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PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (AP) — David Stephens’ children romped around the small patch of grass they’ve turned into a makeshift playground, running and laughing — seemingly without a care in the world.
Their father, though, is gripped by worry about the future. And he marvels at his kids’ resilience, considering the losses and hardships they’ve endured.
When floodwaters engulfed their eastern Kentucky home in late July, they first moved into a motel. Now Stephens, his 8-year-old son, Loki, and 6-year-old daughter, Kerrigan, are staying in a travel trailer — taking their place among those displaced by the disaster in a recreational area filled with lawn chairs, picnic tables, bikes and toys as people grasp for some sense of normalcy.
“My kids are pretty tough, and we’ve been through a lot,” he said. “We lost everything we had.”
They’re staying at a state park campground, where trailers set up in long rows have become temporary homes for families trying to figure out how and where to rebuild after historic flooding caused at least 39 deaths in the state. Some are still waiting for checks they hope are coming from the federal government. Others have gotten their money but are stuck on waiting lists for much-in-demand carpentry crews.
Fleets of trailers are descending on the Appalachian region — some brought in from western Kentucky, where they served a similar purpose for people who lost homes when tornadoes hit in December.
Kentucky is receiving up to 300 donated travel trailers from another state well acquainted with natural disaster, Louisiana. Sixty-five trailers have arrived so far, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said at a Frankfort news conference Thursday. The trailers originally were acquired to shelter people displaced by Hurricane Ida in 2021.
In eastern Kentucky, about 300 people have moved into 100 trailers at various sites, with more on the way or being prepared onsite for people still waiting, Beshear said. Area state parks are still housing more than 340 people left homeless by the flooding.
“Getting the trailers is not our challenge,” the Democratic governor said. “It’s safe places to hook them up. It’s the electric; it’s the utilities. And we continue to search for more.”
The trailers offer a place where families can “spread out a little bit,” Beshear said. During a recent stop in Hazard, he saw trailers being set up at a park offering a range of recreational activities.
In the desperate days after floodwaters inundated homes, and swept some away, many people in the region took refuge in makeshift shelters at churches and schools. The trailers are part of a progression toward the ultimate goal — getting people back into permanent housing.
The governor emphasized the trailers aren’t a long-term solution to housing challenges.
“We don’t want these to be forever homes,” Beshear said. “This is not the end; this is the middle. This is intermediate housing.”
But some occupants expect to spend the coming holidays and at least part of 2023 in the trailers. They’re grateful for the temporary lodging but long for something more settled.
“Having a place of your own is good, but I’d rather it be like a house,” said Jordan Perkins, 31, who is sharing a trailer with his girlfriend along with their dog and cat.
He’s hoping a carpenter gets to work rebuilding his grandfather’s house, where he lived and worked as an IT specialist before the flood hit. His grandfather is staying with a family friend. Lacking internet service at the trailer, Perkins bought boxed sets of TV shows on Blu-ray to pass some of the time.
“I wish I had internet and phone service,” Perkins said. “That’s really the biggest problem with being over here. You’re isolated. And people want that when they come over here (to camp), but they don’t necessarily want that when they have to live here.”
Perkins was sitting outside at the state park campground with his new neighbor, Lyndon Hall. Having worked most of his life, Hall, a 57-year-old mechanic, is taking some time off.
“I ain’t never taken a vacation,” he said, a beer in one hand. “Feels pretty good.”
Hall also is biding time in a trailer until he reaches the top of the waiting list for carpenters to rebuild his home, where he also operated his business. Family and friends stop by to visit, and he spends some of his time fishing in a nearby lake. The catfish have been biting, he said.
A few doors down, Bernard Carr is sharing his trailer with his 13-year-old Chihuahua, Wiley. The 84-year-old retired carpenter and Marine Corps veteran spends his days taking his dog outside and listening to country music and the news on his radio. He doesn’t drive anymore, so a friend brings him food and takes care of his laundry.
He spent two weeks in his flood-damaged home until “everything started molding,” he said. Other than the lack of cable TV access, Carr had two complaints about his new lodging.
“I can’t let my dog loose,” Carr said. “She was always used to going out in the yard, playing.”
His only other complaint?
“I’ve got my American flag in there and no place to put it,” he said.
Several families in the region already have moved on from the travel trailers to other housing, and Stephens, 43, intends to do the same. He’s planning to take his kids to another place with more room once it’s ready to move in.
Until then, his children will keep playing outside their trailer, with bikes, scooters and other toys — all donated — strewn nearby.
“They’re good kids,” Stephens said. “I’m lucky.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-national-news/ap-trailers-offer-temporary-home-as-flood-victims-plan-future/ | 2022-09-11T06:44:28Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-national-news/ap-trailers-offer-temporary-home-as-flood-victims-plan-future/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ask veteran television executive Frank Cicha to recall the last time the daytime TV schedule has seen such turnover, and he has a ready answer: Never.
“Never,” he repeated. “There’s been sort of signature tumultuous moments,” including Oprah Winfrey ending her 25-year run in 2011. But the “en masse” exit of shows and the relatively few new ones replacing them is unprecedented, he said.
What Cicha terms daytime’s “re-rack” has created openings for “The Jennifer Hudson Show” and “Sherri,” with Sherri Shepherd, both debuting Monday, and “Karamo” with Karamo Brown of “Queer Eye” fame, starting Sept. 19.
They are joining a daytime lineup that includes continuing talk-variety series “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” “The Drew Barrymore Show,”“Tamron Hall” and ratings leaders “The View,” “Dr. Phil” and “Live with Kelly and Ryan.”
Gone from the picture are the long-running shows led by Ellen DeGeneres, Wendy Williams and Maury Povich. Others that have turned off the stage lights include “The Nick Cannon Show,” “Dr. Oz” and “The Real.”
Success with daytime’s female-skewing audience isn’t guaranteed no matter a contender’s resume or fame, as illustrated by the short-lived runs of hosts including Queen Latifah, Megan Mullally and Harry Connick Jr.
“Talented people have tried to grace daytime. But if they don’t have an every-person appeal and they don’t interview people well” they wash out, said marketing analyst Stacey Lynn Schulman, founder and chief executive of Human Insight.
The producers behind Shepherd and Hudson’s shows express confidence their respective hosts have the right touch.
Hudson, the “American Idol” alum who went on to award-winning screen, stage and music success, is “funny, authentic and genuine,” said executive producer Mary Connelly, who held that job with DeGeneres’ show.
“What we’ve learned in our short time together is how much the audience loves Jennifer, and how much she loves the audience,” Connelly said. “We’re going to have all the conventions of a talk show, but one of the things that will make the show stand out is her interactions with the audience.”
David Perler, executive producer and showrunner for “Sherri,” said Shepherd’s depth of talk-show experience, including her tenure as a co-host on “The View” and subbing for the health-challenged Williams, is a big advantage.
“It’s so easy to work with somebody who has done this for many years and different incarnations,” Perler said. The new show is built around her desire to “make you feel better when you leave at the end of the hour than you did before.”
“At the root of it, which is just who Sherri is, is always going to be the comedic element. She’s funny. She loves to laugh, and she’s still going out there and doing stand-up,” Perler said.
Brown, whose entry is from the production team behind “Maury” and “The Steve Wilkos Show,” has said he wants to ”connect with people from all walks of life” and plans to discuss issues including infidelity, race and parenting.
The new hosts, all of whom are Black, are expanding daytime TV’s lagging diversity. But veteran TV journalist Hall waves off the idea that they can be lumped together.
“We are owed the respect to recognize what each of us bring to the table and how each of us are different. And I think that’s very important at this time where we are seeing a number of shows hosted by people who happen to be Black,” she said. “We’re not all the same, and to make us all the same is unfair.”
There’s an inevitable hodgepodge scheduling in syndicated TV because shows carried nationwide can have varying air times and stations. One way to get to an edge is to inherit the home of an established show — the case with Shepherd, whose distribution includes Williams’ Fox-owned station slots.
DeGeneres’ NBC-owned station turf is going primarily to Clarkson. That upgrade, coupled with the “kind of America’s sweetheart” appeal she’s demonstrated on her show, could give her an edge in the revamped landscape, Schulman suggested.
Clarkson’s show is making a format tweak to give her more time to connect with guests, said Alex Duda, the show’s executive producer and showrunner. It will open its fourth season Monday with a fan-oriented celebration of the 20th anniversary of the singer’s “American Idol” victory.
“We thought we would bring music to the masses, so we got this big box that is like a recording studio on wheels,” Duda said, and kicked off a road trip in New York where “anybody could come in and do a virtual duet with Kelly.”
Hudson’s show will be joining Shepherd’s on Fox-owned stations, a chance for the two to complement each other rather than compete in those markets.
“I love the idea of a total freshness and newness to syndication in our blocks,” said Cicha, executive vice president of programming for Fox Television Stations. “Some shows have stayed on for years because they could, not necessarily because they should.”
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Writer Gary Gerard Hamilton in New York contributed to this report. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-jennifer-hudson-sherri-shepherd-part-of-daytime-tv-makeover/ | 2022-09-11T06:44:49Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-jennifer-hudson-sherri-shepherd-part-of-daytime-tv-makeover/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — Waterfalls cascaded down the marble walls of the imposing early 20th-century Beaux-Arts building where Proenza Schouler showed its latest collection at New York Fashion Week.
To be clear, the water wasn’t actually wet, but rendered in video installations. Still, the soothing waterfalls set a strong sense of mood for the clothes on display in Friday’s runway show — particularly the cascading ruffles gracing a number of the ensembles, either spilling down the back of a dress or “dripping” down a long sleeve.
In the Hall des Lumières exhibition space, set in the old Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank building (an early example of a New York building in Beaux-Arts style), designers Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough presented a collection they said was a mix of their personal histories — in their own words, “the sensuous and fiery qualities of Lazaro’s Latin roots coupled with the pragmatism and grit of Jack’s American experience.” Water, the duo said, was chosen as a symbol of life.
The collection, which notably featured more skin-baring or sheer looks than the designers usually present, opened with two dresses with sheer, crocheted skirts and fringed bodices. Later there was a shimmering gold crocheted ensemble of a sleeveless top and sheer skirt.
Hernandez said backstage that the duo had found “this amazing community of hand weavers in Bolivia,” who worked on a set of pieces for six months.
In conceiving the show, McCollough said the duo had started with a series of silhouettes. The idea of water, he said, was expressed in the feeling of dripping — for example, the rippling feeling of a loose pair of bell-bottom trousers or a ruffled black leather skirt. In addition to the crocheted looks, lace dresses added another sheer look.
The designers, who met as students at the Parsons School of Design, named their fashion label after both of their mothers’ maiden names. They often base their collections on themes in contemporary art or culture. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-proenza-schouler-turns-on-the-waterworks-at-ny-fashion-week/ | 2022-09-11T06:45:17Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-proenza-schouler-turns-on-the-waterworks-at-ny-fashion-week/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Four Republicans who have promoted false claims about the 2020 presidential election and are running for top state election offices said Saturday they were fighting against a corrupt system — even pointing a finger at mysterious forces within their own party.
The candidates — Arizona’s Mark Finchem, Michigan’s Kristina Karamo, Nevada’s Jim Marchant and New Mexico’s Audrey Trujillo — said they want to overhaul how elections are run in their states. They appeared at a conference inside a South Florida hotel ballroom that featured numerous speakers falsely claiming that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.
“Our biggest enemy is our own party,” said Marchant, a businessman and former state lawmaker who was among Trump’s most ardent supporters challenging President Joe Biden’s 2020 win in Nevada. “Even though we are Republicans, we are kind of the outsiders. We have a battle, but we’re not giving up.”
All are members of the America First Secretary of State Coalition, which calls for large-scale changes to elections. While not officially tied to Trump’s America First movement, it’s part of the broader effort promoting conservative candidates who align with the former president’s views.
Eliminating voting machines, mailed ballots and early voting are among their goals. The coalition also supports hand-counting of all ballots and a single day of voting for all Americans with few exceptions. They did not say whether Election Day should be a national holiday.
Many of their ideas are based on unfounded claims that voting machines are being manipulated. Nearly two years after the 2020 election, no evidence has emerged to suggest widespread fraud or manipulation while reviews in state after state have upheld the results showing Biden won.
The four are among the nearly 1 in 3 Republican candidates running for statewide offices that play a role in overseeing, certifying or defending elections who have supported overturning the results of the 2020 presidential contest, according to an Associated Press review.
Election experts say candidates who dispute the results of a valid election in which there has been no evidence of wrongdoing pose a danger of interfering in future elections. They warn it could trigger chaos if they refuse to accept or challenge results they don’t like.
With less than nine weeks before the November election, the candidates took time off the campaign trail in their own states to appear at the event, organized by the secretary of state coalition and the Florida affiliate of The America Project. The America Project was founded by Michael Flynn, the retired lieutenant general and Trump’s former national security adviser, and Patrick Byrne, founder of Overstock.com.
It was the latest in a nationwide effort to question the results of the 2020 election and promote conspiracy theories about voting machines and the workings of election offices. The forums, held for well over a year, have helped to undermine confidence in elections among broad swaths of the Republican Party.
A few hundred people attended Saturday’s conference, which featured numerous panels claiming that elections are being manipulated in a variety of ways. One panel was comprised of former candidates — Democrats and Republicans from around the country — who sought to cast doubt on their election losses in bids to challenge elected officials in their states.
Karamo, a community college professor, gained prominence after the 2020 election for claiming she saw irregularities in the processing of handling mailed ballots while serving as an election observer in Detroit. She called the election system corrupt.
“This is not a partisan issue. It’s a liberty issue,” Karamo said. “That’s why you see people in our own party, claiming to be Republicans, trying to silence us and stop us. Even though we are the Republican nominees of this office, we have people in our own party trying to make us lose. Because they are in on it.”
A wide-ranging review of the 2020 election in Michigan by Republicans who control the state Legislature found no systemic fraud and no issues that would have changed the results. Similar reviews in other battleground states have come to the same conclusion. Dozens of court cases brought by Trump and his allies were turned away, and even the former president’s own Justice Department found no evidence of widespread fraud.
Nevertheless, the Republican secretary of state candidates speaking Saturday spoke of a system they see as hopelessly corrupted.
Finchem said he did his job as a state lawmaker in calling a public hearing to discuss election concerns and noted how Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican in his final term, dismissed the effort: “How do you like me now, Doug?” Finchem said.
He added: “We are in battle against a cartel.”
Finchem was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, before Trump backers attacked Congress and has pushed for Biden’s win in Arizona to be withdrawn, something the law provides no way to do.
False claims about the 2020 election have led to death threats against election officials and workers, prompting some to leave the profession and raising concerns about a loss of experienced professionals overseeing elections in November.
The repeated false claims of a stolen election also have eroded confidence in U.S. elections. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll in 2021 found that about two-thirds of Republicans say they do not think Biden was legitimately elected.
Trujillo, a small business owner from the central New Mexico town of Corrales, said she wants the state’s officials to follow the law when it comes to elections and to increase transparency. For example, she raised concerns about the security of drop boxes used to return mailed ballots, even though there is no evidence of widespread problems with drop boxes.
She also criticized election officials for being dismissive or even condescending to voters who have doubts.
“We have questions as voters and we should get to ask them,” Trujillo said in an interview after speaking as part of the panel. “We shouldn’t feel like, ‘OK, we can’t ask that because it’s taboo and we’ll look like we’re trying to question the elections.’ Because the integrity needs to be there. It needs to be very transparent.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-gop-secretary-of-state-hopefuls-see-corrupt-political-system/ | 2022-09-11T06:46:08Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-gop-secretary-of-state-hopefuls-see-corrupt-political-system/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Black pastor who was arrested by white police officers while watering the flowers of a neighbor who was out of town filed a federal lawsuit alleging the ordeal violated his constitutional rights and caused lingering problems including emotional distress and anxiety.
Michael Jennings filed the lawsuit Friday night against three officers and the central Alabama town of Childersburg requesting a jury trial and seeking an unspecified amount of money.
Jennings’ lawyers held a news conference outside the Birmingham federal courthouse on Saturday to discuss the lawsuit, and the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, and other groups planned a rally afterward at a downtown park.
“I’m here for accountability, and I’m here for justice,” Jennings told the news conference.
The suit alleged the actions of Officers Christopher Smith and Justin Gable, Sgt. Jeremy Brooks and the city violated rights protecting against unlawful arrest and guaranteeing free speech. He cited multiple continuing problems including post traumatic stress disorder and humiliation.
Childersburg city attorney Reagan Rumsey didn’t return an email seeking comment.
Jennings, 56, was arrested in May after a white neighbor called 911 and said a “younger Black male” and gold SUV were at a house while the owners — who are friends of Jennings and had asked him to watch their home — were away.
Jennings identified himself as “Pastor Jennings” but refused to provide identification to the officers, who arrested him on a charge of obstructing government operations after a 20-minute confrontation that included raised voices on both sides.
Filed in municipal court, the charge was dismissed within days at the request of the then-police chief. Jennings’ attorneys last month released police body camera video that was obtained following a records request to the city, located 55 miles (88 kilometers) southeast of Birmingham.
Benard Simelton, president of the Alabama branch of the NAACP, said the officers who arrested Jennings did “so many things” that weren’t in line with good community policing tactics.
“These poor judgment decisions reflect poorly on the type of training the Childersburg police officers receive … if they were acting in accordance within police guidelines,” Simelton said in a statement.
While Jennings could have filed a claim against the city seeking damages, attorney Harry Daniels said that wasn’t done because the arrest was well within the time frame allowed by law for a lawsuit. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-black-preacher-arrested-while-watering-flowers-sues-police/ | 2022-09-11T06:46:29Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-black-preacher-arrested-while-watering-flowers-sues-police/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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-streamlining 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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This story has been corrected to show the pipeline will deliver 2 billion cubic feet, not 2 cubic feet, of natural gas per day. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-manchins-big-energy-deal-draws-pushback-from-many-dems/ | 2022-09-11T06:46:51Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-manchins-big-energy-deal-draws-pushback-from-many-dems/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
EUGENE, Ore. — Bo Nix threw for 277 yards and five touchdowns and Oregon rebounded from its season-opening loss to Georgia with a 70-14 rout of Eastern Washington on Saturday.
It was Oregon’s 20th straight win at Autzen Stadium and its 18th straight victory in a home opener. Troy Franklin caught 10 passes for 84 yards and a touchdown while Byron Cardwell caught a scoring pass and ran for another TD.
Oregon was coming off a disheartening season-opening 49-3 loss to the No. 2 Bulldogs that dropped the Ducks out of the AP Top 25. Nix struggled, throwing for 173 yards with two interceptions.
Eastern Washington won its season opener 36-29 over Tennessee State. Quarterback Gunner Talkington threw for 348 yards and five touchdowns, and was named the Big Sky’s offensive Player of the Week.
Talkington threw for 87 yards and two touchdowns for the Eagles, who managed just 187 yards in total offense. The Ducks had 607.
Oregon scored on its first dive of the game when Nix hit Terrance Ferguson with a 13-yard TD pass. Noah Whittington’s 5-yard dash down the middle doubled Oregon’s lead and Ferguson caught a 19-yards touchdown pass from Nix to give the Ducks a 21-0 lead. Mar’Keise Irving added a 1-yard scoring run.
Eastern Washington scored with six minutes left in the first half on Talkington’s 7-yard scoring pass to Jett Carpenter.
Oregon added two more touchdowns before halftime. Nix hit Cardwell with a 13-yard scoring pass before a 7-yard pass to Franklin.
Nix stayed in the game to start the second half and threw a 2-yard pass to Cam McCormick. Oregon’s Trikweze Bridges fumbled at Eastern Washington 3 after an interception and it was recovered by Casey Rogers in the end zone for a TD that made it 56-7.
Nix’s backup Ty Thompson took over with 8:48 left in the third quarter. Cardwell ran for a 10-yard touchdown before Freddie Roberson caught a 15-yard scoring pass from Talkington to close the margin to 63-14 for the Eagles.
No. 10 Southern Cal 41
Stanford 28
STANFORD, Calif. — Caleb Williams threw for 341 yards and four touchdowns, with two of those going to Jordan Addison, leading Southern California past Stanford in the teams’ Pac-12 opener.
Addison wound up with seven catches for 172 yards and Travis Dye ran for 105 yards and a touchdown, while the Trojans’ opportunistic defense shined again with two interceptions and two fumble recoveries — four turnovers that led to 17 points.
Dominant USC (2-0, 1-0 Pac-12) didn’t have a third-down play until 52 seconds before halftime and punted for the first time with 8:02 left. USC’s defense has forced eight total turnovers this season.
No. 11 Oklahoma St. 34
Arizona St. 17
STILLWATER, Okla. — Spencer Sanders passed for two touchdowns and ran for another, and Oklahoma State defeated Arizona State on a rainy evening.
Sanders passed for 268 yards and ran for 54, and Dominic Richardson ran for 131 yards and a touchdown and caught five passes for 44 yards for the Cowboys (2-0).
Emory Jones passed for 223 yards and a touchdown and Xazavian Valladay rushed for 118 yards and a score for Arizona State (1-1).
No. 13 Utah 73
Southern Utah 7
SALT LAKE CITY — Cameron Rising threw for 254 yards in the first half and Dalton Kincaid had 107 yards receiving and two touchdowns in Utah’s rout of Southern Utah.
Utah scored on nine consecutive drives, including eight touchdowns, over the final three quarters against the FCS Thunderbirds (1-1). The Utes (1-1) had 599 yards of total offense.
As six-touchdown underdogs, the Thunderbirds weren’t afraid of taking some risks. They started the game with an unsuccessful onside kick that led to a 13-yard touchdown run by Tavion Thomas.
Air Force 41
Colorado 10
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — Fullback Brad Roberts ran for 174 yards and three touchdowns to help Air Force overcome several miscues, including a snap over the punter’s head, in a win over Colorado.
Hosting the Buffaloes for the first time since 1974, the Falcons built a 20-0 lead. Air Force entered the nationally televised game as a 17 1/2-point favorite, according to FanDuel Sportsbook, but couldn’t shake Colorado until late in the third quarter, when they scored 21 straight points.
Air Force (2-0) and Colorado (0-2) combined for six turnovers in the rainy conditions, including each team fumbling at the goal line while going in for a score.
California 20
UNLV 14
BERKELEY, Calif. — Jaydn Ott scored two touchdowns, one on the ground and one through the air, and California’s defense stiffened late to lead the Bears to a victory over UNLV.
Cal (2-0) made three fourth-down stops in the second half, including a fourth and goal opportunity for the Rebels from the Cal 8 with 2:46 remaining that preserved Cal’s six-point lead.
UNLV got the ball back one more time with 1:03 remaining, but Isaiah Young intercepted UNLV quarterback Doug Brumfield deep in Cal territory on the game’s final play. That clinched the Bears’ first 2-0 start since 2019 as they turn their attention to next week’s game at Notre Dame, the marquee opponent on Cal’s schedule.
UCLA 45
Alabama St. 7
PASADENA, Calif. — Backup quarterback Ethan Garbers threw for 164 yards and ran for a pair of touchdowns, and UCLA improved to 2-0 for the second consecutive year.
Garbers came in after Dorian Thompson-Robinson suffered an ankle injury during the Bruins’ fourth drive early in the second quarter. The redshirt sophomore directed scoring drives in five of seven possessions (four TDs, one field goal).
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Candace A. Peterson, 75 Sep 10, 2022 51 min ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Candace Ann Peterson, 75, of Yakima died Tuesday, Sept. 6.Arrangements are by Brookside Funeral Home and Crematory, Moxee, 509-457-1232. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save × Add your entry Posting As Emoticons [smile] [beam] [wink] [sad] [cool] [innocent] [rolleyes] [whistling] [lol] [huh] [tongue] [love] [sleeping] [yawn] [unsure] [angry] [blink] [crying] [ohmy] [scared] [sleep] [sneaky] [tongue_smile] [thumbdown] [thumbup] [censored] [happybirthday] [ban] [spam] [offtopic] [batman] [ninja] [pirate] [alien] Comment Text CAPTCHA × Your entry has been submitted. Guest × Report ×Reported ×There was a problem reporting this. × Watch the guestbook. Stop watching this guestbook. Watch this discussion Get an email notification whenever someone signs the guestbook. Notifications from this guestbook will end. (0) entries Sign the guestbook Log in Add your entry Submit An ObituaryFuneral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. Go to form LOCAL FLORISTS John Gasperetti's Floral Design Findery Floral Jenny's Floral & Gifts Blossom Shop Flrsts Amy's Wapato Florist FUNERAL HOMES AND SERVICES Brookside Funeral Home Colonial Funeral Home Keith & Keith Funeral Home Langevin - El Paraíso Funeral Home Merritt Funeral Home Midstate Monuments Prosser Funeral Home Rainier Memorial Shaw & Sons Funeral Home Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory Steward & Williams Tribute & Cremation Center Terrace Heights Memorial Park Valley Hills Funeral Home West Hills Memorial Park
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Chester L. Wahpat, 66 Sep 10, 2022 51 min ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Chester Louis Wahpat, 56, of Toppenish died Friday, Sept. 9.Arrangements are by Colonial Funeral Home, Toppenish, heggiescolonialfuneralhome.com. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save × Add your entry Posting As Emoticons [smile] [beam] [wink] [sad] [cool] [innocent] [rolleyes] [whistling] [lol] [huh] [tongue] [love] [sleeping] [yawn] [unsure] [angry] [blink] [crying] [ohmy] [scared] [sleep] [sneaky] [tongue_smile] [thumbdown] [thumbup] [censored] [happybirthday] [ban] [spam] [offtopic] [batman] [ninja] [pirate] [alien] Comment Text CAPTCHA × Your entry has been submitted. Guest × Report ×Reported ×There was a problem reporting this. × Watch the guestbook. Stop watching this guestbook. Watch this discussion Get an email notification whenever someone signs the guestbook. Notifications from this guestbook will end. (0) entries Sign the guestbook Log in Add your entry Submit An ObituaryFuneral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. Go to form LOCAL FLORISTS John Gasperetti's Floral Design Findery Floral Jenny's Floral & Gifts Blossom Shop Flrsts Amy's Wapato Florist FUNERAL HOMES AND SERVICES Brookside Funeral Home Colonial Funeral Home Keith & Keith Funeral Home Langevin - El Paraíso Funeral Home Merritt Funeral Home Midstate Monuments Prosser Funeral Home Rainier Memorial Shaw & Sons Funeral Home Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory Steward & Williams Tribute & Cremation Center Terrace Heights Memorial Park Valley Hills Funeral Home West Hills Memorial Park
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The best outerwear for fall music festivals
Outdoor music festivals are tons of fun and certainly not limited to just summertime. By a certain point in the fall, though, it can get just a bit too chilly to enjoy yourself without a little extra layering. This may be a good thing, because adding layers is a great way to express yourself and show off your style. Out of the endless choices of outerwear on the market, some are especially well suited to festival use.
Best blankets for fall festivals
Rumpl: The Original Puffy Blanket
Available in one- and two-person versions, this advanced blanket uses some of the same technology found in high-end hiking and camping gear, so you can be sure it holds in heat well. Possibly the biggest pros of this one are the corner loops and cape clips that let you keep it wrapped around you no matter where you go on the festival grounds.
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Made from a blend of acrylic and cotton, this ultra-durable blanket holds in a good deal of heat and comes in several patterns, each in the style of the classic Mexican blanket. It’s soft and relatively lightweight, but most importantly, it’s highly affordable.
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This is an extremely low-priced blanket that isn’t the absolute thickest, but can provide just enough warmth to keep you from shivering at a late-night set. It’s available in several simple yet good-looking patterns and crafted from 100% woven cotton.
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Best festival jackets and ponchos
Few garments say, “I am here to party” like a light-up fur coat. This one is outfitted with over 100 sparkly rainbow LEDs that get remarkably bright and run on six AA batteries that should last the whole weekend without running out. For something so flashy and interesting, it’s actually not too expensive.
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NIWOTA Sequin Super Flash Jacket
If simple LEDs aren’t flashy enough for you, consider this eye-catching jacket that combines high-efficiency lights with bright, metallic sequins. This jacket ensures everyone on the dance floor sees you at every show. There are various colors and lighting modes to choose from and while it’s not exactly cheap, that’s a small price to pay to be able to stand out from the crowd so easily.
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This premium men’s coat is handcrafted in Nepal from pure wool and lined with soft fleece to ensure both comfort and an impressive amount of warmth. It’s available in five sizes and has a dependable zipper that should last for years, just like its durable materials.
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No matter what your favorite style is, there’s almost certainly a version of this shawl that will match your wardrobe. It’s made with equal parts acrylic and polyester, and it’s the perfect weight for fending off a cool autumn breeze, while still being easy to carry with you.
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This relatively simple shawl comes in a few colors and has just enough fringe and patterning to make a fashion statement. Possibly most noteworthy is the attached hood, which can do wonders if you decide to take a nap by a side stage as the sun’s going down.
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If you’ve never worn alpaca wool before, you’re in for a treat. It’s remarkably warm yet surprisingly soft and comfortable, with just enough stretch to accommodate a wide range of body shapes. This one from Gamboa isn’t the only great alpaca poncho on the market; this one and this one from Davlina are also excellent choices with slightly different patterns.
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Best scarves and face coverings
This novel, multifunctional piece of apparel combines a hat, scarf, pair of mittens and a whole bunch of cuteness to deliver one of the most fun ways to stay warm at any outdoor gathering. It comes in a wide array of animals so you can choose your favorite.
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Enjoy this simple neck gaiter that costs very little and comes in a huge variety of colors and patterns. It’s perfect not only for keeping warm, but also for completing a costume, concealing your face and keeping dust and other foreign particles out of your airway.
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There are four classy patterns of infinity scarf here to choose from, and each comes with a matching face mask. Inside the scarf there’s even a hidden pocket for carrying your most important and lightweight festival accoutrements.
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It’s hard to overstate just how luxurious a good pashmina feels when you’re grooving to your favorite jam band in the early hours of the morning. This one comes in a range of bold or pastel colors to suit your personal preferences.
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Dust, allergens and germs will have a hard time getting past this light-up mask, which incidentally also helps hold in heat. It has seven colors and five flashing modes, plus a USB-rechargeable battery, so you won’t need to supply any of your own.
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Best festival onesies
You’ll find a truly impressive selection of adult onesies here, including an anglerfish, exotic cat, black-footed mink and even a kangaroo with a cute little baby that fits in the built-in pouch. It doesn’t cost much at all and is the perfect way to express your inward silliness while also fending off cold weather.
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There are a few colors and patterns of this one-piece pajama set available, but in the spirit of festival season, the tie-dye version is highly recommended. It’s made entirely from soft polyester that resists staining, and it doesn’t have feet, so it’s perfectly compatible with your festival footwear.
