and $800 for each certification passed to enhance their agriculture program.
To discourage cheating, proctors were required by the state to supervise test-takers.
“When our agents started this investigation, they found that none of the mandatory requirements were followed,” Brutnell said. “So not a single proctor was used in any of these tests. And it gets better.”
Instead, Hudson High School teachers Harold Martin, Kate Troutman, and Robert Herrington “took the exams together and used their exams — and I’ll coin it from their own mouth — as study guides to be given to their students,” Brutnell fumed.
“These guides were the exact copies of the exams. Students were also allowed to use the study guides while taking their exams.”
The investigation found that, in total, 284 students took the test using “study guides.”
Further, as students took the exams, Brutnell said the teachers would photograph the tests to produce and update the study guides.
“In many instances, teachers provided students with answers during exams and one teacher actually took the exam for the students,” Brutnell said.
Even students in the Exceptional Student Education program “routinely had their tests taken for them.”
Brutnell continued: “Often these students were not even aware they were scheduled to take the exam but they were given a passing grade.”
As a result of the crimes, AEST will invalidate more than 1,000 of the tests taken at Hudson High School.
Authorities said the testing fraud spanned a four-year period and resulted in a combined loss of $708,000. Of that, $36,000 went into the teacher’s pockets, combined.
The investigation is still active.
“We are extremely disappointed in these teachers who were placed in a position of trust, and repeatedly chose to violate that trust,” Pasco Superintendent of Schools Kurt Browning said. “They took advantage of students for personal gain, and that kind of behavior is shocking to teachers everywhere who sacrifice for their students every day.”
All three teachers worked at Hudson High School. Two have resigned, and one has remained on unpaid leave.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a court order that would have forced Yeshiva University to recognize an LGBTQ group as an official campus club.
The court acted Friday in a brief order signed by Justice Sonia Sotomayor that indicated the court would have more to say on the topic at some point.
The university, an Orthodox Jewish institution in New York, argued that granting recognition to the group, the YU Pride Alliance, “would violate its sincere religious beliefs.”
On the other side, the club said Yeshiva already has recognized a gay pride club at its law school.
A New York state court sided with the student group and ordered the university to recognize the club immediately. The matter is on appeal in the state court system, but judges there refused to put the order on hold in the meantime.
The Supreme Court has been very receptive to religious freedom claims in recent years.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Sweden is holding an election Sunday to elect lawmakers to the 349-seat Riksdag as well as to local offices across the nation of 10 million people. Early voting began on Aug. 24, so many people will have already cast their ballots by election day. Here are some key things to know about the vote.
WHAT IS AT STAKE?
Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson is fighting to keep her center-left Social Democrats at the helm of a left-wing coalition but is facing a strong challenge from the right.
Sweden is known for being a cradle-to-grave welfare society and Andersson would like to preserve the social protections that have long defined Sweden, and reverse some of the market-oriented changes by an earlier government. Her party feels that some of the changes, like state subsidies going to private schools, are creating greater inequalities.
The once mighty Social Democrats have been in power since 2014. But as the party’s popularity sinks compared with its heyday in the 20th century, it has been forced it to preside over a weaker government relying more on other parties to pass laws, a situation which has produced political instability over the past eight years.
WHO IS LIKELY TO WIN?
There are two major blocs, with four parties on the left and four on the right. The polls leading up to the election showed the two blocs in a near dead heat, with the outcome impossible to predict.
Under Swedish law, it falls to the party that wins the most seats to form a government. Polls show that this is likely to be Andersson’s party, in which case it would be up to her first to try to form a coalition government with majority support in the legislature.
But if the left as a whole has a poor showing, she might not be able to form a coalition. In that case, the baton would be passed to the second-largest party to try to form a government.
WHICH PARTY IS IN THE NO. 2 SPOT?
In the last election, in 2018, the Moderates led by Ulf Kristersson, a center-right party, won the second highest number of seats. The conservative party promotes a market economy, lower taxes and a smaller role for government in a country with a generous welfare state supported by high taxes.
But like the Social Democrats, and many other mainstream parties across Europe for that matter, the Moderates have also seen their popularity with voters decline amid a populist challenge coming from further right.
WHO ARE THE POPULISTS?
The Sweden Democrats, a populist right-wing party which takes a hard line on immigration and crime, first entered parliament in 2010 and has been growing steadily ever since.
The party won 13% of the vote in 2018, becoming the third-largest force in parliament. Polls show that is likely to improve on that showing on Sunday.
Some Swedes describe the party as Trumpist and feel put off by the fact that it was founded by far-right extremists decades ago, not quite certain whether to trust it in its transformation to a more traditional conservative party.
The party is led by Jimmie Akesson, a 43-year-old former web designer who has been the driving force in trying to moderate the party’s image.
The party has clearly tapped into the social mood, however. Its success can be measured also by the fact that other parties have been moving closer to its positions as many Swedes believe that they can no longer bear the costs of the generous refugee policies of the past, and are seeking a crackdown on crime.
Once treated as a pariah, other conservative parties have grown increasingly willing to deal with the Sweden Democrats.
HOW SERIOUS IS CRIME IN SWEDEN?
Some of the immigrants who have been welcomed in Sweden in past years have had difficulties assimilating into Swedish society, leading to segregated neighborhoods with high crime rates.
Gang violence mostly takes place among criminal networks dealing drugs or involved in other illicit activity. But there have been recent cases of innocent bystanders being hurt. So far this year, 48 people have been killed by firearms in Sweden, three more than in all of 2021.
The fears triggered by constant news of shootings and explosions in disadvantaged neighborhoods have made crime one of the most pressing issues for voters.
“Shootings and explosions of bombs have increased in the last few years and (this violence) is now considered a great social problem. I wouldn’t say that it’s as bad as Mexico, but we are on the way,” said Anders Sannerstedt, a political scientist at Lund University in southern Sweden.
THE GENDER FACTOR
Andersson became Sweden’s first female prime minister less than a year ago — a milestone late in coming for a country that in many ways is an example of gender equality.
“I was really proud,” said Ulrika Hoonk, a 39-year-old who voted early in Stockholm on Friday evening, saying it took “far too long” for that to happen.
Polls show that Andersson’s party is especially popular with women, with men tending to vote more conservative.
Even though Andersson is the first prime minister, there are still many women represented in positions of authority. Four party leaders are women and one party has a woman and a man sharing the leadership. In parliament, the gender balance has long been split roughly 50-50.
Several women interviewed this week said that finally having a woman in the top leadership job was very important for them, and one factor they considered when choosing which party to support.
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LONDON — Prime Minister Liz Truss and senior members of her government have taken oaths of loyalty to King Charles III in the House of Commons.
House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle was the first to pledge he will “bear true allegiance to his Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors,” followed by the longest-serving lawmakers and the prime minister.
All lawmakers pledge allegiance to the monarch after they are elected. Making a new vow when the monarch changes is not a legal requirement, but all 650 lawmakers will have a chance to retake the oath in the coming days if they wish.
Normal parliamentary business has been suspended during a period of mourning for the queen. The House of Commons is holding a rare Saturday session so that lawmakers can pay tribute to the late monarch.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Prince Charles became king upon his mother’s death
—- A singular queen, mourned by her people
— “The Crown” pauses production because of queen’s death
— Will Charles be loved by his subjects, like his mother was?
— ‘A constant in my life’: World mourns Queen Elizabeth II
— Biden is 13th and final US president to meet Queen Elizabeth II
— Find more AP coverage here: https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
A royal official has publicly proclaimed King Charles III as Britain’s new monarch during a ceremony at St. James’s Palace.
David White, the Garter King of Arms, read the proclamation from a balcony at the London royal residence flanked by trumpeters in gold-trimmed robes.
Gun salutes rang out in Hyde Park, at the Tower of London and at military sites around the U.K. as the proclamation was made.
Scarlet-robed soldiers in the palace courtyard presented arms and doffed their bearskin hats in a royal salute.
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LONDON — King Charles III has declared that the day of his mother’s funeral will be a public holiday.
Charles approved the decision during his formal accession ceremony on Saturday.
The date of Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral has not been announced but is expected to be around Sept, 19.
This will be the second extra public holiday for Britons this year — a holiday was declared in early June for celebration’s to mark Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee, for 70 years on the throne.
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LONDON — King Charles III has been officially announced as Britain’s monarch Saturday, in a ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism — and, for the first time, broadcast live.
Charles automatically became king when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died on Thursday, but Saturday’s accession ceremony is a key constitutional and ceremonial step in introducing the new monarch to the country.
The ceremony at St. James’s Palace, a royal residence in London, is attended by the Accession Council, made up of senior politicians and officials who advise the monarch. They met without Charles, officially confirming his title, King Charles III. The king will then join them to make a series of oaths and declarations.
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LONDON — Prime Minister Liz Truss and senior members of her government have taken oaths of loyalty to King Charles III in the House of Commons.
House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle was the first to pledge he will “bear true allegiance to his Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors,” followed by the longest-serving lawmakers and the prime minister.
All lawmakers pledge allegiance to the monarch after they are elected. Making a new vow when the monarch changes is not a legal requirement, but all 650 lawmakers will have a chance to retake the oath in the coming days if they wish.
Normal parliamentary business has been suspended during a period of mourning for the queen. The House of Commons is holding a rare Saturday session so that lawmakers can pay tribute to the late monarch.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Prince Charles became king upon his mother’s death
—- A singular queen, mourned by her people
— “The Crown” pauses production because of queen’s death
— Will Charles be loved by his subjects, like his mother was?
— ‘A constant in my life’: World mourns Queen Elizabeth II
— Biden is 13th and final US president to meet Queen Elizabeth II
— Find more AP coverage here: https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
A royal official has publicly proclaimed King Charles III as Britain’s new monarch during a ceremony at St. James’s Palace.
David White, the Garter King of Arms, read the proclamation from a balcony at the London royal residence flanked by trumpeters in gold-trimmed robes.
Gun salutes rang out in Hyde Park, at the Tower of London and at military sites around the U.K. as the proclamation was made.
Scarlet-robed soldiers in the palace courtyard presented arms and doffed their bearskin hats in a royal salute.
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LONDON — King Charles III has declared that the day of his mother’s funeral will be a public holiday.
Charles approved the decision during his formal accession ceremony on Saturday.
The date of Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral has not been announced but is expected to be around Sept, 19.
This will be the second extra public holiday for Britons this year — a holiday was declared in early June for celebration’s to mark Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee, for 70 years on the throne.
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LONDON — King Charles III has been officially announced as Britain’s monarch Saturday, in a ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism — and, for the first time, broadcast live.
Charles automatically became king when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died on Thursday, but Saturday’s accession ceremony is a key constitutional and ceremonial step in introducing the new monarch to the country.
The ceremony at St. James’s Palace, a royal residence in London, is attended by the Accession Council, made up of senior politicians and officials who advise the monarch. They met without Charles, officially confirming his title, King Charles III. The king will then join them to make a series of oaths and declarations.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Obama waved her arms in the air and yelled, “Let’s go, Foe!”
Down on the U.S. Open court below, Frances Tiafoe was pleased to see he had a new fan.
Mrs. Obama had a seat in the front row behind the baseline to watch the American play Friday night in the semifinals in Arthur Ashe Stadium, giving him a thumbs-up and a shoutout when she was shown on the video screens.
“She sees me and she’s actually excited to see me,” Tiafoe said.
And to think, he feared he’d made a bad first impression on the former first lady.
Not long after he spotted Mrs. Obama, even before she was shown to fans, Tiafoe remembered hitting a particularly bad shot.
“I think I shanked a return,” he said, recalling that he thought “she thinks I’m a bum. Can’t make a return.”
Actually, Tiafoe gave her a good show, taking No. 3 seed Carlos Alcaraz to a fifth set before falling 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-3.
That ended the deepest run by an American man in the U.S. Open since Andy Roddick reached the 2006 final, and left Tiafoe one win shy of becoming the first Black man from the U.S. in a major final since MaliVai Washington was the runner-up at Wimbledon in 1996.
After the match, he got to speak with Mrs. Obama and they walked out through the tunnel from the court together. He said goodbye before meeting up with his supporters that again included Washington Wizards star Bradley Beal.
“Obviously there was a lot of who’s whos in there tonight,” Tiafoe said. “Obviously we all know what she means. Crazy getting to meet her after.
“Unbelievable, unbelievable night.”
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For the first time in Holland America’s history, it will sponsor college sports via its partnership with the University of Washington Athletics, being named the “Official Cruise Line of Husky Athletics.”
This multi-year sponsorship agreement will establish an ideal relationship for two of Seattle’s iconic brands, and Holland America Line’s spirit will be visible throughout Husky Stadium at football games and across UW Athletics media channels.
UW Athletic’s “Official Cruise Line of Husky Athletics”
Coinciding with this year’s football season, the University of Washington (UW) Athletics will have an “Official Cruise Line of Husky Athletics,” Seattle-based Holland America Line, through a multi-year sponsorship.
This sponsorship will be the first time the 150-year-old line partners with college sports, reinforcing the foundation of the two Seatle-based brands.
Seattle’s hometown college team, Husky Athletics, will now feature additional in-game activations, promotions, and on-site branding in collaboration with the cruise line.
The president of Holland America Line, Gus Antorcha stated, “We’re proud to launch this new partnership with University of Washington Athletics and give fans more ways to create memorable moments.”
“We have many team members in our organization who are UW alum, and we’re looking forward to wearing our purple and gold in support of the Huskies,” Antorcha added.
Throughout Husky Stadium, the line’s partnership will be evident at UW football games and across UW Athletics media channels. Additionally, the cruise line will be integrated into traditional Husky football game-day experiences like the “Wave.”
Historically, the first “wave” was created at a University of Washington football game against Stanford at Husky Stadium on October 31, 1981, Halloween day over two decades ago.
A long-standing tradition at Husky Harbor, “sailgating,” will highlight Holland America Line’s nautical foundation during the current and upcoming UW Football seasons, elevating the waterside experience with new dock branding and new activities for “sailgaters” on game days.
The Chief Revenue Officer, Heath Bennett, stated, “We are proud to partner with Holland America Line, the leading premium cruise line in the travel industry.”
“We both take great pride in representing Seattle with excellence and working toward greatness, so we are thankful for the partnership and look forward to future collaboration,” Bennett said.
With its headquarters in Seattle, Washington, Holland America Line currently operates 43 cruises aboard three of its fleet from the Port of Seattle to Alaska, Asia, Australia, and the Panama Canal.
Since the 1970s, the line has been sailing from the Port of Seattle and in May 2002, it began using the port as a home port for its Alaska cruises.
Holland America Line’s Social Responsibility
Holland America Line and its Foundation have been giving charitably for decades, particularly in their home port communities, contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars each year in cash and in-kind shipboard events to several charitable organizations.
Beginning in February 2013, the cruise line and the Holland America Line Foundation have taken the fight against cancer to the high seas with On Deck for a Cause, a non-competitive 5k fundraising walk on each sailing.
On a day at sea, all guests are welcome to participate in a 5k walk around the ship’s wide teak decks and invited to donate $20 to the Holland America Line Foundation, with 75 percent ($15) being distributed to partnering organizations.
Read Also: Holland America Details 73-Day Grand Africa Voyage
Additionally, the cruise line hosts shipboard charity luncheons for thousands of guests, providing cash sponsorships, in-kind donations, and reduced-fare cruise donations for nonprofit fundraising events.
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Garth Brooks kicks off Croke Park concerts
US country music star Garth Brooks, 60, kicked off the first of his five Croke Park concerts – over nine days – in style concerts at the home of GAA.
The singer of hits like If Tomorrow Never Comes, Friends In Low Places and Callin’ Baton Rouge among other well-known tunes took to the specially made stage to rapturous applause and told 80,000fans he was tearful.
He wore a black Stetson and jeans and broke down in tears as he told the crowd he had come on stage for one reason and that was to “raise hell”.
“Tell me it’s going to be like this the whole night long,” he said, adding he just wanted to “enjoy the moment”.
“We’re pumped and ready to go.”
Some 400,000 fans have bought tickets, five per cent of them from outside Ireland.
Brooks was due to play five concerts in 2014 but the gigs were cancelled following a licensing dispute with locals around the venue and the local authorities.
Dublin City Council said at the time that it would only grant licences for three of the concerts at the Dublin venue but the singer refused to perform unless all five went ahead.
Ahead of the gig, Brooks became emotional as he said he had waited all his life for this moment.
So did many of his fans.
Cora McHugh was not born the last time he sang in Ireland.
But she said she had been brought up on country music since she was knee-high.
She travelled with her mother Caitriona from Donegal to see their favourite artist.
She said: “I love country music, I love Garth Brooks.
“I’ve always been brought up on country music and I was jiving since I was wee with my nana. I just love country music.
“I’m so excited because I feel Garth Brooks will never be here again so it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
She was expecting an “unreal atmosphere” in the stadium.
Marie-Claire Meehan, from Newry, Co Down, travelled with a group of friends to watch the performance.
“What better place to be than at Croke Park where Garth Brooks is about to make his debut performance after a damp squib in 2014,” she said ahead of the show.
“We’re pumped and ready to go.”
Paul Prendergast described Brooks as a “country music idol”.
Street trader Derek Kidney told the PA news agency he was hoping to sell a lot of Stetsons and ponchos over the five nights.
He said: “There will be Stetsons everywhere, please God.
“Hopefully the rain will stay away.”
It has been 25 years since the music legend last played in Dublin.
In November last year Brooks returned to Ireland to announce he would play in Croke Park this month.
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King Charles III proclaimed UK’s head of state
The UK’s new monarch King Charles III was formally declared its head of state today at a televised ceremony in London.
His role and title were confirmed by the Accession Council at a ceremony attended by 200 privy councillors at St James’s Palace in London.
One of the first changes introduced by the new king was that the occasion – normally held in private be in public and televised.
The occasion also announced that the Queen’s State Funeral – expected to be Monday week – will be a Bank Holiday.
The 200 privy councillors, there was no room for all so a ballot was drawn for those not invited, comprised mostly senior politicians past and present, some members of the monarchy and other national figures.
They included six of Queen Elizabeth’s Prime Ministers.
They assembled to hear the Clerk of the Council, leader of the Commons Penny Mordaunt, read the Accession Proclamation.
As the UK’s hereditary monarchy Charles automatically King on Thursday at the moment of his mother’s death. The Accession Council is a constitutional formality would ordinarily convene 24 hours after the sovereign’s death but because it was not formally announced until Thursday evening formalities are running 24 hours later than originally planned.
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King Charles III’s first ever address to the nation as its new monarch
King Charles III to be formally proclaimed tomorrow
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King Charles III’s first ever address to the nation as its new monarch
King Charles III made his first ever address to the nation since becoming monarch on the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday.
Royal addresses to the nation are rare and Friday’s was, by definition, historic as it marked the end of the modern, post-war Elizabethan era and a new, as yet, undefined one.
With the new King expected to visit all corners of the UK in the time between now and Queen Elizabeth’s funeral here is his first address to those nations – and beyond – in full:
“I speak to you today with feelings of profound sorrow. Throughout her life, Her Majesty The Queen – my beloved Mother – was an inspiration and example to me and to all my family, and we owe her the most heartfelt debt any family can owe to their mother; for her love, affection, guidance, understanding and example.
“Queen Elizabeth was a life well lived; a promise with destiny kept and she is mourned most deeply in her passing. That promise of lifelong service I renew to you all today.
“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 peoples.
“That was more than a promise: it was a profound personal commitment which defined her whole life. She made sacrifices for duty.
“Her dedication and devotion as Sovereign never waivered, through times of change and progress, through times of joy and celebration, and through times of sadness and loss.
“In a little over a week’s time we will come together
as a nation, as a Commonwealth and indeed a global community,
to lay my beloved mother to rest.”
“In her life of service we saw that abiding love of tradition, together with that fearless embrace of progress, which make us great as Nations. The affection, admiration and respect she inspired became the hallmark of her reign.
“And, as every member of my family can testify, she combined these qualities with warmth, humour and an unerring ability always to see the best in people.
“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.
“In that faith, and the values it inspires, I have been brought up to cherish a sense of duty to others, and to hold in the greatest respect the precious traditions, freedoms and responsibilities of our unique history and our system of parliamentary government.
“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.
“And wherever you may live in the United Kingdom, or in the Realms and territories across the world, and whatever may be your background or 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.
“As my Heir, William now assumes the Scottish titles which have meant so much to me.
“He succeeds me as Duke of Cornwall and takes on the responsibilities for the Duchy of Cornwall which I have undertaken for more than five decades.
“Today, I am proud to create him Prince of Wales, Tywysog Cymru, the country whose title I have been so greatly privileged to bear during so much of my life and duty.
“With Catherine beside him, our new Prince and Princess of Wales will, I know, continue to inspire and lead our national conversations, helping to bring the marginal to the centre ground where vital help can be given.
“I want also to express my love for Harry and Meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas.
“In a little over a week’s time we will come together as a nation, as a Commonwealth and indeed a global community, to lay my beloved mother to rest.
“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.
“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.
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Queen’s 2011 visit was ‘crowning moment’ in peace building – Martin
The Taoiseach said that the Queen’s most enduring legacy in an Irish context would ‘unquestionably’ be her historic visit
TAOISEACH Micheál Martin said that the Queen’s 2011 visit to Ireland was “the crowning moment” of the peace process and the development of Anglo-Irish relations.
The Taoiseach said that the late monarch has been a constant in the world political order and expressed Ireland’s understanding of the “enormous change” her passing represents.
Ireland’s President Michael D Higgins also gave praise to the Queen’s “exceptional” ability to combine a sense of formality with “a great capacity for connection with the people”.
Tributes have poured in from across the world upon the death on Thursday of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, who served as the UK’s head of state for more than 70 years.
Speaking to reporters in Bray, Co Wicklow, Mr Martin said that the Queen’s most enduring legacy in an Irish context would “unquestionably” be her historic visit to Ireland in 2011, which he had been “very anxious that it would happen” in his years previous as minister for foreign affairs.
He said that her trip to Cork as part of that visit will be “a visit that will never be forgotten”.
Political leaders in Ireland have noted how the Queen’s 2011 visit, the first by a British monarch to Ireland since it gained independence, set a new tone for Anglo-Irish relations in the following years.
President Higgins said that the preparations for the 2011 visit to Ireland were “complex” and required “some subtlety and very good diplomacy”.
“There was that capacity to bridge the formal and the informal,” Mr Higgins said on RTE’s Morning Ireland programme.
“To be able to cover all these different areas of human interaction and humanity, that’s a very very significant achievement.”
Mr Higgins said that during his visit to Windsor Castle in 2014, the first state visit to the UK by an Irish president, the Queen was insistent that progress made in relation to Anglo-Irish ties “must be kept going”.
Mr Martin said of the 2011 visit: “In the context of all that has gone on between Britain and Ireland over the centuries, it definitely closed one chapter and opened up a new chapter, and it was the culmination really of all the work that went into the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement.`
“The head of state of the UK coming to Ireland represented the crowning moment, if you like, for all that had gone before in terms of peacebuilding and in terms of creating a new political order on the island of Ireland.”
Her son the Prince of Wales, is now King Charles III having acceded to the throne immediately on the death of his mother.
Mr Martin said: “I think King Charles is very familiar with Ireland, he has a keen interest in Irish affairs and I met him on a number of occasions during his visits to Ireland, with the Queen Consort, and I have no doubt that he will continue that interest in Ireland.
“Particularly he has an interest in climate change, biodiversity, wildlife, and I do foresee opportunities to dovetail with that interest that he has, with some of the initiatives we are taking in terms of preserving biodiversity into the future.
