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It’s not going to be your grandparents’ baseball in 2023, or your parents’ baseball, or even the baseball you might have grown up with if you’re of a certain age.
It might turn out to be better. Can we all live with that?
The rules changes announced by MLB on Friday are designed to recalibrate the game away from its Three True Outcomes emphasis and make it more entertaining. But this sudden and continuing transformation might be disconcerting to many.
This was a game that was essentially unchanged for a century – just consider the fierce disagreement when the American League introduced the designated hitter in 1973 – but is now careening headlong into a new era, with pitch clocks, larger bases, stricter rules about holding runners on base, and limitations on where infielders can be deployed.
To be honest, I can’t wait for the first illegal defense call in an MLB game.
Yet as much as I’ve advocated banning the shift, and have actually seen the way pitch clocks have livened up the pace of games in the low-A California League, even I’m a bit queasy with so much change so rapidly. Ironically, I find myself thinking that maybe Commissioner Rob Manfred and his people should, um, slow down a bit.
To recap, MLB’s competition committee (which seems to be a title right out of the NFL handbook, by the way) made these 2023 rules changes official Friday:
• The pitch clock will be enforced. Pitchers will have 15 seconds to begin their motions with the bases empty and 20 seconds with men on base, which is more time than the minor leaguers had to work with the last two seasons (14 seconds with no one on, 18 with baserunners at lower levels and 19 at Triple-A). Umpires will call a ball on any pitcher who doesn’t start his motion in the allotted time and a strike against any hitter who isn’t in the box and ready to hit within eight seconds.
The duration of games in the minor leagues using the pitch clock this year was shaved by a full half hour, according to MLB. But time of game isn’t the issue as much as pace of game. When certain pitchers – you know who they are – take their own sweet time between pitches, the game feels interminable. People in the park squirm and people watching on television are tempted to change the channel.
The latter, in particular, gets the executives’ attention.
• It’s now official, as of next spring: There must be two infielders on each side of second base, they all must be stationed on the infield dirt, and they can’t switch sides. If there’s a violation, the umpire calls a ball. (But a five-man infield in extreme situations is still legal. Call it the Gene Mauch Rule.)
Sure, it would be great if hitters learned to go the other way and beat the shift, or maybe bunt occasionally. But they’ve had a decade or so to learn. And if you haven’t actually stood up there with a bat, against a guy throwing 95 mph or harder and able to manipulate the flight of the ball like he’s using a joystick, you probably shouldn’t be suggesting it’s that easy to do in the heat of competition.
According to Sports Info Solutions, as reported by the New York Times’ Scott Miller, we have gone from 2,357 shifts on balls in play in 2011 to a pace for more than 71,000 in 2022. Meanwhile, the league’s collective batting average is at its lowest since 1968, when the Lords of Baseball responded by lowering the mound and reducing the strike zone.
You don’t think it’s time for another reset?
• The bases will increase in size from 15 inches square to 18. There’s talk this will encourage an increase in stolen base attempts, but a greater impact might come from the new pickoff rule, in which pitchers can step off twice per plate appearance, either to throw to first or look a runner back, but the third time it’s a balk. (Please, name this rule after Maury Wills.)
What would make a more significant difference: Eliminating the replay challenge when a baserunner is tagged as his foot pops off the bag for a split second while he’s sliding. That is not the spirit of the rule.
Where it will actually be helpful is if a larger base means fewer first basemen (or pitchers covering the bag) getting spiked by or colliding with baserunners.
These changes, remember, are in addition to these all implemented in the last decade: The replay challenge system; rules against takeout slides at second base and catchers blocking the plate; the three-batter minimum for relief pitchers; the free runner on second to start an extra inning; allowing a manager to signal for an intentional walk without a pitch being thrown; and this year’s implementation of the DH in both leagues and the Shohei Ohtani rule allowing a pitcher to also DH.
(As far as we know, only one man has benefited from the latter. It’s also kept the Angels borderline watchable this summer, but I digress.)
The rate of change has been head-spinning, with a good amount of grousing from traditionalists. But it was in response to an analytics revolution that seemed to take the game’s stewards by surprise, changing both the way the game was played and the way players were evaluated.
A response was necessary. And the heartening thing is that the game no longer seems paralyzed by its heritage. Other sports respond to changing conditions. Why shouldn’t this one?
Still, there’s one change that should be coming that isn’t, for now. The automated strike zone has been tested in the minors for two seasons, and anyone who watches a major league game with the strike zone box – and the other advanced graphics that indicate when a pitch is or isn’t a strike – understands that plate umpires are overmatched at the very least.
You can expect it to be implemented by 2024.
jalexander@scng.com
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The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards returned to Microsoft Theatre at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles on Monday evening – and the stars were beaming ahead of the show on the gold carpet.
The show was hosted by “Saturday Night Live” and “Kenan” star Kenan Thompson, a four-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee himself.
“It’s finally here, folks, TV’s most special night,” Thompson said as he kicked off the show. Utilizing his sketch comedy skills, he turned the opening monologue into an elaborate song and dance with costume changes as he and a team of dancers hoofed along with several TV show themes including “Friends” “The Brady Bunch” “Law & Order, “Stranger Things” and “Game of Thrones.”
A bit later, Thompson thanked all those in attendance and the fans watching at home.
“I am so grateful to be welcomed into your living room for the past 30 years,” he said.
While awards for artistic and technical achievements were given out Sept. 3 and 4 during the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony also at Microsoft Theater, this year’s main event had several history-making awards up for grabs. There were 50 first-time nominees across all performer categories.
HBO’s drama “Succession” received a total of 25 nominations, Apple TV+ comedy “Ted Lasso” and the HBO limited series “The White Lotus” each garnered 20 nominations, while “Only Murders in the Building” and “Hacks” earned 17 nominations, HBO’s “Euphoria” was nominated 16 times and “Severance,” “Squid Game,” “Barry” and “Dopesick,” each got 14 nominations.
The first award was given out by Oprah Winfrey and it went to Michael Keaton “Dopesick” for leading actor in a limited or anthology series or movie.
“You have about 90 of these, don’t you,” Keaton jokingly asked Winfrey. He went on to thank his family for never making fun of him for acting out characters he saw on television when he was a kid, thanked the fans and had a special message for the haters. “I’m glad I’ve made a fool of myself over and over again,” he continued. “There’s been some doubters … I’ve had some doubters and, you know what, we’re cool.” (Then Keaton added something that was bleeped out, so…that’s cool.)
Murray Barlett scored the trophy for supporting actor in a limited anthology series or movie for his role in “The White Lotus.”
“I’m truly honored,” he said before thanking show creator Mike White, who was in the audience. “Mike White, my God, thank you for giving me one of the best experiences of my life.”
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A Los Angeles County resident has died of monkeypox, health officials announced on Monday afternoon, Sept. 12, marking not only the region’s first confirmed death because of the virus — but also what appears to be the first confirmed death in the nation.
The resident was severely immunocompromised and had been hospitalized, the LA County Department of Public Health said in a press release. Citing confidentiality concerns, DPH said other information about the resident and their case would be kept private.
Monday’s announcement comes after DPH said last week that an LA County resident with monkeypox had died. Health officials said at the time that the case was under investigation to determine whether the virus was a contributing factor.
Health officials said on Monday that DPH and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had confirmed LA County’s first death because of monkeypox.
“Public Health sends heartfelt condolences and wishes of healing to the family and friends mourning the loss of their loved one,” DHP said in its press release.
Texas health officials announced a suspected monkeypox-related death late last month. That individual was also immunocompromised, Texas Department of State Health Services officials said.
But the CDC has not yet confirmed that the Texas death was caused by monkeypox.
Monkeypox, according to health officials, causes milder illness than its smallpox relative — and is rarely fatal. It spreads through prolonged skin-to-skin or face-to-face contact. That includes kissing, hugging, cuddling and other forms of intimate contact. The virus can also spread via infected materials — including cups, bedding, clothing, towels and utensils.
Symptoms can include fever, headache, muscle aches, swollen lymph nodes, chills and exhaustion. A rash that can look like pimples or blisters sometimes appears on the face, inside the mouth and on other parts of the body.
Symptoms vary from case to case and health officials urge any residents experiencing symptoms — especially those who are immunocompromised — to seek out medical care.
There had been 21,985 confirmed monkeypox cases nationwide as of Monday, according to the CDC’s dashboard. Globally, the CDC has confirmed 57,995 cases and 18 deaths.
LA County had 1,722 confirmed and suspected monkeypox cases across LA County as of Friday, Sept. 9, according to DPH data.
In Long Beach and Pasadena — both of which have independent health departments — there were 95 and 22 confirmed and suspected cases of the virus, respectively.
Officials across the region have bolstered their efforts to make the monkeypox vaccine widely available, with the LA County, Long Beach and Pasadena public health agencies recently announcing expansions to vaccine eligibility.
Now, people living with HIV — especially those with advanced or uncontrolled disease — and gay and bisexual men, and transgender people who have sex with men or transgender people are also eligible for the monkeypox shot. And those who have had close contact with someone suspected to be infected with the virus, even if the health department hasn’t confirmed the infection, are also now eligible for the vaccine.
Those new criteria apply to residents in both LA County and Long Beach.
More than 52,00 doses of the monkeypox vaccine had been administered countywide as of Friday, including in both Long Beach and Pasadena, according to LA County’s dashboard.
More information about monkeypox is available on DPH’s website.
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Winners announced at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards, held Monday, Sept. 12 at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
Supporting actor in a comedy series: Brett Goldstein, “Ted Lasso”
Supporting actress in a comedy series: Sheryl Lee Ralph, “Abbot Elementary”
Supporting actor in a drama series: Matthew Macfadyen, “Succession”
Supporting actress in a drama series: Julia Garner, “Ozark”
Lead actor in a limited or anthology series or movie: Michael Keaton, “Dopesick”
Supporting actor in a limited or anthology series or movie: Murray Bartlett, “The White Lotus”
Variety sketch series: “Saturday Night Live”
Variety talk series: “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver”
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Rams offensive lineman Coleman Shelton, who is moving from right guard to center for upcoming games, is optimistic but not certain that his being left-handed won’t be an issue for quarterback Matthew Stafford.
“I’d like to say no, but you’ll probably have to ask Matthew about that,” Shelton told reporters on Monday.
Shelton snapping the ball as a lefty is a minimal issue that can be fixed with slight adjustments, but the Rams’ offensive line probably can’t afford more problems after allowing seven sacks in a season-opening loss to the Buffalo Bills and sustaining a few injuries that caused shuffling ahead of Sunday’s home game against the Atlanta Falcons.
Shelton is moving to center because Brian Allen, the right-handed starter, recently had a procedure on his knee that will sideline him for two to four weeks, according to Rams coach Sean McVay. Backup lineman Tremayne Anchrum is taking over Shelton’s starting position at right guard, and Alaric Jackson is preparing to play in case left tackle Joe Noteboom isn’t available Sunday after sustaining a sprained MCL versus the Bills.
“I’m really excited,” Anchrum said about starting. “I’ve worked really hard. I’ve been doing everything I can to prepare, just to play anywhere.”
Shelton and Jackson are confident they can produce in their new roles because of their past game experiences, with Shelton playing two games at center last year and Jackson receiving 52 snaps against the Minnesota Vikings in Week 15 last season.
Anchrum doesn’t have that benefit because he’s only played three offensive snaps in his first two seasons in the NFL, but he’s eager to display how he’s transformed his game and body as a guard after mostly playing tackle at Clemson. He said he learned from starting left guard David Edwards, right tackle Rob Havenstein and former Rams guard Austin Corbett to develop a training system that best suited him.
“Worked on the fundamentals, really,” Anchrum said. “Worked on overall strength and power. Really perfecting my craft as it relates to this offense and how I can contribute and how I can add on to the great offense that is the Los Angeles Rams. I’ve been working on my physicality and really being intentional with my steps and I feel like it’s going to show.
“To be able to dominate, you just have to do what you do to the best of your ability. You don’t have to be an Austin Corbett, you don’t have to be a Rob Havenstein, you don’t have to be a David Edwards. You have to be the best version of Tremayne and wherever you feel comfortable.”
Jackson, the team’s second-year swing tackle, almost entered the game against the Bills, but Noteboom was able to finish the game. McVay expressed confidence that Noteboom will be ready to play against Atlanta, and if he does, Jackson is optimistic he’ll have a bounce-back performance.
“A really great player,” Jackson said of Noteboom. “For all of us overall in the O-Line, we had a tough night. Things happen. This was our first game overall. We don’t play in the preseason.”
It was a night to forget for the Rams’ new-look offensive line in their first game without the recently retired Andrew Whitworth and Corbett, who now plays for the Carolina Panthers.
“We gotta improve and we gotta keep Matthew clean,” Shelton said. “That’s the goal moving forward and we’re gonna give it everything we got.”
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Christina Ricci chopped her freshly dark locks into a chic bob.
Sydney Sweeney’s soft glam allowed her Oscar de la Renta gown to shine.
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Los Espookys’s Ana Fabrega Is In On the Joke
The comedian talks the HBO show’s long-awaited second season, stepping in as a director, and casting Kim Petras in her acting debut.
The scariest thing about the HBO runaway hit series Los Espookys was the two-year wait fans had to endure in between the first and second seasons. The start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 derailed filming in Chile, but the show runner, writer, and star, Ana Fabrega (along with fellow show runner and writer Julio Torres), made sure to wrap things up in time for Los Espookys to return with its much-heralded follow-up on Sept. 16. “I’m so happy,” Fabrega tells W over Zoom. “It’s such a relief. There was a period of time where we felt like, ‘Oh man, what if this never sees the light of day?’ Finally, it’s done.”
In Los Espookys, a group of friends are paid to stage strange horror scenarios embodying every meaning of the word “queer.” Fabrega plays the endearingly absurd character Tati, who gives new meaning to the phrase “odd jobs.” In her real life, there’s nothing odd about the multiple positions Fabrega has taken on to bring the charming, supernatural series to life. In the second season, she added director to her existing titles. At the same time, Fabrega broke into the movies in this year's Latinx remake of Father of the Bride and she's now developing a new animated series, AZ Arizona, with Adult Swim. It’s all a notable jump from the stand-up comedy she started doing just a few years ago.
Fabrega is working to accomplish all these milestones while openly queer—an aspect of herself that is seamlessly reflected in the characters and narrative arc of Los Espookys. Below, Fabrega discusses the major impact her show has imparted upon Hollywood, and what’s next in her career.
On many streaming platforms, we’re still seeing shows in Spanish that focus on drugs and crime. How did you feel bringing to life a show like Los Espookys, which is quite surreal and imaginative, starring Latinx actors?
There was no agenda to make the show Hispanic or make it queer, or do anything like that. It happened to be a show that was going to be in Spanish because at the time, [series creator] Fred [Armisen] had initially gone to Mexico City and met this Goth guy that did makeup, and he was fascinated by him. He was like, I want to make a show about people that involves horror prosthetics and special effects. We started with that, and it became what it turned into. We’re not trying to sell any message—we happen to be Hispanic, and we made this thing, but it's not about showing what it's like to be Hispanic or show people what it’s like to be queer.
As a gay viewer, I do appreciate representation and the queer feel of the show.
Julio and I are queer, so we’re going to write things that are queer. But not because we’re trying to. I didn't try to dress queer today. I just get dressed. [Laughs]. And a bunch of our friends are queer and they're in the show as well. I'm really grateful that HBO didn't try to make us check boxes in any way. They just said, make the show you want to make.
You directed the last two episodes of the season. What was that experience like?
It was good, and it was a lot. I didn’t anticipate what it would be like when you need to be in front of the camera and behind the camera at the same time. There were days when I was acting and directing where I felt like, “Gosh, I wish I was only doing one of these today.” But I enjoyed the process. That also felt like a natural next step for my role in the show, because I'm so involved in all of it. I wouldn’t have done it if it was any other show. But it also made me realize that I want to direct more.
Tati appears to be even more of an absurd character this season. How much fun did you have writing about and playing her this season?
It’s really fun to play a character that I can use as a vehicle for jokes, and Tati is a character where, truly, anything goes. Any silly idea I have, I can find a way in for Tati. There are certain jokes I was doing in my standup where I was like, I want to put that into Tati. I had a joke that I would transcribe audiobooks. I was like, “What if Tati did that—and it was a hit?” But knowing Tati, she probably wouldn’t realize how long it would take to listen to a whole book. She would just listen to some of it and make up the rest.
This season, we're also getting to know each member of the group on an individual level, their dreams and aspirations, outside of the group.
That came naturally from having one season done and getting to know the characters better through that process of filming. Because Julio and I wrote our characters for ourselves, I think we knew them really well, but Renaldo and Úrsula were not as clearly defined. When we shot the first season and got to meet Bernardo and Cassandra, who play those characters, it helped them form our views of the characters. So when we came back to write season two, it felt like, now we know who everybody is, and we can write better stories for all of them and follow their emotional lives more than we could in season one.
Oscar nominee Yalitza Aparicio appears as Luna this season. How would you describe her personality on set?
She's so perfect for that part: captivating, sweet, and kind. She was such a great sport, and also someone that we had booked pre-pandemic. When we realized now we're going to go back to shoot, we thought, "Gosh! What if Yalitza's not available anymore or maybe she doesn't want to do it?” But she did.
And Kim Petras appears as a guest star this season as well. What was the experience like to work with her?
Julio and I are big fans of hers. I love her music. When I listened to Turn Off the Light, I was like, we've got to get her involved in this show. It just feels like such a natural fit. When we started writing a character to be the boss of the ambassador, it was like, “Well, duh! It’s Kim Petras!” Who else would it be? She hadn’t acted before and she was such a pro and so prepared; she knew her lines well and was down to do more takes.
Next up, you have AZ Arizona in development with Adult Swim. What can you say about that project?
It’s an animated show about a family set in Arizona. I grew up in Arizona and I'd been wanting to set something in the desert, and that involved a scorpion. Tonally, it’s as if you took Tati and everyone acted like her—it’s an absurd and silly show. And incidentally, also a fun vehicle for writing jokes. The look is lo-fi 3D, like a video game, or The Sims, or something else from the early 2000s. I felt the comedy would land better with that look, rather than a more polished or modern aesthetic. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/ana-fabrega-los-espookys-season-two-interview | 2022-09-13T01:09:36Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/ana-fabrega-los-espookys-season-two-interview | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Elle Fanning's Emmys Dress Was Inspired By a Hollywood Legend
After Elle Fanning received her first-ever Emmy nomination for her role in The Great, she came to the quick decision of who she wanted to design her dress for the big evening. She didn’t opt for Dior, Armani, or Gucci, houses that she often gravitates towards for award shows and red carpets. Instead, she turned inward, to those right on set with her in London on season three of the Hulu show. On Monday night, Fanning wore a dress designed by The Great costume designer, Sharon Long, and handmade by the show’s cutter and seamstress, Catherine Shaw.
Fanning, known for often gravitating toward a more Old Hollywood aesthetic, fully embraced the era once again for the Emmys. The dress is very much in the style of the ‘50s, with a corseted bustier top covered in pale pink petals at the bust, a column skirt, and a skirt cape trailing behind her. The pinned back curls completed the mid-20th century fantasy.
Old Hollywood influenced more than the style of dress, but also her choice of designer. Fanning explained during the red carpet pre-show on E! that she was inspired by legendary costume designers like Edith Head, who not only designed costumes for some of the biggest stars of the era, including Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, and Elizabeth Taylor, but also gowns for them to walk award show red carpets in. “It’s so special and you can see that those dresses were made with love,” she said. So, Fanning saw it fitting to take a note from Kelly, who was probably most known for wearing Head’s designs off screen, and asked her costume designer to create the dress for the evening, heading over to the costume department on The Great’s set after a day of filming for fittings. “I wanted to pay homage to the creatives on the show,” Fanning said. “And I’m very proud to wear this dress tonight.”
The moment became even more full circle when Long received the Outstanding Period Costumes award for her work on The Great earlier this evening. Now, all Fanning needs is to take home the award for Outstanding Lead in a Comedy Series, for which she is nominated, and she will truly feel like the queen she portrays. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/elle-fanning-emmy-awards-2022-dress-the-great-edith-head | 2022-09-13T01:09:36Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/elle-fanning-emmy-awards-2022-dress-the-great-edith-head | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
House of the Dragon Season 1, Episode 4: Married (To Your Daughter’s Best Friend)...With Children
The spotlight is on the familial relationships between the Targaryens in an episode that could oddly lend itself to a well-placed laugh track.
House of the Dragon set itself apart from Game of Thrones this week when it pushed aside basically every storyline involving a character not-named Targaryen (not that there were many to begin with). While Thrones swept across Westeros throughout almost every episode of its run, jumping back and forth between regions and houses, Dragon has remained almost completely sedentary in King’s Landing, and never more so than this week. The result felt like a bottle episode of a sitcom, emphasized by the focus on familial relationships, and the hijinks painted in a quintessential Thrones-ian darkness. Missing only a laugh track, “King of the Narrow Sea” included tropes that allow it to fit squarely in with Full House, Cheers, or The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, you know, if The Fresh Prince included more incest and child brides. There was the rebellious teen sneaking out (and of course getting caught, forced to learn her lesson), the over-dramatized hangover, marriage troubles, and references to characters that have yet to—and possibly will never—appear (will the Bronze Bitch please stand up?). Honestly, there was enough there that I can’t help but imagine Rhaenyra, Viserys, Otto, and Daemon in a title sequence akin to Friends, Daemon pausing in the middle of a joust or Alicent stopping mid-childbirth to wave at the camera as their name appears on screen. I’m counting on YouTube to deliver that vision, but in the meantime, let’s cast NBC’s newest sitcom, House of the Dragon.
The Unhappy Couple — Viserys and Alicent
Yes, they sired a boy, an undoubted win for any medieval king, but this relationship is not without its issues. And while we don’t get quite the sharp insult comedy between the two that drove sitcoms like Married...with Children, I have to imagine Alicent has some age quips sitting on the tip of her tongue that she is just too polite to say.
The Rebellious Daughter — Rhaenyra
Every family-based sitcom has that one episode where one of the children breaks a rule, gets caught, and learns their lesson. “King of the Narrow Sea” was that for Rhaenyra. Her rebellious nature is emphasized in the beginning of the episode when she cuts her tour de men short, against the wishes of her father. But that is just the beginning for the Princess. It’s when she sneaks out of the castle, dressed in a disguise so terrible, only the blind witch she passed in the alley could have been fooled (the blonde hair is peaking out for goodness sake) that she reaches her stereotypical potential. Of course, things take a dark, incestuous, and very non-wholesome turn, but Rhaenyra ends the night in bed with a man who is not her direct bloodline in a scene that would no doubt elicit canned “oohs” from the studio audience.
The most formulaic part of Rhaenyra’s storyline this episode, however, is that, despite her breaking of the rules and negligence in doing so, there are almost zero consequences for her actions. She is still the heir to the Throne, despite Viserys’ weak threat to remove her. Yes, she now must marry Laenor Velayron, but if this show continues its charade as a disguised situational comedy, the young couple may just find some love in this arrangement.
The Uncle Who Lives Upstairs — Daemon
Daemon kind of gives Uncle Jessie energy in this episode. That’s not to say Jessie ever had a thing for D.J., Stephanie, or Michelle, but pre-sneak out, Daemon and Rhaenyra did have a fairly favorable relationship, all things considered. Unfortunately, in the world of Dragon, we can never have nice things, and the sweet relationship between Daemon and his niece had to turn sexual. “You Targaryens do have queer customs,” Alicent quipped, the laugh track begging to play behind her.
He embodies that role of the character who pops in and out, causes trouble, is forced to learn a lesson time and time again, and, in the vein of Cheers’ Norm, mentions a wife we have yet to see actually exists. Plus, that new haircut, and bold entrance at the start of the episode would undoubtedly make a studio audience go wild.
Admittedly, it isn’t the best comparison, but this sitcom theory may be my Abed in Community-like way of coping during this subtly disturbing episode (there was dramatically less blood, but the writers still found a way to sow discomfort). But now that I’m in this mindset, I’m expecting a wedding episode next week, perhaps with a runaway bride, a last minute emotional plea from Daemon, and maybe some more comically bad disguises. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/house-of-the-dragon-episode-3-recap-keeping-up-with-the-targaryens-sitcom | 2022-09-13T01:09:39Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/house-of-the-dragon-episode-3-recap-keeping-up-with-the-targaryens-sitcom | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jacob Elordi is the Latest Actor to Step Into Elvis Presley’s Jumpsuit
Austin Butler may still be in the process of recovering from his portrayal of the King, but it’s time for his Elvis to leave the building because there’s a new actor in town ready to take on the role of the pelvis-thrusting musician. Euphoria star Jacob Elordi has been cast to portray the musician in an upcoming film. Unlike in the Baz Luhrmann’s biopic, however, Elvis will be a supporting character this time around, with the focus instead on his wife, Priscilla Presley, in an adaption of her 1985 memoir, Elvis and Me.
Sofia Coppola is directing the project, titled Priscilla, with Mare of Easttown’s Cailee Spaeny set to take on the titular role. According to Variety, the film will begin production in Toronto this fall. Coppola will also act as writer and producer on the project, working with A24 for distribution.
Elordi’s casting isn’t wholly unprecedented. The actor has proven to have an affinity for the musician, and showed off his likeness when he dressed up as Elvis for Halloween back in 2020. The actor teamed up with his then-girlfriend, Kaia Gerber for an Elvis and Priscilla couples costume.
According to Vogue, it was actually Gerber’s idea to dress up as the pair, which makes the situation even more interesting, considering Gerber went on to date Butler after ending things with Elordi. This means she has now dated two people who will have portrayed Elvis on screen. That fact, combined with the Halloween costume makes us think Gerber may just have a thing for the King. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/jacob-elordi-cailee-spaeny-elvis-priscilla-sofia-coppola | 2022-09-13T01:09:55Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/jacob-elordi-cailee-spaeny-elvis-priscilla-sofia-coppola | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Meghan Markle, Kate Middleton, and the Princes Come Together For the Queen
If there’s anything that you would assume would bring Meghan Markle, Kate Middleton, and Princes Harry and William back together, it’s the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Still, royal watchers were rather shocked that the couples chose to admire the floral tributes to the late monarch on Saturday all together rather than go it alone. The reunion was reportedly the idea of William, who thought it would be “an important show of unity at an incredibly difficult time for the family.” Looks like he shares Harry’s aim to put the tension between them in the past.
The pair seems to be making some progress in healing their relationship, seeing as Harry and Meghan did not publicly cross paths with Kate and William on their UK visit for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee earlier this year. In fact, they reportedly didn’t even make eye contact at the service. This time, they were at each other’s sides for the whole long walk at Windsor Castle and procession to the pile of bouquets.
As usual, drama ensued for Meghan despite her doing practically nothing at all. At one point, a royal aide asked if they could take the bouquet that one of the well-wishers had given her, to which Meghan reportedly responded something along the lines of “I told them I’d place them over there so it’s okay. Thank you. I appreciate it though.” As she received more flowers, a senior aide made the same request, and at their insistence, Meghan obliged. The tabloids then labeled the incident a “spat” and caused a number of Twitter users to accuse Meghan of being disrespectful and willingly breaking royal protocol. No wonder a 14-year-old in the crowd asked her for a hug because she “wanted to show her that she’s welcome here.”
Alas, this won’t be the end of the drama for Meghan. She and Harry are reportedly staying in the UK for the foreseeable future, even after the Queen’s funeral. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/meghan-markle-kate-middleton-queen-elizabeth-ii-death | 2022-09-13T01:10:01Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/meghan-markle-kate-middleton-queen-elizabeth-ii-death | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Most Surprising Models of New York Fashion Week Spring 2023
It took just a handful of hours into the first day of New York Fashion Week’s spring 2023 schedule for a designer to deliver a casting surprise: The first to hit the catwalk of Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez’s latest Proenza Schouler showing was the musician Arca. The next came just a couple of hours later, when Jemima Kirke hit the Collina Strada runway amid a parade of professional models. Per usual, the unexpected cameos have continued—both newbies and vets. Linda Evangelista closed out Fendi and Marc Jacobs with a bang by popping up at what made for her first runway show in 15 years (though she opted to stand next to the designers as they took their bows rather than walk.) Keep track of who else has been turning showgoers’ heads so far, here.