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Silver Lilly Pineapple Pajamas
Everybody has that one friend who’s constantly getting separated from the group at a festival. If you happen to be that friend, consider this brightly colored pineapple costume. At the very least, if you still get lost and eventually give up on finding your friends, it’s silly enough that it can help you meet new people.
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When you’re absolutely sick and tired of being serious, don this bright red lobster onesie and go to town dancing. In fact, this eye-catching outfit might actually help you fight through the crowd and get up to the front row.
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Doris J. Schneider, 75 Sep 10, 2022 1 hr ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Doris J. Schneider, 75, of Yakima died Wednesday, Sept. 7, at Willow Springs Care Center, Yakima.Arrangements are by Brookside Funeral Home and Crematory, Moxee, 509-457-1232. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save × Add your entry Posting As Emoticons [smile] [beam] [wink] [sad] [cool] [innocent] [rolleyes] [whistling] [lol] [huh] [tongue] [love] [sleeping] [yawn] [unsure] [angry] [blink] [crying] [ohmy] [scared] [sleep] [sneaky] [tongue_smile] [thumbdown] [thumbup] [censored] [happybirthday] [ban] [spam] [offtopic] [batman] [ninja] [pirate] [alien] Comment Text CAPTCHA × Your entry has been submitted. Guest × Report ×Reported ×There was a problem reporting this. × Watch the guestbook. Stop watching this guestbook. Watch this discussion Get an email notification whenever someone signs the guestbook. Notifications from this guestbook will end. (0) entries Sign the guestbook Log in Add your entry Submit An ObituaryFuneral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. Go to form LOCAL FLORISTS John Gasperetti's Floral Design Findery Floral Jenny's Floral & Gifts Blossom Shop Flrsts Amy's Wapato Florist FUNERAL HOMES AND SERVICES Brookside Funeral Home Colonial Funeral Home Keith & Keith Funeral Home Langevin - El Paraíso Funeral Home Merritt Funeral Home Midstate Monuments Prosser Funeral Home Rainier Memorial Shaw & Sons Funeral Home Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory Steward & Williams Tribute & Cremation Center Terrace Heights Memorial Park Valley Hills Funeral Home West Hills Memorial Park
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These unique gifts are sure to please anyone dedicated to that pumpkin spice life
For many people, fall officially begins once the pumpkin spice latte returns to the Starbucks menu. In the few months it’s available, pumpkin spice devotees go out of their way to get as much of the iconic PSL as they can.
If you have a loved one who just can’t get enough of the PSL or other pumpkin spice-related goodies, there are plenty of other products that celebrate this warm, cozy fall flavor and scent.
What is pumpkin spice and the PSL?
If you haven’t gotten on the PSL bandwagon, you probably aren’t sure what all the fuss is about. Despite its name, pumpkin spice doesn’t actually contain pumpkin. Instead, it refers to the blend of spices traditionally used to flavor pumpkin pie and other pumpkin-based recipes.
These spices include cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, clove and allspice. You can buy pumpkin spice pre-blended, though, so you don’t have to do any mixing yourself.
The PSL has been a seasonal addition to the Starbucks menu for 19 years. The beverage contains Starbucks’ signature espresso and milk steamed with cinnamon, nutmeg and clove. It’s then topped with whipped cream and pumpkin spice. You can get the PSL hot, iced or blended.
Unusual pumpkin spice gifts
Food and beverage gifts
The Republic of Tea Pumpkin Spice Tea
This tea is perfect for PSL lovers who also appreciate a good cup of tea. It features premium black tea blended with pumpkin flavor and warm pumpkin spices. Each box contains 50 tea bags, which can also be used to make a pumpkin spice tea latte.
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Torani Puremade Pumpkin Pie Sauce
This versatile flavored sauce features cinnamon, nutmeg and other warm pumpkin spices. It makes it easy to prepare pumpkin spice coffee and lattes at home, but it’s also delicious over ice cream, pie or other desserts.
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Montana Bounty Foods Pumpkin Spice Quick Bread Mix
This set of pumpkin spice quick bread mix contains three bags, each making one large loaf or three small loaves. Unlike traditional pumpkin bread, this mix contains a rich sourdough blend with pumpkin spices to give it that warm fall flavor. The mixes are handmade.
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This kit makes it easy for the PSL lover in your life to make their own lattes at home. It contains flavored sugar cubes that can be dropped in any hot beverage to add a hint of pumpkin spice. The set includes six pumpkin spice cubes and six white chocolate cocoa cubes, which can be used individually or together for a unique flavor combination.
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Franzese Pumpkin Spice Authentic Italian Gelato Mix Gift Set
With this easy-to-use mix, pumpkin spice fans can make rich, delicious pumpkin spice gelato in any ice maker. Each set contains two boxes of mix, made of 100% authentic Italian ingredients. You’ll get three pints of gelato from each box, too.
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Beauty gifts
Too Faced Pumpkin Spice Second Slice Sweet & Spicy Eyeshadow Palette
With a color scheme inspired by pumpkin pie spice, this eyeshadow palette is perfect for fall. It contains 18 warm shades in matte, metallic and shimmer finishes to create a wide array of looks. The shadows are paraben-free and cruelty-free.
Burt’s Bees Pumpkin Spice Lip Balm
This moisturizing lip balm doesn’t just protect and soothe the lips; it tastes great, too. It contains 100% natural ingredients and locks moisture in place to prevent damage from environmental exposure. It can also help relieve the pain and itching of cold sores.
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Peter Thomas Roth Pumpkin Enzyme Mask Enzymatic Dermal Resurfacer
This powerful mask helps exfoliate the skin to reveal a smoother, brighter complexion. It contains pumpkin enzymes to aid in exfoliation, as well as alpha hydroxy acids for chemical exfoliation and aluminum oxide crystals for manual exfoliation. It also has a pumpkin scent that PSL fans will love.
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Good Earth Beauty Pumpkin Pie Natural Body Wash
This all-natural body wash has a delicious pumpkin spice-inspired scent perfect for fall. It has a moisturizing formula and can even double as a shampoo.
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Aromatherapy gifts
Root Candles Votive Pumpkin Spice Fragrance Set
This set of three votive candles is scented with clove, ginger and pumpkin puree, but it also contains notes of brown sugar, vanilla and musk. The candles are made of all-natural beeswax and have 100% natural fiber, hand braided wicks.
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Yankee Candle Spiced Pumpkin Signature Large Tumbler Candle
This large glass jar candle contains notes of pumpkin, clove, nutmeg, cinnamon and brown sugar, so the room smells like a delicious pie in the oven. It also has multiple cotton wicks and is made of a soy wax blend that burns cleanly for up to 60 hours.
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Voluspa Spiced Pumpkin Latte Home Diffuser
Help your PSL-loving friend get their home ready for fall with this diffuser. It contains a fragrant oil with notes of pumpkin, vanilla marshmallow, coconut cream and cinnamon spice. The rattan reeds help disperse the scent without overwhelming the room. The fragrance lasts for up to six months.
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Aromatique Pumpkin Spice Aerosol Spray
This delicious spray can enhance the mood in any room. It contains notes of maple, pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg and clove that provide a warm, inviting fragrance.
Miscellaneous
Design Imports Pumpkin Spice Ruffle Apron
Anyone who enjoys cooking and baking will appreciate this adorable pumpkin spice apron. It has an extra-long adjustable strap to wrap about the neck and waist, so one size fits most. It also has a well-sized front pocket and a fun ruffle trim.
Sweet Water Decor Pumpkin Spice Coffee Mug
Your loved one can enjoy their favorite coffee or tea in this large galvanized steel mug. It can hold up to 18 ounces and is hand-lettered with the phrase “pumpkin spice” on both sides.
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InterestPrint Pumpkin Leaf Faux Leather Purse
This faux leather purse is decorated with a fun apple, pumpkin pie and PSL latte pattern. It can make an excellent addition to your loved one’s fall wardrobe. It has double handles and a removable, adjustable shoulder strap for versatility. It also offers a large main compartment, an inner zippered pocket and two slots for cards and a phone.
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Juan S. Gallegos Sep 10, 2022 1 hr ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Juan Soto Gallegos, 88, of Yakima died Friday, Sept. 9, at Good Samaritan Health Care Center, Yakima.Arrangements are by Brookside Funeral Home and Crematory, Moxee, 509-457-1232. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save × Add your entry Posting As Emoticons [smile] [beam] [wink] [sad] [cool] [innocent] [rolleyes] [whistling] [lol] [huh] [tongue] [love] [sleeping] [yawn] [unsure] [angry] [blink] [crying] [ohmy] [scared] [sleep] [sneaky] [tongue_smile] [thumbdown] [thumbup] [censored] [happybirthday] [ban] [spam] [offtopic] [batman] [ninja] [pirate] [alien] Comment Text CAPTCHA × Your entry has been submitted. Guest × Report ×Reported ×There was a problem reporting this. × Watch the guestbook. Stop watching this guestbook. Watch this discussion Get an email notification whenever someone signs the guestbook. Notifications from this guestbook will end. (0) entries Sign the guestbook Log in Add your entry Submit An ObituaryFuneral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. Go to form LOCAL FLORISTS John Gasperetti's Floral Design Findery Floral Jenny's Floral & Gifts Blossom Shop Flrsts Amy's Wapato Florist FUNERAL HOMES AND SERVICES Brookside Funeral Home Colonial Funeral Home Keith & Keith Funeral Home Langevin - El Paraíso Funeral Home Merritt Funeral Home Midstate Monuments Prosser Funeral Home Rainier Memorial Shaw & Sons Funeral Home Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory Steward & Williams Tribute & Cremation Center Terrace Heights Memorial Park Valley Hills Funeral Home West Hills Memorial Park
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Keith R. Stacy, 66 Sep 10, 2022 51 min ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Keith Reinhalt Stacy, 66, of Yakima died Thursday, Sept. 8.Arrangements are by Brookside Funeral Home and Crematory, Moxee, 509-457-1232. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save × Add your entry Posting As Emoticons [smile] [beam] [wink] [sad] [cool] [innocent] [rolleyes] [whistling] [lol] [huh] [tongue] [love] [sleeping] [yawn] [unsure] [angry] [blink] [crying] [ohmy] [scared] [sleep] [sneaky] [tongue_smile] [thumbdown] [thumbup] [censored] [happybirthday] [ban] [spam] [offtopic] [batman] [ninja] [pirate] [alien] Comment Text CAPTCHA × Your entry has been submitted. Guest × Report ×Reported ×There was a problem reporting this. × Watch the guestbook. Stop watching this guestbook. Watch this discussion Get an email notification whenever someone signs the guestbook. Notifications from this guestbook will end. (0) entries Sign the guestbook Log in Add your entry Submit An ObituaryFuneral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. Go to form LOCAL FLORISTS John Gasperetti's Floral Design Findery Floral Jenny's Floral & Gifts Blossom Shop Flrsts Amy's Wapato Florist FUNERAL HOMES AND SERVICES Brookside Funeral Home Colonial Funeral Home Keith & Keith Funeral Home Langevin - El Paraíso Funeral Home Merritt Funeral Home Midstate Monuments Prosser Funeral Home Rainier Memorial Shaw & Sons Funeral Home Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory Steward & Williams Tribute & Cremation Center Terrace Heights Memorial Park Valley Hills Funeral Home West Hills Memorial Park
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Leslie E. Chandler Jr. Sep 10, 2022 1 hr ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Leslie Elwyn Chandler Jr., 88, of Sunnyside died Thursday, Sept. 8, in Pasco.Arrangements are by Smith Funeral Home, Sunnyside, funeralhomesmith.com. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save × Add your entry Posting As Emoticons [smile] [beam] [wink] [sad] [cool] [innocent] [rolleyes] [whistling] [lol] [huh] [tongue] [love] [sleeping] [yawn] [unsure] [angry] [blink] [crying] [ohmy] [scared] [sleep] [sneaky] [tongue_smile] [thumbdown] [thumbup] [censored] [happybirthday] [ban] [spam] [offtopic] [batman] [ninja] [pirate] [alien] Comment Text CAPTCHA × Your entry has been submitted. Guest × Report ×Reported ×There was a problem reporting this. × Watch the guestbook. Stop watching this guestbook. Watch this discussion Get an email notification whenever someone signs the guestbook. Notifications from this guestbook will end. (0) entries Sign the guestbook Log in Add your entry Submit An ObituaryFuneral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. Go to form LOCAL FLORISTS John Gasperetti's Floral Design Findery Floral Jenny's Floral & Gifts Blossom Shop Flrsts Amy's Wapato Florist FUNERAL HOMES AND SERVICES Brookside Funeral Home Colonial Funeral Home Keith & Keith Funeral Home Langevin - El Paraíso Funeral Home Merritt Funeral Home Midstate Monuments Prosser Funeral Home Rainier Memorial Shaw & Sons Funeral Home Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory Steward & Williams Tribute & Cremation Center Terrace Heights Memorial Park Valley Hills Funeral Home West Hills Memorial Park
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Norman Imamshah, 79 Sep 10, 2022 54 min ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Norman Imamshah, 79, of Yakima died Wednesday, Sept. 7, at Cottage in the Meadow, Yakima.Arrangements are by Brookside Funeral Home and Crematory, Moxee, 509-457-1232. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save × Add your entry Posting As Emoticons [smile] [beam] [wink] [sad] [cool] [innocent] [rolleyes] [whistling] [lol] [huh] [tongue] [love] [sleeping] [yawn] [unsure] [angry] [blink] [crying] [ohmy] [scared] [sleep] [sneaky] [tongue_smile] [thumbdown] [thumbup] [censored] [happybirthday] [ban] [spam] [offtopic] [batman] [ninja] [pirate] [alien] Comment Text CAPTCHA × Your entry has been submitted. Guest × Report ×Reported ×There was a problem reporting this. × Watch the guestbook. Stop watching this guestbook. Watch this discussion Get an email notification whenever someone signs the guestbook. Notifications from this guestbook will end. (0) entries Sign the guestbook Log in Add your entry Submit An ObituaryFuneral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. Go to form LOCAL FLORISTS John Gasperetti's Floral Design Findery Floral Jenny's Floral & Gifts Blossom Shop Flrsts Amy's Wapato Florist FUNERAL HOMES AND SERVICES Brookside Funeral Home Colonial Funeral Home Keith & Keith Funeral Home Langevin - El Paraíso Funeral Home Merritt Funeral Home Midstate Monuments Prosser Funeral Home Rainier Memorial Shaw & Sons Funeral Home Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory Steward & Williams Tribute & Cremation Center Terrace Heights Memorial Park Valley Hills Funeral Home West Hills Memorial Park
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Patricia K. Kutch, 71 Sep 10, 2022 1 hr ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Patricia Kay "Patty" Kutch, 71, of Yakima died Tuesday, Sept. 6.Arrangements are by Langevin El Paraiso Funeral Home, Yakima, lepfuneralhome.com. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save × Add your entry Posting As Emoticons [smile] [beam] [wink] [sad] [cool] [innocent] [rolleyes] [whistling] [lol] [huh] [tongue] [love] [sleeping] [yawn] [unsure] [angry] [blink] [crying] [ohmy] [scared] [sleep] [sneaky] [tongue_smile] [thumbdown] [thumbup] [censored] [happybirthday] [ban] [spam] [offtopic] [batman] [ninja] [pirate] [alien] Comment Text CAPTCHA × Your entry has been submitted. Guest × Report ×Reported ×There was a problem reporting this. × Watch the guestbook. Stop watching this guestbook. Watch this discussion Get an email notification whenever someone signs the guestbook. Notifications from this guestbook will end. (0) entries Sign the guestbook Log in Add your entry Submit An ObituaryFuneral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. Go to form LOCAL FLORISTS John Gasperetti's Floral Design Findery Floral Jenny's Floral & Gifts Blossom Shop Flrsts Amy's Wapato Florist FUNERAL HOMES AND SERVICES Brookside Funeral Home Colonial Funeral Home Keith & Keith Funeral Home Langevin - El Paraíso Funeral Home Merritt Funeral Home Midstate Monuments Prosser Funeral Home Rainier Memorial Shaw & Sons Funeral Home Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory Steward & Williams Tribute & Cremation Center Terrace Heights Memorial Park Valley Hills Funeral Home West Hills Memorial Park
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — On paper, there was no reason to believe that Appalachian State would have a chance Saturday against No. 6 Texas A&M.
But Mountaineers coach Shawn Clark, who makes 10 times less than the over $9 million Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher receives each season at the Southeastern Conference school, made it clear to his 18 1/2-point underdog team that the game is not played on paper and mindset would mean everything.
“The key was belief,” an exhausted Clark said. “You have to believe in yourself and believe in this program. I told them take the logo off of the helmet, take the logo off the field and let’s go play football.”
And play football they did, with Chase Brice throwing for 134 yards and a touchdown and a stingy defense taking advantage of two turnovers to stun the Aggies 17-14.
“It didn’t feel real at first,” Brice said. “I’ll be honest, I was just in shock. I just couldn’t believe the way we fought and finished. It was just great.”
Appalachian State won a week after scoring six touchdowns and 40 points in the fourth quarter in a 63-61 opening loss to North Carolina.
“It means something to me to beat the No. 6-ranked program,” Clark said. “It’s two different programs. We don’t recruit at the same level. We don’t have what they have, but we have a lot of heart and we have the right kind of players in our program.”
Clark was thrilled to see Brice lead his team to the win after his school-record six-touchdown performance last week wasn’t enough to complete the comeback.
“He was crushed,” Clark said. “He loves this program and today was his shining moment.”
Along with the victory, the Mountaineers got a fat $1.5 million check to take back with them to Boone, North Carolina, for playing this game.
Appalachian State (1-1) settled for a 29-yard field goal by Michael Hughes to take a 17-14 lead with about eight minutes left after Christian Wells was wide open but dropped a touchdown pass on third down.
The Aggies (1-1) had a chance to tie it with about 3 1/2 minutes to go, but a 47-yard field goal attempt by Caden Davis was short.
Camerun Peoples, who finished with 112 yards rushing, had a 1-yard run on third down on the next possession to keep Appalachian State’s drive going. He then dashed 48 yards to the 12 on the next play and the Mountaineers ran out the clock.
“At the end of the day, that’s my fault as the head football coach,” Fisher said. “We have to have guys ready in all three phases. We had chances to make plays in all three phases.. We had opportunities, but we have to coach it better. That’s on me.”
It’s Appalachian State’s first win over a team in The AP top 10 as a FBS team after losing in overtime to No. 9 Tennessee in 2016 and dropping an OT game to No. 9 Penn State in 2018.
The Mountaineers famously knocked off No. 5 Michigan 34-32 with a last-second blocked field goal in Ann Arbor in 2007 when they were still in the FCS.
“Respect all those guys they were great,” offensive lineman Cooper Hodges said. “But I’m tired of hearing about Michigan. I want our legacy to be Sun Belt champions and I want our legacy to be beating Texas A&M.”
The Mountaineers kept A&M’s offense in check a week after Clark was left looking for ways to fix his defense after the 63-point outburst by North Carolina.
Devon Achane ran for a touchdown in the first half and returned a kickoff for a score in the third, but the Aggies had trouble getting much else going on a mistake-filled day.
The Mountaineers outgained A&M 305-186 and had 22 first downs to just nine by the Aggies. They controlled time of possession, too, holding a 41:29 to 18:31 advantage in that area.
Fisher said he would consider a change at quarterback this week after a sub-par performance by Haynes King. He added that they probably would have made the switch Saturday if the game had gone differently.
“We were but we never had the ball,” he said. “If we had got more possessions maybe so.”
The Aggies were driving in the third quarter when Dexter Lawson Jr. forced a fumble by Evan Stewart after a 13-yard reception and it was recovered by Nick Hampton.
The Mountaineers took a 14-7 lead when Henry Pearson grabbed a 9-yard TD reception from Brice with about 2 1/2 minutes left in the third.
The lead was short-lived as Achane returned the ensuing kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown seconds later. Achane, who is a sprinter on Texas A&M’s track team, juked a defender before shedding a would-be tackler and racing downfield for the score to tie it at 14-all.
King was sacked by DeAndre Dingle-Prince and fumbled late in the first quarter. Texas A&M lineman Layden Robinson recovered the ball, but he also fumbled and this time Appalachian State recovered it.
They cashed in on the mistake when Ahmani Marshall scored on a 4-yard touchdown run that made it 7-0 early in the second quarter.
The Aggies tied it up when Achane dashed 26 yards for a touchdown on the next drive.
King finished with 97 yards passing.
THE TAKEAWAY
The loss puts a huge dent on Texas A&M’s preseason goal of finally contending for a national title, leaving the Aggies in an early hole before they even begin the rigors of SEC play.
RECORD TALK
Fisher was hired to take A&M to the next level after coach Kevin Sumlin was fired after his sixth season. But so far Fisher hasn’t done any better than Sumlin did in his time with the Aggies.
Sumlin was 36-14 in his first 50 games and Saturday’s loss dropped Fisher to 35-15 in his first 50.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
The Aggies are certain to plummet in the poll after losing to an unranked opponent. Appalachian State should enter the poll after the big upset.
UP NEXT
Appalachian State: Hosts Troy next Saturday.
Texas A&M: Hosts No. 15 Miami next Saturday night.
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Ronald G. Roberts, 79 Sep 10, 2022 1 hr ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Ronald G. Roberts, 79, of Yakima died Monday, Sept. 5, at Cottage in the Meadow, Yakima.Arrangements are by Brookside Funeral Home and Crematory, Moxee, 509-457-1232. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save × Add your entry Posting As Emoticons [smile] [beam] [wink] [sad] [cool] [innocent] [rolleyes] [whistling] [lol] [huh] [tongue] [love] [sleeping] [yawn] [unsure] [angry] [blink] [crying] [ohmy] [scared] [sleep] [sneaky] [tongue_smile] [thumbdown] [thumbup] [censored] [happybirthday] [ban] [spam] [offtopic] [batman] [ninja] [pirate] [alien] Comment Text CAPTCHA × Your entry has been submitted. Guest × Report ×Reported ×There was a problem reporting this. × Watch the guestbook. Stop watching this guestbook. Watch this discussion Get an email notification whenever someone signs the guestbook. Notifications from this guestbook will end. (0) entries Sign the guestbook Log in Add your entry Submit An ObituaryFuneral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. Go to form LOCAL FLORISTS John Gasperetti's Floral Design Findery Floral Jenny's Floral & Gifts Blossom Shop Flrsts Amy's Wapato Florist FUNERAL HOMES AND SERVICES Brookside Funeral Home Colonial Funeral Home Keith & Keith Funeral Home Langevin - El Paraíso Funeral Home Merritt Funeral Home Midstate Monuments Prosser Funeral Home Rainier Memorial Shaw & Sons Funeral Home Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory Steward & Williams Tribute & Cremation Center Terrace Heights Memorial Park Valley Hills Funeral Home West Hills Memorial Park
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SEATTLE (AP) — Dansby Swanson hit one of Atlanta’s four home runs and the World Series champion Braves grabbed sole possession of first place for the first time all season with a 6-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.
Robbie Grossman, Travis d’Arnaud and rookie Michael Harris II also went deep for the streaking Braves, who won their eighth straight and finally jumped a half-game ahead of the Mets in the NL East after chasing them for five months. New York lost 6-3 at Miami earlier in the night.
“That’s why we’re playing these games: trying to win the division,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said. “That’s our goal. When we left spring training, our No. 1 goal was to win the division. I think they’ve been great in their approach and how they come to work.”
Atlanta was seven games back on Aug. 8 and 10 1/2 behind on June 1. The only previous day this season the Mets did not hold at least a share of the division lead was April 11.
“It shows how dedicated we are to winning and how much we want to win,” Harris said. “We were down 10 games at one point and now we’re leading the East. That was our main goal. We got to it and now we’re just trying to keep it.”
Carlos Santana homered twice for the Mariners, and J.P. Crawford also connected.
Braves starter Charlie Morton (8-5) allowed four runs in 6 1/3 innings. Grossman had three hits and two RBIs.
“I can’t say enough about (Grossman) — just the professional he is, how he shows up every day and he’s ready to go,” Snitker said. “Even if he’s not in the starting lineup, he’s always ready. We’ve been very fortunate this year that those guys at the back end of the lineup have done a lot of damage for us.”
Swanson gave Atlanta a 2-0 lead in the first with a two-run homer off Robbie Ray (12-9), who gave up four runs in five innings.
After a walk to Jesse Winker in the second, Santana tied it with a home run.
Atlanta reclaimed the lead in the fourth when Harris led off with a double and scored on Grossman’s single.
A two-out homer by d’Arnaud in the fifth made it 4-2. Crawford answered with a solo shot in the bottom half, his first home run since June 1.
Harris and Grossman both homered in the sixth to make it 6-3.
“It was the night of the home run, I guess,” Mariners manager Scott Servais said. “They hit one more than we did. The ball was getting out of here tonight.”
Santana hit his second home run of the game and 14th of the season in the seventh. Seattle then had runners on first and second with two outs, but A.J. Minter struck out Ty France to end the inning.
Raisel Iglesias struck out three in a hitless eighth and Kenley Jansen whiffed two in a 1-2-3 ninth for his 33rd save.
Seattle has lost three of four but is four games ahead of Baltimore for the final American League wild card.
“Carlos kept us in the game,” Servais said. “Carlos had really good at-bats tonight when we needed it. It’s hard to string a lot of hits together against a guy like (Morton), so you’re going to have to hit the long ball, and we did. We were right there in the ballgame.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
The Mariners placed utility player Dylan Moore (oblique) on the 10-day injured list Aug. 30. Servais said Friday that Moore is “feeling better,” but not doing much rotational work or swinging a bat yet. “We’ll find out in the next couple of days where he’s at,” Servais said. “He’s a nice weapon to have. We’ve missed him. We’ll know more once we get through the weekend.”
UP NEXT
Braves: LHP Max Fried (13-5, 2.48 ERA) starts the middle game of the interleague series Saturday. He pitched five scoreless innings before a rain delay Sunday during Atlanta’s win over Miami.
Mariners: RHP George Kirby (6-3, 3.15) will take the mound. Kirby was the AL rookie of the month for August after going 4-0 in five starts with a 2.15 ERA.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Leadoff man Aaron Judge singled twice during a six-run first inning off Corey Kluber as the New York Yankees started with seven straight hits for the first time since 1990 and routed the Tampa Bay Rays 10-3 Saturday.
Josh Donaldson homered early and Giancarlo Stanton connected late off a lob pitch as both players returned to the lineup and helped the AL East-leading Yankees move to 4 1/2 games ahead of Tampa Bay. New York also clinched the season head-to-head tiebreaker over the Rays should the teams finish even atop the division.
Judge, leading the majors with 55 home runs, hit three singles in raising his average to .307. He is the first Yankees player to reach base at least three times in seven straight games since Mickey Mantle in June 1957.
Judge also is the seventh Yankee to reach base at least three times in at least seven straight games. Besides Mantle, Babe Ruth did it in 1920, Lou Gehrig achieved it twice in 1936 and 1937, Tommy Henrich did it in 1938 and Joe DiMaggio along with Frank Crosetti achieved the feat in 1939.
“Obviously, every team’s a little bit different in how they attack and pitchers are a little bit different but we’ve seen teams in some cases really pitch around him and stay away from him,” manager Aaron Boone.
“The Rays tend to go after him a little bit more, but take what the game gives you. Mike Schmidt used to always say that to me when I was a kid,” said Boone, whose father, Bob, was a teammate of the Hall of Fame third baseman in Philadelphia.
Judge has reached base in 12 straight games, reaching base multiple times in 11 games. He also reached base at least three times for a major league-leading 41st time.
The Yankees opened a game with seven straight hits — all singles — for the first time since starting a 15-3 win over Baltimore with eight hits in a row on Sept. 25, 1990.
“It was just a collection of really good at-bats,” Boone said.
Judge’s RBI single with two outs in the first chased Kluber (10-8) after 32 pitches. It was the two-time Cy Young Award winner’s shortest career outing.
“Too many mistakes,” Kluber said.
Donaldson came back from the paternity list and hit an RBI single that bounced off the top of the fence in the first. After flipping his bat on the single, Donaldson homered in the second. He had missed four games following the birth of his daughter.
“Being home, being around my family going through that experience is pretty special and just really putting things in perspective and having that joy to come out here and play the game I love to play,” Donaldson said.
Stanton hit his 25th home run, connecting on a 47 mph lob from catcher Christian Bethancourt in the eighth. Stanton had been limited to pinch-hitting appearances in the previous two games since fouling a ball off his left foot in the sixth on Monday.
Stanton declared himself ready to play after texting Boone and snapped a 17-game homerless streak. He reached 25 homers for the ninth time in his career.
“Hey, they all count,” Stanton said of homering off a position player.
Stanton’s homer was his first extra-base hit in 55 at-bats since he homered and won the MVP award in the All-Star Game on July 19. He had missed a month with Achilles tendinitis since then.
New York starter Jameson Taillon (13-4) gave up three runs and six hits in 7 1/3 innings and got his 50th career win.
Judge led off the first with a single as the Yankees broke loose from the start. Rookie Oswaldo Cabrera hit a two-run single and scored on a grounder by Kyle Higashioka on New York’s first out of the game.
Wander Franco hit an RBI single and Harold Ramírez added a two-run single as Tampa Bay lost for the second time in 11 games.
Donaldson hit his 13th homer in the second. He stumbled home in the seventh on a wild pitch by Calvin Faucher.
HICKS’ FOLLOW UP
Struggling LF Aaron Hicks did not play after misplaying two flyballs in the fourth inning on Friday and getting pulled midgame.
Hicks didn’t catch balls hit by Franco and Randy Arozarena that led to run-scoring doubles.
On the Franco hit, the ball dropped out of his glove along the left-field foul line and Hicks initially thought he caught the ball and it was foul before reacting.
Boone said he was planned to have a conversation with Hicks, who struck out twice Friday and is hitting .211.
“You always got to get to that point where things I think are affecting you,” Boone said. “Kind of becoming that target. Hopefully this is something that you get to that point where you get through it and it doesn’t bother you, doesn’t get to you.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rays: LHP Shane McClanahan (left shoulder impingement) may throw a light session Sunday and is on track to return from the injured list when eligible next Thursday.
Yankees: 1B Anthony Rizzo (headaches from epidural injection) could start ramping up activities on Sunday. Rizzo’s could return by the end of the upcoming road trip. … RHP Luis Severino (strained right lat) will make another rehab start Thursday and could rejoin the rotation Sept. 21 against Pittsburgh. … LHP Aroldis Chapman (leg infection) will appear in rehab game for Double-A Somerset Sunday along with RHP Miguel Castro (strained right shoulder), OF Harrison Bader (right foot plantar fasciitis) and LHP Zack Britton (Tommy John surgery). … LHP Scott Effross (strained right shoulder) threw a bullpen session Saturday.
