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Soldiers Stationed at Camp Casey conduct a Ruck, Run and Walk in Remembrance of 9-11, Sep 11 2022 Camp Casey South Korea. During the September 11, 2001 attacks, 2,977 people were killed and more than 25,000 others were injured. Of the 2,977 fatal victims, 2,753 were killed in the World Trade Center and the surrounding area, 184 at the Pentagon, and 40 in Pennsylvania. (U.S. ARMY Video by Spc. Christopher Cameron)
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SUNDAY
Special worship service for Wesley Foundation: 10 a.m., First United Methodist Church, 1215 Gibbon St., followed by a potluck. Special guest Bishop Karen Olivetto will attend and preach. All are invited to reminisce with former Wesley Foundation members and meet the recent generation of the organization.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
MONDAY
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Albany County Historic Preservation Board meets: 6 p.m. via Microsoft Teams. To attend and receive an invite, email a request to kcbard@charter.net.
TUESDAY
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Albany County Republican Party meets: 6 p.m., Albany County Public Library.
Laramie City Council and Albany County Commission joint work session: 6 p.m., online only via Zoom, meeting ID 87511883969 and passcode 643546.
Casper Aquifer Protection Draft Plan public comment: 6-8 p.m., in-person at Laramie Municipal Operations Center at 4373 N. 3rd St. and online at Zoom; meeting ID: 81026310903, passcode: 280276.
Albany County Genealogical Society meets: 7 p.m., Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 3311 Hayford Ave. Free to attend and open to all. This month’s program is titled “The Tax Man Cometh — Using Tax Records to Solve Missing Ancestor Dilemmas.”
WEDNESDAY
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Open loom hours at University of Wyoming Art Museum: 3-5 p.m., 2111 Willett Drive. Free to participate.
Albany County Planning and Zoning Commission meets: 5 p.m., Albany County Courthouse, 525 E. Grand Ave., or via Zoom. For agenda and information on how to participate on Zoom, visit co.albany.wy.us.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
THURSDAY
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Open loom hours at University of Wyoming Art Museum: 3-5 p.m., 2111 Willett Drive. Free to participate.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
FRIDAY
Albany County CattleWomen meet: 11:30 a.m., location tbd. Visit wyaccw.com in the week before the meeting for location and more information.
Open loom hours at University of Wyoming Art Museum: 3-5 p.m., 2111 Willett Drive. Free to participate.
SATURDAY
Walk to End Alzheimer’s: 9 a.m., Optimist Park, with music and food following the walk.
Higher Ground Fair: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site in Laramie. A celebration of the six Rocky Mountain states and the native first nations that also call the region home. Proceeds from ticket sales (kids admitted free) help support Feeding Laramie Valley. Fore more information or to volunteer, call 307-223-4300 or email info@highergroundfair.org.
Sept. 18
Higher Ground Fair: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site in Laramie. A celebration of the six Rocky Mountain states and the native first nations that also call the region home. Proceeds from ticket sales (kids admitted free) help support Feeding Laramie Valley. Fore more information or to volunteer, call 307-223-4300 or email info@highergroundfair.org.
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
UW Faculty Recital Series free performance: 3 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. This free performance features Nicole Riner on flute and Chi-Chen Wu on piano.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Sept. 19
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Sept. 20
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Sept. 21
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Open loom hours at University of Wyoming Art Museum: 4-6 p.m., 2111 Willett Drive. Free to participate.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Sept. 22
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Sept. 25
UW Faculty Recital Series presents oboist Jennier Stucki: 3 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. Free to attend.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Sept. 26
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
America Sewing Guild Laramie Chapter meets: 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 1215 E. Gibbon St.
Sept. 27
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Sept. 28
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Open loom hours at University of Wyoming Art Museum: 3-5 p.m., 2111 Willett Drive. Free to participate.
Sept. 29
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Sept. 30
Downtown Laramie Farmers Market: 3-7 p.m., parking lot north of Depot Park on South 1st Street.
UW Music presents Duo Cintemani: 7:30 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. This free performance features a critically acclaimed flute-guitar group.
Oct. 2
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 3
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 4
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 5
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Casper Aquifer Protection Draft Plan public comment: 6-8 p.m., in-person at Laramie Municipal Operations Center at 4373 N. 3rd St. and online at Zoom; meeting ID: 85445790677, passcode: 626454.
Oct. 6
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Diabetes Support Group meets: 5:30-6:30 p.m. via Zoom. Email questions@ivinsosnhospital.org for the link.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Oct. 8
12th annual Kids Pumpkin Walk: Noon to 4 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site. A fun family event featuring outdoor activities, indoor games, education, candy, treats and plenty of pumpkins. Cost is $4 for adults, 17 and younger admitted free.
Oct. 9
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 10
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 11
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Albany County Republican Party meets: 6 p.m., Albany County Public Library.
Oct. 12
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Oct. 13
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Oct. 16
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Albany County Historic Preservation Board meets: 6 p.m. the second Monday of the month via Microsoft Teams. To attend and receive an invite, email a request to kcbard@charter.net.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 17
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 18
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 19
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Oct. 20
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Oct. 21
Albany County CattleWomen meet: 11:30 a.m., location tbd. Visit wyaccw.com in the week before the meeting for location and more information.
Oct. 22
Laramie Foster Closet Fall Fest: Noon to 5 p.m., Albany County Fairgrounds.
Oct. 23
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 24
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
America Sewing Guild Laramie Chapter meets: 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 1215 E. Gibbon St.
Oct. 25
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 26
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Oct. 27
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Oct. 30
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 31
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Nov. 1
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Nov. 2
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Nov. 3
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Diabetes Support Group meets: 5:30-6:30 p.m. via Zoom. Email questions@ivinsosnhospital.org for the link.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/announcements/whats-happening-sept-11-2022/article_f97926de-311c-11ed-99ef-a793e3c04fb0.html | 2022-09-11T12:17:23Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/announcements/whats-happening-sept-11-2022/article_f97926de-311c-11ed-99ef-a793e3c04fb0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Boomerang Writer
In a little house at 312 E. Custer St., families and neighbors are working to create a new legacy of community support in Laramie.
This is Robbie’s House, unveiled Thursday by founder Debra Hinkel and a team of volunteers who welcomed the public to take a tour the new community space that will serve as a clubhouse for people living with mental illness.
The nonprofit provides a place for people to make connections with others, whether it’s through attending an open studio art session, participating in peer mentorship or simply hanging out.
As the project gets off the ground, it will begin serving meals and exploring other ways to assist its members.
While the activities and services at Robbie’s House are just beginning to take shape, volunteers and friends at the open house were clear on one thing — it will be a place where anyone can come and feel they are a valued member of the community.
“We want to give (people with mental illness) the confidence to more easily interact in the community and give back in some way,” Hinkel said. “They need to feel like they are contributing members of society.”
Hinkel founded the organization in memory of her son, Robbie Ramirez, who lived with mental illness and was killed by an Albany County Sheriff’s Office deputy during a traffic stop in 2018.
During his life, Ramirez was an avid artist. He played classical guitar and creating visual artwork through pottery and a variety of other mediums. Elements of Ramirez are visible throughout Robbie’s House with his art on display throughout.
Hinkel said she’s recognized an affinity for art in many people with mental illness. With pottery and other art opportunities available, Robbie’s House emphasizes ways that art can be used for therapy and healing.
“His art was part of what really helped ground him,” Hinkel said of her son. “If (people) can have that reinforced, they feel like they have more value as a person. That’s the thing that’s tough as a person with mental illness, you wonder how valuable you are.”
This sense of value is what the volunteers at Robbie’s House want to bring to Laramie. Janell Hanson, who works with Hinkel in a local chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, highlighted the importance of providing an alternative healing method to medications and hospital visits.
“I think it’s much more complex,” Hanson said. “It’s a whole lifestyle, a support system.”
She said that when people with mental illness are locked away from society, they don’t have access to the grounding aspects of life such as creating art and interacting with nature. At Robbie’s House, these opportunities are emphasized along with a feeling of acceptance that is lacking in greater society.
“(It’s) having people believe you and hear what you’re saying without trying to make you into something different,” she said.
Helping each other
Advocation is something Hinkel connects to her son because of the way he was constantly willing to help others when the need arose.
One project Ramirez was heavily involved with was the 2017 addition to the local skate park. He dedicated entire days to helping build the park. When he wasn’t doing that, he was helping teach younger kids how to skate, Hinkel said.
The idea of lending a hand was an important one for the many residents who visited the open house Thursday. Some people brought art supplies to donate while others came to learn about the clubhouse and offer their support.
Leaders from the Albany County Sheriff’s Office, University of Wyoming Police Department and Laramie Police Department also made appearancesl.
The open house was just the beginning for Robbie’s House in its mission to support — and gain support from — the community. While right now the organization shares a space with Inner Balance Healing Centre, Hinkel’s business, the goal is to eventually have an entire building dedicated to the project.
With the exception of $9,000 raised from previous fundraising events, Hinkel has paid for the creation of the organization out of her own pocket. Robbie’s House will be asking for more donations of art supplies and money during a fundraiser scheduled for Oct. 13.
Hinkel is also in the process of helping the program’s new executive director, Haley Ragland, relocate to Laramie.
“Mental illness does not have to be a life sentence of misery,” Hinkel said. “But you need more than pills. You need community, and that’s what Robbie’s House is about.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/its-robbies-house-new-laramie-effort-fosters-healing-acceptance-of-mental-illness/article_420dab18-306e-11ed-ac24-770c896ba018.html | 2022-09-11T12:17:29Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/its-robbies-house-new-laramie-effort-fosters-healing-acceptance-of-mental-illness/article_420dab18-306e-11ed-ac24-770c896ba018.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Laramie County School District 1 is not only the state’s largest K-12 district, it has the biggest problem with school capacity overflow.
That was one of the messages to come from the State Construction Department School Facilities Division’s annual report and supplemental budget request. A group of state lawmakers were made aware of the problem across the state during a meeting Thursday of the Legislature’s Select Committee on School Facilities.
LCSD1 is the highest on the current capacity list with an overall district average of 95.6%. More than a third of the schools are over 100% capacity. Other school districts at the top of the current capacity list are in Natrona, Sweetwater, Lincoln, Sheridan and Teton counties.
“From a grandmother’s perspective, Laramie County School District 1 is totally overcrowded. Quite frankly, we’re bursting at the seams,” said Susan Edgerton, a trustee candidate in LCSD1. “We have many elementary schools that need complete tear-downs and rebuilds. Many were built in the ‘50s and ‘60s; their size and functionality no longer meets the needs of our community.”
She was one of the stakeholders who came forward to ask for solutions from the committee, as they considered the fiscal year 2023-24 supplemental budget request by the School Facilities Division. Although she and district officials from Teton County wanted legislators to take action as soon as possible, lawmakers said there is a process to go through and a limited amount of funds.
Condition and capacityThe School Facilities Commission creates condition, capacity and consolidated schedules that rank school district projects and renovations by priority.
Condition categorizes educational and non-conditional buildings based on an assessment that was last done in 2016, and $4 million was appropriated during the last budget session to complete the new Educational Facilities Condition Index before next summer. They identify facility needs that “impede the delivery of the prescribed statewide educational program” and remedies such as renovations, new buildings and demolitions.
LCSD1 has a significant number of schools built before the 1970s, and 10 out of the 20 schools in the state that are rated the poorest on the Facilities Condition Index are in Laramie County. Clawson, Hobbs, Fairview and Bain elementary schools are among the 10 worst. These scores are already six years old, and that doesn’t account for capacity.
There are eight schools at the top of the high-capacity needs list, which is calculated using projected enrollment and projected capacity. LCSD1 is the highest because Arp Elementary is currently at 154.2% capacity, and at a projected percentage for 2030 of 129.69%. Saddle Ridge Elementary, East High School and Sunrise Elementary School also are in the top of this list.
“They have two classrooms sharing a module. They have a reading specialist that is using a cleaned-out janitor’s closet. They have interventionists using tables set up in the foyer, where the bus drops off children before you technically get into the school building,” Edgerton said of Arp Elementary. “Ask them about their one faculty bathroom, the bathroom that, when it rains or snows, has a drip, drip, drip right over the toilet.”
Condition and capacity are calculated together to create the consolidated schedule that is used to decide which construction projects are funded first. The latest version has not been created because the newest conditions index is not finished. However, LCSD1 has nine out of the 10 buildings at the top of the most recent list. It puts Hobbs, Bain and Arp at the top.
Some legislators criticize the schedule and the formula that creates the list, though.
Sen. Stephan Pappas, R-Cheyenne, told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle after the committee meeting that he asked the Legislative Service Office to draft a bill before the next meeting that removes the consolidated schedule from statute, and puts it into the hands of the commission.
“They will hopefully do the heavy lifting and sort out among the 48 districts and among the hundreds of schools that we have which needs the top priority and capacity, and which needs the top priority and facility condition, and then somehow come up with a way to determine in both lists which ones will be forwarded to us,” he said. “What we’re putting into numbers is really more subjective.”
He is concerned the numbers are skewed in the consolidated schedule, because if a new building is at more than 100% capacity, it drops far down on the list.
Scheduling issues
This is one of the reasons Teton County school officials came before the committee, asking for millions from the state to help fund an education center, interior renovations and a new bus facility. Although their facilities are not deteriorating like other districts, they are at capacity, and their enrollment numbers continue to grow.
“We have already taken measures to deal with capacity in our schools,” Teton County School District 1 Superintendent Gillian Chapman and Trustee Janine Bay Teske wrote in a memo to the committee. “We have closed enrollment to out-of-county students, investigated addresses and knocked on doors to verify enrollment, changed elementary attendance boundaries and refused to enroll students who are not truthful about their residences.”
They said these aren’t easy decisions, but these measures are no longer enough. They showed pictures of students packed into hallways eating lunch, and showed the growing numbers of students enrolling. The district has a 100% or higher “cohort survival rate,” meaning that they gain students each year in all grade levels, rather than the typical pattern of declining enrollment. Those students will carry on until they graduate from high school.
Despite this fact, it will likely take years based on the current consolidated schedule before a new building is constructed there. They’ve found other funding sources, such as the mills from the Teton County Recreation District, requesting $16.5 million for the Bronx Achievement Center on the specific purpose tax ballot by agreeing to allow the community to use the facility, and knocked on doors for bake sales, but they still need close to $40 million from the state.
Sen. Bill Landen, R-Casper, and Sen. Chris Rothfuss, D-Laramie, were both struck by the stories from LCSD1 and TCSD1. They agreed with other committee members that they must inform the Appropriations Committee of the funding needed, as well as the issues with the schedules.
Rothfuss said it was a challenging frustration that Teton County is prevented from solving its own facility setbacks through statute, but he appreciated they brought forward the best solutions they could find.
“It feels like our select committee needs to communicate and inform our Appropriations colleagues of the issues that we have in two different districts,” Landen said. “Frankly, they are startling and concerning.”
Lawmaker pushback
Not every lawmaker and facilities official agreed with the counties asking for solutions to the schedule, or seeking additional funding, however.
School Facilities Commission Chairwoman Holly Dabb said she has heard the arguments from school districts to be pulled out of the formula and “considered special” for six years. She said she struggles with the issue, because the projections for Cheyenne have been slow growth.
“My job on the commission is to ensure all the children in the state have equal education and equal opportunities and equal facilities,” she said. “And we’re constantly being asked by each district to be considered special.”
She criticized LCSD1 because she said they have to take into account the formula, and if they are unhappy with capacity, they need to work on it at a local level. She said the local district needs to take local responsibility, and the voters have to get frustrated enough to vote in new trustees “with new thoughts, who hire new superintendents … they’re stuck with what they’ve got.”
Dabb also said LCSD1 was getting creative in trying to get more funding, such as having the PTOs buy air conditioners for the schools, even though they have one of the largest major maintenance reserves. She said the district didn’t want to put the money in because they wanted to drive down the index score.
“Figures don’t lie, liars lie,” Dabb said. “And they’re trying to manipulate it, so their only remedy is a new school, when they went in over budget on … I don’t even remember which school, probably all of them.”
LCSD1 officials didn’t return calls for comment by press time.
Rep. Tom Walters, R-Casper, didn’t specifically criticize districts, but said he did want to continue to use the commission’s process. He said that “unless we want to have week-long select school facilities committee meetings, we should continue with our process of letting the commission do their deep dive, do their investigative work and bring their suggestions to us.”
Walters also voiced his concern that if the Legislature meddled too much, it would result in lawmakers from Cheyenne, Casper and Gillette voting in the majority to put funds toward their communities. He said he wanted a well-balanced approach, and not to let individuals “verbally jump to the head of the line.”
He recommended a letter be sent to members of the Joint Appropriations Committee, educating them on the capacity issues and facility needs, but to otherwise leave things as they are. Walters pointed to the fact that they were also responsible for addressing the nearly $31 million the School Facilities Division requested in its supplemental budget to help with bids impacted by inflation, as well as major maintenance.
Next month is the last committee meeting before next year’s legislative session, and the lawmakers will have to make a final decision on its funding recommendations.
“I feel bias a little bit, at least from the chairman of the commission. I don’t know what the rest of the commission feels, but that concerns me,” Pappas said. “I don’t want to trump what they do, either. I think we have a system that needs to work, but we need the checks and balances, as well. I think we have to work hand in hand with them.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/school-capacity-concerns-brought-to-lawmakers/article_dee80cd8-3057-11ed-b727-eb10ef11d398.html | 2022-09-11T12:17:36Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/school-capacity-concerns-brought-to-lawmakers/article_dee80cd8-3057-11ed-b727-eb10ef11d398.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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For decades, coal has been king for Wyoming’s economy and America’s energy production.
As political and economic climates continue to change toward more diverse electricity production and green energy, the Cowboy State also has become a leader in carbon research and evolution.
To that end, a group of University of Wyoming scientists is working to push Wyoming’s dependence on mining fossil fuels into using the state’s abundant carbon deposits in other ways. The researchers believe there are a range of cleaner, more efficient uses for the mineral – and they are coming closer to bringing those products into daily life.
On Sept. 2, crews broke ground on a piece of land near Gillette that will soon become the site of a coal byproducts demonstration project. The UW Center for Carbon Capture and Conversion is leading the effort, partnering with Atlas Carbon and Wood for the leasing and engineering of infrastructure and technology.
The project will demonstrate how coal can be used to create a range of products, such as asphalt, bricks and soil amendments that don’t require the pollutive burning process used in energy production.
“We’ve got some other things that we can use coal for, and I’m a strong believer in repurposing something like that,” said Trina Pfeiffer, one of the researchers on the project. “It’s a natural resource; why wouldn’t you use it?”
A refinery is the result of investigations UW researchers began in 2016 to explore ways solvent extraction and pyrolysis could be used to create other useful things from coal byproducts.
Solvent extraction is when liquids are removed from coal. These liquids can be used to make asphalt for roads and shingles.
The process of pyrolysis includes heating coal at a temperature up to 1,562 degrees Fahrenheit to remove volatile matter, or “the material you don’t want,” Pfeiffer said.
The process creates a material called coal char, which can be used to create bricks and other building materials like insulation foam and concrete. The university already has built a small house made of char bricks, and grown corn and sugar beets with char soil amendment, which helps with water retention.
Once the pyrolysis unit is completed around the end of 2024, researchers will be able to demonstrate their work on a larger scale. This will mean transitioning from processing multiple kilograms of coal per day to multiple tons per day, Pfeiffer said.
The solvent extraction unit is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2025.
The products can provide environmentally friendly alternatives to materials that are already in common use, Pfeiffer said. Char bricks are cured by the sun, rather than in a kiln, which cuts down on carbon dioxide emissions. And unlike traditional asphalt, coal asphalt doesn’t use petroleum.
The solvent extraction process does emit some CO2, but researchers also are exploring ways to capture the harmful gas that’s produced in the project to reach a net zero emissions goal for the project.
While still in early stages, one piece of technology that could be used to capture emissions is a bioreactor that uses CO2 to feed algae. As the algae grows, it can be used as a soil amendment.
Economic impact
These new technologies come at a time when business leaders across Wyoming are scrambling to find ways to keep the state’s economy afloat as clean energy takes priority over coal.
“I think it really helps the future of coal,” Pfeiffer said. “It rebrands it into something that is not ‘evil.’”
Less than 15 years ago, coal accounted for 50% of the energy production in the United States, with more than 40% for that coming from Wyoming’s Powder River Basin.
That has done a 180-degree turn, with coal now accounting for 10.5% of the nation’s energy consumption, outpaced by renewables at 12.2%, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Overall, petroleum accounts for the largest slice of the U.S. energy diet at about 35%, with natural gas at 31.3%. Nuclear is the caboose on this train at about 8%.
The key to the UW project’s success will be creating a product that is affordable enough to appeal to a wide range of consumers, and doing it in a way that makes money for Wyoming, said UW economist Rob Godby.
Throughout Wyoming’s history with coal, the resource has been primarily used for one thing, Godby said – energy production. New technologies open the potential for the state to diversify its economy by offering a wide range of items that are made with the material.
“We could develop technologies that create demand for coal, but the real value in using that coal is turning it into higher-value products,” Godby said.
This could be a challenge, especially since the petroleum industry already creates so many materials with its byproducts, Godby said. Still, the effort would be well worth it in a state that relies on coal revenues for education and other services in the absence of a large tax base.
Pfeiffer said that while she doesn’t know whether the technology being developed and tested through the Gillette-area demonstration will keep all of the state’s large open-pit coal mines open, it has the potential to save some of the smaller ones.
“I believe in the program and the process, and I believe it could help the country, the world, and, closer to home, it’s going to help Wyoming a lot,” she said. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/cleaning-up-coal-uw-researchers-collaborate-to-demonstrate-byproduct-production-copy/article_d8bd8742-3071-11ed-8c21-6b15994e3699.html | 2022-09-11T12:17:42Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/cleaning-up-coal-uw-researchers-collaborate-to-demonstrate-byproduct-production-copy/article_d8bd8742-3071-11ed-8c21-6b15994e3699.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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CHEYENNE – Owen Sanchez scored a pair of goals to help the Laramie County Community College men’s soccer team to a 3-1 victory over Central Wyoming College on Saturday in Riverton.
Sanchez’s first tally was assisted by Leo Soto, while his second was unassisted. Daniel Barajas also scored on a penalty kick for the Golden Eagles.
“I am happy with our performance,” interim coach Fernando Perez said. “They showed up and played for 90 minutes.”
LCCC women 4 Central Wyo. 0
CHEYENNE – Freshman Macey Woolcock scored a pair of goals to help the Laramie County Community College women's soccer team to a 4-0 victory over Central Wyoming on Saturday in Riverton.
Woolcock scored in the first minute off a deflection. She added another goal off a deflection in the 63rd.
LCCC took a 3-0 lead in the 66 thanks to an own goal.
"We had a good meeting (Friday) night and were able to do some tactical board work to straighten some things out and let the players ask questions," interim coach Jim Gardner said. "This was a weaker team, but you could see them doing some of the things we talked about."
Freshman Cheyenne Kohlhagen – a Cheyenne South graduate – netted the Golden Eagles' final goal in the 84th.
LCCC outshot the Rustlers' 17-2 overall, including an 11-0 advantage in shots on goal. The Eagles also got 11 corner kicks. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/other_sports/lccc/colleges-lccc-men-win-at-central-wyoming/article_9f8e8900-3164-11ed-a7a4-7b9805673392.html | 2022-09-11T12:18:00Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/other_sports/lccc/colleges-lccc-men-win-at-central-wyoming/article_9f8e8900-3164-11ed-a7a4-7b9805673392.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming volleyball team came up short to conclude action at the Winthrop Tournament Saturday morning in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
The Cowgirls lost in four sets 25-20, 22-25, 27-25, 25-17 to the host Eagles to drop to 2-7 overall on the young season.
After losing the first set, UW got into a rhythm after a slow start to begin the second set. Trailing 7-3, the Cowgirls responded with an 11-5 run to lead 14-12. Wyoming bounced back a second time after Winthrop forced a tie at 21 to end the frame with a 4-1 run.
UW controlled much of the third set, leading by as many as six at 13-7. But the Eagles rallied to win the frame in extra points. Winthrop then seized control of the fourth set to secure the match.
KC McMahon led the Cowgirls with 10 kills. Tierney Barlow added nine kills and hit .412. Both players also added three blocks each. Corin Carruth and Naya Shimé chipped in with six kills each, with Shimé adding four blocking assists. Kayla Mazzocca led the Cowgirls defensively at the net with six total blocks.
Kasia Partyka notched a double-double with 36 assists and 11 digs. Hailey Zuroske led the Cowgirls’ back row with 17 digs. Winthrop outhit the Cowgirls .228 to .187 in hitting percentage and had five more service aces.
The Cowgirls will next host the UniWyo Invite on Thursday and Friday for their second home tournament of the season. It will be the final nonconference tournament for the Cowgirls with Nicholls State, Morehead State and Idaho visiting Laramie.
UW will play Nicholls State at noon and Morehead State at 6 p.m. on Thursday, and Idaho at 3 p.m. Friday. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/cowgirls-close-out-tourney-at-winthrop/article_7d390c9e-3138-11ed-bb0c-7f284d619ea8.html | 2022-09-11T12:18:06Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/cowgirls-close-out-tourney-at-winthrop/article_7d390c9e-3138-11ed-bb0c-7f284d619ea8.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
# Liste japanischer Fallenbeisser\nfiktiv im mithännojimunsei-Universum des Romanautors Ryõsã Okajima-Kinugasa.\n\n## Hintergrund: Handwerky der Landstraße (喬 人) von Yamau, Owajanaika\nYuu\n\nAnmerkunde/Queries\nAcht von zehner Killer. Wenigstimmigen, der CROCKERY TWP., Mich. — Deputies in Ottawa County are investigating what led up to a woman crashing a car in the yard of a private residence.
Deputies say the crash happened around 4:30 Sunday morning on Walker Avenue and 130th Avenue in Crockery Township.
The woman was driving a 2013 Mercedes Benz on Wilson avenue when she did not follow a curve, according to deputies.
The car then went into the woods before ending up in the yard of a private residence.
Deputies say the car hit a tree before rolling over several times.
The driver was injured and taken to the hospital.
Her condition is unclear. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/driver-injured-after-crash | 2022-09-11T12:23:25Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/driver-injured-after-crash | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Every week, Oprah is setting an intention exclusively for Oprah Daily Insiders, with reflections on topics like letting go, forgiveness, coming into your own, and more. Come back to this page each day for inspiration related to this week’s theme: living a life of service.
Hey, Insiders,
Happy Sunday to you. Please excuse my hair; I’m waiting on Nicole to come do it.
I consider myself a collector of quotes, and one of my favorite quotes ever is one from Martin Luther King, Jr., who said, “Not everybody can be famous, but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.” Y’all have heard me say that for years because it is my favorite quote, and I believe that in our hearts, in our purpose, we must all find a way to serve. So, whatever you’re doing with your life—whether you’re a lawyer, clerk, delivery driver—if you shift the paradigm to service, whatever you’re doing immediately shifts and success begins to follow you. So, you have to ask yourself, how can you use your work, your art, your life to be of service?
Living in service doesn’t have to be a daunting task. If you open yourself up to it, you’ll find what that means to you, and something is gonna spark within you. You don’t even have to start big. Start with what you can do right now, and I’m telling you, your life changes. “What else can I do?” That’s a question for us all. Remember, you’re not here to fix everything; you’re just here to fix what you can, to do your small part. All of us doing our small parts makes the whole.
We're having a service “The Life You Want” Class this Tuesday, September 13, at 7 pm Eastern time, right here on Oprah Daily. Joining me will be Van Jones, an attorney, author, political commentator known for the Van Jones Show on CNN, and Rebecca Welsh, the founder of the HALO Foundation, which provides shelter and educational opportunities to homeless youth. Both Van and Rebecca believe very much in this power of giving back, of service, and they have some really incredible ideas on how we can all engage in every day acts of service.
So, I’m hoping that you will think about how you can be of service to those around you, how you can be more of service in your own life, using your life as a service. It can be as simple as greeting someone with a smile, or going out of your way to let someone know what they mean to you. Not only will you be able to brighten their day, but it brings light into your own. I hope to see you this Tuesday, 7 pm Eastern for “The Life You Want” Class.
Go well.
Your Daily Dose of Inspiration
Unlock a new insight every day this week. | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/health/a41136662/oprah-life-of-service/ | 2022-09-11T12:28:52Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/health/a41136662/oprah-life-of-service/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Let’s hope for no surprises today. The 49ers are heavy favorites against the Bears in their season-opener. We’ll see if tight end George Kittle plays or not as he deals with a groin injury. Per Eric Branch of The San Francisco Chronicle, Kittle isn’t expected to dress. Kittle’s absence will be felt, but that shouldn’t be enough to hold down what many expect to be a potent offense. Plus, the Bears shouldn’t reach more than 14 points.
San Francisco 49ers (0-0) @ Chicago Bears (0-0)
Date: Sunday, September 11, 2022
Kickoff: 1:25 p.m. PT
Location: Chicago, IL
Network: FOX
Play-by-Play: Joe Davis
Color Analyst: Daryl Johnston
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You’ll get the 49ers/Bears game if you're located in the red-tint. This appears to be the nationally televised game in the early window.
Live streaming: FuboTV (Try for free here!)
Odds: 49ers -6.5 at DraftKings SportsBook
Total: 40.5
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This might be the lowest total in a game we see all year. It’ll take time for the books to adjust since they have nothing besides last year’s two underwhelming starts as a reference. I’d cautiously project this game to go under the total, with the score something like 49ers 23, Bears 14. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/11/23300396/49ers-vs-bears-live-stream-start-time-how-to-watch-tv-channel-schedule-odds-week-x-kickoff | 2022-09-11T12:31:06Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/11/23300396/49ers-vs-bears-live-stream-start-time-how-to-watch-tv-channel-schedule-odds-week-x-kickoff | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
49ers activate two players from practice squad for season opener
“Gipson Sr., meanwhile, faced the 49ers last year in Chicago as a member of the Bears....The former Pro Bowl safety wasn’t given a 53-man roster spot but has discernibly impressed the team, and appears he will get a shot on Sunday...It would not be a surprise if Gipson were to start on Sunday.”
Barrows: 49ers’ spotlight turns to Kyle Shanahan’s new right-hand man on coaching staff (paywall)
“[Mike McDaniel and Chris Foerster] speak the same language,” Juszczyk said. “Both of them have that creativity and they do a good job of presenting that information and being good teachers about it. A lot goes into learning our game plan each week and it has to be well taught. And I think both of those guys do a good job with that.”
“I feel like Chicago was the point in the season where it was special to a lot of people in this locker room,” Aiyuk said to NBC Sports Bay Area on Thursday. “I feel like it’s a crazy sign that we are going there to start off the season, so I’m super excited.”
Branch: Best news for 49ers’ Trey Lance may be that he’s playing Chicago in opener (paywall)
“Lance will face a largely unproven secondary that includes two rookie second-round picks — cornerback Kyler Gordon, 22, and safety Jaquan Brisker, 23 — and cornerback Jaylon Johnson, 23.”
Why Baldy isn’t concerned about George Kittle potentially missing 49ers-Bears
“But to be honest with you, if you think that losing George Kittle makes this game closer, then you’re not where you need to be,” Baldinger continued confidently. “They should be able to overcome the loss of George Kittle in this game. I’d be surprised if he plays. You just can’t afford to have anything linger into the second week.
“[Bears] fifth-round rookie Braxton Jones quickly ascended from developmental draft pick to starting left tackle during the offseason program and training camp. But outside of practice battles with Robert Quinn, Jones went relatively untested during the preseason.” | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/11/23346785/49ers-news-week-1-chicago-bears-pregame-trey-lance-debut-starting-quarterback-jimmy-g-aiyuk-deebo | 2022-09-11T12:31:14Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/11/23346785/49ers-news-week-1-chicago-bears-pregame-trey-lance-debut-starting-quarterback-jimmy-g-aiyuk-deebo | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Medway woman glassed another woman in the face after an altercation outside a pub. A row erupted after the victim said she couldn't understand Marie-Christine Fleurie's 'distinctive accent'.
Fleurie flicked a cigarette at the victim and her daughter when they were arguing outside the Marston Green Tavern in Solihull. Birmingham Crown Court heard the 'fracas' moved inside the venue where CCTV captured the 34-year-old raising her hand and red wine flying through the air.
The victim suffered a number of facial injuries including one which penetrated her eyeball and prompted initial fears it may have to be replaced with an artificial one, reports BirminghamLive.
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Fleurie, from Rochester, was set to go on trial on September 5, but admitted unlawful wounding on the basis she acted in self defence. She was handed a 16-month suspended sentence and is now sweating on keeping her 'project manager' job after being ordered to pay the victim £4,000 in compensation.
The attack took place around 10pm on February 21, 2020 when the victim, who had been dining with her family, went outside for a cigarette. Prosecutor Stefan Kolodynski stated Fleurie appeared to be 'worse for wear' and started speaking to her.
He said: "Due to Ms Fleurie's distinctive accent she found it difficult to hear. In a passing comment to her boyfriend she asked what the defendant was saying. Her impression was Ms Fleurie was already agitated.
"A verbal altercation quickly escalated and Ms Fleurie became confrontational and aggressive. At the time she had a cigarette in one hand and a wine glass in the other.
"She said: 'Watch it girl I'm a police officer'. The complainant responded that she didn't care if she was a police officer or not, there was no need to behave in the way she did. Angered, Ms Fleurie flicked a cigarette butt to her and her daughter hitting her daughter in the chest.
"It prompted the complainant to say 'what are you doing?'. It escalated into an argument and both began shouting."
The prosecutor added that the disorder moved inside the pub and CCTV captured 'the flash of red wine going through the air' after Fleurie moved the glass from one hand to another. The victim required multiple surgical procedures to her face, suffered irritation to her right eye months after the incident and had to wear an eye mask.
She also has scars from the incident and now feels uncomfortable in crowded places, the court was told. John Fitzgerald, defending, argued that Fleurie did not intentionally flick the cigarette at the victim and her daughter emphasising that she committed her crime whilst acting in 'significant self defence' to being attacked herself.
He said the university graduate had worked her way up from architect to project manager at her company and hoped to complete a masters degree in renewable energy. Mr Fitzgerald added: "But for this she is a hard-working lady. She looks back on that day with huge regret.
"She looks at the photographs and is horrified. She didn't want to do that to her."
The barrister told the court Fleurie had intended to move to Birmingham but had now abandoned that idea and had also quit drinking and going out. She was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work and pay £500 court costs as well as £4,000 in compensation.
Judge Heidi Kubik QC said: "I have seen the CCTV of the build-up to that evening. It does not present you in a good light.
"You could have walked away however I accept that I'm to sentence you on the agreed basis of plea that in the moments before the incident with which we are primary concerned, the complainant can be seen coming towards you with speed and you perceived the need to defend yourself. But you used excessive force in order to do so and you are responsible in law for unlawfully causing that significant injury."
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What to say about a TV awards show which snubbed the most popular drama on cable (Paramount Network's Yellowstone), the final season of the best drama on network TV (NBC's This Is Us) and the most promising emerging voice in late night television (Peacock's The Amber Ruffin Show) in its nominees for 2022?
I say: maybe the Emmy academy might need a little help picking out the best winners this time around.
