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Brigham Young Finds No Evidence of Racial Incident
Brigham Young University said it has found no evidence of racial slurs used during a women’s volleyball game against Duke University last month. Brigham Young conducted an “extensive review” of all available recordings of the match and interviewed 50 people who attended.
“As a result of our investigation, we have lifted the ban on the fan who was identified as having uttered racial slurs during the match. We have not found any evidence that that individual engaged in such an activity. BYU sincerely apologizes to that fan for any hardship the ban has caused,” said a university statement.
“There will be some who assume we are being selective in our review. To the contrary, we have tried to be as thorough as possible in our investigation, and we renew our invitation for anyone with evidence contrary to our findings to come forward and share it,” the university added.
Duke volleyball player Rachel Richardson, who is Black, said that she repeatedly heard a racial slur directed at her during the match from someone sitting in BYU’s student section. Richardson’s godmother also said the player was called a racial slur “every time she served.”
Nina King, Duke’s athletic director, issued this statement, to ESPN, “The 18 members of the Duke University volleyball team are exceptionally strong women who represent themselves, their families, and Duke University with the utmost integrity. We unequivocally stand with and champion them, especially when their character is called into question. Duke Athletics believes in respect, equality and inclusiveness, and we do not tolerate hate and bias.”
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Emporia State May Get Rid of Some Tenured Faculty
September 12, 2022
Emporia State University is planning to get rid of some tenured faculty members and others in a reorganization plan to be considered this week by the Kansas Board of Regents, reported The Kansas Reflector.
Some faculty members wonder if they will still have jobs under the plan.
“It’s so frustrating,” said Rachelle Smith, an English professor. “There’s no communication. Faculty retreating like adversaries. And who loses? The students.”
The university said it lacks the funds to preserve all jobs and programs.
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FBI and DOJ Hold Briefing on HBCU Bomb Threats
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Counterterrorism Division and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division held a phone briefing with people affected by the ongoing bomb threats at historically Black colleges and universities and historically Black churches, including community leaders and advocacy group representatives.
“The FBI is aware of racially motivated threats to more than 50 HBCUs and Historically Black Institutions across the country since the beginning of the year,” read a press release from the FBI about the briefing. “As the new school year gets underway, threats to these institutions continue, and the FBI remains committed to investigating and analyzing each one to identify the perpetrator and determine the threat’s credibility.”
Law enforcement officials updated call participants on the ongoing investigation into the threats, which involves more than 30 FBI field offices. The details “cannot be shared publicly due to sensitive aspects of the investigation,” according to the release.
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Mastriano’s Dissertation, Plus Corrections, Released
The University of New Brunswick, in Canada, has released Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano’s 2013 doctoral thesis about Alvin C. York, a World War I hero, the Associated Press reported.
The university also released six pages of recent corrections to the dissertation that critics said did not correct errors in the document.
A University of New Brunswick history professor, Jeff Brown, provided documents to the AP that recorded his own misgivings about the dissertation nearly a decade ago, when he was on Mastriano’s doctoral committee. He said he was “appalled” by the dissertation and “disturbed by the fact that no one on the committee was qualified to evaluate the huge part of it that was archaeological.”
Brown said he flagged glaring issues to other faculty members and administrators and was dismissed from Mastriano’s committee by the lead adviser, yet the published dissertation still listed Brown on the title page, giving the impression that he endorsed the material.
Mastriano did not respond to a request for comment.
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Michigan State President May Be Forced Out
September 12, 2022
Michigan State president Dr. Samuel Stanley has been given until tomorrow to resign or to possibly be dismissed by the board, The Detroit Free Press reported.
The newspaper cited multiple anonymous sources. Emily Gerkin Guerrant, a spokeswoman for Michigan State, confirmed to the Free Press that “the Board of Trustees and President Stanley are currently in discussions about his contract with the university.”
Reportedly, there are disagreements between Dr. Stanley and the board over his handling of Title IX complaints and internal investigations
He has been president since August 2019.
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Professor’s Tweet About Queen Elizabeth Is Condemned
The tweet of a professor at Carnegie Mellon University about Queen Elizabeth II is being condemned, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
Before Queen Elizabeth died Thursday, Uju Anya, an associate professor of second language application, tweeted, “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving and raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.”
Twitter removed the message, saying that it violated the company’s rules. But subsequent tweets from Anya appeared to support her sentiments. Those tweets have attracted both backlash and support.
Carnegie Mellon posted this statement:
The statement has not altered Anya’s views. She wrote on Twitter, “If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star.”
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Tentative Deal Ends Faculty Strike at Eastern Michigan
A tentative agreement has ended a faculty strike at Eastern Michigan University.
Eastern Michigan faculty went on strike a week ago over health-care premiums and shared governance.
Late on Sunday, Eastern Michigan announced the tentative deal, while not releasing details about it, “following marathon bargaining sessions between the administration and faculty union bargaining teams this weekend that went late into the evening on Saturday and tonight.”
On Twitter, the Eastern Michigan chapter of the American Association of University Professors said, “THE STRIKE IS OVER! We have a tentative agreement. All Faculty will return to work duties tomorrow Monday, September 12. We could not have done this without all of the support from our students, the community, and the union organizations.”
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Lawyers, Guns and Autonomy
A Montana Supreme Court ruling upholding the regents’ authority to ban firearms on campuses is a victory that nevertheless reinforces the academy’s antidemocratic constitution, Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn writes.
Setting their sights on tenure in Texas, critical race theory in Oklahoma, transgender athletes in Idaho and academic freedom in Florida, radical Republican legislatures have effectively announced that higher education is now one of their preferred targets. As public colleges and universities are drawn into the nation’s culture wars, we may well wonder what can stop legislatures, in league with like-minded governors, from rendering higher education a mere handmaiden of their right-wing agendas.
However improbable, one possible answer can be found in that prototypical red state, Montana, where its Supreme Court recently voided a statute that would have permitted students, staff and faculty to carry guns, open as well as concealed, on campus. That victory comes at considerable cost, though, for it bolsters the autonomy of a governing board whose rule over the academy is itself inherently antidemocratic.
Pistol-Packing Cultural Warriors
About a fifth of states have adopted legislation that effectively requires public universities to permit guns on campus, although most have the ability to prohibit their possession in specific venues or at certain events (for example, in athletic stadiums and disciplinary hearings). This year, lawmakers introduced at least a dozen bills in nine states seeking to bar governing boards from banning guns from campuses or otherwise expand campus carry policies. Future efforts aiming to do the same will no doubt draw support from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in New York Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, announced in June, which held that the Second Amendment protects “an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home.” As the Republican right racks up more wins on this front, research indicates, the upshot is depressingly predictable: “Policies allowing civilians to bring guns on to college campuses are unlikely to reduce mass shootings on campus and are likely to lead to more shootings, homicides, and suicides on campus—especially among students.”
Given this grim forecast, there is good reason to celebrate the prescience demonstrated by the Board of Regents of the Montana University System (MUS) when, in 1999, its members adopted Policy 1006, which prohibits anyone but security officers from carrying firearms on that state’s public university campuses. The board thereby acknowledged that professors are less likely to teach and students less likely to debate controversial issues when firearms are present in the classroom, thereby compromising the academy’s basic mission. This policy was negated in 2021, however, when Republican governor Greg Gianforte signed HB 102 into law, removing Montana’s public universities from the list of places (for example, detention facilities and courtrooms) where firearms, whether open or concealed, can be banned.
Parroting one of the National Rifle Association’s less plausible clichés, the Montana Legislature promised that HB 102 will “enhance the safety of people by expanding their legal ability to provide for their own defense by reducing or eliminating government-mandated places where only criminals are armed and where citizens are prevented from exercising their fundamental right to defend themselves and others.” True, the Board of Regents could still adopt certain narrowly tailored regulations (for example, banning firearms at events where alcohol is served or prohibiting persons from pointing pistols at others except in self-defense). Beyond these limits, though, the law prohibited the board from enacting regulations that diminish the “rights of the people to keep or bear arms as reserved to them in Article II of the Montana constitution.” A campus armed to the hilt, apparently, is not merely the most secure but also the most free.
Who Rules the Academy?
Shortly after its adoption, in response to a petition filed by the Board of Regents, a district court enjoined enforcement of HB 102 on Montana’s public campuses and granted the board’s motion for summary judgment. After the state appealed, the Montana Supreme Court affirmed the district court’s ruling in late June, upholding the board’s authority to ban all but security personnel from toting firearms on campus.
The question before Montana’s highest court, wrote Justice Laurie McKinnon, is this: “Whether the Board of Regents of Higher Education possesses the exclusive authority to regulate firearms on college campuses” (italics in original). Like most good questions, this one has a history. Montana’s first constitution provided for the establishment of a “state university.” “General control and supervision” over this entity was vested in a board whose members (leaving aside those serving in an ex officio capacity) were appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate. The “powers and duties” of this body, the 1889 constitution added, were to be “prescribed and regulated by law,” thus making clear that the state board of education was ultimately subordinate to Montana’s Legislature.
Montana’s second constitution, adopted in 1972, removed this last provision and, instead, granted to the Board of Regents “full power, responsibility, and authority to supervise, coordinate, manage and control the Montana university system.” This language did not render the Board entirely autonomous, for the governor and Senate retain their role in selecting its members and MUS remains subject to the Legislature’s powers to appropriate funds and audit its finances. Less certain, though, was the question of whether the Legislature possesses the authority to enact statewide laws that override policies adopted by the board.
In a brief submitted on behalf of the state, Montana’s attorney general found the answer to this puzzle unproblematic. That brief, which describes HB 102 as a statewide health and safety law, states that “the Legislature has the constitutional authority to pass laws, including health and safety laws, under its police power.” Per the state’s argument, to hold that the board possesses the authority to disregard or violate a duly-enacted law merely because the regents find that law “disagreeable” is to place this body above the law and hence above the people’s elected representatives. In short, the state declared in another filing, the Legislature “does not forfeit its legislative power at the campus boundary line.” To read the constitution’s conferral of “full power” on the regents as an unlimited grant of sovereign authority, the state concluded, is to consider the board something akin to a “fourth branch of state government, that exercises both exclusive executive and legislative authority over the MUS.”
In its response, the Board of Regents argued that the principal purpose of Article X in the 1972 constitution is to insulate MUS’s governing body from political meddling, especially but not exclusively by the Legislature. If higher education is to fulfill its unique purpose, the Board of Regents cannot and must not be regarded as just another administrative agency (like the Department of Licensing, for example). Unlike such agencies, the board can fulfill its fiduciary obligation to the people of Montana only if it remains free to govern itself and hence to adopt any regulations it deems “necessary and proper” to secure its mission, including policies regulating firearms. Contrary to the attorney general, this is not to proclaim the Board of Regents a fourth branch of the state’s government, for this body asserts no authority beyond the boundaries of the MUS campuses. But it is to affirm that the board is a “constitutional entity” whose powers, when exercised on behalf of its designated end, cannot be abridged by the Legislature or executive.
In a unanimous decision, the state Supreme Court ruled that the sections of HB 102 that pertain specifically to the Montana University System are unconstitutional. The plenary character of the board’s powers, the court insisted, necessarily excludes others from exercising those same powers. This is not to render the board an autarkic sovereign. But it is to affirm that the board must retain its freedom to determine what is required to ensure a “safe and secure” campus, for that is an indispensable prerequisite of the academy’s distinctive work: “It is particularly germane and necessary to the Board’s constitutional authority that it can manage MUS campuses by implementing policies it believes will minimize the loss of life and thereby strengthen its educational environment” (emphasis added). Here, Montana’s highest court belabors what we might like to think goes without saying: dead students make poor learners.
Meanwhile, in Colorado …
The larger question posed by Board of Regents v. The State of Montana is one that is significant for public higher education in all 50 states, but especially those now dominated by the right wing of the Republican Party. Montana’s regents were able to successfully defend their campus gun policy only because the state constitution includes language that the Supreme Court, in this instance, interpreted as an affirmation of the board’s autonomy and hence its authority to defy the Legislature.
Not all states are equipped to do the same, because their constitutions, like that of Montana in 1889, grant their legislatures broad authority to define the powers of college and university governing boards. Consider, for example, Colorado’s constitution, which states, “The establishment, management, and abolition of the state institutions [of higher education] shall be subject to the control of the state, under the provisions of the constitution and such laws and regulations as the general assembly may provide” (emphasis added). True, Colorado’s constitution also provides that “the governing boards of the state institutions of higher education … shall have the general supervision of their respective institutions.” By statute, moreover, the General Assembly has authorized each board to “enact laws for the government of the university” and to “promulgate rules and regulations for the safety and welfare of students, employees, and property.” These grants of authority, though, are provisionally delegated by the Legislature and, for that reason, can be amplified, modified or eliminated by the people’s elected representatives.
This explains why the Weapons Control Policy adopted by the Colorado Board of Regents in 1994 failed to withstand legal challenge. As in Montana, that policy prohibited the carrying of firearms on campus by all persons other than certified officers. In 2003, however, the Legislature passed the Concealed Carry Act (CCA), which provided that anyone with a permit may “carry a concealed handgun in all areas of the state, except as specifically limited in this section.” Five years later, several students sued the regents on the ground that the board’s weapons policy violated the CCA and, in 2012, the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the board’s “supervisory” power must yield to the Legislature’s statutory authority: “We hold that the CCA’s comprehensive statewide purpose, broad language, and narrow exclusions show that the General Assembly intended to divest the Board of Regents of its authority to regulate concealed handgun possession on campus.”
That decided, the most the regents could do was to adopt a new policy that reiterates the board’s belief that “the possession of firearms, explosives, and other weapons on university premises compromises the safety of the university community” but is otherwise toothless. Unlike Montana, it would appear, the right to bear arms shall be preserved in Colorado even though a handful of students, faculty and/or staff (and possibly many more) will almost certainly be sacrificed to this cause.
What Price Victory, Dr. Faust?
The virtues of institutional autonomy, apparent in Montana but significantly qualified in Colorado, extend well beyond the authority to regulate firearms on campus. If autonomy is the capacity of colleges and universities to ward off outsiders bent on subordinating higher education to partisan purposes, then this property is a necessary condition of the academy’s ability to fulfill its unique mission. While we might quibble about the particulars, arguably, this capability encompasses the freedom to set broad institutional goals, to determine the specific allocation of funds appropriated by the state, to adjudicate matters of student discipline and employee misconduct, to modify academic programs, to establish standards for admission and graduation, to structure the academy’s internal governance, and more.
Less obvious, however, are the reasons why we might want to think twice before offering a full-throated celebration of the academy’s autonomy (and, by extension, the recent ruling in Montana). When autonomy is defined as the capacity to repel intruders, we are effectively encouraged to overlook the fact that the powers of self-governance within the American academy are structured in a very specific way. To champion the academy’s autonomy is not to affirm its democratic control. Rather, it is to ratify monopolization of the power to rule by governing boards who, legally speaking, are unaccountable to those they rule. Those who are ruled are in turn positioned as subjects of powers in which they have no legally mandated title to participate. When, for example, the Montana State University Faculty Senate signed on to an amicus brief that reinforced the regents’ claim to autonomy, that endorsement no doubt signified this body’s desire to liberate MUS from legislative intervention. Success on that front, however, does nothing to contest the conditions of the faculty’s subordination as employees bound by contract within the sort of hierarchically ordered constitution of power that is afforded graphic expression in university organizational charts.
Like their private counterparts, all public universities and colleges are granted certain legal powers by the state (for example, to grant degrees, to hold and alienate property, to employ a seal that testifies to the official status of documents, etc.). These powers are held not by specific persons, but by the creatures of law that are corporations. (In a few states, including Montana, state universities are not formally constituted as corporations but are nonetheless effectively constituted as such). The sole members of these sempiternal corporations are those who occupy seats on their governing boards at any given moment in time. All others affiliated with any given university, whether student, teacher or staff, are by definition excluded from membership within this incorporated body.
In this light, consider once more this provision in Montana’s constitution: “The government and control of the Montana university system is vested in a board of regents which shall have full power, responsibility, and authority to supervise, coordinate, manage and control the Montana university system.” On the regents’ account, this sentence “grants solely to the Board the right and the obligation to determine the best policies to ‘ensure the health and stability of the MUS’” (emphasis added), and hence denies to the Legislature any title to do the same. This passage can equally well be read, however, as a warrant for excluding everyone but the board from the exercise of the powers of self-governance within MUS: “Only one party,” the regents continue, “can have ‘full power’—otherwise, the power would not be full” (emphasis added). Sugarcoat this all you want, affirm the reality of “shared governance” if that brings you comfort, but the fact remains that the university constituted in corporate form is essentially and inherently autocratic. While Montana’s attorney general was perhaps guilty of rhetorical excess, he was not entirely wrong when, in his reply brief, he contended that on the regents’ construction “MUS is now something of a principality, divorced from the rest of the Montana body politic, and ungoverned by the State’s democratically elected leaders.”
If this representation is accurate, a nonobvious implication may also be true: the greater the autonomy enjoyed by any given governing board, especially when that freedom is constitutionally guaranteed, the more perfect is its capacity to rule autocratically. True, this capacity may not be fully realized at present in Montana or elsewhere. That said, the alarming trend toward rule by uniliteral “fiat,” to quote the American Association of University Professors, suggests that this reality may be closer than we care to admit. If the AAUP is right on this score, then our struggle to keep overbearing legislatures at bay must be accompanied by an equally vigorous campaign to challenge antidemocratic rule on the home front.
Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn is the author of several articles on academic governance as well as The Autocratic Academy: Re-envisioning Rule Within America’s Universities, forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2023.
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On August 31, 2022 at approximately 3:00 pm, Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office detectives obtained arrest warrants charging 31-year-old Christopher Clay Garrison with Second Degree Murder (TCA 39-13-210 / Class A Felony) in relation to the Fentanyl overdose death of a 36-year-old woman in Hamilton County, Tennessee on October 18, 2021.
Police say the incident occurred near the 2000 block of Rock Bluff Road in Hixson, Tennessee.
Charges were brought following a ten month investigation by the HCSO’s Investigative Services into the death upon where evidence was obtained implicating Garrison had supplied the woman with Fentanyl leading to her overdose death. The woman was the mother of two young children during the time of her death.
On September 1, 2022 at approximately 7:30 pm, the Lake View Police Department in Alabama conducted a warrant service on Garrison and were able to take him into custody at his residence in Lake View, Alabama, without incident on the Hamilton County charges.
Following Garrison’s arrest by the Lake View Police Department, HCSO detectives responded to Alabama and were able to interview Garrison in relation to this investigation.
Upon conducting Garrison’s interview and additional follow up investigation, additional evidence was obtained which supported the HCSO’s investigation and eventual outcome of this case.
Garrison is currently in custody in Alabama at the Tuscaloosa County Jail (Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office) awaiting extradition to Hamilton County, Tennessee.
Defendant, Christopher Clay Garrison, has been charged with the following criminal charges:
- Second Degree Murder (TCA 39-13-210 / Class A Felony) In relation to the Fentanyl (Schedule II Controlled Substance) Overdose Death of 36 year old victim.
- Identity Theft (TCA 39-14-150 / Class D Felony)
- Forgery over $1,000 (TCA 39-14-114 / Class E Felony)
- Theft of Property over $1,000 (TCA 39-14-103 / Class E Felony)
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The Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit says on August 9, 2022, 42-year-old Jeffery Lee Zelko plead guilty to incest and child molestation before the Honorable Ralph Van Pelt Jr.
Zelko was sentenced to serve 15 years in prison followed by 25 years of sex offender probation.
The victim and her family, who were present in the courtroom at the time Zelko was sentenced, supported the plea agreement to prevent the victim from having to publicly testify and relive the trauma she had already endured.
Initially, the victim disclosed to a family friend that Zelko, a relative, had been molesting her and was later interviewed at the Children’s Advocacy Center where she made additional disclosures of sexual abuse.
The case was investigated by Detective Britany Gilleland of the Catoosa County Sheriff’s Department who was able to locate physical evidence which corroborated the victim’s disclosures of sexual abuse.
The case was prosecuted by Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Assistant District Attorney David Wolfe who presented the plea to the judge in open court.
After Zelko admitted to molesting the victim and was sentenced, the family of the victim thanked the District Attorney’s office for giving them the ability to move on from this horrific time in their lives.
District Attorney Arnt thanked the Catoosa County Sheriff’s Department and the Children’s Advocacy Center for their work on this case.
“Mr. Wolfe and Ms. Nicholson, the victim advocate on this case, put a lot of effort into getting the case ready for court. The victim and her family asked us to try and resolve the case without her having to testify and relive her abuse and the trauma that she was put through. We were able to hold this child molester accountable with this plea agreement which removes him from society for the next decade and a half and keeps strict control of him for another quarter century after he is released from prison.” | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/catoosa-man-pleads-guilty-to-molesting-female-relative/article_e5842fb4-32b3-11ed-8ec7-db200c648505.html | 2022-09-12T18:49:19Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/catoosa-man-pleads-guilty-to-molesting-female-relative/article_e5842fb4-32b3-11ed-8ec7-db200c648505.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Happy Monday, everyone! We’re looking at decreasing clouds, lowering humidity, and pleasant temperatures for our Monday afternoon. Daytime highs will only climb into the mid to upper 70s today with a light northerly breeze. Areas to the south could see a brief isolated shower during the afternoon hours, but must of us are done with any rain chances.
Get ready for a nice taste of Fall this evening and tonight. Overnight lows will drop into the upper 40s and 50s, with clear skies and calm winds. Feel free to give the A/C a break and open the windows.
Tuesday- Wednesday will feature plenty of sunshine, low humidity, and pleasant temps. Morning lows will be in the 50s, and daytime highs will climb into the upper 70s to low 80s.
Late-week will feature a few extra clouds, but still plenty of sunshine. Highs will warm up into the mid 80s with overnight lows back into the lower 60s.
We look to remain dry for the next 7-10 days, at least! Rain chances look slim to none through the second half of Septmember. | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/clearing-skies-and-lower-humidity-monday-afternoon/article_48645e2a-32bd-11ed-91c8-a39cc05ea94d.html | 2022-09-12T18:49:25Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/clearing-skies-and-lower-humidity-monday-afternoon/article_48645e2a-32bd-11ed-91c8-a39cc05ea94d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Good morning, we’re kicking off the new work and school week with a cold front passing over our area this Monday. It’ll bring us beautiful weather for the week ahead.
On either side of the cold front, a few spotty showers may be triggered for our eastern communities today. However, for the great majority of you, today will be a dry day. It’ll be partly to mostly sunny as clouds clear out from the west. Humidity will also gradually fall throughout the day as drier air from the northwest moves in behind the front. Highs will be below normal in the upper 70s. Overnight will be clear with cooler lows in the low to mid-50s.
Tuesday right into the weekend will be fabulous! Each day will feature sunny skies, warm afternoons in the low to mid-80s, and mild mornings. Tuesday night into Wednesday morning will still be a little cooler in the mid to upper 50s. Then, the rest of the week’s lows will be in the upper 50s to low 60s. Expect lower humidity all week, too, with Tuesday as the most comfortable day. | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/cold-front-passes-today-bringing-in-a-taste-of-fall/article_6db04e40-3273-11ed-a1ae-1bb1438b7cd0.html | 2022-09-12T18:49:31Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/cold-front-passes-today-bringing-in-a-taste-of-fall/article_6db04e40-3273-11ed-a1ae-1bb1438b7cd0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A young woman out of Soddy Daisy is doing more than doctors expected after a nearly fatal car accident.
While in the hospital, she died and came back to life twice.
Most people know her as 'Duck'; She is known for her love of softball and coaching 12-U with the youth in Soddy Daisy.
The night of the accident, Duck was leaving a doctor's appointment with a friend. Their car veered off the road and landed in a ditch.
Shortly after, another car traveling in the opposite direction plowed into them, pinning Duck inside.
During her near-death experience, there is only one thing that she can recount—seeing her two grand-fathers who have already passed on.
Duck was in the hospital for nearly two months. She had three major brain bleeds, a shattered pelvis, and a list of other injuries.
Her journey to recovery has been long. She is an inspiration to those who've watched her from beginning to end.
Duck now attends Cleveland State Community College playing on the softball team as a pitcher, first and third baseman
She wants to remind those she encounters never to take life for granted because it could all disappear at any moment. | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/defying-odds-soddy-daisy-woman-dies-twice-and-lives-to-tell-the-tale/article_528bf0c0-3254-11ed-91c6-234770bc73ef.html | 2022-09-12T18:49:37Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/defying-odds-soddy-daisy-woman-dies-twice-and-lives-to-tell-the-tale/article_528bf0c0-3254-11ed-91c6-234770bc73ef.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Fall and winter are around the corner, which means not only is it time to get your flu shot, but US health officials are urging everyone who is eligible to get their updated Covid-19 booster, too.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the updated Covid-19 vaccine boosters this month, after the US Food and Drug Administration's authorization. The updated Pfizer/BioNTech booster is authorized for people 12 and older, and Moderna's is authorized for 18 and older.
At the same time, health officials stress the recommendation to get your seasonal flu vaccine. Some disease forecasters worry that the upcoming flu season could be a tough one for North America, as nations in the Southern Hemisphere that already had their flu seasons -- like Australia and New Zealand -- saw higher-than-average peaks in cases. So, the United States could see flu make a comeback while Covid-19 is still circulating at higher levels.
Barring any new and concerning coronavirus variants, some officials predict that the updated Covid-19 shots could be the start of recommended boosters for Americans each year, similar to how updated annual flu vaccines are given.
"For a majority of Americans, one shot a year will provide a very high degree of protection against serious illness, and that's what we've got to be focused on," Dr. Ashish Jha, White House coronavirus response coordinator, told CNN last week. "Maybe for some high-risk people -- the elderly, the immunocompromised -- they may need protection more than once a year, but for a majority of Americans, that's where it is, and I think that's a really good place to be."
Where and when to get Covid-19 booster and flu shot
The updated Covid-19 vaccine booster and seasonal flu vaccines are available at most pharmacies, doctor's offices and health care clinics.
Not only are US health officials encouraging people to get both shots this year, some local public health departments are planning to schedule joint vaccine clinics, said Lori Tremmel Freeman, chief executive officer of the National Association of County and City Health Officials.
"Jurisdictions are going to be standing up joint flu and Covid vaccine clinics and other opportunities for people to get both their flu vaccine and their Covid updated booster together," Freeman said, adding that there is "no problem at all" with getting both shots at or around the same time.
The hope is for joint clinics to make it more convenient and accessible for people to get their vaccinations -- but not everyone might be interested or even eligible to get both vaccines at the same time. Plus, some say it's still early to get a flu shot.
A single dose of the updated Covid-19 booster is recommended at least two months after the initial vaccine series or your most recent booster.
"Now, suppose you've recovered from Covid -- and many people of course have had Covid this summer -- wait three months, at least," said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
He added that it's important to get your booster as soon as you are eligible.
"It's clear that whether you're vaccinated or you've had Covid, if you get this booster, you will get much higher levels of antibody and they are thought to help us get more prolonged protection," he said. "The other thing that happens is that the immune system responds more broadly, and it looks as though we will get more broad coverage against other variants."
As for the flu shot, the recommended timing of vaccination for this flu season is similar to last season, according to the CDC's website.
"For most people who need only one dose for the season, September and October are generally good times to get vaccinated," according to the CDC, adding that while "ideally" it's recommended to get vaccinated by the end of October, vaccination after October can still provide protection during the peak of flu season.
"The ideal time is during the month of October and maybe the first couple of weeks of November -- and the reason I say that is, particularly for older people and people who are frail, that will help their protection extend well through February into March, and that's when flu often peaks in the United States in February," Schaffner said. "Everyone ages 6 months and older should get influenza vaccine."
As for children younger than 12, who are not eligible for the updated Covid-19 booster, Schaffner said parents should focus on getting their youngsters vaccinated with the primary series or booster they can get now.
"I would say, maintain the current schedule," he said. "Because it's quite clear the original still does a good job in protecting us against hospitalizations and more severe disease."
Schaffner added that some people have asked him whether the Covid-19 vaccine protects against flu or vice versa. They do not.
"You do have to get both vaccines," he said. "The Covid vaccine will not protect against flu. The flu vaccine will not protect against Covid."
Bracing for possible Covid-19 surge
Last week, the Biden administration announced its plan to manage Covid-19 this fall as there is the potential for an increase in infections, in part due to waning immunity from vaccines and infection.