UP NEXT
Tampa Bay RHP Luis Patiño (1-1, 4.34) opposes New York RHP Domingo Germán (2-3, 3.27 ERA) Sunday.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Leadoff man Aaron Judge singled twice during a six-run first inning off Corey Kluber as the New York Yankees started with seven straight hits for the first time since 1990 and routed the Tampa Bay Rays 10-3 Saturday.
Josh Donaldson homered early and Giancarlo Stanton connected late off a lob pitch as both players returned to the lineup and helped the AL East-leading Yankees move to 4 1/2 games ahead of Tampa Bay. New York also clinched the season head-to-head tiebreaker over the Rays should the teams finish even atop the division.
Judge, leading the majors with 55 home runs, hit three singles in raising his average to .307. He is the first Yankees player to reach base at least three times in seven straight games since Mickey Mantle in June 1957.
Judge also is the seventh Yankee to reach base at least three times in at least seven straight games. Besides Mantle, Babe Ruth did it in 1920, Lou Gehrig achieved it twice in 1936 and 1937, Tommy Henrich did it in 1938 and Joe DiMaggio along with Frank Crosetti achieved the feat in 1939.
“Obviously, every team’s a little bit different in how they attack and pitchers are a little bit different but we’ve seen teams in some cases really pitch around him and stay away from him,” manager Aaron Boone.
“The Rays tend to go after him a little bit more, but take what the game gives you. Mike Schmidt used to always say that to me when I was a kid,” said Boone, whose father, Bob, was a teammate of the Hall of Fame third baseman in Philadelphia.
Judge has reached base in 12 straight games, reaching base multiple times in 11 games. He also reached base at least three times for a major league-leading 41st time.
The Yankees opened a game with seven straight hits — all singles — for the first time since starting a 15-3 win over Baltimore with eight hits in a row on Sept. 25, 1990.
“It was just a collection of really good at-bats,” Boone said.
Judge’s RBI single with two outs in the first chased Kluber (10-8) after 32 pitches. It was the two-time Cy Young Award winner’s shortest career outing.
“Too many mistakes,” Kluber said.
Donaldson came back from the paternity list and hit an RBI single that bounced off the top of the fence in the first. After flipping his bat on the single, Donaldson homered in the second. He had missed four games following the birth of his daughter.
“Being home, being around my family going through that experience is pretty special and just really putting things in perspective and having that joy to come out here and play the game I love to play,” Donaldson said.
Stanton hit his 25th home run, connecting on a 47 mph lob from catcher Christian Bethancourt in the eighth. Stanton had been limited to pinch-hitting appearances in the previous two games since fouling a ball off his left foot in the sixth on Monday.
Stanton declared himself ready to play after texting Boone and snapped a 17-game homerless streak. He reached 25 homers for the ninth time in his career.
“Hey, they all count,” Stanton said of homering off a position player.
Stanton’s homer was his first extra-base hit in 55 at-bats since he homered and won the MVP award in the All-Star Game on July 19. He had missed a month with Achilles tendinitis since then.
New York starter Jameson Taillon (13-4) gave up three runs and six hits in 7 1/3 innings and got his 50th career win.
Judge led off the first with a single as the Yankees broke loose from the start. Rookie Oswaldo Cabrera hit a two-run single and scored on a grounder by Kyle Higashioka on New York’s first out of the game.
Wander Franco hit an RBI single and Harold Ramírez added a two-run single as Tampa Bay lost for the second time in 11 games.
Donaldson hit his 13th homer in the second. He stumbled home in the seventh on a wild pitch by Calvin Faucher.
HICKS’ FOLLOW UP
Struggling LF Aaron Hicks did not play after misplaying two flyballs in the fourth inning on Friday and getting pulled midgame.
Hicks didn’t catch balls hit by Franco and Randy Arozarena that led to run-scoring doubles.
On the Franco hit, the ball dropped out of his glove along the left-field foul line and Hicks initially thought he caught the ball and it was foul before reacting.
Boone said he was planned to have a conversation with Hicks, who struck out twice Friday and is hitting .211.
“You always got to get to that point where things I think are affecting you,” Boone said. “Kind of becoming that target. Hopefully this is something that you get to that point where you get through it and it doesn’t bother you, doesn’t get to you.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rays: LHP Shane McClanahan (left shoulder impingement) may throw a light session Sunday and is on track to return from the injured list when eligible next Thursday.
Yankees: 1B Anthony Rizzo (headaches from epidural injection) could start ramping up activities on Sunday. Rizzo’s could return by the end of the upcoming road trip. … RHP Luis Severino (strained right lat) will make another rehab start Thursday and could rejoin the rotation Sept. 21 against Pittsburgh. … LHP Aroldis Chapman (leg infection) will appear in rehab game for Double-A Somerset Sunday along with RHP Miguel Castro (strained right shoulder), OF Harrison Bader (right foot plantar fasciitis) and LHP Zack Britton (Tommy John surgery). … LHP Scott Effross (strained right shoulder) threw a bullpen session Saturday.
UP NEXT
Tampa Bay RHP Luis Patiño (1-1, 4.34) opposes New York RHP Domingo Germán (2-3, 3.27 ERA) Sunday.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa has been cleared by his doctors to participate in Sunday’s pregame ceremony in Oakland as the Athletics retire former pitcher Dave Stewart’s No. 34 jersey.
According to the White Sox, La Russa will travel with the team back to Chicago after the series finale against the A’s, but the 77-year-old Hall of Famer hasn’t been cleared to return to the dugout as an active manager.
La Russa managed Stewart during some of his best years in Oakland, including four straight 20-win seasons from 1987-90 and the team’s World Series championship in 1989.
La Russa missed his 12th straight game Saturday because of an unspecified health issue. Bench coach Miguel Cairo has been running the defending AL Central champions while La Russa is away.
“Just knowing he’s healthy is amazing. It’s always scary when health issues happen, and just glad to have him back,” said Andrew Vaughn, who got four hits as Chicago beat the A’s 10-2 on Saturday.
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Iga Swiatek, the 2022 US Open champion, and Ons Jabeur put on a fantastic show Saturday in New York. In the end, the top-seeded Swiatek won in straight sets. And she looked good doing it.
Throughout the fortnight, Swiatek wore her Asics gear, sporting the Gel Resolution 8 shoes, the Fall Match Graphic Skirt and the Performance Hat.
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Ons Jabeur made her debut final at the US Open wearing Lotto gear.
Using her Wilson Pro Staff 97 v13, Jabeur powered her way through the field in New York.
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NEW YORK -- Back in March, when Ashleigh Barty suddenly retired, Iga Swiatek was thrust into the role of No.1 -- at the age of 20.
She proceeded to win 37 straight matches, including the French Open. And now, after Saturday’s 6-2, 7-6 (5) victory against Ons Jabeur, Swiatek is the US Open champion.
Rather than being intimidated by that No.1 ranking, Swiatek, it turns out, was rather inspired.
“I needed to stay composed and focus on the goals,” Swiatek said during the trophy ceremony. “It’s New York -- it’s so loud, it’s so crazy.
“It’s really mind-blowing for me. I’m really proud I could handle it mentally.”
OMG🤩🗽@usopen pic.twitter.com/3JuX2rRNVO
— Iga Świątek (@iga_swiatek) September 10, 2022
Now 21, the age of a typical college junior, Swiatek has become the consummate closer.
After dropping the opening set of a fourth-round match to Jule Niemeier, she rallied to win, finishing with a 6-0 flourish. She avoided a third set in the quarterfinals against Jessica Pegula winning a tiebreak in stone-cold fashion. Swiatek was down 4-2 in the third set to Aryna Sabalenka -- and won the last four games of their semifinal.
Against Jabeur, it came down to a tight second-set tiebreak -- Swiatek’s first in a final. Down 5-4, Swiatek fired a forehand winner that hit the line. When Jabeur’s forehand sailed long two points later, she had closed another deal.
'An incredible battle': Social media reacts to the US Open final
Before this year, Swiatek was considered a stronger player on clay, but by winning three consecutive WTA 1000s on hardcourts in Doha, Indian Wells and Miami, she changed that narrative. This title in New York underlines her versatility. She’s only the third woman player in the last 15 years to win multiple majors in a season on different surfaces, joining Serena Williams and Justine Henin.
“At the beginning of the season I realized that maybe I can have some good results on WTA events,” Swiatek told reporters. “I also made it to the semifinal of Australian Open. But I wasn’t sure if I was on the level yet to win actually a Grand Slam, especially on US Open where the surface is so fast.
“It’s something that I wasn’t expecting for sure. It’s also like a confirmation for me that sky is the limit. I’m proud, also surprised a little bit, just happy that I was able to do that.”
Swiatek has won her past 10 finals in straight sets. This, after losing her first, at the age of 17 and ranked No.115, to Polona Hercog in Lugano, Switzerland. Going back to ITF events, Swiatek has won 17 of 18 career finals -- that’s as clutch as it gets.
Her final overall record in this year’s four majors: 21-2.
This is Swiatek’s seventh title of the year. She’s the first woman to do that since Serena Williams in 2014 and the first No.1 seed to take the title since Williams eight years ago.
To put this win in context, consider that Swiatek is the youngest woman to win her third major title since Maria Sharapova (20) in 2008. Swiatek is only the ninth player of the Open Era to win her third major before turning 22. The previous eight, her new peers at the top of tennis: Sharapova, Justine Henin, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Martina Hingis, Monica Seles, Stefanie Graf and Chris Evert.
Moreover, the Roland Garros champion is the first player to win two majors in a single season since Angelique Kerber in 2016.
Team Swiatek 🫂@iga_swiatek | #USOpen pic.twitter.com/BRqpZANzc5
— wta (@WTA) September 10, 2022
"I think in general [Swiatek just plays] better at the right moment, at the important points," Jabeur said in press. "She knows exactly what to do. I feel like she improved a lot from last year until the beginning of this year again."
During the first week, Swiatek sometimes seemed out of rhythm, out of sorts. What changed?
“For sure, the weather changed because it wasn’t that hot in the second part of the tournament. It was helpful. Sometimes we have many things actually to think about on court. Sometimes I wasn’t able to do it every time, so I was making a lot of mistakes. Then I finally accepted that I’m going to make those mistakes. It’s not going to be like on slow surface where I can build a rally, then be really calm and just finish.
“It’s going to be more risk and less control, for sure. So I accepted that. That was the thing that actually let me be more free.”
This was the championship final the last Grand Slam event of 2022 deserved, Ons versus Iga -- a worthy battle between the sport’s three-letter, first-name stars.
Swiatek, the game’s best returner, is the only player this year to break opponents’ serves more than half the time. In the first set against Jabeur, she scored three breaks in four games -- she landed all 19 of her returns in play, an absurd 100 percent. At the same time, Swiatek put 90 percent of her first serves in (19-for-20), winning three of her four service games.
Serving the first game of the second set, Swiatek encountered her first deuce game. Her response? She painted the lines from both sides, which brought a furious fist pump. In the second game of the set, Swiatek broke Jabeur for the third straight time.
And then Swiatek’s level dropped and Jabeur broke her in the fifth game to get back on serve. Swiatek, naturally, came back to break Jabeur for the fifth time in seven games.
Back on serve at 4-all, Swiatek faced three break points and somehow held for 5-4 on the way to the tiebreak.
The US Open, near the end of a long year, with all its atmospheric conditions, might be the toughest of the Grand Slam events to win. And in fact, given the impressive list of opponents, this was Swiatek’s statistically toughest road to a major title; the rank of her average opponent was 47, compared to 55 at this year’s Roland Garros and 78 for 2020 Roland Garros.
#1GA 👉 #3GA 😉
— wta (@WTA) September 10, 2022
🇵🇱 @iga_swiatek captures her THIRD career Grand Slam title! 🏆🏆🏆#USOpenpic.twitter.com/Ls29Xd4YRa
On Monday, Swiatek and Jabeur will be ranked, respectively, Nos.1 and No.2. They have scored the most victories on the Hologic WTA Tour over the past two years and are also one-two in the Race to the WTA Finals leaderboard. Both players were appearing in their second major final of the season.
But it was Swiatek who walked away with the bigger trophy and more prolific purse.
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Iga Swiatek capped a superb Grand Slam season by winning the US Open on Saturday, her second major title of 2022. Swiatek held off a second-set comeback by Ons Jabeur before capturing a 6-2, 7-6(5) win on Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Swiatek, 21, becomes the first woman from Poland to win the US Open and the youngest three-time major champion since Maria Sharapova won the 2008 Australian Open at 20. She also is the first No.1 to win the US Open since Serena Williams in 2014.
Jabeur of Tunisia also had an impressive year at the majors, reaching her first two finals at Wimbledon and the US Open. Jabeur is the first African and Arab woman to reach a US Open final.
Social media was abuzz with praise for the two finalists, with Billie Jean King leading the way:
Congratulations to @iga_swiatek, the first Polish woman to win the #USOpen!
— Billie Jean King (@BillieJeanKing) September 10, 2022
And cheers to @Ons_Jabeur on an incredible battle.
The future of women’s tennis burns so brightly. https://t.co/SaJwgn0G9r
Po prostu wymiatasz!! Ogromne gratulacje @iga_swiatek🏆🎾 #USOpen2022 pic.twitter.com/0uR6Hs33HR
— Aga Radwanska (@ARadwanska) September 10, 2022
What a treat to be sharing the stage with two champions- congrats @iga_swiatek and also to @ons_Jabeur - both great role models for aspiring girls and boys everywhere ! Women’s tennis is in good hands!!! pic.twitter.com/6nNHXQCR1b
— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) September 10, 2022
Congratulations @iga_swiatek What an incredible tournament this fortnight and a fantastic 2022! Amazing aggression and athleticism!🏆🇺🇸🎾👏🌟 https://t.co/rgsw4OApkt
— Tracy Austin (@thetracyaustin) September 10, 2022
Congratulations @iga_swiatek 🏆! You and @Ons_Jabeur keep us all working harder and inspiring everyone along the way. 👏🏽
— Madison Keys (@Madison_Keys) September 10, 2022
Congrats @iga_swiatek to be the first Polish woman to win the #USOpen !🏆 You & @Ons_Jabeur are inspiration and great role models 🙌👏🇵🇱🇹🇳❤️ pic.twitter.com/nYMMHSrIf8
— Gabriela Sabatini (@sabatinigabyok) September 11, 2022
Swiatek became the first woman to win two majors in a season since Angelique Kerber in 2016. The US Open final was Swiatek's 57th match-win of the year, the same number as former World No.1 Ashleigh Barty had in 2019.
Wielkie gratulacje @iga_swiatek! 👏🏼
— Hubert Hurkacz (@HubertHurkacz) September 10, 2022
Kolejne niesamowite osiągnięcie 🏆🇵🇱
Wow! A big round of applause for #1GA! 🤩
— Poland.pl (@Poland) September 10, 2022
She once again proved her tennis mastery as she became the first ever 🇵🇱 to win #USOpen!
Seems like there are still many more finals ahead for our brilliant champ! 🎾
Congratulations, @iga_swiatek! 👏🏻#USOpen2022 pic.twitter.com/PrB6xIECoY
👏👏👏🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 https://t.co/71nlcnVR2m
— Marek Magierowski (@mmagierowski) September 10, 2022
— Anne Keothavong (@annekeothavong) September 10, 2022
Incredible match. What a world no1 Iga is 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 https://t.co/mbQ7lYewHU
— Melanie South (@melaniesouth) September 10, 2022
Swiatek lost her first final to Polona Hercog in Lugano in 2019, when she was 17 years old and ranked outside the Top 100. Since that defeat, Swiatek has won 10 finals in a row -- all in straight sets.
With 13+ weeks as @wta world no. 1 and her 3️⃣rd major title, @iga_swiatek is now an automatic inclusion on her first eligible International Tennis Hall of Fame ballot, 5 years after retirement. 🤩👏 https://t.co/dNkP0XxVLT
— Tennis Hall of Fame (@TennisHalloFame) September 10, 2022
Congrats to @iga_swiatek After winning @usopen 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #tenis Polish Legend
— Marcin Gortat🇵🇱 (@MGortat) September 10, 2022
Champion on and off the court! ✨
— Ruslan Malinovskyi 🇺🇦 (@malinovskyi18) September 10, 2022
Gratulacje, @Iga_Swiatek!! 🤍❤️
Your 2022 @usopen women’s singles champion, @iga_swiatek 🏆
— Darren Cahill (@darren_cahill) September 11, 2022
Amazing scenes after the match at the @espn set.
Well done, Iga 👏 pic.twitter.com/eTq9w9yqC3
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NEW YORK - Ons Jabeur's groundbreaking career has been patiently paved by incremental progress. The Tunisian emphasized that after missing out on her first major title on Saturday. Despite a valiant comeback in the second set, Jabeur fell 6-2, 7-6(5) to World No.1 Iga Swiatek in the US Open final.
"I struggled to win my first WTA title," Jabeur told reporters after the loss. "It took me time. So I believe this will take me time. The most important thing is accepting it, learning from the finals that I lost.
"But yeah, definitely I'm not someone that going to give up. I am sure I'm going to be in the final again. I will try my best to win it."
Jabeur will rise to No.2 on Monday, sitting firmly behind Swiatek in both the WTA Rankings and Race to the WTA Finals leaderboard. It's a well-earned position for the 28-year-old, who was playing in her second consecutive major final and has already taken home two titles this season. Only Swiatek (7) has played more finals than Jabeur (6) this season.
"To be honest with you, I have nothing to regret because I did everything possible," she said. "I wish I served a little bit better today. It would have helped me a lot.
"You know Iga, how she plays in finals. It's very tough to beat her. I will keep positive and work on the things that was missing today."
Another incredible run, @Ons_Jabeur 👏
— wta (@WTA) September 10, 2022
Keep inspiring 🫶pic.twitter.com/PQMOfBQIzP
As Jabeur is quick to remind everyone, she's earned her No.2 position without points from three Slams, having skipped the Australian Open, losing in the first round of Roland Garros, and not being awarded points at Wimbledon. With that in mind, Jabeur already has her sights on chasing Swiatek down for the No.1 ranking next season.
"She improved a lot I think her forehand and her serve. She's always been solid in the backhand. That's kind of tough. Physically she's everywhere. She can bring any ball. It's always tough to play someone that puts one more shot in."
"It will always be great to compete against Iga. I was joking when I said I don't like her. I'll forgive her when she gives me a Rolex or something," Jabeur joked.
Having won both their matches last year, Jabeur is now 2-3 against Swiatek. The Pole has stopped her in two big finals this season, first on the clay in Rome and now New York. Both matches involved key moments in the second set that saw Jabeur have chances to potentially take them to a third set. Both times, Swiatek found her best tennis to fend off the Tunisian.
"I think in general [she's] just playing better at the right moment, at the important points," Jabeur said. "She knows exactly what to do. I feel like she improved a lot from last year until the beginning of this year again.
"She's working on a lot of things that get in her way. She's really set the bar very high. It's great for our sport. Just will keep doing my thing and hopefully will catch her."
My favorite ceremony moment was @Ons_Jabeur making sure @iga_swiatek's collar is all sorted out.
— Jimmie48 Photography (@JJlovesTennis) September 10, 2022
She's a gem we don't deserve. pic.twitter.com/NMmm8bolZT
Jabeur is already targeting what would be her debut at the WTA Finals in Fort Worth, Texas. A successful run there could help her begin to close the gap on the World No.1.
"It's like a mini Grand Slam, I call it," Jabeur said. "I always dreamed to play this one. I will maybe show myself there and build more confidence to really get ready for the next season because I feel like I have a lot to show next season.
"Catching up in the ranking, I know she has a lot of defending points. I have none. That's kind of the goal."
The top two players in the world come Monday. pic.twitter.com/AMNIX1udbB
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NEW YORK - Iga Swiatek has lifted a lot of trophies this season. The World No.1 captured her seventh title of the season at the US Open on Saturday after defeating Ons Jabeur 6-2, 7-6(5) in the final.
Close observers of Swiatek's trophy ceremony routine have noticed the 21-year-old's habit of looking inside the trophy while she's on stage, feigning her disappointment each time she came up empty.
From Paris to New York...still looking for the tiramisu 😄 pic.twitter.com/6cOBINQgoO
— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) September 10, 2022
Not this time.
After speaking to reporters at her champion's press conference, Swiatek was told to check the trophy again, which had already played a comical role in her interview as she strained to look around it when speaking to reporters.
To Swiatek's delight, she finally found what she's been looking for: her favorite dessert, tiramisu.
"Oh, my God. Are you kidding me?" Swiatek said. "Wow, who did that?"
The USTA's Managing Director of Corporate Communications, Chris Widmaier explained, "We notice you always check your trophy. This time we wanted you to find something."
Ok...THANK YOU @usta & @usopen 💙 pic.twitter.com/x9X4pQss06
— Daria Abramowicz (@abramowiczd) September 11, 2022
More highlights from Swiatek's final press conference:
On surprising herself:
"At the beginning of the season I realized that maybe I can have some good [hard-court] results on WTA events. I also made it to the semifinal of Australian Open. But I wasn't sure if I was on the level yet to win actually a Grand Slam, especially US Open where the surface is so fast.
"It's something that I wasn't expecting for sure. It's also like a confirmation for me that sky is the limit. I'm proud, also surprised little bit. Just happy that I was able to do that."
Read more: 'An incredible battle': Social media reacts to the US Open final
OMG🤩🗽@usopen pic.twitter.com/3JuX2rRNVO
— Iga Świątek (@iga_swiatek) September 10, 2022
On meeting so many famous people during her fortnight:
"I met so many great people here, like Lindsay Vonn. Seal. I mean, actually after I met Seal, I was like, Even if I'm gonna lose right now I already won this tournament, because I got photo with him.
"Yeah, it was great. It's something that it's only going to happen probably in New York, because it's New York."
Comparing her two major wins this season at Roland Garros and US Open:
"I don't know if it's more than the second win on Roland Garros because I feel like back then the pressure was really on and everybody was kind of expecting me to win.
"Here I managed to go ahead my expectations lower, and also I feel like people were not expecting a lot from me on hard court. So mentally I think Roland Garros was a little bit tougher. But tennis-wise and physically here for sure it was tougher." | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2787954/us-open-champion-swiatek-gets-a-sweet-surprise-during-press-conference | 2022-09-11T06:57:17Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2787954/us-open-champion-swiatek-gets-a-sweet-surprise-during-press-conference | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted rain accompanied by lightning in isolated places in the state till September 14.
Strong winds up to speeds of 40-50 km/h are expected to blow over the central-eastern Arabian Sea.
As a precaution, the weather office has sounded a yellow alert in Ernakulam, Idukki, Palakkad, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kannur and Kasaragod districts on Sunday.
On Saturday, Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasaragod were under yellow alert.
According to IMD, a low-pressure trough that has formed over the central west Bay of Bengal, away from the Andhra-Odisha coast, has been gaining strength, causing the rainfall. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/11/imd-predicts-rain-in-kerala-till-september-fourteen.amp.html | 2022-09-11T07:18:11Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/11/imd-predicts-rain-in-kerala-till-september-fourteen.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted rain accompanied by lightning in isolated places in the state till September 14.
Strong winds up to speeds of 40-50 km/h are expected to blow over the central-eastern Arabian Sea.
As a precaution, the weather office has sounded a yellow alert in Ernakulam, Idukki, Palakkad, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kannur and Kasaragod districts on Sunday.
On Saturday, Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasaragod were under yellow alert.
According to IMD, a low-pressure trough that has formed over the central west Bay of Bengal, away from the Andhra-Odisha coast, has been gaining strength, causing the rainfall. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/11/imd-predicts-rain-in-kerala-till-september-fourteen.html | 2022-09-11T07:18:18Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/11/imd-predicts-rain-in-kerala-till-september-fourteen.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kayamkulam: Police have booked eight persons, including CPM local leaders for creating a ruckus at the Taluk Hospital here, and damaging doors, chairs and hospital equipment.
A goonda gang, which followed an injured man who sought treatment at the Taluk Hospital, had created a ruckus, assaulted the injured man and damaged equipment at the hospital.
Police have charged a case against CPM Townhall A branch secretary Sudheer, Townhall B branch secretary Arun, Chirakkadavam Local Committee member Sajid, and 5 other persons who could be identified. Police identified the culprits after examining CCTV visuals.
The incident happened on Friday at 4 pm. Kallumoodu native Suresh had got injured in a clash between two groups at KPAC junction. Suresh reached Taluk Hospital for treatment. The gang led by CPM local leaders followed him to the hospital and assaulted him. Suresh got into the doctor’s cabin, locked it from inside and escaped through another exit. Meanwhile, the gang damaged the glass panels on the cabin door, chairs and other hospital equipment. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/11/kayamkulam-taluk-hospital-attack-cpm-leaders-accused.amp.html | 2022-09-11T07:18:24Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/11/kayamkulam-taluk-hospital-attack-cpm-leaders-accused.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kayamkulam: Police have booked eight persons, including CPM local leaders for creating a ruckus at the Taluk Hospital here, and damaging doors, chairs and hospital equipment.
A goonda gang, which followed an injured man who sought treatment at the Taluk Hospital, had created a ruckus, assaulted the injured man and damaged equipment at the hospital.
Police have charged a case against CPM Townhall A branch secretary Sudheer, Townhall B branch secretary Arun, Chirakkadavam Local Committee member Sajid, and 5 other persons who could be identified. Police identified the culprits after examining CCTV visuals.
The incident happened on Friday at 4 pm. Kallumoodu native Suresh had got injured in a clash between two groups at KPAC junction. Suresh reached Taluk Hospital for treatment. The gang led by CPM local leaders followed him to the hospital and assaulted him. Suresh got into the doctor’s cabin, locked it from inside and escaped through another exit. Meanwhile, the gang damaged the glass panels on the cabin door, chairs and other hospital equipment. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/11/kayamkulam-taluk-hospital-attack-cpm-leaders-accused.html | 2022-09-11T07:18:30Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/11/kayamkulam-taluk-hospital-attack-cpm-leaders-accused.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
While residents in Chattooga County are beginning the recovery process. One man’s home is still underwater. He lives in the Silver Hill Area, on Jenkins Gap Rd in Summerville, GA.
The homeowner, Zach McGuire bought this home in May of 2020 and never thought he’d be in this position.
“Right now, it just doesn’t look like there’s a light at the end of this tunnel,” McGuire said.
McGuire says when the rain started coming down, he and his family rushed out of the house to find water already at waist-length. Soon after, it covered all the land around his home.
While it’s rained in the area before, its never gotten so high. He said the issue is where the home is located. Rainwater often trickles into the valley where he lives and has no way to drain out.
These pictures were taken outside the home on the 7-th and 9-th. He says his home on Jenkins Rd isn’t showing much improvement.
“It’s very overwhelming,” McGuire said. “I got a pretty good support system around me … friends, family, and they’re all very supportive.”
Shortly after, he called his insurance company for help, but later learned protection from flooding was separate.
While Georgia officials are helping dozens recover from the flooding, GEMA (Georgia Emergency Management Agency), has been in touch with the McGuire’s family.
Local 3 News received this statement:
“GEMA/HS assisted in placing Zack McGuire and his family in contact with local voluntary and community organizations for their immediate needs. The State also supported the local Emergency Management Agency’s efforts to provide drinking and bulk water during the water outage.
GEMA/HS, along with FEMA and other state and local officials, are currently conducting Preliminary Damage Assessments to their home as well as other homes and businesses affected by the September 4 floods in Chattooga County. The damage assessments help determine whether the damage is beyond what the state is capable of handling, and if additional federal assistance is needed.
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The rest of your Saturday evening will feature overcast skies will occasional sprinkles. Temperatures will hold steady in the 70s before gradually falling into the upper-60s overnight. Hit or miss showers will be possible after midnight as moisture surges northward. Rainfall amount will remain on the light side through Sunday morning.
Another round of rain and storms will move across the area on Sunday as a cold front slowly approaches from the north. The afternoon and evening will be the best time frame for storms. Heavy downpours and an occasional boom of thunder will be possible. High temperatures will top out in the lower-80s.
Who is ready for a taste of fall? Well, Monday looks to be your day! Drier and cooler air will settle into the region throughout the day, keeping daytime temperatures locked into the 70s. We will quickly fall into the 50s Monday night, making it the coolest night since late Spring!
The rest of the week will feature plenty of sunshine and temperatures in the mid to upper-80s.
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Nedumbassery: A passenger who fainted mid-flight passed away here during the wee hours of Saturday.
Mini Elsa Antony, 52, who was en route to Kochi from Dubai, lost consciousness during a Flydubai flight. She had passed away by the time the flight landed in Kochi.
Her husband Roy was also travelling in the same flight. Mini was the daughter of Antony from Kochumuriyil House, Vezhambalthottam,Manimala.
The funeral date will be decided later.
"She was taken to a private hospital nearby after the flight landed but was declared dead," police said. Airport sources said she was under treatment for some ailments. Police have not registered any case in this matter as the death was due to natural causes.
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A Michigan retiree is suing a Detroit bank after she says employees refused to cash a check she received from a casino after winning a jackpot.
Lizzie Pugh told CNN she won more than $12,000 on a slot machine at Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, during a church outing earlier this year.
On April 11, 2022, Pugh went to Fifth Third Bank in Livonia, Michigan, to open a savings account and deposit her winnings into a newly created account, according to court documents. Pugh's complaint alleges she was told by three White bank employees at Fifth Third Bank that the check was "fraudulent."
The 71-year-old Detroit public school retiree says she was then forced to confront bank employees who initially refused to give her check back.
According to the complaint, Pugh asked the bank employees to call 911 because she was not leaving without her check. Pugh then spoke with a third bank employee who also said the check was fraudulent and because of that the bank would not allow Pugh to open an account and deposit the check. Eventually the bank employees gave Pugh her check back.
Fifth Third Bank, N.A. and Fifth Third Financial Corporation filed a response this week denying the allegations, including that their employee decided that the check was "fraudulent." They also dispute that any events occurred that would warrant damages or other relief, according to the court filing.
"We are committed to fair and responsible banking and prohibit discrimination of any kind. From our review of the claims, we believe the facts to be different than what is alleged. Our employees are trained to help every customer with their banking needs, and our employees follow procedures to facilitate the opening of any new account," a spokesperson for Fifth Third Bank said in a statement to CNN.
In a statement to CNN, Pugh's attorney Deborah Gordon said, "What happened to Ms. Pugh is yet another example of the hurdles and indignities facing Black Americans as they try to get through the day. It is not only young Black men who are profiled. Fortunately, Michigan has a strong statute prohibiting discrimination in 'public accommodations,' including banks."
Pugh says she was able to cash it at another bank.
"I had this check, and I didn't want it on me now," Pugh told CNN.
"I was so upset; I just took a picture of the bank on my way out because I didn't know the address," she added.
Pugh's niece, Yolanda McGee, told CNN, "She is afraid to go in any bank or any type of business. She had some events in her life from living back in Alabama as a young girl where she's been discriminated against, and you know it's heavy on her heart." McGee says she initially had to convince her aunt to file the lawsuit because her aunt was terrified to do anything.
