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How the Royal Family Is Mourning Queen Elizabeth
People began to gather across the U.K. when news broke of the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday. In the days since, well-wishers have left flowers, tribute poems, and even marmalade sandwiches in honor of the late monarch. Though King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla have done plenty of their mourning in ceremonies with the public, many members of the family have been mourning the loss privately, some gathered at Balmoral Castle where the queen died. Over the weekend, Princess Anne, Prince Edward, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, Princess Eugenie, and Princess Beatrice were spotted taking in the tributes in Scotland. In addition, Prince William and Kate Middleton had a long-awaited reunion with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Saturday.
In the statements and messages that the family has already made, they have emphasized that the queen was both a figurehead for the entire country and a stalwart and lively family member, and that they will miss her in both roles.
Here are the moments where they have thanked the country that is mourning alongside them. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/2022/09/how-the-royal-family-is-mourning-queen-elizabeth | 2022-09-12T22:15:33Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/2022/09/how-the-royal-family-is-mourning-queen-elizabeth | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Country music star injured after tour bus overturns in crash
CAMPBELL COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) – A country music star was injured after his bus overturned in Tennessee on Friday, according to authorities.
Musician John Michael Montgomery was traveling with his team on the way to a concert in North Carolina when the accident happened, he said in a statement.
The 2001 Prevost Featherlite was driving on I-75 near the Tennessee-Kentucky state line when it hit the embankment and overturned, according to the report. WVLT reports the right lane was closed for a few hours as crews worked to overturn the vehicle.
Montgomery said he suffered broken ribs and minor cuts due to the accident but is doing well. Others on the bus are also recovering from injuries, he said.
Montgomery released a statement addressing the accident:
Yesterday we had a serious accident on the way to a concert in North Carolina. Everyone that was on the bus is recovering from their injuries.
Despite some cuts and broken ribs, I am doing well. I will take some time over the next couple of weeks to heal and be back on the road soon. I am grateful to the medics and highway patrol for their quick response to this difficult situation. Thanks to everyone for their concerns.
Copyright 2022 WVLT via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.wbko.com/2022/09/12/country-music-star-injured-after-tour-bus-overturns-crash/ | 2022-09-12T22:15:56Z | wbko.com | control | https://www.wbko.com/2022/09/12/country-music-star-injured-after-tour-bus-overturns-crash/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BERLIN, Md. – As a service to the community, Atlantic General Hospital/Health System is again providing community flu vaccination with a series of free clinics for people ages 13 and older.
No appointment is required. Clinic dates are subject to change based upon flu vaccine availability.
Flu Clinics:
Sept. 22, 2022, 11a.m. – 2 p.m.
St. Mary Star of the Sea Holy Savior Church
1705 Philadelphia Avenue, Ocean City, Md.
Sept. 24, 2022, 8 a.m. – noon
James G. Barrett Medical Office Building parking lot (drive-up)
Atlantic General Hospital campus
Berlin, Md.
Sept. 30, 2022, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Ocean Pines Community Center
235 Ocean Parkway, Ocean Pines, Md.
Oct. 7, 2022, 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Ocean Pines Community Center (drive up)
235 Ocean Parkway, Ocean Pines, Md.
Oct. 15, 2022, 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
James G. Barrett Medical Office Building parking lot (drive up)
Atlantic General Hospital campus
Berlin, Md.
Influenza, or flu, is a highly contagious virus spread by inhaling droplets from an infected individual’s cough or sneeze. Most symptoms emerge within 24 to 48 hours and are characterized by fever, chills, sore throat, cough and headache. Just one infected person can unknowingly pass on the flu to family members and loved ones because the virus can be transmitted 24 hours before symptoms appear.
Donations made during the Atlantic General Hospital flu clinics help offset the cost of future flu clinics.
For more information on the Atlantic General Hospital Community Flu Clinics, contact Atlantic General Hospital at 410-641-9FLU (9358). Visit www.agh.care/flu for updates, including new clinic dates and possible availability of high-dose flu vaccine in addition to the standard dose vaccine. | https://www.wboc.com/news/atlantic-general-hospital-to-provide-free-community-flu-clinics/article_ef2e8630-32cd-11ed-893b-07af9308642d.html | 2022-09-12T22:17:30Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/atlantic-general-hospital-to-provide-free-community-flu-clinics/article_ef2e8630-32cd-11ed-893b-07af9308642d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LINKWOOD, Md. - Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh and Maryland Department of the Environment Secretary Horacio Tablada on Monday announced a settlement with Valley Proteins, an Eastern Shore poultry processing facility that uses poultry industry refuse to make food for other animals.
The consent decree settles the lawsuit filed by the Office of Attorney General on behalf of MDE in the Circuit Court for Dorchester County on Feb. 2, 2022.
The lawsuit alleged that Valley Proteins, based out of Linkwood, had repeatedly discharged ammonia, phosphorus and other pollutants into the Transquaking River, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, for well over a year. Valley Proteins’ illegal discharge of pollutants was in violation of its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit and state water pollution laws, and included failure to implement stormwater pollution plan best management practices, numerous unauthorized discharges of wastewater, sludge, and solids, and violations of its air emissions permit.
“Valley Proteins repeatedly discharged harmful pollutants - including nitrogen, phosphorus and fecal coliform - into a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay,” said Frosh. “These violations of our environmental laws threatened fragile ecosystems and our treasured Chesapeake Bay. This settlement and hefty penalty sends a strong message to Valley Proteins and others that they are not free to pollute Maryland’s waters and air.”
“When the Valley Proteins facility’s operations threatened the quality of our water and our air the Maryland Department of the Environment took an enforcement action to assign accountability and to deter future violations,” said Tablada. “We are pleased to now have a strong, enforceable agreement that will allow this important facility that serves the agriculture community to continue to operate while achieving environmental compliance and helping us to meet our water and air quality goals.”
The Valley Proteins plant discharges into a tributary of the Transquaking River, which flows into Fishing Bay, an offshoot of the Chesapeake Bay. MDE said the rendering plant is a significant source of nutrient pollution to the Transquaking River. MDE inspections from January 2019 through January 2022 found numerous violations, including unauthorized discharges of wastewater, sludge and raw chicken parts, and failure to take steps to prevent runoff of poultry solids. MDE inspectors also noted dozens of air pollution violations caused by malfunctioning odor-control equipment.
The consent decree requires Valley Proteins to correct stormwater violations; conduct a groundwater investigation to determine if the wastewater lagoons are leaking pollutants and, if leaking, to stop the leak and remediate any contamination; upgrade its existing wastewater treatment system in order to address effluent violations; conduct stormwater sampling; and investigate and implement improvements to address odor pollution beyond the facility’s property line.
Additionally, Valley Proteins is required to pay a civil penalty of $540,000 for violations of Title 2 and Title 9 of the Environment Article, pay stipulated penalties if it fails to meet any deadline or schedule required by the consent decree, and pay past and future costs to the state for response costs. Chesapeake Legal Alliance, on behalf of ShoreRivers and Dorchester Citizens for Planned Growth, and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, intervened in the state’s lawsuit on Feb. 11, 2022 and are also parties to the consent decree. Valley Proteins is also required to pay the citizen’s groups their attorneys’ fees, reimburse past and future costs, and pay into the Transquaking River Watershed Fund, in furtherance of water quality improvements.
Now that a consent decree with enforceable conditions for the Valley Proteins facility to come into and maintain compliance with environmental laws and regulations has been finalized, MDE can finish its work in determining the appropriate, complementary conditions to be included in a final renewal discharge permit for the plant. That permit will be issued within the next 60 days. | https://www.wboc.com/news/maryland-ag-mde-announce-settlement-with-valley-proteins-in-dorchester-county/article_f2bd7240-32d0-11ed-a77e-873587ce9081.html | 2022-09-12T22:17:37Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/maryland-ag-mde-announce-settlement-with-valley-proteins-in-dorchester-county/article_f2bd7240-32d0-11ed-a77e-873587ce9081.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Forecast updated on Monday, September 12, 2022, at 4:00 PM by WBOC Meteorologist Dan Satterfield (AMS-CBM).
DELMARVA FORECAST
Tonight:Showers and passing thunderstorms likely. Some may be quite heavy. Warm and muggy outside of the storms. Low 71-72°. Wind: SW 1-6 mph.
Tuesday: Mainly sunny and becoming less humid PM. High 82°. Wind: W 8-14 mph.
Tuesday Night: Clear and cooler. Low 58-59°. Wind: NW 3-9 mph.
Wednesday: Sunny and pleasant with low humidity. High 80° inland with temps. near 80° on the beaches. Wind: W 6-12 mph.
Forecast Discussion:
Look for showers and some heavy thunderstorms tonight with light winds. Winds may be gusty near stronger storms and some of the storms may produce very heavy rainfall in local areas. Lows will be around 71° at sunrise. It will be warmer near the Bays and the ocean with lows near 73. Winds will be from the SW at 1-4 mph.
Tuesday will be mostly sunny with a NW wind at 8-14 mph and it will turn less humid by afternoon. Temperatures will top out about 82 degrees which is close to the average for mid-September. It will turn notably cooler Tuesday night with lows dipping to 58-59° by sunrise Wednesday.
A dry and fall-like air mass will settle over the area on Wednesday, with low humidity. Look for a NW wind at 6-12 mph and temps. will just nudge 80°. Dew points will drop into the upper 40's giving a fresh fall feel to the air.
In the long range, Thursday and Fridaywill more nice fall weather with morning lows in the mid 50's and afternoon high temps. around 79-81 degrees. It will turn a little warmer over the weekend with highs from 83-83 by Sunday and Monday. Little or no rain is expected through Monday.
The average high for today is 81 degrees with an average low of 61 degrees. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/rain-and-thunder-tonight-less-humid-tuesday/article_1b4a74de-32d5-11ed-a4c0-df96a3c637f9.html | 2022-09-12T22:17:49Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/rain-and-thunder-tonight-less-humid-tuesday/article_1b4a74de-32d5-11ed-a4c0-df96a3c637f9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Man Confesses to Murder After Flagging Arizona Cops in Middle of the Road: Police
The investigation is still ongoing and it remains unclear what the motive for the murder was.
Police say one Arizona man has been arrested and charged with murder after he confessed to killing man and leading a sheriff’s deputy to the victim after flagging down authorities in the middle of the road, the New York Post reported.
Jay Albert Stevens, 52, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder after allegedly confessing to the crime in the middle of the street just after 1 a.m. Thursday, the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office said.
Stevens flagged down the Cochise County Sheriff’s deputy in McNeal and the officer stopped to see if he was ok and that is when cops say he confessed to the murder, Fox News reported.
Stevens allegedly told police that he shot and killed the victim who is said to be 61 years old, Fox News reported.
The victim’s identity has not been released.
Inside Edition Digital has reached out to the Cochise County Sheriff’s office for comment but has not heard back.
The Cochise County Clerk’s office tells Inside Edition Digital in an email they “do not currently have any indictment or charging documents filed with our court for Mr. Stevens and therefore have no plea or notice of counsel.”
The investigation is still ongoing and it remains unclear what the motive for the murder was.
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Michigan Dad Sucked Into QAnon Shot Dead by Cops After Killing Wife, Family Dog and Injuring Daughter
Michigan father who fell "down the Q rabbit hole," was shot dead by authorities after killing his wife, the family dog and seriously wounding his daughter, police said.
A Michigan father obsessed with conspiracy theories was shot dead by officers Sunday after killing his wife, the family dog and severely injuring one of his daughters, according to his family and authorities.
Deputies responding to a "chilling" 911 call heard gunshots from inside a Walled Lake home, and were confronted by Igor Lanis, 53, who came out his front door and opened fire with a shotgun, the Oakland County Sheriff's Office said.
Officers returned fire, killing Lanis, authorities said. A 25-year-old woman was trying to crawl from the home and deputies dragged her to safety, the sheriff's office said. She had been shot in the back and the legs, but had managed to phone for help, telling the emergency operator that her father had shot her and had killed her mother.
Inside the suburban Detroit house, deputies found the body of a 56-year-old woman with four gunshot wounds, and a dead dog that had been shot multiple times, authorities said.
The sheriff's office did not identify the victims. But Rebecca Lanis told local media outlets that her father had shot and killed her mother, Tina, and severely injured her sister, Rachel, who is hospitalized after undergoing emergency surgery and awaiting further examinations of her injured legs.
"In 2020 after Trump lost, my dad started going down the Q rabbit hole. He kept reading conspiracy theories about the stolen election, Trump, vaccines, etc. He always said he wanted to keep us safe and healthy," Rebecca Lanis wrote Sunday on Reddit's QAnonCasualties subreddit page.
Her parents "were extremely loving and happy people" while she was growing up, the daughter wrote.
But after Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election and falsely claimed he had won, her father "kept getting worse and he verbally snapped at us a few times. Nothing physical though. He never got physical with anybody," his daughter wrote.
Until Sunday at about 4 a.m., when "he had an argument with my mother and he decided to take our guns and shoot her, my dog and my sister," she wrote. "My mother succumbed to her wounds and my sister is in the hospital right now.
"My dad also fired back at the cops and they killed him. I'm shocked and I don't even know what to say," the daughter said.
An investigation into the shootings is ongoing, the sheriff's office said.
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Princes William And Harry Reunite, With Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton in Tow, to Greet the Queen's Mourners
“My understanding about that reunion is that William felt very strongly that it wouldn’t be right for him to go out and see these floral tributes and see well wishers without his brother," says one expert.
Over the weekend, Prince William and Kate Middleton reunited with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to take part in a walkabout to look at flower tributes to Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle.
The appearance was reportedly carefully planned ahead of time, according to royal experts.
“My understanding about that reunion is that William felt very strongly that it wouldn’t be right for him to go out and see these floral tributes and see well wishers without his brother. And so he reached out to Harry and said, ‘I think we should do this together,’ and Harry agreed very quickly,” said Roya Nikkhah, royal editor at The Sunday Times.
After the text was sent, it reportedly took another 45 minutes of negotiation to work out the details. Others say Meghan Markle simply needed time to take care of her hair and makeup.
In terms of a permanent reconciliation between the brothers, Nikkah says, “there are still quite big differences between the brothers and things are not resolved.”
“I think it’s an important show of unity. I think it will help for the next few days, and the run up to the funeral. But I’m not sure there’s an enormous amount more resonance than that at the moment,” Nikkah said.
The reunion is touching many people across the United Kingdom, including the queen's former butler, Martin Higgins.
“I think that would be her final wish. Yeah, I think that would be wonderful,” said Higgins, getting emotional.
In a statement released Monday, Harry paid tribute to his "globally admired and respected granny." He also appeared to be making peace with his father, saying, "We now honor my father in his new role as King Charles III.”
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Security Fears Heightened After Man Runs In Front of King Charles III Motorcade for a Photo
On Tuesday, the queen's body will be brought back to London, where she will lie in state for four days. Tens of thousands of people are expected to file past her coffin, and authorities are warning that spectators can expect to stand in line for hours.
A former royal bodyguard says a man was "milliseconds from death" at the hands of armed police after running in front of the car to take a photo of the newly dubbed King Charles III.
The shocking security breach happened as the new king's motorcade was leaving parliament and his maroon Rolls-Royce was slowed down by bumper-to-bumper traffic. The man ran for about 100 yards to reach the king's car.
“That person has never gotten that close to King Charles, period,” terrorism expert Manny Gomez said.
The incident is raising questions about security as heads of state from across the globe, including President Joe Biden and the first lady, prepare to gather for the queen's funeral.
In another incident that happened as members of the royal family followed the queen's hearse through Edinburgh, a man in the crowd heckled Prince Andrew before being quickly overpowered by others in attendance.
“Andrew, you’re a sick old man!” the man shouted.
During the procession through the Scottish capital, where the queen is lying in state, Prince Andrew was the only sibling not in military uniform after being stripped of his rank over sexual misconduct allegations.
The events surrounding Queen Elizabeth’s death continued as Britain’s lawmakers sang the national anthem and King Charles was formally proclaimed king.
At the ceremony, King Charles was spotted looking frustrated as he signaled to an aide to clear his desk of clutter so he could sign the documents. He gestured at the aide again to remove a pen tray.
“We have to step back and acknowledge that the stress he must be feeling is monumental. Aside from the fact that he’s grieving the loss of his mother on a global, public stage, he’s also having to undertake the constitutional duties that he’s now expected to maintain,” royal expert Victoria Arbiter said.
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Texas Judge Rules Mandatory Coverage of HIV Drugs Violates Religious Freedom of Christian Employer
A Texas judge has ruled that mandatory insurance coverage of drugs prescribed to combat transmission of HIV violates the religious freedom of a Christian employer.
A federal judge in Texas has ruled that mandatory coverage under the Affordable Care Act for drugs that combat the transmission of HIV violates the religious freedom of a Christian employer.
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor issued the ruling last week in a lawsuit led by Jonathan Mitchell, a former Texas solicitor general and a conservative activist, on behalf of Braidwood Management Inc.
The mandate was part of the Affordable Care Act and required employers to provide insurance plans that cover HIV-prevention pills known as PrEP drugs. The plaintiff argued the requirement violated the employer's religious beliefs.
O'Connor's ruling is the newest in a series of legal challenges to Obamacare provisions. The judge previously ruled the whole heath care package unconstitutional, but his decision did not stand after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law last year in a 7-to-2 decision.
It was the third time the high court had weighed in on the law.
PrEP, which stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2012 and is currently taken by hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Braidwood Management Inc., a Christian for-profit company, argued against covering the costs of such drugs, saying they “facilitate and encourage homosexual behavior and sexual activity outside of marriage between one man and one woman.”
The lawsuit also claimed the mandate encouraged "homosexual behavior, prostitution, sexual promiscuity, and intravenous drug use."
"This decision is deeply disappointing and could cripple HIV prevention efforts, particularly among communities of color and communities of poverty," the the National Minority AIDS Council said in a statement.
Mitchell, who led the lawsuit, is also the architect behind Texas' restrictive six-week abortion ban that allows private citizens to sue providers and recipients of the medical procedure who violate the ban.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did not say if it planned to appeal the newest ruling. The Biden administration said it is reviewing the Texas decision.
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Woman in New York City Dies After Freak Accident Leaves Her Impaled on Fence
Officials say the 45-year-old driver of the SUV swerved to avoid hitting another vehicle stopped in the intersection and ended up jumping the curb, hitting the victim, NBC News reported.
A New York City woman has passed away after succumbing to injuries sustained Friday night in a freak accident that left her impaled on a fence in The Bronx, New York Post reported.
Friday night around 6:30 p.m. as Paulina Nrecaj, 59, was on her way to pick up a pizza for her family, she was hit by a Lexus SUV after the vehicle jumped the curb in front of her building and pushed her through a metal fence with a spike impaling her, the New York Post reported.
The mother of three and grandmother died two days later, according to NBC News New York.
Her daughter, Diana Nrecaj, 32, told The Post, “She was a good, sweet woman. She was a very good sweet woman. She didn’t deserve this. She was four steps away from her home.”
The victim’s family said her husband, Frane, heard the commotion from their apartment and rushed outside to discover his wife bleeding profusely, the Daily Beast reported.
Officials say the 45-year-old driver of the SUV swerved to avoid hitting another vehicle stopped in the intersection and ended up jumping the curb, hitting Nrecaj, NBC News reported.
The driver was taken to a local hospital for treatment and the extent of the injuries are unclear, NBC News reported.
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Woman Says She Was 'Sick to Her Stomach' After Finding Out Rapist Ex-Husband Would Question Her at Trial
“He wanted to cross examine me. He wanted to have that moment in which to rattle me or just continue to abuse me,” says Alisa Mathewson. Trevor Summers was found guilty of the 2017 rape and attempted murder of his estranged wife.
A Florida woman who was raped and held captive by her estranged husband says she felt a “rush of emotions” when she found out he would be cross-examining her on the witness stand.
“In the very beginning there was a rush of emotions and a bit of shock that this was actually happening and that this was going to be allowed,” Alisa Mathewson told Inside Edition. “I felt sick to my stomach that he was going to do this but I knew he would. He is a textbook narcissist.”
While the couple’s divorce was pending on 2017, Trevor Summers broke into Mathewson’s home, bound her with Christmas lights and raped her over the course of 20 hours.
After trying to smother her with a pillow, Summers put Mathewson’s unconscious body into his car, then drove to a marina, police say, to get rid of her body. When he stopped at a Walgreens in Tampa, Mathewson regained consciousness and made her escape.
“I was able to run and scream through the Walgreens parking lot before he was able to grab me and push me back into the car,” Mathewson said.
Witnesses got a license and notified police. Summers was arrested and Mathewson was saved.
“I believe that he had all the intentions of coming there to murder me and kill himself,” Mathewson said.
Summers later fired his attorneys and was permitted to serve as his own lawyer, which enabled him to question Mathewson during the trial.
“Did I threaten to have sex?” Summers asked his ex-wife on the stand.
“You broke into my home in the middle of the night when I was sleeping, attacked me and tied me up. I take that as, yes, you threatened me to have sex with you. Yes,” Mathewson said.
A jury found Summers guilty of all 11 charges against him, including rape and attempted murder.
Mathewson believes Summers fired his attorney so he would have the ability to confront her one last time.
“He wanted to cross examine me. He wanted to have that moment in which to rattle me or just continue to abuse me,” Mathewson said. She also says that Summers backed down once she gained confidence and strength while answering his questions.
And even after everything she has been through, Mathewson still agrees with the judge’s decision that led to the difficult cross examination.
“I believe in our constitution, and I believe that people can face their accusers. As difficult as it is as a victim to be put in that situation, it is the law,” Mathewson said.
Summers faces up to life in prison at his sentencing next month. The couple has five children together.
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Some encouraging news out of the NY Fed overnight:
And the 3 year expectations fell to a near two-year low also.
For the next Fed meeting (September 20-21) however a 75bp rate hike is more or less locked in.
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And the 3 year expectations fell to a near two-year low also.
For the next Fed meeting (September 20-21) however a 75bp rate hike is more or less locked in.
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT TODAY FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES...
.A south swell may briefly push surf heights to advisory levels
along south facing shores later today.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 AM
HST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Surf 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...6 AM HST today through 6 AM HST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming
difficult and dangerous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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ocean safety officials and exercise caution.
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HANA, Hawaii (KITV4) -- An Arizona woman suffered severe injuries in a fall on a trail to Kaihalulu Beach in Hana on Sunday.
Rescue crews with the Maui Fire Department (MFD) responded just after 4:30 p.m. The hiker, only identified as a 23-year-old woman, fell from an unknown height and suffered severe injuries to one of her legs and feet.
The woman was air-lifted off the trail and taken to awaiting medics at Hana Ballpark. From there she was taken to Maui Memorial Medical Center (MMMC) in Wailuku.
Details on whom the woman was hiking with at the time of the fall have not been released. There has not been an update on her condition. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/arizona-woman-23-suffers-severe-injuries-in-fall-on-hiking-trail-near-hana/article_4b63ad70-32e4-11ed-aaf5-bf54fe216927.html | 2022-09-12T22:24:37Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/arizona-woman-23-suffers-severe-injuries-in-fall-on-hiking-trail-near-hana/article_4b63ad70-32e4-11ed-aaf5-bf54fe216927.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
National Hispanic Heritage Month kicks off on September 15, honoring the histories, cultures, and contributions of Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and other locales with Hispanic influence. Celebrate the rich culture at any time by traveling to these destinations filled with local culture, culinary heritage, traditional art and architecture, and natural wonders. Here are seven places and their highlights for a Hispanic culture-filled trip.
Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Zihuatanejo (called Zihua—“zee-hwa”—by locals) is a nearly undiscovered town. With a white-sand beach, waterfront fish shacks, stylish places to stay, and a laid-back vibe, it’s the perfect destination if you’re looking for an authenic Mexican fishing village atmosphere. Zihuatanejo’s Playa la Ropa (the real-life fantasy beach from The Shawshank Redemption) could not feel further from the bustle of Mexico City, despite being just 40 minutes away by plane. The half-mile swath of Mexican beach running along a protected bay of the Pacific offers a more tranquil scene and fewer crowds than the Caribbean-coast beaches of Cancun and Tulum.
The Florida Keys, USA
For a passport-free alternative to the Caribbean, warm sunshine, fresh seafood, and stellar beaches make the Florida Keys ideal. Check out the many beachfront hotels channeling the easygoing way of life for which more far-flung destinations are known. Casa Morada, an all-suite boutique hotel on Islamorada, celebrates its place in the tropics through landscape design by Raymond Jungles, whose signature style lends a, well, jungle ambience reminiscent of such green Caribbean islands as St. Lucia and Dominica. A dreamy beachfront resort, the Reach offers a Caribbean-style sun-worshipping experience with powdery sand and crystal-clear water. The beach here conjures up islands like St. Bart’s and Grand Cayman.
Cuba
Take a music-centric trip to Cuba, the birthplace of Latin jazz (also called Afro-Cuban jazz). Visit La Esquina Jazz, a lively social club in Havana’s Santa Amalia neighborhood, where people gather to listen and dance to vinyl. Teatro Mella, a 1,500-seat theater in the Vedado neighborhood, is a cultural landmark in Havana and the go-to place for folkloric performances, variety shows, and traditional music and dance festivals. Just about 45 minutes southeast of Havana in a tiny village called Güines, check out Tata Güines Museum, the former home of Federico Arístides Soto Alejo (aka Tata Güines), who was a Cuban percussionist widely regarded as a master of the conga drum and a pioneer of Afro-Cuban jazz.
Atacama, Chile
One of the driest places in the world, Chile’s northern Atacama Desert is a high Andean plateau with lunar-like geology best described as otherworldly with its rock and salt formations, palette of colors, visibility for miles, and clear night skies. Located a few miles outside of San Pedro de Atacama, the Valle de la Luna (or Moon Valley) will make you feel like you’re visiting another planet. The deep red rocks, massive sand dunes, and speckling of salt across the surface are like nowhere else on Earth.
Patagonia, Chile/Argentina
Look no further than Patagonia if you want the ultimate South American road trip filled with adrenaline-spiking nature adventures, authentic culture, and fairy-tale scenery. Stretching across Argentina and Chile in the northern reaches of Patagonia, the wondrous Lake District is one of the most epic self-drive journeys on the continent. A network of scenic roads and highways winds through the region’s wild national parks, fabled lakes, icy peaks, and trout-filled rivers. Charming Andean villages recall the homelands of the area’s Bavarian settlers, and top-end lodges offer peaceful respite and lakefront vistas to unwind after an action-packed day.
Mexico City, Mexico
The nation’s capital is one of the best places to visit for vibrant culture. We recommend checking out Colonia Roma. Now considered one of the hippest neighborhoods in Mexico City, Colonia Roma is divided into two sections by Coahuila Street; Roma Norte plays host to many of the city’s buzziest locales, while Roma Sur maintains a slightly more residential feel. To experience the authentic, old-school charm of the neighborhood, visit some of the many local antique shops, galleries, restaurants, and hotels that called Colonia Roma home long before it was credited as cool.
Costa Rica
Costa Rica offers the stuff of vacation advertisements: horses galloping on a white-sand beach, surfers crouched in a barrel wave, sea turtles nesting near the ocean. The country has more than 800 miles of coastline and 300 postcard-perfect beaches, divided between its Pacific and Caribbean sides, making it an ideal spot for beach lovers. And there’s more. Spend time in nature by heading out on hiking trails around La Fortuna, watching for animals in the Monteverde Cloud Forest, or visiting any of many wildlife refuges. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/7-places-to-celebrate-hispanic-heritage | 2022-09-12T22:24:40Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/7-places-to-celebrate-hispanic-heritage | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT TODAY FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES...
.A south swell may briefly push surf heights to advisory levels
along south facing shores later today.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 AM
HST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Surf 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...6 AM HST today through 6 AM HST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming
difficult and dangerous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Beachgoers, swimmers, and surfers should heed all advice given by
ocean safety officials and exercise caution.
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HAWAII COUNTY, Hawaii (KITV4) -- Job seekers on the Big Island can mark their calendars for two virtual job fairs, co-hosted by the Office of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Human Resources, set for next week.
The job fairs are set to take place on Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 21, and Thursday morning, Sept. 22.
Departments participating in the event include the Fire Department, the Police Department, and the Department of Parks and Recreation. The American Job Center will also present information about the services and resources offered through their various employment-related programs, county officials said.
"There is no greater honor than serving the communities that we live and raise our families. That's why we're inviting the community to see what career opportunities lie ahead for them with the County of Hawaii by joining our virtual job fairs. The opportunities we're offering provide essential, viable, and stable careers with awesome benefits, as we look forward to continuing to grow our County ʻOhana," said Mayor Mitch Roth.
Register to attend either event by tapping the link on the corresponding date:
Anyone wishing to attend one of the virtual events who needs an auxiliary aid/service or other accommodation due to disability is asked to call Marcia Yoshiyama at 808-961-8379 or email her at Marcia.Yoshiyama@hawaiicounty.gov as soon as possible.