"Additionally, as the weather gets colder and people spend more time indoors, contagious viruses like COVID-19 can spread more easily," the announcement says. "And, as we saw last fall with the emergence of Omicron, we must continue to stay prepared for the possibility of a potential new variant of concern."
The White House continues to call on Congress to pass additional funding for Covid-19 response, having asked for an updated $22.4 billion last week. GOP Sen. Mitt Romney said that passing that funding would be "a very hard lift."
The administration's plan to manage Covid-19 this fall includes focusing on encouraging updated booster vaccinations and making them easy to access, as well as ensuring that people have easy access to at-home rapid tests and treatments. That includes the purchase of 100 million additional at-home rapid tests from domestic manufacturers, the White House said.
The US Department of Health and Human Services "will launch a paid media campaign aimed at increasing COVID-19 vaccination, with a focus on those over age 50, as well as Black, Hispanic, rural, Asian American/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native audiences through TV, radio, digital and print outlets."
The administration is also boosting "easy access to Covid-19 testing and treatments" but warned, "While the lack of additional COVID-19 funding from Congress puts constraints on what we are able to do, the Administration will do everything in its power to ensure that tests and treatments remain widely available and easy to access, and will encourage Americans to use them."
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A few showers will linger tonight before drier air moves between 2-5 AM. Overnight lows will range from the mid to upper-60s.
Now, who is ready for a taste of fall? Well, Monday looks to be your day! Drier and cooler air will settle into the region throughout the day, keeping daytime temperatures locked into the 70s. We will quickly fall into the 50s Monday night, making for the coolest night since late Spring!
The rest of the week will feature dry weather and plenty of sunshine. Daytime highs will top out in the 80s with overnight lows dipping into the upper-50s to lower-60s each night.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This fall, high-growth clear aligner challenger Candid is stacking its leadership team, with dental giants Dr. Lou Shuman coming on as Executive Consultant and Chief Development Officer and Dr. Brian Gray as Chief Dental Officer. They join Dr. Ben Miraglia DDS, VP of GP Clinical Education at Candid Academy as major leadership additions. Under the guidance of the new leadership team, Candid will be releasing a host of new features and enhancements vaulting the Orthodontics as a Service company ahead of many of its competitors.
After shuttering its direct-to-consumer clear aligner business in December 2021 and pivoting into a full provider-based model, Candid has grown its provider base over 500% in 2022.
New Executive Consultant and Chief Development Officer Lou Shuman DMD, CAGS is the CEO and founder of Cellerant Consulting and an expert in growing dental technology companies. He was immediately attracted to Candid's tech-first Orthodontics as a Service model of partnership and support.
"Candid's innovations, technology partnerships, and delivery of a total support model is exactly what general practitioners need right now and orthodontists will benefit by in the near future," says Shuman. "Candid's commitment to state-of-the-art technology as witnessed by their new massive fabrication facility, superb management team, and focus on aligner quality, already make Candid a great choice for dentists, and our planned clinical upgrades will soon make that choice even easier."
Known for having trained nearly 30,000 dentists in clear aligner therapy over the last two decades, new Chief Dental Officer Dr. Brian Gray thinks Candid is uniquely positioned to meet the general practitioner where they are.
"I'm joining Candid because it feels like a new era in clear aligners," says Gray. "As a clinical evaluator, I've tried nearly every clear aligner product out there. Candid has unlocked the convenience and predictability that clinicians have been after for years, by empowering dentists with the deep clinical knowledge to protect their reputations while giving patients the safe, effective treatment they need."
Candid rounds out its leadership upgrade with a host of new Candid Academy Faculty members, with Drs. Tom Shannon and Geoffrey Skinner joining visionaries like Drs. Kalli Hale, and Craig Spodak.
For CEO Nick Greenfield, Candid is on the road to becoming the practitioner's choice for clear aligners.
"We're on a similar trajectory to a company like Tesla," says Greenfield. "Amazing product, top-flight tech, and outstanding design, but early Teslas could only go 100 miles on a charge. This massive tech enhancement means Candid can now take partner practices so much farther—with even more exciting developments on the horizon."
Dr. Gray concurs that Candid's expert-led Orthodontics as a Service model is poised to grab significant market share.
"I see so much in the works that I can't wait to share with my patients and colleagues," says Gray. "Candid has developed a number of game-changing product enhancements and techniques that lead the clear aligner segment into a new era. I see it as Ortho 3.0, and am excited to be part of this transformational change in dental health care."
Dr. Shuman sees even more growth for Candid on the horizon.
"Sitting in a room with Candid leadership reminded me of my work with clear aligners 20 years ago," he says, "young, brilliant visionaries coming together to create a technique poised to transform the market."
Candid offers a cutting-edge Orthodontics as a Service system that makes treatment accessible and affordable for doctors and patients. Since 2017, Candid has brought high-quality orthodontic care and patient support to dental practices and dental service organizations across the United States.
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Dr. Brian Gray has been a leader in new dental technologies for nearly four decades. He is a Master in the Academy of General Dentistry and a fellow in five other academies. He is a member of The American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry and The American Academy of Restorative Dentistry. Dr. Gray was one of the first dentists to use clear aligners to change people's smiles and has taught the technique to more than 30,000 doctors over the past 23 years. As an independent clinical evaluator, researcher and consultant, Dr. Gray has contributed to the development and delivery of hundreds of products used in the dental profession on a daily basis. Dr. Gray has given full-day presentations at over 30 dental schools, the Dawson Academy, the Kois Center and for over twenty years at the LD Pankey Institute, where he is currently a faculty member. Dr. Gray is a sought-after contributor to a number of dental journals, national periodicals, magazines, podcasts, and TV shows. He maintains a private, fee-for-service practice in Washington DC.
Lou Shuman, DMD, CAGS, is an orthodontist and founder and CEO of Cellerant Consulting Group, dentistry's leader in growing companies of all sizes currently serving over 40 companies. He is also co-founder of LightForce Orthodontics that created the world's first fully customized ceramic 3D printed orthodontic bracket and a venturer-in-residence at the Harvard i-Lab. He also served as Vice President of Clinical Education and Strategic Relations at Align Technology for 7 years. He is the recipient of the 2021 Global Summits Institute's Doctor-to-Doctor World's Top 100 Doctors and the Denobi Pinnacle Achievement Award that recognizes an individual whose leadership and ongoing contributions have dramatically impacted the dental profession. Dr. Shuman currently also has three national columns devoted to technology in Dental Economics, Dental Products Report, and Oral Health Canada journals.
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Gives away Free Edible for A Year
DALLAS, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Edible®, the world's largest franchisor of stores offering fresh fruit snacks, dipped treats, and fruit arrangements, is expanding its presence opening its newest location in Dallas, Texas. The newest store, located at 10455 N. Central Expressway, Dallas, TX 75231, will be celebrating its grand opening on Saturday, September 17, 2022, from 12 p.m.-5 p.m.
Guest will have the chance to win prizes of Free Edible for A Year, Free Edible smoothies, a pair of Dallas Cowboy tickets, and more. The event is open to the public.
"We are thrilled to open our newest location in Dallas and welcome our neighbors to join us in the celebration," said Stacey Ahmed, Owner of the Dallas Edible. "My husband, TJ, and I have been doing business in the Dallas area for more than 25 years. We love the area and all that it has to offer. When we found Edible, we knew we had found the right franchise to grow our family business and service our local communities."
The September 17th celebration will feature an official ribbon cutting with the Dallas Chamber at 2 p.m. to commemorate the day. Guests will also enjoy all-day-long promotions like $1 smoothies and cones, $2 premium cookies, and $3 bakeshop brownies, cupcakes, and cheesecakes.
The new Dallas Edible store will be open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sunday.
Edible pioneered the edible fresh fruit arrangement and now offers fresh fruit smoothies, fresh produce boxes and baked goods both online and at over 1,200 Edible locations worldwide. Stores offer same-day delivery or in-store pickup.
For more information about the Dallas Edible, call (214) 361-8600. You can RSVP: Here
*Raffle winners will be selected at 2:30 pm CST on 9/17/22 – winners must be present to win.
About Edible Brands®
Edible Brands is the parent company of Edible®, the world's largest franchisor of stores offering fresh fruit snacks, dipped treats, and fruit arrangements with over 1,200 locations worldwide. Edible's fresh fruit arrangements, chocolate Dipped Fruit®, fresh fruit smoothies, fresh produce boxes, and other treats can be ordered through any local Edible store or online at edible.com.
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Former President Donald Trump repeatedly told aides in the days following his 2020 election loss that he would remain in the White House rather than let incoming President Joe Biden take over, according to reporting provided to CNN from a forthcoming book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.
"I'm just not going to leave," Trump told one aide, according to Haberman.
"We're never leaving," Trump told another. "How can you leave when you won an election?"
Trump's insistence that he would not be leaving the White House, which has not been previously reported, adds new detail to the chaotic post-election period in which Trump's refusal to accept his defeat and numerous efforts to overturn the election result led to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by pro-Trump rioters.
Haberman's book, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America," is being released on October 4.
The revelations from the book come as investigators in the US House and the Justice Department probe Trump's refusal to cede power after the 2020 election. The House select committee investigating January 6 is planning more hearings and a final report this fall, while federal investigators have recently served several former Trump aides with subpoenas.
Haberman, a CNN political analyst, has covered Trump for the New York Times since his 2016 presidential campaign. Her stories made her a frequent target of Trump's vitriol on Twitter.
Haberman writes that in the immediate aftermath of the November 3 elections, Trump seemed to recognize he had lost to Biden. He asked advisers to tell him what had gone wrong. He comforted one adviser, saying, "We did our best." Trump told junior press aides, "I thought we had it," seemingly almost embarrassed by the outcome, according to Haberman.
But at some point, Trump's mood changed, Haberman writes, and he abruptly informed aides he had no intention of departing the White House in late January 2021 for Biden to move in.
He was even overheard asking the chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, "Why should I leave if they stole it from me?"
Trump's vow that he would refuse to vacate the White House had no historical precedent, Haberman writes, and his declaration left aides uncertain as to what he might do next. The closest parallel might have been Mary Todd Lincoln, who stayed in the White House for nearly a month after her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, was assassinated, the author noted.
Publicly, Trump dismissed questions about whether he would leave office. On November 26, 2020, he was asked by a reporter whether he would leave the White House if the Electoral College voted for Biden. "Certainly I will, and you know that," Trump said in response, as he continued to spread lies about the election being stolen.
A longtime New York-based reporter who has worked for both of the city's tabloid newspapers, Haberman writes that Trump's post-election period was reminiscent of his attempts to claw his way back from dire financial straits three decades earlier, in which he tried to keep all options open for as long as he could.
But Trump couldn't decide which path to follow after his 2020 defeat. Haberman writes that he quizzed nearly everyone about which options would lead to success -- including the valet who brought Diet Cokes when Trump pressed a red button on his Oval Office desk.
The reporting provided to CNN from the forthcoming book also reveals new details on what those around Trump were doing in the aftermath of an election loss he refused to accept. Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was reluctant to confront Trump on the loss, according to Haberman.
When he encouraged a group of aides to go to the White House and brief the then-President, Kushner was asked why he wasn't joining them himself. Trump's son-in-law likened it to a deathbed scene, Haberman writes.
"The priest comes later," Kushner said.
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The man accused of kidnapping and killing Memphis teacher Eliza Fletcher has been indicted on aggravated rape charges for a separate 2021 incident, according to court documents.
Cleotha Henderson, 38, appeared in a Shelby County courtroom Monday after he was indicted Thursday on charges of aggravated rape, kidnapping and unlawful possession of a weapon for a September 21, 2021, incident involving a different woman.
The weapons charge was the only item on the docket Monday for Henderson. The hearing was procedural, and the judge set Henderson's next hearing for September 19. The Shelby County Public Defender's Office, which was appointed to Henderson's case regarding Fletcher, will also represent him in the latest case, said Shelby County Judge Louis J. Montesi Jr.
Henderson was issued a $3,500 bond for the weapons charge, said the judge. He remains in the Shelby County Jail on no bond for the murder charges against him in the Fletcher case.
The Shelby County District Attorney's office did not provide a comment to CNN, citing the pending case. CNN has also reached out to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations but has not yet heard back.
The charges come nearly two weeks after Fletcher, 34, went out for an early morning run in a neighborhood near the University of Memphis and failed to return home. Her disappearance sparked an intense hunt -- buoyed by surveillance video police said showed her being forced into an SUV -- which led to Henderson's arrest near his Memphis home last Saturday.
Her body was found near a vacant duplex last week, authorities said.
Fletcher was the granddaughter of hardware magnate Joseph Orgill III, who died in 2018 at the age of 80. Tennessee-based Orgill has annual sales of $3 billion, according to the company.
The latest charges for Henderson come after he served nearly two decades behind bars for an aggravated kidnapping, according to court records. Henderson pleaded guilty to the charge in November 2001 and was released in November 2020, court records show.
This month, Henderson also is facing charges unrelated to Fletcher's case, including identity theft, theft of property $1,000 or less and fraudulent use/illegal possession of a credit or debit card $1,000 or less, Shelby County jail records show.
Those charges are connected to a theft report filed last week by a woman who reported someone was using her Cash App card and Wisely Card at gas stations without her knowledge.
CNN has reached out to the Shelby County district attorney and Memphis police regarding the theft charges.
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Calls for tougher prison sentences are growing in Memphis, Tennessee, as word spreads the suspects in two violent attacks there this month had been released from prison before serving their full sentences for prior convictions.
But experts told CNN research shows harsher penalties are not an effective deterrent to violent crime.
Instead, they said, rehabilitation programs to help violent or habitual offenders reintegrate into society are essential for public safety and preventing recidivism, which the National Institute of Justice measures by criminal acts resulting in rearrest, reconviction or return to prison within three years after the person's release.
Suspects convicted in previous violent crimes released early
Cleotha Henderson, the man suspected of abducting and killing 34-year-old teacher Eliza Fletcher in Memphis last Friday, was previously convicted of aggravated kidnapping and was released in 2020, after serving 20 years of his 24-year sentence.
Ezekiel Kelly, the 19-year-old who authorities said went on a shooting rampage across Memphis on Wednesday, killing four people and injuring three others, was previously charged with criminal attempted first-degree murder but pleaded guilty in April 2021 to a lesser charge of aggravated assault. Kelly was sentenced to three years in prison but served only 11 months, and was released in March, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said.
"If Mr. Kelly served his full three-year sentence, he would still be in prison today, and four of our fellow citizens would still be alive," Strickland said, echoing concerns about the criminal justice system and repeat offenders following the two attacks.
"The problem is not the Memphis police department. The problem is the judicial system that will not punish," Strickland added.
The mayor emphasized a Tennessee sentencing law, which went into effect in May, could have prevented the attacksthis month and said it is a "must" in stopping violent crime.
The controversial "Truth in Sentencing" law requires those convicted of violent crimes, such as murder, to serve their full sentence without the possibility of parole or early release. Those who are convicted of lesser crimes such as aggravated assault are required to serve at least 85% of their sentence, according to the law.
Challenges of reducing recidivism
"The reality is that some people are going to come back out (of prison) and continue engaging in criminal behavior," said Jeffrey Coots, director of the From Punishment to Public Health Initiative based at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
There are two major, unavoidable challenges to lowering recidivism rates, Coots explained.
One, most offenders will eventually be released and return to society, which is why it is crucial for the justice system to offer rehabilitation services while they are in prison. And two, each state has a certain number of prisoners who will be rearrested within a year of their release, and the trend continues in each following year, he said.
Coots said targeted programs to prepare offenders for reentry into communities, focused on helping them plan for employment, housing, access health care services and ensuring they have social relationships, are effective strategies to reduce recidivism.
Another effective strategy is cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people become aware of their thought processes and change criminal behavior.
"Particularly when somebody's in prison for a long time, the rehabilitation services you have available there, employment opportunities like work release or even within the facility, the types of activities the person is engaged in on a daily basis, are going to instill prosocial behaviors while they are inside so that when they come outside, that is part of their demeanor," he said.
"The work we do to build those pathways back to them is the important work to be done," Coots said.
'A two-prong approach'
A report released by the US Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics last year tracked state recidivism rates across 24 states over a 10-year period for state prisoners who were released in 2008. It found 66% of prisoners released in 2008 were arrested within three years and 82% were arrested within 10 years.
The report also stated 77% of those who were released from prison in 2008 after serving time for a violent offense were less likely to be arrested for any offense within 10 years than the prisoners who were convicted of other types of offenses.
The most recent data provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction showed the state had a 47% recidivism rate over a three-year period for violent offenders who were released in 2014.
It's difficult to measure how Tennessee's recidivism rate compares to other states due to the lack of available data, according to Thaddeus Johnson, a senior fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice and a former Memphis police officer.
"There's really no research out there that says if you serve your full sentence, or if you serve part of your sentence, that it has any statistically significant effect on recidivism," Johnson said.
He said the issue is more complex than trying to solve recidivism and repeat offending by keeping individuals in prison for longer periods of time, which can also strain the system with complications such as overcrowding, older prison populations and higher costs to keep prisoners incarcerated.
In many cases, Johnson said, prisoners are released back into disenfranchised communities struggling with poverty and a lack of health care facilities, mental health services and employment opportunities.
"If we want to place a dent in public safety, let's take a two-prong approach," Johnson urged. "Let's make sure people serve their due time but that it's just and fair, and we target the right people. But we also need to give these people a fair shake at life and fair rehabilitation."
Tennessee reestablished the Division of Rehabilitative Services in 2004 and established a Governor's Task Force on Sentencing and Recidivism in 2014. The state's department of correction "offers or promotes rehabilitation and reentry services such as educational and vocational programming, young adult offending interventions, and drug treatment," according to Johnson.
While many of the state's efforts target various factors that contribute to offending, Johnson said, none of them appear to specifically target violent or habitual offending.
A separate report released in 2021 by the Bureau of Justice Statistics included a study of state prison sentences in 44 states and found those convicted of murder who were released in 2018 served an average of 17.5 years in prison and nearly 96% of violent offenders served 10 to 20 years of their full given sentence.
"For murderers, when you're getting past five or 10 years, they're serving more time," Johnson said. "How much is enough and will those couple of years or months really make a difference? I'm going to say no."
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An outburst of wildfires that broke out over the past week amid triple-digit temperatures across the West has forced thousands of evacuations and choked the air with smoke as strong winds complicated firefighting efforts.
The smoke's impact was most visually clear in a time-lapse video posted by the National Weather Service in Reno, Nevada. The video was taken from inside the NWS Reno office and shows the smoke from the Mosquito Fire in California flowing into the area over about one to two hours on Sunday, said meteorologist Heather Richards.
The smoke, which has created unhealthy to hazardous air quality, is expected to linger in the Tahoe Basin and Reno area through Monday, the weather service said.
Nationwide, 92 active large wildland fires have torched nearly 728,000 acres -- the majority of them burning in northwestern states, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
Sweltering under rising temperatures, drought-ravaged Western states have become hotbeds of thirsty, dry brush that can fuel more volatile wildfires that burn hotter and for longer.
As numerous fires ravaged Western states, air quality alerts were in place across much of Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
Skies turned orange and hazy in parts of Oregon over the weekend as winds carried smoke from the multiple fires burning in the state.
The smoke was so thick in Washington that it blocked some solar radiation and created temperatures that were lower than anticipated, according to the National Weather Service in Spokane.
Smoke can irritate the eyes and lungs and worsen some medical conditions. Those facing the highest risk are infants and young children, people with heart or lung disease, older adults and pregnant people. Many residents were told to stay inside if possible, keep windows and doors closed and avoid strenuous outdoor activity.
Recent studies have shown that being exposed to both extreme heat and wildfire smoke at the same time can worsen the health risks, and that's expected to become more of a threat, UCLA researchers said in a study published last month.
"Rising global temperatures and more frequent extreme heat events are expected to increase wildfire size and intensity, signaling a growing public health threat from concurrent heat-smoke exposure," researchers wrote.
Where the fires are burning
In Oregon -- which had 19 active wildfires Monday, according to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management -- containment of the Cedar Creek Fire dropped from 12% to 0% as the fire exploded in size over the weekend, now swallowing more than 86,000 acres in very steep and difficult to access terrain. A lightning storm August 1 sparked the fire.
Driven by strong easterly winds, triple-digit temperatures and dry fuels, flames breached containment lines that firefighters have for weeks worked to build.
Evacuations were ordered in Lane and Deschutes counties as the fire advanced, making wind-driven runs and threatening 2,230 homes and 443 commercial structures
On Sunday, fire officials said extreme weather from the past two days was easing, temperatures have started to cool and shifting winds have calmed.
However, the blaze was still expected to advance through heavy fuels, officials said.
As wildfires tore through the parched lands, Oregonians were also contending with power shutoffs. Thousands of customers in Oregon, including those in the suburbs of Portland, were without power for part of the weekend as Pacific Power implemented Public Safety Power Shutoffs to reduce wildfire risk as winds picked up.
In Washington, where 16 fires were active Monday, the National Weather service warned of hazardous air quality in several areas across the state through Monday.
In California, residents saw both record rainfall and record heat in the same week, as what used to be Tropical Storm Kay made a rare close pass to the state amid a record-breaking heat wave.
The lingering showers brought isolated flooding to some parts of Southern California, but also helped firefighters. Aided by ample moisture, rainfall and cooler temperatures, crews battling the Fairview Fire managed to shore up containment of the 28,307-acre blaze to 53% by Monday.
The fire -- which broke out last Monday in Riverside County and grew quickly -- has killed two civilians and injured a third, destroyed 35 buildings and forced thousands to evacuate, according to Cal Fire.
On Saturday, a pilot and two fire personnel were injured when a helicopter assigned to the Fairview Fire crashed in a residential backyard while attempting to land at a local airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Some evacuation orders were reduced to warnings Sunday as scattered showers slowed the fire's spread, officials said. Full containment of the blaze was expected by Saturday, according to Cal Fire.
To the north, the Mosquito Fire burning in both El Dorado and Placer counties had consumed 46,587 acres and was 10% contained as of Monday as thick smoke settled over the blaze.
In Idaho, the Moose Fire, about 17 miles north of the town of Salmon, was 125,925 acres Monday with 37% containment, according to Inciweb, a clearinghouse for US fire information.Dry and unstable conditions and potential gusty winds over the next day could increase fire behavior, officials said.
There was marginal risk for excessive rainfall through the overnight hours for parts of Southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Monday, the moisture in Southern California is forecast to spread to the north, bringing rain to northwest Arizona before heading into Nevada by Tuesday. A flood watch is already in effect for eastern Nevada from Tuesday through Wednesday night, CNN Meteorologist Robert Shackelford said.
Meanwhile, isolated dry storms are possible for northern Nevada Monday, which could spark new fires in that area, according to Shackelford. Also, eastern Montana is expected to see elevated fire weather risk due to 15 mph winds and very dry air.
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Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Monday urged a federal judge to reject the Justice Department's attempt to continue to review classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago as part of its criminal investigation, saying that the materials may not be classified and that his Florida resort is secure.
Trump argues that he has broad authority as President to declassify records, and that a former President should have "absolute right of access" to presidential records -- whether they are classified or not.
The filing is the latest attempt from Trump to muddy the perception of the investigation into the mishandling of national security documents after he left the presidency. The DOJ has continued to emphasize the stakes of their findings so far, calling for the need for a swift and private intelligence community review and flagging risks to national security.
Trump's team continues to characterize the situation as a spat over presidential records.
"In what at its core is a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control, the Government wrongfully seeks to criminalize the possession by the 45th President of his own Presidential and personal records," Trump's legal team writes.
Trump's filing called Mar-a-Lago a "a secure, controlled access compound utilized regularly to conduct the official business of the United States during the Trump Presidency, which to this day is monitored by the United States Secret Service," and that the documents were kept in a locked room.
"The Government generally points to the alleged urgent need to conduct a risk assessment of possible unauthorized disclosure of purported 'classified records.' But there is no indication any purported 'classified records' were disclosed to anyone," Trump's filing states.
According to court documents, investigators previously asked Trump in June to secure any classified documents in a locked room at Mar-a-Lago.
When FBI agents arrived in August, they seized 11 sets of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, including some marked as "top secret/SCI" -- one of the highest levels of classification, according to court documents. Prosecutors have also said that dozens of empty folders marked with "classified banners" were found in the search.
The "likelihood that improperly stored classified information may have been accessed by others and compromised" is a "core aspect of the FBI's criminal investigation," prosecutors have said.
The Justice Department has said in court that it treats documents marked as classified as such, until they can be fully reviewed. But Trump's team uses the fact that documents haven't been fully reviewed yet to argue that he and a special master should be able to access the records marked as classified.
"There still remains a disagreement as to the classification status of the documents. The Government's position therefore assumes a fact not yet established," Trump's team wrote.
The Justice Department submitted its request for a stay last week.
US District Judge Aileen Cannon, when she ordered a special master be brought in to review documents obtained during the search, halted any use of the seized materials for the DOJ's criminal investigation. She said, however, that the intelligence community's assessment could continue. The Justice Department argues the criminal probe could not be decoupled from the intelligence community's review, and that the intelligence review has been paused.
The DOJ has also said it will appeal to a higher court if Cannon doesn't allow the intelligence work in the probe on the classified records to continue.
A special master has not yet been appointed, but Trump's team makes clear Monday they believe that third-party appointee could work with them in a review of seized classified records. "President Trump (and, by extension, a requested special master) cannot be denied access to those documents," his lawyers wrote Monday.
Trump's team also wrote that a "President enjoys absolute authority under the Executive Order to declassify any information. There is no legitimate contention that the Chief Executive's declassification of documents requires approval of bureaucratic components of the executive branch. Yet, the Government apparently contends that President Trump, who had full authority to declassify documents, 'willfully' retained classified information in violation of the law. Moreover, the Government seeks to preclude any opportunity for consideration of this issue."
This story has been updated with additional details.
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Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Monday urged a federal judge to reject the Justice Department's attempt to continue to review documents seized from Mar-a-Lago as part of its criminal investigation, saying that the materials may not be classified and that his Florida resort is secure.
Trump argues that he has broad authority as President to declassify records, and that a former President should have "absolute right of access" to presidential records -- whether they are classified or not.
"In what at its core is a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control, the Government wrongfully seeks to criminalize the possession by the 45th President of his own Presidential and personal records," Trump's legal team writes.
Trump's filing called Mar-a-Lago a "a secure, controlled access compound utilized regularly to conduct the official business of the United States during the Trump Presidency, which to this day is monitored by the United States Secret Service," and that the documents were kept in a locked room.
"The Government generally points to the alleged urgent need to conduct a risk assessment of possible unauthorized disclosure of purported 'classified records.' But there is no indication any purported 'classified records' were disclosed to anyone," Trump's filing states.
According to court documents, investigators previously asked Trump in June to secure any classified documents in a locked room at Mar-a-Lago.
When FBI agents arrived in August, they seized 11 sets of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, including some marked as "top secret/SCI" -- one of the highest levels of classification, according to court documents. Prosecutors have also said that dozens of empty folders marked with "classified banners" were found in the search.
The "likelihood that improperly stored classified information may have been accessed by others and compromised" is a "core aspect of the FBI's criminal investigation," prosecutors have said.
The Justice Department has said in court that it treats documents marked as classified as such, until they can be fully reviewed. But Trump's team uses the fact that documents haven't been fully reviewed yet to argue that he and a special master should be able to access the records marked as classified.
"There still remains a disagreement as to the classification status of the documents. The Government's position therefore assumes a fact not yet established," Trump's team wrote.
The Justice Department submitted its request for a stay last week.
US District Judge Aileen Cannon, when she ordered a special master be brought in to review documents obtained during the search, halted any use of the seized materials for the DOJ's criminal investigation. She said, however, that the intelligence community's assessment could continue. The Justice Department argues the criminal probe could not be decoupled from the intelligence community's review.
Trump's team also wrote that a "President enjoys absolute authority under the Executive Order to declassify any information. There is no legitimate contention that the Chief Executive's declassification of documents requires approval of bureaucratic components of the executive branch. Yet, the Government apparently contends that President Trump, who had full authority to declassify documents, 'willfully' retained classified information in violation of the law. Moreover, the Government seeks to preclude any opportunity for consideration of this issue."
This story has been updated with additional details.