In its statement, Fifth Third Bank says it stands by its employees, "From our review of the claims, we believe our employees' actions have been misinterpreted. That said, we regret Ms. Pugh has come away feeling mistreated after her interactions at our branch, as our employees' actions were consistent with our process and the dual goals of serving our customers while also preventing potential frauds that can victimize both the bank and our customers."
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Albania blamed the Iranian government Saturday for a cyberattack against computer systems used by Albanian state police — just days after the White House condemned Tehran for a hack that disrupted Albanian government services in July.
The latest hack forced Albanian officials to temporarily take offline its Total Information Management System (TIMS), a system for tracking the data of those entering and leaving Albania, according to a statement from Albania's interior ministry.
The cyberattack was the work of the "same aggressors" that carried out the July hack, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama alleged in a tweet. The hack occurred on Friday, according to the interior ministry, and by early Saturday evening, the ministry said it expected to have all aspects of the TIMS restored soon.
The incident poses a fresh challenge for the Biden administration, which this week vowed to "hold Iran accountable for actions that threaten the security of a US ally" and NATO member following the July cyberattack.
The Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned Iran's spy agency for allegedly carrying out the July hack, which knocked some Albanian government services offline and left the Albanian government scrambling to recover. The White House said US officials were on the ground for weeks helping. Albania severed diplomatic relations with Iran in what may be the first case of hacking prompting a break in ties between countries.
The July hack took place before a conference in Albania due to be attended by members of MEK, an Iranian group that advocates the overthrow of the Iranian government and that Tehran considers a terrorist organization.
"We strongly condemn such malicious cyber activities designed to destabilize and harm the security of an Ally, and disrupt the daily lives of citizens," NATO members in a statement Thursday.
In response, Iran's embassy in Brussels on Friday "rejected the baseless accusations" that Iran was behind the July hack.
A spokesperson for the Iranian Permanent Mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday on the latest hacking incident.
The US government in 2007 helped Albania, an ally in the Bush administration's self-described "war on terrorism," deploy the TIMS hardware and software systems for processing immigration, according to an archived State Department page.
CNN has requested comment from the White House National Security Council.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said a cyberattack could trigger NATO's collective defense clause, requiring all members to defend an attack on another member. But that principle has never been tested in practice, and it's unclear what the threshold for such a collective defense is.
"Unfortunately, I wouldn't be surprised if it were true [that Iran was behind the latest hack]," John Hultquist, vice president of intelligence analysis at security firm Mandiant, which investigated the July hack, told CNN. "States like Iran don't seem to be deterred by diplomatic solutions. It's as if the price of these incidents is ultimately acceptable to them."
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The Justice Department and former President Donald Trump's lawyers proposed two selections each to a federal judge for who should serve as "special master" in the Mar-a-Lago investigation.
District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed judge presiding over the case, earlier this week granted the former President's request to appoint a third-party attorney, known as a special master, to independently review the materials -- including more than 100 classified documents -- that the FBI seized from his Florida residence and resort.
Trump's legal team has argued that the Justice Department can't be trusted to do its own review for potentially privileged materials that should be siloed off from the criminal probe. The Justice Department on Thursday appealed the court-ordered special master review as it argued the order was putting US national security at risk.
Cannon has said she'll decide "exact details and mechanics" of the special master process "expeditiously" after both sides submit their proposals, but it's not clear when the judge will rule or what form that ruling will take.
Here are the four people nominated in the dueling proposals to serve as special master:
Thomas Griffith, DOJ nominee
Thomas Griffith, a retired federal judge and George W. Bush appointee, served on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals from 2005 to 2020. In one of his final major rulings before retiring, he wrote the majority opinion rejecting House Democrats' attempt to subpoena Trump's former White House Counsel Don McGahn. (The decision was later overturned.)
In the years since his retirement, Griffith co-authored a report alongside other prominent conservative lawyers and officials debunking Trump's lies about massive fraud in the 2020 election. And he publicly endorsed President Joe Biden's nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court.
Barbara Jones, DOJ nominee
Barbara Jones, another retired federal judge and a Clinton appointee, is a former federal prosecutor and a retired judge from the Southern District of New York from 1995 to 2012. She brings a lot of special master experience to the table, having recently served in that position for three high-profile criminal investigations with political implications.
She was tapped to serve as a special master to examine materials seized during an FBI raid of Rudy Giuliani's home and office in April 2021. She was also a special master in the Michael Cohen case, to make sure investigators didn't sweep up any documents that were attorney-client privileged. Both Giuliani and Cohen were Trump's lawyers while they were investigated by the Justice Department.
More recently, Jones was the special master who examined materials that the FBI seized from Project Veritas, a right-wing group that often targets Democrats and media organizations with undercover stings. Jones was brought in to review materials for First Amendment and attorney-client considerations.
Paul Huck Jr., Trump nominee
Huck, who has his own law firm, had been a partner at the Jones Day law firm, which represented the Trump campaign in 2016, and a contributor to the conservative legal organization the Federalist Society.
Huck also previously served as the deputy attorney general for Florida and as general counsel to former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist -- who was a Republican at the time but served as a Democratic member of the US House and is the Democratic nominee for governor in Florida. Chris Kise, Trump's current lawyer, also worked for Crist and overlapped with Huck. They worked together at the Florida attorney general's office.
Huck's wife, Barbara Lagoa, was on Trump's short list as a Supreme Court nominee after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died.
Raymond Dearie, Trump nominee
Dearie, a Reagan nominee, has served as a federal judge in New York since 1986. He retired in 2011 and is now a senior judge on the circuit.
Dearie also served a seven-year term on the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISA court. He was one of the judges who approved an FBI and DOJ request to surveil Carter Page, a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, as part of the federal inquiry into whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
The process that federal investigators used to secure the FISA warrants was riddled with errors and overall sloppiness, according to a DOJ inspector general report. Two of the four surveillance warrants granted by the secretive FISA court regarding Page have since been declared invalid -- including one approved by Dearie in June 2017 -- because of omissions and mistakes in the FBI's submissions to the court.
The Trump team's nomination of Dearie is notable because Trump has repeatedly criticized the FISA surveillance and has claimed -- without evidence -- that it was part of a "deep state" conspiracy to undermine his campaign.
This headline has been updated.
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Stephen Miller, a former White House speechwriter and senior adviser under President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed by the Justice Department, a source tells CNN.
The department is seeking information about the Save America PAC, alleged "fake electors," and communications between Miller and a long list of people.
CNN has previously reported that a federal grand jury is examining the Save America leadership PAC, one of former President Donald Trump's main political and fundraising vehicles, in an expansion of the criminal investigation into the events surrounding the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021.
There has been no evidence publicly that Miller has any involvement in the fake electors plot.
Miller's attorney did not immediately respond to a call for comment.
The New York Times was the first to report Miller had been subpoenaed.
According to multiple sources familiar with the subpoenas, which were issued by a grand jury in Washington, DC, the Justice Department is seeking information related to the formation, fundraising and expenditures of Save America, which has amassed more than $100 million in contributions since it was formed in November 2020.
William Russell, a senior adviser to Trump, was the recipient of one of the subpoenas on Wednesday. Brian Jack, a White House political director under Trump, was also subpoenaed this week, according to the Times.
According to one source familiar with the language in the subpoenas, investigators may be looking into whether people associated with the Save America PAC defrauded people out of money using claims they knew to be false about the 2020 election being stolen.
Some of the subpoenas also requested any information that recipients previously turned over to the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot and communications recipients may have had with a broad list of people who worked to overturn the 2020 election results -- including former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing, and Boris Epshteyn, an adviser to Trump's 2020 campaign, among others.
That included communications with a list of people from various states, according to two subpoenas described to CNN.
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Officials are baffled after hundreds of loggerhead sea turtles have become stranded on Texas beaches.
A record-high total of 282 loggerheads have appeared in Texas between April 1 and August 19, according to a news release from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, which is more than double the total strandings in any year from 2012 to 2021.
The reason for the sharp spike isn't clear.
"Annual numbers have increased during this decade," noted Donna J. Shaver, Texas coordinator of the Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network and chief of the Division of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery at the National Park Service's Padre Island National Seashore, in the release.
"This dramatic increase in loggerhead strandings this year is alarming and has STSSN participants on high alert in the Coastal Bend to be ready for the increased influx of incapacitated loggerheads needing immediate rescue and care."
There are five species of sea turtle found in the Gulf of Mexico. Loggerheads are the most abundant species to nest in the United States, although their population has still faced decline, largely due to bycatch from fishing operations. As adults, the sea turtles can be as long as 3.5 feet and weigh as much as 350 pounds, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Over the past decade, an average of 109 loggerhead sea turtles have stranded on Texas beaches each year, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Most of this year's strandings have occurred in Texas's Coastal Bend between the counties of Calhoun and Kleberg. Around two-thirds of the stranded sea turtles are found dead, according to the service. The ones found alive are "underweight and emaciated."
"In the Coastal Bend, around one third of the stranded loggerheads have been found alive and are receiving care at permitted rehabilitation facilities, including the Amos Rehabilitation Keep, Texas State Aquarium, and Texas Sealife Center," said Mary Kay Skoruppa, US Fish and Wildlife Service sea turtle coordinator for Texas, in the statement.
"The affected loggerheads have been found underweight and emaciated. They are receiving diligent care in rehabilitation, and we hope that most will recover and ultimately be released back into the Gulf of Mexico."
Scientists have been able to rule out a few causes of the strandings: They are not due to infectious diseases, biotoxins, or fishery-related captures, the service outlined.
Instead, scientists think the explanation may lie with changes in the sea turtles' habitat and access to prey, according to the statement. Investigators are sampling live and dead sea turtles to identify which factors may be behind the mysterious strandings.
If you see a sea turtle on the beach, you should report the sighting to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and stick around if you can, to help officials find the animal.
"It takes a lot of coordination among trained, authorized individuals to successfully rescue stranded sea turtles," Skoruppa said in the statement. "It is therefore critical that citizens report their sightings immediately, so that rescue efforts can begin quickly."
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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is recommending residents avoid swimming and surfing at multiple ocean beaches because of sewage discharge.
Closure signs have been posted at RAT (Right After Torrance/Redondo) Beach in the southernmost section of Torrance Beach, and that closure will remain in effect until bacterial levels meet health standards, the department said in a release.
The closed beach is about 30 miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles.
The department also issued warnings to swimmers at Santa Monica Pier, Redondo Beach Pier and Mother's Beach in Marina Del Rey due to bacterial levels that exceed health standards. Those areas are still open.
The warning means that "bacteria levels in the beach water may cause illness, and local health officers are recommending to the public to stay out of the water in areas where the signs are visible," according to the State Water Resources Control Board.
The news comes as a prolonged record-setting heat wave continues to swelter the Golden State.
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The Columbus Zoo has welcomed a long-legged, endangered new addition: a baby Masai giraffe.
The unnamed newborn was born to 12-year-old mother Zuri on August 31, according to a news release from the zoo.
"Not only is the calf fiercely cute, but his birth is especially significant as it marks an important achievement for the future of this endangered species," said the zoo.
After a few failed attempts, the baby boy was able to stand up, take a few steps, and nurse shortly after birth, says the zoo.
The day after his birth, zoo staff conducted a wellness exam and confirmed the calf is healthy.
Masai giraffes are listed as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. There are around 35,000 of the subspecies left in Tanzania and Kenya, but their population is on the decline due to illegal hunting and the destruction of their habitat, says the organization.
The baby's parents, Zuri and Enzi, were paired through the Species Survival Plan, a program coordinated by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums to ensure endangered species maintain genetic diversity. The calf's father was euthanized in 2021 due to chronic health issues, says the zoo.
The newborn has been a longtime coming: Giraffes gestate for 15 months, says the zoo.
The "miracle baby" is the 23rd giraffe born at the Columbus Zoo, said the statement.
"We were heartbroken to lose Enzi, and this calf is such an amazing gift to us and to the future of all Masai giraffes," Shannon Borders, curator of the Columbus Zoo's Heart of Africa region, said in the zoo's statement. "This little one is truly our miracle baby, and it warms our hearts that Enzi's legacy continues to live on to have such a positive impact."
The calf's birth is just one part of the zoo's efforts to improve the Masai giraffe population, said the statement.
"From our successful giraffe breeding program, contributions to field conservation projects, and leadership in Animal Health initiatives benefiting giraffes, we are fully committed to making a difference for Masai giraffes and other species that rely on their place in nature," said Columbus Zoo President and CEO Tom Schmid in the statement.
Guests won't be able to see the mother and baby just yet, but the rest of the giraffe herd are still on display, the zoo added.
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Though East Hampton is a solidly middle-class town in Connecticut, dozens of families are applying for free school meals for the first time as they contend with high food costs and tight budgets.
Like their peers in most of the US, East Hampton children soon will no longer automatically receive breakfast and lunch at school without charge as they have for the past two years. That's because Congress in June did not extend the Covid-19 pandemic waivers that had expanded free school meals to all students, regardless of income.
Most of these East Hampton parents, however, will have to pack food for their kids or spend hundreds of dollars in the cafeteria this school year once a short, state-funded extension of the expanded program expires. Nearly all of the new applicants don't qualify for the regular federal program because their incomes are too high, said Jen Bove, director of food and nutrition services for the district, which has 1,900 students.
"If they are applying, they need it," said Bove, noting that the program doesn't take into account debts that families may have accrued if they temporarily lost their jobs during the pandemic. "At a time when free meals have never been needed more in my adulthood, we're taking it away from them."
Turning away struggling families is only one of the issues that school nutrition directors are facing this year. They are also trying to make sure that those who do qualify for free or reduced-price meals submit applications, which parents haven't had to do since the 2019-20 school year thanks to the federal waivers. School officials fear that some parents may not know they have to fill out new paperwork, while others may find it difficult to complete the forms.
Compounding the problem is that some school districts have had to raise their rates for breakfast and lunch this year because they are being hit with skyrocketing food prices, supply chain shortages and higher labor costs.
"Now that kids are returning to school and free meals are not going to be available, it's going to put a tremendous amount of financial pressure on families who are already being squeezed," said Crystal FitzSimons, director of school programs at the Food Research & Action Center. "You're going to have kids showing up in class hungry."
Some federal waivers continue, others don't
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the US in March 2020, Congress approved a slew of waivers that gave districts more flexibility to continue serving meals when schools were closed and children were learning remotely. In addition to being able to provide meals for students to take home, schools received higher federal reimbursement rates and more leeway in what food they could serve amid supply chain disruptions.
The waivers continued even as schools reopened over the past two years, allowing them to offer grab-and-go meals to kids who were quarantining or studying virtually or to serve meals in classrooms instead of the cafeteria.
Around 30 million students were receiving free meals at school, according to the US Department of Agriculture, up from about 20 million children who qualified based on their household income prior to the pandemic.
Everyone being able to eat in the cafeteria at no charge also minimized the stigma felt by some kids who received free school meals, increasing the likelihood that they would actually get breakfast and lunch, school nutrition officials said.
However, Congress only extended some of the flexibilities for the 2022-23 academic year. The USDA is continuing to waive penalties for schools that can't always meet federal nutrition requirements because they can't order or aren't receiving the food that meets the guidelines.
Districts are also receiving extra funds to compensate for higher food and labor costs, though not as much as they had been reimbursed since the pandemic began.
But one of the biggest changes is that low-income families have to once again apply for free or reduced-price meals. While many are automatically certified if they receive food stamps, and in some states, Medicaid, others must still fill out forms to qualify.
A family of three must have an annual gross income of less than roughly $30,000 to be eligible for free meals and about $42,600 for reduced-price meals during this school year.
Notifying parents
School districts are trying to get the word out to parents to apply. Most have put the applications on their online portals, while many also have printed forms that they send home or that parents can pick up.
This year, many school districts are utilizing social media more to inform parents, posting information on Facebook pages and using other social media apps, said Lori Adkins, president of the School Nutrition Association.
Families who qualified in recent years have the first 30 operating days of the school year to renew their eligibility. If they don't, their children will no longer be able to receive meals for free or at a reduced price.
At Tucson Unified School District in Arizona, just over 9,000 students have submitted applications that qualify for free or reduced-price meals so far this year, said Lindsay Aguilar, director of the district's food services department. But more than 1,000 children who had qualified previously will see their eligibility expire on September 16 if they don't reapply. (Nearly two-thirds of schools in Tucson regularly serve free meals to all students because of the schools' high poverty rates.)
Parents are receiving emails, text messages and automated phone calls to encourage them to apply, Aguilar said.
In general, districts nationwide are seeing more applications than prior to the pandemic, said Adkins, who is also the child nutrition consultant for Oakland Schools Intermediate School District in Michigan. But it's too soon to say how many eligible families may fall through the cracks.
"Every household has competing priorities for their finances, so we just don't want school meals to be unavailable or unattainable," she said.
Pressure on families
The waivers' expiration comes at a time when high inflation is putting a strain on family budgets. Grocery prices soared 13.1% over the 12 months through July, which was the largest annual increase since the year ending in March 1979, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
For Dawn Overmyer, spending $80 a month on school lunch for her 5-year-old grandson could force her to be late on other bills. Overmyer and her husband, who both work at a supermarket distribution warehouse, have custody of the boy and his younger brother, who "love to eat," she said.
The Montpelier, Indiana, couple were very disappointed to learn that they made $2,000 a year too much to qualify for their grandson to get free or reduced-price meals at school. They already live paycheck to paycheck, and Overmyer has had to tap into her 401(k) retirement account to make ends meet.
"Me and my husband, we were building for our future," said Overmyer, 54. "Eighty dollars a month means quite a bit of money when it comes to trying to get my finances situated to buy a house so that I don't have to worry about rent payments when I retire."
Breakfast and lunch are still free for the kindergartener and other students for the time being, but the school told Overmyer that it will notify her when she has to start paying. She plans to prepare breakfast for her grandson, but sending him to school with lunch could wind up costing even more money each week since grocery prices have soared.
If kids are not in the free breakfast and lunch program, don't bring food from home and don't have funds in their school meal account, they are still able to eat in the cafeteria, Adkins said. But they are charged, and families must settle the balance later.
About 75% of districts had unpaid meal debt at the end of the 2017-18 school year, according to the latest information available from the School Nutrition Association. The median amount was $3,400, up from $2,000 three years earlier.
Some states are using their own funds to continue making free meals available in schools, FitzSimons said. In California and Maine, students will be able to get breakfast and lunch at no charge on an ongoing basis, while other states, including Massachusetts, Nevada and Vermont, are making them free for this school year.
Connecticut provided $30 million to extend the free program. How long it lasts in East Hampton depends on how many students participate in school meals this year, but Bove expects the money to run out around December.
Higher meal costs
Some school districts have had to raise their meal prices because of higher costs for food, supplies and labor.
In East Hampton, the price of lunch will increase by 50 cents, so students will pay between $3.50 and $4 for hot meals depending on their grade. Breakfast will also be more expensive.
Only six of the 28 school districts in Oakland County raised their prices, Adkins said, with an average increase of 15 to 25 cents.
Breakfast in Tucson's schools now costs 25 cents more and lunch 20 cents more. Those in kindergarten through fifth grade pay $1.50 for breakfast and $2.50 for lunch, while older students pay $1.75 for breakfast and $3 for lunch.
Even if the federal reimbursements continued at the same elevated level as last year, Tucson would have had to raise its meal prices, Aguilar said. Its costs have more than doubled for some items.
A 6-ounce container used daily for side vegetables costs 135% more than the last school year, while salad containers are up 116%. The price of sliced cheddar cheese increased by 57% and whole grain hamburger buns by 50%. Chicken fajitas are 105% more expensive.
Plus, the district is now paying a minimum wage of $15 an hour, up from $13.50 an hour. That has helped reduce the share of vacant positions among the school nutrition staff from 25% last year to a more normal 15%, Aguilar said.
While Aguilar has received some inquiries from parents about the higher charges, she still considers school meals a good deal overall.
"If you think about a lunch meal or breakfast meal, I think our prices are certainly still very reasonable compared to what families are seeing at restaurants or fast-food outlets," she said. "But you know that quarter or 20 cents definitely can add up."
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Though East Hampton is a solidly middle-class town in Connecticut, dozens of families are applying for free school meals for the first time as they contend with high food costs and tight budgets.
Like their peers in most of the US, East Hampton children soon will no longer automatically receive breakfast and lunch at school without charge as they have for the past two years. That's because Congress in June did not extend the Covid-19 pandemic waivers that had expanded free school meals to all students, regardless of income.
Most of these East Hampton parents, however, will have to pack food for their kids or spend hundreds of dollars in the cafeteria this school year once a short, state-funded extension of the expanded program expires. Nearly all of the new applicants don't qualify for the regular federal program because their incomes are too high, said Jen Bove, director of food and nutrition services for the district, which has 1,900 students.
"If they are applying, they need it," said Bove, noting that the program doesn't take into account debts that families may have accrued if they temporarily lost their jobs during the pandemic. "At a time when free meals have never been needed more in my adulthood, we're taking it away from them."
Turning away struggling families is only one of the issues that school nutrition directors are facing this year. They are also trying to make sure that those who do qualify for free or reduced-price meals submit applications, which parents haven't had to do since the 2019-20 school year thanks to the federal waivers. School officials fear that some parents may not know they have to fill out new paperwork, while others may find it difficult to complete the forms.
Compounding the problem is that some school districts have had to raise their rates for breakfast and lunch this year because they are being hit with skyrocketing food prices, supply chain shortages and higher labor costs.
"Now that kids are returning to school and free meals are not going to be available, it's going to put a tremendous amount of financial pressure on families who are already being squeezed," said Crystal FitzSimons, director of school programs at the Food Research & Action Center. "You're going to have kids showing up in class hungry."
Some federal waivers continue, others don't
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the US in March 2020, Congress approved a slew of waivers that gave districts more flexibility to continue serving meals when schools were closed and children were learning remotely. In addition to being able to provide meals for students to take home, schools received higher federal reimbursement rates and more leeway in what food they could serve amid supply chain disruptions.
The waivers continued even as schools reopened over the past two years, allowing them to offer grab-and-go meals to kids who were quarantining or studying virtually or to serve meals in classrooms instead of the cafeteria.
Around 30 million students were receiving free meals at school, according to the US Department of Agriculture, up from about 20 million children who qualified based on their household income prior to the pandemic.
Everyone being able to eat in the cafeteria at no charge also minimized the stigma felt by some kids who received free school meals, increasing the likelihood that they would actually get breakfast and lunch, school nutrition officials said.
However, Congress only extended some of the flexibilities for the 2022-23 academic year. The USDA is continuing to waive penalties for schools that can't always meet federal nutrition requirements because they can't order or aren't receiving the food that meets the guidelines.
Districts are also receiving extra funds to compensate for higher food and labor costs, though not as much as they had been reimbursed since the pandemic began.
But one of the biggest changes is that low-income families have to once again apply for free or reduced-price meals. While many are automatically certified if they receive food stamps, and in some states, Medicaid, others must still fill out forms to qualify.
A family of three must have an annual gross income of less than roughly $30,000 to be eligible for free meals and about $42,600 for reduced-price meals during this school year.
Notifying parents
School districts are trying to get the word out to parents to apply. Most have put the applications on their online portals, while many also have printed forms that they send home or that parents can pick up.
This year, many school districts are utilizing social media more to inform parents, posting information on Facebook pages and using other social media apps, said Lori Adkins, president of the School Nutrition Association.
Families who qualified in recent years have the first 30 operating days of the school year to renew their eligibility. If they don't, their children will no longer be able to receive meals for free or at a reduced price.
At Tucson Unified School District in Arizona, just over 9,000 students have submitted applications that qualify for free or reduced-price meals so far this year, said Lindsay Aguilar, director of the district's food services department. But more than 1,000 children who had qualified previously will see their eligibility expire on September 16 if they don't reapply. (Nearly two-thirds of schools in Tucson regularly serve free meals to all students because of the schools' high poverty rates.)
Parents are receiving emails, text messages and automated phone calls to encourage them to apply, Aguilar said.
In general, districts nationwide are seeing more applications than prior to the pandemic, said Adkins, who is also the child nutrition consultant for Oakland Schools Intermediate School District in Michigan. But it's too soon to say how many eligible families may fall through the cracks.
"Every household has competing priorities for their finances, so we just don't want school meals to be unavailable or unattainable," she said.
Pressure on families
The waivers' expiration comes at a time when high inflation is putting a strain on family budgets. Grocery prices soared 13.1% over the 12 months through July, which was the largest annual increase since the year ending in March 1979, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
For Dawn Overmyer, spending $80 a month on school lunch for her 5-year-old grandson could force her to be late on other bills. Overmyer and her husband, who both work at a supermarket distribution warehouse, have custody of the boy and his younger brother, who "love to eat," she said.
The Montpelier, Indiana, couple were very disappointed to learn that they made $2,000 a year too much to qualify for their grandson to get free or reduced-price meals at school. They already live paycheck to paycheck, and Overmyer has had to tap into her 401(k) retirement account to make ends meet.
"Me and my husband, we were building for our future," said Overmyer, 54. "Eighty dollars a month means quite a bit of money when it comes to trying to get my finances situated to buy a house so that I don't have to worry about rent payments when I retire."
Breakfast and lunch are still free for the kindergartener and other students for the time being, but the school told Overmyer that it will notify her when she has to start paying. She plans to prepare breakfast for her grandson, but sending him to school with lunch could wind up costing even more money each week since grocery prices have soared.
If kids are not in the free breakfast and lunch program, don't bring food from home and don't have funds in their school meal account, they are still able to eat in the cafeteria, Adkins said. But they are charged, and families must settle the balance later.
About 75% of districts had unpaid meal debt at the end of the 2017-18 school year, according to the latest information available from the School Nutrition Association. The median amount was $3,400, up from $2,000 three years earlier.
Some states are using their own funds to continue making free meals available in schools, FitzSimons said. In California and Maine, students will be able to get breakfast and lunch at no charge on an ongoing basis, while other states, including Massachusetts, Nevada and Vermont, are making them free for this school year.
Connecticut provided $30 million to extend the free program. How long it lasts in East Hampton depends on how many students participate in school meals this year, but Bove expects the money to run out around December.
Higher meal costs
Some school districts have had to raise their meal prices because of higher costs for food, supplies and labor.
In East Hampton, the price of lunch will increase by 50 cents, so students will pay between $3.50 and $4 for hot meals depending on their grade. Breakfast will also be more expensive.
Only six of the 28 school districts in Oakland County raised their prices, Adkins said, with an average increase of 15 to 25 cents.
Breakfast in Tucson's schools now costs 25 cents more and lunch 20 cents more. Those in kindergarten through fifth grade pay $1.50 for breakfast and $2.50 for lunch, while older students pay $1.75 for breakfast and $3 for lunch.
Even if the federal reimbursements continued at the same elevated level as last year, Tucson would have had to raise its meal prices, Aguilar said. Its costs have more than doubled for some items.
A 6-ounce container used daily for side vegetables costs 135% more than the last school year, while salad containers are up 116%. The price of sliced cheddar cheese increased by 57% and whole grain hamburger buns by 50%. Chicken fajitas are 105% more expensive.
Plus, the district is now paying a minimum wage of $15 an hour, up from $13.50 an hour. That has helped reduce the share of vacant positions among the school nutrition staff from 25% last year to a more normal 15%, Aguilar said.
While Aguilar has received some inquiries from parents about the higher charges, she still considers school meals a good deal overall.
"If you think about a lunch meal or breakfast meal, I think our prices are certainly still very reasonable compared to what families are seeing at restaurants or fast-food outlets," she said. "But you know that quarter or 20 cents definitely can add up."
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New York City officials say the water at a Manhattan public housing complex has been cleared for drinking after a lab which had claimed there were high levels of arsenic later said those results were incorrect and issued a retraction.
Last week, Fabien Levy, press secretary to New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Twitter officials had initiated water testing in August at the Jacob Riis public housing after the city's Housing Authority received reports of "cloudy water." Preliminary results showed arsenic levels that were higher than federal standards and the city advised residents not to drink or cook until there was "more conclusive information," Levy said last week.
On Friday, a week since that announcement, Levy said that the lab which had conducted those initial tests, Environmental Monitoring and Technologies, issued a "full retraction" of those results and called them "incorrect."
"Worse yet, the company has now admitted to being the ones that introduced arsenic into the samples, leading to the false results," Levy's statement said. The lab released results of a retest and found the samples were negative for arsenic, Levy added.
"We have now tested more than 140 points — both at the source and at the point of delivery — and we can confidently say the water at Riis Houses is and has been free of any discernable amount of arsenic since the initial tests were initiated in August," the statement added.
The city now intends to pursue "all available legal options" on behalf of the development's residents, Levy added.
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander said on Twitter that even if the arsenic test was a false positive, tenants in the development "deserve independent verification & compensation," and highlighted their "fundamentally broken trust & anger."
In a news release attached to the city's statement, the lab said it became aware of the situation on Wednesday and "immediately began an internal investigation into the original results" that had found higher levels of arsenic. The company said that the original testing method for the water samples reported in August included a test for silver, which required procedures that introduced "trace levels or arsenic." The new tests, conducted this week, did not include those procedures, avoiding "all potential contamination," the lab said, and retracted its previous arsenic results.
CNN has reached out to the company for further comment.
On Saturday, Adams, the mayor, said the city's health and mental hygiene department reviewed the final results and found the water was "well within EPA drinking water quality standards."
The mayor added that he stopped by the development and drank the water himself.
"While having the basic need of drinking water is welcome news, it is the bare minimum. It is unacceptable that Environmental Monitoring and Technologies introduced arsenic into the samples that not only led to the false results, but to fear, turmoil, and massive inconvenience," the mayor said in a Saturday statement.
In addition to pursuing legal options, the city will also look for ways to reimburse residents for related costs over the past week, the mayor said. City agencies will also no longer test water through the specific lab, he said.
The city had also said earlier this week it received results suggesting "the possible presence of the Legionella bacteria," but officials suspected those results were inaccurate as well.
"As public health experts have noted, Legionnaires Disease cannot be contracted by drinking water," the mayor said in his statement. "Additionally, we are actively reviewing our Legionella surveillance data, and have found no reported or confirmed cases of Legionnaires Disease at Riis Houses over the last 12 months."
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The considerable cost of attending one of the top American universities will now be covered for students whose parents earn less than $100,000 per year.
New Jersey's Princeton University announced this week that families in that income bracket will no longer pay any cost to attend the prestigious school, whose famous alumni include former First Lady Michelle Obama, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Queen Noor of Jordan and Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.
Previously, only families earning less than $65,000 received full financial aid coverage. Over 25% of the university's undergraduates, or 1,500 students, will now receive financial aid that covers the full cost of tuition and room and board, according to a Thursday news release.
At full price, a year of tuition at the Ivy League university costs almost $80,000, says Princeton's website.
The university's financial aid expansion will also help out families earning up to $150,000, according to the news release.