“He’s also obviously committed to doing what he can in the role that he now will have to underpin good relations between Ireland and Britain and between the different traditions on the island of Ireland.”
He said that inviting him to Ireland would be a matter for the President.
Following her death, the King said that during the period of royal mourning, set to last from now until seven days after the funeral of the late Queen, “my family and I will be comforted and sustained by our knowledge of the respect and deep affection in which the Queen was so widely held”.
“The head of state of the UK coming to Ireland represented
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Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill urges supporters to be ‘respectful’ following Queen’s death
The Sinn Féin vice president and Stormont’s First Minister designate said she did not think it was appropriate for anybody to be engaged in ‘any kind of jokey-type behaviour’.
Sinn Féin vice president Michelle O’Neill has appealed for people to be respectful following the death of the Queen.
Ms O’Neill made her comments after being asked about reports of footage on social media which appeared to show a cavalcade of cars and fireworks being lit in apparent celebration following the Queen’s death.
Some graffiti had also appeared on walls in Londonderry mocking the news.
Ms O’Neill said: “This is a time for everybody to be respectful.
“Queen Elizabeth has died, there is a family that is mourning her loss.
“At the end of the day, she may have been the Queen of England but she was also a mother, a grandmother, I think people should be very respectful.
“Queen Elizabeth has died, her family are grieving.”
Asked about jokes about the death of the Queen on social media, Ms O’Neill said: “The British people, people from a unionist identity here are grieving her loss and I think everybody should be very respectful of that and not engage in anything that is anything other than respectful.
“I don’t think its appropriate for anybody to be engaged in any kind of jokey-type behaviour, someone has died and I think it’s important that we are all respectful.” | https://www.theirishworld.com/sinn-feins-michelle-oneill-urges-supporters-to-be-respectful-following-queens-death/ | 2022-09-10T14:39:50Z | theirishworld.com | control | https://www.theirishworld.com/sinn-feins-michelle-oneill-urges-supporters-to-be-respectful-following-queens-death/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In July, my family and I traveled to Poland, a nation currently hosting well over one million Ukrainian refugees. Our goal was to better grasp the extent of the Ukrainian peoples’ suffering. What we saw shook us to the core.
In one city, we visited a boarding house overflowing with women and children, paralyzed with anxiety at what will become of their husbands and fathers on the battlefield. Another stop took us to an orphanage, where the smiles of the youngest children at playtime mask deep traumas.
These miseries have become commonplace among the downtrodden Ukrainian people. And Americans must continue to help relieve them — for the sake of their lives and our national legacy.
Standing with the Ukrainian people is a mission of deep family significance. My wife Suzanne’s mother was born to Ukrainian immigrant parents, and her father immigrated to the United States from Ternopil, Ukraine, after World War II. But my focus on helping Ukrainians stems far beyond family blood — it’s also a matter of upholding America’s leadership role in the world.
From 2017 to 2021, I had the great honor of serving as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. That experience showed me the importance of sustaining America’s commitment as a force for international good — a track record unmatched by any other nation in human history.
The historical examples of our willingness to help are endless, but I think often of how the US and Britain refused to let the Soviet Union use starvation as a weapon against West Berlin when they closed off part of that city from outside supplies. For 11 months in 1948 and 1949, the two allies airlifted 2.3 million tons of food, fuel and other provisions right into the blockaded region to keep West Berliners alive.
During World War II, my grandfather Robert Wood Johnson reached the rank of brigadier general and was widely known as “General Johnson.” He also penned the Johnson & Johnson credo: “We are responsible to the communities in which we live and work and to the world community as well.”
Americans understand the meaning of these words, especially this year with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The US government has contributed more than $1.5 billion in humanitarian aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the war — by far the most of any nation. But what makes Americans a truly special people is our commitment to philanthropy that far exceeds what our tax dollars pay for.
We see it in the thousands of Americans opening their homes to Ukrainian refugees. We see churches in Iowa helping supply meals to Ukrainians throughout Europe. We see a 17-year-old girl on Long Island starting a program at her school to bring toys to Ukrainian children.
These stories should inspire us all to action, especially as the crisis becomes more urgent. The war seems to have no end in sight, and approximately 5.8 million Ukrainians have become refugees alongside the roughly 6.2 million Ukrainians displaced inside their own country. They and those caring for them need our help, which is why the Jets have pledged an initial commitment of $1 million to aid Ukrainians.
That money is being distributed in $100,000 increments to worthy organizations spearheading relief efforts, including Plast Scouting, Razom for Ukraine, and the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America. July’s donation went to United24, the Ukrainian government’s official arm for collecting charitable donations. I’m grateful to know those funds will help fund multiple children’s hospitals in Ukraine, where many youths are recuperating from wounds brutally inflicted by falling rockets and missiles.
Some Americans may question why humanitarian assistance for the Ukrainian people should remain a priority, in light of so many problems raging in our own country. For one, it’s morally right for the richest nation on earth to devote some portion of its resources to care for those beyond its borders. It’s also firmly in our national interest for the world to see which country defends the oppressed and cares for the vulnerable. When America comes to the rescue, we earn trust, respect and credibility in the eyes of other nations, and create a powerful distinction between us and adversaries such as China, Russia and Iran in our high respect for human dignity.
When the history books are written, the world will know which nation came to the rescue more enthusiastically than any other.
One of my heroes, Winston Churchill, once recalled a remark he had heard as a young man: “The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.”
I am proud of how Americans have yet again revealed our national character and concern for humanity in our world-leading generosity toward Ukrainians. Now that our fire is lit, let’s keep harnessing our limitless power to serve them.
Robert Wood Johnson is the Chairman of the New York Jets. He served as the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, 2017-2021. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/america-must-help-ukraineto-save-lives-and-assert-our-legacy/ | 2022-09-10T14:43:55Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/america-must-help-ukraineto-save-lives-and-assert-our-legacy/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sophie, Countess of Wessex, the wife of Prince Edward, and once known as a “black sheep” of the family, became so close to Queen Elizabeth II that she was among the small group of family members summoned to the monarch’s bedside when she died on Thursday, according to the Times of London.
Sophie Rhys Jones, 57, became the first middle class working woman to join the royal family when she married Edward in 1999. Her mother was a secretary and her father was an executive in a tire company. Sophie had been working for Capital Radio when she met Prince Edward in 1987. She went on to join a PR firm where she ran campaigns for children’s books.
Her working life was brought to an embarrassing end in 2001 when she was duped by a News of the World reporter posing as a potential client for her PR firm. She was caught on tape offering comments about then prime minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, whom she described as “horrid, absolutely horrid.”
Although she struggled with royal duties at first, Sophie was helped by the Queen and learned to “manage expectations,” she told the newspaper.
After the death of he Queen’s husband last year, the monarch appointed Sophie colonel-in-chief of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, one of Prince Philip’s military roles
When pandemic restrictions were partially lifted, Sophie and the Queen bonded on daily walks through Windsor Great Park, and over their shared love of military history, spending hours together poring over ancient documents in the Royal Archives, according to the Times.
Sophie’s two children were also close to the Queen. Her eldest, Lady Louise Windsor, now 18, learned to drive carriages on the estate with Prince Philip and paid tribute to him earlier this year at the Royal Windsor Horse Show’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations by driving his carriage in front of the Queen. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/once-derided-as-black-sheep-sophie-became-queens-rock/ | 2022-09-10T14:44:50Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/once-derided-as-black-sheep-sophie-became-queens-rock/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The marathon Frances Tiafoe-Carlos Alcaraz U.S. Open semifinal on Friday sent Ashe Stadium into an uproar much of the night. But it apparently wasn’t entertaining enough for one fan.
Cameras caught a woman knitting during the five-set thriller that was eventually won by Alcaraz.
The scene drew typically hilarious responses on social media. “Imagine being in the same room as Michelle Obama, watching an epic tennis match, and all you ca. [sic] think about is knitting,” one fan tweeted.
“Well why not? Just here to knit in our $10,000 seats,” one journalist wrote.
It also wasn’t the first bizarre viral moment from the stands. Earlier in the week, YouTube star JiDion received a haircut during the quarterfinal match between Nick Kyrgios and Karen Khachanov.
Alcaraz went on to win, 6-7 (8), 6-3, 6-1, 6-7, 6-3, ending the spectacular run by Tiafoe, who was seeking to become the first American to reach the men’s final since Andy Roddick won the 2003 U.S. Open. The Spaniard will play Casper Ruud in Sunday’s finale. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/woman-seen-knitting-during-frances-tiafoe-carlos-alcaraz-us-open-thriller/ | 2022-09-10T14:45:26Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/woman-seen-knitting-during-frances-tiafoe-carlos-alcaraz-us-open-thriller/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Rome wasn’t built in a day, but my colleague Ted Holmlund (11-3) had no trouble building a four-game lead one week into the college football season.
Well played Teddy!
And thank you Howie Kussoy and Jeremy Layton for helping us feel better about our 5-9 start.
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Huge three-game series in The Bronx this weekend. The first place Yankees play host to the surging Rays.
The Yankees’ Jameson Taillon (12-4, 3.95) is 1-2 in his last five starts, allowing 11 runs over those 25 innings.
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Tampa Bay is hoping for an “Encore, Encore” from the veteran Corey Kluber (10-7, 4.00) who two-hit the Yankees over seven shutout innings at Tropicana Field.
Kluber is 4-1 in his last seven starts. Rays are worthy road dogs so we will play 10 units on them.
ZZZzzz … Yan Gomes hit a two run homer off Carlos Rodon and the Shlubs doubled up the GiAints 4-2.
Sleepy loss has us at +1,275 joegibbons. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/yankees-vs-rays-prediction-corey-kluber-will-stymie-bombers/ | 2022-09-10T14:45:32Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/yankees-vs-rays-prediction-corey-kluber-will-stymie-bombers/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON — Two days after his mother's death elevated him to the throne, King Charles III was officially proclaimed Britain’s monarch Saturday in a pomp-filled ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism — and, for the first time, broadcast live online and on air.
Charles, who spent seven decades as heir apparent, automatically became king when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died on Thursday. But the accession ceremony was a key constitutional and ceremonial step in introducing the new monarch to the country, a relic of a time before mass communications.
Scores of senior British politicians past and present, including new Prime Minister Liz Truss and five of her predecessors, gathered in the ornate state apartments at St. James’s Palace for the meeting of the Accession Council.
They met without Charles, officially confirming his title, King Charles III. The king then joined them, vowing to follow his mother’s “inspiring example” as he took on the duties of monarch.
“I am deeply aware of this great inheritance and of the duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty which have now passed to me,” he said.
Speaking of his personal grief, he said: “I know how deeply you and the entire nation, and I think I may say the whole world, sympathize with me in this irreparable loss we have all suffered."
The new king formally approved a series of orders — including one declaring the day of his mother's funeral a public holiday. The date of the state funeral has not been announced, but it is expected to be around Sept. 19.
This is the first time the accession ceremony has been held since 1952, when Queen Elizabeth II took the throne.
Charles was accompanied at the ceremony by his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, and his eldest son Prince William. William is now heir to the throne and is now known by the title that Charles long held, Prince of Wales.
The ceremony ended with a royal official publicly proclaiming King Charles III the monarch from a balcony at the palace. In centuries past, this would have been the first official confirmation the public had of their new sovereign.
David White, the Garter King of Arms, made the proclamation flanked by trumpeters in gold-trimmed robes before leading cheers — “hip, hip, hooray!” — for the new king.
Gun salutes rang out in Hyde Park, at the Tower of London and at military sites around the U.K. as he announced the news, and scarlet-robed soldiers in the palace courtyard doffed their bearskin hats in a royal salute.
The proclamation was read out in the medieval City of London and at other locations across the U.K.
Two days after the 96-year-old queen died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland following an unprecedented 70 years on the throne, people still came by the thousands to pay their respects outside Buckingham Palace in London. The scene was repeated at other royal residences across the U.K. and at British embassies around the world.
Britain is holding a period of mourning for the queen, with days of carefully choreographed ceremonies marking the death of the only monarch most people have ever known.
For many Britons, her passing, though long expected, is a destabilizing experience. It comes at a time when many Britons are facing an energy crisis, the soaring cost of living, the uncertainties of the war in Ukraine and the fallout from Brexit.
The country has also just seen a change of leader. Truss was appointed by the queen on Tuesday, just two days before the monarch died. On Saturday, Truss and other senior U.K. lawmakers lined up in the House of Commons to take an oath of loyalty to the new king.
Normal parliamentary business has been suspended during a period of mourning for the queen. The House of Commons was holding a rare Saturday session so lawmakers could pay tribute to the late monarch.
Charles struck a note of continuity on Friday, vowing in a televised address to carry on the queen’s “lifelong service,” with his own modernizing stamp.
The new monarch looked to both the past — noting his mother’s unwavering “dedication and devotion as sovereign” — and the future, seeking to strike a reassuring note of constancy while signaling that his will be a 21st-century monarchy.
He reflected on how the country had changed dramatically during the queen’s reign into a society “of many cultures and many faiths,” and pledged to serve people in Britain and the 14 other countries where he is king “whatever may be your background or beliefs.”
He also tried to overcome a reputation for aloofness in his first hours as monarch, spending time shaking hands with some of the thousands who came to leave flowers and pay tribute to the queen at the gates of Buckingham Palace. He was greeted with shouts of “Well done, Charlie!” and “God save the king!” One woman gave him a kiss on the cheek.
In the next few days the queen’s body will be brought from Balmoral, first to Edinburgh and then to London, where she will lie in state before a funeral at Westminster Abbey.
In his speech, Charles struck a personal note, speaking of his sorrow at the loss of “my darling Mama.”
“Thank you for your love and devotion to our family and to the family of nations you have served so diligently all these years,” he said, ending with a quote from Shakespeare's “Hamlet” — “May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.’” | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/charles-iii-proclaimed-king-at-tradition-steeped-ceremony/article_03879934-3114-11ed-93a1-8f9f3a5f8744.html | 2022-09-10T14:50:07Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/charles-iii-proclaimed-king-at-tradition-steeped-ceremony/article_03879934-3114-11ed-93a1-8f9f3a5f8744.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Nnewi Anglican Priest, Reverend (Barrister) Ogbuchukwu Makuo Lotanna has resigned as a priest of Nnewi Anglican Diocese, stating that he has received a divine mandate to float a movement in support of polygamy.
Rev. Barr. Ogbuchukwu Makuo Lotanna, who hails from Mbanagu Otolo Nnewi claimed that the mandate he received from God to float a movement that encourages polygamy is geared towards reducing the rate of sexual sins.
According to him., it is obvious that the church especially the Anglican Church has been teaching against the concept of polygamy, but the Lord had opened his eye to the reality that polygamy is not a sin.
He revealed that what God hates is the divorce of any type, sleeping with another man’s wife and sleeping with someone you are not married to, insisting that God desires men to even marry more than one wife, instead of going for someone’s wife or ladies they are not married to.
The priest who is also a legal practitioner said that the church has hidden this information from members for a long time and it is high time people are told the truth.
Barr. Makuo encouraged men to marry their side chicks to escape hellfire, maintaining that the only wrong with polygamy is to stay in a Church that says no to it and practice it, because two cannot walk unless they agree.
He stated that his new movement will be called Gideonites the place of worship will be called Gideonites’ Temple.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that Rev. Ogbuchukwu Makuo Lotanna was ordained an Anglican Priest on the 22nd of December, 2019, at Cathedral Church of St. Mary’s Uruagu, Nnewi. He is married to Chinyere Abigail, who hails from Umuogbu Village Achara in Awka North.
As of the time of writing, there is no official reaction from the Anglican Diocese of Nnewi towards this development, however, it is understood that the Diocese is currently busy with her annual synod.
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Bitter leaf is one of the most medicinal leaves in Africa. It is used to prepare various delicacies and meals.
Bitter leaf has a lot of health benefits, especially from its juice. Igbo people call it Onugbu, Yoruba people call it Ewuro, while Hausas call it Shiwaka.
Do you know juice can be extracted from bitter leaves? A lot of people avoid taking bitter leaf juice or even using it to prepare meals because every part of the leaf is bitter. You might be missing out on on a lot of its medicinal benefits.
The best way to enjoy its benefits is by extracting it raw bitter juice and drinking it.
Here are some of the health benefits of bitter leaf:
1. It relieves stomach ache
Bitter leaf juice is the best remedy for stomach ache. Most people drink juice every morning to avoid a stomach ache. It helps relieve indigestion and aids proper digestion of food.
2. It helps prevent prostate cancer
Bitter leaf has various anti-cancerous properties that help prevent cancer, especially prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is usually common in men who are above 40 years. Prostate cancer causes difficulty and pain during urination. Consistent intake of bitter leaf juice especially destroys cancerous cells and increases the flow of urine.
It builds the immune system and destroys tumours.
3. Lowers high blood pressure
You will be amazed that the bitterness in bitter leaf has sweet benefits for the body. It might be unpleasant but helps to lower high blood pressure. Research has it that hypertensive patients should take more bitter leaf soup or juice to reduce their blood pressure.
4. It enhances fertility
Women are advised to take bitter leaf regularly to be more fertile. Drinking bitter leaf juice helps her woman to become pregnant because it helps to balance the hormones. This is a result of the chemical compounds in the leaf.
5. It aids in weight loss
Bitter leaf juice gets rid of excess fat by eliminating bad cholesterol and unwanted calories in the body that could cause obesity. It is the best medicine for burning off excess fat in the body.
6. It detoxifies the body
Due to its richness in protein, vitamins and other nutrients, it helps improve the immune system. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/health-benefits-of-bitter-leaf/ | 2022-09-10T15:01:34Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/health-benefits-of-bitter-leaf/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Waterleaf is one of the most medicinal and nutritious vegetables in Nigeria. It is usually underestimated and undervalued because it is seen as a wild plant that grows everywhere all year round.
It is called ‘Gbure’ by the Yoruba people and is also called ‘Mgbolodi’ in Igbo and ‘Ebe London’ in Edo. It contains water, vitamins, lipids and fibre which are greatly beneficial to the body.
Waterleaf can be taken in various ways. It can be taken as a vegetable, dried herbs and also as juice.
This article will be discussing the dietary and medicinal benefits of this vegetable below.
1. It aids weight loss
Due to its high value of fibre, it makes the stomach filled which eliminates cravings that could lead to unhealthy weight gain. It should be added to your daily meal plans if you have plans to shred more body fat.
2. It aids proper digestion
Amongst vegetables that aid proper digestion of food, waterleaf is one of the most important vegetables that performs this function accurately. It is perfect for the body especially when consumed with its stem. It reduces constipation and helps to soften the stool when consumed.
People who have difficulties passing out stool should take this either as a vegetable soup or as a juice.
3. It prevents cardiovascular disease
To maintain your cardiovascular system, you need to take waterleaf regularly. It keeps your heart healthy by supplying the oxygen and blood your heart needs. Waterleaf helps to prevent heart disease or strokes that could tamper with your health by reducing the level of cholesterol in your blood.
4. It helps to regulate hypertension
Waterleaf contains antioxidants and fibres that regulate blood sugar levels in the body. This helps to manage diabetes. It also helps to convert starchy foods during digestion to simple sugar which are not harmful to the body.
5. It prevents anaemia
Anaemia is a medical condition where the body doesn’t have enough blood cells to transport oxygen to the body. Waterleaf is a medicinal vegetable that boosts and elongates the life of blood cells to be used effectively for the body.
6. It protects brain tissues
Research has shown that waterleaf contains nutrients that enhance brain activities. It protects the brain tissue for proper functioning.
7. It promotes proper eyesight
Waterleaf contains Vitamin A and Vitamin C. These vitamins help to enhance proper vision and improve eye health. It prevents the retina from being affected or damaged. This means the adequate consumption of waterleaf as a vegetable or a juice results in healthy eyes.
You can make this for your aged parents to help sharpen their vision.
Waterleaf should be taken with high importance because it has a lot of benefits and medicinal value to the body. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/health-benefits-of-waterleaf-you-should-know/ | 2022-09-10T15:01:41Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/health-benefits-of-waterleaf-you-should-know/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(Our Auto Expert) — Jeep has some serious news. We are witnessing history in the form of technology combined with electrification and added capability. Jeep has given us a glimpse of its future. Vowing to go all-electric. They begin in early 2023 in the UK, with the North American roll in 2024. Four models have been selected. Let’s take a peek.
Jeep is going all electric with four distinct models. By 2024 Jeep will introduce Jeep to North America the Jeep Wagoneer S, Jeep Recon, Wrangler 4xe, and the Jeep Avenger, which will be released in 2023 and is going exclusively to the UK market.
For us in the states, we are already anticipating the Wagoneer S. The clean body lines and new posture make the quick Zero to sixty in 3.5 seconds a beautiful sight to watch. With up to 600HP and 400 miles of estimated range.
Following the Wagoneer S, we get the Jeep Recon. This is for you off-road outdoor people. Inspired by the Wrangler, It maintains the authentic open-air design we have all fallen in love with. Fully removable doors and windows with available one-touch power top.
The UK-exclusive all-electric Jeep Avenger is the first all-electric Jeep in Europe. Getting all new tech and infotainment center makes the range of 400 kilometers seem like a breeze to travel.
Jeep has something for everyone, whether you’re in North America or the UK. | https://www.wspa.com/automotive/did-jeep-just-outpace-ford-bronco-with-the-next-big-thing-in-outdoor-adventure/ | 2022-09-10T15:07:38Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/automotive/did-jeep-just-outpace-ford-bronco-with-the-next-big-thing-in-outdoor-adventure/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(WGN) – Players and fans will soon be dealing with a few new rules at Major League Baseball games.
MLB announced three major rule changes for the 2023 season, each of which was approved by a majority vote of the league’s competition committee on Friday.
The changes, according to MLB, are designed to improve safety and the pace of games. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said each new rule had been “thoroughly tested and refined” in the minor leagues for years.
“We’ve conducted thorough and ongoing research with our fans, and certain things are really clear,” said Manfred at a press conference on Friday. “Number 1, fans want games with better pace. Two, fans want more action, more balls in play. And three, fans want to see more of the athleticism of our great players.”
To achieve this, MLB officials voted in favor of three rule changes:
- Pitch Clock
The league will now time pitchers on the mound, requiring that they start the throwing motion to the plate within 15 seconds of each pitch when the bases are empty and 20 seconds when there are runners on-base. A pitcher can disengage with the rubber twice during an at-bat — any more than that will result in a balk. Hitters have to be in the batter’s box within 8 seconds of the start of the clock, and are allowed one timeout per at-bat.
- Shift Ban
Two infielders must be on each side of second base when a pitch is thrown, and each infielder must have both feet on the outer boundary of the infield when the pitcher is on the rubber. Also, infielders can’t switch sides unless there is a substitution.
- Bigger Bases
Starting in 2023, the size of first, second, and third base will increase from 15 inches to 18 inches in what the league says is a move for player safety.
A full explanation of the new rules for 2023 can be viewed at MLB.com.
Not everyone in the Major League is a fan the new rules, however. The Major League Baseball Player’s Association, the collective bargaining group for MLB players, released a statement shortly after the new rules were passed, saying that the players on the competition committee voted against both the pitch clock and the shift ban. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/pitch-clocks-and-bigger-bases-mlb-announces-major-rule-changes-for-2023-season/ | 2022-09-10T15:08:04Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/pitch-clocks-and-bigger-bases-mlb-announces-major-rule-changes-for-2023-season/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LARAMIE – Unlike last season, when the University of Wyoming returned four offensive linemen with at least 20 starts with the program, the O-line was a bit of an unknown heading into 2022.