The fashion and fine art photographer Tyler Mitchell stepped out from behind the camera and onto the runway of Marni’s first New York show.
No one expected Kate Beckinsale to be the last of Naeem Khan’s otherwise ordinary cast of models to hit the runway. The actor helped Khan close out the show covered in metallics from head to toe, and while she’s certainly modeled in the past, the show marked the first time she’s ever done so on the catwalk.
While Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington have been no strangers to modeling since they became known as part of “The Trinity” in the ’90s, the trio’s other member, Linda Evangelista, has scarcely been seen in recent years. Last September, the 57-year-old supermodel explained why: She had undergone a cosmetic procedure that left her, in her words, “brutally disfigured.” Slowly but surely, she’s been returning to the public eye. Her appearance at the very end of Fendi and Marc Jacobs’s celebration of the Baguette bag made for her first runway show in 15 years.
Jemima Kirke made what appears to have been her runway debut at Collina Strada’s showing in a sprawling, picturesque garden in Brooklyn. Like the rest of the models, the actor-slash-artist embraced the collection’s butterfly theme by wiggling her fingers as she circled the wooden walkway.
A year or so after first delving into modeling by booking Loewe and Calvin Klein campaigns and making a cameo in Bottega Veneta’s pre-fall 2021 look book, the musician Arca made sure Proenza Schouler’s show started off with a bang—by being the first to showcase Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez’s latest. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/new-york-fashion-week-spring-2023-surprising-models | 2022-09-13T01:10:07Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/new-york-fashion-week-spring-2023-surprising-models | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Best Street Style at New York Fashion Week Spring 2023
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New York Fashion Week is here, and as usual, the runways aren’t the only place where you’ll find inspiration for your wardrobe. Four days in, attendees have fully established a number of trends. The rainy days have gotten a bit brighter with an embrace of bright orange, while others are turning to black leather to give their looks an edge. As for footwear, now’s the time to join those who’ve embraced the classic Mary Jane before the cold weather sets in. And the big pants trend? Doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere any time soon. See the best takes on it so far—and keep track of all the best ensembles spotted on the sidewalks, here.
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This attendee’s green beaded necklace provided a pop of color.
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A rainy day may not have been the best day to wear a floor-length dress.
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Britney Spears made a NYFW cameo thanks to this attendee’s t-shirt.
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There’s no need to brighten up your wardrobe when your hair is bright pink.
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Black on black on black.
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Looks like you’ll be seeing a lot more black leather this fall; the material has been seemingly everywhere.
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Day-to-night dressing done just right.
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A guest standing out from the crowd in bold fuchsia.
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An elegant take on the A-line silhouette.
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Business casual topped off with cherry red Prada.
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One last denim miniskirt before the cold weather descends.
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Sophia Roe mixes tangerine prints outside the Ulla Johnson spring 2023 show at the Brooklyn Museum. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/new-york-fashion-week-street-style-spring-2023 | 2022-09-13T01:10:13Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/new-york-fashion-week-street-style-spring-2023 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Tiffany Lock Collection Gives Functional Hardware a Glamorous Upgrade
The padlock, a symbol of both Victorian courtship rituals and punk insouciance, gets the fine jewelry treatment.
While Tiffany has long been linked to a glamorous sense of nostalgia—in particular, to a certain gamine immortalized in a book and movie bearing the company name in the title, and to its legendary late designers Jean Schlumberger and Elsa Peretti—its offerings have always been inventive and in step with the times. Among Tiffany’s advancements are the discovery and introduction to the jewelry world of gemstones including kunzite, tanzanite, tsavorite, and morganite (named after regular customer and collector J.P. Morgan), and the creation of ingenious hybrid designs that are sold as one piece and can be transformed in multiple ways.
Debuting globally in September, Tiffany Lock, a collection of four all-gender bracelets, re-envisions the padlock, an oft-riffed motif from the Tiffany archives, and transforms it into a gleaming symbol of inclusivity. The bracelets, available in 18-karat yellow, rose, and white gold, with or without diamonds, feature an innovative clasp that mimics the swiveling mechanism of a functional padlock. “No rules. All welcome” is the openhearted tagline of the advertising campaign, which stars Imaan Hammam, the Dutch model of Moroccan and Egyptian descent, and Tyshawn Jones, the American pro skateboarder.
Two Colourful Punk Girls, 1983, photographed by Shirley Baker.
Love padlocks at the Pont des Arts in Paris, 2018.
Padlocks have been used in jewelry since the Regency era, when they appeared as charms on women’s necklaces, pendants, and bracelets, and on the extravagant collars, many of them engraved, of the dogs of aristocrats. “I am his highness’s dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?” reads an epigram that the poet Alexander Pope had engraved on the lock of one of his pampered pooches. The trend took off again during the fin-de-siècle reign of Queen Victoria, when dainty padlocks were worn on the pendants of one’s intended; some versions came with a key and were gifted by gentlemen when they went away for extended periods of time. (Not all such historical trinkets were quite as romantic: Padlocks, of course, were an essential component of the cruel chastity belts used from the 15th through 18th centuries.) To this day, there are bridges in Europe where lovers affix padlocks with their initials onto the railings and throw the keys into the water below as a symbol of their love.
In high fashion, padlocks have been incorporated into the collections of many leading designers, from Elsa Schiaparelli and Franco Moschino to Alexander McQueen and Schiaparelli’s current successor, the media darling Daniel Roseberry. Away from the exalted runways, despite or because of their association with restraint, they have been a go-to for stylish provocateurs since the punks of the late 1970s and ’80s wore them on bike chains and dog collars.
But the roots of Tiffany’s lock designs—including a limited-edition version by artist Daniel Arsham, available next year—are closer to home. Since its inception, in 1837, the company has sold padlocks as part of its objects and homeware collection. Starting in the 1950s, Tiffany brought the functional hardware into the world of personal adornment, as key rings, brooches, and necklaces. Even the gender-inclusive approach to marketing is in the company DNA. In a ’50s advertisement for “useful and distinctive” gifts, the accompanying copy takes great pains to point out that these items, including an elegant 14-karat-gold padlock money clip, are “thoroughly suited to masculine taste.” If that instinct proves right, the all-embracing appeal of its new Lock will succeed in widening Tiffany’s circle of loyalists.
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Zendaya Is Pure Glamour in Voluminous Valentino at the 2022 Emmys
Zendaya has worked with her stylist, Law Roach, for ages, but over the past couple of years, the pair has turned things up a notch. In fact, even before seeing what she wears, you can practically guarantee that “glamorous” will sum up her wardrobe choice for a red carpet appearance. Take her latest, showcased at the 74th edition of the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Monday. The 26-year-old Euphoria star managed to make the majority of the night’s attendees look under-dressed by showing up in a strapless and voluminous black Valentino gown that couldn’t have fit better.
Of course, Zendaya didn’t stop there. She completed the look with Bulgari jewels that no doubt made the luxury jewelry brand thank the stars that they appointed her brand ambassador in 2020. (In case you haven’t seen it, her Paolo Sorrenti-directed campaign video with Anne Hathaway is worth a watch.)
It’s no wonder why Zendaya and Roach pulled out all the stops. Zendaya is up for Best Actress, Drama for her starring role in Euphoria. Sure, there’s a chance she may lose—but in any case, there’s no denying that she won the red carpet. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/zendaya-emmys-red-carpet-2022 | 2022-09-13T01:10:26Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/zendaya-emmys-red-carpet-2022 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Josh Pruitt, a member of the Proud Boys who then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his team ran from during the US Capitol riot, pleaded guilty Friday to a felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding on January 6, 2021.
According to his plea agreement, Pruitt and another rioter entered the Capitol Visitor's Center after breaching the building. At that time, Schumer and his security detail, fleeing the Senate chamber, waited at nearby elevators in an attempt to reach a secure location.
"As they waited, a member of Senator Schumer's security detail saw Pruitt and one other man approaching," the plea agreement says. The New York Democrat "ran away," evading the two men. Pruitt eventually left the Capitol Visitor's Center after learning that someone had been shot in the building.
Security footage from that day shows Schumer and his detail approaching the elevators and then quickly fleeing the area.
Pruitt also confronted police officers at the Capitol and threw a sign inside the building during the riot. Before his plea agreement, Pruitt had faced eight counts, including physical acts of violence and obstructing law enforcement. He could spend an estimated 51 to 63 months behind bars.
Pruitt told CNN in January that he didn't "feel like (he) did anything wrong" that day but was concerned about potential consequences. "Trying to send me to prison for a few years over this, I think, is a complete joke," Pruitt said, noting at the time that he had no plans to plead guilty.
Pruitt was detained later that month after failing to comply multiple times with his pretrial release conditions and making a threatening video, according to prosecutors.
Other members of the Proud Boys, including their leader Enrique Tarrio, face a conspiracy charge related to the Capitol riot. Their trial is set for early August.
During Friday's hearing, Pruitt remained uncharacteristically quiet, giving quick yes or no answers to questions posed by Judge Timothy Kelly. His sentencing is scheduled for August 26.
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Earlier in the session we had:
The Westpac monthly survey showed a rise for September, to 84.4 from 81.2 in August. Still at a very, very low level.
Earlier in the session we had:
The Westpac monthly survey showed a rise for September, to 84.4 from 81.2 in August. Still at a very, very low level.
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The US inflation data is due Tuesday, 13 September 2022 at 1230 GMT:
This snapshot from the ForexLive economic data calendar, access it here.
The times in the left-most column are GMT.
The numbers in the right-most column are the 'prior' (previous month/quarter as the case may be) result. The number in the column next to that, where is a number, is the consensus median expected.
Snippet via Soc Gen on what they expect:
Headline CPI to fall 0.1% m/m
- due to a plunge in gasoline prices
- Early September gasoline prices are still falling, implying a weak headline figure for September too.
- Headline inflation rates peaked at 9.1% in June, fell to 8.5% in July and should register 8.1% in August. We expect the headline CPI to fall below 7% by year-end, but uncertainty over energy prices clouds that projection.
Core-CPI forecast is 0.4% m/m
- That projection is based on a 0.6% shelter cost increase that is offset by weak pricing for apparel, motor vehicles and public transportation. These latter categories have been volatile.
- We expect weak auto pricing in the quarters ahead, but the still tight inventory readings, which have been limited by semiconductors, mean that the monthly forecasts are more uncertain. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-cpi-for-august-preview-20220913/ | 2022-09-13T01:21:29Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-cpi-for-august-preview-20220913/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Two plug-in models will be among the first to get an updated version of Ford’s Bluecruise hands-free driver-assist system when it launches this fall.
Adding an automated lane-change feature and other updates, the new version is dubbed Bluecruise 1.2 and will launch on the 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E, the automaker confirmed Friday. Lincoln will get its own version, called Activeglide 1.2, which will debut on the 2023 Corsair Grand Touring plug-in hybrid, the Ford luxury brand then confirmed early Monday.
With the updated versions of Bluecruise and Activeglide, drivers will be able to initiate lane changes with a tap of a turn-signal stalk, according to Ford. Vehicles will also suggest lane changes to get around slower traffic.
Other new features include predictive speed assist, which will automatically slow vehicles in anticipation of sharp curves, and in-lane repositioning, which can adjust the vehicle’s position when traveling next to wider vehicles, such as semi trucks, according to Ford.
As before, Bluecruise and Activeglide can control acceleration, steering, and braking on pre-mapped stretches of highway—Ford claims to have more than 130,000 miles mapped—and still require drivers to keep their eyes on the road.
Ford’s rival to Tesla’s Autopilot and General Motors’ Super Cruise, Bluecruise was announced in 2020, with the Mach-E one of the first models to offer it. Since then, 75,000 Ford and Lincoln owners have enabled Bluecruise and Activeglide, respectively, with more than 16 million hands-free miles logged through the end of August, Ford claims.
GM’s Super Cruise has a more advanced hardware set, however—with an even more advanced Ultra Cruise system due to debut next year. Both automakers see their systems as a driver-assist convenience, as opposed to the way Tesla has marketed its misleadingly named Full Self-Driving system.
The Mach-E gets a price increase of up to $8,300 for the 2023 model year, but does at least get more standard driver-assist tech. Ford’s Co-Pilot 360 suite of features is now standard across the lineup, and even base Select versions come with a 90-day trial period of Bluecruise.
The Corsair Grand Touring gets a handful of other changes, including a 13.2-inch touchscreen and Sync 4 infotainment system, an automatic air refresh system, and exterior and interior styling changes.
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Swiss electric vehicle startup Piech has hired some big guns to help bring its zero-emission performance cars to market.
The company last week announced the hiring of Manfred Fitzgerald as chairman and Tobias Moers as chief technology officer, both veterans of the industry. Both executives will also share the role of CEO at Piech.
Fitzgerald replaces Matthias Müller, a former Volkswagen Group CEO who was only with Piech for 11 months. Fitzgerald’s last role was as head of Genesis, but perhaps more important to Piech is his time spent at Lamborghini. Fitzgerald spent 12 years at Lamborghini as its head of brand and design, a role in which he helped turn Lamborghini into the globally successful brand it is today.
Moers joins Piech following a brief and somewhat rocky stint as CEO of Aston Martin. Moers’ greatest success has been with Mercedes-Benz AMG. Under his leadership, he helped to double AMG’s product portfolio and quadruple its sales, as well as lay the groundwork for the current expansion into EVs.
Piech, co-founded by a son of Ferdinand Piëch and backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, first made headlines in 2019 when it presented at the Geneva auto show the striking Mark Zero concept, an electric grand tourer with sultry lines reminiscent of classic Aston Martins. The Piëch family has been part-owners of VW and Porsche for decades.
The company last fall said the production version of the Mark Zero was on track for launch in mid-2024, after which a crossover and 2+2 coupe would be added. The cars would all use bespoke platforms developed in-house at Piech.
For the production Mark Zero, Piech promises a trio of electric motors generating 603 hp, and a 75-kwh battery good for a range approaching 300 miles on a charge. According to Piech, an 80% charge will be possible in just eight minutes using a DC fast charger.
“With Manfred Fitzgerald and Tobias Moers, two established authorities from the sophisticated and rapidly evolving world of sports cars and automotive luxury brands join the Piëch team,” Toni Piëch, Piech’s co-founder, said in a statement. “Both have a proven and enviable track record in this segment and possess extensive knowledge, an adept sense of how to communicate with exclusive customers and a distinct understanding of luxury brands.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — The newly restored Cort Theatre on Broadway has been renamed after James Earl Jones, becoming the second theater on the Great White Way named after a Black artist.
During Monday’s ceremony included Norm Lewis singing “Go the Distance,” Brian Stokes Mitchell singing “Make Them Hear You” and words from Mayor Eric Adams, Samuel L. Jackson and LaTanya Richardson Jackson. The 91-year-old Jones did not attend.
The honor adds to the many that the iconic actor Jones has amassed, including two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two Tony Awards, a Grammy, the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors. He also was given an honorary Oscar and a special Tony for lifetime achievement.
“It means everything. You can’t think of an artist that has served America more,” director Kenny Leon told The Associated Press ahead of the ceremony. “It’s like it seems like a small act, but it’s a huge action. It’s something we can look up and see that’s tangible.”
The renaming comes after a wide Broadway coalition of theater owners, producers, union leaders, creators and casting directors hammered out a series of reforms and commitments in 2021 for the theater industry to ensure equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility.
One requirement of the so-called New Deal for Broadway was that the Shubert, Nederlander and Jujamcyn theater chains have at least one of their theaters named after a Black artist. Artists like LaChanze, Audra McDonald, Wendell Pierce, Billy Porter and Leon backed the proposals.
“I couldn’t think of anybody more deserving of this honor,” said Leon. “When I think about it, I think about young kids. I think about Black kids, white and Asian kids, all kinds of kids, standing up outside of that theater and looking up and saying, ‘That’s it: The James Earl Jones Theatre. That represents the good in all of us.’”
Leon was joined at the ceremony by Suzan-Lori Parks, NaTasha Yvette Williams, Danielle Brooks, Corey Hawkins, Phylicia Rashad and Woody King, Jr.
Jujamcyn already has the August Wilson Theatre and the Nederlander Organization will soon rename the Brooks Atkinson Theatre after Lena Horne, marking the first time a Black woman will have a Broadway theater named in her honor.
The three-tier Cort Theatre — at 138 W. 48th St. — opened in 1912 and was built by and named for John Cort, general manager of the Northwestern Theatrical Association. Thomas Lamb was the architect.
It has undergone a $47 million restoration and expansion that includes the building of a 35-foot wide and 100-foot deep adjacent space to the theater that allows for bars and lounges on every level, new bathrooms for men and women, and elevators, all in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. A new mural that employs digital tiles connects the floors.
The James Earl Jones Theatre has a wider stage and a trap room underneath — making musicals now an option — and a new upstairs rehearsal space that matches the stage’s footprint. There is also an upgraded wardrobe room and offices for theater staff and roomy dressing rooms.
Inside the theater, the firm Francesca Russo Architect has brought back the Marie Antoinette color palette in the seating, ornamental plaster, drapery, lighting and carpet. Original cove lighting have been replaced with long life lamps and the original Tiffany glass illuminated proscenium has been restored.
New wider seats actually mean the interior lost four seats from its just-over-1,000 seats — but it promises to offer a more comfortable experience. A new rigging system has been added, as well as a refashioned orchestra pit and ventilation systems.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The man who shot and killed John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for a 12th time, New York corrections officials said Monday
Mark David Chapman, 67, appeared before a parole board at the end of August, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
Chapman shot and killed Lennon on the night of Dec. 8, 1980, as Lennon and Yoko Ono were returning to their Upper West Side apartment. Lennon had signed an autograph for Chapman on a copy of his recently released album, “Double Fantasy,” earlier that day.
State officials have yet to make transcripts of Chapman’s latest board interview available, but he has repeatedly expressed remorse in previous parole hearings. Chapman called his actions “despicable” during his hearing in 2020, and said he would have “no complaint whatsoever” if they chose to leave him in prison for the rest of his life.
“I assassinated him … because he was very, very, very famous and that’s the only reason and I was very, very, very, very much seeking self-glory. Very selfish,” Chapman said then.
Chapman is serving a 20-years-to-life sentence at Green Haven Correctional Facility, north of New York City, according to online state corrections records.
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CHICAGO (AP)Thairo Estrada homered in the seventh, Wilmer Flores connected in the eighth and the San Francisco Giants held on to beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2 on Sunday night.
The Giants kept the Cubs’ offense in check while using six pitchers on a bullpen day, though Zach McKinstry had four hits for the Cubs, who have dropped 15 of 21.
”It’s really good to get that win tonight,” catcher Joey Bart said. ”It’s going to be a long night home, but it’s going to be a lot better with a win.”
Estrada, Evan Longoria and Austin Dean had two hits each for the Giants, who had lost five of six.
Flores hit a two-run shot off Hayden Wesneski (1-1) after Lewis Brinson walked for his 18th homer of the season, matching a career high and snapping an 0-for-19 skid.
Estrada led off the seventh with his 13th of the season. The homer ended Wesneski’s streak of six scoreless innings to begin his major league career.
Seiya Suzuki homered off Scott Alexander in the eighth to pull the Cubs within 4-2.
”The consistency he’s produced for us for a month-plus now has been really solid,” manager David Ross said of Suzuki. ”I think this is the player we thought he was.”
Left-handed starter Wade Miley gave up a run and four hits, struck out five and walked one in five innings for the Cubs. It was his second outing after missing three months with a shoulder injury.
”It’s huge for me to prove that I’m healthy and I can still compete at a high level,” Miley said. ”Obviously, every time I go out I want to give us a chance to win and keep our team in the game. Selfishly, it’s very important I can prove I can still pitch here.”
Zack Littell (3-3) threw 1 2/3 shutout innings to earn the victory. Camilo Doval worked around a hit batter and a triple in the ninth, pitching 1 1/3 scoreless innings for his 22nd save.
”I just told him I wanted him to pick the pace up a little bit and just let it go, throw everything for a strike,” Bart said of his mound visit.
”I told him after the game, `Saves pay a lot of money, man. You want that ball and you want that save at that time,’ ” Bart added.
John Brebbia allowed a hit in a scoreless first inning as the Giants opener. San Francisco relied on its bullpen to fill in for Alex Wood, who went on the 15-day injured list with a shoulder injury on Sept. 3.
”Our bullpen overall did a nice job of attacking the zone,” Giants manager Gabe Kapler said.
J.D. Davis doubled off Miley and scored on Estrada’s two-out single for a 1-0 Giants lead in the fourth.
The Cubs tied it in the fifth. McKinstry doubled off Yunior Marte and scored when Rafael Ortega singled and advanced on right fielder Luis Gonzalez’s fielding error.
SOGGY NO MORE
No rain fell during the game, which started a few hours after the Chicago Bears beat the San Francisco 49ers 19-10 at a rain-soaked Soldier Field.
LIGHTER MOMENT
Cubs DH Franmil Reyes was shown on the ESPN broadcast singing Whitney Houston’s ”I Will Always Love You” in the dugout.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Giants: C Austin Wynns was available off the bench for the second straight game after he was struck in the head by a Drew Smyly pitch on Friday.
Cubs: SS Nico Hoerner (right tricep tightness) exited after trying to make a diving play in the fifth inning. . 2B Nick Madrigal (right groin strain) said he hopes to return before season’s end but knows he has to be smart about the injury. He went on the 10-day IL Saturday. Madrigal said he plans to make ”major changes” after dealing with injuries the last two seasons. ”If it’s not feeling right, I’m probably not going to get in there,” he said. ”So I’d love to, but we’re going to have to see how it goes.”
UP NEXT
Giants: RHP Alex Cobb (5-6, 3.68 ERA) will start Monday to begin a homestand against the Atlanta Braves and RHP Spencer Strider (10-4, 2.69).
Cubs: RHP Javier Assad (0-1, 2.93) is scheduled to start Monday at New York. RHP Chris Bassitt (13-7, 3.24) is slated for the Mets.
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U.S. District Court Judge Salvador Mendoza Jr. was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Monday to serve on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Mendoza, a judge for the Eastern District of Washington since 2014, was confirmed by the Senate with a vote of 46-40, according to news releases from U.S. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell. The Yakima Valley native will be the first Latino from Washington state to serve on the 9th Circuit Court bench, they said.
Mendoza was nominated by President Joe Biden in April following Judge Margaret McKeown’s announcement that she would take senior status. Murray and Cantwell supported and spoke on behalf of Mendoza in the confirmation process.
Federal district court judges are nominated by the president, confirmed by the Senate and serve lifetime appointments upon good behavior, a 2014 news release said in reporting Mendoza’s 2014 confirmation to his Eastern District post. Mendoza is the sixth federal judge from Washington state confirmed to a lifetime appointment during this Congress, Murray said.
Mendoza’s parents immigrated to the United States from Mexico and he grew up in a family of migrant farmworkers who moved from California to the Yakima Valley when he was young. Mendoza worked as a migrant farmworker as a child, Murray said.
"As a young student at Prosser High School, it was not uncommon for him to wake up before dawn to work in the fields before rushing home to change and head to school," Cantwell said in comments supporting confirmation.
Mendoza received his bachelor of arts degree in philosophy in 1994 from the University of Washington and his law degree from UCLA School of Law in 1997.
From 1997 to 1998, Mendoza was an assistant attorney general in the Washington state Attorney General’s office. He served as a deputy prosecutor for Franklin County from 1998-99. Mendoza was in private practice from 1999 to 2013 and also served as a judge pro tempore in local courts. Mendoza served as judge on the Benton-Franklin Superior Court bench from 2013-14.
“Beyond just his impeccable professional qualifications, Judge Mendoza will bring an important perspective to one of the most consequential appellate courts in this country: the perspective of someone whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico and worked as farm laborers, maids and factory workers to build a better life for their family,” Murray said. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/judge-salvador-mendoza-jr-from-the-yakima-valley-confirmed-to-9th-circuit-appeals-court/article_2c7dec0e-2fc4-11ed-8e09-7b1f986caedf.html | 2022-09-13T01:33:07Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/judge-salvador-mendoza-jr-from-the-yakima-valley-confirmed-to-9th-circuit-appeals-court/article_2c7dec0e-2fc4-11ed-8e09-7b1f986caedf.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly parlayed his fame as an R&B superstar to sexually abuse minors and record that abuse on video, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the singer’s federal trial on charges of child pornography and of rigging his 2008 state child pornography trial.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Pozolo several times raised her voice and singled out Kelly, describing him as a secret sexual predator in closing arguments in Kelly’s hometown of Chicago, where he rose from poverty.
“Robert Kelly abused many girls over many years,” she said, referring to the 55-year-old Grammy winner’s full first name. “He committed horrible crimes against children. … All these years later, the hidden side of Robert Kelly has come out.”
Jurors are expected to began deliberating Tuesday after Kelly’s lead attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, makes her closing argument and prosecutors give a short rebuttal.
Bonjean twice called for a mistrial Monday, complaining that closing arguments by attorneys for Kelly co-defendants Derrell McDavid and Milton Brown were grounded in the presumption that “the world now knows Mr. Kelly is a sex predator.”
“The presumption of innocence has been abolished for him,” Bonjean said about Kelly, meaning he was unable to get a fair trial. Judge Harry Leinenweber denied the requests.
Known for his smash hit “I Believe I Can Fly” and for sex-infused songs such as “Bump n’ Grind,” Kelly sold millions of albums even after allegations of sexual misconduct began circulating in the 1990s and after his 2008 Illinois trial, at which he was acquitted. Widespread outrage emerged after the #MeToo reckoning and the 2019 docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly.”
Kelly and McDavid, Kelly’s former business manager, are charged with fixing the 2008 trial. Both face child pornography charges. Brown, a former Kelly associate, is accused of receiving child pornography.
Kelly already was sentenced to 30 years in prison after a separate federal trial in New York in June. Convictions on just a few of the 13 counts Kelly faces at his current trial could add years to that.
Pozolo, the prosecutor, focused much of her closing argument Monday on a Kelly accuser who went by “Jane” and who was considered the government’s star witness. She testified that Kelly sexually abused her hundreds of times starting when she was 14.
“He took advantage of Jane’s youth,” Pozolo said about Kelly. “He repeatedly abused her. He performed degrading acts upon her for his own sick pleasure.”
Pozolo reminded jurors of graphic video footage they watched earlier at the trial, recordings that Jane testified depicted Kelly, at around age 30, abusing her when she was 14. Among the videos jurors saw was one at the heart Kelly’s 2008 trial. Jurors at that trial said later they had no choice but to acquit Kelly because Jane didn’t testify then.
“That abuse is forever memorialized,” Pozolo told jurors. “Who does that? Who uses a 14-year-old child to film a video like this? This man. Robert Kelly.”
Before Kelly’s 2008 trial, Pozolo said, Kelly and his associates scrambled to recover multiple sex videos that had gone missing from a collection he often carried around in a large gym bag.
By doing so, she said, Kelly associates sought “to cover up the fact that … R. Kelly, the R&B superstar, is actually a sexual predator.”
Pozolo said the fact that Jane and three other Kelly accusers had so much to lose by testifying should give jurors confidence they told the truth on the stand.
“They opened up old wounds to tell you what happened to them and who did it to them,” she said.
In his closing, an attorney for McDavid said prosecutors had to show that his client actually knew about any abuse of Jane by Kelly in the 2000s — not just that it was likely he knew.
“Did they prove he knew … behind a reasonable doubt?” Beau Brindley asked. “They did not.”
Earlier Monday, Pozolo balked at the idea that McDavid had no inkling in the 2000s that the abuse allegations might be credible after helping to recover missing recordings and handing bags of cash to people who returned videos McDavid knew could destroy Kelly.
“Really? Does that make any sense?” she said. “It doesn’t make sense.”
Also Monday, the judge replaced one juror with an alternate after the panelist reported having a panic attack while listening to closing arguments.
McDavid was the only defendant who testified during the trial that started Aug. 15. Combined, lawyers for the three co-defendants called several witnesses over four days, with McDavid on the stand for three. The witnesses mostly gave testimony favorable to all three defendants. But McDavid may have hurt Kelly’s defense by ultimately questioned Kelly’s believability, saying that listening to Kelly accusers testify at the current had altered his views of the singer.