"One of Princeton's defining values is our commitment to ensure that talented students from all backgrounds can not only afford a Princeton education but can flourish on our campus and in the world beyond it," Christopher L. Eisgruber, Princeton's president said in the release.
"These improvements to our aid packages, made possible by the sustained generosity of our alumni and friends, will enhance the experiences of students during their time at Princeton and their choices and impact after they graduate."
Students starting at Princeton in fall 2023 will be the first to benefit from the new and improved financial aid scheme.
The university also eliminated the annual student contribution -- a portion of tuition and expenses that students were expected to pay with their own savings and on-campus work -- and increased the financial aid allowance for personal expenses and books.
Jill Dolan, dean of the college at Princeton, framed the expansion as part of Princeton's larger commitment to diversity.
In a statement, Dolan pointed specifically to "socioeconomic diversity," arguing that the move to expand financial aid will allow "more students from across backgrounds to learn from one another's life experiences."
"We're pleased to take these next steps to extend the reach and effect of Princeton's financial aid."
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Public defenders for the man accused of driving an SUV through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Friday requested his plea of not guilty by reason of insanity be withdrawn, court records show.
This comes after attorneys in June changed Darrell Brooks' plea, saying mental health issues played a role in the crash that killed six people and injured more than 60 others last November.
"Court finds the Defendant freely, voluntarily, and intelligently withdraws the NGI (not guilty by reason of insanity) plea," the docket for the case said.
CNN has attempted to reach the Wisconsin State Public Defenders office for comment.
Friday's jury status hearing was adjourned, and a new jury status hearing was scheduled for September 19 at 2 p.m., records show.
Brooks, 40, originally pleaded not guilty to several counts of first-degree intentional homicide.
Court documents show Brooks had been released from jail less than two weeks when he allegedly plowed into the parade on November 21.
The suspect drove in a zig-zag pattern toward the parade, according to the police complaint.
"It was like the SUV was trying to avoid vehicles, not people. There was no attempt made by the vehicle to stop, much less slow down," one witness told an officer, according to the complaint.
Four women and a man was killed, along with an 8-year-old boy.
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If you like to turn a lewk, regularly pwn your friends in "Fortnite" or find the ordinary dictionary janky, you're in luck: Merriam-Webster has added a slew of slang to its dictionary, lending new legitimacy to those informal terms and more.
It typically takes years for such slang to find its way into reference books, but Merriam-Webster says it's just following the internet's lead: We're adopting this language online quickly, so the dictionary is learning to quickly make room for these oft-used, made-up words. Read on for definitions and uses so you can level up your conversational skills.
New slang, old dictionary
Some of the words Merriam-Webster is adding have, admittedly, been in common use for over a decade: Zooey Deschanel arguably popularized the word "adorkable" when she began starring on the sitcom "New Girl," and "janky" has, at least in this author's experience, been a favorite descriptor among middle and high school students for years now.
And then there's "MacGyver," now a verb for fixing something with whatever you have on hand like the titular hero of the 1985 TV series. Better late than never, right, Merriam-Webster?
Here are a few of the new slang terms you'll find in Merriam-Webster (with definitions courtesy of the dictionary) plus examples, so you'll never have to worry whether you're being cringe for misusing these words.
Yeet (n.): An expression of surprise, approval or excited enthusiasm.
Ex.: I get to eat the cookies you baked before we eat dinner? YEET!
Yeet (v.) To throw something with force and without regard for the thing being thrown.
Ex.: I yeeted the quiz that I failed right into the trash can.
Janky (adj.): of very poor quality, or not functioning properly.
Ex.: My janky computer likes to restart itself in the middle of Zoom meetings.
Sus (adj.): short for suspicious or suspect.
Ex.: Isn't it a bit sus that you never see Peter Parker and Spider-Man in the same location?
Lewk (n.): a fashionable look distinctive to the wearer and noticeable and memorable to others.
Ex.: "RuPaul's Drag Race UK" contestant Bimini Bon Boulash turned a lewk on the runway when she emerged in a Vivienne Westwood-inspired bridal corset.
Pwn (v.): to dominate and defeat. Pronounced like "own."
Ex.: I totally pwned my opponents in an epic game of tag yesterday.
Baller (adj.): excellent, exciting or extraordinary, especially in a way that is suggestive of a lavish lifestyle.
Ex.: It was very baller of you to share your lottery winnings with us.
Other odds and ends
These words aren't considered slang, but they also weren't accepted into the Merriam-Webster dictionary until now. You may not use these words in daily life -- how often are you talking about baby hedgehogs? -- but they're important enough to belong in a reference book, at least online.
Hoglet (n.): a baby hedgehog.
Ex.: I need to snuggle that hoglet while its quills are not yet pointy.
Pumpkin spice (n.): A blend of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves and allspice commonly used in pumpkin pie.
Ex.: Pumpkin spice lattes were once a harbinger of autumn, but now they appear on menus starting in late summer.
LARP (n.): short for live action roleplay, a game in which players reenact fantasy scenarios.
Ex.: I twisted my ankle during a LARP session in which I pantomimed riding into battle on a horse.
Level up (v.): Advancing or improving oneself as if you're playing a game.
Ex.: In her song "Level Up," Ciara implores us all to drop the haters holding us back and instead explore our full potential.
Metaverse (n.): A virtual environment in which users can access multiple virtual realities.
Ex.: In the metaverse, all I do is buy digital clothes for my avatar and talk to other users.
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Cadiz (Spain): Four second-half goals steered Barcelona to a routine 4-0 victory at Cadiz on Saturday as they moved top of LaLiga.
Frenkie de Jong and Robert Lewandowski put the Catalans in front before a lengthy stop in play due to an illness in the crowd saw the players go off the field before returning to play out the final 10 minutes.
Lewandowski teed up Ansu Fati for the third in the 86th before Ousmane Dembele rounded off the scoring in stoppage time.
Barca have 13 points from five games, one ahead of second-placed Real Madrid who host Mallorca on Sunday.
Their coach Xavi Hernandez named a much-changed side from Barca's 5-1 midweek Champions League win over Viktoria Plzen and, one Raphina shot that hit the post aside, they rarely troubled the hosts in a dull first period.
"It's a good win at a difficult place to come. It keeps us up there at the top of the league," he said.
"Whoever plays, there's no drop off, we're in a good place and I'm happy with the result. The main thing was getting the first goal. We were patient but we just lacked that final ball, but in general I'm happy with what I saw.
"We're going to be making changes in the side throughout the season as we need to control minutes, there'll be suspensions and injuries too."
Barcelona did not have to wait long following halftime to make the breakthrough as De Jong fired into an open goal after Cadiz keeper Jeremias Ledesma parried a Gavi cross into the Dutch midfielder's path in the 55th minute.
Lewandowski, who came on as a substitute after the goal, continued his fine start to life in Spain with Barca's second 25 minutes from time to put the visitors in command.
As the game reached its conclusion there was a half-hour stoppage to treat the ill fan before play could resume, with Fati and Dembele putting the gloss on the scoreline. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/09/11/laliga-barcelona-go-top-with-big-win.amp.html | 2022-09-11T07:26:02Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/09/11/laliga-barcelona-go-top-with-big-win.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As Frances Tiafoe met with Michelle Obama in a side room beneath Arthur Ashe Stadium after midnight Saturday morning, Carlos Alcaraz lingered on the court, with the remaining fans singing “Ole, Ole, Ole.’’
Earlier, Tiafoe had the majority of the crowd on his side during their monumental 4:19 U.S. Open men’s semifinal, which featured the former First Lady watching from the crowd.
Alcaraz, the 19-year-old Spanish star, didn’t get to meet Obama, but he beat his American foe, Tiafoe, in a thrilling five-set match to reach his first Grand Slam final. He will take on Norwegian baseline machine Casper Ruud on Sunday afternoon in the men’s final.
With his speed and acrobatic game, Alcaraz is a showstopper who first announced himself at the 2021 Open, when he rumbled into the quarterfinals. He has been a marathon man at the Open this year, having won three straight five-setters — each one a crowd-pleaser.
Alcaraz is still a teenager, but despite surviving three straight long victories, he’s human and doesn’t possess alien powers. During the 2021 Open, he actually retired in the second set against Felix Auger-Aliassime with a leg injury.
“I feel great right now,’’ Alcaraz said after the semifinal win. “I mean, a little bit tired. But, yeah, I feel good, I feel great. Right now I’m just so, so happy. I thought about a young man like 10 years ago dreaming for this moment.’’
How Alcaraz responds physically to 15 sets of grinding tennis over four days will determine whether he wins his first major and vaults to No. 1 in the world.
Ruud, who made the French Open final, which he lost to Rafael Nadal, also would vault to No. 1 with a win Sunday. It’s only the 10th time the Open has featured two first-timers in the men’s final.
Tiafoe gave the supreme scouting report for Alcaraz. The 6-foot-1 Spaniard is being touted as a future superstar capable of mounting double-digit Grand Slam titles with his defense, court coverage, mental toughness and flair.
“It’s going to be very tough to play him,’’ Tiafoe said after the five-set classic semifinal. “He’s one of the best players in the world. He’s so young. He hits the ball so hard. I never played a guy who moves as well as him, honestly.
“I’ve seen him get a lot of balls, but I was hitting some drop volleys. He’s getting there. How he’s able to extend points [is] incredible. He’s a hell of a player. He’s going to be a problem for a very long time. For him to be so young, being so poised in big moments, I take my hat off.’’
Alcaraz, seeded third, should have the crowd on his side Sunday with his entertaining game and hype as “The Next Nadal.’’
In contrast, No. 5 Ruud is a stoic baseliner from a skiing mecca, but he wields a big topspin forehand and a promising future.
Ruud is just 23 and is the first Norwegian to advance past the fourth round of the Open. Alcaraz has beaten Ruud in their two meetings — in Miami and Spain — without losing a set.
“I would say that 70 percent, it was for Frances,’’ Alcaraz said of the Flushing throng Friday night. “But I just hear the 30 percent remaining. It was crazy.’’
Ruud said he is just happy not to have to face Nadal in this final. But he may have a younger facsimile.
“Carlos and Frances are both very electric players, play with a lot of joy and can bring up unbelievable rallies and points,’’ Ruud said hours before the Tiafoe-Alcaraz match ended. “So I have to be prepared for everything.’’
Everything, indeed. Alcaraz made one get against Tiafoe the likes of which hasn’t been seen in years.
Alcaraz was near the net after retrieving a drop shot and out of position. Tiafoe whaled the ball down the right sideline — a seemingly clear winner. But Alcaraz’s anticipation and speed allowed him to race to the shot near the baseline. He lunged his backhand out and returned the ball on the fly. The degree of difficulty was off the charts.
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After a back and forth battle the Kansas Jayhawks get an overtime win 55-42 over West Virgina to move to 2-0 on the season and 1-0 in Big 12 play.
West Virginia started off the game with a strong drive on offense. The Mountaineers wasted no time getting on the board first
After only three plays junior quarterback JT Daniels connected with redshirt-junior wide receiver Sam James for a 59 yard touchdown catch, giving West Virginia a 7-0 lead two minutes into the first quarter.
The first drive of the game for the Jayhawks was less eventful. Kansas, after only one first down, punted the ball back to the Mountaineers.
West Virginia used the defensive momentum to drive down the field. After three different first down conversions they handed the ball off to freshman tight end CJ Donaldson who took it in for a one yard rushing touchdown.
The Mountaineers after the touchdown held a 14-0 lead heading into the second quarter. Daniels finished the quarter 8-8 on passing attempts for 86 yards and one touchdown.
Despite trailing 14-0 at the end of the first quarter Kansas had the ball in Mountaineers territory to start the second quarter.
On the first play of the second quarter junior quarterback Jalon Daniels threw a 10 yard touchdown pass to senior tight end Mason Fairchild, making the score 14-7 West Virginia.
The Mountaineers responded immediately when redshirt-junior Bryce Ford-Weaton broke a screen pass 67 yards for touchdown and giving the Mountaineers a 21-7 lead.
Kansas responded with a tough nose drive converting three third downs on their way to another touchdown. Sophomore running back Devin Neal bobbled a direct snap then ran the ball in for a six yard touchdown, making the score 21-14 Mountaineers.
Ford-Weaton immediately responded for the Mountaineers catching a five yard touchdown pass for his second of the game and making the score 28-14 Mountaineers.
As the second quarter wound to an end the Jayhawks put together another response drive to the West Virginia Offense. Junior wide receiver Luke Grimm caught a seven yard touchdown pass to make the score 28-21 Mountaineers at the end of the first half.
Kansas’ Daniels finished the half 12-18 passing for 127 yards and two touchdowns.
Kansas started the second half with the ball trailing by seven. The Jayhawks marched down the field with the help of a massive 40 yard completion to redshirt sophomore Quentin Skinner. Red-shirt sophomore Daniel Hishaw jr then punched in a three yard touchdown run to tie the game at 28-28 in the third quarter.
The Kansas defense held West Virginia to a stop and brought the Kansas offense back on the field.
Kansas was forced to punt, but sophmore wide receiver Reese Smith muffed the punt giving the ball back to the Jayhawks. Neal then ran the ball in from two yards out giving the Jayhawks a 35-28 lead at the end of the third quarter.
West Virginia put a stop to Kansas’ scoring with a 27 yard field goal from red-shirt senior kicker Casey Legg making the score 35-31 to start rhe fourth quarter.
Kansas quickly added to their lead with a 30 yard touchdown run from Hishaw to put Kansas back up 42-31 in the fourth quarter.
The Mountaineers attempted to claw back into the game with a 28 yard field goal from Legg to make the score 42-34 Jayhawks.
Following a big defensive stand the Mountaineers marched down the field capping it off with a one yard touchdown run from Donaldson. The Mountaineers then tied the game with a two point conversion pass to Ford-Weaton forcing overtime.
Kansas had the ball first to start overtime and immediately took the lead with a touchdown catch from Skinner making the score 49-42 Kansas.
With a chance to win the game in overtime sophomore cornerback Cobee Bryant picked off Daniels and took it to the house giving Kansas a 55-42 win in an overtime thriller.
Kansas will be back in action next Saturday as they travel to Houston to take on the Cougars, first kick is set for 3:00pm. | https://www.kansan.com/sports/kansas-defeats-west-virginia-to-move-to-2-0-on-the-season/article_b6b9263e-3174-11ed-b319-e7576866e059.html | 2022-09-11T07:29:14Z | kansan.com | control | https://www.kansan.com/sports/kansas-defeats-west-virginia-to-move-to-2-0-on-the-season/article_b6b9263e-3174-11ed-b319-e7576866e059.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thousands of tributes have poured in for Her Majesty The Queen since the news broke out about her sad death on Thursday (September 8). King Charles III made his first address to the nation yesterday evening (September 9) with a loving tribute to his "mama".
Yesterday (September 10) Prince William released his own incredibly-moving tribute to his much-loved Grandmother. Having now taken on the role of Prince of Wales, William attended the proclamation of his father as King Charles III at St James's Palace.
Prince William's tribute read: "On Thursday, the world lost an extraordinary leader, whose commitment to the country, the Realms and the Commonwealth was absolute. So much will be said in the days ahead about the meaning of her historic reign.
READ MORE: King Charles confirms day of Queen's funeral will be a bank holiday
He continued: "I, however, have lost a grandmother. And while I will grieve her loss, I also feel incredibly grateful. I have had the benefit of The Queen's wisdom and reassurance into my fifth decade.
"My wife has had twenty years of her guidance and support. My three children have got to spend holidays with her and create memories that will last their whole lives.
"She was by my side at my happiest moments. And she was by my side during the saddest days of my life."
The Prince of Wales continued: "I knew this day would come, but it will be some time before the reality of life without Grannie will truly feel real.
"I thank her for the kindness she showed my family and me. And I thank her on behalf of my generation for providing an example of service and dignity in public life that was from a different age, but always relevant to us all.
"My grandmother famously said that grief was the price we pay for love. All of the sadness we will feel in the coming weeks will be testament to the love we felt for our extraordinary Queen.
"I will honour her memory by supporting my father, The King, in every way I can."
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Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 2 Pushed Back To January 2023
During Star Wars Celebration in May, Lucasfilm announced that Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 2 would premiere this fall. However, plans have clearly been changed. At D23 Expo, the word came down that The Bad Batch season 2 has been pushed back to early next year. The new season premiere date is January 4, 2023 on Disney+.
Lucasfilm didn’t offer an explanation for the delay, but it’s not the only Star Wars show to get pushed back. The Mandalorian season 3 was also previously slated to premiere in February 2023. However, the new Mandalorian trailer from D23 doesn’t have February listed for the premiere. Instead, it simply says the show will stream in 2023. Presumably this was done so The Bad Batch season 2 won’t overlap with The Mandalorian‘s first new episodes since 2020.
The Bad Batch is a direct spinoff from Star Wars: The Clone Wars. During the final season of Clone Wars, viewers were introduced to Clone Force 99: Hunter, Wrecker, Crosshair, and Tech. Their genetic mutations made them formidable in battle, and they were undefeated during the Clone Wars. In their initial storyline, Clone Force 99 helped rescue another clone named Echo, who subsequently joined the team.
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In the first episodes of The Bad Batch, Clone Force 99 initially tried to work under the Empire. However, the Empire’s distrust of clones and the team’s distaste for the Empire’s tactics led them to break away. Only one member, Crosshair, sided with the Empire. Subsequently, Crosshair’s clone brothers rescued their only sister, Omega, and became mercenaries for hire while living on the run.
Dee Bradley Baker headlines the series as the voices for every member of Clone Force 99, as well as almost every other clone on the show. Michelle Ang co-stars as Omega, with Rhea Perlman recurring as the voice of Cid.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch will have 16 episodes in its second season.
How do you feel about the new season of The Bad Batch getting pushed back to January 2023? Let us know in the comment section below!
Recommended Reading: Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Clone Wars Vol. 1
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Teen shoots 2 suspects in attempted home invasion, sheriff says
CHANNELVIEW, Texas (Gray News) - Two men suspected in an attempted home invasion are dead after a teenager inside the house opened fire on them, according to the sheriff’s office.
The incident happened around 10:40 a.m. Friday. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office says three male suspects, armed and wearing masks, attempted to force entry into a home in Channelview, Texas. A woman, a 12-year-old boy and two 17-year-old boys were inside.
One of the 17-year-old boys got a shotgun and fired it at the suspects, killing two of them, according to deputies. The third suspect fled the scene in a dark-colored, four-door sedan.
The Harris County District Attorney’s Office recommended the case be presented to a grand jury.
The investigation is ongoing.
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ETHEREUM TECHNICAL ANALYSIS and TRADE IDEA for 11 Sept, 2022
- This piece presents a technical analysis of the 11th of September's trading of ethereum against the US dollar
- We have a channel that is also a bull flag on the daily time frame. The video's green arrows point to the lower frequency band, while the red arrows indicate the higher frequency band
- Cryptocurrencies have followed the stock market's upward trend and are showing signs of recovery. Even if only temporary, it's still valuable enough to trade
- Since we are no longer in the early stages of the recent rally, coming up with a viable trade idea has proven to be quite challenging. But, I'm still going to give you one. The goal is to get filled at a lower price and then make a Long trade with a leverage of 2:1
- Many automated trading systems and human traders set stop losses near the daily 20 EMA. Institutions want to stop out Longs there, and we will try to fill our order there
- The entry price is $1636.42. With a stop loss set at $1457 and a take profit target of $1995, this trade has a risk-to-reward ratio of 2-to-1
- Bitcoin traders can also follow this technical analysis and find a similar trade, especially when ETH is leading the market, currently
- Ethereum trading is a high-risk endeavor, so do your own research. Have a great week, and please visit ForexLive.com technical analysis for more insightful analysis | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/ethereum-technical-analysis-trade-idea-20220911/ | 2022-09-11T08:09:44Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/ethereum-technical-analysis-trade-idea-20220911/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As the movie industry continues to grow by leaps and bounds, welcoming new acts who seem to be giving established actors a run for their money and positioning themselves for fat endorsements that usually accompany fame, famous actor, Yul Edochie, has warned that the industry may have become a dumping ground for ill-trained actors.
Edochie appears to be bothered about how the movie industry keeps welcoming half-baked actors and actresses who lack the requisite knowledge of the job and could barely speak good English but have suddenly become famous because they joined the industry.
Sharing his thoughts on what he described as a disturbing situation that should be curbed, Edochie, son of veteran actor, Pete Edochie, in a post shared via his personal Instagram account said he was worried for the future of the movie industry if it continues to parade those who should not have any business with acting in the first place.
He said it is sad that everybody wants to be an actor and actress these days, adding that he sees how people rush into the industry, especially those who know nothing about the craft becoming actors and actresses.
This, according to the actor is worrisome just as he hits out at those who have turned the movie industry to “dumping ground for block heads”, adding that there is no more respect for the profession anymore.
“Everybody wants to be an actor. All the dummies I see around want to be seen as actors and actresses. Nollywood has now turned dumping ground for blockheads. Even people who can’t speak good English have become actors and actresses in (English) movies unlike before.
“This industry has suffered a lot. It has lost its respect; somehow everything dies in this country; why?” he asked.
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Ositelu elected president World Council of Churches in Africa
PRIMATE of the Church of the Lord Worldwide, Most Reverend (Dr) Rufus Ositelu, has been elected as the President of the African region of the World Council of Churches.
Ositelu’s election was announced during the just-concluded 11th WCC General Assembly on Monday, in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The 11th General Assembly with the theme, “Christ Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity,” commenced August 31 and ended September 8.
Following his election, Ositelu becomes the first African from an African-instituted church, and the first head of a church in Nigeria to occupy the position of the WCC President from Africa since it was formed in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1948.
Ositelu, who is the incumbent and fourth primate of The Church of the Lord Worldwide, is a former vice president of the Christian Council of Nigeria.
He has also served as a member of WCC’s central committee, which is the highest decision-making body of the council.
Presidents were also elected for other regions such as Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America, Europe, North America, Pacific, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental orthodox.
The WCC is a fellowship of 352 churches in over 120 countries and representing over 560 million Christians all over the world. It was formed to work for the reunion of all Christian churches and to establish a united Christian presence in the world.
Tribune Church News gathered that the Church of the Lord was one of the first African-instituted churches to be admitted as a member of WCC about six decades ago.
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FRISCO, Texas — Jesús Ferreira scored two goals in the closing minutes to tie the Dallas season scoring record with 18 goals Saturday night in a 2-1 win over LAFC, which played a man short after Ryan Hollingshead was ejected in the 13th minute.
Ferreira tied the game with a goal in the 78th minute, combining with Paul Arriola to catch LA asleep after a free kick was awarded not far from the corner flag. While LA players walked toward the penalty area, Arriola poked the restart to Ferriera, who was at the edge of the 6-yard box and slotted past goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau and inside the far post from an acute angle.
Ferreira scored on a free kick from just to the side of the penalty area in the 81st. He tied the team scoring record set by Jason Kreis in 1998 and matched by Kenny Cooper in 2008.
Dallas (13-8-10) has 49 points through 31 games, a 16-point improvement from last year’s finish. It is the largest one-year improvement in team history, topping a 14-point increase from 1998 to ’99.
Hollingshead with sent off after pulling down a sprinting Arriola just outside the penalty area. Referee Jon Freemon originally showed a yellow card but changed it to red after a video review.
Christian Arango scored for the fourth straight game for LAFC (19-8-3). He flicked the ball over goalkeeper Maarten Paes off Giorgio Chiellini’s first Major League Soccer assist in the fourth minute of first-half stoppage time, his 16th goal this season.
Dallas outshot LAFC 13-9, with eight shots on goal to two for LAFC.
Paes saved one of the two shots. Crepeau saved six of the eight shots.
LAFC will visit Minnesota United on Tuesday.
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Piscataway football earns first win since 2019 with team effort
FRANKLIN (Somerset) – Saturday, Dan Higgins had a message for the Piscataway players after their 19-14 win over Franklin – don’t celebrate.
Simply, the veteran coach noted he told them, “I said, ‘Look, I’m not surprised we won and we’re going to get more of these. You guys keep working hard and we can get better.’”
Still, it was Piscataway’s first win since 2019. Repeat: first victory in two years, since beating Elizabeth 22-7 on Oct. 25, 2019. Area fans know the backstory by now – the Piscataway administration cancelled the 2020 falls sports slate for COVID-safety measures.
In 2021, the Chiefs returned to the gridiron with a mostly inexperienced and young roster that didn’t have a typical offseason weight training and conditioning program. Piscataway finished 0-8, but kept showing up with heart and moxie.
That spirit continued into this season, even with last week’s opening 17-0 loss to Hunterdon Central.
Saturday, Franklin went ahead 14-13 at the end of the third quarter. Piscataway re-took the lead with 2:51 left and the defense came up big down the stretch against its former Thanksgiving Day rival.
So yeah, you know what, go ahead and give a high-five or two – just remember to keep putting in the sweat.
“It feels amazing,” senior Antonio Rivera said. “It feels great. All the hard work we put in over the summer. The winter. Honestly, we got this win because of discipline. It’s all about discipline. If you’re not disciplined, you won’t win at all. You stay disciplined, you stay humble for the whole game, 48 minutes, you’re going to come out successful.”
What does it mean
The competitive game was a good sign for both teams. Piscataway now has confidence as they close the regular season with six-straight Middlesex County teams that resembles the old GMC Red Division.
Franklin also had big moments and seem to be on the cusp under first-year head coach Blair Wilson, who played on the 1989 and 1990 championship teams that were honored at halftime as new members of the school’s Hall of Fame. The 1994 and 1996 teams were also honored. The Warriors (0-2) played their second-straight tough game. Last, they lost 28-14 to undefeated Montgomery.
Game balls
Talking about taking ownership, Rivera dropped a possible interception in the first quarter. He went back to the Chiefs sideline and promptly did 25 pushups as self-policing punishment.
“Got to get those in,” he said. “Had to. You drop something like that, you got to drop down and do pushups.”
It was his last pushups of the game. In fact, Rivera produced two highlight-film plays. Late in the first quarter, Franklin’s punt went off of his hands and it rolled back toward the goal line. Rivera said, “I hit the ball. I had to run back, go get it and I just had to make something out of it.”
Rivera, who goes by the nickname of “Speedy”, took off down the left sideline and scored the 94-yard TD. Kenley Cadril’s extra point cut the deficit to 8-7 with 1:18 left in the quarter.
With Franklin leading 14-13, Rivera again broke down the left sideline for a 52-yard touchdown that gave Piscataway the 19-14 lead. He credited Ossie Hilliard and Malik Wilson for key blocks and creating the holes.
Key Plays
Both teams had several big defensive plays. Piscataway’s first touchdown was set up when Malachi Wyatt recovered a fumble at Franklin’s 25-yard line. Jalen Matthews finished the drive with a 9-yard touchdown four seconds into the second quarter to give Piscataway a 13-8 lead. He also had a game-high 116 rushing yards on 21 carries.
Late in the first half, Jahai Johnson came up with an interception on Piscataway’s 5-yard line. In the final minute of the game, Johnson had another pick that sealed the win.
Franklin scored on its opening drive to take an 8-0 lead via Daniel Okafor’s 57-yard scamper. Quarterback Samuele Mattia ran in the 2-point conversion. The Warriors also scored with 14 seconds left in the third quarter to take the 14-13 lead on Quasim Ashford’s 2-yard run. The 6-foot-1, 210-pound senior set up the score with a 27-yard run on the right side. Another key play on the drive was a 29-yard pass from Mattia to James Hair-Sawyer.
In the second quarter, Piscataway’s Aleks Sitkowski completed an 11-yard pass to Horace Thompson to set up a first-and-goal from the Franklin 4-yard line. On third down, Makail Muhammad had the first hit on the running back.
On fourth-and-goal from the 3, Muhammad stopped Sitkowski on the goal line as Franklin had the huge stand.
Later in the quarter, Franklin’s Cameren Anderson intercepted a pass in the end zone off a tip to stop the Chiefs’ drive. In the third quarter, Franklin’s Corey Charles prevented a touchdown by knocking the ball away from the Piscataway receiver in the end zone.
They said it
Dan Higgins on getting the win, “Almost relief because I’m not surprised with us getting the W, but it just seemed like anxiety to get it because the kids wanted it so bad. Worked for it so hard. You can almost see it with the balls dropping, things of those nature. Those kids never miss it, but sometimes you try too hard. It’s almost where we’re at. So I’m hoping that this takes that pressure off. We could relax and play football because we got some good players out there that can make some plays. … I think the most important thing is now they know what the feeling is like. Now they know they can do some things.”
Franklin coach Blair Wilson on getting the program back to its glory days and the team’s progress, “We have to learn to win. It’s all about remodeling this program. It’s going to take us some time. We’re going to have some tough losses along the way, but every week we’re getting closer and closer to breaking through. I have to learn how to win and the kids have to learn how to win. So it’s a process. It’s not going to happen overnight, but we’re in games. Every week we’re in the game. So eventually we’re going to win and we’re going to put them together and start stacking some Ws. … The kids bought in a long time ago.”
What’s next
Piscataway hosts Monroe on Friday, while Franklin travels to New Brunswick. | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/11/big-central-conference-nj-football-piscataway-football-earns-win/65474074007/ | 2022-09-11T08:31:10Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/11/big-central-conference-nj-football-piscataway-football-earns-win/65474074007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News is now underway in earnest.
Some of the key players have recently been deposed or are scheduled to be in the coming weeks. Sean Hannity. Tucker Carlson. Lou Dobbs. Maria Bartiromo. Even Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch could find themselves answering questions. The case is slated for trial early next year.
On the most basic level the lawsuit is about the outrageous claims of fraud that emerged in the aftermath of the 2020 election, when Donald Trump’s irresponsible, stop-at-nothing flunkies and lackeys were peddling false stories in an effort to undermine the outcome of the vote.
Among the most outlandish of their assertions were those about Dominion. According to Trump’s supporters, the company was a front for the left-wing government in Venezuela, and its election machines were rigged to flip votes from Trump to Joe Biden to guarantee a Democratic victory. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband supposedly had a financial stake in this nefarious company.
The president’s lawyers, Rudolph W. Giuliani and Sidney Powell, appeared on Fox News over and over and repeated unsubstantiated, far-fetched claims about the company.
I can certainly understand why so many people are hoping for a quick, decisive judgment in the Delaware courts against Fox. Truth and the democratic process came under attack, and rational, fact-based Americans would like to see perpetrators held to account. (A similar defamation case is pending against Fox brought by another voting technology company, Smartmatic.)
“Fox Corporation and its crown jewel, Fox News, together one of the most powerful media empires in the United States, gave life to a manufactured story line about election fraud that cast a then-little-known voting machine company called Dominion, as a villain,” said the company in its complaint against the broadcaster. “… Fox gave those fictions a prominence they otherwise never would have achieved.
“The truth matters,” said Dominion. “Lies have consequences.”