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When President Joe Biden convened nearly a dozen Western leaders by private video conference on Thursday to discuss the war in Ukraine, he was intent upon delivering a key message, sources say: to stay unified in punishing Russia, even as the Kremlin tries to weaponize energy and break Western resolve.
It was at least the second such entreaty to Europe last week to maintain the sanctions pressure on Russia, in the face of skyrocketing energy costs caused by Russia's invasion and the prospect of a tough winter after the Kremlin shut off gas flows to Europe through a key pipeline. In an op-ed published in the Financial Times on Wednesday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg urged citizens to stay the course and continue to support Ukraine, even in the face of "a difficult six months."
The intensifying messaging campaign underscores a growing wariness in Washington and Brussels that Moscow's weaponization of oil and gas -- its two biggest exports and increasingly the backbone of its economy -- could successfully force fissures in what up until now has been a largely united European front opposing Russia's war in Ukraine.
Sowing that division and wearing down western resolve has been a key priority for Russian President Vladimir Putin, US and Western intelligence officials say -- especially as Russia struggles to make any substantial gains on the battlefield against the Western-backed and increasingly well-equipped Ukrainian forces. On Saturday, Ukrainian forces made major gains in the northeastern region of Kharkiv, retaking the key cities of Izium and Kupyansk.
"Putin's bet is that he's going to be tougher than the Ukrainians and the Europeans and the Americans, that he can wear down the Ukrainians, strangle their economy, [and that] the Europeans, facing what's going to be a difficult winter with high energy prices, are going to lose resolve," CIA Director William Burns said on Thursday.
Europe, including the UK, is already feeling the effects acutely, with energy bills skyrocketing and leaders warning that the continent could face electricity blackouts in winter depending on how low temperatures drop. "The electricity market is no longer a functioning market because there is one actor, Putin, who is systematically trying to destroy it and to manipulate it," Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said in a speech earlier this month.
EU energy ministers are also clashing over a plan being considered to cap the price of Russian gas. Countries, including Hungary, Austria and Slovakia, are wary of such a cap because of the risk that Putin might retaliate by completely severing what remains of the Russian gas flows to those countries.
Putin appeared to threaten as much in a speech last week at the Eastern Economic Forum.
"We will not supply anything at all if it contradicts our interests," he said. "We will not supply gas, oil, coal, heating oil -- we will not supply anything. "We would only have one thing left to do: As in the famous Russian fairy tale, we would let the wolf's tail freeze."
White House officials continue to insist that they have seen no visible breaks in the unified front and to some degree have viewed Putin's actions as both predictable and serving to only steel the resolve of European allies. "If anything, we believe Russia's actions have actually only increased unity among Europeans," said one senior US official. "The message that Russia is sending every European is that they are not reliable. So the animosity towards Russia is just increasing."
But the risk is real, other US officials say, that as electricity costs rise and winter approaches, European publics could turn against the Western strategy of isolating Russia economically.
Russia "definitely want[s] Europeans to be nervous — energy is their biggest tool for turning European publics against the war," said one source familiar with Western intelligence.
The direct impact on the United States remains negligible, two sources familiar with US and Western government views said, given that the US does not rely at all on Russian energy imports and is actually a major exporter of liquified natural gas— a fact that allowed Biden to pledge in March that the US would send an additional 15 billion cubic meters of LNG to the EU by the end of the year. A combination of market forces, administration facilitation and the lack of destination restrictions has allowed US producers to already hit Biden's pledge -- twice over.
But US officials closely monitored a recent protest against high energy prices in the Czech Republic and have kept a close eye on any signs of growing instability in Europe.
"We're obviously watching this closely," White House National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby told CNN. "From our perspective, we still see strong resolve and unity at the leadership level here in the face of the way in which Putin is weaponizing energy. And the President is committed to preserving that unity and that resolve and that strength."
'All on hands on deck' diplomacy
Inside the White House, there has been an all-consuming effort to identify, secure and direct gas supplies to countries who are on the one hand critical to the coalition, and on the other exceedingly vulnerable to Russian efforts leverage its vast energy resources.
"It's playing into all of our diplomatic engagements," the senior administration official said "We understand the magnitude. It's all hands on deck."
The acute danger of Europe's vulnerability was laid bare this week. Biden's meeting with allied leaders came just days after Russia indefinitely shuttered a critical gas pipeline, Nord Stream 1 -- and less than a week after tens of thousands gathered in Prague to protest soaring costs.
Gazprom, the operator of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, cited various technical issues for reducing the flow of its gas over the course of the several months. But earlier this week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the gas would not start flowing again until the West lifts its sanctions on Russia.
"Problems with gas supply arose because of the sanctions imposed on our country by Western states, including Germany and Britain," Peskov said on Monday.
Western intelligence officials have viewed the move as just the latest salvo in Russia's attempts to weaponize the energy supply and foment political instability.
"Drive up energy prices and sap the domestic support generally, then drive them up further and piss people off enough to create some major political problems," one US official said in summarizing the general theory. "Oil and natural gas are [Putin's] hammer."
The threat of political instability, which US and EU officials view as ripe for foment by right-wing elements across Europe, has long been acknowledged as a threat, but rarely talked about openly. That has changed.
"A few weeks like this and the European economy will just go into a full stop," Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said in a Bloomberg interview this week. "The risk of that is de-industrialization and severe risk of fundamental social unrest."
US officials have been working relentlessly to try to prevent that from happening, with President Biden making it a top priority, sources told CNN. As a result, the nearly year-long effort to redirect gas supplies to Europe and reduce its dependency on Russia has helped to rapidly fill storage capacity, redirect orders and infrastructure, and identify policy options and technology to increase efficiency and reduce usage.
The effort has spanned the globe and cut across cabinet officials and agencies, closely coordinated with EU counterparts and with an emergency US-EU energy task force serving as a clearinghouse. European leaders, meanwhile, have engaged in a furious diplomatic and deal-making sprint to capitals around the globe in an urgent push to secure alternatives to the Russian energy that holds a dominant role across the continent.
It's had a clear effect. Russian gas imports have dropped to 9% from a high of roughly 40% before the war, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said earlier this month. Reliance on Russian oil has also fallen precipitously.
Ultimately, however, much will likely depend on the weather, multiple US and Western officials told CNN. If it's a mild winter, gas storage tank reserves -- which have already exceeded benchmarks -- may be enough to prevent widespread shortages, according to one official familiar with Western intelligence.
But that's far from a guarantee, that person said. As EU leaders scramble to adopt new measures to freeze or cap energy prices and deploy billions in new financial assistance and liquidity, the presence of a crisis that could spill into economic calamity is palpable.
"It's going to hurt for Europe," this person said. "Let's see how harsh the winter is."
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SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAGE Studios® Salon Suites made the #10 spot on Utah Business' Fast 50 list! This list consists of the 50 fastest growing companies in Utah, ranked by a third party for financial accuracy, based on revenue growth and total revenue! IMAGE Studios® was honored at the Fast 50 event and will be featured in the September issue of Utah Business.
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"We're honored by this nomination and to be recognized alongside these high-caliber companies! The IMAGE Studios® team has crushed it the last few years as we've grown exponentially, awarding 190 franchise licenses across 22 states nationwide. 2022 is shaping up to be another record-breaking year with 30 locations open and another 15 opening by the end of the year," stated Taylor Lamont."
There are currently 190 IMAGE Studios® Salon Suites in development throughout the US and this number increases month over month. IMAGE Studios® is an exclusive salon suite that creates modern, high-end salon suites at affordable rates for salon professionals – this makes it possible for salon professionals to easily launch their new business and become successful entrepreneurs. IMAGE Studios® provides this unique opportunity by bringing together like-minded professionals under one roof, along with the guidance of mentors who are invested in the success of their business owners.
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RACINE, Wis., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE: MOD), a diversified global leader in thermal management technology and solutions, today announced that Paul Plourde has been appointed Vice President, Business Development and Corporate Strategy. In this role, Mr. Plourde will be responsible for leading the Company's global implementation of 80/20, overseeing corporate finance, managing strategic planning, and leading the overall business development process to ensure Modine's transformation and future success.
Mr. Plourde has more than 20 years of business leadership experience, most recently leading Gibraltar's business development focus into new markets including the renewables segments. Prior to that, he spent more than 10 years as the General Manager of Construction Products Canada (Paslode, Ramset, Buildex, Redhead and GRK brands) with ITW in Canada.
"It's an exciting and transformative time at Modine as we are shaping the company for a sustainable future," said Modine Chief Financial Officer, Mick Lucareli. "The addition of Paul to our leadership team will enhance our 80/20 implementation while bringing a strong set of acquisitions skills that will help accelerate our growth plans."
About Modine
At Modine, we are engineering a cleaner, healthier world. Building on more than 100 years of excellence in thermal management, we provide trusted systems and solutions that improve air quality and conserve natural resources. More than 11,000 employees are at work in every corner of the globe, delivering the solutions our customers need, where they need them. Our Climate Solutions and Performance Technologies segments support our purpose by improving air quality, reducing energy and water consumption, lowering harmful emissions and enabling cleaner running vehicles and environmentally-friendly refrigerants. Modine is a global company headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin (USA), with operations in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. For more information about Modine, visit www.modine.com.
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(Mass Appeal) – Mercy Medical Center is hosting a 5K Run for Recovery community engagement event to bring together friends, family, providers, and other allies of those who are impacted by substance use. Dr. Edna Rodriguez, Director of Behavioral Health at Mercy Medical Center, is here with more. | https://www.wwlp.com/massappeal/5k-run-for-recovery-set-for-saturday-at-ashley-reservoir-in-holyoke/ | 2022-09-12T18:58:33Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/massappeal/5k-run-for-recovery-set-for-saturday-at-ashley-reservoir-in-holyoke/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Angela Kelly, the designer and dressmaker who served as the late Queen Elizabeth II's Personal Assistant and Senior Dresser for 30 years, will remain at her grace-and-favour home on the Windsor estate following the monarch's death on Thursday. According to the Mail Online, Her Majesty granted Kelly permission to remain at her home in the event of her passing, as recognition of their friendship and Kelly's years of dedicated service.
64-year-old Kelly, who hails from Liverpool, worked as the Queen’s ‘right-hand woman’ for over three decades. The pair are known to have developed a close relationship, with the ‘straight-talking Liverpudlian’ acting as a welcomed confidant and friend to the monarch. In an interview with the Telegraph in 2007, Kelly spoke of the moments she spent with Elizabeth: ‘We are two typical women. We discuss clothes, make-up, jewellery… But we also have a lot of fun together. The Queen has a wicked sense of humour and is a great mimic. She can do all accents - including mine.’ | https://www.tatler.com/article/how-the-queen-ensured-her-close-confidante-angela-kelly-could-remain-living-at-her-grace-and-favour-home | 2022-09-12T19:02:35Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/how-the-queen-ensured-her-close-confidante-angela-kelly-could-remain-living-at-her-grace-and-favour-home | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In the days since the death of Queen Elizabeth II, her son, King Charles III, has had to grieve his late mother while adjusting to his new responsibilities as monarch. Navigating a packed schedule that has seen him travel from Scotland to London and back again, with a string of engagements and ceremonies to attend to, today saw the King and the Queen Consort visit the Palace of Westminster ahead of visits to all four UK territories.
The King and Queen Consort return to Scotland as historic tour of United Kingdom begins
Sombrely dressed in mourning clothes, the couple sat beside each other on two thrones as they listened to the Lord Speaker and the Speaker of the House of Commons, who delivered addresses of condolence. The King then gave his own speech in reply, stating: ‘My Lords and Members of the House of Commons: I am deeply grateful for the Addresses of Condolence by the House of Lords and the House of Commons, which so touchingly encompass what our late Sovereign, my beloved mother The Queen, meant to us all. As Shakespeare says of the earlier Queen Elizabeth, she was “a pattern to all Princes living”.’
The new King has approved a bank holiday for the historic occasion, taking place at Westminster Abbey on 19 September
He went on to speak of his awareness of ‘the weight of history which surrounds us’, describing parliament as ‘the living and breathing instrument of our democracy.’ He acknowledged the ‘remarkable span of The Queen’s dedicated service to her nations and peoples’, saying that she kept her vow ‘to serve her country and her people and to maintain the precious principles of constitutional government… with unsurpassed devotion.’ The King concluded: ‘She set an example of selfless duty which, with God’s help and your counsels, I am resolved faithfully to follow.’
Within hours of addressing the Lords and Members of the House of Commons, the King and Queen Consort headed to Scotland, having been there only last week when the Queen died at Balmoral. On arrival at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the King undertook the Ceremony of the Keys. The monarch joined his three siblings, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, to lead the procession following his mother’s coffin to St Giles’ Cathedral.
The four siblings walked together behind the hearse, as well as Princess Anne’s husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, while a car behind them carried the Queen Consort and the Countess of Wessex. Prince Andrew, who stepped back from official royal life in 2019 amid controversy over his former links to Jeffrey Epstein, was wearing a morning suit rather than military uniform (military regalia is typically worn by working members of the Royal Family for ceremonial events, but Andrew had his military titles removed earlier this year).
The Duke of Sussex is the latest to honour the late royal, speaking of his grandmother’s ‘commitment to service’ and ‘infectious smile’
There, a service of prayer and reflection for the life of the Queen will be held, before the King returns to the Palace of Holyroodhouse to receive the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon. The King and Queen Consort will then go to the Scottish Parliament, where they will again receive a motion of condolence (as they did at Westminster this morning), before returning to St Giles’ Cathedral to hold a vigil with other Royal Family members.
On Tuesday, the King and The Queen Consort will proceed to Hillsborough Castle, Northern Ireland’s only royal residence. As in England and Scotland, the monarch will receive and make his reply to a message of condolence led by the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly. The King and Queen Consort will also meet with faith leaders and attend a service at St Anne’s Cathedral, before returning to London.
On Wednesday, the King will again lead the procession of his mother’s coffin, this time travelling from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall. The King and Queen Consort will then conclude their tour of the United Kingdom with a visit to Wales on Friday.
From a black holding page on the official Royal Family website, to a ‘Day of National Mourning’ to coincide with the state funeral | https://www.tatler.com/article/king-charles-iii-queen-consort-camilla-united-kingdom-tour | 2022-09-12T19:02:41Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/king-charles-iii-queen-consort-camilla-united-kingdom-tour | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The late Queen Elizabeth II was well known for her love of corgis, owning an impressive 30 during her 70-year reign. Following her death on Thursday, there has been speculation over who will now look after her two dogs, Muick and Sandy, a corgi and dorgi (a corgi-dachshund mix) respectively. According to the Mail Online, the Queen's son Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York, are reportedly adopting the pair as their own and will look after the animals at Royal Lodge, their shared home on the Windsor estate. The former spouses are still on amicable terms, despite divorcing in 1996.
Queen’s beloved corgis to get a new royal home
The dogs were gifted to the former monarch while she was staying in Windsor during lockdown to ‘keep her entertained’ while the late Duke of Edinburgh was in hospital. The Queen apparently named the dorgi Fergus after an uncle, Fergus Bowes-Lyon, who was killed in World War I in 1915. Tragically the puppy passed away just weeks after moving to Windsor, shortly after Prince Philip also died, in April 2021. The dog was soon replaced with a new corgi puppy from Andrew and his daughters Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie for her 95th birthday, who the Queen named Sandy. Muick (pronounced Mick), meanwhile, is named after one of Elizabeth's favourite Scottish spots near her beloved Balmoral.
According to The Telegraph, a source close to Prince Andrew said that the Queen and Sarah often connected over their shared love of animals: ‘The duchess bonded with Her Majesty over dog-walking and riding horses and even after her divorce, she would continue her great friendship with Her Majesty, by walking the dogs in Frogmore and chatting'.
The Duke of York made his first public appearance since settling a sexual assault case with Virginia Roberts Giuffre at his father's memorial service in March, in which he was given a prominent role, accompanying his mother to her seat in Westminster Abbey.
In June, he was absent from the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations due to testing positive with Covid-19.
This weekend, he greeted mourners outside Balmoral alongside other members of the Royal Family, including his daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, and his elder sister Princess Anne and younger brother Prince Edward. | https://www.tatler.com/article/queens-beloved-corgis-to-get-a-new-royal-home | 2022-09-12T19:02:48Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/queens-beloved-corgis-to-get-a-new-royal-home | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
From Buckingham Palace, with its grand, stately façade to Windsor Castle, for 1000 years the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world, via Sandringham in Norfolk and Balmoral in Scotland – where will King Charles III live? You might say he’s spoilt for choice – but having lived between Clarence House, a beautiful Regency villa next to St James’s Palace in the City of Westminster, Birkhall located in Royal Deeside (thought to be Camilla’s favourite) and Charles’ beloved Highgrove, will he even want to relocate having settled in so nicely over his seven decades as the heir apparent?
One would be forgiven for assuming that he would just follow in his mother’s footsteps and split his time between Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, with Sandringham and Balmoral for the holidays. However, it’s been reported that Charles ‘doesn’t even like’ Buckingham Palace with its 775 rooms – and rumours have circulated for sometime that once he acceded to the throne he would turn it more into a majestic function centre-cum-musuem. Plus, there’s the minor ordeal of the ongoing £369 million renovation works that are well underway but won’t be finishing any time soon. | https://www.tatler.com/article/where-will-king-charles-iii-live-buckingham-palace-windsor-castle-balmoral-sandringham-highgrove | 2022-09-12T19:02:54Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/where-will-king-charles-iii-live-buckingham-palace-windsor-castle-balmoral-sandringham-highgrove | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
King Charles III: A style retrospective
King Charles III has ascended to the throne following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. And while the UK continues its 10 days of mourning with tributes, commemorations and celebrations of her life across the country, our new King takes his first steps as monarch.
Throughout his time as the Prince of Wales, Charles always provided us with exemplary English excellence when it comes to fashion. Exceptionally tailored suits from Anderson & Sheppard, sleek shirts from Turnbull & Asser, traditional kilts in Balmoral tartan, and the perfect rural-chic outerwear from Barbour, his dedication to the fine art of British craftsmanship is exactly what solidifies him as a stalwart of sartorial elegance.
While these classic silhouettes imbue a timeless charm, the King has often fought for the future of fashion. A passionate patron and founder of The Campaign For Wool, Charles worked tirelessly to promote the use of wool as a highly sustainable fibre in the worlds of fashion and homewares. From collaborations with heritage labels like Johnston of Elgin, to large-scale knitted art installations at Dumfries House, to providing training to young artisans looking to get into the fabric business, King Charles has always endeavoured for a stylish, and sustainable, Britain.
As we look onwards towards his reign, Tatler revisits King Charles III's greatest style hits; a vestiary of smart and sophisticated ensembles. | https://www.tatler.com/gallery/king-charles-iii-best-style-moments | 2022-09-12T19:03:00Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/gallery/king-charles-iii-best-style-moments | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As Americans face rising prices, beauty products are still flying off shelves.
"People are excited to be able to express themselves in a way that doesn't cost as much money as a new Dior bag or like a pair of Louboutin boots or something like that," said beauty editor Khalea Underwood. "I do believe a $28 lipstick is an attainable luxury."
Underwood has named the phenomenon "The Lipstick Effect."
She says it happens when people still spend money on small luxuries when the economy is suffering.
"A great pigmented lipstick could easily work on your cheeks or eyelids," she said. "You’re getting more bang for your buck and the buck is not as much as like a big luxury.”
Many beauty companies have also found success through social media.
Popular platforms like TikTok have turned many brands into household names. They typically partner with influencers to tout products and provide tutorials.
The marketing strategy is working. Recent data shows the beauty industry is worth more than $500 million worldwide. It's estimated to reach roughly $800 billion by 2025.
"With all of these resources like TikTok, YouTube, Instagram Reels, you have all of this access to knowledge of how to execute that look of your dreams too," Underwood said.
Underwood said she wouldn't be surprised if inflation catches up to the industry eventually. However, she said loyal customers likely won't give up their favorite products. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/beauty-industry-flourishing-amid-inflation | 2022-09-12T19:06:09Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/beauty-industry-flourishing-amid-inflation | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
UPS said they would hire more than 100,000 seasonal employees as they gear up for the holiday season.
The company announced Monday that they'd be filling full- and part-time seasonal positions, primarily driver helpers, package handlers, seasonal delivery, and CDL drivers.
“We have made our hiring process as simple and easy as possible,” said the company's Executive Vice President and President of U.S. operations, Nando Cesarone, in a news release.
UPS said it'll offer competitive wages across multiple shifts in hundreds of locations across the country.
“UPS’s strength has always been our people, and we are excited about the opportunity to welcome new UPSers to our team as we deliver what matters for our customers this holiday season," said Cesarone.
According to the company, nearly 35,000 seasonal employees moved into permanent positions after the holidays. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/ups-hiring-more-than-100-000-seasonal-workers-for-holiday-season | 2022-09-12T19:06:27Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/ups-hiring-more-than-100-000-seasonal-workers-for-holiday-season | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Virginia man thought he won $600 in the state lottery when he actually won a lot more than that.
According to state lottery officials, Jose Flores Velasquez took his 20X the Money ticket to Virginia Lottery's customer service center to claim his prize. However, lottery employees quickly realized Velasquez actually won $1 million.
Officials said Velasquez bought the winning ticket when he stopped by a Safeway grocery store in Annandale after work to purchase a pack of soft drinks.
Velasquez had the option to take the entire $1 million prize over 30 years or take it as a one-time cash payment of $759,878 before taxes, officials said.
The news release said He took the cash.
According to the lottery officials, the store that he bought the ticket from will receive a $10,000 bonus from Virginia Lottery.
Velasquez said he plans to use the money to take care of his family and possibly start his own business, lottery officials said. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/virginia-man-claiming-600-lottery-win-actually-won-1-million | 2022-09-12T19:06:33Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/virginia-man-claiming-600-lottery-win-actually-won-1-million | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Zealand is welcoming back tourists as the country drops most of its remaining COVID-19 rules.
On Monday, the country announced the removal of its vaccine requirements and mask mandates as the country dropped its COVID traffic light framework just after midnight.
According to the country's ministry of health's website, masks are no longer required to be worn anywhere. Also, travelers coming into the country will no longer need to be vaccinated.
Vaccine mandates for health and disability workers also ended.
However, the country will keep two rules in place: masks must be worn in certain healthcare facilities like hospitals, and those who test positive for the virus must isolate for seven days, the website said.
The website added that places of worship and some workplaces might ask people to wear masks.
News of the country removing most of its COVID rules comes a few months after New Zealand began welcoming back tourists.
In May, the country announced it was reopening its borders to travelers from the U.S. and other countries after they imposed strict COVID borders restrictions in early 2020 to combat the spread of the virus, the Associated Press reported.
According to the news outlet, before the pandemic halted international tourism, more than 3 million tourists a year visited New Zealand. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/world/new-zealand-drops-mask-vaccine-requirements-as-it-removes-most-of-its-covid-19-rules | 2022-09-12T19:06:39Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/world/new-zealand-drops-mask-vaccine-requirements-as-it-removes-most-of-its-covid-19-rules | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane's city council will vote on a revised illegal camping ordinance during their next meeting on Monday. The current illegal camping ordinance has not been revised since 2018.
Under Spokane's current illegal camping ordinance, camping is not allowed on any public property, including conservation lands and natural areas near the Spokane River. However, the ordinance is also not enforced if there is no shelter space.
This ordinance has not been updated since 2018, but the Spokane City Council is preparing to consider an update to the ordinance during its meeting on Monday night. The changes were drafted by the mayor in coordination with the city council.
Both the city council and the mayor's proposals allow for enforcement at all times in some specified locations. The proposed changes would also prohibit camping at all times, regardless of the availability of shelter space, anywhere where an officer can document that the activity poses a substantial danger to any person, an immediate threat or unreasonable risk of harm to public health or safety, or disruption to vital government services
Both proposals would also enforce the camping ordinance in the following areas:
- Within 50 feet of railroad viaducts located within the Spokane Police Department's Downtown Precinct boundary and within three blocks of any congregate shelter
- Along the banks of the Spokane River and Latah Creek unless there is no shelter space available
Both proposals also have no effect on people camping on private or state-owned land, meaning the people camping in the lot near I-90 would be exempt from both ordinances since the land is owned by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT).
However, Spokane County Administrator Johnnie Perkins sent a letter to WSDOT on Friday threatening legal action unless the camp was cleared out by Oct. 14.
To read the city's current illegal camping ordinance, click here.
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When I meet new people and introduce myself as a high school ELA teacher, I typically receive one of two responses. Either:
Wow, must be nice. Weekends and summers off? These new kids are out of school every other day, it seems like. I’m in the wrong profession!
Or:
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Whew! Better you than me. Kids these days have no discipline. It’s all these young parents. Just disrespectful. I could never have that type of patience. You couldn’t pay me enough.
In truth, there are parts of each viewpoint that resonate for me. Let’s say that teenagers have a lot of personality, and having an abundance of patience is nonnegotiable in the classroom setting. I do love having summers off and am exhausted enough to run out of the building on Fridays at 3:20; still, does it count as a weekend if I spend the entirety of it grading 170+ assignments? None of these statements capture the best or worst parts of my profession. Teenagers are a handful, but I love how much they teach me about compassion, critical thinking, and relationship building. Teachers are grossly underpaid, but my Detroit youth deserve an educator who is from the city and is dedicated to them. When someone does not work in the field of education, it can be difficult to explain the nuance of feeling like teaching is both the most important and most exhausting work I have ever done.
When I first entered the field in 2011, I planned to go the distance: 30 years as a classroom educator. At this rate, I will be lucky if I make it to year 15. This third year of Covid has brought so many unanticipated shifts and is threatening to topple a system that was already fragile. According to the NEA, more than 55 percent of teachers are considering leaving the field earlier than previously anticipated. Moreover, a substantial portion of these educators are Black or people of color; 62 percent of Black and 59 percent of Hispanic/Latino preparing to exit the field in the near future. Approximately 7 percent of teachers are leaving the profession this year alone. In 2020, there were approximately 10.6 million teachers working in the field; as of 2022, there are approximately 10 million teachers. The nationwide fix has been to encourage “self-care,” as though this is an individual crisis, not a systemic one. Nevertheless, I have to acknowledge that it has been community, laughs, and art across mediums that have grounded me in the midst of everything.
Teaching is both the most important and most exhausting work I have ever done.
Enter Abbott Elementary, a television sitcom created by Quinta Brunson. According to ABC, this mockumentary follows “a group of dedicated, passionate teachers—and a slightly tone-deaf principal—[as they] find themselves thrown together in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed in life. Though these incredible public servants may be outnumbered and underfunded, they love what they do—even if they don’t love the school district’s less-than-stellar attitude toward educating children.”
It’s important to note that I am notoriously bad at TV and binge-watching, so I don't normally watch the popular shows until years after they have ended. I missed Game of Thrones. LoveCraft Country. Stranger Things. Whatever your favorite is, I likely have not seen it. But the buzz swirling behind Abbott Elementary was hard to ignore. Before I saw a trailer, I had friends tagging me on Twitter, encouraging me to watch the hilarious new show about Black teachers. People who know that I teach send me snippets on a weekly basis, and I kept promising I would get to it. I intended to, but by the time I get home and settled, all I want to do is sleep.
Also? If I can be really honest? Part of me was late to the show because I was afraid that watching an episode would be like replaying my day. Was this a space where my life as a Black teacher in an urban school would be the brunt of a joke that seemingly the whole world was laughing at? After watching an episode, would I feel entertained, or embarrassed? If I approached the first episode with apprehension, then I came to the second with skepticism—could this episode really be as interesting as the previous one? Before I knew it, all my spare moments were spent watching and rewatching the entire series.
Instead of being a point of stress, Abbott Elementary quickly became a space of refuge. Each time Gregory glances at the camera, deadpan expression, I am transported to the moment when the Black teachers connect in a staff meeting and our expressions have a conversation only we can decode. I am endeared by Janine’s zealousness and can remember when I was that first-year teacher, trying to save the world and likely annoying my coworkers while doing so. I currently imagine myself to be a Lisa who will (hopefully) have the grace and endurance to become a Barbara.
In addition to its humor, Abbott Elementary is remarkably realistic. Haven’t we all had an argument with a partner and had to come to work pretending to be focused on the tasks of the day? Or tried our hardest to keep our colleagues out of our business, only to have a work friendship sneak through the cracks? The office crush? The negligent boss? And while these characters are relatable, they are not flat. As much as Ava slacks, getting a glimpse into her family life made me empathize with her, and also made me reconsider my perception of coworkers, family members, and other associates.