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HONG KONG, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CNOOC Limited (the "Company", SEHK: 00883, SSE: 600938) announced today that Kenli 6-1 Oilfield 10-1 North Block Development Project commenced production.
The development project locates in the south of Bohai Sea, with average water depth of about 19 meters. The main production facilities include 1 production adjective platform and 2 unmanned wellhead platforms. 25 development wells are planned to be put into production, including 16 production wells and 9 water injection wells. The project is expected to achieve its peak production of approximately 7,100 barrels of crude oil per day in 2023.
Kenli 10-1 North block is the main component of Kenli 6-1 oilfield which is the first 100 million-ton oilfield discovered in the north of the Laizhou Bay. During the implementation process, in order to maximize the value of the oilfield regional development, the project practiced the concept of intelligentization, unmanned production, the modularization of engineering construction, the integration of appraisal and development as well as the sharing of old and new facilities.
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- In first line treatment of advanced or metastatic G/GEJ cancer, early interim data of the first 15 patients with measurable disease receiving the combination of TST001 (Osemitamab) with CAPOX demonstrated a partial response rate of 73.3% and a disease control rate of 100% per RECIST1.1.
- Based on these encouraging data, the TST001 (Osemitamab) program is further accelerated and Health Authority consultations are being initiated. A global phase III clinical program of TST001 (Osemitamab) for the first line treatment of locally advanced or metastatic Claudin18.2 positive G/GEJ cancer is currently being planned.
SUZHOU, China, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Transcenta Holding Limited ("Transcenta") (HKEX: 06628), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company with fully-integrated capabilities in discovery, research, development and manufacturing of antibody-based therapeutics, announces that interim safety and efficacy data of dose expansion cohort from the phase I/II study of TST001 (Osemitamab), a humanized ADCC-enhanced anti-Claudin18.2 monoclonal antibody, in combination with Capecitabine and Oxaliplatin (CAPOX) as a first line treatment of locally advanced or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction (G/GEJ) cancer was presented in a poster at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2022.
As of August 4, 2022, 51 patients were enrolled and dosed including 36 patients treated with TST001 (Osemitamab) plus CAPOX at 6mg/kg Q3W in the expansion phase (median follow up of 65 days). Among the 15 patients with measurable disease and at least one post-treatment tumor assessment, 11 (73.3%) achieved partial response and four (26.7%) achieved stable disease as the best overall tumor response per RECIST1.1, resulting in a disease control rate of 100%. Six out of the eight patients with medium or high Claudin18.2 expression, and five out of the five patients with unknown Claudin18.2 expression achieved partial response.
All 51 enrolled patients were evaluated for safety and tolerability. Treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) regardless of causality were mostly grade 1-2, including nausea, hypoalbuminemia, anemia, vomiting, platelet count decreased. Twelve (23.5%) patients experienced dose delay, five (9.8%) experienced dose reduction and no patient experienced discontinuation due to treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs).
These data suggest that TST001 (Osemitamab) in combination with CAPOX as the first line treatment of patients with Claudin18.2 positive G/GEJ cancer is well tolerated and encouraging anti-tumor activities have been observed. Transcenta has also developed a proprietary IHC assay to select patients with Claudin18.2 expressing tumors for registration enabling studies. A phase III trial is being planned.
"Chemotherapy is still the main treatment of advanced or metastatic G/GEJ cancer, however, it has limited efficacy. We are pleased to see that TST001 (Osemitamab) combined CAPOX showed good tolerability and promising efficacy in a broad gastric cancer patient population with tumors expressing either medium level or high level of Claudin18.2 expression." said Professor Lin Shen from Beijing Cancer Hospital, the principal investigator. "We look forward to further confirming its clinical benefits through confirmatory studies and bringing a more effective and accessible treatment option for patients with G/GEJ cancer."
"We are extremely encouraged by the early efficacy data we have observed in first line G/GEJ
cancer when adding our differentiated Claudin18.2 antibody, TST001 (Osemitamab) to standard of care chemotherapy. These initial results also support our plans to explore the potential of TST001 (Osemitamab) in G/GEJ cancer with other combinations as well as in other indications. As data continue to mature, we will share them with health authorities with the intent to initiate a confirmatory program in Claudin18.2 selected G/GEJ patients." said Dr. Caroline Germa, Transcenta's Executive Vice President, Global Medicine Development and Chief Medical Officer.
About TST001 (Osemitamab)
TST001 (Osemitamab) is a high affinity humanized anti-Claudin18.2 monoclonal antibody with enhanced antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity ("ADCC") and complement-dependent cytotoxicity ("CDC") activities and potent anti-tumor activities in tumor xenograft models. TST001 (Osemitamab) is the second most advanced Claudin18.2 targeting antibody being developed globally. TST001 (Osemitamab) is generated using Transcenta's Immune Tolerance Breaking Technology (IMTB) platform. TST001 (Osemitamab) kills Claudin18.2 expressing tumor cells by mechanisms of ADCC and CDC. Leveraging advanced bioprocessing technology, the fucose content of TST001 (Osemitamab) was significantly reduced during the production, which further enhanced NK cells mediated ADCC activity of TST001 (Osemitamab). Clinical trials for TST001 (Osemitamab) are ongoing in the U.S. and China (NCT04396821, NCT04495296/CTR20201281). TST001 (Osemitamab) was granted Orphan Drug Designation in the U.S. by FDA for the treatment of patients with gastric or gastroesophageal junction (G/GEJ) cancer.
About Transcenta Holding Limited
Transcenta (HKEX: 06628) is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company with fully integrated capabilities in antibody-based biotherapeutics discovery, research, development and manufacturing.
Transcenta has established global footprint, with Headquarters and Discovery, Clinical and Translational Research Center in Suzhou, Process and Product Development Center and Manufacturing Facility in Hangzhou, and Clinical Development Centers in Princeton, US and in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou of China, and External Partnering Center in Boston and Los Angeles, US. Transcenta has also initiated the construction of the Group Headquarters and the second high-end biopharmaceutical facility with ICB as its core technology in Suzhou Industrial Park. Transcenta is developing ten therapeutic antibody molecules for oncology and selected non-oncology indications including bone and kidney disorders.
For more information, please visit www.transcenta.com and https://www.linkedin.com/company/transcenta.
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MADRID (AP) — Against the backdrop of Picasso´s iconic anti-war painting, “Guernica,” the culture ministers of France and Spain gathered Monday in Madrid’s Reina Sofía Museum to kick off a year of commemorative acts to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the death of the Spanish artist who revolutionized the world of art.
In “Picasso Celebration,” France and Spain will be organizing more than 40 exhibitions conferences and other events in museums in Madrid, Paris, Barcelona, Málaga and other cities in Europe and North America over the next 12 months.
Picasso was born October 25, 1881, in Málaga and died in Mougins, France, on April 8, 1973.
“Our aim is to revindicate the artistic legacy of Picasso and the relevance of his work,” said Spanish Culture Minister Miquel Iceta.
“If there is one artist that defines the 20th century, who presents it in all its cruelty, violence, passion, excesses and contradictions, that artist is Pablo Picasso.”
Although born in Spain. Picasso spent most of his adult life in France.
In a career spanning nearly eight decades. he is said to have created tens of thousands of paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics covering an incredible range of styles and movements that made him possibly the most influential and celebrated artist of the past 150 years.
Together with artist Georges Braque, he started the avant-garde Cubist movement that radically changed European painting and sculpture.
“The abundant, inventive and often radical work of Picasso continues to exert a genuine fascination throughout the world,” said French Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak.
Picasso’s reputation for having mistreated many of the women in his life is not being ignored during the anniversary and will be the subject of more than one conference and exhibition during the year.
“We want to present Picasso as he was,” said Iceta. “Celebrate his work of course but not hide some of the aspects of his life that seen from today might be controversial.”
Abdul Malak said there was no denying there was a lot of debate about how Picasso should be perceived, particular in his relation with women and his sometimes violent nature but she said these topics needed to be debated, not covered up.
The anniversary was launched in front of “Guernica” — by far Picasso’s most famous painting. It was commissioned by the Republican government of Spain to represent the country at a Universal Exposition in Paris in 1937 when Spain was in the throes of a bloody civil war started by future dictator Gen. Francisco Franco.
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The Russell Wilson revenge game is about to cap off Week 1 of this year’s NFL season. The Seattle Seahawks will host Wilson and the Denver Broncos tonight to try and get their first win of the season. Despite Seattle’s home-field advantage, the Broncos are heavy 6.5-point favorites, according to the DraftKings Sportsbook.
According to most NFL analysts, the Seahawks are expected to easily be the worst team in the NFC West this season. However, given the terrible Week 1 performances by the division, head coach Pete Carroll might see a more plausible path to relevance this season.
Denver traded multiple young players and first-round picks to the Seahawks for Wilson this offseason and hired Nathaniel Hackett as their new head coach, replacing Vic Fangio. The Broncos are expecting Wilson to carry them back to Super Bowl relevance. However, they are going to have formidable competition in their division.
I think Geno Smith has been an underrated player for a while, but I do not believe he’s able to lead the Seahawks to the NFC West’s first win of the season. I’m picking the Broncos. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/12/23349873/broncos-seahawks-monday-night-football-russell-wilson | 2022-09-13T01:34:38Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/12/23349873/broncos-seahawks-monday-night-football-russell-wilson | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TANAGRA, Greece (AP) — Greece’s air force on Monday took delivery of a first pair of upgraded F-16 military jets under a $1.5 billion program to modernize its fighter fleet amid increasing tensions with neighboring Turkey.
The two F-16s presented at the Tanagra airbase northwest of Athens are the first of 83 to be refitted with advanced electronics, radar and weapons capabilities by late 2027 by Greece’s Hellenic Aerospace Industry, in coordination with U.S. manufacturer Lockheed Martin.
The head of Greece’s joint chiefs of staff, Gen. Constantinos Floros, said the program’s successful and timely completion “is an issue of the highest national importance.”
“Any potential aggressor will have to think twice or thrice before trying their luck,” once the upgrade is completed, he said at Monday’s presentation.
Relations with historic regional rival Turkey have hit a new low following repeated, thinly-veiled threats from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that his country might invade Greece’s eastern Aegean Sea islands.
Turkey claims the islands have been illegally militarized. Greece says it needs to defend them against potential attack. The two NATO allies are also at odds over offshore gas and oil rights, and their fighter jets routinely intercept each other or engage in simulated dogfights over the Aegean.
Asked Sunday by The Associated Press whether the recent escalation in rhetoric from Turkey could be the prelude to an armed conflict, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis replied negatively.
“I don’t believe this will ever happen,” he said. “And if, God forbid, it happened, Turkey would receive an absolutely devastating response.”
On Monday, Mitsotakis said Athens “always keeps a window open to dialogue and discussion” with Turkey. He spoke in Paris ahead of talks with French President Emmanuel Macron.
Following years of forced savings during the 2010-2018 financial crisis, Greece has embarked on a multibillion-dollar spending spree to boost its armed forces. It has bought or ordered French Rafale fighter jets and FDI frigates, and plans to purchase F-35 fighters from the U.S.
The F-16s, developed in the 1970s, are the workhorse of Greece’s air force. It acquired a first batch of 40 in 1989, and another 130 over the years. The latest upgrade will bring the 83 planes to the Block 72 variant that’s the most advanced F-16 version in service in Europe.
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MADRID (AP) — Protesters including brothel owners and sex workers demonstrated Monday in front of the Spanish Parliament over a bill that would penalize prostitution customers and sex club owners or pimps with sentences up to 4 years in prison.
The bill backed by the ruling left-wing PSOE party proposes broadening the definition of pimping, not making the exploitation of a prostitute necessary but a mere trade relation. For the first time in Spain, it would also penalize customers.
Demonstrators wore face masks and used bright red umbrellas to conceal their identities.
“We ask the socialist party to withdraw the bill, that implies an actual abolition of prostitution and condemns us to work underground,” said Susana Pastor, the president of the Platform against Abolition. She owns an apartment in Valencia where women rent rooms to offer sexual services.
“I came here today to protect my job,” said one demonstrator, Sandra, a single mother who has done sex work for 12 years.
But the new sex worker union Otras didn’t back Monday’s protest because sex club owners arranged it.
“They don’t look after sex workers’ rights at all,” Otras secretary general Concha Borrell told The Associated Press.
Borrell demands legal contracts for sex workers and estimates there are around 200,000 in Spain.
Other groups, including some feminists, oppose normalizing prostitution as a regulated trade.
Charo Carracedo, lawyer and president of PAP, which advocates for the full abolition of prostitution, told the AP that the new bill is a huge step for the country but should come with provisions to give vulnerable women better access to jobs or subsidies.
“It’s essential to offer alternatives to prostitution survivors,”Carracedo said.
Both Otras and the sex business owners deny the government’s data that says 90% of the sex work in Spain is forced. Police say 491 victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation were rescued in Spain in 2021.
On a European level, the European Parliament estimates there are up to 180,000 trafficking victims exploited in prostitution and the industry generates 10.8 billion euros ($10.9 billion) a year in the bloc.
Spain is considered to have one of the laxest legal frameworks for prostitution in Europe, only punishing when exploitation or abuse can be proven. The proposed bill would punish both clients and enablers. It still needs to pass through parliament.
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BERLIN (AP) — The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Monday that he has started consultations with Ukraine and Russia on his call for a “nuclear safety and security protection zone” around the Zaporizhzhia power plant, and the two sides appear to be interested.
Rafael Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, made his proposal last week after leading a team of inspectors to the nuclear plant, Europe’s biggest with six reactors, but gave few details at the time.
“What we need here really is Ukraine and Russia to agree on a very simple principle of not attacking, or not shelling, at the plant,” Grossi told reporters at the agency’s Vienna headquarters. The IAEA has not assigned blame for recent shelling, for which Ukraine and Russia have blamed each other.
The plant has been occupied by Russian forces but operated by its Ukrainian employees since early in the war.
Pressed on whether his proposal includes demilitarization, Grossi said: “Basically, it’s a commitment that no military action will include or will imply aiming … at the plant, or a radius that could be affecting its normal operation.”
Grossi said of the two sides that he has “seen signs that they are interested in this agreement.” He added that technical details are being explored, including the radius that an accord would apply to and how IAEA experts would work. Two IAEA experts remain at the plant after the rest of Grossi’s team returned home.
“What I see … is two sides that are engaging with us, but that are asking questions, lots of questions,” he added. He said that “we try to keep it simple, we try to keep it practical, because we need it as soon as possible.”
The Zaporizhzhia plant was reconnected to Ukraine’s electricity grid at the weekend, allowing engineers to shut down its last operational reactor in an attempt to avoid disaster as fighting rages in the area.
The plant had lost its outside source of power after all its power lines were disconnected because of shelling. It operated in “island mode” for several days, generating electricity for crucial cooling systems from its only remaining operational reactor. That’s considered an unstable way of operating a nuclear plant.
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New York is poised to strengthen its oversight of private and religious schools following years of complaints that thousands of children are graduating from ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools lacking basic academic skills, including the ability to read English.
A Board of Regents committee unanimously approved guidelines Monday to make sure instruction at the state’s private and religious schools is equivalent to that of its public schools.
The rules would apply to all of New York’s 1,800 nonpublic schools but would have the greatest impact on the ultra-Orthodox schools, called yeshivas, some of which provide rigorous religious instruction but little or no teaching in secular subjects like English, math, science and history.
Defenders of the schools say parents have the right to send their children to programs consistent with their beliefs and traditions. As the Regents met Monday, protesters assembled outside, some with signs reading: “We will sit in jail rather than change our childrens education.”
Many yeshivas in New York state are modern Orthodox schools that provide a full secular curriculum along with religious studies. But there have been complaints that some yeshivas run by strictly observant Hasidic Jews were not meeting basic academic standards.
A New York Times investigation published Sunday cited instances of English teachers speaking only Yiddish to students, teachers using corporal punishment and graduates who said they were woefully unprepared for life or employment outside of their communities.
Virtually all of the Hasidic boys who took state standardized math and reading exams in 2019 failed, the report said.
A final vote is scheduled for Tuesday on new Board of Regents rules that would give private schools multiple pathways to show they meet a longstanding legal mandate to provide an education that is “substantially equivalent” to that of a public school. Among the criteria is that primary subjects be taught in English.
“We are trying to obviously adhere to the law but also create some flexibility around that as well,” state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa said.
State education officials have spent years trying to strike a balance. An initial set of guidelines released in 2018 was struck down by a state judge who said they were not implemented correctly. The department reviewed about 350,000 public comments following the release of the latest proposal and made adjustments in response, authorities said.
“The regulation respects that parents have a constitutional right to send their children to an independent school and that we respect the worldviews of the schools and their communities,” assistant commissioner Christina Coughlin said.
The group Parents for Educational and Religious Liberty in Schools, which represents yeshivas, said families choose to pay for private or religious schools because they believe in their educational approach.
“A government checklist, devised by lawyers and enforced by bureaucrats, hampers rather than advances education,” the group said in an email. “Parents in New York have been choosing a yeshiva education for more than 120 years, and they are proud of the successful results, and will continue to do the same, with or without the blessing or support of state leaders in Albany.”
Under the rules, a school can demonstrate equivalency, for example, by using state-approved assessments or operating a high school registered by the Board of Regents. It also can be reviewed by the local school district.
Groups representing Roman Catholic and Christian schools said they are confident their schools meet the substantially equivalent standards.
Naftuli Moster, who founded a group to improve secular standards at yeshivas, said he worried the schools would use the issue of cultural sensitivity to exploit loopholes without clearer guidance on how the regulations will be enforced, something the state is expected to address in the next few months.
“How you teach it or what you incorporate into the teaching is not what matters,” Moster said by phone. “It’s objective whether you teach science. There’s no Jewish science. It’s objective whether you do or do not teach social studies.”
Private schools that fall short of the threshold will be given time to adjust their instruction, state education officials said.
But those that may refuse to comply could lose state funding and their standing as a school with the state. Parents who continue to send their children to such a school could find themselves in violation of the state’s compulsory education law requiring that children between the ages of six and 16 be provided with a program of instruction, either at a public school or elsewhere.
Daniel Morton Bentley, a lawyer for the state Education Department, said Friday that much of the public pushback has focused on “philosophical opposition to state regulation of nonpublic schools,” which he said is required by law and not changed by the Regents’ action.
Public school districts would be required to complete initial reviews of nonpublic schools within their boundaries by the end of the 2024-25 school year.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A month after losing one nearly $50 million verdict, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is set to go on trial a second time for calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax and causing several of the victims’ families emotional and psychological harm.
A six-member jury with several alternates in Connecticut will begin hearing evidence Tuesday on how much Jones should pay the families, since he already has been found liable for damages to them. The trial is expected to last about four weeks.
Last month, a Texas jury ordered Jones to pay $49.3 million to the parents of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, one of 26 students and teachers killed in the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Jones’ lawyer has said an appeal is planned.
The Connecticut case has the potential for a larger award because it involves three lawsuits — which have been consolidated — that were filed by 15 plaintiffs, including the relatives of eight of the victims and a former FBI agent who responded to the school shooting.
Jones, who runs his web show and Infowars brand in Austin, Texas, also faces a third trial over the hoax conspiracy in another pending lawsuit by Sandy Hook parents in Texas.
Here is a look at the upcoming trial in Waterbury, Connecticut, about 18 miles (29 kilometers) northeast of Newtown. Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, which has filed for bankruptcy protection, is also a defendant.
WHY ARE THE SANDY HOOK FAMILIES SUING JONES?
The families and former FBI agent William Aldenberg say they have been confronted and harassed in person by Jones’ followers because of the hoax conspiracy. They also say they have endured death threats and been subjected to abusive comments on social media.
Some of the plaintiffs say strangers have videotaped them and their surviving children. And some families have moved out of Newtown to avoid threats and harassment.
“I can’t even describe the last nine and a half years, the living hell that I and others have had to endure because of the recklessness and negligence of Alex Jones,” Neil Heslin, Jesse Lewis’ father, testified during the Texas trial.
The Connecticut lawsuit alleges defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and violations of the state Unfair Trade Practices Act. The families claim when Jones talked about Sandy Hook, he boosted his audience and raked in more profits from selling supplements, clothing and other items.
The families have not asked for any specific amount of damages, some of which may be limited by state laws. There are no damage limits, however, under the Unfair Trade Practices Act.
In all the Connecticut and Texas cases, Jones and his lawyers repeatedly failed to turn over records as required to the families’ attorneys. In response, judges handed down one of the harshest sanctions in the civil legal world — they found Jones liable for damages by default without trials.
WHAT DOES ALEX JONES SAY?
In a reversal from what he said on his show for years following the shooting, Jones now says he believes the massacre was real. But he continues to say his comments about the shooting being a hoax involving crisis actors to encourage gun control efforts were protected by free speech rights.
During a deposition in the case in April, a defiant Jones insisted he wasn’t responsible for the suffering that Sandy Hook parents say they have endured because of his words.
He also has said the judges’ default rulings against him — finding him liable without trials — were unfair and suggested they were part of a conspiracy to put him out of business and silence him.
“If questioning public events and free speech is banned because it might hurt somebody’s feelings, we are not in America anymore,” he said at the deposition. “They can change the channel. They can come out and say I’m wrong. They have free speech.”
At the Texas trial, however, Jones testified that he now realizes what he said was irresponsible, did hurt people’s feelings and he apologized.
WHAT IS EXPECTED AT THE TRIAL?
Judge Barbara Bellis, who found Jones liable for damages, will oversee the trial. She is the same judge who oversaw Sandy Hook families’ lawsuit against gun maker Remington, which made the Bushmaster rifle used in the school shooting. In February, Remington agreed to settle the lawsuit for $73 million.
The trial is expected to be similar to the one in Texas, with victims’ relatives testifying about the pain and anguish the hoax conspiracy caused them and medical professionals answering questions about the relatives’ mental health and diagnoses.
Jones also will be testifying, said his lawyer, Norman Pattis.
“He is looking forward to putting this trial behind him; it has been a long and costly distraction,” Pattis wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
Evidence about Jones’ finances is also expected to be presented to the jury.
Jones testified at the Texas trial that any award over $2 million would “sink us,” and he urged his web show viewers to buy his merchandise to help keep him on air and fight the lawsuits.
But an economist testified that Jones and his company were worth up to $270 million. Jones faces another lawsuit in Texas over accusations that he hid millions of dollars in assets after families of Sandy Hook victims began taking him to court.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower who is warning of security flaws, privacy threats and lax controls at the social platform, will take his case to Congress on Tuesday.
Senators who will hear Zatko’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee are alarmed by his Twitter allegations at a time of heightened concern over the safety of powerful tech platforms.
It’s Zatko’s second Capitol Hill appearance, and in some ways a 21st-century echo of his first. In 1998, he testified before a Senate panel along with fellow members of a hacker collective who warned about the security dangers of the then-emerging internet age.
Zatko, a respected cybersecurity expert, was Twitter’s head of security until he was fired early this year. He has brought the stunning allegations to Congress and federal regulators, asserting that the influential social platform misled regulators about its cyber defenses and efforts to control millions of “spam” or fake accounts.
Sen. Dick Durbin, the Illinois Democrat who chairs the panel, called Zatko’s allegations “serious business.”
“If it’s anywhere along the lines that (he) suggested, I think it’s a matter of grave personal-privacy concern,” Durbin told reporters Monday. “The question is whether information gathered by Twitter has been used for purposes which we’re not aware of.”
Zatko’s accusations are also playing into billionaire tycoon Elon Musk’s battle with Twitter. The Tesla CEO is trying to get out of his $44 billion bid to buy the company; Twitter has sued to force him to complete the deal. The Delaware judge overseeing that case ruled last week that Musk can include new evidence related to Zatko’s allegations in the high-stakes trial set to start Oct. 17.
The allegation that Twitter engaged in deception in its handling of automated “spam bot” accounts is at the core of Musk’s attempt to back out of the Twitter deal.
At the same time, many of Zatko’s claims are uncorroborated and appear to have little documentary support. In a statement, Twitter has called Zatko’s description of events “a false narrative.”
Also on Tuesday, Twitter’s shareholders are scheduled to vote on the company’s pending buyout by Musk. The vote is something of a formality given that the deal is on hold while the court case plays out. But if the measure passes as expected, it would also pave the way for a Musk takeover should Twitter prevail in court.
Zatko also filed complaints with the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among his most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users.
The SEC is questioning Twitter about how it counts fake accounts on its platform. Twitter uses counts of its presumably real users to attract advertisers, whose payments make up about 90% of its revenue. The “spam bots” have no value to advertisers because there’s no person behind them.
San Francisco-based Twitter has an estimated 238 million daily active users worldwide. The company says it removes 1 million spam accounts daily.
Zatko’s 84-page complaint alleges that he found “extreme, egregious deficiencies” on the platform, including issues with “user privacy, digital and physical security, and platform integrity/content moderation.”
It accuses CEO Parag Agrawal and other senior executives and board members of making “false and misleading statements to users and the FTC” about these issues. Twitter denies those claims and said that Zatko was fired in January for “ineffective leadership and poor performance.” Zatko’s attorneys say the performance claim is false.
Twitter also hinted that Zatko’s complaint might be designed to bolster Musk’s legal fight with the company. Twitter called Zatko’s complaint “a false narrative” that is “riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies, and lacks important context.”
News of Zatko’s complaint surfaced on Aug. 23, almost two months before the Twitter-Musk trial is scheduled to begin. One of Zatko’s attorneys has said “he’s never met Elon Musk. Doesn’t know Elon Musk. They know people in common.”
The company also says it has significantly tightened security since 2020.
Among Zatko’s specific allegations:
— The company had such poor cybersecurity that it easily could have been exposed to outside attacks or attempts to siphon off its internal data.
—The company lacked effective leadership, with its top executives practicing “deliberate ignorance” of pressing problems. Zatko described former CEO Jack Dorsey as “extremely disengaged” during the last months of his tenure, to the point where he wouldn’t even speak during meetings on complex issues. Dorsey stepped down in November 2021.
—That Twitter knowingly allowed the government of India to place its agents on the company payroll, where they had “direct unsupervised access” to highly sensitive data on users. It makes a parallel but less detailed accusation that Twitter took funding from unidentified Chinese entities who may have been enabled to access the identities and sensitive data of Chinese users who secretly use Twitter, which is officially banned in China.
The 51-year-old Zatko, better known by his hacker handle “Mudge,” first gained prominence in the 1990s. He was the best-known member of the Boston-based collective L0pht, which pioneered ethical hacking, embarrassing companies including Microsoft for poor security. His work raised awareness in the computing world that forced such major companies to take security seriously. He co-founded the consultancy @Stake, which was later acquired by Symantec.
Zatko later worked in senior positions at the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Google. He joined Twitter at Dorsey’s urging in late 2020, the same year the company suffered an embarrassing security breach involving hackers who broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls, including Musk, in an attempt to scam their followers out of bitcoin.
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AP technology writers Frank Bajak in Boston and Matt O’Brien in Providence, Rhode Island, contributed to this report.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP)Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott will need surgery for a fractured bone in his throwing hand sustained in the season opener and will miss multiple weeks.
The quarterback got hurt in the fourth quarter of the Cowboys’ 19-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday night. Prescott’s right hand made contact with rushing linebacker Shaquil Barrett when throwing a pass.
Prescott said he initially thought he had just jammed a finger, like he has many times before, but realized on the next play that he couldn’t grip the football.
After initially being checked on the sideline, he jogged to the locker room and had X-rays. Backup Cooper Rush finished the game.
”I’ve hit my hand on helmets or bodies a lot in my career and never had anything, maybe a jammed finger and actually thought that is what it was,” Prescott said. ”Told the trainers the same thing, I can’t grip (the ball), I feel like if you yank it, I’ll be OK. Came in and got X-rays, and things are different.”
Prescott said he will see a doctor Monday and have surgery after that. He said he was told after the X-rays that the injury ”was much cleaner than it could have been.”
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said the injury is above his thumb, and behind the joint, and he pointed to an area between his own thumb and wrist.