I get that argument. But as a journalist, I also have to worry about another aspect of the case: its ramifications for my industry and for the future of news coverage.
Even if what was said about Dominion was utter hogwash, is Fox really to blame? Was the conservative news network a conspirator along with Giuliani and Powell in deceiving the public? Or was it simply covering a newsworthy story?
As Fox rightly notes, journalists in a free society have to be allowed to cover important news events and debates. If senior White House aides and presidential confidantes are asserting — even wrongly — that the election was rigged, that’s news.
Fox argues that it didn’t invent the allegations about Dominion. It merely did its journalistic job.
“The news media has the right in a democracy to inform citizens by reporting and commenting on a president’s allegations challenging the security of our elections,” said Fox in its defense. “…There are two sides to every story. The press must remain free to cover both sides, or there will be a free press no more.”
So is Dominion or Fox right?
Under the law, Dominion must meet a high bar to win the case, proving either that Fox knew what it was airing was false or that it behaved with reckless disregard for the truth. Whether it will meet that bar, I’m not expert enough to say.
But I can say this as a journalist about news coverage.
Fox is right that news organizations have to be free to report what Trump associates like Giuliani and Powell are saying. But along with the right to cover the news comes a responsibility to do so fairly, honestly and clearly.
Covering the story fairly requires adherence to certain long-established journalistic principles: even-handedness, open-mindedness and skepticism. Fox is entitled to its politics, but it had an obligation to separate the facts from the unproved allegations — what was known from what was merely suspected. Even its opinion journalists should have highlighted Dominion’s denials, and those of voting experts, more assiduously.
Unfortunately, even-handedness is a bit out of fashion lately. It’s one of the casualties of partisan or ideologically driven news gathering.
Dominion has offered a number of examples of Fox’s hosts stating more than they actually knew — and seeming to take sides with Giuliani and Powell.
When Jeanine Pirro said Dominion was an organized criminal enterprise started in Venezuela with Cuban money, she acknowledged that she was restating allegations she’d heard from the president’s lawyers. But when Bartiromo said on the air, “I understand Nancy Pelosi has an interest in this company,” she included no such qualification.
And Bartiromo continued to allege fraud claims about Dominion “even though she had been specifically notified that independent fact-checkers, government officials and election security experts debunked those lies,” according to the lawsuit.
Fox hosts occasionally noted Dominion’s denials. Some, to their credit, were more skeptical than others. Fox insists everything it did is protected by the 1st Amendment and that Dominion is “cherry-picking” evidence against it. It notes that it invited Dominion to appear on the network to dispute the allegations.
But I still believe, as I said last year when writing about Smartmatic’s lawsuit, that some of Fox’s hosts behaved more like credulous partisans than careful news gatherers.
As a journalist, I believe the country needs robust legal protections to ensure the news media aren’t punished for doing their jobs.
But with great power comes — well, we all know what it comes with. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/column-fox-news-has-great-power-did-it-use-it-responsibly-after-the-2020-election/article_bed8ed6a-2f1f-11ed-a867-9bfe2d2aa585.html | 2022-09-11T08:36:16Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/column-fox-news-has-great-power-did-it-use-it-responsibly-after-the-2020-election/article_bed8ed6a-2f1f-11ed-a867-9bfe2d2aa585.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Aug. 28, a spectator at a volleyball game at Brigham Young University yelled the N-word multiple times at Rachel Richardson, a player from Duke University. There was no intervention by school officials until after the game. And while this may seem like an isolated incident, racist taunts like these are a routine experience for Black Americans, and silence from non-Black bystanders is the harmful norm.
The first time I was called the N-word to my face, it was by a white male patient who was angry because I would not discharge him from the hospital. It happened when I was on rounds as the doctor on call, in front of a crowd of white staff. Some of them were supervisors, who had been vocal seconds before about various hospital protocols to the angry patient, but all of them became silent after the N-word. Suddenly, the authoritative staff members had nothing to say. No one asked me if I was OK. No one told the patient that racism was unacceptable.
And the sad reality is that I hadn’t expected them to. My experience mirrored that of so many of my Black colleagues around the country, who had been targeted by racist threats while their non-Black colleagues said and did nothing.
As a medical student and now psychiatry resident in mental hospital settings, I’ve cared for and defended countless Black patients, many of them children, who have been tormented by white patients they share common spaces with, called the N-word multiple times as white staff watch without intervening. In my experience, the only staff who have responded with urgency in these situations, spoken up to protect Black children and explicitly stated to white children that racism would not be tolerated, were Black and brown staff.
But there is nothing special or unique about hospitals — my Black child patients tell me that they are frequently called the N-word by white classmates at school and, again, often with no intervention from predominantly white teachers and administrators.
Self-proclaimed allies sometimes tell me that they don’t take a stand against racism because it is so subtle and difficult for them to identify. While this may be true in some cases, this explanation does not hold in the case of the racist language that uses the N-word — it can’t get more blatant than that.
Black youth suicide rates are on the rise, increasing faster than any other racial or ethnic group in America. Racism can and does contribute to depressive symptoms, and sometimes, is the trigger for depression itself. Yet Black youth are not only forced to contend with racist individuals, they must coexist in racist institutions that do not respond adequately when racism occurs. And that needs to change.
Legal action against hate speech is difficult to enforce. But in the meantime, hate speech protocols can be enforced across institutions. When instigators use hate speech, a coordinated and united response should be triggered, in which the aggressor is removed from the vicinity as soon as possible, with further accountability to follow. In the case of a sports game, like the one at Brigham Young, this is highly feasible — the spectator should have been kicked out of the venue immediately.
In a hospital, it is also possible to separate racist patients and restrict them to certain areas. If a racist incident involves children, the parents of the targeted child as well as the aggressor should be contacted, just as they would for other severe incidents. Racist incidents are detrimental not just because of the act of hatred itself, but because of the silence and lack of support from non-Black bystanders and institutions at large.
The N-word is not just an offensive word — it represents the traumatic history and current reality of the violent racism that Black Americans endure. What happened at Brigham Young was another failure to protect Black people and take an adequate stand against racism. Let’s not let it happen again. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/commentary-what-happened-at-brigham-young-university-isn-t-unique/article_a9d31eee-2f20-11ed-9b78-379921c8d228.html | 2022-09-11T08:36:28Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/commentary-what-happened-at-brigham-young-university-isn-t-unique/article_a9d31eee-2f20-11ed-9b78-379921c8d228.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It increasingly appears to be the case that some MAGA Republicans desire to replace American democracy with autocracy.
President Joe Biden’s “Soul of America” speech forcefully called them out. Those individuals notwithstanding, around the rest of the MAGA world and in many other Republican circles, reactions to Biden’s speech have been predictably angry. These responses hinder if not shut down the serious bipartisan discussion about the future of democracy Biden was inviting Americans to join.
While some political commentators hoped Biden would approach the rising crisis in a less assertive way, he did take great pains to differentiate Republicans in general from the extremist MAGA crowd. Still, mainstream Republicans claim they heard Biden indict all Republicans.
They know Biden wasn’t targeting establishment Republicans, and their umbrage is mostly fake. They made a calculated but dangerous political decision: By expressing faux disdain about Biden’s speech, these Republicans believe they can maintain their standing with their MAGA base even though, in private, most of them reject autocracy while recognizing the dangers of the anti-democratic forces Biden decried.
These Republicans’ outrage was partisan in nature and, in terms of protecting democracy, unhelpful.
Meanwhile, the reaction of many MAGA members, who consider themselves loyal, patriotic, Christian Americans, is mainly psychological and identity-based. Likely, it is a function of the dissonance they experience when their perceptions of themselves clash with former President Donald Trump’s disloyal, undemocratic and un-Christian behavior and with their own efforts to defend him. Biden revealed this contradiction in his speech, thus evoking moral outrage.
MAGA followers rationalize away the dissonance when they selectively expose themselves to only self-confirming information, indignantly impugn sources of information such as the Biden administration or anyone who doesn’t adore Trump, convince themselves that democracy no longer serves their interests and so alternative anti-democratic measures must be taken, or that Trump’s failings are not on a par with the threats posed by Democrats.
These rationalizations are easier than challenging core MAGA beliefs, which would be required in any objective evaluation of Trump and MAGA beliefs about him. An objective assessment such as this, and of the sort Biden has touted, risks the possibility that MAGA supporters will come to see themselves as acting in ways that threaten democracy, therefore threatening their self-identity, intensifying dissonance and triggering the rationalizations.
The terrible irony is that these rationalizations, which protect the MAGA identity, only perpetuate some of the very hostile behaviors Biden denounced and threaten to undermine the political order MAGA supporters claim to be upholding. For example, at the Jan. 6 insurrection, many MAGA members rationalized their violence against democratically elected officials and the Capitol Police there to protect them by claiming MAGA violence was patriotic.
At a more recent MAGA rally in Pennsylvania after Biden’s speech, participants taunted the president with cruel and hate-filled vitriol. Over time, such behavior has done untold harm to our democracy — in the first case, by engaging in political violence and in the second, by coarsening the way in which shared problems are democratically resolved.
More generally, MAGA followers claim to have had their feelings hurt by what they deem is Biden’s harsh and critical assessment of the violent, vicious and polarizing behaviors in which they were and have been so eagerly engaged.
While most Americans reasonably wonder how supposedly peaceable, democratic and Christian fellow Americans can behave this way, the rationalizations of MAGA followers protect them from the dissonance such hypocrisy normally causes.
What can be done to alter these irrational belief systems? It is unlikely any public speech delivered by Biden or other political leaders will change the core beliefs of MAGA members. For some, even a public confession by Trump would probably be rationalized: “The deep state forced him to admit to things he did not do” or “The things he did, he did for us.”
Moreover, given the complex intermingling of belief systems and self-identity, changing core beliefs so they are more in accord with what most other reasonable Americans believe about Trump can be achieved only through a long-term process of cognitive restructuring.
Since MAGA members are likely to see such cognitive therapy and all other interventions as threats to their core beliefs and to their personal identities, expecting these individuals to change is mostly wishful thinking. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/commentary-why-the-cognitive-dissonance-of-maga-republicans-is-so-difficult-to-combat/article_553bd44a-2f1e-11ed-9f07-8f57bf181ece.html | 2022-09-11T08:36:34Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/commentary-why-the-cognitive-dissonance-of-maga-republicans-is-so-difficult-to-combat/article_553bd44a-2f1e-11ed-9f07-8f57bf181ece.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
School is back in session. That means waking up excessively early, having late-night practices and homework sessions, and getting up the next day to do it all over again.
I don’t know about you, but I personally am not a morning person. I need a little caffeine to help me get ready and prepare myself for the day ahead.
Every morning I make a coffee that was inspired by Starbucks’ Iced Chocolate Almondmilk Shaken Espresso, my all-time favorite Starbucks drink. To make this delicious coffee cheaply and at home, you only need four ingredients: vanilla blonde roast or cold brew coffee, original or sweetened almond milk, chocolate malt powder and ice.
To start, you fill a 16- or 20-ounce cup with ice to the very top. You then pour in two tablespoons of the chocolate malt powder and ¾ cup of vanilla blonde roast espresso. I personally recommend using Ovaltine’s chocolate malt powder and the Starbucks brand refrigerated vanilla blonde roast or cold brew.
Next, put on the lid on and shake the mixture for about 10 seconds. After that, top it off with almond milk and you are done.
This recipe takes me roughly about two minutes to make, which makes for the perfect drink to whip up quickly when I am running late to school or work.
• Lexi Barbee is a senior at West Valley High School. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/unleashed/columnists/boost-your-morning-energy-with-this-starbucks-inspired-coffee-hack/article_b09e8e94-6e46-5d6a-8de2-455bdd46f005.html | 2022-09-11T08:36:59Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/unleashed/columnists/boost-your-morning-energy-with-this-starbucks-inspired-coffee-hack/article_b09e8e94-6e46-5d6a-8de2-455bdd46f005.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
I’ve been avoiding writing this article since I graduated because I didn’t really want to say goodbye. My time in Unleashed was a fun experience, and one of the few constants in my life through a time of uncertainty.
I joined the Unleashed program my sophomore year, and about seven months later everyone was sent home because of the coronavirus. Around that time, I was no longer in the same sports and I didn’t see my friends as often, but I did have Unleashed. We had a different theme for every online meeting at that time, so they were always interesting.
Through Unleashed I was able to find my voice through writing, a style that really worked for me. I got to share my opinions, interview people, make friends, and I even got to go to a news conference, which most people don’t get the chance to do.
In the spirit of not being entirely mushy for this whole piece, I’m going to take this paragraph to brag about myself. OK, so every year we have an awards ceremony put on by our wonderful editor, David Goehner. Two years in a row (this and last) I won the award for best columnist. How cool is it to be the best at a specific type of article? Very. I’ve won four other awards, too, but I’ll be slightly humble and leave those out.
While I am sad that my “Rory Gilmore” days are over, I’m grateful for my time on Unleashed, and I’d like to wish luck to those who come after me. If I’ve taught you anything, please let it be this: Don’t be afraid to be sarcastic in your writing. Everyone loves a little sarcasm.
• Gracie Miller is a 2022 graduate of Eisenhower High School and has been a member of the Unleashed program for teen journalists for the past three years. She is enrolling this fall at Yakima Valley College. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/unleashed/columnists/senior-farewell-column-everyone-loves-a-little-sarcasm/article_83f98b6e-c39d-5b81-9b72-fd94957a2b6d.html | 2022-09-11T08:37:11Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/unleashed/columnists/senior-farewell-column-everyone-loves-a-little-sarcasm/article_83f98b6e-c39d-5b81-9b72-fd94957a2b6d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tags BLAS/F, MatheWork Library \nMaking your .dll dynamic without DLL Tool\nby Markus\nOne frequent request concerns how a certain .dll or so becomes automatically loadable by Windows after unziped in\n“/dllout -b $/d /l_dll0.zip -l” (where d, obviously for debug – if you put all stuff here it ends just as one exe with debugging infos:\n/l will WEST MICHIGAN — The forecast from FOX 17 Meteorologist Isabella Hulsizer: Rain showers are likely today, starting off scattered in the morning, becoming more widespread by this evening. There's a chance of a few rumbles of thunder, but a bulk of the rain will be general showers. This will mark the 5th weekend in a row with precipitation! Along with showers, we'll also experience a drop to cooler temperatures. A low pressure system will rotate over the state of Michigan between Sunday through Tuesday, providing potentially over an inch of rainfall accumulation. Monday will feel chilly, with temperatures struggling to reach the upper 60s. We'll get a "taste of fall" with this passing system as temperatures will dive into the upper 60s to lower 70s. West Michigan will dry out with sunshine and rebounding temperatures Wednesday through Friday of next week. Stay up to date with the latest forecast by downloading our FOX 17 Weather App!
TODAY: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and a few storms. Highs in the lower 70s. Winds east to northeast 10 to 15 mph.
TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows dip to the upper 50s. Winds from the east at 5 to 10 mph.
MONDAY: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Highs in the upper 60s. Winds from the south turning east at 5 to 10 mph.
TUESDAY: Mostly cloudy with the chance for stray showers. Highs in the lower 70s.
WEDNESDAY: Mostly sunny skies. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
THURSDAY: Mostly sunny skies. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
FRIDAY: Mostly sunny skies. Highs in the upper 70s and lower 80s.
For the latest details on the weather in West Michigan, head to the FOX 17 Weather page. | https://www.fox17online.com/weather/todays-forecast/todays-forecast-widespread-showers-expected-today-remember-your-umbrella | 2022-09-11T08:50:28Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/weather/todays-forecast/todays-forecast-widespread-showers-expected-today-remember-your-umbrella | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
220909-N-NO146-1003 NUR KHAN AIR FORCE BASE (Sept. 9, 2022) United States Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power speaks on the runway of Nur Khan Air Force Base, Sept. 9. U.S. Naval Forces Central Command led an assessment for a delivery of relief items to the Pakistani people after recent unprecedented flooding. (U.S. Navy photo)
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Prosecutor takes part in NCMEC discussion
ZANESVILLE - Muskingum County Prosecutor Ron Welch was recently invited to participate in a panel discussion hosted by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in Alexandria, Virginia. The purpose of this meeting was for experts from various fields to discuss policies involving the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse materials. Conversations focused on educating professionals within the legal system as well as the public on various issues regarding child sexual abuse materials.A primary issue discussed included the misconception that child sexual abuse materials are just images. According to Welch, photos and videos showing children being sexually assaulted are not just images, they are graphic evidence of a child being harmed and violated.“Anyone referring to child sexual abuse materials as just images fails to recognize that the child in that image was actually the victim of sexual abuse,” Welch said.The discussion also involved how to best communicate the severity and frequency of child sexual abuse material. In 2021 alone, NCMEC analyzed more than 29 million reports of child sexual exploitation through reports to its CyberTipline. Those numbers equal nearly one report every second of the day.The group identified several areas where new initiatives and advocacy campaigns could be implemented. NCMEC is dedicated to helping missing and exploited children and plans to continue discussions with experts in every field on how to best protect our most vulnerable victims.“Being invited to a national level discussion on this topic shows the quality of work being done in Muskingum County by child advocates, law enforcement and prosecutors to protect the community from child predators,” Welch said.If you are aware of or suspect someone of possessing child sexual abuse images, please call the CyberTipline at 1-800-843-5678.
Information supplied by the Muskingum County Prosecutor's Office.
Follow the Muskingum County Prosecutor’s Office on Facebook for the most current and complete information | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/local/2022/09/11/prosecutor-takes-part-in-ncmec-discussion/68110146007/ | 2022-09-11T09:00:05Z | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | control | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/local/2022/09/11/prosecutor-takes-part-in-ncmec-discussion/68110146007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HS Roundup: Sheridan boys third at McGowan Invite
PATASKALA — Tate Ruthers took fourth overall in 16:26, leading Sheridan to a third-place finish in the Division II boys race during Saturday's McGowan Invitational at Watkins Memorial.
The Generals tallied 124 points, as John Skinner finished 19th (17:19), Simon Conrad 22nd (17:25), Raine Rodich 31st (17:44) and Isaiah Brown 56th (18:44).
John Glenn came in ninth (237) in the Division II boys race. Kody Clendenning led the Muskies in 25th (17:27), while Caiden Lake placed 39th (18:04), Braylon Buchanan 47th (18:20), Ian Davis 63rd (18:54) and Duran Isaac 89th (19:46).
Sheridan was sixth (172) and John Glenn seventh (186) in the Division II girls race. Addison Smith (21:40.0) and Nora Covey (21:40.1) were 22nd and 23rd, respectively, to pace the Generals. Grace Householder was 33rd (22:22), Jenna Stewart 46th (22:49) and Reese Thieken 56th (23:15) to round out the team scoring.
Brea Wilfong led the Muskie girls in 14th (20:47), while Grace Lawrence finished 26th (22:04), Alivia Lake 42nd (22:44), Waverly Yurco 55th (23:08) and Laurie Baughman 58th (23:28).
Tri-Valley's Taylor Crozier came in 13th (20:03) in the Division I girls race, as the Scotties were 18th (488). Braylie Burkey was 98th (24:06), Elizabeth Mjolhus 128th (27:14), Kelcie Hopper 129th (27:23) and Elle Folden 131st (27:43). to round out the scoring for the Scotties.
Dalton Crozier came in 53rd (17:48) for the Scottie boys in Division I.
Morgan, Crooksville run at Fort Frye: A pair of girls, Morgan's Emily Pinkerton and Crooksville's Hannah Sheets, placed in the top 10 to highlight area harriers at Fort Frye's Jeremy Anderson Invitational.
Pinkerton led the Raiders by finishing sixth in 20:43 and Elizabeth Bankes was 35th (25:16) for the girls, while the boys were paced by Trayton Nelson in 26th in 18:55, Jude Garber 61st (23:12) and Clayton Blackburn 66th (24:00).
Sheets came in 10th (21:17), while Grace Sheets placed 25th (23:31), Samantha Reed 36th (25:24), Angelina Wood 37th (25:25) and Malorie Crooks 50th (27:44) as the Ceramic girls were sixth (110).
The Ceramic boys were seventh (177) as Grayson Houk came in 18th (18:08), Dawson Dyer 64th (23:39), Nathan Dyer 67th (24:07), Preston Hunter 70th (25:04) and Denver Dyer 73rd (25:23) to round out the scoring.
New Lex competes at Zane Trace: Jaylyn Shirkey finished 58th (26:54) to pace the Panther girls, while Moreh Longhenry was 84th (29:57) and Jayden Allen 94th (31:20) in the Zane Trace Invitational.
Zander Miller came in 79th (21:24) and Eli McCord was 104th (22:32) to lead the boys.
Boys Soccer
West Muskingum 2, Liberty Union 1: Steven Crumbaker scored the game-winning goal off a Jacob Agin assist in the second half, sending the Tornadoes to a non-league victory.
Kohen Pollock also scored for West M.
Johnstown 4, Tri-Valley 0: Augustine Escutia scored twice as the Johnnies topped the Scotties, but no other information was available.
Lakewood 6, Philo 1: The Electrics fell on the road to the Lancers, but no other information was available.
Girls Soccer
Zanesville 8, Philo 1: Rylee McCuen and Ayanna Stewart had two goals apiece as the Lady Devils rolled past the Electrics.
Skylynn Cooke, Emma Williams, Tajanay Garland and Reagan Bailey also had goals, while McCuen passed out two assists and Stewart and Cooke had assists.
Reyna Dalton made four stops and Bailey had two saves for the Lady Devils.
Rylee Lawson scored Philo's goal.
Ridgewood 4, New Lexington 1: The Generals scored three times in the second half to earn a win.
Tessa Hubble had the Panthers' lone goal in the first half.
Johnstown 4, Maysville 0: The host Panthers fell to the Johnnies in non-league action. No other information was available.
Volleyball
Nelsonville 25, 25, 25, Crooksville 14, 6, 10: Maelee Collins made eight digs and Taisia Riggs added four digs as the Ceramics (2-8) dropped a non-league contest to the Buckeyes.
Mylee Moorehead went 7-of-7 serving and Brynn Lundell had four digs, two kills and two aces and was 6-of-6 serving for the Ceramics.
Crooksville reserves (4-5) lost 25-22, 29-27, as Kamdyn Hall made 13 digs, Grace Myers had 100% serving (11 of 11), Alexis Eyman went 8 of 8 serving and Mylee Davis was 12 of 13. Davis also had three kills, Erica Flood passed out four assists and Morgan Stickdorn had four digs.
Cambridge 25, 13, 25, 25, Philo 22, 25, 21, 17: Aleigha Busse and Briannah Wolfe had nine kills and Busse made 20 digs, as the Electrics (3-8) fell in four sets to the Bobcats.
Busse also served four aces, Delaney Carmichael passed out 13 assists, Brooklyn Ferrell had eight digs, six kills and two aces, Addyson Khune added 10 assists and four kills, Olivia Winland tallied 18 digs and seven kills with 100% serving and Wolfe had seven digs for Philo.
Ryan Dunning was 11-of-11 serving with 14 kills and 20 digs, Kylie Taylor went 18-of-18 serving with nine kills and 20 digs, Abby Mann was 15-of-16 serving with four aces, five kills and seven digs and Kaitlyn Biddle passed out 33 assists for the Bobcats.
Philo reserves (6-4) won 25-22, 25-12, as Lauren Morehouse had five kills, five digs and 100% serving, Makenna Staker four kills, five digs and 100% serving, Halli Harris six assists, five digs, three aces and 100% serving and Olivia Fink five digs, three aces and 100% serving.
Rosecrans 3, Granville Christian 0: The Bishops swept a match to earn their first win of the season, but no other information was available. | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/09/11/hs-roundup-sheridan-boys-third-at-mcgowan-invite/66798019007/ | 2022-09-11T09:00:11Z | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | control | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/09/11/hs-roundup-sheridan-boys-third-at-mcgowan-invite/66798019007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Muskingum football opens season with a rout
Jordan Garrett threw for a pair of scores and Noah Wellmeier ran in another touchdown, as visiting Muskingum dominated both sides of the ball in a 31-3 win over Ferrum in its season opener on a wet Saturday afternoon.
This is the fourth straight season-opening win for the Muskies under Head Coach Erik Ieuter, while this was the fewest points allowed by the Muskies since a 19-0 shutout of Waynesburg in 2017.
Garrett passed for 181 yards and Wellmeier ran 27 times for 117 yards to lead the Muskies, who were 4-of-4 in the red zone and 9-of-16 on third downs.
Travis Roberson led all receivers with five grabs for 70 yards and two touchdowns, Nick Thomas returned a fumble 65 yards for a touchdown, and senior linebacker Tristan Howell led the Muskie defense with seven stops.
Muskingum held a 361-197 advantage in total yards and will hold its 100th Homecoming on Saturday as Capital visits the new Bullock Health and Wellness Complex (BHWC) at 7 p.m.
Fans can secure their tickets ahead of the game or on-site by purchasing them online at the Fighting Muskies' official ticketing page found at fightingmuskies.com/athletics/tickets or via the HomeTown Ticketing mobile app available through the App Store or Google Play. Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for students, and children 5-and-under are free. | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/sports/local/2022/09/11/muskingum-football-opens-season-with-a-rout/69484781007/ | 2022-09-11T09:00:17Z | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | control | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/sports/local/2022/09/11/muskingum-football-opens-season-with-a-rout/69484781007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It took Auburn almost the entire 60 minutes to outlast visiting San José State, but the Tigers came out victorious with a 24-16 win over the Spartans.
“Good football teams can take a punch in the face and find a way to win,” said Auburn head coach Bryan Harsin.
Auburn’s game Saturday was truly a tale of two halves, as the Tigers actually went into halftime losing.
At half, Auburn found itself down 10-7. The offense looked miserable and the defense was doing all it could to keep the score manageable. A missed field goal by San José State could have made the margin wider, but it sailed wide left.
Both Auburn quarterbacks had thrown interceptions in the first quarter. T.J. Finley threw his third of the season, and Robby Ashford threw his first.
Stat-wise, Auburn’s dual-quarterback room looked abysmal and was not anywhere near the winning offense it was last week against Mercer.
At half, Finley was 6-11 for 69 yards, with his pick, while Ashford was 1-2 for one yard, as well as his interception.
Freshman running back Damari Alston led the rushing charge, with two carries for 38 yards. One of his rushes went for 35 yards.
Running backs Tank Bigsby and Jarquez Hunter combined for 17 yards in the first half.
Hunter scored in the second quarter, good for his fourth of the year. That score was all Auburn had to show against a team that hardly beat Portland State last week.
“We came out slow,” said Auburn offensive lineman Austin Troxell.
Harsin echoed the sentiment of his starting right tackle.
“We did not play well like we wanted to in the first half,” Harsin said. “We found ways to get the job done in the second half.”
While Auburn was in the locker room, Harsin noted his team was not desperate or in-fighting. He said that Finley told the team he would carry them in the second half, and that his team made the proper adjustments to turn the tide.
Finley certainly made the right adjustments, as the junior quarterback finished his night 13-20 for 167 yards and added a rushing score.
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“The biggest thing about this team is that the guys step up,” Finley said. “Guys listen to my voice. I meant everything I said at halftime when I said, ‘Guys, I got you all.’”
Finley played most of the second half, as Ashford looked to be the lesser quarterback of the pair.
Ashford’s night concluded with a final line of 1-3 passing. He did lead the team in rushing, with 64 yards on seven carries.
On defense, Auburn did not allow a second half touchdown, while still allowing over 300 yards to the Spartans total.
The Tigers had three sacks, but for the second straight week, did not record a turnover.
Auburn had a chance late to get that elusive turnover, when a called fumble that the Tigers recovered was reviewed and overturned to be an incomplete pass.
“Those 50-50 balls, we have to find a way to come down with those,” Harsin said.
While Auburn did not play well, the team did survive, on a day that many top teams faltered.
“If you watch the games today, it is always good to win,” Harsin said. “It is hard to win.”
The Tigers next look to Penn State, a team Auburn lost to last season in Happy Valley 28-20.
The Nittany Lions are 2-0 to start their year, with wins over Purdue and Ohio.
Cornerback Keionte Scott, who recovered the almost-fumble, said he and his team are excited about the opportunity to get revenge.
“It is going to be a good game,” Scott said. “We are going to celebrate tonight, then get ready to rock and roll.”
If Auburn defeats Penn State next week, it will be good for Harsin’s longest winning streak at Auburn, at three straight victories. | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/sports/auburn-takes-punch-in-the-face-survives-san-jos-state/article_6c8071a4-318c-11ed-857f-b765638a4221.html | 2022-09-11T09:21:49Z | alexcityoutlook.com | control | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/sports/auburn-takes-punch-in-the-face-survives-san-jos-state/article_6c8071a4-318c-11ed-857f-b765638a4221.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DELMARVA FORECAST
Sunday: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers developing. Highs around 80°F. Some downpours and thunder possible. Chance of rain 60 percent.
Sunday night: Cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then showers and fog after midnight. Lows around 70°F.
Monday: Scattered showers with a few embedded downpours and thunderstorms. Highs in the low to mid 80s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
Tuesday: Lingering showers and thunder early, then slow clearing in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the low to mid 80s.
Thursday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the low to mid 80s.
Friday: Mostly sunny. Highs in upper 70s.
Saturday: Mostly sunny. highs around 80°F.
FORECAST DISCUSSION
Normal high: 81°F. Normal low: 62°F.
*Abnormally high tides may cause minor coastal a tidal river flooding this weekend.*
High pressure has pushed off to our east, and winds have shifted to a southerly direction, which is pushing warm and humid air onto Delmarva this morning.
On Sunday, showers will develop throughout the day and feed on that warm, moist air. Convective signals are weak, but some gusty downpours and rumbles of thunder will be possible as a warm front slides over Delmarva. Clouds and rain will keep temperatures down to about 80°F.
On Sunday night, expect showers and thunder in the evening, then showers become less widespread late as areas of fog develop after midnight, which could make for a difficult morning commute on Monday in some areas.
Showers and embedded thunder will continue on Monday as Delmarva gets positioned in the "warm sector" which is the area between a departing warm front and approaching cold front. This will be characterized by warm and humid conditions that will continue to fuel showers and thunder through Monday night as the cold front approaches with an increased chance of thunder into early Tuesday morning.
Then, Delmarva will settle into a drier regime later in the week with temperatures at or slightly above normal. One long-range model is suggesting a coastal low might develop mid-week that could bring rain late in the week, but other models are not suggesting this, so we're sticking with a dry late week forecast.
Drought conditions continue to expand across Delmarva, with most of the peninsula under abnormally dry conditions, and severe drought now developing in portions of eastern Sussex County, Delaware. The rain forecast for Sunday and Monday will be welcome.
In the tropics, Hurricane "Earl" has become a post-tropical storm and is expected to continue weakening, however high surf from the storm is still possible on our Atlantic shores.