In just two games, this source of uncertainty has transformed into arguably the Cowboys’ greatest strength.
With three new starters – redshirt freshman Emmanuel Pregnon, sophomore Nofoafia Tulafono and junior Zach Watts – on the interior line complimenting a pair of returning starters in tackles Frank Crum and Eric Abojei, UW has yet to allow a sack through its first two tests of the fall. Redshirt freshman Jack Walsh has also been a key contributor, playing a combined 75 offensive snaps over the past two weeks.
“(There are) a lot of new faces, and I’ve been pleased,” Cowboys coach Craig Bohl said. “On the offensive line, we haven’t given up a sack in two games, and there haven’t been a lot of missed assignments.”
Added Crum: “No sacks through two games is a huge accomplishment. We have these young guys – (Tulafono), Zach Watts, Jack Walsh and Emmanuel – and for those guys to go in there and have 100% protection grades (is great). Obviously, technique isn’t going to be 100%, but to keep the quarterback clean is our job, and to have 100% on that is huge.”
The running game took a slight step back after a decent showing in the season opener, going from 5.9 yards per carry at Illinois to 3.9 yards per carry last Saturday against Tulsa.
Crum acknowledges that “3.9 yards per carry as an average is not the standard that we hold here at Wyoming.” However, he still sees traits from newer pieces on the offensive line that he believes translate well to the Pokes’ run-heavy attack.
Even during last week’s struggles, Crum saw positive signs in terms of their comfort within their new roles.
“These guys finish,” Crum said. “We like to ground and pound here a little bit, so you have to have guys who are willing to be a little nasty. At Illinois, I think it showed a lack of experience with those guys, but they got comfortable in the college football setting, and I think it showed last Saturday. Those guys were more comfortable in the spotlight, for sure.”
Early-down success
UW’s passing attack made significant progress last week after a forgettable showing in the season opener, with junior quarterback Andrew Peasley earning Mountain West offensive player of the week honors after throwing for 256 yards and two touchdowns with no turnovers on 66.7% passing.
The Cowboys’ willingness to throw on early downs played a significant role in this success. Peasley was 16 of 20 for 222 yards on first and second down, with his 48- and 51-yard touchdown passes both coming on first down.
Rocky start
UW’s next opponent will be looking to rebound after a rough start to 2022.
Northern Colorado lost 46-34 to perennial FCS bottom-dweller Houston Baptist in last week’s opener. There were some positive signs for the Bears, who gained 543 yards of total offense, with 425 yards through the air. However, 105 yards of penalties were too much to overcome, as HBU surpassed 300 yards passing and 200 yards rushing.
Changing odds
Betting lines have yet to be released for Saturday’s contest, but there have been some notable changes in terms of Mountain West futures odds now that each team in the conference has played at least one game.
Fresno State – which opened at +230 on DraftKings, the second-lowest odds in the MW at the time – is now the clear-cut favorite to win the league at +150. Utah State and UW have seen their odds double since this summer, going from +900 to +1800 and +4000 to +8000, respectively, following early-season losses. UNLV, meanwhile, has made the biggest jump, going from +10000 to +4000.
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BALTIMORE (Sept. 9, 2022) - U.S. Navy Musician 1st Class Robert Kurth sings the national anthem before the Orioles versus the Red Sox game during Maryland Fleet Week and Flyover 2022. Maryland Fleet Week and Flyover Baltimore is the city’s celebration of the sea services with this year marking the City of Baltimore's third time hosting Navy Fleet Week. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Oliver Serna)
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Chief Justice John Roberts defends legitimacy of Supreme Court
Chief Justice John Roberts defended the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution, saying its role should not be called into question just because people disagree with its decisions.
When asked to reflect on the last year at the court in his first public appearance since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Roberts said Friday he was concerned that lately some critics of the court’s controversial decisions have questioned the legitimacy of the court, which he said was a mistake. He did not mention any specific cases or critics by name.
"If the court doesn’t retain its legitimate function of interpreting the constitution, I’m not sure who would take up that mantle. You don’t want the political branches telling you what the law is, and you don’t want public opinion to be the guide about what the appropriate decision is," Roberts said while being interviewed by two judges from the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at its conference in Colorado Springs.
Roberts described the last year as an unusual and difficult one, pointing to the public not be allowed inside the court, closed in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, as one hardship. He also said it was "gut wrenching" to drive into the Supreme Court that was surrounded by barricades every day.
The barriers were installed in May when protests erupted outside the court and outside the homes of some Supreme Court justices after there was an unprecedented leak of a draft opinion indicating the justices were planning to overturn Roe v. Wade, which provided women constitutional protections for abortion for nearly 50 years. The barriers are gone and the public will be allowed back inside when the court's new session begins in October but an investigation ordered by Roberts into the leak continues.
READ MORE: State by state: Abortion laws across the U.S.
Speaking at the same conference Thursday, Justice Neil Gorsuch said it is "terribly important" to identify the leaker and said he is expecting a report on the progress of the investigation, "I hope soon."
Gorsuch condemned the leak, as have other justices who have addressed it publicly.
"Improper efforts to influence judicial decision-making, from whatever side, from whomever, are a threat to the judicial decision-making process," Gorsuch said. Reporters from The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg attended the talk.
The leaked draft was largely incorporated into Justice Samuel Alito's final opinion in June that overturned Roe v. Wade in a case upholding Mississippi's law banning abortion after 15 weeks. The ruling paved the way for severe abortion restrictions or bans in nearly half of U.S. states.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaks at the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC, September 24, 2016. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly via Bank of America/Getty Images)
In June's ruling, Roberts, appointed to the court in 2005 by former President George W. Bush, voted to uphold Mississippi's law but he did not join the conservative justices in also overturning Roe v. Wade, as well as Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to end a pregnancy. He wrote that there was no need to overturn the broad precedents to uphold the state law, saying he would take "a more measured course."
Roberts has spoken out repeatedly about the importance of the judiciary’s independence and to rebut perceptions of the court as a political institution not much different than Congress or the presidency.
Opinion polls since the leak and the release of the final abortion decision, though, have shown a sharp drop in approval of the court and confidence in the institution.
When asked what the public might not know about how the court work, Roberts emphasized the collegiality among the justices and the court's tradition of shaking hands before starting conferences or taking the bench. After the justices might disagree about a decision, everyone eats together in the court's dining room where they talk about everything but work, he said. He said it's not borne out of "fake affection" but a respect that comes from the push and pull of explaining ideas and listening to the responses to them.
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NASA spacecraft set to intentionally crash into an asteroid to help save Earth
NASA will use a spacecraft later this month to test a planetary-defense method that could one day save Earth.
The Double Asteroid Redirect Test spacecraft, otherwise known as DART, will be used as a battering ram to crash into an asteroid not far from Earth on Sept. 26. The mission is an international collaboration to protect the globe from future asteroid impacts.
7 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT NASA’S DART MISSION
"While the asteroid poses no threat to Earth, this is the world's first test of the kinetic impact technique, using a spacecraft to deflect an asteroid for planetary defense," NASA said Thursday.
In November 2021, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched with DART from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Nov. 23, 2021, carrying NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Mission spacecraft. (NASA / FOX Weather)
Now, 10 months later, DART will catch up with the asteroid by executing three trajectory correction maneuvers over the next three weeks. Scientists say that each maneuver will reduce the margin of error for the spacecraft’s required trajectory to impact the asteroid known as Dimorphos.
NASA says that after the final maneuver on Sept. 25, approximately 24 hours before impact, the navigation team will know the position of Dimorphos within 2 kilometers. From there, DART will be on its own to autonomously guide itself to collision with the out-of-this-world space rock.
Getting a look at the asteroid
This image of the light from asteroid Didymos and its orbiting moonlet Dimorphos is a composite of 243 images taken by the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation (DRACO) on July 27, 2022. (NASA JPL DART Navigation Team / FO
DART recently got its first look at Didymos, the double-asteroid system that includes its target, Dimorphos.
An image taken from 20 million miles away showed the Didymos system to be quite faint. Still, once a series of images were combined, astronomers could pinpoint Dimorphos' exact location.
NASA SLAMMING A SPACECRAFT INTO AN ASTEROID IS PART OF AN INTERNATIONAL PLAN TO SAVE EARTH
"Seeing the DRACO images of Didymos for the first time, we can iron out the best settings for DRACO and fine-tune the software," said Julie Bellerose, the DART navigation lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "In September, we'll refine where DART is aiming by getting a more precise determination of Didymos' location."
DART's mission objective
A rendering of the DART spacecraft and the asteroid pair, Didymos and Dimorphos. (NASA)
If DART hits Dimorphos at 15,000 mph as planned, it will test the kinetic impactor Earth defense theory.
"The point of a kinetic impactor is you ram your spacecraft into the asteroid you're worried about, and then you change its orbit around the Sun by doing that," Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Planetary astronomer Andy Rivkin said.
DART won't change the orbit of Didymos. It aims to change the speed of the moonlet, Dimorphos. Ground-based telescopes and data from the spacecraft will ultimately tell scientists if their plan worked.
Asteroids move around the sun at a speed of about 20 miles per second. Rivkin explained that if a kinetic impactor method were used to change its orbit, engineers would only want to alter that by a tiny amount, maybe an inch or two a second.
That's why Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos make a perfect practice target. The tiny asteroid is orbiting Didymos and moves about a foot per second which is much easier to measure than 20 miles per second.
If this works, the idea is to apply the same technique to larger asteroids. Until this mission, scientists could only simulate such an impact in a lab. DART will give them data to help solidify this defense plan.
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Teen last seen in Chicago Lawn area, reported missing
CHICAGO - A 15-year-old girl was reported missing Saturday.
Jazmin Guadarrama was last seen in the 6200 block of South Richmond Street in Chicago Lawn on Tuesday, according to Chicago police.
Police categorize her as a high risk missing juvenile. Guadarrama is Hispanic, 5', 96 lbs., with black air and brown eyes.
She frequents Marquette Road.
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West Side crime: 3 shot inside vehicles within 4 hours early Saturday
CHICAGO - Three people were shot while inside moving cars on Chicago's West Side Saturday morning in separate incidents.
- Chicago police say a man, 30, was driving in the 3900 block of West Grand Avenue around 1:07 a.m. when he was hit by gunfire coming from another car. He was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in good condition with gunshot wounds to the left leg and arm.
- Just minutes later around 1:10 a.m., a woman, 40, was shot while riding in the passenger seat of a car, according to police. The shots came from another car in the 3400 block of West Madison Street in East Garfield Park. She was dropped off at Stroger Hospital in fair condition.
- Around 4:57 a.m. in Humboldt Park, a 29-year-old man was traveling east on Augusta Boulevard in a car when shots were fired from a dark-colored SUV, police say. The man was taken to Mount Sinai in good condition with a gunshot wound to the left arm and two graze wounds on his back.
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Police say no one is in custody for any of these shootings and there has not been any connection made between them.
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"Why are you naked?" Truck driver catches EMU professor driving Jeep naked
DEARBORN, Mich. (FOX 2) - September 2 was a beautiful day for a ride with the windows open and the top off if you're a Jeep Wrangler driver. Of course, that would all be fine, assuming you're fully clothed. But an Eastern Michigan University administrator, apparently, was not wearing any clothes that day and was touching himself - and it was caught on cell phone video.
An observant truck driver witnessed much more than he would have liked to have seen while driving in Dearborn as he spotted the man having quite the joyride. That man has been identified as Michael Tew, an EMU professor.
"They saw an individual unclothed driving down Michigan Avenue potentially fondling himself," said Dearborn Police Chief Issa Shahin. "Obviously with the top down in a jeep there was not a lot left to the imagination."
The driver had an eyeful from his cab.
FOX 2 learned this isn't the first time Tew has had a charge like this. Ten years ago, in Livonia, he was charged with the same thing at least once.
"'It was in broad daylight in Michigan Avenue," Shahin said.
The lewd behavior wasn't far from the police department and Shahin credited nearby drivers for getting the video and the man's plate so they could track him down.
Tew worked as an associate provost and Associate Vice President for Academic Programs and Services and also previously served as Director of Equality, FOX 2 has learned.
"I don't think it's appropriate no matter what field of work you're in," Shahin said.
VIDEO: EMU administrator driving Jeep naked through Dearborn, police say
In a statement from EMU, the university confirmed Tew had worked for the school since 1989 and said Tew has been suspended.
"We are troubled and concerned about the reported incident. The individual involved has been a faculty member and administrator at the University since 1989. Upon learning about this matter from Dearborn Police yesterday, the University took immediate action and suspended the individual indefinitely, pending the outcome of the investigation and legal proceedings. They are not permitted to be on campus during the suspension. We are not aware of any inappropriate conduct or actions of this nature related to their work on campus," the statement read.
The Wayne County Prosecutor charged Tew with one misdemeanor count of aggravated indecent exposure and one felony count of indecent exposure.
He was arraigned and ordered held on a $20,000/10% bond and is due back in court on Sept. 23.
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(The Conversation) – When people talk about how college athletes can now get paid from their name, image and likeness – more commonly referred to as “NIL” – the focus is often on players at schools with big-time sports programs.
This makes sense given the sheer size of some of the NIL deals that have been scored as of late by players who attend the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I schools, which tend to have larger student bodies and big budgets to support their athletic programs.
For instance, Paige Bueckers, star guard on the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team, stands to earn more than $1 million through deals with Gatorade and other companies.
University of Alabama quarterback Bryce Young is reportedly worth $3.2 million thanks to deals with Nissan, Dr. Pepper and the Dollar Shave Club, to name a few.
Even college cheerleaders are getting in on the action. After Cassidy Cerny, a cheerleader for Indiana University, was hoisted to retrieve a basketball that had gotten stuck behind the backboard during a March Madness game, a viral video of the episode led to a deal with Breaking T, a T-shirt company that produces shirts that capture moments in sports. The company immortalized the moment on a T-shirt. Cerny says she got about 15% – or $4.50 – per shirt.
With all the hype surrounding lucrative endorsement deals for athletes at Division I schools, it’s easy for people to get the impression that players at smaller schools – and community colleges in particular – could be left behind in what is now known as the “NIL era.”
But a study I did recently with Anita Moorman, a fellow professor of sport administration, suggests that’s not necessarily the case.
In an article we published in the Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, we concluded that community college athletes can earn an estimated $48 per sponsored post on Instagram. Of course, that amount pales in comparison to the multimillion-dollar deals secured by some Division I athletes. But when you consider the fact that community college students often struggle to meet their basic needs, enabling those who are athletes to earn $48 by posting on Instagram seems a worthy endeavor to pursue.
The math behind the money
In order to arrive at our $48 figure, we had to come up with a way to calculate how much each player should get paid for each sponsored Instagram post.
To make our estimate, we didn’t look only at how many Instagram followers each player had. We also looked at how many “likes” and comments their posts generated.
We used a formula that basically takes into account how many followers an athlete has, as well as how many likes and comments the posts generate, and how much a company was willing to pay for those things. To figure out the part about how much a company is willing to pay, we took a look at the going rates.
Of the 23,248 athletes competing in the California Community College Athletic Association during the 2019-2020 athletic season, we found 1,168 athletes – or about 5% – who had public Instagram profiles with at least 1,000 followers. We treated these athletes as potential social media influencers and applied standard influencer marketing rates to figure out how much money they could make for each sponsored post on Instagram.
We figured that companies would be willing to pay $10 to reach 1,000 people.
Economic struggles
Based on our calculations, we found 11 community college athletes with an earnings estimate over $200 per sponsored post. An average male community college athlete could earn about $47 per post. And our calculations show that the average female athlete could earn $51 per sponsored Instagram post – $4 more than the men. This difference is driven by the ability of female athletes to generate more engagement on their Instagram posts.
Overall, almost 93% of the athletes in our sample had an NIL value estimate between $20 and $100 per sponsored post.
This is just a fraction of the average NIL value of a sponsored Instagram post for a Division I athlete, which is over $500. Still, every dollar counts, especially when you’re a community college student.
For the most part, community college athletes don’t get athletic scholarships.
Community college students commonly experience financial hardships that lead to a range of issues, including food and housing insecurities.
For those reasons, enabling community college athletes to profit from endorsements would put some in a better position to meet their basic needs while in school.
In order for community college students to reap the potential benefits of NIL deals, at least a couple of things need to happen.
Education is needed
First, community college athletes would benefit from greater access to education resources that can help them learn the ins and outs of NIL deals. This includes education on financial literacy, time management, personal brand development, contract negotiation and a host of other topics.
Since community colleges typically have less money than four-year colleges, we think it would be helpful if the athletic associations that govern sports at community colleges would provide these educational resources to the schools and their athletes, rather than leaving it to the schools to secure these resources on their own.
Some steps have already been taken in this regard. For instance, the California Community College Athletic Association announced a partnership with two companies – Spry and Accelerate – to provide all member institutions with NIL education. Spry is a company that provides a technology platform to help schools track and monitor NIL deals. Schools have an interest in tracking NIL deals to make sure they comply with athletic association policy, institutional policy and state law. Accelerate is a company that offers educational resources focused around NIL topics.
The National Junior College Athletic Association announced a similar partnership with Opendorse on August 17, 2022.
A bigger voice
Community college athletes are not typically included in the national NIL discussion. Congressional witness lists show that community college students are seldom, if ever, invited to congressional hearings on NIL issues.
Inviting community college students to the table would help broaden the scope of the discussion.
Although California amended its NIL legislation to grant community college athletes the same NIL rights afforded to their peers at four-year institutions, active NIL legislation in five other states – Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas – still contains language that expressly or implicitly excludes community college institutions. This shows that not all states are on the same page when it comes to granting community college athletes access to endorsement deals.
With all the Division I students who are capitalizing off endorsement deals, this is one of the most exciting times to be a college athlete. One estimate projected college athletes would earn almost $579 million during the 2021-2022 school year.
Another estimate suggests NIL earnings will increase to over $1.14 billion during the 2022-2023 school year.
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The 74th Annual Emmy Awards, chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, are coming up on Monday, and we know you have questions. Luckily, we've got answers.
When are the Emmy Awards this year?
The Emmy Awards ceremony will air at 8 p.m. ET on Monday, with a red carpet pre-show on E! beginning at 6 p.m. ET. The ceremony will take place at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, and is hosted by comedian and Saturday Night Live Kenan Thompson. The pre-show is hosted by actress Laverne Cox.
But perhaps you meant the Creative Arts Emmys? Bad news: they happened already. Good news: The channel FXX (both on cable and streaming) will televise edited highlights on Saturday, Sept. 10 at 8 p.m. ET.
Those Emmys are given out in a smaller ceremony that's decidedly less glamorous, but that doesn't mean they're not important; they honor directors, makeup artists, music directors, guest stars and many others. One winner was Chadwick Boseman, who was awarded a posthumous Emmy for his voice-over artistry in the Disney+/Marvel show What If....
Here's a full list.
How do I watch them? What if I don't have cable?
NBC will broadcast the Emmys live. You can find your local NBC station here.
But don't worry! If you don't have a cable subscription, the show will also stream live on Peacock for the first time. (Peacock offers a free, seven-day trial). NPR critics and reporters including Eric Deggans, Glen Weldon and Linda Holmes, will also be tweeting live during the show; and you can look for post-game analysis on Tuesday on Morning Edition and Pop Culture Happy Hour.
Why are the Emmys on a Monday?
Usually, the Emmys are held on a Sunday, like most awards shows, which is why the day might be confusing. But when it's NBC's turn to host, the awards get moved to Monday to make way for NBC's Sunday Night Football.
Who are the top contenders?
Succession received 25 Emmy nominations, including outstanding drama, far outpacing every other show. But it will be completing against a lot of excellent programming, including the final season of Better Call Saul, as well as Squid Game, which is the first non-English show to get a nomination in this category.
For best comedy, Ted Lasso seems like the favorite with 20 nods, but Abbott Elementary, a mockumentary about an elementary school, is a critical darling and a fresh-feeling hit. Plus, creator and star Quinta Brunson made history when she became the first Black woman to get three nominations for the show. And then there's Only Murders in the Building, the Steve Martin/Martin Short comedy that pokes fun at podcasts (and New Yorkers).
Will we see another slap, like at the Oscars?
Host Kenan Thompson told the Associated Press: Absolutely no.
"It kind of just threw the entire world off guard, basically, and that won't happen again. Even if I am roasting [someone], it shouldn't come across as any sort of malice."
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Katrina Wooten is in the process of buying a house near Gainesville, Florida. It's still under construction and she hasn't yet locked a home loan. But with mortgage rates doubling this year to around 6%, her monthly payments will likely be hundreds of dollars more than she'd originally budgeted for.
"I was having panic attacks over it," she says. For a more affordable option, her mortgage broker has talked to her about considering adjustable rate mortgages.
A lot of homebuyers these days are turning to adjustable rate loans because they start out with a lower, more affordable interest rate. But as Wooten's broker explained to her, the loans come with the risk that they can eventually adjust to a higher payment than a homeowner can afford.
"Adjustable rate mortgages scare me for sure," says Wooten. "I think about it every day."
But higher inflation and the Federal Reserve's moves to fight it have pushed up mortgage rates to the highest level since 2008. That's made adjustable rate loans more attractive, with the share of people applying for such loans at the highest level in 15 years.
A lower monthly payment is the "rescue ring" people are grasping
Adjustable rate loans can be tantalizing for people in Wooten's situation, as that initial interest rate can be a full percentage point lower than a fixed rate loan.
"A percentage point can make a really, really big difference in that monthly payment," says Holden Lewis who writes about mortgages for the personal finance site NerdWallet. "So they grasp for that rescue ring, an adjustable rate mortgage."
Wooten has three kids. And she really wants to buy the new house. "We hate where we're living right now," she says. "It's a trailer, it's falling apart."
So Wooten, who's a nurse at a nearby V.A. hospital, saved up a downpayment and signed a contract to buy the home for about $375,000. The whole family was excited.
"So excited...especially my 14-year-old," she says. "He's going to be out of my house probably in a few years and he's never really had a nice house to live in."
The way most adjustable loans work these days is that they're fixed for either five, seven, or 10 years and then they adjust to wherever rates are in the market. So they definitely come with more risk than fixed rate loans.
But for some homebuyers, Lewis says that can be a risk worth taking. Also they aren't like the crazy adjustable mortgages that led to the housing crash — many of those didn't document that the homebuyer had enough income to repay the loan, and their monthly payments exploded in barely two years to levels the borrower absolutely couldn't afford. Those kinds of loans are now illegal.
The rate is lower because it's riskier. Is it worth it?
The reason adjustable rate loans have a lower interest rate is that the bank or lender is passing on some of the risk of higher interest rates in the future to you the homeowner. The lower rate is in effect your compensation for taking on that risk.
"When you get a fixed rate loan, if mortgage rates rise after that, that's the lender's problem," says Lewis. "If you get an adjustable rate loan and mortgage rates rise, that's your problem."
So the question becomes, quite literally, can you afford to take on that added risk.
For those who can afford it, the loan can be a good financial strategy to keep costs low. Nathan Lindstrom is buying a house in Phoenix, Arizona. "We are locked in with an adjustable rate, 10-year ARM, at 4%." That means his adjustable rate mortgage, or ARM, will have a fixed rate for the first 10 years, and then adjust depending on where rates are in the market then.
Lindstrom is a financial professional in the healthcare industry. He has savings and investments. And so if interest rates are really high in 10 years, Lindstrom has a plan.