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New Zealand removed most of its remaining COVID-19 restrictions Monday as the government signaled a return to normalcy for the first time since the pandemic began.
People will no longer be required to wear masks in supermarkets, stores, buses, or planes. The last remaining vaccine mandates—on healthcare workers—will end. And tourists will no longer need to be vaccinated in order to visit New Zealand.
The government announced it was ditching its so-called COVID traffic light framework altogether and leaving in place just two main restrictions—that those who test positive for the virus isolate for seven days and that people wear masks when visiting healthcare facilities like hospitals and senior care homes.
The changes come as an Omicron variant outbreak wanes and the Southern Hemisphere winter ends. Case numbers in New Zealand are at the lowest point since February.
“The changes we’ve made today are significant. They mark a milestone in our response,” said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. “This is a time when finally—rather than feeling COVID dictates what happens to us, our lives, and our futures—we take control back.”
She said the changes will help drive business activity, which is vital to the nation’s economic recovery.
“This will be the first summer in three years when there won’t be the question of: What if?” Ardern said.
The end to government restrictions won’t stop individual workplaces or stores imposing their own rules, although most people expect mask use to plummet as soon as the government restrictions end just before midnight Monday.
BusinessNZ chief executive Kirk Hope said it was encouraging to see the government trusting individual businesses again.
“No two sites are the same and each business can decide what works for their own environment when it comes to minimizing the spread of COVID-19,” he said.
New Zealand enjoyed initial success in fighting the pandemic, managing to eliminate the virus entirely after closing its borders and carefully contact-tracing cases. But its approach changed as more transmissible variants proved impossible to stamp out.
As late as March, the country of 5 million had reported only 65 virus deaths. Since an Omicron wave took hold, that number has risen to nearly 2,000. But that still remains low when compared with the death rates in many other countries. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/new-zealand-drops-almost-all-covid-restrictions | 2022-09-12T22:24:46Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/new-zealand-drops-almost-all-covid-restrictions | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Imagine settling into a beautifully upholstered banquet in the bar car, sipping a predinner Negroni and pulling back a tasseled curtain to peer out as an amber sunset falls over the snow-topped scenery passing by. Then you make your way to your sleeping car to freshen up before an evening of elegant cuisine, live piano music, and midnight brunch in a vintage, navy-blue train carrying you from Venice to Paris amid the revelry of the holiday season.
This is no fairy tale. It is the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, a historic rail service operated by Belmond, which has announced that for the first time it will offer departures in December, meaning that travelers can indulge in this classic train experience at the height of Europe’s winter festive season.
The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express normally only runs from March to November, but this December there will be 10 routes available, including recently launched service to and from Florence.
Where (and when) the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express will travel this December
- Venice to Paris: December 2 and 12
- Verona to Paris: December 2 and 12
- Venice to Paris (via Rome and Florence): December 7
- Florence to Paris: December 7
- Paris to Florence: December 8
- Paris to Venice (via Rome and Florence): December 8
- Paris to Vienna: December 17
- Vienna to Paris: December 18
- Paris to Venice: December 20
- Paris to Verona: December 20
During these overnight journeys, priced from $3,410 per person, guests will have a private sleeper cabin (ranging from more cozy “Historic Cabins” with shared bathroom facilities to six larger Grand Suites with private bathrooms) and will be served a parade of gourmet meals, afternoon tea, and classic cocktails in the decked-out dining and bar cars. For the December rides, Belmond promises winter-inspired seasonal menus that will showcase local ingredients from along the scheduled routes.
The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express is made up of 17 restored train carriages that date back to the 1920s and 1930s, each with its own story to tell. And the story continues to evolve. In 2023, the train will receive eight new Suites with a private marble en suite bathroom, a new cabin category that will be available starting in June. The suites will also a feature a lounge area that can be converted into two twin beds or one double bed at night.
You can read more about what it’s like to actually ride on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express in our first-person review of the classic rail experience. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/venice-simplon-orient-express-adds-december-europe-train-journeys | 2022-09-12T22:24:52Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/venice-simplon-orient-express-adds-december-europe-train-journeys | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Open from first light until late in the evening, this relaxed bar, just around the corner from La Piazzetta, has an entirely different vibe from the fancier options there. You can have a quick caffè (espresso) standing at the bar with the locals or sit under the striped awning and watch the sunset over the Bay of Naples while drinking a spritz. This bar also serves as one of the island’s best bakeries. Try a flaky breakfast pastry with a morning cappuccino, then swing by later to order a lemon or chocolate version of the island’s famous dessert torta caprese, a flourless cake. | https://www.afar.com/places/pasticceria-da-alberto | 2022-09-12T22:24:59Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/places/pasticceria-da-alberto | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) announced today that Steve Filton, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer will participate in a fireside chat at Morgan Stanley's 20th Annual Global Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, at 1:30 pm (EDT).
A live audio webcast of the presentation will be available on the Company's website (www.uhs.com). For those unable to listen to the live webcast, a replay of the presentation will be available on the Company's website for 90 days following the conference.
Universal Health Services (NYSE: UHS) is one of the largest and most respected hospital management companies in the nation. For over 40 years, UHS and its affiliates have focused on meeting patients' healthcare needs across hundreds of local communities. Today, UHS subsidiaries own and/or operate over 400 inpatient and outpatient facilities including acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, ambulatory centers, freestanding emergency departments, and urgent care centers in 39 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., the United Kingdom and Puerto Rico. For additional information on the Company, visit our web site: www.uhs.com.
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RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Williams Mullen is pleased to announce that James M. Burns and Cari Lyn B. Pierce have joined the firm. Burns joins the Litigation Section, and Pierce joins the Corporate Section. Both Burns and Pierce will be located in our Tysons office.
Burns returns to Williams Mullen to serve as chair of our Antitrust & Trade Regulation Practice Group. He has practiced antitrust law for over 30 years and has litigated antitrust and related claims in trial and appellate courts all across the country. He also advises clients on antitrust compliance issues and has represented clients before the DOJ Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission on a wide variety of antitrust matters, including mergers. While he has represented clients in antitrust matters in a wide variety of industries, he has extensive experience assisting clients in the health care and insurance industries with the unique antitrust challenges they often face.
Burns earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Colgate University.
Pierce focuses her practice on the various elements of business transactions and the creation of new businesses. She has experience handling asset transactions with commercial real estate components and assists clients with the organizational documents involved in these transactions. She also has experience advising landowners through the potential risks and negotiation process of proposed solar farm leases, along with additional experience in the area of tax controversy, specifically regarding small businesses.
Pierce received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Georgia School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Harvard University.
Williams Mullen is a regional full-service law firm with approximately 240 attorneys in offices across North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Since our firm began in 1909, our goal has been to provide business and legal solutions to help our clients' businesses thrive. Visit us at www.williamsmullen.com.
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A former Elbow Lake man was sentenced to life in prison in a decades-old brutal murder cold case in Hennepin County Court on Sept. 9.
Jerry Arnold Westrom, 56, of Isanti, was recently convicted of 1st-degree premeditated murder and 2nd-degree intentional murder of Jeanie Ann Childs, 35, at the time of her death, in Minneapolis in June 1993.
Judge Juan G. Hoyos sentenced Westrom to a life sentence without the possibility of parole for 30 years. He will serve his time at the Minnesota Department of Corrections St. Cloud Facility which is a level IV closed custody prison.
Child’s mother, Betty Eakman, spoke at the sentencing during victim impact statements and shared how she had waited so long for this day to come.
“I’ve waited so many years to have this end. It’s put my life through so much hell and I just really feel I’ll never forget and love her the way I always did,” said Eakman.
Childs was stabbed 65 times in the brutal attack that prosecutors said moved from room to room in a south Minneapolis apartment at the scene of the crime.
Westrom’s attorney, Steven J. Meshbesher, addressed the court, vowing to appeal the sentence.
“As we said in the beginning and as we are saying now, you’ve got the wrong guy. We are sorry for the loss of Jeanie Child’s life. We’re looking forward to Jerry Westrom’s exoneration from the Minnesota Supreme Court,” said Meshbesher.
Following his youth in the Elbow Lake area, Westrom had lived in the Twin Cities metro area from 1991 to 1993. Years later, Westrom relocated to Isanti, and married, raising children, running several businesses and coaching local hockey teams.
After the sentencing, Hennepin County law enforcement led Westrom out of the courtroom in handcuffs to begin serving his sentence.
Discuss the news on NABUR, a place to have local conversations The Neighborhood Alliance for Better Understanding and Respect ✔ A site just for our local community ✔ Focused on facts, not misinformation ✔ Free for everyone | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/news/crime/westrom-sentenced-to-life/article_2c8aa13a-32a6-11ed-bb23-bffe948cbfa0.html | 2022-09-12T22:35:50Z | fergusfallsjournal.com | control | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/news/crime/westrom-sentenced-to-life/article_2c8aa13a-32a6-11ed-bb23-bffe948cbfa0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Bob Riepe at a recent book signing event at the Otter Tail County Historical Society. Riepe has authored four books and is currently working on a fifth with a majority of the content originating from his research into the Poor Farm Cemetery of Fergus Falls.
Bob Riepe, of Perham, has just published “Absolution," a story of a married couple set in 1880’s Fergus Falls that deals with the themes of forgiveness and overcoming the tragedies of life. Although “Absolution” is Riepe’s first novel, it is the fourth book he’s authored.
“The names are changed but it is based on real people who lived in Fergus Falls and the surrounding area in the late nineteenth century,” Riepe explains. “It’s kind of a love story, but the theme is one forgiveness, hence the title.”
Riepe mentions that “Absolution” took him approximately two years to write. He began writing his first book, “Journey of Hope," upon leaving the military and went on to write “Rough on Rats” and “Wrong Turns” as well. Riepe explains that much of his work is tied to his research on the Poor Farm Cemetery located just north of the Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center.
Riepe graduated from Perham High School in 1966 and went on to serve in the Navy for over 10 years. During his time in the military he acted as an Arab linguist and went on to serve as Russian linguist as well. After his time in the Navy, Riepe went on to work for Barrel O’ Fun Snacks as a regional sales manager. Riepe married and has three children, Tammy, Brenda and Bobby.
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Despite the Otter Tail County COVID-19 community level being low, there are still quite a few active cases in the county that have been confirmed.
From the period from Aug. 28 to Sept. 3, there were 62 current lab confirmed cases, with 15,098 cumulative lab confirmed cases since cases of COVID-19 were first confirmed in OTC.
A more stunning number is the overall cumulative hospitalizations of 721, with total deaths in OTC since the pandemic began at 176.
Assistant Public Health Director Kristi Wentworth said the overall number of infections is hard to gauge at this point because of the availability of at-home test kits.
“From what we hear, there was a small surge that kind of brought us up to that high level in early August then we returned back to lower levels. It does seem like it settled down a little bit since we were seeing those increased cases just from what we hear from our healthcare partners in our communities, it’s a manageable reported case rate,” said Wentworth.
According to the classification level from public health, at the low level, individual and community-level recommendations focus on best practices in infection prevention and control in community settings, in addition to promoting up-to-date vaccinations as the front-line strategy to protect from severe disease. These include improving ventilation, testing to identify infection early and following recommendations for isolation and quarantine.
Wentworth said they are getting ready to offer updated COVID-19 bivalent booster shots. She explained that the new boosters will actually cover people for the original strains as well as the new Omicron strains.
“It covers the original strain and the latest strain together. It will have a little broader coverage. However, it’s important to know that it’s not for the primary vaccination. If people are still looking to start the series we would recommend the original vaccine series,” stated Wentworth.
Otter Tail County public health said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends, as of Sept. 1, to get the updated booster shots at least two months after a person’s last COVID-19 dose, being either a booster dose or the primary series. Individuals age 12 and up are eligible for the updated Moderna booster.
The importance of the boosters is that they can further enhance or restore protection that might have waned over time after a person’s primary series vaccination.df
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Gov. Tim Walz announced the state’s second quarter exports increased, welcomed students on their first day of school, visited an Islamic center in Minneapolis in response to recent vandalism and recommended Third Judicial District candidates.
On Sep. 6, Walz and Lieutenant Gov. Peggy Flanagan greeted students on their first day of school. The pair were out bright and early on to greet Zanewood Community School students in Brooklyn Park on their first day of school.
Also on Sep. 6, Walz and the Commission on Judicial Selection announced that it is recommending three candidates for consideration to fill a vacancy in Minnesota’s Third Judicial District. The vacancy will occur upon the retirement of the Honorable Matthew J. Opat. The seat will be chambered in Preston in Fillmore County.
The candidates include:
Jeremy Clinefelter is the managing attorney of the Third Judicial District Public Defender’s Office in Owatonna. Clinefelter previously worked in private practice at the Donnelly Law Office. Clinefelter serves on the boards of KSMQ Public Television, Cedar Valley Services and the Austin Youth Soccer Association. He was also a member of the Michael H. Seibel Family Visitation and Exchange Center Consortium.
Debra Groehler is a managing attorney in the Civil Division of the Olmsted County Attorney’s Office. She previously worked as the executive director of Legal Assistance of Olmsted County. Her community involvement includes serving as a member of the Juvenile Law Committee at the Minnesota County Attorneys Association and as secretary of the Next Chapter Ministry Board of Directors. She has also volunteered for the Rochester Public Schools and for the Honors Choirs of Southeast Minnesota.
Dwight Luhmann is a solo practitioner and the Preston city attorney. Luhmann also serves as the prosecuting attorney for the cities of Rushford and Wykoff. Luhmann previously worked as an attorney at David A. Joerg, P.A. His community involvement includes serving as the chair of the Preston Economic Development Authority, the president of the Fillmore County Law Library Board and the parent attorney representative for the Fillmore County Children’s Justice Initiative. Luhmann is a past board member and president of the Preston Area Community Foundation. He is also a past board member of Grace Church in Stewartville.
On Sep. 8, in honor of the life and legacy of Queen Elizabeth II, Walz ordered that all flags be flown at half-staff at all state and federal buildings in the State of Minnesota.
“Queen Elizabeth II was a force on the world stage, and her leadership through some of the darkest times in recent history will not be forgotten,” said Walz. “Minnesota joins the nation in lowering our flags to honor her life and legacy.”
On Sep. 9, Walz announced that exports of manufactured, agricultural and mining goods from Minnesota were valued at $6.7 billion in the second quarter of 2022, reaching the highest level on record. According to a tweet from the administration, Minnesota broke its all-time record for most exports in a quarter, with nearly $7 billion in exports in the second quarter of this year.
Also on Sep. 9, Walz and Flanagan visited the Tawfiq Islamic Center in Minneapolis to meet with Muslim community leaders and survey the damage after recent vandalism.
On Sep. 11, Walz and Flanagan and Department of Veterans Affairs Commissioner Larry Herke recognized the 21st anniversary of 9/11 while encouraging 9/11-era veterans to apply for service bonuses made possible by legislation passed last session.
“September 11, 2022, marks the 21st anniversary of the terrorist attacks against the United States of America in which thousands of innocent people were killed or injured. Police officers, fire and rescue personnel, other first responders and American citizens demonstrated extraordinary bravery in the wake of these attacks,” reads the proclamation issued by Governor Walz. “The people of Minnesota have set aside this day to honor, remember, and mourn the victims of this tragedy," said Walz. | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/news/state-regional/walz-weekly-roundup-sep-5-11-2022/article_1d686572-32b3-11ed-bd5a-cb026ba5efd9.html | 2022-09-12T22:36:09Z | fergusfallsjournal.com | control | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/news/state-regional/walz-weekly-roundup-sep-5-11-2022/article_1d686572-32b3-11ed-bd5a-cb026ba5efd9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Competing at the Rochester Community and Technical College tournament, over the past weekend, the M State Lady Spartans went 3-1 in their four games.
They defeated Harper College 3-1 (24-26, 25-18, 25-17 and 25-18), North Iowa Area Community College 3-2 (25-18, 18-25, 25-20, 29-31 and 15-7) and Joliet 3-2 (25-19, 24-26, 23-25, 25-14 and 15-10). Their lone set back was to Northeast Community College 3-1 (25-23, 25-19, 23-25 and 25-21).
Faith Marion led the offense with 19 kills, against Harper. Kendra Emery had 10 kills, 12 digs and was 25/25 on the service line. Avery Wanner provided 21 digs and Kaia Strom produced 40 assists and four aces.
Marion produced a double-double with 20 kills and 12 digs, against North Iowa. Emery again had 10 kills, as did Alaina Anderson. Wanner provided 25 digs and Strom had 41 assists.
Emily Dehler had 15 kills against Joliet. Marion provided 17 kills and 20 digs, Wanner was 26-29 at the service line with 43 digs and Strom provided four aces and 14 digs.
In their loss, Storm had a balanced line of 34 assists, seven digs and six kills. Brooke Hovland finished with eight kills and three digs, Marion came up with 26 digs and 11 kills, while Emery chipped in with 10 kills and eight digs.
“The team did a great job of making another adjustment in our rotation due to starting outside hitter Kaleigh Sip spraining her ankle the day before the tournament,” said M State coach Abby Crowser. “Wanner stepped into the libero spot and Emery played outside for us. They both did well and everyone on the team played and contributed to our wins this weekend. Versatility is one of our strengths and being able to make a change with positions and have it run smoothly is an aspect of this team we are thankful for. Strom also had a solid weekend and surpassed the 1,000 set assist mark with a career high 48 set assists against Joliet. She has been a staple in last years and this year's success and we were so happy to see her reach this milestone.”
Now at 7-4, the Lady Spartans will be at Ridgewater College, on Sept. 14.
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TORONTO (AP) — With just as much fanfare but a tad less drama, Harry Styles took the Toronto International Film Festival by storm on Sunday, premiering the tragic gay romance “My Policeman” less than a week after the much-talked-about debut of “Don’t Worry Darling” in Venice.
“My Policeman,” in which Styles stars alongside Emma Corrin and David Dawson, features arguably the fullest dramatic performance yet from 28-year-old pop star. He stars as a closeted 1950s policeman in Brighton, England, who falls in love with a museum curator (Dawson) yet marries a local schoolteacher (Corrin). It’s a tasteful period piece, inspired by the life of “Howards End” author E.M. Forster, split between the ’50s and four decades later, in which the three characters are played by Gina McKee, Linus Roache and Rupert Everett.
Throngs of fans followed Style’s every move in Toronto, a whirlwind day that included a staged interview with the movie’s filmmakers and cast, a quick stop to pick up an ensemble award given by the festival to the “My Policeman” stars and the premiere, itself, in which the usual post-movie Q&A was shortened and trimmed of questions from the audience.
“My Policeman” revolves around an unresolved love triangle that plays out across 40 years due to the injustices of British ’50s-era laws against homosexuality and the repressions of several characters. Styles said he considered it a tragedy of lost time.
“The reason why the story is so devastating is that, ultimately, to me, the whole story is about wasted time, and I think wasted time is the most devastating thing,” Styles said at the earlier talk. “The only thing we cannot control. It’s the one thing you can’t have back. And I think the one thing that I think matters — whatever kind of life you’ve lived — at the end when you think back on time with people you love.”
Directed by Michael Grandage and adapted from the novel by Bethan Roberts, “My Policeman” is to open in theaters Oct. 21 before streaming Nov. 4 on Amazon Prime Video. While it hadn’t received quite as much attention as Style’s other fall movie, Olivia Wilde’s Venice Film Festival entry “Don’t Worry Darling,” “My Policeman” appeared to be more warmly received in Toronto, drawing praise for Style’s performance.
Styles wore a dark green double-breasted suit and light green trousers, with matching handbag, to the premiere. After the film, he credited Dawson and Corrin for an off-set relationship that allowed trust between the actors, particularly in the film’s most intimate scenes.
“Having a base of a real friendship outside of the characters allows for the friendship scenes, it doesn’t require much acting,” Styles said. “And in the most intense scenes, there’s a lot of trust and a safety there.”
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LOS ANGELES — History could be made at the 2022 Emmy Awards.
“Succession” heads into Monday night's ceremony with a leading 25 Emmy nominations, but has a landmark rival in “Squid Game,” the first non-English language series to vie for television’s top honor.
Netflix's “Squid Game,” a South Korea-set drama in which the poor are fodder for brutal games, earned a best drama nomination and 13 other bids. HBO's “Succession” captured the best drama trophy and six other awards when it last vied for Emmys, in 2020. If "Squid Game" pulls off the surprise win, it would be the first non-English language drama series to win an Emmy.
“Ted Lasso” is the top comedy series nominee with 20 bids and has the chance to earn its second consecutive best comedy trophy.
Other top nominees included the tropical resort-set anthology dramedy “The White Lotus,” which also received 20 nominations; the comedies “Hacks” and “Only Murders in the Building” with 17 bids each, and teenage dysfunction drama “Euphoria.” Its star, Zendaya, was crowned best actress in 2020 and is nominated again.
ABC’s acclaimed newcomer “Abbott Elementary” could become the first broadcast show to win the best comedy award since the network’s “Modern Family” in 2014.
List of winners and nominees for 74th Emmy Awards
Comedy Series:
- “Abbott Elementary”
- “Barry”
- “Curb Your Enthusiasm”
- “Hacks”
- “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
- “Only Murders in the Building”
- “Ted Lasso”
- “What We Do in the Shadows.”
Actor, Comedy Series
- Donald Glover, “Atlanta”
- Bill Hader, “Barry”
- Nicholas Hoult, “The Great”
- Jason Sudeikis, “Ted Lasso”
- Steve Martin, “Only Murders in the Building”
- Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building.”
Actress, Comedy Series:
- Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
- Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary”
- Kaley Cuoco, “The Flight Attendant”
- Elle Fanning, “The Great”
- Issa Rae, “Insecure”
- Jean Smart, “Hacks.”
Drama Series:
- “Better Call Saul”
- “Euphoria”
- “Ozark”
- “Severance”
- “Squid Game”
- “Stranger Things”
- “Succession”
- “Yellowjackets.”
RELATED: List of 2022 Emmy Award nominees
Actor, Drama Series:
- Jason Bateman, “Ozark”
- Brian Cox, “Succession”
- Lee Jung-jae, “Squid Game”
- Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”
- Adam Scott, “Severance”
- Jeremy Strong, “Succession.”
Actress, Drama Series:
- Jodie Comer, “Killing Eve”
- Laura Linney, “Ozark”
- Melanie Lynskey, “Yellowjackets”
- Sandra Oh, “Killing Eve”
- Reese Witherspoon, “The Morning Show”
- Zendaya, “Euphoria.”
Limited or Anthology Series:
- “Dopesick”
- “The Dropout”
- “Inventing Anna”
- “The White Lotus”
- “Pam & Tommy.”
Variety Talk Series:
- “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah”
- “Jimmy Kimmel Live”
- “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”
- “Late Night with Seth Meyers”
- “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
Actor, Limited Series or TV Movie:
- Colin Firth, “The Staircase”
- Andrew Garfield, “Under the Banner of Heaven”
- Oscar Isaac, “Scenes from a Marriage”
- Michael Keaton, “Dopesick”
- Himesh Patel, “Station Eleven”
- Sebastian Stan, “Pam & Tommy.”
Actress, Limited Series or TV Movie:
- Toni Collette, “The Staircase”
- Julia Garner, “Inventing Anna”
- Lily James, “Pam & Tommy”
- Sarah Paulson, “Impeachment: American Crime Story”
- Margaret Qualley, “MAID”; Amanda Seyfried, “The Dropout.”
Supporting Actor, Comedy Series:
- Anthony Carrigan, “Barry”
- Brett Goldstein, “Ted Lasso”
- Toheeb Jimoh, “Ted Lasso”
- Nick Mohammed, “Ted Lasso”
- Tony Shalhoub, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
- Tyler James Williams, “Abbott Elementary”
- Henry Winkler, “Barry”
- Bowen Yang, “Saturday Night Live.”
Supporting Actress, Comedy Series:
- Alex Borstein, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
- Hannah Einbinder, “Hacks”
- Janelle James, “Abbott Elementary”
- Kate McKinnon, “Saturday Night Live”
- Sarah Niles, “Ted Lasso”
- Sheryl Lee Ralph, “Abbott Elementary”
- Juno Temple, “Ted Lasso”
- Hannah Waddingham, “Ted Lasso.”
Guest Actor, Drama Series:
- Adrien Brody, “Succession”
- James Cromwell, “Succession”
- Colman Domingo, “Euphoria”
- Arian Moayed, “Succession”
- Tom Pelphrey, “Ozark”
- Alexander Skarsgård, “Succession.”
Guest Actress, Drama Series:
- Hope Davis, “Succession”
- Marcia Gay Harden, “The Morning Show”; Martha Kelly, “Euphoria”; Sanaa Lathan, “Succession”; Harriet Walter, “Succession”; Lee You-mi, “Squid Game.”
Supporting Actor, Drama Series:
- Nicholas Braun, “Succession”
- Billy Crudup, “The Morning Show”
- Kieran Culkin, “Succession”
- Park Hae-soo, “Squid Game”
- Matthew Macfadyen, “Succession”
- John Turturro, “Severance”
- Christopher Walken, “Severance”
- Oh Yeong-su, “Squid Game.”
Supporting Actress, Drama Series:
- Patricia Arquette, “Severance”
- Julia Garner, “Ozark”
- Jung Ho-yeon, “Squid Game”
- Christina Ricci, “Yellowjackets”
- Rhea Seehorn. “Better Call Saul”
- J. Smith-Cameron, “Succession”
- Sarah Snook, “Succession”
- Sydney Sweeney, “Euphoria.”
Supporting Actor, Limited Series or TV Movie:
- Murray Bartlett, “The White Lotus”
- Jake Lacy, “The White Lotus”
- Will Poulter, “Dopesick”
- Seth Rogen, “Pam & Tommy”
- Peter Skarsgård, “Dopesick”
- Michael Stuhlbarg, “Dopesick”
- Steve Zahn, “The White Lotus.”
Supporting Actress, Limited Series or TV Movie:
- Connie Britton, “The White Lotus,”
- Jennifer Coolidge, “The White Lotus”
- Alexandra Daddario, “The White Lotus”
- Kaitlyn Dever, “Dopesick”
- Natasha Rothwell, “The White Lotus”
- Sydney Sweeney, “The White Lotus”
- Mare Winningham, “Dopesick.”
Television Movie:
- WINNER: “Chip ’n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers”
- “Ray Donovan: The Movie”
- “Reno 911!: The Hunt For QAnon”
- “The Survivor”
- “Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas.”
Guest Actor, Comedy Series:
- Jerrod Carmichael, “Saturday Night Live”
- Bill Hader, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”
- James Lance, “Ted Lasso”
- WINNER: Nathan Lane, “Only Murders in the Building”
- Christopher McDonald, “Hacks”
- Sam Richardson, “Ted Lasso.”
Guest Actress, Comedy Series:
- Jane Adams, “Hacks”
- Harriet Sansom Harris, “Hacks”
- Jane Lynch, “Only Murders in the Building”
- WINNER: Laurie Metcalf, “Hacks”
- Kaitlin Olson, “Hacks”
- Harriet Walter, “Ted Lasso.”
Structured Reality Program:
- “Antiques Roadshow”
- “Fixer Upper: Welcome Home”
- “Love is Blind”
- WINNER: “Queer Eye”
- “Shark Tank.”
Unstructured Reality Program:
- “Below Deck Mediterranean”
- “Cheer”
- WINNER: “Love on the Spectrum”
- “RuPaul’s Drag Race Untucked”
- “Selling Sunset.”
Reality or Competition Program:
- “The Amazing Race”
- “Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls”
- “Nailed It!”
- “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
- “Top Chef”
- “The Voice.”
Variety Sketch Show:
- “A Black Lady Sketch Show”
- “Saturday Night Live.”
See the full list of nominees announced by the Television Academy here.
Who votes for the Emmy Awards?
The more than 17,000 voting members of the TV academy are eligible to decide nominees and winners in 14 categories, including drama, comedy and limited series. The acting awards, including lead, supporting and guest actors, are determined by peer groups, as are directing, writing and other individual areas of achievement. The number of nominees in most categories generally is tied to the number of submissions, with exceptions including best comedy and dramas series: They get eight nominees each. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/emmy-winners-2022-list/507-799db6e7-d56e-401e-a042-04b0f9f35508 | 2022-09-12T22:40:15Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/emmy-winners-2022-list/507-799db6e7-d56e-401e-a042-04b0f9f35508 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) on Saturday called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) busing of migrants to the city “un-American.”
“You don’t treat people with this lack of respect, lack of dignity, putting them on buses to an unknown destination with very little food, very little water,” Lightfoot said during an appearance on “CNN Newsroom with Pamela Brown.”
“They have very little that they need when they’re on these multiple-hour, cross-country bus trips,” she said.
Abbott’s office said on Friday the state has bused more than 10,400 migrants since April to Democratic-run cities in protest of President Biden’s immigration policies.