Missteps like these are why I've created my own version of TV's greatest night: a selection of honors handed out by someone who actually had to watch most of the 559 original series which aired last year.
Move aside Emmys. It's time for The Deggys.
As the popularity of awards shows continues to falter, some might wonder if it's worth spending so much time and energy handicapping who wins what. But the Emmy awards has a long history of turning promising, underseen shows into hits – like All in the Family and Cheers – which could not be more important, given the deluge of programs flooding today's media market.
So here's one TV-watching professional's take on what SHOULD and what WILL win Emmy awards Monday night. It's my house and my rules, so anything goes – groupthink resisted and no slapping allowed (that's right: a certain Fresh Prince would have been shown the door if he dared attack anyone at The Deggys).
And, in a bonus for you readers, my list can also double as a handy guide to the best TV worth checking out, once the ceremony has ended.
Best Drama Series
Nominees: Better Call Saul (AMC); Euphoria (HBO); Ozark (Netflix); Severance (Apple TV+); Squid Game (Netflix); Stranger Things (Netflix); Succession (HBO); Yellowjackets (Showtime).
And the DEGGY goes to...Better Call Saul.
It is hard to believe that a show high-quality enough to get 46 nominations over six seasons has never won a single Emmy award. But that's the case for Saul, a Breaking Bad spinoff which powered to one of the best finales in TV history just last month. Producers of the show were crafty this year; they scheduled the first seven episodes of their final season within the Emmys' eligibility period earlier this year, then dropped the show's powerful last installments during final voting in August.
I think the appeal of Saul's achievements are more subtle – ping ponging between stories set mostly before and after the events of Breaking Bad, creating compelling new characters who stand as equals next to beloved figures from the Breaking Bad universe, and meticulously wrapping up the story of another character who seems like an antihero, but turns out to be a villain who is mostly fooling himself. So I don't have much hope that Saul will actually win anything, though racking up close to four dozen nominations without a win should get some kind of trophy beyond a DEGGY.
Okay, but who will ACTUALLY win? My gimmick for sussing out likely winners is to look at how many nominations the show has overall, which tells you how much the Emmy academy likes each particular show. Succession has the most nominations of any series at 25 — with a record 14 acting nominations — and the show's last season was a brilliant refinement of its acidly dry humor and telling corporate satire. So, as much as I'd love to see a quirky newcomer like Severance pull an upset, I think this category is Succession's to lose.
Best Comedy Series
Nominees: Abbott Elementary (ABC); Barry (HBO); Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO); Hacks (HBO Max); The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Prime Video); Only Murders in the Building (Hulu); Ted Lasso (Apple TV+); What We Do in the Shadows (FX).
And the DEGGY goes to...Abbott Elementary.
This show is everything I love to see in a vibrant new TV comedy: It's an incisive, mockumentary-style satire that leans into the sobering realities of modern teaching, yet somehow still manages to be sidesplittingly funny. And it's led by show creator Quinta Brunson, a hugely talented writer/executive producer/star riding the biggest hit of her career while looking like she's just getting started. Best of all, it's a creative hit on network television – which increasingly looks like it's given up on challenging the quality of streaming platforms – and it's one of the most ethnically diverse shows in contention, leading to about 15 percent of this year's non-white nominees in major performing categories.
Okay, but who will ACTUALLY win? Using my earlier calculus, it's the TV comedy with the most nominations, Ted Lasso, which snagged 20 nods this year. I disagree with critics who say the show had a sophomore slump last year; I think they deepened our understanding of Coach Lasso and why his breezy attitude hides a lot of pain, while allowing more supporting characters to step up.
Honorable Mention: Worth noting here that Barry actually took a lot more creative chances in its third season, producing some landmark episodes and camera shots (I'm in LOVE with the chase scene where Barry Berkman is pursued by a murderous gang on motocross dirtbikes across Los Angeles that star Bill Hader directed in episode six. If you haven't seen it, stop now, and go check it out). Frankly, thanks to moments like that one, Barry deserves the win a little more than Lasso.
Best Limited or Anthology Series
Nominees: Dopesick (Hulu); The Dropout (Hulu); Inventing Anna (Netflix); The White Lotus (HBO); Pam & Tommy (Hulu).
And the DEGGY goes to...Dopesick.
Among all the nominees here, Hulu's limited series is truly About Something. It lays out how America's opioid crisis sprung from the greed and ambition of a powerful family fed by unscrupulous salespeople, unwitting doctors, unsuspecting patients and overmatched prosecutors. The performances here are razor sharp, especially Michael Keaton as a sweetly dedicated doctor whose rural practice is upended by the crisis and Michael Stuhlbarg as the ruthless pharmaceutical executive whose sales practices fed it all. And the story remains compelling despite jumping back and forth in time and across multiple characters' histories.
Okay, but who will ACTUALLY win? Unfortunately, The White Lotus seems to have the most love in Hollywood, with its 20 total nominations and loads of industry support for performers like Murray Bartlett and Jennifer Coolidge. I hate the show's ultimate message — which seems to be that rich people will usually be terrible, especially to people who aren't rich, and never pay much of a price for it. And given that Coolidge is returning for the show's second season playing the same character, I'm not even sure why it qualifies as an anthology series, anyway.
Best Actor in a Comedy
Nominees: Donald Glover, Atlanta; Bill Hader, Barry; Nicholas Hoult, The Great; Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso; Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building; Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building.
And the DEGGY goes to...Steven Martin AND Martin Short!
Hey, it's my awards show, with my rules – and I love naming two winners in one category when they deserve it. The truth is, it's tough to separate what each of these two comedy masters contributes in creating Only Murders' uniquely entertaining vibe. The show is nominated for its first season, where Short's failing director Oliver Putnam got more backstory and better one-liners. But Martin's aging actor Charles-Haden Savage provides much of the engine of the series' mystery, including an unwitting relationship with the killer. Since I couldn't decide which performance I liked more, I decided NOT to decide.
Okay, but who will ACTUALLY win? Jason Sudeikis remains a favorite in this category, because Ted Lasso is so beloved. But I'm going to buck the system and say that Bill Hader is a likely winner here, simply because he took the most chances in building Barry's last season around the unmasking of his hitman-turned-actor as a psychopath who is increasingly dangerous, even to those he loves most.
Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Nominees: Patricia Arquette, Severance; Julia Garner, Ozark; Jung Ho-yeon, Squid Game; Christina Ricci, Yellowjackets; Rhea Seehorn, Better Call Saul; J. Smith-Cameron, Succession; Sarah Snook, Succession; Sydney Sweeney, Euphoria.
And the DEGGY goes to...Rhea Seehorn. As Best ACTRESS in a drama series.
In the same way Better Call Saul went five seasons without Emmy wins, Seehorn has inexplicably avoided nomination for her work playing one of the most complicated and self-possessed women on TV until now. So it makes sense that the show would submit her this year as a supporting actress – likely considered a less competitive category – despite her status as the most prominent female character on the show. I'm correcting that issue with her DEGGY; Seehorn's work playing the woman who walks away from her life as an attorney and as Saul Goodman's life to end their toxic partnership, is the best performance of an actor OR actress in a drama this year, so she's getting her flowers from me in the correct category.
The 74th Emmy awards airs at 8 p.m. Monday night on NBC and streams on Peacock, and is hosted by Kenan Thompson.
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The death of Queen Elizabeth II has elicited empathy from some British pop artists. Elton John, for instance, paid tribute to the queen at a concert earlier this week.
But the relationship between British pop and the late monarch has long been much more fraught.
Until the 1970s, the Queen of England pretty much only made innocuous cameo appearances in British pop songs. The Beatles' "Penny Lane" is a case in point, with the whimsical lyric, "Penny Lane, there is a fireman with an hourglass/And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen."
The sentiments changed after The Sex Pistols released "God Save the Queen" in 1977.
The song, which the punk band released in tandem with the Queen's Silver Jubilee, equates the monarchy with a right-wing dictatorship.
"It really is an indictment of the system," said Paul McEwan, a professor of media and communications at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, where he teaches a class on pop music history. "By using the title, 'God Save the Queen,' obviously you're invoking the national anthem and making it about more than just her."
McEwan said a slew of songs that followed in the 1980s — a time of high unemployment and unassailable class divides in the UK — continued to attack the queen for her symbolic status.
Including a comical scene that references a real-life break-in at Buckingham Palace ("So I broke into the palace with a sponge and a rusty spanner/She said, 'I know you, and you cannot sing'/I said, 'That's nothing, you should hear me play the piano'") "The Queen is Dead" by The Smiths pokes fun at Elizabeth. The 1986 track views the monarch as the figurehead of a dissolute empire.
McEwan said this wave of anti-monarchy music, largely driven by white people, subsided in the 1990s as this segment of the population's economic prospects started to improve.
"And so there's a little less of that deep anger, much as there's still plenty of poverty in Britain," he said.
But the financial pressures and racism faced by the country's many citizens with roots in Britain's former colonies largely continued to grow.
A new batch of songs targeting the queen by acts like slowthai and Bob Vylan have emerged in recent years from the UK's hip-hop community. These tracks are even more direct than their punk and alt-rock predecessors.
Slowthai's "Nothing Great About Britain" and "England's Ending" by the band Bob Vylan criticize the monarch's greed.
For example, the Bob Vylan track begins with a direct, f-bomb-laced order to kill the queen, and goes on to explain why:
"'Cause England's ending, death's still pending/Where's that money you spent?/Work all week, still work on weekends/Still can't pay my rent/Times are tough/I've had enough."
Bob Vylan frontman Bobby Vylan (the other band member, who plays the drums, goes by the name Bob Vylan) said the late monarch still owes a debt to Britain's Black and brown families.
"She never came to my house personally and took food out of my fridge," the rapper and songwriter said. "But our families, our community, our ancestors suffered at the hands of this monarchy."
Vylan said the band plans to perform the song on their upcoming U.S. tour this fall. Now that Elizabeth has died, they're considering updating the lyrics to talk about King Charles.
Meanwhile, former Smiths frontman, Morrissey, still apparently espouses anti-royalist sentiments. The cover of his recent solo album, Low in High School, shows a boy holding up a sign that says "Axe The Monarchy." But pop music scholar McEwan noted both Morrissey and John Lydon, the Sex Pistols' singer (known back then as Johnny Rotten) identify with far-right-wing politics these days. Lydon has been a vocal supporter of former U.S. President Donald Trump. Morrissey has shown allegiance with the far-right political party For Britain.
"It's an ugly turn," McEwan said. "I don't quite know what to make of it, that these two people who had these anti-monarchy songs, both became, really unusually for pop music, right-wingers."
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The death of Queen Elizabeth II has elicited empathy from some British pop artists. Elton John, for instance, paid tribute to the queen at a concert earlier this week.
But the relationship between British pop and the late monarch has long been much more fraught.
Until the 1970s, the Queen of England pretty much only made innocuous cameo appearances in British pop songs. The Beatles' "Penny Lane" is a case in point, with the whimsical lyric, "Penny Lane, there is a fireman with an hourglass/And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen."
The sentiments changed after The Sex Pistols released "God Save the Queen" in 1977.
The song, which the punk band released in tandem with the Queen's Silver Jubilee, equates the monarchy with a right-wing dictatorship.
"It really is an indictment of the system," said Paul McEwan, a professor of media and communications at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, where he teaches a class on pop music history. "By using the title, 'God Save the Queen,' obviously you're invoking the national anthem and making it about more than just her."
McEwan said a slew of songs that followed in the 1980s — a time of high unemployment and unassailable class divides in the UK — continued to attack the queen for her symbolic status.
Including a comical scene that references a real-life break-in at Buckingham Palace ("So I broke into the palace with a sponge and a rusty spanner/She said, 'I know you, and you cannot sing'/I said, 'That's nothing, you should hear me play the piano'") "The Queen is Dead" by The Smiths pokes fun at Elizabeth. The 1986 track views the monarch as the figurehead of a dissolute empire.
McEwan said this wave of anti-monarchy music, largely driven by white people, subsided in the 1990s as this segment of the population's economic prospects started to improve.
"And so there's a little less of that deep anger, much as there's still plenty of poverty in Britain," he said.
But the financial pressures and racism faced by the country's many citizens with roots in Britain's former colonies largely continued to grow.
A new batch of songs targeting the queen by acts like slowthai and Bob Vylan have emerged in recent years from the UK's hip-hop community. These tracks are even more direct than their punk and alt-rock predecessors.
Slowthai's "Nothing Great About Britain" and "England's Ending" by the band Bob Vylan criticize the monarch's greed.
For example, the Bob Vylan track begins with a direct, f-bomb-laced order to kill the queen, and goes on to explain why:
"'Cause England's ending, death's still pending/Where's that money you spent?/Work all week, still work on weekends/Still can't pay my rent/Times are tough/I've had enough."
Bob Vylan frontman Bobby Vylan (the other band member, who plays the drums, goes by the name Bob Vylan) said the late monarch still owes a debt to Britain's Black and brown families.
"She never came to my house personally and took food out of my fridge," the rapper and songwriter said. "But our families, our community, our ancestors suffered at the hands of this monarchy."
Vylan said the band plans to perform the song on their upcoming U.S. tour this fall. Now that Elizabeth has died, they're considering updating the lyrics to talk about King Charles.
Meanwhile, former Smiths frontman, Morrissey, still apparently espouses anti-royalist sentiments. The cover of his recent solo album, Low in High School, shows a boy holding up a sign that says "Axe The Monarchy." But pop music scholar McEwan noted both Morrissey and John Lydon, the Sex Pistols' singer (known back then as Johnny Rotten) identify with far-right-wing politics these days. Lydon has been a vocal supporter of former U.S. President Donald Trump. Morrissey has shown allegiance with the far-right political party For Britain.
"It's an ugly turn," McEwan said. "I don't quite know what to make of it, that these two people who had these anti-monarchy songs, both became, really unusually for pop music, right-wingers."
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Ukraine has retaken a number of villages in the country's east. These gains come as the operator of the Russian-held nuclear power plant said it will power down the last working reactor there.
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Bauchi State Governor, Sen Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir has stressed that the construction of ultra-modern markets across the state is part of the deliberate policy of his Administration to improve the economic fortune of the State.
The Governor was speaking on Saturday at the important occasion of the flag-off ceremony for the construction of the Azare ultra-modern market, saying, “Today’s occasion marks a milestone in the economic development of not only Katagum Local Government but Bauchi State at large”.
He said that “Since we came on board as a government in 2019 we have been making efforts to find ways and means of revitalizing and diversifying the economy of the State. To this end, the Azare Central Market, Bauchi Central Market, and Muda Lawal Market at Bauchi have been identified for upgrading to ultra-modern market status”.
According to him, “The upgrading of these markets would be done on a public-private partnership basis. Essentially, therefore, private firms would execute the project, with the State Government’s equity being the land on which the projects would be executed. This would allow the government to concentrate on other areas such as health, education, and security”.
The Governor said that this has been necessitated by the need for government to look inwards to generate revenue so as to reduce dependence on the Federal allocation for the execution of people-oriented programmes and projects.
He further said that in line with the decision to execute the project through a public-private partnership, the State Government has engaged Messrs Modern Shelter System and Services Limited to carry out the construction and upgrade of the Azare Market to an ultra-modern market.
“The market would be reconstructed in two phases. The first phase contains 648 shops, comprising lock-up shops, open stalls, warehouses, poultry section, and cold rooms. The project also contains the provision of fire service and security outpost, among others”.
He disclosed that the State Government has lined up various activities to promote trade, industries, and investment through the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Some of the activities to achieve that according to him include Encouraging Private Partnership in Government Initiatives saying that in order to stimulate, operate and enhance economic growth and development, government has offered various incentives to create an enabling environment for businesses to thrive.
The incentives include tax holding for pioneer status, Provision of free land for investors, Tax waiver for rural industries, Security, Infrastructure, and Establishment of Trade Facilitation Centre.
He further said that the State has keyed into the Federal Government’s policy of achieving effective implementation of World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement to improve synergy and collaboration among states aimed at removing bottlenecks in our trading environment.
“Consequently, approval has been granted for the establishment of Trade Facilitation Centre to achieve effective and efficient domestic trade activities by allowing free flow of goods and services at the right time, right place, and right price”, he added.
The Governor disclosed that Export Promotion Villages (EPVs) with which effort is being made by the State Government through the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to decelerate the rate of poverty and other socio-economic challenges among our people.
To this end, small and medium industries would be developed, using the abundant natural resources in the State through Export Promotion villages (EPVs) saying that pilot Export Promotion Villages have been identified at Alkaleri, Zaki, and Ganjuwa Local Governments.
He assured that when fully operational, the Export Promotion Villages would promote exportable products and Local Commerce, provide Job opportunities and enhance internal revenue for the Government.
Also, through the Nigerian Agri-Business and Agro-Industrial Development Initiative (NAADI), Bauchi State Government is making effort to implement the Nigerian Agri-Business and Agro-Industrial Development Initiative (NAADI).
The Initiative is aimed at developing the industrial and commercial sectors comprising highly productive and profitable commodity value chains while the ultimate goal of the Initiative is to accelerate the growth and diversification of the state’s economy into differentiated high-value products.
Bala Mohammed also said that the Bauchl-Gwana Cement Company Arrangement is being concluded for the take-off of the Bauchi-Gwana Cement Company, a project that was Initially proposed in 2011 pouting out that already, approval has been granted for the pursuance of license Exploration permit and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).
The Governor added that there are many other initiatives by the government toward the economic development of the State. Among the initiatives is the Kaura Economic Empowerment Programme (KEEP) which has been launched in 19 Local Government Areas including in Azare for Katagum Local Government.
He assured that an appropriate roadmap would be drawn by relevant MDAs for more economic revitalization programmes in the State appealing to the people of the State to continue to cooperate and support the government in its effort to diversify and consolidate the economy of the State.
In his remarks, the Emir of Katagum, Umar Baba Farouk commended the state government for the project which he said was long overdue considering the commercial nature of the area particularly its closeness to Kano and Maiduguri.
The Emir blessed the flag-off of the Azare Ultra-modern market and assured that the people will take advantage to boost their businesses which will in turn boost and increase the internal revenue generation of the state.
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The upcoming 28th Nigerian Economic Summit (#NES28) being organized by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) and the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning has revealed that it will focus on adopting green economy, blue economy, and forestry to tackle the effects of climate change.
Recently, NESG and the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget, and National Planning held a pre- 28th Nigerian Economic Summit (#NES28) event with the theme “Roadmap to Nigeria’s COP: A Pragmatic Path to Net Zero Using the Green Economy, Blue Economy & Forestry.”
In her welcome remarks, a Board member of the NESG, Ms. Ndidi Nwuneli, said that following the Kyoto Protocol, Nigeria developed a policy document for climate activities in 2012 titled the National Climate Change Policy Response and Strategy, which was later revised to define a new framework to guide the country’s response to the developmental challenges of climate change.
“Africa accounts for 6 percent of global energy consumption, and climate change significantly affects the environment and economy, especially in Africa.
However, Africa emits less than 4 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, but the continent seems to be receiving the brunt of the effect of climate change through flooding, severe storms, drought, and others,” she stated.
Furthermore, Ms. Nwuneli noted the importance of securing a pragmatic path to NET zero and addressing the energy transition path to Net zero.
She reiterated the importance of tracking Nigeria’s commitment as the country meets up to her end of the bargain, considering the current food crises and the link between climate and food production.
In her goodwill message, Dr. Magdalene Ajani, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Transportation, stated that it was essential to mitigate the impact of climate change and Nigeria has not determined a sectoral action plan, and it is imperative to utilize resources, time, and opportunity. Construction and energy infrastructure. Achieving net zero will require prioritized funding.
She said that the vision behind Nigeria’s transport policy is to provide fast, efficient services that will reduce greenhouse emissions through developing policies and provide links between different modes to promote intermodalism for transportation.
Dr. Anthony Nyong, Director of Climate Change and Green Growth Department African Development Bank (Climate Change), said that Nigeria can address its NetZero mission by utilizing Climate change & Green Economy, Blue Economy, and Forestry to achieve its objective.
He noted that this can be accomplished by transitioning to more efficient energy sources that focus on industrialization via scaling up the use of gas and blue hydrogen in the short to medium term and ultimately transitioning to green hydrogen as the primary industrial fuel by 2060.
On his part, founder and CEO of AO Blue Economy & Energy Consulting, Mr. Adekola Oyenuga, said that domestic and international climate change policies and deliberate steps towards energy transition have grown in leaps since the establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992.
He stated that there is a need for Nigeria to take complementary actions needed to tackle ocean plastics that threaten all life; therefore, plastics manufacturers, civil society organizations, coastal dwellers, and the need for government regulatory agencies to collaborate to minimize and control plastics use.
The director Centre for Climate Change & Development, Professor Chukwumerije Okereke, said that there is a need to understand the seriousness of climate change as it severely impacts the Nigerian economy.
He reiterated the need for Nigeria to leverage existing models to develop a system of energy use and storage needed to boost the trajectory of the transition to NetZero.
Director-general and CEO of the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA), Professor Aliyu Jauro, stated that NESREA issues permits and guidelines for emissions to ensure they don’t exceed limits, including environmental auditing to ensure they are environmentally friendly. He noted that another way to achieve NetZero is via the blue economy, which is expanding in terms of viability, needs, and opportunities.
He reiterated the need for Nigeria to reach NetZero by targeting natural capital development in mangroves and building projects to deliver sustainable livelihoods in communities while utilising the available energy transition plan – based on the abundance of gas or bioenergy- to support energy needs for industries.
Mr. Bankole Oloruntoba, CEO of Nigeria Climate Innovation Centre (NCIC), said that Nigeria has only extracted a fraction of her tourist space, saying that there is a need for considerable advocacy through incorporating indigenous knowledge and awareness creation to reduce water pollution.
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By lopsided and close scores the Bishop O’Connell Knights, Wakefield Warriors and Washington-Liberty Generals lost in high-school football action this past weekend.
* The Washington-Liberty Generals (1-2) lost 17-10 at home to the Chantilly Chargers on Sept. 9 in non-district action.
The game was tied at 7 thanks to an 85-yard touchdown run by Jackson Broadwell and Anthony Ceballos-Medina’s extra point. Chantilly then took a 17-7 lead, with W-L cutting the score to 17-10 on a 25-yard field goal by Ceballos-Medina.
The Generals had possession late in the fourth quarter with a chance to tie the game, but eventually turned the ball over on downs, then Chantilly ran out the clock.
Broadwell ran for 143 yards on 16 carries with W-L quarterback Ryan Jones completing 12 passes for 134 yards. Sean Guffey had four catches for 33 yards, Jackson Nowinski three for 57, Broadwell three for 18 and JoJo Sovula two for 26.
Lineman Elijah Hughes led the defense for W-L and David Harris had a sack.
“He was awesome,” Washington-Liberty coach Josh Shapiro said about Hughes on defense.
In W-L’s previous game, Hughes made 13 tackles, with six for losses, including two sacks. Jose Morales made 11 tackles in that contest.
* The Wakefield Warriors fell to 0-3 with a 37-7 non-district road loss to the W.T. Woodson Cavaliers on Sept. 9. Wakefield led 7-0 at the end of the first quarter on a 49-yard interception return by Kobe Davis and Mario Pinedo-Quiroga’s extra point.
Wakefield was hurt by 114 yards in penalties and the Warriors had under 100 total yards, including 54 passing by Shaan Rangra. Jordan Hickman and Antonio Smith each had one catch. Smith rushed for 12 yards to lead Wakefield.
* With a third-string quarterback at the helm, the Bishop O’Connell Knights turned the ball over seven times, including multiple interceptions, in a 38-0 loss to visiting Mount Zion Prep Academy on Sept. 10 in non-conference action. Mount Zion returned two interceptions for touchdowns.
O'Connell's starting quarterback and runningback missed the game with injuries, leaving the offense at a disadvantage.
O’Connell quarterback Jonathan Nguyen completed five passes for 68 yards, with Josiah Rose and Colin Harris catching two passes each. O’Connell had minus yards rushing and fewer than 100 total yards.
On defense for the Knights, Colin Richardson, Jai Thompson and Cameron Lee each made six tackles. Nate Harrison made five and Harris three. Cameron Lee and Samson Ogunade batted down passes and Aidan Munroe and Frank Johnson broke up passes. | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/a-tough-weekend-for-three-arlington-teams/article_d4e6e8f8-31c9-11ed-98b2-b73b602dd814.html | 2022-09-11T12:54:59Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/a-tough-weekend-for-three-arlington-teams/article_d4e6e8f8-31c9-11ed-98b2-b73b602dd814.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Langley Saxons and Potomac School Panthers earned their second victories in different manners in non-conference high-school football home games Sept. 9.
Langley (2-1) won in dramatic fashion by scoring a late eight points to defeat the Oakton Cougars, 21-14. Oakton fell to 2-1.
There was no such suspense for Potomac School (2-0), which led John Paul the Great 34-7 at halftime, a score that held until the final whistle.
For Langley, quarterback Brendan Mansinne scored on a one-yard sneak with 1:08 left in the game, followed by a two-point conversion run by Robert Roncskevitz, to put the Saxons in front. Roncskevitz and Blake Thompson each recorded sacks on Oakton’s ensuing possession that ended with a failed fourth-down pass.
Langley’s first two touchdowns were a 71-yard Mansinne-to-Connor Campbell pass, then Roncskevitz 10-yard reception from Mansinne. Daren Mosleh booted one extra point.
The Saxons gained 259 total yards and Oakton had 206.
Mansinne was 16 of 26 passing for 164 yards and he ran for eight more. Chur-Yong Mun was Langley’s leading rusher with 82 yards and Roncskevitz ran for 17.
Mosleh had five catches for 32 yards. Campbell, Mun and Dustin Mosleh each had three catches and Roncskevitz two.
On defense for Langley, Luke Watson had an interception.
Oakton’s touchdowns came on scoring passes, but no other details or statistics were provided by the team.
In Potomac School’s win, the Panthers amassed some 411 total yards, including 254 rushing. Nick Webster rushed for 112 yards, Drew Turner for 85 and two touchdowns, Marcel Gaskins for 49 and Andrew Lay for eight.
Quarterback Cam Boykin was 7 of 9 passing for 157 yards and three TDs. Lay had three catches for 110 yards and two scores, Turner had two for 19 and a TD, and Jack Judd and Mack Repke had one catch each.
On defense, Max Gyllenhoff had nine tackles (three for losses and 11/2 sacks and forced a fumble), Judd made five tackles (11/2 sacks), Nathan Alexander had four tackles and an interception, E.J. Schneeberg had four tackles, Aidan Cullinan made three, and David Hyde and Jeremy DeLaVille two each. Both of Hyde’s tackles were for losses and he forced two fumbles.
“It was a fun atmosphere for our home opener,” Potomac School coach C.J. Remmo said. “I’m proud of the way our guys played, but we need to clean up our mistakes and eliminate penalties.”
* The Madison Warhawks fell to 0-3 with a 14-11 non-district road loss to Yorktown Patriots on Sept. 9.
Madison led in the game, but was hurt by four turnovers and penalties.
“Turnovers really hurt Madison. They had some critical ones at big times,” Yorktown coach Bruce Hanson said.
Orion Luera booted a 27-yard field goal for Madison and Angelo Jreige rushed for 95 yards and a six-yard touchdown, along with a two-point conversion. Madison quarterback Mac Lewis was 12 of 20 passing for 118 yards. Sonny Endicott had five catches for 59 yards and Cord Yates three for 11.
On defense for Madison, Luera, Eric Anderson, Kevin Chadwick, Michael Delgado, Jakob Green, Matthew Remy, Luke Jarvis and Nick Murphy were leading tacklers and Grant McVicker had an interception.
* The McLean Highlanders fell to 0-3 with a 14-6 home loss to the Edison Eagles in non-district Sept. 9 action. McLean trailed 14-0 after three periods, rallied to within 14-6 and had a chance to tie the game in the final minutes, but threw an incomplete pass on fourth down from the Edison 12-yard line with seconds to play.
* The Marshall Statesmen (1-2) lost to the visiting Westfield Bulldogs, 16-14, Sept. 9. Marshall cut the lead to 16-14 with 3:09 to play but could not get the ball back.
Marshall quarterback Jeff Ryder was 18 of 29 passing for 197 yards and two touchdowns, going to Owen Buhrman (two catches, 84 yards) and Owen Lebkisher (four catches, 28 yards). Lebkisher also rushed for 76 yards and made six tackles on defense.
Ryder rushed for 43 yards and Jack Peksens had nine catches for 68 yards.
On defense for Marshall, Ali Lakta made seven tackles and Zain Hossain, Colin Bell and Christos Proctor five each.
* The Flint Hill Huskies (0-2) took a 7-0 lead against the visiting Paul VI Catholic Panthers on Sept. 9, but eventually lost 34-7, despite gaining 361 total yards.
On defense, Flint Hill gave up a number of long running plays.
Andrew King had 122 yards rushing in defeat and quarterback Ty Harris was 14 of 31 passing for 176 yards. Brooks Martin had six catches for 36 yards, Vic McNeal had four for 49 and King and Josh Clarke each had two catches, one for a touchdown. Jeffrey Wells rushed for 20 yards and backup quarterback Matt Harper for 19 and he completed one pass. | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/langley-potomac-school-earn-second-victories/article_4a93eeda-31c9-11ed-a943-f74c44bef0ad.html | 2022-09-11T12:55:05Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/langley-potomac-school-earn-second-victories/article_4a93eeda-31c9-11ed-a943-f74c44bef0ad.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Watch: U.S. marks 21st anniversary of 9/11 attacks
WASHINGTON - Americans are remembering 9/11 with moments of silence, readings of victims' names, volunteer work and other tributes 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil.
Victims’ relatives and dignitaries will convene Sunday at the places where hijacked jets crashed on Sept. 11, 2001 — the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
Other communities around the country are marking the day with candlelight vigils, interfaith services and other commemorations. Some Americans are joining in volunteer projects on a day that is federally recognized as both Patriot Day and a National Day of Service and Remembrance.
The observances follow a fraught milestone anniversary last year. It came weeks after the chaotic and humbling end of the Afghanistan war that the U.S. launched in response to the attacks.
But if this Sept. 11 may be less of an inflection point, it remains a point for reflection on the attack that killed nearly 3,000 people, spurred a U.S. "war on terror" worldwide and reconfigured national security policy.
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It also stirred — for a time — a sense of national pride and unity for many, while subjecting Muslim Americans to years of suspicion and bigotry and engendering debate over the balance between safety and civil liberties. In ways both subtle and plain, the aftermath of 9/11 ripples through American politics and public life to this day.
An American flag hangs from the side of the Pentagon to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks,as seen from the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial on September 11, 2021, in Washington,DC. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
And the attacks have cast a long shadow into the personal lives of thousands of people who survived, responded or lost loved ones, friends and colleagues.
More than 70 of Sekou Siby's co-workers perished at Windows on the World, the restaurant atop the trade center's north tower. Siby had been scheduled to work that morning until another cook asked him to switch shifts.
Siby never took a restaurant job again; it would have brought back too many memories. The Ivorian immigrant wrestled with how to comprehend such horror in a country where he'd come looking for a better life.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 11: American flags are seen on the names of victims of the 9/11 terror attack during the annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum on September 11, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Mich
He found it difficult to form the type of close, family-like friendships he and his Windows on the World co-workers had shared. It was too painful, he had learned, to become attached to people when "you have no control over what’s going to happen to them next."
READ MORE: Many 9/11 first responders still fighting for health benefits 21 years later
"Every 9/11 is a reminder of what I lost that I can never recover," says Siby, who is now president and CEO of ROC United. The restaurant workers' advocacy group evolved from a relief center for Windows on the World workers who lost their jobs when the twin towers fell.
On Sunday, President Joe Biden plans to speak and lay a wreath at the Pentagon, while first lady Jill Biden is scheduled to speak in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where one of the hijacked planes went down after passengers and crew members tried to storm the cockpit as the hijackers headed for Washington. Al-Qaida conspirators had seized control of the jets to use them as passenger-filled missiles.
Vice President Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff are due at the National Sept. 11 Memorial in New York, but by tradition, no political figures speak at the ground zero ceremony. It centers instead on victims' relatives reading aloud the names of the dead.
President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff attend a wreath-laying ceremony with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley at the Nationa
Readers often add personal remarks that form an alloy of American sentiments about Sept. 11 — grief, anger, toughness, appreciation for first responders and the military, appeals to patriotism, hopes for peace, occasional political barbs, and a poignant accounting of the graduations, weddings, births and daily lives that victims have missed.
Some relatives also lament that a nation which came together — to some extent — after the attacks has since splintered apart. So much so that federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which were reshaped to focus on international terrorism after 9/11, now see the threat of domestic violent extremism as equally urgent. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/biden-commemorates-9-11-anniversary-pentagon-2022 | 2022-09-11T13:15:35Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/biden-commemorates-9-11-anniversary-pentagon-2022 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Man found fatally shot in head in car on South Side
CHICAGO - A man was found dead in a car on Chicago's South Side in Englewood early Sunday.
Chicago police found an unidentified man in the passenger side of a car in the 7000 block of South Ada Street around 12:20 a.m. after reports of someone slumped over the wheel.
Police say the victim had gunshot wounds on the left side of his head and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Wrong-way crash leaves 2 dead on DuSable Lake Shore Drive in Lincoln Park
CHICAGO - Two people were killed in a fiery wrong-way crash on DuSable Lake Shore Drive in Lincoln Park early Sunday.
Police say the crash happened around 2:20 a.m. in the 2000 block of North DuSable Lake Shore Drive when a man in a white sedan entered the northbound lane traveling south.
The man hit a man in a silver sedan head on.
The driver of the white sedan was taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital with blunt force trauma to the body in critical condition. He died from his injuries a shot time later.
The driver of the silver car also suffered blunt force trauma and the vehicle caught fire. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Monroe County history: Amendt Milling dates back to 1840
The Amendt name began to be associated with flour and milling in Monroe in 1895. However, the history of the Amendt Milling Company actually traced its origins back to 1840 as the Monroe City Mills – as described in Bulkley’s History of Monroe County Michigan. Monroe City Mills also paid homage to the first flour ever shipped out of Michigan to the East on Lake Erie to the Erie Canal. That shipment was a consignment of 200 barrels manufactured at the Waterloo Mills by Miller and Jermain of Monroe in 1827.
George A. Amendt capitalized on Monroe’s status as both an agricultural center and growing industrial center of the Midwest by processing and shipping large amounts of processed flour products to customers in both the Eastern and Southern U.S. To that point, Bulkley wrote, “[The Amendt Milling Company], in 1912, is using 500,000 bushels of wheat, about 300,000 bushels of corn and nearly 1,000,000 bushels of oats. They employ the utmost capacity of four elevators, located in Ida, Petersburg, Newport and Monroe, besides one lately acquired in Ohio. The demand for the various grains raised in Monroe County and adjacent territory makes this one of the best markets in the state and one of the most active manufacturing establishments in Southeastern Michigan.”
During the early part of the 20th century, Amendt was an active participant in Michigan’s flour milling industry. In 1909, Amendt reported to the journal Flour & Feed, “As regard to present conditions, I would say that our business is very good; we have kept our plant running steadily, and we have been able to purchase and keep ahead a good supply of wheat.” Additionally, Amendt, as President of the Michigan State Millers Association told participants at the meeting in Detroit on July 9, 1919 at the Cadillac Hotel that Michigan millers should add a 7 to 8 cents handling charge to the cost of making flour to cover rising costs.