"My wife and I would be able to sell off some of our investments to almost completely pay off the house," he says.
In other words, if you have some savings and can afford to pay off your mortgage or a big chunk of it, you have a way out if rates go up a lot. Almost all ARMs recalculate your payment based on how much you actually owe at the point it adjusts. Or you could refinance and get a new mortgage. But either way, if you owe a much smaller amount on your loan, a higher interest rate will still be affordable.
Whether you can afford the risk depends on your financial situation
Another strategy is to combine a lower interest adjustable rate loan with paying down your principal balance more aggressively. That way, you reduce your overall loan size.
"Nobody's stopping you from paying down your principal balance faster than what the minimum payments are on your mortgage," says Robert Heck a vice president at the online mortgage broker Morty.
Heck says ARMs also are often a good strategy for people who expect a big increase in their income. For example, a medical resident whose salary will double or triple in 5 years after they start working as a full-fledged doctor. "They expect to earn more in the future, and so this fits more with that life path."
Anyone considering an adjustable rate loan should understand fully how these loans work, and read the fine print on the particular loan you get.
For many homebuyers, the risk may not be worth it
The reality is that for many homebuyers who want the lower payment of an adjustable rate loan, the added risk is often more than they can afford to take because they don't have a big income or vast savings.
"Maybe they need to rethink things and just shop for a house that's less expensive," says Lewis. He says the jump in mortgage rates this year has many homebuyers feeling desperate. "When you're desperate, it really is a good idea to step back and think about what you're doing."
Katrina Wooten in Florida doesn't want to get stuck with a mortgage she can't afford.
"I did grow up poor and was the first one in my family to go to college and graduate," she says. "I absolutely don't have any family to turn to if this all falls apart, so it's on me and it's got to work out."
So Wooten is leaning away from an adjustable loan. She's been waiting to lock in a rate with her lender as the house is closer to being completed. But she says she'd rather make the higher payments on a fixed rate loan, even if it means living frugally for a while, so she can sleep easy at night knowing her monthly payment won't adjust higher down the road.
She hopes rates will then fall before too long so she can refinance. "I'm just holding on to hope," she says.
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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is warning that the risk of a nuclear accident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has "significantly increased," following ongoing fighting around the site.
"Let me be clear, the shelling around Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant must stop," IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in a brief recorded statement released on Friday.
Grossi also warned that the continued fighting might require the plant to shut down its last operating reactor. That would set into motion a chain of events that could intensify the current nuclear crisis. Here's how.
Nuclear plants need electricity
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is the largest in Europe, capable of producing thousands of megawatts of electricity. But the plant also needs power from the same electricity grid it feeds.
The power is used to run the various parts of the plant, including its safety and cooling systems. Specifically, nuclear power plants require water to be pumped constantly through their cores in order to function safely, and the pumps need electricity.
At Zaporizhzhia, the power is normally supplied by four high-voltage lines, which connect the nuclear complex to Ukraine's electricity grid, but the conflict has seen those lines systematically cut. The last 750kV line was severed on September 3, according to the IAEA.
A backup line was disconnected two days later due to a fire on the site. In a press conference shortly after returning from Zaporizhzhia, Grossi told reporters that he believed the power lines were being deliberately targeted:
"It is clear that those who have these military aims know very well... to hit where it hurts so that the plant becomes very, very problematic," he said.
Zaporizhzhia has been making its own power, but that's a limited solution
Since losing its last connection to the grid on Sept. 5, the nuclear plant has been powering itself in so-called "islanding operation mode." Under this setup, the Unit 6 reactor has been producing low levels of electricity that are running the rest of the facility.
The reactors at Zaporizhzhia are designed to operate in this mode during startup, according to a nuclear engineer who worked directly with the reactors when the plant began operations in the 1980s, but who was not authorized to speak publicly by his current employer.
"It's not good, it cannot be done for a long time," he says. The problem is less to do with the reactor itself than the turbine, generators and other systems–all of which are designed to run at significantly higher power levels than islanding operation mode provides.
Adding to the problem, Grossi said in his statement, is the increasing strain on the plant's Ukrainian operators. Many of the plant's current staff of just under 1,000 live in the nearby town of Enerhodar. Its water, sewage and electrical supplies have all been disrupted in recent days by the same fighting that's damaged the lines around the plant.
"The shelling is putting in danger operators and their families, making it difficult to adequately staff the plant," Grossi says.
Shutting down the last reactor will trigger emergency generators
With conditions deteriorating, it seems more likely that Ukrainian authorities will decide to power down the last reactor. But in the short term, that could exacerbate the crisis.
That's because nuclear reactors are more like charcoal grills than gas stoves. Even after they're shut off, they remain hot for a long period of time. Water must still circulate in the cores to prevent a meltdown.
With its reactors shut down, Zaporizhzhia will switch to backup emergency diesel generators to keep the reactors cool. The emergency generators themselves are a tried-and-true method for cooling a nuclear reactor. In fact, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires U.S. plants to switch to emergency diesel generators immediately, bypassing the "islanding operation mode" used in Zaporizhzhia.
"We don't want to go on the diesel generators, but it's a situation you can abide by for awhile," says Steven Nesbit, a nuclear engineer and member of the American Nuclear Society's rapid response taskforce, which is tracking the current crisis. For example, after losing power during Hurricane Andrew in 1992, the Turkey Point Nuclear Plant in Florida operated for days on emergency diesel power.
If the generators run out of fuel, a meltdown could occur
According to the IAEA, the Zaporizhzhia plant has more than a dozen emergency generators standing by. Normally, the plant holds a 10-day reserve of diesel fuel, the agency says, and currently has approximately 2,250 tonnes of fuel available.
If that fuel is depleted, or the generators are damaged in further fighting, it could trigger a meltdown.
But Nesbit says that doesn't necessarily mean there would be a Chernobyl-like catastrophe. The meltdown at Chernobyl was due to a unique mix of design flaws and operator error that would be essentially impossible to replicate at Zaporizhzhia.
And unlike the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, some of the reactors at Zaporizhzhia have already been shut down for a while, allowing the nuclear fuel to cool somewhat, Nesbit says.
Even in the worst case scenario, the reactors at Zaporizhzhia are a modern design surrounded by a heavy "containment" building, Nesbit says. "It's reinforced concrete, typically about three to four feet of that; it's designed to withstand very high internal pressures."
That could allow it to hold in any radioactive material.
But the world's nuclear agency doesn't want to test any of this. And for that reason, Grossi is calling on all sides to implement a safety zone immediately.
"There is no time to waste," he says.
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Phew, this summer was hot — and some places are still roasting! With people around the world experiencing dangerously high, record-breaking temperatures, we've all been sweating it.
You might find perspiration a nuisance most of the time, but that salty liquid oozing from your skin is key to keeping you cool. And there's so much more to the briny stuff than meets the eye.
Several NPR science staffers braved the heat this summer to get the dirt on sweat. These lessons are based on their reporting:
1. Sweat keeps you cool by turning into a gas
Let's start with the basics. Sweat is mostly just water and salt secreted by millions of glands in your skin. Those glands are basically coiled loops that help move some of the liquid sloshing around in the spaces between your cells, bones and organs up and out through the body's surface.
When the sweat on your skin evaporates, transforming from a liquid into a gas, it takes some heat from the blood right under your skin with it. The now-cooler blood then travels around your body and back to your core, helping keep all your inner parts at the right temperature to function.
2. Most sweat doesn't stink
Perspiration is mostly odorless — at least that's true of the sweat dripping from your forehead and arms after a run. But something is different about the sweat from your armpits and groin that makes it stink. The sweat glands in those places are called apocrine glands, and they release a protein-rich form of perspiration that gets eaten by bacteria. It's the byproducts of these bacteria, feeding on your sweat, that produce body odor.
3. The bacteria behind BO are actually your allies
Even if you're worried about your smelly sweat, don't go scrubbing yourself with antibacterial soap in pursuit of fresh pits just yet. The microbes that give rise to body odor help protect your skin from dangerous pathogens and even help prevent eczema.
A light sudsing with regular gentle soap should be enough to knock down the stink, at least temporarily, without wiping out bacterial pals.
4. Most animals don't sweat
Now let's be clear. You are the sweatiest of them all. OK, well not just you, but all humans.
Scientists think our ancestors evolved sweat glands between 1.5 million and 2.5 million years ago as we moved from under the cool canopy of the forests into the grasslands and prairies, long before we evolved our big brains.
But most other animals don't sweat, and they need to find other ways to keep from overheating — through panting, for example — if they can't find shade, a river or a pool. As NPR's Rebecca Hersher recounts in her rhyming exploration of the ways various creatures stay cool, lions in a Maryland zoo this steamy summer got an extra treat — frozen bloodsicles — to help lower everyone's temperature.
5. A warm bath is better than a cold shower to prevent overheated nights
It may seem counterintuitive, but when you get out of a warm or lukewarm evening bath, researchers say, the water evaporates from your skin, pulling heat from your body and cooling you down before you go to sleep. This life hack works best about an hour before bedtime, scientists told NPR reporter Joe Palca — and you'll sleep better and more deeply when you're cooler.
6. Some insects seek the salt in human sweat
Unfortunately for us, mosquitoes, along with many other insects, are attracted to human sweat. Insects need the sodium in salt, just like the rest of us, and our salty perspiration has what they need.
Scientists suspect that millions of years ago, some sweat-drinking ancestors of mosquitoes discovered there was an even more nutritious substance beneath human skin — our blood. Those bloodsucking biters gained an evolutionary edge over the nonbiters and thrived.
7. Astronauts need extra help to get rid of body heat
Perspiration can be a big problem for people in a low-gravity environment such as space because, even after great exertion, sweat doesn't exactly drip off the skin without gravity. Instead, it just kind of sits there and pools up, which can disrupt electronic equipment and make spacewalks extra-uncomfortable.
So astronauts wear special underwear on their spacewalks; it's filled with cooling tubes that whisk the heat away. One bonus in the controlled environment of a space station: Any extra moisture from sweat that does get into the air is sucked up by the ventilation system and recycled into fresh water for the astronauts to drink.
Reporting for this story was drawn from our summer series on sweat by NPR's Geoff Brumfiel, Ari Daniel, Michaeleen Doucleff, Nell Greenfieldboyce, Pien Huang, Rebecca Hersher, Joe Palca and Lauren Sommer. Still thirsty for more sweet sweat science? Brumfiel, Greenfieldboyce and Hersher sat down recently with the hosts of NPR's science podcast Short Wave to take more questions and spill what they've learned.
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DENVER — Chief Justice John Roberts defended the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution, saying its role should not be called into question just because people disagree with its decisions.
When asked to reflect on the last year at the court in his first public appearance since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Roberts said Friday he was concerned that lately some critics of the court's controversial decisions have questioned the legitimacy of the court, which he said was a mistake. He did not mention any specific cases or critics by name.
"If the court doesn't retain its legitimate function of interpreting the constitution, I'm not sure who would take up that mantle. You don't want the political branches telling you what the law is, and you don't want public opinion to be the guide about what the appropriate decision is," Roberts said while being interviewed by two judges from the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at its conference in Colorado Springs.
Roberts described the last year as an unusual and difficult one, pointing to the public not be allowed inside the court, closed in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, as one hardship. He also said it was "gut wrenching" to drive into the Supreme Court that was surrounded by barricades every day.
The barriers were installed in May when protests erupted outside the court and outside the homes of some Supreme Court justices after there was an unprecedented leak of a draft opinion indicating the justices were planning to overturn Roe v. Wade, which provided women constitutional protections for abortion for nearly 50 years. The barriers are gone and the public will be allowed back inside when the court's new session begins in October but an investigation ordered by Roberts into the leak continues.
Gorsuch considers the leak a threat to the judicial process
Speaking at the same conference Thursday, Justice Neil Gorsuch said it is "terribly important" to identify the leaker and said he is expecting a report on the progress of the investigation, "I hope soon."
Gorsuch condemned the leak, as have other justices who have addressed it publicly.
"Improper efforts to influence judicial decision-making, from whatever side, from whomever, are a threat to the judicial decision-making process," Gorsuch said. Reporters from The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg attended the talk.
The leaked draft was largely incorporated into Justice Samuel Alito's final opinion in June that overturned Roe v. Wade in a case upholding Mississippi's law banning abortion after 15 weeks. The ruling paved the way for severe abortion restrictions or bans in nearly half of U.S. states.
In June's ruling, Roberts, appointed to the court in 2005 by former President George W. Bush, voted to uphold Mississippi's law but he did not join the conservative justices in also overturning Roe v. Wade, as well as Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to end a pregnancy. He wrote that there was no need to overturn the broad precedents to uphold the state law, saying he would take "a more measured course."
Polls show the public is losing faith in the Supreme Court
Roberts has spoken out repeatedly about the importance of the judiciary's independence and to rebut perceptions of the court as a political institution not much different than Congress or the presidency.
Opinion polls since the leak and the release of the final abortion decision, though, have shown a sharp drop in approval of the court and confidence in the institution.
When asked what the public might not know about how the court work, Roberts emphasized the collegiality among the justices and the court's tradition of shaking hands before starting conferences or taking the bench. After the justices might disagree about a decision, everyone eats together in the court's dining room where they talk about everything but work, he said. He said it's not borne out of "fake affection" but a respect that comes from the push and pull of explaining ideas and listening to the responses to them.
"We have a common calling and we act like it," he said.
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An horrendous arson attack which claimed the lives of three generations of one Chatham family happened eleven years ago today, but for the surviving family members it is no less painful. Mum Melissa Crook, 20, and her 15-month old son, Noah, died after their estranged husband and father set their house on fire in the middle of the night on September 10, 2011.
The fire also claimed the life of Melissa's father Mark, who succumbed to his injuries six days later in hospital. He had suffered severe burns and died aged 49.
Danai Muhammadi, then aged 24, angered by the breakdown of his relationship with Melissa, used a garden spray container to squirt petrol through the letterbox. Accomplice Farhad Mahmud also sprayed petrol into the home at around 2:30am.
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Melissa's mother Amanda and brother Bohdan survived the fire, although both suffered injuries and understandable mental distress. The arson was devised by Muhammadi, his new girlfriend Emma Smith and Mahmud.
Today, on the 11th anniversary of the tragedy, Bohdan Crook said: "It is still extremely tough still. All I will comment is that they are still missed and loved every single day, and life isn't easy without them."
Muhammadi, from Coventry, was jailed for life, with a minimum term of 38 years on three counts of murder and two of attempted murder. Mahmud, of Maidstone, was also sentenced to life and given a minimum of 34 years inside.
Smith was convicted of three counts of manslaughter and given a 14 year sentence. She was cleared on the counts of attempted murder.
All three were convicted in June 2012 after a six-week trial at Maidstone Crown Court. The court was told Muhammadi was full of "spite, anger and resentment" when he committed the heinous crime.
Melissa had returned to the family home from her Coventry home after Muhammadi had slapped her in the face for refusing to have sex. They had been together since she was 16 and married at 18, but just two years later she was already seeking a divorce.
As next of kin, police headed to Coventry to inform him of Melissa and Noah's deaths. Officers knew at this point that the fire had been started deliberately.
However, Muhammadi was already a suspect thanks to Roadside Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras. The cameras had picked him up travelling from Coventry to Chatham before the blaze and returning shortly after it had been discovered.
He was arrested the same afternoon at the car dealership where he worked as a salesman. Arrests for Smith and Mahmud followed in the coming days.
Smith, while not present at the attack itself, had 'encouraged and goaded' Muhammadi and traded insults with Melissa in a string of abusive text and online messages.
The jury was told the location of the fire, at the bottom of the stairs, left no reasonable means of escape for the occupants of the house. Melissa's body was found next to an upstairs window, with Noah at her feet wrapped in a cot quilt in her attempts to save him.
While sentencing Muhammadi and Mahmud, Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said: "It can truly be described as pure, selfish wickedness."
"No-one who heard the evidence in this case will ever forget Mrs Crook's description of how, as he tried to escape, her husband became stuck in the bedroom window and how, unable to extricate himself, she had to stand and watch as his lower half was burned.
"It's no thanks to you two that Amanda Crook and Bohdan Crook escaped the fate that you intended for them.
"Each suffered significant injuries, the effects - whether physical or mental - they are still clearly suffering from today."
The judge added that as Melissa and Noah were trapped by the flames, their last moments must have been "of abject terror". In his words, neither Muhammadi, Mahmud or Smith had shown 'a spark of genuine remorse' between them.
Speaking outside court, Amanda Crook said: "The verdict today is not a cause for celebration for us, the family, but we are relieved that we have at least received justice.
"The evil people convicted today are now deprived of their liberty, and justly so.
"However no sentence they received could bring back the loved ones they took from us."
'One of the most tragic cases'
Det Ch Insp David Chewter, from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, said: "This was one of the most tragic cases I have dealt with in 24 years of policing and my thoughts are with the Crook family who lost three generations of their close-knit family as a result of the fire which was deliberately set by someone they had welcomed into their family.
"Muhammadi was driven by jealously and, from day one, has denied his involvement in the death of his wife Melissa, young son Noah and father-in-law Mark.
"It is satisfying however that the wealth of evidence against him and his co-defendants was so overwhelming."
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What do we call the system of government in the U.S.? Are we a democracy or a republic?
The conundrum is, well, as the common expression goes, "as old as the republic itself."
But it's not just a question for scholars and semanticists any more.
Since the election of 2020, supporters of former President Donald Trump have become notably more willing to assert their belief that voting in America is suspect. That Trump won an election he lost. That "millions of ballots" were uncounted or miscounted. That voting by mail was fraught with abuse.
Despite the lack of evidence, and the judgments of election officials from both parties and judges appointed by presidents from both parties, election denialism has become not only a thing, but a movement. And when critics call this an attack on democracy, some election deniers respond by saying the U.S. is not a democracy, it is a republic.
Robert Draper of The New York Times published a piece on Republicans who say this in August. He cited a GOP candidate for the Arizona state legislature, Selina Bliss, saying: "We are not a democracy. Nowhere in the Constitution does it use the word 'democracy.' I think of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. That's not us."
But a democratic republic is us. Exactly.
Throughout our history we have functioned as both. Put another way, we have utilized characteristics of both. The people decide, but they do so through elected representatives working in pre-established, rule-bound and intentionally balky institutions such as Congress and the courts.
The government seated in Washington, D.C., represents a democratic republic, which governs a federated union of states, each of which in turn has its own democratic-republican government for its jurisdiction.
The relationship between the democratic and republican elements of this equation has been a dynamic and essential part of our history. But it has not always been easy, and in our time the friction between them has become yet another flashpoint in our partisan wars.
Going to war over weaponized words
We regularly hear people on the left speak of conservatives destroying democracy, and just as regularly we hear conservatives say Democrats have no respect for the Constitution. To add to the confusion, the two camps often swap their lines of attack and defense. Republicans call Democrats enemies of democracy, Democrats rail against what they see as Republican disrespect for the Constitution.
And that also makes sense, in a way, as both sides want to be the champions of both democracy and the Constitution, and to advertise themselves as such to the voters.
Yes, as a polity, we think we are and can be both. We aspire to be both. But in practice that can prove difficult. And in our time, when so much of the public discourse happens on Twitter and cable TV news, the terms have become increasingly weaponized.
"Equality and democracy are under assault," said President Biden on the steps of Independence Hall last week. "We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise."
Biden at Independence Hall used the word democracy 31 times, including three times in one sentence. He used the word republic just twice.
Republicans, by contrast, have seemed of late to be stressing the role of the republic and its restraint on democracy. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, an outspoken Republican but hardly an outlier, got considerable attention for saying bluntly on Twitter in October 2020: "We are not a democracy."
Lee then posted online an explanation of what he meant. It said, in part: "Our system is best described as a constitutional republic [where] power is not found in mere majorities, but in carefully balanced power."
Lee went on to catalog how difficult it was for majorities in Congress to pass legislation, get it signed by a president and watch it undergo judicial review. Lee's point was that he was OK with all that. It was the intent of the founders.
"In the absence of consensus," Lee wrote, "there isn't supposed to be federal law."
Writing in 2020 in The Atlantic, George Thomas, the Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions at Claremont McKenna College, found "some truth to this insistence" on calling the U.S. a republic but added: "It is mostly disingenuous. The Constitution was meant to foster a complex form of majority rule, not enable minority rule."
This is not just a quibble over terms. It is a fundamental battle over what American government aspires to be. Are we a democracy where the voice of the people is, like it says in Latin on some of our official buildings (Vox Populi, Vox Dei), the voice of God?
Or are we a republic? That is to say, a government of laws not of men, deriving its authority not by divine right of inheritance or strength of arms but by reason and by adherence to the mechanisms of the Constitution.
Calling things by their proper names
It's also not a coincidence that those names tend to suggest which end of the democratic-republican bargain they favor. Our current parties trace their roots to a common ancestor in a party begun by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early decades of nationhood.
That party formed in opposition to the original party of George Washington and John Adams, known as the Federalists because they emphasized the central authority of the combined 13 states (the original 13 colonies that had rebelled against the crown of England).
Jefferson and others who rose in opposition were called, naturally enough, anti-Federalists. Jefferson liked the word republican and used it a lot, in part for the anti-monarchist emphasis.
Others thought the term had less meaning because so many different kinds of viewpoints claimed it. The party eventually took on the label of Democratic-Republicans. That moniker might have been too much of a mouthful to enunciate, and its coalition may have been too wide to sustain.
At the time, there were also voters and candidates who preferred calling themselves National Republicans, especially in New England. That element morphed into the Whigs, while the Democratic-Republicans dominated in the South and eventually became simply Democrats — the preference of President Andrew Jackson.
In the 1850s, exhausted by the North-South tensions that were leading to the Civil War, the Whigs gave way to a new party originating in the Great Lakes region. The new party's biggest issue was abolition, but they adopted (perhaps at the suggestion of journalist Horace Greeley) the previously orphaned half of the old Democratic-Republican Party name. They have since been known simply as Republicans.
But both terms have far deeper origins in the ancient world
The Athenian democracy in Greece around 500 BCE denoted the right of the people (demos) to personify power (kratos) and meant it to include an entire polity – or at least its males. Something like 5,000 citizens were enfranchised to participate, and when they chose to delegate some of the governing task to a smaller body they still had 500 members of that council (boule).
Thomas says "the founding generation" in the U.S. never considered the Greek model workable beyond a limited area (idealized perhaps by the New England town hall). Thomas says that generation was "deeply skeptical of what it called 'pure democracy' and defended the American experiment as 'wholly republican."
That is, it was a government of the people not of royalty. It also incorporated some of the inspiration referenced in the Latin word republic, a hearkening back to the Romans who established the first Senate around 750 BCE.
Thomas says the American experiment has been about harmonizing democratic and republican models, two "popular forms of government," each of which "drew its legitimacy from the people and depended on rule by the people."
The essential difference was the role of representatives to substitute for the gathering of all the people at one point in time and space.
"To take this as a rejection of democracy misses how the idea of government by the people, including both a democracy and a republic, was understood when the Constitution was drafted and ratified," Thomas said. "It misses, too, how we understand the idea of democracy today."
One way to understand that idea was articulated by Jefferson himself way back in 1816, when he wrote: "We may say with truth and meaning, that governments are more or less republican as they have more or less of the element of popular election and control in their composition." [emphasis added]
It is hard to imagine a better statement of the two concepts as they may be comingled and act in concert.
It falls to our generation to renew that understanding in the context of our own time, two full centuries later.