Instead of being a point of stress, Abbott Elementary quickly became a space of refuge.
What I’m most impressed by is Brunson’s ability to portray a completely accurate (and hilarious) view of the day-to-day classroom while also refraining from a voyeuristic lens that focuses on the worst parts of education. Under a less imaginative lens, the mockumentary could have focused on its gaze on overdone, anti-Black tropes. Thankfully, the episodes don’t rely on poor inner-city youth, school violence, negligent teaching, racism, Covid, or other potentially triggering circumstances to draw an audience.
When the tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, occured in May of this year, Brunson revealed that she’s been asked countless times to include a “school shooter” episode. I am grateful that she did not succumb to that pressure. In the days following that shooting, people who could have been mourning or been in community with their loved ones were instead arguing about arming educators. A guy in my morning workout class says it’s the “only solution,” and I haven't been back since. The last thing I would have needed would be to relive that grief and fear in my favorite sitcom. Teachers will not save us. And art may not, either—to be honest. But it has given me back something that is hard to come by: a space to relax, laugh, and engage in the pleasure of entertainment without fear.
Brittany Rogers is a poet, a mother, an educator, and a native Detroiter. She has work published or forthcoming in Mississippi Review, The Metro Times, The Offing, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, and Oprah Daily. Her work has been anthologized in The BreakBeat Poets: Black Girl Magic and Best of the Net. Rogers is a fellow of VONA, The Watering Hole, Poetry Incubator, and Pink Door Writing Retreat. She is editor in chief for Muzzle Magazine and cohost of the VS podcast. Learn more about Rogers at brittanyrogers.org. | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a40733735/high-school-teacher-falls-for-the-truths-in-fictional-abbott-elementary/ | 2022-09-12T19:07:28Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a40733735/high-school-teacher-falls-for-the-truths-in-fictional-abbott-elementary/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DeWanda Wise has landed high-profile leading roles in the past few years, like Spike Lee’s canceled-too-soon TV series She’s Gotta Have It and the beloved rom-com Someone Great, but the actress is hesitant to categorize them as big breaks. “I think big breaks are a PR construct,” she declares over Zoom from her Pasadena home. "Especially if you are me—a Black woman or a woman in this industry—'big break' entails there's a moment at which then you crest over and suddenly it’s magically easier. That's just not the reality."
Still, the 38-year-old actress’s career is undeniably on the upswing. Earlier this summer, she starred in the long-awaited third film in the Jurassic World trilogy, Jurassic World: Dominion, and Wise is set to play one of the leads in the TV adaptation of Three Women, Lisa Taddeo’s compelling tale of modern sexuality. Next, she’s focusing on narrating the feature-length audio play Wake, which details the hidden history of Black women uprising against slavery. “[Dr. Rebecca Hall’s] capacity to link her grandfather's slave history to her own life—that ability is important,” she says of the project. “I wish it was something that everyone had. It would make a lot more of us feel a little less alone.”
Ahead, Wise shares the importance of telling empowering stories of Black women, following your intuition (it led her to a life-changing role), and of aligning your purpose to your personality.
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Especially if you are me—a Black woman or a woman in this industry—‘big break’ entails there’s a moment at which then you crest over and suddenly it’s magically easier. That’s just not the reality.
Jurassic World: Dominion was such a huge moment for you. How did you prepare for your first action movie?
Very traditionally. I'm super old-school in many respects. One, I had wanted to work in the action space for years. For actors, this is it. We have our bodies, we have our voice, so however you believe an actor should be physically, there's always a degree of just honoring yourself and taking good care of yourself—whatever that looks like and feels like for you. I moved [to California] in 2012 and started working with a trainer for the first time, Raven Harrington, and she reminded me even then [that] I was gonna work in an action film and be an action star. It was very much a matter of, like, dress for the job you want. So it was partially bumping up what I had been doing: eating protein, carbs, and vegetables, lifting very heavy weights, and creating the illusion of this shape. I just worked out for two hours a day for over a year. There is no secret. There's no, like, “Oh, I did this special thing.”
I understand you don’t really believe in big breaks, but how would you define yours if you had to?
The actors I’ve worked with, actors I’m working with presently, have a very temperate and grounded understanding of what this industry actually is and what it entails. It's one of the only industries where past success does not determine or promise future success. You could win an Oscar and not get a phone call afterward, so I'm very temperate about it. My big break was when I started. I've been starring in things since I was a kid, and I don't really have a hierarchy between Jurassic World: Dominion and playing Electra in college. To me, it’s all part of the same, larger narrative of my life. And one thing connects to the other.
I absolutely loved the movie Someone Great. How did it transform your career?
The fun we had—the joy with which that movie was made, the sorority, the experience of making that movie—really changed my life. Our group chat is called Neon Classics. I love those women. I’d already loved Gina Rodriguez; we went to NYU together. I’ve known her for half of my life at this point, and I just reached out to her because my intuition was like, There’s a role for me in this movie. It was literally the day after Captain Marvel fell through for me, and we just had such a beautiful time. There was no agenda. In that way, I’ve started being more thoughtful, deliberate, and investigative about what projects I’m looking into. I have a lot of fun at work now as a result of Someone Great.
I’m a natural wanderer; my name means ‘wanderer.’ It's just in my DNA.
The ending of Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It felt abrupt. Were you frustrated that it ended early? Did you hope it would get saved?
I don't have a hard time letting go of anything. Part of the reason I got into acting is because I was an avid quitter. Growing up, I'm thankful I didn’t have a mom who was like, “You need to stick it out,” because I wouldn’t have found acting, which really facilitated and honored my need for change. I'm a natural wanderer; my name means “wanderer.” It's just in my DNA. So, with She’s Gotta Have It, we told two complete stories back to back—Spike is a filmmaker, ultimately. It wasn't a traditional TV scenario where you have this cliffhanger and all these questions. I was really satisfied with what we were able to create. I think for the moment, at least, I said everything I needed to say as Nola Darling. You can only play those characters for so long anyway before people are like, “Are you gonna grow up?”
You have another project that started in June—the audio play Wake. How did you get involved in that?
Wake is a true self-project. In a lot of my work, my interest is in history; my characters always have these rather arduous backstories no matter what the project is, so I just found a real kindred in Dr. Rebecca Hall. We share a certain perspective on the enslavement of Black people in America. There's a lot of shame around it. There’s a certain white supremacist lens, which goes like, “Stop talking about it,” that a lot of Black people have ingested and regurgitated. We had a mutual kind of understanding, so if we’re claiming this intergenerational trauma in our DNA, then what else did we pick up? There’s the resilience, the resourcefulness. I’m just personally and societally invested in putting our stories in a proper framework.
What projects do you have coming up that you’re most excited about?
The only one I think that’s been announced is Three Women. What’s exciting for those who love the book is it's really in the driver's seat of the desire of the women, which I know [author] Lisa Taddeo was very intentional [about]. It’s just a matter of the actual format of the series, meaning when you’re working in film and TV, you’re just naturally operating through the lens and the gaze of the protagonist, ideally. There’s this element of magical realism that we just kept finding more layers as we went in that were delicious. It’s beautifully shot. There’s a lyricism and a poetry to the series that makes me really excited to see it.
I try to stay very open. I think it’s important not to allow your dreams to become too narrow.
Speaking of Three Women, what drew you to the role of Sloane?
There’s an enormous challenge with characters whose conflicts are largely internal. I was struck by this when I read Three Women for the first time: That Sloane’s turmoil is invisible [to the] public eye. That her beautiful life and beautiful self were [a] mask for what was suppressed inside of her.
Did you relate to Sloane personally?
I try not to state the qualities or experiences I share with my characters as a general rule. What I found really exciting as the cast was forming was working with a company of like-minded actors. Performers whose sole intention is to serve the story, which often means taking ourselves, preferences, qualities, and idiosyncrasies out of the equation as much as possible. So I guess you could say [that] I relate to Sloane’s insistence on autonomy, privacy and being a little higher on the mystery scale.
Who do you dream of collaborating with in the future?
It’s such a long list. Janicza Bravo is at the top of it. Michaela Coel, for sure. I can’t wait to work with Jonathan Majors; I think he’s one of the greatest actors of our generation. I try to stay very open. I think it’s important not to allow your dreams to become too narrow.
What do you want people to know about you as an actress?
I think a lot of actors understandably feel like they have things to prove. If they feel like they’ve been typed in a specific role, they feel like “Now I have to do this extreme thing to show you,” and I don’t think I have to prove anything. I feel very empowered to just be, explore what I’m interested in exploring, and have the peace of mind and the faith to know that it will resonate with somebody, somewhere. And that alone is enough.
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Titans Showrunner Confirms Titus Welliver as Lex Luthor in Season 4
After being referenced numerous times throughout Titans first three seasons, viewers will finally be able to put a face to the name “Lex Luthor” starting in season 4. While speaking with Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Greg Walker confirmed that Titus Welliver will appear in several upcoming episodes as Superman’s longtime nemesis.
Welliver is probably best known for his starring turn on Amazon’s Bosch and its new spinoff, Bosch: Legacy. He is also remembered for his recurring appearances on Lost, Deadwood, and Sons of Anarchy. Additionally, Welliver has booked a few superhero projects in the past. He showed up in three episodes of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as Agent Felix Blake. More recently, he visited the DC Universe as the voice of Carmine Falcone in WB’s Batman: The Long Halloween animated adaptation.
During the interview, Walker recalled his early conversations with Welliver about Titans’ plans for Lex’s introduction. But luckily, the actor didn’t have to do much research after being cast, because he was already a massive DC fan.
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“You usually have to do this whole dog-and-pony show to get an actor to do the show,” said Walker. “But when I called to kind of lure him in, I could barely get a word in. We were talking on the phone and he was just walking through his library, telling me about all his Wolfman/Perez Titans editions. He’s a giant, giant fan. He’d watched every episode of the show, and could tell me about certain stories, certain shots. It was the most unexpected call I’ve ever had.”
Walker also discussed what Lex’s arrival means for Conner/Superboy (Joshua Orpin), who made his own Titans debut in season 2 after he was created from a mix of Superman and Luthor’s DNA.
“We’re really going deeper in all these characters and shaking them up,” added Walker. “What shakes Conner up is an identity story. He’s explored his Superman self, but he has not really explored his Lex self. What does that mean when you do? What happens when you give that self the keys to the car? Does it start driving the wrong way at rush hour 100 miles an hour?”
Titans season 4 will premiere on HBO Max sometime in November.
Are you excited to see what Welliver brings to the role of Lex Luthor this fall? Let us know in the comment section below!
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Police: Fatal stabbing of man in New Brunswick under investigation
NEW BRUNSWICK - Police are investigating after a man was fatally stabbed early Monday in the area of Throop Avenue and Townsend Street.
The man's identity has not yet been released.
Around 6:29 a.m. Monday police responded to the area of Throop Avenue and Townsend Street following a report of a stabbing, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and New Brunswick Police Director Anthony A. Caputo announced.
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When police arrived they located a man who had suffered multiple stab wounds.
The stabbing death is under investigation. Anyone with information or surveillance footage of the area is asked tocontact New Brunswick Detective Raymond Quick at 732-745-5217 or Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office Detective Walter Kelley at 732-745-3330.
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A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Prince Uthman Shodipe – Dosunmu, has resigned his membership of the party but did not announce the new party he is heading to.
Shodipe- Dosunmu, who is a former Political Adviser to the former Deputy National Chairman of PDP, Chief Olabode George, made his decision known in a resignation letter sent to the party Chairman, Ward A1, Lagos Island Local Government Area of Lagos, on Monday titled: “Time to move on.”
“At this moment and time, at this hour and instant, I, therefore, tender my irrevocable resignation as a member of the Peoples Democratic Party,” he declared.
The party chieftain said in the letter that he had served PDP and its leadership for more than 17 years with selflessness, determined resolve and dedication and never once canvassed for any position or influence, declaring that it was now time for him to “move to the other isle where merit is valued, where hard work and ethical centrality are given a hearing, where excellence is cultivated with doting restlessness by the embrace of a pan – Nigerian leadership.”
This was just as Shodipe- Dosunmu sadly recalled that he lost his immediate junior brother, Prince Muis Adediran Shodipe -Dosunmu, who was then the State Secretary, amid what he termed the terrible hours of fate, saying that notwithstanding, he kept the faith, shouldered the crucibles of life with quiet, uncomplaining solitude.
“I have served PDP for more than 17 years with selflessness, with determined resolve and dedication to party and leadership. I never once canvassed for any position or influence. I did my duty with forbearance and with resolute sincerity without complaint, without a grudge, without pecuniary hovering, without gains.
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“For years, I slaved in the dark hours fruitlessly hoping for the bright days. It never happened.
“I endured the slings of envy and the arrows of animadversion. I braved the cruel idiocy of little men and the crude purveyors of conspiracies with courageous mantle of God’s holy light.
“I spent millions of my personal fortunes to enhance and strengthen the viability of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State and I equally wrote hundreds of innumerable speeches and articles with vigorous public articulations,” he stated.
“In the process, I made a thousand and more enemies and basically endangered my life and that of my family members simply because of my devotion to what I perceived to be the truth and the sacredness of the prevalent order.
“I even lost my immediate junior brother, Prince Muis Adediran Shodipe -Dosunmu, who was then the State Secretary, amid the terrible hours of fate. Yet, I kept the faith. I held my rudder true. I shouldered the crucibles of life with quiet, uncomplaining solitude.
“But all beginnings must have an end. I have served my course in PDP. My story is told. My journey is made. Now beckons a new journey.
“I must now part ways. I must now move to the other isle where merit is valued, where hard work and ethical centrality are given a hearing, where excellence is cultivated with doting restlessness by the embrace of a pan- Nigerian leadership,” he added.
“At this moment and time, at this hour and instant, I, therefore, tender my irrevocable resignation as a member of the Peoples Democratic Party,” he declared.
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Don’t disrupt President Buhari’s visit to Imo — Monarch tells IPOB
A renowned traditional ruler and chairman of governing council Benjamin Uwajumogu College of Education, Ihitte/Uboma, Imo State, HRH Eze Oliver Ohanwe has advised the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) not to disrupt President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Imo State for the commissioning of projects.
The monarch told Tribune Online in Owerri, on Monday, during a telephone chat, described the three major roads in Imo state as what the people of the South East need to salvage poverty and neglect.
He said: “they should allow the commissioning to be because we have been crying for marginalisation. They should be happy about it.”
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He regretted that, previous administrations had neglected the roads at the expense of members of the public who use them both for the movement of goods and services and to enhance their economic activities.
While welcoming Mr. President to Imo State for the official commissioning of the projects executed by Governor Hope Uzodimma administration, Eze Ohanwe said that the commissioning is a worthwhile one and in demonstration of evidence that APC has done well in the state.
He said that the two roads such as the Owerri/Orlu road and Owerri/Okigwe road set for commissioning as well as Owerri/Umuahia road under construction are very important roads to the people of Imo State.
He said: “Imo people are very grateful and it’s a practical dividends of democracy.”
He recalled that previous administration at the federal level would have repair the roads before now, adding that having being done by Imo State government, the federal government should refund the state.
The traditional ruler advised the people of Imo State to continue to support the Governor Hope Uzodimma’s administration to enable him continue his good work. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/dont-disrupt-president-buharis-visit-to-imo-monarch-tells-ipob/ | 2022-09-12T19:15:04Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/dont-disrupt-president-buharis-visit-to-imo-monarch-tells-ipob/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ifeanyi Ubah confirms attack, killing of aides, security officers
Senator Ifeanyi Ubah has confirmed the deaths of some of his personal and security aides during Sunday’s attack on his convoy.
Ubah’s convoy was attacked on Sunday around Nkwo Enugwu Ukwu Market in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State, while the lawmaker was on his way to Nnewi his country home on Sunday evening.
It was gathered that the armed men suspected to be assassins opened fire on Ubah’s convoy leaving several persons dead.
The senator, who confirmed the unfortunate incident to newsmen, on Monday, in Awka, confirmed that the assassins killed one Obum Ikechukwu and Goodness Mathias, his personal aides.
He also confirmed that some of his security aides from the Police and Department of State Services, DSS, were also killed during the attack.
DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Anambra State Command, confirmed the incident but did not give the figure of the victims.
“The Commissioner of Police, Mr Echeng Echeng, visited the scene and there were blood stains at the place indicative of the fact that the attack was bloody, but to give the number I cannot say anything on that,” he stated.
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The federal government has disclosed that Nigeria is ranked second with the highest burden of malnourished children in the world and ranks first on the same index in Africa.
The director of family health, federal ministry of health, Dr Salma Anas stated this at a media parley organised by the International Society of Media in Public Health (ISMPH) in conjunction with the European Union and the British Council in Abuja.
Anas said the challenge of malnutrition presents as either very low weight about the height of children or as overweight (obese) in relation to height and age. She lamented that the challenge of malnutrition has been made worse following the over-a-decade-long insurgency in parts of the country and its impact on food security.
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According to her, malnutrition has long-term impacts on the brain development of children as any child denied adequate nutrition in the first two years of life will end up not just with stunted growth but a poorly developed brain bereft of the capacity needed for critical thinking and analysis on issues.
Anas, therefore, called for a multi-sectoral approach involving relevant ministries of the federal and state governments as well as community and religious leaders in tackling the challenge.
Executive director, ISMPH, Moji Makanjuola said statistics made available by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) indicate that an estimated two million Nigerian children suffer from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) with a national prevalence rate of 32 percent of children under five years of age. However, only two out of every ten (10) children affected are currently reached with treatment.
Manajuola said malnutrition is a direct cause of 45 per cent of all deaths of children under the age of five in Nigeria, just as seven per cent of women of child bearing age also suffer from acute malnutrition.
“ISMPH has undertaken to work specifically to combat this epidemic in Northern Nigeria. Under the project funded by the Children Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), ISMPH utilised the media to emphasise the budgetary inadequacies in nutrition and to demand accountability from duty bearers.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/nigeria-ranks-second-in-highest-nations-with-malnourished-children-says-director/ | 2022-09-12T19:15:24Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/nigeria-ranks-second-in-highest-nations-with-malnourished-children-says-director/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ondo White Paper: No king has right to claim paramountcy over others ― Govt
•As govt approves 62 new stools, upgrades others
Ondo State government on Monday stated that paramountcy is alien to, and not part of the Chief’s Law of the state, just as it declared that no king in the state has the right to paramountcy claim.
Disclosing this, during a press conference in Akure, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Charles Titiloye, said this was contained in the White Paper of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Chieftaincy Matters instituted by the state government, headed by Justice C.E.T. Ajama (rtd).
Titiloye disclosed that the immediate past administration under Dr Olusegun Mimiko instituted the commission on January 30, 2015, to attend to the recognition, adjustment, upgrading and elevation of chieftaincy stools in the state.
He explained that Governor Rotimi Akeredolu-led administration set up a six-man committee at the State Executive Council (SEC) meeting held on January 12, 2022, to review the recommendations made by Justice Ajama Commission.
According to him, the new Committee set up by the present administration reviewed it and prepared the Government White Paper on the report, settling 51 dispute chieftaincy stools across the 18 local government areas of the state.
He said the new report was received on August 24, 2022, and said the SEC directed that its decisions on the recommendation should be published in Government White Paper.
Speaking on paramountcy, Titiloye said that “Government is in receipt of the recommendation of the commission on the paramountcy of some traditional rules in the state.
“Government notes that paramountcy is not part of the Chief’s Law of Ondo State.
“Consequently, the government has directed the office of the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice to set machinery in motion for the amendment of the Chief’s Law of Ondo State in order to accommodate this recommendation.”
Also speaking, the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, Akinwumi Sowore, commended Governor Akeredolu and stakeholders for painstakingly addressing the chieftaincy crises in the state.
Sowore said “Government is hopeful that this exhausting consideration and review of chieftaincy matters in the state will bring peace, unity and progress to our various communities.
“Government hereby assures the public that the review of chieftaincy matters will be a continuous exercise and requests or issues that have not been looked into in this White Paper will be considered in the future.”
It will be recalled that the state government recently created and recognized some traditional stools under Part 1 of the Chiefs’ Law, which includes; Olurokun of Irokun, Osolo of Isolo, Osowa of Ugboroko, while the government accepted the recommendations on Akure and Arogbo-Ijaw High Chiefs that are classed as Grade C obas, and to receive a staff of office soon.
The Commissioner, however, said 42 Grade C obas were moved to Grade B but for Owa-Ale of Iyo-mefa, Ikare; Ajana of Afa Oke-Agbe, Olumoru of Imoru, Ojomo of Ijebu-Owo, Elemure of Emure-Ile and Moporure of Agerige were elevated to Grade A, while Oloba of Oba and Niyon of Kiribo remained in Grade C.
Also, out of 20 Grade B obas, 16 including Orunja of Odigbo, Olupele of Ipele and Olujare of Ijare were elevated to Grade A; but Olupe of Ipe, Oloba of Oba-Akoko, Ojima of Okeluse and three others remained in Grade B.
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Wike labels Ameachi a failure as minister
The hiatus in the verbal war between the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike and the immediate past Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi seems to have ended as both have renewed the war with Wike, Monday describing the former Minister as a total failure.
Wike’s attack is coming in response to a reported statement by Amaechi that the Rivers State government refused to give state burial to late Chief Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas, who was laid to rest last weekend.
The governor justified his statement by saying that as far as Rivers State is concerned, Amaechi was unable to attract any meaningful project to the state in seven years while he served as a minister.
He used the occasion of the formal inauguration of the reconstructed former Riv-Bank Insurance building in Port Harcourt on Monday, to lampoon the former minister stressing that a man who had failed in attracting projects to his state and had exhibited poor leadership within his depleted party, should hide his face in shame and stop talking about Rivers politics.
“We have taken all your people. Nobody is at your party again. Why not manage and stay quiet; because of your poor leadership?
“Tell Rivers State people, as Minister of Transportation, what did you do for your people? Seven good years, all you were interested in was doing business with CCECC, doing standard gauge and the other gauge until now, we have not seen anyone in Port Harcourt to Maiduguri,” he taunted Amaechi.
Wike boasted that while he was a junior minister, he attracted the Faculty of Law to the University of Port Harcourt, established the Oil and Gas Polytechnic in Bonny as well as made grants available to Kenule Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic in Bori and Ignatius Ajuru University while renovating several secondary schools in Rivers State.
“Tell us, as a grade A minister, what you brought. Do you think you can deceive Rivers State again?
The Governor explained that the state government stayed away from the burial activities because it was politicised and he did not want to be associated with such trivialities.
“I saw you people have brought politics to the man’s burial. I said, ok, let me withdraw myself. I don’t want to be involved in this kind of politics,” Wike stated.
Governor Wike stated that if people had gone to bury the dead, they would have focused on that mission of honouring the dead and not involved him in the talks around the event.
He said, “Let me use this opportunity to say that I am very disappointed that the former minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi will still come to the state to talk about this government not giving late Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas a state burial.
“It is unfortunate. I asked him when Chief Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas was sick, where were you? This State government committed so much amount of money to make sure Chief Alabo survive.
“I want to challenge anybody, we did not spend less than N50m (Fifty Million Naira); to make sure our elder statesman survived. It was survival we wanted, we wanted him to be alive.
“When his late son had an accident and was flown to London, this State government bore the cost of it. Go and ask people.”
He recalled that it was this same Chibuike Amaechi, who is now showing he loved Chief Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas more, that refused to honour him while he was alive.
The Rivers State governor said Amaechi declined to grant the request of Chief Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas for the elevation of the Abonnema traditional stool to first class and the construction of the Abonnema ring road.
But, on the assumption of office, Governor Wike said he granted those requests adding; “Amaechi, Chief Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas told you, please, help me and do the ring road in Abonnema so that when we have occasion, we will not be parked on one road, you refused to do it. I did it.
“When Chief Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas was alive, he told Amaechi, why not do this Trans-Kalabari Road. He did not do it. I am the one doing it. So, who is the man who loves Alabo and has made him happier?”
Speaking further, Wike recalled how Chibuike Amaechi deceived prominent Rivers elders too who he professed love for but refused to honour.
“That was how he pulled down our General hospital that he was going to build Justice Karibi Whyte Hospital. Justice Karibi Whyte died and he never saw one block you laid.”
Governor Wike also pointed to the deception the former minister meted to late Captain Elechi Amadi, who despite their relationship failed to keep his word.
“Before he (Elechi Amadi) died, you said you are going to build the Faculty of Humanities in his honour. That one, you tried to lay block, but you abandoned it. I came and completed that building. Even when everybody knows you have an interest in his family.
“When Captain Elechi Amadi died, there was no road to his house for a man you said you love. I came and sent MCC to go and do that road. That road was done and that was how Captain Elechi Amadi was buried. So, you (Amaechi) should be ashamed of yourself.”
Commenting on the project, Governor Wike said the building that was long abandoned was an object of scrambled by people who wanted to own it.
The governor disclosed that Amaechi has been making concerted efforts to stall the fraud charges brought against him by the Rivers State government. According to him, even if his administration is unable to prosecute the former minister, the next government will accomplish the task.
He made a specific appeal to Mr Herbert Wigwe, the Group Managing Director/CEO of Access Bank PLC to consider buying the seven-storey office complex and use it as the regional headquarters of his firm.
Governor also called on other investors to consider investing in the property.
The Governor christened the Re-constructed Ultra-Modern Seven Storey Office Complex, Senator John Azuta Mbata building.
In his address, the Rivers State Commissioner for Special Projects, Deinma Iyalla said the seven-storey building is a purpose-built facility that could serve as office spaces and banking services.
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For the past five months since they’ve purchased Maple Grove Raceway, veteran NHRA racer Kenny Koretsky and his family, which includes his sons Kenny Jr. and current Pro Stock driver Kyle, have been hard at work on renovations and updates to the historic facility.
Numerous improvements have already been made and will be noticeable for fans and race teams heading into this weekend’s 37th annual Pep Boys NHRA Nationals. It’s been a tremendous amount of work, but the Koretsky family is excited to show off the revamped facility at the opening race in the NHRA Countdown to the Championship.
“It’s taken a lot of work from everyone and there’s still a lot of work to be done, but we’re proud of what we’ve done and the response we’ve already heard from fans and racers,” Kyle Koretsky said. “We’ve even had racers who have offered to help the place succeed. There’s a lot of history here and we want to make sure this track succeeds. Our family has put our heart and soul into this and there’s no room for failure. That’s not in our vocabulary. We’ve built a strong team here and we’re looking forward to having a great race and a great future here.”
Among the updates are complete renovations to both towers, including all of the VIP suites and the timing tower, as well as the completion of the first phase of a new audio system at the track. They’ve started the process of adding new LED lights throughout the entire track, as well as repaving the upper lot, the turn-off at the top end – which has also been widened to 35 feet – and the starting line.
The Koretsky family and their team have also created 11 new RV spots for camping with plans to add 30 more for next season. They’ve added new air conditioning, new fencing, fresh paint, improved the overall look of the facility, and recently completed renovations to the bathrooms. The concession menu for race fans has also been completely revamped, as the Koretsky family has put a strong emphasis on improving the fan experience at the track in all areas.
“It’s taken a lot of work to get it to our standard and it’s going to continue to take work. We’re not done yet,” Koretsky said. “The racetrack is only part of it. Fans want a clean facility, they want to eat well, and we want to make sure we give our customers and fans a great facility. That’s something we take a lot of pride in and that’s what we want to accomplish here.”
Already a fan-favorite facility and penchant for delivering some of the quickest and fastest runs in NHRA history, Koretsky and his family are focused on making Maple Grove Raceway a destination track for years to come. This year’s race will feature all four professional categories, as playoffs as championship drivers in Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, and Pro Stock Motorcycle will look to start their world championship bids with a win. Located in the heart of Amish country, the track has always boasted a wonderful, scenic backdrop for the massive fanbase.
Brittany Force, who will start the playoffs as the Top Fuel points leader, made the quickest run in NHRA history at the facility in 2019 with her run of 3.623-seconds, while Billy Torrence (Top Fuel), Tommy Johnson Jr. (Funny Car), Greg Anderson (Pro Stock) and Steve Johnson (Pro Stock Motorcycle) won last year’s race. This year’s playoff opener will be broadcast on both the FOX broadcast network and Fox Sports 1 (FS1) in 2022 and will also serve as the NFL adjacent broadcast on FOX, putting the NHRA on a huge platform to open its 2022 playoffs.