The Amendt Milling Company capitalized on Monroe’s association with the Lotus flower by branding its signature product “The Lotus Flour”. Other Amendt brands of the era included “Jewel Pastry Flour”, the AMCO group of grain products (scratch grain, egg mash, bakers patent flour, chicken feed, cracked corn, etc.). These products later expanded into the production of popular baking mix products, including cake mixes, pancake mixes, brownie mixes, pizza crust mixes, and coating mixes. Many of these Amendt products carried the “County-Fare” brand along with private label branding sold to leading U.S. retailers.
The Amendt Milling Company continued acquisitions in the early part of the 20th century -- acquiring assets of the Coombs Mills in Coldwater, Michigan in 1917. Coombs operated three mills beginning prior to the Civil War and sold products under the “Rob Roy” brand. Products continued to be produced by the Amendt Milling Company until it was sold in 2005 to the LBMP and Loretta Food Group Inc., a conglomerate based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
In Monroe, the Amendt Milling Company’s original plant retains an iconic physical presence in Monroe’s downtown. According to the Monroe County Museum website, “At 317 West Front Street, you will see the remains of an old factory with the words “Amendt Milling Co.” above the door and “Home of the Lotus Flour” still faintly visible on the exterior. …Its presence in Monroe is a reminder of the significant dual role that Michigan played during the Civil War [and later] as an industrial center, and an agricultural supplier. … Consider the vital role that communities such as Monroe played in both the industrialization and maintenance of agricultural practices that made Michigan unique…”
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Baramulla (J-K): As he prepares to launch his party, former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday said he will not mislead the people over the issue of Article 370 as only a government with a two-t"Azad knows what can and cannot be done. I or the Congress party or three regional parties cannot give you back Article 370, neither can (TMC chief) Mamata Banerjee, or DMK or (NCP chief) Sharad Pawar," Azad said in his maiden rally in Kashmir Valley after quitting the Congress last month.
The former Union minister said he will not raise issues over which he has no control.
"Some people have been saying that I don't talk about Article 370. I want to tell them that Azad does not befool people for electoral gains," the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said at the public meeting at Dak Bungalow Baramulla in north Kashmir.
"I swear before God that I will not mislead you. I will not raise such slogans or issues over which I have no control," he said.
Azad said only a party with a two-thirds majority in Parliament can restore the special status of the erstwhile state which was revoked by the Centre in August 2019.
"Congress party hasn't been able to achieve more than 85 Lok Sabha seats in the last ten years. Its strength is decreasing in the Rajya Sabha with every state loss...
"I don't think the Congress can get over 350 seats in the Lok Sabha elections," he said.
"Where from can I get it? Why mislead people," he added.
The former J-K chief minister said he would not promise the moon and stars to the people but only those things that can be achieved.
"I or the Congress party or three regional parties cannot give you back Article 370...," he added.
Azad, who ended his five-decade-long association with the Congress last month, said he will announce the formation of his new political party within 10 days and asserted that its ideology will be "independent".
The former Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha said his party will focus on restoration of statehood to J-K, giving exclusive rights over jobs and land to its people and bringing development.
Referring to Apni Party president Altaf Bukhari's allegation that Azad had voted in favour of the abrogation of Article 370, he said Bukhari should first understand how Parliament works.
"I voted against the Bill brought by the Home Ministry for the revocation of Article 370," Azad said. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/11/article-370-ghulam-nabi-azad.html | 2022-09-11T13:22:33Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/11/article-370-ghulam-nabi-azad.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Photo quiz: Name the iconic location in Monroe County
Blake Bacho
The Monroe News
Each week, The Monroe News will feature an obscured photo of an iconic location somewhere in Monroe County. Try to guess the location using your knowledge of the region and the clues provided, and the answer will be revealed next Sunday. Have a suggestion for a location that would be perfect for a future edition of 'Where in Monroe County?' Snap a photo of it and email it to Blake Bacho at bbacho@gannett.com.
This beautifully faded lettering is located on the outside of an historic-yet-modernized downtown building - but in which downtown? Answer that, and the folks inside would be more than happy to tell you all about the art of small town living. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/history/2022/09/11/where-in-monroe-county/68011669007/ | 2022-09-11T13:22:34Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/history/2022/09/11/where-in-monroe-county/68011669007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Healthy lunch box: Foods that will sustain your child (or you) throughout the school day
The start of a new school year seems like the perfect time to talk about how to assemble a healthy lunch box.
The importance of planning lunches is of great benefit to learning, and the foods packed should sustain the student throughout the school day.
But the healthy lunch box also extends to the adult who packs their lunch daily. The following brief descriptions are a guideline that will keep you within the healthy parameters to keep learning days and work days heightened:
Choose fresh vegetables like carrots, cucumbers, broccoli, bell pepper strips, asparagus spears, summer squash, or grape tomatoes, and fresh fruit like grapes, apple slices, melon chunks, berries or banana slices.
Choose a grain –whole grain is preferred. Examples are whole grainpasta, bread, and crackers, brown rice, quinoa, and steel-cut oats.
Choose a dairy, such as Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, soy milk, or soy yogurt. Calcium and Vitamin D areessential to youth, but adults need it as well for continued bone health.
You should eat about 10-to-35 percent of your daily protein intake at lunch time. Good sources of protein include beans, nuts, seeds, peanut butter, hummus, roasted turkey or chicken, or hard-boiled eggs.
According to Narayana Health, "A balanced diet should offer around 60-70 percent of total calories fromcarbohydrates, 10-12 percent from proteins and 20-25% of total calories from fat."
Healthy eating increases energy, improves the way your body functions, strengthens your immune system and prevents weight gain. Also remember that presentation - select items that complement each other, and keep the student and adult alike coming back each day for tasty varieties. And, of course, remember to drink plenty of water not just at lunch, but throughout the day.
Here are a few easy and healthy recipes that you will enjoy incorporating in that daily lunch box for both kids and adults.
The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates once said "Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food."
With this, I could not agree more!
Jacqueline Iannazzo-Corser is a contributing writer to The Monroe News, writing about food and recipes. She is a chef, co-owner of Public House, Culinary Specialist at the Opportunity Center at the Arthur Lesow Community Center, and an adjunct professor of culinary arts at Monroe County Community College. She can be reached at dunbar221@yahoo.com.
Protein Roll Ups1 Serving
Ingredients:
- 1 whole wheat tortilla
- 1 slice turkey, chicken, or ham
- 1 slice cheddar (white or yellow)
- 1/2 c. spinach
- 1 tbsp. mustard
- 1/4 c. almonds
- 1/3 c. carrots
- 1 c. grapes
- 1/4 c. pickle chips
- 1 hard boiled egg
Directions:
- Spread mustard onto your tortilla. Top with turkey, chicken or ham, cheddar cheese, and spinach.
- Roll into a pinwheel and slice into rounds.
- Place in a container or wrap.
- The almonds, carrots, grapes, egg, and pickle chips are your sides to accompany the sandwich.
Note: you can cut sandwich in half if pinwheels are not desired. You mayincorporate some of your sides into the sandwich as well.
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Tuna or Chicken Delight on Lettuce BedServe in a Lunch Box Bowl3 to 4 Servings
Ingredients:
- 2 tbsp. mayonnaise
- 2 tbsp. plain Greek yogurt
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- 2 - 6oz. cans tuna or chicken packed in water
- ¼ red onion chopped small
- 2 dill pickles, finely chopped
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Leaf lettuce
Directions:
- In a large bowl, whisk together mayonnaise, yogurt, lemon juice, and hot sauce (if using).
- Drain tuna then add to mayonnaise mixture.
- Using a fork, flake the tuna.
- Add red onion and pickles and toss to combine.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Serve on leaf lettuce bed
Note: Choose a cracker or bread stick for grain.
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Egg Meet Avocado
4 Servings
Ingredients:
- 6 hard-boiled eggs
- 1 to 1 1/2 avocado (ripened)
- 1 tablespoon Greek yogurt (or any plain yogurt)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice (optional)
- 1 teaspoon yellow mustard
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Grain bread or wrap
Directions:
- In a medium bowl peel and pit avocado.
- Mash until completely smooth.
- Add yogurt, lemon juice, mustard, salt and pepper to taste
- Stir to combine.
- Add eggs, then stir until ingredients are thoroughly mixed.
- Add a scoop of egg salad to wrap or bread.
Note: Accompany with carrots, celery, and cherry tomatoes. Use the Greek yogurt for a great veggie dip.
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Spinach and Strawberry Sandwich
1 Serving
Ingredients:
- Grain bread or wrap
- 2-4 oz. deli turkey, chicken
- 5-6 strawberries sliced thin
- ½-1 cup of baby spinach
- ½ avocado sliced thin
- ¼ cup of bean or alfalfa sprouts
- Goat cheese or cream cheese, if desired
Instructions:
- Lightly spread either goat or cream cheese on both pieces of grain bread. If using a wrap, spread lightly on interior.
- Evenly layer turkey, strawberries, avocado, spinach and sprouts on top of the two slices of grain bread.
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Why we may or may not be in a recession
So are we in a recession or not? Well, a few weeks ago, I predicted that fears of a recession were greatly exaggerated. While I could be wrong, I am not wrong yet. Now, let’s take an objective look at the factors in play here.
First, what is a recession? According to economists, a recession occurs when gross domestic product (GDP) declines for two consecutive quarters. This just happened. But hold your horses, do not declare a recession just yet. That job belongs to a group of eight economists, who serve on the Business Cycle Dating Committee, part of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), who are charged with this official responsibility. Surprisingly, this group is not even part of the government; they are a private nonprofit. According to them, there’s no steadfast rule governing what defines a recession in the United States and they are yet to use the "recession" label. According to an article by Jessica Dickler on CNBC.com, they say a recession “involves a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and lasts more than a few months."
Now, let’s see if we can sort this out for ourselves.
On one hand, GDP, the broadest measure of economic output, declined for two consecutive quarters, raising recessionary concerns. On the other hand, the job market remains very strong, telling us the economy is still robust. Ten out of the last 10 times the U.S. economy shrank for two consecutive quarters, the U.S. economy was declared to be in a recession. But massive job losses occurred during seven out of the past seven recessions, and that's not happening now.
So are we in a recession? Not likely. Here are reasons why we may or may not be.
Why we may not be:
- Employment. The job market remains strong, with unemployment at 3.7%. According to CNN Business, as of June, 98% of jobs lost during the pandemic had been recovered. Unemployment has remained at its historic lows in 2022, and the US economy has added 2.2 million jobs since January — nearly the fastest growth on record. In May, there were about two open positions for every job seeker, along with historically low levels of layoffs. The economy is creating almost 400,000 jobs a month, and paychecks in June were also growing.
- Consumer spending is still rising as people spend more, but that could be due to higher prices (inflation).
- Consumer confidence rose by more than forecasted in August to the highest since May, suggesting that Americans are growing more optimistic about the economy amid falling gas prices. The Conference Board’s index increased to 103.2 reading in July, the first increase in four months. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for a rise to 98.
- Supply chain issues are mostly resolved to the point where some companies have stockpiles of inventory, which means they could lower prices to get rid of them.
- Gas prices are beginning to decline and have done so for the past several weeks.
Why we may be:
- Inflation is at historic highs and eroding consumer spending power. U.S. consumer prices surged to a new pandemic-era peak in June, jumping by 9.1% year over year, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Savings: Money is tight in many U.S. households. New data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows Americans are saving much less than they did a year ago. In May, Americans saved just 5.4% of disposable personal income, down from 12.4% year over year.
- Interest rate hikes. To counter inflation, the Federal Reserve has hiked interest rates. Higher rates keep prices in check but slow the economy down and may cause a recession.
Other factors at play include the volatility of the stock market, swings in consumer confidence, shocks caused by international incidents such as the war in Ukraine, the pandemic, and unforeseen erratic weather and natural disasters. There is so much uncertainty, but all we can do is hope for the best.
Kojo Quartey is president of Monroe County Community College and an economist. He may be reached at kquartey@monroeccc.edu. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/09/11/kojo-quartey-why-we-may-not-be-in-recession/66874760007/ | 2022-09-11T13:22:58Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/09/11/kojo-quartey-why-we-may-not-be-in-recession/66874760007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Mumbai: Workers of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's camp clashed with each other here in the early hours of Sunday, officials said.
After complaints from the two groups, Mumbai Police registered First Information Reports (FIRs) against 10 to 20 members of both the sides, including local MLA Sada Sarvankar, they said.
The Dadar police also arrested five Sena workers who were later released on bail, they said.
The incident took place around 12.30 am in New Prabhadevi area in which Sena functionary Santosh Talavane was allegedly attacked by Mahesh Sawant and 30 others, police said.
Talavane is part of the Shinde camp, while Mahesh Sawant belongs to the Thackeray-led Sena.
Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant, who supports former chief minister Thackeray, demanded action against Shinde camp legislator Sada Sarvankar under the Arms act for allegedly firing in public at the clash spot.
After meeting officials at Dadar police station following the arrest of workers of the Uddhav Thackeray faction, the parliamentarian said if those arrested are not released and action is not against Sarvankar, his party will take to streets and people will know which is the "real Shiv Sena".
He said after the Ganesh immersion, there was an argument and workers of the two Sena factions clashed around midnight.
Arvind Sawant alleged that Sarvankar verbally abused the rival group and fired twice in public. The Sena spokesperson also claimed that police were a witness to it.
"When our workers went to Dadar police station to lodge a complaint, it was not accepted," he said.
Leader of Opposition in the state Legislative Council Ambadas Danve, who was present with Arvind Sawant at Dadar police station, told reporters that one-sided action by police cannot be tolerated.
"If both sides are at fault, action should be against both. We lodge a complaint, it is ignored. But when the other side complaints, our people are arrested at night," Danve said.
Sarvankar, however, denied opening fire and claimed his rivals were trying to malign him.
He also said if police call him for questioning, he will cooperate with them.
Kiran Pawaskar, spokesman of the Shinde group, also rejected the allegations against Sarvankar.
"Sarvankar has Y category security and it is impossible that he will fire in public," Pawaskar said adding the such allegations were "childish".
Meanwhile, based on complaints from the rival groups, the Dadar police registered two FIRs, including one against Sarvankar, an official said.
There was a scuffle between two groups in Dadar in the early hours. Initially, one FIR was registered. Now, another FIR has also been registered under sections of rioting and the Arms Act, Deputy Commissioner of Police Pranay Ashok said.
"Police are verifying those involved in the scuffle and action is being taken against them," he said.
Based on a complaint by Santosh Talavane, the Dadar police arrested five Shiv Sena workers including Mahesh Sawant, another official said, adding that they were later released on bail.
The case against them was registered under various Indian Penal Code Sections including 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation), he said.
The Dadar police also registered another FIR under various sections including provisions the Arms Act against Sarvankar and others, the official said.
One round was fired during the clash. The police are investigating who opened the fire, he said. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/11/rival-sena-factions-mumbai-firs-arrest.html | 2022-09-11T13:23:00Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/11/rival-sena-factions-mumbai-firs-arrest.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Inflation Reduction Act provides benefits
I grew up during the 1950s. My hard-working parents managed paycheck to paycheck with no savings to buffer unexpected expenses and certainly no insurance to assist with medical bills.
We five siblings survived cuts, colds and common childhood issues with no more than baby aspirin and a few days in bed. Our lives were upended, however, when my younger brother contracted encephalitis. He spent months in Detroit Children’s Hospital followed by years of physical therapy. What I clearly remember is that every month my mother set an envelope addressed to the hospital accounting office on the mantel. Every month, even more than a dozen years later when I was in high school, my parents were still paying off these hospital and medical costs.
Fast forward: My husband and I were fortunate to have jobs that provided family insurance. We now laugh recalling our prescription deductible was 50 cents and a visit to the pediatrician was just a bit more than a dollar. Thankfully, we did not have to worry about grave childhood illnesses nor did we worry about serious adult health challenges. Health care when needed was both available and affordable.
A few more years forward: We are now senior citizens dealing with retiree insurance and Medicare. We are also dealing with complex health issues requiring many medications and multiple providers. Bills are no longer a laughing matter as even itemized services run to multiple digits. Costs for medications, hospitalizations and other health aids can be staggering and even bankrupting for those on fixed incomes.
The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate recently passed historic budget legislation: The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 addresses many landmark issues; however, Americans will reap tangible benefits from the portions that impact health. The Inflation Reduction Act is a godsend for those with current health issues as well as those who may have issues in the future.
First, life-sustaining medications will be more affordable. Millions of Americans 65 and older will receive relief from the out-of-control prescription prices. The newly signed law allows Medicare to negotiate for lower drug prices and penalizes drug companies for increasing their prices higher than inflation. It also limits insulin costs in Medicare to $35 a month and caps medication costs for Medicare Part D members at $2,000. This obviously does not resolve all health care cost issues, but it is a significant step in the right direction.
Next, millions of Americans will have help paying their Affordable Care Act health insurance premiums. Expanded subsidies and other financial enhancements included in the American Rescue Plan have been granted a three-year extension. This will help bring down the cost of insurance for those who would otherwise not be able to afford to pay health premiums.
Despite the many twists and turns of politics and the wavering economy, our nation is rich not only in resources but in compassion. We must continue to strive for affordable health care to for all ages, especially those who are risk. Good health is not a guarantee. At any time, yourself or your family might face the challenges of disease, surgery, hospitalization and need for long-term care. No one should have to choose between paying for medications while forgoing necessities like food or rent.
The Inflation Reduction Act is a step toward providing a much-needed safety net. The legislation is a testament to what can be accomplished when our elected officials work together for the common good. Credit must also be given to the relentless efforts of many individuals and agencies who researched community needs, contacted their representatives and lobbied for the inclusion of the key health issues. It may “take a village to raise a child,” but it takes a UNITED nation to sustain the health and welfare of its people.
Mary Bullard is a member of Stronger Together Huddle, a group engaged in supporting and promoting the common good of all. She is a retired school librarian who lives in Lambertville. She can be reached at mcneil@icloud.com. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/09/11/mary-bullard-inflation-reduction-act-benefits/66874785007/ | 2022-09-11T13:23:04Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/09/11/mary-bullard-inflation-reduction-act-benefits/66874785007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, ‘Who are you?’” -John 1:19
Life is a constant barrage of questions. Some are trivial and some carry tremendous weight. How we answer certain questions can be the difference between a good decision or a bad one, poverty or wealth, marriage or divorce, freedom or prison, health or illness, and life or death.
A quick Google search determined that children under 5 ask an average of 75 questions per day and children 4 and under ask an average of 200 questions per day. Adults on the other hand ask an average of 23 questions per day.
In the Gospels, Jesus asks many more questions than he answers. To be precise, Jesus asks 307 questions. He was asked 183, but only answered three. Asking questions was central to Jesus’ life and teachings.
John’s testimony was so strong that it prompted the religious leaders of his day to ask him two questions: “Who are you?” and “Who do you say you are?” The answers to these questions were meant to inquire about John’s origin and the meaning and intent behind his message. What I find fascinating is these are the same two questions each of us must also answer. So, let’s take a look at how John responded.
John was asked “Who are you?” We can learn from John’s response. He was truthful. He did not try to dodge the question. He did not misrepresent himself. Nor did he try to be someone that he wasn’t. His answer was based on his understanding and commitment to his assignment from God.
So, who are you? This question cannot be answered based on what others think of you, or your current life circumstances. These factors may aid in obtaining your answer. But the ultimate answer to this question must be understood through prayer and seeking God’s ultimate will for your life.
Secondly, John was asked “Who do you say you are?” This question gets at the core of how we see ourselves. John’s response was succinct and simple. In John 1:23, he states: “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” John is basically saying, “I understand my assignment. I am not the prophet. I am not even a prophet. I am simply a mouthpiece for God … a voice crying out in the wilderness.”
Our response must come from a place of complete honesty and understanding of our God-given assignment. Knowing who we are is the foundation for living a fulfilling and Christ-centered life. Knowing who we are is the key to maximizing our time in the Earth realm. Knowing who we are is crucial to leaving a legacy that lasts for eternity.
Two questions were presented to John. These same two questions are being presented to you. Do you have the courage to take a hard look at yourself and address the two questions everyone must answer?
Dr. Preston T. Adams III is senior pastor at Amazing Grace Christian Church in Indianapolis. | https://www.stlamerican.com/religion/inspirational_message/a-pair-of-questions-to-ask/article_c927e2be-3189-11ed-a3ef-abf9b09a31c8.html | 2022-09-11T13:27:05Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/religion/inspirational_message/a-pair-of-questions-to-ask/article_c927e2be-3189-11ed-a3ef-abf9b09a31c8.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CNN is facing fierce backlash after its London-based international correspondent dismissed Prince William and Kate Middleton as “the other two royals” — while referring to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle by name.
Scott McLean made the blunder Saturday as the brothers and their wives reunited Saturday outside Windsor Castle to thank the crowds that had gathered to offer sympathy and to view the mounds of bouquets and balloons left by well-wishers.
“You can see Harry get out first and then you saw Meghan and then the other two royals as well,” he said.
But irked viewers quickly took to social media to blast the disrespect.
“CNN’s agenda has been obvious for months. They’re in the tank for Harry and Meghan. Pathetic. The ‘other two royals’ are the future king and queen,” Daily Mail columnist Dan Wootton tweeted.
“The other two royals, being the heir to the throne and his wife the Princess of Wales, who will be Queen,” another critic seethed.
“Disrespectful,” another simply said.
Detractors also blasted the left-leaning network for “biased” reporting.
“The other two royals” – showing your obvious bias there,” an angry viewer commented. “What happened to unbiased journalism? Shocking.”
The walkabout was the first time the couples publicly appeared together since Commonwealth Day on March 9 amid their ongoing feud.
The united front came just hours after their father, King Charles III, was formally named Great Britain’s new monarch in a rare meeting of the nation’s Accession Council – and two days after he allegedly banned his difficult daughter-in-law from the queen’s deathbed.
After the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the subsequent ascension of Charles, Prince William is now next in line to the throne.
On Friday in one of his first actions as the new monarch, the new King bestowed the titles of Prince and Princess of Wales on his eldest son William and his wife Kate — the same titles that Charles and his late wife Diana previously held.
“With Catherine (Kate) beside him, our new Prince and Princess of Wales will, I know, continue to inspire and lead our national conversations, helping to bring the marginal to the center ground where vital help can be given,” he said. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/11/cnn-blasted-after-prince-william-kate-middleton-diss/ | 2022-09-11T13:33:16Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/11/cnn-blasted-after-prince-william-kate-middleton-diss/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Brian W. Cavanaugh, center, the commanding general of Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic, Marine Forces Command, Marine Forces Northern Command, sits with a panel of judges during a crab soup cooking competition during Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore, Maryland, Sept. 9, 2022. Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore is an annual public event that celebrates the contributions of the U.S. sea services and maritime capabilities from the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard. More than 2,300 service members participated in Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore 2022 engaging and assisting with ship tours, live bands and static equipment displays. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Angel Alvarado)
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The Yakama Nation received a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice for its sex offender registry and to assure sex offender registration remains current.
Yakama Nation Police Commissioner Jimmy Shike said the funds will greatly support the tribe’s sex offender registry program.
“We have had the program since around 2007,” Shike said. “This grant funds two sex offender registry officers, Lieutenant Micah Maldonado and Officer Gabe Ramos.”
The grant was awarded Sept. 6 and is pursuant to the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, according to a DOJ news release.
Funding through the act helps jurisdictions develop and enhance programs to ensure all states and federally recognized tribes maintain active sex offender registries. Sex offenders are required to report where they live, work or attend school.
“Sex offender registration and community notification are essential to improving the safety of our communities,” Vanessa R. Waldref, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, said in the release.
The funding helps the Nation closely monitor convicted sex offenders living on the Yakama Reservation, whether tribal or nontribal residents, Shike said.
“We also work closely with the Yakima Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Marshal’s Office on the sex offender programs. Our officers also provide community outreach programs,” he said.
The tribe provides sex offender information online at Yakama.nsopw.gov. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/yakama-nation-awarded-400-000-federal-grant-for-its-sex-offender-registry/article_404ad90a-3068-11ed-8595-1bc2fbe4bd67.html | 2022-09-11T13:37:11Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/yakama-nation-awarded-400-000-federal-grant-for-its-sex-offender-registry/article_404ad90a-3068-11ed-8595-1bc2fbe4bd67.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy’s Rocky Top trails provide a unique combination of wildflowers, shrub steppe, single track trails graded for mountain biking, and expansive views of the Yakima Valley.
Frequent hikers and mountain bikers have seen that special environment change considerably since DTG Recycle took over the nearby landfill and bought a significant portion of the surrounding property three years ago. Rising mounds of dirt and new roads offer reminders of increased traffic, while trail closures, trash and unwelcome odors raise concerns about the future of the beloved trails.
“There’ve been a lot of impacts, unfortunately, mostly just in terms of encroachment on the trail system here, and I realize it’s their land,” Dan Richmond said after a Saturday morning mountain biking session last month. “It’s really unfortunate and I think I’d probably mind it less if they worked with trail development.”
Residents who live near DTG raised similar concerns regarding a lack of communication and last February formed Friends of Rocky Top, a group created with the goal of holding DTG and facility regulators accountable. Since 2020, neighbors have sent in hundreds of complaints to the Yakima Health District and the state’s Department of Ecology regarding a wide range of concerns, with trash and odor as the most common topics.
CCC Executive Director Celisa Hopkins said she’s heard from plenty of trail users as well, many of whom wonder what’s going to happen to the system of more than 15 miles located primarily on DTG’s land. Hopkins said she’s regularly in contact with DTG. While she declined to go into the specific details of those conversations, she said the goal is to preserve the trails while respecting the need for public safety around construction.
“Our mission as an organization is to protect shrub steppe, and this trail system is an important community asset,” Hopkins said. “So the conversations with them are around what can we protect that’s still intact at the trail system and how can we work with them in that way?”
DTG did not respond to multiple requests for comment, other than to say it is operating within its permits.
Land ownership
A wide variety of entities share ownership and management responsibilities at Rocky Top, where the Single Track Alliance of Yakima began building its trail system in 2011.
STAY maintains the trails for CCC, which holds a conservation easement near the parking lot on some of the land through which the main Horse Trail runs. STAY built the Walk N Roll trail in the southeast section with permission from the city of Yakima on 39 acres it owns south of the CCC’s easement, and further west, the William O. Douglas Trail Foundation also holds a conservation easement.
But most of the Rocky Top trails reside on land DTG purchased from Ron Anderson in January 2020, when the company bought his limited purpose landfill, which is allowed to salvage or recycle concrete, asphalt, metal, plastic and wood waste. It was Anderson who gave STAY permission to build its trails, giving them plenty of freedom and mostly staying out of the way. Anderson should not be confused with Yakima County Commissioner Ron Anderson.
That all began to change in September 2020, when DTG closed the Gus’s Gully trail, followed by a partial closure of the popular Wholly Moses trail a few months later. STAY President Pat Huwe and Vice President Will Hollingbery said the most impactful closure came recently on the upper portion of the Ha Ha Ha Ha trail, a key connector on the hill near the William O. Douglas Trail.
County Commissioner Amanda McKinney represents the district, supports the CCC financially and considers herself a Rocky Top trail user. She said that in conversations with her over the last year, DTG has expressed a strong commitment to allowing trails on its property for the foreseeable future.
“Not only that, but when I met with them, they said that as they expand operations over time that they want to also extend the trail opportunities,” McKinney said. “They also indicated to me that when they are finally approved to formally cap each cell, that they would look to the conservancy for guidance and advice on what native plants that they would like to see planted.”
FORT consultant Scott Cave shared email correspondence from Ecology, the Yakima Health District and DTG showing the company, which announced its intent to “operate the largest Material Recovery Facility in the region” in 2019, can’t move on to its next cell until it meets certain requirements to address various regulation concerns. Hopkins and Hollingbery said it’s unclear how that cell would affect trails.
Hollingbery said DTG told him the trails wouldn’t be harmed for another 40 years, so it came as a surprise when they cut off access to Wholly Moses for a second time, forcing him to build a quick reroute. Huwe said they intend to fix the trail again this fall to restore it to its original length in a more sustainable spot.
“We’ve never really run into a situation out there when we have to go around an obstacle that the trail doesn’t get better a second time,” Huwe said. “The new one will be enjoyable.”
Neighbor complaints
While many of DTG’s neighbors also share concerns about Rocky Top, they’re more focused on whether the company is following regulations and on potential health hazards they’ve observed on their own properties.
Carole DeGrave, the longtime owner of a house at the top of Pioneer Way with property next to DTG, grew concerned when she saw work ramp up considerably in early 2020. That April she hired Cave, a consultant with more than 30 years of experience in Eastern Washington working with local governments and the solid waste industry regarding groundwater.
Along with constant noise, DeGrave started to notice sewage-like odors when she went outside, compelling her to keep a daily log to rate the intensity of the smell that would sometimes give her headaches. Records show other neighbors made similar complaints to the state’s Department of Ecology with Randy Abhold — the neighbor closest to the landfill’s pit — describing it as “smelling bleach and paint thinner all at once.”
In October 2021, Paul Herke, who owns 320 acres with an orchard next to DTG, reported that more than 55 pickers and others experienced headaches and nausea from fumes. He said it lasted for about two days, primarily in the morning, and although the smell would often be around, it never reached that same intensity.
“Sometimes it smells sort of rancid,” Herke said. “Definitely not like a mold. More like a foul decay.”
He and other neighbors experienced issues with litter, especially in summer 2021, which spread out onto the nearby Rocky Top trails as well. Cave and local resident Nancy Lust gave emails to the Yakima Herald-Republic showing repeated requests from Ecology and the YHD for DTG to fix its trash problems.
Eventually, the company hired someone to regularly pick up litter and also put up a fence to prevent trash from blowing off its property. Lust and Hopkins said those efforts proved successful.
DeGrave said the odors also haven’t been as bad this summer, mostly thanks to efforts to cover and tamp down toxic plumes from the landfill. Along with Cave and others, she remains concerned those chemicals may be creating problems elsewhere.
Uncertain future
McKinney said complaints from neighbors led her to speak to everyone involved in the hopes of improving communication, and Ecology’s James Rivard facilitated a meeting with representatives from FORT, DTG and the YHD in June.
Lust believes that effort to build trust brought about some progress, and she’s cautiously optimistic about DTG’s new local manager. But FORT still has a lot of unanswered questions as DTG works with regulators in an effort to ensure compliance.
“Honestly, I’m unsure about this company because part of me wants to believe that they are working towards making the environment a better place and really trying to recycle and do what’s right,” Lust said. “Then part of me just feels like ‘I don’t always believe what you say.’”
McKinney’s encouraged by the recent conversations between groups, and she’s confident DTG provides a net positive for Yakima. She advises all parties to talk more with each other, believing they’ll find they share many common goals.
Hollingbery spent countless hours building trails at Rocky Top and elsewhere, always keenly aware they wouldn’t last forever. Still, he wants them to last as long as possible, and Huwe said they’ll keep rebuilding trails and respecting private property restrictions.
Huwe also praised DTG for its help in keeping alive the dirt pump track located next to the closed Gus’s Gully trail. DTG pays the water rights and Huwe’s hoping STAY can deepen the relationship between the two entities to keep the trails in good condition.
Jacinto Nunez, an avid mountain biker since he moved to Yakima 2 1/2 years ago, said it’s been sad to see all the changes and what feels like more to come at Rocky Top. The views aren’t quite what they used to be thanks to DTG’s expansion, but he still appreciates the chance to go out anytime he can.
“I’ve been to the other (trails in Yakima) but by far I like this one, not just for the workout but just the hill itself,” Nunez said. “I come from the Tri-Cities and we had Badger Mountain over there, but Rocky Top has that same feeling for me. It’s a pretty special place.” | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/dtgs-expansion-looms-over-trails-at-rocky-top-west-of-yakima/article_540f9b80-2fcb-11ed-af76-fb9abfcfd8a0.html | 2022-09-11T13:37:17Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/dtgs-expansion-looms-over-trails-at-rocky-top-west-of-yakima/article_540f9b80-2fcb-11ed-af76-fb9abfcfd8a0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Locally owned, independent businesses in Grandview can apply for a new round of pandemic-related assistance.
Grandview will distribute $150,000 to small businesses through the federal American Rescue Plan Act. Businesses can apply for grants of up to $10,000.
Grandview Mayor Gloria Mendoza said the funds showed the city’s support for its businesses and to build connections between city government, businesses and community members. She said the city received six applications on the first day.
“It’s an exciting time for businesses,” Mendoza said. “We’re happy people are taking advantage of these opportunities.”
Small businesses negatively impacted by the pandemic are eligible, according to the program guidelines. Some of the negative impacts listed are decreased revenue, financial insecurity, challenges covering operating costs and increased costs, among others.
Mendoza said City Council members carefully constructed the criteria businesses must meet. There must be fewer than 30 employees, including the owner. Businesses must be licensed to do business in Grandview and located in Grandview. They must not be facing any litigation or legal action. Interested businesses cannot be franchises and they must have been in operation since May 2022.
Still, Mendoza anticipates a difficult selection process.
“It’s not going to be easy, I can tell you that,” she said.
The grant winners will ultimately be selected by the Yakima County Development Association, said Mendoza. Grandview’s city government will collect the applications and advertise, but YCDA will ensure a neutral final review. Mendoza said the city worked with YCDA to distribute ARPA funds in the past.
Mendoza wants to see the program grow if community interest remains high.
“We know the pandemic was tough,” she said. “We know they worked through it and reopened doors to the community.”
The mayor added that the city has taken its time to put together this process. ARPA was passed in March 2021. City officials sent out a survey to residents to figure out the best way to use $3 million in funds. Mendoza said small-business owners noted their widespread need for rent and mortgage assistance and staffing help, which drove Grandview’s decision to create these grants.
Small businesses have until 5 p.m. Oct. 10 to apply. Applications are available online can be delivered in person to Grandview City Hall or emailed to City Treasurer Matthew Cordray at mattc@grandview.wa.us. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/lower_valley/grandview-businesses-can-apply-for-new-round-of-pandemic-assistance/article_8e07e2ac-3061-11ed-b285-530f712136d2.html | 2022-09-11T13:37:23Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/lower_valley/grandview-businesses-can-apply-for-new-round-of-pandemic-assistance/article_8e07e2ac-3061-11ed-b285-530f712136d2.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DTG Recycle says it’s running out of room at its Rocky Top landfill west of Yakima and wants to move into a new adjacent disposal area to continue operations.
DTG bought the limited purpose landfill on the flanks of Cowiche Mountain in late 2019 from Ron Anderson for $9.2 million, according to the Yakima County Assessor’s Office. The Snohomish-based company has since added a recycling component to the operation and has increased the volume of material being disposed there. Anderson, the former owner, should not be confused with Yakima County Commissioner Ron Anderson.
But neighbors and trail users in the area worry about potential environmental impacts and disruption to recreation and quality of life any further expansion may bring.
Celisa Hopkins, executive director of the Cowiche Canyon Conservancy, said the group has been in discussions with DTG.
“It’s a natural area so people seeking out recreational activities on the trails are seeking out an undisturbed natural landscape,” she said. “And I think it’s a unique landscape where you have natural habitat and I think the conservancy wants to see that protected as much as possible.”