Prescott’s 2020 season ended in the fifth week because of a gruesome ankle injury. He returned last season to throw for 4,449 yards and 37 touchdowns as the Cowboys won the NFC East before losing their first-round playoff game to San Francisco at home.
The 29-year-old Prescott said he got into the best shape of his life going into this season, his seventh in the NFL.
When there appeared to be a setback in practice last week, Prescott blamed a change in cleats for soreness in his surgically repaired ankle.
Prescott and the Cowboys are dealing with a bigger issue now, after losing the season opener without scoring a touchdown.
”To be very candid with you, all of that takes a backseat to the fact that as we go forward here for the next few weeks, we’ll be going forward without Dak,” Jones said. ”That’s foremost on my mind.”
Jones reiterated that while Prescott will be out ”several games,” he would not be out for the season.
Asked to characterize his emotions, Prescott said while disappointing and unfortunate, injuries are not necessarily anything he can control.
”Obviously going to miss some time and not be there for my team, and that’s what hurts more than more than anything especially after the start that we just put out there,” Prescott said. ”Wanted to be able to respond and not necessarily having that opportunity for several weeks, yeah, it’s unfortunate. But I’ll do what I’ve always done any time adversity comes, take it on headfirst and I’ll give my best and I’m sure I’ll come out of this thing better.”
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NEW ORLEANS (AP)New Orleans Saints coach Dennis Allen was both gratified and concerned that his first game in his new job was rescued by the largest fourth-quarter comeback in the franchise’s 56-year history.
”There’s a ton of stuff that needs to be corrected,” Allen said Monday after reviewing video of Sunday’s 27-26 victory at Atlanta. ”But I’ll say this: It’s been my experience over the last however many years, you get into games like this, and the good teams are able to win these games when they’re not playing at their best.”
The Saints trailed 26-10 early in the fourth quarter before scoring the next 17 points, the last coming when Wil Lutz, who’d clanked an earlier field-goal attempt off the left upright, hit a 51-yarder with 19 seconds left.
But because of star cornerback Marshon Lattimore’s personal foul for a hit after the whistle on the game’s penultimate play, the victory wasn’t sealed until New Orleans defensive end Payton Turner blocked Younghoe Koo’s 63-yard field-goal attempt as time expired.
Lattimore’s penalty was his second in the final minutes – the other being a third-down defensive holding call that allowed Atlanta, which led 26-24 at the time, to run the clock down further before punting the ball back to the Saints with 48 seconds to go.
”We did a lot of things in that game that could have kept us from winning,” Allen said.
In the locker at team headquarters Monday, Allen’s sentiments were echoed by linebacker Pete Werner.
”We’re fortunate for the win, but as a defense, and feeling vibe from the players and coaches, we can’t have a performance like that again or it’s not going to end with a `W’ in our minds,” Werner said.
Allen, who’d been New Orleans’ defensive coordinator since late in the 2015 season before his promotion to head coach following Sean Payton’s retirement, was bothered by the fact that Atlanta rushed for 201 yards.
”It’s unacceptable,” said Allen, whose defense ranked fourth in the NFL against the run last season. ”That’s not been the standard that we’ve had around here and won’t be the standard we’ll have around here.”
Quarterback Jameis Winston, playing in his first game since tearing his left ACL last Halloween, struggled with the timing and accuracy of his passes for much of the first three quarters before he suddenly started hitting receivers downfield with apparent ease in the fourth quarter.
”We got into a little bit of a two-minute type of operation,” Allen said. ”I thought Jameis felt real comfortable in that situation. … Once Jameis got into a rhythm, we felt good about what he was doing.”
WHAT’S WORKING
Quarterback runs designed for utility player Taysom Hill. Now listed as a tight end on the roster, Hill still takes snaps at quarterback periodically and usually keeps the ball when he does. At Atlanta, Hill gained 57 yards on one such run, setting up his 11-yard touchdown on a similar play.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
The offensive line is expected to be a strength this season, but struggled for most of the first three quarters. The Saints allowed four sacks of Winston, who also released a number of rushed and inaccurate throws under pressure. That played a part in New Orleans converting just four of 13 third downs.
”We had a couple of miscues,” Allen said. ”I don’t think we were as clean as we needed to be early in the game, particularly in the first half.”
STOCK UP
Receiver Michael Thomas proved what a difference he could make in his first game since Jan. 17, 2021. His two touchdown catches in the final 12 minutes helped spearhead the comeback.
STOCK DOWN
Right guard Cesar Ruiz and left tackle James Hurst each either missed blocks or struggled to hold blocks when the Falcons sacked Winston.
INJURIES
The Saints appeared to get through the game without any major injuries. Running back Alvin Kamara went to the locker room early with what Allen described as a minor rib injury. Winston also was briefly checked on the sideline between possessions early in the fourth quarter – right before he returned for the first of New Orleans’ final three scoring drives.
”I think he’s fine,” Allen said.
KEY NUMBER
212: The combined yards receiving of Jarvis Landry (114), Thomas (57) and Chris Olave – none of whom played a down for the Saints last season. While Thomas was coming back from injury, Landry was acquired in free agency and Olave was the club’s top draft choice last spring. Olave also caught a 2-point conversion.
NEXT STEPS
The Saints this Sunday play their home opener, in which they’ll aim for a fifth straight regular-season victory over Tampa Bay since Tom Brady became the Buccaneers’ quarterback in 2020.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — One way people are helping fight hunger is spending a day playing golf.
The Foodbank of Siouxland is had their 19th Annual Golf Classic Fundraiser over at Whispering Creek Golf Course.
A team of four had a shotgun start at noon with dinner served right after, but Siouxlanders don’t have to play to make a difference.
“But really, we are seeing the need stay strong because of inflation and high gas prices. As those ease, there may be some decrease needs, but we want to be there to help eat 365 days a year,” said Jacob Wanderscheid of the Foodbank of Siouxland.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Renowned jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis, whose music entertained fans over a more than 60-year career that began with the Ramsey Lewis Trio and made him one of the country's most successful jazz musicians, has died. He was 87.
Lewis is revered in jazz circles for 1960s hits like "The In Crowd," "Hang on Sloopy" and "Wade in the Water." He earned three Grammy awards and seven gold records. The trio's first record in 1956 was "Ramsey Lewis and the Gentlemen of Swing."
Lewis died Monday in his sleep at his Chicago home, according to his son, Bobby Lewis.
"He was just at peace," Bobby Lewis told The Associated Press on Monday night. "Most people say when they met dad that he was a class act. He was that way even through his last breath."
Ramsey Lewis described his approach to composing and performing in a 2011 interview with the AP.
"Life is a solo, and it continues," Lewis said, sitting at the dining room table in his downtown Chicago home. "I just know that when I put my hands on the piano it's going to flow."
Lewis first took piano lessons at age 4. He spent his early days in Chicago using his gospel and classical roots to create his own jazz style in the many neighborhood venues that hired young jazz musicians.
"It gave us a lot of opportunity to try our ideas and learn what it means to perform in front of an audience," Lewis said as he was named National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2007. He accepted the award from his mentor and fellow Jazz Master, pianist Billy Taylor.
During his career, Lewis performed with musical stars such as Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett, Al Jarreau and Pat Metheney. Lewis had more than 80 albums to his credit — three dozen of them with Chicago-based Chess Records. He toured around the world and performed at the 1995 state dinner that then-President Bill Clinton hosted for President Fernando Henrique of Brazil.
"I believe that my father — his love for the piano and his passion for the piano and how he coveted this love and how he protected it — that gave him longevity," Bobby Lewis said. "He recognized the gift God had given him."
The Chicago native began composing large-scale musical works later in his career. His first was an eight-movement piece for Chicago's Joffrey Ballet. He also completed a tribute to President Abraham Lincoln — "Proclamation of Hope: A Symphonic Poem by Ramsey Lewis."
Lewis also hosted radio shows in the 1990s and 2000, including "The Ramsey Lewis Morning Show, on WNUA-FM and the syndicated "Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis." In 2007, he hosted "Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis," a weekly program that aired on public television stations nationwide.
The show's creators said it was the first time jazz was featured on a weekly basis on network television in 40 years. It featured jazz greats and up-and-comers.
Lewis also spent time working on behalf of charities that brought music to young people.
"Ramsey's passion for music was truly fueled by the love and dedication of his fans across the globe," his wife, Janet Lewis, said in a Facebook post. "He loved touring and meeting music lovers from so many cultures and walks of life. It was our family's great pleasure to share Ramsey in this special way with all those who admired his God-given talents."
Brett Steele, whose Tampa, Florida-based Steele Management represented Lewis since 2011, said Lewis spent the last year of his life working on his memoirs which are completed and scheduled to be published next year.
In addition to his wife and son, Lewis also is survived by daughters Denise Jeffries and Dawn Allain; two other sons Kendall Kelly Lewis and Frayne Lewis; and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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Laramie County Democratic Party pins on a table during the Politics Are A Drag! fundraiser at the Historic Atlas Theatre. in Cheyenne on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Democratic Party is at risk of losing major party status if Democrats in the state don’t register and vote in the general election.
The Wyoming Secretary of State's Office reported that out of the more than 182,000 votes cast in the primary election overall, only 4.5% were for Democratic candidates. Republican candidates received 94.4% of the vote, and nonpartisan votes cast were at 1.1%.
The lopsided numbers were the result of many Democrats "crossing over" and voting Republican to support incumbent U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, who has taken a strong stance against former President Donald Trump and serves as vice-chair of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Cheney lost to challenger Harriet Hageman by 63,709 votes.
Democrats need to meet the 10% threshold of total votes cast for any one of the offices of the statewide offices – U.S. House of Representatives, governor or secretary of state – in the general election, or else they will be considered a minor political party. Under state statute, a minor political party is a political organization that receives not less than 2% or more than 10% of the total votes cast in the same office elections.
If they received less than 2%, a representative from the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Election Division said the Democratic Party would need to petition to gain access as a provisional party.
Minor and provisional political parties must nominate through a convention, meaning only the Republican Party would be allowed to nominate candidates by primary election, if Democrats lost major party status. Laramie County Democratic Party Communications Director Lindsey Hanlon said it also impacts participation in debates. (Hanlon is also a member of the Wyoming Tribune Eagle's editorial board.)
However, Democratic Party officials said they are not concerned.
“Historically speaking, Democratic candidates for governor, U.S. House or U.S. Senate have performed well above the 10% threshold outlined in Wyoming law,” WDP Communications Director David Martin told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. “So, it’s not something we’re concerned about. We’re more concerned about issues such as quality education, making sure that public lands remain in public hands, things along those lines.”
Hanlon said she is confident that Democrats will gain the votes necessary to continue as a major party in the state, but she was distressed to see the low percentage of representation during the primary. She said she believes U.S. House candidate Lynnette GreyBull and governor candidate Terry Livingston are both fantastic candidates, and they will pull voters back to the Democratic Party.
The biggest issue she sees with voters remaining registered as Republicans is it makes it harder to send out mailers or keep track of Democratic rolls, Hanlon said. She recommends voters change their registration back to Democrat before the general election.
“It does make it harder to communicate with those voters,” she said. “For example, if we’re wanting to send out a reminder mailer, and we want to send it out to all Democrats – we’re going to end up missing any Democrat who’s currently registered as a Republican.”
Despite a low number of voters participating in the Democratic primary, the turnout of the voting age population in the state was one of the highest in the past four decades, according to the Wyoming Election Division. Close to 41% of the voting age population took part in the 2022 primary, and the last closest amount was 41.5% of the population in 1994.
It also has been a successful year in terms of the percentage of the voting age population that is registered to vote. On Aug. 16, there were 287,014 voters registered, which is the highest ever seen. It was also the highest amount in terms of voter turnout, with 182,232 filling out their ballot in the primary, or about 64%.
Jasmine Hall is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s state government reporter. She can be reached by email at jhall@wyomingnews.com or by phone at 307-633-3167. Follow her on Twitter @jasminerhphotos and on Instagram @jhrose25. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/elections/election_2022/wyoming-democratic-party-at-risk-of-losing-major-party-status/article_61569a8a-32e3-11ed-a10f-13e8def7f782.html | 2022-09-13T01:58:28Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/elections/election_2022/wyoming-democratic-party-at-risk-of-losing-major-party-status/article_61569a8a-32e3-11ed-a10f-13e8def7f782.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LARAMIE – The University of Wyoming landed its first commitment from the class of 2023 on Monday, with three-star point guard Makaih Williams announcing his intentions to join the Cowboys next season.
Williams, a senior at Southern California Academy just north of Los Angeles, is rated by 247sports as the No. 38 point guard and No. 39 California prospect in his class.
He chose the Pokes over Ole Miss and San Francisco, and points to UW coach Jeff Linder’s track record for developing guards as a driving factor in his decision. Cowboys senior Hunter Maldonado was an all-conference selection last season, and the only player in the country to average more than 18 points, five rebounds and six assists. Drake Jeffries, meanwhile, joined the Orlando Magic on an Exhibit 10 contract this summer.
“Really just how coach Linder coaches, and how he's developed his guards over the last few years,” Williams said of what stood out to him most about the program. “It's just really a good place and fit for me. From the outside, the state itself having that close town (mindset), everybody supports the whole school. And there just being no distractions.”
Williams visited UW over the weekend, and was impressed by the facilities, noting that “everything looks brand-new and everything looks professional.” He also had a positive first impression of the players on the team.
“Everybody is a good guy,” he said. “They're good people, so it's a tight team. There's nobody that has a bad attitude or anything. Everybody just wants to hoop and get better.”
Williams had considered UW as a potential destination for a while, and was able to watch the Cowboys in-person during their 79-66 win at Cal State Fullerton last season. His visit, however, is what sealed his verbal commitment.
He got a workout in while in Laramie over the weekend, admitting he could tell the difference of Wyoming’s 7,200-foot elevation. He views this as something that will work in his and the Cowboys’ favor once he gets on campus.
“I could feel it, for sure,” Williams said. “But that's something that's going to help improve my conditioning. There's going to be an upside when home-court advantage comes.”
Williams says he tries to model his game after Ja Morant, Darius Garland and Chris Paul, as well as other top guards in the NBA. He describes himself as an all-around player that can "do a little bit of everything," and will be working on improving his shooting, defense and conditioning as he prepares to make the jump from high school to the college level.
Last season marked the Cowboys' highest winning percentage since the 1987-88 season, as the program snapped a seven-year NCAA Tournament drought. However, Williams adds that “even if they didn't have that, just how (Linder) develops his guards was the eye-opener for me.”
Josh Criswell covers the University of Wyoming for WyoSports. He can be reached at jcriswell@wyosports.net or 307-755-3325. Follow him on Twitter at @criswell_sports. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/cowboys-get-commitment-from-3-star-point-guard-makaih-williams/article_9492c13a-32f2-11ed-b96f-43b820e10742.html | 2022-09-13T01:58:34Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/cowboys-get-commitment-from-3-star-point-guard-makaih-williams/article_9492c13a-32f2-11ed-b96f-43b820e10742.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In fashion, like the gov
Filling Park Avenue’s whole Armory, the Coach fashion show jammed traffic to Riverdale. Through a rear door and from behind a truck’s “Avid Waste System” sign came Gov. Hochul — cool, smiling, in black, red Coach bag, matching heels, no stockings. I was her Plus One.
Coach exec: “New York is coming back.” Hochul: “New York’s the center of fashion” then, “Meet my sister Sheila.” Kathy’s a good-looking brunette. Sheila’s a stunning blond. “One of us takes after our mom, the other our father.” (Or hairdresser.)
The Gov: “I already started early. Working to counteract anti-Semitism, I began this morning at the Jerusalem Post. Then to a National Urban League meeting for a project in Harlem.” It was 2 p.m. “I learn topics quickly. I like to learn, impart information. I can take in a lot on a 20-minute ride.”
Me when concerned about her heels walking up steep steps, she said: “Once in the Adirondacks I tried skiing. Never did it before. I fell down hard and broke my ribs and leg. I’m OK. I can tough it out.”
To quote a friend from Killarney: “Nothing beats a tough Irish broad.”
Spielberg’s family planning
Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” loosely based on his own life, is grabbing raves. Paul Dano plays his dad. Michelle Williams his mom.
Spielberg: “I put pieces of my personal life into everything I’ve done. Everything I direct. But I’ve never told one as close as this to my own experiences. This was my focused intentional coming-of-age story.
“Only names were changed to protect the innocent. Nothing tougher than casting your own family. Michelle represented my own experiences with my mom.”
It opens Thanksgiving. Also stars Seth Rogen and Judd Hirsch.
Veep no VIP
Kamala — first woman, first minority VP — what if she goes for president. Answer from a tableful of Dem pros: “No worries. We’ll put her in a debate. She’ll get 3%.”
Never forget
Nov. 2001. Parts of Putin’s ABC-TV sit-down with Barbara Walters about 9/11:
“Mixed feelings of guilt for this tragedy. In ’99 we were victims of a terrorist attack and explosion of buildings in Moscow. Hundreds of innocent people died . . . There was realization that Russia should be a strategic ally of the entire civilized community including certainly the United States . . . If we want to be protected, we should be together.
“Sept. 11 opened our eyes to that.”
We feud with neighbors, argue with employees, dislike our landlord, trash our politicians, disagree with minorities, yell at family and parade for peace.
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Leonard Fournette and Micah Parsons escalated their beef from the football field to social media.
On Sunday night, as the Buccaneers were thrashing the Cowboys in their NFL season opener, Parsons was blocked by a lineman and Fournette came down the pike and trucked him.
When Pro Football Focus tweeted a replay of the video, Parsons was not happy.
“Now go watch the tape! And see what happenned [sic] when it was me and him one on one!!! You hit someone not looking you straight pus**y !! Stop hyping this weak as* s–t it’s football!!” the Cowboys linebacker tweeted, adding laughing emojis.
In this situation, Fournette opted not for words but to respond with a GIF of the Crying Jordan meme.
For what it’s worth, Parsons had some solidarity from Bills pass rusher Von Miller.
“This block must be taken out the game!” Miller tweeted on Monday morning. “This is the future and we are just letting the offense tee off on our marquee pass rushers! You can get the job done without this much contact!”
Given that the Bucs and Cowboys do not play in the same division, the only chance they’ll face off again this season is if they meet in the playoffs. It may be a long while before Parsons can exact his revenge. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/12/micah-parson-leonard-fournette-beef-over-hit-on-twitter/ | 2022-09-13T02:04:21Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/12/micah-parson-leonard-fournette-beef-over-hit-on-twitter/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHICAGO — Renowned jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis, whose music entertained fans over a more than 60-year career that began with the Ramsey Lewis Trio and made him one of the country’s most successful jazz musicians, has died. He was 87.
Lewis is revered in jazz circles for 1960s hits like “The In Crowd,” “Hang on Sloopy” and “Wade in the Water.” He earned three Grammy awards and seven gold records. The trio’s first record in 1956 was “Ramsey Lewis and the Gentlemen of Swing.”
Lewis died Monday in his sleep at his Chicago home, according to his son, Bobby Lewis.
“He was just at peace,” Bobby Lewis told The Associated Press on Monday night. “Most people say when they met dad that he was a class act. He was that way even through his last breath.”
Ramsey Lewis described his approach to composing and performing in a 2011 interview with the AP.
“Life is a solo, and it continues,” Lewis said, sitting at the dining room table in his downtown Chicago home. “I just know that when I put my hands on the piano it’s going to flow.”
Lewis first took piano lessons at age 4. He spent his early days in Chicago using his gospel and classical roots to create his own jazz style in the many neighborhood venues that hired young jazz musicians.
“It gave us a lot of opportunity to try our ideas and learn what it means to perform in front of an audience,” Lewis said as he was named National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2007. He accepted the award from his mentor and fellow Jazz Master, pianist Billy Taylor.
During his career, Lewis performed with musical stars such as Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett, Al Jarreau and Pat Metheney. Lewis had more than 80 albums to his credit — three dozen of them with Chicago-based Chess Records. He toured around the world and performed at the 1995 state dinner that then-President Bill Clinton hosted for President Fernando Henrique of Brazil.
The Chicago native began composing large-scale musical works later in his career. His first was an eight-movement piece for Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet. He also completed a tribute to President Abraham Lincoln — “Proclamation of Hope: A Symphonic Poem by Ramsey Lewis.”
Lewis also hosted radio shows in the 1990s and 2000, including “The Ramsey Lewis Morning Show, on WNUA-FM and the syndicated “Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis.” In 2007, he hosted “Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis,” a weekly program that aired on public television stations nationwide.
The show’s creators said it was the first time jazz was featured on a weekly basis on network television in 40 years. It featured jazz greats and up-and-comers.
Lewis also spent time working on behalf of charities that brought music to young people.
“The last year of his life he was working on his memoirs,” said Steele, whose Tampa, Florida-based Steele Management has represented Lewis since 2011. “It’s finished and scheduled to come out next year.”
In addition to his son, Lewis also is survived by his wife, Janet; daughters Denise Jeffries and Dawn Allain; two other sons Kendall Kelly Lewis and Frayne Lewis; and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/pianist-ramsey-lewis-dies-at-87/507-16cedb91-8dfd-4dc3-aaad-b40b413b14b0 | 2022-09-13T02:04:38Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/pianist-ramsey-lewis-dies-at-87/507-16cedb91-8dfd-4dc3-aaad-b40b413b14b0 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOS ANGELES — Sheryl Lee Ralph was so moved by her Emmy win, she had to respond in song.
Ralph took the Emmy Award for best supporting actress in a comedy series Monday night for her role as a devoutly religious kindergarten teacher on ABC’s “Abbott Elementary.”
It’s the first Emmy and first nomination for the 65-year-old Ralph, who was in tears and had to gather herself after accepting the trophy.
She opened her speech with a powerfully delivered acapella version of the song “Endangered Species” by Dianne Reeves.
“I am an endangered species, but I sing no victim song. I am a woman, I am an artist and I know where my voice belongs,” she belted out. She then encouraged anyone doubting their dream “I am here to tell you this is what believing looks like.”
Her win, and reaction, were hugely popular inside the Microsoft Theater.
“We love you!” a man shouted from the rear seats as she arrived on stage. The audience, including Lizzo and many of television's biggest stars, leapt to their feet to cheer on Ralph.
Moments later, Brett Goldstein won his second straight Emmy Award for his role on “Ted Lasso.”
In the second season of the Apple TV+ show, Goldstein’s character Roy Kent went from cranky veteran player to angry television analyst to grouchy assistant coach of the English soccer team at the center of the show, on which he’s also a writer. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/sheryl-lee-ralph-y-wins-emmy/507-ce4f1322-bf89-4d77-b2fe-1e54a7123f41 | 2022-09-13T02:04:44Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/sheryl-lee-ralph-y-wins-emmy/507-ce4f1322-bf89-4d77-b2fe-1e54a7123f41 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Work began Monday morning to add six new inspection booths at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry, part of a $122 million project to remodel and modernize the pedestrian side of the crossing.
The work is not expected to disrupt operations, where more than 5,700 commuters cross the border from Mexico to the United States on a daily basis.
According to the General Services Administration, “there will be floor-to-ceiling construction walls to facilitate the installation of the new booths with little, or no impact on pedestrian operations.”
The new lanes are expected to be completed by January 2023.
Once they are done, the six existing lanes will be remodeled making 12 lanes available to border commuters who often have to wait hours to cross the border.
“I’m always crossing, though it’s not always like this, but today was definitely a little too much,” said Grecia Solis. “It took me two hours to get across.”
Solis also said on days like Monday, wait times can become increasingly frustrating.
“It’s frustrating because there weren’t that many people and you could see it wasn’t moving at all.”
Solis, when told about the pending work to expand the crossing, said it was sorely needed.
“It would definitely help because you never know what time you have to wake up in order to get to work or to school, I think it will help a lot.”
In a statement, GSA said the “modernization and expansion project is an effort to alleviate wait times and provide a more seamless travel process.”
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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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Pvt. Sead Berisha, a psychological operations soldier with the Kosovo Security Force, smiles as he receives his newly-earned Air Assault badge from Lt. Col. Berat Shala, executive officer to the KSF commander, on graduation day of a U.S. Air Assault course at Camp Dodge in Johnston, Iowa, on Sept. 9, 2022. Over 200 students participated in the 12-day course held at Camp Dodge, which trains service members in sling load operations and rappelling. The Iowa National Guard is partnered with the KSF as part of the DOD State Partnership Program, which offers unique opportunities for joint training and cooperation. Sead and one other KSF soldier became the first KSF members to graduate from a U.S. Air Assault course. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Tawny Kruse)
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Command Sgt. Maj. Joseph Hjelmstad, command senior enlisted leader of the Iowa National Guard, congratulates Staff Sgt. Lorik Ramaj, a Kosovo Security Force member assigned to a civilian affairs company, on his graduation from a U.S. Air Assault course at Camp Dodge in Johnston, Iowa, on Sept. 9, 2022. Over 200 students participated in the 12-day course held at Camp Dodge, which trains service members in sling load operations and rappelling. The Iowa National Guard is partnered with the KSF as part of the DOD State Partnership Program, which offers unique opportunities for joint training and cooperation. Ramaj and one other KSF soldier became the first KSF members to graduate from a U.S. Air Assault course. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Tawny Kruse)
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Sebastian County election commissioner has felony conviction
Jason Vineyard ineligible to vote, prosecuting attorney opines
Jason Andrew Vineyard, a Sebastian County Election Commission chairman, has a felony conviction that makes him ineligible to vote, the prosecuting attorney reported Monday.
Sebastian County Prosecuting Attorney Daniel Shue reports Vineyard, 43, Republican Election Commissioner, has a 2003 felony conviction. Vineyard has reportedly been removed as the Sebastian County Election Commission chairman.
Shue sent a letter to Sharon Brooks, Sebastian County Clerk, notifying the office that Vineyard is ineligible to vote, despite the fact he had continued to vote in elections since his conviction. The letter states that Shue was responding to a recent request from Brooks on whether Vineyard is ineligible to vote.
Lee Webb, Democrat election commissioner, said Monday he was not aware if Vineyard had been removed as chairman.
Either the Circuit Court or the Sebastian County Republican Party could remove Vineyard. Larry Bishop, Sebastian County Republican Committee chairman, told reporters Vineyard had been removed from the commission Monday.
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"It is part of a long list of stuff that has been going on the last few months," Webb said.
Election commissioners administer conduction and tabulation of all Sebastian County elections.
Vineyard entered a guilty plea to a felony charge of writing a hot check in 2003, court records show.
He was received a 10-year, suspended sentence and was ordered to pay $20,055 restitution.
Shue reported in the restitution had not been paid in full.
"For some yet-to-be-determined reason, the Circuit Clerk, at that time) either failed to notify the County Clerk (at that time) of his conviction in 2003 or the County Clerk did not cancel his voter registration back in 2003. Therefore, it is the opinion of this office that Jason Andrew Vineyard has been convicted of a felony, that he has not satisfied the other terms of his sentence and thus has not discharged his sentence or been pardoned," Shue wrote in the letter. | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/09/12/sebastian-county-election-commission-chairman-jason-andrew-vineyard-removed/69487965007/ | 2022-09-13T02:10:29Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/09/12/sebastian-county-election-commission-chairman-jason-andrew-vineyard-removed/69487965007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Paul Finebaum: ex-Arkansas football coach Chad Morris one of 'biggest clowns' he's ever met
Paul Finebaum called former Arkansas football coach Chad Morris "one of the biggest clowns I've ever met" while speaking at the Little Rock Touchdown Club on Monday.
Finebaum, who hosts The Paul Finebaum show on SEC Network, was speaking to the crowd in Little Rock about the swift progress second-year Arkansas coach Sam Pittman has made since taking over the program.
"I've got a really warm spot in my heart for Sam," Finebaum said. "You folks understand it better than most. He's a person that represents this state better – I mean, does he represent the state better than, let me think for a second, Chad Morris?"
That earned a laugh.
"And if I can go off the record," Finebaum continued, "personally I thought he was one of the biggest clowns I've ever met in my life."
The event included a live video feed posted to Facebook by the Little Rock Touchdown Club.