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King Charles III fought back tears as he waved to onlookers as he arrived at Buckingham Palace this afternoon. The 73-year-old was formally confirmed as the nation's new monarch earlier today during a historic meeting of the Accession Council at St James' Palace in London.
The King made a heartfelt speech in which he again praised his mother's unmatched 70-year reign on the throne. Queen Elizabeth's death on Thursday shocked the world and put the nation into a mourning period.
His Majesty paid tribute to his 'beloved' mother and vowed to follow her "inspiring" example for "what remains to me of his life". He thanked the world for their tributes, which have flooded in from far and wide over the last two days.
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"I know how deeply you and the entire nation, and I think I may say the whole world, sympathise with me in this irreparable loss we have all suffered," he said.
In true 'Keep Calm and Carry On' tradition, Charles has dutifully fulfilled his new roles despite the loss of his mother 48 hours ago. He addressed the nation last night for the first time as King and will tour the UK's other capitals tomorrow for his proclamation to be shared with the other nations.
However, the emotion of the situation appeared to be taking its toll on Charles as he greeted the thousands of people waiting at Buckingham Palace's gates. Charles looked teary-eyed as the crowds cheered and applauded his arrival.
Members of the public have flocked to the Palace and other royal residences across the country to pay their respects. There was further support displayed when Camilla, Queen Consort, arrived shortly afterwards.
Charles and Princess Anne were with their mother when she passed away. Her other children and grandchildren sadly did not reach Balmoral in time to say their goodbyes.
Anne, the Princess Royal, her husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence and her children Zara Tindall and Peter Phillips joined Prince Andrew and his daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. Prince Edward and the Sophie, the Countess of Wessex were also present at the Palace with their daughter Lady Louise.
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A popular kebab chain has slowly but surely been taking over Kent, with branches popping up all over the county. German Doner Kebabs (GDK) has opened branches in Canterbury, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and with a new Dover store on the horizon too, I felt it was time to see what the hype was about .
What truly piqued my interest about this franchise was their advertisements of a pink kebab, known as Coco and KiKi kebabs. A bright pink kebab is certainly an interesting novelty, plus the idea of a sit down kebab restaurant seems like such an alien concept to me.
Kebabs, in my experience, are for the walk home after a night out rather than a full on dining experience. It’s a staple of our culture, just like tea and biscuits - messy nights out and dirty kebabs go hand in hand.
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I took myself to the Canterbury branch of GDK to try one of these bizarre looking kebabs for myself. Here’s how I got on.
Initial impressions
Walking in for the first time, I could see that the online buzz certainly had some merit behind it as the restaurant was fairly busy at the time of my arrival. The layout and atmosphere was typical of plenty of other fast food chains like KFC or McDonald’s.
Tills and the kitchen sat at the far side of the restaurant, accompanied by a handful of self-serve kiosks. The seating area provided plenty of choice, with a selection of tables and booths to park yourself on.
I wandered over to the self-serve kiosk, ordered myself the snack-sized Kiki kebab with mixed doner meat, and got ready to tuck into something totally new to me. I was initially rather impressed that this cost just £3.20, though admittedly I did not get any sides and it was the smaller of the two choices.
I did also grab a drink, a glass bottle of Sprite, and this added another £1.99 to my total. Looking at the larger alternative, the Coco kebab would instead set you back £7.99 on its own, or £12.99 when upgraded to the ‘Mega Meal’ which includes fries and doner spring rolls.
I was quite content with my smaller, cheaper priced choice, so now it was time to get tasting.
Different isn’t always better
Full disclosure, I’m not the biggest fan of kebabs. It’s definitely a dish that falls into the take it or leave it category for me.
This pink kebab however, definitely fell more to the side of ‘leave it’. I will say first of all though, the pictures are certainly accurate, because this kebab comes in an aggressively pink waffle bread, that, in person, really did not look appetising.
This smaller counter to the larger Coco kebab, consisted of the pink, coconut-infused waffle bread, the aforementioned doner meats, lettuce, tomato, onion and red cabbage, which I finished off with some garlic sauce for good measure. One issue came from the fact that all of the meat, which while decent in quality and quite tasty, was pretty much only around for the first couple bites of the kebab.
What then remained was a stodgy mix of veg in a waffle bread that was about as much joy to eat as sinking your teeth into some Styrofoam. In terms of taste, I really did not notice the ‘balance of nutty sweetness’, the chain boasts this meal to have.
Also, once the wrapper is peeled back, you can see where the waffle bread has been cooked, the pink colouring then turns a darker and almost fleshy colour. Again, not overly appetising.
At this point, I was rather glad I had opted for the smaller option because what quick experience I’d had with this kebab was enough to last me a lifetime. At least it was somewhat cheap.
Verdict
My experience at GDK has only further supported my theory that a kebab can really only be enjoyed while inebriated. Maybe a night on the town would make the pink kebab taste better, but I’ll never know.
I can’t complain too much as, having only spent £5.19 in total, my wallet hadn’t been hurt too badly. Then again, that’s still rather steep for the amount of food I received, let alone enjoyed.
If you were to opt for a more substantial meal you will certainly be paying for it and I just can’t help but feel you could get better for cheaper elsewhere. I can think of countless other kebab shops in Canterbury alone that I feel better deserve your time, and more importantly, your money.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Five people died Saturday in New Zealand after the small charter boat they were aboard capsized, authorities say, in what may have been a collision with a whale. Another six people aboard the boat were rescued.
Police said the 8.5-meter (28-foot) boat overturned near the South Island town of Kaikōura. Police said they were continuing to investigate the cause of the accident.
Kaikōura Police Sergeant Matt Boyce described it as a devastating and unprecedented event.
"Our thoughts are with everyone involved, including the victims and their families, their local communities, and emergency services personnel," Boyce said.
He said police divers had recovered the bodies of all those who had died. He said all six survivors were assessed to be in stable condition at a local health center, with one transferred to a hospital in the city of Christchurch as a precaution.
Kaikōura Mayor Craig Mackle told The Associated Press that the water was dead calm at the time of the accident and the assumption was that a whale had surfaced from beneath the boat.
He said there were some sperm whales in the area and also some humpback whales traveling through.
He said locals had helped with the rescue efforts throughout the day but the mood in the town was "somber" because the water was so cold and they feared for the outcome of anybody who had fallen overboard.
Mackle said he'd thought in the past about the possibility of a boat and whale colliding, given the number of whales that frequent the region.
"It always plays on your mind that it could happen," he said, adding that he hadn't heard about any previous such accidents.
Mackle said the boat was a charter vessel typically used for fishing excursions. News agency Stuff reported the passengers belonged to a bird enthusiasts' group.
Police said they were still notifying the relatives of those who died, and couldn't yet publicly name the victims.
Vanessa Chapman told Stuff she and a group of friends had watched the rescue efforts unfold from Goose Bay, near Kaikōura. She said that when she arrived at a lookout spot, she could see a person sitting atop an overturned boat waving their arms.
She said two rescue helicopters and a third local helicopter were circling before two divers jumped out. She told Stuff that the person atop the boat was rescued and a second person appeared to have been pulled from the water.
Kaikōura is a popular whale-watching destination. The seafloor drops away precipitously from the coast, making for deep waters close to the shore. A number of businesses offer boat trips or helicopter rides so tourists can see whales, dolphins and other sea creatures up close.
Compliance agency Maritime New Zealand said it sent two investigators to the scene and would be conducting a thorough investigation once recovery operations had concluded.
Principal Investigator Tracy Phillips said the agency "offers its heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of the people who have died."
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Located in the stunning Kent countryside is the market town of Fordwich. It lies on the River Stour, just northeast of Canterbury and known for being the tiniest town in the UK, and there is even a sign to say so.
Though it is a town it has all the charms of a village, and there are plenty of interesting things to make a trip here worthwhile. It is home to two pubs, The George and Dragon and the award winning Fordwich Arms, that has welcomed praise from renowned food writers such as Grace Dent and Tom Parker-Bowles.
Across from the much-loved Fordwich Arms pub is the ancient and disused church of St Mary the Virgin. But unlike almost any other church you will have visited before, this one is available to hire as a place to stay.
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For £49 per night per person, you can get access to the entire church and enjoy a night 'Champing', otherwise known as Church Camping. You will sleep among the church pews on camp beds and cushions and have the freedom to arrange everything as you want, but you will need to bring your own bedding.
The church has been closed for 25 years, last in use in 1995, though the original structure dates back beyond the 12th century, making it around 900 years old. It can house up to ten people, making it a perfect and really unique getaway for families or groups of friends that want to try something really out of the ordinary.
The town itself had grown in the Middle Ages as a port for boats on their way upriver to Canterbury. The stone used to rebuild the cathedral in the 12 and 13 centuries was landed in Fordwich, and it later became one of the Cinque Ports.
But it lost its status as a town in 1880 when it no longer had a mayor and corporation. However, following a reorganisation in 1972, Fordwich was again made a town because of its former importance in early Britain.
The town has some wonderful historic buildings, many of them are timber framed and includes the pretty town hall, which unsurprisingly also thought to be the smallest one in England. The signposted Stour Valley walk leads along the Stour from Canterbury to Fordwich, it is a lovely walk of around two miles, great if you want to work up an appetite before lunch in the town.
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“The Bee Play,” narrates Carver Washington’s story, and his story models agricultural scientist and inventor George Washington Carver.
In the play, Carver is an 18-year-old Black bronx beekeeper who also cares for his younger sister and their grandmother. Along the way, he meets Devora, a newly graduated Yale alumna and they share their different viewpoints and hopes for a brighter future without colony collapse (bee extinction).
“The Bee Play” has its world premiere Sept. 8-25 at New Jewish Theatre’s The J, Staenberg Family Complex, Wool Studio Theatre."
Playwright Elizabeth Savage says she didn’t initially have her heart set on writing “The Bee Play” until she read a 2008 New York Times article on farmers concerned about bees dying rapidly in huge numbers.
In 2010, she learned beekeeping had been legalized nationally, which made her wonder why it was illegal in the first place.
Savage became enamored with bees and soon saw a vision of her writing a production addressing crop rotation and bee pollination.
“I pictured someone on a rooftop with a gritty street below and this solitary figure who has this Garden of Eden on the rooftop,” Savage said.
“I wasn’t planning on writing a play but at that point I was sort of daydreaming about what that kind of person was.”
Savage also said she wanted to focus on a main character loosely based on George Washington Carver, a leading pioneer in farming and soil science.
“I have never understood why George Washington Carver has never gotten the due he deserves,” Savage said. “This is an American hero, who single handedly saved agriculture.”
Miles Brenton (Carver Washington), said his character lives everything but a normal life, which is why it's important for him to determine his future as a high school senior.
“He doesn’t really get to think about his future unless he’s on the rooftop taking care of his bees [his only moment of freedom],” Brenton said.
Like his character Brenton said he can relate to his everyday life not taking the traditional route of what society thinks a young Black male should be.
“I understand what it's like to tread a different path,” Brenton said. “I was an opera singer and it's not something a lot of Black people do. I identify with and understand Carver treading his own path and being met with resistance along the way.”
Riley Adams (Paris Washington), who plays Brenton’s little sister in the production, said she and her character parallel each other.
“I think Paris is like your average kid, but she has a few other things about her that make her a very special and enjoyable character,” Adams said. “She radiates confidence, enjoys dancing, and is faithful with her religion.”
Adams and Brenton said it was a pleasure being able to work with each other on the play and each shared different examples of realizing their chemistry matched on and off screen.
“Riley is awesome, she’s a little star,” Brenton said. “When we got to rehearsals we clicked right away. It's cool to work with a kid who is so professional, it makes me wanna step my game up.”
“He [Miles] is so fun, I really enjoy working with him,” Adams said. “We sang a song together while he played the guitar. He has a beautiful voice and is a great actor.”
Savage said she is blown away by how unbelievably talented the ensemble of actors is with “The Bee Play.” In addition to Adams and Brenton playing leading roles, Annie Zigman (Devora) and Margery Handy (Ma’Dear) play supporting roles.
“These actors have had to come in and trust me, the process, and bring their whole selves while breathing their breath into my words,” Savage said. “I cannot believe how lucky I got with this cast. I can’t wait to watch them soar on opening night.”
For tickets and more information about “The Bee Play” visit https://jccstl.com/event/new-jewish-theatre-presents-the-bee-play/2022-09-17/. | https://www.stlamerican.com/arts_and_entertainment/living_it/unbeelievable-chemistry/article_57de2d10-30a4-11ed-82c4-2b7173b7eece.html | 2022-09-10T15:50:46Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/arts_and_entertainment/living_it/unbeelievable-chemistry/article_57de2d10-30a4-11ed-82c4-2b7173b7eece.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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-for-new-graduates-to-start-a-career/article_e3367e86-2fd6-11ed-bec1-ab91e3d9f66c.html | 2022-09-10T15:50:50Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/business/business_news/st-louis-named-best-u-s-city-for-new-graduates-to-start-a-career/article_e3367e86-2fd6-11ed-bec1-ab91e3d9f66c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Voters in the City of St. Louis who want to vote an absentee ballot for the September 13, 2022, Special Primary Municipal Election may do so at the Board of Election Commissioners, 300 N. Tucker Blvd., on Saturday, September 10, from 9:00 A.M. until 1:00 P.M. This is in addition to the Board’s regular office hours of 8:00 A.M. until 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday.
Absentee voting is also available at the following Absentee Vote Centers on Saturday, September 10, between 1:00 P.M. and 5:00 P.M.; and on Monday, September 12, between 12:00 P.M. and 4:00 P.M.:
● Buder Library located at 4401 Hampton Ave.
● Carondelet Library located at 6800 Michigan Ave.
● Julia Davis Library located at 4415 Natural Bridge Ave.
● Walnut Park Library located at 5760 West Florissant Ave.
The last day the Election Board could accept an absentee ballot application by mail was Wednesday, August 31. The last day to vote an absentee ballot in person at the Election Board is Monday, September 12, at 5:00 P.M., the day before the Election.
Since September 13 is a Special Election to fill a vacancy in the office of President of the Board of Aldermen, all eligible voters in the City of St. Louis will vote the same ballot.
Eligible voters should have received a Notice of Election card in the mail informing them of the September 13 Special Primary Municipal Election and their voting options. Voters are also reminded that a photo ID is required.
Any voter who has any questions about their voter registration status should contact the Election Board at 314-622-4336. A sample ballot, as well as other helpful information, is available on the Board’s website at www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/board-election-commissioners/. | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/absentee-voting-for-st-louis-president-of-the-board-aldermen-open-to-the-public-saturday/article_0417e3ae-3105-11ed-82d8-4b38dcbd0629.html | 2022-09-10T15:50:52Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/absentee-voting-for-st-louis-president-of-the-board-aldermen-open-to-the-public-saturday/article_0417e3ae-3105-11ed-82d8-4b38dcbd0629.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Ferguson Neighborhood Empowerment Summit will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Ferguson Community Center, 1050 Smith Avenue.
The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis in partnership with Community Forward, Inc. (CFI), Community Action Agency of St. Louis County (CAASTLC), and Forestwood Community Development Corporation will host the event.
“The best homeowner is a healthy homeowner, is a theme of the summit, and it is a reason the Urban League is providing health resources in the same space with housing resources. COVID-19 testing along with other health care screenings will be provided to attendees."
The Summit is promoting neighborhood enhancement through homeownership and home improvements, and is targeting prospective homebuyers and existing homeowners.
Vendors representing the financial and real estate industries plus other industries will provide information on the homebuying process and facilitate access to various loan products.
Grants, forgivable loans, and workshops related to minor home repairs will be provided for existing homeowners.
Black homeownership, at 43.4%, remains lower than it was a decade ago. And it is nearly 30 percentage points behind the white homeownership rate of 72.1%, according to the National Association of Realtors.
The Hispanic homeownership rate rose to an all-time high, reaching over 50% for the first time, and the Asian homeownership rate is 61.7%.
“Today, homeownership is the principal source of wealth creation for most American households," said Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, in a May 2022 statement.
"Unfortunately, NAR's report confirms that Black Americans are being locked out of homeownership opportunities at an even higher rate than a decade ago."
Black and Hispanic Americans report being rejected for mortgages at a higher rate than their White and Asian peers and Black Americans report higher incidence of discrimination in a real estate transaction, according to NAR.
Black households are also the most likely of any group of homebuyers to be weighed down with student loan debt, which can prevent prospective home buyers from saving for a down payment. The 41% of Black households with student debt is more than twice that of Asian households at 18% and nearly twice that of white households at 22%, while 26% of Hispanic households have student debt.
Summit sessions will include Protecting Your Financial Future; Property and Estate Planning Neighborhood Organization; Minor Home Repairs; and Weatherizing Your Home.
Attendees will have opportunities to win attendance prizes. | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/ferguson-empowerment-summit-set-for-sept-10/article_6d3031d6-309a-11ed-9ff7-d79c9e04fc6b.html | 2022-09-10T15:50:58Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/ferguson-empowerment-summit-set-for-sept-10/article_6d3031d6-309a-11ed-9ff7-d79c9e04fc6b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“Bubble Watch” digs into trends that may indicate economic and/or housing market troubles ahead.
Buzz: California is the second-least predictable housing market in the nation.
Source: My trusty spreadsheet created a home-price consistency scorecard using Federal Housing Finance Agency’s quarterly indexes tracking state performances over 47 years. This math looked at 12-month price changes since 1975 — the share of losing periods, volatility in price changes and state rankings, and average gains.
The trend
Only Connecticut ranked less predictable than California over the past 47 years. Then came Rhode Island, Hawaii and Vermont.
Most predictable? Kentucky, then North Carolina, South Carolina, Kansas and Nebraska.
As for California’s arch-rivals: Texas was 14th most predictable and Florida was No. 26.
The dissection
How hot has the market been?
No state has had a year-over-year price decline in 24 quarters. This six years of upswings tops the 23-quarter steak from the bubble era of the mid-2000s.
Remember, prices have fallen on average 17% of the time since 1975. And California ranks fourth-worst for such declines, with dips in 25% of its 12-month performances since 1975.
Also, my spreadsheet found California had the wildest swings in its national ranking among the states. And it ranked fourth-worst for price volatility.
The good news for Californians is that homeowners were well-compensated for the rollercoaster ride with an average 7.1% annual price appreciation over 47 years — second-best among the states.
How bubbly?
On a scale of zero bubbles (no bubble here) to five bubbles (five-alarm warning) … FIVE BUBBLES!
Need I say more than California’s 21.3% gain in the year ended in June was the 13th biggest increase in 47 years?
And you can expand the anxieties nationally, as that outsized jump ranked only No. 17 among the states.
The top gainer was Florida at 30%, then Arizona at 29%, and Tennessee at 27%. The smallest gains were DC’s 11%, followed by North Dakota at 13% and Louisiana at 13.5%.
Politically speaking
Since it’s a midterm election year, we will take partisan slices of the rankings — defining “blue” states as those who supported President Biden vs. “red” those who did not as “red” states.
The spreadsheet found red states have more predictable home values (an average No. 19 rank vs. No. 33 in blue states); had better returns in the past year (20.3% average gains vs. 19.5%); but had smaller long-term prices increases (4.5% a year since 1975 vs. 5.5%).
Jonathan Lansner is business columnist for the Southern California News Group. He can be reached at jlansner@scng.com
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Either the heat has gotten to me or this is who I really am.
I have always wondered if there was any truth to the saying, “It’s hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk.”
So what better time to try it out than in the midst of our Southern California heatwave? On a day when triple-digit temps were soaring, I decided the time had come.
Donning a floppy straw hat and large dark sunglasses, I set out to brave the heat of my driveway. The transition from air-conditioned kitchen to the outdoor inferno gave me momentary pause. But I was too far gone. Nothing could stop me now from a research project that had been on my mind since childhood.
Cold egg in hot hand, I searched for the perfect place to crack it. I selected a spot near the garden hose where the bougainvillea covering the courtyard fence spills onto the cement. At least my egg would have something pretty to look at while it fried. If it fried. Which it did not.
There was a glimmer of hope when a small patch of white squiggle invaded the yellow yolk and folded into a raggedy-edged ruffle.
“Look, it’s starting to cook,” I gushed to the bougainvillea as it tilted its purple blossoms away from me, likely afraid it would catch whatever I had that provoked me to be squatting on burning cement on one of the hottest days of the year.
The sun momentarily seared the edges of the egg white but stopped short of fluffing the ruffle. While sweat glistened from every exposed spot of skin on my body, my egg did not even display a sign of heat exhaustion. The egg simply was not cooking.
I had read that frying an egg in a pan on the sidewalk would conduct the heat making it more likely to fry, though at a much higher temperature than the average sidewalk gets from the sun. So I knew going in that the odds were slim. But it didn’t matter. I just wanted to make it right with the child who promised herself she would try it someday.
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I was honored recently to be a podcast guest. Because of my tenure in the business and presence initiatives, I’m sought frequently. I guess they figure – after 38 years – I might have something to say to their audiences.
My latest interview was at the behest of Massimo Group, my professional coaching organization. The founder and CEO, Rod Santomassimo, and I spent some time together discussing commercial real estate and my pillars of success. I believed them to be column-worthy. If you’d like to listen go to https://open.spotify.com/episode/2OHyYnWAG7imnyaMHGT5df?si=iy8zBft6QaCOFVnb4j_6ww.
First, allow me to expand upon a question Rod asked at the outset: describe yourself in high school. In a word – a nerd. Too skinny and small for football, too slow for track, and afraid of a baseball – suffice it to say, I wouldn’t have been a Steve Fryer feature. But, I discovered golf.
Sure, golf is cool now, thanks to Tiger, Phil, DJ and Rory. But in the 70s, only visored, bespectacled misfits hit the links – with Arnie being the exception. But golf created self-reliance that no team sport can do. This prepared me well for a career brokering industrial buildings. My parents divorced during my high school years. Being the oldest of three siblings, I often found myself in the role of intermediary. Once again, good prep for advising owners and occupants of commercial real estate. So a self-reliant intermediary I became.
During the podcast with Santomassimo I dug into my list of three pillars of success.
Be client-centric
By this, I mean your client’s best interest is more important than your fee. Period.
So many new agents suffer from commission breath. The fee takes priority over all else. After all, we are salespeople whose livelihood depends upon transacting. But, if at the expense of your client, your longevity will be short. Early in my career, I counseled many against purchasing when I believed they’d be better off leasing. I should mention, that the fee for selling is greater than leasing. You see, buying requires a certain set of criteria – years in business, abundant operating capital, stable growth trajectory, and an ownership structure that can benefit from owning the building in which your business operates.
Agents can be a great source of new business
Many view an agent within their firm or another as a competitor. They certainly can be. But, I’ve found they can also be a great source of referrals. I’ve found if agents in your market know your skill set and expertise cooperation can exist. I attempt to be uber transparent – without compromising my clients position – with my fellow agents. This transparency has served me well over the years.
Do what you say, when you say
With clients, with agents, with friends and family – just do it! One of my keys is to only commit when I know I can and then don’t let anything – short of a frontal lobotomy – cause you to break your promise. This is such a simple concept but not an easy one.
So, there you have it.
Allen C. Buchanan, SIOR, is a principal with Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services in Orange. He can be reached at abuchanan@lee-associates.com or 714.564.7104.
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V S Mridula starred with an all-round show as Team Sapphire edged out Team Ruby by nine runs in the opening match of the KCA Pink Challengers T20 tournament at the SD College Ground in Alappuzha on Saturday.
Mridula smashed an unbeaten 51 off 34 balls as Sapphire ended up with 114/4 in 20 overs. V J Joshitha returned miserly figures of 1/12 from her quota of four overs.