Some neighbors fear the company has been unfolding its expansion plans under the regulatory radar, and they accuse permitting agencies of not doing their job. Neighbors have complained about fugitive dust and gassy odors emitting from the landfill as well as the dumping of unacceptable waste.
At least two residents said their homes were damaged by rock blasting conducted at the landfill, which also includes a gravel mining operation and petroleum contaminated soils site. The limited purpose landfill is permitted to accept construction waste and allowed to salvage or recycle concrete, asphalt, metal, plastic and wood waste.
Neighbors hired a consultant with a background in public affairs and lobbying to assist in researching the matter and assuring their voices are heard.
Their worries have caught the attention of regulatory authorities. Shawn Magee, director of environmental health at the Yakima Health District, said deeper environmental studies are needed before any further expansion is allowed.
“I would say there is some concern around the potential for groundwater contamination, and that is why we are looking at groundwater so closely,” he said. “We want to ensure that the public’s health is protected now and in the future.”
Groundwater isn’t the only concern; there’s air quality. Gases and excessive heat are emitting from a crack in the disposal area.
The company has been cooperative and has already made some investments to improve operations, said James Rivard, regional solid waste manager for the state Department of Ecology.
“I don’t know that there is an immediate concern as far as health, but there does appear to be some work the company needs to do to assure public health,” he said.
DTG officials declined to be interviewed for this story, but General Manager John Martin issued a statement in a text message saying: “The DTG Recycling facility in Yakima is a permanent solid waste facility operated within the boundaries of the permits.”
Air emissions
After neighbors reported seeing gases emitting from a crack in the landfill, DTG was required by the health district to have a preliminary study conducted.
Significant toxic air pollutants within the gas were found. Benzene and propene landfill gas concentrations in one location were 50 to 60 times higher than the EPA’s safe thresholds for municipal solid waste, according to a report from GeoEngineers.
Sulfur compounds also were found to be well above corresponding odor levels, the report said.
Magee said the gases could be from a chemical or underground smoldering fire.
“So, we don’t know exactly what’s causing it so we’re waiting for the results of (further) sampling,” he said. “So, it’s still under investigation.”
The company will be required to obtain a permit from the Yakima Regional Clean Air Agency, but first the emissions need further study to find out what’s causing them, said interim Executive Director Hasan Tahat.
“If they resolve it, then we will issue a permit,” he said.
Scott Cave, the consultant hired by neighbors, believes the gases are caused by municipal waste that has been dumped there in violation of the company’s permit.
“This is one of the reasons we have a gas problem there,” he said. “There’s a logical biological explanation for the reason why they have these gases here.”
Rivard said there had been times when some unpermitted waste did make it into the landfill.
“In late July we did see mattresses and tires that shouldn’t have been there,” he said.
Once notified, a company official had workers immediately pull the unpermitted waste from the landfill, Rivard said.
“And he had proof of that material being removed,” he said.
Rivard said the company has since hired a landfill manager and waste management appears to have improved.
“They’re still learning how to manage a landfill,” he said.
Groundwater
A hydrogeologist found the landfill’s two monitoring wells to be inadequate to assess impacts the operation may have on groundwater.
Private wells supply several homes in the area with drinking water.
DTG recently had a third monitoring well installed, with possibly more to come depending on the outcome of further study.
Ecology and the health district are currently in talks with DTG officials about another area of the landfill where digging may have punctured a layer that protects groundwater.
In a July 14 email to the health district, hydrogeologist Luke LeMond with the health district said a swath of the layer known as the Vantage Interbed appeared to have been removed as a result of excavation.
“(I’m) concerned that the depth of excavation has increased the risk of groundwater impacts,” he said in the email.
Magee said the excavated area will be further studied to determine which layers are protecting groundwater as well as potential contamination sites.
“Once the hydrogeological study is complete, there will be more clarity on what the next steps will be in terms of groundwater protection,” he said.
Neighbors’ concerns
Mark Koday, whose home was damaged by rock blasting last year, says regulators should have been paying closer attention to DTG in the beginning.
He said neighbors were filing complaints individually before forming the group Friends of Rocky Top.
“We want to know from the regulators: Is there an issue with our air and water that’s legitimate?” he asked. “What we don’t know is how bad is it. Is my water contaminated now? Will it be in 10 years? Will we be safe? They don’t seem to be calling DTG on issues that I think are important.”
Rivard said concerns have been taken seriously and these types of evaluations take time.
“Nobody has been ignored,” he said.
Rivard said DTG has invested in an additional monitoring well, hired a landfill manager and paid for repairs to a home damaged by rock blasting.
“The company said send them some bills and said they’d take care of it,” Rivard said. “The company stepped up so that shows some good faith.”
Koday said fine cracks showed up in his walls after the blasting, but that DTG covered the $3,500 in repairs.
“Bottom line is they paid, and I’m thankful for that,” he said. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/proposed-expansion-to-rocky-top-landfill-draws-ire-of-neighbors-prompts-environmental-probes/article_099acc6a-3015-11ed-8aaa-e7642a0649cb.html | 2022-09-11T13:37:29Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/proposed-expansion-to-rocky-top-landfill-draws-ire-of-neighbors-prompts-environmental-probes/article_099acc6a-3015-11ed-8aaa-e7642a0649cb.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The November 2020 email from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues sent up a flare amid a fusillade of false claims.
The producer warned: Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air. She is pulling conspiracy theories from dark corners of the Web to justify then-President Donald Trump's lies that the election had been stolen from him. The existence of the email, confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of it, is first publicly disclosed by NPR in this story. Fox News declined comment.
Pirro was far from alone in broadcasting such false claims. In the weeks that followed Election Day 2020, other prominent Fox stars, commentators and their guests heavily promoted them.
A repeat target was Dominion Voting Systems, the election machine and technology company. Trump and his allies alleged on Fox that Dominion was engaged in a conscious effort to throw the 2020 race to Joe Biden. They implied and falsely asserted on Fox programs that Dominion's machines and software either discarded Trump's votes or transferred them to Biden. Dominion argues their false claims were frequently egged on by Fox's own stars.
The producer's email is among the voluminous correspondence acquired by Dominion's attorneys as part of its discovery of evidence in a $1.6 billion defamation suit it filed against Fox News and its parent company. Dominion alleges it has been "irreparably harmed" by the lies, conspiracy theories and wild claims of election fraud that aired on Fox.
The role of Pirro - a former New York state judge and Westchester County district attorney - remains under sharp scrutiny. In 2019, Trump called for her return to the airwaves after the network publicly condemned her anti-Muslim remarks. In 2020, she attended Trump's belligerent address late on Election Night from the White House and advanced his arguments on the air in the days and weeks that followed.
On Nov. 14, 2020, for example, the day that Biden clinched his victory, Pirro questioned why vote counts shifted against Trump over the course of Election Night in such states as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. (Some counties were counted later than others; ballots cast the same day were often tallied before those cast by mail.) "The Dominion Software System has been tagged as one allegedly capable of flipping votes," Pirro told viewers, as she promoted Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell's "findings" on Dominion. (A federal judge in Michigan later officially sanctioned Powell for her actions in court on Trump's behalf after the elections, while the Texas state law bar is seeking to have her formally punished.)
Pirro was among those Fox hosts with increasingly tough talk ahead of the January 2021 certification of Biden's election win. On Jan. 3, 2021, Pirro compared those gathering to protest in Washington with Trump to the American soldiers in the Revolutionary War, adding, "Jan. 6 will tell us whether there are any in Congress willing to battle for America." That day led to bloody battles at the U.S. Congress. As one of his last acts in office, Trump pardoned Pirro's husband for two-decades-old convictions for tax evasion.
Dominion and Fox News' lawyers have clashed in recent days, as court records reflect the voting systems company seeks to convince the court to compel Pirro to testify over private texts that, it argues, are relevant to its defamation case.
As high-powered stars testify, high stakes come into focus
As the summer has unfolded, Fox's star TV news hosts such as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity have been grilled under oath. High-powered attorneys are bearing down on the Murdochs, the most powerful family in English-language media. And it's all part of an all-out legal war. Dominion is seeking to strip away the curtain protecting what happens behind the scenes at the nation's most watched cable news channel, which holds a singular role on the American political scene. The suit could also define what's fair game in journalism and politics in a democracy very much on the edge. The trial date is set for April of next year.
The fraud allegations, made without any tangible evidence, were repudiated by state and local elections officials, Republicans as well as Democrats, as well as Trump's own attorney general and cyber security chief. In more than 60 substantive court rulings, Trump's assertions were found to be groundless, with one limited exception. Fox News argues that it was covering inherently newsworthy claims by inherently newsworthy figures — including the nation's top elected official. It also points to segments where its reporters and news anchors cast cold water on the allegations.
Fox executives publicly say they will prevail
"Freedom of the press is foundational to our democracy and must be protected," a senior spokeswoman for Fox News said in a statement to NPR. She called the damages claims "outrageous, unsupported and not rooted in sound financial analysis, serving as nothing more than a flagrant attempt to deter our journalists from doing their jobs."
"All you're reporting to the public is that somebody — in this case, the president of the United States — has made the allegation of voter fraud by Dominion," Dan Webb, Fox News' outside attorney on the case, tells NPR. "I don't know how anything could be more newsworthy than the president of the United States making the allegation, and his lawyers making the allegations in court, because that's so fundamental."
Dominion ties the rhetoric about the company on Fox to harassment targeting its employees, "from software engineers to its founder and chief executive officer." Several received death threats.
In its legal filings, the company says it suffered "enormous and irreparable economic harm." Dominion says it projects losing profits of more than $600 million over the next eight years. As examples, it cites instances in which lawmakers in numerous states are demanding a review of existing contracts with Dominion; the cancellation of a $10 million contract in Stark County, Ohio; and Louisiana's recent cancellation of a process that prevents Dominion from securing a $100 million contract in that state.
Besides Carlson and Hannity, the list of Fox figures already questioned under oath in the cases includes former stars (Shepard Smith) and fallen stars (Lou Dobbs and Ed Henry), as well as show producers and programming executives, court records show. Dobbs left the network in early 2021, the day after Smartmatic, the electronic voting company, filed a closely related $2.7 billion defamation suit against Fox over similarly false claims about that firm made on Fox's airwaves.
In conducting the first interview of Trump after the election, Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo told Trump and her viewers, "This is disgusting, and we cannot allow America's election to be corrupted." In mid-December, Bartiromo announced that "an intel source" told her that Trump had won the election. She never followed up with any further material to substantiate that reporting. She is due to be deposed under oath on Thursday.
Asked by NPR whether Fox still considers Bartiromo a news anchor, and thus part of Fox's news and reporting division, rather than its opinion side, a network spokeswoman declined to comment. It is the first time Fox has not identified Bartiromo as a news-side journalist when directly asked by NPR.
Dominion "exploring" whether Fox staffers knew statements were false
In December 2020, while still a Fox Business host, Dobbs said opponents of President Trump throughout the government had committed "treason," and later suggested that any Republican who upheld President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the Electoral College may be "criminal."
The wide nets cast by Dominion in seeking depositions suggests, University of Georgia media law professor Jonathan Peters says, that the company's attorneys are "exploring the extent to which Fox personnel published false statements with knowledge of their falsity or with a 'high degree of awareness of their probable falsity,' (the relevant fault standards)."
"This usually takes into account such factors as what the personnel knew at the time they published, whether the sources were reliable, whether the defendant ignored clear signs that the statements were wrong, whether the defendant investigated the facts, and what motives shaped the statements," Peters writes in an email to NPR.
That assessment suggests that material uncovered by Dominion such as the producer's warning about Pirro could provide fuel for the voting machine company's case. While Pirro's weekend show did not air on Nov. 7, 2020, just after the elections, she returned to the air repeatedly. In January, Pirro was elevated to become a full host of The Five, Fox's popular weekday evening political chat show.
Dominion seeks links to Fox News executives and the Murdochs
Dominion has technically filed two cases — one against Fox News and the other against Fox Corp, its corporate parent. The second Dominion suit is bearing down on Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan, who together run the family's vast media holdings, which include the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and other newspapers and television properties in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Reporters for Fox and the Wall Street Journal repeatedly knocked down spurious allegations of voter fraud, demonstrating that such facts were known within the Murdoch media empire.
Together, the twin suits could theoretically reach multiple billions of dollars, with punitive damages along with financial damages. And of course, the cases carry great significance for the nation more broadly, as it captures the incendiary period between the heated claims of fraud about the November 2020 presidential elections and the ensuing bloody siege of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters two months later.
Defamation cases are generally hard to win in the U.S. and Peters says this one is no slam dunk. But given what's already known, he says, he'd rather be on Dominion's legal team than Fox's.
Dominion's attorneys have obtained emails, texts, WhatsApp messages and more, documenting how the network's executives and journalists behaved and acted behind the scenes, as well as determining what they actually knew about the claims, according to three people with knowledge of the litigation. Witnesses have been pressed about the degree to which the Murdochs and Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott were involved in making editorial decisions or kept in the loop.
Such decisions can be crucial: Fox's projection on election night 2020 that Biden would win Arizona, first of any major media outlet, conferred great credibility on the Democratic nominee's imminent victory. It also enraged Trump and his advisers, who unsuccessfully pressured the Murdochs to reverse the Fox decision desk's projection, according to three people with direct knowledge. The public call additionally alienated Trump's fans — many of whom were Fox's core viewers. For a time, they abandoned the network. The much smaller rival right-wing network Newsmax zoomed up from nowhere in the ratings.
In the weeks that followed, key network stars' embrace and validation of the Trump camp's lies about the existence of election fraud contradicted some of their Fox colleagues' reporting that disproved it. Top leadership passively acquiesced in the star hosts' rhetoric, and took no meaningful steps to stop it, according to seven current and former journalists there. And the audience started to return.
Asked for comment by NPR, a Fox News spokesperson strongly denied this was the case. She emphasized that the talent involved "were covering the most newsworthy story of that period — the president of the United States claiming election fraud."
Fox: Nothing more newsworthy than a president's allegations of election fraud
The network's spokesperson has also pointed to periodic segments, mostly from its news reporters and hosts, challenging or even contradicting such claims from Trump allies.
The network and its parent company appear to be girding for a full court trial. In June, Fox hired Webb, who is the co-executive chairman of the powerhouse Chicago-based law firm, Winston & Strawn.
"This case is a relatively simple case," Webb tells NPR in an interview.
"The question there is whether or not Fox correctly reported the allegation [of election fraud], and they did," Webb adds. "I don't think there's any question that Fox accurately reported an incredibly newsworthy allegation made by the president himself."
Dominion wants Fox to apologize, but that risks offending Trump's fans
A comprehensive settlement, which outside legal observers initially suggested would be a possible outcome of the cases, does not currently appear likely, according to several people with knowledge of the litigation.
In theory, it would almost certainly require a payment by Fox of hundreds of millions dollars and an expansive apology — the latter being something that Fox News and Rupert Murdoch have, historically, been loath to do.
In 2020, Fox News reached a confidential, multimillion-dollar settlement with the family of the late Seth Rich, who was baselessly accused on Fox of having leaked thousands of emails from the Democratic National Committee before his killing in 2016. Such claims were groundless. Fox retracted in 2017 a story making that claim after a week, but never offered a public apology. The network's chief media critic covered the settlement in a minute-long segment on his Sunday show.
Murdoch expressed public contrition after it was revealed that people working on behalf of his British tabloid, News of the World, had hacked into the voicemails of a murdered schoolgirl — among hundreds of others of people. At the time, Murdoch was trying to salvage a $14 billion deal to take full control of a major British satellite television company. The deal was ultimately scuttled by U.K. regulators.
Election lies fueled the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol
Many observers have tied the lies about election fraud to the overheated rhetoric that fueled the siege of the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, an effort to block the certification of Biden's victory. Lachlan Murdoch has sued the Australian political news site Crikey over drawing just that connection to Fox and the Murdochs. Press freedoms in that country are not as robust as they are here; defamation claims have historically proven far easier to prove there. Crikey's top editor says he welcomes the suit as a way to test Australia's defamation laws.
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull argues that Rupert Murdoch, through Fox News, has done more to undermine American democracy than any other individual alive today.
"The biggest challenge to the United States is not Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin. It's the animosity, the division, the anti-democratic movements within the United States itself," Turnbull told NPR's Ari Shapiro on All Things Considered. "Fox News is not the only source of this madness, but it is by far the single most influential one."
In reply, Fox Corp. spokesman Brian Nick points to Fox News's dominant ratings among cable news channels, and the network's strong appeal to Democrats and independent voters, as well as Republicans.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.klcc.org/npr-news/npr-politics/2022-09-06/fox-producers-warning-against-jeanine-pirro-surfaces-in-dominion-defamation-suit | 2022-09-11T13:44:37Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/npr-news/npr-politics/2022-09-06/fox-producers-warning-against-jeanine-pirro-surfaces-in-dominion-defamation-suit | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Updated September 10, 2022 at 10:22 AM ET
Major League Baseball is ready to voluntarily recognize a union for minor league players, baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said.
He said at a news conference Friday that "we're prepared to execute an agreement on voluntary recognition. I think they're working on the language as we speak."
Manfred's comment came just three days after the Major League Baseball Players Association announced that more than half of minor league baseball players have voted to unionize.
"Minor league Players have made it unmistakably clear they want the MLBPA to represent them and are ready to begin collective bargaining in order to positively affect the upcoming season," said MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark in a statement Tuesday.
MLBPA seeks voluntary recognition from MLB to represent Minor Leaguers pic.twitter.com/ZiVWiiRjbV
— MLBPA Communications (@MLBPA_News) September 6, 2022
The MLBPA said it has sent a letter to MLB requesting voluntary recognition of the union's efforts to represent minor leaguers.
Compensation for minor league players has been a controversial issue for years.
In the major leagues, even the most middling franchises have estimated values in the billions, and the average player salary is more than $4 million.
By contrast, the majority of minor league players earn between $400 to $700 per week and are only paid during the regular season. Over the course of a season, most players earn less than $13,590, the federal poverty line for a single person, according to minor leaguers' advocacy groups.
"Obviously we are at the bottom of the totem pole, but we're still professional athletes," said Dominic Yearego, then a relief pitcher in the Oakland A's minor league system, told NPR in 2020. "We're playing professional baseball, and we're struggling more now than we did when we were in college."
When the pandemic began just before the start of the baseball season in 2020, five teams stopped playing their minor league players altogether. (Others committed to paying despite the lack of a season.) Later that year, the league eliminated its affiliations with 40 minor league teams.
MLB raised its minimum minor league pay in 2021 and later began requiring teams to offer housing to most minor league players. Earlier this summer, the league reached a $185 million settlement with thousands of current and former minor leaguers who had filed suit in 2014, alleging that MLB had violated minimum wage laws in three states.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.klcc.org/npr-sports/npr-sports/2022-09-06/mlb-is-ready-to-recognize-a-union-for-the-minor-leagues-the-commissioner-says | 2022-09-11T13:44:43Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/npr-sports/npr-sports/2022-09-06/mlb-is-ready-to-recognize-a-union-for-the-minor-leagues-the-commissioner-says | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
King Charles III Proclamation Edinburgh: Boos and jeers during Accession of new King at Mercat Cross
There were boos and calls for a republic during the Accession of the King ceremony in Edinburgh.
Crowds gathered in Edinburgh’s Royal Mile during the proclamation of the new King Charles III on Sunday (September 11).
The Lord Lyon gave his first proclamation at Mercat Cross, with the words: “God Save the King”.
While the crowd shouted back “God Save the King”, boos and jeers could also be heard and at least one protester was seen calling for a republic during the traditional event.
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Reacting, Donald Maclaren, 64, of Livingston, said: "It's very disrespectful, there is a time and a place if you want to protest, but this isn't it.
"Somebody shouted 'republic now' then, when they were doing the three cheers, somebody was booing. "
Liz Maclaren, 67, also branded it "disrespectful", adding: "The boos sounded like one person."
One 25-year-old from the Capital, who said she did not want to be named, said: "It's the public, it's going to happen. It's a public event there is always going to be someone doing something."
Another member of the audience, who was filming the service on his phone, turned to his friend in disbelief as the jeers began.
It comes ahead of Her Majesty the Queen’s coffin’s arrival in Edinburgh later today (September 11).
The Queen’s cortege is expected to arrive at The Palace of Holyrood House at around 4pm, following a final journey across Scotland from Balmoral.
Queen Elizabeth II died at her Scottish residence on Thursday (September 8) and her state funeral is due to take place on Monday, September 19, in London.
Additional reporting by PA. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/king-charles-iii-proclamation-edinburgh-boos-and-jeers-during-accession-of-new-king-at-mercat-cross-3839310 | 2022-09-11T13:48:51Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/king-charles-iii-proclamation-edinburgh-boos-and-jeers-during-accession-of-new-king-at-mercat-cross-3839310 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Swedish Elections (Sun):
Current PM Andersson’s Social Democrats (S) are leading the polls at present with around 30% support, though commentators point out that much of this is the personal appeal of Andersson rather than the broader party. However, another term for Andersson is far from certain despite the polling lead, as once again, the Social Democrats are struggling to form a coalition. Her opposition is led by Kristersson’s Moderates (M) and supported by Sweden Democrats’ (SD) Akesson and Christian Democrats’ (KD) Busch; parties which are polling at 17%, 21% and 6% respectively. Interestingly, crime is being surveyed as a top election issue for the first time, an area which would generally benefit the right-wing opposition parties. As it stands, PM Andersson runs a minority government that is formed solely by her party, her intention was to derive support from the Green Party (MP), but this proved challenging. This time around, Andersson’s Social Democrats are expected to try and find partners in the Centre Party (C) and Left Party (V), among others – however, this could once again leave her shy of a parliamentary majority. As it stands, the polls are too close to call and it remains to be seen if enough parties on either side of the aisle can function well enough together to form a working majority. Given political instability is nothing new for Sweden, market focus will likely remain with the Riksbank which is expected to hike by 75bp in September and then 50bp in November, according to SEB. For reference, market pricing is slightly more hawkish than this implying around +80bp for both gatherings – albeit, this is likely a function of hawkish ECB pricing influencing and a rollover of pricing for an inter-meeting hike in August.
UK GDP (Mon):
At the time of writing, there is no consensus for July’s M/M GDP, which will follow on from the 0.1% contraction observed in June. Data in June was distorted by the additional bank holiday on account of the Queen’s Jubilee, with headline GDP throughout the quarter also dragged lower by the winding down of the government’s COVID-19 testing and vaccine measures. This time around, analysts at Pantheon Economics pencil in a 0.3% M/M expansion, with the consultancy noting that given the distortions seen in May and June, the upcoming release will provide the first clean read of the economy's performance since April. In terms of recent indicators, Pantheon notes that business surveys were still consistent with moderate growth in GDP before August, as the S&P Global/CIPS composite PMIs averaged 53.0 between May and July, consistent with GDP rising by 0.3% over those three months. Furthermore, “the business confidence index of Lloyds' Business Barometer survey points to an identical rate of growth, while the CBI's monthly growth indicator has pointed to slightly faster growth”. That said, Pantheon cautions that output in the important distribution and health care sectors was likely lower in July vs. April with the latter being a key driver of recent reports. Note, the backwards-looking GDP metrics will likely be viewed in the context of the findings of the BoE’s August MPR which looks for a five quarter recession commencing in Q4 this year.
UK Labour Market Report (Tue):
Expectations are for the 3M/3M unemployment rate for July to fall to 3.7% from 3.8%, and the employment change to pick up to 256k from 160k, whilst headline wage growth is forecast to rise to 5.2% from 5.1%. The prior report was characterised by a slowing down in the pace of employment growth alongside an increase in the workforce amid an increase in foreign nationals, whilst the level of wage growth remained elevated. This time around, analysts at Investec anticipate a rebound in the participation rate given the incentives to return to the workforce as real household incomes are most squeezed for those not working and vacancies are plentiful. On pay growth, Investec expects wages to remain solid, albeit not keep pace with inflation. Further ahead though, analysts caution that “as headwinds to growth build, not just from higher input costs, but also from rising interest rates, firms’ labour demand may slacken in due course, limiting their ability to offer wage rises too”. As a reminder, guidance from the BoE notes that “the labour market is expected to remain tight over the next year. Unemployment only starts to rise above its current level from mid-2023, but reaches 6.25% at the end of the forecast period”.
US CPI (Tue):
The consensus expects US headline inflation to decline in August by 0.1% M/M (vs a previous unchanged reading), which would be the first monthly decline in two years; the core rate of inflation, however, is seen accelerating to +0.4% M/M (prev. +0.3%). The data release will form a key part of building expectations around the FOMC’s September 21st confab; a hot reading would likely tilt the central bank to act more aggressively, as it prioritises capping price pressures over supporting growth, while a softer reading would give it license to opt for less aggression. After a solid jobs report for August, upside surprises in the influential ISM business surveys for the month, along with hawkish rhetoric from Fed officials, money markets are assigning an 85% chance that the central bank will opt for the larger 75bps rate hike, rather than a smaller 50bps increment, though many have emphasised that their decision at the September confab will hinge on incoming data. One of the more broader themes traders will be monitoring is the impact the data has on expectations of the cumulative amount of hikes the Fed will fire this cycle; the more constructive tone of macro indicators in Q3 has seen market expectations of the terminal rate rise from the 3.50-3.75% range when the quarter began, to the current 3.75-4.00% range, where rates will likely be hiked to in Q1, and comes into line with the Fed’s June forecasts (which will be updated in September), where it envisaged a terminal rate at 3.8% in 2023. Analysts note that, historically, the Fed has typically stayed at terminal for between 3-15 months, with the average being around 6.5 months; the upshot is that if terminal is achieved in Q1 2023, it could imply a rate cutting cycle will begin in H2-2023.
UK CPI (Wed):
Expectations are for headline Y/Y CPI to advance to 10.4% in August from 10.1% previously, with the core reading expected to climb to 6.3% from 6.2%. The July report saw CPI climb above 10% for the first time since 1980 with the headline rate driven by a surge in food prices and the core metric underpinned by housing costs, as noted by ING. For the upcoming release, Investec, who hold an against consensus view, look for a decline to 9.8%. Analysts anticipate price pressures easing on account of declines in fuel and lubricant prices, with petrol prices falling 7% during August. That said, price pressures elsewhere, particularly for food will have remained “uncomfortably high”, whilst “soaring mortgage rates pushed up rental prices further, whilst also increasing the wedge between the CPI and the RPI”. Up until this week, given the 80% increase in the October OFGEM price cap and further hefty hikes expected in January and April, some desks had touted the possibility of inflation peaking somewhere in the region of 15-20%. However, given the recent energy price cap announcement from the government, the inflationary outlook has now been reassessed with the likes of Oxford Economics expecting CPI to peak at 10.5% in October and average 5.4% in 2023 compared to a peak of 14-15% in January and 10% average rate next year without any intervention from the government.
US Retail Sales (Thu):
The consensus looks for retail sales to rise by 0.2% M/M in August (prev. 0%), while the ex-autos measure is also seen rising by 0.2% M/M (prev. 0.4%). Credit Suisse says that "retail sales have been on a win-streak in recent months, but we maintain a weak outlook for real goods demand over the next few quarters," arguing that "sentiment is sour and financial conditions are tightening along the Fed’s explicit policy goal of slowing growth," and that "incremental shocks may put the US into a broader, unemployment-led slowdown, keeping risks to spending skewed to the downside."
SCO Meeting (Thu-Fri):
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) members include China, Russia, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Iran. The focus of this summit is the touted meeting between Chinese President Xi and Russian President Putin – the first face-to-face between the leaders since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ties between the nations have been warming, with China refusing to condemn Russia for the commencement of the war, whilst Russia has been increasing its exposure to the Yuan via reserves and gas deals in a bid to circumvent western sanctions. From a military perspective, reports via the Kremlin have also suggested Putin has attended large-scale military exercises involving Chinese forces and militaries of several Russian-friendly countries, which comes at a time of heightened tensions between China and Taiwan. The two leaders will likely reaffirm their commitment to deepening ties whilst criticising the West.
Chinese Retail Sales/IP (Fri):
The latest activity data from China is due next week with Industrial Production growth expected to increase to 4.0% from a previous of 3.8% and Retail Sales also forecast to rise to 4.0%, from the prior month’s 2.7%. As a reminder, the data for July missed forecasts and also slowed from the month before with the economy impacted by sporadic virus outbreaks and China’s strict zero-COVID policy, while a deterioration in the real estate sector and heatwave were also headwinds for the economy. These economic pressures have persisted in August as many cities were briefly placed under full or partial lockdown during the month and the heatwave also persisted which was made worse by China’s worst drought on record. This caused parts of the Yangtze River to dry up which impacted hydropower and the higher temperature boosted power consumption due to air-conditioning demand, resulting in a power crunch in Sichuan that forced authorities to cut power to industries and briefly shut all factories in the province. This doesn’t bode well for the incoming activity data, while other key releases for August have disappointed with inflation and trade data softer than expected, and both official and Caixin manufacturing PMI figures printing in contraction territory.
UK Retail Sales (Fri):
Expectations are for M/M August retail sales to contract by 0.2% following the 0.3% expansion seen in July, whilst the Y/Y metric is seen at -3.3% vs. prev. -3.4%. Ahead of the release, analysts at Moody’s note (whose M/M call is in line with consensus) “when households are spending, they are still privileging services, and with inflation in double digit territory, disposable incomes are becoming increasingly squeezed”. Recent retail indicators have seen the BRC Y/Y sales metric slip to 0.5% in August vs. 1.6% in July with the consortium noting that growth slowed “as consumers reined in spending amidst the spiralling cost-of-living. While inflation in retail prices is lower than general inflation at over 10%, this still represents a significant drop in sales volumes.” Elsewhere, the latest consumer spending report from Barclaycard observed “consumer card spending grew 4.7 per cent year-on-year in August – the smallest uplift since March 2021 – as rising living costs hampered the retail sector”.
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LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II’s flag-draped coffin is passing through the rugged Scottish countryside Sunday on a final journey from her beloved summer estate Balmoral Castle to London, with mourners quietly lining roads and some tossing flowers to honor the monarch who died after 70 years on the throne.
The hearse drove past piles of bouquets and other tributes as it led a seven-car cortege from Balmoral, where the queen died Thursday, for a six-hour trip through Scottish towns to Holyroodhouse palace in Edinburgh. The late queen's coffin was draped in the Royal Standard for Scotland and topped with a wreath made of flowers from the estate, including sweet peas, one of the queen's favorites.
“A sad and poignant moment as Her Majesty, The Queen leaves her beloved Balmoral for the final time,” the first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon tweeted. “Today, as she makes her journey to Edinburgh, Scotland will pay tribute to an extraordinary woman.”
Crowds lined parts of the route as the nation mourns its longest-reigning monarch, the only one most Britons have ever known. In the Scottish village of Ballater, where residents regard the royal family as neighbors, hundreds of people watched in silence and some threw flowers in front of the hearse as it passed.
“She meant such a lot to people in this area. People were crying, it was amazing to see,” said Victoria Pacheco, a guest house manager.
In each town and village the cars drove through, they were met with similar muted scenes of respect. People stood mostly in silence; some clapped politely, others pointed their phone cameras at the passing cars.
Before reaching the Scottish capital, the cortege is traveling down what is effectively a royal memory lane — passing through locations laden with House of Windsor history including Dyce, where in 1975 the queen formally opened the U.K.’s first North Sea oil pipeline, and Fife near St. Andrews University, where her grandson William, now the Prince of Wales, studied and met his future wife, Catherine.
Sunday's solemn drive through Scotland came as the queen’s eldest son was formally proclaimed the new monarch — King Charles III — in the rest of the nations of the United Kingdom: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It came a day after a pomp-filled accession ceremony in England steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism.
“I am deeply aware of this great inheritance and of the duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty, which have now passed to me,” Charles said Saturday.
Just before the proclamation was read Sunday in Edinburgh, a protester appeared with a sign condemning imperialism and urging leaders to “abolish the monarchy," getting taken away soon afterward by police. The crowd applauded.
One man shouted, “Let her go! It’s free speech!” while others shouted: “Have some respect.”
It's a sign of how some, including the former British Empire colonies, are struggling with the legacy of the monarchy. Earlier, proclamations were read in other parts of the Commonwealth countries, including Australia and New Zealand.
Charles, even as he mourned his late mother, was getting to work at Buckingham Palace, meeting with the secretary-general and other representatives of the Commonwealth, nations grappling with affection for the queen and lingering bitterness over their colonial legacies, ranging from slavery to corporal punishment in African schools to looted artifacts held in British institutions.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who had started laying the groundwork for an Australian republic after elections in May, said Sunday that now was the time not for a change but for paying tribute to the late queen.
India, a former British colony, observed a day of state mourning, with flags lowered to half-staff on all government buildings throughout the country.
Amid the grief enveloping the House of Windsor, there were hints of a possible family reconciliation. Prince William and his brother Harry, together with their respective wives, Catherine, Princess of Wales, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, delighted mourners near Windsor Castle with a surprise joint appearance Saturday.
The queen's coffin will take a circuitous journey back to the capital. On Monday, it will be taken from Holyroodhouse to nearby St. Giles’ Cathedral, where it will remain until Tuesday, when it will be flown to London. The coffin will be moved from Buckingham Palace on Wednesday to the Houses of Parliament to lie in state until a state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Sept. 19.
In Ballater, the Rev. David Barr said locals consider the royals as “neighbors” and try to treat them as locals when they spend summers in the Scottish Highlands.
“When she comes up here, and she goes through those gates, I believe the royal part of her stays mostly outside," he said. “And as she goes in, she was able to be a wife, a loving wife, a loving mum, a loving gran and then later on a loving great-gran — and aunty — and be normal."
Elizabeth Taylor, from Aberdeen, had tears in her eyes after the hearse carrying the queen's coffin passed through Ballater.
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'We can learn quite well but without making those relationships stronger in some really crucal circumstances. When your children don't like you, or their partners hate what their seeing them turning a child abject.\nKaren Gledwyn - Principal Teacher Edu... (142.75 seconds). (Ireland / BAFTA / BANFF - IBC Media Teac...: Learning Through Part. Principal,... |) See it (IAC NEW YORK, NY — Americans remembered 9/11 on Sunday with readings of victims' names, volunteer work and other tributes 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil.
A tolling bell and a moment of silence began the commemoration at ground zero in New York, where the World Trade Center's twin towers were destroyed by the hijacked-plane attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Victims’ relatives and dignitaries also convened at the two other attack sites, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
Other communities around the country are marking the day with candlelight vigils, interfaith services and other commemorations. Some Americans are joining in volunteer projects on a day that is federally recognized as both Patriot Day and a National Day of Service and Remembrance.
The observances follow a fraught milestone anniversary last year. It came weeks after the chaotic and humbling end of the Afghanistan war that the U.S. launched in response to the attacks.
But if this Sept. 11 may be less of an inflection point, it remains a point for reflection on the attack that killed nearly 3,000 people, spurred a U.S. “war on terror” worldwide and reconfigured national security policy.
It also stirred — for a time — a sense of national pride and unity for many, while subjecting Muslim Americans to years of suspicion and bigotry and engendering debate over the balance between safety and civil liberties. In ways both subtle and plain, the aftermath of 9/11 ripples through American politics and public life to this day.
And the attacks have cast a long shadow into the personal lives of thousands of people who survived, responded or lost loved ones, friends and colleagues.