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Morris is now an analyst at South Florida. He didn't last two full seasons as Arkansas' coach, going 0-14 in SEC games during hid brief tenure. He was then Auburn's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2020, but Auburn fired eight-year head coach Gus Malzahn at the end of the season. Morris moved on to become the head coach at Allen High School, one of the biggest high school programs in Texas, before returning to the college game at USF.
Morris was SMU's coach from 2015-17 and Clemson's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2011-14.
Arkansas has turned the corner since the brief Morris era ended, with Pittman leading the Razorbacks to a 9-4 season. During the event Monday, Finebaum called Arkansas the third-best team in the SEC this season. The Hogs are 2-0 with wins against Cincinnati and South Carolina. | https://www.swtimes.com/story/sports/college/2022/09/12/paul-finebaum-chad-morris-clown-former-arkansas-football-coach/69487814007/ | 2022-09-13T02:10:35Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/sports/college/2022/09/12/paul-finebaum-chad-morris-clown-former-arkansas-football-coach/69487814007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Arkansas high school football statewide rankings for Week 3
The following are the overall top 10 high school football teams in Arkansas and the top five in Classes 7A, 6A, 5A, 4A, 3A, 2A, and the top three in the two 8-man divisions as voted by a panel of sports media from around the state for Week 3 of the 2022 season. The ranking is given with first-place votes received, records, total points, and last week's ranking:
Others receiving votes: Benton 23, Little Rock Christian 10, Little Rock Catholic 3, Wynne 3, Rogers 1.
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Others receiving votes: Bentonville West 3, Rogers 1.
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Others receiving votes: Little Rock Catholic 7, West Memphis 3, Marion 2.
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Others receiving votes: Little Rock Mills 11, Farmington 10, Magnolia 6, Maumelle 2, Alma 1, Nettleton 1.
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Others receiving votes: Stuttgart 7, McGehee 2.
Others receiving votes: Glen Rose 4, Camden Harmony Grove 1, Fordyce 1, Hoxie 1, Lavaca 1.
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Others receiving votes: Des Arc 16, Clarendon 10, East Poinsett County 10, Poyen 8, Dierks 2, Hector 2, Little Rock Episcopal 2.
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Others receiving votes: Marshall 4, Subiaco Academy 3, Cedar Ridge 1.
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Others receiving votes: Rector 9, Woodlawn 3, Strong-Huttig 2.
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Crewmembers aboard U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) tow the disabled 66-foot fishing vessel, Lodestar, approximately 180 miles offshore Coos Bay, Oregon Sept. 10, 2022. The crew towed the vessel toward shore and transferred the vessel and 2 survivors to a 47-foot Motor Lifeboat crew from Coast Guard Station Coos Bay, who towed the vessel to shore. (U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo)
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DOJ signals agreement to Trump's choice for special master
The Justice Department signaled in a filing Monday that it would accept a former chief federal judge in New York as the special master for overseeing a review of the documents the FBI retrieved from Mar-a-Lago.
Why it matters: The selection of a special master has been a point of contention between former President Trump and the DOJ.
- If Judge Aileen Cannon approves the pick, Judge Raymond Dearie would be charged with determining which documents should be shielded from the federal prosecutors who are investigating potential mishandling of classified material.
Details: Dearie, whom Trump proposed as a nominee, has served as a federal judge in New York since the 1980s. He now serves as a senior judge on the circuit after retiring in 2011.
What they're saying: The DOJ wrote in its filing that Dearie, along with its two original nominees, has "substantial judicial experience, during which they have presided over federal criminal and civil cases, including federal cases involving national security and privilege concern."
- "In selecting among the three candidates, the government respectfully requests that the Court consider and select the candidate best positioned to timely perform the special master’s assigned responsibilities."
The big picture: Trump has asked Cannon to reject the DOJ's request for a stay of her ruling to let a special master review evidence seized from Mar-a-Lago.
- Cannon's ruling temporarily blocked the DOJ from reviewing the documents, which the agency has said will cause "irreparable harm" to the government and the public.
- It's unclear whether Cannon would lift that restriction once a special master is appointed and approved.
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES...
.A south swell may briefly push surf heights to advisory levels
along south facing shores through tonight.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Surf 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...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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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Honolulu Police have opened an attempted murder investigation following an apparent shooting incident in the Kalihi area, Monday afternoon.
HPD officers were called out to the scene on Dillingham Boulevard, near Mokauea Street and Kalihi Street, just after 1 p.m.
According to Honolulu Medical Services (EMS), a man in his 30s was taken from the scene in serious condition suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. The victim has not yet been identified.
So far there has been no information about a possible suspect or suspects in this incident. It is unclear what led to the shooting. No other injuries have been reported.
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES...
.A south swell may briefly push surf heights to advisory levels
along south facing shores through tonight.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Surf 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...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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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- The Hawaii Department of Education is launching a pilot program that aims to expand transportation options for high school students statewide.
The program will expand subsidized county bus passes for high schoolers in grades 9 through 12.
The Expanding Ridership to Educate Students in Schools program, or EXPRESS, aims to help mitigate the impacts of the national school bus driver shortage, education officials said.
“We started this school year down roughly 90 bus drivers, and every bus we can reassign will help us to prioritize impacted routes at our elementary and intermediate schools. We thank our county transportation partners and our high school students for being a part of the solution,” said Superintendent Keith Hayashi.
Officials say that expanding free bus transportation services will benefit more than 21,000 students who are currently ineligible because they live within the walk zone of their school campus.
Interested students with an active HIDOE student ID number may sign up now. Tap here to learn more.
“Like other school districts across the nation, Hawaii is addressing a shortage of school bus drivers that has led to canceled routes, schedule delays and passenger waitlists, as our contractors work hard to maintain services with fewer drivers,” Hayashi said.
Approved applicants will receive a confirmation and their county bus pass directly through their school, officials said.
Oahu recipients will receive one county pass that will be valid through July 2023. The City & County of Honolulu will be funding the cost of passes on Oahu for June and July 2023.
Recipients on Kauai, Maui and Hawaii Island will receive passes that are good for each month through July 2023.
Parents and guardians will be responsible for finding the nearest county bus route to and from their student’s school and for finding the safest walking routes to and from the nearest bus stops. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/hawaii-doe-launches-express-pilot-program-expanding-transportation-options-for-high-schoolers/article_0c5d8648-32fb-11ed-87ce-1b7ca7383e20.html | 2022-09-13T02:15:08Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/hawaii-doe-launches-express-pilot-program-expanding-transportation-options-for-high-schoolers/article_0c5d8648-32fb-11ed-87ce-1b7ca7383e20.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES...
.A south swell may briefly push surf heights to advisory levels
along south facing shores through tonight.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Surf 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...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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KANEOHE, Hawaii (KITV4) -A Kaneohe restaurant made its new home in the former Dean's Drive Inn location.
Cafe Kalawe, owned by the husband and wife team, Raymond and Kalawe, moved their tiny restaurant from Kawa Street down the street on William Henry Road.
On its Facebook page, the owners wrote: "MAHALO NUI to all of our customers, family, and friends who have helped with blessing us during our first week at our New Location! Our cup overfloweth, and we praise Ke Akua for blessing us in abundance."
Known for its ono breakfast of the loco moco with gravy all over, chopped steak plate, and save room for the delicious desserts!
Dean's Drive Inn's owner announced its closure in June, citing rising food and supply costs.
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES...
.A south swell may briefly push surf heights to advisory levels
along south facing shores through tonight.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Surf 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...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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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- All remaining mask mandates for University of Hawaii campuses and properties will be lifted on Friday, September 16, school officials announced in a statement.
Masks are currently required in classrooms, shared laboratory spaces and confined educational spaces.
Recommendations from UH medical and public health experts, as well as state and federal guidance, led to the decision to lift the mask requirements.
In a statement, UH noted that "masks are still strongly encouraged in crowded indoor spaces and required for those who have contracted the virus."
“Mahalo for all you have done to elevate our collective understanding of personal safety during this devastating pandemic,” said UH President David Lassner in an email to the 10-campus system announcing the update last week. “You have demonstrated our capacity to look beyond ourselves and to care for others.”
"UH will continue to remain highly vigilant, and COVID-19 restrictions may be quickly reinstated, if conditions change and warrant stronger measures,” Lassner added.
Lassner also asked for respect for an individual's choice to continue to wear a mask.
University of Hawaii COVID guidelines can be found here.
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Kathryn spent the last decade in the Bay Area working in nonprofits, education, and communications consulting. She has a B.A. in English from St. Mary's College of CA and an M.A. in Public Affairs and Politics from the University of San Francisco. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/university-of-hawaii-to-lift-remaining-mask-mandates-on-september-16/article_83a52236-3302-11ed-b4c8-4b6f628639b0.html | 2022-09-13T02:15:20Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/university-of-hawaii-to-lift-remaining-mask-mandates-on-september-16/article_83a52236-3302-11ed-b4c8-4b6f628639b0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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WASHINGTON — When Emmanuel Obeng-Dankwa is worried about making rent on his New York City apartment, he sometimes holds off on filling his blood pressure medication.
"If there's no money, I prefer to skip the medication to being homeless," said Obeng-Dankwa, a 58-year-old security guard.
He is among a majority of adults in the U.S. who say that health care is not handled well in the country, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The poll reveals that public satisfaction with the U.S. health care system is remarkably low, with fewer than half of Americans saying it is generally handled well. Only 12% say it is handled extremely or very well. Americans have similar views about health care for older adults.
Overall, the public gives even lower marks for how prescription drug costs, the quality of care at nursing homes and mental health care are being handled, with just 6% or less saying those health services are done very well in the country.
"Navigating the American health care system is exceedingly frustrating," said A. Mark Fendrick, the director of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design. "The COVID pandemic has only made it worse."
More than two years after the pandemic's start, health care worker burnout and staffing shortages are plaguing hospitals around the country. And Americans are still having trouble getting in-person medical care after health centers introduced restrictions as COVID-19 killed and sickened millions of people around the country, Fendrick said.
In fact, the poll shows an overwhelming majority of Americans, nearly 8 in 10, say they are at least moderately concerned about getting access to quality health care when they need it.
Black and Hispanic adults in particular are resoundingly worried about health care access, with nearly 6 in 10 saying they are very or extremely concerned about getting good care. Fewer than half of white adults, 44%, expressed the same level of worry.
Racial disparities have long troubled America's health care system. They have been abundantly clear during the COVID-19 pandemic, with Black and Hispanic people dying disproportionately from the virus. Black and Hispanic men also make up a disproportionately high rate of recent monkeypox infections.
Fifty-three percent of women said they are extremely or very concerned about obtaining quality care, compared to 42% of men.
While Americans are united in their dissatisfaction with the health care system, that agreement dissolves when it comes to solutions to fix it.
About two-thirds of adults think it is the federal government's responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage, with adults ages 18 to 49 more likely than those over 50 to hold that view. The percentage of people who believe health care coverage is a government responsibility has risen in recent years, ticking up from 57% in 2019 and 62% in 2017.
Still, there's not consensus on how that coverage might be delivered.
About 4 in 10 Americans say they support a single-payer health care system that would require Americans to get their health insurance from a government plan. More, 58%, say they favor a government health insurance plan that anyone can purchase.
There also is broad support for policies that would help Americans pay for the costs of long-term care, including a government-administered insurance plan similar to Medicare, the federal government's health insurance for people 65 or older.
Retired nurse Pennie Wright, of Camden, Tennessee, doesn't like the idea of a government-run health care system.
After switching to Medicare this year, she was surprised to walk out of her annual well-woman visit, once fully covered by her private insurance plan, with $200 worth of charges for a mammogram and a pap smear.
She prefers the flexibility she had on her private insurance plan.
"I feel like we have the best health care system in the world, we have a choice of where we want to go," Wright said.
A majority of Americans, roughly two-thirds, were happy to see the government step in to provide free COVID-19 testing, vaccines and treatment. Roughly 2 in 10 were neutral about the government's response.
The government's funding for free COVID-19 tests dried up at the beginning of the month. And while the White House says the latest batch of recommended COVID-19 boosters will be free to anyone who wants one, it doesn't have money on hand to buy any future rounds of booster shots for every American.
Eighty percent say they support the federal government negotiating for lower drug prices. President Joe Biden this summer signed a landmark bill into law allowing Medicare to negotiate the price of prescription drugs. The move is expected to save taxpayers as much as $100 billion over the next decade.
"Medication costs should be low, to the minimum so that everyone can afford it," said Obeng-Dankwa, the Bronx renter who has trouble paying for his medication. "Those who are poor should be able to get all the necessary health they need, in the same way someone who also has the money to pay for it."
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The poll of 1,505 adults was conducted July 28-Aug. 1 using a sample drawn from NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/americans-give-health-care-system-failing-mark-ap-norc-poll/article_e5736352-32f7-11ed-9501-87cbe50ea5d0.html | 2022-09-13T02:31:07Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/americans-give-health-care-system-failing-mark-ap-norc-poll/article_e5736352-32f7-11ed-9501-87cbe50ea5d0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BOSTON — President Joe Biden on Monday urged Americans to come together for a new "national purpose" — his administration's effort to end cancer "as we know it."
At the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Biden channeled JFK's famed moonshot speech 60 years ago, likening the space race to his own effort and hoping it, too, would galvanize Americans.
"He established a national purpose that could rally the American people and a common cause," Biden said of Kennedy's space effort, adding that "we can usher in the same unwillingness to postpone."
Biden hopes to move the U.S. closer to the goal he set in February of cutting U.S. cancer fatalities by 50% over the next 25 years and dramatically improving the lives of caregivers and those suffering from cancer. Experts say the objective is attainable — with adequate investments.
The president called his goal of developing treatments and therapeutics for cancers "bold, ambitious, and I might add, completely doable."
In his speech, Biden called on the private sector to make drugs more affordable, and data more regularly available. He ticked off medical advancements possible with focused research, funding and data.
And he spoke of a new federally backed study that seeks evidence for using blood tests to screen against multiple cancers — a potential game-changer in diagnostic testing to dramatically improve early detection of cancers.
Danielle Carnival, the White House coordinator for the effort, told The Associated Press that the administration sees huge potential in the commencement of the blood diagnostic study on identifying cancers.
"One of the most promising technologies has been the development of blood tests that offer the promise of detecting multiple cancers in a single blood test and really imagining the impact that could have on our ability to detect cancer early and in a more equitable way," Carnival said. "We think the best way to get us to the place where those are realized is to really test out the technologies we have today and see what works and what really has an impact on extending lives."
In 2022, the American Cancer Society estimates, 1.9 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed and 609,360 people will die of cancer diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rank cancer as the second-highest killer of people in the U.S. after heart disease.
The issue is personal to Biden, who lost his adult son Beau in 2015 to brain cancer. After Beau's death, Congress passed the 21st Century Cures Act, which dedicated $1.8 billion over seven years for cancer research and was signed into law in 2016 by President Barack Obama.
Obama designated Biden, then vice president, to run "mission control" on directing the cancer funds as a recognition of Biden's grief as a parent and desire to do something about it. Biden wrote in his memoir "Promise Me, Dad" that he chose not to run for president in 2016 primarily because of Beau's death.
Despite Biden's attempts to hark back to Kennedy and his space program, the current initiative lacks that same level of budgetary support. The Apollo program garnered massive public investment — more than $20 billion, or more than $220 billion in 2022 dollars adjusted for inflation. Biden's effort is far more modest and reliant on private sector investment.
Still, he's tried to maintain momentum for investments in public health research, including championing the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, modeled after similar research and development initiatives benefiting the Pentagon and intelligence community.
On Monday, Biden announced Dr. Renee Wegrzyn as the inaugural director of ARPA-H, which has been given the task of studying treatments and potential cures for cancers, Alzheimer's, diabetes and other diseases. He also announced a new National Cancer Institute scholars' program to provide funding to early-career scientists studying treatments and cures for cancer, with a focus on underrepresented groups and those from diverse backgrounds.
The president was joined by Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of JFK who is now the U.S. ambassador to Australia. And he was expected to speak later in the day at a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee.
Experts agree it's far too early to say whether these new blood tests for finding cancer in healthy people will have any effect on cancer deaths. There have been no studies to show they reduce the risk of dying from cancer. Still, they say setting an ambitious goal is important.
Carnival said the National Cancer Institute study was designed so that any promising diagnostic results could be swiftly put into widespread practice while the longer-term study — expected to last up to a decade — progresses. She said the goal was to move closer to a future where cancers could be detected through routine bloodwork, potentially reducing the need for more invasive and burdensome procedures like colonoscopies, and therefore saving lives.
Scientists now understand that cancer is not a single disease, but hundreds of diseases that respond differently to different treatments. Some cancers have biomarkers that can be targeted by existing drugs that will slow a tumor's growth. Many more targets await discovery.
"How do we learn what therapies are effective in which subtypes of disease? That to me is oceanic," said Donald A. Berry, a biostatistician at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. "The possibilities are enormous. The challenges are enormous."
Despite the challenges, he's optimistic about cutting the cancer death rate in half over the next 25 years.
"We can get to that 50% goal by slowing the disease sufficiently across the various cancers without curing anybody," Berry said. "If I were to bet on whether we will achieve this 50% reduction, I would bet yes."
Even without new breakthroughs, progress can be made by making care more equitable, said Dr. Crystal Denlinger, chief scientific officer for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, a group of elite cancer centers.
And any effort to reduce the cancer death rate will need to focus on the biggest cancer killer, which is lung cancer. Mostly attributable to smoking, lung cancer now causes more cancer deaths than any other cancer. Of the 1,670 daily cancer deaths in the United States, more than 350 are from lung cancer.
Lung cancer screening is helping. The American Cancer Society says such screening helped drive down the cancer death rate 32% from its peak in 1991 to 2019, the most recent year for which numbers are available.
But only 5% of eligible patients are being screened for lung cancer.
In his speech, Biden highlighted provisions in the Democrats' healthcare and climate change bill that the administration believes will lower out-of-pocket drug prices for some widely used cancer treatments. And he celebrated new guarantees for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits, that cover their potential cancer diagnoses.
Dr. Michael Hassett of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, said Biden's goal to reduce cancer deaths could be met by following two parallel paths: one of discovery and the other making sure as many people as possible are reaping the advantages of existing therapies and preventive approaches.
"If we can address both aspects, both challenges, major advances are possible," Hassett said. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/biden-hopes-ending-cancer-can-be-a-national-purpose-for-us/article_f0641e0e-32f3-11ed-aa38-d7abd7725d37.html | 2022-09-13T02:31:13Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/biden-hopes-ending-cancer-can-be-a-national-purpose-for-us/article_f0641e0e-32f3-11ed-aa38-d7abd7725d37.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Joseph Hazelwood, the captain of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker that ran aground more than three decades ago in Alaska, causing one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, has died, the New York Times reported. He was 75.
He died in July after struggling with COVID-19 and cancer, his nephew Sam Hazelwood told the newspaper for a story reported Friday. Hazelwood's family members and business associates did not respond to The Associated Press for comment.
The Exxon Valdez, a 987-foot (301-meter) tanker, grounded on Alaska's Bligh Reef at 12:04 a.m. on March 24, 1989, spewing nearly 11 million gallons (41 million liters) of oil into the rich fishing waters of Prince William Sound. Currents and storms carried the crude over 1,200 miles (1,931 kilometers) of Alaska coastline.
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council estimates the spill killed a quarter million seabirds, 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbor seals, 250 bald eagles, up to 22 killer whales and billions of fish eggs. It took years for the fish numbers to rebound following the spill, and oil can still be found under the surface of some beaches in Prince William Sound.
The grounding, along with other oil spills in 1989 and 1990, prompted passage of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which strengthened how the U.S. government responds to oil spills. Exxon Valdez was surpassed as the nation's worst oil spill when Deepwater Horizon exploded in 2010, releasing 168 million gallons (635 million liters) of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
An Anchorage jury awarded nearly 33,000 plaintiffs affected by the Alaska spill $5 billion in punitive damages in 1994, but that amount was cut in half by other courts on appeals by Exxon. In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court cut the punitive damages to $507.5 million.
Hazelwood, whom prosecutors accused of being drunk when the tanker grounded, was the only crew member criminally charged after the spill. He had left a third mate in control of the ship while he went below to do paperwork. Hazelwood was accused of one felony, criminal mischief, and three misdemeanors — reckless endangerment, operating a vessel while intoxicated and negligent discharge of oil.
During his 1990 Anchorage trial, witnesses reported he drank vodka at a Valdez bar before the ship sailed, but how much he drank and at what hour were in dispute. No witnesses described Hazelwood as appearing drunk, staggering or slurring his words. Crew members called him cool, calm and in command before and after the grounding, according to Associated Press coverage of the trial.
His blood-alcohol reading was .061, but he wasn't tested until about 10½ hours after the tanker grounded. In most states, the legal limit is .08 percent.
The jury ultimately found Hazelwood guilty of negligent discharge of oil into state waters and acquitted him of the other charges. He was sentenced to spend 1,000 hours in community service and ordered to pay $50,000 in restitution.
During his sentencing, then-Superior Court Judge Karl Johnstone said he was disappointed Hazelwood had not publicly apologized for his role in the disaster.
"I'm sure deep down, he is very shameful," Johnstone said.
In June 1999, Hazelwood, of Huntington, New York, spoke to the New York Times as he prepared to leave for Anchorage to complete his community service.
"As master of the vessel, I accept responsibility for the vessel and the actions of my subordinates," he told the newspaper. "I've never tried to avoid that. I'm not some remorseless oaf."
He then noted that he was convicted of a low-level misdemeanor. "There's no lower crime in the state of Alaska. The judge had to come up with a sentence. I can understand it. I don't have to agree with it," Hazelwood told the Times.
However, a decade later, he issued the apology that Judge Johnstone wanted to hear.
Hazelwood took responsibility in the book, "The Spill: Personal Stories from the Exxon Valdez Disaster," by Sharon Bushell and Stan Jones.
"Occasionally people have called me a scapegoat, but I've never felt comfortable with that term when applied to me in regard to the oil spill," he says. "I was captain of a ship that ran aground and caused a horrendous amount of damage. I've got to be responsible for that. There's no way around it."
Following the spill, he worked at a New York law firm as a paralegal and also was an instructor at a maritime college.
Hazelwood is survived by his wife, Suzanne; a daughter, Alison; two grandsons, and a brother, Joshua, the Times reported. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/exxon-valdez-capt-joseph-hazelwood-dies-at-75/article_c40752c6-32f4-11ed-acb6-4b4709eae3e1.html | 2022-09-13T02:31:19Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/exxon-valdez-capt-joseph-hazelwood-dies-at-75/article_c40752c6-32f4-11ed-acb6-4b4709eae3e1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A pedestrian was hit by a vehicle at approximately 10:10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8 at the intersection of S. Transit and Summit Streets.
The the matter is still under investigation by Lockport police and the accident record was not available as of this writing. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/pedestrian-hit-at-s-transit-and-summit/article_4af833ae-32f5-11ed-a6fe-2ff45c8f22bb.html | 2022-09-13T02:31:26Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/pedestrian-hit-at-s-transit-and-summit/article_4af833ae-32f5-11ed-a6fe-2ff45c8f22bb.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Lockport man died after being struck by a vehicle at approximately 9:15 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9 on the 6200 block of S. Transit Road in the Town of Lockport close to the entrance of The Woodlands.
Robert P. Carroll, 41, was pronounced deceased at the scene by a Niagara County coroner. The vehicle that struck him was determined to be a 2015 Chevrolet Malibu that was traveling south. The operator of the vehicle had no signs of impairment.
The New York State State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Collision Reconstruction Unit assisted in this ongoing investigation. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/pedestrian-struck-and-killed-on-s-transit-road-friday/article_5b68c664-32cc-11ed-a2cb-cfe12f2d3d4c.html | 2022-09-13T02:31:32Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/pedestrian-struck-and-killed-on-s-transit-road-friday/article_5b68c664-32cc-11ed-a2cb-cfe12f2d3d4c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New York is poised to strengthen its oversight of private and religious schools following years of complaints that thousands of children are graduating from ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools lacking basic academic skills, including the ability to read English.
A Board of Regents committee unanimously approved guidelines Monday to make sure instruction at the state’s private and religious schools is equivalent to that of its public schools.
The rules would apply to all of New York’s 1,800 nonpublic schools but would have the greatest impact on the ultra-Orthodox schools, called yeshivas, some of which provide rigorous religious instruction but little or no teaching in secular subjects like English, math, science and history.
Defenders of the schools say parents have the right to send their children to programs consistent with their beliefs and traditions. As the Regents met Monday, protesters assembled outside, some with signs reading: “We will sit in jail rather than change our childrens education.”
Many yeshivas in New York state are modern Orthodox schools that provide a full secular curriculum along with religious studies. But there have been complaints that some yeshivas run by strictly observant Hasidic Jews were not meeting basic academic standards.
A New York Times investigation published Sunday cited instances of English teachers speaking only Yiddish to students, teachers using corporal punishment and graduates who said they were woefully unprepared for life or employment outside of their communities.
Virtually all of the Hasidic boys who took state standardized math and reading exams in 2019 failed, the report said.
A final vote is scheduled for Tuesday on new Board of Regents rules that would give private schools multiple pathways to show they meet a longstanding legal mandate to provide an education that is “substantially equivalent” to that of a public school. Among the criteria is that primary subjects be taught in English.
“We are trying to obviously adhere to the law but also create some flexibility around that as well,” state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa said.
State education officials have spent years trying to strike a balance. An initial set of guidelines released in 2018 was struck down by a state judge who said they were not implemented correctly. The department reviewed about 350,000 public comments following the release of the latest proposal and made adjustments in response, authorities said.
“The regulation respects that parents have a constitutional right to send their children to an independent school and that we respect the worldviews of the schools and their communities,” assistant commissioner Christina Coughlin said.
The group Parents for Educational and Religious Liberty in Schools, which represents yeshivas, said families choose to pay for private or religious schools because they believe in their educational approach.
“A government checklist, devised by lawyers and enforced by bureaucrats, hampers rather than advances education,” the group said in an email. “Parents in New York have been choosing a yeshiva education for more than 120 years, and they are proud of the successful results, and will continue to do the same, with or without the blessing or support of state leaders in Albany.”
Under the rules, a school can demonstrate equivalency, for example, by using state-approved assessments or operating a high school registered by the Board of Regents. It also can be reviewed by the local school district.
Groups representing Roman Catholic and Christian schools said they are confident their schools meet the substantially equivalent standards.
Naftuli Moster, who founded a group to improve secular standards at yeshivas, said he worried the schools would use the issue of cultural sensitivity to exploit loopholes without clearer guidance on how the regulations will be enforced, something the state is expected to address in the next few months.
“How you teach it or what you incorporate into the teaching is not what matters,” Moster said by phone. “It’s objective whether you teach science. There’s no Jewish science. It’s objective whether you do or do not teach social studies.”
Private schools that fall short of the threshold will be given time to adjust their instruction, state education officials said.
But those that may refuse to comply could lose state funding and their standing as a school with the state. Parents who continue to send their children to such a school could find themselves in violation of the state’s compulsory education law requiring that children between the ages of six and 16 be provided with a program of instruction, either at a public school or elsewhere.
Daniel Morton Bentley, a lawyer for the state Education Department, said Friday that much of the public pushback has focused on “philosophical opposition to state regulation of nonpublic schools,” which he said is required by law and not changed by the Regents’ action.
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DENVER (AP) — The intensifying crisis facing the Colorado River amounts to what is fundamentally a math problem.
The 40 million people who depend on the river to fill up a glass of water at the dinner table or wash their clothes or grow food across millions of acres use significantly more each year than actually flows through the banks of the Colorado River.
In fact, first sliced up 100 years ago in a document known as the Colorado River Compact, the calculation of who gets what amount of that water may never have been balanced.
“The framers of the compact — and water leaders since then — have always either known or had access to the information that the allocations they were making were more than what the river could supply,” said Anne Castle, a senior fellow at the Getches-Wilkinson Center at the University of Colorado Law School.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a collaborative series on the Colorado River as the 100th anniversary of the historic Colorado River Compact approaches. The Associated Press, The Colorado Sun, The Albuquerque Journal, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Arizona Daily Star and The Nevada Independent are working together to explore the pressures on the river in 2022.