About three-quarters have been sent to Washington, D.C., while more than 2,200 arrived in New York City since last month. The first bus sent to Chicago arrived on Wednesday, and Abbott said more than 300 migrants have arrived in the city so far.
“What I don’t like to see is people taking these cross-country trips, getting off the bus and being immediately taken to the hospital because they were put on the buses with delicate medical conditions that no one in Texas seemed to care anything about,” Lightfoot said on CNN. “That is simply not right, and it’s un-American.”
When asked if she would be OK with Abbott’s initiative if the migrants were better taken care of, Lightfoot still indicated opposition, calling it a “unilateral political stunt.”
“What he’s trying to do is play to the lowest common denominator in his party, to burnish his credentials as a candidate for president in 2024,” Lightfoot said.
Lightfoot said she had not spoken with Abbott but had connected with New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), both of whom have similarly condemned the busing.
The Hill has reached out to an Abbott spokesperson for comment.
Both Adams and Bowser have asked the federal government for assistance. The Defense Department has denied Bowser’s request to activate the D.C. National Guard twice.
“This is a manufactured crisis on the part of Governor Abbott,” Lightfoot said on CNN. “We can all do our part. And I believe that we all must do our part. But we’ve got to do it with collaboration, with cooperation.” | https://www.wwlp.com/hill-politics/chicago-mayor-migrants-bused-from-texas-treated-with-lack-of-respect-dignity/ | 2022-09-12T22:40:21Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/hill-politics/chicago-mayor-migrants-bused-from-texas-treated-with-lack-of-respect-dignity/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Tom Brady as the first 45-year-old starting quarterback in NFL history looked quite a bit like the younger versions.
Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys were left with an old, familiar feeling that isn’t quite so fuzzy.
Brady and Mike Evans connected on a punctuating touchdown, Leonard Fournette ran for 127 yards, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers dominated the Cowboys 19-3 in a season opener Sunday night.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said after the game Prescott needs surgery for a fracture near the thumb on his throwing hand and will miss multiple weeks, a season-altering blow for the defending NFC East champs.
A rough night for Prescott got worse after his right hand struck a defender when throwing a pass in the fourth quarter. He was checked on the sideline before jogging to the locker room.
The latest injury came almost two years after the compound fracture of Prescott’s right ankle on the same field, a gruesome injury that ended his 2020 season in Week 5.
“It’s very disappointing, but injuries happen,” Prescott said. “Can’t necessarily control it. Obviously going to miss some time, not be there for my team. And that’s what hurts more than anything.”
Brady was in control throughout despite an extended break during training camp to attend to personal issues. The seven-time Super Bowl champ got a big assist from the defense in Todd Bowles’ debut as Tampa Bay’s coach following three seasons as defensive coordinator.
“I always play the game for my team, my teammates and the organization,” Brady said. “Just being around them is something I always enjoy. It keeps me very grounded, very humble. I feel like just one of the guys. Not many places where I can go where I feel like just one of the guys, but the locker room’s definitely one of those places.”
The Cowboys and Bucs had the top two offenses in the NFL last season, which started with Tampa Bay’s 31-29 win at home over Dallas when Brady and Prescott combined for seven TDs passing. Only one offense showed up this time.
Dallas drove 54 yards to a field goal on the first possession, but didn’t score again while finishing with its second-fewest points in an opener. The Cowboys lost to New Orleans 28-0 in 1989 — Jerry Jones’ first game as owner.
Julio Jones had a 48-yard catch in the two-time All-Pro’s Tampa Bay debut to set up one of four first-half field goals from Ryan Succop, who had five attempts before the break without a punt from the Bucs.
Brady, who improved to 7-0 against the Cowboys, was 18 of 27 for 212 yards with an interception that didn’t amount to much because Prescott and receiver Noah Brown couldn’t connect on an easy third-down throw near midfield early in the fourth quarter.
The Cowboys did nothing to quiet questions about the receiving group behind CeeDee Lamb, the third-year player who is the new No. 1 target after the offseason trade of Amari Cooper.
Lamb had two catches for 29 yards while drawing most of the attention. Noah Brown had five catches for 68 yards, while Prescott finished 14 of 29 for 134 yards with an interception that set up one of the first-half field goals.
The gap in receiving depth was clear, with Evans and Chris Godwin both having catches of at least 20 yards in the first quarter before Godwin had to leave with a hamstring injury.
The Cowboys stayed close in the first half only because of two sacks from reigning NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Micah Parsons. Both forced field goals, and Succop missed one of the tries.
Devin White matched Parsons with two sacks of Prescott as the Cowboys lost to the Bucs at home for just the second time while coach Mike McCarthy dropped to 0-3 in openers with Dallas.
Bowles is 1-0 with the Bucs after taking over when Bruce Arians retired and moved to the front office.
“I think it was just about being dominant,” White said. “We wanted to set a tone for him as a head coach, for us as a defense as a whole. I think it was a great thing. We still have some things. We left a lot of plays out there.”
Fournette had 40 of the 79 yards on the drive that ended with Brady’s 5-yard scoring pass to Evans for a 19-3 lead.
ROOKIE LINEMEN
Dallas first-round pick Tyler Smith was the first rookie in franchise history to start an opener at left tackle. The Bucs also had a rookie starter in left guard Luke Goedeke, a second-rounder. Both teams entered the opener with questions up front because of injuries and personnel changes.
The injuries mounted, too. Dallas left guard Connor McGovern didn’t return after injuring his right ankle on the first series. Tampa Bay left tackle Donovan Smith exited in the second quarter with an elbow issue and also was ruled out.
INJURIES
Bucs: Godwin’s hamstring injury came after he entered the game with an uncertain status because of his recovery from a knee injury. … Cowboys S Jayron Kearse, who was questionable coming with a neck issue, left in the second half with a knee injury. … Dallas DE Tarell Basham was sidelined by a thigh injury. Cowboys S Jayron Kearse, who was questionable coming with a neck issue, left in the second half with a knee injury.
UP NEXT
Buccaneers: At NFC South rival New Orleans next Sunday. One of these teams has either won or shared the past five division titles.
Cowboys: Defending AFC champion Cincinnati visits next Sunday. Dallas opens with three of four games at home.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Walking out for his first Grand Slam final at age 19, Carlos Alcaraz bumped fists with fans leaning over a railing along the path leading to the Arthur Ashe Stadium court. Moments later, after the coin toss, Alcaraz turned to sprint to the baseline for the warmup, until being beckoned back to the net by the chair umpire for the customary pre-match photos.
Alcaraz is imbued with boundless enthusiasm and energy, not to mention skill, speed, stamina and sangfroid. And now he’s a U.S. Open champion and the No. 1 player in men’s tennis.
Using his uncommon combination of moxie and maturity, Alcaraz beat Casper Ruud 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (1), 6-3 on Sunday to both earn the trophy at Flushing Meadows and become the youngest man to lead the ATP rankings.
“Everything came so fast. For me it’s unbelievable. It’s something I dreamed since I was a kid, since I started playing tennis,” said Alcaraz, whom folks of a certain age might still consider a kid.
“Of course,” he said, “I’m hungry for more.”
Alcaraz, who will move up three ranking spots from No. 4 on Monday, already has attracted plenty of attention as someone considered the Next Big Thing in a sport dominated for decades by the Big Three of Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer.
“He’s one of these few rare talents that comes up every now and then in sports. That’s what it seems like,” said Ruud, a 23-year-old from Norway. “Let’s see how his career develops, but it’s going all in the right direction.”
The Spaniard was serenaded by choruses of “Olé, Olé, Olé! Carlos!” that reverberated off the arena’s closed roof — and Alcaraz often motioned for the spectators to get louder. There were a couple of magical points that drew standing ovations, including one Alcaraz lost with a laser of an on-the-run forehand while ending up face-down on his belly.
He only briefly showed signs of fatigue from having to get through three consecutive five-setters in the three rounds right before the final; no one had gone through that arduous a route on the way to the title in New York in 30 years.
Alcaraz went five sets against 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic in the fourth round, ending at 2:23 a.m. Tuesday; against Jannik Sinner in the quarterfinals, a 5-hour, 15-minute thriller that ended at 2:50 a.m. Friday after Alcaraz needed to save a match point; and against Frances Tiafoe in the semifinals.
“It’s not time to be tired,” Alcaraz said.
This was not a stroll to the finish. He faced a pair of set points while down 6-5 in the third. Could have been an outcome-altering moment.
But Alcaraz erased each of those point-from-the-set opportunities for Ruud with the sorts of quick-reflex, soft-hand volleys he repeatedly displayed.
“He just played too good on those points. We’ve seen it many times before: He steps up when he needs to,” Ruud said. “When it’s close, he pulls out great shots.”
One break in the fourth was all it took for Alcaraz to seal the victory in the only Grand Slam final between two players seeking both a first major championship and the top spot in the ATP’s computerized rankings, which date to 1973.
The winner was guaranteed to be first in Monday’s rankings; the loser was guaranteed to be second.
“We knew what was at stake,” said Ruud, who entered the U.S. Open ranked No. 7. “I’m disappointed, of course, that I’m not No. 1, but No. 2 is not too bad, either.”
He also was the runner-up to Nadal at the French Open in June.
If nothing else, Ruud gets the sportsmanship award for conceding a point he knew he didn’t deserve. It came at 4-3 in the first set, when he raced to a short ball that bounced twice before his racket touched it. Play continued, and Alcaraz hesitated, then flubbed his response. Ruud told the chair umpire what had happened, giving the point to Alcaraz, who responded with a thumbs-up.
Alcaraz certainly seems to be a rare talent, possessing an all-court game, a blend of groundstroke power with a willingness to push forward. He won 34 of the 45 points that he finished at the net.
He is increasingly a threat while serving — he delivered 14 aces at up to 128 mph — and returning, earning 11 break points, converting three.
And, as Ruud noted, Alcaraz showed “incredible fighting spirit and will to win.”
Make no mistake: Ruud is no slouch. There’s a reason he is the youngest man since Nadal to get to two major finals in one season.
But this was Alcaraz’s time to shine under the lights.
Some perspective: He is the first teenager to win the U.S. Open since Pete Sampras in 1990, the first to triumph at any Slam since Nadal at the 2005 French Open.
Decent company.
Another way to understand how precocious Alacaraz is: The last man to win this tournament by his second appearance was Pancho Gonzalez in 1948, before pros were allowed into the field.
For context on the rankings, it is helpful to know that Novak Djokovic did not play at the U.S. Open or Australian Open this year, unable to enter those countries because is not vaccinated against COVID-19, and did not receive any ranking boost for his Wimbledon championship because no points were on offer for anyone after the All England Club banned athletes from Russia and Belarus over the invasion of Ukraine.
Regardless of the circumstances, it is significant that Alcaraz is the first male teenager at No. 1.
No one else did it. Not Nadal, not Djokovic, not Federer, not Sampras or anyone else.
When one last service winner glanced off Ruud’s frame Sunday, Alcaraz dropped to his back on the court, then rolled over onto his stomach, covering his face with his hands.
He went into the stands for hugs with his coach Juan Carlos Ferrero, a former No. 1 himself who won the French Open in 2003 and reached the final of that year’s U.S. Open, and others, crying all the while.
“He was born to play this kind of tournament, born to play these kind of matches,” said Ferrero, who has worked with Alcaraz for three years. “Since the moment that I started with him, I saw some things that were different than the other guys at his age.”
You only get to No. 1 for the first time once.
You only win a first Grand Slam title once.
Many folks expect Alcaraz to be celebrating these sorts of feats for years to come.
“I want to be (at) the top for many, many weeks — I hope many years,” he said. “I’m going to work hard again after this week, these amazing two weeks. I’m going to fight (to) have more of this.”
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A former Trump White House lawyer says he thinks there is a “very high” chance that former President Trump will face an indictment.
Ty Cobb, who represented the White House during former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s 2016 campaign’s contacts with Russia, told CBS News’s “The Takeout” podcast that he believes the former president is likely to face legal consequences for actions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
“I think the president is in serious legal water,” Cobb said in the podcast, released on Friday. “Not so much because of the [Mar-a-Lago] search, but because of the obstructive activity he took in connection with the Jan. 6 proceeding and the attempts to interfere in the election count in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania and perhaps Michigan.”
Cobb also told CBS News that he suspects the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago last month — during which the agency says it recovered numerous classified documents — is related to the Justice Department’s larger investigation into Trump’s actions related to the Jan. 6 attack.
“It is about the bigger picture, the Jan. 6 issues, the fake electors, the whole scam with regard to the ‘big lie’ and the attempts to … cling to the presidency in a desperate fashion,” Cobb said.
The former White House lawyer noted that the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago seemed “unusually large and broad” and was “very comprehensive in terms of the types of documents that the government could take.”
The Justice Department and Trump are currently locked in a legal battle over the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago, with a judge earlier this week granting Trump’s request for a special master to review the materials recovered during the search. The Justice Department has since appealed that ruling.
A Friday filing also revealed disagreements between the two parties over how a special master should function in the case, including over which documents should be reviewed and whether executive privilege claims should be considered.
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ST PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The WTA announced Monday that World No.1 Iga Swiatek, US Open finalist Ons Jabeur and the doubles team of Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova have secured their qualification for the 2022 WTA Finals.
Jabeur will be making her first appearance at the season-ending tournament, and Swiatek her second, which is being held in Fort Worth, Texas, at the state-of-the-art Dickies Arena as the event returns to the United States for the first time since 2005. The pairing of Krejcikova and Siniakova return as defending champions in what will be their fourth consecutive team appearance.
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“I’m really excited to qualify for the WTA Finals this year for the second time in my career and I’m really looking forward to playing in front of the fans in Fort Worth,” Swiatek said.
Swiatek has won a tour-leading seven titles this season, six of which spanned a 37-match winning streak from February to July. The Polish 21-year-old won consecutive titles at the Qatar TotalEnergies Open (Doha), BNP Paribas Open (Indian Wells), Miami Open presented by Itaú, Porsche Tennis Grand Prix (Stuttgart), Internazionali BNL d'Italia (Rome) and Roland Garros. She lifted her third Grand Slam title on Saturday at the US Open and has amassed a 55-7 win loss record this year.
Her incredible season, coupled with Ashleigh Barty’s retirement, saw her secure the World No.1 ranking on April 4, becoming the first man or woman from Poland to do so in singles and the 28th woman overall to ascend to the top spot.
Swiatek has appeared at the WTA Finals once before, contesting the group stages in 2021, where she became the first Polish qualifier since Agnieszka Radwanska in 2016.
Tunisia’s Jabeur becomes the first Arab woman to qualify for the WTA Finals, and this season has won the biggest titles of her career at the WTA 1000 level Mutua Marid Open and WTA 500 bett1open (Berlin). In addition, she reached the title match at the US Open, Credit One Charleston Open and Internazionali BNL d'Italia (Rome). Jabeur reached a career-high ranking of No.2 on June 27 this year, making her the highest-ranked African and Arab tennis player ever, man or woman.
Before contesting the final in New York over the weekend, Jabeur, became the first Arab player to reach a Grand Slam singles final, finishing runner-up at The Championships, Wimbledon in July.
“It is such an honor to qualify for the WTA Finals,” Jabeur said. “It was my goal from the beginning of the season to play the tournament and I can’t wait to compete as one the top 8 players in the world.”
Confirming their qualification having lifted the US Open doubles title over the weekend, the Czech duo of Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova will make their fourth consecutive appearance at the WTA Finals. In 2021, they became the first all-Czech team to lift the WTA Finals Martina Navratilova Trophy and will hope to be the seventh team overall to successfully defend the WTA Finals crown.
Siniakova, the current WTA World No.1 in doubles, and Krejcikova first played on the Hologic WTA Tour together at Nürnberg in 2014 and this season have won three titles, all coming at Grand Slam level, at the Australian Open, Wimbledon and now the US Open.
Champions Corner: Krejcikova, Siniakova want more after career Golden Slam
"We are so excited that we are going to play the WTA Finals again," Siniakova said.
Added Krejcikova: "We are really looking forward to playing in Fort Worth in Texas and hopefully defending our title."
The 2022 WTA Finals features the Top 8 singles players and doubles teams on the Race to the WTA Finals, competing in a round-robin format with the singles champion taking home the WTA Finals Billie Jean King Trophy and the doubles champions earning the WTA Finals Martina Navratilova Trophy.
Click here to see the latest Race to the WTA Finals leaderboard.
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Voters will be heading to the polls in New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Delaware next Tuesday to weigh in on some of the last primaries this year before turning their attention to November.
While the spotlight will be on New Hampshire’s Republican Senate primary, which will determine who takes on Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) in November, next week’s primaries will prove consequential in several gubernatorial and House races as well.
Those primaries will determine whether Govs. Dan McKee (D) of Rhode Island and Chris Sununu (R) of New Hampshire prevail in their reelection bids, while several races in New Hampshire will determine who will take on two vulnerable Democratic incumbents in the House.
Here’s a look at the races we’re watching next week.
New Hampshire GOP Senate primary
Next week’s primary will be closely watched as Republicans determine which candidate they want to see go head to head with Hassan, who is vying for a second term in one of the year’s most competitive Senate races. She won her first term in 2016 by about a tenth of a percentage point, and Republicans are eager to see the seat flip.
While the field has attracted close to a dozen GOP candidates, retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc and state Senate President Chuck Morse are seen as the leading candidates.
Bolduc has garnered controversy for previously supporting former President Trump’s claims that he won the 2020 election — claims from which Bolduc has recently backtracked — and for calling Sununu a “communist sympathizer.” He ran for Senate in 2020, losing the GOP nomination to Republican candidate Corky Messner. Messner later lost to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D) by a 15-percentage point margin.
Morse, considered the more establishment Republican, has focused on school choice, completing the wall at the southern border and reforming supply chain regulations. In a last-minute boost, Sununu announced on Thursday that he would be endorsing Morse.
Both Republicans and Democrats have poured money into the race. Republicans have spent money airing ads criticizing Bolduc, whom some in the GOP worry would be a weak candidate against Hassan, while Democrats have aired ads targeting Morse.
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the seat as “lean Democrat.”
New Hampshire GOP gubernatorial primary
Sununu is seeking his fourth run for office after dashing hopes held among some Republicans that he would run for Senate. While he’s competing against a handful of candidates in the GOP primary, recent polling shows he’s likely to prevail.
Among some of the candidates vying for the chance to take on Sununu include U.S. Marine Corps veteran Julian Acciard, “biker” candidate Jay Lewis, professional logger Richard McMenamon II, small business owner Thad Riley and Karen Testerman, who served in Franklin, N.H., as a former city councilor.
Despite Republican candidates targeting him over his criticism of Trump and how he’s dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic, a University of New Hampshire Survey Center Granite State Poll released earlier this month shows Sununu on a likely easy reelection path.
The poll found that Sununu received 72 percent support among likely Republican primary voters compared to Riley, who placed second at 7 percent.
New Hampshire 1st Congressional District GOP primary
The GOP primary to take on Rep. Chris Pappas (D.), who represents the state’s 1st Congressional District, has attracted a crowded field of candidates in a race that the nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates as a “toss up.”
A University of New Hampshire Survey Center Granite State Poll released late last month showed two former Trump administration officials — former State Department official Matt Mowers (26 percent) and former White House assistant press secretary Karoline Leavitt (24 percent) — as the leading contenders among likely GOP primary voters.
Other candidates running in the race include journalist Gail Huff Brown — the wife of former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) — former state Sen. Russell Prescott and state Rep. Tim Baxter, among others. If Mowers wins reelection, it would set up a rematch with Pappas. The two went head to head in 2020, with Pappas prevailing by a 5-percentage point margin.
If Leavitt notches the GOP primary and wins the seat in November, she could be among the first Gen Z candidates to win office.
New Hampshire 2nd Congressional District GOP primary
Voters will weigh in on seven Republican candidates next Tuesday eager to take on Rep. Ann Kuster (D) in November for the state’s 2nd Congressional District.
Among those vying for the Republican nomination include bar manager and bartender Scott Black; Bob Burns, a former deputy state director for Newt Gingrich’s 2012 presidential campaign; stone craft artist Michael Callis; Keene, N.H., Mayor George Hansel; Jay Mercer, a department head at New Hampshire Technical Institute and Rivier University; Army veteran Dean Poirier and Lily Tang Williams, who serves as supervisor of the checklist in Weare, N.H.
A University of New Hampshire Survey Center Granite State Poll released late last month showed Burns leading his Republican contenders with 32 percent among likely Republican primary voters, followed by Hansel with 18 percent. Williams placed third at 10 percent.
The Cook Political Report rates the seat a “toss up.”
Rhode Island Democratic gubernatorial primary
Gov. Dan McKee (D) is looking to win his first full term as governor after he was elevated to the post in 2021 after then-Gov. Gina Raimondo (D) left office to serve as Commerce secretary under the Biden administration.
McKee, who prior to his governorship served as the state’s lieutenant governor between 2015 and 2021, is facing four other challengers for the state’s top post: state Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea, former state Secretary of State Matt Brown, former CVS executive Helena Foulkes and physician Luis Daniel Muñoz.
A 12 News-Roger Williams University Poll released in August showed McKee leading his Democratic contenders with 28 percent of support among Democratic primary voters in the state. Gorbea followed in second with 25 percent while Foulkes received 14 percent. Brown and Muñoz both received less than 10 percent.
The Cook Political Report rates the seat as “solid Democrat,” meaning whoever wins on Tuesday will be the heavy favorite in November.
Rhode Island 2nd Congressional District Democratic primary
Rep. Jim Langevin (D) announced earlier this year that he would not be seeking reelection after serving for two decades in Congress, leaving the seat open in a race that Cook Political Reports rates as a “toss up.”
While only one Republican is running on the GOP side, five candidates are looking to secure the Democratic nomination. Those include state General Treasurer Seth Magaziner; former state lawmaker David Segal; former Commerce Department official Sarah Morgenthau; small business owner Joy Fox; and Refugee Dream Center founder Omar Bah.
Another Democratic candidate, Spencer Dickinson, suspended “the active part of his campaign,” The Providence Journal reported.
A 12 News-Roger Williams University Poll released in August shows Magaziner leading the pack by double digits with 37 percent support among Democratic primary voters in the state, followed by Segal and Morgenthau both with 8 percent. Fox, Bah and Dickinson both received less than 5 percent. | https://www.wwlp.com/hill-politics/six-primary-races-to-watch-in-new-hampshire-and-beyond/ | 2022-09-12T22:41:33Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/hill-politics/six-primary-races-to-watch-in-new-hampshire-and-beyond/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kyle’s update, 1:13 PM PT: Per Adam Schefter, Mitchell is expected to miss two months with a sprained MCL. That would suggest Mitchell has a Grade 3 sprain. I know some feel like the team should have kept Trey Sermon, and that predicting Mitchell’s injury was obvious, but those two are not mutually exclusive.
The running game impressed during Week 1, carrying the ball 33 times for 176 yards, averaging 5.3 yards per carry. Before he went down with an injury, Elijah Mitchell played about as well as you could ask. The second-year runner had six attempts for 41 yards, with two of those going for more than ten yards and one going over 15. I thought Mitchell had an impressive block in pass protection, too.
According to Ian Rapoport, Mitchell is expected to miss some time after having an MRI Monday morning. Kyle Shanahan speaks with the media at 3:30 PM PT, so we'll have more clarity on Mitchell's injury then.
Jeff Wilson had nine carries, Deebo Samuel had eight carries, and Trey Lance had four designed runs. Ty Davis-Price, who was inactive due to Jordan Mason's special teams ability, figures to replace Mitchell. We'll see if TDP or Mason picks up some of the slack with Mitchell out.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A rape victim whose DNA from her sexual assault case was used by San Francisco police to arrest her in an unrelated property crime on Monday filed a lawsuit against the city.
During a search of a San Francisco Police Department crime lab database, the woman's DNA was tied to a burglary in late 2021. Her DNA had been collected and stored in the system as part of a 2016 domestic violence and sexual assault case, then-District Attorney Chesa Boudin said in February in a shocking revelation that raised privacy concerns.
The revelation prompted a national outcry from advocates, law enforcement, legal experts and lawmakers. Advocates said the practice could affect victims' willingness to come forward to law enforcement authorities.
Federal law already prohibits the inclusion of victims' DNA in the national Combined DNA Index System. There is no corresponding law in California to prohibit local law enforcement databases from retaining victims' profiles and searching them years later for entirely different purposes.
California lawmakers last month approved a bill that would prohibit using the DNA profiles collected by police from sexual assault survivors and other victims for any purpose other than aiding in identifying the perpetrator. Local law enforcement agencies would also be prohibited from retaining and then searching victim DNA to incriminate them in unrelated crimes under the legislation, which is pending before Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Boudin said the report was found among hundreds of pages of evidence against a woman who had been recently charged with a felony property crime. After learning the source of the DNA evidence, Boudin dropped the felony property crime charges against the woman.
The police department's crime lab stopped the practice shortly after receiving a complaint from the district attorney's office and formally changed its operating procedure to prevent the misuse of DNA collected from sexual assault victims, Police Chief Bill Scott said.
Scott said at a police commission meeting in March that he had discovered 17 crime victim profiles, 11 of them from rape kits, that were matched as potential suspects using a crime victims database during unrelated investigations. Scott said he believes the only person arrested was the woman who filed the lawsuit Monday.
The woman filed the lawsuit under the alias of Jane Doe to protect her privacy, her attorney, Adante Pointer, said in a statement. The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they choose to be named.
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Coach Brandon Staley didn’t have an update on wide receiver Keenan Allen’s status when he met with reporters over Zoom on Monday. Allen, who was forced from the Chargers’ victory Sunday over the Las Vegas Raiders because of a hamstring injury, was meeting with medical staffers.
“It’s kind of in-progress as we speak,” Staley said of Allen’s medical evaluation.
If the Chargers learned anything from their 24-19 victory over the Raiders, it’s that they have plenty of options if Allen can’t play Thursday against the Chiefs. Nine different receivers caught passes from quarterback Justin Herbert. Allen had four catches for 66 yards before he was hurt.
DeAndre Carter, who caught three passes for 64 yards and one touchdown against the Raiders, could start in place of Allen if he can’t play against Kansas City. Joshua Palmer, who had three receptions for 5 yards, also could fill in or possibly get the start in place of Allen.
Herbert was unfazed by Allen’s second-half absence against the Raiders, completing 26 of 34 passes for 279 yards and three touchdowns overall. He completed TD passes to Carter, fullback Zander Horvath and tight end Gerald Everett – three players making their Chargers debuts.
“You feel pretty fortunate that you have a quarterback who can make those throws,” Chargers offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi said. “They were fantastic.”
Lombardi said he’s still surprised by Herbert’s ability to connect with his receivers, especially on plays such as a 42-yard completion to Allen in the second quarter and a scramble and throw while moving to his left for an 18-yard scoring play to Everett in the third that gave the Chargers a 24-10 lead.
“Yes, still kind of does,” Lombardi said, chuckling. “It shouldn’t because he does it over and over again. But, yeah, it’s impressive.”
OFFENSIVE ANALYSIS
The Chargers’ offense got bogged down in the fourth quarter, the result of some determined defensive play by the Raiders, who attempted to rally from a 24-13 deficit entering the final period. Lombardi also blamed himself for getting “a little bit conservative” in his late-game play-calling.
Las Vegas blanked the Chargers in the fourth quarter and forced three punts. A fourth possession ended in Dustin Hopkins’ missed 49-yard field goal try and a fifth ended with the Chargers running out the clock to end the game. Lombardi said he was initially frustrated and disappointed.
“If we would have completed a couple of those passes and kept those drives going, you would have felt like you did it just right,” he said. “Immediately after the game, I did feel like I got a little conservative and wished I would have made a couple of different calls. But it worked out, thank God.”
JACKSON UPDATE
Staley said it was possible cornerback J.C. Jackson would make his Chargers debut Thursday against Kansas City. Jackson, who underwent minor ankle surgery Aug. 23 and sat out Sunday’s game against Las Vegas, is expected to participate with his teammates in Wednesday’s walk-through.
“(Monday) was kind of a recovery day for him because we put him through a pretty extensive workout (Sunday),” Staley said. “We’ll work him out (Tuesday) and then we are going to try and get him on the practice field on Wednesday. He’s in a better spot, I would say, than (Sunday), or the day before.
“I would say he’s 50/50 for the game.”
ROSTER MOVES
The Chargers signed defensive lineman Christian Covington, who is in his eighth NFL season, to their active roster. In order to make room for Covington on the roster, Staley said the Chargers hope to sign defensive lineman Breiden Fehoko to their practice squad if he clears waivers.
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The ballot showdown to legalize sports gambling in California already is the most-expensive set of propositions in state history, with all sides poised to eclipse $400 million in campaign contributions, setting off a dizzying barrage of campaign ads that will only pick up between now and Election Day in November.