More than 70 of Sekou Siby's co-workers perished at Windows on the World, the restaurant atop the trade center's north tower. Siby had been scheduled to work that morning until another cook asked him to switch shifts.
Siby never took a restaurant job again; it would have brought back too many memories. The Ivorian immigrant wrestled with how to comprehend such horror in a country where he'd come looking for a better life.
He found it difficult to form the type of close, family-like friendships he and his Windows on the World co-workers had shared. It was too painful, he had learned, to become attached to people when “you have no control over what’s going to happen to them next.”
“Every 9/11 is a reminder of what I lost that I can never recover,” says Siby, who is now president and CEO of ROC United. The restaurant workers' advocacy group evolved from a relief center for Windows on the World workers who lost their jobs when the twin towers fell.
On Sunday, President Joe Biden plans to speak and lay a wreath at the Pentagon, while first lady Jill Biden is scheduled to speak in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where one of the hijacked planes went down after passengers and crew members tried to storm the cockpit as the hijackers headed for Washington. Al-Qaida conspirators had seized control of the jets to use them as passenger-filled missiles.
Vice President Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff joined the observance at the National Sept. 11 Memorial in New York, but by tradition, no political figures speak at the ground zero ceremony. It centers instead on victims' relatives reading aloud the names of the dead.
Readers often add personal remarks that form an alloy of American sentiments about Sept. 11 — grief, anger, toughness, appreciation for first responders and the military, appeals to patriotism, hopes for peace, occasional political barbs, and a poignant accounting of the graduations, weddings, births and daily lives that victims have missed.
Some relatives also lament that a nation which came together — to some extent — after the attacks has since splintered apart. So much so that federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which were reshaped to focus on international terrorism after 9/11, now see the threat of domestic violent extremism as equally urgent. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national-news/us-marks-21st-anniversary-of-9-11-terror-attacks | 2022-09-11T14:03:30Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national-news/us-marks-21st-anniversary-of-9-11-terror-attacks | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Few buildings in Canterbury turn heads as often as the Crooked House on Palace Street, a structure that looks as though it could topple over at any moment. While the current home of the Catching Lives bookshop looks as though a slight gust of wind would bring the whole store crashing down, the building is very much secure thanks to a steel frame that keeps this Canterbury landmark sturdy and safe.
What results is a building that is rather dizzying to look at but comes complete with a fascinating history. Don’t let the gravity defying appearance fool you, this store is a popular tourist attraction with visitors travelling far and wide to take a peek inside.
Etched into the mantle of this interesting building is a quotation from Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield. It reads: "A very old house bulging over the road…leaning forward, trying to see who was passing on the narrow pavement below."
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Dating all the way back to the 17th century, this building wasn’t always crooked. However, one fateful mistake would cement this structure in Canterbury’s history forever.
A happy accident
The house, which is often also referred to as Sir John Boys House, was first built in 1617 and is notable for being one of Canterbury’s last surviving half timber buildings. It has been named as such in memory of Sir John Boys who died in 1612, an MP and the first recorder of Canterbury.
This building has also been known as the King’s Gallery or the Old King’s Shop. Like so many other buildings constructed at this time, the Crooked House was built upward.
This means that the ground floor is the smallest, with each subsequent floor then built bigger. This effect is likely why Dickens' described this and other houses in the city as 'bulging' - but the reasons why houses were built like this were more practical than pure aesthetics.
Back then, the more space your house took up the more tax you would have to pay on it. As mentioned, the house wasn’t always crooked; clumsy alterations to an internal chimney resulted in the asymmetrical appearance of the house you see today.
The building simply could not handle the strain it was under and began to slump to the side which ultimately resulted in the chimney completely collapsing in 1988. Interestingly, several postcards dating from the 1900s show the house as it was before it began to slant.
The chimney collapse would have been the end of the house were it not for the intervention of Canterbury City Council and Canterbury Archeology Trust who stumped up the cash to save the building.
Since, the property has been reinforced with a steel frame to ensure the safety and structural integrity of this popular tourist destination. Many of the building's quirky characteristics were kept intact however, including the slanted front door and windows.
Connections to Charles Dickens
Few author’s can boast the sheer legacy and influence of Charles Dickens, a writer who was well known to spend plenty of time in Canterbury, as well as many other notable Kent locations.
He would often stay at the Sun Hotel in Sun Street, which he also immortalised in David Copperfield. In the novel, the titular character David Copperfield is educated in Canterbury and lives in the home of Agnes Wickfield.
It is to her house that Dickens attributes the features that now hang proudly above the bookshop today. The striking similarities to the quotation are sadly the only evidence we have that Sir John Boys House is the inspiration as Dickens never directly credited it as Agnes' house.
In fact, when asked by his visiting American friends which house it was, Dickens famously remarked: "Several here would do."
What you will find today
As mentioned, the Crooked House now hosts the Catching Lives bookshop. Catching Lives is a charity devoted to helping rough sleepers and the vulnerably housed within Canterbury and east Kent.
This means that the interior of the Crooked House is now absolutely full to the brim with books and other similar products on sale in the name of charity. Spanning across three main rooms between the ground and first floors, there is a wide enough array of literature to please any taste.
A charming spiral staircase leads customers to the first floor where they will find even more items to peruse. Of course, such an interesting attraction is a tourist hotspot so you can be sure to find many other curious visitors exploring the Crooked House during a visit.
Working inside a piece of history
Jane Wyeth, 53, is a volunteer for the Catching Lives bookshop, currently housed in the Crooked House and says she ‘loves’ working there. Jane said: “It is absolutely brilliant, we quite often get all the students coming in with their questionnaires, asking ‘is this the wonky shop?’
“Obviously, it's a very popular photographic area. I’m very naughty, I like to photobomb, you might catch my face in the window.
“I just love it. If you love books this is such an ideal place to put a bookshop I feel.”
So how was business during COVID? Jane said: “It was up and down, not everybody knew what the rules were and they kept changing.
“We did have to close for a little while. A lot of our volunteers are of an older age so we understand that they wouldn’t want to risk anything.
“Summer’s been very busy, it’s been really good financially.” Discussing the coming autumn and winter months which will see the return of students in Canterbury, Jane said: “It should be fairly steady, before Christmas is always a good time. It’s quite constant.”
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The new branch of Taco Bell has now opened in Dover at St James Retail and Leisure Park. The restaurant is located next to Cineworld and is the latest expansion to Taco Bell's Kent premises, with sites already in Maidstone, Chatham and Dartford.
The Mexican-inspired restaurant opened its doors to the people of Dover at 11am on September 7, and the first 100 customers through the door were treated to a free taco and a t-shirt. KentLive didn't quite make it for the freebies but we did go along to try it out.
On arrival there was a steady stream of people in and out of the restaurant, quite a few people seemed to be choosing to takeaway rather than eat in. The parking at St James Park is free for the first 60 mins as long as you display a ticket, which is quite handy if you did just want to pop in and pick up and order-to-go.
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When I first walked in I thought there was a queue for the till which is straight ahead, but then quickly realised that a few people were congregated to use the self service digital kiosks that are by the door. Given my history with with self service tills, I decided to give that the swerve and place my order with an actual person, who usually ends up having to help me anyway!
I went along to the till to place my order and there was a number of staff buzzing around very efficiently behind the counter. I am a pescatarian so asked the girl who was serving me what my options were. There is a menu on the wall behind the counter, but the pressure of trying to look and figure that out myself with a queue behind me was just too much, and she very helpfully reeled off my options.
I had the choice of a 7 layer burrito, cheese quesadilla or double cheesy black bean burrito, I was a little disappointed that I didn't have an option for a veggie or fish taco, but asked which was the most popular out of the three. I was told it was the 7 layer burrito, so I went for that.
I opted for a regular meal deal which included fries and a drink, and was quite shocked when she said it came to £4.69. I admit I am not a meal deal regular, but it did seem like it was good value, especially as you could get free refills on the drink.
You fill your own drinks from the machine where you have a choice of Pepsi, 7-Up, Tango, Robinsons and Lipton iced tea. The service was super quick and by the time I had filled up my drink my meal was ready, I would say it took less than five minutes.
I was asked if I wanted any sauces, and opted for spicy sauce, then took my seat. The restaurant is nice and spacious with a choice of high stools, booths and normal tables and I sat at one of the booths.
Looking at this objectively I had to remind myself that the food I had in front of me cost less than a fiver and was ready in less than five minutes. The fries were seasoned and the seasoning was ok but the fries themselves were a bit, for want of a better word, floppy! And not very warm.
You can see through to the kitchen and I did see that a lot of things were pre-prepared and under the warmer, I think this included the fries and that would have certainly made sense. I realise this is how most fast food places operate, but no one wants floppy fries.
The 7-layer burrito was not unpleasant but just didn't have that fresh taste or any kind of Mexican kick. It was also not very warm which I wasn't too bothered about, but it would have been nice if the cheese had been a bit more melted.
The food didn't really hit the spot for me personally. When I go for Mexican food I am looking for that lovely mix of savoury, citrusy, fresh flavours that linger in your mouth long after your meal is finished, so I will be sticking to my independent street food stalls for my Mexican fix.
But that said it was fast, cheap, edible and would make an acceptable alternative to the usual suspects such as McDonald's, Wimpy, Burger King etc. The set up and staff are efficient and the location is convenient, all of which tick the boxes of what fast food is about, so I think it will do well.
The opening hours of the Dover store will be 11am - 11pm seven days a week and as well as dine in and take away, they also do home delivery and click and collect.
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When he arrived in Houston two years ago, what David Fields saw belied what he had heard.
The nation’s fourth-largest city has long been known as car-centric and geared toward commuting, with a web of wide freeways that stretch from the heart of town to the far-flung suburbs. Driving, and fighting rush-hour traffic, could be considered part of Houston’s culture.
But Fields, a native New Yorker who also worked in the San Francisco area before taking a job as Houston’s chief transportation planner, saw a city in flux in terms of how its residents get around. Public transit options have expanded in recent years, and so has Houston’s network of sidewalks and hike-and-bike trails.
Fields, who has lived in the Heights and Montrose areas and works downtown, said last week he has yet to drive to his office, instead relying on buses and occasionally his bicycle.
“I think Houston has a reputation because it grew up around the car for many years, but the reality on the ground is not the historic reputation,” he said. “I did not realize how much was going on here until I got to spend some time.”
Although highway expansion continues in the region and driving remains the primary mode of transportation for most Houston-area residents, the city continues to inch away from its reliance on personal cars and trucks while expanding its infrastructure for cyclists, pedestrians and mass transit users. The idea, according to Fields, is to make the city safer, to more adequately accommodate more residents and their preferred transportation options and also to combat climate change.
The city recently was awarded a $21 million federal grant for a transformative project on a 3-mile stretch of Telephone Road in the southeast part of town, where vehicle lanes will be reduced while bike lanes, wider sidewalks and improved connections with METRO – the region’s public transit provider – will be added. Similar projects have been completed in recent years on Austin Street in the Midtown area and Kelley Street on the north side, and many more are underway or in the pipeline.
A federal grant also is buoying an infrastructure project along Shepherd and Durham drives in the Heights area that calls for fewer vehicle lanes and an expanded pedestrian realm, and the city is doing much the same on a stretch of West 11th Street. Among the projects in the works at METRO, for which voters approved a $3.5 billion bond in 2019, is a 25-mile University Line that will stretch across the southern and eastern parts of town while connecting three universities.
Many of those projects have come to light under the administration of Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, who was elected in 2015. Fields said the city has added 400 miles of bike lanes under the Houston Bike Plan, adopted by the city council in 2017, and meeting the needs of non-drivers is now part of the planning for every infrastructure initiative.
“The mayor has said over and over again we are in a transportation paradigm shift, which means moving people by all the different modes, making it safer for all the different modes and really rethinking our right-of-way space,” Fields said. “I can’t imagine any project the city is leading that is not looked at through a multimodal lens.”
[…]
Houston also is grappling with long-held perceptions and attitudes about how to get around the city and how its transportation resources should be invested. Fields said residents have expressed reservations about projects that will increase drive times and require prolonged construction – even if the tradeoff is improved safety – while Cutrufo said opponents of expanded cycling infrastructure often point to the city’s low number of bike riders compared to car drivers.
But [Joe] Cutrufo, whose BikeHouston organization has about 12,000 members, said Houston is “overbuilt for car traffic” and doesn’t require the lane capacity that exists on its roads. So there is plenty of space, he said, to accommodate those who prefer alternative modes of transportation.
“Nobody’s taking away your option to drive,” Cutrufo said of lane-reduction projects such as the ones in the Heights and on Telephone Road. “We’re gaining so much more than we’re losing. We’re not just gaining some space on a specific corridor that had to be quote-unquote taken away from drivers. We’re gaining a significant transportation option that we didn’t have before without losing the option to drive.”
It’s a long story, so go read the rest. Among other things, it name-checks the new bike bridges story, with the West 11th Street project implicitly included. Couple points to mention here. One is that the increased density of the greater Heights/Washington/Rice Military/Memorial areas is really only feasible with this kind of increased bike-and-pedestrian infrastructure. Both in terms of street traffic and parking space, you really want to encourage people who can get around these areas via walking or biking to do so, because there just isn’t the literal space for everyone to drive everywhere. This is a subject I’ve talked about before, in the context of increasing parking for bikes. Again, the key thing here is that making it easier for those who can walk or bike to get places really benefits those who have no choice but to drive.
The other thing to note, which gets only a passing mention in this story, is how much Metro has done lately in this space as well, from the big bus route redesign to more bike racks on buses, integrating with B-Cycle, and working to improve sidewalks around bus stops. The redesign of the local bus routes made a huge difference for me when I was working downtown and carpooling with my wife. It was much easier for me to get to and from work when our schedules didn’t overlap, and it was much easier to get to other places as well thanks to the frequent routes. I go downtown less frequently now that I don’t work there, but I rarely drive there when I do need to go. For those of you who rarely if ever take Metro, remember that every time I do, it’s one less car clogging up I-10 or I-45. You’re welcome. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106683 | 2022-09-11T14:07:59Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106683 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It’s pretty high in this poll.
Voters have grown more supportive of legalizing abortion following the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, with a clear majority opposing restrictions, like bans at a certain point of pregnancy or barring women from traveling to get a legal abortion, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll that underscores the importance of the issue in the midterm elections.
According to the survey, 60% of voters said abortion should be legal in all or most cases, up from 55% in March. Another 29% said it should be illegal, except in cases of rape, incest and when the woman’s life is endangered, compared with 30% in March. And 6% said it should be illegal in all cases, down from 11% in March.
The court’s decision to end federal constitutional protections for the procedure has injected new Democratic energy into a midterm election that Republicans expected to be dominated by economic issues. About a dozen states have banned many or most abortions since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
“Abortion is not an issue that most people, prior to Dobbs, spent a lot of time thinking about,” said Democratic pollster Molly Murphy, whose firm conducted the poll with Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio. “What Dobbs has done is one, we’ve had a national conversation about it. Two, it has gone from hypothetical to real.”
More than half of voters said the ruling made them more motivated to vote in the midterm elections.
Asked broadly about their top issue for the midterms, voters cited the economy and inflation first, followed by abortion. But when offered a choice of five issues and asked which made them most likely to vote, they put the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade ahead of inflation.
Among those who named the court ruling as the most important issue tested against others, 77% were Democrats, 8% were Republicans and 9% were independents.
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Support for abortion in most or all cases rose among Catholics to 59%, up from 45% in March. Support from Black voters was at 69%, up from 59%. College-educated women moved to 76% in support, up from 65%.
“It’s definitely a motivator,” said Elizabeth Schoenknecht, 46, of Hudson, Wis., who is a registered Democrat and works in philanthropy. “It’s heartbreaking to see the reality come to fruition.”
Among Democrats, 92% said abortion should be legal in all or most cases, 6% said it should be illegal except in some cases, such as rape, incest, and when the woman’s life is endangered, and 1% said it should be illegal in all cases. A total of 59% of independents said abortion should be legal in all or most cases, 26% said illegal except in limited cases and 7% illegal in all cases.
With Republicans, 27% said abortion should be legal in all or most cases, 56% said it should illegal except in limited cases and 11% said it should be illegal in all cases.
“The truth of the matter is even among Republicans there isn’t a clear consensus. They want restrictions, the question is what restrictions and how far should they go,” said Mr. Fabrizio, the GOP pollster.
The poll also showed clear opposition to the types of abortion restrictions being enacted or discussed in some states. A total of 62% opposed an abortion ban at 6 weeks of pregnancy that only included an exception for the health of the mother, and 57% opposed a ban at 15 weeks with an exception only for the health of the mother. The survey said 77% opposed banning women who live in states where abortion is illegal from traveling to other states to get an abortion. And 81% were against banning all abortions.
Consider this a companion to that poll about abortion attitudes in Texas. It makes sense that state polls would be directionally in line with national polls, but the state poll was from June and as I said appeared to me to be if nothing else ahead of its time. We also don’t know what the question wording was in this poll. I also note that while the story listed attitudinal shifts among several subgroups, it didn’t include Latinos among them, which could mean any number of things. I find all of this more suggestive than conclusive, but moving the want I want it to. I just don’t know yet what I think about how much of an effect it may have in November. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106891 | 2022-09-11T14:08:07Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106891 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Are you ready for some attack ads?
A shadowy new group has purchased at least $6 million in TV ads ahead of the November election and is airing an ad that targets Gov. Greg Abbott as he runs for reelection.
The minute-long ad from Coulda Been Worse LLC, which started airing Friday, rattles off a list of major calamitous events that have happened on Abbott’s watch, like the Uvalde school shooting and 2021 power-grid collapse. As the narrator speaks, a picture slowly zooms out to show Abbott’s face.
“Any one of these — a terrible shame for Texas,” the narrator says at the end. “All of these — a horrific sign something big is terribly, terribly wrong.”
The spot ends with a clip of Abbott saying after the Uvalde massacre that it “could have been worse,” increasingly a rallying cry of Abbott’s critics. Abbott made the comment while praising the law enforcement response to the shooting, which has since been been widely criticized for taking well over an hour to confront the shooter. Abbott later said he was “misled” when he made the comment.
The advertising represents a significant escalation as Abbott fights for a third term against Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke. Abbott has led O’Rourke by mid-single digits in polls throughout the summer.
Here’s the ad, which I can’t find right now on YouTube in part because there’s a song called “Coulda Been Worse” and in part because there’s a ton of video clips of Abbott’s original “could have been worse” quote.
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New — Here’s the TV ad that the mysterious new group Coulda Been Worse LLC is airing in Texas, targeting @GregAbbott_TX:— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) 6:15 AM – 9 September 2022
60-second ads always feel interminable to me, but I’m not sure how you cut this one down. I mostly encounter ads like this when I watch sports – the college and NFL football seasons are just rife with this stuff, especially in even-numbered years – so I’ll be interested to see how often I encounter it. What’s your reaction? | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106956 | 2022-09-11T14:08:15Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106956 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
City staffers are finalizing a plan to add protected bike lanes along 11th Street in the Heights and reduce the number of driving lanes, despite pushback from some residents in the area.
Crews will begin work rehabilitating 11th Street this month, with plans to start construction on the bikeway part of the project in October, said Erin Jones, spokesperson for the city’s public works department.
“The bikeway design is still being finalized to include METRO bus stop improvements/relocations,” she said.
[…]
“When Mayor Turner announced the 11th Street project would move forward after that short pause, he said something that struck me,” said Joe Cutrufo, the director of BikeHouston. “He said that, ‘we’re not building the city for where we are now, but building the city for where we are going.’ And I thought that was really well-phrased.”
Bike lanes will be added on both sides of 11th between North Shepherd Drive and Michaux Street, where there will be one vehicular lane in each direction with a center, left-turn lane along the stretch between Yale and Studewood streets. The plan also calls for bike lanes along Michaux between 11th and Stude Park to the south as well as protected crossings for pedestrians and cyclists at intersections such as 11th and Nicholson Street, where the Heights Hike-and-Bike Trail crosses 11th, and Michaux and White Oak Drive.
There now are two vehicle lanes in each direction on 11th between Shepherd and Michaux, and no center turn lanes.
The project will cost about $600,000, with funding coming from capital improvement dollars for bikeways, according to the city.
See here, here, and here for some background. I fully support this and I am excited to see what the finished project looks like. I also recognize that the construction will be inconvenient, and it will directly affect me. Like most people in this neighborhood, I regularly drive all of those named streets. The carpool we have for getting Daughter #2 to and from high school also involves taking on kid home north of Garden Oaks, for which I take Shepherd already under construction) via 11th. It’s going to suck for awhile, no two ways around it. But hey, I’ve survived more highway renovations than I can count. I will survive this, too. And in the end, the neighborhood will be a better place. Let’s do this. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106962 | 2022-09-11T14:08:22Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106962 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
*Small Craft Advisory for Atlantic waters until 6 a.m. on Monday*
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Monday: Winds S 5-10 kts. Waves 1-2 feet. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/marine-forecast-for-september-11-2022/article_015a006e-31d4-11ed-8c7f-37de6fda00e6.html | 2022-09-11T14:08:57Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/marine-forecast-for-september-11-2022/article_015a006e-31d4-11ed-8c7f-37de6fda00e6.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
He pointed out that a lot of politically motivated propaganda was offloaded and circulated against the efforts of the Governor, where it was alleged that billions were spent to demolish the structure adding that the assertions were false and the height of mischief
Namang said the push for the economic growth of the State deserves the support of all discerning minds, stressing that they cannot continue to promote and elevate hatred as an ideology or achievement as the renegade Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) politicians, keep on doing.
According to him, the state needs the intervention of true Patriots, Statesmen and Religious Leaders across the divide; to bring all disparate and divergent groups together, “as our strength lies in our diversity.”
The State Publicity Secretary of APC further stressed that Jos Main Market remains a cherished Heritage of Plateau People, which no one can take away adding that the market ought to have been rebuilt before now, if not for the misplaced priority of the immediate past administration.
“These Serial Fault finders’ opposition to the JAIZ Bank Funding initiative and the State Government’s decision to rebuild the market is purely politically motivated. Religion is only being ostensibly brought in as a mere smokescreen!
“The same JAIZ Bank has executed similar projects in nearly 100 % Christian States of Enugu and Rivers State without its people being Islamised, contrary to what is being widely canvassed by these deceptive opposition politicians in a 21st Century Plateau State.
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- Don’t politicise rebuilding of Jos main market, Plateau APC warns oppositions | https://tribuneonlineng.com/dont-politicise-rebuilding-of-jos-main-market-plateau-apc-warns-opposition/ | 2022-09-11T14:15:54Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/dont-politicise-rebuilding-of-jos-main-market-plateau-apc-warns-opposition/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Operatives of Anambra State Police command have arrested the leader of a criminal gang which specializes in robbing commuters along Ufuma – Oko – Uga- Amaokpala road in Orumba North and Aguata Local Government Areas of the state.
The gang leader and his members were said to be responsible for over twenty-five cases of armed robbery, kidnapping, and car-snatching incidents in the area.
The spokesperson of Anambra State Police Command, DSP Ikenga Toochukwu, who disclosed this in a press release said while the leader of the gang was arrested, his members are at large.
Tochukwu revealed that the group leader confessed to being the gang that recently robbed a hotel in Ndikelionwu, where a female staff was raped.
The release read: “Police Operatives attached to Oko divisional headquarters acting on credible information in the early hours of 6/9/2022 burst a criminal hideout, an uncompleted building along Oko – Ufuma expressway in Orumba North LGA.
“Operatives arrested one Okechukwu Okpo ‘M’ age 24 years of Ndobasi village, Ebonyi State. One locally fabricated pistol, two live cartridges, and three plasma television were recovered.
“The criminal gang on sighting the police vehicle opened fire on the operatives, who responded swiftly, engaging the armed robbers in a gun battle. While other gang members fled the scene, Okechukwu was arrested.
“Preliminary investigations show that the gang was responsible for over 25 armed robbery, kidnapping, and car-snatching incidents that have happened along Oko Ufuma, Uga, Amaokpala expressway, among others.
“The most recent according to the confessional statement of the suspect (Okechukwu) is an attack in a hotel on 13/8/2022 at Ndikelionwu, where a female staff was raped and the gang also made away with three television and other items. Efforts are ongoing to arrest other fleeing gang members.”
The PPRO also stated that four other suspected criminals have been arrested in a separate incident.
He said the suspects were arrested in conjunction with local security, and they include; one Chukwubike Anieto ‘m’ Aged 20years from Agulu, Chukwuemerie Ike ‘m’ aged 36years from Agulu, Chidera muo ‘m’ aged 25years from Neni and Chukwuma Israel ‘m’ aged 28 years all residing at Umuezeani village Akwaeze.
“We recovered one berretta pistol, three motorcycles, one axe, three machetes, one police belt, one Sumec generator, thirteen different brands of phones, and other incriminating items.
“Interrogation by the police operatives revealed that the gang attacked a police Constable, and dispossessed him of his personal belonging on 29/8/2022 along Umukabia Okofia village, Neni. Also most recently, the gang were caught in the act on 9/9/2022 in an attempt to rob a lady of her belonging along Okofia village, Neni.”
ALSO READ FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
- EDITORIAL: UN’s Alarm On Starvation Of Children In Nigeria
- Police arrest leader of suspected criminal gang in Anambra | https://tribuneonlineng.com/police-arrest-leader-of-suspected-criminal-group-in-anambra/ | 2022-09-11T14:15:57Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/police-arrest-leader-of-suspected-criminal-group-in-anambra/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New York: Ons Jabeur struggled to hold back the tears after losing a second consecutive Grand Slam final on Saturday, but while the Tunisian said her US Open defeat to Iga Swiatek was tough to take she vowed to come back swinging.
The 28-year-old, who lost her first Grand Slam title match at Wimbledon in July, was beaten 6-2, 7-6(5) by world No. 1 Swiatek at Flushing Meadows.
Jabeur told reporters that not even the sting of defeat on the sport's biggest stage could keep her down for long.
"I struggled to win my first WTA title. It took me time. So I believe this will take me time," said Jabeur, who will regain the world No. 2 ranking on Monday.
"The most important thing is accepting it, you know, learning from the finals that I lost."
A crowd favourite in New York for her creative play and ebullient personality, she claimed her first Tour-level title last year in Birmingham, England, nine years after first appearing in a WTA main draw.
She went on a tear this year, winning in Madrid and Berlin, before Elena Rybakina came back from a set down to end her title hopes at Wimbledon.
Jabeur's march through the Flushing Meadows draw saw her swat aside a red-hot Caroline Garcia in the semifinals but a rocky start against Swiatek proved too much for Tunisia's "Minister of Happiness."
"Wimbledon was tough. This one is going to be tough," she told reporters.
"I'm not someone that is going to give up. I am sure I'm going to be in the final again."
The first Arab woman to reach a Grand Slam final, and first African woman to reach the US Open championship match, Jabeur said her message to the next generation of girls hoping to follow her path was : "Never give up."
"That's what I was trying to do all my career. I had some ups and downs. Before, it was injuries and getting to know myself on the court. After, it was losing quarterfinals," she said.
"Then it evolved to losing finals. Then getting titles." | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/tennis/2022/09/11/i-wont-give-up-says-jabeur-after-second-successive-major-final-loss.amp.html | 2022-09-11T14:23:18Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/tennis/2022/09/11/i-wont-give-up-says-jabeur-after-second-successive-major-final-loss.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Schools have been looking for ways to support student mental health needs, and COVID relief dollars made a lot of that possible. We look at what that looks like one school in Oakland, California.
Copyright 2022 NPR
Schools have been looking for ways to support student mental health needs, and COVID relief dollars made a lot of that possible. We look at what that looks like one school in Oakland, California.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.klcc.org/2022-09-11/schools-are-using-covid-relief-dollars-to-support-students-mental-health | 2022-09-11T14:23:18Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/2022-09-11/schools-are-using-covid-relief-dollars-to-support-students-mental-health | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New York: Ons Jabeur struggled to hold back the tears after losing a second consecutive Grand Slam final on Saturday, but while the Tunisian said her US Open defeat to Iga Swiatek was tough to take she vowed to come back swinging.
The 28-year-old, who lost her first Grand Slam title match at Wimbledon in July, was beaten 6-2, 7-6(5) by world No. 1 Swiatek at Flushing Meadows.
Jabeur told reporters that not even the sting of defeat on the sport's biggest stage could keep her down for long.
"I struggled to win my first WTA title. It took me time. So I believe this will take me time," said Jabeur, who will regain the world No. 2 ranking on Monday.
"The most important thing is accepting it, you know, learning from the finals that I lost."
A crowd favourite in New York for her creative play and ebullient personality, she claimed her first Tour-level title last year in Birmingham, England, nine years after first appearing in a WTA main draw.
She went on a tear this year, winning in Madrid and Berlin, before Elena Rybakina came back from a set down to end her title hopes at Wimbledon.
Jabeur's march through the Flushing Meadows draw saw her swat aside a red-hot Caroline Garcia in the semifinals but a rocky start against Swiatek proved too much for Tunisia's "Minister of Happiness."
"Wimbledon was tough. This one is going to be tough," she told reporters.
"I'm not someone that is going to give up. I am sure I'm going to be in the final again."
The first Arab woman to reach a Grand Slam final, and first African woman to reach the US Open championship match, Jabeur said her message to the next generation of girls hoping to follow her path was : "Never give up."
"That's what I was trying to do all my career. I had some ups and downs. Before, it was injuries and getting to know myself on the court. After, it was losing quarterfinals," she said.
"Then it evolved to losing finals. Then getting titles." | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/tennis/2022/09/11/i-wont-give-up-says-jabeur-after-second-successive-major-final-loss.html | 2022-09-11T14:23:24Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/tennis/2022/09/11/i-wont-give-up-says-jabeur-after-second-successive-major-final-loss.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Power continues to be restored to many residents who had their power cut as part of the public safety power shutoffs meant to decrease fire danger. Several power companies instituted the shutoffs between Friday night and Saturday afternoon in communities across Western Oregon.
Eugene Water and Electric Board released a statement Saturday afternoon saying EWEB crews were standing by to begin restoration of power Sunday morning. As of Sunday morning, 2,902 EWEB customers remained without power in the McKenzie River valley.
Lane Electric Co-op restored power to around 2,000 customers Saturday, and even more early Sunday, but about 400 remained without power at 7:00 a.m. Sunday. Saturday night, Lane Electric reported areas south of Dexter reservoir were back on as were several other outlying areas of the system, with the restoration work continuing today.
Pacific Power said about 12,000 customers were affected by the shutoffs, but the utility restored power to all customers by Saturday afternoon.
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When an NPR team met Justine Adhiambo Obura in the fall of 2019, she wore a turquoise t-shirt with a bold message: "No Sex for Fish."
It wasn't just an eye-catching slogan. It was a summation of the indignities women faced in her world — and how they flipped the power dynamic.
In a number of lakeside communities in Africa and other parts of the world, men do the fishing and women sell the fish. For many of the women, living in poverty and with minimal education and a lack of job opportunities, there was no other way to earn a living, to support their children.
As supplies of fish diminished in various locations, fishermen began demanding sex in exchange for providing a woman with fish to sell. That was the case in Nduru Beach on Lake Victoria, where Obura lives. A lot of the fishermen were HIV positive and infected the women. The women hated this practice of transactional sex but many felt they had no choice. "I exchange sex; I get fish," Mika Onyango, a mother of six, told us. "I don't care about getting HIV. Me, I need fish. I need earning to sustain my family."
In 2011 Obura and others came up with a game-changing idea. What if they owned their own boats – and hired men to fish for them? With the help of a couple of Peace Corps volunteers and a series of grants, they started the No Sex for Fish cooperative. Eventually, Nduru Beach and eight other area villages got boats – around 30 in total. The women of Nduru Beach not only earned a living but built up a sizeable rainy day fund – some $6,000 – which they donated or loaned to members facing financial stress.
Then came an unprecedented series of rainy days. In early 2020, Lake Victoria rose and flooded Nduru Beach. The 1,000 or so residents fled to safety. They abandoned their homes; many of them had no alternative but to live in improvised shelters at local schools. They had no personal savings – and for the women of No Sex for Fish, no way to make money. These women – some of them single mothers, some of them HIV positive – saw most of their boats lost or damaged beyond repair. The money the group had saved over the years enabled them to weather these dire times.
Some former fishmongers turned to farming. In nearby Kusa Beach, which had a chapter of No Sex for Fish, a tomato project looks promising. Obura and some of the women of Nduru Beach tried agriculture too. It didn't work out for them.
Eventually the waters of the Lake receded and the Nduru Beach women came up with a plan that seemed risky but made sense to them: Let's go back to fishing.
Here's the story of the unexpected revival of No Sex for Fish.
A tall woman walks around a boat as a carpenter slowly seals its sides to block water from seeping in. She is Justine Adhiambo Obura, a founding member of the No Sex for Fish cooperative.
The carpenter is putting the final touches on the boat, which was built with Ugandan hardwood to give it a long life as a fishing vessel on Lake Victoria.
"We are slowly getting our lives and source of livelihoods back," says Obura. "Through our efforts in our group No Sex for Fish, our members are slowly getting back to business."
An 'amazing' turn of events
The fact that this boat is being built for the No Sex for Fish group is "surprising," says Tim Kibet of Kenya, a field agent for the charity World Connect. That's the group that funded earlier boats and this summer issued a grant for approximately $8,000 U.S. to build three new boats and buy the voluminous nets needed for fishing.
A year ago, in the wake of the catastrophic flooding, the No Sex for Fish group seemed to have reached an end, he recalls. "Their boats were destroyed, the women were so devastated they didn't know what to do. I'm glad they held onto themselves as a group."
Patrick Higdon of World Connect's London office, who has monitored the grants given to No Sex for Fish, is equally surprised: "It was pretty bleak last year. To see this [fishing] kick back up, we always knew they wanted it and had the perseverance. But it just didn't seem like the conditions were going to allow it."
"They were adamant all along that they needed to get back to fishing," Higdon says. "At the time with the flooding and the homes damaged and all that we had read about the fishing economy and dwindling catch, it was hard to believe — but they were insistent. It's what they know and what they know can be profitable.
Pondering the unlikely turn of events, Higdon says: "It's pretty amazing, it's pretty cool."
Back to the beach
Ten women are part of the revived No Sex for Fish cooperative. They all used to live in Nduru Beach but were displaced by the flooding. The waters have receded. A few people have returned to the village, including the group's treasurer and one other member.
One boat has been completed using the new grant money and is already fishing the lake. The women had salvaged two engines from their previous boats and are using one on this new craft. Fishermen take the vessel out for the night. In the morning, a couple of women from the No Sex for Fish group meet the boat. They take turns because most of them now live outside Nduru Beach and may have to walk for 30 minutes or take a motorcycle taxi to the shore.
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On a recent morning in August, two women were cleaning the newly caught fish – Nile perch, catfish, tilapia, tiny silvery fish called omena. They'll sell most of the daily catch but also take fish home to feed their families. The women say they make about $10 a day.
The income helps support their families, with a portion devoted to rebuilding their nest egg for future needs. Since the women resumed fishing in July, they have saved up around $600 — roughly an average monthly salary in Kenya.
The hope is that some of these savings will eventually help flood-displaced members find permanent housing.
There's another ambitious goal: building more boats so their enterprise and income will grow.