Ruby could manage only 105/4 in reply. Ananya Pradeep picked up 2/23 off her three overs, while Mridula claimed 1/18 in three overs.
Team Pearls defeated Team Amber by six wickets in the second match of the day. Minnu Mani and Surya Sukumr claimed two wickets apiece as Pearls restricted Amber to 93/8 in 20 overs. Malavika Sabu scored a responsible 47 not out off 60 balls as Pearls achieved the target in 16 overs.
Results: Team Sapphire 114/4 in 20 overs (V S Mridula 51 not out, P Akhila 24 not out; V J Joshitha 1/12, Aleena Surendran 1/14) bt Team Ruby 105/4 in 20 overs (Aleena 31 not out, S R Urvasi 25; Ananya Pradeep 2/23, Mridula 1/18).
Points: Sapphire 4; Ruby 0.
Player of the match: Mridula
Team Amber 93/8 in 20 overs (S Sajana 29, Ansu Sunil 28; Soorya Sukumar 2/8, Minnu Mani 2/11) lost to Team Pearls 96/4 in 16 overs (Malavika Sabu 47 not out; Sreekrishna Haridas 2/18).
Points: Pearls 4; Amber 0.
Player of the match: Malavika Sabu | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/10/kca-pink-challengers-mridula-does-the-star-turn-for-sapphire.amp.html | 2022-09-10T15:51:32Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/10/kca-pink-challengers-mridula-does-the-star-turn-for-sapphire.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“All Americans are entitled to the evenhanded application of the law,” Attorney General Merrick Garland assured Americans on August 11, 2022, following the FBI’s execution of a search warrant at the home of former President Donald Trump. But partisan commentary surrounding the Justice Department’s unprecedented step has twisted that very same principle. The refrain of Trump’s supporters — “If they can do this to Trump, they will do it to you!” — sounds a lot like a threat. But it isn’t a threat. In fact, it’s a 1,500 year-old democratic promise.
What does “equality before the law” mean, where does it come from, and why does it matter? The ancient Greek term for Garland’s sentiment is isonomia, a concept that was rooted in democracy itself. Is a former president subject to isonomia? If the rule of law means anything, the answer must be yes. The law must be applied without fear or favor — equally to all — and that includes the former president.
Historians trace the idea of “equality before the law” to the magistrate Cleisthenes, whose democratic reforms to the Athenian constitution in 509 BCE ended tyrannical and aristocratic rule. According to Aristotle, Cleisthenes ushered in what we think of now as the golden age of democracy, which flourished at Athens — despite a few oligarchic interruptions — for nearly 200 years.
While historians associate Cleisthenes with “democracy” (demos = people + kratia = power), he called the government he created isonomia (isos = equal + nomos = law, custom). Isonomia for Cleisthenes seems to mean both the equal right to participate in making the laws and the equal application of the law to every Athenian citizen.
In fact, isonomia occurs in Greek political thought before democracy does—equality before the law is such an essential element of democracy that the political system could not exist without it. Herodotus, in the earliest known use of the word demokratia, invoked isonomia in an imagined debate defending democracy: Equality meant every citizen was eligible for office, all officers were accountable to the people, and all citizens had an equal right of free speech in the Assembly. These were also the features of Greek democracy, essentially equating the two.
Political theorists and governments over the past 1,500 years have generally agreed. Cicero, then Livy, then British Whigs like James Harrington and Edward Coke and liberal political theorists like John Locke and David Hume, all invoked isonomia as fundamental to good order, political stability, and liberty. In 1960, the legal theorist and free-market economist Friedrich von Hayek explained how the concept moved from ancient Greece into the English common law tradition as the essential element of libertarianism — and the fundamental grounding of both British and American legal and political theory. In 16th century England, Justicia — a.k.a. Lady Justice — began appearing with a blindfold, initially as a symbol of the judicial system’s turning a blind eye to those who abused the law, but eventually evolving to symbolize impartiality before the law. And while the United States struggled to perfect racial equality in practice, the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified after the Civil War, enshrined it as a democratic aspiration by guaranteeing, “No State shall…deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Law students today still learn the word isonomy, and, as Attorney General Garland explained, it’s still the standard to which we hold our laws and our government. But its application to the person occupying the office of the president has, historically, presented some thorny problems. The presidency comes with vast powers, unique privileges, and unofficial immunities. For example, the Constitution entrusts the president to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” making him the top law enforcement official in the country. The most extreme reading of this phrase could suggest (as some argue) that this power allows the president to start and stop investigations at will … including those into himself. (This idea was summed up by President Richard Nixon’s maxim, “When the president does it, it’s not illegal.”) Presidents can also invoke executive privilege, which acts as a constitutional protection against the legislative and judicial branches overreaching into core presidential functions. In theory, executive privilege should ensure the robust and efficient operation of the executive branch — but it can also be used as a shield by presidents inclined toward lawbreaking. Finally, for the last 49 years, the Justice Department has refrained from indicting a sitting president, under the theory that he has so many important duties that it would harm the nation if he had to focus on defending himself at trial.
Whatever temporary get-out-of-jail-free card the presidency might afford, however, disappears as soon as the person is no longer president. The legal perks belong to the office, not the person — and this is the part that seems to be lost on the former president. He repeatedly has claimed executive privilege and the power to declassify documents, and implied that he has immunity from prosecution. Trump has what we might think of as a “Pigpen” theory of the presidency. If we imagine him as the “Peanuts” character, Trump believes that a cloud of executive power continues to surround him, even though he left office over 18 months ago. But there is no legal basis for that belief. If Article 2 power followed ex-presidents around for the rest of their lives, we would effectively have as many “presidents” as we have living former presidents. And in this case Cleisthenes, who instituted ostracism to expel any citizen who threatened democracy, would likely have any living former president ostracized from the United States in order to maintain equality.
The National Archives made a Cleisthenian legal argument in its May 10, 2022 letter to Trump about the documents at Mar-a-Lago. In rejecting Trump’s claim of a “protective assertion of executive privilege,” the archivist explained that there was no precedent for an assertion of executive privilege by a former president against a sitting one. Trump is just an ordinary guy now, and the law applies to him, just like anyone else. Equality before the law is an indispensable pillar of a democracy. It is the concept in which liberty is fundamentally grounded and the basis of our legal and political theory. There is no individual who is above the law, not in a government based on the rule of law. The principle of “equality before the law” means precisely that: If the government can search your home for stolen government documents, then it can also search the former president’s home for stolen government documents. That’s isonomia, that’s democracy.
Asha Rangappa is a lawyer, a senior lecturer at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and a former FBI special agent. Jennifer Mercieca is a historian of American political rhetoric at Texas A&M University and author of “Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump.” They wrote this commentary for Zocalo Public Square.
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TIVERTON, R.I. (WPRI) — Tiverton police are investigating a crash that happened Friday night.
Around 5:15 p.m., first responders were called to the intersection of Main Road and Central Avenue for a report of a two car crash.
According to the fire department, two people were taken to Rhode Island Hospital for their injuries.
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LONDON (AP) — Two days after his mother’s death elevated him to the throne, King Charles III was officially proclaimed Britain’s monarch Saturday in a pomp-filled ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism — and, for the first time, broadcast live online and on air.
Charles, who spent seven decades as heir apparent, automatically became king when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died on Thursday. But the accession ceremony was a key constitutional and ceremonial step in introducing the new monarch to the country, a relic of a time before mass communications.
Scores of senior British politicians past and present, including new Prime Minister Liz Truss and five of her predecessors, gathered in the ornate state apartments at St. James’s Palace for the meeting of the Accession Council.
They met without Charles, officially confirming his title, King Charles III. The king then joined them, vowing to follow his mother’s “inspiring example” as he took on the duties of monarch.
“I am deeply aware of this great inheritance and of the duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty which have now passed to me,” he said.
Speaking of his personal grief, he said: “I know how deeply you and the entire nation, and I think I may say the whole world, sympathize with me in this irreparable loss we have all suffered.”
The new king formally approved a series of orders — including one declaring the day of his mother’s funeral a public holiday. The date of the state funeral has not been announced, but it is expected to be around Sept. 19.
This is the first time the accession ceremony has been held since 1952, when Queen Elizabeth II took the throne.
Charles was accompanied at the ceremony by his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, and his eldest son Prince William. William is now heir to the throne and is now known by the title that Charles long held, Prince of Wales.
The ceremony ended with a royal official publicly proclaiming King Charles III the monarch from a balcony at the palace. In centuries past, this would have been the first official confirmation the public had of their new sovereign.
David White, the Garter King of Arms, made the proclamation flanked by trumpeters in gold-trimmed robes before leading cheers — “hip, hip, hooray!” — for the new king.
Gun salutes rang out in Hyde Park, at the Tower of London and at military sites around the U.K. as he announced the news, and scarlet-robed soldiers in the palace courtyard doffed their bearskin hats in a royal salute.
The proclamation was read out in the medieval City of London and at other locations across the U.K.
Two days after the 96-year-old queen died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland following an unprecedented 70 years on the throne, people still came by the thousands to pay their respects outside Buckingham Palace in London. The scene was repeated at other royal residences across the U.K. and at British embassies around the world.
Britain is holding a period of mourning for the queen, with days of carefully choreographed ceremonies marking the death of the only monarch most people have ever known.
For many Britons, her passing, though long expected, is a destabilizing experience. It comes at a time when many Britons are facing an energy crisis, the soaring cost of living, the uncertainties of the war in Ukraine and the fallout from Brexit.
The country has also just seen a change of leader. Truss was appointed by the queen on Tuesday, just two days before the monarch died. On Saturday, Truss and other senior U.K. lawmakers lined up in the House of Commons to take an oath of loyalty to the new king.
Normal parliamentary business has been suspended during a period of mourning for the queen. The House of Commons was holding a rare Saturday session so lawmakers could pay tribute to the late monarch.
Charles struck a note of continuity on Friday, vowing in a televised address to carry on the queen’s “lifelong service,” with his own modernizing stamp.
The new monarch looked to both the past — noting his mother’s unwavering “dedication and devotion as sovereign” — and the future, seeking to strike a reassuring note of constancy while signaling that his will be a 21st-century monarchy.
He reflected on how the country had changed dramatically during the queen’s reign into a society “of many cultures and many faiths,” and pledged to serve people in Britain and the 14 other countries where he is king “whatever may be your background or beliefs.”
He also tried to overcome a reputation for aloofness in his first hours as monarch, spending time shaking hands with some of the thousands who came to leave flowers and pay tribute to the queen at the gates of Buckingham Palace. He was greeted with shouts of “Well done, Charlie!” and “God save the king!” One woman gave him a kiss on the cheek.
In the next few days the queen’s body will be brought from Balmoral, first to Edinburgh and then to London, where she will lie in state before a funeral at Westminster Abbey.
In his speech, Charles struck a personal note, speaking of his sorrow at the loss of “my darling Mama.”
“Thank you for your love and devotion to our family and to the family of nations you have served so diligently all these years,” he said, ending with a quote from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” — “May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.’”
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SNDP (Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana) Yogam general secretary Vellappally Natesan has alleged that the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala has been showing signs of 'Savarna' (upper-caste) appeasement.
Addressing the Sree Narayana Jayanthi celebration in Pathanamthitta, Natesan said the Ezhava community that he represents was still being subjected to casteist abuses and denied rights. “Today, someone told me that there has been an increase in Savarna appeasement on the part of the left government. I thought about it and realised he was right,” said Natesan.
He also accused the state government of capitulating to the demands made by the fishing community at Vizhinjam led by the Latin Church while his community was being largely overlooked. "At Vizhinjam, the government has accepted nine out of the ten demands made by the Latin community just after they started the strike.
"But here, even if we split our chest open, they would ignore us. When we demand our rights we are abused based on our caste," Natesan said.
In the presence of Health Minister Veena George, Natesan confronted the state government on the matter of the 10% quota allotted to the poor among the forward communities.
"In the Travancore Devaswom Board, 94% of the staff belong to a particular community while the remaining 6% is split between Dalits and backward communities. Why is that? In addition, the government recently gave 10% extra reservation to the indigent among the forward caste. Those who have enough, are given more," he added.
Last year, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that the 10% reservation that was aimed to uplift the poorest among the forward communities will not deprive the Dalit and backward communities of their rights.
Natesan urged the members of his community to unite and prosper. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/10/sree-narayana-jayanthi-vellappally-natesan-ldf-government-reservation-comments.html | 2022-09-10T16:04:35Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/10/sree-narayana-jayanthi-vellappally-natesan-ldf-government-reservation-comments.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
'Everybody loved him': Rahway football honors late teammate with emotional win
JERSEY CITY – The Rahway football players reached for the heavens, one hand shaking five fingers and the other hand lifting up two, while chanting “For Ali.”
“That’s for you Ali”
“Ali”
In unison, it was like a warm group hug and a collective high-five for their teammate, No. 52 Ali Muhammad, his name scribbled on their T-shirts and no doubt tattooed in their spirit.
Wednesday, the senior went to practice and then unexpectedly died some time afterward and didn't wake up for school.
The news broke Thursday when students saw his dad’s Facebook post, and it was publicity Tweeted out that evening by the football team.
Head coach Brian Russo and his coaches asked the seniors if they still wanted to play against Lincoln High School just over 24 hours later.
The answer – we’re playing.
So Friday, Rahway headed up north, past the Statue of Liberty and under a full moon transformed their raw feelings into hard-hitting football mode and defeated Lincoln 45-16 at Cavan Point Sports Complex.
It wasn’t so easy, especially when the players held a moment of silence in the locker room before quietly heading out, and then stood for a moment of silence on the field.
The PA announcer noted what they already knew, “Ali represented all that is right about high school sports. He loved the game. He loved his teammates and his coaches and was a credit to Rahway High School.”
Yeah, it wasn’t easy.
“I was a little bit close to crying,” said Rahway senior defensive end Jalen Barnes, “but you know, had to toughen up for Ali. Got a game to play. We won this for Ali. We all came as a team. We had prayers for Ali and got it done.”
If they didn’t play?
“It was good to get back on the field because I feel like if we would have postponed it,” Barnes said, “I would have felt, like, very alone.”
No, it’s good to grieve together and that’s one of the beauties of team sports – a built-in support system. In this case, softening the shared pain.
Russo noted since the players wanted to go, his staff figured suiting up was the best thing. He didn’t have additional details of the death, just that it was a surprise.
“Everyone was devasted,” Russo said. “No one knows how to handle a situation like that. Obviously, we didn’t practice. We just thought it was best if we brought the team together, just talk to them. Everyone mourns in a different way.”
They had a team dinner Thursday night at the district’s Alternative Center for Education. Barnes said it was “a sad dinner.”
“We were all in such shock,” Barnes said. “We’re like what, he was just in practice Wednesday. Everything was good. He was not sick. No nothing. All heartbroken in school. We left school early. The coach, principal, everybody knows how much Ali meant to us. So we left school early. We went to the field. We just all sat in the locker room for about a cool 30 minutes, just sat in there crying. Thinking about him. Missing him. We all decided that we were going to play the game. Play one for him.”
Barnes was asked what was Muhammad’s personality like?
“Ali, he was very like to himself, but everybody loved him,” he said. “He would clean the locker room for no reason.”
Barnes chuckled at the memory and continued, “But we all loved him, man. He always used to help the team.”
The PA announcer was right, Muhammad did represent the best of high school sports. He wasn’t a star, just a hard-working teenager who loved being part of the squad and did whatever he could to lift up his friends. The 5-foot-8, 240-pounder was the second-team center and surely would have seen some varsity action. But the stats didn’t really matter.
“He always went 100 percent in practice to make me better,” Barnes said. “Ali was a hard worker. Even though he wasn’t starting, he came to practice every day. He showed 100 percent on and off the field. He was just a great person, man. It just sucks seeing him not being here with us enjoying this wonderful time right now.”
Those type of program kids are often the salt of a team. Russo said he represents “everything you want in a player. Do whatever we asked him to do.”
“Just did everything right all the time,” he said. “You know, it’s just very, very sad to lose him.”
During the game, Barnes excelled on defense and senior Kyle Hall scored four touchdowns, including a 68-yard fumble recovery just three minutes into the action. His teammates hollered on the sidelines and it was like they all exhaled together in, “We’re going to be all right tonight.”
That’s the important thing – they competed.
When it was over, shortly after the players chanted “Ali”, Russo choked up addressing the guys in the semicircle, his voice hitting a waterfall and declaring it’s more than a team, but a program and he’s proud of everyone and how the coaches will do anything for all – just like Ali gave everything he had.
“We talk about football time like it’s a game of life or death, but it’s not,” Russo said later. “We tell them, no matter what, win or lose, we just ask for the best effort, that’s it. We asked to give everything they had. Luckily, fortunately, we were able to come out on top tonight. It’s a great win, but if it hadn’t, we’d love them the same way, man. We realize it’s not life or death.”
Barnes added, “It was hard. It was hard. I’m not going to lie. Ali’s supposed to be on this field with us, but we still got the dubs for him. For him. For him.” | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/10/big-central-conference-nj-football-rahway-football-honors-teammate/68200723007/ | 2022-09-10T16:10:51Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/10/big-central-conference-nj-football-rahway-football-honors-teammate/68200723007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Field of Flags on display at Battlefield
The annual POW/MIA Trail of Remembrance Memorial display will be on display through Sept. 30 at the River Raisin National Battlefield Park’s new Visitor Center, 333 N. Dixie Highway.
A display of more than 500 POW and MIA flags will be set up along the East Heritage Corridor towards the Battlefield grounds.
“For best viewing of the field of flags, take time to walk or bicycle ride from the new Visitor Center to the Battlefield grounds,” the Battlefield said. “We hope you will join the River Raisin National Battlefield Park Foundation, DTE Energy Foundation, First Merchants Bank, La-Z-Boy Incorporated, Kiwanis Club of Monroe, Kiwanis Aktion Club and the Battlefield's Scout Troop 547 in remembering and honoring those who were prisoners of war and those who served and never returned home. After the Jan. 22, 1813 battle at the River Raisin, 586 American soldiers were taken as prisoners, the most ever taken by a foreign power from the continental United States. The American prisoners of war that were able to be marched were moved north from the River Raisin towards Detroit and then Fort Malden.”
The Battlefield offered a history of POW/MIA Recognition Day.
In 1979, Congress and President Jimmy Carter passed resolutions making the third Friday of September the POW/MIA Recognition Day. In 1979, Congress and the president passed resolutions making it official after the families of the more than 2,500 Vietnam War POW/MIAs pushed for full accountability.
“The POW/MIA Recognition Day is to ensure that Americans remembers to stand behind those who serve and make sure we do everything we can to account for those who have never returned,” the Battlefield said. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/09/10/field-of-flags-on-display-at-battlefield/67922964007/ | 2022-09-10T16:14:37Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/09/10/field-of-flags-on-display-at-battlefield/67922964007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Huron Township seeks fire millage renewal
This November, voters in Huron Township will be asked to support a fire millage renewal, which is not a new tax.
The Huron Township Fire Department has funding for approximately 30 fire personnel with three of those positions slated for full-time paramedics. Currently, at least one paramedic is on duty within the township 24 hours a day and supplemented by part-time paramedics, part-time EMT’s, and/or part-time firefighters.
If the millage is passed by the voters, current fire coverages and staffing levels can be maintained.
“We are very fortunate to have a well-trained, dedicated and professional group of men and women who never fail to be there when we need them the most,” said Huron Township Public Safety Director Everette Robbins. “As a resident myself, I know that the biggest show of support I can give them is the ability to continue serving our community by supporting this millage renewal.”
The renewal would maintain 1.9595 mills ($1.95 per $1,000 of taxable value) with an increase of up to the original voted 2.0051 mills ($2 per $1,000 of taxable value) for a period of 20 years from 2023 to 2042.
The renewal, which is not a new tax, would continue to provide funds for the operation and maintenance of the fire department. The first year of the levy raises approximately $1,338,273.
Voting Day is Nov. 8.
Robbins encourages anyone with questions or concerns to contact him directly. Residents can stop in to talk at the police department or call (734) 753-4400 or email me at erobbins@hurontwppd.us. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/09/10/huron-township-seeks-fire-millage-renewal/67998439007/ | 2022-09-10T16:14:43Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/09/10/huron-township-seeks-fire-millage-renewal/67998439007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
We are in control of our own happiness
The older one gets, what many come to realize, is that little matters except the people in their lives. Money is just paper or metal that represents value. Gold is just a metal we have given the importance of backing what we call money.
There are basic needs everyone has: hunger, thirst, shelter, being cared for by another human. These being met, the rest is gravy; things that give enjoyment to life.
The only real reality is change. I once thought Santa was real, then I found out he was just an illusion created by some distant adult. We can change a whole lot of things, complaining to acceptance of differences, sadness to happiness, we are in control of our own lives.
We all try to fit into what we believe others expect of us; what will make us appealing to them. Since no two people believe exactly the same thing, there are myriad things going on in our minds, with this list getting larger with each different person we encounter. There are periods of extreme happiness, the lowest of sadness, as we try to fit into many different persons’ acceptance.
The fact is each of us must come to realize you can’t satisfy all others and we must work on the happiness of self-acceptance/satisfaction. We must make the personal decisions that will be right for the job we were created for.
I have found we can train our brain to be happy and we can help others to blaze their trail in this direction. How? It’s as simple as making the decision to be happy, all the while realizing there will be periods when we must take care of business; we must be considerate of others; we must decide to eliminate some people from our lives. After all, each of us is really in control of ourselves and no one else.
Our brains don’t know the difference between reality and dreams. To our brains, a daydream is something that might just be reality in the planning stage. That’s for each of us to decide. When someone tells us, “That can’t be done,” they’re be talking about themselves; they can’t make that decision for us!
If someone tells us that, and we still want to do whatever it is, we just have to toughen up and focus, leaving this supposed insurmountable ‘thing’ to this wonderful brain that was our gift at birth. It will invent ways to accomplish anything we decide we're going to do!
When I was a little girl I told my alcoholic father I was going to college. I was told, “I’m not paying for it!” I went to college and became a well-respected teacher. Each of us can do anything we set our mind to do. It’s up to the individual to make decisions about his or her own life. It’s like the old song says, “accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, latch on to the affirmative, and don’t mess with Mr. In-between.”
Complaining is just wasting valuable time. Decide “ I’m going to...” then do it. The only thing in our path is the obstacle/person we allow to be there. Thomas Edison proved this when his light bulb didn’t light 200 hundred times. When told he’d failed, so give it up, he informed the person that he never failed: ”I just found 200 ways that didn’t work.” And he finally lit up our lives! Success can be right around the corner for us, too.
We are so in charge of ourselves that even with my alcoholic father making people look at my older sister and me as ‘poor trash,’ one of my early teachers took me under his wing and explained the very things I’ve mentioned in this column.
He and one of my earlier teachers sat me down and explained the facts of life. “You can be happy, you can be successful at anything you choose if you’re willing to work for it. Never accept anything but your best!”
When I complained, I was told, “No one wants to hear that stuff. People want to hear positive things.” Soon I heard myself echoing the things these people instilled in me. I passed this knowledge onto my own children and the 29 years worth of students I taught.
Just today I heard one of the girls I taught tell her student, “Program your mind to be happy; you’re in charge of YOU.” The child smiled and said, “I’m happy, I’m happy...” then she turned to her teacher, smiled , and said, ”It works, just like you said,” then ran outside to recess.
Her husband (who had stopped by) agreed. Then he looked at me and laughed. “Her classroom sounds like our house; we’re all happy there. Brenda insists on it.”