At stake is control of what could be a billion-dollar industry, so the dueling campaigns of Propositions 26 and 27 are spending millions to churn out ads fine-tuned to convince voters that sports-gaming is good for California and that their side should profit. So what do native tribes and homelessness have to do with sports gambling? It’s not always clear from their ads.
A coalition of California tribes support Prop 26, which would legalize sports betting but only in-person at existing tribal casinos and racetracks.
Prop 27 is backed by the large online sports-betting companies, such as DraftKings, and would create an even larger new market by allowing online sports betting in the state. The measure would require a partnership with a California tribe to open an online sports book and specifies how the tax revenue can be spent.
Ads from both campaigns are running so fast and furious that voters are seeing opposing talking points airing back-to-back during everything from YouTube videos to the local news. So for those trying to decide how to vote on Propositions 26 and 27, what should you know to decipher all the slick advertisements?
Which proposition do California tribes support?
All of the ads opposing Proposition 27 emphasize one thing: “California tribes” do not support the proposition that would legalize online sports betting. But if you have been seeing the prolific advertising in support of Prop 27, you might be confused.
The central face for the “Yes on 27” campaign is Jose “Moke” Simon III, tribal chairman of the Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California, and in one ad he says “only one proposition supports California tribes like ours … vote ‘Yes’ on 27.”
Simply put, his tribe and two others are breaking from the vast majority of California tribes, gaming and non-gaming alike, by supporting Prop 27. But why?
Simon, also a Lake County Supervisor, did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
“Out of self-interest I can see why, particularly remote tribes, would want to be in favor of 27,” said I. Nelson Rose, a law professor and expert on gambling law.
There are around 110 federally recognized tribes in the state, and just over half have casinos, leaving more than 40 tribes without one. And many gaming tribes are located in remote places with little opportunity for in-person gambling revenue.
“Because it is an online platform, we’ll finally be able to realize the promises of tribal gaming in California,” said Nathan Click, spokesperson for the “Yes on 27” campaign. He said many California tribes, the ones who don’t already have large casinos, “see the promise of being able to offer bets on a safe and responsible marketplace outside of their tribal lands.”
Of course, not all California tribes agree on this proposition, let alone other issues, but there is no question where most tribes fall on Prop 27.
“Fifty-nine tribes in California that have taken a firm position (against) prop 27,” said Kathy Fairbanks, spokesperson for the campaign opposing Prop 27 and supporting Prop 26. “There are only three tribes that support it,” she said, saying the ‘Yes on 27’ campaign is “misleading voters” with ads about tribal support.
To drive that point home, the most recently released ads from her “No on 27” committee dedicate one side of the screen to a scrolling list of the tribes that oppose the proposition, contrasted on the other side with a short, static list of the three tribes that support the proposition.
Will passing this proposition solve homelessness?
Outside of tribal sovereignty and support, homelessness is one of the most salient talking points from the gambling proposition ads. But what does homelessness have to do with gambling?
The connection in this case is money, but also strategic messaging.
While establishing a new billion-dollar industry will certainly generate new tax revenue, both propositions are complex, and the amount of projected revenue is uncertain. Both propositions include specific loopholes that benefit the sponsors and details that could present legal hurdles.
The state revenue increase for Prop. 27 is predicted to be in the hundreds of millions, higher than the tens of millions predicted for Prop. 26, according to the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office. And the Prop. 27 language mandates that 85% of that tax revenue should go to programs to address homelessness, and 15% will go to California’s non-gaming tribes. Whereas any increased revenue from Prop 26 would go mostly to the general fund, with some allocations for mental health and gambling enforcement.
“Homelessness is a crisis across the state,” said Click, who said the “Yes on 27” campaign “worked closely” with local officials and advocates “to make sure this funding goes to where there is the most need.” Several mayors, including Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, and non-profit leaders such as Jamie Almanza, the CEO of Bay Area Community Services, are listed as supporters.
To opponents of the proposition, the messaging from the “Yes on 27” camp around solving homelessness is just marketing. “This idea that this is a solution to homelessness is a crock,” said Fairbanks. “They’re trying to dress up an online sports betting gambling measure, and trying to focus on the issue of the day in California.”
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PHOENIX — Freddie Freeman has been named the National League Player of the Week for the third time in his first season with the Dodgers.
Freeman had hits in each of the Dodgers’ six games last week, going 12 for 22 (.545) with two doubles, three home runs, seven runs scored and eight RBIs.
In his debut season with the Dodgers, Freeman leads the majors in doubles (45) and hits (180) and moved past Paul Goldschmidt for the lead in batting average (.331) with his surge last week. The doubles total is a career-high for Freeman and the hits total is within range of his personal best (191 in 2018).
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Los Angeles County recorded more than 4,500 new COVID-19 cases during a three-day period ending Monday, Sept. 12, along with 37 new virus-related fatalities.
The 4,544 new infections lifted the county’s overall total from throughout the pandemic to 3,430,358. The county, which no longer reports COVID-19 numbers on the weekends, logged 2,348 cases Saturday, 1,255 on Sunday and 941 on Monday.
Sunday and Monday figures tend to be lower because of delays in reporting from the weekend. Case numbers are also likely low because of how many people now rely on at-home tests but do not report the results to the county, health officials have said.
The county reported 17 COVID-19-related deaths on Saturday, and 10 each on Sunday and Monday. The new fatalities lifted the county’s overall death toll to 33,385.
An update was not immediately available on the number of COVID-19-positive patients in county hospitals. On Saturday, the latest day for which figures are available, there were 771 virus-positive patients hospitalized in the county, with 106 of them being treated in intensive care.
County officials have said about 43% of patients with COVID-19 were actually hospitalized because of virus-related illness, while the rest were admitted for other reasons, with some only learning they were infected when they were tested upon admission.
The average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus was 5.1% as of Monday.
The county last week began offering the recently approved COVID-19 vaccine booster shot that targets the omicron variants of the virus. The BA.5 subvariant of the omicron variant is believed to be responsible for the vast majority of infections occurring in the county and nationally.
The newly approved Pfizer/BioNTech booster is for those age 12 and older, while the Moderna bivalent booster is for those age 18 and older. Details on where the vaccines are available can be found at vaccinatelacounty.com, or in Spanish, vacunatelosangeles.com.
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The northbound Golden State (5) Freeway in the Castaic area will close again tonight, Sept. 12, for a 10-hour period as crews continue repair work on two miles of roadway that was damaged by the Route Fire.
Two lanes of the roadway have been closed in the area since the Route Fire. A full freeway closure will be in effect at 11:49 p.m. p.m. tonight night, Tuesday night and Wednesday night, with the freeway scheduled to reopen the following mornings at 10 a.m.
During the closures, crews will work on the asphalt shoulder, which is 6,000 feet long, just north of the concrete section — and re-stripe the lanes.
Motorists were advised to avoid the area altogether by taking the Antelope Valley (14) Freeway just north of Sylmar on the I-5, or state Route 126/Newhall Ranch Road from the I-5 to the US 101.
The first full closure began at 10 p.m. last Thursday and the freeway reopened at 10 a.m. last Friday. During that closure, crews worked to place 2,400 feet of asphalt concrete in an already-excavated section under construction.
The freeway was closed again at 11:59 p.m. Sunday, reopening at 7:30 a.m. Monday — about 2 1/2 hours ahead of schedule.
By Thursday, three lanes of the northbound freeway will be open, according to Caltrans.
During the closures, the turnaround gate at Parker Road will be opened to redirect northbound traffic back south. That will necessitate blocking the three left lanes of the southbound freeway to ensure trucks have room to negotiate the turn, according to Caltrans.
“The safety of the motorists and truckers is our primary goal,” said Caltrans District 7 Acting District Director Gloria Roberts. “The Route Fire caused extensive damage to the two retaining walls, and traffic cannot travel on the two right lanes until more permanent repairs are completed.”
The damage caused to the retaining walls by the Route Fire included warped steel columns, broken tiebacks and possibly damaged anchors, Caltrans reported. Additionally, cracks in the asphalt have widened and wooden lagging on the retaining walls has been burned.
The Route Fire, which began around noon on Aug. 31 alongside the Golden State (5) Freeway north of Lake Hughes Road, burned 5,208 acres, destroyed two structures and led to seven heat-related firefighter injuries.
Due to the traffic impacts of the project, Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger sent an open letter to residents Friday saying she has asked Gov. Gavin Newsom to make all resources available to allow Caltrans to complete the repairs as quickly as possible.
She said she has asked the Department of Public Works to establish some local-access-only routes in the area to ensure residents can negotiate the area.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A rape victim whose DNA from her sexual assault case was used by San Francisco police to arrest her in an unrelated property crime on Monday filed a lawsuit against the city.
During a search of a San Francisco Police Department crime lab database, the woman's DNA was tied to a burglary in late 2021. Her DNA had been collected and stored in the system as part of a 2016 domestic violence and sexual assault case, then-District Attorney Chesa Boudin said in February in a shocking revelation that raised privacy concerns.
The revelation prompted a national outcry from advocates, law enforcement, legal experts and lawmakers. Advocates said the practice could affect victims' willingness to come forward to law enforcement authorities.
Federal law already prohibits the inclusion of victims' DNA in the national Combined DNA Index System. There is no corresponding law in California to prohibit local law enforcement databases from retaining victims' profiles and searching them years later for entirely different purposes.
California lawmakers last month approved a bill that would prohibit using the DNA profiles collected by police from sexual assault survivors and other victims for any purpose other than aiding in identifying the perpetrator. Local law enforcement agencies would also be prohibited from retaining and then searching victim DNA to incriminate them in unrelated crimes under the legislation, which is pending before Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Boudin said the report was found among hundreds of pages of evidence against a woman who had been recently charged with a felony property crime. After learning the source of the DNA evidence, Boudin dropped the felony property crime charges against the woman.
The police department's crime lab stopped the practice shortly after receiving a complaint from the district attorney's office and formally changed its operating procedure to prevent the misuse of DNA collected from sexual assault victims, Police Chief Bill Scott said.
Scott said at a police commission meeting in March that he had discovered 17 crime victim profiles, 11 of them from rape kits, that were matched as potential suspects using a crime victims database during unrelated investigations. Scott said he believes the only person arrested was the woman who filed the lawsuit Monday.
The woman filed the lawsuit under the alias of Jane Doe to protect her privacy, her attorney, Adante Pointer, said in a statement. The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they choose to be named.
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A nurse accused of speeding into a Windsor Hills intersection and causing a crash that killed five people and an unborn baby and injured eight other people was ordered on Monday, Sept. 12, to remain in jail without the opportunity for bail.
Superior Court Judge Victoria B. Wilson said Nicole Lorraine Linton, 37, is suspected of flooring the gas pedal in her car and was driving at 130 mph just before the deadly crash on the afternoon of Aug. 4 at La Brea and Slauson avenues and did not try to stop or slow down, with six people suffering “horrific deaths.”
Linton’s attorney, Halim Dhanidina, had asked the judge to allow Linton to be released to a mental-health treatment facility and be electronically monitored, saying that the defendant wouldn’t be able to get up and leave.
Prosecutors objected to the request, with Deputy District Attorney Antonella Nistorescu telling the judge that a data recorder from Linton’s Mercedes-Benz indicated that she accelerated from 122 mph to 130 mph five seconds before the crash and that she maintained control of the steering wheel.
The prosecutor said the defense’s suggestion that she suffered an “apparent lapse of consciousness” during a mental-health crisis in the moments leading up to the crash “defies logic.”
Linton, a traveling nurse from Houston who was working at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center, is charged with six counts of murder and five counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. She was hospitalized after the crash, and used crutches for her latest court hearing.
“She stole six innocent lives,” the judge said, in turning down the defense’s request for Linton to be moved from a Los Angeles County jail.
Family members of the victims clapped in court upon hearing the judge’s decision.
In court papers filed last month, defense attorneys noted that Linton was willing to be housed at UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital pending the outcome of her case. Her lawyers wrote in the filing that medical records from her treatment at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center immediately after the crash indicate that she has a “history of bipolar disorder.”
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A small touch of fall will be in the air across Acadiana by Tuesday morning as lower dew points following a weak front Monday should help bring our Tuesday morning temperatures into the low-mid 60s.
The drier and more pleasant pattern is expected to stay with us most of the week.
Look for morning temperatures between 60-65° for most of Acadiana Tuesday morning and with dew points expected to drop into the upper 50s to lower 60s it's going to feel that much better.
Sunny skies and comfortable humidity should dominate most of this week with highs mostly in the mid-upper 80s (pushing 90° Friday into the weekend) accompanied by lows in the 60s.
A few showers may return to the area by the weekend as deeper moisture will be lurking just offshore, but models are not in agreement on to how much moisture will return to the area and when that is going to happen.
For now rain chances this weekend into next week look to be mostly in the 20-30% range.
See the KATC 10 Day Forecast for the latest.
Meanwhile in the tropics, there remain no pending threats to the Gulf of Mexico.
Currently the National Hurricane Center tracking two low end disturbances in the mid- and eastern Atlantic.
Finally, on a side note, Acadiana will have some good views of the International Space Station this week primarily during the post sunset evening hours.
The ISS will be passing by at 8:31-834 pm Monday night.
Also you'll be able to see bright Jupiter (closest to us in 70 years this month) rising low in the eastern sky at that time.
Jupiter currently is best viewed later at night!
Additional views of the space station this week here.
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The Biden administration on Monday proposed to strengthen certain safety regulations for offshore oil and gas drilling that were loosened under the Trump administration.
After the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill that killed 11 workers and released 134 million gallons of fuel into the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration implemented new safety regulations.
In 2019, the Trump administration revised these standards, making them more industry-friendly.
On Monday, the Interior Department indicated that it would further tweak the rules, although the new proposal does not appear to be identical to what was put forth during the Obama years.
“The Biden-Harris administration is committed to the highest standards of worker safety and environmental protections,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a written statement.
“As our nation transitions to a clean energy economy, we must commit to strengthening and modernizing offshore energy standards and oversight,” she added.
Among the changes is the reinstatement of a requirement to send information on safety equipment failures to the federal government, instead of to certain third parties that were permitted to collect data during the Trump years.
Under the new rule, inspections of these failures will also need to start sooner. Under the Trump administration, inspections needed to begin 120 days after a failure; they would now need to start in 90. Under the Obama rule, inspections had to be finished within 120 days.
The move comes after the Environmental Protection Agency similarly reinstated safety standards for chemical plants that were also loosened under Trump.
They also come after the Biden administration released an offshore drilling plan that could enable as many as 11 new opportunities to drill for oil and gas offshore.
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Team: St. John’s Red Storm
2021-22 Record: 17-15, 8-11 Big East
2021-22 Big East Finish: Seventh, with the same record as Xavier but got the tie breaker after beating the Musketeers twice.
Final 2021-22 KenPom.com Ranking: #55, that’s just one spot above Marquette surprisingly
Postseason? Nothing except beating DePaul in the first round of the Big East tournament and losing to Villanova in the quarterfinals.
Key Departures: I guarantee you that St. John’s fans are having preemptive nightmares about the post-Julian Champagnie era their program is about to embark on. Champagnie, if you don’t remember, is a two time All-Big East First teamer and was the Red Storm’s leading scorer. He declared for the draft after his sophomore year, but ultimately decided to return to St. John’s for his junior year. Lightning doesn’t strike twice, and Julian Champagnie deciding to stay at St. John’s doesn’t either. He ended up going undrafted, but signed a two-way contract with the Philadelphia 76ers where he’ll get a chance to prove that he’s an NBA level player.
In Champagnie, the Red Storm is losing their leading scorer, rebounder, and a player who started all 31 games he played in. He scored 19.2 points per game, good for second in the Big East, he snagged 6.6 rebounds per game, and his two steals per game put him at second in the conference only behind teammate Posh Alexander. Champagnie’s impact can’t be overstated, the only game he didn’t play was St. John’s worst loss of the season: a two point home defeat to KenPom.com #195 Pitt.
St. John’s also loses their third leading scorer (yikes) in Aaron Wheeler (10.0 ppg). Wheeler started 16 of 31 games he played in after transferring over from Purdue and shot a scorching 38.5% from behind the arc to go along with 56% inside it. When he wasn’t starting, he was an offensive spark off the bench. In a game against Villanova on February 8th he put up 31 points and 7 rebounds in the loss. St. John’s is also losing role players Stef Smith and Tareq Coburn who averaged 6.3 and 4.3 points respectively. Smith started 10 games this season, the first seven of which came in the first seven games of the season. Coburn started three games this season, one of his starts was a 20 point game in a win over Xavier, his best game of the season.
Key Returners: While losing two of their top three scorers, St. John’s is also returning four players who started at least 15 games this past season. That includes All-Big East Honorable Mention and turnover-forcing machine Posh Alexander. In Alexander, the Red Storm are getting a player who started 25 of the 29 games he played in, 13.8 points per game, a second in the Big East 5.5 assists per game and Big East leading 2.3 steals per game this past season. The 6-foot guard is heading into his junior year and figures to be one of the Red Storm’s stars yet again.
Following the departures of Champagnie and Wheeler, 6’11 Joel Soriano figures to have the starting center spot locked down coming into the season. Soriano started 26 of the 30 games he played in last season and tallied up 6.4 points and 5.5 rebounds per game. Where he really excelled was shot blocking, altering 1.7 blocks per game for a block rate of 9.9%, and that was good enough for #31 in the country.
We’ve got a couple more returners with starting experience coming back for the Red Storm in Montez Mathis and Dylan Addae-Wusu. There’s some intrigue with these two as they’re likely competing for the final two starting spots. Mathis was the more frequent starter his past season posting 8.2 points per game and starting 28 of those games. Addae-Wusu averaged 8.3 points and 3.9 assists per game while shooting 38.1% from three, but only started 15 of 32 games last season.
Key Additions: Anyone in the mood to hear about some good ol’ Big East cannibalism? Former DePaul forward David Jones is heading over to St. John’s after a really good sophomore season for the Blue Demons. Jones is a 6’6” wing who averaged 14.5 points per game last season for the Blue Demons along with 7.4 rebounds. He also had a 20+ point triple-double against Georgetown in one of the best single game stat lines across college basketball last season. His final stats were 22 points, 14 rebounds, 10 assists, one block, and two steals.
The other big name addition for the Red Storm is a familiar name to Marquette fans... Andre Curbelo. If you don’t remember Curbelo from his tenure at Illinois, he was projected by some to be an All-American last year and then had seven turnovers in a single game against Marquette in November. He really regressed from his first year to his second year, but if by some miracle he can find his first year form he’ll have a lot to offer St. John’s. At his best he’s a shifty guard who’s good at making and finding space for teammates with a pesky turnover-forcing knack on defense. At his worst, he’s a poor shooter (under 17% on 65 career three-point attempts at Illinois) who turns the ball over a lot (two years of a turnover rate over 25%) and doesn’t have the body type (6’1”, 175 lb) to be a versatile defender. It remains to be seen what form he’ll be in, but he’s the most hit or miss transfer in the whole Big East this upcoming season. Much of St. John’s success will be based off of how well he plays.
The Red Storm have a few freshmen incoming this season, but only one of the three was a top-150 recruit. That’s 6’6” guard AJ Storr. Storr clocks in as the 82nd best recruit according to ESPN and the 142nd recruit according to 247 Sports internal ranking system but their composite has him at 94th. Clearly, there isn’t much consensus on how things will pan out for the IMG Academy graduate. That said, he was a good shooter throughout high school and has the size to be a good 3-and-D player.
Coach: Mike Anderson is heading into his fourth season at St. John’s and 21st season as a D1 head coach overall. At St. John’s, he has a total record of 50-41, but through all his seasons as a head coach he has a record of 420-242. His next season with a final record under .500 will be his first.
Outlook: 2022-23 St. John’s will live or die by its transfers.
Anderson once again is going all in on his transfers. Last season Wheeler, Mathis, Smith, Soriano, and Coburn were all newly transferred in to the program. For those keeping count that’s five of the top eight guys on the roster a year ago. David Jones looks to be the best candidate to replace Champagnie’s 19.5 points per game and Andre Curbelo could be the real third game changing player that this team has been missing for awhile.
St. John’s is used to playing with new players, last year they ranked 239th in minutes continuity from the season prior. These players, particularly Alexander, have had to adapt to new teammates more than the average player so if there’s anyone suited to new guys walking right into the rotation, it’s the Red Storm.
St. John’s looks to continue to not be a great three point shooting team. Last year they shot 33.5% as a team and they’re losing their most effective three point shooter in Wheeler, highest percentage three point shooter (for players with more than 10 attempts) in Coburn, and highest volume three point shooter in Champagnie. And those guys are swapped out for two guys with career three point percentages of 16.9% for Curbelo and 27.3% for Jones. Yuck, or if you’re not a Red Storm fan, hooray! With that said, Anderson and his staff were able to turn Wheeler into an effective shooter, taking him from 26.6% the year before to 38.5% this past year. So there’s a small chance that Jones or Curbelo (with some godly intervention) can make that leap.
The defense is what is going to be really fun as a neutral viewer/annoying as an opponent this year. Anderson is going to keep being a Nolan Richardson disciple and encourage his guys to force turnovers and run in transition, and he’s got the pieces to be really dangerous in that direction. Alexander will probably lead the Big East in steals again, Curbelo’s passing ability and tenacity on the defensive end will hopefully mesh well, and Jones’s 1.7 steals per game (2nd in the Big East among returning players) and athleticism will get out on the run often. They ranked first in the country in tempo according to KenPom.com a year ago and will look to continue that trend with the players Anderson chose in the transfer market.
Losing Champagnie is going to really hurt and certainly there will be many games this season in which his absence will be palpable. It doesn’t seem like they have a “go get a bucket for us” guy quite like him on the roster now. But I do think that we’ll see Jones continue to improve his game, his scoring jumped by 9.4 points per game between last season and the season before, and he could become a legitimate NBA prospect if his defense adapts well to the turnover forcing game.
If Curbelo can recover any amount of his freshman year form, St. John’s could be a really dangerous team, but I just don’t see his offense coming around even in a system where he’ll get more chances. Alexander will keep doing his thing and, I’m hoping, will continue to progress his game to the point where he could touch the NBA after his senior season.
This feels like a fun team with a really good, active defense but not enough offensive weapons to make the NCAA tournament. If they couldn’t make it with Champagnie, I don’t think they can make it without him. | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/9/12/23299042/big-east-mens-basketball-team-preview-st-johns-red-storm-anderson-alexander-curbelo-soriano | 2022-09-12T22:58:43Z | anonymouseagle.com | control | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/9/12/23299042/big-east-mens-basketball-team-preview-st-johns-red-storm-anderson-alexander-curbelo-soriano | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YOUR Marquette Golden Eagles are now 6-1 on the year after picking up a 4-1 (25-19, 25-16, 20-25, 25-14) win over LSU on Saturday and a 3-0 () win over Milwaukee on Saturday! #23 MU is now 3-0 on their 10 match homestand, and I think that is pretty good.
For a good long stretch, it looked like Marquette’s contest LSU was going to be some straight forward volleyball by a ranked team at home. The first set was pretty close through what you’d call the midway point as a 3-0 bunch from the Tigers put them up 14-12..... and then Marquette scored the next eight points and only had two errors by LSU to help that out. 20-14 all of a sudden, and yeah, LSU scored the next three, but it was 5-2 Marquette the rest of the way to wrap up on an Aubrey Hamilton kill. Set #2 turned a little early as MU popped off six straight to go from down three to up three at 9-6 and make the visitors start chasing the match. They tied it at 11, but Marquette scored eight of the next 11 to take a 19-14 lead and close the frame out on a 14-5 run on an Ella Foti ace.
Straight forward.... up until the third set. LSU got out to a 4-0 lead to open up and Marquette was behind the eight ball the entire rest of the way. The closest they ever got to the Tigers was the three point margin generated by breaking that four point run to start the set, and LSU just held Marquette at arm’s length to force a fourth set.
We can argue about whether or not they regret doing that. Things looked pretty neat for them when Josie Vondran opened up the fourth with an ace.... and then Marquette scored the next five points on two kills and three blocks. If it wasn’t already going MU’s way at that point, the 8-2 run (which included five straight) to go up 17-9 pretty much secured the bag. Marquette had no interest of even letting LSU think the door was cracked open as they scored six of the final seven points to take the 25-14 final frame win.
Aubrey Hamilton hit .314 to lead Marquette in kills with 15, and both Ella Foti (11) and Jenna Reitsma (10) got to double digits with her. Perhaps the weirdest part about the whole thing? Ella Holmstrom playing in just one set and taking just three swings after spraying kills all over the place against Loyola on Tuesday. Yadhira Anchante averaged 11 kills a set with a career high 44 helpers and she got 13 digs for the double-double, too. Carly Skrabak was all over the place for Marquette with 18 digs in the four set contest.
FUN FACT: Marquette is now 2-0 in SEC action this season after beating preseason favorite Kentucky in the opening match of the year. Uncrowned conference champs, if you ask me.
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That swings us along to Sunday afternoon’s match against Milwaukee, and it’s worth noting that the Panthers lost 3-1 to LSU on Friday night. Yeah. So. As it turns out, if you hit .333 or better in every set while making that .333 the best possible performance by your opponent, you’re probably going to win.
Set #1 is explained by way of a 13-3 run that left Marquette up 17-7. Yep. Next set: How about an 8-2 Marquette run to flip a 5-3 Milwaukee lead to 11-7 Golden Eagles? Later on, a Carsen Murray/Yadhira Anchante combo block kicked off an 11-2 run to bring the Golden Eagles to match point at 24-13. The Panthers fended off the outcome three straight times, which is neat for them, but Hattie Bray pushed it along to intermission.
Officially, Set #3 was The Close One, but it didn’t look like that. 6-1 Marquette out of the gate made things look awfully one sided and the Panthers never got closer than two points the rest of the way. The Golden Eagles just kept knocking together points in a row to keep Milwaukee in their rear view mirror, and freshman Natalie Ring wrapped it up with a kill.
Aubrey Hamilton and Hattie Bray shared leadership on kills in this one with both women getting to eight, although Bray did it on 12 error free swings. 10 different Golden Eagles recorded a kill in this match, including middle hitter Anastasija Svetnik who made her season debut after a preseason knee injury. Yadhira Anchante had 33 assists, which is particularly impressive since Carly Skrabak added seven from the libero spot to go with her team high 10 digs. Head coach Ryan Theis has always emphasized quality passing from everywhere on the court, so that’s not exactly surprising work from Skrabak.
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Up Next: First is waiting for Monday’s brand new AVCA top 25 poll, but then it’s another Tuesday night match for the Golden Eagles. The homestand continues when Green Bay comes to town for a 7pm start, and the match will be streamed on FloSports. The Phoenix are 5-4 this season after 2-1 at a tournament hosted by Ball State over the weekend, and that includes a win over Alabama and a loss to the hosting Cardinals. Coming up this weekend? Big home showdowns with Illinois and Illinois State to close out non-conference play! | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/9/12/23348708/marquette-golden-eagles-volleyball-recap-lsu-tigers-milwaukee-panthers-hamilton-bray-anchante | 2022-09-12T22:58:49Z | anonymouseagle.com | control | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/9/12/23348708/marquette-golden-eagles-volleyball-recap-lsu-tigers-milwaukee-panthers-hamilton-bray-anchante | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Last week, #23 Marquette volleyball won three matches to move to 6-1 on the year with only a road loss against the reigning national champions on Banner Night marring their record.
This week? Marquette is now the #19 team in the country according to the new AVCA top 25 poll. Seems good.
The Golden Eagles picked up 403 points in the polling to end up there. #18 Washington has 536 points and #20 Oregon has 361, so it’s clear that MU is closer to 20 than they are to 18.
Wisconsin, the only team that can lay claim to having beaten Marquette so far this season, is the top ranked team on MU’s schedule this week. The Badgers moved up two spots in the new poll to #4. Kentucky moves up to #13 here, up one spot from last week. Creighton holds down the spot as “the only other Big East team even earning votes” at #17 this week, the same poll position that they were in a week ago. Illinois did just enough to maintain their spot in the poll and thus create a Ranked Team Matchup in Milwaukee this Saturday, finishing just 10 points ahead of Rice to end up at #25.
Marquette returns to action on Tuesday night when they’ll play host to Green Bay. First serve for the #19 team in the country is scheduled for 7pm Central time at the McGuire Center. As mentioned a moment ago, MU will host #25 Illinois this coming Saturday, and that match is scheduled to start at 6pm Central.
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The New Jersey Devils will go as far as Jack Hughes takes them in 2022-23. Perhaps that is an oversimplification since the Devils have to get their goaltending sorted, but the point is that another step forward from Hughes will go a long way in determining whether or not New Jersey will be playing meaningful games this spring.