Elsewhere, a tropical wave near the Cape Verde Islands has a low chance of development and is not an immediate threat to the United States at this time. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/showers-and-storms-likely-sunday/article_fc0e3a2e-31ad-11ed-b6bf-939a66cd905f.html | 2022-09-11T09:28:25Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/showers-and-storms-likely-sunday/article_fc0e3a2e-31ad-11ed-b6bf-939a66cd905f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A triathlete from Goudhurst has fully recovered from after suffering a heart attack in January aged just 46. Joel Hodges was an experienced, fit and healthy athlete out on a training run on his bike when the heart attack started out of nowhere.
It would be five months before Joel - who works in insurance - would get on his bike again. His slow and steady recovery began with a four-week rehab course and building up to him taking part in an upcoming charity bike ride.
Joel found it hard to believe he was having a heart attack despite showing some of the classic symptoms. He had a crushing pain in his chest, felt nauseous and had pain going down his left arm.
Read more:The NHS says these are the symptoms of a heart attack
"My first thought was that it it's definitely not a heart attack. You think it's indigestion, or a gulp of cold air with it being January. You start panicking, then you tell yourself to stop being stupid. I actually tried to get back on my bike and fell straight back off.
"It then all clicks. I thought I'm 46, fit as a fiddle and have no underlying conditions - it can't be a heart attack.
"I should've phoned an ambulance but phoned my wife, who was five minutes away. She took one look at me and took me to hospital. I spent the first couple of hours apologising to people. It's only when the doctors tell you that you're having a heart attack that it begins to sink in.
"The cardiologist told me I just had really bad luck. I'd rather they told me there was something I'd have to change," he said.
Father-of-three Joel says he was strangely calm when he was told what was happening to him. Comforted by being in the right place at the right time, he admits things became a bit more real when he could see his heart on the screen during an angiogram.
After four days in hospital, Joel was allowed to go home. In a lucky turn of events, he didn't miss any work due to being on gardening leave after changing companies.
The gardening leave allowed him to concentrate fully on his recovery. He was fit enough to return to work six weeks after the heart attack.
"It really sunk in when I was on my rehab course. Without being rude, the other people there looked like heart attack victims in terms of age and weight. I thought to myself, 'I was doing marathons last year' - and now I'm here standing up and sitting down on a chair.
"It was probably three months after that I felt I could do something more strenuous. It took me five months to get on my bike and a friend took me on the route where it had happened to get the monkey off my back. I'm sure that being fit and healthy beforehand has helped speed up my recovery," he said.
The experience has unsurprisingly made Joel reconsider his priorities and he thinks he is a better dad as a result, admitting he is less grumpy now than before. He also has praise for the people that cared for him.
"The nurses were really brilliant, they told me to stop apologising. They were really supportive, in almost a motherly way. They were everything you'd hope for. The NHS are going through a torrid time, but I couldn't have been better looked after.
"I wanted to do this event as it was a way to help me get fit again and support the British Heart Foundation (BHF). Doing an event like this gives me a target to work towards and a reason to get out there and train.
“It is also an opportunity to raise money for the BHF. I don’t think people realise just how much they have done to improve the way heart attacks are diagnosed or treated.” he said.
Jake Kavaliauskas, Events Executive at the BHF, said: “It is great to hear about the recovery Joel has made and we can’t wait to welcome him to our event.
“We are immensely grateful for his support. Over the last 60 years, the BHF has supported many important scientific breakthroughs. But there is still so much more to do.
“It’s only with the support of people like Joel that our researchers can continue looking for the next discovery that can change and save lives.”
Joel is undertaking a gruelling cycling challenge on Saturday 17 September. He will be entering the British Heart Foundation's London to Brighton Off Road Bike Ride on a route that rises 1,295ft along its 61-mile course.
He will be riding with his brother and two friends. You can find to his JustGiving page here.
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Dymchurch Beach crowned the best beach in Kent by KentLive readers | https://www.kentlive.news/news/health/im-46-fit-fiddle-didnt-7568480 | 2022-09-11T09:32:46Z | kentlive.news | control | https://www.kentlive.news/news/health/im-46-fit-fiddle-didnt-7568480 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Queen of England’s coffin has been seen for the first time as it begins its journey from Balmoral in Scotland to Edinburgh.
Draped with the Royal Standard of Scotland and featuring a wreath of flowers on top, the oak coffin travelled from the royal castle to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, with mourners lining the streets to pay their respects.
Following the Queen’s death on Thursday, it had remained at rest in the Balmoral ballroom to give estate workers there the chance to say goodbye for the last time.
Six of the estate’s gamekeepers lifted the coffin into a hearse at 10am, marking the start of the cortege’s six-hour journey to the Scottish capital.
Nicola Sturgeon, the country’s first minister, said the “poignant” journey would give people in Scotland the chance to come together to “mark our country’s shared loss.”
Public viewing of the coffin will begin at 5pm on Monday but people have been warned of long waits and photography and recording is strictly prohibited.
Princess Anne will fly to London with her mother’s body on Tuesday.
The events in Scotland are the first meticulously planned steps leading to the funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday 19 September – a day that will be a bank holiday. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/queen-of-englands-remains-leave-balmoral-for-final-journey/ | 2022-09-11T09:41:23Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/queen-of-englands-remains-leave-balmoral-for-final-journey/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Someone deserves a good spanking
Years ago, I went to a Tigers game in Detroit and, as always, I parked on a sidestreet in one of the nearby neighborhoods because in my thinking of cheap, paying for parking is a violation of the 11th Commandment.
As I was exiting my car, a young boy of about 12 or 13 approached me and said he would watch my car for a dollar. Again, not paying attention to my surroundings, I thanked him but passed on his offer. I figured I needed every dollar I had to help pay for the $8 beer inside the stadium.
After the game, we arrived at my car and noticed to our shock that the passenger side window was smashed out and the contents of my glove box was strewn across the street. Nothing was missing, but the point was clear: That was the price I paid for refusing to give that kid a dollar.
In a world filled with crime, I have been very lucky. The malicious damage to my car was one of only few incidents where I have been a victim. Until last week.
I received a text from my credit card company stating there was strange activity going on with my account and that I should check my statement to determine if their suspicions were correct. Sure enough, there was some very suspicious activity going on and I’m not referring to the astounding interest rate.
So I immediately called the number and it was confirmed that I had been a victim of fraud. Someone somewhere, probably Russia, got a hold of my number and made a couple of purchases that were small, but the amounts were certain to grow to big screen TVs or diamond jewelry if their devious plans weren’t stopped.
I was not happy. Here I am, playing by the rules, and I fall victim, like millions of others, to credit card fraud. It ticked me off. And I thought to myself, what type of lowlife, degenerate scumbags are these thieves? And the answer came quickly: They were no sons of Julia Kisonas, that’s for sure.
I grew up in fear of doing wrong. Not only did I have too much respect for my dad to disappoint him with criminal activity, but I was totally afraid of the consequences from my mother. She disciplined old school, not like today.
I will never forget the day I sassed her while I was a youngster. Yes, I do remember that far back. And you know why? Because we were walking down the street, in broad daylight, in front of the neighbors, when she stopped, dropped my drawers and spanked my bare rear end. That might not be acceptable today, but it worked. I never did it again and the memory has stuck with me for more than 50 years.
I learned quickly that if I got that for mouthing off, I could imagine the punishment for something like stealing. No, thanks.
Thankfully, the credit card company stopped the thieves before they could do real damage. And I’m sure they’ll never get caught. But if they ever did, I’d love to suggest their punishment.
Ray Kisonas is the regional editor of The Monroe News and The Daily Telegram. He can be reached at rayk@monroenews.com. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/09/11/ray-kisonas-someone-deserves-a-good-spanking/65787216007/ | 2022-09-11T09:42:48Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/09/11/ray-kisonas-someone-deserves-a-good-spanking/65787216007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Letter: Defining political terms a challenge
Name-calling is never helpful when it comes to politics. Words like “snowflake” or “RINO” are often tossed about as insults. But what, exactly, do they mean? Probably different things to different people. It all depends upon your point of view.
What does the term “MAGA Republican” mean, exactly? Probably different things to different people. It was unwise of President Joe Biden to use it in his recent speech. Lots of people like the slogan and wore the hats. They did nothing wrong.
But MAGA always did make me wonder — exactly when and why did America stop being great in the first place? I must have missed it. I’ve always thought of the USA as the greatest country in the world, haven’t you?
Donald Trump did do some good as president, and there is no shame in voting for him either time. But how can anyone still support him? Since the 2020 election three major crimes may have been committed by the defeated president and his accomplices. The details are well-documented and widely reported.
Prior to Jan. 6, fake electors were submitted by seven states (including Michigan) to the National Archives. On Jan. 6, an insurrection was mounted to coerce Vice President Mike Pence into accepting those electors. When he didn’t, an angry Trump sent out that infamous tweet — “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts.”
That is when the violence broke out with people chanting, “Hang Mike Pence!”
After Jan. 6, several apparent illegal “forensic audits” were performed on voting machines (classified “critical infrastructure” by the federal government) in multiple states (including Michigan). The machines were compromised and had to be replaced at taxpayer expense.
It’s no wonder that so many people have not yet fully grasped the breadth and depth of the alleged crimes committed. The big wonder is why anyone, especially politicians, public figures and community leaders, would still continue to defend it.
What would you call them?
Randall Rousselo
Roscommon, formerly of Monroe and Tecumseh | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/09/11/letter-defining-political-terms-a-challenge/67998611007/ | 2022-09-11T09:42:54Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/09/11/letter-defining-political-terms-a-challenge/67998611007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Letter: Many questions surround voting amendment
There are 8,158,140 registered Michigan voters. If every vote was worth one dollar, and the inflation rate created by government policy was 8%, that vote would be worth 92 cents.
The total silence on how every ballot is going to be secured is very upsetting. If your vote is stolen, burned or damaged, it is worth nothing, and you lose 100% of your vote, not like the 8% lost on your dollar bill.
The Voting Amendment Proposal 2022 says communities with 15,000 voters are required to have a state-funded, 24/7 drop box for absentee ballots and voters’ ballots for an election. First, how about all the other local voting communities in the state? There is NO written plan for security for the 24/7 ballot drop boxes. Will all of them be required to have an alarm system for fire, vandalism, ballot removal, video monitoring and recording? Will there be jamming of ballots and verification of each deposited ballot? That policy needs to be evaluated and approved for the 2024 election cycle. Will all ballot drop boxes be required to be attached to a public building? My local ballot drop box is built into the township hall.
The cost to all cities, townships, counties and other taxing units could easily cost billions of dollars to put in place. Will the state or local government be paying for all this security and daily removal of ballots at each drop box location? There will be labor cost plus required overtime created in each precinct for the early voting proposal.
Is the state going to contract that part of the voting system service to a contractor like they did with the unemployment payment system during COVID, which was a multibillion dollar mismanagement of fraud impacting thousands of unemployed workers with no money to live on.
I like the voting options in the proposal because it removes the excuses for a person not to vote. With the dark money in politics today, the criminal enterprise is good at stealing money machines out of buildings and banks would love to steal your vote.
I want my vote to count and to have every voter in Michigan protected, so it will be a no! I hope you do not forget to vote and seek your elected officials to see what they offer,
James Peltier
Monroe | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/09/11/letter-many-questions-voting-amendment/67096358007/ | 2022-09-11T09:43:00Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/09/11/letter-many-questions-voting-amendment/67096358007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Letter: Others took items from White House, too
Each time Nancy Pelosi announced impeachment, the truth won by clearing President Donald Trump.
His moving from the White House to his home in Florida is no different then other presidents. The Clintons, using many boxes, ransacked the White House and had to return more then $28,000 worth of items. At the end of his presidency, Barack Obama trucked 30 million pages of his administration records to Chicago promising to digitize them and eventually put them online. More than five years after the Obama presidency ended, the National Archives webpage revealed that zero pages have been digitized and disclosed.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Finance Committee Chair, put on quite a show stating big, wealthy auto tax cheats don't pay taxes. Tax provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act state American citizens will be paying taxes out of their funds for those who buy electric and hydrogen vehicles and make efficient home improvements, plus tax credits for companies that build new sources of emissions-free electrical cars.
Joe Biden and other Democrats are placing barricades around their many homes. There are no secure borders or barricades to protect people in states. We are now classified a "communist nation." China and Mexico are killing our adults and children by smuggling drugs such as fentanyl, opioids and others, causing deaths numbering, including: February 2019 to February 2020, 39,407; February 2020 to February 2021, 61,046; February 2021 to February 2022, 72,758.
Why is this happening?
Donna R. Becker
Clinton | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/09/11/letter-others-took-items-from-white-house-too/67998634007/ | 2022-09-11T09:43:06Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/09/11/letter-others-took-items-from-white-house-too/67998634007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Letter: Pondering Churchill's speech
“Judged by every standard which history has applied to governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled (sic) since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by the hundreds.” — Winston Churchill speech in Edinburgh, Sept. 25, 1924.
Substitute “Soviet” with the Biden administration and “Georgia” for the peoples of the United States and reread this and compare to where we are today. It’s not a pleasant thought.
James Sherman
Monroe | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/09/11/letter-pondering-churchill-speech/67111035007/ | 2022-09-11T09:43:12Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/09/11/letter-pondering-churchill-speech/67111035007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV)- A sexual assault in Kalihi has residents on edge. No arrests have been made in the case. Residents are now calling for better safety measures along the walkway where it happened.
"It's pitch black over there. I can't see nothing," said a local neighbor who wishes to be named Jo Jo who lives near the Wilson Street Walkway. The Walkway that leads from LikeLike Highway to Wilson Street is leaving local residents with fear and dread, following the recent sexual assault of an 19-year-old woman by two men along its route.
"I get calls from my family saying they don't want to step out of their cars until I get home. So I have to leave my work early and rush home so everyone feels safe," said Jo Jo. Local residents tells us they've been trying for years to get a light put in.
Officials are telling KITV4, after a letter was sent out, Honolulu's Department of Design and Construction responded saying a work order for a light at the location was issued in December. Nearly 10 months later, there's still no light at on the utility pole. "You've got youth gang members, you've got people possibly picking up drugs. The crimes range from A through Z, you've got all of them. But the criminals seem to congregate in areas where there's no light. This being one of them," said Hawaii State Representative John M. Mizuno.
While light is the biggest concern for neighbors near the Walkway, there are other factors that go into safety issues there as well. There is a wall of leaves that make it hard for people see inside. And there's not a lot of room for people to move around inside the walkway area. " Any innocent who could traverse this area could be trapped. All it takes is a couple people to block them," said Representative Mizuno.
The Wilson Street Walkway is well travelled. Two bus stops are nearby, and people often use the path to go from one to the other. From the street, the stairway is not visible. Making it more difficult for patrolling officers. "The detectives asked if we heard anyone screaming for help. No one heard the victim. It's pretty isolated up there," said JoJo.
"Violent crime keeps going up in our communities. And we need to do everything we can to prevent that," said Honolulu City Council candidate Tyler Dos Santos Tam. Neighbors want patrols stepped up at the walkway's entry points and they still have a spark of hope they'll soon see the light there as well.
Jefferson Tyler joined KITV after a lengthy stint in Reno, Nev. where he covered a variety of subjects. From wildfires to presidential elections, Jefferson takes pride in creating balanced stories that keep viewers’ attentions. | https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/neighbors-concerned-about-wilson-street-walkway-after-sex-assault-at-the-location/article_b3cdc3bc-31ab-11ed-895c-37e7d492e747.html | 2022-09-11T10:11:11Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/neighbors-concerned-about-wilson-street-walkway-after-sex-assault-at-the-location/article_b3cdc3bc-31ab-11ed-895c-37e7d492e747.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Did you know that the DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond is the first school in the world to offer a bachelor’s degree in video game programming? Founded in 1988, it’s rated as one of the top five institutes worldwide for game design.
My tour of the campus July 23 was really eye-opening. I saw many video games I’ve played that were created at this very site.
DigiPen has a relatively small enrollment, numbering 1,121 students during the fall of 2020. There are four degrees students can complete: computer science, digital art and animation, game design and development, and music and audio.
These departments work together to make video games. Students can also make personal projects related to the different majors.
DigiPen has a wall of awards its students have won. It was fascinating to see the multitude of trophies for certain competitions. Additionally, graduates of DigiPen are credited with creating more than 1,600 commercial video games. Its students’ films have earned 280 awards and festival selections.
Most DigiPen students go on to create video games. Some former students have gone on to make Mario Kart 8, Rocket League and even Minecraft.
DigiPen has two more campuses, one in Bilbao, Spain, and one in Singapore. At the DigiPen campus in Redmond, one can also visit the nearby Microsoft building.
I think the best part of the tour was seeing and hearing the founder of DigiPen himself, Claude Comair, who helped create Nintendo of America. Comair likes to personally greet high-schoolers who tour the college. During my tour, he said a few things about DigiPen and explained how the school’s system works. He was a terrific speaker.
Graduates of DigiPen have been hired at Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Disney, Imagineering, Facebook, DreamWorks Interactive and Nintendo America, to name a few.
I hope to be one of the graduates of DigiPen after high school. We are so lucky to have a world-class institute like this so close to us.
• Maria Jacobson is a senior at Highland High School. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/unleashed/news/video-gaming-happens-inside-the-classrooms-at-redmonds-digipen-institute-of-technology/article_c3d1dfcc-6010-54b6-a110-281d2c98fc4b.html | 2022-09-11T10:17:14Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/unleashed/news/video-gaming-happens-inside-the-classrooms-at-redmonds-digipen-institute-of-technology/article_c3d1dfcc-6010-54b6-a110-281d2c98fc4b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LUDLOW, Mass. (WWLP) – A ceremony is to be conducted in Ludlow to remember the lives lost on September 11, 2001.
Ludlow Fire and Police Departments will be running the ceremony beginning at 10:00 a.m. Sunday. This year’s ceremony will be at the Town’s 9/11 Memorial at the Public Safety Complex.
Also, happening in Ludlow, the Ludlow Veterans Services will host Ludlow’s Day of Service at the Center Street Cemetery. The ceremony is to start at noon, Sunday. The Ludlow Veterans Services stated in a news release how this ceremony will be an important dedication to the many lives lost. “To commemorate this occasion, we ask you to honor the victims and heroes of that day through acts of service in your communities that will recapture the spirit of unity that swept the nation in the wake of the tragedy 9/11,” said Ludlow Veterans Services. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/ludlow-day-of-service-to-remember-the-lives-lost-to-9-11/ | 2022-09-11T10:18:24Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/ludlow-day-of-service-to-remember-the-lives-lost-to-9-11/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Maybe it’s fresh legs. Maybe it’s a newfound spirit. Maybe it’s dad strength.
Whatever the source, Josh Donaldson had a special day Saturday in his first game as the father of a newborn girl, which is a good sign for the Yankees, who need his bat to be reborn.
The third baseman blasted his 13th home run of the season — an inning after coming up inches short on a bid for a three-run homer — in the Yankees’ 10-3 win over the Rays in The Bronx.
Donaldson, who went on the paternity list Wednesday so he could be with his fiancée to welcome daughter Lily into the world, missed four games and returned with a loud bat and plenty of energy. In the seventh inning, he made an aggressive first-to-third dash on a Miguel Andujar single to center, then scored on a wild pitch.
He was constantly smiling and he played with a zeal that backfired on a bat-flipped single.
It all was appreciated by the club, nonetheless.
“Couple days before [leaving the team] I really just made a decision: That’s what it’s going to be,” Donaldson, who has reached base eight times in his past 13 plate appearances, said of his energy. “That’s what I’m going to bring.”
In the 36-year-old’s first at-bat of the game, he stepped up with Giancarlo Stanton on second and Gleyber Torres on first in the first inning. Donaldson blasted a Corey Kluber sinker to right and let out a vicious bat flip that would have been more dramatic if the ball actually had reached the fans
Instead, it bounced off the very top of the right-field wall, and Donaldson’s 339-foot blast went for a long single — the fourth of seven straight singles in the inning — that loaded the bases during a six-run frame.
Maybe Donaldson did a few pushups between innings. He added a bit more pop in his next try.
In the second inning, Donaldson drilled a JT Chargois slider just out of the reach of leaping right fielder Manuel Margot for a solo homer to make it 7-0.
“Brought a lot of energy with him. Guys kind of fed off it a little bit,” manager Aaron Boone said. “We need that from him. He’s a premium player when he’s going.”
Donaldson finished 2-for-4 with a hit by pitch, three runs scored and an estimated 1,073 feet of deep flies, the third of which was caught on the left-field warning track. A bat that has not come around all season is showing hopeful signs.
“He’s got an edge to him for sure,” winning pitcher Jameson Taillon said. “We definitely missed it a little bit. He can definitely bring some edge for us.”
Donaldson had to talk with Boone on Monday — his last game before paternity leave — after not running out of the box on an RBI single that went off the left-field wall and ended with his being thrown out at second base.
The hustle issue has not gone away, but he would be forgiven if his bat and his passion does not go away, either. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/11/oh-baby-josh-donaldson-comes-up-big-for-yankees-in-return/ | 2022-09-11T10:26:43Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/11/oh-baby-josh-donaldson-comes-up-big-for-yankees-in-return/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
220910-N-WF272-1220 MIDDLE RIVER, Md. (Sept. 10, 2022) Electrician's Mate (Nuclear) 1st Class Hunter Timmons, a native of Lugoff, S.C., assigned to Navy Talent Acquisition Group Philadelphia, discusses Navy recruiting efforts during an interview as part of Maryland Fleet Week and Flyover Baltimore 2022. The Fleet Week, held Sept. 7-13, is Baltimore’s celebration of the sea services, and provides an opportunity for the local community and Maryland visitors to meet Sailors, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen, as well as see firsthand the latest capabilities of today’s maritime services. NTAG Philadelphia encompasses regions of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia, providing recruiting services from more than 30 talent acquisition sites with the overall goal of attracting the highest quality candidates to ensure the ongoing success of America’s Navy. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Diana Quinlan)
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Grand Rapids Police are investigating what led up to a shooting that left four people injured early Sunday morning.
Police say it all started around 3:15 when officers who were near the Blue Bridge heard multiple gunshots nearby.
Shortly after that, police say they witnessed a large gathering of people on the bridge who were acting disorderly.
Police located four adults who all suffered non-life threatening injuries.
The incident remains under investigation.
If you have any information on the shooting you're asked to contact the Grand Rapids Police Department at 616-456-3380 or Silent Observer at 616-774-2345. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/shooting-in-downtown-grand-rapids-under-investigation | 2022-09-11T10:43:34Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/shooting-in-downtown-grand-rapids-under-investigation | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the ascension of new monarch King Charles III to the throne will be proclaimed in Kent on Sunday, September 11. The Kent County Proclamation, which marks the formal announcement of the ascension to the throne of King Charles III, will take place in Maidstone, with announcements in all other boroughs and districts following afterwards.
People are welcomed to attend the ceremony that is set to take place just before 1pm in Jubilee Square in Maidstone town centre at 12:57pm. The news will be delivered by the High Sheriff of Kent, Russell Race.
Further proclamations will take place throughout the day, depending on where and when these are being held members of the public may be able to attend in person or watch online. Details of the announcements taking place across the county are listed below.
Read more: Date and Bank Holiday confirmed for funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
Ashford
The Mayor of Ashford Cllr Jenny Webb will lead a short service where she will read the Proclamation on the accession of the new Sovereign. This will include observing a two minute silence and will take place at 3pm at the flag poles outside the Civic Centre. Everyone is welcome to attend the event.
Canterbury
Everyone is welcome to attend the Proclamation event in Canterbury. It will be read by the Lord Mayor of Canterbury, Cllr Anne Dekker at 3pm, outside Christchurch Gate at Canterbury Cathedral.
Dartford
A Proclamation will be made by the Mayor of Dartford on the steps of Dartford Library, Market Street at 3pm.
Dover
The Proclamation of the New Sovereign will be read at the Dover District Council offices in Whitfield at 3pm on Sunday 11 September. This is an invitation only event but it will be broadcast live on the DDC website.
Folkestone and Hythe
Members of the public are invited to attend the Folkestone reading which will take place at 3pm outside the Civic Centre in Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone. It will be attended by Folkestone and Hythe District Council chairman Cllr Philip Martin, leader Cllr David Monk, councillors and staff.
Gravesham
The Mayor of Gravesham, Cllr Peter Scollard, will read the Proclamation of The King in front of the Civic Centre, Community Square, Gravesend at 3pm.
Medway
A local Proclamation will be held at 3.15pm, in Rochester Castle Gardens, on Sunday 11 September. There is limited space in the grounds and people are therefore advised it is on a first come, first serve basis.
Sevenoaks
Residents are invited to join council chairman, Cllr Avril Hunter, when she reads the Proclamation of the new Sovereign on Sunday, September 11 at 3pm outside the council offices in Sevenoaks
Swale
The local Proclamation will take place at St Michael's Church, High Street, Sittingbourne, on Sunday September 11 at 3pm.
Thanet
Cllr Jason Savage, Chairman of Thanet District Council will read the Proclamation at 3pm at Hawley Square in Margate. If the weather is inclement the ceremony will take place in the Council Chamber, Cecil Street, Margate, CT9 1XZ. Members of the public are welcome to attend.
Tonbridge and Malling
The reading will take place in the grounds of Tonbridge Castle at 3pm on Sunday 11 September. The proclamation will be read by the Mayor of Tonbridge and Malling, Cllr Sue Bell. Music will be provided by the 17 Tonbridge Scout and Guide Band from 2.30pm.
The castle flag will fly at full-mast for this ceremony.
Tunbridge Wells
The reading of the Proclamation ceremony for King Charles III will take place at 3pm on Sunday, September 11 at the War Memorial in Royal Tunbridge Wells. Member of the pubic are welcome to attend. The announcement will be read by the Mayor, Cllr Godfrey Bland following a short introduction by Georgie Warner, Deputy Lieutenant of Kent.
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The Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) put in place by the Acting Chief Judge of Kogi State, Hon. Justice Josiah Joe Majebi has received 216 complaints from aggrieved staff and former staff of Kogi State High Court.
The committee was inaugurated in July this year by the Acting Chief Judge to look into staff complaints arising from appointments, promotions, and seniority.
The Chairman of the committee, Hon. Justice Alaba Omolaye-Ajileye, while submitting the report to the Acting Chief Judge said the 6-man committee painstakingly and critically looked into complaints by staff and came up with recommendations for the CJ and members of the Kogi State Judicial Service Commission to study and implement.
He noted that the committee of the state’s Judicial Service Commission (JSC) was saddled with the responsibility of evaluating and appropriately recommending the performances of Magistrates and Area Court Judges in the state.
Justice Ajileye said the committee received complaints from 216 aggrieved staff and former staff of the High Court.
In the Final Report submitted which consisted of five volumes, the committee observed a high level of resentment amongst staff and commended the CJ for taking interest in the matter.
“The sheer number of such complaints received (216) suggests the level of agitations, resentments, grievances, and grudges prevalent amongst the staff of the court over the subjects of promotions, appointments, and seniority.
“The setting up of this Committee to address the complaints, therefore, is the right step in the right direction. We commend Your Lordship for being sensitive to the complaints of your subordinates and taking a proactive step towards addressing them so soon upon your appointment as the Ag. Chief Judge of Kogi State,” said the Chairman.
He noted that the executive summary of the report indicated that the committee treated each complaint individually, and recommended “as considered appropriate for each case in the interest of service” even as the committee “strove to be fair, consistent, and transparent in treating each complaint on its merit and used the same parameters to treat similar cases.”
The report which categorized cadres of the institution, with various observations peculiar to each, noted that Magistrates in the state were traumatized by events of promotion and seniority leading to distrust.
“It’s a Magistracy overwhelmed by wranglings, complaints, and agitations over promotions, placements, appointments, supersession, and seniority. There were also complaints of unequal treatment or lack of uniform treatment of similar complaints. This factual setting has brought about distrust amongst the Magistrates” he said.
Giving further insight into these complaints which he classified as a “class action”, he said new Magistrates were appointed to supersede their colleagues without recourse to years of service which also erroneously made them superior to some Area Court Judges despite their performing the same functions of adjudication at the lower courts.
“We received complaints from Magistrates over appointment of Magistrates from the Registry, or outside the service, who were made to supersede their colleagues in service with the same qualifications and who were called to Bar at the same time or even in later years, without regard to the latter’s years of service.
“We found Magistrates who have stagnated on the same Grade Level for upwards of ten years, on account of a change of cadre from Registry to the Area Court bench and later to Magistracy. We found no justification for this. It is often forgotten that Magistrates and Area Court Judges perform the same function – adjudication – at different levels.
“Magistrates are not equally treated. We found that there exists a selective treatment of complaints of Magistrates. Some Magistrates were found to have had their complaints attended to while the complaints of others remain ignored. This kind of preferential treatment is detrimental to the system” he added.
While recommending “that such matters relating to seniority list be handled by a professional body with experience in the Magistracy and application of service rules, in the appointment of Magistrates from outside or within service, due consideration should be accorded the dates of Call to Bar, which shall be streamlined along the date of entry into the service in order to minimize complaints of supersession. New appointees within the same categories of Call to Bar years should be made to queue behind the Magistrates in service” according to the committee.
The report also observed amongst the Area Court Judge, complaints bordering on areas that resulted in dissatisfaction when he said:
“There was a class of Area Court Judges who were stripped of their status and financial benefits as Area Court Judges. Over time, some of them were restored to their positions, but others were not.”
Relatedly too, “there is another class of Area Court Judges holding LLB and BL qualifications and are performing the functions of Area Court Judges but are not being accorded the benefits of Area Court Judges.”
Aside from these, and on general observations, the Committee said it “found many cases in which appointments or promotions of officers made or confirmed by the JSC (were) reversed by letters written by the Chief Registrar of the High Court (and) considered this action as an anomaly. It is the view of the Committee that the Chief Registrar of the High Court lacks the power to write to reverse appointments made by the JSC.”
Furthermore, on selective promotions and normalization of appointments of staff, the committee said it appeared there was no established standard followed in promoting and normalizing staff appointments as it “observed arbitrary promotions and selective normalization of staff appointments without regard to seniority.”
Likewise, it received “a plethora of complaints of non-payment of annual increments and recommends the restoration of payment of the annual increment in salaries of staff as a way of motivating the staff.” It also recommended that “a class of retired officers who were due for promotion before their retirements (that) complained to the Committee on compassionate grounds (should) be granted their promotions which became due before their exit from service for the purpose of pension.”
The exclusion of some staff from the 2020 promotion exercise also received the attention of the committee which observed that quite a number of staff were excluded from the exercise and suggested that “all such staff entitled to promotion and so omitted should be promoted and paid arrears.”
Hon. Justice Ajileye concluded in the course of submitting the report that there was evidence of favoritism and partiality in the appointments and promotions done in the past but however expressed confidence in the ability of the Acting Chief Judge to right the wrongs as a fair-minded person especially after the committee had applied the principles of fairness, equity, independence, and transparency.