We can each make of ourselves anything we decide. That is a part of our genetic code, that and success at anything we tackle. It all depends on the only one who is in control. That’s the individual. That is you/me!
Faye Harris is a former Lenawee County resident who retired from North Adams Schools. She can be reached atfayeharris77@yahoo.com. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/09/10/we-are-in-control-of-our-own-happiness/65963030007/ | 2022-09-10T16:14:49Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/09/10/we-are-in-control-of-our-own-happiness/65963030007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Flat Rock hits best mark since 1967 to steamroll injured Jefferson
Everything went wrong for Flat Rock's football team.
Jefferson scored twice in the first six minutes of the game while the Rams struggled on both sides of the ball.
"We had them on fourth down on their first drive, but they converted," Flat Rock coach Buck Reaume said. "Then we fumbled on our first play when we had they ball and they scored. ... It was probably the worst start I've been a part of."
The worst start. But the best finish.
Flat Rock followed with 56 unanswered points in one of the team's best offensive performances in its history. The Rams improved to 2-1 with a 62-28 victory over Jefferson.
It is the most points scored by a Flat Rock team since 1967 when the Rams coincidentally also defeated Jefferson 66-6.
"I knew we'd settled in, but I didn't expect that," Reaume said. "I felt like we were going to put up some points. Even last week (against Airport), we moved the ball well but hurt ourselves in the red zone. We have a lot of guys that can do some things, but I don't know if I expected 62. The kids were fired up to play."
Graham Junge was the engine that moved Flat Rock's speeding train.
The sophomore quarterback was 10-for-13 for 199 yards and four touchdowns. He also added three carries for 11 yards and another TD.
He connected with three different receivers to score in the first half. A 30-yard pass to Corey Lannon put Flat Rock on the board, a 48-yard strike to Aaron Salazar gave the Rams the lead, and a 24-yard TD to Rocco Breslin made it 28-14.
"He makes us go," Reaume said. "We give him lots of options. ... We told him early on we're going to put the ball in his hands and he can make decisions. He changes the plays at the line and it's impressive."
More often, Reaume and Junge on the same page.
"I'll call a play in and before I finish it, he's running to the huddle giving me a thumbs up," the coach said. "He already knows what we're going to do. He knows what it's going to be."
Brian Booms added two 4-yard touchdown runs and Graham ran it in from 5 yards to make it 42-14 at halftime.
Graham and Lannon connected on a 35-yard touchdown to open the third quarter, Joey Godrey had a 19-yard scoring run, and Booms added a pick-six in the fourth.
"We had six different guys score, it was a total team effort," Reaume said. "We had a pick-six, we had touchdown runs, we had several touchdown passes, we blocked one of their punts. Just a good overall game."
Jefferson experienced a little shell shock on its own end.
Starting quarterback Myles Tackett left the game with an injury in the first quarter and never returned. That left the Bears reeling.
"We started off great and then one bad thing happened and the wind was taken out of our sails," Jefferson coach Eric Tipton said. "Our starting quarterback went down and that threw a wrench in everything."
Tackett tossed a 19-yard touchdown pass to Jackson Betts before exiting and Malachi Pribyl scored on a 46-yard run.
"Myles commands the offense pretty well and gives us a viable pass and run threat," Tipton said. "His legs have been a good weapon for us. Him going down was a tough pill to swallow."
The Bears did not score again until the end of the third quarter when backup quarterback Seth Minney found the end zone on a strong 51-yard run. Caden Pridemore scored on a 35-yard run with 20 seconds remaining in the game.
"Hats off to Flat Rock. They jumped on it," Tipton said. "It was a very action-packed first quarter, to say the least. They got us off our game plan and things got out of hand. We got out of position, had to shuffle things around, and got in trouble."
Jefferson dipped to 1-2.
"We'll bounce back," Tipton said. "We'll get back at it and see what we can do next week (against New Boston Huron). It's a long season still."
First Quarter
J - Malachi Pribyl 46 run (kick failed)
J - Jackson Betts 19 pass from Myles Tackett (Pribyl run)
FR - Corey Lannon 30 pass from Graham Junge (Mitchell Smith kick)
FR - Brian Booms 4 run (Smith kick)
FR - Aaron Salazar 48 pass from Junge (kick failed)
Second Quarter
FR - Rocco Breslin 24 pass from Junge (Lannon pass from Junge)
FR - Booms 4 run (Smith kick)
FR - Graham 5 run (Smith kick)
Third Quarter
FR - Lannon 35 pass from Junge (Smith kick)
FR - Joey Godfrey 19 run (Smith kick)
J - Seth Minney 51 run (pass failed)
Fourth Quarter
FR - Booms 35 interception return (kick failed)
J - Caden Pridemore 35 run (Pridemore run)
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing: Malachi Pribyl, J, 22-116; Joey Godfrey, FR, 9-88; Seth Minney, J, 6-66; Caden Pridemore, J, 9-65; Brian Booms, FR, 3-31.
Passing: Graham Junge, FR, 10-13-199; Myles Tackett, J, 2-2-29.
Receiving: Corey Lannon, FR, 4-81; Aaron Salazar, FR, 2-48; Jaycob Pieprzyk, FR, 1-28; Rocco Breslin, FR, 1-23; Jackson Betts, J, 1-19; Joey Godfrey, FR, 1-19. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/09/10/flat-rock-hits-best-mark-since-1967-to-steamroll-injured-jefferson/68040537007/ | 2022-09-10T16:14:55Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/09/10/flat-rock-hits-best-mark-since-1967-to-steamroll-injured-jefferson/68040537007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MTSU football vs. Colorado State: Live score updates as Blue Raiders seek first victory
Cecil Joyce
Murfreesboro Daily News Journal
Middle Tennessee State's football team (0-1) travels to Colorado State (0-1) in a non-conference game Saturday (3 p.m. CT kickoff).
The Blue Raiders are coming off a 44-7 loss at James Madison last week while the Rams lost 51-7 at Michigan.
The game is televised on Nashville's Xfinity 230 (WSMV digital 4.5) and on goblueraiders.com/watch.
PREVIEW:MTSU at Colorado State football: Scouting report, prediction
LAST GAME:5 takeaways from MTSU football's 44-7 loss at James Madison
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The San Francisco 49ers travel to Chicago to take on the Bears to open the 2022 regular season. The 49ers were able to top the Bears 33-22 when the two teams met in Week 8 last season, also in Chicago.
The most significant change on the Bears side is former Colts defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus taking over the head coaching job for Matt Nagy. The 49ers did face off once against Eberflus in 2021, their 30-18 loss against the Colts in the rain. It's supposed to rain Sunday in Chicago as well. Here are three matchups that could decide the game on Sunday:
LT Trent Williams vs. EDGE Robert Quinn
This is a matchup that oozes talent on both sides of the ball. The 49ers' first-team All-Pro tackle is lining up against the Bears' second-team All-Pro pass rusher. Williams allowed 16 pressures on 479 opportunities in 2021, while Quinn created 47 pressures from the right side of the defensive line collecting 18 sacks on 371 pass rushes last season.
Quinn's 51 snaps against the 49ers in Week 8 last season came across from Williams. The 49ers left tackle held Quinn to just one pressure on 27 pass rush attempts, one of only three times last season Quinn was held to just one or fewer pressures in a game.
CB Samuel Womack vs. WR Darnell Mooney
The 49ers' fifth-round pick will have a tough test on Sunday as he will likely see some snaps against the Bears' most targeted receiver in 2021. Mooney played 43.6 percent of his snaps out of the slot in 2021, a 20 percent increase from his rookie 2020 season. The third-year receiver also played 58.6 percent of his snaps in the preseason, but that was a small sample size of 29 pass snaps.
Mooney had six receptions on nine targets for 64 yards last season against the 49ers, but Womack wasn't on the team. Instead, Womack played his way into the nickel back role after his impressive preseason performance with two interceptions and a pass breakup on just five targets. Mooney will likely see fewer snaps from the slot with Allen Robinson now in Los Angeles, but those snaps will be a good barometer for Womack.
EDGE Nick Bosa vs. RT Larry Borom
Borom saw a heavy dose of Bosa last season in Chicago, with Bosa taking 50 of his 56 snaps that game on the left side of the 49ers defense. Bosa finished with two sacks, one of his five games with multiple sacks, with Borom allowing one.
One aspect of this matchup to watch is if Bosa can beat Borom, how well will he be able to contain Justin Fields? Fields' legs kept the Bears in the game with a season-high ten carries for 103 yards. The 49ers have traditionally struggled against mobile quarterbacks, and Fields was no exception. Don't just watch Bosa for his ability to get to the quarterback on Sunday but also for his ability to contain. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/10/23344090/49ers-bears-3-matchups | 2022-09-10T16:25:28Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/10/23344090/49ers-bears-3-matchups | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Colby Howard grabbed a ninth-place finish in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Kansas Lottery 200 at Kansas Speedway on Friday, while a cut tire derailed a strong run for his McAnally-Hilgemann Racing teammate, Derek Kraus.
Kraus was on the move in the No. 19 Kafka Granite Chevrolet Silverado, charging from his 13th-place starting position and running as high as fifth at the beginning of the final stage of the race. He got pinched into the outside wall, however, and then scraped the wall a second time after getting into some oil – which cut down a tire and required he pit under green. He returned to the track a couple of laps down in 30th. He battled back to gain one lap and finish 21st.
Howard was initially fast in the No. 91 Gates Hydraulics Chevrolet Silverado, starting 18th and finishing the first stage in 14th. A loose condition and some damage slowed his progress, putting him 24th when a caution came out on Lap 75. His crew chief, Mark Hillman, opted for him to pit for fresh tires and fuel during the yellow, which turned out to be the last caution of the race.
Howard restarted in 28th, but quickly gained positions as the field later cycled through green-flag pit stops – putting him third on Lap 110. With fast trucks on fresh tires charging to the front in the closing laps, he held on to finish ninth and match the career-best finish he had at Mid-Ohio in July.
MHR welcomed a special group from NAPA Kansas to the speedway on Friday. The guests were treated to a tour of the NAPA race transporter, a meet-and-greet with the drivers and access to pit lane with the team. VIP guest crewmembers had seats atop the team’s war wagon to see all the behind-the-scenes action during the race.
Quote – Derek Kraus
“We got squeezed into the wall and that wasn’t bad, but the second time I got in oil and that’s when I got the bad damage. The team brought a really fast Chevy to the track and I’m happy about that. It was also cool to have Kafka on the truck for this race.”
Quote – Colby Howard
“We fired off with a really fast Silverado. We just fought a really free feeling through the first two stages. We got some damage and couldn’t ever recover, but Mark made a really good strategy call to get us some track position and ended up ninth.”
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A young superstar and a seasoned veteran gained valuable momentum for the 52nd World 100 Friday night at Eldora Speedway.
Bobby Pierce and Dale McDowell scored $12,000 victories on the final preliminary night at “The House that Earl Built,” building their confidence entering Saturday’s 100-lap $55,000-to-win finale.
After two nights of racing, Chris Madden, the overall points leader, spun a six on Eldora’s Wheel of Misfortune. Six cars will be inverted in each of Saturday’s Heat Races.
Group A Preliminary Feature – Bobby Pierce
Bobby Pierce and Ricky Weiss waged war for the lead in front of a packed Eldora Speedway crowd in the final ten laps of Friday’s first preliminary Feature.
Pierce chased Weiss on the outside, before thundering around the Headingly, MB driver to take the lead in Turn 2 with seven laps to go.
However, Pierce’s momentum was slowed immediately in traffic, allowing Weiss a chance to regain the top spot.
Weiss pulled even with Pierce coming out of Turn 4, pinching Pierce closer to the wall and making contact as the two crossed the start-finish line.
Weiss pulled away to take the checkered flag by more than two seconds. However, he was disqualified in post-race technical inspection, giving Pierce the win.
The $12,000 triumph is the Oakwood, IL driver’s 14th victory of the season—one he stated he’ll take knowing how hard it is to reach Eldora’s Victory Lane.
“You always hate to see that for other competitors, knowing how hard everyone works,” Pierce said. “I know it’s a kick to them, but we’ll take it. Anytime we can get on this stage here, no matter what happened, we’ll take it.
“We felt like it was almost our race to win there anyway. Normally this stuff doesn’t happen to me. I don’t get that good luck. I’m really appreciative to get it.”
Kyle Bronson, who led the first 15 laps of the Feature, finished second.
The Brandon, FL driver said his handling was good at the start but struggled with it once he reached lap traffic.
“We took off pretty good there,” Bronson said. “We had a pretty good car. I got a little tight when I caught them lap cars, and I just got up there and got my spoiler knocked off, and then it got really free.
“I just have to do a better job when I catch those cars, and we have to do a few little tweaks to the car to get it better for me.”
Mason Zeigler finished third, Brandon Sheppard was fourth, and Jonathan Davenport rounded out the top five.
Group B Preliminary Feature- Dale McDowell
Many years of experience in traffic paid off for Dale McDowell in Friday’s second preliminary Feature.
The veteran driver chased Josh Rice in the final five laps of the race, inching closer to traffic directly ahead of them.
The “Mac Daddy” finally saw his opportunity to strike with two laps to go when Rice had to move away from the cushion. McDowell dove under Rice’s Rocket Chassis, sprinting away from the Verona, KY driver and earning the $12,000 triumph.
McDowell, from Chickamauga, GA, stated he was grateful to reach Eldora’s Victory Lane again.
“You don’t know how many times you get to be up here or come here and be competitive,” McDowell said. “I really cherish it and thank all you guys. It’s been a lot of fun, and I got a lot of good people behind us. But it’s a lot of fun pulling back up on this stage.”
Rice crossed the line second, narrowly missing out on a win after leading 23 laps. He said he’d never thought he’d be disappointed with a second-place finish at Eldora.
“If you’d have told me I would’ve run second and be disappointed, I would’ve said you were crazy,” Rice said. “First off, congrats to Dale. He was so much better than me in the air when I caught them lap cars. I was already pretty much married to the cushion.
“We were just one lap car short of 12 grand.”
Chris Madden rounded out the podium after starting seventh. The Gray Court, SC driver, stated he’s pleased with his Rocket Chassis heading into Saturday’s World 100.
“We had a great car tonight,” Madden said. “It’s just inches out there. We started [seventh] and made it to third. I’m very pleased with the balance of our car and pleased with the racetrack. Hopefully, we can get a good starting spot in the Heat Race tomorrow and start up toward the front in “The World.”
Garrett Smith crossed the line fourth, and Brian Shirley finished fifth.
UP NEXT: The DIRTcar Late Models return to Eldora Speedway on Saturday, Sept. 10, for the 52nd World 100. One driver will stand tall at the end of the night, earning a $55,000 prize at the end of 100 laps.
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Follow live coverage and updates of everything at Eldora Speedway on all of DIRTcar’s social media channels and DIRTcar.com.
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 32-Bobby Pierce[4]; 2. 40B-Kyle Bronson[1]; 3. 9Z-Mason Zeigler[2]; 4. 1-Brandon Sheppard[10]; 5. 49-Jonathan Davenport[11]; 6. 157-Mike Marlar[7]; 7. 39-Tim McCreadie[6]; 8. 19M-Wil Herrington[9]; 9. 20-Jimmy Owens[8]; 10. 7R-Kent Robinson[13]; 11. 25-Shane Clanton[14]; 12. 22-Chris Ferguson[16]; 13. 57-Zack Mitchell[15]; 14. 76-Brandon Overton[21]; 15. 55-Jeep Van Wormer[5]; 16. 16-Tyler Bruening[17]; 17. 8-Kyle Strickler[20]; 18. 29-Darrell Lanigan[18]; 19. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[22]; 20. 18-Shannon Babb[12]; 21. 21-Billy Moyer Sr[24]; 22. 9-Devin Moran[23]; 23. 111-Steven Roberts[19]; 24. (DQ) 7-Ricky Weiss[3]
A Feature 2 (25 Laps): 1. 17M-Dale McDowell[9]; 2. 11R-Josh Rice[1]; 3. 44-Chris Madden[7]; 4. 10S-Garrett Smith[10]; 5. 3S-Brian Shirley[3]; 6. 19R-Ryan Gustin[13]; 7. 17-Zack Dohm[4]; 8. 18C-Chase Junghans[5]; 9. 0-Scott Bloomquist[18]; 10. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[8]; 11. 1T-Tyler Erb[21]; 12. 2S-Stormy Scott[16]; 13. 23-John Blankenship[11]; 14. 18D-Daulton Wilson[12]; 15. 6-Victor Lee[24]; 16. 46-Earl Pearson Jr[17]; 17. 71-Hudson O'Neal[6]; 18. 22S-Gregg Satterlee[14]; 19. 3-Jon Henry[2]; 20. 15-James Rice[23]; 21. 25B-Mike Benedum[20]; 22. 31K-Kye Blight[22]; 23. 20C-Duane Chamberlain[19]; 24. 101-Forrest Trent[15]
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SIENA — In Italy — in Europe — for a family wedding, still working, staying in touch, how is it that an American is supposed to feel about the death of the British monarch?
We don’t have queens. We were founded on the basis of getting rid of that very royalty and all that it stood for.
Royals, schmoyals. Off with their heads. And we’ve made a pretty good go of it.
If King George and his lot had just loosened the reins a bit, perhaps we’d be like the Canadians — part of the Commonwealth, but still on our own.
But they didn’t give us any slack. And we cut down those Redcoats, and we broke free, and we’re the better for it, and so is the world.
Still, there’s something fascinating about it all, no denying that. The so-called United Kingdom is by now a democracy, too, if not a republic, with a figurehead at the top, and this one did pretty well in her 70 years on the throne — dignified, long-suffering through the mundane duties, welcoming prime ministers born from 1874 to 1975 — and we can mourn the loss of Queen Elizabeth II as a human being, at least, if we are so inclined.
Am I so inclined? That’s what I had to ask myself, out to an al fresco dinner in this lovely ancient city tonight, as the news of the death of Elizabeth popped up on my phone. I’ve got some English blood in me, too, with a grandfather whose last name was Oliver, even if in that way we mutt Americans do I’ve always leaned toward the Scottish blood that is Wilson, and my mother’s Irish family of O’Briens and Eagans inclined me toward antipathy in theory at least to the (made-up name) Windsors, mostly German as they are.
I’ve leaned toward what my Irish teacher Seamus Heaney wrote in his great poem after being included in an anthology of “British” poetry simply because he was born in the English-ruled Northern Ireland: “Be advised, my passport’s green/No glass of ours was ever raised /To toast the Queen.”
Later, Seamus was criticized for shaking Charles’ hand at some function. He was merely being civil, as he ever was — more civil than the bloody English ever were to the Irish.
Charles III, that is, as he is now, as of this hot summer night, as I sit on a Tuscan rooftop and ponder the absurdity that is “royalty.” The Italians got rid of their royal family in 1946, though that doesn’t stop some dozens of Italian princes, including various pretenders to the throne, from making out like bandits as they trade on their old family names, rather than what — getting a job? Beats working, I suppose.
I would only remind our egalitarian selves that, when it comes to royal lines in other cultures who didn’t manage to plunder the world out of the weird fact of their ancestry, we admire and even revere some such clans.
Descendants of the Hawaiian royal family who got aced out of their magnificent inherited lot by the equally imperial plunder of us nominally democratic Americans still, and not without some reason I would maintain, inspire hope among “their people” that their standing could be restored, and that their culture would be the better for it.
It’s perhaps in recent cinematic and television depictions of QE II we best glimpsed her mere humanity: Helen Mirren in “The Queen” out on her own at Balmoral making long eye contact with a magnificent giant stag. Claire Foy in “The Crown,” a very young woman at the idyllic Treetops in Kenya learning she is suddenly queen.
She was quite the editor, too. Forced to give a speech at Kingston upon Hull for which the draft said “I am very pleased to be in Kingston today,” Robert Lacey reports: “The young queen crossed out the word ‘very.’ ‘I will be pleased to be in Kingston,’ she explained. ‘But I will not be very pleased.’”
Larry Wilson is on the Southern California News Group editorial board. lwilson@scng.com.
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In November 2020, voters narrowly approved Proposition 19, a measure that expanded the ability of eligible homeowners to move to a new home and transfer their property tax bill from the old home to the new one, avoiding a large tax increase. Prop. 19 also raised taxes, eliminating the longstanding constitutional provisions that enabled parents to transfer their home and a limited amount of other property to their children without triggering reassessment to current market value.
According to the fiscal impact statement put before voters, Prop. 19 could increase revenue by “tens of millions of dollars per year for both state and local governments,” and “most of this new state revenue would be spent on fire protection.”
California’s Department of Finance was directed by the measure to calculate annually, by September 1, the amount of money that the state controller would be required to transfer to the newly created California Fire Response Fund.
The first year’s calculation has now been completed. The amount of money that will be transferred to the California Fire Response Fund is: Zero.
Zero dollars have been generated by Proposition 19 for state firefighting efforts. Zero dollars also will be transferred to a second fund set up by Prop. 19, the County Revenue Protection Fund. That fund was intended to reimburse counties that had lower property tax revenues because of homeowners moving to a new county and bringing their lower tax bill with them.
The Department of Finance informed legislative leaders that property tax collections were indeed higher. However, higher property taxes reduce the state’s revenue from income taxes because property tax payments are deductible. So on balance, “there were no additional revenues and no increased savings to the state from the implementation” of Proposition 19.
“Therefore,” the Department of Finance concluded in its certified calculation, “the Controller will not transfer any funds to the California Fire Response Fund or the County Revenue Protection Fund.”
Prop. 19 was sold to the voters with a costly campaign of ads that showcased firefighters and emphasized tax benefits for wildfire victims who lost their homes to disaster.
The California Association of Realtors, backers of Prop. 19, may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but they didn’t fool the accountants. The firefighters get nothing.
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More rain falls as crews gain more control of wildfire near Fort Collins
The fire burning northwest of Fort Collins east of Ted's Place is 75% contained as of Saturday morning, the Larimer County Sheriff's Office posted on Twitter.
"The fire received significant moisture," the sheriff's office tweeted after a rainy Friday night. Twenty-four-hour rainfall totals neared or exceeded a half an inch in areas of Fort Collins, according to weather watcher reports to the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow network, or CoCoRAHS. Closer to the fire location, totals were lower.
On Friday, the Larimer County Sheriff's Office updated the total acreage of the County Road 21 Fire to be 212 acres. The sheriff's office attributed the change in acreage from earlier estimates of 500 to 600 acres to better mapping.
There are no longer any voluntary or mandatory evacuation orders. The last voluntary evacuations were lifted around 6:30 p.m. Friday.
"Crews are on scene and working toward full containment," the sheriff's office tweeted Saturday. On Friday, they said 40 personnel would be assigned to the fire in the morning.
Saturday's weather is expected to be rainy in the morning, cloudy with a high near 52, according to the National Weather Service. Winds of 8 to 10 mph are expected to gust as high as 16 mph.
Fog is forecast to move in after 2 a.m., with a low around 39. Winds are expected to become calm.
On Sunday, the forecast calls for fog before 9 a.m., then sunny skies and a high near 77. Winds are expected to be 5 to 8 mph with wind gusts up to 17 mph, according to the NWS forecast. | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2022/09/10/crews-gain-containment-on-fire-burning-near-fort-collins/69387650007/ | 2022-09-10T16:30:40Z | coloradoan.com | control | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2022/09/10/crews-gain-containment-on-fire-burning-near-fort-collins/69387650007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Early Fort Collins internet provider FRII pulls the plug
Before there was Connexion, before there was broadband, there was Front Range Internet Inc., a local company providing internet services to Fort Collins and Northern Colorado.