“I hope everyone notices and enjoys the work we’ve put in,” Koretsky said. “If you saw this place five months ago to today, you would have said this wasn’t even possible. We want to see that excitement from everyone when they get here. We’ve had some hiccups and it’s been stressful and a lot of hours but seeing the excitement from all the hard work everyone has put in, that’s the icing on the cake for me. We’re hoping for a packed house, and we want to make this a premier facility.”
In Top Fuel, Force will look to open the playoffs with a victory against standouts like four-time defending world champ Steve Torrence, Indy winner Antron Brown, Leah Pruett, Mike Salinas, and Justin Ashley.
Robert Hight has enjoyed a banner season in Funny Car, running away with the points lead on the strength of six victories. He’ll look for a Reading win against Indy winner Ron Capps, Matt Hagan, Bob Tasca III and Cruz Pedregon.
Greg Anderson is after back-to-back wins in Reading, a race after picking up his 100th career victory. Looking to stop him is points leader Erica Enders, who has six wins in 2022, Aaron Stanfield, Koretsky, Dallas Glenn and Troy Coughlin Jr.
In Pro Stock Motorcycle, Matt Smith will look to start his title defense facing off with defending event winner Steve Johnson, Joey Gladstone, Angelle Sampey, Eddie Krawiec, Angie Smith, and Karen Stoffer.
The Pep Boys NHRA Nationals also will feature thrilling competition in the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, as well as the Constant Aviation Factory Stock Showdown category. On Friday, fans can witness all the thrills of a jet car exhibition after nitro qualifying, while the race also features the NHRA Summit Racing Jr. Drag Racing League Shootout. On Saturday, fans can also attend Nitro School to learn more about how the cars operate and reach their thrilling speeds.
Top Fuel Motorcycle star Larry “Spiderman” McBride will be in action at Reading as part of the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals. McBride went an incredible 268.38-mph in Virginia to make the fastest motorcycle pass in drag racing history and the veteran will make exhibition passes in Reading, attempting to go even faster at a track where several record-breaking performances have taken place over the years.
Race fans at Maple Grove Raceway can enjoy the special pre-race ceremonies that introduce and celebrate each of the drivers racing for the prestigious Wally on Sunday and includes the fan favorite SealMaster Track Walk. The final can’t-miss experience of any NHRA event is the winner’s circle celebration on Sunday after racing concludes, where fans are invited to congratulate the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals event winners.
As always, fans also get an exclusive pit pass to the most powerful and sensory-filled motorsports attraction on the planet in Reading. This unique opportunity gives fans a unique chance to see teams in action and service their hot rods between rounds, get autographs from their favorite NHRA drivers, and more. Fans can also visit NHRA’s popular Nitro Alley and Manufacturers Midway, where sponsors and race vendors create an exciting atmosphere that includes interactive displays, simulated competitions, merchandise, food, and fun for the entire family. The new Pep Boys midway display will include tire change challenges, oil change challenges, a slot car track, and much more, adding even more excitement to the midway.
NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series qualifying will feature one round at 4:45 p.m. ET on Friday, Sept. 16, and the final two rounds of qualifying on Saturday, Sept. 17 at 12:15 and 3:45 p.m. Final eliminations are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, Sept. 18. Television coverage includes qualifying action on FS1 at 7:00 p.m. ET on Friday, 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, and then eliminations on FOX at 2:00 or 4:30 p.m. ET on Sunday. Check local listings for Sunday broadcast times on FOX in your area.
To purchase tickets to the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway, visit www.NHRA.com or call 800-884-6472. All children 12 and under will be admitted free in the general admission area with a paid adult. For more information about NHRA, please visit www.NHRA.com.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The First Lady of the United States spoke in Greensboro on Monday afternoon, according to the White House.
First Lady Jill Biden touched down at Piedmont Triad International Airport at about 1:05 p.m.
Biden and U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona will visit Greensboro, as well as Knoxville, Tennessee, to kick off what they’re calling the “Success Back to School Bus Tour.” Biden will be joining only for these first two stops of the tour.
The Greensboro event will take place at North Carolina A&T State University.
The tour aims to showcase ways that schools are helping students to recover after the pandemic, particularly using resources made available through the American Rescue Plan. They will also discuss how states and school districts are recruiting and preparing teachers.
After Greensboro and Knoxville, Cardona is heading to Virginia to visit Newport News, Richmond and Harrisonburg on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Cardona will visit Morgantown, West Virginia, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
On Thursday, Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff will join in Pennsylvania for visits to Reading, Allentown and Philadelphia.
The tour wraps up Friday with a final visit to Camden, New Jersey.
“It’s a great feeling to see yellow school buses drive around our communities with excited children who are ready to thrive in this new school year,” Cardona said. “I am thrilled to be traveling across the eastern states and highlighting innovative ways local, state, and federal efforts are helping students recover and succeed in and out of the classroom. This year will be one of the most important ever, as we not only work to catch students up, but put them in a position to do even better than where they were before March 2020.” | https://www.wspa.com/news/top-stories/first-lady-jill-biden-expected-to-speak-in-greensboro-today/ | 2022-09-12T19:19:40Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/top-stories/first-lady-jill-biden-expected-to-speak-in-greensboro-today/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Gamecocks Athletics) – The South Carolina Gamecocks will host the Charlotte 49ers in a 7:30 pm kick on Saturday, Sept. 24, the Southeastern Conference announced today. The game will be televised on ESPNU.
This will mark the first gridiron battle between the Gamecocks (1-1, 0-1 SEC) and the 49ers (0-3, 0-0 Conference USA).
South Carolina is home this week hosting top-ranked Georgia, while Charlotte plays at Georgia State.
Here is the entire SEC television schedule for games on Saturday, Sept. 24:
Bowling Green at Mississippi State 12:00ET SEC NETWORK
Missouri at Auburn 12:00 ET ESPN
Kent State at Georgia 12:00 ET SECN+/ESPN+
Florida at Tennessee 3:30 ET CBS
Tulsa at Ole Miss 4:00 ET SEC NETWORK
Arkansas vs. Texas A&M (in Arlington) 7:00 ET ESPN
Northern Illinois at Kentucky 7:00 ET ESPN2
Vanderbilt at Alabama 7:30 ET SEC Network
Charlotte at South Carolina 7:30 ET ESPNU
New Mexico at LSU 7:30 ET SECN+/ESPN+ | https://www.wspa.com/sports/usc/gamecocks-to-play-charlotte-under-the-lights-in-columbia/ | 2022-09-12T19:19:47Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/sports/usc/gamecocks-to-play-charlotte-under-the-lights-in-columbia/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In 2016 Henry Stanley was diagnosed with melanoma cancer of the vocal cords. He worked with the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University, and while one of the leading auctioneer and auction owners in the industry did lose his voice, he now lives cancer-free. In 2017 Carolina Auto Auction began an annual fundraising event to include a gala, auction and golf tournament. Today we are joined by Eric, Tiffany, and Diana to tell us more about Legacy Gala and VIP Charity Auction
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When Law & Order and its various spin-offs return to NBC this fall, it’s safe to assume that late-night host John Oliver won’t be tuning in. On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, he devoted his main segment to the franchise’s oft-skewed depiction of law enforcement and took aim at show creator Dick Wolf. (Vanity Fair has reached out to Wolf’s rep for comment.)
“It’s presenting a world where the cops can always figure out who did it, defense attorneys are irritating obstacles to be overcome, and even if a cop roughs up a suspect, it’s all in pursuit of a just outcome,” Oliver said, calling the series “a commercial, and a commercial produced by a man who is, in his own words, unabashedly pro-law enforcement. And he is very good at selling things. And in this instance, he’s selling a complete fantasy that many people in this country are only too happy to buy.”
Oliver began by noting that Wolf was influenced by the 1950s police procedural Dragnet, a series that collaborated so closely with the LAPD that officials from the force reportedly had script approval. Similarly, Wolf cultivated a “close behind-the-scenes relationship with the NYPD, employing officers as consultants and boasting about the access he had,” Oliver said.
He mentioned an anonymous Law & Order writer who once claimed that there was a sense amongst the creative team that if police were depicted negatively, the NYPD “could make it very difficult for us to shoot in New York.” Said Oliver, “Does make sense, doesn’t it? The NYPD is famously anti-shooting unless they are the ones doing it.”
The host then pointed out realities of the criminal justice system that Law & Order often ignores, including the 97% of cases that never go to trial and the fact that defendants often don’t reflect those seen on the show, who are “disproportionately white, male, older, and from the middle or upper classes.” “Obviously, Law & Order cannot reflect that reality,” Oliver said. “It would be unwatchable. Nobody wants to watch a show where 97% of episodes end with two lawyers striking a deal in a window-less room, and then you get to watch the defendant serve six months then struggle to get a job at their local Jiffy Lube.”
Oliver concluded his remarks on Law & Order’s glorification of policing by asserting that the show “is never going to grapple with the reality of policing in a meaningful way…because fundamentally, the person who is responsible for Law & Order and its brand is Dick Wolf, and he knows exactly what he wants his shows to do and, importantly, not to do.”
Elsewhere in the episode, the infamously anti-royal host acknowledged the death of Queen Elizabeth by criticizing new UK prime minister Liz Truss, whom he referred to as “Margaret Thatcher if she were high on glue.” Oliver maligned Truss’s plans to counteract soaring energy bills in England with a tax on oil and gas corporations. “Look, I’m just gonna say this, and you may not like it, but it doesn’t make it any less true: The nicest thing the Queen of England ever did for anyone was die the week that woman became prime minister,” he said. “Because for at least a week, she’s not going to get justifiably destroyed for answers like that.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/john-oliver-law-and-order-dick-wolf | 2022-09-12T19:20:34Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/john-oliver-law-and-order-dick-wolf | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
When Law & Order and its various spin-offs return to NBC this fall, it’s safe to assume that late-night host John Oliver won’t be tuning in. On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, he devoted his main segment to the franchise’s oft-skewed depiction of law enforcement and took aim at show creator Dick Wolf. (Vanity Fair has reached out to Wolf’s rep for comment.)
“It’s presenting a world where the cops can always figure out who did it, defense attorneys are irritating obstacles to be overcome, and even if a cop roughs up a suspect, it’s all in pursuit of a just outcome,” Oliver said, calling the series “a commercial, and a commercial produced by a man who is, in his own words, unabashedly pro-law enforcement. And he is very good at selling things. And in this instance, he’s selling a complete fantasy that many people in this country are only too happy to buy.”
Oliver began by noting that Wolf was influenced by the 1950s police procedural Dragnet, a series that collaborated so closely with the LAPD that officials from the force reportedly had script approval. Similarly, Wolf cultivated a “close behind-the-scenes relationship with the NYPD, employing officers as consultants and boasting about the access he had,” Oliver said.
He mentioned an anonymous Law & Order writer who once claimed that there was a sense amongst the creative team that if police were depicted negatively, the NYPD “could make it very difficult for us to shoot in New York.” Said Oliver, “Does make sense, doesn’t it? The NYPD is famously anti-shooting unless they are the ones doing it.”
The host then pointed out realities of the criminal justice system that Law & Order often ignores, including the 97% of cases that never go to trial and the fact that defendants often don’t reflect those seen on the show, who are “disproportionately white, male, older, and from the middle or upper classes.” “Obviously, Law & Order cannot reflect that reality,” Oliver said. “It would be unwatchable. Nobody wants to watch a show where 97% of episodes end with two lawyers striking a deal in a window-less room, and then you get to watch the defendant serve six months then struggle to get a job at their local Jiffy Lube.”
Oliver concluded his remarks on Law & Order’s glorification of policing by asserting that the show “is never going to grapple with the reality of policing in a meaningful way…because fundamentally, the person who is responsible for Law & Order and its brand is Dick Wolf, and he knows exactly what he wants his shows to do and, importantly, not to do.”
Elsewhere in the episode, the infamously anti-royal host acknowledged the death of Queen Elizabeth by criticizing new UK prime minister Liz Truss, whom he referred to as “Margaret Thatcher if she were high on glue.” Oliver maligned Truss’s plans to counteract soaring energy bills in England with a tax on oil and gas corporations. “Look, I’m just gonna say this, and you may not like it, but it doesn’t make it any less true: The nicest thing the Queen of England ever did for anyone was die the week that woman became prime minister,” he said. “Because for at least a week, she’s not going to get justifiably destroyed for answers like that.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/john-oliver-law-and-order-dick-wolf | 2022-09-12T19:20:34Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/john-oliver-law-and-order-dick-wolf | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Hollywood’s burning love for Elvis shows no signs of fading away. On the heels of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, which has grossed $280 million worldwide, Oscar winner Sofia Coppola has announced her own Presley-adjacent project: She will write and direct Priscilla, a biopic about Elvis’s former spouse Priscilla Presley, based on her 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, Deadline reports.
The film, which will be released by A24, is set to star Mare of Easttown’s Cailee Spaeny in the titular role and Euphoria’s Jacob Elordi as Elvis. While sources told Deadline that multiple actors were considered for the king of rock and roll, 25-year-old Speany has remained Coppola’s “top choice from day 1.”
Those longing for a glimpse at Elordi’s potential Elvis transformation, look no further than his 2020 Halloween costume. He dressed as the icon, complete with a cobalt blue suit and slicked-back hair, alongside then-girlfriend Kaia Gerber as Priscilla. In a strange twist, Gerber is now dating Austin Butler, who headlined Luhrmann’s Elvis with Olivia DeJonge’s Priscilla.
The real-life Priscilla has yet to publicly address DeJonge’s big-screen portrayal, which largely sidesteps the fact that she and Elvis met when she was just 14 years old. In her New York Times bestselling memoir, Presley details her six-year marriage to the icon, including the birth of their daughter, Lisa Marie, and the tensions that led to their split just four years before his death in 1977.
Coppola has enlisted several of her frequent collaborators for the movie—her feature follow-up to 2020’s On the Rocks—including cinematographer Philippe Le Sourd, costume designer Stacey Battat, editor Sarah Flack, and production designer Tamara Deverell. Priscilla is set to begin shooting in Toronto this fall. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/sofia-coppola-directing-priscilla-presley-movie | 2022-09-12T19:20:40Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/sofia-coppola-directing-priscilla-presley-movie | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
John Roberts is breaking yet another judicial precedent. Where justices once said they believed the Supreme Court’s legitimacy must be “earned over time,” the current conservative chief justice appears to hold that its legitimacy is inherent, absolute, and unconditional. Speaking at a judicial conference in Colorado over the weekend, Roberts said that while criticism of the court’s opinions is “appropriate,” questioning the institution itself is not. “You don’t want the political branches telling you what the law is, and you don’t want public opinion to be the guide of what the appropriate decision is,” Robert told attendees, according to The Washington Post. “Yes, all of our opinions are open to criticism. In fact, our members do a great job of criticizing some opinions from time to time," he added. "But simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for criticizing the legitimacy of the court.”
Roberts’ comments are hardly surprising with public confidence in the court plummeting as more high-profile political figures — like Vice President Kamala Harris — join the chorus of critics calling the high court into question. Still, the sanctimony of his latest remarks are notable in their wild mischaracterization of the backlash: Yes, a majority of Americans disagree with the court’s Dobbs decision to overturn Roe. But it’s not just the outcome, which decimated a right Americans had held for five decades and put a variety of other privacy rights in jeopardy. It’s the way that decision — and others on guns, climate change, and religion — recently came to pass.
After all, this was a judiciary that was specifically engineered to end Roe. On the 2016 campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to appoint judges who would overturn the landmark 1973 ruling. And with a lot help from Mitch McConnell, who did whatever he needed to do to muscle Trump’s three picks onto the bench, Trump did just that. Even though each of these appointees suggested that Roe was settled law during their confirmation hearings, they all signed onto Samuel Alito’s majority opinion — a stunningly radical, illogical, and cherry-picked treatise that took “aim…at the rule of law,” as the court’s three liberal justices wrote in their scathing dissent. “I think this is an activist court,” Vice President Harris echoed in a Sunday NBC News interview with Chuck Todd. “We had an established right for almost half a century…and this court took that constitutional right away, and we are suffering as a nation because of it.”
And it goes way beyond just Dobbs; with legislative minorities on Capitol Hill, the GOP has vested the party agenda to the judicial branch on a number of key issues. Take the Supreme Court's decision striking down a New York law regulating handguns, which the court issued a month after a racially motivated mass shooting at Buffalo grocery store: “The New York law at issue in this case obviously did not stop that perpetrator,” Alito wrote in a concurring opinion, which isn’t so much an argument against the New York law as it is an argument against literally any law. (Should DUI laws be struck down because people still drive drunk?) There’s been similar nonsense in lower courts too, as evidenced by Judge Aileen Cannon's decision to grant the former president’s request for a special master to review the documents federal agents recovered at Mar-a-Lago last month. Trump’s claim of executive privilege over the classified materials, which included information about nuclear weapons, was dubious for about a thousand reasons. But Cannon, who was appointed by Trump in 2020 and confirmed by the Senate a week after his reelection loss to Joe Biden, gave the former president the benefit of the doubt and then some, not only validating his privilege claim, but also suggesting Trump would suffer “reputational harm” from the probe — a legal injury that applies not only to Trump but anyone who is raided by the FBI.
“This stuff is completely way out,” George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf told Politico of Cannon’s ruling. “She’s applying a kind of reverse Trumplaw: anything Trump wants, I’ll take the most ridiculous argument and I’ll fly with it.”
All of these fallacious rulings are bad enough for the judiciary's reputation. But they only make up one part of the Supreme Court's foray into politics. There’s Brett Kavanaugh, whose response to sexual misconduct allegations that nearly derailed his confirmation in 2018 was to dismiss the accusations as an attempt at “revenge on behalf of the Clintons” and to lash out at the “left” for waging a “con job” to take him down. There’s also Clarence Thomas, whose wife, Virginia Thomas, played a part in the right’s effort to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss. And, of course, there’s Alito, who mocked critics of his abortion opinion in a Rome speech over the summer.
This is not a court dominated by judges who merely have a conservative interpretation of the constitution; this is one dominated by unaccountable right-wing activists. Roberts may not like that line of criticism. But as The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus pointed out Sunday, he himself warned that overt partisanship could endanger the court’s legitimacy — explicitly in his first term, back in 2006, and more indirectly in his Dobbs ruling, which expressed concerns that Roe rescission would represent a “serious jolt to the legal system.” If he wants to point a finger, it should not be at the Americans now questioning the legitimacy of the system. It should be at his own conservative colleagues, who have done little to earn trust in the court and much to erode it. | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/john-roberts-defends-supreme-court-against-legitimacy-questions | 2022-09-12T19:20:46Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/john-roberts-defends-supreme-court-against-legitimacy-questions | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The show must go on. Even when the show is football, it must go on. On Sunday, Tom Brady began his 23rd season of football, an unheard of amount for most football players anywhere, and especially a quarterback.
Ahead of that game, which the Bucs won, his wife, Gisele Bündchen, tweeted, “Let’s go @TomBrady ! Let’s go Bucs ! ✨✨✨”
Sweet, right? A normal bit of cheering from a WAG, yes? Yes! But also, according to People, Bündchen wasn’t planning to attend the first game of the season, and that’s unusual.
There’s trouble afoot in their marriage, allegedly. The problem, per various anonymous sources speaking with various tabloids over the past couple of weeks, is that, for Brady, the show didn’t have to go on. The show could have been put to rest, and everything would have been normal and good. He had already played longer than most of his contemporaries, and was a highly decorated sportsman at that. In February, he did announce his retirement, which his wife reportedly approved of, and then he came out of retirement to play another season as quarterback of the Buccaneers, which apparently thrilled his wife less.
So per these rumors, Bündchen is taking some space. She left their modest domicile “Billionaire Bunker” to fly to Costa Rica recently, one report said. Meanwhile, Brady’s football season started, and she was not there. Ahead of the opening game, a source told People, “It feels very different this year than last year. She was excited to be here, we saw her around. I’m not saying she can't possibly come, but nothing is in place for her to be here for the first regular season game and that seems weird.”
Signs of trouble in Floridian paradise began in August, after Brady missed practice. Later, the QB told reporters, “Everyone’s got different situations they’re dealing with, so we all have really unique challenges to our life. I’m 45 years old, man.”
“There’s a lot of shit going on, so you just have to try and figure out life the best you can. You know, it’s a continuous process,” he added.
While all 45 years of Tom Brady duked it out on the field, over on Instagram, Bündchen wished a happy birthday to one of her sisters back in Brazil, Graziela Nonnenmacher Bündchen. \
“Happy birthday to a true angel on earth! I love you so much sis!” she wrote in Portuguese.
Maybe it’s not an amazing sign for their marriage that she didn’t also use Instagram to wish Brady a happy game, and it’s maybe not a great sign either that she used a wedding photo without Brady in it. But it depends on how you read the tea leaves, I suppose. In the picture she is wearing her wedding dress, and that must be a good sign, no? She might need some space from her husband, but she doesn’t need a break from remembering her wedding day 13 years ago. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/gisele-bundchen-tweets-support-for-tom-brady-amid-rumors-of-rift | 2022-09-12T19:20:52Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/gisele-bundchen-tweets-support-for-tom-brady-amid-rumors-of-rift | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Meghan Markle is temporarily pausing her podcast Archetypes following Queen Elizabeth's death late last week.
After debuting last month and releasing its first three episodes featuring personal conversations with stars like Serena Williams, Mariah Carey, and Mindy Kaling, the royal decided to go on hiatus with the show in order to pay respect to the late monarch. Spotify confirmed the news on Monday, changing the podcast's “About” section to say that “New episodes of Archetypes will be paused during the official mourning period for Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II.” The streaming platform has yet to announce when the series will return.
After officially stepping down from their positions as senior royals at the beginning of 2020, Meghan and her husband Prince Harry announced that they had signed a reported $25 million deal for a multi-year partnership with Spotify via their production company Archewell Audio. As part of that contract, they also announced that they will be committed to producing programming that “uplifts and entertains audiences around the world; spotlights diverse perspectives and voices; and builds community through shared experience, narratives, and values.”
According to a press release announcing Archetypes, the podcast, “investigate[s] the labels that try to hold women back” and features the royal in conversation with various historians and experts as they seek to “uncover the origin of these stereotypes and have uncensored conversations with women who know all too well how these typecasts shape narratives.” In a teaser trailer from March, a supercut of some of the disparaging words and labels that have been applied to women in the media plays before the Duchess of Sussex explains, “This is how we talk about women, the words that raise our girls, and how the media reflects women back to us. But where do these stereotypes come from? And how do they keep showing up and defining our lives?” Two days after releasing its debut episode featuring Williams, Archetypes became the number one podcast in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
In her final episode before this hiatus, Meghan bonded with Kaling over feeling like an “ugly duckling” in high school. She explained, “Look, maybe not conventional beauty as it—now, maybe that would be seen as beautiful—but massive frizzy curly hair and a huge gap in my teeth. I was the smart one. Forever and ever and ever and ever. And, and then just sort of grew up.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/meghan-markle-archetypes-podcast-new-episodes-paused-after-queen-elizabeth-death | 2022-09-12T19:20:59Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/meghan-markle-archetypes-podcast-new-episodes-paused-after-queen-elizabeth-death | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Oprah Winfrey is still holding out hope that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be able to reconcile with the rest of the royal family as they reunite to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth.
In an interview with Extra on Monday about her new documentary on Sidney Poitier debuting at the Toronto Film Festival, the talk show host was asked if about the possibility of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex restoring their relationship with the other royals after seeing the photos of them altogether over the weekend. “Well, this is what I think, I think in all families—you know, my father passed recently, this summer—and when all families come together for a common ceremony, the ritual of, you know, burying your dead, there’s an opportunity for peacemaking…And hopefully, there will be that,” Winfrey said. She, of course, discussed much of what caused that fallout within the royal family with Meghan and Harry directly during their bombshell sit-down interview in March 2021.
Prior to the monarch's passing, both Harry and Meghan were visiting the UK on a planned trip in support of a number of charities they've long been patrons of, including One Young World and the Invictus Games. Last Thursday, upon hearing that Queen Elizabeth was in increasingly poor health, Harry rushed from Frogmore Cottage—the couple’s former home on the Windsor estate—to be by his grandmother’s side at Balmoral in Scotland. However, he didn't arrive until after the queen’s death had already been announced. He and Meghan are now planning to stay in the UK until September 19 in order to attend the queen’s funeral. Over the weekend, it also seemed like relations between Harry and his brother Prince William were beginning to warm up after the Prince of Wales and his wife Kate Middleton reportedly invited the Sussexes to join them in greeting the thousands of mourners gathered outside Windsor Castle. This occasion marked the first time they've all appeared in public together since Commonwealth Day in March 2020. “We are all very grateful—both sides putting all things aside for the Queen,” a royal source told Page Six.
On Monday, Harry released a statement about his late grandmother, posting a tribute to the monarch on his and Meghan's Archewell website. “In celebrating the life of my grandmother, Her Majesty The Queen—and in mourning her loss—we are all reminded of the guiding compass she was to so many in her commitment to service and duty,” it read. “She was globally admired and respected. Her unwavering grace and dignity remained true throughout her life and now her everlasting legacy.” The royal went on to share, “Granny, while this final parting brings us great sadness, I am forever grateful for all of our first meetings—from my earliest childhood memories with you, to meeting you for the first time as my Commander-in-Chief, to the first moment you met my darling wife and hugged your beloved great-grandchildren. I cherish these times shared with you, and the many other special moments in between. You are already sorely missed, not just by us, but by the world over. And as it comes to first meetings, we now honor my father in his new role as King Charles III.” Harry concluded, "Thank you for your commitment to service. Thank you for your sound advice. Thank you for your infectious smile. We, too, smile knowing that you and grandpa are reunited now, and both together in peace.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/oprah-queen-elizabeth-death-prince-harry-meghan-markle-opportunity-peacemaking | 2022-09-12T19:21:05Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/oprah-queen-elizabeth-death-prince-harry-meghan-markle-opportunity-peacemaking | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After a similar case filed by his nephew was dismissed in July, Ricky Martin is again being accused of sexual assault.
The pop star was named in another sexual assault complaint filed on Friday at a police department in his hometown of San Juan, Puerto Rico, per the Associated Press. This comes after Martin sued his nephew, Dennis Yadiel Sánchez Martin, last Wednesday over what Martin claims are false allegations of sexual abuse made in a case that was dismissed in July. Because of the nature of this new complaint, the identity of who filed it and details of the allegations are not available to the public. However, a person who was not authorized to speak about the case confirmed to the AP that Martin’s nephew, whose mother is Martin's sister, filed the complaint. The person also explained that this filing does not automatically result in an arrest as the alleged incident is not recent and will require a police investigation to determine whether or not the case should move forward.
In a statement to People, the singer's attorney José Andréu-Fuentes said, “These claims are wildly offensive and completely untethered from reality. When this man previously made similar allegations, his legal case had to be withdrawn—not least because he himself admitted under oath that Ricky Martin had never assaulted him in any way.” He continued, “Now, after being sued for trying to extort Mr. Martin, he is attempting to spread his lies again. It is beyond time that the media stops giving this deeply troubled individual the oxygen of publicity and allows him to get the help he so clearly needs.”
Sánchez, Martin's nephew, initially requested a domestic abuse restraining order against Martin in July, a filing that a representative for the musician also called “completely false and fabricated.” The request stated that the pair had been romantically involved for seven months and that Martin “did not accept” that the relationship had ended, causing Sánchez to say that he “feared for his safety.” However, a judge later archived the case after Sánchez admitted under oath that he had never been sexually assaulted by Martin. In a statement to People, another of Martin's attorneys, Marty Singer, said, “Unfortunately, the person who made this claim is struggling with deep mental health challenges. Ricky Martin has, of course, never been—and would never be—involved in any kind of sexual or romantic relationship with his nephew. The idea is not only untrue, it is disgusting. We all hope that this man gets the help he so urgently needs. But, most of all, we look forward to this awful case being dismissed as soon as a judge gets to look at the facts.”