Coming off a season that was both encouraging, yet disappointing — Hughes played at a 94-point pace in 2021-22, but the Devils struggled and he was limited to just 49 games thanks to two separate injuries at opposite ends of the season — Hughes currently sits at +7000 to win the Hart Trophy this NHL season. That puts him behind fellow local standouts like Mika Zibanejad (+5500) and Artemi Panarin (+5500), but in the same range as Mat Barzal (+7000) and ahead of stars like Steven Stamkos (+8000) and Jason Robertson (+8000).
Those odds and the company around Hughes tell you that he’s done enough to put himself on the radar, but the market is still waiting for him to make the leap.
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Can he do it this season? And even if he does, will the Devils be good enough to vault Hughes into the conversation for the Hart Trophy?
Handicapping the market for any season-long award is more art than science. You’re not only trying to project whether or not a player can put up the point totals needed to attract votes, but you also need to consider the competition and the criteria for the award.
Let’s start with the competition. While it’s true that Hughes’ ceiling could be higher than anybody else outside of the top-10 favorites, he’ll have to find a way to beat out a handful of generational talents to even get nominated for this award.
As is tradition, Connor McDavid is the consensus favorite at +250 and you could argue that a bet on McDavid is basically a bet on whether or not he’ll stay healthy for an entire season. The two-time winner has posted 228 points in his last 77 games and has finished first, fifth, third, fifth, first and second in Hart voting over the last six seasons.
After McDavid sits Auston Matthews, who won the hardware last spring with a 60-goal season, at +500. Leon Draisaitl, the 2020 Hart Trophy winner, is third-favorite at +800. Nathan MacKinnon (+1200) has yet to be named MVP, but he’s a near lock to win one at some point and just lifted the Stanley Cup in June. Just beating those four players seems a monumental task, but there’s also a host of stars in the next range like Kirill Kaprizov, Cale Makar, and Nikita Kucherov.
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And even if Hughes does post eye-popping numbers and hangs around the scoring race with the favorites, it may not be enough. He’ll also need the Devils to be successful.
It’s very rare for a player from a non-playoff team to be named MVP. Leon Draisaitl did it in 2020, but that was a technicality since the Oilers were the No. 5 seed in the Bubble but were eliminated in the Qualifying Round of that unique playoff structure. If we draw a line through Draisaitl, then we have to go all the way back to 1988 and Mario Lemieux to find the next player to win league MVP without making the postseason. So barring something truly extraordinary, a punt on Hughes is also a bet on the Devils to get into the dance.
The good news is that an MVP-caliber season and the Devils getting into the playoffs are somewhat correlated. Although one can happen without the other, if Hughes does make a star turn, the Devils should be relatively competitive, even in the deep Metropolitan Division.
The purpose of this exercise isn’t to discourage folks from taking a flyer on Hughes to win the Hart Trophy. It’s more about explaining the odds he has to overcome and what you’re actually betting against. Oftentimes, when people bet on awards, they’re just backing the player. It helps to map out the path to success in these markets.
And heck, long shots do win the Hart Trophy every now and then. You only have to go back to 2018 when Taylor Hall won the award with the Devils to be reminded of that (Also worth noting that Igor Shesterkin came mighty close to winning the award at a big price just last season).
In the end, betting should be a fun endeavor. And if you’re a believer in the Devils (who are +150 to make the playoffs), that means you’re a believer in Hughes. And if that’s the case, a +7000 ticket on the 2019 No. 1 overall pick is not a bad way to spend some lunch money. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/12/2022-nhl-mvp-odds-futures-and-picks-hart-trophy-predictions/ | 2022-09-12T23:01:04Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/12/2022-nhl-mvp-odds-futures-and-picks-hart-trophy-predictions/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Zynga Inc., a wholly-owned publishing label of Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO) and a global leader in interactive entertainment, today announced that its subsidiary NaturalMotion is unveiling Pagani Automobili’s new high performance hypercar, the eagerly awaited Pagani Utopia, in CSR Racing 2 (CSR2), its hyper-real mobile drag racing game.
Known for its ultra high-end hypercars, Pagani is an Italian Atelier of made-to-measure hypercars based in Italy’s 'Motor Valley'. Its vehicles are highly valued, with a great deal of interest and supposition for each new hypercar model, including the Huayra Roadster BC that was first revealed in CSR2 in 2019. The Pagani Utopia, which is set to be the successor of the Huayra, carries special significance as it is the third model, after the incredibly sought-after Zonda and the global sensation, Huayra, both designed by Pagani founder Horacio Pagani. The company is set to produce 99 models of the Pagani Utopia, all of which have already been purchased by enthusiasts and collectors and will start being delivered in 2023, creating an exclusive in-game driving experience for CSR2 players.
In CSR2, from September 16 - 23, 2022, players will have the unique opportunity to race the Pagani Utopia, which has been meticulously recreated to match the real car handcrafted for Pagani’s customers. Players can test drive the car in the dealership and participate in the first three races for free. They can then purchase the car to complete the event by winning in-game items to upgrade their car and add it to their collection. The event will feature a total of 40 races on the Route 66 track, where players can also race other supercars on the famed American highway to earn in-game rewards.
“CSR2 gives players the opportunity to race and collect extremely rare cars in-game that are otherwise unobtainable for most car enthusiasts,” said Julian Widdows, Senior Vice President of Racing at NaturalMotion. “The new Pagani Utopia perfectly exemplifies a high-performance vehicle with elegance and design, and CSR2 is proud to be Pagani Automobili’s partner of choice to digitally unveil the Pagani Utopia to the public and to mobile players around the world.”
“We chose to again partner with CSR2 to reveal the Pagani Utopia because the game manifests an incredible attention to design and detail just as Pagani does on each of our vehicles,” said Michael Staskin, CEO of Pagani Automobili America. “The fact that a hypercar like the Pagani Utopia is unveiled to the world in a mobile game is a true testament to the power of the CSR2 gaming community, and we look forward to introducing this amazing vehicle to mobile enthusiasts around the globe.”
CSR2 is available to download for free on the App Store as well as on Google Play. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/eracing-news/72891-pagani-automobili-poised-to-unveil-new-pagani-utopia-hypercar-in-zynga-s-csr-racing-2 | 2022-09-12T23:01:04Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/eracing-news/72891-pagani-automobili-poised-to-unveil-new-pagani-utopia-hypercar-in-zynga-s-csr-racing-2 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Driving the same car number that carried teammate Kurt Busch to victory in the May race at Kansas Speedway, Bubba Wallace claimed a dramatic win at the same track in Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400, the second event in the first round of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.
Wallace regained the lead on Lap 225 after the final cycle of green-flag pit stops at the 1.5-mile track and stayed out front for the final 43 circuits as his car owner, Denny Hamlin, chased him to no avail.
Wallace crossed the stripe exactly one second ahead of Hamlin, as a driver not competing for the drivers’ champion won for the second straight week. Hamlin finished second for the second straight Playoff race, have trailed Erik Jones to the line last Sunday at Darlington.
“Man, just so proud of this team, so proud of the effort that they put in each and every week,” said Wallace, who won for the first time this season and the second time in his career. “Just thankful for the opportunity, right? Took this jump from an idea two years ago from a text from Denny before it all even happened. He was ready to get the deal done…
“Just so proud. Pit crew was awesome today. We had one loose wheel. Just thankful. Thanks for the opportunity, and thankful to shut the hell up for a lot of people.”
Wallace is competing for the Cup Series owners’ championship in the car Kurt Busch drove for the first 20 races of the season before suffering lingering concussion-like symptoms after a wreck in qualifying at Pocono. With his win, Wallace qualified for the Round of 8 in the owners’ competition.
Christopher Bell, who ran third, is the first driver to lock himself into the Playoffs’ Round of 8 on points. The other 15 championship contenders will have to establish their positions in the final 12—or suffer elimination—next Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway.
During the final run, Hamlin passed Bell for the second position on Lap 252 of 267. With 10 laps left, Hamlin trailed by 2.066 seconds but could get no closer than the final one-second deficit the rest of the way.
Hamlin clearly had mixed feeling about his pursuit of the No. 45 23XI Toyota he co-owns with NBA legend Michael Jordan.
“It's been a good overall day,” said Hamlin, who recovered from an equipment interference penalty—his 34th pit road infraction of the season—on Lap 27 under a competition caution. “Still frustrated about the first half of the race. We just aren't executing all that well…
“Really happy for our 11 Toyota team. They fought hard. They really stepped up that last half. We made the car quite a bit better. Just really happy about the outcome and really happy for that 45 team and Bubba Wallace and (crew chief) Bootie (Barker). Bubba has just really worked hard on his craft, and we've just given him fast race cars, and now he is showing what he has got.”
Alex Bowman finished fourth, followed by non-Playoff driver Martin Truex Jr. Championship contenders William Byron, Ross Chastain, Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney and Daniel Suarez completed the top 10.
Other Playoff drivers weren’t as fortunate.
A sudden disaster knocked Kevin Harvick out of the race before the end of Stage 1. Racing side-by-side, Chastain and Wallace steered up the track in front of Harvick’s No. 4 Ford as the cars sped through Turn 4.
Harvick’s Mustang snapped loose and the right front of his car pounded the outside wall. With damage too severe to repair, Harvick retired from the race in last (36th) place.
“When those two cars came up in front of me, I just got super tight,” Harvick said after a visit to the infield care center. “When I lifted, it grabbed and got loose. I just wasn’t expecting them to come up and my car getting that tight.”
Harvick entered the race 16th in the Playoff standings. The last-place results puts him in a must-win situation next Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway.
“Yeah, it is what it is,” Harvick said. “We were racing to win anyway today, so that’s what we will do again next week.”
Harvick wasn’t the only casualty of the first stage. Pole winner Tyler Reddick blew a right rear tire while leading on Lap 65 and slammed into the outside wall in Turn 2. He brought his No. 8 Chevrolet to pit road, but attempts to repair the car proved futile, and Reddick was eliminated in 35th place.
“The right-rear tire just blew like we’ve had a few times,” said Reddick, who fell to 11th in the Playoff standings. “At Fontana (Auto Club Speedway), I was able to save it. But here, it snapped at the worst possible point, and we just killed the wall.
“It broke the control arm on the right-front, so our day was over. We leave here with not a lot of points, so we’ll have to fight hard at Bristol.”
Troubles continued for Playoff drivers when Kyle Busch, whose team already had incurred two equipment interference penalties on pit road, spun off Turn 4 on Lap 137. Busch’s right-side tires went flat as he skidded toward the infield grass, and Busch lost a lap as he nursed his wounded car to pit road.
Busch got his lap back as the beneficiary under caution at the end of Stage 2, but he lost two laps during the final 96-lap green-flag run. His 26th-place finish dropped him two points below the current cut line for the Round of 8, trailing Tyler Reddick and Austin Cindric by that margin.
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It’s the conclusion of the opening week of the season on the NFL gridiron as a pair of teams that missed the postseason last season meet into interconference action in the Pacific Northwest.
The Denver Broncos are on the road as they make the trip to face the Seattle Seahawks on Monday Night Football. Denver finished the 2021 campaign 7-10 and missed the playoffs for the sixth straight season, coinciding with Peyton Manning’s retirement.
Seattle ended the 2021 campaign with a 7-10 record, their worst record since they went 7-9 in 2011. It’s not all that often when you see a team deal away a star player in the offseason and end up watching them return to open the next season.
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Erik Jones Post-Race Thoughts: “Definitely not the day we were looking for at Kansas Speedway with our FOCUSfactor Chevy. We were off in practice yesterday and made some adjustments to help today, but just never had a good handle on our Chevy. We started the day too tight, adjusted to then be too free. Had contact with a couple of other cars racing three-wide in stage two, and then the handling was just never where it needed to be. Not sure if we broke something when we made contact, but struggled the rest of the race. We’ll go back to the shop, look over everything and refocus on Bristol next week.”
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Monday Night Football: The Preview
The first Monday Night Football of the year sees the Denver Broncos take on the Seattle Seahawks. Russell Wilson’s ‘revenge’ game will take place in front of a nationally-televised audience. The Broncos’ new QB is 29-11-1 in primetime games so he lives for Monday night.
The Seahawks will want to start the season right, at home in front of a national audience, and against their quarterback making his return to the stadium that he called home for the first 10 seasons of his career.
Then there are the visitors tonight. It might be closer than expected initially, but the Broncos should have enough to pull away and put some gloss on the score. They are favorites at Caesars Sportsbook by seven points and -305 on the Moneyline.
Russell Wilson is a fantastic player and is far better than his opposition, Geno Smith. Look for the Broncos to start the season 1-0 in this highly anticipated grudge match.
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Coming off of an eleventh top-ten finish last weekend in Darlington, Michael McDowell and the WISE-EV Charging Ford Mustang team started the race from the 23rd position
Starting the race tight but building loose, the team took the major part of stage one working on the handling, and gaining track position. With gains both on the track through multiple restarts as well as execution on pit lane, the team would claw up, and start stage two from the lead after a strategy call. Maintaining good track position through stage two into stage three, the handling began to fall off, as the car struggled for overall lack of grip. With a long green run to the end, the WISE-EV Charging team would finish the race in the 16th position.
"Everyone was fighting the track conditions today, and I felt like we had a good amount of speed with our WISE-EV Charging Ford Mustang, but were just a bit behind with track position and chasing the handling throughout the race. We started off stage two up front with the strategy call, and it worked to our advantage. When more rubber was laid down, we just struggled for grip through stage three to the end."
FRM will head to Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway this weekend for NASCAR Cup and Truck Series action starting on Thursday night.
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A city councilman from Queens is the latest Democratic name to support the Republican challenger to his party’s incumbent, Gov. Kathy Hochul, citing the Big Apple’s crime woes and quality of life concerns.
“Just look at the current condition of New York City and New York State: There’s mayhem in our streets, in our courts, in our jails,” Councilman Robert Holden said as he endorsed Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin for governor on Monday.
“We’re headed in the wrong direction,” Holden said. “The handwriting is on the wall. Lee Zeldin is the best option for voters.”
Holden and Zelden were joined on the steps of City Hall by two controversial former Democratic lawmakers: former Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind and former Bronx Councilman Ruben Diaz Sr.
The two most recent surveys from large and non-partisan polls have shown Zeldin trailing Hochul by 15-24 percentage points — and Hochul either or near 50 percent of the vote, a traditionally strong position.
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Brad Keselowski overcame an early pit road speeding penalty, powering his No. 6 Solomon Plumbing Ford all the way to the 11th position with a handful of laps remaining in stage two in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Race at Kansas Speedway. However, a loose wheel would force the NASCAR Champion to pit under green at the beginning of the race’s third stage, ultimately settling for a 25th-place finish.
“We found top 10 speed at the end today,” said Keselowski after the race. “We just didn’t have enough time to rebound and show it off, with the tire issue biting us. We’ll take what we learned today, and we are looking forward to get back on track next week at Bristol.”
The No. 6 team qualified 26th, but boasted a Ford Mustang with good speed on the short run, gaining seven positions in the first five laps of the afternoon. After an early pit road speeding penalty and ultimately battling a tight handling race car, Keselowski finished stage one in the 19th position.
The No. 6 Ford had moved inside the top 15 with 40 laps remaining in stage two and restarting 11th. Keselowski ultimately finished the race’s second stage in 15th position and appeared poised for a strong finish chapter at Kansas, before the day was ultimately derailed by the loose wheel just as the final stage went green.
Bristol Motor Speedway hosts the NASCAR Cup Series this Saturday night with race coverage set for 7:30 p.m. ET on USA, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
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Notes of Interest ● Kevin Harvick comes into the Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway in a must-win situation. The driver of the No. 4 Busch Light Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) is last among the 16 drivers in the NASCAR Playoffs. Only the top-12 drivers in points after Bristol advance to the next playoff round, and with a 35-point deficit to overcome, Harvick needs a victory to earn an automatic pass to the Round of 12. As drastic as the scenario is, it’s relatively familiar to Harvick and the No. 4 team. After all, they had to win to even make this year’s playoffs. Heading into the fourth-to-last race of the regular season at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Harvick was winless and 96 points out of the top-16 cutoff to make the playoffs. But after 400 miles of racing at Michigan, Harvick was the one holding the checkered flag and a punched ticket to the playoffs. The win vaulted Harvick into the postseason, and to further solidify his standing, Harvick won the very next week at Richmond (Va.) Raceway. ● Harvick has won 60 NASCAR Cup Series races, tying him for ninth on the series’ all-time win list with Kyle Busch. Twenty-six of those victories have come at playoff tracks, and since the advent of elimination rounds in 2014, Harvick has scored 11 playoff victories. Of those, three were must-win situations: 1. Phoenix Raceway on Nov. 9, 2014 to advance to the Championship 4 2. Homestead-Miami Speedway on Nov. 16, 2014 to win the NASCAR Cup Series championship 3. Dover (Del.) Motor Speedway on Oct. 4, 2015 to advance to the Round of 12 ● Harvick is a three-time winner at Bristol, and his last two victories at the .533-mile oval have come in the Bass Pro Shops Night Race. Harvick’s first NASCAR Cup Series win at Bristol was in April 2005. It was his ninth start at the high-banked, concrete-clad track, and Harvick beat Elliott Sadler by an impressive 4.652 seconds for his fifth career Cup Series victory. It would be another 23 races before Harvick scored his second Bristol win. In the 2016 Bass Pro Shops Night Race, Harvick beat Ricky Stenhouse Jr., by 1.933 seconds to take his 33rd career Cup Series victory. Harvick only had to wait four years to collect his third Bristol Cup win. He won the 2020 Bass Pro Shops Night Race in dominating fashion by leading four times for a race-high 226 laps, including the final 32 tours. Harvick beat Kyle Busch by .310 of a second to take his 58th career NASCAR Cup Series victory, his third at Bristol and his 35th since joining SHR in 2014. ● How did Harvick do in his last race at Bristol? It doesn’t matter, because the track was covered in dirt. Harvick finished 34th in the April 17 Food City Dirt Race after getting collected in an accident. With 1,209 laps led on Bristol’s concrete and zero laps led when it has been covered in dirt, count Harvick among the drivers happy to return to traditional racing at Bristol. ● The Bass Pro Shops Night Race will be Harvick’s 42nd career NASCAR Cup Series start on Bristol’s concrete. He and Kurt Busch each have 41 starts at Bristol, the most among active Cup Series drivers. The only active driver even close to them is Kyle Busch with 32 starts. In fact, there are only two other active drivers with 30 or more starts at Bristol – Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr., with 31 starts apiece. ● Harvick has proven prolific at Bristol outside of the NASCAR Cup Series. He has made 29 NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at the track, winning five times and scoring 15 top-fives and 24 top-10s while leading 1,217 laps. Harvick also has five NASCAR Camping World Truck Series starts at Bristol, winning once and finishing in the top-10 in his last four starts on the concrete surface. ● Riding along with Harvick in the Bass Pro Shops Night race at Bristol is a decal commemorating the Tyler R. Christman Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in Christman’s honor after the 14-year-old from Upstate New York tragically died upon collapsing on the football field. Christman was an athlete and racer from Carthage, New York. He played football for Carthage High School and raced Bandolero and Legends cars at nearby Evans Mills Raceway Park. He was the New York State Bandolero INEX champion and also earned a track title at Evans Mill, finishing no worse than second in every season in which he competed. Christman was an organ donor, whose organs saved the lives of five people. The Tyler R. Christman Foundation serves Carthage and the surrounding area, with a focus on supporting local youth sports and providing scholarships to local high school graduates. Those scholarships began this year, with three $700 scholarships awarded to graduating Carthage High School seniors. #LiveLikeTyler27 is the mantra for the foundation, and donations can be made via its Facebook page. Kevin Harvick, Driver of the No. 4 Busch Light Ford Mustang You’re in a must-win situation Saturday night at Bristol. What sets you apart from the rest of the playoff drivers who are also trying to advance to the Round of 12? “Experience. I think experience goes a long way as you go down this road. Obviously, it’s different than the regular season because there’s so much on the line, but our guys have been through that battle. Plus, we don’t have anything to lose.” How do you approach this cutoff race at Bristol? “For me, just continue to be open-minded about how to drive the car, what to do with the car, give good feedback. From the team standpoint, being open-minded is what led us to having the setups evolve and the cars evolve from the guys at the shop, and that constant evolution is a part of the process of developing the car. It’s still very open for development and to find things and be able to hunt for speed. For us, just understanding what we’ve got as far as the car goes, and how do we maximize the potential of our car and not worry about what everybody else is doing. That’s something that we’ve always done a good job of, just to be narrow-minded, worry about our own problems, look at the outside world and take it with a grain of salt to be able to adapt some of the things that work for other people, but you still have to develop your own program and do the things that work for you.” To win at Bristol and really anywhere, you need both luck and teamwork, but does one outweigh the other? “I can tell you that having the car run well is a much higher piece of the equation. When I say that, especially in the position that we’ve been in, it’s been all hands on deck because in order to get your cars from not where you want them to winning cars is very difficult, especially in a scenario like we are with the new car where we don’t know everything about it. We’re learning on the fly as we race week to week about the characteristics of the car, and the track and the tires and, from my standpoint, the different characteristics of how to drive the car, what it likes and what it doesn’t like. We’re kind of learning that all along the way. The biggest key for us in order to get our cars back to being capable of winning has been the experience of the team, and communication lies in that category. We have to have honest conversations with each other, like, ‘I agree with that, I don’t agree with that,’ and not having anybody’s feelings get hurt is something that our team does a very good job with. I always felt like that was one of our strongest points when we had practice throughout the weekend. We could take a terrible car or we could take a car and experiment with it, not make many laps, and say we need to do this, and this, and this, to start the race and everything’s going to be fine. I think the experience of our team and having those relationships with each other that are honest and being able to communicate with each other like adults is very important. You can get into great depth with each other and be honest with each other to progress in the right direction.” Bristol represents a bit of an unknown because you haven’t raced there this year, at least on its concrete surface. What are you expecting at that track with the NextGen car? “As we’ve gone through the year with this particular car, we’ve realized there are a number of unknowns that come with the car and things that you don’t think about unless you race. The characteristics of the car, and the tire that they bring, and what you’re going to fight, combined with the short amount of time you have to practice, along with all the known characteristics that you’ve had in the past might be different, might be the same, might be worse, might be better. There’s just really no rhyme or reason to things that have happened this year. You just have to be really open-minded to adjust and adapt quickly to whatever happens. That usually happens after qualifying. You’re still limited on the things that you can do, but for us, hopefully our tire model’s close and hopefully our tire test information that we have and the simulator models that we have for tires and grip levels work out well. If not, it could be a long night.” What makes the Bass Pro Shops Night Race such a special event? “The Bristol Night Race has always been an event that seems to just bring the best out of everybody, as far as competition and chaos. For our sport, it’s just been that bookmark that always shows up every year, that always creates excitement. There’s always a full house and the crowd is always there to see the action. Year after year, it lives up to that, and now it’s part of the playoffs.” Bristol at night has a different vibe, as if there’s more adrenaline flowing. Do you feel that way too? “Bristol, the night race, especially, is a place that just has a special feel. Being in the playoffs now and being a part of that event for a long time just gets you jacked up as a driver. It’s just a very intense place to race. It’s an intense place to just make laps, honestly. As you get into that race and understand the magnitude of the situation, especially with Bristol being in the playoffs, it’s something that I just think is very challenging and exciting to be a part of.” How do you stay out of trouble at Bristol? “As Bristol goes, you can wind up in somebody else’s mess. You can create your own mess too, but it’s usually something that’ll jump out and bite you in a hurry. As soon as you let your guard down, something happens, and the next thing you know, your hood’s up over your windshield because they’ve spun out and wrecked, or you’ve been hit in the back, whatever the case may be. It just happens really quickly there. Bristol is a high-speed racetrack, but it’s also a racetrack where you can’t see the exit of the corner until you round the center part of the corner. Sometimes you come up on the wrecks before you even see them, and you can hit stuff really hard there.” TSC PR | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72884-busch-light-racing-kevin-harvick-bristol-advance | 2022-09-12T23:02:01Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72884-busch-light-racing-kevin-harvick-bristol-advance | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Starting his weekend off with a top-10 qualifying effort – the eighth for the No. 17 team this season – Chris Buescher looked to parlay his momentum into another strong run.
At the drop of the green, the Fastenal Ford struggled to maintain track position, making set of adjustments under the competition caution at lap 25. After a caution occurred on lap 35, Buescher declined to pit and would race his way to the seventh position on the next restart. Unfortunately, contact with the wall would bring the No. 17 car down pit road under green shortly thereafter.
The Fastenal crew serviced the car for a broken toe link, four new tires and fuel, while another caution flew for incident on the track. The Texas Native would fall three laps down before the end of stage one.
With help from a slew of cautions to open the second stage, the No. 17 was able three free passes to get back on the lead lap. With an 18th place finish in stage two, it was all eyes on stage three for a run to the checkered.
Constantly adjusting to ever-changing track conditions, Buescher relayed that the right rear tire had lost grip coming down to the pit stop in stage three. The No. 17 crew gave Buescher a quick stop with four tires and fuel, allowing him to gain a few spots and bring home a 15th-place effort in Kansas.
Bristol Motor Speedway hosts the NASCAR Cup Series this Saturday night with race coverage set for 7:30 p.m. ET on USA, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
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Showtime‘s Emmy-nominated hit “Yellowjackets” tells the story of a team of high school soccer players who survive a harrowing plane crash and must fend for themselves in the wilderness.
Ultimately, each surviving woman emerges from the wreckage with her own version of the traumatic events.
Fernando Parrado, 72, can relate.
Nearly 50 years ago, he and his rugby teammates were on the ill-fated Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The plane was carrying 45 passengers when it crashed into the Andes Mountains. 12 died instantly.
The remaining people fought for survival for months, stranded in the snow. By the time they were rescued after 72 days, only 16 men were alive.
Parrado remains close with his remaining teammates, but he’s adamant about only sharing his version of the events that transpired and not being interviewed alongside other survivors.
“Some create their own histories,” he told The Post.
On October 13, 1972, the Old Christians Club rugby union team chartered a plane to fly from Uruguay to Chile for a tournament and recruited family and friends to join the trip to afford the travel.
As the aircraft flew over the Andes nearly crossing over into Chile, the plane crashed into the snowy depths of the mountains. A search team was initially sent out to find the plane but the pilot’s final reports were incorrect and the white plane was nearly unrecognizable in the mounds of white snow.
Parrado spent the first four days following the crash in a coma, believing he was dead. “It was so dark. Darker than black,” he said. But his increasing thirst made him realize he wasn’t dead. He eventually awoke to learn that his mother, sister and two childhood best friends were dead and that he was stranded in the middle of the Andes with severe injuries.
“I understood at the beginning we were doomed,” said Parrado, who wrote a bestselling book about his ordeal, “Miracle in the Andes: The True Story of Surviving 72 Days on the Mountain Against All Odds.”
Team captain, Marcelo Perez, took inventory of everything edible, which wasn’t much. More people began to succumb to their injuries from the crash and the harsh elements as the terrifying days wore on and the meager supplies dwindled.
The snow preserved the bodies of the dead and as time passed, quiet conversations about the meat left on the corpses grew until the question was raised to the whole group.
Unlike “Yellowjackets,” which dances around the potential cannibalism, Parrado doesn’t shy away from the topic.
“Life is very simple sometimes,” he said. “Hunger is the most primal fear of human beings.”
On the 10th day stranded in the mountains, the starving survivors finally acknowledged the fact that they would have to eat their friends’ corpses if they wished to avoid death themselves. Some tried to resist for as long as possible, but eventually gave in to the horrific reality and took a bite.
“It’s not that it’s not as hard as it seems.” Parrado insisted. “There’s no food, there’s nothing. What do you do? I mean, you don’t want to die.”
The men also bravely promised their own bodies to the group. “We made a pact. If I die I give you my body so you can survive,” Parrado said.
As time continued to drag on, some conceded to their impending death as small groups tried but failed to trek out in hopes of finding help. On their 61st day on the mountain, Parrado, Roberto Canessa and Antonio “Tintin” Vizintin took off in search of civilization as the meat supply ran low.
“We should have died,” Parrado said. But he had decided from the beginning, “I’m not going to die sitting down.”
Vizintin eventually turned back to leave the other two men with more supplies in hopes of allowing them to travel farther.
Together, Parrado and Canessa scaled down what they later learned was a nearly 17,000-foot peak and traveled through the wilderness for 10 days before they stumbled upon a Chilean farmer who took them in and called the authorities.
The two men led rescuers back to their friends, and the survivors were brought to a hospital in Santiago, Chile, on December 23.
The former teammates went on to have full, successful lives in various fields. Canessa is a pediatric cardiologist. Parrado works as a motivational speaker and television producer. They are godfathers to each other’s children.
“It’s like a brotherhood. I will die for him, and he will die for me. In any situation,” Parrado said.
Many of the survivors continue to live in their hometown of Montevideo, Uruguay, and see each other almost daily. One survivor, Javier Methol, died from cancer in 2015 at the age of 79, but the other 15 are still living and get together every December 22 to honor the dead and celebrate their second chance at life.