Persisting and planning
Of course the lake could rise again. So the group needs a plan to ensure that their new boats survive any future disaster.
They're definitely going low-tech in their solutions. One plan is to nestle the boats in wild papyrus plants when not in use. The towering plants could prevent a boat from being washed away in a flood.
On top of the flooding crisis, the women have faced personal tragedies. Rose Atieno Abongo is grieving the loss of her 26-year-old son, whose body she found outside her home about a month ago. She suspects he was killed by robbers and now must raise her 5 remaining kids without the income he earned as a fisherman.
"I used all the money I had for my son's burial and I do not have even small amount of money to continue with my business of selling fish," says Abongo.
But she is still hopeful that life will change for the better. She decided to be part of the No Sex for Fish revival so she can put food on the table for her kids.
Another member, Lorine Otieno Abuto, who is HIV positive, says, "I am just praying that I will get some money to make my own boat like I had before." She dreams of the life she had before, when she was still poor but "I would sell fish from my boat and at least life was not that hard."
Her remark is a reminder that these women lead tough lives — yet somehow found the strength to take charge of their destiny, back in 2011 and now again in 2022.
And for Justine Adhiambo Obura, a mother of 9, including a daughter with development disabilities, the three new boats are a cause for joy in the wake of the fearsome floods. "We feel so good," she says. "We are very happy."
Viola Kosome is a freelance journalist in Kenya.
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The first time James "Spinner" Spinosa saw a driverless machine pick up a massive shipping container and move it through a shipyard was during a trip to Rotterdam in 1989.
He was amazed, and in equal measures, alarmed.
A rising star in the West Coast dockworkers union, his mind went immediately to his union brothers and sisters back home – truck drivers and crane operators – whose jobs would be in jeopardy.
But that wasn't all. The same day, Spinosa peeked through an open door into a room that was not part of the tour.
"Lo and behold, here was about six or eight people on computers, interfacing with what they were showing us in the yard," he says. "I knew then, this was major changes. We have to get this work."
"Machines don't pay taxes"
Fast forward 33 years. Automation poses a bigger threat to union jobs now than ever before. Three terminals at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are now partly or fully automated, and several more are contemplating it. It's become the hot-button issue in the contract negotiations between dockworkers and the shipping industry that started in May.
Now retired, Spinosa takes a forward-looking view, believing the union must look for the jobs of tomorrow to avoid being left behind.
But at the waterfront, current union dockworkers fear giving up any more ground.
"These machines don't pay taxes. They don't help our local economy. They don't help with infrastructure," says Yvette Bjazevic, who's worked on the docks for 20 years. "We should all be outraged."
But Spinosa's take on the future is shaped by his experiences leading the International Longshore and Warehouse Union through tumultuous times.
Rather than block technological advancements, Spinosa doubled down on the fight for union jobs. Whatever technology was being used on the docks, he wanted to make sure that union workers were there, ready to take on new roles.
It's an approach similar to one the ILWU has embraced almost since its founding.
Hooks used to bring in crates of fruit. Now cranes haul massive shipping containers
Spinosa followed his uncles to the waterfront in 1969, when the ships crossing the ocean were much smaller — like rowboats, he jokes — and most cargo was still handled by hand. Longshoremen used different types of hooks for different types of cargo, be it crates of fruit, bales of cotton, or sacks of borax.
"The old-timers that we worked with, they would take you under their wing, and they would show you how to actually handle cargo, stow cargo properly, and stay safe," Spinosa recalls.
But that all changed with the advent of shipping containers, the colorful steel boxes that are now standard across the global shipping industry.
A controversial agreement
No longer were gangs of longshoremen needed in the holds of ships. A single crane operator could lift entire containers full of goods at once.
"Instead of having 75 or 90 men working on a ship, you might have many fewer, 10 or so, able to do the same amount of work or more work," says historian Robert Cherny, author of an upcoming biography of the ILWU's longtime president Harry Bridges.
The union had foreseen the threat to jobs then. In the 1960s, Bridges negotiated a controversial agreement. The union would accept the use of containers and cranes and other forms of mechanization as long as there was something in it for the workers. Above all, guaranteed wages — regardless of whether there was work.
"As far back as the late 1930s, early 1940s, the union had always said they were willing that the employers would introduce labor-saving machinery, but that the union had to be consulted, and the union had to essentially get a piece of it," says Cherny.
Spinosa sums it up this way: Union dockworkers would go along with mechanization, as long as mechanization took them along.
"Whatever work is necessary for the future, hopefully we're there and we're doing it"
Spinosa clung to that basic tenet throughout his career. In the 1980s, he accepted that computers were bringing efficiencies to the work of marine clerks, who had for decades mapped out the movement of containers by hand. But he fought to ensure that a union worker would be in front of those computers.
"As long as equipment needs to be moved on the terminals, it's done by the ILWU," he says. "The problem arises when it becomes robotic."
Spinosa worries that the union doesn't know enough about the technology being brought to the ports today to fight for the jobs that may come open tomorrow. Employers in the shipping industry are not exactly opening their doors and announcing new positions, he says. It's up to the union to figure it out.
"We have to have an offensive posture. We have to go find those jobs," he says. "We have to understand this industry like never before."
He's urged the union to bring on experts in automation to figure out who's sitting at all the computers and what exactly they're doing.
"That's how we're going to try to protect the industry, so that whatever work is necessary for the future, hopefully we're there and we're doing it," he says.
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Updated September 11, 2022 at 9:17 AM ET
NEW YORK — Americans remembered 9/11 on Sunday with readings of victims' names, volunteer work and other tributes 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil.
A tolling bell and a moment of silence began the commemoration at ground zero in New York, where the World Trade Center's twin towers were destroyed by the hijacked-plane attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Victims' relatives and dignitaries also convened at the two other attack sites, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
Other communities around the country are marking the day with candlelight vigils, interfaith services and other commemorations. Some Americans are joining in volunteer projects on a day that is federally recognized as both Patriot Day and a National Day of Service and Remembrance.
The observances follow a fraught milestone anniversary last year. It came weeks after the chaotic and humbling end of the Afghanistan war that the U.S. launched in response to the attacks.
But if this Sept. 11 may be less of an inflection point, it remains a point for reflection on the attack that killed nearly 3,000 people, spurred a U.S. "war on terror" worldwide and reconfigured national security policy.
It also stirred — for a time — a sense of national pride and unity for many, while subjecting Muslim Americans to years of suspicion and bigotry and engendering debate over the balance between safety and civil liberties. In ways both subtle and plain, the aftermath of 9/11 ripples through American politics and public life to this day.
And the attacks have cast a long shadow into the personal lives of thousands of people who survived, responded or lost loved ones, friends and colleagues.
More than 70 of Sekou Siby's co-workers perished at Windows on the World, the restaurant atop the trade center's north tower. Siby had been scheduled to work that morning until another cook asked him to switch shifts.
Siby never took a restaurant job again; it would have brought back too many memories. The Ivorian immigrant wrestled with how to comprehend such horror in a country where he'd come looking for a better life.
He found it difficult to form the type of close, family-like friendships he and his Windows on the World co-workers had shared. It was too painful, he had learned, to become attached to people when "you have no control over what's going to happen to them next."
"Every 9/11 is a reminder of what I lost that I can never recover," says Siby, who is now president and CEO of ROC United. The restaurant workers' advocacy group evolved from a relief center for Windows on the World workers who lost their jobs when the twin towers fell.
On Sunday, President Joe Biden plans to speak and lay a wreath at the Pentagon, while first lady Jill Biden is scheduled to speak in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where one of the hijacked planes went down after passengers and crew members tried to storm the cockpit as the hijackers headed for Washington. Al-Qaida conspirators had seized control of the jets to use them as passenger-filled missiles.
Vice President Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff joined the observance at the National Sept. 11 Memorial in New York, but by tradition, no political figures speak at the ground zero ceremony. It centers instead on victims' relatives reading aloud the names of the dead.
Readers often add personal remarks that form an alloy of American sentiments about Sept. 11 — grief, anger, toughness, appreciation for first responders and the military, appeals to patriotism, hopes for peace, occasional political barbs, and a poignant accounting of the graduations, weddings, births and daily lives that victims have missed.
Some relatives also lament that a nation which came together — to some extent — after the attacks has since splintered apart. So much so that federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which were reshaped to focus on international terrorism after 9/11, now see the threat of domestic violent extremism as equally urgent.
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How do you repeat a surprise? That’s the tricky question faced by writer-director Rian Johnson with his film Glass Onion, a sequel to the relatively out-of-nowhere whodunnit smash hit Knives Out. That film’s gizmo mystery contraption and culture-skewering humor was a welcome jolt: an entirely original (though certainly with its influences) creation that helped revive a moribund genre.
Netflix secured the rights to the next two films in the Benoit Blanc mysteries—so named for the drawling crack detective played by Daniel Craig—for a heap of money. All Johnson had to do was come up with a bunch more twists.
He does pull off at least one grand reveal in Glass Onion, which takes Blanc and a cast of new suspects to a private island where a smarmy tech zillionaire, Miles Bron (Edward Norton), has built a Bond villain-esque compound. (There’s Craig, newly done with that super-spy role, suddenly in a setting from the Roger Moore era.) As with Knives Out, nothing is what it immediately seems, and Johnson takes his merry time showing us what’s really going on. His intricate craftsmanship is a pleasure to watch in motion, though a bad symptom of sequel-itis stalks the film: Johnson, facing all that daunting follow-up pressure, has decided to go bigger.
The original Knives Out was a satire of spoiled family money in Trump’s America. Glass Onion has on its mind the stark inequities and rampant selfishness seen in the dawn of the pandemic. But Johnson has mostly aimed the film squarely at the foolish, and at times dangerous, messianics of the tech industry, framing Miles as a melange of Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and other masters of the universe. That’s pretty low-hanging fruit these days, though I suppose so were the nepotism babies of the first film.
Joining Blanc and Miles on this accursed island are some of Miles’s supposed old pals. There’s Claire (Kathryn Hahn), the liberal governor of Connecticut now making a bid for the U.S. Senate. Lionel (Leslie Odom Jr.) is a science whiz who works for Miles. Duke (Dave Bautista) is a YouTuber and Twitch streamer who’s aiming to become a men’s rights thought leader. And Birdie (Kate Hudson) is a bratty celebrity type who seems to be forever getting canceled for saying or doing some witless, offensive thing.
Why would these people be friends with Miles? That’s one of the many little mysteries in Glass Onion. As is the presence of Andi (Janelle Monáe), Miles’s former business partner, whom he forced out of the company in an act of Zuckerberg-esque cruelty. To drive home that parallel, The Social Network is referenced in the film. As is so much other pop culture. There are running jokes about Jeremy Renner and Jared Leto. There are cameos from a staggering variety of celebrities. Glass Onion starts to feel over-adorned, as if Johnson, like so many of us, spent too much time absorbing ephemera from his quarantine couch and is now spitting it back at us.
I can understand the impulse to ratchet up the stakes, and the laughs. But Johnson is such a sharp and inventive writer that I would have been plenty happy with just another Knives Out movie on a similarly modest scale. Instead we get this pile of stuff, alternately diverting and irksome. The latter wins out eventually, I’m afraid.
Still, it is nifty fun to watch the layers of Glass Onion peeled back, as Johnson loops around on his story to show us the insides of his impressive machine. The actors are all game and grooving on Johnson’s signature brand of wordplay. Hudson has long been adept at playing this kind of viperish vapidity, as evidenced in her steely turn in Something Borrowed years ago. Norton has always been good at playing an asshole, and here he gets to play one who might just destroy the world.
Craig’s shtick was too archly hammy by just a few degrees in Knives Out and here he seems to double down. Some of that extra “now let’s see here” chicanery actually does serve a narrative purpose in Glass Onion, so we can forgive him that. But a little of Benoit Blanc goes a long way, and we sure do have a lot of him in this film.
I’ve been asked to keep mum about pretty much every other aspect of the plot, a request that I’ll honor by ending things here. Fear not: Glass Onion is a zippy ride just like Knives Out. I just hope that in his third outing, Detective Blanc finds himself in a humble old regular-sized mansion. That’s where he works best. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/glass-onion-the-knives-are-not-quite-as-sharp-this-time | 2022-09-11T14:28:31Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/glass-onion-the-knives-are-not-quite-as-sharp-this-time | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Steven Spielberg has probably earned the right to some public self-reflection, which he does in rich abundance in his new film, The Fabelmans, which premiered here at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday. A lengthy look back at a version of Spielberg’s childhood—its parental strife, its peripatetic existence, its dawning passion—The Fabelmans is so summative of the filmmaker’s memories and motivation that it almost feels like a goodbye.
The film concerns a boy named Sam, whom we first meet when he is young and scared to go into the movies, where, he’s heard, everyone on screen is big and scary. Once his parents finally coax him into the theater, to see The Greatest Show on Earth, something burrows into Sam’s head and heart. It’s not affection, at first. It’s a kind of existential astonishment, almost a terror, that this kid just can’t shake. Here we see, perhaps, the birth of Spielberg’s taste for spectacle—and of his darkness, which too often gets lost in our estimation of his artistry in favor of his more nostalgic, mushy-hearted tendencies.
The man who’s made so many indelible images of childhood awe also has an oeuvre full of violence and horror, but often delivered with a formal dispassion. The Fabelmans, which Spielberg wrote with steady collaborator Tony Kushner, offers some explanation for that: as a sad tumult descends over his family, Sam retreats behind his camera, better to stay at an observing remove. Older, and discovering a secret involving a beloved family friend played warmly by Seth Rogen, Sam briefly forsakes his hobby—or, really, his calling—altogether. There’s a tug of war within him, between his art and the tangible life he’s trying to manage in the real world.
That tension is vividly described to him in a masterful scene featuring Judd Hirsch as Sam’s oddball great uncle, a former circus performer who drifted into the movie business in the 1920s and sees in Sam the pain of an artist. Sam has that in common with his mother, Mitzi, played with flounce and ache by a magnificent Michelle Williams. Mitzi is a gifted pianist, but she never pursued her talent professionally. She’s restless, impulsive, loving, and reckless all at once. Now that he’s 75 years old, Spielberg seems to have gained some compassionate clarity for a parent who, at the time, seems to have been an often frightening and frustrating presence in his life.
One could delve into armchair analysis and determine that she’s why Spielberg has made so few movies with women at the center—there’s even a brief, winking joke about that lack on his resumé. The Fabelmans does, on occasion, invite such interpretation, making gestures toward his filmography, explaining his interests or, at least, accounting for them. Spielberg knows how we will watch a film like this—how could we not, when the world’s most famous director is finally, after so many years, getting specifically personal. But he wants us to feel something of our own, too, about the confusion and wonders of our own youths as it all shifts and rearranges in the rearview.
The film unfolds in an episodic ramble, but is more carefully constructed than so many memoir films that simply meander through a filmmaker’s life. Humor and sorrow and hope dance around one another as this nattering family moves from New Jersey to a cozy and almost edenic Arizona, then to a far less forgiving northern California. When Sam is a teenager, he’s played by Gabriel LaBelle, a perspicaciously talented actor making only his fourth film appearance. He’s a terrific find, natural and affable. In Spielberg, Kushner, and LaBelle’s portraiture, Sam is a decent kid, but we can also see him receding into the privacy of his passions.
A distance develops between his whirring mind and the rest of the world—though, of course, he’ll spend the rest of his life trying to bring the world closer to everyone else. A charming scene in which Sam meets an oddball filmmaking legend (featuring a cameo from none other than David Lynch), leads to a closing shot that gently lifts the film up toward pure, classically Spielbergian sentiment. It’s a sweet, wistful, and just ever so slightly self-aggrandizing little button that is perfectly justified, as Spielberg has just spent so many minutes generously holding himself up to be studied. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/spielberg-the-fabelmans-review-awards-insider | 2022-09-11T14:28:37Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/spielberg-the-fabelmans-review-awards-insider | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Resist the temptation to think you know exactly what’s coming in The Menu. The "eat the rich" social satire has gotten quite a workout in cinema recently, even just at the Toronto International Film Festival, where this new film directed by Succession's Mark Mylod premiered. Sure enough, The Menu was programmed opposite the Knives Out sequel Glass Onion, both movies that featured a bunch of wealthy assholes gathered on a remote island.
But Mylod’s riff on fine dining and the people who partake consistently zigs where you think it will zag. There is bloodshed and there is retribution, but it's doled out in a way that never feels expected or pat. At the risk of sounding hokey: it's a new spin on a familiar flavor, like pickle ice cream or a chocolate hamburger. The Menu lands its joke about the Chef Table-ification of cuisine while also finding nuance in its “capitalism is a plague” messaging.
The Searchlight Pictures release written by comedy veterans Will Tracy and Seth Reiss opens as a young couple board a yacht that will take them to the exclusive restaurant The Hawthorne, where a seating costs $1,250 a head. Nicholas Hoult's Tyler is what you would call a "foodie"—he talks about "mouthfeel" and is desperate to photograph everything on his plate, rattling off facts about kitchen appliances. Meanwhile, his date, Margot, played by Anya Taylor-Joy just doesn't get it. With her black nails and combat boots, she's an ill-fit in this crew of bankers, celebrities, and uptight WASPs, and she ignores Tyler's suggestion that she refrain from smoking so as not to ruin her palate. Taylor-Joy radiates a chill, coolest girl in the world vibe, while Hoult is all a-titter. Tyler never gets a significant backstory but Hoult, proving himself again as an unusually talented actor, gives you everything you need to know about this eager-to-please rich guy who uses food as a way to make himself sound interesting.
For a while even after the guests take their seats, The Menu seems like it may just be a take on the ultimate silliness of conceptual food. The officious maître d' (Hong Chau) takes the group on a tour of the property, showing off the gardens and the smokehouse, "in the Nordic style." Mylod and cinematographer Peter Deming photograph the dishes as if they were making a Netflix documentary, highlighting the way the line cooks delicately tweeze tiny bits of substance onto a gorgeous but empty looking plate.
But there's a brimming tension that forces the audience to keep guessing just what kind of hell is going to break loose. Each table has its own grievances. Tyler's sycophantic food nerdiness clashes with Margot's "who cares" attitude. There's a frigidness between an older couple played by Judith Light and Reed Birney. A food critic (Janet McTeer) picks apart everything that comes across her plate. A movie star (John Leguizamo) is bickering with his quitting assistant (Aimee Carrero), and a group of bankers is in a never-ending dick measuring contest. The question remains whether this is going to become a vomit-fest like the recent Palme d'Or winner Triangle of Sadness or something supernaturally devilish like the horror movie Ready or Not. Maybe these cooks are just cannibals. The answer is: Not really any of that.
Because at the center of this all is Ralph Fiennes’s inscrutable Chef Slowik. Fiennes is a master at portraying imperiousness, and Slowik certainly projects that, inspiring fervent loyalty amongst his staff, and thunderously clapping his hands before announcing each course. But Fiennes also strains against this stereotype. As Slowik opines about food as memory and ancient bread customs, you may start to wonder as to whether this guy really believes his own bullshit, a question that keeps nagging until the final shot.
It would be easy for The Menu to fall into blanket dichotomies, but the setting doesn't allow for those. Instead, it interrogates the motives of those who choose to spend their money Iat the The Hawthorne and those who choose to make the kind of food it provides. When Margot, the consummate outsider, is asked to pick a side in the class warfare that is about to break out, the decision is not, exactly, a simple one. Taylor-Joy's natural regalness allows her to slip between tiers, even if at times Margot is more of a dramatic device than actual character.
But the reason you go to a place like The Hawthorne is not just for the substance of the dinner, but also the pageantry, and Mylod provides that. The aesthetic of the uber-rich he helped establish on Succession comes in handy here. There's a beautiful sleekness to the visuals that the wily complications of the script undermine to great effect. It’s comfort food silliness with spiky commentary that leaves you satisfied—all in all, a good meal. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/the-menu-movie-review | 2022-09-11T14:28:43Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/the-menu-movie-review | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Tallahassee Fire Department stated that Captain Brenden Rudy was killed in an off-duty accident Saturday night.
"Captain Rudy was a family man, leader, and his loss will be felt deeply across our community," TFD stated in a post on Facebook. "He will be missed greatly. Please respect the privacy of his family during this time of grief."
Florida Highway Patrol reported the accident Saturday night, stating that a white GMC truck lost control and struck a tree near Owls Hollow Crest.
This is the second loss for the department in less than a year.
Public Information Officer Lieutenant Sarah Cooksey was killed in a motorcycle accident in October 2021. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/tallahassee-fire-captain-killed-in-off-duty-accident | 2022-09-11T14:30:00Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/tallahassee-fire-captain-killed-in-off-duty-accident | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to mark the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon, a year after he ended the long and costly war in Afghanistan that the U.S. and allies launched in response to the terror attacks.
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In ending the Afghanistan war, the Democratic president followed through on a campaign pledge to bring home U.S. troops from the country's longest conflict. But the war concluded chaotically in August 2021, when the U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed in the face of a countrywide Taliban advance that returned the fundamentalist group to power.
A bombing claimed by an Afghanistan-based extremist group killed 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops at Kabul's airport, where thousands of desperate Afghans gathered in hopes of escape before the final U.S. cargo planes departed over the Hindu Kush.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Biden in his remarks Sunday will recognize the impact the 2001 attacks had on the U.S. and the world and honor the nearly 3,000 people killed that day when al-Qaida hijackers took control of commercial planes and crashed them into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.
“I think you’ll hear him talk about how America will stay vigilant to the threat but also look to future threats and challenges and be able to learn to meet those threats and challenges,” Kirby said.
Biden marked the one-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan late last month in low-key fashion. He issued a statement in honor of the 13 U.S. troops killed in the bombing at the Kabul airport and spoke by phone with U.S. veterans assisting ongoing efforts to resettle in the United States Afghans who helped the war effort.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday criticized Biden's handling of the end of the war and noted that the country has spiraled downward under renewed Taliban rule since the U.S. withdrawal.
“Now, one year on from last August’s disaster, the devastating scale of the fallout from President Biden’s decision has come into sharper focus," McConnell said. “Afghanistan has become a global pariah. Its economy has shrunk by nearly a third. Half of its population is now suffering critical levels of food insecurity."
First lady Jill Biden will speak Sunday at the Flight 93 National Memorial Observance in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband will go to New York City for a commemoration ceremony at the National September 11th Memorial. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/biden-to-honor-9-11-victims-as-shadow-of-afghan-war-looms | 2022-09-11T14:30:06Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/biden-to-honor-9-11-victims-as-shadow-of-afghan-war-looms | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — A wet and rainy pattern is still on tap for much of our area today. Slow moving storms from the South increase the risk of flash flooding, especially in coastal counties. The current flood watch will expire this evening and scattered showers will begin to diminish. With a cold front pushing its way south, slightly cooler and drier air is expected by mid-week.
Astronomical Autumn officially begins next week on September 22, but we are not expecting to see a fall weather pattern just yet. Expected highs this upcoming week will stay in the mid to upper 80s and lows will linger in the lower 70s. | https://www.wtxl.com/weather/sunday-morning-first-to-know-forecast-09-11-22 | 2022-09-11T14:30:18Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/weather/sunday-morning-first-to-know-forecast-09-11-22 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — Good as she’s been this year, Iga Swiatek came to the U.S. Open unsure of what to expect.
She complained that women use different, slightly lighter, tennis balls than the men do at Flushing Meadows, where she’d never been past the fourth round. She was trying to grow accustomed to the noise and distractions, the hustle and bustle, of the Big Apple. And she arrived with a record of just 4-4 since her 37-match winning streak ended in July.
None of that matters now. Cementing her status as her sport’s new dominant figure by winning what is expected to be the last tournament of Serena Williams’ career, the No. 1-ranked Swiatek outplayed No. 5 Ons Jabeur 6-2, 7-6 (5) in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Saturday to claim her first championship at the U.S. Open and third Grand Slam title overall.
“It’s something that I wasn’t expecting, for sure. It’s also like a confirmation for me that the sky’s the limit,” said Swiatek, who is 55-7 in tour-level matches with seven trophies in 2022, both best in the WTA. “I’m proud. Also surprised little bit.”
She acknowledged harboring concerns about the U.S. Open after a couple of shaky showings at hard-court tune-up tournaments.
It turned out OK: She is the first top-seeded woman to win the U.S. Open since 23-time major champion Williams in 2014.
“I feel like on court, I can just do my job,” Swiatek said, “and I’m happy about it, that I kind of can make these doubts go away.”
Swiatek, like Jabeur, travels with a sports psychologist, and it took some fortitude to finish this one off. At 6-5 in the second set, Swiatek held her first championship point. Right before Jabeur served, Swiatek jogged over to the sideline to change rackets — an unusual choice at that moment.
When action resumed, Swiatek missed a backhand. That could have been tough to recover from. Indeed, Jabeur pushed things to the tiebreaker, which she then led 5-4. But Swiatek steeled herself, took the last three points and soon was accepting the silver trophy and a $2.6 million winner’s check, joking: “I’m really glad that is not in cash.”
The 21-year-old from Poland won the French Open for the second time in June and is the first woman since Angelique Kerber in 2016 to collect two major titles in a single season.
“She’s really set the bar very high. It’s great for our sport,” said Jabeur, a 28-year-old from Tunisia who will rise to No. 2 in the rankings on Monday.
She is the first African woman and first Arab woman to reach a Grand Slam final and was participating in her second in a row.
But she is 0-2 at that stage, including a runner-up showing at Wimbledon in July.
“Definitely, I’m not someone that’s going to give up,” said Jabeur, whose support team wore black shirts with white writing that read “Yalla Habibi,” Arabic for “Let’s go, my love!”
“I am sure,” she added, “I’m going to be in the final again.”
Didn’t help on this sunny, 85-degree Fahrenheit (29.4 Celsius) afternoon that Jabeur needed to deal with Swiatek, who has won her past 10 finals — all in straight sets — and was great from the get-go.
Jabeur did not face a single break point in her semifinal victory, but she got broken right away when Swiatek laced a cross-court backhand winner off a short ball to cap a 15-stroke exchange.
“The only match here where I started that well,” said Swiatek, who had to come back from a set down in the fourth round and the quarterfinals.
Eight minutes in against Jabeur, Swiatek had grabbed 12 of the first 14 points for a 3-0 edge.
“Put a lot of pressure on me,” Jabeur said.
Using her heavy topspin forehand to take charge from the baseline, Swiatek dictated the tempo and trajectory of points. She ran her opponent this way and that, never letting Jabeur use the sorts of spins and variety that she’s accustomed to.
When Jabeur did show off some of what she can do, Swiatek would manage, more often than not, to elongate points. She used her strong court coverage, backed by a soundtrack of squeaky sneakers as she darted everywhere, sometimes even sliding as she arrived at a ball, the way one does on red clay, her favorite surface.
When Jabeur missed a slice forehand early in the second set, she dropped her racket to reflect her despair. A few points later, she flung her racket while off balance and falling face down. A running, down-the-line backhand passing shot from Swiatek on the next point made it 2-0 in that set. Swiatek raised a clenched fist and yelled, “Come on!”
Then Jabeur did make things interesting, briefly.
But only briefly.
She got to 4-all and, after ending up on her back when an off-balance backhand won a point in the next game, she stayed there, enjoying the moment, pumping her fists while laying on the ground.
Jabeur earned three break chances in that game, any one of which would have allowed her to serve for the set. She could not cash in there, though, missing a groundstroke on each.
Swiatek needed to wait 10 minutes from her first match point to the one that closed the contest, but close it she did. Maybe she’ll feel more comfortable at the U.S. Open from now on.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A fiery crash between a tanker truck carrying fuel and a passenger bus Saturday killed at least 18 people in northern Mexico, authorities reported.
Prosecutors in the northern border state of Tamaulipas said the crash might have been caused by one of the truck’s two tank trailers coming lose.
The collision left both vehicles completely burned. Police photos showed the bus was reduced to a tangle of smoking, charred metal.
Tamaulipas state police initially found nine sets of remains, but by early afternoon prosecutors said nine more had been recovered. The death toll could rise, they said.
The crash occurred before dawn on a highway that leads to the northern city of Monterrey.
The driver of the fuel truck apparently survived and is under investigation. The bus had apparently set out from the central state of Hidalgo and was headed to Monterrey.
The semi-truck was towing two tank trailers in tandem. Such double-container freight trucks have been involved in numerous deadly crashes in the past.
Because weight restrictions and safety inspections in Mexico are lax, there have been calls in the past to ban the extremely heavy and unwieldy trucks.
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HELSINKI (AP) — Hundreds of people marched through the Norwegian capital on Saturday in an LBGT solidarity event to honor the Pride parade that was canceled in June after a deadly shooting outside a popular gay bar.
Marchers in “The Rainbow Train” passed the central Oslo nightlife district where a man identified as Zaniar Matapour shot and killed two men and injured several others outside the London Pub on June 25, just hours before the planned start of the Pride parade.
Norwegian citizen Matapour is being held on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and terrorism. His motive for the shooting remains unclear but police say hate crime is a possibility.
Organizers stressed the event Saturday wasn’t meant to be a substitute for the original Pride parade but rather a show of solidarity to Norway’s LBGT community.
“It is absolutely fantastic,” Oslo Pride spokesman Dan Bjoerke told Norwegian news agency NTB. “There is a sea of people who will show everyone that it is love that wins. We must have diversity, we must have a society where people can be allowed to be themselves without fear.”
Prime Minister Jan Stoere Gahr was among the several Norwegian politicians who took part.
“We are taking back the streets. It’s not the Pride parade we had planned for June but this is a celebration that is important for people to be able to express these important values,” Stoere told NTB.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The man charged with abducting and killing a Tennessee teacher this month was a suspect in a 2021 kidnapping and sexual case, but his indictment over those allegations didn’t occur until Thursday because of the timing in testing his DNA.
Cleotha Henderson was rebooked at the Shelby County Jail on Friday on charges of aggravated rape, especially aggravated kidnapping and unlawful carrying of a weapon. Details of the newest allegations against Henderson were not immediately available.
The indictment came days after Henderson’s arrest in the death of Eliza Fletcher, a mother of two and a kindergarten teacher.
Fletcher disappeared while on a pre-dawn run near the University of Memphis campus on Sept. 2, and her remains were found Monday near an abandoned house. Henderson is being held in the Shelby County Jail without bond on the charges related to Fletcher’s death.
In the earlier case, Memphis police took a sexual assault report on Sept. 21, 2021, the department said in a statement Saturday. A sexual assault kit was submitted two days later to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the statement said.
“An official CODIS (national DNA database) hit was not received until after the unfortunate event that occurred on September 2, 2022,” the Memphis police statement said, referring to the jogger’s abduction. “Probable cause to make a physical arrest of any suspect did not exist until after the CODIS hit had been received.”
Memphis police provided no further details, citing “an ongoing criminal prosecution.” Henderson’s public defender could not be reached for comment Saturday.
The TBI confirmed Saturday that the sexual assault kit was submitted last Sept. 23.
The evidence was “put into the queue of unknown assailant kits, as no request was made for TBI analysis to be expedited, and no suspect information or DNA standard was included in the submission,” the TBI statement said.
The kit eventually was pulled from evidence storage along with 19 other kits for analysis this past June 24 and an initial report of the results was completed on Aug. 29, the TBI said.
When the 2021 DNA was entered into the national database, it returned a match for Henderson on Sept. 5, which the TBI reported to Memphis police, the TBI said.
The TBI accepts “rush DNA cases” when requested to do so by local law enforcement agencies, as was done in the Fletcher case, according to the TBI. Last weekend, Henderson was identified as the suspect “less than 18 hours after receiving key evidence, which was critical in his subsequent apprehension.”
“Because we rarely know the facts of the case when processing evidence, TBI relies on submitting agencies to identify cases that would benefit their investigation from our rush analysis,” the TBI statement said.
Henderson, who also has gone by the name Cleotha Abston, is charged with kidnapping and killing Fletcher, 34. Henderson is being held in the Shelby County Jail without bond on the charges stemming from Fletcher’s death.
Henderson was arrested after police detected his DNA on sandals found near the location where Fletcher was last seen, an arrest affidavit said.
A funeral for Fletcher was held Saturday.
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Which gifts are best for students during college finals?
Studying for and taking college finals is stressful for students. Months of hard work and classes eventually lead up to finals that can vary in both time consumption and overall rigor. Each student learns and processes information at a different pace and style, so it’s extra important to recognize that finals are the official benchmarker to assess performance. Help college students stay on track with the proper tools to keep them on the path to success.
What are college finals?
College finals generally come at the end of a quarter or semester and symbolize the end of a course. Finals are intended to test the knowledge and tools accumulated over the intended amount of time for the class or classes and usually account for a significant number of points.
Typically, college students take more than one class at a time, so usually, there are multiple different finals within a short period. It’s important to remember that not all people test equally and the overall health of a student is more valuable than any single grade. Showing support and providing resources can help a college student feel more seen during a commonly stressful period.
Best supportive gifts for students during college finals
Finals can be a difficult time, so lending support with thoughtful gifts such as food and fun creative toys can help lighten the load. It’s important to keep in mind that brain fuel and light-hearted activities can help a college student de-stress and are equally as important as practical tools to better allow a person to pace themselves during finals and avoid burnout.
Provide a fun care package stuffed with 60 tasty treats. Treats range from items such as Tootsie Pops and Quaker Chewy Bars. You can also send along a few encouraging words or a personal message.
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This set of magnets includes more than 200 words that revolve around college life. Ideal for creating funny sentences on the fridge or motivating sayings before a final. The magnets are made in the United States of America and can be melded and combined with other sets to produce a larger magnetic word collection.
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Bean Box Gourmet Coffee Sampler
The bean box includes about half a pound of four different coffees. It includes the option of a personalized note that can add a motivational touch to the gift. It’s important to note that the coffee comes in the form of beans so it may not be ideal for all coffee lovers.
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Pukka Herbs Tea Selection Luxury Gift Box
The gift box includes 45 sachets that hold a variety of different teas, such as Supreme Matcha Green and Night Time. It is vegetarian and also organically grown. The tea must be steeped in relatively hot water to bring out the flavor.
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Best practical gifts for students during college finals
While studying or creating final projects, students may experience a variety of barriers such as poor lighting or a lagging computer. Here are a few substantial and practical tools to help promote a simpler process at a variety of price points.
STMT Planner Set by Horizon Group USA
This planner set provides a visual and creative way to organize studying with items such as a pen and planner. The planner includes over 70 pages that can be customized with colored pens and stickers. Information can be organized from a daily to monthly level of detail.
This set of 13 pads of sticky notes includes a variety of sizes and colors. The materials come from trees and forests that are responsibly managed. Sticky notes are ideal for visual learners that like to mark papers and books without having the concern of leaving a direct permanent trace on a page.
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This cordless lamp is rechargeable and comes with a USB-C cable. It comes in two different colors which are ideal to match an existing room aesthetic while also improving the lighting. The lamp can auto-dim and illuminate over 45 inches of possible desk space.
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Help boost the online and project-based capabilities of a college student with a laptop that has a screen that is larger than 17 inches and can function for about 10 hours with each charge. This laptop includes 16 GB of computer memory and also has built-in security features such as a physical cover for the camera.
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Which funny Halloween costume for adults is best?
There are many ways to approach a funny Halloween costume. You can play it subtle and go for quiet chuckles or shock everyone with a zany outfit that grabs your attention. Depending on the event, it may be appropriate to wear a raunchy outfit or better to wear something both funny and family-friendly.