Since getting that case dismissed, Martin has filed a $20 million lawsuit against his nephew, accusing him of extortion, malicious prosecution, abuse of rights and damages. In the legal documents, as reported by People, the Grammy winner alleges that Sánchez made these false claims against him after Martin didn't follow him back on Instagram and “ignored” his requests to create social media profiles for his children. He also claims that his nephew shared his personal phone number on social media, which forced him to change it. He also alleged that after Sánchez filed his initial lawsuit, he called Martin's legal team “with the purpose of attempting to negotiate an economic benefit, in exchange for withdrawing his request” for the restraining order, negotiations that his legal team were not open to entertaining. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/ricky-martin-second-sexual-assault-complaint-dismissed-nephew-case-extortion-puerto-rico | 2022-09-12T19:21:11Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/ricky-martin-second-sexual-assault-complaint-dismissed-nephew-case-extortion-puerto-rico | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Exxon Valdez Capt. Joseph Hazelwood dies at 75
Published: Sep. 12, 2022 at 2:13 PM CDT|Updated: 8 minutes ago
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Joseph Hazelwood, the captain of the Exxon Valdez that grounded on Alaska’s Bligh Reef in 1989, causing one of the nation’s worst oil spills, has died.
A nephew, Sam Hazelwood, confirmed to The New York Times that Joseph Hazelwood died at age 75 in July after struggling with COVID-19 and cancer.
Hazelwood was accused of drinking before the ship left Valdez, Alaska, but witnesses at his trial disputed that he was drunk.
He handed control of the ship off to a third mate and was below deck when the tanker grounded.
He was the lone person criminally charged but was only convicted of a misdemeanor.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) between February 19, 2021 and June 8, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important October 31, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Abbott securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Abbott class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8453 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 31, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"), Abbott had "egregiously unsanitary" conditions at its Sturgis, Michigan facility which produced nearing half of Abbott's various forms of infant formula under the brands Similac, Alimentum, and EleCare; (2) as a result, Abbott's infant formula business was in dire jeopardy given the flagrant violations of federal and state health and safety regulations; (3) based on inspections by the FDA between 2019 and 2022, Abbott failed to establish process controls "designed to ensure that infant formula does not become adulterated due to the presence of microorganisms in the formula or in the processing environment" and Abbott also failed to "ensure that all surfaces that contacted infant formula were maintained to protect infant formula from being contaminated by any source"; (4) the unhygienic conditions of the Sturgis facility resulted in the recall of Abbott's infant formula and closure of the Sturgis facility; and (5) as a result, defendants' public statements about Abbott's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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SKYKOMISH, Wash.-
UPDATE: 9/12/22
The Bolt Creek fire in Skykomish has now burned 7,600 acres.
Level 3 evacuations remain in place from Skykomish to Index, due to the fast-moving nature of the fire.
According to the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), highway 2 remains closed and those travelling west on I-90 should expect delays.
9/10/22
Level 3 evacuations in place for everyone north of Skykomish to Index and north of HWY2. The wildfire has now become a DNR Level 3.
This is a mandatory evacuation, everyone must leave now.
Washington State Patrol troopers say to call 9-1-1 if you need help. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/fires/update-bolt-creek-fire-now-7-600-acres-level-3-evacuations-in-place/article_2e5569f6-314c-11ed-bbdf-d375fd52dab3.html | 2022-09-12T19:25:33Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/fires/update-bolt-creek-fire-now-7-600-acres-level-3-evacuations-in-place/article_2e5569f6-314c-11ed-bbdf-d375fd52dab3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YAKIMA, WA - The Yakima School District opened a new early learning center this school year combining 16 different sites spread out across the city for early learning last year.
"The reality is children's brains are 90% developed by the time that they are 5-years-old and so there's a lot of things that can happen in that time frame and we're structured to be able to help promote that growth and make sure they're on the right track," said Dr.Jamie Johnson the Principal at Discovery Early Learning Center.
Discovery Early Learning is combining many of the district's sites into one, having both DEL and Hoover be the only two early learning schools in the district.
"Not only do we teach them the academic skills but we really work on the social skills as well so it's everything from in our ECAP programs," said Dr. Johnson. "We do a family-style meal so that's really looking at kids like 'thank you, can I have more? please' so we're working on those social skills."
Discovery Early Learning is designed for children ages 0 to 5-years-old to get foundational learning skills before kindergarten.
"It helps that when they go to kindergarten they already got a base to build on," said Dr. Johnson. "What we're finding is that when kids come into kindergarten and they don't have that base to build we're filling in gaps."
DEL has 10 classrooms and 6 of those have full-day classes funded by state early childhood education and assistance programs. Some focus specifically on students who have autism and other special needs and every classroom has a teacher who speaks both Spanish and English.
"It's truly about helping them learn how to problem solve," said Dr. Johnson. "How to share what they're feeling, express those things so when they do get older and go on in life they are able to have those skills, it's been practiced they know how to do those things."
YSD also offers bus routes for families that can't take their kids to the new school, and the ECAP program DEL offers is free.
Dr. Johnson told me they are trying to help find students in the school district that would be able to take advantage of this program.
"We do child find events," said Dr. Johnson. "We'll be doing one this spring with the ESD we're lucky enough to partner up with them because we're truly trying to set up programs where families come to us and we can figure out where they need to go."
Dr. Johnson wants to encourage parents who have children under 5-years-old in Yakima to call Discovery Early Learning and ask questions if they are curious about the new school.
"We've all gone to school for this we're all trained professionals, we love kids and we're here to see them succeed and we're here to see them do well," said Dr. Johnson.
If you would like to find out how to you can sign up your kid for Discovery Early Learning:
Discovery Early Learning
Phone: 509-573-5980 | Fax: 509-573-5990 |
Address: 2810 Castlevale Rd. Yakima, WA 98902 | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/discovery-early-learning-opens-up-this-school-year-in-the-ysd/article_3a329928-329c-11ed-916f-37e82c4bd93e.html | 2022-09-12T19:25:39Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/discovery-early-learning-opens-up-this-school-year-in-the-ysd/article_3a329928-329c-11ed-916f-37e82c4bd93e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WHITE PASS, Wash.-
The Fall Season Pass Sale at the White Pass Ski Resort has been rescheduled, due to the Goat Rocks wildfire.
According to the ski resort, they were unable to hold the sale this Monday, as key staff were evacuated from their homes and couldn't reach the ski area, due to the closure of US 12.
The Fall Season Sale will now start on Monday, September, 19th, at 8 a.m. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/fire-delays-fall-season-sale-at-white-pass/article_7ca6eb9a-32a8-11ed-b1af-67c2f6ec813d.html | 2022-09-12T19:25:45Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/fire-delays-fall-season-sale-at-white-pass/article_7ca6eb9a-32a8-11ed-b1af-67c2f6ec813d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KENNEWICK, Wash.-
Around 10 p.m. on Sunday, September, 11th, the Kennewick Police Department responded to a missing person report on the 1100 block of W. 10th Avenue in Kennewick.
Carely Verduzco left home around 9 p.m. and had not returned an hour later. Officers were unable to locate her.
According to the Kennewick Police Department, Verduzco was wearing a tracking device, but it had not updated in over an hour.
Kennewick Police are now asking for the public's help in locating Verduzco. She was last seen wearing a bright orange shirt and green pants.
Anyone who sees Verduzco, or who has any information on her whereabouts should contact non-emergency dispatch at 509-628-0333. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/kpd-asks-for-publics-help-finding-missing-person/article_64af3792-329c-11ed-bba0-1b3f16d5fe0f.html | 2022-09-12T19:25:51Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/kpd-asks-for-publics-help-finding-missing-person/article_64af3792-329c-11ed-bba0-1b3f16d5fe0f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
OLYMPIA, Wash.-
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) and the state Department of Ecology (WADOE), spend a combined $9 million annually on litter cleanup efforts.
According to research commissioned by the WADOE, 75% of Washingtonians choose not to litter.
"Litter adds up when we don't make simple choices to properly dispose of garbage. It damages our environment, hurts wildlife, and threatens public health, safety and our economy," said Washington Governor Jay Inslee.
Ecology is launching an ad campaign entitled "Simple As That" to help prevent litter by changing the behaviors that cause it. The ads will offer simple tips to avoid littering.
Always have a dedicated container for collecting trash.
Hold on to trash from your travels until you reach a proper waste receptacle.
Live litter free and help others do the same.
Ecology is running the ads statewide in English and Spanish and partnering with Fred Meyer to give away free car litter bags.
"Litter is a big problem with simple solutions. Small actions like keeping a litter bag in your car to collect garbage can make a huge difference," said Amber Smith, Statewide Litter Prevention Coordinator at Ecology. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/preventing-litter-as-simple-as-that-in-wa/article_66369ebc-32b9-11ed-b76c-af8a12820493.html | 2022-09-12T19:25:57Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/preventing-litter-as-simple-as-that-in-wa/article_66369ebc-32b9-11ed-b76c-af8a12820493.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YAKIMA, Wash.-
Monday, Sept, 12th.
The search continues for Lucian, a four year old who went missing from Sarg Hubbard Park in Yakima on Saturday night.
Several agencies from across Washington have joined in the search efforts, including Kittitas County, the U.S. Air Force, Pierce County, Klickitat County. and the Moses Lake Fire Department.
According to the Yakima County Sheriff's Office (YCSO) the river and pond at Sarg Hubbard Park have been searched and tracking dogs and a cadaver dog have been employed.
The U.S. Air Force has also provided drones to aid in the search.
The YCSO says a party was going on at the park from around 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday night. They are asking members of the public who may have taken photos or videos at the party to check the background to see if they perhaps caught an image of Lucian.
Anyone with any possible photos or videos of Lucian is asked to contact the YCSO at 509-574-2500.
According to the YCSO they are focusing their search south of Sarg Hubbard Park after reports of sightings of Lucian in that direction.
The YCSO is not currently asking for volunteers, but those wanting to help search can sign up at the mobile command post at Sarg Hubbard Park.
The official search party will look until 6 p.m. tonight, then leave a smaller force in the park overnight. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/search-continues-for-missing-4-year-old-in-yakima/article_9f495dae-32c1-11ed-8ab8-03995328e62a.html | 2022-09-12T19:26:04Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/search-continues-for-missing-4-year-old-in-yakima/article_9f495dae-32c1-11ed-8ab8-03995328e62a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Dynamic Sales Veteran to Drive Sales and Business Growth
CHANHASSEN, Minn., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IWCO Direct, a leading provider of data-driven performance marketing results, announced today that James Capstick has joined the company as Chief Sales Officer. Capstick is an accomplished senior leader and sales executive with an impressive track record of serving clients by building and retaining high-performing sales teams while managing high-volume business operations.
In his new role, Capstick will lead the sales team in optimizing sales enablement tools and platforms to further improve data integrity and customer insights, while showcasing IWCO Direct's ability to help clients drive performance across a range of one-to-one channels. He will also work with the leadership team to accelerate sales, optimize customer experiences, and stimulate the growth of the business.
"We are confident James' leadership and sales experience will help us unlock new growth potential and retain IWCO Direct's position as the leader in data-driven marketing," said Gary Masse, CEO of IWCO Direct. "He comes to us at the perfect time as we continue to invest in new solutions and capabilities that allow clients to reach consumers with highly personalized offers through the individual's preferred channels."
Capstick has held various leadership roles during his 30-year career, focused on implementing successful sales processes and enhanced sales pipelines. His experience includes 20 years at Quad Graphics, where he served as Vice President of Sales and Business Development. He also served as Vice President of Sales at Innovairre Communications, where he led the Genuine Pen business, a technology that applies handwritten fonts to print communications.
As a leading provider of data-driven performance marketing results, IWCO Direct's Power your Marketing™ approach drives response across all marketing channels to create new and more loyal customers. The company's full range of services includes strategy, creative, and execution for omnichannel marketing campaigns, along with one of the industry's most sophisticated postal logistics strategies for direct mail. Through Mail-Gard®, IWCO Direct offers business continuity and disaster recovery services to protect against unexpected business interruptions, along with providing print and mail outsourcing services. The company is ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) certified through BSI, reflecting its commitment to data security. Stay current on direct marketing trends, industry news, postal regulations, and more by subscribing to IWCO Direct's SpeakingDIRECT blog and following the company on LinkedIn.
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Smokey Monday with a slight chance for stray showers. Air quality will remain poor today. Morning temperatures in the 50s-60s, mid-upper 70s by noon and afternoon highs in the low-upper 80s.
Air Quality Alert - Southeast WA, Palouse, Inland Northwest and Northeast OR... Until Monday 2 PM (may need extension)
- Counties... WA: Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas; OR: Morrow, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa
- Including... Palouse, Inland Northwest (NE WA, Idaho Panhandle)
- Unhealthy - Very Unhealthy Air Quality
- Especially for young, elderly and people with heart or lung disease
Upper level low off the coast of WA has kicked moisture and a disturbance into the Pacific Northwest. This has resulted in some much need rain in the Cascades overnight, helping firefighters on the Goat Rocks fire. The line of showers now stretches from The Dalles to Coulee City and is slowly moving through the Yakima Valley. If it holds together we could see a few raindrops by late morning in the Tri-Cities and maybe in the foothills by the afternoon.
Smoke and poor air quality will remain an issue through tomorrow afternoon/evening. Models are beginning to a little stronger westerly flow tomorrow evening and that could help push some of the smoke out of the area. Hopefully this will improve our air quality and give us less smoke late Tuesday-Wednesday. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Highs Tuesday in the low-mid 80s and upper 70s-low 80s Wednesday-Friday. Weather looks to remain dry in the lower elevations and several chances for scattered mountain showers as weak disturbances swing through the region. Temperatures drop to the mid and upper 70s this weekend. Models are showing a stronger system this Sunday with an increasing chance for scattered showers. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/smoke-bad-air-quality-and-showers/article_30290616-32b4-11ed-8d2c-b7345417fc0c.html | 2022-09-12T19:26:10Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/smoke-bad-air-quality-and-showers/article_30290616-32b4-11ed-8d2c-b7345417fc0c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Holiday Inn Club Vacations Incorporated, a national vacation ownership company, today announced that it has been recognized by J.D. Power for providing "An Outstanding Customer Service Experience" with its Owner Support team in 2022. Holiday Inn Club Vacations is the first company in the timeshare or vacation ownership industry to achieve this prestigious certification.
"It's easy to claim to be a customer-centric organization, but it's something quite different to earn recognition for great customer service from a globally respected organization like J.D. Power. It speaks volumes about our team's dedication to placing customers at the heart of all we do," said John Staten, President and Chief Executive Officer of Holiday Inn Club Vacations Incorporated.
"While this certification is an important milestone and one of many ongoing initiatives designed to transform our customer journey into an even more personalized and innovative experience for all owners, Club members and guests, we're constantly looking for more ways to do better. That includes embracing best practices from all industries not just the hospitality or timeshare space. That's what customer-obsessed organizations like HICV do," added Staten.
"This certification includes a detailed evaluation of Holiday Inn Club Vacations policies, practices, and procedures, as well as primary research where they must meet our cross-industry customer satisfaction benchmark from recently serviced customers. They have proven that they are dedicated to providing excellent service and exceeding customer expectations," said Mark Miller, Practice Leader, Customer Service Advisory, J.D. Power. "With our Certified Customer Service Excellence Program, we independently verify the organization is following best practices consistent with cross-industry top performers by the channel in which they are certified and deliver outstanding customer service experiences. We're excited to present this certification to a timeshare company for the first time and congratulate Holiday Inn Club Vacations for achieving this prestigious distinction."
The extensive and rigorous J.D. Power certification program uses a series of national benchmarks to measure excellence in customer service. J.D. Power establishes these benchmarks through comprehensive research, which span across several industries. Additionally, program's best practices and benchmarks are updated annually to account for changing consumer preferences.
Holiday Inn Club Vacations offers a points-based membership program and a network of 28 family-friendly resorts located across the U.S. in top travel destinations. The resorts provide spacious, home-away-from-home villas with multiple bedrooms and kitchens, along with on-property amenities that provide memorable experiences to families, from lazy rivers and waterparks to horseback riding and hiking trails. For more information on Holiday Inn Club Vacations, visit holidayinnclub.com.
J.D. Power 2022 Certified Customer Service ProgramSM recognition is based on successful completion of an evaluation and exceeding a customer satisfaction benchmark through a survey of recent servicing interactions. For more information, visit www.jdpower.com/ccc.
Encompassing 28 resorts across 14 U.S. states, Holiday Inn Club Vacations Incorporated is a resort, real estate and travel company with a mission to be the most loved brand in family travel by delivering easy-to-plan, memorable vacation experiences that strengthen families.
Based in Orlando, Fla., the company has been a leader in the vacation ownership industry since 1982, when it was established by Holiday Inn® founder Kemmons Wilson with the opening of the company's flagship property, Holiday Inn Club Vacations® at Orange Lake Resort next to Orlando's Walt Disney World® Resort.
Today, the Holiday Inn Club Vacations resort portfolio spans across the United States. Throughout its history, the company has maintained the core family values true to its founding Wilson family, while aggressively pursuing growth, transforming its member engagement model and building an industry-leading team passionate about the guest experience.
Media Contact:
Ashley Pipa, Holiday Inn Club Vacations
407.315.8866
apipa@holidayinnclub.com
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CHICAGO, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals, is mobilizing its membership to address the nation's hunger, nutrition and health crises at the historic September 28 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health.
"As the acknowledged authorities on nutrition and health, the Academy and our members are uniquely qualified to assist in achieving the White House Conference's goals of reducing hunger and increasing healthful eating and physical activity by 2030," said registered dietitian nutritionist and Academy President Ellen R. Shanley.
The Academy has urged the White House to acknowledge the fundamental importance of nutrition by committing to actively pursue, implement and fund policies and programs addressing all social determinants of health – from health care access and quality to education opportunities and from economic stability to the neighborhood and built environment.
"Academy members have extensive formal education and training, which enables registered dietitian nutritionists to play a vital role in shaping the public's food choices and improving people's nutritional status to prevent and treat chronic disease," Shanley said.
Input from members formulated the Academy's specific recommendations for the conference:
- Government and non-government entities should fully leverage the training and skills of nutrition and dietetics practitioners in all clinical and community settings.
- Ensure all Americans have access to quality nutrition care services.
- Invest in prevention and redesign the food and nutrition experience where Americans go to school, work and play.
- Fully fund the Dietary Guidelines for Americans process; fund research necessary to inform its recommendations; and provide translation of data and implementation strategies necessary to reach all Americans.
- Support efforts to strengthen and expand federal nutrition programs.
"The Academy's recommendations for the White House Conference align with our vision of a world where all people thrive through the transformative power of food and nutrition," Shanley said.
On September 29, the day after the conference, Shanley will lead Academy members in a virtual town hall discussion about the conference's outcomes and next steps.
Representing more than 112,000 credentialed nutrition and dietetics practitioners, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is the world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. The Academy is committed to improving health and advancing the profession of dietetics through research, education and advocacy. Visit the Academy at www.eatright.org.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "We wanted to create an improved welding curtain that can be easily raised and re-lowered," said one of two inventors, from Avon, Colo., "so we invented the ELECTRIC WELDING CURTAIN PLUS. Our design would offer a convenient alternative to conventional fixed curtains that have to be dismantled and moved."
The invention provides an improved safety curtain for protecting a welder's eyes and body. It also can be easily raised and lowered as needed. As a result, it eliminates the need to move the structure or walk around it and it enhances safety and convenience. The invention features an adjustable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for welders, contractors, etc.
The original design was submitted to the Denver sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-DNV-368, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Dynamic Sales Veteran to Drive Sales and Business Growth
CHANHASSEN, Minn., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IWCO Direct, a leading provider of data-driven performance marketing results, announced today that James Capstick has joined the company as Chief Sales Officer. Capstick is an accomplished senior leader and sales executive with an impressive track record of serving clients by building and retaining high-performing sales teams while managing high-volume business operations.
In his new role, Capstick will lead the sales team in optimizing sales enablement tools and platforms to further improve data integrity and customer insights, while showcasing IWCO Direct's ability to help clients drive performance across a range of one-to-one channels. He will also work with the leadership team to accelerate sales, optimize customer experiences, and stimulate the growth of the business.
"We are confident James' leadership and sales experience will help us unlock new growth potential and retain IWCO Direct's position as the leader in data-driven marketing," said Gary Masse, CEO of IWCO Direct. "He comes to us at the perfect time as we continue to invest in new solutions and capabilities that allow clients to reach consumers with highly personalized offers through the individual's preferred channels."
Capstick has held various leadership roles during his 30-year career, focused on implementing successful sales processes and enhanced sales pipelines. His experience includes 20 years at Quad Graphics, where he served as Vice President of Sales and Business Development. He also served as Vice President of Sales at Innovairre Communications, where he led the Genuine Pen business, a technology that applies handwritten fonts to print communications.
As a leading provider of data-driven performance marketing results, IWCO Direct's Power your Marketing™ approach drives response across all marketing channels to create new and more loyal customers. The company's full range of services includes strategy, creative, and execution for omnichannel marketing campaigns, along with one of the industry's most sophisticated postal logistics strategies for direct mail. Through Mail-Gard®, IWCO Direct offers business continuity and disaster recovery services to protect against unexpected business interruptions, along with providing print and mail outsourcing services. The company is ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) certified through BSI, reflecting its commitment to data security. Stay current on direct marketing trends, industry news, postal regulations, and more by subscribing to IWCO Direct's SpeakingDIRECT blog and following the company on LinkedIn.
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ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Perinatal Quality Foundation (PQF) announced that it has begun the process of transferring its Fetal Monitoring Credentialing (FMC) program to Inteleos. As a non-profit certification organization, Inteleos serves more than 124,000 sonographers, physicians, and medical professionals around the world. The transfer is part of a strategic plan to grow and strengthen credentialing resources to continually enhance the quality of obstetrical medical services. The FMC program will remain a valuable resource for physicians, nurse-midwives, nurses, and all healthcare providers working with electronic fetal monitoring.
"Since it was begun in 2004, PQF has served more than 35,000 participants in four maternal and fetal health certification programs designed to improve the quality of obstetrical medical services through state-of-the-art educational programs and credentialing," said Jean Spitz, founding Executive Director.
"As we look forward to the future, our Board and team wanted to identify the strongest potential partners to expand our global network as well as add technological resources for FMC. We interviewed potential partners and ultimately chose to ask Inteleos to take on the program and add it to their portfolio of credentialing services," said Spitz. "We're delighted that they will build on what we've already accomplished and honor the work done by so many people through the years."
"PQF's FMC is a successful certification program and we at Inteleos are honored to take on and uphold its purpose, integrity, business rules, and general infrastructure to assure its continued success," said Michael Lilly, MD, Chair of the Inteleos Board of Directors.
"The FMC exam will be an integral component of the long-term vision of Inteleos to promote and provide education and career opportunities for healthcare professionals. The established infrastructure and global reach of Inteleos enables the organization to support a practitioner's FMC certification through career-long learning and maintenance of their practice proficiency levels," continued Lilly.
The Perinatal Quality Foundation's mission is to improve the quality of obstetrical medical services by providing state-of-the-art educational programs. During the organization's 18-year history, the Foundation already has fulfilled the mission by providing excellent programs, credentials, and services to more than 35,000 participants. The Foundation is based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and serves members of the obstetrical medical services industry across the United States.
Inteleos™ is a non-profit certification organization that delivers rigorous assessments and cultivates a global community of professionals dedicated to the highest standards in healthcare and patient safety. Inteleos is the overarching governance and management organization for the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography® (ARDMS®), the Alliance for Physician Certification & Advancement™ (APCA™) and the Point-of-Care Ultrasound Certification Academy™ which together represents over 124,000 certified medical professionals throughout the world. The Inteleos Foundation oversees the philanthropic work for the organization.
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DALLAS, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NPact, a leading provider of grant and donor management software, today announced it has signed an agreement with Blackbaud Inc. to acquire its FIMS and DonorCentral® NXT products. NPact will immediately dedicate new development and maintenance resources to both products and is committed to supporting and enhancing them for the foreseeable future.
This acquisition expands NPact's presence in its core community foundation and religious verticals, providing customers with the ability to quickly and seamlessly integrate and migrate to NPact's Foundation Cloud solution. This combination also provides its existing customers with a set of donor portal options and industry-leading accounting tools to further support their mission.
NPact will work with Blackbaud over the coming months to successfully transition both products to NPact's secure independent infrastructure and in-house support services. NPact will be in direct contact with FIMS and DonorCentral® NXT customers to guide and support them through this transition.
"We're extremely excited to add FIMS and DonorCentral® NXT to our product suite and welcome these new organizations to the growing NPact family," said NPact co-CEO Jeffrey Conn. "Our deep experience in donor advised fund management well positions NPact to serve this unique set of customers, as we continue to improve existing solutions and build new solutions which meet their specific needs."
NPact is excited to begin a long-term partnership with this customer base. We invite them to join our upcoming Welcome to NPact webinars, where we will provide additional detail about the acquisition and answer questions. We will offer two sessions to ensure everyone is able to attend – September 19 and 22.
For nearly 20 years, NPact has offered donor management, grant management, and content management solutions that help foundations and other non-profits accelerate their impact. The company serves hundreds of community, faith-based, education and independent foundations across the United States and Canada.
Existing FIMS and DonorCentral® NXT can visit NPact's website (www.npact.com) or email fims@npact.com for additional information.
Media Contact:
Krissy Vaio
kvaio@npact.com
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The personal injury attorneys at Manning Law, APC proudly announce they have secured a six-figure judgment on behalf of their injured client "James Z" in the Superior Court of Los Angeles without the need to go to trial. "Our client is ecstatic to obtain a fair and generous financial recovery without the need for a stressful and time-consuming trial" said Manning Law, APC co-founder Joseph R. Manning, Jr.
Babak (Bobby) Hashemi, lead personal injury counsel in this matter, said "I am proud to have secured a judgment that far exceeds the insurance company's initial offer for my client."
Manning Law, APC is known for its personal injury, civil rights, consumer, and environmental protection litigation including its precedent setting litigation under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") and the Unruh Civil Rights Act ("UCRA"). In particular, the firm is known for its role as plaintiff's counsel in the first federal appellate case to recognize the application of the ADA and UCRA to websites and mobile applications, see Robles v. Domino's Pizza, LLC, No. 17-55504 (9th Cir. 2019).
Manning Law, APC has also been recognized by the Office of the Secretary of Defense of the United States as a "Patriotic Employer" for its support of employee participation in the National Guard and Reserve Force.
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ASHBURN, Va., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At a time when education has become a battleground for politicians and divisive issues, one school in Loudoun County is doubling down on its investment in the next generation to bring the community together. On their 25th birthday, Virginia Academy is inviting the community to come together for their Ground Breaking service on a $24 million expansion in hopes of making modern resources and quality education available to all of Loudoun County.
"Our arms are stretched out to the entire community. Family is one of our core values," said Virginia Academy Chancellor, Pastor Charlie Whitlow. The leadership at Virginia Academy believes academic, family, and spiritual life are one, and invites the community to think of the school as a resource that can positively impact all three. "When you drive by the school and see the cranes and the builders in action, we want you to feel as excited and proud of Loudoun County and what's happening here, as we are," Whitlow said.
This transformative growth includes an expansion of the academic and sports facilities. Virginia Academy is taking a non-partisan approach to faith and education and invites the community to capitalize on this resource for the family.
Event: Doors are open to the entire community on September 18th for a service to highlight the expansion and strengthen bonds with new friends. All are welcome and be sure to bring your children.
- When: September 18th, 10:30 am
- Where: Virginia Academy
- Details: Outdoor service, including the groundbreaking ceremony, after which food is provided along with family friendly activities.
Call to Action: Virginia Academy welcomes Loudoun County as they prepare for an increased capacity of 300 students. The expansion includes an additional 60,000 square feet for academics, a gymnasium, collaborative meeting spaces for student life gatherings, nearly a dozen upper school classrooms including two state-of-the-art science labs, a dedicated art room, a library, digital resource rooms, and more.
Virginia Academy, founded in 1997 is one of the largest private schools in Loudoun County offering preschool through 12th grade. The expansion mirrors the diverse growth of Loudoun County, with all families welcome to be a part of the Virginia Academy community.
Media Contact: Brandon Consolvo, Advancement Director
Virginia Academy
19790 Ashburn Road,
Ashburn, VA 20147
Phone: 571-209-5500 [ext: 219]
Email: bconsolvo@virginia-academy.com
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GARDEN GROVE, Calif., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Any digital graphics/signage company that produces a finished product for its customers knows that printed material is not as difficult to produce as it is to finish the product through cutting and sewing processes. Getting the right equipment, supplies, accuracy and most importantly, experienced labor that knows the process well are all crucial steps to ensure a successful finishing process. A majority of these companies still use manual or semi-manual sewing machines that are labor intensive and not efficient.