The first reunion was attended by the 16 survivors and two girlfriends, but last year 140 close family members got together to commemorate the accident.
“Imagine, all those lives that wouldn’t be here on this planet if I haven’t done what I did. I’m so proud.” Parrado said. “If you play rugby you die for your teammates and that’s what happened in the Andes.”
The rugby team’s harrowing story was immortalized in the 1993 film “Alive,” starring Ethan Hawke and Josh Hamilton. “Yellowjackets” co-creator Ashley Lyle has said that the movie and story behind it were “absolutely” inspiring to her, but she wondered how things would have played out differently if it had been a plane full of female athletes who crashed into the Andes.
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JOSEF NEWGARDEN, NO. 2 HITACHI TEAM PENSKE CHEVROLET, FINISHED 2ND:
HOW DO YOU PROCESS THIS ON A DAY WHERE YOU FOUGHT SO HARD AND DID EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER ALMOST TO GET IT DONE AND STILL FALL SHORT IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP?
“You know, I hate to say it but in a lot of ways this has been a really tough year. So its going to be a welcome offseason. It has been a taxing, taxing season. We have had a lot of highs, but a lot of lows. And just riding the roller coaster this year has brought me to a breaking point a couple of points in the year. But I am ultimately just proud in the team because this is a big day for everybody to win the championship. Huge congrats to Will (Power) and the entire team because this is an effort by everybody. Whether it was the two car, or the 12 or the three, we all take a lot of pride in it. All these crew members, they work on every single car. The ultimate goal is to win a championship for Team Penske. We did that, so there is a ton to be proud of and for a personal stand point I am really proud of the two car team because they stuck with it day after day. Even yesterday, with the heartache there, we fought back and we nearly got there. So I am just proud of the effort and proud to be supported by Hitachi and Team Chevy. We are going to come back stronger next year and we have to be in a better position and I know we can do better than we did this year.”
HOW OPTOMISTIC ARE YOU TO BEING OVER THERE NEXT YEAR INSTEAD OF YOUR TEAMMATE?
“I am very optimistic. I am going to go back and recharge and come back and hit all these people harder. Believe me, I will be ready to go by the time we get to St. Pete, and I will look forward to it.”
WILL POWER, NO. 12 VERIZON 5G TEAM PENSKE CHEVROLET, FINSHED 3RD AND CHAMPIONSHIP WINNER:
COULD YOU HAVE PLANNED A MORE PERFECT WEEKEND?
“No. It's so surreal. In the offseason my wife said to me I believe you're going to beat Mario's record and you're going to win the championship. It actually gave me confidence that I could do it. That's how much confidence I have in her gut feel. I just couldn't believe that they came true."
YOU PLAYED THE LONG GAME BY STAYING CALM. WHAT WERE YOU THIKING WHEN YOU SAW JOSEF NEWGARDEN GO PAST YOU?
"I just knew I had to get the most out of those stints and not lose any more positions. I had to drive the thing today. It was on the edge, very loose. What a relief to get that done. I can't thank Verizon enough. They've been with me for close to 12 years now and without them I would never have had this career and obviously Roger Penske and the whole team and Chevrolet."
HOW MUCH OF YOUR OFFSEASON MENTAL ADJUSTMENT HAS LED TO THIS MOMENT?
"From the beginning it was just playing the long game, not necessarily going for the big wins and all that. As I've gotten older, I have a lot more gratitude for my life and what I get to do. Not everyone gets to do this and I'm lucky and I appreciate it a lot."
HOW MUCH DID YOU RELY ON EXPERIENCE THIS WEEKEND?
"That's exactly it; you've accumulated so much experience, you understand how races go and you understand that you can never give up no matter what it seems like, so you just keep digging and it just kept unfolding. A solid day."
FELIX ROSENQIST, NO. 7 ARROW MCLAREN SP CHEVROLET, FINISHED 4TH:
We raced it today. We started on the black Firestones. It was a bit hard to fend off the guys on the reds at the beginning. After that long first stint, we kind of got back in the game, and it was really strong on that stint. A really good job by the team to have the guts to stick it out that late, longer than anyone else, and I think from there on we were really good in the race. We were good on fuel; we were good on tires. After that yellow flag, we should have been more aggressive. It maybe lost us the podium, but it was a strong car. A few cars were a bit stronger, like Josef (Newgarden) was phenomenal. A big congrats to Will (Power). Hopefully next year we can give him a run for his money
SCOTT MCLAUGHLIN, NO. 3 XPEL TEAM PENSKE CHEVROLET, FINISHED 6TH:
“We were doing our best for the team there and just covering Dixon. Covering our bases just so we wouldn't get jumped by Ganssi and stuff. Once we got clear of him for the last stop it was just all about passing cars and using our speed. The XPEL car was so good, and the Chevy power was awesome. Great car -- fantastic and we just picked them up one at a time and got to fourth in the points on the last lap. Really awesome!
PATO O’WARD, MO.5 ARROW MCLAREN SP CHEVROLET, FINISHED 8TH:
I thought we had a great start. It was a great first stint. For some reason, everything went south from there. We have to look into it and really see why. I don’t have the answer for it right now. It was just extremely hard out there. We’ll look toward 2023."
RINIS VEEKAY, NO, 21 BITCOIN RACING TEAM WITH BITNILE ED CARPENTER RACING CHEVROLET, FINISH 14TH:
"I am sad the season is over! We had a pretty good last race of the year. We were really fast, but the tire deg was just a bit too much in the last few laps of a stint. I am proud of the BitNile team! We made the right calls, had good pit stops and fought hard. 14th was the best we could do today. I am 12th in the championship, just like last year, but I am proud. We had many ups and many downs, but we learned a lot. For next year, we can definitely get higher in the championship and filter out those little mistakes and have more ups! I am also proud of Chevy for winning the manufacturer championship this year and finishing 1-2 in the driver championship!”
KYLE KIRKWOOD, NO.14 SEXTON PROPERTIES AJ FOYT RACING CHEVROLET, FINISHED 21ST:
“So last race done here in Laguna Seca, not the race that we that we really wanted. We were actually on for a pretty decent finish -- it seemed like probably I think p 14 or p 15. And then I drove off going down the pit lane exit and then ultimately, we got a drive through [penalty] so that's super unfortunate, but we didn't have the pace to do what Alex Palou and Power did on a similar strategy to me, so that wasn't absolutely perfect. But overall, it's been a huge learning curve for me throughout the season. We've had a ton of fun. The team's learned a lot. I've learned a lot. So hopefully we can just take everything that we've done this season and even this race weekend and transfer it into something for next year even though I won't be part of the team. The team will be able to do it and I'll be able to do it as well.”
CONOR DALY, NO. 20 BITNILE ED CARPENTER RACING CHEVROLET,FINISHED 24TH:
“We had a really great start and a great first stint. I really enjoyed battling with Marcus Ericsson, Scott Dixon and Felix Rosenqvist. I am not entirely sure what happened after that, we have some research to do because it felt like there was something that was affecting the way the car drove the rest of the race. I just kind of had to hold on to get to the finish. It’s a real shame, these last three races were really tough and it’s hard to end the year this way. There are a lot of great things to look back on though, we had some great moments. Just not the way we wanted to finish it! Super clean year, didn’t hit anything, ever. The BitNile guys did a great job. We’ll be back and be better next year.”
SIMONA DE SILVESTRO, NO. 16 TURNONGREEN PARETTA AUTOSPORT CHEVROLET, FINISHED 22ND: “The race was not too bad. We did three stops, which I think four might have been a bit better in the long run. I felt we had really good pace and were able to pass people, which was positive. For the whole weekend, we had good pace. For today’s race we had a few things happen in the pits, so if we cleaned a couple little things, and even myself with the few mistakes here and there, we can be really competitive.
We had a new sponsor with TurnOnGreen, and it was cool to have all the sponsors and guests of Paretta Autosport here this weekend. I feel like our team is growing from that point of view so that's really positive and hope to do more of it.”
DALTON KELLETT, NO. 4 K-LINE AJ FOYT RACING CHEVROLET, FINISHED 25TH:
“Not exactly how we wanted to wrap up the 2022 IndyCar season, a tough day out there for the No. 4 crew. I got spun early after a good start where we made some good positions. But I don't feel like we really had the pace to hang on to those gains on the reds, we just seemed to really struggle there. So I was driving pretty defensively. And Jimmie got into the back of me, and when I looped around and just lit the tires up trying to get it turned back the right way and just roasted the rear tire. That was like lap three or four. So for the remainder of that red stint, the rears were just gone. And that pretty much put us a lap down right away. And then there was kind of no recovering from that. We were okay on blacks. I thought our pace was acceptable. But just on reds we really were lacking. And yeah, I think a big factor was just cooking the rears on that spin. In just lost track position which took us out of contention for any possible gain. So not how we wanted it to end but just I can thank AJ Foyt crew enough for this year. You know, it was up and down. We definitely had some great highlights and lots of stuff that we would have liked to have gone better and done better. Like from my side and the team side, just a little bit of a lack of consistency. I think overall we're probably not satisfied with how things ended up this year. But definitely lots to learn and lots of information for everyone to digest and use to improve going forward.”
CALLUM ILOTT, NO. 77 JUNCOS HOLLINGER RACING CHEVROLET, FINISHED 26TH:
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Pla hinted that adapting to the Acura was the most difficult of the DPi cars.
“The Acura had a really tight cockpit, so I was not really feeling comfortable,” he said. “The Cadillac cockpit feels huge, and I have more space for my legs. I’ve found the Cadillac quite simple and easy to learn, because some of the cars I’ve driven in the past were much more difficult in terms of the electronics and such.
“I really love the Caddy,” he continued. “It’s still very new for me, and it’s tough to arrive in the championship mid-season with a new car and a new team. Detroit (his first race) was tough, but at Watkins Glen especially, I did more mileage in the car and started to feel more comfortable. It’s a big learning process, but every lap or every mile I do in the car is a benefit for me. Pipo, my teammate, has spent the last four years in this car, and he has been really helpful. It just takes some time.”
The experience of driving all four DPi contenders gave Pla renewed respect for the task faced by IMSA officials in their quest to create a level playing field for different cars through Balance of Performance.
“To match the performance between four different cars is almost impossible, because a lot of it depends on the type of track,” he noted. “Some cars are just going to be faster than others. BoP doesn’t always work positive for you. Sometimes you know you’re going to a place that is not going to be good for your car, but maybe next week, it’s better. You have to make the most of it.”
Pla will have one more chance to chase success in the Cadillac at Motul Petit Le Mans. Live coverage of the 10-hour race opens with a three-hour block on NBC network at noon ET on Saturday, Oct. 1. Continuing coverage airs on Peacock and USA Network, along with complete IMSA Radio coverage on IMSA.com and SiriusXM Radio. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72880-meet-the-only-driver-who-has-driven-dpi-cars-from-every-manufacturer | 2022-09-12T23:02:32Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72880-meet-the-only-driver-who-has-driven-dpi-cars-from-every-manufacturer | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Standing in a rain of confetti, Power recaptured the championship trophy for the first time in 8 years. Power, then 33, won his first championship in 2014 with 3 wins, dominating a season in which he never fell below second in the points standings. This year, he faced a tougher road. While he did lead the points standings early in the year, he didn’t regain the points lead until race 13/17 at Indy. Power now joins an illustrious list of multi-time IndyCar Champions with his second title on Sunday in 2022.
Power entered Sunday’s Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey at Laguna Seca with a 20-point lead over teammate Josef Newgarden and 6-time champion Scott Dixon. If he placed on the podium, he was guaranteed the title, and his chances of doing so looked good on Saturday. Power qualified on the pole and led the field to green. Said Power of his pole, which was the fifth of the season for him,
“I couldn't really enjoy the pole yesterday because I was so focused on the race.”
Rookie Callum Ilott put in a stellar run to start second in Sunday’s race, and had an immensely impressive race until lap 39, when his engine failed. He ended up bringing out the only caution of the race, as the remainder of the event was incident-free. Power led the first 14 laps before giving it up during a pit cycle, in which the lead changed hands multiple times. Alex Palou emerged as the leader as the race approached halfway, and he settled in as the sole frontrunner for the win. While he was eliminated from championship contention at Portland last week, Palou was winless on the season, which made the win at Laguna Seca all the more enticing. The driver of the no. 10 NTT Data Honda ran away with the lead and the win while Power fought to clinch the championship.
Josef Newgarden, still with a chance at the title, drove up to second after starting in 25th place due to a qualifying spin. He did all that he could, but was unable to catch Palou for the lead or a break that would allow him to gain more points on Power. Palou resulted in leading 67 out of 95 laps en route to a dominating win in what may have been his last race for Chip Ganassi Racing, winning by over 30 seconds. Newgarden placed second, and Power clinched his second title by taking the final podium spot.
Felix Rosenqvist, with an uncertain future in IndyCar, closed out an up-and-down season of his own to place fourth, and Christian Lundgaard wrapped up an impressive rookie season in fifth, capturing the Rookie of the Year crown.
Scott McLaughlin capped off a strong sophomore season in sixth, and Romain Grosjean finished seventh. Pato O’Ward, Marcus Ericsson, and Alexander Rossi concluded the top 10.
Power’s championship comes a year after his worst points finish in 13 years in 2021, when he finished ninth with only one win. This year, he also only had one win, at Belle Isle, but he was remarkably consistent. He had an average finish of 5.9, and only had one finish worse than 15th (19th at Road America). The championship drive was smooth and calm down the stretch as he slowly reeled in Marcus Ericsson, tallying 5 podiums in the last 7 races. Power led the series in podiums with 9, and he finished every race on the lead lap. His consistency is ultimately what won him the championship.
“You can't leave anything on the table,” Power explained. “That's what makes this series so tough and unique is that you've got all these disciplines. Even the difference between a road course and a street course is quite significant in our series because the street course is extremely rough and bumpy and tight. There's not a series like it. I'm going to say it's the toughest series in the world because of what you've got to master to win it and the competition level. You don't even have to take my word for it; just do the math on lap times, and you'll see that we're the toughest, the most competitive series in the world.”
Power was glad that it came down to the wire and wasn’t a runaway for the championship this year.
“Yeah, it was a hard fight to the end,” he said. “You're fighting Dixon and Newgarden, like two of the best guys in the series. It's very satisfying. Very satisfying. That matters. It's not fun -- it's fun at the time when you win with ease, but it's way better when it was a difficult fight to the end, which it was. It adds to the satisfaction. “
Newgarden, with his podium finish, came up second in the season points standings to Power. For the 2-time champion, now runner-up for the championship in three straight seasons, there may have been a scenario where things worked out differently; Newgarden was dominating late at Iowa when something broke in the car, knocking him out of the race and costing him dozens of points. When he fell short by only 16 points to Power in the end, the season was surely bittersweet.
Scott Dixon placed third in the standings, his sixth straight season of being top-5 in points. Scott McLaughlin finished in fourth, and 2021 champ Alex Palou climbed up to fifth with his win. 2022 Indy 500 winner Marcus Ericsson, who led the points for multiple weeks this summer, resulted in sixth in points, meaning the top 6 spots in the standings belonged to drivers from either Team Penske or Chip Ganassi Racing.
With the checkered flag flying at Laguna Seca on Sunday, the 2022 NTT IndyCar Series season is in the books. Not without its own intrigue and excitement, the ultra-competitive field put on a stellar show once again. Now, as 2022 concludes, all teams and drivers turn their eyes to the offseason, contract negotiations, and preparing for the beginning of the 2023 season next spring. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72890-power-wins-second-indycar-title-palou-victorious-in-season-finale | 2022-09-12T23:02:51Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72890-power-wins-second-indycar-title-palou-victorious-in-season-finale | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The 60th anniversary season of auto racing action at Grandview Speedway has been building all season long to the biggest race event of the season, and now it is here, the Freedom 76 weekend of racing.
This past Saturday the final point races were conducted for the season, and Craig Von Dohren picked up his 13th career T.P. Trailer Modified championship, while Brian Hirthler scored his 3rd career championship in the T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman division.
The Freedom 76 weekend begins this Friday, September 16 with the 9th annual Freedom 38 Sportsman Championship race paying $2000 to the winner, along with qualifying events plus practice time for Modified drivers wishing to participate in the Freedom 76.
For many decades the night before the Sixer has become a great tradition at Grandview, with fans gathering at the speedway to camp together and socialize. For the last eight seasons Grandview added the Freedom 38 for the Sportsman competitors, so there was something for everyone to do while they were at the track on Friday night. Management has rolled back the grandstand admission to just $5, while children ages 11 and under will be free of charge.
On Friday, pit gates open at 3 pm with grandstand gates opening at 5:30 pm. drivers meeting at 5:30 pm. with the pill draw following the drivers meeting. Warmups are at 6:15 pm. and racing at 7:30 pm. Pit admission on Friday is $35, and no license is required. There is no rain date for the Friday event.
Speedway management has updated the tire rules for Sportsman competitors for the Freedom 38. Tires will now be open to ANY American Racer tire, open compound, with the Grandview tread pattern still required.
On Friday, representatives from the Boyertown Museum of Historical Vehicles will be on hand to meet with everyone, provide information about their museum, what they do, and what the museum is all about. They will be in the grandstand area when the Meet and Greet starts.
Prior to the racing action on Friday will be the weekly Low Down and Dirty Meet and Greet. This week’s drivers include Sportsman drivers Mike Schneck Jr., Mark Mohr and Talan Carter. The Meet and Greet is held in the main gate area starting at 5 pm. and is a great time for the fans to meet the drivers up close, collect some autographs, take photos, and talk racing one on one.
On Saturday, September 17, the 52nd annual Freedom 76 will be run for the 358 Modifieds paying $30,060 to the winner. The program will include qualifying heats, consolation races, cash dash, along with the Schaeffer Racing Minuteman 20 leading to the 76-lap championship feature. Pit gates open at 9 am for inspections, grandstand ticket windows open at 3 pm. pill draw for position is at 4:30 pm. with the drivers meeting at 5 pm. warm-ups are at 6 pm. with racing starting at 7 pm. Fans will be able to enter the Grandstand areas between 9 am. and 12 Noon to reserve seats with blankets.
Adult Grandstand tickets on Saturday will be $40, while children ages 6-11 are $10, with children ages 5 and under admitted for free. Pit admission will be $45, and no license is required. There will be no advanced tickets sold for this event, and the rain date is Saturday, September 24.
For the Freedom 76, the tire rules for the event are as follows, ANY American Racer tire and compound, but it must be the Grandview Speedway tread pattern. Further 358 Modified rules are available on the speedway website or again, any questions please call Cliff Quinn at 484-357-2587 or Ed Scott at 610-298-2408. Entry forms for the Modified competitors are available on the speedway website at www.grandviewspeedway.com under the Freedom 76 tab.
Six-time Freedom 76 winner Billy Pauch will be on hand on Saturday, September 17. The book about the life and times of Billy and his racing career – The Last Cowboy – will be on sale at the Speedway starting at 3:30 pm. in the turn one area. Pauch himself will be signing the books from 4 – 5:30 pm. The book includes many stories about Pauch’s racing career, including an entire chapter about racing on the Hill at Grandview Speedway, winning the Freedom 76, and winning in Al Hamilton’s Sprint Car at a Thunder on the Hill program.
Action was intense this past Saturday, as the point championship rolled to a conclusion. It was nearly a non-stop T.P. Trailers Modified feature race, and in the end Ron Haring Jr. scored his first ever feature event win. While the battles were on to win the feature among several drivers, Craig Von Dohren and Brett Kressley were trying to decide the point title.
Von Dohren had a healthy lead entering the night, with Kressley having an outside chance to win. Both qualified well, but things changed after that, as Kressley had mechanical trouble after the heat race, causing him to scratch and use a provisional starting spot, starting in last position with a back-up car. The final results saw Von Dohren end the night in eighth position and Kressley in seventeenth, with Von Dohren crowned champion for the third consecutive season, his 13th overall, with his first championship scored in 1988.
Jeff Strunk (sixth), Doug Manmiller (tenth), and Tim Buckwalter (fourth) complete the top five in the final point standings after all scored top ten finishes last Saturday night.
The final top ten in T.P. Trailer Modified points are 1. Craig Von Dohren – 4829, 2. Brett Kressley – 4439, 3. Jeff Strunk – 4338, 4. Doug Manmiller – 4173, 5. Tim Buckwalter – 3905, 6. Duane Howard – 3638, 7. Jared Umbenhauer – 3446, 8. Kevin Hirthler – 2795, 9. Ryan Grim – 2658, 10. Cory Merkel – 2305.
The T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman saw point leader Brian Hirthler put the icing on the season by winning his sixth feature of the year on Championship night to secure his third Grandview point title. Hirthler’s other titles were won in 2017 and 2020.
Hirthler missed a big accident at the start, then was able to out battle Michael Burrows to move to second and challenge Kyle Smith for the win, until Smith had mechanical problems four laps from the end, putting Hirthler on top, allowing him to score his 18th career victory.
The rest of the final top five in points saw Dylan Hoch (sixth), Smith (seventeenth), Jimmy Leiby (seventh), and Mike Schneck Jr. (eleventh) have varying results in the feature on Saturday night, but still ended the year with a top five in the final standings.
The final points for the T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman are 1. Brian Hirthler – 3890, 2. Dylan Hoch – 3422, 3. – Kyle Smith – 2790, Jimmy Leiby – 2788, 5. Mike Schneck Jr. – 2320, 6. Dakota Kohler – 2272, 7. Cody Manmiller – 2262, 8. Parker Guldin – 2229, 9. Jesse Hirthler – 1941, 10. Adrianna Delliponti – 1933.
Lap money will be available to the drivers leading laps in the Freedom 76 as well as several special bonuses and awards that have been posted, and are as follows:
HARD CHARGER - $1060 From Bobby Gunther-Walsh and his sponsors – The following sponsors have contributed to the Hard Charger Award – Res Q Natural Supplements, Just Born Quality Confections (Mike and Ike and Hot Tamales), Yocco’s the Hot Dog King, and Ironton Telephone.
LYNN HIMES GREAT EFFORT AWARD – $250 Sponsored by T.P. Trailers & Truck Equipment & the Perkins Family (presented to the highest finishing driver NOT in the top 10 in Grandview Points) in memory of Carole Lynn Himes, a long-time familiar face at Grandview Speedway
THE SCENIC ROUTE TO THE FRONT - $500 to the highest finishing driver that had to come through the Minuteman 20 to get into the race – Jim & Missy Bowman
Saturday, September 24 will feature Round 9 with the Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage Cars in action joined by the Xcel 600 Modifieds and the Roadrunners starting at 5 pm. Pit gates open at 2 pm., Grandstand gates open at 4 pm. Grandstand admission will be $10, with children ages 12 and under admitted for free. Pit admission is $30 for the Outlaw Racing Series event. This event will run as long as the date is not needed as the Freedom 76 rain date.
Since the 1960’s, Grandview Speedway has been presenting exciting wheel to wheel NASCAR stock car racing every Saturday Night starting in April and running through September, plus special events. Grandview Speedway is located at 43 Passmore Road, Bechtelsville, Pa. 19505, just off Route 100, ten miles north of Pottstown, Pa.
Information is always available at www.grandviewspeedway.com or on Facebook, or by telephone at 610.754.7688.
UPCOMING EVENTS –
Friday, September 16 – 9th annual FREEDOM 38 CHAMPIONSHIP for T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman $2000 to win, plus Modified practice – 7:30 pm.
Saturday, September 17 – 52nd annual FREEDOM 76 MODIFIED CHAMPIONSHIP for T.P. Trailer Modifieds $30,060 to win – 7 pm.
Saturday, September 24 – Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage – 5 pm (Rain date for Freedom 76)
Saturday, September 24 – Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage – 5 pm (Rain date for Freedom 76)
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Struggling Peloton Interactive said Monday co-founder John Foley would step down from his role as the fitness equipment maker’s executive chair “to start a new professional chapter,” effective immediately
Foley, who co-founded Peloton in 2012 with four others, will be replaced by Karen Boone, who was elected to the company’s board in 2019.
“Now it is time for me to start a new professional chapter. I have passion for building companies and creating great teams, and I am excited to do that again in a new space,” Foley said on Monday.
Peloton shares rose 2.3% to $11.30 in after hours trading.
Foley was replaced earlier this year as the company’s chief executive by Barry McCarthy, a former Spotify Technology and Netflix executive.
Peloton added on Monday that another co-founder Hisao Kushi would also resign from his role as chief legal officer, effective Oct. 3.
Kushi, who crafted the novel music license deals, will be replaced by former Uber Technologies executive Tammy Albarrán.
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Stafford Speedway and Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series officials have released a full prize money breakdown for the 49th Annual NAPA Auto Parts Fall Final scheduled for Saturday, September 24th. In addition, a 20 lap non-qualifiers B-Main presented by RaceChoice.com has been added to the event schedule.
Over 50 of the top Modified teams in the Northeast will be at Stafford to compete for $15,000 to win and a guaranteed $1,000 to start. Total prize money for the 80 lap race will be in excess of $66,000. The 20 lap RaceChoice.com non-qualifiers race will pay $500 to start, while the winner will have the option to take home a $1,000 payday or transfer to compete in the NAPA Auto Parts Fall Final. Additional prize money will be on the line with a $300 bonus going to the winner of each heat race.
NAPA Fall Final Tickets & Event Information
“This is the biggest NAPA Auto Parts Fall Final we’ve had in over 20 years,” explained Stafford Speedway CEO Mark Arute. “Over 50 teams have already entered the event and will all be chasing the big $15,000 payday. After a great event back in 2020, we’re looking forward to having the Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series back at Stafford for the NAPA Fall Final.”
51 teams have already entered the NAPA Auto Parts Fall Final including: Woody Pitkat, Matt Hirschman, Burt Myers, Ron Silk, Chuck Hossfeld, Eric Goodale, Ryan Preece, Keith Rocco, Ronnie Williams, Anthony Nocella, Chase Dowling and more.
Tickets for the 49th Annual NAPA Auto Parts Fall Final are available online at staffordspeedway.com/tickets. Limited reserved tickets are available for the September 24th event. Also joining the Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series is an SK Modified point race, the Vintage All-Stars, and a special SK Light Modified Invitational that is open to any driver who has not won an SK Light Modified feature event in 2022.
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Here's the full list of 74th Primetime Emmy Award nominees. This list will be updated with the winners throughout the ceremony.
Best Drama
Better Call Saul (AMC)
Euphoria (HBO/HBO Max)
Ozark (Netflix)
Severance (Apple TV+)
Squid Game (Netflix)
Stranger Things (Netflix)
Succession (HBO/HBO Max)
Yellowjackets (Showtime)
Best Comedy
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Barry (HBO/HBO Max)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO/HBO Max)
Hacks (HBO/HBO Max)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Prime Video)
Only Murders In The Building (Hulu)
Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)
What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
Best Limited Series
Dopesick (Hulu)
The Dropout (Hulu)
Inventing Anna (Netflix)
Pam & Tommy (Hulu)
The White Lotus (HBO/HBO Max)
Best Variety Talk Series
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Comedy Central)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO/HBO Max)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS)
Best Variety Sketch Series
A Black Lady Sketch Show (HBO/HBO Max)
Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Best Competition Program
The Amazing Race (CBS)
Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls (Prime Video)
Nailed It! (Netflix)
RuPaul's Drag Race (VH1)
Top Chef (Bravo)
The Voice (NBC)
Lead Actor, Drama
Jason Bateman, Ozark
Brian Cox, Succession
Lee Jung-Jae, Squid Game
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
Adam Scott, Severance
Jeremy Strong, Succession
Lead Actor, Comedy
Donald Glover, Atlanta
Bill Hader, Barry
Nicholas Hoult, The Great
Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building
Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso
Lead Actor, Limit Series or Movie
Colin Firth, The Staircase
Andrew Garfield, Under the Banner of Heaven
Oscar Isaac, Scenes from a Marriage
Michael Keaton, Dopesick
Himesh Patel, Station Eleven
Sebastian Stan, Pam & Tommy
Lead Actress, Drama
Jodie Comer, Killing Eve
Laura Linney, Ozark
Melanie Lynskey, Yellowjackets
Sandra Oh, Killing Eve
Reese Witherspoon, The Morning Show
Zendaya, Euphoria
Lead Actress, Comedy
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Kaley Cuoco, The Flight Attendant
Elle Fanning, The Great
Issa Rae, Insecure
Jean Smart, Hacks
Lead Actress, Limited Series or Movie
Toni Collette, The Staircase
Julia Garner, Inventing Anna
Lily James, Pam & Tommy
Sarah Paulson, Impeachment: American Crime Story
Margaret Qualley, Maid
Amanda Seyfried, The Dropout
Supporting Actor, Drama
Nicholas Braun, Succession
Billy Crudup, The Morning Show
Kieran Culkin, Succession
Park Hae-Soo, Squid Game
Matthew Macfadyen, Succession
John Turturro, Severance
Christopher Walken, Severance
Oh Young-Soo, Squid Game
Supporting Actor, Comedy
Anthony Carrigan, Barry
Brett Goldstein, Ted Lasso
Toheeb Jimoh, Ted Lasso
Nick Mohammed, Ted Lasso
Tony Shalhoub, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Tyler James Williams, Abbott Elementary
Henry Winkler, Barry
Bowen Yang, Saturday Night Live
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Succession, "Too Much Birthday" (directed by Lorene Scafaria)
Yellowjackets, "Pilot" (directed by Karyn Kusama)
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Atlanta, "New Jazz" (directed by Hiro Murai)
Barry, "710N" (directed by Bill Hader)
Hacks, "There Will Be Blood" (directed by Lucia Aniello)
The Ms. Pat Show, "Baby Daddy Groundhog Day" (directed by Mary Lou Belli)
Only Murders in the Building, "The Boy from 6B" (directed by Cherien Dabis)
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Ted Lasso, "No Weddings and a Funeral" (directed by MJ Delaney)
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Dopesick, "The People vs. Purdue Pharma" (directed by Danny Strong)
The Dropout, "Green Juice" (directed by Michael Showalter)
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Maid, "Sky Blue" (directed by John Wells)
Station Eleven, "Wheel of Fire" (directed by Hiro Murai)
The White Lotus (directed by Mike White)
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A recent campaign succeeded in diminishing the reach of a website that is notorious for harassing autistic and transgender people, and which has been linked to at least three suicides.