“There is no doubt that the 216 complaints treated, in many cases, evince the existence of unfair treatment, cheating, partiality, favoritism, and influence of godfathers.
“My Lord, we have absolute confidence in your capacity and disposition to right the wrongs, as a fair-minded person (and) hope that with the Committee’s application of principles of fairness, equity, independence, and transparency, Your Lordship will ensure the implementation of the Committee’s Recommendations,” he concluded
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Queen's final visit to Edinburgh: LIVE updates as cortege travels from Balmoral to Palace of Holyroodhouse
Thousands of mourners are expected to gather in Edinburgh to say goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II.
The Queen’s coffin has left Balmoral and will make its way Edinburgh today (September 11) in her final journey across Scotland.
The cortege is to travel through Aberdeen, Dundee, Perth, and Fife before arriving at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
Mourners are expected to line the streets to pay their final respects to Her Majesty, who is due to lie in state at St Giles’ Cathedral on Monday (September 12) following a sombre procession along the Royal Mile.
LIVE: The Queen’s final visit to Edinburgh
Last updated: Sunday, 11 September, 2022, 12:10
The Accession of the King in Edinburgh, explained
King Charles III proclaimations in Edinburgh: Here's when ceremonies will take place
There will be two public proclamations of King Charles III in Edinburgh today (Sunday) following the Queen’s death.
The Accession of the King begins in Edinburgh
Road closures in Edinburgh
There are already a number of road closures in Edinburgh, announced by the city council.
These are:
• Abbey Mount at Regent Road
• Abbeyhill at Abbey Lane
• Blackfriars Street
• Calton Road at Abbeyhill Crescent
• Calton Road at Leith Street
• Canongate at St Mary Street and Jeffrey Street
• Carrington Road at Crewe Road South
• Carrington Road at East Fettes Avenue
• Castle Terrace
• Castlehill
• Chambers Street
• East Market Street at junction with Jeffrey Street
• Fettes Avenue
• High Street at Cockburn Street
• High Street at George IV and The Mound
• Holyrood Park entrance at Meadowbank Terrace
• Johnston Terrace
• Lawnmarket
• New Street, south of the entrance to Waverley car park
• Nicolson Street (closed northbound only) at West Nicholson Street. Local access provided to Blair Street.
• Niddry street
• Old Tolboth Wynd
The Queen’s coffin leaves Balmoral
Her Majesty’s oak coffin has been seen for the first time as her cortege left Balmoral Castle.
It will take approximately six hours to arrive in Edinburgh. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/queens-final-visit-to-edinburgh-live-updates-as-cortege-travels-from-balmoral-to-palace-of-holyroodhouse-3839253 | 2022-09-11T11:25:44Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/queens-final-visit-to-edinburgh-live-updates-as-cortege-travels-from-balmoral-to-palace-of-holyroodhouse-3839253 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
London: Thousands are lining the route to catch a glimpse as Queen Elizabeth II's coffin, seen in public for the first time, began its journey on Sunday from Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire to the late monarch's official Scottish residence of Holyroodhouse Palace in the capital city of Edinburgh.
At the end of a six-hour journey, the coffin draped with the Royal Standard of Scotland and featuring a wreath of flowers on top will rest in the Throne Room of Holyroodhouse until Monday afternoon for the royal household to pay their respects to Britain's Queen, who died peacefully aged 96 at Balmoral on Thursday evening.
The seven-car cortege, with a police escort and the Queen's daughter Princess Anne, slowly made its way towards Edinburgh, as crowds of people gathered to see it pass.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the "poignant" journey would give people in Scotland the chance to come together to "mark our country's shared loss". She and other leaders in Scotland will observe the coffin as it makes its way past the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.
The oak coffin will make an onward journey to London later in the week after Buckingham Palace has unveiled plans for the State Funeral, which will take place at Westminster Abbey on Monday, September 19 declared a Bank Holiday in the UK. Prior to the funeral, the late monarch will lie-in-state at Westminster Hall within the Houses of Parliament complex for four days, to allow the British public to pay their respects.
On Saturday, members of the royal family viewed the several thousand floral tributes and messages left for the late Queen at her residences at Windsor, Balmoral and London. In a show of royal unity, Prince William and Kate, now the Prince and Princess of Wales, joined Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle for a walkabout at Windsor to speak to members of the public gathered at the gates of Windsor Castle.
A social media video clip shows Kate telling one group how her youngest son, Prince Louis, had said that his great grandmother was now with great-grandpa, a reference to the Queen's husband Prince Philip who died last April aged 99.
It followed Charles, the former Prince of Wales, being formally proclaimed King in an ancient ceremony at St. James's Palace during which he pledged to follow the "inspiring example" set by his late mother. Flags atop all palaces and government buildings in the UK were brought up to the full mast to mark the proclamation and will be lowered back to half-mast for the State Mourning on Sunday.
Buckingham Palace has released a schedule for the new monarch, King Charles III, who will host several audiences and travel to all parts of the United Kingdom as is customary during the State Mourning for a monarch. After a meeting with the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Baroness Patricia Scotland, at Buckingham Palace, the King will host Realm High Commissioners and their spouses in the Bow Room of the Palace on Sunday.
On Monday, Charles and Queen Consort Camilla will travel to Westminster Hall where both Houses of Parliament will meet to express their condolences at the demise of the Queen.
The royal couple will then travel to Scotland for an audience with the Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, and to attend the devolved Scottish Parliament. They are scheduled to travel to Northern Ireland on Tuesday and then later in the week to Wales.
On Monday, a procession will be formed on the forecourt of the Palace of Holyroodhouse to convey the Queen's coffin to St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, where King Charles III and members of the royal family will attend a service to receive the coffin. It will then lie at rest at St. Giles' Cathedral, guarded by Vigils from the Royal Company of Archers, to allow the people of Scotland to pay their respects, Buckingham Palace has said.
The journey from Scotland to England will be undertaken by air on Tuesday when the Queen's daughter Princess Anne will accompany the coffin on its journey to the Bow Room at the monarch's London residence of Buckingham Palace.
A day later, on Wednesday, it will be borne in procession to the Palace of Westminster for lying-in-state until the day of the funeral. Members of the royal family, politicians and world leaders are expected to attend the State Funeral at 11 am local time on September 19. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2022/09/11/queen-elizabeth-final-journey.amp.html | 2022-09-11T11:29:26Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2022/09/11/queen-elizabeth-final-journey.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
London: Thousands are lining the route to catch a glimpse as Queen Elizabeth II's coffin, seen in public for the first time, began its journey on Sunday from Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire to the late monarch's official Scottish residence of Holyroodhouse Palace in the capital city of Edinburgh.
At the end of a six-hour journey, the coffin draped with the Royal Standard of Scotland and featuring a wreath of flowers on top will rest in the Throne Room of Holyroodhouse until Monday afternoon for the royal household to pay their respects to Britain's Queen, who died peacefully aged 96 at Balmoral on Thursday evening.
The seven-car cortege, with a police escort and the Queen's daughter Princess Anne, slowly made its way towards Edinburgh, as crowds of people gathered to see it pass.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the "poignant" journey would give people in Scotland the chance to come together to "mark our country's shared loss". She and other leaders in Scotland will observe the coffin as it makes its way past the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.
The oak coffin will make an onward journey to London later in the week after Buckingham Palace has unveiled plans for the State Funeral, which will take place at Westminster Abbey on Monday, September 19 declared a Bank Holiday in the UK. Prior to the funeral, the late monarch will lie-in-state at Westminster Hall within the Houses of Parliament complex for four days, to allow the British public to pay their respects.
On Saturday, members of the royal family viewed the several thousand floral tributes and messages left for the late Queen at her residences at Windsor, Balmoral and London. In a show of royal unity, Prince William and Kate, now the Prince and Princess of Wales, joined Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle for a walkabout at Windsor to speak to members of the public gathered at the gates of Windsor Castle.
A social media video clip shows Kate telling one group how her youngest son, Prince Louis, had said that his great grandmother was now with great-grandpa, a reference to the Queen's husband Prince Philip who died last April aged 99.
It followed Charles, the former Prince of Wales, being formally proclaimed King in an ancient ceremony at St. James's Palace during which he pledged to follow the "inspiring example" set by his late mother. Flags atop all palaces and government buildings in the UK were brought up to the full mast to mark the proclamation and will be lowered back to half-mast for the State Mourning on Sunday.
Buckingham Palace has released a schedule for the new monarch, King Charles III, who will host several audiences and travel to all parts of the United Kingdom as is customary during the State Mourning for a monarch. After a meeting with the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Baroness Patricia Scotland, at Buckingham Palace, the King will host Realm High Commissioners and their spouses in the Bow Room of the Palace on Sunday.
On Monday, Charles and Queen Consort Camilla will travel to Westminster Hall where both Houses of Parliament will meet to express their condolences at the demise of the Queen.
The royal couple will then travel to Scotland for an audience with the Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, and to attend the devolved Scottish Parliament. They are scheduled to travel to Northern Ireland on Tuesday and then later in the week to Wales.
On Monday, a procession will be formed on the forecourt of the Palace of Holyroodhouse to convey the Queen's coffin to St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, where King Charles III and members of the royal family will attend a service to receive the coffin. It will then lie at rest at St. Giles' Cathedral, guarded by Vigils from the Royal Company of Archers, to allow the people of Scotland to pay their respects, Buckingham Palace has said.
The journey from Scotland to England will be undertaken by air on Tuesday when the Queen's daughter Princess Anne will accompany the coffin on its journey to the Bow Room at the monarch's London residence of Buckingham Palace.
A day later, on Wednesday, it will be borne in procession to the Palace of Westminster for lying-in-state until the day of the funeral. Members of the royal family, politicians and world leaders are expected to attend the State Funeral at 11 am local time on September 19. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2022/09/11/queen-elizabeth-final-journey.html | 2022-09-11T11:29:33Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2022/09/11/queen-elizabeth-final-journey.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What 'test optional' really means | College Connection
What do the eight Ivy League schools have in common with MIT, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, Georgetown, Carnegie Mellon, Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins and USC?
Yes, they are all extremely competitive institutions. They are also “test optional,” meaning students are not required to submit SAT (or ACT) scores with their applications. But before students toss their SAT prep book, there are a few points that need to be considered.
“Test optional” does not mean that a college will not look at SAT or ACT scores. It just means that test scores are not required. It’s notable that some colleges reporting to be test optional actually ask students, on their application, why they are not submitting test scores.
Applicants who submit impressive SAT or ACT scores obviously stand out. Those who don’t, and hope to gain admission to an elite university, need to have stellar grades in an extremely rigorous curriculum (perhaps 10 to 15 AP courses) and a remarkable “passion project.” One of my former students, for example, developed a medical app that was featured at a White House Science Fair. She was accepted to MIT and seven Ivy League institutions.
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The reason so many colleges went test optional for the high school graduating class of 2021 was that COVID-19 caused the mass cancellation of SAT exams. It was important for colleges to attract as many applicants as possible, so they could be as selective as ever when choosing who to admit or deny. Most colleges more than succeeded at meeting that goal, actually reporting a record number of applications.
Therefore, many colleges are continuing the “test optional” policy for the high school graduating class of 2023.
Even when not required, achieving impressive SAT scores is often one of the easiest ways to attract the attention of college admission counselors. These scores are also a key criterion for most merit-based scholarships, as well as a resource for testing out of college placement exams.
All colleges will look at test scores, if submitted, with the exception of a limited number of schools that are “test blind,” most notably the University of California.
Susan Alaimo is the founder and director of Collegebound Review that, for the past 25 years, has offered PSAT/SAT® preparation and private college advising by Ivy League educated instructors. Visit CollegeboundReview.com or call 908-369-5362 | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/education/college/2022/09/11/college-test-optional-sat-act/65475046007/ | 2022-09-11T11:47:22Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/education/college/2022/09/11/college-test-optional-sat-act/65475046007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BALTIMORE (AP) - Baltimore officials have fully lifted a boil water advisory for the western part of the city, days after bacteria was detected in water supply samples.
The Baltimore Sun reports that city officials have determined that water samples taken from the west Baltimore area tested negative for E. coli bacteria.
The city instructed residents within the boil water advisory boundaries to flush their pipes before consuming water. They also advised residents to throw out any ice made after the boil water advisory was issued.
Authorities began distributing bottled water to residents on Tuesday after water samples originally turned up E. coli over Labor Day weekend.
E. coli contamination can cause intestinal distress, with symptoms that include stomach cramps, diarrhea and vomiting. Illness caused by the bacteria usually is mild, but in rare cases a potentially life-threatening complication can result about a week after the initial infection, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | https://www.wboc.com/news/baltimore-lifts-boil-water-advisory-after-bacteria-tests/article_f6efc5c6-31c1-11ed-b725-1f40f47efe4d.html | 2022-09-11T11:51:31Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/baltimore-lifts-boil-water-advisory-after-bacteria-tests/article_f6efc5c6-31c1-11ed-b725-1f40f47efe4d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For everything there is a season, and that’s especially true in the garden.
It’s impossible to deny that our gardens are slowing down during September and October’s shorter and cooler days, but it’s not over yet. Fall bulb planting season is just getting started.
Daffodils, crocuses, tulips, hyacinth and alliums are just some of the beauties arriving in Yakima this month after a long trip from Holland. Wooing every gardener with the promise of spring splendor, they have evolved to be tough, yet irresistible.
One of nature’s wonders, flower bulbs are neatly bundled packages programmed with everything they need to grow and bloom on their own. Slice a bulb from pole to pole and take a look inside. You’ll see storage tissue that provides food, roots all ready to grow, and even baby blooms with tiny anthers and developing leaf buds, all neatly packaged in a papery skin.
Every gardener needs some. Bulbs can be planted in containers, window boxes, borders and under trees. Some can be forced to bloom indoors in the depths of winter.
I’m always tempted to just start buying, but it hasn’t always gone well for me.
For fall bulbs to develop optimally and produce the best possible flowers next spring, the process of growing roots must begin during the colder months. And when the soil warms again in early spring, foliage develops, supported by the root system that has already been established. Strong, healthy roots and foliage produce the blossoms we prize.
If bulbs are planted too early in warm soil, foliage could be spurred into growing too soon, competing for a supply of the bulb’s energy reserved for root development. Ultimately, the flowers will not reach their potential.
Wait until the soil cools to 50-60 degrees and then get your bulbs planted quickly. In Yakima’s Zone 6, this usually means mid-October through early November. Keep unplanted bulbs at 60 degrees if you can. Transfer them from plastic bags to brown paper bags for better air circulation to prevent molding while you wait.
On the flip side, if you plant your bulbs too late, like in January or February, the bulbs will not have enough time to produce a strong root system for the spring show. At a time when the bulb should be producing foliage and blooms, a root system is added to their “to-do” list. Roots, foliage and blooms will all be weak.
Planting too early has ever been a problem for me. More than once, I’ve found myself pouring hot water over frozen winter soil, attempting to thaw it just enough to dig planting holes for the bulbs I just discovered in a bag in a dusty corner of my laundry room.
I also confess to waiting until spring to plant. Hardy fall-planted bulbs require 10-13 weeks of soil temperatures below 45 degrees to root and begin shoot and flower production. My overdue efforts were a total waste of time and money, producing nothing but scraggly foliage and a few meager blooms.
This year, I want to try something different.
Before I buy a single bulb, I will plan ahead for the perfect spot for every single one. And I will plant them as soon as the soil cools to 50 degrees.
I also vow that this year, all those early bloomers will be planted where I can see them from my kitchen or dining room windows, along the driveway, or near the street where they can be enjoyed by passersby.
Has this ever happened to you? You’re in love with the idea of a lavish display of hundreds of tulips, so you buy that many. After several hours of toil on planting day, you realize that you have room for only half of the bulbs you bought. Not wanting to waste them, you plant the excess in random locations, often places not easily seen from the house. I remember the year I planted surplus crocuses in a distant corner of our property where they bloomed unseen by anyone but my neighbor’s chickens.
For the most dramatic color effect, I’ll plant in groups of at least 10-25 bulbs of the same variety. Twenty-five bulbs planted close together will have more “pop” and presence than 200 planted 3 feet apart.
Summer isn’t over yet and the garden is still putting on a glorious display, but I can feel it. Winter is on its way. Get some spring flowering bulbs in the ground before the soil freezes. Come March, as soon as you see their bright green tips emerging from barren soil, you’ll be glad you did. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/explore_yakima/barany-in-the-garden-time-to-start-thinking-about-fall-bulbs/article_09aac7cc-2ee5-11ed-abdd-4b473f39e26c.html | 2022-09-11T12:00:13Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/explore_yakima/barany-in-the-garden-time-to-start-thinking-about-fall-bulbs/article_09aac7cc-2ee5-11ed-abdd-4b473f39e26c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
220909-N-NV699-1096 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sep. 9, 2022) The homeward bound pennant flies onboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), Sep. 9, 2022. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied and partner interests. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Miles McDonough)
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Before Kinesha Glover — better known as Keno G — ever picked up a tattoo gun, she held a pencil.
“I would sit around drawing portraits as a kid,” said Glover, a traveling tattoo artist with her home base at 2000 Vine in Kansas City. “I literally would sketch my siblings, my mom, my teacher, you name it. Doesn’t matter who I’m looking at, I’m sketching and drawing portraits.”
But if it weren’t for some peer pressure from former coworkers, she might have never explored the creative trade at all.
“One of the questions I get asked all the time is, ‘What got me interested in doing tattoos?’” And honestly, I got talked into it by my friends,” Glover said.
In 2008, Glover was working a corporate job at AT&T in Louisville, Kentucky. At the time, she was 25 and had zero tattoos.
She did, however, sketch tattoo designs for her coworkers, and one local shop took notice.
“The tattoo shop that they went to was intrigued,” Glover said. “Like, ‘Who’s doing this? Who’s creating these drawings?’”
Eventually, two shops in Louisville offered Glover an apprenticeship, and her career as a tattoo artist was born.
Fast forward 14 years; she’s now opened a tattoo shop all her own. Keno G Ink hosted its grand opening Aug. 5.
Now located in the lower level of the north building at 2000 Vine, Keno G Ink is the latest addition to that redevelopment project.
Glover — a self-proclaimed “Chatty Cathy” — found out about the space at 2000 Vine from a client in Dallas during an appointment.
Initially skeptical because she had no existing client base in Kansas City, Glover met with Tim Duggan, one of the leaders of the project, and was immediately impressed.
“I really had to get out of my own head of, ‘How can I make Kansas City work?’” Glover said.
Based from Dallas since 2011, Glover also travels regularly to Chicago, Cleveland, and Louisville to ink longtime clients and friends.
The idea to travel was born, again, from some friendly peer pressure.
After completing her apprenticeship in Louisville, Glover moved to Cleveland in 2009, where she actually did her first tattoo.
When she moved to Dallas two years later, her clients in Cleveland weren’t ready to let her go.
“They weren’t having it,” Glover said. “They were like, ‘You gotta come back. Whether you come tattoo at the house or set up at our friends’ shops, you gotta come back.’”
After a trial run on a visit to her native Chicago, Glover decided that she could make life as a traveling tattoo artist work, all the while maintaining her position at a studio in Dallas and developing her client base there.
“I made very minimal money in Dallas and traveled and made lots of money for a weekend or two out of the month, which covered my expenses, so it worked out perfect,” she said. “As my client database grew, I grew.”
Tattoo artist Jack Wheaton — a longtime peer of Glover’s who runs Ncognito Ink in Winthrop Harbor, Illinois — shared his admiration of her ability to travel, calling her work “meticulous.”
“Traveling as an artist is hard,” Wheaton said. “I’ve never met somebody so in control of her work, so organized.”
Wheaton said he loves when Glover comes to his shop to work and expects her studio to be “second to none.”
“I really can’t wait to see it myself,” he said. “It’s gonna be an experience unlike any other — very therapeutic.”
Now that she’s opened her own studio in Kansas City, Glover has enjoyed reconnecting with a city in which her family has deep roots.
Glover’s mother grew up in Kansas City before relocating to the Chicago area in the 1970s. Her mom has since returned, joining her sister and numerous extended family members, who Glover described as “ecstatic” to have her back, too.
“This is now me learning Kansas City as well,” Glover said. “I’m loving thus far what it is, the history, and where I am in this space. I love it.”
As for those friends in Louisville who convinced her to pursue tattoo artistry? Glover said they still remind her how she got her start.
“To this day, the ones who talked me into it are just like, ‘See, we told you.’”
Drawn together
Erin Barham and Matt Buek, a couple from Kansas City, were two of the first clients to get inked by Kinesha Glover on the opening weekend at Keno G Ink.
Barham was familiar with the 2000 Vine project because she works for Parson + Associates, a public relations firm owned by Jason Parson, one of three individuals leading the redevelopment efforts.
When Barham heard about the opening weekend special at Keno G Ink, she decided to book an appointment for her third tattoo, which she’d been wanting for a while. That prompted Buek to book his own appointment to get his very first tattoo.
The two tattoos are connected, though not the same. Barham’s ink is a small bison on her left arm, and Buek had the national park logo — which prominently features a bison — etched on his right forearm.
The “national park enthusiasts” chose the bison as a symbol of their love for national parks and each other, according to Barham.
“It was a phenomenal, fantastic experience,” Buek said. “It didn’t hurt nearly as bad as I expected, and I told them [Barham and Glover] that they screwed up, because now I’m gonna want a ton more.”
Buek described Glover as “an amazing artist,” and Barham credited her for making the experience “very comfortable.”
The couple plan to return, and Barham said she’ll be bringing her mother with her next time.
‘It’s just great for Kansas City that her talent is available to us,” Barham said.
This story was originally published on Startland News, a fellow member of the KC Media Collective. | https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2022-09-11/why-a-popular-traveling-tattoo-artist-made-kansas-city-into-her-new-home-base | 2022-09-11T12:09:48Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2022-09-11/why-a-popular-traveling-tattoo-artist-made-kansas-city-into-her-new-home-base | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Unicorn Theatre is taking a swing at the play “Toni Stone,” which is based on the life of the first woman to play baseball in the Negro Leagues. Stone, who played for Kansas City Monarchs for a short stint, was one of three women to appear in a Negro Leagues game. Stone is a featured character in the current hit Amazon series “A League of Their Own.”
The play, written by Lydia R. Diamond, is based on the book “Curveball” by Martha Ackmann, which focuses on Stone's life and devotion to the game of baseball. Ackmann said researching Stone’s career was harder than it should have been.
“It’s really a reflection of racism in that the Negro Leagues were not covered or thought to be important,” Ackmann told Up To Date’s Steve Kraske. To fill in the record, Ackmann interviewed former Negro Leagues players who competed with and against Stone. “I spent an awful lot of time in old guys’ garages and basements,” she said.
Actor Jaeda LaVonne, who plays Stone in the Unicorn Theatre’s production, did not know Stone’s story before she auditioned for the role. She said she relied on Ackmann’s book and trips to the Negro League Baseball Musuem to prepare herself to step into Stone’s shoes.
“My hope is that more people know her name,” said LaVonne. “I believe that you’re never really gone as long as people are saying your name, and so if I can be a vessel to carry her story, that to me is. . . then I’m doing my job,”
An exhibit at the Negro Leagues museum, “Beauty of the Game,” honors the three women who were allowed to play in the Negro Leagues — Stone, Connie Morgan and Mamie Johnson — as well as women who were influential leaders and executives in the sport. Negro Leagues museum President Bob Kendrick says visitors are often surprised to learn that women played professional baseball.
“This was really important to us to shine that light because as an institution, our goal is for people to walk away understanding the true value of diversity, equity and inclusion,” Kendrick said. “And it’s wrapped up inside this incredible story of these athletes who just simply wanted to play ball. Women have already played professional baseball and I think they will again.”
Stone faced a lot of barriers during her time as a professional player, many of which stemmed from racism and sexism. In addition to being harassed by fans and opposing players, Stone encountered harsh treatment from her own teammates.
Ackmann shared a story on Up To Date to give an example. She said on a tour in the South, Stone’s team stopped at a boarding house. Stone was the last person off the bus, and the owner the boarding house thought she was a prostitute. He directed her to a brothel where she stayed. None of her teammates stood up for her, and staying at brothels in the South became a common occurrence for Stone. The women there treated her well, and Ackmann said she stayed in several brothels in the South during her travels for games.
“She turned a real indignity into something that worked for her,” said Ackmann.
Kendrick said Stone’s story needs to be told.
“Her passion for the game gave her the will, the determination to keep pushing forward or to keep reaching,” he said. “What’s not to love about a story like that? It grabs you, it lifts your spirit to see someone who believes in themselves the way that Toni does.”
- Martha Ackmann, author, journalist
- Jaeda LaVonne, actor, plays Toni Stone in the Unicorn Theatre’s production
- Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
“Toni Stone” runs through September 25 at the Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Find tickets, showtimes and more here. | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2022-09-11/unicorn-theatre-stages-play-about-first-woman-to-play-baseball-in-negro-leagues | 2022-09-11T12:09:54Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2022-09-11/unicorn-theatre-stages-play-about-first-woman-to-play-baseball-in-negro-leagues | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(WPRI) — Here are a few keys to the game as the Patriots look to start the season with a win in Miami against their division rivals.
- Patriots defense limiting the “big play”. The Dolphins have a lot of explosive playmakers. If the Patriots can limit long gains or touchdowns, that will go a long way in New England’s chances of winning.
- Production of the Patriots offense. To this point through the pre-season, the Patriots haven’t shown many glimpses of a productive offense. Sure, pre-season games don’t count, but from what we’ve seen so far to this point (and no official offensive coordinator), that’s a big topic heading into the games that count.
- Staying hydrated. Week one in Miami is going to be hot (in the 90’s). New England has been in Miami for a few days for practices to get used to the heat, so they are used to it by now. Weather aside, the Pats haven’t played well in Miami in the last two matchups in Florida.
Here are some quotes from Head Coach Bill Belichick and Mac Jones ahead of Sunday’s game.
Bill Belichick: “I think every game is a good test for your team, regular season. Every game is a good test. All the teams are good, all the teams will attack your weaknesses and try to make it hard on you. We’ll try to do the same thing to them, see how it goes.”
Mac Jones on not having Josh McDaniels and the uncertainty of no official Offensive Coordinator: “I think the uncertainty just has to clear itself up. I think that’s just a mentality. I think it’s all about getting in the right spot, having confidence in one another and we’ve done that. Sometimes it’s not going to be a perfect clean picture right off the bat when something’s new a little bit. But I feel like we’ve made really good strides in practice and the games even. When you really watch the tape to see how close we are. We’re just excited to get out there and put it on tape and see what we can do and adjust and just play for one another. That’s all it comes down to. The x’s and o’s are the x’s and o’s. But if we play for one another then good things can happen.”
Mac Jones on Bill Belichick: Yeah, I think he’s done a great job just explaining everything to me from his standpoint of view. He’s seen a lot of football, whether that be a certain route, or a certain defense or a certain run. He’s very good about understanding how to see it through my eyes, but also how he sees it. He’s a really smart guy. We’re both smart. We both can come together and come to a conclusion that this is why we want to do this play. He explains it and then I have to go execute it. So I’ve been really comfortable with that.
Kickoff at Hard Rock Stadium is at 1 p.m. on Sunday. | https://www.wpri.com/sports/notes-and-quotes-patriots-dolphins-season-opener-preview/ | 2022-09-11T12:10:14Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/sports/notes-and-quotes-patriots-dolphins-season-opener-preview/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan will take a call on the controversial Lokayukta, University Laws (Amendment) and other bills only after September 17.
The 12 bills, which were approved by the Assembly, have not reached Raj Bhavan yet, sources said.
The Governor, who went to Attappady on Sunday, will participate in different events across the State and will be back in Thiruvananthapuram only on September 17.
He is expected to seek legal advice on the controversial bills. As the government was late in sending the bill to the Governor, owing to continuous holidays, he might also take ample time to respond.
As per procedure, bills are forwarded from the Assembly to the legal department in the Secretariat, from where they are sent to the CM's office before reaching Raj Bhavan.
Once bills reach before him, the Governor will assess whether they are legal and constitutional. He also has the power to either seek explanations or send them back to the government. He can even forward them to the President via the Central government for approval.
Sources said nobody informed the Governor about the Onam celebrations or the procession held in Thiruvananthapuram. Though not a legal obligation, as per the convention, tourism minister meets the Governor in person and explains the details. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/11/governor-university-amendment-lokayukta-bill.html | 2022-09-11T12:13:01Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/11/governor-university-amendment-lokayukta-bill.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kannur: Minister for Local Self-Governments M B Rajesh on Sunday acknowledged that the stray dog menace is a grievous problem in the state and promised an action plan to put an end to the crisis.
"Around 30 centres are ready to sterilise stray dogs. Our effort is to see a solution with public participation," said Rajesh.
He said he would take up the issue with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan when they meet on Monday.
"The government has already taken concrete steps to deal with the stray dog menace in the state. It was decided to set up ABC (Animal Birth Control) centres in 152 blocks. In the case of domestic dogs, measures, including licensing, are being taken," said Rajesh.
There are a couple more measures that need to be carried out urgently to tackle the issue, he said. A detailed action plan would be formulated soon after consulting with the chief minister, he added. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/11/mb-rajesh-to-take-up-stray-dog-issue-with-cm-promises-action-plan.html | 2022-09-11T12:13:13Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/11/mb-rajesh-to-take-up-stray-dog-issue-with-cm-promises-action-plan.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who reached Kerala on Sunday as part of his 'Bharat Jodo Yatra,' will meet the Vizhinjam and SilverLine protesters on Monday. But he is not expected to travel to Vizhinjam.
Meanwhile, the Latin Church has decided to intensify the protest against the Porta at Vizhinjam in the coming days. A circular issued by Archbishop Dr Thomas J Neto, and read in churches on Sunday, said the protest was for just demands.
He urged all believers to participate in the march to Vizhinjam port next Sunday. This is the third continuous Sunday circular issued by the Church, seeking the laity's support for the protest.
The stir has already crossed 27 days, and the hunger strike launched as part of the agitation also completed seven days on Sunday.
After observing a ‘prayer day’ on Sunday, more protesters would join the agitation venue, saources said.
Another plan is to take out an awareness campaign starting from Moolampilly in Ernakulam district on September 14 to Vizhinjam, which is in Thiruvananthapuram. (Residents of Moolampilly were evicted from their homes for the construction of the transhipment port at Vallarpadom. There are allegations that many of those evicted got a rough deal fron the state.)
This march would be organised with the support of the Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Conference (KCBC) and various organisations representing fisherfolk and environmentalists. Kerala Latin Catholic Bishop Conference and Coastal Area Development Agency for Liberation would arrange this programme.
Yet another march is planned on September 18 from the Vizhinjam fishing harbour to the site of the port project. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/11/rahul-gandhi-bharat-jodo-yatra-vizhinjam.html | 2022-09-11T12:13:39Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/11/rahul-gandhi-bharat-jodo-yatra-vizhinjam.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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