If you want a modern classic that is a balance of funny and cool, the top choice is the Original Inflatable Dinosaur Costume.
What to know before you buy a funny Halloween costume for adults
Do you need a couple’s costume?
There are plenty of funny Halloween costumes for couples, so you can wear matching outfits with your significant other. Classic food combinations like “ketchup and mustard” or witty graphic tees are easy options.
Do you want to be the center of attention?
If you need a stand-alone funny costume that gets everyone smiling, there are a few ways to approach it. One method is pure shock value, but this is only a good choice if you don’t mind laughing at yourself. Dressing as a baby in a bonnet definitely lightens the mood at the cost of making yourself the butt of the joke. Another method for funny costume design is wearing a costume that looks relatively normal with a twist. You could also try wearing clothes meant to resemble a specific person. When people ask about your costume, you can reply with an amusing impression or joke.
Do people need to recognize you?
Wearing a funny mask or outfit is a great idea, but your options could be limited depending on the circumstances. If you are supervising trick-or-treaters, participating in a public Halloween-themed event or hosting a party, it’s important that your disguise is not too convincing. It could be hard for your friends to pick you out of a crowd if you completely blend in, even if your costume is attention-grabbing. If you are running an event, make sure you introduce yourself as people arrive so that they remember which costume to look for if they need to find you.
What to look for in a quality funny Halloween costume for adults
Simplicity
Costumes with too many details can distract from the punchline of your outfit. One exception might be dressing as a recognizable person or character who wears very specific clothes. Generally, a simple costume with a funny visual will be more budget-friendly. Funny costumes have to get right to the point if you want to make an immediate and comedic impact.
Size
A costume that is physically larger than your body and takes up more space is an easy way to get the crowd’s attention and make an impact. Keep in mind that you’ll likely be wearing this costume for a long period of time. It’s also important to consider where the costume will be worn. If it needs to be worn indoors, save yourself the headache and check if it can easily fit through the doors of the venue before purchasing.
Modifications
If you want a funny costume that will stand out from the crowd, look for quality costumes and components that can be easily modified or changed to reflect your unique personality. A generic costume is fine, but keep an eye out for funny costumes with lots of potential options. You might be able to repurpose old costumes and accessories over the years and change up your outfit to keep the jokes fresh.
How much you can expect to spend on a funny Halloween costume for adults
Simple costumes can be found or put together for less than $30. Higher-quality costumes, especially funny inflatable suits, go for $30-$100 depending on the size and materials.
Funny Halloween costume for adults FAQ
When should you not wear a funny costume?
A. It is important to consider the place you plan to wear your costume. Check to see if there’s a dress code at the parties you’ll be attending. Halloween is a great time to be creative and wear what you want, especially a funny outfit, but all jokes have a time and place. It is best to not show up to a stylish masquerade party wearing an embarrassing costume.
Should you get into character?
A. Yes. If you enjoy doing funny impressions, wearing a costume inspired by a celebrity or your favorite public figure could be an opportunity to get everyone laughing. You can wear a simple costume using normal clothing or items from a thrift store and combine the unassuming outfit with a comedic attitude for a winning combination that can spread Halloween cheer.
What’s the best funny Halloween costume for adults to buy?
Top funny Halloween costume for adults
Original Inflatable Dinosaur Costume
What you need to know: This classic T-Rex costume always gets a smile.
What you’ll love: The fabric material of this costume is durable, and the suit closes using a zipper and self-inflates with the built-in fan powered by four AA batteries. The suit has a front-facing window, allowing you to see out of it. It also comes in a smaller size. You can put silly clothes or accessories on the inflatable costume to make it more unique.
What you should consider: It is best to avoid using rechargeable batteries with this model.
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Top funny adult Halloween costume for the money
What you need to know: An affordable alien-themed costume, it’s great for sci-fi fans who like making people laugh.
What you’ll love: You can wear regular comfortable clothes under the inflatable suit and clip the built-in fan to your belt. It requires four AA batteries to inflate, but connects using a USB cable so it’s possible to connect portable power banks and extend the amount of time you can keep the suit inflated.
What you should consider: The fan needs to be securely tightened and held in place to prevent it from falling off when you move around.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Giant Inflatable Wacky Wavy Arm Guy
What you need to know: This costume lets you become the wacky, dancing center of attention.
What you’ll love: This costume is brightly colored and inflates to fit your body, making it hard to miss. It features a built-in fan that runs on four AA batteries, lasting for about four hours of continuous use. It completely self-inflates and the seals use elastic to keep the costume inflated and prevent air leaks.
What you should consider: The costume can get pretty hot and some customers needed help to get the suit on.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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The best hair colors to wear this fall
New seasons often inspire change. One of the easiest and most fun ways to mix things up is to change your hair color. With cooler weather coming in, warm and cozy shades are the perfect way to phase into fall styles. Set yourself up for great flannel- or sweater-based outfits with a fresh look.
Typical fall-hair shades range from deep reds to warm browns to dark blonds. However, there are no rules when it comes to finding the perfect autumn shade for you.
Things to consider before you dye your hair
Hair color
If you have dark hair and want to go golden, take care to use proper lighting techniques and treat your hair with restorative products afterward. Check out this list of home bleaching products from BestReviews. If you lightened your hair for summer, consider giving your hair a break and skip the bleach treatment.
If you’re going darker than your current color, the process will be much more straightforward. To get an idea of how the dye might appear on your natural hair, search for before-and-after images of users of the product you’re considering.
Hair length
The length of your hair can affect your hair dying process. Not only will the quantity determine how much you need, but different dyeing techniques are better suited for different lengths. For example, if you’re rocking a bob or a pixie, an ombre is generally out of the question, unless you have a particularly skilled hairstylist. However, there’s nothing saying you can’t change your hair length to suit your new color. If you’re really looking for a change this season, you can switch things up with a haircut or even extensions.
Hair thickness
How thick your hair is directly impacts how much hair dye you’ll have to buy. Most dyes aren’t designed for a specific thickness; however, some chemicals may harm hair that’s especially thin. Always start with a small amount of hair dye and work your way up.
Striking fall color ideas
Fall commonly evokes memories of pumpkin spice, golden fields and changing leaves. All of these shades make for excellent hair colors, but you can also venture out into warm complementing colors such as wine tones. Burgundy, for example, is subtle but eye-catching.
You can also ombre several of these colors for the perfect fall look. Keep in mind, an ombre requires a lot of upkeep and can get expensive quickly.
Wine shades
Burgundy and merlot are just two of the rich and striking colors you can dye your hair. While at first glance they can often appear black or brown, their true brilliance is shown in the light. When you’re outside, enjoying the crisp air, your new shade will flourish in the soft fall sun.
Revlon Colorsilk Burgundy Permanent Dye
This color is bright, long-lasting and easy to apply. Its formula is gentle on hair while strengthening the strands.
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Arctic Fox Ritual Semi-Permanent Hair Color
A good-smelling, bright dye that’s vegan and kind on your hair. The product goes a really long way, even on long and thick hair.
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Chestnut
Chestnut is one of the warmest, most satisfying shades of brown. It goes with every outfit and just about every complexion. It’s easy to apply to almost every hair color and is a great way to transition your look for cold weather. Additionally, it’s a great base shade to add highlights to.
L’Oreal Paris Fade-Defying Chestnut Hair Color
This well-known brand delivers deep, shiny color that will last for months. It’s gentle on hair and resists fading.
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Naturtint Permanent Natural Chestnut Hair Color
A bold dye that’s free of harmful chemicals and suited for optimal hair health.
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Golds
Gold shades can range from dark blond to rose-gold. These tones are good for light or bleached hair, but they won’t show up well on darker strands. While golds are bright and a lot of fun, they can also be difficult to maintain, especially if you have dark roots. If you’re willing to bleach your hair for this look, be sure to use a dye that isn’t harmful to your hair.
L’Oreal Paris Feria Shimmering Rose Gold Dye
Not only is this hair color bright and eye-catching, but the formula is gentle and conditions your hair as well.
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L’Oreal Paris Fade-Defying Lightest Gold Brown Dye
This kit comes with everything you need to dye your hair except lightener. The formula is long-lasting and good for your hair.
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Auburn
Shades of orange go perfectly with the falling leaves. If you’re looking to get into the seasonal spirit, you can’t go wrong with auburn. It’s lovely, subtle and works well on almost all natural hair colors.
Clairol Perfect 10 Light Auburn Hair Color
This glossy dye takes minutes to apply and lasts up to three months. It comes with an applicator tip specifically for touching up your roots.
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Clairol Nice ‘N Easy Permanent Color
A dripless color cream that delivers a bright and dynamic auburn shade.
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Reds
Garnet, ruby and other red tones are another autumn staple. Not only are they fun, bright and eye-catching, but they look great on just about everyone. While in winter red may come off just a bit too festive, fall is the perfect time to embrace the warm vibrant shade.
Madison Reed Radiant Rimini Garnet Hair Color
This dye is a thick cream that lasts for months when applied correctly. It comes with a barrier substance to protect your hair.
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Punky Colour Semi-Permanent Conditioning Hair Color
For bleached hair, the two different shades of red this dye offers will show up brilliantly. However, darker shades will only experience highlights.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas freshman quarterback Quinn Ewers left the field after taking a hard fall on his left shoulder at the end of the first quarter against No. 1 Alabama. Hudson Card came into the game for the Longhorns.
Ewers was 9 of 12 passing for 134 yards and completed a 46-yard throw to Xavier Worthy that set up a touchdown that tied the game at 10-10 before exiting.
Ewers scrambled and was hit by Alabama’s Dallas Turner, who landed on Ewers and was given a personal foul.
Ewers laid on the field for several moments before walking off and going straight into the medical tent. He emerged with a towel over his head and went to the Texas locker room at the start of the second quarter.
Ewers was one of the top recruits in the country when he initially signed with Ohio State out of high school. He transferred to Texas and won the starting job over Card.
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Dubai: Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss and elected to bowl in the Asia Cup final against Sri Lanka here on Sunday.
Sri Lanka fielded an unchanged team from their last Super 4 game while Pakistan made two changes with Shadab Khan and Naseem Shah coming in for Usman Qadir and Hasan Ali.
Teams:
Pakistan: Babar Azam (capt), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Fakhar Zaman, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Shadab Khan, Asif Ali, Mohammad Nawaz, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hasnain.
Sri Lanka: Dasun Shanaka (capt), Kusal Mendis (wk), Pathum Nissanka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Danushka Gunathilaka, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Chamika Karunaratne, Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Pramod Madushan, Dilshan Madushanka. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/11/asia-cup-final-pakistan-sri-lanka.html | 2022-09-11T14:49:50Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/11/asia-cup-final-pakistan-sri-lanka.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Delhi: Legendary Indian opener Sunil Gavaskar feels that including pacer Deepak Chahar will be beneficial for the Rohit Sharma-led side in the T20 World Cup to be held in Australia in October-November.
Chahar, who had returned from a long injury layoff in the ODI tour of Zimbabwe in August, was named as fellow fast bowler Avesh Khan's replacement ahead of India's final match in Super Four stage of Asia Cup, going wicketless for 28 runs in his four overs.
Chahar featured in two of India's three matches on tour of Zimbabwe, picking five wickets, including 3/27 in his comeback match at Harare. He was named as one of the standbys in the Asia Cup squad and had travelled to Dubai with the Indian team for the tournament, where he was seen putting in the hard yards in practice sessions.
"I would say Deepak Chahar. He is the one I would certainly look at because it will be Australia and there will be extra bounce. And with the kind of movement that he generates with the new ball."
"He is somebody who's got to factor in if you know we've always picked about four-five bowlers for the Australia or South Africa tour and one of them gets wasted. But in a fast-paced tournament like the T20 I think to go with Deepak Chahar would be beneficial for the Indian team," said Gavaskar on India Today.
Further speaking in support of Chahar's inclusion in India's squad for T20 World Cup, former Indian batter Robin Uthappa remarked that he sees the Rajasthan pacer as well as young left-arm fast bowler Arshdeep Singh completing the pace department alongside Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah and Harshal Patel.
"He (Bhuvneshwar) will bowl three in the top six and then one in the middle or towards the death. But I feel so that we will have Harshal and Bumrah predominantly bowling in the death. And he will play maybe to the tail end or just before the death overs he will bowl that one over or in case you want a wicket in the middle overs."
"So, I think that's how they're going to use him. I think they will go with five fast bowlers anyways and I think Arshdeep and Deepak Chahar will be the other two outside of Bumrah, Bhuvi and Harshal. And Hardik (Pandya) plays as the sixth fast bowler," said Uthappa on ESPNCricinfo's T20 Timeout show. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/11/picking-deepak-chahar-would-be-beneficial-for-team-india-gavaskar.html | 2022-09-11T14:50:16Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/11/picking-deepak-chahar-would-be-beneficial-for-team-india-gavaskar.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Connor Smith still remembers where he was on September 11, 2001. The Roanoke, Alabama-native formed his first memories of the day while at school.
A five year-old at the time, his entire school entered into a lockdown. The confused kindergartner waited in his classroom, unware that nearly a 1,000 miles away, two jet-liners had crashed into the World Trade Center in a deliberate terrorist attack on the United States.
“All of a sudden, we went into a lockdown, and I didn't really understand at the time, but I just knew that something was wrong,” Smith said.
Smiths’ parents weren't far as both worked as teachers. His mother served as a special education instructor, but during the attacks had been absent from the classroom as she had given birth to Smith’s brother just two weeks earlier on August 30.
Smith’s mother arrived at his elementary school even while on maternity leave and drove him home early. The young boy soon learned the reason for his school increasing security that day as he watched the Twin Towers collapse live on television.
“My mom sat me in front of the T.V., and I saw smoke coming from the towers and then the towers started to fall,” he said.
In the years following, Smith recalls his history teachers discussing the tragedy every anniversary as a solemn reminder of the 2,977 people that died.
“After that, the whole school every year had something about 9/11 in the history classes every year so we would never forget about what happened on that day,” he said.
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Now 22 years later, Smith helps school children born after the attacks understand the legacy of the events. Smith ultimately followed in his parents’ footsteps and teaches American history at Benjamin Russell High School.
“That's pretty much my life, teaching. It's a passion of mine to really help kids, and not just learn about history or sports but learn about life,”
As one of Alexander City’s youngest eyewitnesses to the day’s events, Smith shares his memories with his 11th grade students while also providing historical context.
“It is so crazy to me to think that I lived through something that I'm now having to teach,” Smith said. “It still blows my mind today that none of these kids were alive during that time which is why I try to teach them everyday that history is always happening.”
Smith’s curriculum spans two centuries of American history, from the Civil War through modern history, including the September 11, 2001 attacks. When discussing the attacks, Smith often references other events in American history such as the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in order to build a larger historical reference for students.
Smith also highlights the strength of American unity during tragedies, including in the wake of both the September 11 attacks and other national crises throughout history.
“It also shows that every time a tragedy happens, most Americans will put aside their differences, and come together for one common goal,” he said. “I try to get them to understand that at some point in time, something's gonna become bigger than yourself and that we are all in this together.” | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/news/local-teacher-helps-youth-understand-legacy-of-9-11/article_db1e79b0-319d-11ed-a7dc-87849db9b220.html | 2022-09-11T14:52:07Z | alexcityoutlook.com | control | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/news/local-teacher-helps-youth-understand-legacy-of-9-11/article_db1e79b0-319d-11ed-a7dc-87849db9b220.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Upon taking the throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II inherited millions of subjects around the world, many of them unwilling. Today, in the British Empire's former colonies, her death brings complicated feelings, including anger.
Beyond official condolences praising the queen’s longevity and service, there is some bitterness about the past in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and elsewhere. Talk has turned to the legacies of colonialism, from slavery to corporal punishment in African schools to looted artifacts held in British institutions. For many, the queen came to represent all of that during her seven decades on the throne.
In Kenya, where decades ago a young Elizabeth learned of her father’s death and her enormous new role as queen, a lawyer named Alice Mugo shared online a photograph of a fading document from 1956. It was issued four years into the queen’s reign, and well into Britain’s harsh response to the Mau Mau rebellion against colonial rule.
“Movement permit,” the document says. While over 100,000 Kenyans were rounded up in camps under grim conditions, others, like Mugo’s grandmother, were forced to request British permission to go from place to place.
“Most of our grandparents were oppressed,” Mugo tweeted in the hours after the queen’s death Thursday. “I cannot mourn.”
But Kenya's outgoing president, Uhuru Kenyatta, whose father, Jomo Kenyatta, was imprisoned during the queen's rule before becoming the country's first president in 1964, overlooked past troubles, as did other African heads of state. “The most iconic figure of the 20th and 21st centuries,” Uhuru Kenyatta called her.
Anger came from ordinary people. Some called for apologies for past abuses like slavery, others for something more tangible.
“This commonwealth of nations, that wealth belongs to England. That wealth is something never shared in,” said Bert Samuels, a member of the National Council on Reparations in Jamaica.
Elizabeth’s reign saw the hard-won independence of African countries from Ghana to Zimbabwe, along with a string of Caribbean islands and nations along the edge of the Arabian Peninsula.
Some historians see her as a monarch who helped oversee the mostly peaceful transition from empire to the Commonwealth, a voluntary association of 56 nations with historic and linguistic ties. But she was also the symbol of a nation that often rode roughshod over people it subjugated.
There were few signs of public grief or even interest in her death across the Middle East, where many still hold Britain responsible for colonial actions that drew much of the region’s borders and laid the groundwork for many of its modern conflicts. On Saturday, Gaza’s Hamas rulers called on King Charles III to “correct” British mandate decisions that they said oppressed Palestinians.
In ethnically divided Cyprus, many Greek Cypriots remembered the four-year guerrilla campaign waged in the late 1950s against colonial rule and the queen's perceived indifference over the plight of nine people whom British authorities executed by hanging.
Yiannis Spanos, president of the Association of National Organization of Cypriot Fighters, said the queen was “held by many as bearing responsibility” for the island’s tragedies.
Now, with her passing, there are new efforts to address the colonial past, or hide it.
India is renewing its efforts under Prime Minister Narendra Modi to remove colonial names and symbols. The country has long moved on, even overtaking the British economy in size.
“I do not think we have any place for kings and queens in today’s world, because we are the world’s largest democratic country,” said Dhiren Singh, a 57-year-old entrepreneur in New Delhi.
There was some sympathy for the Elizabeth and the circumstances she was born under and then thrust into.
In Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, resident Max Kahindi remembered the Mau Mau rebellion “with a lot of bitterness” and recalled how some elders were detained or killed. But he said the queen was “a very young lady” then, and he believes someone else likely was running British affairs.
“We cannot blame the queen for all the sufferings that we had at that particular time,” Kahindi said.
Timothy Kalyegira, a political analyst in Uganda, said there is a lingering “spiritual connection” in some African countries, from the colonial experience to the Commonwealth. “It is a moment of pain, a moment of nostalgia," he said.
The queen’s dignified persona and age, and the centrality of the English language in global affairs, are powerful enough to temper some criticisms, Kalyegira added: “She’s seen more as the mother of the world.”
Mixed views were also found in the Caribbean, where some countries are removing the British monarch as their head of state.
“You have contradictory consciousness,” said Maziki Thame, a senior lecturer in development studies at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, whose prime minister announced during this year’s visit of Prince William, who is now heir to the throne, and Kate that the island intended to become fully independent.
The younger generation of royals seem to have greater sensitivity to colonialism’s implications, Thame said — during the visit, William expressed his “profound sorrow” for slavery.
Nadeen Spence, an activist, said appreciation for Elizabeth among older Jamaicans isn't surprising since she was presented by the British as “this benevolent queen who has always looked out for us,” but young people aren't awed by the royal family.
“The only thing I noted about the queen’s passing is that she died and never apologized for slavery,” Spence said. “She should’ve apologized.”
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Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Americans remembered 9/11 on Sunday with tear-choked tributes and pleas to “never forget," 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil.
Nikita Shah headed to the ceremony on the ground in a T-shirt that bore the de facto epigraph of the annual commemoration — “never forget” — and the name of her slain father, Jayesh Shah.
The family moved to Houston afterward but has often returned to New York for the anniversary of the attack that killed him and nearly 3,000 other people.
“For us, it was being around people who kind of experienced the same type of grief and the same feelings after 9/11,” said Shah, who was 10 when her father was killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
Victims’ relatives and dignitaries also convened at the two other attack sites, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
Other communities around the country are marking the day with candlelight vigils, interfaith services and other commemorations. Some Americans are joining in volunteer projects on a day that is federally recognized as both Patriot Day and a National Day of Service and Remembrance.
More than two decades later, Sept. 11 remains a point for reflection on the attack that reconfigured national security policy and spurred a U.S. “war on terror” worldwide. Sunday's observances, which follow a fraught milestone anniversary last year, come little more than a month after a U.S. drone strike killed a key al-Qaida figure who helped plot the 9/11 attacks, Ayman al-Zawahri.
It also stirred — for a time — a sense of national pride and unity for many while subjecting Muslim Americans to years of suspicion and bigotry and engendering debate over the balance between safety and civil liberties. In ways both subtle and plain, the aftermath of 9/11 ripples through American politics and public life to this day.
And the attacks have cast a long shadow on the personal lives of thousands of people who survived, responded or lost loved ones, friends and colleagues.
Firefighter Jimmy Riches’ namesake nephew wasn’t born yet when his uncle died, but the boy took the podium to pay tribute to him.
“You’re always in my heart. And I know you are watching over me,” he said after reading a portion of the victims’ names.
More than 70 of Sekou Siby's co-workers perished at Windows on the World, the restaurant atop the trade center's north tower. Siby had been scheduled to work that morning until another cook asked him to switch shifts.
Siby never took a restaurant job again; it would have brought back too many memories. The Ivorian immigrant wrestled with how to comprehend such horror in a country where he'd come looking for a better life.
He found it difficult to form the type of close, family-like friendships he and his Windows on the World co-workers had shared. It was too painful, he had learned, to become attached to people when “you have no control over what’s going to happen to them next.”
“Every 9/11 is a reminder of what I lost that I can never recover,” says Siby, who is now president and CEO of ROC United. The restaurant workers' advocacy group evolved from a relief center for Windows on the World workers who lost their jobs when the twin towers fell.
On Sunday, President Joe Biden spoke and laid a wreath at the Pentagon. At the same time, first lady Jill Biden spoke in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where one of the hijacked planes went down after passengers and crew members tried to storm the cockpit as the hijackers headed for Washington. Al-Qaida conspirators had seized control of the jets to use them as passenger-filled missiles.
Vice President Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff joined the observance at the National Sept. 11 Memorial in New York. Still, by tradition, no political figures speak at the ground zero ceremony. It centers instead on victims' relatives reading aloud the names of the dead.
Readers often add personal remarks that form an alloy of American sentiments about Sept. 11 — grief, anger, toughness, appreciation for first responders and the military, appeals to patriotism, hopes for peace, occasional political barbs, and a poignant accounting of the graduations, weddings, births and daily lives that victims have missed.
Some relatives also lament that a nation that came together — to some extent — after the attacks have since splintered apart. So much so that federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which were reshaped to focus on international terrorism after 9/11, now see the threat of domestic violent extremism as equally urgent. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/9-11-attacks-still-reverberate-as-us-marks-21st-anniversary | 2022-09-11T14:56:33Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/9-11-attacks-still-reverberate-as-us-marks-21st-anniversary | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
September marks the first anniversary of the launch of Plant NOVA Trees, a region-wide effort by more than 100 local organizations and thousands of individuals to promote native trees and shrubs in Northern Virginia.
“There are many ways to help out,” the organization noted. “The simplest is to see if you have a good place to plant a tree or shrub – and then plant it! Fall is the best time to plant trees and shrubs, because they can concentrate on building strong root systems and avoid the stress of summer weather.”
So far, individuals have reported planting almost 4,000 trees and shrubs as part of the campaign. Local governments, parks and community associations also are working to plant trees.
By reporting these plantings on a Plant NOVA Trees Website form, volunteers are also helping the Virginia Department of Forestry meet its goal of 600,000 trees planted in Northern Virginia by 2025, to help the region meet goals to protect the Chesapeake Bay.
Information on how to choose and plant a native tree or shrub is available on the Plant NOVA Trees Website at https://www.plantnovatrees.org/.
As part of the initiative, more than 200 volunteers have worked to alert homeowners to trees at risk in residential areas; identified over 21,000 trees at risk in non-residential areas; and saved 3,500 trees, organizers said.
At local garden centers, volunteers have hung thousands of tags on native trees, making them easy to identify.
Many local garden centers also are promoting native trees and shrubs in honor of Celebrate Native Trees Week, which runs Sept. 26 through Oct. 2.
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September marks the first anniversary of the launch of Plant NOVA Trees, a region-wide effort by more than 100 local organizations and thousands of individuals to promote native trees and shrubs in Northern Virginia.
“There are many ways to help out,” the organization noted. “The simplest is to see if you have a good place to plant a tree or shrub – and then plant it! Fall is the best time to plant trees and shrubs, because they can concentrate on building strong root systems and avoid the stress of summer weather.”
So far, individuals have reported planting almost 4,000 trees and shrubs as part of the campaign. Local governments, parks and community associations also are working to plant trees.
By reporting these plantings on a Plant NOVA Trees Website form, volunteers are also helping the Virginia Department of Forestry meet its goal of 600,000 trees planted in Northern Virginia by 2025, to help the region meet goals to protect the Chesapeake Bay.
Information on how to choose and plant a native tree or shrub is available on the Plant NOVA Trees Website at https://www.plantnovatrees.org/.
As part of the initiative, more than 200 volunteers have worked to alert homeowners to trees at risk in residential areas; identified over 21,000 trees at risk in non-residential areas; and saved 3,500 trees, organizers said.
At local garden centers, volunteers have hung thousands of tags on native trees, making them easy to identify.
Many local garden centers also are promoting native trees and shrubs in honor of Celebrate Native Trees Week, which runs Sept. 26 through Oct. 2. | https://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/n-va-tree-initiative-reaches-one-year-mark/article_6451748e-31d1-11ed-b8e4-db5dd4b3d7fe.html | 2022-09-11T14:57:22Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/n-va-tree-initiative-reaches-one-year-mark/article_6451748e-31d1-11ed-b8e4-db5dd4b3d7fe.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority has released its latest sales and revenue report, revealing the top five brands purchased in Virginia ABC stores in fiscal 2022.
They are:
- Tito’s Handmade – domestic vodka
- Hennessy VS – cognac/Armagnac
- Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 Black – Tennessee whiskey
- Patron Silver – tequila
- Jim Beam – straight bourbon
These five repeated their 2021 standing as the five brands in Virginia. Of the five top sellers, Tito’s Handmade vodka saw the most impressive leap in sales, from $57.9 million to $66.9 million, a 16-percent increase, followed by Jim Beam from $23.2 million to $24.2 million, a 4-percent increase. Sales of Hennessy VS and Patron Silver fell in fiscal 2022 due to supply-chain disruptions, while Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 Black sales were unchanged at $30.4 million for both years.
Greater demand for aged products quickly depleted inventories manufactured years ahead of the pandemic, with no ready supply to supplement inventories. Packaging issues, workforce availability, ingredient shortages and shipping bottlenecks are just a few of the challenges that presented additional pressures on performance throughout the supply chain, from manufacturer to retailer, ABC officials said.
Virginians are back in restaurants and bars
The ABC’s gross revenue for the fiscal year ending in June stood at $1.4 billion, up $60 million from a year before, according to preliminary figures reported by the state agency.
For the fiscal year, ABC contributed nearly $623 million to designated state-government programs, as required by law, up about 1 percent from a year before. The total reflects $243.6 million in profits from retail sales, $294.8 million in taxes (retail) and $84.4 million collected in wine and beer taxes.
“The shifting landscape of a post-pandemic economy and our ability to continue adjusting our response to consumer demand demonstrates the resourcefulness of our ABC teammates, particularly those in retail and distribution,” said Travis Hill, CEO of the agency that in Virginia holds a monopoly on the sale of most hard liquor.
While overall sales were up, the growth was driven by sales to licensees (such as bars and restaurants), with direct sales to retail patrons down 2.4 percent. Sunday sales declined for the first time since being authorized in 2015, from $104.9 million in fiscal 2021 to $98.9 million in fiscal 2022, but was 25 percent higher than pre-pandemic Sunday sales of $79.4 million in 2019.
Two new stores generated $3.7 million in sales for the year, and ABC also oversaw six store expansions/remodels and 10 relocations, but supply-chain and related issues slowed the agency’s planned expansion during the year.
While the rate of online orders declined over the course of the year as customers returned to in-person shopping, online ordering remained materially higher than pre-pandemic levels. As expected in the COVID-receding era, licensees re-opened and restocked their bars and consumers returned to dining out, resulting in fiscal 2022 sales to restaurant and hospitality businesses exceeding pre-pandemic levels.
Licensee sales reached $229.5 million in fiscal 2022, 43 percent higher than a year before and 22 percent higher than the pre-pandemic fiscal 2019.
Virginia ABC’s final, audited results will be released in the fall. For more information, see the Website at www.abc.virginia.gov.
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Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Michelle Reid will host community conversations across the school division through November to get to know various communities.
School officials are scheduling events at high schools in each pyramid from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Here are the dates for Dranesville District students’ pyramids:
• Monday, Sept. 19: Herndon High School. • Tuesday, Sept. 20: Westfield High School. • Thursday, Sept. 22: George C. Marshall High School. • Monday, Oct. 26: Langley High School.
Schools will share registration information with families and employees in advance of each event. Interpretation services, child care and light refreshments will be provided.
For more information and the full list of events that have been scheduled, visit www.fcps.edu and search for “superintendent community conversations.”
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(WWLP) – A blood orange moon appeared in the night sky above many resident homes.
22News received photos from viewers of the harvest moon that was seen Friday night into the weekend. This is a symbol that summer is coming to an end, and that fall is right around the corner.
The harvest moon was seen rising over Southwick, Three Rivers, Chicopee, Greenfield, and other towns. Depending on where you were, a different shade of color was seen, like the one’s below.
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Our NFL betting expert brings you his best Dolphins vs. Patriots predictions and picks for their NFL Week 1 showdown, which is live Sunday on CBS at 1 EST.
The Patriots have struggled to win in Miami for nearly a decade now, and with the Dolphins’ new arsenal of offensive weapons at the disposal of first-year coach Mike McDaniel, it looks like things won’t be getting any easier for New England.
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All eyes will be on Dolphins first-year head coach Mike McDaniel, who took over for Brian Flores after he was somewhat surprisingly fired back in January.
McDaniel will be tested right out of the gate in a duel with Bill Belichick. New England has typically fallen back on its defense in seasons past, but with a lot of unanswered questions on that side of the ball, it might be harder than ever to stall a revamped Miami offense.
Home sweet home
The Dolphins have won four of their last five and seven of their last nine on their home turf against New England. In those seven victories, Miami has won by at least four points six times.
Pro Bowl cornerback J.C. Jackson left in free agency, putting the Patriots’ secondary at a major disadvantage against Tyreek Hill, Jaylen Waddle, Cedrick Wilson Jr. and Mike Gesicki.
Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is going to have a field day through the air and the defense should do just enough for the Dolphins to escape Week 1 with a reasonably comfortable win.
Our Pick: Dolphins (-3.5) @ -110 with Caesars Sportsbook
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Patriots kicker Nick Folk has been phenomenal over the past two seasons, making 62 of 67 field goal attempts (92.5 percent) in 33 regular-season games.
Folk converted at least two field goals in six of New England’s first eight games last season and could see similar numbers to start the new campaign due to a banged-up Patriots offense.
Receivers Jakobi Meyers and Ty Montgomery were limited during Wednesday’s practice, meaning quarterback Mac Jones might have less to work with come Sunday. If that’s the case, New England should be able to drive down the field, but six points will be harder to come by.
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New team, same habits
All signs are pointing toward Tyreek Hill putting up massive numbers in his Dolphins debut.
His counterpart Jaylen Waddle — who scored TDs in both meetings with the Pats last season — likely won’t be 100 percent due to a quad injury. New England’s secondary doesn’t have anyone that can match up with Hill one-on-one and the six-time Pro Bowl selection has historically feasted against the Patriots.
In four career games against New England, Hill has hauled in 24 receptions for 401 yards and five touchdowns.
He’s also scored in five of six season openers since entering the league in 2016, and probably would have scored in all six if a shoulder injury in the first quarter of the 2018 opener didn’t force him out of the game.
Our Pick: Tyreek Hill to score a touchdown @ +120 with Caesars Sportsbook
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Our NFL betting expert is here to offer best betting picks and predictions for Sunday’s NFL matchup between the Detroit Lions and Philadelphia Eagles at Ford Field, scheduled for 1 p.m. ET on FOX.
Jalen Hurts kept his job and the Eagles added a legitimate No. 1 receiver in A.J. Brown to boost the Philadelphia offense while the Lions also stood pat at QB with Jared Goff and hope to climb out of the NFC cellar with another infusion of talent via the draft.
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Philadelphia is the road favorite amidst a groundswell of chatter around the Lions, some of which was generated by the HBO coverage of the team in “Hard Knocks.”
Verbose coach Dan Campbell will have his team ready to sting, but the Eagles have tangible advantages in most meaningful measurements — including talent and depth.
Eagles -4
The Eagles are figuring out some lingering questions about their offensive line, but don’t downplay the muscle behind the Philadelphia defense. Personnel matchups include discarded cornerback Darius Slay making his return to Detroit and an active defensive line capable of making life impossible for Lions quarterback Jared Goff.
Perhaps the greatest edge for the Eagles is a passing game with two serious threats outside in A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith. Brown, acquired via trade from the Tennessee Titans, already looks to be dialed in with quarterback Jalen Hurts and gets to test a secondary with few proven parts.
Our Pick: Eagles to cover -4
Jalen Hurts anytime TD +106
Jalen Hurts is dominating rankings across daily fantasy and straight fantasy football lineup pages because this matchup is singing for a big number out of the NFL’s top quarterback in rushing yards and touchdowns (10) in 2021. He could threaten the three-TD parlay offered at Caesars at +2600, a live bet to monitor if he gets in the endzone early.
How the Lions seek and spy Hurts might dictate better passing numbers, but books are not buying that just yet. He’s a mere 219.5 total passing yards at Caesars.
Our Pick: Jalen Hurts TD scorer
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Lions team total under 21 points
A boisterous home crowd might not count for much if the Eagles find their rhythm early and unleash a very good pass rush on Goff and his untested offensive line. When the Eagles get up more than 10, it could be curtains for Goff and Detroit.
Philadelphia could bring a big number here, in the 30s isn’t unreasonable, but Detroit finding the end zone three times feels unrealistic until proven otherwise.
Our Pick: Lions “Home” under 21 total points
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Airmen with the 182nd Airlift Wing Airmen, Illinois Air National Guard, and their families take part in Family Day at the 182nd Airlift Wing in Peoria, Illinois, Sept. 10, 2022. The event was organized to promote resiliency in Airmen and families. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman 1st Class Avery Litton)
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Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital
Halliday — To Krista and Adam Halliday of Yakima, a daughter, Adeline Mae Halliday, 8 pounds, 9 ounces, at 12:55 p.m. on Aug. 25, 2022.
Berry — To Aleena Marie Gutierrez and Richard Santana Berry Jr. of Yakima, a son, Kai Santana Berry, 8 pounds, 2 ounces, at 11:44 p.m. on Aug. 23, 2022.