During the past two decades, however, the situation on the Colorado River has become significantly more unbalanced and direr.
A drought scientists now believe is the driest 22-year stretch in the past 1,200 years has gripped the southwestern U.S., zapping flows in the river. What’s more, people continue to move to this part of the country. Arizona, Utah and Nevada all rank among the top 10 fastest growing states, according to U.S. Census data.
While Wyoming and New Mexico aren’t growing as quickly, residents watch as two key reservoirs — popular recreation destinations — are drawn down to prop up Lake Powell. Meanwhile, southern California’s Imperial Irrigation District uses more water than Arizona and Nevada combined, but stresses their essential role providing cattle feed and winter produce to the nation.
Until recently, water managers and politicians whose constituents rely on the river have avoided the most difficult questions about how to rebalance a system in which demand far outpaces supply. Instead, water managers have drained the country’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, faster than Mother Nature refills them.
In 2000, both reservoirs were about 95% full. Today, Mead and Powell are each about 27% full — once-healthy savings accounts now dangerously low.
The reservoirs are now so low that this summer Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton testified before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that between 2 million and 4 million acre-feet would need to be cut next year to prevent the system from reaching “critically low water levels,” threatening reservoir infrastructure and hydropower production.
The commissioner set an August deadline for the basin states to come up with options for potential water cuts. The Upper Basin states — Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming — submitted a plan. The Lower Basin states — California, Arizona and Nevada — did not submit a combined plan.
The bureau threatened unilateral action in lieu of a basin-wide plan. When the 60-day deadline arrived, however, it did not announce any new water cuts. Instead, the bureau announced that predetermined water cuts for Arizona, Nevada and Mexico had kicked in and gave the states more time to come up with a basin-wide agreement.
STILL LEFT OUT
A week before Touton’s deadline, the representatives of 14 Native American tribes with water rights on the river sent the Bureau of Reclamation a letter expressing concern about being left out of the negotiating process.
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BOSTON (CN) — Painting the defeat of cancer as a bipartisan goal both Republicans and Democrats can get behind, President Joe Biden announced Monday his administration’s movement on an initiative that aims to halve U.S. deaths from the disease over the next 25 years.
Dubbed the “cancer moonshot” initiative, Biden spoke from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston on the 60th anniversary of a speech by Kennedy where he announced what then seemed like a far-fetched goal — putting a man on the moon.
“I believe we can usher in the same unwillingness to postpone, the same national purpose, and will to serve, to organize, and measure the best of our energies and skills, to end cancer as we know it,” Biden said Monday.
While the death rate from cancer has fallen more than 25% in the last quarter-century, the disease is still the No. 2 cause of death in America, second only to heart disease.
The initiative was strategically named to hearken back to the ambitious feat and success of the 1969 moon landing when it was launched under the Obama administration.
“In then choosing to go to the moon, President Kennedy said America was doing so not because it was easy, but because it was hard. Because the goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills. Because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept. One we are unwilling to postpone and one which we intend to win,” Biden said of the parallels Monday.
“Today, I'm setting a long term goal for the cancer moonshot to rally American ingenuity, to engage like we did to reach the moon, that actually cures cancers once and for all,” he continued.
Defeating cancer is personal to Biden, whose oldest son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015 at the age of 46. Vice President Kamala Harris has also lost a close loved one to cancer. Her mother was a breast cancer researcher who died from colon cancer in 2009.
Breathing new life into the moonshot program, Biden announced earlier this year that the initiative's next phase will include a multifaceted approach to lowering the death rate and improving the quality of treatment for cancer patients, with an emphasis on racial equity in cancer care, a push for HPV vaccinations to reduce cervical cancer rates and a heavy emphasis on early cancer screenings.
The president said the program aims to bolster communication between researchers, doctors and patients, to make information on clinical trials, treatment options and resources accessible to cancer patients and their families who often feel lost post-diagnosis.
During his address Monday, Biden announced that his science adviser Renee Wegrzyn will now hold the title of inaugural director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, a federal arm his administration created in March in a bipartisan effort designed to expedite research on treatments for cancer as well as other diseases including Alzheimer's.
In coordination with his moonshot speech, Biden also signed an executive order Monday launching a national biotechnology and biomanufacturing initiative that will allow the country to create cutting-edge biotechnologies and other innovations needed to fight cancer within American borders. The initiative will also expand the Cancer Research Data Ecosystem, a national database that encourages data sharing surrounding cancer care and treatments for patients.
“Imagine the possibilities: vaccines that could prevent cancer, like there is for HPV. Imagine molecular zip codes that could deliver drugs and gene therapy precisely to the right tissues. Imagine a simple blood test during an annual physical that could detect cancer early,” Biden said.
He also lamented that there’s much research on cancer yet to be done, which would be greatly enhanced with more coordination between providers and researchers.
“We know too little about why treatments work for some patients but doesn’t work for different patients with the same disease. We still lack strategies for developing treatments for some cancers like childhood cancers. We don't do enough to help patients and families navigate the cancer care system,” Biden said.
Biden also shared other progress Monday that has been made by his newly created Cancer Cabinet advisory group, including lowering prices for cancer drugs through the Inflation Reduction Act, the launch of a cancer trial through the National Cancer Institute that hopes to identify effective blood tests for the detection of various cancers and the launch of a new research grant opportunity through the National Cancer Institute.
The White House Office of Science and Technology policy has also issued guidance to make federally funded cancer research immediately available to the American public for free.
In addition, the White House noted Monday that the Department of Defense has created a research program to understand military toxic exposure. Biden has said previously that he believes his son’s cancer could have been linked to burn pits Beau came in contact with when he was deployed in Iraq.
The program will use the Pentagon's serum repository, which contains blood samples for all service members, as well as its tumor registry that tracks active cancer cases while on duty, among other databases, to better understand the development of cancer in military members.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — When hackers Vasile Mereacre and Brandon Glover teamed up in 2016 and began scouring Github for exploitable security flaws, they weren’t looking to hack any one company specifically. But Uber’s lax security quickly made the ride-hail giant the pair’s top target.
Testifying Monday in the former Uber security head Joe Sullivan’s criminal obstruction and concealment trial, Mereacre said he and Glover modeled their hack off others they’d read about in online forums, where stolen email addresses and passwords were used to access Github, a website where software developers store and share software code.
Once they gained access to Github, Mereacre and Glover searched the public site for access keys to Uber company servers, which were hosted by Amazon Web Services. After a while, they hit the motherlode— an AWS key that unlocked a “simple storage service,” or S3 folder, containing more than 200 files of private user data.
Mereacre said he and Glover were "struck" that the one of the keys they’d stolen from Github had actually worked. After all, it wasn’t like they were looking through an internal company chat; this was the public Github site. He also said most companies usually change or “rotate” the keys regularly as a routine security measure.
“I guess they would have better security, but Uber did not,” Mereacre said. He and Glover then downloaded the data, consisting of the names, email address and phone numbers of 57 million app users, along with 600,000 driver’s license numbers.
They then decided to contact Uber and demand a ransom. "We thought to reach out to Uber to see if we could get some money out of it," Mereacre said.
Mereacre used the pseudonym “John Doughs” in his email to security chief Joe Sullivan. “We didn't want our identities to be public because of the way we'd gotten the data and downloaded it,” Mereacre said. “The process was illegal.”
His email read: “Hello Joe. I have found a major vulnerability in uber I was able to dump uber database and many other things.”
Sullivan did not handle the breach on his own, though he alone stands accused of concealing the breach from authorities and obstructing an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission into Uber’s security practices.
Aside from his initial email to Sullivan, Mereacre communicated almost exclusively with Rob Fletcher, a member of the company's security response team. Though Fletcher’s name was on the emails, he said his team collaborated on their creation.
Fletcher testified Monday that he and his team originally thought the email from “John Doughs” was a hoax. It wasn’t an unreasonable conclusion; Fletcher ran the company’s “bug bounty” program where hackers (companies prefer to call them researchers) are paid to search for and report security flaws. He said most of the so-called bugs that get reported are “junk.”
Prosecutors showed the jury an early message Fletcher sent colleague Collin Greene that showed his early assessment of the situation: “lol Can almost guarantee this is bullshit but will continue to keep you looped in :).”
But a lengthy string of emails between Fletcher and John Doughs revealed the gravity of the situation as it unfolded. Fletcher asked Doughs to show him some proof, and asked him to interact through the bug bounty program Uber ran in partnership with the site HackerOne.
Mereacre, still going by Doughs, responded with a sample of Fletcher’s own downloaded data.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The man who shot and killed John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for a 12th time, New York corrections officials said Monday
Mark David Chapman, 67, appeared before a parole board at the end of August, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
Chapman shot and killed Lennon on the night of Dec. 8, 1980, as Lennon and Yoko Ono were returning to their Upper West Side apartment. Lennon had signed an autograph for Chapman on a copy of his recently released album, “Double Fantasy,” earlier that day.
State officials have yet to make transcripts of Chapman’s latest board interview available, but he has repeatedly expressed remorse in previous parole hearings. Chapman called his actions “despicable” during his hearing in 2020, and said he would have “no complaint whatsoever” if they chose to leave him in prison for the rest of his life.
“I assassinated him ... because he was very, very, very famous and that’s the only reason and I was very, very, very, very much seeking self-glory. Very selfish,” Chapman said then.
Chapman is serving a 20-years-to-life sentence at Green Haven Correctional Facility, north of New York City, according to online state corrections records.
He is next due to appear before the parole board in February 2024.
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LOS ANGELES (CN) — After months of negotiations, Los Angeles County finally agreed to settle its part in the LA Alliance lawsuit over the region's homelessness crisis.
Though the details are not yet finalized, under the "settlement framework" the county has agreed to spend an additional $236 million over the next five years on "increased services, outreach, and interim housing for the most vulnerable people experiencing homelessness," according to a fact sheet released by the county. The county already spends more than half a billion dollars year to "prevent and address" homelessness.
The new funding will pay for things like "case management, medical and mental health care, and substance use disorder services for eligible occupants of the 10,200 permanent housing units and 3,100 interim housing beds that the city has promised to build as part of its own separate settlement with LA Alliance," said the county's lawyer Skip Miller, in a written statement. "The county will also pay for 300 additional beds for people experiencing homelessness with mental health or substance use disorders. And the county will increase the number of its street outreach teams so that at least one will be assigned to each of the 15 LA City Council districts."
The settlement will need to be approved by the county's five-person elected Board of Supervisors, and then approved by U.S. District Judge David Carter.
It marks the beginning of the end for a lawsuit which, at times, threatened to completely upend the expensive and exceedingly complex system that fights homelessness in Los Angeles. The final outcome appears to have simply forced the city and county to spend a bit more money on housing and services — a marginal victory, perhaps, but hardly the revolutionary change the original complaint asked for.
The suit was filed in March 2020, days before the Covid lockdowns began, by a coalition of downtown business interests, homeless service providers, and a few unhoused people. Although much of the complaint focused on conditions on Skid Row, it initially sought a legally enforceable mandate to provide shelter to every unhoused person in the county — a "right to shelter" law, which exists in New York City.
The case was assigned to Judge Carter in Santa Ana – in fact, the complaint was modeled after a similar suit in Orange County that Carter presided over, in which Carter ordered the county to house hundreds of homeless people living along the Santa Ana River.
Both the city and the county objected to the suit, as did a number of progressive antipoverty groups like the Los Angeles Community Action Network and the Los Angeles Catholic Worker. Progressive groups argued the suit, if successful, would lead to mass displacement of homeless people, rather than them being given permanent homes to live in.
Carter, 76, immediately became the start of the proceedings, walking the streets of Skid Row on numerous occasions, his face covered by a large N95 mask, taking stock of the situation — and then berating attorneys in court about the conditions he witnessed. The walking tours earned him glowing reviews. When the Los Angeles Times profiled Carter, the headline read: "This federal judge is risking his life to save homeless people from the coronavirus."
In April 2021, Carter dropped his bombshell: he ordered city and county officials to house every homeless person living within the 50-block area of Skid Row, and he gave them just 180 days to do it — 90 days for all unaccompanied women and children. Not only that, he ordered the $1 billion that Mayor Eric Garcetti had just pledged to be spent on homelessness frozen in an account, including funds created by a bond measure voters passed in 2016.
But the bombshell was short-lived. That September, the Ninth Circuit overturned Carter's 110-page order, much of which had relied on the existence of "structural racism."
“None of plaintiffs’ claims is based on racial discrimination, and the district court’s order is largely based on unpled claims and theories,” the three-judge panel wrote, in a rather stern rebuke. “To fill the gap, the district court impermissibly resorted to independent research and extra-record evidence.”
What followed was months of behind the scenes negotiations between the plaintiffs and the defendants, but also between the defendant city and the county. The county, which traditionally has paid for mental health services, social services and case management, rather than housing construction, appeared determined not to have its responsibilities expanded in any fundamental way. The city argued that housing construction was mental health services; that is, you can't be treated for mental illness without a roof over your head.
In April, the city announced it was settling the suit without the county, agreeing to build more than 14,000 housing units within the next five years, enough to house 60% of the city's unhoused population who were not suffering from drug addiction or a serious mental illness. It was a deceptively small concession — the city already had about 13,000 units "in the pipeline," in various stages of planning or construction, although the plaintiff's attorneys said that that number was already the result of pressure put on the city by the alliance's lawsuit.
Judge Carter approved the settlement in June, calling the deal "fair, reasonable, and adequate,” the result of "long and deliberate good-faith negotiations.”
There are, according to the latest homeless count, more than 11,000 unsheltered homeless people in the county living with a serious mental illness, and more than 14,000 with a substance abuse disorder. The number of people who fit into both categories is unclear. Since under the settlement framework the county is only agreeing to add 300 new beds, that would seem to leave quite a few people in those two categories unhoused.
If nothing else, the deal signals a warming of relations between the city and the county.
“Now is the time to really put all of our forces together,” said Mayor Garcetti, speaking at a joint press conference Monday. “It only works with the county, city and the community together.”
Board of Supervisors Chair Holly Mitchell agreed, saying, "No unhoused person benefits until we all coordinate and work together,”
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MEXICO CITY (CN) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Mexico’s Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard in Mexico City Monday to discuss migration, drug trafficking and other issues in the bilateral relationship.
“Secretary Blinken noted his continued appreciation for collaboration with Mexico on a range of issues of mutual interest,” said State Department spokesperson Ned Price in a statement following the meeting.
During the High-Level Economic Dialogue (HLED), cabinet members from both countries discussed “the shared threat of fentanyl production and trafficking, addressing migration in a safe, orderly and humane manner […] and advancing our shared economic interests.”
Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols went into more detail during a press briefing this past week, saying the goal of the dialogue was to “foster economic development and growth, job creation, global competitiveness and reduction of poverty and inequality.”
Nichols mentioned commitments made at the 2021 dialogue, such as collaborative programs between the two nations’ international development agencies aimed at addressing the root causes of migration from Central America. Also on the agenda was the Los Angeles Declaration on migration, which President Biden announced at the Summit of the Americas in June.
The bureaucracies of both countries have held up their ends of the bargain on these commitments, according to Rafael Fernández de Castro, director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (USMEX) at the University of California San Diego.
“Not only the bureaucracy, but also the CEO dialogue, the people who organize the business sector in Mexico, they’ve been having meetings about this, so there are ideas out there,” Fernández said in a phone interview.
There has just been one wrench in the gears since the 2021 dialogue: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“But all of this is tainted by López Obrador, who continues to have a very nationalistic approach to the relationship with the U.S., and now there’s a big dispute in the USMCA because of his energy policies,” said Fernández.
López Obrador’s energy policies have caused strife between the U.S. and Mexico and led the U.S. Trade Representative to request dispute settlement consultations under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
The State Department said before Monday's meeting that Blinken would not discuss the matter at the dialogue, stating it falls under the purview of the U.S. Trade Representative and should be discussed via the proper channels outlined by the USMCA.
Blinken and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo met with López Obrador and Ebrard at the National Palace before the dialogue.
When asked at his morning press conference Monday if he would bring up the topic with Blinken, López Obrador said: “If it comes up, it will be discussed.”
The topic did come up, according to Ebrard, who briefly spoke to reporters in between the two meetings.
“What we discussed was that this is not an issue for this table,” said Ebrard. “There is an established procedure when there are differences that need to be resolved, which I’ve said on other occasions. But it was no more than 5% of the conversation we had today.”
Ebrard focused attention on the opportunities that recently passed U.S. legislation like the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act could offer Mexico, and mentioned other international dialogues to be held later this year.
But Mexico's former ambassador to the United States Martha Bárcena Coqui said that Ebrard, who plans to run for president in 2024, really wanted the attention to be on himself.
Ebrard's original plan, which he did not share with López Obrador, was to host the dialogue in Monterrey. When the president found out about the meeting, he had it moved to Mexico City.
"The message the president sent here was, 'I'm the one who calls the shots, not you, Marcelo Ebrard.' That's his first message, clear as water," said Bárcena.
His second message was to get a word in about his energy policies.
Bárcena called out both governments for their "laziness" in handling these talks. She said the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs has no economic department and that such dialogues used to be carried out by Mexico's Secretariat of Finance.
"All of this is the effort of Ebrard putting himself in the spotlight," she said.
Bárcena also accused the United States of similarly sending the wrong officials and putting the politics over the economics. While representatives from the U.S. Trade Representative and Commerce Department were present, the visit was headed by the State Department.
This resulted in an ultimately ineffectual meeting that brought nothing new to the table that hadn't already been discussed in the High-Level Security Dialogue held in October 2021.
"The topics discussed were the same as always: immigration, security, drugs," she said. "So the conversation between Ebrard and Blinken is just fluff, it's just to give Ebrard publicity. In reality, it looks like they didn't talk about anything new that wasn't already on the agenda."
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SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Amid a local outcry against San Francisco police using a rape victim's DNA from her assault case to arrest her six years later comes a federal lawsuit filed against the city by the woman
Jane Doe sued the city and several officials with the San Francisco Police Department after former District Attorney Chesa Boudin reported the police crime lab database used her DNA to connect her to an unrelated property crime in late 2021. Her DNA had been collected and stored since a 2016 domestic violence and sexual assault case in which she told police she had been raped by her mother’s boyfriend. Police later used the DNA to connect her to a completely different crime but never told her the genetic material had been stored.
Boudin said the report was found among hundreds of pages of evidence and the local database also contained victims’ DNA with samples from child victims. He dropped all felony property crime charges against the woman.
Jane Doe claims police took her DNA “under the pretense of using it to investigate the sexual assault.” Instead, police criminologist Kelley Fracchia tested it and other samples in the local database against every genetic sample from every crime scene, which Doe says is illegal because she provided the DNA only for her rape case. Sgt. Sylvia Lange cited Fracchia’s report to seek and receive an arrest warrant for Doe, initiating the burglary-related charges Boudin later dropped.
“This is government overreach of the highest order, using the most unique and personal thing we have — our genetic code — without our knowledge to try and connect us to crime,” said Doe's attorney Adante Pointer in a statement.
"It's a case that goes beyond the four corners of her lawsuit," he said in a phone interview. "It has impacted hundreds, if not thousands, of crime victims that find themselves in San Francisco's databases who essentially have given up their unique identifier to the government, in exchange for the government using that information to investigate and hopefully bring justice against the people who violated them. Instead, that trust has been violated, and their DNA has been weaponized against them."
Pointer said the practice is akin to an unlawful search under the Fourth Amendment and the right against self-incrimination in the Fifth Amendment —except the victims do not get any opportunity to refuse searches using their stored DNA.
The police department's crime lab stopped the practice shortly after receiving Boudin's complaint and changed its operating procedure to prevent the misuse of DNA collected from sexual assault victims, Police Chief Bill Scott, a named defendant, said.
Scott said at a police commission meeting this past March that he found 17 crime victim profiles, 11 from rape kits, matched as potential suspects using the database during unrelated investigations. He claimed Doe was the only person arrested as a result of these investigation methods.
The case has 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.
And state lawmakers recently approved a bill arising directly from this case. Senate Bill 1228 protects victims' privacy by prohibiting DNA profiles collected from them from being used for any purpose other than to identify a perpetrator in an assault. Local law enforcement agencies will be prohibited from searching the DNA of a victim or their contacts to incriminate them in unrelated crimes.
Federal law already prohibits the inclusion of victims’ DNA in the national Combined DNA Index System, but there was no corresponding California law to prohibit local law enforcement databases from retaining victims’ profiles and using them later for new purposes. These databases can be operated by crime labs separately from federal and state databases, and can perform forensic analysis, including DNA profiling, without regulation by the state.
San Francisco police have also faced scrutiny in the past for holding thousands of untested rape kits that were never sent to labs, despite prior representations that it tested all of them. California now requires police departments to report the number of untested rape kits to the state Department of Justice.
Pointer said he hopes the governor and federal agencies will review this practice because he has "zero confidence" the practice is limited to San Francisco or California.
"This is a department that has a troubled past with rape kits, dealing with rape survivors and the prosecution of rapists," Pointer said. "This practice does nothing to encourage people to come forward; in fact, it does just the opposite."
San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s office declined to comment on the pending litigation. But city attorney spokesperson Jen Kwart said via email that “the city is committed to ensuring all victims of crime feel comfortable reporting issues to law enforcement and has taken steps to safeguard victim information."
Doe's claims include violations of her Fourth Amendment rights, flawed supervisory training policies and negligence. She seeks general, special and punitive damages, as well as an order forbidding the San Francisco Police Department's use of victim DNA to arrest them for unrelated crimes.
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MADRID (AP) — Protesters including brothel owners and sex workers demonstrated Monday in front of the Spanish Parliament over a bill that would penalize prostitution customers and sex club owners or pimps with sentences up to 4 years in prison.
The bill backed by the ruling left-wing PSOE party proposes broadening the definition of pimping, not making the exploitation of a prostitute necessary but a mere trade relation. For the first time in Spain, it would also penalize customers.
Demonstrators wore face masks and used bright red umbrellas to conceal their identities.
“We ask the socialist party to withdraw the bill, that implies an actual abolition of prostitution and condemns us to work underground,” said Susana Pastor, the president of the Platform against Abolition. She owns an apartment in Valencia where women rent rooms to offer sexual services.
“I came here today to protect my job,” said one demonstrator, Sandra, a single mother who has done sex work for 12 years.
But the new sex worker union Otras didn't back Monday's protest because sex club owners arranged it.
“They don't look after sex workers’ rights at all," Otras secretary general Concha Borrell told The Associated Press.
Borrell demands legal contracts for sex workers and estimates there are around 200,000 in Spain.
Other groups, including some feminists, oppose normalizing prostitution as a regulated trade.
Charo Carracedo, lawyer and president of PAP, which advocates for the full abolition of prostitution, told the AP that the new bill is a huge step for the country but should come with provisions to give vulnerable women better access to jobs or subsidies.
“It’s essential to offer alternatives to prostitution survivors,” Carracedo said.
Both Otras and the sex business owners deny the government's data that says 90% of the sex work in Spain is forced. Police say 491 victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation were rescued in Spain in 2021.
On a European level, the European Parliament estimates there are up to 180,000 trafficking victims exploited in prostitution and the industry generates 10.8 billion euros ($10.9 billion) a year in the bloc.
Spain is considered to have one of the laxest legal frameworks for prostitution in Europe, only punishing when exploitation or abuse can be proven. The proposed bill would punish both clients and enablers. It still needs to pass through parliament.
Spain has also recently forbidden ads for prostitution.
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LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Beverly Hills man will spend five years in federal prison for trying to hire a hitman to kill the woman who refused to see him after they had a brief romantic affair.
Scott Quinn Berkett, 25, was also sentenced to three years supervised release at a hearing Monday.
The five-year prison term was a rare joint recommendation by prosecutors and Berkett's attorneys and well below the 87-to-108 months the federal sentencing guidelines called for.
The recommendation outside the guidelines was based on the mental health challenges Berkett faces and the extremely social isolation he endured during the Covid-19 pandemic that led to his actions, his attorney Evan Jenness said at the hearing.
"This is a particularly difficult crime" given that it could have ended much worse if Berkett had hired an actual hitman rather than an FBI agent impersonating one, U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi said in an agreeing to the recommended sentence. "Five years is a long time for someone your age."
The judge rejected the prosecution's request to fine Berkett $20,000, saying he'd rather have him leave prison with a clean slate.
Berkett pleaded guilty in June to using interstate facilities to commit murder for hire. Although the maximum sentence for this crime is 10 years in prison, prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles had agreed to ask for no more than five years.
"Defendant's crime was not a momentary lapse of judgment, but a premeditated plot to kill the victim because she rejected his advances," the prosecution said in a sentencing position. "While attempting to take a life is atrocious enough, defendant's chosen method of carrying out the crime — using the Dark Web to hire a hitman and cryptocurrency — speak to his sophistication, meticulous planning, and attempts to anonymize his illegal conduct."
Berkett, an IT engineer, and the woman had met online through a Facebook fan page for the RWBY anime series. After messaging and talking on the phone for a few months, the woman flew to Los Angeles in October 2020 for a thee-day visit with Berkett, whom she had never met in person.
Berkett paid for a hotel near the Beverly Hills house where he lived with his parents and, according to an FBI affidavit, he became "sexually aggressive" with her and she felt pressured into having sex with him.
After the trip, the woman tried to end the relationship, but Berkett refused to accept the breakup and became very possessive and constantly messaged her, according to the FBI, using different social media platforms if she didn't respond to him.
This went on until April 2021, when a family member of the woman got in touch with Berkett's father to get Berkett to stop contacting her. At that point, Berkett texted that he had blocked her from all social media and that he considered the matter closed.
That wasn't true, however, because days later Berkett got in touch with a group called the "Internet Killers" on the so-called Dark Web that advertised murder-for-hire services. Not knowing that the group was a scam, he provided the woman's personal information and paid $13,000 in bitcoin to have her killed. He also asked for her murder to look like an accident or a robbery gone wrong and for her phone to be retrieved and destroyed irreparably.
“I would like proof of her death sent to me," he instructed the group. "She has a distinctive tattoo on one of her forearms that I know the image of, so a photo of her corpse and a photo of her tattoo for identification would work.."
The Dark Web group informed an unidentified investigative media group, which in turn alerted the FBI to Berkett's plot.
An undercover FBI agent, posing as a hitman, contacted Berkett over WhatsApp and sent him a photo of the woman in a Walmart, asking if she was the intended victim and discussing further details of the requested murder. The undercover agent also instructed Berkett to wire an additional $1,000 to an individual in Scottsdale, Arizona, which he did. He was arrested the next day when he went to a grocery store to establish an alibi, thinking the hit would take place that day.
After his arrest, Berkett admitted using the Dark Web and Bitcoin, knowing where the woman lived in Idaho and where her sister lived in Arizona, according to court filings. He also claimed to have multiple personalities, one of which he identified as violent, according to the government.
Berkett has been in custody since his arrest after the government argued the sophisticated and obsessive nature of his murder plot made him a danger to the woman and the community. While in jail, prosecutors say Berkett offered cash to an unidentified individual to get in touch with the Dark Web group to make it appear he had been framed by another person.
In a victim statement read by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathy Yu in court, the woman said she still lives in fear knowing that there's someone out there who wants her dead, and watches over her shoulder and worries if she's being followed.
"I feel like I'm losing my mind more and more every day," the woman said in her statement.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower who is warning of security flaws, privacy threats and lax controls at the social platform, will take his case to Congress on Tuesday.
Senators who will hear Zatko’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee are alarmed by his Twitter allegations at a time of heightened concern over the safety of powerful tech platforms.
It’s Zatko’s second Capitol Hill appearance, and in some ways a 21st-century echo of his first. In 1998, he testified before a Senate panel along with fellow members of a hacker collective who warned about the security dangers of the then-emerging internet age.
Zatko, a respected cybersecurity expert, was Twitter’s head of security until he was fired early this year. He has brought the stunning allegations to Congress and federal regulators, asserting that the influential social platform misled regulators about its cyber defenses and efforts to control millions of “spam” or fake accounts.
Sen. Dick Durbin, the Illinois Democrat who chairs the panel, has said that if Zatko’s claims are accurate, “they may show dangerous data-privacy and security risks for Twitter users around the world.”