Media One has been a proud partner with Matic (www.matic.es) for over 10 Years to help alleviate the stresses of this bottleneck, developing and selling hundreds of FULLY AUTOMATED sewing machines over the years. The Cronos Ultimate sewing system (https://www.mediaoneusa.com/Cronos-Ultimate) has been a proven textile sewing system having won many awards around the world.
Along with sewing machines, Media One also sells a Laser Cutter made specifically for Fabric Cutting - the Helios Plus (https://www.mediaoneusa.com/helioscutter).
Helios Plus has been specifically designed to save time and reduce costs for print service providers who are printing fabrics on a large and grand format scale. It allows an optimum use of printed fabrics due to a specially developed scanning systems that scans the entire bed within 4 seconds before starting the cutting process.
The High-Speed conveyor belt system advances the fabric, keeps it flat, eliminates waves on the surface, limiting the operator's involvement and thus warranting an accurate cut every time.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TRM Equity ("TRM" or "the Firm"), a Michigan-based middle market private equity firm, announced today a key new hire within its investment team, as Brad Young joins the firm as Vice President.
"Brad has critical skills that expand our capabilities with operationally intensive special situations. There was an immediate fit with our team which is absolutely crucial for our strategy and the size of our firm. We are very excited to have Brad join us," said Jeff Stone Managing Director TRM Equity.
Brad brings multiple years of experience to the role as an advisor to distressed and underperforming companies across a variety of industries, most recently with AlixPartners. In this capacity, he has advised and collaborated with management teams, Board of Directors, investors, lenders, and other advisors to develop and implement actionable restructuring and transformation plans.
Additionally, Brad served four years in the United States Navy. He received an honorable discharge, and during his service he received several awards recognizing his outstanding performance and leadership.
Brad graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder and earned a B.B.A with an emphasis in Finance. Brad also is a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA).
Formed in 2019, TRM Equity is a private equity firm that seeks to invest in special situations where the experience of our team can assist companies in executing their strategies. The firm's team has been together in a predecessor fund for over 15 years investing with a consistent approach in targeted manufacturing industries and has a demonstrated track record of outsized returns.
Media Contact
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Operations Manager
christynehro@trmequity.com
734.619.8865
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Rustavi is the central region located on both slopes to Gombari hills. Mzimtaris and Jvarishi cadasres also extend to Ridazo territory of Qakh Kingdom and Qubulets Kingdom and are known here due their geocentre nature to be separated with no border at places between the borderline of Quraltuli rike and Kali kingdom at other regions with mountain Qudsiya. Kutaisian tribes lived to GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The verdict has been made against Adam Fox and Barry Croft, but defense attorneys say it was anything but fair.
In federal court documents attorneys for the men are claiming jury misconduct and judicial bias after reports surfaced that a juror's coworker knew of their intention to find the pair guilty no matter the evidence presented.
Those allegations, now the basis for their appeal.
Though redacted for personal information, we know the coworker —known as Person #1 in the motion— alleged that juror said they were "hoping to get on the Whitmer Kidnapping trial, and intended to “hang” the defendants if [juror] was selected." That juror, also accused of contacting a family member about deliberations and the verdict before it was made public in court.
Person #1 went on to give a full name and physical description which matched the juror in question, according to the court documents.
Croft's and Fox's attorneys say the information was made known on the evening of August 11th, however the Court initially refused to address the issue until the end of the hearing held on August 11th. When the attorneys objected, the Court agreed to conduct a hearing— but only if it could be completed by 8:30 the morning of the trial.
Defense says they were not given the time to properly make a record of the alleged misconduct and the Court refused to question the juror or rest of the jury, instead saying they would "deal with the issue later" before ordering everyone back to the trial.
At this time Person #1 is refusing to give any further information— including the identity of the person who heard the information first-hand. The motion says the Court denied a Remmer Hearing— a hearing to determine juror influence— where that information could've been compelled from Person #1.
Instead, documents show the Court then performed an ex parte examination of the juror on August 12th, and allege the Court's questioning lead the juror to deny the accusations.
It's not like I have that on tape. It's not like I have anybody saying that under oath, but we have information that came to the Court that suggests you made statements like that as recently as Monday, which was before you became a juror, in connection with your place of work.
So I can see the puzzled look on your face, and so the first question is, do you remember making statements like that at any time?
Defense say the questioning was not under oath, didn't follow up on possible discrepancies, and "invited the juror to deny allegations without any risk of consequence for false statement."
It was while investigators were following a lead from another coworker (Person #2), leading them to try questioning Person #3— the alleged first-hand witness— that the jury reached its verdict on August 23rd.
The documents show all three Persons work with the juror and a family member of the juror. They allege that family member was getting intimate details from the juror including the status of deliberations, and an announcement when the verdict had been reached before it was read in court.
Defense says these communications are in clear violation of Court instructions forbidding jurors from speaking about the case.
RELATED: Ty Garbin filed a motion to have his sentence reduced.
The defense for Croft and Fox also allege the Court used its position to express opinions on evidence submitted by the defense, often saying counsel was "wasting time", "being unnecessarily repetitive", and the Court "[demeaned] the performance of defense counsel".
According to the motion, an opinion was submitted on August 12th from the Courts saying they would enforce time-limits on cross examination "unless the defendants can start focusing on something that really matters". That opinion was later revoked and another rule imposed: Bertlesman Rule— a ruling made in 1986 which discusses the reasonable time limits on trials. After that weekend the rule was revoked, though the defense argues this was after they had been denied ample time to question a key witness fully.
The motion states the defendants have the right to a fair trial but were not given that chance through the actions of a juror and the Court itself.
The Courts have 14 days to respond to the motion.
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There could not been more at staka or anything you need this kind of information you receive the discs to you. They may need one invoice but if the data with incompatible formats is on those records for tax reporting. There isn not just to the Internet.\nthe same and be done and they can always ask to talk to a group if you can save some data is. When purchasing the products for each recordings may just leave us all confused what information are also many products As I walk along a dirt trail that winds through Cheyenne Canyon near Colorado Springs, Colorado, I look up at the rock wall next to me. It’s imposing, around 400 feet tall with several jagged rocks that seem to stick out of the near-vertical face.
“This whole wall here is called the Army route,” says Joe Baker, speaking about the big thing he and his 8-year-old son, Sam, are about to climb. “You go right up the front of that.”
I’m from New Jersey. We don’t have rocks, nonetheless ones that you intentionally hook yourself to in an attempt to scale, so this entire experience is brand new to me, but for Sam, who is less than a third my age, it is anything but.
“We’re training Sam to be able to lead [a climb] and this has been one of our projects, and yesterday, he just led it masterfully and so I thought we’d try it again today,” said Joe, as we draw closer to the rock face.
If Sam’s name sounds familiar, it is because it is. We caught up with him and his dad in May 2021, shortly after the father-son duo made the decision they would climb one of the world’s most imposing rock faces in the world: El Capitan in Yellowstone National Park.
“I think Sam’s already ready,” said Joe on this cool September morning. “He’s definitely ready physically to do it. Is he ready for the exposure? I don’t know. Are any of us?”
To the uninitiated, El Capitan is known across the world as the mecca of climbing, with its 3,200 vertical feet of granite that's tested even the most experienced climbers since it was first climbed in the 1950s.
A few years ago, Joe thought it would be a good test for Sam’s ability, as he has already become the youngest person to climb three distinct peaks in North America.
On Oct. 24, the duo will set out for their newest journey, and if successful, it will make Sam the youngest person to climb and summit El Capitan.
“Just imagine walking on your fingers for a mile on the sidewalk, and then, think about that straight up, but you can’t walk anywhere because you’re literally hanging from your fingers or your anchors for four days,” said Joe, explaining the daunting task in front of them.
But going deeper, Joe thought it would be an even better test for the man he knows Sam will one day be.
“Yeah, just that internal confidence that you build with your father out on the rocks,” said Joe. “It’s something that’s going to be so beneficial when you’re building a business someday. You know, when you’re living life. Life is risky, life is dangerous, and learning to really acutely manage that [fear] is one of the greatest skills.”
As I watched Sam climb up the rocks of the Army Route with seemingly effortless ease, I witnessed what Joe meant about managing that fear. With no one around him around 60 feet from the ground, you could hear Sam call down to his father.
“It’s not going in! It’s not going in!”
He was referencing an anchor that you press between two rocks. The pressure of the device on the rocks holds it in place as you then attached a carabiner and rope to it for safety. Eighteen months ago, when we first met up with Sam, he might have given up on the task out of frustration, but today, after Joe asked if Sam wanted him to come up and help, Sam replied with a definitive, almost defiant, “No. I can do this.”
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There could not been more at staka or anything you need this kind of information you receive the discs to you. They may need one invoice but if the data with incompatible formats is on those records for tax reporting. There isn not just to the Internet.\nthe same and be done and they can always ask to talk to a group if you can save some data is. When purchasing the products for each recordings may just leave us all confused what information are also many products As I walk along a dirt trail that winds through Cheyenne Canyon near Colorado Springs, Colorado, I look up at the rock wall next to me. It’s imposing, around 400 feet tall with several jagged rocks that seem to stick out of the near-vertical face.
“This whole wall here is called the Army route,” says Joe Baker, speaking about the big thing he and his 8-year-old son, Sam, are about to climb. “You go right up the front of that.”
I’m from New Jersey. We don’t have rocks, nonetheless ones that you intentionally hook yourself to in an attempt to scale, so this entire experience is brand new to me, but for Sam, who is less than a third my age, it is anything but.
“We’re training Sam to be able to lead [a climb] and this has been one of our projects, and yesterday, he just led it masterfully and so I thought we’d try it again today,” said Joe, as we draw closer to the rock face.
If Sam’s name sounds familiar, it is because it is. We caught up with him and his dad in May 2021, shortly after the father-son duo made the decision they would climb one of the world’s most imposing rock faces in the world: El Capitan in Yellowstone National Park.
“I think Sam’s already ready,” said Joe on this cool September morning. “He’s definitely ready physically to do it. Is he ready for the exposure? I don’t know. Are any of us?”
To the uninitiated, El Capitan is known across the world as the mecca of climbing, with its 3,200 vertical feet of granite that's tested even the most experienced climbers since it was first climbed in the 1950s.
A few years ago, Joe thought it would be a good test for Sam’s ability, as he has already become the youngest person to climb three distinct peaks in North America.
On Oct. 24, the duo will set out for their newest journey, and if successful, it will make Sam the youngest person to climb and summit El Capitan.
“Just imagine walking on your fingers for a mile on the sidewalk, and then, think about that straight up, but you can’t walk anywhere because you’re literally hanging from your fingers or your anchors for four days,” said Joe, explaining the daunting task in front of them.
But going deeper, Joe thought it would be an even better test for the man he knows Sam will one day be.
“Yeah, just that internal confidence that you build with your father out on the rocks,” said Joe. “It’s something that’s going to be so beneficial when you’re building a business someday. You know, when you’re living life. Life is risky, life is dangerous, and learning to really acutely manage that [fear] is one of the greatest skills.”
As I watched Sam climb up the rocks of the Army Route with seemingly effortless ease, I witnessed what Joe meant about managing that fear. With no one around him around 60 feet from the ground, you could hear Sam call down to his father.
“It’s not going in! It’s not going in!”
He was referencing an anchor that you press between two rocks. The pressure of the device on the rocks holds it in place as you then attached a carabiner and rope to it for safety. Eighteen months ago, when we first met up with Sam, he might have given up on the task out of frustration, but today, after Joe asked if Sam wanted him to come up and help, Sam replied with a definitive, almost defiant, “No. I can do this.”
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The 49ers collapsed in the second half of their first game of the season, falling 19-10 to the Bears. After dominating in the first half, San Francisco led just 10-0 early in the third quarter and left the door open for Chicago to counter.
Here are position-by-position grades for the Niners' performance:
Quarterback: D+
I had Trey Lance down for a D at the end of the game but knocked his grade up slightly because of the weather conditions. Lance's final line was horrible. He finished 13-for-28 with 164 passing yards and an interception alongside 13 carries for 54 yards on the ground. However, Lance's performance was more of a mixed bag than his final line suggests.
Lance missed a downfield throw to tight end Tyler Kroft with a light amount of pressure in his face, but he also had fantastic deep completions to Jauan Jennings, Ray-Ray McCloud, and Brandon Aiyuk. Plus, he had another downfield completion to Aiyuk called back because of a horrendous offensive pass interference call that may have cost the Niners a score.
Lance's inaccuracy cost the Niners some completions and yards after the catch in the short passing game, and he also took a sack costly on third down that pushed them out of field-goal range in the first half. Still, I thought his ability to escape pressure and scramble alongside the big plays was enough for the positives to outweigh the negatives until his interception.
For what it's worth, safety Eddie Jackson did a great job turning his back to the intended receiver to lure Lance into making the throw, but it was nevertheless Lance's worst decision of the game.
Running backs: B-
In hindsight, the game really transformed after Elijah Mitchell was ruled out with a knee injury. Mitchell was fantastic for the Niners in the first half, rushing for 41 yards on six carries. While the offensive line did a better job creating holes for him than backup Jeff Wilson Jr., he also did a far better job making Bears' defenders miss. Wilson only managed 24 yards on nine carries and was unable to have much success in the run game.
Tight ends: C-
The Niners sorely missed George Kittle on Sunday. His blocking and pass-catching ability were sorely missed. With that said, Tyler Kroft and Ross Dwelley were fine. Dwelley hauled in a tough 11-yard reception on a third-down, and Kroft might have had the biggest play of the game if Lance had not overthrown him.
Wide receivers: C
Deebo Samuel cost the 49ers at least three points with a fumble in the first half. He later scored the Niners' only touchdown and ran for 52 yards on eight carries, but his performance as a pass-catcher was lacking. Deebo only caught two receptions for 14 yards on Sunday, one of which was a shovel pass on a jet sweep, and had a drop.
Brandon Aiyuk looked like he was heading for a big game early, but after the offensive pass interference, Aiyuk only had one touch. He finished with two receptions for 41 receiving yards on two targets with one carry for seven yards; whether it was Aiyuk failing to get open, Lance misreading plays, or Shanahan not calling Aiyuk's number, the Niners could not afford their second most dangerous weapon to disappear with Kittle already out.
McCloud and Jauan Jennings each had big receptions, with Jennings adding sore conversions on third down. I still think the Niners should have dressed Danny Gray to try and stretch the field, but McCloud and Jennings gave San Francisco plenty of production from their third and fourth receivers.
Offensive line: F
Trent Williams was easily the Niners' best offensive linemen, and even he committed a false start penalty. Mike McGlinchey looked rusty at right tackle, getting completely embarrassed by Dominique Robinson on a third-down sack, and the 49ers' interior offensive line did not exceed expectations. Aaron Banks, Jake Brendel, and Spencer Burford were consistently collapsing into Lance's face, forcing him to move around in the pocket. It may surprise you to know that the Bears never blitzed on Sunday.
All the pressure Chicago generated was by sending four or fewer rushers. Burford did have some great highlights in the run game, and frankly, since he's the only rookie on the line, his performance is probably the most understandable. The fact that 2021 second-round pick Aaron Banks and veteran center Jake Brendel looked as bad as they did is a far bigger cause for concern for the 49ers' offense.
Defensive line: B-
It looked like the 49ers' defensive line was going to coast into an A+ early. They obliterated the Bears' bad offensive line in the first half and generated consistent pressure against Justin Fields without giving him lanes to run. The run game was equally bottled up.
Then, all of a sudden, whether it was a lack of discipline, frustration with penalties, or running out of gas after not playing much in the preseason, things began to fall apart. The Niners' defensive front was still able to get some pressure, but they cost contain on Fields. Once Fields scrambled for a couple of big games, the line softened against the run as well, beginning to get gashed by David Montgomery and Khalil Herbert.
There were definitely positives from the defensive line's performance. Nick Bosa still looks like a star, and Javon Kinlaw might have had his best game as a pro. The 49ers' defensive line sshould stillbe a great unit this year, which iakes their late-game collapse so frustrating.
Linebackers: C-
Fred Warner was great, but Dre Greenlaw missed two tackles, including one that would have prevented a third-down conversion, while also committing two personal fouls (an iffy unnecessary roughness penalty on a sliding Justin Fields and an inexcusable facemask on David Montgomery after the Niners defensive line had already stopped him). Azeez Al-Shaair added an unnecessary roughness of his own on a Fields slide, but Greenlaw might have been the worst player on the field on Sunday.
Cornerbacks: B-
Mooney Ward was rarely targeted on Sunday, living up to the premium contract he received this offseason. Emmanuel Moseley missed a pair of tackles but dhad noegregious coverage mistakes. Rookie Samuel Womack was far from the difference maker he was in the preseason (as should be expected), but he was fine in the nickel.
Safeties: A-
Despite the loss, there was one undeniable bright spot from the 49ers' first game of the season: Talanoa Hufanga. He looked like one of the best safeties in the NFL in the first half, recording multiple tackles for loss, a pass breakup, and an interception. While he may not have been as dominant a force in the second half, he still finished with 11 tackles, two tackles for loss, a pass defended, and an interception. Hufanga had flashes but was mistake-prone as a rookie. Heading into the season, Hufanga seemed like the only obvious weak spot in the secondary. If he's legit and can maintain this caliber of play when Jimmie Ward returns, this defensive backfield has incredible potential.
With Ward still out, Tashaun Gipson started next to Hufanga at safety and brought the unit's grade down. Gipson dropped an interception that would have prevented a Bears' touchdown, and he also was responsible for the coverage failure that led to Chicago's final touchdown.
Special teams: B+
Not much to say here. Robbie Gould made all of his kicks, Ray-Ray McCloud had some solid returns, and Mitch Wishnowsky was his usual solid but inconsistent self as a punter. Longsnapper Taybor Pepper did | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/12/23347484/49ers-position-grades-embarrassing-loss-bears-trey-lance-nick-bosa-deebo-samuel-talanoa-hufanga | 2022-09-12T19:37:38Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/12/23347484/49ers-position-grades-embarrassing-loss-bears-trey-lance-nick-bosa-deebo-samuel-talanoa-hufanga | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It was a sloppy Sunday for the 49ers in more ways than one in Chicago. The Bears scored all 19 points in the second half of a wet and muddy 19-10 loss for the 49ers. The 49ers' play was as sloppy as the grass at Soldier Field, committing 12 penalties and turning the ball twice. While the 49ers start 2022 with an 0-1 record, there were some bright spots on a wet day in Chicago. Here are the winners and losers for the 49ers in the loss:
Winner: S Talanoa Hufanga
The second-year safety turned in what was easily the best game of his young career on Sunday. Hufanga totaled a team-high 11 tackles, with two being for a loss and recording his first-career interception in the first quarter. While he did have his struggles in coverage, most notably being the lone safety on the Equanimeous St. Brown touchdown in the fourth quarter, Hufanga excelled around the line of scrimmage, sniffing out a couple of screen passes for minimal gains and providing solid run support. It was a positive and encouraging start for Hufanga after an up-and-down rookie season in 2021.
Loser: Team discipline
The most penalties the 49ers committed in a game in 2021 was 10 in their 30-23 Week 13 loss in Seattle. The 49ers topped that number on Sunday, committing 12 penalties for 99 yards. One called on special teams, five called against the offense, and six called against the defense. Unfortunately, three of the penalties called against the defense occurred on a third down extending two of Chicago's touchdown-scoring drives. Azeez Al-Shaair and Dre Greenlaw combined for three 15-yard penalties, with two falling on third down, while Charvarius Ward was called for the other drive-extending drive on a holding.
Winner: 49ers first half defense
The 49ers defense opened the game humming, holding the Bears offense to just 68 yards with three three-and-outs. The pass rush started off hot with Javon Kinlaw getting a pressure on the second play of the game and Samson Ebukam sacking Justin Fields on the third. Hufanga intercepted Justin Fields on the Bears' second drive of the game and then held the Bears' offense to eight plays over the next three drives. It was a half where the defense was playing so well; the 49ers seven-point lead felt like it was a multiple-score game.
Loser: 49ers second half defense
The Bears started the second half with what looked to be another three-and-out, but Greenlaw was called for the drive-extending face mask. Three plays later, Fields rolled to his left and found a wide-open Dante Pettis on the opposite side of the field for a 49-yard touchdown to put the Bears down three. Chicago then put together their best drive of the day, a 10-play, 84-yard drive that saw two-drive extending penalties by the 49ers defense and finished with the St. Brown touchdown. Chicago then scored on a third-consecutive drive following Trey Lance's interception, scoring all 19 of their points in the second half. After allowing just 68 yards and no scores in the first half, the defense allowed 136 yards and three scores in the second half leading to the loss.
Winner: Offensive Weapon Deebo Samuel
If one question was answered today, it was the question of Samuel's usage in the 49ers offense. After months of negotiations and rumors about Samuel's alleged displeasure with his 2021 usage Kyle Shanahan made it known quickly that offensive weapon Deebo Samuel is here to stay. While he had a pedestrian day as a receiver, two receptions for 14 yards on eight targets, Samuel, as he did last season, made an impact in the run game. While he did fumble on the first drive of the game, Samuel more than made up, totaling 52 rushing yards on eight carries and a touchdown. Samuel had a full day in the backfield, which could continue with a potential injury to Elijah Mitchell.
Loser: The pass protection
While Trey Lance wasn't his best on Sunday, his offensive line didn't give him much help. Lance was sacked twice, hit four times, and was pressured 12 times despite the Bears not sending a single blitz for the entire game.
Despite the lack of Bears blitzes, Lance was pressured 12 times. He was 1-of-7 for -2 yards on those drop backs and took two sacks with three scrambles for positive yards.
— Nick Wagoner (@nwagoner) September 11, 2022
The conditions were already against the passing game, but the offensive line made it even more challenging for the air attack to get going. While the line did well for the running game, 37 carries for 176 yards. It seemed Lance never had time to get in a flow. There were plenty of questions about the line entering the season, and the group didn't help themselves with Sunday's performance.
Some pass block win rate numbers for #49ers OL yesterday:
— Nick Wagoner (@nwagoner) September 12, 2022
G Spencer Burford -- 96.2% (15th best among guards)
G Aaron Banks -- 80.8% (55th of 61 guards)
C Jake Brendel -- 92% (20th of 30 centers)
T Trent Williams -- 88.5% (36th of 61 tackles)
T Mike McGlinchey -- 84.6% (41st) | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/12/23348522/49ers-bears-winners-losers | 2022-09-12T19:37:44Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/12/23348522/49ers-bears-winners-losers | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What were the Queen's favourite hymns?
Religion played a key role in Queen Elizabeth II's public and private life. We take a closer look at five of her most cherished hymns
Which hymns were most beloved by Queen Elizabeth II? Here is a selection of religious songs that she is known to have loved – or that featured at prominent moments during her reign.
Which hymns did the Queen love the most during her lifetime?
Praise, My Soul, The King of Heaven
The Queen loved this Christian hymn, written by Anglican clergyman Henry Francis Lyte. First published in 1834, Lyte’s hymn draws on Psalm 103, which is believed to have been written during the life of the Hebrew King David.
Lyte first published the hymn in his collection The Spirit of the Psalms, which he used with his congregation in Brixham, south Devon.
The music with which the lyrics are most frequently heard today, however, was written in 1868 by John Goss. Appropriately, there was a Royal connection: Goss was a boy chorister of the Chapel Royal, the establishment that ministers to the spiritual needs of the monarch and Royal Family.
The hymn is already a familiar staple from state ceremonies, having been played during Queen Elizabeth’s wedding to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1947. More recently, soprano Alexandra Stevenson performed ''Praise, My Soul the King of Heaven' during the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee earlier in 2022.
The Lord’s My Shepherd
To mark the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations back in 2016, BBC Radio 2 produced a show entitled Our Queen: 90 Musical Years. As part of this, the Queen listed her ten favourite pieces of music.
Two hymns featured in this list. One was 'Praise, My Soul, The King of Heaven' mentioned above: the other was 'The Lord’s My Shepherd'.
The words of this beautiful hymn are believed to have been written by the 17th-century Puritan politician and author Francis Rous, based on Psalm 23. It is most commonly sung, meanwhile, to the tune of 'CRIMOND', by Scottish hymnist Jessie Seymour Irvine.
All People that on Earth do Dwell
We don’t know whether this was a favourite of the Queen’s – but it was sung at her Coronation at Westminster Abbey in 1953, so it’s bound to have some strong resonances.
The words to 'All People that on Earth do Dwell' are an arrangement of Psalm 100 (also known as ‘The Old Hundredth’), by Elizabethan churchman William Kethe.
For the Coronation, no less a composer than Ralph Vaughan Williams set Kethe’s translation to music – for all four vocal parts, plus organ, orchestra and congregation.
I Vow to Thee My Country
This rousing and emotional piece was also performed at the Queen’s Coronation in 1953. The music, famously, is from the Jupiter section of Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite, The Planets. The words to 'I Vow to Thee My Country', meanwhile, originate in a poem by the Edwardian diplomat Sir Cecil Spring Rice.
Lead us, Heavenly Father
This traditional Christian hymn asks for guidance and protection from God. Sung during the Queen's 90th Birthday Service of Thanksgiving, it is another strong candidate for one of her favourite hymns.
The words to Lead Us, Heavenly Father were composed by Victorian architect and surveyor James Edmeston. He sounds like a remarkable fellow: on top of the busy day job, Edmeston found the time to compose some 2000 hymns – one every Sunday.
The hymn has been set to music in several different arrangements, including one by the 19th century German musicologist Friedrich Filitz.
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Where did God Save the Queen/King come from? A guide to the history of our national anthem
Andrew Green investigates the elusive origin and irresistible rise of Britain’s national anthem, 'God Save The King'
You know exactly what it is as soon as you hear the opening drum-roll,’ says Major Stewart Halliday, director of music, Coldstream Guards. ‘It captures the imagination right from the start.’ And the melody that follows has been capturing imaginations for well over 250 years. Yet still, after all this time since its first recorded performance in 1745, evidence for the origins of God Save the Queen/King remains scant.
When that performance was given at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 28 September, London was in a state of panic. George II’s Protestant reign seemed under mortal threat from the Stuart pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie – a Catholic – and his Jacobite forces. ‘Jacobite rebellion was just under way in Scotland,’ says historian Paul Monod of Middlebury College in Vermont. ‘London was especially fearful of a supporting invasion by the French, landing in southern England. By December 1745 people were rushing to get their money out of banks…and stocks tumbled.’
Cometh the hour, cometh the song for a historic moment, arranged by prominent composer Thomas Arne for singing by three soloists following that evening’s play at Drury Lane. The second line – ‘God save great George our King’ – perhaps affirmed George’s occupancy of the British throne in the face of the Jacobite competition. The basic melody closely resembled what we know today, but we must imagine an ornate performance graced with embellishment and improvisation according to the practice of the day. The Daily Advertiser newspaper said the audience ‘were agreeably surpriz’d by the Gentlemen belonging to that House performing the Anthem of God save our noble King. The universal Applause it met with, being encored with repeated Huzzas, sufficiently denoted in how just an Abhorrence they hold the arbitrary Schemes of our invidious Enemies, and detest the despotick Attempts of Papal Power.’
Further regular performances were given both at Drury Lane and also Covent Garden to equal acclaim. In no time, words and music were available via such publications as The Gentleman’s Magazine and The London Magazine. The first, second (‘O Lord our God arise’) and fifth (‘Thy choicest gifts in store’) of the five stanzas recognised today were in place practically from the start. Once in print, the song made its way around the country, the impact doubtless enhanced by the final defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie at the Battle of Culloden in April 1746 – song of defiance transmuting into song of victory.
When did God Save The Queen/King become the national anthem?
In due process of time, without royal decree or Act of Parliament, God Save The King acquired the status of a ‘national anthem’. Exactly when such a bold title would have been attached is – like so much else in this story – unclear. For decades it was simply one more popular song with patriotic overtones to place alongside Arne’s Rule Britannia and Handel’s ‘Hallelujah Chorus’. ‘Maybe its first appearance at a Coronation – George IV’s in 1821 – should be seen as a milestone,’ is Monod’s guess. ‘More likely, though, it was a process of slow evolution which continued through the 19th century… a development from the anthem being a celebration of the ruling monarch to a celebration of the nation.’