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A recent campaign succeeded in diminishing the reach of a website that is notorious for harassing autistic and transgender people, and which has been linked to at least three suicides.
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Across the country, dentists are having a hard time scheduling all their patients because they don't have enough help from dental hygienists. Many hygienists left the field over the last few years.
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Across the country, dentists are having a hard time scheduling all their patients because they don't have enough help from dental hygienists. Many hygienists left the field over the last few years.
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Rattlesnakes have a bad reputation in the West, often seen as a deadly fiend that we'd be better off without. However, much like sharks, they rarely kill and often inspire more fear than warranted.
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Rattlesnakes have a bad reputation in the West, often seen as a deadly fiend that we'd be better off without. However, much like sharks, they rarely kill and often inspire more fear than warranted.
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Married couple who plotted to kill Americans for ISIS plead guilty
An Alabama woman and New York City man have pleaded guilty to trying to fight for the ISIS terrorist group.
Driving the news: Arwa Muthana, 30, and her husband, James Bradley, 21, attempted to travel to the Middle East to join ISIS, prosecutors say. Bradley had also allegedly expressed a desire to support ISIS by committing a terror attack in the U.S.
Details: In 2020, Bradley told an undercover law enforcement officer about the possibility of attacking the U.S. military academy in West Point, according to the Justice Department.
- He allegedly said that if he couldn't leave the U.S., he'd do "something" in the U.S. instead. The two also "accessed, posted and distributed extremist online content," the DOJ said.
- After much planning, Bradley and Muthana set out to travel to the Middle East via a cargo ship departing from New Jersey on March 31, 2021, prosecutors say.
- They were arrested as they were boarding. Later, Muthana allegedly said during an interview that she was "willing to fight and kill Americans if it was for Allah."
Worth noting: Muthana is the older sister of Hoda Muthana, who joined ISIS after traveling to Syria in 2014, AL.com notes.
- The younger Muthana has since expressed interest in returning to the U.S. while being detained in a Kurdish refugee camp with her young son. A judge ruled in 2019 that the U.S. is not obligated to help her return, and the Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal this year. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/12/us-citizens-guilty-plea-isis-plot | 2022-09-12T23:05:51Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/12/us-citizens-guilty-plea-isis-plot | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Rojelio Piceno left and U.S Air Force Airman 1st Class Xiangrun Song, 31st annual Day of Caring volunteers, do yard work at a house, in Alamogordo, New Mexico, Sept. 9, 2022. In the 31 years that the Day of Caring has been going on, Holloman Air Force Base has played a major role in providing number of volunteers that help the local communities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Nicholas Paczkowski)
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A man takes a photo of the sky during a tailgate hosted by DM50 for a University of Arizona Wildcats football game in Tucson, Arizona, Sept. 10, 2022. DM50 provided dinner and a variety of refreshments to tailgate attendendees. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Paige Weldon)
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The University of Arizona Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps Color Guard present the Colors at a University of Arizona Wildcats football game in Tucson, Arizona, Sept. 10, 2022. Later in the game a Davis-Monthan Airman was welcomed home from deployment and six DM Airmen were recognized for their outstanding service. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Paige Weldon)
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) on Saturday called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) busing of migrants to the city “un-American.”
“You don’t treat people with this lack of respect, lack of dignity, putting them on buses to an unknown destination with very little food, very little water,” Lightfoot said during an appearance on “CNN Newsroom with Pamela Brown.”
“They have very little that they need when they’re on these multiple-hour, cross-country bus trips,” she said.
Abbott’s office said on Friday the state has bused more than 10,400 migrants since April to Democratic-run cities in protest of President Biden’s immigration policies.
About three-quarters have been sent to Washington, D.C., while more than 2,200 arrived in New York City since last month. The first bus sent to Chicago arrived on Wednesday, and Abbott said more than 300 migrants have arrived in the city so far.
“What I don’t like to see is people taking these cross-country trips, getting off the bus and being immediately taken to the hospital because they were put on the buses with delicate medical conditions that no one in Texas seemed to care anything about,” Lightfoot said on CNN. “That is simply not right, and it’s un-American.”
When asked if she would be OK with Abbott’s initiative if the migrants were better taken care of, Lightfoot still indicated opposition, calling it a “unilateral political stunt.”
“What he’s trying to do is play to the lowest common denominator in his party, to burnish his credentials as a candidate for president in 2024,” Lightfoot said.
Lightfoot said she had not spoken with Abbott but had connected with New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), both of whom have similarly condemned the busing.
The Hill has reached out to an Abbott spokesperson for comment.
Both Adams and Bowser have asked the federal government for assistance. The Defense Department has denied Bowser’s request to activate the D.C. National Guard twice.
“This is a manufactured crisis on the part of Governor Abbott,” Lightfoot said on CNN. “We can all do our part. And I believe that we all must do our part. But we’ve got to do it with collaboration, with cooperation.” | https://www.wspa.com/hill-politics/chicago-mayor-migrants-bused-from-texas-treated-with-lack-of-respect-dignity/ | 2022-09-12T23:10:11Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/hill-politics/chicago-mayor-migrants-bused-from-texas-treated-with-lack-of-respect-dignity/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Justice Department has subpoenaed Stephen Miller, who served as a senior White House adviser under former President Trump, in its investigation into the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, The New York Times reported, citing people briefed on the matter.
Miller was one of more than a dozen people connected to the former president who received subpoenas this week from a federal grand jury seeking information related to Trump’s Save America PAC and alleged plans to submit slates of fake electors in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to the Times.
The federal grand jury also subpoenaed former White House political director Brian Jack, per the outlet.
Trump’s Save America PAC was formed days after the 2020 election was called for President Biden as the former president fundraised on his unfounded claims that the election was stolen.
Several junior and mid-level aides who served on Trump’s campaign or in the White House, Ivanka Trump’s chief of staff and the chief financial officer of Trump’s 2020 campaign have also received subpoenas seeking information related to the Save America PAC, the Times reported earlier this week.
The investigation is one of many Trump is currently facing.
The former president and the Justice Department are currently tied up in a legal battle related to the department’s investigation into documents recovered from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. | https://www.wspa.com/hill-politics/department-of-justice-subpoenas-stephen-miller-in-connection-to-trump-pac-fundraising-report/ | 2022-09-12T23:10:24Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/hill-politics/department-of-justice-subpoenas-stephen-miller-in-connection-to-trump-pac-fundraising-report/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. – Promotions from the 513th Air Control Group enlisted ranks are:
TECHNICAL SERGEANT
Samantha Humphrey, 970th Airborne Air Control Squadron
STAFF SERGEANT
Christopher Anderson, 513th Maintenance Squadron
Ashleigh Bashor, 513th Maintenance Squadron
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The U.S. Navy has ordered an independent investigation into the Navy SEAL selection course following the death of a sailor during the program, according to a report from The New York Times.
Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral William K. Lescher called for the investigation in a letter obtained by the paper.
The investigation will focus on the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEALS (BUD/S) course, probing its safety measures and drug testing protocol as well as the qualifications of medical personnel assigned to the program.
Many sailors have been found to use performance-enhancing drugs to get through BUD/S, particularly during what is known as “Hell Week,” the most intense part of the selection course where sailors experience dire physical conditions, according to the Times.
The Aug. 31 letter also ordered investigators to look into changes made since the passing of Kyle Mullen in February. Mullen was a Navy sailor who died after being sent to the hospital in San Diego shortly following Hell Week.
An anonymous Navy official told the Times that the Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC), which houses the SEALs, had also been investigating Mullen’s death before their probe was brought to a halt.
Leaders found that the NSWC report placed too much responsibility on Mullen rather than highlighting the flaws of the SEAL training program, according to the official.
The letter indicates that the Special Warfare Command will refocus its investigation into whether Mullen died in the line of duty, but will leave other questions to the independent investigators.
“The Navy remains committed to transparency and ensuring the final reports are thorough, accurate, impartial, and that confidence and credibility are maintained throughout the entire process,” it told the Times.
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Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) said on Sunday that a congressional briefing to get a damage assessment of the classified documents potentially mishandled by former President Trump is on hold since a judge allowed a special master to review what was seized.
“My understanding is there is some question because of the special master appointment by the judge in Florida whether they can brief at this point,” Warner told CBS “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan. “We need clarification on that from that judge as quickly as possible because it is essential that the intelligence community, leadership at least, get a briefing of the damage assessment.”
Warner, along with the committee’s vice chairman, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), have requested more information on the classified documents obtained during an FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in August, seeking both the documents seized and an assessment of any national security threats posed by potential mishandling of the information.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon granted Trump’s request last week to appoint an independent special master to review materials seized by the FBI after he raised concerns that some of the information obtained as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into the former president was protected under attorney-client and executive privileges.
Warner said the congressional request in no way sought to hinder the DOJ’s ongoing investigation and sidestepped questions by Brennan about information shared with Congress being more likely to leak to the public.
“I believe that it’s our congressional duty to have that oversight,” Warner said. “Remember what’s at stake here is the fact that if some of these documents involved human intelligence and that information got out, people will die,” noting that years of work could be “destroyed.”
Warner said the Senate Intelligence Committee, which he called the “last functioning bipartisan committee, I believe, in the whole Congress” had an obligation to review any potential security dangers to the country and its intelligence gathering capabilities.
“I do want the damage assessment of what would happen to our ability to protect the nation,” Warner said, adding that the request by the intelligence leaders sought to “assess whether there’s been damage done to our intelligence collection and maintenance of secrets capacity.”
Updated 11:32 a.m. | https://www.wspa.com/hill-politics/senate-intelligence-chair-says-briefing-on-trump-classified-documents-on-hold/ | 2022-09-12T23:11:50Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/hill-politics/senate-intelligence-chair-says-briefing-on-trump-classified-documents-on-hold/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A new book by former Trump aide Peter Navarro claims that the former president was supportive of an attempt to remove his son-in-law Jared Kushner from having control over his 2020 campaign and replace him with Stephen Bannon.
Navarro in the book, obtained by The Guardian, describes the plan as a “coup d’état,” but the change never occurred because Kushner refused.
“And that was that. And the rest is a catastrophic strategic failure history,” Navarro wrote, according to The Guardian.
Navarro, a critic of Kushner, will later this month release the book, titled “Taking Back Trump’s America: Why We Lost the White House and How We’ll Win It Back.”
Trump, while supportive of the move, feared “family troubles if [he] himself had to deliver the bad news to … the father of his grandchildren,” so he did not bring up the subject with Kushner.
Instead, the president asked Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus, a prominent GOP donor, to tell Kushner.
Kushner at first skipped a call from Marcus and then later told him, “things were fine with the campaign, there was no way he was stepping down and, in effect, Bernie Marcus and his big moneybags could go pound sand,” according to Navarro’s account.
The Hill has reached out to a Trump spokesperson for comment.
Navarro has lashed out at Kushner in the past. After Kushner revealed in his book that he was treated for thyroid cancer while serving in the White House, Navarro said during a Newsmax interview that the revelation “came out of nowhere” and accused Kushner of trying to get “sympathy to try to sell his book.”
Navarro has also come under scrutiny in recent months over his defiance of subpoenas issued by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
A federal grand jury indicted Navarro this summer on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress. In court following his arrest, Navarro lashed out at Congress and federal law enforcement.
Earlier that week, the former Trump trade adviser filed a civil complaint challenging the House panel’s authority, also revealing he received a grand jury subpoena as part of the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation. | https://www.wspa.com/hill-politics/trump-supported-coup-to-oust-kushner-from-overseeing-2020-campaign-book/ | 2022-09-12T23:12:23Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/hill-politics/trump-supported-coup-to-oust-kushner-from-overseeing-2020-campaign-book/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A rocket crashed back to Earth shortly after liftoff Monday in the first launch accident for Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, but the capsule carrying experiments managed to parachute to safety.
No one was aboard the Blue Origin flight, which used the same kind of rocket as the one that sends paying customers to the edge of space. The rockets are now grounded pending the outcome of an investigation, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The New Shepard rocket was barely a minute into its flight from West Texas when bright yellow flames shot out from around the single engine at the bottom. The capsule’s emergency launch abort system immediately kicked in, lifting the craft off the top. Several minutes later, the capsule parachuted onto the remote desert floor.
The rocket came crashing down, with no injuries or damage reported, said the FAA, which is in charge of public safety during commercial space launches and landings.
Blue Origin’s launch commentary went silent when the capsule catapulted off the rocket Monday morning, eventually announcing: “It appears we’ve experienced an anomaly with today’s flight. This wasn’t planned.”
“Booster failure on today’s uncrewed flight. Escape system performed as designed,” the Kent, Washington-based company tweeted close to an hour later.
The company later said the rocket crashed.
The mishap occurred as the rocket was traveling nearly 700 mph (1,126 kph) at an altitude of about 28,000 feet (8,500 meters). There was no video shown of the rocket — only the capsule — after the failure. It happened around the point the rocket is under the maximum amount of pressure, called max-q.
The rocket usually lands upright on the desert floor and then is recycled for future flights.
The webcast showed the capsule reaching a maximum altitude of more than 37,000 feet (11,300 meters). Thirty-six experiments were on board to be exposed to a few minutes of weightlessness. Half were sponsored by NASA, mostly from students.
It was the 23rd flight for the New Shepard program, named after the first American in space, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the ninth flight for this particular rocket-capsule pair, which was dedicated to flying experiments.
Blue Origin’s most recent flight with paying customers was just last month; the ticket price hasn’t been released. Bezos was on the first New Shepard crew last year. Altogether, Blue Origin has carried 31 people on 10-minute flights, including actor William Shatner.
The rocket should have launched nearly two weeks ago, but was grounded until Monday by bad weather. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/bezos-blue-origin-flight-suffers-launch-failure-rocket-crashes-back-to-earth/ | 2022-09-12T23:12:41Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/bezos-blue-origin-flight-suffers-launch-failure-rocket-crashes-back-to-earth/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Former Attorney General William Barr has emerged as one of the most prominent conservatives to suggest former President Trump may be in serious legal jeopardy over his handling of sensitive materials, underscoring the growing divide between the former president and his onetime staunch ally.
Barr has become a regular presence on Fox News over the past few weeks, weighing in on the FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and subsequent court battles over what the Department of Justice (DOJ) can do with what it found.
It’s not the first time Barr, a frequent target of criticism from Democrats as attorney general, has broken with Trump. Nor is he the first former Trump Cabinet member to become critical of the former president.
But he has stood out recently for his willingness to undercut not just Trump’s own defense but the preferred narrative of Trump’s allies and wide swaths of the Republican Party.
“Bill Barr has been a real law and order kind of guy and has been strongly protective of national security interests and Department of Justice interests,” said Alan Morrison, a law professor at George Washington University.
“And I think he’s always seen himself as being on that side: Tough on people who violate criminal laws, and I think his remarks here are in keeping with that. He’s trying to protect the Justice Department, which he headed not once but twice,” Morrison said.
Barr has in fact just done that, offering defenses of the Justice Department and the legitimacy of its investigation into Trump in a series of Fox News appearances over the past two weeks.
The former attorney general earlier in the month pushed back on various defenses Trump and his team have offered in response to the FBI raid, telling Fox News he was skeptical that Trump had declassified everything he took to Mar-a-Lago as the former president had claimed.
“Let me just say, I think the driver on this from the beginning was loads of classified information sitting in Mar-a-Lago. People say this [raid] was unprecedented — well, it’s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay,” Barr said.
Barr has also been critical of Trump’s push for a special master to review the documents taken by the FBI. The former attorney general called the legal strategy a “red herring” since federal authorities likely had already sifted through most of the seized materials.
Barr urged the Justice Department this week to appeal Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling in favor of appointing a special master, calling the decision “deeply flawed in a number of ways.”
In an appearance on Fox on Thursday, Barr said he believes the Justice Department is “getting very close” to the point where they could indict someone in the case, including potentially Trump.
The comments were notable coming from a man who Democrats and some legal experts criticized throughout his latest tenure as attorney general, accusing him of viewing himself as the president’s lawyer rather than the country’s.
“I think it’s partially a repudiation of Trump but it’s much more in wearing his law and order hat than a repudiation of Trump,” Morrison said.
Barr’s Fox News appearances undercutting Trump are the latest example of what has been a steadily growing divide between the two men.
One former Trump administration official said there is no love lost between Trump and Barr, and the relationship had been steadily deteriorating since the 2020 election, when Trump was irked that his attorney general publicly said he hadn’t found evidence of widespread voter fraud.
Barr was a key witness for the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, with recordings of his closed-door depositions featuring prominently in the panel’s public hearings.
Barr told the panel he believed Trump’s claims about election fraud were “bullshit,” “nonsense” and “idiotic.” One hearing featured video of Barr saying he worried Trump had become “detached from reality” as he raised the false premise that voting machines were designed to rig the election.
Trump, who has frequently derided his former attorney general as a “RINO,” or “Republican in Name Only,” used the same insult in response to Barr’s commentary on Fox in which he said authorities likely had good evidence to pursue its search of Trump’s home.
“Bill Barr had ‘no guts,’ and got ‘no glory,’” Trump wrote on Truth Social last week. “He was a weak and pathetic RINO [Republican in name only], who was so afraid of being Impeached that he became a captive to the Radical Left Democrats.”
While the vast majority of conservatives have lined up behind Trump to offer shifting defenses of the former president and criticize the Justice Department as politicized, a few conservatives and former Trump officials have joined Barr in publicly recognizing the seriousness of the matter.
Former Vice President Mike Pence, who is viewed as laying the groundwork for a 2024 bid, said in New Hampshire late last month that he was “deeply troubled” by the search but added the public needs to “let the facts play out” and condemned attacks on law enforcement.
Ty Cobb, who served as a lawyer in Trump’s White House during the Russia investigation, told CBS News on Friday he believes Trump is “in serious legal water,” not just because of the ongoing investigation into his handling of classified documents, but because of efforts to change the outcome of the 2020 election in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
Like Barr, Cobb told the news outlet he believes the possibility of Trump being indicted is “very high.” | https://www.wspa.com/news/why-barr-is-breaking-from-trump-and-the-gop-over-mar-a-lago-search/ | 2022-09-12T23:13:02Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/why-barr-is-breaking-from-trump-and-the-gop-over-mar-a-lago-search/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TOPEKA, Kansas — Beth Patton needs to get her adopted child mental health services, but the boy faces problems too serious for any professional in her county to handle.
“I did have the police department at my house,” said Patton, who lives in Independence, Kansas. “He needs help. And he needs help before it gets to that point. And nobody wants to be proactive.”
Two of her children get online mental health services through insurance coverage, but she can no longer afford to pay out of pocket for additional help.
She’s reached out to state officials, but they directed her to a community mental health center that Patton said lacks the specialists her son needs. She is getting adoption subsidies from the state foster care system, but that offers only a fraction of the foster rate and falls well short of covering her actual costs.
Patton used to work as a vocational rehabilitation counselor for the Kansas Department for Children and Families. Yet she said her familiarity with, and connections in, the state’s foster system haven’t helped.
“I still can’t get what I need,” she said. “They point fingers to someone else. And then I try that person. And they say, ‘Well, no, we can’t do that. It's got to be this.’ It’s very frustrating.”
A 2016 study published in the National Library of Medicine says 50-80% of foster youth need mental health services, a higher rate than the general public. Of those, 23% have multiple possible diagnoses. That is because of the traumatic nature of the things that lead to falling into custody and the chaos of foster care that follows.
State Rep. Susan Concannon, chair of the Joint Committee on Child Welfare System Oversight, said she has heard about foster kids struggling to get regular mental health appointments. But she said the Legislature has already approved something that should help.
Kansas community mental health centers are shifting toward a certified community behavioral health clinic model. That would give the centers access to a higher reimbursement rate. That, in turn, would allow them to hire, or keep, more workers even if their caseloads don’t grow. All 26 community mental health centers are expected to become certified by 2024.
Kyle Kessler, executive director of the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas, Inc., said this model was created directly to address the issues like rising suicide rates, overdose deaths and workforce shortages.
“This really underscores why we're here,” he said. “(Making) sure that youth in foster care have the quickest possible access to community mental health services is absolutely key.”
People from multiple community mental health centers testified before lawmakers Monday morning. Not every one of these agencies was certified, but they should be soon. One certified agency said it hired more staff and addressed workforce turnover issues.
Matt Atteberry, executive director of the Labette County Center for Mental Health Services, Inc., said his county has some of the most foster kids per capita.
“We are fantastically busy,” he told lawmakers.
Atteberry’s agency isn’t certified yet but should be soon. Atteberry said the certification will send more money to the center so it can have staff itI currently can’t afford.
Michelle Ponce, associate director with the Association of Community Mental Health Centers, said the community centers in Kansas have a 25% vacancy rate. She said Kansas has historically done well providing mental health services, but there have been recent struggles, like workforce and funding issues.
Switching over to a new funding model that typically directs more money to centers will add services and staff and bring shorter wait times, and it won’t help just foster kids – it’ll help schools, veterans and other communities of need.
It’ll take years for everything to be achieved, which doesn’t help Patton right now, but Ponce is excited for the future.
“It's not going to happen overnight. It's a transition,” she said. “We're already seeing some promising outcomes from the first nine centers who have achieved certification.”
Blaise Mesa reports on criminal justice and social services for the Kansas News Service in Topeka. You can follow him on Twitter @Blaise_Mesa or email him at blaise@kcur.org.
The Kansas News Service is a collaboration of KCUR, Kansas Public Radio, KMUW and High Plains Public Radio focused on health, the social determinants of health and their connection to public policy.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Two years ago today, Bertram LLP opened its doors. Bertram LLP is a technology-driven, national law firm that represents employers, boards and executives in executive-level transitions and disputes. After over 30 years working for and managing large, international law firms, founder Connie Bertram opened the firm to focus on what she calls "Executive Employment Law." She explains that:
"Essentially, we have taken all aspects of employment and executive comp law and applied them to the executive and board level, where transactions, disputes and investigations are more sensitive, highly-charged and complex."
In establishing Bertram LLP, Connie understood that although there are thousands of firms that practice employment law, executives, owners and board members have difficulty retaining quality counsel. Executives and board members of publicly traded or private equity-backed companies often cannot retain big law firms because they create conflicts of interest with the firms' existing clients—or companies they hope will become clients in the future. In addition, traditional plaintiffs-side firms may not have the expertise in the complex corporate, equity and tax issues raised by executive-level transitions and disputes.
Bertram LLP negotiates and litigates disputes concerning all aspects of an executive, board member or owner's relationship with and investment in their company:
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) on Saturday called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) busing of migrants to the city “un-American.”
“You don’t treat people with this lack of respect, lack of dignity, putting them on buses to an unknown destination with very little food, very little water,” Lightfoot said during an appearance on “CNN Newsroom with Pamela Brown.”
“They have very little that they need when they’re on these multiple-hour, cross-country bus trips,” she said.
Abbott’s office said on Friday the state has bused more than 10,400 migrants since April to Democratic-run cities in protest of President Biden’s immigration policies.
About three-quarters have been sent to Washington, D.C., while more than 2,200 arrived in New York City since last month. The first bus sent to Chicago arrived on Wednesday, and Abbott said more than 300 migrants have arrived in the city so far.
“What I don’t like to see is people taking these cross-country trips, getting off the bus and being immediately taken to the hospital because they were put on the buses with delicate medical conditions that no one in Texas seemed to care anything about,” Lightfoot said on CNN. “That is simply not right, and it’s un-American.”
When asked if she would be OK with Abbott’s initiative if the migrants were better taken care of, Lightfoot still indicated opposition, calling it a “unilateral political stunt.”
“What he’s trying to do is play to the lowest common denominator in his party, to burnish his credentials as a candidate for president in 2024,” Lightfoot said.
Lightfoot said she had not spoken with Abbott but had connected with New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), both of whom have similarly condemned the busing.
The Hill has reached out to an Abbott spokesperson for comment.
Both Adams and Bowser have asked the federal government for assistance. The Defense Department has denied Bowser’s request to activate the D.C. National Guard twice.
“This is a manufactured crisis on the part of Governor Abbott,” Lightfoot said on CNN. “We can all do our part. And I believe that we all must do our part. But we’ve got to do it with collaboration, with cooperation.” | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/chicago-mayor-migrants-bused-from-texas-treated-with-lack-of-respect-dignity/ | 2022-09-12T23:27:31Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/chicago-mayor-migrants-bused-from-texas-treated-with-lack-of-respect-dignity/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When Vice President Harris has appeared before audiences around the country in recent days, she has posed a question asked by would-be voters: “Why should I vote?”
Harris has told the crowds publicly — and has reiterated to aides privately — that Democrats have to give them a good answer that will lure them to the polls.
During addresses in Texas and Massachusetts this week, she ticked off a string of reasons, from democracy being at stake to abortion rights. And in some speeches this summer, she has also directly taken on policies by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
“There are, as there have always been, forces that stand in our way. Forces that oppose … even the most commonsense gun safety proposals,” Harris said during a July speech at the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority convention in Orlando. “Forces that include extremist, so-called leaders, who instead of expanding rights work to restrict rights.”
President Biden and Harris have both struggled with low approval ratings, raising real questions about how much help they can provide to Democratic candidates in the House and Senate. So far, the two have not appeared alongside candidates in key races in Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona.
Republicans, for their part, have gone on the attack against the president and the vice president.
Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker this week used Harris to go after Democrats on the issue of race, saying in a new ad that she and others were seeking to use “race to divide us.” Harris and Biden were featured prominently in the ad.
But other Democrats say they believe Harris can be an effective voice in getting Democrats to the polls by touring the country and giving the grassroots a sense of the stakes at play.
One source who has advised Harris questioned her effectiveness in certain states.
“I doubt she’ll be the messenger deployed to win over swing states,” the source said.
But the source and others in her orbit said Harris can be very effective in broader get-out-the-vote events and in helping to keep abortion rights front and center — as well as in fundraising efforts.
Harris has been crisscrossing the country and appearing at events to appeal to various voting blocs.
She traveled to Houston on Thursday to deliver remarks at the National Baptist Convention. In August, she traveled to Boston for a conversation on reproductive rights with Republican Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and to Las Vegas for remarks at a steelworkers union convention.
On Saturday, Harris will speak at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting in Maryland, and on Sunday, she’ll appear on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview she recorded on Friday.
A source close to Harris said her appearances are about “rallying not just the base, but about bringing other people in.”
Her appearances, the source said, are “not just the big speeches” — like the one she delivered to steelworkers in Nevada last month — but the more personal “touches,” the source added, pointing to the vice president’s meetings with Hispanic lawmakers on the heels of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
Harris has consistently tied in meetings about reproductive rights in her political travels.
In Las Vegas, she tacked on a meeting with state legislators on abortion issues while visiting the city for the steelworkers union speech.
Harris has been a leading voice from the administration on reproductive rights following the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, and she’s met with local leaders and advocates to discuss the issue in Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia, Indiana and Massachusetts, among other states.
Democrats this cycle are hopeful that abortion is an issue that will bring voters out in November and maybe attract additional votes from independents or moderate Republicans, especially in states where leaders are passing restrictive abortion laws.
Antjuan Seawright, a Democratic strategist, sees Harris as the right person to lean into that strategy on the trail.
“She is really giving a real voice to some of the issues that women are facing in this country, whether they supported the ticket or not,” he said. “I think her voice is so magnetic that it’s going to attract a wide range of followers, amplifiers and supporters.”
Since the start of her tenure as vice president, some Democrats said they had been underwhelmed by Harris’s lack of a policy portfolio and her presence on the national stage overall. Her approval ratings have hovered below 40 percent, and she has been plagued by a constant revolving door of staffers.