Burgess — To Shantelle Marie Burgess and Tyson James Boyle of Yakima, a son, Gabriel Scott Burgess, 8 pounds, 6 ounces, at 10:33 a.m. on Aug. 23, 2022. Grandparents are Laure Burgess of Yakima and Teri Boyle of Yakima.
Gonzalez — To Wendy Gonzalez and Benjamin Andy of Yakima, a daughter, Violet Jennifer Andy Gonzalez, 6 pounds, 14 ounces, at 6:02 a.m. on Aug. 22, 2022.
Zupercio — To Rosalia Zupercio and Miguel Villegas Sanchez, a daughter, Sofia Fernanda Villegas Zupercio, 7 pounds, 8 ounces, at 4:26 p.m. on Aug. 18, 2022.
Gomez-Jaime — To Thelma M. Gomez and Richard Allan Jaime of Toppenish, a daughter, Teresa Renee Gomez-Jaime, 6 pounds, 9 ounces, at 10:22 a.m. on Aug. 20, 2022. Grandparents are Leah and Jesse Gomez of White Swan and Katherine George of Toppenish.
Bahia — To Angelica P. Picardal and Mark Niel Bahia of Yakima, a son, Vince Amex Picardal Bahia, 6 pounds, 4 ounces, at 11:39 a.m. on Aug. 19, 2022. Grandparents are Aldrin and Annabelle Picardal of Yakima and Leonardo and Rose Marie Bahia of the Philippines.
Morales — To Maria Morales Rodriguez and Fabian Garcia Quiroz of Yakima, a daughter, Yareli Garcia Morales, 6 pounds, 8 ounces, on Aug. 18, 2022.
Martin — To Shanita Sohappy and Roman Martin of Toppenish, a daughter, Emerie Monroe Martin, 10 pounds, 8 ounces, at 8:33 a.m. on Aug. 18, 2022.
Hall — To Payton Dawn Soderstrom and Mason Matthew Hall, a son, Malcolm James Hall, 7 pounds, 12 ounces, at 11:26 a.m. on Aug. 18, 2022.
Miranda — To Alejandra Martinez and Ignacio Miranda of Wapato, a daughter, Leyla Noemi Miranda, 6 pounds, 2 ounces, on Aug. 20, 2022. Grandparents are Ruth Tabares of Wapato and Imelda Valladares and Ruben Miranda of Wapato.
Gonzales — To Rikki Gonzales, a daughter, Paisley Marie Gonzales, 7 pounds, 3 ounces, at 10:39 a.m. on Aug. 1, 2022. Grandparents are Shanna Bailey of Yakima and Jesus Gonzales of Selah.
Watershed Birth Center
Johnson — To Christine Schulte and Kyle Johnson of Yakima, a son, Morrison Johnson, 8 pounds, 14.25 ounces, at 2:57 p.m. on Aug. 23, 2022. Grandparents are Debbie and Kerry Schulte of Selah; Suzanne and Milt Brown of Yakima; and Sherman and Loueta Johnson of Yakima.
Rutrough — To Andy and Madeline (Rieger) Rutrough of Selah, a daughter, Fern Rutrough, 6 pounds, 12.5 ounces, at 2:33 p.m. on Aug. 29, 2022. Grandparents are Keith and Rita Rutrough of Boonesmill, Va., and Joe and Susie Rieger of Castle Rock.
Tacoma General Hospital
Goesch — To Stephanie and Nathan Goesch of Port Orchard, a daughter, Rhiannon Serenity Goesch, 7 pounds, 6 ounces, at 11:39 a.m. on May 10, 2022. Grandparents are Jim and Carol Jackson and Joel and Margaret Goesch, all of Yakima. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/births-for-sept-11-2022/article_86a4635c-2e16-11ed-9e7e-bbcd65c60368.html | 2022-09-11T15:12:49Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/births-for-sept-11-2022/article_86a4635c-2e16-11ed-9e7e-bbcd65c60368.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Health care
- Dr. Peter Asante of Yakima received the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council on Community Pediatrics Local Hero Award, just one of five pediatricians in the U.S. to earn this national recognition.
The award recognizes pediatricians who lead community action and advocacy for children in local communities, the organization stated in a news release. It is presented to individuals who epitomize the term “community pediatrician.”
Asante is a general pediatrician at Community Health of Central Washington’s Yakima Pediatrics, where he also serves as medical director of the Teen Health Clinic, and a hospitalist and chair of pediatrics at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Davis Health Clinic at Davis High School, the first school-based health clinic in the Yakima Valley.
Asante advocates for expanding access to comprehensive health care for under-resourced youth through his work as a board trustee with the Washington Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and currently serves as co-chair of their Equitable Care Committee. He also is currently the Vice President of the Washington School-Based Health Alliance.
Dr. Roy Simms nominated his colleague at Yakima Pediatrics for the Local Hero Award, writing, “In my 40 years of practice here in Yakima, I can think of no other physician who has impacted the health of children in our community more than Peter. He is determined to reduce the disparities in health care for children.”
- Toni Maxwell has been named Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for Astria Toppenish Hospital.
Maxwell started working for a humanitarian emergency response company that built alternative COVID-19 facilities during the start of the pandemic. She joined Astria Toppenish Hospital in November 2021 as a FEMA Emergency Department and Med Surg/ICU Director. Once she started at Toppenish, she immediately improved the quality of care and employee morale within nursing departments, hospital administrator Cathy Bambrick said.
Earlier this year, Maxwell became interim CNO in Toppenish. She is also serving as the Interim CNO for Astria Sunnyside Hospital and will retain that role until the hospital fills that position.
Maxwell’s nursing experience spans all hospital areas including but not limited to intensive care, emergency services, oncology, medical/surgery services, surgery, telemetry, infusion, neurology and orthopedics. Before becoming a registered nurse, she worked in hospitals as a phlebotomist, unit secretary, monitor tech and nurse tech. She received her master of science in nursing degree from Middle Tennessee State University in 2016.
- Dr. Jocelyn Pedrosa, chief medical officer at Yakima Neighborhood Health Services, has been honored with the 2022 Samuel U. Rodgers MD Achievement Award. The award recognizes Pedrosa’s achievements and contributions to the health center mission and to community-based health care overall.
Presented by the National Association of Community Health Centers at its recent conference in Chicago, the award is named for a Missouri physician who was active in the fight for civil rights and access to health care.
Pedrosa was recruited as the sole pediatrician in 1996, and in 2000, became co-medical director at YNHS, the first year the organization became accredited by the Joint Commission. Since that time, YNHS expanded from three to 10 primary care sites in the Yakima Valley, integrating pharmacy, behavioral health, telehealth, and other services.
She participates in the clinicians’ brain trust through the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, sharing her expertise on how to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic specific to vulnerable populations. Prior to the pandemic, Pedrosa led YNHS through an initiative addressing the opioid use epidemic.
- Michaela Alcala, RDN, has joined Yakima Valley Farm Workers’ Lincoln Avenue Medical-Dental Clinic.
Alcala became a dietitian to help her community discover how healthy foods can transform their health. She is especially passionate about infant feeding and how a family’s connection to food can influence their health.
Alcala earned her master of science in nutrition degree from Central Washington University in Ellensburg.
HousingCharlie Hitchcock, MPA, housing developer with the state’s Office of Rural and Farmworker Housing, has obtained national certification as a rental housing development finance professional from the National Development Council.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – You hit the Forum Shops at Caesars. You watched the fountains at Bellagio. You rode the High Roller at The LINQ and the rollercoaster at New York, New York.
It was a whirlwind trip. But there’s one thing you didn’t do.
You didn’t go to Las Vegas.
Millions of tourists visit the Strip — and lose money in its casinos day and night. But unless they crossed Sahara Boulevard and ventured north toward the downtown casinos, they were never within Las Vegas city limits.
Most people don’t realize it, but the Strip is actually located in unincorporated Clark County, not Las Vegas. Most of the Strip is within the Paradise township — appropriate, right? — while the northern end lies in Winchester township.
The distinction is a point of pride for county leaders. And far beyond that, the Strip is the biggest economic engine in Nevada, bringing tax dollars to the county that city leaders can only dream about.
Many visitors think they’re already in Vegas when they travel north through the southern end of the Strip, which is marked with the recognizable “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign. But the dividing line between Las Vegas and the rest of Clark County is several miles north, at Sahara Avenue.
It’s a noticeable transition, but Las Vegas has recently added a gateway of sorts at the border — an arch that extends over Las Vegas Boulevard with towering showgirls welcoming visitors to the city — just in case it wasn’t clear.
The Strip was born when mobster Bugsy Siegel got fed up with Las Vegas city officials while he was trying to expand his newly purchased El Cortez hotel on Fremont Street in the mid-1940s. His criminal background kept getting in the way.
His solution? He bought into the Flamingo, which was under construction four miles south of downtown — and outside city limits. The 105-room hotel opened in 1947 at a cost of $6 million, and was toasted as “The West’s Greatest Resort Hotel.”
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As California baked under record-high temperatures last Tuesday and the state’s residents turned up their air conditioners to cope, electricity consumption hit an all-time peak.
The record demand of more than 52,000 megawatts was experienced in the 80% of the state’s electric power system managed by the Independent System Operator and was a successful stress test for the grid.
Californians heeded pleas to minimize consumption in the all-important late afternoon and evening hours, thus averting rolling blackouts that grid managers had feared would be needed to avoid systemic collapse. Luck also played a role – no major power plant shutdowns – as did having a healthy amount of reserve generation.
By happenstance, Tuesday’s test of the power grid’s resilience came just a few days after the Legislature passed – at Gov. Gavin Newsom’s behest – legislation to speed up California’s conversion to a carbon-free electrical grid by 2045. So the day’s experience provided a graphic snapshot of what must to happen for that conversion to occur.
The legislation, Senate Bill 1020, requires that California get 90% of its power from renewable sources by 2035 – the same year the state is now scheduled to end sales of gasoline-powered cars – and 95% by 2040 while retaining the 2045 deadline for converting to a carbon-free electrical grid.
Last Tuesday, when power consumption peaked in the late afternoon, renewable sources, principally solar panels, supplied just over a quarter of ISO-managed juice, while plants powered by natural gas were producing nearly half. Later, as the sun began to set, solar arrays generated steadily less power, finally tapering off to zero, while the gas plants’ share of the load increased rapidly.
Climate scientists tell us that that Tuesday’s experience, including elevated demands on the grid, will become more common. Meanwhile, California theoretically will, in just 13 years, more than triple its proportion of renewable power production.
But there’s more. Power demand will not only increase due to climate change, but because California will be shifting everything it can from hydrocarbons to electricity.
Meeting ambitious goals for zero-emission cars – the vast majority of them powered by batteries – will require much more power to recharge them so that Californians can continue to drive almost a billion miles a day. Simultaneously, the state wants to phase out gas-powered home appliances and other devices, such as lawn mowers, and replace them with electric models.
The sharp decline in solar power in late afternoon and early evening hours also requires banking renewable juice when it’s available so that the grid can continue to meet overnight demand – such as recharging the 30 million or so battery-powered cars we will be compelled to buy.
The state now has a few battery banks to preserve solar power but scaling up will be enormously difficult and expensive and at the moment there are few alternatives.
Finally, the grid itself – the massive complex of high-voltage lines linking generators and importing power from other states – will need upgrading, not only to handle the conversion of power sources, but to meet rising demands and to prevent failures that cause wildfires.
Is California really up the task that the new legislation mandates, a very expensive, relatively rapid conversion and expansion of this immensely complicated and absolutely vital thing we call the grid?
Recent history is not reassuring. This is a state government that took a quarter-century to replace one third of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, has been futzing around with a bullet train project for 14 years with little progress, and has dozens of bollixed information technology projects.
Electric power transformation would be infinitely more difficult than any of those.
CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to calmatters.org/commentary.
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The Los Angeles Unified School District — a misnomer if ever there was one — has been hacked, paralyzing a system that needs no help grinding to a halt.
The perpetrators have yet to reveal either themselves or how much dough they want before they’ll release the computer system, just the latest example of a ubiquitous modern crime that has seen businesses, hospitals and even police departments paralyzed by cyber criminals.
It works like this: hackers penetrate computer system firewalls and shut out legitimate users until a ransom is paid, usually in hard-to-trace crypto-currencies. Many of these hack attacks originate overseas, making it even more unlikely anyone will ever be caught. In some cases (Russia) these attacks are state-sponsored. While hacking might be a non-violent crime, it’s hardly victimless. A hacked computer today is as serious as horse thievery back in the day. Ransomware shuts down modern life.
In my grandfather’s time, a “hack” was a cab or something you did to overgrown weeds. My father knew his son couldn’t hack 9th-grade math, or a curveball, or a regular 9-to-5 job. As a kid, when I got hacked it was when I drove to the hoop through a gauntlet of sharp fingernails clawing at the ball. Once during my life as a TV writer, a programing executive at MTM called me a hack. Once, that I know of.
Today getting hacked is as inevitable as getting lost before GPS, Waze and Google Maps came along. The initial panic over our Facebook account being cloned by some clown has given way to a yawn: “If you get a friend request from me, just ignore it.”
But our credit cards and Social Security numbers are another matter. Identity theft is a huge hassle and can seriously disrupt lives. It’s a tedious process to undo the damage caused by hackers and virtually risk free for them, so why not? Why steal with a revolver when someone might shoot back if you can steal from the comfort of your sofa?
From time immemorial, new technology has spawned new crimes. The first documented car theft took place in Paris in 1896 when a mechanic swiped a Peugot from Baron de Zuylen, founder of the Automobile Club of France. As bad as hacking is, it pales in comparison to the theft perpetrated by telephone and online fraud. You almost have to admire former L.A. City Councilman Mitch Englander taking an envelope of cash in a public toilet stall. That’s old-school crookedness.
There’s no shortage of folks still willing to whack us on the head with a 2 x 4 at an ATM machine or jack our cars or simply storm into a CVS or department store and empty the shelves. We’ve actually invited this by making the penalties for theft less than a tap on the wrist. Our license plates might as well read, “Come to California, the first $950 is on us!”
One of the oldest cliches in law enforcement is still true: if you build a better mouse trap, you get smarter mice. In the computer age, cyber crime is here to stay.
Reports now say, of course, the LAUSD had been warned their cyber security was inadequate. Now they’re tasked with, among other fixes, changing “hundreds of thousands of passwords.” That’s almost punishment enough.
Our digital world is fragile, dependent on electricity and massive systems to store and preserve the gazzilions of bytes of data we generate. Can you imagine if the grid actually does go down?
Terrorists can imagine it. Hostile governments, too. We all know this is a potential reality, yet most of use continue to whistle past the graveyard.
The important takeaway from today’s column … WARNING! YOUR FILES AND PRIVATE DATA HAVE BEEN LOCKED! Enter your payment details to gain access. Your data will be deleted in 23:12:01 Card number:_______________________
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Doug McIntyre’s column appears Sundays. He can be reached at: Doug@DougMcIntyre.com.
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Week 4 high school football schedule for teams in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News and Whittier Daily News coverage areas.
All games start at 7 p.m., unless noted
Thursday’s nonleague games
California vs. Northview at Covina District Field
Damien vs. La Serna at California HS
El Monte at Sierra Vista
Keppel at Lynwood
Los Altos at Jurupa Hills, 7:30 p.m.
Maranatha at Western Christian
Rowland at Ganesha
San Marino at San Gabriel
Santa Fe at Montebello
West Covina at Placentia Valencia
Friday’s nonleague games
Alhambra vs. South Pasadena at Moor Field
Azusa at Glendale
Baldwin Park at Rosemead
Bell Gardens vs. Covina at Covina District Field
Beverly Hills vs. Whittier Christian at Whittier College
Bishop Amat at Leuzinger
Colony at Pasadena
Diamond Ranch at Shadow Hills
Downey at St. Paul, 7:30 p.m.
El Modena at La Habra
El Rancho vs. Mayfair at Bellflower
Esperanza vs. Sonora at Yorba Linda HS
Glendora at Etiwanda
La Salle at Cathedral
Los Osos at Bonita
Muir at St. Francis
Ocean View at Walnut
Pioneer at Gabrielino
Pasadena Poly vs. Rio Hondo Prep at South Pasadena HS
Pomona vs. Village Christian at Glendale College
Schurr at San Dimas
Sunny Hills vs. La Mirada at Buena Park
Temple City at Hoover
Whittier at Arroyo
Wilson at Diamond Bar
Workman vs. Nogales at La Puente HS
Saturday’s games
Camino Real League
Bishop Montgomery at Bosco Tech, 11 a.m.
Nonleague
South Hills vs. Charter Oak at Covina District Field
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A new order from the South Coast Air Quality Management District requires a Vernon-based medical device sterilizer to cut its operations, potentially to the point of a complete shutdown, when emissions of ethylene oxide are detected above certain thresholds.
The company, Sterigenics, will have to reduce its operations by 20% any time fence-line air monitoring detects ethylene oxide, a carcinogenic gas used in the sterilization process, above 17.5 parts per billion, a threshold roughly fives time higher than typically allowed. If the emissions exceed 25 parts per billion in a single day, or stay above 17.5 parts per billion for two days, operations must be cut in half.
The facility must cease all operations after three instances of excess emissions, according to the order approved Friday, Sept. 9.
Under the order, Sterigenics also is required to upgrade its air pollution control systems, install temporary enclosures — and permanent ones within two years — to reduce emissions, and conduct regular air monitoring.
Ethylene oxide is a colorless and odorless gas used to sterilize medical equipment used by hospitals and doctors throughout the country. Long-term exposure over a period of years, however, can increase the risk of lymphoid and breast cancers, in particular, and cause reproductive issues. Sterigenics’ facility in Vernon handles the sterilization of 45 million medical devices and supplies each year, including surgical kits, catheters and IVs, according to the company.
The South Coast AQMD previously detected levels of ethylene oxide outside of Sterigenics that were as high as 32 times above the allowable limit. However, the facility has not exceeded 17.5 parts per billion — the new threshold for a partial shut down — since June 28, according to data released by South Coast AQMD. Though Sterigenics’ voluntary operational changes over the past few months have reduced ethylene oxide levels, the levels are still elevated and believed to pose a risk to off-site workers, according to an AQMD press release.
The company and the air quality management district had previously agreed to less stringent terms, but their proposal was rejected by the South Coast AQMD’s hearing board in early August.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn, who has criticized the South Coast AQMD’s handling of the matter and repeatedly called for the shuttering of Sterigenics, called the new order an “improvement” in a statement.
“I continue to believe that this facility needs to be shut down until they can lower their emissions to legally allowed levels, but this new SCAQMD order is a substantial improvement over what had last been proposed and one step closer towards lowering these toxic emissions and making the air in and around Vernon safe for workers and residents alike,” she said.
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Visitors from throughout Southern California often park their beach chairs and fishing gear on the narrow stretch of rocky sand that surrounds the Big Bear Solar Observatory, as it juts into Big Bear Lake from the north shore.
Few realize that the mysterious, white-domed facility behind them is home to one of the highest resolution solar telescopes in the world, or that a team of 14 experts keeps that telescope trained on the sun whenever it’s shining. And few know that the images and data captured by the observatory over the past half century have helped scientists unlock numerous mysteries about the star that powers our solar system, giving us a better understanding of the sun’s oscillations and magnetic fields, and other solar phenomena with fun names like flux ropes and sausage waves.
It’s not easy to translate much of that research into terms the general public can appreciate. That’s likely why, though more than 200 articles citing data from the Big Bear observatory have been published in scientific journals just in the past two years, even many locals don’t know much about what goes on inside the observatory.
But Wenda Cao, a physics professor and director of the Big Bear Solar Observatory, hopes a current project — which will expand the site’s purpose from one centered on discovery to one that includes practical applications — might change that.
After some recent upgrades, the observatory’s main telescope is offering a continuous feed of high-resolution images of electromagnetic storms taking place on the sun — and what that ball of glowing gas 93 million miles away looks like just before those storms get started. Another, recently-installed telescope will soon help collect long-term measurements of solar magnetic fields. And yet another is one of six in the world that helps to capture images of the sun 24 hours a day.
When this data is considered together, Cao and his team hope to identify patterns that could lead to an early warning system for solar storms.
Such a system could help travelers better plan to see the Northern Lights, which are triggered by solar storms. But it would also function much like systems that now warn us about coming tornadoes or hurricanes, offering a heads up to help minimize damage caused by solar flares and mass solar ejections. Such events can take out electrical grids, disrupt satellites and radios, put astronauts at risk and deliver an elevated dose of radiation to people on commercial flights in the North and South poles.
“That will be the holy grail of space weather predictions,” said Antti Pulkkinen, director of the Heliophysics Science Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
Keeping an eye on solar storms
Space weather events become more common and intense each time the sun nears the peak of its 11-year cycle, during which its magnetic field completely flips. With the current cycle expected to peak by 2025, massive sunspots are now forming. Such spots often are precursors to solar storms, which Pulkkinen noted will be particularly worrisome as NASA gets ready to send astronauts back to the moon on its Artemis mission.
Researchers know sunspot formations greatly increase the odds for large solar storms. And Bill Murtagh, program coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center, said that if he gets images from the Big Bear Solar Observatory that show such clusters, he can issue a space weather forecast that might predict a 70% chance of a major solar flare in the next 24 hours.
But Murtagh said there are still gaps in our understanding that prevent him from being able to get on what he terms the “bat phone” to warn electrical grid operators or airlines of the day a solar storm is expected to hit Earth or how intense it might be.
First, he said, we can’t yet predict when and where sunspots will develop. We also don’t know how they’re going to evolve; some grow from nothing to 10 times the size of Earth in 48 hours, but never trigger storms. And for those that do, Murtagh said, they currently can’t tell if a flare is coming even five minutes before it happens. Eight minutes later, that flash of radiation can reach Earth. Most solar flare radiation bounces off our atmosphere, though it can throw off GPS systems and reach passengers in jets near the poles, where the Earth’s magnetic field is weakest.
The sun also throws out highly magnetized plasma, known as coronal mass ejections. Those take 24 hours to reach us. But, for now, we can’t predict mass ejections in advance any better than we can predict solar flares. And until these ejections pass spacecraft deployed by NASA or the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Murtagh said, we don’t know their heat or density or, critically, how their magnetized material is oriented.
This last point matters because a mass ejection acts like a magnet. If the ejection happens to be polarized in a way that is repelled by the Earth’s own magnetism, Murtagh said the threat is low. But if it’s polarized in a way that makes it attracted to Earth, the result can be intense — and potentially catastrophic — geomagnetic storms.
Currently, we can make the polarization call only about 20 minutes before a mass ejection would hit Earth.
An extreme geomagnetic storm has hit the Earth only once in recorded history. In 1859, in what’s known as the Carrington Event, a solar flare lit up the night sky so brightly that people got up for work, thinking the sun had risen. Northern Lights were visible in places like Cuba. And the electronic devices of the day — telegraph machines — failed and sparked and shocked their operators.
In 1989, a smaller solar storm took out the power grid in Quebec for nine hours, though its effects were felt as far south as California. Murtagh said we were lucky the grid didn’t fail here.
We all got even luckier 10 years ago.
The last time the sun’s cycle neared its peak, in 2012, the biggest solar storm in more than 150 years narrowly missed our planet. Had we taken a direct hit, scientists say it could have triggered widespread blackouts and damaged electrical systems. Repairs could have taken years and cost trillions of dollars.
A better advanced warning system could stave off a lot of damage in the event the next storm doesn’t miss us. Murtagh said grid operators could protect their systems from the coming surge of energy, airlines could delay or reroute flights and NASA could adjust missions. And the public could take steps to prepare, such as storing water, charging devices and filling gas tanks.
That might all sound pretty apocalyptic. But if you’re an astronomer at one of the world’s top solar observatories — with access to tools that didn’t exist the last time solar storms peaked and a list of mysteries you still hope to unravel — it also means things are about to get very interesting.
Winning location
The Big Bear Solar Observatory has been instrumental in helping to map the anatomy and behavior of the sun since its inception in 1969, said Kenneth Libbrecht, who did research at the site in his early years as a physics professor at Caltech in Pasadena.
Under late solar astronomer Harold Zirin, Caltech decided, during the thick of the space race in the 1960s, to build a solar observatory within driving distance of its Pasadena campus. There was a site already nearby, at Mount Wilson. But Libbrecht said air bouncing off the mountain there means that site isn’t known for great “seeing” — an astronomy term for how clear celestial images appear based on how much turbulence is in the atmosphere. (To understand the effect, look up at the stars and watch them appear to twinkle. Neat if you want inspiration for a lullaby, not so neat if you want a clear view of objects millions of miles away.)
On the hunt for an ideal spot in sunny Southern California for a new solar observatory, Zirin’s team selected a few dozen potential sites and spent several years gathering data. Lake Elsinore actually scored the best for seeing, Libbrecht said. Since water absorbs heat, they discovered there’s less turbulence when observatories overlook lakes.
It makes sense, then, that Big Bear came in No. 2 for seeing. But it had the added advantages of being at high altitude, where the atmosphere is thinner, and along a lake with a dam. That meant they wouldn’t have to worry about flooding, such as the one that hit Lake Elsinore in 1980.
Big Bear is now facing the opposite problem. When the lake is full, water surrounds the observatory site minus a narrow causeway that connects it to land. But the West’s climate change-fueled megadrought has dropped lake levels nearly 17 feet, creating a strip of beach around the observatory and along the causeway.
Cao said they haven’t yet noticed an increase in turbulence due to the lake drop. But he said it has posed security problems, since the public could walk right up to the facility’s door. So they recently installed chain link fence along the causeway.
Before the pandemic, the observatory was open for public tours as often as twice a month. Cao said they hope to resume those tours soon. But for now, other than occasional tours for curious reporters, the site is only open to the scientists and engineers who keep it running.
Life at the observatory
Down the causeway from the observatory, just across a forest road, a cluster of matching buildings might look like another small mountain resort.
But one building houses the newly installed SOLIS telescope, which Pulkkinen of NASA said will be critical in the quest to improve space weather predictions. Another building has offices and labs and a machine shop, where mechanical engineer Jeff Nenow crafts parts to repair equipment or to facilitate whatever latest project researchers have dreamed up. And another building is Cao’s home for the half the year he doesn’t spend teaching at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Since 1997, Caltech has leased the observatory to NJIT, which operates the site in conjunction with its Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research. The site gets grant funding from, among others, the National Science Foundation, NASA, the U.S. Air Force and the Korean National Science Foundation.
Researchers come from as far as South Korea to live and work for weeks at a time in the observatory complex. Top scientists can then debate their latest findings over coffee in the communal kitchen or jump on zoom chats with NASA in the conference room before their five-minute walk out to the observatory itself.
Research institutions apply to come and to share the site’s data. Right now, Cao said 42 institutions from 15 countries are on that list, with strong global collaboration around missions such as predicting space weather events.
Several employees spend their days inside the observatory dome, opening and closing it as needed, keeping the main telescope pointed in the right direction and running related instruments. While some systems can be operated remotely, Cao said, “Because this one is so very complicated, you don’t want to take the risk.”
As evidence of what can go wrong without careful monitoring, telescope operator Alex Bogdanovich pointed at burn marks in a steel plate that happened within seconds of the sun bouncing off the telescope’s mirror system on a cloudy day.
Safe to say this team never stops thinking about the power of the sun — both to sustain life and to potentially disrupt life as we now know it.
Planning ahead
We may not have a Doppler-style advance warning system for solar storms yet. But Murtagh, Pulkkinen and Cao all said they’re optimistic we can get there within the next 10 years.
On a monitor in his office, Cao played a timelapse video, made from images captured by Big Bear’s main telescope, that showed the sun before a recent storm. If his team can keep capturing such images and use them to discover patterns, he hopes they’ll soon be able to tell when solar storms are coming and how intense they might be.
That belief soon might be tested. The heliophysics team at NASA submitted proposals this week for its priorities over the coming decade. Pulkkinen said he’s confident that resources to develop solar weather prediction system will make the cut.
Given the dangers of an extreme space weather event, Murtagh said such a system is considered a matter of national security.
Along with offering advance warning, his agency wants to also give grid operators hard numbers for the voltage surge expected from a Carrington-level event. Regulators could then potentially require operators to build systems to withstand such an event, the way engineers have to build bridges in California to survive earthquakes of a certain size.
If facilities like the Big Bear Solar Observatory get the funding they need to continue their work, and so long as private companies do their part to prepare, Murtagh said he’s confident that risks from an extreme solar storm will drop before we hit the next peak of solar activity.
“That’s the hope,” Cao said.
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The Queen's funeral will be held on Monday, September 1 - which has been declared a national bank holiday. As thousands of people across the globe will be heading to London to pay their respects to the Queen, many will be watching the state funeral live on TV.
Schools will close and employers may choose to give people time of work for what will be the final day of the period of national mourning. The funeral itself will be a complex operation - Unlike her husbands funeral, which took place at Windsor Castle, the Queen's funeral will break tradition and held at Westminster Abbey.
There will be a committal service at St George's Chapel and procession of her coffin on a gun carriage to the abbey. The service will take around one hour, and then a large ceremonial procession is set to accompany the coffin to Hyde Park, where it will be transferred from a gun carriage to a state hearse before travelling to Windsor. There will be another procession through Windsor before a the comital service at St George's Chapel.
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So with such an historic event taking place at a time when the weather is rapidly changing - no one can say for sure what weather we're in for. But here's what the BBC forecasters predict.
The day is due to be mainly cloudy with have sunny intervals and light winds. Temperatures will be in the high teens, reaching highs of around 19C.
But there is a slight chance of rain. BBC Weather forecasters put this at a 9 per cent chance of showers.
In their long range forecast, a spokesman for the Met Office said: "This period will start with generally dry weather, sunny spells, and some isolated showers. While the east and northeast could see some cloudier conditions with scattered showers, potentially heavy.
"Winds largely moderate but fresh along the east coast. Dry weather continues through the weekend, with a risk of showers remaining in the east, where it will continue to be breezier. Higher pressure is likely to become centred across the UK after the weekend, bringing dry weather for many, but with the possibility of rain spreading across the north, perhaps locally heavy at times.
"Temperatures rather cool but rising through this period, with some chilly nights and overnight fog and mist patches throughout. This period is likely to end with high pressure breaking down, making way for more unsettled conditions."
Weather in Kent
In Dover, temperatures on are expected to reach 17C with "sunny intervals" in the area. A gentle breeze is expected and the weather will be mainly bright as the world says goodbye to "the nation's mother".
Likewise, Tunbridge Wells will also experience warm weather on this day, with temperatures expecting to reach a very warm 19C here. Other areas of Kent are also predicted to be sunny, with just a very slim chance of rain.
As the weather is expected to be warm and pleasant, it is likely that more people from across the region will set out to visit the UK's capital on this day to pay their respects to the Queen. With the sun expected to shine all day, the weather forecast seems fitting for a day where the world says goodbye to a woman who brought so much joy to the lives of many during her 96 years.
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Kent is absolutely steeped in history, with countless landmarks dating back hundreds and hundreds of years. One part of the county in particular that wears its history with pride is Medway, which has dozens of significant landmarks with fascinating pasts.
From iconic castles to ancient churches, any history buff is sure to find this patch of Kent particularly interesting. Buildings that are deemed historically significant are often Grade I or Grade II listed.
A Grade I listed building is considered of ‘exceptional interest’, with only around 2.5 per cent of listed buildings graded as such. Grade II listed buildings on the other hand are deemed important and are considered of more than special interest, with 5.8 per cent of listed buildings falling into this category.
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With dozens of fascinating Grade I listed buildings in Medway, and with the Heritage Open Days right around the corner, what better time to look at the district's oldest and most historic sites. Here are Medway’s most ancient buildings.
Medway’s most historic Grade I buildings
10. Upnor Castle, 1599 - 1601
One of numerous castles in Medway, and a well known landmark for the area, this Elizabethan artillery fort is located on the west bank of the River Medway, a short distance down river from Chatham Dockyard. This fort aimed to protect the dockyard and the ships of the royal navy on the orders of Queen Elizabeth I amid tensions with Spain.
Now the castle stands as an iconic tourist attraction as well as serving as a popular wedding destination. Upnor Castle received its Grade I listing in 1986.
9. Eastgate House - 1590 - 91
Found in the heart of Rochester High Street, this stunning 16th and 17th century townhouse is one of the most distinctive buildings in the area. This property has had many roles over the years, having served as a museum, boarding school, hostel and a great inspiration for author Charles Dickens.
Eastgate House has since received a £2.2million refurbishment and is open for the public to explore.
8. Parish Church of St Nicholas, 1421 - 1423
Another iconic Rochester structure, this church is located next to Rochester Cathedral. Having stood since 1421, the church received extensive redevelopment in the 1620s after the site had fallen into disrepair.
Now the Parish Church of St Nicholas serves as the offices of the Board of Education for the diocese of Rochester.
7. Cooling Castle Gatehouse, 1381 - 85
Joining the list of iconic Medway castles is Cooling Castle, dating back to the 14th century and found on the Hoo Peninsula. Constructed during the 1380s by the Cobham family, the castle was intended as a defensive position against French raids of the Thames Estuary.
Now, the castle is owned by musician Jools Holland and the nearby barn on the property acts as a wedding venue.
6. Prior's Gate, 1344
Again found in Rochester, this 14th century structure was built to guard the south side of Rochester Cathedral’s priory. This gatehouse was built from rub ragstone, and occupies two storeys with a spiral staircase in the north west turret.
Prior's Gate serves as a relic of the city wall that used to surround Rochester.
5. Chertsey's Gate, around 1334
This is one of three remaining gates that lead to the former monastic precinct at Rochester. Over the years, the gate has been given numerous names including College Gate, Cemetery Gate, 'Jasper's Gate', and Chertsey's Gate.
Perhaps the most notable feature of the structure is the 'baker's oven' that sits within the interior wall of the arch. This is in fact the door formerly used to empty a chute designed to dispose of ashes and hot embers from within the gatehouse’s living quarters.
4. 12th century Churches
Numerous churches dated from the 12th century can be found within the District of Medway. These include: Church of All Saints, Church of St Michael, Church of St John the Baptist, Church of St James, and the Church of St Peter & St Paul.
3. Rochester Castle, 1087 - 89
One of Medway’s most distinct landmarks, Rochester Castle is also one of the area’s oldest structures. Found on the east bank of the River Medway, the castle’s keep is one of the best preserved in England or France.
This castle served as a key defensive position for England during the mediaeval period, seeing military action all the way up until 1381 when it was ransacked during the Peasant's Revolt. Now the castle remains one of Rochester’s most well known tourist attractions, hosting a range of festivals, events and concerts every year.
2. Church of St Margaret, 1066
Standing in the town of Rainham for over 650 years, this impressive piece of history still serves the local community to this day. Its most distinctive feature is the 100 foot, 15th century tower that stands tall and proud above the town, visible from almost any angle in the area.
1. Rochester Cathedral, 604
Arguably Medway’s most well known landmark, and an undeniably impressive one at that. Built all the way back in the seventh century, Rochester Cathedral was formerly known as the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
This stunning display of architecture saw extensive remodelling over the years, resulting in the awe-inspiring structure that sits in Rochester. To this day, the cathedral holds a vital role in Rochester, again hosting countless important events and services throughout the year.
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