Now FRII is shutting its doors by the end of the year, citing increased competition, rising fiber rates and escalating employee costs.
FRII said on its website the business as a whole has suffered from a "number of headwinds."
The company, started by father and son Bill and Brad Ward in 1995 as the World Wide Web was just coming into its own, was sold in 2016 to an investment group headed by Halton J. Peters.
FRII said on its website it is working closely with Loveland Pulse and Fort Collins Connexion to transition customers to them as an interim solution to keep customers connected without interruption. Customers who don't want Connexion or Pulse are asked to contact FRII as soon as possible.
More:Fort Collins Connexion to seek $20 million loan to fund final phase of broadband buildout
FRII recently sold its fixed wireless business to Vistabeam Internet, a transition that will take place over the next two months.
Email, web hosting, dial-up customers and dedicated servers will continue to be serviced by FRII until the end of the year, the company said.
When the company first started in late 1995, it grew rapidly. It had signed up 50 customers before servers went online, according to Coloradoan archives.
During the following months, the customers continued to call. FRII added 100 to 200 accounts each month.
More:Pulse broadband access coming to underserved places in Larimer County thanks to partnership
By 2000 it had about 9,000 accounts and was still growing, adding as many as 400 accounts each month up and down the Front Range. As it added customers, it added staff.
In 2014 it expanded its commercial data center in Fort Collins from 1,200 square feet to 3,800 square feet as the data center neared capacity and demand for service grew.
The expanded data center also supported continued economic expansion of Fort Collins and the surrounding areas.
But as the internet grew in popularity, so did the number of internet service providers. Today, the cities of Fort Collins and Loveland offer their own broadband, as do national companies such as Comcast, Xfinity, Century Link and others. | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2022/09/10/fort-collins-internet-provider-front-range-internet-to-shut-down/68046072007/ | 2022-09-10T16:30:46Z | coloradoan.com | control | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2022/09/10/fort-collins-internet-provider-front-range-internet-to-shut-down/68046072007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait – Soldiers and aviators of the 36th Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB), Texas Army National Guard (TXARNG), successfully conducted post-mobilization operations and formally assumed its new mission as Task Force Mustang during a Transfer-of-Authority ceremony with outgoing Task Force Eagle held in the Middle East on Saturday.
Task Force Mustang will be providing full-spectrum Army aviation operations to Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR), an international coalition to advise, assist, and enable regional partners in the enduring defeat of Da’esh, the Arabic term for the Islamic militant group known as ISIS, in Iraq and northeastern Syria. In addition, the aviation task force will provide aviation support to Task Force Spartan of Operation Spartan Shield (OSS).
After a year of preparation, the 36th CAB completed its mobilization in early August at North Fort Hood, Texas, and was immediately followed by in-person transition operations with the 11th Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB), U.S. Army Reserve Aviation Command, at Camp Buehring and newly assigned airfields and outposts across the Middle East. Establishing and readying Army rotary aircraft across the area of operations involved a vast number of UH-60 Blackhawks, CH-47 Chinooks, and AH-64 Apaches.
The 36th CAB will comprise of battalions from Texas, along with aviation units and Soldiers from other states including New York, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Wyoming, and Louisiana. Aviation battalions include the 449th Aviation Support Battalion (ASB), commanded by Lt. Col. Erika Besser, accompanied by Command Sgt. Maj. Derek Renfer; 2-149th General Support Aviation Battalion (GSAB), commanded by Lt. Col. Carisa Kimbro, accompanied by Command Sgt. Maj. Ron Hill; and the 3-142nd Assault Helicopter Battalion (AHB), New York Army National Guard, commanded by Lt. Col. Matt Greene, accompanied by Command Sgt. Maj. James Holloman. Active duty and coalition aviation partners falling in from Task Force Eagle to Task Force Mustang include Task Force No Mercy of the 101st Airborne Division, Task Force Toro, from the Spanish Armed Forces, and Task Force Griffon from 5th Regiment of the Italian Army.
Attending the ceremony were command teams from both brigades, Task Force Spartan of OSS, 36th Sustainment Brigade, Area Support Group Kuwait (ASG-KU), coalition partners, and Army Central Command with a keynote address to the attendees by U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John W. Brennan, commanding general of CJTF-OIR.
“I appreciate the great support, and great partnerships we have,” stated Brennan. “The 11th ECAB has made some tremendous impacts on this theater. They were included in the response not only to the Hassakeh prison break [in Jan. 21, 2021], but also a last minute POTUS travel to Tel Aviv, as well as supporting countless kinetic strikes, theater crisis responses, countless air movements, and training missions throughout the entire CENTCOM theater.”
Brennan then noted Task Force Eagle as the largest Army Reserve Aviation mobilization in history. Over a thousand service members deployed from the U.S. Army Reserve, making the 11th ECAB also one of the largest reserve mobilizations since Desert Storm.
“Based out of five states with Soldiers hailing from 41 different states, you added component one capability with Task Force No Mercy, the attack battalion from the 101st Airborne Division –a great integration across multiple components,” he added. “Throughout the deployment you truly exercised decentralized command and control as you covered across the entire CENTCOM Area of Responsibility (AOR), operating from 17 bases in five different countries, all while executing your operations in support of both OIR and OSS to an extremely high standard. Best of luck in all your future endeavors. I would fight to serve with your team again.”
Brennan then turned to the new authority of the mission.
“Task Force Mustang, you are now ready. It is clear that your predecessors of Task Force Eagle, and the Task Force Phoenix before them, have set you up for success. You definitely have got big shoes to fill, but I know you are up to the task,” he stated. “I know Task Force Mustang is in good hands under your leadership, and I look forward to seeing all the future accomplishments of the 36th CAB as you hit the ground running for the next two weeks while under my command. Task Force Mustang’s reputation preceded you. Your previous experiences in the CENTCOM AOR will be a huge benefit. Although things have changed since 2013, I think you will jump right back in and pick up where you left off. You will have a lot of challenges but know that you are part of the family and the team of teams, and we are here to help you with anything you need. One mission, many nations.”
U.S. Army Col. Matthew Hill, commander of the 11th CAB, Task Force Eagle, highlighted achievements and his gratitude over the past nine months.
“Thank you for all you did for the distinguished support of OIR moving forward. To the 36th CAB team, welcome. I wish your team the very best and there is no doubt the mission is in capable hands of the 36th,” said Hill. “As I close this out, to the Soldiers of Task Force Eagle, you truly are an inspiration. It was a privilege to serve as your brigade commander throughout this deployment. You are part of an elite group of dedicated professionals –true patriots who represent less than one percent of the American population, who voluntarily agree to raise your right hand and be placed to confront the face of the enemy regardless of environment, and preserve our American values and our way of life. It is for this reason, it was a distinct pleasure and cherished honor to serve with, amongst, and for you. I wish each and every one of you the very best. Task Force Eagle’s watch has ended. Eagle-6 out.”
U.S. Army Col. Scott P. Nicholas, commander of 36th CAB, now Task Force Mustang, humbly accepted his new duties and responsibilities to the OIR command team.
“We appreciate the immediate inclusion and coalescing of the 36th CAB thus far. I look forward to working with you as we progress within the given space and time,” he stated.
Nicholas recounted a quote by scientist Carl Sagan to the audience; “The earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, where species can migrate. To visit, yes, but to settle in, not yet. Like it or not for the moment, the earth is where we make our stand.”
“The reason I thought this was salient today is because as we are reminded of just getting here, there is no shortage of cruelty in this world,” Nicholas added. “Each one of you in this room have chosen to forgo your way of life to stand in between people who have the malign intent—the means to bring that intent to bear in the defenseless. So, for that, I say thank you.”
Nicholas concluded with his appreciation to preceded leaders of the mission.
“Task Force Eagle, you have left an amazing legacy on Army Aviation. Each one of you are going home with distinction and with honor, and we plan to pick that up and keep the same pace,” said Nicholas. “To Task Force Mustang, this began well over a year ago from Command Post Exercises to a Warfighter Exercise, and ARMS inspections, you ended up at North Fort Hood; you slugged through that, you get through the Culminating Training Exercise, and here we are. We haven’t even been here for a week, and we have seen the capabilities we will bring to bear to Task Forces Griffon, Toro, No Mercy, our GSAB, ASB, and AHB. You are ready, you are prepared. Having said that, let’s get back to work –Mustangs!”
Accompanying Col. Nicholas were remarks provided by Command Sgt. Maj. Robert W. Hartzog, command sergeant major of Task Force Mustang.
“Our leaders have exceeded expectations and are committed and ready to achieve our goals,” said Hartzog. “We are ready to get to work and make a consummate and explicit impact on the mission.”
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(NEXSTAR) — How clean are the air and water in your state?
Using 2021 data, U.S. News and World Reports’ feature on the “Best States” has ranked U.S. states on several metrics, including economics, education and health care. The listing also measures natural environment, which is based on a state’s air/water quality and pollution levels.
Pollution was determined based on air and water emissions from industry and utilities, and overall measures to long-term human health effects, using information from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Below are the most polluted (no. 50-40) and least polluted (no. 10-1) in U.S. News’ Pollution Rankings.
States with the worst pollution
50. Louisiana
49. Nevada
48. Indiana
47. Delaware
46. Utah
45. Ohio
44. Oregon
43. Tennessee
42. Illinois
41. Alabama
40. Texas
Louisiana ranks dead last, coming in as the most-polluted state in the U.S., according to EPA information.
A January 2022 study by Tulane University found very high incidences of cancer in Louisiana, the second-highest in the U.S. At least 85 cancer cases per year in the state were due to exposure to high levels of air pollution, the study found. Authors included data for neighborhoods in an area between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, which is locally known as “Cancer Alley.”
The state of Nevada ranks as the second-most polluted state, according to EPA information. Just last year, Nevada ranked among the “unhealthiest” states for air quality in the American Lung Association’s State of the Air report.
At that time, Melissa Ramos, manager of the Nevada ALA’s Clean Air Advocacy, said the Classic Car loophole was partly to blame for the state’s high emissions. Under the state’s Classic Vehicle Insurance policies, vehicles bearing certain license plates are exempt from emissions testing. Some tightening of the laws on classic vehicles is coming Jan. 1, 2023, however.
The least polluted states
10. Idaho
9. Colorado
8. Maine
7. Rhode Island
6. California
5. Wyoming
4. New Mexico
3. South Dakota
2. New Hampshire
1. Vermont
The state of Vermont is aware of its relatively good bill of health.
The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources writes that “Vermont’s air quality is considered to be among the best in the nation.” The agency notes, however, that Vermont’s air is not pollutant-free.
Interesting: Even though California ranks sixth among the least polluted states, many of its cities rank among America’s most polluted. Research from the American Lung Association ranked cities by ozone pollution, year-round particle pollution, and short-term particle pollution. California areas that ranked in the ALA’s top 10 most polluted cities in all three pollution categories include Los Angeles-Long Beach, Bakersfield, Fresno-Madera-Hanford, and Sacramento-Roseville.
Pollutants
Six common air pollutants identified and regulated by the EPA are carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen oxides, ground-level ozone, particle pollution (also called “particulate matter”), and sulfur oxides. Other air pollutants include asbestos, fuel oils and kerosene, and benzene. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/the-10-most-polluted-states-in-the-us/ | 2022-09-10T16:56:33Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/the-10-most-polluted-states-in-the-us/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NEXSTAR) – The National 9/11 Museum & Memorial has a special place for “sky blue.”
In recent years, the 9/11 Museum & Memorial has encouraged buildings across New York City to light up their rooftops or facades in remembrance of those who were killed during the attacks on September 11. Specifically, the city’s iconic buildings will be illuminated in a striking sky blue — a color that holds special significance for the organization, and the city as a whole.
Sky blue, or “Memorial Blue” as the color is also referred to, symbolizes the city’s (and the world’s) general perception of the sky in the morning just prior to the attacks. In fact, the cloudless skies above NYC on 9/11 had been described as what pilots and meteorologists call “severe clear,” meaning visibility conditions were seemingly infinite, according to the National 9/11 Museum & Memorial.
This year, dozens of iconic buildings, landmarks and institutions will again be partaking in the “Tributes in Light” event, itself an extension of the longstanding (and perhaps more recognizable) “Tribute in Light” art installation in Lower Manhattan, which form two columns of white light shining up the heavens.
Sky blue, too, is also a prominent feature of one of the museum’s most visually arresting installations, titled “Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning.” Found inside museum’s Memorial Hall, the piece is comprised of 2,983 watercolor squares — representing each of the lives lost on Sept. 11 and the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center — showcasing different hues of blue to symbolize our memories of the sky on the morning of September 11, 2001.
“Our own perception of the color blue might not be the same as that of another person,” the museum explains of the different hues in the piece, created by artist Spencer Finch. “However, just like our perception of color, our memories share a common point of reference.”
The Museum is also encouraging folks to “Remember the Sky” by sharing photos of the sky to social media on Sept. 11, to help ensure that younger generations never forget the significance of the date.
“Through creating a shared moment of active remembrance together, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum aims to help spur conversation on social media platforms and elsewhere that can serve as a bridge between memory and history for the tens of millions of young people who did not live through that day that changed our world forever,” the museum has written of the campaign.
Those wishing to learn more about the commemorations taking place on 9/11 can visit 911memorial.org for additional information. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/why-nyc-buildings-use-sky-blue-in-their-9-11-tributes/ | 2022-09-10T16:56:45Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/why-nyc-buildings-use-sky-blue-in-their-9-11-tributes/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Members of the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Security Forces Squadron hold off aggressors during a riot-control exercise at Camp San Luis Obispo, Calif., May 18, 2022. The event was part of law-and-order training completed by more than 20 unit members over six days in central California. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Phil Speck)
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MEDINA — Medina Memorial Hospital is hosting a wellness fair from 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday. Community members are invited to schedule appointments with the imaging / radiology and lab departments, receive an overall health screening from a primary care professional, speak with leadership from Orleans Community Health, and meet with representatives of several area health and wellness organizations.
General health checks will be conducted by Elizabeth Gurnsey, FNP.
Wellness agencies with a presence at the fair include Alzheimer’s Association, Independent Health, SNAP, Supportive Care of Orleans, the Orleans County Department of Mental Health, Orleans County Office for the Aging, and M-Power (Medicare assistance).
Certain tests are available at a discounted fee ($10). In imaging/radiology these include AAA screening (Abdominal Aorta), carotid screening and ABI screening. In the laboratory, tests include Hemoglobin A1c, PSA (prostate-specific antigen) and TSH (Thyroid stimulating hormone). Schedule an appointment for any of these tests at: https://app.10to8.com/book/ujlltdlinupxwqtekv/
“A lot of great things are happening at Medina Memorial Hospital and throughout Orleans Community Health. This event is an opportunity for the community to stop by for health screenings and simply see what we’ve all been talking about,” Scott Robinson, director of marketing, communications, and outreach, said.
For more information, visit: https://orleanscommunityhealth.org/wellness-fair/ | https://www.lockportjournal.com/community/wellness-fair-organized-at-medina-memorial-hospital/article_12f06696-3090-11ed-8a38-73520546b426.html | 2022-09-10T17:00:50Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/community/wellness-fair-organized-at-medina-memorial-hospital/article_12f06696-3090-11ed-8a38-73520546b426.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II has been depicted on British banknotes and coins for decades. Her portrait also has been featured on currencies in dozens of other places around the world, in a reminder of the British empire's colonial reach.
So what happens next after her death this week? It will take time for the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries to swap out the monarchs on their money.
Here's a look at what is next for the paper cash featuring the late queen:
SWITCHING MONARCHS
The queen’s portrait on British notes and coins is expected to be replaced by a likeness of the new King Charles III, but it won’t be immediate.
“Current banknotes featuring the image of Her Majesty The Queen will continue to be legal tender,” the Bank of England said. An announcement on existing paper money issued by the U.K.’s central bank will be made after the official 10-day mourning period has ended, it said.
The Royal Mint, which is the official maker of British coins, said all coins with her portrait “remain legal tender and in circulation,” with more information to come later.
“As we respect this period of respectful mourning, we continue to strike coins as usual,” the Royal Mint said on its website.
With 4.7 billion U.K. banknotes worth 82 billion pounds ($95 billion) in circulation and about 29 billion coins, British money bearing the queen’s image will likely be in circulation for years.
“Rather than all of the current coins and notes being handed in, the process will be a gradual one and many of the coins featuring portraits of Queen Elizabeth II will remain in circulation for many years to come,” according to Coin Expert, a British coin research website.
After Charles takes the crown at his coronation, a new portrait will need to be taken to use on redesigned notes and coins, the website said.
Coins featuring him will show him facing to the left, replacing the queen’s rightward gaze in line with tradition dating to the 17th century. It dictates monarchs be shown in profile and in opposite direction to their predecessors.
WHAT ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES?
Other nations' currencies that feature the queen — from Australian, Canadian and Belizean dollars — also will be updated with the new monarch, but the process could take longer, because “it is much easier to enforce a new design in the country where it originates, rather than in other countries where different jurisdiction may take place,” the Coin Expert website said.
The Bank of Canada said its current $20 banknote, made of synthetic polymer, is designed “to circulate for years to come.”
“There is no legislative requirement to change the design within a prescribed period when the Monarch changes,” the Bank of Canada said.
In general, when a new portrait subject is chosen for Canadian money, the process begins with drawing up a fresh design, and a new note is ready to be issued “a few years later,” the bank said.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand said it will issue all of its stock of coins depicting the queen before new ones go out with Charles' image. The queen also is featured on the $20 bill, which is made “infrequently" and there is no “plan to destroy stock or shorten the life of existing banknotes just because they show the Queen," the bank said.
“It will be several years before we need to introduce coins featuring King Charles the Third, and longer until stocks of $20 notes are exhausted," it added.
THE QUEEN'S CURRENCY
She first appeared on money when she was still a princess. That was in 1935, when Canada's $20 bill featured 8-year-old Princess Elizabeth, whose grandfather King George V was then the monarch, as part of a new series of notes.
Canadian $20 bills were updated with a new portrait of the queen in 1954, a year after her coronation, and her portrait also started appearing on other currencies around the world, mainly British colonies and Commonwealth countries.
British bills didn't get her image until 1960 — seven years after her coronation. That's when the Bank of England was granted permission to use her likeness on paper money, starting with the 1-pound note, though the formal and regal image was criticized for being too severe and unrealistic.
She became the first monarch to be depicted on British banknotes. British coins, meanwhile, have featured kings and queens for more than 1,000 years.
CURRENCIES OUTSIDE THE U.K.
At one time, Queen Elizabeth II appeared on at least 33 different currencies, more than any other monarch, an achievement noted by Guinness World Records.
Her image is still featured on money in places where she remains a beloved figure, such as Canada, and continue to incorporate the Union Jack into their flags, like Australia and New Zealand.
She's also found on notes and coins issued by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, the monetary authority for a group of small nations including Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Other places have long stopped putting her face on their currency. After Jamaica gained independence from Britain in 1962, its central bank replaced the queen on paper notes with portraits of national heroes such as Marcus Garvey.
Notes in the Seychelles now feature local wildlife instead of the queen. Bermuda did a similar revamp, though the queen retains a minor position on bills. Trinidad and Tobago swapped in a coat of arms after it became a republic.
Hong Kong dollars issued after Britain handed its colony back to Beijing in 1997 feature Chinese dragons and skyscrapers on the Asian financial center's skyline. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/queen-elizabeth-is-featured-on-several-currencies-now-what/article_d0a4f8ac-311f-11ed-bc65-b38b7bacb067.html | 2022-09-10T17:00:57Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/queen-elizabeth-is-featured-on-several-currencies-now-what/article_d0a4f8ac-311f-11ed-bc65-b38b7bacb067.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Chief Justice Roberts defends SCOTUS' legitimacy ahead of new term
Chief Justice John Roberts defended the Supreme Court in his first public comments since SCOTUS reversed Roe v. Wade, saying the court should not bend to the wills of the people or political parties.
Why it matters: The comments come days after Vice President Kamala Harris called the Supreme Court "an activist court" that took away a "constitutional right" with the Roe v. Wade decision.
Details: Roberts said the court can face criticism, but "simply because people disagree with opinions, is not a basis for questioning the legitimacy of the court," CNN reports.
- He said the Supreme Court is meant to interpret the U.S. Constitution and should not bend to public opinion or political parties.
- “If the court doesn’t retain its legitimate function of interpreting the constitution, I’m not sure who would take up that mantle," Roberts said, per the Associated Press.
- "You don’t want the political branches telling you what the law is, and you don’t want public opinion to be the guide about what the appropriate decision is,” Roberts said
Roberts made the comments to judges at the 10th Circuit Bench and Bar Conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Friday, according to CNN. Justice Neil Gorsuch also attended the event.
The big picture: The Supreme Court plans to reopen its oral arguments to the public after shutting its doors during the COVID-19 pandemic, Politico reports.
- The next term, scheduled to begin Oct. 3, may be as contentious as this past term with potential rulings on religion and guns.
Go deeper: Supreme Court's next term could be just as contentious | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/10/john-roberts-constitution-supreme-court-roe-v-wade | 2022-09-10T17:02:36Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/10/john-roberts-constitution-supreme-court-roe-v-wade | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PUKALANI, Maui (KITV4) - According to the National Weather Service in Honolulu, trade winds will be on the lighter side through the weekend, then increase slightly early next week. Showers will favor windward and mauka areas during the night and early morning hours this weekend.
The light winds will also allow clouds and showers to develop over leeward areas each afternoon, with some brief downpours possible, and even a thunderstorm not out of the question over Kauai this afternoon.
A return to a more typical trade wind pattern is expected Monday through much of next week, with showers favoring windward and mauka areas and a few showers reaching leeward areas from time to time.
Temperatures are expected to peak in the upper 80's to low 90's.
Winds are forecasted in the 10-15 mph range with light and variable winds in leeward and interior areas and localized sea breezes developing in the afternoon.
SURF -
According to the National Weather Service in Honolulu, the incoming south-southwest swell will increase surf along south-facing shores, peaking near the High Surf Advisory height of 10 feet by late Sunday into Monday, then slowly fading through midweek.
A medium-period southeast swell arriving Monday will be added to the mix and will hang on through Wednesday.
Surf along east-facing shores will ease into the weekend as trades back off, but may come up to some extent Sunday if a medium period easterly swell from former East Pacific Hurricane Kay reaches our shores. Choppy wind-wave surf along east shores will pick up next week in response to strengthening trades.
North: 1-3'
West: 1-3'
South: 2-4'+
East: 2-4'
Do you have a story idea? Email news tips to news@kitv.com
Weekend Meteorologist and Maui County correspondent
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russians on Friday began voting in the country’s first election since the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Voters are casting ballots to elect more than 31,000 officials, legislators and local council members across the country’s 82 regions.
Many opposition politicians have been barred from running in the three-day vote that takes place both at polling stations and online.
Previous use of online voting in last year’s parliamentary election has drawn allegations of vote fraud from the Kremlin’s political foes. Opposition members also were critical of the voting being extended to three days instead of one day in the past, arguing that the new rules make it more challenging to monitor the election.
While some prominent Russian opposition politicians have been jailed or barred from running in the vote, over a 100 independent candidates are running for municipal councils in Moscow.
Municipal councils, the lowest level of local governance with little real powers, have become important battlegrounds for opposition politicians cut off from competing in national races. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-russians-begin-voting-in-regional-elections/ | 2022-09-10T17:08:34Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-russians-begin-voting-in-regional-elections/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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