Zatko's accusations are also playing into billionaire tycoon Elon Musk's battle with Twitter. The Tesla CEO is trying to get out of his $44 billion bid to buy the company; Twitter has sued to force him to complete the deal. The Delaware judge overseeing that case ruled last week that Musk can include new evidence related to Zatko’s allegations in the high-stakes trial set to start Oct. 17.
The allegation that Twitter engaged in deception in its handling of automated “spam bot” accounts is at the core of Musk’s attempt to back out of the Twitter deal.
At the same time, many of Zatko’s claims are uncorroborated and appear to have little documentary support. In a statement, Twitter has called Zatko’s description of events “a false narrative.”
Also on Tuesday, Twitter’s shareholders are scheduled to vote on the company’s pending buyout by Musk. The vote is something of a formality given that the deal is on hold while the court case plays out. But if the measure passes as expected, it would also pave the way for a Musk takeover should Twitter prevail in court.
Zatko also filed complaints with the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among his most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users.
The SEC is questioning Twitter about how it counts fake accounts on its platform. Twitter uses counts of its presumably real users to attract advertisers, whose payments make up about 90% of its revenue. The “spam bots” have no value to advertisers because there’s no person behind them.
San Francisco-based Twitter has an estimated 238 million daily active users worldwide. The company says it removes 1 million spam accounts daily.
Zatko’s 84-page complaint alleges that he found “extreme, egregious deficiencies" on the platform, including issues with "user privacy, digital and physical security, and platform integrity/content moderation.”
It accuses CEO Parag Agrawal and other senior executives and board members of making “false and misleading statements to users and the FTC" about these issues. Twitter denies those claims and said that Zatko was fired in January for “ineffective leadership and poor performance.” Zatko’s attorneys say the performance claim is false.
Twitter also hinted that Zatko's complaint might be designed to bolster Musk's legal fight with the company. Twitter called Zatko’s complaint “a false narrative” that is “riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies, and lacks important context."
News of Zatko’s complaint surfaced on Aug. 23, almost two months before the Twitter-Musk trial is scheduled to begin. . One of Zatko’s attorneys has said “he’s never met Elon Musk. Doesn’t know Elon Musk. They know people in common.”
The company also says it has significantly tightened security since 2020.
Among Zatko's specific allegations:
— The company had such poor cybersecurity that it easily could have been exposed to outside attacks or attempts to siphon off its internal data.
—The company lacked effective leadership, with its top executives practicing “deliberate ignorance” of pressing problems. Zatko described former CEO Jack Dorsey as “extremely disengaged” during the last months of his tenure, to the point where he wouldn’t even speak during meetings on complex issues. Dorsey stepped down in November 2021.
—That Twitter knowingly allowed the government of India to place its agents on the company payroll, where they had “direct unsupervised access” to highly sensitive data on users. It makes a parallel but less detailed accusation that Twitter took funding from unidentified Chinese entities who may have gained access enabling them to access the identities and sensitive data of Chinese users who secretly use Twitter, which is officially banned in China.
Better known by his hacker handle “Mudge,” Zatko, 51, first gained prominence in the 1990s. He was the best-known member of the Boston-based collective L0pht, which pioneered ethical hacking, embarrassing companies including Microsoft for poor security. His work raised awareness in the computing world that forced such major companies to take security seriously. He co-founded the consultancy @Stake, which was later acquired by Symantec.
Zatko later worked in senior positions at the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Google. He joined Twitter at Dorsey’s urging in late 2020, the same year the company suffered an embarrassing security breach involving hackers who broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls, including Musk, in an attempt to scam their followers out of bitcoin.
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By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer
AP technology writers Frank Bajak in Boston and Matt O’Brien in Providence, Rhode Island, contributed to this report.
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Whiteheads. Acne. Chicken skin. Whatever you call those white bumps on your face, arms, and body, they can be extremely frustrating. Even if you’re using doctor-recommended anti-aging creams with retinol or are diligent about your self-care routine, including a weekly detoxifying clay mask, whiteheads can prove tricky to treat. Luckily, though, it is possible to get rid of those pesky acne bumps—both at home, or by visiting your dermatologist. Here, a complete guide to banishing whiteheads, once and for all.
First things first: what are whiteheads?
“A whitehead is a pore—which is the skin surface opening of a hair follicle—that becomes completely clogged with dead skin cells, sebum (oil) and bacteria and remains closed at the surface,” explains Keira L. Barr, double-board-certified MD, founder, and chief wellness officer of Resilient Health Institute.
Diet and lifestyle can definitely play in causing them. “The most notorious culprits contributing to breakouts include dairy, sugar, and processed foods with an abundance of additives and preservatives,” says Barr, adding, “Dairy and sugar in particular stimulate IGF-1 (insulin growth factor-1) which triggers your oil glands to produce more oil and stimulates inflammation which contributes to acne. Adjusting your diet to include low-glycemic carbohydrates, healthy fats, protein, and antioxidant rich foods can help.” Barr also cautions that stress and lack of sleep can cause hormone imbalances and fluctuations, potentially worsening breakouts.
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Is it okay to pop the whitehead?
Yes, but proceed with caution. "You only want to pop a pimple or whitehead that is very superficial. Don’t manipulate a spot that's red, inflamed, or deep under the skin—like a cyst or nodule—as you'll significantly increase the risk of pain, infection, scarring, and inflammation," says Barr.
And if you do pop, here's how to do it safely:
"Cleanse the affected area with a gentle exfoliator like salicylic acid and/or anti-bacterial agent like benzoyl peroxide, then apply a warm compress.
Use Q-tips to pop your whitehead.
Then, wrap clean tissue paper around your fingers or a Q-tip in each hand. It’s helpful to first stretch the skin away from the pimple and then apply pressure in the direction of the pimple using a gentle but firm touch. Applying traction in the direction away from the pimple may cause it to 'pop' on its own." And if it's not popping easily, don't force it—otherwise, you could make things worse. When finished, cleanse the area again.
The Best Products to Get Rid of Whiteheads
“There are numerous remedies you can try at home to get rid of whiteheads, including over the counter products with ingredients such as benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid and retinoids—all can be helpful,” says Barr. Try Kiehl’s Breakout Control Facial Lotion ($50) or Neutrogena Rapid Clear Stubborn Acne Spot Gel ($9) with antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory benzoyl, Paula’s Choice 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant ($34) or Kate Somerville EradiKate Salicylic Acid Acne Treatment ($68) with dead-skin-sloughing salicylic, The Ordinary Granactive Retinoid 2% Emulsion ($10) or Drunk Elephant A-Passioni Retinol Cream ($74) with retinoids, or even prescription Differin 1% gel, which helps cell turnover and opens pores.
Is there a fast way to get rid of whiteheads at home?
"Using a spot treatment with products like Acnomel, sulfur 8 percent, or Mario Badescu Drying Lotion, can speed up the process," says Barr. Other options? Try applying ice—it’ll help with redness and inflammation—and alternate with warm compresses to help with drainage. Barr also recommends making a paste out of crushed aspirin, as well as over the counter hydrocortisone 1% cream to help reduce redness and inflammation.
A DIY paste of crushed aspirin and hydrocortisone cream will reduce redness.
What's the best way to get rid of whiteheads around nose?
Your T-zone—which includes the forehead, nose, and chin—have a greater concentration of oil glands, leading to a higher likelihood of breakouts, clogged pores and inflammation. “When whiteheads appear, it’s best to treat the entire acne-prone area rather than chasing individual pimples,” explains Dr. Barr, adding, “the same ingredients that can be used to treat whiteheads can also be used to prevent them including, alpha hydroxy acids (like glycolic or lactic), beta hydroxy acids (like salicylic acid) and topical retinoids. These ingredients all are helpful for unclogging the pores.”
Antimicrobial tea tree oil and benzoyl peroxide might also help kill acne-contributing bacteria, as can witch hazel.
What's the best way to get rid of whiteheads on cheeks?
“If you’re breaking out specifically on your cheeks and especially if one side is worse than the other, think about your daily habits. Research has shown our cell phones are dirtier than toilets seats, with 75 percent of Americans using their cell phones while in the bathroom. That means that anytime you hold your phone to your face, you’re spreading that bacteria to your skin, which could cause more acne. Persistent acne limited to one side of your face tends to be due to dirty phones, pillowcases, or other habits like touching your face," Barr.
A potential solution? Barr recommends avoiding bringing your phone into the restroom, wiping your smartphone down before use, swapping out your pillowcase weekly, and being more mindful of how much you are touching your face.
Your dermatologist can help you treat them, too.
“Acne is the most common skin condition in the United States affecting 50 million Americans annually, including more than 85% of adolescents and 25% of adults worldwide,” says Barr. “Acne can have a significant impact on emotional well-being including anxiety, depression, and social isolation. If whiteheads are taking a toll on your self-esteem, then absolutely, make an appointment with your dermatologist so you don’t have to suffer unnecessarily."
What's the best way to get rid of whiteheads on arms?
“Although acne can occur on the arms, one of the more common conditions that affects hair follicles on the arms is called keratosis pilaris, which is caused by the build-up of keratin in the hair follicle,” says Dr. Barr adding, “Some people refer to keratosis pilaris (KP) as chicken skin, since it can resemble goosebumps and feel like sandpaper.
Hydration and gentle exfoliation help with what appears to be whiteheads on the arms.
Although there is no known cure, this condition may resolve on its own. "KP doesn’t just happen on arms: cheeks, legs, and buttocks can fall victim, too. “Hydrating the skin and gentle exfoliation are the best ways to manage the condition. Using products that can aid in removing the excess keratin including lactic acid, urea, glycolic acid, azelaic acid, and willow bark (which is a source of salicylic acid) are helpful.” Dr. Barr also recommends extremely gentle exfoliation with a loofah. “The key is to be very gentle to minimize irritation, as there can be redness and mild itch or irritation associated with the condition, and you don’t want to make that worse by being too aggressive.”
What about whiteheads on eyelids?
Actually, if you have tiny white bumps on your eyelids, they’re likely not whiteheads at all, but instead lesions called milia, which is caused by trapped dead skin cells, according to the Cleveland Clinic. “These are small epidermoid cysts and are quite common, occuring at all ages of life,” says Dr. Barr. “These can resolve spontaneously. If treatment is desired they can be extracted by your dermatologist or esthetician. If they are on the face (other than the eyelids) using a topical retinoid can help facilitate resolution.”
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When it comes to fashion, is there anything more satisfying and confidence-boosting than the perfect pair of jeans? The workhorse of the wardrobe, it’s an item that is equally at ease with white sneakers and a leather jacket as it is fancied up with heels and a statement top.
While there’s been a lot of recent talk about what silhouettes are deemed on (or off) trend, we firmly believe you should wear what makes you feel your best. Whether you prefer a body-hugging skinny pair, relaxed straight legs, vintage-inspired flares, or full wide-leg styles, it’s all fair game. And with bountiful options available, take the opportunity to step out of your usual fare and experiment with a new style. Try a high-rise pair to cinch the waist and elongate the legs or an of-the-moment slouchy cut to reinvigorate your fall rotation.
Don’t miss out on innovative denim advancements, too. While denim production notoriously takes a heavy environmental toll (primarily from its water usage), there are brands that have adapted technologies and practices to lower their carbon footprint. Waterless techniques, recycled and recyclable fabrics, and even biodegradable materials are worth your attention.
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SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – Manpower shortages are a challenge companies all over are facing, including your local polling places. Poll workers are an essential part of elections.
The more workers, the faster the voting process. Anyone 16 years of age and older is eligible to help. Those 18 years and up have to be a registered voter.
“Without poll workers, we really can’t run elections,” said Adam Hammons.
On election days, poll workers are there from start to finish.
“The ones that help you get checked in, help you get to the voting machines, and allow you to make your choices there on the ballots. So, you will be able to cast your ballot,” said Hammons.
Spartanburg County Director of Elections Adam Hammons said they need you.
“The less people there working on Election Day, it just kind of slows the process down. We can’t send out as much equipment if we don’t have people to run that equipment. So, the lines may be a little bit longer,” he said.
It’s not a position you work for free.
“You’re not going to get rich doing it, but $135 right before Christmas can never hurt,” said Hammons.
Anne Ring has been working at the polls in Spartanburg County since the mid-80’s. She said they need extra hands on deck.
“It is very stressful,” said Ring.
She said workers are responsible for setting up the machines and making sure they are registered.
“We need a lot more bodies to ensure that these elections are run the way they should be run and the way the people deserve to have them run,” she said.
Normally, she said a poll worker will work from around 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
“Yes, we do need people, because there’s busy and there’s too busy,” said Ring.
Voter registration offices around the Upstate are largely in the same boat.
Spartanburg County:
- Has around 400 workers
- Looking for 600
- Needs 200 more
Greenville County:
- Has around 700 workers
- Looking for 1,400
- Needs 700 more
Anderson County:
- Has around 450 workers
- Looking for 500 or more
- Needs 50-100 more
“The person who comes at 3 o’clock is just as important as the person there at 10 after 7. I mean, everybody needs a good experience, they need an efficient process, and they need competent poll workers,” said Ring.
Ring said every worker can make a difference.
“I just think it’s great, regardless of who you are, come in, work the polls at least one time, find out what it’s all about,” she said.
Hammons said training is required. They will stop recruiting at the end of September, with training starting in October.
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Sen. Rand Paul endorsed by Ky. State Fraternal Order of Police
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The Kentucky State Fraternal Order of Police announced their endorsement of Sen. Rand Paul on Monday morning.
Paul, who is up for reelection to the U.S. Senate this November, received the official endorsement during a visit to Louisville.
The Vice President of the FOP, Ryan Straw, shared that Paul has been a friend of the police for a while.
Straw said the organization has enjoyed working with him to help not only the commonwealth’s police, but the nation’s police as well.
”I think most reform and most oversight of the police should be done locally,” Paul said. “Police departments have always been almost entirely funded and run by cities and states and under state law. Now, after Breonna Taylor, I did introduce legislation to get rid of ‘no knock raids.’ I introduced the legislation called the Justice for Breonna Taylor (Act.) But there’s a difference between trying to change policy and accusing the police of doing bad things.”
Paul will be facing Democrat Charles Booker in November’s general election.
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Power Goes From Down Under To Up Top in IndyCar
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
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A long, long way from Toowoomba, Australia, Will Power spent the weekend securing his INDYCAR legacy during the 2022 season-ending Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey.
Power, of Team Penske, survived varying tire strategies and challenges from four title rivals Sunday to finish third and clinch his second NTT IndyCar Series championship. On Saturday, Power set the series record for poles with his fifth of the season and overall 68th _ breaking a tie with open-wheel icon Mario Andretti.
“Yeah, what a great weekend all around,” said Power, 41, who hoisted his first Astor Challenge Cup for team-owner Roger Penske in 2014. “I couldn’t really enjoy the pole because I was so focused on the race. A lot of stress. A lot of stress this weekend. Not really any other…I was pretty calm all year. Once I got in the car and we started rolling, it was fine. A bit sketchy in the middle of the race. I was digging deep, just, ‘I’ve got to give everything I can. I can’t lose any position here,’ and the car was…the tires, yeah, it was interesting. Some sets of tires were really good, and some were not quite so good. A bit of a difference there.
“But yep, mentally drained. Couldn’t show the sort of emotion that I showed when I won the (2018 Indianapolis) 500. But it’s been like a long journey over the year. I think it’s pretty fitting that we just did another solid day, just a sort of long-game day like today. That’s just been the story of our year.”
Power, 41, won just one race this season but Sunday’s podium was his series-leading 12th top-five finish in 17 races _ three more than any other driver. Of note, Power and 42-year-old Scott Dixon _ the six-time series champ from Chip Ganassi Racing _ were the only drivers to finish every lap this season.
“Man, I had to drive the thing today,” said Power, referring to his No. 12 Team Penske Chevrolet. “It was on the edge, very loose. Man, what a relief. What a relief to get that done.”
This was the 17th INDYCAR championship by a Team Penske driver, extending the organization’s open-wheel brilliance. Power finished 16 points in front of teammate/two-time series champ Josef Newgarden.
“From the beginning (of the season), it was just playing the long game, not necessarily going for the big wins and all that,” said Power, named after great-grandfather William Steven Power, who raced motorcycles Down Under.
“Just so fortunate to drive for such a team, being given the chance to do this,” said Power, alluding to a full-time tenure that began with Team Penske in 2010. “A lot of gratitude. A lot of gratitude to the team and the sponsors, Verizon. Very lucky.”
For the record, the distance from Power’s native Toowoomba to California’s Monterey Peninsula is approximately 11,467-kilometers, or 7,125-plus miles.
Palou’s reign as series champion ended with his first victory of 2022 in the No. 10 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda, dominating the race and beating Newgarden to the checkered flag by a massive 30.3812-seconds. It was the largest margin of victory this season by more than 24-seconds. Palou delivered the win after a tumultuous summer marked by a still-unresolved contractual dispute for his driving services next season between Chip Ganassi Racing and McLaren Racing.
The Spaniard’s win also came in spite of a six-spot grid penalty for an unapproved engine change after qualifying Saturday, dropping Palou from fifth to 11th on the grid.
“We struggled a bit (at) some races, especially the last couple of races,” said Palou, standing a few feet in front of but not acknowledging team-owner Ganassi in Victory Circle. “But today was awesome. Strategy was on-point. It’s good to finish a season with a win. We had some power there and good fuel mileage.”
Palou first took the lead on Lap 16 and went on to pace 67 of 95 laps in a race slowed by just three cautions. Palou’s gap over second-place Power was 8.6287-seconds on Lap 50. But Palou rocketed away during the second half of the race as rivals began to employ varying tire and pit strategies. Palou used Firestone’s alternate (red) tires only from Laps 20 to 38 and then blitzed the field on Firestone’s primary (black) tires on the slick and highly-abrasive surface of Laguna Seca’s famed 2.238-mile/11-tun circuit.
By Lap 62, Palou’s gap over Power was a comfortable 20-seconds. “We struggled a bit during the whole weekend, and I don’t know what happened today,” said Palou, who won three races last year en route to the title. “But everything clicked. Super-happy to win a race this year.”
Newgarden started the day second in the standings, 21 points behind Power, who earned a bonus point for the NTT P1 Award Saturday. Newgarden faced long odds bidding for a third championship due to starting 25th in the 26-car field after spinning off-track in the No. 2 Team Penske Chevrolet during the first round of qualifying.
But Newgarden never quit, starting the race on Firestone’s primary tires _ the opposite approach of title rivals Power, Dixon and CGR’s Marcus Ericsson _ and also made one more pit stop than Power in an attempt to use fresher tires and a full-bore fuel mixture to gain track position. That strategy nearly worked. Newgarden exited the pits on Lap 36 on new Firestone primary tires and started inhaling rivals, flashing frightening closing speed entering the track’s signature “Corkscrew” turn complex.
Newgarden passed the No. 5 Arrow McLaren SP Chevrolet of native Mexican Pato O’Ward for fourth on Lap 43 in the “Corkscrew” and repeated that move one lap later for third, passing the No. 7 Arrow McLaren SP Chevrolet of Felix Rosenqvist of Sweden.
Power was next on the hit list. Newgarden sailed past his teammate on Lap 46 at the top of the “Corkscrew” for second. But Power didn’t panic, focusing on the long view while doing title arithmetic at 175 mph. “I just knew I had to absolutely get the most out of those stints and not lose any more positions,” Power said.
Newgarden had no chance to catch Palou, up by seven seconds just four laps after a Lap 41 restart. The top three cars held station for the rest of the race, sealing the title for Power.
“Even (Saturday), with the heartache there, we came back, we fought and we nearly got there,” said Newgarden, the series champ in 2017 and 2019. “I’m proud of the effort. I’m overwhelmingly proud of our team. We came up short in the No. 2 car, but at the end of the day the team excelled tremendously this year. Outside of Indianapolis, I don’t think there’s a team that was in touching distance to Team Penske.
“I’m filled with a lot of pride because I think the world of everybody on this team, not just the No. 2 car, but everyone on the No. 12, everyone on the No. 3 (of Scott McLaughlin). We’re all very close. I’m sad for the No. 2 car crew but I’m also elated for the No. 12 car crew because there’s a lot of really good people there. And really, a win for one car is a win for all of us.
“Obviously, we’re all competitive and we want to personally be the winners. But when we win as a team, it’s big for everybody. We’re going to come back stronger next year.”
Dixon placed third in the standings, 39 points behind Power, after his 12th-place finish in the No. 9 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda.
“As a group effort, everybody did a hell of a job this season,” said Dixon, the New Zealander who was trying to match open-wheel legend A.J. Foyt Jr.’s record of seven championships. “We finished every lap this year which is definitely a huge milestone in itself. That’s kudos to the team but also to our partners, too, with Honda and HPD and the effort that goes into making it all possible.
“We’ll keep after it and we know exactly what we need to do in the offseason. Massive thanks to NTT and everyone involved, big thank to PNC Bank and everybody on this team who have worked so hard across all four teams. Congratulations to Alex on winning the last race. He did a hell of a job and it was good to see that side of the team get a win.”
Fellow-New Zealander McLaughlin placed fourth overall in just his second season of open-wheel racing after a sixth-place finish in the No. 3 Team Penske Chevrolet.
“We were doing our best for the team there and just covering Dixon,” said Scotty Mac, a three-time Australian V8 Supercars champion who received a multi-year contract extension from Team Penske last week. “Covering our bases just so we wouldn’t get jumped by Ganassi and stuff. 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!”
Ericsson, the reigning Indy 500 champion, completed his best NTT IndyCar season fifth in points after placing ninth in the No. 8 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda.
“It was a tough race,” said Ericsson, a native of Sweden who took over the championship lead by earning double-points with his Indy 500 win on May 29. “We fought hard out there and gave everything but just not good enough. A very disappointing end of the season. Proud of the No. 8 car crew and Chip Ganassi Racing, they’ve done a tremendous job all year. Big thanks to them and congrats to Alex on the win.”
Christian Lundgaard of Denmark secured series Rookie of the Year honors via his fifth-place finish in the No. 30 Honda fielded by Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. Lundgaard ended with an 18-point advantage over Chicagoan David Malukas, who finished 13th in the No. 18 Honda fielded by Dale Coyne Racing.
“Now there is another goal to set for next year,” said Lundgaard, 21. “It was a long, tough race. I’m just happy. Honestly, it’s pretty rewarding.”
Palou will split $10,000 with his Chip Ganassi Racing team and chosen charity as part of the PeopleReady Force For Good Challenge.
Christian Rasmussen finished his rookie season with a flag-to-flag victory in the Indy Lights Grand Prix of Monterey Race 2 on Sunday at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.
Rasmussen, a native of Denmark, earned his second victory of the Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires season in the No. 28 entry fielded by Andretti Autosport. He started on-pole and led all 35 laps after finishing second in the first race of the weekend doubleheader Saturday.
“It was awesome to end the season like this,” Rasmussen said. “It’s been a tough one for us. We started out at St. Pete running out of fuel from a win. To end it like this on a high note, with second place in Race 1 and first place in Race 2, is awesome.”
Rasmussen entered the 2022 Indy Lights season after winning the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship in 2020 and the Indy Pro 2000 Presented by Cooper Tires title in 2021. His other victory this season was scored in June at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis.
“We’re looking to come back next year,” Rasmussen said. “Hopefully we can continue on what we ended on here and compete for a championship.”
Sting Ray Robb finished 0.8893-seconds behind teammate Rasmussen in the No. 2 Sekady car to complete a strong final weekend. Robb earned his first career victory Saturday.
Australian Matthew Brabham completed a podium sweep for Andretti Autosport in the team’s No. 83 car, passing newly crowned 2022 season champion Linus Lundqvist of Sweden for that spot with a brave, side-by-side move in the famous “Corkscrew” complex on Lap 4 of the 35-lapper.
Lundqvist, meanwhile, celebrated his first full day as Indy Lights champion by finishing fourth in the No. 26 HMD Motorsports with Dale Coyne Racing car. Lundqvist clinched the title by finishing sixth Saturday and ended with a 575-483 advantage over runner-up Robb in the standings.
Jacob Abel finished fifth in the No. 51 Abel Speedwagon car, backing up the fourth-place finish Saturday that tied his career-best in the series.
Hunter McElrea finished seventh to clinch the series’ Rookie of the Year title despite problems with the push-to-pass system in his No. 27 Andretti Autosport entry. McElrea placed fourth in the standings with 460 points, 20 ahead of rookie runner-up Rasmussen.
Rasmussen bolted ahead of the field at the start and controlled the gap to Robb, who started third, for the entire race. The margin between the two drivers varied from six-tenths-of-a-second to about 1.2- seconds throughout, usually hovering around the one-second mark. Robb tried to make a final charge on the last lap around the 2.238-mile/11-turn permanent road-course, but Rasmussen protected the point en route to victory.
Editor’s Note: John Sturbin is a Texas-based journalist specializing in motorsports. During a near 30-year career with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, he won the Bloys Britt Award for top motorsports story of the year (1991) as judged by The Associated Press; received the National Hot Rod Association’s Media Award (1995) and several in-house Star-Telegram honors. He also was inaugural recipient of the Texas Motor Speedway Excellence in Journalism Award (2009). His list of freelance clients includes Texas Motor Speedway, the Dallas Morning News, New York Newsday, Rome (N.Y.) Daily Sentinel, Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller Times, NASCAR Wire Service, Ford Racing and Used Car Dealer magazine).
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Results Sunday of the Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey NTT IndyCar Series event on the 2.238-mile/11-turn WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Northern California, with order of finish, starting position in parentheses, driver, engine, laps completed and reason out (if any):
- (11) Alex Palou, Honda, 95, Running
2. (25) Josef Newgarden, Chevrolet, 95, Running
3. (1) Will Power, Chevrolet, 95, Running
4. (8) Felix Rosenqvist, Chevrolet, 95, Running
5. (16) Christian Lundgaard, Honda, 95, Running
6. (7) Scott McLaughlin, Chevrolet, 95, Running
7. (4) Romain Grosjean, Honda, 95, Running
8. (5) Pato O’Ward, Chevrolet, 95, Running
9. (9) Marcus Ericsson, Honda, 95, Running
10. (3) Alexander Rossi, Honda, 95, Running
11. (18) Colton Herta, Honda, 95, Running
12. (13) Scott Dixon, Honda, 95, Running
13. (6) David Malukas, Honda, 94, Running
14. (14) Rinus VeeKay, Chevrolet, 94, Running
15. (20) Devlin DeFrancesco, Honda, 94, Running
16. (23) Jimmie Johnson, Honda, 94, Running
17. (10) Simon Pagenaud, Honda, 94, Running
18. (19) Graham Rahal, Honda, 94, Running
19. (12) Helio Castroneves, Honda, 94, Running
20. (21) Jack Harvey, Honda, 94, Running
21. (17) Kyle Kirkwood, Chevrolet, 94, Running
22. (26) Simona De Silvestro, Chevrolet, 94, Running
23. (22) Takuma Sato, Honda, 94, Running
24. (15) Conor Daly, Chevrolet, 93, Running
25. (24) Dalton Kellett, Chevrolet, 93, Running
26. (2) Callum Ilott, Chevrolet, 37, Mechanical
Race Statistics
Winner’s average speed: 103.277 mph
Time of Race: 2:03:31.0628
Margin of victory: 30.3812-seconds
Cautions: 1 for 3 laps
Lead changes: 7 among 5 drivers
Lap Leaders
Power, Will 1 – 14
Ilott, Callum 15
Palou, Alex 16 – 18
Rosenqvist, Felix 19 – 23
Power, Will 24 – 26
Palou, Alex 27 – 67
Newgarden, Josef 68 – 72
Palou, Alex 73 – 95
Final 2022 NTT IndyCar Series point-standings _ 1, Will Power, Team Penske, 560; 2, Josef Newgarden, Team Penske, 544; 3, Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing, 521; 4, Scott McLaughlin, Team Penske, 510; 5, Alex Palou, Chip Ganassi Racing, 510; 6, Marcus Ericsson, Chip Ganassi Racing, 506; 7, Pato O’Ward, Arrow McLaren SP, 480; 8, Felix Rosenqvist, Arrow McLaren SP, 393; 9, Alexander Rossi, Andretti Autosport, 381; 10, Colton Herta, Andretti Autosport, 381; 11, Graham Rahal, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, 345; 12, Rinus VeeKay, Ed Carpenter Racing, 331; 13, Romain Grosjean, Andretti Autosport, 328; 14, Christian Lundgaard, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, 323; 15, Simon Pagenaud, Meyer Shank Racing, 314; 16, David Malukas, Dale Coyne Racing with HMD, 305; 17, Conor Daly, Ed Carpenter Racing, 267; 18, Helio Castroneves, Meyer Shank Racing, 263; 19, Takuma Sato, Dale Coyne Racing with RWR, 258; 20, Callum Ilott, Juncos Hollinger Racing, 219; 21, Jimmie Johnson, Chip Ganassi Racing, 214; 22, Jack Harvey, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, 209; 23, Devlin DeFrancesco, Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport, 206; 24, Kyle Kirkwood, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, 183; 25, Dalton Kellett, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, 133; 26, Tony Kanaan, Chip Ganassi Racing, 78; 27, Ed Carpenter, Ed Carpenter Racing, 75; 28, Santino Ferrucci, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, 71; 29, Tatiana Calderon, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, 58; 30, JR Hildebrand, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, 53; 31, Juan Pablo Montoya, Arrow McLaren SP, 44; 32, Simona DeSilvestro, Paretta Autosport, 34; 33, Marco Andretti, Andretti Herta Autosport with Marco & Curb, 17; 34, Sage Karam, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, 14; 35, Stefan Wilson, DragonSpeed/Cusick Motorsports, 10.