Who composed the tune?
So what in musical terms gave these mere 41 notes such an infectious appeal? Well, ask a composer used to gauging broad-based taste. John Rutter says the anthem follows a time-honoured formula. ‘Varied repetitions of the same melodic and rhythmic pattern always help lodge a piece in the brain,’ he explains. ‘The words fit the music perfectly, with no strange emphases. And, of course, the anthem obeys the golden rule that the climax, with a ringing top note, should be saved for very near the end. You’re left feeling satisfied that the anthem has always known where it’s going.’
In referring to that 1745 Drury Lane performance, the theatre’s treasurer Benjamin Victor described the melody as ‘an old anthem tune’. The first evidence of the words and music being printed – with no composer named – comes in the 1744 part-song collection, Harmonia Anglicana. But what was the ‘old anthem tune’ which apparently formed the musical basis for the song? Ultimately, it’s shrouded in mystery. ‘We shouldn’t be surprised at this,’ says Monod. ‘It’s extremely common for the origins of such music to be obscure, partly on account of the role often played by purely oral transmission. It was hardly unusual for public music to undergo transformation over time.’
No one delved into the possible origins of the anthem more assiduously than the indefatigable writer on music for the masses, Percy Scholes (1877-1958). His weighty God Save The King!: Its History and Romance appeared first in 1942. Scholes considered a host of derivations for the anthem, referencing scraps of melody from here and there. Does the tune have an origin in folk song, he pondered…or a carol…a Genevan patriotic song…a keyboard piece by the aptly named composer John Bull? Most intriguingly, he offered the possibility that the melody had been heard in a Jacobite anthem (what irony!) sung at James II’s Catholic chapel in the 1680s, although it has been suggested elsewhere that it was heard even earlier, at the court of Charles II. The scholar Matthias Range suggested the tune may have been heard at James II’s Coronation in 1685, featured in Henry Purcell’s music for the acclamatory ‘Vivats’. Did the composer Maurice Greene, court composer to George II, then fully ‘rescue’ the tune for the Protestant cause in the 1730s?
Who wrote the words to God Save The King?
As for the origin of the words? Scholes’s extensive research included considering 18th-century ‘Jacobite glasses’ (for drinking the health of the Stuarts) which bear a version of a few of the words for God Save the King. Did all the burrowing get Scholes any closer to the truth in all this? He simply said he ‘dare not pronounce’.
Let’s instead return to the ever-developing vogue for God Save the King after its 1745 outings. Newspaper advertisements for public entertainments demonstrate that a performance of the anthem was considered a draw in itself. When George III was making his way to Weymouth at the time of one of his famous bouts of illness, inhabitants of Lyndhurst spontaneously burst out with God Save The King as he passed through. In her famous diary, Fanny Burney noted that ‘These good villagers continued singing this loyal song during [the King’s] whole walk, except to shout “huzza” at the end of every stanza.’
Britain’s fight against Napoleon inevitably enhanced the popularity of the anthem, all the more so given the desire to drown out those of Republican persuasion in Britain. When George III survived an assassination attempt in 1800 – in the rebuilt Drury Lane Theatre – ‘God save the King was called for, and received with shouts of applause, waving of hats, etc,’ reported one witness.
As the British Empire inexorably spread its reach through Victoria’s reign, so too did God Save the Queen. By 1918 a competition was being launched to find words for an extra, Empire-tinged verse to celebrate all those ‘pink bits’ on the map. An officer serving in France – Capt. Walter Inge – triumphed with lines that concluded with the now distinctly non-PC…
Brothers of each domain,
Bound but by Freedom’s chain,
Shout, as your Sires, again –
‘God save the King!’
What other countries use the melody?
However, almost from the start the famous melody had become equally the property of the wider world of music. Way more than a hundred composers, from JC Bach (in 1768) to Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara (in the 1970s) have incorporated the tune into their compositions in some way, for whatever reason (see ‘The anthem overseas’, left). The list contains individuals as legendary as Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Paganini, Liszt and Debussy. By far the greater number of names are nonetheless unfamiliar to us today – the likes of James Calkin and Jane Savage, Charles Chaulion and Norman Coke-Jephcott, Eugene Thayer and Samuel de Lange.
More surprising is the number of countries where the melody, with different words, has been used as a ceremonial song or even a national anthem – in Sweden, Germany and Russia, for example. To this day, the tiny country of Liechtenstein uses the tune for its national anthem, or Volkshymne. The best-known example of a ‘borrowing’ of the tune is the US’s ‘alternative anthem’, America or My country, ’tis of thee. ‘When I was a keyboard student it was one of the standard pieces on which you were expected to exercise your skills in harmony,’ recalls Allan Atlas, professor emeritus at the City University of New York. ‘Most people in the States will recognise the tune immediately, but not that many at all will recognise it as the British National Anthem. People have an affection for the melody of My country ’tis of thee, but it perhaps lacks the drama of The Star-Spangled Banner… whose tune also comes from Britain!’
Republicanism in the UK has a long history, its roots going back to Cromwell’s Commonwealth. Yet today, there’s no real sign of it gaining traction despite the rocky times the monarchy has been through in recent decades. If the tide did finally turn against it, how would we The People go about selecting/commissioning a new anthem? Or would we settle for new words to the ‘old anthem tune’? As it is, how long will it be before the Welsh and Scottish parliaments succeed in ‘disestablishing’ God Save The Queen, so that this is no longer the United Kingdom national anthem?
The sporting field has long been a testing-ground for alternative anthems, with teams from the UK’s constituent countries making their own choices – Flower of Scotland for Scotland’s rugby players, for example. England’s cricketers waver between God Save the queen/King and Jerusalem. ‘Jerusalem for me,’ says BBC Test Match Special commentator Daniel Norcross. ‘It’s a cracking tune that matches the passion you hear in so many other national anthems.’
Major Halliday of the Coldstream Guards isn’t so sure, given memories of his musicians playing the anthem at major rugby and football events. ‘Imagine an evening game under lights, the opening drum-roll sounds, thousands of smartphone flashes go off for that photo of the scene everyone wants… and then that wall of sound as God Save the Queen/king roars out. Nothing like it.’ | https://www.classical-music.com/features/works/where-did-god-save-the-queen-king-em-come-from-a-guide-to-the-history-of-our-national-anthem/ | 2022-09-12T19:42:48Z | classical-music.com | control | https://www.classical-music.com/features/works/where-did-god-save-the-queen-king-em-come-from-a-guide-to-the-history-of-our-national-anthem/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Alan Davey to step down as controller of BBC Radio 3
Alan Davey will step down in 2023 after eight years at the helm of BBC Radio 3, BBC Proms, and BBC Orchestras and Choirs
Alan Davey, the controller of Radio 3, BBC Proms, and BBC Orchestras and Choirs, has announced that he will leave the BBC in March 2023.
Davey has been in the post since January 2015, during which time he has consolidated Radio 3’s audience at more than 2 million weekly listeners. His tenure has also seen a number of themed seasons across Radio 3 – including 2015’s Northern Lights, which used Sibelius’ 250th birthday as an inspiration for a season of Nordic music. Then there was 2021’s Capturing Twilight, which explored the connections between dusk and music.
The outgoing controller has also been an enthusiastic champion of new music and emerging voices. He has helped to grow Radio 3’s successful New Generation Artists Scheme, which nurtures young talent and offers broadcast opportunities to artists just starting out in music. The scheme saw its highest ever number of participants in 2021.
Davey’s tenure has also generated a range of programmes aimed at increasing access to both contemporary music and to the work of smaller venues. These have included Open Ear, Exposure and The New Music Show.
There has been a focus, too, on works and composers that may not have had their due in the past: for example, the BBC’s Orchestras and Choirs have focused on unfairly forgotten works. The Proms, meanwhile, committed to programming 50 per cent female composers by 2022.
Elsewhere, Radio 3 and the Proms have commissioned a wide range of new works under Davey’s leadership. These have included works from composers ranging from Harrison Birtwistle to Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
Alan Davey says: 'There is nothing like the combination of Radio 3, the Proms and the BBC Orchestras and Choirs anywhere else. Choosing when to move on is always tricky, but now is the time for me to hand over the role to someone else.
'Since Radio 3’s first day of broadcasting, it has known that the key to securing the future of music is in finding new talent and offering ways in to new audiences.
On Radio 3 we play over whole 17,000 pieces of music a year and explore thousands more. We believe the greatest public service is found in showing, not just telling, of the riches of the arts. It has been an honour and a delight to lead this mission.'
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Alan Davey will continue as controller of Radio 3 and the Proms until next spring. He then plans to continue his work supporting arts and music organisations and to pursue his academic interests.
The BBC will announce Mr Davey's successor in due course.
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- Pianist and conductor Lars Vogt dies following cancer diagnosis | https://www.classical-music.com/news/alan-davey-to-step-down-as-controller-of-bbc-radio-3/ | 2022-09-12T19:42:54Z | classical-music.com | control | https://www.classical-music.com/news/alan-davey-to-step-down-as-controller-of-bbc-radio-3/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Instant Genius Podcast: Space weather, with Sean Elvidge
What is the weather like in space? We spoke to Sean Elvidge, an associate professor of space environment at the University of Birmingham to bring you the weather forecast beyond our atmosphere.
Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week's episode, we talk to Sean Elvidge, an associate professor of space environment at the University of Birmingham.
He talks us through what the weather is like out in space, answering all of the burning questions you might have on an out-of-this-world weather report.
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The Scott Police Department is asking for the public’s help to identify a woman accused of stealing liquor from a local business.
Police say the woman walked into a business in the 1400 block of St. Mary Street and put several bottles of liquor into her purse. She left without paying, police say. Here's a picture from surveillance:
Police say she left the store parking lot in a silver Mercury Grand Marquis. Here's a picture of the car:
If anyone has information on the identity of the female, you are urged to contact the Scott Police Department at 337-233-3715. | https://www.katc.com/news/lafayette-parish/scott-police-trying-to-identify-person-accused-of-theft | 2022-09-12T19:50:49Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/lafayette-parish/scott-police-trying-to-identify-person-accused-of-theft | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As I walk along a dirt trail that winds through Cheyenne Canyon near Colorado Springs, Colorado, I look up at the rock wall next to me. It’s imposing, around 400 feet tall with several jagged rocks that seem to stick out of the near-vertical face.
“This whole wall here is called the Army route,” says Joe Baker, speaking about the big thing he and his 8-year-old son, Sam, are about to climb. “You go right up the front of that.”
I’m from New Jersey. We don’t have rocks, nonetheless ones that you intentionally hook yourself to in an attempt to scale, so this entire experience is brand new to me, but for Sam, who is less than a third my age, it is anything but.
“We’re training Sam to be able to lead [a climb] and this has been one of our projects, and yesterday, he just led it masterfully and so I thought we’d try it again today,” said Joe, as we draw closer to the rock face.
If Sam’s name sounds familiar, it is because it is. We caught up with him and his dad in May 2021, shortly after the father-son duo made the decision they would climb one of the world’s most imposing rock faces in the world: El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
“I think Sam’s already ready,” said Joe on this cool September morning. “He’s definitely ready physically to do it. Is he ready for the exposure? I don’t know. Are any of us?”
To the uninitiated, El Capitan is known across the world as the mecca of climbing, with its 3,200 vertical feet of granite that's tested even the most experienced climbers since it was first climbed in the 1950s.
A few years ago, Joe thought it would be a good test for Sam’s ability, as he has already become the youngest person to climb three distinct peaks in North America.
On Oct. 24, the duo will set out for their newest journey, and if successful, it will make Sam the youngest person to climb and summit El Capitan.
“Just imagine walking on your fingers for a mile on the sidewalk, and then, think about that straight up, but you can’t walk anywhere because you’re literally hanging from your fingers or your anchors for four days,” said Joe, explaining the daunting task in front of them.
But going deeper, Joe thought it would be an even better test for the man he knows Sam will one day be.
“Yeah, just that internal confidence that you build with your father out on the rocks,” said Joe. “It’s something that’s going to be so beneficial when you’re building a business someday. You know, when you’re living life. Life is risky, life is dangerous, and learning to really acutely manage that [fear] is one of the greatest skills.”
As I watched Sam climb up the rocks of the Army Route with seemingly effortless ease, I witnessed what Joe meant about managing that fear. With no one around him around 60 feet from the ground, you could hear Sam call down to his father.
“It’s not going in! It’s not going in!”
He was referencing an anchor that you press between two rocks. The pressure of the device on the rocks holds it in place as you then attached a carabiner and rope to it for safety. Eighteen months ago, when we first met up with Sam, he might have given up on the task out of frustration, but today, after Joe asked if Sam wanted him to come up and help, Sam replied with a definitive, almost defiant, “No. I can do this.”
It was one of those moments where all you can do is smile. And as I looked over at Joe, that’s exactly what he was doing. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/8-year-old-boy-works-to-become-youngest-to-ever-summit-el-capitan | 2022-09-12T19:50:55Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/8-year-old-boy-works-to-become-youngest-to-ever-summit-el-capitan | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 12 |
As I walk along a dirt trail that winds through Cheyenne Canyon near Colorado Springs, Colorado, I look up at the rock wall next to me. It’s imposing, around 400 feet tall with several jagged rocks that seem to stick out of the near-vertical face.
“This whole wall here is called the Army route,” says Joe Baker, speaking about the big thing he and his 8-year-old son, Sam, are about to climb. “You go right up the front of that.”
I’m from New Jersey. We don’t have rocks, nonetheless ones that you intentionally hook yourself to in an attempt to scale, so this entire experience is brand new to me, but for Sam, who is less than a third my age, it is anything but.
“We’re training Sam to be able to lead [a climb] and this has been one of our projects, and yesterday, he just led it masterfully and so I thought we’d try it again today,” said Joe, as we draw closer to the rock face.
If Sam’s name sounds familiar, it is because it is. We caught up with him and his dad in May 2021, shortly after the father-son duo made the decision they would climb one of the world’s most imposing rock faces in the world: El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
“I think Sam’s already ready,” said Joe on this cool September morning. “He’s definitely ready physically to do it. Is he ready for the exposure? I don’t know. Are any of us?”
To the uninitiated, El Capitan is known across the world as the mecca of climbing, with its 3,200 vertical feet of granite that's tested even the most experienced climbers since it was first climbed in the 1950s.
A few years ago, Joe thought it would be a good test for Sam’s ability, as he has already become the youngest person to climb three distinct peaks in North America.
On Oct. 24, the duo will set out for their newest journey, and if successful, it will make Sam the youngest person to climb and summit El Capitan.
“Just imagine walking on your fingers for a mile on the sidewalk, and then, think about that straight up, but you can’t walk anywhere because you’re literally hanging from your fingers or your anchors for four days,” said Joe, explaining the daunting task in front of them.
But going deeper, Joe thought it would be an even better test for the man he knows Sam will one day be.
“Yeah, just that internal confidence that you build with your father out on the rocks,” said Joe. “It’s something that’s going to be so beneficial when you’re building a business someday. You know, when you’re living life. Life is risky, life is dangerous, and learning to really acutely manage that [fear] is one of the greatest skills.”
As I watched Sam climb up the rocks of the Army Route with seemingly effortless ease, I witnessed what Joe meant about managing that fear. With no one around him around 60 feet from the ground, you could hear Sam call down to his father.
“It’s not going in! It’s not going in!”
He was referencing an anchor that you press between two rocks. The pressure of the device on the rocks holds it in place as you then attached a carabiner and rope to it for safety. Eighteen months ago, when we first met up with Sam, he might have given up on the task out of frustration, but today, after Joe asked if Sam wanted him to come up and help, Sam replied with a definitive, almost defiant, “No. I can do this.”
It was one of those moments where all you can do is smile. And as I looked over at Joe, that’s exactly what he was doing. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/8-year-old-boy-works-to-become-youngest-to-ever-summit-el-capitan | 2022-09-12T19:50:55Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/8-year-old-boy-works-to-become-youngest-to-ever-summit-el-capitan | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 12 |
SEATTLE — Classes on Monday were canceled as teachers in Seattle continued to strike.
This marks the fourth day Seattle Public Schools students have missed school as teachers strike for better staffing, better wages, and better working environments, the Associated Press reported.
Last Tuesday, the Seattle Education Association, the union representing the teachers, said 95% of its members approved to strike.
The Seattle Times reported that the following day, which also marked the first day of school, educators at the state’s largest school district, hit the picket line,
The Seattle Education Association said their main concerns include receiving adequate support for students in special education and multilingual education and sustainable solutions to growing class sizes.
According to the district's website, the school board offered a $2,000 bonus for third-year Seattle teachers earning an English language or dual-language endorsement.
The Associated Press reported that the district also offered a pay raise of 1%, which was below what the union asked for. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/seattle-teachers-still-on-strike-as-classes-canceled-monday | 2022-09-12T19:51:07Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/seattle-teachers-still-on-strike-as-classes-canceled-monday | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Zealand is welcoming back tourists as the country drops most of its remaining COVID-19 rules.
On Monday, the country announced the removal of its vaccine requirements and mask mandates as the country dropped its COVID traffic light framework just after midnight.
According to the country's ministry of health's website, masks are no longer required to be worn anywhere. Also, travelers coming into the country will no longer need to be vaccinated.
Vaccine mandates for health and disability workers also ended.
However, the country will keep two rules in place: masks must be worn in certain healthcare facilities like hospitals, and those who test positive for the virus must isolate for seven days, the website said.
The website added that places of worship and some workplaces might ask people to wear masks.
News of the country removing most of its COVID rules comes a few months after New Zealand began welcoming back tourists.
In May, the country announced it was reopening its borders to travelers from the U.S. and other countries after they imposed strict COVID borders restrictions in early 2020 to combat the spread of the virus, the Associated Press reported.
According to the news outlet, before the pandemic halted international tourism, more than 3 million tourists a year visited New Zealand. | https://www.katc.com/news/world/new-zealand-drops-mask-vaccine-requirements-as-it-removes-most-of-its-covid-19-rules | 2022-09-12T19:51:25Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/world/new-zealand-drops-mask-vaccine-requirements-as-it-removes-most-of-its-covid-19-rules | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NewsNation) — After working at McDonald’s since he was 14, Nimi Rama says he has “ketchup in (his) veins.”
Now 35 and a director of operations for McDonald’s franchises in Florence, South Carolina, Rama worked his way up to his current position by starting as a teenage crew member at a McDonald’s in Jefferson, Wisconsin.
“Twenty-two years in, and ‘I’m lovin it,'” he said, quoting the McDonald’s slogan.
After being a crew member, he became a shift manager, then assistant manager. From there, Rama got the chance to hold a number of other leadership positions as McDonald’s sent him across the country, from Chicago to Miami, where he was made a general manager. In Miami, Rama even won the Ray Kroc award, which is given to the top 1% of McDonald’s general managers worldwide.
Through his time in so many places, Rama says he was able to build a lot of relationships and explore other places — something he’s always wanted to do.
“I worked my butt off, did a lot of hours, and really embraced McDonald’s at that point,” he said.
Rama is no stranger to working at a restaurant. His father owned a family-style restaurant in Jefferson where his mother also worked. At 7 years old, Rama said, he was doing dishes there.
When a teenage Rama told his dad he took a job at the Golden Arches, though, his father didn’t mind the move to a big company.
“He’s like, ’Yeah, do it. Have fun,’” Rama recalled.
Rama attributes his passion for the restaurant industry to his father, who came to America from what was then called Yugoslavia (now Albania) with nothing.
“He was always a tough guy,” Rama said of his father, who died in February. “He just pushed (my brother and me) every day to be better than yesterday.”
“The fire is lit from my dad, my mom really,” he added.
It was that drive that helped Rama on his journey through the McDonald’s ranks.
As a 14-year-old, Rama said, all he wanted was enough money to buy his own Nokia phone. As he progressed, though, he started to really want to impact people.
“I use McDonald’s as a platform, and understanding leadership has been a big passion of mine, understanding how you can be a servant-leader, and understanding being empathetic,” Rama said. “It’s all about leadership. It’s all about community involvement. It’s getting to know your employees and its people-first culture.”
Even when things were stressful, especially through the COVID-19 pandemic, Rama focused on turning a negative situation into a positive one.
“I consider my employees customers,” he said. “I want them to go home and be like, ‘Hey I had a good day at work.’”
Everyone has a different experience and perspective, Rama said, and it’s his job to understand that.
“As I progressed from a crew member to where I am today, because I’ve taken that journey, I can understand what that crew member’s going through, because I had to deal with it,” Rama said.
Looking back on his career, Rama says, he wouldn’t change a thing.
“I’ve been so blessed to see so many different markets and work with some really great people,” he said. “If you stay dedicated, and you really are focused on what your goal at the end of the day is, that can definitely happen.” | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/lovin-it-mcdonalds-director-started-at-fry-station-at-14-and-worked-his-way-up/ | 2022-09-12T19:55:50Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/lovin-it-mcdonalds-director-started-at-fry-station-at-14-and-worked-his-way-up/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GOP governors urge Biden to withdraw his student loan forgiveness plan
Led by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, 22 GOP governors on Monday sent a letter to President Biden urging him to withdraw his student loan forgiveness plan, citing its negative impact on lower-income families.
Why it matters: Biden's plan has faced significant pushback from Republicans, who say it's unconstitutional, illegal and unfair to working-class Americans.
What they're saying: "Only 16-17 percent of Americans have federal student loan debt, and yet, your plan will require their debts be redistributed and paid by the vast majority of taxpayers," the governors wrote in the letter, which was first reported by Fox News. "Shifting the burden of debt from the wealthy to working Americans has a regressive impact that harms lower income families."
- "College may not be the right decision for every American, but for the students who took out loans, it was their decision: able adults and willing borrowers who knowingly agreed to the terms of the loan and consented to taking on debt in exchange for taking classes," they added.
- "Americans who did not choose to take out student loans themselves should certainly not be forced to pay for the student loans of others."
- "At a time when inflation is sky high due to your unprecedented tax-and-spend agenda, your plan will encourage more student borrowing, incentivize higher tuition rates, and drive-up inflation even further, negatively impacting every American," they noted.
Worth noting: The White House has said that nearly 90% of those benefiting from the student loan relief earn less than $75,000 a year.
- A significant percentage of student loan debtors also didn't get a four-year degree, meaning they didn't get the income boost of a bachelor's degree, Axios' Emily Peck notes.
The big picture: The White House called out Republican lawmakers who it says had their Paycheck Protection Program loans forgiven after they accused the Biden administration of issuing handouts.
Go deeper: Who student debt relief helps (and it's not who you think) | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/12/biden-student-loan-gop-governors | 2022-09-12T20:00:05Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/12/biden-student-loan-gop-governors | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It’s a pop-tical illusion.
Thought distinguishing the real owl from the stuffed ones in this illusion was hard? Take a look at this sugary sight exam, in which the goal is to differentiate the real candy from the drawing, as described in this TikTok video with 2.8 million views.
[Warning: spoilers below]
“Can you spot the drawing?” challenges the trippy clip, which was uploaded by Kevin D — known on TikTok as @myart1979 — who frequently posts clips showcasing his hyper-realistic illustration skills.
In the latest teaser, which depicts six gummy soda bottles, viewers are challenged to spot the illustrated pop-pelganger from the real sweets within 10 seconds.
This hall of mirrors-evoking task is particularly daunting as they’re nearly indistinguishable from the brown and yellow coloration down to the shiny sugar coating.
Still seeing nothing? Not to fear, at the end of the clip Kevin D sweeps all the real treats away with a paintbrush, revealing that the image in the lower left-hand corner was the counterfeit candy.
Interestingly, while some TikTokkers were flabbergasted, many found the challenge easy given that the drawing was noticeably lighter and paler than the real deal.
“It’s a little lighter so it was kind of easy,” said one unimpressed viewer. Another wrote, “I knew it because the color is a little lighter, but wow it’s super well done.”
Meanwhile, other puzzlers thought that Kevin D was employing reverse psychology with one skeptic writing, “I didn’t pick it because I thought it was too obvious.”
Optical illusions such as this are often just intended as a lighthearted diversion from the stresses of modern life — but they also hold actual scientific value for medical professionals.
These brain teasers are credited with helping researchers shed light on the complex inner workings of the human mind and how it reacts to its surroundings.
Dr. Gustav Kuhn, a psychologist and human perception expert at Goldsmiths University in London, once declared to the Sun that illusions are important to our understanding of the brain: “We typically take perception for granted, and rarely think about the hard work that underpins everyday tasks, such as seeing a cup of coffee in front of you.” | https://nypost.com/2022/09/12/only-the-eagle-eyed-can-spot-the-fake-candy-in-this-optical-illusion/ | 2022-09-12T20:00:18Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/12/only-the-eagle-eyed-can-spot-the-fake-candy-in-this-optical-illusion/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Interview: Ubisoft CEO on company’s scandals and attempts to reform
PARIS — Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot tells Axios that company reform in the wake of workplace misconduct scandals, that demoralized employees and had some players talking boycott, “has been my main focus for the past two years.”
Why it matters: Guillemot is testing the premise that a boss during bad times can also effectively deliver reform.
- “I think we are a very good company and we had problems, we solved them and the goal is to be again the best place,” Guillemot says, acknowledging the hit to the company’s reputation in recent years.
- Asked if Ubisoft would support a recent call for employees in its large Canadian studios to unionize, he says: “It's really up to the people to decide.”
Catch up quick: Since the summer of 2020, the publisher of Assassin’s Creed and Just Dance has faced allegations of sexual misconduct and toxic management at multiple Ubisoft studios.
- Several top managers accused of misconduct soon exited the company, though with little official acknowledgment as to why.
- In statements since, Guillemot and other Ubisoft leaders have pointed to transformations to the company’s HR system, increased initiatives around diversity and inclusion, and the further review of worker complaints as signs of meaningful change.
- While Guillemot has recently avoided talking to reporters, skepticism about the changes has risen. Most prominently, a worker collective called A Better Ubisoft complained of “minimal” progress.
In Paris, last week, Guillemot opened up some during an interview with Axios, where he sat near a table topped with chocolate bars, the CEO’s favorite snack.
- Guillemot had just completed a two-hour presentation to the press alongside other Ubisoft executives, promoting a vision for the company to marshal its more than 20,000 worldwide employees, capitalize on a recent €300 million investment from Tencent and expand its Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy game franchises.
- During his speech, he praised his workforce, admitted “we stumbled” over workplace issues but also noted that the company has hired 4,000 people in the past year, including 600 people who had worked at Ubisoft before.
No one has accused Guillemot directly of misconduct. He says he felt betrayed in 2020 by those close to him, without naming names.
- “You realize that things happened very close to you, that you wouldn't accept, had you known about them,” he tells Axios. “You're upset by the fact that it could happen and that you didn't see it.”
- Any incredulity around Guillemot’s professed ignorance, heard from some current and former workers, stems from myriad allegations involving senior people — since departed from Ubisoft — in the same Paris HQ where the CEO works.
- Guillemot says he’s taken measures to fill his purported blind spots: a dedicated HR team for the centralized “editorial” group and “regular” meetings with employee resource groups, “to help ensure I hear from more diverse voices within the company, including those who are not part of HQ leadership.”
Asked why this happened at his company, which Guillemot founded in 1986 with his brothers, he says: “We were not organized enough to detect the problems and resolve them.”
- He floated that some problems emerged because of generational differences. “The company was running and there were ways things were done. And then there was a new young generation, coming [into the company] with different needs. And we had to adapt. I think we didn't adapt fast enough to what people expected and needed.”
Frustrated workers have called for more, including a greater voice in dealing with complaints and decision-making. In a group interview with the AC Sisterhood blog last week, three members of A Better Ubisoft said workers in more of Ubisoft’s globally distributed studios needed to unionize.
- Guillemot noted that Ubisoft didn’t get in the way of the start of a worker union in its Swedish studios. (Legally, they had to allow it.)
- He added: “The most important thing for us is to make sure that communication is as efficient as possible.”
Some leaders step down amid scandal, even when they are not directly implicated.
- Guillemot responded to Axios’ questions about whether he considered resigning by saying: “The option was to fix it.”
Go deeper:
- Ubisoft announces 6 Assassin’s Creed games and a franchise shake-up
- Scoop: Ousted senior Ubisoft game developer quietly working for Tencent
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