There continue to be questions about whether she could successfully run for president should Biden choose against a second term. Biden has insisted he intends to run for office again, and Harris has said she will work for his reelection.
An August poll from her home state of California found voters would prefer their governor, Gavin Newsom (D), in the 2024 Democratic presidential primary over Harris. In another poll last month, Harris trailed former President Trump by 7 percentage points in a hypothetical 2024 presidential match-up.
Still, Democratic strategists argue that she is an asset on the campaign trail for this midterm cycle, and she is focused on helping Democrats hold onto Congress and expand their majority.
Democratic strategist Eddie Vale said Harris can serve as a “closer” of sorts who will appeal to women.
“I think that there’s not an issue that she cannot take on or talk about. What she is doing now, I think, is very intentional. She is out updating and educating people on one, the things we have done and two, how high the stakes are,” Seawright said.
He added that she’s a team player and said she is doing what makes sense for Democrats this cycle, “and is not necessarily playing a selfish role in terms of what she can do to be helpful.” | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/desantis-democracy-abortion-how-kamala-harris-is-trying-to-convince-people-to-vote/ | 2022-09-12T23:27:49Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/desantis-democracy-abortion-how-kamala-harris-is-trying-to-convince-people-to-vote/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Vice President Harris expressed concern over threats to voting rights and democracy in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” aired on Sunday, during which she emphasized the importance of getting out the vote for the midterm elections.
“Everything is on the line in these elections in just less than two months,” she said while discussing voting rights.
Harris stressed that the issue is high on the Biden administration’s agenda and that the president will “not let the filibuster get in the way” of signing bills into law that make it easier to vote.
“Because what is happening in our country … they are passing laws making it more difficult for people to vote,” said Harris.
Harris specified President Biden’s support for the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. Both bills have been approved by the House but blocked in the Senate by Republican filibusters.
The vice president said that after Biden was elected in 2020 “you almost saw, almost immediately, so-called extremist leaders around the country starting to pass laws making it more difficult for people to vote.”
“I think that scared some people that the American people were voting in such large numbers,” she said, referencing the record voter turnout that year.
Harris also addressed election deniers running for secretary of state around the country and some lawmakers’ refusal to condemn the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, voicing concern over how the country is handling “attacks from within.”
Asked by anchor Chuck Todd whether current internal threats to American democracy are “equal or greater than what we faced after 9/11,” Harris said that the two are “different.”
“Each are dangerous and extremely harmful, but they’re different,” said Harris.
She continued: “When I think about what we have been seeing in terms of the attacks from within, I wish that we would approach it … as Americans, instead of through some partisan lens.”
Harris claimed that threats to democracy from within the U.S. affect relations with other nations by indicating that America is not “valuing what they talk about.”
“I’m very concerned about it. Because there are so many issues going on in the world that I think require, at least how we as Americans have traditionally thought about what is right, what is good, what should be fought for, what should be human ideals, and certainly the ideals of democracies,” said Harris.
“And I think that through the process of what we’ve been through, we’re starting to allow people to call into question our commitment to those principles.”
Todd also asked the vice president how she might deal with disputes about the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, saying, “Have you thought about how you might handle a certification that did not reflect the outcome of the popular vote in the state?”
“I haven’t gotten to that point yet,” Harris told him.
“I have to believe that the United States Congress and all the people who have taken an oath to defend our democracy will ensure and will stand up against anyone who tries to destroy or circumvent the rules and the practices and procedures that we’ve had in place that have allowed a peaceful transfer of power since the inception of our nation and the founding of our nation,” she said.
Todd also broached the topic of a potential prosecution of former President Trump, who is currently facing multiple investigations, to which Harris responded that she “wouldn’t dare tell the Department of Justice what to do.”
Harris appeared to push back against the argument, raised by Todd, that it would be “too divisive for the country to prosecute a former president,” however.
She said that “the unthinkable has happened” before in U.S. history in situations “where there has been a call for justice, and justice has been served.”
“And I think that’s potentially going to always be the case in our country that people are going to demand justice and they rightly do,” she said. | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/harris-on-voting-rights-everything-is-on-the-line-in-these-elections-in-just-less-than-two-months/ | 2022-09-12T23:28:20Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/harris-on-voting-rights-everything-is-on-the-line-in-these-elections-in-just-less-than-two-months/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
More than 20 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, President Biden has shifted the way America fights the war on terror by launching fewer drone strikes, embracing an over-the-horizon approach to killing terrorists in Afghanistan and leveraging alliances.
Following last year’s pullout of U.S. forces from Afghanistan — ending a war that the 9/11 attacks tipped off — Biden has placed more emphasis on working with and through allies to target both new and long-standing foreign terrorist groups.
Meanwhile, Biden is also prioritizing keeping a light footprint abroad, including by using drones and special forces. This marks a major shift from the large numbers of American service members sent overseas to fight the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as to far-flung locations including Syria and Somalia.
But as the Biden administration pushes forward with its counterterrorism strategy, it will have to balance its efforts to combat foreign terrorists with addressing the threat of domestic extremism, experts say.
“I think this is the challenge that the Biden administration is juggling — I’d say generally [it] is doing well,” said Bruce Hoffman, a senior fellow for counterterrorism and homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations.
“Certainly, I think [he’s] taking this range of threats quite seriously. But part of it I think is not being lulled into a sense of complacency that very resilient and determined long-standing adversaries like al Qaeda have disappeared, even ISIS have disappeared and no longer pose a threat,” he continued.
In keeping its footprint small in the Middle East, the U.S. maintains about 900 troops in Syria to counter ISIS in the country and has re-deployed troops to Somalia to counter al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab — a reversal of former President Trump’s decision to withdraw the 700 troops that were there.
The administration sought to prove that it could still fight terrorists from afar while maintaining that small footprint in early August, when it conducted an over-the-horizon drone strike — which didn’t involve troops directly on the ground — that killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. But whether the over-the-horizon approach works is still up for debate.
“Al-Zawahiri was tracked to Kabul, but he was hiding in plain sight. I’m not sure that it’s proof of the over-the-horizon strategy working. That’s disrupting major terrorist plots and taking out the mid-level commanders, and the operations personnel,” Hoffman said.
Some terrorism experts see Biden shifting toward a broader, longer-term strategy to approaching counterterrorism that isn’t very reliant on boots on the ground, but rather one that focuses on zeroing in on how terrorist groups grow.
Audrey Kurth Cronin, a professor in the School of International Service at American University, said a big part of this is the Department of Defense’s recent efforts to mitigate civilian harm resulting from U.S. military activities. The Pentagon unveiled the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan on Aug. 25, which directs sweeping changes in military planning, training, doctrine and policy for future conflicts.
Not only would a plan like this protect local civilians — who are always impacted by terrorism — but it helps when dealing with terrorist groups that rely on mobilizing grassroots support.
“The only way that you can end groups that rely on mobilization — groups like al Qaeda and also ISIS — is to reduce the number of people that are likely to either actively or passively support them,” she said. “One way to do that … is to absolutely minimize the impact on civilians and to be very transparent with how you do that.”
Others see the move as a direct reaction to the political fallout of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which included surging troops to the countries by the thousands with no clear ending in sight.
“My strong sense is that the lesson in every subsequent administration has been to try and keep military action off the front pages as absolutely as much as possible,” said Ret. Army Col. Gregory Daddis, a professor of U.S. military history at the San Diego State University who served in Iraq.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., the administration has looked to combat domestic terrorism, which the FBI defines as violent, criminal acts committed by people or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences.
The White House released a strategy in June 2021 to combat domestic terrorism, centered around federal agencies enhancing and improving how they share domestic terrorism-related information, preventing domestic terrorists from mobilizing Americans, disrupting their activities before they yield violence and addressing the long-term issues that contribute to domestic terrorism.
Cronin warned that domestic terrorism is difficult to address because efforts to do so can easily bleed into current domestic polarization by giving the appearance of making largely political choices.
“It’s a situation in the United States where our domestic laws are much more difficult to align with, compared to the laws that we use in order to fight international terrorism,” she said. “That’s for a good reason — we’re protecting domestic rights, we have a Constitution, [it’s] very tricky to define exactly what terrorism means domestically without becoming very political.”
Moving forward, experts say that Biden will have to be able to allocate resources wisely as he deals with multiple counterterrorism challenges — particularly as acute threats caused by Russia, China and the pandemic emerge.
“I think the American public and republics of many countries throughout the world, not just in the West, are tired of the War on Terror the same way they’re tired of the global pandemic, and they want to put both of them in the rearview mirror. I think the main challenge for the Biden administration is to be able to develop a flexible and adaptive security strategy that enables us to focus on the array of really unprecedented threats that a presidential administration faces now,” Hoffman said. | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/heres-how-biden-has-shifted-the-war-on-terror/ | 2022-09-12T23:28:32Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/heres-how-biden-has-shifted-the-war-on-terror/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Hillary Clinton on Sunday said there are “lessons still to be learned” from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, noting the country’s unity following the terrorist attacks.
“We have also, I think, been reminded about how important it is to try to deal with extremism of any kind, especially when it uses violence to try to achieve political and ideological goals,” Clinton said during an interview with co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” on the 21st anniversary of the attacks.
“So I’m one who thinks that there are lessons still to be learned from what happened to us on 9/11 that we should be very aware of, during this time in our country and the world’s history.”
President Biden, Vice President Harris and other senior officials traveled to remembrance ceremonies at the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sunday morning.
Clinton at the time of the attacks served as a U.S. senator from New York and years later served as secretary of State during the Obama administration, managing the country’s foreign policy during U.S. interventions in the Middle East spurred by the attacks.
The ex-first lady reflected on the country’s response to the attacks on CNN, lauding former President George W. Bush’s commitment to helping rebuild New York after the collapse of the Twin Towers.
“I feel grateful that we were able to come together as a country at that really terrible time,” Clinton said. “We put aside differences. I wish we could find ways of doing that again.”
She added that she hopes the country could unite again, touting Biden’s legislative record on issues like climate change, health care and gun violence.
“We are in a funny position, Dana, because there’s a small but very vocal, very powerful, very determined minority who wants to impose their views on all the rest of us,” Clinton told Bash.
“And it’s time for everybody regardless of party to say, no, that’s not who we are as America,” Clinton added. | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/hillary-clinton-says-lessons-still-to-be-learned-from-9-11/ | 2022-09-12T23:28:38Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/hillary-clinton-says-lessons-still-to-be-learned-from-9-11/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Vice President Harris said during an interview broadcast on Sunday that she believes that the threat within the U.S. makes the nation “weaker.”
“I think that it is a threat. I think it is very dangerous. I think it is very harmful and it makes us weaker,” Harris told host Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press” during a discussion on domestic threats.
The vice president noted that the U.S. historically has had the “honor and privilege” of exemplifying a “great democracy,” which has given the country the grounding to champion democratic principles throughout the world and act as a “role model” for democracy.
However, Harris warned that recent events, such as some elected officials denying the results of the 2020 presidential election and other refusing to condemn the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, cause countries around the world to question the United States’ “commitment” toward democracy, and said that she is “very concerned.”
Todd, noting the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Sunday, asked if domestic threats are “equal of greater than what we faced after 9/11.”
Harris replied that she has taken many oaths of office, vowing to defend and uphold the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, adding that “we don’t compare the two in the oath, but we know they both can exist and we must defend against it.”
“The fact is having served under the Senate Intelligence Committee and now as vice president, I can tell you the nature of domestic threat versus a foreign threat— they’re very different,” Harris said. “Note, both are harmful and extremely dangerous, but they’re very different.”
“When I think about what we have been seeing from the attacks from within, I wish that we would approach it the same way as Americans instead of through some partisan lens,” she added. | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/kamala-harris-says-threat-from-within-us-makes-us-weaker/ | 2022-09-12T23:28:50Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/kamala-harris-says-threat-from-within-us-makes-us-weaker/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Top House Democrats requested an investigation into airline companies use of pandemic funds on Thursday, following weeks of thousands of flights across the getting canceled and delayed.
In a letter to Deputy Inspector General of the Treasury Richard Delmar, Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said that they were “concerned” that federal funds may have been used to pay for buyouts and early retirement packages for pilots.
“We are concerned that some airlines have used federal funds obtained during the pandemic to provide buyouts and early retirement packages for pilots, which may be exacerbating a shortage of commercial pilots,” the pair wrote.
The airline industry received more than $60 billion in pandemic-related funds from the CARES Act signed into law by former President Trump in 2020, according to the lawmakers. The funding was meant to keep workers on the payroll while COVID-19 mitigation efforts, such as lockdowns, curfews and travel bans remained in place.
But several airlines cut a large portion of their workforce and urged employees to retire early, they said. “At the same time, the airlines “benefitted from record high revenues,” they continued.
“American taxpayers supported the airline industry during its darkest days at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Americans deserve transparency into how airlines have used the federal funds they have received.”
Maloney and Clyburn contended that these reported buyouts and early retirements have contributed to a pilot shortage, thus exacerbating flight issues for travelers.
“These early retirement programs exacerbated an existing pilot shortage within the airline industry, since by law pilots must retire at age 65,” they said.
“Millions of travelers have been impacted by widespread flight delays and cancellations, with the pilot shortage being a major contributing factor”
Maloney and Clyburn also pointed to earlier reports from the Treasury’s Office of the Inspector General which found issues with the airlines’ payroll calculations used to determine how much pandemic-related funding they received.
“Under the Trump Administration, Treasury allowed aviation contractors to layoff thousands of workers while still receiving full payroll support based on pre-pandemic workforce numbers,” the Democratic lawmakers noted.
Struggling with staffing shortages, particularly among pilots, airlines have canceled and delayed thousands of flights on major travel weekends, frustrating passengers and leading to a rise in complaints. | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/maloney-clyburn-request-investigation-into-airlines-use-of-covid-19-relief-funds/ | 2022-09-12T23:28:56Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/maloney-clyburn-request-investigation-into-airlines-use-of-covid-19-relief-funds/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
One of the last Republican House primaries of the midterm cycle has emerged as a proxy battle between House GOP leaders and factions of the Republican party.
Candidates vying to face vulnerable Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District are jockeying over how Trumpy and conservative they are, as millions of outside dollars are being poured into the race and attacks have gotten personal in the run-up to the Tuesday primary.
Matt Mowers, a former Trump appointee in the State Department, has the endorsement of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), as well as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.
His closest competition is Karoline Leavitt, a 25-year-old former press aide in the Trump White House and in House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik’s (R-N.Y.) congressional office, has endorsements from Stefanik, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), as well as from Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah).
And she’s proven to be a strong fundraiser, bringing in more than $1.5 million during the primary cycle.
In response, the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with McCarthy, has poured more than $1.5 million into the race to support Mowers with digital and television ads, direct mail, phone calls and text messages. Mowers himself has raised $1.7 million, slightly more than Leavitt.
Leavitt has argued that her youth is a party-expanding asset. But well-funded forces are arguing that she is too young and inexperienced to flip the seat.
The Defending Main Street super PAC, part of a network of groups that supports more centrist Republican candidates, has pumped nearly $1.3 million into campaigning against Leavitt.
A television ad released by the super PAC just before Labor Day billed her as “immature and irresponsible,” featuring an old video of Leavitt saying, “Listen up, hoe bags,” before bursting into laughter.
The Republican Main Street Partnership PAC, another organization in the group’s network, endorsed Mowers.
Leavitt says the ad is a sign that the establishment is afraid of her.
“Voters are smart. The negative, desperate, disgusting smears that the establishment and these dirty money super PACs are waging against not only me, but my family, are completely backfiring,” Leavitt told The Hill in an interview. “Voters understand, thanks to President Trump, that when they are attacking you, it means you’re over the target and you’re winning.”
Mowers has also faced consistent attacks from his opponents, including in an ad from Leavitt focusing on the fact that he voted in both New Hampshire and New Jersey presidential primaries in 2016. The New Hampshire Attorney General’s office said that he did not violate the state’s law.
Mowers faced Pappas as the Republican nominee for the seat in 2020, losing by 5 points. This year, after redistricting, the nonpartisan election handicappers at the Cook Political Report say the seat is more of a toss-up.
Some internal and independent polls conducted last month showed Mowers with double-digit leads over Leavitt. But other surveys show a much more competitive race, with a late August poll from the University of New Hampshire finding Mowers leading at 26 percent and Leavitt at 24 percent support.
Other candidates in the crowded race are also pumping their conservative credentials.
Retired broadcast journalist Gail Huff Brown, wife of former Massachusetts U.S. Senator and New Zealand Ambassador under Trump Scott Brown, scored an endorsement from Fox News host Sean Hannity.
State Rep. Tim Baxter, another 25-year-old who is endorsed by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), slightly defended Leavitt from the Main Street ad while also knocking her for arguing that her youth is an asset.
“I just don’t think that people should be campaigning on identity politics. I think you’re never too young or too old,” Baxter told The Hill, also knocking the outside spending. “People are sick of these politicians that are bought and paid for. The people of New Hampshire don’t want a pawn for the swamp as the representative in D.C.”
While different factions of the MAGA movement war with each other in the race, former President Trump himself has stayed silent. He endorsed Mowers in 2020.
But that has not kept candidates from making him central to the race. Trump’s name repeatedly came up at a recent primary debate.
Leavitt leaned into Trump’s unproven claims about the 2020 election, saying in the debate that she believes it was stolen from Trump and that President Biden did not win 81 million votes.
“That’s a preposterous claim,” she said.
The Mowers campaign went as far as to send out a mailer this week that pictured him alongside Trump, and featured the first part of Trump’s 2020 tweet in which he praised and endorsed Mowers — but cutting off the line about endorsements.
“Matt worked tirelessly with President Trump to secure the border, restore America’s energy independence and advance the America First agenda,” John Corbett, a spokesman for Matt Mowers, told The Hill in a statement. “In the days leading up to the primary, Matt is crisscrossing the district offering his solutions to fix the problems, like inflation and high gas prices, created by Joe Biden.”
Though Leavitt had previously said she would vote for McCarthy for House Speaker if she gets to Congress and Republicans would take back the House, she appears to have soured on him after his PAC’s mass spending.
“Kevin McCarthy and the establishment are spending millions and millions of dollars to buy the seat. So I won’t be very inclined to help the establishment when I get down there,” Leavitt told The Hill. | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/new-hampshire-house-primary-emerges-as-gop-proxy-war/ | 2022-09-12T23:29:17Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/new-hampshire-house-primary-emerges-as-gop-proxy-war/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Sunday marked the 21-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by warning of domestic threats the U.S. is currently facing.
“I remember, as most Americans do, where they were on 9/11. I was in the middle of a political campaign and suddenly, the differences with my opponent seem very small in comparison and our country came together,” Warner said on CBS “Face the Nation” with host Margaret Brennan.
“The stunning thing to me is here we are 20 years later, and the attack on the symbol of our democracy was not coming from terrorists, but it came from literally insurgents attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6.”
Warner lauded the nation’s unity and progress in the face of international terror threats, and said he hopes the country can similarly rally in the face of domestic challenges.
“I believe our intelligence community has performed remarkably. I think the threat of terror has diminished … But I do worry about some of the activity in this country where the election deniers, the insurgency that took place on Jan. 6, that is something I hope we could see that same kind of unity of spirit.”
Warner leads what he called “the last functioning bipartisan committee,” the Intelligence Committee, along with vice chairman Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). The panel is now looking into the classified documents found when the FBI executed a search warrant at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence last month. | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/senate-intelligence-chair-says-us-domestic-threats-are-greater-than-terrorism/ | 2022-09-12T23:29:29Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/senate-intelligence-chair-says-us-domestic-threats-are-greater-than-terrorism/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The shooting of the first film produced by Sandra Thomas and her husband Wilson Thomas under the banner of Sandra Thomas production company started in Kanthaloor. So the production company hopes to give more opportunities to newcomers. Their first film is directed by debutant Murphy Devassi.
The film’s pooja and the shoot started at Kanthaloor Vrindavan Gardens. Slated to be a mass action thriller, the film also stars Chemban Vinod Jose, Baburaj, Jinu Joseph, Binu Pappu, Roni David Raj, Ganapathi, Nithin George, Sajin Cherukayil, etc.
This seat-of-the-edge thriller is said to be tailored to excite youngsters, as well as those who are on the lookout for novel themes and also action film lovers. The film’s cinematographer is Ajay David Kachapally.
Other credits include---Editor: Shyam Sasidharan, Production Controller: Davidson CJ, Creative Head: Gopika Rani, Music Director: Kailas Menon, Stunt: Rajasekharan, Art: Tyagu Tavanur, Costume Design: Arun Manohar, Makeup: Amal, Chief Associate: Dinil Babu, PRO: Pratish Shekhar. | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/09/12/sandra-thomas-production-company-kanthaloor-first-film.html | 2022-09-12T23:34:17Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/09/12/sandra-thomas-production-company-kanthaloor-first-film.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After pay raise led Kemp’s 2018 bid, he offers new K-12 plan
STATHAM, Ga. (AP) — Republican Gov. Brian Kemp said Monday that he wants Georgia to provide grants to school districts to help students catch up on what they might have missed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, expand the number of school counselors, encourage teacher aides to become full-fledged teachers and pass a law requiring school lockdown drills.
Kemp unveiled a relatively modest set of K-12 education proposals as part of his second-term reelection effort at an elementary school in Oconee County, the same school where one of his daughters was a teacher last year.
“We have more work to do to address pandemic learning loss, bring more educators and counselors into our schools, and keep our students and staff safe,” Kemp said at Dove Creek Elementary School in Statham, just outside Athens.
Kemp made a $5,000 pay raise for teachers a centerpiece of his agenda when he was running in 2018 and delivered the final chunk of the money this year, but he didn’t propose a pay raise for his second term on Monday.
Democrat Stacey Abrams, who is running against Kemp again after losing narrowly to him in 2018, has proposed boosting average teacher pay over four years to $75,000, and guaranteeing a starting salary of $50,000. The plan would cost $1.65 billion in new spending over four years, Abrams has said.
Kemp has made few promises thus far for what he would do in a second term. His biggest proposal has been a pledge to use $2 billion in surplus state money to provide $1 billion in state income tax rebates and $1 billion in property tax relief. Abrams has proposed a much more ambitious plan, including expanding Medicaid, promoting affordable housing, expanding college financial aid, tightening gun laws and blocking further restrictions on abortion.
Kemp said he would propose to lawmakers that the state should offer $25 million in grants to school districts using state money to provide additional tutoring, non-traditional staff, or boost existing services.
During the 2021-2022 school year, 64% of third graders read at grade level or above, according to results from Georgia’s Milestones standardized tests, while 73% of third graders read at or above grade level during the 2018-2019 school year. Officials attribute the drop to pandemic-related disruptions.
“By working with our local school systems and providing targeted funding to bring these kids back up to grade level, I am confident we can lend a helping hand to the students who need it most,” Kemp said.
However, the $25 million pales in comparison to the $6 billion in federal aid that Georgia’s 181 public school districts have gotten during the pandemic. School districts must spend more than $750 million of that money improving academic performance.
Kemp also said he would recommend giving districts another $25 million to recruit more counselors statewide. Right now, the state funding formula mandates funding for one counselor for every 450 students, but it has never been fully funded. The governor also proposed spending $15 million to give $3,000 to paraprofessionals who already have four-year degrees to become certified as teachers.
“These funds will help get more teachers in the classroom and assist Georgians already passionate about our students achieve career success,” Kemp said.
Kemp said he would seek to enhance school safety by passing a law requiring schools to offer “intruder alert drills” once each August and September, with a requirement to report drills to the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency. Some fear such drills traumatize students, but Kemp said his proposal would allow parents to opt students out of the drills.
Kemp said he would also propose letting teachers take school safety and anti-gang training, require that school security plans, already legally mandated, be submitted to GEMA, and recommend continuing education for school resource officers.
Georgia provided $69 million in school safety grants in 2019, Kemp’s first year in office, guaranteeing every school $30,000.
Kemp in 2020 backed a reduction in state-required standardized tests. This spring, he signed a package of conservative education bills that regulate the teaching of race and let the state athletic association ban transgender girls from playing high school sports, and that eased parental challenges to books they view as inappropriate. | https://www.41nbc.com/after-pay-raise-led-kemps-2018-bid-he-offers-new-k-12-plan/ | 2022-09-12T23:38:25Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/after-pay-raise-led-kemps-2018-bid-he-offers-new-k-12-plan/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 10 |
After pay raise led Kemp’s 2018 bid, he offers new K-12 plan
STATHAM, Ga. (AP) — Republican Gov. Brian Kemp said Monday that he wants Georgia to provide grants to school districts to help students catch up on what they might have missed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, expand the number of school counselors, encourage teacher aides to become full-fledged teachers and pass a law requiring school lockdown drills.
Kemp unveiled a relatively modest set of K-12 education proposals as part of his second-term reelection effort at an elementary school in Oconee County, the same school where one of his daughters was a teacher last year.
“We have more work to do to address pandemic learning loss, bring more educators and counselors into our schools, and keep our students and staff safe,” Kemp said at Dove Creek Elementary School in Statham, just outside Athens.
Kemp made a $5,000 pay raise for teachers a centerpiece of his agenda when he was running in 2018 and delivered the final chunk of the money this year, but he didn’t propose a pay raise for his second term on Monday.
Democrat Stacey Abrams, who is running against Kemp again after losing narrowly to him in 2018, has proposed boosting average teacher pay over four years to $75,000, and guaranteeing a starting salary of $50,000. The plan would cost $1.65 billion in new spending over four years, Abrams has said.
Kemp has made few promises thus far for what he would do in a second term. His biggest proposal has been a pledge to use $2 billion in surplus state money to provide $1 billion in state income tax rebates and $1 billion in property tax relief. Abrams has proposed a much more ambitious plan, including expanding Medicaid, promoting affordable housing, expanding college financial aid, tightening gun laws and blocking further restrictions on abortion.
Kemp said he would propose to lawmakers that the state should offer $25 million in grants to school districts using state money to provide additional tutoring, non-traditional staff, or boost existing services.
During the 2021-2022 school year, 64% of third graders read at grade level or above, according to results from Georgia’s Milestones standardized tests, while 73% of third graders read at or above grade level during the 2018-2019 school year. Officials attribute the drop to pandemic-related disruptions.
“By working with our local school systems and providing targeted funding to bring these kids back up to grade level, I am confident we can lend a helping hand to the students who need it most,” Kemp said.
However, the $25 million pales in comparison to the $6 billion in federal aid that Georgia’s 181 public school districts have gotten during the pandemic. School districts must spend more than $750 million of that money improving academic performance.
Kemp also said he would recommend giving districts another $25 million to recruit more counselors statewide. Right now, the state funding formula mandates funding for one counselor for every 450 students, but it has never been fully funded. The governor also proposed spending $15 million to give $3,000 to paraprofessionals who already have four-year degrees to become certified as teachers.
“These funds will help get more teachers in the classroom and assist Georgians already passionate about our students achieve career success,” Kemp said.
Kemp said he would seek to enhance school safety by passing a law requiring schools to offer “intruder alert drills” once each August and September, with a requirement to report drills to the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency. Some fear such drills traumatize students, but Kemp said his proposal would allow parents to opt students out of the drills.
Kemp said he would also propose letting teachers take school safety and anti-gang training, require that school security plans, already legally mandated, be submitted to GEMA, and recommend continuing education for school resource officers.
Georgia provided $69 million in school safety grants in 2019, Kemp’s first year in office, guaranteeing every school $30,000.
Kemp in 2020 backed a reduction in state-required standardized tests. This spring, he signed a package of conservative education bills that regulate the teaching of race and let the state athletic association ban transgender girls from playing high school sports, and that eased parental challenges to books they view as inappropriate. | https://www.41nbc.com/after-pay-raise-led-kemps-2018-bid-he-offers-new-k-12-plan/ | 2022-09-12T23:38:25Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/after-pay-raise-led-kemps-2018-bid-he-offers-new-k-12-plan/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 10 |
Man arrested in connection to July barber shop murder
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A man has been arrested in connection to the death of 38-year-old Jimmy Lee Scott III, who was shot and killed in front of a barber shop on PioNono Avenue in late July.
The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office says investigators identified 21-year-old Adolphus Dewayne Hughes Jr. as the suspect behind the shooting in front of Next Level Kuts on July 29th. Investigators and U.S. Marshal task force members found Hughes at a residence on Highland Avenue, where they arrested him.
Hughes is being held at the BCSO Law Enforcement Center where he is being held without bond for the charge of murder.
Jarel Scott, the brother of victim, Jimmy Lee Scott III, was also injured during the incident, but is listed to be in stable condition now.
Anyone with information about this incident is urged to call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME. | https://www.41nbc.com/man-arrested-in-connection-to-july-barber-shop-murder/ | 2022-09-12T23:38:31Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/man-arrested-in-connection-to-july-barber-shop-murder/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
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