Results Sunday of the Indy Lights Grand Prix of Monterey Race 2 Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires event on the 2.238-mile/11-turn WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Northern California, with order of finish, starting position in parentheses, driver, laps completed and reason out (if any):
- (1) Christian Rasmussen, 35, Running
2. (3) Sting Ray Robb, 35, Running
3. (5) Matthew Brabham, 35, Running
4. (2) Linus Lundqvist, 35, Running
5. (8) Jacob Abel, 35, Running
6. (4) Benjamin Pedersen, 35, Running
7. (6) Danial Frost, 35, Running
8. (9) Hunter McElrea, 35, Running
9. (11) Nolan Siegel, 35, Running
10. (12) Christian Bogle, 35, Running
11. (13) Flinn Lazier, 35, Running
12. (10) Kyffin Simpson, 35, Running
13. (7) Ernie Francis Jr., 35, Running
Race Statistics
Winner’s average speed: 101.566 mph
Time of Race: 46:16.3888
Margin of victory: 0.8893-seconds
Cautions: None
Lead changes: None
Lap Leaders
Rasmussen, Christian 1 – 35
Final 2022 Indy Lights Point Standings: 1, Linus Lundqvist, 575; 2, Sting Ray Robb, 483; 3, Matthew Brabham, 471; 4, Hunter McElrea, 460; 5, Benjamin Pedersen, 443; 6, Christian Rasmussen, 440; 7 Danial Frost, 382; 8, Jacob Abel, 355; 9, Kyffin Simpson, 312; 10, Ernie Francis Jr., 299; 11, Christian Bogle, 298; 12, James Roe, 219; 13, Antonio Serravalle, 204; 14, Ryan Phinny, 77; 15, Flinn Lazier, 54; 16, Manuel Sulaiman, 48; 17, Nolan Siegel, 42.
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National Australia Bank business survey for August
Business confidence to 10
from priorr 7
Business conditions 20
prior 19
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NAB comments from the report:
“The recent strength in business conditions carried into August,” said NAB Group Chief Economist Alan Oster. “Official data for retail sales in July confirmed spending remained robust, as suggested by the previous survey, and today’s release shows little sign that August was much different. Conditions are strong across most industries other than construction, where profitability remains a challenge.”
“Confidence rose again in August, as did other forward indicators in the survey,” said Mr Oster. “Confidence took a hit around June as interest rates first began to rise but it seems that firms’ initial concerns about the impact have eased and a more positive outlook is prevailing, at least for the time being.”
“Capacity utilisation remains at near-record highs in the history of the survey, reflecting that businesses continue to operate near their limits,” said Mr Oster.
“Cost growth moderated somewhat in August, likely reflecting a range of factors including some easing in commodity prices and, possibly, the passing of the one-off effects of July’s minimum wage change,” said Mr Oster. “Still, growth in purchase costs and labour costs remains very strong.”
“Overall, the survey indicates that demand remained strong through August,” said Mr Oster. “We continue to expect that inflation and rising interest rates will eventually begin to weigh on household budgets more materially, slowing the pace of consumption growth and, in turn, helping to ease inflationary pressure. So far, however, it appears this dynamic is yet to take hold.” | https://www.forexlive.com/news/australian-august-business-confidence-rises-to-10-from-prior-7-20220913/ | 2022-09-13T02:52:37Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/australian-august-business-confidence-rises-to-10-from-prior-7-20220913/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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EAST LANSING, Mich. (WXYZ) — The recent ousting of Michigan State University's business school dean is revealing fault lines on the school’s board of trustees, raising questions over the future of the school’s president.
On Sunday, the Detroit Free Press first reported that President Samuel Stanley faced an ultimatum from board members: agree to resign by Tuesday, or face the risk of being fired.
No official reason was given, but sources indicate there has been friction between the board and Stanley dating back to COVID-19 precautions and his leadership style.
But a recent decision by MSU’s provost to push out Sanjay Gupta, the dean of MSU’s Broad Business School, appears to have been the last straw for at least some board members.
Gupta, a longtime MSU business school professor, was found by MSU to have violated the school’s mandatory reporting policy which ensures that reports of sexual violence or harassment be reported up the chain of command.
MSU has been tight-lipped about the nature of the report, but has said that Gupta did not follow proper protocol.
Some on the board of trustees weren't convinced Gupta broke with policy at all, or at least did not deserve to be removed as dean, and have pushed back at the provost’s decision.
Gupta ultimately resigned, MSU says.
Monday, board President Dianne Byrum took to task her colleagues working to oust Stanley.
"I am disappointed in the behavior of some members of the board, which threatens to roll back the progress MSU has made and will continue to make," she said in a statement.
Byrum added: "... I take strong exception to the conduct by several MSU Board of Trustees who have sought to undermine and second guess President Stanley under the mistaken belief they are somehow better qualified to run the university. They clearly are not as evidenced by the outpouring of concern, bewilderment and outrage their recent actions have generated."
Within the hour, Vice-Chair Dan Kelly — said to be pushing for Stanley's removal — issued a statement of his own that walked back reports of an ultimatum for the university president.
“Contrary to recent media reports, at no time was the President threatened with termination or given an ultimatum regarding his employment," Kelly said. "The Board has made no decision regarding any change in President Stanley’s employment status nor his employment contract."
On campus Monday, students were pressing for more transparency over the feud by MSU’s board.
“I feel like the students should know,” said Nolan Gergar, a neuroscience and psychology sophomore. “I mean, we’re paying for this place and this is our president."
Emily Guerrant, an MSU vice president and spokesperson, said news reports had overstated the board’s ultimatum, with some referencing a Tuesday deadline for Stanley agree to resign.
“The conversation that’s happening is a discussion of President Stanley’s contract and Michigan State University,” she said.
Stanley came to MSU in 2019, tasked with repairing a culture that allowed Larry Nassar to abuse women for decades and reform how the university handles Title IX complaints.
By most measures, his three-year tenure has been successful and free of the scandals that plagued his predecessors.
Less than a year ago, the board awarded him a 20% pay increase — bringing his total compensation to just under $1 million annually — and gave him high marks.
Association of American Universities President Barbara R. Snyder released a statement Monday:
As president of AAU, which represents Michigan State University and our country’s other leading research universities, I am appalled at reports of interference in MSU’s day-to-day operations by the university’s trustees, who are elected officials. If the reports are accurate, then this is inappropriate meddling by a board charged with governance, not management.
In this time of deep ideological polarization in our nation, few institutions face more difficult pressures than our leading state universities. In recent years, even prestigious state universities like Texas, Virginia, and others have struggled to navigate the rocky waters between the interests of state officials and their academic missions. Indeed, several leading public research universities have lost multiple presidents, chancellors, and other top officials because those waters proved impossible for them to navigate.
Governing boards of universities and the professionals those boards hire to lead those institutions must work together to advance their core missions: educating students to be citizens, workers, innovators, scientists, artists, and public servants and enriching the cultural lives and the economies of the towns and states where they are located. Micromanagement and partisan politics have no place on a healthy university board. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/fight-over-msu-presidents-future-reveals-sharp-divide-among-trustees | 2022-09-13T03:08:56Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/fight-over-msu-presidents-future-reveals-sharp-divide-among-trustees | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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The Head and the Heart’s current members are Jonathan Russell, Charity Rose Thielen, Matt Gervais, Chris Zasche, Kenny Hensley, and Tyler Williams. Their first studio album, The Head and the Heart, was released in 2011. Their other albums include 2013’s Let’s Be Still, 2016’s Signs of Light, and 2019’s Living Mirage. Their latest album, Every Shade of Blue, was released in April.
Hope Network is one of the largest non-profit organizations in Michigan. It provides healthcare and life services throughout the state.
“Hope Network continues to do the work that others can’t or won’t do, and that work is now needed more than ever,” said Hope Network President and CEO Phil Weaver. “Events like this allow the public an easy and fun way to support the Hope Network Foundation, which allows the crucial work to continue to expand.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Monday that it was willing to accept one of Donald Trump's picks for an independent arbiter to review documents seized during an FBI search of the former president's Florida home last month.
The accommodation could help accelerate the selection process and shorten any delays caused by the appointment of the so-called special master. The judge in the case, granting a request from the Trump team, said last week that she would appoint a neutral arbiter to go through the records and weed out any that may be covered by executive privilege or attorney-client privilege.
Department lawyers said in a filing Monday night that, in addition to the two retired judges whom they earlier recommended, they would also be satisfied with one of the Trump team selections — Raymond Dearie, the former chief judge of the federal court in the Eastern District of New York. He is currently on senior active status, and the department said he had indicated he was available and "could perform the work expeditiously" if appointed.
It was not immediately clear whether U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon would name Dearie or someone else. The Trump team said earlier Monday that it opposed both Justice Department selections.
The back-and-forth over the special master came as Trump's lawyers in a 21-page filing Monday dismissed the former president's retention of top-secret documents at Mar-a-Lago as a "storage dispute" and urged Cannon to keep in place a directive that temporarily halted key aspects of the Justice Department's criminal probe. The Trump team referred to the documents that were seized as "purported 'classified records,'" saying the Justice Department had not proven that the materials taken by the FBI during its Aug. 8 search were classified or remain so now.
The filing underscores the significant factual and legal disagreements between lawyers for Trump and the U.S. government as the Justice Department looks to move forward with its criminal investigation into the retention of national defense information at Mar-a-Lago. Department lawyers in their own filings have rejected the idea that the documents, many of them classified at the top-secret level, belonged to Trump or that Mar-a-Lago was a permissible place to store them.
"This investigation of the 45th President of the United States is both unprecedented and misguided," they wrote. "In what at its core is a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control, the Government wrongfully seeks to criminalize the possession by the 45th President of his own Presidential and personal records."
The investigation hit a roadblock last week when Cannon granted the Trump team's request for a special master and prohibited the department, for now, from examining the documents for investigative purposes.
The Justice Department has asked the judge to lift that hold and said it would contest her ruling to a federal appeals court. The department said its investigation risked being harmed beyond repair if that order remained in place, noting that confusion about its scope had already led the intelligence community to pause a separate risk assessment.
But Trump's lawyers said in their own motion Monday that Cannon should not permit the FBI to resume its review of classified records. It said the government had unilaterally determined the records to be classified but had not yet proven that they remain so.
"In opposing any neutral review of the seized materials, the Government seeks to block a reasonable first step towards restoring order from chaos and increasing public confidence in the integrity of the process," the lawyers wrote.
Both sides on Friday night proposed different names of candidates who could serve as special master, though they disagreed on the scope of duties the person should have. Cannon has said the yet-to-be-named arbiter would be tasked with reviewing the documents and segregating out any that could be covered by claims of either executive privilege or attorney-client privilege.
The Justice Department recommended either Barbara Jones, a retired judge in Manhattan who has served as special master in prior high-profile investigations, or Thomas Griffith, a retired federal appeals court jurist in the District of Columbia who was appointed to the bench by former President George W. Bush. The department said in its proposal that the special master should not have access to classified documents, or be empowered to consider claims of executive privilege.
On Monday, the Trump team told the judge it was objecting to both those candidates but was not prepared to say why publicly at the moment.
Trump's lawyers proposed either Dearie, a senior judge on active status in the federal court in Brooklyn who also previously served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or Florida lawyer Paul Huck Jr. They have have said the arbiter should have access to the entire tranche of documents and should be able to evaluate executive privilege claims.
The Justice Department said it was willing to support Dearie's selection but it opposed the selection of Huck because of what it said was a lack of relevant experience.
In its filing Monday, the Trump team again voiced a broad view of presidential power, asserting that a president has an "unfettered right of access" to his presidential records and absolute authority to declassify any information without the "approval of bureaucratic components of the executive branch" — though it did not say, as Trump has maintained, that he had actually declassified them.
The Justice Department has said Trump had no right to hold onto the presidential documents. And the criminal statutes the department has used as the basis of its investigation, including one criminalizing the willful retention of national defense information, do not require that the records be classified.
In any event, the Justice Department says more than 100 documents with classification markings were found in last month's search.
Trump, who often spends time at his various properties, was at his Virginia golf club Monday.
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PHOENIX — Craig Kimbrel just couldn’t let it go.
When the Dodgers celebrated National Women’s Day on Aug. 21 by having wives and daughters pick walkup songs performed by women for the players, Craig Kimbrel trotted in from the bullpen to close out a win against the Miami Marlins to the sound of Idina Menzel singing “Let It Go” from the “Frozen” soundtrack.
Kimbrel’s wife, Ashley, and 4-year-old daughter, Lydia, combined on the song choice.
“She knows every word to that song,” Kimbrel said of his daughter. “We listened to that soundtrack a lot this offseason, driving around.”
Lydia is not alone. The song went over big with the Dodger Stadium crowd with many singing along. What went over even bigger was the way Kimbrel pitched – he retired the side in order, something that hadn’t happened very often during the first four months of his season. But it has become routine since then.
In his past seven appearances, Kimbrel has not allowed a hit in 7⅓ innings, striking out six and walking two (though only one of the appearances came in a save situation). Four of those appearances came at home, where Kimbrel has ditched heavy metal (“Sweet Child O’ Mine” by Guns ‘n’ Roses) for heavy Menzel.
Kimbrel wouldn’t be the first ballplayer unwilling to tamper with a good streak. But he shakes off suggestions that he is superstitious, saying “but I like to keep things the same if they work.”
Told that kind of sounds like a definition of superstitious, Kimbrel disagrees, saying, “No – it’s consistent.”
“Why not?” Kimbrel said of sticking with the new song. “That and I also saw what it did all around. The fans loved it. Guys in the clubhouse loved it. I’m going to keep it because of that.
“Plus – scoreless innings help.”
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said the thing that has really changed is not Kimbrel’s music but his command.
“It’s the breaking ball and being able to have those guys respect it,” Roberts said. “He likes to throw his fastball. It’s a plus-fastball. I think it’s been commanded better. But also he’s been striking the breaking ball more frequently.”
Kimbrel agrees, saying he knew all along that’s what it would take to get his season un-frozen.
“I’m landing my breaking ball,” he said. “I’m getting into counts where I’m ahead. I’m in good counts. That’s really the biggest difference.
“That was all of the things I was working on with my direction, my line (in his delivery). It wasn’t that my breaking ball hasn’t been breaking or hasn’t been hard to hit. It hasn’t been starting on the right line that hitters have to respect. That’s what I’ve been working on. I’ve gotten to the point where it’s in a good spot and I’m going to continue to work on it to make it better.”
As for the song his wife and daughter chose, there could be a message in its title both for Kimbrel and the fans left disgruntled by his performance for much of this season.
“I mean, you can read into it all you want,” he said. “But, no, it’s a beautiful song. My daughter loves it. The fans love it. The guys in the clubhouse love it. So keep it going.”
ON PAUSE
According to Roberts, both Danny Duffy and Victor Gonzalez have stopped their rehab assignments with Triple-A Oklahoma City.
Duffy had flexor tendon surgery last fall. He made seven appearances over the past month, the last four with OKC. But Duffy “just wasn’t bouncing back” between outings, Roberts said.
Gonzalez had debridement surgery on his elbow in May. He made nine appearances on his rehab assignment (eight with OKC), but he was experiencing arm fatigue, according to Roberts.
COMING SOON
Reliever Tommy Kahnle completed his rehab assignment with OKC and joined the Dodgers on their taxi squad in Arizona. Roberts said it’s “very possible” Kahnle will be activated during the series in Arizona.
Kahnle returned from Tommy John surgery to make four appearances with the Dodgers in May then went on the injured list with a forearm injury.
Meanwhile, outfielder Kevin Pillar could start a rehab assignment with OKC later this week, according to Roberts. Pillar underwent surgery in June to repair a fracture in his left shoulder socket and is trying to return before the end of the season.
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Right-hander Michael Grove joined the Dodgers in Arizona and will likely start Wednesday against the Diamondbacks.
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Amanda Seyfried has won the Emmy Award for best actress in a limited series for her commanding lead performance as Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout. Seemingly flustered by the extra effort the orchestra put into playing off Jennifer Coolidge just moments earlier, Seyfried flew through her speech, giving thank-yous to series creator Elizabeth Meriwether and director Michael Showalter, among others.
Looking back on the making of the show, she summed it up: “It was really hard, but it was the best time of my life.”
The lead-actress-in-a-limited-series category has become one of the most competitive and prestigious at the Emmy Awards in recent years, drawing in A-list talent, Oscar winners, and theater royalty, often in the same year. Last year Kate Winslet triumphed over competition that included Cynthia Erivo, Michaela Coel, and Anya Taylor-Joy; other recent winners include Regina King, Michelle Williams, Nicole Kidman, and Sarah Paulson.
Playing disgraced Theranos founder Holmes, Seyfried was the clear standout from a string of ripped-from-the-headlines limited series that aired this spring. Seyfried dived deep into the ample research about Holmes and the way she spoke and dressed, but told Vanity Fair’s Joy Press earlier this year that there was more to it than that: “There’s footage of Elizabeth Holmes for 10 hours listening and answering questions as herself, but knowing she’s being watched. I’m acting as Elizabeth Holmes acting.” A recent Oscar nominee for her role in Mank, the 36-year-old Seyfried marked yet another career high with her turn in The Dropout, having started her career as a teenager in Mean Girls and thriving in the industry ever since.
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The drama-supporting-actor category at the 2022 Emmys played out like a Waystar Royco boardroom showdown, with three Succession men vying for bragging rights. But it was Matthew Macfadyen who emerged victorious for his perplexing (and, as of season three, double-crossing) Tom Wambsgans, beating out his costars Kieran Culkin and Nicholas Braun.
Macfadyen hugged his tablemates, including costars Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong, before taking the stage. “Oh, golly, okay,” he began. “Thank you so much to the Television Academy. I’m deeply flattered and thrilled to bits. I must say it really is such a pleasure and a privilege for me to play this bonkers gift of a role in this wonderful show. My admiration and my gratitude to [creator] Jesse Armstrong and his remarkable writing team is boundless. They are truly amazing, they just are.”
After two seasons of scheming to be promoted from begrudgingly accepted son-in-law to family favorite, Macfadyen’s Tom pulled the ultimate betrayal in Succession’s third-season finale, pledging allegiance to Cox’s Logan Roy and double-crossing his wife, Shiv (Sarah Snook). One of the show’s writers has compared Tom to Princess Diana, a parallel that the actor acknowledged while speaking with Vanity Fair. Like the People’s Princess, Tom is “slightly other,” Macfadyen said, explaining that the feeling was familiar during drama school, a period when he longed for “a sense of self and place.”
“My thanks to our brilliant producers, to HBO, to Mark Mylod and our gang of directors,” Macfadyen continued during Monday night’s speech. “And of course to the most supremely talented and lovely crew and cast I can imagine.” He concluded his brief speech by thanking his wife. “My darling Keeley [Hawes], I’m lucky to have you too,” he said.
With his win, Macfadyen triumphed over his fellow costars, which he joked about in the Emmy press room. When asked if he now had to buy his fellow cast members dinner after his win, he joked: “Especially Kieran Culkin. No, no, no, it’s lovely. It takes any weird pressure away when it’s lots of you from the same show in a category, I think, and especially one [in which] we’re quite close company. So it’s really nice. It’s really nice. And it’s an ensemble piece as well, so it feels a bit weird.”
Despite the huge number of Succession stars nominated here, there were still some Roy family members left out in the cold. As fellow nominee and Succession cast member Culkin said to Vanity Fair’s Little Gold Men this summer: “I was like, Oh, my God, this is so cool—where the hell is Alan Ruck’s nomination? I’ve been waiting on him. He’s just so extraordinary in the show.” Other nominees in the category included past winner Billy Crudup for The Morning Show, Squid Game’s Park Hae-soo and Oh Yeong-su, and Severance’s Christopher Walken and John Turturro.
Elsewhere, Succession leads this year’s Emmy nominations with 25 overall, including 14 individual acting nods. This category could prove to be a litmus test for which series will reign in the best-drama race, with players present from several heavyweights, including Succession, Severance, and Squid Game. But for now—it’s Tom’s time atop the enterprise.
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Lizzo is halfway to EGOT status. At Monday night’s Emmys ceremony, the superstar singer picked up the statuette for outstanding competition show for her Prime Video series Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls.
“I’m very emotional!” Lizzo tearfully shouted into the mic in her exuberant acceptance speech, sharing the stage with numerous producers and colleagues. “The trophy is nice, but my emotion is for the people who are on this stage with me!”
Lizzo’s win was one of the night’s big surprises, pulling off an upset against competition show stalwarts like Top Chef, The Amazing Race, and RuPaul’s Drag Race. It also brought Lizzo, already a three-time Grammy winner, halfway toward winning an EGOT.
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Lizzo herself seemed surprised by the win, as she was overcome with emotion during her speech. She devoted her remarks to the importance of representation, urging viewers to tell and share a broader spectrum of stories. “When I was a little girl, all I wanted to see was me in the media,” she said. “Someone fat like me. Black like me. Beautiful like me.” Then, Lizzo said, she realized, “Bitch, it’s gon’ have to be you.”
She also gave a shout-out to the show’s cast members, who were watching from the crowd. “Where are my big girls?” Lizzo asked, searching for them as they cheered her on.
“One year ago, these women were filming this television show that would change their lives forever,” she said. “[Now] they are Emmy Award–winning superstars who are going on a world tour. Make some noise for my big girls!”
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Sheryl Lee Ralph seemed stunned herself when she pulled off an upset victory, winning the best-supporting-actress-in-a-comedy award at the Emmys 2022 for her work on Abbott Elementary. But that didn’t stop her from seizing the moment in inimitable style. Singing her acceptance speech, the Tony nominee for the original production of Dreamgirls quoted the Dianne Reeves song “Endangered Species” and sang, “I am an endangered species, but I sing no victim’s song / I am a woman, I am an artist, and I know where my voice belongs.”
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She already had the room on their feet—obviously!—but continued with the spoken part of her speech, and may have gotten even more inspiring. “To anyone who has ever, ever had a dream and thought your dream wasn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t come true, I am here to tell you that this is what believing looks like,” Ralph said. “This is what striving looks like, and don’t you ever, ever give up on you. Because if you get a Quinta Brunson in your corner, if you get a husband like mine in your corner, if you get children like mine in your corner, and if you got friends like everybody who voted for me, cheered for me, loved me, thank you, thank you, thank you.”
On the show Ralph plays Barbara Howard, a veteran teacher who has earned the admiration of her colleagues, particularly Brunson’s striving Janine. Ralph has said that the success of Abbott, a true Cinderella story in an era when network TV comedies seemed to be on their way out, has already been a victory: “Whether I get that trophy in my hand or not, I already feel like a winner,” she told NPR. “The love that has been shown to me, showered on me, the flowers that have been given to me, literally and figuratively. I feel like a winner. And forever after this, I will always be Tony-nominated, Emmy-nominated Sheryl Lee Ralph. Oh, my God! I feel so good and so happy and so excited.”
Brunson, also an Emmy nominee, created Abbott Elementary based on her mother’s own experience as an elementary school teacher in Philadelphia. The series also stars Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Lisa Ann Walter, and Chris Perfetti—Brunson, Williams, and James were also nominated for individual acting Emmys.
The show, which entered the night with seven Emmy nominations, picked up one win at the Creative Arts Emmys last week, for casting for a comedy series.
The last time a broadcast comedy had a major night at the Emmys was when Modern Family won the comedy-series Emmy in 2014. Up until that point, network shows had dominated this category, with Modern Family winning five years in a row. But since then, broadcast shows have been left in the dust with edgier premium cable shows like Veep and streaming series like Fleabag and Ted Lasso winning.
Abbott Elementary’s fairy-tale first season, which was just 13 episodes, was met with critical acclaim, strong word of mouth, and solid ratings after it launched in December 2021. It became ABC’s highest-rated new comedy among adults 18-49, and in March was renewed by ABC for a second season, which will kick off September 21.
Bruson recently told Vanity Fair that the show’s success has led to some changes in her own life (she’d started wearing an Iron Man mask around the studio lot since she was getting recognized) but that she had big plans for the second season, which has been greenlighted for 22 episodes. "We’ve shown people what we can do in the first season,” she said. “This year we were going to get to have a lot more fun.”
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Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk is now an Emmy winner. At Monday night’s ceremony, the series creator picked up the best directing for a drama series prize, nabbing a key statuette for his hit series.
“I want to thank the TV academy for this honor and also a huge thank you to Netflix,” he said in his speech, specifically shouting out the streamer’s boss, Ted Sarandos. “I mentioned your name, okay?” the show creator joked, drawing big laughs as Sarandos watched on from a table in the audience.
Prior to Monday night’s ceremony, Squid Game was already a four-time Emmy-winner, picking up Creative Arts Emmys in categories like best guest actress for Lee Yoo-Mi. The show was nominated for a historic 14 Emmys total, including major categories like best drama, acting and writing. “We made history together,” Hwang said to the show’s fans and to academy voters.
Squid Game was an instant global hit when it first dropped on Netflix nearly one year ago, capturing the zeitgeist with its bloody skewering of capitalism and the grotesque hobbies of the superrich. Stylistic and over the top, the series revolved around a group of players with serious financial problems competing in a deadly game for a massive cash prize, roughly the equivalent of $35 million. Squid Game assembled a razor-sharp group of stars, including breakouts like Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, and HoYeon Jung, all of whom were nominated for at Monday night’s ceremony. Lee won his category shortly after Hwang, picking up the best actor in a drama prize over nominees like Bob Odenkirk, Jason Bateman, and Jeremy Strong.
“Thank you to director Hwang for making [this show] come to life so creatively on the screen with a great script and amazing visuals,” he said. Lee then switched to Korean, with a translator delivering his closing remarks in English: “Thank you to everyone watching in Korea.”
Squid Game’s wins come as no surprise, as it was one of the year’s favored nominees. In the directing category, series was up against shows like Succession (another one of the more favored nominees) and Severance.
Hwang’s success at Monday night’s Emmys is the culmination of a long, hard-fought journey. The show creator, who also wrote and directed each episode, spent more than 10 years trying to bring the series to life, but was repeatedly told that the show wasn’t realistic to sell. It wasn’t until the coronavirus pandemic erupted, throwing dire socioeconomic issues into the spotlight, that Netflix finally gave Squid Game the green light. “It was a very strange experience, because what seemed so unrealistic at the time didn’t feel as unrealistic anymore,” Dong-hyuk told Vanity Fair in May.
Hwang touched on the show’s influence and reception in his acceptance speech. “I truly hope Squid Game won’t be the last non-English series to be here at the Emmys,” he said. “And I hope this won’t be my last Emmys, either!”
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